It’s been an eventful past 12 hours. A server crash brought the site down and Sloopy managed to get himself into… let’s say “an adventure.” We’ll have the GoFundMe site for his bail up shortly, complete with sad-eyed pictures of his kids. And puppies. OK, he doesn’t own puppies, but it helps sell it. Anyway, I was called in at the last moment, so my snarky comments will be a bit truncated in the interests of getting this post up timely.
And a major THANK YOU to the Glibs’ all-female technology crew (SP and WebDom) who got us back up and running last night. At least one of you will be sexually harassed by me as a reward. Hint: WebDom is safe.
The big birthday today is the pride of Texas, candidate Beto O’Rourke. And an appropriate song for the occasion. Also, it’s the birthday of my third-favorite poet, T.S. Eliot, brilliant illustrator Winsor McCay, and OG George Raft.
In the news:
The Kavanaugh circus continues. The latest twist: statements from four people corroborating her story… except they don’t, actually. But let’s not get in the way of a good headline.
I made a key mistake last night. I spent ten minutes watching CNN. Very key mistake. This story was all they wanted to talk about, but at least they featured guests on both sides of the issue: is Donald Trump literally Hitler? Or is Donald Trump just a laughingstock? I turned off the TV and found something more interesting to do: trim my toenails.
In sports, this season for the Vikings has been nuts. Literally.
I’m not quite sure what to make of this. I guess it’s just another consequence of our societal glee about putting as many people in cages as possible. But really, the policy is altruistic. Really.
“Offenders in Virginia have died of drug overdoses while inside our prisons. It’s our job to keep the offenders and staff as safe as we can,” Kinney said.
This is one of the more novel #metoo stories this week.
In comments to the Tribune, Araujo denied calling the prosecutor a “bitch” and said he “doubts” he’d ever made sexual advances toward her. “I just thought it was weird,” he told the paper. “I don’t know why she treats me like a stranger. I’ve been in this building five years and she always ignores me.”
On first read, I honestly thought this was an Onion story.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Except escape from the People’s Republic of New York, apparently.
And here’s some uptempo Old Guy Music, perfect for Hump Day.
Now let’s get crackin’ on Sloopy’s bail!
Fun Trivia Fact: the featured image is literally my childhood home. I’m checking my White Privilege.
ILike New York Weather. And I’m still working on my exit strategy to get out of this state because it’s getting too awful.
Come to NJ – it’s very slightly better, And I need to sell a house next year so I can escape.
Drake, if I were to move to an adjacent state, it would be Pennsylvania, not another member of the North Atlantic Democratic Peoples Republics.
The woods of Penn welcome you. Come to where the flavor is.
STEVE SMITH LIKE WOODS. STEVE SMITH SAVOR THE FLAVOR BY SAVOR MEAN….
What is the best week of the year to visit?
Upstate? First week in October or thereabouts. But not this year. The weather is playing holy hell with the foliage.
Leaves have started changing and coming of the trees here in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” a full month ahead of schedule….
For the fall foliage or regular sightseeing?
Pick a week in October. Temperature is neither too hot nor too cold, and you’ll have colorful foliage.
Same with Bucharest… October is dry warm but not hot and there is still some remnants of autumn fruit and vegetables which taste good
This place does Autumn very well. Lots of good food and beverages.
Actually they do the season much better than Texas, probably because (unlike Texas) NYS actually has seasons that aren’t summer.
So if I were to do a road trip to the states go to New York early October and then work my way south when it is no longer to hot…
pretty much.
Just remember a lot of little municipalities fund themselves through speeding tickets.
My friend in Netherlands god a speed ticket for going 62 in a 60 area… In Romania cops do not stop for under 5 over the speed limit… I would get fined into poverty in the Netherlands…
The margin of citation varies by locality. So unless I know the area and it’s tendencies, I stick to the posted limits to avoid the hassle of dealing with a fine.
Your best bet would be to go to Chicago, where SP and I will ply you with fine wines and cuisine.
But Chicago does not have an airport
Two of them. And Milwaukee, which has a much nicer one than either of Chicago’s.
And seriously, we’d be happy to put you up in our guest room. If you wake up in a bathtub full of ice with a kidney missing, it will be Swiss’s fault.
If I ever make it to the States Chicago will probably be a stop… so thanks I’ll keep that in mind.
Chicago doesn’t have an airport? Here I thought O’Hare is one of the busiest in the world.
This fake news is really ruining my life.
/wink.
There’s no placed called Chicago.
Don’t go near the Southwest corner of Lake Michigan.
Chicago doesn’t have an airport? Here I thought O’Hare is one of the busiest in the world.
It’s also one of the worst. Especially if you are transferring flights from international to domestic – they thought it was a good idea to put international and domestic in separate terminals without a connection between the two, so you get the joy of having to go through security again. And their customs was the worst – it was easier to go through a European city’s customs system as a foreigner than through the Chicago customs system as an American citizen.
Reclearing security is the norm for international to domestic in the US, except for foreign preclearance airports. Being a terrible idea, CBP is trying to expand them.
I don’t find arrivals to be any worse than other locations. In fact, I’d say it’s one of the better entry ports.
Better than other US ports.
Bucharest to Chicago seems to be 850 of your american dollars
Don’t do it.
You’ll end up in Chicago.
Include Austin in your trip. They joys of Tex-Mex await you.
Fuck anywhere east of. Denver. Come to Boise. Clean air. Low crime, stuff to shoot,. Mountains, Home school friendly state, fishing. The city runs pretty well. Not a lot 8f…..ahem…diversity …yet! You can party downtown at 1;00 and not get mugged.
What’s Couer D’ Alene like? My mom is moving into a retirement home there with her friend in October.
It is the most beautiful spot in the US.
Coeurd alene is beautiful
A party in downtown Boise you say? Wow, sounds like a real hoot. What does the non-diverse crowd do? Make french fries?
French fries with ketchup!
Are the hot dog carts still there? I always like those late at night.
Last night I ended up playing a video game until way too late in the evening. The night before that I dabbled in recording an audiobook.
That reminds me, Can we embed audio in articles here without a third party host?
Our household (me, my wife, and my brother-in-law) are on a blackout of discussing any political news until after the mid-terms.
Rules are no sharing any political stories, no comments during TV watching the news, and ZERO opinion on political events.
Anyone can watch whatever the fuck they want, but they’re not allowed to talk about it.
It’s been a LOVELY 24 hours.
I take it there are irreconsilable differences of opinion on the matter.
No, actually about 90% agreement. It’s just so tiresome. It’s like talking about something like a baseball team…all the fucking time day or night
Lucky bastard.
I’m surrounded by lefties.
I’m surrounded by Republicans who think I’m an Anarchist. Although my dad is a Libertarian, he just doesn’t know it.
Moderate Republicans are easy to reason with. They can follow a logic trail – they may be reluctant to admit things, but they are generally sane. And if you disagree on some stuff, they can live with that too.
Shrieking progs who have no logic and want to burn people at the stake for disagreeing are a lot harder to deal with.
Agreed!
I know that feels. I used to carpool with a guy who shares about 90% of political orientation with me, but after the end of the 2016 election I told him he wasn’t permitted to talk with me about politics any more. After a week he agreed it was a good rule, and we spent our time talking about board game mechanics and both of our lives were marginally better.
I bet that helps.
My wife hates politics, so we hardly broach the subject. It makes for a happy home environment. I’d suggest never talking about politics in the house for everyone.
My wife admitted last weekend that she hated, hated, hated Trump when he was elected but now she thinks he has been doing a decent job.
She never votes, but the opinion change surprised me. I also don’t think that is a good indicator for a Blue Wave.
The R’s are desperate to find a way to fuck that up.
Let. Me think,. What is the most cowardly way the Coward Party could react to this good anecdote?
Suthenboy, I agree with your comment.
I live in a household of 1 and arguments about politics are rare…
The letter raising those issues once again could throw into doubt the scheduled hearing, which has been the subject of ever-changing negotiations since Christine Blasey Ford first went public.
I see, in my mind’s eye, Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam:
“I dares ya ta step over that line.”
“Aaah’m a-steppin.”
Perfect.
Grassley needs his bell rung. Fucking coward.
I can’t stop staring at this.
Thanks Swiss.
Thanks, like, a lot.
Roflmao. Perfect.
He said many of the New Yorkers leaving the state now are doing so for personal reasons or decisions that he called “climate based.”
Maybe they were pro-life people
Lack of a job, taxation, and a government boot on their throat are rolled into “Personal Reasons” apparently.
I don’t like the tax climate in my state.
*opera applause*
(note, not an NYC opera troupe, however)
Rules are no sharing any political stories, no comments during TV watching the news, and ZERO opinion on political events.
You’re no fun.
I finally managed to get some video of my hummingbird feeders. Postimage.org wont let me upload video. Where can I upload videos?
Youtube? Pronhub?
https://youtu.be/XX51T4LagV4
Well, there they are. One of three feeders in the front of the house. I am putting about 2 gallons/day in those feeders.
What you cant really see are the dozens of birds zipping around in the trees.
Pretty cool. Hummingbirds have to fuel up before flying across the gulf, which is a pretty amazing feat.
Whoa. That’s a ton of hummingbirds.
Landscape mode or GTFO.
Nice hummingbirds, though.
I like the way you think, Slammer.
Bitchute. YouTube. Vimeo.
I got nothing…
Wow, they’re tolerating each others’ presence. For each of my 2 feeders, one male stands guard in a nearby tree and chases away any other males. Females seem to be somewhat tolerated. But only one bird is ever drinking at a time. They’re pretty vicious little things.
For birthdays you forgot Marty Robbins
https://youtu.be/-5lp1QGLYkM
Awesome!
When I was kid, we’d listen to ‘El Paso’ on a 45 over and over and act out the parts on the neighbor’s hobby horse. His little sister would play Felina.
“We are finding it difficult to reconcile your letter and [staff member Mike Davis’] note with the Majority Leader’s speech this afternoon on the Senate floor. As Dr. Blasey Ford has been clear since her experience was first made public, she came forward because she believes it is her civic duty to tell the truth about the sexual assault she experienced,” wrote Michael Bromwich, her attorney and a former Justice Department inspector general.
Fine. See you in court. Don’t forget to bring some evidence.
A little early to go too OT, but this guy is my new hero.
There are rules here aboot staying in topic? Fuck Off Slavers.
And he looks old for 51.
It’s caused by all the previous young girlfriends sapping his youth..
Yup. A man worth emulating.
They’re voting on kavanaugh on Friday. If Ford doesn’t show on Thursday, will they do it then?
They should have voted this past Monday.
That’s, like, so yesterday.
I doubt he gets in at this point…
If they validate this tactic by not confirming, they won’t get another justice, ever.
Yeah. If this works for the Dems we can expect this on literally every single person. Not just scotus or president.
