Holy shit, it’s almost 2020. That means I’m really, really old so the best I can say is that at least I’m still regular (easy lob over the plate here!). And I have the prostate of an 18 year old (soft pitch down the middle, people!). And SP and I will spend New Year’s Eve upholding our traditions (c’mon, this is a BP fastball). And among those traditions are the links I post before and after. The after ones tend to be a bit murkier, admittedly, so let’s enjoy coherence while it’s still present.
Birthdays today include the single most horrible human to occupy the White House (and the first indicator of the merit of the Nobel Peace Prize); a true space case; a brilliant and under-rated comic actor; our Fatha who art in Heaven; his negative image; and a guy who really got with the program.
On to the news:
I’m sure this will bring down the murder rate.
OMG, A LAW PROFESSOR!!!! IT’S ALL OVER NOW, MITCH!
More right wing white supremacist antisemitism in Trump Country.
Old Guy Music today is a surprisingly delightful take on a classic.
“Officials acknowledge that the changes are meant to reverse a steep drop in enrollment. Evergreen’s enrollment began steadily declining in 2010, in line with a national trend of falling enrollment at liberal arts colleges. But deep unrest at Evergreen in 2017, when student protests erupted over a series of complex race-related issues, attracted negative national attention; Evergreen’s enrollment has since plummeted about 27%, to 2,854 students this fall from just over 3,900 students in 2017. The university is also trying other strategies, such as raising more money for scholarships and launching a new program for first-year students, The Olympian recently reported.
In 1967, then-Gov. Dan Evans and the state Legislature founded Evergreen, a public liberal arts college based in Olympia, as an experiment: Students don’t get grades and they don’t have majors. The college’s flexible curriculum has allowed faculty to plan their courses anew each year. If a significant political event happens, for instance, faculty can create a class dedicated to studying it.”
Well, maybe they should try a more radical approach, like holding scheduled classes, and not allowing hooligans with baseball bats.
“Students don’t get grades and they don’t have majors.”
So, no performance evaluations? I worked with those people before they found a union, government job
College enrollment is declining in general. The local read has an interview with the college president who’s bemoaning the drop in revenue and how it’s going to impact them.
Of course, the discussion of whether a reduction in administrative costs would be a good idea is never mentioned.
But deep unrest at Evergreen in 2017, when student protests erupted over a series of complex race-related issues, attracted negative national attention
Nothing complex about it. SJW morons wanted to racially segregate the entire college.
Intermezzo link
Karen is a cunte.
If I were on the Ravens I’d point to Karen as an example of those who are teaching children to bully people doing things you don’t like.
Karen knows best. Went to Evergreen College in all likelihood.
Cunte Supreme.
I think I saw them play one of the stages at Lilith Fair.
“There’s also a delay for adopting a new set of “mobile field force” operating procedures, which provide guidance to officers during a large crowd or riot response. Davis’ motion says other agencies throughout the state are reviewing polices similar to those in a Maryland State Police manual that uses a “more progressive, European approach to mobile field force deployment.” The deadline extension will allow the department to meet consent decree requirements, but also allow better align city policy with the state police policy, the motion says.”
What does that even mean?
“Baltimore entered into the consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice in April 2017 after an investigation found the department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, especially in the city’s poor and predominantly minority neighborhoods.”
That won’t stop until you end the war on drugs.
Even then I doubt it will matter.
I have a radical theory on the war on drugs. Up into the 60s police freely rousted black people who strayed into white neighborhoods. The Civil Rights movement exposed the brutal unfairness of this and other actions used to ‘control’ the black population, and by the late 60s police departments were facing DOJ investigations for these tactics and courts were ruling for defendants on 4th, 5th and 6th Amendment grounds. Suddenly in the early 70s the narcotics laws became ‘the war on drugs’.
Now the police freely roust ‘drug users’ when they stray into ‘good neighborhoods’ and they have a whole slew of ‘indicators, woof’ that allow them to develop ‘articulable suspicion’ of drug activity, which avoid those pesky 4th Amendment issues. The courts are full to bursting which overloads the defense attorneys largely neutering the 6th Amendment for ‘urban youth’. And best of all prosecutors now have an infinity of ‘sentence enhancements’ and additional charges to threaten defendants with to
coercepersuade the defendants to give up their 5th Amendment rights.Remember the progressives that started drug prohibition were also huge racists.
The drug war and gun control were pretty explicitly Jim Crow laws at the outset.
As was the minimum wage and abortion rights, now that I think about it.
What does that even mean?
Yes, end the war on drug, by all means.
But when your violent crime rate is 4x the rate of the big guy up north enforcing all the same laws and with a police force that is also not known for any “progressive, European” approach—something’s off and probably not being addressed by the gobbledygook quoted above.
This can’t be repeated enough. Cops aren’t the only thing wrong here.
I think the govt will always create an oppressed class to freely extort. This class needs to consist of pariahs that most of society cares little about – a villified race/ethnicity/nationality, prostitutes, drug users, political party, socioeconomic stratum, etc.
You know who else fielded a mobile force in Europe?
Ericsson?
T-Mobile?
But was it a “progressive” mobile force?
Playmobil?
Maximillian Cooper?
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden?
Nice.
Cam Cam Copenhagen?
Lance Armstrong?
Harrison Ford?
It means “we’re gonna have a lot of overtime for training and you’re gonna STFU and pay for it.”
“A banker fishing off the coast of New Providence, Bahamas, had an unpleasant surprise when a shark he caught and was about to release back into the water retched up a human leg.”
This is why I stick to flyfishing for trout.
Now look fellas. Let’s be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half ass autopsy on a fish! And I am not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock!
College leaders want the new paths, which are tied to careers in agriculture, the arts, science and politics, to send a message of renewal: that Evergreen is a serious academic institution and responsive to student opinions.
“It’s just a way of innovating yet again, which is the way we roll,” said Sandra Kaiser, Evergreen’s vice president of college relations.
Do they have a major in empty rhetoric and vapid nonsense?
“Sociology.”
Why be so limiting?
