I KNEW it!
So…”sloopy” allegedly “commented” on a post last night. How very convenient that it happened to be a post by Banjos!!!!! I tell you, I am getting close…and this is BIG. Chemtrails, lizard people (sure, Mr. Lizard is out in the open, telling us we will be working in their slave labor hot rock factories and nutria ranches…but it goes deeper than that!!!) the CIA, EM fields… it is all coming together. Sure, it sounds crazy – but that is what THEY want you to think!
SO, I will let you have some information, so I can get back to work on the investigation;
Birthdays; Tris Speaker (1888), Muddy Waters (1913), Anthony Perkins (1932), Craig T. Nelson (1944) Robert Downey Jr. (1965), David Blaine (1973), Heath Ledger (1979) and Jamie Lynn Spears (1991)
Sports; Baseball occurred. I still don’t want to talk about hockey. NBA winding down the regular season. Golf a comin’ up this here weekend.
Links;
- Really? You did what, Norwegian non-profit? BTW – why in Hell is the US taxpayer being wrung out to pay a Norwegian group to dole out $ to others?
- I sure wish we had more choo-choos like Europe! What could go wrong? *California nods enthusiastically*
- Rue Britannia. Protect yourself in your home, get charged. Hard to believe what the UK has become.
- Hey?! You know how much day care costs? Alternatively, Most libertarian parents evah?
OK, time for me…who is there? HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE?! HEY – what do you mean “mental health assessment?!” GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME! I ….
*thunk*
“Subject secured”
I sure wish we had more choo-choos like Europe! What could go wrong? *California nods enthusiastically* – those people earned those lifetime Eurorail passes
Switzerland square miles: 15,940
California square miles: 163,696
And people wonder why rail shit costs so much in the US of A.
Leave the bloody Swiss out of this
“He’s sick of the Swiss!”
Any argument including the Swiss is going to be full of holes.
And delectably bitter-sweet.
Our old neighbors were from Switzerland. They moved back years ago but we still keep in touch and they visit the US every few years. The wife bitched for an hour during one of her visits about the lack of cars and big box stores in Switzerland.
She told about trying to buy a vacuum cleaner when she moved . back and how hard it was. No big store to purchase from. Paid too much from some local mom/pop outfit. Then had to lug it home on a train and finally carry it the last half mile or so from the train station.
She admitted that before she lived here, she would never have thought anything about it because that is just the way things are. But after being spoiled living here, she knows better.
I would have thought the mail bus would have got her closer than that.
Although I did some midnight walks thru the Swiss countryside because the bus’s last run didnt go all the way to where I lived.
I watched from a hotel lobby window a woman attempt to wedge her toddler into a car seat in the back of her Mitsubishi Tom Thumbmobile in Zurich. It took her no less than 12 minutes. It was downright comical the struggle with the lack of space.
Then I had a discussion about geography and how it plays a significant role in culture but how most people ignore it. There’s a reason we have big shit here — it’s a big country. We have room for Costcos and warehouses and six-lane roads and 18 wheelers, so everything is going to be bigger to accommodate that infrastructure. It’s not just Americans are gluttonous assholes.
Although in some cases, that is a financial stupid way to build. Six lane highways to get you from, say, Louisville to Nashville (okay, Tennessee, I am calling you out…expand 65 from the border to Nashville – KY will be done this summer) is fine. Six lane streets with a light every 20 yards and access roads and strip malls is financial suicide for a city.
Six lane streets with a light every 20 yards and access roads and strip malls is financial suicide for a city.
I see you’ve visited Pinellas County
Hell, its Scottsville Road in Bowling Green.
We aren’t big enough to have that shit, but we do anyway.
St Pete needs those so the senior residents can stay on the pavement while driving.
We in NoVa have figured out that instead of expanding lanes, over/under-passes are the way to go.
Thanks for all of the birthday wishes, Tulpas.
STFU Tulpa.
Rue Britannia. Protect yourself in your home, get charged. Hard to believe what the UK has become. – this is fucking shit even for Britain.
Well, it’s been verboten for a while to do anything at all when you’re being burgled. I’m surprised they haven’t mandated that the homeowner should make the burglars a nice cup of tea while they’re being robbed to make them feel at home.
I suspect the old guy won’t be sent to court, but the only reason will be that the burglar apparently brought the screwdriver with him. Note – this is just like in the US – when you shoot someone in self-defense, you should expect to be arrested.
Earl Grey or English Breakfast?
Be a man. Scottish Breakfast.
Irish Breakfast.
That would depend on the time of day, of course. In the wee hours of the morning, I’d expect a breakfast tea.
Welsh Breakfast tea would probably be most appropriate on this occasion, given that we’re talking breaking and entering, assault and theft.
I like Earl Grey, dammit, and I’m not ashamed to say it.
Ummmm….. no? I’m from Texas and I live in Florida now. The cops pretty much give you a high five when you shoot some armed robber piece of shit. YMMV in the awful yankee land wherein you dwell.
^This
As long as they don’t find shell casings, and blood trails and drag marks coming into the house from your car trunk.
If you live in the People’s Republic of Murlin, as I do, yeah, it’s tricky. You’re basically hoping that a.) the home invader is dead, and b.) the cops who respond to the call are NRA members. The philosophy is ostensibly the same as why schools will suspend or refer to the office both students in a fight even if one clearly instigated it; it gives the school time to sort out what happened and gets everyone involved out of public view where friends might decide to get some payback. I don’t know what the stats are, but in my brief time working at the circuit court I never saw a self-defense case come up. My bet is that it’s going to depend on the police report and the prosecutor.
You should try and ensure that criterion (a) is always met.
Yeah, talk about perverse incentives.
I noticed that comments were disabled for the article. I doubt most Brits like any better than we do, but there’s not a damn thing they can do other than leave. Who represents them? Labour? Tories?
The Muslim Brotherhood? Some unpronounceable political party from India?
UKIP most likely.
In general, I’d say that there’s plenty of support for a guy who shanks a burglar who clearly broke into their home expecting violence. As with the US, there’s a non-zero percentage of them who will blame the whole event on the structural inequity of society and the alienation these poor wretched criminals feel. So you could expect a comment section to break down accordingly into “Lawranorder”, “Bury ’em in a lime pit”, “we didn’t win WW2 for this”, “OMG! That’s heroic!” and “Give them more money” categories. Probably the same as 40 years ago, if Disqus had existed.
The real difference is that now, no matter what they say, most of those commenters – put in the same situation as the victim – would cower away and wait to be shanked. The authorities in Britain have oppressed “have-a-go heroes” for so long, that the impulse has been bred out of the people, and so this kind of spirited defense is an outlier and noteworthy. And that cannot stand.
John Cleland agrees with you:
“He made me fully sensible of the virtues of his firm texture of limbs, his square shoulders, broad chest, compact hard muscles, in short a system of manliness, that might pass for no bad image of our ancient sturdy barons, whose race is now so thoroughly refined and frittered away into the more delicate and modern built frame of our pap-nerved softlings, who are as pale, as pretty, and almost as masculine as their sisters.”
(Fanny Hill, 1748)
It’s sad that the country that originated infangenthef has been reduced to this.
He should show up to the trial in wode, like Mel Gibson.
. . . this is fucking shit even for Britain.
Same rule in Canada, really — defend yourself, get arrested. Happens a lot. I had a PAL instructor tell a class I was in what the law re: self-defense was, and then said “It’s up to you to decide whether, if the time ever comes, your safety and the safety of your family is worth going to federal prison for. I’ve already answered that question for myself.”
The answer remained implied, but was obvious to anyone with a functioning brainstem.
Morning Glibs! I’m back on day shift so i expect to be more in the morning lynxs.
Nice!
Is she going ski-doing?
Did you know with Bill C-316 merely criticizing Islam by even sharing information could land you in trouble?
This is what launched Peterson into stardom.
Of course, to the useful idiots ‘it’s not true’ Bill C316 can do that.
Itabsofuckenlutely can.
Probably already been covered but here ya go…
https://thesentinel.net/news/youtube-shooter-identified-as-nasim-aghdam/
“YouTube was unavailable to comment on hitting their female shooter quota, but an employee who chose to remain anonymous stated that Aghdam had “shot through their glass ceiling.”
Zing!
This story is going to fade away faster than my last tan.
Not just vegan activist, also bodybuilder, artist and rapper.
I’m going to go with ‘mental illness’ on this one.
Upset about the lack of a vegan snackbar?
Or, she could just be a fanatic about having a PETA vegan aloha snackbar
An Iranian female vegan activist
So she didn’t like the snack-bar?
Would’ve
You know who else got involved in Norway?
My bosses?
Erik the Red?
King Hamlet?
Frank Tagliano?
“Anal Cleft” Is Actually Easy to Define, City of Everett Argues in Bikini Barista Case
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/04/02/25983148/anal-cleft-is-actually-easy-to-define-city-of-everett-argues-in-bikini-barista-case
After a federal judge ruled against the city of Everett for banning “bikini baristas” from wearing G-strings and pasties, Everett has decided to continue fighting against baristas’ partial nudity.
In the opening brief of the city’s Ninth Circuit appeal, attorneys for the city lay out how, exactly, they intend to topple a federal judge’s injunction against the city from enforcing its new dress code.
The brief makes for good reading, as city attorneys stress—while trying to support a ban on butt cleavage—how easy it is to understand the terms of Everett’s ban on “bottom one half of the anal cleft” and “more than one-half of the part of the female breast located below the top of the areola.” One of the reasons Judge Marsha Pechman blocked the ban was because she ruled those rules were too vague to stand up in court. She indicated that the argument that the ban limited freedom of expression on the basis of gender was also likely to succeed.
City Attorneys: “I’ll have to take all this evidence home with me for the weekend and examine it more”
“One of the reasons Judge Marsha Pechman blocked the ban was because she ruled those rules were too vague to stand up in court. She indicated that the argument that the ban limited freedom of expression on the basis of gender was also likely to succeed.”
Wait, who is this wonderful Judge?
An article about female mammal parts without pics on a website called thestranger…you mammals are confounding sometimes
Shackleford at TOS has you covered.
I always liked Shack-rack.
Scott was very nice to us straight men.
How do we stop the epidemic of nuns on a rape spree?
Edward, now a grandfather aged 76, fell victim to then 27-year-old Irish nun Sister Mary Conleth, real name Bessie Veronica Lawler, in the 1950s.
*Nods with hand on chin*
Habit-ual offenders?
