Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful morning it is!
That St. Louis couple will need that promised pardon by the governor.
Police arrest man caught cutting the brake lines of a NYPD van.
Michelle Malkin beaten by BLM protesters.
Virginia pushing social justice indoctrinated as early as Kindergarten.
Which is a good time to start this.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Epstein was murdered, THAT’S RIGHT!
“That St. Louis couple will need that promised pardon by the governor.”
So he is gonna let his state fuck them over financially (it is gonna cost a ton in lawyers fees) before he stops this nonsense?
I guess it is better than if he had done nothing.
With a pardon in the back pocket, they could defend themselves and save the money.
But is it in the back pocket? The Governor is a politician after all.
At the end of the article, Gardner mentions her “diversion program” as a means to settle this. In other words she’s shaking them down for the various fees she intends to impose on them.
NPR Lede: “St. Louis Prosecutor Charges White Couple With Threatening Protesters With Guns”
Would they have also said “Black Rioter Charged with Gate-Breaking, Trespass?” We all know the answer to that.
FWIW, I suspect they’ll get a good deal on legal representation since lawyers.
Pointing the gun at the gate-breakers wasn’t the smartest thing they could have done since AFAIK nobody entered their property.
The rioters were already trespassing on private property having broken down a gate, and were making threats directed at the couple.
Yeah, I am sorry but the demands made that they wait until someone actually did something to them is insane. You break into my property I will shoot you first, then sick my lawyer on the fucking political asshats to make sure they know there will be hell to pay.
I’m aware that they had broken down a gate and were trespassing on the common area (street) of the gated community.
The moment a rioter set foot on their property (which, afaik didn’t happen) is the moment you get to point a weapon at them.
There are photos and videos you can find (you have to dig because the leftist media prefers to bury them) of the rioters encroaching and advancing aggressively to/onto the front of their property, and also at least one photo of a rioter pointing a rifle at them, while the mob was making overt threats against their property and against their persons. That is more than sufficient for the pointing of weapons to defend yourself and your property.
Didn’t know that. Agreed.
Somebody was pointing something that looked like a thing that goes up. Doubt it was a sporting rifle.
Knowing about this crowd of idiots I bet it was a fucking bb-gun.
It wasn’t the smartest thing, but if stupidity is a crime then we are going to have to turn Oregon and Washington into a giant prison colony. Which I’m in favor of doing anyway.
He did okay but she was brandishing.
Allegedly,, her gun was a prop. As in not a real firearm.
The rumor I heard is that one of them was involved in a suit against Jimenez, and that was one of their courtroom props.
And his was unloaded. Which is a really bad idea, but does make the criminal charges even harder to justify.
Weren’t the protesters threatening the couple with bricks etc first? What were the protesters charged with?
Yeah, I can’t even comprehend that shit.
Why doesn’t the second amendment have emanations and penumbras?
Mornin’ Banjos.
Mornin’
You don’t even need any of that. The courts routinely ignore the plain text.
“Shall not be infringed” is pretty clear. Even an application process is clearly an infringement.
Seems like NY’s process.
Remember that cute reporter who wrote about how difficult to buy a gun in DC?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/2011/oct/5/miller-emily-gets-her-gun/
Mornin’ Banjos.
Mornin’
2020 is all so hard to process.
This is bananas. The teachers (my wife was telling me of a teacher who had a sign saying ‘I can’t teach six feet under’. She got the first part right given the sign), the unchallenged violence from the left and when something is done the media claims it’s a dictatorship, that couple being prosecuted, the lockdowns, the mask mandates etc…..something is gonna blow.
The utter and spectacular collapse of leadership is astonishing.
Weimar Republic, 2.0.
This is why I’ve always said Trump isn’t the dictator. The dictator is the right now making his way up in the foreign service somewhere, or the army. That person is watching carefully how easily the mob is turned against the leaders. And the Media is teaching him right now that if he just claims to support soaking the rich, he can literally get away with murder.
Yeah, I guess Trump would be closer to Hindenburg.
Needs a big ‘stache. Maybe a cousin of The Hair?
I see a new H&H story line…..
Hey Now!
I have always considered him America’s manifestation of the Grachii Brothers.
Abigale Spanberger?
Things are happening way too fast, and the media isn’t reporting it.
Which is what led me to twitter.
Out of the toilet and into the sewer, eh?
Yes.
“As teachers’ unions and their Democrat allies keep looking to the federal government for billions more in taxpayer funds before they consider reopening government schools, creative American parents are pushing past the politics and inventing their own ideal learning environments for their children — many of which involve some form of home education.”
At this point we should be pushing for the state to return the school funds to the parents to let them choose what to do. I bet you the whole cabal of assholes would quickly end this nonsense shit about them not wanting to teach if this allows the public education cabal to finally be dismantled.
Except the majority of school taxes are payed by people who do not have children in government schools: childless, empty-nesters, etc. Very few parents pay the $9K (YMMV by location) in taxes it takes to “educate” a single child in a government school.
I am sympathetic to vouchers as a way to break the government school monopoly, but it only perpetuates an entitlement that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
“Except the majority of school taxes are payed by people who do not have children in government schools: childless, empty-nesters, etc. Very few parents pay the $9K (YMMV by location) in taxes it takes to “educate” a single child in a government school.”
I am well aware of that Tonio. I moved to the town I now live in, in the People’s Republic of Connecticut, some 22 years ago because I got me a house on 2 1/2 acres of land cheap and my annual taxes were $812/yr in a place with a very decent school system, close to the places that the Aerospace/Electrical EE background I had provided me with lots of opportunities that had made me move here 5 years before. Fast forward. My kid graduated more than 5 years ago, I am divorced but still live in my home (my kid rents his room from me) , yet my tax burden – 22 years later – is now over $6.5K/yr. And I literally get squat for it.
My point is that by forcing the people that loot people like me to give the money to parents and leave them to choose what they want to do, it would kill the monopoly currently enjoyed by the public school mafia and immediately end the stupidity we see now as they quickly do a one-eighty to prevent them from losing this power.
$15k average nationwide, btw.
But YMMV by very large amounts.
*checks land tax bill*
… $1,160.05 last year.
$15k was average per pupil spending.
I am pretty sure that was a property tax bill, unless you have moved to 1 of about 3 towns in PA.
$15k/student? Seems low.
For NY, I think it is. As I said, YMMV by wide margins. I think Utah is like $7k at the low end. Some states hit $30k.
NY was $22k in 2016, NOT including capital outlays. Current spending only.
States also fund schools in different ways. In Utah Property taxes are fairly low and only part go to schools. Schools are mostly funded via the Income tax and Alcohol sales (talk about conflicts of interests there).
In northern CA, we paid $15K this year in property tax on top of a 13.3% state income tax and a 9.5% sales tax. But the big cry is that property taxes are too low, and so teachers have to buy school supplies out of their own pockets (when there is school, of course…Newsom banned all live schools, public and private, for this fall, but public teachers will still get full pay).
I agree with you entirely, but backpack vouchers are a good first step. The amount is so large, and the ease with it would allow parents to get a good education (and probably increase teacher salaries, not adminstrators, but teachers) would probably also put downward pressure on any INCREASES if not actually lead to cuts.
The big possible issue, is that there is no reason, at that point, for a private school to charge less than the voucher amount, and as the current parents in the school pay the taxes AND a large amount above it, the new price might be voucher+current tuition-small equilibrium adjustment. Much like what has happened with guaranteed student loans and college tuition.
While I agree with Vouchers on the principles of freedom, I don’t think people should see that as a panacea. Vouchers are free money. That has not worked out well with colleges, where free money has meant that “competition” is based on what perks the different colleges give their kids- better dorms, farm to table cafeterias and free laptops.
As it is today, private schools are doing fine charging $15k for tuition on top of the thousands of dollars in taxes that the parents already pay. If parents suddenly get another $10k per kid, the tuition is going to go up because those same parents have already signaled they’ll pay it.
Again, Vouchers are a better system overall, but within years of allowing them, you will quickly see studies showing a drastic rise in the cost of tuition.
Right, but our public primary and secondary education is so fucked up, the horrible post-secondary funding model would actual be an improvement.
tangentially, the fact that we couldn’t just eliminate the taxes without mass upheaval to society shows how distorted our society has become under the free daycare regime.
Most backpack voucher programs (like the one my family uses) only put ~50% of the state’s funding for that student in the backpack. The other half still goes to the shitty local school the family pulled their kids out of. The voucher is usually less than most private schools were charging before vouchers.
Because reasons.
