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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Sky News: America’s opioid crisis.

Jim Jefferies: The nuclear button.

Jonathan Mann: Bret Stephens is a bedbug:

Comedy Central: The story of Labor Day.

Ayman Mohyeldin: DOJ ruling reveals Comey did not break the law

The Dotard Трамп and Other Natural Disasters Worth Nuking:

Jim Jefferies: Porn preferences in the South.

Rachel Maddow: Трамп aims to open vital U.S. forest to logging, drilling, and mining

Now This: Kishi Bashi explores America today through Japanese internment.

Mark Fiore: Pharmagon—Your antidote to profit based killing.

The Atlantic: When a child wants to save the planet.

Weird History: How you could have survived the Black Plague.

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

Hasan Minhaj: The real cost of cruises.

Bruce W. Nelson: From my cold, dead hands.

Roll Call: Why do members of Congress have to gavel in and gavel out during recess?

Jim Jefferies and Rory Scovel: Russians keep getting mysteriously injured or killed.

News Broke: How the Handmaid’s Tale is the Christian right’s playbook:

Minute Physics: How to build a lava moat.

Fire and Rain:

Wendover: The US’ overseas military base strategy.

Vox: The mysterious rays shooting at us from space.

Today I Found Out: The first car and the incredible road trip that saved it from obscurity.

Chris Hayes: Remembering Barack Obama’s biggest scandal.

The Atlantic: Social-media companies threaten democracy.

Jim Jefferies: Death is Big Business.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    For the contributions to rare disease treatment, the least we could do is let her stay.

  2. 2

    No, but if you’re Goldy you compare everyone you don’t like to a Nazi.

    Goldy Retweeted

    Noah Shachtman✔
    @NoahShachtman
    I’ve had Twitter kick the shit out of me. It sucks. But when you’re lucky enough to have a great media gig, you accept that taking incoming heat is part of the job. You don’t narc on critics. You don’t use your privileged perch to compare yourself to Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto.

    13h

    You wanna talk about privilege? Start with getting paid to shill by a billionaire.

  3. 3

    Spending a bit of time discussing the other side of an issue might have helped you, too.

    Goldy✔
    @GoldyHA
    If only I’d understood that the whole purpose of getting a column in the New York Times is to aggressively punch down, I might have been more successful at the journalism thing.

    13h

    OTOH, the entire purpose of shilling for a billionaire is to punch down at the targets you’re told to punch down on, and you’ve turned that into a pretty sweet gig. Out of necessity you have become a fluffer for more influential Seattle liberals.

  4. 4

    2,3,
    You should maybe recognize that in your reactive zeal to mock Goldy’s employment you have positioned yourself defending what can only be described as a disgraceful episode of Streisanding and pettiness bordering on professional suicide by both Stephens and his “editor”.

    Having spent the previous week trying to get his public critics fired and comparing himself to Pol Pot’s “Killing Fields” victims, multi-millionaire Stephens literally cites a Google key phrase search to support his “scholarship” on the Nazi history of using the term “bedbug”.

    Once again, you let your hate for hippies corner you into choosing the wrong side.

  5. 5

    “Start with getting paid to shill by a billionaire.”

    Doctor Dumbfuck cries bitter tears. Understandable. He’s been shilling for Putin for free.

    Try sending Putin an invoice, Doctor. After all, you’ve worked so tirelessly for him and Mother Russia.

    And if you need someone to vouch for your treason, just let me know.

  7. 7

    @3 “shilling for a billionaire”

    Insert the word “fake” before “billionaire” and you’ve just described what you do here every day. At least Goldy gets paid. You’re so stupid you do it for free.

  8. 8

    Relaxing today on Block Island. My first time. Beautiful place. Large boats, many with The Hump 2020 flag. Other than that a beautiful place. Lived so close and never ventured here. Maybe I’ll think about buying a place here with the money I get from moonlighting, while PI lives in Mother’s basement stroking a keyboard looking at a dropping 24.25% gain.

