::Stupid WiFi went out halfway through links so no pics until/if it comes back up doing the links with a tablet is bad enough finding, loading and placing the photos is too tall a task for my marginal skills::
::UPDATE: I put a couple images in there. I’m doing the best I can!::
The days are getting longer, thank God. But the work never seems to get done. At least that’s how the people at the Fritz Pollard Alliance feel. After all, a person looking for a problem everywhere is likely never done working until they’re planted in the ground. And seriously, the Raiders have always been out ahead of things on the diversity front. Maybe pick another target next time, eh?
By the way, that still counts as sports. So do these results in college basketball: Duke won, Michigan State bounced back after Ohio State crushed them over the weekend, Villanova thumped Xavier, Texas upset TCU, and Louisville upset Florida State, which means…hooker party in the players dorm!!!
Only two games on the ice last night. The Senators took down the Maple Leafs and the Minnesooooda WIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLDDDD snuck past the Blackhawks. I guess they wish they had a few of those goals back from last night.
Across the pond, Chelski and Arsenhole played to a lifeless, goalless draw in the first leg of their League (read: JV) Cup semifinal.
No more sports for you. Mainly because nothing else is going on. So I’ll just move on into…the links!
The Republican Governor of Missouri is in a bit of a pickle. But he says he never blackmailed the lady he had an affair with a couple years ago. Either way, I thought the non-famous person was supposed to blackmail the politician, not the other way around. Meh, live and learn.
If image is everything, then our country is on the right track.
James Franco being…James Franco.
Is James Franco the next Hollywood star that’s going down for sexual assault/misconduct? The number of women accusing him of such has reached five in just a few days.
I don’t usually like to spread rumors, but I’ll go ahead and share this one, because I believe that we will hit $80 a barrel oil very soon. But don’t expect Venezuela to be the recipient of those profits. Much of the increase will happen because their wells will be offline.
Huh-huh. Nice rack, California.
The California government is poised to fuck up on the “clean energy” front once more. Its like words don’t even have meaning to those morons.
Get out there and enjoy your day!
If only I could.
*stares at cubicle walls*
Thanks for the triggering title pic. Need eye bleach.
http://archive.is/FPWdX
Ahhh, much better.
*hovers over link*
Dammit, I’m at work and people can see my screen. (They can’t read the text from that far away but lady pictures would be noticed)
Goodness, the all-around light muscle tone on #2 is just awe-inspiring. If a young lady like that had offered to sleep with me back in my Uni days, I’d probably still be in bed with her. 8^>
Also, #25 is giving #2 a run for her money in the “all-over-light-muscle-tone” department. **SWOON**
Where the Hell’s my heart medication?
So I’m going to give this a try starting Monday to try and eliminate those last few body fat % points. Anyone have experience?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clenbuterol
“the drug has been more recently known to the mainstream, particularly through publicized stories of use by celebrities such as Victoria Beckham, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan,”
Because they all aged so well?
Yes, the only problem Ive had with clen is that my body gets used to it within about a week. The best way to avoid this is to use it for 3-4 days and take a day off. Expect to feel a bit shaky and you might have some trouble sleeping. It definitely works if you keep your diet clean.
It looks like clenbuterol might not be good for sheep. So, I’d check with your partner before you start your new regimen.
You’d hate to harm that Montana Blond you love so much.
Thanks for the tip.
Trump makes sideways allusion to ending the WoD. If only it were that simple…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-i-think-i-know-answer-to-drug-crisis-adds-us-may-not-be-ready/ar-BBIdFMm?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
That sounds more ominous than promising.
Yeah, I think you’re being hopeful there.
Let me guess- gibbets.
I don’t know what turkey guts have to do with anything.
They make the stuffing more flavorful.
Fuck. Who let Donald find out about Duterte?
Ugh. That was my first thought.
“Trump has made fighting the opioid epidemic a centerpiece of his administration, though critics say he hasn’t dedicated nearly enough money or resources to make a difference.”
Of course. The government never spends enough to make a difference on anything. We must always be spending MOAR! Anyway, that’s pretty damn vague. Trump could mean legalization, or he could mean go full on death penalty for drug users and dealers.
Since Trump is a T-Totaler, I would guess the latter.
Trump is apparently a big fan of how Duterte is handling the drug issue in the Philippines so…
“inappropriate or sexually exploitative”
What’s next, “a bit creepy”?
I thought we passed that
Being boorish == surprise forced sodomy at knifepoint.
That Franco article is giant pile of nothing. He gets mad that actresses in an orgy scene won’t get topless? Why are they even there?
Yeah, I wondered why anyone was repeating those “accusations”.
An ex-girlfriend says that one time he wanted her to give him a BJ and she did but she didn’t actually want to, not that she said as much, but she didn’t really want to. So Rape!! C’mon people.
Then the actress with the topless scene….. wow, just wow. She says because he is a big shot actor and she really needed the money she couldn’t say no to a contract that required a nude scene. So he sexually exploited her. Jeez people. Get real. That’s the same logic that says that McDonald’s is guilty of using slave labor because people need the money and so they take a job working for McDonald’s.
It is time for one of these guys who really didn’t cross the line to stand up and pull a full on Trump on the whole deal. When “90 year old man in a wheelchair puts his arm around you for a photo that you asked for and therefore touches your butt” in the same category as “dude calls employee to hotel room and walks out of shower naked and insists on sex in exchange for continued employment”, you’ve lost all meaning.
…and furthermore in the same category as “predator ambushes young woman walking home alone through a dark public park and forcibly and violently penetrates her at gunpoint.”
Dave Chappelle’s most recent standup specials are awesome, partly because a lot of it is just Dave Chappelle talking about stuff, not necessarily trying to be funny. One of the things he says that really stood out was that the women driving this recent wave of accusations are alienating the very men they’re going to need to work against the culture of sexual assault in Hollywood. They’re creating an environment where only the absolutely pure can ally with them; problem is, if the locker room culture is as ubiquitous as they say, that means most men have a huge disincentive to cooperate.
Also wouldn’t want to be associated with the white knight brigade. What a bunch of creeps.
The female equivalent of the locker-room culture exists too.
…and is significantly more explicit than the male culture IMO.
I’ve been assured that coarse language, sexual innuendo, and the making of aggressive or unwanted advances is solely due to the presence of a penis.
AFAIK that was the whole premise of Sex in the City.
Wild Florida monkeys could give people type of herpes, CDC warns
Defense mechanism?
Or Florida Man Antics?
Both?
This is what happens when Florida Man “interacts” with monkeys.
STEEVE SMITH MORE CIVILIZED
STEVE NOT HAVE THE HERP… THAT JUST COLD SORE.
HM or Sugar Free hardest hit?
The Democrats consider this bad news, because it will hurt their chances at gaining power in the midterms.
Cash for clunkers is finally paying off. Thanks, Barry.
How brainwashed or pig-ignorant do you have to be to think that Barry had nothing but a stagnant economy for his entire eight year term, but when the economy starts to boom in one year under Trump it must be due to Obama’s policies. Which had no effect for eight years.
The one that intrigues me is GDP hovered around 1-1.5% under his reign but it shot up to over 3% as soon as he left.
It’s the Racism Multiplier Effect
We were even told to expect that the shit economy was the “new normal”. Suddenly, Chocolate Jesus is an economic genius. Must be difficult to breathe with your head that far up your ass.
This is nothing new. Clinton’s economic advisers and cabinet officials went on a full court press opposing the Gingrich budget plans, saying that a balanced budget isn’t a goal of theirs and wasn’t necessarily a good thing on all of the Sunday talk shows.
Fast forward to after the budget passes and he signs it – after much fighting – and today we have screaming headlines about how Clinton balanced the budget.
That is how political people roll. Take credit for everything good that happens, and lay blame on the opposition for every bad thing that happens. This is how it is Trump’s fault that some Palestinian gets killed fighting Israel.
Oh, I know how political people roll. I just can’t fathom the rubes who actually believe it.
The rubes see themselves as members of the team. So they are all-in.
It is the same phenomenon that ensures that the referees are always making bad calls against your favorite team. It is perfectly ordinary human behavior to believe utter nonsense if it supports your team.
One of my first experiences that raised my awareness of this was on the racial front. When Al Sharpton burst onto the scene with his accusations of a kidnapping and rape of a young black girl by feces-smearing racists it was shocking. Then as more and more details came out, and the claims became more and more outrageous, it became clear that it was a hoax. Within a week, maybe two, every white guy I knew fully understood that it was a hoax. All of my black friends were still all-in, even after he claimed that the Lieutenant Governor, prosecutors … heck, why not the Dali Lama… were all in on it.
Team trumped logic, 100%. We all were able to see that confirmed with the OJ Simpson case. That case led me to understand the “lynch mob” mentality of the civil rights movement era, where all white juries would acquit obviously guilty white accused. Originally I thought they all cynically voted for acquittal while knowing full well that he was guilty as a statement of racial solidarity. Watching people fully believe that OJ Simpson was innocent of murdering his ex wife let me know just how powerful motivated reasoning is, and leads me to suspect that the people on those juries really did believe in their verdicts, however outrageous they might be.
Herd mentality is a dangerous thing.
Well said.
That’s why the media puts shit out there and then retracts. They know (and Obama was a master of it) it’s what gets put out first that will stick.
Think of that doctor (professor? I forget) who put out a paper in the 90s linking vaccines to autism. He recanted/retracted it a few years ago but by then the damage was done.
I agree, the Chiefs got robbed!
Yeah, I get that it’s straight out of the pols playbook, but it never ceases to amaze me, the cognitive dissonance of “useful idiots” on the left. If libertarianism, somehow, didn’t add up logically, I couldn’t support it. It leads me to believe that people on the left are hardwired differently. I’ve gotten to the point, I don’t even try to debate them anymore. The whole leading horse to water thing.
It’s not just the left, either. Try debating a typical conservative about drug laws or gambling laws. Although they will at least usually listen and think about it, while the lefties just shriek “Nazi” or “Racist”.
Try talking to them about police violence – Balko style, not #BLM style and you’ll see the shrieking, just like the proggies.
The authoritarian streak on the right can be a third rail situation. There are a lot of “rules are rules” types in the conservative movement that distinguishes them from us weirdos in the libertarian movement.