From My Majors.com
“Canadian Studies”
Four years of poutine and beaver hats.
Irish studies is just staying drunk for four years.
I think i minored in that.
Man, the euphemisms north of the border are just as strange as ours.
Baltic Studies = 2 year degree
/Old Latvian/
It also includes a course called Stanley Cup – Legend of Canada’s Past.
You know who says “the way we roll”?
People who aren’t serious.
Dead giveaway.
Should be “how we roll”, amirite?
*strikes entry from catchphrase book*
What’s a Consent Decree? as posed by the Balmer police? Do the coppers need permission to molest the alleged perps?
A Consent decree is the Federal Government’s equivalent of the agreement you reach with the guy who starts the negotiation for your new partnership by showing you a picture of your Granddaughter tied up in a basement with a bunch of guys with prison tattoos and torture implements.
Ah, now I get it. Thanks
I’ll take “cause and effect” for a thousand
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign told supporters in an email on Friday that, so far, it has raised just over $17 million in the fourth quarter, a significant drop from her fundraising haul during the third quarter.
The memo asks backers to step up giving to the campaign.
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The dip in fundraising also comes after she escalated her attacks on billionaires and wealthy donors. She has accused rival Mike Bloomberg of trying to buy the Democratic nomination, while she has gotten into public spats with Wall Street titans such as Leon Cooperman and Lloyd Blankfein.
To pay for her ambitious progressive agenda, including “Medicare for All,” she is proposing a wealth tax that would seek 2% of every dollar over $50 million of someone’s net worth. That rate would go higher, to 6%, on net worth over $1 billion.
Warren’s disgust toward big-money fundraisers was on full display during the Democratic debate in Los Angeles. The senator battled with Buttigieg for taking part in a moneymaking event in California at an expensive wine cave. It turns out, the Massachusetts lawmaker also had a Senate fundraiser at a winery in Boston last year.
“Not giving is stealing” you say?
*closes checkbook*
Warren’s disgust toward big-money fundraisers
Looking at the timeline, unless the entropy arrow has reversed (which I think might be bad) I’m going to go out on a limb and agree that she may be confusing cause and effect.
I hear the wine caves is available if she needs a venue for her fundraisers.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/27/anna-kendrick-responds-to-islanders-anthony-beauvilliers-twitter-shot/
You miss all the shots you don’t take.
She’s still smoking hot, but that top she’s wearing has got to go.
You mean that bow thing on her dress?
The top half of the dress looks ridiculous. In fact, she needs to take the whole thing off.
⬅
from the sidebar:
https://nypost.com/2019/12/23/teacher-explains-anatomy-to-students-in-skin-tight-bodysuit/
Still would.
Slim Goodbody is on his way.
Well you could probably see the drugs before they fall out of her ass.
Good, maybe he’ll be distracted tomorrow night against the Wild.
I confess I’d never heard the original “What is Hip”. You may me listen to that as well.
Thumbs up on both!
What is hip?
Jeepers, Ted. This popped up next – https://youtu.be/SYnVYJDxu2Q
Did you dance to it at work like you did with the Husker Du?
Nah… The beard ensorcelled me into inaction. Great song though.
I’ve been waiting for a Rooshun fever dreams opportunity to throw that one in.
LOL Deutschland, right??
I’ve heard the Illium Cafe in New York is quite popular.
That bass player should be the prototype for all bass players going forward. Good lord!
Poor SP. You know I’m going to play several versions of that song today, all at concert volume.
“Not giving (to me) is stealing” you say?
So disappointing that in an age where professional athletes are making an insane amount of money he couldn’t have donated to charities — and done it in the name of his offensive line — then treated his teammates to dinner. Those players can all afford their own Rolexes, so it is very discouraging that someone didn’t give him a little guidance. It just flaunts the amount of money they make and don’t know what to do with. Sorry, Lamar, I am not such a big fan now.”
A darky and his money, right? Some white liberal should take them by the hand and lead them into the light. There are social workers and homeless advocates with no Rolexes, and that’s not fair.
That is basically what I got out of it too. Can’t she just mind her own beeswax?
“The Human Fund… Money for People”
CFP semifinals today. Predictions:
LSU 31-Oklahoma 35 (Upset alert)
OSU 35-Clemson 24 (Upset alert)
It’s gonna be a long, nerve-wrecking day in the Sloopy household. Hopefully I end up being right and it ends in a high note.
LSU and OSU
both by six
If LSU’s starting running back isn’t able to go, I wonder if that won’t really hurt them, as Oklahoma could play six deep on defense. I’m basing my prediction on that.
I want to see PSU crush Memphis and Iowa State bury Notre Dame.
Go Ohio State!!! It’s hard for this PSU fan to say bUy I wan to see some Big10 dominance this bowl season.
Memphis loses by nine
your present from Pope Jimbo and me
I remember bringing my 1 year old daughter to Tiger football games in the early ’90s. As a student you could attend games for free and the kid loved climbing all the stairs in the stands. Since the stands were pretty much deserted it was a great playground for her.
I am always suspect when someone mentions Memphis and decent football.
*Chuck Stobart the coach when I attended there was a grade A dick. I had a job at a new video store that hired Stobart and Larry Finch (the b-ball coach) to do guest appearances as part of the grand opening. Stobart showed up, did his best to hide the entire time and then immediately left when the gig was up. Finch came early, bull shitted everyone and stuck around until closing time.
I’m pulling for THE Ohio State University, but I can see it being 35-24 with either team winning.
Agreed. I think whoever wins it’ll be by two scores. I just hope it’s the good guys.
I thought you were a tOSU fan.
::shakes fist in impotent rage::
I’m watching the OU game with a guy who has three generations of Sooners in his family. Should be a good time.
OK, Boomer.
When the line is 2 points it isn’t an upset.
Eh, technically it is.
Oh, edit faerie….
You can’t even reply to your own comment asking the edit faerie to flutter by?
Also, the edit faerie appears to have fluttered by.
