Buenos dias Gliberinos!
You might notice this week being a holiday shortened week, a number of irregulars will be providing links. Hopefully, we’ll be back to our regular scheduled programing next week.
Either that or we will continue to wing it.
Up first, Foreign Policy magazine predicts a post Coronavirus “lost decade” for Latin America.
Thats it. Cancel Mexico. Cancel the Cayoacan Volkswagen dealership. Cancel it all. What do they think this is, Argentina? Goddamn Nazis crawling all over the place.
Speaking of Argentina, this might be the most awful thing I read before Sugarfree today.
Mexican public health overlords say they are on a “sustained Corona decline“. Having no idea how they define such things, I’ll let you deicide for yourself.
In case you needed more fodder to argue against the efficacy of the lockdowns. Peru had one of the earliest, most oppressive lockdowns in the world—and now is second in the world (behind San Marino) in per capita death. Not that NPR plans to make that connection, ever.
I suppose that’s enough. Here’s a classic tune.
So like every other decade?
If Africa is God’s Blind Spot as some claim, what does that make South America? God’s Lost Wallet?
God’s couch. All those riches, just lost in the cushions waiting for someone to find it.
Heh.
I thought that was Siberia?
“I’ll let you deicide for yourself.”
A little early for idol-smashing, though.
Howdy JATNAS! Long time no see!
Thank you! Project I planned to work on this morning at work won’t be happening, so it’s a little slow here.
Its a good thing that Peru locked down so hard, or they would be #1
Buenos dias, ohayo gozaimasu, guten morgen, Henry Morgan, Morgan Fairchild, Fairchild Semiconductor, semiconductor biz is ridiculously busy right now.
“It is strictly against Volkswagen policy to portray the truth of our history.”
“The Coyoacan Volkswagen dealership in southern Mexico City displayed a number of historic photos of the bug, including one of a 1938 rally”
So it sounds like the photo was just one picture in a huge display.
At what point will WWII be able to be considered as just another facet of history that doesn’t create knee-jerk reactions like this? I mean, it ended 75 years ago.
‘At what point will WWII be able to be considered as just another facet of history that doesn’t create knee-jerk reactions like this?’
Not before anyone and everything I disagree with for any reason stops being literally Hitler.
Maybe when there are no longer any socialists left to worry about the great war between national and international socialists.
^
I like your optimism.
In the 1890’s were people still talking about Napoleon and Waterloo like they were the most important thing ever? Granted there is a difference in evil there, but Napoleon conquered more of Europe than that Austrian guy.
I think a small part can be attributed to the fact that much of the modern regime was born from WWII. Thats where you get the modern American Warfare State, and the UN.
Yes, and it kept up until the generals in WWI ran out of peasants to run into machine gun fire. There were French generals writing poetry about the beauty and majesty of the bayonet charge (which is an extension of Napoleanic romaticism) post Somme.
I don’t recall railcars full of humans sent to be liquidated, though.
Hence the “difference in evil part” i wrote and you quoted.
Also, those are examples of people looking at Napoleon with Admiration. Were the British worked up in a froth about it still in1890?
I’m not arguing that Hitler was just like napoleon or that we make what he did was worse than it was. I’m just saying that there seems to be a strange cultural fixation on making the nazis a unique evil.
But i guess we were calling the germans the “Hun” in WWI so i guess we should get used to it lasting for the next 1600 years.
At what point will
WWIIthe Holodomor, the Bataan Death March, the Great Leap Forward, the Killing Fields be able to be considered as just another facet of history that doesn’t create knee-jerk reactions like this? I mean, it ended 75 years ago.I added a few more to the list that we can handwave away. I wouldn’t make a scene about it, but I wouldn’t patronize any businesses that are supporters of any of these. None of these are so far in the past that they haven’t fed into movements existing today, including BLM and Antifa here in America.
I don’t think the VW dealership was glorifying the Nazis, though! From the article, it sounds like they put up a little display with pictures of the VW throughout its history. Some folks saw that one of the pictures was from the Nazi era, and had a conniption fit. To me, this is an overreation.
I thought it was showcasing the VW in a Nazi rally. It’s like a firearm maker showing off a picture of their rifles in the hands of Japanese soldiers during the Death March in their headquarters lobby or a blade manufacturer showcasing a picture of their bayonets being used by the Khmer Rouge. It’s an incredibly stupid business decision.
That’s assuming the owner even knew exactly what he was looking at.
I’m waiting for the “cancel history” folks to demand that the museum in Taos remove the display that shows Indian blankets with swastikas on it. Never mind the accompanying explanation that it took a while before people unhappily decided to abandon a thousand year tradition of using a peaceful symbol that got coopted by the national flavor of socialism.
– 1 OK sign
Where outside of Libertarian circles and the locales where these events occurred do those items ever come up?
I never got Korn.
Crunchy rap metal and bad posture.
They don’t do it for me either. *shrug*
Deftones, or GTFO.
^^^
What about the ones who aren’t deft?
They have to make due with being Del:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5h3Rb42Ynkg
It would have worked better had I said “They must make due with the hand they’ve been Delt.” but, I’m kinda slow…
They’re daft.
More like Deaftones. Every song sounds the same.
I like Korn alright.
Someone wasn’t an angsty teen during the late 90’s early 2000’s.
I was an angsty 30 year old.
^^^
I was angsty, but not a teen….caught up in those Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq thingees.
Their superpowers were fairly lame.
I was going to mention that they had starred in one of the greatest South Park Episodes.
My girl’s boyfriends seemed to like the band and they were on South Park. That’s my knowledge.
Your girl needs to either find a better class of boyfriends, or join a convent.
They’re doing fine. Relatively wealthy. Korn boys don’t go into the trades and buy acreage and real estate. A few years of my angst is a small price to pay.
I was willing to give it a shot just now… holy crap. It’s as bad as I remember.
I never got Korn.
Perhaps this is more to your liking? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A
Well, it’s very similar to sh/bash, but designed to make use of vi commands in editing command lines.
I like Phishshell myself.
Korn has one redeeming quality . . . they aren’t as bad as Limp Bizkit.
:Magic hand wave: “This is not the Glib that you were expecting…”
Meant in reply to Drake. I can’t do much of anything right, lately.
Ontario and B.C. are doubling down.
It’s pretty amazing to watch States and Provinces inch towards acting like the retards in New Zealand and Australia.
It’s like they pay NO attention to Europe who have quietly pivoted from ‘not opening’.
It’s like Sweden was erased from the map.
Canada is in hyper precautionary mode and this is troubling.
I’m just waiting for Quebec to join them.
They’re panicking over ‘outbreaks’. We went from 185 cases to 215! What the heck are these idiots and fools going to do if the fall/winter is bad?
Meanwhile Tam in her last presser had her face buried in her notes rarely looking into the camera gibberishly trying to bridge the gap of high cases and low hospitalizations and why we need to stay scared.
CLOWN SHOW.
I can only surmise that they are buttering us up for permanent lockdown. They just have to handwave away what we see in front of our eyes until flu season ramps up and gives them the crisitunity they’re looking for.
Who is this “they?” Trump is responsible. Trump. Trump. Repeat endlessly until Nov. 3rd.
Last 20 years: We should be more like Sweden!
2020: Sweden who?
I’ve suddenly become much more worried Rufus and it’s for exactly the reason that you state. Everyone else seems to be coming to their senses and we’re digging in deeper.
Very worried.
They made their bed when they locked down, and are only now realizing that it won’t make a bit of difference. There will be more deaths, and they will slowly inch up to 400 – 600 deaths per million. But that can happen quickly so they are blamed for killing the economy and killing grandma, or they can do it slowly, in which case every media-karen will carry water for them, proclaiming them the saviors of grandmas everywhere.
Pretty much Overt. I was always expecting them to pivot this way, I suppose that means that I’m more disappointed in how many of my fellow citizens seem to be buying it.
Yes. They’re just delaying the inevitable and prolonging the pain.
We shoulda just taken our lumps in one shot like Sweden and be down with it.
This ‘suppression’ theory is Chinese water torture.
Nightclubs shut down and just like Ohio, last call is 10 pm. They really do believe in eugenics, don’t they? I’m hating Bonny Henry with a white hot fire just about now. Big Gay Jeff at work just came back from his imposed quarantine wherein every time he and Hubby tried to get their tests verified they were stifled at every juncture. Turns out Government workers don’t much like when Big Gov sets its sights on you, personally. He tried to bring up that Sturgis bullshit and I said , “One death so far”. Maybe I’ll turn him to the dark side and he can join the Log Cabin Glibertarians.
I’ve mentioned it before, but at least one Ohio City is trying to get an exemption from the 22:00 last call. The reasons are… questionable:
There’s nothing else that could be spurring violence in a (relatively) large city going on, is there?
Isnt that exactly why England finally got rid of the 10 pm last call?
Too many drunks in the street at same time.
Never separate Europeans or North Americans from the spigot. It is a fool’s errand.
At least you have a last call.
When I mentioned that death rates are way down he tried to say it was just like the flu and it usually takes the weakest amongst us in nursing homes and the like. I just nodded and said that’s usually what viruses do. He’s the one that I told months ago about covid positive patients being placed in long term care facilities and didn’t believe me. I told him in parting that I’ve been watching this pretty closely sin about Jan/Feb. Hopefully food for his thought but so many people that I work with are just filled to the brim with this shit-show koolaid.
Big Gay Jeff?
Large gentle giant that I work with. Uber-prog and so very sincere that it is hard to tell a joke in front of him. Jesus. Do you even South Park?
Argentina is such an interesting place, and would be a great place to be an expat if it weren’t for all the dickheads running their government
Plus all the blonde Ex-pats from long ago! Sorta like California in the 70’s.
To be fair, isn’t every country ruined by the dickheads Running their government?
Ruined vs slowed down.
A VW dealership in Mexico City apologized Tuesday for a photo hanging in its offices that showed a VW bug at a Nazi rally and the automaker pledged to take unspecified “actions” in the case.
I guess we need to cancel BMW, Mercedes, etc who all made stuff during the Nazi regime.
They don’t realize when they act this way this is how you get, well, people to ‘revisit’ Nazism.
I would prefer if Mexico apologized for being a socialist shithole.
Foreign Policy and UN experts say Latin America is going to be in a bad place?
Go long on Latin American Stocks fellas!
“Look Fat! If I’m gonna Deicide I’ll be the one who picks the method! Fire, locust Swarms, loss of my first-born? That’s not up to you, Corn Pop!”
Good morning, Señor!
Thanks for the enlaces del sur!
Although things are looking kind of rough down there.
Fuck ‘inequality’. And fuck ‘food insecurity’. The extreme poverty and coming starvation is 100% attributable to terrible governments and their fucked up responses to the ‘vid. I fucking detest these little buzz phrases and the pinch-faced little shits that keep trotting them out.
Inequality isn’t a problem. Shutting down worldwide shipping is. We can argue that exporting our shitty diet to poor countries, but the simple fact is that there are gonna be a shit-ton of dead people that didn’t need to die.
It makes me crabby.
Maybe having your musical selection playing while reading the lynx was a contributing factor…
Nevertheless, I hope each and every one of you mocks and ridicules a lefty in your life today. Do it for the children!
My complete disgust and anger towards politicians and UNELECTED health officials who are dictating from behind has never been higher.
