ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. AS THE BRUTAL HOLIDAYS ARE EITHER (((UNDERWAY))) OR APPROACHING, ZARDOZ WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT HIS CHOSEN ONES FROM BRUTALITY. ZARDOZ GIVES YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK! HOWEVER, BEFORE THE LINKS…ZARDOZ WOULD PROMOTE AN ALTERNATIVE BRUTAL HOLIDAY FIGURE.
ZARDOZ APPROVES!
THE CHOSEN ONES SHOULD ELEVATE THIS “KRAMPUS” IN THEIR OBSERVANCES. ANY BEING THAT WILL HELP GATHER GRAIN SLAVES FOR THE VORTEX IS OK IN ZARDOZ’S BOOK.
NOW, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
- THE BRUTAL CITY OF CHICAGO’S LAW DEPARTMENT SAYS “MERRY CHRISTMAS” TO FAMILY OF MAN THEIR BRUTAL ENFORCERS KILLED.
- FOOLISH BRUTALS! YOU CANNOT TAKE BACK THE GIFT OF THE GUN.
- ZARDOZ WOULD SMDH, IF IT WERE NOT A RISK OF SPILLING THE VORTEX’S GRAIN.
- FORMER COOKING BRUTAL SOON LOOKS LIKE HE WILL BE REDUCED TO BEGGING TO MAKE BREAD FOR THE ETERNALS. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED TO HAVE ANOTHER SERVANT!
WELCOME MARIO!
*Swiss Servator enters, bowing and scraping and hailing ZARDOZ*
“Mighty ZARDOZ, one of your Chosen Ones has requested a re-post of this link“:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3T2WNBQ
*scurries out bowing and scraping all the way*
Going to review this tonight
http://www.borgbrugghus.is/thebeer/product/nr-19-garun2
First?
Why I get no 1st?
Subwoofer? why?
I think you have to address a link, or at least the photo(s).
I thought it was a fresh link, sorry, my bad, carry on,
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: YUSEF WAS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST FOR MOOSLIM NAME!!! JANITOR!!!!!!!
/Humor
They are given out haphazardly. I was first a few days ago but didn’t get one. *sniff*
#metoo
I posted an on topic first comment in the latest sugarfree installment and recieved no dancing gif. I knew that I had sinned, so I sacrificed a virgin at my alter of swi…. I mean ZARDOZ in hope that next time my efforts wI’ll be recognized.
Hmmm…virgin sacrifice. I’ll give that a go!
Well, Iceland is a country where you can drink a Stout all year long,right? I mean to keep ice crystals from forming in your veins.
And i guess Floki is Eric the Red
I don’t even know what you just said. Is salted cod and glaciers involved?
i binged Vikings season 5, and Floki the boat builder discovers Iceland, beautiful scenes, BTW
I don’t watch the TV apparatus. It’s just something I pay for so wife unit can watch it.
Me as well, but internet,
Intertoobz is basic necessity for life.
I watch very little tv. Vikings is about the only show I consistently watched over the past few years. I like it. My wife calls it a soap opera for men, and she’s not wrong.
That looks good.
Nice.
Multiple choice, single answer is the wrong format for the survey. Switch it to multiple choice, multiple answer with checkboxes if you want some real data.
Epic “1st” celebration GIF.
Also, a survey which doesn’t have stretched or compressed images would make rack judging much easier. MAD SCIENTIST HAS SPOKEN.
It wouldn’t let me adjust them! (or I was too lazy to figure it out, either way, same result)
The tits or the images?
That is fantastic.
This seems appropriate: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kp68bcN7N8Q
The plan is to take the top 5 and do a runoff.
In order to properly judge the top 5, I’m going to need more than just photos. Other senses will be necessary,
You and me both.
Euphemism?
Runoff, not ruboff.
When March Madness comes around, you have to do a boobs bracket.
Don’t you mean Mammary Madness?
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: YOU HAVE STOLEN THE GLORY OF ALLAH! YOUR PUNISHMENT IS COPY ROOM DUTY FOR THE NEXT 2 WEEKS!
ULaloloolO!!!!!
Switch it to multiple choice, multiple answer with checkboxes if you want some real data.
Goddamn right.
Though I wonder if you could vote multiple times?
nope
Sad.
FOOLISH BRUTALS! YOU CANNOT TAKE BACK THE GIFT OF THE GUN.
I wonder how much junk they’ll receive.
I’m going to guess 99%.
gun buybacks are just political posturing to capture the hoplophobe vote.
The thing is, it’s Massachusetts. Hoplophobe is safely assumed. Gun owners exist but are few and far between.
