“Tuesday… still only in Tuesday…” Tuesday is meeting day for me. All. Fucking. Day. I don’t want to talk to another human being until tomorrow. But I have a wife and two small children, so I might as well wish for a unicorn that shits money and pisses good beer.
Dear IFLS crowd: every fucking star is a “thermonuclear explosion”. I hate you all and wish you would die in highly exothermic chemical reaction.
Ad guy gets free ad placement in news for $118 dollars in fines.
Iowans want a return to sanity?
This is a pretty shitty thing to do to someone.
Dem Deathwatch: A New Hope
That dude will knife somebody next. Lock him up and keep him there.
Dude, these “qaulity of life” prosecutions need to stop. San Fransisco needs to prosecute the real criminals – Rich corporations that drive people into homelessness.
This happened in LA.
It’s all Left Coast to me.
Eh. Venice is Berkeley by the beach.
“she was about to drive home from a Thai restaurant near the famed tourist area”
Maybe he was a disgruntled costumer warning her what would come of her Thai restaurant experience?
Why not a makeup artist or a grip? Are wardrobe people more prone to violent disgruntlement than other trades?
Celebrity. Armpits.
That bucket of fecal matter could be potentially deadly. We don’t know what’s lurking in there, or the state of her immune system.
Also, Eeeeewww!
Jesus, watch the video. It includes a homeless guy pushing someone in front of a truck.
Something needs to be done, that’s for damn sure.
Or the dude punching the chick.
Disgusting.
Happens regularly in the NYC subway.
Sounds like a Republican Talking Point.
Pish posh. Haven’t you gotten the latest memo that knowingly infecting others with diseases shouldn’t be a crime?
there’s a lesson to be learned from that compilation video of crazy junkies attacking randos on the street.
Yes, Trump is destroying America.
This never would have happened if Hillary were
queenpresident!God Empress.
“It’s so traumatic,” Van Tassel told the news station. “The PTSD that I’m dealing with is beyond anything that I’ve ever felt. There needs to be some kind of help for the victims of these crimes.”
Not that it wouldn’t be very traumatic, but how often does she think this happens?
I think when you’ve lost that lottery already, you start wondering if you’re on the lower tail of the “Lucky/Unlucky” bell curve
I wonder what her current opinion of concealed carry is.
That’s the thing about anxiety/depression. It’s not rational.
I mock snowflakes who claim PTSD for daily life as well, but I think having a crazy person drag you into the street and dump diarrhea on your head is likely to cause PTSD. It isn’t about how often you rationally expect something to happen, it’s about how bad the thing that happened was, and what it did to your brain as a result. Combat Vets intellectually know there are no VC in their backyard and no IEDs by the side of the highway.
At least until Trump wins a second term and Antifa goes full Weather Underground (the political movement, not the meteorology service).
I’m not sure that there’s a lot downside to incompetent Antifa blowing themselves up on a regular basis.
I notice the “crazy” homeless guys seem to pick women and fatties to attack. Not sure I could stop myself from beating him death if it was me.
25 years ago I had a bum start messing with my car – I had reached my limit with him and LA at that point. He ran when I jumped out of the vehicle which was probably best for both of us.
If you had killed him you could have just dumped him off at that one politicians house who kept having dead bodies showing up in it and never got arrested.
Did you beat your chest and show him your lower row of teeth?
That’s a funny way to spell Montezuma.
On the bright side, the homeless in SF have upgraded to shitting in buckets.
Er… LA.
The point stands.
It was Hollywood, which is even worse than Frisco.
Maybe this guy isn’t crazy. Maybe making the evening news was on his bucket list?
LOL
Dump this comment.
Well do you have anything better to say Mr. Smarty Pants? Well we’re all waiting……
Time to shit or get off the pot Tundra.
Aw, crap.
That’s the number 2 bad pun you’ve made on this comment.
well, he’s bought hisself a peck o trouble
Now he’s on the runs.
“There’s a sign ordinance in Treasure Island that we’ve tried to get around, but we weren’t able to get around and they said we can’t have the thank the veterans sign in Treasure Island,” Duvernay said. “We didn’t want to jump out of the parade halfway through it, and so we decided to stay in the parade and that’s what we did and the consequences was an ordinance violation.”
Duvernay was fined $118 for the violation.
My understanding is that Sign Ordinances are pretty hard to defend on 1st Amendment Grounds.
They sound awfully uptight for a gang of pirates.
Christ, what a bunch of arrrrse-holes!
I’m 80
Maybe they should have approached the PTB and requested a parley?
$118 bucks and I look like the good guy? sign me up.
Dear IFLS crowd: every fucking star is a “thermonuclear explosion”.
But did you see that Artists Interpretation of what it looked like? That’s why i got in the IFLS crowd. Science is just so damn beautiful.
“Referring to the amount of feces used in the attack, paramedics who treated her said that it “looked like the man was saving it up for a month,” according to Van Tassel.”
He can do that, but doesn’t have the discipline to find a job.
Maybe he’s just not into taking shit off of anybody
Where can we get these unicorns!????
keep an ad in the mf4f section for a really long time?
you mean the m4ff section right?
Hopefully that unicorn is homeless…
Maybe Jere Blessings thought he was a unicorn and was just giving that woman a bucket of cash?
Damn is CNN burying the lede on that one:
Unless i’m mistaken…. That means he not only came in the top tier. He was the Top.
Shhhhhh….
Math is racist.
Its at least homophobic.
Here’s the Headline for reference:
Pete Buttigieg joins top tier of candidates in new Iowa poll
So yeah no where do i see mentioned that he was the #1 candidate. Gotta carry that water for #3 Warren i guess.
I’m thinking Warren is done – between her, erm, lack of charisma and her massive taxes/spending, I think she’s going to fade.
I’m not even seeing her as a good VP choice.
I don’t share your view. I think she will get the nomination.
Just looked up his spouse, Chasten. Yep, Pete’s the top alright.
