Meanwhile in Philly, some on the city council can see a bit further than their peers. Here's an idea: ban these businesses. Just don't complain about those neighborhoods being underserved.
City councilman David Oh said even that went too far, endangering store owners.
“If we take down the safety glass,” said Oh during a lengthy debate among members that preceded the vote, “they're not changing their business model. They're not moving. What they will do is purchase firearms. I think that is a worse situation than what we have today."
You will have to turn your speakers up to get the full effect, because the clip is very quiet.
Y'know, that last ballad in the Nutcracker is one of the most beautiful melodies in Western Civ. So I've always been impressed with how Tchai drops the sweetest passage just after halftime, forty-five minutes before the tune is heard in full for the climactic dance.
Crid
at December 18, 2017 6:58 AM
Minutes ago I realized the opening arpeggio to the Tchaikovsky pas de deux is the same progression as Sleep Walk, which probably made it easier to enjoy as a child.
Crid
at December 18, 2017 7:02 AM
☑ lujlp at December 18, 2017 6:45 AM
Crid
at December 18, 2017 7:29 AM
You know it is a bad day when Chick-fil-a comes into work on a Sunday.
Atlanta Airport Blackout Sends Message to Terrorists: America Is Unprepared
A single-point failure makes the world’s busiest airport go dark for hours and traps thousands of passengers. It’s what phase one of an attack could look like.
I always thought that Osama bin Laden would have been better served by attacking the infrastructure instead of trying to hit the home run.
He never realized the amount of panic and chaos he could seed if his twenty terrorists had simply started blowing up blowing up bridges and rail lines randomly.
As the sun gets successively more blank with each day, due to lack of sunspots, it is also dimming. According to data from NASA’s Spaceweather, so far in 2017, 96 days (27%) of the days observing the sun have been without sunspots.
"He never realized the amount of panic and chaos he could seed if his twenty terrorists had simply started blowing up blowing up bridges and rail lines randomly."
Heh. What he certainly DID recognize is that the "home run" would cause Americans to panic into surrendering civil liberties and to think of themselves as victims.
Continued attacks would not have done that.
The TSA is doing everything for him, and will for decades out of pure habit.
Radwaste
at December 18, 2017 8:41 AM
Pervnado update. Tho I do like Iowahawk's #DirtBagBingo.
I also heard on the radio that about a dozen or so congresscritters are going to be resigning due to being pervy #DirtBags in the very near future, but I haven't seen a linkie for it.
I R A Darth Aggie
at December 18, 2017 8:58 AM
Pervnado and DirtBagBingo are totally different social metrics, competing schools policy study with entirely distinct libraries of research.
I made that up.
Still looking for a reasonably-detailed, frequently-updated index.
Maybe someone will summarize all of 2017 after the first of the new year... That would include O'Reilly.
Crid
at December 18, 2017 9:05 AM
Italicizing was in the original. Not sure if that was the intent, or if there is a missing end tag.
No one asked me about this latest report in The Oklahoman, which included the following:
One friend told police Thornton had said “this would be a ‘great thing’ for her political career following the Air Force,” The Oklahoman has learned. The friend told police Thornton had said “female-empowered political organizations would love something like this.”
That’s sick. Frankly, it’s just as sick as someone committing an act of sexual misconduct. Both people are trying to ruin someone else’s life.
Ah, here's the story about #Dirtbag #CongressCritters. Reminds me of this from Babylon 5 "The avalanche has already started; It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
Congress' human resources scandal is just getting started. I anticipate we will see the resignation of more than a dozen House members over harassment and secret settlements, and soon.
Rosiak followed that tweet with another, writing: “Mark my words, the House is going to be rocked in the coming 72 hours. Tick Tock.”
And when-oh-when will this seep down into the working class?
Crid
at December 18, 2017 9:23 AM
Probably never Crid. The working class just aren't worth it. No fame or fortune for getting them.
Ben
at December 18, 2017 9:32 AM
"Reminds me of this from Babylon 5..."
Kosh was right, but this is a coincidence: According to Claudia Christian, the Netter Entertainment staff wanted the B5 actors to sign an agreement that they would not engage in sexual harassment; their reply, was, essentially, "Hell, no, that's why we work here!"
Subsequently she noted that her character was always portrayed in blue satin to entertain guests when off-duty...
Radwaste
at December 18, 2017 9:39 AM
So the final margin of victory in Alabama was 1.5%, right? With all the outreach and indignation and support the Democratic party could give to a candidate who was, essentially indisputably, a sex offender.
