My kids were both back at school today (at least for 3 hours for the little one). Between that and errands, there were at least 4 hours of glorious, wonderous silence in my house as I worked. Given the rapid falloff of cases, I am starting to feel just a little touch of some feeling in my pessimist heart that is unfamiliar. None dare call it hope.
It appears that there are at least 50,000 other kids in my kids’ district with shitlord parents who want to kill teachers.
Why don’t they just call their group something more truthful like: “Republicans hated by their constituencies”?
I’ve considered playing dead to escape my family.
Dr. Warty passed on this article that was absolutely fascinating.
I always enjoyed this song.
I can hear them chanting my name: “BRO BRO BRO!” This First is for all the men who want to be me and all the women who come to see me.
I’m tempted to hit that NYT link, but I won’t.
Paywalled.
Not for me.
Me neither. Great article. I’m sure all the people who need to read and understand it won’t.
They won’t make money off it if you do and you can have fun bypassing their shitty paywall (just hit escape as it loads just enough for you to read it).
Safari Reader bypasses their paywall.
I made it halfway through the 3rd paragraph before I told the writer to go fuck himself.
Harrumph, I say! Tut tut!!
It rewards a complete read.
Very well, I’ll take a look.
I stopped reading at that sentence too.
“botanical disinfectant spray”
So it doesn’t actually work on the virus?
“techno-medical despotism”
Why yes, yes it is,
“techno-medical despotism”
Worst dance music ever.
There’s also the companion genre, “Welded up House”.
Nice.
That was awful. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Untz * Untz * Untz * Untz * Untz
I lol’d like an idiot and woke up the baby. Now trying to explain to the wife “just what in the hell is so funny.”
“Why don’t they just call their group something more truthful like: “Republicans hated by their constituencies”?”
So Democrats?
I was going to go with “Republicans for Statism”, but that wasn’t specific enough.
I used to view the whole RINO thing with a tinge of cynicism, but damn if bad orange man didn’t expose them as literally just that. They were never conservative, but they’re not really Republicans either. They’re the lynchpin of the controlled opposition machine.
I never thought I would see so many of them openly advocate socialism. It’s fucking mind-blowing.
As opposed to Trump??!?
I didn’t say anything about Trump. But fine, I’ll take the gotcha.
I have to say, it’s a bit odd for anyone to talk about what is or isn’t “Republican” or even “conservative” after the complete ideological shift Trump wrought. The entire universe has taken crazy pills and words have no meaning anymore.
Agreed.
words have no meaning anymore
Uh, meanings have words.
Did I pass the test?
If you somehow got a Congress that went to peak Trumponomics, we’d still have dirt cheap energy even with the hyperinflation. The Democrats embrace of “freeze in the dark for your sins against Gaia” as their actual energy policy makes them far worse IMO.
I’ve said it on here for a while: America already has the moderate social democracy that Democrats claim they are in favor of. There’s no actual “progress” from here that doesn’t involve actual socialism, or the actual lunacy of sacrificing the country on the altar of carbon.
If we would just quit playing warring political tribe and let science progress as it currently is.
I mean, as fucked up as things are, we still have a little freedom left. I would settle for no more laws, we have far too many, let it alone, and let science do it’s part and push identity politics and social justice into the ridiculed dustbin of history it should be in, we’re probably only a generation or less from nearly free energy and food production. Life would just keep getting easier and easier for humans.
But no, we need to engage and even embrace the undisciplined kiddies in their cosplay struggle sessions. Apparently, we’re willing to give up all and revert to a new dark ages for that.
No, fuck that shit, the kiddies need a good hard spanking.
There are very few real Republicans. Trump isn’t even one.
There is no real Republican Party. The GOP is swirling around the same drain they sent the Whigs down, and for the same general reasons of no principles, direction and cohesion.
Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a frequent critic of President Trump’s, is endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden along with several other former Republican lawmakers.
The Biden campaign announced the endorsements, first reported by Fox News, on Monday morning. The list includes other former members of Congress who had previously announced their support for Biden, including former Sens. John Warner (R-Va.) and Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.), who is now an independent, and Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.).
How dare he come play in our sandbox? The man’s an UPSTART!
Is John Warner even technically alive?
The man was always a whore for the limelight.
That is a real murders row of…squish.
That’s pretty…underwhelming.
Did someone corner him in an elevator again?
I believe I heard it on Dr. G that live people taken to the morgue (not funeral home) happens more than you’d think.
*tugs collar*
I, err, can neither confirm nor deny.
I used that in a book. So far, no one has accused me directly of calling in the machine with the god in it.
I, for one, was tremendously relieved.
How dare you profane the name of the Machine God!
Ave Machina!
It appears that there are at least 50,000 other kids in my kids’ district with shitlord parents who want to kill teachers.
So there are people who don’t want to kill teachers?
In Florida there are some cops who don’t want to kill teachers, but are willing to stand by and watch it happen.
I shouldn’t have laughed, but I did.
“These former members of Congress cited Trump’s corruption, destruction of democracy, blatant disregard for moral decency, and urgent need to get the country back on course as a reason why they support Biden,” an official with the Biden campaign told Fox News. “These former Members of Congress are supporting Joe Biden because they know what’s at stake in this election and that Trump’s failures as President have superseded partisanship.”
Mmmm hmmmmm. Yes, very good. Go on.
*nods, pretends to listen while sketching a jackass on note pad*
Ask them if they agree with Biden’s assertion that Mittens Romney wants to put black people in chains, and ask them if that’s considered decency.
I love the “destruction of democracy” gambit. For almost four years an impossibly long list of reasons has been floated as to why a duly elected president needs to be removed through non-voting means.