I’d say you’d be more likely to find folks who would break a rule simple for the sake of saying “screw you” to the rule maker around here than you would find someone who believes in following rules simply because they are rules. Most libertarians seem to govern their lives by their own sense of right and wrong, which sort of lines up with the basic rules of society, but not always.
I’ve been down that dead-end path with my conservative stepdad. The WOD, the role of the US military, It’s like beating your head against the wall. But, I still sometimes hold out hope. Conservatives still pay lip service to limited government. I like to think they at least give thought to my arguments. Even if they don’t agree, I try to plant that seed of liberty in their brain.
Try talking to them about police violence – Balko style, not #BLM style and you’ll see the shrieking, just like the proggies.
Not shrieking, just stubborn denial, fall back to “it’s just a few bad apples”, etc. etc.
Try talking to them about police violence – Balko style, not #BLM style and you’ll see the shrieking, just like the proggies
Ive not experienced this. They’ll usually become recalcitrant, but I’ve never seen anybody go prog snowflake about it. It’s usually a combination of “follow the law and you won’t get shot” and “a few bad apples don’t spoil the bunch”
Granted I don’t talk politics with boomers very often, and they’re the ones I’d expect to shriek about “law and order” the most
a few bad apples don’t spoil the bunch
Actually, you know, they do, if you don’t get rid of them immediately. And this gets the original saying backwards, too:
Benjamin Franklin had it as “the rotten apple spoils his companion,” which goes back to Shakespeare’s time.
Interesting article about how the meaning of the original proverb has gotten flipped. Probably gives some insight into societal attitudes toward accountability, etc.
BTW, I firmly believe that bad apples are like cockroaches – for every one you see, you’re pretty safe assuming there’s a dozen you don’t.
BTW, I firmly believe that bad apples are like cockroaches – for every one you see, you’re pretty safe assuming there’s a dozen you don’t.
I’m contemplating writing an article explaining how police abuse is better likened to lung cancer than a bad apple.
Paul Krugman has built a very successful career on this principle. Back in the Obama years, he basically alternated weekly between two premises:
“The economy is horrible and it’s all the fault of Republicans in Congress!!”
“The economy is doing great and it’s all thanks to Obama!!”
These are the same people that claim FDR saved the U.S. from the Great Depression… you know, the one that didn’t end until his policies were repealed in 1946 when the republicans retook congress.
You have to admire their consistent blindness.
To be fair, I don’t think either president is responsible for the current economy.
I don’t know, perception has a lot to do with consumer confidence and corporate planning. The perception of Trump being more business-friendly, while also actually rescinding some burdensome rules and regulations, in conjunction with cutting taxes I think likely had a very positive effect on the economy.
I think the market has responded to perception, but I also think it is too high and is gonna correct eventually.
But the 3% GDP growth isn’t perception. It also still isn’t anything spectacular, that is just back to normal.
With America’s resources I agree it’s not spectacular. It should generally be around 5% I reckon.
I expect some really impressive numbers in 2018, maybe even 4.5% in Q3 or Q4. There’s so much money in the tax cut that US growth will run off a bunch of delayed maintenance and upgrade demand in the next 5-6 quarters and then die back to whatever the new normal is.
I can see the argument, but what your taking about is people hoping it will do well, but not based on any policy.
The tax cut could be the cause of growth, but that was only passed a month ago.
People who think things will improve are more willing to invest, as it’s a lower risk.
How is it a lower risk?
Risk assessment is perception. With Obama you have to factor in a track record of stating and doing things contrary to the well being of your enterprise. With Trump, you have him saying things beneficial to the well being of your enterprise, and some effort to actually follow through on what is being said. Even if nothing has changed that lowers the assessed risk.
I’ll agree that there is lower regime uncertainty in the sense that Trump most likely won’t go out if his way to harm certain industries, but that’s more about how bad Obama was than about and great policies Trump has put in place.
The tax cut was only passed recently, but has been in the pipes for a while. And Trump has rescinded a lot of regulations and cut back the EPA severely. These things are good for both business and the economy.
The tax cut is making me think very hard about making a major investment in my business. The cash accounting change for inventory and the full expensing of capital purchases is a game changer for me.
There was clearly a lot of optimism in the business community after the election. Businesses began investing almost immediately after the election, under the assumption that regulation would at a minimum remain the same. Unpredictability is the enemy of economic growth – if “maybe they’ll introduce new regulations” is always on the table, how can you plan for building a new plant, or exploring for mineral resources, etc.
It doesn’t signal that Trump fixed anything, it signals that the Obama administration was artificially suppressing the economy with their policies and the “I have a pen” imperial presidency method of making law. Remove that threat and things get a little better.
Put sane leadership in Washington and actually drain the swam…. one wonders what might happen to economic growth under those circumstances.
That seems like a valid assessment to me.
Neither President is responsible for the economy; economic actors are responsible. However, there is a psychological component to it. If an investment is perceived as better, people will act as if it is better. President Trump is seen as pro-growth*; therefore, people are going to act as if the economy is going to improve, which makes the economy improve. It’s a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
*Or, more to the point, not seeing growth as utterly irrelevant, like President Obama did.
Well, the tax cut bill included a provision that lowers my tax burden on every bottle of bourbon I make by about a dollar. That’s pretty significant, and allowed us to expand a bit in anticipation of the bill passing. We just ordered new equipment, and we’re hiring a new person. So, in my case, Trump has been responsible for economic growth. I’m not alone, and many people in small companies are making decisions based on the assumption that things will be better. Under Obama, decisions were made differently. How is the ACA going to impact the bottom line, for example.
Presidents aren’t responsible for the economy, obviously, but they can create either positive or negative influence.
Trump may be a knucklehead, but at least it feels like things are moving in the right direction.
– $1 per bottle?!? That is bloody fantastic news. When does your work product hit the shelves (I’m awaiting in giddy anticipation)?
Well, the distillery was in operation for years before they put me in charge of it. Any Adirondack Distilling 601 Bourbon or our whisky that you see on the shelves was blended by me. My first task was tasting hundreds of barrels to see where we were at. Vodka and gin you see on shelves was likely made by me. The stuff I’ve been distilling the past few months will take a year or two (or longer!) to age. It’s some damn fine stuff. I think we’re in 22 or 24 states.
Is it shipping to Pennsylvania yet?
I was specifically looking for spirits that you personally had a hand in; I’m sure it’s worth the wait. To be fair though, some of the smoothest corn squeezin’s I’ve ever tasted came fresh from the spout in a barn near Shepherdstown, WV. I’m pretty sure my local liquor jobber (Rockaway Beach) stocks Adirondack and I’m almost finished with this Buffalo Trace so…
I still have to remember to pester you about visitng the distillery.
I absolutely want to visit the distillery as well. I’m only about 5 hours away. Are you near Utica, Unciv? Do I need to pack up all my multi-melta Vincent Black Shadow trikes to deliver the Emperor’s justice to your heretical forces?
I’m in Albany – where my employer is based.
To the extent that any President is actually responsible for the state of the economy (and that is a very small extent) he is.
Course it is pretty clear the hot economy is a rapidly inflating bubble and so the inevitable burst will be almost 100% Obama’s fault as well but they’re gonna blame that on Trump
Getting rid of executive branch regulations are good. Other than that I agree with you.
There’s also the issue of the President appointing the Board of Governors and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, which as it happens is going to happen again this year. For anyone who doubts the degree to which these appointments matter, I can only remind everyone of one name. Paul Volcker.
Actually, I lie. I could also cite the seemingly eternal presence of Alan Greenspan.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5256675/Heidi-Klum-cover-Harpers-Bazaar-Germany.html
Still would.
Hot as a pistol.
Why do we continue with the perception that numbers = guilt? It’s like the Salem witch trials where they decided the accused must be a witch because at least a dozen hysterical girls said so!
I have never used number of accusers as a metric of credibility of claims.
I’m also strange.
Numbers *can* be an indicator of veracity but generally only if the accusers are completely independent and making essentially the same claim
The #metoo thing has been going on long enough and Franco is famous enough that I am a bit surprised that all of sudden 5 women have sexual assault claims. The longer they wait the less credible the claims become. At least to me.
Dude, #metoo is over. It’s #TimesUp now.
What’s next?
#gameovergameoverman
Indeed
lol
This guy gets it.
#killAllMen
OT for Dakotain; how is the weather down there? Are you getting the blizzard conditions?
Yep. Pretty bad in town so it must be rough out in the country. 0 deg with -36 wind-chill when I came in this morning. 30 mph NNW winds.
It’s ugly up here. I’m still at home. I’m going to finish my coffee then bundle up and go see how big the drifts in the driveway are. Not that it matters until they send the plows back out. I think they pulled them sometime over night since the entire NE corner of the state is under a No Travel Advisory.
I was happy to see that the NW wind kept my drive way clear. Not so much the side walk in front of my house.
STEVE SMITH ALL ABOUT NUMBERS
Perhaps something to do with an overemphasis on the virtues of democracy in public school curricula. Many people are taught that “what most people want” = “good”.
Look at people freaking out over the repeal of the Net Neutrality rules and crying, “but 80 percent of Americans wanted this!!” (which may or may not be true).
And recall how people think that the activities of private businesses (wage rates, etc.) are within the purview of government.
Why do we continue with the perception that numbers = guilt?
At least when it comes to sexual misconduct, probably because we believe (with good reason, IMO) that someone is likely to engage in a pattern of misbehavior, rather than a single isolated incident.
5 Women Artists On Capturing The Female Body Uncensored
TW TW TW NSFW or Human consumption TW TW TW
GAH! WHY DIDN’T I LISTEN?!
*clicks back to Q’s eye bleach*
Meh. One fat chick doesn’t require eye bleach.
Their proposition “there are no safe spaces for uncensored female art” is just plain stupid. That they are holding up photos of naked women as the example is even more idiotic. As evidence I will point you to the entire internet. A simple google image search will turn up an infinite variety of celebration of the female form in all its variations, young and old, from too skinny to too fat, pierced, tattooed, gay, straight, man-hating to insatiable heterosexual…. there is no limit to the images.
This is a stupid marketing ploy by a gallery to get some eyeballs on their product. That is all.
I love the equivalisation of artistic vision and talent made between Modigliani and a fat girl taking a selfie.
It’s sort of like the photographic equivalent of people that take time to learn to play an instrument and craft songs, and hip-hop.
“click to begin slideshow”
No thanks.
