Spencer Grammer, daughter of Kelsey Grammer, among victims in East Village slashing
Kelsey Grammer’s actress daughter Spencer was slashed in the arm at an East Village restaurant Friday night — when she and a pal bravely confronted a blade-wielding drunk who then turned his weapon on them, sources told The Post Saturday.
The mayhem erupted at around 11:30 p.m. at The Black Ant on Second Avenue when a man, who appeared intoxicated, tried to get a table. He was rebuffed because the restaurant was about to close — sending him into an unhinged tailspin, multiple sources and bystanders said.
The drunk wouldn’t leave the resaurant (sic), and instead began fighting with a male diner, who picked up a chair and started swinging it — and soon, more than a dozen employees and onlookers joined in the sidewalk free-for-all.
Grammer, 36, a voiceover star on the popular “Rick and Morty” cartoon, and her friend, Jan Phillip Mueller, 31, were at the restaurant at the time, and rushed to help even as the drunken man started swinging what one law enforcement source called “a silver blade.”
They come for Summer with a silver blade? They think Rick’s granddaughter is a werewolf? Or one of the gayer varieties of vampires? Bastards! The minions of Mr. Nimbus must be destroyed!
We’ve seen plenty of videos where some jerk without a mask goes ham on others who call them out … well, this is the reverse, and it’s equally disgusting.
A woman maced a couple who were eating — obviously without a mask — at a San Diego dog park.
The video picks up in the middle of the action. It appears the woman in the mask went nuts on the couple for not covering their faces with masks. Thing is … they were eating lunch as they watched their 3-month-old pug play in the park.
According to the couple, the woman called them “idiots” and flipped them off. She came up to the table where they were having lunch, pointed the mace canister in the woman’s direction, and sprayed her. Her husband then got a heavy dose before wrestling the can away from her.
Posing idiots:
There are a few kids here, but this is the tiniest one I’ve seen. Sabbath is 6 months old. Her parents were worried about bringing her, they said, bc of all the tear gas. But they said they wanted her to witness history in the making & teach her to show up for what’s right. #PDX pic.twitter.com/U3aqpj6rGn
— Marissa J. Lang (@Marissa_Jae) July 25, 2020
And in more Rick and Morty news, a preview of Season Five:
The soundtrack to your descent into insanity:
*checks links*
Everything is still stupid.
but enough about the S&P500
Everything’s Stupid
The theme song to Twigger’s Holiday, created by Rob Schrab who worked extensively with Dan Harmon, creator of Rick and Morty.
Everything is connected.
Kelsey Grammer’s actress daughter Spencer
don’t bring a purse to a knife fight?
Descent into insanity indeed.
I am going to stay here in the middle of nowhere, keep my powder dry and keep my head down.
keep my head down
white privilege: connected to abundant crawdad supply
I need to get a wading pool going so I can farm the yummy bastards in the back yard after society collapses
^This guy gets it^
Or you could just move here. January through May the crawfish restaurants are packed, parking lots full and cars parked all along the street.
They are small and tender in January, by June their shells are too thick.
We went out for dinner last night. First time since the scamdemic.
We had to wear a mask for two minutes to get seated on the patio. After that nothing.
Everyone was very chill. Person entering in front of us even held the door open.
The restaurant was fairly busy inside and out. There was a super old couple dining out too.
The prime rib was fantastic. Almost normal.
Probably longpig
I am a steak expert. They can’t fool me.
“Almost normal” meaning the dining out around people.
We briefly got to dine indoors here, before governor Newsance locked us down again- no indoor dining. Other than wearing a mask from about 10 feet before the door of the restaurant until you sat down, and the beauty of some restaurants marred by improvised pvc/shower curtain dividers, there wasn’t really anything too different.
When they re-locked us down, restaurants were scrambling because they couldn’t afford to shut down again after they had spent money re-opening. The city has completely adopted the idea of outdoor dining. Almost every restaurant has setup “wedding tent gazebos” in their parking lot with 10 – 20 tables. A couple of other restaurants that already had substantial patios have been making mad bank.
If this continues, I foresee a boom in Mediterranean style architecture here, where most of the restaurant is outdoors.
We have indoor dining in PA (25%?). This restaurant had indoor, tent, and open air tables available. We were at an open air table. It was nice.
Just imagine how nice it will be in November.
Spencer Grammer, daughter of Kelsey Grammer, among victims in East Village slashing
Damn Indiana knives!
David French wrote a eulogy for “that professor everyone hates who said dumb things we don’t like and apparently killed himself”.
It’s pretty good. https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/a-eulogy-for-a-friend-a-lament-for
A lovely tribute indeed.
He’s right – we’re broken in some way, and Twitter and the like are making it a thousand times worse.
So very, very true.
Awful.
Stay. Away. From. Social. Media.
It’s poisonous.
Maybe I’m off here but the look at the caliber of character of the people who founded Twitter and Facebook. Dorsey has shown himself to be nothing more than a disingenuous punk and the whole purpose of Facebook in its original intent was to pick up chicks. I’m a stalwart believer in the the concept or idea if your foundation its rotten then it will flow into an organization.
“that professor everyone hates who said dumb things we don’t like and apparently killed himself”
Krugabe’s gone?
I’m not a fan of French, but that was a beautiful piece.
*gets maced*
“That is not OK!”
This is why our society is doomed. If you mace my wife or family, I’m going to make sure you don’t leave without some injuries.
A beating that requires a trip to a good dental surgeon afterwards would be an appropriate response.
One mace suppository coming up!
He might be a pussy, or he might have just had a moment of chivalrous restraint given that it was an older woman.
