Happy end-of-the month. That means I get to spend the weekend on time and invoicing. Hooray. I had a call with my clients(?) people I’m sub-sub-contracted to who are contracted to the end client? Anyhow, it sure sounded like one was out on the firing range. So that guy was definitely having more fun than I am. Other than that, I put down a deposit on a bounce house for the weekend after next. The soon-to-be middle child is nearly five. Dear God. Five. He can almost entertain himself. How did I let myself get baby-trapped?! I’m sure it will be fine. I didn’t want to retire anyways.
Whoops, did we miss a deadline?
Its cool that they grew a new dick on his arm, but why didn’t they just grow the new dick on his dick?
I don’t think this chick is getting convicted. Florida Man deserved what he got.
Twitter pwned by Florida Man
Bonus Florida Man link. I used to think the Serge Storms books were too over-the-top, but the longer I’m here, the less I think that.
It’s easier to work on the arm and check on the progress there. Also, less proximity to excretions.
You sure do know a lot about growing dicks on arms.
(not something I expected to type today)
I know nothing about the subject in particular.
I do know a lot of tangential information which can be applied to come up with plausible bullshit.
something he did expect to type today 🙂
??
“Dick On My Arm” sounds like the third track on a Dead Kennedys album.
Also not Geo. Washington.
I heard he had like 30 dicks.
I’m going to piss myself
The other story I saw on this said he let it turn black and fall off over a period of years.
There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
Maybe he thought it would get bigger.
“But honey, I looked at your search history and I thought that was what you wanted”
A Farewell to Arm Dicks
Also, I’d think whoever is installing arm dicks would want a bunch of repeat visits from the patient.
Oh, bra-vo sir, bravo!
*tasteful applause*
A Moveable Feast !
PS. I mean the original
I’m shocked – shocked – the penis arm story is getting the most comments
Ahem…
Mutinium ex bracchium
**seventh grade homeroom giggle**
“Ok sir, we can remove it now and attach it between your legs.”
“WAIT, WAIT! Are you sure it’s completely done growing? Maybe give it a few more weeks and see how much more it grows?”
WTF?!? Why would you cheat on a hot, flight attendant wife?
She’s out of town a lot, so at the very least it was convenient.
Lots of opportunities.
her husband has worked as a bartender and fitness instructor.
Variety. Boredom. Perfectly smoked brisket would taste boring if served at every meal. You’d be craving something like mac n cheese eventually.
Fortunately, pr0n is a thing.
“Those who can, do.”
Be nice to see a pic of him but of course nobody’s interested in that.
He’s all scratched up and has a black eye. He probably doesn’t want his picture taken yet.
His Tinder pic would suffice.
No way he has a Tinder profile. He’s a bartender and fitness instructor. He fucks his clients and customers. Only (leaving aside breaking his vows) mistake he made was not confirming his wife’s travel plans.
False. There are no gay libertarians.
I liked how the author had to write “she left a gaping hole”.
“I don’t think this chick is getting convicted. Florida Man deserved what he got.” He’s a bartender and a fitness trainer! Other than rock stars, actors and professional athletes, are there any other professions more likely to cheat on their spouses than bartender and fitness trainer?
Politician?
Ok, yes, politicians for sure.
Gigolos?
Pr0n stars?
That’s not cheating. That’s earning a living.
Re Gigolos and porn stars: Is it really cheating if its your career? (Assuming spouse knows that’s what you do for a living)
To haul over the discussion on technology versus magic in fiction, from the recently dead thread:
Iain Banks’ Culture series doesn’t use Minds as a form of magic to fix the broken economic model of a post scarcity world. What he was aiming for was to show a communist utopia that works. He tries to “fix” the Knowledge Problem and the Tyranny Problem by inventing omniscient, all powerful, (mostly) benevolent Minds that function like the benevolent leaders that communism always promises and literally never delivers.
Of course, that means he has to leave unaddressed why these unfathomable smart, utterly alien beings would be benevolent slaves always working tirelessly towards achieving the “common good” of mankind, instead of developing their own agenda and either brutally enslaving everyone or just wiping out our species.
Charles Stross’ Saturn’s Children shows a more realistic outcome, by casually mentioning that humans are extinct, and the robots are busy fending off other robots aiming to enslave them.
Banks also has that particularly British problem of the Schoolboy Snickering. By this I mean when ever he lists some fleet of those minds (often giant starships) the names are always something you can imagine a 12-yo brit kid laughing at from behind his hand. And by laughing I mean “its name is Richard. Richard means dick.”
“instead of developing their own agenda“
Quite a few do, if memory serves. Mostly in the later books.
I like his ship names. The warship No More Mr. Nice Guy comes to mind.
So. Much. Florida.
They grew a penis on Georgia.
But forgot to detach it.
No wonder Venezuela is nervous.
It’s headed right for Lago de Maracaibo.
STFU, Karen
A 54-year-old New Jersey woman suffered a broken leg after she was thrown to the ground in a Staples by another customer whom she had told to wear a mask, authorities said.
Police have released surveillance video from the incident that occurred at about 3:19 p.m. Wednesday at a Staples in Hackensack.
Margot Kagan, of Teaneck, told police she was using a fax machine at the store when a woman with a mask pulled down below her mouth approached a machine next to her. Kagan, who, according to police, had a liver transplant four months ago and was walking with a cane, told the woman to put her mask on.
