Most of the way through this week and it keeps getting crazier.
I guess Thom thought the players were dancing around.
The EPL has their fixture list for 20-21 ready to go. Theres some fun early stuff there. And I wouldn’t want to be ManUre at the start of the year…that’s a hell of a start as they inevitably chase the Europa League spots. Somebody is about to find out how far unemployment benefits go. Yikes. And some playoffs are going on, I think. Don’t know, don’t care. And that’s sports.
Sadly, it never quite happened.
Antarctica discoverer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen was born on this day. He shares it with naval hero (toOhioans) Oliver Hazard Perry, President (and Buckeye) Benjamin Harrison, writer H.P. Lovecraft, Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, boxing promoter Don King, libertarian-ish good guy Ron Paul, sociopath Slobodan Milosevic, musician Isaac Hayes, baseball players Fred Norman and Graig Nettles, rockers Robert Plant and Phil Lynott, tv man AL Roker, ass-covering attorney Sally Yates, pitcher Andy Benes, rocker “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, and actress Amy Adams.
Solid diverse list there. And now on to…the links!
The Dems have a fresh young face in Kansas. He’s gonna fit right in the political world.
Ted Kennedy’s outreach program for women’s swimming gets off to a rough start.
(This one is just a tweet) Ah yes…Teddy Kennedy, women’s rights champion!
The Spiderman gif of him pointing at himself would be appropriate here. But I wasn’t sure you guys would know it was an actual ink, so I wrote it out. Is Trump a narcissist? Sure. But this guy saying it might want to have a servant fetch him a mirror.
I can’t believe Biden is dumb enough to have let the DNC trot her out. Well, in his defense he doesn’t really know what the fuck is going on around him. But still, this is a non-starter with most swing voters right now. What’s next, a moody millionaire teenager with green hair moaning some “woe is me” garbage with the energy of a three-toed sloth taking the stage to tell hard-working blue collar people what to do?
There’s more cops there than the whole South Side!
Queen Beetlejuice has spoken! It’s good to be the queen, I guess. Because you will be protected while the rest of the city is left to burn.
I guess they’re not giving in to blackmail. Of course, they’ll be painted as the blackmailers now. But I applaud their insistence on not giving in to these scummy government fucks.
I guess this is the solution to the mass exodus of people: soak the ones who stay. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
Good. Now if they could just find one that says compulsory school is unconstitutional, we’d be all set.
Here’s a good song for you. Bonus for the cheesy video.
Anyway, go have a great day, friends!
Five minutes in and no comments? Who did I piss off?
You know what you did.
What a jablonie.
They even created a petition for him to stop doing it.
Don’t any of you people sleep?
I’m in a meeting where they expect me to contribute.
We were reading the links?
I’m on a reduced work schedule, just woke up.
I had a doctor’s appointment.
“Libertarian-ish”. Please explain how he gets the qualifier “ish”.
Because nobody but me is a true libertarian.
That’s the way it works, isn’t it?
I’m the true one tooth Scotsman.
I’m the “no tooth Scotsman”. Allo Sailor!
Pulleeeaze! You are kilting me with these wild claims
Stop it with the baaad puns.
*Mass narrowed gaze*
He actually effected change in peoples minds.
*golf clap*
To give a serious answer, he’s easily the most libertarian politician we’ve had in modern times and I probably undersold his credentials with that. If we had a dozen senators like him at the same time, our country would be in a much better place, both fiscally and freedom-wise.
No problem. I’ve spent a long time trying to understand left leaning libertarians and incorporate their good points into my own philosophy. Some of them just hate Ron Paul and so I get a little defensive when I see attacks on him.
No offense meant. And I’m pretty far from a left-libertarian.
Yes, you are pretty far from them. Me too. Trying to understand their perspective.
Left-libertarians want everybody to be free under a government with the authority to decide just how and when they are allowed to be free.
ITT, Straffinrun channels Mike Munger
“Before the seventh inning in Game 1 of Wednesday’s doubleheader against the Kansas City Royals, viewers heard Brennaman calling an unknown area ‘the f– capital of the world.’
Nobody has a sense of humour anymore.
He was paying them to
lay some trackplay baseball, I suppose.Should have got it out of the way in the pre-game. Hilarious when language way worse than that is common in high school, probably middle school.
Sounds like a public-service announcement for a certain segment of the population to me.
I knew there was a cabal of teh gays, ruling from a secret capital!
+1 George Brett
Worldwide conspiracy, REVEALED!
+1 Ruling the world from a bunker in Tibet since 208 B.C.
(Why am I up so early?)
Poor guy is getting fired for misquoting Blazing Saddles.
Raising the question “What is the fag capitol of the world?”
I mean, San Francisco is an obvious candidate, as is Vermont. But of the world? Assuming even distribution, the fag capitol of the world should logically be in China or India, assuming homosexuals are able and allowed to self-sort into (or create) areas of sexual affinity for safety and culture’s sake.
And unsettled is the definition of “fag capitol.” Is it a high number of homosexuals, a high ratio of homosexuality on a per resident basis, or an intensity of homosexuality, perhaps?
And how do you count homosexuals anyway? Are gold star gays a 1, bis a .5, a gay on the down-low a mere.3? Or do you go by the one-drop rule to rope in all “queered” experiences, like a furtive hand-job at camp or the devil’s threesome that somehow resulted in a dick in one’s mouth, or vice-versa in order to inflate numbers?
The complications bloom.
Not Key West?
That’s got to be up there, just for sheer intensity.
Per capita, Key West has to be in the running.
That’s the most important stat to me. And yes Key West is probably up their. Also do lesbians count as fags? I don’t generally associate that word with them. Also Rehoboth Deleware has to be up there per capita.
Gay Vacation Capital? Or Fire Island?
I dunno. Sounds like something you’ll need to work on for some further post. Maybe a “Gap Year”.
Bangcock.
Place with the highest smoking rate in the UK?
Wouldn’t the capitol be where they get their orders from in some government like laviathon? So I’d say either Hollywood or a queer studies class taught at an Ivy.
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Now that’s a damn name!
That Coleman kid is a Democrat natural I tell ya.
Lot of good stuff to choose from, Sloopy.
The kid from Kansas with the velcro shoes, Gif, or dreadlocks
https://lawandcrime.com/covid-19-pandemic/one-state-is-requiring-its-students-to-get-flu-vaccine-by-end-of-year-and-yes-its-legal/
Force kids to go to school, force the flu shot
Kid from Kansas can’t be any worse than his opponent or predecessors though
We already had this battle in NYC when Deblasio tried to round (((them))) up for measles shots. The legality must be in question because he backed down.
No, internet lawyers get to assert legality, because they are smaht and what they want must be legal.
Prediction:
The last people who believe religion gets any special protections/carveouts have already been born. It will be removed from the 1A before the end of my lifetime (barring injury or illness).
Not by the left it won’t – they’re too chickenshit to ever do something that would harm Muslims.
That’s a thing about Looney – the left should love how she hates on [some] religion, but the real issue the left has isn’t with minority religions, just the majority (in this country) one.
Speaking of New York… All the right moves:
New York Gov. Cuomo warns NYC restaurants may have to close again in the fall
Or is this just a pissing match between the city and the state?
Having your livelyhood be destroyed at the whim of an autocrat is the price we pay to live in a civilized society.
He needs everyone back inside so he can write his book.
So, “15 days to stop the spread” really means “shut down until Q2 2022?”
two weeks is what a year used to be.
“Most restaurants fail in the first
yeartwo weeks”, that what he means?No idea – Deblasio has been pretty silent on this issue (perhaps he slept in again) – but it’s pretty striking that Cuomo is violating the stupid “measures” that he set for the re-openings. By now it is pretty obvious that every restaurant will go out of business when it gets cold in a few weeks, no “may” about it.
Oddly enough, there does appear to be a tourist season here. I haven’t been able to get into my Sunday brunch place because I’m unwilling wait in an hour line.
When was the track supposed to open this year?
Morning y’all!
Watch “The Swamp” on HBO, it’s good.
As yall are aware, Thomas Massie is a badass and he really shines in The Swamp.
Our national media has started a race war but refuses to report it.
https://abc11.com/veronica-baker-lee-raleigh-nc-keyshara-michelle-deans/6377218/
What evidence is there that it was racially motivated?
What evidence is there that it isn’t?
If four whites killed a black kid for no particular reason, would the media be holding off judgement?
Logically unassailable.
When has that ever stopped a journalist?
So we’re no better than the media?
Sensationalizing a crime as some part of a “race war” when there’s no evidence it was racially motivated makes us no better than the creeps in the media who do the same thing.
You are correct, I’ll wait for more facts, but it certainly points in the racial direction at least superficially – the car wasn’t stolen, no robbery was reported, no indication apparently of sexual assault based on the story, that kind of eliminates quite a few motives other than racial animus. Of course if evidence points in that direction I expect the media to bury it.
