I was somewhat amused this evening when I drove over to the grocery in this whiter-than-white neighborhood. There were a half dozen very earnest-looking protesters at the corner, all wearing masks, all whiter-than-white, and all waving hand-made signs with variants of “Black Lives Matter” or “End Racism!” scrawled on white cardboard with a Sharpie. In a large sense, this was a nice thing- they were all waving their signs at passing traffic, and… that’s it. The definition of “peaceful protest,” albeit amazingly ironic, misguided, and stupid.
So with that Yin mentioned, here’s an example of misguided, stupid, and destructive. Note that what’s not mentioned is the actual leading causes of death in black teens. If Hyphenated Babs cared more about black youth than she cared about racial scolding for fame and profit, the talk might go quite differently:
Look, there’s racism. There will always be racism. That’s just not going to change as long as humans are humans. Trying to somehow end it will make things worse for everyone. What will make a difference in your life is what you do about it. Be inspired by Frederick Douglass, not by Al Sharpton. If you excel as a human and as a student, you’ll have a much easier life ahead of you. That’s reality.
Don’t throw shit at anyone with a gun, and always remember that it’s far more likely that the real threat with a gun will be another black male youth. That’s reality.
Cops are scum, but unless you’re a knucklehead, they’re not a major danger to you. That’s reality.
Be polite, don’t hang with destructive people, and your chances of remaining alive and out of jail will be extremely high.
Now let’s see the Yang: SP got a “Message from the CEO” or somesuch title from one of the companies she buys from. Fuck, she thought, another stupid piece of political theater. NO! It was a completely non-political statement on exactly what was going on with them, their supply chain, and being able to service customers. For any of you out there who like baking or would like to like it, our highest praise for Breadtopia for doing the thing they do well, staying out of politics, and not making us hate them like so many other businesses have done over the past few weeks. Show them your support by spending a few bucks there- the products and merch are absolutely first-rate.
Birthdays today include the bane of PChem students; the bane of Richard Nixon; the bane of Albert Einstein; arguably the best flat-picker of all time; Donald Trump’s life insurance policy; and a guy whose last words were, “Mind if I crash here?”
On to the news.
As publicity stunts go, this one was successful.
It’s a good thing that our government has recognized that there’s a critical shortage of stupidity, and has stepped in to drop aid. NPR is a gift from the Coalemus of our tax dollars.
H/T to the Pope for this little gem. And for this little follow-up. Minnesota howler monkeys.
Chicago howler monkeys. No-one in any of the arts worlds has the balls to stand up to this shit, refuse to apologize, and mock it for the idiocy that it is.
Old Guy Music is a sad and wonderful song from today’s Birthday Boy.
“As a mom, I worry about how I will someday have to explain to my 5-year-old son that we don’t actually reside on Sesame Street. In fact, statistics show that the older he gets the more likely it is he will become victim of violence. I’m raising a veritable sitting duck in the society we call home.”
How about, don’t become a criminal?
“my son attends a Montessori school that is 98 percent black (the remaining two percent are non-white as well).
Next year he’ll be attending one of those prestigious independent schools in Manhattan.”
OFFS!
I’m in the private education sector.
Montessori costs a veritable fuck-ton of money to attend, from what I understand.
Clearly, this child lives in a world benighted by crushing poverty.
I was going to link that NPR story and sure enough, the Old Man’s derp radar had already detected it.
The shit I have to wade through to gather Links is often disgusting and always depressing. But when you find a perfect, gem-like distillation of derp, it all becomes worthwhile.
You might enjoy this.
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1269348169948835845
ouch
That one was for the cops. This is for antifa.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1269602754202415106
That’s gonna leave a mark.
He’ll have a charley horse for sure
It’ll buff out.
Oh, sorry about that. Just found out that lady got her spine shattered. Don’t wish that on anybody.
At least they used Latino in the article. I’m surprised that got by NPR’s self appointed trigger screeners.
Does NPR use “Latinx”? That’s gotta piss off a sizeable segment of Latinos.
Almost without exception
It’s insanely annoying
I can’t believe a bunch of macho, egotistical Latinxs will adopt a spelling at the urging of obese blue-haired Anglophone weirdos that is unpronounceable in their syllabary.
I’m waiting to hear Biden go off script and say something along the lines of “Hey, I just want to collect those votes that LBJ promised us, OK?”
There Will Be Gaffes
Good Morning, OM. Great music, I’ve traveled that road so many times, that’s pure flyover country.
Happy birthday
Old Guy Music should have been this man celebrating his 80th birthday today.
I’ve caught Sir Tom on Later with Jools Holland via MTV Live within the last few years. This shows that at least within the last five years or so, he still had it goin’ on vocally.
TJ and Englebert are a couple of Mrs F’s favorites, I enjoy the same stuff too.
Best of all (to me,) Sir Tom was doing new stuff, not just showing up to crank out his old hits.
And then there’s this.
““This isn’t my country, I’m an Australian,” she says she told the 300 passengers onboard. “But I’ve noticed your democracy being threatened. Do not be complacent. Decide what side of history you’d like to be on.”
But some travelers “felt threatened,” prompting calls to police — and when the plane landed in San Francisco, she was escorted off the aircraft, she said on Twitter.”
So everyone in this story is an asshole?
I doubt any travelers really felt threatened.
Maybe from the plane ride…
It’s not a democracy, Karen.
The back side or the front side, because I’m pretty sure she’s open to either and maybe both at once.
The Story Behind Bill Barr’s Unmarked Federal Agents
Whaaaaaaaaa?
Defund! Dfund! Defund!
Yep. Every government office in DC has it’s own in-house police force, most of them being glorified security guards. Washington DC is a culture all its own…
Speaking of doing everything possible to piss off your audience just to (impotently) try to tamp down the cries of the howler monkeys…
Drew Brees learned you can only protest for certain approved things.
Any time you hear a sportswriter praising an athlete for standing up for what they believe in, remember that they’re really praising the athlete for standing up for what the sportswriter believes in.
Or what the sportswriter believes the majority of his audience believes in.
Football is going to be “fun” this year.
The XFL is dead, there’s no baseball, I already disliked pro hoops, and the NFL is trying to make me hate them. I may become a hockey fan during the brief break between NASCAR seasons. Please tell me the NHL hasn’t done any stupid shit.
Oh, Gary Bettman has done a lot of stupid shit, but most of it not in the virtue-signaling area. Most of it’s been dumb rules trying to increase scoring like the idiotic trapezoid, or shit like shootouts because ties are apparently evil.
Oh, I’m used to dumb rules from following NASCAR, the Calvinball of motor sports.
3-on-3 Overtime is awesome though.
