Hi ever’body. Sorry about yesterday. I had an unexpected thing happen. So anyways, after I got the baby alligator back to the trailer park, it was pretty late and I realized I had totally missed the links. My bad.
Florida Woman leads “Great St. Pete Parking Lot Revolt”, gets arrested. All I have to say is this is what makes America great. “$50 fine for breaking down the gate? I’m in!”
Model with Down’s Syndrome breaks stereotypes. For one thing, she’s too smart to be a normal model.
The Golden Age of Sleeper Trains returning. Some of them are… (gasp)… private!
Trump administration imposes sanctions that Trump immediately suspends. 9-D chess, bitches!
It was like a little vacation.
“Model with Down’s Syndrome breaks stereotypes. For one thing, she’s too smart to be a normal model.”
Paywalled
Works for me. My ad-blocker must be letting whatever script is stopping it for you.
It was fine for me.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6682575/This-Morning-viewers-hail-Downs-Syndrome-model-Kate-Grant-inspiration.html
Which one has Downs Syndrome?
St. Louis Post Dispatch even knows when you’re using incognito mode! You will not read our news!
So my wife takes her car to Jiffy Lube yesterday (I know, I know, you don’t have to say it). She drives off she notices multiple lights are on, and the car’s losing power. She takes it back and they tell her it’s a rocker arm assembly (which we’d have to go to an actual mechanic for), but they had nothing to do with it. Despite, you know, the problem starting the fucking second she drove off from there.
That’s like a $750 problem, right? ’13 Accord. Talking to the manager got nowhere, need to raise hell with corporate.
How the fuck could a Jiffy Lube know it’s a rocker arm assembly?
Read the engine code.
I don’t know every OBDII code, but I’m not aware of one for “rocker arms”. It’s possible it could trigger something, but I’d be shocked that it can pinpoint it to that.
I assume the car has variable valve timing, which uses oil pressure through an electronically controlled valve to change the rocker arm angles and vary the valve profile. It will throw an OBDII code on my Cobalt.
It is possible that the oil change knocked crud loose that is now preventing the system from operating properly, but it is also possible that they fucked something in doing the oil change.
On my Chevy Cobalt, changing the valve was very simple and inexpensive, but that was because it was literally the easiest thing in the engine compartment to get to. You might check an internet forum on this , if your car is no longer under warranty.
It’s also possible that they used the wrong viscosity oil.
Makes sense. Also as noted wrong viscosity oil.
I’ve found the codes only tell you what the symptoms are. You still need to do some research regarding the cause.
I doubt it can be that specific.
This website is weird. I saw my comment posted. Then later, Sensei’s comment shows up, but it’s ahead of mine.
That’s why he’s a Sensei, and you’re just a tuber.
+1
Did you check that the fools filled it back up with oil?
That is all very highly suspicious.
Jiffy Lube
I haven’t gone to those fuckers in more than 20 years.
We just drop our vehicles at the dealer in the morning and pick them up after work. The dealer is on the way.
We’re picking a new dealer for my wife as we speak. She took her car in for an airbag recall (apparently, the passenger side airbag charge explodes under humid conditions. we leave near the ocean). Dealers hate doing that kind of work, so they jerked her around for an extra day. Buh bye.
We call that Takata!
I like pointing out that VW has executives behind bars and they only injured the planet. Meanwhile Takata knowingly killed people and as far as I can tell nobody is in jail.
VW crossed Top.Men. Takata mostly only killed plebes.
Exactly.
Just looked it up. My wife has a 2017, so I’m not sure that’s it.
Still, though, that’s crazy. Shrapnel into the passengers?!?
Fedgov knowingly let makers sell the cars with inflators without desiccant until redesigned units could be made.
The deal was they would be recalled when the parts were available. Otherwise most global production would have shut down.
The new deal for an inflator with no desiccant is that the maker has to prove its safety. I believe they all bailed and spend the extra for the desiccant.
“We’re picking a new dealer for my wife as we speak. She took her car in for an airbag recall (apparently, the passenger side airbag charge explodes under humid conditions. we leave near the ocean). Dealers hate doing that kind of work, so they jerked her around for an extra day. Buh bye.”
Too many euphemisms to count!
Sounds like a lube job alright.
Hey-ho!
Sounds like not much lube was used.
Ouchie.
So you’re saying that Jiffy Lube is the STEVE SMITH of auto maintenance chains?
Check the thermostat.
But yeah, don’t use Jiffy Lube. I quit on them twenty years ago after they dumped the old oil on top of the stump plate on my truck and left it there
Years and years ago my wife noticed that her old Chevy Venture was dripping some fluid. She brought hers to Precision Tune and they told her it was going to be umpteen thousands to fix a gasket and a bunch of other stuff.
She called me in a giant panic. I proceeded to begin banging my head on the desk. I have a good friend who is the garage manager for a small shop. I have told her to go to him when she has problems because he is honest and we know each other. The only problem is that he is sort of far away (and he likes me which is major character flaw in her eyes).
So the next day, I bring her car to my my buddy and ask him to look at it. The price went from several thousand dollars to $450. And that was because he found a few things that she should take care of. Everything that Precision Tune told her was wrong with her car was an absolute lie.
Fuck those chain stores. If feminists wanted to go after some GENUINE bigotry, they could target those fuckers and I’d back them up. Not only are they doing their best to fuck over women, but Asian women like my wife are doubly screwed.
Yup. I went to a Goodyear shop years ago because I had a punctured tire. Manager tells me that they’d do a “courtesy check up” while I waited. Ok, fine. Manager comes back after about 1/2 hour and tells me that the car needs $1400 in work.
Yeah, no thanks. Just patch the fucking tire, please.
I’d have more sympathy if the places (like my Mini dealership) that are supposed to do the full inspections actually did the inspection. I had an electrical issue in my car two months after it was in for an oil change. They said it was due to a failed seal, and it was water damage. After pointing out they had just been in for service, wouldn’t a failed seal have been noticed during their inspection, the repair cost dropped by about 75%.
I went to a similar place (local chain) years ago with my previous car. Oil change, 10 minutes, easy peasy. Drive straight home and park for the night.
