Let me just get this narrowed gaze going right now…
Too much work, not enough play makes Swiss Servator … tired. Maybe pathologically insane too. But that remains to be seen. But, my squawking is not why you are here. You are here to ignore some links and post whatever is on your mind. I will do my part and give you those links.
Heeeere’s Swissy!
- Germans. I should have known it was a German. I hope the cantonal cops dripped hot raclette on his eyelids.
- All the world plots to give SugarFree material for the Hat and the Hair. Last I knew, that guy was supposed to yell for cruise missiles, not negotiate trade deals. Pfft.
- Another great day for Boeing. Maybe they can save a few dollars by cutting some QA staff?
- Which one of you did this? Fess up.
Right then, be about yer business.
>>Right then, be about yer business.
Don’t tell me what to do!
>>German held over fake bombs in bag at Swiss techno parade
But I thought Germans love techno / electronica. BMWs and Kraftwerk are like Mom and Apple Pie.
Headline: German plumber loses his repair bag !
German plumbers? Are they the ones responsible for making the drains run on time?
*Bellamy salute*
Refer above for your narrow gaze.
::has convulsions::
And yet I can’t look away….
That. Is. Awesome.
Impressive find with the gif. Stauffenberg applauds.
God bless the internet.
I am now hoping that Taika Waititi will reenact this gif at some point during Jojo Rabbit.
Well, they were fake bombs
That was one of the nihilists from Autobahn carrying the ringer with Walter’s whites
*SUMMONS edit fairy to post the techno viking meme
Another great day for Boeing. Maybe they can save a few dollars by cutting some QA staff? – Inferior US technology…
Also thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7347241/Sarah-Hyland-Lucy-Hale-don-thigh-skimming-looks-kick-2019-Teen-Choice-Awards.html
Those eyebrows could show up in a SugarFree story, being chased by the Hair.
Heh.
Those eyebrows aren’t helping her looks, that’s for sure.
Well, if we Americans could turn into a bat and fly where we needed to go we wouldn’t have to build airplanes either.
I prefer airplanes not to be shedding pieces as they go.
Shedding their skin and turning into a beautiful (flaming) butterfly (of death).
That’s your choice – the collapsible Boeing or the Airbus that just auto-pilots into the drink.
It makes it lighter and therefore more fuel efficient, like a rocket jettisoning stages.
It’s Green!
The thing I will not be surprised to discover is that a lot of these quality problems re coming from their engineering team being more focused on doing shit they can then use to virtue signal about how green they are vs. building a quality product.
QA staff
math FWIW: In my experience, the best companies see quality as a management perspective and a set of techniques, not a department.
The general mindsets I’ve found:
* Japan: expert company or ashamed company (we know we’re not doing this correctly)
* Europe: steady commitment and slowly improving
* US: expert company or we-don’t-know-how-to-justify-this-in-accounting type firm
What I’ve seen is that, as soon as you set up a “quality” department (or compliance or patient experience or whatever), most people turf that entire topic to the new department and stop doing it themselves. “Hey, its their job, and they are supposed to be the experts.” Its a constant battle to get the operators to do anything that has designated expert or support staff.
Except legal. Everybody is lunchroom lawyer and feels free as a bird to give legal opinions and advice. When I was in Dallas, we had a saying:
“Every sentence that begins “legal says” ends in a lie.”
Healthcare seems much worse than other industries from what I’ve seen. Quality jobs often spec a BSN; frankly, every MSN I know had to outsource her statistics to a design-of-experiments guy . . . every single one. I’ve seen a lot of operational design, facility layout, and quality work sub-optimized by an obsession with keeping the work in the family, in the industry; improvements have been delayed decades by a reluctance to accept criticism from outsiders.
They should do a Moneyball movie only for hospitals; casualties can’t be traded to the Royals: they must be piled up to rot in the courtyard.
improvements have been delayed decades by a reluctance to accept criticism from outsiders.
Yeah, the industry definitely has a lot of “We’re special, we’re healthcare.” I think the root of it, frankly, is physicians, who play their M.D. card and “you aren’t qualified to tell me anything about what I do” constantly.
MD have benefited from low accountability. Was it Franklin who said doG heals, the physician takes the fee? The fuzzy logic and random outcomes reinforces, addicts even, the patient from questioning . . . for that matter, it is essential to patient mental health to treat the doc like a god and attribute all sorts of powers to him.
In fairness, though, I’ve never managed a warranty claim where fewer than a fourth of parts returned for credit were good. Diagnosis is a skill, it takes time, and even the good guys make lots of mistakes. Too bad a botched surgery is a bit worse than having to pay to replace a compressor that had nothing wrong with it.
At my job I’ve said: “You want to get lean? Get rid of the Lean department and hold people accountable.” Same with Quality.
We actually closed our Lean Department last year with exactly this in mind. Also, we are phasing out, for the second time, our Director of Patient Experience. There is an undeniable correlation in our patient experience survey data – when we have a named Director of Patient Experience, our survey data drops 5 percentage points.
When we switched to an integrated test process, our bug count went down some huge number. I forget the exact figure, but it was over half. Turns out when you’re writing the test cases for your own code, you tend to write better code.
Techno parade? Was techno viking there ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjCdB5p2v0Y
By ex-BIL looks like a ginger version of that guy. He even does the “Hey, I’m watchin’ you…” finger.
Apropos
Trump announces cabinet shake up. Bolton to replace Navarro as Economic Advisor
/sarc
Fourscore, will there be a special screening of Honeyland at the Honey Harvest this year?
I like to think that Glibs are the Sams who have invaded your peace and quiet Fourscore.
(“Curse the neighbors!” her mother exclaimed. “May God burn their livers!”)
You met some of my neighbors, Jimbo, so you know they do curse me, except for that one day before Christmas, when they get their annual surprise and all is forgiven for one day.
There will be a special screening but you’ll have to wait ’til tomorrow for details.
I went out on the balcony and saw it was a storm of steel and iron.
Bolton got Trump to attack Italy?
+1 Ernst Jünger
Don’t know the motive? It’s right there in the first sentence. “a large techno music parade”
I see what you did there…
That was a lame horse costume. They should have just thrown a star wars blanket over it.
You know who else needed an imperial walker?
FIFY, you agenda-driven “journalists”
You caught that too, eh?
There, FIFY.
Look for upcoming tweets about Little EU.
Why do I get the feeling this shitheel isn’t going to spend much time chatting about Brexit?
Eh – he can’t do much harm talking to countries that no longer have militaries.
U.S. President Donald Trump wants to see a successful British exit from the European Union that Washington will support with a U.S.-UK free trade agreement, national security adviser John Bolton told British officials on Monday.
It would be poetic if Britain became a US State.
No. Last thing we need is another blue state.
They had their chance 250 years ago but squandered the opportunity like a teenager with a scholarship.
The state motto should have something to do with airstrip one. Of course the Brits would never accept the constitution with the yucky 1st and 2nd amendments.
Well, England alone would then have more electoral votes than Commifornia.
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland added in, and you’d be handing a lot of overly servile, rights-ignorant people a great deal of control over wour country.
I said poetic, not politically sound.They would have to ratify the US constitution and change the structure of their own government, which won’t happen.
They would also be the 3 poorest states in the country by a large margin.
Whenever I think about how poor Mississippi is, I have to remind myself that most of Europe sucks even more. Really blew my mind when I first learned that.
When Stalin has The Grapes of Wrath shown all over the USSR, the general Russian takeaway was: poor Americans have cars.
Now it’s poor Americans have cars, wide screen TV, 500 channels, cell phones, and are fat.
signed, native MS
It would be more poetic if they became a colony of the US.
You could then produce megawatts by attaching a dynamo to George III’s grave.
It would be more poetic if they became a colony of the US.
100% Agreed.
That would be the winter of our discontent.
Right then, be about yer business.
One more cup of coffee ought to get it started.