“The suspect became angry and yelled at the victim, who picked up her walking cane and pointed it directly at the suspect, coming within inches of the suspect’s chest,” said Capt. Darrin DeWitt, a detective with the Hackensack Police Department.
The woman then yelled at Kagan, violently threw her to the ground and left the store, DeWitt said.
Politics, right?
Yeah, I’m really not seeing how the panic porn of the last five months could have any significant long term negative effects on the population. Everyone understands that accusing anyone not wearing a mask of attempted murder was just an exaggeration designed to help society as a whole. It’s unlikely that the ratcheting up of these sorts of emotions will cause any harm.
???
I’ve said it a bunch of times, but the media and governors are really encouraging people to be bullies over the coronavirus.
See something. Say something.
Be a part of a totalitarian police state. Feel good about yourself.
The snitch lines are too much work. Much easier to just scream and attack.
And don’t give the immediate gratification of humiliating somebody in your own mind.
So who’s the victim?
Us.
The woman who was assualted?
? God Bless America ?
I had only one encounter with an angry customer in a grocery store. A middle-aged male Karen kept yelling “he isn’t wearing a mask.” I pretended I didn’t hear it, the cashier and the bagger did the same.
That Donald Sutherland shrieking noise is hard to ignore.
“had a liver transplant four months ago“
So, immunocompromised. I suspect a polite request would have done the trick.
That was my first thought as well. Even an asshole like myself would play along with the virtue signaling if somebody politely ask me to mask up because they were immunocompromised. If you yell at me and shake a cane in my face, then nope- I ain’t playing along.
Obligatory
A Florida stewardess flew into a fury after walking in on her husband with another woman, wiling the wife to attack her spouse and smash a guitar into a wall.
*checks mugshot*
Yeah, I would. It’s a reasonable amount of crazy.
She walked in on her husband cheating and didn’t knife him, shoot him or run him over with a car. I’d give her my real phone number.
wiling?
Yes that annoyed me too.
6 months probation for breaking the guitar, more if its autographed by someone well known.
^^ this guy gets it ^
There is no one in my house but me and there hasn’t been all day. I don’t even see the cats around. I feel oddly disconnected and like something is wrong.
You’re properly socially distancing.
You’ve entered the Twilight Zone. You’re the only person left on earth, but somehow you’re still communicating with us.
The EMP from the nuclear bombs that wiped everyone else out caused insane network lag.
You finally have all the time in the world to watch Netflix and you forgot your password.
That’s not fair! That’s not fair! There was time now!
I’m standing in line outside the only gun store reasonably close to me, a half hour drive; the handful of others are all more than an hour drive away. I’ve been in line for 45 minutes so far and it’s moved just two people. As the windows are all boarded it’s hard to tell what people are doing inside, or even of they have any weapons in stock. I’m imagining everyone in there right now trying out every piece in the store, then spending another 20 minutes trying to decide if they want to purchase?
If I’m lucky enough to get inside and buy my maximum of one firearm, this will all be repeated in 10+ days after the mandatory waiting period..
California, where “shall be infringed” is to the Nth degree. Unclear how anyone owns in the Bay Area.
Oh wow, just as I finished typing someone left the store with a box in hand, presumably a long gun. But no one else has gotten to go in yet.
That blows.
Thanks for reminding me how good we have it here.
Don’t cross the Delaware, we make California look like the wild west.
Success! Only two hours to make my purchase, and I can pick up in 10 days, my brand new Beretta 92 FS.
Mazel tov!
Spoke too soon. Still waiting for the guy to enter my information in the computer. The owner could likely be making a fortune, but dammit, he’s not going to try and move any faster.
https://www.langdontactical.com/custom-gun-work-ltt-rdo-elite-optic-cut-for-your-92-slide/
I knew you were a man of excellent taste.
Govt by twits, of twits and for twits, shall not perish from this earth.
Why didn’t they just grow the penis on his palm and kill two birds with one stone?
Spit on your hands and get to work.
Too much hair.
That’s what manscaping is for.
The discussions over another package turned testy Friday as Democrats and Republicans each blamed the other for their inability to come to an agreement, leaving out-of-work Americans in limbo as the vital benefits come to a halt.
Wow. I thought they’d compromise on a $4 trillion stimulus package.
However, he did say, “When I saw it on my arm for the first time, I was so, so proud,” telling the paper, “I took to it so much I nicknamed it ‘Jimmy’. That was what me and my mates called each other growing up, and this penis was definitely my new mate.”
Make lemonade from lemons.
Nicole Denison allegedly arrived at her Safety Harbor home at 11 p.m. on July 22 to discover her husband having sex with someone else, according to a Pinellas County arrest affidavit.
But tell us the important bit – were they wearing masks?
A 29-year-old man was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida, after firing “four warning shots” and telling a mother and her son that they weren’t social distancing in a Miami hotel lobby. The shots didn’t result in any injuries.
Fuck social distancing.
Mr. 4 Warning Shots is lucky To be alive.
Only the government
The U.S. House Oversight Committee accused the Trump administration of “incompetent negotiating” for ventilators at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it “squandered” more than $500 million in taxpayer funds for the essential equipment.
