Who TF cares anymore other than you, ESPN?
At least one ranked basketball team from Kentucky can take down a small Indiana school at home. Well done, Louisville. Also, Ohio State thumped Villanova. And Texas Tech won big as well. On the ice, your winners were Ottawa, NYI, Washington, Dallas, and Chicago. Justin Verlander won the AL Cy Young award with teammate Gerrit Cole coming in second and former teammate Charlie Morton coming in third. Jeez, you’d have had to have been stealing signs to hit that rotation.
This man will be fucking peoples’ shit up again in 9 days.
Colin Kaepernick worked out and ESPN is leading with it for some reason I’m sure is unrelated to their politics. And the NCAA finally ruled that Chase Young must sit for the Rutgers game but will be eligible to play against Penn State, TTUN, whoever they get in the Big Ten Championship Game and then the playoff semifinal and final. Yes, I’m making an assumption or two there. It’s what I do and it’s what you expect from me.
Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton was born on this day. As were impressionist painter Claude Monet, douchebag congressman Joseph McCarthy, TV idea man Sherwood Schwartz, satirist P.J. O’Rourke, jug-eared child of incest Prince Charles, former SoS Condi Rice, rapper Joseph “Run” Simmons, and hurler Curt Schilling.
Welfare-queen douchebag.
Right-o, on to…the links!
Looks like fun size candy bars are the new “loosies”. Hey, he’s lucky they didn’t kill him for voluntarily exchanging in transactions with people for a product he obtained legally and paid the tax for. Jesus, that city’s cops get worse by the day.
Diplomats reveal new details in first public impeachment hearings. By “details”, they mean second- and third-hand information, a bunch of opinion, and little of substance beyond revealing that their personal conversations with the Ukranian president revealed that he had no issues at all with any conversation with Trump. The shitshow continues today, I think.
Looks like Congress will get 8 years of Trump’s taxes unless the Supreme Court overrules the DC Circuit’s ruling. So the DC Circuit has ruled that Congress can demand and receive a private citizen’s private tax returns (he was a private citizen for those years) as part of congressional oversight. Gee, why wouldn’t private citizens be lining up to run for office now?
Unnamed Monroe County, NY Supervisor working on legislation.
A county in Upstate New York is considering going all-in on the bootlicking. Because nothing says “right to protest” like throwing people in prison for annoying a cop. Hey Monroe County: go fuck yourself.
Man, what an asshole. Also, if your employees don’t have proper equipment and support to do their job, you’re gonna have some backlash. But still…what an asshole.
Who the fuck is that guy? Somebody needs to cut him open and make sure it’s not Hillary in some form of Edgar suit.
I guess this works here. Hope you enjoy.
Now go have a great day, friends!
First! Suck it, Pie!
I was in a call. I hate it when I ask some technical info in an email and people call to answer. I want the damn thing in writing.
Firsting your own links? That doesn’t sound very glibertarianish, well maybe it does.
I had nothing else going on at the time. I hadn’t started to look for my myriad typos and grammatical errors yet.
Jesus, that city
copsget worse by the day.Mornin, glibs
Gooood morning!
Ha nice try boomer. Video from 2016. George Harrison died in 2001.
I was genuinely surprised when I saw that was the “Official video” for that song. Also, George Harrison might be the most positive-minded human being on the planet.
He was great friends with Clapton even after. Far and away the coolest Beatle.
I’m always reminded of the Lampoon’s album cover “Lifting Material from the World.”
…and?
/Carrie Fisher
/Peter Cushing
/Tupac
Tupac’s not dead, tho
Tupac is Elvis. Still working on the secret mission Nixon gave him.
The president and his lawyers are also hoping to get the Supreme Court to block another, separate bid to get his tax returns.
A grand jury in New York is seeking those documents as part of an investigation into allegations that the president paid hush money to two women through his former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, prior to the 2016 election.
If they can just get those returns they’ll have what they need to put him away, because it’s right there on your Schedule C: bribes, hush money, kickbacks, or other illegal payments.
Form 1055B outlines usage of piss hookers.
So, he pissed away a fortune?
It’ll be hilarious when there’s nothing interesting there at all. Like Capone’s safe
Rachel Maddow haz a sad.
So a good day then?
IT WAS A VAULT!
Are we sure of that? It looked like an empty room to me.
Hush money is illegal? Someone better tell congress.
Or cable media. Better hope those NDAs aren’t remunerated.
A county in Upstate New York is considering going all-in on the bootlicking. Because nothing says “right to protest” like throwing people in prison for annoying a cop. Hey Monroe County: go fuck yourself. – oh come one I am sure annoying will be defined in a clear objective way that is not subject to abuse.
I would get a life sentence on the installment plan if I lived there.
I’m so proud of my old stomping grounds. ?
Exposed gluteal cleft measured in millimeters?
Would you like some candy little girl?
Why is de-icing aircraft always so fucked up? They do it every winter.
Climate change makes every year worse
Don’t steal my shtick.
You never did tell us how you did this Halloween. You must be putting the finishing touches on your Santa suit with Christmas just around the corner.
I always figured OMWC as more of a “my dick in a box” suit guy than a Santa suit guy.
There must be a crotch opening for the lap sits
Your new job is de-icing planes?
5am flight to Portland
You’re going to England?
Maine? Oregon?
So you’re actually going to France?
New York, taking a dip in Lake Erie
Monroe County, may I just say: Fuck the Polis.
Well also Monroe County, this was funny. Then again there may be more than one county. And humoristic shit by police does not cancel out fucktardery, hell it makes it work, like a bit of sugar to get the poison down easier.
https://twitter.com/janr572/status/1194923016125239296
Looks like that’s the same Monroe county, as both mention being in the state of New York.
Coyotes are a fucking menace to those who have livestock. and since it’s damn near a crime to defend your own property in NY, seeing one might be a reason to call 911.
The IRS only keeps 6 years worth of returns.
*Raises eyebrow* Officially, yes. Bet someone in the leviathon keeps them somewhere. Clapper’s undies drawer is my bet.
Eeeeewww!
I doubt it.
Unless it was on Lois Lerner’s hard drive, I find it questionable they throw anything away.
Shit, we have employment records from the 1950’s. We’d have older, but I don’t think the agency that created them was around before then.
They’re probably in a wood box warehoused somewhere near the Ark Of The Covenant.
They’re supposed to destroy original returns after 6 years by law, although they retain other records like payroll data for as much as 20 years or longer. I don’t know if the same applies to digital copies either. If the case goes forward it’d be interesting to find out.
You think they actually do that any more than the ATF destroys the firearm background check forms whose number escapes me at the moment?
4473. And the ATF don’t get them. The dealer keeps them and doesn’t surrender them unless they close up shop.
And after the shop closes, where do they go?
To the ATF. But they don’t keep them as a matter of normal practice. And no gun dealer I know is too jacked up about just handing them over.
Hmmm. No reason to take them on a canoe…
maybe they were destroyed by a leaky pipe?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2016/03/28/the-atf-shows-off-its-gun-sale-record-mess-why-come-in-and-see/
There’s nothing in them. I’m sure that the proper authorities have already leaked them to the other other proper authorities. They all found notta or they’d have been ‘leaked’ good and proper to some news organisation that would then publish the information all in the name of their little #resist.
Given how frequently he gets audited, those tax returns are squeaky clean, else they’d have jumped all over him long before the election.
Dude is apparently audited every single year. Idk what they expect to find that wouldn’t already be known and leaked.
I’ll just bet he didn’t declare that annual W-2 income he received from the Russian FSB.
Man, what an asshole. Also, if your employees don’t have proper equipment and support to do their job, you’re gonna have some backlash. But still…what an asshole. – hangin’s too good for him
The Bee is what the Onion wishes it had been, even in its prime.
https://babylonbee.com/news/capitol-building-replaced-with-giant-circus-tent-for-duration-of-impeachment-hearings
Solid.
The Bee is for people who can’t handle SugarFree. But they still do good work.
Lol
“These are serious proceedings, and we will not have them mocked!” Schiff cried, wearing a clown nose, riding an elephant, and juggling fourteen flaming bowling pins. “The American public needs to know how super serious we are about this.”
“And now for my last stunt, I will create evidence for impeachment out of thin air!”
Classic.
The D.C. Circuit voted 8-3 in favor of letting the earlier ruling stand. Seven of the eight judges were appointed by Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, both Democrats. The eighth was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican.
The three dissenting judges — those who sided with the president — were all Republican appointees. Two were appointed by Trump and the third by President George H.W. Bush.
But I thought the court was completely apo9litical.
Actually, I’m surprised NPR would put that in there. Must be to show how Trump is destroying the judiciary. When Hillary is elected, she can replace Trump’s appointees with legitimate picks.
Fucking fingers.
This?
How about a trigger warning?
Diplomats reveal new details in first public impeachment hearings.
I just keep it on low in the background until it’s Jim Jordan’s question time.
This was shared to me last night
OFFS
No white power sign? Not even trying.
To be fair, having a half breed Mexican/(((them))) woman flash a white power sign is really creating an impossible standard when it comes to secret signs.
The Houston Astros called that in to Jim Jordan before the questioner had even finished.
:bravo:
Stealing bases is Schiff’s specialty.
I have a not-so-secret hand signal for Schiff.
Let me help you with that.
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Good morning Sloop!
And a good morning to the rest of you miscreants!
A dude at the gym asked my opinion on the Trump tax returns and show trial. I told him a straight up coup would be less work for everyone involved. I mean, why not cut to the chase? If we’re gonna banana-republic the bit, let’s stop fucking around!
George was the best Beatle.
And it isn’t even close.
More proof.
Dang.
But then…
Still less offensive than allowing Yoko and Linda to sing along.
Yoko couldn’t carry a tune if it had handles
Well if you expand to invlude other languages, ‘tune’ is ‘sand’ in Ngarrindjeri… No, I have no clue where that language is spoken.
Bill Burr nails it
Yoko is a self-important spoiled rich girl with delusions of grandeur. Nobody would have ever paid any attention to her if it weren’t for Lennon.
The archetypal art hoe
A no-talent hack
Harsh but fair.
But then…
Pat,
I think that this is the original version.
