ein, zwei, drei!
Continuing our on time links! Swiss precision and Glibs sarcasm, unite.
I almost had the Ghost of Don Swissxote ride yet again, but this sad interview left me more in disgust than pity.
Turn around…..no need for ya today.
So you get normal links. By normal mean…
- ROOOOOSHIANZ! Man, they are everywhere. I wonder if “fire engines to North Korea” would excite the Russian taxpayer.
- Updating a prior enlace. (See, Mex, I can be a team player!) So, NY would count this as three cases, right?
- The old saw “All TEAM BLUE had to do was not be crazy” seems to be playing out. I guess far left idiot remains true to character. Not sure how you stop federal agents from protecting federal buildings…I suspect The Hat baited him into it.
“fire engines to North Korea” Great album, awesome Tour!
Don’t be crazy… Don’t be crazy…. Don’t be crazy….
Nope, can’t do it.
““If one of these federal officers steps foot in New York City with the intention of denying the First Amendment rights of New Yorkers, we will be in court immediately and we will win,” de Blasio said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday.
De Blasio did not mention that federal agents from the FBI, ICE and DHS already operate in the five boroughs.”
I’m sure it’s way more agencies than that.
Anyway, it doesn’t look like he’s actually read the First Amendment, or any part of the Constitution for that matter.
Cut off all federal funds to NYC.
It works for every other extra-constitutional federal effort.
“every other extra-constitutional federal effort”
Which progressives all support.
If one of these federal officers steps foot in New York City with the intention of denying the First Amendment rights of New Yorkers
I guess he will be deploying his mind readers at the bridges and tunnels, then.
“If you live in the suburbs or you’re a city dweller eyeing a move to a quiet cul-de-sac where your kids can play outside, you need to know about Joe Biden’s plan for a federal takeover of local zoning laws.
The ex-veep wants to ramp up an Obama-era social engineering scheme called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing that mercifully barely got underway before President Trump took office, vowing to stop it.
Biden’s plan is to force suburban towns with single-family homes and minimum lot sizes to build high-density affordable housing smack in the middle of their leafy neighborhoods — local preferences and local control be damned.”
And I’m sure De Blasio and his ilk would be all for it.
Federalize everything. That’s the obvious solution.
Including law enforcement!!
Wait, no that’s not right is it?
Zoning is a 5th amendment violation. Biden’s plan is bad, but you can’t support property rights and zoning at the same time.
Libertarian purity self destruction at its finest. People built houses in neighborhoods and other people bought them all based on the existing zoning, those houses lose value instantly upon the building of tenements and factories next door. Calling that situation a 5th amendment violation is putting form ahead of substance. Removing zoning is every bit the violation imposing it was, if not more.
the sick part is that they do this by dangling the carrot of federal funds in front of these cities. Dole v. South Dakota looms large. It ain’t unconstitutional if government induces somebody else to do it using their power of the purse. ?
C. Anacreon hardest hit as I recall.
Yes, we’ve been involved in trying to fight legislation like this in CA for years. Already CA law says that single family housing can qualify as “blight” for eminent domain purposes. One proposal last year, SB50 (Weiner), which thankfully failed, would have given incentives to build six story high rise condos next door to your suburban house, up to your property line, and you would be powerless to stop it. If Biden gets this going again in a federal level, we’re screwed. Straight out of Marx’ 9th plank of the Communist Manifesto, eliminating the difference between the city and the country.
They’re already doing that here. My town minimized the damage a few years ago by buying a private golf course which was in discussions to sell to a developer (any development here must include some percentage of “affordable housing”), but the other private course in town has sold a large piece of it to another developer (who will of course build some “affordable housing). I don’t golf, but that purchase was one of the few times I’ve heartily approved of spending my tax dollars.
A great man once said that “golf course and cemeteries are the biggest wastes of prime real estate.”
“So, NY would count this as three cases, right?”
The whole thing is just ridiculous, when you have grown ups who can’t add whole numbers.
Anyone sued NY yet?
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1285712353615646722
At least he is consistent in his hypocrisy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/03/28/cuomo-new-york-quarantine-would-be-federal-declaration-of-war/#2a916d752292
Hey! That man saved lives (after he 9-11’d the nursing homes).
“If one of these federal officers steps foot in New York City with the intention of denying the First Amendment rights of New Yorkers, we will be in court immediately and we will win,” de Blasio said
I would think that if there was any city other than DC that would be crawling with federal law enforcement types, it would be New York.
I bet they are welcome to visit and deny some Senond Amendment Rights.
“I was disappointed at the no reaction of European institutions concerning the Catalan crisis. Because it was, and it is, a European matter,” he says. “We, Catalans, are European citizens, full members of the EU and our rights must be protected by European institutions if, as it was the case, a member state clearly violated our fundamental rights.”
If they supported Catalan, others might get ideas.
This is despite the large “management fees” notched up on the ICDO’s Geneva books, including the salary of its Algerian secretary general – CHF26,000 per month, more than the head of the United Nations.
Good work if you can get it.
“The test carried out on the president yesterday, on the 21st, showed a positive result,” a statement said. “President Bolsonaro is still in good condition, accompanied by the presidency’s medical team,” it added.
I want to see Balsonaro beat Lil Rona.
“If one of these federal officers steps foot in New York City with the intention of denying the First Amendment rights of New Yorkers, we will be in court immediately and we will win,” de Blasio said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday.
Now do those that want to reopen their businesses despite the Lil Rona Panic Orders.
Has he led a more debauched life than Boris Johnson? Or is the best Brazilian medical care below British standards?
I want to see Balsonaro beat Lil Rona.
Like Glen, with a wirewrapped bat, and Lil’ Rona’s eye better pop out on the 1st swing.
ROOOOOSHIANZ! Man, they are everywhere.
Someone is just Putin’ us on.
*narrows gaze*
Yeah, too bad they can’t just drink a pint of vodka Andropov.
‘member when people just had the occasional Gorbasm? I ‘member.
A brief perusal of leftist central (aka Reddit), reveals that they feel the Portland protesters are the moral equivalent of the Hong Kong protesters, fighting against a tyrannical, authoritarian regime.
Let Portland burn.
First, they’re GIs storming the beaches of Normandy to fight the Nazis, even though they hate everything about that generation (except the tax rates), now they’re Hong Kong protesters fighting against the communist Chinese regime, even though they like communism and think criticizing the PRC government is racist.
Sure, why not.
They’re consistently morons.
They’re fighting for the freedom to tell everyone else what to think, say, and do.
It’s useful to remember that the actual Nazis thought they were defending themselves from the Jewish aggressors.
The initiating event for Kristallnacht was the assassination of a Nazi diplomat by a Jew.
(interesting aside: the Google dictionary spellchecks Nazi but not Kristallnacht.)
Reddit is a sewer except for the porn sections.
When ReopenNH had its first rally, someone posted an announcement on the NH subreddit about the rally. The moderator quickly locked it, stating, “Please don’t ever post anything like this again. This is highly irresponsible.” When people posted about BLM rallies in NH? Crickets from the moderator.
Reddit is one of those places where there is signal, but the SNR is exceedingly low. If you find a pocket of signal, you have to hold on to it.
Reddit is a sewer except for the porn sections.
Is that a compliment or criticism of their porn sections?
That’s unbelievable. I get the Trump hatred. But the idea the rioters are virtuous boggles my mind.
I forgot if Bolsonaro had any symptoms of the disease. His tests are staying positive for 15 days now.
OT, or maybe not, havent looked at the links yet:
https://www.econlib.org/not-even-daycare/
Good stuff there.
Bravo
Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to haul President Trump to court if a single federal law enforcement official “steps foot in New York City” to crack down on protesters and rising crime.
I assume there are federal buildings in NYC and I assume those buildings have some sort of federal security.
If it’s the UN, then I say let it burn.
I’m sure de Balsio suing Trump in a federal court that de Blasio allowed to be vandalized until the federal agents showed up would go well.
But there is that judge in Portland who said it was illegal for the federal agents protecting his court from being further vandalized, and likely eventually burned to the ground, to take pictures of the lobby.
What?
Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to haul President Trump to court if a single federal law enforcement official “steps foot in New York City” to crack down on protesters and rising crime.
“If one of these federal officers steps foot in New York City with the intention of denying the First Amendment rights of New Yorkers, we will be in court immediately and we will win,” de Blasio said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday.
De Blasio did not mention that federal agents from the FBI, ICE and DHS already operate in the five boroughs.
Does that mean he’s going to expel everybody in the Manhattan US AG’s office?
No, because they’re busy trying to find something to charge Trump with.
That and what it will take to bribe the guards watching Maxwell to fall asleep before Hillary gets there.
“$20, same as downtown”
Hillary never pays more than twenty bucks when she heads downtown to murder a hooker.
What of they just want to to church and sing a few hymns?
“If one of these federal officers steps foot in New York City with the intention of denying the First Amendment rights of New Yorkers, we will be in court immediately and we will win,” de Blasio said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday.
