Expect plenty of this look in the fall.
College football is getting iffy again on whether a season will happen on time, as Arizona halts players getting to school for workouts. Because “case numbers” are going up (as testing increases) even though the deaths continue to drop. So much for “we need you to flatten the curve” over the past few months. This is about controlling people, not flattening the goddamn curve. Oh, and Burnley beat Crystal Palace. Yeah, that was the sports update.
“I am…in a world…of shit”
Bank robber Willie Sutton was born on this day. He shares it with the lovely Susan Hayward, actress/singer Lena Horne, modern hot air balloon inventor Ed Yost, economist/commentator Thomas Sowell, baseball’s Ron Swoboda, actor David Alan Grier, NASCAR’s Sterling Marlin, actor Vincent D’Onofrio, baseball player Tony Fernandez, boxer Mike Tyson, guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, outfielder Garret Anderson, race car driver Ralf Schumacher, and swimmer Michael Phelps.
And now…the links!
This headline is terrifying. It’s also absolute bullshit. For two reasons. First, testing levels aren’t the same across the globe. Second, not all nations are being transparent, namely China. If you think we have more cases than them, you’re out of your fucking mind.
They sat beside each other? CONSPIRACY!!!
The Pentagon pushes back against the NYT on the bounty story. Interesting that this pushback, where people are going on record, is getting less credence than the NYT piece, where nobody is willing to go on record.
JK Rowling isn’t giving in. A million muggles are weeping at the news. Frankly, I couldn’t give a shit, although I do find the whole saga hilarious.
Soon to be thrown in a cage by China.
Hong Kong is a bout to be lit. And I mean “lit on fire”. I hope they survive this, because China isn’t even paying lip service to human rights there anymore.
The way this is being framed is interesting. But the fact that four SC justices can’t read the constitution clearly is terrifying.
Uh, the cops aren’t going to be the ones to stop the killings. Which means they’ll just go back to blaming Indiana. Because there’s no way they’ll address the root problems. That just isn’t politically correct.
Add another name to the Corona death list, I guess. Seriously, I bet they do.
“Mainstream”. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
This song was not written for me. But I can like it anyway. Because it’s awesome.
Now have a great day, friends!
Economist birthdays appear to clump, or maybe they dont.
Smith and Keynes may or may not have the same birthday.
Sowell and Bastiat may or may not have the same birthday.
Its like ye olden governments didnt even care about tracking every detail of their subjects lives.
They didn’t pay taxes then, so there was no civilization.
“Interesting that this pushback, where people are going on record, is getting less credence than the NYT piece, where nobody is willing to go on record”
Well those people have no problem being shills, that’s why you have to believe the people making shit up.
“Officials familiar with the administration’s thinking say it’s totally true, and they wouldn’t lie, like the administration’s shills on TV.”
(This is what the left actually believes.)
I had to settle for Xenon, and I’m ignoble.
Stop gas-lighting me.
[rarified golf clap for you nerds]
What a bunch of gasbags.
Ugh, I need coffee.
A full octet of them.
Chemistry dad jokes are the worst.
A professor fired his assistant who, when told to bring an Erlenmeyer flask, gave a funny retort instead.
I try to tell chemistry jokes, but I get no reaction.
I could give you the solution, but I don’t want to precipitate
https://wtop.com/dc/2020/06/dc-deli-apologizes-for-co-opting-black-culture/
lmao we are through the looking glass people:
“As our company’s leaders, we have not done enough to show what we have always known to be true: that Black Lives Matter,” said Andrew Dana and Daniela Moreira, owners of Call Your Mother deli, in a statement on their website.
“Although it was never our intention, we now understand that these choices were co-opting Black culture and profiting off it, without truly paying homage.”
I’m confused. Pictures of specific celebrities and naming sandwiches after specific people is now stealing an entire culture?*
Jesus, a sensible person would have replied “oh, fuck off.”
*As if blacks have a monolithic “culture” anyway
Apparently the new woke means ensuring the invisibility of black people.
It’s as if black separatists and old white segregationists got together and planned this thing out.
It’s fucking bizarre.
“culture”
We have forums here that draw some distinction for “black music.” I can’t think of a sadder, more isolating idea.
After a century of advance, of sharing and listening and learning each others’ chops, politics wades in to isolate, to prop up collectives, and to reinforce divisiveness. We moved from a concept of race music to a world where everyone can access everything in music: I can’t think of a better model of popular art for, if you will, harmonizing, for creating good will and maximizing empathy.
Fencing off the arts into cultures where only some are welcome to create and listeners are expect to bow to gatekeepers is bad for everyone; I reject it.
^^^Get a load of this Nazi.
Well his avatar checks out.
I look forward to when someone, striving to show how truely evil Hitler was, makes the argument that he was appropriating a foreign culture.
Well he kinda was. It’s not like he came up with trying to genocide the Jews all on his own.
Yeah, and he stole that swastika thingy, too.
He did a pretty good job of appropriating Polish, French and Balkan cultures, but he got a little push-back on appropriating Russian Culture.
Starting with the German culture.
“There were bagel sandwiches on the menu that included the names of famous singer Rihanna and former NBA basketball player Amar’e Stoudemire.
The deli also had photos on the wall of rapper Drake, who is Black and Jewish. Dana and Moreira said they wanted to honor Drake in part to celebrate Jewish diversity.
“Drake is coming off the walls and we are renaming our sandwiches,” the owners said.”
WTF??
They’re honoring Drake by disappearing Drake.
Let’s pretend he isn’t half Jewish?
I want a royalty check every time a sassenach drinks Uisce or wears plaid.
Hah! My Scots-dar strikes again! I knew you were a Brother of the Heath and Hill!
Where men are men and sheep are scared.
No true Scotsman thinks of another denizen of the highlands as a Scot.
So what you’re saying is, the true Scotsmen live in the lowlands?
Well, Highland is the least interesting style of Scotch so…
All real Scots left scotland a long time ago
It kinda blew my mind when I watched Trainspotting 2 and they go and visit Tommy’s barrow.
Hah! Me too! And the Irish part of me wants compensation for all the St. Paddy’s Day bullshit!
We have a wagon to take you to your compensation.
No moral spine and no intellectual capacity with which to fight back against the hordes of social media morons that will attack them for violating the rules of the new religion. Higher ed has seen to that,
I can’t even make sense of it. They are against celebrating black celebrities not to be racist against black people?
“Please burn us last!’
Would be great if they renamed the sandwiches after Thomas Sowell, Booker T Washington, et al.
3 months later….
Protests at a DC Deli for lack of diversity in their celebrity sandwich names – “They are all, without exception, named only after white people.” #SandwichesSoWhite
#BlackBreadMatters
^ Russian bot confirmed.
Because no Jewish deli has ever had celeb pics up on a wall…
Oh, and who is “borrowing” the deli idea? Come on folks, it’s a fucking deli!
Do I need to pay a tax to Mexicans every time I make tacos?
Why are there no pictures of Malcolm X on the wall of the pizzeria!!??!?!”
Say what now?
Her failure to follow the current newspeak dictionary.
What’s controversial about calling her words controversial, you horrible bigot?
-almost the entire left
I look forward to reading about “Obama’s controversial views on gay marriage” in a future NYT explainer.
History will just whitewash those views and any website linking to any video where Obama expresses those views will be shut down.
This was already handled with the Brendan Eich bit. If you’re still harping on about it, you’re obviously a raicist birther conspiracy theorist.
An explanation I’ve gotten for his anti-gay views is that the country is so bigoted and homophobic that they would never elect a president who was openly in favor of gay marriage, so he had to lie about it in order to get elected. Poor Obama – he just wanted to tell the truth, but the horrible American people gave him no choice ;_;
Someone needs to write a book about the psychological aspects of the Obama campaign. Fanatical devotion like that is truly frightening and was one of the things that woke me up to the idea that this “democracy” stuff is not all it’s cracked up to be.
“This headline is terrifying.”
The whole article reads like propaganda.
“More Americans have died from coronavirus than in wars in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan”
And? More people died of the flu from1968 -1969.
The whole article reads like propaganda.
This…is CNN (in a nutshell)
It’s CNN, so it is propoganda
Of course, a 93 year old losing the last two months of their life isn’t exactly the same as a 19 year old catching an artillery shell. And the virus tends to leave survivors missing fewer limbs than the wars.
Don’t worry guys, we’ve got a new virus to blame the next lockdown on.
Thanks, China.
It’s about time we started finding some viruses of our own. WE CANT ALLOW A PETRI DISH GAP!
More people died of the flu from 2017-2018…
Fun fact, as a percentages of tests performed, the US has about the same positive rate on tests as France. But France has >450 deaths per million, while we have <400 deaths per million (they are our nearest neighbor on death/1M pop, we don't have a near neighbor on test, as we've on about 1 test per 10 people, and I don't see anyone anywhere close to that)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
“Communist News Network”
“Hug a criminal.”
I… what?
[hugs children with nuclear arms]
Oooh, warm.
Huh. I thought only Kagan had ruled that way. The idea that the executive does not have power to fire the political appointees who work for him is ridiculous, and especially for agencies run by just one member.
Four. Four of them said the executive shall effectively be run by the permanent bureaucracy with a president having no power of a top executive over political appointees.
We. Are. Fucked.
Proper fucked?
Before zee Germans get here
When RBG leaves and if it’s under Trump….damn….I just realized if he loses in November and she dies under a Democrat administration…..fucked for real.
Once again SCOTUS by politicizing itself has managed to turn itself into the most important factor in an upcoming presidential election. Imagine that.
Both sides are equally bad though.
RBG has hung on to the point where, if she died today, Democrats and their pr arm would have a shit fit should Trump and the GOP Senate try to name a replacement with only four months until the election.
Her and Breyer would retire during Bidens inauguration speech honestly, and the Republicans in the Senate would vote for the first ever openly Marxist judge in the hopes that displaying civility would keep them from being murdered by Red Guards.
I honestly can’t believe I’m about to say this but this might be the most consequential election in my lifetime.
Eh, it’s not a question of if, but when Progressive Era 2: Woke Boogaloo starts. The most consequence this election will have is reducing the time until they have to resort to court packing to get their way.
People can call me a Trump worshiper or whatever, but I honestly do think the Democrats have completely jettisoned the concept of representative government. They actually think bureaucrats should wield independent authority without oversight. That’s not a strawman, that’s not a smear. That’s what they actually demonstrate and have for the last 4 years.
They think the FBI and the CIA get a say in who the President is. They think that public health authorities should be able to shut down the entire economy. They think that the entire energy sector should be regulated not according to the wishes of the consumers and producers, but of people with unlimited authority and unlimited hatred of petroleum.
That’s been my thing with the Democrats: you have a modern social democratic state, right now. We got taxation. We got regulation. We got redistribution of wealth. We got old age pensions. We got publicly funded healthcare. We got massive publicly funded universities.