With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, the best thing to do would probably have been to take her mace away from her and simply begin quietly following her. When she gets home or to her car then you have her ID and can charge her.
he might have just had a moment of chivalrous restraint given that it was an older woman.
If she slapped his face, sure. spraying his party with mace? chivalry is out the window.
By the time I clicked the Grammer link, it seems to have been rephrased slightly:
(Emphasis added)
Sounds like the way Spencer’s dad would have put it.
The prime rib was fantastic. Almost normal.
As his last meal, the condemned man ate prime rib.
Letters to the Local Rag: It Runs In The Family
I bet he’s a real tool.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/car-drives-mob-protesters-colorado-highway-protester-shoots-fellow-protesters-trying-shoot-driver/
Shoots other protestors?
Good shoot.
That’s why you damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead if you get caught in that situation in a car. They’re just lucky the wanna be murderers were incompetent.
Reginald Denny.
Denny was unarmed
Napalm would solve these issues.
White Phosphorous, fused for 10 meter air-burst. The miscreants will either scatter or take the 5000° F challenge.
I think the time for talking is over
Letters to the Local Rag: It Puts The Mask On Its Face
The decision to reopen William & Mary is a poor one, in light of the new evidence that the coronavirus is once again exploding.
What happened to all those international students who returned to Liberty University?
Probably raptured
These Karen’s are going to be the death of us all or at least the unemployment. Go to hell lady, the seniors can self-isolate if they feel it to be necessary to do so. These histrionic dickheads who have always desired power over others but were ignored in the past have gotten a taste and they like it.
Seriously. I don’t have the plague, at least as of four days ago. I can judge the risk for myself.
That is a far more apt analogy than the author realizes. Bonds sold in WWII brought in a pittance and were really only promulgated to make the commonweal feel like we were all in it together, when a great many Americans had no interest in getting involved in another internecine European conflict. The OVERWHELMING majority of WWII spending came from – that’s right, FedGov leveraging the future tax-payers and printing more money.
I’m reading the Second Crusade right now, which was published in 1950 and is a critical take on WWII. It’s absolutely astounding just how much the American people were lied to by FDR and his supporters. Every single one of them should have been shot for treason and murder. They deliberately lied to the American people in order to get the United States into a war that the people of the country did not want.
I wonder how people have given themselves the COVID-19
Use of an indefinite article in a letter to the local rag screams BOOOOOOMMMMMER.
Sabbath is 6 months old. Her parents were worried about bringing her, they said, bc of all the tear gas. But they said they wanted her to witness history in the making & teach her to show up for what’s right.
There is no shortage of fucked-up stories in these troubled times. But these “parents” are the worst. What kind of people use their own kids as props?
There’s an abundance of them. I’ve always hated that behavior. Even from politicians showing off their family. I’m not voting for your twat of a high schooler.
This doesn’t bring a frisson of joy to your cold, cold heart?
Or this; I didn’t notice at first that the previous photo was photoshopped.
Damn you Ted. I forgot about that guy. Why did you have to remind me?
Admittedly, I was amused by that.
Whenever I see one of these stories, I find myself wondering if /insert violent thing I’d never actually do here/ is an NAP violation.
Have you seen the stories about people ‘transitioning’ their children?
Hard to miss. Child abuse is the worst (elder abuse is up there as well).
I am personally acquainted with someone who transitioned as an adult (FTM); it surprised no one and worked out well (he’s been married for over a decade now). Such things don’t always work out so well; there are no guarantees and this is certainly a decision to be made only by an adult. Parents who do this to their children need a beating.
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is more common than most realize. In fact, mental illness, personality disorders in general are more common than not.
Prosperity is a bitch for a species built to struggle to survive. What must we do to stave off boredom?
I got no issue with people doing whatever the fuck they want as adults.
The tranny kid stuff is just as sick as child pornography and should be treated as such.
Instead it gets a whole series on the increasingly-misnamed “Learning” Channel.
Sabbath?
?
1st name Black. Not really but that’s the only name my kid would get that name.
Sabbath of Color, thank you very much.
I find it spectacularly amusing that they believe a 6 month old has any clue what the hell is going on.
Probably more clue than her parents
I am really fucking tired of the “look what this asshole did” genre of “journalism” that is so popular these days.
It’s been popular as long as “journalism” has been reporting on what politicians do.
Maybe it’s the way online news works but I don’t recall seeing so many of these stories on the “front page” before. You used to get one or two on page 3 every day. Now there are a dozen or more and they bubble up to the top of the page so there is a fresh outrage every time you open the page.
Everything was fine, until President Cartoon Villain came long
In deploying federal forces, Trump appears to be trying to provoke clashes with protesters, which he can use to convince white suburban voters that he’s the last line of defense between them and the chaos allegedly incubating in cities, Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor, told me. Referring to the street battle between construction workers and anti-war protesters in Manhattan in 1970, Emanuel said, “Trump is trying to create his own hard-hat riot, and they are wearing [law-enforcement] helmets.”
The political risk for Republicans in that strategy, many political observers told me, is not only that it could provoke more opposition from residents in the city centers, but that it could also accelerate the shift toward Democrats in the large, well-educated, and more and more diverse inner suburbs around the major cities. Over time, the “larger denser suburbs” have become “like cities and throw in with the cities”—they don’t identify as much with the less-populated areas, says Robert Lang, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and a co-author of the upcoming book Blue Metros, Red States.
The two conflicts between cities and Republican leaders represent the culmination of long-running trends. Tensions between GOP-controlled state governments and Democratic-led cities notably intensified after the 2010 midterm election, which delivered to Republicans unified control of the statehouse and governorship in about two dozen states. Since then, states have moved much more frequently than before to overturn city policies, such as those establishing paid sick leave, regulating gun sales, and imposing rent control.