    See you – the live music is starting

  9. 9

    Not sure why anyone would want to live in a shithole like Florida when you could live on Block Island…..oh wait, I know those suckers in Florida can’t afford the luxury of Block Island, so they have to settle on the swamp.

    I wonder if Puffy retired here. Maybe he’s hanging on one of the boats, partying it up.

  10. 10

    A lot of the woman here are like whales, I could see why a horse would make better company….eh, Bob.

  11. 11

    Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel
    And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
    Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
    Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
    And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
    Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
    Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking
    Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away


    Divided TVA board votes to shut down Paradise, Bull Run fossil plants despite appeals by Trump, Senate Majority leader for delay

  15. 15

    @14 that’s what they do best – telling other people to stop doing what they like to do. They’re masters at it.

  18. 18

    @17 For someone who orders others not to waste their time here, he sure wastes a lot of time here.

  20. 20

    @18 like I said, very typical of them to tell others what to do and what not to do then do what they say not to do or not do what the tell everyone else what to do. Bunch of fucks.

  21. 21

    I am hereby, today, invoking my supreme powers as your Chosen One and King of The Jews to order all Americans to quit waisting your time.

    So let it be written.

    So let it be done.

  22. 22

    @9 If all the yachts there are flying Trump flags, more likely he’s hanging from a yardarm.

  23. 23

    Another day, another mass shooting in Texas, 5 dead and 20 wounded this time.

    Republicans want to remove restrictions on carrying guns into daycares.

    The solution, they will argue, is to arm babysitters with machineguns and bazookas.

  24. 24

    Here’s an intriguing question: If Trump and his GOP aiders and abettors can ignore congressional subpoenas, the Emoluments Clause, etc., then why can’t Democrats ignore the Second Amendment?

    We either have a Constitution or we don’t, and since it appears we don’t, I see no reason for Democrats to honor it either.

  26. 26

    Low tide at Block Island today was extra low. One of the boaters said that it was a King tide caused by Hurricane Dorian. I didn’t research it. But supposedly the storm pulls all the water towards it. Found that hard to believe but kind of makes sense

  27. 27

    Should have know. You can’t trust a bunch of drunk boaters, especially ones flying Hump flags. King tide has nothing to do with the Hurricane.

  28. 28

    They really thought a real estate huckster, 80s Manhattan partyboy, Private planeS owning hit was going to understand them and work for them.

    He’s a Christian Conservative just like us.

    Bob Kuylen, vice president of the North Dakota Farmer’s Union, speaks out admist growing pressure from farmers on Trump’s trade policy. Kuylen argues farmers have ‘pretty much lost all of our markets since Trump took over,’ adding though farmers may want to ‘stay loyal’ to Trump, the economy may force them to ‘lose their loyalty really fast.’

  29. 29

    Actually, deductions are a reduction in the wealth transfer FROM the rich.

    Goldy✔
    @GoldyHA
    The obvious solution is to eliminate the deduction for charitable donations. Well, ALL deductions, but the standard one, really. The vast majority of Americans don’t itemize anyway. Deductions are largely a wealth transfer to the rich. https://twitter.com/roblevine82/status/1167830898651402242

    9h

  30. 30

    @ 26

    gman, Dorian is a wee bit smaller than the moon.

    You’re more than a thousand miles away from Florida, dumbass.

  31. 31

    Gman, “King tide has nothing to do with the Hurricane.”

    Dumbfuck, “You’re more than a thousand miles away from Florida, dumbass.”

    Dumbfuck much?

  32. 32

    @32 plus he forgot to include this “Found that hard to believe but…”

    And like I said it came from a bunch of Hump supporters, all the more reason to suspect bullsit.

  33. 33

    Because, like YLB, she is an airhead who brings nothing of substance to the table. Ever.

    Why Couldn’t I Make Myself Like Kirsten Gillibrand?

    “Yep, I am a woman!” her self-presentation seemed to say. “A very feminine one! And I’m running on woman-centered issues! Is there a problem?”