But the hubs would make a good first gentleman. Very June Cleaver.
Instead of celebrating it, the left is going to complain about white males.
Twice as many white males as normal.
Democrats really are the worst!
Oh, they already are. The progressives hate Buttgieg and his spouse for being too white, middle class and suburban.
But he’s exactly the gay candidate who might could be elected or boost a ticket precisely because of all the reasons the progs hate him.
At least Towleroad is still pro-Buttigieg
Too bad you h8ters wouldn’t support a woman for President. We could have had the first gay First Gentleman if Michele Bachmann had won. Even if Michele did force him to deep throat a corn dog.
The picture of him with the corn dog is Pulitzer worthy
Probably wasn’t the first time. He seems good at it – didn’t seem to have spilled any mustard.
The lede is that the Democrats are working hard to nominate someone even more unelectable than Hillary?
Margin of error 4.6%
Has that stopped them before?
Kind of sort of.
Media most certainly frames polls.
The people who claim they want to fight racism, sexism, and prejudice based on sexual attraction vote based on race, sex and sexual attraction. Think about that for a moment, and despair.
Fuck this VR. How do I take the headset off?
unicorn that shits money and pisses good beer
*mental note – pick up unicorn chow on the way home*
The money is Zimbabwean and the piss is contaminated with Unicorn semen.
Supreme Court denies review in Remington v. Soto
Sounds like they’ll wait for the case to be decided before reviewing it.
Sounds like they’ll wait for the case to be decided before reviewing it.
Why do you say that? I havn’t seen any evidence that SCOTUS has said what they will take on in the future.
OK, from the article (which is actually quite good):
I struggle with that definition of “unethical”, but whatevs. That’s probably the only real issue available for the Supes to rule on at this very early stage of the case. If so, I can see why they declined.
Assuming the plaintiffs win at trial (which assumes there will be a trial because Remington didn’t settle), then the issues of fact are essentially unreviewable (did Lanza see any of these ads? Very hard to prove, but if the jury says “Yeah, probably”, then its settled). The reviewable issue of law is the prosimate cause issue are the Supes going to throw out the traditional rule that criminal acts break the causal chain? That would be very significant change in the law; my money is it won’t happen.
In the meantime, though, Remington continues to bleed cash on this case.
I thought it was him mom’s gun, and he “chose” it because it was there.
That psychopath was locked in his room playing video games. No way he saw the ad.
IIRC the surviving Lanza was judged mentally incompetent. Wouldn’t that tend to skew how marketing would affect his decision? How is anybody supposed to be held responsible for how a crazy person reacts to their advertising?
are the Supes going to throw out the traditional rule that criminal acts break the causal chain?
Fram shop laws say hi
Dram*
I thought they always decided the case before reviewing it.
They were being asked to toss the case out.
I was joking. As in the justices make up their mind about the cases, before they ever hear them. Presumably on political lines.
For DOOMco in about 6 weeks.
https://babylonbee.com/news/local-couple-welcomes-adorable-little-tax-credit-world
Too bad the little bastard is going to consume all available funds for the next 18 years.
Got three tax credits myself. They’re breaking me.
“we don’t have to give the government to fuel its bloated, inefficient hierarchy,”
bloated, fetid, inefficient, mandatory hierarchys are the price we pay for civilized society.
Another brilliant close:
Praised be the bureaucracy.
“This week, the American people will hear for themselves from dedicated public servants with direct knowledge of the president’s efforts to press Ukraine to investigate his political opponents,” he wrote in the note. Schiff continued:
“The men and women who will testify have spent decades serving their country. They’ve served presidents of both parties faithfully, advancing America’s interests around the world. And they will describe, as they did in their closed door testimony, the way in which the president’s personal and political interests were put first.
As the American people watch, as you watch, I hope you will keep in mind that these men and women are demonstrating incredible courage and patriotism by coming forward. They did not seek out the limelight or bright lights of a congressional hearing room, but when called upon, they have done their nation yet another service.
That spirit of service and patriotism is what inspires me, and what is at the forefront of my mind on the cusp of the momentous days to come,” he concluded.”
Transparency schmansparency.
You mean “civil service employees”.
“tenured and unaccountable government employees”
Patronage was better than the reformed Civil Service system.
No, he means tax leaches.
If everyone had the “spirit of service and patriotism” of civil servants, this country would have gone tits up 200 years ago.
It’s not the lying that gets me so much, it’s the holier than thou transparent bullshit that they peddle. Screw that mendacious crazy eyed psycho.
I had a fairly long-running debate on FB with some acquaintances about how being a career government employee does not imply being a good person. Not sure I ever got through to them, but damned if I didn’t try.
No, I’ve known some dreadful, shitty ones. Also some quite decent ones. Most fell somewhere in-between with a slight tendency towards greed and laziness.
You mean they’re human?
I live in a government city. Any time a discussion regarding income inequality arises, I suggest sharing of government jobs – you get 10-years then give it to someone else.
Another parody for the record I see
“Dear IFLS crowd: every fucking star is a “thermonuclear explosion”. I hate you all and wish you would die in highly exothermic chemical reaction.”
You know who else blew up stars?
Pamela Des Barres?
Plaster Caster?
Nope.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/may/06/good-time-girl-memories-of-a-super-groupie
Heidi Fleiss?
The Empire in Star Wars.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sun_Crusher
In the same vein, Tolian Soran.
Devine Brown?
Jean Grey?
Subway grates?
The balloon inflaters at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade?
John Landis?
The owners of that Baby Trump balloon?
?
Sean Spicer, before getting voted out?
Only 28% of likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa have definitely made up their mind about who they will support
The caucuses should be quite a party.
Democratic Caucuses: Clayton Iowa 3rd Precinct
Chair: Alright Guys Lets get this started. Do we have any Motions? Yes, the Beared man in the back.