Every charter school I’ve looked at around here has a sign that says something like “We Do More With Less”
50% would be $5k here. That would be huge.
Re Maxwell. Can’t they somehow, you know, expedite this and get it over and done with? If it’s true Epstein was murdered, and if this murder of this judge’s son working on a bank case may involve Epstein and uncover some inconvenient truths, that means they’ve got a year to plot her murder.
Hasn’t anyone watched Lethal Weapon or any other action movie to see how witnesses get killed!?!
No, no. She has to sit in jail for a year (to hell with the Sixth Amendment), while they search for all the incriminating evidence she might have. Once it’s all found and destroyed, she’ll commit suicide or have a heart attack.
If she dies in custody the coincidence will be too big to ignore. But with those two dead that’s it. We’ll never know the truth.
As long as the death occurs after mid-November, nobody will care.
That’s where I’m betting my money.
Jim McDougal agrees.
The wife and I were watching the Netflix show about Epstein. Evidently when the New York prosecutor came after him, he had no idea they had been investigating. At the same time he was being perp walked, they raided his townhouse in New York, and found everything he needed to escape- false passport, loose diamonds, cash, and other stuff.
Shortly after, there were reports that the FBI raided his compound on Pedo Island. I get the feeling that the second raid was either a group destroying evidence, or more likely a crew looting his island.
My conspiracy theory is that Maxwell is only under arrest because the teams have effectively cleaned out all the necessary evidence that she can be safely arrested without implicating half of government.
What do people think of Trump sending in Federal agents into cities?
It seems like somebody needs to be the adult and get control of the rioting, looting, and destruction.
The mayor of Portland sure as hell told people yesterday he ain’t stopping them.
Speaking of that: why is it that all these places where the thugs are rioting seem to be hard core leftist bastions where marxists have been in charge for decades? Wouldn’t one expect these fucking marxists that have been running these shitholes to have fixed all the things that anger the mob of marixist agitators? I must be stupid for seeing this paradox and wondering why one would keep doing the same stupid shit and expecting a different result…
Because the leftists have made the cost of disagreeing very high in those cities. So much so that the non-believers have mostly left, and the concerned are keeping a very low profile.
Trump is never the adult in the room, even in a kindergarden.
Unless someone can convince me that a spineless city govt and a bunch of LARPing assholes really constitutes a threat to the entire republic.
They aren’t just LARPing assholes though.
They may be a threat to local order in that community, but nothing more.
Serious question:
How bad does it have to get before a federal response is justified?
Besides, there’s a ton of federal crimes being committed. Shouldn’t the feds be arresting people for that?
Although the crimes of vandalism and trespass may be committed against federal property, I believe those would normally be handled as state-level charges, no?
A federal response is perfectly appropriate when requested by local authority (state or municipal).
I’d say that for the limited scope of protecting federal property, it’s fine. For the broader scope of policing the area, it’s likely* unconstitutional.
* 10th amendment is a dead letter, but it may rise from the grave to help the commies
Are they restoring order and issuing prompt indictments for trial of those engaging in rioting or organizing rioting?
No, they are driving around in unmarked vans, throwing people in them, interrogating them, and then releasing them with no paperwork or official acknowledgement.
If these are the “grownups” we might actually be better off with the Auto-Parts-Store-burning children.
If the local government are siding with one group of people to violate the rights of others, there’s a role for a federal response, a la Mississippi Burning.
That’s a big IF.
Ideally, there should be some remedy against the government doing the violating, but that train has sailed, crashed into a mountainside, and burned to the ground.
As long a Trump is President, my tax dollars won’t be used to fix Portland, Minneapolis, or Seattle. The same cannot be said of the Federal Courthouse. So sure – bust any asshole trying to vandalize it.
I think it’s a mistake.
I think it should get so bad that the media has to support the feds coming in before they do it. And that’s going to be really fucking bad…
The media will never support the feds coming in, because they think the rioting somehow hurts Trump. But I would also be inclined to let these cities get what they keep voting for.
The feds won’t stop them from burning down city hall. The mob (their controllers really) have figured out that attacking a Federal building provokes a Federal response – so they keep doing it.
I say do it quietly. Issue arrest warrants, and pick up these antifa people at their homes.
And yet, to my knowledge, Rose City Antifamembers, who are known and have committed no,Eros federal crimes, are completely untouched.
Do some deals with the mob.
That’s essentially what they’re doing now. And it’s getting labeled as snatch and grab death squads with the state AG taking action against it and Democrats publicly denouncing it.
You probably saw me on TOS yesterday, but I think Trump snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. He turned leftist rioting against leftist cities into an evil Right Winger attacking a city against its will. Leaders and their complicit press are already accusing him of escalating the situation. Now any atrocity- even by police- will be blamed on him. And since he has a few hundred officers and cannot protect the city, there will inevitably still be damage done. So he is going to be portrayed as brutal AND impotent.
The left has been daring him to use force for almost two months. They have been goading the people to raid his tower, and the White House, and he has held firm until now. What suddenly changed? The only thing I can see is that he changed campaign managers, so I can only think that new guy changed his mind. But that person doesn’t understand how quagmires are created.
I don’t think, as Don puts it, feds arresting rioters, regardless of the optics, Is going to move anyone to vote against Trump.
It’s not high profile enough to get anyone to vote for him, either.
I don’t know what their game is. I haven’t heard of any indictments of people the feds have pulled off the streets, either. Have we gone straight to the helicopter rides?
Doubtful, since the stories are coming from the “abductees” themselves.
“You probably saw me on TOS yesterday, but I think Trump snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. He turned leftist rioting against leftist cities into an evil Right Winger attacking a city against its will”
I disagree. A cabal of lying profiteers manufactured a false narrative to pretend a bunch of criminals and vandals paid by and motivated by radical ideology supporting evil fuckers were the good guys in this story. People that are against this shit will realize that they can’t have it both ways. A lot of the people that previously were supportive of these marxists and their movement seem to have lost that interest. You just don’t hear about it. Yet. My bet is that despite all the propaganda and bullshit to provide the criminals with a veneer of legitimacy, the truth will win out and bad orange man will benefit from this.
“My bet is that despite all the propaganda and bullshit to provide the criminals with a veneer of legitimacy, the truth will win out“
Check out the wide eyed optimist over here.
Yep. “Fluffy” went to live on a farm, upstate.
Those darn overcrowded pet farms are all over the place around here.
When you are getting butffucked violently and against your wishes (see the 2 lawyers that are now being screwed by another lefty) it is hard for someone to sell you that it is all for your own good.
I am sitting here watching *Fox News* describing last night in Portland. They led off with the complaints from the Mayor. They did not mention the “mysterious arrests”. But they did call out that last night protestors were able to break into the federal courthouse again, and that federal officers were unable to get the people to disperse. Now they have a guy calling out the Moms and Navy Veterans who were injurred. And mayors calling out “unlabeled federal agents detaining people”.
I get that this isn’t really what is happening. But when Fox News cannot even spin a narrative that is helpful for Trump, he is in trouble.
While i agree that it appears that Trump is gaining in on the prized defeat, there are still a few more months left in this race, and i think Biden still has a few tricks up his sleeve to ensure defeat.
However i will note that i think some solidarity has been enforced in the Media. there was a month or two there where people were questioning Biden’s “stay at home” tactic, and now you see nary a criticism of him.
Every sworn officer involved in has violated their oath. Not that that is going to matter either.
How exactly?
They acted in defiance of the Constitution. Just following orders is not going to cut it.
The existence of federal police forces is in and of itself a violation of the Constitution.
This is just a couple rabbit turds dumped ontop of 4,000 metric tons of shit that has been piling up since the FBI was given arrest powers.
Can’t argue that – the FBI was supposedly once corrupted by the person of ol’ J. Edgar. Now we see that the rot runs a lot deeper.
But this does run deeper – when feds start acting like Federales.
We’re nearly 30 years since the Waco Massacre. Federal cops in fatigues arresting people, in a professional manner, for breaking written laws which are based on natural principles is just not even on my radar as far as violations of the Constitution.
If you concede that the federal government can be a property owner, which is a ship that has sailed, then they have the right to arrest people who damage that property. Like, this whole outrage is based on optics, and always hate that bullshit. Yes, they wear fatigues, and that sucks. But 20 years ago an INS agent in fatigues pointed an SMG at Elian Gonzalez’s face, and 30 years ago an FBI sniper murdered a woman holding her infant, so I’m just not really fussed that they used security camera tapes to localize vandals and arrest them.
