This didn’t happen once last night.
Friday is here! Unfortunately its rained for the last two days and it’s cold, so golf is probably out. Bummer. I actually don’t have more than a few hours of work to do today. Maybe I’ll go fishing. Which is what the Buckeyes basketball team should have done last night instead of play Iowa. Ugh, that was ugly. But not much uglier than the freefall the Coyotes have been on. They lost again last night. The winners were: Toronto, New Jersey, Montreal, Philly, Winnipeg, St Louis, Vegas and LA.
Sweet JEEEEEESUS!!!
Mexican President Santa Anna was born on this day. He shares it with former Red Sox owner Thomas Yawkey, billi0naire-creator extraordinaire Robert Mugabe, fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy, director Sam Peckinpah, Dreamworks co-founder David Geffen, the late, great Alan Rickman, Talking Heads Jerry Harrison, actor Kelsey Grammar, writer Chuck Palahniuk, space cadet twins Mark and Scott Kelly, soccer player Tony Meola, and the ample-breasted Jennifer Love Hewitt.
OK, now on to…the links!
LOL!
Flying rats weigh in on politics. Too bad they couldn’t find some hummingbirds to put Bloomberg hats on.
This is a nice start. Now, bring all the soldiers home and let that place handle its own problems.
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! So please, be safe. You might accidentally come across one of them trolling on Facebook. And that happens, no telling what will happen to the election.
Don’t give a shit.
Here’s my thoughts on this: I don’t give a shit. Let them troll FB and twitter. It’s called free speech, and we as a nation used to wish everyone around the world had the ability to exercise it. But now it’s deemed “harmful to democracy” by the same people who thought it was great when our president told the UK that if they passed Brexit, they might end up going to the back of the queue on a US-UK trade deal. But that’s a different kind of “meddling”, I guess. Until they’re caught casting ballots or manipulating machines, they’re doing nothing we don’t consider a basic human right. Fucking hypocrites.
If you can’t beat em, join em. Stupid asshole didn’t know how election funding works? Oh yeah, that’s right. She supported Citizens United stripping the free speech rights of people involved in politics. Of course, she’ll take big money now. Fucking hypocrite.
Apparently racist
Everybody is outraged about something. I gotta say, I don’t get it. Do they really think there was a racist motive? Or, you know, since they see racism in everything maybe they’re the racists.
This is certainly some weird-ass shit. Damn cults. I hope those kids are ok. But they are probably not.
Bay Area pols continue to eat their own. I gotta admit, I don’t know what this is all about, as the article is scant on details. I assume she wasn’t towing the lion the right way.
Victoria’s Secret support sags as company is sold. They need to do a better job keeping abreast of the market.
This has become a favorite of my kids. I guess they’re trying to tell me something. Little shits.
**Attention Dallas / Ft. Worth Glibs!** Don’t forget our big Jamboree will be held tomorrow, 2/22/20, at J. Gilligan’s in Arlington at 6 pm. The law prohibits me from promising you that Tommy Lee Jones will be there, but just between you and me, I…promise you…that Tommy Lee Jones will be there. Don’t worry about finding us – just look for the coterie of white bearded men arguing about something stupid and inconsequential. It’s a surefire way to find libertarian nests in almost any environment. Actually after a few minutes of thought, I’ll make it easier for you – I’ll be in a St. Louis Blues or St. Louis Cardinals hat. Probably Cardinals since it’ll stand out more, being bright red and all.
As before, if somebody could re-post this in the afternoon lynx, I’d appreciate it!**
Anyway, enjoy it and go have a good day and a great weekend, friends!
mornin’ ya’all
(let’s go Flyers!)
Man, that’s such a beautiful song.
Third!
“Steeeriiiiiiiike!”
Oh well.
Baseball is back today! LET’S GO RANGERS!
ps – yeah I know it’s only ST but that’s the best part
One of the local breweries is doing a watch party for the Cactus League kickoff game for the Indians.
“St. Louis Cardinals hat”
the first Cardinals game I can get is the 29th
“[Warren] supported Citizens United stripping…”
Eeeewww…
Liz is taking Big Money?
Say it ain’t so, Mis Lizzie. I had high hopes.
Next thing you’ll tell me is that Bernie is reaching out
/love the Liz Dance picture, got that native rhythm.
I can’t believe that they’re still trying to push this Russia bullshit. They can’t say exactly what they’re doing, but they’re doing something. Whatever. Liz Warren bragged about illegal aliens helping with her campaign in Iowa and that’s more “foreign interference” than Trump has ever received from Russia. Unless they’re actually hacking vote machines and changing votes I don’t give a fuck what they do. We’ve done worse all around the world so we can’t legitimately complain about anything, including vote changing. But they’re not doing that so who cares? Nobody needs to be fooled into thinking that the Democrats are nuts.
“”They can’t say exactly what they’re doing, but they’re doing something.”
It’s the oh, shit we suck ballz and nobody in their right mind would want us near the levers of power if they had 5 mins to pay attention to how corrupt/inept/stupid we are, tactic of screaming “LOOK!!! SQUIRRELZ”…
Bingo.
I owe whomever enhanced my post with that great image a drink (or two)!
It’s the new Red Scare, and it’s only going to go away once we have a Democrat president.
The same Democrats whose policies, language and tactics are identical to those of the USSR.
Not true! The Soviets were splitters and counter revolutionaries! The Democrats follow the little red book of Chairman Mao!
Port scans. They’re doing port scans.
“The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! So please, be safe. You might accidentally come across one of them trolling on Facebook. And that happens, no telling what will happen to the election.”
Right. Cause the Russians prefer orange man to an old communist cunte or a billionaire douchebag that would sell his mother into prostitution for power.
Pigeons United To Interfere Now (PUTIN) is a great name.
The left just doesn’t know how to troll…
Jennifer Love Hewitt
I’ll be in my bunk.
What was that show where she could talk to dead people? Whatever that was – I think that was peak JL Hugetits.
Damn did not see the correct name here before posting
It’s worth repeating!
::stands before bathroom mirror::
Jennifer Love Hugetits
Jennifer Love Hugetits
Jennifer Love Hugetits
::turns around::
Damn, movies are bullshit.
The last show that I recall seeing her in made damn sure to feature the top shelf and not the bottom cupboard. She was gittin chonky.
Speaking of…
Do you have to stab a franchise with the daggers of Megiddo to keep it down?
The film is a “spiritual sequel” that “returns to the neighborhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood.”
Goddammit. Why do they have to fuck everything up?
Also, the original scared the absolute shit out of me and I haven’t watched it again or any of the sequels. I’m afraid to.
If young Virginia Madsen asked young Festus to do something he’d forge them fucking daggers.
That is the summoning for Moobs.
Ghost Whisperer – my wife used to like to watch that, and I didn’t object.
I might have a look see to find that on Prime *crosses fingers it’s there*
* Jennifer Love Hugetits
“I Know What You Did In Your Bunk Just Now”
That movie should have been called I Boob What You Breast Last Hooters
I’ve only seen the erm outtakes…
“Flying rats weigh in on politics. Too bad they couldn’t find some hummingbirds to put Bloomberg hats on.”
I thought Bloomberg was associated with the bird of “true love”. Not the pigeon, that’s just love. The “true love” bird is the swallow….
Victoria’s Secret, which once defined sexy with its leggy supermodels in their lacy bras and oversized angel wings, has a new owner. -I mean it still defines that either way, culturally speaking
I didn’t hear it was even for sale, they really kept that under the wire.
But how did the “MAGA” hat pigeons get to Las Vegas in the first place? A self-described “radical” group called P.U.T.I.N, which is an acronym for Pigeons United To Interfere Now, is taking credit for the stunt. The group allegedly released a flock of pigeons with the hats on the eve of the Democratic Debate, as a way to protest the Democratic presidential candidates and to show support to President Trump.
Best timeline.
Mean ole Granny Warren has a dusty nib-on since she took a willow switch to that carpet-bagging scallawag Bloomberg at the debates the other night. She thinks it boosted her chances but in reality it showed just how vindictive she would be as POTUS. I liked it but it’s always funny when the guy you hate steps on the rake. Don’t mean that I like rakes.
fresh prince of bel air is not woke enough.
https://twitter.com/Crystal_Philoso/status/1230645277591318528
I never liked it. It had a very distinct smell of ‘white savior’.
ISWYDT
I met one of the writers once. Short fat, Jewish guy with a wispy beard.
I think that the Corona virus is doing a number on China, it’s people, their economy, and the dreams of the current leadership caste of owning the Pacific, and eventually the world as their manifest destiny tells them. Things are looking beyond bleak for them right now in every sense of the word. And the Xi government people are getting real belligerent because of it.
