Fault is easy to find in this instance. Pie wrote a fine piece this week on Romanian wines, and showed me a category of wine I haven’t tried and you may as well show me the smooth body of a young girl. I’m there. So SP and I made the trek up to Milwaukee, the closest source of the intriguing Feteasca Neagra (Pie will forgive my inability to get the funny accent marks correct), a red wine made from the eponymous grape, a native of Romania (rather than an adapted variety from elsewhere). The first place we went, the salesman was helpful but somewhat befuddled. “I could have sworn we had some bottles of this, and our inventory shows there’s five of them somewhere…” After much digging and consultation with the store manager, they figured out that the inventory was a mistake. FUCK! But, they helpfully determined at another store nearby had stock and sent us in that direction, after observing, “No-one has ever asked for that wine before.” Extra points to the salesguy for not misusing the word “varietal,” one of those nails-on-chalkboard things for me.
At Store #2, the salesman (after overcoming surprise from people actually asking for this) found their stock quickly, two different ones from the same producer (Cramele Recas) and upon observing the low prices, we grabbed half a dozen bottles. Since Pie liked the La Putere cuvee, and the name was vaguely reminiscent of prostitution, we started there. The good parts: very full bodied, smooth despite the relatively high alcohol, big fruit and spice, quite distinctive. It smoothed out a bit with air, and paired with dinner, it came across as almost sweet. The bottle drained rapidly. The bad parts: screwcap (that is not a closure which is good for development with aging), American oak (that was a bit jarring- why not Slovenian?) with a bit too much new wood. It’s very slick and commercial. Nonetheless, for ten bucks, we were happy. I’d love to try this variety made from perhaps a cooler area, not as much wood, lower levels of manipulation (e.g., more barrels, fewer chips), and cork-finished. But that said, we’d drink this regularly, and several hat tips to Pie for expanding our horizons.
OK, enough wine talk, let’s have links!
Trump actually gets off a few good lines. There’s even some self-deprecation, which is more than Obama could ever manage. My favorites:
“I just want to say this, this is one of the best times I’ve had with the media — this might be the most fun I’ve had since watching your faces on Election Night.”
“We were late tonight because Jared could not get through security.”
“As far as the risk of dealing with a madman is concerned, that’s [Kim Jong Un’s] problem, not mine.”
“President for Life.” Figure that only happens in dictatorships and shitholes. Or maybe other places as well…
This sort of thing has always ended well… I hope that the vicious bigot Bishop Desmond Tutu is smiling.
His ex will unveil the statue so she can set him up one last time.
They’ve learned how to manipulate the media from the Parkland puppets. Two people quit and it gets headlines.
Old Guy Music! This is a guy I used to see regularly in Austin, and has made a pretty decent career for himself. Here’s a rollicking little number from one of his Japan tours. Oldsters will remember Shakey’s.
“‘We are not calling for the slaughter of white people – at least for now’: South African parliament votes to SEIZE white-owned land as experts warn of violent repercussions”
Except for the part where they are already calling for the slaughter of white people.
My biggest worry is losing my source for Pinotage.
I’m not a big wine guy myself, although I worked as a sommelier in a former life, but you’re going to miss the bouquet of guava and nail polish remover?
Well made Pinotage is a delight, earthy and funky. Acetone is a sure sign that someone didn’t keep the barrels topped.
Wouldn’t pinotage be the act of transporting grapes out of South Africa?
Another sad warning for anyone or any group thinking of laying down power peacefully.
It isn’t over yet and it just might get very bloody. The whites in South Africa are cornered and effectively disenfranchised and the colored (mixed) South Africans can see what’s down the road for them too. It’s a powderkeg.
So did the ANC get rid of Zuma just to do this? It seems like the timing of this is not coincidental. Who’s leading this communist shitshow now?
I wonder if they will be as accepted as refugees as others from the continent.
“Thousands Sign Petition Asking Trump to Let White Farmers in South Africa Migrate to U.S. After Country Votes to Force Them Off Land
Updated | More than 12,000 people have signed a petition asking President Donald Trump to let white people in South Africa emigrate to the U.S. amid a vote by the country’s parliament favoring a motion that could see South Africa’s constitution amended to allow for land to be stripped from owners without any compensation.
The online petition calls on Trump to “take the steps necessary to initiate an emergency immigration plan allowing white Boers to come to the United States.” Boer is the term used to describe South Africans of Dutch, German or Huguenot descent, who are also commonly referred to as Afrikaners.
The petition suggests that Trump should stop admitting refugees from Somalia and the Middle East, claiming they “cannot be properly vetted,” and allow white South Africans into the country instead.
A similar petition, calling on European Union President Jean-Claude Juncker, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May to allow white South Africans into EU countries, has gained nearly 17,000 signatures.”
http://www.newsweek.com/thousands-sign-petition-asking-trump-allow-white-people-south-africa-migrate-826126
TW: Newsweek
They
A: Speak English
B: Have skills and knowledge that can be put to work on arrival in a productive capacity
C: Can be easily assimilated into our society.
Which is exactly why the the media will shriek and moan and REEEEEEEEE.
Productive rural people with a strong independent streak who own a shit load of guns and have been driven off their homes by communist tyranny?
The purpose of immigration, in real terms, is importing Democrat voters. I doubt one in a hundred Boer refugees would be With Her.
People keep saying that. Not to stereotype or overly collectivize. But latinos are mostly a bunch of Catholics who like guns and trucks. The Democrat’s going on about how Republicans are racist isn’t going to hold up, especially as latinos get closer to de facto equality.
I’m not saying it’s going to work, I’m saying that’s what the plan is. If Rand Paul proposed a “Freedom Refugees Act” tomorrow, and was explicitly calling for the nation to sponsor the immigration to the USA of
1. Venezuelan businessmen
2. South African farmers
3. Cuban dissidents
4. Europeans who want out of their steadily more “richly diverse” cities.
and set the act explicitly up on finding victims of leftist tyranny, then the Democrats would vote overwhelmingly against it.
They don’t want immigration for immigration’s sake, or immigration for any kind of high minded principles. They want and need immigration because progressive whites don’t have children, and the Dems electoral future is in serious jeopardy unless they can import a bunch of people from the Third World who can be ghettoized, kept dependent on government, and vote the way they are told to vote for the usual Ivy League set. They need those ten million desperately poor people who will vote as their told, because Sarah Palin has five kids and Hillary only had the one.
Yeah there will be the rotating Obama type, and probably soon the Great First Latino candidate, but he or she will be an Ivy League apparatchik, not a roofer’s son from Fresno.
Their vision is: class of elites and aspirants to that status, plus the pubsec workers, plus the poor kept poor through policy to keep them dependent outvoting the productive middle class. A whole nation looking like California.
*standard disclaimers apply
I think that characterization holds more with “Texicans” and Latinos in the middle classes. My ex-BIL lived in Mexico for a few years and his experience was that the people who are most likely to come here illegally want someone to take care of them, and that seems to hold true of a lot of the Bolivarian types south of us. I’m not faulting people living in squalid shitholes for wanting to come to a place where they can improve their quality of life just by showing up, but I’m just not holding out a lot of hope that they’re especially liberty-minded.
We know latino voting habits. They want more government.
You can say the exact same thing about white and asian voters.
Right, which is why I think the “Latinos are X, and will therefore vote Y” is a canard. I think socioeconomics and local culture has more to do with voting patterns than broader ethnic culture or anything like that. All of my in-laws are Catholics and they vote straight-ticket Democrat. Shit, Maryland is something of a famously Catholic state, and is reliably blue. I think it has more to do with a.) socio-economic background, b.) local political norms, and c.) local social pressure. A roofer from Honduras who comes up here so he can go into business without having to bribe the local authorities and a subsistence farmer who is moving up to bunk with his cousins in an urban flophouse will probably have different voting behaviors.
OMG if it were to happen… the shitshow will be epic
Debatable. Have you ever tried to understand English spoken with a heavy Afrikaner accent?
I mean could it be worse than some Cajun or deep Mainers or Iron Range people?
Tell me, Is this the America you want?
Wait, wait, wait, I resemble that remark. Cuyuna Boy
I work with a south African immigrant. He sounds just like an Aussie to me.
D. Many of them, presumably, play and love cricket. And rugby.
I don’t think cricket is going to catch on anywhere that wasn’t ruled by England.
So we have a chance.
Heh OK I’ll qualify that with “and where the English were playing it at the time”.
Yeah I agree. The odd thing is there was some cricket in the colonies: I found a reference to it in a journal from South Carolina in the 1740s. But, that was well before organized competition in England anyway.
Sigh, I asked for that.
That wasn’t intended to be snark. I remember when I read it thinking it was an interesting little tidbit that doesn’t mean a whole lot.