Flake was too chicken to run again so now he’s on the disaffected Republican circuit.
Soon he’ll be offering up twenty dollar blowjobs at state DNC conventions to make ends meet.
With him and his fellow cucks, it was always about the price. Never a question that they were sellouts and whores.
Segregation is the new hotness.
A student task force at New York University who call themselves the Black Violets, are pushing for segregated housing in dormitories. The Black Violets created a petition in July to establish floors specifically for black students in NYU student housing.
The petition, which currently has over 1,000 signatures, reads “We, members of the Black student body, demand that NYU implement Black student housing on campus in the vein of themed engagement floors across first-year and upperclassmen residence halls.” The first demand listed on the petition is to create “floors completely comprised of Black-identifying students with Black Resident Assistants.”
Nai Robinson, co-founder of the Black Violets, told Washington Street News that currently black students are not cared for on NYU’s campus. “There is nothing to protect us,” Robinson said. “Literally no systems in place. What do you do when your professor is racist and wants to take it out on your grades? Microaggressions in classroom discussions?”
Rachel Dozeal breaths sigh of relief.
+1 Talcum X
Thurgood Partial, Hueless Newton….
“There is nothing to protect us,” Robinson said. “Literally no systems in place. What do you do when your professor is racist and wants to take it out on your grades? Microaggressions in classroom discussions?”
The
phone callsdelusions are coming from insidethe houseyour head!What do you do when your professor is racist and wants to take it out on your grades?
Contact the ombudsman? That’s what they’re there for.
That said, if the entire university happens to fall for the same (pomo) delusion, then you may be forced to choose between your convictions and your grade. Go ask the college Republicans at your college. they should have plenty of examples.
What do you do when your professor is racist and wants to take it out on your grades?
You have your own floor in the dorms, that’s what! That will absolutely fix things and not at all prove their point.
“We demand”
The entitlement fucking reeks. Whatever happened to requesting even though, request or demand, what they’re wanting is stupid.
Can we call it colored housing for old time’s sake?
I want everyone honest who was involved in the civil rights movement to feel as betrayed as I do.
I can see a bee article coming out of this where they strip the paint off the segregated housing’s sign and find that the base layer of paint from the 1950s says exactly what they were going to paint on there.
That’s actually genius!
And it’ll show up as a Bee headline in 3, 2, 1 . . .
Written and submitted. If the bee steals my idea, at least SP has the timestamp to show that I wrote mine first.
“They’re more comfortable among their own kind.”
The Black Violets created a petition in July to establish floors specifically for black students in NYU student housing.
Maybe they’d be cool with separate water fountains, restrooms, and a “black” entrance to the campus rathskeller?
And their own designated areas in campus transportation. Away from the front, where it’s drafty in the winter.
Shouldn’t Black Violets be specifically for black lesbians?
Shut up and do what the person in charge tells you is not always the right answer, but deciding what is valuable enough to not do so is a good exercise to be completed in a college classroom, where the punishment for deciding wrong is merely a failing grade. It, like your own personal hot/crazy boundary line is an experientially determined thing.
Wake up?
Nothing to protect you, save for the coping skills expected of a functioning adult…
Re: Jeff Flake. Isn’t this the same thing they did last time around? I mean freaking Bill Chrystal ran a breakfast sandwich against Trump. They have been really hitting on the “GOP officials don’t want to go with Trump”. It’s already happened, but it will become more mainstream, if Trump Wins, to call for the death of Trump voters, because it was them and not the party leadership that put him into power.
They keep pushing “GOP establishment hacks and warmongers don’t like Trump.”
That’s why he got elected, dipshits.
Paywalled.
I haven’t even bothered to try, lately. I used to be able to get one NYT story, because my browser dumps cookies when I close it.
All the warhawk erstwhile Repubs are supporting Biden. hmmmmmm….
Yeah but “Blooddrenched Neocons for Biden” doesn’t have much of a ring to it.
Give that lady a prize.
I think the main objection to Trump is his opposition to the endless, pointless wars that are keeping the opposition flush with cash.
Not sure if this link was previously reported since the article came out almost 2 weeks ago. I found it via NRO (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-long-sad-saga-of-hydroxychloroquine/).
Long read, but very thorough and worthwhile. Very telling too.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/hydroxychloroquine-morality-tale
That Tabletmag article is great, but yes, very long.
Still amazes me that an article that long doesn’t have the word “zinc” in it at all.
Went to my great-aunt’s funeral this morning (she was 92; she’s where she wants to be). Masks galore, but not an inch of social distancing. No singing either, but that didn’t hurt my feelings.
My mom and three aunts and one uncle are so over the masks, as if they weren’t when it started.
Thinking about Egg McMuffin and his failed Presidental run, reminds me of a quote from Schiff where he cried foul at Kanye running. Called it the “Lowest of the low” of tactics to run a spoiler. Funny juxtaposition to be in.
Alternate headline: Only Half of Pinellas County Parents can Accurately Assess Risk (or Just Really Want Some Peace and Quiet for a Few Hours)
Our district has some damned fool “hybrid” thing set up – so naturally, Zoom crashed in the Chicago area on the first day of school. I pay several thousand dollars a year in property taxes to this school district … GO TO WORK, F#$%STICKS!
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I just keep seeing Fishsticks.
Are you a gay fish?
What does sexuality even mean to a broadcast spawner?
no, that’s F!$#sticks
#metoo
Speaking of being unable to assess risk, this woman was my daughter’s English teacher last year:
https://www.thv11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/lrsd-teacher-resigns-coronavirus-uncertainties/91-c40b726c-cf92-43f2-b0d7-c0daf798fdad
Bye
Well…she got that part right. The quitting bit, not so much.
