A quiet deletion…
Michael Shellenberger, a lifelong climate activist and Time magazine ‘Hero of the Environment’, this week issued an ‘apology’ for 30 years of climate alarmism.
‘On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologise for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years’, he wrote. ‘Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.’
Shellenberger’s apology was initially published in Forbes, where he is a regular contributor on energy and environmental matters. But on the same day, Forbes censored the article without explanation.
The Illegal Orgy: Spanish cops shut down drug fueled sex party because of social distance guidelines
Sex in the time of COVID-19 is a strange thing.
Only recently, New York City’s Health Department released guidelines on how to have safe sex while there is a deadly pandemic on the loose. They recommended using glory holes, or having virtual sex to maintain social distance from others. They even tossed out some suggestions for having group sex: like have your orgies in a large, well ventilated room, and wear masks throughout the ordeal.
It was good advice, if not a little strange coming from a public institution.
But things aren’t just getting sexually tricky in NYC. People are getting bored and frisky, hot and bothered all over the world. And in Spain, it’s come down to police cock-blocking people for the greater, common good.
It was late on a Friday in Barcelona, when undercover COVID cops received a tip from a stranger who had been invited to a wild orgy. Apparently, the party’s host had (blatantly) invited some 30 people to come get down and dirty at their apartment, a clear and dangerous violation of Spain’s strict “shelter in place” laws.
Spain was one of the European countries hit hardest by COVID-19, with over 48,000 infections and almost 3,500 deaths. It’s a small country and a close culture which has made it a prime ground for the spread of this disease.
Needless to say, the cops, having caught wind of a 30-person sex party, in a country where COVID-19 did so much damage, decided to act on the tip and bust this orgy before it got out of hand. So, around 10 pm, the officers showed up to the apartment, buzzed the doorbell, and were welcomed in without question or hesitation.
First, they came for orgies and I didn’t say anything because I was never invited.
Welcome to Hell. Seriously, Hell.
See Miley Cyrus Perform Beatles’ ‘Help!’ in Empty Rose Bowl Stadium
“For me, the magic of performing is sharing and celebrating music together…being surrounded by people and feeling their energy! During this time of COVID-19, we are coming together in a different way…we are uniting with the goal of ensuring EVERYONE has access to the solutions to end this pandemic,” Cyrus tweeted of the cover.
I must go on a short rant and then leave again for awhile as I watch the clock and attempt to remain busy for the remainder of the workday, ducking back in occasionally to link and/or comment on some ridiculous current event in this the best of timelines.
I have not liked what I have seen here over the past year and in the past few months in particular. Many seem to have lost sight of what truly matters in this world. I speak, of course, of being first. When you are not first, you are second, or third or something. Then you resort yourself to committing crimes against humanity like some commie cunte (spelled in Glib fashion with the necessary ‘e’ at the end) that puts pineapple on pizza. But I, being first and therefor the one true libertarian, do not take your incorrect opinions too seriously, and neither should you. I only care that you articulate a principled position. For instance, if you want to vote for a candidate on philosophical grounds, that is perfectly principled and legitimate strategy. If you want to vote for a candidate just for the lulz that is fine because the lulz is a perfectly principled approach. And if you just want to own the libs that is also fine. For we do not choose to own the libs because it is easy, but because it is fun. I see value in at least being entertained as our ship is possibly going down by the head.
I will leave my non-first Glibs with this. Let us retain that competitive drive. You are all first in my book, except for Brochettaward, who is a total loser. That is all.
First copy-paster
A country’s First Spouse married to ___
A country’s First Copy-Paster married to ___
Top notch. Would read again.
So this is just until you get home from work, and not flouncing off like others?
You forgot Trumptard. So disappoint.
I apologize for being sincere, but one of the things that I absolutely love about this group is the spontaneous game creation.
Shut up Tulpa!
*wild applause*
I dunno. All that bluster seemed a little bit juvenile.
Give this man a Ward!
Very nice. Practically an article. And I actually read it all, unlike Pie’s malt whatever thing which I barely skimmed.
I’ll say this for JB: He’s earned the right with me to call out somethings even if I think he’s wrong. I’m not gonna pile on him for showing a fit of frustration. Thinking we would be shamed into being less pro Trump or less anti science is a weak and manipulative move. That being said, I’ve done my fair share of weak and manipulative moves myself. He’s a helluva lot smarter than I am and overall a valuable guy to read. Let’s not torch the bridge in case he wants to come back.
He’s very good about pulling up people’s reins, like Hyperbole is. I always read what he says and he makes me think.
Wait! What? There is more to read on this site than just Q’s evening links, Hat &Hair, SNP, and Sugarfree? Huh? I did not know.
This might be a good week to give up sniffing glue.
I really like him too, but I did find it funny that someone would leave here based on what other Glibsbelieve in. As far ar as I know, this is one of the few places where we celebrate disagreeing with each other. Aside from agreeing on a general notion of “fuck off” it’s not like any of us agrees with each other more than half the time. It’s a place where the mormons can play with the deviant, the religious with the profane, and none of us give a damn as long as a person is polite.
Not sure where he could go to find less groupthink than here.
I don’t mind calling him out for what I thought was a cheap shot delivered in a whiny way. But, dayum, there has to be some cred that is built up over time and one slip up shouldn’t cause us to turn on him and mock him.
I actually thought that he was making fun of Brochettaward not JB. Perhaps both.
Brochettaward posted a first that made fun of JB’s exit.
This was mocking Brochettaward better than Brochettaward mocked JB.
I’m back! And I Firsted again!
?
First loser
Say what you will about the guy, but it’s well known that the guy can really suck a dick.
Mark Steyn’s links
Jun 30, 2020
* The Hill: Trump faces bipartisan calls for answers on
Russian-offered bounties
* The Hill: Pelosi, Schumer request U.S. intelligence leaders brief
Congress on reports of Russian bounties
* The Hill: Top intelligence officials release statements criticizing
leaking of Russian bounties information
* The Hill: Russian bounty intel was included in Trump’s daily
briefing
* Unnamed AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019
* USA Today: ‘No consensus’ in intelligence community over Russia
bounty on U.S. troops report, White House says
* Politico: Republicans have been skipping House Intelligence meetings
for months
* Politico: Twitch, Reddit crack down on Trump-linked content as
industry faces reckoning
* Politico: Would Trump abandon Twitter?
* Politico: New York may cut $1B from the NYPD. The defund movement
calls it a ‘betrayal.’
* Daily Mail: One man is dead and another wounded after Seattle CHOP
zone shooting
* The Hill: Couple that pointed guns at protesters in viral video
speaks out: We were ‘in fear for our lives’
* Daily Mail: Ice Cube tells Jake Tapper to ‘watch your mouth,’ jumps
to defend anti-Semite on Louis Farrakhan
* ABC News: Starbucks, Coca-Cola latest to join Facebook ad boycott
* AP: Supreme Court’s abortion ruling raises stakes for election
* Politico: Schumer, Pelosi to McConnell: Move on coronavirus relief
* AP: E.U. to list which citizens can enter; U.S. likely to miss out
* The Hill: LA closes beaches ahead of Fourth of July weekend as
coronavirus cases rise
* The Hill: House fires back at Trump by passing Obamacare expansion
* ABC News: Coronavirus drug remdesivir to cost $3,120 per patient
with private insurance, irking critics
* The Hill: Governor orders Kansas residents to wear masks in public
* ABC News: With pivotal votes, Chief Justice John Roberts confounds
conservatives and liberals
* Bloomberg: America is not acting like a great, or even
replacement-level, country
* Slate: What are the chances the wildly unpopular and bad president
loses the election?
* Reuters: China study warns of possible new ‘pandemic virus’ from
pigs
* Washington Post: Joe Biden rises with a less-is-more campaign
* The Hill: Walmart stops selling ‘All Lives Matter’ merchandise
* The Hill: Ryan Lizza to McEnany: Does Trump believe ‘it was a good
thing that the South lost the Civil War?’
Wouldn’t make way more sense to link to his links?
Why are we getting the wall of text?
Because DNT forgot to take his lithium this morning?