December 28, 1922: birth of Stan Lee
More serious conversations about the paths began around 2016, said Krishna Chowdary, who teaches physics and math and is a former leader of a faculty governance committee on curriculum. A few years before, he said, the college conducted a study of students who had transferred out. According to Chowdary, many students said it wasn’t clear how Evergreen would help them achieve their goals.
“Listen, kid. Not everybody can be Greta Thunberg. Get that plum job at Starbucks and bide your time. Get out there among the middle class troglodytes and spread the good word of socialist democracy. You’ll be writing “pig” on a coffee cup before you know it, and it will make all that student debt worthwhile.”
https://media.giphy.com/media/YOeJS8g12Th7kFFfuo/giphy.gif
Santa is on the naughty list
So many socialist Indians. You’d think they’d make the connection between the rampant corruption in their country and the decades of poverty and socialism, but I guess it’s just the Britisher’s fault.
The Soviets really did a number on them, but I think the combination of socialism with their retrograde caste system was the real killer.
My soon to be brother in law (sister-in-law’s fiancee) thinks that socialism means your country will be strong. I tried asking why so many people keep coming to the US when India is/was so much more socialist… there may have been alcohol involved as well. BTW, if you ever get a chance, try feni it is a fruit liquor, I guess, made from cashew fruit in India- absolutely delicious.
“Joe Biden says he will DEFY subpoena to testify in Trump’s Senate impeachment trial because it will detract attention from the president’s actions”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7832055/Joe-Biden-says-defy-subpoena-testify-Trumps-Senate-impeachment-trial.html
He should just say it’s because he can’t remember anything.
Let’s see…..
He wants to obstruct congress so that he doesn’t remove focucs from the gravity of Trump obstructing congress. By asserting what? You gotta win the election before you have executive privilege to assert, ol’ Joe.
Interesting play that manages to have two epic fail angles.
He should just bring his pool chain
I don’t think that’s considered a valid legal justification.
No business executive (or anybody else) should respond to grandstanding TEAM BLUE’s “requests” for them to testify before congressional committees.
Private citizens largely should be able to tell Congrefs to pound sand. Their subpoena power should be against government employees and contractors (for contract related issues).
“Congrefs”. I liked that.
So… when can we start the impeachment proceedings on ol’ Joey?
Do the Senate subpoenas have the force of a court order since impeachment is presided over by the chief justice?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/contempt_of_congress#
The Hollywood commies went to federal prison for refusing to appear.
Contempt of the courts/congress is bullshit as implemented. Person is in contempt (usually isn’t scraping sufficiently low for the thugs in robes), then charge him and have a trial on that charge. For judges or congress to punish someone unilaterally is an unconstitutional circumvention of the justice system.
Thanks, Edit Faerie!
“Elizabeth Hurley, 54, transforms into a VERY sexy ninja as she dons busty cut-out leotard and mask for sizzling snaps”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7831625/Elizabeth-Hurley-54-transforms-sexy-ninja-dons-busty-cut-leotard.html
54 isn’t what it used to be.
It is where I live.
I’ve got 4 years to go – it’s all up from here!
“… it’s all up from here!”
Well, at least one appendage, hopefully. ?
Hugh Grant is a fucking moron.
?
Dang.
Would. Oh hell yeah, would.
The bass player. I’ll be in my bunk.
On the Law Professor’s editorial…. i have seen this editorial written about in at least 4 different national publications, plus linked on Drudge.
A single letter to the editor by a professor that nobody has ever heard of ……
It is almost as if there is a narrative that needs pushing.
And playing completely against type, CNN had this blast from the past
Suspicions confirmed. Schumer has always looked like a smarmy douche.
Plus he looks like he’s eaten too many Impossible Whooper with those tits.
You can’t even reply to your own comment asking the edit faerie to flutter by?
Something something hobgoblin of little minds
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a New York-based philanthropic organization, awarded Evergreen a series of grants totaling $800,000 to launch the paths. The concept was incorporated into the faculty’s collective bargaining agreement in 2018.
Not everyone is enthusiastic, though. Michael Zimmerman, Evergreen’s provost from 2011 to 2016, sees the paths as moving away from the academic philosophy that makes the college unique. Evergreen has an “alternative model that needs to be sold if it’s going to be bought,” he said. Zimmerman no longer works at Evergreen; he told The Seattle Times university President George Bridges asked him to leave his post as provost.
“Those stupid consumers aren’t buying my product. What the fuck is wrong with them?”
Twitter U, where the curriculum changes as we see fit semester to semester. I can’t imagine going to a school where there is no path or plan to determine what I might need to know.
I would like Such an approach if I had unlimited money, time, and no need for employment in the future. It sounds like a great place to kill your parents money.
If their parents pay for them to go there, then they’re morons too.
At first I was thinking the people hiring them are the biggest fools, but I guess McDonalds managers often just need warm bodies.
I thought McD’s had their own university.
Why donate to a government-sector school anyway?
I like how an “oath of impartiality” translates as unquestioning acceptance of the House’s accusations.
It makes sense when you realize that socialism is all about assuming the conclusion. Their fantasy will be realized in all facets of life.
That comment made sense in my head.
Where’s my coffee?
Have you checked inside the coffee pot?
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/M1wSDzt4RmKdhhmgjOFDEA.bW9zyAN6iP3q1HI9BUNsxv
Nice musical selection. For some reason, I can’t take my eyes off the bass player.
There was a bass?
Yes. I saw both of them.
I’m not into the whole showing off chops thing.
Anyway….
https://twitter.com/junaserita
https://www.instagram.com/junaserita/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjrEpeFfDGY
Just wow.
Ok, amazing bass player… and really good drummer…. and they found an amazing trumpet player who’s hot too?
The hell? Chicks didn’t play trumpet like that with that kind of ease when I was playing.
and dude on keyboards can play….. guitar ain’t bad either. I would definitely go to see them at one of the local clubs.
+ 1 drummer
In my version of heaven that band would be the opening act every Saturday night.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMvgQK5WwAYFujw.jpg:large
I’m not sure what is going on here.
Warty’s new business venture.
Not John’s?
Cowbaret?