The Chuck E Cheese’s party room version is the ONLY version.
What no weeping guitars?
Two link limit for us plebes.
Here you go.
Even though he isn’t there.
You know else had a weeping guttar?
Chicks with chlamydia?
Women Are Closing the Drinking Gender Gap. And That’s a Problem.
https://www.liquor.com/articles/alcohol-consumption-men-and-women/#gs.ggit9x
The Glass Ceiling
A century later, women are drinking more than ever—nearly just as much as men, according to research by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). While the consumption gender gap is closing, the effects of alcohol on women versus men are far from equal. Women metabolize alcohol differently than men, and it’s not just a discrepancy in size that explains it. A number of physiological characteristics are at play.
For one, women’s bodies contain less water, which dissolves alcohol, so they tend to achieve higher concentrations of alcohol in the blood than men. Women also have more body fat, which retains alcohol. And they produce less of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, or ADH, that helps break down alcohol in the body.
This sounds like sexism to me but just to be on the safe side, lady glibs better leave the booze for the menfolk.
The trannies are skewing the stats.
Alcohol is clearly a tool of the patriarchy.
Biology is patriarchy! But don’t worry there seems to be an endless line of science popularizers willing to throw their credibility out the window to say sex is a spectrum. : Looks at Hank Green:
We went from “women hardest hit by alcoholic partners” to “partners hit alcoholic women”.
But women could just identify as men and those health issues will disappear, like that! /snaps fingers
Google is evil.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-fitbit-project-nightingale-antitrust/
well they did remove don’t be evil from their mission right?
Yeah, nothing says “monopoly” like buying a failing company that makes subpar fitness watches in a very saturated marketplace with multiple competitors.
I think the evil part is Google hoovering up even more personal data. I guess it’s no problem if one trusts them with it… LOL.
^^This is more what I was alluding to.
When we get Medicare for All, who do you think is going to be doing the analytics on who lives and who dies?
I agree with you there, but antitrust laws are there to break up monopolies once they occur and are proven to manipulate markets (even though I disagree with that goal). This is a further misuse/abuse of antitrust law and none of the government’s business. Especially since this is a currently robust marketplace and this purchase won’t diminish that competition.
Agreed.
The two diplomats insisted they are nonpartisan career public servants working to advance U.S. interests and bolster Ukraine’s ability to counter Russian aggression, which they said was critical to U.S. national security.
That’s all I needed to hear.
Guilty Orange Man is GUILTY.
NOBLE AND SELFLESS SERVANTS
that probably dipped into the same pool of aid money that Biden did
They are banking hard on the idea that the people will believe that the Ukraine is vital to American interests.
Ukraine is vital to the financial interests of many in DC it seems.
nonpartisan
They once briefly contemplated voting for someone or something outside of their peer circle’s approval but thought better of it.
Is anyone outside of Beltway losers and politically obsessed morons paying attention to the impeachment shitshow? Even the overtly political people at my office are acting as if it doesn’t exist.
I traded some yen for a cephalopod the other day. It was a squid pro quo.
That was just bad, and I ink puns are near mandatory.
That pun got me like ten tickles.
You’re a sucker for that.
Someone will be up in arms about this
Let’s not be spineless; stand up for our jokes.
Tentacles, not arms.
You guys are Kraken me up.
“Oh… tentacles! NT… big difference.”
Normally I love a good joke, mate, but I’m beginning to eight puns.
I could not care any less but I do wonder if some number of people who are nominally on the blue team might be wondering when the focus might touch on just WTF Biden & Son were doing in the first place?
The average working stiff doesn’t know much about how board members in big companies are paid. Me neither, to be fair. Thing is, they can wrap their heads around 50K a month for simply being the Veep’s son. Add to that what a fuck up Hunter was, and the corruption (illegal or not) becomes way to clear to be hand waved away. Joe/Jane sixpack is not going to be swayed by the excuses team blue is offering up.
I have a friend who is on the board for a few companies here in Japan. He has a memory like a hard drive that never crashes – can extemporaneously spout corporate histories and career histories of just about anybody who has done anything in business in Japan. He really knows just about everybody who is making things happen here – and he doesn’t make anywhere near that kind of money.
Well, duh, he’s not the son of a connected politician.
Mostly board members only get paid a stipend for their service. Only the officers of the company that are on the board are going to be paid big bucks, and that’s because that are working full-time.
The stipend isn’t small bucks either. Add on stock incentive programs and subtract stock ownership requirements, and it’s not a bad deal at all. For the ex-politicians picking those up, it’s just minor grade graft.
Tejicano – there is a huge difference between corporate boards in the US and the JP. Are they US exchange listed companies?
The game is played far differently in JP than in the US. JP is much more focused on perquisites compared to the US. There is also more outrage in JP about executive compensation. In return, however, there is much lower accountability to shareholders. Also the common keiretsu structure in JP would run into anti-trust issues here.
I’ve long said from a portfolio manager perspective I’d be hard pressed to recommend investment in many JP listed stocks.
I’ve noticed my company’s contract official lead resident director/agent does the same role for a number of other foreign subsidiaries.
I do wonder how many people think past the DEBUNKED! TOTALLY FALSE! BLATANT LIES! bit and ask, well then what the hell is the truth?
Impeachment or campaign strategy?
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said today’s public hearing in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump was ”not just about something that has occurred.”
She said it was instead “about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.”
Ocasio-Cortez said, “The whole point of the public hearings is to present the facts to the public and let the general public see the facts for themselves and understand why we have chosen to move forward with the impeachment inquiry. What we heard today was astounding and devastating news for the president and anyone in the administration, really partaking. Frankly, this is devastating for the country. Our national security has been compromised, our elections potentially compromised. I think right now what Republicans have to do is decide what their role is going to be in the scope of history. We will look back at this time and really truly examine the moral decisions each member of Congress decided to make.”
…
She concluded, “We also need to move quite quickly because we’re talking about the potential compromise of the 2020 elections. And so this is not just about something that has occurred; this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.”
Secret testimony that can only be viewed by committee members and witnesses that can only be called by one party is… kind alike a public hearing I guess.
AOC proves yet again that she’s a barely functional moron with a the slightest of grasps on the English language.
Perhaps Brian Stelter will do a special on her grammar errors.
And I apparently need an editor.
Rights? You don’t need any rights! The Congressmen and Senators have nothing but your utmost personal well being in mind. Now shut up and give us what we want.
I’m from the itty bitty titty committee and am here to lay claim to the girl in the yellow sweater.
No pic?
Watch Sloopys music link.
See music vid
I knew a girl like that years ago. Not gorgeous, but had something, a sparkle, a wry smile, laughing eyes, that made everybody notice. Her name was Dazzle and she lived up to it.
Last I heard she joined a religious cult.
I know a Dazzle as well. From Washington.
NOBLE AND SELFLESS SERVANTS
that probably dipped into the same pool of aid money that Biden did
“That Biden kid throws the best parties, man. You wouldn’t believe the shit that goes on.”
Thot Thursday giving you the tits you need to conquer your day!
http://archive.li/2jDCP
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7683109/Chris-Hemsworths-trainer-reveals-REALLY-like-work-Thor-star.html
Would, either one.
On the decline of R&D efficiency
Tsutomu Miyagawa, Takayuki Ishikawa 13 November 2019
Following the Global Crisis, some countries increased expenditures on research and development (R&D) to address secular stagnation. This column investigates how successful this rise in R&D scale was in supporting productivity growth in Japan and other advanced economies. It argues that R&D efficiency has declined in many of these countries in the past decade, compared to the preceding ten years. This suggests that increasing R&D spending is not enough to foster growth, and that countries need to do more to support innovation and collaboration in carefully chosen sectors.
https://voxeu.org/article/decline-rd-efficiency
I admit to bias being an Austrian school guy and not a fan of econometrics and such, but I do wonder what the point of this type of economics is. There is no clear objective way to measure this, and various people invent various metrics and the model I pulled out of my ass is better than the one you did.
Or
Quantifying the unemployment effects of Trump’s protectionist policies
Céline Carrère, Anja Grujovic, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud 13 November 2019
Unemployment is absent from most quantitative trade models in the academic literature. Using a trade model that also includes unemployment and data between 2001 and 2008, this column shows that repealing NAFTA and the imposition of 20% bilateral tariffs between the US and Mexico in all sectors would reduce welfare by 0.31% in the US and by 6.6% in Mexico. An US increase of trade barriers on motor vehicles against imports from all countries bar Mexico and Canada would lead to a decrease in long-run welfare and employment in both Mexico and the US as well as in major car-producing countries.
https://voxeu.org/article/quantifying-unemployment-effects-trump-s-protectionist-policies
Their quantification of “R&D efficiency” is wack. Also highly limited. But what would I know, that’s merely been my living for the past 45 years or so.
I’d say one could use a million dollar grant or two for R&D.
Do I have to actually produce a workable product at the end?
if by workable product you mean some reports and general paperwork, yes.
>>some countries increased expenditures on research and development (R&D) to address secular stagnation
>>This suggests that increasing R&D spending is not enough to foster growth
>>I admit to bias being an Austrian school guy and not a fan of econometrics and such, but I do wonder what the point of this type of economics is.
This is 100% in the wheelhouse of Austrian school thought.
https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Malinvestment
From a purely technologist POV, R&D efficiency should always decline until various revolutionary breakthroughs happen. The biggest gains come cheap and easy at first, then shit gets hard and you need to spend more time and money to get smaller results.
We had a very, very strange decade in the 1940’s where 1) a bunch of new revolutionary technologies happened at the same time 2) a bunch of rich nations bombed the shit out of each other, necessitating a rebuild, and 3) the seeds of a population and education boom were planted.
That lead to a half-century of supernormal R&D efficiency. In sectors where there haven’t been as many breakthroughs (e.g., steel manufacturing) you see low R&D efficiency now that the low-hanging fruit of those revolutions have been plucked. In sectors where there have been lots of breakthroughs (e.g., programmable logic) we are still seeing supernormal R&D efficiency.
This is 100% in the wheelhouse of Austrian school thought. – creating models of R&D efficiency is Austrian?
No, the take away, not the model.
well I was mostly disagreeing with the models not discussing general economic principles
increasing R&D spending is not enough
It didn’t work, but clearly that’s because it wasn’t enough.