It’s not a wall of text, it’s a Wall of Voodoo.
Did you know the first time I tuned into a Mexican radio station they were playing Mexican Radio?
You didn’t. Then again, SugarFree apparently thinks it’s Wednesday, so gives a fuck?
I am filling in for Brett who has a “work meeting.”
A work meeting with Jim Beam, Evan Williams, and a whooooooole lot of meth.
I’m day drinking in a dive bar in Hillsboro, OR.
Huh. I’ve got a squirrelly supplier from there.
I can go and “ un-squirrel” the guy. For a price.
supplier quality engineer: a professional who, for the sins of strategic managers and sales personages, shall be hung when he gets back from working out of town for three weeks 7×10 while everyone else was playing golf and cashing bonus checks
Those are the kind of people that ruin it for the rest of us lay abouts. Soon he’ll be promoted and management will expect the rest of us to produce positive results.
So no more OTJ retirement, I’m outta here…
Oh no, Don. I think you misunderstand. I was offering to go break the squirrel’s fucking kneecaps.
oh, I wasn’t gunning for any present company
I was just flashing back to any number of debacles and inserting an irrelevant rage tangent in the middle of a reasonable conversation between useful folk
because that’s the kind o’ shit we PTS type pull
Say Mister Count, last evening we had this exchange”
“Enough About Palin on June 29, 2020 at 7:35 pm
Each and every one of us is a business. And as with everything, there is a bell curve. At the left end of the curve are the poor who collect welfare instead working; at the right end of the curve are the wealthy elites. In the vast middle of the curve are average, working Americans who pay their taxes and mostly just want to be left alone to pursue their dreams. And what do the people at the far ends of this bell curve want? To flatten the curve.
Reply
Enough About Palin
Enough About Palin on June 29, 2020 at 7:37 pm
Not sure why this posted here instead of starting its own thread.
Reply
Count Potato
Count Potato on June 29, 2020 at 9:25 pm
Do they? I think there are many people who just want to move the whole curve to the right — a rising tide lifts all boats.”
I was hoping you could clarify what you meant. I’m a little thick somtimes. Thanks in advance.
If the x-axis is money, and the y-axis people, then moving the curve to the right along the x-axis everyone has more money.
First loser.
BOOM
He who is 2nd is last.
*DON’T SPAM OUR POST LIKE THIS*
Mark Steyn’s links
Jun 30, 2020
* The Hill: Trump faces bipartisan calls for answers on
Russian-offered bounties
* The Hill: Pelosi, Schumer request U.S. intelligence leaders brief
Congress on reports of Russian bounties
* The Hill: Top intelligence officials release statements criticizing
leaking of Russian bounties information
* The Hill: Russian bounty intel was included in Trump’s daily
briefing
* Unnamed AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019
* USA Today: ‘No consensus’ in intelligence community over Russia
bounty on U.S. troops report, White House says
* Politico: Republicans have been skipping House Intelligence meetings
for months
* Politico: Twitch, Reddit crack down on Trump-linked content as
industry faces reckoning
* Politico: Would Trump abandon Twitter?
* Politico: New York may cut $1B from the NYPD. The defund movement
calls it a ‘betrayal.’
* Daily Mail: One man is dead and another wounded after Seattle CHOP
zone shooting
* The Hill: Couple that pointed guns at protesters in viral video
speaks out: We were ‘in fear for our lives’
* Daily Mail: Ice Cube tells Jake Tapper to ‘watch your mouth,’ jumps
to defend anti-Semite on Louis Farrakhan
* ABC News: Starbucks, Coca-Cola latest to join Facebook ad boycott
* AP: Supreme Court’s abortion ruling raises stakes for election
* Politico: Schumer, Pelosi to McConnell: Move on coronavirus relief
* AP: E.U. to list which citizens can enter; U.S. likely to miss out
* The Hill: LA closes beaches ahead of Fourth of July weekend as
coronavirus cases rise
* The Hill: House fires back at Trump by passing Obamacare expansion
* ABC News: Coronavirus drug remdesivir to cost $3,120 per patient
with private insurance, irking critics
* The Hill: Governor orders Kansas residents to wear masks in public
* ABC News: With pivotal votes, Chief Justice John Roberts confounds
conservatives and liberals
* Bloomberg: America is not acting like a great, or even
replacement-level, country
* Slate: What are the chances the wildly unpopular and bad president
loses the election?
* Reuters: China study warns of possible new ‘pandemic virus’ from
pigs
* Washington Post: Joe Biden rises with a less-is-more campaign
* The Hill: Walmart stops selling ‘All Lives Matter’ merchandise
* The Hill: Ryan Lizza to McEnany: Does Trump believe ‘it was a good
thing that the South lost the Civil War?’
Just Stop Dude! it’s getting old….
Yeah… I don’t get it.
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Well, first of all, there is link limit for a reason.
Second of all, nobody wants to read a wall of links. This isn’t Drudge.
There it is!
It’s been a while!
Congrats DnT for unlocking the secret bonus!
LOL *
Too bad it doesn’t in Smellovisionᵀᴹ just for him.
*come in*
I remember getting cat-butted once for asking for a hat-tip.
Cat butts are like bitcoins. They were giving em out like candy to start, but now you actually have to work to get one.
Whoomp!
I am #3 first!
‘I am #3 first!’
Spartacus self-doxes!Spartacus = D’Anna Biers (or maybe Hannu)
If there was any doubt before, Forbes just cemented its place as a worthless rag.
Don’t they do that famous ‘Woke 500’ list?
Didn’t their badly-designed website do that for them?
Hard to remember years ago when I considered them to be a quality magazine. Every media organization goes prog eventually, it seems.
True he’ll is not Miley Cyrus performing Help! The soundtrack to hell is Miley Cyrus playing Imagine on repeat for eternity.
https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/6/29/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare
“But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly that’s because I was embarrassed. After all, I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist. For years, I referred to climate change as an “existential” threat to human civilization, and called it a “crisis.”
But mostly I was scared. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.
I even stood by as people in the White House and many in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist, good man, and friend of mine, Roger Pielke, Jr., a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations. Why did they do that? Because his research proves natural disasters aren’t getting worse.
But then, last year, things spiraled out of control.”
Or this year it was replaced by covid-19?
“The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants”
Wait, what?
Imagine how many more of him there are in his field, and in various other lefty-dominated fields.
It must next to impossible to be a college professor these days and not be full of shit unless you are teaching math or physics.
Hey!
Thousands
They’re terrified, and rightly so.
Environmentalist admits that water is wet?
Well, I’ll be darned.
*eyeroll*
Problem?
* Cyrus performed
* No one saw
* No ‘magic of performing is sharing and celebrating music together…being surrounded by people and feeling their energy! ‘
*Something else
Washington Post: Joe Biden rises with a less-is-more campaign
This looks promising. Maybe if elected he will do nothing at all, which would be probably the best result we can hope for.
I know, not gonna happen.
He won’t do anything if elected, his VP choice will.
White Squaw will be on heap big warpath.
Sign o’ the times when a candidate’s explicit strategy is to be as invisible as possible.
“The Illegal Orgy: Spanish cops shut down drug fueled sex party because of social distance guidelines”
They should have pretended to be rioting.
Pussy Riot?
Welcome to Hell. Seriously, Hell.
See Miley Cyrus Perform Beatles’ ‘Help!’ in Empty Rose Bowl Stadium
Not going there……………….
Think about how bad it could be, then double that. Maybe triple.
Kill me if you can, I’m feeling down
And I do appreciate you being ’round
Help me get my feet back off the ground
Won’t you please, please kill me?
Sex in the time of COVID-19 is a strange thing.
And PH has the pandemic genre fully covered.
Heavy jaw, and horrid mouth, Miley Cyrus is ugly
What matters most is that she’s ugly on the inside.
She plays a better Miley than Miley does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQx1sqPHTrk
And Joan of Arc really gets me going in this.
What are you gonna do little boy. Lol.
https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1277829179497525248?s=19
Grandma almost kicked some ginger ass.