Wanna know how Democrats can squander that victory?
There's this person in my life who likes to ask if Trump could be re-elected, and I never know what to say.
Lotta 8th-graders in America.
Crid
at December 18, 2017 11:30 AM
[Moore] who was, essentially indisputably, a sex offender.
By that metric so was Elvis, as is every Kardashians first boyfriend, 40% of the worlds current population, and I'd guess 90% of all of our great grandparents
Whither antitrust? I'm not sure what I think about this. Part of the problem is that before you can say you are "antitrust", you have to have some notion of what constitutes a trust. The linked article, along with most other discussions I read about antitrust, doesn't make much of an effort to define it. I rebel against the idea that the government can tell a company, "this is as big as you are allowed to get". Most of the time, when a company gets big, it does so by providing a superior product or service. Then again, it does seem that more often than not, once bigness and market dominance are achieved, superior product and service go by the wayside.
Cousin Dave
at December 18, 2017 11:47 AM
Darn it, the occasional time that I accidentally hit "submit" instead of "preview" is usually also the occasional time that I mess up inserting the link. See:
"With all the outreach and indignation and support the Democratic party could give to a candidate who was, essentially indisputably, a sex offender."
Heh. "Essentially" indisputably. Which means, "not really". Against whom?
Why does no one talk of the family's role in selecting a daughter's, er, companion(s)?
Radwaste
at December 18, 2017 12:09 PM
"[Moore] who was, essentially indisputably, a sex offender.
By that metric so was Elvis, as is every Kardashians first boyfriend, 40% of the worlds current population, and I'd guess 90% of all of our great grandparents"
Put that in my pipe and smoked it. Yup.
Dave B
at December 18, 2017 12:12 PM
The important thing is, the Republican candidate, Trump's selection, lost. Lost the election. Lost, lost, lost. Failed to achieve election to public office.
Crid
at December 18, 2017 12:42 PM
Modern Westerners have the strange disposition of wanting to be cultural relativists across space, and moral absolutists across time, but only for conservitive white men.
You keep pounding that table Crid. No one is listening. Trump only endorsed Moore at the end and rather reluctantly. This has far more to do with McConnell than with Trump. But don't let reality interfere with your spite and delusions.
Ben
at December 18, 2017 2:08 PM
> There's this person in my life who likes to ask if
> Trump could be re-elected, and I never know what
> to say.
If he starts building the wall before then, the answer is a definite yes.
You can thank me in 2020.
Snoopy
at December 18, 2017 2:24 PM
> Trump only endorsed Moore at the
> end and rather reluctantly.
Oh. Ohhhh... So what you're saying is, he didn't mean it.
...And it was foolish for the American voters, and all the nation's political machinery, to listen to what he said rather than psychically read his interior conditions with your very special acuity.
Okay! Good to know! Next time we'll ignore him!
> You can thank me in 2020.
No one will ever thank you.
Crid
at December 18, 2017 4:22 PM
Would you please stop being intentionally retarded Crid. Everyone knew that Trump only endorsed Moore at the very last moment because he was the Republican. Before then it was even looking like he wouldn't endorse anyone. Either way Trump wasn't a significant part of what happened in Alabama. Not exactly secret or psychic knowledge. In fact if you weren't aware of it you look completely ignorant.
The real story here is Moore almost won. Which is just plain sad. Unless Jones acts completely out of character for the next three years all the Republicans have to do to win is stop shooting each other and run a halfway decent candidate.
Ben
at December 18, 2017 4:41 PM
You don't what us to trust the things he says, but to peer deep into his most secret, darling heart to psychologically divine the deepest meaning. And not be "ignorant."
Got it! Thanks!
(He makes it all too easy. He, and his most devoted admirers, are not deep thinkers.)
Crid
at December 18, 2017 4:55 PM
"(He makes it all too easy. He, and his most devoted admirers, are not deep thinkers.)"
Hmm. When you used "essentially indisputably" you violated your own, often-loudly-protested prohibition against approximations.
I guess it's OK when you do it, huh?
C'mon. Tighten up.
Radwaste
at December 18, 2017 6:06 PM
Approximate anything you want. Maybe he has a cellphone, or maybe he doesn't... But you and I will never know!!!! !!! !
Crid
at December 18, 2017 6:46 PM
> No one will ever thank you.
When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger.
Snoopy
at December 18, 2017 7:01 PM
As I said Crid you are being willfully retarded. I hope you outlast the Trump presidency. It will be nice when you stop being so stupidly emotional.