Next morning, back out of the driveway, I see a puddle of oil. I go back to the place thinking that maybe they didn’t tighten the plug enough. Nope, they overtightened it and cracked the oil pan.
They were all like, “well, you don’t know that it was us that caused it.
“Actually, yes I fucking do know that.”
I took my last car to a meinke once for am oil change. Dunno what the fuck he did, car stopped running less than a week later, gas was getting into the oil somehow or other. Car wasnt worth it to fix.
I’m not sure how I feel about the model thing. Sure, there might be some benefit in providing that young woman with some self esteem, but….
I’m not sure the benefits are worth it.
We hosted the Special Olympics World Games here in Los Angeles a few years back. We had an FBI agent brief us on some of the stuff to look out for and advise us of federal agent deployments for the duration of the games. There are some fucked up people in this world.
Didn’t y’all lose a few of them?
We lost one guy that I know about, but he had a history of doing that.
At least two in 2015 it looks like.
I worked with those clients for two years and the biggest issue was the Wanderers.
Humboldt crash truck driver gets 8 years: http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/26332383/truck-driver-fatal-humboldt-crash-gets-8-years
I haven’t heard about that since it happened. No alcohol, no drugs, no phone….. Why such a long sentence if it truly was an accident (I don’t know that it was, but it sure sounds like it)?
Crazy.
Just below a story about Holtby of the Caps declining to go to The White House.
“For Holtby, the decision was based on personal beliefs for himself and his family. He has been one of the NHL’s most prominent supporters of the LGBTQ community, including appearances at local pride parades.
“It’s one of the factors. But my family, myself, we believe in a world where humans are treated with respect, regardless of your stature or what you’re born into. That’s just where it’s at with this decision. You’re asked to choose what side you’re on, and it’s pretty clear what side I’m on. I believe this is the right decision for myself and my family,” he said.”
Am I missing something? What specifically has Trump done to the community?
Another player Connolly said he wouldn’t go either out of respect for Smith-Pelley who is black…and Canadian.
Again. All they seem to have is the narrative of KKK and Charlottesville. Never mind black unemployment being at historic lows.
Dumbasses.
More likely they’re afraid Ovechkin will influence the election.
Ovechkin is an animal and a man.
He’s the first member of his family to walk upright.
Remember when Tim Thomas was the devil for not going to the White House? Not because he hated Obama but “I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People. ”
Wrong kind of principles, I guess.
I was going to mention that. I remember all the libtards hating him for it.
Nothing tangible that I can figure. But mumble mumble something about not doing enough particularly for the transfolk.
He stole their flag
https://twitter.com/ChrisRBarron/status/793070427442667521
Yeah the Christian conservative types are going to be against gay marriage, but my interpretation is that Trump doesn’t give a shit about your personal life, only if you can do whatever job he wants you to do. They will always have that talking point, just as the left will have their 90% tax rate talking point. The left never did anything for the LGBTQWERTY community yet they still support them. The Supreme Court made a ruling, yet that point never gets brought up.
Oh wait, maybe there was the time that the president was too cowardly to come out in favor of gay right, and his vice president had to push him in a corner and shame him into it.
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/05/obama-expected-to-speak-on-gay-marriage-076103
Holtby is a moron. Trump is more pro-gay than any president before him.
Nothing until you remember that LGB have become utterly politically irrelivant and that LGBT really means TQIOWTFBBQ and then …
Well there is the transgender ban on serving in the military and that totes makes him worse than Hitler
Even without the transgender ban in the military Trump would be an enemy GLBTQPSAGQGEWEVG because of Pence.
Now you’re just being emotive. Use a nice respectful, inclusive acronym. Like QUILTBAG.
QUILTBAGELECTRICBUGALOO.
Well there is the transgender ban on serving in the military
I didn’t think they were banned, just that they had to serve as their biological sex (and maybe no government-paid transition?).
Trump could take the opportunity to placate all these ungrateful shits by putting this stupid tradition to an end.
Eh, Donald? What do you think?
Military tranny ban.
I think it’s only if they require ongoing treatment, no?
You’re a layer too deep. “Trump’s tranny ban” is all that’s necessary.
Soccer spectators?
Ha! JUSTICE!
Probably thought all that they needed was the traditional Al Lang Sign.
Truly bumming I haven’t gotten a narrowed gaze for this comment, by the way.
The 2 hours sitting in their cars…
Totally more interesting than the game
“Cruz’s 18th victim: Parkland high school shooting survivor, 19, who struggled with ‘survivor’s guilt’ and losing her best friend, takes her own life”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6839859/Parkland-school-shooting-survivor-takes-life.html
Sad. I hope they let her be.
But they won’t, because she did it with a gun.
Hmmm. Maybe a sleeper car/dungeon…
Now that is thinking like the top-hatted plutocrat you’ve become.
“Creosote’s Rolling Mann Act Violatorium” would be a classy name.
slumbrew wins the internet today.
Thank you – that makes me feel more accomplished than anything I did at work today.
Step 1: Find some poor and/or highly country.
Step 2: Have them declare CRMAV consular territory.
Step 3: Profit!
I like it. I can stencil that on the side in gold leaf fancy letters.
I would expect nothing less. It should play calliope music as it rolls into the station.
Alternatively, you could go for something like this.
(NB: that scared the eff out of me as a child)
Wait, what am I thinking? That’d be horning in on OMWC’s territory.
Advice needed, please… Somehow I was unaware that today is my gf-of-6-month’s birthday. She informed me. She needs a new grill (her dad had bought her a cheap propane all things to all people version that has rusted out and leaks after a mere year) and she prefers charcoal. I’m thinking of the Weber Kettle type as a bday gift.
Is getting women cooking appliances as a gift still taboo?
It’s fine if you get her something romantic too.
Glad you mentioned that, thanks. Yeah, she’s not into flowers or decorations; so maybe chocolate is in order.
Anything from Sugarfina will be a home run.
Like a meat stick.
That’s for dessert.
bastard!
Like some meat.
It would be a nice gesture to get a lady steak. Something like a petite filet. As long as he gets a 2lb ribeye for himself.
A picture of his dick inside the grill?
