Sloopy is at some sleazebag motel (a step down from Motel 6) that doesn’t have wifi. Or so he says. I’m thinking he’s celebrating a sale with four crack ho residents. I mean, really, isn’t a celebration worth $20? So I am generously stepping in, even though I have to get going to drive to work shortly, adding to the ever-spiraling pollution of Mother Earth.
Speaking of which, dialog with Mom last night. SP always urges her to drink water by demanding, “Do you know what the #1 cause of ER visits by old people is???” to which Mom sheepishly responds, “Not drinking enough water.” So last night, Mom was neglecting her water, SP exhorted, “Do you know what the #1 cause of ER visits by old people is???” to which Mom replied, “Because they don’t have anything better to do.”
But even though we ALL have better things to do, we won’t shortcut birthdays. After all, today’s birthdays include the original Mr. Belvedere; a president who left office with a bang; Nikki Haley’s spirit animal; a guy who could always make you wonder, “How the fuck did he ever get that job?”; a baseball player who would never stand up for himself; and a vicious cultural appropriator (and awesome trombonist).
Oh yeah, news.
“Clouding the Peace Process.” I mean… whaaaaaaa?
I can hear the jets warming up on the Heathrow taxiway.
This is why people hate vegans and lawyers.
You want a rental housing shortage? Here’s how you get a rental housing shortage.
Old Guy Music features the birthday boy with some amazing other folks, as well as some creepy photo stuff in the middle.
And Bernie will solve our housing problems with a national rent control.
By “problems” he means too many options for where to live.
There’s no way supply could matter.
The people demand cheap housing.
It’s a right.
We just need a federal bureaucracy to implement a few common sense controls on the wild west of housing. /Warren
So they didn’t install a second ‘Vegan only’ grill in all their restaurants. Don’t like it, don’t eat there.
And I know I trust the (just above) minimum wage workers working in the grill area to follow all company guidelines and protocols.
/thinks back to my time working in the grill at McDonald’s.
“Mmm, yeah, we didn’t like the taste, so we cooked all the veggie patties in a tallow and lard mix. Did wonders.”
You think the people cooking food in a fast food place care what it tastes like (except for their shift meal)? Hell, I could see one of them putting a strip of bacon on the sandwich if the customer was preachy/annoying enough.
I have never worked fast food.
You don’t want me doing food service.
*Everyone nods and agrees*
😉
He’d wear gloves at least. We know that for sure.
Until some uppity Hindus sue your ass off and make you ruin your fries.
Thye should introduce “New Tallow Fries” that are just their old recipe.
They changed the cooking medium many years before this lawsuit. It was indeed a poster child for overlawyering, but it didn’t result in McD changing their fries.
That was back when they got rid of the deep fried pies too, wasn’t it? The bastards!
When I was still working in IoT monitoring fast food joints, we found all sorts of horrible things going on. For instance, one chain had pressure fryers to ensure that chicken was cooked enough. When we started correlating point of sale info with the fryer info, it became clear that the kids would shut down the pressure fryers hours early to clean them. However, chicken kept getting sold. Which means that the kids were simply cooking the chicken in the regular fryers.
Yeah, people in fast food joints are not the most diligent workers.
Hey, I worked the grill at McDonald’s one summer back in the 70’s.
Even though we were allowed one free meal during a shift, the only thing I ever ate was an omelet the manager made one slow morning – obviously not on the menu.
It’s not like they were claiming it was Kosher.
So you’re saying the Vegans should apply for a religious status?
If the shoe fits…
It’s gotta suck, being scared of meat molecules. Maybe a tin foil meat tongue condom?
Don’t tell them about how mechanized harvesting works.
It’s not an irrational fear if you’re a long-time vegan (or vegetarian). Unless you’re fine with fire-hose diarrhea.
/voice of sad experience
I was wondering when someone would go (((there))).
Lawsuit should be immediately tossed out – BK does NOT grill their burgers, Impossible or otherwise, they use a Char-King designed conveyor-belt broiler. Any detritus from previous patties will be, by design, charred off of the wire belt during its upside down pass through the flames.
Lawsuit should be immediately tossed out- BK has NEVER advertised that these burgers are suitable for vegans and they’ve been clear from the beginning that they are not cooked in a vegan process. If you want a vegan meal, don’t eat there. Simple.
Dude, he was traumatized and may never recover.
“Litigious Vegan has died of dysentery.” I knew I shouldn’t use snarky names for my Oregon Trail characters.
I could see Litigious Vegan being the name of a Victorian Englishman, if I squint.
Oh, you mean Litigious Vegan McMuffin
Well, yeah. Not eating at a place called BURGER King would seem the correct choice for vegans. My sis has been a pescatarian for 40 years and always loved going to BK for a “Whopper, hold the meat” because the result was essentially a giant salad on a bun. That option was discontinued with the introduction of the Impossible patty. She would never have thought to sue the restaurant chain.
I must be a unicorn because it never occurred to me that I should seek out vegetarian food at Burger King, Arby’s, or McD.
We did a taste test comparison av few weeks ago. I bought one each and we split them. I had not eaten anything from BK in years and first impression is that they were both sloppy delicious messes. (Read unhealthy as heck)
If anything, the non-meat was bit softer, and the meat one was a bit more firm and dry.
There is lots of mess, I can speak from experience as having cleaned them. Particularly after “Whopper Wednesday” when they were $1.
If I were being honest, I would not cook a Vegan burger on the same broiler that is used for a meat patty. There is always something left over from the previous, grease or otherwise.
But dude, if you’re going to be that fussy about your food, BK is not the place to go. Particularly in regards to conforming to vegan eating practices.
No. It should be just as cheap and fast as any meat burger. We need to accommodate people who are trying to save the planet.
Del Taco is quite good about cooking their Beyond meat separately from their dead cow meat. Beyond Tacos are delicious.
I didn’t know that and yes they do.
if you’re going to be that fussy about your food
…then NOWHERE BESIDES YOUR OWN KITCHEN IS THE PLACE TO GO.
Allergic? Vegan? Paranoid about MSG?
Buy unprocessed ingredients and combine at home, then go die in a fire.
Did BK claim it was vegan?
I worked at a BK briefly. Like l0b0t said – all the patties just run down a broiler conveyor-belt and there is only one in the kitchen.
People should be allowed to identify as black no matter what colour they are born, a lecturers’ union has said.
The left has come full circle. Now what happens?
Black folks start to get turned off by the left in droves?
#Blexit
Hopefully followed by white lefty elites commiting mass ritual suicides.
Now what happens:
Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war.
And get lots of popcorn.
Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, wrote on Twitter: “I’m still [a] member of UCU but Christ they make it hard when [they] publish this nonsensical, anti-intellectual propaganda.”
No doubt all-aboard for the big trans push, though. People choosing their gender (either one, or none, or some made-up variant) isn’t nonsensical, but choosing your ethnicity based purely on cultural appeal is right out.
What happens if most of us identify as a minority?
Hillary gets to be Queen of the USA.
“Now what happens?”
Whitey starts demanding reparations?
Now what happens?
The return of “Colored” water fountains and bathrooms?
I can think of a few of my progressive acquaintances who would be positively giddy and not shut up about how empowering it was to use a Colored Only bathroom.
But it’s totally “empowering” when it’s separate dorms, separate graduations, separate “caucuses”, ad nauseam.
Well they were until the
whitetrans-black gentrifiers moved in and ruined them.Why is this even a question? – Racism?
That’s not the question, that’s the answer.
That is always the answer, unless the answer is Hitler.
Arreola said the law, which was intended to give tenants more protection, is instead hurting them because of a major loophole: There is no provision in the legislation to halt evictions between the date it was signed and the date it takes effect.
1.Can’t be a real name.
2. Something, something Forseeable Consequences, something something, not unintented
3. LOOPHOLES!
They can’t enforce a law before it exists is a loophole.
1. Can’t be a real name
Nickname: Nipsy
I thought California already made evictions next to impossible. ??♂️
They are very difficult and lengthy. It’s about to get even worse.
Good morning, Old Man! And a good morning to all of you lovely misfits.
Thanks for taking one for the team, Old Man. An excellent bundle of derp this morning.
Um, did you pay your rent?
Rent is racist, it is known.
They had faith, it’s all good.
Um, did you pay your rent?
Not to defend the law, but it is very feasible that the family (if they had been there for 10 years) was paying below the rate that the landlord could get for it. So even if they had been paying rent, the fact that the law caps future increases gives the incentive to kick low paying renters and then rent it out at the new price.
Either way the family should be upset at the government for making the law, or themselves for not paying rent.
The landlord should have a right to terminate a lease that’s up for renewal. After all, the tenant can refuse to renew at their sole discretion.
This is as retarded as government telling an employer they can’t fire anyone for any or no reason at any time when an employee is free to just stop showing up.
Yup. I’m just pointing out that Failure to pay rent is not the only reason a person might get evicted.
Right. But there’s a difference between eviction and not renewing a lease agreement. In their case, it’s being reported as an eviction when it really sounds like the landlord simply didn’t want to renew the lease.
here’s a difference between eviction and not renewing a lease agreement.
Not necessarily. If the tenant does not voluntarily move out when the lease is up you still have to evict them.
The article and the explainer it links to of course make no mention of WHY these people are being evicted – whether it’s at the end of a lease or not. That would be too helpful.
It would make the law look bad, and not the landlord, thus not reported.
*Bernie furiously scribbles down notes*
but it is very feasible that the family (if they had been there for 10 years) was paying below the rate that the landlord could get for it.
This is the first half of rent control. The non-eviction is the second.
She knows how to play the eviction game.
Why would she ever pay more than a few months?