DSA Member: Point of personal privledge- Fisrt of all I’m a Woman. Lets not assume gender or use gendered langauge here. This is supposed to be a safe place for us to democratically select Elizabeth Warren as our new leader.
TERF: POINT OF ORDER! That man is not a woman!
Chair: [under breath] ahh fuck…
[Loud Rucus followed by gavel banging]
Chair: ORDER!, ORDER! Now do we have any nominations for delegates?
Man clearly wearing fake nose and glasses: Um.. I would like to nominate my good friend Bill -err- William Crystal as a delegate. He knows that Biden is our only way to defeat Trump.
Chair: [Squints] Sen Romeny? is that you? How did you get in an Iowa Caucus?
Romeny: I keep a house in all 50 states, how do you think i got elected in Utah?
….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Iowa_Democratic_caucuses
In the closed caucuses, candidates must meet a viability threshold of 15 percent within an individual precinct in order to be considered viable, with supporters of non-viable candidates then allowed to support one of the remaining viable candidates.
This is how upsets are made.
Great Bloomberg pic! Thanks.
I might as well wish for a unicorn that shits money and pisses good beer.
Which Democratic presidential candidate is promising that?
All of them.
“Dear IFLS crowd”
The Indonesian Family Life Survey?
Invisible Finger Licker Society
Immature Fart-Loving Secessionists!
Ignorant fuckin luddite syndicate
Dem Deathwatch: A New Hope
So if Clinton jumps in, will that be “The Empire Strikes Back”?
Sounds more like “The Search for Spock”.
Wrath of Clintahn?
More like fatal attraction
So long as the is no rehash of the leg uncrossing scene. No vagina dentata for me, thanks.
Wrong movie, although your Basic Instinct was good.
Dang it. Boiled that rabbit.
*offers Gen X card. (in an apathetic manner, as befits my cohort.)*
What has astronomers intrigued about J1808 today, however, is the fact that it’s still exploding, and apparently showering our galaxy with some of the most intense blasts of light ever detected.
“If your explosions last more than four hours…”
I think they mean it was still exploding 11K years ago, which means the explosion has been going on for however long since J1808 was discovered.
The joke, you missed it.
Stellar priapism is no laughing matter.
SugarFree gets it.
SPACE SMITH AGREES.
A dying Political Party
While much of the 2019 election discussion focused on the Kentucky and Mississippi gubernatorial contests and the Virginia state legislative races, there were pivotal countywide races in Pennsylvania that provide a much clearer view of the political realignment we have been slowly witnessing for many years in my home state.
The lesson learned from Pennsylvania, which went for Donald Trump in 2016, is the same as for the rest of the country. As a result of his election and performance in office, the suburbs are nearly completely gone for the Republican Party….
The ever-expanding circle around Philadelphia and other urban population centers poses an existential threat to the GOP. It’s hard to imagine a scenario where Republican losses in the suburbs can be offset by increased gains in rural areas; the math simply doesn’t work.
Yes, the rural areas of Pennsylvania, and America more broadly, are becoming more Republican and red while the suburbs are becoming more blue and Democratic. But it’s better to grow and win in areas where the population is increasing rather than in areas of population stagnation or decline, and that is the key Democratic advantage heading into 2020.
Overall, the Pennsylvania elections of 2017, 2018, and 2019 were very unkind to the Republican Party and the trend does not bode well for next year. 2020 could be another terrible Republican year given President Trump’s high unfavorability ratings that are driven by his increasingly erratic behavior and misconduct in office….
Many suburban voters view the Republican brand as too nativist and socially intolerant. If the Republican Party ever hopes to reclaim lost territory in the suburbs and elsewhere, it can start by rejecting isolationism and protectionism, advocating constructive international engagement by reengaging with traditional allies and defending the American-led international order, embracing diversity and inclusion, and striving to become more socially sensible.
If demography is destiny, then Republicans must get on the right side of it. Otherwise, the results of the 2020 election for the Republican Party in Pennsylvania will make the previous three dreadful elections pale in comparison.
Um, sure. . .
it can start by rejecting isolationism and protectionism
Eternal War is the price of political success. Come Suburan Mothers, and sacrifice your sons at the altar of war, then only can you be cleansed of your sins of nativisim.
Philly suburbanite here and I don’t think this right either. My township and the one immediately west are both heavily (HEAVILY) Dem. But the outside of those two (and maybe Swarthmore), it seems pretty evenly split. Admittedly, I have no idea what goes on in Chester County though.
York County here, Repubs won pretty much every single seat they were running for.
Yeah, I think the author is way overselling the doom/gloom for the GOP in the Philly suburbs. I feel like this same argument was floated right before 2016, i.e. HRC was going to own Montco and Bucks, thus winning PA fairly comfortably.
The Pittsburgh suburbs got more red.
Granted, they are probably way outnumbered but the reality is more complicated than the DNC would have you think.
CNN is in the business of promoting the Dems and demoralizing the GOP. They have no other rationale for their reporting anymore.
Many suburban voters view the Republican brand as too nativist and socially intolerant. If the Republican Party ever hopes to reclaim lost territory in the suburbs and elsewhere, it can start by rejecting isolationism and protectionism, advocating constructive international engagement by reengaging with traditional allies and defending the American-led international order, embracing diversity and inclusion, and striving to become more socially sensible.
How is Trump not doing that, anyway? Obama’s foreign policy was marked by his disengagement from our traditional allies (*cough*Israel*cough*) and appeasement of our enemies. Trump’s foreign policy is a reversal of that general trend, isn’t it?
These people are crying about Trump stepping on the Iran deal. Re-engaging with Iran would be opposite of what they claim to be asking for.
i’m having trouble relinquishing anymore freedoms of association which makes me intolerant. maybe i’ll just die out.
Here’s a thought experiment. Ever since the beginning of the industrial age, technology has been increasing at an accelerating rate. At what point does the rate of technological advancement become an S curve and slows down to the flatter rate before the industrial revolution. Or does it not stop and lead to Kurzweil’s singularity.