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The larger political implication of these battles is to deepen the sense that the nation is hardening into antagonistic camps separated by an imaginary border that circles all of the major population centers, dividing the metropolitan core within from the less densely settled places beyond.
Trump is determined to widen that trench. He is trying to rally red America by portraying blue cities as a threat, and then positioning himself as the human wall against them. Until now, Trump has advanced that divisive vision through rhetoric denouncing cities and through policies that cost them money and influence, such as eliminating the federal deduction for state and local taxes, trying to block Justice Department grants for cities that don’t fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and his renewed efforts to strip undocumented immigrants from the census.
But in these final months before the November election, Trump’s deployment of federal forces is transforming his political war on big cities into something much closer to the real thing. “It’s breathtaking in its danger,” said Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor. And if Trump wins a second term—especially if that victory relies on another rural surge to overcome massive opposition across the big metros—the chaos in Portland might look like only the preliminary skirmish for an even more incendiary collision to come.
He’s tearing the country apart. If we don’t stop him, he’ll besiege all the cities and catapult dead livestock over the walls.
Yes he is.
Was expecting this.
Was expecting this
Is it wrong that I don’t really give a shit about this anymore? Like Portland for example. That has about as much meaning and impact to me as factional warfare in SE Asia; I can intellectually understand that it sucks for innocents caught in the crossfire, but I don’t fucking care about the belligerents. It’s not like Portland was the kind of place I’d want to be even before it devolved into war.
Further: if Bad Orange Man wants to widen the trench between Urban and non-Urban America, why is that a problem? Just like the cities form their own little autonomous city-states and then if people want their Communism, they can keep their Communism by living in one.
Just let* the cities form
You might not care about Portland but Portland cares about you.
Portland is now boot camp and infantry school for commie revolutionaries (collecting their $600 a week from Uncle Sam). What happens there isn’t staying there.
It is very simple – we leave you alone to do what you want and you leave us along – got it?
OK, so you don’t get it, now let me say it again and you concentrate very hard on the business end of this gun – let’s see if you get it now.
I get this and agree to a large extent
but PDX is a pretty handy and pretty place, so I hate to see a place I’ve spent months in over the years ruined.
I generally don’t care what the crazies do since they had been a minority, but the hardest part of this is that traveling with means to protect oneself is such a grind, especially for work where you’re going to encounter No Gunz signs at your clients’ and suppliers’ facilities. I’m not getting trapped and unlucky in an Uber just because the kids decide to burn down the side of town where I take folks to dinner. So this sucks.
Long story I won’t get into deeply, but a few jobs ago I woke up to the risk/reward profile of the work I was doing down Jalisco way and just opted out. It infuriated my employer (a compliment of sorts, and they were right to be mad) at that time, but a couple of years later I was on to the next thing and I hadn’t really missed out on much money for my attitude. I remember my first trip into Guadalajara because a senator was gunned down on the highway we take from the airport minutes before we landed; we spent an extra hour wending through the barrios to the Hilton while most of the town was locked down. It’s total BS that I should ever feel the same way about a US city.
As only someone who is completely unfamiliar with “residents in the city centers” could write.
To wit: “city centers” went law’n’order during the nineties because residents wanted it. There is nothing to prevent the far leftists who control the party these days from overestimating their power yet again until the process repeats itself just like it did then.
Too stupid; didn’t read.
Narcissistic selfies on Slutty Sunday.
http://archive.li/xg4cZ
#2 reminds me of someone I know.
Hopefully in the biblical sense.
the mirror thing is a myth
There is no shortage of fucked-up stories in these troubled times. But these “parents” are the worst. What kind of people use their own kids as props?
Oh, come on. The child as lifestyle accessory movement has always been with us. Especially among the yuppies.
I knew you’d come through, Ted.
Heh.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LovePower_page/status/1287333619573243904
Love Power
Are we still reporting on Communists as if they even care about police brutality?
They do care about police brutality…against them. The problem is that they want to take over the institution and use it to brutalize their enemies so, yeah, fuck them.
I understand that if Joe Biden comes out of his basement and sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of rioting.
I hope I’m the first to make that joke.
I hope this one hasn’t been posted before.
Found at the bottom of that link:
https://mobile.twitter.com/MysteryGrove/status/1286925791742144512
Libertarians in the wild.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/blm-protester-fatally-shot-austin-people-hate-us-big-p-ssies-actually-anything/
When keeping it real goes wrong – Austin edition.
*irony meter pegged*
If someone approaches my car with a rifle in the middle of a riot they’re getting shot. Lucky for the shooter he’s in Texas and stands basically a zero chance of being charged and convicted.
“Lucky for the shooter he’s in Texas”
Well, Austin, anyway.
the shootings are starting. This shit’s moving slower than I expected, but it’s escalating exactly as it always had. Next stop: Boston Massacre/Kent State
Right now it’s just one-off armed citizens, how long until organized opposition starts showing up?
They start shooting at the courthouse in Portland and they’ll get it.
“Defund the police!”
:moments later:
“Help, police!”
What a bunch of superstitious hooey
The virus has unleashed a torrent of forces that are conspiring to fuel relentless demand for the perceived safety from turmoil that gold provides. There’s the fear of further government-ordered lockdowns; and politicians’ decision to push through unprecedented stimulus packages; and central bankers’ decision to print money faster than they ever have before to finance that spending; and the plunge in inflation-adjusted bond yields into negative territory in the U.S.; and the dollar’s sudden decline against the euro and yen; and rising U.S.-China tensions.