Speaking of the failed state
During an all-day hearing that included testimony from California’s investor-owned utilities, state officials and representatives of communities affected by outages, state senators vented their frustrations as they tried to identify legislative solutions to problems caused by this year’s wildfire-prevention blackouts.
“I look at what happened on Oct. 9 as a big screw you: to your customers, to the Legislature, to the governor,” state Sen. Bill Dodd (D-Napa) said, adding that he felt the utility unnecessarily cut power to parts of his district last month. “It requires, again, that questioning: Who in the hell designed your system?”
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Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) said it was time to rethink the future of the state’s largest electrical utility.
“This company, in my mind, has forfeited its right to operate as an investor-owned utility,” Wiener said. “We need fundamental structural change at PG&E because the status quo just isn’t working and hasn’t worked for a long time.”
Yes, let the state take over. Put a committee in charge, and don’t forget to include members of the advocate and activist communities. That will fix it. They know how things should be done. They know how to prioritize.
“This company, in my mind, has forfeited its right to operate as an investor-owned utility,”
You don’t really own your property, we’re just letting you have the privilege of holding it in your hands for the time being.
If the state doesn’t get to pick winners & losers society loses! Social Justice for all!
Calling it “investor owned” doesn’t change the fact that it’s a quasi government agency. The company has to ask permission to change the color of it’s office wallpaper. It’s mandated to convert to all wind and solar by some arbitrary date and that’s why all this happened. They have mandated profit margins FFS.
Once they’re in charge and operating with both rolling blackouts and utility-sparked wildfires, do they start blaming the Trotskyites?
Well the neo cons are trotskyites…
Everything bad in California is because of Republicans, it is known.
What? Government is the cause of the problem? this story from a local muck raking site (they are the ones who broke the Omar brother marriage story) and this story from the big MSM news paper.
Both stories are about the price of electricity in Minnesoda. We used to be below the national average. However since about 2012 we have skyrocketed up in price. Now we are #10 in prices. What could it be? You sure won’t find out by reading the Strib. They do their best to make it sound like investments in nukes and converting coal to natural gas are the big reasons. The muck rakers?
We have the same problem here in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” your holiness. The idiots forced the state to shut down 2 nuke plants, prevented anything from being build to replace them, demanded more green energy, and the consumers watched their costs triple (some claim even quintuple) in the span of a decade. But everyone blames the evil corporations, not the government entities making the laws that caused this or the people that asked for shit that resulted in supply not equaling demand. Collectivists are fucking not just stupid: they are evil.
State controlled monopoly fails because the state government won’t let it maintain its infrastructure so the state takes over more control. Seems legit.
How the fuck Biden thinks that going after marijuana in this primary season dominated by radical SJWs is a winning idea, I can’t imagine, but maybe it’s just authoritarian drug warrior force of habit.
is a winning idea, I
It would seem that none of the democrats are actually interested in winning. Why? My guess is they all have gotten the memo that Herself is to be the candidate, so they all have to be as awful as possible to make it easier for her. Plus they don’t want to die.
*Adjust Tin Foil Hat*
Can’t legalize it, because there’s too much money involved?
It’s possible they’re positioning themselves for Her VP spot, or just want some of that Jill Stein/Bernie Sanders post-run money.
I don’t recall hearing much from any of the other candidates about marijuana. I’m sure there’s a one-line sop to “a path to decriminalization/legalization” in their platforms, but they aren’t campaigning on that. MJ is seen as a white kids drug so is not on the agenda.
It will be interesting to see if Virginia manages to change it’s MJ policy now that they have a majority in the legislature and hold the governor’s mansion. Virginia-based Altria (fka Philip Morris) is said to be dying to get into the MJ business. But Northam is a physician so may play the public health nanny card.
Dr. Blackface?
I may have a personal NoVa riot if we get all the bullshit the Dems are proposing for Virginia ($15 minimum wage, gun control, etc) but they somehow skip the marijuana legalization–the one good thing that could possibly come from the recent election.
marijuana legalization
I thought this was part of the agenda, but I doubt they will follow through. Instead we will get all of the bad and constitutionally illegal bullshit.
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120) My son is currently working on his science project for his 9th grade biology class and the school science fair. It’s kind of a modest little project, but I’ve noticed we haven’t had to berate him into working on it quite as much as we normally do with his homework. Maybe because it’s his idea—I think he has just enough pride of ownership in it to want to put in a bit of effort himself.
I’m involved in a new project too—our church lost its rector recently, and I’m on the committee to find a new one. In canvassing the congregation for what people would like in a new rector, where they see our church going, etc., it strikes me how much it’s our decision—not the decision of our diocese, or our denomination, or anybody like that. It’s all those people I see every week in a small-ish church who are deciding what we want for our little project.
And when I think about it, that’s what every human endeavor is, in a way—a project. Even the biggest organizations and corporations were once akin to somebody’s science project or rector search committee, and the founders simply managed to convince enough other people to help them out with their project, to join in their vision, to grow big.
Now imagine you had a project that you thought was really important. Maybe it would involve feeding the hungry, or building roads for your community. If the project is well-conceived, and the people working on it seem competent, they should be able to get a lot of people to join them, right? But how would you feel if those people decided their project was so important they should force you at gunpoint to contribute? Obviously I’m talking about government here. Or churches, or armies, or anybody who feels their time and energy is more important than yours.
The more I think about all sustained human endeavor—anything beyond just getting the basics for everyday living–as being a project, the more the unfairness of forcing people to take part in your little project becomes apparent. Isn’t that the ultimate hubris? My project is so vital that I’m going to force you to support me with violence. Even though, in the end, nobody’s project is any more morally compelling than my son growing his 24 plants in little cardboard containers for his science fair project.
what people would like in a new rector – woman 20 to 30, long legs nice breasts, works out 3 4 times a week
I have no idea what a rector does. In Romania a rector is the head person at a University
Rector? Damn near killed her!
“what people would like in a new rector – woman 20 to 30, long legs nice breasts, works out 3 4 times a week”
This would definitely help even the driest sermons go faster.
You need Bernice the Vicar.
That has to be the most twisted and deranged mainstream comedy ever. The Brits are a strange people.
It’s one of my favorite shows. I searched for more clips but instead, stumbled upon this tripe – enjoy.
https://debunkingwhite.livejournal.com/732888.html
smdh — thats weapons grade bilge.
League of Gentlemen is awesome, no question. But disturbed and disturbing as well.
It should be available on DVD, that’s how I was introduced to it.
This would definitely help even the driest sermons go faster.
Premature Ecclesiation.
I bet about half the congregation would get behind that.
The problem with voluntarism, if you want to frame it as such, is that it becomes untenable for projects at scale because obtaining and maintaining consensus becomes difficult the larger and more disparate the group. So you either have to compartmentalize a project into an infinite number of teams small enough to actually cooperate and then hope that you can somehow string those independent projects together into a cohesive whole without a centralizing force, or else you build a hierarchy.
Corporations are projects done at scale based on voluntarism. I come to my job at a large corporation of my own free will. (Well, my wife has a lot to say about it.) And yes, it’s highly hierarchical with a strong centralizing force, but still based on voluntarism.
In the case of corporations, it’s based as much on bribery as true voluntarism. If you’re like most people, you wouldn’t show up if they stopped paying you because nothing the organization is pursuing as a project or objective outweighs your personal material wellbeing or personal agenda. The order isn’t really spontaneous, and your voluntary contribution is contingent on a reward other than the completion of the corporation’s objective, whether it’s a one-off project or the long-term goal of the entire organization. Raising sufficient capital to buy off enough to build a road is a challenge; doing the same for, say, national defense, is untenable without some degree of coercion.
The only exceptions to the rule are religious zealots who will happily die for a cause they believe greater than themselves.
he order isn’t really spontaneous, and your voluntary contribution is contingent on a reward other than the completion of the corporation’s objective
Where does voluntaryism ever indicate that you have to be 100% on board with the objectives of the people you work for/with? Its an impossible standard. The point is that everyone has their own objectives and that you achieve yours (making money to buy what you want).
By this argument not even a purchase decision is voluntary, because it is contingent on goods being delivered, and if the company didn’t give you the goods you wouldn’t give them the money because you don’t believe in the company, just getting the goods.
Well to take a practical example, I doubt if JATNAS is being paid for his service in procuring a new rector for his congregation; he has a stake in the outcome other than a purely financial interest. That’s the sort of consensus you can very easily build in small groups, but that utterly disintegrates for complex tasks. Even when you’re paying people it is difficult to achieve that consensus under a hierarchical authority. So in some sense the former would seem materially different from the latter, if not in the very nature of the transaction then certainly in the degree of voluntarism.
I don’t think a single transaction could be said to be analogous to a project-based approach to social organization because a transaction is fleeting and requires no consensus or management.
Voluntary and volunteer aren’t the same thing, you know.
Yes, there’s a distinction. And I’m not saying a voluntarist social structure would be bad per se, but it does preclude certain things that a majoritarian state makes possible, or at least makes substantially easier to achieve. A society organized as such would likely have a much larger diversity of much smaller communities, probably constituted as city-states rather than federated into a nation-state.
You mean… kinda like the original vision of the Republic as a confederation of sovereign states?
Where does voluntaryism ever indicate that you have to be 100% on board with the objectives of the people you work for/with? Its an impossible standard. The point is that everyone has their own objectives and that you achieve yours (making money to buy what you want).
The fungibility of money transforms the organizations interests into my own.
(Well, my wife has a lot to say about it.) And yes, it’s highly hierarchical with a strong centralizing force, but still based on voluntarism.
Corporations or marriage?