I do wonder what the point of this type of economics is
The answer is in the block above
countries need to do more to support innovation and collaboration in carefully chosen sectors
It’s payoff for certain people/sectors, aka government picking winners and losers. By Top.Men.
Ocasio-Cortez said, “The whole point of the public hearings is to present the facts to the public and let the general public see the facts for themselves and understand why we have chosen to move forward with the impeachment inquiry. What we heard today was astounding and devastating news for the president and anyone in the administration, really partaking. Frankly, this is devastating for the country. Our national security has been compromised, our elections potentially compromised. I think right now what Republicans have to do is decide what their role is going to be in the scope of history. We will look back at this time and really truly examine the moral decisions each member of Congress decided to make.”
What a blithering ninny.
Ninny? I’m a congresswoman! I don’t take care of kids!
congressperson blithering ninny. She did not go to congress school to be denied her title.
I’m glad she went on record saying that. She basically admitted the proceedings are political theater designed to influence the election. She’s that girl who just can’t keep a secret to save her life.
We need to bring in the Bobs.
“What would you say you do here, in Congress?”
I met PJ O’Rourke after a taping of Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me that SP and I attended. We chatted for five or ten minutes about Baltimore in the 1960s, where he was a writer for our underground newspaper. Delightful guy.
I read one of his books, so I guess about same
Holidays in Hell was brilliant, but needed a chapter on Romania.
Sigh. Why are you fixating on Romania?
Aren’t there enough stereotypes of (((you))) guys being blood suckers? Why play into it?
How much did you have to pay to get your eyeballs re-fitted after they fell out from all the eye rolling?
Well Schiff looks a bit like Judge Doom, does that make Trump a Toon?
Regarding Trump’s tax stuff: I skimmed the circuit opinion briefly, but it sounds as though the future House and/or Senate Oversight committees will be able to subpoena any President’s tax records (and likely a wide variety of other types of records) so long as they can come up with a “not ridiculous on its face” legislative purpose. Couldn’t every Congress always say they need the President’s tax/academic/banking/etc records to help decide if it needs to “amend or supplement current ethics in-government laws”? It’s pure partisan BS, but I think its going to cut in both directions.
Trump should just buy a Home Depot shed, declare it his presidential library, lock up all his records in it, and hey presto.
But they’re not getting a president’s tax records. They’re getting the records of a private citizen from before his election.
This will dissuade anyone who’s not a career politician from running for office. It needs to be stopped dead in its tracks.
Ah, yeah. That may be part of the point
So, if the Republicans get the house they could subpoena Obama’s college records?
Yes. congress has, and probably should have, very wide subpeona power over government documents.
I think there is a valid point however that Career politicians have a vested interest in making sure outsiders don’t come in, and that doing shit like this is part of a signal to outsiders that they are not allowed.
Of course, what relevance the President’s tax records from before he took office are, to revising ethics in government laws, is an exercise for the reader.
But not, apparently, for a federal judge.
Subpoena implies there is probable cause. This is just a fishing expedition.
Why stop at the President? Couldn’t it be used against judges, political appointees, and even other people in or running for Congress?
You don’t expect these people to think ahead, much less consider the possibility that they won’t be in control of Congress until the sun gutters out, do you?
Again, I wonder, why isn’t the Senate showing them in real time what “You today, me tomorrow” looks like? Cite this opinion, and request that the tax records of every Democrat on the House Oversight Committee be sent to the Senate Oversight Committee, on exactly the same basis as the House recites for getting the President’s records.
For years I listened to Howie Carr rail against the incompetent hack Devall Patrick.
What’s funny is guys like him and Bloomberg is who the Dems want to push as “Centrists”. *facepalm*
The Dems’ start witness:
.@Jim_Jordan: You didn’t listen in on President Trump & Zelensky’s call?
Taylor: I did not.
Jordan: You’ve never talked with Chief of Staff Mulvaney?
Taylor: I never did.
Jordan: You’ve never met the President?
Taylor: That’s correct.
Jordan: And you’re their star witness.
Deplorable deplorables.
Kernion began the thread by advocating against affordable healthcare solutions in rural America, saying that “Rural Healthcare Should be expensive! And that expense should be borne by those who choose rural America!”
He argued that promoting a need for “affordable rural healthcare” is equivalent to arguing for rural Americans “to be subsidized by those who choose a more efficient way of life.”
“Same goes for rural broadband. And gas taxes,” Kernion added.
“It should be uncomfortable to live in rural America. It should be uncomfortable to not move,” he wrote.
Kernion tried to justify his statements with economic arguments about not making rural life “*artificially* cheaper,” but quickly devolved into personal attacks against rural and not “pro-city” Americans.
“I unironically embrace the bashing of rural Americans. They, as a group, are bad people who have made bad life decisions. Some, I assume are good people. But this nostalgia for some imagined pastoral way of life is stupid and we should shame people who aren’t pro-city,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet.
Good luck feeding yourself without rural America.
Now do urban people, dickweed!
Never heard of her.
I mean lets just get rid of government involvement and leave it at that
Yup. It’s because there are people like this that we shouldn’t have government in charge of healthcare.
Writer is a douche, but I don’t think Singapore has trouble feeding itself. The answer, IHMO, is to break the damn thing up so that people will know what the price of stuff is supposed to be. With all the intervention, nobody knows what things are really worth. Except the candy vendor.
His urban farming coop will surely be able to grow enough soybeans on the rooftop of his rent controlled walk-up to sustain human life.
Especially after shoveling all of the recycled organic human feces off the sidewalk and using it for fertilizer.
In order to use it for fertilizer, they have to battle the people using it for fuel.
Look, I’m all for stopping the subsidies to rural America. That rural broadband program is a huge waste of money. However, I would also be for stopping subsidies to city dwellers too. You want light rail, pay for it yourself without raiding the gas tax fund.
That’s a fair attitude. I get sick of hearing farmers bitch. It’s one of HM’s peeves that I get having grown up in farm country.
Yup. Farmers can be the absolute worse hypocrites when it comes to welfare. They love to bitch about all the dead beats in the city who get welfare, but don’t dare call crop subsidies welfare.
Ayup. It’s really hard to imagine what a true free market would look like these days. Uncle Sugar has his tendrils in just about everything, and the markets are so freakin’ distorted that it’s unclear what rural or urban life would look like without intervention.
Saw where the subsidies for the tariff stricken farmers were 2 X what the farm subsidies would have been. Apparently the Chinese weren’t paying for them. The market has been so distorted its hard for anyone, farmers included, to figure out what to plant, borrow, etc.
And it’s government intertwined all the way through. Crop payments is just the tip of the iceberg.
Now do the ghettos.
Every few months, I try to keep plowing through more of Caro’s GIANT biography of LBJ. The pikers in FedGov today are absolute clowns compared to Johnson; all of their schemes seem so farcical when Col. Cornpone’s ability to get shit done is contemplated.
Johnson kept most of Congress’s balls in his desk drawer.
“I never trust a man unless I’ve got his pecker in my pocket.”
“There is no reason to fear low-skilled migration.” Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo says “the effect of low-skilled migration on low-skilled wages is zero”.
https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1194652089814855680
They’ll give a Nobel-named prize to anyone these days.
Well, duh. Labor is the one very special class of goods and services where increasing supply has no effect on price because demand automatically rises in exact proportion to the increase. And yet if you suggest that we should limit low-skilled immigration the same economists declare that doing so will drive up the cost of literally everything to the point that there will be no more middle class.
They’re probably right. Of course, the impact will simply be shifted from wages to employment because that’s what a minimum wage does.
Which contradictory assertion is probably right?
To be fair in the long run additional economic activity may not make much difference, but in the short term it must have some effects
I’d be astonished if the combined market demand of a million minimum wage employees is enough to drive growth sufficient to offset the costs of subsidizing their livelihood in a welfare state. In free market utopia it’s a self-limiting problem, because once the price of labor has fallen sufficiently new entrants are discouraged.
In either case though, labor ain’t magical. History is riddled with labor supply shocks.
If the migrating population contains a similar proportion of similarly capable entrepreneurs to the population of the destination, the effect on wages will be no more than a hiccup, as the migrants assimilate and the entrepreneurs create the demand for the new labor. Demand is limited with respect to specific goods, but aggregate demand is unlimited.
They’re talking specifically about low-skilled immigration though, not a population-representative cohort. And even with a population-representative cohort you can have supply shocks while markets re-scale to the new population, and the distribution of labor sorts itself out.
As is nearly universally the case when some economist insists that the generally applicable rules of supply and demand take a leave when it comes to labor, she’s leaning on the relatively recent re-analysis of the Mariel boat lift, which wasn’t without its detractors.
the relatively recent re-analysis of the Mariel boat lift,
Is she trying to scale a one-time event involving [Googles, wow, did not know it was that many] 125,000 people, to a years or decades long policy involving millions, maybe tens of millions, of people?
The problem i have with this is that most of the arguments i see saying that Imigration is defacto bad for the economy would be applicable to New births. If the US sees 1.2 Million new births a year on net, which is about on par with the amount of new migration. Why wouldn’t we say those arguments apply to the newest people entering the job market?
There are usually some assumptions baked into the separation of immigrants from native births. For one, the latter grow up in the culture while the former (typically) did not.
However, given the way LFPR has cratered among young people, I’m not sure this distinction is that meaningful anymore. If anything, a new migrant is more likely to want to work than an 18-year-old native-born citizen.
The problem i have with this is that most of the arguments i see saying that Imigration is defacto bad for the economy would be applicable to New births.
With regard to mass immigration of low-skill labor, a couple of thoughts:
New births don’t result in immediate supply of low-skill labor, and don’t impact the labor market at all (other, perhaps, than a contraction mostly in the higher-skill market as the mothers leave for a time). Their impact on the market is delayed by, call it, 18 years, and diffused across the labor market.
New births also result in an increase in economic demand. Ask any new parent how expensive their li’l pride and joy is.
Now, I am not an economist, so I couldn’t really say what the addition of millions to the low skill labor pool over the course of several years would be on the wages payable for low-skill labor. My instinct is that supply and demand means those wages would be suppressed, and I can point to anecdotal evidence in the construction market that stricter immigration enforcement contracted the supply and raised wages. But an honest assessment might conclude otherwise across the market as a whole.
