Sexual differences in snuggie blankets

https://twitter.com/JoeJohnsonIce/status/935972958140448768

It's the fall of Rome all over again:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-29/details-matt-lauers-harassment-emerge

African Migrants Captured By Libyan Gangs Were ‘Cooked Like Kebabs’ -

http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/29/african-migrants-captured-by-libyan-gangs-were-cooked-like-kebabs/

More for Franken; I'd say he's about 85%-88% likely to be sunk.

Teen Vogue is still a thing?

https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/936160547883581440

> Teen Vogue is still a thing?

I was wondering about that a few weeks ago. No fashionable young woman who can afford a phone or tablet is likely to be bothering with paper magazines, and none can't afford a phone are likely to be thinking much of fashion.

I mean, to be at the Twitter desk for Teen Vogue in 2017 gets you no larger an audience on social media than that of a quick-witted & agreeable HS Junior in Kansas City.

I'll be curious to see to what extent the fates of Franken and John Conyers are tied to the fate of Roy Moore. Depending on which polls you look at, Moore has caught back up, and is either even or slightly ahead.

More Franken. To me, this makes Crid's estimate of survival look generous.

In his new book “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate,” released in May 2017, Franken explains that he has managed to keep his head above water with these past controversies by giving fake apologies.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/282099/

Oh, Matty, you rascal. The part I bolded I'm heard on the radio, but I thought I'd misheard. So, Dr. Matty, am I doing it wrong since I never caused anyone to pass out?

According to the report, Lauer was behind his desk and she took a seat in the office. She said he locked the door from a button at his desk and he asked her to unbutton her blouse. She said she complied and claims he got up from his desk, approached her from behind, bent her over his desk and had sex.

She claims that she passed out during intercourse and woke up later on the floor in his office. She said Lauer had his assistant take her to a nurse. She told the Times that Lauer never mentioned the encounter with her again and she said she left the network about a year later.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/30/then-married-former-nbc-employee-claims-lauer-sexually-assaulted-her-until-passed-out-in-office-report.html

"She said she complied"

Married woman willingly has sex with TV star, brags about it to her husband who promptly divorces her, and now 15 years later is claiming she was harassed.

Let's call it like it was, lo this decade-and-a-half ago: she cheated on her husband and liked it.

When you've never raped or humiliated anyone, all of this is kind of fun.

> I'll be curious to see to what
> extent the fates of Franken and
> John Conyers are tied to the
> fate of Roy Moore.

14 hours ago, a proposal was offered.

Dear God, I love the speed of the shared social experience provided by twitter. Of course it doesn't have the penetration of late-20th United States television... But the access to similarly-aligned minds is indescribably rewarding.

And to abjectly-opposed minds, as well.

Let's shuck right down to the cob, concisely.

Christopher Plummer to be the busiest man in Hollywood?

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/935992321329508352

Moore has caught back up, and is either even or slightly ahead.

Yeah. Too bad Doug Jones can't keep his trap shut. He got a question on the 2nd Amendment, and let's just say that his answer wasn't a rousing defense of the right to keep and bare arms.

Which I'm sure plays very well in Wetumpka.

Put me down for Colbert for #DirtbagBingo in the #Pervalanche .

*face palm*

Two security stories showed up in my email box this morning.

...

Both of these are levels of bad that make Madam Hillary’s closet email server look like sensitive data handling best practice.

https://ombreolivier.liberty.me/infosec-employs-top-men/

This is no libertarian tax reform. Far from it. Many aspects of either bill are awful (lack of fiscal responsibility, increased progressivity, enhanced child tax credit, sunset provisions just to name a few). But there are also provisions I really like, the corporate tax cuts, the elimination of SALT and other loophole terminations. Plus, it will be pro-growth (how much is the question) and certainly beats the alternative.

Not a ringing endorsement, but that's all I've got.

http://reason.com/archives/2017/11/29/maybe-not-libertarian-but-there-are-some

"Coroner says 'no one to blame' for baby left in hot car"

Of course, had it been a babysitter or school bus driver rather than a busybusybusy mommy, there would have been someone to blame for sure.

http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/5093361/coroner-says-no-one-to-blame-for-baby-left-in-hot-car/?cs=7

Iowahawk has a new unit (heh heh) of measurement, the milliWeinstein.

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/936015169477541888

"Yeah. Too bad Doug Jones can't keep his trap shut. He got a question on the 2nd Amendment, and let's just say that his answer wasn't a rousing defense of the right to keep and bare arms."

The media here was getting called out because nobody was pressing Jones on any issues. They were letting him run solely on the "I'm not Roy Moore" platform. So they had to start. And yeah, as they start asking questions of Jones, they're getting doctrinaire leftist answers on a lot of them. Which was entirely predictable.

RIP, Gomer Pyle.

Deer Newsweek: perhaps you should consult a dictionary?

https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/936122642817576960

I'd like to buy this enlightened writer a DNA test kit from (Ancestry|23&Me). I'm sure the results will be edifying.

Until then, however, Martinez offers one final message for white people.

“Remember this: I hate you because you shouldn’t exist,” he concludes. “You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon meeting you, die.”

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10206

Huh. Wonder what this is about, and if I should bump Colbert down on my #DirtbagBingo card and promote Tapper to the top spot?

https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/936037428992856065

CNN fired the dude who produced Tapper's "State of the Union" program. Stealing a line, A lot of "reporters" don't seem to have any idea what's happening right in their offices and sets.

Okay, who had Geraldo Rivera in the Grope Bingo Pervathon?

African Migrants Captured By Libyan Gangs Were ‘Cooked Like Kebabs’ ~ Snoopy at November 30, 2017 5:42 AM

"The greatest calamity that befell Africa in the last 20 years was the murder of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya,” he concluded.