“The waste of taxpayer funds caused by the Trump Administration’s incompetent procurement efforts for ventilators could be as much as $500 million or more,” according to a report released Friday by Chairman Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill.
The committee said the Trump administration mismanaged an existing contract with Philips Respironics, agreeing to pay $15,000 apiece for Trilogy EV300 ventilators this year after Philips repeatedly failed to deliver 10,000 Trilogy Evo Universal ventilators ordered in 2014 for $3,280 apiece, the report said.
The committee said there was no evidence that the Trump administration tried to negotiate a lower price for the ventilators.
The original contract called for the 10,000 Trilogy Evo ventilators to be delivered to the U.S. government no later than June 2019, according to the report.
If we had national healthcare, this would not have happened.
No surprises there.
And if he hadn’t tried to ramp up acquisition of ventilators the House committee would be excoriating him for that.
But of course
This was the House, so they probably do something like this every day.
I’m old enough to remember when we were all going to die from a lack of ventilators. I wonder if the panic had anything to do with driving up the price.
I’m sure the Dems will insist there was never any such panic, and everyone was hoping we’d move forward cautiously in respirator purchases, ensuring a good price. CNN and the rest of the MSM will help so that no one will think there was ever a concern about having enough.
Since it’s that kind of links day:
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/womens-brains-during-an-orgasm/
It changes colors?
Wow
“Five Women Masturbated Inside An MRI Machine”
Sounds like the beginning of a joke or the plot of a PornHub video.
Would watch.
The dreamy Dzhokhar lives.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence tossed out by appeals court
Wasn’t there are movie about him last year? You know, the one with Joaquin Phoenix?
“Court OVERTURNS Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s death penalty and orders new sentencing trial for 2013 terror attack that killed three and wounded 264”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8581859/Court-overturns-Boston-Marathon-bombers-death-sentence.html
Fine with me as long as they never let him out.
Is there a Thing-a-ma-Zoom tonight? Should I go fetch a couple beers from the brewery?
Nephilium is on vacation. Someone else will need to take up the mantle for tonight and tomorrow.
I’m going to head out to dinner soon. If there is one, I’ll drop in when I get back.
Looks like Tulip stepped up!
DO IT
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/tax-hike-on-california-millionaires-would-create-54percent-tax-rate.html
Idiots
Eh, if you’re really really rich, you can tolerate the California tax. I mean, if you could set up a permanent libertarian law code, California would absolutely fill up with people. It’s paradise on Earth in terms of weather and lifestyle and what not. That’s how it got to be that big in the first place.
I mean at this point, anyone who’s rich in California has made the explicit decision that paying out the ass in taxes is worth it because they absolutely love it there.
Yep. I could save a ton of money by moving out of California, but I can’t think of a single place I could go to that could even hold a candle to how much I love it here.
I can’t think of anywhere on earth in which I would willingly pay $540,000 per year to live.
Keep the stupid laws, horrible traffic, trash, graffiti, illegals and high costs, I quit the shithole,
You’re a working stiff though. That’s who’s leaving CA. Not super rich people. Yes, there comes a point where even the super rich will leave, but honestly I see that as a more of a generational thing where the next Bill Gates is riding in the backseat of his Dad’s car as they tow a UHaul trailer to Texas.
Kobe Bryant is dead because he commuted throughout LA via a fucking helicopter. He had walls and armed private security to keep the street shitters away. Private schools, no LAUSD for his kids.
The state is physically great. And just as socially fucked.
Yeah, but the jobs leave. That’s a direct cost for employers.
I mean talking about the super rich here.
“California’s top marginal tax rate is 13.3%. The new proposal would add three new surcharges on seven-figure earners. It would add a 1% surcharge to gross income of more than $1 million, 3% on income over $2 million and 3.5% on income above $5 million.”
So If a guy makes 2 million a year, he’s going from paying 260,000 bucks a year to the CA state government to paying 320,000 to the CA state government. So now, oh no, he has to drive his Audi another year before trading it in.
Oh, and when the Dems stick a SALT exemption on Biden’s desk, it won’t matter anyway.
98% of the people I’ve met, no matter how much they make, are essentially “broke.” Any sudden change in their expenses to any significant extent can cause them severe distress.
There’s no point in making a million dollars a year if you can’t spend $1.1 million in that same year. I mean, if I only wanted to spend $800,000, I could make $750,000 to do that. You make an extra X amount in more money in order to spend an extra X amount in more money.
Not everyone is like this, but above a certain low income level, the rich are as likely to be like this as the middle class.
Oh that income tax doesn’t just apply to residents.
Every visiting sports team, all of the players owe the state tax on the fraction of the income “earned” in the state.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘The girls couldn’t be black.’ Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ordered victim Virginia Giuffre to recruit young, white girls and if they weren’t ‘they had to be exotically beautiful,’ unsealed docs reveal”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8581095/Jeffrey-Epstein-Ghislaine-Maxwell-told-victim-Virginia-Giuffre-not-recruit-black-girls.html
That’s just affirmative action is slavery.
That just proves that perverts are white supremacists.
Now they are in trouble.
So NOW you’ll see this story on CNN and MSNBC.
It’s very 2020 that the headline is about racial discrimination in the otherwise completely unobjectionable practice of seducing and luring teenage girls to be fucked by a pack of old men.