Venezuela: What’s the problem? We were already in misery!
I am with you on this Tundra. These fuckers are not blaming the response taken by the ruling class for the economic devastation it caused. I guess these kinds of people exist everywhere. You know, the ones that only blame politicians from the other party if they can’t blame the Kung Flu itself.
Maybe having your musical selection playing while reading the lynx was a contributing factor…
Noted. No love for Korn around here… let me try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9HGwRbMiVY
Ooooh. Good one!
This is the second “Teacher drops dead in the middle of class” story in as many days. I’m skeptical.
I figured it was the same one. No?
Anyway this exact line triggered my autonomic “go fuck yourself” response.
You have on of those too? Mine usually gets set off whenever someone pisses down my back and tells me that its raining. Nervy!
I was looking for the part of the article where they described the health conditions or lack thereof of the teacher prior to this. Crickets.
Mildly off topic, as I realized that the NFL is starting on Sunday. With no tailgating here in CLE, I have a feeling a lot of bars are going to be seeing this as their last grasp to stay open. I’m hoping for a lot of civil disobedience to the rules, and if I find a bar that’s doing it, that’s the one I’ll stay at to watch the Browns lose.
Went to see the barber yesterday. It was just the two of us so we removed the retard masks. He told me that he has a couple of cops as clients and they told him they’re quality not enforcing the mask mandates because they know it’s bull shit.
Governments have pushed their luck. They’re too stupid to know it’s time to pull back. They will create as much angst as possible. What infuriates me is just how narcissistic and tone deaf they are. The Ontario health minister was thanking Ontarians for willingly accepting to destroy their own lives to ‘stop the spread’.
It’s maniacal to the point of sheer astonishment.
And that fat fuck Doug Ford that piece of lard. /fist in mouth.
Doug is a hero Rufus. A hero.
If you told me we are just part of a dystopian novel I would say that it fits too perfectly to be accurate.
That and they’ve already got half the population shaking in their boots. There is no other way forward from their perspective. Tell people, “hey everyone, it’s mostly over – go back to your lives now”? Yeah, right. Not gonna happen.
That’s why they should be saying, ‘Look, it’s at levels we can manage. We did our best. Let’s move forward cautiously. Drop the masks and live life’.
Nope.
It’s constant reminding death is around the corner.
It’s like they have ZERO training of any kind on human psychology. Or they do, and just don’t care. Which makes THEM the sociopaths – heck, even psychopaths.
They can’t go that route without it dawning on lots of those people who are currently quaking in their boots that the government fucked up, royally.
Therefore, they won’t go that route.
They don’t have the guts. They lose credibility if they do.
What they’ve been promising to do for decades with climate change they’re finally getting to do with coronavirus.
This.
Exactly Rhy.
I equate it with Prohibition. In a matter of weeks it was obviously a disaster. The people who championed it were aware of the disaster they created but they would never admit to a huge mistake. Every “dry” politician was a “wet” behind closed doors but most journalists (wets themselves) were too chickenshit to point out the hypocrisy. People were more interested in saving face and continuing the disaster than admitting they were responsible for the disaster. People eventually supported Franklin Delano Hitler just because he let them drink.
I equate it, but this is probably worse; at least Prohibition came from legislation. The governors and bureaucrats are choosing to ruin the economy just so they can appear to save face and they don’t want anybody choosing another path because it might expose the bureaucrats to genpop as the fools they are.
Why would they pull back? People who live for controlling the lives of others seized more power, and so far, haven’t lost their jobs. They won’t voluntarily relinquish the sweet, sweet joy of ordering us around. They have to suffer consequences, or be replaced, or it won’t happen.
For all of our cartoony Glibs:
If this asshole’s work can get published by DC, you can succeed bigly.
Wow.
I’d like to think the artist was trying to drive the aspies insane, but somehow I don’t think that’s the case.
I would guess digital artwork, with the tub, toilet, plunger, and background as saved assets. Just drop them in and you’re done!
You would be correct. I can tell from the pixels.
I member that one. Just proves, you need to hire LICENSED contractors! /statist
You’re misinterpreting the data.
This is not showing that the bar to entry is low. It’s showing that the bar to entry isn’t measuring art and logic.
Geert Wilders convicted again for speaking unpleasant truths. Reading his speech at the end, it sounds like the Dutch justice system is as crooked as Seattle or Portland’s.
Similar trials coming soon to a country near you (maybe).
Fucking Europe has gone batshit insane when it comes to calling out the inadequacies of the ruling class and their pet peeves. Telling the low birth rate marxist that they are forced to import more cattle to keep their free shit system going became unpopular despite the masses not wanting that, so they decided to ban any talk about how fucked up they are.
Mexican public health overlords say they are on a “sustained Corona decline“.
Corona is trash beer anyway.
That’s true. Negra Modelo is my go-to beer at Mexican restaurants.
I’ll even take a Modelo Especial.
I usually go the Dos Equis route myself.
Victoria is a good one too.
That’s Modelo Strong African American Woman, bigot.
Going the way of AYDS diet candy.
Remind me again why we have this organization.
United Nations
@UN
The #COVID19 pandemic is demonstrating what we all know: millennia of patriarchy have resulted in a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture which damages everyone – women, men, girls & boys.
“what we all know”
We all know about patriarchy. Some of us just aren’t admitting it. Since this is a self-evident fact, obvious to everyone, that means those who disagree must have a malicious reason for denying a clear truth.
“We” meaning “roomful of government bureaucrat hacks”, I presume.
to launder our politically connected elites money.
To molest kids and women while exporting international marxism & death and misery?
“I think we can both agree that….”
No, we cant. Now go fuck yourself.
Even that lefty Seth McFarlene roasted what the UN was about in an episode of American Dad.
So what does the UN plan to do about those pesky, Patriarchal, countries in the Middle East and Africa? You know, the ones where they make women hide their faces, stone them for being in public alone, and mutilate their genitals?
People love those – they are so effective, too.
Interesting rape of the word.
From the Argentina teacher article:
Chris Smith started writing about gadgets as a hobby, and before he knew it he was sharing his views on tech stuff with readers around the world. Whenever he’s not writing about gadgets he miserably fails to stay away from them, although he desperately tries. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Ben Rhodes was right. We are being lectured to by 27-year-old know-nothings.
Also, no pictures in the article to understand the basic health condition of the 46-year-old in question.
Illiterate know-nothings embrace illiberal ideas.
That’s who is determining what gets censored on Facebook, Twitter and youtube. 25 year-old ignoramuses. And their bosses are adult ignoramuses.
It wouldn’t be so bad but they are probably in their mid-30’s
Took this guy to Steel Challenge over the weekend and it was terrible. I’m hoping that it just needs a cleaning since it had run flawlessly until then. There were two types of malfunctions:
Failures to feed. Which of course is one of those types of malfunctions that the Beretta is supposed to be immune to what with it not using a feed ramp and all, but maybe the rimmed cartridges make that system less reliable? I did notice that it seemed to run fine on the first string (chambering the first round from the full magazine), but start choking on the second (when it would begin with 10 in the mag, one in the chamber). Testing it at the range, I had never loaded it to 10+1 before. However, while the problems became less frequent once I downloaded the mags to 9, they did not go away.
‘
Overrunning the slide: this happened three times during this stage, and if the cleaning doesn’t speed up the slide, then this gun is completely useless for this application.
I was shooting CCI standard velocity rounds (both plain lead and polycoated “clean”). I haven’t had any problems with these before, but I never tried shooting fast with this gun until last weekend.
Even if the cleaning makes it run, I don’t know if I’ll be happy with a gun that needs cleaning every 100-150 rounds.
Was the gun lubricated or dry? These are 15-round mags that aren’t feeding 10? Or were they pinned to comply with some stupid arbitrary law?
They are NY-legal (assuming pinned) 10 round magazines by Umarex. I put some FP-10 on the slide rails <200 rounds back.
Interestingly, for the 9mm version, both 10 round magazines that use the entire magazine length and pinned standard capacity mags are available. They both work fine for me, but the non-pinned ones are easier to load.
That gun is probably sprung for high-velocity .22LR.
Oh – didn’t realize you had it fitter for .22.
Also – the USMC brainwashed me so that I’m under an irresistible compulsion to clean and lube firearms after every range session.
This is Beretta in name only — built as a .22 in Germany by Umarex. But it has the same dimensions as a real one so I was hoping to get some cross-training benefit out of using it rather than buying a Buckmark or other cheap rimfire pistol.
..which is also why I had those super-thin grips made to match my M9. But in a highly contrasting color so I wouldn’t pull the wrong gun off the safe wall by mistake. Can you imagine how embarrassing that would be?
I do have a box of 38gr HV CCI Blazer that I will be using the next time.
Ben Sasse Calls For Repealing The 17th Amendment
Yes.
Pssst, Ben. Kill the 16th while you are at it.
And the 18th!
And the 19th!
*ducks*
*chuckle*
I mean, i agree with him, but i don’t think his arguments will convince anyone.
I see what this is all about. Senatorial sleep Overs. Maybe we can get SugarFree to comment on that.
You think any senator wants to room with Kamala or Elizabeth?
Rule 34.
The idea that even if this were to pass, Senators would be bunking in the same room is laughable. They are all married. No this would end up being Taxpayer paid for lavish housing A La the Whitehouse. Every Senator would get a 2000sqft Apartment to themselves in a complex.
House not Senate, but Matt Gaetz’s dorm as seen in The Swamp is tiny, a renovated supply closet.
Well, you know Kamala will put out…
Ironically, repealing the 17th will make it possible to gerrymander the senate by gerrymandering the state legislative districts to ensure a given makeup.
Ummm…what? The states already gerrymander the state districts. Whichever party has a majority in the state legislature would choose the senator – they only elect one at a time, so its not like 1/2 the state chooses one and half the state chooses the other. What would be interesting is that a Senator would have to spend significant time back at the state capital or he won’t get reelected. Whoever is the favored son in the legislature (or someone everyone wants to get rid of!) is who gets sent to DC. The incumbent is at a significant disadvantage.
IIRC, Henry Clay kept spending 6 years in DC, then 2 or 4 back home, then sent to DC for a term, then a bit off, then sent back etc.
He spent 4 separate terms in the Senate. The first two looks like they were filling out a term for someone who died (1806-7 and 1810-11), years later he had two terms in a row (1831-42), then another partial term in which he died (1849-52).
Yes it is currently gerrymandered, but that doesn’t impact the outcome of the senate election.
And the communications and transport issues of the 19th century is no longer a limiting factor on schmoozing.
But there would be no need to change the gerrrymandering as it is doing what they would want anyway…keep the majority party in power.
And they would then elect their own to the Senate.
It makes interesting history. McConnell couldn’t have gotten elected to the Senate in the 80s with the Ky state house the way it was. But, he might have engineered the switch from D to R 15 or 20 years earlier than it happened. Or focus on the House seat.
In arguing for the abolition of the 17th Amendment, Sasse pointed to the polarization and nationalization of politics, suggesting that returning control to state legislatures would be a way of implementing local control.
And, you know, it is supposed to be the house of the States.
Jaramillo says that four years ago, he was a member of a presidential commission into the reform of social protection. Its findings came to nothing. He hopes the pandemic will now prompt Peru to learn from past mistakes.