New births don’t result in immediate supply of low-skill labor, and don’t impact the labor market at all (other, perhaps, than a contraction mostly in the higher-skill market as the mothers leave for a time). Their impact on the market is delayed by, call it, 18 years, and diffused across the labor market.
New births also result in an increase in economic demand. Ask any new parent how expensive their i’ll pride and joy is.
Sure New Births, but the new births from 16-18 years ago are all entering the pool at the same time. Every Year we get a new Group of “New Births” that are entering the Job pool. New migrants also bring added demand, I’d argue more so than a new 18 year old living with his parents.
Perhaps the question is this: new births, we can’t do anything about. Immigrants, we can. If adding to the supply of low-skill labor does, in fact, suppress wages, then wage suppression from new births is baked in. Wage suppression from immigrants is not.
This, of course, begs two questions:
How does the addition of new supply to the low-skill labor pool affect wages?
Should we run our immigration policy to limit suppression of low-skill wages (given such a policy would result in higher prices to some degree)?
new births, we can’t do anything about
The PRC laughs.
I don’t think I’ve been clear. I don’t think new births depress the economy. I think on net New Births tend towards economic growth, and i think the data bear that out. So it’s not super surprising to see data saying that Migration is beneficial.
So it’s not super surprising to see data saying that Migration is beneficial.
To a point, I agree entirely. I think, though, that at some point migration begins to have negative effects on the native population (which should be the concern of immigration policy). My current scenario for “maybe we shouldn’t have open borders” is Mexico turning into Venezuela, and ten to twenty million Mexicans crossing the border in a relatively short period of time.
I think assuming otherwise, and not looking at when, how, etc. those negative effects might manifest is not the way to get to an immigration policy that achieves its goal (optimizing immigration for the benefit of the citizenry).
My understanding is that An influx of new workers/consumers is ambiguous. Especially if they are entering various different low-skill industries, as then the costs to existing lower wage workers is spread out.
It’s also the one where you can legally force higher prices with no effect on demand, so I’ve been told. It’s an economic good that doesn’t behave like any other.
/sarc
She’s right in a vacuum. But our government has incentivized migration through “safety net” programs and made those low-wage jobs living-wage jobs through subsidies.
End the welfare state in its entirety and that migration doesn’t impact anything.
That is only possible under certain assumptions:
1. Uniformly free trade among all nations, and essentially zero physical cost to the movement of goods and services. The demand/supply curve is thus essentially global and so movement of people has no net effect. Of course, if this were true, there would also be very little reason to move in the first place. At the very least, differences in language and culture will create some friction and thus undermine the assumption.
2. None of the migrants are working. The supply side of labor is thus unaffected. It is left as an exercise to the reader to figure out what a bunch of people with no job or income are going to be doing with their time and what effects that might have.
3. The migrant workers are participating in a separate economy. However, even black markets have some overlap with gray markets and legal markets. It’s impossible for two economies not physically separate to have no interactions with, and thus no effects upon, each other. There’s another way of describing such assumptions, and that’s closed borders with no trade. So this is just self-contradictory.
4. The migrants are increasing demand at or above the increase in supply. This is plausible but only to an extent. The wages and consumption patterns of low-skill migrant workers don’t match those of other workers in an established high-skill economy. This shifts the distribution of demand, and so will at the very least have some effect on wages. While the economy is not zero-sum it is also not an infinite-sum perpetual motion machine. At the very least, the increase in demand for low-skill labor will lag the increase in supply for the same.
Hardcore
In yet another cringe-worthy moment for presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, she was asked what her favorite music to exercise to is during an MSNBC interview full of hard-hitting questions that no one wanted to know the answers to. Inexplicably, she chose Patsy Cline.
The country crooner’s music isn’t quite suited to getting your heart rate up to fat-burning levels, but I spent some time thinking about what kind of exercises one could do to this type of music. Perhaps a modified burpee, where you get down on the floor.. and then stay there. Or perhaps some sit-downs followed by a few lie-downs and some hot tea to go with the dulcet tones of the music.
At first I thought maybe she was playing to the seniors, but when I looked up seniors exercising, even eighty-year-olds like a beat to step to. Chalk it up to more of the Democrat candidate’s hopeless efforts to be relevant and approachable and failing miserably.
I usually go with hard rock or metal to get me pumped. But w/e floats your canoe…
I listen to whatever they play in the commercial gym I attend which is some mindless pop or other
I don’t listen to music when I work out. I generaly listen to podcasts or books.
This isn’t bad to run to. But it is all the lame shit and not any of the good dirty/cruel cadences.
Rave/techno music works pretty well.
Totes unrelatable.
She’s crazy, and eventually her campaign will fall to pieces.
Off the reservation, huh?
These boots are made for stomping and …
Oh, that’s Nancy. Same thing.
Can confirm.
So programmed.
Must be a woman.
Must appeal to target demographic – outreach to deplorables.
Must have same backstory as Liz – overcoming hardscrabble childhood,
She’s nearly as fake as Hillary. This year’s ski suit candidate.
Agreed. And her campaign is going downhill fast.
Tom-toms?
Wait, Lizzie and Patsy “Go out Walkin’, After Midnight”
Know who else walks the streets in the late evening?
Jussie Smollett’s attackers?
Everyone, because of the moronical daylight savings time schedule?
MInistry works.
‘White privilege is real here!’ The Apprentice’s race row rages as Jemelin Artigas becomes the SEVENTH ethnic candidate to be fired while controversial Lottie Lion stays
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7684559/The-Apprentices-race-row-rages-Jemelin-Artigas-SEVENTH-ethnic-candidate-fired.html
OFFS!
Sounds like an opening for the legislature to do its fucking job.
But we need those laws in case the cops really need to arrest someone they know is guilty of something more serious but can’t justify arrest on any other grounds.
So I’d been seeing some YouTube vids of people in MAGA hats at these conservative townhalls asking questions about dancing Israelis and seemingly trying to bait the hosts, and then other videos of American Firsters going after guys like Shapero. Then last night l hear this “Groyper” term as in Groyper War or Groyper army. So I found this on Google. Yeah, I know it’s Vox which is why I immediately ignored the Neo-Nazi association, but it did seem to identify all the players and terms I’d been hearing, like Conservative, Inc. Sounds like this Nick Fuentes is the unofficial leader. Not sure how many people are actually in his little “army” but from what I saw he’s trying to make it out to be a movement.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2019/11/11/20948317/alt-right-donald-trump-jr-conservative-tpusa-yaf-racism-antisemitism
So they’re the tankies of the right.
Same concept, although how much they represent “true” conservatism depends on how you define conservatism. Just because the many in the conservative elite have moved left doesn’t necessarily equate to people like them being the “authentic” conservatives. They seem to be very focused on Israel, and it’s interesting they go after Shapero,because I wouldn’t put him in with e Rinos at all.
Richard Spencer got too fat to be scary so they had to gin up a new poster boy for the dark night of fascism that is perpetually descending upon conservatism.
I still think it’s funny – Richard Spencer would still be a fucking nobody if the corporate press hadn’t decided that they needed to add a supervillain character to their cinematic universe. They gave him a wider audience that he could have ever hoped for.
Every few months, I try to keep plowing through more of Caro’s GIANT biography of LBJ. The pikers in FedGov today are absolute clowns compared to Johnson; all of their schemes seem so farcical when Col. Cornpone’s ability to get shit done is contemplated.
I don’t know if that was the one he read, but my dad told, a long time ago, about an LBJ biography he was reading. It said most of that Great Society stuff was just rhetoric, to Kennedy, but after he got bumped off, LBJ took that ball and ran with it, because he was a guy who could Get Things Done in the halls of Congress.
I guess they’d prefer I use a wood stove.
USA Today reports this week that 13 cities and one county in California (of course it’s California) have enacted new zoning codes encouraging or requiring new construction to be all-electric. That means no more running natural gas lines to new dwellings. This time the climate change warning comes from Kitchn:
This should go nicely with the planned/rolling blackouts.
Do they have any peat in California?
Nope. A lot of california is close to desert conditions greened by aqueducts from further east.
Except San Fran, where there’s too many hills for peat to grow.
But the streets are covered in burnable fuel there.
So you’ll be battling the rooftop coop who’s trying to harvest it as fertilizer? good to know.
It seems like you could farm the homeless somehow… but the minute you put them in stalls they wouldn’t be homeless anymore.
Not shopping at the Not Adahn creamery!
At the time I lived there, Enron owned all the gas pipelines into Southern California. Which they were not shy about using to fuck with gas prices and cause rolling blackouts. California has always done a shit job at managing their energy markets, but now they seem intent on plunging the state into the 19th century.
19th? No, they want 5th century BC or earlier.
That’d be step up. 19th century had better plumbing.
plunging the state into the 19th century
Well, natural gas was used in homes in the 19th century, not to mention the coal-powered trains and electrical generators, so I think we’re going to have to go further back than that.
Maybe they’re talking Napoleonic wars California, when they were part of Mexico and had nothing but haciendas and near-fuedalism.
The Best American Whiskey Under $50
https://www.liquor.com/slideshows/best-american-whiskey-under-50-2019
And on this note enough work for today. On to the subway !
Whiskey, liqueur, po-tay-to, po-tah-to. That bartender should be shot.
Man, I could not even look at a bottle of Southern Comfort without wanting to hurl for years after high school.
Southern comfort sounds sensual.
It’s not.
It’s comes back the same way it goes down. Sickingly sweet. Until the dry heaves kick in.
It’s my best line ever, so I’ll say it again: Southern Comfort is neither. As a defender of the greatness of whiskey, I assert that SC is a liqueur.
Last: the best value in whiskey is Buffalo Trace if you do Kentucky.
Buffalo Trace is shockingly smooth for the price. I once spent a weekend pass in the company of a lovely coed from Fresno State; she was a self-described So-Co Girl. I witnessed her down a 9oz. rocks glass of that swill, neat, before the fellow that challenged her could finish his red Solo cup of Bud Light. She was quite the handful, but firmly in the fond memory column.