Is he dating Armin Meiwes?
And what’s NOT romantic about a Weber grill?
Like getting her name tattooed on your ass.
I wasn’t even aware it was a taboo; if it’s something she wants/enjoys, any cooking related thing would be a welcome gift.
I could see it being some sort of taboo when it was thought of “women’s work”, but I’m guessing that’s not the case.
Also workout equipment. Even if she wants workout equipment you do not give it as a primary birthday/Christmas present lest the day be colored by inner monologue of “omg does he think I’m getting fat? AM I getting fat?”
How about a book on how to stop nagging?
“AM I getting fat?”
“Only in fluorescent lighting, dear.”
Great point!
Always, always go with a light weight (for the weaker sex, of course) over and under 20 gauge, in case you need to carry it sometime, like on Saturdays. She will appreciate your thoughtfulness and if she doesn’t you’ll have a nice 20 gauge.
A weapon and training are on the list of future gifts, for sure.
A few years ago for Xmas I got my wife an Apple Watch — and it was a really nice one, not the basic one, but the one more considered to be ‘jewelry’.
She was furious and practically threw it in my face. “An appliance? You got me a fucking appliance?”
“No, it’s a nice watch”.
“No, it’s a tech appliance. It’s like you got me a goddamned vacuum cleaner.”
So she returned it and used the proceeds to go to Tiffany’s and got herself something she wanted. She has since made sure that if I go to Tiffany’s for her Xmas present every year, she will never be angry (as long as the Tiffany box isn’t too big, of course, no vases or platters).
You’ll get nothing and like it!
Take her there for breakfast.
I thought this, but didn’t say it, so…thank you.
Next gift would’ve definitely been a vacuum cleaner.
Toilet plunger and rubber gloves.
No. I’d save that for the anniversary. The vacuum cleaner tells her that you were paying attention to her emotional tirade, and took it into consideration. It’s both thoughtful and dickish in a way that plunger and rubber gloves is not.
Give her a Tiffany box with cash in it.
Rhywun gets women
One: cut a hole in the box
Not knowing the depth of your relationship with her, but I’d err on the side of caution and get her something more traditional this time. Durable goods are more of an established couple thing.
Are you asking if you should get her a grill? The answer is yes. If she bitches about it, you don’t want to be with her. If she is happy about it, she’s a keeper.
Are you asking about a Weber Kettle? Yes, its a bit more pricey, but if you use it regularly it has a lower Total Cost of Ownership than replacing cheaper charcoal grills more often. If you wanted propane, Weber Genesis is probably the right choice – big enough to feed a couple families over for a party, sturdy enough to last over a decade with yearly powerwashing and a cover.
“If she is happy about it, she’s a keeper.” Very true, thank you.
^This man gets it.
Got me a Weber (gas). Great product. Last forever and I use the hell out of it. Only maintenance I ever did was replace the “flavor bars” after about 9 years.
I may use my gas grill slightly more often than most users…
I’ve got Weber Summit that I’ve had for about 12 years. Looks a little rough but it still does it’s job several days a week.
It’s time to move on from my little Weber Q, but the Genesis may be too large. I need to do more research.
Thanks all. I’ve got a tight window now to put something together. Until Monday!
These euphemisms
Get her Glibs merch. That’s the kind of thing that makes women wet.
Did you ever get around to adding to the store those dishtowels with the Glib logo and the slogan “Does this smell like chloroform to you?”
Weber 22″ Premium (in three color choices) for a charcoal grill
But what do I know, I got my wife a toaster for her birthday one year and she was pissed (it was on her Amazon wishlist!). Redeemed myself with a toliet seat last year.
That’s what got her. Used one myself awhile back. Workhorse.
A toilet seat?
It’s got a special vibrating attachment.
And a bidet and drying feature for when she’s done.
Yes to all of the above
https://www.totousa.com/products/washlets#subcategories=10172518739431830946
If I gave Mrs. Dean a toilet seat for her birthday, they’d never find my body.
The girlfriend’s favorite gift I got her for this past Christmas was an electric kettle. It’s gotten more use then anything else I’ve given her.
Even…no, I’m gonna leave that one alone.
Six months? Take her out for dinner or something like that. No gift.
I agree with this. A heartfelt card also.
Six months? I overlooked that part. Yeah, card. Maybe flowers.
You could probably do earrings. That’s where you start the jewelry journey.
Srlsly? You cheapskate. Earrings under $100
Take her out? Cook her favorite meal for her, with her favorite beverages lined up, and an impressive dessert that she likes.
Well, not everybody can cook. But if that’s in your wheelhouse, then sure.
not everybody can cook
Sure they can (unless they are functionally retarded) It’s not like playing the piano, there is no muscle memory requiring years of repetitive practice or complex patterns and structures to learn. If you can read you can cook.
There is some magic to frying veggies, though. Pray her favorite meal is mushy cauliflower and not something involving a wok.
Dinner, a nice wine, and a bottle of Damiana.
“Somehow I was unaware that today is my gf-of-6-month’s birthday.”
Not off to a great start.
Tell me about it :/
A girl wants a Weber? Definitely pick one up, with all the accoutrements.
I bought my wife a fertilizer spreader for her b-day years and years ago.
Must have really pissed her off because she decided to really make me suffer and didn’t file for divorce.
*Go ahead and make your cheap fertilizer spreader and me comparisons.
I once bought an ex-wife a vacuum for Christmas. A really nice one to, and she just looked at me.
Did I mention she’s a ex?
No woks for gifts, I learned the hard way
But you are still married too!
I guess that “Wok sets you free” only works in Germany? (Wok macht frei)
Too bad you couldn’t wok that one back.
How about an E-wok?
You know, an electric work?
I’ll bet she woked all over you.
My mother is a stickler for practical gift . . .hates ANYTHING fancy.
So, because I grew up that way I thought it was normal. The (now) ex-wife was not amused when I bought her a set of winter tires for her birthday. I honestly thought it was the best present I’d ever given. I mean how thoughtful, I’m saving her life!!!
It really pissed me off when 3 months later she filed for divorce (which was mostly unrelated to the tires) and I had just spent over $800 on tires and rims. i also found out later that she never switched them back for summer and destroyed the winter tires.