We must have entered a new Phase here in NYC because on my way to the doctor’s office I saw the local department store was open. Picked up a couple pairs of shoes on my way home 🙂
Nice, I was finally going to go get a haircut after 4 months but it was an hour wait.
You should have just drove into the store and took all the shoes, I hear Wokeblasio has already done away with the cops. Don’t forget your antifa flag so no one mistakes you for a right wing extremist.
I don’t have a car. There is a limit to how many I can carry myself.
Just steal a car in the parking lot after throwing a few bricks through the front windows. You’ll be hailed as a hero, probably get a million dollars from Soros, get a gig at CNN, and have more shoes than all your friends.
*takes notes*
I keep hearing that Antifa doesn’t exist.
I’ve seen ’em
If Biden wins it won’t be long before the Antifa financiers perform their own “Operation Canned Goods” on gun owners.
https://jcocktail.wixsite.com/world-war/single-post/2014/08/08/Hitlers-Fake-Attack-on-Germany-that-Started-World-War-II-Operation-Canned-Goods
“See Miley Cyrus Perform Beatles’ ‘Help!’ in Empty Rose Bowl Stadium”
Was it fear of wuhan virus or the Cyrus Virus?
Orgy: 30 were invited, 8 were arrested and no one got off.
Sounds like it was a sausage fest. 8 guys standing around, wondering where de wimminz is at… And then the knock at the door.
Lots of pork.
Were any women even invited?
“were welcomed in without question or hesitation”
They probably thought they were strippers dressed as cops.
OFFS!
OT: Bella decided to walk to the Island today, Swift currents and all, she did well, and is getting past her drugs, YAY!
Most people manage to accommodate to the effects of epilepsy drugs after a month or so. Sounds like dogs do too.
My first dog developed epilepsy.
She would go and sit by the cabinet and scratch for her ‘fix’ at about 7:00 if I forgot.
She knew she got a treat after she took her “crack”.
If I slapped my veins and said “Crack Baby!”, she’d go and run and wait by the cabinet.
If I slapped my veins and said “Crack Baby!”
Please consult a veteran crack user before injecting crack.
I don’t see how you get it through the needle.
Using the one on the right helps
My aunt had a little terrier dog that they had to give a large dose of phenobarbital for grand meals every day. The thing was as hyperactive as any terrier and it lived to somewhere north of 20 years.
Gotta love auto-correct.
My parents’ cairn terrier developed diabetes and only lived to 13. She was the best because you could take her out on the trails and no obstacles would faze her: she’d either try to climb over them or crawl under them.
Crack baby you’re out of time https://youtu.be/5zo2k7HPzjc
Ah man, great song on a great album.
The song my child was born to. The hospital folks told me to make playlists for delivery — one aggressive for the delivery and one mellow for the aftermath. This song popped up right at the perfect moment.
Yay indeed! Good news! Good doggie! ::gives Bella virtual ear scritches::
Kind of a carry over on what MS posted about AZ last thread.
I have noticed a growing call to actually criminalize ‘bareface’ as I have read in the news. Now growing up, bareface meant a lot of things and most of it was probably criminal but it is troubling to hear the calls to actually send law enforcement out and penalize citizens for this.
Some juice quote from my neighbors
“Dr Gottlieb said on Face the Nation that there is a law we must wear seatbelts so my comment why not make it a law we must wear masks” – Yeah, lets invite the ‘racist’ police more into our lives.
“The solution is simple Gov. Sisolak needs to require that the mandate to wear MASKS be ENFORCED by all stores or they will be required to close and/or get fined or lose their business licence. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!” – Okay, so we aren’t support our local businesses anymore. Gotcha. This person probably wants to wait in a government cheese line for his food.
These people would hand their own children over if the media and government said “Science!”
Positive quote
“If it is to be done, it must come from the legislative and at the lowest level of government possible. All mandates by the governor are unenforceable” – That one score some points from me. Don’t want to see a law, but that person was correct and even highlighted it to be at the most local level possible.
OBE, the River/Beach is wide open, come on down!
Ive been more in the office/field lately and wife’s business has exploded with all the people too afraid to look at the wind outside. We were supposed to go tomorrow, but I think that has been overtaken by more clients. Ill keep you posted though, because she is tired and wants some time off to herself soon.
We will make it down there
If they let me, I could do Cottonwood Cove
Some woke town in Oregon already excused Blacks and Browns from their face mask law.
You can’t parody this stuff.
I’m confused. I thought we were getting rid of the cops? So are they sending the social workers to enforce it? I’m not worried, because the first few places they get called to, they’ll all be robbed, beaten, raped, stabbed, shot, and probably killed.
No shit. I wear one in protest with it basically hanging off my face and no where near properly worn. No one says a word.
I am not a shit-stirrer so I wear them indoors where it’s required everywhere here. I stopped wearing them outdoors and only one crazy old guy yelled at me about it. I ignored him.
If they truly believed that not wearing a mask will result in mass grandma death, isn’t this exemption a criminal conspiracy to kill the elderly?
Who cares. They’re old people. They probably owned slaves or laughed while watching Blazing Saddles or something.
More likely, they voted for and plan to vote again(!) for Trump.
the mandate to wear MASKS be ENFORCED by all stores or they will be required to close and/or get fined or lose their business licence. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!
Many stores here had some kind of bouncer at the entrance that would bark about wearing a mask. Some stores even had a cop to enforce the local edicts. That was going on since late April until the end of May. But in June these bouncers mostly disappeared. I’ve been shopping for weeks without putting on a mask (with the exception of putting it on for a few seconds to enter Costco). The vast majority of store employees are not enforcing any mask rules. And I think I live in the world capital of wearing face masks: about 95% of pedestrians wear them on the street, at least three fourths of joggers.
“Many stores here had some kind of bouncer at the entrance that would bark about wearing a mask. Some stores even had a cop to enforce the local edicts.”
Just pretend you’re rioting, you’ll get right in without a mask, probably with the cop escorting you.
“Welcome to Hell. Seriously, Hell.”
I just thought the production was a bit too busy. It would have been way better if it were more like her backyard sessions.
It’s all Hell from here…………………….
/BHC
First, they came for orgies and I didn’t say anything because I was never invited.
Orgies? Ever since the lockdowns ended, things have gotten out of hand.
Your comment rubs me the wrong way.
I’d bump fists with you but ewww.
How about a sword fight?
Then we can spit roast some meat.
Just need to plug all the holes first.
No clap for me?
You can’t get it from a toilet seat.
https&thehill.com/policy/national-security/504991-pelosi-requests-us-intelligence-leaders-give-full-house-briefing-on
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KNOCK IT OFF, OR WORSE IS TO COME.
We got it the first two fucking times.
Are you broken?
URLs disappearing between ‘Leave a reply’ & non-URL part appearing on site
I call Bullshit, mine work…..
Knock it off, or I am going to tank all your spam.
You have to know how to do a link, you have to look it up.
Turn him off and back on, really fast.
Someone’s fishing for a cat butt.
Already got the butt on post number 2.
then kill it, before it breeds!
Great. Collective punishment. We all have to look at the cat butt for DNT’s transgressions.
That was an official catt butt? It thought it was shreek back for a 2nd go.
I’m thinking that would something wonderful to have printed out @ 2’x3′ and carried at protests.
Give it a break. At least add some commentary of your own thoughts rather than mindlessly reposting a list of crap from some other place.
Dude, stop, Fuck!
^(^
(*)
We have guy that plays but wont join, Shit, or get off the pot DNT!
Great. Fucking grocery clerks are protesting for being allowed to display a racist message from a group with an evil political ideology.
https://www.kezi.com/content/news/Protest-planned-outside-of-Market-of-Choice-571545731.html
I’m starting to hate white kids’ mothers.
That’s because they’re at least half responsible for white kids.
I wonder how many of those messed up kids had fathers that said, “Fuck it, take the child support money! I’m out of here.”
I’m starting to believe the old timers who swore this shit was inevitable when people stopped spanking their kids.
Spare the rod, spoil the child. Wisdom!
I think the only cure is to make all these adult children go cut some hickory switches and let their elders wail the dickens out of em until there’s barely any hide left on em. You want a reason to cry, I’ll give you a reason!