Most of the stupid shit comes from your local sportswriters. Saw one example yesterday in the “being black in the NHL” genre.
Like PK Subban — one of the most beloved players of all time?
Or Seth Jones — one of the Blue Jackets favorites?
This was some new kid who signed with the Rangers. Didn’t read.
NPR is a gift from the Coalemus of our tax dollars.
I hate those coal emus too. Almost as much as the insurance company commercial emu.
Yeah, but Doug is hawt.
The car is the star.
How dare you disparage my auto insurance provider! And your specism against emus is problematic.
tsk,tsk,tsk,tsk, and I oop….
Did I do that right?
Save the ???.
“One of my favorite passages from Black Boy, Richard Wright’s poetic and searing memoir”
Fake news. I don’t remember any black guys in Pink Floyd.
People who regularly smoke cannabis ‘are nearly three times more likely to be violent’, study finds
This explains the protests.
They’re fighting over the munchies.
Cause? Effect? What’s that?!
I’m sure alcohol is way worse.
I call bullshit. That study flies in the face of nearly ever single person I know who smokes. If you weren’t already a simple, violent idiot long before you discovered the devil weed you’ll be just fine.
As far as the withdraw symptoms, well, no shit, Sherlock. But those withdrawals are about the mildest one can go through. Not a patch on booze or tobacco withdrawals, not even in the same ballpark.
*Fights urge to fling bong at CJ*
Correlation, not causation, probably. A large percentage of regular cannabis users likely have other antisocial habits. Same thing as saying that people who regularly carry unsecured debt, drive under the influence, or collect unemployment or other public assistance, are more likely to commit a violent offence.
Correlation does not equal causation.
It’s well known that cancer patients on the devil weed start looting and rioting.
Funny how, after a hundred years of treating people who smoke pot like criminals, now it seems a lot of criminals smoke pot.
That’s sort of bizarre to say the least. But you can’t believe the results of any study these days, they’ll get the results they set out to get, period.
Anyway, I used to smoke a little weed a long long time ago, but I have been around people who do it my entire life and they seem to just be all laid back and lazy for the most part, laughing at shit that is not funny. Like Ted S said, if they’re fighting over anything, it’s probably some oreos with double stuff.
I hate yellow onions.
LACIST!
Damn right. White or GTFO.
Red, or Dead….
Each has a different purpose.
Try these onions instead.
Boo hoo, you don’t have to cry about it
Sellers of Sex Toys Capitalized on All That Alone Time
Big Dildo, in cahoots with corporate behemoths like Amazon, is using Covid to squeeze Little Dildo out of the market.
I am in favor of Big Dildos
Go on…
in
#metoo
Threesies
Big Dildo is giving them the shaft?
Black Dildos Matter.
“You may have seen the phrase “decolonize your bookshelf” floating around. In essence, it is about actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative, storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for so long.”
How about casting aside the colonialist idea of race, and not sort people into groups in the first place?
I have no idea what any of that means.
I think it means their bookshelf sits unused so much that there’s microbial growth. Decolonize is removing those colonies of bacteria.
‘How about casting aside the colonialist idea of race, and not sort people into groups in the first place?’
Progressives, like most of the religiously inclined, pick and choose which parts of their scriptures to follow and which to ignore. Intellectual honesty is for chumps.
…bah! There I went and collectivized tens of millions of people again. Been trying not to do that.
“Although the protests are seen by many activists to be an inflection point for race relations in the country, President Donald Trump has called for a forceful show of strength including the deployment of military forces to quell them.”
Bullshit. Rioters are not protesters.
‘Rooftop Koreans’ Is More Than a Meme — It’s a Violent American Fantasy
ahem
Yep.
“deaths over stolen goods”
Except that’s what law is. Every single law is backed up with the
threat of death for non-compliance. If stealing goods is illegal,
then at some point, it carries the death penalty if you don’t comply
with the system.
‘What a malignant asshole,’ is about as much as this one deserves.
“Many have simply been shot and killed while approaching a white person’s home for directions or assistance.”
Yet could only come up with two examples. And you’d have thought that the BLM movement would have a whole catalog of names if this were anywhere near true.
Isn’t BLM silent on the whole Southside Chicago in summertime thing too? Almost like black lives aren’t the real focus. Gotta love the scare quotes around “protecting” the property.
Black lives do not actually matter to BLM. Go read their “what we believe” page. It is a Marxist organization.
I’m gonna drag the ShortyBoi out to the range today, and shoot up some of the bits and pieces of 5.56mm ammo I’ve collected over the past five years. Thanks for the motivation!
Know how you avoid getting shot? Don’t attempt to steal from or assault someone. Also, fuck off.
Then there was the somewhat horrifying viral video of an Asian shop owner berating a terrified looter while pointing a rifle at his face, all over what appears to be several packs of cigarettes and a broken window.
HORRIFYING?!?! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
all over what appears to be several packs of cigarettes and a broken window.
Fuck whoever wrote that.
I’m sure if the resistance had been a bit softer the looters would have retired quietly with the packs of cigs and no more theft or damage would have been done. Heck, he might have swept up the broken glass on the way out.
I’m naming my new band “Rooftop Koreans”
“Many have simply been shot and killed while approaching a white person’s home for directions or assistance.”
Citation please?
Please be quiet and listen to the sorta-kinda-but-not-really lived experiences of our oppressed brethren.
Yep. This is shit they wish was true, and they’d gladly sacrifice a real black body if that means they can stand on while shouting, “Look at me!” afterwards.
For the longest time I had a policy of never watching the news.
My theory was that if it was important, someone would let me
know, and if I never found out about it, it obviously wasn’t
important.
I need to get back to that.
I like Anthony Jeselnik’s take: “I know that something horrible has happened when my phone blows up with texts saying, ‘Don’t do it!'”
I used to play a game of “how long can I go without knowing who won the presidential election?”
I think I made it a day and a half once.
(Ok, the election of electors, but you know what I meant.)
So much this.
I check weather to see if I need to water the garden and new trees. I peek in sometimes to see if my overlord has decreed that I’m allowed to get a haircut, go to the gym, or eat at a restaurant. I’ve been trying to avoid everything else lately.
I step outside and look at the trees and whatnot to decide if stressed from lack of rainfall.
Word. Watching the lying liars that lie while pretending to dispense “news” is bad for my blood pressure.
““Persistent, unchecked bias in policing and a history of lack of accountability is wreaking havoc on the Black community. Cities are literally on fire with the pain and anguish wrought by the violence visited upon black and brown bodies,” states a “Dear Colleague” letter accompanying the outline of the new proposal.”
