VE HAF VAYS OF MAKINK YOU VEAR THE MASK!
Since Some Republicans Still Refuse to Wear Masks in Congress, Now Nancy Pelosi Is Requiring It
Wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is an act of citizenship. It is also, of course, an act of self-preservation, but because mask-wearing appears more effective at preventing transmission of the virus than preventing your catching it yourself, wearing a face covering amounts to a small self-sacrifice in service of the greater good of communities, states, and, in aggregate, the country. Dr. Anthony Fauci articulated why he wears a mask this way: “I wear it for the reason that I believe it is effective,” he said. “It is not 100 percent effective—I mean, it’s sort of respect for the other person and have that other person respect you. You wear a mask. They wear a mask. You protect each other.” Many Americans, however, particularly those on the God-fearing, freedom-idolizing political right, refuse to wear masks, including the president of the United States. President Donald Trump’s signaling has been clear: He’s not only refused to wear a mask, he’s mocked those who do. Others in Congress have followed the president’s lead, refusing to wear a mask in the cramped corridors of the Capitol. The GOP’s “no-mask caucus” is an outlier even in its own party, but as virus rates continue to climb in portions of the country, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a move Tuesday to require House members to don a mask in committee hearings.
This preamble of question-begging and base-stealing is exactly why Slate is the premier infotainment site on Paywall Alley. Without viewers like [reads off card] Arnold Dipshit of Fuckwit, Maryland, they might have to work for a living.
Nancy Pelosi, seen here not wearing her stagecoach robbin’ mask on the House floor.
Jordan writes when Melania was dating Trump in the late 1990s she would chat about him with her former roommate Matthew Atanian, a retired fashion photographer.
Atanian recalled he and Edit Molner, the girlfriend of model scout Paolo Zampolli, were once joking about Trump having a small penis.
Melania cut in and said: ‘Don’t say this – he’s a real man’.
Melania told Atanian similar things about Trump’s over-the-top, gilded apartment atop Trump Tower.
She gushed: ‘Oh it’s so beautiful. So much class. This is the way real men live’.
Still no word on which mushroom his penis resembles. I’ve got my money on a bundle of enoki.
Is it time for the Dixie Chicks to rethink their name? https://t.co/fKFuYnQmGI pic.twitter.com/ltwDzEenlq
— New York Post (@nypost) June 17, 2020
What about changing to “Frog Face and The Who Gives A Shits?”
“Call in the airstrike
“with a poison kiss”
Criminals should wear masks.
“Still no word on which mushroom his penis resembles. I’ve got my money on a bundle of enoki.”
No love for the morel ?
During the 80’s they had a majority.
Booooo
Someone took morel before I could draft them.
Mmmmmmm morels. I didn’t get any this year.
When the shroom hits your eye like a big pizza pie,
That’s a morel.
#meneither :-/
Nancy needs a full face mask.
Even better, a full on burka.
No, no. A plastic bag, tightly tied to protect her from the L’il ‘Rona.
I saw a gal with her husband in the grocery store yesterday. She was full on burkha. But it was flower print, so they weren’t extremists, or anything.
One man’s flower is another man’s stylized explosion.
I’ve been feeling so tired lately, I accidentally fell asleep while taking a nap.
Is everyone enjoying their free 30-day trial of communism?
“welcome to marx!”
https://twitter.com/TeenVogue/status/1273164763430821894
“Protest is what happens when people who have long been oppressed care enough about everyone else to show them how to be better comrades.”
https://twitter.com/TeenVogue/status/1273187400978706432
get to gulag uwu
Teen Vogue is basically the print version of Everydayfeminism
Wow, there’s some stupid in the replies.
Fuck off, tovarisch
Does this mean Lauren Southern is going to have to change her name?
Well, no Canadian should be allowed to have the name “Southern,” for starters.
Nonsense.
“Southern Canadians” = those who live in Canada within 300km of the U.S. border; also
“Southern Canadians” = those who live within 300km of Miami, FL or Phoenix, AZ
Those who live in Canada within 300km of the US border. Isn’t that just about all of them?
And your point is?
It just seems redundant.
Maybe a swap for Northam?
Soooooo, what are the odds that we actually get a real debate or two with Jorgenson on the same stage?
With the overwhelming clamor for her, and the 21st century love of freedom and reasonable disagreements, I assume pretty high
This. Plus every feminist in the country will be clamoring for her inclusion against the two pussy-grabbers.
Zero?
Then again if you told me this is what June would be like back in January, I would have said you were nuts.
worst scenario for Trump
a/ Biden stays in his basement
b/ Jorgenson accepts an invitation
c/ Trump tries to debate her
I suspect the only person who could have held up in a debate with Trump over libertarian positions would have been Vermin Supreme.
About as good as a debate with Al Jourgenson on the stage
I’d watch that.
I saw Ministry a year and a half ago, Al’s virtually incoherent. He’s a vegetable.
I don’t doubt it.
We already know his favorite Bible verse.
Pretty much none.
Is it time for the Dixie Chicks to rethink their name?
It worked so well for that other group.
Yes, yes it did. They got multiple #1 hits out of it.
Heinous.
Made you click! :-p
Another hate click.
Who’s talkin’ shit about the Jeff?! Huh?!
I’m told The New Christy Minstrels have gone into hiding.
Dixie Chicks having to change their name = delicious, delicious irony
Re their remarks post 9/11: I was mostly ambivalent about what they said, but as soon as I heard about it, I said, “Welp, they just killed their career.”
That’s was their attempt to deflect attention from the shitty album they put out.
Move away from the music that brought them to the dance and into a more pop sound. Didn’t work. Alienated their audience. Too bad. Then they made those stupid remarks and alienated casual fans and listeners.
Yeah, I think we’ve talked about this before. You have a remarkable memory. I bought a couple of their albums so I was somewhere between “fan” and “casual fan” but I didn’t throw the albums away. What they said didn’t change the music I liked, but it did taint it a little.
Hah! I have a knack for trivia and useless bits. Casual also and didn’t throw them away either. I didn’t like Landslide as a Fleetwood Mac song and I didn’t like it as a Dixie Chicks cover on endless repeat, particularly on adult contemporary stations. Very disappointing to me after their previous stuff.
When Smashing Pumpkins does a better cover than you, that’s a long slow train coming…
I saw them open for the Eagles years ago. They didn’t impress me.
Help is coming. They just need to recover some more Roman lead before they can come back and fix 2020.
That’s funny, I was just wondering if Dixie chicks were next on the chopping block. I didn’t really get the hubbub over lady pre-war either.
Lady Pre-War would be a better name than Lady A.
Lady Weimar?
Great music choice!
Also for anyone with an interest in the debacle that is Cadillac and GM’s stillborn turbo V8:
Why Cadillac Killed Its Landmark Blackwing V-8 Engine
Fuck the left
+ 1 tentacle
+1 jackhammer.
Atlanta officer charged with murder. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-atlanta-police-officer-who-shot-rayshard-brooks-charged-murder-n1231305
Interesting opinion question for here: does this cop get charged with murder absent the protests and riots of the last few weeks? Not saying the violence & riots are justified, but I wonder.
Nope. And probably not even fired. Maybe “retraining” and some desk duty.
I’m as anti-cop as you are going to find among middle-class white people, but Brooks takes the taser during being cuffed, runs, turns back and fires it and gets shot.
That’s a good shoot for the last 30 years, at least.
Think all all the cop shootings of people that didn’t even resist or weren’t even committing a crime where the cops walked away without any sort of charge.
I just saw the slow mo version on tv. At full speed I’m not certain it wasn’t a good shoot.
It hinges on whether they can argue that the taser is a deadly weapon. Given the number of people killed with a taser, a fair jury would swallow reasonable doubt. But a fair trial is going to be hard because Atlanta will burn if he walks.
The issue is if he hits the officer with the taser, then he can take his firearm and now definitely has a deadly weapon. I’m not saying it’s a clear cut good shoot, but I could be convinced with more video/details.
No one ever mentions it (and I am no expert) but it looks to me like Brooks fires the taser (flash of light from the “barrel.”)
And I’m not saying they should have shot him in the back, just that this is only of national interest because of the protests and rioting.
But I reserve my full disdain for the fucktards that say Wendy’s shouldn’t have called the police in the first place. What were they supposed to do? Close the drive-thru and call it a night?
From the video it definitely looks like he fired the taser. Arsonists are always assholes.
Don’t even need to take the firearm. Incapacitated by a taser and the officer is defenseless period, more or less, against an assailant that was just moments ago using physical force against him.
Sure and give him a free cheeseburger and a blankie.
There is grumbling on Twitter than the cops knew the taser had already been used twice and was therefore out of ammo when Brooks was shot.
But, you know, Twitter.
He unquestionably fires the taser at the officer, missing high. The officer immediately returns fire.
Exactly as he is trained to do.
“The issue is if he hits the officer with the taser, then he can take his firearm and now definitely has a deadly weapon”
But he didn’t hit him with the taser. That’s the problem I have. He fired, missed, and then the cop opened up. There’s at least a second or two in between the Taser Brooks fires, and the first gunshot.
He fires the taser over his shoulder, while sprinting, at least eight feet ahead of the cop, and misses. That’s not a lethal threat, especially since the cop had his partner running another ten feet behind him. Especially since he never broke stride, just winged a taser shot over his shoulder while running.
A taser has one or two charges in it, and it has a limited range. He wasn’t tossing 9mm rounds back over his shoulder, he was not a lethal threat.
If someone had a knife, turned and ran from the cops, and then tossed it over his shoulder while running away and missed the throw, is that a lethal threat?