Buyback is a misnomer pushed by the government to push the idea that they own everything. There can be no buyback because the government never owned the guns in the first place. They push the buyback label just like they push the “tax cuts are give aways to whoever” in order to push the narrative that the givernment owns everything and let’s you have some of it narrative.
CHICAGO’S LAW DEPARTMENT, Can suck my dick! Fucking Assholes
The neighbor was having a yard sale today and let people park IN MY DRIVEWAY! I CLEANSED THEM WITH GREAT BRUTALITY!
THEY WERE NOT PLEASED! Is this good enough for the Mighty ZardoZ?
Somewhat related, I do a lot of construction work at a mall here. Due to the freeway exit being nearby, so much traffic comes through the entrances on the side of the mall we’re working. There will be bumper to bumper cars winding through a packed lot at that corner looking for a parking spot. Then you drive around to the other side and it’s virtually empty.
So obnoxious and unnecessary.
Links just now showing up? I go take one nap and y’all fall down on the job…sheesh
Oh. It’s saturday. And Christmas season. Never mind. Carry on.
Yeah, today the last day of the weekend for me. Gotta fly out to the other coast tomorrow morning (earlier this week was West coast, and this time it’s East). Can’t even have the Sabbath.
But I will be back Wednesday, and then just one more day at work, and the vacation begins!
I’ll probably be checking in as RoadSplosives again while I’m gone.
Be safe
Thanks! I plan to do my part.
My suitcase contains a big canvas toolbag full of specialty crimpers and electrical goodies. I will definitely be checking that one at the airport. No idea what TSA will make of it, but I fully expect it to arrive with one of those TSA cards and be completely rearranged.
Only real problem is that if they swab it, there’s a chance that the handle could come up positive for HE. I really hate it when I have to talk my way out of that.
I have a baby Browning 25 auto. My father bought it to carry in his pocket when he was flying. That was a very different world…and one that is long gone. Thanks Palestinians. You turned flying from a pleasure that people dressed up for into a freakin’ nightmare.
Hard to imagine.
On the plus side, nobody will be smoking on the flight. Those old PanAm pics are charming until you notice that everyone is holding a cigarette.
The last time I flew I smoked on the plane. Once the security theater started I refuse to fly. I do a lot of reloading and I am sure I would set off their bombometer. Unlike you mine is not job related and I dont have anyone to vouch for me. No way in hell am I going through a TSA checkpoint.
I’ve never smoked on a plane but I can only imagine how awful it was back then. And I’m a smoker.
Actually Rhy, it wasn’t bad at all. The air exchange in the plane was pretty good and we weren’t packed in like sardines. Flying was a pleasure. There was no ‘flying rage’, the staff were exceedingly polite, no security checkpoints etc etc.
A hole plane full of Bill Shatners smoking…
Now you’re just being silly.
Actually, I haven’t flown since 2005 or so – just haven’t had a reason to – and I have no especial desire to either.
Pan Am knew how to do it back then. Of course, the ticket prices probably helped filter the passengers quite a bit.
I used a Claymore bag for years as my shaving kit. After 9/11 it hit for explosive residue, which could not have been much after a decade of bathroom use. I had to argue and show my ID to get it back. Since then it has been used as my possibles bag for blackpowder hunting.
I still get my bags hassled with and that damn TSA card.
F’ing TSA
I’ve never been a member of the military, I haven’t shot a gun since I was a kid in the boy scouts, and I still get the damned TSA cards nearly every time I fly. My guess is that they get confused by the fact I’m bringing beer back with me.
Did it still have that wonderful C4 smell inside? I remember using claymore bags for pretty much the same thing.
Ha, I didn’t realize that part of your handle was literal.
*makes note to not get on your bad side*
Yup! That’s why it amuses me.
But it’s pretty tough to get on my bad side. Unless you are trying to murder Americans or other “good guys.”
You’re not Kari Byron, are you…?
“You’re not Kari Byron are you?”
Ha! Nope. I am not anyone you’d recognize; I do my destruction discreetly.
In my prior life my laptop hit positive for explosives almost every time it was swabbed. I just had to show them my Seismic Blasters ticket and it was no big deal. Maybe I was just lucky with TSA but I never got hassled.
In one project, we had that stuff on us a LOT and set off the detectors often at Baltimore airport, so we carried letters from the Army saying it was OK and listing us by name.
I still got taken into the interview room a few times, but never slowed me down too much.
Worst trouble I ever got into was carrying a Swiss army knife to security. The knife blade just barely exceeded 3 inches in length, but that length counts as a “weapon” so now I am on a permanent list for having attempted to bring a knife onto an airplane. Super.
Hopefully this trip goes better then the last one.