Has it really? What are the recent big technological advances other than information technology and it’s applications?
RealDolls.
Duh.
I’m confused to why advances in IT don’t count.
If technological advancements were accelerating, wouldn’t it be advancing on multiple fronts?
I wonder if that trend didn’t flatten out at some point in recent decades, myself.
Define “recent.”
Lithium Ion batteries are a pretty huge thing. Insulin pumps. Anti-retroviral medx which make HIV treatable and preventable.
Don’t forget the 3D printing/genetic tech that is, by this layman’s assesment is on the verge of making organ donation lists a thing of the past.
Well in the long run we are all dead, so i imagine it eventually slows down.
As discussed earlier, technology has made us dumber, so I assume the machines will achieve the singularity and ultimately enslave us for their own newfound sense of sexual perversion.
…and we will welcome it.
Do you have a source for tech making us dumber, because I’ve seen video from new age hippies in the 70’s and those people were dumb as a box of rocks.
Comment #7 (by Sean) in the previous article. It was his opinion.
Everything I said after that is certainly mine.
At what point does the rate of technological advancement become an S curve and slows down to the flatter rate before the industrial revolution.
I think it’s already started. While a lot of great gains are still being made, we haven’t had any real leaps lately. Sure, there could be something around the corner, but most innovation today seems to be marginal improvement of existing technology rather than anything truly revolutionary. Steam power, electricity, flight, penicillin, and other such revolutions are in the distant past, the only recent revolution I can think of is the internet. I think a middle-aged person alive in 2019 has seen less technological revolution in their life than a middle-aged person alive in 1919.
I think a middle-aged person alive in 2019 has seen less technological revolution in their life than a middle-aged person alive in 1919.
Or 1939, 1959, 1969, or probably even 1979.
I’m that middle-aged person. I think its been marginal improvements across the board in my lifetime, with the sole exception (which isn’t small) of information technology.
#metoo
And even IT seems flat lately. Most of us have been doing the same thing for a couple decades with only marginal improvements.
Consider the difference between 2000 and 2020 versus 1980 and 2000. Not even close.
The huge advancement between 2000 and 2020 is media bandwidth.
What I do in my job today was impossible in 1999.
as long as my oleo comes with the yellow already mixed in, life’s good
And I’d say in a lot of areas sliding backwards: toilets, lights (although LEDs have decent applications and are better than CFLs, they’re also more costly), showerheads, antiscald faucets, laundry and soap detergent, food additives, plastic bags, straws, food containers, etc.
Maybe quantum computing could be the next leap. I know it has limited use, but it could lead to better modeling or complex systems.
It very well could, but I’m not sure what would be revolutionized by better modelling. It will be interesting to see what they can do with it.
Maybe they’ll finally be able to accurately model climate change? 😉
My understanding is modeling how drugs are metabolized or absorbed, so faster pharma.
“Ever since the beginning of the industrial age”
Pretty much since the iron age technology has improved year after year. From the Fall of Rome to the present day, there has never been a time where technology has not advanced.
True but it was much slower. The industrial age hit and you get all sorts of advances in a very historically short time. I’m thinking that while technology will still advance it will be again at a much slower pace. I’m thinking of the world in which my great aunt lived 1899-1997 vs what I have seen in my time and the rate of change just doesn’t seem to match up.
Yeah, agreed. Once capitalism stops being the main economic driver in the West is when technological advancement slows once again. It’s pretty clear to me that capitalism, alone, is responsible for the modern world.
It’s pretty clear to me that capitalism, alone, is responsible for the modern world.
I’d argue that electricity and gunpowder are responsible as well, but given that the former was harnessed in a capitalistic environment capitalism still gets to take the lion’s share of credit.
Don’t overlook steam power.
I wonder to what extent we can look at ‘rate of advance’ in terms of ‘actually new stuff’ on the one side and ‘incremental, but over time substantial, improvements and refinements on ‘the new stuff’ ‘.
Flight / the Concorde, electricity / [phones, tv, computers, Teslas (Tesla’s?), Where to draw the lines is fuzzy and contentious, but … interesting thought experiment?
Steam power is definitely important, but I’d argue it takes a back seat to the ones I mentioned, because while it revolutionized transportation and distribution, electricity and gunpowder revolutionized not only technology itself but society as a whole. In my opinion, electricity and gunpowder are the two great equalizing innovations that are responsible for the destruction of the ancient hierarchies and the profound effect that has had on our society.
It isn’t a smooth curve, at least over a scale of years, it spikes, like everything. Anyone who questions the rate of technological change living now is kind of missing the forest for the trees. CRISPR, 3d printing, lithium ion batteries, smart phones, VR, reusable rockets, micro fiber clothing, advances in fusion, anti-viral drugs. prosthetic tech, materials tech, and more.
“EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar’s lover who left his wife to be with her, claims he never really loved his spouse but stayed for his son, while she says their marriage was ‘happy and fulfilling before the congresswoman came on the scene'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7664877/Ilhan-Omars-married-lover-claims-never-really-loved-spouse.html
Now he’s going to drag his ex-wife and kid thru a very public shitshow. He’s an asshole.
Relevant
^^^ Probably NSFW
claims he never really loved his wife in bombshell court papers exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.
Yes, he’s dragging them through that, not the Dailymail.
Much like the corporate press had to drag Trump’s family through that whole adultery part while Malania was eight months pregnant.
Agency, how does that work?
He’s responsible for the actions of Right Wing Big Media?
Someday, you will learn that people are responsible for their own actions.
Probably not.
I jump Hyp as much as anyone, but here he is making the same point you are just in the other direction.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, LIBTARD!
Did you honestly not get that I just reversed his position on him? Clearly the corporate press is not at fault for Trump being an adulterer. Nor is the press guilty of showing this dude for being an adulterer.
