Why Can’t I Have One II – Marble’s Game Getter
It’s no news to anyone that has been reading my articles that there are a few now-obsolete guns and cartridges I’d like to see make a comeback. One of those is the original Marble’s Game Getter, a handy little backpackable combination gun ideal for the trapper, small-game hunter, or backpacker. Here’s why.
Stuff for Small Game
If you do or ever have hunted small game (well, any game, for that matter) you probably go out after one kind of game in particular on any given outing. You may be out after upland birds one weekend, deer the next, turkey or waterfowl after that.
In any of those cases, you’ll be carrying a gun and gear more or less specific to your quarry. A 12-gauge pump-gun for pheasants, maybe a light 20 or 16-gauge for grouse or quail, a .30-30 for deer, and so on.
But there’s a place for an all-round gun, one that’s easy to pack around, quick to put into action, and capable of handling a wide variety of small to medium game.
There once was such a gun. It was Marble’s Game Getter, and while similar combination guns are made today, they are different from the originals in at least one dimension. And that difference is based solely on a silly, arbitrary law. So, while I can have a Game Getter if I can find one, it’s complicated and expensive. Why can’t I have a new, reasonably priced gun like the Game Getter?
A Bit of History
The Game-Getter with kit.
In 1908, the Marble’s Arms and Manufacturing Company of Gladstone, Michigan brought out what they considered to be a useful small-game gun. This break-top piece had a .22 rifle barrel over a .44 caliber smoothbore barrel, a folding wire skeleton stock, and came with a choice of 12”, 15” or 18” barrels. Marble called this the Game Getter, and few guns carried more appropriate appellations. The gun came in two versions, the Model 1908A and the Model 1908B, the first carrying a tang-mounted peep sight to go with the blade front, while the latter had only the standard rear sight on the barrel. The proprietary .44 ammo for the lower barrel was available as the “.44 Game Getter,” although the case was more or less interchangeable with the .44-40 Marlin and the .44 Colt Lightning. Shot and round-ball loads were sold.
.44 Game Getter Ball
In 1921, Marble re-designed the Game Getter and introduced the Model 1921. The grip, stock, safety, and sights were redesigned. The same barrel lengths were sold, but with this second generation gun Marble added the option of a .410 barrel under the .22LR barrel. This being well before the advent of any 3” magnum rounds, the .410 barrels were chambered for a 2” or (much less common) a 2 ½” shell.
While it’s unclear how many Game Getters were built, the gun did see some brisk sales by contemporary accounts. The short, handy folding gun was popular among trappers, prospectors and backpackers, or any other folks who wanted a short, light, handy piece capable of taking game up to deer, if you got close and placed your shot carefully.
But then came 1934. In that year, the Congress did one of the truly boneheaded things that Congresses before and since are notorious for doing: They passed the 1934 National Firearms Act. This was the Federal government’s first attempt at blaming the sword for the hand that wielded it.
Since the Game Getter was available with short barrels and, even in the 18” barreled version, was under the overall length requirement due to the folding stock, it was classified in the same category as a Thompson submachine gun and severely restricted. While denizens of New York and Chicago were doubtless relieved that they would no longer have to dodge a hail of .44 caliber round balls fired from Game Getters wielded by furious mobsters, the Marble company thus lost the greater part of their revenue and eventually closed their doors, although they did produce the gun for the Canadian market until 1955.
In 1939 someone at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had a slight rush of brains to the head and at least administratively removed the 18” Game Getter from the NFA classification, but the deed was done; the Game Getter was effectively dead. Marble went on manufacturing some pretty fine open gunsights and other odds and ends, but no guns.
Consider for a moment the consummate stupidity of this law, at least as applied to the Game Getter. A law intended to deprive mobsters of automatic weapons was mindlessly applied to a light, handy combination gun, with a capacity of two rounds, intended for small game hunters. The Game Getter was too big to conceal easily; it wasn’t overly powerful, and it’s one-and-one shot capacity would not appeal to criminals of any stripe unless they were rather desperate for some kind of firearm.