Yeah, this one is focused on solving a technical problem and troubleshooting a weird system behavior that seems to be new.
I can get a grip on technical problems. It’s usually the people problems that vex me.
Yeah… you’re one of us. 🙂
Applications and technical problems are easy. I can fake understanding people most of the time.
Implosion? I thought you said “explosion”!
You had Shabbat; that wasn’t good enough for you?
I treated it that way, aside from not actually going to church. But it was as close to a day of rest as I could get.
Last night the hubs and I caught a concert by “Free Falling”, a Tom Petty tribute band. Those guys put on a fun show. It was a good way to clear my head and have a “date” with the Mr. before I have to leave again.
Here’s the Sabbath for you.
Uhhh, we don’t *know* that…
He’s right, the lives of the Burglars are saved, C’mon…
That’s what makes it such a foolishly constructed sentence. It practically forces you to take the next logical step and imagine how “safe” all the criminals will be.
A whole $100 dollars, regardless of the type of gun? Where do I sign up? /sarc
I must be getting cynical, because as soon as I heard their price my first thought was this is social signalling, pure and simple. Even a gun grabbing capitalism hating mayor from Boston has to realize that offering such a cheap price relative to most guns is going to get basically zero turnout or results. This is just so they can tell their supporters they are doing something, taking action unlike those evil Republikkkans bought by the NRA without having to actually do anything or risk losing much money.
So… does a zip gun qualify?
/asking for a friend.
Sometimes.
That’s how you get rid of those broken, rusty pieces of crap you found in your basement when you moved in – I’ve seen the LA/Chicago buy-back photos.
They really should call it the Rusty Piece of Shit Upgrade Down Payment Program.
So the cops should turn in their guns and save a whole bunch of lives.
Reposted from the STEVE SMITH Christmas songs, since by the time I got there the thread was dead:
THE BIGGEST RAPE SASQUATCH (Sung to the tune of “Little Drummer Boy”)
♫STEVE SMITH HUNTS THEE
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
FOR STEVE SMITH IS HORNY
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
A BIG COCK STEVE SMITH BRING
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
FOR HIKER ASS RAPING
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
STEVE SMITH GIVE GIFT TOO
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
STEVE SMITH CUM
SILLY HIKER
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
THIS IS STEVE SMITH RAPE GROUND
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
A SURPRISE STEVE SMITH BRING
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
THAT’S RAPED PEASANT AND KING
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
SHALL STEVE SMITH RAPE NOW
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE TILL DONE
HIKER TURNED PALE
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
SMALL HEARTBEAT KEPT RHYTHM
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
STEVE SMITH RAPED ANUS THEN
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
STEVE SMITH GIVE BEST RAPE THEN
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
THEN STEVE SMITH FINISH
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
HIKER NUMB♫
STEVE SMITH SEE THAT YESTERDAY. AND HE LIKE! WILL TRY TO FIT ON UPCOMING PROJECT.
From the Mad Friday link:
“Fists were flying in a Birmingham bust-up that erupted in Broad Street as the festive celebrations turned violent”
Never have I understood people who go out on an ostensibly fun night either A) looking for a fight or B) become violent when drunk. I just like acting stupid and being a retard; which isn’t really that much of a stretch.
I bet those people are violent when they’re not drunk, too.
Just to stick to the theme, I present William Shatner’s greatest recent role. It includes zombie elves, and a fight between Santa and Krampus.
Also, HA! The joke is all on you! The boob survey is a trick! ZARDOZ will cleanse all that go to a survey designed to induce penile erection!
Or maybe…..Zardoz wants to know which brutal females should be cleansed first!
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: ALL WOMEN ARE TO BE CLEANSED AT ONCE! AND THEN SOLD AT A 2:1 RATIO 2 GOATS PER WOMEN!
ALLAH HAS SPOKEN!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE PENIS IS EVIL! HOWEVER, THE BRUTAL FEMALES MIGHT HAVE TWO PURPOSES FOR WHICH THEY MAY BE ALLOWED TO LIVE.
TO BE CHOSEN FOR THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS
OR THE EVER POPULAR GRAIN SLAVERY
Evening Selection
Ok, finally found my camera connector that wife so ingeniously hid. This one was after eating all the oysters in Chesapeake Bay, seriously there are no more left today, don’t even try. And a couple of other stouts and porters.
I like that you have your own comment in the background. Very meta.
Yeah, I’m wishing for extra shitlord points.
Excellent.
What kind of crazy-ass mouse is that?
Well F me sideways. I feel like STEVE SMITH had his way with me, slapped me in the face with his cock after pulling out and didn’t even give me a reacharound. This afternoon definitely didn’t go as planned.
