Sep 22, 2018
Trae Crowder
On the need to remember Climate Change - a hoax perpetrated by - who? - Big Bicycle? - together with the shadowy California Vegan Cartel?
Stoopid Repub Tricks
Just need to get this off my chest:
I'm sick-n-goddamned-tired of these entitlement-laden fat-cat legacy pukes. They need to be thrown out with the rest of the hog slop - they're stinkin' up the whole fuckin' joint.
Marc Fisher and Perry Stein, WaPo:
As Christine Blasey Ford tells it, only one person can offer eyewitness confirmation of her account of a sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh: Mark Judge, Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate at Georgetown Prep.
Ford says Judge watched Kavanaugh attack her at a high school party in the early 1980s and then literally piled on, leaping on top of her and Kavanaugh. Judge says he does not remember the party and never saw his buddy behave like that. Ford’s legal team has asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to compel Judge to testify.
A review of books, articles and blog posts by Judge — a freelance writer who has shifted among jobs at a record store, substitute teaching, housesitting and most recently at a liquor store — describes an ’80s private-school party scene in which heavy drinking and sexual encounters were standard fare.
Judge wrote about the pledge he and his friends at the all-male school on Rockville Pike in North Bethesda, Md., made to drink 100 kegs of beer before graduation. On their way to that goal, there was a “disastrous” party “at my house where the place was trashed,” Judge wrote in his book “God and Man at Georgetown Prep.” Kavanaugh listed himself in the class yearbook as treasurer of the “100 Kegs or Bust” club.
“I’ll be the first one to defend guys being guys,” Judge wrote in a 2015 article on the website Acculturated. He described a party culture of “drinking and smoking and hooking up.” During senior year, Judge said he and his pals hired a stripper and bought a keg for a bachelor party they threw to honor their school’s music teacher.
"...guys being guys"...because they'd drink too much and do stoopid things. Oh well, whutcha gonna do? Hey, how 'bout them Red Sox, huh?
Try to think about the effect that has on young girls growing up, and what effect it might have on young boys.
And that's just the obvious basic stuff that you have to assume even a complete bonehead would start to understand eventually. But here we are - not again, but still.
I'm sick-n-goddamned-tired of these entitlement-laden fat-cat legacy pukes. They need to be thrown out with the rest of the hog slop - they're stinkin' up the whole fuckin' joint.
Marc Fisher and Perry Stein, WaPo:
As Christine Blasey Ford tells it, only one person can offer eyewitness confirmation of her account of a sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh: Mark Judge, Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate at Georgetown Prep.
Ford says Judge watched Kavanaugh attack her at a high school party in the early 1980s and then literally piled on, leaping on top of her and Kavanaugh. Judge says he does not remember the party and never saw his buddy behave like that. Ford’s legal team has asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to compel Judge to testify.
A review of books, articles and blog posts by Judge — a freelance writer who has shifted among jobs at a record store, substitute teaching, housesitting and most recently at a liquor store — describes an ’80s private-school party scene in which heavy drinking and sexual encounters were standard fare.
Judge wrote about the pledge he and his friends at the all-male school on Rockville Pike in North Bethesda, Md., made to drink 100 kegs of beer before graduation. On their way to that goal, there was a “disastrous” party “at my house where the place was trashed,” Judge wrote in his book “God and Man at Georgetown Prep.” Kavanaugh listed himself in the class yearbook as treasurer of the “100 Kegs or Bust” club.
“I’ll be the first one to defend guys being guys,” Judge wrote in a 2015 article on the website Acculturated. He described a party culture of “drinking and smoking and hooking up.” During senior year, Judge said he and his pals hired a stripper and bought a keg for a bachelor party they threw to honor their school’s music teacher.
"...guys being guys"...because they'd drink too much and do stoopid things. Oh well, whutcha gonna do? Hey, how 'bout them Red Sox, huh?
Try to think about the effect that has on young girls growing up, and what effect it might have on young boys.
And that's just the obvious basic stuff that you have to assume even a complete bonehead would start to understand eventually. But here we are - not again, but still.
Feel free to go out and find a Leftie Equivalent - 10 stoopid quotes from Dems about rape. Because, of course - the Dems are just as bad - it's the Evil Duopoly!!!
I'll wait here.