Federal Marshals don’t have the authority to prevent and investigate the destruction of federal property? A President would be within his authority to use a battalion of Marines with fixed bayonets to prevent a mob from burning down a Federal Courthouse.
Posse Comatitus, no?
Enjoy the irony – remember all the right-wing nutjobbing on Jade Helm? Remember when the NRA was laughed at as crazy for popularizing Dingell’s “jack-booted thugs” line?
Applies to Army – and is a law, not Constitution.
Marines have been used in the past to guard the mail.
I think this has to do with police unions. Trump just got the endorsement of the national police union, and the head of the police union in Chicago has asked Trump to do something. Trump is securing a law & order base that includes cops and their unions.
Which is odd. Most police officers at the end of the day are city dwellers with city political views. Just notice what happened to Malkin in Colorado. The Police Union may have supported her Blue Lines rhetoric, but when the beatings began, they were oddly silent.
Why does Trump think any of his support from the cities is going to be any different? Sure, they thank him for putting his neck on the line, but they are still going to vote against him. And, let’s just say for the sake of argument that they do vote for him. Is that really going to win him delegates in Oregon, Washington and New York?
I could see this helping him in MN, maybe…but then he isn’t doing anything up there.
Morning Banjos,
Vitally important to start the propaganda war as early as possible. Used to be nationalism, we were not discouraged from hating on Krauts/Nips during WW2. Now its self hatred, gotta turn in our parents.
I’m immune. I grew up with this because Mom was either a 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, or 1/16th Native American whenever it suited her argument. I’ve been watching woke since the 1960’s.
Mornin’
Homeschooling…
My wife has hosted a few ( less than 10 ) moms once a month through the school year for the past few years. This year due to increased talks she has had with lots of new families she decided to have an earlier than normal meeting.
We will probably have close to 40 moms showing up at our house tonight. Lots of parents fed up with the closures, mixed up schedules, unclear plans, forced masks, etc that are causing them to switch. Plenty are hoping to do it for one year only but I think the schools are going to remain a train wreck for a while.
Karen should be attending (literal Karen not figurative.)
I also think there will be plenty of interference with families who are choosing to homeschool. Not sure how much in WI as we have very simple rules on homeschooling but even then some districts might start to get upset when their headcounts start to decline noticeably.
The social order is being turned upside down.
Government’s mandating masks only further cemented the fear.
It’s more pernicious and destructive than the lockdowns on a deep psychological level.
As far as I’m concerned, the leaders of the West who did this should be ARRESTED for human rights abuse.
As opposed to the sterling examples of thrift and good management they’ve been for the past 40 years?
train wreck for the people that were willing to put their kids in government schools in the past.
Karen was speaking to a elementary school teacher and the teacher thought our district would be closed within a month and half when some cases pop up and everyone freaks out.
I would hope this is educating the parents that (most) teachers really don’t give a shit about the kids. But I’m also aware that I’ll be continuing to pay my property taxes to fund the schools.
School funding is based on first-day enrollment, according to friends who teach in government schools. The teachers’ unions are going to fight against home schooling even though the costs of operating the school systems is going to plummet. Transportation and HVAC are major expenses and those will drop dramatically with reduced enrollment or virtual schooling.
I suspect there will be a lot of parents who will homeschool for a few months and then register their kids for the spring term.
The idea of microschools has been really interesting to me lately. It would be nice to see that take off too.
I’m sure the teachers union will find a way to shut those down, as well as homeschool coops, as “unlicensed schools.”
In some places, it is based on daily enrollment, which is why schools push so hard to make sure you weren’t skipping days. My last few days of HS, after classes were over, but leading into graduation, we had to show up every day for things like “graduation practice.” That was so they got funding for us for those days, we would be out before noon.
Speaking of homeschooling, any recommendations for history books or curriculum for elementary aged kids?
Check HSLDA
Good call, thanks. Am trying to find something along the lines of the Tuttle Twins but for history.
Tuttle Twins Learn About The Law:
“Children are often taught that government protects our life, liberty, and property, but could it be true that some laws actually allow people to hurt us and take our things? Join Ethan and Emily Tuttle as they learn about property, pirates, and plunder”
That is, as the kids say, based.
As a kid i liked Susan Wise Bauers history books. I think they work for about 4-8th grade. (“Story of the World” series, she has a series geared towards adults too, that is pretty good).
https://susanwisebauer.com/books/#post-3756
Will check it out, thanks.
That Gardner woman needs to be disbarred. Oh and Mornin’ Banjos! Kiss the babies, slap them on the butt and do the same to the Sloop-Meister. A little bit of catapult out the front door works wonders for children, grown or tiny.
Mornin’
Good morning, Banjos.
Mornin’ Tuber
“This was me shouting at masked BLM/Antifa thugs who swarmed our stage UNPROVOKED. This was me after witnessing a veteran & an organizer who had just led group prayer getting beaten on stage while police did nothing.”
Learn anything? Still going to do “pro-police” rallies when they don’t give a shit about you?
Yeah, that was pretty telling. I wonder if she’ll get the right message.
“Well, we could do our jobs and arrest people committing assault right in front of us, but then we’d probably get written up, so fuck it.”
Yeah my gun friend copsuckers are always nattering on about COPS WILL STAND WITH US. No they fucking won’t. They’ll follow orders, until the incentives for following orders are less than the incentives for breaking them.
Maybe a rural Sheriff’s Department, sure as hell not the Denver city police.
Yeah that’s the thing with cops in this country. Dudes who live out in rural communities where their Sheriff goes to church with them and they went to highschool with 4 of the 16 deputies just don’t understand that urban police forces are an entirely different animal.
Was it St. Louis PD that was purging officers juvenile records? They had serious gang members joining the police force.
Already proven that they will follow orders.
The left is laughing at them, that they are upset that the cops did nothing. Which is probably fair to laugh at them for, but it doesn’t paint the BLM folk in a good light. Just means next time a BLM person will get shot.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so sad to say, “I told you so…”
Just when you thought we had reached peak wokeness: Radical Monarchs, a progressive alternative to Girl Scouts.
Most parents I know complain that GSA is too progressive already, and many have pulled their daughters from the group.
Empty platitudes without any substance and a fervent commitment to the goals of the organization. In other words, radical means “useful idiot.”
This shit is why we are where we are today: a whole lot of people that have bought the lie that being born was enough for society to owe them things because they are special.
I miss the days people were told to shut the fuck up until they proved they were worthy by actually accomplishing something of value.
Contrast that crap with
“A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent.”
Not only that, the BSA takes the time and effort to define those terms. And all of them require independent moral judgement, even Obedient:
“From the Scout Handbook – “A Scout is obedient. A Scout follows the rules of his family, school, and troop. He obeys the laws of his community and country. If he thinks these rules and laws are unfair, he tries to have them changed in an orderly manner rather than disobeying them.”
https://boyscouttrail.com/content/content/scout_law-1760.asp#trustworthy
I always said “10 out of 12 ain’t bad” when it came to that.
Let me guess, you object to friendly and clean.
No I’m quite friendly in real life, and very clean too. Reverent is the other one I’m not really much of.
I don’t want my daughter being a loud mouth’d ignorant shnook.
Nothing as unbecoming as a loud female lout.
So they are royalists?
And radical monarchs would be the extreme right of the old french assembly.
You misspelled “peak retard.”
My son has always been in Scouts, starting back with Tiger Cubs in kindergarten, but there was no way in hell I was sending my daughter to Girl Scouts, so she does Y-Princesses.
We moved our daughter into cub scouts and out of girl scouts as soon as they opened up. It is infinitely better for her development. In addition to the basic program, Scouts BSA also has a superior organization. They have volunteers and staff as the council, and district level to support the pack/troop and that is the “evergreen” organization that outlives the kids aging out. Your typical girl scout troop is basically a handful of girls and one or two motivated moms. As soon as her kid ages out, or gets bored with the troop, it all ends.
Scouts BSA has been infiltrated with Progs pushing environmentalism and racial justice, but there are also plenty of basic requirements and alternatives that allow kids to contribute in these ways within the frame work of a more conservative agenda.
There is a radio show here in town. This is pretty close to the theme song https://youtu.be/i0rbXZB3U-E but worse.
Michelle Malkin beaten by BLM thugs and prevented from speaking at Denver pro-police rally
BLM is to black/brown people what the Women’s March is to women.
After months of street violence and political assault, I’m still stunned at the seeming absence of reports of defensive gunwork. Where are all the conservative badasses? Can I get a Korean veteran to not-me-you-wont in some punk’s center mass?
Protest away, but assault should be answered. What’s going on ?