I agree I like Buffalo Trace and can get it in Romania, hopefully for 20 usbucks tomorrow
As a KyoAni fan I won’t shed any tears when this guy is put down. Although I’m not a fan of the death penalty for the reasons many have expressed here.
Suspect in KyoAni arson attack transferred to hospital in Kyoto after skin grafts
Here is to hoping for a painful recovery.
Arsonists deserve a special wing in prison.
Obviously Japan needs common sense gasoline control.
Arson is the only property crime in which New York law allows you to shoot the perpetrator to prevent it.
I wonder if they are even going to figure out who recruited, trained, and funded him. I half expect that even if they will figure that out they would never leak that to the press. This freak definitely had help in this.
None of that’s come over the English news stories at all.
You’ve read or theorize somebody put him up to this? Any motive?
I haven’t seen it in the Japanese press per se, but he was an unemployed two-bit felon on parole barely getting the equivalent of a couple hundred dollars a month – so where’d he come up with money for train fare, hotel, food, and then the gasoline, buckets, cart and other equipment?
He knew what he was doing in dumping the gas from a bucket rather than how most people would try to pour it out of the jerry can – but didn’t know enough to wear something to keep from burning himself. That points to somebody recruiting and training him but setting him up to die in the act.
Interesting.
I think I did read one story where KyoAni finally did confirm that he did submit a story and they were able to locate it. Initially they said they had no such submission.
His claim, for those that weren’t aware, was that he submitted a story to contest and that KyoAni stole his idea without credit or compensation.
What a life.
Sexy:)
Busta
On Wednesday, a grand jury charged disgraced pornstar lawyer Michael Avenatti with extortion and wire fraud. The revised indictment dropped a conspiracy charge against Avennati but added an additional count of wire fraud.
According to the indictment, Avenatti threatened to hold a damaging press conference on the eve of Nike’s quarterly earnings report and the start of the NCAA’s men’s college basketball tournament unless Nike agreed to pay Avenatti around $25 million in payments. Avenatti said he was representing a youth basketball coach who had evidence that Nike employees had concealed unauthorized payments to families of top high school basketball players. The U.S. Attorney’s Office had recently opened a criminal investigation into a competitor of Nike’s for similarly concealing payments to families of high school athletes.
Unintentionally truthful
The U.K. is spiraling towards authoritarianism and fascism, according to former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Speaking at event at Kings College, London, on Wednesday, Clinton said the reluctance of high-profile women to run for Parliament, amid an increase in online and real-world abuse, showed how toxic British politics had become.
She said she had spoken to several current and former female members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two layers of the British Parliament, who warned of “a growing anxiety among women members about the threats that they face.”
“If people are intimidated out of running for office in a democracy because of these hatemongers on the left or the right, motivated by whatever, that’s the path of authoritarianism, that’s the path of fascism — when you are told you are in danger or your family is,” she said. “A number of women have said it’s not just threats against themselves but threats against their children.”
In conversation with former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Clinton said the departure of people from public life because of intimidation was “not just a threat to individuals [but] a threat to our democracies.”
We can’t let just anybody run for office, though. They might not be the sort of selfless career public servants, devoted to expanding the power and reach of the government into every aspect of life we need. Like me, for instance.
And, as for fascism and authoritarianism, those things are not bad, per se, as long as the right people are holding the whip.
“The U.K. is spiraling towards authoritarianism and fascism, ”
This happens in every other HOI4 run, so, not surprising.
The cognitive dissonance is strong on the left.
Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick and sundry other trailer trash bimbos were unavailable for comment.
You can run for a seat in the House of Lords?
Sure. Slip Tony Blair 50k, and he’ll get you a Barony.
In the House of Lords it’s best to run for a seat in order to keep your ass firmly protected, particularly if you’re a pre-pubescent male.
You would think that instead of putting in all that effort to produce heirs, they could just select some heterosexual aristocrats.
You’re thinking of the House of Shitlords.
Though and rugged generation can’t handle meme from young snowflake generation:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/13/aarp-executive-ok-boomer-ok-millennials-were-people-that-actually-have-money/
How about a warning before posting links to albino ogres?
Did I get the job?
https://youtu.be/Ed-5Zzdbx0E
Relevant.
Lol.
Truth.
that’s the look my kids’ teachers face across their desk when i come in for parent-teacher conference. i’m okay with my gen being represented that way.. unshaved, button-down collared shirt, arms crossed, cynical grin, crows feet, brow wrinkled from incessant furrowing, normal-rimmed glasses, receding hairline, concealed firearm.. oops went a little too far.
The yutes should keep in mind that they’re set to inherit a record amount of wealth as boomers die off before they vote for someone who wants a new massive wealth tax.
they’re set to inherit a record amount of wealth
Are they? I see a lot of boomers who are Mastercard millionaires – there’s a whole lot of them, I would say a large majority, who are drastically underfunded for retirement and have ridiculously unrealistic expectations about what they can afford. When they hit the medical wall late in life, whatever they have is likely to run out before they do.
And of the boomers with a pile of cash in a retirement account, how many of them are going to see their goal in retirement as dying with a $0 balance?
Or am I just projecting about my shithead dad?
Uh, that’s my plan. Although I plan to get there via transferring it to the kids per gifting opportunities.
Which, I suspect, is not your dad’s intention.
^This, the whole concept of multigenerational improvement to your family’s wealth and position has gone out the window. It is the one area where I find myself siding with So Cons over libertarians. There is a tremendous value in, and power to, a longer term view in which you serve as a steward to your wealth. Of course then the So Cons go and screw the whole thing up with totally extraneous crap about sexuality, and try to impose responsibility from without, so I end up back with libertarians, just slightly uncomfortable about the every individual an island talk, screw the family talk.
My father told me years ago that his will reads “Being of sound mind and body, I spent it all.”
I intend to live a fairly modest retirement and leave my kids sitting pretty. I just want some land I can shoot on, that’s all.
BEST TIMELINE:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-stephen-miller-white-nationalist-immigration
“Critics of Omar pointed out that Miller is Jewish “
God, she is an evil, vapid moron. If AOC was a straight white dude named Chris Johnson she’d still be a bartender and nobody would give her the time of day. If you want to find racism in politics, there it is, folks.
He read VDare articles! Burn him!
That piece is just another hit job. There is no objective data of how they are getting worse, just feels. “Oh look, they did this unrelated thing, and this other unrelated thing too!”
And no I am not defending them. I am pointing out media bias intended to fuel more outrage!.
@Straff, really quick— I saw your drawing and I am super impressed.
Hmmm. Thanks. If I tried putting that mouth on a picture with eyes and a nose, it would show how amateur I am. I’m just learning part by part and hope I can Frankenstein a pic at the end of my journey.
The yutes should keep in mind that they’re set to inherit a record amount of wealth as boomers die off before they vote for someone who wants a new massive wealth tax.
Excellent point- but that would require them to consider the downstream consequences of their actions, which has apparently gone completely out of style.
Took a limes from the subway and shaved 8 minutes off the old commute
I like citrus fruit as much as the next guy, but I wouldn’t eat anything you found on the subway.
Orange you glad you don’t have to take a subway to work?
He does every other day – he drives a lemon.
I am quite glad I don’t have to drive really?
Citrusy.
https://youtu.be/7EJuknlUx48
Pretty convincing that Epstein did in fact kill himself.
I am disappointed that wasn’t this.
The Man is hard at work in Minnesoda. His latest endeavor is to keep a good makeup artist down.
I say it is about time that the Board of Cosmetology did something. Frankly it is horrifying to see our streets teeming with women that have been permanently disfigured and/or blinded by these hack make up artists and forced into a life of begging.
Oh goody.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/doj-announces-project-guardian-to-combat-gun-violence-by-enforcing-existing-laws/
I suppose it’s better than making new gun-grabbing laws, but that like who would rather having sex with Amanda Marcotte vs. Lena Dunham.
I just reread that last sentence and it makes no sense. It was generated by Google translate from Sanskrit.
Yeah, neither of those women are attractive even if you take away their vile personalities. If they represented the average I’d just join a monastery.
John: “Ever see a monk get wildly fucked by some teenage girls?”
Russell: “Never”
John: “So much for a monastery.”
Can’t I just chop my dick off instead?
At least the ratchet will have been stopped for a short time. And hopefully this “enforcement” will result in legal challenges to a court that at least appears to care a little bit about the 2A.
I’d have to go with Dunham. Marcotte looks too much like a dude. Plus it’s known that fat chicks give better head. Because they have to.
Whatever man, just don’t come crying to me when Jabba drops you into the Bantha pit.
He has yet another pit for keeping horned wooly creatures the size of elephants?
What do you think he feeds to the Sarlacc when there aren’t any misbehaving underlings around?
CG animators?
Nerds
Says the tophatted rodian with a dialog reference handle.
Whatever man, I just come here for the puns.
I’m not saying I would, just if I had to pick.
enforcing laws on the books is something San Fran and Chicago will push back against.
STEVE SMITH and Orange Man have common ancestry.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/missing-link-found-original-bigfoot-orangutan
Well it isn’t as dumb as passing a law against annoying a cop, but the county lawmakers in Wisconsin did pretty good for rubes from flyover country.
Trigger warning
It’s no secret that some of Disney’s old cartoons and movies contain racist and other offensive elements, and it was a mystery how the company would address the issue when its streaming service launched. To all of those who wondered: here’s your answer. The entertainment giant has added a short warning at the end of the description for titles with problematic themes — like Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book and Lady and the Tramp, which perpetuated harmful racial stereotypes — that says: “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.”
As The Washington Post noted, the company’s decision not to censor those titles was met with both praise and criticism. (You won’t find the notorious Song of the South, criticized for glorifying plantation life and slavery, on the service, though.) Some think that Disney is taking accountability for its past by showing those titles as they were shown back then with a warning attached. But critics point out that the wording used is vague at best — Gayle Wald, head of American studies department at George Washington University, said the company should’ve been more explicit about its intended message.
To emphasize his point about Disney’s “dismissive” warning, Twitter user @unicornmantis posted the company’s notice right next to Warner Brothers’. While Disney kept it vague and used the word “may,” WB’s warning acknowledged the ethnic and racial prejudices depicted in old cartoons like Tom and Jerry. “These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today,” it reads.