De Blasio did not mention that federal agents from the FBI, ICE and DHS already operate in the five boroughs.
Nothing stops the Dems from stepping foot on a rake, that’s for sure.
But they saw the light. Now they would have condemned those brutal police… Right?
Hmmmmm……
Derek Chauvin and his wife have been charged with nine felonies for tax stuff
Wonder if anyone at the local paper will opine on why our Congresswoman Omar hasn’t been charged with any tax stuff despite what should be a open and shut case, while Chauvin just happens to get dog piled even more.
Because FYTW.
You seem a bit of a chauvinist.
how exactly does one spend over $100k on a fucking BMW X5?
turns out the X5M’s cost that much.
wow.
Repairs.
Underpaid public sector workers.
I’m the only underpaid public sector worker.
Joe Biden is totally lucid and in no way senile
“I want to see Christopher Walkin interview Biden”
I’d rather see Gary Busey do that interview.
“Interesting because Hunter Biden puts something else in his nostrils to get him moving.”
lolll
I loled at that one too
Robert Francis: Drumpfler wants the brown folks to die.
He continued, “We know that Latinos and African-Americans are disproportionately bearing the burden of COVID transmission that is out of control in the state of Texas. This governor, our governor, Greg Abbott, is choosing to allow people to die when he could choose to allow county judges to save their lives.”
O’Rourke added, “This is one of the most craven, callous failures of leadership that I’ve ever witnessed in my life. We don’t have a Governor Cuomo here, which we desperately need. Someone who’s going to be guided by the facts and the science and the truth, and whose sole mission is going to be saving the lives of those that he is elected to serve. Instead, we have a governor who perhaps is looking at the 2022 Republican primary for the office that he now holds, trying to fend off our lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, who on Fox News said there are more important things than living. In other words, let’s get on with the dying, knowing full well that it will be those frontline workers making $7.25 an hour, which is the minimum wage in Texas. It will be African-Americans, it will be Latinos and Mexican-Americans who will be doing the dying right here in Texas. This is a death cult, the Texas GOP. Only they want you to do the dying, and that is exactly what’s happening in Texas right now.”
LOL, Beta done jumped the shark.
Can Beto not do basic math?
How can anyone support Cuomo?
We don’t have a Governor Cuomo here, which we desperately need.
*checks Kung Flu death toll numbers by state*
Are you, uh, absolutely sure that’s what you “desperately need?”
Be Quiet Little Boy……………
Except that you’re choosing to look at “cases”, not “deaths”. We’re talking 4,000 deaths total attributed to COVID out of 29,000,000 people. Which is a fatality rate of 0.01% since this started. AKA a 99.99% survival rate.
Out of confirmed cases, it is actually a 1.22% fatality rate. Which is better than 43 states.
The death rate in Texas, 151/M, is better than 32 states. There are only 3 “blue” states with better rates than Texas, one of which is Hawaii (much easier to quarantine when you are a bunch of islands literally in the middle of an ocean), so importing the “blue” model to Texas would likely only make things worse.
Of note, Cuomo’s death rate is 10x those of Abbott’s, so Beto is (one again) an idiot.
We know that Latinos and African-Americans are disproportionately bearing the burden of COVID
One thing no one is saying out loud is, if you correct for pre-existing conditions and percentage of population with morbid obesity, there is no disproportionate impact. But of course that would mean being guided by the facts, science and truth. Plus it would be fat-shaming!
*Cringe*
O
M
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*barf*
I’m not going to stick up for the Feds or the commies here.
https://twitter.com/HawaiiDelilah/status/1285907771104178177
Everyone was happy and free, and then it changed for some reason?!
I guess this is why they need the Russia Narrative. They can’t believe that for half the country, Obama wasn’t sunshine and rainbows.
Oh goody, our benevolent Leader for Life Gov Walz just announced a mask mandate for Minnesoda.
I guess I should be thankful that it is only mandatory for indoors for now.
Of course, there is no end date announced for this order. In an earlier story Walz was quoted as saying it would be for 4-5 weeks (if there was 90 to 95% compliance). But since we are still working under his emergency rules that were put in place for a 15 days so they could prep for the surge, I’m not holding my breath.
All that end date stuff was fake rethuglican pie in the sky stuff because they want people to die. Mandates must be forever to achieve the utopia!
Dear Gov W,
My 16 year old grandson wants to kiss his new girlfriend (You remember those days, I’m sure). She said “Not with that filthy mask you been wearing all day”
What advice can you offer that I can pass on to him? He doesn’t want to contradict any of the rules but the testosterone level is high.
/Perplexed in Podunkville
I’m sure your wise government ‘experts’ will put out guides on ‘how to have safe sex during a pandemic’ and reading it will be so cringeworthy as to make you never want to have sex again.
Funny you should mention that…
Put a glory hole in the barn.
PERVERT!
Just fuck a sheep like a normal god-fearing, red blooded American!
C’mon, Fourscore you ain’t fooling no one.
There is no 16 year-old grandson is there? You just want the Gov to help you with Mrs. Fourscore.
Looks around, seems to have misplaced the purple pills or Mrs F. hid them again.
DON’T TOUCH MY MEDICARE!
So the left finally gets it.
The DHS was a sham from the get-go. It was the brainchild of Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who proposed the new department in late 2001, just after the 9/11 attacks, as a way of showing that the Republicans in the White House weren’t the only ones trying to tackle terrorism. President George W. Bush opposed the idea, seeing it as burdening the government with another bureaucratic layer. But then, the 9/11 Commission hearings revealed that al-Qaida succeeded in toppling the World Trade Center in part because the FBI, CIA, and other agencies hadn’t shared intelligence about the hijackers’ movements prior to the attack. Coordination and consolidation were suddenly seen as nostrums to our problems.
But, it wasn’t really that bad until Trump got to use it.
Obama certainly didn’t use it to undercut an incoming administration.
And what do people think happens when you try to firebomb a federal courthouse?
Look, it’s not like they were ever in a position to get rid of it. Like having the Presidency, Senate, and House all at once.
No worries, it will be good again if Biden wins. If anyone thinks the democrats are giving up any form of government power or any federal agency, they are dumber than I thought they were. If a dem was in the Whitehouse right now, we’d already have a huge new federal agency based on pandemic control.
The solution to stovepiping was to make another stovepipe?
Only in government…
Yeah, but this was a really big stovepipe to surround all the other stovepipes.
A sham? Oh yeah, if it is such a sham explain to me all the thousands of highjackings that they thwarted. And why we can have big events like the Boston Marathon without any worries of a bomb going off?
That is what the DHS is doing! Making YOU safe!
“Hillary Clinton Alternate History Series ‘Rodham’ in Development at Hulu”
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1285975729654693893
https://variety.com/2020/tv/uncategorized/hillary-clinton-rodham-hulu-series-1234713263/
But why?
Because they’re really weird.
We must have an all powerful Xe to lead us into the promised land of free… I mean free everything!
But why?
Why indeed. It can’t possibly be better than the previous Clinton alternate history series, “Veep”.
Well, they’re already Woke.
Is it going to be a sequel to Madame Secretary?
Because deleting episodes of Always Sunny wasn’t enough to make me cancel?
Because they think there are enough people who would want to watch it and would be willing to pay to make it profitable?
Woot!
Next week I’mma learning how to drive a fire truck!
Because it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
“Because it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
Totally racist, now give up your silly privilege!
Visiting North Kores?
“fire engines to North Korea”
ASWD, Ghaaah!
The AC compressor will be too small: NOT MY FAULT; they were told.
“UPDATE: Charges pending for man accused of kneeling on child’s neck in social media photo”
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1285748817237876737
https://www.whio.com/news/crime-and-law/sheriffs-office-investigating-social-media-post-showing-man-kneeling-childs-neck/7GREMQGUZNC6DBZAFQCVDVZXKI/
CWAA
“This dirtbag’s name is Isaiah Jackson. He’s supporting BLM by kneeling on the neck of a white toddler. I want you to imagine for a moment the reaction if the child was black and the message said “MAGA” instead of “BLM”. It would be the only thing we talked about for a month.”
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1286026796635389953
I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict Matt Walsh is right: no national news outlet will cover this story.
A vehicle for Swiss? It could hold the entire Glib hockey team.
https://bringatrailer.com/2020/02/13/swiss-hockey-hauler-1961-mercedes-benz-o321h/
A thought the vehicle for Swiss would be an Unimog ambulance.
I think we are having an eclipse thunder storm right now. I can never remember it being this dark outside in the middle of the day in the summer, except once during a total eclipse.
It’s 4:45 outside, and it’s as dark as if it’s midnight. WTF?
Wow.
My wife was out there videoing it. It’s still like that. 5:15PM and completely dark.
share it if you can!
Close your eyes, picture of darkness taken at night.
Via Armond White at NRO…I laughed.
2020: The Movie
“2020: The Movie”
Must be the sequel to Idiocracy.