Maybe people just aren’t all that interested in sidewalk chalk clitori and menstrual blood abstracts.
1 of 5 is not bad, a redhead that just needs to go to the gym once a week, 2 is an Indian girl in some sort of sari/burkha, 3 is boobs with bar piercings, 4 is the horrid cover image again, and 5 is a drawing featuring self-dentistry, blood, and boobs.
It isn’t that bad. Or that good. There are a couple of other nudes of semi-alternative style chicks, and a bad painting of a topless woman pulling her tooth to symbolize the pain of depression.
I fully support their art. I just don’t support the supposition that they are being oppressed and that there is no safe place for them to practice their art. That’s stupid. I also don’t support the notion that it is good art. Most art isn’t good. Just go to any museum and you’ll see.
There’s a lot of pedestrian stuff out there. And almost all of the stuff that tries to be edgy or political is terrible. The last time I was at the National Gallery of Art in DC they had a piece protesting racism in Africa or apartheid or something…. it was a big wooden post with a bunch of 18 penny nails driven in all over it and wrapped in barbed wire. Literally any junior high school art class could have done it. It wasn’t even particularly artistic or evocative to look at. Just a big hunk of wood and a bunch of random nails and wire. But there it sat, prominently displayed in a prestigious museum.
Last month I visited our local gallery… they had a display piece that was a big stack of St. Augustine Grass sod squares, with trash like old water bottles and fast food boxes sticking out between the layers. It was supposed to promote recycling. And it was stupid. But it was actually better than the piece at the national museum of art.
Does this mean they’d only really need about a dozen nuke plants in that huge state to be fully green powered? What a bunch of maroons.
The only problem I see with California using Nuke plants is how to engineer them to be earthquake resistant and Fail Safe when there is a big earthquake.
Float them like NORAD?
Actually, the lesson learned from Fukushima is that nuke plants are pretty well resistant. Given how much abuse that plant took and how little leakage there was, a modern plant can take what San Andreas dishes out.
Could’ve been worse, but it absolutely could have been handled better, too. TEPCO was a parade of mistakes for almost a week.
But people have this tendency to treat it as if it were a Chernobyl level incident, which is a disservice to the resiliency of the design. (human factors are a factor, and California can fuck up pouring piss from a boot)
The mistakes having nothing to due with the plant itself – rather the stupid placement of back-up generators.
That’s why I’m laying most of the blame on TEPCO. It’s not like tsunamis are unknown to that area. Intelligent placement of the back up generators would be part of the fail safe spqr is talking about.
There’s exactly one bureaucrat in California I would trust to verify the design is actually fail-safe. And he’s my Uncle.
You ever read the play by play of Chernobyl? TEPCO were freakin’ geniuses in comparison.
“Step one, wait until the trained staff are off-shift. Step two – forcibly disable all of the safeties. Step three – run reactor at critically dangerous levels for test.”
The test was supposed to occur before step one, but after the delays, they freakin’ went ahead with the stupid tests.
Step 4 — ignore what people are saying is happening because it doesnt seem reasonable.
Chernobyl was an example of power of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. The test had to be run now! So what if the experts think it is incredibly unsafe.
The cover-up was also something that could only happen in an authoritative state.
Of course. Pretty low bar.
Didn’t TOS have a couple of guys in the nuclear power industry? Did the come over with different handles or just disappear? It was always interesting to read comments from experts “on the ground” in the industry.
Smilin Joe Fission. His posts were great.
I’m always lurking! But with my schedule I’m always late to the links so they are dead by the time I get around. I need to make a better effort of posting in the non-link threads though. New new years resolution.
Absolutely. Watching a nuclear power leaking radiation on live TV for weeks is not fun when it’s within a couple hundred kilometers of you.
You didn’t run your kids down there to get a dose so they could get mutant super powers?
What kind of father are you?
I worked in the energy industry for a while – the stupidity of shutting down nuke plants is hard to overstate.
They have these already built, fully depreciated facilities up and running. The fuel is next to free compared to any fossil fuel. It emits nothing except heat and nuclear waste (which could be recycled into more fuel if we would build breeder reactors like France). Other than the massive regulations and personnel, this is as close to free electricity as you’ll ever find.
Instead of refueling and re-licencing these plants and running them indefinitely, California is going to force PG&E to spend something like half a $billion shut it down. Being a regulated utility, PG&E will recover that costs from their customers – regardless of what the commission decides to allow. They”ll win in court if the rates don’t cover their expenses.
Also, water vapor from the cooling stack is definitely a greenhouse gas, it just has a near zero half-life and is pretty much saturated in the atmosphere.
The California government is poised to fuck up on the “clean energy” front once more. Its like words don’t even have meaning to those morons.
Oh, come on the unicorn-fart generator will replace that nasty old nuke plant, with power to spare.
Byt the time that is in place, it will be obsolete, we need to start work on the free-range unicorn fart plant.
Ethically sourced raw-farts.
Although there was never much daylight between them, I think Daily Kos and DU have merged into one giant hysterical retard organization.
Or maybe we could get government out of the health insurance market, and people who want to buy policies that cover long-term home nursing care can purchase them.
No no, you’re way behind the curve on this… If we don’t force people to buy coverage for pediatric dental care, fertility treatment, mental health counselling, and drug rehab, it’s the same thing as outlawing them! There are only two options: force people to engage in some activity, or ban the activity at gunpoint.
Serious question: What is a keg dream? Never heard that expression.
Has Trump made America great again already?
I’m waiting until my next pay stub to be sure.
/Eyes pop out.
WOW WOW WAZEEEE!
Frozen dinners are on ME!
I’ll have the Hungry Man Salisbury Steak, plz.
I’m ashamed to admit I actually like that.
#metoo
Ya they can rename it hungry reptile, and take it to the intergalactic market.
Why? is Banquet beneath you? Only the poor eat it?
I had those 3 Days ago as part of Dinner and they are still tasty
they are still tasty
Meaning you can still taste them?
They tend to repeat on me too.
Hungry Man is always awesome. No shame in admitting to liking it.
I’m the same way about Totino’s. Something about tomato sauce and cheese on a saltine cracker crust clicks with me.
I am more of a Marie Calender pot pie man myself.
Ohhhhh those are awesome. Wayyyyyy better than the Banquet pot pies.
Holy Mackerel! I love those pot-pies; the chicken/bacon/cheddar flavor is particularly toothsome. Also, the beef pot-pie with a handful of sharp cheddar and a dollop of sour cream is a delight.
Yeah, those are good too.
I thought the cuts weren’t going to be reflected on paychecks until February.
I don’t get paid that often.
But the work never seems to get done.
Doin’ right ain’t got no end.
Endeavor to persevere.
Turkmenistan Prez bans black cars in capital for this weird reason
I have a buddy who worked in the US consulate in Turkmenistan. He said it was the most fucked up country he’s ever worked in, and he’s worked in a lot.
Even compared to….JERKMENISTAN?
“…and they’re running out of you!”
“That’s okay, you’re their biggest seller!”
The original dictator of Turkmenistan died about 12 years ago. That guy was batshit crazy. I could feel it in 1991 when I visited the country, that is even before he achieved the absolute power. Apparently the current dictator has adjusted to his job by now.
“The country also banned women from driving because of the belief that they cause more car accidents. ”
I actually think this poses an interesting question for progressives, (and utilitarians in general). If Turkmenistan produced solid evidence backing this up, would they support this policy? If they are consistent in the way they talk about science, shouldn’t they have too?
I believe this is true. IIRC, women cause more accidents but are safer drivers, as their accidents tend to be fender benders while men are more prone to the spectacular.
But the question is, as the party of science: do Democrats support restricting rights based on this?
In a word, no.
“Science” is a club for politicos, nothing more. They use it to argue from authority. That is all.
The right has no monopoly on anti-science nonsense. The left is equally blinkered by their ideology and team.
But that’s the fun of claiming utilitarianism as your sole moral philosophy – you don’t ever have to think through the moral logic of anything; you just have to invent some round-about theory about how it results in the greatest happiness for the greatest number. You don’t have to be consistent at all, and you don’t have to make moral decisions that are sometimes uncomfortable.
Gurpgork.
So he’s a white supremacist.
The video game industry has a big diversity problem, study shows
The problem is that anyone is blathering about “diversity” instead of focusing on making good games.
Maddox had a good video about that… The premise was basically “if you don’t like the gender balance in video games, quit complaining and make some video games yourself“.
It’s only a problem if you care.
I’ll give the government schools this, they’ve managed to brainwash an entire generation into believing that diversity of anything except thought is a valid metric for everything.
And of course, “diversity” means “fewer white heterosexual males”.
If there were an all-female fire department or an all-female battalion of Marines, the “progressives” would be heralding this as a wonderful achievement.
And the push for “diversity” never applies to undesirable things like commercial fishing, logging, mining, or cab driving, which are overwhelmingly male career fields.
Isn’t that roughly in line with the population at large? Or possibly even less than the population at large?
Those are below the national ratios.
Especially the massivly disproportionate fraction of non-hetero persons.
*poorly phrased. 19% is way above the national average of non-het, meaning the 81% is below the national ratio.
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Huh. Best statistics on people who have relationships that aren’t strictly hetero is 3-8%. The studies are old enough that these only refer to the L/G/B portion of the non-hetero alliance. Even if you double that for all of the other “new” non-heterotraditional relationship types, I get an 84% floor on heterosexuality.
What numbers we have on these “New” more marginal behaviours – comes out to far fewer than even plain gays.
UCS: “No Homo, but if I’m gonna go with a gay, he’d better be plain.”
Yeah. The male percentage also seems low for computer/dev jobs.
But that’s why the author is a journalist and not helping out with the ‘diversity’ of software industry, because thinking it’s hard.
I had a very diverse team of developers and IT staff. I always hired the best available. And applicants were very heavily skewed towards males. Way, way over 90% of the really qualified applicants were male for highly technical positions like SQL programmers and network engineers. Even so, my director of technology, lead SQL developer, lead report writer and lead project manager were all women. And my best developer was a woman… she just wasn’t interested in moving into management or I would have promoted her as well.
Even so, I’m sure SJW types would look at our demographics and decry the racism and misogyny of a mostly male and largely white workplace.