Her parents seem to believe it was a robbery gone wrong.
I hope so, because I don’t relish the thought of facing myself in the Great Race War. I’m a scary dude.
What you did there. It was seen.
Who’s we? This is the same poster who said he wanted federal agents to go all Ruby Ridge on the Portland protesters/rioters. He and I may post comments on the same internet forum, but he’s no part of my “Don’t kill people, don’t advocate for the killing of people” group I’m in.
You can be in my clubhouse, if you want. I would say no girls allowed, but… you know. Libertarian…
Yeah? Some folk just need killin’ tho…
*spits into spittoon*
C’mon man, those are made up names, right? String some letters together and no apostrophes?
And another one.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/national-media-ignores-murder-white-teen-black-man-appears-never-interacted-victim-prior-killing/
Seems kind of stupid to start a race war with people who outnumber you 7 to 1, if that’s what’s happening.
On the other hand, the people both left and right that want a race war – stupid is right up their alley.
Yeah, but it’s not like the 7 have most of the money, political power, control of the major institutions. Oh wait. Hmm…..
It’s that kind of thinking that leads us to loose insurgencies by dirt-farming peasants again and again.
While such speculation is silly, I’ll play along. While that ratio might be true, another ratio is that at this point in history, interracial marriage is 1 out of every 5 and growing. This is marriage, by the way, not just relationships – living together for 20 something years, etc.. The incidence of interracial marriage is much higher in the armed forces than in the general population. Adding in other factors, only Day of the Rope mouthbreathers think that such a conflict would split neatly by skin complexion. Much less that the mouthbreathers would be in a strong position during said mythical conflict.
This makes me wonder whether some of the macro level strife is being pushed now because they well know that they’re going to lose their leverage in a generation or two. It’s really hard to convince mutts to hate other mutts for being mutts.
I wish the people would hurry up and intermarry to the extent that no one any longer knows what race anyone is. Then we can get rid of all this identity politics… oh wait, we’ll have thousands of constantly morphing acronyms to divide people up by more things than anyone can keep track of, everyone will just hate everyone else by default. We’re doomed as a species.
We’ll hate people based on what race they pick in online games.
Obama Bashes Trump; Goes High Like Michael.
By Rufus.
Barack ‘Barry’ Obama gave a hard but succinct lesson in projection in a full frontal attack of Donald J. Trump.
The end.
Still watching the Islanders. Since I’m not a true native (I’ve only lived in NYC for 22 years) it’s easy to transfer my loyalty from the Rangers.
Ranger fan rooting for the Iceholes? Fuckin’ dead to me, man.
When I was a little kid in elementary school on Long Island, I was a Ranger fan because my dad is a Ranger fan. This was in the midst of the ’80s Islanders dynasty. I was the only Ranger fan in that school. Some scars don’t heal.
When the opponent is the fucking Capitals, you’re goddamn right I’m rooting for the Islanders.
NEVER!!!!! And I can’t stand the Caps.
I might, MIGHT, pull for the Islanders against the Flyers. Maybe.
Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr0m5bWAgk0
My dad, being the true Ranger fan he is, was utterly and completely convinced that the Canucks were going to score off that last faceoff and win the game in OT. Not until there were zeroes on the clock did he allow himself to celebrate.
Me too. I was living in northwest Montana at the time and watched the game in the only sports bar in town. Surprisingly it was packed (most of the people up there were football/basketball fans) which means about 100 people? As far as I could tell there were a total of 2 Rangers fans in the bar. When it went to zeroes, I looked at the other fan, we toasted one another from a distance and kept our heads down.
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvhSCPL4hw
Oh heck, one more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1vnlW-NLmY
That game 6 against the Devils was the biggest roller coaster of emotion I’ve ever experienced, not just in sports either, Watching that game live, going down two goals to the Devils, with their stupid trap….I thought it was over. It was just another excruciating loss by a team we expected more from, and worse than ever because 1994 was supposed to finally be THE YEAR. From those depths to the sheer euphoria of the third period was amazing.
I was at that game as a devils fan. It was awful.
sorry not sorry
So crowd sourcing info from the glibs.
I am pondering purchasing a gas grill for my apartment. I found a reasonably cheap one but some friends advise against because the actual grill part is the thinner stainless steel typo, and they say I should get thicker a cast iron one. But cast iron ones are pricier. I assume they retain heat better though when you add stuff to it. Is a cast iron grill worth the extra $$?
Not an expert so can’t answer, but also consider the time and effort to clean each type.
The cast iron will way outlast the stainless type, but the rest of the grill will also wear out long before the cast iron grids.
The burners and supports will start to rot out about as fast as the stainless grids, unless you go really high end or are running it off natural gas vice LP.
Natural gas isn’t as hard on the components, because it burns cooler and is a little less corrosive.
You’re not using it in the apartment are you?
The cast iron are a necessity if you want to really sear food. If you just want to cook it, then no.
Crazy liquor and cheeseburger parties.
Are you even the trailer park supervisor anymore?
Friggen Barb suspended me.
Forget gas and get an old-fashioned charcoal grill.
And there are ones made of thin metal, but look for some that are thicker – cast iron or aluminum.
No. I want gas for the convenience, cooking for one mostly. I do not want the trouble of charcoal. Also charcoal you have to make a lot of it once, wasteful for one person.
Hibachi FTW!
Get a grill with a cast iron grate. Don’t debate it, don’t weigh other options. A cast iron grate is an absolute must.
cast iron grate is what I was trying to say
I thought you had a Weber. That’s what I’d recommend.
The Weber is at my moms place. And it is pricier than what I want to spend right now.
I was looking at on called Char-Broil Convective 210B
Yes. Cast iron is worth the money in my view.
High end grills here come with both options. Cast iron may be more prone to rust but holds heat and may make nicer grill marks. My gas grill has stainless and I have cast iron inserts for my charcoal grill… I use stainless or the cast iron on the charcoal depending on what I’m doing.
So probably cast iron it is… thanks
No, no, you want the magnesium grill tops for the best heat.
Wear eye protection.
This is the way. When only and explosive sear will do.
grr… an*
This question would be ideal for some thermal camera shots…i’m not feeling motivated enough.
Are Californians heads so far up their own doublethinking asses that they insist on calling tollways “freeways”?
They’ll pay for themselves, in tolls and in fines. They are investments. The price of civilization.
The California I was born and raised in prided itself on the roads being open for one and all.
But that was long ago, before the world was changed.
San Francisco may as well be a whole other country, it’s so different from my little chunk of California.
The fact that Obama (who is not quietly reserved, despite what CNN will tell you about the former president) cannot stop himself from interjecting, just shows that he is so self-abosrbed. I think he really thinks he’s the smartest guy, in the country, about anything.
He’s always the smartest man in the room. His Mom said so.
I’ve always thought Obama was one of the most religious presidents we’ve ever had. It is just that he sees his god when he looks in the mirror.
Which makes me wonder about all this stuff about the investigation into the fabricated Russia story he had a hand in.
A man running scared doesn’t keep his mug in public view. Unless he feels that a good defense is a good offence.
I hope Trump wins – he will – and finally dismantles Obamacare and whatever else left of Barry’s mediocre legacy.
Barrack has always struck me as being a classic Compensatory Narcissist.
It could not be otherwise. What California is doing will destroy them.
If the automakers and others hung together like that and said “no”, CA would have to cave. Sometimes I don’t understand the short term blinkers on businesses.
I think the automakers just want to protect the investments they’ve already made to accommodate California’s regulations. I can’t come up with any alternate explanation for why they would go against their own interests like that – sure, there’s “woke” but that seems insufficient to me.
“…protect the investments they’ve already made…”
Le sigh. I don’t suppose anyone’s explained to these imbeciles the concept of “sunk cost,” eh?
The same greed that drives them to give away their IP to do business in China. We can’t NOT be in that market! No matter the cost!!!
For all the good things a stock market does, is can also push companies into irrational behavior for short-term advantage that is a long-term determent to their business. When the time horizon of the average c-suite functionary is measured in months, the problem is multiplied.
No incentive to hang together if the pay-off is in 5 or 15 years when you are going to be selling your newly vested stock in 8 months.
That Brennamen thing. Is nobody allowed to be Grandpa no more? I remember a time when an announcer said thus – ” He’s at the Fifty, the Forty, the Thirty! Look at that Nigger go!”
*holds hand over heart, eyes welling with pride*
God bless America!
Seriously though, to this kid who was raised in the 90s, it’s quite surprising that the nigger word was and could be used so casually. I guess we were taught that it was only used to demean and insult blacks.
Same here and I’ve got 20 years on you.