I remember that one, great stuff, perfect execution
WTF? How did they do that? Johnny Depp as Lizzie Warren? This isn’t real, is it?
Edits. The Johnny Depp bit is clearly a promo from “The Lone Ranger”.
270towin.com calls it for Biden, based on The Experts TM:
“Democratic candidate wins in your scenario. No combinations remain for Republicans to win.”
https://www.270towin.com/maps/consensus-2020-electoral-map-forecast
No path to 270. Do they have any new material?
It looks nearly identical to what they called at the same timeframe in 2016.
Think I linked that map a week or so ago when this was already brought up.
It’s August.
It might even be July…
Since late March I can barely distinguish one week from another.
Fun with numbers
Moody’s Analytics’ Mark Zandi is telling clients it’s crucial to get a fresh stimulus package — particularly with coronavirus cases spiking in the Sun Belt.
But he warns it’ll cost hundreds of billions of dollars more than many lawmakers anticipate in order to avert a double-dip recession.
“It’s got to be probably close to $1.5 trillion in support, at least by my calculation,” the firm’s chief economist told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday. “The price tag keeps going up the more infections we have.”
Right now, Republicans want to spend about $1 trillion on a package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has argued it doesn’t go far enough and said it’ll cost at least $1.3 trillion.
“It has to be well-designed, effective support,” said Zandi. “That means aid to state and local governments, additional support to the folks that are unemployed, another round of stimulus checks and also some more help for getting schools open and helping those health-care workers.”
——-
According to Zandi, the measure is vital for the health of the economy.
“Businesses are going backward as the virus has intensified and creating all kinds of havoc in different parts of the country,” Zandi said. “We are going to start seeing job losses — I don’t think in July because we have a lot of Census workers getting hired. … But by August or September if we don’t get a very large support package from lawmakers, I think we’ll see some outright job losses.”
If that’s what Mark Zandi’s spreadsheet says, it must be right. The virus has killed the economy. We need an emergency transfusion of checks.
Spending green paper always increases the GNP. No productive work required
The Dems will get their 1.5 trillion, then turn around the next day and advertise how Trump irresponsibly raised the national debt.
No, Gun Owners Aren’t Coming To Save You
I like the “to be sure”.
Speaking of numbers
The city of Livingston announced that starting July 20, 2020, the city offices will be closed to the public while there are 4 or more active cases of COVID-19 in Park County.
Four, or more. Whose ass did they pull that out of?
SCIENCE!
Four is our Valiant Govenor’s Magic Mask Number
NotAdnan could probably explain it.
That’s just brazen.
Finally checked the Virginia COVID site for the first time in a couple months. …. 81,000 cases total?
Surprisingly, more Latino “cases” than whites.
Approx 2000 deaths total (2.5%) – 1% under the age of 40.
.025% chance of dying under the age of 40…..
“known” cases
Jizzlane Maxwell unmasked.
A federal judge could make public Ghislaine Maxwell’s previous testimony regarding her sex life as the alleged madam of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein faces charges on enticing minors to engage in illegal sexual activities.
“A federal judge could make public Ghislaine Maxwell’s previous testimony regarding her sex life as the alleged madam of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein faces charges on enticing minors to engage in illegal sexual activities.”
So, the federal judge just got tired of living?
I mean, he can’t quit, Suicide by
CopClinton is all he has left.faces charges on enticing minors to engage in illegal sexual activities.
THIS doesn’t count as Sex Trafficking?! W/e, she’ll have not-killed-herself shortly, what difference, at this point, does it make.
“Twitter choked off a tweet by @realDonaldTrump
for saying “There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington D.C., as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!” But this missile attack threat is ok per the gaslighting hacks who run Twitter.”
https://twitter.com/YossiGestetner/status/1285761852727799810
I think there’s a massive opportunity right now to split the difference and make a splash in the primary education market.
Crossfit model. Small volume in strip malls and “boxes” outside every neighborhood. Materials and curriculum created/purchased in bulk and provided at bulk discount to franchisees. University model schedule (2-3 days/week in-person instruction) with optional expansion to 5 days/week (office hours/daycare) for working parents. Rely heavily on online instruction options, with local adults mostly being facilitators and provide access to labs, group projects, etc. Grade level is irrelevant, it’s all about taking classes at your skill level. Sure, it’ll stratify by age, but not perfectly. Focus on the states where curriculum certification standards are more lenient.
Obviously the details aren’t fully thought out, but you could probably get the costs down in the order of $2-3k or less/student for the basic plan and $5k for the 5-day plan.
I think you’re on to something.
Perfect timing as commercial real estate is bombing.
I see one Mr. Trshmnstr does not have the proper licensing and permits to run this illegal business. End of story.
Considering my two teens are going to be floating in the wind outside of my wifes and I instruction…yeah there is.
What exactly do you know about how many genders there are today and which bathroom to use, Mr. Smarty Pants? It takes qualified teachers with the proper training to teach our children!
I like this idea. Like a one-room schoolhouse for the 21st century.
I’m sure there are a massive amount of laws and regulations making that extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Ain’t that just the damndest coincidence?
Kumon already cracked that code, but yes, it’s a viable option.
If anything ever destroys all of the occupational licensing requirements around teaching, we could really see a renaissance of education and learning.
I think about how good learning piano and other musical instruments has gotten as the technology has made comms so much easier and I weep at the prisons we call public schools. That whole system can’t collapse soon enough and if the Dems’ COVID strategy causes it incidentally and accidentally, I will change my opinion on the whole nonsense.
It has to be destroyed. Has to.
The missing part for Kumon and Khan and other online providers is the “homeschool co-op” part, where a small number of people pool their resources and share expertise/equipment/etc with a small, localized group of kids.
The less-than-common part is the combination of the cost savings of online learning with the daycare aspect of having a group of local facilitators (that aren’t parents). The closest I’ve seen to that model is the university model school (or other smaller private schools), but they are usually heavily influenced by the homeschooling movement they grew out of. There is some curriculum sharing and there is some interaction between the schools, but the profit mechanism for this idea is in minimizing the amount of on-site staff, minimizing the proficiency requirements of the staff, and maximizing the bulk savings for equipment and curriculum purchasing across thousands of schools without forcing (but allowing) working parents to be co-teachers.
Oops, I forgot that Kumon had on-site locations. my idea is essentially Kumon on steroids.
But think about all the unemployed college graduates that would have been at the bottom of their high school class if grades were meaningful? What will they do? And the union reps?
It really is pathetic as to the quality of teachers/administrators.
I once wasn’t working and my next door neighbor got me a contract to do a record review of old and outdated bank records, mainly ’cause I had a truck to haul them to the dump. Anyway, on my first day, Jim took me to the bank cafeteria, we we’re having coffee with 2 women. Woman 1: “What do you do in real life” Me: Unemployed teacher
Woman 1: I’m a teacher. Woman 2: I’m a teacher, too. My friend Jim: I’m a teacher, too.
So, random selection but a lot of teachers have moved on career wise. I think that says something about those that didn’t.
I always wanted to be a teacher. Crazy to admit that, but it’s all I ever wanted to do. When I was getting ready to leave active duty in 2002 I seriously looked into it, but even with a JD, I could get nowhere. The additional education requirements would have meant years more back in school, so I just said fuck it and gave up.
If we had stayed in VA, I was planning on offering my services to a local private school. it’s more a glorified home school co-op that we were evaluating for our daughter to attend. 1 or 2 classes/week teaching math or civics or engineering to a handful of homeschool kids sounds like fun. I didn’t get to the licensing requirements, but I’m sure they were extreme.
I did too. I was fortunate enough to fall into teaching adults, in the burgeoning software development era. Ten very good years. I had previously worked as an aid to high school chemistry classes, also fun for about 3/4 of the years there.
In Colorado teachers at charter schools don’t need any certification. That’s how I became a teacher. I have a graduate degree in my subject area and of course that is insufficient for the marxist teacher guild that runs the standard public schools. My charter school, however, welcomed me with open arms. I love teaching there too.
A neighbor in TX had a PhD, taught chemistry in the same school that I went to but he couldn’t teach at the local high school ’cause he didn’t have the necessary Ed hours.
teaching is a noble art. babysitting is a job for teenagers. most schools care more about hiring babysitters than hiring teachers these days. The exceptions really highlight the dichotomy. Good teachers are memorable, because they are artisans.
Amen, Trashy. And if you can figure out a way around the teacher’s guilds in whatever jurisdiction you think about doing this, consider this my official
offerattempt to weasel my way in. I agree with you that there is a huge (potential) opportunity coming to provide genuine, non-Marxist education to young people. At one point, CF’s founder and I had very detailed discussions about CrossFit schools, including looking at a bunch of different curricula and ways of doing it. Alas, it got overtaken by events, but I really think a quality education could crush the current statist model if ever given the chance to compete.Here in Ohio, for private schools you only need a Bachelor’s degree. The problem would be starting up the private school portion of it I believe. Unless you could partner with a local church to give you cover.