The applicant pool of women in tech is very low. Not having been a woman, I can’t tell you what the experience of a qualified woman is, but as the one doing the hiring I can tell you that finding qualified, intelligent and motivated women is hard. For whatever reason they tend to go into other fields. And in the same way that women in athletics get a lot of positive attention, women in tech get a lot of positive attention. In my experience the guys were all very happy to have the women on the team.
That being said, tech culture is nerd culture. So if you are a nerd chick, round peg, round hole. If not…. it might be a little off-putting. As for my personal experience, I never lost a single female employee that I hired in over 13 years. So maybe my shop is an outlier, but I don’t see the hostility to women. (there is quite a bit of hostility toward the stupid, incompetent or lazy though. Nerds can be like that)
I can’t tell you what the experience of a qualified woman is, but as the one doing the hiring I can tell you that finding qualified, intelligent and motivated women is hard.
Having known quite a few of them, the answer is you outperform your GPA by a whole point and are much more quickly eligible for people management roles. Of course, most qualified women quickly find less technical roles to fill, but that’s just the patriarchy at work.
That is my unstated hypotheses. A-player women in tech get hired and promoted almost instantly. Don’t know if it is true, but that is my guess.
I hired one woman straight out of community college. Very bright and nerdy. Very alternative culture and a little on the edge as to whether she would work out in corporate culture. (Ok, let’s be honest. She was basically a trailer park refugee). But I was pretty sure she was extremely bright, so I took a chance on her.
Within a month I was teaching her how to set up Exchange servers and administer AD. Within a couple of years I moved her completely into network engineering and a year later she was the director of technology.
But she had a 160 IQ, so despite a lack of social graces and education, she was motivated and brilliant. And that was more than good enough.
So my advice for hiring is this: Go for bright and motivated. Everything else is secondary.
19% gay seems pretty high compared to the regular population.
Well, if only 74% of them are cis-male, that leaves a lot of room for women identifying as bi or lesbian.
Also, surveys are crap.
As a game developer, those figures seem incredibly low to me.
“81% are heterosexual”
Wouldn’t that make the industry disproportionately gay?
Honest question: why is so much energy expended in suicide prevention? To me it seems like drug prevention; people have the right to do to themselves what they want, why try to stop it? In fact, there is quite a bit of philosophical thought stating that for life to be fully authentic, there must be the option of exiting it.
NB: This is *NOT* and endorsement of suicide, just some mental detritus that’s knocked around in my head seeing so many resources dedicated to suicide prevention.
Further NB: Much like governments profiting off tobacco while simultaneously demonizing it, why would the Western World be moving toward expanding the definitions of conditions for which euthanasia is indicated? You’re spending $$$ to prevent suicide from one side of your mouth, and encouraging “euthanasia” (read: suicide) from the other.
Discussion?
I’m all for suicide prevention as a community/family based effort. There is no redeeming aspect to government interference as they only have one tool at their disposal.
It’s 8:35am. What time is it in your world, Q?
Time for Diet Pepsi. None of that Diet Coke swill.
Ugh, Diet pepsi is the worst of the diet sodas. Diet Coke before Diet Pepsi.
So you’re saying Diet Pepsi is the Nick Gillespie of diet sodas?
“Can you no longer see a road to freedom? It’s right in front of you. You need only turn over your wrists ” Seneca. That has always stuck in my head when people talk about feeling trapped.
I think there are lots of reasons, but a big I’ve is the after effects of suicide. Suicide risk jumps up for people who have had a family member/close friend commit suicide.
why is so much energy expended in suicide prevention? To me it seems like drug prevention; people have the right to do to themselves what they want, why try to stop it?
Often suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary situation. Same reason that deescalation is taught rather than vigilante justice. No need to do a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Basically, this. A human is a four-dimensional object. Sometimes the right thing to do as regards the entire chronological person means being illiberal toward the immediate person. It’s mostly an issue regarding children, but can also be a factor when mental illness or chemical intoxication materially and temporarily alter a person’s judgment or personality.
We had my two oldest daughters in a group therapy program recently. This was for teens (< 21 years old) and their parents. Twice a week we had 3 hour family sessions with the kids and parents together. It was an eye opener. These were the "tough cases" – depression, suicide attempts, self harm, eating disorders, drug use, anger issues, anxiety, you name it. But the program does work. I've seen kids do a complete 180.
So, regarding suicide, I'd say it is a health problem and it needs to be treated a such. These kids were not rationally thinking "I choose to commit suicide because it is the logical and right choice for me." To be blunt, these kids have mental disorders and are sick. If they had HIV or cancer or diabetes, we wouldn't just let them sort it out on their own. It's the same with mental disorders.
As far as the government goes, I'm not into someone spying on your Facebook page and sending the cops to your house if they see something they don't like. But I don't think a few PSA's pointing people to the local suicide hotline is the worst use of taxpayer money.
I do share your thoughts on euthanasia, though. I see it in the same way as we treat obesity. One one hand, we have Michelle Obama telling people what they should eat, but on the other hand we're supposed to support people and accept them exactly they way they are. So it's, "Obesity is a serious health problem and we need to do something about it! But if you are obese, that's ok, we accept you just how you are and we won't judge!" It doesn't make sense.
I used to feel the same way Q. But the Chris Cornell suicide made me re-think it because I think there are different triggers.
My niece recently committed suicide, and like Cornell there was no pattern of self-harm or destructive behavior. She was diagnosed with depression, but we knew the horrors she had to live through as a toddler that she had no conscious recollection of as an adolescent and adult. She had night terrors, was a sleepwalker, and she knew she was “different” but never seemed to let that interfere with a normal life. This was someone who could make herself a sandwich in the middle of the night after going down stairs and then go back up stairs and have zero recollection of it after waking up. Her suicide seemed to be triggered by side effects of medication prescribed after a surgery.
It didn’t seem like the type of suicide that could be “prevented” in the classic sense that an intervention would have saved her. Much like Cornell who had a totally normal conversation with his wife an hour before – no current signs would have led anyone to believe it was imminent. Seems like there were leftovers from a distant past that still affected the brain that a medical side effect triggered. Sad, tragic, and fascinating all at once. I would certainly donate to research to learn about that kind of stuff and if it could be prevented.
The State does not appreciate competition.
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Whoever came up with that is brilliant.
iConsent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc_E9JtM_ss
Dave Chappelle was all over it.
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/jwmvxd/chappelle-s-show-love-contract
Dudes have gotten thrown out of school in spite of witnesses and texts contradicting a woman who concocted a story because she had buyer’s remorse. You think some piece of paper has meaning?
I don’t know, the oral sex clause seems a bit sticky
If ‘claws’ are any part of oral sex, I’m saying no.
We’re all pink on the inside:
Pensacola Women’s March Bans P***y Hats Because They’re ‘Transphobic’
I know someone who’s into the pussy hat thing, a total shrieking lefty retard. I am going to use that objection on her the next opportunity I get.
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And those who have had the surgery are better known by their traditional name – Eunich.
*eunuch
Forgiv me, I don’t spel gud.
I pay editer to fix that.
I thought that was just ball removal. They remove the penis on Eunuchs too?
Sometimes.
And sometimes the penis and not the balls.
Ask Varys.
L. O. fucking. L. These people are self-parody. It’s so wonderful.
Pensacola? I lived there for 5 years and I find it very hard to believe that they could scrape together more than a handful of people for this thing – the place is socon heaven. I’m guessing virtually all of them are UWF students.
Is there anything along the panhandle worth visiting? I have a single stop between South Carolina and New Orleans on my road trip plans (Start of June) and wanted to pause on the gulf coast.
The Panhandle has some of the most amazing beaches I’ve ever seen. The Redneck Riviera.
Recommend any place in particular for the start of June?
Destin.
aka Little Louisville.
I have never been but everyone who I know who has been says that 1/2 the people they run into are also from Louisville.
It all depends on the kind of beach you’re looking for. Destin is kind of crowded and pricy for my tastes. Very nice area though. I like quiet beaches, so my favorite spots were Johnson Beach in Perdido Key or Navarre Beach.
St. Marks has GREAT beaches. Hell, if you’re going to be near Wakulla County at all, you should visit Wakulla Springs. The lodge there is inexpensive and a great olde timey place to stay. The Springs have one of the largest systems of underwater caves in US (Fun Fact – my old Geology professor was a cave diver on the team that first mapped out the cave system, several men died in those caves during the process). Also, the Springs were used as the principal location for filming The Creature From The Black Lagoon.
Wakulla County is WAY out of the way if you’re driving from NO to SC
Watch this film, then visit the real Vernon.
Pensacola Beach is great. If you’re not in a hurry, I recommend tooling down to 98/30-A once you get to say, Tallahassee and taking the beach road.
Just beware – 98 is speed trap heaven. I’ve had a driver’s license for 25 years and gotten about 8 speeding tickets in my life. 5 of them were on 98 in the 5 years I lived down there.
I don’t have much time. It’s basically an overnight stop with some time in the evening and the morning between driving.
What route are you taking to go from New Orleans to SC? I would imagine you’d pick up I-65 in Mobile, which means you’d skirt north away from the Panhandle. Be advised – it is not easy to get north from the Florida panhandle coast. The only interstate is I-10, which runs along it east-west. When I used to visit my parents from there, I’d either have to drive an hour west out of my way to pick up 65 in Mobile or drive a rather slow route on state highways and pick up 65 around Atmore AL.
You have the direction backwards – I’m going from SC to NOLA by way of the panhandle. So the delay is in the detour into the state.
Well, same principle applies. Unless you’re going the very long route of 95 south to 10, there’s no fast way to get to the panhandle.
I have two driving days alloted to that leg of the trip. I just can’t spend too much time loitering.
not exactly panhandle, but maybe USS Alabama in Mobile
The beaches are gorgeous. They’re all pretty much the same, so it doesn’t really matter which one you go to. Some are more quiet than others. PCB is kind of a dumpy city so I avoided it. FWB/Navarre is nice, so is Gulf Shores/Pensacola Beach, and Perdido Key which straddles the Alabama/Florida state line. I’m a history guy so I loved visiting the old forts in the area (Ft. Barrancas on NAS Pensacola, Ft. Pickens on Pensacola Beach, Ft. Morgan in Alabama). The Museum of Naval Aviation on NAS Pensacola is pretty awesome if you’re into aviation, whole lotta planes there. There’s also the USS Alabama near Mobile.