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/why-couldnt-i-make-myself-like-kirsten-gillibrand.html

    She brought a certain something to the Senate, tho:

    Gillibrand in front of the U.S. Capitol. Michael Kors coat and dress. Miriam Haskell earrings.

    https://www.vogue.com/article/in-hillarys-footsteps-kirsten-gillibrand

    Hey, marry a venture capitalist and wear nice clothes. Worked for Chelsea, amirite?

  34. 34

    @ 34

    Maybe I should give Gillebrand some credit. After all, she did manage to take down a colleague within her own party, without due process.

    I thought lack of due process was something liberals only demanded of conservatives, but no. Apparently not.

  35. 35

    The best advice Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Mezvinsky, and Melinda Gates can provide for young women:

    Marry well.

  37. 37

    Good fucking grief, Doctor. Hate women much?

    Oh, wait. That’s what incels do best. My bad.

    Each of those women were more accomplished than you. Before they married.

  39. 39

    “He drips contempt for women who are better than he is”

    That’s billions of women.

  42. 42

    @41 “A man who was pulled over by Texas troopers shot at them with a rifle and sped away, setting off a terrifying rampage that ended with seven victims and the shooter dead, police said.

    “After he opened fire during a traffic stop Saturday in Midland, the gunman drove on the streets and the highway, spraying bullets randomly at residents and motorists. …

    “It’s unclear why police pulled over the unidentified gunman or what his motive was. Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke described him as a white male in his 30s but declined to provide additional information.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/01/us/odessa-texas-shooting-sunday/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Let me guess, or rather, give you some options [pick one]:

    [ ] a. Prison escapee
    [ ] b. White nationalist
    [ ] c. Sovereign citizen
    [ ] d. Parking ticket scofflaw
    [ ] e. Swedish illegal immigrant*

    (* I threw this one in there to give pork sauce an option)

  43. 43

    “Yes sir Mr. LaPierre sir. I sure do appreciate you taking that Russian cash and laundering it into PAC ads to get me elected. That was awfully sweet of you. Hey where’s that hot red head broad who helped us with that. Oops I said us. No collusion. I’d bang her though. Her tits are a little small but she’s a solid eight…”

    “For the most part, sadly, if you look at the last four or five, even going back further five, six, seven years… As strong as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it,”

    Via the Twitter,
    “Just briefed by Attorney General Barr about the shootings in Texas. FBI and Law Enforcement is fully engaged. More to follow.”

  45. 45

    @38 He drips contempt for everybody, including himself (his self-loathing is obvious). Not that anyone cares; in the scheme of things, he’s one of those people whose opinion matters least. The only reason we don’t ignore him is that he’s good entertainment for the rest of us.

  46. 46

    @44 Dumbfuck is disappointed the place didn’t burn down. After all, it’s a government building, and his fellow rightwing ideologues would like nothing better than to burn the entire government to the ground.

  48. 48

    Sirhan Sirhan, 75, is hospitalized in “stable” condition after being stabbed by a fellow inmate.

  49. 49

    An attempt to halt light rail expansion in Pheonix was beaten back Tuesday when voters rejected Prop 105. It all started with the proposed street design on the next extension.
    https://ktar.com/story/2707334/phoenix-votes-no-on-prop-105-clearing-way-for-light-rail-expansion/

    ValleyMetro is a little different in funding. There is a portion of a Maricopa County sales tax funding transportation that goes to transit, plus various city sales taxes.

  50. 50

    @ 49

    You could also say it started with a near-tripling of the cost voters were provided when they voted to support it in 2015, Railfan.

    In 2015, voters had approved a measure to spend $550 million for light rail expansion from downtown Phoenix east to the South Mountain Village core.

    But in July, documents that Valley Metro Rail filed with the U.S. Department of Transportation and its Federal Transit Administration estimated costs at about $1.35 billion, which angered some residents.

    https://ktar.com/story/2655164/valley-metro-ceo-explains-tripled-estimate-for-light-rail-expansion/

  54. 54

    RBG talking to the racist incel, “Of course I’m fine. It’s not like I had bone spurs”

  55. 55

    50)I actually thought that was going to put the yes vote over the top.

