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White House John Boehner called President Obama gutless for campaigning against sequestration but not offering any alternatives.
- Joe Biden's advice to gun owners is to get a double barrel shotgun for self-defense. Is that what law enforcement is limited to?
- More than 250 drug cases have been thrown out in Philadelphia because six former narcotics officers were found to be liars. They no longer work in narcotics but, naturally, are still on the force.
- In New Mexico, state employees can collect worker's comp even if they were injured while drunk or high on the job.
- The execution of the mentally retarded Warren Hill in Georgia was stayed by an appeals court just half an hour before it was scheduled.
- France says its troops will begin to withdraw from Mali in the next few weeks, even as Islamist extremists continue to clash with security forces in the country.
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France says its troops will begin to withdraw from Mali in the next few weeks...
Just as the Germans show up.
Hell, I'd leave too. Afrika Korps II desert bugaloo.
France...like a mouthy girlfriend....starting shit and then leaving the boyfriend to clean up. ribbit!
They are there to clean up a problem caused by our military arming and training militias to wage war in Libya who later went home and joined the rebel cause.
Um, the Taureg folks were armed and hired by Qaddaffi. Now, how many would have been brought in if the original revolt had been left to its own devices is an open question.
The only real question is when will VW change the name on it's SUV?
All else is commentary.
its, not it's (damn it)
Things you would never see on the roads of a free country like the USA.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....goods.html
It's just a matter of time before we're all forced to ride modified tricycles to work here too.
Chony Krugnuts and Shrieking Idiot probably get a hard-on from those pictures.
Like that in Vietnam, too.
If it's physically possible, you will see it.
Saying from AF -
Q: How many Afghans can you fit on a bike?
A: One more.
Maybe if they were allowed to drive something a bit larger than a K-truck this wouldn't be a problem... haha, just kidding. They would just load a Toyota Tundra up even more.
New York mom charged with child endangerment after hiring strippers to perform lap dances at her 16-year-old son's birthday party, police say
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And this endangers the child how exactly?
He might get an underage boner.
underage boner
Nice band name.
He might get crabs.
The law is an ass. Give that mom a medal.
In this case, the law seems to be the antiass.
I'd have to see the quality of stripper before passing judgment.
click through for a shot of her lapdancing with her face
The mom's 33. She pregnant when she was 16. That's a pretty big red flag for lack of judgement.
My mother was pregnant with me at 16, but I didn't get any strippers at any of my birthday parties. That's going on my list of complaints when she asks why I'm putting her in a home.
do you need a list of complaints? Just snarl that she's lucky she's not going to the same farmer your dog went to
I figure there's no harm in having a list handy in case "It beats an ice floe, doesn't it?" isn't satisfying enough.
Wow. My dad sent a rabbit I had to a farm. I just now realized what happened. Thanks ifh. Now I'm retroactively scarred for life.
I thought that chicken tasted funny.
No no, your rabbit really did go to live with a farmer. Farmer Warty said he just loved your very cute rabbit to death. That means he took special care of it. Very special care
He loved him and hugged him and called him George.
Well, it WAS named snuggles.
My bro paid a whore to blow me for my sixteenth birthday.
"My bro paid a whore to blow me for my sixteenth birthday."
How much did he pay your sister?
Sis charges too much. After the drinking, he could only afford to pay your mom to blow me.
Think of it this way- in just a couple more years, she can hook up with his friends legally.
Im a majority of states, the age of consent is 16. Without checking where this is from, she probably can now.
What does age of consent matter with your guardian's explicit permission?
At least it was a lady stripper. I am reminded of the Mr. Show that had parents proud of their gay son even though he was straight. I think they even brought home a male prostitute for him.
33-year-old mom with 16 year old kid hires strippers for a party which has 13 and 14-year-old kids?
The police charges are ridiculous, of course, but let's face it, this is a pretty trashy thing to do, although not surprising from a mom who got herself knocked up at 16. Being a 'cool' parent to a 16-year-old is not the same thing as being a good parent.
My thought is along these lines. Want to buy a stripper for your own son? More power to you. For other people's underage kids? Yeah, we got a problem here.
Cops let mother know her son is dead via Facebook.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-time.html
You and 3 others like this.
More than 250 drug cases have been thrown out in Philadelphia because six former narcotics officers were found to be liars.
Only six? Come on, it's Philadelphia. Relatively speaking, that's a model crime fighting unit.
Are we sure it wasn't a 6 man unit? Then it would about right.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....rison.html
I have no problem with this.
Isn't that like beating a dead horse?
Justin Bieber has balls?
Why hedge clippers if a a pair of tweezers should suffice?
castrate Justin Bieber
Joke's on him. FGM maybe.
That's nuts.
Gah! Don't do that. Ever Again!
He's got a lot of balls throwing around puns like that.
I just didn't want to be another hater. Belieber Power! Also, Team Jacob.
Hey, hey...
Don't get testi.
You are now. On. The. List.
Is it just me, or is there something a bit mismatched here?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....schko.html
He's only dating her so he can feel huge.
Someone had to put her up to it.
Seriously. Hayden, you're an attractive, young, blond, somewhat successful actress, possibly best known for portraying a cheerleader. If you're really just looking for a guy who is jacked you can find a younger one than this guy, and he doesn't have to look so constipated/stupid.
Whoosh!
Isn't he a former pro-boxer? Maybe she likes them big, strong, and simple.
Maybe she likes them big, strong, and simple.
Maybe not the most rigorous course of study but he's certainly not Leon Spinks.
....the postgraduate study program of Kiev University. On 18 January 2001, in a conference hall of Kyiv University of physical science and sports, Klitschko presented his doctoral dissertation and was awarded a PhD in Sports Science. Klitschko speaks four languages: Ukrainian, Russian, German and English. At the beginning of his professional career, he began using the German transliteration of his name.. Wladimir.
She dated the goony ginger from Entourage so her taste isn't all that sophisticated.
What you did there...
I see it.
She is basically a pocket-pussy for him. Which is nice.
^this!
It looks normal to me.
More than 250 drug cases have been thrown out in Philadelphia because six former narcotics officers were found to be liars.
Impossible. Everyone knows that the police are brave heroes that deserve respect.
Drew Barrymore! What happened?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....aylor.html
age. She was so cute in her Playboy shoot. (Now i feel old)
She's younger than I am. Don't make me feel old.
Didn't she just squirt out a kid too?
Anyway, she's still on my celebrity waiver list.
She was never attractive.
Cake happened. And she was never pretty.
Both you and CZ...
Please fuck off and die in a fire.
And see Chuck's Angels Full Throttle.
Grindr for juggalos
http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/b.....iphone-app
juggalomingle.com?
mingelo.com
These guys are geniuses, I'm pretty sure. What else could they be?