Literally on fire with the pain and anguish?
“Democrats also want to end “racial and religious profiling;” require “training on racial bias and the duty to intervene;” ban no-knock warrants in drug cases; end the use of chokeholds and carotid holds; change “the standard to evaluate whether law enforcement use of force was justified from whether the force was reasonable to whether the force was necessary;” limit the transfer of military grade equipment to state and local police departments; require uniformed federal law-enforcement officer to wear body cameras; and use federal funds to make the use of such cameras more widespread for state and local police.
Lynching would become a federal crime under federal hate crimes statutes as well. Harris and Booker this week clashed with Sen. Rand Paul over the Kentucky Republican’s opposition to a House-passed bill making lynching a federal hate crime.
Paul wants changes to the bill that he says are needed to ensure lynching charges can’t be brought for minor injuries. His efforts to hold up the bill’s quick approval brought condemnations from Booker and Harris on the Senate floor.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/06/draft-democratic-proposal-seeks-big-changes-to-policing-304619
Black bodies on fire
Old joke: Richard Pryor and Michael Jackson formed a new charity – the Ignited Negro College Fund.
Meh. “literally” has undergone semantic bleaching. It’s an entirely normal
happenstance in the development of language. Most of our structure words,
prepositions and the like, were originally normal words with meanings of their
own and not just there to describe the relationships between other words.
It’s only weird because we’re seeing it in the process, instead of long after
the fact.
Meh. “literally” has undergone semantic bleaching. It’s an entirely normal
happenstance in the development of language.
It’s decimated our language.
one in ten words destroyed…………
That hurt. That really hurt. Presently, my head feels like it is exploding…
Literally exploding?
But has it literally decimated our language?
That begs the question of why our language changes in this manner.
When does quantitative bleaching happen, where 2 + 2 = 5?
People getting shit wrong calls for correcting them, not giving up the argument. You’ll lose more than just words that way.
It were the pain and anguish what done it because the black people setting the fires don’t have agency.
It may have been nerdy white Antifa fucks setting some of the fires. The girl arrested for tossing the Mazel Tov Cocktail was white.
Cities are on fire because of people committing crimes. And you should be far more concerned about the violence against black people committed by, wait for it….other black people.
Well my buddy at work gave me some detailed advice this week. Got a new app – gonna try and see if I can maintain a focused low carb diet this week. Also gonna do another pot roast with veg today to start things out right.
Btw – anyone used daikon as a potato substitute? Can I just replace them in a recipe (ie pot roast) or do I need to boil, etc them first? (Today I’m just adding broccoli, cauliflower and squash at the last hour again.)
Never tried daikon, but I can recommend parsnips.
Parsnips are tasty.
https://youtu.be/rvH9CCgEUK0
I’d imagine you’d boil them slowly just like you do for oden.
I boil mine for Thor.
Loki at this freaking guy…
The local Thia / Malaysian restaurant always gives me a couple of slices of daikon – I love it. More flavorful than potato but that may be how they prepare it.
They are good pickled, too.
I’m trying to decide if the ones they give me are pickled – probably.
Carbs are the enemy…they are also delicious.
I try to do the low carb thing too. I at least try to stick to it during the work week.
I just discovered watermelon radish. It’s sweeter than a traditional radish. Probably not a potato substitute, but good on salads.
Is that so? This story is going to require more research.
Don’t give her the attention or the clicks… that’s why she did it. Nothing like an evil little, band wagon riding, SJW, virtue signalling asshole.
I gave boobpedia the clicks.
I think boobpedia is fake news. Her entry says her breasts are natural, but judging by the entry’s picture for her, I doubt it.
If you can’t trust boobpedia….
Re NPR: The fact that they haven’t been federally defunded proves the Republicans are fundamentally unserious about getting anything done. It would be so easy and so simple and so popular with their base and they just won’t do it.
But muh “objective journalism”!
They’re objectively not objective.
“Porn star Elle Knox escorted off flight after speaking about George Floyd”
You say this and yet you offer no video proof. Poor journalism.
Yo, woodsmith! I watched a video yesterday on a project you might find interesting:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6fsrLOgl69U
Not exactly building a table, per se, but still pretty cool.
I like that. It’s the kind of project that I don’t think I’d attempt, but I’m glad that someone else does it so I can enjoy the doing of it vicariously. I guess watching fellas make things isn’t that different to porn in that regard.
I’ve done epoxy work for tables that’s similar a handful of times in my life but never on a charred piece. Getting a smooth, high gloss with no ripples is a major pain in the ass. I wonder if it’s even more so with charred wood.
Thanks TH! I’ll check it out!
Hey, I.B., is life good for the McGinty folks these days (as good as it can be)?
Hey JD! We’re all alive and healthy. I’ve just about had enough of everything but Mrs. McGinty still wipes down everything with Lysol wipes. I’m trying to wrap up my gun cabinet but other things keep getting in the way. Such is life I guess.
“2nd Amendment is for everyone including black men with long guns but it’s fucking time for us white liberal men to stand up for our brothers & sisters. Borrow our dad’s hunting rifles & go nose to nose with Trump’s gang of misfit tools. Let’s do it”
https://twitter.com/TomArnold/status/1269455538120568832
Go ahead Tom, I’ll follow your lead.
He was banned fit advocating violence?
Tom Arnold, a perfect example of a person who should NOT own a gun.
I doubt his dad would borrow him his hunting rifle.
Or maybe he would, then 20 minutes after Tom left, he’d think “you know I wonder if he needed ammo too”. I have to say, it would be pretty funny watching a platoon of these liberal white brothers in action with their borrowed weapons. How long would they be able to stand in a formation before someone shot a person while fucking around with their weapon?
Just point the barrel up and the gun auto-reloads.
‘…Borrow our dad’s hunting rifles & go nose to nose with Trump’s gang of misfit tools. Let’s do it”’
And then Tom leaned back in his chair, scratched himself, and took another bite from his ham, gorgonzola and duck fat sandwich.
Uh. Okay Tom right behind you. I am sure that is a call to arms but whatdoIknow
Twitter ban in …
Although, I agree that unmarked police forces are BAD.
I’m curious what Tom’s dad’s response to that request would be.
Probably just a coincidence, but it sure seemed like the cops went on a killing spree in March. They murdered Breonna Taylor and Duncan Lemp in almost identical fashion – executing both in their beds.
When that didn’t set things off, they very publicly killed Floyd to get things rolling. I guess it’s all coincidence? Maybe we just noticed because we’re locked in our houses? The protesters would be much better off memorializing Taylor than Floyd – far more sympathetic character in this whitey’s eyes.