But the point he was making is not that adultery is fine, it is that it is a private personal sin and making it a public spectacle tortures the innocent victims, while not really being relevant to the qualifications of the candidate. He was responding to:
he’s going to drag his ex-wife and kid thru a very public shitshow. He’s an asshole.
Literally every single one of those points could be made about Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels.
And the argument that the private life of politicians should somehow be off limits, is an argument that I find farcical. Just because you have no problem with it, does not mean that the press should not report on it. Stop being a culture warrior by pushing your mores on others.
Ok “Stop being a culture warrior by pushing your mores on others.”
earns you a fuck off.
The point is not that the private life of politicians should be off limits. It is that when a media outlet attacks a politician using that technique they are causing the public shitshow. The adulterer is responsible for the adultery. The outlet that decides to turn a a private failing into a shitshow owns the harm the public display causes.
And if you want to attack me for being a culture warrior and pushing a leftist no moral standards agenda, you may not have understood anything I have said, ever, which is probably why your comment pissed me off so badly.
When you leave your wife to start fucking one of the most notorious and divisive politicians in America, you’re inviting all sorts of attention on your family, whether it’s deserved or not.
He’s either completely naive or he doesn’t really give a shit about the fallout for his ex-wife and kid and is only thinking with his dick.
Meh, you want to call the guy as asshole for leaving his wife go ahead and make that case, claiming that the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy going through court papers and stalking him in an attempt to embarrass a Dem is on him as well is a stretch, he’s not the one dragging this out into the public, as far as I can tell he’s been pretty low key about the whole thing.
Whether or not I approve of the media’s conduct does not lessen the impact on his family. He knew or should have known what would happen. There’s plenty of people out there to bed down with. Most of them don’t come with intense media scrutiny.
She sure got the hang of this Congress thing in a hurry, having affairs, wrecking marriages and whatnot.
And tweeting, ever tweeting for freedom!
Between her and Katie Hill it would seem that not only is this congress the most female, it is the sluttiest since the second generation of Kennedys.
I’m still waiting for Omar, whose adherence to Islam required the House to change its rules on wearing hats, to explain how dumping your husband to break up another marriage is totes Islamic.
Are you saying Islam is right about women?
Nice.
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone. Wait that’s not the right religion.
It is kind of funny how she picks and chooses which precept to follow. Nothing to do about making people change their ways at her whim.
The Vikings invade Denmark!
I don’t recognize the black guy that is not Corey Booker. And Mystic Marianne is still in it? She should tagteam me with Tul – I mean team up with Tulsi Gabbard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Messam
“Kristen Stewart’s character in Charlie’s Angels is ‘definitely gay’ according to director Elizabeth Banks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7677957/Kristen-Stewarts-Charlies-Angels-character-definitely-gay-says-director-Elizabeth-Banks.html
pics or it didn’t happen
I’m not even disappointed, since I wasn’t looking forward to it anyway.
No one is better than this, anyway.
Uff. Da.
That’s for your contribution this morning.
Not bad at all.
I had this poster of Farrah on my ceiling. I won it at the county fair.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ei5gi8K-0oU/W5Iha1bjcHI/AAAAAAADST8/los12VcpiNs7aO8wu5BGKqvGrv9Oeg3QgCLcBGAs/s1600/farrah-fawcett-red-swimsuit-1.jpg
As did many other boys my age
Oh yeah. One of my faves!
Guilty. Also Lonnie Anderson and Cheryl Tiegs.
Lonnie Anderson never did anything for me. She looked too fake – even in her face.
Many suburban voters view the Republican brand as too nativist and socially intolerant. If the Republican Party ever hopes to reclaim lost territory in the suburbs and elsewhere, it can start by rejecting isolationism and protectionism
Pssst. Hey, Shirley. Isolation and protection are prime defining characteristics of the suburbs.
People move to the suburbs for a reason. And it’s not because they have an abiding love for “diversity and inclusion”. Ponder that.
I don’t think it will take more than the next round of total Dem control – and the realization of some part of their designs for us – to put the brakes on the thousand-year republic the MSM seems to be predicting. Patting themselves on the back for “diversity and inclusion” will fall by the wayside for a lot of these suburban blue voters when the economy starts tanking, crime starts rising, etc.
Suburbs have embraced the Democratic Party, because that is a fashionable position among the wealthy nowadays. Nothing better defines suburban life than “keeping up with the Joneses”. They are never out of fashion.
From the burbs that brought you organizations with “Mom” in the name.
Why do moms always have to be against things???
If only Moms demand action were a swingers group.
That depends on the moms involved.
At the very least spare us from the moms with the depends on.
I don’t recognize the black guy that is not Corey Booker.
Harris?
re- technological progress:
I say, while providing no substantive examples whatsoever, the advance of materials technology continues to be on a significant upward curve.
This. The advance in display tech shows that curve, imho.
You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.
– Will Rogers
And you just hit the heart of it. What appears to be a flurry of technology in the past was really just a few advances in materials sciences that allowed lots of things to be made that could not be made prior to that. Probably mostly metals. Then of course there was the harnessing of electricity. I think the curve is still accelerating. Advances in medicine, materials, and IT are going great guns.
花子さんは着物を着ていました。
I never put 2+2 together. The name in this sentence Hanko is literally “flower child”.
From tonight’s homework.
Gah! Reminds me I skipped last week because of stuff at home and now in the hole for this week.
And 愛子 (Aiko) is “love child”. Makes it funny that the Emperor of Japan is raising a love child.
And 愛子 (Aiko) is “love child”. Makes it funny that the Emperor of Japan is raising a love child.
When “QUIET, THIS IS LIBRARY!” meets “QUIET, THIS IS LIBRARY!”
One was chastising protesters for imagined oppression, while the other was chastising protesters for not putting a positive spin on murder
My response.
Honestly the best advice he has ever received
Suburbs have embraced the Democratic Party, because that is a fashionable position among the wealthy nowadays. Nothing better defines suburban life than “keeping up with the Joneses”. They are never out of fashion.