So...I guess I'm moving to New Mexico now. And instead of listening to my doctor, I will ratchet up my drinking.
Where at in NM? I've benn drunk in Las Cruces a number of times, but don't recall being in the rest of the state much beyond that.
I've been assigned a travel piece to write from Las Cruces in early May. Any recommendations (that could run in a family publication)?
I haven't been there since '91 so my recommendations would be horribly out of date.
My plans now include staying at a B&B in old Mesilla, taking the tour of Spaceport, visiting White Sands National Monument, driving the "Old Mission Trail" south of El Paso -- and drinking a shitload of tequila, (but that last thing is off the record).
High Desert Brewing Company looks interesting.
They dont make anything interesting, looks like standard brewpub selection, but it gets decently high ratings.
Carlsbad looks a touch far. I thought Gruet as the vineyards are near Elephant Butte Reservoir, but the tasting room is in ABQ. If you're going to White Sands, is visiting the Trinity site an option?
Googling came up with a couple of museums. Farm and Ranch Heritage anyone? But Las Cruces is usually just something I sped through on the way to either CA, ABQ, or El Paso.
More googling comes up with a bunch of wineries in the Las Cruces area. As in, right in town. Yeah, I had no idea either. They probably suck, but ya' never know...
A must will be dinning at La Posta (if memory serves correct) in Mesilla. It is the one with a tank of piranha (no joke) right out front. I dropped in a few years back and it was still as good as it had been in the 70's.
In case you have not been clued in yet ? never drink any Tequila that isn't at least an Anejo. Reposado can be good enough but if there is a choice go for top grade. There really is a difference as Anejo level quality does not hurt nearly as much the next morning.
Kate Beckinsale. Yum.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....-show.html
She will be mine. Oh, yes. She will be mine.
Watch out! She's got a double-barreled shotgun under that thing!
Her daughter looks unfortunately British. Maybe she'll grow out of it.
You can cleanse your eyes with a few pics of Kim Basinger's daughter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....y-joy.html
Yeah I was thinking that she looked a bit walleyed.
What are you talking about? Her teeth look straight to me.
The turned up nose and the eyes that can see 180 degrees while looking straight ahead. I mean, she's going to be pretty for a British girl, but not with the hybrid vigor of her mother.
Joe Biden's advice to gun owners is to get a double barrel shotgun for self-defense.
Self-defense central planning. It's not at all arrogant to think he can determine the protection needs of every single individual situation.
I think double barrel's kick ass, but even the crappy ones are like double the price of pump shotguns, let alone 2 shots are not as good as 4+. Then again, James Bond saved the day with little else than a double barrel in his last outing. Methinks, Biden watched that and started to confuse reality with 007 again.
Yeah, quite a few idiot leftists (and one H and R regular!) were talking about smart guns after that movie came out. Which is like bringing up cold fusion during a talk about energy policy.
That smart gun was based off a gun from Licence to Kill back in 1989 natch.
Joe started getting confused about reality in the early 80's.
If I had the skill set of James Bond, it wouldn't matter what gun I used because I'd be one of the baddest motherfuckers to have ever lived.
But I don't, so I need equipment designed for the task of defending oneself in order to compensate for my lack of being Bond.
Biden can go fuck himself. We don't all have the privilege of having an armed escort for protection 24/7 where one might feel like they can defend their home and family with a paltry double barrel bird gun.
If we're going to base home defense on Bond movies, why don't we go with laser-shooting Omega Seamasters?
Or the twin machine guns in the DB5.
Biden is the comedy gift that keeps on giving, isn't he?
I always liked this one.
BATFE says NO!
In the right situation, a double barrel can be very effective. But Joe also recommended "stepping out on the balcony and letting loose with a couple blasts" or words to that effect. So disarm yourself and commit what is in most states a felony by shooting randomly into the air.
Not only that, if I let loose a couple of blasts, I HAVE RUN OUT OF AMMO AND WILL NEED TO RELOAD, wasting valuable time and ammo.
You know who else stepped out on a balcony to make a statement?
Well it wasn't Joe Biden, because the squirrel distracted him.
Michael Jackson?
Lee Tracy?
B. Mussolini?
The Pope?
Juliet?
MLK?
Lots of girls at Mardi Gras?
+ beads
Tony Montana?
Eva Peron?
+1 cry
This guy?
So disarm yourself and commit what is in most states a felony by shooting randomly into the air.
Biden is crazy like a fox.
You thought they would actually sell you shotgun shells? The gun obviously doesn't have any slugs or buckshot in it when are firing off your meaningless warning shots.
Joe also perpetrates the old "you don't need to aim a shotgun" bullshit. Ask guys who do 3-gun about that one.
He also advocates firing warning shots, which are considered felonies in many jurisdictions and frowned upon by prosecutors in others. It sounds like he wants everyone who finds themselves on the victim end of a DGU to wind up in jail.
That's not a glitch, that's a feature. Felons aren't allowed to own guns. So, follow Biden's advice and no one needs to ban guns because no one will be allowed to own them.
Yeah. I shoot three-gun and shotgun is the most challenging part for me.
But let's assume he's correct.
In what fucking universe is a gun that patterns across entire rooms appropriate for home defense where there might be, you know, other people besides an intruder? I highly doubt that "Biden told me to use a shotgun with a wide pattern" would work in court when you end up hitting your kid in addition to/instead of the intruder you meant to hit.
On the other hand, a shotgun isn't going to accidentally shoot your neighbors through the wall.
Neither is a 55 grain projectile from a .223. They destabilize very quickly passing through foliage, much less drywall.
Say hello to the Box O' Truth:
Oh if only there were shotgun rounds intermediate between birdshot and 00 Buckshot. Oh wait, there are.
Neither a shotgun nor a rifle is going to accidentally shoot your neighbors through the wall since inanimate objects cannot fire themselves.
Oh come now, Sloopy - everyone knows that these dangerous weapons of war leap off of tables, out of closets and cavort around the room, firing off at random intervals. It is what they do!
/Frum
You know what I meant.
And a shotgun is one of the weapons I have for home defense use. For instance, if I'm barricaded in a closet or room with my entire family, a shotgun is probably ideal.
But it isn't a double barrel bird gun.
It's a Remington 870 outfitted with a pistol grip, light integrated fore end, an 8 round tube magazine, and a door breaching choke. It's a gun designed for defense purposes, not shooting quail in a wide open field.
You just need to get one of the shotguns with the magnetic barrel extension.
Biden can forego his SS protection and just carry a double barrel shotgun.
Happy birthday, Poison Ivy!
John Boehner called President Obama gutless for campaigning against sequestration but not offering any alternatives.
Did he also mention that Obama's John Hancock is on it?