    Phoenix only took over the bus operation to get federal money. They also, by leasing it back to the former operator, only had a small planning staff. Today, ValleyMetro buses are operated by several contractors, including a French and a Scottish operator.In comparison, Sound Transit also outsources, SOUNDER to BNSF, ST Express to member operators. Personally, would like to see Sound Transit avoid the middle man, subcontract it directly to First Transit. LINK is operated by Metro on the Seattle network, but the Tacoma line is the only service directly operated by Sound Transit.

  56. 56

    @53 I blame Bob, he skipped Christmas Eve services and now everyone (the fascists) are shooting everyone dead. It’s all his fault. Aside from supporting all of the terrorists.

  58. 58

    Can you believe Obama would do such a thing! He puts this Country at risk. America the beautiful, land of the not so brave and not so free, the land of pussy white boys who fear their place in the world because they’re a bunch of dumbfucks so uneducated they can only count to one. Why would Obama be a traitor to Us?

    Intelligence Experts Slam Trump For Reckless Tweet Of Sensitive Photo Of Iran Launch Site https://www.huffpost.com/entry/intelligence-trump-iran-experts-risky-action-satellite-photo_n_5d6b4392e4b09bbc9ef0362d

  61. 61

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/01/national-weather-service-corrects-trump-on-hurricane-dorian.html

    If anyone believes that this was a gaff on The Hump’s part, I think you would be sadly mistaken.

    This fuck is purposely doing this shit to desensitize the American public. He wants his followers to not give a shit about what he says and what he does. If that weren’t the case they would be smart enough to not vote for him, but they don’t care. And he’s trying to make the people opposed to him speak out about this kind of stuff, so that it appears to his followers that the outspoken are being petty.

    It’s all part of his plan. Just like a deep state that’s against him. He’s building up his followers to think that there is a deep state. Just ask Bob what he thinks – Bob doesn’t look at this as if the man is an idiot, he looks at all those that speak out on shit like this as the enemy.

    It’s all leading up to the 3rd term or the revolt when and if he loses.

  63. 63

    “Anal. And when cancer takes your colon because of it, oral.”

    Reveals much about you, Doctor, nothing at all about RBG.

    Best guess here, you’re hoping YLB will give it to you up the ass, but you’ll gladly accept taking it down your throat.

    Here’s a clue, Doctor. It’ll never happen. And even if it did, you’d still be a virgin.

  67. 67

    63,
    Be very careful around QuiverFull breeders who are preoccupied with anal sex. Probably compensating. And white knuckling their way through every single day.

  68. 68

    I wonder if that cancer shit applies to when a horse fucks you up the ass. Have the horse use a condom Bob.

  69. 69

    “The 36-year-old gunman who left seven people dead in a West Texas killing rampage had been fired from his job hours before the massacre began, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed officials.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/02/us/west-texas-shooting-monday/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: There are a couple of ways to look at this, e.g.,

    (1) It takes a real asshole to take it out on strangers, including little kids. Probably a Trump voter, too.

    (2) He was a quiet, ordinary guy. Never gave anybody trouble. Just sorta snapped and went ballistic when he lost his job. Could happen to anybody.

    If you believe (1), then we need better background checks, and stronger laws to keep guns away from people who shouldn’t have them.

    If you believe (2), then nobody should have assault weapons, because everybody could turn into mass shooters in certain circumstances.

    Take your pick.

  71. 71

    @70,

    Oddly enough, I agree with the rodent this one. Bolton has no business anywhere near anything to do with government.

  74. 74

    Today is Labor Day. I doubt many Republicans are celebrating it. Probably none are. They worship wealth, not hard work. I won’t be surprised if Trump issues an EO to abolish it.

    American culture disrespects workers. If you have to work for a living, you’re considered a low-life. Much better to be a capitalist.