“I hope we don’t waste this opportunity to … create a real system of social protection and make a serious effort to formalize the economy,” he says.
When all you have is a hammer and sickle…
*spits out coffee*
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Eight weeks from today we have the opportunity to choose democracy over creeping authoritarianism.
Dignity and respect over corruption and lawlessness.
Building back better over continued chaos.
A plan over a pandemic.
Unity over division.
Is this bitch serious?
Or you could vote for Biden.
^^^^THIS^^^^
If it means being united with you, then you can go fuck yourself.
Build Back Better is one of the dumbest, if not the dumbest, political slogan in American history.
Might as well say “we’re gonna shove socialism down your throat!”
Up your ass is more like it…
One of, sure. But not the dumbest.
“The Union must and shall be preserved!”
It really went downhill after Hope&Change.
It would have even if she had won; where do you go after that? Conserve all the goodness of his Obamessiahness?
Sir Mix A Lot begs to differ.
IFHate the “Build Back Better” slogan. Sounds like something from a grade school class election.
And furthermore, https://twitter.com/SHEPMJS/status/1290223282776444929
https://www.pa.gov/guides/responding-to-covid-19/
In pa starting the 21st to get your restaurant back at 50% capacity you have to get certified by a new certificate that I’m sure costs money. Also your no longer allowed to sell alcohol after 10pm.
We live in a dystopian novel and are lead by retarded puritans. In all honesty I’d like one intrepid reporter to ask that health admin data looking tranny how they expect to get laid going forward if alcohol sales are suspended after 10.
They only point to “you are more likely to congregate” for the bar closures. No actual data and people eat it up and impose their deep seeded desire to control other peoples actions.
Also, bars are historically where freedom was born and people exchange ideas and….conspire!
I almost wish our leadership was that historically literate about american sedition and insurrection movements alas it’s just the first part.
“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we. Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
You know who else got their start in a bar….
Where the fuck did this 22:00 last call bullshit come from? It’s spreading now…
The people who tend to go to bars probably. Doesn’t affect old timers…they go at 6am when they open. Doesn’t affect the Happy Hour crowd, they are out before 6pm.
This entire year has been a titanic exemplar of “mass hysteria”.
It ain’t over yet…November will be lit AF.
Nice business you have there. Pay us and we’ll let you keep half of it.
Peru’s per capita COVID-19 mortality rate of 93.28 per 100,000 is higher than that of any other nation except the tiny European republic of San Marino (population: 34,000), according to an analysis by Johns Hopkins University.
.01%. What percentage of Peruvians die of heart disease? Or infection?
You’re off by an order of magnitude. 1 in a thousand is 0.1%.
MSM heads explode.
Just weeks after helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), President Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
The nomination submitted by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament, lauded Trump for his efforts toward resolving protracted conflicts worldwide.
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde, a four-term member of Parliament who also serves as chairman of the Norwegian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, told Fox News in an exclusive interview.
You know they are going to ignore this in the dnc operatives with bylines circles and lobby hard to kill it. Bad orange man getting a prize for something that matters would taint black Jesus’ legacy since he got his for not being that asshat Bush.
We’re gonna need a bigger bowl of popcorn.
He’s up against Greta! How dare he!
Is he really? Are there betting odds on Nobel Prizes?
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Building back better over continued chaos.
Once we bribe the feral children into submission, the Clinton Foundation’s crack team of political consultants and economic advisors can begin the serious work of administering trillions of dollars in federal urban renewal grants.
Man these polls are everywhere. But Biden does appear to be picking up some lost ground after the bump from the GOP convention. So maybe the “trump resurgent” was just ephemeral. Or maybe Biden will get relaxed and go back to sleeping in his basement. Not like they will let him out for an inauguration anyway.
Polls mean shit.
I still think Trump takes MN and WI. There are a LOT of angry people here.
Proof that when Trump wins their will be riots. If you want peace, pleas vote Dem. /washington post.
Hmmm. People who want power so much that they will burn the place to the ground to get it. Why not just give them the power so they will leave us alone after?
/sarc
https://www.facebook.com/Freedom.Libertarians/photos/a.305526180033882/305526246700542/?type=1&theater
To repeat a stupid internet joke I read must mean Odell Beckham Jr loves polls
I don’t know what to believe. I can’t imagine being happy about voting for Biden. 60% of the vote going his way has to be people just hoping they’ll just stop with this bullshit if he wins.
Oh. I’m sorry, Mr. Cunt-hen. Were you talking?
Maddow asked, “Over time, do you feel like his sentience has declined, in what you described in him spelling or the way that he speaks or sometimes has trouble with words. Is he as —has that changed over time? Is he the same person that speaks now that you recognize working with him for all those years?”
Cohen said, “He’s not the same person that I knew going back years ago. He was always gruff. He was always a certain way, but the power that he now has has gone to his head. He wants to be an autocrat. He wants to be the president of this country for life.”
He continued, “He wants to be just like Putin, just like Kim Jong-un, like Maduro, like Mohammad Bin Salman. He doesn’t want to run for president. That’s why he says 12 more years? He’s not joking. He doesn’t have a sense of humor. He doesn’t laugh or tell jokes. He doesn’t have a sense of humor. He means it when he says it. My book is intended to really open the eyes of the 38% base of his that no matter what Donald Trump does it’s acceptable to them. And he doesn’t care and they don’t care. He wasn’t joking again when he said he could kill someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it. He means it.”
It’s like if I take everything you say and reverse it I will have the truth. And holy shit they are progjecting hard on the mental decline.
I think that some of them think that the best tactic to defuse “Biden is demented” is to attack Trump as being demented. I don’t know if that will work so well
There was was that one Twit that they had to take down that showed BOM wandering around looking lost and it turned out he was just going back to escort his Wife around a puddle. Two million views and however many re-tweets.
Grade school politics, again. I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!
Progjection: It’s what’s for dinner.
All they have is projection. Biden literally said yesterday Trump was the one who wanted to defund the police. We live in a twilight zone episode.
Biden can’t be held accountable for what Kamala says.
CNN rates that as true in their fact check…Trump wanting to defund, not Biden.
That article fact-checking the RNC or whatever was breathtaking in its density of derp.
The truth is whatever the prog master class tell you it is. And the fucking idiots that think because they are progs they are smarter than those Neanderthal others, as well as better people because being woke means you care, just swallow that shit sammich and ask for seconds.
They’re buying all this on the words of Michael Cohen, one of the sleaziest fuckers on the face of the planet? If he told me the sky was blue I’d have to go outside and check.
Totally OT, we had a carpet cleaning crew show up at one of my sites today when all the big shots were in the middle of a conference call. I suppose my little hissy-fit from a few weeks ago must have had some effect because the parent company doesn’t even try to work with me anymore. If they asked nicely I could be there to open the doors in the off-hours. They’re running scared and flailing about. Festus stands proud! They have to come around. They have no choice.
Totally OT, we had a carpet cleaning crew show up at one of my sites today when all the big shots were in the middle of a conference call – when you need to get rid of a body there is no time for conference calls.
^Funny!
That gun is probably sprung for high-velocity .22LR.
Is it a 9mm with a .22 conversion kit on it? I have feed/cycle problems, sometimes, with the 1911 with the conversion kit on it, and I think it’s because the hammer spring is too stiff. I have looked at getting a lighter spring from Wolf, but haven’t gotten around to it.
Maybe that would help Not Adahn’s Beretta.
I have three 1911-22’s. I had a kit once…it didnt work so well. The ones I have now are dedicated .22’s and they all run smooth as silk.
Sean: If you want to use for competition get a Sig 1911-22. The slide is aluminum. Sight…pull the trigger and watch the slide move with virtually no rise. When it re-seats the sights are still right where y ou put them before shooting.
The two I have with steel slides jolt back and up, then forward and down as the slide reaches the back and fore limits of movement. It does that just from the weight of the slide moving. The SIG? Virtually no movement.
*looks around*
I think you mean Not Adahn.
I just took this out for a test drive over the weekend:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/dDLbxxbdTF2CneuEjqqt-A.MygJ4i1Y9p6IcL5nErByWh
Super smooth and stays right on target. Fixed barrel, great sights, and an oversized grip.
Ooooh, that’s pretty. What model is it?
I see my question was answered, above.
Yeah, it’s a testament that ze Germans can build mediocre stuff too. Fit and finish is far inferior to an actual M9. Also, even though it’s called an M9-22, it doesn’t have the M9 sights, it has the 92FS ones (which I don’t like as well as the M9 style).
At the fun shoot, it ran perfectly. So hopefully it’s just a cleaning issue and not a “das ist nicht designedignen fur der schnellshuss.”
Technically the Bee, but it is accurate enough to have been put in NotTheBee:
https://babylonbee.com/news/names-of-prominent-criminals-displayed-on-street-corner
https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-man-pleads-guilty-to-illegal-explosives-after-popular-science-article-describes-his-pyrotechnics/572352472/
Don’t talk to Journalists should be added to the “Don’t talk to cops” notice.
Busted by the union bosses for doing his own thing?
I see, on the google news, the NYT has an opinion piece about how the electoral college will destroy America. I’m not going to read it.
I don’t need to be lectured by another historically illiterate moron. Want “democracy”? Go live in Greece.
Go live in Greece. – what if you are neither gay nor hairy?
Then you better like olive oil wrastling matches accompanied by ouzo shots…
I really hope California, Oregon and Washington secede over it.
At first I thought I’d be ok with this, then I realized within 3 years they’d be full of Chinese nukes.
I bet it would be sooner.
There would also be vast terrorist training camps aimed at destabilizing and destroying the rest of the country. Would end up like a giant Palestine.
Would their 0 emission tanks be able to get over the mountains to invade the rest of the USA?
They’re going to have a problem invading AZ, avoiding the Indian reservations. Unless they invade them, they will get funneled and diverted in Southern AZ.
Probably the pointy end, though. They would even f that up.
….and take Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts with them.
We must then institute strict border and immigration controls.
Yes, I too have watched Superman (1978), where Gene Hackman heroically attempted to remove NJ and CA from the continental United States.
The EC is hard to cheat so lets get rid of it so we can cheat easier!
I don’t know who said it recently but: If all your election proposals intend to make it less secure, when we don’t need to, we really have to assume you intend to cheat.
The EC would be even harder to cheat on the ME/NE plan. Cheating in one location could swing at most 3 EC votes.
But that is too confusing, and so it would be better if we just had a system where the person who gets the most votes, but not necessarily even the majority wins. As long as her name is Hillary.
Without a majority, it would still go to the House. I know they don’t want that, but if you ended the EC with a vote system, the majority rule should still be in place. Which means most elections would be decided by the House.
The house, where each state only gets 1 vote, i.e making it worse for big states than the electoral college.
You’re making a strong case for having us go to this system, though i doubt such details would be overlooked in the drafting of an amendment to get rid of the EC.
I would favor two changes by amendment:
1. Mandate the ME/NE system.
2. Get rid of actual electors and just award points.
As long as her name is Hillary.As long as there is a D after the candidate’s name.
Ditto the Senate. The only redeeming quality of the Senate is that it can’t be gerrymandered. As it turns out, that’s a pretty strong selling point compared to the House.
Go live in Athens – back in their day the Athenian democracy ruled their empire with an iron fist.