Where Have All the Babies Gone?
More and more Americans are childless by choice. But what makes sense for the individual may spell disaster for the country as a whole.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/n.....erica.html
Good, leave the world to those of us (and our kids, naturally) not acting out an evolutionary dead end.
You seem hurt that people might not chose to have kids. "Fine! Go ahead and don't have kids! Harumph!"
Yeah, I never understood the rage that parents feel towards childless people. It's not my fault you chose to give up all your free time and disposable income.
I never understood the rage that parents feel towards childless people.
Pretty broad brush you are painting with. Maybe you should meet more parents.
Poor phrasing. I didn't mean all parents. Just the ones who get pissed.
IME, you're more likely to catch shit from your parents when you tell them. Because GRANDBABIEZ!!
which is well over 50% of them
I think it's the disproportionate response you sometimes get.
"My wife and I have decided not to have kids."
"Well, we're keeping the human race from going extinct!"
Very few childless-by-choice people are that hilariously defensive about their choice. It's indicative of a regret of having children and not being able to directly express that regret.
Of course, there are assholes on both sides of any debate.
"Thank Zod!" is a much more effective response than "Well, we're keeping the human race from going extinct!"
You've never been to Reddit's Childfree subreddit. My wife used to hang out at those places, before we decided to have kids. They're pretty ugly.
Choose any subject and you can find a place on the internet featuring the worst people ever.
I thought we were all here already?
^^^Exactly. That's why I keep showing up.
Yeah... those are the people I was talking about below.
there are assholes on both sides of any debate.
The existence of the term "breeders" proves that.
AFAIK, parents dont have an equally derogatory term for the childless.
There are absolutely assholes on both sides, but it appears to me the bigger assholes are the anti-child assholes.
Might have something to do with the constant haranguing childless people get from the childful (especially their own parents). It's far more socially acceptable to ask someone why they don't have kids than it is to ask them why they did have kids, so the breeders don't need a derogatory term for the Mules.
especially their own parents
Thats a personally problem.
My mother has officially given up on me, so I got that going for me.
so the breeders don't need a derogatory term for the Mules.
Please tell me that your use of the term "breeders" is an indication that you don't plan on having kids.
I was using it because robc used it, but it is true that I don't expect to find a woman willing to put up with me for more than a month who doesn't smell like compost and/or have her butt roll when she walks.
"AFAIK, parents dont have an equally derogatory term for the childless."
DINK: Double Income No Kids
It was used a lot in the 1980's.
That makes me a SINK. Schweet!
DINK: Double Income No Kids
It wasnt, at least at first, derogatory. It, like Yuppie, was an acronym created to explain some social phenomena or something. And it never caught on as an insult.
"Breeder" was meant in an insulting way from its first use in this context.
Acronyms don't count as derogatory.
Isn't "breeders" mostly used by gay people, somewhat humorously?
You're right Zeb, but I can see how that would really easily be re-appropriated for intentionally childless straights.
For my part, it's not the childless that tick me off, it's that archetypal childfree person who uses the word "breeder". They're certainly not the majority, but they're real and I've met 'em.
Interesting. Back in the mid 80s I was at an amusement park where it was, apparently, gay day. Lots of men, a few women, all wearing red shirts, holding hands in public...big stuff at the time. Strength in numbers. I was sympathetic to the people I saw. There were chants. One that I remember clearly was was "2, 4, 6, 8, we don't over populate'. It seemed the irony of their existence was lost in the desire to be confrontational. Not to mention, they seemed to lose perspective that many 'breeders' might actually support their rights.
Disingenuous fucks.
I know plenty of gay folk. Some of them hang out almost exclusively with other gays. Not a single one of them have ever told me the reason they became gay was so they wouldn't contribute to overpopulation.
Those fucks are TRYING to start shit.
And considering how many gay couples are adopting/having kids via other means/etc, they in fact are contributing.
How does adopting contribute to overpopulation?
How does adopting contribute to overpopulation?
Supply/Demand. Duh.
Plus, I would have to think that adopted kids have a longer average life span that kids who are never adopted.
One that I remember clearly was was "2, 4, 6, 8, we don't over populate'.
No U-hauls in the parking lot, eh?
+ 1 Butch/Fem Dynamic
It's not my fault you chose to give up all your free time and disposable income.
That is what I like to point out when DINKs or singles complain about parents who get to leave work early.
I tell you what: I won't complain about all of the incessant travelling, eating and drinking posts on Facebook you make and you won't complain about me having to stop what I'm doing and go retrieve another sick kid from school. Capiche?
Ummmmm.....No. You not wanting to read something is far different from someone with no dependent children having to pick up your slack at work.
Now, if it's your contention that those who don't have to drop everything at work to go deal with "sick kids" get to benefit more at work when they pick up the slack (get more/better promotions, increased pay, etc.), that's fine. That would fall under the "choices have consequences" column. Otherwise, Hell no.
I'm not hurt at all. More for us...wait, debt, dead hand of gov't wringing more out of us... can I take that back?!
I am more poking fun at the weird pov the lady in the article seems to be exhibiting. If people don't want kids, fine by me.
I would've had kids if it wasn't for all the screeching and screaming. Seriously - why do they do that?
And the shitting.
Believe it ro not, the shitting and barfing bothers me 10x less than the screeching.
If you do your job right, the screeching and screaming is minimal after year 3 or so.
And you have to continue to wipe ass for years longer.
Wiping ass sucks. By the time my youngest can wipe his own ass with competency, I will have had to wipe someone else's ass for 11-12 years. That's bullshit.
I can't remember a time when I couldn't wipe my own ass.
I will have had to wipe someone else's ass for 11-12 years. That's bullshit.
Then you get to wipe your parent's ass...and the cycle continues!
It's ass-wiping all the way down!
The Circle of Asswiping is a beautiful thing.
So even at a place like a water park, the well-trained kid won't screech? My experience says otherwise.
I get that a water park is an appropriate place to screech, but I still don't like it. It makes me cringe. Even when my dogs gets that high-pitched yap, I cringe.
I'm just not cut out to have kids, plain and simple.
Most children scream at around 3500 Hz, one of the most sensitive frequencies for the average adult. Evolution has screwed you again, Kay-Kay.
My oldest kid had the absolute most annoying habit of purposefully fluctuating his pitch during a fit until he hit the absolute most annoying sound you could hear. That shit got old quick.
We also beat it out of him quick too.
I've got four of my own, and I simply cannot endure entering a Chuck E. Cheese. I'd rather have a root canal.
They sell beer at CEC for a reason you know.
They don't in Jersey.
Unfortunately only Budweiser and Coors Light on my last visit. I got lemonade. Wish I had know and I would have brought some vodka. I definitely needed it.
That's like The Ground Round from my kiddiehood.
