One of the reasons I prefer doing morning links is that I’ve just taken my daily blood pressure pills so the effect is still fresh. Otherwise I’d pop a few blood vessels with sheer rage. But let me ease into the rage inducements slowly, and start with Today’s Birthdays. (“I mean in history, Patty. Before they changed the water.”). They include unperson and southern sleazebag Jefferson Davis, chief Bowery Boy Leo Gorcey, Bernie Schwartz (“Yonda lies da castle of my faddah, who is da king!”), Raul Castro (may he burn in hell), Steve Dalkowski (the most interesting pitcher of all time), and Suzi Quatro, who is one of the few challengers to Diana Rigg in the “who looks best in tight leather pants” contest.
OK, now it’s rage time, but I’ll try to temper it with some amusement. Let’s get the nutpunch out of the way first. Surprise, surprise, if we let government thugs steal with impunity, they… steal with impunity. In a world that was even 1% just, every elected official who supports asset forfeiture would be impeached and imprisoned, and every lower level grunt who used that process would be fed feet-first into a woodchipper. Hanging from a lampost would do, but the woodchipper would be more entertaining. Rule of thumb: any policy enthusiastically embraced by Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton is 99.999% sure to be totally evil.
Well, at least this cop got fired, but I note that unlike us little people, he didn’t get charged with attempted murder. In a just world… wait, who am I kidding? Coming up next- the cop and union’s lawsuit to get his pension back and a nice hefty taxpayer-funded settlement for his emotional distress.
This is, of course, impossible because there’s more guns in Chicago now. FAKE NEWS. After all, it’s not like it’s a pattern…
It is hard being a Muslim. Even harder if you’re a female. And harder yet during Ramadan. This story had so much snark opportunity, I didn’t know where to start, but hey, maybe with the photo of the Muslim “beauty blogger” with the canonical Groucho eyebrows, selfie head-tilt, and obligatory duck lips. The Jews had a better idea- make ’em stay outside the city walls until the bleeding stops.
Buffalo Wild Wings gets a bit too wild. Pro tip: don’t use Password1234 as your twitter password.
Black unemployment hits a record low. And of course, the credit really ought to go to Obama, right? The hacks at Vox are delightfully consistent.
Old Guy Music. I confess to being an unabashed fan of Okkervil River, and I present here one of their lesser-known songs with maybe the oddest theme of any song I know of.
It is hard being a Muslim. Even harder if you’re a female. And harder yet during Ramadan. This story had so much snark opportunity, I didn’t know where to start,
I thought people with health issues were exempted from the fast, much like the Catholic Lenten rules.
“Women on their period cannot fast, read the Koran or enter a mosque.
It is also acceptable not to fast during Ramadan if you are pregnant, have a physical or mental illness, are elderly, experiencing severe thirst or hunger, travelling, or your life is threatened should you not break the fast.”
Right – it’s “dirty” and “shameful” and all your male relatives get to give you shit about it because they know when you’re on your period. WTF.
Nothing says take me seriously like being a beauty blogger. I sometimes miss the days when all bloggers were assumed to live in their mom’s basement and no one treated them as experts on stuff.
Yeah, but those were the creepy white male bloggers.
This is, of course, impossible because there’s more guns in Chicago now.
I thought it was impossible because there are still cops in Chicago now.
What is possible is jiggering the numbers
Women on their period cannot fast, read the Koran or enter a mosque.
I guess I’m on the rag myself.
Aside from the cramps and all it actually sounds like a pretty good deal.
Buffalo Wild Wings gets a bit too wild.
He was just saying what everybody already knows.
If you’re not comfortable, you’re going pull the kids in off the porch inside.
Rahm making a porch monkey reference. Cancel his show.
He is taking the word back!
and Suzi Quatro, who is one of the few challengers to Diana Rigg in the “who looks best in tight leather pants” contest.
You’re foolishly laying your heart on the table?
Nice hair.
Related
Superior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk
Incredible lol
That was good but now I have that damn song in my head. Not cool.
I bid 300 Quatros on the newcomers.
the taboo should be gone. There should be more conversations and it’s up to our generation to make that change,” she says.
“I follow a strict religion that preaches asceticism for spiritual cleansing, but it’s, like, a total inconvinience, man”
No. I’d really rather not hear about it. Yes it’s a natural part of life but it’s also TMI
Those three monkeys are reacting to seeing that?
Never, ever, eat pot brownies. *makes not to self*
WE WERE NOT WORTHY OF THE SMARTEST MAN ON EARTH!
“We just weren’t ready for his amazing awesomeness.”
“So really, he’s not acknowledging any flaws but simply wondering if we were even more benighted than he thought. He’s saying that, sadly, we were not enlightened enough for the momentous changes wrought by the smartest people in the world”
*barf* *double triple barf*
WE WERE NOT WORTHY OF THE SMARTEST MAN ON EARTH!
I agree you’re not worthy of me.
Quite a step down, that.
Don’t you have a gaze to narrow or something?