But mindless government agencies apply these things mindlessly, and so American sportsman were deprived of a neat little small-game gun for no good reason.
Alternatives
If we disregard pricey European oddities like German Drillings, Vierlings and Cape Guns, the American shooter these days have effectively four choices in combination guns, and only two of them are in current production.
The Savage Model 24 is perhaps the best-known of recent American combination guns. These break-top guns were originally offered with a .22LR barrel over a .410 or 20-gauge shotgun barrel, although selections later expanded to include not only the .22 WMR but also centerfire rounds like the .357 Magnum, .223 Remington and .30WCF over a .410, 20 or 12-gauge shotgun barrel.
The Model 24 was, of course, a full-size piece, generally with 24 or 26” barrels. While quality was better than average in earlier production guns, Savage eventually cheapened the stocks and, in what was probably a bit of lawyerly pettifoggery, added a cross-bolt safety to this external-hammer piece.
While it’s a great, convenient piece for the small-game hunter, Savage ended the 72-year run of these guns in 2010. You can find them for sale on the various online auction sites, but the folks that have them seem to be hanging on to them, and prices are creeping up.
The second out-of-production piece is the Springfield Armory M6 Scout, based on the U.S. Air Force’s M6 Aircrew Survival Weapon. Manufactured by CZ, the M6 Scout was offered with a .22LR, .22WMR or .22 Hornet barrel over a 3”-chambered .410 shotgun barrel. Barrels were 18 ½” in length. The stock had storage compartments for 15 rimfire rounds and four shotgun shells.
I’ve handled a couple of M6 guns but have never fired one. These guns had an odd “squeeze-bar” trigger, intended to allow for firing the gun while wearing heavy gloves, although it’s hard to fathom whether good accuracy is possible with such a device. Still, the guns had a decent reputation, and fit the “short, light, handy” criteria pretty well, despite the stamped, fixed stock – although Springfield Armory ceased importation of the M6 into the States on or about 2008.
Chiappa Firearms offers two combination guns, both still in production as of this writing. The first of these is the Badger and is remarkably similar to the Savage 24 in being a full-size, over/under piece. Unlike the Savage, though, the Badger is capable of folding for storage by pushing the trigger guard down, making it a handy item to tote around. Rifle calibers include the .22LR, .22WMR and .243 Winchester, while .410 and 20-gauge shotgun barrels are offered in 19” and 20” versions.
Chiappa’s other offering is a clear copy of the Springfield Armory M6; Chiappa also calls their version the M6, specifically the “M6 Folding Shotgun/Rifle.” Like the Badger, the Chiappa M6 folds for carry and storage; unlike the Badger, it is only available with a .22LR barrel under a 12-gauge shotgun barrel. Barrel length is 18 ½”. Weighing in at a bit under six pounds, this may be the best of the currently made combination offerings, although 12-gauge high-brass loads would pack some wallop on the shoulder end in this lightweight piece.
The Chiappa M6
So, as you see, there are some options. But the original had some things going for it that these newer guns don’t; lighter weight, portability, ability to carry in an external shoulder holster in the manner of the Thompson Contender. So, why shouldn’t I be able to have a new Game Getter today?
Why Not?
The purpose of the 1934 National Firearms Act and, indeed, most gun-control laws that followed, had as their primary stated intent to reduce the use of guns in crime. Clearly, they haven’t worked; one need only look at our major cities on any given weekend to see that much.
But in something like the Marble Game Getter, you not only have a firearm that has almost certainly never been used in any crime except, perhaps, poaching. For all the screeching of gun-controllers about “assault weapons” and handguns, in the Game Getter you have a piece that fits none of the categories that drive hoplophobes nuts.
The Game Getter couldn’t be considered a “high-capacity” piece even in the most fevered imaginations. It’s a one-plus-one, basically two single-shot guns in one. Even in the original 12” barrel offering, it would be damned awkward to conceal well, and not terribly useful in a robbery. The only crime it’s really suited for is, as stated, poaching – perhaps.