Nice sermon.
Joey don’t like the pot, ’cause it makes girl’s hair smell funny.
OMWC, i think you’re not considering the full ramificaitons. What would happen to Poor Mrs. Biden if Joe Died. Her One son died and the other is a crackhead. Who will she have to take care of her and her doped out son?
Erm. I think Hunter’s mother died in a car crash.
Hasn’t the Family Suffered enough!!
The Ukrainian nanny?
Jill Biden is a hottie. She’d have no trouble finding companionship — possibly someone richer and less pervy than Joe.
She must smell really good, too.
Shaun King nods. – I have identified myself as the guy who bangs Emily Ratajkowski for several months and it did not do me any good. I don’t think this is how it works
Also
https://www.vogue.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-interview-mini-skirt-suit-inamorata-sold-out
Nice.
Relevant.
U.S. backs Israel
*Shocked face*
It’s really gonna be a chore to calm down those Pali’s now. They were so close too…
HK is throwing gas and Molotovs at each other, and my morning commute had npr discussing an outdated poll over impeachment hearings and some story about a writer fighting the patriarchy.
At least sports radio will talk about the styrofoam cup ban in Massachusetts.
Here, have a nice refreshing Sprite.
In an inexplicable move, Sprite has released a new commercial that has nothing to do with soda and everything to do with force-feeding the public transgender theology dressed up as love and acceptance. What this has to do with quenching thirst, I have no idea
Hardly inexplicable. It’s like the writers at PJMedia have been under a rock for the last 8 years.
Funny how they go on to explain the inexplicable move.
“You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.”
Or, more chairtably, they might have thought the bean counters would have noticed that being woke isn’t a benefit to the bottom line and reigned in the ‘creatives’.
I’ve yet to see much evidence that the “Bean Counters” have done any such thing. As it stands the ideological divide is perhaps a good attempt at Big Oligopolies to Segment the market between themselves so they can get Monopoly Pricing.
Agreed. Levis, Nike, et all aren’t exactly shuttering their doors over these “failed” marketing stances.
Despite it’s ‘politics’, it is still such a strange fucking commercial.
Then there’s the Amazon commercial about how “trans-affirming” they are.
Yeah, there’s a push out there for this stuff.
Because people are afraid of the nutjobs and the Twitterverse.
Well, sure. Amazon wants to sell them a hormone subscription.
It appeared to deliver a new blow to Trump’s efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a peace plan that has been in the works for more than two years but has drawn widespread skepticism even before its release.
“This decision will be rent bad for Orange Man, and we also think he is really dumb.”
So what is the minimum time between eating something and getting a fucked up stomach?
I had some… ehm issues and am not sure which meal to blame.
Breakfast was a couple of hard boiled eggs with a bell pepper, I doubt that is it.
Lunch was some tuna from the local eatery, which can be suspicious but my issues started like 20-30 minutes after eating so I don’t think there was enough time.
Is there a doctor in the house
E. Coli on the bell pepper
So what is the minimum time between eating something and getting a fucked up stomach?
I don’t know but i swear i’ve seen something i’ve eaten affect my bowels within 30 min – 1 hour.
Bad seafood will make you sick in minutes: not hours…
For a foodborne illness, I’d look to something 24 hours prior or even earlier. Yes, digestion could be affected quicker than that for other reasons, but for a real pathogen to take effect, at least 24 hours.
Whites can be black if they wish
I already am…from the waste down…
This is the most racist misspelling I have ever read.
Hehe. It may be more sexist than racist.
Clearly I need more coffee.
*waist, obvs.
Look, just because you regularly wade in excrement, that’s no reason to blame minorities for your skin conditions.
Bazinga!
That might be the perfect John-O.
RE: (((Settlements))).
Considering the Palestinians have pissed on every chance at peace that has been offered to them, they can go fuck themselves. Israel should just steamroll through Gaza and West Bank, push the Palis into Egypt and Jordan respectively, then build a huge wall and be done with it.
They’re gonna continue to have rockets fired at them and be vilified no matter what they do so they might as well just take the damn territories.
I doubt I have the full understanding of the situation… bad things were done on all sides but the Arabs never seem to have wanted peace. And the decision makers are probably not the Palestinians who suffer the most from the situation, as always.
But, in the end, blessed are the cheese-makers
Why are you picking on the Greenbay Packers?
https://stats.digitalscout.com/wisconsin/school/monroe-cheesemakers/football/varsity/boys
The true “cheese makers”
Too late now. (((They))) were told what to do about the palestinian problem 4000? years ago and screwed it up.
Closer to 3k than 4k.
That’s the thing about moral suasion. You can’t just bash someone over and over again for being bad. You have to bash them for their bad actions, and then publicly praise them just as conspicuously when they do whatever you are trying to get them to do.
Unless the thing you are trying to get them to do is “be exterminated.”
Biden – who said in 2010, “I still believe it’s a gateway drug,” and “legalization is a mistake” – was asked at a town hall in Las Vegas if his position had changed.
Ok, boomer.
https://archive.li/enXCr/d72dcbbf559bdd33c1b46acf6bccf49c4b34113c.jpeg
That’s the N-word of ageism! Also pointing out all the terrible ideas millennials have is the logical conclusion of boomer policies is mean.
Millenials are the most despicable generation. How dare they point out that the government has been run by Boomers for the last 30 years…
Data doesn’t lie. Plot it on a graft. The deficit decreased and government shrank year over year until millennials started to vote. You can’t deny that.
Graph. But, also plot the graft.
Gimme college money!
13 years of free childcare/education is a right! 4 years of free college is socialism!
/boomer
https://youtu.be/ZI7hJHLyBZo
GraftGraph.com, Coming Soon!
Listen, Zoomer
I don’t get it.
Ok, Boomer.
I get to fire mini-nukes from Nellis AFB?
https://images.app.goo.gl/iZE8HtXHnA5vM2Nj8
GenZ=Zoomer, post-millennial.
https://images.app.goo.gl/cVBULPXB8dA3FdJVA
GenX and GenZ function well together—for now.
We will see how gen Z feels about inheriting a massive national deficit, over regulated job market and a war older than they are when they come of age.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Let’s see, what year did students loans lose the ability to be discharged? 1976. Gee, that’s odd.
Titty Tuesday drinks the tears of zillionaires.
http://archive.li/h3pA7
25, 37 and 72 because I support our troops
Is 21 in a kill room? If so, I pick her.
Looks like an indoor climbing gym.
I finally figured it out, but I like my fantasy better, so I’m sticking with it.
But does she like Phil Collins?
2, 15, 42 are my favorites
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
http://eh.net/book_reviews/the-anarchy-the-relentless-rise-of-the-east-india-company/
Calling the actions of a government chartered monopoly Anarchy checks out.
With the exception of the Sepoy Munity, the Raj was one of the most orderly period of Indian history.
True enough, but low bar, seeing as Indian history immediately preceding the Raj consisted of a centuries-long attempt by Muslims to exterminate Hindus from the subcontinent.
Explains what went on in 1947 when the Brits left India, taking the lid off 800 years of boiling resentment.
I believe anarchy refers to the situation in India before the EIC, after the collapse of the Mughals
I realized yesterday my daughter is primarily going to be competing in life with people raised by millenials, so that should give her a nice advantage.
Or, it will put her at a severe disadvantage for wrongthink in a world run by the faithful.
This is my fear for my logical aspie. He will get used like drone worker, and get discarded whenever possible for wrong think.
Not an irrational fear. I got told a lot coming up that keeping work as work and not worrying about anything else would give me a leg up. Turns out everyone in my company has already been flipped by HR. Everything has to be PC, special allowances have to be made and every change of business needs to be prefaced with how the employees “feel” about something.
Maybe other places let you do your work and go home.
Sue them for discrimination against work-americans.
Doesn’t fly in the great state of New York.
Sure it does. You just need to be creative in the wording of your complaint.
Is she identifying as black?
Quality snark from mom there, nice.
She isn’t too far off either.
A professor who is considered to be the foremost expert on money laundering — he literally wrote the textbook on it — has been charged with money laundering and faces 20 years in
prison
https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1196508897353318400
Set a thief to catch a thief, right?
Practical experience is irreplaceable
“Because they don’t have anything better to do.”
Wait until you get state run health insurance. That is exactly true here.
+1 million lonely old ladies
I’ve never seen a more inefficient OR than the one in Japan. Literally no one has any incentive to work quickly because their hours and pay are fixed.
So, any benighted west coast glibs in Seattle? Visiting until Thursday (early Friday flight). Where’s a good place to get coffee?
Anything worth doing? I’m thinking the glass museum?
This hotel coffee tastes like acidic ass.
Starbucks?
The only think i know about Seattle is that you can summon Meg Ryan by staying awake all night.
It’s her birthday today. She didn’t make my cut.
Are you sure she wasn’t faking it?
I haven’t been in Seattle in a long ass time, but the zoo was very cool – way better than the famous San Diego Zoo from my experience. The Aquarium wasn’t bad. I got to feed otters when I went.
Thanks pat. I’ll have to check the hours since some of us work.
Go visit Jimi Hendrix’s grave. People leave…uhmm…offerings. Smoke-able offerings.
Will the gods not be angry with those that pilfer the offerings to the fallen?
I think Jimi would be happy to share.
Puff, puff, pass?
Throw it into the air first, let the gods keep what they like. The rest is yours.
The birds swooped in and stole it all before any landed!
Them’s gonna be some high flying birds there Mr. UCS…
If they were doves, Christ is throwing a party, catered by the Holy Spirit.
If they were crows and/or ravens, the Morrigan is celebrating the latest slaughters.