Let's hear again how Rex Tillerson is the worst Secretary of State ever.

All that glitters is apparently pollution:

Scientists Call for Worldwide Glitter Ban

Worldwide glitter ban?!

But that means we won't see any more of these.

And that's just awful. I think.

> Okay, who had Geraldo Rivera
> in the Grope Bingo Pervathon?

FFS, Coney, who didn't?

Because you asked that question, I had to spend seven minutes going back through the various twitter streams to find this. And this.

[...]

Never since Charlie Chaplin brought the contemporary concept of human renown to full, electric flower has a punch in popular culture been so well-telegraphed. I mean, people across this continental nation were ducking in anticipation of the flying fist Geraldo was destined to absorb. (Read the introductory passages from Lewis' The Blind Side, which describe Lawrence Taylor's unfamiliar twitches of affinity after his famous hit on Joe Theisman. It's like that.)

IIRC Geraldo first got famous as I was in early junior high school, with little understanding of the difference between marketing and character. But even in the early hours, there were doubts about the haircut and the minority status and his endless evocations of his own (invisible) courage. Within a few weeks, people were saying out loud, with citations: 'This guy's a bullshit artist.' My sister & I smirked in our knowledge that we'd (almost) been had... I wish she'd lived to see this, and a lot of the others.

> Deer Newsweek: perhaps you should
> consult a dictionary?

MLK is gonna be in sooooo much trouble....

By the tick of the clock, we would say the Left is entering its second sidereal year of bad karma.

“You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon meeting you, die.”

That is because when other cultures meet white people they realize they are white people too and then they join the collective. Martinez can't stop the borg . . . I mean white people.

Who? Who could not be delighted to see information like this roaring across the planet into people's purses & pockets at the speed of light?

"Two security stories showed up in my email box this morning."

Not a security story - but Federal contractors across the nation adopted "Deltek" time accounting software, on the idea that it can fully detail your activities for billing and analysis purposes. This was thought useful in a politically-correct workplace because data isn't partisan or racist, like supervisors who sign time cards (somehow, construction contractors still do that...).

Well, nobody noticed that "0" (zero) would be an invalid value for time spent working, and so thousands of workers filled out their time cards a week in advance with a "0" so they wouldn't get a nasty e-mail about having not entered their time each and every shift. They could change it at the end of the week.

Yeah. We spend a half-hour or so at a shared computer every day trying to understand if WRBOPLABR or 3HEVALABR is the code we should charge. You know this replaced a system using plain language.

Oh, how far Disney has fallen since my long ago childhood spent watching their wonderful stuff.

When a bromance goes too far.

More Kimmel.

"Yeah. We spend a half-hour or so at a shared computer every day trying to understand if WRBOPLABR or 3HEVALABR is the code we should charge. You know this replaced a system using plain language"

Heh... memories of working at Boeing... yeah, which 14-character charge number are we working on today? And heaven help you if you're working on an IWA. You'll never get all of those random strings of ASCII characters entered properly.

I also like the near-universal situation that exists in DoD contracting:

1. You are warned, sternly, that you are never ever to enter hours in advance of having actually worked the hours.
2. Time sheets covering the week through Friday are due by COB Thursday.

Because you asked that question, I had to spend seven minutes going back through the various twitter streams to find this. And this. ~ Crid at November 30, 2017 2:37 PM

Well, between that and the 16 minutes you lost watching The Simpsons years ago, Father Time's just nipping at your heels.

Seriously, I had no idea Geraldo was so high on people's lists.

The whole "sexual misconduct" thing from this later perspective seems to be about power and position, displacing people who have something someone else wants.

Matt Lauer had a morning slot and now Savanna and Company have it to themselves. Charlie Rose, too. Both of them also had big contracts their networks may have wanted out of.

Garrison Keilor had an NPR slot. Now, it's open. Don't know about his contract with NPR and if NPR would have wanted out of it.

Geraldo really has nothing anybody wants. He has a guest slot on Fox, but that's not a regular gig. So, I was not expecting him to show up in the news at all. Rivera's a has-been. But then, so is Midler. And now, she's in the headlines for one last stage bow.

Conyers has a House seat and a lock on it until he assumes room temperature. Franken was payback to balance the scales with Moore. Moore was an election ploy to defeat a candidate neither party wanted in the Senate.

Weinstein was a has-been and a big contract with little payoff of late. So, suddenly someone comes forward to accuse him of the one thing that might break the contract.

And, once the avalanche started, the pebbles had no choice but to roll with it. So, the accusations started piling up. A sleeping giant was awakened and filled with a terrible resolve.

" A sleeping giant was awakened and filled with a terrible resolve."

To poop on someone's lawn?

> I had no idea Geraldo was so
> high on people's lists.

It's worse that we might have thought.

To poop on someone's lawn? ~ Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 1, 2017 1:57 PM

Gog, it was a reference to the apocryphal quote by Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor raid.

Having studied at Harvard and been a Naval Attache in Washington, he was familiar with the US and had warned his superiors that the US had significantly greater industrial capacity than they realized and would prevail in any extended conflict. He proposed a decisive strike early in the conflict to cripple the Americans and give Japan a chance to consolidate its position.

When delivery of the declaration of war was delayed due to a decryption problem in the Japanese embassy in Washington, the "early" strike on Pearl Harbor became a sneak attack that would "live in infamy."

Hearing that the attack went off without a declaration of war, Yamamoto is reputed to have said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

The quote may have encapsulated Yamamoto's thoughts and feelings about the situation, but there is no evidence he actually said it.

"Gog, it was a reference to the apocryphal quote by Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor raid."

And by "pooped" I meant "rained hellfire from the skies" and by "lawn" I meant "Japan".