A new grill? The first thing I thought of was that she wanted plastic surgery on her face.
“The Golden Age of Sleeper Trains returning. Some of them are… (gasp)… private!”
If this trains a rockin’ don’t come a knockin’!
Too bad that website’s a-chargin’.
They have to, they have a pretty tight margin.
“Nigerian brother at the center of the Jussie Smollet scandal is filmed competing in a boxing match in Chicago knocking his opponent out in the first round”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6837685/Nigerian-brother-center-Jussie-Smollet-scandal-filmed-competing-boxing-match.html
His opponent should have tried holding a phone and a sandwich.
That was such a missed opportunity for Subway.
And for the network that does his show is missing out too, apparently — they’ve been quietly removing him, and the most recent episode reportedly had their lowest ratings ever.
They should learn from the whole Tonya Harding thing, that kneecapping led to the largest worldwide audience for the Olympics ever.
“This Tuesday on Channel 2 — don’t miss the last episode for crazy fuck Jussie Smollet!”
Sponsored by Subway! Eat Fresh!
“We were born in the US. We are American citizens.” /some earlier quote
Why are they still Nigerians?
From the shit-my-browser-wants-me-to-read-as-trending files: Here’s a really long take down of the Joe Rogan podcast.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/joe-rogans-podcast-is-an-essential-platform-for-freethinkers-who-hate-the-left.html
Among other crimes, Rogan doesn’t ask his guests challenging questions, and his guests often have something to sell. Apparently this sets him apart from real journalists.
**Thinks about every puff piece interview of an author with a book coming out**
She drives off she notices multiple lights are on, and the car’s losing power. She takes it back and they tell her it’s a rocker arm assembly while they’re putting a new drain plug in the oil pan to replace the one that they didn’t replace/tighten
…or that they stripped or cross-threaded.
+1 teenager with impact wrench
^This
I heard a few of you noticed I was offline for a few days and though I might have died. I’ll never die. I’m like a cockroach. Or the terminator. Or the underlying sexual tension in the X-files. I’m not going anywhere.
I didn’t notice you were missing.
Well, I did and I told him personally yesterday. We all missed you, Leap !
Then my agents have failed me for the last time.
Speaking of the X-Files…I rode the ski lift with Cigarette Smoking Man, two days ago, at Whistler Blackcomb.
And in an incredible coincidence, a guy I met in the condo hot tub bumped into him as well.
When you live in a hermit cabin in Montana, everything is an incredible coincidence.
The true hero of the show, William B. Davis?
Apparently no relation to Alice the maid, played by Ann B. Davis.
That was him.
IMH (and un-expert)O, one of the best villains in TV history.
Villain? I’m not so sure. From a certain perspective, the Smoking Man and the rest of the consortium were the real heroes of the show and Fox Mulder was just and arrogant idiot getting in the way of their attempts to save at least a remnant of humanity. They cut a deal with a vastly more powerful species. Yes, most of humanity would still die. But, the hybrids would at least be able to survive, even if as slaves. It’s a crappy option, but better than human extinction. But, do you think it would be a good idea to announce that to the world? No, you’d keep it a secret and do everything you could figure out a better solution. And that’s pretty much exactly what they did.
He also protected Mulder at nearly every turn when it would have been easy peasy to make him go away.
Yeah, that’s an interesting take. But I certainly think the narrative of the show was that he was the villain. What I liked about him, though, somewhat ties into your take: he wasn’t evil so much as utilitarian.
Good villains are somewhat sympathetic, otherwise they just come off as crazy people.
That’s why Walter White is the greatest TV villain of all time.
I hated Walter White so much. I suppose that’s good, but at the end of that show there was no one to root for.
Maybe Jesse.
That was on purpose – Gilligan wanted to show a man go from mild-mannered to full-on villain. He did that.
What do you have against Badger and Skinny Pete?
I didn’t think the Skipper was a full-on villain. Grumpy, but not a villain.
Uffda. You sure left in a hurry yesterday to avoid having coffee with me. It was like I was SP and you were Tundra.
Yeah, Leap got lucky yesterday !
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/flight-attendant-daca-gets-airline-s-ok-fly-mexico-then-n986351
A Mesa Airlines flight attendant who was erroneously reassured by her airline that she could fly to Mexico was taken into custody on her return to the United States and has been held for more than a month at an immigration detention center in Conroe, Texas, according to her attorney.
Selene Saavedra Roman, 28, a flight attendant for Mesa Airlines, a regional airline based in Phoenix, was stopped Feb. 12 at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, her attorney Belinda Arroyo told NBC News Friday. Saavedra Roman’s detention was first reported by The Points Guy travel site.
Originally from Peru, she is enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the Obama administration-era program that allows her to remain legally in the country and work.
So here is an airline employee who can’t have a Real ID driver’s license or a passport who is travelling internationally. Who could have seen this coming.
Under the Obama administration, DACA recipients could apply to travel outside the country. But when President Donald Trump ended DACA, such travel was canceled. Court injunctions have prevented the Trump administration from ending DACA for now, but the courts did not lift the ban on DACA recipients traveling outside the United States.
Oops, never trust the government.
I first saw that on The Points Guy.
A blogger scooping the entire corporate media yet again.
Make sure you click through and sign up for credit cards that you don’t need so the weasels get their referral bucks.
So she came here as a kid, grew up here, and married a US citizen. She’s in the process of getting permission to stay.
She picked a job with an airline that goes to Mexico. She notified her employer she was DACA, and they scheduled her to go to Mexico and told her it would be OK. Then the government says, Uh Not OK.
So many people, so many mistakes.
She could travel outside the US just fine. Traveling back inside the US was the problem -which she didn’t ask about.
I also noticed that she is attractive and has much to contribute to society.
My first thought was — how did she get into Mexico? I haven’t been there, so I don’t know what documents are required for entry through immigration.
Might not have gotten off the plane.
That occurred to me right after I posted.
Out and back, probably never left the aircraft.
Even if she didn’t, her employer is going to require a passport just in case. Plane goes mechanical, etc. Not to mention for reentry.