He didn’t get in. He tried, but she fended him off. Hence the kerfluffle today
I could see the woman from Maine not voting to confirm now.
Not sure about Flake. Can’t believe I used to like him.
Uh huh. Right. They didn’t knock the site down and replace you with imposters.
King to king’s bishop three.
Youre right They didn’t, (((They))) did.
With help from the Lizard people!
OMWC. Shut it down.
Well, this was a fun site while it lasted.
They Know https://youtu.be/5U4-YN6rONs
…is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
What are you, Wayne Newton?
WATCH: Feminist Pours Bleach On Over 60 Men’s Crotches To Fight ‘Manspreading’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/36316/watch-feminist-pours-bleach-over-60-mens-crotches-amanda-prestigiacomo
She’s been arrested on assault and chemical weapons charges, right?
I would think battery is also a valid charge.
You mean she was sent to the hospital barely alive because she got the shit beaten out of her, right?
It was in Russia, right? That outcome seems slightly more likely there to me.
Oh, Russia. It’s just another Street Bleacher.
Toxic-Whiteness?
The photo at the top of the article…the guy is sitting at the end of the bench and not offending or crowding anyone.
Her objection is that people make themselves comfortable without intruding on anyone else and in her mind that justifies assault.
Feminism in a nutshell.
That’s an ass-kickin’ right there.
“Your honor, it only appears that I poured bleach on the woman’s face but I was trying to pour bleach on my own crotch and her face happened to be in the way.”
“”This solution is 30 times more concentrated than the mixture used by housewives when doing the laundry,” she claims in the video, per The Sun. “It eats colours in the fabric in a matter of minutes — leaving indelible stains.””
Also vandalism?
And didn’t this whole manspreading thing start as a joke on tumblr?
Sixty people and she hasn’t been beaten to within an inch of her life? Russia has gotten soft just like us. Seriously though, she needs to knock it off because I think we all know this is going to end.
Someone grabs her by the hair and pours the bleach down her throat.
If she’s lucky…that has a chance of survival.
This seems really odd. In Russia? This is the feminist cause?
A country where freedom of the press is under serious duress, where political opposition is almost impossible?
“Manspreading” seems to be a very US/Western Europe kind of thing. I don’t really see activists in India taking up that issue until they get the actual violence against women issues solved. I would think Russia would be much better than India, and miles better than Pakistan…. but to the point where a stupid, made-up thing like “manspreading” incites women to physical violence?
Nah… gotta be more to the story. For some reason this seems targeted at a western audience where manspreading would actually have an audience of dippy young feminists.
You can’t start talking about rape culture until you have actually stopped being a rape culture. Rape culture becomes a thing when activist need to search for a reason to exist.
Exactly.
I just love it when a community can come together in a public venue and have a conversation about important issues. This is why we should subsidize trains.
Don’t call it a failed state.
Federal and state authorities in Mexico have disarmed the entire police force in the city of Acapulco as investigators look into suspicions that it has been infiltrated by drug gangs.
According to The Associated Press, officers “were stripped of their guns, radios and bullet-proof vests and taken for background checks. Law enforcement duties in the seaside city of 800,000 will be taken over by soldiers, marines and state police.”
Maybe we should destabilize the Mexican government sufficiently to allow the narcorevolutionaries to assassinate the President and take over. I vote we get Hillary to handle it.
The question is would it have been better if the US incorporated both Mexico and Canada by 1850 into one big country?
I think we might have rehabilitated Canada, but the cultural differences with Mexico means we might not have been able to fix it.
New Mexico did okay, as did Texas. I think Old Mexico would have been just fine.
Texas had a lot of transplants, and New Mexico also saw a replacement of the population.
Do the background checks AFTER hiring them and issuing the guns. What the fuck do they think they are, a public school system?
Yeah, that’s like giving testimony before hearing the charges against you.
Today’s Medal of Bravery goes to a hot russian chick who pours water/bleach onto the crotches of men who are “manspreading”
I wonder what would happen if a guy did this? How many crotches would he be able to douse before he was beaten so badly he couldn’t continue.
Bit slow there pardner
Sorry, I’ve been busy for the last 4 or 5 days. I guess I’ll cancel my plan to post about Lou Reed, the Cleveland Browns and a dying guy in Washington.
Lou Reed? He got a new album or something?
In today’s edition of everything is sexist, Health Science Has a Gender Problem: Here’s How to Fix It.
Yes, we always favor men’s health issues! Why, wasn’t it just testicular cancer awareness month recently!? We never hear about breast cancer, fucking sexists!
Well a lot of people have been saying this for a long time and were called sexist for suggesting such.
Also is it sex or gender? I thought gender was a construct…
Just curious, do Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Black History Month ever overlap?
The older I get, the more I think that men and women only have reproduction in common. Otherwise, we are Tw0 distinct species.
This is an old complaint. There was a time when health research was mostly don’t on 70kg white males in an attempt to get a homogeneous sample group. That’s no longer the case. Medicine now is moving more and more towards individualized therapy. I can’t help that public school is teaching out of books 50 years out of date.
Done not don’t.
So, wait….didnt Ford say previously that she hadn’t told anyone other than her husband and their marriage counselor? Suddenly they’re “discovering” people she told all over the place?
Hey, don’t you know women are allowed to be inconsistent and change their minds?! Sexist pig!
You jest, but that is actually a part of the new paradigm.
They call it “trauma informed” investigation.
In this world, a changing story is evidence of trauma. Because that’s how trauma victims react. So is a long delay in reporting. There’s a long list of similar things that would traditionally call accusations into question that are now supposed to bolster the accusation.
Because once a woman makes an accusation, there is absolutely no circumstance or evidence that can ever count against it.
Unless of course she is accusing a Democrat.
And why are these people just showing up NOW? Why didn’t they come forward last week? For that matter, why didn’t Ford give their names in her statement rather than the people she claims were at that party?
Expecting truthfulness and consistency is patriarchal.
Who cares?
Call the goddamned vote.
This was an excellent strategy on their part. Never actually releasing any statements by her, only proffers made by proxies.
That way, no matter what is uncovered, she can alter her testimony to match it.
And these “corroborations” are also to be expected. Notice that none of them surfaced before this went public. They had a couple of months to find people she told about it and the didn’t exist. Then, after a couple of weeks in the news every single day, people were able to search their memories and discover hidden corroboration.
I still maintain that anyone claiming to remember a name that they had never heard before and haven’t heard for 7 years is lying. No way you could remember that name if you didn’t already know it.
My sergeant made me make a sex tape: Wall police lawsuits allege racism, more
I kept hoping that it wasn’t the Wall in NJ…
NJ Trivia – many of the municipalities there are members of a JIF or Joint Insurance Fund. So congratulations fellow NJ Glibs – we all got to pay for this in the form of increased premiums for the JIF.
Speaking of regretting watching CNN; I was just down getting breakfast at the hotel I”m staying at. CNN was on the TV and it “thankfully” wasn’t too loud so I only pickled up bits and pieces. They had on Kavanaugh’s lawyer. It sounds like they found some woman who has her HS yearbook and BK wrote something not nice in it…? She is making no accusations of anything worse than he hurt her feelings. The reason this is a valid point of questioning? BK himself said in an interview that he never disrespected a woman. He set the criteria himself. So, if he was mean to a girl 37 years ago, he’s a liar and unfit for the SC!!!!11!!
Jesus fucking Christ.
In my yearbook, a friend apologized for biting me when she was drunk. When will the Senate finally investigate?
Well as long as she did not bite it off… A nibble is no big deal
…go on.
I was trying to coax her out of a closet where she was blackout drunk and crying. I had gotten her to come out and was trying to parse her drunk talk to figure out what was going on. She bit me on the calf, hard, and went running out of the room, out of the house, and down the street, screaming incoherently. Most of the people at the party went running after her; I limped into the living room bleeding everywhere and a couple of stoners performed first aid with paper towels and scotch tape.
This is true. I remember SugarFree telling me this on September 26, 2018 at 8:48 am central time.
…and the resulting infection destroyed your pancreas and fused the moral and excretory functionality in your brain. This explains everything!
And an uncontrollable desire to consuming living human flesh.
I assume as a diabetic you only eat boys. Can’t have that sugar and spice…
By law, a 17 year old girl is a juvenile, not a woman.
In the mind of the proggies that makes it even worse of a crime, I bet.
ABC is running with teenager opinions on the controversy this morning. And with stupid statistics like 40% of teenage girls feel like they have been judged as a sexual object. All that statistic proves to me is that the other 60% are disconnected from reality.
I don’t care what teenagers think about this, particularly teenagers who want to talk about it on national TV.
The other 60% are fatties.
Sorry, just the facts.
That group has been judged as sexual objects, but the judgement was not to their satisfaction.
“feel like they have been judged as a sexual object”
The lingeries selfies on Snapchat aren’t helping, young ladies.
No way, man. Q’s girls submit their pics to be recognized for their brains and personalities.
As if teenage girls don’t judge teenage boys as sexual objects.
except they don’t, actually.
The only thing that is corroborated is that she (maybe) said a few years ago what she is saying now, which is still unsubstantiated bs that fails on a legal, evidentiary standard. This is just Team Blue trying to cover their tracks by fabricating a response to the criticism that it is odd she never mentioned it before now.
She maybe read the “almost raped” entry in Encycolpeia Dramatica and thought it was a how-to manual.
Distracted Boyfriend meme is sexist, rules Swedish ad watchdog
Popular image of man ogling another woman deemed degrading and discriminatory
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/26/distracted-boyfriend-meme-sexist-swedish-advertising?
Not, not the onion
“The advertisement objectifies women,” the ombudsman, RO, said. “It presents women as interchangeable items and suggests only their appearance is interesting … It also shows degrading stereotypical gender roles of both men and women and gives the impression men can change female partners as they change jobs.”
It is a meme and it says absolutely nothing about men and women in general. Swedes must have some brain rot going on. I see no other explanation
We need to destroy Sweden to save it.
Clearly the Swedes are incapable of governing themselves.
Swedes must have some brain rot going on
Uffda! The rest of you finally see it to. About time.
/all the Norwegians I grew up with
It presents women as interchangeable items
I’ve always thought the point of the stock image was that they are the same woman.
Same hair, shirt (in different colors,) same basic height and face shape. If they aren’t twins, they could 100% at least be sisters.
The memes I’ve seen are usually “grass is always greener” or “really bad but desirable decision/idea”
Not interchangeable. I did always get a kick that it’s the same person.
Uffda. I never realized that they are the same person. I guess I should learn to look at women’s faces.
I never noticed either. All I knew is I wasn’t attracted to either of them.
It’s actually a stupid ad.
“WOW! That chick’s ass is just as nice as yours!”
Double-Mint gum anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sefHatyheE
If you see the rest of the series, it’s clear they are two different models.
Huh. I didn’t even know there were more. I guess I really am that sexist.