Oh, I know… I just suspected I was leaving myself wide open for something like that 🙂
Zambia is reaping the benefits of Zimbabwean farmers.
Oh, and if (NSFW LINK) Irene Nell wants refuge, she’s welcome at my place.
Ah fuck it. I tried linking to her boobpedia page. Anyone interested can easily find it.
Damn, dude. She has Q written all over her.
We should have a fast-track immigration system for hotties.
A 2017 South African government audit found white people owned 72 per cent of farmland.
What percentage of that was farmland before the Boers got there? What percentage of that will we be able to call “farmland” in five years?
I think the answer to both is zero.
The only question in my mind is whether things like greenhouses and other useful buildings will be left intact or whether the new management decide they’re a symbol of cultural oppression and elect to destroy them too.
If the 60’s are any indication of how running the colonialists off will go then they will bulldoze the farms and squat on the property.
Depends what type of farming. Xhosa & Bantu peoples were herding cattle centuries before Europeans arrived. And most likely there was millet farming in regions distinct from the Boer settlements. But, efficiency & yield increased with the arrival of the Dutch.
Having worked with quite a few white S Africans, I suspect this will not end well.
Ditto. I used to go there regularly and EVERY white person I spent time with was heavily armed.
And all of them have military training, and the ones around my age spent their youth hunting down commies in Angola.
Fascinating. You are lucky to have been able to talk with so many interesting people.
Well, I didn’t talk to everyone in S Africa. The security companies that work in shit hole countries are heavily populated with S Africans as they have the skill sets that those companies are looking for. One guy, when he was not working with us would moonlight on security details on ships shooing away Somali pirates back when that was the in thing. He said that was fun. Those guys have a different idea of fun than I do.
Well. what are the odds that by the time POC are the majority in the U.S. that the white folks won’t be disarmed first?
Low odds.
I live on Chickasaw land; our deed traces back to a speculation partnership that included Andrew Jackson. The paperwork is legitimate: the Chickasaw were trifled out of their property fair and square.
But knowest thou this: we Scots-Irish would have killed them off down to their last goat if they hadn’t signed off and walked away.
How do you know that?
This is exactly how a civil war starts
No, I’m pretty sure that’s how genocide starts.
Lauren Southern has been following this for awhile. So of course Twitter temporarily banned her.
“Already 119 White Farm Attacks in just January and February. These are just the reported ones. The attacks are all pinned on the map and detailed in the link below.”
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/969982794519597056
There were a bunch despicably bigoted comments — from black people in favor of murdering white people — that she simply reposted. It looks like almost all of them are gone now. I guess Twitter is so woke they don’t want certain people to look bad by simply quoting them in their own words.
Yet, #KillTheBoer is still an active hashtag.
Wakanda for the Wakandans.
Youtube has clips of her new documentary on South Africa.
For now.
https://twitter.com/NylonMag/status/968491880269991936
The left can’t meme.
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/abr.gif
Yep. I’ve totally never had my life threatened on multiple occasions for no other reason than having the wrong skin pigmentation while living and working in minority neighborhoods.
To be fair, that’s actually a sign of acceptance. You’ve know you’ve made it when you’re targeted for “black” on black crime.
*chortle
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-UzkOrdKUII
I lived briefly with a friend of mine who owned a house on the edge of Southwest Baltimore. It took about twenty minutes of being outside to get the nickname “Snowflake”.
Relatively benign in comparison to the Nation of Islam gents who stood at intersections selling bean pies to fund their racist organization and lambasted me for being white while demanding I purchase the goods on display to undermine my whiteness…I couldn’t figure that one out either.
Are those bean pies any good? I’m curious about appropriating one of those recipes.
Think of the blandest pumpkin pie you’ve ever eaten and multiply the blandness by three…probably right up UCS’s alley.
Nelson Mandela is spinning in his grave. That is not sarcasm. I greatly admired him for steering clear of redistribution policies, avoiding retribution, and trying to set his country on a peaceful path. As others have pointed out, this new policy is going to tank their economy.
“Marion Barry statue to pay tribute to a flawed DC icon”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTMif8cGlcE
For those not wanting to turn off adblocker:
“Two employees have resigned after Dick’s Sporting Goods decided — for the second time — to stop selling “assault-style” weapons and raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21.
Dick’s first made the decision in 2012 after the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack in Newtown, Connecticut. All “assault-style” guns were removed from the store’s shelves. Then the company opened a subsidiary called Field & Stream, where the previously removed weapons were, once again, in stock.
Now, the Pennsylvania-based store is stripping “assault-style” weapons from the shelves of all its locations, and at least two 20-year-old staffers are not happy about it.
Alexander DeGarmo, who sold guns in the store until he resigned Friday, said he had no problem with Dick’s or CEO Edward Stack until the new directive was sent out in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in mid-February.
“Until Edward Stack came out with these absolutely arbitrary and insane rules, I had no issue [working there],” he told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto.
In his resignation letter, which he posted to Facebook, DeGarmo called the new restrictions “morally and unconstitutionally wrong” because it “infringe[s] upon the rights” of law-abiding citizens. He said he refuses to work for a company that “pushes for the restriction of the Second Amendment.”
Another 20-year-old employee, Griffin McCullar, also resigned over the company’s new policy. In his resignation letter, he said he “cannot be the face of these new gun policies in [effect].” He, too, called the regulations “morally and constitutionally wrong.””
https://ijr.com/2018/03/1072210-dicks-sporting-goods-employees-quit/
Morally wrong, yes, but not unconstitutional.
Right, it’s their store and they can run it how they like.
*muffles sound of disgruntled cake baker protesting*
In something like 19 states this is illegal age discrimination. Hold them to the standards they hold us to and maybe their attitude will change.
Let the lawsuits begin.
This is a thought I had yesterday concerning the baking of cakes: Someone needs to go into some fru fru SJW bakery and ask for an AR-15 shaped wedding cake.
Better yet a Happy 8th birthday cake.
Better yet, better yet. Tell them it’s for little Johnny’s first day of school.
For the class party?
Little Johnny
Good thinking.
Exactly, their sandbox, their rules.
It is not clear if Trump, 71, was making the comment about extending presidential service in jest.
It is not clear if whoever wrote that was huffing glue in the parking lot.
I think it is quite clear they were!
George Washington would roll over in his grave.
It is not clear if the Democrat Representative meant this literally or not.
Wasn’t FDR basically a president for life? I guess it was OK, because he was a Democrat.
Pie will forgive my inability to get the funny accent marks correct
The trick is to find a site like Wikipedia that has the diacritical marks correct, and copy from there: Fetească neagră
He was just waiting for you to post that comment so he could copy and paste from that.
正しい
大香蕉
Big, aromatic banana. Chinese is weird.
That’s not a banana.
That’s not a tailpipe.
Back from my mini-vacay. Thoughts:
1 – small towns are small towns, but Bay City certainly tries hard. But when everything is closed after 7PM on a Friday night, it is hard to get much in shopping done. We did manage to stop at one place that specializes in mid-century furniture and also stroll through two antique stores. And we went to a local bar and had some pretty good eats.
2 – Michigan, and much of the Midwest, has the alternative to the Canadian Tuxedo. Ours is: blue jeans, sweatshirt/fleece with favorite sports team and/or college, and a baseball hat to top it all off.
3 – We took off early from Bay City on Saturday, went to buy some work clothes for the wife-o, and then hit Lansing, where we drank some craft beers, did some more (record!) shopping. And then back home for some even more shopping ‘n’ boozing. Only mildly hung over today.
You weren’t in Bay City on Saturday night?
golf clap
I’m wearing my tuxedo right now!
I was watching a few Morning Joke clips. I woke up early, and couldn’t get back to sleep; sue me. There’s pompous never-Trumper blowhard Joe Scarborough, weeping and rending his garments over the presumptive price increases for the cars and trucks honest God-fearing hard-working Americans want to buy, because that steel tariff is totally the worst thing since deep dish circumcision, Man.
And it is.
But- I cannot help wondering how many times The Joke empathized with the working man over the additional costs embedded in their vehicles by the EPA, like the ethanol mandate. Or that last infinitesimal bit of particulate emissions wrung out of your Passat turbodiesel, at the cost of a substantial mileage and performance reduction. Did Scarborough, rock ribbed defender of the free market, go on the air to bellow about Obama’s tire tariffs?
It’s all such bullshit. Principals over principles, as usual.