They were Geese…
“Anything worth doing?”
I have’nt been there for over a decadebut, there was a quirky bookstore in Queen Anne Hill that was worthwhile
Also good jazz clubs
Pike Place market was cool
I had an awesome seafood boil meal at one of the piers
The glass museum in Seattle (Tacoma one sucks) is very cool, even cooler at night. If you have time during the daytime, the Underground Tour is fun.
For coffee, I’d recommend Ladro or Miglore but you can get good coffee lots of places not named Starbucks.
I was just there a few weeks ago. Other than visiting family, the best part was driving out of the city and going to some of the state parks.
The folks over at the Financial Times are concerned about us
The data on the role of money in US politics are even more dramatic. Members of Congress spend about 30 hours a week raising money. The Supreme Court’s perverse 2010 “Citizens United” decision held that companies are persons and money is speech. That has proved a big step on the journey of the US towards becoming a plutocracy.
——
As economists have known since Adam Smith, business on its own will pursue restraints on competition, and with great enthusiasm. The outcome is rentier capitalism, which is both inefficient and politically illegitimate. The difficulty, however, is that it can be far too easy for incumbents to buy the political and regulatory protection it desires.
What should the US want? The answers, suggests Philippon, are: free entry; regulators prepared to make mistakes when acting against monopoly; and protection of transparency, privacy and data ownership by customers. The great obstacle to action in the US is the pervasive role of money in politics. The results are the twin evils of oligopoly and oligarchy.
Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defective capitalism described in The Great Reversal. What the US needs, instead, is another Teddy Roosevelt and his energetic trust-busting. Is that still imaginable? All believers in the virtues of competitive capitalism must hope so.
Another review of that brave new book about how America has fallen into the thrall of plutocratic monopolists. Not completely wrong; he even zeroes in on government’s role. But, of course, the answer is more govt interference, not less. Look to the EU for your model.
And take the damn guns away.
The Supreme Court’s perverse 2010 “Citizens United” decision held that companies are persons and money is speech.
Dear Santa,
For Christmas this year i ask for one thing. I would like, just once, for a leftist to give an honest summation of the Citizens United decision. Barring that, i would like a Leftist to be honest about their opposition to Citizens United, and how every single Dem depends on corporate contributions.
Thanks,
Leon
Ah yes, but they would love to be free of that yoke. They should be funded by the tax cattle, and funding eligibility should be determined by the party leadership. And no icky third parties either.
One of my friends really likes the ides of Public only Financed campaigns. I didn’t really get into it with him because i didn’t want to.
Why should my tax monies go to fund campaigns against my political beliefs?
for the common good citizen.
Good citizens are not common.
with sufficiently enthusiastic ehm… education there will be
Do it. Strike him down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the shitlord will be complete.
Complete unaccountability to anyone is their goal.
+1 CFPB
I too hate that summary.
But the lie is repeated and now no one even realizes it’s wrong.
^^^THIS^^^
People with shitty & evil ideas would prefer not to deal with the objections and roadblocks from those that see them for the cuntes they are…
I’m fine with corporations not being able to lobby. Of course, “no taxation without representation” so the corporate tax has to be eliminated.
Taxation may be a secondary issue to regulation for most corporations.
Alright, you twisted my arm. No taxes OR regulations.
That’s cute. Do local taxes next.
(For reference, here in Ohio you pay local taxes on the city you work in and the city you live in. Most cities give you some break on the city you live in based on taxes paid to the city you work in. One benefit of the new job was since I’m technically a remote worker, it was another 2% raise, as I only pay tax in the city I live in.)
NYC feels your pain. NY State income tax, NY City income tax (+ an additional levy if you work in The Bronx/Westchester), and the County takes a taste, and Queens Borough takes a taste, the State levies a tax to pay for the MTA (subway/buses), and the City levies a tax on any taxi ride that originates or ends within city limits.
I don’t understand. State INCOME tax?!?
Here in Ohio, we’ve got State, local (city), property tax (county level and school district level), and sales tax (I live in Cuyahoga county, which has the highest sales tax rate at 8%).
Silly Loser Ordination
Alabama best one-loss team in the nation
Michigan best two-loss team in the nation
Auburn best three-loss team in the nation
Washington best four-loss team in the nation
TCU best five-loss team in the nation
Michigan State best six-loss team in the nation
South Carolina best seven-loss team in the nation
Georgia Tech best eight-loss team in the nation
Rice best nine-loss team in the nation
Western Illinois best ten-loss team in the nation
Wisconsin, Iowa, South Carolina, Tulsa, Northwestern, and Texas Southern fell off the race to the bottom
Even as characterized, Citizens United is exactly right. It is pretty much black-letter law that companies are (legal) persons.
As for the idea that money isn’t speech, I invite the Financial Times to produce and distribute a single edition without spending any money whatsoever.
tHat’S diFurent, wE aRe tHepRess!!
How much did Hillary spend again?
Two or three Disney movies worth.
Two or three disney movies profits, losses or production cost?
Some combination of those. It was a big number.
Teddy Roosevelt and his energetic trust-busting.
You mean apart from the ones that supported him?
To the extent TR’s meddling was acceptable (which it wasn’t), he was trying to stave off a communist revolution.
I’ll take a plutocracy over our current our current kakistocracy
#meetoo
When Idiocracy stops being funny due to it being too close to current reality I’m ready for anything different.
This is why I find Mencius Moldbug so damn appealing. I like his idea of thousands or even millions of independent city-states.
City states will inevitably war with each other incessantly until rolled up by a Phillip or Garibaldi.
Don’t you mean Mister Garibaldi?
No.
Yeah but that required the British inventing Nationalism and using it to meddle in the affairs of their neighbors.
‘No one needs to be a billionaire’, Britain’s Labour Party says
Round them up and send them to camp.
Bilderbergen-Belsen?
Winner.
winner winner, impossible burger dinner
https://youtu.be/RoXFVb1VVJA
Appropriate…for those who dont know, Gedfy Lee’s mom was in Bergen-Belsen.
This hateful rhetoric of minorities needs to end.
I don’t think they delude themselves the state will get much money. This is pure fucking envy.
There are delusional lefties and evil lefties. The Labor party is the latter.
So the ones that eventually take power after the revolution?
So, any benighted west coast glibs in Seattle? Visiting until Thursday (early Friday flight). Where’s a good place to get coffee?
Anything worth doing? I’m thinking the glass museum?
If you’re into airplanes, go to the Boeing museum at King(?) Field.
Museum of Flight is at Boeing Field, north of Seatac. There’s also the Future of Flight and Boeing production tour near Paine Field north of Seattle.
I’ll second the Seattle Zoo recommendation.
“Look children, it’s the left coast warbling hipster.”
At first I thought you were calling Brooks the leftist warbler.
No. It’s something overheard at the Seattle Zoo.
Bank manager died after he was left with broken neck following session with chiropractor, inquest hears
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/11/bank-manager-died-left-broken-neck-following-session-chiropractor
Anyone who sees a chiropractor for any reason other than scamming an insurance company gets everything they deserve.
Sorry, chiropractors have done wonders for me and my lower back. Agree that there is a large amount of quackery involved, but for some things like lower backs it does work.
Same here. You just have to find one that knows what they’re doing and understands and will work within the limitations of chiropractic.
Yeah, that was overly harsh I guess. Low back pain in particular has been shown to be responsive to chiropractic treatment in studies; though not for most other disorders chiropractic claims to treat, and likely not for any reason related to chiropractic theory.
Don’t worry Pat. No offense taken. I’m sure my chiropractor would forgive you too. Those chiropractors are used to hearing a bunch of cracks about the validity of their profession.
My dad saw one for years, despite having a huge hero worship for medical doctors. Blew a lumbar disc in his early 30s and had spinal arthritis 30 years before any normal person should. He stopped going when he stopped getting any relief from it, but results are results. I still maintain the theory underlying their practice is still largely hokum though.
Sigh. Why do I even try?
I expected another witty come back to my little bon mot about “hearing a bunch of cracks”.
Ahh yes, but what you failed to realize is that I’m retarded.
Do asian massage parlors qualify as chiropractic services? I want to know if I can send the bill for the “happy ending” to my insurance company. I mean, I am asking for a friend…
You file that under rehabilitative therapy.
I think I, erm, I mean my friend is asking because he needs these services at least 3 times a week. And he also wants to know if the democrat party’s new free healthcare “Medicare for all” plan will cover this 100%. If so, he will be voting democrat…
Some chiros do good, evidence based work similar to a PT with a wider scope of practice (at least here in the us). Some are dangerous woo salesmen. The linked article, where the patent has his neck “adjusted” for a leg injury and the chiro uses a clicker, is clearly the woo type.
What did he know about the Clintons?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7701315/Chloe-Madeley-declares-StrongNotSkinny-needs-die.html
Not at all, but still wood.
So this exists:
https://twitter.com/qanonnotables/status/1196769753383067648?s=21
I want one that has “I shidded and I farded”
Leaked footage from Predator.
That’s pretty clever.
More accurate headline:
Entitled Asshole Expects City To Look After Private Property He Leaves On Public Land
https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1196374302804692992
Was this debated? What was the conclusion?
Obviously the cops are too busy picking up shitpiles to worry about property crime.
Always remember, the police aren’t here to protect you or your property.
And now in SF, the DA is not there to prosecute people who commit property crimes.
I don’t know. Very few Parking Lots give any assurances of protection.
All land is public land.
*readies popcorn*
She argues that owning nice things makes you the deserving target of burglary… but balks at the thought that paying taxes entitles you to some measure of security. She may as well admit she believes all property is public property.