I post derp cause I love you, you know that right ?
https://trib.al/o2rCQWF
I couldn’t sleep, so I watched some docs on British history; all I could think about with all their palace intrigue is that ZARDOZ should have cleansed them all.
The coffee is really kicking in now!
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/03/599112587/parkland-students-return-to-school-skeptical-of-clear-backpacks?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180403
From this URL I can conclude you have not yet deleted Facebook. For shame. You want to be micro-targeted don’t you?
I enjoyed looking at the kids complain on Twitter.
Parkland students, are you now trying to tell me that safety measures should be judged on their effectiveness? What are you, a bunch of gun-loving libertarians?
Welcome to the real world.
The UK is an unconscionable mess.
Unbelievable. Sadly, the same thing can happen here. You have to ‘respond with appropriate force’ (whatever that means. Talk about a moving target) if someone ENTERS YOUR FRICKEN HOME.
Also speaking of the UK, today I learned a new word
Anosognosia (/æˌnɒsɒɡˈnoʊziə/, /æˌnɒsɒɡˈnoʊʒə/; from Ancient Greek ἀ- a-, “without”, νόσος nosos, “disease” and γνῶσις gnōsis, “knowledge”) is a deficit of self-awareness, a condition in which a person with some disability seems unaware of its existence
Highly correlated with progressivism.
Sounds like England.
Maybe people like Roger Waters should worry less about Trump and play closer attention to the shithole Europe HAS become. Perhaps who can rail against his own country acting like a dystopian basket case. After that exchange I saw about WWII and how some Brits view it, I’m completely disheartened. Something went completely wrong.
America serves as a convenient distraction for countries not willing to acknowledge their own mess – or worse, believe their course to be the correct one.
How do some Brits view WWII? I mean, I’m sure I can guess but what are the specifics?
Most of them consider that it’s a damn good thing we were on the winning side.
I missed the detail of the WW2 discussion – what specific views are you interested in?
I missed it too, so I was asking what Rufus was referring to about the way some Brits view WWII.
Oh dear me guys. Since you don’t work, be around more!
It’s a long story.
Basically, a Canadian was upset about Southern being banned and then the discussion moved towards the Commonwealth fighting with Britain and spilling blood there and to have this happen was terrible. The Brits were all like ‘what Commonwealth? Canada and Australia fought with us?’ and then and it went more squarely when they blame the Americans for both starting WWI (my persona favourite. My jaw dropped at that one) and prolonging both wars and that England and Germany were about to sign a peace treaty in WWII because Germany loved England (I paraphrase because you two missed class), and…..well, they have a different take, let’s just say, from us about the war. So much for European public education.
In a nutshell: America’s fault.
We’re on the hook for a war we didn’t even get involved in for 3 years?
Yes.
England and Germany were *about* to make friends until the Americans came along and ‘blowed’ that up.
Britain declared war on Germany after it invaded Poland. *facepalm* wow
There’s some truth to that, albeit simplistic interpretation. I’d dispute the use of the word ‘friends’ though. It would have been more like ‘a really bad deal’.
“What Commonwealth?” WTF? Isn’t there a holiday to celebrate the ANZACS flogging the Hell out of the Chinese in WWI?
They completely downplayed the role of the Commonwealth fighting alongside England.
Fucken ungrateful shits.
I will say, Rufus, that you opened my eyes to the extent of Canadian effort in the world wars, and that’s as someone who’s a rather enthusiastic reader of war history. I mean, I knew there were Canadian units fighting in the British armed forces, but I never appreciated just what a huge proportion they were given Canada’s small population.
This is my old unit :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_R%C3%A9giment_de_Maisonneuve#Battle_honours
Pretty much all the units from Montreal have the same amounts of battle honours.
So yeah, we Canadians just played hockey during WWI and WWII.
Ungrateful shits indeed.
Oh, well, I’m a bit long in the tooth to talk about the quality of 20th Century History syllabi in British schools. When I went thru’ the mill, it was all still a bit recent and raw. My ‘History’ education in the 70’s consisted of topics such as “Medicine thru’ the ages” and “The English Civil War”. The history of the British Empire was already being avoided.
In general, however, the only people who have much of an understanding of the History of WW2 will have received it from their parents who actually experienced it – so pretty much anyone under 35 will be a lost cause. They’ll think Dunkirk was just like the recent movie with a couple hundred guys standing around waiting to be rounded up by a bunch of invisible Nazis. To the extent that younger people know anything about WW2, they learned from movies, and a large (as is evident from the murder statistics for 2018) proportion of the population of Britain don’t have ancestors who had any skin in the game anyway.
The British Empire, and its collapse (and the remaining Commonwealth) isn’t much of a subject for discussion, because it was fundamentally evil. Participants in the Allied struggle in WW1 and WW2 were trying to fight off enemies who were only slightly more evil than themselves. To the extent that a schoolkid has any appreciation of the wars, it’ll have come from personal study or family, unless they went to an exceptional school – which pretty much means private school, that has adopted its own syllabus, which will put it at odds with the examining bodies when the pupils have to pass national exams.
Interesting you’d mention the movie Dunkirk. I bought it on sale from iTunes and, man, it sucked. Very little action, characters I couldn’t really care about-disappointing overall.
That has had profound (negative) consequences obviously.
It’s the Hegelian dialectic in motion I guess.
Crazy.
The budget for a movie with all 348,000 extras would have been excessive, but the reason I’m ‘down’ on it is that it wasn’t even accurate in ways that it could have been accurate. It was an exercise in cinematic trompe l’oeil that missed the mark and as far as I can see, misinterpreted public appetite for the story.
I haven’t dug around the backstory to the making of the movie, but it had the vibe of one of those artsy ‘new interpretations’ of a Shakespeare classic, and having Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance in it just reinforced that vibe.
The whole fucking Spitfire subplot made me want to spew, so it did.
Stinky – I felt the same way about Dunkirk. It was incredibly boring. Its horrifying what those guys went through, but the movie was so slow and failed to give any real flavor to the characters.
I think the problem is that they were very ham-fisted about trying to make the movie “artsy” with these long shots with no dialogue.
I thought Dunkirk was phenomenal. But I like slow movies (although I didn’t find it to be slow at all).
It’s going to be A Clockwork Orange there for realz in ten years. I was rooting for them with the Brexit stuff but I honestly don’t give a damn if they manage to pull it off or not now.
Sounds pretty close now – the main characters just have darker complexions.
Alex will speak pidgin Urdu instead of Russian?
Speaking of British history
When did sustained growth start?
https://growthecon.com/blog/When-Growth
Basically annual income growth in England started in the 1650s before the industrial revolution, although initially not necessarily from a growth of income per day worked, but as a annual growth driven by the number of days/hours worked. Basically people started working more, and after a while productivity increased. There is also a theory that high wages in Brittan was one of the things that stimulated industrial revolution as people pushed labor saving devices to compensate high wages (also coal was very cheap and accessible). Then again there are probably multiple factors involved.
Right about the time the vestiges of feudalism were fading away and a middle class was emerging.
Also right about the time their colonies in the Americas began to be consistently productive.
Bring me champagne when I’m thirsty…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHowqKYSXNI
NYC bootleggers pinched for bulk purchases from NH State sin monopoly
Am I supposed to be outraged at the conduct of the bootleggers? All that I read is a massive sin tax sting, the basis of which I despise. If anything, I feel sympathetic for those bootleggers. Fuck Treasury.
Laws against “structuring” are complete BS. The structuring law basically says it’s illegal to comply with the law. Also, sin tax rackets are some of the worst tax rackets.
They should make it a law that any transaction over $5,000 has to be reported so that they can investigate whether it’s an attempt to avoid the law making it necessary to report transactions over $10,000.
Any transaction involving cash is obviously a plot to circumvent government over-watch and needs to prosecuted to the highest degree.
WTF? Structuring laws now apply to purchases anywhere, not just deposits at financial institutions?
New York State Department of Taxation – this sounds more honest than IRS
possessing untaxed liquor, and faces up to four years in prison – damn that seems harsh. Then again you don’t cheat the kings own men of the kings own taxes
I can’t really even necessarily tell what the four years are for. They could be for the IRS misreporting, or they could be for the New York bootlegging charges. I suspect the latter. But as you say, pretty harsh blocking people in a cage for not paying the tax man.
*locking
you sound like one o dem dangerous anarchistics
Why do we have bootlegging laws on the books?
Because every one of the 50 several States also needs to wet their beak. The amount of regulations that alcohol businesses are subjected to are staggering and completely absurd, as is the bullshit policy of alcohol producers having to forward pay their sin taxes on a monthly automatic basis to Treasury.
http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/entertainment/movies/verne-troyer-hospitalized-friend-reports-suicidal-article-1.3912489
Why is the article suicidal?
“The 2 ft. 8 in. actor has battled alcoholism for years and almost lost his life in 2002 from alcohol poisoning.”
Verne’s a ream animal when he moves on to shorts.
ream=real.
So, the Glib overlords spent their money on ‘charity’. Bunch of fools. I’m pushing to get a Glibstarter article up foThe Hat and The Hair Super Funtime Cartoon Showow; but the bureaucratic process is slow and next week the cost of my software will go up. So anyone who wants to donate now, watch the linked video and maybe we can get this show with a lower budget. Make sure to watch to the end, that’s when I beg for money.
*sets down bindle and warms hands over the trashcan fire*
“I tell you, I am getting close…and this is BIG. Chemtrails, lizard people (sure, Mr. Lizard is out in the open, telling us we will be working in their slave labor hot rock factories and nutria ranches…but it goes deeper than that!!!) the CIA, EM fields… it is all coming together. Sure, it sounds crazy – but that is what THEY want you to think!”
You’re overthinking it
Aren’t you part of they?
Just an innocent lizard sunbathing on a warm rock. Nothing to see here. Move on
Ya I’m ((((they)))) not to be confused with (((them)))
Jaws drop as great white shark interrupts Australian police operation
Shark nicknamed ‘Noah’ gets between officers and fishing boat selected for random breath test
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/04/jaws-drop-as-great-white-shark-interrupts-australian-police-operation
Libertarian shark says fuck the police
Actually that was one our SPECOPS guys in a Mk-22 marine incursion suit.
That’s fantastic.
You are now about to witness the strength of sea knowledge
Australian cops hassle people fishing and day-drinking? That shark is doing the Lord’s work.
In FL the Grouper Troopers (Fish and Wildlife) will do the same.
Poor boat guy is going to have a hard time with the boatside sobriety tests. Must be hard to swim a straight line while a shark is biting off your leg.
On the flip side, the only way the cops are getting their video evidence is to get Richard Dreyfuss to carve it out.