If someone at the current BATFE would have a sudden attack of common sense and deregulate guns like the Game Getter (I’d rather see the 1934 NFA, the 1968 GCA and a host of other gun laws either tossed out as unconstitutional or just plain repealed, but I’m willing to accept some deregulation as a sensible first step) I think there would be a good market for such a gun.
I want one.
In modern livery, the new Game Getter would look something like this: A lightweight gun with a folding stock, with a .22LR or .22WMR rifle barrel over a .410 or 20-gauge shotgun barrel. Barrel lengths would ideally include the originals, 12”, 15” and 18”. Like the originals, the gun would have either standard open sights or a tang-mounted peep. A tip-off mount for an optic or (sigh) a Picatinny rail wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
To toss in one other druther, maybe include an option to have that upper barrel in a new .25 rimfire round.
The only downside I can see would be the result of firing a high-brass 20-gauge shell from a 12” barrel; one would want to have some effective hearing protection in place first.
I’d buy one. Not only would backwoods folks, backpackers and the like find it handy for taking the occasional squirrel, rabbit or pheasant, the “prepper” crowd would probably find it a handy thing to have among their various lares and penates. And all we’d have to do is, like in so many such cases, get the damned government out of the way.
Great little portrait of the Game Getter. Too bad it’s a eulogy.
“But mindless government agencies apply these things mindlessly“
Be that as it may, I’m not so sure it was mindless. Pretty sure it was a foot in the door to what they hoped would be a total firearms ban.
Just looked up the Badger. Neat gun.
Neat, but not my cup of tea.
? on the article though.
A law intended to deprive mobsters of automatic weapons was mindlessly applied to a light, handy combination gun, with a capacity of two rounds, intended for small game hunters.
I’m a cynical fuck. I think the politicians were trying to deprive ordinary citizens of a means of protecting themselves from mobsters.
Nice article.
Cynical = The ability to look past what people say and see things for what they really are.
My cynicism has served me very well. The problem is that people dismiss me for being ‘too cynical’ today yet when tomorrow proves me right they forget what I said or pretend it never happened and dismiss me again.
Most in the government really do want to disarm the citizenry for exactly the reasons that the founders warned us: they want us unable to defend ourselves from them and keep us beaten down and demoralized from being at the mercy of criminals. They are evil fucks.
“No matter how cynical I get it’s never a enough to keep up.”
– Lily Tomlin
My cynicism hasn’t let me down yet – but I’m sure it will someday.
They told me things could be worse, and sure enough, they got worse!
“…that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it…” -GB Shaw, 1894
Great article and a cool idea.
I’d buy one.
Me too. I could go out with one of those and a multi-piece fly rod and disappear for quite a while.
Which actually sounds nice right about now.
Thanks for the history lesson, Animal!
Back in the ’50s my best friend had a 22/410 Game Getter, I don’t remember that it had a stock. I do remember that he came across it in an unusual way (I think). His dad was not a hunter and neither was my friend so I think it disappeared. Strangely, Tundra went to high school with my friend’s son. Coincidence? Yeah, I think so.
Another great article, Animal, I really enjoy the history you bring us.
Interesting gun, but I think I’d stick with my drilling if in need of a combo gun – double barrel 12 gauge with an 8mm Mauser underneath. That would be sufficient for pretty much anything I’d be hunting outside of very small game.
I do believe that the Game Getter is exempt under the NFA (which you mention) and is listed as a Curio and Relic, thus being able to be purchased by the correct license holder. And while that is in itself BS (as we all feel the 2nd should supersede that bit of nonsense) you can at least pay sky-high prices for an original.
But, I always did want a Vierling after fondling a WWII souvenir in a gun shop. My father-in-law had a Marlin 24 in .22lr/20ga that he used for rabbit hunting, but that would be a little heavier than what we are talking about, as you note.
The Game Getter is an NFA item, “any other weapon”.