*narrows gaze*
By the way, I spoke to an old friend who worked on a stage build for a Rolling Stones concert in Jacksonville recently. When they took a contrasting color gaff tape to mark the floor for entrance, exit, edges of dropoffs, etc, someone added a “BR” in front of “exit”.
I’m The Rolling Stones though are anti-Brexit like the good establishment folk they now are.
That’s because they’ve already got their money in tax shelters.
Do any of them even live in Britain? I thought they all individually Brexited decades ago.
They jumped the shark back in the 80s.
Howard Stern – another rebel – jumped the shark when he went on The View.
Now he’s just a whiny talk show guy who should just retire.
Kkkapitalism is kkkilling us
You don’t have to be Marianne Williamson to know that this is another manifestation of late-stage vulture capitalism that has no conscience and feeds off the ever-mounting pile of human carrion it generates worldwide.
——
As the Trump administration tortures undocumented families from south of the border, separating children from their parents and putting them all in cages and the El Paso shooter took aim in Walmart, its gunfire from American made weapons used by drug-gangs that have migrants fleeing northward.
That’s the iron ring of death and human misery forged by an economic system bereft of morality that uses just a portion of the vast profits it generates to subvert our politics and our legal system.
And they say Donald Trump is paranoid and delusional.
“late-stage vulture capitalism”
Has the mechanics of capitalism really changed in the past 100 or 200 years? The regulatory state has.
The morons that think the regulatory state we have today is capitalism, instead of being more like what the fascist collectivists envisioned, will sure as hell pretend that it is capitalism…
Yeah, well they call themselves “liberals” when they are conservative (afraid of change) about everything except that which they lie about (sex, racism, etc.).
More regulatory state = more cronyism?
Marxists see everything (except Communism) in terms of the Hegelian dialectic, so anything they don’t like is simply a step on the way to its own inevitable collapse. It’s like “late-stage people leaving dishes and crumbs on the counter and then acting surprised when we have mice” or “late-stage what exactly does this bitch have against turn signals?”.
Hennelly is a union shill that writes for truthout. His position on the Epstein “suicide” is that it was caused by not employing enough prison guard union members.
Well, he may have had a point. The Clinton’s hit man would have had a harder time getting in if there were more guards.
What makes you think the union guards are different people than the Clintons’ hitmen?
Why is it always KKKapitalism?
Those klan neo-nazis are Socialists. It should be spelled KKKommunism
As the Trump administration tortures undocumented families from south of the border
Seriously? This is really their characterization of detention of illegal aliens that has been happening for decades?
gunfire from American made weapons used by drug-gangs that have migrants fleeing northward.
I wonder where they got them…
And they say Donald Trump is paranoid and delusional.
Trump is everything they progject onto him. This is how you get Democrat presidential candidates running on the prospect of penning and phoning their way to utopia while calling him a totalitarian.
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BUT I’M ONE OF YOU!
I like it when they eat their own.
HA HA!
*points finger*
Mmmm, you know, ordinarily I like a dash of Crystal on my irony but I think this is just delicious as it is.
AOC’s Speech To White Supremacists Is So Passionate & Inspiring
Edited for Brevity and Accuracy:
Much better.
So, Ken Stabler?
Al Davis
I guess she is blissfully unaware that most “gun violence” occurs among inner-city gang-bangers fighting over turf and drugs.
Does it matter if she’s aware or not?
Is this like the question about briefs or boxers that gets answered with depends?
“love bigger”
Fuck you!
Size matters to AOC.
https://media1.giphy.com/media/ew5WaLuhaGBKo/giphy.gif
Worst bartender ever.
I know, right? I mean, I don’t know what I did to make you so upset but I’d love another gimlet.
I once drank 5 vodka gimlets in an hour (not a good idea) because the bartender was soooooooo hot.
We need to go deep.
Something something STEVE SMITH…
This is about gun violence in all of our communities.
They always want to talk about “gun” violence when the concern should be violence generally. But anyway most violence and murders using guns are gang-related. So maybe we focus on that. (and end the drug war)
I’m going to give AOC credit here. She’s at least willing to concede these people are human beings, rather than irredeemable caricatures of late 19th century Klansmen. She’s ahead of the entire ’20 primary field on this one.
A well-meaning dummy is better than a vicious dummy, I guess.
CS Lewis disagrees.
It’s an army of strawmen either way.
That started off surprisingly well, only to take an unsurprising kamikaze dive in the third paragraph.
So i spoke I think before of barbell medicine, a breakaway sect of Starting Strength, and how I unsubscribed from their YouTube channel after some bullshit video that was leftist politics mascaraing as science.
It seems I failed to unsubscribe from the email newsletter and one arrived in my inbox. Looking into it an article entiteled
Shades of Gray: Sex, Gender, and Fairness in Sport
https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/shades-of-gray-sex-gender-and-fairness-in-sport/?utm_source=Barbell+Medicine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=00e3dacc7b-December+2017_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_94e0e9d430-00e3dacc7b-88829671
Editor’s note: This article is over 30 pages long with 14,000+ words. We encourage you to read it, however we know many will be looking for a brief summary. There are two sections at the end of the article titled “Recommendations and Conclusions” and “Executive Summary”. Give those a read if you want a condensed version. You can also download this article in PDF form by clicking the link here. Finally, this will be available in audio form very soon!
Ok let’s have a look at the conclusions
“While biological differences in sport are fascinating, testosterone levels, chromosomal makeup, or any other physiological parameter may be no more relevant to a gender eligibility policy than any other naturally occurring human characteristic. A few take-home points:
Effectively regulating sports divisions based on sex using science is impossible. There are no singular or combinations of objective criteria that can define each sex. In other words: we have no way to consistently differentiate male from female and we have never possessed the ability to do so. Gender and sex are not the same thing. Sex is typically assigned at birth based the appearance on appearance of external genitalia and or chromosomal makeup, whereas gender is socially constructed and may vary from culture to culture and/or change over time. However, sex is difficult to dichotomize into two binary divisions because there are a number of different chromosome compositions consistent with either male or female phenotypes. The phrase “biological sex” is meaningless and is ill-advised.
The gender gap between men and women’s performance in sport is estimated at 10% to 12%.Thibault 2010 This number increases to about 15% for sports requiring a high degree of upper body strength and is much narrower at approximately 5% for ultra-endurance sports. Sandbakk 2017 Nevertheless, the gap remains between 10-12% for sprint events in running, cycling, and swimming. Sports like Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting report a much larger gap of ~40%, but these numbers are likely to be confounded by other variables including a relatively brief history of participation, equity in training/competition opportunities, sociocultural attitudes about women in strength sports, and inequalities at every level of sport. The gender gap in performance is due to all of these factors and it is reductionist (and wrong) to suggest the gap is all about biology (e.g. testosterone).
This handwringing is not simply an equivocation. A scientific consensus does not yet exist regarding the differences between genders, let alone how to define those genders. Because of this uncertainty, rules and policies that encourage inclusion of transgender athletes represent the best balance among the imperfect choices available. Specifically, allowing male-to-female transgender athletes to compete in the division of their choice within sport should be not be considered prima facie disadvantageous to other women competitors”
Not really convinced. Discuss.
*cough*
BULLSHIT
*cough*
/discussion over
So much unscientific nonsense.
It’s the science of marxism!
So I can identify as a woman and end up on or near the top (in my age group) for rowing, weightlifting, and running? Cool.
What if I identify as a kangaroo?
You’ll fit in at the Canadian human rights tribunal.
Is that a reference to Kangaroo courts? Nicely done.
If you can open a jar of pickles with a screw on top, you’re a man. Case dismissed
Going for the elusive delusional wackjob weightlifter market. Wise choice. They’ll buy all sorts of weird supplements.
I would recommend toilet paper to these people instead of supplements. By the way I have seen their asses growing over time, and they have been wiping those bedonkedonks, I would hazard a guess that wiping toilet paper on their boobs would make them grow too…
All college sports are divided into Men’s and Women’s programs. Except football. There is no women’s Football program. You know why? Because if you can play football, they don’t care if you’re a woman. There have been some attempts by women to be kickers, but no other position players. There’s a reason for that. I guarantee you if a college woman could play middle linebacker she would be on the team.