Women are not interchangable. Clearly, there us a difference between A cups and D cups. One set of tits, you can fuck, the other just slobber upon.
It’s not an ad. Why’s an ad watchdog looking at memes
Why’s an ad watchdog doing anything other than checking for fraud?
https://imgflip.com/i/2irh9e
Bravo!
Thanks. I had written “their fucking job” but it felt a little too much. This one is more kid friendly.
Why’s an ad watchdog exist?
It was used as an ad on Facebook. But yes, advertising ombudsmen are the perhaps the lowest form of snivelling autocrat.
Ive always thought the man was the most attractive of the three.
/little homo
Things are so far left/stupid it’s no surprise right-wing parties are slowing wining elections.
I reckon once they do it will balance things off down the road.
It’s going to be weird when the right controls the levers of power and then the left looks sane.
Not The Onion, worse, it is The Gaurdian.
These are the terrifying parallels between Brexit and the appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s
Their MPs were opposed to leaving the EU, yet still the leaderships of both major political parties persist in hurtling towards the Brexit precipice like lemmings, ignoring the lessons of the past – and weakening European stability
See – if you don’t give into the mega-state, you’re literally appeasing Hitler. /say what now?
Peak Hitler, like peak derp, may never be reached
Agumentum ad Nazi.
It’s a specialized form of Post Hoc Ergo Promter Hoc
“I rest my case.”
“You rest your case?!”
“Oh, I’m sorry, I thought that was just a figure of speech! Case closed.”
RIP Phil Hartman, who would have turned 70 the other day.
He was the best.
He was great.
Uh… Hitler’s Germany was the first try at the EU. The Waffen SS was literally the EU army with divisions from each country – even a couple of Muslim divisions.
Well, 3rd or 4th or something – Romans and all the versions of the Holy Roman Empires.
Not sure you can expect sense from the Indignant.
It’s fascinating that there’s apparently no alternative between becoming the equivalent of a US state in a poorly conceived, designed, and run United States of Europe, and being Airstrip One. Though even if that weren’t a preternaturally stupid false dilemma I’d be inclined to choose the latter. The strategic need to be told what to do by Jean Claude Juncker, forever and ever and ever is kind of lost on me.
I’m not sure that carving chunks out of Czechoslovakia and giving them to Germany represented “departure” from Europe, either.
It is quite interesting that he thinks increased German influence on the EU is bad though.
″In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country … So true,” the president said, eliciting several muffled laughs.”
Yeh, the UN should be laughing. Assholes.
Didn’t that snivelling twit Obama claim to be among the best Presidents barely into his first term?
In any event, hasn’t his administration done well all things considered?
If the UN gets kicked out and the US exits NATO, Trump will have accomplished roughly half of what I’ve wanted to see for 30+ years.
Pound me too
‘Laugh at me? Okay….watch.’
If we kick the UN out of the US, where will they go?
I think the EU has already gotten its fill of lawless immigrants from shithole countries, so I don’t see them stepping up.
Canada? China? Russia?
Ugh. /slaps forehead.
Trudeau would jump at that chance.
KEEP YOUR IDEAS TO YOURSELF.
I saw a photograph of some UN meeting and went “What the hell is Trudy doing there?” Apparently he’s too much of a joke even for my impression of the UN as a joke.
C’mon Rufus. It would be funny to make the UN relocate to Quebec.
Imagine the epic snits the Quebecois would have when UN delegates didn’t habla in French.
One of the parties including the alleged party of business – the CAQ – proposed new immigrants have three years to learn French.
They haven’t explained what happens if they don’t after the three years.
Very dumb and very inappropriate.
No one will come here of any real importance if they keep this crap up.
Actually they did list the consequences but they were in that weird French dialect the Québécois call French that people from Paris and Rouen can’t understand, so nobody really knows what those consequences are.
“In any event, hasn’t his administration done well all things considered?”
Other than the Tax Cut it’s been fairly status quo. Which guarantees that in 15 years the left will be pineing for the Trump Admin.
As for the UN, the lot if them can go sod off in Hell for all I care.
Yeah they shoulda laughed at that.
He must have been. He was so good he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize before he even started the job.
Functional imagery training versus motivational interviewing for weight loss: a randomised controlled trial of brief individual interventions for overweight and obesity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-018-0122-1
Functional Imagery Training (FIT) is a new brief motivational intervention based on the Elaborated Intrusion theory of desire. FIT trains the habitual use of personalised, affective, goal-directed mental imagery to plan behaviours, anticipate obstacles, and mentally try out solutions from previous successes. It is delivered in the client-centred style of Motivational Interviewing (MI). We tested the impact of FIT on weight loss, compared with time- and contact-matched MI.
So… imagine yourself thin and you will be thin?
I remember they did something similar with basketball players and free throws. I don’t know how rigorous these studies are.
The best working hypothesis is that it trains the subject to treat the end goal as something within the realm of possible. Then, either availability bias or reverse induction work to motivate the subject to work toward that goal in a way they would not have without the FIT. It won’t make you thin on its own, but it *might* provide the mental pathway by which a person can make lasting behavioral changes that will eventually make them thin.
It passes the sniff test. Which doesn’t mean its true, but its possible. In any case, the medical community is woefully incompetent at providing interventions that support behavior changes and fucking should be exploring therapies to help in this area.
But they’ll never stop sounding goofy.
TW: Washington Compost. What more evidence of contempt for women is needed? What!?! These evil white men don’t automatically believe a completely bullshit story of supposed sexual assault from over 35 years ago!?! FUCKING WOMEN HATERS ALL!
Um, what evidence?
Nothing. Left. To. Forget.
Some woman was just on my teevee, blathering about global warming. Head of something called “The Center for Climate and Security” (?) apparently. Something tells me she gets paid a shitload of money to jet all over the globe and spout preposterous nonsense to adoring mobs of NGO parasites and “policy wonks”.
I’m in the wrong line of work.
There was this climate “expert” in Romania warning of temperatures passing 50 in Southern Romania by 2050… Given it was never higher than 44.5 in 1951 I think I doubt a 5 degree increase
I used to say that my inability to get through the entire pitch without giggling is what kept me from being an evangelical TV preacher. Now I’m thinking, I might have to add Climate Warrior to that list.
What is enraging is that the bulk of that think tank (and all those NGO’s) funding is from some sort of government grant.
Whenever I had some AGW cultists tell me any opposition research was discredited because of the taint of corporate/oil money, I pointed out that practically all funding for the AGW church came from government agents which would end up the biggest beneficiaries of the totalitarian marxist final solution that the AGW cultist demanded. They would become furious of the comparison and always try to word salad explain why this comparison was not right and they were not being hypocritical, and fail miserably.
They love to compare climate change to the scientific debate relating to tobacco smoking and lung cancer. What they miss is that the alarmists are the analogues to the scientists working for RJR who kept proving that tobacco smoke had nothing to do with lung cancer through ever more desperately creative statistical sleights of hand.
Solid meme
Stolen.
I’ve noticed the new response to any critical comments towards Ford is “have you ever been raped?”. No and neither was Ford.
Even by her own admission.
I pay taxes in Illinois. Yes, I’ve been raped.
I am close friends with two women who have been raped. Real rape, the forcible and violent kind, not, “He looked at me in a way that made me feel uncomfortable and made sexual remarks.” Both of them are totally disgusted with this Team Blue tactic. Coincidence?
It’s a really dirty tactic. I think most men consider rape to be one of the more vile crimes because we have mothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends, lady friends that we are close to and would be devastated to hear they had been raped, so calling anyone who expects a fair trial/evidence a rape apologists is really low.
That’s because they realize how destructive this vile tactic is going to play out, and the negative impact on real victims will be as so many people – like me, I confess – will start immediately assuming the accusation is false until proven otherwise based on the pasterns we have so far had.
People thinking they can “Kavanaugh-proof” their lives by going Pence and not being around women alone. Good luck if this BS standard becomes the norm. Crazy bitches can just find out when you’re alone and concoct aa story. The only way to “Kavanaugh-proof” ourselves is to make sure he gets on the court.
I had girl accuse me of something I didn’t do in middle school. To this day I have no idea why, but I was put through the ringer and threatened with expulsion. I guess the only reason I wasn’t expelled is there was no proof, or maybe she confessed and no one told me. I can definitely empathize with those guys that have done jail time on a false accusation and don’t know why they don’t go after their pound of flesh once out.
Until they start punishing all women that make false accusations – and I mean really punish them in a way that ruins their lives just as badly as their false accusations will ruin their victim’s lives – I will assume these women are lying until the facts prove otherwise, unless I know the people involved directly and can conclude otherwise based on character knowledge.
I still hold that the appropriate penalty for a false accusation is the punishment the wrongly accused would have recieved. Including the public shaming.
They’re putting us on on a Slip’n’Slide to a very low trust society. We all know how this ends.
My roommate in college was accused of sexually assaulting a drunk girl in our room. Unfortunately for the girl, I was one of those annoying gits who prioritized getting his lab reports done over my roommates’ desire for privacy. So I saw all but about thirty seconds of their brief interlude. He never took off her clothes. She was slobberingly drunk and sexually aggressive up to the moment she lost consciousness.
She pissed herself.
We started to carry her back to her dorm, encountered some friends of hers who took over the task.
Fortunately this was the fourth time she accused someone of sexually assaulting her and all of her ‘attackers’ stories fit the same pattern. So nothing came of it.
Expulsion would have been appropriate. Specifically for endangering the lives of her fellow classmates.
In her case she was terrified of daddy finding out that she was acting slutty when she got tipsy.
It’s a not uncommon pattern, and in the cases where the parents kept them on a short leash, it usually ended with the parents pulling the plug on paying tuition and the girl going home in disgrace.
We’ll be reading Tarran’s story 35 years from now in The New Yorker.
Yup, if the spineless team red assholes don’t see the impact that letting the monkeys flinging shit at the walls and hoping they shut down the process get their way will cause us going forward and cave in, we will only get a shit ton more of this nonsense.
I can’t seem to convince my wife to retire to Japan unfortunately. Looks like I’m going to have to deal here.
Although she is fully on board with the we are not living in the northeastern US for retirement plan.
It’s purgatory, not heaven. But, that’s as good as I could find on this globe at this moment in time.
しょうがないね。
Gotta homemade joke for you to try on a Japanese person.
You: 失敗は？
Them: 成功のもと？
You:はい、そうです。 しょっぱい？
Them: ???
You: 味の素.
Dirty answer would be: 精子のもと.
Using their definition of rape, yes.
Their MPs were opposed to leaving the EU, yet still the leaderships of both major political parties persist in hurtling towards the Brexit precipice like lemmings, ignoring the lessons of the past – and weakening European stability
What if the Austrians had said NO to Annschluss?
“Despite salivating over the prospect of jobs within the totalitarian bureaucracy, the MPs are grudgingly doing what their voters called for and dragging their country out of EU Stagnation.”
