I am not at liberty to say how, or from whom I received this. You will have to read to see why you won’t hear about this in the news.
DTG: 18 2000Z SEP 20
Classification: SECRET/NOFORN
Subject: Post Flight AAR
…. Flight dispatched to insert civilian state agency firefighters. Despite heavy obscuring smoke, the flight was able to land and safely insert the crew.
All is well…
…later distress call from firefighters and several civilians rescued by them. It was determined that 2 x CH47 would be dispatched to EXFIL civilian evacuees and firefighters. NVGs and FLIR would be needed, and civilian agency assets were not equipped with these. Flight was…
… Crew of lead CH 47 found landing area sufficient for both craft. Once landed, civilian personnel ran to each craft, before ramps could drop. Radio calls were frantic and referred to a ***********….
… Remarks from lead pilot, CPT William Osterman overheard on FAA Guard channel are attached in Appendix 1. Please note repeated references – “What the Hell is that?” “We have to get out now!” and “Ahhhhh! It’s raping the front of the….”
SEE ATTACHED DAMAGE PHOTOS – Appendix 2
Attachment 1
…Interviews with rescued civilians were of little help. Shock is suspected, by Medical Officer COL Wilson. Possible hallucination effects of dehydration and smoke inhalation. What little was recounted…
…”STEVE SMITH SAY LEAVE FOREST. IT ON FIRE! RUN AWAY HOOMANS!” No “Steve Smith” was accounted for amongst the civilian evacuees or firefighters…
…”YOU NO GO FAST ENOUGH. STEVE SMITH ENCOURAGE HELICOPTER. BY ENCOURAGE, MEAN…”
…Composite sketch artist from INTEL Section interviewed civilian evacuees and produced the attached…
Attachment 1 to Appendix 2
…”If that thing hadn’t chased us off, we would have burned to death – that fire jumped over on to us so fast”…. “Scared the [expletive] out of me, but I ran so fast I made the helicopter. I guess it saved us…”
…Firefighters were reticent to discuss with military personnel, preferring to discuss amongst themselves. The term “Steve Smith” was overheard a few times, but in an unknown context…
SECRET/NOFORN
END
STEVE SMITH, HERO OF CASCADIA FIRES.
Is that a picture of the Swiss Army airdropping tasty wheels of cheese? Because that would be awesome.
Oh. STEVE SMITH saved some firefighters. That’s cool, STEVE. You da man.
In my defense, I might or might not be obsessing about this style of cheese:
http://www.savorlabottega.com/artigiano-aged-balsamic-cipolline-onion
The brand I am eating has been imported from Italy. I’d say what it is so the Great American STEVE SMITH could enjoy it as well after his excessive labors… … but I seem to have lost the stupid wrapper.
+1 nom
Hold on to your butts…it’s about to get bumpy.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the enigmatic, longtime Supreme Court justice who attained near cult-like status among progressive circles, died Friday at the age of 87 from complications surrounding metastatic pancreas cancer.
The wife has been channel flipping. The name “Merit Garland” has been mentioned at least 20 times in the last 10 minutes.
“Risky”
“Extreme”
“Dangerous”
“Cynical”
They have not had time to settle on a narrative, but they switched from “She was the greatest woman of all time” to “Trump and republicans are totally evil” in less than an hour.
The name “Merit Garland” has been mentioned at least 20 times
And it is totally irrelevant. Different circumstances when your party does not hold the requisite chamber of the legislative branch. Trump should wait a week and then nominate someone. If Team Red has any stones (they don’t, but…) They will hold hearings and confirm. The current government is the current government and an election should not disturb its function.
Sane outlook…but we are not in a sane time
Sane would also quite the pretense of allowing the Dems to slander nominees like they did with Kavanaugh.
Notice how the Republicans slandered Sotamayor? Notice how the Republicans went full “politics of personal destruction” on Kagan?
Yeah….
Every republican nominee gets personally attacked as some form of demon. And the republicans in the senate countenance it. They should not do that.
They need to go and get Collins on board with a nominee and then push it through after the election, ignoring any objections from anyone else about anything. They should simply vote down any witnesses like Ford. No more character assasination.
ABC already on to nomination…. “A Trump nominee being confirmed definitely means Roe VS Wade will be overturned in the next year.”
Shocked face!
Once upon a time, only fundamentalist Christian fanatics used abortion as their litmus test for Supreme Court nominees.
Heh…
You have to be a certain age to remember that… every 3rd word was “litmus test”. There should never be a litmus test, you know.. . that would be bad. And if they are qualified, you should vote for them.
In cases where it is not a Republican nominee, that has been the practice.. And prior to Bork, that was the general rule.. nominees would be approved by wide bipartisan margins.
Not any more. It is a strict party line vote for Team D. Sotamayor wasn’t great… Kagan absolutely disqualified herself during her hearing – basically swearing to be a completely political animal. But nobody delved into her personal life. And they were easily confirmed.
Putting off Garland was a pure political move – one that any politician would have done under the same circumstances.
I cannot imagine the difference between a Roberts court with a strong constructionist nominee vs with a Harris approved nominee. The differences on 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th and 10th amendment law alone would be night and day.
The problem I have is that I do not see a textualist as an existential threat the way the left does. But I do see the politics-first leftist judges as an existential threat, because they do not believe in the “government as rule of law, not rule of man” principle. I do not like living in a nation where “what the law says” is open to reinterpretation on a daily basis, depending on how they feel about the politics of the case.
I much prefer a judge who says “nope… you can’t do that. If you want to do that, you’ll have to amend the constitution”. The law should be the law. All this nonsense about how the government can break the law as long as you apply the correct test – strict scrutiny vs rational basis, etc.- is just plain awful. If you have to “scrutinize” why they can do something the law does not allow, maybe you should just stick with “if you want to do that, you have to change the law”.
The problem I have is that I do not see a textualist as an existential threat the way the left does. But I do see the politics-first leftist judges as an existential threat, because they do not believe in the “government as rule of law, not rule of man” principle.
A founding charter that ostensibly limits government power is an impediment to them.
you’ll have to amend the constitution
Dred Scott, worst decision evah!
The cute, overly enthusiastic Jeopardy contestant on Wednesday lost her litmus test.
There’s zero chance Trump can appoint someone before the election of course, then we get down to the whole lame duck thing if he doesn’t win. If he wins, I’m putting in a million orders for new tear barrel and totally accepting that some orphans may be worked to death. It is what it is.
You can’t maintain or gain freedom by playing nice. You have to play the game that is being played against you and you have to play to win. This will be a test for both Trump and the rest of Team Red. Win or lose the upcoming election a nomination has to be made* and confirmed before the new government is sworn in. Let Team Blue try to impeach whatever justice Team Red confirms.
I’ve had it with these leftist assholes. They need to be destroyed at their own game**. There is zero chance that they would take the “high road” if the circumstances were reversed.
*I kinda hate that this is the first consideration I have to make upon such an event. But I have seen the measure of leftist resolve and it has come that.
**Working within the political system, of course.
McConnell has surprised me with Garland nomination and his playing hardball (I think Obamacare would be gone if not for McCain) but with Collins, Murkowski and Romney out there … ?????
“I think Obamacare would be gone if not for McCain”
Agreed.
Sure, I mean the Republicans couldn’t even get funding for Planned Parenthood cut when they had both houses of Congress and tapes of some PP exec talking about selling baby parts, but staunch conservative Justice Roberts will totally allow RvW to be overturned.