(paraphrasing from someone yesterday) They know why we have the EC – they hope we don’t know.
chive replacement link of the day features a wide array of colors and body types, for diversity
Lounge Swimwear Fashion Show SS2020 Miami Swim Week 2019 Art Hearts Fashion Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SnbvHEaVGg
Damn. They’re kinda too much. I’m kinda like the creepy old guy that watches the ladies next door. Too glossy, much like The Chive…
Why do those ladies all look like they were ridden hard and put away wet?
I like the look of 5:15
Women face hate crime charges after attacking Trump supporters outside DNC
“Violence in any form is unacceptable, but harming another person – let alone a child – because of the expression of their views betrays the principles on which our country was founded,” said Delaware Attorney General Kathleen Jennings, a Democrat who has joined multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration.
Huh. The word seems to have come down from on high. Apropos of nothing, your meme about fire-foot was the best meme.
hate crime laws are an abomination.
Yep.
I saw a yard camera video of one of these Biden hags driving up to someone’s house to steal a Trump yard sign and the person in question is now posting that video to have others identify this crazy bitch and to make her famous. WTF must be wrong with you when you think this sort of behavior makes you a better person? The left likes to remind everyone that their wokitude is what makes them better people, but then you get to see them in action, and they tend to be the worst kind of people.
I don’t remember if these were Trumps signs or not, but I remember laughing my ass off at a video a few years back. A guy’s yard signs kept getting stolen, so he electrified them, and the people who continued to try to steal the signs got a nasty surprise.
There are a couple of lefties in my neighborhood who have those “In this house, we believe blah blah blah” signs. I snicker at them when I drive by, but it would never occur to me to steal someone else’s property because I don’t like what it represents.
Ah yes, the “In this House, We believe… That Science is Real”. Karl Popper would be so proud.
I’ll admit that one gets me. The sheer smugness mixed with utter lack of understanding of the irony of it is too much for me to not to get annoyed.
The scientists are sciencing their way to scientific understanding of sciencey sciences.
Don’t you science bro?
Those signs only tell me the idiots there are hoping because they have the sign up the crocodile will eat them last. That and they are virtue signaling. Why the fuck would I care about advertising to other people so much what I believe unless the objective was to appease and show my compliance with approved thought?
Fucking moronic.
If. you have to tell people you are smart, you arent. if you have to tell people you are funny, you arent. If. you have to tell people you are virtuous….
Polyamory is a choice for some people, but not all. I remember trying to feel bothered when I caught my first (monog) bf sexting someone else because i thought i was supposed to.. When I learned that polyamory was a thing I was like ‘oh, that is obviously exactly what i am’.
I’ve known I was poly for nearly a decade, and the entire time it’s been 100%, no question, no doubt, not once. I’m not attracted to monogamous people. I can’t imagine existing in a monogamous agreement. Polyamory feels like a deep and unchangeable part of me.
For me, it’s not a choice – it’s not like someone chooses to try intermittent fasting, where it’s a preference you can flip on and off depending on the mood or circumstance. It affects my sexual response, my automatic emotions. The thought of monogamy is intensely repulsive.
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1303486111965016064
seems fitting for an onlyfans girl…
Monogamy is just an immutable characteristic of people set at birth.
I agree but some freaks seem to exist
We just need to identify the Monogoamy Gene. Then we can cure it.
I think church can do that
“The thought of being beaten into a pulp by a jealous Boy-Friend has never once occurred to me. The actual idea of my catching an incurable STD is too much!”
Poly is one of those things enabled by cheap contraception and penicillin. Not saying there weren’t easy women before those things, but it was a bit more shameful because of the orphans and the crotch rot.
Orphans and Crotch Rot was my nick-name when I should have been in college.
Damn, no sloopy this morning, as I had some major derp from his cherished alma mater.
Miller is quoted several more times in subsequent paragraphs.
““These SUVs are named after mountains and other places you’ll never go to”
The Chevy Tahoe will drive from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe on less than a tank of gas.
Lies. It’s illegal to drive a Tahoe in California.
Fact Check: Government Motorcades can use the Tahoe to transport high ranking politicians and police, fire, fish and wildlfe, and park rangers can use Tahoe’s.
Mostly true.
De rigueur: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA
I drive my Frontier into the mountains, sometimes on forest service roads of poor enough quality that require 4WD. So, fuck Mr. Ohio State. He can suck my ass.
I know these kinds of people fondle themselves about making cities ban cars, but if you live in, say, the southeast, no one wants to do a shitload of walking in the summer when it’s 97 degrees and 80+% humidity.
Confine that professor to the Columbus city limits and see just how quick he becomes an advocate of unlimited personal means of conveyance.
The vanished cityscape of the pre AC, pre car environment is surprisingly comfortable even in hot climates. Things like street trees, awnings, fountains, orienting the grid offset so there is always a shady side of the street, those are gone. I grew up in a 1920s house. Thick stucco walls. Huge windows with awnings. Front and back porches with enormous shade trees in both yards.
He’d lose his shit if he knew I was about to drop a HT383 and 4L80e in my 96 Suburban.
I will admit that my wife will never drive her Highlander to the Scottish Highlands. She loves the movie though.
Slut shaming
Any doubts that students would find a way to party, even during a pandemic, have been quickly dispelled as COVID-19 cases skyrocketed at colleges around the country. Some colleges promptly canceled in-person instruction, and social media videos and images of partying students helped feed a narrative of irresponsible behavior putting everyone in the university community at risk.
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“I think a lot of students are just like, ‘OK, COVID is a thing, but we’re outside,’” she said. “You can’t really control people … because it’s a college campus and the first two weeks.”
Being outdoors doesn’t guarantee safety from the coronavirus — or the judgment of others.
On Friday afternoon at nearby Lake Monroe, some boaters were alarmed at the sight of students packed together, dancing and drinking in bikinis and swim trunks on four double-decker boats. Three of the boats were tied together so partiers could move freely between them.
One witness described seeing students throwing their bottles, cans and trash overboard into the lake as the party raged on.
“Their sense of entitlement was disillusioning,” Katharine Liell, a local attorney, told USA TODAY.
She said she worries students will bring coronavirus back to the campus, affecting vulnerable groups like elderly professors or service workers. “They all signed an honor code upon returning to campus,” Liell said, referring to IU’s requirement that students promise to follow mask and social distancing guidelines.
“So much for honor.”
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“We want to go dance. We want to have fun. … We’re looking for that dance spot, but we can’t find it,” Dimas said. “They took all the fun out of it.”
Amid the chattering voices of passersby and honking car horns, Dimas conceded she doesn’t always remember to wear her mask, but she supports the measures to halt the virus’ spread, even if her motivations aren’t strictly health driven.
“I do my best to keep the bars open because I want to have as much fun as possible,” she said. “As much as we hate it, we’re doing it.”
The Wages of Sin is Death. Don’t those harlots and libertines know this? When will America find its way to the Path of Righteousness?
Who will lead us into the Light?
Yesterday there was a link showing that despite the 20k positive cases across 30 major universities, it had led to 0 hospitalizations so far.
I think the Robin Hanson Hero Hotel and Orgy* idea was a good one.
*the “and Orgy” added by me, because, realism.
Yesterday, even the NYT admitted that maybe “the aging immune system” was the driver of increased risk.
*maybe* Third paragraph, I’d wager.
In a different oped….
Nope. It’s own article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/health/covid-aging-immune-system.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
So page 20 it is.
Low bar to be sure. Amazing that it appeared at all.
Then they can always claim in the future that they did discuss it.
Damned flappers with their bobbed hair and jazz records!
What do you know? One hundred years just like that! 22 Skidoo!
Heh. I was thinking that just as I hit the submit button.
I always thought the right wing prudes would be the ones trying to bring back Puritanism, but reality has played me hard in that one…
Ah, here’s the difference – reality smacks you upside of the head, and you take notice. That happens to a prog (or right-wing equivalent) and they think some evil force is challenging their faith.
I’m willing to wager a majority of those partying students (that do vote) will still vote for the woke AF assholes pushing this shit though.
To be sure…
My brother in law is finishing up college this year. He said at his university, they are testing the frats and sororities multiple times a week, but not testing the residence halls. His theory is that they are planning to wait until fees are nonrefundable, and then make the Greek Life the scapegoats.
Of course they are.
Scumbags
There is no way I’d have paid for my kid to school this year. They were always going to do this. Most places are straight up saying they aren’t going to have in person learning in the second semester.
Legacies hit hardest.
I’m more troubled by the littering. A crying Indian needs to follow them around in a canoe.
https://twitter.com/B52_tester/status/1303556016433369088
Who is this man, and why haven’t we made him LP Chairman?
Don’t know.
Because he hasn’t sucked up to BLM.
I’m not a party member, but Dave Smith and Tom Woods are starting to make sense on getting a few hundred more members so the Mises Caucus can take over the party. I may have to join up.
Which one? That is the most confusing argument ever.
I’m talking about Jim.
I agree, but I also agree with Dante that there are certain positions you should hold if you are going to call yourself a libertarian.
I think the LP needs to be relatively big tent, but there has to be some standard.
here’s the thing the people you’re talking about don’t want it to be a “big tent” because in doing so it would include icky rural populists.
But the icky rural populists dont want to share a party with cosmo-sipping psuedo-libertarians.
because he’d resign. Being involved with politics is a disgusting form of preening narcissism I’ll never understand. Imagine thinking there’s a gov policy that will solve people’s problems.
Imagine thinking there’s a gov policy that will solve people’s problems.
Progs all point and shriek (a la Donald Sutherland) in IH‘s direction.
There are only so many emojis I am willing to accept in a Twitter handle.
I’ve seen, up close and first hand, how Team affiliation tops reality. People are sheep, afraid to separate from the herd, or rethink core beliefs.
If the US had the death rate of NY/NJ we’d be at half a million. Instead the rest of the US looks like this
That makes the people running N.Y. & NJ heroes! They erm saved the tax payers money or something…
To be fair, no amount of so-called “competent leadership” was going to budge those numbers.
Keeping sick people out of nursing and VA homes? Cleaning the trains? Not restricting Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine access?
They could have budged them in March and April – since then, not much.
Fine, I’ll give you the nursing home stuff. Even though I believe I need to see more than the random numbers and correlations I’m seeing thrown around now.
The trains were being cleaned fairly early on, by April I believe.
The biggest factor has been theorized to be large households in tight spaces. That was never going to change.
Another big factor was international travel, which was never going to change with any conceivable local “leadership”.
Where is JD for comment? Boris intends to introduce curfews and limit all gatherings to six people including pubs and restaurants. How are Pizza Express and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese supposed to make any £ with that? Sadly I once had some hope for BoJo, but his HK offer seems to be the only thing he’s done right so far.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-8713155/CURFEWS-cards-ministers-ban-meetings-six-people-Monday.html
BoJo was always thus, except in the eyes of the insane aka the press where he was a rabid libertarian, like all politicians are in the eyes of the mad
Starting in 2024, movies will need to meet specific inclusion standards in order to be eligible for the best picture Oscar.
https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1303492084477964288
I usually see about 1 of the movies that get nominated. I’m expecting that to go to 0.
However, I see that part of “inclusion” includes disabled people, so maybe it’s time for me to start a new career as an actor. I’ll be in the credits listed as “token person in wheelchair”.
Add gendersparkle to help your chances.
You’ll start getting more Elizabeth Warrens this way.