FIFT
I like it (not really) when people quote Edmund Burke to justify their belief that MPs should ignore the referendum and do whatever they want. Not only is it a category error, it also tacitly assumes that Burke would have been a Europhile.
My 3 year old fridge stooping cooling/freezing overnight but has power. I removed the back panel and vacuumed all the dust etc around the coils. Still no luck.
When I plug it in, it makes a whirring noise for a couple seconds before stopping. I think replacing the compressor overload might be the likeliest ticket, but wanted to throw it out there in case anyone has experience.
Can you measure the voltage at the compressor terminals?
That’s a good idea, gotta dig out my multimeter.
I have a multimeter that I pretend to read when I have electrical problems too.
Yea me too, but Youtube’s been a huge help.
I’m getting readings of ~13 ohms at each pin on the compressor. I think that’s okay.
Something is rattling inside the compressor overload compressor when I shake it, so I’m thinking something blew inside it.
Just ordered the new part. Could also be the starter relay, but apparently Samsung has already stopped making this part. After talking to the guys at 4 different appliance stores trying to find the art, I will likely never buy a Samsung appliance again. I don’t know it matters though, it feels like all modern appliances are cheap underpowered shit (even if $$$).
It doesn’t matter what you buy. I have a top o’ the line KitchenAid refrigerator that had a bad wiring harness to the freezer door. Replace the harness and move on, right? Wrong. A whole new door. Luckily it was under warranty, but the next thing won’t be.
My neighbor has a 30+ year old fridge in his garage that runs like a champ. Fuck this disposable crap.
I’ve got an old fridge running in my garage too, so at least I was able to save the food. Also thankful I didn’t go to Costco last weekend as planned.
That sucks about having to replace the door, but at least warranty covered it. I’ll probably spring for the Lowes/HD warranty on the next fridge. It’s expensive but the one year manufacturer’s warranty isn’t worth shit.
Check the thermostat
I have a whirlpool and the issue was a bad controller. However, my freezer was still cold so that probably isn’t it.
Yea, both compartments are shot. I had a bad controller go out in my oven and that was an easy fix though.
Did you try turning it off and then on again?
This happened a couple months after I bought the fridge. I called Samsung and they said to turn it off and back on. Fixed it immediately.
They keep putting computers in every place they don’t need to be.
Check the thermostat.
Serious suggestion – has the fan around the cooling coil stopped or frozen?
I had a refrigerator that the drain would clog on – ice up – stop the fan and lose cooling. I must have cleaned that drain 5 or 6 times until I replaced it. I hated that thing. Old appliances weren’t made like this new junk.
The fan won’t run when it’s turned on, but the blade can move freely.
Agreed that modern appliances are total crap. New dishwasher doesn’t work even a quarter as well as the one I had growing up as a kid.
The cleaning issue is a combination of energy and water use restrictions due to fedgov. Add in the phosphate free soap for the trifecta.
OTH, the fact that its useful life is under 5 years is on the appliances makers.
Check to see if your evaporator is frozen over.
Most likely cause is your defrost function isn’t functioning.
So one of the top news story on a respectable Romanian news site was literally that two highschool girls got in a fight. Besides that not being in any way news, the posted a video which is basically entirely blurred. Why the fuck post something like that? Well because morons like me click i suppose and they need clicks…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVSwOqfQs0M
Your Romanian cameras are just terrible.
Were they hot?
that’s what I wanna know
Hawt
I want my 33 seconds back.
Boy the markets sure aren’t happy about Sirius buying Pandora.
Didn’t make sense to me either
Nope – the way they did the Sirius / XM merger made no sense either.
I hear they are also pissed Verizon forked over $40 billion for Sky network..
That was Comcast.
The way I read it is they want access to Pandora’s 71 million users so as to convert them into Sirius subscribers.
Dicey.
I subscribed to Pandora because SiriusXM pissed me off in so many ways – firing Cumia being #1.
And with stupid statistics like 40% of teenage girls feel like they have been judged as a sexual object. All that statistic proves to me is that the other 60% are
disconnected from realityfat.Just trying to help.
Fat or not, they’re being judged.
Scales are patriarchal
Mostly, they’re judged by other women.
SJWednesday: We Should Make Murder of Trans People Illegal Edition
Wait, isn’t murder of anyone already illegal? What am I missing?
Wait, you mean it’s not legal to just off annoying people?
awww man…
::puts away samurai sword::
Well, people judge trans people on their lifestyle and mental health and that’s just like murder, but it’s not illegal yet.
He told investigators they got into an argument and he “snapped,” adding that she was “always belittling him,” police said, according to MassLive.com. He turned himself in at the police department on Friday, telling officers he had done “something very bad,” police said.
So she really was a woman after all.
So in otherwords the murder had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that she was trans as the husband obviously had no issues with marrying a former dude.
Newsflash: sometimes human beings get violent, especially with those they spend a lot of time with. This is true whether you are trans or not. What do you expect that we can pass a law and make it so that no trans person is ever harmed in any way?
You are literally living in the time and place in history where it is the safest to be any form of LGBT and all of us know it so when you start whining about crimes which are just normal every day crimes that happen to involve an LGBT person as proof of how bad you have it you aren’t winning any converts to your cause.
Maybe he just figured out that wasn’t really just an over-sized clitoris?
All us shitlords that ogle womenz are ebul, and this is the proof of that.
Seriously, shit like this has convinced me that humanity needs to go extinct or experience a cataclysmic event so we can reset and get back to reality.
“Seriously, shit like this has convinced me that humanity needs to go extinct or experience a cataclysmic event so we can reset and get back to reality.”
THIS! So much this!
Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak mean create hard times.
The political freedom and unpresedented prosperity the American Empire enjoyed since the end of WWII is making men weak.
SJWednesday: How To Be an Insufferable Douchebag Edition
So empty signaling is easier than doing things?
#whoknew
Did they twig to the fact that it’s about persuasion, not hectoring?
*skims article*
Did BHO write this?
Ugh, still a little gamey.
https://www.stripes.com/wwii-code-breaker-buried-in-nebraska-with-uk-military-honors-1.549056
A 92-year-old woman has been buried in Nebraska with British military honors for a secret that she held for decades: her World War II service as a code breaker of German intelligence communications.
The Union Jack was draped over Jean Briggs Watters’ casket during her burial Monday, the Omaha World-Herald reported. Watters died Sept. 15.
The Imitation Game: How Alan Turing was a magic autist, just like the version of Sherlock played by the same actor. Also he was a traitor for some reason.
It is sad that we need to go to foreign media to find out that the usual suspects, you know the perverts that run the party of virtue signaling, tend to really have top game. Menendez, whom not only got off legally should be preening after revelations like this… But Brett is a scumbag because he might have gotten drunk at some high school party and a #MeToo dnc operative now wants us to believe when he did he wrestled with her. Nobody seems to be able to provide any evidence of this event – especially the people she claims were the witnesses – but we can’s top hearing about this story. In the mean time, real dirtbags like Menendez and Ellison get a media pass…
This must be that fundamental change in America Obama promised us…
#Ibelieveher
SJWednesday Hall of Fame: How to Help Your Date GTFO Before It’s Too Late
This word salad will give you a deadly gastrointestinal disease if you try to figure out wtf this idiot is trying to say…
So “white privilege” is becoming “non-black privilege”? That’s a new one.
My new strategy? Ignore them.
Just ignore them. They’ll eventually go away.
If I’m ever single again, I’m going to have some fun dates.
But will you be joining their free webinar on healing from internalized whiteness?
Re: third favorite poet. I had to read a lot of T.S. Eliot during undergrad, and I’m surprised by how much of it actually sticks with me. I occasionally go back and re-read it because I liked it so much. Who’s your favorite poet, Old Man With Candy?
Don Marquis. By a large margin.
Strange Cults are thine, strange Cunts,
Dry Nymph and arid Venus;
Or should a hymen bust
‘Tis but a puff of dust
Powders the satyr’s penis.
i met a toad
the other day by the name
of warty bliggens
he was sitting under
a toadstool
feeling contented
he explained that when the cosmos
was created
that toadstool was especially
planned for his personal
shelter from sun and rain
thought out and prepared
for him
do not tell me
said warty bliggens
that there is not a purpose
in the universe
the thought is blasphemy
a little more
conversation revealed
that warty bliggens
considers himself to be
the center of the said
universe
the earth exists
to grow toadstools for him
to sit under
the sun to give him light
by day and the moon
and wheeling constellations
to make beautiful
the night for the sake of
warty bliggens
to what act of yours
do you impute
this interest on the part
of the creator
of the universe
i asked him
why is it that you
are so greatly favored
ask rather
said warty bliggens
what the universe
has done to deserve me
Gotcha, I’ll have to go and re-read that too.
You should look up some of Blowfly’s work. Alas he passed away a few years back, but the man was a poet.
Huh. I was gonna guess e.e. cummings.
I was thinking Agile Cyborg.
What difference, at this point, is there between the two?
Access to modern mind-altering drugs?
I like Edwin Arlington Robinson.
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
*shivers*
Here’s how you know if a movement is successfully growing and becoming sustainable, according to these seasoned social justice activists:
You get a slobbery hagiography in Teen Vogue?
As a queer femme of color
All I hear is annoying buzzing sound. Who let that mosquito in?
+1 reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Queer Femme. Is that where queef comes from?
is Donald Trump just a laughingstock?
Watching the vid it didn’t seem particularly bad. Maybe next time he will end his UN speech with Nixon arms but with outstretched middle fingers instead of a peace sign. . .right after announcing US withdrawal from the UN and telling the foreign reps they have 24 hrs to remove their assets before the building is razed. ///wishfulthinking
They should turn that UN den of inequities into a brothel. It functions as such these days already, anyways.
Replace it with something useful like a Waffle Hut.
As someone who works two blocks away, can we do that yesterday?
I am certain this was not a libertarian woman, since we all know they don’t exist in the first place.
When I first saw this story,my first thought was “how morbidly obese do you have to beton9t notice turtle in your HooHaw?”
Why is a dead turtle in your hoohoo indicative of sexual assault?
Dude, are you suggesting that the woman was somehow responsible?
The only thing that makes sense is she was trying to smuggle it as a pet.
Maybe she was told by some backwoods shaman that it cured her crotch rot? In that case it might be animal abuse.
Fucking hell, I just need to unplug from facebook.
I just saw an old friend of mine post a stupid ThinkProgress info-graphic about maternity leave in other countries vs the US. I thought she was smarter than that.
1) just because the federal government doesn’t mandate companies provide maternity leave doesn’t mean most companies don’t provide it. They do. Often very generously.
2) “Canada ‘gives’ 50 weeks of maternity leave” – if you can take more than 2 months off of your job, then your job must not be very important, or you are extremely replaceable. In either case, you’d better be looking over your shoulder during the next round of cuts.