Right. And at that point it would go back to the states. Given the status of DC it’s not like Congress is going to pass any new laws.
I would like to think that Republicans have grudgingly accepted that legalized abortion is here to stay. (I just don’t want tax dollars to pay for it.)
If the Social Conservatives/puritans try to ban abortion, they will throw away any gains they’ve made in the moderate center on all other issues.
Which of course won’t be a ban because it will still be legal in all the usual suspects but who cares we all know it’s the only issue the left cares about so let’s talk about that for the next 43 days.
they will throw away any gains they’ve made in the moderate center on all other issues.
more than a few of them would gladly take that trade.
“Hold on to your butts…it’s about to get bumpy.”
They make medication for that.
As the kids say, things are gonna be lighted up.
The dems killed her to make sure their true bleevers go even more apeshit before the election.
*invests in tin foil futures*
Can just just imagine their state of hysteria at the moment? First of off they have any more woes if Trump wins. Even if he looses, then they have to go more insane than ever if he tried to appoint as a lame duck.
^^^^^THIS^^^^^
You better believe they will make big shit out of this…..
They’re shitting their pants right at this moment. It’s the most massive pant shitting since the 2016 election. It’s gonna get real stinky round here.
I already have heard people go apeshit that Trump is gonna sneak in another conservative into the court before the election fucking all their plans up… As if the Senate will not have to have its say in this whole kerfuffle and the left will not go apeshit to prevent a replacement.
What it does do is destroy their plans to have the Supreme Court help the donkeys steal the coming elections. They will grasp for something, anything really, and this will make their desperation even worse. Hang onto your seat people…
It was 1 vote for Kavanaugh. R and D swapped Collins for what’s his face in West Virginia.
Team D only needs to peel of enough to delay it until March. (assuming trump loss)
There’s also the other scenario… trump wins but loses the senate. Then they really have to fight to get a nominee through, or it might be 2025 before a nominee is confirmed.
According to all the polls, the dems have a 100% chance of winning both the presidency and the Senate. They also claim that SC, IN, GA, and TX are swing states. You decide if you believe the polls.
The polls told me Crooked Hillary was a given and to go suck dick..
It was 1 vote for Kavanaugh. R and D swapped Collins for what’s his face in West Virginia.
It was actually Murkowski who swapped with Manchin, Collins was in favor (which is why the Dems have been working so hard to unseat her this election). But the Rs have two more votes in the Senate now than they did in 2018 (they picked up two seats in the 2018 election), so they do have a little more wiggle room. Although, of their 53 there are several squishes: Murkowski as before, Collins added since she probably won’t want to rock the boat before the election, and of course Romney. So, yeah, it’s a precarious proposition.
That really is the big stakes. If it’s close and the pull a bunch of ballot harvesting bullshit, it will go all the way to the Supreme Court. The left really do have to be shitting their pants right now.
I think it’s really even worse for them right now, they’re already desperate and this is going to make them even more crazy. Desperation is a bad strategy for winning, and adding more desperation on top of that, makes it even more likely to do desperate stupid things.
/Every mainstream media outlet.
The pants-shitting in my newsroom has been absolutely glorious to see. Total panic, devastation, shock. It’s been fun to watch. But I’m looking forward to the next two months even less, now.
Actually, honest coverage of this would take the supreme court and abortion issue off the table.
He’s gonna get a nominee approved before the inauguration, even if he loses. There is no other swing vote on the table.
Unless they are going to go arguing for packing the court.. .or just straight up assassinate the only black guy on the court.
The question in my mind is whether Mitt Motherfucking Romney decides to stick his dick into the middle of this and make sure that he goes down as the most beloved republican presidential candidate by the left.
That’s a rhetorical question, right?
Yeah, I don’t see how he doesn’t.
Romney + Collins + Murkowski + one more (who?) would be what the Dems need to sink any nominee.
I think I saw Grassley mentioned on Twitter, but I can’t find that now and don’t know if that’s accurate and my news searches aren’t turning up any statements from today, just “gotcha” crap from Republicans in 2016.
Nah, she offed herself, but for the same reason. 😉
Can’t believe how dedicated she was to staying on the bench. When you’re falling asleep during arguments, it is past time to retire.
Is anyone else’s phone blowing up with hysterical screeching about RBG? No? Can we trade phones?
/stuck in a extremely progressive group where I’m the only one to the right of Che Guevara
You have my thoughts and prayers.
Condolences.
No social media and my proggie family hates me.
All quiet on the Tundra front.
Hang strong man… I have plenty of proggies I need to deal with, including the girlfriend that is now freaking out about me not freaking out about Ginsburg now being plant food. You might be the only one that forces them to face reality, and they all need some of that….
including the girlfriend that is now freaking out about me not freaking out
Same here. Haven’t seen her this way since Her Shrillness lost to Bad Orange Man.
My wife is taking it badly. I’m listening and STFU.
I have a couple friends I’m not going to contact for a few days.
My wife’s reaction was “oh no, Ginsburg died”.
I expect she’ll have a freakout later this weekend, once she talks to her dad and he explains how this means the final Nazi takeover of America is guaranteed.
I told her she didn’t want my opinion on this and to calm down… I am happy I go back home tomorrow before the lefty shit hits the fan..
A lot of people now are going to worry and shit their pants about how Trump can’t be stopped by the Supreme Court from stealing a close election (meaning team blue can’t use them to steal the election), and I am not a bit sorry for them. I am betting money the lefts strategy to deny Trump a legitimate win or to steal the election heavily depended on the SCOTUS helping them commit whatever coup they wanted to engage in, and now that has all gone into the shitter. Thank the powers that be!
If one was to believe in guardian angels, or divine entities looking out for this country, this sure would be kind of something one could claim was evidence of that sort of things.
Did you laugh maniacally, in true Glib fashion? And start chanting ‘bad orange man pick another, bad orange man, appoint another!’.
I almost did, but I want to get laid again before I head back home tomorrow….
Find a new social group?
Nope & nope.
Also nope & nope.
Why I don’t social media. We mentioned in the house hold and went back to making dinner
No, but my phone never blows up with anything.
“my phone never blows up”
You gotta get a Samsung, they got the best engineers.
This. I dunno even know what he’s talking about. My phone takes phone calls, plays music, and displays books.
I do use my phone for other stuff; I just don’t get many people texting me or even calling.
Yeah I use maps and transit times and similar stuff but only very rarely.
When I was in the hospital I even tried to glibs on it but that was a painful experience. Anything involving lots of swiping and/or typing is a bitch.
Gladly no, because I would not be able to restrain myself.
Need ammo?
I got two texts today, ostensibly from the VA Democratic party. The total number of political texts I’ve received up until today, is zero.
I am interpreting this as, the DNC believes that Virginia is in play.
Virginia is in play
That’s what I’ve been saying. Between all the national bs and Team Blue’s immediate overreach upon gaining marginal control of the legislature…I mean, they showed their hand.
Maybe. Ginsburg’s death is going to the entirety of NoVA out to vote.
“going to bring”
I got a FYI text from Sister #2 in our family GroupMe. This caused Sister #3 to freak out because she misread RBG as RDJ and thought Robert Downey Jr had died.
This caused Sister #3 to freak out because she misread RBG as RDJ and thought Robert Downey Jr had died.
LOL. Although after the surprise death of Chadwick Boseman, I guess anything could happen.
I was more upset when RJD died.
But his mom changed rock and roll forever!
long live rock and roll!
Good Lord, that’s insane. I could not care less is RDJ died. How did you respond?