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/06/18/angry-albuquerque-prosecutor-forced-to-drop-most-serious-charges-against-mob-victim/
More than a little proud of my hometown.
Further: take note of the surnames of the respective parties. I guess he be one of them “White Hispanics”.
I can’t read that. Meaning I wont.
This shit is taking place in deep blue cities, where conservatives are few and CCW is often pretty restrictive if not outright prohibited.
Denver has pretty permissive laws on CCW. My guess is people are more scared of rogue lefty prosecutors cooking something up. Upshot: CCW rights don’t mean much if you can’t exercise self-defense.
Exactly, you can’t beat the ride, and the process is the punishment. Especially if you’re a working stiff. You will lose your job, have to cash out your 401k, and then every time a future employer Googles you will be “Man shoots peaceful black protester.” with the video of him pounding on your head scrubbed from the Internet by the tech companies.
There are ways to mitigate this, and if you keep a gun for self-defense, you owe it to yourself to look into them.
I resisted the whole ‘self-defense insurance’ thing for a long time, thinking that it was mostly a scan of the pre-paid legal variety. That ended last month, when I signed up with ACLDN.
Yeah, mitigate, but not avoid entirely. Honestly, the publicity and dragging your name through the mud is as bad. Every single woke HR department is gonna have Racist Gun Toting Killer of Protester’s flagged as Do Not Hire. How many small business will be open in 2021 that will be willing to hire you? Do you have your own business?
I don’t go anywhere near these fucking protests, ever. If I somehow ended up near one, I would leave immediately. If they tried to surround me I’d sprint away like an absolute bitch, and only use my gun if they cornered me.
None of the fucking Twitter warriors with AmericanPatriotIIIPercent handles will donate 20,000 dollars to my legal defense and then hire me next year when I’m blacklisted from working at any company with a woke HR staff.
These protests in Denver are not happening in the posh downtown houses. They are happening in the civics squares, and the parks filled with homeless people.
These crowds are all different, city to city. In St Louis and in Denver, where you will get shot for going on private property, the protestors are strangely deciding to stay on public property. Had someone actually shot a BLM activist at Malkin’s rally, then they might even avoid counter protesting. But since that didn’t happen, expect it to get worse.
My guess is they know they don’t actually have the right to self defense at this point.
Statistically, very few people pack heat outside their homes, even when all licensed. Too inconvenient.
Yeah Virginia has 430,000 active CCW permits. Even if every single one of those people carried daily, and they don’t, that’s still 1 in 9. Oh, and honestly, the vast majority of people with permits are gonna stay well the hell away from this shitshow.
No need to pardon Titty Tuesday.
http://archive.li/8aZWo
The people spanking their monkeys might need a “pardon” from that worn out monkey, Q….
I like this lady’s style.
California Town Scrubbs Away their “Black Lives Matter’ Street Sign After Local Attorney Asked for Permission for a MAGA 2020 Sign on Same Street
Eeewwwww! She’s all all blonde and white and attractive and stuff!
That is brilliant. Well played.
Fantastic. With all the shit that small breweries are going through now, let’s watch their trade organization go woke. Keep in mind that Flying Dog already pulled out of the BA over free speech concerns.
/makes note to buy a six pack of Flying Dog this week
The BA has been a full of shit, no good, grifting establishment beholden to Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada and- until recently- New Belgium for years. Anyone who was a part of it got what they deserved- basically getting an increasingly commoditized and meaningless “Independent Brewer” designation at the cost of legitimizing a couple of big “independent” brewers. I realized this when they changed their definition of Independent in order to allow Sam Adams to stay in the group.
Meh.
With all those smart phones on the rioters, how much .gov data collection do you think is going on?
Will it lead them to important arrests?
no
I think it’s pretty clear that the DOJ has no interest in stopping anti-Trump riots, for reasons that are pretty obvious after the failed coup.
Important? No. Small fry.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/feds-conduct-surveillance-from-downtown-courthouse-analyze-social-media-videos-post-undercover-agents-in-crowds-records-show.html
I don’t know if it’s sad or funny that I step outside and find literal cobwebs on my car plus a near perfect spiderweb between the side view mirror and the driver’s window.
Thank the spiders for doing their part in killing bugs, then gently evict them.
Yep. I gently ignore the scrabblers and try to take the webbies outside without harming them. At work. We are a spider-free domicile.
I have a bad feeling that, after the lights go out, our house is the Iwo Jima of the wolf spider/ scorpion wars.
*places tiny “Go Wolf Spiders!” banners around the base boards*
“You have to go to this appointment, do the background check, get fingerprinted, pay an additional $170+ for all the fees, then you have to COME BACK LATER,” he said in an email. “You actually have to schedule another appointment at some time in the future once your application is ‘approved.’ Only then can you take possession of property you have bought months ago.”
All are infringements that I am sure Roberts will do his damnedest to uphold.
Tapping into the Glibmind:
I mentioned that I’ll be at the USPSA Factory Gun Nationals in FL this October. When I applied for the vacation, there were questions bout how I was going to deal with the two week quarantine when I came back.
Now if my employer wants to put that into effect, so be it. However, I’m willing to be a test case if NY tries any of that “papers please” bullshit.
I imagine that being such will kind of suck, so I should probably start preparing for it now.
How do I find a legitimate (meaning not a huckster and also with a reasonable chance of prevailing) lawyer to represent me in this circumstance? WTF branch of law would even be relevant? How much cash will I need to hoard to make this happen or is there some idealistic and/or ambitious Person of Law looking to make a name for themselves out there?
Trials are expensive. We’re talking six digits on up if there are appeals. Get an external funding source, you won’t be able to foot the bill yourself.
Check with the GoA.
Because of the tie-in to the match I’ll be coming from? Or is there some tie-in between the 2A and other civil rights law communities?
I did send them an email, btw.
Just drive and there will be no problems. There are hundreds of roads crossing the PA/NY border. There will not be any road blocks on major highways. If there are then the quarantine is the least of your and our worries.
Employment law. The chance of prevailing depends on both the merits of the case and the skill of the lawyer. But you’re probably in uncharted territory here since Rona law is a new thing.
A lawyer will give you a free initial consult where he decides whether your case has merit (ie, is winnable) and how much he’s going to charge you. Lawyers hate losing cases, and really hate filing lawsuits that get bounced.
I don’t know that employment law is going to work, or that I’m really in the mood to sue my company. I’m more interested in Cuomo’s “$2000 fine for not filling out the mandatory contact tracing forms.”
In fantasyland, there is some lawyer who thinks this is a very winnable case and will make a name for themselves and takes it for that reason.
“Fill out this form and tell us where you’ve been.”
“I am asserting my right to remain silent under the 5th amendment.”
And in my fantasies, I also hand them the card of a lawyer that’s already got the suit paperwork filled out.
The ACLU?
I crack myself up.
Ummm… how about no?
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/ali-wentworth-why-parents-should-watch-porn-with-their-kids/
Isn’t that the sort of thing that gets you jail time and a permanant place on the sex offender registry if you survive prison?
Seems early to call it “the dumbest thing I’ll see all day”. But that is the dumbest thing I’ll see all day.
“So, my Boy, Mommy is going to teach you about a very bad thing… Watch this clip and we’ll have a little talk about it later”. That’s a far cry from finding Playboy magazines. “Mom. Why is that lady peeing into the air?”
Schmoopy, you’re nuts.
(A hole *who’s* trying to fill?)
“Malkin was live-streaming the event from her cell phone on Periscope Sunday afternoon as the situation deteriorated after masked thugs wearing Black Lives Matter t-shirts assaulted two speakers and then set upon Malkin….
On the video, which had been viewed over 150,000 times by early Monday, several individuals identifying themselves as Black Lives Matter accost Malkin as one or more of them unfurl collapsible batons and begin pushing and beating on Malkin.”
Isn’t that assault with a deadly weapon?
Also, this covid thing is allowing people to wear masks at protests.
When they pull out batons and starting swinging, weapons should be drawn.
I have a hard time believing nobody was carrying there.
Rule #1: Always have someone recording, in detail, interactions at these rallies. Remember: Steven Baca (the guy who shot the “protester” in Albuquerque) was only let off the hook when there was video evidence that the guy he shot was attacking him with a knife. Batons are definitely deadly weapons, but a Soros-backed lefty prosecutor is only going to drop the charges if there’s incontrovertible evidence that it was life-or-death self-defense and can be shamed into it.
You wouldn’t catch me at a rally without a bodycam setup these days. I do not trust anyone, least of all the authorities.
You wouldn’t catch me at a rally these days.