And edit fairy services have been seriously lacking as of late.
She was brain damaged long before the pot got to her.
“As president, Obama always found us wanting. We were constantly disappointing him. He would tell us the right thing to do and then sigh and purse his lips when his instructions were not followed.”
I cant figure out if that is in earnest or not. Sarcasm? If it is in earnest it sure explains a lot about why they lost their asses.
I think it’s a “The Devil Wears Prada” reference.
Bill Maher’s Trump orangutan comment is totally different from Roseanne’s tweet. How? Well, cause “you can’t be racist towards whites!” It is known.
He gets to explain why he can make a joke about someone’s appearance. No one else can. What a prick. If he were a comedian first, he would tell people to lighten up over a joke. If he were a party hack, he’d do exactly what he did.
Everyone has been making ape/monkey comments about everyone forever. In the U.S., during WWI the Germans were depicted as apes, then WWII the Japanese. People called GWB a chimp for eight years. So comparing a black person to an ape isn’t racist. Unless you think Kaiser Wilhelm was black.
https://happening-here.blogspot.com/2016/05/art-in-service-of-political-power.html
Wrong! Anything you say is racist, if you are white. Get woke!
Is there a “not woke” tee for sell in the Glib store?
Racist!
I think my t-shirt would have the words “Woke me when you start making sense “
That’s actually pretty good. And racist.
“Woke me up before you go-go”
Sorry
…and now that song will be stuck in my head for hours.
Don’t forget Lincoln. Has anyone posted a picture of Valerie next to Zira yet so we can compare likenesses?
Maher is a smug, cocksucking ape. He looks like a Simpsons character too.
Shitlording in 3…2…1…
Ok, so two observations about the Muslim period piece (snicker).
First, who told women that squishing your lips together (we used to call it “the bouche”, pronounced ‘bootch’, and people who did it were “boucheliers”, pronounced ‘booch-e-leer’) was an attractive pose? And is the eyebrow deal just a thing you do when you’ve been cursed with Tolkien-esque eyebrows? Like you’ve got a massive caterpillar unibrow and you’re just trying to do the best with what you’ve got?
Second, um…what’s up with the second chick in the article? The one with the very modest selfie on some rock-strewn urban beach whose Twitter handle is, ahem, “chubbythicc”. Or “sabitch”, because I don’t know how the Twitters work and can’t tell the difference between the two names. Either way, how the shit is your name “chubbythicc” and you’re tryin’ to be all gangsta thot or whatever and then your day job is “President of the Muslim Student Association” and you’re complaining about your male relatives shaming you for eating while you’re on your period? I don’t know, it’s just like some Amish guy having his English friend post “Bout to raise the fuck out dis barn fam fo real” for him under the name “Streetlife247”.
“Do y’all care if the male relatives in your fam know if your on ur period like brothers/fathers, etc?”
She’s even adopted ghetto talk here. Maybe she’s taken this intersectional stuff a little too far?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg
Two words: endometrial ablation.
Happy side effect is no kids.
Well, well, haven’t seen you much. How is SD treating you?
Hi thete! SD is treating me very well, except that I have little free time.
I gotta fix thay.
Thanks for letting us know that OMWC’s real name is Thete. He’s so stuck with that now.
Begone thete!
What bout Theetus? Theetus Oldmanicus with Candius.
Scientologists can get rid of those for you.
I used to get their mailings to a previous resident at a house I was sharing with a friend. He would helpfully place each edition on my bed for me. But I just wasn’t ready to cross the bridge to clarity 🙁
I don’t know, it’s just like some Amish guy having his English friend post “Bout to raise the fuck out dis barn fam fo real” for him under the name “Streetlife247”.
Don’t they do that on their rumspringa?
STEVE SMITH ON LOOKOUT FOR YOUNG AMISH FOR RUMSPRINGA AND BY RUMSPRINGA MEAN…
Oops
Russian skyscraper window replacement
Yikes!
They should be paying attention instead of colluding with Trump on the job.
GlassLost.
*slow clap*
I… wow. Shut ‘er down.
Russian transparency failure.
Texans don’t have health care! But don’t worry, if you all vote for the Dem candidate for governor, you’ll get that coverage you need.
Translated: You’ll get to pay more for other people’s insurance. But it will feelz good.
A couple of quick observations:
a) Governor is a ceremonial title in Texas, which is why drunkards and clowns and baseball team owners can be great at the baby-kissing and first-ball-tossing that the office requires. The Lieutenant Governor is the dangerous guy: he presides over their Senate and decides what bills can come to the floor.
2) The Governor can’t sign a bill that isn’t sent to him (see paragraph a); the Lege (as the great Molly Ivins called them) has consistently minimized the amounts taxed by the Robin Hood school bills….and, get this: severely limited the tax levels that local ISD can impose ON THEMSELVES. This has spawned hundreds of libertarian moments all over Texas as the richer neighborhoods formalized………get this: PAYING FOR THEIR OWN SHIT OUT OF POCKET. Parent associations in Texas routinely toss in hundreds of dollars per student for whatever programs, equipment, and tutors interest them.