The real fun starts when outsiders have to learn when it’s OK for certain people to say it with a different spelling.
+1 niggardly
“The real fun starts when outsiders have to learn when it’s OK for certain people to say it with a different spelling.”
I worked at a summer camp for many years. Had the middle school aged kids. Very affluent summer camp. Very much white. One kid was adopted from somewhere in Africa to white parents. So one week, we had a kid from the projects that was sponsored to come out to camp. He wasn’t any trouble or anything, he fit in really well with the group, everyone was getting along nice. They were playing basketball, and Adopted Kid sets a real nice pick, and Hood Kid just rolls to the basket free. Then, as you do, points at his teammate and yells across the court “Yeah nigga yeah nice pick.”
So that was a fun conversation.
It used to be. That’s why it was so shocking at the time. And funny. I’m not THAT old.
I remember going to my nephew’s high school graduation back in ’97 and a ton of family came in for it. I had an uncle who was casually racist and I vaguely remembered that from when I was a kid and stayed with my aunt and him for a bit. My nephews were just a couple years younger than me but they were mostly 90s kids too. Anyway, we’re all sitting around telling stories and my uncle is talking about one of his work buddies (his “friend” mind you) and just casually calls him the ‘n’ word. My nephews’ heads jerked up and their eyes were as big as saucers and they looked at me with their mouths open. I’m pretty sure it was the first time they’d actually heard someone besides a rapper drop the ‘n’ bomb.
Growing up in the ’40s in a genteel family, my mother always said”colored”, my dad, a working guy and Teamster, was not so polite. Us kids were very shy about using any racial distinctions. Still are.
Speaking of that… sounds like a local (to me) talk radio program ran into an issue with that:
WTAM Calls Kamala Harris the First “Colored” Vice Presidential Candidate
I don’t recall that. I remember Howard Cosell say “look at that monkey run”.
And he pretty much got fired for it.
Yep, and it was repeated on the sports news over and over. Howard and Mohammed Ali were good friends though, by all accounts.
Cosell actually used the term “little monkey” a few times. The first time was in 1972 about Mike Adamle, who was white. It was when he said it about Alvin Garrett in 1983 that got him canned from MNF.
+1 the black is a better ath-a-lete
I discovered a continent and all i got was this lousy flightless bird.
I see the libertarian cocktail party circuit is in the “all boycotts are cancel culture” camp.
I think there’s a bit of a difference between a person getting all employment options taken away over a bad thought from 15 years ago and a corporation announcing a shitty hypocritical policy and being told they will lose customers unless that changes
Maybe I’m wrong.
You’re not wrong, but you won’t make the sweet libertarian think tank bucks thinking like that. Which would you rather be?
They seem to think that since the Goodyear boycott is about political messages, it’s a virtue signal cancel culture thing.
No, I’m pretty sure it’s because one side of politics was allowed and another banned.
I definitely just got uninvited to the next party
*Furiously writes in Journal* I never wanted to go to their stupid party in the first place! *tucks Journal away and quietly weeps into pillow*
Festus revealed to be Leslie Gore.
cancel culture may be a bit fuzzy of a concept, but not that fuzzy.
it’s doxxing or publicizing a person in a way intended to capture the negative attention of their employer, sponsor, etc.
Cancel culture would be, rather than posting the slide and going to goodyear over it, would have been posting the name of the person who made the slide and asking that they get fired over it.
Though, one wonders if there will, in the end, be any difference in the outcome.
We don’t know their name. If they get fired for hurting the company they can still likely find similar employment.
“would have been posting the name of the person who made the slide and asking that they get fired over it.”
I mean, that’s honestly borderline cancel culture. That person would be criticized for something they did in a business capacity. They deliberately made a presentation with an explicit political bias threatening professional consequences for being a Republican.
I see the hallmarks of cancel culture is mainly based on
1. Social Media Archaeology: Digging up shit from years or now even decades ago. Calling something “gay” was considered mildly rude 10 years ago. If you tweeted in August 2009 that the concert you and your sorority sisters went to was “pretty fucking gay” and someone digs it up to get you fired in 2020, that’s cancel culture.
2. Hunting For Irrelevant Wrong Think: If the guy at the gas station doesn’t let you use the bathroom because its company policy, and you go digging for some other bullshit and find that 6 years ago he posted some anti-Obama meme, and you then decide “He’s a racist, he didn’t let me use the bathroom because I’m black.” that’s cancel culture.
I think people forget sometimes just how fast language is changing. Hell, even 2 years ago saying “All Lives Matter” was considered “ughh so ignorant” but now it’s actually considered to be a racist phrase worthy of termination.
I mean, that’s honestly borderline cancel culture. That person would be criticized for something they did in a business capacity. They deliberately made a presentation with an explicit political bias threatening professional consequences for being a Republican.
This is what I was mentioning the other day about cancel culture not being clear to me. Even if it wasn’t in a business capacity, I don’t think condemnation is necessarily warranted for terminating an employee whose values and culture weren’t aligned with the owners. Sometimes condemnation might be warranted and sometimes not.
If cancel culture is about a third-party doxxing someone with social media archaeology or hunting for wrong think, then that’s something entirely different and more understandable to me.
Cancel culture is the new Hollywood blacklist.
It pisses off a lot of the movie buffs when I argue this.
It’s not even new. “Known Conservative” has been a disqualifier for a lot of big producers since the 80’s
That’s because they aren’t opposed to witch hunts in general, they are only opposed to specifically hunting people they think of as in their tribe.
You’re not. As someone succinctly put it yesterday, one is by choice and one is not.
Although I have an ingrained dislike of such boycotts, what would those people suggest is the better alternative to pushing back against this kind of bullshit?
bending over?
The chick fil a boycott was dumb. How the CEO thinks on a topic doesn’t mean the company does anything different.
There’s some grey area in all this.
*polishes off last of CFA breakfast*
Wait what?
I think the bigger issue was that CFA burned a lot of the goodwill earlier when they stopped giving money to the Salvation Army (because leftists don’t like them) while donating money to some trans advocacy group. That pissed a lot of people off.
I don’t know what the correct strategy is. Conservatives have taken this shit lieing down for so long it’s pretty clear to me pushback of some kind is needed. The mainline libertarians seem to think you can autistically talk your way to leftest understanding reason and rationality. this isn’t the case for the vast majority of the left as their ideology is ultimately routed in appeals to emotion(as are conservatives but not nearly to the same degree or number imho). The fact of the matter is conservatives and “libertarians” vastly misunderstood and underestimated how effective this identity politics business works to enact political change and the influence the left actually has in this country. Maybe if they had pushed back harder sooner that wouldn’t have happened but I don’t think so. The reason corporations and universities push this toxic garbage is there isn’t any cost for them to alienate/discriminate conservatives/libertarians because their ideology doesn’t give a fuck about evangelizing or complaining about what other people believe to the same extent. This isn’t the case with the left there are real material pr costs(and it’s becoming clear possible litigious costs) for business’s to not outwardly engage in leftist racial ideals and politics. Also Libertarians are going to both sides till they are put against the wall because they ultimately view the left as part of their “class” intellectually and professionally.
If they stick their fingers in their ears and hum loud enough, they never have to confront the difference between “I will not purchase their product” and “I will harass third parties to the point where it is too expensive for this person to ever be employed again”
Sorry to go OT so soon,
For any Beretta 92 owning Glibs:
I ordered another set to grips from LOKgrips so that my M9-22 would have the same size/shape grip as my IDPA gun and I’d get more training benefit out of shooting it in Steel Challenge. The good people at LOK let me know that since they saved the CNC program from my original order, these would be considerably cheaper. So if you’re interested in grips in this design:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Gliberetta-scaled.jpg
They’ll run you $80 and change, depending on shipping.
I’m getting this next set in a different color so I’m not terribly embarrassed by bringing the wrong gun to the wrong sport.
Were you doing a tarot reading for your baretta?
For, no. With, yes.
I have a 92FS. I swapped the grips for pearl grips so I could look like a pimp in a Louisiana whorehouse.
I absolutely love that handgun.
How many 92FS owners do we have here? Seems to be making a run at 1911 as the official Glib gun.
A G model (de-cock only) is on my short list.
No metric weapon can be the official glib gun.
Does my 96 get me into your club?
Not mine, but I’d say yes based on similar appearance. Of course, that opens the door to a whole host of other Beretta models back to the M1934.
No version of the M-9 in my arsenal. I do own 8 flavors of 1911 though.
Two G models…M9, M9A3. My next is going to get the ‘monocle’ grip for sure….
Theres a lot of cross shopping between the two.
Nope, 1911 .45 ACP here. Never liked the ergonomics on the M9.
CZ 75 guy here. Wouldnt mind getting a m9 though.
You’ve got yourself some holster wear on that gun. Nice.