They don’t help, and come with the possibility of being imprisoned, beaten, or killed. Thanks, but no thanks.
Well that too. I am not inclined to being in crowds. I despise and distrust the mob.
Several someones, and from different positions/angles. Preferably with a backup livestreamed to a secure server.
Also, as we know, the “protestors” are highly organized and well-funded. Colorado is one of the few states in the Union in which carrying an ASP is legal to carry concealed with no permit. It’s no coincidence that they know that.
http://weaponlaws.wikidot.com/state-baton-laws
^This. Given the hatred of the left for anyone who disagrees with them it would have been prudent to have armed security.
But shooting the assailants, no matter how justified, would only have made them martyrs in the eyes of the left.
Peaceful Counter-Protestors shot by white protestors.
If you see Potatoes link down below, i think that is the angle they are going for.
TL;DR – Kung Flu is bullshit, don’t let the “experts” permanently strip our liberties.
https://americanmind.org/essays/the-covid-coup/
That horse left the barn some time ago.
Sounds like a good article, but it includes that phrase. This needs a libertarian trigger warning.
Ghislaine Maxwell believes her ex-lover Jeffrey Epstein was murdered behind bars and lives in fear of facing the same unfortunate end, according to a new report.
That has to be her pr0n name. Also, Jizzlane Maxwell did not kill herself.
Is there any better video of the Mailkin beating? Her video is not clear to me. I see the BLM people push their way on stage then it turns into Blair Witch.
Hopefully additional video will surface from someone in the audience, and that video will show the assailants in action.
“Pro-police folks tried to hold a #BackTheBlue rally in Denver and were met with opposing speech from BLM protesters. This screengrab from @michellemalkin’s live stream gives you an idea how that went. (Bonus points if you can ID the guy in orange.) #copolitics”
https://twitter.com/KyleClark/status/1285022794741243904
CWAA
“opposing speech”
Words are violence, so might as well use batons to speak.
Someone in that thread took a close up grab of the guy wearing a gun on his hip and said ‘ “Opposing Speach” ‘. Fuck you guys, everyone has a right to self defense, and having a weapon does not mean they will enact violence. But you sure want people to be defensless so that it’s easier to kill them and beat them into submission.
Your speech is violence, their violence is speech.
“Sugarcoating or ignoring slavery until later grades makes students more upset by or even resistant to true stories about American history,” the documents say. “Long before we teach algebra, we teach its component parts. We should structure history instruction the same way.”
If only true stories about American history were taught to children in grade-school.
Virginia kindergarten students will learn about institutional racism alongside the alphabet, according to new curriculum recommendations created for the upcoming school year.
Gotta get at the white-guilt propaganda early.
It’s fucking sick. The war on treating people as individuals is disgusting.
Individuals are hard to control, yo. It’s easier to control fucking stupid drones.
/the credentialed elites
“Sugarcoating or ignoring slavery until later grades”
Lying liar tells lies.
In Virginia, when I was a kid, 4th grade is VA History year. We talked about slavery constantly. It was a constant in the curriculum, and it was not sugar coated or buried. When we visited plantations, we always went to the slave quarters, and contrasted the lives of slaves and the lives of their masters. When we went to Monticello, there was plenty of talk about slavery, and how Jefferson was free to write and tinker and fiddle with his hobbies because slaves grew his food, cooked his meals, and did his chores.
I don’t think too many Virginia schools are going to be teaching anything this school year.
Comet NEOWISE as viewed from the International Space Station.
What a sight!
Do you have a source that isn’t twitter?
I have been wondering if it would be visible from where I am.
Local newspaper had a viewing guide. If you’re in VA it should be visible in the NW just above the horizon after sunset.
You could also use an astronomy phone app such as Star Tracker.
I’m up in new york.
I’ll probably just do some internet searches instead of putting anything on my phone.
See if this is helpful.
The comet is about halfway between the Big Dipper and the horizon, best seen just after dusk. If you have an area with a clear view to the northwest, a little scanning should enable you to locate. Best viewed with binoculars.
If you have a decent camera and tripod, point the cam at the appropriate area of sky and take multiple exposures between 1 and 15 seconds. You might just get a cool pic.
I have a decent camera and a passable tribpod, but I don’t know how to manually set the exposure.
And northwest goes right into an area of light pollution, so I may not be able to see it.
The main problem I’ve had with stargazing in Upstate NY are 1) it’s constantly overcast and 2) only a tiny amount of sky is visible because of the woods/hills. I imagine if you took a hike up some pf the High Peaks and waited you could definitely see it. I don’t know if they let you overnight up there though.
Well is the second day of my Q3 furlough week, don’t call it a vacation. I’m of to get some Two wheel therapy.
“Portland moms form human barrier to protect protesters from federal officers”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1285201056524378112
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/508069-portland-moms-form-human-barrier-to-protect-protesters-from-federal
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, Moms Demand Action, and now this. It seems any political movement with moms are assholes.
But being a mother gives one special moral authority, don’t you know.
I thought it meant she had a functioning womb.
Good job moms. It explains a lot.
Saw that on Reason and was grossed out at their stupidity.
You don’t think these idiots that hate meritocracies got their ideas from a crackerjack box, now do you? They were inculcated by parents with stupid views.
I don’t really understand why Trump et. al. are sending in DHS officers into these hellholes. The “leaders” of these cities didn’t ask for help and the citizenry either openly supports it or is too chickenshit to demand assistance. They voted for it, let them get it good and hard. Intervening seems stupid and a political loser.
Trump needs to be publicizing the parameters of their engagement in these cities.
Something like, “We will defend the federal courthouse, but the rest of the city will burn until the state requests our help.”
Because they are attacking federal facilities and personnel.
They are being sent to defend federal property.
The Judge, as usual of late, is off base and dishonest because Orange Man Bad.
Fuck the federal property angle, and the fact that they aren’t just doing that.
These cities deserve what their elected officials will allow – and everyone there can like it or they can change how they fucking vote.
they can change how they fucking vote
That’s fucking hilarious. They see no connection between how they vote and what’s happening. I was actually swarmed by idiots who were praising Phil Murphy’s Covid response when I pointed out that NJ had the worst death rate in the country and that Murphy was destroying the state’s economy. They insisted that it was all actually Trump’s fault because Trump didn’t take covid seriously, and I was a racist white supremacist for pointing out Murphy’s failures. They are incapable of understanding that their preferred leaders could ever be responsible for anything bad.
I’m with Mencken – they deserve to get exactly what they ask for. If you live around a bunch of idiots, you might consider the wisdom of getting the fuck away from them.
To me it just shows even more why the Justice system cannot be just and administered by the Monopoly of Government.
LOL, first comment by Andy Ngo
“Some of the “moms” lauded in the media joined in on trying to break into the Portland federal courthouse. ”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1285549368125186051
Just because you’ve had abortions doesn’t make you a mother.
Count Potato would you like to meet hot MILFS in your area now? I can link you to a page
I often regret doing this photo shoot a few years back
https://twitter.com/jamesmurtagh/status/1284874647729852417
These people are weird.
Reductress is a parody site.
“Indeed, Antifa is not, properly speaking, a group of violent thugs, and they are certainly not the “university snowflakes” that many delusional but well-meaning conservatives like to dismiss them as. The reality is much darker. Antifa functions as a paramilitary force for the corrupt ruling class that controls the United States of America.”
https://www.revolver.news/2020/07/antifa-attacks-michelle-malkin-denver/
And the lunacy just deepens.
I agree and think many are too quick to dismiss Antifa as larpers that live in their parents’ basement and couldn’t lift a dumbell. I’m sure some are but it’s not like they can’t quickly learn to emulate their more dangerous comrades. It may have been comical in the beginning, but we’re essentially watching live-action training being played out in multiple cities. They will just grow more dangerous and emboldened with each passing day. There are new tactics being played out and in concert with larger organizations directing this.
I see the same condescension against those on the right who dress out in their vests and “tacticool” rifles. It’s not clear to me why they are being mocked for taking the best equipment available to them when suspecting trouble may break out? If this cauldron erupts then they are going to learn and gain experience too, just as Antifa has been doing.
I remember the media and others ridiculing VA gun owners who stood outside the fenced off capitol in body armor and rifles while their disarmed comrades went inside to protest gun control. VCDL members received an email right before that there was thinking that the gun owners were being disarmed deliberately in a violent setup with coordination from the police and Dems (as we saw play out in Charlottessville). We obviously can’t know what would have happened, but those kitted out gun owners may have been what stopped the VA Gun Rights valley from turning into another Charlottesville.
There are actually quite a few things at play here.