First strike time?
In the dead thread I mentioned that the train yard that I drive past every night is a ghost town. This is a major transportation hub and normally there are thousands of double stacked Chinese containers.
Sooner than later all of us will be impacted by the fact that all that stuff we get that was made in China suddenly will be in short supply. I expect the prices of a lot of things to go up because of scarcity. The good thing is many entities will switch to other countries for remediation, and never go back to China, which is good for the world in general.
At least there’s a bright side to this mess.
I expect the left will blame the rising prices on tariffs.
You mean ORANGEMAN!!!
This kind of problem is due to the contradictions inherent in capitalism. It is endemic to the free market, just like poverty, sickness and short life.
^ nice callback!
NO COMMIE!
Ocean freight is getting hammered right now.
And it’s usually one of the earliest leading economic indicators.
Yikes!
Yeah, that comment got my attention.
Prepare for a bumpy market, y’all, but don’t sell!!!
This woman who was attacked by a bear in California and had her face ripped off did a reddit AMA and she said the worst part about the experience was dealing with her health insurance provider after the fact
https://twitter.com/TheRachelFisher/status/1230267327372918784
I blame the radical libertarianism which controls Washington
Finding a code to bill against was the problem is my guess…
Behold W55.89XA, “Other contact with other mammals, initial encounter.”
I think that might be reserved for erm, people that have intercourse with animals?
only the first time.
After that you use addiction codes?
No, you use W55.89XD Other contact with other mammals, subsequent encounter. Learn to code, man.
I am more inclined to go do farming, since I already learned to code…
And by farming, you mean ‘animal husbandry’?
Not gonna milk any bulls, yo!
Obama also interfered in an Israeli election, if memory serves.
And the us is pretty good at “interference” when a country has an election we don’t like.
Technically, foreign aid to other countries is interference with their internal politics.
No “technically” there Tonio. And foreign aid is basically a way to buy off the ruling class of other countries. Even the SJWs say it is a terrible waste of money.
Heh. The only Kinks album that I ever owned. 1980 or so. It holds up well!
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/pass-bills-to-reduce-firearm-violence-through-research-limiting-magazine-capacity/
I can’t get the comments to load, because I refuse to make an account to see comments.
It’s the Seattle Times. Why would you self-harm like that?
New parent dementia. Symptoms include lack of sleep, glassy eyes, mumbling, stumbling, random naps, and various stains on clothing.
people like different stuff
I mean should you not judge what the bill does a few years down the line?
If only we had seen this before we could look at past results and make an educated guess.
The comments are mostly savaging the Dems who are proposing this and the editorial itself.
Well that’s good.
“Colour” me surprised. Maybe the Silent Majority has finally been aroused from its’ ancient slumber.
“The message was, it appears they’re favoring one candidate over another, and everybody should be cautious,” a source who attended the Hill meeting confirmed to CBS News.
Uh huh. Clearly the Russians are all about MAGA. Trump unleashing American oil/nat. gas production and giving lethal aid to Ukraine is definitely playing into Putin’s hands.
Related.
O’Donnell said, “The president is a Russian operative. That sounds like the description of a bad Hollywood screenplay, but it is real. It is Vladimir Putin’s greatest achievement, decades after America’s victory in the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union, the president of the United States is now helping the president of Russia help the president of the United States to get re-elected. So that the president of Russia will have four more years of the president of the United States who he wants in the Oval Office, this is one of those shocking news days if you retain the capacity to be shocked in the Trump era by the Trump regime, which might be better labeled the Trump-Putin regime.”
Idk how you and Female Seth Rogan still have jobs at this point.
Because HSC is still a thing?
Local paper Snopes for hometown hero
https://m.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2020/02/20/bernie-sanders-said-thousands-of-vermonters-own-summer-homes-do-they
How long before PETA shits their pants over tiny hats?
I still haven’t gotten solid answers to 1. What do we hope to accomplish?
2. What do we get out of it?
3. How exactly will we do it?
4. How long will it take?
5. What will it look like when we are done?
I know a lot of pols and contractors laundered nearly a trillion dollars into their pockets. I want to see a list of every contractor that has supplied support, supplies etc in these wars and a list of everyone owning and working for them. Want to end these wars right now? Publish that list.
I got nothing on the Ruskie thing other than what Sloopy already said.
It is almost if you can tell when Warren is lying by watching her mouth for movement.
A)Chicago school system? How many of the people involved in this are black? B) Herd animals have a tendency to suffer anxiety when they see other members of the herd behaving inn ways they wouldn’t behave in themselves. That is the root of control-freakism and can easily be twisted into the perpetual outrage we see in the cultural marxists…and why it will never end.
As for the kids story, this is a perfect example of how undiluted evil and batshit, bark at the moon crazy are not mutually exclusive.
SF? I have more or less written off Chicago and CA so I don’t pay attention anymore. You can just circle the drain for so long.
I didnt think VC would last this long. It sold? A fool and their money…
At some point my email got to Quora and they are sending me mails with popular posts and recommendation. For some weird reason, I did not spam/iot unsubscribe because they are sometime so stupid it is amusing. This was in the email and I am sharing here:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-stunning-photos-of-Instagram-star-Katya-Elise-Henry
Soooo thicc?
Yes.
The Monkey Drawing page was innocous at first, until it was noticed that all the Asian Kids got an Octopus coloring sheet. Still they thought maybe it was just a fluke till the Red Head came back with his Potato coloring page.
Lacist as f*ck. Also, Scots and Icelanders left out.
We’re the paper that the images are drawn on.
Well they couldn’t quite send home a picture of a Sheep being boned…
Parents at the Beverly school were outraged their children were sent home with a letter from three white kindergarten teachers explaining the assignment that, in many cases, came attached with a picture of a monkey for them to color.
If you think “black person” when you see a monkey, you might be a racist.
DOGWHISTLEZ!
If you hear a dog whistle, you might be the dog.
Or Superman.
But if you think “Person” when you see a monkey, you might be Charles Darwin.
What if the monkey is wearing a vest and a fez?
Monocle and top hat FTW!
I only think of this:
I’m a Musician, the Monkey is a businessman
Monkey are funny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6WB5YJia8
Right turn Clyde.
“The monkey has a butler? Great. Is that what they do in Arabia, Thorny?”
Skin color = character – easy for retards to understand
Culture has a strong influence on character but every individual is an individual – not so easy for retards to grasp
Racism is the philosophy of the dullard.
Racism seems more and more to be a cash cow for grifters. I know racists (mild racists) and none of this gobble-d-gook is “Racism”.
^^^THIS^^^
I find that the people screaming the loudest about other people’s racism, are nothing but asshats trying to profit from the stigma of the accusation.
Their guiding philosophy is to shatter our society like a cheap patio door. Bust it up into a million sharp little pieces and then glue it back together. Of course it’s always them wielding the hammer and “glue”.
“…more and more…”
I think it has always been that way. Fredrick Douglas complained about it quite a bit.
There’s ONLY Canadian or American history. That’s it. Either you’re in, or you’re out.
Like there’s no such thing as ‘hate speech’. There’s just free speech.
That being said….
“…the assignment that, in many cases, came attached with a picture of a monkey for them to color.”
I did laugh. Sorry.
Was it a organ grinding capuchin or an angry gorilla? Cause Monkey intent counts…
Gorillas are apes (a category which also includes humans); capuchins are monkeys, a lesser class of primate. Monkeys have tails; apes do not.
RACIALIST!
How can you post that without linking to this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–szrOHtR6U
“Get your hands off me you damn dirty apes!”
“Monkeys have tails; apes do not”
It was my last semester of engineering college and, my poor luck, I registered for classes late. I needed an elective. The ONLY thing not full was a 300 level zoological taxonomy class. That’s is the only thing of value I got from that class.
I needed a literature election, ended up in “Imagining the American West.” I signed up for it solely based on the professor teaching it, I had had him before, knew I would get a B.
It was actually cool. Sometimes a Great Notion is a great novel.
That is a once every 4 years typo. I meant elective.
I thought the typo was that the l should have been an r…
Might have been worse, Friend Rob…
“Sometimes a Great Notion is a great novel.”
Yes it is. The movie was good as well.
I pointed this out to my boys many years ago and ever since then, when reading them “Curious George” bedtime stories I have to substitute “monkey” with “ape” (it used to be “chimpanzee” but that got tedious) because George obviously doesn’t have a tail.
Maybe it was a horrific pickle-slicer accident?
George was some toddler in footie pjs that the perv in the Yellow hat kidnapped.
She got fired too?