Ultimate multi-purpose facility
Have some overwrought “regulations for thee, not for me”:
Get it? What I do is a passion, not just “work” like those little people over there.
Some people are just stupid assholes.
Are we allowed to say that word?
Giggity
Gigger, please.
Excuse me! It’s “gigga, please”.
Racist.
Don’t get all uppity about it!
giggroes
Can’t she just mind her own beeswax?
How will we know how truly righteous and just she is, if she doesn’t tell us?
Nobody ever won the Nobel Peace Prize by sitting quietly and minding her own business.
Well, Obama came close.
David Marcus and Libby Emmons are contributors to The Federalist.
White supremacist propagandists!
Nobody cares if they lose their jobs.
“Greta Thunberg’s Mother Claims Her Daughter Can ‘See’ CO2
According to her Mother, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has a “sixth sense” – in this case the ability to actually see carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules floating around in the atmosphere.
In her book, Scenes from the Heart: Our Life for the Climate, Malena Ernman, who represented Sweden in the 2009 Eurovision song contest, contended that her daughter had been “gifted” with a supernatural ability to visualize CO2 levels…… everywhere that she went.
When challenged about her claims, Malena told reporters in a text message that it was only about the ‘imagery’.
Natural News reports: Having been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Asperger’s syndrome at a young age, just like her younger sister Beata, Greta is “different” from other children, claims her mom. Besides having a photographic memory, Greta supposedly knows all of the world’s capitals by heart, and can list all of the chemical elements on the periodic table in one minute or less.
“Greta is able to see what other people cannot see,” Malena further explains about Greta in her book. “She can see carbon dioxide with the naked eye. She sees how it flows out of chimneys and changes the atmosphere in (sic) a landfill.”
Malena, who supports Antifa along with her husband, admits that Greta was indoctrinated with climate propaganda from a very young age. Seeing photos of plastic in the ocean and hearing about global warming at schools reportedly caused “a landslide in Greta’s environment” that would ultimately change the course of her future.’ ”
https://newspunch.com/greta-thunbergs-mother-claims-her-daughter-can-see-co2/
I’m thinking the whole family is nuts.
The new movie by M Night Shyamalan.
The “surprise” twist is it’s all bullshit.
“I want to see dead people.”
Has anyone explained to the ‘Greens’ that CO2 is what plants crave?
It would be physically difficult to name the elements in a minute even if you knew them all. What a weird flex.
What if you sing them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8
Look, Fat, here’s the deal; she’ll challenge you to an IQ test and a push-up contest. And win!
This is definitely what a sane and normal person would say.
So the kid has hallucinations also. Great.
Utter horseshit.
Being able to see horseshit would also be an amazing feat to the journalos who cover the Greta beat. Obviously, they are absolutely unable to detect horseshit themselves, so that ability in another would be unbelievable.
Sounds like a Babylon Bee article.
In other words, no different form anything Greta says.
I was never a fan of Imus. I found his show boring the few times I watched it when I had cable back in the 90’s and MSNBC wasn’t a complete loony bin, but come on now, that is funny!
“he was fired for staging mannequin striptease shows”
As he was a former Marine I would expect no less.
Where’s Septuagenaria?
-Gary Johnson
BRAVO!
“Dems Worried If Impeachment Fails They’ll Have To Nominate Electable Candidate”
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1210711977913438214
That’s not even parody.
I’m convinced the scenario where Trump and Pence are impeached, Pelosi becomes President and appoints Hillary as VP, and then resigns so Hillary can be crowned, has been very seriously discussed by the Dems.
I see that we have the same coworkers. And they wonder why I keep my door office door closed most of the time.
Oh geeze. I’m glad I don’t have to deal with people in the office
I’m still getting used to it after 5+ years of working remotely and only having a dog as a coworker.
Yeah, I had a lefty guy at work go on and on about how low our life expectancy is, how high our infant mortality is, how many people die from lack of health care, how poor everyone is here, how disenfranchised we are as voters, how scared our media is to print the truth for fear of imprisonment, how the police are shooting people in the streets every minute, and how even minor dissent against Trump can get you a life sentence. Then he said that all of Europe was light years better on these points and this is the only first world country where we face all of this danger. I told him, I’ve never had anyone argue that America is a dystopian shithole before, and it really begs the question of why we would not all try to sneak into Europe for sanctuary. Then the backpedal went into overdrive.
Yeah, that’s nuts.
On all counts except the problem of police violence not being properly addressed, he doesn’t even have his finger on a real problem.
I’ve heard this “Trump stamps out dissent’ crazy talk since before he took office. It has to be some think-tank meme that is being spread by the network of nonprofits. It is so completely unhinged from reality.
And, as is the usual for these sorts, it is all projection. I’ll note that it is the left who actually is advocating the repeal of the 1st amendment, advocating for the arrest of people for exercising their rights of free speech and using threats of violence as the heckler’s veto.
Yes, that’s the one area where I might find some common ground with him, but I’m sure he’ll frame it as racism and then fail to see that all of his fixes will only further empower the police to keep kill Eric Garners et-al.
Hell yeah, I got my electric bill back under $50 for the last cycle. But the garage heater that runs off forced air over a boiler take-off has been running non-stop since it dropped below 15 this month has definitely ruined that. Nice while it lasted.
Mine was 179 but water heater, electric cooking, water pump. About balances out, AC in the summer, more lighting in the winter.
I have a natgas boiler and hot water heater, so I’m sure that it will be $200 or so this cycle. Oh well. Beats living in a sod hut and burning whale oil to keep warm.
“Oath … to support this Constitution.”
Now do gun-grabing Democrats, particularly in Virginia.
The Constitution is a living document. You just have to know what our interpretation of it is. Any coordinating with Trump is a violation of the Constitution.
Ya, I had the same thought.
I went down a Michael Malice Twitter rabbit hole last night.
There are a lot of dumb bunnies out there.
Political activism 101
One of the largest school districts in the country is trying something new: Starting next month, students in Fairfax County, Va., can take one day off per school year to engage in political activism.