You can’t beat bullshit with bullshit. At a few smaller schools and JuCos there have been women that attempted to play as linemen, safeties and other positions. They just haven’t been that good, despite press hype.
Serious question: why are there separate man’s and women’s chess teams?
Math is Hard? /Barbie
Chess nerds can’t focus when breasts are that close by.
BREASTESSES!
I guarantee you if a college woman could play middle linebacker she would be on the team.
Yup, especially since they’d only have to give her 0.77 of a full scholarship.
“There is no women’s Football program.”
You are so, so wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfkKjATCu4E&app=desktop
Ok, I’ll bite. Gender is socially constructed but typically based on sex. Sex is based on physical, testable (heh heh) characteristics. Hormones that influence physical characteristics such as size, muscle growth, etc., are tied to sex, not gender. So whether or not you “feel” like a woman or like some third option is irrelevant to the influence of testosterone on your body, because the latter is determined by chromosomes, not wistful gazes into the middle distance. Hence why sports where physique presents an advantage are generally divided by sex, not gender. So let transgender athletes compete, by all means, but they compete in the sex-appropriate sport.
you must’ve missed this part explaining that equity and attitudes is just as important as testosterone in closing the achievement gap:
… these numbers are likely to be confounded by other variables including a relatively brief history of participation, equity in training/competition opportunities, sociocultural attitudes about women in strength sports, and inequalities at every level of sport. The gender gap in performance is due to all of these factors and it is reductionist (and wrong) to suggest the gap is all about biology (e.g. testosterone).
Last I checked wamyn weren’t forbidden from buying the same weights as men, but ok. And I know this is crazy, but maybe the socio-cultural attitudes about women in strength sports come from the women themselves.
while a case can be made that women were discouraged from strength training and some still avoid it, it has been more than 20 years since women started seriously competing. Maybe a lower % of women try strength sports and thus the talent pol is lower, but this does not change biology.
With strength training in particular I think you reach a point where physiologically women are not going to be able to move as much weight. At the levels where I and I think most people who just lift weights as a hobby or for exercise operate, yeah, women can totally match men’s performance, although honestly you don’t see it as much for a number of reasons. But once you start getting into serious strength sports you see a difference, because women can’t put on as much muscle mass. They just aren’t physiologically capable no matter how hard they work or what they eat.
Hafthor Bjornsson as a case in point nearly doubled his body weight from the point he started training to today. I know he’s an outlier, but there are other similar albeit less extreme examples. Men in other sports, football for instance, routinely put on 100 pounds of muscle depending on how they’re training. I think if you look at the stats for Olympic weightlifters it’s telling. The heaviest women hit about 300 pounds and they’re lifting less than the men in that weight class. The men go up to 350+ and are snatching friggin’ dump trucks.
In my experience, 90% of females avoid weights like the plague because they believe they will turn into one of those hulking women on the bodybuilding magazine covers.
I try to explain that those bodybuilders are eating three times as much as them, injecting male hormones, and training seven days a week for years on end. But a lot of women think that if they swing a kettlebell around, they’re going to wake up the next day with freakishly huge arms with a mysterious bronze color and hideous bulging veins everywhere.
A couple friends who go to a local gym know of one chick who does amateur lifting competitions and has some big ol’ legs from deadlifting, but yeah, most of the time you don’t see women working with heavy weights and it seems like it’s because they’re going in specifically to “tone” themselves, not to build strength.
ridiculously, there are men who don’t want to get to big, as if that is a risk. If at any time – because it takes many years- you feel you get to big, just take it down some
Funny, I thought exercise was to stop being big.
/fat bastard
It is complete bullshit. Far too much discussion over what those mendacious pricks have to say. Just tell them to go blow that out of their ass somewhere else.
Effectively regulating sports divisions based on sex using science is impossible. There are no singular or combinations of objective criteria that can define each sex. In other words: we have no way to consistently differentiate male from female and we have never possessed the ability to do so.
*stops reading*
That was my stopping point also.
They know there is a test, but refuse to acknowledge it.
I kept reading but it’s more base stealing bullshit. The existence of chromosomal birth defects means sex is fluid. Remember, 5 years ago gender and sexuality were completely different and you were terrible for saying make where men. Now sex is fluid and your terrible for denying a woman in a man’s chromosomes her right to an abortion.
So when archaeologists or coroners identify the sex of skeletons based on their pelvises, they were just lying all this time?
What did the skeleton identify as?
a boner?
Ha…that’s humerus.
It did not tickle my funny bone.
Looooooooooong thiiigggghhhhhh
Stop telling fibulas, you liked it.
Swiss is going to come along and give you all a sternum look.
“love bigger”
Don’t google that at work.
You took one for the team and tried it?
HR is asking him to leave as we speak….
Uffda. Some researchers need to call HQ to get their talking points straight. This study starts off OK and blames too many fast food joints along commuter routes for people being too fat. Good, good, good. More reason that the govt should be given more power to decide what gets built where.
But then they swerve way out of their lane and shit all over the “food desert” crowd:
That won’t do.
I just can’t stop eating! The restaurants made me do with their hyper-processed industrial food.
This finding underscores the role that “built environments” — the structures and features in our communities — play in the obesity epidemic.
It isn’t just a fast food restaurant, it is a “built environment”. Get with the program LH. You won’t get squat in grants to study fast food joints, but call them a built environment and watch the money roll in.
It seems to gloss right over the fact that “commuters” are mostly sitting for 30+ minutes twice a day, commuting to and from their sedentary jobs.
Starvation is a great way to keep people trim and slim, yo.
Clearly the solution is to get rid of all those supermarkets, grocery stores, and fast food restaurants.
Socialism can help.
Double-barrel Joe wants to ban muskets. That or someone is going to have to explain how a weapon used in warfare all over the planet for multiple centuries is not a “weapon of war”. Someone will also have to explain how someone can understand the purpose of 2A while holding the position that modern technology firearms should not be allowed to be privately owned. (I know, I know. “FYTW”…)
We have to get these weapons of war off our streets. Nearly 70 percent of the American public support a ban on assault weapons — including 54 percent of Republicans.
When you have that kind of broad public support for legislation that will make their families safer, and it still can’t get through the Senate — the problem is with weak-willed leaders who care more about their campaign coffers than children in coffins.
I’d ask where he got those numbers, but I already know.
Joe Bullshit Biden
It’s all he knows how to do, other than grease his hair back.
>>Nearly 70 percent of the American public support a ban on assault weapons — including 54 percent of Republicans.
Without knowing what an “assault weapon” is. Probably black and scary. (RACISTTTT!)
Additionally, how does a well regulated militia function WITHOUT weapons of war?
broomsticks?
I’m sorry but “This is my broomstick!” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
S-Mart’s top of the line! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx3Bz6cIPiw
Additionally, how does a well regulated militia function WITHOUT weapons of war?
It’s right there in the amendment that a well regulated militia is necessary for a free state, so I don’t think it is a mistake that they want to make the militia nonfunctional.
Maybe we should all chip in and buy him a barrel of Preparation H?
Then there should be no problem passing a constitutional amendment, right?
86.4% of all statistics are made-up bullshit.
But remember, Nobody Wants to Take Your Guns Away™, and you’re a paranoid nutjob if you think so.
Apparently, the new talking point is “white nationalism/supremacy is rooted in misogyny”.
I saw a link to another one of those stories in the NYT, but a quick look this morning didn’t bring it back.
Because nothing doesn’t conform to the narrative, if you look at it from the proper perspective.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve never met a misogynist black man who wasn’t secretly a white supremacist.
That’s ridiculous. I have no problem paying a black man more than 77 cents on the dollar.
Old feminist thinking was “meat eating is rooted in misogyny.” There is no new thinking, just rehashed thinking.