The only way to go Left from here is actual fucking socialism. There’s no more room on the left end of the capitalist society for them to go.
Oh, and they have shed liberal principles one by one. Free speech is gone, freedom of religion is gone, the rights of the accused are gone. They completely reject civil rights and civil liberties, except in the context of abortion, gay marriage, and the right to vote Democrat.
Buck v. Bell II. Three generations of libertarians are enough.
Even with those things, their position is not that free adults should be allowed to engage in those things – it’s that everyone must like it, celebrate it, participate in it if asked, and support it with their tax dollars.
Fuck them. They can cry “Garland” all they want but the circumstances are different. Trump’s party holds the senate. If that bag of bones kicks it he and senate R’s should appoint and confirm a new justice. Democrats have let their totalitarian freak flag fly and you have to take every opportunity to defeat them.
Can the R-controlled senate just go straight to confirmation without listening to all BS that the Ds will spew?
If so, my fantasy is RBG shuffles off about a week before the election. Then a new nominee gets confirmed on the Monday before doomsday.
Probably. McConnell could just call a vote.
Poor Private Pyle… Do you know how stoned on mushrooms I was when I saw that movie in the theater? It was nearly as bad as The Thing (for various personal reasons) while being on LSD (for various personal reasons). I just thought of that flick yesterday straight out of the blue… Triggered! j/k
Good morning, Sloopy!
I’m a little surprised the Chicoms haven’t rolled over HK already. The rest of the world is so busy wetting their pants, the timing seems ideal.
The Chicago stories continue to be disgusting. Shooting little kids barely makes the news. I guess only some black lives matter. Pathetic. Here in the Twin Cities, we’re doing our best to keep up. Blue cities, FTW!
I will not be wearing makeup. I’m almost too pretty as it is.
Speaking of pretty, nice musical selection (as usual). Billy was one ill conceived video away from legend.
I went on an 80’s classic rock binge yesterday: Billy Squier, The Tubes, Donnie Iris, J. Geils… fun stuff! In The Dark still holds up well, too. Give it a re-listen.
I hope each of you has a fabulous day. Unfurl those freak flags and show the haters what’s up!
You have a great day too! Unfortunately what you suggest is a sex crime around these parts, so the flag will stay furled
What the fuck’s on your flag?!?
Wait, are we not draping ourselves in our freak flags?
Maybe he uses that ISIS flag where they replaced the Arabic lettering with dildos.
Must be nice to have that level of “fuck you” money.
Donnie Iris wrote the mortgage for my mom’s house in the early 90’s. I went on a few dates with his.. uh, second niece or something. Nice guy. Great hair.
I ran out of free articles on the Chicagotribute. I think it’s silly news agencies think i would pay to be lied to. Why do that when the government does it for “FREE”?
I always note that the left-leaning sites have a paywall and no comment section and the right-ward ones have little beggar boxes but still let you access their content gratis. Make of that what you will.
“They can’t GIVE their shitty content away.”
/CNN
I’ve noticed that, too. For a group of folks seemingly against private property, they won’t give their own away. “You first,” I suppose.
Most Leftists I know seem to have an antipathy towards the input of ordinary people. Someone told me, “I stay way from comment sections and other sites that are user-generated content”. Oh, so you only read what the corporate press tells you and don’t want to listen to any criticism?
I get that comments sections are full of meaningless drivel sometimes (hell, just look at this site! I kid, I kid). But without some kind of comment and question section, you’re basically going to walk away with whatever opinion the author wanted you to have, and that’s a dangerous thing in the era of well-documented collusion between the political establishment and the corporate media.
Commenters are not credentialed journo’s So what would they know?
I can’t believe (well, yes I can) that I am taking Rowlings’ side over King’s. What an insufferable douche he has become since he gave up the nose-candy for his billionaire stash of Oxycontin.
He’s with the party of science. C’man. If he says transgender women are women, they’re WOMEN.
Believing is science.
It’s perfectly okay to hope that both insufferable douchebags lose.
“It’s not about a full face of makeup or color,” Kahan said. “We’re talking about improving blemishes, fixing up under-eye bags, a zit — all these sorts of things.”
I have a gay friend who wears a banana hammock and body glitter for a night on the town. I imagine he would be into this stuff, along with many other weird young men. But I suspect there will always be a niche in the dating market for the sort of man who can operate a chainsaw.
Sorry. Old here. Men don’t wear make-up. Not unless you’ve been horribly scarred.
And yet, I’m willing to bet that you’ve fucked fewer women than Nikki Sixx
Probably fewer trannies, goats, and mako sharks too…
I’m willing to bet I wouldn’t be willing to fuck most of the women who fucked Nikki Sixx. Even before they fucked him.
Real men wear Sandy Loam and Forest Green, applied with bug repellent.
Yeah, because caking on some concealer makes those 3rd degree burn scars look any better?
Can confirm.
Claude-Frédéric Bastiat
‘Born:Claude-Frédéric Bastiat, June 30, 1801, Bayonne, France
Died:December 24, 1850, Rome, Papal States
Nationality:French’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat
NYT, It should be a wake up call when you are seen as less credible than the Pentagon.
They’re run by a committee of politically motivated morons now.
There’s no commitment to truth, only commitment to agenda.
“They’re run by a committee of politically motivated morons now.”
Help a brother out – are we referring to the NYT or the Pentagon here?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/shellenberger-on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare
I thought this was interesting this morning. Funny how Forbes removed it. I guess fear and panic will just be the only news.
Titty Tuesday is now MSG free.
http://archive.li/E3eOb
Good. I’ve always hated Madison Square Garden.
#24 because she seems like a real girl and not a thot. I like the ones that seem like they would smile and greet you IRL.
Make a billion dollars, then they smile while you grab them by the pussy.
Number 5.
Biden: “The printing presses aren’t running fast enough!”
Really stupid and really unconstitutional – that’s our Joe.
Who the fuck looks at the current landscape, where most states and municipalities are spending 30-50% of their budgets on salaries and benefits for current and past government employees and says, government labor clearly does not have enough power to control how the money is spent.
Tachyons?
Well, you’ll need to reverse the polarity on the navigational deflector first.
I can’t wait until the DNC lets Joe out of the kennel and can’t catch him in time before he befouls every carpet and floor in the house.
Kim Foxx plans to drop charges against those violating curfew
Then why have a curfew?
Amazing she still has a job. That’s all you need to know about the rot and stench of corruption deeply entrenched and embedded over there. It’s bad in a lot of places (Montreal is Corrupt Capital Central in many ways) but Chicago…wow.
Instead, she will be focusing her attention on finding the thugs who beat up Jussie Smollett.
Curfews were the major component that caused police to clash with peaceful protesters. Prior to the institution of curfews, the only time police would start bombing the protests was if they were turning into a riot. But when the curfews were in place, as soon as the big hand pointed to 12, the cops would start wading in with batons streaming.
I get that cops didn’t like sitting around all day and all night until 2am when the Antifa outnumbered the peaceful rabble, but that would have been tons better than essentially creating a google calendar appointment for when the beatings would start. The news and all the other people no longer had to watch the protests, because they knew exactly when the juicy footage would be available. When the cities created the curfews, Antifa no longer needed to provoke the cops. They just needed to stay there.
To create these situations where protesters and police would clash and THEN to turn all the people free just shows how completely clueless these leaders are.
Do the radicals really think that these shennanigans win hearts and minds?
People who should be maintaining public order kneel in front of riot-inciters. The country is turning into a cult worshipping a newfound species of Sacred Beings.
So, yes, I think hearts and minds have been won.
It’s almost as if both the riots and the violence used to quell them serve the same purpose…
Sure. But what really happens when the shit hits the fan?https://youtu.be/68LAbJtd4uk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7nSzCiGXk
Supreme Court rules Trump has unfettered power to fire officials
Curious choice of words. I guess when Bad Orange Man is at the helm the executive branch employees should not serve at the pleasure of the president, according to the implication of the NY Post.
Thing is, i don’t even think that is true (shocker). He still can’t fire the members of the FTC, and i don’t actually think he can fire members of the Federal Reserve Committee.
If he spend a day a week walking through government buildings firing random bureaucrats at the FBI, ATF, Treasury, Interior, State Department, Homeland Defense… I swear I’d volunteer for his campaign.
Bring back decimation!
I don’t think he can. Most bureaucrats are civil servants and the law makes it difficult to fire them. It seems he only can fire on a whim appointees that aren’t part of a committee and senior executives.
UN. FETTERED.
Firing SESs would be a good start.
Then you can promote some of those bureaucrats and fire them.
Let’s perpetually relieve the controversies of 1868
The United States has long prided itself as the world’s shining beacon. But its current status is a much darker one: the globe’s leader in coronavirus cases.
Oh, fuck off, Karen.
Somehow ‘fighting to keep cases low’ has become a way or referendum on how to judge countries on their ‘compassion’ or the quality of the health systems. Which, of course, is wrongheaded and bound to lead to all sorts of misguided thinking resulting in dubious policies. It leaves people vulnerable to really dumb thoughts.
In the context of the USA and how it fits with how it’s perceived, this is a perfect scenario for anti-Americans.
They still don’t have the worst case per million and deaths per million figures. Even in comparison to Canada, certain stats don’t tell the whole picture. Some show Canada is doing better, others the USA. But it’s not even about that and who cares?
Cases on their own means shit. If anything, it’s probably a GOOD thing. Sweden and USA are getting it out of the way.
As for China, indeed. You have to be one tool (Hello Popovich and Lebron!) to believe those numbers. Just a couple of weeks back somber headlines about a worse version of the virus came out as a second wave as China took measures including stopping air travel to Beijing. Yet, the number of cases never moved?
/strokes chin.
My bet is this: The virus, when all is said and done in the not so distant future and sober accounting takes place, will be right in line with the flu. It’s already at a .2/.3 IFR if I’m correct. I expect that will drop as the avg. age drops per case. Yes, deaths seems to be a lagging metric to cases (ie Florida, Arizona) but we’ll see. I also expect death numbers to be adjusted downwards.
Just a hunch.
But the damage is done. We fucked with the psyche of people.
How? Well, here’s but one tiny example. Quebec announced, as cases dropped to c. 70 per day and a handful of deaths (in a population of 8.4 million) they would only provide weekly statistics as opposed to daily. I thought that wise and reasonable. Ween people off this Corona porn. But there was vociferous push back. People want their security blanket corona porn. They gotta here Ministers and media repeat in different ways different idiotic and unproductive assumptions and takes. They want to be Patty Hearst to the virus it feels like.
A failure of leadership all around. And public health officials are the worst. Their ‘at all cost’ hyper precautionary principle application is not conducive to sound mental health for a society. They just buried their heads with the preposterous notion of ‘saving all lives’. Never mind the bull shit about ‘flattening curves’. And I don’t even think it’s about preventing overwhelming the system either because the system never got overwhelmed – as far as I know – anywhere in North America besides perhaps NYC for a period. Now, we’re prepared and the avg. age infecting is dropping. Young people aren’t going into ICU for this virus (which I think is essentially a viral pneumonia).