I always had to bite my tongue when talking about this around the wife as I identify with George because don’t get no tail neither…
the man with the yellow hat had his tail bobbed.
STEVE SMITH GRIND ORGAN!
The reversal is a dramatic change of heart for the Massachusetts progressive. Warren boasted during the Democratic debate in New Hampshire earlier this month that only she and Sen. Amy Klobuchar lacked super PAC backers.
But, on Thursday, Warren said that the fact that only the “two women” didn’t have super PAC support was “just not right.”
“So here’s where I stand. If all the candidates want to get rid of super PACs, count me in. I’ll lead the charge,” Warren said. “But that’s how it has to be. It can’t be the case that a bunch of people keep them and only one or two don’t.”
“What are my principles? What do you want them to be?”
“So here’s where I stand. If all the candidates want to get rid of super PACs, count me in. I’ll lead the charge,” Warren said. “But that’s how it has to be. It can’t be the case that a bunch of people keep them and only one or two don’t.”
I can’t be constrained by my stated principles! Other people don’t follow them.
“I’ll lead the way. You first.” Christ, what an asshole.
Chief big wampum want to win!
“I have influence for sale. Why come I no have buyers?”
Super pacs are technically independent. She is just mad no one is giving her money or spending on her behalf.
In real life, I wonder just how awful a person Warren must be. Does her political hypocrisy transfer into private life? She strikes me as someone impossible to digest. Which makes me wonder about her husband. I’m just judging here to have fun. But given all we know about her over the years, how can she even have supporters? Besides the nutty Judd of course.
I don’t think warren has supporters. She has people she has taken a selfie with.
“Look, kids, the vicious scold, lets take a picture.”
I think she prefers the term Harpy.
I just keep thinking she sounds like she’s about to cry all the time.
It must be grating for her associates. Can you imagine being some intern at her office?
Oh Jesus Christ no.
Her voice is god-awful. The constant condescending, patronizing, talking to you like you’re a kindergartner tone is impossible for me to listen to.
She’s the mean librarian that won’t let you borrow books from the “grown-up” section.
Or the mean mother who won’t give out popsicles on a hot summer day because it’s too close to supper or has too much sugar.
The mean baby-sitter that makes you go to bed at seven in the summer so she can “study” with her “friend”.
In Warren’s case they probably did just study. No one (apologies to Trashy) would hit Chief Whining Shrew.
^
“She strikes me as someone impossible to digest.”
Don’t give SugarFree any ideas.
Glibs already has a running series featuring Warren, the Kennedys and digestion.
A couple of my high school classmates really, really liked her back when I was on FB.
Here is what I observed:
1) They thought of her as one of them since she, like them, is super educated and super opinionated.
2) They wanted her to be right. No matter what she did, what lie she got caught in etc, they would rationalize why she was right and her critics were evil and wrong (and evil).
They aren’t intellectually processing anything. It’s all emotional. It’s almost reptillian.
My college-aged son tells me the same thing about “Warren girls” – future workplace Suzie rotten-crotches who run around campus knocking on doors and shrieking at you about voting.
She has plans. Lots of plans. She must be smart.
I have a question someone here might know.
We know the police have no duty to protect you, from whatever scotus case it was.
Does that mean fire and EMT service as well? I would think so.
I don’t believe there is controlling precedent, but it would be the logical extension of that ruling.
That’s where i land. If police can’t be forced, I can’t see how a fireman would be.
Not sure. I think you’d need to specify the example more. They have you on a streacher and refuse to do anything to help? I might say that they are actually liable then. But to come and save you when you call in? No i doubt that you could sue them if your house burns down and they never showed up.
That’s what it is. Theres a son story article about someone who called the Burlington fire and needed an ambulance but there wasn’t enough medics or something. So they didn’t get there in time. The solution is of course to raise property taxes.
People in the comments are saying they hope the family sued. I don’t think there’s any way they can, the EMT and fire can’t be forced to help you.
They can’t be forced to save you but you’re forced to use their services.
Nice racket.
“People in the comments are saying they hope the family sued”
How many of those people would join the local volunteer squad? Or donated?
They’re too busy commenting
*coughs nervously*
Not sure why the stretcher matters. The police aren’t required to help you once they throw you in a cell with five rapists.
Two thoughts: You could sue because you already paid them for the service (taxes) and they owe you.
Now we have to determine what service you paid for.
Two thoughts: You could sue because you already paid them for the service (taxes) and they owe you.
According to SCOTUS they don’t owe you anything, but two reasonings. First and foremost, they only have a duty to “General Society”, not to any individual specifically. what this means is that you can get fucked if you need something.
Second is that you haven’t paid them. You have paid the government who then paid them. Once your taxes hit the general fund it is all fungible and you cant use your taxes to argue that you are or are not funding something.
I think being on the stretcher would put things in a different category than an ambulance that just drove by. I do know that once you begin CPR on a patient that you have to continue that until relieved or the patient no longer needs the treatment; you can’t just walk away.
I think there is a conscience clause where EMTs can refuse to treat on personal safety grounds, ie someone with Ebola because most ambulances don’t have bunny suits, SCBA, etc.
*until you are relieved, become to exhausted to continue CPR, or the patient improves
Ask Spud when he gets his lazy ass out of bed.
At least some jurisdictions that I know prohibit their EMTs and paramedics (fire-fighters, too) from exposing themselves to harm, as they believe (I’m not really arguing against them) that having a team of EMTs go down makes everything more dangerous. So for instance, they might not be allowed by rule to enter a structure that no longer appears sound, or attempt to treat GSW victims while the shooters are thought to be active in the area. Similarly, they often are prohibited from dispatching without a full team. Which is often… two. The driver can’t stabilize the patient AND drive the truck, and if there aren’t enough drivers at work that day, an ambulance may not run. Some of it is good policy, some of it is good intentions, some of it is union and bureaucrat ass-covering.
The firefighters here seem to take the same approach to every fire. Stand back and douse with water until the house is killed dead.
Castle Rock v Gonzalez I don’t know of anything on your specific point, but since the fire department routinely decides to allow buildings to just burn when they determine there is too much hazard (chemicals stored etc.) it seems they are allowed discretion at least.
You need to specify if we are talking about municipal or private fire service. Lots of ranchers and folks in unincorporated areas have contracts with private fire fighting services on contract and some of those make the firefighter org (well, their insurance) liable in some situations.
Racist White Supremacist Trumpalos Destroy Sacred Native Indigenous First Nations Site
I got nuthin’.
My condolences to the Canuckistanis among us.
Lots of the natives DO want the pipeline. Throw some more money at those “elders” who don’t want the pipeline, toss all the “activists” who are using those elders to advance their extreme agenda into jail, and move on.
Exactly this. As noted below, the protestors are paid protestors from the U.S. and other parts of Canada.
All he has to do is clear them out, hand over some bribes and have the Indigenous people at the table.
Something’s not adding up. Even with a incompetent, disigenuous, remedial dumbfuck asshole like that there has to more. It can’t just be ineptitude because this would be epic in its ineptness.
I can’t figure out his angle. I know Canada signed on to UNDRIP but is he really indirectly letting the UN call the shots?
https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html
And fuck that stupid Security Council seat. If I’m the USA I veto it. Not with the ideologues running Ottawa at the moment. They’re bad news.
Canada and Australia got shafted out of it postwar anyway. The crapauds lost WW2, and should have been treated accordingly.
Perhaps next time he can got to Hawai’i to discuss with a third grade class about how to solve the refugee crisis using unicorn manes?
Is there an official, native approved, map of all sacred sites and burial grounds. And why are these sites not under the control of the natives? I know that many natives, at least in the US, were forcibly relocated to reservations, but they’ve had decades to buy those sacred sites or work with state and local governments to move them into some type of protected status.
It seems to me that we only learn about the existence of these sites when someone wants to build something there, which is fair enough in a way. But it was also completely foreseeable that someone, sometime would want to do something with those sites.
Interesting idea. Now that many tribes are flush with casino money, maybe they should be encouraged to purchase their sacred sites.
Riggers are not to be trifled with. This is known.
The only fatality we’ve had here was a rigging crew dropping an air handler unit on their boss.
odd coincidence or murder?
It was written up as a series of accidents/failures, but honestly the number of horristupid things seemed unbelievable to me. With the coup de grace being the guys that actually pushed it on him saying that they thought they heard the signal to push.
oh Shit, that turned out ugly ,,,
I was not on the ERT yet, but yes it was.
Dammit, I overcooked the bacon. Now it’s just a carbonized lump.
Burning the bacon is a mortal sin.
Get thee to confession stat.
Seems to me that’s what he was doing.