I thought it was hilarious. She’s young and a MCU fan and it took her 5 seconds to realize her mistake. “Freak out” was an exaggeration on my part.
I wouldn’t mourn RDJ, but I’d be more sad about his death than I am right now about RBG.
Meh, RDJ’s out of the MCU now anyways. And honestly he’s lived about 25 years longer than anyone expected him to 30 years ago, so he’s got that going for him. I’m more upset about the Black Panther guy.
Perhaps it makes me a horrible person, but my point was more that “more sad than I am about RBG” is a really, really low bar.
STEVE SMITH for the supreme court!
He’s got my vote…..
At least I know what he wants before he does it to me….
The same thing any politician wants, but at least he won’t lie to you about it.
SPACE HAT!
THIS.
I don’t know how he’d overcome those troubling allegations of sexual assault.
You had me going at first Swiss, I actually thought you were telling a feel good story from you helo pals. I should have known better.
#metoo
Swiss got us good.
Yup. I thought it was going to about helicopter rescue of the people near Mammoth.
*cheese eating grin*
Well played, sir.
Steve Smith taught me one important life lesson:
If no fit, put spit.
STEVE SMITH the notorious rapist is now a hero.
I guess that makes sense in 2020.
Could someone have him call me? I may have a mission for him clearing an ‘autonomous zone’ and the State Capitol.
Thanks!
Don’t they have killdozer rentals there? The market seems ripe for that kind of thing.
And by mission, you mean… … … …
With extreme prejudice.
And no lube.
If no fit, use spit.
You may have all other forests but Cascadia?
NO ATTEMPT LAND THERE
“She’ll be put down as a corona virus death.”
said by my gf about rbg. ?
Your girlfriend is impressively cynical. I just thought the same thing.
Sweet drunken Enkidu, can you imagine the howling?
*looks around for ammo spam can openers*
Just wanna make sure I can find them in an emergency.
I’m quickly coming to the conclusion that I don’t have enough ammo to get through the election cycle. I should’ve paid the premium prices.
You might be 6 months away from a “mandatory buyback” on those hunks of metal.
don’t have enough ammo
Substitute a clan of Scots Irish in Red River County. Distance, trees, friends, wilderness: many things are decent substitutes for bullets. Oh, and get me some Mennonite bread while you’re up there.
I do and I didn’t.
Redistribution can be expedited.
Bring it.
Bulkammo had 40+ cases of 5.56 earlier today for $700 + taxes/shipping. All gone now.
I locked in a backorder case at $400 that i’m hoping will ship next month.
The fuck is your ammo not already in magazines?
You don’t understand my #s.
I could take over a third world country, like Canada.
Not with that few magazines, you couldn’t. And don’t discount the Canucks, their snipers are on point. Apart from the whole yelling, “Sorry!” after every shot thing…
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I think the Canadians still hold the record for longest shot on a human target. Now admittedly they’re probably using Mk 211 Mod 0 rounds, but still. Good shooters.
If I were a badass Canuck sniper, I’d get a bunch of empty cartridge cases engraved with ‘Sorry!’ and leave one at every hide site where I took a shot…
I was thinking about the guy from the Princess Pats in A-stan in 2002, but that record has since been smashed.
What’s this magazine crap? Belts are the way to go.
Disintegrating links > non-disintegrating links
I agree, although I would turn up my nose if someone willed me an MG42.
Dammit! would *not*
.308 top cover, feed tray, barrel and booster = M13 links
Plasma rifles in the 40 watt range or gtfo!
It just occurred to me that, before tragically losing it in a boating accident, I recently acquired another magazine for a non-descript rifle of color and it is not yet filled…
“rifle of color ”
STOLEN!!!!
I also like to use “undocumented firearm” and not “illegal gun” as well.
Because springs suffer metal fatigue if you keep them loaded all the time?
Metal fatigue results from cyclical not steady state stress.
They don’t. Springs fatigue from repeated compression and relaxation.
Constant pressure deforming the feed lips and inducing double feeds, now that can be a thing.
But you are regularly unloading your magazines in practice, and restacking them with fresh ammo, right? RIGHT???
the series of tubes says
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Does keeping a magazine loaded weaken the spring?
Using the spring (loading and unloading the magazine) frequently will cause it to wear out as well. … Some springs may stay loaded for decades and still function, and others might wear out after a much shorter period of time. So just to be safe, the best practice is to rotate the magazines periodically.
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How long can you keep an AR 15 mag Loaded?
three to six months mags loaded for three to six months before swapping them out with no problems. There are those who adamantly denounce this practice, while others leave their mags loaded far longer.
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If you bend a paperclip back and forth enough times, it will break. That’s a dynamic load, not a static one.
Think about the steel beams in a building. They are under constant load, but they do not change shape, because the load applied is less than the yield strength (the force necessary to cause a material to permanently change shape).
You should have wished to retire 7 years ago.
She had hubris. No doubt.
I think she thought she could hold on for a couple more years and good friend Hillary would be replacing her.
Yep.
Got greedy and put her self-interests ahead of the cause.
Fucked statement and last words if true.
until a new president is installed
Uh huh… *adjust tinfoil*
Assuming this is true…. that makes her look pretty bad. No doubt team red will fuck this up.
So if trump wins again, she wants to leave the seat empty for 4 years?
That is probably what she would want.
That’s the way I read it.
/trollin
Just to change things up, I will on-topic:
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Bigfoot Returns for Wildfire SeasonThe Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal’s Bigfoot: Believe in Fire Safetycampaign is returning for the 2020 wildfire season, asking Oregonians to protect their communities by preventing wildfires.
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My favorite pic from the site.
The one with STEVE doing a wheelie on a moped is pretty good too.
Let’s say Trump loses and the new Senate will be Dem majority. Dems will threaten to expand then pack the Court “if lame duck Trump and lame duck Senate pick a new justice.” Stoneless GOP will cave in and not pick. After Jan. 20th, Dems will pack the Court anyway. “Country has grown; nine justices isn’t enough for the increased work load; not enough non-Catholics, women or colored people; need a first acknowledged gay justice and what about the transgendered— so let’s go for a baker’s dozen.”
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1305612543801647104
I want to punch this guy in the nuts.
One by one, the people I used to like turn out to be shitheads. Depressing.
Buscemi pic in the replies == LOL
Next person that unironically says “SCIENCE” gets fed into a woodchipper.
I don’t see anyone stopping you.
Apparently, Fubo TV doesn’t have CNN. It used to have this network a tear ago. I’m “forced” to watch MSNBC.
Young Joy Behar was smash worthy
“If McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots.”
https://twitter.com/LEBassett/status/1307111823804641289
She seems nice.
Joke’s on you, there are already riots.
Ha! So true.
She seems nice.
You spelled
stupidclueless wrong.Speaking of litmus tests:
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“blue dye-stuff obtained from certain lichens,” early 14c., lit-mose, probably from an Old Norse word related to Norwegian dialectal litmose, from Old Norse lita “to dye, to stain” (from litr “color, dye;” see lit (n.1)) + mos “moss.”
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The dye is obtained from certain lichens. It is naturally blue but turns red in acid and is restored to blue by alkalis. Figurative use of litmus test is first attested 1957, from scientific use of litmus-treated paper as a chemical indicator. Litmus paper with this meaning is from 1803.
