Don’t even ask. On a 1 to 10 scale, my stress is at 23. But I am married to the greatest woman in the world, so that makes up for everything else. What, you think I’m going to be as clever and creative with my linkages as she is? Hah! Nope, this will be my usual mediocre-but-long deal.
Starting with birthdays. And those start with the godfather of science fiction; move on to my favorite jazz vocalist; possibly the stupidest and most corrupt person to ever have the title “Senator”; and ending with the worst headcase to ever take the mound.
On to actual news.
Team Blue likes senile gropers and drug warriors. I’m just waiting for him to start asking, “What day is this? Where am I? What am I doing here?”
Products You Need. And there are things best left not visualized.
Round round get around, I get around.
“I’m not just grasping for power, perish the thought. This is a selfless act.”
So secret that it’s on the front page.
This went in a different direction than expected. Edit update: Tlaib can’t help but be a stupid turd.
Old Guy Music honors the birthday boy. And this is the reason he’s my favorite.
https://youtu.be/PMY9Yq0_6pU
How many of those teachers babies have underage father’s?
Duck you phone. Ted’s will Kill me.
Seriously it decided to autocorrect as well was moving to post.
[phone ducks itself]
So you doubled down on the Ted hate (bait?)?
Al Hibbler and John Wayne? Interesting.
“Jeremy Corbyn calls for anti-Brexit coalition to oust government, install him as temporary PM”
You can’t fool me this time Palpatine/Ceaser/Musolini/Erodgen….
Fool us 5000 times shame on you. Fool us 5001 times … You’re just being cruel
And the LibDims, who are the strongest remainers in Parliament, said no.
I doubt Corbyn will ever be PM. His own party hates him and the shennanigans he pulled to win last time, Labour is losing ground with voters, and a few other factors that elude me at the moment.
From your lips to god’s ears. However, none of the parties is really popular right now.
Sounds like Great Britain needs a “Man of Steel”, as it were.
Josef?
*Taps side of nose and winks*
You’re out of cocaine? Got it.
Well, that too…
Would you settle for a tin knight?
Now are we talking real tin, or aluminium tin?
For Brits? It has to be aluminum, just to hear them say it.
Ehhm! Aluminium, thank you.
https://youtu.be/cTBx-hHf4BE
I was going with an oblique Batman reference. But if you want music, I prefer this version of that song.
Henry Bessemer?
Nigel Farage – if that happens, best timeline ever
Well, that will surely put the Brusselcrats in a tizzy.
They need a strong leader who can step forward and finally handle the Brexit thing that’s been dragging on so long. A final solution if you will.
If they can just concentrate the brexiteers in camps where they can live out their lives while not interfering with the proper Brussellians.
“finally handle the Brexit thing that’s been dragging on so long”
There’s no time to waste, we have to show the citizens that they don’t matter right this minute!
“Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun,”
OMWC clearly hates strong independent women.
Strong, independent, Black-bodied woman. Get with the times, Grandpa!
“most corrupt person to ever have the title “Senator””
/Adds Braun to the top 1000 list. Had forgot about her.
I’m just waiting for him to start asking, “What day is this? Where am I? What am I doing here?”
He has been pretty cringey (slurring, gaffes, unable to put together a coherent thought) in almost every public appearance I have seen him recently, in my opinion.
So he’ll fit right in with Pelosi.
Or Hillary.
It’s been painful to watch but then I think of the people behind him and don’t feel so bad.
Darvish a bigger headcase than Irabu? Darvish only chokes figuratively.
Or Jimmy Piersall?
Jimmy was a ‘funny’ guy
That was in extremely bad taste. And I laughed my ass off.
Speaking of choking…
And for the haters of the DH, you should enjoy this tidbit:
It seems every couple of years, the Indians just get to use the Yankees as batting practice. And it’s glorious.
Davish a bigger headcase than Hrabosky?
OMWC does that just to mess with us. You really should have changed your avatar to a half drunk glass of beer on your Birthday!
Bill Lee. Saw him pitch for the Expos in 1979 and played with him in a charity softball game nearly twenty years later. Cool guy.
Rick Ankiel would like a word — he actually has to give up pitching and became a position player.
Could only throw strikes from center field.
In case the choking joke needs reference.
Steve Blass concurs.
“It didn’t take courage to submit a tip to the FBI,” he said. “I was just so angry.”
Michael Gebert says he and his brother have long disagreed over politics.
Matters reached a head about a year ago at a family gathering in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, he said. After drinking some alcoholic beverages, he said his brother Matthew began using language about Jews, immigrants and minorities that concerned and frightened him.
Michael Gebert explained “it took everything in me” to not react in a violent manner. He said he told his brother, “Matt, I wanna smash your face in.”
He told Hatewatch of that evening: “I saw so much evil in my brother, I could not f**king deal with it.” Even so, Michael Gebert told CNN he still has some sympathy for his brother.
Did he say something bad about a certain former Secretary of State? Comment on her qualifications?
Call everyone a racist, then get hysterical they people aren’t freaking out about racists. So now you have to push racists as uniquely likely to go on Killing sprees. It’s ok to turn your family to the state. They could be enemies of the state.
This will not end well. I remember the last big policy debate we had that tore families asunder and that ended with a civil war. I’ve already seen two of my cousins, siblings, barely speaking to one another because Orangemanbad.
Unfortunately we live in an era of intense zealotry where even taking into account the feeling a of “Racists” makes you a racist. To them general civil war is morally preferable than being tainted by association with racists.
And they identify with the side that “won” the Civil War. They have grown tired of virtue signaling through speech and writing and are slowly embracing violence.
The extreme pessimist in me says that we won’t have to bother with the generational decay of gun culture, because the left is sick of simmering the various frogs they have on the menu, and they’re about to turn the burners up to full heat.
Gebert joined the State Department in 2013, during President Barack Obama’s administration, as a “presidential management fellow,” according to an alumni magazine from his alma mater George Washington University.
The Obama administration hires white nationalists (whatever that means). Probably because TRUMP!
Step right up folks! Here’s your Red Flag law writ large!
I don’t think I believe a word of that.
I totally believe there are racists in government. I also don’t feel like they deserve to work for the institution of force in our society.
I balk at the idea that all racists are ticking time bombs of murder.
Maybe not “deserve,” but as long as they can effectively do their job and keep there is no reason to discriminate against them. Government services and employment have to be equally available to all citizens. When you have a highly politicized bureaucracy whose jobs are used as a spoils system then you have a shithole.
When you have a
highly politicizedbureaucracywhose jobs are used as a spoils systemthen you have a shithole.The most racist people I am aware of are the ones that feel an obligation to create a system that favors some people and harm others based on skin color. These people that are fighting racism and inequality believe they are doing a good thing by creating a system that is predicated on helping the unfortunate “less white” types, because said people are not smart enough to look out for themselves, and certainly, not to be expected to live with the consequences of their choices/actions.
Canada’s Indian Act comes to mind. It’s not even “paternalistic” it’s “maternalistic”. It’s a bloody shame to raise generations of people that can’t fend for themselves.
Oh, I used to think that the results of these systems created by the SJW crowd was just an accident, since after all, it would imply a level of cunning evil that should frighten all, but then, when I realized every single one of these “helping the downtrodden types” projects that the SJW crowd have enacted has produced this same horrific result, I now am left feeling that this all was by design.
“language concerned and frightened him”
This is what it’s come to. Speech is actual violence. Or speech carries implicit oncoming violence. Doesn’t matter that it’s contextual.
“This is what it’s come to. Speech is actual violence.”
But only speech that we don’t agree with. I’m not seeing a problem. /leftards
Meanwhile, he’s struggling to not attack his brother and telling him he wants to smash in his face. Exactly what did the “racist” one say?
his brother Matthew began using language about Jews, immigrants and minorities that concerned and frightened him
Such as?
“Jews. Immigrants. Minorities.”
Failure to fetishize.
In a private family setting while drunk on vacay…
We would pretty much need to incarcerate the entire state of Florida.
“Such as?”
They don’t give examples. Since they are always right, examples not needed. Just shut up and believe them, deplorable!
Just how full of white dudes is craft beer?
Yes, it’s mostly dudes doing the brewing. Only 7.5% of member breweries reported employing a woman with the job title of “brewer,” though women were more represented among non-brewing staff: 37% of breweries reported employing a woman in a “non-production (i.e. brewing), non-service (i.e. taproom servers)” position.
The numbers on racial diversity in the industry are even less encouraging: Just 1% of craft brewery owners are black, and just 4% of craft brewery employees are black. Other minority groups are slightly better represented, but not by much. A full 88% of craft brewery owners are white.
What’s to be done to better align the craft beer industry with the consumers who enjoy its products? Julia Herz, program director for the BA, lists some of the group’s recent efforts, including funding a Diversity Event Grant and a five-part series of diversity best practices for breweries.
We have a problem.
Nobody’s stopping people who aren’t white males from taking up brewing as a hobby and then getting into the business.
I agree that problem is racists whining about the ethnic makeup of the people who invest the time, energy, and skill to make the products they buy. Funnily enough, these same people would raise a stink if the sushi chef didn’t look Japanese.
The only problem I have is that I’m not drinking a beer right now.
Well who’s fault is that?
I don’t know. Who is fault is that?
Not me, I got mine! (The Glib ethos)
I’m dying
I trust whitey to brew me the best beer and darkie to get me the best dope. The only racism was dope being illegal, which is slowly getting solved.
You got dope in my beer! You got beer all over my dope! High fives and everyone was happy forever and ever!
I’m waiting for the mixture of coffee and mj.
Easy. Espresso with an edible on the side like a biscotti.
At my house that’s know as the morning routine.
Maxwell Stash House
Hi Palin,
Did you get the word about the Honey Harvest? Sep 15. If you need directions give me an email or check with Leap/Jimbo or probably Tundra. If you have any extra folding chairs, guys, bring ’em. ID the bottoms, so we can get back correctly easier.