Oh, and there’s the Flora-Bama Lounge in Orange Beach AL. I was never a big fan of it but I’m in the minority there, it’s regionally famous and gets huge crowds.
My extended family had a beach house in Panama City Beach for years. I helped my dad move in down there about eighteen years ago, and as a young lad freshly 21 it was heaven on Earth. Might be a little too much for me now, but I do recall the beaches were pretty, and I’m not even a beach guy.
Pictured: UCS in the Florida Panhandle.
Just need to swap that A&M gear for ‘Bama gear.
Oh and there’s Beauvoir in Biloxi, Jefferson Davis’ house. If you like historic house tours, it’s worth a stop.
Last time I was there it was a little beat up looking ?.
http://lapeerliving.blogspot.com/2005/09/cat-duty-update-36.html?m=0
Yeah, they fixed it up.
Tin foil hat time:
https://imgur.com/LVTG26D
Kim Dotcom: Special Counsel Mueller hires my Megaupload prosecutor Ryan Dickey to lead cybercrime investigation into @DNC hack. Strong indication that my #SethRich evidence can no longer be ignored. @wikileaks @seanhannity
I don’t think the Seth Rich thing is tinfoil hat territory at all. The uncuriousness of the police and his family, coupled with the timing and his position in the DNC are beyond suspicious. That is was essentially swept under the rug is insane.
Yeah. Declaring a murder to be a “mugging gone wrong” when nothing was taken, is suspicious.
Why don’t you just go back to Faux News, Trumptard!
/proggie
Oh come on, that’s just a wackjob conspiracy theory that only Alex Jones fans could every believe.
You need to focus on real issues, like how the Russians totally hacked into the voting machines and spent money on Facebook ads that swung the entire election and stuff!
Everyone should fire their current campaign managers and hire these Russians. With such a tiny ad spend they swung the entire contest!
Gold $1321
Oil $69
We are just under the 20:1 normal level now, and $80 oil would put us much closer to the long term norm of 10:1.
One of these times I am going to have the money to follow my own advice on these matters.
For those who haven’t followed, when the ratio is over 20:1 you go short gold and long oil. If the ratio is under 5:1, short oil and go long on gold.
I don’t think it will stay at $80 if it gets there. There’s a whole shitton of idle shale fracking capacity profitable at $75.
I dont either, but if it drops too far, it creates yet another investment opportunity.
I thought the goal of OPEC was $100 barrel oil. Has fracking in the US shattered that model?
Yup, it has basically set a ceiling on oil prices and fucked OPEC’s ability to set prices by limiting supply.
Maybe she was just being kissed by a rose?
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/11/seal-calls-out-oprah-winfrey-for-hypocrisy-calls-her-part-problem.html
Nice. How long before seal is called racist? And that he isn’t allowed in the conversation?
Not sure about racist, definitely sexist, though.
Seal is the white people of black British singers.
He was dated then married a white chick, so he’s been racist since at least the mid 90s.
That sucks. I was expecting an actual seal. Anyway….
Seal is the man.
“Seth MacFarlane
✔
@SethMacFarlane
Oprah is beyond doubt a magnificent orator. But the idea of a reality show star running against a talk show host is troublingly dystopian. We don’t want to create a world where dedicated public service careers become undesirable and impractical in the face of raw celebrity.”
What’s this thing about Trump being a ‘reality star’? He was a businessman before being a star and remained so. Plus he seems to be doing okay. Not bad for a guy who doesn’t necessarily know how the inner-workings of a Byzantine-like bureaucracy functions.
Especially since the Byzantine-like bureaucracy is trying to fuck him at every turn.
He’s always been a business man to me, I never watched His show, i though it a joke, but that doesn’t distract from his Business skills
I don’t like the implication that only experienced politicians can effectively spend other people’s money.
+3.8 Trillion
Also, his reality show was about other people trying make it in his business, he was the boss. It’s not like he was on Season 3 of Road Rules.
It’s like saying, “Ex-Washington Wizard, Michael Jordan…”
Trump was mostly a NYC-only celebrity until The Apprentice. It made him a national name.
Maybe to you younguns, I new about him in High school in California, in the early 80s
or Knew
Eh, not sure about that one. He had cameos in movies, was a frequent target of Norm Macdonald when he did Weekend Update, was on Howard Stern all the time, etc, all before The Apprentice. The show made him a bigger national name, but he wasn’t exactly obscure before it. I mean, that’s why they gave him the show in the first place.
I think the question boils down to: Would Trump be President right now if not for the exposure brought about by The Apprentice?
I don’t think so. Calling him a “reality star” is not the whole story, but it is a big chunk of it.
Fair enough.
He was on The Fresh Prince and in Home Alone 2, you don’t get bigger than.
Don’t forget Little Rascals.
We don’t want to create a world where dedicated public service careers become undesirable
Who is this ‘we’ you’re talking about?
He has a mouse in his pocket.
I hate that suckling at the government teat has become “public service”.
I almost fucking puked when someone I know referred favorably to Hillary’s career as “a lifetime of public service”.
We don’t want to create a world where dedicated public service careers become undesirable
How about a world where “dedicated public service” doesn’t come with entitlements to tenure, overmarket salary and benefits, and misc. legal privileges and entitlements?
VDH puts the boots to the Clintons in his own stylish but brutal way.
As the economy and job market starts really picking up momentum, I can’t even begin to understand anyone wishing Herself was in charge.
Because if HILLARY was in charge, it would be even BETTER!!!!!11!!!! Derpity derp derp!
“For a few criminals, remorse comes with old age; but for the Clintons, near-70 was to be the capstone, the last chance to trump all their prior shenanigans.” [Emphasis mine]
Nice.
“And one wonders whether, in fleeting seconds here at the end of things, they still believe that it was all worth what they have become.”
No, I don’t wonder about that at all.
General gets career torpedoed by #metoo.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/general-loses-three-star-promotion-for-calling-dem-congressional-staffer-%E2%80%98sweetheart%E2%80%99/ar-BBI1kBa?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
“General gets career torpedoed by ”
I mean he was already a two star, so it’s not like his career chances were ruined, he’s already had quite a long career.
“Sweetheart” is not worthy of interrupting advancement. And with so much redacted about the meeting, there’s not sufficient information to revoke such a recommendation.
I agree, I’m just pointing out that this guy has had a great career already, it’s not like all future prospects are ruined for him because he failed to name LTG.
This isn’t just about getting another star and moving up the pay scale. This guy was supposed to command all US Army forces in Europe. Now the second best guy for the job is going to get it, according to the Army’s standards. I’m not excited about second best if the Russians decide to roll, not that that’s likely. The purpose of the US military is to completely fuck to death anyone who needs it to defend the interests of the US. Anything that reduces the effectiveness of that capability is to be discarded. I don’t think this General’s “transgression” does that, but the response to it does.
Once again, I agree that it’s a stupid reason to not promote someone, and that the army has a long track record of putting ‘acceptability’ a head of it’s main goal (successfully executing violence in land conflict). I will quibble with the idea that the promotion to LTG if mainly driven by merit rather than inter-officer politics.
Wow. You and I have a far different idea of how people make general.
I’m an idealist, what can I say.
It is a mix….they have to have enough actually competent commanders to fight, when it comes down to it, mixed in with the fucking apple polishers and politicians that can fill up the “TRADOC” and other whacky slots.
And isn’t it normally Admirals who run into Torpedoes?
+1 David Farragut
I feel so much safer now.
Mmmhmm.
Now we are ready for war.
Ludicrous
So anyone in Delaware want to volunteer to pick up Dogfish Head’s Survivalist beer?
I dont spend $45 on bottles of beer. Ever.
I might consider it for something from Cantillon, but not for Dogfish Head.
…not available in Illinois?
E in morse code?
dammit freaking edit powers.
Only 200 packages being released. But this has gotten them a load of publicity, I’ve seen about half a dozen stories on this beer come across my feed.
…does one typically spear conches?
i’ve tried whittling. no thank you.
You should never use parachord for a tourniquet. If you need a hasty tourniquet tear a shirt into strips, or use a belt. Better yet…have one of these handy.
Yeah, I thought that. Although I guess that if the proximal danger is bleeding out, you might prefer the alternative of a gangrenous limb. With a bit of luck you can get a medevac so that the owner of the swiss army knife doesn’t have to do it.
Even with a CAT applied, you only have a few hours before losing a limb is likely.
I’ll take an inexpertly deployed CAT and my chances over and above a couple of loops of paracord or baling wire …
True. I’m just saying if you’re bleeding to the point where you need a tourniquet you’re pretty much fucked if you can’t get to a trauma unit ASAP.
Only one in five? I mean, this is Germany we’re talking about right?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5254237/One-five-Germans-want-robot-sex-doll.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
Even I wouldn’t interpret that sex doll’s expression as consent.
Everyone realizes these sex dolls are going to be a huge disappointment, right?
It’s not going to be like the Futurama sex dolls.
“I’ll always love you, PHILLIP J FRY”
“MEMORY ERASED”
“It’s amazing the way you [NOTICED TWO THINGS].”
Hmmm,
only 70% as good as sex with a human…
Does whatever I want whenever I want and doesn’t heckle me about the damn toilet seat
Probably not going to completely replace women but is at a minimum a valuable supplement to them
The number will go up when the robots are programmed to defecate.
“Trump Threatens to Deal Another Blow to the Palestinian Cause
President Trump set off another Twitter firestorm last week when he hinted that he may be considering cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in annual U.S. aid to the Palestinians. Trump was angered over Palestinian unwillingness to engage in peace talks with Israel after the Trump administration announced the move of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455332/trump-threatens-end-american-foreign-aid-palestinians
Worst secret Nazi ever!
It seems that the strongest diplomatic tool we have is not threat of force, but threat of cutting people off.
Control of the pursestrings is a very potent force.
This is sexist, probably.
I was flipping around the tube last night and Samantha B was complaining about cutting aid to Pakistan because they ARE horrible. It was not a well thought out argument.
She’s so smart she thinks there should be no consequences for being horrible and the US should continue to support it.
Say what now?
Its Samantha Bee, don’t try to apply logic or thought or any of that shit.
She said the only worse than giving a corrupt state money was not giving them the money. Literally.
Just think how many more Israeli schoolkids will get knifed by Hamas now that we aren’t paying the danegeld.