I would wholeheartedly support any endeavor in this area.
Grade level is irrelevant, it’s all about taking classes at your skill level. Sure, it’ll stratify by age, but not perfectly.
One room schoolhouse, FTW!
How do you separate the privileged white children from the disadvantaged brown children and ensure that the most non-racist education is distributed equitably? You guys are not experts, therefore you must be stopped now.
“Gov. Holcomb: Mask mandate starts Monday in Indiana”
‘“Hoosiers have worked hard to help re-open our state, and we want to remain open. By masking up, we can and will save lives and slow the spread of COVID-19.”
A mask or other face covering may be factory-made, sewn by hand, or improvised from household items such as scarfs, bandanas and t-shirts. The mouth and nose should be covered’
So…complete nonsense. Not just the unconstitutionality of it, but also that ANY mask can be used. Just put a t-shirt over your face? Handmade stuff? It’s beyond ridiculous. My dad scoffed at it. He’s 70 and theoretically at risk, though he’s incredibly fit for his age. Or anyone’s age. He’s like me and just bites his lip and does it to play by house rules. Mom is aaaaaaaall aboard, and bro and his VERY pregnant wife (probably only 2 weeks to go) have long been ape-fuck serious about masks and ‘being safe.’ They don’t leave the house. I can understand that protectiveness, but it does mean that I have a lot of rules that I’m supposed to follow.
The amount of stupid fear surrounding everyone is insane. I want to do an experiment: I want to put a sticker on my shirt: “Medically Exempt From Wearing Mask. Broken rib punctured lung. Following doctor’s orders.”
Both that injury and the dr order are true. I wonder how people would react. I’m quite positive that no one would believe me. If someone doesn’t want to let me in their business, well that’s fine. House rules. But I’ll be happy to not give them my money as well. My rules. I think that would be an interesting social experiment.
I’m curious and I’m willing to get evil-eyed or even yelled at. I could handle that with absolute calm. I just wanna see how people react. What do you think would happen?
https://www.14news.com/2020/07/22/two-new-covid-deaths-dubois-co-double-digit-case-increases-local-counties/
“Just put a t-shirt over your face?”
The Beavis and Butthead look making a comeback.
Your brother and his pregnant wife live in your parents house?
Oh, lord no. They are quite wealthy and have had their own place in Indy for like 20 years. (Bro is 39.) They have two kids with the third on the way. My parents moved up from Eville so that they could be full-time grandparents and they’ve long had a lot of time and care for the kids. More now because of the lack of schools and with Baby #3 on the way. We have them over for sleepovers at least twice a week and have at least two other days with them as well, even if they don’t spend the night.
I was living in Asia for about 12 years and now that I’m Stateside I live in my parents home, though I did buy a month-long AirBnB for my own place. Just to save money I moved back in–the routine of being with the boys and not having complete access to total freedom was a personal choice. Seemed safer. I have tons of dr appointments and fiscal sense outweighed other desires.
I play along, but I’m really the happiest about the fact that the 7 and 5-year old nephews know and trust me better now. I don’t want to be the Uncle that they can’t remember when they get older. Making sure that I have a solid relationship with them is of critical importance to me, and I think that I’m actively helping them by exposing them to different experiences and knowledge about ways to view the world. I’ll take it all day.
I heard that too. Up to now the lockdowns haven’t been as bad as elsewhere, but now it seems like he’s just going along with what the surrounding states are doing.
^THIS^
The mask mandate in Minnesoda is just our gov not wanting to get a wedgie from the other Dem gov’s at the next national conference. “What, you let them do what they felt like? What a loser!”
Especially since the last week or so has seen all sorts of big box stores in the area start mandating masks.
I’ve been bugging people today about why people who have recovered from CV have to were a mask. Everyone agrees that they can’t get or give the CV anymore, so why the mask?
” Everyone agrees that they can’t get or give the CV anymore, so why the mask?”
I am not being sarcastic or flippant: It’s because wearing a mask is like wearing the ‘home team’ jersey. (Best be a Cubs one…) It shows you’re a part of the Team. You play well with others. You’re together. You want to win. To play hard.
I know we all talk about virtue signaling, and that’s real. But instead of saying Black Lives Matter or being openly anti-sexist/whatever, this is a VISUAL way to signal your virtue. It isn’t just about words, it’s about wearing the team’s jersey so that others can SEE that you follow the directives, not just saying that you agree with them or whatever other idea.
Wear the uni or you’re not on the team. You’ve to prove that you’re playing ball with everyone. If you don’t wear a mask, you’re wearing your face. That’s the jersey of the enemy. No to individuals. Yes to Team.
It’s absolutely fucking sickening, disgusting, dangerous, and shameful ‘thinking.’ But that’s where we are. Even my real and great reason/excuse to never wear a mask would, will and is absolutely off-limits to these people. I hate the Cardinals, but in a playful fashion. I have no problem with them as people. I just root for the other team. These people are rooting. They’re commanding, controlling, and demanding.
Evil. And they are happy to be used. They haven’t thought about this. I doubt they even could if they wanted to. They must fit themselves into the cog at the directive of People Who Know Better. Fuck off, cuntes.
*’These people AREN’T rooting.’
Who? Who doesn’t want to wear the ribbon?!
Kramer. And me.
We are correct!
It’s about control.
So you’re telling me he’s still alive…
He is. And in other news, I once had the cold 3 times in the same year, and lived.
I think it’s pretty clear that this is not the Black Death or Ebola.
The next thing they’ll be saying is that it left people with brain damage and made them vote for Trump.
There’s a wide belief this causes permanent lung damage. I’m sure there are several injury lawyers getting ready to cash in.
“You too can send us money to futily chase WHO and the CCP.
“Were you forced to work in the meat processing plants during the Covid pandemic….? If so you could be entitled to financial compensation…”
Now buy this Chinese pork, Made Of Uyghurs!
BY, MADE BY, goddamit I did it again.
We really don’t put them in the grinder. They are chained to it though.
I’ve heard that in severe cases, it MAY result in permanent lung damage. I haven’t heard any conclusive evidence that id does so. How do we know if it’s permanent when it’s only been around for a few months?
That’s probably in reference to pneumonia, a complication in the serious cases. Pneumonia isn’t novel, of course; It’s probably fair to say that such resulting damage is directly attributable to the virus.
You can come down with pneumonia as result of the common flu, if you’re older, I think that’s quite common.
absolutely
Newsflash: Getting sick when you’re elderly sucks.
I went from bronchitis to pneumonia. Had both X2, rarely get a cold and the last bout was over 20 years ago.
“BREAKING: President Trump to send hundreds of federal law enforcement officials to Chicago.
“Every American no matter their income, their race, or their zip code should be able to walk their city’s streets free from violence and free from fear.””
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1286032389760786433
Under what legal auspices?
I think this is patently stupid.
* 1 large lifelong Democrat to large mixing bowl
* fold in 7 decades of egomania
* in another bowl, take 1 large stable genius; separate and dispose of principles and book learnin’; add genius to main bowl
* add 2 tsp Populist® brand bitters
* broil in post-heated oven at 600°F or until middle is a nice, shit-hued char
makes 304 Electoral slices; serve Most Libertarian President Ever™ with side of crow and a gallon of whiskey
decorative notions: fringe burn copies of the Constitution for use as place-mats; garnish with corn subsidies
Heh
You forgot “70 years of precedent” (or more?) from your ingredients list.
Not saying that this justifies it, but this ain’t crossing the Rubicon either.
“Every American no matter their income, their race, or their zip code should be able to walk their city’s streets free from violence and free from fear.”
There’s not a chance of that happening in the Chicago ghettos, I don’t care if he sends in the entire army.
This might shape up to be the single most idiotic thing he’s done
Who’s advising Trump now? Never interrupt your enemies when they are busy destroying themselves. Duh!
What if he’s bluffing?
I don’t know, he does that a lot, so no surprise if he does. But I don’t know why he’d make an effort to help these mayors do their jobs. They’re expecting for Biden to be elected and then fleece the taxpayers for billions in damages they watched happen, not even attempting to stop it. Good plan if you’re evil and it works.
IANAL, but can Lightfoot get an injunction against this? Trump can say he tried to help, but was thwarted by the mayor. Might play well, and she might be dumb enough to do it.
I wouldn’t bet on it being a losing proposition for Trump though. People near the downtown areas of these cities are probably desperate for something to be done and their leaders are not only NOT doing anything, they appear to be supporting the looting and rioting and other violence. One way or other, it’s clear that Lightfoot has completely lost control.
My advice to Trump, let it burn. There’s not other way to get rid of these shitholes.
Yep. In Portland, he should clear out all the records and computers, and then let them do what they will. Then refuse to rebuild, and let the residents drive to the next city’s federal court house when they need anything.
Portland and Seattle are both history. I feel really bad for the people who live there because they’re going to have worthless properties that they cannot sell and no one to protect them from the crazies. And those same people are so ‘liberal’ that they would literally die destitute than to vote out he people who caused all of this.