I forget who is was here who said “Teachers aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, and have a herd mentality,” but they were spot-on.
Maybe have the public schoolmarms read this and make a book report on it as a condition of having their contracts re-upped.
I disagree with her reasoning, but at least she had the balls to vote with her feet & a resignation letter.
The article says she’d been teaching for 30 years or so. She’s due to collect that sweet NEA pension.
/ex-wife is a teacher
““The paramedics performed CPS and other life-reviving methods for 30 minutes,” the chief said. “Given medical readings and the condition of the patient, it was determined at that time that she did not have signs of life.””
Bullshit.
So… will someone refresh me. Why do the left hate Trump so much? I mean i was youngish when Bush was president, and i remember there being a lot of Bush hate, but not on this level where they are saying the country is literally destroyed if Trump gets a second term.
Once you start, the only way to get the high again, is to increase the dosage.
Why do the left hate Trump so much?
Because he’s an actual Democrat that calls out leftist lies and hypocrisy for what it is.
Heresy. Someone from outside the sect holds the high priesthood.
Well, really it started with smug satisfaction if you ask me. Trump came out and made his speech about the Mexicans and the wall and after years of crying racism about any opposition to the Light Bringer they saw it as confirmation. His popularity from that allowed them to try and paint the average Republican as racist. See Hillary’s “pied piper” strategy where they wanted to paint all Republicans as being like Trump, if I’m remembering it all correctly.
Then it just snowballed as Trump kept…winning.
Yes they did, and they did the same when Reagan was in office.
Bush Sr. visited my college and protesters there had signs that read “Your Dad should have pulled out” and “The best part of you ran down your mom’s leg”. The left always had the classiest protesters.
Bush was still one of them, a member of the political class.
I assume something about his style inspires the same kind of skin-crawling loathing that affects me when I see Cuomo
lectureharanguespeak.All of the prominent lefties and many on the right give me that same feeling. They are the most loathsome people imaginable.
This. I can’t watch a single one of them on TV for more than a minute before I start feeling around for bricks.
Yeah, that’s it I think. He’s not the kind of elitist, effete gasbag that makes them weak in the knees.
It seems to revolve mostly around his personality. And he has an R next to his name now.
Because he’s an asshole.
They’re all assholes. It begs the question, why the particular hate for Darth Cheeto?
He humiliates them, and they don’t appreciate being humiliated. It’s why Reagan was so hated, too. It has nothing to do with policy or actions, and everything to do with feeling a slight twinge of embarrassment when bad orange man lands a zinger.
Come at me, bro.
David Muir asked Biden about the “blistering attacks” by the Trump campaign on Biden’s “mental fitness” and Biden burst out laughing.
“His campaign has called you ‘diminished’ and I’m curious how you’d respond to that?” Muir said.
“Watch me. Mr. President, watch me,” Biden answered, motioning his hands as though he was challenging Trump to a fight.
The camera cut to Kamala Harris, who looked on with a nervous smirk, darting her eyes to Muir.
“Look at us both. What we say and what we do, what we control, what we know, what kind of shape we’re in. Come on,” Biden said.
Look at us both: I.E Kamala will be in charge.
There’s a part of me hoping that we might get a sugarfree insight into how Kamala didn’t realize how senile Biden was, or that he doesn’t expect to turn any power over to her and realizing that she’s trapped in a hell of her own making.
From the NYT article:
All i think of is this:
He’s not wrong, it’s just another click in the ratchet. What will the next justification for an abasement of rights be? Will it come from the “right” or from the “left”?
The district has provided teachers at Largo IB World School with pandemic kits, which include gloves, reusable masks, botanical disinfectant spray, and other materials. Students must sit six feet apart and the instructor will be in a teaching zone that is eight feet away from the nearest student.
This is insane. On the other hand, they’re back at school. On the gripping hand, they’re at government school. Blech.
“These former members of Congress cited Trump’s corruption, destruction of democracy, blatant disregard for moral decency, and urgent need to get the country back on course as a reason why they support Biden,”
Where were they during the Obama years?
“Upon arrival at the funeral home, our staff confirmed she was breathing and called EMS.”
That’s fucked.
The emergency declared by public-health experts replaces the discredited narrative of “national security experts” as a pretext for withdrawing rights and privacy from citizens.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Upon arrival at the funeral home, our staff confirmed she was breathing
“Dude, that is so not my kink.”
Why do the left hate Trump so much?
He’s an upstart. He swooped in out of left field and displaced a treasured lifelong member of the Washington Mandarinate. He upset a lot of carefully positioned apple carts.
This – for decades it was only people who were already in on the game.
Same reason the right hates him.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8658135/Demi-Rose-displays-incredible-curves-plunging-tropical-print-swimsuit.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8657607/Demi-Rose-displays-sizzling-curves-tiny-tropical-print-frilled-bikini.html
I wonder if that formula of silicon is denser than water and at what level she would float were she to ever use those suits to actually swim.
Nope. Voluptuous curves.
“100 nudists test positive for Covid-19 after ‘very worrying’ outbreak at French ‘libertine’ naturist resort – despite wearing face masks ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8658063/100-nudists-test-positive-Covid-19-worrying-outbreak-French-naturist-resort.html
Does that count as nude?
(Semi-)Serious question: Can you get Covid from farts?
Apparently it is because a fart particle is 100 times smaller than a virus.
But nevermind, because that answer has nothing to do with your question.
*hangs head in shame*
Doesn’t the virus infect the lungs? How would it get to the anus?
We have never gotten solid, truthful answers about this because A) the experts are mostly liars and B) They dont know.