Got to downtown Cville a little before 2 (per my parking pass), picked up a ticket for Star Wars at 4:50 and then walked up the 1/2 mile or so to the Hardywood Taproom to partake of their brand spanking new Double Barrel Ginger Bread Stout. Really good stuff per my tweet around the same time. I wanted to try a few more items before deciding on which bottles to buy following my purchases yesterday (in afternoon/evening links). I got a flight of their Pepper Saison (interesting!), Rum Barrel Ginger Bread Stout (excellent), Christmas Morning (just to justify my previous purchase), and some Coco stout (not seeing it on their page). Was probably a mistake because that’s like another 16 oz of 10% + in short order. Might just be me. I finished it off, sat there for a while before going and puking (yay!). Waited a little longer (already after 4 by now) before buying 4 bottles – Rum Barrel Stout, 2 x Double Barrel Ginger Bread Stout and one more Christmas Morning) as well as a glass and some coffee (!) for a relative, before walking the 1/2 mile back to my car to stow it. (dammit – looking at my 4 pack now it looks like I wound up with the “regular” ginger bread stout and not the rum barrel reserve – one more excuse to go back).
Got to the theater right around 4:50 – thankfully I had a ticket for the back row. 3D was NOT a good idea in this case. Had to keep adjusting the glasses or taking a break from the screen. About 10 min in – went to the bathroom and puked two more times. WTF. Guess I’m just not built for this kind of thing. Sat in the theater for a few more minutes before giving up and going to get some food in the lobby where I sat with water/food/coffee (and my phone) for the next 1 1/2 hours or so before I figured I was good to drive home.
Wow. Seriously…I know I got a good buzz from the first glass, but I was really not expecting that. First time I’ve puked since Korea, 2013 deployment the night I had 2 soju mixers and 2 vodka mojitos (in short order and then tried to lie down). I think I’ll set these stouts aside for a few weeks and keep it light for a while. They’re super tasty but I don’t want to trigger any taste reflexes.
That beer selection looks really good.
Other than that, how was the movie Mrs. Lincoln?
I saw a porg….
I’ll try again in a couple weeks – non-3D
I wanted to see this movie until you mentioned the 3D. Now I’m not in the least bit interested.
Thinking a bit more…might have to do with not eating anything since last night other than some oatmeal as a late breakfast after hitting the gym. This taproom really needs a menu – other than “free pretzels on Thursdays”.
SILENT SMITH,
QUIET SMITH,
ALL IS DARK,
ALL IS THICK,
ROUND THE TREES THE HIKERS WILL RUN,
HORNY STEVEN IS HAVING SOME FUN,
CREEP IN RAPESQUATCH PEACE,
RAPE IN STEVE SMITH PEACE,
Shouldn’t that be “all is thicc” ?
STEVE SMITH HAS THICK FOR THICC.
Well I thought about it, but my spelling sucks so, do it right
Inside shitlord lair
Love the chair!
When you get one of these gaming chairs, you probably will not like it at first. But after a week or so, you’ll love it. At least that was my experience.
Nice Schlumbergera
That cactus is actually huge, we’ve had it for 12 years. I’t way past peak blooming now.
Dear Zardoz,
I knew I shouldn’t have been browsing the gun auction sites after some of my recent purchases. I recently spent a lot of money acquiring some old rifles and have exhausted my gun budget. I found a rare, early Lee-Enfield up for auction. It has two problems, but they are minor and the rifle is otherwise in excellent condition given its age. I have money to cover bidding and possibly winning the rifle, but the money is allocated for other things, like car maintenance, home maintenance, investing, and emergency savings.
My question: Should I be responsible, not raid my other stashes of cash, and pass up this auction? Or go fucking nuts and bid?
Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow? Buy the gun!
/Not Zardoz
It’s the holidays… go fucking nuts and bid.
/blames bourbon for being irresponsible
What do you plan to do with the rifle? Do you live in or near a metropolitan area?
And how much is the auction up to now?
$1225. I figure the auction will end somewhere around $2000.
To answer your question below, Lee-Enfields are one of the many old guns I’m interested in. If I bid and won this auction, I doubt I would shoot this rifle often given its rarity and expense, but I can see my taking it to the range once in a while.
The area I live in is in my opinion built up, but I think city folk would think I’m out in the boonies. The houses are too close together here to shoot in my backyard even though there is a hill and woods behind my house blocking my view of my neighbor in the back.
The gun club I belong to is maybe a fifteen minute drive away. I’m coming off a long shooting hiatus. First thing I need to do, which I’ve put off because of work, is properly sight in my Ruger 10/22. The sights are off but were good enough for a test I had to take to be allowed to use one of the ranges at my club. After that, I have a long queue of rifles that need work/sighting in/shooting.