He’s got my email. I think I have most of the Minne/NoDak emails, so we’ll get something out again in a week or so.
Schlitz Malt Liquor Pumpkin Spice Fall Edition. I’d try it.
40 ouncer or you more of a liter man?
It’s a dy-no-mite taste!
A full 88% of craft brewery owners are white.
And?
How do they know what the brewery owners identify as?
Historically beer was most popular in Northern European countries so primarily it is people of that descent that brew it. Unless I am mistaken the beer industry here in the US until not long ago was run almost exclusively by Germans.
Shocker.
Unitl WW1, the Seibel in Chicago taught their classes in German.
Until about 1960, the brewmaster meetings at Budweiser were held in German, you were limited in how far up the brewing ranks you could rise as an English only speaker.
Fun fact – one my bestest pals from high school and beyond was surnamed Seibel. His nick-name was “Jew-Killer”.
If I had known about that when I was 18-19 and wondering what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have definitely considering enrolling there and I had taken a couple years of German in high school. It was only a couple miles from where I wound up enrolling.
The single reason I was assigned German in HS (we didn’t choose any of our classes) was because the school-within-a-school (there were 3 of those) was STEM-focused and German was “the language of science”. Yeah, I didn’t buy it in the 80s, either. But it was better than boring Spanish.
It actually was. When my father got his degree in chemistry two years of German was a requirement.
When was that? I can buy it like in the 40s or something. But 80s?
*does math*
The early-to-mid 1960’s?
Interesting. I think much of our curriculum (at least, the parts not already required by the state) was designed by the likes of Kodak and Xerox. All those scienticians probably took German too.
What else did Germans run so efficiently? Answer me that, Bigot!
Mass forced immigration?
For a time.
I’m willing to wager that a full 88% of breweries are owned by banks and investors. And what women wouldn’t want to take up a job that’s labor intensive, in a hot, messy, and dangerous environment for (relatively speaking) low wages.
And checking, it looks like the AHA stopped releasing their stats, but I’m also willing to bet that the homebrewing community is still 75%+ white middle aged guys. That’s the feeder pool for the professional brewers.
I’m willing to wager that a full 88% of breweries are owned by banks and investors.
I bet the number is lower than that. There are enough that are family owned or a strong majority held. I know a lot of the expansion has been bank/investor financed, so that changes things, especially if we weigh by volume.
If we weighed by volume, I’m not sure what would go on with that number. Boston Beer Company is publicly traded; Stone’s debt problems are public knowledge; Green Flash declared bankruptcy (as have several other once large breweries); Avery/Founders both sold to a Spanish equity company; Duvel has been acquiring US breweries. On the flip side; Bells is privately held by the Bell family, and I’ve heard nothing on the Sierra Nevada side regarding debt/income issues.
Here in Cleveland, Platform was rumored to be heavily in debt to all of the local banks (but still hadn’t missed a payment); Saucy and Fat Heads both had write ups in the local press about the banks that loaned them the money to build out their facilities; Noble Beast may be the only one with an Asian head brewer/owner in the area (he was formerly at Platform and Fat Head’s).
Even though Boston is publicly traded, Koch owns all the A shares(or B shares, whichever arent traded), so has a majority of the business himself. Yuengling is private, I don’t know if they owe banks anything or not. As carefully as they have expanded, I would guess minimal.
So right there you have a huge percentage of the volume that is close to 75% privately held (50/50 for Boston, 100 for Yuengling).
I keep forgetting that Yuengling now falls under the BA definition of craft. I will do that rarest of things on the internet, and admit error, and relinquish the point to you. I was wrong.
I’d still be willing to BS about it for hours though. 🙂
The funny thing is, I thought looking by volume would make it worse, not better.
I thought the number of small breweries that are probably not bank leveraged would offset the fact that the big guys are, if you ignore volume.
But, the 2 biggest volumes really tilt things the other way.
*blink*
*blink*
Ow.
You don’t know how hard I am laughing right now.
That response made my day.
“weight” in the statistical term.
Aha hasn’t had a hit in the US for over thirty years.
Lazy Magnolia out of Mississippi is backwards from many husband/wife breweries. In most of those cases, the man is head brewer and the wife is the president – in charge of the business side.
Lazy Mag is the reverse, it started in their homebrewing days. He was an engineer and bought equipment to try brewing, and the first batch sucked so bad that she took over. So when they went pro. she is the brewmaster and he runs the business side.
Off the top of my head, Stoudt’s in PA has a female head brewer as well. One of the failed breweries (Indigo Imp – brewery got infected, rather then cleaning it, they said they were now doing sour beers) here in Cleveland had a husband/wife team. The husband’s business card said Brew Master, the wife’s card said Brew Master’s Master.
I don’t know if she was head or not, but Upland in Bloomington, IN had a very good female brewer at one time. She was the first head brewer at Browning’s Brewery* (now defunct – Against the Grain took over their space and equipment) in Louisville and made an insanely good Rye.
*named for alcoholic 19th century baseball star Pete Browning, the original Louisville Slugger.
Went to Indiana University. Upland What is my favorite beer. Such summer perfection.
Pretty good food, too.
We did our rehearsal dinner there.
I hope they put the business (on paper) in her name so they can get all those government perks for female-owned businesses. A husband-and-wife machine shop where I used to work had that exact arrangement going on even though she played a much smaller role in the business than he did.
88%?
LOL. hail hortler
No wonder they call them Pale Ales
“Just how full of white dudes is craft beer?”
I drank a lot of Stella Artois on draft last night at one of the local taverns. So I’m way worserer than most white dudes. *fails to give a fuck*
I drank a lot of Stella Artois
Did you lose a bet or something?
Stella draft is my fav beer, except for Heineken. I won one drank much beer night.
1992 called and wants its beer back.
I can’t do the brewed in a mop bucket in warm temps crappy bitter IPA, tastes exactly like all the other ones.
program director for the BA
Think I might have found the problem…
I didn’t see any mention of the trans community in that article – I guess The Takeout are just part of the effort to ERASE Trans Americans?
Fuckin TECBs.
Interesting. I know two (professional) brewers personally. One is black.
Looks to me like half the brewers are black.
Someone needs to bring back https://everythingsaproblem.tumblr.com/
it had a brief, but glorious run.
Ask how many black guys want to start brewing beer in their basement and see how many respond in the affirmative.
possibly the stupidest and most corrupt person to ever have the title “Senator”
That’s quite the competition, but she’s a good pick.
The brother of a State Department official linked to a white nationalist group by a civil rights organization tells CNN he reported his sibling to the FBI out of concern about his hateful views.
Matthew Gebert, the State Department employee, has been placed on administrative leave from his job as a foreign affairs officer in the Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources after the civil rights organization’s made the claim.
Gebert’s brother, Michael Gebert, told CNN on Thursday that details in the extensive report released last week by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch initiative are accurate.
Civil rights group, SPLC, pick one.
“Michael Gebert, told CNN on Thursday that details in the extensive report released last week by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch initiative are accurate.”
Well if you say so. You must be some expert.
Patriot who prevented a mass shooting or gutless snitch who sells out his family?
Which brother seems to be reveling in his fifteen minutes of fame?
Did he commit a crime? No? Then fucking talk to him and if he won’t listen, try listening to him and then talking again.
Oh no, in proggie land dissenters must be destroyed, they can not be allowed to go on living their lives as though they are human.
He just ruined his brother’s life over his faux-righteous bull shit because Trump.
I would love to know if his brother worked during the Obama years. If he’s such a rabid racist, one would think the jerk off would have snitched on him then.
I dislike my brother intensely but I would never do something like that. He would do it to me in a fit of pique if he had the ammunition.
They were veiny, one looked circumcised and the other wasn’t. I picked the thinner, non-circumcised one.
Why choose just one?
Because the designers didn’t think to accommodate the polyphallofetishists.
The one she that wasn’t connected had to go somewhere.
Well, she didn’t want to go straight to letting everyone know she wants the dp…
^This.
It should have come with a harness so the second dong could be strapped on. Such a missed out kink opportunity — pegging it with its own dick.
[Nods at Not Adahn and slowly backs away]
In fairness, she could just be a really big fan of late 80’s TV sci-fi.
I didn’t realize that you could order a “Gary” model…
The anime head on that body is hilarious.
Give her a break. She’s British.
In that case, they should’ve made it more realistic.
The body is off there man…..
I don’t know how to add scurvy.
I picked the thinner, non-circumcised one.
*fist pump*
Hmmm, do I go with a “these euphemisms” joke or the anti-semitism joke?
“These jewphemisms”?
Unions doing union stuff
Before he left, Acosta persuaded Ivanka Trump, who was involved in the apprenticeship rulemaking, to keep construction out of the new industry-led program, according to the former administration official. The Building Trades had told Acosta that letting developers pay industry-recognized apprentices less than prevailing wage would create price competition with NABTU’s program.
“It would lower standards, it would put workers at risk, it would put projects at risk, it would put communities at risk,” Monroe said. “All the features that make ours successful, to undermine that is to undermine the veracity of the system at large.”
Acosta’s decision was also driven by politics, according to the former official, who noted the Building Trades’ strong grassroots operation in the Midwest. Democrats on Capitol Hill were sounding alarms about the Labor Department’s new industry-led program, too, warning that it risked creating low-quality programs with lax oversight.
You can’t let just anybody into the trades. We’ve got turf to protect.
So unions and guilds are the same thing?
Those two pezzi di merdi were using the trip to the West Bank for propaganda.
They’re not interested in anything but to demonize Israel and usher in its destruction via BDS.
Bad news these two. Very bad.
Oh, entirely so. But as noted below Sheedy has family there and so is forcing them to either honor their own stated principles, or to hand the Palis a PR prize.
I know. She must think she’s so smart. I doubt she even cares Israel relented on this.
She has to go catch up on all those anti-Israel children’s shows she taped. I hear her favourite one is the episode where they teach kids to cut the throats of Jews.
She’s going to try and pull some kind of stunt.