I can’t even count the number of times I heard some variation of that when I was a kid. The results speak for themselves, I have a job and I’m not out rioting and supporting commie fuckstains. Thank you, elders.
“Morning Glory Ritchie, cashier at Market of Choice, said that she demands to have the opportunity to support the Black Lives Matter movement even while working.
“I have spoken to management many times,” Ritchie said. “They said that people are not allowed to wear these Black Lives Matter masks because they disrupt a comfortable customer experience. They also said that it would endanger employees. With that logic, I would say that is confusing.”
Ritchie said that the time is now for getting uncomfortable and standing up for what’s right.
“If we are not being uncomfortable right now, then we are sitting in our white privilege,” Ritchie said. “I refuse to sit on my white privilege, and I demand to support Black Lives Matter and I demand to be an ally.””
This is what happens when you name your kids after seeds with LSD in them.
They said that
people are not allowed to wear these Black Lives Matter masksthe guy writing the check makes the rules; shape up or ship out, we don’t care which, please decide promptly.“I refuse to sit on my white privilege, and I demand to support Black Lives Matter and I demand to be an ally.”
If your job doesn’t allow that, you should start by quitting your job.
Morning Glory Ritchie, cashier at Market of Choice, said that she demands to have the opportunity to support the Black Lives Matter movement even while working.
You are not entitled to political protest while at your job.
Unfortunately, I’m sure the grocery store will fold and allow this crap.
Whole Foods, of all places, hasn’t folded yet.
Good. This horseshit needs to be nipped in the bud toot sweet.
PS. my pet store is the *only* business in my neighborhood to draw a “Black Lives Matter” slogan in their window. I bet they feel silly now.
If my girls were still around I would start shopping somewhere else.
The second cat, too? Sorry. I must have missed it.
Yeah, I didn’t mention it. I had to take her in one last time and right after that my colon blew up and I was preoccupied. Such is life…
I’m so sorry, Rhy.
Losing a beloved on top of your own health problems is rough.
How are you feeling lately, by the way?
+ 1 Sorry to read that.
Thx all.
My innards get rearranged in a couple weeks. We’ll see how I feel after that. But feelin’ fine lately.
really sorry Rhywun
Oh, Rhy… I’m so sorry.
So sorry Rhy
Sorry 🙁
Sorry dude.
In today’s climate it is opposite ‘Your silence is white supremacy!’
Fire the lot of them.
All the grocery store workers at my neighborhood Kroger are wearing buttons that say “I AM ESSENTIAL.” Which is too sad to make fun of, honestly.
If you look closely, you can see “community superhero” on the green store shirts they’re wearing.
And for your tacticool gear
https://tacticalgearjunkie.com/collections/the-essential-collection/products/essential-ralph-wiggum-2×3-5-patch
Krugman’s a douchebag, example 10,000:
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1278018214702616576
Sweet lord is that guy an asshole.
I am seeing some “I told you so” things like this on Facebook. To me it comes across as “So happy people are getting sick and dying! It proves my side is right! Burn!”
Thing is, the rate at which they’re dying continues to decline.
Which, of course, is why the press is hyperventilating about more people becoming mildly ill.
CWAA
Cotton Warehouse Association of America?
Chicago Whitesox Are Assholes?
Look mate, I put up with a lot around here…you want a cat butt too?!!!!!!?
*glares malevolently*
All these new Tulpas are frightening me, Swissy. Are you not going to at least implement a safe non-Tulpa place for us?
Go Tigers!!
Another “The Chicks” song on SXM Prime Country. They sure are pushing them all of the sudden for their new album. Fuck them and their pop turn crap.
I’m so glad I havent listened to radio in a decade.
Too bad about the Dixie Chicks. First album was actually pretty good.
Is there a such thing as modern radio friendly country that isn’t crap? If there is I’ve yet to hear it.
Steve Earle is, of course, still great. I’m a big fan of Hayes Carll. I love the Turnpike Troubadours, although I doubt they get much radio play. (https://youtu.be/yFIbMPOot94 may be my favorite)
HWIII, is amazing. So damn good live.
Oh, and Willie is just as good as always.
Saw Hayes Carll about two weeks before this whole thing broke.
Not really, no. Fortunately, Amazon Prime exists so I can listen to whatever Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Sr, or Merle Haggard I want.
http://cowpokeradio.com/
If you can access Sirius XM the Outlaw Country channel is good, unless by radio friendly you mean SFW because they toss on some explicit songs and Mojo Nixon may occasionally drop the F bomb.
Every few years I listen to Modern Country on my truck radio. I listened for about ten days up until yesterday. It is very bland and uncreative at the moment. Switched back to Jazz yesterday. Had to.
I’m-a do a daily nag for y’all to join us on Fridays for Zoominess. You know you’re curious…
Your Jedi mind tricks won’t work on me.
(Do wish everyone the best, but domestic situation isn’t conducive for video conferencing)
Some of us older, hearing-impaired, introverts find conference calls of any sort to be punishing.
So no, I am not going to join zoom.
And yes, I miss the conversations that leave the glibs forum and move to zoom.
Somewhat curious, but it just really doesn’t work out for me. Earlier in the evening I’m spending time with the family, and later on I have to be quiet because our house is small and I don’t want to wake anyone up.
I get enough Zoom calls at work. Last thing I want is more. But thanks, anyway.
I was on some earlier when the weather was colder, but we only get so much free time outside here in Minnesoda. Got to take advantage of that.
Sat in on a couple. I love y’all, but it’s too much like being in a room full of people. Something I try hard to avoid.
I remain aloof, Olympian…above the mortals toiling on… oh, Hell. Not really. I just have stuff going on. Nobody wants to hear from me anyways.
Friday night is poker night; Saturday night is date night. Maybe if I get bumped from the tourney early.
Sorry, I get enough Zoom and conference calls at work. No appetite for another one.
That first part is just common sense.
That’s completely the wrong kind of mask to wear to an orgy.
If it’s an ordeal… well YKINMKBYKIOK.
The right kind of mask?
The EPL tries to square the circle: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/53242328
“The Premier League says its Black Lives Matter campaign is sending a message it is unacceptable to treat black people differently to anyone else – not an endorsement of a political movement.”
Why would they feel the need to make that statement you ask?
Apparently BLM-UK posted a series of tweets supporting the Palestinians, including links to an article which argued that the technique of kneeling on someone’s neck was learned from seminars taught by the Israeli secret service.
But, then we get a hysterical comment: “We [the EPL] are aware of the risk posed by groups that seek to hijack popular causes and campaigns to promote their own political views.”
So BLM-UK hijacked their own cause?
The mere existence of BLM-UK is a bright light indicator that none of this actually has shit to do with police brutality and George Floyd. It’s communist political agitation from top to bottom.
LOLOLOL perfect. Hoisted by their own r-word.
it is unacceptable to treat black people differently to anyone else – not an endorsement of a political movement
Sorry, you put BLM on jerseys, on your website, on stadiums, wherever, you are endorsing the political movement of that name.
wypipo
Who are the fascists?
https://twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1277988083305025536?s=19
White guy openly threatening to beat up black guy because not racism? And I watched the whole thing waiting for the white guy to get curb-stomped.
what was that scrawny motherfucker’s crab stance when they squared up for a second? one push and he’d be on his ass?
Grab his head and go to town with the knee.
Not too surprising after seeing his absolutely pathetic attempt to sucker punch him behind and ended up just falling down.
Related: David Ramsay Steele’s 2001 article The Mystery of Fascism.
He did an interview with Tom Woods back in January (Woods Ep. 1578).
Dude should have knocked that bitchass the fuck out the minute the bitch started bowing up on him.
Then got his ID, threw his ass in back of the SUV, drove him home, and slapped his parent(s) silly right on their front door stoop!
He should file charges. I’t all on film, that was assault, no question about it. Let’s see how brave little Timmah is when his ass is sitting in jail.
And insist on the hate crime modifier. After all he was white and the victim was black.
Yeah, and when Bubba asks him ‘watu in her for?’, and he has to say ‘Oh, I attacked some black dude unprovoked and wouldn’t back off even when the guy just tried to walk away’. Have fun, Timmah!