I’ll be more interested in the investigations of the cops who killed Taylor and Lemp than the fiasco that will be the Floyd trial. I’ll also be interested in the bullshit prosecution against Kenneth Walker for shooting at the
copshome-invaders in the wrong house.Yes. I wish no knock raids got more attention. That is some fucked up policeing.
I thought they dropped the charges against Walker?
You are right – they did a couple weeks ago.
Because ‘the cops’ are a cohesive, unified body all working in unison to keep the black man down. (never mind the significant number of black cops)
Talk about conspiracy theories….geez.
Naw – if there’s a conspiracy, it’s to get the frustration of the lockdowns redirected into race riots. While also putting whitey in his place by executing one of us for the crime of legally owning a gun.
It would bode well for many people to stop thinking of themselves as victims of racism and instead think of themselves as tax cattle. Things law enforcement do on the regular make much more sense in that mindset.
Hell – the NJ cops shot an unarmed black guy two days before Floyd, just for the hell of it if the story is to be believed.
“never mind the significant number of black cops”
Especially in cities where a certain political team has had uninterrupted control for decades.
Making it an issue of skin pigment will not and am not solve anything.
And *can* not…dumb phone.
(never mind the significant number of black cops)
Internalized racism. Hand-wave them away. Whatever-the-other-standard-Marxist-dodges are.
Remember Atatiana Jefferson? I have a feeling that one is less frequently referenced in The Narrative, because the cop was actually indicted on a murder charge. Similarly the murder of Botham Jean resulted in a murder conviction for Amber Guyger. The ball was already rolling on, finally, beginning to hold cops accountable for killing unarmed citizens, but The Narrative, and the MSM-Dem complex, is more in favor of tearing everything down than making any real progress with police reform.
Feds torpedo alleged submarine smuggler in Detroit River bust
Get the Canadian scum out of my country!
And take your damned Cobra Chickens with you!
So, no actual torpedos deployed?
Put on our tuxedos?
Stupid canuck. Trying to use a submarine to participate in the underground economy?
So yesterday I spent all day at work reading shitty news stories by shitty reporters about shitty people doing shitty things with shitty intentions. Needless to say, I was happy to sit down at my computer and switch off for a while. I logged into a game by developer Origins and to my dismay, there it was, a long screed about BLM… on my screen… when I just wanted to play a game. There is some good news out of this little anecdote. I did get a little bit of a smile at how quickly my build was able to uninstall every single Origins game and launcher. I’m so sick of this shit.
I cancelled Amazon Prime and even told them basically, ‘fuck off’.
Bezos you little shit.
For ONCE in my life – ONCE – I tepidly stake a ‘I love something’ into a business thinking it’s different and BOOM! I get knocked in the ‘teet’.
Anyway. They won’t miss me and don’t care. But I did what I had to do. When I listen to sports, I want to hear sports. Not Nick Wright babble on about fucking politics. I have degrees in History and Poli. Sci and continued my education on my time and dime (and boy do I spend). I can ‘tell’ if someone is literate and well-read. Most of those guys are just fucken idiots. Chris Russo is clearly informed. Even Cowherd seems to be not bad. But most are just clowns. Nothing I hate more than when it’s obvious the person lecturing me is just sprouting off emotions pretending they got facts on their side. Half these guys would be laughed right out of a college class with a REAL professor. Not these shitty ones we see most of the time.
So when I shop I want to shop and that’s what I told them. DO YOUR FUCKEN JOBS and leave politics out of it.
That pissed me off too. I notice there’s not anything about this over at eBay.
Maybe I need to use eBay more again.
I haven’t cancelled yet, but I will be making a very determine effort to shop at small business as much as reasonable possible when this shitstorm is over.
Well make sure you signal and only support black-owned business.
Thats what my sister is doing to support! How do you teach that color doesn’t matter and then do that shit!
Thanks for the heads up. Just canceled prime and removed my credit cards. Fucking commies…
” Nothing I hate more than when it’s obvious the person lecturing me is just sprouting off emotions pretending they got facts on their side.”
Oh man, don’t talk to teenagers then. My daughter and her friends all get their news and opinion in 20 Second TikTok videos. They don’t even try to reason any more- it’s like a petrie dish selecting for the most emmotive, manipulative assertions masquerading as logic that you can spew in one deep breath.
For about a week when this started, she thought it was enough to debate by going into a series of these 20 second rants. She was not prepared for someone to stop her 10 seconds in to question the premise. After about a week she was coming back to the dinner table with supporting evidence and a plan for debate that didn’t include “just state it more vehemently!” It has been really, really good for everyone in the family.
*clouds part to reveal a word emblazoned in bright light and flashing color*
CRITICAL THINKING!!
*heavenly singing begins*
I’ve been having talks with my daughter. She’s not bad.
I was thinking about logging on to play some TW today. Hopefully Steam has not done anything stupid.
I hate the willful misrepresentation that the rioters and the protestors are the same as the all this is just protests. Fuck you no it isn’t, it’s riots.
“Rioting is not Protest,” would be a pretty good t-shirt slogan, I think…
That’s how you deal with hypocrites.
AceSpeedway in Alamance, NC is defying NC Governor’s phase two #coronavirus restrictions. The track went on w a planned race tonight under the guise of a “peaceful protest” in order to gain 1st amendment protections.
A laudable move but the state will find a way to crush them.
Unless more and more do the same. I know trust in courts is low but eventually even shithead judges have to recognize the application is tilted.
That is genius.
Gyms in NC are reopening in defiance of Gauleiter Cooper’s orders.
What I find disappointing, if not troubling, is the casual manner in which people are condoning the looting and rioting saying ‘they understand why’.
Two of the funnier guys on the internet are Andrew Schultz and Awaken With JP and I find them smart too. But they took this stance. It seems no one has the courage to consult the data and realize those looters aren’t really about lashing out at ‘400 years of racism’. It’s a lazy cop out to me.
At best they’re saying two wrongs make a right.
Once upon a time, we had a society that had a baseline ethical and moral structure we all agreed on and debated from that point forward. Now we fight that. I don’t see how this can be bridged. People are just too far gone man.
And now comes the scourge of ‘systemic racism’. And structural whatever. Again, the pure raw data laughs at this claim but look at how pervasive it is in the common mindset?
Good luck trying to unravel and unpack that with people. Just like you wanted granny to die bringing up trade-offs during the pandemic, you want black people to die.
Try and tell me this is not a dark age. Covid was driven by superstition in some ways while emotion is driving this one. Reason is a casualty here.
I emote therefore I am. Yeah, we’re in trouble.
That’s where we’re at.