    Most people admire and look up to the guy luxuriating on a yacht, drink in hand and bikini-clad party girl at his side, talking on a satellite phone to his broker. America was built by slave and coolie labor, but it’s the robber barons and Wall Street sharks who capture the public’s fascination.

    Labor, especially organized labor, is a nuisance,ut capitalists won’t have to put up with workers much longer. Jeff Bezos is leading the way. Soon they’ll all be displaced by robots. Even the delivery drivers will be replaced by drones.

    Then they can go cry in their welfare check-subsidized beers. They should have listened to me and become capitalists before it was too late. Before Labor Day and workers were abolished.

  75. 75

    I can’t imagine why so many Americans despise organized labor.

    F.B.I. Raids U.A.W. Chief’s Home as Financial Inquiry Widens

    Federal agents on Wednesday raided the home of the president of the United Automobile Workers union in the midst of a widening investigation of financial wrongdoing by union and management officials.

    Agents also executed search warrants at a 1,000-acre U.A.W. resort in Michigan and other locations, an F.B.I. spokeswoman said.

    The investigation has uncovered the improper use of millions of dollars of funds — some of it earmarked for training union members — and bribery of union officials by auto executives. In some cases, the funds were spent on personal travel and purchases of Rolex watches and other high-priced items.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/business/uaw-fbi-raid.html

    A competent attorney would have seen that one coming, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, and kept his fucking mouth shut about Labor Day.

    A competent attorney wouldn’t have called a thug shot several times in the chest while bull-rushing a cop a “fleeing felon”.

    So of course you brought up Labor Day.

  76. 76

    Happy Labor Day fellow HA HEROES!

    HA zeroes? meh….

    Here’s a nice debate on CNN between the one-time Bush supporting Peter Beinart and the NL ghoul Rich Lowry (who is famous for seeing stars coming out of his tv set watching Sarah quittin’ Failin’..)

    https://youtu.be/65FNbjxXHgk?t=172

    for the ha zeroes (boob and pork slop)… the.. country.. that.. can.. do.. no.. wrong..

  77. 77

    and bribery of union officials by auto executives.

    Nothing to see there folks… Move on…

    A union family here at the homestead and proud.. We pay full freight dues here. No holding out.

  78. 78

    Labor Day is to celebrate the career-long efforts of YLB’s children to fund the monthly Social Security retirement payments to my wife and, in a few short years, to me.

    No, YLB Jr., I don’t want fries with that. But make that Diet Coke an extra-large, will ya?

  79. 79

    @78 they’ll be happy some of mary k’s retirement is funneled to ACLU..

    What other liberal causes can they be grateful for? NRDC? Sierra Club? May she write dozens and dozens..

    I don’t want fries with that. But make that Diet Coke an extra-large, will ya?

    Fries are a challenge but one can only wish the fast food workers (mostly female) hocks a huge one in your diet sweet fizz water.

    Wish? Shit – it’s a lock! Suck it down boob…

  80. 80

    No, YLB Jr.

    LOL!!! If my kid ever showed a resume at a fast food place, he’d be passed over for being over-qualified..

    There’s a downside sometimes to being promoted and moving up in pay.

    That’s life kid..

  82. 82

    Social Security retirement payments to my wife and, in a few short years, to me.

    I’m sure mary k waited for 132 percent payout.. Maximizing returns are de rigeur for a one percenter homestead..

    So she’s over 70. but boob..

    Damn why are you in a hurry.. 62? That’s kinda dumb.. Wow.. I guess with mary k writing so many checks to liberal causes..

    You gotta get yours before your arteries clog or a vein pops in your pin head. Sux to be you dude.

  83. 83

    @71 there are thousands of the like of Bolton. Most Repukes are all scum, and those ones that aren’t, have no morals or intelligence. As evidenced of the trolls here.

  84. 84

    Stock Market is closed today but I made plenty of money today.

    No Bob, stop with your fantasies and jealousy, it didn’t involve anything sexual or illegal. Nor did I have to do it in Mom’s basement.