Just burn it all down.
Let me guess: the depiction of a hysterical woman standing up on a chair, yelling “Eek!” while Jerry runs around her kitchen is sexist.
If they don’t show an upskirt view, it’s sexist against men.
They did replace the black woman’s legs with a white woman’s legs in that cartoon, IIRC.
Get out!
They still suppressing Song of the South? First movie I ever saw in a theater – had to be ’72 or 73. The Black guy in it won an Academy Award but now it’s considered racist – weirdly Disney never mentions the movie but built the Splash Mountain ride based on the story.
And rereleased on VHS, iirc in the 80’s.
JFC. It will never not annoy the shit out of me when “journalists” quote random twitter/instagram people.
What? a guy with an Online Handle of UnicornManits doesn’t sound like someone serious to you?
That’s actually not a bad way to handle it.
Anyway, I own some of these DVDs from before, and they already had these disclaimers before the movie.
Dumbo perpetuates prejudice against Corvids.
Not Cool!
Classroom discipline. Hat tip TOS.
http://cbsaustin.com/news/local/hays-cisd-substitute-teacher-arrested-after-allegedly-assaulting-student-in-classroom
if you’re in town for her trial, don’t miss the weiner dog races in Buda
She maybe had a self defense claim and then she stomped the back of that girls head.
Catholic social teaching and just about every ethical theory out there say otherwise. The exception? Libertarianism, the most evil of ideologies. Not just because of its effects on the economy, exclusion, communities, the environment – but because it corrupts the soul.
https://twitter.com/tonyannett/status/1194752923399532546
That being said, Peter Schiff is not really a good libertarian. Especially communicating. If he wanted to be persuasive about things, don’t know his goals
Pay no attention to the centuries of priests living high off the hog on the tithes of dirt farmers.
He seems to confuse employment with slavery.
Libertarianism, the most evil of ideologies.
Yup. I can’t think of any ideology more evil than the one that says we shouldn’t interpose ourselves in a position that God didn’t take. If God gave man free will, who are we to interpose ourselves and force others to do his will? But maybe that is too deep for “Catholic Social teachings”.
Controversial take here, but he’s not really wrong. Even ‘mere Christianity’ is not really fully resolvable with libertarianism, and particularly not traditional Roman Catholicism. The entire concept of individualism is inimical to traditional Christian concepts of man, state and society.
Even ‘mere Christianity’ is not really fully resolvable with libertarianism, and particularly not traditional Roman Catholicism. The entire concept of individualism is inimical to traditional Christian concepts of man, state and society.
-1 Thomas Aquinas and all of the follow on Scholastics that laid out precursors of natural rights.
Somewhat relevant read
I’ve yet to finish the long slog through the Summa, but I’m certain enough that Aquinas’ natural rights theory diverges in substantial ways from the much later Lockean natural rights theory, which is the one that ended up being the ideological underpinning of the Enlightenment, liberalism, and its grandchild libertarianism. The idea of an individual natural right to participate in acts considered by the church to be sinful or evil with impunity from consequence by state authority, or the idea that state authority should by necessity be divorced from religious authority, would have been entirely alien to any of the church fathers — certainly to Augustine, who elucidated at length on the topic in The City of God. And even since Aquinas the church has made many accommodations to modernity as it has unfolded in defiance of its own traditional teachings. Even when Aquinas was writing the Summa the church still forbade any collection of interest. It wasn’t until Christ revealed the awesome power of compound interest to an institution with colossal capital holdings that usury was redefined. The role of man in relation to the church and the state has changed considerably from its original formulation for the first 8-10 centuries of Christian history.
The role of man in relation to the church and the state has changed considerably from its original formulation for the first 8-10 centuries of Christian history.
The hard part is pinning down an original formulation. Is it the first 300 years of on-again, off-again persecution? The Constantinian twilight of the Western Roman Empire? The Era of frontier expansion and piety of the Carolingians? The barbarian years and the microfragmentation of European power? The ascendancy of the Papal monarchy and corresponding institutional corruption?
It’s hard to pick out one formulation, but I think it’s folly to compare to the Enlightenment. The enlightenment grew out of 1500 years of European Catholicism. It wasn’t a purely reactionary movement.
True enough, although I think there was arguably more stability in theological thought from ~4rd to 10th century. The crusades and middle ages were the first real epochal shift in the social structures underpinning Christian society since Constantine.
4rd? Ok.
Maybe? I don’t know, i’ve never really had trouble with: You ought to be christian in your actions, but forcing people to be good seemed to be a devilish corruption of Christianity. I’ll grant that i’m not Catholic, and so don’t have that mindset, and probably come from a “less traditional” (though very conservative) christian faith.
Eh, not sure I agree. The entirety of Christian salvation is based on one making a personal decision free from force.
You cannot violate free will.
4 years of mandatory Cathologic theology in my background, and I think he is wrong.
Not really sure what Christianity has to do with central planning instead of free will.
This guy appears to be a fan of the commie Pope. Lots of church’s have gone the way of our other institutions and are just masks the left wears while lecturing normals.
“Social Justice” has a long and storied history in the Catholic Church. I think they might even have coined the term.
Yes, If you remember Eddie, that was a big argument he would have with everyone who disparaged Social Justice Warriors.
The difference between voluntary individual charity and governmental redistribution of wealth is a pretty close to exact match for the difference between making love and rape.
The term “social justice” is indeed Catholic in origin, although it has a different meaning in the minds of the people who’ve adopted it as a secular creed. Nevertheless it elucidates the church’s concerns about social organization and the proper treatment of human beings by each other, by the state, by the church and so forth. That’s the real point of incompatibility with libertarianism, not the particulars of how the modern state is administered. Christians generally and Catholics in particular have obligations exceeding the minimal moral proposition of the NAP, and those obligations have historically not been understood as purely individual.
That’s the real point of incompatibility with libertarianism, not the particulars of how the modern state is administered. Christians generally and Catholics in particular have obligations exceeding the minimal moral proposition of the NAP, and those obligations have historically not been understood as purely individual.
I agree that those obligations exist in Christianity, i just never felt it conflict with my libertarianism, because while i might be obligated to provide aid, my obligation comes from my free choice to be christian. The Church does not come to my house and violently obligate my tithes or service.
the church’s concerns about social organization and the proper treatment of human beings by each other, by the state, by the church and so forth.
If a church is pushing for tax-funded welfare, that is incompatible with libertarianism. The rest of it (social organization, how people treat each other, how the church treats people) is on the civil society side of things and of much less concern to libertarianism per se.
And, of course, a particular organization pushing for tax-funded welfare may or may not be compatible with underlying religious doctrine.
‘mere Christianity’ is not really fully resolvable with libertarianism,
Why not? How does Christianity support a large and intrusive state? I seem to recall JC himself saying some things were none of the state’s business, in fact. The Roman Catholic church itself spent a great deal of time and energy setting itself outside the state, back in the day. One of the reasons various kings (and revolutionaries) targetted it for asset forfeiture, in fact.
The Roman Catholic church itself spent a great deal of time and energy setting itself outside the state, back in the day.
This should be highlighted because of how legitimately mind blowing it was. The idea of separating the church from the state was universally incomprehensible at the time, and it took an era of great turmoil and a Pope (Boniface II?) with an enormous brass set to begin unraveling the misconception of the divinity of the state.
I’d argue either St. Augustine or pope Calixtus II who presided over the council of worms swilling the investiture crisis as catholic beginnings of the separation of church and state. Boniface II is mostly known for the council of orange that started that grace is always a prerequisite to salvation.
Tulsi would probably be a better authority on the matter, though.
I was thinking of Boniface VIII, but he was a bit later on. If I wasn’t at work, I’d go thumb through the book I was reading on the topic and confirm which pope I’m thinking about.
The role of the state is almost immaterial. Christ taught submission to tyranny and died by way of an example to be followed by the martyrs. The church historically agreed, until it didn’t, and it still mostly does, except when it doesn’t. There’s no uniquely Christian form of government, or economics. Christianity predates by at least a millennium all of our modern formulations of government and economy. The problem is that the moral and social obligations of the individual Christian, and more importantly the community of Christian believers, exceed by great lengths the minimalism of the NAP. Porn bans violate the NAP. They don’t violate Christianity. In fact, a Christian society might well require them. Blasphemy laws violate the NAP. They don’t violate Christianity. In fact, a Christian society might well require them. So on for a million other things. Elevating a minimal state to the stature of a moral precept is a difficult proposition for a Christian. Or at least it was historically. It’s still a difficult proposition for the more traditional denominations.
Christ taught submission to tyranny
I think “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and render unto God that which is God’s” is a little more nuanced.
died by way of an example to be followed by the martyrs
I took the sacrifice to be less “let the state kill you” and more “your faith should not be limited by earthly concerns”.
The problem is that the moral and social obligations of the individual Christian, and more importantly the community of Christian believers, exceed by great lengths the minimalism of the NAP.
Not sure the moral and social obligations of Christians are inconsistent with the NAP, until they dictate that Christians initiate violence against unbelievers or the insufficiently pious. Which is not, to my knowledge, really a current problem.
Now, when they start codifying certain Christian beliefs in law, that’s a different issue.
That in itself in most constructions would be a violation of the NAP though, and that’s where the problem arises for a lot of Christians. E.g., the previous hypotheticals re: porn bans or blasphemy laws. You won’t long have a Christian society when the official position of the state is not Christian and precludes certain Christian traditions from being embedded into the law. We have the entirety of Christian history up to the present for our evidence. “Society will be mostly amoral, but you’re free to cling to your beliefs so far as it does not become bothersome” is a hard sell unless someone holds individual liberty in a place of equal or higher moral gravity to their religious convictions. The more sincere and pious the believer the less likely that is to be the case.
Not to pile on, but I think you are confusing libertarianism with individualism. After salvation, we are called to go forth and form small, local, free-will organizations known as churches, and you should leave the one you and the church body don’t agree with each other.
That’s not terribly individualistic, but its very libertarian.
Yup
You can’t separate the two in any meaningful way. Individualism and individual rights are prerequisite for the the NAP to function as a tool of social organization.