I can’t have a single logical discussion with a close friend of mine anymore about substantial topics. The second I bring up a point not in the ‘scriptures’ it’s ‘you too pro-American’ that and ‘you want granny to this’ and ‘there’s no truth’, ‘turtles are dying’ and ‘Greta is a hero’.
The ‘no truth’ angle is a good one. It’s a post-modern existential thing I personally react. But the Narrative Gulpers sure love to claim we’re ‘one-sided’ or ‘black and white’ and that they’re nuanced. It’s actually the opposite.
He also tells me, get this, I read too much and this clouds my ability to see the ‘truth’. That is, there is no truth.
Why exist then? How do you function without a belief in truth? Bah.
He’ll send me five links in a row and if I return a couple, you know, thinking he wants a discussion I get this bizarre,’why are you sending me all these links?’ Dude, you sent me five. I sent you two. It’s like I can’t even read the common etiquette anymore.
There’s no way to deprogram that.
Why read a history book when you can just think what your feed tells you to think. These progressives are a disease that are really trying to justify a very disturbing cure.
Progressives are the ones who would be saying, ‘we had no idea!’ as the truth about the serial killing by Germany and the Soviets in the bloodlines of Eastern Europe. Very out of sight, out of mind morons.
They make their decrees and run away from the consequences.
as the truth emerged
“What I find disappointing, if not troubling, is the casual manner in which people are condoning the looting and rioting saying ‘they understand why’.”
While I agree there is some of this, I have heard a lot more nuanced news than that. What I have heard is more of, “Yes, there is looting and rioting, but our cause is more important than that.”
I have no love of the rioters and looters. But I also have no love of a police force that obviously thinks it is unaccountable for clear brutality. I have seen the black kids who beat up the wife and husband owners of a store. I have also seen police officers shoot a peaceful protester in the face with a teargas canister. And I have seen many videos of peaceful protesters trying to hold antifa folks accountable for trying to incite riot. And I have seen police walk in solidarity with BLM folks.
I have seen pretty much every “side” in this ideological battle act alternately craven, benevolent and violent. So now what the hell do we do?
Personally, I have no problem stating that while I condemn looters, the overriding problem right now is a police force that can be as bad as those looters and is also sanctioned by the rule of law. When a person from the other side is coming to me saying “Let’s get rid of Qualified Immunity”, I am willing to overlook the burning target to get what we both want. That doesn’t mean I accept looting. That doesn’t mean two wrongs make a right. It means I want to eliminate QI more than I want people held accountable for looting.
There are many places in the world where this same dynamic happens. You have two groups of people who disagree and every time they start to compromise, someone blows up negotiations by doing something dumb (c.f. every negotiation in the middle east). We have a choice: Either one side utterly subjugates the other in a brutal and uncompromising war, or the two sides collectively decide that compromise is more important than the wrongs being done on either side. There is exactly zero chance that both sides come to the table to negotiate and no extremists on either side try to derail negotiations.
Well said and I agree. If anything Reason mag taught me over the years is exactly that.
Just the perception of cops not facing justice to account for their actions is enough to erode the public trust. And there’s enough examples of this reality.
Jesus, just the story of the DEA flashbanging that baby was outrageous in of itself. So I absolutely sympathize and even accept the grievance but spare me all the virtue signalling and bullying we see if we don’t fall into line with the narrative.
I should add, I think even the good cops are privately kinda thinking this is a good thing. It’s not a secret it was hard for them to speak out against bad cops. Maybe this brings some leverage back to them.
QI sucks balls, but it doesn’t really get to the heart of the matter. Cops need to have the rules of engagement changed to exactly match ours. Id I’d get busted, they should get busted. The distance between a good cop and a rogue criminal should be one criminal act. If I strangle a guy to death, I don’t just get sued for money, neither should they. That guy in Iowa who shot the dude that attacked him, he spent a couple of days in jail waiting for them to decide if it was self defense or murder. Where did Chauvin spend that period of time? 5 minutes in, it was clear what both videos showed.
This. Any immunity that exists for cops (and there does need to be some level of immunity) needs to extend only to the minimum viable force required to complete the lawful police action. Even a single extra knee or punch should fully open them up to personal liability.
Same way that a UPS driver is personally liable if they crash the truck while hauling a buddy’s couch across town.
People who have shown exactly how much they suck during all of this:
– Cops and their bandwagon
– Race baiters and their bandwagon
– Karens and their cancel culture bullying
– Virtue signaling companies and institutions
– Antifa
– Griefers and the various revolutionaries from the left and the right
– The corporate media
– The conservative alt-media
– Trump
– Practically every other politician
Did I miss anybody?
I should make a hall of fame for people who showed themselves to not suck.
Have I
I love how they claim it’s white supremacists doing the looting and rioting, but also claim if you criticize looting and rioting, you’re a white supremacist.
So is a Mazel Tov cocktail made with Manischewitz?
I’m disappointed in all of you that this joke hadn’t already been made.
Mogen David. Duh!
Be sure to snip a piece of the end of wick off before lighting.
50% blackberry Manischewitz, 50% unsweetened tea; pour over ice
It’s right tasty in the summertime.
That actually doesn’t sounds completely horrible; it might be the only use of Manischewitz I’ve seen that isn’t completely disgusting.
Pour blackberry Manischewitz in a glass. Sip until it is gone.
What other use is there?
It’s great for charoses. If you want to go Full Apikoros, another good option is Mavrodaphne.
So what you’re saying is, it might help me get a busty Jewess in bed with me?
The Orthodox Jews I knew preferred high-end tequilas like Porfidio Anejo.
I hate to admit it, but I’m pretty jelly of the Minneapolis protesters. Their demands and thinking might be – I’m not going to sugar coat this – stupid, but they were able to make the mayor of a major city do the walk of shame.
Three of us Glibs were loitering on the sidewalks in a near by suburb yesterday and we didn’t manage to shout down anyone or force a politician to walk away in shame. The best we did was share a goofy joke with a passing tatooed artsy looking lady. Let’s face it our movement based on treating others as individuals sucks balls.
“Let’s face it our movement based on treating others as individuals sucks balls.”
It doesn’t suck. It’s just that it provides insufficient opportunity for graft.
Holy shit did Brees fold like a cheap tent. I’m sure his grandfathers are proud. Wow:
“We did this back in 2017, and regretfully I brought it back with my comments this week,” Brees wrote Friday night. “We must stop talking about the flag and shift our attention to the real issues of systemic racial injustice, economic oppression, police brutality, and judicial and prison reform. We are at a critical juncture in our nation’s history! If not now, then when?”
Know what? I don’t even think I’ll be watching football this year.
Fuck everyone.