    I did it at home, but I could have easily done it sitting in a coffee shop.

  86. 86

    “I can’t imagine why so many Americans despise organized labor.”

    You must be polling fellow dumbfucks.

    I was walking a job site of a Seattle high-rise a couple weeks ago with the electrical superintendent who was telling me how twelve years ago he had gone from working as a non-union electrician to getting into the IBEW union and he was damn glad for it.

    I’ve had nearly nearly identical conversations many times on job sites over the years with union electricians who are not only glad to be in the union, they’re damned proud of their union.

    Their opinion counts. But a dumbfuck who would be selling his services for whatever number of chickens he could barter for if it weren’t for the AMA? Sorry, not so much.

    Unions have a long history of problems. Hell, Seattle produced Dave Beck. But unions also have a long history of addressing these problems, and the Feds often chip in. Look at what happened to Dave Beck.

    You’re a dumbfuck. As such, your shallow, insipid snide on this subject doesn’t mean fucking shit. Clean up your own fucking house.

    The third-leading cause of death in US most doctors don’t want you to know about

    A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers to be as high as 440,000.

    Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.

    Advocates are fighting back, pushing for greater legislation for patient safety.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html

  89. 89

    @75 “I can’t imagine why so many Americans despise organized labor.”

    It doesn’t take any imagination at all to understand why two-thirds of the American people despise the Republican Party and think the other third who support it are off their rockers.

    Even if you’re trying to look the other way, you can’t help noticing the GOP’s unbroken record of lies, hypocrisy, corruption, and failure.

    It’s almost as if they’re trying to sabotage our democracy in order to prove it doesn’t work.

  90. 90

    @80 Doc can’t get a fast food job either. Too much horse dung dripping down his pants.

  92. 92

    @ 86

    Steve, click on your own link a couple of times and you get to this:

    Rather, they say, most errors represent systemic problems, including poorly coordinated care, fragmented insurance networks, the absence or underuse of safety nets, and other protocols, in addition to unwarranted variation in physician practice patterns that lack accountability.

    Doesn’t sound like physician malpractice to me, bub. Sounds like some fat fuck ate too many doughnuts while waiting for some representative of the Obamacare plan he switched to this time around to call him back about his chest pain.

  93. 93

    @75. You crow about union corruption, but you didn’t mention the other side of the coin, the corporate corruption.
    https://www.apnews.com/8b0e4bedd90b476887e417e640ed695d

    The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press reported that Iacobelli, 58, apologiRezed, accepted responsibility and pledged cooperation in the probe before U.S. District Judge Paul Borman. He also was ordered to pay $835,523 in restitution.

    Iacobelli pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy and tax crimes in a scheme worth more than $1.5 million.

  94. 94

    Americans despise corruption, be it unions or the trump administration or republican policies.
    Republicans don’t seem to care about corruption at all.

  95. 95

    As you misrepresented the gist of one study, Doctor, you might as well misrepresent this one, too.

    Report: 80% of radiology-related malpractice claims lead to permanent injury, death

    A report evaluating five years of radiology-related medical professional liability claims was released this week finding that 80 percent of all diagnosis-related claims stem from the misinterpretation of clinical tests. Additionally, 80 percent of missed diagnosis claims in radiology result in either permanent injury or death.

    “Errors in radiology are unfortunately common and can have a severe and potentially life-threatening effect on those patients who are impacted by mistakes like a missed, delayed or incorrect diagnosis,” Robert Hanscom, Coverys’ vice president for business analytics and the author of the new report, said in a release.

    The report includes key findings, such as the fact that around 15 percent of malpractice claims with a diagnosis-related allegation involve radiologists—a portion second only to general medicine providers.

    https://www.radiologybusiness.com/topics/policy/80-radiology-related-malpractice-claims-injury

    Maybe you should tell the low-wage radiologist in India who does your work for you while you day-trade options in a dimly lit office to quit fucking up so much.