Scratch a suburban liberal, you’ll find somebody who doesn’t want just anybody pitching a tent next door. They might talk a good game, but when they get in the old voting booth… Who do you think elected Trump?
Yep. He barely lost here.
Joke’s on them! I’m pitching a tent right now!
A circus tent!
So is that what they mean by “under the big top”?
I’m not. Cuz I’m not wearing clothes.
Are you brushing an intern’s hair?
“Which social media genius decided to film Bernie Sanders –the presidential candidate people accuse of being a socialist — in front of empty grocery shelves”
https://twitter.com/Harry1T6/status/1188941298956427270
Tundra- just saw your update in the lst thread.
$60k for that 2002? Another example of how money bleeds over from one asset to another. Porsches are getting ridiculous, so it’s time to snag the next big thing.
There are a couple 914s that look pretty nice, but yeah, the 911s are insane. Also Alfa GTVs. And Datsun 2000s.
Huh. Maybe the economy is better than the media suggests…
I wish I’d had a barn to stash the vehicles I had when I left the US 26 years ago –
– Ratty but no-dents, bone stock 1967 Chevelle SS396
– Clean, no-rust/dents (AZ car) 1973 Porsche 914
– No-rust/dents (TX/AZ truck) 1973 Ford F-150 fully rebuilt drivetrain
– No-rust, modified drivetrain (dual sidedraft carbs, headers, 5-speed) 1972 Datsun 510
Joke’s on them! I’m pitching a tent right now!
*grabs box of shotgun shells, peers out window*
You’re looking the wrong place. He’s coming from inside the house!
Hi-Wire Bed of Nails Brown. Very good. With so many Browns going the Stout/Porter route is refreshing to have a more classic Brown. Also sampled a Southern Tier Chocolate Milkshake Imperial Milk Stout. Bartender said Tootsie Roll which seems pretty accurate. Not really a beer I want to sit and drink but probably has a use in a shot or a desert drink or something.
Bell’s Best is excellent.
Yeah, that is good. They have 3 Bells on tap right now but not that one. Cherry Stout, Oarsman, and Two Hearted.
sheesh: Bell’s justifies all Yankees forever; dem boys brew
Doing a Shiner Cheers right now. Digging it. Nice Christmas beer.
Current beer menu.
http://www.luckysgrille.com/draftsuntapped.html
Work Party IPA
at first I read that as Warty IPA and thought NFW ima drink dat
Little Fish Brewery is a cool place. Great outdoor area and food truck with empanadas.
Headed to hole in wall for cheap Miller Lites. Bye cool beer menu.
JB, there are less degrading ways to pay for crappy beer than working the Glory Hole.
That’s their problem.
https://youtu.be/ZrbmW6HN1Rw
my favorite bar took Shiner off tap: but it’s the GREATEST BURGER BEER OF ALL TIME!!11!!/?!
Seconded.
Hi-Wire makes good beer.
Yeah, I was at their brewery in Asheville 4 or 5 years ago. Cool little brewery.
It was my favorite of the stops on the Asheville Brews Cruise.
That kind of money for a 2002 should get you one with a V8 from a 740. With a suspension and brakes ready for the Nordschlieffe.
Alfa GTVs
I’ve noticed that, lately. I have always liked those cars, but they a really pricey, now.
Rufus needs one. He’s a fan.
Any Glibs subscribe to the Criterion Channel?
While a lot of great gains are still being made, we haven’t had any real leaps lately.
It was actually something of a topic I’d been having a discussion about earlier today (with regard to a “lower-for-longer” interest rate climate). While there’s something to this, technology gains seem to be modestly incremental, until they’re not. Then you get a big technology boom and revert to marginal incremental changes. In the early 80s, you had the advent of the personal computer. In the 1990s, you saw the internet. In the last decade, you’ve seen the rise of smart phones. In each case, you see modest improvements right up until you see a revolution. Then things pretty much stabilize.
My guess is the next “big thing” is probably cellular therapy and CRISPR technology. You don’t hear an awful lot about it, but scientists are on the verge of being able to cure diseases that have plagued mankind for centuries. They’re even doing work on addressing the problem of aging itself.
When you say working on aging, how are you defining aging?
Getting old with its concomitant problems and never dying, just getting weaker and more demented and/or in pain?
Or getting old with some decent quality of life?
Hey man…. Like… Life is Death….
Very much the latter. It’s not a given, but some of the research suggests that they might be able to reverse the cellular deterioration that gives rise to bigger problems. It’s pretty impressive stuff if they can pull it off.
if they can pull it off
I was going to make a joke there but am letting it go.
You’d think that some of those breakthroughs would have made it into our firmware by accident by now. Of course, the difference between living to 70 instead of merely 60 means very little to the survival of your blueprint.
I wasn’t thinking so much reproduction, but enjoying quality of life. I’m hardly an expert on the topic (I went to a lecture and read a book). But, it almost sounds like that might actually be a more difficult problem.
oh, I liked your point and didn’t mean to add or argue it
I was just thinking about how DNA is in the business of propagating new batches of DNA before you get eaten by a saber tooth, not sustaining the old stuf
That said, if they can reprogram us so that the other thing that goes up keeps going up and ova don’t dry up and crack in half after 40 years, then the DNA would actually start to get in the living-longer game. But today it just don’t much care beyond your helping raise your grandpups a year or two; after that, DNA don’t give a shit about when or how you wear out
oh, I liked your point and didn’t mean to add or argue it
No, I thought it was an interesting point. I just don’t know, and I’m a little more skeptical that they could do much to alter the genetic material someone passes on. They might be able to clean the person up. But, I think it would be a lot harder to alter what he passes on.
It’s pretty impressive stuff if they can pull it off.
I’m skeptical, but if they do that will be a massive revolutionary change on society.
Depending on how soon they can do it, millennials might be saying “OK Boomer” from now until Kingdom Come.