She will be on good behavior in-country, but the moment she’s back on US soil she’ll start dropping tweets. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Can’t wait.
Yeah, they accepted the draw and kissed their sister. Once the grandma was involved they were snookered.
Women Who Don’t Believe Israel Has Right To Exist Not Sure Why They Got Banned From Israel
Fact check – True.
BB has been killing it of late.
Figuratively.
My mother, the socialist firebrand didn’t like “Seinfeld”. “To Jewy”, she said. This was before the Left openly decided to hate Israel.
My first thought was exactly that. ‘Gee, two reprehensible women who would dance if Israel was destroyed are shocked at being denied entry into that country. Who would have thunk it?’
The UK, it’s worth noting, denied Lauren Southern entry. Let that sink in on how worthless the UK has become as a free nation.
Yeah, especially considering she’s a British “20”.
“Let that sink in on how worthless the UK has become as a free nation.”
The EU is a cancer which infects everything it touches. The only chance of a cure involves a Brexit as first treatment.
“It’s racism,” said Omar in a press conference.”
Exactly what race is she and what race are the Israelis? Did she elaborate on that>
White. Only whites can be racists, Jews are racists, therefore Jews are white.
Duh.
Bad Orange Man stokes fear, resentment and hatred.
“They view everybody as fascist and Nazis,” Trump said. “They use that term Nazi. This was a term, you could not even use it, now they use it on, like, a regular basis.”…
“They look down upon the hard-working citizens who truly make our country run,” he said.
Trump described his supporters as the “greatest political movement in the history of this country” and said that it was built on “love.”
“Our movement is built on love, we love our families, we love our faith, we love our flag, and we love our freedom, that’s what it’s about,” he said, adding, “We love our neighbors and we love our country.”…
“We have to take care of our own,” he said. “You haven’t heard that from a politician or a political leader in a long time. It’s called America First.”
During his speech, a protester interrupted and was quickly shouted down by the president’s supporters with chants of “USA!”
“That guy has a serious weight problem,” Trump said, as the protester was ushered out of the arena. “Go home, start exercising … he’s got a bigger problem than I do. Get him out of here please.”
Heh. Now if we could just do something about your recent gun control stance*…
*Given it is Trump, I am assuming bluster until something tangible happens.
I can’t wait for the dishonest reporting on this claiming that Trump expressed support for Nazis, or refused to “take responsibility” for the “climate of hate”.
NPR was freaking out this morning about how Trump didn’t demand immediate and total confiscation of all guns during the rally.
Imagine the rest of that guys life knowing the President of the United States called him fat ass
“Given it is Trump, I am assuming bluster until something tangible happens.”
Yeah, it’s not the first time he’s done this. Remember when he got DiFi all excited and then pulled the rug out from under her? I assume that’s what he’s doing, again.
Remember when he got DiFi all excited
Yes. Led me to make an impulse purchase…
What’s to be done to better align the craft beer industry with the consumers who enjoy its products? Julia Herz, program director for the BA, lists some of the group’s recent efforts, including funding a Diversity Event Grant and a five-part series of diversity best practices for breweries.
” better align the craft beer industry with the consumers who enjoy its products”
Robert Mugabe would know. So would Winnie Mandela.
This went in a different direction than expected.
Imagine the PR fallout had they denied a family visit. Wedge issue, properly exploited.
Supposedly she’s getting flak from Pali activists for agreeing to keep the visit non-political.
Not that I expect she’ll honor that promise…
That flak is very pro forma. They CYA, she gets to claim statesmanship points for walking the thin line between…
Kabuki, even.
Not Like This: An Open Letter to Jay-Z
You were the hustler’s dream. You literally leveraged your street knowledge into a seat at the table.
But capitalism is a marauding wolf. It can make mincemeat of morals and transform the word of God into meaningless gibberish. And now, we have seen the righteous forsaken and have witnessed their children begging for bread.
To be fair, you, more than anyone who’s ever spoken into a microphone, explained to us that you are a capitalist above all else. So I cannot be surprised at your entertainment deal when you explicitly said, “I love the dough.” Again, I am not holding you to a superhuman standard of perfection.
I just never thought you were a thief.
Ha comments:
When are one of the writers for The Root going to praise the true icon Thomas Sowell? He’s one of the greatest minds on the planet and yet he gets very little love from other black people. More people need to be exposed to Thomas Sowell. Starting with the writers for The Root
And the author answered:
Probably because he’s a conservative hack dressed in libertarian clothes trying to get black people to buy into supply-side economics, racial pseudoscience and the merit myth.
Fuck Thomas Sowell.
There’s your post.
Ok. Now debate him clown.
Sowell has gone through and seen much more than your sorry, pseudo-intellectual gibberish ever will.
He’ll rip you and your little mind to shreds and then turn you over and tell you, ‘you’re my bitch, bitch. Now go make me a sammich’.
pseudo-intellectual gibberish, mind and soul that is.
I keep hearing “They just see things differently” but I don’t believe that. Things like this are deliberate mischaracterizations mixed with some good old fashioned brainwashing.
This right here, Suthen. Everybody is an individual human being. We aren’t ruled by some overarching theme of group identity that colors our every interaction with the universe. You either see truth or you chase mirages. I pity these people.
Yeh but they’re running Canada at the moment.
I hate Trudeau for the worst he brings out in me. Watching that insufferable prick (and the arrogant smug clown Bill Morneau) give the finger the other day after the ethics commission was astonishing by his own low class standards.
“They just see things differently”
“There are many different realities”
“Homeopathy works”
Dude was a coke dealer. What standards?
Oh, at the very end the author even says he would prefer to see Jay-Z still selling crack.
Because that would play into their victimhood narrative about the “merit myth.” In the author’s world the only ways up for blacks are sports, entertainment or crime. Selling that myth is all the author has to offer.
^^^THIS^^^
And that these people believe this is a good thing is what is so disheartening.
That’s because the ‘writer’ is an unprincipled, remedial hack. He was doing a projection dance when he said that about Sowell.
Sowell to these people is an existential threat, because they were neither able to indoctrinate him to be an idiot like them nor able to then cow him into silence by attacking him for not staying on the plantation. If he is not opposed and silenced he might reach others that then will realize who the real people keeping them down are, and the masters and those protecting the master’s new racket, want none of that. and yes, I used the term “master” there for a reason. The system developed by the SJW types differs from slavery only in that they have made it a voluntary form of indentured serfdom, where free shit is used as a means to keep people down and dependent.
A white liberal friend from Boston called Sowell ‘an asshole’. Just because.
Just because he has no counter to Sowell’s intelligent and well thought out arguments.
It can make mincemeat of morals
Yea better to be socialist and hold your fellow man at gunpoint. That way you are morally sound.
I know people here make fun of me for my cringing at the increasing fetishization of “first responders”, but the writing in the following story enraged me:
Woman negligently crashes into gas line in London, Ont., ultimately resulting in an explosion that destroys one house and damages others
From the very first paragraph:
No, the firefighters are not an occupying force. And the implication that they’re somehow more important and worth singling out, with the people whose taxes pay for them being second-class citizens, is repulsive.
Totally agree. The term “civilian” is particularly obnoxious.
There are kings men, and there are surfs. It is known.
Not at the level of serfs, just a homogenous liquid. Harsh.
People make fun of you about that? Seems pretty spot on to me.
Pshaw. We only mock him for his policing of non-normative apostrophe usage.
And his above-average ability to link to terrible music.
Then they say:https://youtu.be/__VQX2Xn7tI
Us “common plebs” have lesser worth, let it be known.
They are the first paid responders.
In this case, yes. Shoutout to volunteer fire and EMS folks.
more important and worth singling out
This grinds my gears as well. “First Responders” are civilians hired to do a job.
I agree.
Especially considering in the majority of the time it’s those civilians who are actually the first on the scene.
It’s just that they have to back down or off when the messiahs with the permits arrive. First!
Nothing against them but it’s their damn jobs.
I remember 20+ years ago when first responder training was a first aid class for cops and others who were there before the EMTs got there.
Don’t get me started on those damned second responders!
Probably because he’s a conservative hack dressed in libertarian clothes trying to get black people to buy into supply-side economics, racial pseudoscience and the merit myth.
Fuck Thomas Sowell.
There’s your post.
“Look at that house nigger, acting all white and shit.”
Pretty sure that guy just admitted he doesn’t like his supplier.
Elaborate….
It’s fun to watch labor theory of value people rant and rave about “supply side economics”. They don’t want supplies?
The funny thing is that “supply-side economics” is a stand in for them. I doubt they are All in on Demand driven economics. Unless of course they think banker bailouts are the best thing ever.
Say’s law says they’re wrong.
Of course it is. I haven’t heard any conservative economist advocate for supply side economics since the last time they tried to reboot He-Man. It only lives in the fever dreams of the unemployed.
The drug trade is supply-side economics
One final reminder, I’ll be down on the East side of Columbus next weekend for the BrewDog shareholders meeting/beer fest. They are selling some tickets to the public, and I should be available Friday night/Sunday morning if any glibs want to meet up outside of that.
We need to know the demographics first.
Scottish.
This guy
Just kidding, Neph! ?
Too much hair on the top of the head, wrong hair color, and too short of a beard.
Plus, I’d never waft my hand like that, just hold the glass up to your nose.
Closer?
Actually, it looks like a lot of fun. If I was anywhere nearby, I’d join you.
Probably as close as you’re going to get without me giving a real picture of me.
It is a good time, there’s usually some kind of giveaway as well. Past years included free six packs if you downloaded an app, free beer for the remainder of the day if x people did some social media thing, etc. Those were also “private” events, as you had to be a shareholder to get a ticket. I’m not sure how that will work with it being open to the public this year (Ohio law forbids giving out free alcohol).
Laws like this just grind my gears. But I guess I’m preaching to the choir, here.
“We’ll sell you the beer for $0.05 and buy back the plastic cups for $0.05.”
In KY you can’t give away beer (or sell it below cost).