3) do you want lots of maternity leave???? Or do you want to close the gender pay gap??? You can’t have both.
Sometimes I think women were a mistake.
In Romania for a while it was 2 years at 85% of your final year salary with a minimum level. It was ridiculous…
Who in their right mind would hire a woman of child-bearing age with that risk?
For one kid? That is ridiculous.
Also you had to keep the job open for when she wanted to come back witch was awful for small businesses.
Someone wasn’t thinking too clearly….
Baby 1… 2 years off. Go back for a few months… baby 2. Another 2 years off.
You could make it through the better part of a decade getting paid by your (former, but not really former) employer to raise your kids. Not too shabby.
Although it would be an incentive for companies to pay for nannies for their upper tier female employees. A nanny for a few years would be cheaper than paying your controller to sit at home.
no the money comes from the government not the employer
Well that’s dumb then. You gotta raise taxes for that. Or sell bonds. Or print money…
They gotta get with the times. Simply mandating stuff doesn’t cost anything…
FB memes are the genital warts of the internet
That’s why you make both a law… duh.
/prog
I’ve taken a hiatus from facebook. It’s kind of bittersweet; I have a lot of friends that I only communicate with on there, and I miss that. I don’t miss my cousins who are ready to
start putting Jews in ovens for stabbing Germany in the backdefend the sanctity of women from white men who abuse them and are flooding facebook with their declarations of intent.I have never regretted not doing Facebook despite all the harassment from people that told me how I was dumb for not partaking of that shit show. Maybe it is my cantankerous and nasty nature, but I really don’t like dealing with stupid people and call them out on that, so I know I would end up in trouble.
I use it just for keeping up with cousins and old friends. Thankfully, pretty much none of them are raging proggies, though there are a few “ordinary” lefties. The only folks I’ve ever blocked was one who copied/shared/whatever EVERY SINGLE political (conservative in her case) screamer article she ever saw, plus a guy who for some reason kept getting into historical arguments that were always about how Lincoln was great.
I remember watching one of the debates between Hillary and Trump, and Trump was promoting his maternity leave idea. And Hillary then argued against it saying companies would stop hiring women.
This actually happened.
Hillary had to be against maternity leave because Trump said he was for it.
This sucks. https://japantoday.com/category/sports/Ohtani-to-have-Tommy-John-surgery-in-October.
But: He is the first player in major league history to hit at least 15 homers and strike out at least 50 batters in a single season, and he joined Babe Ruth as the only players ever to hit 15 homers and pitch 50 innings. Ohtani and Ruth are the only players since 1900 to hit 10 homers while winning at least four games.
I had a Hiroshima carps shirt I got at a game that I wore for years. That’s the only relevant Japanese baseball comment I have.
That was in MLB. He shouldn’t even be trying to do both.
I was so disappointed to find out that the Carp logo was basically a Cincy Red’s logo. I wanted a hat bad.
Also appropriate, because carp are one of those creatures that would get irradiated and just keep on swimmin’ while lesser fish went belly up.
Great player who made a really poor decision on where to sign. The Angels are him, Mike Trout, and a collection of stiffs, plus a weak farm system.
The Japanese high schools aren’t kind to their pitchers’ arms. Matsuzaka once pitched a nine inning shutout and the went out and threw 17 innings the next day. 398 pitches in two days at age 18. Criminal to do that to young kid.
And then there’s the other extreme when the Nationals decided to manage Strasbourg’s innings.
How did that work out anyway?
Too bad. Ohtani was a specimen of a ball player.
TJ surgery seems to have become routine these days. 24 is a bit young for the arm to be falling apart.
Holy shit, that makes Cliff Gustafson look like a guy who babied his pitchers in comparison.
“For the last three months, we have been developing a new policy to address dehumanizing language on Twitter. Language that makes someone less than human can have repercussions off the service, including normalizing serious violence. Some of this content falls within our hateful conduct policy (which prohibits the promotion of violence against or direct attacks or threats against other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease), but there are still Tweets many people consider to be abusive, even when they do not break our rules. Better addressing this gap is part of our work to serve a healthy public conversation.
Twitter’s Dehumanization Policy
You may not dehumanize anyone based on membership in an identifiable group, as this speech can lead to offline harm.
Definitions:
Dehumanization: Language that treats others as less than human. Dehumanization can occur when others are denied of human qualities (animalistic dehumanization) or when others are denied of human nature (mechanistic dehumanization). Examples can include comparing groups to animals and viruses (animalistic), or reducing groups to their genitalia (mechanistic).
Identifiable group: Any group of people that can be distinguished by their shared characteristics such as their race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, serious disease, occupation, political beliefs, location, or social practices.”
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/Creating-new-policies-together.html
There is no way this is going to be abused.
The whole point is for it to be abused. The leftists must be slavering at the possibilities.
So painting Trump supporters are knuckle-dragging racists is a violation of twitter’s policy? Good to know.
At least the Internet’s equivalent of the graffiti-strewn men’s room wall has some standards.
Of course it won’t, you silly man.
Spoken like a true homo erectus.
So… isn’t it safe to say that National Socialist is a political belief? And talking about how it’s okay to assault them would qualify as dehumanization? This could get interesting… it probably won’t, but it could.
Very astute.
Also irrelevant, as you note. Nobody seriously expects them to actually follow those vague definitions to the letter, do they?
A court of law might. Do we have any of those left?
Twitter is going to become a mild vanilla version of itself that appeals to soccer moms and various other pearlclutchers. I like that they seem intent on murdering themselves.
If they’re trying to tank their business, sure. One can hope. Twitter is nothing except a grievance intensifier. Other media giants have the need for playdough social interaction locked up. Twitter’s for combativeness and bitchfits.
The interesting people will leave and take their audiences with them. Maybe Twitter has fever dreams of pressuring their competitors’ website registrations to be pulled but, barring that, this will kill them (if it’s fairly and evenly enforced which, let’s face it, it won’t be).
“political beliefs”
Isn’t dehumanizing other people for different opinions Twitter’s business model?
There is no way this is going to be
abusedapplied equally to left and right Twitter users.My prediction: It will be abused. And people in Twitter out-groups will find their complaints under the policy will be roundly ignored.
Twitter really is pushing for a revocation of its Section 230 protections.
They’re pushing for a mass defection and loss of ad revenue.
A version of this has already been tried – in a much better form.
Slashdot introduced moderation and meta-moderation almost 2 decades ago. The idea was to have users of the site moderate comments. A scale of -2 to 5 applied to each comment. Negative moderations moved it down. Positive up. Then users could view comments filtered for only the comments they wanted to see. Reading at +5 meant not seeing anything but the best. Reading at -2 meant seeing a bunch of racist troll comments.
To police moderation, they added “meta-moderation”. A “moderate the moderator” function, where users evaluate other people’s moderation and give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down.
So users with good meta-moderation get more moderator points and can moderate more comments. Users with bad meta moderation get less points and affect the ratings less.
It worked really well with a large and active community. But it still needed repeated admonitions that “troll” or “flamebait” moderations are not substitutes for “I disagree”.
Still, way, way better than this “we are going to filter out political content we disagree with” movement.
Yikes: vox populi, my hell (with apologies to Sartre)
““flamebait” moderations are not substitutes for “I disagree”.” Honest question: Has that ever worked anywhere?
This is why Yelp and AngiesList don’t work: someone in Toadsuck, KY who has never left the county he was born in or spent more than $8 on dinner is giving some awful diner five stars.
That’s what metamoderation is for. Basically, you ask the community to police itself and point out the moderators who are acting in bad faith.
It all works really well, if the bulk of the community is acting in good faith.
But once you have an organized effort to game the system – like the current PC police looking to sanitize the internet of all things conservative – then it probably fails miserably. If you could get a significant percentage to agree that they would use a political standard, then a political standard it would be.
Censorship: amazingly you can find white power music on youtube, but no Alex Jones.
Just search for Ian Stuart or Skrewdriver
Jezebel labeled Weezer as Misogynistic, Wich floored me. But if you’re not in the tank for the matriarchy, you’re a Misogynist.
Weezer? Inoffensive as they come Weezer??
Meh… I’ve been trying to come up with some snark based on the Pinkerton album. That’s about the only one I can see someone stretching something into a complaint (Across the Sea, Pink Triangle, etc.).
I love that album, and now I’m supposed to be offended by it. LOL fuck off Jezebel.
Weezer is liked by nerdy hipster guys and has songs that sometimes suggest that girls like to date guys who aren’t nerdy hipster guys. Throw in the fact that they are white, cis, and mostly straight, Jezebel and other 3rd wave feminists have officially labeled Weezer a PROBLEMATIC BAND.
1994 called…. it wants its relevant band references back.
What’s with these homies dissing my girl?
What’s Lynyrd Skynyrd, chopped liver?
Yes.
Charred liver
“The judge just denied Bill Cosby bail, so Cosby will immediately go to jail for offering a white woman over-the-counter benadryl”
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1044666579554754560
Weren’t some of his victims of the melanin rich persuasion?
Holy cow.
https://twitter.com/BrittPettibone/status/1044258873924714497
Top quality journalism.
::breathes into paper bag::
Only a week and a half until vacation…
Only a week and a half until vacation…
(repeats Mantra)
That works when the Cardinals fall out of the wildcard as well.
The Cardinals really are going to blow it, aren’t they?
::borrows paper bag from LH::
Lose now or lose later: STL got nothing. But it’s family since my people listened to them on the radio.
So who do I pull for the rest of the way? I need working-class Musial-type sensibilities: maybe Freeman and Markakis.
Win or lose, no matter who gets into the playoffs and Series, just know that I loathe the AL beyond my vocabulary’s range to describe things; that is a fact so solid that some scientist should measure me and derive a constant that other, less enduring things can be estimated by: “that concrete bunker should last 0.734 Dons; or maybe erections could be categorized as fractions of my emotional rigidity…..just, when they make that meter and hang it on men’s junk, I don’t want my name on it.
When Michael Avenatti has even lost Brianna Wu……
Wu needs to check her post-male privilege.
I am sad about Bill Cosby.
He was America’s dad when I was growing up so it’s hard to not feel bad on some level.
I grew up with Fat Albert.
And his Junkyard gang. Now you’re trying to make me remember what the little bit Bill Cosby used to do on PBS with the noise making marker (between Sesame Street and the Electric Company).
PICTURE PAGES! THAT’S IT!
Of course, now I have the theme song stuck in my head…
In the 60’s he was the coolest and funniest guy in the world. My Dad had one of his old comedy albums us kids would listen to and laugh hysterically.
Hey, hey, hey!