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So it was the Vikings. Interesting. Speaking of them:
https://www.rt.com/news/500920-viking-hair-color-study/
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Contrary to the depiction of Viking raiders in popular culture as mostly fair-haired warriors, many of them were not blond, and their genetic makeup was far more diverse, a new study has revealed. A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has studied the remains of 442 humans found in archeological sites across Europe and Greenland. The majority of the materials analyzed were from the so-called Viking Age, which stretched from around 750 AD to 1050 AD. The scientists compared the genetic data with more than a thousand individuals living in other historical periods and with 3,855 people living today. They found that Vikings were more diverse than was previously thought. In particular, “the Viking period involved gene flow into Scandinavia from the south and east,” the scientists wrote in a paper published in the Nature magazine. It was also found that, contrary to their depiction in movies and art, dark hair was relatively common among the raiders from the north. “Vikings were not genetically pure Scandinavians. From the end of the Iron Age and into the Viking Age, there was a large influx of DNA from Southern Europe and Asia. This also probably means that very few of them were fair-haired,” Eske Willerslev, one of the geneticists behind the study, told the Danish media. Willerslev told the Guardian that being a Viking was “not a pure ethnic phenomenon,” but rather a “lifestyle” anyone could adopt. Commenting on the study, historian Kasper Andersen said that many modern myths about the Vikings were actually “invented” in the 19th century, when Danish nationalism was on the rise and blond hair “may have fitted in well.” However, it is not possible to say anything about the Vikings’ hair color based on historical sources, he said.
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You might say they were Fore Non-Blondes.
My Dad, who was in large part of Swedish heritage, had very dark hair and was dark complected.
From the end of the Iron Age and into the Viking Age, there was a large influx of DNA from Southern Europe and Asia. This also probably means that very few of them were fair-haired,” Eske Willerslev, one of the geneticists behind the study, told the Danish media.
Ummm, influx of people from Southern Europe and Asia in the Iron to medieval age does not imply paucity of fair hair in the time period. That may be the case (perhaps they sequenced the DNA for hair color, although they do not say), but fair hair used to be more common across the world than it is today. From fair-haired Greeks to fair-haired people in the Tarim Basin, the ancient era had a very wide range of hair colors among many different ethnic groups. Heck, Ramesses II (an Egyptian) had red hair, so speculating about hair color based purely on geographic origin is rather silly.
The really amusing part is the whole reason the Viking craze took off in Denmark in the 19th century was because their country had one defeat after another: the British captured their entire fleet in 1807, they went bankrupt in 1813, Norway broke away in 1814, and lost Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia in 1864.
So I can see why fantasies of blonde Vikings conquering the world were appealing to them.
er, the Vikings reached Constantinople, IIRC, so it’s not really surprising they brought some slaves back from pretty farflung areas.
Fun fact: the Russian name Vladimir is a garbling of the Viking name Waldemar.
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Waldemar, Valdemar or Woldemar is an Old High German given name. It consists of the elements wald- “power”, “brightness” and -mar “fame”.
The name is considered the equivalent of the Russian name Vladimir, or Ukrainian name Volodymyr.
The Old Norse form Valdamarr (also Valdarr) occurs in the Guðrúnarkviða II as the name of a king of the Danes.
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There’s an old Danish book about sea monsters that I meant to share. Let me see if I can find it.
Ah, here it is – Norse, not Danish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konungs_skuggsj%C3%A1
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Konungs skuggsjá (Old Norse for “King’s mirror”; Latin: Speculum regale, modern Norwegian: Kongsspegelen (Nynorsk) or Kongespeilet (Bokmål)) is a Norwegian didactic text in Old Norse from around 1250, an example of speculum literature that deals with politics and morality. It was originally intended for the education of King Magnus Lagabøte, the son of King Håkon Håkonsson, and it has the form of a dialogue between father and son. The son asks, and is advised by his father about practical and moral matters, concerning trade, the hird, chivalric behavior, strategy and tactics. Parts of Konungs skuggsjá deals with the relationship between church and state.
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In Konungs skuggsjá, an Old Norwegian philosophical didactic work written toward the end of the 12th century, the King told his son of several whales that inhabit the Icelandic seas, concluding with a description of a large whale that he himself feared, but he doubted anyone would believe him about without seeing it. He described the Hafgufa (Hafgufu in Old Norwegian language) as a massive fish that looked more like an island than like a living thing. The King noted that Hafgufa was rarely seen, but always seen in the same two places. He concluded there must be only two of them and that they must be infertile, otherwise the seas would be full of them.
The King described the feeding manner of Hafgufa: The fish would belch, which would expel so much food that it would attract all the nearby fish. Once a large number had crowded into its mouth and belly, it would close its mouth and devour them all at once.[1]
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According to the Örvar-Odds saga, Hafgufa was the mother of all sea monsters and fed on whales, ships, men, and anything it could catch. Hafgufa was said to have lived underwater, and when the tide was low at night, her nose and head would rise out of the water. The only physical description provided in the saga is the nose sticking out of the water, which was mistaken for two massive rocks rising from the sea.
As Örvar-Oddr and his crew were sailing southwesterly through the Greenland Sea seeking vengeance against the troll Ögmundr Floki, slayer of Eythjof, the deck officer Vignir knew this area would be dangerous, and made Oddr agree to sail the ship beginning the next day, to which Oddr requested Vignir advise him. As they sailed, they spotted two rocks which rose out of the water. The presence of these rocks puzzled Oddr. Later, they passed by a large island covered in heather. Curious, Oddr made up his mind to turn back and send five men to check out the island, but as they approached where the island had been before, they saw that it and the two rocks vanished.
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https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1307109184274681858
Classy.
I notice it’s been “a new president”, not “after the election”
“NEWS: Mitch McConnell on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and the Supreme Court: “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1307119468892561408
I wonder whether Reid has any regrets tonight.
Fuck no. Reid is a thieving sociopath. Regrets aren’t something he does.
Better statement than Schmoob’s Tweets, with relevant items to address in the correct order and everything.
Trump’s nominee will receive a vote
RBG dies and Cocaine Mitch leads Team Red to actual meaningful action in the political sphere? Is this peak 2020?
Somebody sent Mitch an 8-ball. Nice.
I told my wife it looks like Mitch just did a line and hit the Twitter.
I forget how I got here, but I was amused:
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Cadaverine is a foul-smelling diamine compound produced by the putrefaction of animal tissue. Cadaverine is a toxic diamine with the formula NH₂(CH₂)₅NH₂, which is similar to putrescine’s NH₂(CH₂)₄NH₂.
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Putrescine is a foul-smelling[1] organic chemical compound NH2(CH2)4NH2 (1,4-diaminobutane or butanediamine) that is related to cadaverine; both are produced by the breakdown of amino acids in living and dead organisms and both are toxic in large doses.[2][3] The two compounds are largely responsible for the foul odor of putrefying flesh, but also contribute to the odor of such processes as bad breath and bacterial vaginosis.[4] They are also found in semen and some microalgae, together with related molecules like spermine and spermidine.
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Skatole or 3-methylindole is an organic compound belonging to the indole family. Occurring in high concentrations, it is the primary odor of feces. In low concentrations, it has a flowery smell and is found in several flowers and essential oils, including those of orange blossoms, jasmine, and Ziziphus mauritiana.
It is used as a fragrance and fixative in many perfumes and as an aroma compound. Its name derives from the Greek root skato-, meaning “feces”.
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and now for something completely different: a diver with incredible lung capacity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HgD1Nv36X8
Huh, put a whole new spin on thinking your droppings smell like roses.