So, you can market 2 beers for the price of 1 (as long as that is still above cost) but you can’t market buy 1 get 1 free, even though that is the exact same thing.
Can you still buy back the empty plastic cup?
MikeS: There were some changes, grocery stores can now give out free wine samples (and perhaps beer samples). Previously they had to do charge a dime or a quarter (whichever they thought people would be more likely to have) per sample. The laws get ignored for all of the beer fests, which provide a number of “sample tickets”. Usually about 5% of the tables are actually asking for the tickets, and by the end of the day, none of them are.
The casino here in Cleveland doesn’t even have cheap drinks (and they can’t give it to you for free). That was a shock the first time I went there (as the only other casinos I had been to were in Vegas).
UCS: There are minimum pricing laws as well. The brewery must sell at a minimum 25% markup to the distributors, who must sell at a minimum 25% markup to the retailer, who must sell at a minimum 25% markup to the customer. That’s why I usually buy local beers from the brewery, they get a bigger chunk of the profit (since they don’t want to undercut the retailers).
Eh, looks about right.
/blatant lies.
Based on previous years, pasty white middle aged guys and their wives/girlfriends, plus a small amount of younger guys/girls from the OSU. The brewery did make news by hiring a black gay woman as their managing director.
I can barely forgive them for putting their hotel in PICKERINGTON of all places.
<a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/retaliation-google-whistleblower-claims-fbi-swat-bomb-squad-appeared-at-his-home/"Welcome to the Goolag…
Vorhies said he complied with Google’s demands, including sending any Google documents he retained. But he also sent those documents to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
An anonymous account — which Vorhies said he believes belongs to a Google employee — outed him as a “leaker” on Twitter, and then he was approached by law enforcement at his residence in California. San Francisco police received a call from Google which prompted a “wellness check.”
“They got inside the gate, the police, and they started banging on my door… And so the police decided that they were going to call in additional forces. They called in the FBI, they called in the SWAT team. And they called in a bomb squad,” Vorhies told Project Veritas.
“From what I’ve understood from other attorneys, they are trying to establish that I’ve got some sort of mental problem in order to make their case easier. This is a large way in which they intimidate their employees that go rogue on the company,” he explained.
San Francisco police confirmed to Project Veritas that they did receive a “mental health call” and went to Vorhies’ address.
Yet the whistleblower said he felt compelled by his conscience to come clean. He said he was receiving a $260,000 annual salary and “had every incentive in the world to just stay at the company and cash the paycheck.”
“This is an act of atonement to make my conscience clear,” he said. “I’ve been living with this burden for 3 years. I saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company. I felt that our entire election system was going to be compromised forever by this company that told the American public that it was not going to do any evil.”
If you have to tell people that you are not evil….
^This. It’s like all those “Why Hillary is Really Likeable” articles which were published in 2016, and which will be dusted off, edited, replace “Hillary” with “Warren,” and republished.
SWATing, the ultimate end-run about the Fourth Amendment.
“How can you be against wellness checks? What if someone is in danger? What about the children?”
Calling the cops to check on someone is the Pinnacle of showing that you care.
Especially when you want to fuck over said person to prove how much you care….
Or in a deeper vein, wish to see them dead.
The CNN article about Israel reversing course on Omar is amazing. The complete abandonment of of journalistic neutrality (or at least pretending to be neutral) is a sight to behold (and they appear to also conflate race and religion):
TDS is real and it will only get worse over the next 5 years.
Obama’s comments about Brexit, or interfering in Israeli general elections, are somehow totally different.
I am pretty sure we have had proof provided that Obama did far more than comment about these things. I believe his administration actively worked to undermine Nethayahu during an election, including providing material support to his opposition. But hey, that was for a good cause.
Presidential norms? Like apology tours?
No thanks.
Good. I hope Trump destroys all the bullshit sacred cows the propaganda machine has trotted out over the years. Don’t want the whole country to burn, but I’d love to see the public reverence torched.
^^^THIS^^^
Agreed.
*Parliamentarian hoots, gibbering and slamming of desks from your cousins to the North*
“Mulan star Liu Yifei sparks outrage and calls for Disney boycott after tweeting support for Beijing against Hong Kong protesters to her 65million
One of China’s biggest actress’s has sparked a outrage among Hong Kong protesters and calls to boycott her latest film after backing Beijing authority’s attempts to crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
The actress set to star as the eponymous character in Disney’s upcoming Mulan remake has sparked outrage after tweeting a pro-police message to her 65million followers.
Chinese-American star Liu Yifei, 31, shared a political post on Weibo, a micro-blogging site similar to Twitter that’s popular in China.
Her message which fans deemed to support police brutality in Hong Kong lead to #BoycottMulan to trend worldwide.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7363819/Mulan-star-Liu-Yifei-sparks-outrage-calls-Disney-boycott-tweeting-support-Beijing.html
Soooo… thicc?
^^^ Unrequited comment
I’m sure she isn’t being forced at all to hold that position.
See. This is why you hire Scarlett Johannsen to be your Mulan.
Duh.
What rights should you be granted? Let’s ask the mob.
Yes, there is something of a partisan divide on the question — with 86% of Democrats favoring a ban on automatic and semiautomatic weapons, while 46% of Republicans feel the same. But look at it another way: On a proposal that is widely regarded in GOP congressional circles as a non-starter because it is going too far in limiting guns, self-identified Republicans are split right down the middle — 46% support, 46% oppose.
Among Republican women — one of the key swing voting blocs heading into 2020, a majority (54%) support an assault weapons ban, while just 36% oppose it. And even a majority of people in gun-owning households (53%) support an assault weapons ban.
Asking those people whether “assault weapons” should be banned is like asking me if the designated hitter should be abolished. Except I’m smart enough to say, “I don’t give a shit.”
I assume they didn’t even define what assault weapons are in the “poll”. Anyways, regardless, 4 words: shall not be infringed.
granted
The regal notion that rights are granted and necessarily enumerated is a root problem.
-1 Ninth Amendment
46% of Republicans support a ban on semi-automatic weapons? I would love to see the actual wording and methodology that got that ridiculous response.
It’s like those surveys that prove 5/4ths of college women are raped every day.
” 86% of Democrats favoring a ban on automatic and semiautomatic weapons, while 46% of Republicans feel the same. ”
Clearly 86% of Democrats and 46% of Republicans are evil or retarded. Automatic weapons are banned and semiautomatic weapons are ubiquitous and the most effective means available for self defense.
“a ban on automatic and semiautomatic weapons”
So, like we’ve been saying all along, they want to ban all weapons.
Guess I’ll have to oil up my cowboy rig.
Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
Is there a big book of “How to Make Lefty Articles by Throwing Shit Against the Wall Like an Engranged Monkey?”
” Longstanding foundational aristo-republican U.S. white-settler nationalism and its state-military-capitalist, imperialist, and corporatist evolution has long been disastrous and dystopian”
Nice use of hyphens.
“and corporatist evolution has long been disastrous and dystopian”
Bullshit.
maimed, and murdered
What good is a slave if he/she is unable to work? And interestingly enough, there is still a slave trade…in Africa…
“burning houses, killing warriors, mutilating their bodies (he ordered his men to cut off the noses of the Indian corpses, so as to more easily tally the dead), and enslaving their women and children
Unlike what the “natives” had been doing to each other forever (not that it makes it ok). But I don’t think that is what Trump was referring to as far as liking Jackson.
Sorry. Checked out after “White-Settler”. Not gazing upon those photons.
Not a book. A bot.
Prompted with:
It finished with:
History is basically most people being shitty to most other people.
My life in sex: the widow disappointed by online dating
balding, arthritic, corpulent
but all 75 year old chicks are taught, perky, and gymnastic
or is she saying she’s more pliable so long as her beau is deservingly handsome?
I don’t care which it is; I just want her to say it out loud
Hey, I am not balding (too much), not corpulent (except for the belly) or arthritic (except after I cut the grass).
You don’t happen to have Brenda address or phone number or email address, do you?
/I was a teenager in the 1950s
“…when we girls were warned sternly of the dangers of pre-marital sex, the horrors of unwanted pregnancy and the stigma of appearing “easy”.
Timeless, sage advice. Don’t have kids young or before you get a chance to choose a career or vocation. Save your money, be discipline and don’t advocate for left-wing bull shit that punishes you for making the right choices. Simple.
“fell madly in love with boys from an associate grammar school. Romance was always in the air – holding hands, chaste kisses, little love notes.”
She makes it sound this was discouraged. I’m pretty sure ‘puppy love’ wasn’t demonized. She seems to try to connect the former with the latter. I don’t think they’re related. Holding hands doesn’t have to be a gateway to sex and unwanted pregnancy. They were just saying don’t give in. And she didn’t do anything wrong. Why people beat themselves up over these things is beyond me. Know how many girls and women I left on the table too over thinking things? Ooof.
“Never mind, I’m sure Brenda is still around.”
That’s a lot of bitterness to have carried around for so long, Lady.
I can’t believe I didn’t have the courage to put out like Brenda!
The internet gives voice to people who speak their narcissist truths but only come off as insecure and immature.
In other words, they reveal to be natural Democrat and Liberal voters. Booya!
BAZINGA!
Tonio hits the nail on the head…
70 years later, and she’s still bitching about being dumped? She sounds fun.
Kevin dodged a bullet there.
Kev’s not here, man, can I take a message?
When the time comes, he won’t need to.
So did anyone that didn’t want to accept her demand that they play by her rules and her rules only.
I have a high school girlfriend that still stalks me on the margins. Even named her first-born son after me. Harmless but a little creepy, nonetheless. It’s only been forty years.
You sure the kid isn’t named after Festus on “Gunsmoke?”
“High praise!”
Our own Miss Tulip nods in commiseration.
Mask drops… Senate Dems tell Supreme Court to drop the NY Gun Case or they’ll pack the court
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senators-file-an-enemy-of-the-court-brief-11565911608
It feels like the country is moving into very dangerous territory. I think the last time this happened, we ended up getting the New Deal which may have been the slow-moving death blow for America.