Is this why those two intellectual giants whose names I don’t recall got in a fight with each other on social media about one not being a true vegan cause she gobbled cock? I distinctly remember that discussion drawing a lot of attention.
This should be one for the ages:
https://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/first-look-richard-stanleys-color-out-of-space-starring-nic-cage
*shakes head*
That is absoluitely the wrong casting choice for that story.
It couldn’t be as bad as this idea
There’s a remake of Jacob’s Ladder?!
…and it’s considered “horror”?
I get into that debate fairly often. I don’t consider the original to be a horror movie any more than I’d consider The Fisher King to be a horror movie.
Nicolas Cage met a fan dancer down the south side of Birmingham?
Sex crazed spiders desperate for a mate are invading UK homes
Autumnal rain?
**checks calendar, shrugs**
I mean, it is Britain
*loads & racks 12 gauge*
Would not.
They trying to compete with STEVE SMITH for who can get more people cornholed?
ENGLAND PEOPLE CALL STEVE SMITH. HE RAPE SPIDERS.
Those spiders must be really desperate if they’re looking for British females.
Spiders in Britain who are 9s and 10s are 4s and 5s in the rest of the world
British 10
Tricked again by the metric system!
I wouldn’t trust her – she has a wandering eye.
Semi -relevant: The other day I went to petsmart to get doggy stuff with the Heir. First thing I see is two guinea pigs getting it on in the cage. Giggity.
When that guinea pig cage’s a rocking, don’t come a knockin!
two guinea pigs getting it on in the cage
What is going on there? I get that you need to lock up illegal Italian immigrants, but why are you shopping there? And what else are Luigi and his wife supposed to do to pass the time?
At least you didn’t say Luigi and Mario….
Why do you think the Mushroom Kingdom is full of pipes, and mushrooms? And the princess is always in another castle 😉
duuuude
DOH!
My talking point of the day: “The same government mental health professionals who cleared Epstein off suicide watch will be evaluating people for being stable enough to own guns”
nice.
Nice…… Although it is my understanding that as far as the Red Flag Law proposed nationally goes, the one determining if someone is stable enough to own guns is a judge. No mental health credentials required. Good thing judges are never political.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1160567450850734081?s=19
Eleven hundred ninety-six.
That’s the number of names on this page. People who were doing ordinary things until they were shot to death by killers bent on mass fatalities.
In today’s Washington Post, a special 12-page print section lists every mass shooting victim since 1966.
Now do all the dead children we dropped bombs on since ’66.
Now do abortions or those killed by police.
Now do medical malpractice fatalities.
That’s pretty low, only about 250,000 per year.
Yup. Murders by firearm: 200,000. Priorities.
Something happened. That should be:
Yup. Murders by firearm: less than 8,000, medical mistakes: more than 200,000. Priorities.
“News”
That’s a low number – versus car accidents.
Clearly in response to the list of Clinton associates who died of mysterious circumstances.
Zing!
>>People who were doing ordinary things
like running and screaming?
So, 22 people a year. How did Chicago do over the weekend?
LibertarianRedhead
@LibertarianRed1
16h16 hours ago
Replying to @washingtonpost
You reported that 992 people were killed by police in 2018, and so far in 2019 by your reports 544 people have been murdered by police.
1,536 people killed by police in 2 years. Why aren’t we discussing disarming them if this is so important?
The police only kill deplorables.
Wish I was on twitter so I could post this in response.
Since 1966? That’s a pretty low count for such a long timeframe.
Now do Islamic Terrorism.
Now do the deaths of Clinton associates.
That’s it? ~1200 people out of maybe half a billion over 53 years?
I’m guessing tripping on stairs has an exponentially higher death rate.
I beat this dead horse every time, but if you go by CDC numbers, who use the most generous definition for gun deaths, more people drown in pools and bathtubs each year. There are a ton, and I mean a ton, of causes of death that routinely exceed gun homicides, including other types of homicide, which is why I am so disgusted when people jump on this train.
1,196 killed in mass shootings in the entire US in the lat 53 years. OR, put differently that is 114 FEWER homicides than Chicago (650), Baltimore (343) and Philadelphia (317) had in 2017.
1,196? That’s less than die because of airplanes on one day!
We need common sense debris control.
This doesn’t happen in nice places like San Francisco. The enlightened leaders there were smart enough to pass laws that banned single use airplane parts.
You wanted a picture… you got a picture:
Teacher Jailed For Five Years After Having Sex With Student
Well, you know who’s horking all the coke at the parties she attends.
She’s 36? Looks like she’s 50
Bad carpet munching diet?
I’ve seen that movie somewhere.
Prosecutors said the girl received two phone calls from a restricted number as well as a one-word text message, which consisted of Coyle-Mitchell’s ‘pet name’ for the teen.
Way to leave us hanging.
Snugglebottom?
Sugarpuss.
I am enjoying the fact that nobody believes Jeffrey Epstein actually committed suicide.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/11/jeffrey-epsteins-suicide-in-jail-is-unfathomable/
https://humanevents.com/2019/08/10/jeffrey-epsteins-death-stinks/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2019%2F08%2F11%2Fepsteins-death-stinks-and-other-commentary%2F
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The complete list of Clinton associates’ “mishaps” and “suicides”.
Not complete. They forgot John Ashe who died of a “freak accident” the day before he was supposed to testify against Hillary.
Damn
I wonder if you can compile such a list for any high profile leader.
I notice there’s now one on Trump.
If the Clintons did indeed pull this off, there’s no way they’re not connected to the Mafia.
I remember looking thru that list years ago. At least 50% are accidents or coincidences. That still leaves a lot of bodies.
Yeah, I just read the Snopes on the Clinton body list. Tom Woods want kidding about what breathless propaganda that site is. I’m naturally skeptical and went in assuming the whole thing was coincidence or spurious correlation or whatever. So why didn’t Snopes just say that?
Even if you grant that in some lines of work or leading whatever type of life you may be more likely to know people who might die by misadventure or kill themselves, 47 people is still a shit-ton of people.
It isn’t like these people worked as garbage collectors or oil riggers.
I know gutter-punks who’ve squatted in Baltimore with heroin addicts for years and I don’t know 47 people who’ve died.
That’s a lot of gun violence.
A lot of suicides by gun mentioned but no mention of whether or not a gun was found at the scene.
I swear I had nothing to do with the snow-walker horse. My alibi was being stuck on planes for about 16 hours. Hope y’all are doing great and thanks Staff and Tejicano for the good time at Tokyo.
You made it out alive. Congrats. (Psst, staff is my nickname among the ladies only)
I thought it was short stuff?
He’s huge in Japan!
Another deception caused by people that are not aware they have been taken in by the metric system?
Ummmm……
“Staff” the docs said you should get treatment for that
The John-o’s are too real. Looking forward to the future models of your puzzle btw.
So that’s why you went silent. The other Nihonglibs were worried that something had befallen you after they left.
Oh, look- Here’s one
Misogyny is a key element of the so-called alt-right movement and there is a strong link between men’s rights activism and white supremacy, a report has found.
The Anti-Defamation League’s report argues hatred of women is a “dangerous and underestimated component of extremism”.
The research – titled When Women are the Enemy: The Intersection of Misogyny and White Supremacy – found the increasingly popular narrative of white men as victims of feminism has been a key driving force behind the misogyny which has become rife in far right movements.
Changing social norms and the growth of progressive thought and politics are also powerful inspirations for misogyny in the far right, according to the report.
“Misogyny has the potential to act as a gateway into the white supremacist world,” Jessica Reaves, the report’s author who is an expert at the league’s Centre on Extremism, said.
“The hatred and resentment of women voiced by groups like involuntary celibates and men’s rights activists is disturbingly similar to white supremacists’ hatred of minorities. And some white supremacists, especially those on the alt-right, use the same degrading, violent anti-woman rhetoric we hear coming from misogynist groups.”
The Anti-Defamation League – a Jewish NGO based in the US which fights antisemitism and all forms of bigotry – found it is common to find men’s rights activism and incel (short for “involuntarily celibate”) language on alt-right message boards.