They didn’t need a breathalyzer to know that that shark was drunk as fack.
What is the gender pay gap at your company?
Let’s pile up the UK derp.
One of the biggest names among the worst offenders so far is Ryanair, which reported a 71.8% gender pay gap. – much offender. I wonder why that is. a mystery wrapped in an enigma
Zero. All four of us are men.
#winning
I’ll have to ask my boss, she’s a VP.
I’ll have to ask my boss’s boss. She’s an SVP.
It’s Amtrack with a French accent!
“including job-for-life guarantees and early retirement”
Any guesses on why the business isn’t making any money?
Kulaks?
foreign competition?
The patriarchy?
Deplorables?
If Macron can just get the trains to run on time, they’ll let him get away with ANYTHING.
I’m sorry, Switzy, but this is all for your own good. A nice little rest and you’ll be good as new.
Our friend has been slowly going off of late. His methods were becoming…unsound.
Now he’s crossed into Libertopia with this orphan army of his, that worship the man like a god, and follow his every post …however ridiculous.
Switzy’s the subject of One for the Vine?
Plenty of girls here fulfill the requirement of dark hair with light eyes.
http://archive.is/df6l5
#1 is parting the Red Sea.
Any anal cleft in there?
No starfish, no anal cleft.
Some solid contenders in that group.
Until 45 came along and made the rest irrelevant.
This is why I insist upon driving.
They were just celebrating the new movie on Chappaquiddick.
Our carport Ring goes off at 4:15 this AM. Guy looking around the carport. Hop up grab the maglight and turn all the lights on. Look around, don’t see guy anywhere. Debate calling the PD. Dekalb Co. PD hasn’t necessarily had the best rep + my general aversion to interaction with the po-po. Decide it is the neighborly thing to do and hopefully the clown will see that he was seen and there was a swift response. If nothing else, let the PD know there’s a guy creeping around houses at 4 am. Our neighborhood seems to be targeted for this shit periodically.
Younger guy (pretty much anyone under 30-35 looks like a kid to me at this point) came out. Very nice, very professional. At that point, not much for him to see or do. Show him the ring video and he checks around the cul de sac.
Found out this morning a house two streets over had a car stolen and another car broken into….
Glad you avoided being violated.
I recently installed a couple Ring cameras and have been very happy with them. Unfortunately I’d probably sleep though a night alert.
Yeah, i’m surprised it woke me up. We sleep with rain/white noise and I can’t hear anything when it’s on. My wife kind of needs it, but I’m rethinking it….
I really like the Ring too. My one regret is that I didn’t wire them in, I couldn’t put them where the existing doorbells were because of the size difference and wanted them higher anyway and didn’t want exposed wires out. I’m forever pulling them down and recharging them. Gonna have to rework that.
Ring makes a solar charger but it may not work depending on the camera’s location.
The one thing I don’t like about the hard-wired cameras is that there’s apparently no way of turning them off, which might be preferable at times. I’m going back and installing a light switch in the circuit path so I can cut/restore power easily.
What a lazy cop, he could have at least shot your dog while he took the report.
The pup in my avatar pic passed a few months ago. That would have been another point of consideration if not as that is one of the areas the local constabulary have a bad rep for.
Again, to be fair, the officer that came out this morning was very professional and very nice. The officer investigating the stolen car contacted me later this morning. She was also very professional and appreciative for the assistance.
Well, they’re working right in their competency and comfort zone. Collecting data long after the event in the comfort of your home or their office.
My experience with cops has gotten better with age and wealth. As I’ve gotten older and my car/area I live in has gotten nicer, the cops seems to start wanting to assist me rather than trying to find a reason to arrest me.
Its fucked.
I’ve noticed the same thing. My area has random checkpoints, which are evil, but I can’t do much about.
My wife accidentally gave the officer our utility trailer registration instead of for the car. He told her not to worry about because she’s “not the kind of person they’re looking for” and just waved her through with a “Have a nice day ma’am.”
Sounds like their mother was enabling them.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/twin-sisters-known-for-spirited-battle-with-ocd-die-in-possible-‘suicide-pact’/ar-AAvrY5a?ocid=spartanntp
They should’ve been in an in-patient psychiatric program as teenagers to nip it in the bud.
“Sara and Amanda Eldritch would take showers that lasted upward of 10 hours. The inseparable twin sisters from Broomfield, Colo., would go through five bottles of rubbing alcohol every day, disinfecting their skin until it burned. They hardly ever left the house. When they did, they would stop eating and drinking hours in advance to the point of dehydration to avoid using public restrooms, they told local television station 9 News in 2016.
Their phobias only became worse after they hit puberty. They would each get through an entire bar of soap during each shower, scrubbing until they removed a top layer of skin, they told they told “The Doctors.”
They would use so much hydrogen peroxide on their faces that their eyebrows would turn orange.They would shower for so long that the water would leak through to the kitchen, their mother told “The Doctors.””
“They would shower for so long that the water would leak through to the kitchen, their mother told “The Doctors.”
Somebody doesn’t understand how plumbing works.
Maybe it’s because I’m an old fart. Maybe it’s because I’m too conventional. Maybe it’s just a coincidence.
How many news stories do we see that involve parents and their unmarried children, where their last names are different? How does that compare with the population at large?
Don’t know about global trends, but I’m sure family dysfunction played into this. People don’t typically become this incapacitated by OCD unless the family is being extremely accommodating. The treatment for OCD (on top of meds) is exposure to the things that cause anxiety. Overtime, the individual becomes desensitized to it. However, the fact that they were so extreme in their symptoms meant the mom was enabling/ignoring very pathological behavior long before it got to that level. The mom is partially at fault here.
10 hour showers? So 9.25 hours in cold water?
‘Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack’: Swedes turn against cashlessness
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/03/being-cash-free-puts-us-at-risk-of-attack-swedes-turn-against-cashlessness
It is hard to argue that you cannot trust the government when the government isn’t really all that bad. – no it’s fucking not. And it is not like the government is set in stone. And it is rather bad as it is
There are signs this might be changing. In February, the head of Sweden’s central bank warned that Sweden could soon face a situation where all payments were controlled by private sector banks.
The Riksbank governor, Stefan Ingves, called for new legislation to secure public control over the payments system, arguing that being able to make and receive payments is a “collective good” like defence, the courts, or public statistics. – or you know keep the cash
A cashless society is simply one step closer to enabling greater authoritarianism.
But I thought Sweden was a socialist utopia.
Apparently banging a porn star doesn’t make other guys hate you. Of course, thinking a prostitute will keep her mouth shut shows a bit of bad judgement.
If in italy banging countless porn stars…
STEVE SMITH BIG FAN OF BUNGA-BUNGA PARTIES!
That’s why you PAY them,
Sure. Let’s make Indiana Jones a chick. Perhaps she could raid some tombs or something.
NSFW
https://youtu.be/qKH_-wKruEc
What? I mean, this idea is absurd, but thinking a woman can’t have the last name Jones? I think dementia will be his next big hit.
“You call her Dr. Joan doll”
In this version, Indy hosts a daytime pop psych talk show.
“We named the dog Indiana” would imply she identifies as a bitch?
My mother’s last name (pre-marriage and post-divorce) was Jones, and I’m pretty sure she was female.
Johnson, on the other hand, is right out.
We did this already, she was called “Lara Croft”.
Hence your comment about “raiding tombs”. You should have gone further out of your way to prevent me from missing that.
If you were Goodolph Hitler, you wouldn’t make such errors.
It’s a fair cop.
Why do I torture myself by reading stories about our educational betters? This time the story is about how the Libertarian Moment is ruining test scores and hurting minorities.
Kids who opt out of statewide testing (No Child Left Behind BS) are now counted as “not proficient” when it comes to testing. Educators are a) still babbling about how bad testing is as a way to measure progress and b) bitching about how rich suburban parents pulling their kids will take money away from the shitty city schools.
Of course, they only sort of mention that the inner city schools are the ones who have the biggest opt out rate of all. If I were a betting man, I might suggest that the administrators there are big advocates of opting out because they know their test scores are going to be horrible.
Check out this success rate:
Only 8 of 28 who took the test were “proficient”? My kids were hitting the proficient mark in fucking grade school. That is how easy the test is. We should be demanding refunds from the schools and teachers if they can only do 8 out of 28.
So what are the chances that the Supremes gut the PubSec Unions and the teachers’ unions go down the drain? I’m getting an erection just thinking about it.
Do you think the incompetent teachers are self-aware enough to remain in the union? For protection?
Or are they clueless enough that they will drop the union to avoid the dues and become targets for being fired?
It’s not the schools necessarily – its the culture. Hard to study when your parents don’t care/are absent and all of your friends make fun of you/beat the shit out of you for being a nerd.
No good men around to enforce order in the families and make the children study.
Back in the ’40s when I was a wee lad my folks taught me to play cribbage so they’d have some to play with. By the time I was 10 I was sitting in as a 4th in the adult games, only I wasn’t allowed to drink beer. Cribbage is a great game for a kid to learn math skills. Math came easy in school, maybe the cribbage helped the math or vice- versa.
My father taught me, and then I taught my kids how to play Casino for the same reason. The whole point of the game is find combinations that add up to certain numbers.
My problem is that the “takes card games way too seriously” gene skipped from my father to my kids and I got stuck playing with two different groups of card sharks.
This week is the week the public schools are supposed to he doing the testing. In Oklahoma, this week is the week the teachers decided to go on strike.
The testing is a farce. My buddy’s kid was never given the MCA tests. Not because of a learning disability that would crater his score, oh no. Because “he wouldn’t benefit from the tests.” Riiiiiight.
It seems to me that the UK is easily the most repressive nation in the west. Incredible.
Here in Louisiana it is very simple – dont want to get shot? Don’t break into people’s houses. Consequently In this parish crime is ridiculously low. Maybe half a dozen arrests in a month and those all seem to be related to dope one way or another. So far this year only one arrest related to violence, a domestic dispute.
I visited England back in the early 90’s. I didn’t meet a single person who had not been the victim of a robbery.
Criminals simply do not break into occupied houses here either. There is a reason for that.
They get hogtied and raped?
Usually just shot, but yes, sometimes that happens…
Because all the houses in Arkansas are on wheels and rolling down the road.
If Trudeau gets re-elected, he’ll ask you to hold his beer.
Canada is on a horrible path.
Has there ever been a country with that proud of a history go into the shitter that deep? It’s so depressing.
Well, step 1 is ensuring that the idea of a ‘proud history’ is destroyed. Everything else on the agenda becomes much easier once you get that right.