Remember when “Cracked” was actually funny albeit inferior to “Mad Magazine”? Well Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Maybe We Don’t Need to Hear From ‘South Park’ Right Now
A comedy about a pandemic? It happened:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_So_Bad_About_Feeling_Good%3F
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What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? is a 1968 American comedy film directed by George Seaton and starring George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Jeanne Arnold, Dom DeLuise and Gillian Spencer.
The film was a box office disappointment.
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Pete (George Peppard) is a former advertising executive living a Beatnik–Bohemian life, as part of a commune in a New York City loft. Since living in the commune, Pete has turned into a cynical, misanthropic artist. The members of the commune are seemingly aimless, indolent or melancholy while waiting for the world to end; one member (Gillian Spencer) lives her life in a burlap sack, with only her bare feet protruding.
One day, a wayward toucan arrives at the loft. The toucan, which stowed away on a Greek banana boat from South America, carries a unique and highly contagious virus. The virus causes intense feelings of giddiness, happiness, and kindness in anyone affected by it.
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The virus is quickly spread across New York City. Rude telephone clerks are suddenly polite and understanding. Those immune to the virus are also nice, as almost everyone else acts nice to them. Pete returns to his job as an advertising executive, but insists, however, that all the ads be honest. This initially gets him fired, but when his fellow executives are later infected, he is rehired and given a raise.
Government leaders determine that the spread of the virus threatens the economic lifeblood of New York City; residents suddenly stop buying alcohol, tobacco or drugs, and the stock exchange and business districts are threatened with collapse if everyone is happy and nice to one another.
***
Nothing, nothing makes me feel boomier than joining a Zoom call. I bought a headset with a mic so I could raid with my guild in the brief couple minutes we resurged back in Legion, and I couldn’t get it to work, which sucked cuz I was OT. I had to plug the mic attachment into the IO panel on the back of my PC and shout at it to be heard. Flash forward a couple years and Trump is president (OMFG!) and I still can’t figure out how to do audio conferencing if it’s not literally using a telephone to conference audiobly.
I’ll be 34 in a month and if I had to set up a Twitch stream you may as well ask my dad.
They’re talking about Venture Bros which is my goddamn happy place and I can’t join in because I’m a tech boomer.
God damn it all.
Nothing is boomier than WoW. All the kids play Fortnight now, or something.
My desktop is an all-in-one so I just talk at the screen. ?♂️
I’ve joined on my phone and used my bluetooth buds to listen and chat, and then joined on my computer to watch… and used my phone camera to stream myself… so I’m separately joined twice… because my computer drops audio if I use my bluetooth with it… but then my camera swiftly dies… so I rubberband my charger to my phone… oh by the way, my phone’s charging port doesn’t work, so I had to buy a wireless charger… so I rubberband the charger against my phone so it dies less quickly, and prop it up against the monitor so people can see my pasty face..
I owned an iMac before I bought my PC. It just did all this for me.
And now I’m just baffled why my phone won’t take video. It’s been like this a couple weeks now. What, both rear and front cameras failed at the same time? Or it’s an app problem. It just crashes on me. I should have had children, my kid could figure this dumb shit out for me.
I DROP MY STUPID PHONE ALL THE TIME. IT WORKED FOREVER REGARDLESS. SUDDENLY NOW THE CAMERA APP DOESN’T WORK? You know when I figured out I can’t take a picture? When I found a stray dog and took it in and tried finding its owner. AND I COULDN’T TAKE A PHOTO OF THE STUPID MUTT BECAUSE MY DUMB STUPID PHONE WASN’T WORKING. I mean my camera. I mean my phone. Is this what X AS A SERVICE bullshit means, that I just lose functionality I really need when it decides to stop working? Fuck me, fuck you, fuck everything.
I bet you know how to set up an Only Fans.
Listen, I’ll send you nudes, but you’ll have to post me the check.
Polls, Defund the Refs, Potato! — The BNN Week In Review 9-18-2020
Way to go STEVE. An with minimal rape too.
This guy could be a GlibFit post and a Profile in Toxic Masculinity
Dr. Squat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hatfield
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Frederick C. Hatfield (October 21, 1942 – May 14, 2017), nicknamed Dr. Squat, was an American world champion powerlifter and PhD holder in sports sciences.[3][4] He was also the co-founder and president of the International Sports Sciences Association,[5] an organization of fitness experts which certifies personal fitness trainers from around the world.
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As a powerlifter, Hatfield won 2 IPF World Powerlifting Championships titles in 1983 and 1986.[5] At the age of 45, he set a squat world record by lifting 1,014 pounds (460 kg) in the 100 kg (220 lb) weight class, which at the time was the heaviest squat in history regardless of bodyweight.
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Dr. Fred Hatfield (Dr. Squat) 1008lb / 457.2kg squat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOpEtk60C0
What the fuck?
He doesn’t look nearly as jacked/big as I would have thought, and he did it so fast. bet he could have put some more weight on that, he just wanted to give others a chance.
Glenn Ross does not look like a guy who can bench press 650 pounds, yet he did..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Ross#/media/File:Ab83.jpg
I’ve seen too many strong fat guys to be fooled by a little blubber.
I am sad that Tres doesn’t come to glib chat anymore. Also missing tonight Baked Penguin. Sad.
Why is Tres not coming here no mo?
I don’t know. You’re not coming either. You should join. Have a martini with me.
My schedule should be slowing down when I get back home this weekend, and I will certainly join our glib crowd then Tulip.
You should join too Alex. Have a martini with me
You can say that again. /oldjoke
What kind of gin?
Tanqeray
A lady with class and taste!
I’ve never been so torn between trying to be classy vs taking back all the bad things I’ve ever said about cancer.
Nope. Cancer 100% sucks.
Honestly, I can’t come up with an ounce of sympathy for Ginsberg. I’ve had a few deaths in my personal life over the past year and some lady I’ve never met, disliked and did some terrible things is not going to get any of it. The bigger question is: when is it appropriate to be relieved when someone dies? Where is the line and how bad do they have to be?
Pineapple on deep dish bad.
I had been converted by libertarians into being anti-death penalty on the grounds that the government doesn’t necessarily provide a fair trial, and that in any case, it is uncivil for a government to calmly, with no “heat of the moment” excuse, end the life of one of its citizens.
Then one morning I read the headline that Timothy McVeigh was dead from lethal injection. My reaction was “Good.”
I remember that because it was at odds with my new death penalty stance, and because my reaction literally was my saying the one word aloud: Good.
(I’m a native Oklahoman and know people who lost limbs and loved ones that day.)
Perfectly normal to approve of the death of evil people. I don’t think RBG was evil, just misguided, but she was 87. She had a full life and her death was at an opportune time. I’m not especially sad, because life was gonna happen anyway.
I’m not shedding tears over RBG. I was attempting to answer Straff’s musing of when it is OK to be glad someone died.
The bigger question is: when is it appropriate to be relieved when someone dies?
Easy answer. When someone violates your rights.
That might have been too flippant but hits the gist.
Yep. I shed no tears for tyrants. The genteel tyranny of the anti-liberty SCOTUS rulings written or co-signed by her is still tyranny even though she never got her bony little hands dirty throwing people in prison or stealing their hard earned wealth.
Let’s take back liberal. She’s illiberal. Always had been, always was.
I don’t see it as flippant. There are people that I will be relieved when I hear that they have died. Not because I hate them but because it is the only thing that I know will stop them from trying to control others.
Good enough line for me. If they show no signs of trying to redeem themselves and you can’t stop them, why not thank death for doing its job?
I mean, sure, Ginsburg’s dead, but so is her cancer, so…………..