I get that a water park is an appropriate place to screech, but I still don't like it. It makes me cringe.
It is my experience that parents of screeching kids, which is to say parents, don't even hear it. And I mean pretty much across the board. It baffles me because that high-pitched scream that little kids do is to me one of the most horrible and unignorable sounds that exist.
We notice. Trust me. If we show that we notice, they win.
NEVER NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS.
You can train the screeching right out of any kid if you really commit yourself to it...
shitting and barfing
It's like taking care of someone who has the flu - one that lasts for a long time.
I would've had kids if it wasn't for all the screeching and screaming. Seriously - why do they do that?
It's nature's way of ensuring that only the genetic material of the strong survive. Those who can't take the screaming either don't have kids or eat their young.
For the same reason many adult women do? :-p
(This is why there are no female libertarians....)
SLD: People should do whatever works for them.
But when the encouraged culture among young people is "stay young", "your career is the most important thing", etc, why do you expect them to get married and have kids?
Personally my wife and I are planning on kids in the very near future, but everyone thought I was an "old man inside" in college.
We aren't all fortunate enough to find someone to marry before college is even done. If I had a wife, I'd probably be looking to have kids in 2-4 years. As it is, I've got a lot more ground work to lay.
Sounds like you got some more pipe to lay too.
There's a lot of stuff that needs to be laid first.
That's definitely a factor too, I got super lucky there. I was surprised how many of my college friends weren't really looking for a spouse.
Haha, I got married a year after graduation, and three of our friend-couples had already gotten married.
We were the late ones.
I'll probably be breaking up with my girlfriend tonight basically because I don't see a marriage with her working out, even though I really like spending time with her right now.
Sorry to hear that. It is worth everything to find somebody who's right.
Just be honest. That's the key.
"I've met someone else, Helen. Someone who makes me feel alive. I only know his screen name, but I feel deep in my heart that SugarFree and I are meant to be together."
I think you've got the same 2 main problems she has: You won't put out enough, and you want to live in a crappy part of the country.
Then I suggest you fake your death.
I'm planning on leaving the country for 3 weeks starting this weekend. Is that good enough?
It's even easier to fake your death in a foreign country.
Who knew how dangerous Europe was? If only I had had a gun.
So many canals to throw clothes in; some many craggy walls have fallen from.
That's rough. But as I approach my 10th wedding anniversary, I can say I am truly happy that I married the right woman. When I think of some of the serious relationships I had before I met my wife, I can only imagine how miserable a marriage would have been.
Ironically, when I met my wife, we had no plans of serious relationships, marriage, children or anything. Until one day we both realized we were in love, and got hitched.
Not judging, but are you in some kind of rush to get married?
If it was me, I'd sit back and enjoy the good company. There will be plenty of time for being miserable later.
Not particularly, but if it's not going to be a permanent thing, I might as well not be in a serious monogamous relationship anyway.
I personally would like to have kids. Finding a woman (the women?) brain-damaged enough to let me ruin her body (thier bodies?) to build my army of lazy-as-fuck-liberty-minded-douchebags is the real issue.
Have you tried mail order brides?
The funny/unfortunate thing is that the real problem in the equation is liberty. The very idea of even recognize some superior outcomes of homeschooling makes most women I run into pull out the holy water and crucifix. Unfortunately for them, that shit doesn't actually work on vampires let alone the Destroyer.
A coworker had a nice Filipina shipped to him. They're expecting their first child now. As I see it:
PROS - can cook, kinda cute, probably better than dying alone
CON - a lifetime of mail-order bride jokes behind your back
Way to eliminate the CON: make the jokes FIRST.
You forgot: CON - her whole family soon living down the street
Also you forgot: CON - nipples that look like nightcrawlers
I know we can no longer adopt Russian Children, but have they restricted ordering Russian brides yet?
I know a guy who got a mail order Russian bride 10+ years younger than him who spoke excellent English and had highly marketable technical skills. They were married, she got a job earning way more than he did and paid off all his near 6-figure debt.They are still happily married 10+ years later. I wouldn't expect this to be typical.
Where Have All the Babies Gone?
To bars apparently. Can't I just drink myself to an early grave in sullen silence?
Listen, if you are going to try to go ogle the possibly underage college chicks at the bar, you're gonna have to put up with the fact that you're at a college bar.
No, no. These are craft beer bars where hipster parents drag their kids around like dripping accessories.
Of course, it's not like the kid choose to come to the bar, so I try not to take it out on them.
If it was truly a BAR, under 21 wouldnt be allowed in the door.
Actual quote from me at the Grale last Saturday:
"[Odds are that] One of them has Daddy issues. Now I just have to figure out which one."
note: and nothing else happened.
My god, you're ogling the kids, even right in front of their parents? You're a sick, sick man.
Oh dear Lord, this. Look, despite the name, this isn't really a pub out of EastEnders, and we aren't really in Britain. So be an adult, get a sitter, and leave your kids, stroller, and diaper bag at home.
What's with the no longer getting a babysitter thing anyway? Is it that Millenial 12 year old girls no longer need spending money, or is it that this crop of new parents won't entrust their kids for a few hours to anything less than a hybrid of Mrs. Doubtfire and Jason Bourne?
Nah. The baby sitters just all want $20/hour now.
You need to come to my local watering hole. I don't recall ever seeing a minor of any age in there.
Oh, but my watering hole doesn't have a great beer selection. It's just an old craphole with great live bluegrass on Fridays and Saturdays (if you can stand the hipsters coming to enjoy the music ironically)
The hipsters have taken to bluegrass? Fuck. First PBR, then bourbon and now this? Why, oh why, won't they leave us hillbillies alone?
My roommate mocked me relentlessly for listening to bluegrass until the hipsters started liking it. She's now retconned that she ever disliked it and has decided that she is "way more into" it than I am.
Next thing you know, they'll be appreciating (ironically) Rand Paul.
Eh, my roommate is already there. Her favorite professor was Walter Block, but I think she might be an outlier with the hipsters.
They've been into bluegrass for a while.
Personally, I love bluegrass right up until someone starts singing.
Word of advice. If you are the average person (I.e., not super rich) your life is NEVER stable enough to have kids. So stop even thinking that you somehow should wait until it is.
Even if your life was stable, a kid will knock that shit over. We just got an 8 month old from the state, so I know from harsh recent experience.
Long time passing...
I've been informed by a few right-thinking progressives that it is selfish to want children with all the problems of this day and age. People get upset when you don't make the same decisions as they do. It's as if they need to make you feel bad to try to justify their own decisions. Personally, I don't give a shit what you do with your life, I have my own plans.
Where do they get this shit.
We live when it has never been safer to be alive.
Shouldn't we encourage more progressives to think this way?