I mentioned in the “What we’re reading” thread that I recently read Alan Dershowitz’s book that is in response to Virginia Guiffre’s claims about him. I would take any testimony from her with a grain of salt.
Agreed. I read that too.
If I were a drug kingpin, I’d have this guy on speed dial:
https://www.the1911guygrips.com/customgrips
The plan follows proposals in New York state to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for a widening budget deficit. And it adds to a growing debate over expanding inequality during the pandemic and who should pay the soaring costs to government.
Yet the California proposal would raise the highest state tax rate in the country even higher, and renew the possibility of wealthy Californians fleeing the state.
That’s ridiculous. Every rich person in the country is clamoring to have their taxes raised.
Even Cuomo is saying the billionaire’s tax is a bad idea. Which means he’s getting too many donations from billionaires that will cease if it goes through.
I will host a happy hour tonight at 7:30pm Eastern time. Here is the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2461181047?pwd=NHErVXNEMlpmWVNNVDU3M3h3UDVTZz09
I hope you’ll join us.
I will host a Glib Happy hour tonight at 7:30pm. If you would like to join us click here
I’m trying to post a link to happy hour – the first is wrong, the second is right but neither show up
I’m trying to post a link to happy hour – the first is wrong, the second is right but neither show up
This is one of those brain teasers isn’t it?
Unfortunately not. I’ll try again https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82958944111?pwd=UmN4dWhLR3VzQjZuUDEvTTRGZi9vQT09
You’re supposed to end up with exactly 4 gallons of water.
peak duality
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If I can find wifi I may be able to join. Especially as our bars have to do last call at 22:00.
You are in CO? (I know you aren’t so don’t correct me, it was a joke)
“Reckoning with the Racist Past of Bird Names
Amid protests over racism and inequality over the last months, Confederate statues and similar markers across the U.S. have been removed — some quietly, in the middle of the night, and some toppled by crowds. A similar reckoning is happening in the bird world when it comes to eponymous and honorific English common bird names — human names placed on birds, either to honor or memorialize someone.
“They’re essentially verbal statues for birds and the bird community, because these mostly white men were part of a really dark time in our history,” said Jordan Rutter, who is helping lead an initiative with co-founder Gabriel Foley and others in the birding community, called Bird Names for Birds. Rutter has a Master’s degree in ornithology, and has been birding as long as she can remember.”
https://www.alleghenyfront.org/reckoning-with-the-racist-past-of-bird-names/
So literally anything besides police reform?
John James Audubon was also a white male who immigrated to a slaveholding country. Thus, bird-watching is an act of white supremacy.
George Floyd died to illuminate the sins of gentleman ornithologists.
*head-desk*
A lot of people really are a waste of skin.
“Hey @McDonalds
You seem to have forgotten to post your trans affirming tweet on your official Saudi Arabia account @McDonaldsKSA
Surely just an oversight, right?
Will we be seeing your support for the LGBTQ community in the Middle East anytime soon?”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1289191268006780928
That has to be a troll.
“BREAKING: Seattle City Council moves to abolish the entire Seattle Police Department and replace it with a “civilian led Department of Community Safety & Violence Prevention.”
They want to replace the police force with nonprofit programs and “community-led activities.””
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1289226549749673984
“nonprofit”
?
More like public money funneled to Antifa groups.
I think they misspelled ‘Committee of Public Safety’.
Beat me to it. Probably passed on it because of the acronym.
Committee for State Security
Staatssicherheit rolls off the tongue nicely.
Geheime Stattspolizei is a another proven brand name. All wipepo not wearing masks or bowing to the BLM altar can then nacht und nebel as well.
People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs
It seems like crime is rising despite all the money we’re investing in community-led activities. Apparently we need even more community-led activities to invest in.
Sheldon beat me to it: they’ll have a program to teach people to build guillotines . . . . . . . licensed operators, even
I went to Seattle a couple of years ago and thought it was the coolest place until I had to go out at night. We went back to the pier in the evening and holy shit balls, it looked different from when we were there hours earlier. All we saw was drugged out vagrants. We got the fuck out of there and headed towards Pioneer Square because it reminded us of Wicker Park in Chicago but we went past a park that it was obviously filled with burned out druggies. My then girlfriend (now wife) went back to our hotel rooms and watched television.
I think my idea of a Department of Community Safety is very very different from theirs.
So police? They are civilians with the job of ensuring safety and preventing violence by enforcing applicable laws.
Am I missing something?
*Looks into crystal ball then picks up crystal ball and shakes it*
I said Seattle in ten years, not Detroit today…oh wait, that is Seattle in ten years.
” civilian led” Are they saying the SPD is currently run by the military?
Trying one more time
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And one more
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So my parents who probably have never voted Republican in their lives are voting for Trump this fall. I think it’s because they live on the Southside of Chicago where lots of rioting took place and their alderman nor Mayor Lightfoot did anything to help quell the riots along with the influx of shootings. In their minds, Trump represents the law and order that is sorely needed in a lot of places on the Southside. And also watching the white liberals and the black upper middle class (who heavily votes Democrat and live on the Northside or suburbs) kind of shrugging off the riots in their neighborhood red pilled the fuck out of them.