One does wonder as the population of underclass grows how long the Lege will be filled with tax-adverse representatives.
I almost read it as Lupe Velez, not Lupe Valdez.
Just another loopy leftist, same as the rest.
CBP thievery is why our Foundation gave to the IJ last year.
A very worthy cause that in a just world would be unnecessary. The story linked is incredible. I am interested in how cases like that have stood up to litigation over the years and has one made it to the supreme court and stood? It is blatantly unconstitutional. I would look but I am too lazy.
Yes.
Redonculious. I am amazed at the evilness of the courts at times. How can they charge a “thing” if the rightful owner of said “thing” had no link to a crime that the “thing” was associated with? Horse shit.
And as to the linked story, there is not even a crime involved. They just stole their money.
The best we can hope for is that this case triggers a Kelo moment,
There may be a little bit of help coming, though. Maybe.
“there’s more guns in Chicago now”
I wish there was a way to stop the statistics stories, something like: “Freedom has nothing to do with figures….full stop ” or “the Constitution doesn’t care about your poll.”
Left or right, they argue that their system and their virtues are rational and proven. I don’t care; so did Chavez, so did, literally, Hitler: I want them all to fuck off.
But, just betwixt us who are intellectually honest and curious, I would ask: which independent variable is in play that turns Chicago into a shithole when more guns are brought in…………………..wait for it………..
from place with even more guns or at least more access to guns. Why don’t the statistics that “prove” Chicago has been ruined don’t also prove that Iowa has been ruined. Why, indeed, don’t the streets of Des Moines run with blood…..and well in advance of the Illinois phenomenon? When the statist statisticians put everything into their SASS package, will they thereafter promptly move to “handle” the situation with suitable police action against the “proven” root cause? I ask because I don’t think they’re going to like what the data show.
I stopped paying attention to it. The left just pull stuff out of their ass and treat it as fact. They don’t care about facts, they just spin whatever the feel should be a fact and then hope it will magically transform made up shit into fact. And they know their constituents are dumb enough to believe anything. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t vote for leftists.
Agreed. I don’t support gun ownership on a conditional basis. I believe each and every person has the right to defend themselves to the best of their ability using whatever tools they see fit to use, to the extent that the exercise of that right doesn’t infringe on the rights of other people, rights being understood in the “negative” sense of freedom from constraint rather than the “positive” sense requiring the infringement of the rights of another. A shorter way to say that is that you have an absolute right to gun ownership that has nothing to do with whether your owning a gun has a positive or negative effect on anything whatsoever.
I lose points here because I don’t agree that the 2A is about personal protection: you have the right to own and carry a weapon without 2A….it’s more 9A if anything: the absolute right to do whatever you wish even if your desire is not codified and enumerated.
Of course, there is a practical downside to abandoning good marketing: the 2A trope is effective and the banner that most rally ’round. I support that general cause; I just reject 2A because it is precisely “conditional” to use your word….which leads to irrelevant arguments about under which revocable law construes me to be in some ethereal militia.
The upside to abandoning the 2A argument is that wider, truer libertarianism emerges, which is the true tool to fight the awful people both left and right who think that winning elections and then imposing one’s beliefs is how freedom is defended.
The militia wording is something I’ve thought about a lot and I actually am starting to lean towards the opposite conclusion regarding the “weapons of war” schtick that the anti-gun crowd uses. I think that the intent might have been to preserve the right to own specifically military-grade hardware. The reference to a militia has to do with the idea that the citizenry would be able to stand up a body of fighting men on short notice specifically to fight the government itself, and to do so they’d require at least an equivalent quality of armaments. Just as common sense dictates that a state doesn’t need to grant itself the right to have an army, I would think that people of the time wouldn’t think you’d need to specify that people had the right to own guns to hunt and for personal protection, varmint control, etc.. So the reason the 2A exists is specifically for the purpose of forbidding the government from doing anything that would inhibit the military capacity of the body of citizens, such as preventing them from owning weapons used by the military, which would have been unusual to say the least and so would warrant inclusion in the founding document of the country.
Dead wypipo: Look we understand you’re not comfortable with a standing army, but we need one cuz liberty
(A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State)
so what we’ll do is give y’all the right to keep guns, without question.
(the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed)
the simplest reading is the right one
That sort of noticing is forbidden.
“J.Crew markets LGBT ‘pride’ clothes to kids”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/j.crew-markets-lgbt-pride-clothes-to-kids
Why?
Why not just put some pr0n on the kid’s shirts? The kids in that pic are not old enough to have any idea about anything sexual. It’s all about Marxist indoctrination. Never too early to start. Why do you think Obama was all excited about forcing 3 year olds into preschool? So he could start the indoctrination even earlier. Next thing you know, there will be Che diapers and Mao bibs.
“I am a feminist too” T-shirts, intended specifically for boys and also for children as young as two.”