If I was a Supreme Court Justice, I’d make sure we took the case, and gave it a unanimous ruling against the state of New York. I’d pull every favor, use every bit of leverage I had, just to stamp down anything like that from ever happening again.
Agreed, those senators are trying to roleplay as FDR and the justices have to stand up to that assholery.
My test of laws and regulations for the supreme court to follow:
Step 1 – Positively identify the clause in the constitution which grants the entity in question the authority to enact such a law. If not found, throw out law.
Step 2 – Identify any clauses which forbid the enactment of such a law. If any clause thus exists, throw out law.
Step 3 – Look at the working of the law that authorized any regulation being argued. If it allows for legislation by bueaucracy, throw out the law.
Step 4 – Look at the law/regulation and see if it is the narrowest possible to achieve the stated objective and does not impinge on any unstated activity. If not, throw out the law.
Step 5 – Look at the merits of the case.
In all cases, do not use quibbles to avoid ruling on the case. Use of quibbles to avoid a ruling is an automatic resignation.
Whoa, they threatened SCOTUS. Like, seriously, openly are interfering with another branch of government. Not. Good.
I hope they get censured for this, and then handed a loss.
They are actually threatening to pack the court for political ends if the court doesn’t knuckle under and violate the constitution.
And half the country is fine with this. We really are heading into dangerous times.
But Trump and Republicans are fascists…
^^^THIS^^^
The fascists seem to see fascists everywhere except for where they really are (in the mirror when they look at themselves).
She didn’t win. They’ll never get over this and if they ever, God forbid, regain the reins of power they are going to punish you for every dank meme.
They aren’t seeing fascists everywhere else. They’re actively trying to cover their own fascism by accusing others else of it.
And they say they’ll do it “…in order to reduce the influence of politics.”
Something something separation of powers.
All guns need is a Penaltax and Roberts would be all over it.
And I’m sure that idiot will knuckle under to their demands since he doesn’t want to “politicize” the court. You just did (with his Obamacare decision), jackass.
Retaliate against the court if they don’t get the ruling they want THIS time? What about next time? They do understand that the court is going to hear other cases, don’t they?
The message, once received, will make the court do “the right thing”, if they remember what is best for them….
The right thing would be to outright chastize the brief, have it stricken from the record, and rule against them.
Can the Supreme Court hold them in contempt? If we’re going for a full war between the branches, let’s go already.
I don’t know. But I’d love to see senators held in lockup for thirty days for threatening a court.
Not that I think it’ll happen, or even be the appropriate measure.
Harry Reid, redux.
Can you imagine the CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS if it was Trump that made a remark like that on a potential abortion case?
That’s a nice court you got there…be a shame if something happened to it…
That’s exactly how I rephrased it in my head.
“drop the NY Gun Case or they’ll pack the court”
Umm, don’t they sort of have to win an election and wait for some people to die first? Just saying…
Not to mention, aren’t they planning on doing that first chance they get, anyway?
To pack the court they need to A: Regain control of both houses, and the presidency. B: pass legislation increasing the size of the court C: nominate and approve the puppet justices.
It really is a jawdropping brief. It also better bet front and center in the next presidential election, and they can replace TRUMP on the signs with BUT GOREUCH.
This would be more of a surprise if Roberts didn’t act the bitch last time the Democrats threatened him.
Still, I sometimes worry about reaching beyond American history to label horrors of its own making. Longstanding foundational aristo-republican U.S. white-settler nationalism and its state-military-capitalist, imperialist, and corporatist evolution has long been disastrous and dystopian enough without “charismatic” dictators, Baretta-toting squadristis, single party states, the suspension of elections, the end of bourgeois law, jackbooted brown-shirts, death squads, state propaganda, political executions, shuttered media, and the rest of the full-on fascist nightmare.
Bingo! I got BINGO!
Buzzword bingo!
Baretta-toting squadristis
What do they have against Barettas? I kinda like mine.
You’re carrying around Robert Blake?
Does the author even know its Beretta?
“The NYT is out with an urgently needed project to better understand Gamergate, and its ever-present impact on individual lives, our culture and politics.
Everything is Gamergate via @cwarzel, @BriannaWu, @BostonJoan and @sarahjeong ”
https://twitter.com/hshaban/status/1162127299220770819
OFFS!!!
The Kulturekampf that never went away.
Gamergate drank all my Ardmore last nigth i have none left. It is a problem
“Look out for: The othering of a target. Singling out women and those who present femme. Mocking gender presentation. Exaggerating someone’s non-whiteness or foreignness. The insinuation of wrongdoing, esp relating to promiscuity.”
https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1162130404351995904
Because Mitch McConnell is a sassy black woman? You go, girl.
Why oh why won’t they just let us gut their pastime and wear it as a skinsuit. Is that pretty much the gist?
Yes.
“Complaints about a target’s unqualifiedness that amount to a charge that they do not represent white, male America. A complaint that boils down to, “You will not replace us.” That’s the legacy of Gamergate.”
>”Gamers Are Dead” articles abound
>The millions of still living gamers confused af
“Gamers Are Dead” articles abound”
The only multi-billion dollar industry supported entirely by dead people. Well, I guess funerals is the other one.
“Generating fear, uncertainty, and doubt through countless, ever-morphing outlandish claims of conspiracy. Rallying cries that center around media conspiracy (e.g. “ethics in journalism” or “fake news”).”
So you’re saying it was the Russians?
“That’s our job.”
What fucking year is it. Am I on drugs? I must be on drugs.
Just finished the first full week of actual teaching at the new gig after orientation.
Six-year-olds are monsters and 18 of them in a room is insane. They understandably can’t control themselves and there is much play-fighting amongst the boys. How teachers can look at the behavior of boys v girls and not see that there are fundamental differences are both retarded and brainwashed. Schools, and enclosed spaces in general, are not designed for young boys. It’s obvious to anyone with two neurons to spark against each other.
A few of the kids are very bright and can already read. About half don’t know the alphabet past the ABC song. It’s going to be a challenge to teach to their proper abilities while keeping the classroom in control. In this sense, class size importance is not a myth. I even have a Thai helper with me who is an angel. Couple of smoke show moms to boot. Good lord it takes a lot of energy to keep up and maintain order.
My parents ask me why I don’t want to have kids. I do. I have 22 of them. I’ve had as many as 300 a term. I don’t need any of my own; yours are too much of a pain in the ass on their own. You really have to work hard to get a professional/personal reward out of teaching. (I work at a private school, FTR.)
@HM: I mentioned this before but I think ships crossed in the night and we didn’t have a full discussion: How valuable is a Cambridge International certificate when it comes to employability? The school offers a 4 month program for free, as I mentioned. I just don’t know if it really gives me opportunity to teach everywhere the curriculum is offered (160 countries, apparently). The Intertubes have given me mixed answers and would love to get as many details as possible. Thanks in advance if you see this.
I’m going to get drunk and watch Naked Gun.
Might as well get it. All those creds count for something and besides what are you gonna do in your free time? You are a millennial after all.
Boys are socialized to be like that. It is not natural. I blame you really you white male
Cattleprod.
Is all I processed.
I’ve got that problem licked. Whenever the Grandkids and associated hangers-on show up at my place I just retreat to my study if it gets too much for me. The kids are so brainwashed about the dangers of smoking that they daren’t set foot in the nicotine room.
Six-year-olds are monsters
Chisato Moritaka agrees
no kidding
https://zogbyanalytics.com/news/896-a-majority-of-voters-give-trump-thumbs-up-again-while-trudeau-lags-behind-at-43-job-approval-trump-s-support-with-his-base-has-increased-drastically-nearly-half-of-hispanics-approve-of-trump
This poll is bullshit but it helps explain the white supremacist angle if Trump is polling at 40-45% with hispanics and 28% with Blacks is the real key. IF trump can peel off 20% of the Black vote your looking at the Dems losing the fucking house in Mcgovern esq landslide.
The dems are headed for full on left radical at blazing speed. Only about 10-15% of the country are on that same page. Sure, a lot of lifetime dems will just ignore that and pull the D lever, no matter what. But the Ds are hellbent on becoming a minor party, maybe by splitting between the moderately lefty and the left of Stalin ones who will insist on their own party if they can’t nominate the most radical candidate in every election at every level. Looking forward to the democratic socialist party competing directly with the democratic party.
The Tea Party got borged pretty quickly. I foresee the same fate for the radicals. At least I hope so…
The Tea Party got borged because they weren’t prepared for the charges of “teh racizm”. The left radicals prepared for that by lobbing those charges first, and the second-grade intellect of the mainstream media is incapable and uninterested in anything except the lowest hanging fruit.
Having said all that, the majority the population is too dimwitted to vote (for POTUS) on anything other than personality/charisma, and the Dems simply have nobody with any. I mean, Obama is the perfect example – he had about as much personality as a block of concrete and STILL had more charisma than Hilary/Romney/McCain etc. (The genius of his campaign was to get in after almost everybody else was eliminated.) In regards to Trump, he may be brash and loud (and people may actually WANT that from their president), but he isn’t annoying to anyone except life-long bureaucrats.
The more local the office, the more people vote in their self-interest – which is usually race, creed, class, etc. So I’m not willing to predict how congressional races will turn.
The tea party got borged because they were insufficiently cynical. Being unprepared for the racism charges is just one part of that. Being unprepared for the hucksters and charlatans in their own camp was another.
National Conservatism: A Guide for the Perplexed
An attempt to put conservatism on firmer intellectual footing in the Age of Trump has led to some strange—and shaky—alliances.
“Yet on this much, everybody seemed to agree”
You can agree on anything. Doesn’t mean you’re right.
Nothing like a good, old-fashioned, hellfire and damnation sermon. Go, Team Socon!!1!
You are on fire today…
My issue is sometimes i cannot even understand how someone can belive that shit. As such it is hard to even think of counter arguments
public goods like marriage, freedom, and happiness. – i mean what? Since when the fuck is freedom a public good
And marriage and happiness are opposite ends of the spectrum.