Can we get Bacon Magic in here to assign the penance? I think 12 Hail Hams and 12 Our Fatbacks is about right, but Bacon Magic should decide.
They need to do a better job keeping abreast of the market.
You don’t want to fall behind.
I’ll be brief here: they’re in need of support.
Are we talking about Jennifer Hugetits again?
I wonder what it was like to be the guy that got chosen that day. Was he just wandering by the set? A buddy of the photog’s that had a favor owed to him?
He had naturally warm hands.
I always figured she only let him be the one because he was gay.
FTA, it was her then-secret husband, Rene Elizondo.
Article?
It’s dat block o’ words to the left of the picture of the nekkid lady.
That’s a good clasp of the situation.
I hope they don’t go tits up.
Their stock is sagging.
Hopefully it perks up.
I’m Leary that they’re padding the books.
What could go wrong?
Paywall – A New Law Is Changing How Veterans and Service Members Pay for Homes
A guy I know makes a killing doing this. He lives in a college town, going to school on the GI Bill, and he just snaps up houses whenever he can, shoves students in them. When they move out he tosses everything left behind in a big dumpster, fumigates, and rents it to the next crop. Just a license to print money basically.
Interesting – essentially a spread business.
There is no downside to being a slumlord* of houses next to a college campus.
*Where slumlord = dude who barely attends to the furnace and plumbing if they break, and doesn’t invest a whole lot into aesthetics. Bonus if you’re renting to frat boys who won’t care.
Frequently “slumlord” means landlord the speaker owes money to and doesn’t want to pay.
My Dragon Lady was a slumlord (see aforementioned furnace-fixing), but a nice one. Once she sufficiently made her bank, she let rent payments slide here and there. When she died, she left the houses to her long-time renters.
That had always been a major part of my retirement plans. Get the kids in to FSU or FAMU, then start buying duplexes.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered no plan to solve the crisis, short of cancelling his planned trip to Barbados this week where he planned to discuss his wish for a Canadian seat on the United Nations Security Council with Caribbean governments.
Because Canada is showing true leadership and decisive decision-making capabilities as we speak.
It’s a disaster. The idiot painted himself into this corner and there’s no way out. Either he fucks Canada over or he fucks the Indigenous people he promised reconciliation.
Meanwhile, people are being laid off and there’s a danger oil won’t get to the Maritimes in winter.
And I’m being kind here. This piece of shit has to face a non-confidence vote. Instead, the fucken idiots in the NDP and Bloc Quebecois form an alliance with him! The Bloc are especially despicable because in their war with Alberta’s ‘dirty oil’ they turn around and purchase it from….Saudi Arabia.
Everyone is literally full of shit beyond belief except….the conservatives. They’re literally the only party (with the actual popular vote in their favour) who are powerless as they look on with a ‘WTF?’ look
Justin is by far the worst leader in North American history. Worse than Joe Clark. Worse than Jimmy Carter.
And it’s worth noting many protestors are from either Central Canada or the USA. Most aren’t even indigenous and they’re paid.
Tides Foundation is a major donor. See my comment above. This has nothing to do with anything, it is powerful people playing a very dangerous game with those chiefs being used as pawns. Rednecks are rednecks, Canada-wide. When people can’t get their cheap Chinese knock-offs or get to work blood will be spilled and the compliant media will spin the situation as they and the Liberal Party see fit.
Freaky Friday: I Just Love
SkiingStanding and FreezingYears ago I developed a super power that serves me well when such things happen. The power to look at the massive line of cars headed into a place I planned to go, and decide to turn around and go elsewhere.
In High School we sang it as Soaperman.
I think that ship has sailed.
TOWN HALL QUESTIONER: Some expressed concern about the ages of you and Senator Sanders. Would you, if you are the nominee, go as far as to commit to only one term if it meant uniting our party?
JOE BIDEN: No, I wouldn’t do that. But, I’ll tell you what: you’re going to be able to make a judgment. And by the way, the two youngest men on the stage now or me and Buttigieg. That’s the way it goes, you know what I mean? But look, It’s totally legitimate for you all to ask about my age, or anybody else’s age up there and our health. That’s why I give all my medical records. Everything, okay? The whole deal, so you know who I am.
Anybody who starts off saying “I’m only going to serve one term” is already behind the 8-ball because then you’re a one-term president, and no one worries what the hell is gonna happen after that. All the woman on that stage, including the woman you’re leaning toward, is over 70 years of age, and I’m in pretty good health… If anything changed in my health, making it incapable of me to fully exert all the energy and mental acuity that was needed to be done, then I give you my word: I would not run again.
You shouldn’t be running now.
‘I need to run. My family needs me.’
get those clips that have multiple bullets in them not for sale
This may be the new “Thing that goes up”
Damnit.
“get those clips that have multiple bullets in them not for sale”
Not for sale anymore? Cool! So they will send them to me for free? Or do I have to go somewhere to pick them up without paying for them?
Let’s try to imagine a single-round clip, just for fun. Better yet, a single-round magazine. I’m picturing something like those single-tube lipstick cases women buy.
I’m imagining something you might see on a self-loading howitzer which holds a 75+ lb shell which the loader follows up with a couple charge bags before slamming the breach shut.
self loading or separate loading?
Freaky Friday: How I Imagine Sugarfree’s Mom
“That which has been seen cannot be unseen…”
But how many magazine-clips is that?
Joe Biden ratcheted up the Democrat Party’s attacks on the Second Amendment:
Biden: ban “assault weapons” & “get those clips that have multiple bullets in them not for sale, not be able to sell silencers, all those things.”
He forgot about the black thingies that go up.
“The film studio behind award-winning film Parasite has slammed Donald Trump after he complained about it winning Best Picture at the Oscars.
During a rally at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado on Thursday, Trump lamented that he did not agree with the outcome of the Academy Awards after the South Korean film won Best Picture.
‘By the way, how bad were the Academy Awards this year? Did you see it?’ Trump asked rally-goers, and was met with wide-spread ‘boos.’
‘And the winner is… a movie from South Korea,’ Trump said, imitating those who announce category winners. ‘What the hell was that all about?'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8027315/Film-studio-Parasite-slams-Trump-saying-film-not-won-Best-Picture.html
Sometimes he says things that are just plain stupid.
Going for the cheap jingoist points.
I dislike the sycophants in the crowd who go along with it more than Trump in these scenarios.
“Clap, Seal! Clap!’
That is dumb as hell. Foreign films win from time to time. It’s fine. It isn’t a national emergency. If it makes him feel better an American team always wins the World Series.
I thought this was the first time a foreign film won best picture? But yeah, stupid.
According to Wikipedia I’m wrong about “Life is Beautiful”, but “The Artist” was a French picture, and a bunch of British movies have won. I think because “The Artist” is a (mainly) silent movie “Parasite” is the first foreign-language winner. That seems like a pretty feeble foundation for weird cinematic jingoism.
The key difference is the language. There’s nothing special if a British or Australian or New Zealand movie wins an Oscar. Also, a silent movie set and filmed in Hollywood is not a foreign movie by any means. On the contrary, it’s a local (Hollywood) movie that typically gets more votes.
The Best Picture Oscar for “Parasite” is an unprecedented event. A genuine foreign movie in a foreign language won the best picture for the first time.
Sure. Was it any good or did they just Virtue the award upon it like so much Tinkerbell dust?
Very very good. Best Best Picture winner in years.
I think that “The Artist” should have lost Best Picture to the foreign winner that year (“A Separation”) anyway.
That was the first time a foreign-language movie won the best picture award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign-language_films_nominated_for_Academy_Awards#Best_Picture
I heard the remark in more context on the radio this morning. It was a joke in poor taste – Trump’s specialty.
That said, it was said in the context of trade imbalance and SK’s market barriers to foreign goods. So he was saying essentially we shouldn’t be doing them favors given that they don’t return them.
“If it makes him feel better an American team always wins the World Series.”
Umm…
Toronto hardest hit.
CNN is on the story
Since then, US intelligence officials have continued to consistently warn about Russia’s ongoing efforts to interfere in American elections, noting threats to both the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential race. Last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Russia was continuing to “engage in malign foreign influence” online with the goal of sowing division and discord, “and to generate controversy, to generate distrust in our democratic institutions in our electoral process.”
At the time, Wray said he couldn’t publicly answer a question about whether the Russians were aiming to help or hurt particular political campaigns.
Pierson herself has been out in front on the issue of foreign interference in the 2020 election as top officials have sought to raise awareness about the nature of the threat that caught most of the American public off guard in 2016.