I wonder if Zoolander has bought his yet?
intended specifically for boys
Wait one damn minute, here. I thought all toys and clothes were supposed to be gender neutral now. There are no “boy’s” clothes, just “children’s” clothes. J. Crew are a bunch of shitlords!
To be fair, they’re actually marketing that to their woke parents.
True. My daughter’s Slayer onesie was mostly for me. She was more into Maiden in those days.
At Dawn She Slept?
Culture war, win the culture and you win the political issue. Brietbart was right about some things.
Good morning, glibs. Another Sunday. And another time to go running 5 miles.
Fuck that. We’re taking a train downtown and doing museums today.
You’re on a train downtown?
Every time I see one of these old guys, like Rod, all I can think is that all of those guys doing all the womanizing they did back then, would eventually become victims of the #MeToo madness today.
There’s time yet. I’m surprised how few athletes and rock stars have been named so far.
Yeah, it’s amazing they haven’t went after guys like Gene Simmons. Give em time, they’ll get around to it. Now they’re going after Morgan Freeman, with the help of CNN, it’s getting out of hand.
Freeman because he doesn’t submit to the narrative.
I think Rock Star stuff is just assumed and par for the course.
Groupies gonna groupie, that’s the whole point of a groupie
How is that different then the casting couch? That was known and assumed as well.
I know. Amazing.
Museum Sunday, if you have a BofA issued credit card.
“You like trains Joel?”
During my run I heard the thump thump thump of someone about to pass me. And it was a young black woman who must have been 6’4″ – I didn’t stand a chance of keeping up with her.
Yeah. I’m pretty much the fastest runner on my usual paths/jogging tracks. Two Sundays ago, a pair of dudes each 6’3” and 220 lbs. blew right past me. My guess is they were Army rangers or something. They ran hard/heavy stride. They ran in lockstep. They looked thrilled to be wearing Nikes (as opposed to combat boots). I tried to keep pace with them, but they were fast. I could tell they were going to run 15 miles or more.
Unlikely to be rangers, or other special forces. Those guys tend more to endurance athlete physique, not big and muscular, despite Hollywood’s depiction.
More rain. How do people in Seattle stand it?
I bet it’s rained more here in the past week than Seattle gets in a typical year. But yeah, Seattle, it get depressing. Last time I was there for 2 weeks, I never saw the sun even one time, just light drizzly rain all of the time.
I’m trying to talk my wife into taking over the Seattle office of her accounting firm. I want cool and drizzly weather. Good for running.
Cool and drizzly weather is good for nothing except growing mold and other fungi.
On the bright side, you’re not in Seattle.
I lived in WA state for a few years. I couldn’t handle it.
It drizzles and stays overcast & grey, rather than heavy rain all the time. Atlanta has about 35% more rainfall than Seattle.
Yup. Orlando gets about 43% more.
Hanging from a lampost would do, but the woodchipper would be more entertaining.
To be honest, I lean toward “flayed alive and then burned at the stake,” but that’s probably not achievable.
“Said of a libertarian feminist who doesn’t make TV shows about turning women into programmable sex robots”
https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/1002910143808524289
Joss Whedon is a tool. But Dollhouse also had male dolls, very strong female characters, was very critical of its technology.
“TV shows about turning women into programmable sex robots”
No one needs women to make a programmable sexbots.
I thought the point was to skip the bit involving women entirely.
Roth is dead, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still have your way with a piece of liver.
He must have watched a different version of Dollhouse than I did.
The CNN article on the Kazazi’s asset forfeiture was more succinct then the one I linked yesterday from WaPo.
Some Democrat dude was just on Fox claiming that Trump needs to be impeached for, among other things, violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
Apparently, if a foreign diplomat stays at a Trump hotel that is an unconstitutional emolument. I’ll bet some guys, way back in 1790, were claiming that buying a keg of beer from Mt. Vernon was an emolument that President Washington was not entitled to. Has there ever been a SCOTUS case that defined “emolument?”
“Some Democrat dude was just on Fox claiming that Trump needs to be impeached for, among other things, violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.”
Did this guy turn off the memo feed? That is soooo last week. That guy doesn’t even know what emoluments means, he’s just behind on the talking points. Now it’s all about how Trump is obstructing justice because his lawyers told Mueller that he can’t subpoena the president. It doesn’t even matter if that is true or not, the only thing that matters is that they somehow get rid of Trump before the economy gets any better.
Nixon is correct that it can’t be illegal if the president does it unless the House disagrees and the Senate then concurs with the House. The rest is a waste of breath: the people have spoken and elected both a populist and a congress that will sustain him. No previous ruling on emoluments (or anything else) would make any difference today regarding impeachment.
Well, the Democrats in congress know full well, I mean outside of some real loons like Maxine, that they cannot impeach Trump even if they take the house, which I doubt. But even if they did, they still won’t be able to do it. Maybe there are some who believe that they can just harass Trump enough, he’ll resign. I don’t see that happening either. Also, I believe that most of the public, and it’s confirmed by polls, are tiring of the Russia clown show.