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The result is a policy that McElveen says is a first in the nation. Students between 7th and 12th grades will get one excused absence per year for a “civic engagement activity.” That might consist of attending a protest, or lobbying legislators in Washington or Richmond — anything that could make the students’ voices heard. After submitting the form in advance, and checking in at school on the day of the absence, they can be on their way.
“Public education in the United States was founded on the belief that we need to raise our young people to be productive citizens and give back to society,” McElveen says. “This is just one way that they can learn the skills that they will need to use later in life, whether it’s lobbying a legislator, or making their voice heard through a protest.”
I wonder what the school’s response will be when a group of students wants to go participate in a “Second Amendment sanctuary city” demonstration.
Zero tolerance suspension
“This is just one way that they can learn the skills that they will need to use later in life, whether it’s lobbying a legislator, or making their voice heard through a protest.”
My gawd these people. The number of people that engage in those activities is a minuscule minority, but they live in such a bubble that they think it’s a fucking necessary life skill. SMDH
Their teaching them the opposite of reality on this. If you have sanctioned time off to go protest, it’s a no-risk free day for you with no fear of any consequences. It’s a worthless gesture. Protesting is supposed to be bucking the system. If the system invites and accommodates it, then you are now an agent of the system. The system is on your side,
Good morning, Old Man! And good morning to the rest of the early shift!
Delightful is right! And that bass player?!? BP will be in his bunk for the rest of the day!
Maybe they could cover this one next.
Make it a funky day, people!
Sometimes I like to get funky.
Definitely better looking than Bootsy Collins.
I got home from work yesterday and saw very fresh tracks in the snow leading from my driveway towards my shed, so I went inside and grabbed a flashlight and pistol and went to take a look. It turns out that the moose that’s been hanging around the neighborhood decided that my backyard was a good place to explore and bed down for a bit. Goddamn them things are large.
You’re supposed to shoot, shovel, and shutup
It was a good sized cow and only looking for some food. I think it’s the same cow that made a mockery of my neighbor’s fences and ate all of their shrubs this fall.
Better than some shitbird trying to steal the tools and gear my buddy keeps in my shed.
For sure. But the remedy is the same if you catch one of those.
A moose? I think you mean shoot, backhoe, shutup.
I believe “butcher” is supposed to be in there somewhere.
Poor squirrel.
I saw this on Twitter last night:
The same media taking about how delaying transmitting the articles of impeachment gives pelosi leverage, will next week talk about how they must do it to save the Constitution.
Let’s hear it for the let’s get money out of politics party.
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, entered the Democratic presidential primary a month ago. He’s already spent more than $100 million on advertising.
Bloomberg and Tom Steyer, another billionaire in the Democratic contest, have in total spent about $200 million so far, according to Advertising Analytics, a firm that tracks campaign ad expenditures.
The power of advertising is inexorable.
Yeah, rat fuckers are both targeting California for those sweet superdelegate votes, so I have to hear that shit.
Goddamn them things are large.
Grouchy, too. Or so I have been told.
They’re really dumb and have poor eyesight, which combined with their size is not a good combination.
Is moose season on? Can you shoot a cow (moose)?
No season right in town, but there’s draws for places nearby. Most harvest areas require you to take a bull.
A møøse once bit my sister.
Nasti!
“CNN Is Not a News Network”
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/12/31/cnn-is-not-a-news-network/
but one can gain a sense of the descent by comparing the network with a news organization that has largely maintained its sanity: the New York Times.
I think that conservatism is a form of Stockholm syndrome
Wait, that’s a quote? I withdraw my comment below.
It’s a mostly-solid article minus that howler.
Yeah….. The NYT that openly said they had spent the last 2.5 years attempting to get Trump out of office through their coverage of Russia. The NYT that then openly said that they were going to pivot to race in order to accomplish the same thing, later debuting the 1619 project and several ahistorical articles designed to foment racial animus….
That NYT, right?
“Watching CNN try to push an obvious political agenda while retaining sufficient space for plausible deniability is akin to watching a two-year-old child try to steal a much-coveted chocolate bar without getting caught by his parents; one can only shake one’s head and laugh at the incompetence.
Often, one can follow these attempts in real time. Jim Acosta, who seems to believe that his job is to act as the loyal opposition to President Trump, serves as a good example of the tendency, prone as he is to showing up at press conferences and emoting until he inspires a reaction about which he can subsequently complain on Twitter. Even more transparent a player than Acosta is Don Lemon, who is a “news anchor” in the same sense as that in which Nick Saban is a referee. In recent years, Lemon has become famous for refusing to accept when he is wrong — in 2014, having been informed that he did not know the difference between a semiautomatic and an automatic firearm, he tried to make the distinction a matter of personal taste with a desperately deployed “for me . . .” — and for his routine inability to control his emotions during interviews. The best — well, the worst — illustration of the latter tendency came in August of 2019, when Lemon invited the Reverend Bill Owens onto his show and then grew angry as Owens, an African-American pastor who had just met with President Trump to work on improving conditions in inner cities and wanted to talk about that rather than about Trump’s ridiculous tweeting, repeatedly refused to call the president a racist. When it became abundantly clear that Owens was not going to take the bait, Lemon instantly and dramatically switched tack, accusing Owens of homophobia, questioning whether he was sufficiently “Christianly or godly,” and implying that Owens was “condoning” Trump’s attacks on figures such as Representative Elijah Cummings. As Lemon did this, the technical team at CNN changed the chyron at the bottom of the screen so that it ceased to describe Owens as an “African American faith leader” and labeled him instead as a “controversial pastor.” From honored guest to enemy of progress in five minutes flat.”
The Don lemon/Reverend episode was disgusting. It was an explicit example of “you’re not aloud to be politically agnostic” you are either fit us or against us.
I saw that and it was absolutely shameful.
I remember seeing some chatter, but didn’t look to the details.
That sounds exactly like Pravda.
I wonder if you can find a better example of 1984 being put into practice. “We have always been at war with Eastasia…Eurasia!”
I always thought that was simply extreme allegory as a kid.