It also found message board commenters perpetuate rape culture and encourage violence against women who they deem to be refusing them their “rightful” sexual experiences.
Obviously, if you can’t get laid, you’re going to take it out on the colored folk.
Or, maybe, stupid crazy people are prone to having stupid crazy ideas.
“Misogyny has the potential to act as a gateway into the white supremacist world,” Jessica Reaves, the report’s author who is an expert at the league’s Centre on Extremism, said.
Whatever. Make me a sammich. White bread only. Duh.
Gender reassignment? They’re castrating children
Well one must preserve the voice somehow. Hopefully they get important palace jobs when they grow up.
little girl who enjoys rough-housing and hates frocks
We used to just call them tomboys.
Let’s remember, here, that lobotomies were a thing.
And irreversible. Don’t forget irreversible.
Oh come on, I’m sure you could just graft some non-liquified brain matter into that frontal lobe region.
Slept out overnight in a hammock without a bug net this weekend. Fuck me. Don’t do that. My face, hands, and feet are covered in mosquito bites. Apparently mosquito will bite through wool socks…
STEVE SMITH bait?
STEVE SMITH SAY “RELAX”.
The word you are looking for there Leap is Uffda.
And yeah, there are a LOT of mosquitoes out and about right now. I don’t normally have problems with them, but last night I got about a billion bites while putting my boat cover on.
The only thing more annoying than the whine of those little bastards’ wings is the annoying whine from my wife about how many mosquitoes that there are. She hates, hates, hates them and keeps a running total of how many bites she gets.
I’m working from home today because I ripped open so many bug bites I need to let them scab up without wearing socks.
My wife still gets big welts when she is bit by a mosquito. I don’t get any bumps at all. When she asks me why mosquito bites don’t bother me, I tell her the secret is to get bit a couple million times as a kid….
My ex used to get mad that mosquitoes bit her but not me. They avoided me because of my blood alcohol content I used to tell her, but she always insisted it was some kind of other medical condition. Bug spray with deet works.
Gnats, no-see-ums and deer flies are biding their time, waiting, waiting, waiting…
Fuckin’ sand fleas, man. Mosquitoes are bad, but those things are on another level. On Parris Island, out on the PT field in formation early in the morning, you could see those bastards descending on you like a cloud. Ugh.
DEET is a gift from God.
I backpacked Alaska in June one year. Those bastards (I know they’re female) regularly got me through normal clothing AND a rain shell – 2 layers!!! Sweated my ass off hiking the tundra in a parka cuz of them.
Similar experience. I also remember the horse flies were enormous and would bite through clothing.
That place is like another era/planet. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see a T-Rex come out of the bush there.
I get one, maybe two mosquito bites a year.
Its almost a good trade-off for having scorpions. Almost.
Michael Malice
@michaelmalice
The corporate press: “Thinking someone got to Epstein is an absurd baseless paranoid conspiracy theory.”
Also the corporate press: “Vladimir Putin is blackmailing Donald Trump because he has a videotape where Trump paid prostitutes to pee on a bed because Obama slept on it.”
Malice has been on one helluva roll these last couple weeks.
I like his use of “corporate press” because it makes it difficult for Lefties to defend it… Not that it really stops them, but I like putting them in a position where they have to argue that this particular group of for-profit corporations is magically noble and virtuous.
Old feminist thinking was “meat eating is rooted in misogyny.”
Euphemism?
Feminine Beauty Is Highly Controllable
http://www.therulesrevisited.com/2011/09/feminine-beauty-is-highly-controllable.html
looks scientific
Meet the titans of finance, tech and philanthropy funding New York’s socialist surge
Socialism is the fetish of the wealthy. Nothing surprising here
They understand socialism will give them more power.
While protecting their fortunes.
I mean socialists aren’t winning elections in Detroit or West Virginia. They’re winning in the richest parts of urban America: Seattle, Portland, and the gentrified parts of Chicago and NYC.
I’ll start believing that socialism is anything more than trust fund kids cosplaying revolutionary when they start winning the west side of Chicago or the inner city of Cleveland or any part of St. Louis. As it stands, it’s rich people protecting rich people while using the working class as a prop.
While allowing them to feel virtuous, without actually giving anything up, themselves.
Having lived in Chicago and knowing how some areas gentrified and ghettified, there was nothing organic about any of it. You may not be able to control who decides to rent an apartment or storefront in a neighborhood, but you can damn sure steer who owns the properties being rented. The most transient of society are the rich and the poor – the rich can move to anywhere they please when they can afford to take the chance at a better payoff, and the poor have few commitments keeping them in place (and often move by necessity).
They didn’t bulldoze rich neighborhoods to build urban interstates. They bulldozed slums and whatever middle class pockets were in the way. The residents of the slums got moved into the projects, and the rest got moved to the suburbs. And when legislators saw the money and power of these relocations – the horse trading of middle class neighborhoods for ghettification in exchange for slums being gentrified – the power and the financial liquidity were and remain addictive. The confusion of all that movement allows for a lot of hiding places for the well-connected, but the shifting sands swallow up a few of them once in a while. But too many of the survivors have perversely re-defined and sold such corruption as “equal opportunity”.
“As an entrepreneur, I wish we had single-payer health care because then we would only have to focus on wages and not benefits.”
Can it be people are this stupid?
It won’t stop at that. You will never be able to ‘focus’ on just wages.
With free market non government influenced healthcare you could also focus on wages. Most benefits imo are a distortion caused by tax policies, at least in Romania
No, you’ll still see benefits when the utility to the worker is greater than the cost to the employer but for something that the employee can’t purchase directly themselves. For example, a company might purchase a luxury box at a sports stadium for an entire season and allow various employees to use it for one game. Employees will have to forgo the a bit of salary to do so, but less than it would cost them to buy one game’s ticket to the box, and assuming they value the box more than the bulk cost, its a win for everyone.
The government-enforced coupling of health insurance with employment is responsible for a lot of the dysfunction in that market, in my view.
The government has done everything they can to funnel people into this third-party payer system. Then, when the prices of these services skyrocket, they just shrug “I dunno” and declare that we need a new program to get people on bigger and better insurance policies.
And to double down on the stupid, they’ve cemented the relationship between insurance and employment, which creates all kinds of problems, particularly for the self-employed.
because then we would only have to focus on wages and not benefits.
So, would-be crony likes the idea of passing his comp package onto the public. He deludes himself into thinking they won’t be serving his hide on the platter.
Only those richer than him would pay
I think there is a view aming some lefties that this way small companies are helped and succesfull ones pay for it.
Yhe general view of welfare state helps antreprenourship
As usual, they identify the problem, but completely fuck up the solution. Employer provided health insurance is a disaster. It couples your health care to your career choices and causes a misallocation of labor in the economy. Labor becomes less mobile as well.
And to think, this all started because of wage controls and tax policy.
>>Labor becomes less mobile as well.
I would have left my job years ago and gone solo consultant if it wasn’t for the medical/family insurance thing.
“As an entrepreneur, I wish we had single-payer health care because then we would only have to focus on wages and not benefits.”
The other way to handle it is to end the tax benefit for employer provided health care.
It annoys me that we can agree on the problem and then the other side (or the other other side, depending on the problem) can’t see the solution?
They can’t recognize that it was government interference that screwed it up to begin with, primarily because the educational system does not cover it.
Or the mandate that employers provide health insurance.
Didn’t read, but I’ve found a wide urge to exit rational discussion of business in terms of markets as soon as someone “gets his.”
So this benefits discussion to me is just part of the normal whining. For example, there’s always the throwaway “we can’t find talent;” well, of course you can: it’s a market; there are tradeoffs in quality, capacity, and costs in all things; you will find a hook works better when there’s bait on it.
What they really mean is that, while markets were great when they were rising, when they were scoring in salary or profits, but, now that they’re on top of the pile and all these costs are piling up and harshing their buzz, they don’t like it so much any more.