Yep.
I personally just don't like the little screaming, pooping, puking, money pits. But, to each his own.
One word of advice to anyone on the fence. Before deciding, do the math.
My wife and I never wanted kids. There are a few people we've met who understood or supported our decision. However, the vast majority of people look at me like I'm a serial killer or a rapist because I don't like kids. The nicest thing I've been called is "selfish". I won't go into details about some of the nastier things we've been called.
My thought is this. If you like kids and you want them, have them. I know a guy who's got 10 and still wants more. That's cool. I'd put a gun in my mouth with that many kids around all the time, though.
I'm just sick of being looked down upon by parents that think I'm defective because I have no paternal instincts. My sister handed me her son once and I kinda just stared at him, hoping he didn't puke on me or start crying. I told her that there's no way in hell I'm babysitting until the kid can wipe his own ass.
I don't mind my friends' kids. But they're not around 24/7 - I just see them for a couple hours at a time at parties, and we have fun. Hell, I even like that the squeeze is not around 24/7, and he's 46.
Playing with my friends'/family's kids is great. I can give them back if they get smelly or loud.
It just pisses me off that many parents see themselves as better or more noble than me because they have children. Having children doesn't make you a saint or a martyr and not wanting children doesn't make me a monster.
When many of them find out that I'm not only childless-by-choice, but also an atheist... WOW, you'd think I just sprouted horns and a tail then pulled a pitchfork out. I actually had one mother pull her kids away from where I was playing with my nephew once.
I think you need to find better people to hang around.
That, or flaunt your free time and disposable income as revenge.
Or, if you are close enough, buy their kids a drum set and make sure the kids open it.
Mostly it's coworkers, friends of the family, people within my family that are overtly critical. My best friend and his wife aren't fans of children either and my friends that do have kids are usually pretty ok with it.
The lady that pulled her children away was on a playground. We got to talking about my nephew, which led to asking when I was having children, which led to "it's in the bible that you should have kids", which led to OMG EEEEVIL BARREN DEVIL ATHEIST!!! RUUUUUUUUUUUN!
Oh, and I do flaunt the hell out of my disposable income. I bought an Audi TT convertible last summer and was told by a few of my family that it wasn't a practical car. Just looked at them and said "well, when you don't have kids, you can drive a two seater. Have fun in your minivan"
A minivan is for when you have lost your soul. I have 2 kids, but will NEVER have a minivan. Our family car is a Tundra.
Yup. The car I got when our second son came along was a 320 hp, turbo, AWD Stagea.
I love kids. But I also like it when they go away when they start screaming and shitting.
Two big reasons I don't want to have kids:
1) Let's flip a coin. If it comes up heads I'm taking half your stuff and you'll never see your kids again. Is it a shock it's getting increasingly harder to find people willing to take this bet?
2) There's no longer any life balance in having children. When I grew up, I was expected to see to my own entertainment for a signifcant portion of the time, leaving my parents free to still have something of a life to themselves. Now adays, you're expected to spend every free moment catering to your children. Again it's not suprising that it's becoming harder to find people willing to do that.
QFMFT on #2 at least. My nieces expect to be entertained/played with by adults pretty much constantly. My mom foolishly babysits them for free, ensuring that she will constantly be asked to babysit, and has to come up with stuff for them to do every friggin time... then calls me and complains to me on the phone about it. I tried asking her why she didn't complain to the kid's parents once instead of calling me; that didn't go well.
Agreed. I remember being told on multiple occasions "the adults are talking right now, go play with your toys/outside/etc" So we did. We entertained ourselves or got into some kind of trouble, but we survived. I have been in the middle of a conversation with a parent and had them start playing paddy cake or someshit with their kids while we're trying to have an adult conversation because the kid was "bored" Louis CK has the best line ever about being bored.
Comcast denying gun advertisements on network
"Look, Grandad's in the paper!"
Ilkeston man charged with having sex with a horse has died
Now that the charges have been dropped, the family plans to bury the horse in question alongside Mr. Coulby.
I'm a little sad that there are laws to differentiate between vanilla horsefucking, and necro-horsefucking.
Brothers celebrate lottery win by blowing up house
http://www.kansas.com/2013/02/.....y-win.html
People who won the lottery were stupid enough to cause an explosion? This doesn't fit with my perception of people who play the lottery!
While I totally believe the mentality implied in the story, I'm not sure the physics makes sense...wouldn't that have to be a whole lot of butane?
From lighter cans of butane?
Nope, it's bullshit. There's no way the concentrations would get high enough to actually blow something up. Someone's watched too many movies.
Postal Service to launch new clothing line in 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....ingtonpost
just the simple fact the postal service was written into the constitution tells you it was a power grab from the articles of confederation.
You realize that states had official churches and charged tariffs on each other's products during the Articles era.
a typical free trade argument made for the constitution which is BS, it's like now giving the UN all control asking for global free trade in return.
Government is government. How is state power any more legitimate than federal?
Only men's apparel and accessories will be available initially, but the agency plans to add a women's line in the future, it said Tuesday.
That's RACIIISST!!! against women.
I look forward to the first story of someone impersonating a postal service employee.
Why would anybody want to impersonate a postal service employee?
(Well, other than Rule 34, of course.)
Why would anybody want to impersonate a postal service employee?
Hello Ms. Robinson...I have a package for you. Here, let me bring it inside.
Hello miss, I'm here to deliver a package.
You can imagine where it goes from here.
He delivers the package?
Don't be fatuous, Tulpington.
She signs for the delivery?
25 Cereals From The '80s You Will Never Eat Again
http://www.buzzfeed.com/briang.....-eat-again
I pity the fool who don't eat my cereal!
That line still cracks me up after all these years.
One of my fav movies. Watched it with the youngins last month.
I remember the Nintendo cereal. I had some before. Cheap, sugary, and probably disgusting by my tastes today.
Is that all on one page, or is it a fucking slideshow list?
one page - at least for my scriptblocking, adblocking Firefox.
To Tony and Shrike, since you keep bringing up Countrywide as a non-govt fuckup, behold:
"Countrywide can potentially help you meet your CRA goals by offering both whole loan and mortgage-backed securities that are eligible for CRA credit," the lender advertised to banks....
...According to Cato's Mark Calabria, by "2005, one out of every four loans purchased by Fannie Mae was from Countrywide" and "one of out every 10 for Freddie Mac was also from Countrywide", the end result being that "close to 90 percent of Countrywide's loan originations were bought or guaranteed by some arm of the federal government"...