I’ve been saying for a while now, that when it comes down to street fights between Antifa and conservatives, the conservatives are gonna get their asses kicked. Time has proven me right.
The AFA goons have the advantages of experience and organization. They’ve mostly been in some riots and street fights, so they are less likely to panic, get confused, or freeze up. They also have the organization behind them that will provide them with shelter and transport, bail them out of jail, get them legal counsel, and take care of all the rest of the pre- and after-action problems.
How many of those “street fights” were anything but ganging up on a single individual, or anything but unopposed meyhem?
Well there was the one Proud Boy vs Antifa thing, and what Sheldon said happened: the local government was on their side.
Look at Captain Bike Lock. On camera trying to smash someone’s head in, got 3 years of probation.
The Weimar paralell is apt: these local governments give cover to their violent thugs. They get easy bail, slaps on the wrist, catch and release.
Those two Ivy League lawyers torched a cop car with a molotov and cruised out on bail.
Those two Ivy League lawyers torched a cop car with a molotov and cruised out on bail.
I’ve got $20 that says they don’t lose their licenses or do any jail time. A fine and “community service”, probably working pro bono for some Marxist “community organizer” outfit.
You’d have to give me some really good odds on that, because that’s a sucker bet.
Probably all of them, but that’s not the point. The best predictor of success in a fight, is the number of fights you’ve been in previously. Most of their targets haven’t been in a fight since elementary school.
These aren’t fights.
*eyeroll*
Call them whatever you want. The point is, most of the Antifa thugs have prior experience at interpersonal violence, and their targets mostly don’t.
Hence why when the reactionary movement actually shows up, it’s unmarked vans and helicopters. This shit never ends well.
I can easily see disaffected cops joining paramilitaries in the near future.
I think we are saying the same thing, although I think the outcome between Antifa and conservative groups is more dependent on location. We’re not far off from a clash turning into a slaughter. This is evolving into something much nastier than a bunch of unemployed kids pretending to be revolutionaries.
Location is the interesting thing. The right wing is not organized, and it’s not IMO going to organize and drive down into the cities to street fight antifa. Even if they were inclined to, I think they have seen the city government is not a neutral arbiter.
Conversely, if antifa tries to head out to say Louisa County Virginia and lay some mostly peaceful protest down at the courthouse there, then good luck.
Fight where the terrain suits you. Sun Tzu always has something useful to say.
If it did try to actually organize, the state will quickly pounce upon them, and whittle them down quickly. Look at how Oregon targeted and selectively prosecuted the leaders of Patriot Prayer to castrate that group. They were pathetic and easily provoked, but most proto organizations are like that. Meanwhile, antifa was allowed to learn and grow unchecked.
I can continue not watch baseball not only because it is boring, but because now it is woke.
Major League Baseball came out in defense of players who knelt during the national anthem on Monday evening, taking on critics and tweeting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
As Breitbart News reported, several members of the San Francisco Giants took a knee during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner during a preseason game hosted by the Oakland Athletics before an empty stadium filled with cardboard cutouts.
Supporting Marxist organizations and narratives is absolutely political. And engaging in protest at your job is 1) political and 2) distasteful, to say the least.
And by protesting by kneeling during the national anthem they are proclaiming that America and American founding principles are racist and unworthy of respect.
I don’t know why that would turn anyone off.
If there is a class of pampered assholes in this country, I’d put ballplayers above politicians.
I only started watching the NFL last year and i don’t need to watch it.
Order of sporting events from most boring to least:
Basketball
Baseball
Golf
Football
Football (eurowenie style)
MLS hasn’t gone woke have they? Quick scan of the site suggests not. I didn’t know they started playing again.
I watched my first MLS match a week or two ago and… They suck. No wonder the USMNT looses all the time.
Totally woke too. Jesus, even the European leagues are kowtowing – to an entirely American bit of insanity.
I knew about the Euro’s. Kinda sad sports decided it doesn’t want to be just sports anymore.
Soccer is woke by default.
To much information warning…
I have been having some diarrhea but nothing else. I read on the interwebz that diarrhea is a possible symptom for covid. What are the odds of having it with no other symptom?
Nil.
You just have the squirts. Probably something you ate.
100%. Just go ahead and start digging your own grave.
goddamnit. It like 1620 over again
At least you have a coffin already.
Remembering 1620 is proof of vampirehood.
Funny concept, to me: Vampires are immortal except they die from covid.
That reminds me, I should finish my vampire story and post it here.
Were you sliding into first?
maybe, maybe not, but something was sliding out of 2nd
Were your pants full of foam?
You can have covid with no symptoms.
well yes but if you have no symptoms, you have no reason to worry and can relax. If you have a strange less common symptom, that’s when it sucks.
A less common symptom absent the main symptoms is the least probable outcome.
You have a common ailment that manifests from myriad causes unassociated with the Wuhan virus. Treat the symptom, as in isolation it’s probably from something you ate disagreeing with your bowels.
I did have a slight disturbance Friday, but Saturday I had a birthday celebration with some friends and drank a bunch of wine and scotch which may have aggravated my initial condition. I also drank wine Sunday because I had a half bottle left over still open and wanted to finish it.
Well, you can have covid with no symptoms, and diarrhea due to something else.
who’s side are you on here?
The single most important factor to explain the decline in drinking among youth was the decrease in time hanging out with friends in the evening.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1285156158345535488
Thus proving your mom right that Johnny was a bad influence.
Is it ok to say Michelle Malkin had it coming? She was asking for it? Brought it upon herself? Or is that blaming the victim even if the so called “victim” has the wrong opinions?
No person exhibiting wrong-think can ever be a victim of good-thinking defenders of social justice!
No.
Now this is a party, baby!
thicc
Dr. Fauci is throwing out the first pitch for the opening day Nats vs Yankees game. This is a man who is advocating noone goes to bars, games or does anything remotely normal during this. A man who by his own admission lied about the efficacy of masks which surely lead to deaths of some unimportant people by his own logic. He’s a moral monster. I wonder if he’s going to be allowed to stay and watch the game in person or if he’s going to be escorted out immediately and have to watch the game on the tube like the rest of us proles. The fact the man has people who treat him with a cult like devotion is evidence we live in a giant fucking insane asylum.
https://twitter.com/Nationals/status/1285308233083686913
Bets on whether he can even toss the ball all the way to home plate?
I will make it my mission in life to make that mans name a slur.
Go Fauci yourself.
I think it should be more of a “Grima Wormtounge” kinda thing. Akin to “Snake in the grass”.
he is Lewis’s stereotypical worst tyrant, the one exercising tyranny for the good
Good catch.
OK, these guys are fucking geniuses…..
I linked that yesterday
That is good. And I will say it again, I often think that the “systemic racism” stuff I hear lately sounds like it’s from a Klan brochure. Especially that Smithsonian thing.
I like Pitch Meeting usually but at about 5 15 in this one I laughed more than I did in quite some time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYootnc0uew&list=PLRE-UFLEgWzBuOiqemhEI9b4gmmBbutnC&index=2&t=0s
Is that how math works?
I like Pitch Meeting too, some of them really crack me up.
I used to teach, one semester I was teaching a “math for business analysis” course, it covered partial differentiation/optimization, a little matrix algebra, some probability theory, and a little stats.
I decided to give them an extra credit opportunity on the final exam, I attached a news story about a woman who was afraid of the ocean her whole life, was finally convinced to go swimming, and was bitten that very first time in. She was asked whether she’d go swimming again, and said something like “maybe, because what are the odds of being bitten twice?”
I asked the students to analyze that statement based on what we learned that semester. I would have accepted pretty much anything as long as it was defended, but was thinking most people would say the two events are independent, therefore the odds are the same as being bit the first time – or, because she was bitten she’d change behavior, so given being bitten once, the probability of being bitten again should be lower; whatever, I just wanted them to think about it and defend their thoughts.
A depressing number of people said it’s 50-50, she either will or she won’t.
thats why they make the big bucks.
That is one of the better ones. I usually only like watching them for movies I have seen, but I don’t think it was at all necessary in that casee.
I also liked the pitch meeting pitch meeting.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8544267/Demi-Rose-flaunts-jaw-dropping-curves-mesh-thong-swimsuit-Ibiza.html
Regarding the Portland situation. Can they move the the federal courthouses and withdraw anything else that is funded by the federal government in that city? I see it as a good time to cut back on the federal bureaucracy and a peaceful way to resolve this stupidity. Plus when Portland comes crying for federal money in the near future, the feds can tell them to fuck off.
Leave the buildings there and bill the fucking state for damages.