School starts on Monday and my district released their revised plan last night. They gave in to the teachers’ union halfway. In person kids will be divided into two groups based on last name, A-M going on Mondays and Thursdays, N-Z on Tuesdays and Fridays, with a virtual day for all on Wednesday. Online kids are also only doing three days a week based on last name. I’m kind of impressed that they were able to come up with a plan that would anger everybody but the kids.
We’re going back full time; full stop. We gave each other high fives. Micro-managing around the virus is just stupid hubris. Open up and see how it goes.
Some schools are opting for online classes twice a week but for the most part all systems go.
Not about the mask thing though. But at least they’re not imposing it in classes but only in the hallways – which is idiotic.
But all things considered and the fact there’s still hysteria around the virus, I’m happy – and I’m never happy.
Jealous. Is that just where you live or all of Quebec?
Pretty much every other district in my state (Arkansas) is back to in-person five days a week. I just happen to live in the most left-leaning district in a right leaning state. Kids will be all masks all the time too. And they’ve closed off the playground, as reported to me by my son and his best friend yesterday when they came back from riding bikes early. They normally ride up there everyday and hang out on the playground. No more of that! Can’t have kids playing outside!
All of the province.
I consider what they’re doing as child abuse. Preventing them from playing and wearing masks all day is pure pseudo-science and child abuse.
You can’t imagine how much that pisses me off. I want to throttle adults who support that kind of stupidity.
Ontario, on the other hand, foolishly has kids in masks all day.
it’s horrific. Imagine being a kid with ADD or some other form of anxiety. Or kids already annoyed being trapped in a class room.
Doug Ford is an asshole just for that. Fat pumpkin head dictator.
But parents need to speak up on behalf of their kids. Instead, they seem to have bought into the flawed and bad science behind masks.
Thankfully, soccer has started back for my son and the kids don’t wear masks for that. The coaches have to, although they’re hanging below the chin half the time. Some of the parents started out wearing masks while they were watching, but that has been abandoned now too.
But the playground thing is just ridiculous. In the past, my kids would get off school at 2:30 and I would expect them home some time around 5. We live down the street from the school so they’d hang out on the playground or the soccer field for hours with friends. I agree that it’s tantamount to child abuse.
And they’ve closed off the playground
UV is a terrible disinfectant and the virus persists longer in warm temperature.
/no not really
I don’t think adding tolls in the SF area is about soaking folks as much as it is about making it as painful as possible to drive.
“This package is likely to include all-lane tolling in select freeway corridors strictly as a planning assumption in order to help the final Plan Bay Area 2050 meet the 19 percent reduction in per-capita greenhouse gas emissions mandated by state law.”
So more of the “the plebes should be taking BART and not clogging up the roads!” garbage.
I wonder if at some point the rubes will wake up and realize the price is going up until they stay home, not some faceless other guy.
There was an interchange in San Jose that stood incomplete for several years sometime in the 70s because Jerry Brown wanted to make it inconvenient to drive.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/10/16/herhold-the-story-behind-joe-collas-famous-1976-highway-stunt/
He put aside post-presidential precedent to deliver an indictment of the man who succeeded him in the Oval Office, calling him lazy, dangerous, and corrupt, accusing him of abusing the military as props, of gassing peaceful protesters and of being willing to do anything for a second term.
*goes to get rag to clean coffee off computer*
So he’s still getting all his news from CNN.
Ha-Ha! Justine prorogued Parliament with the help of his lap-dog, Julie Payette who is also under scrutiny for her spending habits and prickly ways. He lost his Finance Minister to this scandal and sicced his over-worked little Sherpa on the herd. What say you, Rufus? We don’t matter out here but what are the people from his hometown thinking?
I saw a clip from his interview/deposition/hearing with the shadow minister of finance, and he’s not nearly as good at squirming out of a question as he thinks he is.
He’s a dolt. I mean that in the most gentle terms. He’s failed up for his entire life. It should have been him instead of his bother that was swept into a lake by an avalanche. I mean, how much more stupid could he be? Think Joe Kennedy jr. and John F.
Was it this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w98OEZQzhQ
He literally squirms.
He’s the poster child for losers everywhere. A low character buffoon.
As for Morneau, the Liberal party is filled with sleazy slime balls like this faux-woke, multi-millionaire limousine socialist. Morneau was such an insufferable and arrogant prick. These guys can’t even corrupt right.
As for proroguing, obviously this is to take the heat off the investigation into the WE charity. He’ll be found guilty of a third ethics violation but as you can tell, unless there’s a non-confidence vote to remove this cancer, the thing has no teeth and the RCMP (with a boss appointed by Poptart Lasagne) isn’t going to investigate. Nice little racket we have going in the Peaceful Kingdom. It’s pretty amazing people are willing to take a fall for this mid-wit. It’s bizarre.
Now we have Screech Monkey Freeland holding the purse. God help us all.
Remember when Harper prorogued and how the media and people reacted? I ‘member. Pepperidge Farms and Sara Lee remembers.
Speaking of non-confidence, meanwhile the Conservatives look like will name Peter MacKay as leader. Another wishy-washy conservative. Pass.
They’re like the GOP in their limpness.
Mister use Canadian Forces to go on vacation MacKay? Yeah, that guy can go huff a dick. He married up, though.
The most popular candidate on the right for the Cons is a Black woman. Ponder that on the tree of eh.
I was working in camps at the time so all we had back then was the CBC. Festus doesn’t forget. That Payette nonsense just puts the Dairy Queen cur-li-cue on top. She’s so insufferable that her own security detail hates her. “I’ve been to space! I’ve seen the World!”
Payette should have resigned too.
My wife was saying what good is all this if Trudeau is just going to smile and grin in our faces?
I explained to her, in a better time, this whole lot would have resigned by now. Once caught, the understanding was in Parliamentary ethics, you step down because you’re no longer ‘Honorable’.
Yet here we are. With a ship so rotten and scandalous. Never seen such a bad bunch concentrated in one party. And we haven’t mentioned the fact our immigration minister was born in Somalia and defence minister caught in a case of stolen valour.
Bernier is the only option for me.
Yep. Problem being is that the machine keeps churning along. Truth to tell I’d rather have Ed Broadbent running the show right now. Shake things down a bit. We’ve got a clown in place of a leader and every time he fucks up he pulls a George. “Was that wrong?” What the fuck is wrong with Eastern Canada?
20 August 1932 – Anthony Ainley
20 August 1943 – Sylvester McCoy
20 August 1962 – Sophie Aldred and James Marsters
Ace is 58? Good lord.
Gustave Lytton, recent pic of Sophie Aldred from social media
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/71/85/d8/7185d8a6e9f52853faec8084232f244f–sylvester-mccoy-top.jpg
Not bad at all. Much better that the plastic fembots with garish makeup ruling the entertainment world.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission stated in the correspondence, sent to to the directors of the Bay Area’s county transportation agencies (CTAs) earlier this month, that they envision an “eventual transition to congestion pricing on all freeway lanes in corridors with robust transit options.”
The letter also outlines a plan to “lower the speed limit to 55 mph on freeways to improve safety.”
According to the letter, the agency wants to eventually implement congestion pricing on all lanes of many, if not most, Bay Area freeways.
People think they’ll catch the plague if they ride public transportation, so they must be forced by any means. They’ll outlaw private cars ownership, eventually.
Lowering the speed limit will certainly create congestion.
It’s about revenue. All these Lockdown States have shot their treasuries full of holes. That’s why there are thousand dollar fines for mask wearing.
They are just trying to slow down the people fleeing from California.
How can you justify private vehicle ownership when there are people starving in the midst of a pandemic?
Minnesoda is getting back to normal? Gov Walz has ordered his Commerce Dept to challenge the pipeline project in northern Minnesoda.
Minnesoda has an old pipeline that is in serious need of replacement. The project to replace it has done environmental review after review and gotten approval from all the appropriate bodies. However the environmentalists keep blocking it in the courts. Now Walz’s administration is going to join the latest court challenge on the side of the anti-pipeline. Despite the fact that the commissioners he appointed to the Public Utilities Commission approved the project. Nice Profile in Leadership.
For me the most irritating thing is that the environmentalists are forcing the state to use a very old pipeline that is crumbling. They seem to think that if they block this pipeline no one will use the oil and it will just sit in the ground.
And who’s going to object? Nobody – until their gas bill has quadrupled.
You presume to think they will understand the correlation. They will not. Instead, they will argue that the cost of living increases justify some other means of grift.
If the old pipeline ruptures, they get exactly what they want: environmental disaster to keep advancing their agenda.
Just like the old days, when Sgt Maj Walz was ordering his troops in battle. What, he resigned, rather than go to a combat zone?