Seriously, if the NFL is going back into endorsing the racial politics bullshit, I’m fucking done for good.
Think of it. Pieces of shits liars like Michael Bennett prevail over good guys like Drew Brees.
No one came to his defense. They forced him to repent.
It was a disgusting display of bullying and cowering.
‘
Study after study show the data doesn’t back up the narrative.
https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1269009777306357760
I think that misses the point…no there isn’t an epidemic of cops killing black people but it does happen way more often than it should and there’s rarely accountability when it does happen. Whites should be furious at the way they’re treated too.
Why? They are getting what they voted for.
Given that the ballot is secret and local elections have even less integrity than national elections, I find that to be a dubious proposition to prove.
Yeh that’s where qualified immunity and asset forfeiture comes into play and of course the war on drugs.
But be careful there too, as the article OMWC cited. This is not just o the cops. This is a cultural problem they need to address as well. The good news is cultural problems are fixable.
If black kids, for example, are growing up fatherless as asserted that’s a huge problem. Then they go in the streets and get slapped around by cops when it should have been fathers. I get this is simplistic but it is something I’ve heard over the years and seems plausible to me. Fix that and you solve a lot of heart aches. The good news is prior to the welfare state, the family was a powerful institution among blacks. It can make a comeback.
But no one seems to talk about that.
They ignore that lie they ignore Chicago.
They prefer to go after whites and the systemic boogey-man.
The narrative is out of control to the point it can make serious damage for EVERYONE.
Discipline your children or the government will do it for you.
I feel for people who grew up fatherless, I know how that works. I stop caring when they rob and kill. If you’re unable to avoid being a thug and criminal, it’s not because you didn’t have a dad. Sometimes having a particular dad is worse than having none.
There are multiple issues that need to be addressed. I don’t think there should be a ‘white v black v hispanic v asian v ….misc’ scoreboard. Period. Full stop. As long as everyone keeps making it about race… there will be racism. X person was killed by Y cop shouldn’t be on the news. It shouldn’t even be how we talk about it amongst ourselves. Unless someone is giving a physical description of someone, it’s really not necessary, it’s counter productive. When we can refer to everyone as just people, we’ll be heading in the right direction.
Then, there’s the whole police side of things. The origins of the ‘police’ are a long dark history of assholes…. all of the way down. I personally believe they shouldn’t exist. I think we should have some form of checks and balances with a broader sheriffs system, where all of the government guys with guns are tied to an elected official, including the agencies that oversee those Sheriffs. New guy voted in? He get’s to choose whether or not you stay, Unions be damned.
Don’t blame racism, blame the predictable misconduct of unionized public employees
Paul Mulshine has been on a roll. They must hate his guts at the Star Ledger.
Some Reason commenters are feverishly insisting that “Antifa is not an organization”. I’ve also gotten that on FB and Twitter, when I was dumb enough to look at them.
Such a coordinated (almost Journalo-List in its harmony) message on that topic coming out of nowhere makes me suspect that it is intentionally misleading and that Antifa is not only an actual organization but up to something they want to keep hidden.
Antifa is not an organization!!! But Boogaloo is!!!!!!!
It is a strange assertion to make. There are several Antifa chapters that have named themselves. I’m not sure what else you have to do to qualify as an organization.
“You can read all of this on the site of Reason Magazine. This a strict constitutionalist blog of the sort normally classified as right-wing.”
LOLWTF?
I had to change my pants after watching the Mpls mayor video. Bookmarked for future pleasure
?Sunday Slutty Sunday?
http://archive.li/BCLMQ
“A gallery of cores set in corsets”
Hmmm…..
Good morning, Old Man!
My city is getting dumber by the day. Our small cadre of liberty-loving weirdos is under siege (but we have Leap, motherfuckers – so bring it).
And yet, things are still pretty fucking good. People are still building, creating and growing stuff. More and more people around me are having definite wtf reactions to our esteemed leadership. That can only be good.
Fabulous song. It got the coveted triple-play. Thanks!
It’s another gorgeous morning here in MN. I’m gonna go hit the trails for a couple hours and soak up some sun.
I hope all of you have a wonderful day!
When science and emotions collide. Sciemotions!
Rachel Ann Bender Ignacio, MD MPH
@Drbenderignacio
Law enforcement violence is a public health issue. So is #COVID19. Not shocking that they both feed heavily from the systemic racism that costs black lives. Ask instead how can people afford not to protest?
The problem?
Well, we can go on for days about this.
If the virus can tell skin color and the reason you are gathering in large groups, to selectively infect black people (unless they are protesting), and people at their own family’s funerals rather than memorials for somebody they never met, then I’m thinking it must have been engineered in a lab.
Everything is a public health issue, because that allows us to shut down debate and impose solutions by force.
Be inspired by Frederick Douglass, not by Al Sharpton.
YES!
“This isn’t my country, I’m an Australian,” she says she told the 300 passengers onboard. “But I’ve noticed your democracy being threatened. Do not be complacent. Decide what side of history you’d like to be on.”
Stick to fucking around on camera.
Still, I can’t help but wonder whether some people have considered that, at a basic level, the homogeneous nature of their personal library — and what that represents — is a part of the problem.
Go fuck yourself.
Goodell’s message arrives after 10 days of protests and civil unrest in cities nationwide in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and a call from prominent black NFL players to make a statement.
NFL’s revenues will go down?
Maya Shapiro, a protester who said she was the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, echoed those sentiments.
“Fight the system, burn it down, start over,” Shapiro said.
Reopen protestors just want things to get back to normal. But they’re the dangerous lunatics.
Old Guy music is good.
Now this is a protestor.
Normally I would not pay a person like that any attention but the face and neck tattoos give her credibility. Let’s hear what she has to say.
LET HER SPEAK
Last MD-88 commercial flight
Dover High School graduate Jim Hamilton flew into history this week when he piloted the last commercial flight of a McDonnell Douglas MD-88 in the United States.
Hamilton, a 1978 graduate of Dover High School, piloted the Delta commercial airliner from Washington Dulles to Atlanta on Tuesday, its last flight.
For more than three decades, the MD-88s, which are known among pilots and some aviation enthusiasts as “Mad Dogs,” have served as “steady workhorses” for Delta, the company said this week.
Asked if the planes got their nickname from their reputation for taking off like a rocket ship, Hamilton said, “That’s a correct statement.”
I miss them. 2-3 seating in the back is much nicer than 3-3.
I didn’t realize that they were still out there in the US. I wonder how many are still flying in foreign service. I was at the Boeing Museum of Flight last year and recall seeing a 727 with a clean modern paint scheme on the other side of the runway and wondering if it was still active.