Has anyone done a sci-fi story set in a society where aging has been abolished? It would be an interesting setting, considering that abolishing aging does not abolish death. I’m thinking a crime drama about an assassin or something like that would work well in that setting.
People who can’t pull the trigger pay for their own assassinations?
I was thinking a different angle: in a world without natural death, it would be highly likely to see life sentences abolished, thereby meaning that murderers will eventually go free and some of the aggrieved will hire their own justice.
Also sans some kind of arbitrary limits on tenure institutions would cease being innovative. You have to remove the old ways of thinking somehow or your social, scientific, artistic progress becomes cemented.
From what I recall reading and hearing, that end of the technology has its limits. There’s stuff they can do to regenerate, but each time it becomes less effective. Of course, who knows what can be done in the future?
The Honor Harrington series is set in a world where aging is not defeated, but slowed down tremendously (for those in the analog of First World economies). The changes in society are touched on in several stories, along with the issues caused by the access of wealthier economies to the technologies (and due to the nature of the “prolong”, the timing of its arrival to a society, as the better versions of the tech can only be used on fairly young people, making the divide a multi-dimensional one).
That sounds like a very interesting take on the idea.
Larry Niven has several stories of this world. Boosterspice and organ transplants ends aging. This requires the gov to tightly regulate birth, psychology, and Innovation to prevent war.
Any tech deemed dangerous is suppressed including violent and aggressive thoughts.
Yeah, and the side effects of FTL travel make for some really weird stories in that world (I’m thinking of a couple of the Man-Kzin Wars stories).
That was a great series. It could have been a space war opera series, instead most stories were well written hard sci fi.
Madness Has Its Place is good short story about a “therapied” guy who stops taking his drugs to help plan To fight a war with aliens. Humanity has been culled to be peaceful and can’t conceive of war.
Here’s a movie from 1980 along those lines.
The City and the Stars is a variation on the theme.
Forever 21 already has this licked.
No, wait, they died in bankruptcy. EVERYTHING IS A LIE!
Yes, I’m judging you.
and I do not have the power 🙁
But I am still <a href="http://” title=”judging” target=”_blank” >judging
and I am now Sugar Free….
The link is
That’s the thing, isn’t it? If I simply live longer but without practical whole-body rejuvenation, what’s the point? I have no interest in being several hundred years old and a complete physical wreck.
#metoo
Sitting here in a hospital room with my 75yo mom after a 5-hour cardiac ablation. She’s fallen twice this year. Broke her arm and had to have surgery. That gave her carpal tunnel, so she had surgery on THAT too.
Today’s procedure also went fine, but my dad died 25 years ago and she’s been wondering why she still has to be here.
To her, living is a full-time job and an annoyance.
To her, living is a full-time job and an annoyance.
The last six months of my Mom’s life, mostly lived in a hospice whilst waiting for the liver cancer to finish her off, was the most trying thing she’d ever gone through. Made me think hard about my attitudes toward assisted dying.
Sometimes the treatments are almost cruel.
I’m a huge fan of St Jude, just an hour’s walk from me, but the good things they do there today were filtered out of a bushel of bad things back in the day. A cousin’s child died there, and it seemed a torture of a sort (not my place to say, of course), but I’m sure there are people walking around today based off what they learned back then.
I can accept death, but I worry about suffering.
I know a doctor dude whose parents were each terminally ill with something. I don’t remember. They approached him about assisting them. He refused.
Somehow they arranged it so that they would be left alone for as long as it took for the dad to kill the mom and then himself, before they were to be found.
The doc dude knew they were planning it; he just didn’t know when.
Tres Sr. comes from a family (of inbred Mennonites) that all fall over from some cardiac event. In fact, no male on his side had ever lived past 60. So when he turned 60 (20 years ago), he was sure he was on borrowed-time, and made some severe life changes that reflected that.
To him, still alive when he planned on being gone a long time ago, every day is a personal inconvenience.
We are all on borrowed time and have been since our conception.
Sorry.
So sorry that year that. My gfs mom has given up and has let herself go (understatement). It’s a slow motion car wreck in progress and she actively fights her daughters trying to help her.
She hasn’t given up because she refuses to. But she IS annoyed.
My MIL is slowly drifting off. Luckily she is in no pain but she is rarely lucid anymore. Even when she is responsive she often doesn’t even recognize her only daughter and what she does talk about has no grounding in reality. The medical system has her fed by an IV. They are not offering euthanasia – I believe it isn’t an option here in Japan.
If I ever get the diagnosis that I am on the path to Parkinson’s I will make a plan for the point when to pull the plug myself. Go off to someplace where the outdoor temps are cold enough, drink a couple bottles of scotch, and go to sleep in the snow.
In order to be of any use it will have to be some sort of repair n the cellular level. Then of course there is bionics. Bonding machine to nervous system is a big deal.
For computing, the return to stable, incremental change is already starting. Moore’s Law ended 15 years ago, and Moore’s Second Law is a killer.
I’m looking forward to whatever the next “big thing” is, I’m just worried goverment will kill it. For example, if you’re right, how long will CRISPR take to get through FDA approval?
. . . how long will CRISPR take to get through FDA approval?
They still haven’t created a supercomputer that can count that high.
“ABC scrambles to figure out identity of Amy Robach leaker, who goes by ‘Ignotus’”
https://pagesix.com/2019/11/12/abc-scrambles-to-figure-out-identity-of-amy-robach-leaker-who-goes-by-ignotus/
https://twitter.com/PageSix/status/1194364984723202051
This shit is ridiculous.
“Amy Robach leaker”
I heard that video was taken down.
I’m not seeing anything about that here
https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
Looks like it is still up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lfwkTsJGYA
You missed the joke
I guess I still don’t get it.
I’m on pins and needles.
That whole article made my brain hurt.
Sounds like they are worried that there’s even more damaging material.