Basic human factors. Three-quarters of a second to recognize something is happening. Three-quarters of a second to take action — make the muscles actually do something.
So dead man pulls the trigger on the taser. Two seconds later, police pulls the trigger on the gun.
This is well within normal reaction time for an “oh shit” moment.
I can’t see how this case gets tried in Atlanta. Defense will do everything possible to get out of having this in Atlanta (or whatever county Atlanta’s in).
Atlanta would have burned if they weren’t charged with murder.
Some teevee guy said it was considered a deadly weapon by police department training because used improperly it can stop the heart. Also the cop isn’t supposed to allow himself to get tazed because then the guy could take his gun. If true, he did what he was supposed to, though I might personally prefer a different standard.
The same DA’s office recently charged several police officers for felony assault because they used a taser.. which the charges described as a deadly weapon.
It would be interesting to see what the department’s own UoF policy states with regards to ESD weapons.
If Tasers are classed (correctly, in my opinion) as less-lethal weapons, not to be employed except in circumstances where deadly force would be justified, then the cops are in the clear.
On the other hand, some departments consider Tasers to be equal to or lower than pepper spray on the UoF continuum. This is nonsense, of course, but if it were the case with this department, then the cops are pretty well toast.
There is a modicum of “space between OC and deadly weapon. In my limited experience, the taser is usually right around the ask/baton on the UoF scale. At least, it was in my previous agencies.
Whether that is ethically right is another matter.
I think it will hinge more on whether the cop thought the perp could alter his consciousness and thus be capable of taking his firearm. Having a taser pointed at him might lead him to believe that, and thus he would have a reasonable fear for his life.
I think it will hinge on whether it is standard procedure with two cops for one to start handcuffing the guy while the other said they were arresting him. If the victim started resisting the instant he was touched then it is going to be hard to convict … in a fair trial.
The big problem for the accused is . . . shot in the back.
Of all the cops killing people lately, he’s the wrong one to scapegoat. Still haven’t seen the kill-cams for Duncan Lemp or Breonna Taylor – I bet both of those are far worse.
because Atlanta will burn if he walks
You mean it won’t anyway?
Here is the Atlanta DA two weeks ago clearly stating that a taser is considered a deadly weapon under GA law.
I watched the news conference. Seems like they are saying that APD policy is to immediately inform the suspect that they are being arrested. Since they didn’t do that before they cuffed him, everything afterwards was not legally justified and that the taser is not a lethal weapon (which I believe the same DA is saying it is in the case of the 6 officers charged for tasing the two college students tased during the riots). Also, apparently the second officer is going to be a state witness (isn’t saving him from 3 charges).
I agree with Florida Man, still shots and slow mo, it looks like a bad shoot. Real time, I’m not so sure. I’m not sure how the overcharging thing works in Atlanta.
If you listen to the DA, this is not a classic “overcharge so they walk” scenario.
He flat out lies throughout his presentation. Makes claims like “never a threat to officers”, makes claims about firing the taser that are just silly – he didn’t aim it at the officer, he aimed over his head. Well, not on purpose he didn’t. He gave it his best shot and missed.
In the same incident – within a second of that shot, the officer fires and misses, hitting a car in the background. He is charged with aggravated assault on the occupants of the car. So in the same incident, within one second, he’s saying that one guy posed no threat because he (apparently intentionally) missed, and the other guy is guilty of felony assault when he accidentally misses and hits a car.
The whole thing is through-the-looking-glass.
This is reminiscent of the Michael Haynes cases from Mississippi, where they just made up cases so they could close out an investigation. They want to put this guy on death row for doing exactly what the city hired and trained him to do.
This is where I am.
There is enough reasonable doubt that he will be found not guilty. I think most people are at least somewhat sympathetic to a cop who makes a split second decision especially when the dead guy has been fighting with the cop. I get the argument that he was running away and they could have picked him up later, but that’s easy to say in hindsight.
What made the George Floyd killing so bad was that it wasn’t some split second reaction but rather it took place over minutes and on video.
My prediction is that he will be granted a change of venue and be convicted on for the post shooting kick. Other cop walks completely. Shooter gets a year or so, which he likely will have already served and nobody leaves happy. Of course, all of this happens after the election and prolly far enough out that it barely makes news.
I predict he’ll be cleared and eventually Atlanta will owe him a lot of back-pay.
So at least two more riots.
I doubt it unless they drag the case out until the next election.
Wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is an act of citizenship.
Go fuck yourself.
Sorry, I just don’t feel like being a good citizen right at the moment.
Why not wear it to prevent hurricanes as well. Equally as effective.
My company of approximately 200 employees has been operating normally throughout the pandemic. We just had our first employee test positive for the Rona. He was and is asymptomatic but went to get tested because it was free and he was curious. Very few employees have been wearing masks but apparently he was one wearing a mask all the time.
*deported*
I absolutely love Shriekback, but that video gives me the heebies.
The whole album is great. Fantastic driving around at night music, or at least it always make me think of that. And so many tracks were used for Manhunter, one of the 80est movies of the 80s. Just so many pleasurable resonances.
Plus it made me look up “parthenogenesis” when it came out!
Yes, yes, Hammer Heads!
Manhunter and To Live and Die In LA are both amazing movies, forget the era.
I was just talking up To Live and Die in L.A. to Riven just a few days ago. It is on no streaming service. WTF?
No love for Band of The Hand?
It’s been a while. Maybe since seeing it in theater. I recall the plot and all, but I need to see it again to really have an opinion. (It is also not on any streaming service.)
It’s not great, just another movie with Shriekback on the soundtrack from 1986.
Hey, let’s not get hasty, now.
Really?
I’ll be buying the DVD then.
I checked again… it’s not even available for rent or purchase streaming from Amazon. How is this movie so forgotten?
Holy crap. That is very disappointing.
It is available by, uh, other means. [cough]torrent[cough]
DVD is solid – caught it at the Alamo Drafthouse a few months back too – great on the big screen.
I have a VHS copy of Live and Die in L.A. that was originally in mono, which I didn’t realize till I bought it. Then I rented a copy in HiFi from a video store and copied it over my shitty mono copy. It’s about the only movie I ever rev up the VCR for anymore.
Virus RATES are in fact going DOWN in every part of the country. Raw numbers are going up only because more tests are being done.
Even so the numbers are still complete bullshit. I have a neighbor who is 91 and has been tested at his doctors office each of the last four Monday’s. The results: negative, negative, positive, negative.
Hah! From the BBC live text of the current EPL game: “In these unprecedented times there’s something nice about a good old-fashioned precedented David Luiz error to usher in the new era.”
That was a fun 25 minutes of David Luiz.
And that wasn’t the worst for David Luiz today.
Might I suggest “Dicks-y Chicks?”
The jawlines are suspicious.
that video link only makes me thing of one thing
CUNT SMASHER
“The claim is made in new book The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump by Washington Post journalist Mary Jordan ”
That is laughable. A WaPo writer that has never written anything non-fiction. Yeah, sounds legit.
Surely she’s familiar with Melania’s thinking.
“I’m…b..back ???”
https://twitter.com/bunnydelphine/status/1273311353533579265
I miss the murder hornets.
I’m sure the African animals will be the first to be put down. Gov Walz threatens legislature with the claim that the Minnesoda Zoo will close if lawmakers don’t pass his bonding bill.
Why is the zoo in such dire straits? Because Gov Fuckface put us on lockdown and closed the zoo.
sell it to the highest bidder even if you only get four bits for it
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/06/feds-charge-woman-with-torching-police-cars-amid-violence-after-protest-over-george-floyds-death.html
I mean, that is some fine detective work there.
yeah I saw that. I suspect over the next month – six weeks we’ll be seeing a LOT of these people get knocks on the door from the feds.
One can only hope that a steady stream of terrorism trials arises from the recent riots.
Yes, and removing people with annoying hipster tattoos from society is just icing on the cake.
Ya know, I recall Trump saying Antifa was going to be classified as a terrorist organization. I don’t recall hearing that it actually had been. So, has it?
Is a Mazel Tov considered an explosive device?
A different local reporter covered this story and the comments on that story amounted to: 1) she did nothing wrong, she’s a hero or 2) kill her. In my nearly 50 years on earth, I don’t remember the country ever being more divided than right now.
You missed 64 to 71
That I did. Not quite old enough.
I was six and a half when JFK was assassinated in November 63 and ten when the Kent State shootings occurred in May 70.
In between, there were race riots, war protests, bombings, and a couple more assassinations.
That pretty much established the yardstick I use to measure how fucked up the world is.
We are getting pretty close to that now.
So you only aged four years in the 6-1/2 years between those two events?
Math is hard /barbie
13 in 1970
Born on Feb 29th?
The series, Madmen, includes all the craziness going on during that period. I really hadn’t thought about how much bad stuff went on in that short time.
Ah, Boomer Porn.
Gen XXX
I can see the argument that she is fighting tyranny, but I never read anywhere that the tyrants don’t fight back.
Well done. That’s TV show level, CSI, kind of stuff.
I wonder if the cops went “undercover” at the massage parlor just to be sure it was her?
Daaaaang…..(((girl))) thicc.
You know what would make the Summer of 2020 even better? Not one but two new homeless camps springing up in Minneapolis!
Everyone in the story looks exactly like you think they would.
Mike Gundy apologized really fast. For wearing a t-shirt with a logo of an unwoke cable news channel.
He should have told the RB, being from Canada, to criticize PM Blackface first.
But it’s okay for the Gov of va to wear a klans uniform.