My argument is that tariffs and excise taxes are bad because they distort the market and make whatever they are taxing more expensive. However, it can be argued that import taxes can be used to get the other country to drop their import taxes. Although it doesn’t always work. As far as I know, Americans can’t buy German trucks because the French love sauteed chicken. Whereas, Obama’s climate change nonsense raised the price of domestically produced energy. Putting coal out of business doesn’t stick it to the Saudis. Just like anything else, whenever government sticks their face in the salad bar, everybody gets the flu.
I’m genuinely curious to know if it has ever worked. Can anyone point to an example?
I second this. It’s a widely held assumption by many people and sounds plausible.
Thirded. I just ran to the store, because some asshole drank all the beer in the house, and NPR was talking about the upcoming trade war. They had on some Rep who hopes they can talk Trump out of the tariff increases but Trump seems dead set on it. Trump said if the EU raises tariffs on our imports he will just hit them with a car tax. (which I believe they already do to us in a big way, and we probably do to them as well just not at such a high rate). I am curious if this has ever worked, or has there just never been anyone who doesn’t give two fucks like Trump and will take it further than anyone ever tried before? Or is he just being a complete moron on this one? I know I have always opposed tariffs, but the tariff mongers and Breitbartians claim VAT and other countries tariffs are already way out of free market range anyways and free market is nothing but unicorn talk. Fuck if I know. I just know I like cheap stuff and I think it helps the average American when prices are kept low by low tariffs. If European countries want to price American cars out of their populations price range with VAT that just sucks for them. A Milton Friedman book I recently listened to touched on this and Friedman made more sense than Trump to me.
The US has had plenty of Presidents for life. Kennedy was the last one.
+1 Can’t believe I haven’t heard that before.
And FDR was the bad kind.
*narrows gaze*
Pedantry for the win!
There should be an award for this. Nice work!
Perfect.
Now, the Pennsylvania-based store is stripping “assault-style” weapons from the shelves of all its locations, and at least two 20-year-old staffers are not happy about it.
Part of that policy change was a refusal to sell any firearms to anybody under 21. That might have had something to do with it, especially if they were going to get booted off the gun counter.
I applaud their move. Live by ostentatious posturing, die by ostentatious posturing. See how that works, Mistah Dick?
Going on the third day without power because of wind. On the one hand, I’m dumbfounded by it. It was sunny when I lost power, there was no real storm, the winter is basically over, wtf? On the other hand, I feel like an idiot for not being better prepared. No estimate from the power company on when it’ll be fixed. Generators sold out at local stores.
Fun times.
Someone is tilting at windmills.
Uh oh. Wonder what this is going to turn into.
I knew someone who use to say “don quicks oat”. He was a high school English teacher.
I believe there is a clause in every teacher and/or professor’s contract that calls for them to have at least one characteristic mispronunciation. I can’t even begin to count how many of the lecturers in medical school would refer to centimeters as SAUNT-imeters.
This is true.
Mine is “Brobdingnagian”.
The wind broke my gate and I lost some shingles, but that’s all. I feel pretty lucky.
I was amazed that we didn’t lose power, since we’re at the end of the line and there was a lot of wind.
Did you have enough camping gear on hand to cook everything in the freezer? That sucks.
I’ve been staying with friends for a bit so i haven’t had the opportunity. I didn’t think it would last this long. I’ve got a gas stove and matches so I can cook. Most of the food is probably bad by now, though.
I lost power Friday night for about ten seconds. Off… then back on. This has been a better year for power outages, not many and not for long.
No estimate from the power company on when power will be restored is the norm here.
Hopefully you get power back soon.
Would mammals prefer that we level those farms before, during, or after they are being confiscated? We the big 5 cycle maintenance coming up, and it’s way easier just fire them at a planetary body with an atmosphere. That also covers the targeting system retest.
Now, the Pennsylvania-based store is stripping “assault-style” weapons from the shelves of all its locations, and at least two 20-year-old staffers are not happy about it.
You’re lucky. Generators kill millions of people every year, and Trump’s EPA refuses to regulate them.
*I actually read that, someplace.
and upon observing the low prices, we grabbed half a dozen bottles.
That’s my kind of thinking.
Would mammals prefer that we level those farms before, during, or after they are being confiscated?
After, please. Think of it as pest control.
Kennedy was the last one.
“I’ll get this country on the right track, or die trying.”
If only…
*looks around nervously*
I’m currently reading a book called: Digging the Trenches
this bit was particularly interesting; the dangers of finding old ordinance:
The whites in South Africa are cornered and effectively disenfranchised and the colored (mixed) South Africans can see what’s down the road for them too. It’s a powderkeg.
Where are they going to go? Is there still such a thing as the Commonwealth? I don’t imagine South Africans want to “return” to England any more than the English want them there. Australia? Canada?
Boers were the farmers – they would have to “return” to the Netherlands. But there ain’t room for them…
A lot of them won’t go anywhere and they don’t want to I would think-this will turn into a civil war, particularly in areas with relatively large percentages of whites, mixed people, and Indians.
Aren’t the Boers more Dutch than English? If the Conservatives were led by someone other than barren cat lady they might do something about it but I’m sure there’ll be lots of hand wringing in the West instead.
Guffaw
Britain doesn’t owe South Africa a red cent, but letting a bunch of hairybacks in would be an intelligent and charitable thing to do.
Which is of course why they won’t do it.
Hell, I’d rather see an influx of South Africans than more Californicators. They have my permission to come to Montana.
You just keep Montana and enjoy it I have other invasion plans…
/Don’t Freeze!
Um…..Uh….what?
Without his wise leadership, the Federal government would have never decided to base their multi-trillion dollar operations there. Truly, an impressive feat of governance.
Yeah, I’d take that comment as an insult.
They didn’t say that it was a good thing.
It’s true. Have you been lately? Nothing says “Yeah, he’s a finagling crackhead, but he’s OUR finagling crackhead so fuck off, cracker,” like a statue of Marion Barry.
Now, the Pennsylvania-based store is stripping “assault-style” weapons from the shelves of all its locations, and at least two 20-year-old staffers are not happy about it.
You’re lucky. Generators kill millions of people every year, and Trump’s EPA refuses to regulate them.
*I actually read that, someplace.
Huh- I just noticed how badly I fucked that up. derp
How long before someone etches, “Bitch set me up” on to that statue. Over/Under at a week.
I got ten bucks someone puts a crack pipe in his mouth on day 2.
Road Trip!
I can’t wait to read the MSM reaction.
Coming Soon to Montana,
““We need to close the border,” said Nancy Pineda, a 30-year-old Cucuta fruit seller. “They come with fruit they buy for nothing in Venezuela and sell for prices here that I can’t compete with. They come here, killing and robbing Colombians. We need take our city back.”
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/03/caravan-misery-desperate-venezeulans-flee-country-survive/
“As far as the risk of dealing with a madman is concerned, that’s [Kim Jong Un’s] problem, not mine.”
That one deserves a standing ovation.
Nice set of links. I liked the wine intro.
Thanks, Pomp. Pie gets the credit here, though.
We did bemuse a lot of salesmen yesterday, and honestly, that was a big part of the fun.
I still have to go and ransack the stock at my Total Wine.
I do recall that a lot of you were urging Pie to speak to the Romanian wines and as a silent observer I have been an eager consumer of this discourse.
Eastern European and Central Asian wines are something I am always eager to learn more about, or preferably taste. Sadly I have made very little effort to obtain.
I’ve had just one Slovenian red and it was not great.
I brought back some Czech reds from a trip to Prague a few years ago. They ranged from not good to OK.
buying czech wine…why? Did you get your beer in France?
That’s the attitude the French used to have about wines from California.
There is some good beer in France. It’s all produced near the border with Belgium.
I also brought back some Czech beers. They also were mixed. One was a winter beer that tasted like a bad clone of caramel syrup.
There is a little place called the European Market near me. It is mostly Balkan foods. I tried a wine from Herzegovina. It was…um….harsh. I may check to see if they have anything Romanian even though it is outside their area.
I have heard tales of Romanian goods being had in Serbian groceries in the US. I obtained my first and final Rom candy bar from a place like this in Ohio through friends of a third party that were visiting my Romanian colleague here on the eastern seaboard.
Coming Soon to Montana,
I think those Venezuelians would be happier and better off in California.
Remove the government , and Both States would Thrive, really, 2 of the nicest places in the World , Wrecked by Socialism
Another school shooting for the list
A day before a Central Michigan University sophomore from southwest suburban Plainfield fatally shot his parents inside his dorm, he acted erratically, telling a campus police officer that someone was out to kill him, authorities said Saturday, hours before he was formally charged with murder.
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The 2016 Plainfield Central High School graduate is accused of shooting his parents, James Eric Davis Sr. and Diva Jeneen Davis. Davis Sr. was a police officer in west suburban Bellwood and an Illinois National Guard veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Diva Davis’ Facebook page identified her as a real estate broker; friends said she was also a breast cancer survivor and had worked as a flight attendant.