Voluntarism is evil. It is known.
okay, how bout this:
“The real minimum wage is $0.”
Libertarianism was brought up in my Catholic high school. Of course, we had a conservative teacher for a couple of religion classes and government classes.
Anyone else interested in doing a “one month club”? I took up sketching this week and will give my best effort to see how good I can get in one month just by watching YouTube videos and other tips I can find online. Figured we could start with sketching (and I am a complete amateur) and then move on to something else next month. Post your finished product at the end of the month . There are many potential topics for “one month club”. Anyone else want to give this a shot? My free time is limited by family and work, but why not use it to improve myself? How about y’all?
Amateur porn.
That gets worse with practice, dude.
And I’m going to bed. Probably only get a bunch of answers like ^that. *Shrugs and tugs*
Probably not drawing/painting, but I would be up for another challenge.
Good night.
I’ll do mine on procrastination. Can I have more than just one month, though?
I’d enjoy reading it, but probably not participating.
*looks at giant pile of art supplies that I keep promising myself I’ll totally use one day*
I’m down straff.
I’m already perfect. Any effort at self improvement is doomed to failure.
Libertarianism, the most evil of ideologies. Not just because of its effects on the economy, exclusion, communities, the environment – but because it corrupts the soul.
*puffs out chest, struts around room*
“– but because it corrupts the soul.”
Ha ha ha! Jokes on you! I sold that years ago.
Sounds like what Walter Cronkite told a member of the Ed Clark staff in 1980.
Something something cast the first stone
A teacher in the US state of Washington has been arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot students.
When questioned by police at her home on Wednesday, the 58-year-old teacher did not back down from the threat and was taken into custody.
Julie Hillend-Jones taught geometry at Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Seattle.
It was not immediately clear what prompted her to make the threat.
She initially made the comments on Tuesday night to another adult, who then alerted local education officials. They then contacted the sheriff’s office.
Seriously? Who among us *hasn’t* wanted to plug a few teenagers?
OMWC?
Oh, he wants to drill those kids. Just not with a gun. Or between the eyes.
But he prefers pre-teens.
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“Oh, he wants to drill those kids. Just not with a gun. Or between the eyes.”
OK, what? On the parade deck? I give up.
To the rear … HARCH
That “Manual of Arms” thing always confuses me. I mean, if it’s manual you’re doing it with your hands. So how could the arms not be involved if it’s manual?
Maybe too much Tequila now?
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Seriously? Who among us *hasn’t* wanted to plug a few teenagers?
Um…phrasing?
A good reason why I never became a teacher – although I would probably be on trial for smacking around a few of them like the teacher up-thread.
At the visitation the night before my Mom’s funeral, several of my old classmates stopped in and regaled my kids with new stories about my misdeeds in school. The kids were stunned/amazed by the ones where the teacher would grab me, shake me like a rat and drag me out into the hall for more discipline.
They couldn’t believe a teacher could do that (not only to me, but just about every boy got that treatment at least once during the school year). They asked why I never complained to anyone. I told them that if I had, my dad would have found out about me misbehaving in school and I would have got a lot worse at home.
Yep – when to an all-boys Catholic High School where the teachers, particularly the Brothers, did not take any shit.
I remember getting swats (being smacked on the ass with a wooden board/paddle kept by the teacher for just that purpose) as communal punishment for something I didn’t do – but they couldn’t figure out who did it so we all got 5 swats. Every teacher had their own paddle – some with a nickname.
My 7th grade math teacher was a retired Army Colonel who fought in the Pacific in WWII. Once he told us that if we ever faced a Japanese machinegun we should shoot the guy with the stick directing fire – the machinegun would never waver from his last instruction after that. And he was the softie of the group.
Don’t look at me
The mayor of Baltimore says local leadership isn’t to blame for the city’s increasing homicide rate, telling reporters on Wednesday he’s “not committing the murders” himself.
Bernard “Jack” Young, who took office in May, said during his weekly press conference that “there’s not any lack of leadership of my part.”
“That’s what people need to understand. I’m not committing the murders. The police commissioner is not committing it. The council is not committing it. So how can you fault leadership?” he questioned. “You know this has been five years of 300-plus murders, and I don’t see it as a lack of leadership.”
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Young’s remarks follow an op-ed from John Hoey, president and CEO of the Y in Central Maryland, published by the news outlet on Monday. Hoey criticized the city’s inability to reduce violent crime rates, despite other cities having done so, after a Y employee named Jordan Taylor, who worked as a youth sports coach, was murdered last week.Young’s remarks follow an op-ed from John Hoey, president and CEO of the Y in Central Maryland, published by the news outlet on Monday. Hoey criticized the city’s inability to reduce violent crime rates, despite other cities having done so, after a Y employee named Jordan Taylor, who worked as a youth sports coach, was murdered last week.
And, of course, the cops blame Freddy Gray. It’s not fair. You murder one guy in the back of a paddy wagon, and people get all bitchy about it. Suddenly everybody’s looking over your shoulder and second guessing you every move.
It takes all the fun out of police work. You might as well not even try.
There’s certainly no cultural issues at play that the city or even school district leadership doesn’t want to address.
“That’s what people need to understand. I’m not committing the murders. The police commissioner is not committing it. The council is not committing it. So how can you fault leadership?” he questioned. “You know this has been five years of 300-plus murders, and I don’t see it as a lack of leadership.”
What everyone wants in a leader is someone who will dodge responsibility.
If you and the organization you lead are completely irrelevant to the violent crime problem, then why are we paying you and your organization millions of dollars a year to do something about it?
^———————- THIS !! ——————-^
See also: Baltimore City schools churning out illiterate and quasi-literate students.
Wait, so Baltimore is a shithole?
I wonder if this guy is also one of the people who says that the GOP and NRA have “blood on their hands” every time a shooting happens.
I am a weak weak man. I planned not to drink alcohol at all during weekdays this week, and on the 4th day I sliped and poured a glass of wine. Shaaaame Pie Shaaame
A glass? That’s not drinking.
Im trying to stay strong and not plan a second glass
That being said this
https://www.vivino.com/brumont-petit-torus-madiran/w/4065813?year=2015
Is not bad for the under 10 usbucks I payed for it
Holy shite… South Park has jumped in with both feet mocking trans-athletes in last night’s episode.
Quite a bit of board game references as well.
I got a good lol when they made the Macho Man a trans.
The Dice Studz meeting with the counselor was brilliant.
“You mean their smarter then you and are beating you in all of the games?”
I’m almost afraid to look at BGG today to see the people pointing out the rules mistakes in the board game montage.
That’s not how you play Concordia!
/sigh
Just the kind of mistake I needed today.
Here are some clips – made me laugh again.
RE: Great Glib Debate, Am i the only Non-Lawyer participating? Bunch of Damned Barristers thinking they can engage in some Navle Gazing exercise? This is serisous shit and I only want to see serious arguments.
Also @Jarflax. Now i feel like all my trash-talking was for naught.
I certainly hope you are not trying to imply I am a goddamn lawyer or my seconds will visit you soon.
Oh. I forgot you Johny-Come-Lately. At least there will be two of us with our head firmly grounded in reality. Might as well skip the whole bracket and go straight to just us.
I complained about that last night. A whole day of trash talking wasted.
I cannot trash talk as I do not know who I am up against
The chilly weather has turned our 26lb. Maine Coon into a very aggressive cuddle-ball. The moment I sit, he climbs into my lap, flops down, and demands to have his tummy worked over.
ditch the cat and get a dog
So that’s why your hand is clawed to ribbons.
My cat does that. She’s about 12 lbs and she like to leap up on me while I’m sleeping. Lands like a sack of potatoes. Not fun.
Has anyone seen JoJo Rabbit? I’ve heard good things, but I’m a bit of a bitch when it comes to WWII Drama.
I don’t think it is a “drama”.
The people i talked with said it was a mix of comedy and drama, but that it gets the mix. A comedy Making fun of Nazi’s, i wouldn’t mind. But then when it goes to how shittty people can be, and it just depresses me. I know it’s childish, but i like happy endings. I still am upset with how the Bridge Over the River Kwai ended.
It’s outstanding. See it.
Has anyone seen JoJo Rabbit? I’ve heard good things, but I’m a bit of a bitch when it comes to WWII Drama.
It’ll turn you into a
newtNazi.But you’ll probably get better!
Speaking of Kangaroo Klown Kourts, I hadn’t heard this before:
So, Taylor heard from a staff member (hearsay) that they overheard Sondland (double hearsay) having a conversation with the President (how does xe know it was the President on the other end of the line, btw?) about Trump wanting to investigate corruption by a former Vice President? And this is presented as one of the bright spots yesterday.
Note the no-initial-caps “president”. Also, I am not sufficiently acquainted with the intricacies of the legal rules on hearsay to know whether Sondland’s account of what the President is, itself, hearsay.
And Sally told Julie that she heard Dolly talking to Molly about Ally and how she was totally a bitch for banging Chad….
Star witness
I keep hearing lefties scream about “quid pro quo” like its a magic incantation. I keep asking them to please define “diplomacy” for me.
Since the rise of Trump, their method is basically this:
1. Wait for Trump to do something
2. Invent a standard on the spot and insist that it’s the worst thing ever
3. If anyone points out that this thing has been the norm well before Trump, just scream “whataboutism”
Could be fun if they play it right.
During a press conference on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that if the House impeaches President Trump, the Senate must have a trial.
McConnell said, “I don’t think there’s any question that we have to take up the matter. The rules of impeachment are very clear. We’ll have to have a trial. My own view is that we should give people an opportunity to put the case on. The House will have presenters. The president will no doubt be represented by lawyers as well.”
McConnell added that the trial’s length of time is “really kind of up to the Senate. People will have to conclude, are they learning something new. At some point, we’ll get to an end.”
Talked about it yesterday. A good timeline would have it starting shortly before the Iowa and NH primaries and ending after Super Tuesday. All the Senators running for the Dem nomination have to choose between doing their day jobs or have the TV cameras on their empty seats during the trial.