$2k for an Enfield?. Yikes. I have several nice bridges for sale…
Yeah that sounds a bit much, but it might be in immaculate condition.
Thanks for the heads up on the 7 shot GP100, BTW. Didn’t know they added a pipe.
It’s a MLE, not a SMLE. MLEs rarely come up for sale.
☺
If you just cruise around and keep checking the pawn shops you will find a Lee Enfield for a pittance. It might take a year or two but you never know what else you will find in the interim. I found a really nice Webley in .455 like that for 150 bucks. Ok, 150 bucks is a lot of cheddar for a paperweight but I couldn’t resist.
303 British is expensive and hard to come by. Unless you are just a collector for the sake of collecting it isnt very practical. I wish I had known you were interested…I just sold one last year, brass and dies included.
I wish I hadn’t *had* to get rid of my 4/2 back in the mid 90’s when I came over here. Importing it would have been ridiculous, and it was only a 4/2, after all. They were like Mosins back then.
I passed up bidding on an unissued 1955 dated No. 4 Mk 2 in favor of bidding on a Lee-Metford Mk II. I have No. 4 Mk 2 and I was trying to be responsible about money. I won the Lee-Metford.
But… No 4s are expensive now. The prices are, relative to what I paid for my No. 4 Mk 2, absurd.
I had a 4/1 and an SMLE. The ladder on the 4/1 had been modified by some idiot and it took me forever and a fortune to replace.
The problem is that the US took all of the surplus rifles and surplus ammo and sent it to Afghanistan for the fight against the Soviets. Yeah, they went from common surplus rifles with plenty of cheap ammo to hen’s teeth overnight. Bastards. So I sold mine. The ammo was just too much trouble and expense.
I also had a 6.5 Arisaka. If I remember correctly at that time the only ammo for either you could get was Norma. everything Norma is ridiculously expensive and I dont shoot off-the-shelf ammo anyway.
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED SINGS A CHRISTMAS INFIDEL CAROL!
i’M GONNA KILL,
ALL INFIDELS,
IT WON’T TAKE LONG
I HAVE A BOMB
BLOW YOU ALL TO PIECES!
BLOW YOU ALL TO PIECES!
BLOW YOU ALL TO PIECES!
BLOW YOU ALL TO PIECES!
IT WON’T BE LONG
TIL YOU’RE ALL GONE
OUTBREEDINGYOU
EXCEPT FOR THE JOOOOS
FALALHALALA LALA
FALALHALALA LALA
FALALHALALA LALA
FALALHALALA LALA
DING DONG BIG BOMB
DING DONG BIG BOMB
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED SAYS CAROL OF THE BELLS< INFIDELS!
*Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells*
A little ditty for the whole family to enjoy.
Holy shit
Here he comes
I thought we got away
The rapesquatch he’s caught up again
There’s nothing more to say
Sorry dude
I run faster than you
For you that’s a bad break
So fare thee well and merry Christmas
And do enjoy the rape
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: I DEMAND CAPS! STEVE SMITH/ALLAH DOES NOT APPROVE!
Sad baby boomer masturbates nostalgically while reminiscing of Days of Rage, film at eleven.
What a collectivist, authoritarian circle jerk that account is. My counter argument for those fuckwits is: Fuck You.
Oh, that’s clever.
What a meathead that guy is.
This is Spinal Tap is overrated.
But it goes to 11
I thought I knew you Ted…
I should add I’m not a fan of metal music.
It can be tedious, I’m listening to KUSC 95.1 classical, it’s chill
I think I have to agree with Ted on this one. That film is hilarious, but it does not hold up very well with repeat viewings. I believe that is as good a litmus for something being overrated as any.
So there’s a new book out in which a bunch of psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists each write a chapter on why they think Donald Trump is mentally ill. All I can think is they must not see much actual severe mental illness in their daily duties, because it would be pretty damn hard for a truly mentally ill person to handle the agenda of a President for even one day without decompensating and hiding in the bedroom with the door locked. But they are pretty upset about those tweets, I guess, and are still pissed off about the results of an election over a year ago.
One of the most famous, and most competent psychiatrists out there, Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, of Columbia University, put out a good article this week, basically telling this book’s authors how dangerous what they are doing is, and reminding how psychiatry has been used in evil ways as recently as the Soviet Union in the last century. And that it is unethical to postulate clinical diagnosis on a person you’ve never met and have never examined. He points out that no doubt just about all of this conjecture is due to political considerations, not good clinical opinion, and cautions these writers on what they might be initiating could easily be turned into much worse in future elections.