My flight attendant SIL got figuratively ass raped by Mexicans last time she had one of those flights. Normally they’re out-and-back flights. She was out of cigarettes before going out, so she bought a carton at the duty-free shop. Lands in Mexico and instead of going right back they made everyone get off and wait two hours for the next flight back. So she has to go through customs where they catch her “smuggling” cigarettes and want $25 US per pack in tax.
What is the tax per pack in Mexico normally?
So here is an airline employee who can’t have a Real ID driver’s license or a passport
She is perfectly free to obtain a passport from the country she is a citizen of. I wonder what passport she used to enter Mexico and what passport she told her employer she had prior to getting hired and this international flight.
Also buried: being an illegal alien is no impediment to obtaining a Known Crewmember badge and unmonitored access to restricted areas with minimal screening.
Peruvian passport.
Somehow it was flagged when she returned.
Registered with INS as part of the DACA process perhaps?
No idea.
It’s ridiculous and wrong, but, also very stupid on her part.
If my employer asked me to do something that was possibly against federal law, and was going to subject me to a federal inspection as part of the process… just no. The answer is no.
The whole DACA process is giant “you fucked up, you trusted us”.
“You guys are cowards for cancelling our event.
Our goal was to uplift people and represent a side of the LGBT community that is shunned into silence. I have hundreds of fans who have booked flights to come to this. SHAME ON YOU.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1109171946518802432
“Center Statement on Event Cancellation: Upon further review and consideration, The Center has cancelled the March 28 Walk Away event. Full statement available at ”
https://twitter.com/LGBTCenterNYC/status/1109162745923014657
“In recent days we have learned that certain of the panelists announced for this event have made repeated, well-documented past statements that violate our mission, values and the spirit of inclusiveness for all individuals and identities that is core to our work and who we are. Our space is a place of safety and refuge for those most vulnerable among us, and we will do everything in our power to protect that. Permitting this event to proceed would make many of our community members feel unsafe and, among other things, interfere with their ability to participate in other Center programming.
We extend our deep appreciation and thanks to the community members that have reached out and brought this important information to our attention, and we deeply regret the hurt and harm this booking has caused. We take our responsibility as a place of organizing and activism very seriously, and that means we have and will continue to host events that are controversial. And as a non-partisan organization, we also understand that our community members hold differing political views. We support and encourage open dialogue around those views, but not when it interferes with our operations and programming, or threatens the well-being of our community.”
https://gaycenter.org/cancellation-statement/
What a bunch of fags.
They walked away from the Walk Away event?
“Just walk on by”
“And as a non-partisan organization”
I just can’t even
I wonder if any any of those repeated, well-documented past statements were made due to a panelists legally protected status (e.g., motivated by their gender or race) causing an equal protection violation…
FYI, the Walk Away events are events where speakers try to convince minorities to walk away from the Democratic party.
It is, which is why I don’t see how “Permitting this event to proceed would make many of our community members feel unsafe and, among other things, interfere with their ability to participate in other Center programming.” Don’t like it? Don’t go. It’s not like it had mandatory attendance.
“The Worst SJW On The Internet”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTt1-J5eR4s
OMG, I was unaware that she was trans until just now. I love her video on why she’s not getting “the big snip.” Very informative and heartfelt without being at all gross.
Gosh, never saw that coming.
PS. Don’t read the comments.
Essential personal hygiene products somehow fails to include toilet paper.
As someone who avoids paying taxes to the fullest extent possible, I’m going to start shitting in diapers.
Do they sell Desitin at Costco?
Is there sales tax on it?
I’m just asking you to consider the hidden costs of your economic choices.
Might as well get an early start on it.
That’s what your left hand is for.
Wipe your ass with tampons.
Demand tampon and pad dispensers in mens’ rooms.
How about soap or deodorant?
Not essential. France, for example.
Nice little rhyme. Made me start singing Revenge by Papa Roach.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1108877507179225088
WTF??
Only slightly less crazy than her response to Mrs. Blair White.
I appreciate that she embraced someone’s description of her as “Momo with eyeliner”. Because I can’t _not_ see that now.
https://twitter.com/annafifield/status/1108964434142097408
OFFS
Dubai to NZ anchorwomen, hold my beer: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/
OK, that’s not a “hold my beer moment” but it’s something. I blame this cold and associated cold medication.
Reporters and security workers are wearing hijab out of respect as people gather in Christchurch’s Hagley Park for Friday prayers, one week after the mosque shootings.
At least they get to take it off when they’re done with this important gesture.
I, for one, can express my sympathies without being patronizing and subverting my own beliefs.
I find this horribly disrespectful to Muslim women.
Really? They just look like cuckqueans to me. Stupid bitches.
Is it like wearing a yarmulke in sympathy?
Yes?
Why would you ever do that?
That’s what I’m saying — I think it’s disrespectful to throw on a hijab when you’re not even a Muslim.
OT – Thanks to everyone for your kind thoughts and helpful advice today. I swear if I didn’t have you Glibs, I’d have nothing at all.
That should make you reconsider your life choices.
Says the man with a pedophilic moniker as a joke…
Yet more evidence of the truth of my observation.
We know what really stopped the summit.
Big Macs! Lil Kim felt overmatched
Thanks for being willing to go the distance to deliver that kind of hard-hitting documentary footage that allows us to know the truth.
Looks like Mueller couldn’t drag the scam on any longer and had to deliver a report that will have nothing about collusion to give us. KNow why I know this even though I have not seen the report or even details? The left would have already indicted Trump based on some leak and would be talking impeachment. Instead they are hard at work trying to set low expectations.
Now lets get investigating the crimes of the Obama administration and lets send some of these people to jail for real criminal activity.
The DOJ has a long standing policy of not publishing derogatory information about people who have not been charged with crimes.
Trump has not been charged with any crimes, and the investigation is over.
If they had anything that they promised the Trump haters they could deliver, this report would have been delivered on a Monday. Instead it came out on a March Madness weekend Friday evening dead news cycle. The idiots that thought they would “get Trump” are going to be wailing and bitching this weekend and long after.
It doesnt really matter. If theres no collusion he wins. If theres collusion he says its a bullshit hit job. He wins either way.