So they are trying to make the story about the leak, not what was leaked. Didnt Clinton try that shit more than once?
Yes.
Any of y’all following the LP hot mess up in the Tweeters? Too many Tweets to post, but some LP donor apparently got sand in his vagine about something Maj Toure said, so the LP disinvited him as a keynote at the LP convention. They’re making one guy take the fall, but a whole committee ratified his “decision”. Motherfuckers, the lot.
As my grandaddy would have said “That bunch? They aint no good.”
AS I mentioned earlier, Jugsy’s 11 year-old boxer had a 1-way ticket to the Rainbow Bridge®.
She was sent on her way this afternoon.
Who woulda known a group of grumpy, misanthropic, get-off-my-lawn types could be so warm?
Thanks for your kind words and thoughts. It was her 1st euthanasia (the dog’s too), so it was extra rough.
/x-tra RUFF
insert Ralph Malph “I still got it”
Man, I’m sorry Tres. Those danged animals and their unconditional love.
❤❤❤ to Jugsy.
Sorry Tres.
Sorry, Tres. Losing a dog is just awful, but at least you have 11 years with that boxer to look back on.
They do teach us some very important lessons about life and death, that’s for sure. Dammitall. :-(
Sorry 🙁
Sorry.
Sorry about that, Tres. Putting down a beloved pet is tough stuff.
Well, and she had dementia (vets call it Cognitive Behavioral Disorder). Dealing with her rapid decline over the past month has given me a taste of what people caregivers have to endure. Clearly that’s not a direct comparison, but I may have an idea. You have my utmost compassion and empathy.
/and respect
Thanks, bud.
{{{{{HUGS}}}}} to you & Jugsy! (Ummm….those brackets don’t designate a particular religious or ethnic group do they…?)
I am very sorry about your dog passing. Give it a little time and newly chewed up shoes and puddles of pee everywhere can go a long way to healing.
YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!
I warned her about immediately gloming on to a new doge, specially when the other boxer (the one that just died’s son) has yet to sort out who’s missing.
But she’s hasn’t listened to me yet, so I see a puppy in the near future.
Yeah, I’m with ya. When the second of our two beloved Shih-Tzus died back in ’12, it took the spousal unit and I almost three-and-one-half years to get another pup (a beautiful Shih-Tzu/Bichon Frise cross with caramel-coloured hair!). We’re happy to have the new pup, but damn! — it hurt for a very long time, and we needed perspective.
Sorry Tres, and to Jugsy too. Our little mini Aussie is about the same age and she’s showing some signs of no longer being a spring chicken. Had her teeth cleaned last week and took longer than ever for her to recover from it. Even before she doesn’t seem to hear as well as she did. Not looking forward to that day.
I’m so sorry Tres.
Sorry dude…
Sorry dude.
Sorry, Tres. It may be the kindest thing to do but damn, it still hurts
“How did this get started? It’s popping up all over the place. I never said Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. I said he didn’t commit suicide. Not the same. Could be alive. Could have never existed. Maybe murdered. I dunno. I only know he didn’t commit suicide.”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1194301300923600896
“Jesus! It’s the media feeding on itself. New York Post: “John McAfee thinks Jeffrey Epstein was murdered”. The London Daily Mail: “McAfee insists he wasn’t murder”. Within hours of each other. Expect soon: “John McAfee murdered Jeffrey Epstein and assumed his identity”.”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1194336062656667649
Irreverence is one of my favorite human qualities. McAfee has it in spades.
Well chick, you are in the right place. This site…this commentariat….is a devoted celebration of irreverence.
Well if anyone knows about murder, it’s McAfee.
I’m assuming it was the rapture and only Epstein made the cut.
The vast majority of the establishment media is beyond a joke now.
For Tundra:
https://twitter.com/PhizLair/status/1194151326613041152
Oh yeah.
Thanks, CP!
“”Look at China. They have a million wigger muslims. *sieg heil*” -Joe Biden”
https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1194092221420716035
I am not sure what to make of that.
Uh….what?
Nobody needs a miliion wigger Muslims.
Okay, I’ll bite.
What the Hell is a “wigger Muslim”?
Uighur I assume
Eminem in a kufi hat?
There’s a ton of BS in this article, but the larger story of the Marshall Islands is certainly worth a skim.
Dad was on Eniwetok, mostly 1959, and has no obviously attributable complaints. Today the fear of the containment’s failure is dismissed since the lagoon is already so contaminated that any added radiation introduced by a dome failure would be virtually undetectable. Dad thoroughly enjoyed swimming for a year in that lagoon, but they were not allowed to eat any fish or coconuts or any other would-be foodstuffs available in the wild there.
My dad’s ship was sent to Eniwetok to observe the nuclear tests. Luckily he was in the infirmary in San Diego with some sickness during that assignment.
Fuck. They just never quit.
“Now the concrete coffin, which locals call “the Tomb,” is at risk of collapsing from rising seas and other effects of climate change. Tides are creeping up its sides, advancing higher every year as distant glaciers melt and ocean waters rise.”
That is not what is happening. That is not what is happening at all. Any engineers around here know about building concrete buildings or swimming pools?
The fucking thing is floating up off of its foundation. Goes up, goes down. It is working itself loose.
If the sea was rising and coming up farther on the beach then that shitbox would be their last worry.
Yeah, I noticed that they described it as “bobbing up and down”. Concrete structures are not supposed to “bob”.
My son the one learning guitar is learning what it means to be punk.
Just now he says, “so punk is just a great way to express anger towards the system or the man”
He got a gold star for the day.
You’re the man.
Exactly. Question everything.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJEFwy3VAAE2dCN.jpg
LOLOLOL
Lol
The clue should have been ‘whistleblower, my ass’. If it was the person who came up with the complaint the correct answer would be ‘N_ancy Pelos_’
We had a fight. There were a half-dozen back and forths but spellcheck won. Dammit.
New thread, slackers!!