Yup. Two assaults, at least, maybe more. And the LARPer forgot his mask. Oopsie!
“Friday singer Rebecca Black, 22, faces fury for joking about the Holocaust in ‘disgusting’ 2014 video with controversial YouTuber Shane Dawson – as she admits she is ‘deeply ashamed’ about the ‘offensive’ clip”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8476153/Friday-singer-Rebecca-Black-apologizes-taking-offensive-bit-Holocaust.html
would?
In the back seat?
Very newsworthy. Good job Daily Fail!
We’re talking about some girl who was briefly famous for a stupid novelty song she did when she was like 15 – who the fuck is dredging though six year old videos of her? To what purpose?
To what purpose? To ruin her, a lot of people get off on doing that for some reason.
Some people need a serious ass beating, plain and simple.
Internet shit-stirrer lays out bait
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1277996552120762368
The first reply was perfect.
He’s been actively trying to get himself cancelled for weeks, and it’s kind of funny that it hasn’t happened yet.
For Donation Not Taxation:
There is an unwritten rule about not posting links within 30 minutes of a links post.
That unwritten rule does NOT apply to open posts.
ooof I broke that one pretty hard the other day with my milwaukee story link(s) – whoops, my bad
Also to help out DnT…how to post a link: http://echoecho.com/htmllinks01.htm
I’m not aware of any such rule. Although I generally address the links in the links post before posting more links.
I’ll note that I rarely click links that dont have glib commentary that comes with it.
Ditto. And especially when it’s Youtube, FB, Twitter, or the like. Unless I intuit from the context that it might be a good song or something funny.
I thought it was just Q and his hooter links that had to wait 30 minutes? And I thought it was more of a no-no for the individual contribution stories, not the links roundup posts?
I have to admit I break that rule sometimes because I have to go back to work early and have a good story I want to post for the rest of you Glibs.
I try to comment on the official links when I can, but I have to admit I don’t get the consternation of TPTB and their linking rules some times, so I may owe apologies for shit posting without intent.
Pie has a sad. I am not sure anyone talked about his drinking habit
“There is an unwritten rule about not posting links within 30 minutes of a links post.”
I think we may all be guilty of that at times.
Forget it Adahn, this is Crazytown…..
That is NOT why he got cat butted. The wall o’ text multiple times will earn that.
Hypothetical for all the Glibs.
You work for a large business and get an NDA for a project from outside your division. Spitballing here – it just appears in your email, for example from someone you’ve never interacted with. The NDA itself includes the usual severe penalties for disclosure including termination. The thing is also so ridiculously broad as to preclude you from discussing anything associated with the project and its existence with your boss or the boss’s boss who runs the division.
Who here would agree to such a hypothetical? Anyone?
Reply back and tell them they need to run it by your boss first. No way can you be authorized to accept an NDA that excludes your manager from exercising managerial oversight and control of your work activities without their approval.
That would have been exactly what I would have hypothetically done.
Not in a million years. Unless you’re an undercover CIA agent or something.
Right?
1. I’m amazed that somebody would send something that broad and expect compliance
2. And I’d bet money others agreed without hesitation.
Why are you opening attachments from people you have never interacted with before?
Why aren’t you sending it to legal for review?
I see a lot of NDAs, and I have never seen one that prohibited disclosure within a company on a need to know basis, or even outside the company to lawyers, accountants, advisers, etc.
I have also never seen one directed to an individual at a company, rather than the company itself. If I got an NDA like that for review, my response would be “LOLGF”.
It came in the body of the text!
It’s internal so the sender was verified and verifiable.
Ah, never mind. No, I wouldn’t agree to it.
On further review:
The NDA itself includes the usual severe penalties for disclosure including termination.
Sounds like the company has an NDA for the project, and is putting together its internal team.
There should be a list of who is on the “need to know” team, and an owner for that list (preferably the highest ranking person on the team). I would never sign it without (a) that list and a written promise to keep me up to date as the list changes and (b) a copy of the NDA the company has for the project. “Clean” teams are very hard to run in a major organization without leaks. Just the fact that you are spending time and going to meetings on something that your bosses don’t know about makes it virtually impossible for any length of time.
This might be appropriate for the rare project that is so super-secret that it needs to be managed that tightly, but I am thinking here of a potential acquisition of your company, or a very, very major acquisition of a competitor, something like that. I have seen exactly one such situation in over 20 years.
When this leaks, and it will I guarantee it, somebody will be scapegoated. Be very, very careful. Who has access to your email? Your regular mail/deliveries? Do you have your own printer in your office? Can you set up a password protected folder on your network for any work product? That kind of thing.
Been there. Thanks.
Precisely.
I’ve been on one of those in 15 years as a servant of my Swiss masters – and it was exactly that. A big acquisition.
Its probably a phishing scam.
Look, just because you snare everyone from peons to the C-Suite doesn’t mean that…. wait…. maybe it does.
it’s bogus if you can’t discuss it with your boss
I recommend everyone treat every NDA request to your standard contract review: Sales should babysit a process whereby every department that would be responsible for compliance responds to “their” clauses with control method (FMEA, PSM, WI, procedure, scheduled event, whatever), cost of compliance, and leadtime and inputs required for initial compliance. The assembled contract review is then approved in the normal way by whichever officer of the company with copies to responding departments
but that’s just me
it’s bogus if you can’t discuss it with your boss
Its possible its an internal clean team that they need a subject matter specialist for, and his boss isn’t a member. Its virtually impossible to run a clean team without every member of the C Suite on the need to know list (possibly a few exceptions, depending on how bloated your C Suite is – the Chief Diversity Officer can and should be kept in the dark). That’s why you want that list of who is on the team – so you can go to whoever is on the team in your chain of command and confirm that they have your back. Because the rest of your chain of command will know something is up, just from your activities.
list of who is on the team
indeed: that’s necessarily part of any contract review document
Decent troll.
The resolution states Connecticut Republicans “deem it necessary that the Democratic Party change its name due to the Party’s long tragic legacy denying Americans basic human rights,” including:
Democrats blocked the first attempt to ratify the 13th Amendment in 1863
Democrats unanimously voted against the 14th Amendment giving former slaves citizenship
Democrats unanimously voted against the 15th Amendment giving former slaves the right to vote
Democrats instituted Jim Crow laws across Democrat led states, preventing African Americans the right to vote.
Democrats held the longest filibuster in U.S Senate history to block the civil rights act 1957
The parties switched. The Republicans should change their name.
TW GWP
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/utah-driver-shot-antifa-terrorist-tries-flee-swarming-black-lives-matter-mob-video/
Reading through and the tweet from the news media is “peaceful protest turns tense”…um, yeah and thats not peaceful if they are stopping drivers on the open road. I hate everyone.
That happened in a small town in southern Colorado as well.
https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/28/black-lives-matter-shooting-alamosa-colorado/
“Lauren Chen says that even though liberals aren’t having kids or heterosexual relationships, their ideology won’t die out because their actively corrupting everyone else’s children with it.”
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1277644912276709377
“This isn’t some gotcha lol, I’ve done several speeches and videos about exactly this”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1277997369808822272
I had to call our IT support folks this afternoon. They’re located in Panama City, Panama and they are great. Today I was helped by Oscar. He’s helped me before. He’s bright and very open to conversation while we are working through a problem. Last time I learned about shark fishing in the Atlantic. He said that he also freshwater fishes, but fishing for sharks is definitely where it’s at.
So today I asked him about Covid-19’s impact on Panama. He said the country is handling it well adding that they have some very strict rules in place and people are following them closely. He’s working from home just like me. He said people are only permitted to leave their homes for two hours a day. He added that women and men are not allowed out at the same time. I didn’t ask him what the underlying philosophy was, but it certainly is curious.
There is another good IT support person down there named Anaisabel. She’s just as great as Oscar, but unlike Oscar, she is really, really hot.
Sounds like pure freedom. Its nice though that you have a good relationship with your IT and it isn’t painful to call.