Let me guess, no requirement to have a Ugeir speaking part, is there?
No, as long as you give credit to the concentration camp administration you should be fine
Good point. This also future proofs the requirements. In 20 years, when there are o Ugeirs, I’m sure there will still be concentration camps.
And a preclusion on Hong Kong revolutionary dramas.
Now I give even less of a shit about the Oscars.
“Hello, my name is Bradley Brown. You may remember me from my performances as ‘Diversity actor #3’ ‘Oscar inclusion requirement #1’ and ‘Quota fill #7’…”
Because Hollywood’s head isn’t far enough up its own ass now. More pretentious claptrap, please!
Are refeeds and diet breaks REALLY beneficial? – Ft. Menno Henselmans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1wQAno0cNc&feature=emb_logo
Menno says mostly no… But the do mostly talk of “unrealistic” body fat percentage
La county is banning trick or treating. We live in absurd times. I thought masks stopped the spread?
People just need to go out. Let all of LA County get arrested…what a shitshow
not even gonna waste an orbital nuke on it?
Cleveland had pushed back the lake front fireworks from the 4th of July to September 19th. Which just got cancelled this week…
I’m willing to wager a majority of those partying students (that do vote) will still vote for the woke AF assholes pushing this shit though.
Because Other People make bad choices, and must be kept on a short leash.
SJWednesday: How I Learned To Be The Most Annoying Person In The Room
She seems like she’s got a void in her that can never be filled.
Are you offering to try?
Don’t stick it in crazy…
The less succinct version is “Don’t stick it in crazy more than once, and make sure they don’t have your correct name, number, or street address.”
When cats learn to read, these people are going to be very lonely.
Perhaps you could also put some eye catching emojis on either side of it to catch the eye – say, some red flags?
“ACLU Staffer Attacks University for Accepting ‘Provocateur in Training’ Nick Sandmann”
https://news.yahoo.com/aclu-official-attacks-university-accepting-142340912.html
If someone disagrees with you ruin them. Guys like this are why the ACLU sucks balls now.
The guy is the douchiest of douchey.
https://www.aclu-ky.org/en/biographies/samuel-crankshaw
Jesus…..just look at him.
stuff of nightmares.
Holy. crap. And just think, that was the best shot they got of him.
He looks like the Joker without the costume or face paint.
At first I read his title as Communications Asshole.
While at Transy, he served on the Student Government Association, was the Program Manager of Transy Bikes
Well, there’s all of the convincing I would need to not attend that college.
Its also why Nick received a huge payout.
There are so many Red Pills out there, but Nick Sandmann has to be a big one. All the kid did was exist, and they are attacking him because? Apart from appearing on the Convention i really don’t know what he’s done politically. Maybe he’s trying to be like David Hogg, but i really haven’t seen it. And you have this guy literally saying that if you are conservative, you are by default not willing to have an open mind and learn, and so shouldn’t be allowed at a university.
Kavanaugh was the moment I realized none of these people are serious or should be taken seriously as subjective or nonpartisan. I understood hating Trump but until that moment I honestly didn’t realize they were willing to destroy someone’s life over total and absolute manufactured bullshit. Not only that but be proud of it.
The journalist’s I’m talking about. The politicians I’ve always figured for absolute scumbags. But the kavanaugh thing caused me to never believe they are honest brokers about anything.
To be fair, the Kavanaugh treatment wasn’t new. They did the same thing to Clarence Thomas, though at least Anita Hill’s accusations had a faint plausibility to them. While I still think the Clinton impeachment was a stupid idea, it makes a bit more sense when you consider how nasty the Thomas and Bork confirmation hearings got. A lot of politics is petty.
Yep. Sandmann was personally responsible for a generation of teenage males who looked at him and said “Holy shit, that could have been me.”
Couldn’t he have gotten into a better college than wherever-it-is?
*Sandmann, not Crankshaw. Guess Transylvania U accepted them both. Never heard of the place; had you, Pie? I would have figured it was a joke from Looney Tunes.
My understanding from an acquaintance who went there is that Transylvania is a pretty good college for the upper crust of KY, and with his settlement money Sandman is now upper crust.
Trump had any sense he’d be pinning medals of honor on the people partying and gathering in groups together. I’d also never do a press conference without the words Florida is doing full in person learning in the background along with the number of hospitalized college students. also Trump should do every press conference in a lab coat wearing a stethoscope.
The image that popped into my head.
oops, my bad
If capitalism wasn’t a thing and you had all your needs met, what would you do with your life?
https://twitter.com/ItsDanaWhite/status/1302708081437089792
do my met needs include old the old wine and old scotch I want or does the subcommittee of needs decide whether my needs are met?
https://twitter.com/Dusty_Lunchbox/status/1302709864725196805
I’m pretty sure that’s the most Bougie answer by a communist to what they would do in their communist utopia. Which makes sense, because the whole point of communisim is for rich schoolboys and schoolgirls to live out their fantasies of being non-working rich, doing whichever they wish.
This
Everybody wants the cred of being a starving artist without the starving part.
They didn’t choose the trust fund life, the trust fund life chose them.
The sons of Mary and the sons of Martha.
The UFC is getting weird
Different Dana White apparently.
Fuck bitches.
Depends upon the mood of the minder that is watching you. They’re working in shifts and that morning guy seems a real cunte.
I’d spend all day on Twitter asking stupid questions.
I’d visit Quark and see if he had any new holodeck programs.
“If capitalism wasn’t a thing and you had all your needs met”
IOW, “If reality didn’t exist…”
“invent a system by which people like me could deploy their excess resources to ensure everyone else gets their needs met too, and then maybe develop new technologies to solve needs we didn’t even know were possible to solve”
It’s called a family, you dipshit. It doesn’t need inventing.
I once was lost, but now am found
“I think the NRA faces a massive threat,” Powell said. “I think that the attorney general is really at the tip of the iceberg in understanding what’s gone on at the [NRA] for 30 years.”
Powell, one of four top NRA executives named in the lawsuit, is now seeking to distance himself from the organization he once helped lead. He not only decried the alleged mismanagement of millions of dollars in charitable donations for the personal use of the organization’s top executives but also denounced the organization’s posture on the issue of gun violence, particularly in the wake of school shootings, as self-serving and dangerous.
“Gun owners across America,” Powell said, “should be horrified by what I saw inside of the NRA.”
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In his forthcoming book “Inside the NRA: A Tell-All Account of Corruption, Greed, and Paranoia Within the Most Powerful Political Group in America,” Powell’s portrayal of LaPierre, who Powell says he once “look[ed] up to,” is particularly stark.
He accused LaPierre of cynically manipulating the public dialogue on guns for fundraising purposes and “stoking a toxic debate” for the purposes of “keeping those donation dollars coming.”
“I think the biggest transgression of the NRA under Wayne was that he turned the NRA into an organization of ‘No,’ in response to any effort to quell gun violence. He helped to create and fuel the toxicity of the gun debate over the years, until it became outright explosive,” Powell writes. “Wayne in essence bowed to the most militant and extreme faction of the NRA’s five million members. Whenever the organization fell short in its funding drives, Wayne would ‘pour gasoline on the fire’ to ignite donations. And that strategy worked, time and again.”
Welcome to the flock, Brother. Testify!
“I think the NRA faces a massive threat,” – as far as I understand the NRA is not as influential as it is made out to be
It was 20 years ago. It flushed all the influence down the shitter in exchange for featherbedding for the officers and devolved into pandering to only old white conservatives.
The second amendment foundation, a few attorneys, a lots of state organizations are far more influential in politics. NRA is more of a boogey man to the left and a vacuum cleaner to the wallets of those old white conservatives.
This. Not only them but the GOP. It’s not just the pandering only to the old white conservatives though. It’s the absolute refusal to work with Urban minorities. Why are there not more Hispanic Family Value republicans? Because they refuse to even reach out to those other groups. Likewise, why did it take Maj Toure to form a Gun group geared towards inner city Blacks? Why couldn’t the NRA have done that?
I know your questions are rhetorical, but the answer is the same in both cases – they didn’t do these things because neither group is helmed by people who believe in, or care about, their nominal missions.
Likewise, why did it take Maj Toure to form a Gun group geared towards inner city Blacks? Why couldn’t the NRA have done that?
There was no money in it?
The NRA itself isn’t influential in politics, because they don’t do political activism and they never have. The NRA does social activism, fundraising, competition, training, and so on.
The political action and lobbying arm is the NRA-ILA, and those cats are extremely influential.
The pure evil of it! Democrats would never stoop to standing on dead bodies for fundraising.
They might get cold feet – better to stand on them while they’re still warm!
He accused LaPierre of cynically manipulating the public dialogue on guns for fundraising purposes and “stoking a toxic debate” for the purposes of “keeping those donation dollars coming.”
*looks around*
Isn’t that what advocacy groups…you know…do?
I mean, he’s probably not wrong, but how is this especially different from many other groups? Wikipedia, NPR, and PBS put on guilt-a-thon “we’re about to die without your help” fundraisers every year. Other political groups love to put out messages that some fundamental right or privilege that is very dear to their membership is about to be taken away forever. They do it because it works. The corruption is also not surprising. Nonprofit is just a fancy way of saying we make a profit but we have to hide it. Some nonprofits run lean and clean, just like some for-profit businesses do. And others don’t.
NRA gets to “shape the debate” around guns but so do the Brady Campaign and Everytown and Mayors and Moms Against Bad Things etc. Welcome to politics.
Ya know, this could be the best thing that happens for gun rights, as crazy as that sounds. The NRA has been the Left’s go-to Bogeyman for decades – they’ve been telling good proggie children about the NRA under their bed for as long as I’ve been alive, but what happens if the NRA just croaks? …And people still have all of their guns? What will the Progs say when there are massive shootings in Chicago AFTER the NRA is investigated and all of those hacks jailed (as they undoubtedly should be)? How will the Left explain the fact that a huge swath of the populace still own guns? And still buy and want to buy them?
There are a lot of leftists who believe that if the NRA were gone, they could finally get Gun Control. I think actual party leadership just see it as a political victory.
The left doesn’t deal in logic. They’d explain it by screeching “PROG HARDER!!!” just like with everything else.
If the NRA disappeared, gun rights in this country would follow them into the grave.
Should have bought a gas grill years ago… I go outside on the balcony grill some meat no smoke no mess in the kitchen
And no flavor.
Yep….when my last gas grill rusted out a few years back, I went back to charcoal. Got the basic Weber kettle and never looked back. I do miss the convenience sometimes, but there’s no comparison when it comes to flavor.
Charcoal gets expensive if you are only cooking a little bit at a time.
Yep. we always find an excuse to toss some extra food on the grill whenever we fire it up.
Eh….a small price to pay IMO. I probably go through about 3 bags of charcoal a month in the warm months, which is maybe $20-25 a month.
You’ve got to get a Vortex (https://www.amazon.com/XT-Medium-Charcoal-Indirect-Cooking/dp/B07D3B4QWW/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=vortex+weber+grill&qid=1599662792&sr=8-4)
Or just do what I did and make something similar. I used a stainless steel mixing bowl and cut the bottom out with a disc grinder.
Using one of these in a Weber concentrates the heat in the center and uses about one third the amount of charcoal per use.
As someone who grills with a lot of sauce, cleaning out the gas burners all the time would be a major inconvenience.