Choose any one of the 3
“Libertarians know these are problems, he continued, and they know the market caused them”
Nonsense.
“marriage, freedom, and happiness”
The government subsidizing of bastard children is what has destroyed marriage. If they weren’t giving more money for every child born out of wedlock, women would not be having children out of wedlock.
Freedom is always destroyed by the government, not by the market.
You know what would make me happy? Legal weed, low taxes, and money that got more valuable with every passing year. Freedom to start a business, to buy whatever I wished.
Hallelujah!
“libertarian economics had been a disaster for the working class”
Yeah, damn we libertarians for controlling economic policies over the last century. Full on free market, no taxes, no regulation, lobby free wild west capitalism. We done ruined things.
Dear Socons – As a purely tactical matter, look around you, at the gatekeepers of societal thought. Your enemies are at the zenith of their power. You are in the nadir of three decade decline. And its not turning around any time soon.
Who do you think is going to be defining the “good” here?
Five Democratic Senators have had it with subtle. In a remarkable and threatening amicus brief, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mazie Hirono, Richard Blumenthal, Richard Durbin and Kirsten Gillibrand all but tell the Justices that they’ll retaliate politically if the Court doesn’t do what they say in a Second Amendment case.
Trump politicized the Court. They’re trying to save it. Get ’em back on the straight and narrow.
Packing the court would lead to the dissolution of the US. On second thought, I’m all for it.
As long as people avoid shooting at each other.
AOC: Racists were key part of Trump’s coalition of voters
She’s just the right person to help people recognize their racism, eh? Get her a Blue Cap!
What a retard she is. I mean this in the every single manner to which this phrase is meant to convey.
The Dems keep trotting her out like she’s some savior, just like they kept trotting out Trump to show what a buffoon he is. They should be careful what they wish for.
Ocasio-Cortez said many Trump voters do not believe they are racist because the national discourse does not educate people to recognize racism.
According to the left:
White = racist
Disagree with left = racist
Why won’t those damn deplorables agree with me?!
You guys are missing the baby steps of progress here. They aren’t deplorable. They’re stupid. Lesson from 2016 completely learned.
So the solution is reeducation/work camps to help these misguides souls see the light, right?
a core part of that coalition were racists
“You deplorable, irredeemable bastards. Now shut up and vote for me.”
Doubling down because it worked so well for The Hildebeast.
She makes the Hildebeast truly look like your sweet innocent totally every day grandma.
I’ve said this before, but to me she comes across as that cousin you see at Thanksgiving who just finished Sociology 101 at her community college.
…and got a C-
She sounds more like that cousin you see at Thanksgiving who just started fucking her Sociology 101 teacher.
I like this version better.
HAWT
This is more accurate.
“AOC: Racists were key part of Trump’s coalition of voters”
The gift that keeps on giving.
The theory that she’s a Trump plant seems more plausible every time she opens her mouth.
Our labor market “has made it much harder for us to replace ourselves,” J.D. Vance said, because “we made a political choice that freedom to consume pornography was more important than public goods like marriage, freedom, and happiness.”
Yeah, okay. It were the pornographers what dunnit.
what this country needs is more fire and brimstone. Snake handlers. Tent show revivalists. Temperance league minstrel shows.
So you are saying Q is to blame? Or sugarfree?
Yes? And where is HM in all of this? I am sure he played a role too.
Lived through that already. Not prepared to do it again. Fuck Off Slaver!
Yeah, the church ladies. Been there, done that. Now the progs have replaced the church ladies.
I’ve always heard that there was no small amount of screwin’ after those big revivals, as they got people so riled up.
Sound’s about right.
Ocasio-Cortez said many Trump voters do not believe they are racist because the national discourse does not educate people to recognize racism.
Yup.
Yeah, that MLK Jr. dude – what a racist tool AOC thinks he must have been; he wanted us to judge people by their character and not the color of their skin.
Back in them days, whitey didn’t allow colored to get lurnt. So, MLK, he can be forgiven for being such a Uncle Tom.
Nary a peep anywhere about racism these days.
In an ironic twist…
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” network political analyst Jason Johnson said President Donald Trump tweeting that Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) should be denied entry into Israel was the president “promoting white nationalism abroad.”
Johnson said, “What worries me about this is this is blocking, this is sort of promoting white nationalism abroad, in getting another country to buy into it. What happens when he decides not to let people back? That’s the next step. You literally will have members of Congress who can’t come back.”
He added, “The United States gives billions of dollars in aid to Israel every year. Everyone from our Congress should be allowed to go there and conduct a fact-finding mission. So it’s disappointing that Israel allowed this to happen because they have every right to be here. It’s disappointing that this president has engaged in a typical white nationalist garbage he engages in, and our country as a whole needs to see this as a warning sign that if the president starts blocking people from doing their federal jobs, he will not stop at our border.”
…the new Nazis are Jews.
I’m pretty sure Israel didn’t need any input from Trump to make that decision.
We paid to infringe on their sovereignty whenever we damn well please!
Russia gives a few thousand in ad revenue to the U.S. every year…
Don’t tantalize me.
Burnt to a cinder
It wasn’t your imagination. July was in fact the hottest month ever.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that July was the hottest month on record, with global temperatures averaging 62.13 degrees, which is 1.71 degrees above the 20th century average.
This July bested July 2016 for the hottest month on record by .05 degrees. Records date to 1880.
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The record-warmth shrank Arctic and Antarctic sea ice to historic lows, according to NOAA.
Nine of the 10 hottest Julys have occurred since 2005, and the last five have been the hottest Julys ever.
I’m convinced.
So the asphalt at the airport was warmer than the empty field whose numbers had been “adjusted” down.
Good to know.
It is silly to announce something 0.05 degrees. But the true believers are probably motivated
Also again with the ever? even if true, which I doubt, since 1880 is not ever
Icelanders hit hardest.
These people are becoming as comical in their mendacity as the democratic politicians.
It’s DST: the extra hour of sunlight!
I LOL’d
“Opinion: No politician in living memory has been treated as badly as Ilhan Omar”
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1162067920320696320
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ilhan-omar-banned-from-israel-trump-racist-send-her-back-muslim-a9061491.html
That’s some opinion.
The Kennedy bros might beg to differ.
Especially the one shot by a Palestinian.
Not exactly “living” memory is it if he’s so dead, smart guy.
Call me when she has the Senate Majority leader say she didn’t pay taxes for years and the vice president say she wants to enslave black people.
Or the Republican who was shot while playing softball.
She is a two-bit grifter and absolute poison. It is good to see who will defend her.
We have someone here
We have someone here
Who would like to address the assembly
Who would like to address the assembly
That person
That person
Is congressman
John Lewis
Maryland Vote Fraud Investigation goes forward.
Just make people go through E-verify before getting a voter registration card required to vote. You’re going to remove a huge amount of registered voters, because none of the current illegals will be able to pass it. As it is, there’s nothing to keep them from voting and they are actively encouraged to do so by democrats. In College Park, the dems actually took up a measure to officially allow them to vote, but it failed when a lot of citizens got pissed about it. But they still vote, nothing to stop them.
Of course, what I am suggesting is racist, because everyone knows that colored folk won’t be able to figure out how this stuff works and are completely unable to even go to the MVA and get a free ID as it is. So why it will appear they are just trying to stop illegal aliens from voting, it’s really about stopping poor colored folk from voting.
And BTW, what other country puts up with this shit?
none but montogomery county is it’s own breed of retard.
Maryland is absolutely insane. Unfortunately VA is close to getting there.
NOVA
The Russians ate my homework.
Everyone is drunk, which explains a lot.
Virginia’s state-owned liquor stores had another record-breaking year and topped $1 billion in revenues.
The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority announced Tuesday that its sales and other income for fiscal 2019 was $72 million more than last year.
Officials attributed the increase in part to customers buying more top shelf liquor than in the last. Irish whiskey was up 15%, tequila at 14% and bourbon at 10%.
Tito’s Handmade domestic vodka was the number one seller, for the second year in a row.
Do they carry Springbank?
This should be the leading economic indicator. Forget all that Financial Times fooferaw! People buying high end booze either means times are good or SMOD.
Yep. In bad times, people switch down, wine -> craft beer, craft->crap. etc.
wait are you officially admitting craft beer is inferior to wine?
I think he’s admitting it costs less.
The two are not substitute goods.
You obviously haven’t met enough hipster bureaucrats.
They aren’t for me, but they are for some people.
I will interpret that as I want
Makes sense, but I would use Virginia as a contra-indicator. If the bureaucrats are drinking high-end booze, the rest of us are fucked.
Speciesism
The southern resident killer whales that live off the coast of Washington state are hungry, because there are fewer and fewer of the salmon they depend on. To help them, the state is looking at removing a series of dams.
Dam removal would help salmon travel up the river to spawn and down the river to the ocean, where the orcas can eat them.
But the dams are also important to another population: wheat farmers. Washington’s wheat crop brings $700 million into the state’s economy, more than any crop except apples. The vast majority of that wheat gets exported, most of it to Asia.
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Environmental advocates west of the Cascades have seized on dam removal as a way to get more salmon to those hungry orcas off the Washington coast.
Sam Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, studies these orcas. He says recovering the Snake River’s salmon runs would help get the starving orcas some food during their hungriest months: the early spring, when the orcas are exhausted from a cold winter spent foraging up and down the Pacific Coast.
Priorities are racist. Those farmers are all heterosexual white men.
And the orcas are mulattoes.
No, they’re piebald.
And Orca do not exclusively feed on salmon. Many do quite well feeding on other fish and seals. They are highly mobile creatures with a long range, they can find a different food source.
Apex predators. Their diet is quite diverse, including eating whales.
They’re Stealing Our Whales!
Hunt the Orca to extinction! That’s our Oil!
Orca – the killer whale, is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengeance – across seas, across time, across all obstacles.