2020. The year reason and logic went dormant.
My theory is that there’s a core of legitimate medical science at the center of a perfect storm of authoritarianism, statism, and Progressive totalitarianism behind all this. It’s the culmination of a civil society that has been taught to rely solely on the government, and specifically the executive branch and associated bureaucracies, for all its needs and an embrace of the tactics employed by the social justice movement, e.g. “canceling”, to attack dissent and ensure conformity. And all of this is supported by the “Cathedral” in ways so blatant that I suspect, at the end of it all, a lot of people who would’ve happily muddled along will be if not red-pilled at least closer to waking up to the myriad ways in which academia, the media, and the state manipulate them.
On TOS, I was in a discussion with one of the Lefties that I can have good faith arguments with. And it dawned on me that the main thing separating these leftists from being true libertarians was that they didn’t understand the difference between “Obligations” and “Preferences”. And the main reason for this is that they think there is ALWAYS an optimal choice, and therefore preference doesn’t exist.
An obligation is something that you are morally or ethically compelled to do. A preference is something that you choose to do, even though there is no obligation. To a libertarian, you have an obligation not to interfere with someone else’s freedoms. But choosing to give money to a charity is a preference.
This became important as we talked about masks. To the leftist, wearing a mask was clearly an ethical obligation because it was the most optimal thing to do in most cases in order to reduce the spread of COVID (set aside the debate about science for a minute here). And so the leftist basically said “You should be wearing a mask, so I don’t blame the government mandating this if people really won’t do what is best for them”. He has basically, in his mind, decided that one is always obligated to do the most optimal thing, not whatever flows from their principals. And because he is not able to distinguish “Obligation” from “Preference”, and “should” from “must”, he will always be a statist.
To a libertarian, wearing a mask is a preference. There is nothing in the NAP that says a libertarian should inconvenience themselves in order to reduce the risk of a natural pathogen jumping around in the wild. (Note this calculus might change if you have good reason to believe you are infected.) Not wearing a mask is a neutral action. Wearing the mask is a choice that one might prefer to do, but is not obligated to do.
Overall, I think this same confusion becomes the heart of why we were shut down. People traded good ideas (it’s a good idea to limit your travel) for regulations (you must not travel). Like vaccinations, people have confused something that one really ought to prefer for something that must be done. And this has created the situation we now live in.
Socialism is the belief that human interaction can be optimized, that it is fundamentally unethical and immoral to allow non-optimized economic and social activity to occur.
It’s hubris writ large.
That’s a really good point. The mask thing is a good case study. Locally I hear a lot of, “The only reason they don’t wear masks is because they’re trying to be defiant,” or, “Not wearing a mask is just some political statement.” So, there are two interesting assumptions there. One is that there is no inherent reason to object to wearing a mask, in other words comfort or convenience are not possible reasons for not wearing a mask, and I think that’s because of the buy-in on this idea that wearing a mask is a medical necessity and a moral responsibility. The other is that the idea of not wearing a mask because of principles, or as a “political statement”, is itself an invalid reason. I think that’s especially hinky given how much the wearing of masks has become a signal of political orthodoxy.
“Not wearing a mask is just some political statement.”
Which is a very curious statement given that we are constantly being told from nearly all quarters that everything is political and “silence is violence” and yadda yadda. Why are some things delegitimized by being “political” when at the same time other things can only be legitimized by being political? There is no consistency to the meaning or connotation of the word “politics” any more.
We saw this with vaccination awhile back. It wasn’t just a good idea; not vaccinating was an affirmative choice to do harm to others. Bailey got excoriated in the comments but never really walked back his stance that the government could and should mandate vaccination. I wouldn’t kick somebody out of the libertarian tent for that position alone, but it does set up a rhetorical slippery slope where a whole host of other infringements on personal liberty. I don’t know how Bailey feels about the lockdowns and mask ordinances today, but there’s lots of people who reflexively agree with them because they’re on the “right side” of the (forced) vaccination debate. In fact, as you note, they don’t even see a difference between vaccination is a good idea and you should be forced to do it.
I have a doctor ‘friend’ who feels no one should be allowed into large gatherings (concerts, sporting events etc.) unless they produce vaccination papers because his health shouldn’t be threatened by them.
Oh. He says way worse things than that. Classic case people like him must never know where the guns are.
Good analysis. Because a huge number of ChiComVirus-infected folks don’t know they are infected, because no symptoms, isn’t mask wearing a really minor inconvenience if one is obligated to not interfere with someone else’s freedom?
The question is, can you really prevent the spread of a disease that is already widely spread?
I believe the answer is no. At this point, it is going to finish spreading throughout the vast majority of the population. It might even become a recurring event like the flu or the common cold, though I don’t know what the death rate will look like.
Lots of people are holding out hope for a vaccine before returning to “normal”. But we don’t generally predicate our lives today on the future existence of a potential solution to a problem. I am also not confident that the vaccine is going to be any better than the one for influenza, which is to say it will only really be circumstantially effective. I don’t think we are ever going to eradicate this like smallpox or polio.
Too little was done too late to contain this virus, and now too much is being done way too late and mostly in vain. Perhaps I am wrong but as we don’t today have a vaccine widely available and we definitely don’t have reliable data on the effectiveness of the not-yet-existent vaccine, putting liberties on hold seems like wishful thinking turned into foolish policy.
Shorter Overt:
You aren’t free unless you are free to be wrong.
Seriously, excellent unpacking of an Iron Law.
“It is the responsibility of the government to prevent its citizens from making bad decisions”
-No idea, but is either an editor at a major newspaper or president of a university.
Corollary to the forbidden/mandatory thinking.
People like being scared. Particularly when they can cossett the feeling of being scared, without doing anything productive about it.
Let’s just pretend that over 95% of the deaths aren’t in Dem-controlled cities.
Herd immunity is the only way out.
Why they set up Flynn and never let up on the guy. If Trump wind reelection, I’d love to see him reappoint him and give him free-reign (and unlimited pardons even if he kills a few deep-staters) to go after the deep state who think they are the Praetorian Guard.
he was planning to audit John Brennan for running billions ‘off the books’
Not surprising. Sad and disturbing, but not surprising.
Good luck with that.
SHIT
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/06/30/momentum_in_states_to_require_campus_intellectual_diversity_124235.html
Ugh. “There oughtta be law!”
Sad but a push back of some kind is required no? Know what they say, you can vote your way into socialism but have to shoot your way out.’
Metaphorically, campuses have to shoot the zombies to get back the sanctity of higher education.
The day the phrase ‘math is racist’ first appeared ALL ACADEMICS should have seen that flare and being to mobilize.
The phrase appeared after the entire academy was infected.
I’m OK with “free speech protections” – you know, which already exist in theory.
I am not OK with setting up another government bureaucracy to “actively take steps to ensure that students are exposed to competing cultural and political viewpoints”. That’s nonsense.
The solution is simple. Stop underwriting the idiocy.
End federally guaranteed student loans. End state subsidies. Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. Give the loan holders the right to clawback loan losses from the education providers. In doing so, it will make the universities and colleges justify the expense of the education to their customers and the school to deadbeat commie activist pipeline will end.
You can just consider the ‘school-to-deadbeat-to-activist pipeline’ thing stolen. Well done, sir!
Thissssssss.
+ end occupational licensing laws that mandate college degrees for certain career fields
While I’m glad Bret smartened up, I don’t appreciate him positioning himself as a guy, as he and Rogan patted themselves on the back, as having predicted this. He WAS PART OF THE VERY system that spawned this madness. He only saw it when they turned on him like mobs do. Plenty of people saw this coming waaayyy before Bret who was stuck in his far left Evergreen cocoon. Shit, my aunt and uncle predicted this in the fricken 1980! Can you imagine how people viewed them then? My aunt’s logic was simple. Highly literate and an educator, she saw fist hand Marxists were in the system by then and she understood once in, they’re going to infect the system from within. Moreover, Haidt and Peterson are just two examples of having seen it before he did. Heck, lemme go back to Martin Kramer in the early 2000s. I’m sure there are plenty others.
So I’m not buying he’s a hero of any kind. He’s a welcomed ally but not a leader of this new awakening.
Eh……these days we could use any friends we can find.
And I mentioned that. I’m glad he’s on our side.
Evergreen College, to me, made it visual to understand what really is likely going on ‘behind closed doors’ in/on many campuses to varying degrees.
One would think a combination of SJW nonsense and traditional admissions corruption has to eventually manifest itself in negative ways. Most notably with the quality of education.
You can’t let people who have no business in higher education in either. It’s diluting education and ends up with a ‘lowest common denominator’ calculus for politicians looking to get elected.
The problem with calling this in 1980 was that it was too soon. It’s not that she was wrong, but that a) the trend was still confined to the university setting (a fact which remained true until about 2010), b) the trend was still quite reversible then (which may also have been true until about 2010), and c) heterodoxy was still allowed and the Overton window was wider (e.g., the most vocally left-wing teacher in my high school also encouraged people to read Anthem and write essays for ARI). So your mom would have looked like a loony to a “normal” person at the time. That’s the thing with prognosticators; if the trend isn’t plainly evident when they make the prediction (and by then, of course, any old fool can “predict” what’s already happening), it’s probably going to get dismissed. Obligatory observation: some prognosticators get way more credence than they should, like the COVID-19 modellers.
I think Scruffy above is right about how to begin to reverse this trend. There is a pipeline and the government is paying for it (in more ways than one). But it’s already too late to put the cat back in the bag, and I don’t think cutting funding alone will put much of a damper on anything (in fact, it is likely to amplify some things). The bigger problem is that, now that things are plainly evident, lots of people are insisting it’s not really such a big deal.
We’re going to be living with it for a long time. That is unavoidable now.
Only an economic catastrophe could change that and it might make it worse.
#collapsitarian
Small quibble. It was my aunt. My mother was to worried about her involtini.
She also warned against ‘course inflation’ as there were too many professors and they all needed jobs so one way was to keep them employed was to create courses like ‘Rock’n roll history’. Talk about useless. She said this in the 90s.
Ah, sorry. Yeah, the problems with academia didn’t start overnight. There’s a lot more to it than just student loans but the free money greatly exacerbated the other things going on.
The only thing that gives me optimism about higher education is that so many people are doing online schooling under the lockdowns, and they might start to question the notion of traditional college when you can learn many things perfectly well online (many of them for free).
An ideal scenario would be for E-learning to become the norm (either independently or as part of a structured course) and for universities to shrink down to basically trade schools for hands-on careers like auto mechanics or surgical medicine.
Tard Tuesday: Direct Action Is Old And Busted, Indirect Action Is The New Hotness
I can see why Socrates chose death.
Plato: “Socrates, why are you doing this?”