Eh. You got 50 idiots to manage between 18 and 22. Fuck the shirt. Of course, I’d also bring that kid in to my office, sit him down, and say, “you made your point in public, like a child. I’m gonna make mine in private between you and me like an adult. You fumble the ball, you miss a block, you take one play off, I’ll sit your ass down for the rest of that game and you might not start the next one. You want to hold me accountable, cool. I’m gonna do the same for you.”
The thing about this that is aggravating and a little bit scary is that nobody would dare complain about someone wearing a CNN or MSNBC shirt. Or even a CWPA shirt. People wear freaking Che Guevara shirts and get praised, and that guy straight executed people, among other things. But you dare espouse not-woke and somehow you are a social pariah and must lose your job?
And you watch… apologies are never enough. There’s a good chance that even with his walk of shame, he’ll still end up losing his job.
Trump is right. You never apologize.
Wtop which is the local DC, MD and VA area radio news has had exactly one article about monument defacement and it came out today-
https://wtop.com/virginia/2020/06/white-lives-matter-sprayed-on-arthur-ashe-memorial/
I honestly can’t believe how much we are being gaslit the last two weeks. It’s simply unreal and staggering. Also I see the articles about future hospital “icu’s being overrun in two weeks” are beginning to make the rounds again feel like I haven’t seen those in 3-4 weeks.
6 months ago I would have said hoax, but with the 24/7 hate mongering by the media I can buy white racist.
I could too if it was anyone but Arthur Ashe. C’mon, Arthur Ashe?
My money is on false flag done by some twit that has no idea who Ashe was.
Most of the BLM protestors don’t know the statues they are defacing either. IRT the police/media being biased; how was your 4 year nap IH. ?
Probably the latter. Just a “screw you” to all of the defacing and tearing down of statues, covering them with racist and communist graffiti. A dumb idea, but I get where the emotion could come from. You start tearing down statues of Columbus and Lincoln, saying that they are genocidal racists and people are going to start getting personally offended.
My point is we’ve had 2-3 weeks of protesters painting, defacing and tearing down monuments all over the place, this was the first time any article mentioned the alert the police with trying to find the perps. This is a fucking joke. I have no idea if it was a white supremacist, normal guy pissed off about the defacement of other monuments or as you said hoax.
An excellent point. We’ve had police standing by and watching people burn buildings and tear down statues… but the one guy who is on the other side…. that guy we gotta find. Because paint is important when it isn’t Antifa or BLM paint.
There are photos of what appears to be a white dude spray painting “WLM” on the monument. But, in those same photos there are already BLM and WLM tags elsewhere on the monument.
So I shouldn’t call Crime Stoppers if I know who vandalized other statues?
Only if they are white supremacists.
“Trump asked Chinese president to help him win reelection and told Xi he agreed that China should build concentration camps for 1 million Muslims.”
https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1273339458453110790
Biden’s son getting a billion dollars is apparently A-OK.
Bull. The US is clandestinely supporting the Hong Kong protests. If anything, China would take the side of these BLM commie agitators.
According to someone familiar with his thinking?
The WaPo seems to know a lot of those people.
Bolton. ?
So not familiar with thinking at all.
Right? Why does that sound a LOT like a story that would come from a guy who would just as soon invade China?
Impeach!
Apparently protesting racism won’t prevent someone from getting COVID-19.
Who knew?
Huh. I think outside of a ReopenNC organizer testing positive for Lil Rona, I never heard anything like this about the Reopen protests.
I heard some news blurb today about increases in states that reopened early. Not a single mention of the BLM protests.
“Black Lives Matter protest of 80 people in tiny Ohio town where just 13 black residents live is overrun by 700 white counterprotesters armed with rifles, handguns and baseball bats”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8431699/Black-Lives-Matter-protest-80-people-tiny-Ohio-town-overrun-700-armed-counterprotesters.html
Really dumb. Let them march and protest. The back the blue people are the thugs in this particular story.
Funny how quickly the assailant was picked up after the fact. Or how the PD chief set the groundwork for disarmament for safety reasons.
Stupid but this is what you get when people are scared and the police refuse to stop looters, not that that’s what this particular bunch was doing.
Wait a minute….why was there such an outsized (to the black population) protest in this particular town to begin with??
Don’t get me wrong–I’m not saying it was a bad thing to do; just, why that many protesters to begin with? Did something happen there? Then, why such a bigger counter-protest? The entire things just seems waaaay off.
“EXCLUSIVE: Cara Delevingne had threesome affair with Elon Musk and Amber Heard, according to explosive new testimony that drags supermodel into Johnny Depp’s $50M defamation suit against ex wife”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8426719/Cara-Delevingne-three-way-affair-Amber-Heard-Elon-Musk.html
fuck.
Thee-ways with supermodels is the entire point of being a billionaire.
They’re me-ways because they’re for me, not for thee.
There’s no “I” in threesome
Good for Elon if true.
Cara Delevingne…really??
Blech!
Daaayyyuuummm…
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8430737/Demi-Rose-slips-form-fitting-unitard-does-booty-workout.html
FFS. When are you going to gird your loins and take the final step?
https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-portrait-lazy-sow-pink-huge-image-taken-near-farm-image60108518
So…………Moss fan, huh?
Kate Moss in her prime was pretty damn hot. Another Johnny Depp conquest.
False.
I have yet to see any picture of her where it didn’t look like something was wrong with her.
“‘They don’t even look alike!’ Twitter erupts as Kristen Stewart is cast as Princess Diana in new biopic… that will depict her troubled marriage to Prince Charles”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8432685/Kristen-Stewart-play-Princess-Diana-new-biopic-Spencer.html
It doesn’t seem like good casting.
I find neither of them particularly attractive.
Stewart is best in roles where she can play a houseplant.
^^^This
And Diana was a bit of a houseplant.
I know I’m way out on an island by myself on this one, but I absolutely don’t get the fascination with Diana at all. She’s some rich by birth chick who married an old rich by birth dude. The wedding was fabulous and she made a beautiful bride. But that’s about it.
She died being a single-mom party girl travelling the world and banging other wealthy by birth dudes from other countries. That’s no reason to celebrate her as a hero. I used to work with a lady who thought she was fantastic. She was a top-level executive at my company. When I expressed my Diana skepticism she waxed poetic about how wonderful she was .. to which I replied, “I’m shocked. I’d put you above her any day of the week and twice on Sunday. You are a self-made woman who is successful in her own right and who doesn’t run around partying with guys all over the world leaving your kids at home alone. ”
She didn’t take it as a complement.
I don’t get it. She’s famous for marrying a dude. What kind of modern woman is interested in that?
she’s a British 7 with a flat ass.
Or as an English (not British) friend of mine said, she was a stupid tramp who was married to some German guy for a while.
I’m with you – I thought she was a worthless human being and maybe a 6 for looks. Never understood why anyone gave a damn about her.
But, but, but, she opposed LAND MINES you philistine!
It was brave to stand up to all those pro-land mine celebrities and rich-ass gadabouts.
You SWINE! I’ll have you know–we’re merely ‘comfortable….at best!
But but but LAND MINES!
I should learn to read the comments.
None of the people in Hamilton look like who they’re playing.
Interesting. Maybe they should cast a person of color.
Has she ever been well cast? She should be cast into a corner to play a wooden bench.
She was perfect in twilight. The movie was bland and featureless. Completely flat and devoid of anything good or bad. She fit that role like a glove.
Googles Kristen Stewart…highest paid actress in the world in 2010 & 2012…American father and Australian mother. I blame her father for all short-comings.
You shouldn’t discount the possible cognitive damage she sustained by growing up constantly listening to that penal colony accent.
yer a bloody drongo!
Heh, heh. As Aussie as you get.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZb4vwMV8lY
Australian music as about Aussie as you can get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erSJGrpfnOI
PA Supreme Court will rule on dispute between Gauleiter Wolf and legislature
Pennsylvania’s highest court on Wednesday granted the Democratic governor’s request and took over a lawsuit by legislative Republicans that could end his pandemic shutdown order.
The Supreme Court announced it will decide the case filed by Senate Republicans, seeking to enforce a resolution that both chambers passed last week to end the state of disaster emergency imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf in March.
I gotta say, just looking at the statute and the constitution (which is uphill from the statute), the Gov. has a good argument on the technical merits. The legislature done fucked up by not having an automatic sunset requiring extension by a vote, rather than by having sunset via resolution which, per the constitution, requires the Gov.’s approval.
I’d have to look again; there may be some wiggle room in the constitutional language.
Yeah, that’s their specialty. Fucking feckless mouth breathers, the lot of ’em.
Nothing new. The Pa. Supreme Court violated the State constitution when it drew up the new congressional districts. GOP hemmed and hawed, but did nothing.
The whole thing is a mess. The governor is also partly wrong in that he wants to eat his cake and have it too, if the law is unconstitutional then his emergency powers under the law should end as well. The correct solution is for the state supreme court to strike the law down as unconstitutional and for the legislature to pass a new law (or not). However, I strongly suspect with John Roberts’s “faux legitimacy at all costs” model to emulate, the state supreme court will instead split the baby and rewrite the law for the governor’s benefit.
Yep.
Though one possible monkey wrench: I remember some news articles saying the state Supreme Court saying in one of the court cases against Gauleiter Wolf that if the legislature passed a concurrent resolution ending the emergency, the emergency is over.
Hier (Trigger Warning: PDF)
This state of disaster emergency shall continue until the Governor finds that the threat or danger has passed or that emergency conditions no longer exist, but may not continue for longer than ninety days unless renewed by the Governor. Id. As a counterbalance to the exercise of the broad powers granted to the Governor, the Emergency Code provides that the General Assembly by concurrent resolution may terminate a state of disaster emergency at any time. Id
PA Health Department sues to stop car show
Carlisle Events officials were considering their options Wednesday morning after the state Department of Health, citing COVID-19 concerns, sued the company to try to stop it from holding its Spring Carlisle car show that is expected to draw 100,000 visitors.