I have a bit of a bias – He was a childhood hero of mine. His Cosby Show cartoon was very influential in my development. I have always been severely race-blind. That may be genetic, or it may be due to shows like his, which taught lessons of kindness, tolerance and inclusion. I never noticed that we had different races. And then he created the Huxtable family, which was wholesome and had good family values. And it never went the way of other black shows – having all of the white people be buffoons. It was just a rich family that happened to be black.
Then, years later, Twanna Brawley and Al Sharpton happened. And in the middle of that obviously fabricated case, my hero, Bill Cosby offered up a $50k reward for information leading to the arrest of the 5 police officers. This was after it was already apparent that Sharpton was just tossing out all sorts of wild and obviously untrue allegations. So I took that as a slap in the face. He was just as susceptible to race-baiting as anyone else. It was a real let-down.
So I guess that the sexual predator thing wasn’t as big of a letdown for me as it was for everyone else. I had already made my peace with the idea that he wasn’t who he presented himself to be, and I decided that the work stands on its own. Just because he didn’t live up to the ideals he taught was no reason to reject his teaching. That applies just as well to this huge flaw in his character.
This is why I don’t like to know personal things about artists whose work I admire.
I grew up listening to his comedy records on vinyl, then watching Fat Albert and the Huxtables. He was the first comedian that I really liked.
The work really does stand on its own. It has to. Otherwise, how can any art be enjoyed? It’s all produced by imperfect people.
I am not. He abused his power which is precisely the kind of shit that should be punished. Don’t get me wrong. I suspect a lot of these womenz just as likely kept quiet because they were able to profit from these experiences. I have little sympathy for people that stay quiet when they should actually not let someone get away with something horrible like this. Cosby drugging them should especially make these women even more eager to report that immediately.
I am sad about the situation.
I haven’t followed this closely, but your comment raises a question I had.
The stories seem to be “I met Cosby at some function. We hit it off and he asked me if I wanted to go back to his room. He offered me drugs. I took drugs. We had sex. That is rape!”
I quit listening after the first couple of allegations, which were “he asked if I wanted to take some ludes with him and so I did”.
I found it a bit confusing. It seemed like the deal was “let’s get high and screw” and the complaint is “I got so wasted I couldn’t consent” which was then analogized to slipping something in someone’s drink and raping them.
Maybe I should follow things more closely before posting, but it seemed odd to me…. it really did sound like they were consensual drug users and intended to have some sort of sexual encounter while doing drugs. Did I miss something? I must have, because everyone is sure that he’s a serial rapist – as in rape, rape, not “I didn’t really want to go that far but I never said anything” rape. And nobody is defending him, so I must be missing something.
His laughing at his sentencing solidified how much of creep his is. Yep, I liked him back in the day, too.
You keep using that word…
Twenty-seven years after testifying that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her, Anita Hill says she believes the upcoming hearing on an alleged sexual assault by the current nominee “cannot be fair and thorough.”
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A fair process would start with a “real investigation,” Hill tells All Things Considered, saying the absence of other witnesses raises concerns about a he-said-she-said situation.
“It’s only that kind of a situation if it’s set up as that kind of a situation,” Hill says. “In a real hearing and a real investigation, other witnesses would be called, including witnesses who could corroborate, witnesses who could explain the context of the experiences of Dr. Blasey Ford and Judge Kavanaugh during that period in their lives, as well as experts on sexual harassment and sexual assault.”
Hill, who is now a professor of social policy, law and women’s and gender studies at Brandeis University, called for a “neutral body” to investigate the allegations. She says Senate members have already indicated “the presumptions they have about the claims that have been made.”
It’s not fair to ask that poor survivor to endure direct questioning, and be confronted and cross-examined by representatives of the man she has accused. And, this is not actually a trial. Maybe she should attempt to file criminal charges against Kavanaugh, and see how far she gets with that.
Andrew McCarthy agrees: it can’t be fair.
Excellent post. Would read again.
In a real hearing and a real investigation, other witnesses would be called, including witnesses who could corroborate
You mean the three people who have said they weren’t there and never saw any such thing? Including Ford’s “lifelong friend”?
Ferreting out witnesses is a fig leaf of procedural authority anyway, just like calling for an FBI investigation. Third- or fourth-hand witnesses would be feted like Ford’s own guardian angels, and in lieu of even an anonymous someone who claims to have heard something from someone else, also anonymous, they’ll settle for the emphatic petitions to do something as evidence that Kavanaugh must be guilty.
I’m sure there are hundreds of witnesses. All we need is a skilled psychiatrist to get a few of them to finally un-repress the memories of the incident. And if we’re lucky, they might be able to manufacture some evidence, too.
This is precisely the phenomenon we are seeing now.
Maybe there will be a silver lining to all of this in a couple of years as people start to come to grips with the fallible nature of memory and the impact of this knowledge on the legal system.
the absence of other witnesses raises concerns about a he-said-she-said situation.
Umm, there were other witnesses, named by Ford, who have uniformly either declined to corroborate or outright contradicted her accusations. Under oath and in writing. Asking the other witnesses was the investigation.
The people she mentioned it to subsequently are not corroborating witnesses. Their sole function is to offset the suspicion that this was cooked up for purposes of blocking the nomination, and nothing more.
Fucking platform jumper means I’m stuck on this train till they get the guts and brains scraped off the front car.
That happened to me in Philadelphia. Cops marched us up the steps from the platform and instructed us to not look back down at the tracks. And inevitably, I heard a woman scream, “OH MY GOD, HER HEAD CAME OFF!”
Did she pull through?
I must must be evil because I laughed at that.
She was able to vote Democrat, if that’s what you mean.
Quote from my current work-in-progress:
“Dead people vote, but they do not spend money.”
But dead people are more productive than the average bureaucrat.
You are correct, sir.
However, in Prohibition Kansas City, the bureaucrats and the dead often worked hand-in-hand.
My brother used to be a TV cameraman for the local new station. He was hanging out with me when (ancient times!) his pager went off. He invited me along on the ride to visit the scene of an accident.
Turns out a guy in a Chevy Cavalier convertible made a left turn in front of a semi truck hauling gravel. The car got totally demolished and dragged for a good many yards. My brother is walking around with a camera, taking shots and interviewing one of the deputies.
I’m staying out of the way but notice a towel on the roadside, covering a rather large melon-sized lump. A cop walks up to me and says: “Why don’t you have a look under there?”
Me: “Uh no thanks.” And walk away.
Later my brother told me that the driver of the car had his head removed from the impact. Nice cop there.
Damn. Even by cop psychopathy, that’s terrible.
Its not psychopathy, its just desensitization. Work around enough dead bodies or injured people, and your emotional response to it changes. It can be hard to remember what it was like before it happened. And it turns mutilated flesh and twisted bodies into simple mechanical things. Same way a few guys sitting around a fire are all going to be interested in how that stack of logs is going to collapse, or the same way a group of guys standing around a CNC are mesmerized by the movements they didn’t program, scenes like that turn into “I wonder how that happened” mental exercises.
Making that joke with another cop and I’d write if off as morbid humor. Saying that to a passerby shows some serious disregard for other humans.
Machine Shop Ear-Bender: So we were doin’ paramedical work in affiliation with the state highway system. Not actual practice, you understand. And me & Bill were patrolling down Nine Miles.
H.I.: Bill Roberts?
Machine Shop Ear-Bender: No, not that mother-scratcher. Bill Parker. Anyway, we’re approaching the wreck, and there’s this spherical object a restin’ in the highway. And it’s not a piece of the car.
I was being really verbose, but I meant to say wrong, but understandable and not psychopathy. Anyone exposed to that kind of stuff is liable to fall into that behavior. Doesn’t make it not wrong.
Fair enough. I just liked the ring of “cop psychopathy.” And SF, leave Mr. McDonnah’s care alone.
When I was a student, our local newspaper had an article about a bicyclist who was hit (and killed) by a loaded rock truck. The article described him as “wrapped around the axle” of the truck. I’m not sure I even want to think about what that actually looks like.
They told her to watch her step, but she persisted.
That’s how Adrian Borland died – may he forever and finally RIP.
Not unique to Japan, unfortunately. Have had this happen on NJTransit at least once a year.
Difference is that in Japan he will be scraped off in under an hour. And in Japan there is a non-zero chance he took his shoes off first.
Fucking platform jumper means I’m stuck on this train till they get the guts and brains scraped off the front car.
Appropriate
Or not.
Also highly inappropriate.
RE: New York weather.
I thought global warming was going to turn NYC into the next Miami? If that’s the case, why does Cuomo want so desperately to stop it?
Well, we have the Florida humidity. Fuck, it’s been disgusting lately.
If true it would save all those New Yorkers the trouble of moving to Miami.
Paging Sugarfree
President Trump’s new limousine reportedly costs $1.5 million and comes complete with a fridge stocked with samples of his blood type.
NBC reports that Trump on Tuesday rolled up to the United Nations in the new vehicle , nicknamed The Beast like the previous limo. The new limousine’s predecessor was introduced during President Obama’s first term.
But does it have gold plated wire wheels and gangster whitewalls?
Diet Coke button?
Live-in piss hookers.
Hot and Cold running piss. And a McDonald’s-grade fountain Diet Coke set-up. Maybe a little jungle gym for the hat and hair to play on.
I love the detail about the blood. Like having his blood type on hand for medical emergencies is some sort of outrageous luxury item.
And if it came out that he’d declined to have blood taken for that purpose, the howler monkeys would be flinging shit about Trump putting the country in danger if he’s incapacitated and the Russians attack, or whatever.
I think it is just his blood type, not his blood.
If it was only his blood, they could howl about how he thinks gays are trying to give him AIDS with their infected Jew blood.
Why are they not saving sperm samples of presidents?
Well, they have Bill’s on that dress…
I put the reeeeeeeeeee in reading comprehension.
Let’s hope the blood samples are kept in McDonald’s ketchup packages.
It should be like the car described at about 1:55 into this song
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This Kavanaugh shit has really got me down. I don’t think I’ve ever been so furious over political news in my life.
It used to be that politicians would “spin” things. But between the Russia hoax and Kavanaugh, Dems have literally just resorted to making shit up. And the talking heads on TV – who probably don’t even believe it themselves – keep repeating this shit as fact because so many brain dead idiots are so dishonestly partisan that they’ll believe it simply because they want to believe it.
It’s so depressing. I might just tune out and immerse myself in work even more. Of course, when I do that, I can’t help but to think how I work my ass off for every cent my company makes (literally every fucking cent), and yet some talking head on CNN is getting paid more than me because he’s a prick with a law degree that is willing to parrot obvious lies.
The downstream effect of me fucking up at my job is chilling sometimes. Best case scenario, I just get a factory or farm shut down for a day. Worst case, i cost people lots of money in lost productivity and expose companies to millions in liability due to defective products. These motherfuckers get up on TV and lie all fucking day long – lies they probably don’t even believe – and they’re rewarded for it. Fuck those assholes.
“Worst case, i cost people lots of money in lost productivity and expose companies to millions in liability”
Proving that you are in fact a shitlord.