Now I know… most people will truly believe the most ridiculous 180 degree turns like that.
Small example – Trump was insane because he believed his “wires were tapped”. Nobody could possibly believe that – tapping the phones of a Presidential campaign would never happen!! Two months later, it was confirmed. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, reacted with “of course his phones were tapped…. I mean, Russia!! Duh!”
There have been countless examples….. and they really are just like 1984. He was a documentarian, not a speculative fiction writer.
Charles W. Cooke is about the only writer over there I can stand anymore.
Isn’t KDW still there? He’s terrific.
Yep, still there:
https://www.nationalreview.com/author/kevin-d-williamson/
They do the Mad Dogs and Englishmen podcast together, for a double dose of their pimpin’.
For two long years, the network was breathless. The walls were always “closing in,” the hours were perpetually “ticking down,” and the end never stopped beginning.
Excellent line.
The priest murder link raises a question I have for rule of law libertarians. While I agree with the NAP in nearly all instances, what to do when you yourself have abuses heaped upon you with no legal recourse? All bets are off, or just hope Hell exists?
Perfectly acceptable to use lethal force to protect others, too.
this. also I am a fan of revenge
I agree. Although there will be those here that will say transgressions should be met equally and any escalation of force becomes a violation of the NAP. In other words he should have just raped him.
Those who say that are interpreting proportionality too literally. Certainly one should not react to trifles with massive violence, but proportionality does not require that you set down your gun because the assailant only brought a bike lock. On the other hand vengeance years after the fact is solidly in the realm of criminal law and I am hesitant to give blanket approval for “the system failed so I can torture the guy I say abused me” because sometimes it isn’t that the system failed, it is that someone didn’t like the result when the system worked. Jury nullification is probably the answer then. If you convince 12 of your peers that your vengeance was proper, they can acquit you without creating bad law.
It’s hard to equate getting fondled to driving a crucifix through someone’s skull. The perp seems a little off in the noggin to be working for the priest after he wholesale wrecked his whole family by touching them inappropriately. It all seems kinda excessively amplified to me.
The way I read that article it sounded like the priest had also molested the “murderer’s” father which lead to the suicide of that father. I could almost give him a pass on whoever was involved in allowing this priest to have continued access to underage members of the church.
Me too, but I can’t ignore that it’s still premeditated murder. In this instance, I think the killer should still be tried and convicted, and then given the lightest sentencing allowable by law.
Ferritin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid predict Alzheimer’s disease outcomes and are regulated by APOE
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7760
That’s interesting, I’ve never heard of an association between AD and iron load. Maybe they can develop a preventative treatment using chelation or something.
apparently frequently donating blood can be a good control for iron.
I need to switch multivitamins, the ones I have now are loaded with iron. I always figured it was good for you.
I’m not a fan of multis. You probably need to supplement D,K and B12, but I would definitely not supplement iron.
Especially if you are a carnivore.
One-a-Day for Men specifically excludes iron. I guess they know their market 🙂
I always look to multivitamins that never dose one thing to much, although the issue with multi things is the absorption paths for many components are the same and some are absorbed and some pissed away.
Coming from Pie, I find this apparently innocuous observation . . . ominous.
“apparently frequently donating blood can be a good control for iron.”
You fishing for a snack here?
but one can gain a sense of the descent by comparing the network with a news organization that has largely maintained its sanity: the New York Times.
Yeah.
Something something valley of the blind.
In the moment, absolutely. After the fact with no concrete proof of it, even if it’s pretty damn clear what happened? Things get murky for me.
Heh, Brooks’ed it.
They’re really dumb and have poor eyesight, which combined with their size is not a good combination./em>
Just wait ’til she drops a calf in your yard. You’ll be living in your car in the parking lot at work.
“They’re really dumb and have poor eyesight, which combined with their size is not a good combination.”
..but enough about Lena Dunham, Michael Moore, & Rosie.
And me.
I seem to be having trouble with my [/em] tags this morning.
Stupid fingers.
Arizona is NOT Florida. Under no circumstances is Nudism is not tolerated here.
There is no Arizona.
Question for the actual legal-trained folk here: In my layman reading of the constitution, I see absolutely nothing requiring congressmen to be unbiased or impartial when voting on an impeachment, nor anything requiring the senators to be unbiased or impartial when voting at the trial. Where did the notion of “unbiased and impartial” come into the picture? is it actually a requirement that can be seen by legal eyes but is in invisible ink to ordinary citizens?
Good question. They are politicians. By definition they are not ever “impartial”.
The only suitable synonym for an unbiased or impartial politician is “liar.”
No, the only suitable synonym for politician is liar.
There’s a reference to senators taking an oath. Such oaths generally require impartiality.
It just says Oath or Affirmation…nothing about what that is actually.
Guess we should refer to Federalist papers for the true meaning or Common Law.
4. Law The assertion that the testimony one gives is true and equivalent to that which would be given while under oath.
One can be biased and still speak to truth and facts.
But that does not seem to be stated there. An oath to do what, exactly? I take an oath before giving a dep as an expert witness, for example, but that oath doesn’t require me to be unbiased.
@RC Dean
I used my admin privilege to dig up your email on the site. Do you mind if I send you a message offline later today (somewhat work-related)?
(It’s dick pics)
I promise nothing.
No prob.
Gracias
I think it is in response to the Repubs making claims thay the House was partisian.
They all believe that an Oath means to remain unbiased.
The Senate should take their oaths, and immediately state that the charges do not meat the Constitutional requirement and move on (drink!)
I think the oath they take before the trial as jurors mentions it.