Of the four principal agents in this story, all of them are assholes. the twit posting is an asshole who doesn’t understand basic economics. the car owner is an asshole for not taking precautions after the first time his car was broken into, the people breaking into the car are assholes for being thieves, and the cops are assholes.
The car owner is just a dumbass for thinking it wouldn’t happen again, but now that he is taking the appropriate action, getting the fuck out, he’s taking heat from the social justice techtards that try to run anyone that disagrees with their worldview out of business like they did to the CEO of Mozilla.
Four times is a bit much before reacting.
Some people are slow learners.
Can we get the name of his company so we can short the stock?
Shorting stock? And you’re criticizing them for being slow learners…
Clearly his company will crash in the near future with him in charge.
Best response:
YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT BRAH!
OMG I was going to make a joke how it’s his fault and then I read the tweet and it’s the exact same thing.
Parody is truly dead.
Look, if he didn’t want his window forcibly penetrated, he shouldn’t have dressed his car up like that.
Is there a #HimToo movement? There may be after you read this story.
#HihnToo
I laughed
BULLY
“I think his personal attacks on reporters, including Maggie, are pretty awful and pretty unpresidential,” he said. “I think personal attacks on journalists, when he calls them names, I think he puts their lives at risk.
Could you imagine if he slandered everyone with whom he disagreed philosophically, including innocent adolescent people?
That would be the most amoral act humanity has ever seen.
I can’t believe the president would do such an unimaginable thing.
when he calls them names, I think he puts their lives at risk.
It’s just his magic Spell he casts on people.
Is that all it takes? Asshole! Bitch! Cocksucker! Motherfucker! Twat! Cunt!
If harsh language was all it took to kill people I’d be surrounded by a mound of bodies stacked like cord wood by 10:00 AM.
A bunch of NFL teams had to try now that tank for tua might be off the table.
List of #1 picks – there are some greats in there mixed in with a lot of busts. If your team is bad enough to draft first, the logical thing to do would be trading that pick for as many picks in rounds 2 – 4 you can get.
No way. A top flight QB can make your team a contender for a decade. Every draft pick is a lottery ticket, and none is more valuable than the ability to draft the first QB in a draft.
https://harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/drafting-quarterbacks/
Nothing wrong with optimizing one’s draft.
But, from Dawson at KC to Manning at DEN, over a fourth of Super Bowls were won by teams fielding a QB they didn’t draft at all.
Well now they’ve swapped Burrow in, which, based on that LSU – Bama game, might not be a bad idea. Although, despite having a familial allegiance to the Crimson Tide, I’ve got to say they’ve looked pretty pedestrian this season. Frankly, as good as Tua is, I think Jalen Hurts is a better all-around quarterback.
Despite all evidence to the contrary…
Senator Mazie Hirono✔
@maziehirono
Stephen Miller’s emails reinforce what we’ve known all along: that white nationalism permeates @realDonaldTrump’s administration. He should resign.
Yeah, sure. Just keep this line going. It will surely work for you.
A few days ago, Senator Hirono accused President Trump of falsely maligning, attacking, and intimidating the former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine, Yovanovitch. She added that Trump is “a liar and a bully,” which, she concluded, is “a terrifying combination in a president of the United States.”
Bitter clingers to guns and religion that want to keep their doctors could not be reached for comment.
It’s pretty rich coming from a senator from the one state in the country that is the closest to being an Ethno-state.
And a certified mendacious moron.
falselymaligning, attacking, and intimidating the former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine, YovanovitchBe fair. Only half of what she said is a lie, so this is actually well above her usual standard.
Anyone that easily intimidated should NOT be holding any sort of office, especially on foreign ground, cause they are too easy to turn by the enemy….
/Go feminism
Extremely long twitter thread on economic historian debates on the land enclosure in Merry Olde England. I expect no one to read it, but I did so I’m a leave it here
https://twitter.com/pseudoerasmus/status/1194820513643847680
And on this note I am done with work. Wish me luck, I hope my stomach lasts the commute
And on this note I am done with work. Wish me luck, I hope my stomach lasts the commute
If you were in San Fransisco you wouldn’t have to worry.
https://me.me/i/never-trust-a-fart-via-9gag-com-10542796
I watched Oliver Stone’s Ukraine On Fire and Revealing Ukraine yesterday. It’s Stone so I had to take a good dose of salt and deal with annoying dramatic music. But together they are a pretty good primer for understanding what happened there from other viewpoints. Holy crap did we send a bunch of thieves there to loot the place (Stone names the Bidens, McCain, our Ambassadors, and Soros). He rightly questions what the hell we are doing restarting the Cold War and flirting with real war with Russia just because our foreign policy is run by crooks.
I wondered at the timing of the whole thing. Revealing Ukraine was winning film festival awards in June and July – before Trump’s interest in Ukrainian corruption became the excuse for impeachment. That’s probably all been memory-holed now.
That was the objective.
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/keio-university-professor-arrested-for-stealing-women%E2%80%99s-underwear
We read about these all the time but the twist for me was I saw the arrest go down in real life – just didn’t know what had happened at the time.
This happened in my neck of the woods. I was riding my bike to drop something off and crossed a wide street at a light – as I got to the other side just a couple feet away two cops were stopping this guy who had been walking. I rode past and went about my business. I heard a number of sirens and at one point two police cars and three police scooters passed me going the other way.
After dropping off my stuff I headed back the way I came. When I got close to the street crossing there were about 10 cops, two black-and-whites and one un-marked police car with 4 or 5 police scooters. They had the perp in handcuffs – the only time I’ve ever seen them handcuff somebody before – and lead him to one of the black-and-white cars.
Please tell me that they have special K-9 units for stopping panty crime in Japan. If you really want to make my day, you could add on that you had to take a back road home to avoid those K-9 units because of “contraband” you had in your pocket at the time.
With a name like Seimei I hope he doesn’t get life. At least it isn’t his full name…
Is this some off color joke about Japanese prison experience? Rice dicking involved??
I’m thinking Tejicano is off to bed.
Japanese has lots and lots of homonyms. Seimei can mean “life” or “full name” depending on the characters used. So a not particularly clever pun.
NPR had a “social science” report about patience between cultures.
TL;DR: Germans have the most self control. Romanians are the most polite about fucking off, and the French are just jerks.
Pffffttttt… They’re just better at hiding it, as anyone who’s ever been in a meeting with German professionals can tell you.
Now, now, they’ve pretty much turned their country into Caliphate West. And while they aren’t as tolerant as the rape-tolerant Brits, that’s gotta come in close second.
These people musty not know about the German penchant for shit porn…
Did research really need to be done to come to the conclusion that the French are the rudest people on Earth? Although, to be fair, it seems to mostly be Parisians.
Parisians
you’re onto something; the people I know in the Rhine and Brittany are generous and lovely
Anecdotally, I’ve encountered tourists from Paris while in New Orleans who were worse than the stereotypical American tourist abroad, and I briefly knew a girl from IIRC a small town in Burgundy who came here as an exchange student who was an absolute smokeshow and really, really nice. I mention the former in part because she could’ve pulled the “Mean Girl” bit easily but always struck me as very humble.
Rhine and Brittany are generous and lovely
Because they aren’t French? Seriously though, isn’t most of France not actually “French” as much as they are related groups that have had their linguistic and national identities subdued by the French Ethno-Nationalists?
Oh, we’re having fun with stereotypes, which we reject. But the French in question accepted Francs and drove horrible cars, so I think it’s okay to convict them.
To your point, folks in Brittany look like me: the place is the same sort of melting pot for AngloSaxons, Celts, Germans, and Vikings as is many places in the US.
me: pssst, Don: A/S are Germans
also me: yeah, I was thinking about how “Frank” is Germanic and got distracted
Don, you are rocking the handle/avatar game.
Indeed, love the avatar Don. My only time at a Zaxby’s was in GA on I95 South. The food looked ok but my daughter was REALLY freaked out by the tremendous roach infestation in the restaurant’s bathroom. We dropped our to-go bags on the counter, got our money back, and went to Cracker Barrel like G/d intended.
I’m just being silly and have some spare time; there’s a backstory that’s not worth getting into
I’ll change it again the second I think of something fun and relatable
for the record: I’m a huge Zaxby’s fan (having worked in restaurants as a kid, I have no illusions about their relative merits or the what you can see what you can’t factor)
I have been to 3 separate Cracker Barrels in my life, hundreds of miles apart. I have never had a good meal there.
Not that the recipes themselves were flawed, no. It was as if they weren’t executed adequately, like what came out of the kitchen was an accident. At all 3.
No thanks.
Mojeaux, I think I’ve mentioned this before but I’m a Waffle House fanboy through and through. However, wifey worked her way through college as a Cracker Barrel waitress, so if she is in the car, we have to stop at CB. Additionally, I’m sorry and upset to hear some backstory to your recent ER visit. I hope things are getting better.
Germans have the most self control
That is one way to look at it. I always thought that the Germans were lazy and incapable of being shamed into doing their jobs. I don’t know how many times I was rebuffed by German colleagues because I asked them to do something that wasn’t explicitly their job. Sure they could have made a slight effort and removed a road block that was holding up 5 developers, but that wasn’t their job and fuck no they aren’t going to do that.
Lazy might be a bad word for that, but holy crap you could not budge them into thinking on their own and doing the best thing. They simply stuck to the strict definition of their job.
I have oft boggled at people who have put in more effort at avoiding work than the work itself takes.
About 80% of the people at the megacorp I work for are in this group. And they are awesome at avoiding any kind of work…
They are no longer good at just following orders???
You can thank “you know who” for that cultural breakdown…
The lack of comments about Romanians is disappointing.