I was in Portland for a couple of weeks about 10 years ago. I walked all over the city and drove around to different places. It as about as safe and serene of a place that you can possibly imagine. I mean the most sheltered privileged people without a care in the world as you can possibly imagine. And then the wokesters went insane and it was all over. Was nice to see it while it still existed.
Same with Seattle, been there many times. The last time I was there, about 15 years ago, beautiful city, you could walk around the city at night. The homeless stuff was starting up already, but I mean it’s a large city, so. Now, I wouldn’t even go there, the place is a bum magnet and it’s just trashed. Wait until all the big companies flee, and they will.
The property value situation is going to be even worse for Portland since property taxes are a major component in local funding. Oregon is one of the no sales tax states so it’s income taxes, property taxes and utility fees paying for the cleanup after all the destruction.
“property taxes and utility fees paying for the cleanup after all the destruction.”
Not if democrats win in Nov, it will be all of us taxpayers, nationwide paying for that via massive bailouts.
Do the same for the Federal Building as well. See how well the business owners in downtown like losing all those paying customers as well.
We need to compensate for leaving Afghanistan (maybe) so let’s go into Chicago.
“BREAKING: Trump Admin Secures Up To 600M Coronavirus Vaccine Doses With Pfizer, Free To Americans
The Trump administration placed an initial $1.95 billion order for 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine with Pfizer and can acquire an additional 500 million doses.
Pfizer and BioNTech announced in a joint statement that they secured “an agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense to meet the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed program goal to begin delivering 300 million doses of a vaccine for COVID-19 in 2021.” The BNT162 program is based on BioNTech’s proprietary mRNA technology and supported by Pfizer’s global vaccine development and manufacturing capabilities. The BNT162 vaccine candidates are undergoing clinical studies and aren’t currently approved for distribution anywhere in the world.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-admin-secures-up-to-600m-coronavirus-vaccine-doses-with-pfizer-free-to-americans
Who knows if it even works?
“Who knows if it even works?”
Are you questioning the science?
Doesn’t have to work. Bridges/roads don’t have to go anywhere, as long as they were/are shovel ready. If the vaccine doesn’t work for CV-19 it might be good for another pandemic that we don’t even know about yet. We’ll be ready.
And it shows how much they care.
But it’s free, man.
Ah, its only $2 billion. In short order, some Euro leader will see that $2 billion, raise $3 billion, and slam the USA for taking half-hearted measures.
This just jumped into my head: roving bands of public-spirited Mask Edict Talibani taking it upon themselves to enforce the rules.
It wears the mask or it gets the rubber hose.
Land of the free. Home of the brave. We really do need a different an them.
“Today, the House passed the #NoBanAct because no one should be discriminated against or singled out based on the faith they practice. I will end President Trump’s Muslim Ban on day one and sign this bill into law.”
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1286048372198014976
Look, ending things that don’t exist is my first priority.
C’Mon Man!
You mean this guy? https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1286052208501350400
He’s not gonna get it.
Syrian is a religion?
All the brown people that Trump banned is Muslims! That’s what my friend said.
“Beware the COVID menu police: California cracks down on outdoor restaurants with new rule that requires customers to order a ‘meal’ with alcohol – and wings, cheese sticks, calamari and fries are NOT considered meals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8550183/California-lists-foods-arent-meals-COVID-dining-guidelines.html
“Outrage as Cuomo tightens NYC outdoor dining rules to force struggling bars to sell a ‘substantial amount of food’ with drinks and not just $1 snacks after threatening to close ALL restaurants”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8548801/Cuomo-tightens-NYC-outdoor-dining-rules-force-bars-sell-substantial-food.html
OFFS!!
The Christian Women’s Temperance Union looms large.
We’ve literally reached the El Presidente stage of proceedings.
I don’t suppose it matters if I ask what constitutional authority he has to make such royal decrees?
A local brewery was requiring people to buy a bag of chips for $1 with their beer in order to comply with the requirement.
Does anyone have a ham license?
You do not need a license in America to eat ham, not yet at least.
You need several to manufacturer it though.
Long pig? Reporting Tater to the authorities!
I studied for it years ago and know a fair amount. I think OMWC might have one
I know electronics, so mostly I would just have to learn the rules. I don’t think you can take the test online though.
I have a GROL, no ham.
No, you have to sit for it somewhere.
The ARRL Handbook is the resource you’re looking for.
Yes, I just looked through my electronics books. Ironically, I have the GROL book, but not the amateur book.
I also realized I have a metric fuckton of data books and stacks of datasheets (remember fax back?) that are probably obsolete now that everything is online.
I think Trashy was talking about it the other day. Something about being an ubernerd and wanting to contact the space station.
I have a 2m walkie that I have used like twice, only when there is severe weather and they’re running a weather net.
Yes, but hardly used.. My 2 meter gear is gathering dust in the basement. I’m sure the nicad batteries are toast. I passed on my father’s HF gear to someone who used. it.
I think you need to renew the license every ten years? You could always replace the nicads with new ones or some other battery. They sell PCB’s for nicad to lithium ion conversions.
yup
This is a really old article, but holy shit the media really beclowned itself with the Russia thing.
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-worst-most-embarrassing-u-s-media-failures-on-the-trumprussia-story/
Because SCIENCE bitches!
Ignore per capita, hospitalization rates, death rates, test rates. Focus instead on the percentage of tests that are positive!
Every state has at least 1,000 cases and only Hawaii has fewer than 1 case per thousand residents. What is the point of this?
You wouldn’t understand, just listen to the experts!
Distraction from the large corruption case that’s going on?
I’m
This time, for sure. Presto!
BLINDED
Woohoo! New goalposts!
Vistaprint approved my Fuck Off Slaver mask, I just want the logo a bit bigger, hehe,
https://breaking911.com/meanwhile-in-vegas-man-steals-3-foot-40-lb-dildo-from-adult-store/
That’s… Gigantic
What a big dick.
I am not being sarcastic or flippant: It’s because wearing a mask is like wearing the ‘home team’ jersey. (Best be a Cubs one…) It shows you’re a part of the Team. You play well with others. You’re together. You want to win. To play hard.
Exactly. Some of them pretty much come right out and admit the masks are useless, but say wear it anyway, simply to show you care.
Forest misses playoffs due to losing 6 goal differential today to both Cardiff and Swansea.
Welsh conspiracy!
They started today 3 pts ahead with +4 and +5 GD respectively.
What the hell did you just say?
I has confuse………
Today was the last day of the regular season on the English Championship soccer league. Three teams get promoted to Premier League, top 2 automatically, and 3rd-6th gave a playoff for last spot. Before today, Nottingham Forest was in 5th, 3 points ahead of 6th place Cardiff City and 3 pts ahead of 7th place Swansea City.
The tiebreaker is goal differential, and Nottingham Forest had a big lead in it too. It would take an epic collapse for them to not make the playoffs. They collapsed epically. They lost by 3. Cardiff and Swansea both won by 3. Nottingham Forest finished 7th and missed the playoff.
Holy moly
That’s a really nice tii, but $41k? Eep!
What’s the shittiest city?
Portland?Seattle?New York!Animals gotta animal. No offense to Animal.
Ain’t that the truth.
Can’t make this shit up. On the Zoom thingie Saturday I told of a guy who I saw circumventing the NY pooper-scooper regulations by having his dog crap into a subway grating; I guess a good idea will always be copied.
For Fourscore…
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/07/watch-thousands-of-bees-descend-on-jersey-shore-beach.html
*insert bees gif here*
This is why matriarchal societies are so bad. You have to keep the ladies stuffed with sweets or they get cranky and violent.
/Patriarchal Shitlord
We saw a swam migrating about 5-6 years ago… they are just resting and not aggressive , it was very interesting
Yeah, the queen is in there, in the middle. They aren’t much of a problem, more of an annoyance. Maybe one of the locals lost that.
“If they swarm in July, let ’em fly”. We would recover that swarm but it probably wouldn’t be productive this late in the season. (and its NJ, too)
complaint dept
Bought some clothes recently and was annoyed that they took away the fitting rooms. When I asked the cashier about it she said it was because of the Covid the Great and Powerful and added that it didn’t make sense, because if people tried on the clothes at home and decided to return them, how is that any different from a dressing room?
Also – have been reading an abridged prose version of the Ramayana, a Hindu epic. In it is the story of a god named Indra who impersonates a sage to get funky with his hot wife, Ahalya. When the sage finds Indra, he curses him by saying “since you’re always thinking about pussy, I’m gonna make sure everyone knows.” And poof! Indra gets covered head to toe with a thousand hoo hahs. They later turn to eyes when he bathes in a sacred river.
Anyway, it made me think of Sugarfree.