“The Russians, for example, are already engaging in influence operations relative to candidates going into 2020. But we do not have evidence at this time that our adversaries are directly looking at interfering with vote counts or the vote tallies,” she told NPR in an interview last month.
Unnamed source after unnamed source, all stirring up distrust of the Russians while pooh-pooh-ing any statement by Trump or anyone else which might contradict them, and, not coincidentally, laying the groundwork for claims that the (wrong) election results are illegitimate.
By hook or by crook.
Michael Malice, who I’ve been listening to a lot lately, frequently talks about how the corporate media loves nothing more than war and has been trying to push the US into conflict since the Spanish-American war, and probably before.
Definitely before
“and to generate controversy, to generate distrust in our democratic institutions in our electoral process.” — funny, the only people I see doing that are Democrats. They’re up to a full-on non-stop shriekfest to generate controversy, distrust in democratic institutions and our electoral processes.
“Developers have lost an appeal against $6.7 million awarded to graffiti artists whose work they destroyed to make way for luxury condos in New York.
A federal appeals court upheld the 2018 decision by a judge that the spray paintings by 21 artists were ‘wrongfully and willfully’ destroyed.
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals concluded Thursday that a judge was correct to award the damages against developers who destroyed the aerosol artwork in 2013.
The artists said in a statement they were ‘thankful and humbled by today’s ruling.’
The appeals court said the action violated the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, which protects art which has gained recognition.
The Long Island City, Queens, graffiti site known as 5Pointz was a tourist attraction that drew thousands of spectators daily and formed a backdrop to the 2013 movie, ‘Now You See Me’.
Many of the art works were temporary.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8028987/Developers-lose-appeal-against-6-7M-award-graffiti-artists-work-destroyed-New-York.html
If the “artists” didn’t own the property then I don’t see how they had standing. Of course, I’m not a raving lunatic from New York either.
I’d imagine most of that $6.7M is going to the lawyers.
Which is why these suits happen in the first place.
Woodchippers.
As if you needed further reason to despise John Brennan.
Discussing Trump’s comments on Roger Stone today at a prison graduation ceremony in Las Vegas, Brennan said, “He’s clearly giving every indication he wants to act like a mob boss. And he’s going to try to take care of him and his soldiers.”
He continued, “It’s outrageous he would try to make any moral equivalency between someone like Roger Stone who the judge said has trampled the law and public servants like James Comey and others who really tried their best. You can question their decisions and judgments but really were trying to carry out their duties responsibly and with integrity.”
He added, “There were people in that audience that unfortunately I did hear laughter at the things he was saying about these individuals and talking about Peter Struck and Lisa Page and others. I mean, he just plays to this very debased group of people who are listening to what he is saying in terms of just trashing good public servants and defending people like Roger Stone? I mean, give me a break.”
Did I say despise? I meant loathe entirely.
Brennan is an Easter Island Statue headed sack of corrupt authoritarian shit. He and anyone who counts him as an ally should be opposed vociferously.
The funniest thing about Brennan is that he looks exactly like what a purple-haired, pussy-hatter resistor believes of all Republicans. The guy looks nefarious.
Ohhh. This entire post is gonna make me go postal… Doesn’t anyone have some happy good time music or kitten posts?
For you.
*unwraps strap from arm* Thanks, Man. I needed that!
When my youngest niece was born, my SIL was keeping her from eating meat for some health-fad reason. When she was teething and fussy, we happened to be at Van’s Pig Stand, and someone gave her a rib bone to teeth on.
Her expression was very similar to this
and someone gave her a rib bone to teeth on.
Was this someone a dapper rat?
…I honestly don’t remember. She’s in high school now. On the one hand, I typically don’t interfere with how my brother chooses to raise his kids. OTOH, if not me, who? It might have been the grandparents. They always thought my brother married down (and to be fair, he did).
That channel is such a time-suck for me. So cute.
“Devastated relatives of murdered rapper Pop Smoke are in ‘full investigation mode’ to try and find out who shot him dead in Los Angeles.
Family sources say they have personally questioned friends and witnesses who were at the $2.5million Hollywood Hills mansion before the shooting and have demanded to see security footage, according to TMZ.
The 20-year-old artist, who identified himself as a member of the infamous Crips gang in a song released earlier this month, was shot dead at about 4.30am Wednesday.
The murder is now being investigated as a gang-related attack, according to police sources, after it was initially thought to be a botched home invasion robbery because it came hours after Pop Smoke shared several social media posts showing off high-value items.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8028401/Pop-Smokes-devastated-family-investigation-mode-try-trace-killers.html
Can aspiring rappers buy life insurance? It sounds like being a mafia test pilot who knew something about the Clintons.
I have no fucks to give.
Play stupid games…
Pop Smoke, beloved Son of Corn Pop, passed away suddenly…
Joe Biden wanted for questioning
“But now it’s deemed “harmful to democracy””
Speech in support of wrongthink is not free.
“This is a nice start. Now, bring all the soldiers home and let that place handle its own problems.”
Hello Sloop,
I am not in disagreement with you here. I do have a point or two to make regarding the past actions of “our” government and its handling of soldiers.
From the article to which you provided a link: “A seven-day partial truce between Afghan, Taliban and American forces will begin Friday in Afghanistan, a senior state department official confirmed. If that agreement holds, it would lead to the signing of a long-awaited, broader U.S.-Taliban agreement that could see U.S. troops withdraw from the country after 18 years of conflict.”
You typed “This is a nice start. Now, bring all the soldiers home and let that place handle its own problems.” – and I (and I think many others) will agree with you on this point, Sloop.
The article for which you provided a linked somewhat reminded of George Orwell’s book “1984”, in this regard: “Bush address on military action in Afghanistan” .
“that could see U.S. troops withdraw from the country after 18 years of conflict”
*cues the war mongering articles from NYT and much war mongering from all the dem candidates*
Could just run news repeats from 1972. “We pulled out!!!!!”
“Katie Hill Says Biphobia Caused Her Resignation From Congress: ‘I Made the Right Call’”
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1230581095038668800
OFFS!
Truegays do hate the bis. It is known.
Whatever…
AFAIK she still hasn’t apologized for putting her naked ass on the hotel couch.
Honestly, that’s the real offense here. Seriously, it’s bad enough you get fat guys sittin’ in the chairs fartin’ up the upholstery.
Eh, I’d let her “fart up my upholstery”. Getting old is the great equalizer when it comes to marginal hotties. At 20? Maybe a second glance. At 55? I remember doing stuff like that!
Oh shit, that’s funny. My friends and I have talked about how as we’re getting into our 40s we’d be sitting ducks for any half-decent women in their 20s with dad fetishes who maybe ten years ago we wouldn’t have given the time of day, romantically-speaking. Youth is its own beauty.
Best post, this guy gets it right:
s0ur lem0ns@KrexPershing
Replying to @Mediaite
So tired of these victims and their factphobia.
See, i thought what caused her resignation was Nancy Pelosi…
Wut? IT WAS BAD ORANGE MAN! BAD ORANGE MAN CAUSE EVERYTHING!
I mean, she could prove her case by producing evidence of all the male Congressmen who are banging female staffers and didn’t get kicked out for it. Until then, she’s full of shit.
Stop doubting HER reality, you shitlord!
She could probably make enough money be featuring in one PornHub-sponsored video to never work again.
Good morning, wokesters.
“Illinois: A female prisoner says she was raped by a transgender inmate who transferred to her housing unit. The accused rapist identifies as female but has male genitalia.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1230634359276752896
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/female-prisoner-claims-she-was-raped-by-transgender-inmate-sues-prison/
Sounds like a stable individual that should definitely be in the women’s general population.
How many cellmates do you get to murder before you get put in solitary?
Well THAT was entirely unforeseeable!
That was pretty much a foreskin conclusion
We need to nip this right now.
Swiss might be around so you better cut that out.
Better get a head of it.
The accused rapist identifies as female but has male genitalia.”
IOW the accused rapist is a male.
Shut it down
Shel Kaphan, who joined Amazon after it was founded in 1994, gave a rare interview to PBS “Frontline” for its two-hour special, “Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos,” which aired on Tuesday. Kaphan was Amazon’s chief technology officer and was a key architect of the website.
“I built a substantial part of the early system that allowed them to come into existence, so I feel responsibility because of that,” said Kaphan, who left Amazon in 1999. “On one hand, I’m proud what it became, but it also scares me.”
Kaphan said Amazon should be broken up, given its size and influence over small businesses’ ability to thrive online. It’s an idea that’s being weighed by U.S. antitrust enforcers and has been brought up on the campaign trail by candidates including Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
“I think the characterization of Amazon as a ruthless competitor is true,” Kaphan said. “Under the flag of customer obsession they can do a lot of things which might not be good for people who aren’t their customers.”