All these things, when taken together, have even triggered concern in some financial circles that stagflation — a rare combination of sluggish growth and rising inflation that erodes the value of fixed-income investments — could take hold across parts of the developed world.
In the U.S., where the virus is still raging and the economic recovery is stalling, this debate is growing louder. Investor expectations for annual inflation over the next decade, as measured by a bond-market metric known as breakevens, have moved higher the past four months after plunging in March. On Friday, they hit 1.5%. And while that remains below pre-pandemic levels and below the Federal Reserve’s own 2% target, it is almost a full percentage point higher than the 0.59% yield that benchmark 10-year Treasury bonds pay.
The main driver behind gold’s latest rally “has been real rates that continue to plummet and don’t show signs of easing anytime soon,” Edward Moya, a senior market analyst at Oanda Corp., said by phone. Gold is also drawing investors “concerned that stagflation will win out and will likely warrant even further accommodation from the Fed.”
Our Best and Brightest know what they’re doing. Those gold bugs are just a bunch of crackpots. Full steam ahead.
“Investor expectations for annual inflation over the next decade, as measured by a bond-market metric known as breakevens, have moved higher the past four months after plunging in March. On Friday, they hit 1.5%. And ”
It’s been a while since we’ve seen 10% inflation. People are not going to like it.
Quickest way to destroy wealth and make everyone poor and government-dependent.
Love Power
’67….I remember that time. Even at that very young age my brother and I would see fruitloops like that on TV and think….WTF?
Then my mother would change the channel and I would see combat footage from Vietnam. “Mother, what are those guys doing?”
“They are fighting for their lives”
I’ve never felt stronger that we’re re-living the mid-sixties. Unfortunately that means that late sixties are coming.
The soup can necklace really sells it.
Greece threatens Turkey with military action due to Turkish Mediterranean gas drilling:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-rejects-us-eu-calls-cease-east-med-gas-exploration-greece-threatens-military
So whose side do we intervene on when it’s two NATO members going at it.
Let them fight it out then swoop in and take over.
If Turkey and Greece have started fighting we’re a lot closer to Year Zero than I thought.
Maybe the Greeks can retake Constantinople and start calling themselves Byzantium again (just a joke, I realize the Turks would eat them alive in a no holds barred war).
A few years old.
https://youtu.be/tCGAHi38bfM
We wait for nature to take it’s course and sort it out later.
Let them fight it out then swoop in and take over.
No kidding. Wait ’til they’ve worn themselves out, then enter the field of battle and bayonet the wounded.
Better they’re fapping than making more rules.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/dc-returns-to-work-and-online-porn-up-1-600
old habits die hard
Right.
Beware elderly nuns?
Actually, that sounds like good advice.
Lefties (as in the left-handed, NOT politically left) hardest hit…by Sister Mary Agony’s ruler.
Can confirm *checks scars on knuckles*
Fucking Summer.
Excuse me, but we prefer the more polite euphemism “Summer of Love.”
It’s a Rick and Morty reference.
Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. We’re all going to die. Come watch TV?
Glau?
Get your shit together, get it all together and put it in a backpack, all your shit, so it’s together And if you gotta take it somewhere, take it somewhere, you know, take it to the shit store and sell it, or put it in the shit museum. I don’t care what you do, you just gotta get it together. Get your shit together.
Spencer Grammer: Would.
Make sure you get every last drop. Lovely.
https://twitter.com/VICEUK/status/1287002157141696513
Related (kinda):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5830947-natural-harvest—a-collection-of-semen-based-recipes
I hope she’s getting that semen from a reliable source because AIDS is, you know, still a thing you don’t want to catch.
I think I just lost about 30 IQ points scrolling through that thread. Jesus…I had a bottle of ibuprofen right here somewhere…..
If she needs a source, I volunteer.
Also: her boyfriend’s loads seem rather small.
Assuming pronouns. Tsk, Tsk.
Gotta stay hydrated.
. . . her boyfriend’s loads seem rather small.
Give the guy a break. She’s using him like a draft tap in a bar. Only so much gas in the tank.
What if we start wearing turbans?
The owner of the Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Cleveland Indians announced Thursday that the team’s executives plan to meet with Indigenous groups to discuss its name change.
“In the coming weeks, we will engage Native American leaders to better understand their perspectives, meet with local civic leaders, and continue to listen to the perceptions of our players, fans, partners and employees,” Cleveland Indians team owner Paul Dolan said in a statement.
“We feel a real sense of urgency to discuss these perspectives with key stakeholders while also taking the time needed to ensure those conversations are inclusive and meaningful.”
Earlier this week, the team’s owners said they met with players to discuss the name change. On Friday the team opted to wear their away jerseys with the word “Cleveland” emblazoned on the front instead of their home jersey, which they would have normally worn for Friday’s home opener. The home jersey says “Indians” across the front.
However, the Cleveland American Indian Movement of Ohio told the Washington Post that they have not yet heard from the baseball team.
“They have made statements now that they are going to reach out to the Native community, but no one in the Native community has heard anything from them,” the group’s executive director, Sundance (of the Muscogee tribe), told the Post.
Circling teh drain.
That’s just Sikh.
???
*wild applause*
Alternatively – what would Hihn do?
::fist bump::
Swissy isn’t here, so I’ll fill in.
/narrows gaze/
Best suggestion I saw for the Cleveland Baseball Team was to rename them the Tribe.
You want to complain then? We’re celebrating our Mormon history or the Jewish roots of our city.
I was hoping Dan Snyder would move the team to Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Redskins has a nice ring to it.