Ladydoom just informed me that the neighbors woke her up this morning right after I left. They were throwing things at their car and shouting stuff at each other. Not the first time we’ve heard them. They usually self incriminate. “You stole my car to get meth you crack whore. Stop doing my drugs”
He was arrested for bath salts and then tried to slap the officer while yelling at the neighbor saying “you tell him I didn’t do anything”
And she called the cops for stabbing her. That didn’t happen, there’s no ambulance.
It’s a heckin trap house.
I’m pretty sure you could get them to sign an agreement that allows you to broadcast their shenanigans. Video it, youtube it, collect ad money.
I should diversify my income sources
I had a meth head living across the street from me for a few years. He moved last year. There were a few fistfights and sheriff visits when the rotating cast of people he had flopping there would occasionally get paranoid and start accusing each other of treachery, theft and other assorted moonbattery.
The cops knew them well enough that both parties were only using first names.
Rare early work by Grampa SugarFree on the important subject of BONERS
Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals
This guy didn’t think about how to defend his family until a gang had actually broken into his house. Good analogy for all of Sweden.
Here’s another good analogy.
How are these people not vigilante-murdering the migrant gang members?
The men have been neutered.
I think you’re almost literally correct. There seems to be something about Swedish culture that has killed off confrontation, aggressiveness, assertion, pride, even a sense of self-respect. They seem to be left with a very passive, reliant, frankly weak society that’s incapable of enforcing its own norms of behavior. A healthy society has to be composed of individuals who can function autonomously. Otherwise, you wind up with a group of people who rely on the state (or whatever approximates the state in that society) for their basic needs, and after a generation of that then the state itself is composed of these passive, feckless types, and you wind up with police telling homeowners to hide from burglars because the police themselves can’t help them.
IOW, the progressives’ wet dream.
When they talk about the “Nordic” model, they’re talking about Sweden, warts and all. If it takes a Malmo or two to make the country a Benetton ad and get rid of the last vestiges of icky-poo Americana, so be it.
Deathwish – Malmo would probably be banned in Sweden.
Same reason there are no vigilante mobs in South Side Chicago:
1. No legally owned weapons
2. Culture of fear
ORLY – In an 18 month period spanning 1971 and 1972, there were 2500 bombings in just 3 American cities (NYC, Chicago, and DC).
Look, that’s only a symptom of America’s violence problem. Nothing to do with Sweden’s spontenous explosions.
True, but even by 1970’s standards that’s a paltry amount of bombings. During that same time period countries in Europe like Italy were fighting a virtual counterinsurgency between the far-right and the far-left (The Red Brigade being the most prominent). Also during that time, Germany was fighting similar terrorism with the Red Army Faction and Spain was involved in a long running war with Catalonian separatists. The 60’s and 70’s were particularly violent and the violence in the US paled in comparison to what was happening in Europe.
In the 21st Century, is there any other Western nation that is experiencing the same level of bombings as Sweden right now?
Israel?
Israel would be a good counterexample. I imagine, though, that Europeans don’t view them as Western, but that’s a good point. Wouldn’t most of that violence be classified as external, though? Otherwise, I think you’re right
I’ll take a plutocracy over our current our current kakistocracy
Last evening, I was subjected to some whining about what an asshole Trump is. My response- at least he’s an entertaining asshole. I wasn’t in the mood to get into that conversation. I did, however, say I couldn’t care less, as long as Trump saved us from Hillary.
Unless you’re twelve years old, it should be obvious to you that every politician, from anywhere on the political spectrum, is an asshole. It’s a fucking essential characteristic of the sort of people who go into politics.
Only 80 more workdays until retirement!
Me Too!!
Or at least until my wife reminds me we have to pay for the kids until they are at least 18…
All of our kids are at least 25, so little likelihood of boomeranging back into our home again (crosses fingers).
Just wait until they’re divorced.
OK Boomer
Underappreciated response
Yeah, I guess since my birthdate falls toward the end of the Boomer generation time period, I’m not a “serious” Boomer, just an “okay” Boomer.
I’m a Boomer in this wise: I was born in a place two decades behind the rest of the country.
I have always noticed that I preferred people who were ten or more years older than me to those who are merely five years younger.
I’m so jealous. Congratulations!
Deadly Oklahoma Walmart Shooting Stopped After Armed Citizen Puts Gun To Suspect’s Head
FERK NERZ! GERNZ MERST BER BERRND!
Two thoughts:
1)Why is it relevant that a witness is an army veteran?
2) “He is an avid family man. A community person. Very well known in the community. Does all he can for the community and his family,” [Michael] Bryant said. If true, then a universal federal background check and a 3 day waiting period totally would have stopped him, right?
It’s too hard to go after actual criminals.
Law abiding citizens are way easier prey.
I saw this shared last night as a mass shooting.
I don’t think that meets the requirements.
I didn’t realize at first it was in the parking lot. Road rage? Seems weird.
Prolly a domestic violence thing. The killer’s dead, though, which is the main thing.
I read elsewhere that the victims were his estranged wife and her boyfriend.
That seems more likely.
Alright!!! Jeane Kirkpatrick Is from my hometown. A native daughter, as it were.
She was cool and would come back and visit with young’uns to persuade us to do something useful with our lives.
Starting wars in small Central-American countries?
Well, she did start out as a Democrat so….
Another marketing opportunity:
We all know there is the “MILF Hunter” porn genre; I think it’s time we capitalized with “Boomer Hunter”.
60-something women can give hung young studs lectures about Social Security, Medicare and how Millennials know nothing about how to run the world. Said hung stud says “OK Boomer” and ejaculates on her face. No penetration is involved.
The stud who doesn’t lose wood during the harangue wins.
OK, that second paragraph got me back on board.
At first I thought “Boomer Hunter” was going to involve a lot of watching Esiason’s ass and balls, and frankly I wasn’t up for that.
Ok, Boner
. We concluded that even if Cuba and China collapse the DPRK will live on as a socialist country because it has the Juche idea and is the real socialist country
https://twitter.com/juche0071/status/1196771715566706690
The same DPRK that needs constant propping up by China, who only does it to avoid a refugee crisis?
who only does it to avoid
a refugee crisisthe cost and mess of machine gunning starving Norks trying to cross the borderIt’s still a crisis. I mean, how many PLA divisions would they need to divert to the border to contain it?
It would be a nice little break from slaughtering HKers.
“Hey Lao, ever stop and wonder if just maybe, we’re the bad guys?”
“No.” *loads new belt in machine gun*
“Don’t know where that thought came from.” *fires on refugees*
is the real socialist country
Finally A concession.
Britain, oh how far ye hath fallen.
Parody account?
Coincidentally – Chile boots 50 illegals involved in rioting — mostly from Cuba and Venezuela
Sorry, my shocked face is in the repair shop.
Those must be some amazing farts they are smelling.
Through a fortuitous set of circumstances, I have been presented with the opportunity to purchase a property well under market value. About a 1/4 of appraised value, to be specific.
I have the cash on hand to do so.
Question, after obtaining ownership, should I rent it, sell it, or torch it for the insurance money?
I’m kidding about the last part, but I should be able to rent it for 650 a month or so, or sell it for around 85k. I like the idea of maintaining ownership, especially since it abuts my property, but in scared to death of what renters can do to place.
Any advice from any of you glib shit/landlords.
should I rent it, sell it, or torch it for the insurance money?
Do you live in California? Are you worried that Warren will get her Tenant Protection Beuraeu set up?
“torch it for the insurance money”
Need you even ask?
If you rent it, buy it as a biz.
Could be worth trying your hand at that. If it’s not worth the effort, flip it.
I’ve never been a landlord, but I’ve known quite a few, and “don’t shit where you eat” seems to be a universally agreed upon principle. Renting to your neighbor can be a nightmare.
Oprhan’s quarters?
On the one hand, rental properties can be an excellent source of passive income, especially when you retire. I have a couple of uncles by marriage who maintain several for that reason, although neither has retired quite yet. On the other hand, one of those uncles is a general contractor and does all the work himself for his and his brother’s places, so the costs are low there. It seems like if you either own the place outright or can charge enough to cover maintenance overhead and the mortgage it’s a pretty good deal.
Sell it and donate the money to the a local gun control group to make your country safer
I would only do it as a rental if you can afford to leave it vacant long enough to be really picky about your tenants.
I rented out half a duplex and lived in the other half for awhile. Most of my tenants were just fine, good neighbors even. One was a slob and kind of a dick. I think the fact that I owned two large pit beasts (combined weight; nearly 200 pounds) probably helped keep him from being more of problem.
Thanks glibs. One thing I have to figure out, is if i sell how to avoid paying a huge amount of taxes on the profit. I’d probably have to talk to a tax attorney about that.
Invest bigly in home improvement for that property.
One thing I have to figure out, is if i sell how to avoid paying a huge amount of taxes on the profit.
Live in it until it qualifies as your domicile, then the profits on sale are tax free.
Good morning, Glibbies! Lots to do today.
I sold my guns, so no need for the gun safe. There are 16 people wanting this thing and only ONE of them has committed to a pickup date and time and asked for my address. I’ve stopped answering the “Is this available?” questions until after today’s buyer doesn’t show. Related, I was selling something I didn’t think anyone wanted. Someone did and asked me to deliver. I’m like UH NO, but then I realized it was my best chance to get rid of something huge (big case of bubble mailers, FYI, you nosy fucks) and get some money AND go to the spice store (very close by) I’ve been meaning to go to for a while.