Mike Garland, company spokesman, said the firm was declining comment on the suit filed in Commonwealth Court while awaiting advice from its lawyer.
Meanwhile, the show, a huge automotive flea market that draws visitors and vendors nationwide, was still scheduled to run Wednesday through Saturday at the Carlisle Fairgrounds. It had already been delayed by two months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Staging the show could be disastrous, the Health Department claims.
“When individuals choose to ignore those safeguards—such as by holding an event anticipating 100,000 attendees—they put the lives of Pennsylvanians at risk and threaten to reverse the significant progress that has been made to resolve this crisis,” its petition to Commonwealth Court states. “That dangerous conduct must be stopped before it can occur.”
Interesting.
My son goes to Gettysburg – Adams County – and things are still on for him in the fall.
I thought, despite Wolf’s antics, that PA was loosening things county by county,
Loosening, yes, but still very restrictive.
Out where I am, basically no one is following the restrictions, except for restaurants and business owners that could lose licenses, etc.
I’m in the philly suburbs, so everybody is following them. Back home in the sticks, nobody gives a damn.
I can’t honestly believe they keep propping up data from Independence day and expect them to take anything they say seriously. That dude should have been tarred and feathered out of office when they found out xe took her mom out of the nursing home before crafting the order to make Nursing homes take excess covid patients and treat them onsite.
My mother is the administrator of a nursing home, and a lifelong Democrat and fan of Wolfe. The cognitive dissonance she has had the last few months is getting frightening.
Is she blaming the state public health people or Trump? I’m guessing it would be different if only comrade Wolfe knew what was going on.
Meanwhile, our piece of shit governor says it’s jus a Republican argument:
When individuals choose to ignore those safeguards—such as by holding an event anticipating 100,000 attendees—they put the lives of Pennsylvanians at risk and threaten to reverse the significant progress that has been made to resolve this crisis
Now do BLM/antifa “events”.
You need to check your privilege.
You know the answer. Wolf can send his State cops to arrest the one or few organizers of the car show. There is no way he can send cops to arrest 50,000 BLM protesters and rioters. If conservatives and libertarians had a big enough mob, then the government would be powerless against us too.
Welcome to the “George Floyd Memorial Car Show.”
Fixed.
May have purchased another case of ammo.
Any thoughts on Mk262 or its IMI razorcore knockoff?
IMI ammo in general is very hot, and not particularly consistent.
Last case of 77grn. Razorcore I shot up (first half of 2018), I was getting velocity swings in the neighborhood of 80-120fps. over ten shots. At 300 yards, that’ll cause your group to open up vertically around an inch and a half, worst case.
I wouldn’t use it at a long-range DMR match, but for the price it’s not bad.
So Gov coonman is giving all the state employees off for Juneteenth. I cannot state how pissed off as a business owner I am right now about the state of VA governance and the fact they expect me to continue to file sale and use taxes and income taxes after the absolute shit show of the previous 3 months. I don’t think I’ve ever been more pissed off about taxes in my life. It’s almost like they are personally rubbing it in my face with shit like this.
Which part of the state are you in?
VA.
How am I supposed to stalk you with an answer like that?
“Is it time for the Dixie Chicks to rethink their name?”
Of course they should. Chicks is horrifically misogynistic.
I also think that Alabama and Mississippi should change their names as well as both state names are synonymous with racicm.
There’s a political party that also be changing its name due to a long, long time history of racism.
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-authorities-placed-children-with-pedophiles-for-30-years/a-53814208
Well this story is absolutely disgusting.
Starting in the 1970s psychology professor Helmut Kentler conducted his “experiment.” Homeless children in West Berlin were intentionally placed with pedophile men. These men would make especially loving foster parents, Kentler argued.
A study conducted by the University of Hildesheim has found that authorities in Berlin condoned this practice for almost 30 years. The pedophile foster fathers even received a regular care allowance.
Helmut Kentler (1928-2008) was in a leading position at Berlin’s center for educational research. He was convinced that sexual contact between adults and children was harmless.
You know who else performed “experiments” on vulnerable people?
Sorry, if this isn’t humor – that is absolutely disgusting.
Never apologize! It was disgusting when progressives/nazis/unit 731 did it too.
If child-rape jokes are unacceptable here, where would they be Ok?
I stumbled across that story yesterday. That shits fucked, yo.
I posted it here a couple years ago…
Trust the experts.
Because of course the guy’s first name had to be Helmut.
He was ahead of his time. Pedophiles will get their full set of extra-constitutional privileges right after trannies are satisfied.
Weirdest music video ever.
Nah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqeKV2UYq1Q
Watch to the end. Or at least forward 3:18.
Gah, did the ’80s ever suck.
No way, the 70s and 80s both rocked. Things started sucking in the 90s.
This. 1985 looks like heaven right now.
Yup
Once we got C&C Music Factory and Seattle grunge, music died.
80’s cars from Detroit sucked balls though. My Honda CRX rocked though.
My 89 Prelude Si, loved that thing.
I think mine was an ’86 but I bought it used around 1991. Got close to 40 mpg with it. Could fill up for $10 and drive 400 miles.
Pardon my mentioning this but–Preludes have always had, contained within their cabins, some the biggest shit-heel drivers I’ve ever witnessed.
Beemer drivers? Yup. Jacked-up pick ups? Them, too. Dodge Challengers? Cop and not-cop alike; you betcha.
But, something about Preludes, especially back in the 90’s and early Aughts…
Subaru drivers are the worst.
I have a Silverado with a 6″ lift and a Challenger so the rest of your rant checks out.
I only hope that I’m flying in an aircraft, if I’m ever in the vicinity while you’re driving. I promise I’ll wave to you from a window seat, though.
You are right… that is strange.
I actually met them back in 1982 or thereabouts. I covered their appearance at a local club for the High School paper. This was before their big song hit. We met at the club and they served us sandwiches for lunch. A bunch of local school reporters mostly. They held a news conference. She was pretty hot for my 16/17 year old self. I asked a couple of questions that got quotes that were not worth using. Basically they got a free ad in the school paper.
I liked it. Reminds me of going to the amusement park with my friends.
I think tux, motorcycle helmet, and flamethrower would make a neat-o Halloween costume.
Very Daft Punk
I have that album on vinyl.
When that song came out, Goodyear (?) was pushing a line of tires called Tiempos. The cadence of how she sings “swallow my te-ears” made me think of the tires. So, ever since, in my head, the lyrics are “swallow my Ti-empos”, which makes me chuckle.
I remember those tires.
Despite these strong contenders, I still hold that Total Eclipse of the Heart was the weirdest 80s music video.
Of course, I’m probably biased because I thought the literal music video parody of it was hilarious and made the “artistic” decisions seem even more absurd.
Not even close.
Same as it ever was
At least Byrne understood postmodern art and made it entertaining.
I loved that Stop Making Sense album / concert. So bizarre and so fun.
Gotta go Dan Band for that one.
/Why da hell he marry Kathy Najimy???
As someone who was a teen in those years, I have a hard time understanding how that is strange.
This is strange.
https://youtu.be/QVyfj7-mHqs
And I say that as a long time fan.
Phil Collins with hair? That is strange.
You never saw Genesis before Peter Gabriel split ?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw
My rebuttal
Nintendo Antifa
https://youtu.be/JXqKuBFoI9s
Liberty Doll is adorable.
Wow, Arsenal are, umm, not good are they?
Frog Face, I like it
Howdy!
White Squaw!
Told ya’ll, months ago. This has been decided for many months. All they are waiting for is for the ‘systemic racism’ debate to die down a little, to announce the woke 1/64th VP of the ‘democratic’, lol, party for 2020.
Also, not relying on this one article, they are just pouring in the past few days as the dems have decided their marching orders need to go out soon.
I’m still not convinced it won’t be Kammie.
I just made a 100 buck bet with my brother that Trump will win it in November. I’m going to be talking to a TDS infected buddy tonite and I think it’s the perfect time to lure him into another of the same bet.
Not sure how they could overcome the Kamala is a Cop meme, but I guess that doesn’t mean they won’t try.
I am wondering what they will do if Creepy Joe strokes out a week before the election…or is that the plan?
*Bernie intensifies*
They are never going to let Bernie sit in the White House. I expect them to trot Hillary out. She never got her turn.
Hence why Biden makes it thru the convention, even if they have to shove a broom stick up his ass and roll him around on a Segway.
After Bernie’s locked out, Biden is gone.
Biden is running for President, and hasn’t held a campaign event, or a press conference, in over two months.
“As a black woman and a former prosecutor, I have seen firsthand how systemic racism in the justice system has disproportionately effected people of color. And as Vice President, I pledge to bring about the long overdue reforms to create a more equitable legal system.”
Then whycome you sent so many brothas to prison ?
As San Francisco’s first African American DA, I led reforms to decrease the numbers of first time and juvenile minority offenders into rehabilitation programs to break the school to prison pipeline. I concentrated my efforts to make sure that only violent repeat felons were incarcerated to keep out communities safe and strong.
*Remember Kamala was DA of SF, she likely has hundreds of stories of letting minorities off of crimes. The one she won’t use as an anecdote is the illegal alien who got let off and then killed the Bologna family. Trump will tho.
Maybe you should join their campaign as a highly paid consultant. Trump would just need to run the Russian’s, er, Tulsi’s debate comments to counter that.