Another problem common to entrepreneurs is navigating the shift to operations. Few people are excellent at vision and operations. So they whine about talent scarcity and build cars in tents * shrug *
there’s always the throwaway “we can’t find talent;”
“Well, I guess I should replace you with someone who can, shouldn’t I.”
“Socialism is for the people, not the socialist.”
20 Ways Trump Is Consciously Following Hitler’s Template
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20? Meh. Tell me when you find 100
I think Obama was following all of Hitler’s template points, but nobody cared when he was doing that shit.
“Both relentlessly demonize opponents”
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”
-HRC
something something become bitter and cling to guns and religion something something.
Lord help these people if/when an actual “Hitler” shows up again.
They’ll celebrate him or her. That’s the irony of it.
Look no further than some of the socialist totalitarian wannabees among the Dem presidential candidates.
At this point I think most Americans would be upset is he didn’t take responsibility for locking Congress in the capitol and lighting it on fire.
the twin ideals – individual dignity and fundamental equality
I though it was individual freedom and equality under the law.
a steady diet of fear, greed, loathing, lies, and envy
But enough about leftists.
has destroyed democracies before, and can do so again.
Good thing the US is not one.
Innate human dignity is the foundation for freedom. Innate human dignity is entirely incompatible with equality of outcome (or even equality of opportunity)
Wake me up when Trump gets a dog named Blondi and becomes a vegetarian. He already has a hot wife (Eva was, I understand, pretty attractive for the day, not to mention something of a nympho.)
and if i recall my history correctly, we should definitely give our guns up to Hitler.
You don’t need your guns because this time Hitler has nuke. ///Swallowswell
“But Hitler didn’t take power by force.”
No, indeed. He and the Nazis used the standard socialist playbook – get into power, then make the opposition illegal.
Many recent presidents have been awful, “But then there was Donald Trump, the only president in recent American history to openly despise the twin ideals – individual dignity and fundamental equality – upon which the contemporary United States is built.
You know, I’ve asked leftists any number of times to provide evidence of this claim, but I never really hear much beyond Trump is uncouth.
But the Trump-Hitler compilation is a stunning warning because, as many Holocaust survivors have said, few Germans or Europeans expected what unfolded in the years after Hitler amassed power.
Excepting of course those who bothered to read Hitler’s book. He was quite explicit about what he wanted. So worry not, dear author, Trump’s book is devoid of plans for world conquest and genocide. You can rest easy tonight.
Demagoguery has some pretty standard elements in it that are practiced by all demagogues. Just because Hitler was a demagogue, you cannot conclude that all demagogues are Hitlers in training.
One major difference between Hitler and Trump is that Trump doesn’t want to exterminate the people he sees as opponents of his desired set of policies. Hitler did. That’s what made Hitler especially bad. Trump, for all his blustering and seemingly unprincipled willingness to wheel and deal, is actually very focused on restoring the rule of law to the U.S. Under Hitler, brownshirts would have paid visits to Mueller, and Pelosi etc resulting in them being intimidated into silence.
The only political intimidation leading to silencing is coming from Trump’s opponents. It’s Trump’s supporters who have to fear the torches and the vandals and the beatings.
I’ve compared Trump to Mussolini in the past. I did it because Trump’s approach to economics is very much Mussolini like. But, again, Trump isn’t using intimidation and violent attacks to silence his opposition the way Mussolini did.
These over-the-top, hysterical, evidence-free claims that Trump is the second coming of Hitler demonstrate to me how well Orwell nailed it when he coined the word “duckspeak”
The solution to gun violence
http://imgur.com/gallery/BbHUIWb
Good morning Swissy and pals!
I remember the good old days when the phrase was “if it’s not Boeing, I’m not going”.
But I think I found their new corporate theme.
Obligatory: I’m not your pal, buddy.
I am not your buddy, friend!
Crash & burn?
I’m not your friend, guy!
I watched Airplyfor the first time last night… Seems appropriate.
Airplane!
I believe autocorrect was invented to purposely change random words
Have you always had this drinking problem?
It was set up with the current logic model by some real asshats so people would get in trouble with significant others as random words would result in communications that cause said other to think you are playing them for a fool.
I speak Jive.
shut up honkey!
Hey big momma, my momma didn’t raise no dummy, I dug her rap!
-Cut me some slack, jack!
Nah, autocorrect was invented to force people to proofread their work.
A fiendish plan.
Spectacularly funny movie.
“It was a rough place – the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It’s worse than Detroit.”
Captain, how soon can we land?
-I can’t tell.
You can tell me, I’m a doctor.
-No, I mean I don’t know yet.
Well, can’t you take a guess?
-Well….not for a few hours
You can’t take a guess for a few hours?
-No, I can’t land the plane for a few hours!
For the first time?
Surely you can’t be serious.
I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
Good luck, we’re all depending on you.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Looks like the plane had one of the engines fail on takeoff (ingested something would be my bet). Those aren’t manufactured by Boeing.
Even if it was, it’s not necessarily Ford’s fault when the mechanic doesn’t properly maintain the thing. I think we need more info before assigning blame.
*GE hides behind a curtain*
Study: many of the ‘oldest’ people in the world may not be as old as we think
Looks like that Epstein guy will not be facing this problem after the Clintons got to him….
Is that in Metric years or American years?
I start my Monday morning by learning everything I’ve ever believed is a lie.
There’s no doubt that a lot of those reports are garbage, but the article is problematic.
Nothing happens “suddenly” in a dataset where the warranty period is 100 years; over that time, a ton of independent variables could shift that are consistent with the change. Post hoc is one of the shabbiest and frequent logic shortcuts, and the last thing we need in popular media is yet another fuzzy causation argument.
The other problem is an apparent ignorance of bi-modal failures. The idea that high-crime and low-longevity areas shouldn’t produce old people is insane. First, simple longevity is an average; looking at the full distribution is much more meaningful (do all the overdoes in Chicago and Appalachia really mean that my life expectancy is lower?). Take it from someone born in the poorest state who is related to tons of centenarians: lots of things cut both ways; for example, poor people don’t ride in cars everywhere, and they can’t afford some garbage foods and garbage habits. I’m not saying that lard saves lives, but you can’t prove it ever hurt anyone by the tombstones on our hill.
Say what you want but you can’t argue with the facts. Not a single super centarian has been born in the last 100 years.
right
In the warranty game, I call that “ripening.” We can project what the costs will be, but, until the first production has aged through the warranty period, we don’t know how good our projections were.
Like in the pay-equality games, seems like lots of people have trouble with screening data so that they’re comparing apples-to-apples
Erm….
STEVE SMITH SUPER PRECAMBRIAN
The Dominican Republic has an artificially low life expectancy due to the number of families forging birth certificates for their little leaguers.
Reminds me of this Joke:
Texas family moved to Massachusetts. Son comes home from school and says: “Dad, Dad at school today we played basketball and I was the only one who could dunk”. That’s because you’re a Texan Son. The next day, son comes home and says: ” Dad, Dad we were reading and I was the only one who knew the big words”. “It’s because you’re a Texan son”. The next day he comes home and says: “Dad, Dad today in the locker room I noticed that I was the only one with pubic hair. Is that because I’m a Texan?” “No son, it’s because you’re 25”
“”Lloyd, pour me one.”
I’m here for you… ?
Lord help these people if/when an actual “Hitler” shows up again.
*Kamala Harris smiles, nods*
https://www.guns.com/news/2019/08/12/bill-to-require-those-wanting-body-armor-to-get-fbi-permission
I haven’t seen this posted yet.
John must be doing cartwheels.
Fuck you Moobs. Since you’ll weasel and say body armor isn’t covered by the 2A, it has a perfectly legitimate use as not getting capped at a range.
Don’t call Sean moobs he is sensitive bout that
Guns are just the tip of the spear. Americans simply take freedom for granted, assuming that the good things will always survive after the bad things are managed away.
I still believe that 2A for private conduct is weak sauce: 9A clearly says we don’t need a right to be listed for it to exist.