Well, this is the same thing, he ordered the Anti-Commerce Department to drop their handkerchief and make the pipeline company pick it up.
Now I wish I hadn’t said all those things about NoDak, maybe MikeS isn’t so bad after all.
Retired, not resigned.
Checked the Federal website this morning. They don’t ship ammo to NY. 🙁
I guess this is the solution to the mass exodus of people: soak the ones who stay. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
libertarian-ish good guy Ron Paul,
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2012/01/05/ron-paul-stop-subsidizing-highways-let-transit-flourish/
Ron Paul: Stop Subsidizing Highways, Let “Transits” Flourish
By Tanya Snyder
Jan 5, 2012
34 Comments
He said subsidized transit is wasteful, since it spends more than it makes, and that makes it morally “wrong.” But still, his point is an interesting one: Transit is subsidized, in part, because it has to compete with highly-subsidized roadways. If we didn’t subsidize those roads, they would cost more to use – Paul puts in a plug for tolling – and been on a more level playing field with other modes. Ryan Avent wrote something similar on this blog right around the time Rep. Paul made this video. http://usa.streetsblog.org/2009/09/17/a-few-words-on-user-fees/
Most of the writers at strongtowns.org are leftish pro-transit people. But the founder is more conservative/libertarian leaning type and one of his big issues is to stop subsidizing suburbs…roads specifically, but other stuff too.
Does he explain exactly how the subsidies to the suburbs are happening? Because I’d bet most of his examples require a twisted definition of “subsidy”.
He does actually.
https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-chat
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2012/1/2/the-cost-of-auto-orientation.html
I’ve seen those before. The word “subsidy” does not appear anywhere except in the guise of “GI Bill”. Which indeed may be a subsidy, but it does not apply exclusively to suburbs. Give the people below-market rate loans and let them decide where to spend it – the vast majority chose not to spend it in cities. Boo fuckity hoo for him that people don’t make the choices he wants them to make.
And he ignores the fact that part of the reason the “blighted” properties – in the style he personally prefers – are blighted in the first place is because the taxes on them are too high because the “improvement value” is made-up bullshit.
I’ll admit to being sympathetic to the idea of casting a critical eye at the unfettered growth he’s complaining about. Even so, I found the article pretty incomprehensible.
“Business density correlates with tax receipts” isn’t a very valuable or insightful conclusion.
I’ve never found anything at Strongtowns to make sense, use words the way the rest of the world does, or match my own observations.
No, it’s just plain wrong.
And the idea that any construction in any incorporated city or hamlet is “unfettered” is ridiculous.
The biggest cause of automobile usage is steel-belted radial tires. Before those became the de facto standard, women would seldom drive far because the frequency of a flat tire was often enough that women didn’t want to drive too far from home. Now flat tires are infrequent enough that most men under 40 don’t know how to change a tire.
No subsidy involved there, just excise taxes.
it’s sad because he should be confirming all of my biases. I have a revulsion against suburban sprawl, and find it soulless and lacking foresight.
Supply a semi-coherent point, and I’ll fill in the details. None was supplied.
Ron Paul isn’t entirely correct here.
I’m old enough to remember when expressways and mass transit (aka private not public buses and trains) coexisted. The problem was government price-fixing schemes placed on the private operators – it eventually bankrupted them. When public agencies took them over, they quickly learned that the price-fixing is what done it – but instead of realizing their error they merely made up the difference with taxation (gasoline and car registration fees).
So the idea that roadways are highly subsidized is wrong. In some cases roadways are subsidized, but in most others the users pay extra.
The problem with transit is the assumption that it’s only for the poor – which has become a self-fulfilling prophecy outside of places like NYC and SF – and because the users are poor it’s “not fair” that they should pay the full cost for it. There will never be solution to this issue while transit is seen as just another hand-out.
Price fixing schemes and property taxes. There were municipalities in New Jersey where the private railroads had to pay more in property taxes than they collected from passenger fares by those boarding at the station in said municipality.
There’s a difference in building toll roads and hiking taxes to build roads and then turning them into toll roads without lowering taxes.
I’d suspect Paul wants tolls (pay for service) to replace taxes (pay, period). California is managing to saddle their residents with both.
Expenses > revenue = shortfall. Pay for shortfall with taxes = subsidy.
I think that a smart person might be able to make the case that mass transit could reduce congestion (and therefore the need for more lanes being built and more maintenance costs) enough that financial incentives might make sense.
If enough people rode the bus from the suburbs, you wouldn’t need to build all those extra lanes and then pay to resurface them. Taking that money you wouldn’t spend on extra capacity on incentives for riding buses would make sense (up to a certain point).
The problem is how to structure the incentives. Ideally, tie it to person/miles and don’t have a govt run mass transit system. Let entrepreneurs figure out how to price and deliver mass transit.
Having mass transit run by local govts just ensures that it will suck for the customer and suck even worse for the tax payer.
‘Having mass transit run by local govts just ensures that it will suck for the customer and suck even worse for the tax payer.’
Without taxation, not ‘ensure’d.
Hahaha “smart person might be able to make the case that mass transit could reduce congestion” and light rail will be the panacea ’cause everyone will want to go the Mall of America and carry home an IKEA couch.
/homeless guy
The “light rail” scam is about getting white folks to come in from the suburbs while cutting services in the city that people were actually using. Similarly, the commuter (suburban) railroads around here get something like ten times the subsidies per rider as the NYC subway.
The problem with arguing this issue is that it’s about #47 on the list of Libertarian Priorities ™. Getting normies on board with privatized roadz? How about we start with something sort of resembling a balanced budget and a more modest foreign policy? How about we scale back unnecessary licensing requirements? How about we privatize a host of gov’t services on the path towards getting them off the gov’t book entirely?
White doctors killing black babies!
OK, the headline was “U Of M Research Finds Black Newborns Die Less When Cared For By Black Doctors”, but doesn’t that imply that those racist cracker docs are killing those black babies with their institutional racism?
i find this a bit hard to believe but ok.
Print out a copy of this study and bring it with you to the hospital. That way they will know you are sciencing when you demand a white doctor.
something something drop In a bucket compared to planned parenthood
Maybe parents are more likely to listen to a doctor that looks like them maybe? Either that or it’s a sloppy study and the stats are all screwed up which would be more my theory.
Yeah, I’m guessing it has to do with pre-natal care & patients more likely to seek it when the doctor “looks like them”. I.e., racism. And a study proving something other than what they think it does.
The guy who beat Scott Israel in the sheriff’s race? Not afraid to confront gunmen. At least not when he was 14, people do change post-puberty.
Land of milk and honey
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency this week to deploy resources to combat fires burning across the state exacerbated by the heat wave and high winds. He also demanded an investigation into the power outages.
“These blackouts, which occurred without warning or enough time for preparation, are unacceptable and unbefitting of the nation’s largest and most innovative state,” Newsom wrote in a letter to the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission.
Experts have warned that wildfires fueled by the climate crisis will be the new normal in California. Warm-season days in the state have increased by 2.5 degrees since the early 1970s, according to a study published last year in the journal Earth’s Future.
“The clearest link between California wildfire and anthropogenic climate change thus far has been via warming-driven increases in atmospheric aridity, which works to dry fuels and promote summer forest fire,” the report said. “It is well established that warming promotes wildfire throughout the western US, particularly in forested regions, by enhancing atmospheric moisture demand and reducing summer soil moisture as snowpack declines.”
Park Williams, the study’s lead author and a professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, said human-caused warming of the planet has caused the vapor pressure deficit to increase by 10% since the late 1800s, meaning that more evaporation is occurring. By 2060, he expects that effect to double.
“This is important because we have already seen a large change in California wildfire activity from the first 10%. Increasing the evaporation has exponential effects on wildfires, so the next 10% increase is likely to have even more potent effects,” he told CNN last year.
Global warming caused the plague, too, I’ll wager.
lol
We’ve innovated ourselves into unreliable power sources.
Could it also be radical enviromentalists took over the state and won’t allow for more reliable power sources or man made wildfire mitigation efforts combined with overcrowding?
My power company sent a notice that they’re increasing sensitivity in the cutouts in the plant during red flag warnings, knowing that it can increase outages. Thanks PG&E.
So california kind of sucks huh.
https://fee.org/articles/why-uber-and-lyft-are-about-to-shut-down-all-operations-in-california/?utm_source=zapier
If they’re so rampant maybe it’s time to drop the “unintended”. Otherwise, good explanation.
As soon as they pass AB6 “You can’t just stop doing business because you don’t like our laws” I’m sure everything will be awesome!
Lmao when you’ve gone so far left you are advocating for slavery and racial discrimination.
Sort of reminds me of when Maduro was going around in Venezuela telling the shops what they had to keep selling stuff they were running out of, at prices that would cause them to go under. Guess what happened?