During a news conference Saturday morning in Michigan, university police Chief Bill Yeagley told reporters that Davis’ parents had just picked him up from the hospital and brought him to his dorm to pack up for spring break when Friday’s shooting occurred.
This is fucked up in every way, and it will go into the gungrabbers’ statistics as a rampage shooting which proves how desperately we need sensible and responsible “gun safety policy”.
“Please don’t make a villain of my brother… that is not who he is,” Davis posted. “Despite the circumstances, he also lost a mother and father … And I love him. Consider that!”
That would be one helluva thing to have live out your life with.
that is not who he is
Well, yes, that’s exactly who he is.
He didn’t “lose” them at all. He found them. And killed them.
“I don’t drink…Wine”
My last hypothesis was not exactly proven right about what in wine smells like rot to my nose. I do know that it happens with even the most unoaked and tannin-free bottle. I also know that it can be cooked off, so wine-based sauces are edible.
https://youtu.be/FBqq27rDucs
Reporter thinks Russian meddling is overblown but doesn’t really like to talk about it.
Whatever you do, don’t make me agree with them on anything, anything at all. Yuck.
” right-wing conspiracy mongers ”
i love how this term is thrown around so matter-of-factly in the context of a discussion of left wing conspiracy theories about the omnipotence of Russian hackers.
its just a meme at this point; if anyone ever tells a leftist, “you’re full of shit”, its ‘right wing conspiracy theorizing’. Suggesting that the media lies + knowingly misrepresents/exaggerates things is crazy-talk! (meanwhile, reporting anonymous leaks of things that never come true have become the new-normal)
David Frum is a twat who cannot resist an opportunity to make an unfavorable comparison to Trump.
Where the fuck is Cyril Ramphosa’s getting private wealth from?
He’s been a Party man his entire fucking life. Any “private wealth” he has is purely the product of his political power.
He’s a Commie thug. A Commie thug with a Swiss bank account is still a Commie thug.
See also Obama’s net worth pre/post Presidency.
Or the Clinton fortune.
“Political Power” including having a gang of thugs extorting money from his constituents. We complain about the coercive power of the state but we still have a few things to learn from the likes of the ANC.
Not for nothing did Saint Nelson have to divorce Winnie, whose “Mandela United Football Club” was one of the largest and most successful extortion and murder syndicates in the country.
Through “independent” research he discovered investment opportunities and received “finders” fees for notifying others of said opportunities.
Glad you found it palatable
The bad parts: screwcap (that is not a closure which is good for development with aging) – this is new to me. It is cork in Romania they probably make screw cap special for export
American oak (that was a bit jarring- why not Slovenian?) with a bit too much new wood – fancy wineries go mostly french oak because they think it is classy. Some use Romanian oak. Rotenberg for example has his barrique made by local artisan from local oak, with the mention that they do not come out identical 225 litters and the stave thickness may vary.
It’s very slick and commercial. – Recas is a huge commercial winery most of their stuff is cheap mass produced. La putere (putere means power) is their mid-range wine. They have a higher range Sole for white and Selene for red. Also Cuvee Uberland their top wine is quite decent.
Feteasca Neagra is to often excessively oaked because people want to make Big Wine like Cabernet and they try to use Feteasca as the local grape to do it. Feteasca works better more delicately oaked. Although it is difficult to make. This is why many add 15% Merlot to it, if it is 85% Feteasca they can legally call it Feteasca and do not need to mention the 15% Merlot on the label.
So, if I understand correctly, Recas Castle < Recas La Putere ?
never had it but yes. Not something I would drink really, maybe it is ok but life is short, liver is limited, and there are many better wines
The Castle is priced so cheap I can always use it for cleaning the drains.
Dear Lord H: Happy anniversary of the day we met. I’m so glad that it happened. Cheers! And to many more.
Awwwwwww!
Aww. Have a happy one.
* sniffles*
“Student Brags About Hanging Up on WH — Other Says ‘Let Us Rebuild the World That You F****d Up’
“They work for us, we don’t work for them…you guys suck at your job,” Kasky said. “We don’t respect you just because you have ‘senator’ in front of your name.”
Hogg then boasted about hanging up on the White House and that it was “very offensive considering the fact that there were funerals the next day, there was mourning we still had to do.”
He claimed that “we don’t need to listen to President Trump. President Trump needs to listen to the screams of the children and the screams of this nation.””
https://ijr.com/ijr-red/2018/03/1072320-student-brags-hanging-wh-says-let-us-rebuild-world-fd/
Libertarian moment?
“Even Liberal Bill Maher Had to Shut Down Parkland Student on Second Amendment
At one point during their discussion, Kasky revealed his understanding — or lack thereof — of the Second Amendment, and even liberal Maher had to call him on it.
Kasky said the Second Amendment “is a very good piece of rhetoric defense that I’ve seen a lot because they put it as if you’re attacking a right that you’re born with.”
Maher replied with the obvious: “It is, if you’re an American.”
Several of those who survived the Valentine’s Day shooting are reportedly eyeing book deals, which they intend to use to advance their desire for greater gun control in the United States.
Hogg has garnered quite a bit of attention in the days since the shooting for his staunch views on gun control and his unwavering opposition to Republicans.
Additionally, another survivor is using her story to campaign for the Democratic National Committee.”
https://ijr.com/ijr-red/2018/03/1072291-bill-maher-parkland-second-amendment/
Never let a crisis go to waste?
All profits donated to the families of the victims I’m sure. Christ’s sake, what pieces of shit. How do you manage to so quickly fuck up the goodwill of being a “survivor” of a school shooting?
Just remember, Davey, that your generation was the one we had to teach to not eat Tide pods.
“Following Parkland Mass Shooting, Rand Paul Introduces Bill to Repeal Gun-Free School Zones
On Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced legislation to put an end to gun-free school zones in response to calls for increased gun control after the tragic Parkland shooting.
The law was originally put in place by the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 and bans all weapons on school property in an attempt to reduce violence. However, criminals generally don’t have any desire to follow these laws. Paul’s bill would repeal the act and all amendments to it.
Paul has been a huge advocate for Second Amendment rights and even called for the arming of teachers after the Sandy Hook shooting that left 26 people dead.
“If my kids were at that school, I would have preferred that the teacher had concealed-carry and had a gun in her desk,” Paul said in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, tragedy.”
https://ijr.com/ijr-red/2018/03/1072163-rand-paul-repeal-gun-free-school/
Has anyone seen Ken Schultz lately?
I’m guessing that thus bill goes nowhere. Good on Paul anyway.
No justice, no babysitters!
On Friday, our state legislators refused to take action on a bill that would, over time, give West Virginia teachers a proposed 5 percent raise, and so the statewide work stoppage continued for a seventh day, with 250,000 students out from school as a result.
Despite the loss in critical class time, the fight cannot end prematurely.
As students remain at home, and families struggle to find alternative forms of child care, teachers have to trust that West Virginians will do what West Virginians do best; lean on each other.
Points for honesty, I guess.
In all honesty, if my kids school closed down, I’d have to scramble to find a place for him during the day. My wife and I both work. I don’t have any unemployed family to watch him and daycare is pretty limited around these parts.
Teach him how to make steel.
He would actually love it if I brought him to work with me. He is a curious 5 year old.
When I was 5, every day I could manage it I went trucking with my old man.
“Tucker Carlson interviewed feminist Cathy Areu who, from her website, is “CATALINA magazine’s founding publisher, a long-time Washington Post Magazine contributing editor, and the author of ‘Latino Wisdom.’”
Areu is using her Latino wisdom to promote the idiotic idea Purdue University is pushing that we need to ban the word “man” completely from the English language.
Purdue University is encouraging their students to avoid “generic use of MAN and other words with masculine markers.”
“They are saying that society has changed, and times are changing, and we don’t want to be offensive in our language,” Areu explained about the movement. “They’re trying to be non-sexist and non-biased, and that means trying to take the word ‘man’ out… so instead of man-made, it would be ‘synthetic.’”
“They’re saying that the word man is associated with adults – men – as opposed to just humanity or humans. So, they’re trying to avoid the word man – so, if we could eliminate that word, then things would be much better and people would be less offended,” Areu continued.
“What if you lived in Manchester, Vermont?” he asked.
“Well they might have to change the name of the city if people agree with Purdue University. And Purdue found that things need to be updated and they updated their writing guide to take out these words that are apparently offending certain groups of people,” Areu explained.”
http://www.girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/watch-feminist-wants-to-ban-the-world-from-using-the-word-man/
That’s latinx wisdom, shitlord!