He’s absolutely correct, of course. But the opinion piece he’s written has created a firestorm among mental health and medical professionals, the great majority of whom disagree with him, saying doctors shouldn’t sit idly by and there should be a ‘duty to warn!!” “Shouldn’t someone have warned us about Hitler?” more than half protest.
So there you have it. Even a ton of doctors out there can’t resist Godwinning this President, apparently based on their ‘expert opinion’ of somebody’s tweets.
Obama is a sociopath. Why didn’t they warn us about him?
The Goldwater Rule? What’s that? This is just an unprecedented but necessary action taken on by unbiased experts for a uniquely dangerous candidate, we swear.
I’ve taken graduate level psychology classes and would have been bounced out of the program if I had tried to diagnose or label someone I hadn’t met with in a formal and controlled session. Lieberman couldn’t be more correct, what those idiots are doing is dangerous.
Even more amazing is that Lieberman describes himself in the article as a lifetime Democrat, and he served as Hillary’s advisor on mental health policy for the 2016 campaign, and he clearly states he has nothing but dislike for Trump — but he is all about principles on this topic. And yet they turn on even him, who because of his background is probably one of the few credible authorities out there who could make a legitimate, non-partisan case against doing this to a President. Wow.
I think I may be connected to Lieberman on LinkedIn, I’ll check and see, and if I am, I’ll send him a nice private note of support and admiration. It’s unbelievable to think that one has to be very brave these days — almost fearless — just to endorse ethics and professionalism.
How many of them depend on government largesse and to what extent? If they dont have any skin in the game then why all the freak-out?
Perhaps someone should write a parallel book on Trump Derangement Syndrome.
TDS is real, based on what IDK, but they really are irrational, separated from Reality
Or perhaps every one of those bastards should have their licenses yanked so they can go flip burgers or sweep floors. The more I think about it the worse it seems. Has politicizing the mental health field been done before? Do we know how it turns out? Did any of those fuckwits take a history class?
First up against the wall historically, IIRC
It’s a blatant violation of the APA ethics code and, if they were truly impartial, they’d be kicked out. There aren’t many (any?) places in the USA you can practice clinical psych without a membership.
Ethics? nowadays? Sadly, no one knows what to do when no one is looking
/J.C.Watts
Apparently they forget their ethics if you criticize the right person/people.
In countries where everything is political, I would bet yes.
This seems obligatory so I am posting the link. This is what lies at the end of the road these people are taking.
Don’t click on it. Trust me, dont click.
http://www.cvltnation.com/brutal-drawings-from-the-gulag/
I clicked and read most of it, my powder is dry, Suthen
I won’t.
I clicked. It was what I expected.
I was reminded of a bit in “Life and Fate” where a Nazi is trying to convince an Old Bolshevik that Nazis and Communists really aren’t that different. They both kill people, but the reasons why are irrelevant. The people are still dead.
That is an outstanding book! I recommend it for all. V. Grossman did a wonderful job.
I trust you, but I clicked – not sorry, but horrified.
Same here. I’m due for another read of Gulag Archipelago
Same.
I was just looking into Gulag Archipelago, after reading through that. Is the abridged the standard that most people read or have you gone through all volumes?
“Enemy of the people” sounds eerily similar to the group think of a certain political progression afoot today.
I wake up in the middle of the night and I cant sleep. It’s raining like hell. I come check this for the hell o fit and there’s westernsloper. I haven’t seen you around in a while. Welcome back brother.
IIRC, The Goldwater Rule started after a bunch of psychiatrists who had never met or examined Barry Goldwater said that he was mentally unfit to serve as president.
I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that they’re indulging in malpractice. After all, what competent psychiatric professional makes a diagnosis without even meeting their patients.
No matter what my political views, I’d be very wary of consulting with professionals who are as unprofessional as they are. They look far more like money-grubbing hacks, and consequently, I’d be concerned that their interest was more in making a buck or two over my mental well-being.
Trump is also pretty successful financially through several endeavors and appears to have a stable family life. If he’s crazy then crazy doesn’t mean negative effects. Therefore it means nothing.
Do you have a link to the Lieberman article? sounds good
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/889189
It’s on Medscape, which I think you have to have an account as a medical professional to access. Since I have an account, I can access, but I’m not sure others can.
But here’s the link, see if it works for you. If not, I can copy and paste it here if the editorial overlords are OK with that.
Yep. I am not worthy.
This. It bears repeating over and over.
it is unethical to postulate clinical diagnosis on a person you’ve never met and have never examined.
and so I’m going to make Awesome Burgers and check out this Icelandic stout, Cheers
/HM, YEP
Stop beating around the bush and just spit it out.