ENGLAND WAS NEVER GREAT!
IT WAS RAPEY AND COLONIAL. REPENT! LET BACK ISIS FIGHTERS BACK IN! IT’S YOUR DUTY TO CORRECT THINGS!
It’s been illegal to protect yourself in your own home in the UK for a while. I remember reports of people shooting home invaders from at least as far back as the 90’s and getting arrested for it.
That was Tony Martin. He wasn’t just arrested, he was imprisoned.
You get a medal for it here.
Peak UK.
Inside the murky world of Wan Chai’s love hotels during Hong Kong Sevens week
Rugby week is the biggest boom period of the year for short-stay hotels of the red light district, with sex workers flocking in to profit from boozed-up tourists in town
http://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/2139902/sex-and-hong-kong-sevens-inside-murky-world-wan-chais-lurid-love
“It’s OK, they get business, right? Business is business,” says the manager after the man heads downstairs and back into the night.
The women have just paid HK$400 for a two-hour stay in one of the hotel’s rooms – normally it would cost HK$300, but “if you have an extra girl, you need to pay an extra 100,” I am informed.
“Some guys will bring five, six girls. It’s only for party, just playing,” the manager says, smiling. She estimates she gets maybe 20-30 women on a normal night.
But no night in the coming week will be “normal” – this is rugby week.
51 bucks for 2 girls for 2 hours seems like a pretty good deal.
That is the cost of hotel room for two hours, not the girls
I have in no way experienced any of this.
No, siree. Honor steel.
Only 8 of 28 who took the test were “proficient”? My kids were hitting the proficient mark in fucking grade school. That is how easy the test is. We should be demanding refunds from the schools and teachers if they can only do 8 out of 28.
You’ve got it all backwards, you hillbilly. If the teachers were paid appropriately, all those children would be geniuses.
My kids scored off the charts in grade school in math because we a) made them do flash cards and b) gave them those horrible homework sheets where you had to fill out a hundred or so basic addition/subtraction (and later mult/div) problems. Both of those suck but the repetition gives you the basic tools to do other math later.
Their school taught them “whole math” bullshit. Basically word problems that visualized basic addition/subtraction. So on the test my kids were just banging out answers from rote memory while their classmates were drawing pictures of oranges and then counting them.
I had lots of arguments with grade school teachers on the subject of math. Every time it got heated I would simply point out that my kids were their best kids so my methods must be better.
I remember in 4th grade having to do speed tests. Basically your “horrible homework sheets”. They were the 100 combos of 0-9 vs 0-9. We had to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in some short period of time. We did them each day, Started with addition and you didnt get to move on until you got all 100 correct. It took me 6 days (2 each for addition and subtraction, I got the hard ones on the first try). I was first done by the rest of the class was not far behind.
You got a star on your parachute when you got each one done.
For some reason that has stuck with me since 1978, so it must have been a good teaching technique.
I also remember learning how to write a cursive X. I couldn’t get past Texas on our state and capitals quizzes because I couldn’t make the X properly.
And like with the math, you couldnt move on to the next group of states until you got the previous one perfect. Capitals and States (and postal abbreviations) had to be spelled correctly. And apparently written correctly too.
This is how I taught our son his multiplication tables. I wrote an Excel macro to generate sets of problems automatically, and he got $$ based on how many he could get right in one minute. Calculator allowed. It took him two tries to realize that if he memorized them he could do them a lot faster without the calculator and I never saw it again after that.
Well I survived three days in DC with three kids. I didn’t stop to consider beforehand that this was probably one of the busiest weeks for Smithsonian visits because of spring break. My neck hurts from having it on a swivel trying to keep track of kids in a mob all day.
How were the cherry blossoms?
Is that what you call vulnerable kids on a field trip in Romania? Or did you hear that from OMWC?
Just starting to come in. But the ubiquitous protesters were in full bloom.
Should have stop by the Reagan building to say hi!
And yes – the tourists and school groups have been crazy!
MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading
A startup called Nectome collected $200,000 from people hoping to become digitally immortal through suicide.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610743/mit-severs-ties-to-company-promoting-fatal-brain-uploading/
These guys are still legit, though, right?
That’s one hell of a scam. Anyone dumb enough to fall for it, deserves what they get. A fool and his money.
I actually discussed this earlier. The Intergalactic Council is freaking out about the possibility of someone uploading Hillary’s consciousness into an AI memory core. That’s why we may skin-suit her to prevent that.
I actually argued for a micro kinetic round from orbit during her next speaking arrangement, but they shut that down. Said it lacked subtlety.
Somebody’s got to pioneer the tech. Let the brave/stupid pave the way for the rest of us.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/04/youtube-shooter-id-d-as-woman-with-apparent-vendetta-against-company.html
Sounds like we need common-sense YouTube laws. Is it reasonable that anyone can access YouTube more easily than buying a book?
Good job all the gun vloggers who have been demonetized don’t own gu … oh … nevermind.
demonetized or demonized?
both?
Can’t spell one without the other.
” The woman behind a shooting at YouTube’s California headquarters had a festering beef with the Silicon Valley giant and believed the company was hiding her content.
For at least four years, 39-year-old Nasim Aghdam fashioned herself as an aspiring YouTube star to celebrate her vegan diet and animal rights activism. She donned glitzy gowns and skin-tight bodysuits to record bizarre DIY music videos in foreign languages, such as Farsi and Turkish.
But in recent months, Aghdam, of San Diego, warned whatever fans she had that “there is no free speech in real world.”
“You will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not supported by the system,” Aghdam’s website read.
Her site and a scattering of unhinged YouTube videos claimed the company was preventing her from monetizing her work or allowing fans to access it.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/alleged-shooter-nasim-aghdam-believed-youtube-censoring-article-1.3913613
I give the reporter credit for working the phrase “festering beef” into an article about a vegan.
Heh.
I was going to ask “A festering beef what?”
Do you anything about the incident?
Never change, Daily Mail.
STEVE SMITH THINK HIM GET JOB AND BE EDITOR THERE!
This is a prime example of what can happen when you don’t teach your young children about guns.
Also maybe the Romanian in me talking but guns should be somehow secure. If I had a gun in my house there would be no way a 5 year old could get hold of it.
In general that is the case here too. But this story is about St. Louis. Different world.
Should be both. Secure your firearms, but also teach your kids that guns are not toys and to leave them alone if the run across one.
I remember reading something a long time ago that said a lot of the kids killed like this were neighbor kids who had never been taught about gun safety by their parents. The kids from the house where the gun was found all knew to leave them alone but the neighbor kid would start playing with it and end up shooting someone.
Can’t remember the exact numbers, but it sounded right to me.
This reminds me, I need to have a conversation with my four year old. “If you are at someone else’s house and they ask if you want to see a real gun or try to show you a real gun, get me or another adult immediately.”
Yep. I had that discussion many times with both Spawn. If a gun appears, get the fuck out.
When I was about 8 or 10 or so, me and some friends found a “toy” gun stuck in the bottom of the drainpipe of the shopping center near our houses. It was really heavy though, so we took it home to show our parents.
Yeah, wasn’t a toy. I think we all used decent caution because we had been taught right, even though we misidentified it.
When I was in the 3rd grade, somehow, and I really don’t know how this happened, the actual no shit NRA did an assembly where we learned Eddie Eagle’s gun mantra:
Stop. Don’t Touch. Leave the Area. Tell an Adult.
They went through it, and they fucking drilled it into our heads. As you can see, I still remember it 20 years later.
When I told my mom what I had learned in school that day, she and the rest of the progtard parents expressed their concern that the EEEEVILLL NRA was In Our Schools, and the assembly was not repeated the following year.
I love my mom, but she’s a fucking retard.
My middle school “graduation” was supposed to be held at the Very Nice Baptist Church, but when my mom and the rest of the progtard parents heard about that, they expressed their concern on behalf of all the Non Christian Students that it Would Not Be Appropriate. So we got to have it in Shitty High School Auditorium. Which then led to the two Nation of Islam chicks getting harassed by the other kids, because they got blamed for the change of venue. Even though their parents had not been part of the Alliance of the Concerned, that was all proggy white women furiously virtue signaling.
Privileged, upper-middle class white prog women may be the most insufferable of all demos.
They have a lot of time on their hands.
My boy just turned six, and while I don’t leave loaded guns laying around the house, if I did my boy wouldn’t touch it. I know this because my boy is familiar with firearms and has been since he was 3 or so. There is nothing mystifying about a gun to him, because it’s something he is familiar with. I think most of the time when a tragedy like the above occurs, it’s because a kid who only knows what he’s seen on TV about guns finds one and is excited.
When I was a wee lad my grandfather’s rifles and shotguns were on a rack in the basement, unlocked and available. I could have picked one up any time. Except I had been taught to shoot and, more importantly, respect grandpa’s rules. Chief among them: don’t touch the damn guns without permission.
It’s not the guns, it’s the parents.
n fact, six out of the eight children ended up handling and playing with the gun. The two children who did not play with it came from gun-owning homes and had been educated on the dangers of the weapon,
There it is. Good find.
“don’t touch the damn guns without permission”
My Dad has always been a shooter and I started shooting when I was 8. I literally was not allowed to pick up a gun without having him hand it to me until I was 16. Breaking that rule was a shorter route to an ass whooping than breaking any other rule. He would have been more forgiving if I wrecked his car and stumbled home stone drunk with a baggie of cocaine and a hooker on each arm (not that that ever happened).
I plan on having guns when I do have kids, and that will be one of the things that will result in a spanking.
Sadly, there’s no cookie-cutter ‘prefect’ solution to this challenge. I’m in the “lock ’em out of sight” camp, because some kids don’t give a shit about being paddled, because they’re impulsive and can’t understand deferred gratification or punishment.
It was both for me. They were locked up. If I still tried to get them (which I never did) or, when they were out, picked one up without having him hand it to me after showing me it was unloaded (which I then still had to check again) it was the belt.
He never had to make good on that threat because I got the belt once for running into the street without holding hands at age 5 and was terrified forever of it.
And it definitely will depend on the kids’ personality.
not that that ever happened
Yeah, if you have a baggie of cocaine and a hooker on each arm, it’s no where near time to go home.
I’ve always told my kids that if I ever catch them fooling around with our guns, I will never take them out shooting with those guns.
My Dads guns were in the closet, within access.
But if I had touched the guns, I wouldnt have been able to sit down for weeks. I didnt touch the guns.
I bought several $30 drawer gun safes off Amazon and have them placed around the house. They won’t deter a thief, but they will deter a 5 year old which is entire the point in my case.