I don’t know how to instill a “fuck off, slaver” gene in the pampered American; we’re like anti-vaxxers at this point: the dangers of the past and the protections we put in place are just archaic wastes of time to be ridiculed.
“9A clearly says we don’t need a right to be listed for it to exist.”
I agree, unfortunately FYTW
I don’t know how to instill a “fuck off, slaver” gene in the pampered American
You don’t. “Fuck off slaver” is an ephemeral state brought on by the excesses of a tyrant. Even in the best of attempts, the cracks start forming during generation zero.
Amazing how the Founders accurately assessed the mostly evil and venal nature of man, though, and put together a pretty damn good structure.
The just underestimated how evil and venal.
They didn’t underestimate how evil and venal the nature of man, especially politicians, is. They underestimated the continued willingness of the population to apply the second amendment to remedy the situation as the need arose.
Don’t many people who go to ranges wear armor to protect against the rare mishap?
I thought it was to be tacticool, while not actually remaining cool.
never seen it in the South or Texas
doG only knows what the rest of the country does
I can’t recall ever seeing that.
Hmm, don’t know then. I thought I had seen that mentioned before. I haven’t been to a range since the CG days. My range is called BLM land.
I’ve never seen it. However, particularly at the range I go to these days, it’s a combination of the people there generally practicing very good safety habits and a range officer who will, in a very friendly, congenial way, not tolerate any silly bullshit. Also, I don’t go to ranges where I think I’d need body armor.
Yeah, if you think you need body armor at the range, what you really need is a different range.
Welcome to the new US, where rights not explicitly enumerated do not exist.
But government authority not granted does exist bc fytw.
Where in the constitution does it grant the federal government the power to do such a thing?
It’s clearly laid out in the FYTW clause of the eleventy-twelfth amendment.
I participated in that conversation back at the old place and gave John an example of a person who might need a vest that doesn’t work as a government enforcer or security guard (not that I think you should even need a reason). I’ve picked or drilled out locks on hundreds of evictions and at that particular time I was doing several a month. I never ended up getting one, but was considering it for a while as I am the first one in the line of fire on the other side of that door trying to get in while the cops stand off to the side with their guns drawn. I even had several barricade type evictions where I had to take out the entire door myself as the soon to be evictee piled up material (or themselves!) behind the door.
Damn. If the cops called me for a job like that, I’d come dressed like Martin Brodeur.
So ralfy was a go to whiskey reviewer for me, but his videos got kinda long and I sometimes missed the introduction, and i only now realized he made a second channel for fitness and life philosophy.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtfrrGpawA-NDs3klltBISA/videos
it amuses me how he talks of squatting and supplements and bulking and cutting (I am of the view that bulk/cut cycles are unnecessary for casual lifters.)
What’s crazy is the Clinton body count meme involving Epstein was already out there before it happened.
I don’t know man. Something does stink on some level.
What’s struck me is how hyperventilating the Establishment press is to disallow the notion Epstein was murdered from the realm of acceptable opinion. I think they know nobody’s buying it. And they’re no longer even worried so much about legitimacy as the pretense of legitimacy.
I may be off in this but I use the sports media. The pattern I notice with them is they never break a major story unless it’s safe to do so or when it’s already out. For example, steroids in baseball. Then they go straight to hyperventilation and fake moral indignation. So they don’t investigate because they want to protect their access and friendships to going ‘wha happened?’ and ‘I can’t believe it! Something must be done!’
Same with the political press. No way in hell these lazy cowards don’t know something is up to some degree.
I’d say sports media are the source of the problem because it’s usually the most-consumed journalism of young boys (and it’s just a flavor of celebrity journalism which is consumed by young girls). I was listening to sports radio this morning as the hosts were hyperventilating over the football teams “kicking situation” and I just laughed at how full of shit these people are. If a kicker was drafted, they’d talk about a wasted draft pick – yet they shit the bed over NOT trading a draft pick for a kicker. There’s no fucking difference. Besides, all a kicker does is cover the asses of the shitty offense: a missed kick is nothing but a failed offensive play. Three missed kicks in one game is still fewer failed plays than a run or screen pass for negative yardage which happens many more times in a game than missed kicks. Turn those -1 yard losses into 2-yard gains and the kicker becomes nearly meaningless as 2-point conversions are a better option when your offense is capable of 2-yard gains at only 50% efficiency. The league keeps putting rules in decreasing the significance of the kicker; in fact the rule changes have made effective punters much more valuable than effective placekickers.
They have to otherwise they are next on the list.
Good point.
Southern Hospitality
Sen. Lindsey Graham knocked down the idea of banning semi-automatic weapons nearly identical to those used by soldiers on the off chance a hurricane slams into his South Carolina town.
“Here’s a scenario that I think is real: There’s a hurricane, a natural disaster, no power, no cops, no anything,” the Republican lawmaker told reporters aboard Air Force One.
A reporter asked if he meant looters.
“Yeah, people, they’re not going to come to the AR-15 home,” Graham responded. “Well, I think if you show up on the porch with an AR-15, they’ll probably go down the street.”
Who knew .. Lindsey is a closeted prepper. Not the first closeted thing he’s been though, if I had to guess.
Is he wrong?
You mean Red Flags good Graham?
Woof, I made a mistake and looked at the replies. Now I’m shaking with rage and I’m making an appointment to get “Molon Labe” tattooed across my knuckles. And that means I’m going to have to make some weird fist so my thumb sticks out or else the math won’t work.
you mean like this:
Karen Myatt
@karenamyatt
Time to bring down the NRA. Where’s the investigation into laundering money for foreign entities? The revocation of tax status? The audit? The litigation between North and LaPierre gave a roadmap. Is anyone paying attention?
PJS
@PJS7734
Why was the NRA and Russian money not part of the Mueller Report?
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Why weren’t all my political enemies investigated? Also Trump’s rhetoric is chilling to the press…
Do you ever feel like someone should be launched into the sun because they say something so aggressively stupid that they’re clearly too dangerous to be allowed to live? Or at least too shitty a person to screw up everyone else’s day?
Leftist obsession with the NRA is fascinating. The NRA is not even the best / most effective gun-rights group.
More intriguing to me is the jump to front-man for the gun-manufacturing industry, when a simpler and truer characterization is association of millions of private firearms enthusiasts. More of the power comes from their leadership of a voting block than as sister-organization to a PAC that provides campaign funds.
Why was the NRA and Russian money not part of the Mueller Report?
I, too, am disappointed that Russian money was not part of the Mueller Report, especially given that the tens of millions of Russian dollars given to the Clinton Foundation was the precursor to the Clinton campaign buying supposed Russian intel through cut-outs.
while respecting robust due process
How, exactly?
In the following statement Graham says:
There are already laws on the books to deal with people who have become an imminent danger but the problem with those laws is it requires a licensed medical practitioner to determine if the person is stable. Red Flag laws are a way around that and only rely on the opinion of a judge. From what I am hearing, once a person is accused and had a visit by the Red Flag Gustapo they are pretty much barred from ever purchasing a weapon again because they are now suspect and won’t pass a background check because of it. It is fucking evil, unconstitutional and wrong. The R’s are pushing to incentivize states to pass the laws. It passed in CO and 21 county sheriffs told the Gov to fuck off they won’t enforce it.
there is a Due Process right for the individual to challenge the determination
Sure, if you have months and tens of thousands of dollars to spare post facto.
Exactly, and under the court system one has a constitutional right to representation. Not so here.
A civilian AR-15 is “nearly identical” to an M4 Carbine like a Honda Civic is “nearly identical” to a stock car used by race drivers.
What’s that Katt Williams bit? A Chrysler 300 looks just like a Phantom, until a Phantom pulls up.
Is there necessarily any difference other than the sear? I honestly don’t know and didn’t figure much more than that.
I’m sure there are AR15 with cost-cutting features, especially alloy of parts. I’d love to know more.
M4s are shorter and they can mount a grenade launcher. You could take an AR-15 lower and build what would amount to an M4 without select fire but you’d need an NFA stamp because it would be considered a “short-barreled rifle”.