?
I’m sure that won’t be a one-sided conversation at all.
How many
accidental shootingsnegligent discharges have there been at “right wing” anti-lockdown protests?Well, I trimmed the sidewalk, and gave the coffee to Not Adahn. That two things off the list for today.
*looks at list*
*noise of despair*
“I trimmed the sidewalk, and gave the coffee to Not Adahn”
I was always rooting for you two kids to get together.
It grows?
Yes.
Wut?
Community advocates said they fielded call after call from scared Black residents who were reminded of the Tuskegee syphilis study conducted on African Americans from 1932 to 1972. Fewer than one in four households approached took part in the antibody research, which may have diminished its accuracy and value, the CDC revealed this week.
The episode was emblematic of the federal government’s ongoing failures to address the huge racial and ethnic disparities that have persisted throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
In 20 interviews across multiple states, health workers, civil rights advocates and state and local officials told POLITICO that efforts by the CDC and the broader Trump administration to mitigate the impact of the virus on communities of color are falling short. They cited cultural misunderstandings and asserted that mixed messages from the White House have made it harder for counties to get a handle on the disease.
“We’re not an Island,” said Gibbie Harris, health director for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. “A lack of a centralized approach and the lack of centralized messaging that’s consistent is challenging in a big way.”
Above all, health experts cited the federal government’s failure to back up its recommendations on testing, tracing and quarantines with the funding that communities need to implement them.
“Where is the central command?” said Mary Travis Bassett, a former New York City health commissioner now at Harvard School of Public Health. “I feel like we’re on an airplane where the pilot just got up and walked to the back.”
It sounds more like she’s looking for somebody to point her finger at. How can she evade responsibility if she’s not following orders from On High?
Centralized and inflexible systems of addressing fluid issues are always best, it is known.
Unexpectedly.
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/07/25/meltdown-minneapolis-violence-nearing-annual-records-july/
What a shithole.
Sad.
Mornin’ SF.
Good morning, Old—
Hey! Wait a goddamn minute!
I go on vacation and things fucking CHANGE?!?
Oh, well, never let it be said that I can’t improvise, adapt and overcome.
Good morning, SF!
And a good morning to all of you lovable miscreants. I missed you all, but I didn’t miss the breathtaking stupidity so common to the modern lynx.
That song, though? Absolute perfection.
it also features a no-shit brilliant YT comment:
In other good news, my Talismasks showed up. Stylish and as effective. Thanks, SP!
I hope each and every one of you has a fantastic day!
Some say Brett came to OMWC in a vision and told him to seek the source of enlightenment deep in the black heart of the desert. Others say he is merely hungover. Either way, he needs a good supply of water.
In other good news, my Talismasks showed up.
**HEAVY SIGH**
Still waiting on mine. Gotta re-route shipments from the U.S. to Canada through Mars first, donchaknow.
As the virus disproportionately sickens and kills people of color, the CDC has sent several hundred staffers on missions to states including Georgia, North Carolina, California and Arkansas. They’ve embedded in overburdened local health departments, held focus groups with workers of color and made recommendations to states on targeted testing, bilingual contract tracing and culturally sensitive outreach.
But then they’ve left the communities to figure out how to come up with the funds necessary to put those plans into action.
Shocking. A failure of leadership.
As the virus disproportionately sickens and kills people of color
Yes, yes. It would be perfectly fine if all demographics died of everything in exact proportion. Guess we gotta start offing the whites.
But muh graft!
Even more shocking – we’re not throwing enough money at the problem.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-saxon-dead-enter-dragon-nightmare-elm-street-actor-was-83-1095778
When I think “Archetypical ‘70s actor” I think Saxon. Also loved him in Mitchell, my fave MST 3000 episode. RIP.
John Saxon was the 70’s, He will be missed
wut
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/australian-twin-sisters-claim-they-both-intend-to-get-pregnant-by-same-boyfriend-this-is-what-works-for-us
That’s totally not creepy at all.
the guy looks exactly as I imagined.
Twins, Basil. Twins…
The Marmalade Sandwich!
Oh sister wives is where you deviants draw the line?
Lasers to the eyes, now explosives.
Police declared a riot Saturday afternoon after another day of peaceful protest was hijacked by looters who injured 21 police officers, lit “explosive” fires and caused widespread damage in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Hundreds of people gathered about 2 p.m. Saturday for a peaceful march in solidarity with protesters in Portland who are facing arrest by federal agents. By 4 p.m., crowds had broken away from the peaceful protest, setting fires to five construction trailers at the Juvenile Detention Center and attacking camera crews.
One officer was hospitalized with a knee injury caused by an explosive. A Harborview Medical Center spokesperson said the officer is in satisfactory condition as of Saturday evening. SPD said as of 10 p.m., 21 officers were injured by bricks, rocks, mortars and other explosives.
Kabul on the Columbia.
Portland is already Little Beirut. And Seattle isn’t anywhere near the Columbia.
Fuck the media. “Peaceful Protest” *spits on the ground*
“If we just keep saying ‘peaceful’…”
I say we keep using it. For example: Timothy McVeigh was a mostly peaceful activist.
mostly true !!!
At some point the peaceful protestors, if that’s really what they are, are enabling the rioters. Like the enabling family of a dysfunctional alcoholic, they deserve some of the blame too.
“protest was hijacked by looters”
“people gathered about 2 p.m. Saturday for a peaceful march”
“crowds had broken away from the peaceful protest, setting fires to five construction trailers at the Juvenile Detention Center and attacking camera crews.”
“21 officers were injured by bricks, rocks, mortars and other explosives.”