That sucks. A quick access safe/locker is a good investment to make.
Where’s the complaint department? I have a complaint.
(CNN)The woman who opened fire at YouTube headquarters in Northern California may have been a disgruntled user of the video-sharing site.
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Authorities don’t know of a motive for the shooting, but they are investigating a website that appears to show the same woman accusing YouTube of restricting her videos, according to the Los Angeles Times.
We may never know.
Sargon is next, right after Razorfist, this Demonetizing will Not Stand!
So YouTube demonetization is the new jihadi attack?
disgruntled user
So what you are saying is that they had it coming. //jk
It’s a good thing she was incompetent. The benefits of not having a shooting range between the bedroom and the kitchen I suppose. (Yes, I know that I am a terrible person)
One flight up.
*extends middle finger
Now THIS is the kind of liquidation sale that Glibs can get behind.
Does it come with ten gallons of bleach?
I think this may give us a clue where Sloopy is…
STEVE SMITH WORRY ABOUT FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN MISSING PEOPLE. HIM HAVE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
Kink.com must have made a ton of of money to buy all that stuff in the first place.
RE: Those vintage gyno chairs.
There was a bar (don’t know if it’s still around) in Tucson called the Meat Rack. They had one of those chairs in the back room which you could rent out at $20/hour if you happened to meet someone willing to use it with you. The owner had also legally changed his name to “god” and if you got his face tattooed on your body you drank free for life. Additionally, they had a condom machine in the women’s bathroom and if it was ever used, an alarm would go off in the bar.
Good memories.
If it was the same guy in the early 1980’s he ran for mayor. He ran around central Tucson with a shaved head, wearing only running shoes and shorts. He did this while carrying a staff with a silver knob on top that was modeled from his head.
Awesome bar. Beat the hell out of Gentle Ben’s.
The heap of space heaters cracks me up. I’ll bet that old armory had crap central heating, if any at all. When you’re naked at work, good climate control is important.
“decentralized heating”, next big Gaia Saving trend?
I see some weird shit when I track orders. I live in central wisconsin, the package shipped from Indianapolis to Milwaukee, now it’s in Chicago. Once a package went from California to Milwaukee, then to Minneapolis, then to Chicago before arriving here.
I used to see packages bounce between Louisville and Lexington.
I was in Louisville, the package was in Louisville. But it would go to Lexington first.
Shit goes from Sharonville, Ohio (near Cincy) to Maumee, Ohio (near Toledo) to Columbus.
That UK article really fucking pisses me off. That is all.
It sounds like it pissed off the neighbor, so maybe there is still some sense in the UK.
The law quoted in the DM article talks about using “reasonable force”. The guy used the burglar’s own weapon against him. Sounds pretty damn reasonable to me.
I think my calendar is broken. It says April, but when I look out the window, I see January.
My thermometer as well. It read 8 degrees this morning.
Yesterday at 1 o’clock it was 77 degrees and sunny. A little after that, the wind picked up out of the north. It was about 50 when I went to bed and was 29 when I left for work this morning.
19F, windchill 10F.
Damn global warming!
Climate Change, get your talking points correct.
Activists Want DNC Member Who Spoke Of ‘Colored People’ To Step Down
Black activists aren’t satisfied with Florida Democratic National Committee (DNC) member John Parker’s explanation that he meant to say “people of color” but used the expression “colored people” instead. They want him to resign.
Parker told Politico that he was trying to say “people of color” but didn’t get it right. Parker’s own wife has joined the chorus of African-Americans and Democratic officials who say the DNC committeeman from Duval County, Florida, needs to step aside.
I mean, it’s like the same thing.
I mean, they’re nearly anagrams of each other.
It’s the whole point of the euphemism creep. You get people in the habit of using the terms the vanguard decrees are correct, its easier to get them to follow you.
The language police change the acceptable term or phrase every few years to catch the people who aren’t keeping up. “Colored”, “black” and “negro” were descriptive, not derogatory terms back in their day. Now we are supposed to say “people of color” to show we’re keeping up – and it’s a longer more obnoxious way of speaking so it’s also a form of penitence.
I haven’t met a single black person that likes the term “people of color.”
“Black” or “brown” is fine.
I’ve never heard any normal people (IOW, people outside of academia, media, or the professional protestor world) use that phrase.
“Melanin advantaged”
“Melanin monger” still not appreciated, however.
Ask these people what NAACP stands for.
Has anyone asked the opinion of the NAACP?
That’s mighty white of you.
Would it have been ok to call them black and brown bodies?
Hard to believe what the UK has become.
Something something Britannia rule the waves something something will never be slaves.
https://twitter.com/CronkiteSays/status/981227364809150465
of course some dumbfuck Brit named Dave Booth had to chime in with “so what yer sayin..”
Dave Booth
@Completed_it_m8
14h14 hours ago
Replying to @CronkiteSays
Are you suggesting that the Holocaust was the fault of the Jews because they gave up their guns?
“gave up”? LOL
Uh…
“post harvest damage in crops”
Well you know it’s a violation of those plants’ rights to harvest from them.
We need common sense harvest control.
For the children.
In honor of Maya Angleou’s birthday.
Facebook, according to Taibbi
A recent Wired cover story is a typical press treatment. Legions of current and former employees whispered to the mag about Facebook’s toxic culture. The firm was said to have overreacted to conservative criticism some years back and gone too far the other way in an ill-fated search for “balance,” inadvertently handing Trump the White House in the process.
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The headlines are scary, but the pathology behind them is actually the most alarming and unreported aspect of the Facebook story. The world seems simultaneously to be denouncing the company for having meddled with an election, and demanding that it meddle more responsibly in the future. From senators to members of the media to security officials, the solution to the problem of “fake news” and foreign intervention in our elections has been absurdly simplistic: Just have Facebook fix it.
I have a gnawing suspicion I’ll know less after I finish reading this than I do now. But I’m pretty sure Facebook is destroying democracy. And civilization.
Taibbi can be an idiot and not wrong once in a while.
Facebook sucks, but given who is doing all the bitching about them now, I’m gaining strange new respect.
“he world seems simultaneously to be denouncing the company for having meddled with an election, and demanding that it meddle more responsibly in the future. ”
Matt, this is easy to understand. As one of my friends said, “I have no problem with presidents issuing sweeping executive orders, I just don’t like this particular executive order.”
In fact, this is what gives me most concern right now: the Trumpists & other conservatives seem to have given up on any idea of limited government. From both sides now it seems to be, “let us grab the levers of power so we can enforce our will on everyone.”
Trumpists and conservatives have given up on limited government because it started periodically wandering off in 1914 went away completely about 1932 and there is no way to bring it back.
God damn am I sick of this “meddled with an election” bullshit. Just like “military-style assault-type weapon”, I am pissed that this phrase is now allowed to just slide in unchecked, without someone calling them out on it.
I challenge the ‘ruskies meddled with our election’ crowd to produce a single voter that changed their vote because of it. The election was set in stone the instant Trump won the nomination. Nobody changed their vote.
Exactly. Seeing that the phrase “hacked the election” (remember that one?) wasn’t flying any more because people were starting to ask them to clarify exactly what they meant by that term, they then engineered the all NEW market-tested, prog-approved “meddled with the election” and sure as shit, everyone just decides to let that one fly.
The tactic so fucking dishonest and disingenuous, which is exactly why it irks me that they get away with it.
When Jim Cramer was getting slagged a decade ago for urging people to buy stock just before the crash, my response was “If you’re dumb enough to buy stock because some guy on TV told you to, then you’re a dumbass and you need to STFU.”
Today, if you replace “buy stock” with “vote for someone” and “TV” with “Facebook”, the same statement applies. The only real difference is that a decade ago, there existed people who had actually followed Cramer’s advice. Similar evidence today is completely lacking, so it’s even worse. Until these people can actually name someone who changed their vote because of “Russian meddling”, they deserve no serious attention. Since they’ve had well over a year to investigate and still can’t name anyone, the only rational response is scorn and ridicule.
Facebook sucks, but given who is doing all the bitching about them now, I’m gaining strange new respect.
“Society made me what I am.”
“The booze did it.”
“The gun went off.”
“Otto, the lights are growing dim. I know a life of crime led me to this sorry fate….but, still, I blame society. Society made me what I am.”
“That’s bullshit, Duke. You’re a white suburban punk, just like me.”
“Yeah, but it….still hurts….”
“You’re gonna be OK…….*Duke starts convulsing*…well, maybe not.”
I still don’t want to talk about hockey.
Don’t be a crybaby. Kane and Toews have one more run left in them.
Maya Angelou too.
And me.
Also, Jamie Lynn Spears is a lot younger than I thought, and I was really a disgusting old man during Sopranos.
So how drunk are you getting tonight?
Not. Alcohol, anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medication isn’t exactly a healthy combination.
I haven’t had more than 2 drinks in a night in over a decade.
They were quarts of bourbon, but your point stands.
Happy birthday, JB!
Jamie Lynn Spears is Britney’s younger sister. Jamie-Lynn Sigler that played Meadow on the Sopranos is a decade older. You’re safe. I mean, you’re still a disgusting old man but not for that reason. 😉
Fun fact – Jamie Lynn Sigler is married to one of Lenny Dykstra’s sons.
Happy Birthday!
Happy b-day, Juvie.
We got a lot of April Glibs? Mine’s on the 14th.
Fun fact — my bro was born on the day Lincoln was born. I was born on the day Lincoln was shot.
And today was the day William Henry Harrison died.
My grandmother was born December 7th, 1921. Her 20th birthday was a pretty historically signifigant day.
Wasn’t that the day the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Mine is the 7th. My son’s birthday is today (1983). He hasn’t responded to my texts so I assume he is either still asleep or already drinking. Maybe both.
Happy Birthday, JB.
Happy Birthday JB!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
So an Englishman’s home is truly a castle. Like one run by English Heritage where anyone can show up and start poking around.
Don’t fuck around with English Heritage, they’ll give you a right kicking.
/Millwall Strong
“I can’t believe the shooter at YouTube HQ was actually a crazy YouTuber upset about demonitization.. Thank god the psycho bitch was the only fatality.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/981372430886191105
Didn’t YouTube just remove a bunch of pro-gun videos? They are lucky it was some “vegan animals rights activist” and a not some gun vlogger. Jerry Miculek would have racked up 9,000 casualties.
Most of them are wishing that it had been some gun vlogger. Yes, sure, many more would have died but The Narrative would have been enshrined forever.