I wonder if she has the same feeling about corrupt politicians…
Yes, and it always pissed me off to have politicians be so unwilling to use it to bring consequences on those who take our money and then fuck us at every opportunity.
Of course the best case scenario is just cut everyone off and let them sort out their own shit, but that ain’t gonna happen.
Drunken Russian Man Uses Stolen Tank To Break Into Liquor Store
Which was it, a tank or an APC, the terms are not interchangable!
*follows link, looks at picture*
BMP, maybe a BMP-1
That’s an APC, don’t call it a tank!
If only that had been linked before!
https://glibertarians.com/2018/01/wednesday-afternoon-links-36/
*narrows gaze*
Hey I was busy filling my NO2 bottles to visit the afternoon links.
Russia is like America or the Eastern hemisphere.
You know who else was besieged by Russians in tanks?
The Rabbit Team in Girls und Panzer?
Diebold voting machines in November 2016?
Bill Murray?
a small town just south of the Arctic circle.
I assume heavy machinery was required to break through glacial obstruction.
A Peek Behind the Scenes at Google
The lawsuit gives a glimpse of their lunatic corporate culture.
In anyplace other than a deep blue state with far-left judges Google would be completely fucked.
Looking for a Nazi to punch? Here’s one
We must stop doctors from over-prescribing opioids, especially when non-addictive pain medications (such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen) would be just as effective. Steps have been taken to educate doctors and to curtail prescriptions for opioids (such as Oxycontin, Percocet and Vicodin), and the prescription rate has fallen from its peak in 2010. But it remains three times what it was in 1999 — and four times what it is in Europe.
More aggressive action is needed. The Food and Drug Administration should allow only doctors who complete specialized education in pain management to prescribe opioids for more than a few days, a move FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is considering. Some states have limited the size of certain opioid prescriptions — all should do so. To avoid the need for bans or other draconian measures, which would harm people suffering the most severe chronic pain (including many who are terminally ill), the medical profession must do more to rein in prescriptions and create effective monitoring programs.
Michael Bloomberg; what a strutting little authoritarian shitbag.
ibuprofen or acetaminophen just as effective as opioids? What an ignorant piece of shit. Or maybe just a hugely dishonest authoritarian piece of shit. I hope people like him suffer from debilitating pain and can only get Tylenol for it.
The wood-chipper hasn’t been built yet that can handle Bloomberg’s ass-hattery.
My newest start-up specializes in global scale woodchippers. Care to invest?
//Musk
“I’m gonna put a towing hitch on that Tesla I’m sending to Mars. It’s gonna be the only way to tow the woodchipper around”,
At this point, Whenever I think of Musk talking about Mars, I’m reminded of “A Grand Day Out“.
I’m planning on building self-woodchip booths to deal with over-population.
Cheese, Grommit, the cheese!
Bloomberg doesn’t know how to stay in his lane. He doesn’t care about the unintended consequences of his actions.
Fuckstain.
What a terrible, terrible human being.
I used to wish for men like Bloomberg to get painful diseases that can’t be managed without the drugs they want to ban, but then I remembered that they’re usually rich enough to get around the law they want for everyone else.
I’ve got hernia surgery at the end of the month. I’m not going to take a Tylenol and think happy thoughts.
Wuss.
Hey motherfucker, go tell my father that the crippling pain he’s suffering from his degenerative discs can be adequately treated with Advil.
Assholes like Bloomberg believe people like your dad need to suffer because otherwise somebody somewhere might just be getting high.
Absolutely. The knowledge that no one is getting high for fun should be all the comfort your father needs to soothe his aching back.
I’m not really taking Bloomberg’s side here but your father’s back problem is different than getting a 30-day scrip for Norco after a hernia surgery. Just because Norco will work doesn’t mean it’s necessary. Talk to a pharmacist over the age of 50 and see how different the typical scrip is today compared to 30 years ago. And some of it is insurance – they won’t cover ibuprofen even though they did 30 years ago because OTC. But people think taking 10 Advil is abuse even though that that was the typical Motrin dosage back in the day.
Part of the problem is there seems to be no interest in educating the public about drugs. Where do you go (other than google) to learn about OTC and prescription meds and how they really work and why they might be effective for some people and dangerous for others? The gatekeepers prefer having mystery about the products because it provides them with power.
But I’ll go ahead and make six other dictates based of this piss poor data.
Doesn’t this statement just shout that he doesn’t give a crap about making informed decisions?
“Holy, fuck fuck. I just the video of trumps bipartisan “meeting” yesterday. Hey, @LindseyGrahamSC what kind of dick sucking video do they have on you for you 2 be acting like this? Wouldn’t coming out be more honorable?”
https://twitter.com/chelseahandler/status/951258218910633984
Stay classy.
To be fair, there are probably a lot of videos of Lindsey Grahm sucking dick out there. He’s the worst
The nerve. How dare you insinuate that the obviously homosexual Senator from South Carolina would engage in homosexual active (NTTAWWT). I’ll have you know that Lindsey Graham is not sexually aroused by men, but by the picture of dead Iraqis. It is his fetish. He’s warsexual
Warsexual? *applause*
“At the end of the latest legislation session Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill removing mandatory enhanced sentencing for criminals who use guns in the commission of their crimes.
He did this at the same time that he signed other legislation making it illegal for teachers to be armed on K-12 campuses for self-defense.
Liberal logic–teachers are not allowed to shoot back if under attack and criminals face no mandatory sentence enhancement for using a gun in carrying out an attack.
Assembly Bill 424 made it illegal for teachers to be armed for self-defense and Senate Bill 620 removed the mandatory enhancement for using a gun for crime. SB 620 removed the mandatory enhancement from the Penal Code and placed it at the discretion of the judge presiding over the case.”
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/10/30/gov-jerry-brown-signs-bill-removing-penalty-using-gun-crime/
TW: Breitbart
And lastly, you’ll find a length of paracord securing the blanket to the bottle which just might come in handy if you need to make a
tourniquetgarotte.obviously a noose for auto-erotic asphyxiation
Fucking tags
I love the equivalisation of artistic vision and talent made between Modigliani and a fat girl taking a selfie.
If you squint, it kind of looks like the female form.
i just see a fuzzy lump of shit when i squint.
“The Marxist case for the Nintendo Switch
Only a year ago, Nintendo was in the midst of a severe corporate crisis. Its flagship console, the Wii U, had been comprehensively wrecked by its competitors, Sony’s Playstation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One. Hemorrhaging money, the company was considering moving out of the hardware market altogether, and focusing on developing games for consoles and mobile devices.
But now, the tide has turned. As Navneet Alang writes, its new console, the Nintendo Switch, has been a breakout success. It has sold over 10 million units worldwide just in the last 10 months — becoming the fastest-selling console in U.S. history, and already beating the Wii U’s total sales in Japan.
It’s remarkable both as a come-from-behind victory, and also as a way a corporation succeeded by breaking out of what Marxists call the capitalist dialectic — that is, by ignoring the received wisdom of the market and the ideology of capitalism itself.
Marxists often reference the “capitalist dialectic,” which as Leon Trotsky once pointed out is merely a pretentious synonym for “the logic of evolution.” To abuse Marx somewhat, this can be seen in the ordinary marketplace: Businesses sell products, and the things they sell are recursively influenced by what sells and what doesn’t sell. The Wii U’s flop convinced many that the tablet idea was a total non-starter, and that what Nintendo needed to do was something similar to what Sony and Microsoft were doing. The Almighty Market Had Spoken.
But businesses are still run by human beings, and contrary to the strict determinism that some Marxists espouse, they can attempt to jump out of whatever narrow dialectical confines an industry might be caught in; i.e. they can try to sell something that customers don’t know they want yet.
The Switch was quite a gamble for Nintendo. Businesses are always hesitant to take a risk on developing a new customer base, and almost none of them will make the same gamble again after it failed once. But that’s just what Nintendo did, trusting their rational analysis of their customer base rather than blindly trusting market outcomes — and it paid off.”
https://theweek.com/articles/747291/marxist-case-nintendo-switch
“To abuse Marx somewhat”
If this is just a little abuse, i’d hate to see this guy’s wife
Also, that’s not recursion, that’s feedback. Recursion would be selling a Nintendo, checking to see if there are Nintendos left, and if there are, selling a Nintendo, checking to see if there are Nintendos left, and if there are, selling a Nintendo, checking to see if there are Nintendos left, and if there are…
I like you.
Thanks, pickle, I like you too!
The moment I understood recursion was the closest I’ve ever come to replicating the feeling of being on acid in my adult years.
“But that’s just what Nintendo did, trusting their rational analysis of their customer base rather than blindly trusting market outcomes — and it paid off.”
What in the ever living fuck?
They trusted the market instead of the market.
Who is the goddamned retard who wrote that steaming pile of horseshit?
Ryan Cooper
Definitely not MAAB.
We have seen lots of everyday feminism links, gawker, and even that Pensacola link above. This might be the derpiest of all.
Also, my Nintendo Switch works. All the evidence you need that it is not Marxist.
This is him: http://www.ryanlouiscooper.com/
Read some of his blog entries. He’s a classic progtard.
I’m currently reading this drivel from him:
“This mostly removes the traditional capitalist coercion to work. Now, under my scenario, if you are an able-bodied adult out of school, and you refuse to accept an offered job or to look for work, then it is possible that you will fall into poverty (though of course there should be a further safety net to prevent actual starvation). Given that a tremendous volume of labor is simply necessary every day to simply push human society forward through time, I think that there is no getting around at least some level of coaxing people towards work.
However, I think there is a fundamental difference between that sort of pressure and coercing work through the threat of total destitution. If we have structured our economy well, work should be useful — dedicated towards advancing society through time, or solving some problem or another. I believe that virtually every person wants to participate in society, to perform some useful task, and that if decent jobs are readily available — that is, jobs which are safe, well-paid, leave you with plenty of free time, and are socially necessary — then people will do them willingly.”
Wait… so people shouldn’t work at the threat of being destitute, because that’s just wrong. But if we have an all encompassing welfare state, people will magically WANT to work? What?
Starvation is a great motivator
Here is another gem from this guy. When Bernie Sanders just isn’t left wing enough for you…..
The Week will publish absolutely anyone, apparently.
He has a B.A. in Chemistry from Reed College in Portland.
That explains his shit-tier writings on business and economics. He literally doesn’t understand commerce.