“I am a feminist too” T-shirts, intended specifically for boys and also for children as young as two.”
I’m sticking with, “I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. Won’t you help me?”
“It’s hard being Muslim”…
Has to be said in Kermie’s voice.
Kermie can’t be Muslim. They don’t eat pork.
*Zing
That guy doesn’t even know what emoluments means
“It rubs the emoluments on its skin, or it gets the rubber hose.”
Another good old guy music selection. That was um….different.
Correcting the under representation of a certain gender in a field.
Whenever you hear about women’s underrepresentation in STEM, suggest closing down the Women’s Studies department.
“The original asians were black.”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1003022364530094083
Comments pretty funny.
RE the multiple murders in PHX. I must admit my first thought was wondering if they were looking into something related to the Clinton’s.
“The Housewives of White Supremacy
The digital far right, frequently called the alt-right, is largely regarded as a men-only space. The photographs from the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., were striking for the lack of female faces in a sea of button-down-wearing snarls. The movement shares DNA with so-called incels, a network of men who feel women have unfairly denied them sexual relationships. And it is defined in part by its misogyny and its anti-feminist, anti-woman language.
Over the past few years, dozens of YouTube and social media accounts have sprung up showcasing soft-spoken young white women who extol the virtues of staying at home, submitting to male leadership and bearing lots of children — being “traditional wives.” These accounts pepper their messages with scrapbook-style collections of 1950s advertising images showing glamorous mothers in lipstick and heels with happy families and beautiful, opulent homes. They give their videos titles like “Female Nature and Advice for Young Ladies,” “How I Homeschool” and “You Might be a Millennial Housewife If….”
But running alongside what could be mistaken for a peculiar style of mommy-vlogging is a virulent strain of white nationalism. One such advocate who calls herself “Wife With a Purpose” made international headlines last year when she issued something she titled “the white baby challenge.” Citing falling white birthrates in the West, she urged her followers to procreate. “I’ve made six!” she wrote. “Match or beat me!” Wife With a Purpose might be the most prominent and certainly most openly white supremacist of the women who call themselves tradwives, but she is not an anomaly: These accounts veer dizzyingly from Cosmo-style tips on pleasing your husband to racist musings about “ghetto music” to, on some occasions, calls to reassert their vision of the white race. The seemingly anachronistic way they dress is no accident. The deliberately hyperfeminine aesthetics are constructed precisely to mask the authoritarianism of their ideology.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/sunday/tradwives-women-alt-right.html
“anachronistic way they dress is no accident. The deliberately hyperfeminine aesthetics are constructed precisely to mask the authoritarianism”
Please help: am I reading that right? Were the policed sex roles of the bad old days not authoritarian? So how does dressing up like the bad old days mask anything?
“The deliberately hyperfeminine aesthetics are constructed precisely to mask the authoritarianism”
Or maybe they were constructed to attract men who prefer women who act like women.
no one gets that more than me, rest assured
it’s the masking of authoritarianism notion that makes zero sense
just me?
Yeah, hold on a sec. Following NYT logic (you’re welcome in advance for the low-hanging fruit) sincerely embracing traditional feminine roles from, I guess the 50s(?), rather than as a screen for authoritarianism, would mean that you’re embracing a non-authoritarian outlook, implying that women then were more free than they are now. Which is, ironically, the point of the women the author is criticizing.
exactly….unless there’s some implied rabbit-hole that I’m not subtle enough to grasp about women being able to dress how they like now: it’s feminist to be able to freely choose to wear heals and bras or strip or whore around for a living etc so long as you freely choose….which I also agree with but no such groundwork were laid in the excerpt.
“It’s exceedingly difficult to feel sorry for Ms. Southern, whose stunts have included attempting to block direly needed refugee rescue boats off the coast of Italy. ”
Except they weren’t “rescue” boats they were boats loading up people in one country and illegally taking them to another while the government turned a blind eye. Even if one supports governments circumventing their own immigration laws because they don’t have the support or balls to change them, let’s at least be honest about it.
I love how traditional family values are so threatening to these people. It makes me smile.
Yes but it’s a troubling trend and their end goal is to destroy it. And I have to wonder if they’re achieving it.
This is what passes for “capitalist entrepreneurship” in Montana.
Tired of scalpers reselling tickets at inflated prices, longtime concertgoers Joel Martin and Henry Vinson decided to develop a better system.
The Montana State University graduates created a web app, Sellout, to eliminate what the pair see as the biggest issues with modern-day ticketing. After buying a ticket, the app obscures its barcode until the time of the show, preventing scalping. Sellout also has its own built-in resale system, creating a waitlist for sold-out events where customers can pass along their tickets at face value.
The article is about some sort of business incubator venture capital initiative, but that bullshit about cutting the legs out from under evil scalpers really jumped out at me. “Boo hoo, somebody can buy something and then resell it at a profit to another person who places a higher dollar value on it, and that’s not fair.”