If course anyone going after McConnell and not Warren, who announced she would vote to convict already must think impartial means “do what I want”
So, what’s the remedy? There are no alternate senators. The constitution says he gets a vote, period. Go ahead and start impeachment against him, then. It’ll be like an Oprah episode. You egt an impeachment and you get an impeachment…
It also is curious how sitting senators can be impartial while running for the office and voting out a sitting president so they can better their chances…. curious indeed.
though: we kill all the lawyers and let engineers settle things
I am curious what the legal minds here have to say on that as well. In my ignorant opinion I would imagine the answer to that would be found in the federalist papers concerning adding impeachment to the constitution in the first place. While I never heard the exact question posed explained, I have heard the founders feared totally partisan impeachments would be rampant making the executive irrelevant or forced to act at their whim, (kind of like what just happened) so made the check to that the Senate trial. I am not sure a blatantly partisan impeachment shouldn’t be met with a blatantly partisan dismissal although the repercussions from the press would be blizzard of outrage.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/24/nytr-d24.html
Professor responds to NYT 1619 project
The whole thing is a dangerous pile of ahistorical propaganda.
Right, Charles W. Cooke?
When you are being too radically dishonest for long time pinkos like Wood you are a joke.
rate dat ass
https://twitter.com/sundae_bb/status/1210507381857300480
In less-than-shocking news:
Police spend £1,500,000 on electric cars that are too slow to catch criminals Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/24/police-spend-1500000-electric-cars-slow-catch-criminals-11956349/?ito=cbshare Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/
Whoops.
I have direct experience with this, but I probably shouldn’t post it on the internet.
They could not possibly have been expected to know that would happen.
You know- morons
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was campaigning for Bernie Sanders at a jampacked beach-side rally last week when she took a moment to look beyond 2020.
“I know, and we all know, that this isn’t just about Bernie Sanders,” she said. “This is about a movement that has been decades in the making.”
Since endorsing him in October, Ocasio-Cortez has become a supercharged surrogate for Sanders in early-voting and delegate-rich states. As she’s drawn massive crowds alongside the Vermont senator in Iowa, Nevada, California and New York, progressive insiders and activists are increasingly whispering about Ocasio-Cortez inheriting the movement one day — and running for the White House with it behind her.
“The future of the Democratic Party is not Pete Buttigieg. It’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” said Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, president of the California Young Democrats, which has endorsed Sanders. “She has gripped the attention of fellow millennials across the country. The Green New Deal has changed the conversation on environmental action in the Democratic Party.”
All aboard the Salvation Express!
I can’t wait.
All you need is a pretty face and a willingness to run your mouth about shit you have no knowledge of and you too can be the future of the Democratic Party.
It is kinda funny that none of the pundits have abandoned her.
The left-media and punditry is very Ivy League heavy, and tend toward snobbery. This chick is dumb as a post, despite her talent for finding the pulse of the crowd on social media. You’d think they would have excoriated her by now. But nope… they are all-in!
It should be:
-16 to vote
-16 to drink
-21 to gamble
-21 to buy cigarettes
-25 to serve in the military
-30 to buy a firearm
(The human brain doesn’t fully form until 25 and risk-taking is higher for younger folks; criminality rapidly diminishes once people hit 30)
https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1210666706449784832
What the fuck is this human brain not fully developed shit? The brain changes throughout your entire fucking life!
And why 25?
I am wondering why voting is so low given the underdevelopment
Clearly you don’t need to know shit to vote Dem.
Got to get those votes from people with no life experience.
There are actual scientific studies about decision making and perception that peg that number at 25.
And I call bullshit on the ages – Everything should peg to the Military age…. if you can be called to kill and be killed, no right of this nation should ever be disparaged to you. So you don’t want to let 18 year old kids drink whisky, buy AR-15s and vote? Then don’t include them in the military or selective service registration.
“The human brain doesn’t fully form until 25”
For someone taking this tack, she’s arguing for an awful low drinking agree.
16 drink and smoke
18 drive, gamble, military, gun own
21 vote
43 hire a hit man
67 use mild racism
79 public flatulence forgiveness
94 you can punch the president
https://twitter.com/MattsIdeaShop/status/1210779531671306240
No age limits for anything. How bout that beotch.
The only one that has any constitutional relevance is the voting age. Otherwise the feds should mind their own beeswax.
Ya, after reading Tej below I realized I really didn’t think my comment through. Which on the bright side, keeps me batting 1000 on commenting!
I would say that one should be given his/her voting card for life once you can explain to a person with a room temperature IQ why you want to vote for some specific candidate without being dissuaded by their reaction.
The rest of that stuff is pretty much up to the individual and their legal guardians.
Like, I totally did intend that at all!
“did not”
ugh
Yeah the probing the borders act is ridiculous. “You are so stupid getting bent out of shape over my comment” it’s the non memelord way of saying “I’m retarded”. GTFO troll
It’s all bullshit. You treat people like perpetual children and you get perpetual children. If a family wants to coddle it’s offspring into adulthood, they can go ahead, but society should not buy into that. I’d say that 16 is adult enough to be the age. Some will lose but most would be OK. A hundred years ago, there were 14 and 15 year old heads of household. If you idiot proof everything, you’ll get a bunch of idiots.
Ugh.
MetroUK struck again – added twitter and FB links that tossed my comment into moderation.
Sorry, mods. Go ahead and nuke it. They don’t deserve the clicks!
https://youtu.be/wOpVQrmHS9k
I think this makes her a white nationalist….
so what is everyone drinking? I am having a Blau Burg from Crama Ferdi. Not bad at all. This is a small producer who does not bother with the DOC bureaucracy and is not legally allowed to put the grape names on the bottle although he makes better wines than 95% of those who do. This is Blaufrankisch. His feteasca Neagra is called Lady Black. The Syrah is mister S, the merlot mister M
Medium roast with heavy cream.
Well put some rum or brandy in it or something
Black, big cup, several times a day, the way god intended it to be drank.
Christmas punch. No actual punch to it.
I am going to go get metal file racks for my new-to-me filing cabinet. Yes, I’m excited over a used file cabinet (welcome to OCDville). Y’all, except for my bad news/luck, my life is utterly boring, which is the way I like it.
stop drinking sugar
Maybe she identifies as a hummingbird, HUH?
I like a file cabinet too, especially used ones. But you sound much more organizized than I.
Don’t tell me what to do!
Normally, I am a low-carber when I am trying to lose weight. Since my peptic ulcer began developing around this past March, I am having a hard time eating proteins and good fats (yesterday’s mayo was a problem), even now that my ulcer is fixed. Sugar doesn’t bother it but bread seems to keep it soothed.