*whip pan to Nebraska at night*
*retired whaler’s doorbel rings*
Have you considered branching out into screenplays?
obligatory
Sounds like a great set-up for a movie.
And they are violent. They are the ms-13 of dolphins.
I have reeled in more than one salmon head after an orca removed its body after I did the hard work. FREELOADERS!
They have vitiglio, Hater!
So would destroying the dams increase the salmon population that can be harvested/sold/exported or just divert some of the existing population to the orcas? Less wheat for more salmon seems like a win if the former.
I don’t think we’d get more salmon out of the deal.
Especially not if done with an environmentalist excuse. Start salmon farms on the coast, it’ll yield more with less wheat loss.
So…force the wheat farmers to become salmon fishers?
No, but I’m not necessarily sympathetic to the wheat farmers in Washington state either. Do they own the land around the dams and pay for the construction of the dams? Seems like a strange place to grow wheat, especially when it appears government handouts are needed to do so. Let the free market determine the best domestic locations for growing wheat and raising salmon.
I just lost most of my sympathy for the wheat farmers. Wheat farmers from Texas to Manitoba move millions (billions) of bushels of wheat (and barley and corn and soybeans and…) every year by truck and rail.
Smells a little like crony capitalism somewhere in there.
I prefer the term homeopathic fascism. It’s a bit more descriptive of the root issue.
And I agree with you Mike in case I was vague. I figured the dams were used for irrigation, which is strange because of the rainfall Washington gets. The transportation is just nonsense.
homeopathic fascism
Returns Nazi medical practices. Literal Third Reich nazi, not bubba in a trailer voting for Trump nazi. The connection is a bit over my head here.
The connection is a bit over my head here.
Homeopathic meaning dilute, fascism referring to government control and direction of corporations.
It’s a synonym for crony capitalism that puts more blame on the government being manipulative.
strange place to grow wheat
Washington is a big place. Wheat has been grown in parts of it for 200 years. Much of its Columbia Plateau is ideal wheat country, not unlike Canada or the Dakotas.
The Grand Coulee made more of Washington arable.
not rationalizing government interference, of course
Killer whales are cute and capture the public’s imagination, while ignore the sea lions that would be eating even more salmon for dinner.
What if we fed the wheat to the salmon?
orcas are exhausted from a cold winter
So you are saying Global Warming is needed to save the whales?
So the issue is the salmon aren’t spawning enough?
Viagra in the reservoirs.
You’re welcome. Your bill is $26G.
“She asked specifically for permission to visit her grandmother, saying she won’t promote boycotts. Then, after Israel said yes, she says she won’t visit if she can’t promote boycotts.
So, it was just a stunt to prolong the news cycle of attacking Israel.
Never mind, grandma.”
https://twitter.com/LahavHarkov/status/1162348873916006401
What a scumbag. 90 yr old grandma = political prop.
“The letter Rep. Rashida Tlaib sent to Israeli Interior Minister Ayreh Deri requesting a visit to her family in the West Bank, in which she promises to “respect any restrictions” and “not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit.””
https://twitter.com/OrenCNN/status/1162276293838114816
The scorpion asked the toad for a ride across the river and the toad asked “Why would I help you, sworn enemy?’ The scorpion replied “The rising waters will sweep us away and we will both surely perish!” Reluctantly the toad allowed the scorpion to clamber upon his back and set out for the far shore where higher ground awaited. Halfway across the raging torrent the scorpion stung the toad. “Why would you do such a thing? Now we must both perish!” the toad cried. “Because I am a scorpion and it is in my nature” said the scorpion. At that, the toad flicked his tongue and engulfed the scorpion into his maw. “At least I shall die with a full belly, scorpion!” FIN
A US Congresswoman leaving her grandma to rot in the West Bank has already shown she doesn’t give a figs leave about Gramms.
It’s like Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum are in a competition to see which one is the more horrible human being.
New Libertopia?
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/08/15/sure-not-trump-reportedly-asking-advisors-u-s-can-buy-greenland/
This was also over on Legal Insurrection, and I had a few things to say.
Buy it? Annex it. As if they could stop us.
Look, if we buy it, it’s harder for some future milqutoast president to “return” it as part of an appology tour.
We don’t want Quebec, thank you very much.
We’ll keep the girls, you can have the rest.
That’s the only asset Quebec has.
Pass an official language law, stating that only english is allowed on signage or in government forms.
It’ll be worth the hassle to listen to le bitching.
I read the WaPo version of this story and it was as eye-rolling as you’d imagine.
Is it an extreme idea? Maybe. But it is not without merit. And he’s hardly the first person to suggest it.
Well, we best buy it, because besides Antarctica, it will be the only habitable place in 12 years, right?
Why bother buying Greenland when there’s 630,000 square miles of Antarctic up for grabs?
Truman tried to buy it. Does the WaPo know that?
Charlotte’s not bad for an older British woman. She’ll probably start getting lots of propositions now that everyone knows how desperate for sex she is.
And she’s given plenty of pointers to would-be partners.
Same-Sex Penguin Couple Adopts Egg After Trying To Hatch Stone
Penguins apparently aren’t the smartest creatures around.
and I apparently can’t blockquote…
How did they figure out these penguins were gay? Did they have a rainbow colored tux on or something? I am genuinely curious.
So, they kidnapped the child from the cis-hetero couple and gave to the diversity couple?
The diversity couple had designer tuxedos.
Hasn’t the media been trying to make “Faguins” a thing for about fifteen years now?
More like 25.
Why are gay frogs a crazy conspiracy theory but gay penguins fabulous? Clothes. Clothes make the queer.
“Top-hats and Tails”
IIRC, they don’t try and determine the sexes of the penguins in a couple. They just assume that if no egg is laid, it’s a homosexual one, because apparently infertility doesn’t occur in lady-penguins.
Don’t ask, don’t tell?
They are starting to believe their own bullshit.
So are they gay or just retarded?
Proving once again you can’t get blood relatives from a stone.
Buster Keaton, the art of the gag.
Pretty neat.
Every video by that channel is gold. I supported them on patreon till they stopped producing.
Thanks for that Chipper. That’s amazing.
I’ve watched this more than once.
Trump promotes views of a criminologist who says there’s no evidence of a mass shooting ‘epidemic’
…
It’s not contagious, unless you consider the publicity from media like WaPo as the vector for transmission.
I’m still trying to parse that last statistic. 4 people die every 47 days. Seems like deGrass Tyson was right.
That comes to about 32 a year, so yes.
While I don’t know for sure, because I haven’t looked at the data, my gut is telling me the “epidemic” of mass shootings is much like the “epidemic” of deaths in the Dominican Republic. Meaning, there is not a statistical uptick, and the only “epidemic” is that people are talking about it more.
Also, it doesn’t help that there is not one set definition of “mass shooting”, which of course is by design. To most people, gang-related drive-by shootings aren’t the same as someone walking into Walmart and shooting at random, but many studies consider them the same.
Hahaha!
what message Trump was trying to convey
A counter-argument to the prevailing msm narrative?
Yeah, seems pretty obvious to me.
They have just redefined ‘mass shooting’. I think I saw the other day some bullshit number like ‘247 mass shooting so far this year’.
Gun grabbers are liars.
When I’m picking a start date for a study, I always choose of the 25th of the month.
Ugh. Insurance adjuster showing up this afternoon to assay the damage from the roof leakage last winter. Not looking forward to this.
A lot of work to hide the meth lab?
Ice dam. Hidden damage. Reported as soon as you noticed. The hidden damage, including any mold should be covered as most HO3 policies cover hidden, ongoing damage.
It’s not the damage to the house, it’s cleaning for company. Who want’s to bring their day job home?
No laugh, we actually did a cleaning spree. Surprising how much two people and their pets can slob a place up.
I had to get my place guest ready recently. It was not fun, and I don’t even have a second person or a dog who might have caused any of the mess.
This a rental? If there was malicious damage you could claim that as well. It would have to go well beyond the normal crappy tenant type of damage though.
No. This our home that we bought with the bank. The roof warranty ran out the year before the problem started. My son-in-law is a builder and he thinks that the problem is insufficient insulation on the north-facing side of the house, leading to ice building up. I’m in a quandary here, the insurance people want to fix the inside first without dealing with the roof. Makes no sense to me but I’ll wager I can probably write some Yusef-worthy tomes on the subject in the very near future…
Unless the damn really pushed up the roof, it should be fine once you get the insulation figured out.
That’s heartening news. Thanks Chipper! Lord knows I could use a ray of sunshine right about now.
Reach out in a comment if you have any questions or get the run around.
Thanks again!
https://youtu.be/dqLRd4neGGE
Heh. Kick a man when he’s down. I like you, Gus. You’ll die last.
Aaaand here’s your check for $5, a pack of Marlboros, and a slightly used Penthouse magazine.
That auditor’s cheap to bribe.
I’ll take them all. I’ll smoke the cigs, spend the five bucks on scratchers and use the ruffled up pages of the magazine to wipe my bum when I’m homeless.
The auditor is Nick Nolte?
Bell’s to release ‘Light Hearted’ in 2020.
If i have to drink 15 to get a buzz, I won’t be reducing my calorie intake.
Well for a buzz I would say you need 3 or 4 6% 500 ml beers. I don’t know what size Bell’s beer is, but assuming 10 of your American ounces I would say 8 to 10 would do, no need for 15
12 ounces for a normal bottle/can. The regular Two Hearted is 7.1% abv. 3.7% is the lowest abv I’ve seen for anything considered beer. I think Bud is 4.1%
I could probably drink 3.7% beer until I was sick of it and still be able to stand up.
I know that to be true of me.
Because I’d probably not reach the bottom of the can.
/hops suck
so 7 to 8 would do for a buzz.
I Europe there are beers under 3% in the northern countries. In Scotland this year I had some 3.6% ale and it was good for the low alcohol
“I think Bud is 4.1%”
Bud is 5% in the USA, the same as Stella and Heineken. 5% seems to be the standard here for lagers.
That’s suspiciously regular.