Why are Jenny Durkan and Jay Inslee not swinging from a lamp post?
I notice no author signed their name to that mendacious steaming pile.
Battle: Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) declared a tactical alert on Saturday evening, mobilizing officers in response to attacks on federal buildings downtown by demonstrators who had marched in solidarity with protests in Portland.
Several federal buildings were vandalized and had their windows smashed. Demonstrators also blocked traffic in the area.
This is not going to end the way the “demonstrators” think it is.
Completely unreasonable response
Dr. Anthony Fauci said that he has received hate mail and death threats from U.S. residents who disagree with his health recommendations to curb transmission of the novel coronavirus. Some individuals, conceivably frustrated over the infectious disease expert’s ongoing push for virus mitigation—like widespread use of face masks, social distancing and adjusted reopening strategies—are harassing members of his family as well, he said last week.
“There are people who get really angry at thinking that I’m interfering with their life because I’m pushing a public health agenda,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told CNN commentator David Axelrod during Thursday’s episode of The Axe Files podcast.
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“I mean, really, is this the United States of America?” Fauci went on. “But it’s real. It’s really real.”
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“There is a big divisiveness in the country about politicizing this response to the COVID outbreak, where people feel that some of the public health measures that I’ve been advocating, which are purely for the purpose of preserving the health and safety of the American people, are interfering with their lives,” the NIAID director added.
Fuck you and the broom you rode in on, you prissy little fascist.
Is it “American” for some government functionary to arbitrarily declare some people “nonessential” and destroy their livelihoods, based on completely bogus computer models and a crypto-Stalinist central planning mindset?
is this the United States of America?
I’ve been wondering the same thing.
purely for the purpose of preserving the health and safety of the American people
Fuck. Off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lzqRVuRqN0
Progjection.
TIFFANY CROSS: There are multiple intelligence reports that are highlighting very concerning things. One thing for me, just yesterday, intelligence officials issued a public warning that Russia was still trying to infiltrate our election process by selling disinformation and stoking racial discord in this country — just as they did in 2016. We had a similar warning in 2016 that nobody seemed to take seriously. We are in a situation again. It feels like deja vu. How concerned should we be going into election season? I’m very concerned about November. What is the threat level with our election systems and with the president, who has yet to ever hold them accountable on anything?
MALCOLM NANCE: It is very high, the Russian possibility of attacking our elections. We know that they have been going around and probing the Democratic Party, you say that memo that was sent out where the Democrat Party suspects they have been trying to hack into individual accounts in order to release emails in a flood before the election. That is going to happen. We already know if Russia doesn’t do it, the Trump campaign, it’s vigilantes, and its data team will most likely do it.
Mentioning the Russians and our elections in the same sentence in an unironic fashion should be in the DSM as an indicator of delusion and/or psychopathy.
I imagine someone has already gotten access to Biden’s files at the University of Delaware.
I dunno. I feel like Biden’s past is irrelevant at this point. It’s not like he’s capable of even being that person anymore, so who cares? Someone else will be calling all the shots, either officially or unofficially, so it doesn’t really matter. Of course it _DOES_ really matter that someone else will be calling all the shots, but most of his voters are simply voting for ‘NOT ORANGE MAN’ anyway.
Who needs the Ruskies when we have the Democrats?
But enough about the media, educational, and political elites.
Speaking to Barstool Sports president David Portnoy in an interview shared to social media on Friday, Trump said Fauci would prefer to see the country “closed up for a couple of years.”
“But that’s okay, because I’m the president,” he continued. “So I say, ‘Well, I appreciate the opinion. Now, give me another opinion.'”
Note: President Cartoon Villain did not have Foochy imprisoned or murdered for making contradictory statements. He merely declined to follow them. Worst banana republic autocrat ever.
“would prefer to see the country ‘closed up for a couple of years.'”
Why stop there? Why not make it permanent? I mean, the flu and the cold are EVERYWHERE. We gotta protect ourselves! One sick person is one too many!
You joke but this exact argument will absolutely be used for particularly bad strains of the flu in the future, I guarandamntee it.
OK Fauci you degenerate piece of low life scum.
You want to close it? We start with you losing your job. Lead by example.
Already the unintended consequences of the lockdowns have reared an ugly head too difficult to fathom with the loss and destruction of lives.
And this cocksucker wants to PROLONG THE MISERY?! He’s another one now I think is a psychopath and s acting with malice.
Trump truly is the only last line of defence here.
To defend Fauci (something I never do), “closed up for a couple of years” is Trump’s characterization of Fauci’s opinion, not necessarily exactly what Fauci told him. Trump is a touch prone to exaggeration from time to time. That said, the things Fauci has said in public suggest that’s not too far off from what he believes. “Okay, you first!” should be the standard response to every apparatchik attempting to hand down suffering to everybody else.
Perhaps but there should be NO talk of that.
Of course. But there is, unfortunately.
I just think there should be a note to make sure that folks understand that’s not an actual quote from Fauci, at least as far as we know.
How can our democracy survive when politicians don’t listen to unelected bureaucrats?!
Trump is actually leading. He’s not letting a medical bureaucrat control the country. If that’s not leadership, I don’t know what it.
Contrast that with other countries, states and provinces. Public health official are running amok.
RE: That lady macing the couple. File “Things you won’t see in Sweden”. This is PRECISELY why Sweden is right.
I blame the government full stop. That’s on Newsome and all the governors and premiers poisoning people with this superstition fuelling the hysteria.
That’s what happens when you scare low IQ morons. Now they go around thinking other people are a threat to them.
Stupid people rule over North America. Stupid, insipid, opportunistic, incompetent, assholes.