Can you catch it from mosquitoes? Food? Surfaces? How long are the viral particles able to infect after leaving the body? What parts of the body can it infect? Why are some asymptomatic and others not? I can think of about 1000 more…
The only things we know for sure: https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-studying-coronavirus/
We know the masks and lockdowns are useless at best and destructive at worst.
This is really more HM’s, err, territory.
From what I understand, diarrhea is a common symptom.
Semi serious answer: maybe
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/sars-cov-2-orofecal-transmission/
https://icfjournal.org/index.php/icfj/article/view/695
Luckily for the scientist at CDC they only smell their own farts, so they should be safe.
We have a winner.
Farting could release bacteria. But Covid isn’t bacterial.
Serious answer: We have evolved to find possible means or sources of pathogens or poisons to be disgusting.
My guess? Very likely.
Damn, I’m so glad I asked this question. I’ve got a lot of reading to do now.
Can you get Covid from farts?
I got nuthin’.
Not clicking on that link. I’ve seen the nudies at a French beach. It’s always the people you don’t want to see.
Upon arrival at the funeral home, our staff confirmed she was breathing
Nobody on the ambulance crew had a mirror?
I thought you were supposed to smack them three times in the forehead with a silver hammer?
Have some gibberish.
Wut?
I just keep seeing Fishsticks.
#METOO
“White Wisconsin cops shoot unarmed black father seven times in the back at point-blank range as his three kids watch from back of car – sparking violent protests and the Governor to slam ‘excessive use of police force'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8657225/Police-shooting-Wisconsin-leaves-1-person-hospitalized.html
Always made about race.
“s his three kids watch from back of car”
emmm, Bullshit
…nobody mentioned three kids before now.
Somebody needs to explain the 48 hour rule to the Gov.
At least he called in the National Guard. WI is perfectly purple (or used to be), an almost exact 50/50 split. Must have done the math and realized letting Kenosha turn into Portland-On-The-Lake would cost him more votes from normies than it would gain from the lunatic left.
I don’t think governor’s have a lot of leeway on being able to wait 48 hours to comment.
Doesn’t mean they have to jump to the end. They are experts and saying little and pushing back the day when they might have to make a decision.
Since I missed the Basilone article in terms of posting – just a follow-up comment.
Reading through that description, it matched a lot of a few other articles I’ve read before – dug up an old file saved on my computer and found the story of Mitchell Paige. aka G.I. Joe.
In a battle that large, it makes sense that you might see similar efforts, but it is kinda weird how similar they are. Both ultimate bad-asses.
All of the prominent lefties and many on the right give me that same feeling. They are the most loathsome people imaginable.
It’s narcissistic sociopaths, all the way down.
We all breathlessly await to see what action the Packers will take in the wake of the Wisconsin shooting:
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/08/24/packers-hold-team-meeting-after-police-shooting-in-wisconsin/
“It has come to our attention that the man shot while resisting arrest in Kenosha was a Chicago Bears fan. The official response of the Green Bay Packers to this event is “Eh, Bears fans. Waddayagonnado?”
Thanks sports teams, for being our national conscience.
*head-desk*
Anyone have any Bitcoin? I decided to buy some completely on a whim a little while back on CashApp. I did no research whatsoever and bought $25 worth. 1 BTC was about $7300 at the time. I checked it every day for about a month. The price had gone up to $9600 but was fluctuating wildly. I ended up cashing in for $35, feeling scared I would lose money if it dropped. Happy with that profit, I decided to look into it more. I learned a few things.
1. Holy crap, actually buying Bitcoin and having a wallet is insanely confusing and complicated. Not sure what I did but it wasn’t really owning Bitcoin.
2. Gambling is an emotional roller coaster. And apparently legal anywhere you can use CashApp.
3. It’s much higher now, like $11,750. I think gold is high too now. I don’t know why so many people on Twitter are telling people to buy both. “Buy low, sell high”.
I’ve only heard about the convenience of “cashapp” via Joe Rogan. (and the guy who mows my yard takes cashapp). It’s like WTF – I’ve been using paypal for 20 years and nobody accepts it. I had to create a venmo account just to get my security deposit back from my last rental.
I started creating a cashapp account but when it wanted all my account right up front as the first or second step of the account creation process, i flinched.
“all my bank account info”
The market manipulators on Wall Street have nothing on the bitcoin crowd. I stay the hell away from anything that looks like a gamble.
Yeah. I’d hold off on both. I bought some BCH (Bitcoin Cash) a few months ago, and it’s mostly kept it’s value, though it has jumped a bit in the past week.
Keeping a wallet can be confusing, though sometimes it’s more confusing because of the terms used. I think that is the single biggest obstacle in its widespread use as a means of money is that it’s too damn technical.
Sounds like the Linux of the money world. Probably great, stable and less prone to thieves but the average Joe/Jane isn’t going to go out and get it.
Pretty much. Untill they make crypto work in a way that grandma can use it, it won’t take off.
I don’t have any bitcoin, but late 2019 I started dabbling in crypto.
I first learned about bitcoin when it was ~$2.00 per bitcoin, so I’m certainly very familiar with the “missed the boat” feeling. I don’t think I would buy any BTC unless it dipped to down $3k-$5k range.
HOWEVER, I am a fan of BAT & XRP. I own a bit of both (less that $3k) but plan on substantially increasing holdings if they dip again.
With BAT specifically, I read the white paper and think it could really rocket off to the moon like BTC did. I may end up dropping like $10k into it… we’ll see.
I use Uphold dont com for my crypto needs. Mainly that’s because Brave/BAT partnered with it, and it works well enough for me to stick with it.