Cut back on federal bureaucracy? Courthouses are a pretty…basic constitutional provision. Federal courts exist for diversity and federal-question jurisdiction.
I didn’t mean close the courts, I meant cut other unnecessary federal buildings. I’m sure there are plenty in Portland.
My new acid test: If you meet someone and they’re pro-mask. Don’t stick it in and walk away.
I’m not anti-mask.
I’m against being told to wear one.
Bingo.
It should be up to the business.
FIFY
Nope, it’s their business, not yours.
We’re in the midst of a mass psychosis. The requirements to wear face masks come from madness. How can we stop the madness? By complying with the crazy people?
Until the statewide mask mandates around here, exactly one business had a mask only policy (Costco), everywhere else let customers do as they please. With the exception of a few outliers, most businesses won’t force customers to wear masks unless the gov’t forces them to. It can only hurt them.
So I’m not sure there’s much of a distinction. Before the mandates, what you saw were individual people trying to impose their own personal restrictions on others leading to conflict.
At some point the public (including businesses) has to reclaim its right to say ‘no’. If they don’t masks will be the least of our worries. The “executive order” nonsense needs to be fought unreservedly.
how are you on ball gags?
Muffled?
Reliable source.
Sunday, Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources show closed with a segment about Fox News highlighting 50 straight nights of rioting in Portland. Stelter made that the main theme of his Monday newsletter:
The world does not comport to the CNN narrative. How sad.
I’ll call Brian Stelter next time CNN rolls stories about a noose “found” in a tree in a chicago park
Or five self-described Nazis marching through a small town.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8543757/Halsey-offers-sympathy-Kanye-West-discussing-struggles-bipolar-disorder.html
I think Kanye might actually be nuts, and Halsey would be hot if it weren’t for all the ink.
“Bjork’s livestream Orkestral concerts in Iceland to honor BLM movement, COVID-19 victims, and domestic violence victims
As of Monday, there have only been 1,930 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Iceland leading to 10 deaths”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8543723/Bj-rks-livestream-Orkestral-concerts-Iceland-honor-BLM-movement-COVID-19-victims-more.html
How many of them were black?
First I’d need some proof there are any black people in Iceland.
i think they have some black sheep at least
Do they allow black people in Iceland?
I imagine that if you were black in Iceland, it’d be the equivalent of a giant billboard saying “Hey Ladies, I’m not your cousin!”
*Visa Denied*
“Fox’s Napolitano rips ‘unconstitutional’ Trump crackdown on Portland: ‘Just plain wrong'”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1285572510529069058
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/508205-foxs-napolitano-rips-unconstitutional-trump-crackdown-on-portland-just-plain
the first reply on the twat is pathetic
I don’t think Andrew is wrong, it probably is unconstitutional, and operating in an area without coordination with locals is not a good idea in any situation.
He gets his facts wrong, and I doubt his conclusions even more.
Victory for Defense: Virginia Court Partially Blocks Unconstitutional Gun Ban
A Lynchburg, Virginia judge has ruled that a new gun purchasing ban in the state violated a citizen’s right to keep and bear arms, partially blocking the law from being enforced.
The new rule, enacted with a bevy of other strict anti-gun laws at the beginning of the month, effectively prohibited adults under age 21 from purchasing a handgun. The state already blocked adults between 18-20 from purchasing a firearm at a licensed gun store as required background checks were only offered to those 21 and older.
The new rule further implemented restriction on private sales, requiring purchasers to go through that same federal background check that prohibited adults under 21 from purchasing a gun. The plaintiffs in this Virginia case, Peter Elhert and Wyatt Lowman, contended that the new state restrictions violated their rights.
The laws, which have been hotly contended and drew protests of gun-owning Virginians to the state capitol in Richmond, went into effect on July 1. Lowman, who is 18, asserted that such restrictions forbade him from exercising his right to keep and bear arms, which is specifically protected in the constitution for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1285300110616932353
“Even if you’re more concerned with the culture-war stuff than anything else — and I would argue this is quite myopic — electing Biden is much more likely to calm things down than electing Trump. Trump is one of the major causes of the present weirdness.”
This is going to be the message going forward and while it was the implicit message for the past three months it will quickly become explicit. Appeasement generally doesn’t work as a rule, which is why I’m going to vote for Cheeto man in the fall.
Blackmail doesn’t sound like a good campaign strategy.
STOP MAKING US BEAT YOU
STOP RESISTING! Oh, wait…
Elect the guy who represents the culture you are at war with and we promise to stop trying to eliminate you from society.
Trump is one of the major causes of the present weirdness.
Drumpf mind-controlled the darkies and the woke honkies to rage and riot.
He’s a fool. You get more of what you reward, not less.
Did President Cartoon Villain personally direct the feds to defend the federal building in Portland? Because I can see some career operatives taking it upon themselves to institute a more aggressive defense, on their own initiative. It’s not as if the President involves himself in every single operational initiative.
Drumpfler specifically ordered the Atlanta cops to murder that nice black man
that was resisting arrest and assaulting them. It is known.He is now.
This has been escalating for a while outside of view. Previously it had been about confronting the city (and still is slightly) but since the feds have pushed back, they’re now the target. And state and local officials are actively working to support the rioters and subvert the feds to get the Orangeman.
Very similar to Ft Sumter. Demands for feds to leave a federal institution defenseless to attacks. Coordination, even if at arms length, between the mob and state.
Trump is both an incompetent do nothing hack and omnipotent. Also Obama was both the best most presidential and in charge president we’ve ever had who personally lead the mission to kill Bin Laden and also never knew anything about Hilary’s emails, Benghazi, or the fact his FBI wiretapped an opposition parties presidential campaign under false pretenses.
See, cognitive dissonance is just a myth.
“Even if you’re more concerned with the culture-war stuff than anything else — and I would argue this is quite myopic — electing Biden is much more likely to calm things down than electing Trump. Trump is one of the major causes of the present weirdness.”
Pay the ransom, and we won’t kill all of the hostages. Probably.
I think I liked Mel Gibson’s strategy best.
https://www.mysuncoast.com/2020/07/19/concerns-arise-some-receive-positive-covid-results-never-got-tested/
In all honesty in 5 years when they write the book on this what do you really think the number of deaths will actually be?
How many of these before it is no longer anecdotal?
2nd wave death have now been flat for 9 days. 2nd wave has probably peaked. My state is up to 5 per million daily, it peaked about 2 in first wave. To me, it looks like the states/countries that got above 12 of so are the ones with no 2nd wave, they are close enough to herd immunity that while they still havent reached it, numbers are still declining. Not enough people to shoot the numbers back up.
I guarantee that positive results are somehow financially incentivized. The testing company is grifting the system.
Good read here.
Imaginary hobgoblin is imaginary.
Ah but, imaginary hobgoblins are just as good as real ones for invoking panic.
It’s tough to find a black cat in a dark room.
Especially when the cat’s not there.
But we will!
Cuomo did manage to kill more New Yorkers than Bin Laden. He deserves something for the effort.
Prosecution for depraved indifference homicide, 6,000 counts.
[un]Qualified Immunity
Perfect case to throw all that judicially-invented claptrap out.
Why did she go for testing if she was asymptomatic?
We’re flying to Alaska in a couple of weeks to start looking over properties. Apparently we have to show up with a negative test result within 72 hours of arrival or agree to self-quarantine for fourteen days (we’ll only be there for two.)
Not sure yet where we’re getting this test, but I can tell you we’ll both be asymptomatic.
We have three more trips scheduled, in October, November and December. We’ll see how those develop.
Photoshop and Google Voice can provide you with an unlimited supply of negative test results.
Just talking, here…
I nearly added, “Is there some reason she had to?”
A Branch Covidian, secretly hoping she has been blessed with the ultimate victim status she can attain.
electing Biden is much more likely to calm things down
Explicit admission that they are the ones actively fomenting dissent and upheaval.
Re-elect Trump, and we will redouble our efforts to destroy the country.
you know who else threatened violence if a republican was elected?
They’ve been kind of tip-toeing around it so far, but I expect these types of warnings will get more and more explicit as we get closer to the election.
This exactly
Tolerant lefties debating on the issues.
…a sign of the times…
*narrows gaze*
One would think that these idiots would fear getting ventilated by one of them knuckle-dragging, gun-toting Trumpster people.
Kind of want to buy a beanbag only shotgun for shit like this.
Clark had gone to the drive thru testing sight at Manatee Rural Health, but before she was able to get swabbed, she left the line because she realized it was for people with symptoms only.