...Because the growth and success of Countrywide was tied directly to Fannie Mae's continued hunger for acquiring and holding loans and Wall Street's continued investment in mortgage-backed securities composed of subprime mortgages, Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo offered a key group of VIPs preferential treatment through a special loan division. Countrywide gave preferential treatment to legislators, Congressional staff, cabinet members, Fannie Mae executives, lobbyists, and others well connected in Washington. Countrywide also gave preferential treatment to business partners, local politicians, homebuilders, entertainers and law enforcement officials....
...The number of loans to borrowers who worked at Fannie Mae spiked at two points during the lifetime of Countryside's VIP program. The first spike came in 1998, as Countrywide was negotiating a volume discount with Fannie Mae, the second spike came in 2001-03, on the leading edge of a "mortgage boom that occurred from late 2002 through 2004" and an expansion of the VIP loan unit....
...Countrywide marketed its loans directly to banks as a way for them to meet CRA obligations. "The result of these efforts is an enormous pipeline of mortgages to low- and moderate-income buyers. With this pipeline, Countrywide Securities Corporation (CSC) can potentially help you meet your Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) goals by offering both whole loan and mortgage-backed securities that are eligible for CRA credit," a Countrywide advertisement on its website read....
And I keep telling you Lehman, Merrill, and Bear were not commercial banks and had no CRA requirements. You keep bringing up straw man arguments. We know that Fannie Mae failed.
But this was Wall Street investment banks at the center of the financial crisis and you cannot offer a single plausible scenario as to why the government caused them to fail en masse.
The truth is that they over-levered and failed in their risk analysis while buying into the canard that home prices only rise.
There was an implicit guarantee that the government would bail people out. The implicit guarantee became explicit after Bear. They let Bear fail to encourage the rest, and it didn't fucking work. When you know you'll get backstopped by the largest financial entity on the fucking planet, why sweat risk analysis and leverage ratios?
'In early 2005, largely at the behest of the banking sector, the Office of Thrift Supervision implemented new rules that were widely perceived as weakening the CRA. Supervision of banks with under $1 billion in assets was loosened, and larger banks were allowed to voluntarily reduce the amount of regulator scrutiny of their "investment" and "service"-two long-standing categories of assessment under the CRA."
See, you are both right.
You think they will respond? They have dumped yesterdays painful lesson from memory and will march on in invincible ignorance.
Wrong again, you dittohead.
Again with the weird Rush L fixation - I am aware of who he is, but I have not, do not and will not listen to him. Even if I wanted to, I work in a #$%*ing office tower that you cannot get AM signal in - if I could, it would be on WSCR 670 or maybe WBBM 780.
You are either too lazy or too stupid to change your talking point/perceived insult. Maybe both.
You can't stream WLS?
No streaming at work - eats bandwidth alive. Plus, WGN? Am I what, 70 years old? Only when they have the Blackhawks game on.
Oh I thought he was on WLS. But that was 20 years ago when I lived in IL.
He is on LS, I misread as GN. I will only listen to Roe Conn on LS, on the way home from work.
Because defending your home and family is just like shooting at pheasants and quail. It's totally feasible to use a shotgun with a 28" barrel in the cramped confines of a house.
Actually, Mr. Biden, it's nothing like that at all. Some of us actually plan and think about how to best defend our homes, and in very few cases is a double barrel bird gun the right answer.
It's totally feasible to use a shotgun with a 28" barrel in the cramped confines of a house.
It means your assailant won't get within 28 inches of you. 😐
I totally read that as "shooting at peasants". Which, since this is Drunken Uncle Joe doing the talking, isn't out of the question.
Excellent write-up. I will be using that on my lefty friends.
Much appreshitated.
*3* drug tests to get a license
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Looking forward to the day you have to breathe into a tube *and* piss into a tube in order to start your car.
I presume these laws won't apply to cops?
It won't be long.
Stuck for a comment to make on the Guardian website?
No problem. Just try one of these random comments and you'll be sure to impress the self?proclaimed who's who of the left?wing internet intelligentsia.
President Armageddon
The Washington Monument ploy and other Obama gambits.
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....on_LEADTop
So who here knows about bow fishing? I'm thinking of shooting some snakeheads in the spring and need to outfit myself. I had compound bows and cross bows, BTW.
I prefer dynamite fishing. But I would go crossbow, were I bow hunting. Stable platform, all the better to aim with and take your time, lining the shot up.
Nope, no crossbows. I wanna be like Diana, Goddess of the Hunt (and I just like shooting a regular bow better)
Then you are a better hunter than I! More power to you. Does that mean you dress in silver and a filmy little out fit and run through the woods looking for quarry?
Errr....yeah. That's the ticket! 🙂
(I can't shoot a furry animal. Fish are the only animals that I have the mental capacity to kill)
Phew!
HA! Nicely played.
For various reasons, I cannot draw a bead on an animal anymore. Fish, I will continue to catch and keep if they are large and tasty.
I wanna be like Diana, Goddess of the Hunt
Please don't cut off your breast.
If you dropped your dynamite from a radio controlled helicopter you could pretend you were a drone operator...and the fish were terrorists.
Doubt if its legal these days but get a Greener Harpoon gun, plus its great for home defense.
http://www.cowanauctions.com/a.....emid=30156
BOW fishing. Bow.
Your no fun 🙂
Her no fun what?
She did not want a Greener Harpoon gun.
That's a thing? Holy shit, that sounds fun. I might look into it...
Yep - they make reels and line and arrows specifically for bow fishing.
I had compound bows and cross bows, BTW.
You sure you aren't here to make the men of these here parts worship the turf you trod?
OOps - HATE compound and cross bows. Eep.
Ted S. missed one!
Seems complicated. I use bathtub Semtex. Way easier, and you just scoop 'em right up.
If you're a woman, shouldn't you be doing curtsey fishing and not bow fishing?
Totally. That's why I plan to dress up as a boy and deepen my voice - otherwise the fishing guide would refuse to take me out!
MAH NAME IS KRI-KARL. TAKE ME BOW FISHIN'! [cloud of Axe body spray]
It's off the bow topic, but a nice snakehead article. Haven't caught any yet, I was too far down river on the Potomac, and we don't have them where I normally fish in PA. Yet.
Skipped the link entirely:
http://www.tbd.com/articles/20.....60173.html
Steve is the guy who is going to take me and the squeeze out bow fishing, He's my boss's husband.
I prefer a Mongolian recurved bow myself but then again I've never tried bow fishing with it.
Wouldn't that be hard from horseback?
Seahorseback fishing.
Not if the horse is in the water. Duh.
Most of the Mongolians I know have upgraded to SKS's.
Nice!
Obama's Pre-School Plan Fails When Parents Fail
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/.....aspx#page1
Obama's Pre-School Plan Fails When Parents Fail
FTFY
John Boehner: The President Is Raging Against a Budget Crisis He Created
Obama invented the 'sequester' in the summer of 2011 to avoid facing up to America's spending problem.