Maybe it’s me, but that sounds like a not-too-thinly veiled warning to the House. I don’t think McConnell has too much of an appetite for this nonsense. And I think, if it does actually go to the Senate (assuming no actual, real wrongdoing is uncovered), he’ll be inclined to make it very, very, very painful for the people who took it there. That’s where I think the Democrats are screwing up. Even if they thought they had a good case, getting the warts out in the open right now would deny the Senate GOP the opportunity to reveal them. What they’re setting themselves up for now is for it to be very difficult for the Democratic House not to push impeachment which McConnell and the Senate Republicans will make a laughingstock. Or worse.
he’ll be inclined to make it very, very, very painful for the people who took it there
He’s definitely taking a different tone than he was a month or so ago.
My respect for Judge Nap is basically at zero now.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” network senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said today during the impeachment hearings Democrats established President Donald Trump’s failure to release money to the Ukraine that Congress ordered released until a favor was received is bribery.
Napolitano said, “The Democrats established conclusively the aid was held up in return for a political favor.”
He continued, “The failure to perform an affirmative duty— releasing money the Congress ordered released — until a favor is received, whether the favor comes or not, is bribery.”
He added, “I think that the argument that asking for a favor in return for doing a legal obligation — releasing the funds — is pretty clearly a violation of a criminal bribery laws. Republicans may not want to acknowledge that, which is why they’d rather undermine the witnesses than address the merits.”
As I pointed out before, this is about framing. We have evidence, whether the media agrees or not, that Biden was up to his ears in corruption in the Ukraine. The mere fact that he is running for President does not exempt him from scrutiny on this. If that were the case, then everything the Democrats did to Trump concerning Russia is right out the window as well by necessity.
So foreign aid and diplomatic negotiations are criminal?
“The Democrats established conclusively the aid was held up in return for a political favor.”
Thank God he’s not on the bench any more, if he thinks double and triple hearsay conclusively establishes anything, much less the intent of the person at the very far end of the hearsay chain.
“The failure to perform an affirmative duty— releasing money the Congress ordered released — until a favor is received, whether the favor comes or not, is bribery.”
Leaving aside the framing (was Trump asking a political favor, or discharging his duty to see the laws enforced), I wasn’t aware that Congressional appropriations of foreign aid came with strict deadlines for disbursement. What Nap claims is a failure to perform an affirmative duty assumes a blown deadline. Which I am quite confident, there was not.
I don’t get why he can’t hold up aid to investigate corruption anyway. I have no doubt he politically benefits but so do I.
Because that aid was super important to stop the Russians from getting across the Fodla Gap or something.
That aid was vital to our national security, don’t you remember back in July when we were at the cusp of capitulating to the Russians because we failed to send aid to the Ukrainians.
The fact is that aid was divided up between the crooks the minute the check cleared. I bet pennies on the dollar actually went where it was intended – even then I hear much it was tied to purchases from connected American companies, and not for the stuff the Ukrainian military actually wanted.
No favor actually was received, and the money actually was released. This is an even bigger joke than the “attempted obstruction” of an investigation into a crime that was never committed.
Its just embarrassing.
I could get the argument that there was an implied quid pro quo in the conversation. I could even get that Trump released the money without the pro quo actually being delivered for his own reasons.
What has yet to be shown is that the quid pro quo was for corrupt reasons. Not to mention that, even if it was, I am far from certain that it constituted bribery under federal law, as the ex-judge asserts.
Haha yea, I remember that. The “obstruction” which included publicly stating that you’re not guilty of these things you’re being accused of. How can any investigation go on when the subject is allowed to say that he’s innocent?! Madness!!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-calls-usc-dad-a-thief-gives-longest-prison-sentence-so-far-in-college-admissions-scandal/ar-BBWInsN?li=BBnb7Kz
six months for “fraud conspiracy”
When I was a kid, I did more than a year for stealing a car battery. Then, later, they tried to give me a year for driving on a suspended license. The case was based on a series of lies, I fought it and won.
Another clown for the car.
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In a spirit of profound gratitude for all the country has given to me, with a determination to build a better, more sustainable, more inclusive American Dream for everyone:
I am today announcing my candidacy for President of the United States.
Usually the field gets smaller as time goes on.
I think that the utility of campaigns for grifting has become more widely recognized over time.
IT’s because the SCOTUS gave corporations the vote with Citizens United.
Good news, everyone!
U.S. producer prices increased by the most in six months in October, lifted by gains in the costs of goods and services, further bolstering the Federal Reserve’s stance that it will probably not cut interest rates again in the near term.
The report from the Labor Department on Thursday showed healthcare costs accelerated last month, with the cost of outpatient care at hospitals posting its largest rise since 2009. The jump in healthcare prices mirrored gains reported in October’s consumer price index report on Wednesday.
Rising healthcare costs, if sustained, suggest inflation could trend higher, though it is not likely to become troublesome because of a moderation in the pace of rent increases.
Huzzah.
Man, it’s a good thing congress has tasked the Federal Reserve with maintaining price stability. I’d hate to see what would happen if prices ever went down so that markets could clear.
I got into this with a while ago. I said “I don’t get the argument against deflation”. The person i was discussing it with talked about the effect deflation has on debtors, and i pointed out that that may be so but deflation also makes everything else cheaper so the indebted would be more likely to be wealthier because everything else is cheaper.
I’d rather my dollar go further than my debt go away because my money was worth less.
the effect deflation has on debtors
Now do the effect inflation has on creditors.
Text book incompetence
WeWork has been sending “aggressive” legal letters to employees affected by global layoffs earlier this year, sources told Business Insider.
The letters warn the former employees to stick to the terms of their contracts, or the company will pursue legal action.
The former workers, who were full-time employees affected by a round of global job cuts earlier in 2019, were told that if they broke their terms, WeWork would “take action against you personally to recover any loss of profits that the company has suffered or is likely to suffer.”
“Loss of profits.” That’s a good one.
I’m confused. What terms would they have to stick to? Non-Competes?
Or was this a thing where they sent a bunch of letters to non-employees.
Yeah. Non-competes are more common in Europe than the US, and it sounds like WeWork had every UK employee sign one.
From what I understand, non-competes are becoming increasingly common among the silicon valley shitheads too. They were practically unheard of 20 years ago
Hey, a parade. I need to jump in front of it!
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren blasted Goldman Sachs’s response to claims of bias against women applying for the Apple Card, as complaints reignited a sweeping debate over the role of algorithms in consumer finance.
Goldman, which oversees banking decisions on the popular card, has responded to the flood of criticism by asking aggrieved customers to request a second look at their credit limits.
“Yeah, great. So let’s just tell every woman in America, ‘You might have been discriminated against, on an unknown algorithm, it’s on you to telephone Goldman Sachs and tell them to straighten it out,’” Warren, who’s vying for the Democratic nomination, said in an interview from Concord, New Hampshire. “Sorry guys, that’s not how it works.”
The flashy new partnership between Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has been embroiled in controversy in recent days after social media postings fueled by a tech entrepreneur and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak highlighted unequal treatment in how the card handed out credit lines, sparking a probe by a New York regulator.
Consumer advocate and friend of the downtrodden womynz. Embrace her, America. Worship her. OBEY HER.
“Sorry guys, that’s not how it works.”
And the article yesterday about this acknowledged the people raising a furor over this declined to reveal their respective incomes. Giving people credit limits with no reference to their income is even less “how it works”.
I think it’s funny. How is it supposed to work? Even granting that Goldman Sachs (:Spit: i can’t believe i’m defending them) made a mistake, how does she want them to fix it? Are they just supposed to extend endless credit to everyone
with a vaginawho says they are a woman?Well to be fair, it worked great for the mortgage market…
So let’s just tell every woman in America, ‘You might have been discriminated against, on an unknown algorithm, it’s on you to telephone Goldman Sachs and tell them to straighten it out,’” Warren, who’s vying for the Democratic nomination, said in an interview from Concord, New Hampshire. “Sorry guys, that’s not how it works.”
Other than a review of the complainant’s credit limits, which is what GS proposes, how does it work, Lizzy?
unequal treatment in how the card handed out credit lines,
How much data do we have that there was discrimination, anyway?
As I noted, we have an anecdotal case where the husband had a lower score than his wife but got a higher credit limit. They declined to reveal their respective incomes. My bet is that information wouldn’t be helpful for their complaint.
Two data points. Two famous men have 10x credit limits compared to their wives who these famous men say share all assets but are not famous men.
The flashy new partnership between Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has been embroiled in controversy in recent days after social media postings fueled by a tech entrepreneur and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak highlighted unequal treatment in how the card handed out credit lines, sparking a probe by a New York regulator.
Is this fueled by any actual data or just Anecdotal Twitter Data?
Important to note, these banks could inoculate themselves from this kind of attack by being transparent and faithful about how they are making their decisions. But they choose to operate on the “Trust Us” model. This, to me, seems like the business version of playing stupid games.
True. I can see why they might be wary of being open about their models for extending credit if it is seen as their key competitive advantage.
They were idiots for applying for this credit card. It’s a lousy one.
I pay (kind of) thousands of dollars in credit card annual fees. I know.
For banks, ditching the existing system of evaluating individual applicants in favor of a new process is a complicated endeavor. Financial industry regulations can discourage banks from extending loans to people deemed to be less creditworthy.
Say whut now?
Yeah, sometimes. For example, some regulation makes its a lot harder these days to walk into a bank, show them your bad-on-paper credit rating, and then explain why this is a good loan anyway. This was way more common 50+ years ago, and is a drag on new business formation.
On the other hand, some other regulation incentives giving loans to uncreditworthy applicants based only on their uncreditworthyness.
California school shooting: Santa Clarita attack leaves one dead
It’s going to be hard for 22 Democratic presidential hopefuls to stand on that one body, but I bet they manage to do it.
CNN – “Math is Hard”
Japan’s Emperor has a $248 million dinner date with a sun goddess
At the moment they moved a decimal place – it should be $24.8m. Also WTH Japan? Sounds kinky…
Nice link
Sigh…
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/asia/japan-emperor-ritual-intl-hnk/index.html
So it’s a part of the coronation. I don’t see the issue. The whole function of the Imperial house is its link with tradition, and conducting a traditional coronation is perfeclty in line with keeping the institution.
Nor do I. I just was initially shocked by the price in the headline.
There may or may not be a real woman involved with the ceremony from another article I read, however.