Bloomberg to the next of kin:
“Your loved ones’ deaths will be a valuable propaganda tool! It will not be in vain! They will accomplish more in death than they ever would have in life!”
I picture bodies getting loaded into the crime scene in a proggie version of Millenium.
WaPo’s front page pic.
If Jerry Miculek went off, there would be nobody left alive in San Francisco 3 minutes later.
I have a hard time imagining Jerry ever hurting so much as a fly.
In fact most gun guys I know are like that. I can barely hunt anymore as I cant bring myself to kill anything. Ok, I can shoot a buck if it is a really good one and I can shoot a hog. Small game, not so much. I cant even shoot a duck. A month ago my brother and I were shooting pistols at the edge of his pond when a coyote came out of the trees and trotted past in front of us. He went ten feet in front of us and just glanced up at us. We both holstered our pistols and just watched him go by.
Pretty much the same, except I’d take a coyote or deer. They’re simply vermin.
I’d probably be OK with Javelina too, if we had them up here.
Agree on the javelina. Not on the coyote. They dont hurt anything and keep the rabbits down which makes a noticeable difference in the numbers of ticks. Sometimes I think the damned rabbits run around throwing pawfuls of ticks like confetti. To me a coyote is just a wild dog and I cant hurt a dog.
I have a lifetime hate on for coyotes, on account of Pater Dean running a cow-calf operation in coyote country. When you’ve had to put down a mother cow because the coyotes attacked as she was giving birth, basically eating on her starting at the back end but leaving her alive until you get there, well, it leaves an impression.
I’ve gotten to be the same way, Suthen. Vermin (snakes, coyotes, javelinas) I don’t think I’d have any problem with. Bobcats, I’d probably give a pass. Self-defense (aggressive mountain lions, bears, jaguars), absolutely. Deer, it would have to be a really nice buck as the culmination of a good hunt (irrational, I know, but there it is). Birds, for some reason, don’t give me any qualms.
Chronic Wasting Disease hit southern Wisconsin while I lived there. The DNR basically said “kill as many antlerless deer as you want”, because CWD shows up when you have overpopulation. I shot six does that year (donated all the meat), but it kind of burned me out on deer hunting.
I had a buddy who worked in wildlife management. There was an epic deer kill in southern Wisconsin that year. They ran their census the next year, and got exactly the same number of deer.
I agree. The hypothetical was if it were someone who could actually shoot. Not that gun enthusiasts are violent.
Jerry is so genial and mild-mannered in those videos.
Figures a vegan can’t kill anyone correctly.
David French is going full libertarian.
Guest starring Dunphy–or, I’m guessing the guy our Dunphy was emulating. Also, French takes a shot at Philando Castile’s murderer:
I’m really starting to like David French of late.
In reality, Janez panicked, and while that is understandable
No, it really is not understandable or excusable. Full stop.
Nonetheless, I grant you that it’s an improvement over what I would expect from most NR writers and I’m happy to take your word that it indicates Mr. French is drifting in the right direction. I do enjoy many of the pieces over at NR, I just know to expect them to be a lot more pro-cop and pro-military spending than I am.
Can one of you car dudes help me out? My wife has a 2006 Miata that she pretty much never drives, but doesn’t want to get rid of. The stupid battery drains all the time and is currently dead. So I need to get a charger of some sort that will let me charge it up from dead and then leave it hooked up as a trickle charger. I’m fairly sure this POS uses a gel cell too so idk if that causes problems.
Anyway every product under the sun has a million 5 star and a million 1 star reviews and I don’t know shit about cars. Can one of you car nerds tell me what to buy?
An inexpensive battery tender will do the trick nicely. https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Tender-021-0128-Maintain-Damaging/dp/B00068XCQU
I would consider replacing the battery, as well. It shouldn’t be draining like that.
Also, I would strongly suggest that you drive the car occasionally. Nothing is harder on a car than sitting without being prepped for long-term storage.
Awesome. Thanks Tundra. That was the one I was looking at, but I wasn’t positive it would charge the battery from dead.
We really need to just sell the piece of shit. She doesn’t want to commute in it (vibration, road noise, stop and go traffic sucks with a stick shift), and I refuse to drive a Miata for any reason ever.
Sure it’s a fun car to take to the beach, but we do that only a few days a year.
This is the first time it’s sat in the garage this long though (~5 months) so maybe she’ll either start driving it again or agree to sell it.
Danke.
Dude, you are missing out. They are a blast to drive and are truly sports cars the way God intended.
I look at my poor Triumph under its cover and envy you bastards who can drive them year round.
I’m 6’1.5″ and 245 lbs. I have to do yoga to fit inside the stupid thing. If I sit up straight, my head sticks out the top of the car by about 3 inches. I also inherently distrust a car I can pretty much deadlift. Give me a truck any day and you can keep the little go cart.
Lol. I have both. Hilarious when they are parked together.
Tundra is right. I have an Odyssey that has been sitting up for four years. It ran like a top when I parked it. Yesterday we sold it. After we jumped it off we discovered it has developed all kinds of bugs. The seals dry out and it develops leaks everywhere.
Do you even Jurassic World, bro?
Jeeps run mighty good after sitting for 30 years.
What Tundra said. The serious car collectors I know try to make a point of least starting everything once a week and letting them idle for a bit, and preferably driving them at least around the block periodically. Its weird that cars need exercise to stay healthy, but there it is.
My dad had an MR-2 that was the same. Rarely driven, didn’t want to get rid of. Didn’t want to be arsed to drive it every two weeks. A battery tender worked well until he finally sold it.
I have had multiple Battery Tender (TM) brand chargers fail on me over the years. I have switched to the cheap Schumacher 1.5A charger (WalMart staple).
https://www.amazon.com/Schumacher-SC1319-Automatic-Battery-Maintainer/dp/B0756Q88J5/ref=sr_1_2?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1522856966&sr=1-2&refinements=p_4%3ASchumacher
My wife didn’t know that the charger was hooked up (we now have a sign), and drove 5 miles to the store. The charger still works and is keeping the convertible’s battery charged.
And yes, I need to search for the circuit that is draining the battery faster than it should be.
I’m not a “car guy” but I just bought a NOCO Genius charger from Amazon and it seems to work great. Kept the wife’s mini cooper charged up all winter. It’s also very compact and very simple to use.
I also bought a NOCO booster/jump-starter – which is used to jump a dead battery and will NOT charge it, so different thing — but you might want to pick that up too so that she doesn’t end up stranded if the battery dies somewhere other than the garage.
Lastly if the battery goes dead even when the car isn’t used for just a day or two, you might have something in the car that is constantly draining it, like a stuck seat motor, bluetooth gadget, etc., etc. You can test that yourself with a multimeter, and/or have a mechanic check it out.
Figuring out what’s draining the battery should be step one. If possible, put a DC amp clamp around one of your battery cables and then start pulling fuses until the current reads 0. That should tell you what’s killing your battery.
^ Found the dude who knows what he’s talking about.
Nice to have a sparky in the gang.
A battery disconnect is also a nice simple thing for cars that sit a lot.
lol. Your way sounds harder than putting a battery tender on it until I can get her to sell it. Also because even if I knew the problem, I would almost certainly refuse to pay anyone to fix it.
Wait, if the real goal is to nudge her toward getting rid of the car, you probably want to find a hand-crank battery charger.
Some chargers won’t charge a completely dead battery, the “smart” trickle chargers (these are the ones you want if you are going to leave it hooked up whenever it’s parked) usually need to see 6V or so before they’ll give it a try.
Lead acid batteries “sulfate” if left discharged long term, a good charger can partially reverse the process, but sometimes you gotta spring for a new battery.
On a long enough timeframe, every vehicle component is a consumable. Such is entropy.
Oh, and good morning Glibs!
Almost all cars have a bunch of things that draw current when they are just sitting.
Semi-related: we found out the hard way that a car that is undriven for months can also develop flat spots on the tires, which makes it vibrate like a bitch when you drive.
My understanding is that the preferred remedy is to put the vehicle up on jacks, which is probably more than I’m willing to do. Over-inflating the tires is supposed to help (but still under their max rated inflation, which is printed on the tire), and we also now pull it out of the garage and turn it around in the drive every couple of weeks just to keep it from sitting in one spot the whole 5 months.
Hanging a “damp rid” moisture absorber inside the cabin allegedly helps avoid mold/mildew and they’re only a few bucks.
Last summer was out first attempt at storing a vehicle, I’m sure there are others here who have more/better tips.
You got most of them. Before I store the Spitfire, I wash and wax, change all the fluids, fill the gas tank, add Sea Foam, overinflate the tires, jack it up and put it on dollies, plug the exhaust tips with steel wool, damp rid buckets in the cabin and trunk, pull the battery and store it inside, cover the car and sink into a deep depression.
Tundra lists one of the many reasons I can’t ever see myself living in the frozen north. I’ll take my heat and humidity. You guys can have the cold.
Those guidelines work just as well for a swampcat or a Zamboni
“I just received this from @kurteichenwald. There are no words for how wild this email is. @VanityFair is apparently an odd place.I just received this from @kurteichenwald. There are no words for how wild this email is. @VanityFair is apparently an odd place.”
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/981221585410449408
This was discussed yesterday. Two thoughts:
1. Eichenwald needs psychiatric help.
2. Eichenwald was apparently fired from Vanity Fair several years ago and somehow didn’t know it. Not sure how that works.
Metokur recently put up a couple of videos.
https://twitter.com/WeWuzMetokur/status/980206814653566983
Free MAGPUL PMAGs to be Given Away in Vermont to Oppose Gun Control Bill
Awesome reaction to the Vermont gun grab. What a bunch of assholes.
So, basically it looks like S.55 is simply adopting CT laws from 2013 and adding in the age restriction.
Well. I finally managed to claw my way out of the ass end of Taibbi’s steaming mound of outraged whining.
tl;dr- It’s the congealed residue of 10,000 drunken legacy media “woe is us” pity parties. Facebook has torpedoed and sunk the news business and replaced it with a vile superstructure of mass hypnosis and mind control. Humanity is doomed.
The recent controversies have inspired countless proposals for how to “improve” Facebook. Some have pressed for a tax that would kick Facebook revenues back to public-interest journalism. Others have called for a simple ban on new acquisitions, to prevent the firm from snatching up properties like Instagram and WhatsApp when it clearly can’t manage the ones it already has.
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We need to break up Facebook, the same way we broke up Standard Oil, AT&T and countless other less-terrifying overgrown corporate tyrants of the past. The moral if not legal reason is obvious: A functioning free press just can’t coexist with an unaccountable private regulator.