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....on_LEADTop
And when the House passed it Boehner said "I got 98% of what I wanted".
It's Bush's fault!
And still the President signed it.
C'mon, its not like the President had any ability to not sign something he didn't approve of - its right there in the Constitution, in the Must Sign and Necessary Clause.
I heard Bob Woodward on the radio yesterday explaining that the White House proposed it and Obama was thrilled that the House included it in the bill. Bob fucking Woodward.
When a Team Blue pol has lost Bob Woodward the jig is up. And if Team Red had any brains (ha!) they'd be hammering away that point.
Well that point as well as trotting out a plan for where the cuts could easily come from instead of cutting out so-called essential services.
Looks like Boner is hammering away at it. Good luck getting this angle covered in the MSM though.
You're keeping in step
And in line
Got your chin held high
and you feel just fine
'Cause you do what you're told
But inside your heart it is black
It is hollow
it is cold
Sad to see the WSJ puking out this kind of crap.
Most Americans are just hearing about this Washington creation for the first time Yeah, most Americans don't care enough to pay attention. (I like to think that at least some do so because they know it's all just lies and BS not worth paying attention to. Like the idea of the sequester.)
The sequester is a wave of deep spending cuts No, it isn't.
Unless Congress acts You can paint any disastrous scenario you want by preceding it with the words "unless the sun rises tomorrow". Are you seriously talking about the possibility of the Feds being stymied in an effort to spend more money?
The debt-ceiling crisis was all political theater, Simpson-Bowles was all political theater, the sequester is all political theater. You wanna know how the story ends? SPOILER ALERT: They arrive at a bipartisan balanced compromise and agree to increase both taxes and spending.
In New Mexico, state employees can collect worker's comp even if they were injured while drunk or high on the job.
In stimulus terms those are jobs saved.
""""The execution of the mentally retarded Warren Hill ""
They leave out the fact that Hill was already given a life sentence for murder of this girl friend when he then murdered in prison the inmate in the same cell with a board with nails in it so by not executing him they are saying the second murder has no punishment.
That might interfere with the narrative.
Seriously. Mentally retarded in this case is not some happy helmet wearing Special Olympian who wound up on death row. He's just a dumb murderous brute.
And my understanding - correct me if I'm wrong - is that most retarded people *don't* commit murder. So the ones who do made choices most don't.
Well, he did kill another prisoner who (by the State's logic) wasn't a person anymore anyway. The same will be said when pregnant women are blown into showers of gore by "malfunctioning" drones.
It sounds like the state did a poor job of incarcerating this individual who they already knew to be dangerous.
When the state locks somebody in one of their prisons, whether legitimately, as in this case, or illegitimately, as happens too often, the state then takes responsibility for that persons life and actions.
Poor prison management doesn't legitimize state sanctioned murder.
So the State should have kept him in solitary confinement for his entire life? Or in a straight jacket or so drugged up he can't do anything? The same lawyers who are suing now would sue the hell out of the State for that.
Personally I think the State should not get involved, any murder would be declared to be an "out law" and so outside of any laws protecting them and so could be hunted down by the victims relatives or friends.
Who declares the person outside of the law?
I am a fan of the Viking Justice you have proposed. There would be an issue, unfortunately, if the bastard was cunning enough to fight off and kill the murdered's friends and family...but I'm sure there are ways around that. I think part of the solution would be in ostracization so if the murderer tried to "integrate" back into society by robbing someone for medical supplies, he could be shot by a random private citizen for defending his property. But currently that's all illegal and exploring routes of such justice would land most people in Butt-Rape penitentiary.
if the bastard was cunning enough to fight off and kill the murdered's friends and family
The more people he kills, the bigger the mob trying to hunt him down.
Addition by subtraction?
Personally I think the State should not get involved, any murder would be declared to be an "out law" and so outside of any laws protecting them and so could be hunted down by the victims relatives or friends.
Declared by whom to be an outlaw? After what process? Talk about begging the question. How is the identity of the murderer established? How is his guilt established?
It's interesting that you guys argue against cap pun because we can never be sure the person was actually guilty, even with the numerous safeguards in our system preventing innocent people from being executed; and then turn around and favor allowing the relatives to go out and kill someone based on mere suspicion of murder. It almost seems as if you're more concerned about shrinking the state rather than making sure innocents don't get killed.
I don't argue against capital punishment because of the uncertainty of guilt, but because it's wrong for the state to kill people when they are able to hold that person alive and render them harmless.
So your model for how society should function is inner city gang wars?
The state is not competent to carry out death sentences.
Apparently Warren Hill is.
I guess I'm moving to New Mexico now.
Will you be destroying things at Sandia?
Because that would be cool.
I will probably get into the Meth...coughh..cough...I mean chicken business. Yeah. That's what I meant.
Obviously you have to consider the source but a not so flattering look at legal prostitution in Amsterdam.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/fea.....-for-sale/
I've been to the Red Light District. There are plenty of unflattering prostitutes there, but most were good enough looking.
"I'm sure you want Ingrid, but Bertha here has seniority."
When will they stop me from recycling that joke?
50 Euro for a suck and fuck?
the old story of exploitation which is BS. the one i recently talked to worked only 2 days a week. and these girls live a better life than in some eastern world shack.
I only paid 40 for the suck.
Should you be able to use Google to find a lawyer while under arrest
Yes
Somebody (or multiple somebodies) apparently engaged in a little frontrunning on Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett's Heinz deal. What a shocker.
Was there supposed to be a link accompanying this?
http://blogs.reuters.com/great.....king-laws/
Unions seek exemption from anti-stalking laws
Important Things About America Learned on New Girl:
"Does it say 'Share Stuff' in the Constitution of America? No, it does not. Nicholas, what does it say?"
"'Don't Share Stuff'"
Is there a link for this or did you just watch New Girl yesterday? Also, cue John to comment on how cute and likeable Zooey Deschanel is.
There's this new website called Hulu. You should check it out, grandpa!
"I NEED A CONDOM! FOR MY PENIS!"
Does nothing for me except annoy. Trailers for that show are even annoying with the mute button on. Can't wait for the cancellation.
More than 250 drug cases have been thrown out in Philadelphia because six former narcotics officers were found to be liars. They no longer work in narcotics but, naturally, are still on the force
Perjury... how does it work?
Perjury works very well in Philadelphia, always has.
Go on TV and cry like a little girl about how the big, bad, evil republicans won't let him do anything. I am no lover of the republican party, but Obama is making himself look like the PUNK...ASS...BITCH that he is.
Don't read the CNN comments sections on sequestration (hell don't read them for anything, for that matter). They are all on Obama's side, saying how it was all the fault of evil Republicans, and things would be sunshine and rainbows if only the Republicans would go away.