Does anyone know if this kind of insane linguistic agitation is a problem in any Latin American countries? ¡Porque, ellos es una palabra muy problemática!
Academic gibberish is a disease of affluence.
Tell that to the Zapatistas.
Those Mexicans speak in in totes racist terms.
Sounds like some of those critics are huwhitesplaining.
I thought Purdue was immune to this madness with Mitch Daniels taking a hard line against shutting down speakers and sit ins.
It’s weird how much of this stuff sounds like the 1960s, but over really trivial issues. We’ve gone from protests against segregation and the Vietnam War to protests over pronouns inherent bias.
Civil rights LARPers is an apt description.
Free and rich people’s problems.
For some reason, Syrians don’t seem as concerned over pronouns.
Unless they’re Kurds.
This is the horse we decided to back.
They were protests against trivial shit back then too. I’m sure in 30 years your kids will recall how tranny’s were dying in the streets and incapable of getting a hotel from discrimination.
Man, that is fucking retarded.
+1 wise latinx
Can we just stop caring about what crazy people say and think? There is no “Academy Anglais“. A university can’t “ban” a word. And universities encouraging gender-neutrality in their style guides is old news. “Police officer, not policeman” was a thing at least as far back as the early 90s, when I was an undergrad. Why give this woman attention? Is anything she says going to have a meaningful effect on your daily life? I mean, I get why people like to visit Bedlam from time to time, but this is ridiculous.
I wouldn’t even throw pennies at her if I visited her in Bedlam.
It will when these kids start running HR departments around the country.
You say that, but as I pointed out, this is nothing new. Is there honestly a chilling effect present in your workplace that keeps you from saying “mailman” as opposed to “postal worker”?
HR can be really bad though if my friends are to believed. They don’t really need to keep you, just scare you. For example, my friend at the bank watches his every single word because ‘you never know…’
It’s nothing new as you point out because it was like that during my time in that industry
What’s your take on Peterson’s stance against the gender pronoun law in Canada as it relates to universities?
He feels it’s compelled speech and it seems to take the opposite stance in that they could very well keep you from doing so. He cites, and I hope I’m not misrepresenting him here,, Lindsay Shepherd case at the University of Wilfrid Laurier as an example of how universities can/will control the message.
Ugh. Just for my conscience:
HR can be really bad though if my friends are to be believed. They don’t really need to keep you from saying things, just scare you. For example, my friend at the bank watches his every single word because ‘you never know…’
It’s nothing new, as you point out, because it was like that – though not as “diligent” shall we say? – during my time in the industry.
He’s correct.
But in this case it is the university? The university can’t fine or imprison an individual for violating Canada’s Human Rights Code, only the Canadian state can. That’s the difference between the situation in Canada and a private institution in the United States instituting a speech code. And even then, the AAUP has always censured attempts at limiting the academic freedom of intramural speech. Something, by the way, I have always opposed. A private institution should have the right to enforce whatever policies they want. If a faculty member feels that the policy infringes unduly on his or her academic freedom, they can always choose to find another institution with freer policies. Ain’t the free market grand?
Thanks. That’s the problematic part about Bill-C16 and how it relates to government compelled speech. It’s even more troubling the Canadian Bar Association supports it. I find their ‘splitting of hairs’ defense of this rubbish to be most unbecoming.
Shorter me, this ‘you’re over reacting’ crap pisses me off.
If everyone continues to ignore it, fine. But considering the left has been awfully successful at getting everything they want over time, I won’t be surprised if this stuff becomes mainstream.
Consider that NYC transit workers are no longer allowed to say “ladies and gentlemen”. It’s picking up steam.
So now, even being polite and respectful is othering. SMDH
I’ve been tempted to just start referring to a crowd of people as ‘soylent green’.
It is new because the first craze was against calling women mailmen, or unknown people mailmen. This one is against calling men mailmen as they don’t think gender is a distinction. And yes there are workplaces that restrict language.
This comes off as you intentionally obfuscating and trying to divert the conversation.
The point is, one crazy lady a “craze” does not make.
Yes, I’m pretty sure Chuck E. Cheese frowns upon their employees having public conversations about pubic lice. What’s your point? Again, without any slippery slope bullshit, do you feel inhibited at your workplace from using the term “mailman”?
Now, you’re just being petulant over the fact that I’m not afraid to say your emperor has no clothes.
“Don’t make fun of my friends!”
German bus service hardest hit.
I didn’t know Desmond Tutu was a bigot.
He’s a socialist.
But for his international reputation, when things get worse in South Africa, he would get the bullet too.
He has been critical of the Zuma government. I saw a video of Tutu saying he thought the Apartheid government was better than the Zuma government.
Oh, he’s fearless, consistent and principled. It’s just that some of his principles are better than others.
South Africa would be a better place if the likes of Tutu were running it, but then it would just be shithole-lite, with a lot less machete’d and burning corpses.
Viciously anti-semitic. Generally anti-white.
Here’s a roundup.
I didn’t know he was still alive.
This is about more than livable wages. It’s about haves and have-nots, it’s about workers’ dignity, and it’s going to set the bar for labor organizers everywhere.
The teachers of West Virginia are leading the way with a conviction that should be a national example for challenging inequity.
When they get back into their classrooms, hopefully sooner rather than later, they must talk to their students about how, under intense pressure, and with little more than the support they found in each other, they fought for what was right, and they were heard.
Capitalism is bad, children, mmmmkay?
Fuck you, commie. Go teach in Venezuela. And take your dog, so you’ll have something to eat.
Here’s hoping the Supreme Court breaks public unions with its ruling
They won’t be broken…that’s part of the scare story put out by the unions.
Florida has not required members of a bargaining unit to pay *anything* for a few decades now.
The unions still function.
Anything? Why would anyone join in that case?
They do get some membership benefits from joining. At my university, union members get liability insurance and free legal representation in suits against the administration (which in practice means little because they are very rare IRL). About 50% of our faculty are full dues-paying members. But there’s no bargaining fee or anything that non-members have to pay just because they are in-unit.
Unions in other states will adapt, mainly by raising dues for members. There are enough hard-core union believers out there who will join just as a matter of principle.
That just doesn’t make any sense to me.
Because their daddy was in the union. And their daddy’s daddy…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXPkaQ1U8AAOKpr.jpg:large
MLW?
“Gaze upon the epic prow of Christina Hendricks, the woman your boyfriend masturbates to.”
Yes.
Yes, with qualifiers. Age has not been kind to her.
Unqualified yes for me. We’re of an age, although she’s a smidge older.
B+
A couple of you knuckleknobs were nattering the other day (I’m always a few days behind on my reading here, which is why I can rarely comment on current posts) about how the phrase “She-who-must-be-obeyed” comes from Rumpole of the Bailey. It doesn’t – it comes from the works of H. Ryder Haggard, particularly his novels SHE and AYESHA.
Are we so quick to forget the works of popular 19th-century British adventure fiction authors?
(apologies if someone else has already mentioned this between then and now)
It was mentioned and cited. I can only speak for my source of the term, which was indeed Rumpole of the Bailey.
My exposure to Ayesha was solely via the movie with the dauntingly pneumatic Ursula Andress, and I never made the connection. HRH’s star had been in decline as a source of entertainment before I was born.
“Are we so quick to forget the works of popular 19th-century British adventure fiction authors?”
I dunno if it’s adventure or 19th-century, but Fanny Hill continues to amuse me.
Tan lines make us pine for summer.
http://archive.is/kJsnk
Lordy, 6 and 12.
I’m busy working the weekend and trying to get done stuff around the house. I’ll just take #6.
No orgy? Quick, to the fainting couch!
Also, #27. Dat ass!
Also, also; #22 is the bunny boiler
Yeah, no orgy. Work is… not good right now. On the other hand, I am employed.
I didn’t know number 6 was like that. Oh well. to each their own.
Sheesh. Just because he and I were talking about Lee-Enfields. I chase women, and fail spectacularly at it.
Yeah, but the Lee-Enfield thing demonstrated you building rapport. That’s an IoI.
Next thing you’ll be asking me to do “the Cube” and you’ll start wearing funny hats and negging me.
20 bucks is 20 bucks 6. Don’t give him any freebies.
“IoI”? “negging”?
Too much fancy talk for me.
Tan lines are a warning, “This person intentionally sat out in the sun”.
What’s wrong with sitting in the sun? It is good for you. Vitamin D and all.
Low-melanin peoples can produce sufficient Vitamin D with incidental exposure, and there is no need to go “Give me cancer, Solaris!”
Instead of “Give me cancer, Solaris!” they should say “Calgon! Take me away!“
Thank goodness I have the sober, measured analysis of the Meet the Press team to potlight the multitude of sins committed by that Trump guy. Especially Katy Tur. That woman is a towering intellect.