Where Dr. Tengell speaks with humility, measured words and realistic, Dr. Tam the other day says that the spikes (Canada avg. 300 cases per day and 4 deaths) as ‘worrisome.’
This is criminal to keep speaking this way and shows how low in leadership and enlightened thinking we have.
That man was incredibly restrained. I may have beaten her to death before restraining myself.
“Canada avg. 300 cases”
C’mon Rufus, 1/10000 is a CRISIS!
I laughed last night at a Gab post that hoped that Antifa wouls fight their way into the Federal building, then accidentally find and set off a dirty bomb that kills everyone in a 5 mile radius.
That poor child.
It has no chance if that’s what’s going to raise it.
I wonder how many of those cucks protesting had real men in their lives.
Their justification is that their 6 month old will form memories of this “historic” event. I don’t pretend to know when the average human can recall memories from youth but I know 6 months old is definately not it.
Just admit that you wanted a prop for the cameras and social media points.
All they’re doing is putting a child in harm’s way. Reckless endangerment of a child.
If that kid takes a teargas cylinder or a beanbag round to the dome they can be the parents of a martyr. It’s just a stupid, stupid thing to do.
By the movement, for the movement.
I bet they say stuff like “I want my child to learn inclusion, respect, love…” for only what they believe in.
She sees her child as a human shield, nothing more. This attitude is not going to get better either as this child grows. Straight up child abuse.
And this is a problem why?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/12223639/girlfriend-only-wants-sex-if-her-friends-join-in/
” I never believed this would happen to me but….”
That’d be awesome in the short term and exhausting in the long term.
And make sure not to perform better with the other
Oh that poor man.
I’m LOVING how Trump is not holding his punches about China.
It’s about time. Fuck China. Fucken lousy commies.
THEY put us in this mess.
Until Beijing Biden takes the reins.
I don’t care a lot for Trump but his stance against China is about the best one we could ask for.
Wish he would criticize Xi more though. The trade war crap the last few years was such a disorganized amalgam of crap with no overarching strategy.
He’s a schmoozer. No good really comes from talking shit about Xi anyway, not while they control so many of the levers at the UN. Deeds are more important. I can’t speak much to the trade war shit but I like stuff like nailing them on their spying. Quietly gather allies and work against them that way some more.
After many drinks last night with my brother (Bernie) and me (Rand)…I forgot that we shouldn’t talk politics.
He is very educated but this was striking when he said “Rand Paul is crazy and says crazy stuff, but I dont know what it is…I just know its crazy”
We moved onto how pizza should never have pineapple on it and thus healed the divide between socialist and liberty.
Paul: Be free!
Prog: I don’t like the sound of that. It just doesn’t feel right!
I know it when I see it?
There is no healing the divide between socialist and liberty.
In other words, he doesn’t want to know. He might have to disagree with his peers who wouldn’t be as understanding as his brother.
Paul seems the only sane one one all of DC, although he doesn’t seem to do a while lot other than say rational things.
Thank you for turning me on to Negro Terror, my new favorite of the moment.
Yeah man. I enjoy his outlook and punkness
I like the attitude but the music SUCKS
*That face you make when you find the water line buried six inches below grade with your backhoe loader and can’t curse in front of your 9 year old daughter*
Facepalm?
Curse like Yosemite Sam. It helps.
Six inches?
The Supreme Court is destroying democracy!
The court’s most visible decision on voting this year came in April, when, on the eve of the Wisconsin primary election, the five conservative justices voted to reverse a federal judge’s order to expand the state’s window for receiving absentee ballots.
That lawsuit was brought in response to the coronavirus pandemic, as voters fearful of voting in person unleashed an “avalanche of absentee ballots,” in the words of the federal judge, that threatened to overwhelm the state’s election system. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision, thousands of ballots were thrown out for arriving too late.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented forcefully in that case and was joined by her liberal colleagues. She wrote that the court’s decision “boggles the mind” as “a voter cannot deliver … a ballot she has not yet received. Yet tens of thousands of voters who timely requested absentee ballots” were asked to do just that.
Tough shit. Any ballot received after midnight on election day goes in a big bonfire. Want your vote counted? get your ass to the election booth.
I haven’t looked for a while but I know that FedEx used to handle US absentee ballots free of charge to ensure they were delivered ASAP. If you are overseas and cannot find a way to make that work for you then you’re too lazy or disinterested to matter.
Ask her how she feels if you get your taxes to the post office on April 17 at 12:02am.
Meanwhile there can’t be enough hoops one must jump through in order to legally buy a firearm.
*That face you make when you find the water line buried six inches below grade with your backhoe loader and can’t curse in front of your 9 year old daughter*
“Look, Daddy! A geyser.”
Speaking of China is Asshole-
Yesterday, I was watching some youtube stuff, and at the beginning of one there were two ads. The first one was a Steve Daines “I’ll get tough on China!” ad.
The one which followed was for a Chinese machine tool manufacturer.
Have you ever used Chinese tools? They are cargo cult junk.
LOL… indeed. I picked up a $30 cordless reciprocating saw from Amazon. It is exactly what you would imagine a Chinese made $30 reciprocating saw would be. Only shipped with a wood cutting blade so I dropped another $9 on a bi-metal blade and it took the better part of an afternoon to cut up my kid’s rusty old Jungle Jim in the backyard.
I bought a 20″ flathead to use for for the screw that holds Ruger #1’s stocks to the receiver (under the buttplate is a hole through the entire stock to where it joins to the receiver).
I put some torc on it and *crunch* the blade of the driver broke like sugar candy. Ok…a lemon. I went back and bought another…same result.