Heh heh. At this point they are so predictable I could mouth out what they will say before they get the first word out.
I notice that when I get on the wagon I tire very quickly of the news. I am sick to death of hearing about racism orangemanbad commie cooties. It emotionally exhausting even though I know that 99% of it is complete horseshit.
Your white fragility is showing. Report to the reeducation camp.
Alternate version of same comment; The only way to deal with listening to the sacks of shit in the media lie their asses off all day every day is to drink.
Or, try my approach.
Ignore them. Don’t watch, listen or read them.
Even the rising derp levels in the general environment is enough to make you drink, though.
This. I’m as unplugged as it gets. I work. I spend time with my family. I Glib.
It still gets through at an alarming rate. Except for the fact that there’s no booze in the house, I’d be drinking right now.
Nightly News, it is.
Is on the wagon drinking or not drinking?
On the wagon is not drinking
I only have a 12-pack tonight. I consider that ‘not drinking’
I started at 7:30 this morning
I didnt cause I only have….12
HEY YUFUS!
OK, I guess it’s the opposite of Robin Hood…
https://twitter.com/PaleoEconomist/status/1273264831777341442
Sometimes I forget just how creepy the left is.
*thinks back to Obama administration….shivers*
This is what happens when people lose their religion – that space gets filled with crap.
Held a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach.
Better than having a pregnant woman’s stomach hold a gun against you.
Powerful,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0nzEo8qVY
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1273392671705272321
What am I watching?
A murderer driving away, and incompetent Dead cops, Damn!
Both cops survived.
The rebuttal to the argument that your assailant needs to have a gun before you can legitimately use lethal force.
Well golly, I didn’t realize cops may expose themselves to danger during the carrying out of their duties. This means all past and future fatal shootings of suspects by police are completely justified, I reckon!
Whattheeverlovingfuck?
Self-defense, brah
Looked like it to me.
He was getting into it with some protesters before that video. He may walk on shooting the guy, but he appeared to have been instigating prior to that. I wouldn’t rush to judgement on this one.
instigating prior maybe, but he was clearly strapped and also trying to get away as people (?) are hard calling for his death and others chased him and swarmed him. honestly don’t know why he didn’t blast them sooner.
Yeah, once you flee, you aren’t the instigator of whatever happens next.
Confident prediction: in these uncertain times, he’s convicted.
1) he was trying to retreat
2) It was 3 on 1
3) They were threatening to kill him.
I would acquit.
I saw this video previously with the tag “Fuck Around and Find Out”
The lamest bad cop video ever
Old school Black Panther: This is bullshit.
https://youtu.be/Vn_BF0CIOAo
That woman would go Che murder rampage with no compunction at all.
The scary part is that most humans have that capacity. I vote we rename humans “murder-monkeys”.
Ever watch chimpanzees in action?
They’re some brutal SOBs.
Humans are better at rationalizing it though.
Admittedly, I might off that woman as a matter of preventing my own or someone else’s murder if I knew her personally. I’m pretty sure she intends to kill some whiteys in the future.
Yeah, chimps form war parties and attack other groups of chimps for resources with rock’s and sticks.
It’s funny how the white leftist think they’ll be spared by saying fuck white people.
because they really truly believe only whites can be racist. way too many of these people must have grown up in the suburbs or very segregated cities.
She convinced me that she means it.
Man what a week. Dad still showing no symptoms of COVID, so starting to think false pos. Time will tell. He is anxious to get out of hospital since he has been there over a month between cancer, initial covid scare and now this covid scare.
On top of that, while I thought my first wife was always a feckless bitch, turns out she has been homeless past 3-months and was found on the streets. Her family is taking her to rehab. I only care how my boys take all this. I think they know more than they are telling me.
I am just glad I was able to finally get those boys away from her a couple years ago and have them move in with me and also my parents (for the oldest).
Sorry for the dump of all that. 2020 has been taxing me.
Damn man, that’s brutal. Sorry about all that.
Sorry 🙁
Sorry dude
good on you for taking care of your boys. keep up the good work as a son and father.
Wow. Glad you got away from that, too. Hope you are spending extra time talking about it with them because that has gotta be tough on a kid.
That sucks on ice. Good on you for taking care of you kids.
Sorry. I hope things start looking up for you.
Messed up. Keep doing right and you will always prevail. Hard as it seems sometimes.
Sorry about everything. One optimistic possibility in all this, as some 35%-50% of people with covid infections stay asymptomatic, is that he actually has the disease and is getting through it great. And then he’ll be as close to immune from it in the future as anyone.
“BREAKING: That ’70s Show star and Scientologist Danny Masterson is charged with raping three separate women in their 20s at his Hollywood Hills home”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8433725/That-70s-star-Scientologist-Danny-Masterson-charged-raping-three-separate-women.html
If true it has to be compulsive behavior. Who would be dumb enough to think a public figure can get away with that?
“Jane Doe 1 claims she may have been drugged by Masterson after he gave her two drinks…
A few years later, Jane Doe 1 said she again felt disoriented after having a drink…”
You went back?
What does his religion have to do with anything?
He’s stuck in the closet with Tim Cruise?
I think they are mentioned because they are named in the complaint as defendants
So if a Christian hits me, I can sue his church? Time to pick a fight with Joel Osteen.
The alleged victims are claiming the Church harassed them including killing one’s dog
Joel Osteen turned me into a newt.
I didn’t see that part because that site decided to put a bunch of pictures and links to other articles in the middle of the story.
They have a history of similar behavior.
Yeah, the Mail’s links and sidebars are obnoxious, aren’t they.
FIFY
The ole “lemme whip out my E meter” line?
Xenu’s cumming.
The Scientists love a rich dude with secrets to hide. It makes it easier to keep their dollars flowing.
Scientologists
Damn phone
You weren’t wrong the first time.
TBF, that was legal in the 70’s.
Bill Cosby has a sad.
Pervy Grandfather clause should get him off.
“After Aunt Jemima, people call to cancel Uncle Ben’s and Mrs. Butterworth’s
Many are also calling for the Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup brand to be re-evaluated. The syrup, sold in a matronly woman-shaped bottle, is accused of being rooted in mammy culture and was modeled after the body of Thelma “Butterfly” McQueen, the black actress who played Prissy in “Gone With The Wind.” The Jim Crow-era “mammy” character was often used to show that black women were happy working in white households.”
https://nypost.com/2020/06/17/aunt-jemima-logo-change-are-uncle-bens-mrs-butterworths-next/
These people are going to throw out their back trying to reach that far.
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1273292404116926464
This reminds me, I need to buy more alcohol tomorrow.
And isn’t there some kid’s cereal that uses a frog? White supremacist. And Jimmy Dean? Obvious rural redneck hick racist. Ford needs to change the name of their company. Colonial Penn Insurance company is insensitive to native peoples. Cottonelle trades on wistful ante-bellum dreams of darkies picking cotton.
HAHAHAHAHA!
The stupid thing is that Uncle Ben’s already changed their image:
Just goes to show, never apologize; never give in to the grievance mob. They prey on weakness.
I’m not sure I have a dog in the fight (and, It may be naive of me to think that). That said, I have trouble blaming them, and some of the others, depending on the whole picture. If they think that sticking to their guns will be seen as being tone-deaf, or, worse, they company is going to do what the CEO/Board/whoever thinks needs to happen.
I won’t not buy Uncle Ben’s simply because they change their name, or, symbol–whatever. I also don’t want to be a part of giving these anal warts the satisfaction of their grievance-mongering.
So…..I don’t know.
Glib poll:
If you were gonna stuff an AR pistol in your car each day would you go with 5.56 or 7.62×39 ?
5.56
Small rifle/pistol/revolver = .22
Pistol = 9mm
Revolver = .38Spl/.357Mag
Small rifle = .223/5.56
Standard rifle = .30-’06/.308 (I prefer the former)
Large rifle = .338 Lapua? (don’t have a Magnum rifle, don’t know.)
Fuck you and the three people behind you revolver: .454 Casull,. 44 magnum, 500 S&W
A buddy let me shoot his Blackhawk in .44Mag. I fired three rounds and handed it back to him. If it’s uncomfortable to shoot then I will shoot it less and then I will be less proficient.
YMMV.
Then how about a Redhawk? Not to shoot. It’s so heavy you can kill your opponent just by throwing it at them.
I love my blackhawk, also in .44 mag. I do however, practice shooting it with a wrist brace on and use the much less ornery .44 special. It isn’t a self defense weapon though, I use it solely for target shooting and hunting. The thing is way too big to comfortably carry, let alone attempt to conceal, and I don’t want to mess up the scope sighting.
You can get a .44 special snubnose to go with your dog.
Funny looking and more bark than bite? Yeah, that’d fit his theme.
I have a 6.5″ model 29. I love it and I’ve fired 200-300 rounds in a day through it before. I would never use it for home defense, mainly because it’s very expensive and I couldn’t bear to have it confiscated. Around here, even a fully legit use of it would be grounds. Gotta use something you’re willing to lose. I never use specials in it, they’re hard to find anyway. I don’t even like low power magnum rounds, they seem kinda lame. When I had a .357, it felt like my .44 if it were firing at reduced power, like something’s missing. Maybe sorta magnum-ish.
I’d say a “large” rifle caliber is anything over thirty. They aren’t all magnum though.
I was trying to separate “.30-’06/.308” from “everything bigger”.
Yes, and many of those are built on 06 or 08 cases, 338 Federal, 358 Winchester, 375 Whelen….
Both work. Try shooting both sitting down at different angles and see if there is a difference.