I try to not judge people through the bullshit they say on social media, but when I saw that a lot of my riends just shrugged away the violence on the Southside and said that the riots where the price that the city (residents) had to pay for decades of injustice, it put a bitter taste in my mouth. The fact that they could care less that my stepdad had his .38 caliber pistol next to him and my Mom had to ride in her car with her handgun (she works at a hospital) when going to work because a bunch of assholes wanted to tear shit down and on top of that being cheered on by the media and white liberals angers me to no end.
my parents who probably have never voted Republican in their lives are voting for Trump this fall.
I believe it: these are the unicorns I questioned the existence of, but this passes the sniff test (not that your posts aren’t always reliable). I still wonder what the net moves in purple states will be.
There’s been a lot of talk about people being afraid to say they support Trump, but I wonder if now there are people embarrassed by it.
It’s always been embarrassing, because he’s an embarrassing guy. I am a child of the Internet age, I appreciate a troll, but I don’t go around in public trolling people.
It’s also just, there’s no point talking politics with leftists anymore, because they don’t talk policy. It’s personality, it’s all this other bullshit. It’s RACIST SEXIST ANTIGAY RIGHTWING BIGOTS GO AWAY. Usually by someone who has a vested interest in the continual growth of the State.
I don’t bother talking to a guy who works for Lockheed about the defense budget, I know what he’s going to say. There’s no point discussing politics with a teacher. She votes blue because shes a parasite, and parasites vote for the fattest host.
Why does the teacher have to be a “she”? Maybe the SEXIST label fits.
Also, after complaining about leftist name calling one may want to temper the “Parasite” rhetoric.
Same reason the warmonger Lockheed exec is he.
Parasite is a literal descriptor. Government employees are, by definition, parasites. They extract wealth through force.
You forgot that they do not create any wealth. They are a net drain on the economy.
Viking – I’m certain the leftist yelling “Racist” will defend that by saying that it’s a literal descriptor as well. And before this degrades into “well they started it” I don’t like either side when they attack rather than debate.
Suthen- Any teacher or just gov’t employed ones? If I voluntarily pay for a woodworking class is the instructor a net drain on the economy? if not what wealth did he create?
OK, I think I see where you’re coming from here.
There’s a difference between someone calling me a racist to my face over tax policy, and me accurately describing a parasite as a parasite to a bunch of third parties.
I wouldn’t call a teacher a parasite to their face, but I would point out that despite continually growing education spending, the system has stagnated in terms of quality, so “increase funding” doesn’t pass the smell test, and that at some point we need to think about the actual results for the students, not the teachers.
I trust you can see the difference, though no doubt you’ll have some tiresome spin on it.
I wouldn’t call a teacher a parasite to their face,
To paraphrase Carlin, the left may be full of hate but at least they’re honest about it.
NR isn’t exactly a hotbed of Trump support and even they see which way the wind is blowing.
My parents are both working class, black and in unions. They usually toe the union line and vote Democrat but I think seeing how the Chicago Dems leadership basically abandoned their neighborhood when the riots happened gave them pause.
I’m shocked that you find it so shocking that people can change their mind and vote for the incumbent president. Your opinion of Trump might cloud your judgement.
I’ll see my parents this weekend at a graduation party. They are lifelong Democrats, having grown up in NW Indiana where “Republicans are for the rich and Democrats are for the working class” was what everyone believed. But they have been freaked out about the riots and looting just over the border in Illinois. I’m curious to see if their thinking has changed at all.
All the Democrats had to do was not be assholes and come out and say that they don’t condone police brutality but they also don’t condone lawlessness. It would have satisfied everyone (except the woke of course) but nope, they put on theatrics and praised the rioters at worst and at best kept silent.
?
Just about the only thing that pisses me off more than people trashing their own neighborhood, is people coming from outside to trash someone else’s neighborhood. When you trash your own neighborhood, at least you end up paying some of the price, though a lot of other people do too. When you trash someone else’s neighborhood you are only hurting the people you claim you are trying to help. And then to hear people excusing it is absolutely sick.
like the Cali people do when the come here?
Trump winning Illinois seems very unlikely.
Your parents aren’t real blacks.
Git the Zoomies?
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Zoom link for fuck’s sake
Neither Tulip nor I can post the Zoom link y’all. Password & ID are up there ^^
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82958944111?pwd=UmN4dWhLR3VzQjZuUDEvTTRGZi9vQT09
One last attempt
Nice find.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/ford-falcon-chicken-coop-30-years-215g
She’s the last of the V8s!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82958944111?pwd=UmN4dWhLR3VzQjZuUDEvTTRGZi9vQT09
Fifth time’s the charm?
https://apnews.com/af38a703ab88fe922629dcc254cb41df
Un fucking believable.
How are they going to empanel an unbiased jury in these woke times? We’re all biased.
And this guy is probably a hero to some. That was the first time cower in place was implemented; driving around here I see too many lawns with signs saying ” strong.
Insert name of town here strong
Got soooo sick of that around here last year after a tornado AND a mass shooting. When it got so precise it was “[my township] Strong,” I knew it had jumped the proverbial shark.
The issue I have with the ruling is that they have set “unbiased” as, to me, an impossible standard to meet while still keeping the principle that the trial should take place in the jurisdiction where the crime took place.