I am with you Straff. I am trying not to actually show how much I am enjoying the schadenfreude because a liberal asshat doing liberal asshat things will now throw other liberal asshats plans into disarray….
Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn
Ginsburg at least voted to stop the lunacy of the 2000 presidential recount in Florida when it became obvious that the recounters were using wide latitude to interpret voter intent and thus turn the election one way or the other.
Hell, if we end up with Recount Part Two: Son of Recount, I’m not confident that Justice Roberts would vote to stop the recount shenanigans.
I dunno. She held on long after her health was really impacting her abilities.
At least Sandra Day O’Connor bowed out gracefully – and as a side note is still alive.
Yeah I’m no fan of Ginsburg, but she seems downright sane compared to the newer generations of lefties. She and Scalia showed how you can disagree totally on important issues but still treat each other civilly or even be friends.
RBG disqualified herself from the supreme court when she told a group in South Africa that they shouldn’t model anything on the US constitution because it sux.
Her main criticism being that the US Constitution has no positive rights.
So she had to make some up.
The rights are God given, and if you prefer no deities, then rights are the natural state of man.
Government limits certain rights in order to help maintain and defend a society, but government is not the found from which all blessings flow.
My guess is that something close to 80% of Americans under 40 yo think that the constitution is where government gives us rights, whereas the rights in constitution are there to protect people from government overreach.
But muh free health care and education.
Not a chance that 80% of Americans under 40 know what the constitution is at all.
I’d be amazed if 20% do.
^ Look at all the optimists
she told a group in South Africa that they shouldn’t model anything on the US constitution because it sux.
I recall reading through the SA Constitution once and being disgusted by the level of positive rights in it.
But look how well they’ve been doing since they took her excellent advice.
She’s shitting on the constitution in heaven now.
Everybody knows that Heaven’s constitution is modeled after the South African constitution.
Looks like I won’t bother trying to remember/reset my Facebook password today. I can only imagine the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments going on with my lefty-trending family there.
No kidding. The hysterics will be hysterical.
The risk for Democrats is that AOC and various media outlets say more stupid things about this than even Trump. The thing Teams Blue and Red are equally stupid about is, in their attempts to rouse their extremes, they motivate the reasonable middle to hate them.
I’m so tired of an unending drip of nonsense in both flavors.
this = RBG
Then you might want to disconnect for awhile.
Trump was unbelievable gracious when he learned of her death.
They had to know it was coming.
Sure. He still nailed the response.
Well, yeah. This is probably his best day evah! The (newly constituted) S/C will be deciding this next election.
When a moment is serious enough for him to actually read prepared remarks, he’s usually pretty good. It’s when he’s feeling off the cuff that he stuffs his foot in his mouth.
My asshole Facederp friend who was just recently calling for Biden to pack the courts if elected, is now posting Ginsburg’s call to wait after the election.
Live by the sword, die by it, dumbass.
I doubt the Reps have the stones. Maybe Trump can whip them into line but we’ll see.
McConnell immediately announced that they were filling the vacancy.
Which was also funny
When your enemy is forced to bend over, STEVE SMITH em!
As I understand it, Ginsburg’s call was for no one to be appointed until a new President is seated, meaning not Trump, because Trump is already President.
Trump should definitely wait, because if he doesn’t, democrats might say mean stuff about him, call him Hitler, start a coup, and then try to impeach him.
I see what you did there Hype…..
Her hanging on forever was not political at all, of course.
That’s quite a friend.
Rhywun where are you? Hayek, where are you? Join us.
I’m cooking stroganoff.
Gross.
Stroganoff happens to good people.
I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that.
All the constituent parts are great, but somehow the combination doesn’t deliver…
/complaints from ex-lovers
?
The grass was greener!
They reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed-of world!
I have to agree with you.
It’s not bad, just not great.
Division Bell is a great album.
Good. Stroganoff is good stuff. Don’t listen to CS.
And that means you can’t join us? Lame.
I’m sparing you from watching me eat.
Eat fast and join us
Are we done with phrasing?
So, am I getting this right, that Trump will move quickly to nominate a justice and the Senate will move to confirm?
Yup
Maximum entertainment value?
Ted Cruz
He’s going to try to trigger them and make them go batshit insane right before the election for all the world to see, isn’t he? Might just work, totally worth the entertainment value.
I want to see him ram this through, just like Obamacare was rammed through. Elections have consequences.
No, we don’t know what Trump will do yet.
McConnell said the Senate will move.
Oh come now. We do.
Holy hell
https://nypost.com/2020/09/18/monstrous-6-year-old-dominates-opponents-in-viral-video/
I hope a doctor has checked him out for acromegaly or the like.
Looks like they got a 10 y.o. ringer.
Lol, that ain’t no 6 year old! That’s a man baby!
We’ve seen these videos many times before. 400lb 6 foot 7 13 year olds just rolling everyone all over the field like a steamroller. OK for now, no one that big can actually play football at a collegiate level or beyond. They’ll be prone to all sorts of injuries because they have some sort of growth hormone issue.
Even if he’s 6, there’s an excellent chance he’s just had an early growth spurt – everyone else will catch up.
I still recall my classmate Eric – unstoppable monster in the sixth grade, a bit undersized (sports-wise) by the time we hit high school.
So that’s what the DFCs for the helicopter crews were actually for. Makes sense now.
No, Joe, the current government has every authority to do so.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden reacted to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by saying the person elected president this year should choose her replacement.
“There is no doubt, let me be clear, that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider,” Biden told reporters.
Party politics is a bitch, ain’t it?
Joe doesn’t know. That’s what they told him to say. It’s a miracle he even got it out without fubaring it.
It’s nice of Joe Biden to finally come out in agreement with McConnell’s decision not to confirm Garland.
Luckily, the duly elected president is already in office, so the senate can go ahead and consider someone.
“voters should pick the president ”
They already did you senile old groper. In 2016. You remember that right?
Elections have consequences.
This right here is truth. I might even have to beat my FB friends over the head with it as they persist in their whinging.
a different time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soraya_Tarzi
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Soraya Tarzi (Pashto/Dari: ملکه ثريا; November 24, 1899 – April 20, 1968), also known as Suraiya Shahzada Khanum,[citation needed] was the first Queen consort of Afghanistan in the early 20th century and the wife of King Amanullah Khan.
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Amanullah drew up the first constitution, establishing the basis for the formal structure of the government and setting up the role of the monarch within the constitutional framework. Amanullah was influenced and encouraged by Mahmud Tarzi in his endeavors.[citation needed][6] Tarzi was specifically instrumental in designing and implementing changes pertaining to women through his personal example of monogamy.[4][5][7] His daughter, Queen Soraya Tarzi, would be the face of this change. Another daughter of Tarzi’s married Amanullah’s brother. Thus, it is not surprising that Tarzi’s sophisticated and liberal intellectual ideology blossomed and concretely embedded itself in Amanullah’s reign.[4]
King Amanullah Khan publicly campaigned against the veil, against polygamy, and encouraged education of girls not just in Kabul but also in the countryside.[4] At a public function, Amanullah said that “Islam did not require women to cover their bodies or wear any special kind of veil”. At the conclusion of the speech, Queen Soraya tore off her veil (hejab) in public[2][4][7] and the wives of other officials present at the meeting followed this example.