Socrates: “People are stupid and I’m tired of this shit.”
Yeah an infinitesimally small risk. I suppose there is always the chance that I’m both asymptomatic and highly contagious. Does anyone hear tiny sneezes coming from that woman’s belly?
I haven’t looked, but is there any recorded case of a fetus being hurt by COVID? And how many pregnant women have died and how would that compare to say, the flu?
Well, any women who are pregnant and also over 70 with comorbidities should really look out.
“If you don’t believe a fetus is a baby then why do you care?”
As believable as the woke 4-year-old being “wise” on Twitter.
Rufus: Socrates, we need you clean this sophistry up.
Socrates (looks around. Reads letter): You’re on your own. I’m out.
That didn’t happen.
So, by his own logic, since the lives he considers unimportant don’t matter (such as the unborn children), then there is no reason for anyone to wear a mask if they consider the lives of others unimportant.
Nice logic, Hitler.
As much as crap as I give Don for misusing Bayes, at least he’s heard of him.
She could catch any manner of other things and transfer it to the child. Perhaps the mother should take it upon herself to mitigate her and the child’s risk. I know you think you are ‘logic-ing’ but you are not.
So I’m trying to sell my house. Every house around seems to be selling a day or two after being listed. Mine, nope, up for over a week. Only two showings. Even after a price drop right before last weekend. Two different realtors suggested the price I listed at. Because of them and the current sellers market, I was comfortable taking a bridge loan for the new house. But now, if my house doesn’t sell for a certain price in the next two months, I’m fucked. This is insanely stressful. I guess I might have taken a risk that’s going to backfire. Oh well, whatever happens, happens.
Where’s the old house?
Just a different neighborhood. It wasn’t gentrifying as fast as I wanted and I decided to get out.
I guess I should say, in Indianapolis. I’ll throw in a free gun for anyone who want to buy it.
Was wondering if you are in a place to ride the wave of people fleeing the cities or on the wrong end of that trend.
The thing is, my neighborhood is hot. Realtors are begging people to put houses on the market there. I have two things going against me. I’m just a hair farther away from the hottest area and I think the realtors should have lowered my expectations by 20-30 grand. Funny enough, When I was first thinking of selling, I probably knew the value of my house. Everyone else talked me into thinking it was higher.
Listing it higher means when the offers come in 25k lower you get the price you expected and the buyer pretends he’s a great neogtiator.
I hope you see a turn in interest in the house.
Good luck. Any chance you could rent it out in an emergency like that?
Nope, I need the lump sum of cash to cover the loan I’m taking for my down payment. If I don’t sell the house for enough, my interest rate on the loan will be astronomical. It was a calculated risk, but apparently two different realtors highly overvalued my house.
They just want the extra commission.
Really, they’re probably right. Just some bad luck. It’ll turn around.
Give it some time. It’ll sell. Maybe not in 2 days, but I bet you’re under contract by end of July.
Let’s hope. I’m a little worried I bit off more than I could chew. But my mortgage guy is my best friend. He just ran a few different scenarios for me that have eased my mind a but (but not completely). I don’t make a lot, but I’m usually very good with money. This might be the least conservative thing I’ve ever done financially.
On a related note, Since you’re from the Indy area, let any friends that might be interested know there is a house in Irvington for sale.
Not sure I should doxx myself like this, but here’s the link to the house.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20-N-Kenmore-Rd-Indianapolis-IN-46219/1216682_zpid/?
Really nice.
I’m more interested in the new one, though. Sounds like a place worth taking a risk for.
If anyone here wants, email me at my handle at the evil internet company with your handle (so i know it’s not just a scammer) and I’ll send you a link to the new place.
Looks really good. I’d stain the fence, stain those back stairs, clean up your wood pile and just pull the wood guards off the pavers in the back. Clearly you’ve already done a ton of work. I wouldn’t be too worried about it.
Looking at the property prices around it, there isn’t a lot for sale over 200k. That puts you in the higher end of buyers in the area and that typically takes more time.
Email sent, banging.
Will do! Most of my friends were “brain drained” out to the coasts or Chicago after college, but I’ll let those back at home know.
Oh shit, good luck man. I’m about to start that process myself. A friend of the family who acted as our agent for this house is coming by Thursday to give us some advice about what we need to do to get this dog on the market. Same situation with our neighborhood as yours, where houses are selling within a week of listing around here; the house across the street, which is arguably not as nice as ours (nice being relative) went in four days. We’re hoping to do a contingency on another house using the profits from this sale so the timing is going to be critical. Ideally, we’ll be able to do it before our eldest goes to kindergarten this fall, because we’re looking in areas that are much better school districts.
The contingency part is what’s hard. Since it’s a seller’s market here, nobody would accept an offer with a contingency. So I had to take the bridge loan to cover it. The new house is awesome. An old farmhouse on 1.25 acres in the city. The original cabin was built in 1840 and is still part of the house. I’ll figure it out. Hopefully.
That sounds amazing. A buddy of mine pulled off a contingency last year and he had a sphincter-tightening week or two where it looked like the sale would fall through, but it worked out. Hang in there, man.
a sphincter-tightening week or two
Hyperventilate, breath into a bag. Seizure, something to bite down on. Hmmm *inventing inventing inventing*
So, what we have here is a stress relieving butt plug…
13 years ago when we bought this house we were in a similar situation that did work itself out. We’re hoping the city exodus continues and drives up prices a bit by early next year. We may use our saving to buy some land, but plan to rent for at least a year before buying or building – partly to avoid that stress again.
Same problem here last time I tried a couple of years back. Putting it back up for sale this week.
Is it on Zillow? I don’t know about Indianapolis, but here in college town Virginia, if it’s not on Zillow, the average buyer doesn’t know it exists. Houses around here that are priced right, well staged with quality photos, and posted to Zillow, are sold in no more than 5 days. If your market is as hot as you say it is, make sure the pictures look good, and it’s on Zillow. Most realtors are lazy. I’d venture to say that most home buyers find the home online and then get a random realtor or “their” realtor to show the house. I know because I’m looking to buy right now. My realtor hasn’t found any of the homes I’ve been interested in. In fact, the house I’m considering, I had no idea it was for sale (it’s been on the market for 80 days). i just happened to be driving around and saw the sign out front.
Good luck! keep your head up!
If you find a good realtor, hold on to them. They’re freaking gold. 90% of the industry sucks.
I’ve been really happy with RedFin on both the buying and selling side.
Good luck. This may sound very silly, but try boiling some water with cinnamon in it just before the next time you have viewing. The good smell thing is subtle, but important.
I actually just painted a couple walls and added a vanilla scent to the paint. They say it lasts a couple months.
Hope you get a good offer. Did you stage it or is it empty?
Girlfriend and her mom staged it as best as possible with the stuff I already own. Mom was a former realtor, so has some insight.
Right on. That helps.
We baked cookies shortly before a showing.
Car people:
Bad obsession wired the engine for the mini last week. It’s almost done. Maybe we will see this thing before SMOD.
I’ve been loving the memes from the “crazed White supremacists vs peaceful protesters” event.
I enjoyed the subtle charms of this one.
I deleted “live laugh love” as my last line.
CCP churning out viruses like it’s their job.
As the world continues to deal with the Wuhan coronavirus, researchers are warning about another strain of the flu that has the potential to turn into a pandemic. Pigs are the source of the strain but have the potential to be transmitted to humans, the BBC reported. Because of how new the strain is, the chances of humans having immunity to it is little to none.
This new strain of the flu, called G4 EA H1N1, is said to be similar to the swine flu, which came from China in 2009. The humans that are being infected with the new strain, as of now, work in China’s pig industry.
According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 10.4 percent of those working in the swine industry are positive for the new strain. Those between the ages of 18 and 35 are most at risk of being infected.
FEAR!!
DOOM!!
Hide in your house and vote by mail.
??
I will not abet fraud.
You won’t need to, someone will take care of your vote for you.
There have been at least six people on this site that called this weeks ago. Shameless.
CCP churning out viruses like it’s their job.
Oh, then, lack of quality controls ensures we have little to worry about.
Jugum penis, an anti-masturbatory device also known as a spermatorrhoea ring, steel, nickel-plated, probably British, 1880-1920
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co137286/jugum-penises-united-kingdom-1880-1920-jugum-penis
I just checked my favorite fetish gear site, and they have a *much* better selection.
I gotta say, Pie, you must have an interesting search history.
Ewww. The nickel plating could give you a nasty rash.
Your choice: nasty rash or cuts from poorly adhered copper plating
https://abovethelaw.com/2020/06/st-louis-lawyers-wave-ar-15-at-protesters-like-totally-normal-totally-not-bonkers-people/
I just like the title
Wow, that’s one hell of an article.
You know what I see when I look at those pictures? A house that’s not getting destroyed by the mob.
I’m sure that nothing bad would have happened had the couple just let them on in.
It’s clearly insane and unreasonable for people to attempt to defend themselves using means specifically protected by the U.S. Constitution against a violent mob that has declared them anathema. However, a nasty Tweet is *literally* violence and not proactively and enthusiastically declaring your support for #BLM is the same thing as lynching black babies and lighting them on fire.
Honk fucking honk.
November will be tear filled no matter what.
She waved that pistol around like an idiot but after reading more into the situation? I don’t blame her for being terrified. She probably would have shot Hubby first…
Yes, but how much bloodshed will there be? That is my question.
ATL was one of the first blogs to disable their comments section, and the responses to JoePa articles was one of the drivers for it.
Joe Patrice is probably the dumbest lawblogger ever.
And in a field with David Lat, Ken White, Tam-tam Tabo and Elie Mystal, that’s saying something.
It literally fucking says this when the story is about a couple defending their home from rioters.
Yeah. The Most popular (and recommended) home defence gun is only good for mass shootings. Fuck you. You want me dead so you can go fucking take a hike in death valley.
ATL;dr
Good thread here:
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1277607305534717953
Still, no solution to the problem though.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1276994274228387840
This thread is classic.
Dorsey is a punk and Zuckerberg a loser nerd.
Now add power to that profile and you have bad news.
Both are illiterate illiberal buffoons.
Just an empty thought: A hacker is driven by singular idealism. It’s not tempered by a deep knowledge of the collective wisdom of civilization. I highly doubt Dorsey has read the classics. He has not point of moral or intellectual reference. All he has is his own personal conceptualization of what constitutes good and just. This makes him dangerous. Twitter is a direct reflection of his soul I guess.
I used to run a little “conspiracy theory” website that was loaded with affiliate links to prepper resources, gold/silver investment vehicles, and other similar products that would sell well to the Alex Jones crowd.
I bet someone could make a handy profit finding out what the typical Twitter Leftist will buy and setting up some affiliate links. Hell, wasn’t there some feminist website selling a “white privilege recognition toolkit” e-book for over $100??
Maybe I should get back into that…
Twitter Leftists don’t buy things.
Most don’t have any money.