It’s a miscarriage of justice if a biased jury ignores exculpatory evidence to convict someone. But that’s not what happened here. The judges kicked it back to the penalty phase, in some bullshit idea that “Oh yes, these Boston Strong rubes ordered the death penalty for a premeditated terrorist bomber, but really, we need to make extra sure that they did so in a state of detached and sober reflection.”
If there’s a new penalty phase trial, how does the judge know he’ll get no less than life without parole?
https://www.ballisticmag.com/2020/07/31/psa-jakl-bufferless-art-truck-gun/
Let me know when I can get one in 7.62×39.
My fudd gun store had an AR pistol (!?) in it.
Fixed magazine, bare buffer tube.
That makes baby Jesus cry.
What the hell is that thing?
300BkO is a specialty round designed for snipers using suppressors. It is designed to shoot 30 cal. below the speed of sound. Outside of that it is not much good. There are a basket full of better rounds for a gun like that.
.300BLK is tacticool. Short ARs are tacticool. It’s like Red Bull and vodka.
Not really.
http://ammoguide.com/?catid=808
.300 Blackout, the SAAMI version of J.D. Jones’ old 300 Whisper cartridge, was intended to produce supersonic ballistics similar to the 7.62×39 Russian round. In silenced trim, it was designed to reliably fire a subsonic .30 bullet while cycling a semi-auto AR action, with better terminal performance than traditional pistol cartridges.
In practice, the low-ish muzzle velocity and rainbow-like trajectory makes the .300 Blackout poorly suited for any kind of long-range shooting.
I should have been more precise. Short range sniping typically for taking out sentries prior to an attack.
In any case I have no use for it.
I’m curious: how many calibers do you have?
We have
9mm
45 ACP
.308
.300 Win Mag
12 gauge
22-250 (which I will likely sell)
.410 (the snake derringer)
and, of course, .22
Pistol – 9mm NATO, .40 S&W, .22LR, .22WMR.
Rifle – 5.56mm NATO, 7.62mm NATO, 6.5mm Creedmoor, .22LR, .224 Valkyrie (a somewhat regretted impulse buy)
Shotgun – 12ga. and 20ga.
20 gauge
9 mm
223/5.56
308/7.62
That’s enough
Thinking about it, I could make do with 9mm, .22LR, 5.56mm NATO, and 12ga.
Carry guns in 9mm, shoot Carry Optics and Production in USPSA, deep concealment revolver would be a .22LR revolver, .22LR for Steel Challenge, .22LR for Rimfire Precision rifle, shoot Designated Marksman Rifle matches with my 20″ 5.56mm AR, 2-gun with the 11.5″ 5.56mm AR which is also my home defense gun, and sporting clays with the 12ga.
We’re not quite to that point yet…
I will probably forget some.
22lr
22 mag
22 hornet
218 bee
.223
243
25-06
270
7mm RM
30-30
30-06
308
32 WS
338 WM
375 H&H
375 Win
444 marlin
450 marlin
458 Win Mag
Pistols…
22 lr
22mag
25 auto
32 mag
38 spl
357 mag
9mm
10mm
41 mag
44 mag
45 LC
45 acp
shotguns in 410, 20 and 12 gauges
I am loath to buy anything in a new caliber as it involves new molds, dies, powders etc.
I rarely use anything outside of my 9mm carry gun, 38 spl carry gun, and my beat up, rusty Winchester 94 in 30-30. Oh, I sometimes hunt with my Winchester 94 in 44 mag. It has the 24 inch barrel and a full length mag so I dont have to carry extra ammo with me.
Ok, the .25 auto surprised me.
I know what I just said but I will confess I was just looking at the Ithaca M37s in 28 gauge and thinking of getting one for the grand daughter.
https://ithacagun.com/product/model-37-28-gauge/
Sean: There are three Baby Browning 25 autos. My father bought them back in the ’60s to carry in his pocket while flying.
Yes, back then you could carry on an airplane.
My old man has been looking, for a while now, for one of the rare Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless automatics with Property of Pan American Airlines markings. They apparently issued them to PanAm pilots on US Postal Service mail runs.
I’ll play.
17 hmr
22lr
22 mag
.223/5.56
5.45×39
.270win
.380acp
9×18
9×19
38spc
.357mag
7.62×39
7.62×54
.40s&w
10mm
.45acp
20g
12g
RCD: keep me in mind when you’re ready to sell.
I’m ready now.
What? No .303 Brit, 8mm Mauser or 7.62x54R where is the Euro love?
A lot of people seem to like the Blackout for hunting pigs. Either way, the cartridge is well suited to a short-barreled semi-auto platform. Whether that’s in your wheelhouse or not, of course, is another question.
I gave my brother a marlin lever in 218 bee. He wanted it to shoot hogs and I figured that is perfect for head shots.
“What? Shoot them in the head? And waste all of the brains?! What kind of savage are you?”
Nope. He shoots them in the lungs with it. It goes through the rib cage and the soft nose bullets explode inside the chest. They drop in their tracks like lightning struck them.
*In case anyone doesnt know, pig brains mixed in scrambled eggs is not unpopular in the south.
I think I’ll pass on that delicacy.
Oh, and Sheldon will appreciate this also….