He must know what he’s talking about.
And Microsoft was unstoppable back in the 90’s…
“Bitter former employee angry he didn’t get a royalties contract for twenty-year-old web dev work.”
He left just five years later, after Bezos hired two new technical managers and significantly reduced Kaphan’s role at the company. Bezos and Kaphan are believed to no longer be in touch.
He’s totally objective about Amazon, I’m sure.
“a betrayal of a sacred trust”
Drama queen
It was a pinky swear.
Well, if you don’t like Amazon shop at eBay and spread the word but talking about breaking things up just loses me.
They might not be good for people who are not their customers. Ok, and precisely why should a business ever worry about this? Also Amazon customers = everyone.
Sounds like sour grapes about selling stock 20 years ago. “Stop me before I make up my mind again!”
Best-case scenario – AMZN hit a high of $103 in 1999.
Worst-case, he had to hold on to it for a few years before selling – it floated around $50 up until about 2009, when it got back above $100.
Closed at $2,152 yesterday.
Actually, worst-case is he got nothing, since he left voluntary – no accelerated vesting in that case, you just lose your options.
who joined Amazon after it was founded in 1994
The vast majority of Amazon employees, current and past, joined after it was founded. RIP copyeditors.
Friday Funbags believes that La-Z-Boys are the ultimate piece of furniture.
http://archive.li/FB8rL
Apropos of nothing, I was perusing the gun counter at Farm and Home and I noticed two new warnings tacked on to the giant sign over the counter with the other three. Something like, “As part of the new Illinois efforts to combat straw purchases, All purchasers must: 1. State their occupation, and 2. State what purpose the gun will be used for.” It did not say what the penalty was for not answering or if they needed verification. Since I was in a hurry to buy my new portable shooting bench, complete with cupholder, erhm, shell casing holder, I did not talk to the clerk behind the counter.
*The prior three are: 1. All transfers of firearms must be approved by the state police (There is a form you can download where you enter the buyer and sellers FOID numbers, the serial number of the gun and the approval code from the state police which you get from an online app. Buyer and the seller each keep a copy of the filled in form. Forever.) 2. All weapons must be secured (in a safe or disassembled) in order that no child under the age of 14 may have access to them. (There is nothing here about the child being yours or if you never have children in your home). 3. All firearms lost or stolen must be reported to the state police within 72 hours.
1. Nunya.
2. Shooting.
#3: Way to revictimize crime victims you jerkoffs.
Such an establishment will have no hope of competing with the unsavory Hoosier types…
How are you supposed to know, within 72 hours of purchase, that the gun you bought would one day be lost or stolen?
A surprising number are lost on the boat ride home immediately after the purchase.
So everybody is better off buying guns on the black market then.
1) Marine Biologist
2) All Lawful Porpoises
1) taxidermist
2) bear arms
1) Zookeeper
2) Arming bears
1. Citizen
2. paperweight, obviously
1. Berzerker
2. Making holes
1. Patriot
2. Reclaiming my God given rights from Tyrants
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“Flying rats weigh in on politics.”
If I had a million bucks to spare, I’d give every dime of it to dye one hundred thousand pigeons orange, put little MAGA hats on them, put audio devices on them that keep repeating ‘Baltimore is a shithole!’, release them into inner city Baltimore, and sit back and watch the ensuing derpathon.
They all would be dead and turned into Pigeon McNuggets in under 30 mins….
Nope. The people are too lazy for that. Yesterday I was walking to get lunch and there’s a lady sitting on some steps and everyone who walks by, she’s saying ‘excuse me, I’m hungry!’. Not trying to be mean or heartless, but she weighed a minimum of 400 lbs. There were pigeons all over the sidewalk and there’s no way her or any of the other beggars down there are getting off their ass to make an effort at anything.
There’s a dude who’s out there every day and every day he tries to stop me and says ‘Excuse me sir, do you have a dime? I got a nickel, I only got a nickel!’. One day, I looked down at the sidewalk and saw a few coins lying around and said ‘Look, if you look around, you can pick up a lot of change just lying around on the sidewalk’. I think the guy was offended at the thought of actually having to make an effort to get something.
Well picking up change from the ground would offend his dignity, see.
My dad tried to pay a homeless guy to do some work around the place he was managing one time. The guy refused.
I just assume the “homeless” are IRS operatives that will have me arrested for not giving them a 1099 with the sawbuck I gave them.
“This is certainly some weird-ass shit. Damn cults. I hope those kids are ok. But they are probably not.”
Some people are just pure damn evil.
Or mentally ill.
At some point, mentally ill and evil become indistinguishable from each other. Something something sufficiently advanced technology something magic something.
“Or mentally ill.”
I’m sure she’ll try to use that along with a bunch of ‘I’m a victim! It was that person made me do it!’.
I don’t see that flying in this case.
I didn’t say it would fly. I just said that some people are so mentally ill that it looks like evil.
Or maybe they’re evil. There are studies that look at children who are, morally speaking, evil. DSM puts them at sociopaths.
“sociopaths”
Enough about Hillary, you Trumptard!
“NEW: Twitter is experimenting with adding brightly colored labels directly beneath lies and misinformation posted by politicians and public figures, according to a leaked demo of new features”
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1230563899713282049
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-testing-new-ways-fight-misinformation-including-community-based-points-n1139931
I actually appreciate Twitter conspicuously labeling the interesting stuff so it can be easily found. Way to go fellas.
And it is particularly helpful, as we all know the Truth has a liberal bias.
So Look i don’t give much a shit about the whole publisher/platform stuff, but how would that not make them a publisher?
I honestly think they are as it currently stands. If they do this, I really don’t see how they could argue that they aren’t a publisher, legally-speaking.
I don’t trust the Nazgul to come down on the right side in this case. That swishy Roberts has been a disaster.
Ok, ok, ok.
There is nothing in Section 230 that makes the “platform versus publisher” argument remotely relevant.
Thank you.
So websites are never liable for their content?
Twitter/Facebook/Glibertarians should never be liable for user-published content.
Should or are?
Both.
I’m responsible for what I post. Not the site that hosts me.
It’s only when sites are posting *their own* content where liability comes into play.
Thank you. the whole “OMG they are gonna be a publisher!” thing has annoyed me since it started. Sure, they probably become a publisher at some point, so what? WaPo is a publisher, CNN is a publisher, in what way has being a publisher curtailed their ability to push an agenda?
Being a publisher opens them to legal action from users. As a platform, they are protected by federal law.
I know that. I am saying that is a nothingburger. Once in a blue moon they may cross the line and have to settle a libel claim. So does every news outlet, and Twitter/Google/youtube have more money than CNN.
it is about liability.
If you are the publisher, you are liable for the content. You can be sued for libel.
If you are a carrier/platform – like Twitter – you are not responsible for the content and cannot be sued.
The difficulty comes when places like Twitter try to shape the content – allowing only points of view that they agree with – and doing so in a stealthy manner such that it produces a skewed version of reality. This is what people object to – and have used the possibility of liability for user content as a sword of Damoclese to hang over their head to prevent them from continuing their shenanigans like ghosting prominent conservative voices.
Of course, at that point the left said “hold my beer” and decided that if they *didn’t* censor things to their liking, they wanted to take similar action.
So, while similar threats are being made, the rational for those threats are light years apart.
I know the law you guys are talking about. It is your conclusion that it matters that I question. It isn’t a magic now you are a publisher and are directly liable because bonermonkeyKKK666 posts something racist. The plaintiff would still have to prove all the elements of libel against Twitter.
What he said.
If Twitter isn’t immunized by the CDMA, merely “publishing” defamation is enough to make it liable. IOW, if the tweet is defamatory, Twitter is liable.
Like i said, i don’t really care, I think you should be able throw up a website without fear of commenters/users getting you sued for lible because they posted something, so to me the distinction doesn’t really matter.
I have no problem de-torterizing libelslander. But as long as it remains a thing, I have an issue with some people having immunity while others don’t.
^This
Best enterprise networking site/blog/podcast? Go!
imnotyourbitch.com
Yummmmm, jiggly.
Just looked it up and that domain is for sale… I might go buy it.
Lol, I did the same, and then decided $2k was a bit steep for a joke.
Oh geeze i only saw the renewal cost. i was thinking it was only 11 bucks
https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1230600904073592832
“Antifa Prostitutes” sounds like a Roger Corman movie.
Fucking LARPers.
At what point do you think they will ever get an actual job other than brewing coffee?
I’ll tell you this, not a single wamyn who identifies as ANTIFA looks remotely like either of those silhouettes.
They are catfishing you.