Ben
at December 18, 2017 7:36 PM
> attack the messenger.
Again, honey, you are not a "messenger." You guys are not oracular leaders to a bold new realm of insight and clarity— You're timid, ashamed little fellers who need emotional kissylips from your goofball little TV shows every day, else your under-informed egos are subsumed by the mundane complexities which perplex 12 year olds. Most of humanity has some need to be disproportionately flattered, but you guys are drowning in it.
Trump is your guy. Yay Trump!
> As I said Crid you...
You're fucking up the punctuation. Read more books. (Not kidding.)
Crid
at December 19, 2017 5:13 AM
We hoi-polloi should surely post as you say, because it's your blog and your ideas.
Meanwhile: chicks don't dig you. If they did, you'd have no time for this.
For the last 12-13 years.
Radwaste
at December 19, 2017 12:33 PM
Meeeee-yow!
Well, you can post whatever you want in a comment, Amy's almost radically 1A.
UN Security Council Weighing Resolution to Reject Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem -
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/12/17/unsc-weighing-resolution-that-would-reject-trump-recognition-of-jerusalem/
Snoopy at December 18, 2017 4:17 AM
Women’s March organizer accused of covering up sex abuse -
https://nypost.com/2017/12/18/womens-march-organizer-accused-of-covering-up-sex-abuse/
Snoopy at December 18, 2017 4:18 AM
POLITICO Investigation: The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook -
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/
Snoopy at December 18, 2017 4:20 AM
This is fantastic.
Crid at December 18, 2017 4:51 AM
Snoopy, you silly little moppet, you will point to everything except what you mean... Yours aren't barks of clarity, they're whimpers of timidity.
Crid at December 18, 2017 4:54 AM
I ain't even mad.
Crid at December 18, 2017 5:03 AM
This is good too.
Crid at December 18, 2017 5:07 AM
Yes, and it will be interesting.
Crid at December 18, 2017 5:24 AM
Welcome to the new harassment-free office.
Conan the Grammarian at December 18, 2017 5:25 AM
This will be interesting too, but since we won't be driving the cars in the conventional sense, it won't be any more fun.
Crid at December 18, 2017 5:26 AM
Boo.
Crid at December 18, 2017 5:47 AM
Meanwhile in Philly, some on the city council can see a bit further than their peers. Here's an idea: ban these businesses. Just don't complain about those neighborhoods being underserved.
http://www.fox29.com/news/local-news/bulletproof-glass-bill-faces-full-philadelphia-city-council-vote-Thursday
I R A Darth Aggie at December 18, 2017 6:11 AM
> some on the city council
> can see a bit further
☑
Philly government, as much of Pennsylvania, can be breathtakingly small-minded.
Crid at December 18, 2017 6:38 AM
Does the Philly City Council employ armed guards? Any sort of deterrent to crime when they meet?
If so seems to me they should give them up first before demanding the same of others
lujlp at December 18, 2017 6:45 AM
You will have to turn your speakers up to get the full effect, because the clip is very quiet.
Y'know, that last ballad in the Nutcracker is one of the most beautiful melodies in Western Civ. So I've always been impressed with how Tchai drops the sweetest passage just after halftime, forty-five minutes before the tune is heard in full for the climactic dance.
Crid at December 18, 2017 6:58 AM
Minutes ago I realized the opening arpeggio to the Tchaikovsky pas de deux is the same progression as Sleep Walk, which probably made it easier to enjoy as a child.
Crid at December 18, 2017 7:02 AM
☑ lujlp at December 18, 2017 6:45 AM
Crid at December 18, 2017 7:29 AM
You know it is a bad day when Chick-fil-a comes into work on a Sunday.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/12/17/better-than-fema-chick-fil-a-is-delivering-meals-to-stranded-passengers-in-atlanta-on-a-sunday/
Related:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hartsfieldjackson-atlanta-airport-blackout-sends-message-to-terrorists-america-is-unprepared
I always thought that Osama bin Laden would have been better served by attacking the infrastructure instead of trying to hit the home run.
He never realized the amount of panic and chaos he could seed if his twenty terrorists had simply started blowing up blowing up bridges and rail lines randomly.
I R A Darth Aggie at December 18, 2017 7:30 AM
This is fun sports.
Crid at December 18, 2017 7:32 AM
> Chick-fil-a comes into
> work on a Sunday.
Brilliant. Kind & generous, but brilliant, too.