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Not only did conservative Muslims disagree with the changes, the British distributed pictures of Soraya without a veil, dining with foreign men, and having her hand kissed by the leader of France, Germany, etc. among tribal regions of Afghanistan.[4] Conservative mullahs and regional leaders took the images and details from the royal family’s trip to be a flagrant betrayal of Afghan culture, religion, and “honor” of women. One can take the circulation of such images from foreign sources as evidence of British efforts to destabilize the Afghan monarchy, the first of many international attempts to keep the country in political, social, and economic turmoil.
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Good job, Limeys. Mission Accomplished.
Whlie still not as bad as the NYT or Atlantic, the WSJ has fallen pretty far.
I bet Mittens comes out soon to say it should be postponed until after the election.
Well duh;
Almost there
https://twitter.com/mittromney/status/1307134155004706818?s=21
Trump should publicly tell him to go suck donkey dick and shut the fuck up?
Isn’t that his problem in the first place?
My mood right now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S0DCLt9NwFs
Love this band.
Johnette Napalitano is a national treasure.
No doubt.
Here’s another from the early years.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aNZpkimAZSI
L’shanah tovah to all of the (((Glibs)))
Shana tova!
I am uncomfortably full with brisket. And matzah ball soup.
Mmm…brisket…
Mahatma Ghandi to you too!
My new employers are super (((that))). We get some of that stuff off, and a bunch of holidays in April and May too (?).
So, they didn’t figure out that you have no respect for the law? Congrats.
I forgot to wear my new bifocals today to work. Only a few days and I’m so used to them that I missed having them! Maybe a glasses chain around the neck would complete the old lady makeover.
Last week I had an abdominal ultrasound and some blood tests. Today I got a voicemail from the doc to make a phone appointment for next week. I’m guessing it’s pretty OK news, since he’s in no hurry to tell me about it.
I’m guessing it’s pretty OK news.
I hope so. I hate waiting for test results myself.
Holy crap!
The blue check marks are already calling for insurrection and violence. That didn’t take long. CNN and MSNBC did a great job.
The viewers are such impressionable idiots. They think Trump is Hitler and that Republicans are Nazis ready to take over America and persecute people on race/gender/religion/sexuality. So if course they are panicked and think civil war will break out any moment.
If CNN-MSNBC-ETC told them that Australia had sunk under the ocean, they’d believe it rather than call up a friend in Australia for confirmation.
Supoervirus!! TrumpHitler! Raycism!!
No, you accidentally read tweets from 6 months ago!
What else is new?
Wait… when did they stop?
Not great prices, but still in stock. For now.
https://www.sgammo.com/catalog/rifle-ammo-sale/223-556mm-ammo
I just bought my first rifle, a Remington 700 Varmint with a 1:12″ barrel twist.
That ammo says it’s best for a 1:7″ barrel twist.
Just wondering if this ammo would still be okay for my rifle or if something else would be better.
It won’t hurt your gun, but it will hurt your accuracy at longer range. What caliber rifle is it?
.223
You need a lighter bullet, try something in the 40 to 50 grain range. Heavier bullets will work just fine, but the lower twist won’t stabilize them as well so they’ll be less accurate, or in extreme cases may keyhole.
Okay. Thanks for the help.
I just fired one a year ago. I really want one now. I lit off a 3″ square jar of tannerite with it at 90 yards. It was my second shot, but still, it was cool. Up in Oregon, before the recent “troubles.”
MY BIL has one and I loved shooting it. Up until now we have a shooting day once a year at my Grandpa’s farm. It’s the only time I shoot. With his rifle and Leupold scope, I was hitting everything up to about 150 yards within a couple inches. I felt like a pro. That’s why I bought it.
BTW, it was Dio’s Grandma who used to give him the “horns”.
Yeah, I remembered that after I hit post.
Can we get a sober person to take over the simulation for a while.
Nope.
Complaint Dept
A few weeks ago here, there was a full-scale run-through of the Army’s new shooting test, and out of about 100 shooters, nobody passed. Everyone who shot that day had qualified before at least twice on the old test.
The main excuse I’ve heard for lack of marksmanship training is the cost of ammo. I doubt that’s true, but supposing it is, that means the simulators need to be squared away.
If I could design the set-up, I’d have laser pointers rigged up to dummy M16s and reflector-ish targets that light up when hit. In the butt stock, put an electromagnet activated by the trigger pull. The electromagnet pulls down a weight on spring which causes the butt stock to fall and the barrel to rise, mimicking recoil.
Plus it would look really cool at night with a fog machine going. Pew Pew!
The current set-up requires, computers, smart screens, hoses, compressed CO2, and a bunch of other stuff that makes it more complicated than it needs to be.
What’s the course of fire for the qualification?
Aside – Over the last fifteen years I’ve spent thousands of dollars (no joke) on shooting simulators – laser pointers, airsoft guns, CO2-powered recoil simulators, different kinds of electronic targets, everything on the market. I even had a SCATT System when I was really into NRA Conventional Pistol.
None of it was as useful, and none of it improved my shooting skill, as much as learning how to dry fire with my actual gun, and committing to spending twenty minutes a day at it.
Could you share your routine for those 20 minutes?
It varies every day, depending on what I need to work on, but there are some common practices.
Most often, I use a target array set up with 3 1/3-scale USPSA targets at about 7-10 feet, spaced out around 2 feet apart. I use my regular gun, holster, and belt, and I have a couple of old magazines that are used for dry practice only. I use a shot timer to keep track of my par times.
I break my practice up into 3-5 minute blocks. A 20-minute practice might look like this:
Block 1 – Draw and fire 2 shots into each target, freestyle. Par time is 2.0 seconds. Change start position (hands at sides, surrender, palms on wall, etc.) every 5 reps.
Block 2 – Start facing away from targets. On signal, turn, draw, and fire 2 shots into each target, reload from the belt and fire 2 more shots into each target. Par time is 4.5 seconds.
Block 3 – Mark out a 3’x3′ shooting area on the floor with blue tape – start outside the shooting area with one foot touching the tape. On signal, draw and fire 2 rounds into T2, move quickly across the shooting area, then fire 2 more rounds into T2 from outside the shooting area, opposite the start position. Part time 3.2 seconds.
Block 4 – Use the same shooting area. Start outside the shooting area with one foot touching the tape. On signal, draw and fire 2 shots into each target while moving across the shooting area. The last shot has to be fired before you leave the shooting box. No par time.
That’s one example, there’s a whole universe of others. For myself, I’ve been trying to incorporate more movement into my dry practice, because it’s a weak spot in my game. For someone new to shooting, they’re going to want to spend more time initially on draws, reloads, and target transitions. Especially target transitions. Transitions are the back squat of practical shooting.
https://www.army.mil/article/227278/soldiers_test_new_combat_focused_marksmanship_qualification
here are the details
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/12/29/new-in-2020-army-revamps-rifle-qualifications-and-small-arms-training/
The old test had 20 rounds fired prone with sandbag supports, 10 rounds prone and no supports, and 10 rounds kneeling. Targets were 50 to 300 m away with a bias towards shorter ranges. Soldiers needed to hit 23 out of 40 to qualify. The tower gave commands about when to change position and magazines. 2 magazine changes overall.
The new test has the first round fired while standing, immediately drop, and shoot 9 targets from the prone unsupported, then 10 prone supported, then 10 kneeling, and 10 standing. 3 magazine changes overall, no command from tower on when to change (you get 4 10 round mags, if I remember correctly). The target ranges and number of hits to qualify are the same as the old test.
The old test had 20 rounds fired prone with sandbag supports, 10 rounds prone and no supports, and 10 rounds kneeling
*sigh*
For me, it is more of a [Kif sigh]
Over and over and over…
The sigh was that is considered the “old” qual.