Only three more hours until my next First.
Yes, I’m calling my shot.
Watching a movie on HBO today a New York PSA came on after. It said something like follow New Yorks lead on how to stop the Coronavirus wear masks. I can’t find the commercial on YouTube I figured it be making it’s rounds of getting trashed.
New York’s strategy on stopping the spread of the cooties appears to be having everyone engage in mass exodus. No people, no cooties….it is simple really.
NYC is over 3000 deaths per million. No thanks, not gonna follow that approach. NY State is better, but not much.
My count is over 500 per million, which isnt good, but with a much higher confirmed case rate than NYC. We are over 3%. Is 10x still a good approximation, because over 30% puts us damn near herd immunity levels?
County
Got this email from VCDL (bold is their emphasis):
Democrat Party Platform: Ban Online Ammo Sales, License Gun Owners
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/19/democrat-party-platform-ban-online-ammo-sales-license-all-gun-owners/
So much stupid in so little space.
I’ve said it before, “loophole” is whatever is left to acquire or a posses a firearm after the last gun control enactments.
The 2nd is a loophole according to them.
Back in the beforetimes, when there was no internet, we used to get a weekly circular called the ‘Tradin Post’. It was essentially a newspaper of classified ads. There was always a very robust “Guns/Ammo” section, and private sales were conducted. Just as they are today.
What makes these idiots think that any transaction involving firearms involves a background check ?
What about the loophole that allows those convicted of hate crimes to vote.
Every single plank in the Dem platform is about taking things away from individuals…money, guns, freedoms, options. Ever single one of them. At least in the past they made noises about how they were going to make things better. Now the party is coopted by straight up radical leftists that want San Francisco as the blueprint for the. entire nation.
Meh, it’s more about taking things away from the people who don’t vote for them and giving things to the people who do vote for them. It’s tribalism with a shitty veneer of post-modernist claptrap.
How can you say that? Aren’t the Dems the “pro-choice” party?
will prioritize repealing the law that shields gun manufacturers from civil liability
Except it’s not a repeal, it’s the standard negligence laws, and maybe some additional laws to further hamstring activist judges who would ignore the standard negligence laws.
We’re gonna get dram shop laws for guns, and that’s going to cripple the industry.
Thats the point. Along with National Licensing and requiring gun owners to buy insurance and to stow weapons so that they are useless for home defense. The point is to make people not own weapons.
Crippling the industry is exactly what they want.
We’re livestreaming today’s Glibertarian’s dinner meetup.
Can’t be real, there’s a female present.
Did I forget to mention it is a costume party?
The comments weren’t what I expected.
Corn!
Strangely erotic. I need a break from this place.
Just mailed in my request to not to receive a mail-in ballot. Since I mailed in a ballot once before, I was on the list to always get mail-in ballots, and I have to opt out.
Liking the Postmaster General.
“All my actions have to do with improving the Postal Service,” DeJoy replied. “Am I the only one in this room that understands that we have a $10 billion a year loss?”
Rep. Stephen Lynch: “Will you put the, will you put the high-speed machines back?”
USPS Postmaster Louis DeJoy: “No, I will not.”
Lynch: “You will not.”
DeJoy: “Will not.”
Lynch: “You will not. Well, there you go.”
DeJoy: “There I go what?”
That’s how you respond to those idiots.
live on c-span?
I just pulled them off tweets.
The Wikipedia article on the Postal Service “crisis” is a a hotbed of objective information, strictly hewing to the neutral point-of-view policy with such enlightening notes as DeJoy “stammered and hesitated” and that he is a “Trump campaign megadonor”.
Nowhere that I have seen is any explanation offered for why keeping or removing the sorting machines would be a good/bad idea. What do the machines do? Obviously they “sort mail” but are they old? Do they do the job well? Are they being replaced? Is this a new policy (some sources imply no, others don’t even ask the question).
References I’ve seen elsewhere is that the sorting machines being disposed of are for older types of large mail that aren’t typically used any more.
Finding a reliable source on this right now is almost impossible. A great service Google could provide, which of course they won’t do, is to allow me to search for a topic of controversy but get back the results from before it became a controversy.
Try using a search engine called “Millionshort”.
Saved my life, it did.
That did help, thanks. Not exactly a time machine, but it does cut out the clickbaity noise somewhat.
OMG I was just looking for something yesterday to block specific sites and this has that feature. Thanks!
I live to serve.
It’s a very useful search engine when you’re trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.
SEO-blocker FTW.
And I can think of a zillion uses for blocking the “top x^10 sites” too.
Something I had been trying to find for weeks was on the first page of results. Thanks!
Was reading this
https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2020/08/20/heres-why-the-postal-service-wanted-to-remove-hundreds-of-mail-sorting-machines/
Mail volume is half of its all time peak twenty years ago. Reading that and between the lines, it sounds like they have excess capacity and are trying to draw it down to match the actual volumes for opex savings.
On the one hand, it sounds like an otherwise benign and reasonable business move.
On the other hand, the USPS is not a business and people (esp. Congress) need to stop acting like it is one. It is a Congressionally chartered money pit and the less time spent pretending otherwise, the better.
So you want it to lose $100 billion instead of $10 billion?
I’d be all for mail delivery 3 days a week. You want it more frequent buy a post office box.
Based on what we get now in Canada, once a week wouldn’t be a hardship. Anything I really need I just get shipped to me via courier service etc.
Well that would just make it like every other government agency. The Department of Defense can lose $100 billion in a month, never mind a year.
Either make it a business or reabsorb it into the government. Its current status makes no sense, and Congress loves to keep it in that status to use as a political football.
There’s some context here which is only in my head and probably needs to be put into writing.