So the Demonstrations and Riots have pushed COVID out of the headlines, perhaps for the good. But that has also led to this Mask nuttery sorta being cemented in place. There should have been debated, and restrictions eventually lifted. Instead, I think everyone is going to kind of forget that where we last left off was people walking around with bandannas on their face.
I am not an artist, but if I were, I’d do a political cartoon as follows:
Cell 1: Timothy the mouse holds a feather out to Dumbo, “Dumbo! Don’t worry, this feather can make you fly!”
Cell 2: Dumbo soars through the air, with timothy riding in his hat. Both exclaim, “It’s magic!”
Cell 3: A man and woman cower in a corner, and a man in a lab coat stands in front of them holding out a mask, “Karen! Don’t worry, this strip of cloth will protect you from COVID!”
Cell 4: The man and woman walk outside, holding hands, strolling through a park. Both explain, “It’s science!”
People have been wearing magic talismans since the dawn of time.
“Lisa, I want to buy your rock.”
“Everybody got gris-gris.”
-Teller
I think you mean Penn.
“…”
-Teller
You sir, are correct. My apologies.
There were a half dozen very earnest-looking protesters at the corner, all wearing masks, all whiter-than-white, and all waving hand-made signs with variants of “Black Lives Matter” or “End Racism!” scrawled on white cardboard with a Sharpie.
I don’t live in a whiter-than-white neighborhood, far from it, but I saw the exact same thing yesterday, right down to the signs. Not a minority among them.
Engineers designed new sides for the sidewalk to help with wind resistance but didn’t take into account the EXTREME sound it creates when wind passes through it. The bridge sings crazy songs now it’s so trippy. It hurts the ears and unbearable it’s that loud.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/markkrueg/status/1269073081231740928
Mornin’ Old Man. Nice Happy Hour chat last night, folks. I was sad to have to leave.
I’m on the last leg of Exhausting Micromanaging Client. Got the shady half of the back yard mown.
And it’s only 9:30 a.m. God’s Exalted Time.
‘Mown’ I’ve always used ‘Mowed.’
I mow, I mowed, I have mown.
I sew, I sewed, I have sewn.
I sow, I sowed, I have sown.
but
I bow, I bowed, I have bowed (re obeisance AND stringed instruments)
I cow, I cowed, I have cowed, I was cowed (different object)
Oh, speaking of objects:
It was mown.
It was sewn.
It was sown.
but
It was bowed.
I learnt something today
+1
https://www.amazon.com/Wide-Waters-English-Revolution-Inspired/dp/0142000590
Everything you wanted to know about the English language. A quick and easy read. I think I read it in a day…once I started I couldn’t put it down.
My wife who has been non-politcal and generally uneducated about a lot of the social issues we discuss here has suddenly immersed herself into fray because of all the turmoil going on. Before this week she didn’t even know what “woke” meant. Now she is posting videos of Candice Owens to her FB page. That along with other videos and posts that the left deem racist has caused her to lose some fb “friends” but also some actual ones. I told her if she keeps it up she will end up on Gliberterians.
Your wife is about to learn a very hard lesson in Mob tyranny.
She’s about to be Drew Breesed.
I’ve warned her about that. I don’t think she believed me a first but now does after seeing what has happened to other people. She said she won’t be bullied into silence and has the energy of someone newly converted.
There’s my sliver of hope. The otherwise ‘apolitical’ (like my wife completely obvious to the culture wars and terms like ‘TDS’) become engaged but on our side. I think most of these people still hold on to traditional and, perhaps dormant, classical values that is resurrecting.
I even think there’s going to be another ‘Great Awakening’. There’s no way this kind of stupidity prevails in the long run. It will collapse.
People like that twit doctor up top will hopefully eventually be marginalized.
The only thing to worry about is the damage.
I think most of these people still hold on to traditional and, perhaps dormant, classical values
I wish I were wrong, but I strongly suspect that this has never been true. Most people can barely read; their moral notions are nothing but selfish defense mechanisms and tribalism. They would not get through the first page of Locke or Hume, and they don’t recognize the wide evil that will result from the extrapolated arc of their stated urges. They are rationalizing thieves, hypocrites even in the pettiest moralities that they can grasp, and they cannot so much as merge into traffic sanely.
Someone here recently referred to humans as ‘smooth apes’. It might have been you Don, I cant remember but it is an accurate description.
Most people are driven entirely by emotion and will, with a complete lack of self-awareness, openly admit it.
Suthen, I’m beginning to believe that thinking – real thinking – causes pain in a lot of the populace. So they avoid it and substitute something else. They think(?) with their gonads, or their wallets, or unexamined prejudices. And doG help us, and them, if reality bites them in the ass.
pain
One of the post-war notions is that we’re entitled to long, pain-free lives. That angle is bolstered by single-ledger thinking whereby capitalism, small government, and freedom get a bad rap: the failings are well known, but the failings of the alternatives, which are considerably larger, are not appreciated.
Forgive some of my Calvinist background, but there were some virtues there, and all were painful . . . just less painful than the alternatives.
a/ to have more money later you do not get to spend it today
b/ to discipline your children early prepares them to need less discipline later
c/ to allow your children to fail prepares them to make better decisions later
d/ to allow businesses to fail fosters caution, reduces bubbles, and reduces later failures
It goes on and on: a little pain can go a long way.
I bet you’re a riot at parties.
There are two parties in town: one where they chat about the utopia they will build with all my money; the other where they share tips on cheating on their wives and their taxes. I am welcome at neither.
Demoralization is real. Still, for someone who has any notions about colorblindness, treating people as individuals, or family, just point them to BLM’s webpage.
https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Or their demands for money, power, and segregation
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-lives-matter-releases-policy-agenda-n620966
The BLM webpage seemed mostly unobjectionable to me. They repeatedly said that fighting for the rights of black people did not preclude fighting for everyone else’s rights.
They did use “comrade” and “collective” and other Marxist phrasing a lot, so that part was offputting.
They had a bullet-point list some years ago that was pure Marxism. “Destroy the family”, “smash the system”, etc.
Maybe they’ve toned it down lately.
My wife commented on our kids ‘white privilege”
I said the biggest reason they have any privilege is that their parents aren’t fuck-ups.
evil judge steals child from couple just doing what Jesus wants
If this lion has already been towed or drugs fall out of its ass, I apologize
Not the Bee? Hmm.
Elian Gonzalez back in the news?
Decolonizing your bookshelf means: get rid of your Great Books like Chesterton and Dostoyevsky and Plato and burn them.
Then replace those Great Books that have shaped the course of Western Civilization with Das Kapital and the complete works of Ta-nehisi Coates.