As someone who grills with a lot of sauce – why? I only put dry rubs on grillin meat
Because my [REDACTED] bbq sauce tastes amazing on [REDACTED], especially when smoked with [REDACTED].
allow me to doubt that
Ah, so Pie is a #SCIENCE denier. Got it.
^^ this. I even notice the deficiency when I use briquettes instead of pump charcoal.
*lump
Just put a wood chunk on it or use a smoke box. Jeez.
BUT PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET ARE LIKEING SOMETHING I DON”T LIKE
JFC people. They are different tools with different requirements and different products. Don’t get your panties in a twist.
hey buddy… stop
Just put a wood chunk on it or use a smoke box. Jeez.
This here. Cast iron smoke box FTW. I’ve nearly always got an extra burner for it. I have to soak the wood chips, meaning I need to plan in advance, and it takes it a little longer to start smoking than it would take to get a good bed of coals, but it works a treat.
My Weber technically a two-burner but it also has one that goes across the back. I place a wood chunk on the back corner where it gets direct heat when I fire it up so it is smoldering when the grill is heated and burnt off. Plenty of smokey flavor even on short cooks.
Compared to a cast iron pan it is the same level of flavor
What are you doing to your cast iron pan that you’re unable to develop flavor?
Because its you, UnCiv, I have to believe your asking for a how-to, and not making a criticism.
Buy better meat.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mky5ljXgF3hC7MGMBWkT5-LxJF_jEDX2/view?usp=drivesdk
I would say guess the animal but the picture is blurry
That’s long pig.
Remember when the evil Republicans wanted to steal all the fun from your life and make you live in a regimented system? No parties, no music, no dancing, no interesting food, no movies, no personal autonomy and especially no sex? I think the Parties switched.
“Actress Kirstie Alley raged at the Oscars’ ‘dictatorial’ new diversity rules last night – claiming they were akin to ‘telling Picasso what had to be in his f***ing paintings’.
The Academy Awards shake-up means films hoping to win Best Picture from 2024 will have to hire more black, female, LGBT or disabled cast and crew or address themes that affect those communities.
Academy chiefs say the rules are intended to ‘better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience’, but critics accused ‘Woke Hollywood’ bosses of turning the Oscars into a ‘weapon against anyone who disagreed with their politics’. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8712329/Oscars-set-widespread-new-diversity-inclusion-initiatives-effect-2024.html
By decree of California law the part of Kirstie Alley will now be played by Robin Curtis.
They might want to try reflecting the diversity of the movie-avoiding audience since it is probably larger.
If they avoid the movies, they’re not an audience for movies, by definition.
You point out my seeming contradiction when you could have just as easily pointed out their obvious redundancy.
You’re in a position to potentially see and respond to my remark.
They’ll never read what I post here.
“Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is responsible for 260,000 new cases of coronavirus and will cost $12.2 billion in health care to treat those whose infections can be tied back to the South Dakota event, new study claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8711129/Sturgis-Motorcycle-Rally-responsible-260-000-new-cases-coronavirus-costing-12-2-billion.html
Seems legit.
It was reprinted on the front page of my local paper this morning. Narrative orders handed out and received.
“models”
So they’re saying each and every one of those cases is definitely going to rack up, on average, almost $500,000 in medical costs.
And I expect they still think I should take them seriously.
The original “study” claimed an economic impact of $12 billion, which apparently the super geniuses at the Daily Mail assume is enitrely in health care costs, since to a Brit every American must be spending 10 times their own income on healthcare every year.
You’re supposed to FEEL that these are large and scary numbers, not do basic math and logic and draw conclusions about veracity.
If they’re saying 260,000 cases and $12 billion that would be $50k, you’re off by a factor of ten. I still don’t believe it of course.
AFM*
*Another Fucking Model
260,000 new cases of coronavirus and will cost $12.2 billion in health care
The vast majority will be either asymptomatic or only mildly ill.
Arizona has just over 200,000 positive COVID tests. Out of a population of 7.2mm, for a rate of 2.77%. Let’s all hold hands and believe that a gathering of 400,000 will result a rate of 65%, 30x greater than in one of nation’s hot spots.
We’ve had just over 20,000 hospitalized, call it 10% of those with positive tests. Let’s say that Sturgis results in 26,000 hospitalizations. That would be $470,000 per hospitalization. I can assure you that we get paid an order of magnitude less, even with the COVID bonus. And we don’t lose money on them, so there aren’t “hidden” costs that hospitals are having to eat that you could add to the total.
So let’s say that 26,000 will be
Decimal points are hard.
My periods are even. harder
Man, you want to talk about periods, let me tell you about my 20s…
first works are not the best for many writers
“‘Cuomo is bullying us’: Restaurant owners blast the NY Governor after he signed their death warrant by refusing to allow indoor dining as servers and bartenders flee the city because they can’t get work”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8712713/Politicians-join-lawsuit-against-Cuomo-not-allowing-indoor-dining.html
“‘New York state is a mess’: Trump blasts Gov. Cuomo and the Rochester mayor for having ‘no idea what to do’ after the city’s police chief and his command quit over backlash to Daniel Prude’s death”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8711239/Rochester-police-leaders-retire-wake-calls-change.html
According to NPR, “Woke” is the most perfect comedy ever.
So, avoid it all costs then?
Buenos dias Glibs. Me gusta de los enlaces latino-americanos. Every year for the last ten I have brought the family down to Baja California. We rent a house on the Sea of Cortez somewhere between Cabo and La Paz. We stock up at the super market near the airport and if we need produce there is a small market in the village. $150 buys you an absolute ton of food and booze in Mexico, and the majority of the meals for our 8-10 days down there I make with that and the fish that I catch. There are usually more goats than people on the beaches there. I think it’s about time to go back down there, we are just waiting on my youngest son’s passport. Flights are super cheap right now. It’s one of my favorite places on earth and I can imagine the village is hurting right now as it relies heavily on sportfishing. It is one of the best pelagic fishing spots you can find. The beach surfcasting is good as well.
I don’t fish, never picked it up, but I could easily do the rest of what you’re talking about here. I’d have to drop just a little more cash to purchase pork and fish as required – but I’d need the pork for Carnitas regardless. A case or two of Pacifico and a couple bottles of good Anejo Tequila. That would be a great get-away.
Yup, Pacifico in bottles for the house, cans for on the boat and I usually get plata tequila for sipping and margaritas. The Sea of Cortez is basically like a bathtub from May to November, it’s warm and almost no waves once you get a bit up from the cape, which makes it perfect for kids to swim in. If you are into diving there is a marine reserve down the dirt road that has one of the only coral reefs in that part of the Pacific. I’ve heard the diving is world class there, but I have not done so yet. We have swam with 30 foot whale sharks up in La Paz though. If you go in winter I highly recommend that, you don’t need a tank they are right up top basking.
I stopped drinking standard Tequila years ago after I found that a good Anejo doesn’t hurt me the next morning. I’ll spend the extra for it – YMMV. I don’t dive with anything more complicated than a snorkel and that’s usually good enough for my purposes. I’d like for my boys to get a taste of the culture I grew up with – maybe they would even pick up a bit of the language – I’m sure that if we did this at the point after they’ve hit their teens the locals of the opposite sex will provide the motivation.
I had Spanish classes in school from the 4th grade through junior year of high school. I learned more from a Mexican girl I hooked up with for several days near Mazatlan when I was 20. That also provided enough motivation for me to get back down to Latin America for several years of my twenties. I learned Portuguese in the same manner. I’m sure your boys would love it.
My boys’ primary language is Japanese but they are tracking well to be proficient in English by the time they are in high school. With Japanese they will have no problem pronouncing Spanish and being bilingual picking up another language will be easier than it is for most.
Being in a new cultural setting in your late-teens/early-twenties can really motivate you to pick up a language right when your brain is still flexible enough to do it. That’s pretty much what pushed me to learn Japanese as a teenage Marine on Okinawa.
I’ve heard that about Japanese → Spanish being relatively simple.
Do you speak English with them when possible?
Mojeaux – the ra,ri, ru,re,ro “row” of syllables between Japanese and Spanish is similar. Moves between an English “r” and “l”.
I only speak English to them. I don’t slow it down nor dumb it down either.
Once they realized I understand Japanese (that generally happened at 4 years of age) they started speaking Japanese to me.
We have them in extracurricular English classes – they would need that anyway to get reading and writing down correctly. They have been working their respective ways up through the English language proficiency testing system which will get them to the level where they can function at a college level.
Being the metro NYC area there are lots of families with parents with different native languages.
The key to having bilingual children seems to be that both parents understand both languages even if they don’t both speak them at home.
Hypothetically – if Mom says something to the children in Japanese as long as Dad understands it and doesn’t need it repeated in English things work fine. Plus the reverse – if Dad speaks English, Mom doesn’t need it repeated.
The kids learn to speak Japanese to Mom and English to Dad. When Dad doesn’t speak Mom’s language it never seems to work here.
At this point, if we were to move back to the US, I would be speaking to them in Japanese at home. They would be getting all the English they would need everywhere else.
We would have to find a resource for them to be studying their Kanji and continuing their ability to read and write Japanese. Speaking/understanding a language at home is just one part of the puzzle and that’s a rather low hurdle to clear. They need to be reading and writing at a level that they can be employed professionally – otherwise it’s just a hobby.
Japanese instruction for kids (where it is spoken at home) is available here, but there aren’t a ton of places.
OTH, if you are a Chinese speaker you’ve got plenty of options. There are so many kids here who are dragged kicking and screaming to Chinese language schools here every weekend.
One of my son’s friend’s mother is Japanese. I speak more Japanese than he does! She gave up as finding good instruction here was too difficult and his father only spoke the language at N5 level.
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301708467925741568
The power-on circuitry is an engineering marvel.
That’s fantastic.
They Rube Goldberg’d a pregnancy test strip and sold it for more money.
It’s almost like buying a modern car.
I wonder if you could sell a subscription service that reads pregnancy tests for you for cheaper than manufacturing these.
“That’s an 8-bit microcontroller. 64 bytes of RAM, 1024 words of ROM, 13 GPIO pins, running at either 4mhz or 8mhz. Given that they’re only doing a 3v battery here and I don’t see any voltage conversion circuitry, I think it’s running at 4mhz.”
That’s more than a Mac Plus.
And here, class, we see a violation of Betteridge’s law in the wild.
Has Self-Awareness Gone Too Far in Fiction?
What… You want people to actually make changes. Why can’t you accept them for being assholes?
This morning has been an absolute clusterfuck with XX doing hybrid school, not all-virtual (XY is doing all-virtual because reasons). I’ve been running around town like a chicken with my head cut off carting her from school (she can’t stay and hang out until her 3rd hour class), then to school, then come to find out she has A thing, but not B thing like we were told and arrrrrggggghhhhh.
I did get my little glasses that I melt scented wax in all clean. I didn’t think they were salvageable, so I am very proud of myself. #TheLittleThings #winning
I am beginning to think you somewhat like your children to go through all this trouble…
What have I said that gives you that idea?
First RAHeinlein accuses me of not caring about my children and hating XY and Bearded Hobbit backs her up, and now you think I like their troubles. So, I get it. I’ll just stop talking about them.
I read that as you must like your kids to go to all that trouble/effort for them.