Bought a different brand…still Chinese made….same result. Fuck.
I have had the same problem with every Chinese-made tool I have bought.
Klein and Craftsmen are what’s in my Service bag, I don’t need that when I’m on a rooftop working, ya know?
Mossberg uses that same method on their 500/590 series. I also had to procure a long screwdriver for the task. Now that driver sits there, mocking me, as the only conceivable use I have for it is for removing stocks and I do that maybe twice a decade.
depends on the clearance, but sometimes you can snap together a few socket extension, throw a suitable bit on the end, and grab the screw that way
Harbor Freight tools are fine if the job isn’t critical, they will break at the worst time, then you go back and buy another……
Or just buy Quality in the first place,
The sky is fell!
Welcome to the world we all live in. The pandemic is real. The virus is killing people — it’s overwhelming our health care facilities, it’s putting workers at risk and it’s stretching our institutions, as well as our economy, to the breaking point. While the President might be able to repeat “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV” several times over, he can’t just wish the pandemic away.
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While it is possible for presidents to survive an imbroglio, as Bush did in 2004, their legacies can rarely be repaired. These disastrous decisions often loom so large that they become the starting point for any conversation about a presidency and Trump doesn’t have many accomplishments that will stand the test of time and improve his reputation. With the case of Covid-19, the dire impact on society and the wreckage of American institutions might be so grand that it will be years if not decades before we recover from what happened in these trying months.
Wreckage. Destruction. Chaos. Doom.
Okay, Chicken Little. Take your meds.
Oh really?
*checks twice daily house supervisor update from national hotspot*
Nope.
They just make shit up, it’s all about the narrative. They think even when they are blatantly lying, people will believe it. And they’re mostly right. The general public are so dumbed down now, that they will believe anything and even if you point it out to them it’s not true, with overwhelming evidence, they will still believe they lie. We’re doomed.
RAGING!
Covid ICU bed rate in Central Ohio: 8%.
Harbor Freight tools are fine if the job isn’t critical, they will break at the worst time, then you go back and buy another……
Or just buy Quality in the first place,
I bought a couple of Harbor Freight air die grinders 20+ years ago. I said, “For what Snap-on wants for theirs, I can wear out ten of these things.”
Still going strong.
My attitude on harbor freight is to get their cheap full set of whatever it is, figure out which one you use the most—say a particular size of tap&die—and then buy the “quality” version of that one or two often-used pieces to supplement the basic crap HF set.
When I started the testing bit, I was complaining that one of the managers always bought the cheap harbor freight tools. Then, once it was my turn to manage, I realized how many tools walk off the job, get lost, or stolen. Then I got it.
I always kept Klein or MAC in the shop, anything that left on a job was the cheap stuff just cause I never expected it to find its way home.
I have a bunch of good tools. I also have a bunch of HF stuff. I am pretty much happy with them all.
Years ago I bought a HF hammer drill, assuming that the project I was gonna use it for would wreck it. It didn’t. I ended up giving it to my brother, who still uses it.
Pretty fucking good for $30.
Curse like Yosemite Sam. It helps.
RATTZAFRATTZA!
I wonder what happens to public health officials in North Korea when they screw the pooch:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/north-korea-locks-down-border-area-after-acknowledging-vicious-covid-19-outbreak
The pooch screws them?
June 10, 1944:
In the mostly peaceful French countryside…
Ah, the White Man’s Burden…..
The pooch screws them?
Screws, eats, whatever.
You’ve never had a dog try to hump your leg?
Sounds ruff.
In other news-
Federal Eviction Moratorium Ends Today
Pack up your shit, deadbeat.
“Pack up your shit, deadbeat.”
Or, Congress passes eveleventyleven trillion dollar dollar ‘bail out the evicted’ bill.
“Brave knife wielding person of color slashes up some privileged white supremacists who totally got what they deserved. Authorities search for brave survivor” /CNN
“The video picks up in the middle of the action. It appears the woman in the mask went nuts on the couple for not covering their faces with masks. Thing is … they were eating lunch as they watched their 3-month-old pug play in the park.”
Did the brave Karen get the 3 month old also?
I’ve been reading “Amusing Ourselves to Death.”
(Neil Postman, 1985.)
“In America, the least amusing people are its professional entertainers.”
And then, they got woke…
That was his point, way before woke was a bastardized word.
He was trying to look a little into the future and the effect that the transition from the written word to television was changing the way people think, and not in a good way.
Reading it now through the modern lens of internet shows his basic premises are true.
Probably more than he could imagine, unless he had a broad streak of Orwell in him.
I love that book and postman in general. Its awesome that Reagan’s election was all it took for Postman to predict the total downfall of America.
And the he ended up being right. And for the right reasons too.
It’s amazing how he intuitively guessed something like the internet would evolve. At the time, TV was as close as we had gotten.
Neil Postman, excerpt of preface:
Pretty sure I’m seeing a pileated woodpecker checking out the stump of our old walnut tree. Are such ‘peckers fairly common?
Big one with a bright red crest?
Yes, very common.
We have one of the red billed ones out back and another smaller one, but it’s not the one you’re seeing.
Yes they are. Still not less magnificent! The classic woody woodpecker with bright red peak on his head.
The rare one is the ivory billed one, also with the red peak but with darker black body plumage.
Personally I think the pileated ones are cooler, but I wish the other ones good luck.
The Ivory is supposedly near extinct. I was fortunate to see one a few years ago in middle TN.
“Are peckers common?”
After much amusement on my part, I plead the fifth.
Around 49% of the general population, if the stats are to be believed.