Venezuela was once the wealthiest country in South American, with the highest standard of living. That was before Chavez starting helping people. Funny thing is, I can’t even detect any semblance of helping people in the things CA is doing.
Oops.
https://www.todayposts.com/ca/2018/03/08/ca-online-casino-ceo-fired-after-a-700000-mistake/
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This glitch has already lost them close to $700,000 in free spins and cash prizes and the loss is going to continue to increase until 21 August 2020 when their new customer agreement takes effect.
Michael McGee, an experienced casino player from Pretoria who was one of the first players to discover the loophole explains,
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The other day, I was at the bar, and a kid who couldn’t have been older than six or seven walked through, wearing a mask. Is that kid going to spend the rest of his life with his face covered up in the interest of pretend “public health”?
Yes
Yes. But the good news is he will die young because compromised immune system.
I’d say no, but I didn’t think this mask business would last this long. In all honesty the mask thing would have been beaten mostly by June if my state didn’t decide to mandate them. The bar I frequent is a real dive I’d never order food there but they could give a shit about the masks on their costumers.
In Arizona we apparently have an army of snitches who post pictures on social media of businesses who are not enforcing the mask and social distancing policies. The restaurants (bars are closed) are being pretty strict about the masks.
My bar also has an inside smoking patio and looks like a complete and utter shithole on the outside so those types wouldn’t venture to it anyway. Take note of the snitches and neighbors who are most vociferous in their support for the mask edicts because they would surely be the ones sending you to the concentration camps or gulags given the opportunity and be proud of it.
That’s pretty young to be in a bar. What was he drinking?
I mean he probably just stuck to light beer.
Don’t be silly, the kid wasn’t drinking. He was just there because bars have the best smoking patios.
Child. Abuse.
Bite your tongue!
When I was a kid, my dad would take me along “fishing” on days when it was blowing, cold or just miserable. Instead of actually fishing, we would go to a local road house where Dad would hang out with his buddies. Dad would give me a couple bucks of quarters and I could go play arcade games (or pool) with the other kids who had been dragged along. It was an awesome time.
Also learned the basics of being a guy. “Don’t tell Mom where we really were. That is a secret that men have to keep”
That was our routine in Winter as a kid growing up in Wisconsin too. What else you gonna do when it’s minus 20?
In DNC news that I’m sure you all saw live:
Three Ohio business owners tell Sherrod Brown they’re struggling under Donald Trump in DNC video
I wasn’t aware that Trump instituted any policies that hurt Ohio, I thought we left that up to DeWine and Acton.
They are hurt because Trump didn’t issue a nationwide shutdown. Which by the way would have been totally leagal. But if he had dared stop the states from doing it then it would not have been legal because of the 10th amendment.
I mean FFS, DeWine is a Republican (in affiliation at least), you could have blamed him and tied it to Trump to have a chance at swinging the state. The service workers and those closed due to DeWine would be a decent group to try to court to swing Ohio into the Biden camp.
Oh, TEAM BLUE would campaign on opening up?????
They don’t even need to. Just link the shutdowns to DeWine, and DeWine to Trump. Show pictures of shuttered businesses, and for lease/sale signs, with the sad voice over pointing out that DeWine closed family businesses in economically distressed regions, yet he allowed Trump to visit without a mask. Is this the leadership you want for the country?
–Paid for by the friends of Ohio workers
And the first question about opening to to TEAM BLUE blows that apart.
That’s assuming someone will ask that question. For all the bitching the Dems have done about how Trump is making everything worse, have they ever been asked what they would have done differently?
They’re struggled under TDS, yes.
Well, I mean everyone knows how business friendly the democrats are.
Our governor is really the indispensable man. Check out this proclamation! Take that Rona!
Think how pissed the Rona will be when it sees those flags flown at half mast in honor of its victims. And I guess flags will also be flown at half mast on the 19th of each month for the rest of the year.
Rest of the year? Indefinitely into the future.
As I said from the jump if this thing killed a million americans there would be whole swaths of the country who didn’t know a single person who died. We aren’t even going to sniff that so they have to make visual reminders constant that the black plague is still raging especially since the deaths are going to start dropping like a rock over the next two weeks when they run out of excess bodies to code.
The emergency powers will never end.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/08/20/mich-epidemiologists-court-fight-emergency-ends-vaccine/5609489002/
The doctors say emergency powers should last until a vaccine is available. Fuck that flattening the curve bullshit.
So possibly never?
No shit, Shirley
Federal Open Market Committee members expressed concern at their latest meeting over the future of the economy, saying that the coronavirus likely would continue to stunt growth and potentially pose dangers to the financial system.
At the July 28-29 session, the Federal Reserve’s policymaking arm voted to keep short-term interest rates anchored near zero, citing an economy that was falling short of its pre-pandemic levels.
Officials at the meeting “agreed that the ongoing public health crisis would weigh heavily on economic activity, employment, and inflation in the near term and was posing considerable risks to the economic outlook over the medium term,” the meeting summary said.
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Though Powell and other Fed officials repeatedly have said banks and related institutions are in generally strong shape, committee members at the meeting said they worried whether that might change if the virus spread persists and “more adverse” scenarios about the future take hold.
Officials also expressed worry about burgeoning levels of public debt.
The federal government is now $26.6 trillion in debt, gaining ,more than $3 trillion during the pandemic as Congress and the White House sped to get aid to those impacted by the economic shutdown. That has coincided with a rush to market of Treasurys and is raising concerns that the high level of issuance “could have implications for market functioning.”
Nothing about the true source of the “economic disruption”? No back channel requests to to stop strangling the goose which lays the golden eggs?
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again. The biggest threat that Donald Trump poses to our democracy is that his enemies hate him so much they will undermine every democratic institution we have to get one guy.
They don’t have limiting principles and never really have, it’s all about their ability to sell a perception of themselves to get elected, Trump is just the excuse to remove the mask. Be foolish to think it is ever going back on. This is healthy for our country to see exactly what type of people all of our ruling class actually is. Although I will concede TDS is a real paralyzing psychosis for a great many people it’s more of a manifested cheetoh tinged projection of their actual real life problems.
Trite, but true: They are not coming for him. They are coming for us….
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again. The biggest threat that Donald Trump poses to our democracy is that his enemies hate him so much they will undermine every democratic institution we have to get one guy.
Exactly.
He just provides the cover for the authoritarian fantasies they’ve always had. With their drift to the left, if it wasn’t Trump, who let’s face it is a ‘90s Clinton Democrat, it would have been somebody else.
I remember that at one point Mitt Romney was literally Hitler.
He was a rich, misogynistic, racist who had the decency to give a good concession speech.
Hey, a film adaptation of Agatha Christie I might actually watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij2ztHOOe9s
gal gadot is a smokeshow. Also the chick in the red dress is as well.
Emma Mackey
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8076281/
I’ve got a thing for Rose Leslie too.
I rather liked the murder on the Orient express with Kenneth Branagh.
I found the answer to the whodunnit in the original book unsatisfying, and so haven’t watched any of the adaptations.
I am sure all the makers of the various successful films/adaptations are now wincing.
Who cares about them?
A vasty number. And the same could be asked of your opinion…who cares about it?
Your appeal to popularity is noted. They’re not here.
And even if they were here, I’d still stick by the fact that the story is one of the weakest Christie ever wrote.
Appeal? I noted who cared about it. I asked the same of yours.
A large amount of money for studios (and their shareholders) and many satisfied viewers vs the grumping of one anonymous internet commenter.
It is an interesting compare and contrast.
You have strange interests.
And what grumping? I stated two facts.
The third fact that people keep getting duped by the churn of remakes seems rather irrelevent.
#metoo
But then, Kenneth Branaugh classes up damn near everything he’s in.
Really? I think he chews the scenery.
He certainly did in the Harry Potter movies he was in.
Which is why I qualified my statement.
That was very much in character, though.
Dr. Arliss Loveless : Mister West! How nice of you to join us tonight and add COLOR to these monochromatic proceedings!
Capt. James West : Well when a fella comes back from the dead, I find that an occasion to STAND UP and be counted!
Dr. Arliss Loveless : Miss East informs me that you were expectin’ to see General McGrath here. Well, I knew him years ago, but I haven’t seen him in a COON’s age!
Capt. James West : Well, I can see where it’d be difficult for a man of your stature to keep in touch with even HALF the people you know.
Dr. Arliss Loveless : Well, perhaps the lovely Miss East will keep you from bein’ a SLAVE to your disappointment!
Capt. James West : Well, you know beautiful women; they encourage you one minute, and CUT THE LEGS OUT from under you the next!
I read a review of a movie Pacino was in, The reviewer noted that Pacino had been accused of over acting many times. But he had never been accused of bad acting.
Branaugh is like that too.