The 7.62×39 is more accurate (yes,really), but the 5.56 is lighter and handier.
I mean, I could go full rifle, but PA encourages pistol carrying.
Then why not carry a regular pistol that isn’t gas operated?
I already have a concealed carry pistol, this was a car carry “pistol” poll. Somewhat based on unrest riots. Somewhat based on a lack of a pm post. *looks around disapprovingly*
I shot a .44 once. Not sure what make. Two shots and I handed it back. I don’t need a flinch, and it was going to give me one.
Shotguns are the traditional choice for car defense, go get yourself a bonafide coach gun.
If you want a pistol with a large magazine then how about something like an Uzi, MP-5, etc.
My first choice might be to keep a couple of extendos for the carry pistol on hand. A couple 23-rounders for the Glock 17 make for a lot of firepower, and a pistol is gonna be a lot easier to maneuver inside a car than even a shorty AR.
5.56. In a pistol platform, I personally think AK is too spicy.
Tough one.
If you’re just asking, “What’s the better ammo choice for working in/around vehicles?” then 7.62×39 generally does better against intermediate barriers, depending on the exact ammo. But 7.62×39 ARs are a stone motherfucker to get to run, and AKs are peasant rifles for people too stupid to be taught good shooting.
What kind of 5.56mm ammo do you have in stock? You seem like the kind of guy who keeps a couple extra cases around…
Also, how do you plan to secure the AR pistol when you’re not in the car?
“AKs are peasant rifles for people too stupid to be taught good shooting”
Oh, come on.
This 7.62 loves the 122 gr. UCW Stuff. Loves it.
The car sits 20ft away during the day.
In xtock? 193 or 855.
Mmmmm. This opinion is unpopular with a lot of gun owners, but it’s still one I hold to strongly – if a gun isn’t carried on your person, it needs to be under lock and key. If you leave a gun otherwise unsecured in your vehicle during the day, the chances that it’ll get ripped off are just too high.
Anyway, real LC M855 is pretty good against intermediate barriers. Not great, but probably better than anything else readily available right now. Probably better even than the 7.62×39 122grn. FMJs that lack the steel penetrator of the M43 ammo.
Still, the more I think about it, the more I think that a bag of extendos for the pistol makes more sense. First off, working with shoulder weapons inside a car totally sucks. Second, you’re gonna lose a lot of ballistic performance shooting either 5.56 or 7.62×39 out of a pistol-length barrel.
Not sure about pistols, but carbine length ARs in 7.63×39 are easy to get running correctly. Hammer spring, enhanced firing pin & C-Products mags. I’ve built two with no issues.
300 blk out. Pistol length barrels won’t stabilize 556 and 7.62 is too much recoil for short barrels.
Nah. Last weekend I took my 11.5″ BCM 556 shorty out to the range and put ten rounds into the BC zone of a USPSA target at 300 yards, prone, using a 1x Aimpoint Micro. My 7″ PWS Diablo is only slightly less accurate.
In order for a 5.56mm bullet to be unstable, you need to be driving a very long bullet through a very slow twist barrel at a ridiculously low velocity.
JBM has a cool stability calculator that any other latent ballistics nerds can play with: https://www.jbmballistics.com/cgi-bin/jbmstab-5.1.cgi
Neat. Thanks.!
Why not just go with a full-sized pistol with an extended mag?
Range and penetration?
I do not understand the appeal of AR pistols. Either get a good pistol or get a good carbine.
Range and Penetration. Why not Henry Mare’s Leg in 44 magnum?
The big appeal of shorty rifles (or rifle-caliber pistols, whatever) to my mind is defeating soft body armor. It’s not exactly common, but assholes out there do have armor.
Penetration of intermediate barriers is a secondary benefit, if that’s something that spins your crank. For myself, the only intermediate barrier I could ever see taking a shot through would be windshield glass, and paradoxically, most intermediate rifle cartridges are absolute crap against it. The light, fast bullets tend to break up and spray the driver’s compartment with little pieces of lead and jacket material. Unpleasant, but not exactly a stopper.
Range I could maybe see being a factor in some kind of fixed-position rooftop Korean scenario. Maybe. In and around vehicles? I’m not seeing it.
Unless I’m taking them to the range or a match, the only time my rifles leave the house is if I’m on a road trip, I’ll sometimes stick my shorty AR and a bag of magazines and medical gear in my backpack. It rides in the passenger footwell of my truck, and goes with me whenever I get out. The intended purpose is having something more substantial than my Glock 48 if I have to fort up in a motel room or something, in the event of a civil or natural disaster.
As seen on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1273404164773642241
People suck.
Has no one learned from Reginald Denny? Do not stop.
Accounts currently suspended. I’m sure I don’t need any more misanthropy for today anyways.
Still works for me…
Twitter doesn’t work at all.
Changing topics, if I wanted to read some Warhammer 40k stories, where should I start?
I meant my account:) it was suspended for violating their rules against hateful conduct because I said Sen. Kaine was retarded for saying that the US created slavery.
They are doing wonders for race relations right now.
Where’s my shocked face at?
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/06/multnomah-county-da-elect-open-to-dropping-charges-against-demonstrators.html
I’m fine with dropping petty misdemeanors like curfew violations. But any crime involving victims should not be dropped.
I really doubt most charged with curfew violations were just outside, rather than hangers on in/around rioting or flat out undercharged for criminal behavior. The city has bent over backwards to accommodate these criminal thugs.
Goddamit. I like enoki. *Throws nabe in garbage*
I love nabe. I don’t know how to make it though.
Lemme ask the wife how she makes it cuz hers is better than mine. The mother in law won’t tell me hers unfortunately. It’s how she keeps us coming over to visit.
Is it kohlrabi season yet? I’ve got a urge for some.
You gonna need an old lady, a daughter, a dog, a cat and a mouse to get it out of the ground.
Not yet, not in my garden anyway.
I cut it off at ground level, cut the top and leaves off in the garden, all that residual is biodegradable
I like to slice off a piece, trim the rind, cube it up and have a crunchy salad item
The kohlrabi in my garden are struggling. We got a late frost.
Had our department let’s talk about racism meeting today. Amazed there was no HR representative on the call. We were lecture about how we don’t know true racism because we haven’t experienced true racism due to our white privilege. I’m sure HR is going to be hit up with a lot of complaints they will likely ignore.
No justice, no peace!
*lights office on fire*
*Takes red swingline stapler*
Be sure to save a copy of your hostile work environment complaints for your lawyer.
Proving once again his white privilege. There is nothing that disproves it’s existence.
“The racism event today targeting white people created, for me as a white person, a hostile work environment. I have serious questions about whether the company can, or is willing to, treat white people fairly.”
Somehow, I don’t think that would fly.
If you are foolish enough to take the statues and Regis at face value, it would look like a lay down win.
Fuck autocorrect . In the ear. With a crowbar.
Kinky.
I am so glad I am no longer employed in an international corporate setting anymore. I wouldn’t even know where to start with all this wokeness.
More than anything I’m glad to be able to skip the “you don’t know about racism” conversation because I don’t want to hear what they would say about my experiences being beat up by groups of Hispanic kids when I was in grade school or being turned away by Japanese real estate agents without a word as an adult. Yes, my choice to live in Japan was made with full knowledge that I would sometimes be a second class person or sometimes (but rarely) have people say rude things about me expecting I didn’t understand them – but that doesn’t mean I haven’t had negative experiences because I’m wypipo.
The Junior High School that I attended was 75/25 Hispanic/anglo. I could count on being beat up 2-3 times per week.
But it’s all okay because “white privilege” or something.
We played a mountain course today, private so the Beer and weed flowed, Bella was off leash and had ablast, now she looks like this,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3hEMRU3SzP2ByXvo8
Good doggy.
Also, nice amp.
that’s only half of it, but you know that,
Ass Wednesday gives you a little sumpin’ for the pumpin’ and some cushion for the pushin’.
http://archive.li/MfoJk
Guess we’re gonna find out if Atlanta is flammable.
Atlanta Police Officers In Multiple Districts Walk Off Job
Light it up like you’re Sherman. I bet the suburbanites have lots and lots of guns.
“Today, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced murder charges and his intent to pursue the death penalty along with multiple other charges on both officers.”
The death penalty? C’mon wtf. I’m first in line to condemn the “good shoot!” dooshbagz and officer abuse of power, but based on the description of what happened this is absurd. Firing the guy? Maybe. Criminal charges? Hmmmm… Capital murder? Fuck off.
Same DA two weeks – tasers are a deadly weapon under GA law.
I think the defense will call that clip “Exhibit 1”
I think the shooting was justified. I can understand firing the officer because no one is entitled to their job and sometimes life is unfair, and the shooting was arguably improper. Whe you can be charged with capital crimes because the mob is angry any cop who stays on the force is insane.
Heroes, that abandon the people they are supposed to protect. This is why I carry.
Maybe it’s inflammable instead.
What you did, was very much seen and appreciated.
I thought Sherman already answered that question with an enthusiastic “yes”.
They’re real scientists. They’re concerned with replicability.
So they will need to burn it at least two more times?
If you drink enough and squint funny, klan rivers do look a bit like lab coats.
rivers?
?Ooooold klan riversssss?
Atlanta must have changed alot. After the Underground opened, I was in town for a conference and went to a club where every fifth song they played was ‘Dixie.” If you didn’t stand up, give a Rebel Yell, and wave your beer around, you were likely to have beer and other crap thrown at you.
One day we are going to have to talk about not stepping on people’s jokes by saying implied punchline.
Tip the veal?