Mueller has Trump on the ropes. Any minute now, he’ll be forced to resign in disgrace. The Rooskys are plotting to destroy democracy, and Trump is their willing accomplice!
I have it on good authority from an anonymous source that Katy Tur needs assistance wiping her own ass.
Her family changed it from “Turd” at Ellis Island.
She needs to be reminded to wipe her ass and to pull her pants back up. And which order to do them in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Y0RKuM7DQ
She’s fucking smitten.
South Africa is f’d.
This obsession with Russian “interference” in the 2016 election is mindboggling. It’s like they are utterly incapable of processing the notion that Hillary lost that election to Trump on her own demerits.
What really cracks me up is how fervently they denied the idea of election interference after Trump made those off-hand comments about “not accepting the results of the election” (and what did they even think he was going to do, raise a militia of hotel employees and invade the White House??)
– Barack Obama, before Herself™ lost the election
Q- I have a question, and you’re the resident authority.
Are you aware of a correlation between yohimbe and muscle cramps?
Okay, if you’re done sniggering…. As in middle-of-the-night-wake-up-in-pain leg cramps?
It’s been known to create anomalous blood pressure, so it’s possible.
Any different from a regular highly painful surprise middle-of-the-night thigh or calf spasm cramp?
Drink a shot of vinegar everyday. Bragg’s has some good stuff in it if you are into that sort of thing.
Vinegar, the only edible thing to come out of a wine barrel.
Good advice. Anything with ‘the mother’. Costco has a 2-pack that’s a screaming deal.
I’ve never heard this. What’s it do?
Improved gut health and insulin sensitivity among other things.
My Dad gets really bad night cramps. His doc told him to eat a pickle or drink s shot of vinegar and it has helped. Also what Tundra said I have heard before too.
I get it once a year or so. Kind of terrifying in the middle of the night and unbelievably painful.
I like the pickle idea. Drinking vinegar doesn’t sound very appealing.
There’s a beverage called switchel that is made out of apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, molasses, and ginger. I can’t really compare the flavor to anything, but you might like that flavor profile more than that of straight vinegar.
Potassium. Eat a banana or drink some powerade.
Hello, we have a winner. Well done CPRM.
Also, make sure you drink plenty of fluids and keep yourself hydrated. Cramps gone.
What? No love for vinegar Doc?
Apple cider vinegar has a ton of potassium, is that what you mean?
Actually it has very little. It’s a challenge when eating a low carb diet, because bananas are awesome, but verboten.
Avocados, spinach, kale, salmon, shrooms are all good.
Just looked it up and you’re right — only 11mg per teaspoon. That’s good to know, as it’s a common “health foods store guy’s advice” — “have some cider vinegar in the morning for good potassium all day”. Effing frauds, as usual.
Potassium’s pretty easy though. Grab some KCl and use that in your cooking for *some* of the time. Don’t replace all common salt with it – you need NaCl too.
Yes, a little ‘lite’ salt in your preworkout is cool, too.
I have no idea why it was recommended to my Dad for night cramps. Or know anything about potassium. I did work for a very wealthy couple on their yacht once. The Mrs owner would often sit down suddenly and say, “I feel I am low on potassium, Ed (the chef) bring me a banana.” She was kind of nuts though.
I’ve found that when I let myself get dehydrated the odds of getting a leg cramp rise.
Waiting for next plane at SeaTac. I’m feeling nauseous now
https://imgur.com/j992I63
That tumor sure is taking its time.
#metoo
https://imgur.com/jT8bpXN
STEVE SMITH BELIEVE TOO!
STEVE SMITH TOO BUSY RAPING HIKERS TO UPDATE HIS SOCIAL MEDIA. AND BY UPDATE, MEAN RAPE.
https://imgur.com/YXihcoW
“Schumer slammed for citing skin color in vote against white judicial nominee”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/02/schumer-slammed-for-citing-skin-color-in-vote-against-white-judicial-nominee.html
“Can you believe these kids?” It’s been a recurring theme of the coverage of the Parkland school shooting: the remarkable effectiveness of the high school students who created a gun control organization in the wake of the massacre. In seemingly no time, the magical kids had organized events ranging from a national march to a mass school walkout, and they’d brought in a million dollars in donations from Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney.
“Why Did It Take Two Weeks To Discover Parkland Students’ Astroturfing?
The response was professionalized. That’s not surprising, because this is what organization that gets results actually looks like. It’s not a bunch of magical kids in somebody’s living room.
The Miami Herald credited their success to the school’s stellar debate program. The Wall Street Journal said it was because they were born online, and organizing was instinctive.
On February 28, BuzzFeed came out with the actual story: Rep. Debbie Wassermann Schultz aiding in the lobbying in Tallahassee, a teacher’s union organizing the buses that got the kids there, Michael Bloomberg’s groups and the Women’s March working on the upcoming March For Our Lives, MoveOn.org doing social media promotion and (potentially) march logistics, and training for student activists provided by federally funded Planned Parenthood.
The president of the American Federation of Teachers told BuzzFeed they’re also behind the national school walkout, which journalists had previously assured the public was the sole work of a teenager. (I’d thought teachers were supposed to get kids into school, but maybe that’s just me.)
For two weeks, journalists abjectly failed in their jobs, which is to tell the public what’s going on. And any of them who had any familiarity with organizing campaigns absolutely knew. Matt Pearce, of the Los Angeles Times, would have been ideally placed to write an excellent article: not only is he an organizer for the Times’s union, he moderated a panel on leftist activism for the LA Times Book Festival and has the appropriate connections in organizing. Instead, he wrote about a school walkout, not what was behind it. (In another article, Pearce defined Delta caving to a pressure campaign’s demands as “finding middle ground.”)
But it’s not just a mainstream media problem. None of the righty outlets writing about Parkland picked up on the clear evidence that professional organizers were backing the Parkland kids, either. Instead, they objected to the front-and-centering of minor kids as unseemly, which does no good: Lefties aren’t going to listen, and it doesn’t educate the Right to counter.”
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/01/take-two-weeks-truth-emerge-parkland-students-astroturfing/
Anyone who thought the student movement was in any way organic hasn’t been paying attention.
Prosecute the adult organizers of walkouts. Shouldn’t be too hard for President Arrest First, Due Process afterwards.
It didn’t take two weeks to discover. It took two weeks to report it, because they are sympathetic to the message.
“Meet the Men Who Have a Fart Fetish
For Jason and Ric, these early emotional experiences led to the realization that they were into eproctophilia. Both men can remember having either fart-inspired erections or masturbatory fantasies, which eventually led to flatulence as a primary route of arousal. However, Jason, who is mostly attracted to women’s farts, has yet to discuss his fetish face-to-face with anyone, and has consequently never had a real-life encounter. “I go to a few online forums and the like, so I have some online friends who are into it,” he explains. Aside from these online chats, Jason primarily experiences his fetish through online videos. “They don’t contain sex or nudity,” he tells me. “Most of the ones I watch are solo videos where the model is alone, either fully-dressed or in suggestive clothing, like lingerie.”
On the other hand, Ric’s early-adult exhibitionist experiences in gym locker rooms and gay saunas soon blossomed into more mature liaisons. Ric, who is interested in sharing gas solely with other men, spent the first half of his adult life talking to like-minded men on gay eproctophilia forums and Yahoo groups, as well as viewing and uploading his own videos to the now defunct maleassrippers.com.
It wasn’t until he was 40 that Ric visited an older man abroad, with the express purpose of living out his fantasy. “We spent 24 hours together, during which we farted in front of each other in various locations (e.g. a restaurant), farted on each other’s hands, and eventually in each other’s faces.” Since that deliciously deviant day, Ric has had various other real-life meet-ups, but is mostly restricted to Skype sessions with overseas contacts.
Fabio*, a 37-year-old married straight man from Brazil, has an altogether different experience. Not only does he have regular face-to-butt interactions, but he’s also a heterosexual guy who is exclusively attracted to men’s farts. Again, Fabio recalls being excited by his friends’ farts as a five-year-old. A few years later, he was hanging out with one of his cousins in their São Paulo apartment block. “We were watching TV and he deliberately farted on my face, trying to be funny,” says Fabio. “He didn’t know I was near his butt cheeks to appreciate them, and his fart made my dreams come true.””
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/8xdbw5/meet-the-men-who-have-a-fart-fetish
“Not only does he have regular face-to-butt interactions, but he’s also a heterosexual guy who is exclusively attracted to men’s farts.”
I don’t think you can claim to be heterosexual when that’s your fetish.
Lots of heterosexual men like to wear dresses. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s true. Just look at Scotland.
In fairness, I guess those are skirts, not dresses.