“I told them they needed to take this off my record, and they said I had to prove it to them that I wasn’t positive,” Clark continued.
PROVE YOUR INNOCENCE
“AP says it will capitalize Black but not white
The AP checked with a variety of experts and sources in making its decision”
https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/ap-says-it-will-capitalize-black-but-not-white/
What does Black mean these days? Tiger Woods is only 1/4 African American descent but he’s black. Thomas Jefferson’s kids were 7/8th white but considered as black back in the day. Under the “one drop” rule, then a good portion of white folks are really Black (Iberians, Italians, Mediterranean folks all have at least a drop of black blood.) How about we only recognize one race, the Human Race?
You sound racist.
Kamala Harris is black but not dot Indian despite her parentage. And her family, like Obama, isn’t American black either but trades on skin color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3wUD3AZg4
https://twitter.com/realjuliasong/status/1285371104614326272
People have fucking lost it.
The man (husband?) carrying off seems unfazed. Not the first time he’s had to do that, should learn the fireman’s carry.
The fuck is it with the woke white girls and the hysterical toddler-like shrieking?
Because they’ve been taught to be loud and proud.
She could at least mask up if she is going to do all that screaming.
I tend to agree with the comment about ‘on the spectrum’. For autists, rule-following (and thus rule-breaking) are big deals. We are friends with a family that have 3 boys all with developmental issues of their own. One is on the spectrum and is completely crippled by the coronavirus, and it’s pretty sad. Their biggest issue is the youngest son is severely immuno-compromised but they have had us over a couple of times for socially-distanced socializing with pizza on the deck, etc.
So this happened. *headdesk*
I am no more careful than my son. He drives me nuts because I see so much of myself in him.
🙁
Perhaps a snow grape? Is that even a thing?
I’m thinking about charting a cluster of holly berries. I’m going to try getting it out with rubbing alcohol first.
Looking good. My mom would approve. Bummer on the ink though, lemonade is on the menu!
Lemon juice, you say?
What happened? I can’t see IG from here.
I got Sharpie on my cross stitch project.
Try carefully using acetone on it (with the disclaimer that you might screw it up just as badly if you use that).
Trying rubbing alcohol for the moment. If that doesn’t work, I’ll try the acetone.
What’s the worst that can happen? It’s already ruined.
Now, I’ve made a couple of mistakes on this already that are going to bug me forever, so I may as well start over.
Part of the creative process, apparently, is occasionally destroying something that you’ve invested a lot of time and energy in.
The creative process sucks.
I no longer wonder why artists drink so much…
I don’t mind starting over with writing, but this is my escape and I ruined it.
All sympathy from a fellow stitchin’ bitch. (My stitches are done with yarn.) With cross stitch though, is it possible to cut & pull out booboos, then redo? As for the stain, get out as much as possible, then stitch over the area like crazy, even if just matching the fabric color.
I found a slight glitch in my current crochet project, and Tom T reminded me that the Turkish rug weavers deliberately put in a mistake “because only Allah is perfect.”
“Deliberately”
“Um…yeah! I totally meant to do that. Allah be praised!”
@ GT I feel the spring panel is too far from the summer panel and I was too far into it before I realized I didn’t like it. So now I guess I have an excuse to start over. :/
Sharpies use naphtha as a solvent, so I would try that. Open the windows. Wear gloves.
You can find all sorts of organic solvents at paint stores, xylol, toluene, etc. Wear gloves. Do it outside.
Thanks, CP. I may try that.
From Q(?)’s link above:
Our “best and brightest,” at first having minimized fears of person-to person contagion during January and February, during which the disease spread from China to the West, then declared that the virus is unusually contagious, and posited—on zero factual basis—that it would kill up to one in twenty persons it infected—5% infection/fatality rate (IFR). Based on that imagined fatality rate, they adopted mathematical models from Britain and the University of Washington that predicted that up to two million Americans would die of it.
The U.S. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) modeled the authoritative predictions on which the U.S. lockdowns were based. Its model also predicted COVID deaths for un-locked-down Sweden. On May 3 it wrote that, as of May 14, Sweden would suffer up to 2800 daily deaths. The actual number was below 40. Whether magnifying this falsehood was reckless or willful, it amounted to shouting “fire!” in a crowded theater. What justifies listening to, and paying, people who do that kind of science?
This, right here. These people have been so completely wrong, for so long, that they should be subject to criminal investigation. Instead, the media breathlessly repeat and amplify their every pronouncement, no matter how preposterous.
For some reason, the story of the Three Little Pigs is now in my head.
“We’ll huff, and we’ll puff, and we’ll blooooow your house down.”
And, while hardly anybody was paying attention, they snuck in and sabotaged the foundation and the mortar. There is a very real possibility the brickwork can no longer withstand the strain.
Perhaps a snow grape? Is that even a thing?
Make it a lump of coal.
Generally speaking, those who are “disappeared” by banana republic dictators are not available to be interviewed by the New York Times at a later date.
But don’t let that muddy the waters.
Denizen of the Portland couthouse mad as hell…that someone took a picture without their permission
Ha! Further evidence that Trump really stepped in it. He stuck his neck out for people in the Federal Beuracracy, forgetting that they are willing to take any shot at him.
Why bother protecting the bureaucracy of people who don’t even want to be protected.
Obama judge, naturally.
“Why bother protecting the bureaucracy of people who don’t even want to be protected.”
He’s a leftist federal judge, they will never ever go after him. He’s on their side.
That’s what he thinks at least.
The media and riot supporters are looking for any angle to attack Trump and his minions, no matter how tenuous. And these are the same fed judges, like state ones, that have been playing the release part of catch and release, allowing the criminals to right back out and continue this violence. They need to stop granting bail to rioters until the riots are over. And repeat arrestees, flight risks, or threats to the community need to be held until their speedy trial.
Does a judge have investigatory powers?
So the Chief Judge of a federal courthouse that has been repeatedly assaulted and vandalized is up in arms because . . . a federal official tweeted photographs of the lobby?
Doomed as a society, we are.
Obama appointed judge : antifa :: Sinn Fein politician: Provisional IRA member
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo?s=21
Read down to about 8h ago. Feds stay inside per the mayor’s request and the rioters still attack the federal courthouse. This is a criminal mob, not peaceful protesters. Giving into their demands will not deter them.
In my county in Virginia Chuck E Cheese is open right now for games and dine in but the county I’m in is going to do distance learning. I mean I always knew Ball pits, pizza and wierd animitronic animals were more essential than schools but now the gov is admitting it.
The ball pits are still open? Those are a bacterial and viral stew in the best of times.
Builds immunity. Like raising kids on a farm.
More like raising them in an open sewer but I get your point.
Yeah, Henrico County just sent out an email yesterday saying that it will be fully remote for at least the first nine weeks. When do I get my property tax refund?
Fuck You, That’s When.
The 12th of Never
“Men should limit alcohol to just one drink per day, experts say ”
https://nypost.com/2020/07/17/men-should-limit-alcohol-to-just-one-drink-per-day-experts-say/
No.
Done and done. I hope a 72 ounce drink meets their standards.
It’s like the ‘experts’ are actively trying to destroy their own credibility…
I don’t want to be called an expert in my field anymore. I would lose credibility.
I know what is best for you!
As Scott Adams famously opined, “An expert is someone assigned to an expert’s job. No other qualifications are necessary.”
I prefer ‘professional’. Or ‘mercenary’.
https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/2020-advisory-committee-report
Dietary guidelines and .gov – is there any combination of words in our language more likely to be wrong?
I see the problem – this was grossly sexist!
Ok.
A good read:
https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/19/will-2021-be-1984/
“Will 2021 Be 1984? “
It’s all about the power, not the equality.
By Victor Davis Hanson • July 19, 2020
I see a more militant Tea Party in the future. At least in states not totally captured by Team BlueFascism.
This is the warning I’ve been giving recently, and nobody I speak to seems to think it is credible. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the Ds win the presidency and both houses of congress in this election. If they do, say goodbye to the filibuster in the senate, and all the pie-in-the-sky programs that the left has promised will come into being. The right’s reaction in 2022 will make the original Tea Party look like, well, a tea party…
All the voting will be by mail and the dems will send their antifa/blm thugs to every polling station to prevent anyone from voting otherwise. So the dems will cheat their way there and the first thing you will get is gun confiscation at the national level via executive order, you know, for our own good because a virus that once existed. After the gun confiscation, we’ll get national ID and a social credit score. Good times ahead.
“Which is a good time to start this.”
Good time to start with home schooling. 20 years too late to save civilization. It was truly over when the stopped the idiots from eating tide pods.