Whatever is in the report is going to have zero impact.
If there’s no collusion, whatever the fuck that means, it will be spun anyway. If there is, it will be spun anyway.
Teams gotta Team.
Yep, He’s a foreign agent who successfully obstructed justice . News at 11.
^THIS!
Doesn’t matter what it says, they’re true believers.
COLLUSION!
/everything I know about fantasy sports I learned from the league.
Has anyone bothered to tell us which law ‘Russian Collusion!’ violates? So far it has been two and a half years of solid hysterical screeching without any real substance.
Treason of course.
>>No new charges are recommended, a Justice Department official says.
And that’s that. Though I suppose Dems and the tinfoil hat crowd can still find something in a bunch of nothing.
Mueller Report delivered.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/mueller-sends-report-trump-investigation-ag-barr-n974006
On a Friday afternoon to bury it.
During March Madness
^^^THIS^^^
The democrats are scared all the people they promised they would impeach Trump in return for huge money, are going to be pissed and want that money back. I can’t wait for a repeat of the day after the 2016 election with all sorts of snowflakes whining and crying about this report that will have nothing they have been promised for some 2 years in it.
That’s a surefire tell it’s a big nothingburger.
Well he did miss the Ides of March
Brennan shows once again why the CIA and the intelligence agencies should be admired. They are never, ever wrong about anything.
It’s delivered to the AG, who is supposed to prepare a summary that will be sent to Congress and eventually will become available to the public.
The little people couldn’t understand it anyway. They need it filtered. Summarized. Pull quotes and bullet points. And that’s just the congress.
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain
Is any manager any different?
Somebody call Guinness – Mueller just set a new world record duration for squeaky, wet farts.
At this point they may as well consolidate this news with the reading of the winning lottery numbers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-fatal-chicago-police-shooting-verdict-20190322-story.html
“New video from the liveshow is up! You can pander to Muslim groups, or you can pander to LGBT advocates, but as the UK is finding out, you can’t do both. Islam vs. The LGBT Community in The UK | Identity Politics Face-Off”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1108899825314082817
“Islam vs. The LGBT Community in The UK | Identity Politics Face-Off”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQHQ5w4sxPg
Rot row!
I”m sure the Muslims will cave on the gays just like the Christians.
Give him a big hand folks! He’s here all week. Try the Shwarma. Tip your server.
Hey, give it a few hundred years. It could happen.
Mmm good schwarmas… it almost would get me to support sharia law. Except I’d probably end up with some disgusting overpriced hipster fusion shwarma.
I’m thinking secular progressives cave on gays to the Muslims.
Tip the veal and try the waitress.
“Man draws racist images on floor of San Francisco Embarcadero Station
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — BART police are looking for a man who drew offensive images on the floor at the San Francisco Embarcadero BART Station earlier this week, police said.
Police say he drew several swastikas and racial slurs on BART property.
Detectives believe the same person is responsible for multiple cases of vandalism on BART property this week. Such crimes have been reported at the San Leandro, Glenn Park, and MacArthur Stations–as well as on some trains.”
https://www.kron4.com/news/man-draws-racist-images-on-floor-at-san-francisco-embarcadero-station/1012927816
They’re just taking the jobs that white people won’t do.
Worse that shitting on the sidewalks.
It would be really bad if he shat swastikas. That could be a double hate crime against Jews and Hindus.
Really?
I’d much rather see graffiti than shit on my way to work.
Cis nazi confirmed!
Yes, so would I. I’m tired of trying to avoid shit piles on sidewalks. I find it amusing that their priority is for these grafitti while ignoring so much other graffiti and the even worse public defecation.
I also really like how swastikas look, so unfortunate that Hitler ruined it. But yes, shit actually spreads disease, and can hurt people, swastikas only hurt snowflakes.
“This isn’t the suspect we were looking for.”
“Major New Zealand bookstore bans Jordan Peterson’s book in shocking act of censorship
Whitcoulls, a major New Zealand bookstore with 50 shops nationwide, has removed Dr. Jordan Peterson’s best selling self-help book 12 Rules for Life from their shelves in the wake of the deadliest terrorist attack in the country’s history.
On March 15, a deranged gunman attacked two mosques in Christchurch in an act of Islamaphobic hate. It didn’t take long for the politicization of this unspeakable tragedy to begin. Within minutes, politicians, pundits, and keyboard warriors were attacking each other based on ideological differences.
The Daily Dot, an embarrassingly progressivist outlet, used the tragedy as an opportunity to slander the popular YouTuber PewDiePie as a “Nazi”, a claim with absolutely no basis in fact.
Now the mob is once again coming after Dr. Peterson—another major cultural influencer. The decision to ban Dr. Peterson’s book can not be seen as anything other than a straight-up power grab by authoritarians who wish to use a period of mourning and deep human suffering for their own censorious gain. And it comes directly after Cambridge University’s decision to rescind their offer of a two-month visiting fellowship for Peterson.”
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/major-new-zealand-book-store-bans-jordan-petersons-book-in-shocking-act-of-censorship/
Yeah, fuck that guy and his subversive “make your bed” message!
I’ve been listening to his podcasts lately. Honestly, I just don’t get what people’s problem with him is. Politics comes up mostly tangentially to the guy talking about things like values, transcendence, responsibility, happiness, etc. It’s as if we’ve trained a generation of “intellectuals” incapable of acting like anything more than a pod of barking seals flapping their flippers in response to direction.
I needed to confirm my recollection that this was the guy who came to my attention when he refused to use the right pronouns and was filmed surrounded by a howling mob some while back. Go to wikipedia, where he is noted as being associated with the “Intellectual Dark Web”, complete with footnotes to NYT, Vox, and Daily Beast.
FFS.
The Left’s hatred for Peterson is bizarre. He’s not a libertarian; I’m not even sure I’d call him right-wing.
I remember sections in 12 Rules For Life that talked about spree killers and the things that might cause them to do that. At no point was it ever portrayed as something good or desirable.
I’m sure they hate all the self-help stuff as folks have mentioned, but I’m thinking it really just boils down to the pronoun thing. This is the issue they’re in a tizzy about the last couple years and by gum they’re going to cling to it.