I was just thinking that myself.
The perfect description of the Facebook value proposition.
Reading another story about how the clowns on the Minneapolis city council are getting city-paid private security because of “the large number of white nationalist(s) in our city and other threatening communications”.
It feels like I’m reading the script of the opening scenes of a Robocop sequel, but everyone is too dumb to be in even a second-rate movie.
Do people really believe this junk?
Unfortunately, there are a significant number of people who do. There are also people who believe the spike in positive covid-19 cases is the result of governors of “southern” states like Nebraska allowing partial re-opening and that said spikes have nothing to do with the mass street protest.
Now, whether those people are newly persuaded of the truth of these events, or they were already living inside the appropriate narrative is unknown.
I had someone tell me it was because of the Trump rallies. When I pointed out there had been no Trump rallies in any of these places seeing a big jump, but some other events had been going on that the dnc operatives with bylines have been desperately trying to whitewash (racialist!) was happening I got cursed at….
It all depends on how you define “white nationalist”
They would probably include “property owner who is royally pissed off because the city has fucked them in the ass multiple times” in their definition.
Anyone wearing a Vikings logo?
I don’t know Robocop 3 was pretty bad.
I guess it mutated.
Houston Methodist Hospital CEO Marc Boom said on CNBC’s Squawk Box Monday that the spike in coronavirus cases in Texas is hitting the under-50 age group the hardest. This is a complete “flip” from earlier stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are definitely seeing this affect young people, and they’re getting quite ill,” Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom said on “Squawk Box.” “So we really need everybody to do their part.”
About 60% of the Covid-19 patients currently in the eight-hospital system are under the age of 50, Boom said. “It has completely flipped” from the earlier stages of the crisis, when about 40% were under 50, he added.
Everybody panic.
My ‘part’ is to continue to do nothing. Thanks, bye now!
Hmm, technically correct usage of “completely flipped” (100 − 60 = 40) and yet at the same time still makes it seem overstated (60 − 40 = 20).
This morning there was a spokesperson from Houston Methodist that was just buldozing the NPR attempts to drive the interview. It was pretty hilarious.
Following youtube suggestions on your music link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8CcTYsMHYU
Did PaperMate pay for product placement in an Autograph music video?
I was at the filming of this video. There was an “audience” for the performance part, maybe two rows deep of people at the stage, but they are not shown at all (considering what I saw that day, not surprised it didn’t make it, it just looked unprofessional and weird). So my chance to actually “appear” in a music video went away. They were filming that part at a club in ATL and the radio said they were looking for extras for the crowd scene so show up if you wanted to be in the crowd. So me and some friends did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlW5LbpYQps
Must have.
I wonder who looks more ridiculous in hindsight, rock fans at a busy club in the heyday of hair metal, or hipsters at a coffeeshop in 2020.
The answer is, of course, none of the above. The winner is – 1990s kids in those ridiculous JNCO jeans with the 36” cuffs.
*Hangs head in shame while remembering his youth*
Tard Tuesday: STOP MAKING ME BERATE YOU
The only true freedom is doing as you are told. Don’t struggle. Accept.
Funny how the commies always come back to conformity of thought.
I’ll give Marx credit for repackaging attacks on liberty as an expansion of freedom. His marketing ideas are very much still with us.
How about you mind your own goddamned business and stop telling me what to do in my life?
Maybe i tell you to shut up and stop telling me what to do. What do you do then?
Sick burn.
When you’re angry, it’s because you’re a terrible person. Only terrible people get angry.
We’re happy and carefree. Except when we’re angry, but them we have every reason to be angry, and if you get angry in return it’s only because you’re the asshole.
Someone says their life matters? Just agree.
But I was told “all lives matter” is racist.
The NAP holds that one cannot rightly initiate the use of force. It does not hold that one may not respond to force with force. Marxists who simply hold the belief that we should all be chattels to each other, whether through the intermediation of the Party and the State, or in some mystical anarchist True Communism have not initiated the use of force, they have merely advocated it. Marxists who take action either by taking to the streets, or by taking part in promulgating systems that infringe basic human rights have initiated the use of force and may rightly be resisted by any means available. I am coming to believe that preaching Marxism to children who have been given into the Marxist’s care by unaware parents falls in the latter category not the former.
Something about Millstones and the sea….
Yeh, that’s the prevailing belief among these idiots.
Love the way he flips from MYOB to do what you’re told – use fake pronouns, express agreement with people who hate you and want you dead, etc. Decency is defined as towing totalitarian lion.
Fuck you. I will not bend the knee.
Well, from a certain perspective, he’s right. Not bending over and taking it from your masters is an asshole thing to do.
So yesterday, I was informed babydoom crawled forward enough to count.
Today she sat up from laying down.
What’s the best way to get her to do perimeter rounds?
My daughter never crawled, though she did scoot around on her butt in a seated position, and was fairly late to start walking too. My wife’s theory was always that her brother used to bring her things she wanted so she had no need to begin crawling.
My son is sitting and rolling around, and he’s actually getting close to assisted standing, e.g. holding on to something and standing up, but he can’t crawl. He’s six months so there’s time, but I wouldn’t be all that surprised if he stood by himself before he could crawl. I think he just really, really wants to stand because he likes being able to look around like a meerkat.
Exactly this.
I thought she’d skip crawling. She really prefers standing.
Or, trying to stand while I kind of hold her up.
She wants to get the dogs ears.
I suggest a trail of Cheerios.
Vincent D’Onofrio played the best Marvel villain.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamantAnarchy/status/1277585320230281223
LOLOLOL
“Mainstream”. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
That product is obviously sexist to start with. Why would men need their own makeup, when there is no differences between men and women?
Cue “pink tax” whining.
Men’s Makeup :: Women’s Power Tools
(subpar products)
I would vote for this guy
Sugar Free?
I’d actually vote for anyone on that site over any sitting politician.
Deaths are continuing to drop EXCEPT for a weird 1 day spike in Delaware that was large enough to effect the entire US numbers.
I guess someone got unedited uncut unstaged video of Joe Biden and shared it with 20 or 30 friends and the Arkansas Crew had to go to work.
I feel stupid for not knowing since I actually live in Arkansas, but ‘Arkansas Crew?’ Is that a Clinton reference?
Also New Jersey. They found 1700 cases they ‘overlooked’ and added them to a single day last week.
And by cases I mean deaths. Sorry.
By “deaths” they mean people who croaked of something and might have had the covid.
Shouldn’t they have been added in on the day they died?
Seems logical. Wonder why they didn’t do it that way. 🙂
The Delaware one was 2 days before the NJ one. It was actually the NJ one affecting the US total.
The NJ one was 202 deaths per 100k. That would be an absolutely horrible day if it was real. NY had a 1-day bogo peak of just over 160 per 100k back 2 months ago, and that wasnt real either.
There’s a Covid cluster in Al Franken’s trunk?
are you some sort of death cultist?
I believe some people have called Christianity that, so yes?
This is the only time wait two weeks will ever apply with some of these spikes. I think this will end the grip the branch covidian death cult once and for most normies.
Paris by Night: Frank Horvat’s Photographs of Le Sphinx Club in 1956
https://flashbak.com/paris-by-night-frank-horvats-photographs-of-le-sphinx-club-in-1956-43954/
NSFW
Cool.
NEVER HAPPENED!
This must be taken down immediately! Obviously some right wingnuts imagined this!
Things are way different now. I think all of the cancellings are going to hurt Trump.
He’s also no longer “something different” and “something new.” He’s had a chaotic presidency – partly for reasons out of his control and partly because of his own erratic nature.
Add to that the way the numbers have to come out just right (as Don Escaped has noted on several occasions) and Biden who’s safe, “moderate,” and has a pro-union history. I would think Biden is a slim favorite. And if the Dems can keep Biden from debating too much, that helps.
Biden has to debate. He’s got to, and I don’t think the media will carry water for him if he cancels. The media needs those debates, they are huge revenue generators. It’s like the Super Bowl for the news divisions. Biden will not be able to plead COVID or whatever and skip the debates. Trump will endlessly savage him if he does, and he wouldn’t even have to lie or exaggerate.
I mean, some won’t. But ABC, CNN, MSNBC et.al will.
They need the viewers. These are the only non Super Bowl events that 100 million people might watch. They will carry water everywhere else, but Joe has to show up on stage and give them their 80 million pairs of eyeballs for the Presidential debates, moderated by Lil Georgie Steph.
If the cable talking heads needed the viewers they’d have changed there model by now, because they get their teeth kicked in by Fox basically every day in the key demos. Also if you had a conservative local nightly news it would do incredibly well.
I think it’s in his interest to not. The idea of Biden has always run into the wall to actual reality of him. He’s the schrodingers cat of politics the more exposure he gets the more people realize he’s actually retarded and this is before his brain became total mush. He’s going to do everything he can to avoid a debate. He doesn’t even have a fucking campaign team assembled in swing state’s yet. He’s banking on name recognition and zoom calls. I actually think they are that delusional about it.
He doesn’t need it. They can mail fraudulent ballots from anywhere.
Do you need fraud when you are polling +5% in those states?
“Do you need fraud when you are polling +5% in those states?”
Worked out for Hillary.
” I don’t think the media will carry water for him if he cancels”
Someone posted a link here last week to an op-ed on a news site arguing that our democracy has moved beyond the need for debates.
Yes, it was by a D or a prog (don’t remember now), but you can start gradually building the narrative.
I don’t think they can get that done in the next three months. That kind of undermining of democratic values is a decade long project. They’ve been attacking free speech for about 30 years now, and they haven’t fully succeeded. You’re not going to get the vast majority of Americans to scrap the Presidential debates in a three month propaganda blitz. Open debates are a democratic ideal going back to Athens, you’re not going to get the majority of the country to just meekly give them up in the next few weeks.
If Biden cancels the debates, Trump will pound him mercilessly as a weak, senile, old man who can’t stand up to the rigors of the office. He’ll do 40 rallies in 40 days or some crazy stunt like that to show what a vigorous guy he is.
You’re not going to get the vast majority of Americans to scrap the Presidential debates in a three month propaganda blitz.
No, but they’ll probably get it changed to a written format, where Biden doesn’t have to talk in public.
Biden has to debate. He’s got to, and I don’t think the media will carry water for him if he cancels.
I think the DemOp Media will crawl over broken glass to do anything and everything to drag him across the finish line. If Biden is the candidate, then there will be no debates, and it will be spun as Trump makes unreasonable demands on moderators/format and refuses to compromise, so cancelling the debates is his fault.
Put it this way, in a fair election, Trump will win and it will be close, but not as close as it was in 2016, Biden will lose, but like in 2016 it will be close and recount calls will be immediate. The democrats are 100% counting on mail in ballot fraud on a massive scale. What I think might happen is that on election night, they will project Trump the winner, but by the next morning, lots of ballots will be found, which of course have not been counted yet. This will go on for months, but before January, they will declare Biden the winner by some ballots found at the last minute, in Boward county, counted by totally not corrupt officials in said county. Then we’re in for a worse time than the wuhan flu and the rioting combined. When Trump finally starts his second term, we will have 4 more years of plagues, riots, the media behaving worse than we’ve ever seen them, and the democrats running even further left.