*gloms onto noodly fingers* “What? I was hungry!”
You guys are talking like you understood that thing. What in the ever-lovin’ hell was the point of that?
Such tolerance. Much inclusion.
Why would you pay an antifa prostitute? Don’t they believe in “from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs?”
Now this is how you troll a troller…
I’ll bet he’d be a fun guy to get a beer with.
“a” beer.
Narrative uber alles
Income inequality in the United States worsened in 2019. Earners at the top of the income ladder received the largest increase in their paychecks, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Wages at the 95th percentile grew by 4.5% last year, while the median increase was just 1%.
That’s nothing new: The median hourly wage climbed about 15% between 1979 and 2019, but pay for workers in the 95th percentile grew more than 63% over the past 40 years.
“Wage growth for low- and middle-wage workers continues to be slower than would be expected in an economy with relatively low unemployment,” said EPI Senior Economist Elise Gould.
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The disparity in wage growth is worsening income inequality across the country. However, the lowest-income workers got a boost last year thanks to increases in minimum wage in 16 states and the District of Columbia. By lifting the minimum wage, these states helped people move up the income ladder as wages at the average 10th percentile grew more than 4%. In comparison, paychecks only rose 0.9% at the same percentile in states that didn’t increase the minimum wage last year.
This trend has been going on for a while. Over the past seven years, 26 states and DC raised their minimum wage at least once. Local paychecks at the 10th percentile grew in lockstep, increasing by 17.6%, versus only 9.3% in the states without increases.
Just imagine how rich even the least among us would be if Hillary had won.
I wonder what the economic impact of a nuclear exchange with the Russians would be because that needs to be factored into the estimate. In fairness, there would be very little income inequality.
One of my favorite Thatcher quotes was as she was exiting her time in office, and she was questioned by some sniveling socialist about how the gap in the UK between the richest and the poorest 10% had grown larger in her time in office. Whereupon, the Iron Lady ripped him to shreds with this
“All levels of income are better off than they were in 1979. But what the honorable member is saying is that he would rather the poor were poorer provided the rich were less rich. That way you will never create the wealth for better social services as we have. And what a policy. Yes. He would rather have the poor poorer provided the rich were less rich. That is the Liberal policy. Yes it came out. He didn’t intend it to but it did.”
The video is well worth 4 1/2 minutes of your time.
She lays the smack down.
We don’t have anyone in American politics like the best of the brits. That “questions period” or whatever they call it is the best thing about British government.
Sounds like sour grapes about selling stock 20 years ago. “Stop me before I make up my mind again!”
“I’m dumping these shares, before they tank. Amazon is about as big as it could ever possibly get. They can’t compete with Sears.”
Twenty years ago it was more like “They can’t compete with Barnes & Noble.”
Thanks, Sloopy. You summed up my rant about “meddling” on FB perfectly.
I’m sure the people demanding that FB shut down Russian comments don’t mean that all the Euro-weenies who make fun of Trump need to have their accounts closed too. Fuck the reason the internet is great is because you can hear opinions from crazy foreigners. Even Pie and Straff occasionally are able to make valuable contributions.
Fecking joiners…
Lol, article in my inbox at work:
My inbox had an article about all the glorious diversity that would result when transgenders come out at work.
You know i’ve never looked into the IP debate much, and my position has generally been a middle ground, where the current system is too broad, but i don’t deny that there are some forms of IP.
That being said, knowing Niskanen condemns it leads me to believe that pro-IP is correct.
Being in the industry, I tend toward the middle ground as well. The current system is a mess (which bodes well for me), but I don’t think we should toss the baby out with the bathwater. I’m convinced that the alternative to IP (very restrictive and punitive TOS) would be worse than the current system.
center-left think tank – give em a few years to go full tankie
After reading both articles, I’m going to say that I hate everyone involved. There are some very interesting arguments about IP and how it relates to software specifically, but Niskanen deliberately avoids them and argues about IP in general and ipwatchdog, whom I hate slightly less, spend their time arguing against Niskanen’s stupidity and similarly avoiding the actual case going before the court.
Personally, I’m against copyright protections for source code. Copyright is intended to protect the unique expression of an idea, not the idea itself. This works fine for literary and other creative endeavors, but fails for code. Programming languages aren’t natural languages, there is a finite number of ways to express an idea and normally a singular best way to do so; the idea and the expression are to closely linked to protect one without the other, so copyright isn’t the correct method to protect the work. Patents would be the correct method, as they protect ideas themselves and not just expressions of those ideas. I have a lot of problems with how patents are applied to code as well, but that is a different rant.
Software patents are horrible, horrible things. And “there is a finite number of ways to express an idea and normally a singular best way to do so” is far more true for the outward facing parts of software than the source code behind it.
Bruh, if my brain was working, I’d cite the name of the concept, but there is literally infinite numbers of ways to express any logical function.
Amazon patented one click ordering. Our IP system needs an overhaul, but whatever we decide on will be a gameable system. There simply is no way to craft rules that substitute for judgment, and there is also no way to ensure that judges will be unbiased. In other words no matter how much time and money we spend overhauling it unfairness will happen.
One major issue is the patent Examiner corps. It’s a known issue within the industry. 10-15% of examiners are good at their jobs and 80% of them will be gone (usually to law school) within 3 years. 70% of the examiners are either lazy and/or illiterate in English. You’ll eventually get your patent from them, but sometimes with nonsensical amendments just to give them the internal metrics required to hit their quarterly goals. 15-20% are antisocial. They enjoy wasting your time and money.
When it comes down to it, a granted patent doesn’t mean much. The court will do with it what they will.
Sure, you can, but you shouldn’t. Any algorithm has a limited, generally one, optimal expression. The point is writing code isn’t the same as writing literature or music. Code copywrites aren’t attempts to protect expressions, but to protect ideas, and that isn’t the purpose of copywrite.
“Any algorithm has a limited, generally one, optimal expression.”
Uh-huh. That’s why all programmers know that trying to understand and modify somebody else’s code is such an easy thing to do.
You merely point out that none of the programmers has found the platonic ideal expression!
Most programmers can’t write fizz buzz without help. Most people being idiots is orthogonal to whether an algorithm can be meaningfully distinguished from its expression and what the proper form of protection if any it should be granted.
This is where I start to fall of the software patents bandwagon, despite it being my day job.
However, it’s not a software-specific issue, it’s just the most obvious in software. The bar for novelty is set way too low. To make a trivial example, If you take a box of Legos and assemble the empire state building per the instructions, that’s clearly not patentable.
If you grab a few components from the big Ben set of Legos and tack a clock onto your empire state building, have you done something new? Technically yes, nobody has done that thing before.
Is that innovation worthy of patent protection? Well, it’s well known that Legos are exchangeable between boxes and that they can connect wherever a nub and a socket meet. Adding clocks to buildings is well known, and has been done before. Is there anything about adding this clock to this building that is different from adding a generic Lego clock to a generic Lego building? No.
However, I get patents granted on a weekly basis that are at that level of novelty. Use a well known ML classification algorithm to classify well known categories of TCP sessions and route them based on that classification. Use a well known device health quality metric in combination with a well known link health quality metric to synthesize a port quality metric. They’re all about putting the Legos together in slightly different ways to get slightly different results. I certainly don’t get the warm fuzzies when one of those patents grant, but incremental improvements are a large part of our portfolio.
Isn’t the real problem with software patents the patenting of the ‘legos’? My lay understanding is that the trolls argue that your novel and unique app is built of stolen ‘components’ effectively as if one sued a novelist because his 300 page novel contained 18 sentences indistinguishable in structure from a prior work.
If I hold a patent on affixing big Ben’s Lego clock to the side of the Lego empire state building, that doesn’t impact anybody else’s use of Legos for anything except affixing big Ben’s clock to the side of the empire state building.
Usually, the “Legos” have long since been patented because they’re worked out by standards groups (IEEE, etc) years or decades in advance, and standards based patenting is its own can of worms.
Most of the eyerollingly bad patents come from the combination of known technologies in a “new” way.
Very few would protest if somebody gets a patent on a new protocol to replace DHCP. Many more get their hackles up when somebody patents using the DHCP option 43 to transmit some specific combination of proprietary routing information across the network (given that’s exactly what that options was put there to do).
Winning?
Welfare Queens of the great plains rejoice.
Yup. If you ever wondered why so many of those laid back old farmers in Iowa vote commie, there you go.
Out: Soybeans to China.
In: Industrial incinerators and MOPP gear to China.
Brazil and the USA have enough Soybeans to feed the world cow food many times over. So yeah, burn that stuff before it’s free!