Bud Light is about 4.1% IIRC
“3.7% is the lowest abv I’ve seen for anything considered beer.”
There’s plenty of light beer with lower ABV than that, but myself, I would not consider it beer.
12 ounces is the standard for beers, some release in 16 oz cans, and there are some 22 oz bombers as well.
330 ml and 500 ml are better sizes tbh
If your silly base ten metric measurements are so great how come you always end up with weird numbers like 330? 12, 16. 24 are much more aesthetically pleasing.
330 is on third of 1 liter. you could call it a third like you people use a fifth
Proof the metric system makes people bad at math. 3×330 is 990, it is not a third of a liter.
it is close enough for practical purposes
something something landed men on the moon
I use a fifth for oblivion. 330 ml only gets me to raging incoherence.
330mL is less than half of a fifth. It’s be like an eleventh.
there are preferred sizes for design: here’s part of the ISO 262 list
“330 ml and 500 ml are better sizes tbh”
We don’t take kindly to that Eurotard shit round here! Beer is 12oz, or it’s 16 oz if tall cans! Commie!
Or Imperial Pints, which is 20 oz.
Except it is 20 imperial ounces, so it works out to like 19.something real ounces.
I buy beer in cans to stock up my beer fridge, stuff like Stella, Corona Extra, Fosters, Asahi Dry, Carlsberg. A lof of those seem to be 1 pint, .9 oz, probably comes out to some commie unit shit. But, I like beer and the cans don’t make my garbage so heavy.
“A lof of those seem to be 1 pint, .9 oz”
Except for the ones that are 24oz. They have a 40oz Carlsberg can, but I tend to avoid those because it will get warm before I can finish it.
16.9 oz is 500 ml.
I’m going to clone it but use rice and call it the “Who-Farted”.
Hoof Hearted Brewery.
“If i have to drink 15 to get a buzz, I won’t be reducing my calorie intake.”
I’ll stick to my 5% beer. I can literally drink an entire case of light beer and never really get a buzz, just a bellyache at best.
My gastrointestinal system will allow me to consume about 2 beers before I’m out with bullshit bloating.
My (failed) attempt to clone Two Hearted was called Half Hearted Ale.
It was decent, but it was no 2 hearted.
I was never good at cloning, my attempt at cloning Fuller’s ESB failed too.
I am much better at making a tasty version of a style than I am at cloning a specific example.
It is finally a cooler around here 26 highs 14 lows. Although it is cooler by the seaside and people on holiday are not happy. I had some nice chicken with brine which worked well with a nice Sancerre I got on a very good discount form the wine shop when they were clearing stock. Although the fucking mosquitoes and assorted bugs got me when sitting in the garden by the lake.
So what is everyone drinking on this nice vacation day afternoon?
It’s a regular workday morning.
26 is winter weather.
Coffee. Water.
Enjoy your day off, asshole 😉
this is it
https://www.vivino.com/fournier-pere-fils-les-belles-vignes-sancerre-blanc/w/1212983?year=2016
‘‘There is no evidence that we are in the midst of an epidemic of mass shootings,’’ Fox told interviewer Nick Gillespie.
Whaaaaaaaa?
I can’t go to the grocery store, or mail a letter, without climbing over a mound of shooting victims.
How can you tell them apart from the dead caused by global warming, the end of net neutrality, and the tax cuts?
Not to mention the mountains of corpses being churned out by ICE’s death camps.
True this. America is just too dangerous. I suggest we start exporting the most vulnerable most likely to be victims (demorats) to Somalia and other places needing much wokeness, right away.
A safe haven to implement all of their utopian ideals.
Also, college snowflakes are in bad need of safer safe places. What about the Mongolian desert or the outback in Australia
? I hear there are no guns in those places.
There are white people, or at least east asians who are just like white people, I say we send them somewhere truly safe. If we can just drill a deep enough hole we can give them their own subterranean home. We can call it the Hip Earth-powered Love Living-space, and send them straight there.
“somewhere truly safe”
The Congo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_6UTZb-_vI
Me neither. But they’re the heroin kind.
*Me too.
Can’t blame autocorrect for that one
You will have to shoot them yourself
I went to the bank and a Chinese restaurant and boi, I thought I was gonna be a goner. Saw so many bodies on the way.
Well Chinese food can do that to you.
Hell, I had to put a snowblade on the front of my SUV just to get through the piles of dead children killed when Trump nuked the penaltax.
Only in Trump’s America. SMDH
Nephew: I can’t read.
*Sits down with him and a Batman comic, he reads the whole thing with minor help*
Schools are doing it wrong.
Schools do not exist to teach children to read.
Schools exist to teach children that they can’t read and to not try.
almost. Schools exist to make progs, because progs are too gender confused to make their own.
Procreation is bad, because climate change. I for one, totally support their decision to not procreate. Let’s just hope this is how the luddites finally go extinct.
Does he know to pursue a worthless degree right out of high school, fail to get a job, blame everyone but himself, live in mum’s basement and go to protests wearing a pussy hat, vote democrat for life? No, needs moar school. Yes, they’re doing it right. Reading is racism, math even more racism.
Dark, mystic forces.
Virginia police testimony alleges a teenager was slain because the suspects thought he was a gang member who used black magic on his girlfriend.
News outlets report Fairfax County detective John Farrell told a judge Wednesday that Armando Dagoberto Reyes Reyes was arrested on murder and abduction charges and confessed he thought 16-year-old Richard Hernandez Cruz had caused a girl to lose 45 pounds (20 kilograms) and used her for sex by practicing “sorcery or black magic.”
Farrell testified Hernandez Cruz was lured to a park where Reyes Reyes and others beat him then mutilated and buried his body. Reyes Reyes said Hernandez Cruz admitted to cursing the girl.
I’ll show you some black magic, baby. /Barry White
“He had a snake for a pet and an amulet…”
I have a Slytherin t-shirt, my wife bought me in Londonistan. I’m pretty sure when I wear it, I’ll be all sorts of wizardly.
MAGIC!
I blame Harry Potter
Wanna bet there aren’t any calls for outlawing sorcery and black magic mumbo jumbo?
Wait, when you started carving him up the told you what you wanted to hear?
Does the CIA know about this?
It was actually African-American magic. And I think we all know what that means.
confessed he thought 16-year-old Richard Hernandez Cruz had caused a girl to lose 45 pounds
Time out. How much did she weigh before?
45 pounds – and all of it from her tits and ass
For an average height woman, 100-120 pounds is healthy. A spare 45 pounds in just those regions is more than even Q would ask for.
Well, I mean unless she’s over 5′ tall.
36-24-36? Not unless she’s 5’3″
Anaconda…
Sorry.
+1 back
Probably 150+
She was thicc… now not so much.
So, he made her stop eating a box of Crispy Creme a day and start exercising? Body shaming!
https://www.kron4.com/news/newsom-breed-comment-on-the-release-of-homeless-man-involved-in-sf-attack/
How do people in San Fran put up with the fact that they pay taxes and vote and the homeless bums are afforded more rights and privileges in the justice system than they are? I can’t even imagine something like this happening in the northeast. Unless the guy was an illegal alien.
Self-hating leftists
How dare the real world intrude on their desperately-needed discussion of such weighty issues of concern to society.
Affordable housing for government-sector workers; more tax for the rest of us.
“Unless the guy was an illegal alien.”
Well, there’s the key. If a legal permanent resident goes to the MVA here to get their driver’s license, they will have to present a huge stack of paperwork proving they are here legally, and then take a written test and a driver skills test. If you just walk in there and say “No hablo ingles”, they will just give you the license, no questions asked, no paperwork of any kind, no tests required. My wife was furious about this, but it’s what they do in the People’s Republic of Maryland.
Governor Fredo is responding to the threat of White Supremacy with new proposed hate crimes legislation. If you kill multiple people because of their protected class status, or even just one but wound two others, you would be facing life in prison for your hate crime!
That is, if the evil rethuglikkkans in the legislature don’t block this common-sense legislation.
The GOP does not have enough seats in either house of the DPRNY legislature to stop anything.
There aren’t enough evil rethuglikkkans in the legislature to stop anything now.
So, thought-crime it is…
If you kill multiple people deliberately….uh…dont you already face life in prison?
Shut your white logic racist mouth
You take that logic right outta here, mister.
Not necessarily. In NY it depends on whether you have a penalty multiplier, such as a firearm, pepper-spray, a joint, a loose cigarette or a pack of cigarette’s lacking the NY tax stamp.
The latter two are capital offenses.
I was just amused by the idea that is would be possible to kill multiple people and not be facing life in prison, and thus this new law was needed.
Laws should be as expressive and nuanced as possible. A whole body of law, tailored to each individual, if you will.
Lol
Gee, wonder why he got singled out? This is why I eschew logos, People!
For a second I thought that guy was 8 feet tall.
You Ugly
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/new-york-airport-worker-fired-terrible-note
Best and brightest…
Oh sure, men aren’t OK with some gender gaps. Predictable, and PROBLEMATIC.
Most married men die before their wives cause they can (gets them out of the prison sentence).
I like how they say that it “favors women” as though that’s some kind of oddity. Last I checked, women are also favored by the measures on incarceration, homelessness, homicides, suicides, and workplace deaths.
If this is true, someone better come down like a ton of bricks on everyone involved (local police, FBI & Google). The government essentially acting like the personal bullyboys of Google isn’t something that can be allowed to stand.
They called in the FBI, they called in the SWAT team. And they called in a bomb squad,
A wellness check involves none of them unless it discover somebody barricaded in their house making threats. Even then, I don’t see why the FBI would be called.
So we know this wasn’t a wellness check, but something else. What this calls for, of course, is an investigation by . . . the FBI. Alright, scratch that. Maybe the California AG? OK, maybe not. Uhh, I got nuthin’.
But .. results like this are what libertarians ACTUALLY WANT, with their free market religion. They’re okay with SWATTING, as long as it’s the invisible hand doing the swatting.
I am willing to concede that she is in fact tied for first place.