Examples that are more than 50 years old are also C&R, but you still have to deal with NFA regulations.
Scrolled down. Wallet holster if it has a hole to pull the trigger need a stamp. What a fucked up country.
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!
Ah, well that sucks. I thought it had been specifically called out as exempt from the NFA, but I guess I was wrong.
I have one of these.
It’s barely fired with the box and everything. Probably 100 LRs and a box of 20 magnums through it. I keep meaning to go sight it in, but I can’t make it out to the range as easily as I used to. It loads like single action, but operates dual. It’s kinda fun to shoot.
Really would like to build a shoulder stock for it, but I’m allergic to jail.
I will reply in a bit and post some photos but might be a few minutes. I am in the middle of rolling out my won-ton dough.
—will wrap around taco meat, green chilis, bell pepper and onion. Fried crispy and then dipped in salsa and sour cream. The world’s most delicious finger food.
Ugh, I forgot….a generous amount of sharp cheddar will be melted into the meat. It helps it stick together and it adds greatly to the deliciousness.
We need a post about that. I’ve never worked with won ton wrappers. Did you make your own?
Yes. Simple
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup water
1 egg
3/4 tablespoon salt.
Put flour in kitchen aide mixing bowl, make large dimple in center
whip water, egg, salt together
Pour liquid into flour dimple
Mix on low with dough hook while you wash up your dishes then check consistency of dough. knead with dough hook more if needed for smooth dough
dust counter with corn starch, not flour and place dough ball on counter. Mash out a bit, flip and mash out more. Cover with towel and let sit for one hour
Roll out to thin sheet and then cut to size….6in squares for egg rolls, 3in squares for wontons. Also makes good dumplings.
I am filling with tex-mex beef mix but you can put whatever you want in them. They fry crispy and brown in 2-3 mins.
*I roll mine out with a hand crank pasta maker
I also have one of these for ravioli size
https://www.everythingkitchens.com/norpro-ravioli-rolling-pin-3085.html?msclkid=e55b49c646161ac0615c1690296ae268&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CPCS%20-%20Bing%20Shopping&utm_term=1101200801944&utm_content=Catch%20All
Usually when I see that gun sales are on the uptick, especially among first-time gun owners, but now I am wary.
I’m concerned that lefties with no family tradition of gun ownership and discipline are going to be more and more common. Like a rap star who isn’t actually from the hood so he ends up shooting his foot at a nightclub.
But these will be BLMers and Trump=Hitler types, coming to a city or suburb near you. And since they believe hurtful words justify violent retaliation, this could get ugly.
It’s already ugly. They dehumanize any opposition by calling them “Nazis” and “White Nationalists” then fire at will. If you cross the street to avoid them, or suggest they shouldn’t be mob punking little old ladies, you get the wrath. That dude in PDX was into praying and patriotism.
That’s the kind of cynicism that I like to see!
I don’t know if I agree with it, though. At least not in the majority. The progressive BLM/Trumphitler people come from a culture that celebrates and rewards victimhood, self-abnegation, and general incompetence. People don’t buy guns when they’re mired in that culture, they buy guns as a part of taking responsibility for their own lives.
Or they think racists are everywhere just waiting for a reason to gun them down.
I 100% support anyone exercising their rights, I just feel bad these people think racism is such an overt threat.
Man, facts are so last century. Pick a team and espouse whatever helps said team. If a fact is detrimental to that, ignore it and flip it 180. All the cool kids are doing it.
Me too. I like seeing NFAC marching, just like any other armed law abiding group, even if I feel they’re misguided.
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I hope he knows the laws of whatever state he lives in, particularly regarding possession outside of the home, concealed carry, and mandatory declarations.
Says Tomlin is a truck driver in NM. I don’t know gun laws there, but if he is an OTR driver there are all kinds of problems with a gun in the truck in some states.
We can’t actually carry here, so it’s always locked up in the trunk. I haven’t been pulled over while transporting, but I think the smart move is refusing to answer. NEVER lie. NEVER volunteer.