Got XY a therapy appointment tonight with a dude who was recommended highly BUT (there’s always a but) it’s a brand new practice (not a new therapist out of school) and they don’t have their i surance straightened out. It’s a shame too because this guy’s offkce hours are 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Satirdays. We’re going to pay out of pocket this time, but can’t afford to do it again. I gave him the rundown over the phone so I don’t waste my hour.
Purging and packing continue apace. Purging feels so good. Not orgasmic, but it gives me a little spring in my step.
I sold my guns
I hope you kept at least one.
Look, RC, this is like a boat accident. No firearms are retained.
I did not. I woke up Saturday with no thoughts in my head at all, then I got to purging, decided it was time to see about selling my squirrel gun. Then, because of my shame and bitterness over having made a stupid gun purchase, decided to sell that too. Mr. Mojeaux protested, but I was firm. So, we went.
Unbeknownst to me, XY had had a half-baked plan for that gun, and was shocked and dismayed that I just HAPPENED to sell them right when he was thinking about using it on himself, which we found out about Saturday night and ended up at the ER. (They were locked up and he didn’t know where the keys were.)
I will say it again: I don’t have to hear God’s voice or know God’s directing me to know to follow my “whimsies” without a thought.
I’m sorry to hear about the emergency room visit. It’s good that you had the instinct or guidance to know what that was best for your family
Thanks. Things SEEM to be going much better since then, and therapy appointment tonight.
I’m sorry to hear about that Mojeaux. This same reason is why we don’t keep guns in the Leon Household either. I hope he is able to recover and move on past this.
If there’s ever a good reason to get rid of all your guns, that’s the one.
Very true. I suspect that there is no gun storage system that is proof against a determined teenage male. Even a gun safe, unless you have the combination memorized and not written down anywhere.
Yeah, and that’s one of those situations where if there’s one tenth of a percent of a chance something terrible could happen it’ll keep you up at night.
“I sold my guns”
And you didn’t even ask us if we wanted to buy?
*kicks pebble*
I did, quite a while ago. I was advised to go to gunbroker.com.
Oh. Well. Darn.
With the proceeds she is buying all of us new top hats.
And monocles.
Any advice from any of you glib shit/landlords.
Cam girls.
That’s your answer for everything
And a great answer it is.
Prolly a domestic violence thing. The killer’s dead, though, which is the main thing.
Just from reading the link, it sounded to me like a classic spurned lover/husband triangle. Man and woman sitting in car, second man shoots them…
it gives me a little spring in my step.
Excelsior!
Question: How Many Members of Congress Have Voted to End the War in Yemen and Also Voted Against the Resolution to Condemn the President for Withdrawing Troops from Syria (a withdrawal that turns out to have never happened anyways)?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-brave-cadre-of-conservative-anti-war-republicans/
FTA:
“Neither U.S. involvement in the Syrian Civil War, nor U.S. material support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen have been authorized by Congress, making them illegal American wars. The Trump administration opposed both resolutions, and stopping House Joint Resolution 37 was only the second veto of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Out of the House’s 435 members, only 11 voted to end both the war in Yemen and to draw down in Syria. They are Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Trey Hollingsworth of Indiana, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Alex Mooney of West Virginia, and Bill Posey of Florida.
Notice anything? They’re all Republicans.”
AND
“”Hawaii representative and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard voted in favor of the Yemen resolution in February and did not vote on House Joint Resolution 77 regarding Syria. Her office did not return a request for comment to explain her absence. Gabbard has since introduced her own Syria withdrawal resolution.
Republican-turned-Independent representative from Michigan Justin Amash voted “Present” on both resolutions. Amash’s haughty attitude stems from his contention that such resolutions present a “false choice.” This did not prevent the congressman from calling President Trump a “fraud” for vetoing the same Yemen resolution he refused to support.”
Is this where I say “SHUT THE FUCK UP LIBTARD!”?
That’s pretty pathetic. 11 out of 435…
We’re fucked, aren’t we?
War is popular and profitable.
The American Dream.
Good and hard
Big War Machine runs the show.
Amash is a shoe-in for the LP nomination in 2020. Former Republican… knows where Aleppo is… AND wants to bomb it back to the stone age? Yes please!
*shoo -in goddammit
Well, to be fair, he isn’t suggesting that we bomb Aleppo or even defending our involvement in Syria. He’s basically just shrugging and ignoring the issue. He does that a lot more than people want to admit when it comes to contentious votes. We’ve gone from “Dr. No” to “Congressman Present”.
I’ve been interacting with Amash (or, likely one of his staff) on DerpBook since he was in the MI State House. He has turned out to be the most disappointing politician I’ve ever stooped to liking.
He’s still not so bad on some topics. He’s just not all that great. And in a lot of ways, I agree that he has been pretty disappointing. I was expecting him to criticize Trump on substantive points, such as the War in Yemen or the misappropriation of funds to build a border wall (which was never authorized by Congress). Instead he’s made no more substantive points than your average Democrat and when compared to some Democrats, like Tulsi- even less substantive points.
His blind acceptance of Russia Fever Dreams and his unwillingness to reckon with the fact that he supported an unhinged conspiracy perpetuated by the intelligence community that has led to a budding proxy war cost him a lot of respect, at least from me.
This X 100
Amash’s haughty attitude stems from his contention that such resolutions present a “false choice.”
Peace is a false choice
Stay in these wars, or get out. What’s the false choice, Justin?
Sorry, my shocked face is in the repair shop.
500,00 shock tune-up?
And my warranty just ran out too.
People sometimes ask me how big the IEA is. The answer: It’s complicated.
If, by that, you mean “How many people come to the office most days of the week?” – that’s about 30.
But then, there’s a whole secondary industry around us, of people who make a living obsessing about us.
o it’s a bit like asking “How many people work in football?”
If you only count the players and the club managers, the answer is: not many.
But once you include professional commentators, pundits, sports journalists writing about little else, etc – that’s a much bigger number.
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1196770195819417601
lol
Julian Assange: Sweden drops rape investigation
Real curious how after he’s been flushed out of the embassy they all of sudden decide to drop all those rape charges that totally happened and definitely weren’t just an excuse to force him out of the embassy.
Pure coincidence.
I saw a few of you discussing health care costs in yesterday’s links thread. I think a few of you may be interested in the latest Econtalk episode – Russ Roberts interviews the gentleman who runs the clinic in Oklahoma that posts its prices and is cash only. Among the things I found interesting (besides the odious “certificate of need”) was the interviewee asserting that the other side of the agreement of hospitals agreeing to treat anyone who shows up with life-threatening injuries is that hospitals don’t need to pay taxes (I hope I am quoting that correctly). I’m not sure if they specified on the podcast, but I assume that’s referring to federal income tax? I figure RCD may have some insight if he sees this. Link below for those interested:
https://www.econtalk.org/
I assume this was covered but
‘Meth. We’re On It.’: What to know about South Dakota’s new anti-meth campaign
https://eu.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/18/gov-kristi-noem-launches-anti-meth-campaign-meth-were-it/4227949002/
and as a throwback
South Dakota Pulls ‘Don’t Jerk and Drive’ Ad Campaign
https://time.com/3632678/south-dakota-jerk-drive/
South Dakota: Get your head out of the gutter
*falls out of chair laughing*
Innuendo?
Innyourendo!
High five!
Ordinarily I’d suggest that it was deliberate and designed to draw more attention to the campaign, but on the other hand these are government employees so they probably aren’t that clever.
The class action lawsuit, filed Monday in the Southern District of Florida, claims that although the burger chain advertises its vegan option as meat-free, it is contaminated by meat by-product because it’s cooked on the same grill as meat products.
There’s a simple answer here. Burger King will simply drop the product offering. After awhile, it wears off its novelty factor anyway. Congratulations, vegans, your petulant whinging is going to lead to them removing the one option from their menu that meets your needs.
I think this is like the Popeye’s chicken sandwich thing. It blew up because of marketing and Twitter, became viral, and will fade to background noise in a month or two. Eventually the volume of sales will get too low and they’ll either drop it entirely or switch to a cheaper provider, calling it the “vegan burger” or something if Impossible Corp. or whatever can’t get their price down.
Conspiracy
President Donald Trump, according to the White House, made an unscheduled trip to Walter Reed hospital on Saturday for a “quick exam and labs” as the first stage of his annual physical.
You shouldn’t just believe them.
Which is not to say that whatever happened on Saturday wasn’t minor or maybe even routine. What it is to say is that this is a President and a White House who have set a standard of dishonesty and obfuscation — up to and including the President’s health — that should force any rational person to question the explanation currently being offered by the White House.
Remember what we already know about this President’s health. Trump is 73 years old and is the oldest person ever elected to a first term as president. In his most recent physical exam — conducted in February — he clocked in at 243 pounds.
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Given that history — and the fact that Trump has made more than 13,000 false or misleading claims since taking office, according to The Washington Post’s Fact Checker — there is every reason to suspect the original story the White House is telling doesn’t paint the full picture.
“We’re not going to get into security and movement protocols when it comes to the President, but as my statements said he’s in good health and it was a routine checkup as part of his annual physical,” Grisham told CNN. “I’ve given plenty of on-the-record statements that were truthful and accurate — actively trying to find and report conspiracy theories really needs to stop.”
Which is exactly the problem. Grisham, by her own accounting, has given “plenty of on-the-record statements that were truthful and accurate.” Which, of course, means she has given some that, well aren’t.
This — right here — is why a White House that lies as easily as it tells the truth creates major problems for the media and the country. How can we take the White House’s word for it when that word has, on so many occasions, been false. The answer is that we can’t take their word for it. And neither should you.
More palpable desperation. If only they could evict that guy from their heads, they’d be a lot better off.
You might think they would welcome the idea of Trump dropping dead.