How much chemistry do you think he understands?
He understands chemistry so well that he now writes appallingly dimwitted treatises on Marxism for a living.
It’s hard to fathom that people actually believe shit that’s so stupid.
Does this guy even praxeology?
If we give everyone a safe, well-paid job that doesn’t really demand much of their time, of course they will work it. Until the garbage piles up past the third floor of their office with no HVAC service and pools of turd-filled water from the overflowing toilets and there’s a cholera outbreak.
And these are the exact same assholes who call libertarianism “utopian fantasies.”
Exactly. I hate to disappoint y’all, but unless sitting on my ass playing video games while maintaining a moderate buzz and taking breaks to watch VR porn is a job description in this new Marxist utopia, I’m gonna need to be paid to do things I don’t really feel like doing.
“They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.”
No, it’s not. The switch is a different products from the Wii U. I owned both. Just because both had a tablet component doesn’t make it the same product. I can take my switch anywhere I want because the processing hardware is in the tablet. The Wii U’s tablet could only be used in proximity to the brick sitting next to your TV…. it couldn’t even go very far in the house without having signal issues. When I lived in a small 500 sq. ft. apartment, I couldn’t even sit in my bed and play the Wii U on the tablet with the game console in the adjacent room.
Not to mention the marketing fail that was naming the console the “Wii U”. Most people thought it was an accessory to the original Wii – not an entirely new console.
I’m not even going to get into the application of Marxism here.. which is just plain wrong in a number of obvious ways.
More derp from Ryan Cooper’s blog:
“This year I finally decided to stop beating around the bush and start calling myself a democratic socialist. I think the reason for the long hesitation is the very long record of horrifying atrocities carried out by self-described socialist countries. Of course, there is no social system that doesn’t have a long, bloody rap sheet, capitalism very much included. But I’ve never described myself as a capitalist either, and the whole point of socialism is that it’s supposed to be better than that.
So of course I cannot be a tankie — Stalin and Mao were evil, terrible butchers, some of the worst people who ever lived. There are two basic lessons to be learned from the failures of Soviet and Chinese Communism, I think. One is that Marxism-Leninism is not a just or workable system. One cannot simply skip over capitalist development, and any socialist project must be democratic and preserve basic liberal freedoms.
The second, perhaps more profound lesson, is that there is no social project that cannot be corrupted by human frailty and viciousness. Many people looked to Karl Marx as a sort of pope whose words might save them from disaster. Doesn’t work like that. But on the other hand, one cannot dismiss socialism merely because some people calling themselves such were or are monsters. That’s human beings for you and it applies to any political ideology.”
This line: “The second, perhaps more profound lesson, is that there is no social project that cannot be corrupted by human frailty and viciousness.”
Again: “The second, perhaps more profound lesson, is that there is no social project that cannot be corrupted by human frailty and viciousness.”
(sigh)… he’s so close to “getting it”, and then completely misses it. Someone get him a copy of Federalist No. 51.
You know who else started calling themselves a socialist…
Bernie Sanders?
Am Sock?
“But on the other hand, one cannot dismiss National Socialism merely because some people calling themselves such were or are monsters.”
The more I read about the German economy under national socialism, the more I think to myself “Why int he fuck were they fighting the Soviets? They should have been BFF”
It’s the same exact impulse that drives the women’s March to ban pussy hats. It’s 100x more disappointing and urgent when a fellow traveler gets it wrong.
Well, that’s where the Aryan bit came in.
They were fighting the Soviets because they were competing for the same followers. It’s the Sunni/Shia conflict of the socialist religion.
The soviets had the wrong Top Men.
Because the Nazis ultimately believed more in their racial bullshit than their economic bullshit. It’s why the communists have managed to convince people that the Nazis were uniquely evil and “right-wing” even though their economic platform was leftist.
Proof of how much they truly did believe their racial bullshit is how they handled the non-Russian bits of the USSR that they occupied. They were greeted as liberators in places like Belarus and Ukraine. If they had ruled with a comparatively light touch, even if cynically with an eye towards a big crackdown later on, they could have used those people as complete allies against the hated Soviets. Instead, they immediately implemented their beloved “You’re all Slav subhumans” policies and turned potential allies into guerilla partisans.
Yes, you get some wonky conclusions if you use the pro-socialist excuses with Nazism.
“Nazism is a great system; they just got the wrong guy in charge! It wasn’t real Nazism.”
“It’s not fair single out Nazism because some people died under that regime. After all, almost every government – including capitalist ones – has executed innocent people at some point.”
“No no, you don’t understand what Nazism is. It’s just a political philosophy that says that the nation-state should be strong and everyone should have a job. Why are you so afraid of that??”
It wasn’t true Nazism, it was just state racism.
So close. But no cigarillo.
“One cannot simply skip over capitalist development, and any socialist project must be democratic and preserve basic liberal freedoms.”
What part of socialism and liberty being an oxymoron don’t they get?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951431836030459905
WTF- President Trump is the most libertarian president since…..wait….
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951457382651056128
….mother….that sonofabitch
Missed it by *that* much!
Trump giving even a small opening to libertarian ideas, even accidentally, is a wonderful thing. Since the Washington establishment (bipartisan consensus) generally looks at FISA skeptics as “those gadfly kooks in the corner”, the window of opportunity for promulgating such ideas is rather tiny, indeed.
If Trump were to sign FISA reform or even hint that he is supportive of the effort, I think everyone should insist that Gillespie declare a “Libertarian Moment”! Poor Fonzie
But, I think the chances of Trump ever backing FISA reform or Gillespie ever acknowledging anything done by Trump as being ‘good’, is somewhere between 0% and “Paul Krugman is totally going to return to rational economic thinking any day now”
Who knows, Rand might trade him FISA for a border wall.
He does seem to like Rand, which is an odd pairing considering how vile he was toward Paul during the primaries
how vile he was toward Paul during the primaries
That seems odd*, since Paul dropped out pretty early and was polling poorly the whole time. What did Trump say?
* = Granted, we’re talking about Trump
You’d have to re-watch the debates. I don’t remember off the top of my head, but Dave Smith has a funny skit about one of their interactions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRm0VGev0Fs
It’s somewhere toward the middle of this set
It’s toward the end of the clip, actually
And although he campaigned on anti-terrorism, the border wall is a bigger shinier legacy for Trump. /Just the fiction I write in my head.
The difference is that Rand sometimes resists Trump on principle, not on hurt feelings and some nebulous moral grandstanding like poor little Flake/Corker/McCain/etc. Clearly Trump gets that difference and is willing to talk and work with Rand more than the other senators.
Exactly. Rand is all business – when he’s against Trump, he sticks to the facts. He doesn’t wail about how horrible a person he is, how he’s degrading democracy (or whatever emotive nonsense the Corkers and Flakes bray on about).
IOW, Rand’s not a phony.
There’s too many people in Congress and in his administration that believe that a spy state is necessary to ever get a FISA reform bill to his desk.
Many people looked to Karl Marx as a sort of pope whose words might save them from disaster.
SRSLY?
Nah, I like it. Reveals for the religion it is. And I like the analogy between Marxist revolutions and the Crusades. Whatever the initial intentions, they always turn into murderous clusterfucks.
The same was and still is true of Barack Obama, so take it with a grain of salt.
Re: Duct sealing, etc.
I missed Lackadaisical’s post last night about duct sealing. The Aeroseal product does work. It is very effective on most supply runs. It can be less effective on the return side, depending on the system. The question is if it is cost effective for you. That depends on your heating & cooling costs, where you live, how long you intend to keep your home, etc. The treatment can run $1,400-$2,400+. Will you average enough energy bill reduction to make it a smart expenditure? You may want to contact a local vendor for the service and see if it makes sense for you.
Your best bang for the buck might be having your home airsealed and adding insulation. Check with your utility company first. They may offer incentives to you to get the work performed. They may also have vetted contractors for you to use to do the work.
One side effect from watching Zardoz the other night – I’ve had Beethoven’s 7th stuck in my head ever since.
Follow it up with Excalibur tonight. Really Boorman out.
Going from naked Charlotte Rampling to naked Helen Mirren works for me. Excalibur is one of the earliest “adult” movies I can remember watching – I spent the summer of 1982 at my grandparents’ house in Florida and my then-high school aged uncles let me watch it with them (on the family Betamax machine! haha). My mother was less than pleased.
I was a huge King Arthur nut at the time and my parents took me to see it at the drive-in. I was 10. Mom was mad, Dad didn’t care. He also took me to see Conan. Man, I really wanted a sword.
I was in the same boat, but it was my older brothers who took me to see Excalibur and Conan. Life-changing.
My brother is all about shielding his kids from violent movies with sexual themes and such, and I keep reminding him I was Robocop for Halloween in kindergarten.
America has really regressed into Victorian prudishness in many ways. 1982’s Swamp Thing had Adrienne Barbeau’s bare boobs and was rated PG.
I was Swamp Thing for Halloween in first grade.
I was so disappointed when Heather Locklear didn’t disrobe for the sequel.
There used to be a fair number of PG/PG-13 movies with titties.
KILL BILL was mandatory viewing for 14-yo XX Tax Deduction. She went as Beatrix Kiddo for Halloween. EVERYBODY knew who she was and thought she was tres cool.
(Then again, this high school apparently has parents my age who instill the Gospel of Rush, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin in their tax deductions.)
Thanks to Mr. Boorman, every time I have sex in full plate armor I hear the works of Carl Orff in my head.
Sounds about right to me.
Y’all might want to see Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover” then. No King Arthur though.
James O’Keefe’s latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64gTjdUrDFQ
Pretty much confirms what we know about Twitter.
Social Contract!
In America, more than any other developed country, jobs are the basis for a whole suite of social guarantees meant to ensure a stable life. Workplace protections like the minimum wage and overtime, as well as key benefits like health insurance and pensions, are built on the basic assumption of a full-time job with an employer. As that relationship crumbles, millions of hardworking Americans find themselves ejected from that implicit pact. For many employees, their new status as “independent contractor” gives them no guarantee of earning the minimum wage or health insurance. For Borland, a new full-time job left her in the same chair but without a livable income.