I remember when it was 20 rounds standing supported(in a hole) and 20 rounds prone supported.
Plus night and chemical mask firing. No hits were required but the firing was still required to complete the qual.
16 rounds zero, 20 rounds KD range, 40 rounds Qual, 20 rounds night and 10 rounds mask fire. (106 rounds total). What actually happened, 9- 16 rounds zero, 40 qual, get out of here
At Ord, it was standard practice to score a shooter as expert if they managed to start a range fire which gave us the rest of the day off.
This Russian Olympian got the gold in shooting by training with the SCATT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr5xu2W8rho
Sounds more expensive than ammo.
Speaking only for myself, the problem was never ammo. The problem was access to a shooting range.
Initially, maybe. But if you want guys to fire thousands of times per year, certainly cheaper than real ammo.
And anyway, the Army has used lasers and paintball for training before:
https://www.army.mil/article/75725/simulation_ammo_allows_for_true_to_life_training
Back in the Cold War MOUT training was done with BB guns and goggles.
Democrats now taking applications for sexual assault accusers.
RBG had 8 years of Obama to retire in if she wanted a D to replace her.
But she needed more time to be even more stunning and brave.
I choose to believe that she bought into the Dem propaganda about permanent majorities and Hillary having a 98% chance to win, so she decided she could wait until she was good a ready to retire. It’s funnier that way.
I don’t doubt that in the least.
100% this.
Where I work, everyone’s on the older side. I’ve seen people who were way over ripe and still refused to retire. There’s a type who just doesn’t want to do it. Gotta suck having national politics sway your decision. Although, they just paid a shitload of our people to take that plunge. Purged most of the eligible. I guess that’s pretty much being swayed by national politics.
So do they actually need to replace RBG, or is she just going to be voting by mail from now on?
This is an underrated joke, right here.
Here is my anthem this weekend.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ajjX2_Eygu4
I’ve heard from my wife and a very liberal friend that Trump is just too indecent to vote for.
Apparently saying naughty things is a bridge too far. Given this failed last time, is this residual programming, Pitt a renewed push on this front?
“he’s vulgar! – the man with indications of serious cognitive decline is obviously the better choice”
I do not find that a convincing argument.
My neighbor told me Trump was crude and dishonest and I responded “so, he’s a politician?” His response was, “yes, but he’s open about it.” So, apparently being disgusting in private and covering it up is marginally better than being disgusting in public.
It’s a bullshit excuse, because they are fine voting for a guy with a history of DOING perky things….
My girlfriend didn’t like me pointing that out when she told me Trump’s pussy grabbing comment offended her…
this is pretty cool – turns out the logistic equation is a form of the Mandelbrot Set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovJcsL7vyrk
Thx Derpy, that was fun. It led to some other intersting too.
Neph,
Sorry I won’t be able to catch up in person. I’ve had family stuff since I’ve been down here and it looks to extend until I leave early next week.
Good god I cannot wait to be back home.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WKJO67NszfA
This is how I imagine Mojeaux every single time
Someday we’ll be together, my sweetheart
God help her, I’m a drunkard who’s obsessed with the Moody Blues, and she’s a wonderful lady who can’t help it, she captivates me, but god help us, together we’re… some terrible conglomeration of those two things.
Nothing? Oof.
And here I’ve been growing my hair out like Justin Hayward. That’s embarrassing. I guess I’ll just… hang out then? I mean… all this long hair cascading around my head and neck, it’s pretty… pretty. It’s very pretty. I’m a very pretty man.
I will drape my long locks across your stupid receding hairline for like a couple dollars. I’m not above that.
I’m not a singer in a rock and roll band.
I’m not a singer in a rock and roll band.
I will judge you for requiring that I lay my long locks along your receding hairline, you bald motherfucker. I will, in fact, call you a balding motherfucker whilst I lay my luxurious locks across your horrible balding pate. It will be humiliating for you, but rest assured, I’ll be weeping for you, too.
Justin Hayward? I am Justin motherfucking HAWKINS. Do you believe in a thing called love? You will, when you see my beautiful hair cascading down across the shoulders. Keep in mind, it’s pay per stroke. You’ll hate yourself when you see the bill.
I am having so much fun, is nobody else up tonight?
I’m here sort of. And this is quite amusing. Nothing wrong with the Moody Blues.
In which case you get the super special
Trying out for Agile’s late night slot? Different vocabulay but similar vibe,
Carry on.
It’s me, your Cathy
model airplane flies via Magnus effect, with spinning KFC buckets instead of wings:
https://youtu.be/K6geOms33Dk?t=509
Pretty freaky.
Simple but sublime.
https://twitter.com/UncleHotep/status/1307158262970753024
My exact quote: OH JEEZ
Well, now that they’re threatening me with even more mob violence, I am persuaded!
Huh. Now Facebook is blocking any public page with a requirement to login. Was working a couple of hours ago.
T imes like these are when I don’t get people. You’d think the hysteria prompted by the death of a Supreme Court Justice might spur them to reflect that maybe bestowing these people with so much power isn’t the best idea, but noooooooo……
You slay me.
I’m coming to love Ricky Gervais.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/09/18/such-bravery-pretty-sure-taylor-swift-wont-be-able-to-shake-it-off-after-reading-this-savage-zinger-from-ricky-gervais/
Yeah, he means it when he says “I don’t care.” He never needs to work another day in his life, so he speaks his mind with not a care about the consequences.
I’d love to work like that: win the lottery and then keep doing my regular job my way, taking more risks, and truly righting the ship.
ah, nightmare fuel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_monk
SEA SMITH seek forgiveness from SEA MONK?
The way my cat leapt up onto the desk on encountering sea monk, I’m given to think the threat is very real.
Cucumbers frighten cats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7vML9C3PZk
Which is interesting, because cats will fight almost anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqQPv78AMw0
At least the end of Ghost we don’t have to worry about
So new supreme court appointment in your future
Morning glibbies
Night Pie!
Trump orders corpse of William Rehnquist exhumed for nomination to second, unprecedented, post-mortem term on SCOTUS
Even dead, he would employ sounder logic and reasoning than Kagan.
We just bought a 12′ X 24′ soft shed. Plenty of room for the popcorn supply!
I hereby put forward Mr. Judge Reinhold to be the next SCOTUS Justice.
Don’t people even knock anymore? God…
She really had no qualifications and was admitted way too political.
Fuck Kagan.
Yeah, her and the “Wise Latina” too.
As if her specific ethnicity grants special awareness and powers… Fuck off, you racist harpy.
It’s about 44 degrees F out here at Tranquility Base. I had to trade my sandals for fuzzy slippers and my short-sleeved pajama top for a long-sleeved thermal one under my Hueston Woods State Park hoodie, but by golly I’m out here!
Good morning, Glibbies!
Nice product placement. Mornin’ Red! How’s new kitteh?
Mornin’, Fes! New kitteh is great! I went into Tom T’s office to check on him when I got up, and he was waiting and happy to get petting. He’d also emptied his food bowl, so I gave him some breakfast. He pushed my hand away with his head almost before I could pour the kibble in the bowl.
Can’t wait until we can let him out into the house to get to know Alpha Cat.
(the REST OF the house, that is.)
Awesome! I love a happy ending.
Its finally autumn.
I wonder how much longer my tomatoes will last.
We got one picking of beans this year. It was so goddamn wet and miserable this “summer”.