Oh, I agree. But there are some states that require a declaration when pulled over. At least for concealed carry permit holders.
Yeah it’d be different when it’s immediately accessible. Then, I’d put both hands out the window and tell them right off the bat.
If you tell LA cops you have a gun in the car, they immediately turn it into a felony stop. They search the whole vehicle, probably handcuff everyone present, toss your guns around like they’re trying to scratch the hell out of them. They call in all of the serial numbers, fine tooth comb your transporting methods and background, hoping to find a chargeable offense. Call for backup. Threaten to seize the gun/guns. It’s ugly. Takes about an hour to get loose again, if you’re lucky. I’ve know people who’ve suffered through it.
Yet another reason I don’t regret leaving California
“…. then somebody who’s a racist will just decide to roll up on me and gun me down.”
What cartoon world do these lunatics live in?
“…But talking through her mask, Traylor describes….”
Ah. Face-diaper theater. If she buys into that nonsense there is no limit to the horseshit she will swallow.
I think a lot of it is typical NPR spin. Notice the first lady bought her gun when she noticed empty shelves. Empty shelves makes one wonder if society is breaking down. Riots in the streets makes people think society is breaking down. I imagine if the right questions were asked these people would admit they are realizing the mantra of “only police should own guns” they most likely believed their whole lives has been replaced by, “the police are not going to be there to protect you”.
Where I live, the police are actively working against you. Even if you called them and you are an actual victim. It’s easy to bust you, you’re standing in front of them. The perp you called about is long gone and likely to put up a fight. You will just go willingly when they find a prescription pill not in it’s official bottle or a gun cabinet not locked properly. Those of us who know this can spot the signs easily. Their voices change when hunting for chargeable offenses and they look around all shadily, asking about this and that.
Animal: Now do gallery guns.
An interesting idea. I was thinking of the British rook rifles, too.
I have an M6, or did until I did a stupid fishing trip, in the .22LR. I’ve never shot it on the range but have taken out to the woods for plinking and hit the objects I was firing at. I’ve used the .22 to dispatch a mole that came out of
mytheir lawn before the dog could get into it. Has a slight tendency to rust in a few places, but overall I’m quite pleased. One of the guys in my NG unit purchased one a couple year before that in the parking lot, liked the look of it and the break down, so was an easy sale when I saw one sitting in the rack at a gun shop.My only complaints are the break down holster/case was sold out by the time I went to order it from Springfield and the factory accessory sling’s pins don’t fit the receiver holes.
Cloudy, windy , drizzly and 43 degrees which is 9 degrees colder than and hour and half ago. Summer is gone.
Condolences. We were supposed to get to mid 90’s today but the smoke came back and is blocking out the sun so I don’t think we will get there. The rain comes tonight/ tomorrow. Just in time to make me feel shittier about going back to work.
On behalf of my state, I’d like to say: you’re welcome and it’s a boy!
In case the news hasn’t gotten out yet.
Oh, and a soundtrack!
Heh. Not sure if this is your smoke or ours. The biggest fire here is from a lightning strike and nothing as cool as a gender reveal party. Kid isn’t even born yet and his parents will always know they can’t throw a birthday party that will top his gender reveal party.
Maybe when he decides to switch genders at age 12, they can burn down the rest of the state while lopping off his balls.
Hey, man–easy on the lop-talk!
We have 4 or 5 fires going. Some of that smoke is ours. The satellite images show it covering Utah completely. Pretty big one up by Shaver Lake. The gender reveal fire is small potatoes.
The smoke is absolutely terrible here. Visibility is down to 2 miles tops
Supposed to get near 100 on Wednesday. A bit warmer than usual but summer here is July-September. June is a cold month.
State forestry department has gone nuts. They’re ratcheted down the prohibited OPE from chainsaws and grinders to any gas powered small engines, except mowing irrigated grass. I’m convinced they’re going to hold the level at Extreme until the rains start which is ridiculous. I’ve got leaves coming down that need to get blown out before they become a soggy mess. Same with my roof.