In progtopia, even TOP. MEN. cannot be responsible for that much bad.
Don’t worry about the guy at CNN making more than you. Being able to look at yourself in the mirror every morning is worth a lot more than whatever he’s getting paid.
And yes, it’s fairly depressing seeing what depths they’ve sunk to. Look at it this way though; they’ve ripped off their masks and everyone can see them for what they are. Their true nature has been revealed. If people still choose to listen to them, at least it’s with the understanding that there is no dissembling, fakery or false objectivity. Those of us who’ve been paying attention know they’ve been like this for years, Trump just enraged them so much that they lost it and went full activist. When you get in your opponent’s head and they start playing angry, you know you’ve got them.
What depresses me more is the GOPe continuing to get Stockholm Syndrome from the Dems. You’d think that after watching Trump, they’d learn that meekly submitting to Dems’ insane demands is bad both strategically and for the country. The fact that they’re going to try and force Kavanaugh’s nomination through regardless of the kicking and screaming and rending of garments by the Dems is a good sign, however I’m still skeptical.
It pissed me off, too. That is until the second accuser came forward. “I was blasted drunk and was face down on the ground when I saw his dick.” That’s just high quality trolling that should be appreciated for what it is.
Technically it doesn’t even matter to me as a non-American (though probably we’ll get the same behaviour here in a few years).
The way self-described ‘respected media organisations’ have behaved is quite astonishing, though. NYT, WaPo, CNN, NBC etc. haven’t even pretended to be disinterested even for a second. They’ve just regurgitated Democrat talking points with no shame whatsoever. This “corroborates” stuff is just the latest example. We all know that journalists end up reflecting metropolitan biases to some extent. But using a word like that, without knowing or caring that it’s taking sides…
The other worrying thing is the sense that the left is trying – and by degrees succeeding – to set up a parallel justice system, where due process is forgotten and punishment is capricious. There is an age-old problem with how to deal with behaviour that can’t result in judicial punishment (I doubt a criminal case would make it to court) but is still socially harmful. Predictably the left’s solution – to punish people socially according to its idiotic victimhood pyramid – is pathetic rubbish. But it’s pathetic rubbish that’s taking hold.
What’s depressing me is how many of my otherwise intelligent friends are buying the whole story as presented. TBF: it’s possible something did happen, unlikely, but possible. But there has been no credible evidence and yet people are all on board. And I’m not talking about political operatives who claim to believe this because it advances an agenda. These are people who truly believe that Kavanaugh did everything he’s accused of. It’s sad and depressing and further encourages me to avoid political conversations with most of my friends because I want to keep them as friends.
There are a lot of stupid. fucking. people in the world. I tried checking my bias when it comes to this situation and no matter how hard I try, I can’t see this as anything other than a massive hit job.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so furious over political news in my life.
Its been awhile since I’ve been this aggravated by the DC circus. It might be because me and Kav are pretty much the same – white guys in their mid-50s with a spotless career and personal record. Seeing someone in my position being subject to character assassination and the destruction of their reputation and career, based on accusations from someone who I am increasingly convinced is not all there, strikes a little close to home.
Cheer up – it’s only a little under half the country that believes you deserve the same treatment solely on account of your sex and race.
Ladies with quite fine embonpoint to brighten your day.
http://archive.is/tsrtt
Even though cleavage is superior, there are some very nice underboob specimens in this group.
RE: Eversen Griffen.
30 is a little late onset for schizophrenia but not unheard of. Certainly sounds like schizophrenia based on the description of his symptoms: forgetfulness/cognitive problems, delusions, paranoia, auditory hallucinations.
Such a terrible disease. He won’t be playing football anymore.
I don’t really know the positions to well. Is his susceptible to a lot of head blows?
He plays defensive end so he gets knocked around pretty good. I don’t think this is CTE though; it happened way too quickly and CTE presents more like dementia. The rapid onset, delusions and paranoia seem, at least to me, indicate schizophrenia
Sounds a lot like Ernie Holmes shooting at helicopters.
I don’t think that we have any idea how repeated head trauma interacts with schizophrenia, but I can’t imagine it does anything good for it.
Mom was convinced I’d be schizophrenic after my brother’s friend succumbed to it. She thought I was displaying symptoms. In fairness, I did have a spate of weird visual and psychological issues due to night terrors and (I found out much later) micropsia.
Oddly enough, after two decades and God only knows how many varieties of medication and dosages, my brother’s friend became lucid again. I don’t know how persistent or deep it goes, but he and my brother were able to pick up conversations they’d had twenty years ago as teenagers. He couldn’t really describe the condition other than omnipresent terror and dislocation.
No, you don’t have micropsia. It really is that small.
Sorry…… it was kinda obligatory.
Don’t you talk about my twelve inch pianist!
I didn’t suspect that, but it’s still a sad situation.
It’s sad. He is a good guy by all accounts.
I’m really wondering about the head trauma these guys suffer. Rufus linked a short documentary on Joe Murphy, a former NHLer who is now completely fucked up and living on the streets. Matt Johnson is another. Derek Boogaard died at 28 and he had CET as well.
Scary shit.
Fuck. Maybe I have CTE.
Or aixelsyd.
I swear to Dog, if one more person makes fun of this very serious mental impairment I have…
Sad as it is, I do not feel as sorry for the CTE. These guys go in knowing their heads are gonna get knocked around in a bucket, and they are being paid for the use of their bodies as battering rams. They get paid weregeld in advance.
Sure, but the CTE data is relatively new. Anyone who ever played contact sports likely has had a concussion or ten. It’s weird how some people succumb and others are razor sharp late into life.
I still think it sucks. Young guys never think about being Old Guys
I cannot disagree.
Did not know that about Joe Murphy. I remember him on the Kid Line with Adam Graves and Martin Gelinas for Edmonton in their surprising 1990 Cup run.
I’ll be an asshole here and say that I’m glad Matt Johnson is fucked up because of his cowardly sucker punch that ended Jeff Beukeboom’s career. Fuck that guy.
The evidence, since non-Rangers fans probably don’t remember this.
That’s bad.
I’ve always thought that kind of shit should merit election from the league. You end a guy’s career, you go too.
Anyone else feel like the Kavanaugh circus has the potential to turn into another OJ Simpson circus? It feels like a lot of people are just projecting their own biases about #metoo without any regard for the facts of the case, similar to how people projected their distrust of police behavior towards black people onto the OJ trial.
It’s turned into a signaling exercise, you are either against violence towards women or you think Kavanaugh should be confirmed.
Which is exactly the way the Democrats wanted it to be framed.
My thoughts go more to the McMartin case, especially with the new chick who had to spend 6 days (so her lawyers say) going over her memories with them.
I still can’t believe they actually admitted that. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. “Well, for 30+ years I didn’t really know who did it because I was drunk off my ass, but after talking to a lawyer for six days, I know it was Brett Kavanaugh.”
No. “After six days I know someone said it was Brett Kavanaugh. And he might have been pulling up his pants.”
Her tears say more than real evidence ever could.
The party of science is pulling out academics (and none seem to be volunteering) to dispute the validity of repressed memories.
Not that anyone gives a toss but here is a picture of the completed Aleph J amplifier. Kinda of a bland silver front/black box look but I’m a cheapskate.
If I’m around I always click!
#metoo
Maybe plummeting public confidence in government is only partly due to the partisan degradation of our national institutions. Maybe a lot of it stems from minor shit like this.
Tar. Feathers. Some assembly required.
Don’t forget the rail
The charges have apparently been dropped.
I love the detail about the blood. Like having his blood on hand is some sort of outrageous luxury item.
I like the implication that it was all Trump’s idea. No input from the Secret Service, you can be certain of that.
The fridge full of Obama -compatible blood was a holy sacrament, as well as a medical necessity. Trump is just being a weirdo..
is it just me, or has Lindsay Graham grown a set of balls ever since John McCain died?
Makes one wonder what McCain was holding over him.
his balls? ::chortle::
Maybe his pool boy shot him a load of testosterone.
New Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick details parties where she says girls were drugged and raped
Here we go again…
But did they like it?
Obviously, if they kept going back to the parties. *eyeroll*
This is a total load of horse hit.
Hold the vote.
What about all the parties he attended where they practiced human sacrifice and cannibalism?
Let me click on that. *Cigarette drops from mouth*
Michael Avenatti
✔
@MichaelAvenatti
Here is a picture of my client Julie Swetnick. She is courageous, brave and honest. We ask that her privacy and that of her family be respected.
11:44 PM – Sep 26, 2018
Here’s a picture of Streisand’s tits. Please respect them.
Thanks for pointing me to “The Rising Wasabi”.
Man Types English In Japanese
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve accidentally selected the wrong keyboard on my iPad or phone.
Well, that’s a load of shit.
Why not just say you remember him killing a hooker and then conspiring with the Corleone family to cover it up?
“In approximately 1982…”
Sounds solid.
If that’s just nonsense then Avenatti and Swetnick both need to do time.
If[T]hat’s just nonsensethen[and] Avenatti and Swetnick both need to do time.Shark. Jumped.
Hah, McMartin!
So, all these girls at the parties knew that rapes were occurring just several feet away and did nothing? to try to stop it? Call the cops, hit someone with a bat? Nothing, except keep going to parties? Holy shit. What rational person would believe this?
Wouldn’t keeping that concealed make them accessories to the crime? Why it might even count for a conspiracy charge
And since she’s describing parties, the implication is that they kept going back.
No shit. Sounds like she should have her clearance revoked.
Kavanaugh was “there” sometime between 1981 and 1983 at parties where girls were drugged and raped… and his BFF Mark Judge participated!
again with the absolutely irrefutable claims.
The average Democrat in the Rust Belt must be delighted that this Avenatti character exists.
“There are now multiple, corroborated allegations against Judge Kavanaugh, made under penalty of perjury, all of which deserve a thorough investigation,” Schumer said.
As far as I know, none of them are corroborated, and one of them hasn’t actually been made outside of the New Yorker. I was also not aware that any of them were made under oath or subject to the False Statements Act – pretty sure an email from a lawyer retailing accusations by his client doesn’t qualify, and I thought I had read that a letter to Representative about a proceeding in the Senate doesn’t qualify, either. So, I would say there have been multiple accusations, none of them corroborated, and none of them subject to perjury, yet.
“I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room. These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh,” Swetnick said.
She also said that in approximately 1982 “I became the victim of one of these ‘gang’ or ‘train’ rapes where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present.”
Space lizards, high school boys, they all start to blend together after a few decades.
“And they raped us with ten-inch kitchen knives.”
“approximately 1982” – if you were a victim (not a participant) in rape, you would remember.
The 1980’s is calling – they want their repressed memory cases back.
Sounds more like the summer of ’69.
Nah, Jimmy quit and Josie got married.
Even I remember that.