– The USPS can’t set its own rates. All rate changes have to be approved by Congress. Congress has refused to approve the sort of rate changes it actually needs (e.g. First Class Forever stamps should probably cost $2.50 not $0.55).
– The USPS can’t close its own offices without kissing Congress’s ass, either.
– And they are required by law to negotiate with the postal workers’ union, to give that union almost everything it wants, and then to pay for all of it.
Plus, I’d be willing to bet after this media-created fiasco, they’ll next be required to get all “major” decisions about operations approved by Congress, too.
There’s also an argument to be made that Forever stamps are a stupid idea too. I don’t think any other business could get away with the necessary accounting trickery in this day and age.
I know how the USPS can make money. I’ll install a recycling bin directly below my mailbox. I’ll pay the carrier $5 a week to sort my mail appropriately.
There’s a guy I knew near Edmonton about a decade or so ago, who actually won a court case to force Canada Post to deliver junk mail to his semi-rural address, where he burned all of it in a custom paper-burning furnace for heat etc. Signed up for thousands of flyers and shit. Got several large delivery bagfuls a day of this stuff delivered to him, which he put into a device that rolled it into firelogs tied with wire. Free energy delivered by Canada Post. He’s not well-loved by the regional distribution centre’s manager.
His “regular” mail all gets delivered to a P.O. box in the nearest town.
https://youtu.be/sMqt1uAxibw
On the general topic of the thing, I keep seeing people say “of course it’s political” but that doesn’t make a damn bit of sense. Fucking up the postal service, assuming that’s what is being done, doesn’t give an advantage to any candidate. Trump isn’t going to win the election any more or less because the mail won’t get delivered on time. But I guess these people have so fully bought their own bullshit that they think voting by mail = smart = Democrat.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/hollywood/fl-ne-hollywood-burglary-ring-20200818-bjbmu56h55bxlfc3v7ivi3sjjm-story.html
Super geniuses.
“Three men wore GPS ankle monitors while burglarizing dozens of homes, cops say”
Speaking of a return to normalcy…..
Minneapolis to business owners: What do you think you are doing? Don’t you know we have building codes?
Anyone want to bet that the Mpls City Council would be completely onboard with using the police department to arrest this guy if he tried to install those shutters without a permit?
Minneapolis officials argued that external shutters “cause visual blight” and create the impression that an area is “unsafe” and “troublesome.”
I think the shattered glass, graffiti, and trash strewn everywhere also create an impression, etc.
Minneapolis is the definition of “visual blight” presently.
“Good luck with your shithole city. I’m out.”
Go knock the windows out of the councillors’ homes.
At the expense of having drugs fall out of my ass…
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-august-23-2020/
“THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. And it’s good to see you all. Hope you had a great weekend at your convention.”
Fact check: False! The Democratic National Convention ended last Thursday, not over the weekend!
Even if I were a member of the White House press pool, I would have laughed at that line.
I thought that was going to be a Bee link. See, it really is getting impossible to tell anymore.
MAGA, bitches.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JFNYC1/status/1297624336120111105
This is the shittiest civil war ever.
Gives new meaning to the term “street fight.”
I’m not sure why it’s pink paint. It really goes badly with the blue dress.
After she gets out of booking, she should return with asphalt-colored paint and do it again.
beats having your head blown off by a .58 calliber bullet.
Yeah… Say what upu will but we got some awesome folk misic out of the last one. I don’t hold out much hope that a DJ with an iPod is going to give us anything worthwhile.
Between the ululations and the moaning….the world is deranged.
Even if she’s right.
Also, chanting “God Bless Law Enforcement” while getting handcuffed is whatever is the White people’s version of “some coon shit”.
Because we must decide between letting the cops just randomly shoot people with no accountability or just having no law enforcement at all. We can’t just give people an unlimited number of choices, it would be like TV before there were good cable packages. Chaos and anarchy!
We need police to convert to an online streaming service.
Nobody needs 23 different kinds of police forces.
Equivalent to “I beat you because I love you”?
Who was moaning? Her or the crowd? It was wack.
From the replies
https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffRus31916331/status/1297672766330671104
The Left supports free speech and peaceful protest.
Hey, she wasn’t rioting, burning, and looting. That’s not acceptable free speech.
What was she trying to do? Create a paint slip and slide?
If someone was serious, wouldn’t be hard to have one or three people with backpack sprayers take out a much larger chunk of the graffiti. Or spray on a paint stripper.
But if one is a deranged attention whore, this works perfectly.
I know I’ve seen that person before…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9g9XeRMZM0
All those “photographers” are freakin’ pathetic to me. Photo boners all around I guess.
“Why don’t they just call their group something more truthful like: “Republicans hated by their constituencies?”
I’m not sure why they don’t just join the dem party. Dems don’t want them either? Maybe they can go looting and get popular enough that the dems will take them?
I’m not real sure what they can do for that butthurt.
I am not sure which of them I hate more.
Amash, because he pretended to be principled.
It’s sort of like that Falwell guy. Hey, whatever buddy, if you want to give your wife a pool boy instead of the typical dildo and batteries, go for it. Just don’t preach to us about what a righteous role model you are for the rest of us. That shit just creeps me out.
My grandfather had an expression to describe hard materials: “That shit is harder than a preacher’s dick at a wedding”
That’s not a very useful metric.
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/MGczXkknl80?t=24
I’ve never heard that before. And I thought I’ve heard most.
It’s really amusing when my wife and I will compare old saying that our parents often used when we were kids.
Yesterday afternoon she left a patio door and the screen wide open and I said ‘Hey girl, was you born in a barn?’.