Oh. Huh. Well, then I apologize, Pie. I should not post when I’m this flustered.
One thing we are not going to do is fuck up their futures if we can help it. Catching them when they fall may not be the wisest course of action, but we know we will have done what we could.
In this case, most of it’s the school’s fault for not being clear about Things A and B.
I never meant you like their troubles. I meant you go through trouble to help them. And the “somewhat” like your children was a joke.
I missed a comma I think…
I am beginning to think you somewhat like your children, to go through all this trouble…
Pie, I am so sorry I flew off the handle. Please accept my apologies.
no need to be sorry it was an honest miscommunication. no harm. I will punctuate snark better
An excellent example of how a comma changes meaning.
Oh, I forgot the best part. Just after XY had gotten on his Zoom call for class (which I did not realize), I shouted from the top of the stairs, “Well, this day has been a clusterfuck!”
XY: “Mom, I’m on Zoom.”
Me: “Ooops. Sorry, class!”
XY: “Well, I’m muted NOW.”
I’ve had to explain to the girlfriend that randomly yelling things during the work day could be detrimental to my continued employment.
ITT, Neph explains how to get your GF to wear a ball gag
Fuck zoom for kids. And for what it’s worth I don’t get the impression that you don’t care about your kids, quite the opposite.
LOL
You were only saying what everyone was thinking.
I generally use the term “fustercluck” for G-rated situations.
The class has
hearduses far worse language than that by that age.I remember standing in the kitchen with my wife on my daughter’s 18th birthday. XX was walking by and dropped her first, F-bomb in front of us. We all stared at other, and then laughed.
I don’t think I’ve actually ever vocalized one. I use far more profanity in text than speech. But I’m realistic in recognizing that is not typical. (I have nothing against swearing or people who swear, I just don’t)
Pater Dean was of the opinion that swearing at people in person is for the stupid. Its a crutch. Much better to chew someone’s ass in detail without swearing.
I think he learned it in the Marines, believe it or not.
Huh….the Marine Corps was quite a bit different in his time than mine, I guess. I never really used that much profanity in my everyday speech until the Marines. Profanity simply permeates everything in the Corps until it becomes unconscious. You just start throwing “fuckin” into every sentence for no apparent reason just because that’s what everyone else around you does. I didn’t really notice it until I left the service and started noticing that most civilians don’t speak that way.
That could be why Mr Dean’s non-swearing was so effective.
He was an officer, and swore pretty normally outside the context of swearing directly at someone.
Aha, that explains it. Officers don’t do much cussing – that’s what staff NCOs are for. The commissioned ecosystem is very different than the lance corporal underworld.
Heads will be exploding: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8713415/Donald-Trump-nominated-2021-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html
tl;dr
I’m going to try to think of something that interests me less than leftist Millennial novels, but that could take a while.
supposed to have been a reply to the article Leap linked above.
How about a few non-leftisst novels?
*raises hand* “Non-leftist” novels is my schtick.
I too am a purveyor of non-leftist literature.
As a gen X’er, I was inflicted with all manor of boomer novels in highschool lit classes, which is basically the same thing only mandated by the state.
Same here.
Still better than anything by Jane Austen.
She’s not my cuppa, but she’s not BAD.
Fellow X’er here. I honestly don’t remember much in the way of boomer novels in high school. We did read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which I guess could be classified that way although Kesey himself wasn’t a Boomer.
Beat the drum, little wind-up monkeys
TW: the Guardian
Coronavirus policy in the midwest has become closely bound up with politics with even prominent politicians buying into conspiracy theories.
The US senator for Iowa, Joni Ernst, speculated that doctors were exaggerating the fatalities by falsely pinning deaths from other causes on Covid-19. Ernst, a Republican facing a close race for re-election, picked up on a conspiracy theory that misinterprets official statistics to say she was “so sceptical” about the official coronavirus death toll.
“These healthcare providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if Covid is tied to it, so what do you think they’re doing?” she said, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The Iowa Medical Society called Ernst’s comments “incredibly disappointing”.
“Now is not the time to spread mistruths and distrust. We must work together to keep Iowans safe and healthy,” it said.
Anything which counters the approved official narrative is political. We’re purely truth-tellers. No politics involved.
I note that they didn’t actually deny it.
The only non political response to the Coronavirus is to do everything the DNC wants.
“Before: literally everyone is wearing a mask in the picture
After: No one in the crowd is shown in the picture ”
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1303539796955062279
Nope. Nothing political. That’s just crazy talk.
The least realistic part of 1984 was that the government would have to expend its own resources to put information down the memory hole and that private citizens wouldn’t be lining up for a chance to do it for free themselves.
:Standing Ovation:
Yup.
yep. https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1303541047679758338
Savage.
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1303640078510555136
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
First off, when was the last time someone in the Royal Navy resorted to cannibalism.
Second:
https://twitter.com/ealmars/status/1303641725395546112
In person voting is the real dangerous and fraudulent place. Because Russians could flip votes.
I’m glad that it was pointed out by someone who goes by “Facts First” or i might think this was the ravings of someone who believes crazy conspiracy theories about Russia stealing the election.
Mail in ballots have a .0000006% fraud rate
Not even Toyota at its leanest and meanest got that good. Six-sigma is 3.4 defects per million opportunities, or 0.000034% of the time. While a defect and an intentional fraud are, of course, not the same thing, claiming such a low rate off the bat is absurd.
0.00034%
On a totally unrelated note, I think dealing with fractions of percentages is dumb. 3.4 per million is easier to read and understand.
0.00034%
On a totally unrelated note, I think dealing with fractions of percentages is dumb. 3.4 per million is easier to read and understand.
Mail in ballots have a .0000006% fraud rate.
I’d love to know where that came from. From what I can tell, this falls into the “asserted without evidence” bucket.
What’s the rate of mail-in ballots that are lost in the mail, or delayed until they can’t be counted?
What’s the rate of mail-in ballots that are rejected because they are defective in some way?
Assuming it has a basis, it’s probably based on the number that were actually discovered and investigated. The problem with most forms of fraud is that, if you don’t try to look for them specifically, you won’t even know it has occurred. A counterfeit bill can pass through several hands before somebody bothers to check it, never mind actually discovers it is counterfeit; the incidence and success of counterfeiting today is greatly diminished thanks to decreased use of cash and modern countermeasures built into the bills themselves, as well as merchants training their cashiers to identify counterfeits.
Ah, the ol’ conflating the “reported and documented” rate with the actual rate that exists.
Kind of like saying “only 5-10% of rape claims are false”.
Jimmy Carter needs to be canceled, he’s now a right wing anti-state white supremacist!
Deicide: The sin of the Jews! What is this, an OMWC guest spot en los enlaces?
First RAHeinlein accuses me of not caring about my children and hating XY and Bearded Hobbit backs her up, and now you think I like their troubles. So, I get it. I’ll just stop talking about them.
You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but why would you bother to try?
Not a big orgy goer huh?
Well, if the orgy’s big enough, you can’t get around to pleasing everybody.
I’ve been cogitating mildly on something lately, which I can’t quite wrap my head around.
Recap: I went to a Southern Baptist private school from 4th grade to 12th grade and graduated with 14 other people.
This is where my musings of cognitive dissonance come in:
1. They had their tinfoil hats firmly affixed to their noggins and all their conspiracy theories of what the gummint and socialists were doing via slippery slope actually have come to pass. Also, I got a very good education, even if the literature section of my English education was quite sparse.
BUT
2. They also hated Mormons. The only thing they knew about Nietzsche was “God is dead” (quoted as if he were triumphant). They said Darwin said we descended from apes and evolution wasn’t a thing, and that God created the world in 6 (probably 1000-year) days. I was also instructed once that music with a rhythm was of Satan. As I said earlier, my literature education was sorely lacking in favor of grammar and spelling.
Then I went to BYU which was the most liberal institution I had ever been in. (And by the way, they failed to mention that I was going to college at all, much less to BYU.) I had biology and learned about evolution. I learned about Nietzsche and what he really said. I was already a musician and knew that ALL music has a rhythm, by definition. I started reading actual literature, which broadened my horizons.
So I can’t figure out how they pinned the leftists to the most minute details, but never bothered to actually READ what Nietzsche and Darwin actually WROTE, nor were they much interested in reading at all.
This is what has been on my mind lately.
as the late great Slate Star Codex once said – Conservatives are doomed to always be right about their doomcasting for society, and progressives are always doomed to be wrong about how quickly they will achieve all of their victories.
I hope it comes back soon.
And the liberals of today will become the conservatives the liberals of the future will rail against.
I always figured I could get behind the idea of God creating the world in six days. Just not six consecutive days. There could have been eons between each of those days.
I have zero problems with God creating the world via evolution, which is how my church is about it if anybody thinks about it all (they don’t), but we have a curious theology about that. I didn’t feel like sharing it, as I was judicious in my Mormonly outbursts.
I have no trouble accepting that God would be smart enough to set up rules that did not require constant micromanagement of the universe.
Yes! Exactly that!
A Great Watchmaker, if you will.
No, that argument is “complexity therefore god” which is unrelated to the statement I made which states with an “assume god” and postulates that “god would be smart enough to not make extra work for himself”.
That’s what I would say. It could be the first day God set the universe in motion. A few billion years later, day two, when He sees that things are moving along OK He splits off some planets to revolve in orbits at good intervals from their respective suns. A few more billions of years and it’s time for life to start – bang! OK, those big lizards have been frolicking long enough so time for a meteor.
It’s kinda like when you’re making a really good chile and only have to stir once in a while or add a couple ingredients at the right time.
For humans to pretend that we could understand it all with the feeble brains we have is hubris to the core.
First you have to understand that we believe that there are many gods, but the only one that matters that we know about is the one we worship.
“As man is, God once was. As God is, man shall become.” There were many before him and there are many concurrent with him.
Now that you know that,
We believe that God, OUR God, the one we worship, ORGANIZED matter. In other words, the raw materials were already there and he gathered them out of the Infinity Landfill™ and smooshed them together, set a few things in motion and then plopped man down in it when he felt like it.
In my view, it’s possible the dinosaurs didn’t walk THIS Earth, but walked some other planet that went kerplooey and that material is being recycled.
Glibertarians: come for the snark, stay for the theology.
I love that about us.
I have long been of the opinion that there probably are many gods – probably at different levels of omnipotence. The systems through which man could matter to any of them are probably beyond our ken. But it seems that the one God which the Judeo-Christian system has created a relationship with is the most beneficial God for humans to follow.
Agreed, and that’s where I am sympathetic to Pascal’s Wager, even though I have seen others who don’t like it, which was a fascinating discussion.
Different fields of competence. I’ve never read Das Kapital but I know enough about politics and power to know how the communists are attempting to acquire it. The same thing probably happened with your experience. Come to think of it, I’m not sure a lot of liberals can tell you about Darwin and Nietzsche as well other than in very generalized ways. Which explains why the modern liberals have gone so far off the track. They don’t get the nuance of a lot of classical liberal thought.
*Flashes the horns*
Much like libertarians, bible-thumpers are right about a lot of things but they’re also extremely picky about doctrinal differences and end up fracturing into dozens of groups that each believe it has independently arrived at the truth and so denounce the others as heretics (but, fortunately, and also like libertarians, there’s usually no violence involved). They also sometimes end up so far up their own assholes they become utterly uninterested in learning what’s actually going on in the world, which would not be such a big deal if they did not spend so much time talking about it in ignorance. They will also denounce anyone who tries to balance doctrinal purity with actually appealing to the masses as a sellout.