After the critical success of Knives Out we going to be inundated with these for a while.
Knives Out sucked.
I mean I wouldn’t say suck, but yeah it did not deserve half the praise it was lavished with.
I mostly liked Knives Out. The story/mystery was pretty good and fun. The TDS was irritating.
The characters and how they were played was artistically good – not exactly archetypes but exaggerations that made them a lot better.
The scenery was the best part.
The worst part was Daniel Craig’s accent.
I don’t know who told him he could do a southern accent, but he keeps taking those roles. Now I thoroughly enjoyed Logan Lucky.
Yes and no. As somebody who’s not far from that accent in real life, I still count the over-the-top absurdity of it as a positive for the movie. It’s a “not taking itself so seriously” note, like the gags in old 007 movies.
^+1
Fine with me. They’re a nice break from the endless stream of superhero movies.
And a remake, no less. I love the campy 70s/80s Christie movies.
I do too. Grew up on those. And Margaret Rutherford ones too.
I like Death on the Nile, so I’ll probably try to watch it. I just despise it when movies cut out characters in books, and it looks like they’re gonna do it here.
Members indicated that “providing greater clarity regarding the likely path of the target range for the federal funds rate would be appropriate at some point.”
The form that might take would be “outcome based,” or geared toward achieving specific goals before rates would move. The Fed’s mandate now is for “full employment and price stability,” but outcome-based forward guidance would add specific targets on the unemployment rate and inflation.
I hate to break it to you, but there are some serious obstacles in your path to “full employment”.
Maybe he said England was the f** capital of the world?
But figs don’t grow that well in the English climate.
Neither does tobacco.
The English do like their cigarettes.
No risk is too small to be taken
No New York City public school should open for in-person learning unless it meets a bevy of safety criteria, including requiring “every single person, adult and child” who enters one of the nearly 1,800 facilities to be tested for Covid or the antibodies, the president of the city’s teachers’ union said Wednesday.
Mike Mulgrew, the head of the United Federation of Teachers, released a school safety checklist Wednesday outlining clear standards it says are needed. He says no school should open unless it meets all the criteria in that report.
“It is our judgment at this point that if you open schools September 10, it will be one of the biggest debacles in history,” Mulgrew tweeted. “If we feel that a school is not safe, we are prepared to go to court and take action. If a court determines we are breaking the Taylor Law, so be it.”
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“Working with medical experts, we have created a set of health and safety standards we will apply to every building,” Mulgrew said Wednesday. “Any school that fails to meet these guidelines should be off-limits to children, parents and teachers until the problems are corrected.”
I think a lot of people really are so stupid and gullible they have completely bought into the egregiously overhyped deadliness of the plague.
At some point, the various “experts” are going to try to sound the all clear, and people won’t respond. It’s easier to start a panic than it is to stop one.
A perfect display of the kind of intelligence output one can expect from public schools. They are literally more anti-science than Catholic schools.
Meanwhile, 95% of Catholic schools are going to be fully open for all students. I guess we’ll have a control, right Mike? And you won’t be hoping for piles of dead Catholics… right?
It’s not schools but the “Sign of Peace” that was the original spreader of disease.
I’m sure the teacher’s union is planning Antifa flash mobs to gather around Catholic schools should parents and students become satisfied with them.
Are they really going to open? Ours do what the bishop says, and the bishop says do as the governor says, so Stay Home.
The plan was released yesterday and it was all over the local media. We’ll see.
What would it take for lefties to actually start questioning teacher unions
Some district in Virginia is charging parents extra – on top of taxes – to send their kids to school. I would think that might do it but who knows.
That’s not going to be a widely advertised story. Just like it’s not going to be widely advertised that about the school districts and private schools that are doing in person.
The only thing I could think of was “compulsory education through age 42.” But even that might not be enough.
I know of two who are brave enough to do it openly, and they’re getting all the hate and pushback from friends and teachers you would expect. I suspect many, many more are at least silently questioning them.
Teacher unions will have to stop being useful. I think we’re in the middle of that for police unions. Some of them are endorsing Trump, as a response to the “defund police” movement and the orders to stand down and allow people to riot. Dems tend to take their groups of supporters for granted, but everyone has their limit.
Defund the Schools!
Also, consider that in many localities, such as New York City and State, the teachers union is the single-most powerful entity there is – they donate by far the most money (our tax dollars) to the Democratic Party. That’s part of the machine politics they have perfected over the decades. Any pushback against that is going to be extremely difficult.
this.
“every single person, adult and child” who enters one of the nearly 1,800 facilities to be tested for Covid ”
Imagine if Trump said this would apply to people who want to vote on Nov. 3rd in person…and that, out of an abundance of scientific caution, he wasn’t going to allow postal workers to become sick and die because they handled some ChiComVirus carrier’s mail in ballot.
I don’t think the amount of anger about the public schools not opening has been fully cataloged. Literally the only people I see online who are okay with this are teachers. Every single person I talk to who has children is incredibly irritated by this bullshit.
I’m only angry that I’m still paying property taxes for those parasites. I want a full refund.
I think even the dem’s know it’s a dumb idea though, see DNC speech Kamala Harris gave-
“Donald Trump’s failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods. If you’re a parent struggling with your child’s remote learning, or you’re a teacher struggling on the other side of that screen, you know that what we’re doing right now isn’t working.”
Now they are blaming Trump but they know nobody like’s it and are making it clear it will go back to normal when orange man exits stage left.
are making it clear it will go back to normal when orange man exits stage left
Promising. Just like being able to keep your health plan and doctor. Even if Biden wins, it won’t. It will be the same as it is now.
The school board and administrator lobby here is trying to kill an attempt to raise the cap on the number of students in unaffiliated online charter schools. They want their precious tax cattle under their thumb.
Gah. I’m out til tomorrow. I’ve had enough bitter vetch for one morning. Good God why do they keep sniffing the Obama’s fingers as if they are going to drop them a treat?
They like the smell of his fingers after he grabs them by the pussy? Why yes I am going to hell.
Serious journalism, for serious people
Jake Tapper asked former GOP Rep. Charlie Dent (Pa.) on Wednesday whether he thinks Republicans are “now the party of deranged bigots,” after Dent announced his endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden’s (D) presidential bid.
They should be rounded up and put in camps where they can be taught the error of their ways.
Steve Bannon arrested and charged with fraud:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/steve-bannon-arrested-and-charged-fraud-federal-prosecutors-new-york
Zerohedge still around? How are things there?
Batshit insane but interesting
Was about to post. So. Politics or legit?
Sounds like both
They’ve got Trump now! (oh, he wasn’t involved in any way? Fuck that, it was all him!)
It seems one should never get involved in politics if you value not spending time in court.
My favorite actor in Knives Out was the BMW.
I don’t know the Cuban chick is hot.
Mine was the house (inside and out). And yeah I know it was a mix of exteriors from one site, some interiors from another, and sets. But I really like that style.
I caught their pro-open borders message in the movie.
I see everything.
Go left
Embarrassed in 2016, the Democratic National Committee is trying once more to defeat Donald Trump and is proving, at least so far, it has learned nothing from its catastrophic failure.
On Tuesday night, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, perhaps the most famous first-term congresswoman in American history and a leader of the progressive movement, spoke for just over 90 seconds to a national audience. Former president Bill Clinton was allotted almost the same amount of time. Mike Bloomberg, the former Republican mayor of New York City and a failed Democratic presidential candidate will speak more than Ocasio-Cortez this week.
Speaking slots are not the stuff that drive national campaigns. But the priorities of Democratic elites are clear: they wish the Democratic party will not transform into the party of Ocasio-Cortez, where unapologetic calls for universal healthcare, a real plan to combat climate change, and a federal jobs guarantee are all assumed, without question, to belong to a party platform. Consigning Ocasio-Cortez, the biggest young star the Democrats have, to a mere minute of airtime is further evidence that those who control the Democratic party hope to marginalize the leftists who seek radical and necessary change.
By all means, pander to the most vocal and radical elements of the party. Forget about the people who actually work for a living.
“…spoke for just over 90 seconds…”
“Consigning Ocasio-Cortez… to a mere minute of airtime…”
The British have a different measurement for minutes too? So if I fly through LaGuardia to get to London, I have to switch from the minute the rest of the world uses to the New York minute and then to the British minute?
How many “likes” was she able to squeeze into 90 seconds?
Some district in Virginia is charging parents extra – on top of taxes – to send their kids to school. I would think that might do it but who knows.
Is that so they can award he teachers “hazardous duty” bonuses?
https://wtop.com/local/2020/08/md-va-counties-will-offer-child-care-programs-in-school-buildings-during-remote-learning/
Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., children in kindergarten through sixth grade can attend a new Fairfax County initiative aimed at helping parents as children return to school virtually.