An antitrust action sounds extreme, but given the alternatives – different groups have proposed creating fact-checking star chambers either within government, Facebook or both – it may be the least-intrusive solution, one that moreover doesn’t create a “legitimacy” standard that could threaten alternative or dissenting media.
Media people whining about Facebook are a lot like Hillary whining about losing: they’re asking themselves all the wrong questions, and anyway they have only themselves to blame. Why am I not fifty points ahead, why don’t we control the narrative anymore?
How would one break up Facebook? Two face books? It is an electronic piece of paper. People write on it. Would we limit the numbers of subscribers? I have heard the same about Amazon. It’s a freaking catalog. How do you break that up?
This is beyond stupid.
Humanity is doomed.
Well, he’s not wrong.
“We need to break up Facebook…”
Well, “we” could just sit around for a while and let it collapse on its own. I know denizens of the Internet aren’t known for their patience, though.
https://twitter.com/MelGibsonFan4/status/981271146267119616
LOLOLOLOLOL
It had to be the candidate running under the Libertarian banner
Older article, but that doesn’t make it any less insane.
https://www.self.com/story/yoga-social-justice?mbid=social_twitter
It must be hell in this person’s head.
I began practicing yoga regularly six years ago to gain physical strength, flexibility, and to take a break from the daunting schedule of being a first year law student.
Holy humblebrag, what an ass.
I was going to complain about no pics of chick in yoga pants, but maybe that’s a blessing.
Try being a 10th year law student!
Help! My son the third year medical student is drowning!
First phrase:
And I’m out.
So, does she ever mention that she actually graduated law school, got a license, and a lawyer job?
No dude, she’s opening a yoga studio where she’s going to tell her clients that they and their neighbors horrible oppressors, didn’t you hear?
*are* horrible oppressors
I know we have some gamer-Glibs here so I just wanted to bring up the manufactured controversy surrounding Far Cry 5 – mainly the media’s sadness that it doesn’t “make a political statement”/”its so inoffensive that it offends everybody.” Translation: “the game is really good but the enemies aren’t Trump supporters for some reason??? I thought we were going to be killing people in MAGA hats but instead its a game about religious cults.”
It starts with this article by Polygon (of course its Polygon), an outlet that gave the game a 6.5/10 because of politics, not because its a bad game.
Because when I pick up a game, I’m thinking “boy, oh boy, I hope this game takes a strong stance on the current American political climate!” Game informer put out a piece awhile ago that said “its time to get more politics into our games.” But the honest read is “its time to get my politics into your games.”
Anyway – I’ve been playing Far Cry 5 for the past several days and it is probably the best Far Cry game to date – its beautiful, mechanically sound, it feels good to shoot, the map/mission structure is vastly improved, its (kinda) funny. Its almost a political statement that they didn’t put their own politics into this game – its made people go mad.
/rant
I can’t find it now, but the first footage I saw of the game was an immolating turkey running from a blazing wreck and attacking the player. SOLD.
But why the hell–why the hell–would anyone expect a gaming company to see the wood chipper controversy machine that is gaming politics and think, Yeah, let’s stick our dick in that. They’re dropping tens of millions of dollars and spending years developing a title, often based on a franchise which has to outlive the title, and putting their studio’s name on the line, only to throw it away making a couple ill-considered jokes at the expense of potentially half their fanbase?
Do gaming columnists take stupid pills, or are they born that way?
Well, Ubi includes a disclaimer at the beginning of every Assassin’s Creed game (I think maybe Deus Ex, too, but I don’t recall) that basically certifies to Kotaku and Trigglypoof that the dev team includes at least one Muslim trans ace WoC who’s missing a leg or something, just to make sure nobody gets offended, but I think that’s as far as they’re willing to go.
This, right here, is exactly why its absurd to look to the Far Cry franchise to be political or “say something.” I’m here for turkeys on fire! I’m here to get high on flowers and blow up some cows with C-4, what the fuck are you playing Far Cry for?
I’m not saying games can’t be political statements – but a Far Cry game? Fuck the hell off.
I was really, really worried that it was going to be TDS: The Game, but I’ve read the same thing you did which gives me hope. It’s nice to hear that it’s a solid game. I’m a big fan of the Far Cry series and I like that they’ve been able to stay above the fray more than other Ubisoft titles. I also like that the Kotaku (IIRC) writer of the article I read actually worked his way over to, “Hey, maybe the fact that the residents of this rural part of the country have easy access to firearms for self-defense that they can use against a religious cult is a good thing, and something that has relevance in the real world…” Mind you, it was pretty much about Progs defending themselves against the zombie legions of conservatives storming the gates of civilization, and he never really took it anywhere, but it was like a faint glimmer of something like hope.
I was worried about that too. I’m only 6 hours in or so, but so far its as apolitical as it can be. And by God, its so much fun to escape into that world. Ubi really made an excellent product this time around, and keeping me distracted from the over-politicization of everything is a feature, not a bug.
Definitely pick this one up if you can.
See article I posted above.
These people are incapable of literally doing anything without making it political. It’s a pathetic, miserable way to live.
Based on the piles of games I’ve played, I think there’s only one that told a message and worked as a game. Spec Ops: The Line. You can find it on sale for under $10 most of the time, and it starts as your standard military guys doing a cover shooting game. It does not continue down that path. If you’ve got no interest in playing it, you can read a write up of the game here (spoilers behind that link).
I played that over the weekend! I don’t much enjoy tactical shooters (except for Rainbow Six waaaaaaay back in the day), but it was worth it for the story and the voice acting.
My work has that link blocked, but I’ll check it out when I get home today.
Yeah, I’ve gotten a small bit of satisfaction watching the derp-prog gaming journos (which is many if not most of them) have a sad over FC5 not being as Woke as they convinced themselves it was going to be.
Based on what I’ve heard so far I’ll probably pick it up 6 months from now when it’s 50% off. Thanks for the comments on the actual game mechanics, I’ve heard mixed reports on that so far — mostly that the “random patrol” occurrences are so far over the top in frequency that you can’t actually get through a mission. Any comments on that aspect? Are people over-reacting?
Lastly – fuck Polygon, the Salon of gaming journalism.
Yes, this is a problem in the same way that it was a problem in Far Cry 2. There are too many of them, too often, making the roads way too difficult to use. This seems like something that can be easily fixed with a patch, but whether or not they’ll actually do that is another question. I mainly stick to the forests, so I don’t run into this problem – but that also means that it takes awhile to get around.
Another thing is that the game is constantly popping little random events around you – hostage situations and wild animal attacks mostly – that its a little bit distracting. These random events are the things you have to do to unlock side quests/markers on your map. It took me a bit to realize that I should just ignore these if I want to get where I’m going – since they are everywhere and you can always stop and do them later if you need more side missions.
The shooting mechanics are the same as they were in Far Cry 4 – so if you didn’t like the shooting in that, you won’t like it here.
Also – the “buddy” system that lets you use AI characters is kind of lame. The AI isn’t very good at staying hidden if you’re trying the stealth approach, and they’re voiceover lines activate way too often, making them annoying as hell to have around. I usually just stick with the dog, Boomer, because he’s a good boi.
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Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?
I liked that opening in Far Cry 3. People have been using that as a way to poke fun that Far Cry is always (basically) the same – which is true.
My question is – why are you expecting a different result? Why would you even want a different result? Far Cry is fun just the way it is.
But the honest read is “its time to get my politics into your games.”
Game idea:
Gun ownership has been outlawed. Gun owners have gone underground, where there is a thriving black market. They are the Resistance, to a tyrannical government.
You got shooters, bad guys to shoot, and a setup for lots of awesome in-game weapons and upgrades. Go!
Progs would cream their pants at that concept as long as you got to play the government agent tasked with exterminating the vermin.
Sure, make both sides playable.
Only the Resistance gets the cool guns and upgrades, though.
I like the idea, but it’s a bit straightforward. I’d like even more a game that portrays a progertarian dystopia but it takes the progressives 4 weeks to figure out that it’s actually mocking them, not the bitter clingers they thought it was mocking.
Shouldn’t be that hard, at least half of them still think they’re the heroes in 1984.
We need to start writing dialog for this game. It could be amazing. Always better to show than to tell, and even better to put people in the middle of the action when you are trying to make a point. A game like this could be really good.
Thanks for this. I was pondering getting Far Cry 5, and you just put me over the top to buy it.
It’s a timely story that could at least try to address the polarized nature of current American politics, or talk about the issues inherent in a country that seems to worship firearms.
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Ooh, maybe somebody could make a game about paperboys battling their way into Facebook HQ to assassinate Zuckerberg.
Victor Davis Hanson trims his stache a little too close
Gross, but a felony? C’mon.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/volusia-teen-accused-of-biting-head-off-live-chicken
This article has been updated to indicate that the perpetrator referred to as a teen has since been identified by police as a fox. We apologize for the confusion.
So a hot teen, then.
So, it was hot chick who bit the head off the chicken?
Dammit, Cooper. Beat me by that much!
I fail to see hiw biting the head off a chicken can be construed as animal cruelty. Chickens are on this earth to provide chicken meat and eggs for humans. Biting ones head off is off putting, but it’s not an inhumane way to kill the bird.
It isnt especially efficient as a chicken has no brain. They are barely sentient.
Textbook definition of a carnival geek.
Ladies and gentlemen: Politifact
“You see, they only took the guns away from the people they wanted to kill.”
/removes eyeglasses, polishes, replaces.
Hey. Hey Politifact. See that thing behind you there that you plowed right past? Yeah, that was the point. You’ve missed it entirely.
“fact-checking” = “confirming information that fits our preferred narrative and denying information that doesn’t, regardless of reality”
Snopes has gone this way as well.
An acquaintance said something similar the other day, that Germany was only bad because they disarmed *part* of the populace and it is, therefor to have a blanket prohibition on a particular firearm in the US as opposed to a group targeted prohibition. I really don’t understand peoples reasoning (or lack thereof…). There have been plenty of massacres of populations that were disarmed generally and the US gov’t is literally not allowed to prohibit the private ownership of any particular firearm.
screaming Leftists have gone full retard trying to hammer the inconvenient truth that Nazis confiscated guns from a subset of humans before exterminating millions of them.
**h/t Chas Cooke re-tweeted this today. Its from 2 years ago. but i think its germaine given the idiotic level at which the news media is operating lately
Wow, is the author a human or a pretzel? Its got to hurt to bend yourself into a position like that.
“You see, they only took the guns away from the people they wanted to kill.”