The double whammy is that this year was terrible for farmers in Minnesoda and eastern NoDak. If there wouldn’t have been a trade war going on, the farmers wouldn’t have had much to sell anyhow. If you paid attention through the whole season, you would notice that last spring the farmers were all moaning about how a trade war would kill them. Then as they had a wet spring and they didn’t get their crops in, they started to quiet down and they went completely silent once the fall harvest got fucked by weather.
If it wasn’t for the trade war, they’d all have been crying for disaster relief. For all I know they probably tried to apply for both (and got it).
Old piece about the luxury goods tax
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1993/07/16/how-to-sink-an-industry-and-not-soak-the-rich/08ea5310-4a4b-4674-ab88-fad8c42cf55b/
“What went wrong with the luxury tax was that, in trying to go after the rich guys’ toys, Congress put the toymakers out of business. The rich guys, meanwhile, bought other toys (including foreign-made ones) not covered by the tax; or they bought used toys and refurbished them; or they simply saved the money, waiting to spend it another day.”
And no one could have forseen that. Why do people keep changing their behaviors to a changing environment?!?!
I don’t particularly want to get into the Congressional record for that time period, but was there seriously no one in the entire 535 members of the two houses that said
“Uh hey, you guys, I know rich fucks from Connecticut buy the yachts, but the guys who build the yachts are blue collar dudes. If this tax puts the yachtmaker out of business, is that really a net win for the Treasury? Can we look into that? Yeah, it’s crazy that this Hollywood actress paid 50,000 for a fur coat, but doesn’t that frivolous expenditure put money in the pockets of the delivery man, the seamstress, the designer, the trapper? Isn’t that a good thing? Don’t we want the so called idle rich to spend their money on stuff that creates employement? When a banker buys a Caddillac, that money employs union autoworkers and steelworkers. When an executive has an expensive dinner, hes tipping a waiter and eating American beef.”
Not a single member of Congress raised that objection?
TRICKLE UP VOODOO ECONOMICS!!! REEEEEEEEEE!!
It didn’t pass unanimously. Most of these people don’t understand Economics 102, an Economics 201 lesson would just anger them to the point of introducing more stupid bills like this. All they understand is “the highest bidder paid me to vote this way on this bill.”
*nods*
Welp, helicopters it is.
It was definitely the counter argument. And, as in the case of the USA PATRIOT act, dissent was derided as simple-minded and wrong-headed. “They can afford it” is the mantra when taxing wealth.
Sick flip bruh
https://twitter.com/human_not_bees/status/1230075628810051595
OMG that one got me. Audible gasp.
You like a man in heels that much huh?
Yes.
Oh Sunny Roi.
Pretty sure that’s a Russian deepfake.
well that was unexpected
Lol!
They prolly had to take that guy to the hospital.
Nah, just a little superglue, as good as new.
How low was the police helicopter flying if a guy on the ground managed to hit it with a rifle?
I mean if you are gonna shoot at a helicopter, at least use a Man PAD
People shoot .308 at 1000yd targets. Don’t helicopters searching for stuff on the ground only fly a few hundred feet up?
Why in the ever loving fuck would you admit to that? I mean I guess anyone dumb enough to jack a couple rifle rounds in the general direction of a helicopter “just because” is dumb enough to admit to it. But jeez why on Earth do people talk to the cops.
Always use the correct caliber.
Not appropriate for helicopters, but I still want one
.308 would work just fine
Fine line between having an interesting, unusual worldview, and just playing Scrabble with political ideologies.
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1230762833417125890
It’s a fine line, but that guy took a running start and went a few miles past it.
Eh, he’s just a commie who will vaguely guilty and sad when he sees his deplorable neighbors hauled off to the reeducation camps.
Blast from the past
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump released his 2021 budget proposal. It is likely going nowhere in Congress, since Democrats control the House of Representatives. But for the economy’s sake, we should be glad that the president’s budget has no shot at passage. It is full of outdated ideas that would instantly weaken the economy and undermine our ability to grow and prosper over time. If enacted, it would be an economic calamity.
To start with, President Trump proposes massive immediate cuts to the kinds of public services, protections and health care that help propel short-term economic growth by supporting demand for goods and services. In fact, according to the Brookings Institution’s Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure, which measures the effect that government is directly having on overall gross domestic product, government investment has been directly supporting overall economic growth for most of the last two years. That means that, just last quarter, the government was contributing the most to GDP than at any other point since the end of the Great Recession. President Trump’s budget would reverse that, withdrawing critical support at a time when growth has already slowed.
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But in some ways, it’s the long-term economic damage that President Trump’s budget will cause that should concern us the most. Over the medium and long term, the key to economic prosperity is improving the prospects of everyday people. Workers and consumers are what drive growth and prosperity. When workers have the support and investment they need to do their best work, they innovate, create and do more with less time and fewer resources. When consumers have money in their pockets, they drive demand for goods and services and induce businesses to invest in the future. They all need public support and strong foundations to ensure that private concentrations of wealth and power don’t distort the economy to the advantage of the ultra-wealthy, and to broaden the economic base by bringing more people into full participation.
Trump’s budget slashes at those very foundations: education, health care, research and development. The result would be both a less productive workforce and less consumer demand, producing a weaker economy overall, with the already-rich capturing most of the gains.
Making matters worse, Trump’s budget would worsen economic disparities by race. He proposes cuts to nutrition assistance when black families are more than twice as likely to be food-insecure than white families. He proposes cuts to after-school programs, to student aid and to federal funding for homeless students, all of which will fall disproportionately on young black people. Black Americans already face systemic barriers to economic advancement, barriers that both diminish individual opportunity and hurt our economy overall.
Stimulus! Multiplizer! Without government injections of cash, there would be no economic growth. Without government education, everybody would be too dumb to rub two sticks together.
And, of course, racism.
Talk about dubious, outdated economic theories. Beat that tin drum, little monkey. Beat it until your little arms fall off.
It is full of outdated ideas that would instantly weaken the economy and undermine our ability to grow and prosper over time.
Oh so he’s proposing things like nationalizing healthcare, nationalizing the means of production…
Over the medium and long term, the key to economic prosperity is improving the prospects of everyday people.
OK, you’re heading down the right path. Now just connect the dots between deregulated production and reduced cost of living.
Workers and consumers are what drive growth and prosperity.
Aaaaand straight into a telephone pole.
That famous scene from Titanic
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1230569480566300678
Goddamnit. 10 second edit…
Crying-laughing.
Sixth Graders love that movie so the glove fits. Really funny!
WaPo author on Squawk Alley talking about Facebook’s “conservative tilted Project Propaganda” – much hand-wringing about Trump pressuring Facebook and election misinformation!
Not a good day for Omar.
Local Somali guy goes on record saying that Ilhan Omar did marry her brother. Also threw some pretty good shade at her brother.
And then Omar shot her brother in the balls and drugs fell out of his ass. Trump was impeached so everyone called it a wash.
This is going to be so much fun!
The Case for Open Borders
In a new graphic-nonfiction book, a libertarian economist conjures an alternative reality in which immigration is unlimited all over the world.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-case-for-open-borders
*facepalm*
Yeah Bryan, I also wish the world was what I want it to be but it is just so goddamned stubborn.
Even this dude doesn’t seem to go as far towards “open borders” as potential candidate Jacob Hornberger does on his wedsite. Some seem to define open borders as what happens when, say, you travel from Kansas to Nebraska…you wouldn’t know it except for the “Welcome” sign (which presumably wouldn’t even exist under radical open borders).
All this braying about how Public Enemy Number One is gutting food stamps and whatever other programs: I assume these “cuts” are the result of people going to work and seeing their incomes rise above the eligibility level. Am I wrong?
They’re being FORCED into WAGE SLAVERY by NAZI REPUBLICAN POLICIES!
I doubt they are cuts at all, they’re probably reductions of the assumed increase in spending.
I always found it amazingly brazen when Obama would crow about record numbers of people enrolled in welfare and food stamps.
Idiot, that is NOT an indicator of economic health!! Bit he just wanted more people enslaved to Uncle Sam.
See, I’m uh making the economy better by uh halving the number of gainfully employed because uh they didn’t build that! *crawls back into the Yeti’s fag-bag*
Bragging. Sounds like something Eichmann would do to his superior about numbers transported.
As a reminder, it’s Friday.
Take this!
On the African Animals coloring assignment for kindergartners….
The tagline at the end was “it is a teachable moment”.
But, for some of the woke, apparently not a learnable moment.
Oh Lord I hate those neologisms. I cringed when I heard the term “woke”. Please don’t let this be a thing please don’t let this be a thing please don’t let this be a thing… Awww Fuck!