    And perhaps you need to spend less time trading options and bad-mouthing unions and Democrats on blogs, Doctor, and spend that time instead getting your fucking act together.

  98. 98

    …poorly coordinated care…

    Question for you healthy, well educated, affluent, progressives who work in construction management.
    Would poorly coordinated construction be something you’d blame on the bank?

    Asking for a Dumbfuck.

  99. 99

    …variation in physician practice patterns that lack accountability.

    Think about the enormity of an industry staffed by professionals who, as a matter of instinct as well as professional orientation, do not consider themselves responsible for their own patterns of professional practice, and who reject any accountability for that.

    Amazeballs.

  100. 100

    “Would poorly coordinated construction be something you’d blame on the bank?”

    As the Engineer of Record, I would never, blame the bank. I always blame the general contractor’s radiologist.

  101. 101

    “I like my radiologist” is the only Google search that get zero hits. Instead there’s a pop-up that reads, “Are you nuts? Nobody likes their radiologist!”

  102. 102

    100,
    And the guy who drives the Roach Coach is responsible for patterns of practice among the GCs!

  103. 103

    @ 96

    Gallup, the poll referenced in your link, had a different take on reasons for the higher regard for unions:

    Higher public support for unions in the past few years likely reflects the relatively good economic conditions in place, particularly low unemployment. By contrast, the lowest union approval ratings in Gallup history came from 2009 through 2012, years of high unemployment that followed the Great Recession. Gallup also observed relatively low union approval during the poor economic times in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/265916/labor-day-turns-125-union-approval-near-year-high.aspx”

    Everyone’s doing better so it’s easier to ignore municipal union employees working 30 hour weeks and being the last to be laid off.

    You need to click on a few links, Red, to find your way out of your own rectum.

  104. 104

    @ 101

    “I like my radiologist” is the only Google search that get zero hits.

    Try 15 million-plus hits, Steve. When your first sentence is a provable lie the rest of it just confirms you’re an asshole who’ll shill as needed.

    About 15,500,000 results

  105. 105

    @ 100

    As the Engineer of Record, I would never, blame the bank

    No, but you’ll blame the bank when borrowers falsify their income and assets. It’s up to those banks to do a better job catching people in their lies.

  106. 106

    “Try 15 million-plus hits, Steve.”

    Heh. Made you look. Too funny. You did notice, didn’t you, that not a single one of those 15 million hits were about people liking their radiologist?

    I liked this one,

    “Radiologist, Meet Patient”

    “Traditionally, radiology has attracted applicants who are not keen on patient interaction….socially awkward students tend to gravitate toward the specialties with less patient interaction, like radiology…”

    https://www.diagnosticimaging.com/blog/radiologist-meet-patient

    Heh. Socially awkward much?

    “No, but you’ll blame the bank when borrowers falsify their income and assets.”

    As I don’t design your orange moron’s projects or do work for any other developer with a track record of falsifying income and assets, and stiffing banks, design teams and contractors, it’d never reach that point.

    “Architect Stiffed By Donald Trump Spills The Beans On MSNBC”

    “Architect, Andrew Tesoro tells MSNBC the whole sordid tale of how Donald Trump cheated him out of money he earned.”

    https://crooksandliars.com/2016/09/architect-stiffed-donald-trump-spills

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    @ 106

    Heh. Socially awkward much?

    Steve, you’re a part of a small group of liberal men who spend far too much time online together, even on three-day weekends.

    I note the title of the piece to which you linked, Steve, is Radiologist, meet patient.

    With respect to your comment, I’d respond: Pot, meet kettle.

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    “With respect to your comment, I’d respond: Pot, meet kettle.”

    Actually, I get paid to play golf with clients and contractors during working hours. I’ve done that probably a thousand times. Over 200 times on one project alone. As it’s a social thing and you’re, um, the socially awkward type, you wouldn’t understand.

    I’ve made enough money playing golf while working that, technically speaking, I should have lost my USGA amateur playing status.

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