The worst part about that is that he didn’t even say he would never call someone by their preferred pronoun. He just said there shouldn’t be a law.
He’s a wrongthinker. People get really bent out of shape about that.
They hate the self-help message because it is evidence that people’s failures, defects and general fuckedupedness are treatable while the church of the woke preaches that these are virtues to be embraced and celebrated.
Indeed. They do not want people to become happy, productive and well adjusted.
Thats anathema to their ideology.
I know nothing about this guy except that the left hates him. His book appears to be a collection of common sense/conservative platitudes (I haven’t read it but If there are any novel thoughts involved I haven’t heard them) If not for the left hating him would he be anybody?
I think he’d readily admit that he mostly isn’t presenting novel ideas, rather giving a good justification for all the old virtues, which no one seems to be doing a good job of lately.
giving a good justification for all the old virtues
I thought that was Conservatism, In fact, some of my favorite NeverTrumpers make those kinds of arguments on a regular basis.
I’ve rarely heard a convincing conservative argument.
The funny thing is, he’s actually a lefty.
Do they?
“NZ….shocking act of censorship”
Shocking. Unexpected even.
Trump Russia possible collusion
Needs a sequel soon
This comment proves they’re closing in on collusion, circling the wagons now.
“Putin may have connections with Russia”
Trump administration imposes sanctions that Trump immediately suspends. 9-D chess, bitches!
I LOLed. Reminded me of brother and I in the back seat of the car when we were kids.
“He’s touching me!”
“Nuh-uh! You’re touching me!”
Unfortunately, there’s no one in the driver’s seat to reach back and give Trump and Whoa Fat a cuff on the ears.
Mussolini started the Fasci di Combattimento a hundred years ago tomorrow. It eventually became the National Fascist Party (Italian: Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF)
“Katie Couric shares she went on a blind date with Cory Booker
Former “Today” host Katie Couric revealed Wednesday that she went on a blind date with Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker (D-N.J.).
Couric told Wendy Williams on her eponymous talk show that the two went on a blind date “a long time ago,” and offered praise for Booker and his current girlfriend, actress Rosario Dawson.
“We went to a Giants football game,” Couric said as Williams pressed her for details. “Did we kiss? No, we did not kiss.””
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/435018-katie-couric-shares-she-went-on-a-blind-date-with-cory-booker
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1108543009103245313
Twist: it was while her then still living husband was in the hospital?
Wait. Rosario Dawson is dating Cory Booker. Gods damn it, I liked you Rosario… why’d you have to do that?
That was my reaction as well. Le sigh.
It gets much worse
Pete’s a playah.
I seem to remember her being “outspoken” about politics in the recent past – if anything, he’s probably to the right of her.
Yeah, not sure how anyone could stand that guy, hell, even if you agree with him, isn’t he a dimwit?
NO game. At all.
(((((He’s gay)))))
Well, I see our long national nightmare is . . . fuck, I dunno. Mueller finally released his report, but I suspect that since it doesn’t deliver the goods on Trumputinitler, it will disappear into the sands of time, and the lunatic pursuit of his associates will continue. At this point, I’m expecting the House Dems to launch an investigation into everyone who ever stayed in one of his hotels.
Crap, I’ve walked by Trump Tower in Chicago and have had e-mail communications with Russians.
I have an ex-colleague who speaks Russian, though IIRC he is from The Ukraine. Hell, I even communicated with him earlier this week. Shit, what am I gonna do….
I was just in front of 2 Russians in the grocery store. Should I report to the collusion gulag now?
Well I’m going to drink some vodka tonight, so maybe we can just carpool.
Titos. I picked up a little bottle to go with my beer. Secret is, A Russian guy told me about this American Vodka. True Story. Collusion? I think yes.
I ate myself silly and got really drunk at a Russian restaurant before puking my guts into San Francisco Bay. Where do I report?
I went to a wedding in the Chicago Trump tower . . . . what an awesome wedding. It was in the ballroom on the 30somthingth floor. When the elevator door opened champaign was shoved into your hand. Ice sculptures everywhere. People were guesstimating that it was 100-200k wedding. I’ve never been to anything so fancy. I’m more used to a keg in a pavilion in a park type weddings.
I’m expecting a lot of wailing about national security and violating norms from the left if Barr opts to declassify it.
Ten bucks says the anti-Trumpers are going to claim Mueller is a Trump plant.
Friday Funbags torture your soul.
https://thechive.com/2019/03/22/wet-8/
Bad ink aside, #8
I’ll be in my bunk
So our mid century house has this horrible 80s pink tile in the entry way. Suppose it was southwest theme or something. I could see, via a broken tile, the original slate floor underneath.
Being a Friday and with a G&T under my belt, I finally decided to get stupid.
“So our mid century house has this horrible 80s pink tile in the entry way.”
The correct thing to do is complement those with some plastic pink flamingos on the front lawn.
Broken link!
works for me, brother (or sister or other or Trumpkin)
I at least get ‘Zoinks’ along with giraffes and cats with trippy eyes.
I’ll blame the weirdness that is Imgur. Too bad you can’t see me naked, working on a floor. Uh-huh uh-huh.
No Lord Hummungus nekked with a belt sander on the floor? I guess I finally got lucky for once this week.
I think you might have the post set to private, or maybe they’re bugging you for an email confirmation.
Nah- they’re shared to community.
Got it – browser is stripping off the ‘.jpg’ – if I manually re-add that they come up.
Nice work for 45 minutes.
Thank you!
I’m getting some awesome car crash video. Instant karma for the idjit with his car 3/4 over the stop line. Would have mostly been fine if he had been back where he was supposed to be.
45 minutes later and some blood and swearing… and I still have some adhesive cleanup/sanding / and resealing.
“Zoinks! You’ve taken a wrong turn.”
That’s two…
dang – works for me! Ah well.
Both links work for me. I guess my reaction depends on how any relevant stakeholders react to it.
The eyes follow your mouse around….
That’s what she said.
Better cats with trippy eyes this time. Zoinks.
Oh, that’s lovely.
Heat gun for the adhesive.