Honda Civic is “nearly identical” to a stock car
seemed unfair to me, but I’m not an expert. One of our arguments might well be that an M4 isn’t much different from, say, a Remington 740 (except that it might be considerably less powerful and accurate depending on options and caliber).
So maybe: stock car vs restrictor plate would be more fair ?
There’s probably no perfect analogy. I was just trying to come up with something to describe the concept of “two things that look similar but one has a far greater capability”.
ah, well that certainly works
I’m probably too much a car guy to have taken it at face value: got wrapped up around the axle. I know enough about guns and cars that I thought you were signalling a lot of difference between the AR15 and M4, so I suddenly thought I was missing an education. All calmed down now.
Well, they LOOK very similar (which is the way the gun manufacturers designed them). And we all know that when two things look alike, then they are alike in every other way. Just like smoking and vaping.
on the off chance a hurricane slams into his South Carolina town
Not to be confused with the off chance that someone will kill you in a mass shooting using an AR .
This here story is some fine Minnesoda passive aggressiveness.
The problem is people blocking the intersection and holding up traffic. Of course, bus riders are hit the hardest. One evil car holds up hundreds of noble mass transit users.
My favorite though is this comment:
(for non-Minnesodans, the 3rd Ave bridge is just as wide and about 50 yards from an interstate freeway bridge. The fact that the speed limit on it is 35 is a travesty. But the LAW IS THE LAW and the lash needs to be used more.
Here’s how the hottest month in recorded history unfolded around the world
riiight…
what dataset?
look it was hot in (parts of) Europe. But weather isn’t climate unless it fits the story.
Sure guy, whatever you say.
Fake but accurate
Gore said his “point of no return claim” was, unfortunately, “accurate,” but celebrated that the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have made climate a top priority.
“You said back in 2006 the world would reach the point of no return if we didn’t reduce greenhouse gases in 2016. Is it already too late?” asked ABC News’ Jonathan Karl in an interview which aired Sunday on “This Week.”
“[S]ome changes, unfortunately, have already been locked in place,” Gore replied. “Sea level increases are going to continue to matter what we do now. But, we can prevent much larger sea level increases. Much more rapid increases in temperature. The heatwave was in Europe. Now it’s in the Arctic. We’re seeing huge melting of the ice there. So, the warnings of the scientists 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, unfortunately, were accurate. Here’s the good news, Jonathan, in the Democratic contest for the presidential nominations this year, virtually all of the candidates agree this is either the top issue or one of top two issues.”
He then added, “I think it’s great that there are so many of these candidates who are really making it their top priority and who are really focusing on introducing bold plans. I’m really encouraged by that.”
Joe being Joe again.
CNN
@CNN
Joe Biden twice on Saturday said he met with students who survived the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, when he was vice president. But the Parkland shooting took place in February 2018, a little more than a year after Biden left office.
so the shooting was Trumps fault
File that one with when Joe suddenly started claiming the truck driver involved in the accident that killed his family was drunk (30 years later), when he most assuredly was not drunk.
He’s an opportunist bullshitter that is always seeking to increase his sympathetic closeness to a tragedy for political points.
Now where did silly old grampa put those nuclear codes again? Right next to the hair plugs and the dentures.
You mean it isn’t still 0000000000000?
It’s a yuge number, you’ll love it.
That’s amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!
No talk of aggressively grabbing a young girl’s arm after she asked him how many genders there were?
He said there were three.
I’m guessing: Boy, girl, it.
Boy, girl, Biden.
CNN fact checking fairly or do they just not want Biden to get the nomination?
It could just be some house cleaning. Get the dirt out early so that it can’t be used in the general. “Oh, that’s old news.” Won’t work, but it might be their thinking.
If my far leftist friends are any indication, they don’t want him to get the nomination and want something or someone to take him down. Biden is popular amongst the normies and casually political.
If he keeps this up, his lead over all the other candidates may drop down to 12%.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html
This time it’s different
Blah blah blah UNICORNS!
In the late 1990s, investors threw their money at many unprofitable Web-based startups, creating the dot-com bubble. Some analysts have compared the onslaught of unicorns to the tech boom that saw that bubble burst.
Indeed, some of the unicorns may be overvalued, according to a 2017 report by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Keith Wright, an instructor at Villanova University’s business school in Pennsylvania, warned in a 2018 CNBC article that these unicorn startups would likely meet the same fate as the dot-com companies.
“In case you missed it, the peak in the tech unicorn bubble already has been reached,” Wright wrote. “And it’s going to be all downhill from here.”
But Rajaraman says he doesn’t think these startups will suffer a similar fate because many are taking longer to mature and are seeing profits before going public.
“The difference I see between the dot-com boom and now, is these companies are actually generating really good revenue and growing,” he says. “Venture capitalists are realizing returns.”
Yeah. A few of those unicorns will undoubtedly achieve escape velocity. Keep telling yourself yours is one of them.
::cough:: Tesla ::cough::
“My startup totally will NOT be the Pets.com of the 2010s!”
As did some of the dot.com startups.
“Some” unicorns may be overvalued? Bold statement. Really going out on a limb there.
Yeah. A few of those unicorns will undoubtedly achieve escape velocity. Keep telling yourself yours is one of them.
Which is actually the correct entrepeneurial mindset.
You might say Epstein was the first of the gang to die.
Apparently, Epstein’s cellmate was an ex cop in for 4 murders. They found a phone on him at MCC. This story is just getting better.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/report-epstein-feared-cellmate-an-ex-officer-accused-of-killing-four-people_3038794.html?utm_source=pushengage&utm_medium=pushnotification&utm_campaign=pushengage
Except he had no cellmate, right?
Which was also not correct procedure.
Official line is that no one was in the cell with Epstein at the time. Who knows.
Oh, great. Now they’re gonna need a scapegoat for killing Epstein, along with whoever they else they were planning to throw to the wolves.
Bill DeBolshevik really packing ’em in in Iowa.
That job sucks. I’d rather see you starve. ch 403
Low-skill, low-pay, and disproportionately done by women, these jobs congregate near dense urban labor markets, multiplying in neighborhoods with soaring disposable income. Between 2010 and 2017, the number of manicurists and pedicurists doubled, while the number of fitness trainers and skincare specialists grew at least twice as fast as the overall labor force.
While there are reasons to be optimistic about this trend, there is also something queasy about the emergence of a new underclass of urban servants.
Let’s start with the bright side: As manufacturing has declined, service jobs have been a crucial source of work for those without a college degree. Immigrants fill many of these positions. According to Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, an estimated 20 percent of wealth work is done by people who are not citizens, compared with less than 10 percent of all U.S. labor. Foreign-born workers often move to large metros to find jobs before relocating to cheaper towns and suburbs to build a more permanent home. In this way, one can see wealth work as a bridge for foreign-born workers and less skilled Americans to get a foothold in the labor force.
But Muro cautioned in an interview that “we should also look to the tolerability of these jobs and the precariousness of these lives.”
21st century slavery. Whur muh unions gone?
And they mock Trump for wanting to take America back to the ’50s.
Except that unions actually were a tool of white supremacy.
Many contractors surely relish the autonomy—and perhaps even the anonymity—of these apps, which give on-demand wealth workers flexibility to work whenever and wherever they wish, while protecting their privacy from clients (if not from the apps themselves), but the rush to make these transactions seamless can make both sides of this marketplace feel invisible. Customers have disaggregated the servant by spreading a once-intimate job across hundreds of drivers, delivery people, and spa workers. Those workers, in turn, have little reason to remember their clients’ names.
Perhaps the ultimate price of wealth work, for all of the opportunities for the low-skilled, is not only the threat of exploitation, but broader alienation. In a digital marketplace of maximal convenience, there is no room for the friction of intimacy.
Those poor, hapless, deluded peasants. They need the guidance and supervision of their intellectual betters. Somebody has to explain the world to them.
Why do you think Zenu flies in DC-8s?