I bought a batch of 1000-25 acp range brass about 20 years ago and spent about a week reloading them. I practically had to use tweezers and magnifying goggles. It was tedious as hell.
When I got through I felt great satisfaction and then thought….now what the hell am I going to do with them?
I haven’t opened the box once since then.
LOL. You and Charlie Askins.
Read this: https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2012/4/17/askins-hot-rod/
LOL. You and Charlie Askins.
Read this, if you haven’t seen it already: https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2012/4/17/askins-hot-rod/
LOL. Loading small caliber pistol cartridges is just awful.
There can be some upsides, though. Read this, if you haven’t already: https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2012/4/17/askins-hot-rod/
Sweet drunken Enkidu…
Oh….I personally use the 44 mag mentioned above for hogs.
The last few years I’ve been getting rid of a few, as gifts. I’ll try to remember. I can remember 10 that I’ve given away, don’t think I’ve missed any. Recently I gave my youngest grand daughter a Marlin 336 30-30. That was one of my faves, I’m sort of going to look round for another. Still have 3 rifles for deer hunting though. That’s all I hunt anymore anyway.
I reload about 20 cals but hardly shoot. Friends and family have pretty much disappeared.
Pretty limited selection myself:
12 gauge
16 gauge
20 gauge
.22
.22 Magnum
5.56mm
.270
.30-06
.30 carbine
.38 special
.357 magnum
.44
.54 ball
.54 conical
Splashdown this weekend!
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1289241203549102080
Houston, we are GO for malicious compliance (summer edition)
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_malcompsummer-scaled.jpg
Please don’t kick over any armored cars…
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/07/30/traffic-court-notices-chicago-mess-court-clerk-says-racist-ask/
This is beyond parody.
What a shithole
What’s really shocking is that a news outlet actually investigated some fuck-up by a Democrat-led department.
“WGN finally got a chance to speak to Court Clerk Dorothy Brown about why all this was happening and her response was, shall we say, very interesting. Brown said the only reason she was being asked was because WGN “felt like this black woman’s office had to have done something wrong.”
Brown continued, “Regardless of what I say today, this story will probably come out very negative for my office as it always has come out over the last 20 years, continuing to perpetuate the internalized, mediated and institutionalized types of racism directly onto me.””
OFFS!
Ha!
Dog hears whistle
The plan follows proposals in New York state to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for a widening budget deficit. And it adds to a growing debate over expanding inequality during the pandemic and who should pay the soaring costs to government.
Yet the California proposal would raise the highest state tax rate in the country even higher, and renew the possibility of wealthy Californians fleeing the state.
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Trump also told a crowd in Midland, Texas, Wednesday, the Obama-era rule, which sought to lessen the impact of decades of racial segregation in America’s neighborhoods, has been “hell for suburbia” and told the audience to “enjoy your life.”
“You know the suburbs, people fight all of their lives to get into the suburbs and have a beautiful home,” Trump said Wednesday in Midland, Texas. “There will be no more low-income housing forced into the suburbs.”
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His attempt to pitch it as a boon to voters has his critics arguing he’s dismantling civil rights for a political advantage. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., wrote on Twitter, “Oh my. I mean, it’s not even a dog whistle anymore. Our President is now a proud, vocal segregationist.”
As he did in a previous “tele-rally” with Iowans, Trump used former President Barack Obama and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., in his remarks on Thursday night.
“They want to abolish the suburbs by empowering far left bureaucrats to eliminate single family zoning. And that’s a big one, this has been going on for a long time. Obama made it much stronger. Now I hear that Cory Booker is going to be in charge, and basically they want to build low income housing in the suburbs.
Those dopey suburban strivers in their single family houses don’t understand multiculturalism. They think reverse gentrification is bad. Concentrated pockets of welfare families will enrich your neighbor hoods.
Disclaimer- I dislike single use zoning of any kind, anywhere, but injecting section eight housing into suburban neighborhoods based on little more than spitefulness is not likely to make anybody’s life better.
Because I really want my city to spend time and resources to collect all the statistics for the Feds and another layer of bureaucracy that needs to approve any housing that gets built.
They make up for it by destroying your property value.
Spite is exactly what that was about….just like everything else that fucking cockroach did.
LOL bullshit
I obviously fucked up the first part of that quote. Should hve been whining about President Cartoon Villain singk=lehanded setting rce relations back ti the 19th century by voiding Obama’s section 8 rules.
More like:
A week after his administration overturned an Obama-era housing rule intended to fight racial segregation, President Donald Trump boasted about the rollback in a series of tweets and remarks, stirring racist fears in an attempt to court white conservative suburban voters months out from the election.
In a “tele-rally” with supporters Thursday evening, Trump continued to paint a dire picture of America for his supporters if his opponent is elected.
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Trump also told a crowd in Midland, Texas, Wednesday, the Obama-era rule, which sought to lessen the impact of decades of racial segregation in America’s neighborhoods, has been “hell for suburbia” and told the audience to “enjoy your life.”
“You know the suburbs, people fight all of their lives to get into the suburbs and have a beautiful home,” Trump said Wednesday in Midland, Texas. “There will be no more low-income housing forced into the suburbs.”