Florida announces mother of the year nominee.
What do you have against free-range kids? 😉
I don't. They're quite tasty actually.
Was there supposed to be a link accompanying this?
No. but I think you can easily find a story about the SEC and FBI investigating "suspicious" trades if you go to Google Business News.
What a supermodel looks like after 12hrs of partying.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....hours.html
How does she still have eyebrows like that?
Right? I'm surprised her last name wasn't McPoyle.
My God, was the camera drunk too? Because she looks wrecked.
Wrecked? Yep, I'd say she looks like she had a train on her ass. Followed by a bukkake incident.
So she was stumbling down a staircase and the photographer just took her picture? He didn't offer his arm and unobtrusively cop a feel? Chivalry is dead.
I don't think she's that good looking even in her better moments. She looks mean and annoyed all the time.
Looked up the "singer" she's with, Rita Ora. Her music turns out to be so terrible it's sure to take America by storm any minute now.
Light the Randian signal...
Most overrated model in a long time. Really don't get why the DM or anyone else keeps fawning over her.
Three weeks after I signed my it up for the Do Not Call List, I get my first telemarketing call on my cell phone. Weird.
My theory on the do not call list: Telemarketers use it to find people to call. You cannot report telemarketers who call you until your name has been on the list for a minimum of 31 days. So, for the first month you're on the list, you're fair game and being on the list essentially guarantees that your phone number is a legitimate, working number.
Interesting theory.
It seemed to work fine for my land line.
Weird.
It's a TRAP.
It was an automated call for my very last chance in the world to lower my credit card rates to as low as 6.9%! Last chance! Ever! Never again will I be offered this opportunity! Press one to talk with an operator! Now!
+1 Admiral Akbar
Porn fans everywhere rejoice that Ron Jeremy recovering nicely after surgery.
Looks like the Hedgehog will be back on the air soon.
All 3 people, that have watched mainstream pay for porn, since 1992, are jumping for joy!
"US tyre boss mocks 'crazy' French unions"
"'How stupid do you think we are?' Titan Chief Executive Maurice Taylor asked French Minister for Industrial Renewal Arnaud Montebourg in a letter published by French business daily Les Echos [in French and English].
'I have visited that factory a couple of times. The French workforce gets paid high wages but only works for three hours.'
A Titan commercial shows its CEO Maurice Taylor expressing his opinion of the French.
'They get one hour for breaks and lunch, they talk for three and they work for three. I told this to the French union workers to their faces. They told me that's the French way!'"
http://www.france24.com/en/201.....ory-unions
Which is worse, that the Brits spell tire with a y or that we never fixed the spelling of pyre?
Pyre has a pleasing old-school feel to it for a thing that rarely happens any longer. Tyre sounds like a greeter at a Medieval Times restaurant.
Moar mead, serving wench!
Another link to the same story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin.....g-day.html
My favorite part is this:
Just amazing. The union response is, of course, to get the government to pound on the private company. And not just Goodyear for closing the factory (which I'm honestly shocked they're even able to do, after the recent stuff that's posted around here about insane French labor laws), but Titan for not taking over! You can take someone to court for not buying a POS money-losing factory in another country than where they are based? WTF planet is that possible on?
"'How stupid do you think we are?' Titan Chief Executive Maurice Taylor asked French Minister for Industrial Renewal Arnaud Montebourg
He's French, you're American. The answer is: boundlessly.
This may be appropriate here:
http://www.luceperformancegrou....._photo.htm
It almost seems as if you're more concerned about shrinking the state rather than making sure innocents don't get killed.
Considering how incredibly effective the state is at "making sure innocents don't get killed" I'm not sure a system based on blood feuds could be that much worse.
There's no evidence that any innocent person has ever been judicially executed in the United States in modern times. Maybe there are a few who we just don't have evidence for, but blood feuds would do far worse.
Carlos DeLuna? Cameron Todd Willingham? Barry Lee Fairchild?
Willingham is probably true. The other two, not so much.
I suggest you stay far, far away from the Innocence Project @ Northwestern University.
I do. You have a link to their evidence of innocents executed, not just litanies of names that the cosmos and lefties can nod their heads to?
I find it difficult to believe, living where I do, that the state hasn't fucked up and killed the wrong guy or killed him for the wrong offense. The Willingham case comes to mind immediately.
Like I said, there may be a few cases where an innocent has been judicially executed. That number pales in comparison to the innocents killed in our various wars, and certainly pales in comparison to deaths in the blood feuds that some here want to bring back.
Goal posts have been moved, straw man has been torched, thread has been Tulpafied.
Needz moar pentobarbitolz.
Wow, sarc, you really are a little shit. Every time you lose an argument you claim bad faith (without evidence thereof).
various wars = moving goal posts
blood feuds = straw man
you = retard
I fart in your general direction
The war comment would be a red herring, not a goalpost move, if you wanted to argue bad faith.
You (and others) continue not to understand that it's not a straw man when you're responding to an argument someone else just posted.
*phhhht*
"There's no evidence that any innocent person has ever been judicially executed in the United States in modern times."
Oh, those goalposts?
Cripes Tulpa, get a grip.
10:46 There's no evidence that any innocent person has ever been judicially executed in the United States in modern times.
11:17 Like I said, there may be a few cases where an innocent has been judicially executed.
31 minutes. Not bad for complete reversal, but you can be faster next time.
WTF does the number of innocents killed in wars have to do with this, BTW?
Nice snipping job, T. Works better when the original comment is hard to find.
Considering how incredibly effective the state is at "making sure innocents don't get killed
Stupid overly aggressive cops. Nuff said.
Jose Guerena?
Kathryn Johnston?
Which have nothing to do with capital punishment.
Trailers for that show are even annoying with the mute button on. Can't wait for the cancellation.
Are we talking about Portlandia now? Because I refuse to watch anything on whatever channel that is, just because of the incessant ads for that fucking moronfest.
Idocracy looms. It's Mike Judge's world, we're just living in it.
Apologies for posting this link. I should have read the entire article first (perhaps I'm actually getting dumber). After the first few paragraphs they go full retard (kind of ironic). Flouride in the water!!!!11 Pesticides ZOMFG!!!!11!!! PROCESSED FOODS AND HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!!!!1!!1eleventy gazillion! And whatever you do, don't read the comments. GMOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSS!!!!11!!!!
Currently reading Shogun. I highly recommend it. Intrigue, politics, religion, adventure, torture, samurai, geishas!
Yeah. They're all good. I'd say Gai-jin is the least interesting. Feel free to skip it.
I'd say Gai-jin is the least interesting.
hey now!
Which have nothing to do with capital punishment.
They're dead, aren't they? At the hands of government agents who remain free.
David Turner.
Kelly Thomas.