Then read that drivel until your amygdala shrinks and all you can think about is how much you love Big Government.
The NPR article had an important subtext that is exploding across the left.
Apparently they are worried that people are not accepting their propaganda. So now there is a meme – be silent and offer support, listen and learn, don’t say “but I’m not racist” – learn about all the ways you are not fighting racism properly…etc.
From the article
So don’t just get rid of all of your books by “colonialists”, but also read books by “people of color” with an empty mind.. bring nothing of yourself, your experiences, your world view. Simply pour in our views and accept them as your own…
Good lord.. Orwell was a piker.
I am curious. It just occurred to me that I have never heard anyone complain about the Soviet’s attempts at colonialization. They are, after all, international socialists and put their tentacles all over the world. What it the proggie take on that? I am guessing…crickets.
They fueled liberation of oppression. Duh.
” the Soviet’s attempts at colonialization.”
Hell, they cheer on the current CCP’s efforts to do the same – maybe not overt invasion outside their borders (mostly because they can’t afford it) but through economic/cultural dominance in numerous places.
“They didn’t colonize … they liberated, comrade.”
/progsplain
Thulsa Doom. Bro.
What if I empty my mind, then read the complete works of Thomas Sowell? Does that count?
*chuckle*
If it gets them to read Thomas Sowell I am all for it. I think he is probably the wrong person of color though.
I agree with the sentiment that white progressives should be silent.
Yes. This isn’t about debate. This isn’t even about discussing the topic so you can fully understand the concepts at hand. This is about repetition, resignation, and acceptance.
You are to repeat the Proggy Rosary and STFU.
Daily Beast interviews porn star Brandi Love
[Trump] does have the power to produce more tests as well as PPE for first responders, though, by enacting the Defense Production Act and forcing more American companies to mass-produce these items. He’s done that with the meat industry but not for medical supplies, for reasons I can’t really explain.
It’s probably hard to get anything done when everything is wrong in the eyes of your viewers. I’m just being honest. If the guy cured cancer he would’ve done something wrong by somehow keeping people alive for too long and putting stress on the medical system. Honestly, for me, it sucks to watch, because it doesn’t matter what good is done, he gets faulted by the media and the people who hate him. There’s such a blind hate that they can’t even see positive. Is he perfect? Hell no. Is he awkward? Yup. Does he speak eloquently? Nope. Is he getting shit done? Yes. And that’s why I voted for him.
Is he getting shit done? Yes.
not the flimsiest or most popular assertion ever regarding administrations, but it’s in the running
Vodka and nap time.
I will leave y’all with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWIaeQFcbYg
Cheer up Rufus. You are gonna burn out brother. Life is still good…ignore the stupid.
You’e right.
What’s the weather report in your neighborhood? Tie things that need to be tied down, if necessary
I think just heavy storms arriving this evening. It is getting gusty outside but I dont expect it to get too bad. Worst case would be tornados associated with the storm but most likely just a lot of rain tonight and tomorrow.
As Tres says……Obligatory Sunday Music
Huh. I was just listening to that one earlier. So we have one other Glib whose taste in music doesnt suck. Good one westernsloper.
That was nice. Very calming while I’m cussing at my tools installing a floor.
Random question of the day:
Does anyone know about the laws around founding and recovering a whale skeleton on an Alaskan beach?
What in hell would you do with it?
Backyard jungle gym?
Sell it… or hang it ona wall somewhere. The skull is 7 x 5.
Hypothetically speaking of course…
Selling it would get you in trouble.
Making a planter out of it in your yard you could just say “I dunno, it was here when I moved in”
I’m pretty sure there’s two standards for something like that, one for “indigenous” people and one for lessers. I have no idea if it applies to whales or not. Better to be careful, just look at all the trouble Tom Arnold got into messing around with whales.
Always use dynamite
Someone I. know once got my hands on a bengal tiger that had died in captivity. He cleaned the skeleton and shipped it to my mammalogy professor at LSU. They have one of the most comprehensive skin/skull/skeleton collections in the world. He was glad to get it. No one else knew where it came from so no one asked any questions. Other than shipping no money changed hands and everything was done in good faith.
I would be very careful about that. Whales are migratory and that means it is the interest of the feds. I remember years ago some guy getting serious prison time for plucking a feather out of an eagle that had been killed in traffic and sticking it in his hat. The feds are super assholes.
^^^THIS^^^
I’ve tried to take owls that died of natural causes to a taxidermist. They politely tell you to take it away and never mention it again.
I’ve heard you’ll get reported to the Feds just for ordering the owl, hawk, or eagle forms off taxidermist supply sites. They’ll still sell to you, but your information gets reported to the Feds as a matter of course.
Migratory is the subset of birds covered by the US/Canadian treaty. All or almost all sea going mammals are under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
This place.
Marine Mammal Protection Act would probably be the place to start. Probably in there something about carcasses. Or US FWS for pointers for where it is. I doubt you can just walk away with blubber but I could be wrong.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/protected-species-parts
And I am. NOAA has jurisdiction for the ocean.
To quote an internet rando*:
In a society that has destroyed all adventure, the only adventure left is to destroy that society.
*sometimes internet randos say the awesomest things
There is all kinds of adventure out there. Just some of us are too lazy to do it. (speaking of myself of course)
Seems to me you’ve had enough adventure to last 3 lifetimes!
That was younger sloper.
This guy is not too lazy for adventure.
I pined for adventure as a young man. I had some. Now I know ‘adventure’ is just an alternate spelling for ’empty wallet and tears’.
I will take boredom, thank you very much.
Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space?
Just don’t hit the space penis, AC would get mad.
I saw a similar protest in one of the whiter (if that is possible) suburbs of Portland yesterday (Sherwood). But, I am only seeing about 1 in 10 people wearing masks now, even in that center of signaling. The protest was only about 50% masked.
Hundreds of protesters in Ontario the other day, if you can believe that.
They couldn’t breath with the damn things on.
This was in my YT sidebar after Suthen’s Sunday music.
Aside for Ted’S: Have you seen Stone Pillow? (Of course you have.) Recommend?
No I haven’t, I don’t think.
[looks it up]
Ah, a mid-80s TV movie. I remember the “bag lady” moral panic of the mid-1980s, and remember some episodes of TV shows dealing with it, but I don’t think I would have watched that particular TV movie.
I remember Bette Davis in White Mama, however.
3 of my friends have asked me for help in picking out and purchasing a gun.
Feels good man.
Gonna shill for Brave browser and BAT again; I think this shit is gonna take off.
Hopefully TPTB at glibs will give Brave verification another shot, I’m starting to donate more and more using BAT to content creators.
Installed Brave and it works fine.