Crid at December 18, 2017 7:35 AM
I have a bad feeling about this.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/15/the-sun-is-blank-nasa-data-shows-it-to-be-dimming/
I R A Darth Aggie at December 18, 2017 8:08 AM
Bacon! What can't it do?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/12/cnn-is-crazy-bacon-edition.php
I R A Darth Aggie at December 18, 2017 8:10 AM
> I have a bad feeling
> about this.
Don't worry.
Crid at December 18, 2017 8:15 AM
"He never realized the amount of panic and chaos he could seed if his twenty terrorists had simply started blowing up blowing up bridges and rail lines randomly."
Heh. What he certainly DID recognize is that the "home run" would cause Americans to panic into surrendering civil liberties and to think of themselves as victims.
Continued attacks would not have done that.
The TSA is doing everything for him, and will for decades out of pure habit.
Radwaste at December 18, 2017 8:41 AM
Pervnado update. Tho I do like Iowahawk's #DirtBagBingo.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/283601/
I also heard on the radio that about a dozen or so congresscritters are going to be resigning due to being pervy #DirtBags in the very near future, but I haven't seen a linkie for it.
I R A Darth Aggie at December 18, 2017 8:58 AM
Pervnado and DirtBagBingo are totally different social metrics, competing schools policy study with entirely distinct libraries of research.
I made that up.
Still looking for a reasonably-detailed, frequently-updated index.
Maybe someone will summarize all of 2017 after the first of the new year... That would include O'Reilly.
Crid at December 18, 2017 9:05 AM
Italicizing was in the original. Not sure if that was the intent, or if there is a missing end tag.
https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2017/12/17/rodney-anderson-latest-example-of-metoo-movement-gone-too-far/
I R A Darth Aggie at December 18, 2017 9:12 AM
Ah, here's the story about #Dirtbag #CongressCritters. Reminds me of this from Babylon 5 "The avalanche has already started; It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
https://www.dailywire.com/news/24742/flood-gates-open-congress-be-rocked-next-72-hours-ryan-saavedra
I R A Darth Aggie at December 18, 2017 9:19 AM
What constitutes a "rocking"?
And when-oh-when will this seep down into the working class?
Crid at December 18, 2017 9:23 AM
Probably never Crid. The working class just aren't worth it. No fame or fortune for getting them.
Ben at December 18, 2017 9:32 AM
"Reminds me of this from Babylon 5..."
Kosh was right, but this is a coincidence: According to Claudia Christian, the Netter Entertainment staff wanted the B5 actors to sign an agreement that they would not engage in sexual harassment; their reply, was, essentially, "Hell, no, that's why we work here!"
Subsequently she noted that her character was always portrayed in blue satin to entertain guests when off-duty...
Radwaste at December 18, 2017 9:39 AM
So the final margin of victory in Alabama was 1.5%, right? With all the outreach and indignation and support the Democratic party could give to a candidate who was, essentially indisputably, a sex offender.
Wanna know how Democrats can squander that victory?
Like this.
Crid at December 18, 2017 10:18 AM
...could give against a candidate...
etc.
Just saying.
There's this person in my life who likes to ask if Trump could be re-elected, and I never know what to say.
Lotta 8th-graders in America.
Crid at December 18, 2017 11:30 AM
[Moore] who was, essentially indisputably, a sex offender.
By that metric so was Elvis, as is every Kardashians first boyfriend, 40% of the worlds current population, and I'd guess 90% of all of our great grandparents
lujlp at December 18, 2017 11:34 AM
Whither antitrust? I'm not sure what I think about this. Part of the problem is that before you can say you are "antitrust", you have to have some notion of what constitutes a trust. The linked article, along with most other discussions I read about antitrust, doesn't make much of an effort to define it. I rebel against the idea that the government can tell a company, "this is as big as you are allowed to get". Most of the time, when a company gets big, it does so by providing a superior product or service. Then again, it does seem that more often than not, once bigness and market dominance are achieved, superior product and service go by the wayside.
Cousin Dave at December 18, 2017 11:47 AM
Darn it, the occasional time that I accidentally hit "submit" instead of "preview" is usually also the occasional time that I mess up inserting the link. See:
https://hbr.org/2017/12/the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-the-u-s-antitrust-movement
Cousin Dave at December 18, 2017 11:48 AM
"With all the outreach and indignation and support the Democratic party could give to a candidate who was, essentially indisputably, a sex offender."