***
Ahalya’s defence plea is also found in some of the Puranas. In the Brahma Purana, Ahalya is cursed to become a dried up stream, but pleads her innocence and produces servants, who were also deceived by Indra’s disguise, as witnesses. Gautama reduces the curse on his “faithful wife” and she is redeemed when she joins the Gautami (Godavari) river as a stream. Indra is cursed to carry his shame in the form of a thousand vulvae on his body, but the vulvae turn into eyes as he bathes in the Gautami. The Brahma Purana is a rare exception where Rama is dropped from the narrative.
***
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahalya
I’ll stick with the Upanishads, thankyouverymuch!
From my cursory reading, Hindu scripture appears to be nothing more than Lord of the Rings with the occasional blue-skinned god-man.
People are not very creative when it comes to stories.
I think the Upanishads is/are profound and beautiful, but YMMV. It’s not like the mahabaratha or the other sacred “stories.” There are a few ‘tales’ within the whole, but it’s not a strict or cohesive narrative. If I were recommending a version, the one translated and intro’d by Eknath Easwaran is beautiful and I think his notes/into to each chapter add a lot.
*Joseph Campbell nods sagely.*
-1 Sugarfree
Are they really stories, though? They’re more like the paintings of lunatics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMvyd_eHbY0
Destroyer of Worlds, I am Become Death,
/Shiva, sometime in the deep past
If “Don’s Escaped” is around, along with straffinrun and a couple of others, I just submitted a(nother) 2020 Election Analysis inspired by Don’s article and some comments on the Matt Taibbi piece from Swissy’s afternoon links a couple of days ago. I’ll give a shout when TPTB give it a slot, but I hope you all will come around because I’m curious as to your responses.
N.B. No MATHS AT ALL NECESSARY. Totally unscientific analysis that does not rely upon polls.
not even a Venn diaphragm ?
My wife’s broke, so… no.
red meat for us: Stossel on the Minneapolis unrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1b6VtaIqwA
Relevant because it seems about half the glibs live in Minnesota and most of the rest are in Japan. This may give rise to Japanese-Minnesotan creole.
Oh ja, so desu. Uffda yo!
American Southwest and Maryland Glibs Hardest Hit.
I can see a great future for the councilman as an economic advisor in the Biden Admin.
According to the weather service, a while ago, it’s 97 degrees and 12% humidity. We could use a rain shower.
We had some 106º with 30% recently and were dying for a shower, but it always seems to happen across the valley. By the time it gets here, the moisture’s been sucked away and we get a passing moment of shade.
109 and 13%, Cooling trend!
95 degrees and 70% humidity
ooh, Sorry Man, that’s rough,
*wrings out underwear*
BP and I got a Zoom tour of a Red light District from Straff last night, very fun! I wish I could have saved it, He’s truly funny!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/22/gretchen-whitmer-defunds-police-cuts-115-million-from-state-cops-replaces-portion-with-fed
Not going to end well.
Fucking hell, is that what this Whitmer “person” (it’s clearly a Good Guys doll with different hair) actually looks like? We’re not looking at clip of that Phil Collins video that gave young me nightmares? People elected it to office instead of killing it with fire?
This is why I don’t click the links. Fuck me for needing to see the word “cash” in the headline because the URL cut it off, even though I knew that’s what it had to be.
Also, how is it defunding if you replace the funds?
“The real hurt will likely be felt in 2021, when the MSP cuts remain and the additional federal funds are not available to fill the gap.”
kick that can just a lil farther down the road…
On the so-called Muslim ban. Egypt is the country with the most Arabs. Indonesia is the country with the most Muslims. So if the ban is about either Arabs or Muslims, I have to wonder why they weren’t on the list.
***
First, Executive Order 13769 placed stringent restrictions on travel to the United States for citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Following protests and legal challenges, a second order, Executive Order 13780, amended some provisions of the first order, and removed Iraq from the list.
***
6 of those countries are/were civil war clusterfuck basket cases and Iran is a sworn enemy of the US. Saudi Arabia is not on the list for some reason even though 15 of the 19 WTC attack highjackers were from there.
*enraged rat noises*
So… angry… and… conflicted…
I stopped by the tacticool gun shop. It’s a blue shop, it supplies the po-po with their “not for the peons” toys. So I kind of hate them for that. But the owner is a legitimately nice guy and very helpful. So I kind of want to patronize them (not to mention he outfits 90+% of the shooters in club that I’m most active in).
He’s got a sign on his door saying masks are forbidden inside. So I kind of like him for that, and thought that was pretty ballsy.
Until I found out since he’s in so tight with the police he got designated “essential” and never. had. to. close. So he got months of a government enforced monopoly. So now I REALLY hate him. But then he had a pristine used M9-22 for $299, and I really needed something for RFPI and I kind of bought it.
THIS is why I try not to think too hard about ethics.
Ethics is doing the right thing when no one is around, you were clearly in a gun store in front of a Salesman, so….
Fuck his wife while he’s running the shop.
She’s not terrible…
Ted, always practical.?
And she hasn’t seen much of him lately….
I kind of bought it.
Pending the gracious acquiescence of the all powerful State?
The owner doesn’t make me put down a deposit until the approval comes through, so yes. However, if he’s got the kind of LE pull to keep his store open…
the tallest statue in the world (1,959 ft) is of a politician little known outside India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRi_TLfU44w
Sadly, it does not feature a thrown cup of nutrimatic tea.
I know Not Adhan and some of the rest of y’all might be desperate for 9×19 Luger ammo.
I just got some spam from Mile High Shooting, they have 124grn. Geco 9mm in stock for $300/case. This is certainly premium price, but in my experience Geco makes pretty good stuff.
https://www.milehighshooting.com/geco-ammunition-9mm-luger-tmj-124gr-50-box
Clicking now.
Cheaperthandirt has winchester white box for $44/box. Box, not case.
Well, that’s CheaperThanDirt’s standard operating procedure.
Not that I mind a little price gouging, but I also remember who my friends are, and aren’t.
Aaand they will ship directly to me!
Bonus! Though signature required is kind of an annoyance, but I’ll just pick it up at the hub. We’ll see if it gets here when they say it will.
If she won’t walk down the aisle to this, she’s a ho.
I would have suggested this.
Mellow Gold is only acceptable if your tuxedo is powder blue.
I’m oddly…stirred.
Pretty sure I reached the end of the internet yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uXtWIg_A7M
Malcolm X and MLK debate – intense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4PqLKWuwyU
I had no idea this happened.
I’ll have to save that one for later. Should be interesting.
X was reading prepared notes, King was extemporaneous, King FTW!
It wasn’t an actual debate, just different clips edited together.
*shocked face*
https://mashable.com/article/yelp-restaurants-temporary-permanent-closures/
About a year from now, when all that’s left is corporate chains and high end restaurants, folks are gonna complain that it’s due to “capitalism.”
Yep
this is the least reported on depression ever
Central planning, what could possibly go wrong?
The Great Purge continues
But amid the nationwide reappraisal of racist monuments, the Sierra Club said Wednesday that “it’s time to take down some of our own monuments,” including of its founder, Muir.
“He made derogatory comments about Black people and Indigenous peoples that drew on deeply harmful racist stereotypes,” Executive Director Michael Brune wrote on the group’s website. “As the most iconic figure in Sierra Club history, Muir’s words and actions carry an especially heavy weight. They continue to hurt and alienate Indigenous people and people of color who come into contact with the Sierra Club.”
In that message, the organization said recent anti-racist protests sparked by the May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of police had prompted the re-examination of Muir’s legacy. The California naturalist often expressed disparaging views of Native Americans.
In notes of a trek across a swath of America, Muir jots down disparaging observations about Native Americans as well as Black Southerners. In one entry, he referred to the dwellings of Cherokees as “the uncouth transitionist … wigwams of savages.” Other entries include derogatory comments about a Black child and a Black couple whom Muir encounters.
Muir also held hostile sentiments toward Indigenous tribes in California — home to Yosemite National Park, a tent pole in his legacy — calling them “dirty,” “superstitious,” “deadly” and “lazy,” among other things.
The Sierra Club noted that Muir’s views appeared to evolve over time. Still, the group pointed out that he associated with prominent American eugenicist Henry Fairfield Osborn. Other eugenicists – including Joseph LeConte and David Starr Jordan – were also early Sierra Club members and leaders of the organization.
Leave nothing but rubble.
We only have one ruler with which to measure.
When do we start burning Planned Parenthood clinics to the ground?
Yes, burn Muir Woods to the ground, THATLL SHOW HIM!
His house isn’t far from here and is a national park-ish type place that we’ve visited. Wonder if they might demolish that too.
I just want to see someone interviewed in front of the conflagration decrying Climate Change.
It’s the simple things in life.
*defending the destruction, then decrying Climate Change.
“The whiteness and privilege of our early membership fed into a very dangerous idea — one that’s still circulating today. It’s the idea that exploring, enjoying, and protecting the outdoors can be separated from human affairs,” Brune wrote.
The group also pledged to diversify its leadership to consist largely of Black, Indigenous and other people of color, and to intensify its investment in racial and environmental justice work.