I’m not saying it was aliens, but…
THERE’S ENOUGH OLD STUFF IN England that many things get overlooked. Take the several white spots in Stonehenge’s old parking lot. Drivers there had long treated them as traffic markers, when in fact they actually marked the locations where Mesolithic wood posts once stood, thousands of years before the region’s main attraction rose from the Salisbury Plain, some 5,000 years old itself.
Now, another monumental site has been discovered in the area, and though it’s much, much bigger than Stonehenge, it’s easy to see why it’s been missed for so long. The newly found site, contemporaneous with Stonehenge, is a vast arc of pits, which archaeologists believe represents a significant development in their understanding of the inhabitants of early Britain.
“When we started the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, we started to look in between the monuments [we knew about],” says Vincent Gaffney, an archaeologist at the University of Bradford and lead author of a recent study describing the newly-discovered site, published in the journal Internet Archaeology. “The Neolithic period was a time of monumentalization of ritual sites. It was happening all over the country. This dwarfs the lot of them.”
The builders of those monuments weren’t diverse enough, so down they come.
Clark W. Griswold, woke hero?
Where I live, and I assume it’s similar in blue cities/neighborhoods throughout the US, there’s a lot of panic about sending kids back to schools. A Facebook friend posed the question yesterday, “Would you send your kid back if masks weren’t required?” Almost all responses were some sort of no. One lady went so far as to say her child was going nowhere until there’s a vaccine (good luck with that). Then a friend from the Netherlands answered her, “Kids here have been back for a month. No masks, never socially distanced in parks, first two weeks the kids distanced from teachers but that’s gone now. No uptick in cases.” Netherlands had a higher death rate than the US at its peak. Everyone completely ignored her. Two posts down, someone made the comment that schools would be shut down again within weeks because of outbreaks all over the country. I think people really WANT to be scared.
Kids are the least impacted demographic.
Here, the Paediatric Association of Canada has taken the stance of GO BACK TO FUCKEN SCHOOL full stop.
They absolutely do.
Product of an easy life with no real challenges? Maybe. I sound a little too much like Jack Donovan when I go down this road…
I take the opposite view. If the kids have to wear masks all day, I am not sending my kid back to school.
People want to have their political views justified, or they want a sufficient excuse to fall in with the mob of opinion so that they can insulate themselves from criticism.
If the kids have to wear masks all day, I am not sending my kid back to school.
Agreed, and I am not going back to my office if I have to wear a mask. I will WFH until I am cleared to not wear a mask.
Neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to Healthy Individuals
Making a kid wear a mask all day = child abuse. The chance of a kid getting seriously ill from covid is effectively zero.
My boy is a class clown, so I’ve been told. His favorite thing to do in public places where it’s required is put a mask on over his nose and eyes and walk around like a zombie. I’m sure mask enforcement in the 4th grade next year isn’t going to go well.
School shutdowns are literally one of the least effective ways of dealing with COVID. Anyone who disagrees is anti-science.
school is basically jail. why do you people want kids in jail?
Because parents said this – https://youtu.be/fMUmX7B5gOk
Because my taxes are paying for it already.
I live in Charlotte, there’s a daycare place across from my apartment – a few weeks ago it reopened, now there’s kids running around their playground and a line of cars picking up/dropping the buggers off.
I honestly do not understand, in any way, the people who still want to lock things down. It’s a weird combination of the media and their political beliefs. Someone posted this from a day or two ago – Houston area ICUs were at 100% capacity. But, standard capacity was 70-80%, with 90% routine as well – the hospital isn’t going to pay for beds they don’t normally use. So, someone just seeing that headline thinks the 100% is all due to covid, and thinks things are really bad – but covid cases were only 28% of the cases. The Houston system also had something like 800 extra flex beds ready to go.
The media is constantly running with stories/headlines that one their surface seem bad, but with a slightly deeper look, aren’t nearly as bad as one would think. Most people probably just listen/read the headline
In my zip code we have some of the highest property taxes and best schools in the country, they are no shit spouting off insane solutions like 50% of the kids going to school everyother day. This is insane. Might as well to distance learning and fire all the teachers.
Not that any of this matters I predict the largest Teacher strike ever come september.
Might as well to distance learning and
fire all the teachersgive the teachers raises while keeping their current 4 months of paid vacation time.Fixed it for you and the children.
Ok!
Yeah, Henrico County schools sent out an email saying that’s what’s going to happen. They’re going to split the student body into two groups and alternate days at school. I paid through the fucking nose for a small house in this area so my kids could go to highly ranked schools and now I’m feeling like a sucker.
I don’t think they realize how many pissed of people their going to be when they find out this is the plan come september.
I paid through the fucking nose for a small house in this area so my kids could go to highly ranked schools and now I’m feeling like a sucker.
Education Accomplished. *hands Chip another bill*
I say deliberately infect all the children on the first day of school, then weld all the doors shut, and leave them there with a two-week supply of Krusty brand imitation gruel.
My conspiracy-brain had the idea that the authorities standing down to the proriolooting was a wide-scale secret chickenpox party.
Just the story to get the morning bile roiling.
Walz is threatening bars because they haven’t been following all the rules. Sure 80% of the deaths in our state are from long term care facilities, but those dang rubes won’t stop crowding in bars. And now we have more positive cases! Sure we have had a record low number of deaths.
Worse, the PR flack for the bar’s industry group goes full on lickspittle
If I was a bar owner, I’d stop paying that asshole dues. My PR flack would be telling the gov that if he tries to close bars again, he is in for a rebellion.
Progress comrades! We must not loose our progress!
Some kind of… whiskey rebellion?
everybody groaned when I suggested a “Sambuca Sedition”, so unless you have a better suggestion.
The mob comes for Portnoy and Barstool Sports. He refuses to bend the knee and tells them to fuck off.
Good! Much respect!
Joey Diaz basically told the mob to suck is dick I believe.
I never liked that site very much with its heavy pro-Boston slant, but good for him.
Meanwhile, back in the US, lip service is being used as a cudgel to strip away human rights.
“White-supremacist” has no meaning.
“Trump has disrespected Native communities time and again,” the Democrats wrote on Twitter, with a link to an article in the British newspaper the Guardian, in the now-deleted tweet. “He’s attempted to limit their voting rights and blocked critical pandemic relief. Now he’s holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore–a region once sacred to tribal communities.”
So the fucking DNC official twitter posted a tweet that suggests either the 4th of July is a White supremacist holiday and Mount Rushmore is an affront to Native Americans? Holy god.
Every time they do this, they make it clear that everything they are doing is in attempt to stop him from campaigning and get him to loose. I agreed with the folks who said that Coronavirus wasn’t all about “getting Trump”, because then why were European countries freaking out. But now I believe the “Spike” rhetoric is all about getting Trump out of office. Europeans have seen results with re-establishing normalcy.
I agreed with the folks who said that Coronavirus wasn’t all about “getting Trump”, because then why were European countries freaking out.
Has anyone actually been to Europe to confirm? Also, about this “blue sky” nonsense I keep hearing…
https://twitter.com/GovMurphy/status/1277671974190354433
UPDATE: INDOOR DINING WILL NO LONGER RESUME ON THURSDAY.
We had planned to loosen restrictions this week. However, after #COVID19 spikes in other states driven by, in part, the return of indoor dining, we have decided to postpone indoor dining indefinitely.
I honestly don’t know how the people who own these business’s are able to show such restraint to these petty tyrants. This isn’t even for a spike in his state. This is disgusting.
This makes me so angry, and so, so depressed
You’re saying they should start to peacefully protest?
No kidding. Not much they can do other than take it in the shorts. Hopefully the black market makes some big gains, but otherwise no idea what they can do.
How the fuck is anyone supposed to stay in business? Most inventory is perishable.
How the fuck is anyone supposed to stay in business?
They aren’t. They want the economy to crash to hurt Trump. They don’t give a shit about human beings and their lives. Taking down Orangemanbad is the only goal.
Because “case numbers” are going up (as testing increases) even though the deaths continue to drop.
Not really. In Arizona the tests have gone up by a factor of 2 over the last month, but the cases have gone up a factor of 8 or 9, deaths by a factor of 3 (per Johns Hopkins data).
/pedant
It is interesting how local it can get. In Iowa, state-wide the cases peaked, dropped some, and leveled off, but here in our county (Story County), they are just now starting to take off. Of course, deaths are almost non-existant (3 total out of about 100k people).
I don’t think that’s consistent with the worldmeters info:
Total deaths on 5/30: 903
Total deaths on 6/29: 1588
Total cases on 5/30: 19,936
Total cases on 6/29: 76,987
I’m talking about rates per day, not totals. The Johns Hopkins totals are similar to what you give.
Here’s the azdhs site for deaths, with the importamt distinction that they are listed by ‘date of death” not the date they were reported. Obviouly recent days are likely an undercount due to lags in reporting. Deaths have gone up, but only a little. Arizona is also using the “probable” death method to count, which is likely to result in overcounts.
https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/infectious-disease-epidemiology/covid-19/dashboards/index.php
I know I wasn’t clear, but rates per day is a better measure of what’s happening.
Gotcha, and I agree, although the rates are pretty sensitive to the specific dates chosen for comparison, and some sort of averaging should likely be done to reduce the daily variation.
It is interesting that the death rates have not increased nearly as much as the cases – there’s lag of course, but that seems to be an overall trend lately – hopefully it continues.
AZ has seen increases in the rate of positive tests, the rate of hospitalizations, and the rate of deaths. All something of a surprise to me. I would be very interested to see those number only for AZ residents, but of course that’s not available and never will be. I believe border crossers are pumping these numbers, but not enough to account for all of the increase.
DIVOC is your friend.
I don’t know if there are “nationwide” trends. Indiana has a decent site with stats, and even though we’re almost all the way opened up, deaths and hospitalizations continue to fall even though cases are going up. There is still lots of ICU and ventilator capacity.
I agree it’s really more regional. I was addressing the particular situation in Arizona.
If it weren’t such a political shitshow out there, it would be interesting to see what’s behind some of these trends.
Sushruta Samhita, volume 3: Sharirasthana
by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna | 1911 |
Chapter II – The purification of semen and cataminal fluid
https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/sushruta-samhita-volume-3-sharirasthana/d/doc142880.html
Traits of pure and healthy semen and menstrual blood:—
Semen which is transparent like crystal, fluid, glossy, sweet and emits the smell of honey; or like oil or honey in appearance according to others, should be considered as healthy. The catamenial blood (artava) which is red like the blood of a hare, or the washings of shellac and leaves no stains on cloths (which may be washed off by simply soaking them in water) should be considered as healthy. 17–18.