That’s crazy talk. You must be nuts, and quite possibly have an obsessive compulsion disorder.
I’m a bit hard of hearing in my right ear, say again?
needs more clapping emojis to get the proper look
I’m thinking ice cream cones and frowny faces
True. True.
Clear case of OCD demonstrated by HM. Ready the electroshock table.
If it were, I would have made sure to capitalize the “I” at the beginning of the sentence.
So Tom Cruise is right about psychiatry then?
If Xenu says it’s bullshit I guess it must be bullshit.
Sung to Winter Wonderland (From the wonderful folks at Army Ranger School)
Up a hill slowly walking
Is the girl that we’re stalking
First round kill from the top of the hill
Walking in a sniper wonderland.
Through the meadow he is walking.
And through my sights we are stalking.
Lock and load another round,
Watch the bastard hit the ground.
Walking in a sniper wonderland
Of the village we will make a bonfire
Watch it burn merrily to the ground
In the city we can set claymore
Set it to go off at half past twelve.
Kill those commie bastards while they’re sleeping,and send their godless souls straight to hell
That first verse sounds like something the cops would sing.
Work in a helicopter ride and Pinochet and you might have a hit.
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED APPROVES! FOR AN INFIDEL! 72 VIRGINS FOR YOU! PUT THIS VEST ON……
I’m implementing a new protocol for dealing with political speech. Henceforth whenever someone advises me to “follow the money” or describes and elected official as having been “bought and paid for”, I will automatically assume the person is functionally retarded.
Why? Following the money is the most basic way to root out cronyism in american politics. It’s painfully obvious.
Amazon is selling red dot sights for cheap.
I think that’s the one Vhyrus really likes
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: I See the Beast known as STEVE SMITH has many INFIDEL HOLIDAY THEMED SONGS written by the sloven INFIDELS! in this Office.
MAY ALLAH SUGGEST A STEVE SMITH CHRISTMAS ANTHOLOGY? OR SHOULD I SEND THE JANITOR TO CLEAN UP?
Brawler for the last beer of the night.
A solid brew from Yards. I wish they distributed here. I’m working through two kegs I need to kill off to tap my seasonal imperial stout (brewed on the summer solstice, tapped on the winter solstice).
I like Yards. They make great beer, and I also would like them to distribute over a wider territory. I only buy their beer when I’m visiting relatives in Pennsylvania.
Do you guys have UNTAPPD? It’s a beer ‘social networking’ app. You can log your beers, see what your friends and people near you are drinking. It could be interesting for this group,
At a metal and punk show tonight in Winooski. The girlfriend’s brother is the drummer in the last band.
NO mosh pit! We need your commentary!
Piss off! There are rules in the pit.
/dives in
My bloody nose disagrees
/laughs at you psychos
A bloody nose? That’s it. It was probably an accident. You’re fine, just jump back in.
Funniest thing I ever saw in a pit was at a Flogging Molly show. Andrew W. K. was the opening act, and brought a bunch of frat boys into the audience. They thought a pit was all about throwing punches. The skinheads dropping them as they tried to throw a punch taught them otherwise… very quickly.
Who were the skinheads there for, I didn’t think Flogging Molly drew that kind of a crowd. Dropkick Murphys maybe but not FM
This was back in the day before Flogging Molly went country. Back in the late 90’s/early 00’s. The SHARPS still came out to Flogging Molly back then.
I don’t Mosh, even as a kid, naaah, I was more a player, I don’t do violence IRL
The Mosh pit isn’t about violence. It’s a form of community building. Of course, I’ve been going into the pit for over 20 years now. The entertaining parts nowadays are when parents try to warn me away from going down in. “Thank you, but I know what I’m walking in to. This is why I wore a rugby jersey and steel toed boots.”
I wore a brand new set of steel toe boots to an avenged sevenfold concert about 10 years ago. I hadn’t broken them in yet and suffered for not having done so. I mosh fought all night and came out unscathed except for the nasty blisters I had all over my feet from wearing a pair of boots that hadn’t seen action before.
Lachowsky,your job is scary enough, Mosh? naah, STEEL! FTW!
It’s not scary Yusef, a man can get used to anything.
Powder keg is a little screamo but it’s good
California being California. Succeed already.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12/16/california-bring-back-net-neutrality-california/
Secession is more likely, IMO
That’s what I meant. Looked correct for some reason.
Aaaand that’s just a sick man trying to pass a law that what? how do you enforce it?