In Washington, especially on Capitol Hill, there’s not much talk about this shift in the labor market, much less movement toward solutions. Lawmakers attend conference after conference on the “Future of Work” at which Republicans praise new companies like Uber and TaskRabbit for giving workers more flexibility in their jobs, and Democrats argue that those companies are simply finding new ways to skirt federal labor law. They all warn about automation and worry that robots could replace humans in the workplace. But there’s actually not much evidence that the future of work is going to be jobless. Instead, it’s likely to look like a new labor market in which millions of Americans have lost their job security and most of the benefits that accompanied work in the 20th century, with nothing to replace them.
Washington will fix the “job market”, with their notorious commitment to innovative and flexible problem solving.
Let’s make the price of full time employees as high as we can and then wonder why companies want to automate and hire contractors.
I can guarantee that you will always be able to make the true minimum wage of zero.
Progressive #1: I think we out-crazied ourselves when we started marching around wearing female genitalia on our heads
Progressive #2: Nah- we can definitely out crazy that
Progressive #1: But how? It needs to be extraordinarily crazy, because clearly that’s how we win back states like Wisconsin and Ohio
Progressive #2: (thinks) I got it!
https://www.freep.com/story/news/2018/01/10/pink-pussyhats-feminists-hats-womens-march/1013630001/
Instead, it’s likely to look like a new labor market in which millions of Americans have lost their job security
The only people who have any job security are (a) government employees, (b) tenured academics, and (c) those vanishingly few with written long-term contracts. Everybody else is at-will and can be fired at any time for no reason.
and most of the benefits that accompanied work in the 20th century,
I see no reason to believe that employer-provided benefits are going away.
“(a) government employees, (b) tenured academics”
Redundant. Considering how much government support private and public universities receive (especially if we take into account federal tuition support), I think it is fair to acknowledge that the much heralded “Academy” is a mere government enterprise
no reason to believe that employer-provided benefits are going away.
I’m nearly certain he meant smoking in your cubicle.
Actually, for the early part of the 20th century, jobs just paid you money with the understanding that if you want other stuff, you could just go and buy it. For example, if you wanted some kind of assistance in the event of a major medical expense, you could sign up with one of the numerous mutual aid societies, which did a very good job of preventing medical bankruptcies (and these organizations employed doctors who would give members checkups and preventive care to keep costs down).
+1 Mystic Knights Of The Sea, International Order of Friendly Sons of the Raccoons, and Loyal Brotherhood Of Water Buffalo.
My question this morning is not so much about Trump being forced to backtrack his anti-FISA tweet, but rather this: why is FISA skepticism considered to be a fringe position in mainstream politics? Almost immediately after Trump posted that tweet this morning, the mainstream conservative pundit sphere lost their damn minds, even the more libertarian-friendly constitutional conservatives. I get that he severely contradicted his administration’s positions and it probably wasn’t some genius chess move, but such statements should be encouraged if you believe in the 4th Amendment, not resisted.
Not having read much of it, anti-FISA could mean two things. One, that you believe FISA didn’t go far enough to protect the 4th Amendment and/or has proven to be ineffective at that goal in practice. Two, that you believe FISA impedes the intelligence and security apparatus and should be eliminated entirely or replaced with a “simpler” process that guts the 4th Amendment faster.
Almost immediately after Trump posted that tweet this morning, the mainstream conservative pundit sphere lost their damn minds
They are mostly NeverTrumpers. Losing their damn minds every time he tweets is pretty much what they do.
Also, the NeverTrump cabal tends to be very friendly to government surveillance. The Kristol types absolutely love it.
I’m a random guy on the Internet, but in my opinion it’s because FISA is now cemented with the concept of anti-terrorism, and we’re still in the post-9/11 terror fever.
i read these reports of adultery and my first thought is always “how?” he must have the easiest low-maintenance kids on the planet. ostensibly nerd kids that sit in front of a screen and don’t need to be taxied to practice every night. and they must not eat dinner or bathe or produce garbage or dirty laundry. and nothing ever breaks in their homes. and traffic doesn’t exist in their world. and their work requirements are nothing. and their wives are Stepford vapid and/or sedated. and there’s no stress from any of the above. and the mistress is easy like Sunday morning.
WHERE DO THEY FIND THE TIME TO FUCK SOMEBODY NEW?
Good questions all. I don’t see how it’s possible with kids younger than high school age unless you do a lot of traveling for work.
Make time, not love.
As a dude with 3 kids, agreed.
All I know is I’ve got one 2.5 year old and the wife and I are planning on gettin’ another bun in the oven this month. Between my daughter, my wife, and the dogs, I’ve got about two hours a day after work that aren’t spoken for, and the last thing I want to do with them is go chase strange. I don’t have the energy for that shit.
“planning on gettin’ another bun in the oven this month”
Isn’t that a bit like planning a rainstorm in 3 weeks?
If you’re seeding the clouds every night until then.
The phrase we’re using is “actively not trying to not have another kid”.
So, no more anal?
and when sports or school activities start up, those two free hours *poof* disappear.
No kids, but I can’t imagine trying to juggle two women and keeping them separate. One is enough work as it is.
The key is to be an angry, drunken loner, then the appeal for any woman is completely lost.
Can confirm.
Goddammit.
Rand Paul filibuster coming soon
This time he’ll do the same thing, but instead of the progs calling him racist they’ll make a joke about how someone should attack him like his neighbor did (I saw quotes to that effect on tweets/articles where it talked about the likelihood of a Rand filibuster on S139)
More Democrats voted against Amash’s amendment than Republicans who voted for it. Thus extinguishing any rationale, whatsoever, to ever vote Democrat. And re-establishing that the only reason to vote Republican is to oppose Democratic rule
Yeah, maybe this time the radical fanatic will finish the job and kill him!
yep.
we’ll see if any of the leftist senators that called Trump a racist white nationalist are going to back up those words and.. /shudders “Stand with Rand.” /vomits
Good piece from a retired lieutenant colonel on Afghanistan: Perpetual War Without Success or End
Women are biologically stronger than men, study purports.
It’s so farcical that only an academic could draw the conclusions they do. And then:
Of course.
I realize I’m treading dangerously close to cishetero mansplaining shitlord territory here, but could that have possibly been due to male socio-cultural norms of self-sacrifice, toughness, and dare I say chivalrous behavior? Maybe also to added strain on the body of intense physical labor commonly performed more often by men in traditional agricultural societies?
It’s an odd thing, working in construction: I’ve known of only two women in any discipline involved in the business. One was a labor temp, the other an apprentice electrician. I didn’t meet either of them; they were stories my brother told, almost tall tales from his early days in the framing trade. So in twenty years, the both of us have known of only two women working these labor-intensive, low-status jobs. I wonder why that is. The pay isn’t terrible. The hours are long and the work can be brutal, but there’s plenty of it. It should be that much easier for our biological superiors. Why aren’t we weakly men staffing public schools to make room in industrial trades for all those Riveter Rosies?
I have a lot of friends and family in the trades, and I’ve heard of two women. One was my ex-stepmother, a real estate agent who had gotten her electrician’s license, and the other is my MIL’s niece-in-law, who is an apprentice electrician. No plumbers, no carpenters, no welders, no drywall hangers, no painters, no masons, nothing. I’ve heard of a couple women working in the office of a construction company. I don’t know why that is. Maybe there’s a bias in those positions against women, but then there was a bias against women in the military and yet women enlist. Trade schools aren’t turning women away, just as STEM majors aren’t rejecting female students. So I don’t know.
Indeed. The biological imperative is to protect the females at all costs.
I’m starting to think that colleges are actually making people stupider on average. They might help people accumulate knowledge and memorize facts, but the ability to reason from common-sense propositions seems very dull in these “academic” types.
Supposedly men across societies are more likely to take risks, are more aggressive, more assertive, and more likely to engage in physical violence to resolve disputes and to be drawn towards physical exertion (as distinguished from physical activity). All of those traits would tend to put men in situations where they’d be more likely to be injured or killed. And that makes sense when you consider that in humans as in other animals the males are more or less disposable. You need them, but not necessarily specific ones. The females, on the other hand, are individually important.
Pseudo-science. Garbage in-garbage out.
So how much is this costing the Clinton Foundation?
Abedin & Weiner withdraw their divorce
spousal immunity. how clever.
that picture reminds me of something Quint once said..
Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y’know the thing about a shark, he’s got… lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’… until he bites ya.
Then those black eyes roll over white, oh, and then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin…..
Obviously whether or not someone’s real, real weird lookin’ should have no impact on how they’re treated. There are many people who don’t look the same as other people and they are just as deserving of respect as anyone else. The way a person looks has absolutely nothing to do with who they are inside.
But god damn she’s a weird lookin’ mf’er.
Here’s the thing. It may save them from testifying against each other, but they’re both already on record having lied to the FBI, and we all know how that turns out. Withj some luck, they’ll get some time for perjury at least.
Oh, who the fuck am I kidding?
You’re forgetting the hidden statute that grants immunity from all prosecution for anything so long as there’s a (D) after the name.
part of the scandal was the FBI giving immunity to all sorts of Clinton cronies prior to interview.
I’ll take Q’s answer over yours. Immunity would be granted provided that the evidence you turn over to the FBI is both accurate, and truthful. Their real protection lies in their political affiliations, and not in their immunity deal.
they’re both already on record having lied to the FBI, and we all know how that turns out
With a nice immunity deal for having assisted the authorities with their inquiries?
Punch a Nazi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVK_OqyUzk
LOL! I love Larry! Nobody else is making that kind of TV comedy now.
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Don’t
be evildissent.Matt Taibbi hope3s everything in that Wolff book is true
Trump by most accounts is worst of all, and the horror effect is enhanced by the seemingly total absence of redeeming qualities in his personality. But a guy who fell backwards into the presidency and has been too brain-hampered upon arrival to do much with the office – there are worse narratives.
Just remember, Trump could be cunning, focused and bursting with willpower, in addition to being a gross, ignorant pig. We can only hope that Wolff is right that he isn’t both.
IOW, Hillary.
Taibbi’s best case scenario, Trump is a mostly harmless imbecile.
That’s fine by me. His administrators are getting shit done.
Taibbi’s best case scenario: he learns the difference between his ass and a hole in the ground and gets trained in eating solid food.
Trump by most accounts is worst of all, and the horror effect is enhanced by the seemingly total absence of redeeming qualities in his personality.
Step away from the CNN, Matt.
I guess Nikki has a sad, having been ousted by Donny.