One of the biggest eye-openers for me was seeing that bible-thumpers are not unique. Every group of humans tends to fall into the same sorts of trends. I learned a lot more empathy from evangelical Christians, even though they would consider me today an unrepentant sinner, than I ever learned from the mainstream mushy liberalism of public school and the overculture.
Empathy? As in, how to have some for others? Or that you learned to become empathetic to evangelical Christians?
Because that’s curious and I have some half-baked feelings about that (nary a thought, though).
Both. The full gamut of humanity existed in the community of evangelicals. When compared to other cultural movements, I saw that they were not so different after all. I met a lot of people who were more humble and less judgmental than many of the “open-minded” well heeled right-thinking liberals I interact with from time to time today. It might be more incidental than causal, but to learn empathy I think you need to see a lot of different kinds of people, including many you might otherwise right off. Even if you don’t end up agreeing with them, you can still try to understand where they’re coming from and engage them sincerely.
write off*
LA’s permitted and not permitted activities for Halloween:
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/docs/community/GuidanceHalloween.pdf
They have a lot of nerve, I’ll give them that. This is just flat out tyranny.
Riiiiiight.
Especially since it’s a month and half away…they claimed this would all be done after locking everyone up for 14 days.
That shit seriously needs to be ignored.
Rioting, looting, and arson are still OK though.
So Detroit’s traditional Halloween will go forward as usual.
Just heard from my colleagues in the UK that they are going back on lockdown.
tell them to keep a stiff upper lip or something. Or hope the weather is shit so they stay in anyways
What’s going on over there? Another surge?
No, just more sensitive tests.
“Wine language is so often absurd that it’s a punchline. But now it’s clear that the language isn’t just intimidating and opaque — it’s also inextricable from racism and sexism.”
https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1303353915858194433
why cant people just laugh at shit and leave it be?
Because all the cool kids are on anti-depressants.
Pretentiousness and racism are not the same thing.
Truly a mystery.
We all need to start talking Esparanto
Or will it need to be Esparantix?
jfc these are our betters.
Associated heart disease, associated diabetes, various associated metabolic issues, etfreakingcetera…there, I figured it out and I’m not even a doctor.
Why you still don’t want to own an electric vehicle for long trips outside CA.
Electrify America’s Statement: Hardware Upgrades At 56 Charging Sites
Tesla’s support of its charging network is relatively good, but even they have stories of people pulling up to broken chargers and being towed. I still would not own an electric vehicle in most places as my only vehicle. Relying on EA is definitely not in the cards for long distance travel.
Then I went to BYU which was the most liberal institution I had ever been in.
*retrieves jaw from floor under desk.
Right?!
Then I went to BYU which was the most liberal institution I had ever been in.
Hmmm….I’m guessing not too many people could make that comment.
Oh, here’s another example: Girls wore dresses in my school, pantyhose, makeup, everything, the whole works. Dudes wore jeans and a tie on basketball game days. The cheerleaders’ skirts were below their knees.
Anyway, so I get to BYU and I have to go to orientation so what do I do? I get dressed up. I’m going to school, right? Everybody else is wearing jeans.
Another thing. Martial arts in my school were of Satan. BYU had a whole section of PE classes dedicated to martial arts!
I mean, I knew we were a little ahead of the curve because we had dances with actual music (“Let’s Get Physical!” was one my mom objected to), but it never occurred to me there was this other world out there, somewhere between ghetto and lockdown.
Cheerleaders’ skirts ending up around their ankles sounds pretty standard for highschool though.
I mean, not for me. But, like, for other people.
*thinks back to high school*
It was mid-thigh at the longest.
I know I just said I don’t remember how people dressed, but cheerleader skirts are different from regular clothing fads.
Really? Not their shoulders?
I’m glad someone understood what I wrote. I was wondering what (else) is wrong with me these days…
I got it, I was just so awkward in high school that cheerleaders were like pluto. Something people tells me exists, but not really part of my world.
Sure…..in 1955.
I went to an all-male high school so we didn’t have cheerleaders. The local public school’s cheerleaders had skirts that ran a bit above the knee.
We did have some coed classes with our sister all-girls school, and as I remember their dress code stated that skirts and shorts had to be longer than where your fingertips sit when you have your arms at your side. I know some of them still wore some pretty short skirts, pushing the limits.
I don’t remember how people dressed in public school, other than it was stupid.
I do remember having to correct the teachers when they got basic facts like the shape of a barb on a harpoon, and eventually just got told “shut up and don’t ask questions”
Then I wonder what was wrong with ME that I didn’t read Nietzsche and Darwin just to be a pain in the ass. The day some dude said any music that had a rhythm was of Satan, I should have laughed and said, “Dude, what?” but I was too shellshocked.
Some people just have a higher propensity to argue trivia.
Did you also get to do those live enactments of Revelations or End Times at Halloween? Like where they show you the Anti-Christ is going to put a chip in your forehead or hand, and you can’t buy groceries without them? And the conspicuously avoid saying “Whore of Babylon”?
Those were fun.
No, no reenactments. They could trend charismatic during revival week and my bestie played bass in a Christian rock band, but they didn’t go all out like that.
We covered Revelation as part of the New Testament, if we even got to it.
Oh yeah. Halloween was verboten.
My brothers and I were the only one who ever went trick-or-treating. There was much jealousy going on over that.
Yes, this Fundy D.A.R.E. theatrical production was for nice God fearing youth who are not permitted to trick or treat.
Soooo…nothing peppier than a Gregorian chant, then? Sheesh!
Gregorian chants still have a rhythm, though writing it down is above my paygrade. I never did understand music theory very well (bless my piano teacher’s heart, she tried).
All I really know of BYU was a from a guy who went there who I encountered in my freshman year at Pepperdine. He came out to Pep to visit a friend of his from high school who lived in my dorm. He had all kinds of stories of how restrictive BYU was – he wasn’t Mormon but he went there because his Mormon girlfriend went there. I remember riding along when we drove him to the airport – he suddenly told us to pull over because he had to shave before he got back. If he showed up unshaven, he’d get some kind of demerit or something. Dug his shaving kit out of his bag and shaved in an AM/PM bathroom.
I had a friend who went to BYU. He claimed he was one of five people there who wasn’t a Mormon. The guy is from Armenia. He spent a year in high school as an “exchange” student with a Mormon family in Utah. He didn’t want to go back home and it was too late to apply to any other school. So, I’ve heard many stories. The “most liberal institution” wasn’t among them…
LOL I like tossing that out for shock value, even though it’s true.
If you played sports, though, the rules didn’t apply to you. Football is the one true god, even at BYU.
But they can use the peculiarities of LDS to their advantage when their players go on missions and get to develop physically for a couple of years without losing eligibility. They often have 23-24 year olds playing against 19-21 year olds on other teams.
Thanks for Bronco Mendenhall, BTW!
Yet they still suck. / GO Utes.
Absolutely true.
And you’re welcome!
I went skiing in Utah with a Mormon buddy when I was in high school. We visited his sister at BYU. I remember sneaking up the back stairs of her dorm to visit her, because boys weren’t allowed. The only thing more exciting would have been trying to sneak into a Mormon temple, which I’ve tried.
LOL!
I was a Resident Assistant in the dorm my sophomore year. I was always willing to look the other way now and again. Our brother dorm played a huge prank on our entire floor that I thought was hilarious, but our dorm mother was livid about. Cops out and everything. When she was away and it was just me and the cop, I rolled my eyes and said, “It’s no big. Nobody got hurt, nobody got pennied in their room.”
“Michigan Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer’s state-owned residence is getting $1.1 million in security upgrades, including an eight-foot-tall perimeter fence.”
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1303417044822523904
No surprise there.
She has been targeted by far right nationalist anti-vaxxer nazi white supremacists after all.
And-
The other day, as I was reading up on notorious SCIENCE-denier Scott Atlas, there was an interview in which he went to serious lengths to attempt to explain the concept of “excess deaths” to the interviewer. It was a fruitless effort, but noble nonetheless.
The Public Health Steno Pool are bound and determined to pursue the fiction that all deaths are equally preventable. Their outrage over the “totally incorrect” and “misleading” cause-of-death breakdown (The CDC report that 6% of death certificates list the plague as sole cause of death) is illuminating, to say the least. Same as their steadfast insistence that this virus is 100% contagious, in any dose under any circumstances.
The day some dude said any music that had a rhythm was of Satan, I should have laughed and said, “Dude, what?” but I was too shellshocked.
I hate waltzes, too, but that’s a little extreme.
I don’t even know what to make of this.
https://twitter.com/CillizzaCNN/status/1303703912529244163
“Donald Trump is a lot less rich today than when he was elected president
https://cnn.it/3ihLrEX“
How could that be? I’ve been assured that everything Trump does is to enrich himself personally.
Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself. He has suffered a huge loss in wealth. Classic double think? Or is the explanation that though he’s trying to enrich himself through the presidency it’s not making him as much money as he is losing?
No shit. The way Donald Trump makes money is by selling things. The only thing he has to sell as President is himself. While selling himself was always part of his shtick, it’s wasn’t the only part. The people who end up richer at the end are the more suspicious ones. Like, say, Clinton and Obama.
This is getting ridiculous.
A professional lifeguard was reported to police by her own colleagues in San Sebastian, in the Bay of Biscay in Spain’s Basque country on Monday after she was spotted surfing while placed on medical leave by her employer following a positive coronavirus test.
Remarkable footage and images of the young woman refusing to stop surfing when demanded to by officers, and finally being taken up the beach by police, went viral in Spain, reports national newspaper El Paìs.
would.
Surfer girls are almost always hot as hell
I’m sure the cops are thrilled about being in full hazmat suits. What a farce.
“From U of M – Dearborn. The Non-POC Cafe or the “White Cafe.” Anyway, I wonder what the menu looks like for the Non-POC Cafe at UM-Dearborn. If they have chocolate hummus I am calling for a boycott.”
https://twitter.com/aayoub/status/1303561731302731780
LOLWTF??
Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!
Who knew that George Wallace was so ahead of his time?
“White Cafe” is exactly as unimaginative as I expected them to be.
It’s sad that the made up parts of my satire piece a few weeks back are also coming to fruition.
“Would you like a struggle session with that?”
From the twit feed:
Apartheid Cafe
And
Karen Crow Laws
*Snickers*
Sounds like the Texas bar is considering an ABA model rule that would make wrongspeak by lawyers (regardless of when and where) punishable by bar discipline.
Old Volokh analysis from when the model rule was created
*sigh* I don’t like puritans
I don’t know all the rules about this, but “red” States need to start loosening the restrictions on professional licensing. Rather than JUST the ABA, or AMA or APA they should make it possible for anyone to organize a professional org and license people. Otherwise they are handing the rope for their own demise.
Because the ABA controls entry to the discipline and it is impossible to navigate our legal system without a lawyer, this is a direct attack on freedom of speech.
The ABA should be burned to the ground and the earth salted just for proposing this.
This is LOL. Note this WP headline – issues with vaccine – how do we use it to demean Trump?
Live updates: After Trump promised an October vaccine, a major human trial stops for an ‘unexplained illness’