So like most times, she says ‘What the hell you talking about old man?’.
It seems that these type saying span cultures and she told me what the Brazil version of that is and like a lot of times, it made almost no sense at all to me.
They want to run the country using the networks of loyal Team members they’ve built up over the decades. Not the functionally identical members from the other Team.
I saw the bitcoin discussion up thread. I’ve been putting my money into 30rd PMAGs.
I pick up one every time I visit the gun store. 15$ a piece.
$11/piece at my FFL located in the middle of nowhere. I bought all they had ~5 months ago. Out of stock now.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/08/24/Man-uses-Bud-Lite-to-keep-wildfire-flames-away-from-California-home/4741598294319/
The article fails to mention whether or not the beer was first consumed before being deployed.
Not:
“When I ripped up the sheet metal, it had a nail, so I was just shaking it up, popping it just and spraying them, popping it out and grabbing another one,” Little told KCRA-TV. “My buddies all tease me about drinking water beer, and I say, ‘Hey, saved my shop.'”
Dammit, now everyone knows I did not graduate from college. Need to work on my reading skillz. Anyhow, I always thought Bud Light was piss, not water.
You know what Bud Light has in common with having sex in a canoe?
They’re both fucking close to water.
+1 Eric Idle
Who cares about the virus and the insane worldwide reaction to it?
S&P 500 hits another record, closes above 3,400 for the first time as Apple and airlines rise
The Dow is about 1,200 points shy of it’s all time high back in February. You know, back when there was a functioning economy.
It’s a miracle what happens when you print metric buttloads of money and it has nowhere productive to go.
Trump has Putin hacking the stock market. It’s the only explanation. ROOSHIANS!
This worries me a bit. How is the stock market looking good when unemployment is up, logistics chain is all disrupted, and many businesses went or are going under?
I have a chunk of TSLA stock I purchased at $260 that is now at $2000. A stock split is scheduled.
Not sure if I should sell or hang on. Or does it even matter since my 401k “wealth” Will likely be redistributed in the name of justice?
It is looking good because the giants are going to be the only ones left standing. All of their competition will be gone.
^THIS^ Plus the magic money printing machine; future debt, spent now = profit! Sorry kids, you’re fucked.
I’m depressed the most about all the small family restaurants going under. We rarely went to all the chain restaurants, now we Grubhub/DoorDash the damn things.
Follow RC’s advice – after the split sell half. Enjoy your nice profit and let the other half ride.
I think it’s because they’re sure Biden can’t win.
It’s a 6 for 1 split. You can’t lose. (waiting for the Apple 4 for 1 split to finalize…)
I was talking with my dad about this the other day (not TSLA, the market as a whole), and we lamented the lack of interest bearing savings vehicles. Now would be the perfect time to toss some money into a 3% CD to diffuse some of the market risk. Of course, most CDs net you 1/10 of that.
Hey! My credit union has a CD that earns a princely 0.7%!
Windfall! We must end capitalism now!
I peeked at my 401k last week.
I was pleasantly surprised.
I’m rich, I’m rich! My kids are rich! Who am I kidding, I won’t be spending my 401k money.
There was a V-shaped gouge in mine* for Q1, but it recovered. It’s still not enough to retire on.
*actually 470 or something deffered comp, but same niche
My problem, such as it is, is that I have my retirement savings in three different places – a couple of small IRAs (one traditional, one Roth) from before my current job, a pretty good-sized IRA rolled over from the 401(k) I’d had at my employer before we merged with a larger org, and the 401(k) I’ve been contributing to since the merger. All are at different (big) companies. Don’t know whether I should try to consolidate at least the first two.
I would consolidate it all (maybe to 2 companies if you don’t love the 401k company) if only to reduce the PITA factor.
re: NYT link-
Great article. I’m sure all the people who need to read and understand it won’t.
The junior chimp squad in the news room will probably mutiny over it, then.
Since Biden would shut down the country based on the say-so of scientists, some enterprising reporter should ask if he would step down based on the say-so of cognitive scientists.
Given that he could drum up a letter by some large number of them saying he’s perfectly fit (despite never having met him), I’m not sure that would accomplish anything.
I’ll go back to my previous prediction the day before this was print. It is a 100% certainty that if the dems win this election, they will lock the country down hard, travel bans and all of that, to punish the deplorables and show them who’s in charge.
They’ll back off after a while when they start to get too much heat about it. Then the commie flu will vanish into thin air and it will be like it never happened.
Then it’s on to a new mega bloated healthcare agency that will never go away and will have full police powers to ‘protect’ us all.
Then we get gun confiscation, just like the experts at the new health agency advises.
I mean, come on, I didn’t want to do it, but the experts said I had no choice! /Slo Jo and the Ho
Have you ever been around a bunch of public health advocates? If you don’t believe what I just said, the answer is no.
You forgot about the Green New Deal to get us out of the depression the same way the New Deal got us out of the Great Depression.
Only this time, you have to destroy capitalism first. They can accomplish that with the 2nd lock down, before they declare victory and tout the new deal as the only solution for the record unemployment.
These people are transparent, but it doesn’t matter, because public education has dumbed down the country to the point of no return.
The original New Deal was pretty anti-capitalistic too. The courts (hard to believe today) fought off the worst of it, until “the switch in time that saved nine”, and thereafter Roosevelt lost some steam and eventually had to pay more attention to what was going on outside the U.S.
USPS Postmaster Louis DeJoy: “No, I will not.”
Lynch: “You will not.”
DeJoy: “Will not.”
Lynch: “You will not. Well, there you go.”