Very cool. 22lr over a 410 would be fun to have. They should have made a 44 magnum over 12 gauge and called it the Bear Blaster. Or the Wrist Buster.
I had the Stevens .22/.410 as a kid. That was the original Savage.
Great rabbit getter. .22 for stationary rabbit, and .410 for on the move.
I haven’t made Rabbit in wine in twenty years! It’s high time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4UWdlfH86s
LOLZ
Nice. That’s a new one for me.
You can’t be serious. Loony toons was a staple of my childhood.
I was quite surprised to read that.
The kid who grew up across the street from me apparently saw that one day, and, for the rest of the day, it was him saying “hasenpfeffer” in every voice style he could come up with.
Play time was a chore, that day.
Directed by Friz Freleng, I think?
For my fellow Californians, courtesy of the Babylon Bee:
https://babylonbee.com/news/in-powerful-statement-governor-newsom-implements-statewide-blackout-to-support-black-lives-matter/?utm_content=buffer21e58&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
That could run concurrently on their NotTheBee site and it would be okay
Another cool article, thanks Animal. And yep I’d like to own such a gun.
Buddy Holly’s birthday,
Oh Boy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apgL0QcoXIc
I guess it doesn’t matter anymore.
I know, I know, I just like her’s better.
That’ll be the day when I disagree with you.
“There’s only two kinds of men in the world, those who have a crush on Linda Ronstadt and those who haven’t heard of her.” Willie Nelson, I believe..
The Bee is just hammering California right now.
https://babylonbee.com/news/check-out-these-14-beautiful-shots-of-california-at-night
Oh, man, I thought the main headline was pretty much it, but it’s definitely well worth reading the article.
Mostly peaceful forest fire. Lol.
Like a Twitter comment on the Molotov cocktail dancer.
What’s his problem? He’s only 7% on fire. He’s 93% not burning.
Comedy gold Jerry!
Molotov dance boi’s parents must be so proud.
Oh, wait, let me guess—his father’s not in his life, and he can do no wrong in the eyes fo his mom.
What do I win?
Dick pics?
I was gonna say “Nikes”, but…
It took me a couple seconds and then I LOL’ed.
LOLOLOL
https://mobile.twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1303064717590753280
Love it.
Love it too but come on…don’t record that especially with your lethal on your hip.
You won’t catch me doing stuff like that. ?
I am sure none of us would be caught doing it 😉 Just sayin’ don’t video that. Either way I lol’d a lot
This is paint balling I can support.
I hope it scared the living shit out of the wanker who was pissing on his sign.
Damage to valuable property: negligible.
Value of drawing the line instead of giving an inch to these vandals: priceless.
Amazon has pepperballs. Just sayn’.
Holy shit, dude, get out of my head!
Got out to the range today.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/HHFYy0olStaFgDBe-fWdkw.Yk2Tr4ULpWwB_krKa2E8nE
Finally shot this .22
Verdict: it’s a gem. ??
I don’t see any protein. Don’t forget to eat and hydrate out there!
Grilling steaks for dinner.
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These: https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/L-iecFyRTomrDa0F9aMDlQ.Mpc9x06VU2z6ykZ5VWMQbE
That will get you suspended in some circles.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/D7uaZJtXRDq71xmhVml6HQ.j1CKZTGi8NwiH3slP2Drgu
Ha!
Are you mocking us now?
Just mixing it up. I already posted a firearm at the top of the thread.
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Sexy!
It’s got a built in rail for mounting a red dot. I’m very tempted.
Doeet! And take another photo.
In a sane world, the EIC of the Atlantic would be immediately fired….
https://twitter.com/Surabees/status/1303018841660968960
Looks like all players are on record saying it never happened or didn’t happen the way it was written.
Unless Kelly himself is the source, in which case it really makes him look just as big of a piece of shit for standing there and doing nothing while continuing to work for Trump.