Last time I called about a personal IT question:
COX Operator named “David Smith” Okay, can you locate the router, I will text you a picture so you know how to locate it”
Me: Its okay, I am already in front of it and I have already power cycled it and unplugged the coax for at least 15 minutes.
“David Smith”: Okay can you please unplug the……
Me: Stop reading your script and skip this step….
“David Smith”: Yes thank you, please let me know when you have unplugged the router….
Hung up. I really wanted them to ping my router to make sure they can see it. I didn’t want to go through all the steps that I knew we would be going through.
In fairness to that stooge, he doesn’t know what step to skip to, so he just plugs along.
I’ve just played along with them.
IT: “Now reboot your pc”
Me: OK
IT: That was surprisingly fast?
Me: Yup, I have a very fast PC.
IT: moving on to the next step.
I know I know. It was just tedious at that point cause it was during the initial lockdowns and my damn 15 year olds were driving me up the wall.
“ He added that women and men are not allowed out at the same time. I didn’t ask him what the underlying philosophy was, but it certainly is curious.”
Sexy time transmission.
I.e. cooties.
Yep. Those swarthy Panamanians just can’t keep their hands, mouths, and sometimes…butts off each other.
How about we declare open season with no bag limit.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/antifa-terrorist-fires-handgun-suv-during-utah-blm-demonstration
Doh. A minute late and a dollar short:)
Eh its okay. Its evident that the populace wants to be afraid, wants all the drama and is in dire need of conflict.
“the cops, having caught wind of a 30-person sex party, in a country where COVID-19 did so much damage, decided to act on the tip”
Sounds like they acted on a lot of tips.
But not just the tip. That is always a lie
That is why the Spanish version of Dragnet stunk so bad.
Sgt. Jose Viernes: Just the tip Ma’am. I promise that is all I want.
ba dum tish!
Too much time on my hands
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/close-half-all-working-age-adults-us-do-not-have-job-right-now
Yeah it is one part of the recipe for revolution/rioting/etc. People with nothing to do will find something to do. Idle hands and all that jazz.
And cooped up without outlet for weeks and months.
jazz hands and all that idle?
+1 LA Kings Martinez scoring stanley cup game winning goal
https://youtu.be/4SZ-bsPROIo
Seen in small town:
guy wearing leather or leather like SCA type soft armor, sword on his belt, cloak, clean shaven/short hair, and US flag strapped to his back.
All Lives Matter and American flag attached on telephone pole.
If this is what community looks like (see first pic), I’ll pass, thanks.
Curious on the picture that shows the power tap and all the phone charger. Are they using a *GASP* generator or stealing power from the city?
Also, there is no way that these protests, autonomous zones, or encampments are spreading the virus /CNN
No Way! They’re all wearing theri Magic Masks.
I can’t even with these fucking losers. Take out the trash, Bill.
Cultural Appropriation!!!
He’s too busy busting oppressing Jews to bother.
Community looks like Burning Man without anybody topless?
They found away to have summer festivals that don’t violate Covid restrictions.
It looks like a shithole to me.
The girl delivering pizza could be cute, depending on what’s behind the mask.
Why do they make everything look so shitty?
Because they are shitty people, doing shitty things?
Looks like Woodstock with zero decent music.
Just the headline.
U.S. Stocks Finish Best Quarter in More Than 20 Years
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/30/joe-biden-claims-hes-taken-cognitive-functioning-test-despite-no-record-of-one-in-december-exam/
“I’ve been tested and I’m constantly tested,” Biden responded
Uh, if you are ‘constantly’ being tested, isn’t that sort of a sign that maybe something is wrong?
“What did you have for breakfast, Joe?”
“Stop testing me!”
I use the same line about STDs all the time.
Let’s ask Cornpop.
He’s tested when he tries to tie his shoes.
A question for you stock market gurus. I’ve been hearing from a few friends saying it’s gained back most the losses and I just heard today that it’s way up again. I’ve been afraid to even look at mine since March, I don’t need any more depressing news, but it sounds difficult to believe with half the country out of work and most small businesses destroyed and the democrats still hellbent on finishing off what’s left of the economy. So is any of that good news actually true? I want to take a peek, but I’m not going to for a while.
It’s around where it was in November. It shot wayyyy up in December, beyond what it should have at the time, so it’s doing pretty well. It’s way up from it’s low. Go ahead and look.
S&p was up point and a half today so tomorrow morning would be a good time to check it:)
I’m still going to be disappointed I know, because I had a pretty huge monthly bonus in contributions and they suspended it for a year. And it was one of the reasons I took the job. I’m pissed. If I was really close to retirement, I’m not, I’d just retire now and move to bumfuck nowhere, buy a bunch of land, drink beer and practice shooting targets all day.
That’s what I’m hoping to do in 5 years. Exactly that:)
DJIA is only 10% off it’s alltime high. To me that’s nothing, a rounding error: it’s up 2000% since I started investing.
Aren’t you around 60?
I am 60, so retirement is 6 years off. But I was thinking, making the money I’m making and doing the math on all this, my target it 7-8 more years. Maybe 10 depending on what is up. I’m still perfectly capable of doing the work, I mean I sit at a desk all day and I feel like I have zero mental decline from when I was younger, so you know, I like nice things like most people and I don’t want to give up the money until I have to.
“… most small businesses destroyed…”
I’ve been busy as hell for the last seven weeks. Financing for small business is in place and going strong. There is still alot of small business activity.
I announced here last week: I’m out. PE22 is just stupid, there’s no upside, there’s no telling which winners and losers that this administration, congress, or central bank will pick. I have no reason to expose myself to this nonsense.
I hadn’t made a trade in ten years. Maybe I’m back in 2021. We’ll see.
I moved most of my retirement into the safe zones a couple of years ago anyway, because I’m closer to retirement now. So I didn’t see quite the windfall some of my friends saw over the last year, but I still managed to make more gain in that period than I ever have and also made more money than in any one year period in my life, by quite a lot. I’m apparently not going to repeat it this year, lost clients, frozen wages, retirement bonuses blown up. Couldn’t they have waited 7-8 years before burning the world down so I could get full retirement first?
I’m good overall and way ahead on cash, but I totally feel you on the melt-down. It will really sting for me this way:
a/ half the professionals out there are suddenly free agents or under-employed, so I can pretty much forget any sweet consulting or part-time deals in semi-retirement
b/ I’ll get killed for saving: too many $T being printed up; also means I’m unlikely to inherit much.
The flip side is that the adjustments just aren’t showing up. I wrote here many weeks ago that I wanted a bargain: a house, a factory, equipment on the cheap. It should be a good time for shopping, but bones aren’t cheap yet . . . and I don’t know why.
c/Meanwhile, the social bargain is being melted down. Dear Rioter: why would I want to invest in this town? Why would I expose my investments to your rotted agenda? Why would I want to buy a larger house and expose myself to your new priorities tax schedules?
I’m staying light, loaded, and mobile.
One thing that really bothers is that all the properties I have been looking at buying are going up in price, fast. I think part of the reason is that people are going to flee urban areas in droves, making any available properties outside big cities, skyrocket because of increased demand.
I’ve just checked one of my dormant brokerage accounts: its commissions are no longer competitive. Found $570+ in cash from dividends. I guess I’ll just withdraw it and call it income.
I’m not any sort of guru, but like others have said, the markets have rebounded remarkably since the big dip in March. I bought a few heavily discounted stocks back then, but I’m going to take my winnings and cash out shortly. It feels like the markets are pretty divorced from reality and the music has to stop soon, but I’m honest enough with myself to know that I don’t have actionable information either way. Better to sit this one out for me, otherwise I’m just gambling, not investing.
If you’re in mutual funds then it depends what you’re timeframe is… if I recall correctly you’re pretty close to retirement age?
“if I recall correctly you’re pretty close to retirement age?”
See upthread. I’m thinking 7-8 years. Although I qualify for full retirement in 6 years.
The Dow is down close to 4,000 points from where it was back in mid-February.
Expect a 20% drop in the months leading up to the election.
The Fed is running out of magic tricks.
I have volatility calls (UVXY, leverage +1.5 VIX) at 4 different dates and strikes. I’ve done it twice since January, and absolutely cleaned up each time.