DeJoy:
“There I go what?”“Okay, ‘bye. Nice talkin’ to ya.”Speaking of Civil Wars and Folk Music, i’ve had this song in my head all day
Yes! He did it!
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-08-24/brazils-bolsonaro-says-journalist-wimps-more-likely-to-die-of-covid-19
I think bunda mean butt in Portuguese. I’m guessing bundao means something other than wimp.
Bundao is “big ass” in Portuguêse.
It does, but they don’t use that. They say bumbum, sounds like ‘boom boom’, how we might say booty.
Relevant
That shit is gay.
Typically when a Brazilian uses the word bunda, it’s in a negative way.
Accusations of homophobia incoming…
Bolsonaro doesn’t give a rat’s ass, which is why he won.
I went with my wife to DC for her to vote in the Brazilian presidential election. Bolsonaro colors were Brazil football colors, yellow and green. The labor party color was red. There was green and yellow to be seen for literally blocks around the hotel where they did the voting. I did not see a single person wearing red.
When we left, we already knew how was going to win.
And I don’t think he needs to worry. I remember when my wife and I were watching Globo news before the election and there was apparently some well known woman in Brazil claiming that Bolsonaro tried to rape her. I know it’s hard to believe. But what the guy basically said as a response is ‘Who would want to rape her?, she’s ugly’.
So, the subtext from this morning’s article was that Falwell is a cuck. Like an actual cuck who likes to watch his wife get fucked by other dudes.
and a staunch supporter of President Trump
Because of course they had to
As the cool kids say, TMITE
I know. See it’s funny cause Trump Supporter are the real cucks.
Trump’s wife wrecked the Rose Garden and one of his former campaign managers may have committed fraud. What more evidence do you want, Trumptard?
…while drinking Campari.
Please. An Apero spritzer at the very least…
“…while drinking Campari.”
“An Apero spritzer at the very least…”
This time, I’m not even waiting for Broketard to start, ya’ll is gay and shit.
Y’all need a drink.
I ain’t late for the party, bro. But I’m drinking BEER, a manly drink! Did you miss today’s episode of toxic masculinity!?
https://mobile.twitter.com/flogginrooster/status/1297903461149769729
I don’t know what I just watched, but I watched it anyway.
I’m missing the gene that appreciates this as fully as the commenters do.
I’m not going to get that 40 seconds back
Weather is down to Hot from Inferno, so I’m hanging outside.
Just a touch of a breeze. I almost can have an illusion of being a freeborn woman in a free country.
Don’t look too hard.
And the Bee:
https://babylonbee.com/news/approaching-asteroid-skyrockets-to-top-of-polls?utm_content=bufferabcb3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Did Democrats Sacrifice Several Goats To Satan At The DNC? Fact Check: FALSE. They Actually Sacrificed Just One Goat.
LOL. The ? rocks.
Look, you two. You need to know that fun has been cancelled in these difficult times. You should now have to wear two masks at the same time, even while inside alone, to atone for your sins. Also, make sure you have your Covid check app installed and are responding at the appropriate times, or you will be visited by a helper to correct your wrong think.
Gen Xers Decide To Split Off From Rest Of Society And Form A Utopia That’s All Relaxed And Cool And, You Know, Whatever
Link:
https://babylonbee.com/news/gen-xers-decide-to-split-off-from-rest-of-society-and-form-a-utopia-thats-all-relaxed-and-cool-and-whatever/?utm_content=buffera074e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
I have two requirements in this utopia, a Toto washlet and lots of slacking.
Two more: guns and good bbq
It’s all good in My United States of Whatever.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg
A Toto washlet? Is that safe to Google?
Yes, and I can live fine without it.
Spoken by someone who doesn’t have one in their bathroom.
It’s ok. I used to feel the same way until I got one.
OFFS! My wife is demanding one of those in our new home when we buy again. Only I think it is the upscale version that has been around for a long time she’s talking about.
I told her, you don’t need that, you need a spanking you little spoiled brat.
I sure have a way with words. Doesn’t always work out best for me, but it is what it is.
Larry Elder just went there and coined the term “Black Privilege: the ability to break every law in the country and still remain the victim.”
Oh, snap!
Totally racist. There are no privileged blacks.
This guy is being oppressed worse than most:
Oppression!
It is unclear whether or not he will be oppressed further by having to actually play football, or not.
OT, first post, though not Bro-first.
I was le(a)d to believe that we have a collection of some of the finest gun nuts on the web. The best. Classiest. So classy, in fact, enough to lure one out of hiding, submit information to yet another web form, and post.
So to the point; new Sig P365 XL I want to use for EDC (concealed) and I’m looking for advice on a holster, probably appendix carry. There’s a huge variety of holsters around and it’s tough to trust review sites. I’m partial to the *concept* of the Urban Carry G3, but it gets enough bad reviews, that I hesitate even though some of the reviews seem largely based on ridiculing it as a ‘gimmick’ rather than technical reasons it’s not viable. Anyway, I live in a pretty hot climate, so don’t dress heavily, so keeping something even IWB reliably concealed is a concern. So any insight into a comfortable, ‘easily’ concealed holster for a Sig 365?
Thanks!
(Where’s the preview button?)
Preview button is right there next to the edit button. Oh and fuck off Tulpa.
So, i’ve been looking at the Clinesmith thing, and it looks like, as we expected, Durham and Bar have picked him to be the fall guy and do nothing about the corruption in the DOJ/ FBI.
You are never getting anything better from Deputy Dawg. He’s a fucking Bush appointee. This was never serious.
Looking at storm #2…looks a lot stronger than today. Stay safe Gulf Glibs!
Past…make the jump to the next article!
A Toto washlet? Is that safe to Google?
“And your little dog, too.” ?