I wouldn’t doubt that there is something that the White House is trying to cover-up about the President’s health. He is not a specimen of fine health, but the obsession with his health from the corporate press is rather unhinged. I remember when they accused the president’s doctor of lying for saying the president was in good health. That was insane.
What if the White House and the press corp make a deal: Trump will go to a doctor of their choosing to examine his health and corporate press journalists will seek psychiatric help for the obvious mental disorder that they have developed?
It would be less frustrating if they hadn’t also spent a huge gob of 2016 covering up for Hilary’s health issues. They had to be dragged kicking and screaming to report on her collapsing while waiting for a van. Then they immediately started peddling the campaign line that it was just rehydration.
Trump doesn’t need to see a doctor for the Press to have one diagnose him.
13,000 false claims?
Claim number 1
Press: Did you brush your teeth this morning?
DT: Yes
Fact Check determined Trump used a Waterpik that morning but did not brush. It’s unclear if this is an impeachable offense.
An anonymous WH staffer has stated that the waterpik was made in Russia.
You forgot to preface the damning information with “sources in the White House familiar with Trump’s oral hygiene said…”
“senior government officials said…” would also have been acceptable.
????
I’m sure the fact that he didn’t send any doctor notes and/or lab results to Pelosi and Schiff will end up being added to the article of impeachment under “Obstruction of Congress”
Which is exactly the problem. Grisham, by her own accounting, has given “plenty of on-the-record statements that were truthful and accurate.” Which, of course, means she has given some that, well aren’t.
No, it doesn’t. Saying “I have a long record of telling the truth” does not in any way imply “and I have also lied”.
Note, also, the slide from “Grisham” to “the White House”. The fact that others in your organization have lied does not in any way imply that you have, also.
President Kennedy was getting doped up like a fucking circus elephant while the White House declare he was fit as a fiddle and the media fully participated in cultivating his image as an active young heartthrob.
President Wilson had a fucking stroke that left him paralyzed and incapacitated while his wife took secretly took on his duties.
President Reagan was likely covering up early stage Alzheimer’s during the end of his final term in office.
But yes, this is clearly unprecedented behavior.
Continuing story from the truck mechanic in prison (for life) for fixing trucks that were used to distribute marijuana.
https://libertarianchristians.com/2019/11/14/you-can-learn-a-lot-about-socialized-care-from-prison/
Meanwhile, Tenants Together is calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state attorney general’s office to enact a statewide eviction moratorium. Over a dozen cities around the state, including Los Angeles, Pasadena and Daly City, have passed ordinances of their own.
Maybe someone can explain something to me. Why the hell would anyone invest a brass farthing in rental real estate in California (well, any capital market in California, but that’s a different question)? I really don’t get it. What are they counting on? Their “plan” is cap prices and make it nearly impossible to evict non-performing tenants. That’s a recipe for losing money. What makes them think anyone will put another dime into something they obviously need more of, when putting money into it is a losing proposition?
I was wondering that same thing in reference to dude’s Tesla getting broken into multiple times. Why would you open a company of any kind in San Francisco? Real estate is sky high, public services have got to be deteriorating if the crime is any indicator. The local political culture is basically radical Marxist and one rolling blackout away from massacring the kulaks. I have a hard time believing that something in the water there happens to produce the best software developers on the west coast.
Their “plan” is cap prices and make it nearly impossible to evict non-performing tenants. That’s a recipe for losing money. What makes them think anyone will put another dime into something they obviously need more of, when putting money into it is a losing proposition?
What are those profiteering parasites going to do? Abandon Paradise for some desolate flyover shithole like Las Vegas?
There are a lot of things in human medicine that make sense broadly, but not in detail. We understand why a thing could happen, but not exactly how it happens. A case in point in alcoholic liver disease. It makes perfect sense that longterm alcohol abuse would damage the liver – it’s the front line for everything coming out of the gut, since the hepatic portal vein system drains whatever gets absorbed from the digestive system straight through the organ for first-pass sorting and processing. Continued expose to excess amounts of ethanol cannot help but cause damage, and damage is what you see. But just how does that damage take place?
This new paper (commentary here) from a large multinational team has what may be an unexpected answer: bacterial infection. There have been mouse experiments that suggested that Enterococcus faecalis (a common human-associated bacterial species) might be involved in alcoholic hepatitis, but this latest work provides a great deal of proof that it might in fact be a causative agent. Presence of the bacteria in human stool is strongly correlated with the disease. More particularly, it’s presence of the E. faecalis cytolysin, a bacterial toxin that’s one member of a large family of similar proteins.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/11/18/bacteria-behind-yet-another-disease
Having a smoked turkey sent to my parent’s house to add to Thanksgiving dinner. Hopefully it’s as good as the ham, and better than UCS’s experience with the lamb.
I have participated in several hundred evictions in SF and the county next door. In SF you have to try extra special hard to get evicted. The quickest I have ever seen for non payment of rent is 6 months, but on average it takes 9-12 months of no rent paid to get booted. The county next door is considerably quicker, but the quickest I’ve seen there is two months of not paying. To get evicted for being a nuisance you have to have next level asshole powers. One example of such I was on last year involved a middle aged black woman who would scream the most vile racist shit you could imagine at people who walked by the apartment. As I was waiting for the sheriff, the surfer dude who lived in the building across the street told me that one morning she showed up knocking at his door totally naked and then brushed past him, sat on his couch and started watching tv like she belonged there. Usually the local cops don’t show up for an eviction, but this one they did. She had close to 100 police calls about her in a one year period. Her scumbag boyfriend threatened the poor landlord in front of me during it and the cops ignored me when I told them.
Naked ass on the couch?
That’s a crime against humanity
Believe me, her naked ass would rank towards the bottom of naked asses on your couch.
Katie Hill says hi
Thank you! And, before anyone says it, I have had plenty of sex on several couches and, for my money, if it’s my couch I’d rather not trade an hour or so of naked gymnastics for questionable stains that never really come out.
No safe space
Syracuse University officials are investigating Tuesday after receiving multiple reports that a purported “white supremacist manifesto” was posted online and was being shared with students.
The New York school’s Department of Public Safety said that according to the reports, the purported document was attempted to be shared via AirDrop to cellphones of people inside the Bird Library. The AirDrop function allows Apple users to send files to one another on their iPhones and Macs.
Officials added that no person has come forward about receiving such a document.
“These reports have yet to be confirmed and there is no specific threat to Syracuse University,” safety officials said in an early-morning news release.
The Syracuse Police Department, New York State Police and the FBI were being notified of the incident, the school added.
While officials did not detail what the document entailed, the independently run school newspaper The Daily Orange reported it was the manifesto written by the man suspected in the massacre at two New Zealand mosques in March. NBC News could not immediately confirm the report.
The warning, meanwhile, is the latest to rattle Syracuse’s campus of more than 22,000 students, coming a day after more racist graffiti was discovered at the university following school officials’ announcement that they were implementing a school-wide suspension of all fraternity activities because of an earlier allegedly racist incident.
Nothing happened. But it could have.
Is that about it?
It’s OK to be Greek.
On Sunday, department officials said they had gathered “substantial evidence” that a group of fraternity members subjected a black student to a “verbal racial epithet” over the weekend.
Only one fraternity was said to be involved, but university Chancellor Kent Syverud said Sunday that a temporary ban would be instituted on all fraternities.
“Given recent history, all fraternities must come together with the University community to reflect upon how to prevent recurrence of such seriously troubling behavior,” Syverud said.
Collective punishment. That’s how you make the world a better, safer, more empathetic place.
a group of fraternity members subjected a black student to a “verbal racial epithet” over the weekend.
Some Phi Beta Sigma bros called somebody a Basic Becky?
Blue Magic! Yeah, Blue Magic! Heey!
The Omegas were busy branding their pledges and could not be reached for comment.
I’ll just drop this here
Just like eating Chick-fil-A nuggets, they are never satisfied.
Perhaps MOD could do the theme music – https://youtu.be/4jvVsf789y8
I am shocked.
I was just reading about Chikfila.
You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but why fucking bother to try?
That’s why I stick with disappointing everyone all the time.
Bob and weave
The New York Times is shrugging off a challenge from the CEO of FedEx following the newspaper’s blistering report on a recent change in the shipping company’s tax status.
“FedEx’s colorful response does not actually challenge a single fact in our story,” spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha told the Washington Examiner. “We’re confident in the accuracy of our reporting.”
The story, published Sunday, reported FedEx had reduced its yearly tax bill from more than $1 billion in 2017 to $0 the next year.
The big tax break came in large part because of the tax code recently passed by Republicans.
“The New York Times paid zero federal income tax in 2017 on earnings of $111 million, and only $30 million in 2018 — 18% of their pretax book income,” FedEx CEO Frederick Smith responded.
Smith went on to challenge the journalists who published the scathing article to a debate on who has done more for the American people.
Leaders at the Times called the debate invitation a deflection and a poorly advised attention grab.
“FedEx’s invitation is clearly a stunt and an effort to distract from the findings of our story,” Rhoades Ha said.
I guess that means you’re too chicken to debate?
But Trump’s refusal to testify before the congressional inquisition is evidence of crime.
“We’re confident in the accuracy of our reporting.”
Umm.. Have you seen what needed to be retracted from your pages in the last 10 years?
“FedEx’s colorful response does not actually challenge a single fact in our story,”
NYT’s response doesn’t actually accept the invitation to Debate. For being so confident, you’d think they wouldn’t shy away from defending their reporting.
It’s true that the response doesn’t challenge any of the FACTS in their story.
Just the falsehoods. Fake but accurate! Walter Duranty’s spirit lives on!