That should fix it.
Gotta collect those social justice dollars from corporations trying to avoid social media criticism.
Live ammo.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-riots-federal-officers-blinded-lasers-fireworks-doxed
*rewinds tape*
Stupid fucks are going to get a police state like they want. Unfortunately for them…and us, they are not going to get the one they want.
Only Fox News seemed to be reporting any of the recent rioting and destruction problems in Portland, at least until the feds came in. Mainstream media viewers probably think everything has been fine there, so why do they need federal agents?
so why do they need federal agents?
THATS WHAT MAKES TRUMP SUCH A TYRANT, OMG, I JUST CANT EVEN WITH YOU!111oneoneonetwo
Not going to end well. They’re goading the Feds to make a violent move. The dumb fucks want another Kent State to rally support.
That is why I say to leave them alone. You can’t engage in total war like you would with a foreign army, the politicians want the chaos so let them have it.
Either that or pull a reverse Lincoln and expel them from the Union.
Expel the people, keep the land.
The only way to win is not to play.
Send Portland a bill for the building after it’s vacated.
Better to just cut off federal funding for everything, and then reduce taxes. The wailing would be epic.
I’m worried that we are going to have a new version, American style, of ethnic cleansing. We’re caught between a large population of violent communists, thugs, tyrants, and a smaller population of right-wing racists.
Unlike Kent State though the protesters are armed and far more sophisticated in their actions.
Pisses me off that they claim Feds got doxed. If you work for the government, you are fair game. My salary is posted on the internet because I work for the city. If you’re a cop, we all should know your name, your disciplinary record and where you work/what you do. The fuck you can be a big secret? I know these antifa assholes are apt to act on that info, but so what? Anyone else can too. Making exceptions for outlier situations is just plain bad law. Work for the government and we should know your name.
The nagging suspicion that someone, somewhere, is laughing at you
Many Pennsylvanians are outraged after learning that a man seemingly impersonating Dr. Rachel Levine — the state’s Secretary of Health and one of the few openly transgender government officials in the United States — participated in a transphobic dunk tank event at the Fireman’s Relief Carnival at the Bloomsburg Fair in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Levine, who has gained prominence in the Keystone State due to her role in addressing the coronavirus pandemic, appeared to have been mimicked by a man wearing a black and pink dress, according to The Morning Call. The images posted on the fair’s Facebook page showed the individual in a dunk tank while the author of the page wrote, “Dr. Levine? Thank you. You were a hit and raised a lot of money for the local fire companies. Wonder why so many were trying to dunk you.”
Salon reached out to the Bloomsburg Fair for comment and has not received a reply.
Situated in the small town of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, just 40 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre, the Bloomsburg Fair previously gained media attention as a site of far-right fervor. In 2016, a registered sex offender (convicted on child pornography charges) was allowed to sell Nazi flags next to banners expressing support for Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy until visitors complained.
“Public displays of bigotry have no place in our public discourse,” Adrian Shanker, Founder and Executive Director of the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in nearby Allentown, told Salon by email. “The first responders at the fire company that benefited from this vile transphobic fundraiser at the Bloomsburg fair deserve better. Transgender Pennsylvanians who have had to see a continuous stream of transphobic attacks on the Secretary of Health deserve better, and of course, Dr. Levine deserves better. It is okay for someone to disagree with her policies. But they should do so in a respectful way.”
Shanker was not alone among LGBT activists in expressing disgust at the spectacle.
No kidding. A nation of humorless scolds.
In 2016, a registered sex offender (convicted on child pornography charges) was allowed to sell Nazi flags next to banners expressing support for Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy until visitors complained.
Why should selling wrongthink memorabilia be illegal?
Not allowing something at a fair does not make it illegal, just not welcome at the fair.
The bigger shame is this
We regret to inform you that Pat Benetar, Jon Pardi, Brad Paisley and Chicago concerts for the 2020 Bloomsburg Fair have been postponed
People wanting to dunk the health secretary aren’t doing it because the health secretary is a trannie.
Lockdowns today. Lockdowns tomorrow. Lockdowns forever.
White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday it is unlikely the coronavirus will ever be eradicated.
While the virus will not disappear, it’s possible world leaders and public health officials could work to bring the virus down to “low levels,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said during an interview with the TB Alliance.
“I think with a combination of good public health measures, a degree of global herd immunity and a good vaccine, which I do hope and feel cautiously optimistic that we will get, I think when we put all three of those together, we will get control of this, whether it’s this year or next year. I’m not certain,” he said.
But, he added, “I don’t really see us eradicating it.”
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Fauci said the virus is unlike SARS, a coronavirus that emerged in the early 2000s and was contained. He said Covid-19 is incredibly efficient in transmitting from human to human and can produce a wide range of symptoms in people. He said it’s unlikely the virus will change into something like the common cold.
“I have never seen infection in which you have such a broad range literally no symptoms at all in a substantial proportion of the population to some who get ill with minor symptoms to some who get ill enough to be in bed for weeks,” he said. “Others get hospitalized, require oxygen, intensive care, ventilation and death. The involvement with the same pathogen is very unique.”
It baffles SCIENCE.
Our economy will be in tatters. Ignore the roving rape gangs. We have to try to save grandma.
Print more money!
*Reconsiders panic buying more ammo*
I’m panic buying ammo because I worry it might be heavily taxed soon.
You’re not helping.
Yeah, just dropped $350 on not enough…
Here’s the thing, if I don’t have enough ammo…NONE of you have enough.
If I shoot the meet this weekend carefully, I can get away with <150 rounds…
How many altercations do you really think you’ll survive? I’m hoping for two myself.
Dunno. I survived a whole bunch of times leaping from a perfectly good airplane.
With people actually shooting at you?
You’re a tortoise.
We must stay locked down until we eradicate it just like we eradicated the Common Cold and the Flu.
Hey, the flu was eradicated. the moment Wuhan came along – poof! no more flu cases.
great moments in Soviet engineering – freight train crosses busy highway – no lights or guards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4hed723pd8
However many weeks back, when word came down from on high that those few of us still working IN the office (i.e. NOT from home) would have to wear a mask when away from our work stations, one gal almost immediately whipped out her Get-Out-Of-Mask-Wearing-Free card and essentially declared, “Nyah, nyah! My doctor says I’m excused from wearing a mask.” Fine. Whatever.
Right before I left the office today, my boss told me that this gal hasn’t been feeling well for some time, and apparently a couple of weeks ago her doctor recommended she go and get herself tested. She did not. Today she ended up in the ER. So now she’ll get tested. And depending on what her results are, all the rest of us working in the administrative offices of our org may have to go get tested. And presumably self-quarantine at least until we get our results.
I’m not worried for myself – I’m the one who has to go around taking everyone’s temperature every day, and she hasn’t been running a fever. Of course, I don’t relish the thought of having to go get a swab rammed up my nose. However, she works fairly close to an older (definitely well past retirement age) guy and a gal with multiple recent (non-contagious) health problems. But Maskless Gal couldn’t be bothered to follow her own doctor’s advice when it DIDN’T suit her – nor take advantage of our org’s generous time off bennies. Hope we don’t have to shut the whole joint down on account of her.
/rant
Wait, so she’s had symptoms to the point where she went to the doctor, doctor said “get tested” and she went “nope”? You had to ask for that advice, and however much I don’t want a deep nasal swab, if I were at the point where I was seeking medical attention, I’d still get the test done.
Just out of curiousity, what was the medical reason for the no mask note?
I’m not sure the note said specifically WHY – and apparently we’re not allowed to ask because HIPAA. I have access to the note, so I may take a peek because I’m sneaky that way.
Don’t risk it. I was just wondering if it came up, because people are gossipy.
“You need a doctors note. But nobody can verify what it says, legally.”
You’re allowed to ask.
HIPAA doesn’t require individuals to do anything, only “covered entities” (health care providers, insurance companies). Her doctor can’t tell you without her consent, but if she refuses I think you can discipline her.
*not legal advice, consult your own layer, etc.
When I was in the ER recently, I was listening to conversations that were completely HIPAA violations. If I wasn’t in so much pain, I would have yelled, “I am not supposed to be hearing this shit!”
*sighs, looks at pile of HIPAA complaints*
It’s so contagious we have to wear masks, but the test can only detect it via sinus swab.
QUESTIONING LEGITIMACY IS NOW A COVID SYMPTOM, GO GET TESTED.
So in a few weeks the company will be presented with a lawsuit for hazardous work environment?
The dumb fucks want another Kent State to rally support.
Moms Demand (to be) Cannon Fodder!
If they’re that desperate, they could go shield the moms shielding Afghan weddings.
I believe Andy Ngo confirmed they were just costumed antifa, and not mothers at all.
What was that housing project that made Cabrini-Green look safe by comparison?
Was it that one on MLK Blvd?
I don’t remember. I don’t even remember what city it was in.
Remember the guy at the gun shop in Saratoga that helped you with your rail?