Not gonna lie – I want to wear a kilt sometimes. They look comfortable as fuck, especially if it’s hot outside.
They are very comfortable, except in hot humid conditions they really don’t help much, unless you’re going to flounce them around to disperse the hot, sweaty air ‘up there’.
Ach, yer bum’s oot the windae!
I wonder if it’s true what they don’t wear beneath the kilt.
Best in show!
Excellent!
Especially wrestlers.
I was expecting this.
https://twitter.com/RadscumTakes/status/970033619405193216
#womanface
That Twitter thread is a circular firing squad
I have no idea what any of that means. Might as well have been in french.
Same here. A lot of Twitter is like figuring out a math problem to me. Only far less pleasant.
I thought Democrats wanted to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which would eliminate presidential term limits. But now that it’s Trump, it’s un-American? Also, do you think Tom Friedman and the Vox crew creamed their collective pants upon Trump’s remarks?
SLD: Fuck you, Trump, for wanting to eliminate presidential term limits.
I made the mistake of watching someone’s tablet through the gap between the seats. SNL’s hilarious takedown of allowing people to defend themselves by positing roach control by arming the “good” roaches. Not just with firearms, but those intrinsically evil AR15s. So funny.
Sarc or no sarc?
Sorry sarc. I’ve been up since about 1am on only a couple hours of sleep. So far my attempts to intake alcohol have been thwarted. I’m a bit grumpy.
I was open to the possibility that the blind chicken had stumbled onto some corn. But apparently SNL lives down to its record.
SEATAC…no sleep…did you recently get punched in the ear?
If you believe all people are inherently evil and turn instantly into murderous parasites when armed, this makes sense.
otherwise, not so much.
accidental honesty- they view the general population as roaches
No no, clearly, the way to keep roaches safe would be to catch them individually, remove their mandibles and any other defensive organ of their body, then release them. You should try really hard to get all of them, but I’m sure you’re still gonna have some armed roaches out there. Still, they’ll all be safer this way. Clearly.
Occupational licensing in New Hampshire.
Who knew that 1,870 architects, 10,000 cosmetologists, 4,500 attorneys and 899 body-art practitioners are registered in New Hampshire?
Or 557 dietitians, 28 midwives, 233 acupuncturists, 400 auctioneers and 349 athletic trainers?
The numbers are listed in a report put out by the state Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau every other year detailing licensed, certified and registered occupations in 2017.
Live Free or Register
Sweden: Woman faces two years in prison for making jokes about Islam
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/sweden-woman-faces-two-years-in-prison-for-making-jokes-about-islam
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“The woman is charged with ‘talking in a negative or threatening way about a group of people’ after she posted cartoons about Islam on Facebook.”
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During the police hearing, the woman apologised for her post and said she had nothing against ordinary Muslims, but only against ISIS….
But Gothenburg’s prosecutor, Sara Toreskog, chose to move on with the case and prosecute the woman for “hate speech” – a crime that could lead to two years in a Swedish prison.
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A Swedish women’s prison. I think Q will be stuck in his bunk forever with that thought.
Is it wrong of me to hope that Sara Toreskog dies a painful death?
Speaking of Sweden:
Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class
The market always finds a way. Good luck Sweden!
I’m surprised Manne Gerell resisted the urge to say “close only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades”.
Whoa whoa whoa, I thought Sweden had common-sense gun control that turned the whole country into a violenc-efree paradise?
It’s an ignorant, reactionary society.
Sweden, that is
Don’t worry, HM assured us policing language is no big deal, plus this has no effect on your life so you should probably just shut the fuck up and not mention it again.
Wow, you’re triggered.
Are you going to mendaciously twist anything else I have written today, Bobby?
Well, you probably should shut the fuck up, soyboy.
Like, the most evillest, Man
The authors add that if their $661/month mean profit is representative then the US’ Standard Mileage Deduction facilitates “several billion in untaxed income for hundreds of thousands of ride-hailing drivers nationwide”.
So what does the study tell us about the ride-hailing business model? “It tells us that it’s a shitty place to work,” says Mark Tluszcz, co-founder and CEO of Mangrove Capital Partners who has described the gig economy model as the modern day sweatshop, and says his VC firm made a conscious decision not to invest in gig economy companies because the model is exploitative.
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Tluszcz was quick to dispatch that critique. “MIT is not some second tier organization that did this study,” he points out. “For me that’s a reference moment when MIT says look, there’s an issue here… There’s something wrong in the model and we can tolerate it for a period of time but ultimately we’re creating this lost generation of people.”
“These business are built on situations in the market that are not realistic,” he tells TechCrunch. “They took advantage of a hole in legislation… Governments let that happen. And it made all of sudden services cheaper. But people have to eat. People have to live. And ultimately there’s only 100% of a cake.
Why can’t we all be unionized government bureaucrats? It’s not fair, Shirley.
Morbidly curious about the “Disrupt SF” link at the top … but I clicked it and my browser started chasing its tail. Great job, eggheads.
The ‘gig economy’ isn’t supposed to be the main source of income, it’s for extra cash. If some one is trying to live off of it exclusively it’s their fault.
Yeah, so was “minimum wage” until the left started filling everyone’s heads with weepy tales of single moms raising four kids on expensive real estate.
Exactly. When I was at a previous job making far less money, I’d make ends meet by doing freelance writing jobs for “gig” sites. This source of income saved my ass.
The “progressives” seem to have this idea that if a job/gig cannot be a full-time income for a family of four, then it shouldn’t exist at all.
The left losing in Italy but hung parliament seems on the horizon thanks to the Five Star Movement. While the right-wing are at 35%, FSM I’m guessing will lean left when push comes to shove. Either way, the poor showing of the left continues with Italy following Holland and Brexit.
“Italy is, more than anywhere else in the world right now, even more than Brexit, even more than the Trump revolution in the US, the cutting edge of the sovereignty movement, of people saying we’ve tried to play by the rules, we’ve voted in centre-Left governments and centre-Right governments, and none of that has worked,” Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, told The Telegraph in Rome.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/04/italian-election-country-goes-polls-latest-news-results-forecast/
Good article. 5 Star Movement seems like a bunch of welfare queens on whole.
Well it was founded by a socialist comedian. That’s why I don’t believe when they say they’re ‘centrist’. They’re left-wing at heart.
Those drivers don’t make any money, but we should be squeezing more taxes out of them.
ProgLogic at its finest!
The people who want to tax those drivers further should be fed into the woodchipper right after that Swedish lawyer who wants to put that lady in jail.
Fucking fire it up.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/combat-troops-have-been-complaining-about-the-m4-m16-years-24706
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Mattis has said that he wants U.S. troops to experience 25 simulated battles before they get their first actual combat experience, Wilkie said. To accomplish that, the task force will look at expanding the use of simulators that are currently in the works at Fort Benning, Georgia, and Camp Pendleton, California, he said.
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That’s good.
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Over the last 70 years, small infantry units have done most of the fighting and dying in America’s wars, but a Pentagon Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation review recently determined that infantry troops get less than 1 percent of the Defense Department’s resources for training and equipment, said retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, who was an advisor to the CAPE review.
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That’s bad.
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Meanwhile, any U.S. casualties can have strategic implications, Scales told Task & Purpose on Feb. 23. For example, the deaths of four soldiers in Niger in October 2017 has led the U.S. military to rethink its entire posture in Africa, he said.
“We’re very, very sensitive to casualties,” Scales said. “So, it make sense to me that the nation should do more to keep alive who are most likely to die.”
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That’s crazy.
I say bring back the M14, but with plastic furniture.
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Though it was unwieldy in the thick brush due to its length and weight, the power of the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge allowed it to penetrate cover quite well and reach out to extended range, developing 2,560 ft·lbf (3,463 J) of muzzle energy. However, there were several drawbacks to the M14. The traditional wood stock of the rifle had a tendency to swell and expand in the heavy moisture of the jungle, adversely affecting accuracy. Fiberglass stocks were produced to resolve this problem, but the rifle was discontinued before very many could be distributed for field use. Also, because of the M14’s powerful 7.62×51mm cartridge, the weapon was deemed virtually uncontrollable in fully automatic mode, so most M14s were permanently set to semi-automatic fire only to avoid wasting ammunition in combat.
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Is that already a thing?
It is for SEAL/SF units, but not for the rank and file.
https://navyseals.com/weapons-demo/m14/
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The M14 is a magazine-fed, gas-operated semi-automatic 7.62mm (.30-caliber) rifle still used by the Navy SEALs. It deploys a 20-round magazine, and has an effective range well beyond 500 meters at a rate of 750 rounds per minute. Operated from the shoulder, it is designed primarily for semi-automatic fire. It was developed from a long line of experimental weapons based on the M1 Garand of the 1940’s. It was planned to replace four weapons: the M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, M3 “Grease Gun,” and M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). However, it only excelled at replacing the M1 Garand, and the BAR was more effectively replaced by the M60 machine gun.