Damnit, Jody got married.
Shit. I may never make it to the Supreme Court now.
So Brett Kavanaugh being present at a party where you were raped means he did it?
shit, I didn’t even catch that part.
I expect we will soon be hearing stories about how Kavanaugh tortured kittens and puppies at the scenes of these gang rapes which happened in tunnels underneath the dorms specially constructed for these nefarious deeds.
Don’t forget the rocket.
Or the ritual murder and sacrifice of virgins to demonic entities
You’d think a guy who was THIS rapey would be all in favor of abortion.
And would be still kind-of rapey beyond his college years? I mean, he went cold turkey once he got his diploma? Not one attempted ass-grab at the office in the past 35 years?
Alien anal probes were present.
I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room.
Are you sure that wasn’t a Stormy Daniels movie? ” Fast Train to Bliss, vol6″ Watch Stormy ride these hard-as-steel rails one after another.
Yeah. You don’t have any such firm recollection.
I can think of one incident where something remotely like that happened…. a freshman who was a preacher’s daughter wore her date out (a guy who lived in my dorm) and he finally walked out, having had enough. She kept yelling for someone to come F*** her, so after a while one of the guys went to see what was up. She jumped his bones – not entirely consensually at first, but he warmed up to the idea quickly enough. Then he had all he could handle and she got mad and kicked him out and started screaming for someone else. Nobody else was up for the challenge. Apparently she very loudly questioned their sexual orientation and finally left in frustration.
I was in the next suite over, so I didn’t actually witness any of it, but it was the talk of the town.
Those preachers daughters really had a tendency to explode when they got out from under daddy’s thumb.
I have attended 7 different universities over my career. And I have known dudes, well, forever. Standing in line outside a room waiting your turn does not strike me as a thing that happens – at least not outside the fantasies of a teenage mind. Certainly not often enough to be “at many of these parties”.
I once went to a swingers party at a BDSM dungeon. Think half EDM rave and half people openly having sex in random places. At said party was a girl who wanted to be gangbanged for her birthday. Now admittedly she was not great looking and a bit chubby but she was hardly obeese or ugly, she was a solid 5 in the looks department. The organizers were literally going around begging guys to sign up to participate because no one had signed up to help her out.
The idea that these drunken college gangbangs are super common is completely false. I am sure they happen but you might get 2 or 3 a semester on any given campus, they are not something happening at every single party
To even try to break down all the absurdities in her claim is so tiresome. Can’t remember the year, exactly. Kept going to parties where she witnessed gang rapes. Nobody every reported anything to anyone.
Here’s the thing about a no-kidding gang rape, which was also the big fat red flag on Jackie Coakley’s lies: the victim needs medical attention, generally in a hospital emergency department. There is no way on this earth that multiple rich white girls were gang raped and nobody at all knew about it.
So, this woman grew up in Gaithersburg and went to Gaithersburg High, yet she was constantly at parties with Kavanaugh and Judge, who went to a private school several towns over? Again, sounds airtight.
I thought they only went to parties with Holton girls?
Oh, I bet she /wanted/ to be airtight alright.
The whole accusation is bullshit because the “She pulls trains at parties” has been standard urban myth/way to throw shade at a slutty chick since at least the 70s, maybe earlier. I remember hearing this shit in high school and college in the 80s and 90s and it was always a titillating story to tell to indicate how bacchanalian a party is or how degenerate a group of people are.
Truth is, those sort of trains are difficult to organize. Guys don’t actually like sloppy 7ths. No way in hell were there guys lined up waiting their turn.
“Please line up in a single file, orderly line. No cutting is allowed! Brett put your cock back in your pants until it is your turn! No waggling it in her face, this is a civilized gang rape gentlemen!”
I also heard more than one such tale during my high school days in the early 90’s. Utter and complete horseshit.
Yep. I wasn’t the coolest guy in the world and I was never in a fraternity, but I’ve been to a fair number of parties in my younger life – at a high school similar to Kavanaugh’s with a bunch of rich kids who drank like fish, at a college famous for its drinking culture, and in the Marines where drunkness on liberty is practically a standing order. I’ve never seen anything remotely like that in my life.
Indee. I was at many many dozens of parties in high school where the parents were silly enough to go on vacation and leave their little angels in charge of the house for some days (unlike my parents who knew exactly what would happen). There was all sorts of crazy, drunken teenage behavior including fist fights, people jumping off the roof into pools (with at least one guy missing and breaking his leg), people slipping away to bedrooms to do drugs and get it on, and general Animal House style shenanigans. Never once did anything like that happen. The one time that some guy did try and assault some drunk girl there were six other guys that broke it up and brought him out on the street to fight.
Yep. I’ve seen drunk teenagers/20somethings take running leaps over a bonfire, hang upside down off balconies, try to jump down into a tree from an overpass (that led to a skull fracture), start a fire by putting something metal in a microwave, skinny dipping, running over mailboxes in a car, rolling around nearly naked in the snow on a dare, chewing up aluminum cans, hearing a couple going at it loudly from upstairs like you’ve seen in movies….never once saw a lineup of guys waiting to have sex with one girl.
Not true. I have video of it!
Cuomo said many of the New Yorkers leaving the state now are doing so for personal reasons or decisions that he called “climate based.”
Is there no stop to the horrors that climate change is delivering unto us?
Peak Empty Gesture?
Trump should travel with specially selected teen aged blood and tissue -compatible donors at all times, like some sort of high tech Chinese Emperor. His own personal blood and organ donors; in case of emergency, the needed repair parts should be readily available.
And a girl with green eyes.
“we’re approaching the wreck, and there’s this spherical object a restin’ in the highway. And it’s not a piece of the car.”
Son and I top a small rise on TX121 doing the limit and a mile off there’s what looks like a six foot wad of aluminum foil on the side of the road down there, maybe some sort of stick in the road. Closing that mile quickly, I figure out it was a car, the stick had been a power pole, and there was indeed a sphere in the road.
Pulling up and diving out of the car because we’re the first on the scene, we jump into all our normal BoyScout routines. The sphere in the middle of the highway turned out to be a bambino-carchair sub-assembly that got ejected (not unusual at all: getting the various chairs to latch into the various cars was really hard until recently); the kid’s screaming his head off, so I figure he’s okay and order sonnyboy to take him….I run on to the car.
It’s a long story; ends badly; I hope the driver died because she was destroyed: it’s glass and teeth and blood which is scary for exposure: my gloves got cut; you decide whether you care and are going to do something or not and you live with the consequence (I’m clean, it turns out). There was another bambino-carchair sub-assembly in the rear seat: he was perfectly okay.
It’s clear and not remotely humid in much of Texas, and you can see for miles. Under stress, you don’t see or think right, anyway: you just run around executing your training, just the rote behaviors beat into you cycling through your muscles once again.
There was a sphere in the road……….that’s a kid!
Here’s another amusing detail from this deposition: she says she attended “well over ten house parties….in the years 1981-83”. This alleged rape happened “In approximately 1982”.
So she kept going to parties with these guys after she was raped? That seems a mite odd, no? Even more odd than the fact that, even before she was raped, she saw all of this shocking behavior and guys lined up to run a train on a girl….and she STILL kept going to the parties.
And said nothing to nobody until a politically opportune moment three and a half decades later. So either she’s lying, or she’s complicit.
You can’t ask those questions. For example, I want to ask why “gang rape” is in quotation marks, but I won’t.
funny video of Biden making the rounds completely dismissing FBI reports during SCOTUS confirmation hearings. apparently Clarence Thomas cited the FBI investigation and Biden rants about its uselessness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5F5wsul_Zo
Biden is the gift that keeps on giving. first Merrick Garland, now this. THANKS JOE!
Avenatti had for several days said he had a client, until now unnamed, who had been aware of gang rapes connected to Kavanaugh.
If that were true, there would be some sort of corroborating evidence. You know- police reports, trial transcripts, lurid press coverage, massive civil judgements against the schools…
Please. Everybody knows rape trains were a perfectly acceptable part of life in the bad old days before #metoo.
i blame our societal infatuation with Thomas the Tank Engine. young boys are indoctrinated at a young age to view trains favorably.
+1 really useful engine
People all over the world,
Join hands,
On a rape train, rape train….
So, all these girls at the parties knew that rapes were occurring just several feet away and did nothing? to try to stop it? Call the cops, hit someone with a bat? Nothing, except keep going to parties? Holy shit. What rational person would believe this?
Precisely.
Is Trump paying Avenatti on the sly to thoroughly discredit Dems?
that’s the only reasonable explanation at this point
NEEDZ MOAR RAINBOW PARTIES
I wonder whether civil divorce isn’t the only tenable option at this point. Reduce the scope and remit of the federal government, let Texas govern Texans and California Californians. Illinois and others will slip instantly into insolvency, but that paves the way to restructure and one hopes resurrect good governance. New York can dabble in Occasio-Cortezism, Vermant can feel the Bern. Who knows how it shakes out, but the viciousness practiced by Dems and the feeble defense of the status quo by ‘pubs cannot hold for long.
Anyone want to give me advice on creative anarchy? I can’t move every six weeks when my neighbors pass yet another stupid law. Anyone want to go halfsies on an atoll somewhere?
Good news on the unfunded pensions: it comes to only $7,000 per capita in TN…..and we’re not going to pay it anyway.
The problem is that the left won’t tolerate civil divorce. They’ll be quick enough to tell you that their plans have to be national in scope to work. And, increasingly, they view anyone not acting in accordance with their creeds as violating (some indefinite person’s) rights.
That’s because they care so damn much!
I’ve actually heard them say flat-out that socialized medicine schemes don’t ever work at the state level because they have to be national.
Leftists cannot leave you or anyone else alone. They do not believe in volantarism. They mean to rule you.
do lefties think this Avennatti guy is helping?
You answered your question three words in.
Probably not – apparently congressional Dems have been giving him the ol’stiff arm, Heisman style, over this accusation.
Schumer seems to be calling for Kav to withdraw and a full investigation. Which seems like it should be one or the other.
Based on these accusations, Democrats ought to be pushing for Kavanaugh to be impeached from the DC circuit, right? You know, assuming these are not just politicised attacks based on a rabid attitude to the SC and abortion.
Obviously it doesn’t matter what they do, since no one will hold them to account. Feinstein could rob the Republicans at gunpoint on television at this point and the media would only complain that some of them handed over their wallets a bit sullenly.
Excellent point. Grassley should call their bluff and ask them when they will be filing impeachment papers.
Make this a threat to the jobs of every sitting male federal judge, and I guarantee it will vanish in a heartbeat.
I don’t know about you, but all this train talk has got me feeling strange inside.
That’s because they care so damn much!
They simply cannot bear the thought of leaving you behind, to wallow in the muck and mire of your unenlightened ignorance.
Come, Citizen, and be saved!
So Avennati is a Pizzagater?