That is a good point. I am curious of across the country internet service costs. Here in the semi-sticks of Western CO we have been graced with fiber over the last year. It is my understanding that you fine taxpayers of the USA paid for much of it as we somehow got in on the “rural hillbillys needs sum good inernets too” push that was all the rage a few years ago. Prior to the fiber, the internets was provided via broad band phone link for about $35 a month. Speeds were a rocking 2-5 mbps. The fiber is $50 a month for a very stable 100mbps. The 1 gig package is $100 a month but I don’t see a need for that. What are y’all paying where you are at?
I should add it was a $100 connection fee for them to run it from the road to the house. I think much of the initial investment was a fed grant to the local electric coop who partnered with Elevate fiber to provide the service. I am no fan of fed grants for anything but I do like downloading a movie in 5 mins now when it used to take 7 hours. I would think the investment would have paid off without the grant, but getting that past a coop board without fed money is probably difficult.
120 for 200mps
$80 for 1 gig, in Philly.
I have no idea, TBH. I have been with
Time WarnerSpectrum forever which means all the packages have changed multiple times and the TV/internet bundle shown on my bill doesn’t even state what I pay for each anyway. As a long-time customer, I’m sure I’m getting raped.Verizon fIos in NYC. We get 4 set-top boxes (all 1500+ channels), POTS line, 2 mobile phones with unlimited data (we were grandfathered in as wifey has been a Verizon Mobile customer for decades), and 500up/500down intertubez for $300 per month. I am wholly and completely satisfied with the service and support and am honestly a bit afraid of what to expect when we finally flee the Rotten Apple for blessed rural Florida.
I am paying $130 for 75 Mbps with TV through FiOS. I was paying $80 before I added the TV. I’m really pissed that they’ve been advertising $80 for “gigabit” (actually more like 950 Mbps but talk about irrelevant details) “for new customers only”. I’ve watched like 3 TV shows (not 3 entire shows, 3 episodes) since adding the TV service 8 months ago. I’m very tempted to cancel, pay the early cancellation fee (which would be less than the $50 difference times the 16 months I’ve got left on the contract), and sign up for the other service. I’ve never had a problem with 75 Mbps but a better deal is a better deal.
Santa testing new sleigh.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12/16/video-navy-pilots-encountered-strange-object-faster-fa-18/
Noodle was a one man band. The girlfriend is drinking
The girlfriend is drinking
Did she lift up her shirt and flash the band yet? If not she needs to drink more. My Ex#2 was notorious for that.
No beer tonight. Just a selection of 13 and 14 year old Napa Valley wines from the cellar.
there hasn’t been a rain at my house in over a month. Tonight the skies opened up and granted me water. Thank zardoz. My pond was getting low and my beasts need water to make it to market.
Damn the Sky gods! no rain in 4 months
You’re in the desert. Extended periods of no rain are expected. I really needed rain. My pond was drying up. If this rain hadn’t happened, I was going to have to tap into my wells to water my cattle. When I have to tap into my wells, it’s not long before they run out and I have to start running water from the city out to my pasture. When I run city water to my cows, it gets expensive.
I love ya man, but that’s life, my Front area is suffering, so I pay to keep it up
/1st World problems
Te Amo tambiem mis amigo.
My problems ar first world as well. If I run out of pond and well water, then I can run city water. In the third world, when I ran out of pond and well water, I would have to gather my spears and move in on my neighbors water to keep my live stock alive.
I don’t know Cows, but I know Lachowsky would dig an underground pipe that holds excess Pork farts to an igniter that kept your Cows Warm while you found a way to save a nickle,just for fun, then sell it to the Feds for a profit.
/Rock on!
You’re mostly right. Mostly only though.
I would never sell a fucking thing to the feds. The feds can eat a dick
Very cool response, can;t ask for more from a Glib,
Rock on
Peter Strzok was in a critical position in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server. If one is a criminal, there is no better friend than a crooked cop; especially a cop you can bribe with bitcoin.
there is no such thing as a non crooked cop.
The more that comes out about the investigation into Herselfs email the angrier I get. If the President won’t close down the FBI and fold the lower level agents into misssion overlapping agencies, congress should fund them with $0 and let them run with that budget. The FBI is a bad joke now. I don’t trust one goddamned thing any of them say. They have lost all credibility as far as I am concerned.
Ditto
Good Night!
A lawyer for the Trump presidential transition team is accusing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office of inappropriately obtaining transition documents as part of its Russia probe, including confidential attorney-client communications, privileged communications and thousands of emails without their knowledge.
If this is true, then is it conceivable that a judge would throw out any evidence collected from these emails and other records, in the event of a trial?
What good is a fishing expedition that doesn’t catch some fish? They’ve gotta find something, no matter how unrelated to the original purpose, even if in so doing they break the law themselves.