No, no, no. It’s try your waitress. Get it? *3 laughing emojis*
Just the tip.
You still mad at me about that?
Super. Love you guys, though. But, dayum if it doesn’t happen here a lot. In a way it’s endearing.
Or we’re all old enough to know all the stupid jokes.
you’re just to subtle, or else, they’re all too drunk.
DOOM!
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/journey-to-antarctica-is-this-what-a-climate-catastrophe-looks-like-in-real-time?utm_source=pocket-newtab
DOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
So what does all this mean? Nobody can say for sure. “I’m holding my breath to see what happens next,” says Larter. “The blowout could be the start of a new phase of the evolution of Thwaites glacier. But I’m wary, because sometimes you see things that you think are going to be the start of something big, and then things settle down. I think it’s too early to say which way this is going to go.”
OK, Doomer.
I just started a new mystery novel where these climate researchers are studying a large iceberg just calved off Antarctica, and they find a Nazi submarine frozen inside it. Interested to see where this is going.
I just finished the Expanse. I need a recommendation for good Sci-Fi on amazon prime.
I enjoyed Hamliton’s space opera series.
https://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Star-Commonwealth-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B000FC1AFC/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Pandora%27s+Star+%28The+Commonwealth+Saga+Book+1%29&qid=1592444698&sr=8-3
I was thinking in terms of moving pictures.
Sorry for the confusion.
Try The Boys.
thanks
Just finished the first episode of The Boys.
Awesome.
I second The Boys
From the same dudes that did Preacher, which I liked.
It’s really good.
Everyone says that. Everyone says it’s a golden age of television. Everything is really, really good. And that was back when The Wire and the Sopranos were hits. And now I’m all of three episodes into Breaking Bad, and I watched the last one six years ago. And haven’t seen a single episode of The Wire or Sopranos. And now there’s a hundred other really good TV shows on. We need a better way of discriminating quality content.
Game of Thrones was hot stuff for a minute, and then it turned to shit.
The shows I wanted to bother with, like American Gods and Good Omens, are supposedly woke shit.
I liked the Dirk Gently series, but that sputtered out like a wet fart.
I don’t know what my point was.
The Sopranos is great, and definitely not woke.
I still don’t see what’s so great about the Boys. I like ol’ Karl (Urban, not Kaptain Kommie), and the idea seems pretty good. But, the shit got old pretty quick.
Still waiting for Season 4 on DVD or Blu Ray… oh who am I kidding.
So, mom has a computer not working. I do my thing, and decide it’s the hard drive. I order new hard drive, now it won’t even turn on. I poke around, decide mother board is toast. Buy a decent used machine from ebay. New machine arrives, works fine, but old. So I upgrade ram- works great. I put int the new fancy solid state HD, doesn’t work. Put the HD it came with back in, and get the windows self repair window, which just sits there. Downloaded ISO of the OS, put on flash. Takes literally 40 minutes to get input screen. Told it to fix windows, havenow been waiting 20 minutes. Jesus, it’s like using a windows 98 start up floppy.
Been over an hr now. I may just have to go buy some RW DVDs. Ram is just too slow.
“EXCLUSIVE: Drug Dealing Costumed Supervillain Emerges In CHAZ, Threatens Women”
https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-drug-dealing-costumed-supervillain-emerges-in-chaz-threatens-women/
Wow. These people really are just children.
Although, I can still see the appeal of being young and carefree. This whole Chaz thing is like a kid building a little fort out of the sofa cushions.
Yeah, but these people are, at least, in their 20s.
Burning Man is pricey.
The judiciary will check the executive.
https://twitter.com/Judge_wolff/status/1273304172838957059/photo/1
Judge is often an obsolete title for a county level executive. I think that’s the case here.
And nobody thinks that’s a big f****in problem besides us?
That they use a different word for the office?
The actual text of the order or the title?
Around here, the few remaining (executive) county courts/county judges don’t exercise any judicial power except for probate and are completely separate from judicial courts. It’s a holdover from when they were unitary I think. Most counties have a commission/commissioners now.
The one title that bugs me is the replacement of hearings official with administrative law judge.
I don’t care about the title. The existence of administrative law infuriates me. You want a law? Pass a goddamn statute that is specific. Ceding legislative power to the bureaucracy is pure unadulterated tyranny.
I misread that. Thought we were talking about rubber stamp courts.
We’ve got plenty of those too! Both kinds. Rubber and stamp!
Can confirm that this is indeed the case in Texas (where that Judge governs).
SlurpSlurpSlurp “Thank you, Judge; may I have another??”
Cunt.
She must have changed a lot since Risky Business.
??? Now I know why the name was triggering me.
Holy shit–do NOT read those responses!
On 2nd thought–please do. The Texas Karen (male and female) is an ugly piece of shit.
/That Texas = Wild West idea died a loooong time ago.
Looks like mandatory mask wearing is coming to Phoenix:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-gov-ducey-coronavirus-masks-requirement
I won’t do it. I’ll go to jail if I have to. Will not be paying any fines. I’m not wearing a talismask when I’m out and about.
I don’t understand how we got to a point where the state is mandating the use of something with virtually no scientific backing behind it.
Everyone here knew it was a lie anyway, but “my body, my choice” is esp hollow with all this.
You’re new here, right?
They want your submission.
So does the rule specify clearly how you mush wear a mask? If not then wear it like a jock strap inside your trousers – offer to show it to anybody who questions you about it.
Ok, rather than getting buried upthread, what are people’s opinions on non M193/855 5.56 rounds?
Mk262 or IMI Razorcore knockoff
mk318
others?
Hah, and I just scrolled up and ES replied to my earlier today query on the same.
and,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ufuH4vZ77w&list=RD6jV8FWoaytM&index=11
You all have fun, I’ll see you,
Jelly Roll is our new emo king
Q-Tine addicts have their messiah.
Q-tine?
ur so square
You know what’s square? Not being cool enough to answer simple questions.
My martial arts gum is open. But with all of the restrictions I feel like it’s just a small step up from Tae Bo.
Gym not gum why do I always make a spelling mistake no matter how short the post happens to be.
TBH, I was getting excited at the prospect of chewing my way to fighting greatness.
*derp derp derp* And another ones gone, and another ones gone, another bites the dust.
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/06/university-of-portland-takes-down-statue-of-lewis-clark-slave-york.html
They should just ban stone.
WTF! Lewis and Clark permitted York and Sacajawea vote during deliberations on what to do next during the Corps of Discovery. They should be celebrating York and not removing him from view.
These pussies actually kneeling. Have they no dignity? No honor? I’ll kneel when you can make me kneel. Expect resistance.
Concur.
@ Top notch Toledo, Go Fuck Yourself,
Me, Dark alley
Daaaaamn!
Don’t get me wrong, Yu–I don’t exactly want to see his shit-posting come to blows (I don’t see that being worthy of your time and effort). But, still…
https://twitter.com/PaleoEconomist/status/1273264831777341442
Y’all need Jesus.
“If you’re going to cancel everything with a racist history then the US Democratic Party needs to be abolished.”
https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1273280272448909312
This.
Bbbbbbut the parties switched!!!! My history teacher told me so!!!!
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1272927846806310916/photo/1
CWAA
So I noticed today that suddenly some TV stations are again running that Nissan commercial with Brie Larsen that caused a bunch of uproar when it came out initially (girrrrrrrrrl power!!!!!). Makes me wonder how many other controversial commercials or content is going to get introduced during this environment under the guise of “that doesn’t seem so bad now with all the shit going on”. Seems like they’re moving the Overton window in entertainment even more now.
You still watch TV?
This is trending:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22STRAIGHT%20LESBIAN%22
As of this morning, so is #WhiteStrike
I’m waiting for a Dixie Chicks / Janelle Monae collaboration. I think that would be awesome.
??
“Fuck those Righties, with their love of liberty. Pffft….so fuckin’ over-rated.”
A lesbian trapped in a man’s body, finally someone recognizes my identified gender.
I…..sure. I guess….?
What season is it?
Brilliant.
Guess who is going to get into a discussion on FB about “White privilege”? Wish me luck.
You’re a braver man than I. Good luck.
What are they gonna do if they don’t like what I have to say? I’m not in the states.
But, you’re LITERALLY a minority.
Yeah, that is kind of twisting them into knots. “You moved there voluntarily!” “You mean like Mexicans in America?”
Are you drunk? If not, rectify that. 君なら出来るよ!
I can dooo it.
Make sure you check, calibrate, and align your privilege. Otherwise it’s not going to work correctly and you’ll never get the most performance out of it.
Why?
Just because I can.
I like your can do attitude.
Efforts underway to make Juneteenth a holiday in Wisconsin, a state that is not Texas and never had slavery. Why is it so hard to get drunk anymore?! Stronger alcohol!
I’m ready to share my secret. I’ve never learned what Juneteeth even is.
Don’t worry Staff. I’m black and I just found out what Juneteenth was.
Wiki [with several fallacies, because it’s wiki]
It was never legal as an American territory
But even an eventual governor and a Congressman held slaves in WI
Maybe Antifa has a point.
https://twitter.com/AdamantAnarchy/status/1273441827677327360
They don’t seem all that anti-karen though.
Defund portrait videos? I can support that.
Muted because I forgot my earphones, I’m gonna need a higher quality resolution to figure which chick’s side I’m on.
It probably won’t be the blond chick’s side. Maybe she just had a really bad day and it’s just 八つ当たり, but she is off the rails.
By her racism I can only assume she’s a Trump supporter. They are also well known for complaining their kids won’t eat green things. Checks out.
Rohadt hold rúnák.
Got word today I go back to work full-time June 28th, 3rd shift.