Not to mention a huge pussy for having to make his accusation anonymously. But my guess is he realizes that if he did it publicly some people would ask the sorts of questions I did above.
So lets say Kelly is the source, who are the other 3? Still puts the EIC in a bind on his sourcing
Ha!
Oh my gosh. For these people, university education in which Women’s Studies, Eastern Mindfulness, and Ethnic Studies are treated as serious subjects, university days never ended.
They can go on living in a bubble where and word they string together must be profound wisdom..
Who foots the bill?
My greatest fear is that someone actually pays these people to do what they’re doing.
Also, if anyone is able to explain to me why a seemingly disproportionate number of gay men speak with a lisp?
It’s by no means all or even most, but it’s sufficiently common to be a stereotype, and not just in movie portrayals.
I’ve never researched it or anything but I suspect a genetic component because I’ve seen it in multiple cultures around the world.
Interesting—thanks.
Meh, not getting the hate for this. The first girl is making exercise videos, I don’t watch exercise videos (obviously) but I watch cooking/woodworking stuff, I wouldn’t call it useless. about four of the others are personal trainers, and one girl helps people with their online businesses, both legitimate career choices. Sure the mediation girl and motivator guy are more than likely modern day Tony Robbins, but it’s nice work if you can get it.
I just think it is the smugness. Or maybe I am reading that into it because I am an asshole. I watch lots of you tube vids and subscribe to some. Mostly cooking/boating/fishing/sailing stuff. I don’t have anything against anybody who can make a living off of you tube ad revenue. Good on them. Hell, I don’t have anything against anybody who can make a living unless they are a politician.
I thought the tweet was funny. You don’t have to get all serious about it.
Yes I do. You are not my supervisor.
Seriously though I get that there is some humour in the earnest pollyannaism of the narrator but I’ve mostly seen people mocking this video and it’s usually “how are these real jobs” blah blah blah, which to me is a rather stupid criticism.
These fall in the “don’t come crying with your tail between your legs when this doesn’t pan out son/daughter” types of jobs. If you make it, good on you, when you don’t or it pays pennies on the dollar, you will get a “I told you so, now go pick up a mop and clean some floors”.
If I was your supervisor you would build a proper round item sanding jig or be unfuckingemployed so you are lucky! As to “real” jobs ya, we are in agreement. I think I pretty much stated that.
That clearly calls for a second link to this song.
So “meh” is a negation operator? That makes much more sense.
It’s gone now.
Finally shot this .22
S&W model 41?
S&W 22A.
I have one of those. I was thinking of going to the range this week and shooting some .22. Only ammo I know I can replace.
First thing I did when I got home was to order a mag loading tool from Amazon.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1302765614206013440
Big bada boom.
No links in my last hour and half at the office is making the afternoon drag on.
I’m guessing the holiday makes this an honorary weekend day, so no new post until 6ish?
On this, of all days, you expect someone to enact your labor for you?
Yes, isn’t that what the day is for? For those in labor to work for me?
Real libertarians work on labor day (intentionally lower case, to show my disdain) out of principle.
I’ve started my third load of laundry. Does that count?
Yep. I folded laundry today
I changed oil in the snow blower.
Le tits now!
Yesterday I removed 3 squirrel’s worth of lint from the dryer vent, defrosted the freezer, and made lunches for the week.
You’re gonna make some lady a fine husband, while shaming the rest of us. Stop doing that!
If only she would appreciate it. *sigh*
Visible snow in the air, earlier. Nothing stuck, though.
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/harris-refuses-to-back-stronger-police-presence/
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Sunday refused to back her former position as San Francisco’s district attorney that strong police presence reduces crime, instead saying the country must “reimagine” law enforcement in high-crime communities.
“I am very clear that we have got to, in America, reimagine how we are accomplishing public safety,” Harris said when asked by CNN’s Dana Bash whether she supported a strong police presence in cities. “If you go into any upper-class suburb in America, you will not see police presence, but what you will see are well-funded public schools, high rates of homeownership, [and] small businesses that have access to capital.”