Fuck off.
When people bitch about scalpers, I like to suggest auctioning off the tickets.
i was just about to post the same thing.
If you want to cut out the scalpers, price properly at the beginning.
If I ever heard someone bitching about scalpers, I would probably say, “If you can afford to take off work and spend money to go to a fancy auditorium and listen to a band play with state-of-the-art amplifiers and giant video screens, you are probably living an incredibly privileged life compared to the rest of the world or people in past eras.”
Same as when I heard someone complaining about “class privilege” because a local amusement park had some kind of pass you could buy that would allow you to skip to the front of lines.
The one that entertained me the most was that Disney used to have a policy that if you were disabled, you would be able to jump to the front of the line (as well as 5 companions) for the rides. So, some enterprising disabled people, started to offer their services to families.
*spit*
I just watched the video of the enforcer taking down the perp mammal with his assault vehicle. I wouldn’t exactly call that ‘running him over’ but then I’m a hard ass domineering Reptile Overlord.
I will say that whatever his intentions he did get luck that the suspect didn’t appear to be seriously injured. Although if he pulls a soccer flop (taking the camera out of position), and shoots him claiming furtive waistband weapon then he would still be on the payroll.
Tragic gun violence
Game wardens are investigating the Thursday shooting death of a grizzly bear sow shot in self-defense by a party of three hikers on the fringes of the Wind River Range.
The afternoon encounter, which happened in the Boulder Basin north of New Fork Lakes, has for now left two cubs orphaned, according to a Wyoming Game and Fish Department email notice.
“The incident was reported immediately,” the notice said. “While investigating the scene, department personnel were unable to locate the cubs. No human injuries were reported and the investigation is ongoing.”
I’m sure there are thousands of “conservationists” out there not-secretly wishing that bear had mauled those people with impunity.
Commenters bitching that they didn’t use bear spray instead. If I’m getting charged by a grizzly, I’m not waiting until they get that close nor am I trusting pepper to stop them.
Kind of like the anti-gun people who would rather a woman get raped than pull out an evil gun and promptly ventilate her would-be rapist?
I heard about this the other day and now I see it making the rounds on the twitters…..https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbi-spied-for-lbjs-campaign-1527201701
H/T Sloopy
I knew LBJ was a shit bag but I missed this tidbit in history class.
Then 10 years later the press goes off the rails over Nixon because he has an R next to his name.
Joy. Fever and every time I swallow it feels like razor blades are going down my throat. I hate being sick. Maybe something on the internet will make me feel better.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/obama-ben-rhodes-world-as-it-is.html
NY Times: Obama- Just too Good for Us
Oh, here comes the nausea.
“The ‘Thanksgiving Effect’ and the Creepy Power of Phone Data
For a study published in this week’s issue of Science, UCLA economist Keith Chen and Washington State University economist Ryne Rohla combined smartphone-location data from more than 10 million Americans with precinct-level election results to quantify the impact of partisanship and political advertising on Thanksgiving dinners in 2016, on the heels of the presidential election. Among their findings: Democrats shortened their visits to Republican households by between 20 and 40 minutes; Republicans cut their time with Democratic hosts by 50 to 70 min; and mismatched families from areas with high political ad exposure spent even less time together.
The researchers’ results might not surprise you (2016’s election reportedly led many people to cut their Thanksgivings plans short), but their methods might: The smartphone data came from SafeGraph, a company that uses geolocation data from apps on your phone to maintain anonymized geospatial datasets for more than 10 million US smartphones. These data consist of “pings,” which give the locations of individual smartphones at specific moments in time. For their study, the researchers analyzed some 21 billion pings from November 2016 and 4.5 billion from November 2015.
You might be thinking: OK, that’s one kind of data, but it’s creepy to think that researchers could match my phone’s location with my political affiliation. Who the hell has that data? That’s where the election results come in. Chen and Rohla collected precinct-level polling data—the highest-resolution available—through internet scraping and by contacting secretaries of state, boards of election, and county clerks. Merging the two datasets was as simple as inferring the precinct and census block of each smartphone user’s home based on the location of pings logged between 1:00 am and 4:00 am in the weeks before Thanksgiving. People who live in the same precinct tend to vote for the same candidate. “So it turns out where your smartphone spends its time between 1:00 and 4:00 in the morning correlates pretty closely with who you voted for in the 2016 election,” says Chen. He and Rohla used the same method to determine where people traveled on Thanksgiving day.”
https://www.wired.com/story/the-thanksgiving-effect-and-the-power-of-phone-data/
Of course the data will skew towards people who are more open about their political leanings on social media.
Is it just me, or do a lot of these hyped-up “data science” projects just boil down to “we assumed that averages for a given population hold true for the whole group, compared that with some averages of something else, and drew a broad conclusion based on the comparison of these probably-faulty numbers”?
In more beer news you can use, Cleveland breweries take up about 30% of the (I assume commercial) real estate in the city.