I’m also long on gold and some foreign securities. Printing money endlessly has consequences.
Howdy y’all.
This post will be a kind of Minnesota hot dish of ideas.
On the fitness front, I think will add a 40 pound weight vest to my full body dumbbell routine. I like the idea of a shorter, more intense workout.
Some recent headlines show that a lot of people are misusing the word “protester”:
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Armed St. Louis protesters broke gate, threatened couple before drawing guns, attorney says
Protesters set up guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos’ DC home
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Are there any circumstances whereby a visibly armed person could rightfully claim to be a protester?
All this Let-the-Wookie win/Heckler’s Veto stuff is bad news.
fun fact – protest is related to the words testimony and testicle. Testis means witness in Latin. In many times and places, only men were allowed to be witnesses. The word witness denotes one who has wit. Wizard denotes one who is wise. It ought to be pronounced why-zard. The name Bernard basically means “hard as a bear”.
If you a funny headline idea for my next satire, please share. I have some already, but I like to brainstorm.
Oh Joe, just stop: Biden says he’s eager to compare ‘cognitive ability’ against Trump’s
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-eager-to-compare-cognitive-ability-against-trumps
“Biden says he’s eager to compare ‘cognitive ability’ against Trump’s”
Isn’t that what the debates are for? Trump doesn’t have to be any sort of genius to make Joe look like a dementia patient. In fact, I don’t think anyone can stop Biden from doing looking that way, even if they try. I have to seriously ponder what type of tricknology CNN thinks they can pull to stop Biden from imploding on a debate stage, within 10 minutes. Especially with Trump doing his best to make Biden lose it.
Biden will weasel out of the debate because Trump refuses to wear a mask. The most tested individual on the planet is not fit to be in the same room with a guy who demands more public testing. And that logic will make perfect sense to the DNC pr machine.
Even pro-mask politicians take them off when giving speeches. Trump, Biden and the moderators can stay far away from each other in a large empty studio. I think that Biden’s handlers will be looking for an excuse to avoid the debates but it will be something else.
That might be the point when they decide to just take it all away from Biden, and give it to Warren, right after he names her his VP choice.
Looking at what is currently happening, would it be too far out of the realm of plausibility to say that the networks will cancel airing the debates because it gives a platform for hate?
Armed St. Louis protesters broke gate, threatened couple before drawing guns
If that happened to me, I think the odds are pretty high I start shooting. God help me.
I would have went inside. And there’s no freak way I let my wife out there. The minute they broke down the doors, that’s when they start getting shot, from my best defensive position.
Stand outside as a deterrent, back inside if they keep coming, anybody that comes through the door is toast, as is anybody throwing something through a window.
Sure step outside with the AR, looking like you know how to use it. Make sure they see you, maybe wave, then go back inside. Anyone who is crazy enough to approach the door then is seconds from their death.
Easy peasy.
I am looking at all of the various news headlines from around the country.
Have I gone insane and am hallucinating or is this insanity really happening?
Had to go to the pharmacy this morning. I dont even own a mask. Maybe I have old ones in the garage left over from the last time I did some woodworking.
Neither pharmacist nor any of the employees in the store were wearing masks.
The insanity is really happening. My grocery store is full of people wearing masktotems and generally looking terrified.
Amusingly, it’s mostly the black people who don’t seem to give a shit and are walking around for their shopping without issue.
On a different subject, I saw yesterday that you mentioned that you have had the 586 and 686 in 4″ and 6″ versions. I’m looking for a 586 now and can’t decide on barrel length, so I was wondering what your take was on 4″ vs 6″ on that frame.
Saw same phenomena at the newly open King of Prussia Mall on Sunday. First non-masked folks we saw were male black yoots.
TV news tonite lamenting how black community is hardest hit by ChiComVirus. Reasoning? Because black folks are more afraid of doctors than white folks. I love how the virus knows whom to infect and whom to pass over.
Meanwhile, no mention of relative rates of pre-existing conditions in those communities…
They have more pre-existing conditions, and it’s all your fault, you and all your privilege. Glad I could help.
If you’re planning on hunting with it or doing long range shooting go with the 6″, otherwise 4″ will be fine. Another consideration would be if you’re going to carry .38 +P. Longer barrel length might help you with that round although again I think 4″ would work just fine.
Wasn’t planning on hunting much, it was likely to be a range toy and woods gun for when I’m hunting (with a rifle) or camping/hiking. Like the look of the 4″, but most of what’s available right now is the 6″ so it may not matter at this point.
range toy and woods gun
then 6
heck 7.25
there’s a certain look that the guys who have never shot anything but pistols get when they see that your target at the back of the range only has one hole in it: it is pricelss
6″ is looking pretty good, then! Thanks, Don and JB.
I’ve got a 6″ 686; it was EDC for a few years: a chore. I still love it for driving tacks, swatting flies, and lighting matches at 25 yards.
I EDC a doublestack 45 now 10+1 so much more easily now
Not planning to edc it – got plenty of auto options for that with better capacity. Planning to make it a range toy and hunting/camping/hiking companion, when I’m worried about local wildlife like the North American Armored Rape Bear, or the North American Thieving Asshole.
Chuck Hawks on the 357
https://www.chuckhawks.com/most_versatile_handgun.htm
Thanks! Looks like 6″ is the way to go, then.
Always get the six inch barrel.
With the four inch I can easily hit a 1″ bullseye at 40 feet if I have a rest.
With the six inch I can hit a beer can at 100 yards.
With a lot of practice you can learn to hit with a 2″ barrel but it takes more practice than you get from 2 or 3 trips to the range. I am fortunate to be able to shoot at home. With a 2″ J-frame in 38spl I can hit a 12″x18″ steel plate at 25 yards 5 out of 5….unless I get out of practice. That six inch barrel makes things a lot easier.
Get the 6 inch barrel would be my advice. It is easier to master and those two extra inches give you more. velocity. I load 357 158gr. hard cast semi-wadcutters with gas checks over 7.1 grains of Unique. That gives about 1250 feet per second. Not a plinking load…
The blinkers I load in 38spl cases 148 grain wadcutters and 3 grains of Red Dot or Bullseye. Those are quite pleasant to shoot.
Thanks! As this will be for the range, 6″ sounds good, then.
It’s not possible to let leftist radicals completely take over the education sector and media of an entire country and not have this to happen. I’m not even the least bit surprised.
Not sure if the Three Gorges Dam flooding has been linked here the last few days. Saw ADVChina address it and a bit on Twitter and via Taiwanese news services but appears that China is trying to memory-holed it almost everywhere else – ie google news.
Makes sense that a collapse might be the one thing to bring down the CCP – but the casualty numbers would be astronomical.
Just a planned discharge here. Nothing to worry about. We’ve got it under control. How are you?
https://youtu.be/xGsUYLADo4s
I saw it on the Epoch Times YouTube channel. It’d be a catastrophe of biblical proportions.
It was made in China.
Sadly, that’s what it would take to bring down the CCP.
Spillway fishin, fire in the hole, baby!
When they were building that thing I started to take bets on how long before it failed.
Like my Korean friend said about the wuhan flu, ‘It’s made in China, it won’t last very long’.
Today’s Level 40 Shitlord: Grover Cleveland
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Cleveland was age 47 when he entered the White House as a bachelor, and his sister Rose Cleveland joined him, to act as hostess for the first two years of his administration.[154] Unlike the previous bachelor president James Buchanan, Cleveland did not remain a bachelor for long. In 1885 the daughter of Cleveland’s friend Oscar Folsom visited him in Washington.[155] Frances Folsom was a student at Wells College. When she returned to school, President Cleveland received her mother’s permission to correspond with her, and they were soon engaged to be married.[155] On June 2, 1886, Cleveland was age 49 when he married Frances Folsom (age 21) in the Blue Room at the White House.[156] He was the second president to wed while in office,[c] and has been the only president to marry in the White House.
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The Clevelands had five children: Ruth (1891–1904), Esther (1893–1980), Marion (1895–1977), Richard (1897–1974), and Francis (1903–1995). British philosopher Philippa Foot was their granddaughter.[159]
Cleveland also claimed paternity of an additional child named Oscar Folsom Cleveland with Maria Crofts Halpin.