Go you!
I love third
Not 3rd base, third shift. But, better than first shift, my sleep cycle just can’t sync with that.
3rd base during 3rd shift?
Why, thank you!
“Please, white lady with white husband and white kids living in white rural American town, explain to this white man with Japanese wife, Japanese kid living in 99% non white city what racism is.”
I know it’s a dirty trick, but I couldn’t resist.
One drop rule, huh?
*thinks about alternative explanations, hold tongue*
She doesn’t pass as a pure breed, so it wasn’t one of the locals. *Scans glibs suspiciously*
So the whites of Asia, with a recent colonialist past, and special gaijin privilege based on skin color. Try harder!
Being a billionaire has its perks.
https://perezhilton.com/amber-heard-cara-delevingne-elon-musk-cheating-threesome-johnny-depp/
Elons rocket was re-used intensively it seems. He banged the hot but did not take the full brunt of the crazy. Win win win my book.
http://archive.li/Fnjaz/04f5efc98d3ccd0684558befce05a075cfc9433d.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/53iAC/7a5146a18c21b088b3c0e41e26d801e0a48bb14e.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/cjgEM/25f146363a57df5a21f7df6c38ae72d5c3fb54a0.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/u5aRg/6a45597af7ccd727bf7a075227e6395f946974d9.jpg
NSFW.
Number 2, obviously,
Correct. She is GliFit.
Oh fuck. What if I am racist and sexist?
Report to your nearest random non-white person, kneel, and begin washing their feet.
explain to them they are sinners and you are their savior
Well, truth be told, the avatar is for you….
Oh; sexist! IST….gotcha.
Amazing how tone deaf Top.Men. are. Gov Kunt can’t even be bothered to put on a mask to unveil her mask dictate.
https://youtu.be/wApghmOOZxs
My gawd. She’s like a Lily Tomlin caracture
What do you expect from Gov Jerry Brown’s sister?
Her use of the word allowing is grating. She’s a wannabe unterfuhrer.
You mean…
::puts on sunglassess::
Cunterfuher.
YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH!
/Dammit, I’m standing by this one!
It isn’t tone deafness. This whole lockdown theater was a test to see how far they could push and have people obey. Unless she is transmitting alone from her basement what you are seeing there is arrogance. If she is then it is irrelevant.
How is the morale in Michigan? Pennsylvania? New Jersey? etc. Has it gotten any better yet? I ask because the beatings are clearly continuing.
South Dakota must be a garbage strewn wasteland with bodies piled high in the streets…right?
New avatar. This?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXItIDsXsAM6Gm0?format=jpg&name=medium
Or this?
https://twitter.com/RyoAgawa/status/1273450674953400322/photo/1
Q vs HM?
Wouldn’t wanna come between that battle.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eaw1StUWkAIO2tO?format=jpg&name=small
“Wouldn’t wanna come between that battle.”
PHRASING!!
Winner!
I. M. G.
I’m glad I was so busy at work today that I didn’t have time to glance at the news until just now. This naming crap is ridiculous.
Worse is the gripe about Snap, Crack, and Pop all being white.
Umm, there are only 3 of them. The notion that any sampling of 3 people or elves is a perfect cross section of the demographic of the USA is obviously silly.
make them all black, but you got to get the lips right
And just like that Pie was cancelled.
Inorite????
Elf comes from the protoindoeuropean word albho, meaning white, and come from northern European folklore; what other color should they be?
POC-colored, racist.
Obviously.
Black Elves Matter
The Unseelie court has its place
Taking this to its extreme I guess we’ll have to rename all breakfast food products (just the beginning) with serial numbers (Ha ha ha, I kill myself!) to remove all possible nuance from the racist/genderist/otherist past.
So how long until some digits become associated with certain races/minorities so those too are triggering?
My oatmeal expresses my white privilege.
Wait a sec… how does Quaker get away with a caricature of a Quaker on the label?
Oh America’s hat, why can’t you get this right?
https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/18/canada-loses-un-security-council-election-norway-ireland/
TIL Bono & Michael Flatley > Celene.
I mean….yeah, I guess so. ?
I laughed. That squirming little toad wanted this so badly and now his dreams are dashed. Have fun with your wish journal Justin, you didn’t get invited to the Prom.
Folks–Racist, methed-out, and stupid is no way to go through life.
Part of me thinks the pastor should have drawn just upon seeing them.
Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming did not issue house arrest orders. South Dakota issued no orders at all, just recommendations.
Arkansas – 11547 cases, 7351 recovered, 171 deaths- 1.48%DR
Iowa – 23,350 cases, 14,265 recovered, 644 deaths – 2.75%DR
Nebraska – 16,315 cases, 9229 recovered, 212 deaths – 1.29% DR
South Dakota – 5742 cases, 4755 recovered, 74 deaths – 1.28% DR
North Dakota – 3016 cases, 2573 recovered, 74 deaths – 2.45% DR
Utah – 13,577 deaths, 7,935 recovered, 139 deaths – 1.02% DR
Wyoming – 1,027 cases, 815 recovered, 18 deaths – 1.75% DR
—————————-
VA – 53,211 cases – 2.88% death rate
PA – 77,999 cases – 7.9% death rate
NJ – 167,000 cases – 7.59% death rate
LA – 46,619 cases – 6.46% death rate
There are, no doubt, a lot of factors involved – policy, preventative practice, culture practice, rural vs urban populations, indoor vs outdoor and mostly who and how the counting occurs but it looks like the states that had no house arrest fared better by far than the states that the most restrictive lockdowns. Most notably SD which had the least restrictions of all fared better than all but Utah, coming in at a close second.
It is almost starting to look like governments lie to people. Well, at least they were able to crush the economy.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=arkansas+covid+numbers&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
https://ballotpedia.org/States_that_did_not_issue_stay-at-home_orders_in_response_to_the_coronavirus_(COVID-19)_pandemic,_2020
I’ve heard a couple of anecdotes about some guy’s uncle’s plumber’s cousin’s niece having got the WuFlu and it was awful and she can’t get up the stairs without wheezing now and we’re all going to die.
Give me liberty, or give me death.
I have heard those stories too, the implied moral of which are inevitably “Be scared! Obey! Hide! We were justified in shooting ourselves in the dick!”
Ah, JD! You’re clearly on the wrong side of the pond!
Good morning, gentlemen!
Good morning GT and to you also JD.
NY’s numbers are bad…385K cases and 6.39% death rate.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania appear to have some of the worst.
I forgot to toss MI in there…65672 cases and 9.12% death rate. Holy shit.
Michigan’s Whitmer also put cootie positive patients in nursing homes. I cant believe it was not deliberate on the part of the governors who did that. It is too obviously hazardous and they already knew that nursing homes would take the hardest hit.
They were all one-person death panels. How often to lefties get that chance?
As you say, it’d be interesting to see comparisons in the various states’ COVID patients in nursing homes policies as that could account for a large portion of the observed differences. When old folks who are already in bad shape get it they don’t tend to do well. Forcing COVID patients into facilities that house the people who are the most vulnerable to it was/is nuts.
Mornin! I was in a good mood until I read these posts. Now I am a seething mass of beer-fueled rage.
So….my work here is done?
After close of business yesterday we got a memo from Andy stating that he was closing all of the state offices tomorrow (to reopen monday) as part of the pander plan. Nevermind that no one is in the offices, those working from home will get the day off too. I don’t get what a Texas event has to do with New York, we’d already outlawed slavery at that point, but as I said, he’s pandering.
Ah well, a day off is a day off.
Has he announced yet that he’s removing Columbus Day as an official state holiday?
I have not seen anything to that effect.
🙁 With Independence Day on a saturday we don’t get any days off in early July. They didn’t designate an alternate observance day, so we just get some leave to be used “sometime in the next year with supervisory approval”
Likewise at my employer – next week we’ll ask our payroll processor to credit F/T employees with another 8 hours of Floating Holiday time. The few who would normally work a half-day at a branch on Saturday can use 4 of them for the 4th if they want or save the time for some other day before the end of the calendar year.
I thought if it’s on Saturday take Friday and Sunday take Monday was pretty standard through out the .gov and corporate worlds.
Not with New York State unless action is taken to officially designate an alternate observance day. And, of course, everyone’s been distracted by nonsense, so no action was taken.
Making the apocalypse even worse…we have a fruit fly problem at work.
‘Sup Glibs?
Fruit flies mean someone left food out, or they’re growing plants in their cube.
Wasn’t me!
Mung beans in the desk drawer?
My “hero-pay” seems to have fallen by the wayside but Daughter #1 is still drawing an extra 4$ per hour as a dedicated Public Servant in these trying times. She’s a book-keeper for a Government bureaucracy. This is the new normal.
We must work in the same place.
https://decaturish.com/2020/06/atlanta-police-walkout-following-murder-charge-against-officer-who-shot-rayshard-brooks/
Not surprising.
https://youtu.be/e-M4WXov2lM
Not surprising at all, without political backing and likely to be prosecuted for exercising self-defense in a highly charged atmosphere they’re extremely vulnerable. Not that I have any particular love for the cops but I certainly wouldn’t want to be in their position.
Fuck’s sake. It was already “us and them” before all of this bullshit. I see increased patrols and presence in my little city (which has its own problems right now). Let’s make them more paranoid about “civilians” and trigger-happy…
Charges dropped in NM shooting.
Everybody is asshoe!
Good. It was a good shoot. As was the Wendy’s parking lot cop. And though no shots fired I am glad no shots were fired it was a legitimate use of a firearm for self-defense (Digby’s comment #100) so charges dropped.