It cant be said enough: No one ever in the history of the world wanted to make someone defenseless for their own good.
But remember guys, a gun registry would never, ever, ever, ever be used for confiscation. That’s just a crazy NRA talking point that only a tinfoil hat-wearing Alex Jones-listening nutjob would believe.
Correct. And also, when we send the cops around to pick up your guns you’ll turn them over, your fantasies about being able to resist the army are just gun-nut wet dreams. Even though we aren’t going to do that. But if we do.
Wow, just…. wow
That is truly an impressive display of horse blinders.
‘You’re never too old to serve’: Meet ‘Pops’ — Canada’s 53-year-old army private
I ran into the guy quite a few times when he was here. Total asshole.
I thought there were age limits on enlistment?
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces used to have to retire at age 55, but in 2004, the mandatory retirement age was raised to 60. It means anyone can join the Canadian military as long as they have enough time to complete their first term of service before reaching mandatory retirement.
That’s a nice story and all but damn Canada, raise your standards.
But, wouldn’t Bezos’ money be better spent on a Woodchipper Manufacturer?
Christ, what an asshole.
Rolling Stone has the race traitor beat covered.
The Atlanta rapper had pre-recorded a segment for NRATV, the National Rifle Association’s broadcast outlet, in which he argued strongly for gun rights. The video went online during the March. Killer Mike, half of the fierce hip-hop tag team Run the Jewels, filmed a pre-recorded chat with NRATV host Collins Iyare Idehen Jr. (who is also black, hence the stage name “Colion Noir”). In the video, Idehen added an introduction to the video directly challenging the March organizers. “What are you really marching for?” said the host, apparently unable to discern that from the event’s title. “Because from where I’m standing, it looks like a march to burn the Constitution and rewrite the parts you don’t like in crayon.” Idehen’s corny screed set the tone for a conversation in which both he and Mike question the “wokeness” of black gun control advocates and show condescension for the hundreds of thousands of marchers who took to the American streets. It was less an interview than it was propaganda for the NRA, arguably the most powerful political organization outside of the criminal justice system that works consistently to create societal acceptance of untimely black death.
We expect that kind of absurdity from Idehen, who on Saturday chided the Parkland survivors again, saying that no one would know their names had their classmates and teachers not been murdered. While Mike’s opposition to an assault weapon ban was one of his only disagreements with Bernie Sanders during his time as a 2016 campaign surrogate, the video serves as an education for anyone who doubts his commitment not just to guns, but gun culture. Mike proudly recounted how he forbade his children to participate in National Walkout Day, saying that, “If you walk out that school, walk out my house.” Killer Mike even finds space to give caustic NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch some dap, buying into her February CPAC remarks about the media not caring about black gun victims, as if the NRA is scheduling town halls on Chicago’s West Side for families grieving loved ones lost to gun violence. It was nauseating to watch Mike lend his legitimacy with black audiences to an organization that exploits racial anxiety in order to encourage white people to buy more guns. He must have forgotten the NRA’s support of the 1967 “open carry” ban in California, which Governor Ronald Reagan signed into law after the Black Panthers entered the state capitol while armed. Or that the NRA virtually ignored the killing of 32-year-old school nutrition supervisor Philando Castile at the hands of a Minnesota police officer, shot to death as he calmly informed the cop that he had a weapon in the car. Add on the NRA-backed Stand Your Ground law that protected Zimmerman after he killed Trayvon Martin in 2012. At a time when legislative gun reforms could strike a blow against an organization that benefits from the criminalization of black communities, Mike, perhaps unwittingly, chose to lend them his celebrity for their cause.
How dare they oppose those sweet, beautiful Black Lives Matter puppets?
Oh, I remember the Leftist outrage when Colion Noir got hired by the NRA. “Oh look, the NRA bought themselves an obedient little Sambo who will parrot their evil right-wing talking points!” … Because apparently, it’s impossible for a black man to reason his way to opinions that differ from the “progressive” point of view. They tried to portray Colion as a puppet who was being fed propaganda, but they ignore the fact that he started out just making videos on YouTube all by himself two years before the NRA hired him.
Its rather inconvenient for the left that a significant part of the black community support gun rights?
Why? Because of another lefty talking point – cops don’t protect black people. Having contradicting narratives is tough. Turns out oppressed people (or people that at least perceive that they are oppressed) tend to place a high importance on the right to self-defense.
My experience is that most people in black communities are big fans of the cops. Also, somehow in most conversations about race and police seem to revolve around the premise that all cops are white.
Depends on what/where those communities are and the generation you’re talking about.
That irks the fuck out of me. Look at the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore: black mayor, black police commissioner, a mostly black city government, and several of the cops directly involved were black. Yet, we’re told by professional grievance-mongers that this is purely a race problem (pay no attention to the government sector union behind the curtain).
Add on the NRA-backed Stand Your Ground law that protected Zimmerman after he killed Trayvon Martin in 2012.
This is going to be like the “razor blades in apples” meme, it will never die no matter how often it is thoroughly debunked. Zimmerman was acquitted based on the same self-defense statute that exists in nearly every other state.
“Hotel lifts lifetime ban for man who destroyed room with pepperoni, flock of seagulls
A posh hotel in British Columbia, Canada, has lifted a 17-year ban against a customer who inadvertently caused extensive damage to the room he was staying in by leaving a suitcase full of pepperoni next to an open window.
“I told my Navy buddies that I was coming out West and I was asked to bring ‘Brother’s Pepperoni’ from Halifax. It is a local delicacy. Because this was the Navy we were talking about, I brought enough for a ship. In a hurry, I had completely filled a suitcase with pepperoni for my friends,” he wrote in the post.
When Burchill checked in to the hotel room, he realized it did not have a refrigerator. Burchill was concerned about the meat staying out, so he placed it next to an open window for the chilly air to keep the pepperoni cold.
Burchill then decided to leave his room and take a “4 or 5 hour” walk – and when he came back, he discovered a room full of seagulls.
“I didn’t have time to count, but there must have been 40 [seagulls] and they had been in my room, eating pepperoni for a long time,” he wrote.
Burchill told CBC the seagulls were “flying around, the curtains are falling down, the lamps are falling down.” Not to mention the seagull droppings, which Burchill said the “room was covered in,” as well as seagull “drool,” which the man claims happens when seagulls eat pepperoni.”
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/04/03/hotel-lifts-lifetime-ban-for-man-who-destroyed-room-with-pepperoni-flock-seagulls.html
He ran.
seagull “drool,” which the man claims happens when seagulls eat pepperoni.”
Not just seagulls, either.
I have to admit, I found this story to be epically funny. Someone needs to make a short film about it.
destroyed room with pepperoni, flock of seagulls
Ok, which one of you guys done it?
Rolling Stone is quite the fever swamp of sanctimonious lefty strutting and preening, these days. “Holier-than-thou” doesn’t even come close.
How many times have they been caught lying now? I guess that is SOP for lefties.
Have they done anything on campus rape lately? It feels like a topic that’s overdue for some sanctimonious lefty strutting and preening.
“All of Nasim’s videos are better if set to Hall and Oates”
https://twitter.com/incestishalal/status/981396807229075456
Meanwhile Facebook, Google, etc. are busy taking down her content. I’m no lawyer, so I don’t know if “shooting up our headquarters” violates their terms of service.
“Fuck Silicon Valley for trying to delete all her stuff. What is the point of that??”
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/981396764350705665
Looks like a bunch were reposted here:
“YouTube Shooter Nasim Aghdam Was a Crazed Vegan Sperg (VIDEOS GALORE)”
https://theralphretort.com/youtube-shooter-nasim-aghdam-was-a-crazed-vegan-sperg-4030108/
Like I said, let’s not jump on “Islamist” and “leftist” bandwagon here.
Sometimes a nutjob is just a nutjob.
She was clearly a lefty nutter.
No idea if she was also a Muslim nutter.
Bad news
General Motors Co. GM +1.10% will end production of the Chevrolet Sonic subcompact car as early as this year, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a broader push by Detroit auto executives to abandon low-margin cars in favor of sport-utility vehicles.
Long thought to be necessary for combating Japanese rivals and catering to budget-minded or young customers, passenger cars have fallen out of favor amid low gasoline prices and efficiency improvements in SUVs. With the Trump administration planning to roll back fuel-economy standards, other domestic nameplates will likely join the Sonic in the scrapheap.
Lachowsky hardest hit.
*wasn’t it you who had/has one?
Yes. It’s fine as a gas saver/commuter vehicle and it was cheap.
Shoot, my Aveo is still ticking, and I’d take a Sonic as an upgrade in a heartbeat, if I wanted a new car payment.
Same reason I’ll drive my Versa until it dies – it’s dirt cheap to buy and operate. We have a nice CX-9 as a family car – the Versa is just to get me to and from work.
As a follow-up to my Far Cry 5 post above: The market doesn’t lie, bitches, gamers don’t give a fuck about your political agenda.
“That just goes to show how many people were ready for a game that had the courage to tell the story of politics in Trump’s America. Too bad they were all disappointed.”
/polygon
“the story of politics in Trump’s America.”
Wasn’t the game-design already finalized before the 2016 election even started?
or is that a joke-quote? i assume so.
Tragedy doom destruction
It’s “really hard” to watch President Donald Trump run the country, she said. “And everyday that goes by there’s more evidence and more proof of Russia and fake news and Cambridge Analytica and misogyny and sexism. I mean it’s hard, it’s very hard.”
Clinton said she doesn’t believe “we’ve seen the bottom yet,” and that things will get worse, especially if midterm elections are bad for Democrats. “It’s very scary to contemplate but more could happen that would put our rights at risk, our freedom at risk, our values, our fundamental views of what it means to be Americans,” she said.
Reap the whirlwind, deplorables.
Much evidence. So proof.
Does that make her the Doge?
I dunno. My lefty/prog Twitterati seem to think midterms are in the bag for Democrats. Of course, that’s what they thought about Hillary, too, so their prognostication isn’t as progressive as they think it is.
midterms are in the bag for Democrats
Keep pressing the gun control issue. It’ll turn out great for them. I promise. *crosses fingers*
Apparently HIlldawg has not seen the bottom yet.
put our rights at risk, our freedom at risk
But enough about you.
Our right to free healthcare.
Our freedoms to be free from hate speech and gun violence.
I like the random tossing-in of Cambridge Analytica there.
run the country
Yet another of my pet-peeve expressions.
Clinton said she doesn’t believe “we’ve seen the bottom yet,”
As someone who follow’s Q’s posts, I would say we have certainly seen some bottoms.