But yes, I should start abstaining from sugar.
Nothing. Maybe some milk after lunch later.
Major Dickinson’s blend, extra strong and in environmentally damaging individual serving containers. It’s delicious.
Hills Brothers Mild. . . .from a can, like God inteded coffee to be from.
I’m laying on my sofa; no beverage. As I look across my balcony to the world outside, my mind drifts to thoughts of coffee. But pajamas, fluffy blankets, and Michael Shelley’s show streaming on WFMU (he’s interviewing Chris Stamey from The dB’s) has paralyzed me.
Should I put on clothes and brave the elements? What if today I break my coffee addiction?
Alas, the Ohio State game is still 8 hours away. Bourbon sits on the counter, waiting to be drunk. And I lay on my sofa paralyzed.
I saw a decent-looking Romanian white recently at Grocery Outlet; should have tried it (though I took a photo).
Sean, love your vintage teacups.
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The human brain doesn’t fully form until 25
In some cases, never. Right Jill?
Video of Hong Kong’ers singing the Star Spangled Banner:
https://twitter.com/BlueKomand/status/1210032705468952577?s=20
Where did these onions come from and why am I chopping them?
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel is a band name I never heard before not that I missed much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GbyUzKsuZU&feature=emb_logo
The median age of a US senator is 66, which is nearly at the median age (70) of the Soviet politburo at the peak of gerontocracy in 1982.
https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1210607493463920640
Huh, it looks like Wikileaks is still managing to do good work:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wikileaks-reveals-new-opcw-douma-leaks
I wonder how long before the new person in charge, whoever that is, is charged and jailed for “espionage.”
Look. Fighting in Syria because of chemical attacks is so 2017. Now we have to save the Kurds.
They-oughtta-ism
Nancy Kershner often hears gunfire from the gun range down the road from her property. One night, she was unable to hear her TV over the sound of semi-automatic fire. Another time, she and her husband, Jeff, were standing in their yard when they heard a bullet ricochet overhead.
Kershner and her neighbors have been asking Gallatin County for two years to close the gun range, which is on Camp Creek Road west of Four Corners.
County officials say there is little they can do about the range because it’s in an unzoned neighborhood without covenants, meaning it’s completely legal.
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Nearby homeowners want Gallatin County to create additional regulations for gun ranges. They said they are worried about safety, noise, increased traffic and a decline in property values. They sent a petition with about 25 signatures to the county in 2017 and have followed up with letters, emails and phone calls. They attended a planning board meeting this fall to request TACTIC be shut down.
They say they have received little response from the county.
“The county needs to stop shrugging its shoulders and step up and do the right thing,” Kershner said. “Having a gun range open up in a residential neighborhood should be of countywide concern. It sets a bad precedent and is a public safety concern for the whole county.”
Close the loopholes. Fucking gun nuts. Why isn’t that illegal? Maybe they can get a grant from Bloomberg.
Odds that Nancy and Jeff are carpet baggers?…
And I question whether they heard a ricochet overhead or just head the echo.
Also, no fucking way was it loud enough that they could hear the tv unless they were sitting outside next to the firing line.
*couldn’t
I dunno. I had a customer that lived up by Dodger stadium, right near the lapd range. Once I had to go pick up his bike at around 9 p.m. I opened the door to my truck and a fusillade of shots rang out. I literally ducked behind my truck and looked for the source. I’m not even a vet. Then he told about the range across the street.
I don’t like that they’re running to big daddy government to work things out for them but I could imagine how living too close to a shooting range would have the potential to be infuriating.
I wonder how far they are, and whether they moved in before or after the range opened.
As usual, “journalism” fails to deliver basic, relevant facts.
Remove suppressors from the NFA.
You know what I realized while paying bills just now? 98% of the stamps I use are for Menards Rebates. Could they please move that to an electronic method . . .or better yet, just lower the prices by the rebate price! Further, all of the stamps I own have the adhesive dried out on them because they are so old. I went to the post office this holiday season and asked if they had the old fashioned kind you actually have to lick. They just looked at me like I was crazy. Speaking of crazy, I used crazy glue to apply the stamp for the Menards rebate.
Yeah, that is a pet peeve of mine as well. Also, why can’t they simply print the rebate coupon on your receipt? Why do I have to go stand in front of their rebate form counter hopelessly trying to find the right form?
The good news is I just used an envelope from the Reason Foundation to mail it. Old Mr. Nott put a stamp on the envelope for me to send in my donatino. I just covered up the Reason address with a sticker and put the Menards address on it. Thanks Reason! You are still good for something. I told them a few years ago I would no longer be donating until they fired Dalmia (Before the TDS and the Glibbenning), and I’m holing true to that. At this point I think they’ve spend more on postage mailing me things than I ever donated.
Brilliant – I just tossed one of those. Didn’t think to fish out a free stamp.
Odds that Nancy and Jeff are carpet baggers?…/em>
Yeah, I’m gonna assume they are, if for no other reason than if one or both of them is a”multi-generation Montana native (extra points for rancher/homesteader)” the Chroniclers would have been sure to put it in there.
“We moved here because we fell in love with the place and the people, but…”
Jesus
I didn’t vote for the bastard, but he is sure doing his best to make me vote for him in 2020. If this story is true and it does get him to start drawing down troops in Afghanistan, he has my vote.
Next I want him to start promoting mustangs only. They were always the best zeros to work for.
Also, no fucking way was it loud enough that they could hear the tv unless they were sitting outside next to the firing line.
But it was SEMIAUTOMATIC GUNFIRE!
That’s, like, super loud, and stuff. They’re living in a war zone!
I wonder how far they are, and whether they moved in before or after the range opened.
From the article: gun club opened in 2017, on ~300 acres. My neighbors shoot (as do I) in our little 20-acre-plot neighborhood, and it’s not a big deal, noise-wise. Not for anybody who isn’t a cunte, anyway.
blatant SEC bias !!!
/whomever