Dude, you are a freaking tease. You say “midcentury modern” and promise tipsy DIY and then the links are broken?! Dafuq?!
they work for me – pinky-swear!
Did you mark them as private?
Doubt it – they work for me.
These are the worst links.
Is it possible to fix broken slate, such as by recaulking the loose and cracked pieces? A friend said the only fix is to redo the entire floor.
for Instagram users, EF has pics at nerdylawzomg
Well, now it’s just being weird. I see your photo briefly—hammer and prybar—then it takes me to most vital. So imgur weirdness it is.
I don’t think I mentioned it before, but some positive news for any interested Glibs re: the hound’s surgery – pathology reports clean edges, which means they got all of the tumor out. The scars will fade and the fur re-grow and she should be good for a bunch more years.
https://imgur.com/a/VjFfcwU
Ouch.
Yay! Give her a scratch behind the ears for me.
I’m glad the surgery was successful. It’s hard to forget this picture.
Franken-pup look aside, she’s doing well and is quite happy.
I should have mentioned the middle section is from the tumor removal; her leg & butt are still growing back from the knee surgery 3 weeks ago.
Would it be churlish to rename her ‘Cashfire’?
Good to hear!
After reading the article, I’m not sure “conquests” is an appropriate word.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hickenlooper-offers-something-different-in-crowded-democratic-field-a-detailed-history-of-his-sexual-conquests
Between this and taking his mom to see Deepthroat I dont think Lickenpooper has less chance at the oval office than I do.
7 women total including two wives?
And delivered in a cringeworthy fashion?
That’s like talking about the English “conquest” of the Normans in 1066.
At one point I was dating three women at once, who all knew about the others.
Good lord. What the hell is wrong with him – and anyone reading that.
“Stop what you’re doing and watch this video. All the democratic candidates represented in these clips from The Office.”
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1109173323651522560
LOLOLOLOL
Good lord, people are insane.
Never trust Wisky.
This needz some
https://coolhunting.com/buy/curious-no-1-negroni/
There’s no “h” in it, so yeah.
This just made me laugh out loud, like a lunatic.
#metoo
I’m dying
Damn, he really went to town on her. Even brought it over the top.
I wanted to make fun of y’all talking about March Madness like anyone cares, but I’m sitting at the bar eavesdropping and some guy got off the phone with his son after remarking on all the upsets, and turned to a couple of women he doesn’t seem to know and now they’re all talking about all the upsets.
At least, I assume it’s March Madness. Everyone is weirdly informed and excited about the upsets.
It’s like Oscars time for me – something I would never know about if it didn’t come up here.
Well, it does lend credence to the notion that this is a good Friday for a doc dump.
My team didn’t get upset and stomped on the same team they beat last year.
Already in damage control/spin mode.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/21/comey-special-counsel-trump-oped-1231425
Instead, Comey wrote he wants “a demonstration to the world” that the Justice Department is effective and fair.
That ship has sailed and it ain’t happening.
Related: That didn’t take long.
https://www.scribd.com/document/402800029/Report-from-the-Special-Counsel-Investigation-into-Russian-Interference-During-and-Before-the-2016-Presidential-Election
Leaks like a sieve.
Bravo.
That’s awesome.
Nice
Related
ROFL, nice clickbait.
<a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/ValerieBreiman/status/1109174141792321537Heh.
That will haunt him until the end of his days.
Wow, my wife just yelled from down the hall asking why I was laughing so loud.
I love how all the Democrats are demanding that the AG violate Federal Regulations, which would open him to impeachment, and release everything. They know very well he can’t do that and will use it to muddy the waters and cast aspersions on his asparagus.
I was with you right up until the end…
It’s from the Gohmert/Holder kerfuffle a few years back.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2014/04/09/louie-gohmert-reveals-the-important-history-behind-eric-holders-good-luck-with-your-asparagus-insult
Euphemism?
/confused
Probably has something to do with that smell when you pee.
Russian piss hookers confirmed!
JFC.
Ugh. “@AOC and I”
“People our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives”
I don’t have nuthin…
i.e., “we don’t all have a Gulfstream VI, so we lack prosperity”
Oh, look the author up. Or just read the replies, they’re quick to call her out. She’s well off.
Words do fail.
“In every generation prior to ours, everyone was a millionaire by the time they were 25. That’s not happening with us, so obviously we have no choice but socialism.”
Meh, it just a version of the old ‘people had it easier back in the day’ story. I’ve heard that once you could get a job down at the factoryplantyard and earn a decent living, raise a family, and live the American dream, then how you could go to college get a job down at the Firmcompanybuisness and earn a good living, raise a family, and live the American dream. Every generation has some sense that they are the first to go through any hardship and that their parents had it easy. Basically, ‘old man yells at cloud’ or ‘kids these days’ but for the yutes.
Even so, the idea that we can socialism ourselves to prosperity is mind-boggling.
Certainly, it’s dumb, It’s just not dumb in any novel way, kids are always dumb, old people are always nostalgic, very few people ever look around and think ‘hey this kinda alright, I’m just gonna do my thing and enjoy it.’ nope it’s bitching all the way down.
I would say it’s uniquely dumb. Those old tropes relied on a certain composition of the labor force (e.g. few women) working jobs that nobody in the first world would consider good, let alone prestigious, and the idea that routine firm-hopping is a bad thing? You mean you want to work your whole life at XYZ factory, and be wholly reliant on its continued operation?
And yet the people making these arguments today fail to realize how much benefit there is to a modernized economy forty years after those tropes fell out of fashion. It’s heaps dumber given the populist sentiment they’re trying to tap is outdated by decades, and dumber still given that neither of these women is hard up for cash, or probably ever involuntarily went without a meal.
Life’s hard in the global 1%.
I responded with this.
Not that anyone thought Roberts ended up with his position because of any firmly held principles or anything…
And why, if not convicted of any felony come 2020, I may vote for the first time ever!*
*No I’m not voting.
But viewed through the lens that somebody told him Obamacare gets a pass or else, they make perfect sense. Which is why I wonder.
Uffda. No talent “funnyman” Jim Jeffries might be in a bit of trouble.
Who am I kidding? Jeffries will be fine.