Yeah, he didn’t have to close his shop because he sells guns to cops.
He also is forbidding the wearing of masks inside the shop if you’re looking to get out of the house… he’s got a pristine 77/44on his used rack at the moment.
Good to know.
I was going for “most racist response that could apply to anywhere” there.
Cabrini-Green was never the worst housing project in Chicago. What made it so _notable_ was it’s location: right next to a very vibrant and upscale downtown and River North. What was happening was visitors would be walking along in River North make a left instead of a right, and suddenly be in pure hell. The Housing Projects were a horrible idea. Placing one in some of the most valuable real estate in the world was galaxy brain level stuff.
There were always more crime-ridden projects on South and West sides like the Stateway Gardens and Robert Taylor Homes. But Cabrini-Green’s location made them a focal point.
RTH sounds like the one I was thinking of.
Former residence of Mr. T, Kirby Puckett, and Deval Patrick
Robert Taylor homes were a long string of high rise projects buildings across the Dan Ryan expressway from White Sox stadium. Didn’t help the Sox attendance very much, nor make you want to park near there. They tore them down after I moved away in 1986, but not sure exactly when.
I have never seen infection in which you have such a broad range literally no symptoms at all in a substantial proportion of the population to some who get ill with minor symptoms to some who get ill enough to be in bed for weeks,” he said. “Others get hospitalized, require oxygen, intensive care, ventilation and death. The involvement with the same pathogen is very unique.”
If only there were some sort of government entity which could collect and analyze the numbers, and see if there are any probablistic patterns which might guide us in our response. Maybe we could find some sort of predictive trends and target our efforts more effectively.
Naaah.
We need to preemptively kill everyone to prevent them from getting the infection. It’s the only way to be certain. For the children.
Oh, that’s what he meant. *smacks forehead*
Let’s just nuke NYC, LA, Chicago, Miami, SanFran, Portland, Seattle, Boston from space. Civil War: over.
And film makers think Detroit is so great for its dystopian wastelands. Just wait.
Is that teh sliver lining for Minneapolis?
Sadly, Nuked New York is gonna provide the most cinematic ruins, Go Fuck Yaselves MN!
Others get hospitalized, require oxygen, intensive care, ventilation and death.
They require death?
Well, after you’ve ventillated them…
Man, that guy needs to work on his language skills.
Several doctors from out of state (who came to help New York during their first big wave) spoke anonymously about how few doctors knew how to set up the ventilators and that they used too much pressure and too much vacuum, thus ruining the patients’ lungs and leading to death.
So, yeah, ventilators did mean death for a while there when they were being set up by orthopedic surgeons or other doctors who don’t deal with ventilators.
If people in that state had any sense they’d run Cuomo out on a rail. They were embarrassingly unprepared and just kept making everything worse, leading to thousands of preventable deaths. Yet he’s practically up for sainthood, just because people like how he does a PowerPoint presentation. And continue to insist every death was Trump’s fault, despite Trump covering Cuomo’s back multiple times.
Continue to be amazed how clueless most people are these days.
The thing is, NY actually had a pretty good plan after H1N1.
Cuomo just ignored it. Which is even worse.
Treatment protocols also changed from basically copy what the Chinese said to what was actually working or stop doing what wasn’t. Such as delaying ventilator intubation in favor of other options.
*edit*
If only there were some vast bureaucratic apparatus with an enormous budget which could, et c…
I’ve been wondering about the evolution of pathogens since globalization. Is it possible that the most devastating contagions could only develop when they had time to progressively mutate in populations with limited intermingling? Not so much leaning towards the idea of people being exposed to more pathogens strengthens their immunity, but that more mingling provides an environment where pathogens evolve into strains that are less deadly to the very hosts they need to survive. A virus that killed its host immediately would be an evolutionary deadend.
Did the common cold exist 500yrs ago?
(by globalization, I really mean 3 different stages: the connecting of the world by weeks-long boat travel, then the introduction of rail across land, and finally air travel.)
Just saw a news alert on my phone.
Biden says Trump is the first racist elected to the Presidency, or some such thing
Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson must have gotten a hearty chuckle out of that.
What’s Barack Obama, chopped liver?
It’s impossible for him to be racist because of his skin color, you dumb Honkey.
Which half of him?
The half that’s not inherently racist due to White. Christ, you’re not even trying.
Racism = prejudice + power. As a Black man, President Obama had zero power. Therefore it is definitionally impossible for him to be racist.
By that equation the Klan is no longer racist
No no, see, the KKK being white, have institutional power even if they might be lacking it personally.
POTUS on the other hand does not have the force of society backing him.
No. If they were both falling into a ravine, I would jump in and save the liver for my rat dog who eats anything. At least it wouldn’t be a waste.
You could just walk the dog down to the bottom of the ravine, the chopped liver will still be totally canine-acceptable.
You do not understand. I
hatewill not miss thisdograt when she goes.LOL.
Then it’s an even better plan. You just bolt when it starts eating.
WTF kind of news alerts are you signed up for?
TDS crisis alert service. You aren’t? Bigot!
TDSCAS…no, that’s not a good acronym at all. Hmmm….
Trump Derangement Crisis Alert Service System
Alas, it doesn’t look like “Impeccably dressed rat v. State of New York” is going to happen. The legal advice I am receiving is “don’t do it. You’ll lose.”
Meh, no one ever had songs written about them because they fought fights they were supposed to win. There are no songs praising the steam powered rock drilling machine.
^this guy is so uncultured he’s never heard of Starlight Express
What about the Marine Hymn?
How to riot like a badass. Soy sauce boy > Soy boy.
Thanks for the Travelogue Straff! My phone died and so did my brain, good times!
Thumbs up. We both had fun, eh.
Tall Cans!
Kaika Injun? So. Racist.
WTF kind of news alerts are you signed up for?
Strictly legit. Business Insider, I think. You can’t get any more honester than them.
It says Business! Report to the Camps Kulak!
530 lbs, 275 hp. In the hands of the wrong person, not a good idea. I am a wrong person for this. I still want one.
Still not as much of a death wish as the Tomahawk
Tried to watch Cursed on Netflix, but it is so painfully woke it’s unwatchable.
I suspended disbelief as it turned the legend on its head. I ignored the casting, a black Igraine, Chinese Celts? I waded thru the anti-Christian muck, but when finally it introduced yet another lesbian subplot (with Igraine no less) I said enough was enough. Yeesh.
I watched “The Old Guard.” Unoriginal. Not worth the time. Imagine the worst parts of an action movie blended with “Interview with the Vampire.”
Huh. Too bad. Looked interesting.
Mrs. Frankelson is into this program, she is not as aware of the nonsense as I. I am actually a little jealous that she can enjoy this stuff without pulling in the outside world into it. In any case, it is a decently produced show with a potential for an interesting take on the Arthurian lore, probably won’t pay off, but still. I think they are at least trying to do enough to make the world they are building vague enough about the geography and making some effort to establish a fantasy world divorced from a dark age, Britan, to at least give them a little leeway on the woke casting.
On the whole, it is a shlocky drama with fantasy on par with any number of CW’s daytime trash,
(If you really want to roll your eyes so hard they fall out of your head and across the floor, watch ‘Reign’. it is a show that is, ostensibly about early 17th Century Europe with Mary, Queen of Scots as the primary protagonist. Even a passing familiarity with the actual history will have you groaning through the entire run of the show.)
Correction: 16th Century.
My wife went out for quick grocery trip. She texted me “Must be a problem at Kroger. Firetrucks and people standing outside.”
Of course, I replied, “Must be someone without a mask.”
I’m sure there’s some sort of European Union Court for Human Rights reason that thing has three wheels, but fuck no.
Just when I thought I was out, they suck me back in.
https://twitter.com/Heritage/status/1285951788449923073
Heritage Foundation
@Heritage
Reminder: Paleoconservatives, neoconservatives, fiscal hawks, social conservatives, libertarians, and more are ALL principal members of the conservative movement—and TOGETHER we are a force that cannot be ignored or dismissed.
Isn’t what they’re supposed to do at Soaplands?
Awkward moment for me when I realized Bed Bath and Beyond wasn’t the American version.
Nice. Given their issues before the plague and now during it maybe they could add it to their business plan.
Here in NJ they were finally able to open last week or so.
The “Beyond” part is way too vague.
You really don’t want to got to Bloodbath and Beyond.
That’s awesome. If I ever write a novella, I’m stealing that for the title.
That sounds like an amazing off-plot X-Files episode.
Rub and tug?
Reminder: Paleoconservatives, neoconservatives, fiscal hawks, social conservatives, libertarians, and more are ALL principal members of the conservative movement—and TOGETHER we are a force that cannot be ignored or dismissed.
*holds breath, waits for libertarian moment*
Another example of why you all riot like pussies.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EalfMx4U4AAn74r?format=jpg&name=small
Sherman wants a word.
https://images.app.goo.gl/e64i9rya5TktrAuu8