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In a 1905 article in The Ladies Home Journal, Cleveland weighed in on the women’s suffrage movement, writing that “sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by men and women in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence.”
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In 1908, he suffered a heart attack and died on June 24 at age 71.[263] His last words were, “I have tried so hard to do right.”
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Ma, ma – where’s why pa? Gone to the White House, ha ha ha – one of the few things I remember from AP US history
Adorbs.
A special fun fact just for you: the ISIS female morality police were called the Al-Khansa brigrades. Al-Khansa (snub-nosed) was the nickname of a famous female Arab poet who lived within the time of Mohamed. She was famous for her eulogies. One man told her that she was the greatest among poets with breasts. Her reply was “I am also the greatest among poets with testicles.”
Her eulogy to her dead brother Sakhr is a classic of Arabic poetry and predates Beowulf by 500 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QzXfNviy7A
I’d translate the text of that poem, but it is beyond my ability. For now, anyway.
I mean, I could translate it, but I’d need to use a dictionary for all the rare, old-fashioned words. Certainly would keep me busy for a few hours.
my pa, that is
typos: I make them
Wasn’t she his ward?
I really have nothing to add, except that Superchunk is fucking amazing and SF is a good person for providing them.
Yes.
2 stage water rocket flies to over 800 ft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qzOzjRJpaU
I can participate in an orgy and maintain social distancing.
An orgy of one!
Bring tissue
Apparently the City here is going to issue a mandatory mask order later this week. In a city of a million people, there were a grand total of 0 new cases yesterday. I am not wearing a mask.
Seeking opinions on whether to send a flame mail to my city councillor now, or after I get a ticket.
It’s unenforceable. They’re mandatory here and I haven’t worn one and no one has said squat.
I went into the Starbucks in my village and the three cops that where ordering coffee didn’t have their masks on despite Governor Pritzker requiring everyone to have one on when entering businesses. A bunch of horseshit.
And the kicker is that despite him devastating businesses, he’s still implementing the minimum wage hike.
Easy to implement a minimum wage hike then there’s no one to pay it.
Democrats are destroying themselves, right before our very eyes. They may well destroy the country along with themselves, but they’ve went down a road from which there is no return.
That’s why I’m considering throwing my principles out the window and voting for Trump. At the very least his ass could not let the Supreme Court be stacked with a bunch of Leftists. It wouldn’t prevent our decline but at least slow it down.
Oh wait, I live in the People’s Republic of Illinois, so my vote doesn’t even matter.
Yeah. Trump is vulgar, awful, and large incompetent. Yet, I may vote for him. Fuck the Democratic party for making me vote Trump. I would rather vote for Jorgensen.
Yeah, my new gig is taking me into IL. Not looking forward to living under Pritzker’s moronic rule.
I grew up in the Chicago Metro area and love it but the politics here are bonkers. The politicians nor their public sector union allies hide their disdain or corruption for average tax payer.
Why not both?
marital tv roadbumps?
NewWife is awesome, but I sound like a Trumptard sometimes ( I know: me? ). John Oliver has a cute idea every now and again, but I can’t help that his first lie this (last) week was only five minutes in. I think The Look is more about my dicking up the viewing aura than being wrong or calling out a prog on a lie.
In fairness to me, everyone lies, and I’m always pointing it out. It’s a full-time job these days. My standard reaction to Oliver is to simply doze off out of boredom, and I’ll try to stick to it.
Gotta be careful when watching TV with the wife. If I point out something screwy with a show she chose, she thinks I’m criticizing her and not the show. Lately I just say, “Can we watch something else?” when she puts the derp on.
When the devil, Satan, was given domain over the powers of the air, xe said ‘And let Lifetime TV exist!’. And then this world was forfeit, since the form of the destroyer was chosen for us.
I go to the bedroom to watch news. If I try to watch in the living room wife gets uncontrollably angry one or two stories in. I leave the soothing balm of the Hallmark Channel on in the living room and sneak into the bedroom.
I record and skim NewsHour in case there’s a good article on it. Tonight she’s watching it front to back. I’m listening to the Reason Interview on buds and typing with you clowns and eating ice cream.
The buds went in when the opening introduced:
a/ Pelosi interview about the virus (I don’t care what Congress thinks about it)
b/ ad hoc ventilator “designers” (stupid: COMPLIANCE is the challenge; no one needs any help with design or manufacturing from the peanut gallery)
I’m not listening to that crap.
Oliver sounds like Charlie Brown’s teacher to me. If the guy tried to have an in-person conversation with me I would probably just punch him in the mouth.
Comedy has been mostly destroyed and it is the comedians that are responsible for it.
He’s not doing comedy, though. Nasty insults delivered in a slightly clever package at least time I’ve seen him. I don’t what you call that, but it isn’t comedy.
Oliver and the rest of the Jon Stewart crew used to be funny. They weren’t consistently funny but they were capable of it. Of all of them, Larry Wilmore still sometimes seems to remember what humor is, and Colbert can be a halfway decent interviewer but is otherwise a total asshole now. They crawled up their own assholes and never came back down to earth.
My worlds are colliding.
https://twitter.com/osakacchi/status/1277766670950502400
Every once in a while the shitty government liquor stores of VA yield a pearl.
Behold, a bottle of Whistlepig Old World 12yr. old Rye. Should make a good birthday present for the old man – hopefully if I’m really nice to him, he’ll share a glass or two…
I bought a bottle of that at a local store a few years ago, for $78. It was like $115 bucks at the only store I knew had it in the state. I asked the guy if he had more and he put 2 more on the counter. I took both of them. Like most liquor I buy, I gave it away, I don’t drink too much of it, it’s too damn addicting. It’s pretty good, but I’ve had better, at a much lower price.
I don’t buy Whistlepig. Canadian ryes are too soft for my palate. At that price, I want to have a conversation with my booze.
I hate you. That is all.
No, wait. I also hate Virginia. And the government. Now, that is all.
I don’t know, if I were you I might feign friendship to see if I could get some of that free liquor.
I mean, I gave 2 bottles of it away, not all of it. I drank the other one. As far as Whisky is concerned, I like both Bourbon and Rye and I think Blantons is far better than anything Whistlepig.
But strangely enough, one of my fav whiskey like products is actually Brazilian Cachaca, it has the best oak aftertaste of any liquor. God keep that shit away from me! The Pitu Vitoriosa is bout $125 a bottle, but I’ve typically just traded some Blantons for it.
Whiskey Stuff
For your morning cringe. If I were a collectivist, I’d be ashamed of my race. Thank god I’m not.
https://twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1277988083305025536
This was already posted in the real morning.
Yesterday morning was not the real morning.
This commie doesn’t recognize American time.
Unfair. I’m a fascist Uncle Tom carrying water for an ethnostate.
This was never about race. It is a radical communist attempt to overthrow the system. The silence from the democrat leadership is deafening.
I dont know about. you but I am glad the people we are up against dress like elementary School children and have nothing in their heads. The useful idiots really are punks.
That asshole needs two to the head. I’d settle for mr Louisville Slugger.
lucky kid: they both should have been shot
I’d really like to go an Antarctic cruise someday. Looks fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqkk8mFiZSU
Drake Passage looks like a hell of a ride though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDTbopUYg20
Russian robot drives car, does push-ups, and dual wields pistols, because of course it does:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPIED6jUdU
AR guy McCloskey is going to be on Tucker this evening.
I have a random question for our Japanese-knowledgeable glibs. Due to the pandemic restrictions I’ve been watching more shows than normal and I’ve started watching a subtitled anime, the first time I’ve ever watched a show in Japanese. There seems to be an inordinate amount of gasps, grunts, and sighs in the spoken Japanese, so I was curious if this is something particular about the language itself or rather just a convention of the anime genre (or perhaps just this particular show itself)?
Yes, there is a lot more of that stuff in Japanese. It’s called “Aizuchi”. They don’t like interrupting, so to show agreement, doubt etc while the speaker is talking they make a variety of grunts.
Thanks for the info. That’s interesting to know.