Sep 21, 2018
A PSA
How To Prevent Rape
1. Don’t put drugs in a woman’s drink
2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone
3. If you pull over because a woman’s car has broken down, always remember not to rape her
4. If a woman steps into an elevator with you, don’t rape her
5. Should you encounter a woman who’s asleep or otherwise unconscious, the safest thing to do is not rape her
6. Don’t break into a woman’s house, and don’t pounce on a woman in the parking garage, so as not to rape her
7. Remember, some women go alone to the laundry room or storage lockers - avoid raping them at all times
8. Use the Buddy System - sometimes, a friend is all you need to help you not rape
9. Be honest with her - state your intentions so a woman doesn’t get the mistaken idea that you’re not going to rape her
Thank you for your time and attention. We hope you find this helpful as you navigate the tricky world of interpersonal dealings at a human level.
The Management
Today's Today
Almost forgot - happy Autumnal Equinox, everybody.
Get your nerd on:
You're welcome.
And, as always - It's OK To Be Smart
Today's Tweet
I remember this.
In today's Yale Daily News: what Brett Kavanaugh was up to back in his school days, when he belonged to a secret society known as "tit and clit". Motto: No means yes. Yes means anal. pic.twitter.com/ft4JXIGaJY— joyce maynard (@joycemaynard) September 20, 2018
And I remember being only mildly appalled by it, thinking that maybe this isn't quite as big a deal as they're trying to make me believe it is - radical feminazis and blah blah blah.
I've been wrong about a lot.
Sep 20, 2018
A Tweet
Mazie Hirono is emerging as a true Lion of the Senate.
Mazie Hirono tells ABC that Chuck Grassley's claim that Republicans have done everything they can to contact Dr. Ford "is such bullshit I can hardly stand it." pic.twitter.com/cPUr0EeI0R— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 20, 2018
I wonder if "conservatives" will dump on her for being so politically incorrect.
Sep 19, 2018
Today's Tweet
FYI: Dr Ford has already been doxxed, and she's getting the threats and harassment from the Alt-Right and the trolls that we've come to expect from
hey dudebro,— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) September 18, 2018
imagine if u were drinking with a girl and then she tied u up, put on a strap-on, and fucked u with it with no lube against ur will. think u would come out the next day and tell everyone what happened? next year? ever?
Little Help Over Here
First, I'd like to remind everybody of this one thing: in 2012 the NC legislature passed a resolution barring state institutions and agencies from using any reports on radical ideas like AGW and Climate Change and Sea Level Rise as they updated their plans for Emergency Response.
Let's just let that one marinate for a bit.
From Lumberton - a quiet little town about 70 miles inland from Wilmington - WaPo's Sarah Kaplan has a story about people caught in the massive ongoing fuckup that is the emerging American Plutocracy:
Paddling through the swamp that was once her front yard Tuesday morning, Megan Curry saw this waterlogged community through the eyes of someone who had lived there all her life.
That trash-strewn waterway was really a paved road. Those submerged shingles were the roof of the shed that held Curry’s childhood Christmas ornaments. And this sodden structure — with its walls buckling, its stairs crumbling, its floorboards detached from the foundation and floating in a foot of water — this was home. It was the house her grandfather built, on land her great-great-grandparents cleared, the house her family had finished repairing just 11 months ago in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.
But out there was the Lumber River, normally so distant it’s not even visible through the trees, now sloshing into her living room for the second time in as many years.
All Curry could think was, “Again.” It had happened again.
When it inundated North Carolina in 2016, meteorologists called Hurricane Matthew a “500-year rain event,” the kind of downpour that was likely to occur once every half-millennium. But then, just two years later, here came Florence, a “1,000-year event” that hit all the same places in all the same ways, if not harder.
“This can’t keep happening to us,” said Charles Gregory Cummings, mayor of Pembroke, 10 miles upriver from Lumberton. “We know what to do, but we need help.”
Last week researchers published that data in Earth’s Future. The numbers indicate the amount of energy Harvey pulled from the ocean, in the form of rising water vapor, equaled the amount of energy it dropped over land in the form of rain—the first time such an equivalence has been documented. Investigators say this revelation supports assertions climate change is likely to make Atlantic hurricanes bigger, more intense and longer-lasting than in the past. The researchers calculate climate change caused Harvey’s rainfall to be 15 to 38 percent greater than it would have been otherwise.
It gets worse until we get together and start demanding better service from Coin-Operated Politicians.
Sep 18, 2018
Today's Tweet
Of all the things we should never have to learn about POTUS.
"Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom-shaped dick head."— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) September 18, 2018
I realize it's a very popular thing to tag something like this with "How the fuck did we get here?", but I think we know - deep down, we know.
Today's Political Theater
The "willing suspension of disbelief" is supposed to be confined to books and movies and such.
One of our political parties is trying to impose it on the real world.
GOP: Brett Kavanaugh's record speaks for itself.
Dems: Great - let's take a look at that record.
GOP: No
FADE TO BLACK
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