Ohio: Making America Great Again.
“Would You Like Some Strife With Your Meal?
Portland, Ore., was a foodie paradise. Then the social-justice warriors ruined it.
My hometown became a foodie paradise starting a decade or so ago, when I lived in California. At first it was beautiful. With each visit home, I noticed new food carts selling everything from Korean tacos and Thai-Hainanese chicken and rice to Texas-style pulled pork. Later came breweries, exotic doughnut shops and haute-hipster ice-cream parlors.
But these days politics is ruining the scene. One of the first victims, Sally Krantz, in 2016 opened a bistro, Saffron Colonial, featuring historical recipes from the British Empire. Furious social-justice warriors accused her of racism and glorifying colonialism. Mobs gathered outside the establishment, and detractors swamped its Yelp page with negative reviews and insults. Suppliers boycotted her. Eventually Ms. Krantz gave in and changed the name to British Overseas Restaurant Corporation.
Blood was in the water. In the spring of 2017, Kali Wilgus and Liz Connelly were accused of “stealing” Mexican culture—by selling burritos from a truck. They received death threats and shut down their business and their social-media presence.
Then an anonymous Google spreadsheet began circulating warning about restaurants that served ethnic cuisine: “These white-owned businesses hamper the ability for POC”—people of color—“to run successful businesses of their own . . . by either consuming market share with their attempt at authenticity or by modifying foods to market to white palates.””
https://www.wsj.com/articles/would-you-like-some-strife-with-your-meal-1527807733
meh I assume theres plenty of food trucks left. Hipsters find a way
Mad-libs
Could probably sell a bunch of bumper stickers in fly over country with that slogan.
I’m assuming the same holds true for a non-white guy who is serving burgers and fries or operating a hot dog stand, right? I mean, that’s the message I get from that passage: that you’re harming members of a race by cooking their food.
Oppression & appropriation only runs one way.
FFS
The assumptions in that quote are mindblowingly racist. If you were told that it was a translated quote from a book detailing the plans of an underground group of neo-Nazis it would make perfect sense.
The world of social justice and equality these types are trying to usher in is cold, grey, bleak and soul crushing. They want, for some reason I cant understand, what the USSR was. It is insane.
They are not happy people and no one else should be either.
Aren’t burritos an American invention?
I don’t think anyone knows, as people were wrapping food in tortillas thousands of years before the Spaniards showed up.
Diana Rigg, not in leathers
Related: hot British actresses.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/129830401737785429/
Lots of Jenny Agutter goodness.
More women need to follow her brave example.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/05/30/woman-flashes-her-breast-on-google-maps.html?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork
Related:
http://archive.is/5z6FT
I’m rather fond of #4.
But you can’t see her face.
#6
Then an anonymous Google spreadsheet began circulating warning about restaurants that served ethnic cuisine: “These white-owned businesses hamper the ability for POC”—people of color—“to run successful businesses of their own . . . by either consuming market share with their attempt at authenticity or by modifying foods to market to white palates.””
“Those lesser hominids are incapable of standing up to the superior white race, and cannot successfully compete against them on an equal footing.”
But we’re the ones who are a bunch of racists, and don’t you forget it.
“modifying foods to market to white palates.”
That’s what stuck out at me. If some ethnic cuisine has to be modified to appeal to Westerners, well, restaurateurs of that ethnicity probably wouldn’t do very well selling their “authentic” cuisine, would they? They can either modify their cuisine, or they can accept that there is insufficient demand for what they are selling.
Of course, that author ignores the example of the Chinese, who have become some of the most successful foreign restaurateurs by doing just that – modifying their food (to varying degrees) to suit Western palates.
When people bitch about scalpers, I like to suggest auctioning off the tickets.
Exactly. But that punishes poor people for being poor, and that’s not fair.
They should stop being poor.
Seems like it might be useful in creating a diversion.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/06/02/shotspotter-paying-early-dividends-baltimore-despite-protests/
Of course though how many cops with use the alerts to determine where to stay away from.
Holy crap. A three foot black snake just crawled across my back patio. Welcome to Florida.
Fat one or skinny one?
So cottonmouth or racer?
Skinny, but long.
Then probably a racer. It’s unlikely a cottonmouth unless you live near water. Either way, I would just ignore it.
Chicken snake or water snake. Harmless. It is the fat black ones you have to watch out for, especially this time of year. They can be aggressive in the spring/early summer when they are mating.
Yeah, he’s just some kind of ratter. Just really weird to see one outside the grass. Bastard’s not shy, though. He actually came back. Maybe he liked the shade.
CP – probably a racer, it didn’t have the mottling you see with cottonmouths. It’s not a big deal, just was kind of weird to see one on the patio. They usually keep to themselves.
One thing I appreciate is that they almost always GTFO of Dodge when threatened; if you step near them without seeing them, they just run away.
That’s a euphemism, isn’t it?
I’m not racist, but I do hate midgets.