The county has announced that the Supporting Return to School Program will run in 37 Fairfax County Public Schools, offering classrooms with groups of no more than 10 children who will stay together each day with staff on hand to support their online learning programs.
So they’re literally running a daycare with remote learning from a teacher three doors down the hall… and charging extra money for it.
The gullibility of the American public is appalling.
Typical government financial thinking: where I work, students pay more for online tuition than for on campus (although their student activity fee is waived).
Fuckin’ public school drones sure don’t lack of nerve, I’ll say that much:
Parents of students who attend Rutherford County Schools (RCS) must agree not to monitor their child’s online classroom sessions.
Officials at all county schools are asking parents to sign forms agreeing not to watch these virtual classes.
I honestly can’t imagine not laughing my ass off at that request for weeks and making a point of sitting in frame for every class session.
Dad sits down next to high school kid:
“Who’s that girl talking? She’s hot. Ya oughta ask her out. At least bring her by the house sometime.”
“Dad!”
“Now see, this one looks good now, but you can tell she’s gonna be a cow in ten years. Steer clear.”
“Dad, I’m not on mute!”
“Mute? Which one? If she’s hot put a ring on it, a mute wife would be the bomb”
“I have a vested interest in what is being taught in these classes, and will monitor all of them.”
Next up: Signing consent forms allowing your child to be diddled and raped by school personnel.
Does that count towards extracurriculars to put on a college application?
You have no right to judge me! Now leave so I can ask your kid to take off their shirt!
Wow. Straight out of the fucking playbook.
Being asked would be enough for me to refuse to send my kids to school.
Good thing you don’t have to send them, in soviet
russiaTrumprapistan school cums to you!I think we have our answer to pie’s question above.
So… to make things more interesting, Tennessee is a one-party recording state. Meaning that anyone can record phone calls, conferences, etc… as long as one of the parties involved is aware and consents to the recording.
I know what I’d be doing.
THEY BELONG TO US.
This seems like the kind of request that would be made by a child molester.
IIRC our district allows parents to come and sit in the classroom if they want. But also at our district, it’s common for a substitute teacher to be one of the kids’s parents. My wife was a sub at our kids’ school for a while and actually taught one of my kids. So the parents already have a pretty good idea of what’s going on in school.
Exactly. I have never met a teacher that didn’t welcome that because, well, you are a parent that actually cares.
Yeah, my kids are out on my makeshift WFH desk (aka the dinner table) and I sure as hell will see what they are doing. You all can fuck off if my school district tried that.
Some blokes moit call vaginia the fag capitol o de woold.
Parents of students who attend Rutherford County Schools (RCS) must agree not to monitor their child’s online classroom sessions.
“What exactly is it that you do, here?”
The Bob’s
I like to follow some of the reasonable voices on the left, to get an idea where their head is at. Not the propogandists on CNN etc. but the Jimmy Dores and even the Krystal Balls of the media who i feel to be honest, even if i disagree with them.
They are getting really pissed that the DNC has snubbed them and let Kasich call out AOC as just a fringe member of the party. And i understand where they are upset, but i also think that they need to have a reality check, and Kasich is telling them that If the Dems continue to let Cortez et al. be the face of the party, they will not succeed in bringing moderates into the party. He’s essentially saying “Put your fucking mask back on!”.
Jimmy Dore was on Tucker last night, sounding very reasonable for a dude I’d never heard of.
He’s a true leftist, so he doesn’t buy into the identity politics crap, is actually Anti-war…
You know, better that a large swath of the Libertarian Party.
*sigh*
The honest leftists of the current generation don’t seem to actually understand that the Democratic Party has successfully moved the country more and more socialist precisely because they always lie about it. FDR ran as a budget balancing fiscal conservative. Once he got into power, then he unleashed his socialist schemes. LBJ never even ran for President before he unleashed the Great Society. Obama never ran on Obamacare. Obama ran on getting the economy moving again.
The old school Democrats are trying to get them to shut up because they understand that in election year, you run as moderate fiscally conservative Democrat centrists who have no problem with guns or religion, then once you get in power you govern to the left.
Obama: ‘John McCain wants to take a hatchet to the budget, I want to take a scalpel.’ LOL
It belongs in a shredder.
Spend nothing for the next five years.
I agree, as long as you keep your hands off MY Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, invade a few more countries…
Nope.
*chucks it all in shredder*
And restore 100% of my SALT deduction!
Glibertarians commenter finds missing hikers
I have found them. They are Dead.
That guy definitely has a Ron Paul tattoo.
Drew Hernandez posted his video of the beating in Portland. I haven’t watched the full thing to see if there are missing edits or other trickery and I’m not sure I want to. A few moments and I want to see those vermin exterminated.
https://youtu.be/JCKcYSQAP6U
Rats. But peaceful rats, right?
Bored children. This isn’t even sport rioting, this is “we’re so fucking bored”.
What a bunch of scumbag lowlifes. Would not shed one tear to see the whole bunch of them get ventilated.
This is what happens if you use armed force in a hostile jurisdiction
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/08/portland-police-arrest-pro-police-protester-they-believe-fired-live-rounds-at-saturday-protest.html
Not going to call it justifiable at this point, but note how quickly he was arrested while antifa criminals rage free through the streets committing similar acts.
Everybody knows that only guns can cause physical injury.
Wait, if that’s the incident I’m thinking of, there was no reason for those shots.
Like I said, disparate enforcement of laws depending on who the perpetrator is.
I have finally watched the whole Jordon Doc ‘The Last Dance’. Makes me miss 90s NBA, also, kept thinking of this song.
If only comrade Stalin knew!
https://twitter.com/jjusserokiro7/status/1296271397690384384?s=21
https://twitter.com/ericjensentv/status/1296280110127972353?s=21
Wake the fuck up. This is what you’ve carrying water for.
TV news camera men aren’t (in most of the country) unionized. It’s a technical skill, probably more diverse in thought than most other sectors in media.
Watching overweight young slobs beam with pride because they flipped the bird to a TV reporter gives me such incredible hope for the future.
I am not a gun guy but this looks silly
Chichester “Pocket Shotgun” Revolver
Forgotten Weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPV4Na5j1N4
Adventures of bacon making.
I did two batches, both hot smoked and at different temps.
First batch I used Prague Powder #1 and some other spices and brown suger. Smoked it at 215 deg until internal temp hit 170.
Bacon was good but with a hot smoke you do sacrafice crispiness when you fry it up. Was a bit salty but overall good flavor.
Second batch was no curing salt and was a wet cure of brown sugar, apple juice, spices. Smoked that one at 170 until internal temp was 155. Looks much more like bacon and has a better texture.
I now have 15lbs of bacon to eat.
There are worse problems to have.
Agreed. Plus some of the ends when I trimmed it to look square are now some lardons for other recipes
What are you going to eat tomorrow?
If you have a souse vide, cook it overnight and fry it in the morning.
If you don’t, cook it in the oven at 300 degrees for a very long time.
I do not, but I will go slow and low as you suggested to see how it comes out.
Oven bacon is very good. All the delicious pig strips, with extra crispness and less sog.
Oven bacon is the best and you don’t even need to do it too low nor too slow It gets crispy in most places but is also melty. That’s the way I cook my bacon. I have an electric smoker and will try out bacon in it sometime soon.
Adventures of bacon making. – if you did not raise the pigs yourself it does not count. Also the grain that fed the pigs. In a pen you build yourself. From trees you chopped down yourself. etc
Yes, he isn’t a true individualist unless he checks all of out arbitrary boxes! Also, if he did all that, it’s STILL interstate commerce, and I bet he failed to pay proper taxes!
“To make a pie from scratch you must first create the universe.” — Carl Sagan
SHOULDA REFRESHED damn it, you win
Hey I thought that pork belly was produced in the butcher shop!
In order to make bacon, you must first invent the universe.
I did not see apple wood (apple juice yes, but not the same) mentioned. *stamps [FAIL]*
I failed to state the wood. Apple/Hickory for first. Apple with a hit of mesquite at the end for the second.
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1296461201036259328
If this was a satirical novel, now is when I would toss it in the trash.
Huzzah!
What kind of Rushun Tricknology does Putin have that he can create polyps!?!?! This is an attack on our DEMocracy!!!!111!!1111!
Create? No
they dispatch them
Polyp, or callus from overuse?
Just for CPRM…
‘Crazy Samurai Musashi’: One-cut carnage is bloody exhausting
Seems to be a one trick pony, however.
Appreciated, as I both love and loathe long takes, given their narrative usage and value added to story telling.
They did something similar with the film adaptation of “Blade of the Immortal ” a couple years ago – i reviewed on YouTube. Started interesting but got tedious pretty fast and that was dir by Takashi Miike.
Is it this good?