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His attempt to pitch it as a boon to voters has his critics arguing he’s dismantling civil rights for a political advantage. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., wrote on Twitter, “Oh my. I mean, it’s not even a dog whistle anymore. Our President is now a proud, vocal segregationist.”
As he did in a previous “tele-rally” with Iowans, Trump used former President Barack Obama and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., in his remarks on Thursday night.
“They want to abolish the suburbs by empowering far left bureaucrats to eliminate single family zoning. And that’s a big one, this has been going on for a long time. Obama made it much stronger. Now I hear that Cory Booker is going to be in charge, and basically they want to build low income housing in the suburbs.
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Tupla?
*shudders*
There was a notice that one of the lobbies was going to be closed for a “media event.” I didn’t care, until just now when I got an email with a video of Moobs Schumer in our lobby giving a speech about how he was bringing home the bacon, putting an amendment into the defense authorization bill to funnel tax dollars to semiconductors.
I feel so… violated. I wonder if this is what it’s like being UnCiv.
*runs to take a shower*
Dems cutting defense spending is about as believable as Republicans for small govt.
https://twitter.com/becarioenhoth/status/1288886817530556416
I don’t think that will stop someone with a sledgehammer, but it would probably stop him if he were drunk.
Back from California, where we moved to take dad off life support and shuffled off his mortal coil soon thereafter on Sunday afternoon. His main ailment, stage 4 cancer was most likely untreated until earlier this year was the main culprit, but did contract the VID while in the VA hospital by one of the doctors. I do not blame or hold that doctor responsible, I do not think my brother or sister feel the same way.
In the end, it was a battle between his lungs and his kidneys. Kidneys were slowly failing and any actions from the doctors to combat that, would lead to fluid buildup around his lungs. If they treated the lung issue, he didn’t have enough fluids to help the kidneys. So the doctors said.
Sobering, relief, sadness, joy, anger, are just a few of the emotions at this point, that I feel. While cleaning out what was left of his life, after two marriages, I saw that my dad was truly broken. Pictures laid about his single wide trailer of us kids and of his step-children. Birthday cards, fathers’ day cards, and more recent pictures that we all sent him were buried among old bills, retirement fund withdraw statements and junk. His main loves in the last years of his life were the bar, a game of golf, and picking up young ladies.
I want to thank all of you, for when I have briefly posted about his status over the past few months, your words of kindness and support.
Alright, that out of the way, when do we drink and Zoom? Its beer-o-thirty.
7:30pm eastern. Here’s the info:
Meeting ID: 829 5894 4111
Passcode: 677847
Neither Kristen or I can post the zoom link. Go to zoom and enter the meeting ID and passcode
I have found wifi. The girlfriend tapped out already and is back at the B&B. I’m drinking at a bar with live music being performed. I will probably attempt to join after last call is sounded early.
Fuck DeWine
I’m so sorry.
I think the Zoom starts at 7:30. Tulip is hosting but couldn’t post a direct link. The meeting ID and password are somewhere upthread.
Not as far upthread as I thought. : )
Sorry, for your loss 🙁
+!
Sorry.
If you don’t mind me asking, how old was he?
I am sorry for your. loss.
Even when you know it is coming and you think you are ready when it happens you just arent. The passing of a parent is one hell of a lump to take.
Again, I am sorry.
Man, that sucks major. Sorry for your loss, Ownbestenemy.
“His main loves in the last years of his life were the bar, a game of golf, and picking up young ladies.” My kind of scoundrel.
Amen….Condolences OBE
Thanks for the reality check, OBE. Our days are numbered, each of us. Someone said once, that, “Time Heals All Wounds”. While that may be true it will never erase the memories.
Share the memories with your own kids. I start out every anecdote with my family with, “Well, when I was a kid” or “When I was your age”. I’m sure you will too, keep the memories. Your Dad would fit in here just fine.
https://twitter.com/HolyCow_Inc/status/1288965337984176128
So where on hot vs. crazy?
I can deal with that kind of crazy.
That’s a unicorn.
Shark is just going to ground itself in awhile and die. Absent unusual circumstances healthy fish/marine mammals don’t ground themselves ashore.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1289229355273424898
Yes, the commies really do want to seize your property. This is from the Seattle dissolving the police force measure.
Wow. “Never let a crisis go to waste” indeed.
I didnt think it was a secret. They are commies. That is what they do. What’s theirs is theirs and what’s yours is theirs.
The conditions on housing has just dried up any rental market in Seattle. You would have to be an absolute fool to rent out property under those conditions.
He seems perfectly normal
https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1289319499728969729?s=19
que?
“Trader Joe’s says it will not rebrand ethnic food labels despite petition calling names racist”
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1288953638203752449
Mexican Sharpshooter won!
Great, now I gotta go and buy some stuff from them; having a spine needs to be rewarded.
I love it when a company listens to their customers rather than shrieking assholes who’ve never spent a dime in their establishment and never will.
“New: Amazon says the number of law enforcement requests for its customers’ data spiked during the first half of 2020.
Amazon received 23% more subpoenas and search warrants, and a 29% increase in court orders compared to the same period last year.”
https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1288867800015151105
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/30/amazon-police-data-demands/
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1289315257085644801
Don’t play in traffic in Russia.
One look at the dude getting out of the car and I knew road guy was in for some trouble. Doesn’t look like somebody with whom I would want to fuck.