Williamson is really a funny, good writer and the Atlantic was colossally stupid getting rid of him.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/kevin-d-williamson/soccer-player-jaelene-hinkle-is-protested-in-portland-for-declining-to-wear-an-lgbtq-jersey
In other news, Claire Lehmann looks good on TV:
https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1003221299445944320
“Australia’s Mistress of the Intellectual Dark Web”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/australias-mistress-of-the-intellectual-dark-web/
That’s some moniker.
I’m jealous.
Maker of yummy foods tops that every day:).
Would
What a bunch of dicks.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/bakery-fires-employees-for-denying-black-woman-service-after-closing
That’s a very polite way of saying that she’s a jobless bum who concocts and hypes up racial incidents hoping for a big cash settlement.
I translated it as Bitch but your description more detailed.
I’d like to spend about week buying people a bakery item all night long starting at closing time and see how they like paying the overtime.
We pored over the establishment’s apologia here last night. It was truly a wonder to behold.
“This @FBI agent was dancing at a Denver bar on Saturday night. Did a back flip, gun falls. He picks it up and a round is fired, hitting a man (he’ll be ok.) @DenverPolice investigating. #9News”
https://twitter.com/RyanHaarer/status/1003084052226822153
We need common sense law enforcement dance control.
That is exactly how I imagined a “dancing FBI agent” would look.
And of course one of the comments is an attempted slam on the NRA & 2A. As if the police & government would also be disarmed in any gun grabber’s fantasy.
Hey dipshit, unlike Mr Paid Vacation, any other private citizen would have been arrested on the spot and charged with a felony. I bet even money the cops on the scene returned the firearm to the drunkard.
A three foot black snake just crawled across my back patio. Welcome to Florida.
See if you can get him to fight an iguana, and put it on youtube.
Also, RACIST!
Well, at least it won’t sing cheesy power ballads.
Hey, go see my reply to gbob. I’m not a racist, I just don’t like midgets.
On the “dancing FBI agent shoots bystander” twatter:
Bad as this incident is, it involved one out of a million officers. Most officers never get drunk while out at dinner or parties. It’s called “Maintaining.” Most officers never screw-up this badly while carrying. It’s called a “Negligent Discharge.” Never had one, never will.
It’s good to see the cop apologists (copalogists?) are on the job.
It was a mercy killing, said Doktor Frankenfurter.
On Saturday, May 19, a three-year-old male cougar attacked two Seattleites while they were mountain biking along logging roads near Lake Hancock, in the foothills of the Cascades 30 miles east of the city. It was the state’s first confirmed fatal cougar attack in 94 years. Isaac Sederbaum, 31, a social science researcher, was treated for his injuries at a nearby hospital and has been released; SJ Brooks, 32, a leader in the local cycling community, especially around advocacy and inclusion initiatives, was killed.
While the pair initially scared off the lion using what Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) police say was correct behavior—yelling, standing their ground, and even hitting it with their bikes—it returned and attacked again, biting Sederbaum. Brooks fled, and the cougar released Sederbaum, who went for help, whereupon it returned to Brooks and killed them (Brooks preferred they/them pronouns).
I’m going straight to Hell.
So, a cougar shows interest in a gay guy and all of a sudden it’s the apocalypse.
ANAL CUNT Guitarist Josh Martin Dies After Falling Off An Escalator
“Is Necrophilia Wrong?”
http://bigthink.com/think-tank/is-necrophilia-wrong
Yes.
https://youtu.be/OpZJLjrb4vU
Don’t be so cold
As I recall one of the events that greatly advanced the development of the scientific method took place at a hospital in Germany. My memory is vague so I am going to give it in a nutshell straight out of my ass. One wing was for women but many of those women died, at a much higher rate than outside the hospital while giving birth. After various people tried exorcisms and ghost detecting etc one priest(?) used a crude form of the scientific method and discovered that women giving birth were being treated by medical students…medical students who were also performing anatomical studies in the basement. They would take their hands out of a corpse and run upstairs to birth babies without washing their hands and infect the mothers to be with all kinds of ghastly bugs. This event also key to the development of germ theory.
Necrophilia is a bad, bad, bad idea – thats why it is wrong. A lot of our rights and wrongs are for damned good reasons even if we dont know what they are.
It was Ignaz Semmelweis.
Here’s an interesting tidbit about him:
Gosh, one might even conclude that it’s a bad idea to ostracize scientific opinions for going against the “consensus”.
DEATH NO ESCAPE FROM STEVE SMITH
Great White North Pajama Boy haz a sad.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday that the reasoning behind implementing new U.S. tariffs on Canada was “insulting and unacceptable.”
“One of the things that I have to admit I’m having a lot of trouble getting around is the idea that this entire thing is coming about because the president and the administration have decided that Canada and Canadian steel and aluminum is a national security threat to the United States,” Trudeau told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“The idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the United States is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable,” he added.
“I’m going down there and hit him with my purse.”
As usual he completely misses the point. Pull up your rainbow socks Xi and then fuck off.