What does it mean when your semen sparkles and emits fumes?
Asking for a friend.
*Paging Sugarfree…*
That’s just glitter from the strip club.
That you are a lonely swabby on a SouthPac cruise and you found a welcoming bunghole in one of the powder kegs in the forward magazine?
You’re a Twilight vampire?
Time to change hand creme?
Purity of essence
Chess is racist.
Australian Chess Federation committee member Dr Kevin Bonham has refuted suggestions the rule of white pieces moving first was racially motivated.
Dr Bonham spoke to ABC radio’s James Valentine on Wednesday afternoon after a man posted to social media his child’s query about why white always moves first in chess.
Controversy arose when the ABC proposed a radio discussion on the matter and on Tuesday sought an interview with John Adams, an economist who represented the Australian Chess Federation in 2015. …
“The ABC have taken the view that chess is RACIST given that white always go first,” he said in his tweet.
Mr Adams further explained the ABC was looking for a chess offical to comment on whether the rules should be altered.
“Trust the taxpayer funded national broadcaster to apply ideological Marxist frameworks to anything & everything in Australia,” he added.
I knew Murray Head was up to no good.
But the queens we use would not excite you
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.
I thought for sure this was a Babylon Bee article.
Make the pieces red and green — no, wait, there are red people.
Make them yellow and purple — no, there are yellow people.
Make them blue and orange — no, not ORANGE!
Never mind.
Just had this conversation with my wife. I suggested blue and green, but then I realized people who identify as Martian or Venutian would be upset.
Don’t even have to go that far. Blue and green are “boys’ colors”. Why are you excluding girls from chess? Oh, pink and blue now? You hisnormative patriarchal shitlord.
You can’t win arguing with the insane.
Pink, except for the spectrally striped queen .
I suggest this set
Nice! If buy that, will the mob hunt me down?
chartreuse vs. mauve, it’s the only way
Say what you will about the Mughals, but they knew how to make a chess set.
https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1277784308468629507
“We’re re-examining how we portray cops onscreen. Now it’s time to talk about superheroes”
There is no peak retard.
Let’s turn all super heroes into social workers and activists, and then blame racism and sexism when nobody wants to see the movies.
Uh, I just finished The Boys.
I think you can check this one off as “done”.
fantastic show.
Who the fuck is “we”?
us
Your betters.
Best comment:
“While we await details of this tragic killing, it highlights capitalism’s brutality & endemic violence. Our movement rejects insinuations & falsehoods perpetuated by corporate & conservative media that this violence is outcome of CHOP or of our movement.”
https://twitter.com/cmkshama/status/1277685911728173057
Communists shooting kids is capitalist brutality, apparently.
No true communist would murder anyone.
Jeff Bezos made them do it. Wait until they get rid of capitalism and discover that their cell phone is not working and that new one they wanted is not available on Amazon.
It is funny how you can simply reject anything negative associated with your movement.
The media is conservative: it wants to preserve itself.
It’s not politically conservative, however.
With their focus on the poor, the novels of Charles Dickens have ensured he is remembered for a commitment to social justice. But, according to a former Kent councillor, there is another side to the novelist that ought to define him.
“Dickens racist” was daubed by Ian Driver on the Dickens House Museum in Broadstairs on Saturday night. He was pictured scrawling the graffiti in black ink on the front of the building, the inspiration for Betsey Trotwood’s home in David Copperfield.
The former Green Party councillor admitted the vandalism in a phone call with The Times. He said he was angered by the author’s support for Britain’s suppression of the Indian uprising in 1857.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dickens-branded-a-racist-in-museum-graffiti-attack-lchkg8xnf
Saw that. ?.
He said he was angered by the author’s support for Britain’s suppression of the Indian uprising in 1857.
The pinnacle of poignancy.
NBA, union plan to paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ on courts in Orlando
Guaranteeing I’ll never watch another game again.
That’ll look nice, they can paint the backboards like the Chinese flag while they’re at it.
Guarantee, unless living in a scrub existence with only oral storytelling, that history will record this current era as unbelievably racist and use all of this as indictments.
Somewhat on topic
The language of Black Lives Matter in Japanese
Naturally, I can’t figure out the meaning of the sign in the top of the picture and the article doesn’t bother to write about it either.
対岸の火事じゃない – it means the opposite shore (or side) may or may not be burning. Welcome to the ambiguity of Japanese. I’ll have to ask one of my friends this weekend. For all I know it could be a set phrase.
Found it –
no skin off my nose, expression meaning that somebody else’s problem is no concern of yours, lit: fire on the opposite shore
I wasn’t fully aboard with the restart, less now…
The NBA sucks.
Now they’re just trying to kill themselves off. I say let them do it.
Black and brown bodies are grossly underrepresented in professional basketball. It is known.
But Uigher Lives Matter would get a fan kicked out of the arena.
About that…
https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c
a form of “demographic genocide.”
aka genocide? What genocide has not been demographic in nature?
Intriguing nicknames in the Domesday Book:
Humfridus aurei testiculi – Humphrey ‘Golden-bollocks’
Rogerus Deus saluaet dominas – Roger ‘God save the ladies’
More bynames from the Domesday Book here:
https://twitter.com/thijsporck/status/1277487385471619073
Oh geez. I can see how this turned out:
Norman: You, Saxon! Your king has decreed that all men and their families shall be recorded. What is your name?
Saxon: Heh, Its… Big Dick Willy.
Norman: :notes in doomsday book: Hmm yes. Interesting.
Saxon: and my Son. His name is Hugh.
Norman: A good norman name
Saxon: Hugh Jass.
I had a really interesting book called The Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England that, as the title suggests, was written like a travel guide for modern people if they traveled to the past. One of the interesting things I didn’t know was that those times were much bawdier than I had imagined.
fantastic book, and there’s a fantastic 3-part doc from the author on the BBC as well for this “Elizabethan” TTG
(He’s written a bunch of the “Time Traveller’s Guide” books)
I strongly suspect that in the wake of the Victorian period, which was publically one of the most prudish eras in history (private is a different matter) we’ve been given the impression of the past as puritanical, which makes it harder to grasp that people have always been lewd louts.
Dude, chapter 18.
Be fair, he might have read the book before getting to your work.
I owned the book referenced for years before you wrote Chapter 18.
I just assumed everybody’s read chapter 18. It stands on its own.
But it wasn’t there before the Time Traveller’s Guide. That leaves plenty of room for him to have discovered the consistant proclivities of humans before you even wrote it.
That’s all I’m saying.
Yikes
wtf.
Who knows what the truth there is, it sounds like she likes to throw allegations. Maybe it really happened, maybe she’s nuts and/or wants money.
Without a witness, this cannot ever be proven. Just trying to get some Mythbusters cash?
If I remember correctly, I wouldn’t have been capable until at least 12.
My question is, if he was between 9 and 12, who molested HIM before that?
Internet porn made him do it.
I knew there was a reason Jamie didn’t like him.
Jaime Lannister?
“You know who else…”
“
HitlerMoses?”Can we wait until the case is settled before engaging in pre-emptive slander?
No, that is the old white partiarchial version of justice which relied on an outdated idea that empirical reality was a thing, and that decisions had to match that reality in order to be just. The new model understands that reality is created by our feelings and therefore that an angry woman must have been abused because the accusation proves the anger and the anger proves the offense.
Whether or not he’s guilty doesn’t really concern me. I’m not involved, never going to be involved. Zero chance of that.
However, there is a non-zero chance that some day I will meet Adam.
From my exposure to him via his public pronouncements, he’s a dick. He’s said some unfair and untrue things about people I like.
So if I meet him, would it an acceptable bit of pseudoretaliatory dickishness on my part to say “oh yeah, you’re the guy that raped his sister, aren’t you?”
So if I meet him, would it an acceptable bit of pseudoretaliatory dickishness on my part to say “oh yeah, you’re the guy that raped his sister, aren’t you?”
Only if you’ve stopped beating your wife.
Lawsuit? Isn’t the statute of limitations well past?
“The Child Victims Act, which was passed last year, opened a one-year look-back period for victims to bring claims that had already exceeded the statute of limitations.”
I would also assume that “lawsuit” implies civil rather than criminal.
“The Child Victims Act, which was passed last year, opened a one-year look-back period for victims to bring claims that had already exceeded the statute of limitations.”
This is my McKayla Maroney face.
Yes but some states just waived them for these kinds of cases. I see cable ads all the time with lawyers trolling for “victims” to sue the Boy Scouts, churches, or anyone else with insurance or deep pockets – for things that allegedly occurred decades ago and are completely unprovable.
Some judges can’t read or they are dishonest, mendacious cuntes.
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the state’s ban on large-capacity gun magazines, finding the law does not violate the state constitution.
The court unanimously upheld the ban on magazines that hold more than 15 rounds, saying it is a “reasonable exercise of the police power that has neither the purpose nor effect of nullifying the right to bear arms in self-defense.”
The court ruled that the ban does not violate residents’ rights to self-defense because large-capacity gun magazines are not needed for self-defense.
It’s the latter without a doubt. Pick the position and work backwards to justify it is the way people do things nowadays, judges included.
We are rationalizing animals not rational ones, and “legal reasoning” is just a fancy name for building an argument to support a conclusion, ie. rationalization.
There’s no consistency. The law doesn’t have to always make sense (although it probably should), but any system has to be consistent.
The supreme court just ruled that a Louisiana law requiring abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital was unconstitutional.
The right to bear arms is explicitly protected, abortion is a “penumbra”. Restrictions on the former are fine, no problem, restrictions on the latter routinely struck down – like you said, pick the position and work backwards.
Racism in hiring is perfectly ok because the applicant can apply elsewhere.
One of the first things I noticed in the photos of the St Louis couple was they did not appear to be carrying additional magazines. You don’t face off against a crowd with a single magazine in the weapon.
He spent too much on the colt ar for a carrier or chest rig.
Mags people.
Mags.
I support them on principal, but they went about defending themselves in embarrassingly amateurish fashion.
There are so many great short-course firearms trainers out there, and we still see this over and over.
Either a mag or a big cell phone in his pocket, or he’s happy to see the trespassers. It was a daylight mob of larpers so it doesn’t much matter. There was not going to be 30 volunteers to get shot first before they mobbed him (plus whatever her pocket pistol had).
I’m not a fantastic shot, but i think I’m fairly good, and i couldn’t make 30 rounds spread evenly between 30 people.
I think when the first body hits the ground, hell, when the first shot is fired, 99% run for the hills. Any who stay will be returning fire. So, I think extra mags are always nice to have, no harm in it, but the likelihood of an extended firefight is very low to nonexistent. Hell, I don’t carry extra mags for my carry pistol, which packs a whopping 8 rounds. At carry pistol ranges, that will either do the job, or I will be on the ground before the mag runs out.