The U.S. Army selected the M14 rifle in 1957. Production was halted in 1964, by which time over 1 million units had been manufactured. The M14 served briefly as the primary infantry weapon in Vietnam until the late 1960’s. It had the disadvantage of being long and heavy, and unwieldy in thick brush. And while its powerful 7.62mm x 51mm round extended its range and penetrated cover, it also made the weapon virtually uncontrollable in full-automatic mode. The M14 was replaced by the M16A1 5.56mm assault rifle in 1966-1968 by direction of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Although the M14 was phased out in the 1960’s, M14 variants are still used in the U.S. military. Navy SEALs started using modified M14s as sniper rifles as early as Vietnam. They have used them in Afghanistan and Iraq, primarily as designated marksman and sniper rifles.
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So McNamara is the one responsible for the M16. Another reason to dislike him.
Don’t the SEAL/SF guys get to use pretty much any weapon they want? Personal choice.
Hollywood told me they get dropped alone behind enemy lines with no weapons and have to scrounge from the enemy.
Fun fact I learned a recent episode of the Tom Woods show: Russian forces in WW1 were sometimes deployed without weapons, and they were told that there would be other dead Russians along the way whose weapons they could use. I’m sure this was great for morale.
That was true at times in WW2 also.
As seen in Enemy at the Gates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMjYNKED0U0
The M14 is back in a couple of roles.
It’s been used by the navy and the CG since forever to fire lines across between ships.
Land forces currently have the M14-EBR, which is an M14 action in an ‘Assault Rifle’ configuration, and also as the M21, an accuratized M14 used by squad designated marksmen. The latter is now being phased out and being replaced by an even more modern rebuild of the M14, the M25, which fills the same role but with better optics.
In just about any configuration, this long action, with a suitable barrel can reach out and say “hello!” effectively to about 900m, but it’s been used extensively at far shorter distances in the middle east when you absolutely want to put someone on his ass and stop him taking any interest in shooting back, utilizing just one round.
larf!
‘Deploy or get out’ policy results in closure of Pentagon
https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/02/deploy-or-get-out-results-in-closure-of-pentagon/
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“I cannot believe they’re doing this to us. We were trying to go after those shammer, slacker, shitbag types like in admin shops and logistics, not us important decision makers,” said Cmdr. Susan Essex, one of the architects of the proposal, as she bounded out of her SUV in a coveted Pentagon south-parking handicap space, which she’s entitled to use due to a bunion she had 14 months ago.
Still, others were even more furious at learning standards would apply to them.
Col. Jeff Mankowitz, a member of the Joint Staff’s J7 Joint Training and Exercising division, was considering seeking legal counsel over the DoD’s decision to boot him, simply because he hasn’t taken a physical fitness test in “like, about, maybe, like a decade?”
“This is total bullshit. I have a medical waiver for irritable bowel syndrome,” said Mankowitz while enjoying his second Qdoba burrito in the 3rd corridor food court. “I’m so stressed about all this, I want to hit Baskin Robbins before my next meeting, but it’s all the way over in 7th corridor, and my scooter is low on batteries, ugh.”
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This reads like satire
Hey look, it is satire!
*slowclap*
I was believing it until “like, about, maybe, like a decade?” and then I looked where it was from. I skipped the headline though. That is a give away since the Pentagon will never close. I think they should close 2/5 of it and just make it a triangle.
McMindfulness, or Neoliberals Ruin Everything
So called secular therapeutic mindfulness practices, then, can operate on the same register as neoliberalism and the “attention economy”. That’s why the philosopher Slavoj Žižek once described Buddhism as the perfect supplement for a consumerist society. Žižek was only half right. The real problem is the selective appropriation of Buddhist practices, stripped of their ethical and philosophical insights. As a result, mindfulness practices are too often presented and taught without adequate acknowledgement of the power structures that are themselves an important source of our distress.
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Stripped of its ethical and contextual roots, mindfulness-based practices borrowed from Buddhist and Zen lineages risk shoring up the very sources of suffering from which the Buddha set out to liberate himself and others. But practised correctly, mindfulness – aligned with and informed by acknowledgement of powerful institutional sources of suffering – can be a pathway to critical engagement and resistance.
I don’t know how this guy makes it through the day. If I saw him on a high ledge, I would definitely be yelling JUMP! at the top of my lungs.
Whatever man, stop bogarting that thing and pass it on.
It is good to know that the future in our country is in such good hands.
It seems to me, I have heard that sentiment expressed before and it didn’t work out well.
I like how clean water is apparently nonexistent anymore after the Trump administration rolled back unrelated regulations.
I sincerely apologize for the heretofore unprecedented douchebagery of my generation.
/standard individualist disclaimer applies
from USA Today
The school marshal program, which would be made available to districts that want it, would arm school staff members and teachers who volunteer for the program and obtain more than 130 hours of training. The Florida Education Association encouraged its member teachers to urge state senators to reject the plan.
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Dozens of other amendments supported by Democrats failed to make the bill. Some of them would have:
— allowed family members to take out risk protection orders designed to keep people who could harm themselves or others from purchasing guns.
— required trigger locks and lockboxes for firearms.
— created a statewide gun registry.
— required a mental health examination for anyone looking to obtain a concealed carry permit.
— banned assault weapons within five miles of a school.
Who wouldn’t vote for that? Not even the dreaded scary-looking assault gunz can shoot a child from five miles away. It’s the perfect solution.
The Florida Education Association encouraged its member teachers to urge state senators to reject the plan.
They don’t serve students, they apparently don’t even serve teachers anymore, is there an actual function to unions anymore, besides grifting?
Nope. Purely a special interest group you are forced to join if you want to teach.
In reality they have the kids best interest at heart. They know that a bunch of their teachers will go on shooting sprees if they have access to guns. This is the only way to keep the schools safe from the teachers.
However you can’t fire them, that would be bad.
In theory if you were five miles up the bullet would still kill someone if the gun was fired toward the ground.
I doubt they were thinking of that though.
Wouldn’t that result in a de facto “assault weapons” ban in many small towns? It’s almost like that’s what they intended all along…
Speaking as an erstwhile smoker who remembers what it was like in various localities prior to the “no smoking within 15′ of a public entrance” regulations in many areas, yes, that’s how you get de facto bans in place.
– There are already restraining orders and legal protections that don’t violate the 4th amendment.
– Trigger locks render a firearm kept for defensive purposes effectively useless. Lockboxes are good ideas, but should be optional. Neither of these do dick to keep someone from taking the key, and they don’t keep bad people from obtaining guns in the first place.
– Paging George Orwell. But seriously, FFL’s keep sales records, and it’s important to note that there is no such thing as a statewide gun registry. There can only ever be a state-specific registry of reported guns. As with every regulation, it’s only obeyed by people who intend to follow the law.
– How many registered CCW holders have committed murder, much less “mass murder”? I’m going to guess we’re in the sub 1% territory. Also, I’ve tucked a pistol under my shirt and walked around the house to see if it was possible to do without a permit, and, wouldn’t you know, it is.
– What’s an assault weapon? What if the school is on a military base? What if I owned my home prior to the school being built? What if I don’t know the school’s there? What if the road between my house and the gun store or firing range passes within five miles of a school? Do “home schools” count? What about daycare?
At least their ultimate goal is out in the open and that goal is common sense gun safety. Whoops, I meant complete negation of the 2nd Amendment through the legislative process.
It’s aggravating to me that there are still some anti-gun people who simultaneously idolize countries that confiscated guns (England, Australia) and tell you in the same breath that anyone who worries about gun confiscation is some kind of delusional, paranoid wackjob who probably reads too much Alex Jones.
I’m going to go around saying that Saudi Arabia does a great job with gay rights, but then ridicule anyone who accuses me of wanting to ban gay marriage.
“What’s an assault weapon?”
Whatever DiFi thinks looks scary.
Well I was going to shoot up a school with an assault weapon, but that 5 mile restriction makes me reconsider.
/nobody
I have no problem committing murder, but violating the gun-free zone is a bridge too far.
Horseshit “confirming” that hard work doesn’t amount to success. The subtext is of course that the solution is socialism.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-role-of-luck-in-life-success-is-far-greater-than-we-realized/
And luck plays in lifespan as well. I could get cancer tomorrow or walk out the door and be hit by a bus. So what?
Scientific American is but a shadow of its former self.
I’m no science guy or anything, but that part about the “mathematical model” seems to be very… Unscientific.