Heh. "Essentially" indisputably. Which means, "not really". Against whom?
Why does no one talk of the family's role in selecting a daughter's, er, companion(s)?
Radwaste at December 18, 2017 12:09 PM
"[Moore] who was, essentially indisputably, a sex offender.
By that metric so was Elvis, as is every Kardashians first boyfriend, 40% of the worlds current population, and I'd guess 90% of all of our great grandparents"
Put that in my pipe and smoked it. Yup.
Dave B at December 18, 2017 12:12 PM
The important thing is, the Republican candidate, Trump's selection, lost. Lost the election. Lost, lost, lost. Failed to achieve election to public office.
Crid at December 18, 2017 12:42 PM
Modern Westerners have the strange disposition of wanting to be cultural relativists across space, and moral absolutists across time, but only for conservitive white men.
lujlp at December 18, 2017 1:13 PM
Democratic Party to Alabama voters: Suckers!
Cousin Dave at December 18, 2017 1:54 PM
You keep pounding that table Crid. No one is listening. Trump only endorsed Moore at the end and rather reluctantly. This has far more to do with McConnell than with Trump. But don't let reality interfere with your spite and delusions.
Ben at December 18, 2017 2:08 PM
> There's this person in my life who likes to ask if
> Trump could be re-elected, and I never know what
> to say.
If he starts building the wall before then, the answer is a definite yes.
You can thank me in 2020.
Snoopy at December 18, 2017 2:24 PM
> Trump only endorsed Moore at the
> end and rather reluctantly.
Oh. Ohhhh... So what you're saying is, he didn't mean it.
...And it was foolish for the American voters, and all the nation's political machinery, to listen to what he said rather than psychically read his interior conditions with your very special acuity.
Okay! Good to know! Next time we'll ignore him!
> You can thank me in 2020.
No one will ever thank you.
Crid at December 18, 2017 4:22 PM
Would you please stop being intentionally retarded Crid. Everyone knew that Trump only endorsed Moore at the very last moment because he was the Republican. Before then it was even looking like he wouldn't endorse anyone. Either way Trump wasn't a significant part of what happened in Alabama. Not exactly secret or psychic knowledge. In fact if you weren't aware of it you look completely ignorant.
The real story here is Moore almost won. Which is just plain sad. Unless Jones acts completely out of character for the next three years all the Republicans have to do to win is stop shooting each other and run a halfway decent candidate.
Ben at December 18, 2017 4:41 PM
You don't what us to trust the things he says, but to peer deep into his most secret, darling heart to psychologically divine the deepest meaning. And not be "ignorant."
Got it! Thanks!
(He makes it all too easy. He, and his most devoted admirers, are not deep thinkers.)
Crid at December 18, 2017 4:55 PM
"(He makes it all too easy. He, and his most devoted admirers, are not deep thinkers.)"
Hmm. When you used "essentially indisputably" you violated your own, often-loudly-protested prohibition against approximations.
I guess it's OK when you do it, huh?
C'mon. Tighten up.
Radwaste at December 18, 2017 6:06 PM
Approximate anything you want. Maybe he has a cellphone, or maybe he doesn't... But you and I will never know!!!! !!! !
Crid at December 18, 2017 6:46 PM
> No one will ever thank you.
When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger.
Snoopy at December 18, 2017 7:01 PM
As I said Crid you are being willfully retarded. I hope you outlast the Trump presidency. It will be nice when you stop being so stupidly emotional.
Ben at December 18, 2017 7:36 PM
> attack the messenger.
Again, honey, you are not a "messenger." You guys are not oracular leaders to a bold new realm of insight and clarity— You're timid, ashamed little fellers who need emotional kissylips from your goofball little TV shows every day, else your under-informed egos are subsumed by the mundane complexities which perplex 12 year olds. Most of humanity has some need to be disproportionately flattered, but you guys are drowning in it.
Trump is your guy. Yay Trump!
> As I said Crid you...
You're fucking up the punctuation. Read more books. (Not kidding.)
Crid at December 19, 2017 5:13 AM
We hoi-polloi should surely post as you say, because it's your blog and your ideas.
Meanwhile: chicks don't dig you. If they did, you'd have no time for this.
For the last 12-13 years.
Radwaste at December 19, 2017 12:33 PM
Meeeee-yow!
Well, you can post whatever you want in a comment, Amy's almost radically 1A.
Crid at December 19, 2017 4:13 PM
True dat.
Amy Alkon at December 20, 2017 4:44 AM
Leave a comment