In the unlikely event the mob charges you, your 30 rounds aren’t going to run dry before they get to you unless you are spraying and praying. Even then, what are the chances you can do a mag swap before they get to you?
No reason not to have extra mags. Little reason to believe they will be useful.
I think confronting them in the open is the way to go, myself, with decent lines of retreat and fallback positions (already mapped out around the Casa Dean, thanks for asking). If you’re in the house, the molotovs start coming in the windows. Then you die in the fire, or the choke point you were defending becomes their choke point to take you down as you flee the fire.
Eh.
If that shit had escalated into a gunfight, I don’t think that an extra magazine would have made any difference. He would have been either victorious or dead before the first thirty rounds were downrange.
Besides, do you think either of those cats ever had any training? I doubt if that AR has ever been fired…
The crowd would have scattered after the first couple of shots if it had come to that.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll never stop saying it – counting on this reaction will get you killed, probably really painfully.
Maybe you pop a couple of rioters and the rest scatter, or maybe the rest get really pissed and beat your ass to death, then start on whoever else is in the house.
If you plan on confronting a mob while armed, you should be prepared for either contingency.
Hope for the best and all that
Sure that’s possible but mobs aren’t really known for the courage of the individuals that comprise it. You’re right though, it’s not a bad idea to be prepared for the worst in a situation like that.
Being prepared, in this case, is gonna be less about the hardware or even the skill, and more about using good tactics. Going outside and confronting a mob at close quarters, where they can easily flank and surround you, is not the smartest move.
Those two barely knew how to handle their weapons so expecting tactical awareness out of them is probably asking too much. Unless they get prosecuted, though, it looks like it worked out for them.
Very true, and I don’t mean to be too much of a Monday-morning quarterback. My ranting and raving is more about learning from the mistakes of others.
“Good luck reinforces bad tactics.”
If you plan on confronting a mob while armed, you should be prepared for either contingency.
Yes, confronting a mob is not risk free and there is a good chance it will go badly. However, it’s almost 100% guaranteed to end badly if you allow a mob to surround your home. No amount of tactical strategy or firearm skill is going to allow you or your family to survive when 300 people start coming in through every window and door. Or they just sit back and throw molotov cocktails and burn you out or to death.
Your only chance at stopping a mob, as one or two people, is at the chokepoint (e.g., the gate in this scenario).
Much better they surround my home, then they surround me outside my home.
If I’m inside my house, I have one or two fixed points of entry that I can cover from a position of dominance. If I’m outside with no cover, not so much…
Much better they surround my home, then they surround me outside my home.
That’s when you deploy your armored attack orphans.
You buy armor for your orphans? Jeez, look at the big spender over here.
My orphans consider themselves lucky to have some barbed wire to wrap around their clubs…
This is why I want to set up claymores around my house.
Barbed wire? Reduces the savings of eschewing tetanus vaccinations.
something has gone terribly wrong
Yeah 95% of firearm users wouldn’t get to a reload, much less need one. If i was ever in a firefight lasting longer than my 6 shot load in my remington I’m basically anticipating death already.
Well, yeah. But we’re talking about a dude who had to do just that, so…
Reminds me of what a friend used to say – “If you use an AR in self-defense, you’re getting written up in the local paper. If you *reload* an AR in self-defense, you’re getting written up on WikiPedia.”
I was more emphasizing the decision to leave the house. Which was the second thing that had gone wrong in that situation (probably more than second, since the mob made it that far,but you get my point).
exercise of the police power
Aren’t we supposed to be getting rid of the police?
China still asshole. They borrowed $billions with fake gold as collateral.
My experiences in China suggests that the Chinese appetite for fraud is quite high.
One man’s fraud is another man’s competitive business practice (with collusion of paid-off government officials)
Booking.com decision was 8-1, Breyer was the dissent. Booking.com is not generic.
Gist of Breyer’s dissent: “Generic Company” is not trademarkable. Therefore “Generic.com” is not either.
5ypical Breyer idiocy.
/hasn’t read the opinion yet
I think he is wrong but not so wrong as that. He has an arguable point.
Tell me which side i should be appalled and angry at so i can fill in my Facebook rant.
A web portal for storing arrest records on “the Cloud?”
I think your joke proves the majority’s point.
Now this is how you do a banner in a march:
https://i.redd.it/7ousxn5fx2r11.jpg
The Poles get it, I wonder what their immigration requirements are.
Media headline: “Rally in Poland features anti-communist flags and swastikas” complete with cropped photos to obscure the reality.
Montana private school tax credit rule 1 overturned 5-4 vote. The scholarship money can go to religious schools.
Split was along party lines, but just about everyone wrote a separate decision. 3 on each side.
ROBERTS, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which THOMAS,
ALITO, GORSUCH, and KAVANAUGH, JJ., joined. THOMAS, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which GORSUCH, J., joined. ALITO, J., and GORSUCH,
J., filed concurring opinions. GINSBURG, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in
which KAGAN, J., joined. BREYER, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which
KAGAN, J., joined as to Part I. SOTOMAYOR, J., filed a dissenting opinion.
Looks like 7 opinions. Everyone wrote one except the Ks – Kavanaugh and Kagan.
Thomas’s opinion is that it should have been a Free Exercise Clause case and not an Eastablishment Clause case.
That treating it as the latter is a fundamental error, that the former makes things clear.
It would only make sense as an establishment case if the government said you can use the credit at certain religious schools but not others.
I understated my objection below. Let me make my unpopular view more clear here. The establishment clause has a clear meaning. It forbids the establishment of a Federal level State Church. It does nothing more than that. Arguably the 14th Amendment extended that ban to the several States. The Free Exercise clause is the dominant clause dealing with religion, and even in cases of discrimination such as you reference, my opinion would be that the analysis should be whether such preferential treatment interfered with the free exercise right of the disadvantaged group. The extension of a ban on a State Church to a ban on any benefit extended to any church is illogical because the harm being guarded against is a specific result of a State Church, in other words compelled participation against conscience, and does not occur with lesser benefits or associations between State and Church.
Exactly. The Founders knew exactly what a state church was, and they explicitly banned it. That’s all the establishment clause does.
A parochial school is not a state church, therefore the establishment clause has nothing to do with school vouchers.
I think it also forbids the government from setting preferences among the churches. If the Feds said the Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Greek Orthodox, and United Methodist Churches got some special privileges, while not infringing the rights of the other churches and non-Christian faiths, that would still violate the establishment clause even though none of them became the one and only state church.
For the life of me, I don’t know how its Constitutional that churches get tax exemption solely because they are churches.
Mind you i think everyone should be tax exempt, but the argument being that Taxing being a method of destruction -> Taxing someones beliefs seems like an infringement on their rights to free conscience.
You’re not taxing their beliefs. You are taxing an organization, with revenue, expenses, etc. Exempting the organization is granting it a privilege because it is a religious organization, which seems contrary to the Establishment Clause.
Thomas is still fighting to revitalize the Free Exercise Clause. The rest of the Court has accepted that instead of stating two equal and occasionally in tension principles, which it clearly does, the amendment is about separation of Church and State, which it does not actually contain, but hey, precedent.
Gorsuch joined his opinion, so now there are two on that side!
Which opinion controls in that case?
Roberts.
“Whatever is being sold, be it a jade vagina egg or a ticket to an anti-racist workshop, there’s a great deal of money to be made off the guilt, anxiety, and insecurities of financially secure white women.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/social-justice-solipsism
https://twitter.com/katrosenfield/status/1277582062078373888
Meow?
Sigh… When I awaken, I prep a cocktail for later by pouring a few fingers of Bourbon, some cherry juice, and some peach juice into my glass and tucking it into the freezer for later. This morning, befuddled by grogginess, I mistakenly poured 3 fingers of Wild Turkey 101 into my coffee. I’m really not at all a fan of warm liquor drinks but I’ll endeavor to persevere through my accidental Irish.
It could be worse, you could have poured the coffee grounds into the water reservoir of your coffeemaker.
Last weekend, I woke up and shook some ibuprofen pills into my hand. Turned out to be the liquid peptobismol bottle.
After getting the pills, I took a swig from a soda bottle to wash them down. Turned out to be tequila I had stored in there for margaritas and forgot about.
Rough morning.
Yeah, that would have me questioning my life choices.
Tequila is often associated with questioning life choices.
Tequila is often associated with answering those questions, as well.
Rough morning.
See, I would have gone with “awesome”.
I prep a cocktail for later by pouring a few fingers of Bourbon, some cherry juice, and some peach juice into my glass and tucking it into the freezer for later. – lame
If I make it a la minute, I have to employ my cocktail shaker. That means using ice. I can’t waste the leftover ice, so I rinse it and fill my bong with it. I don’t want to take giant icy bong tokes EVERY morning. If, however, I leave the concoction in the freezer for a few hours, it turns into slushy goodness waiting for a ginger beer to make it perfect.
Hold up, let me copy this down…
‘Bourbon, cherry juice, peach juice, ginger beer…’
the lame part is putting cherry juice and peach juice in perfectly good bourbon
I don’t get the sweet mixer thing. Neat, rocks, water, soda cover the whole spectrum of ways to drink whisk(e)y as far as I am concerned.
This. Do you wear a dress when you drink it?
NTTAWWT. You girly man.
I mean, your mom seems to like them. But that might just be that I’m the one making them…
I recently stuffed a filter into the coffee maker without realizing the filter basket was in the dish drainer.
Mr. Coffee prevailed.
Blasphemy
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/liberal-minorities-victimhood-identity
But victims by definition do not have social or political power.
Bullshit. JFK was a victim. Did he not have power?
I want to have power, and you cannot have power unless it is paired with responsibility.
Now do the part where claiming victimhood gives you power over your accused oppressor.
The reason that we don’t blame the victim is because it’s mean. Not because the victim isn’t sometimes an accessory to their own situation.
I know I wasn’t clear, but rates per day is a better measure of what’s happening.
When it seems cases are clearly being tallied to the day they’re entered into whatever collection system localities are using to wrangle the data, rather than the day they were tested/diagnosed, I can’t see how this is possibly correct.
Anyone who has ever had to look over the financial and customer data for a small business knows the biggest problem with any form of statistical analysis. Those actually entering the data neither understand, nor care about, the uses to which the data will be put, and that means that the dollar amounts are likely correct, as are the mailing addresses. The customer source code, the contact records, the dates, and everything else useful in analysis and prediction, but not in day to day operations is likely a mess.
OMG THIS^^^^
Dealt with call center data for a job once, and talking with the manager i quickly realized how useless it was. The people actually generating the data are just trying to find the quickest way to finish the form.
OK, I’m just getting back to this dead thread, but:
Sometimes you see a spike due to a bunch of old cases getting reported, and those are just artifacts, but, for the most part as long as you average over some period (a week or longer) the data is a reasonable description of the trend (not counting the fact that some of the de,aths really aren’t due to COVID directly, but that’s a separate issue).