Tell that to the police officers in my “upper-class” suburb that is up the hill from my neighborhood that are getting their
fundingtickets on. She is full of poop and evil.Few cops in low crime areas? How odd. Maybe, those other folks could stop robbing and killin and then have well funded schools (lol!) high rates of homeownership and small business’s access to capital. Sounds like the evil gentrification they keep railing about, but what do I know?
She’s dangerously close to noticing race and two parent families there.
Yup.
Gosh, I wonder why no one has ever thought of that in high-crime areas.
Any place with a county-wide school district, the good and bad neighborhood schools get funded by same formula.
And some states have done it too.
Yes, but Joe Biden didn’t try and force anybody to go their own neighborhood school and not get bussed to some evil mixed school. Imagine how hard it would be to sleep with people to get ahead if he had succeeded? Horrifying!
NYC is actually divided into multiple school districts so you can easily see where the most money goes. It’s the opposite of what Kamala would have you believe.
Clark County Nevada is that way. Nicer areas have nicer schools not because of funding, because of the culture that is perpetuated there.
Look how nice the courthouses are everywhere except Portland!
My wife grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood in Owensboro, KY. The houses are small by modern standards. They are maybe 1200-1600 sq.ft. with carports and 1 -car garages. The yards and houses are, or were at least, nearly immaculate, clean, and maintained. Schools are a reflection of the neighborhoods, which are a reflection of culture I’d say.
Near-Moonlight. Other side of town.
I think Oboro is only big enough for those two neighborhoods.
two neighborhoods
Yeah, it seems pretty locked in by the bypass and river. Everything outside is farmland.
Didn’t Zuck or one of those assholes give the Newark, NJ schools $100 million?
He did and it turned into smoke. No one could say where it went nor explain how that could happen. They all just shrugged and said “I dunno”
They all just shrugged and said
“I dunno”it was a resounding success and just need a little more funding.And if there’s anyone who knows about living in an upper-class suburb in (North) America, it’s Kamala Harris.
If you go into any upper-class suburb in America, you will not see police presence
But if you call 911, particularly to report a crime in progress, you sure will. Assuming it’s not an actual gated community with controlled entry, just look like you’re not a resident and you possibly might have a private security guard following you or actively interacting with your as well.
And then there’s her wet streets cause rain reasoning.
“If you go into any upper-class suburb in America, you will not see police presence”
Won’t see any in the lower class suburbs of Podunkville, either. Free at last, free at last.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/09/07/rochester-diners-at-ox-and-stone-terrorized-by-blm-and-the-restaurant-sides-with-the-rioters-n898423
They’re done.
Like the themed restaurants of yesteryear, maybe a market opportunity is opening up to have a Mostly Peaceful Themed restaurant where you’re patrons are harassed and yelled at and forced to raise their fists in solidarity.
Outside dining will be akin to Fright Night or other such Halloween derived shows in which just beyond the safety of the guard rail, a throng of angry BLM
riotersprotesters will smash glasses and flip tables over.Inside dining will be equally entertaining in which instead of atmospheric music, chants of the street will be piped in while you try to enjoy your meal.
“It is unknown if diners were injured as they fled the scene immediately and haven’t been heard from since”
OFFS
It’s a fucked up world where mobs can trash a restaurant, terrorize the patrons and the owners express sympathy for them. Fuck those owners and doubly fuck those entitled rich kids for protesting for criminal’s rights.
I think Gustave’s picture below sums it up. We have been here before and it doesn’t end well.
Entirely agree, I just find pjmedia to be as mendacious as the MSM, is it really too much to ask for reasonable and subdued reporting*? Everyone has to take it to eleven!!1!!.
*yes I know that’s too much to ask.
I agree. But, there ain’t no Yin if there’s no Yang. The days of bias mildly simmering beneath the surface are long gone. Now, it’s blatant revisionism towards one side or the other. At least PJ has proof and not just “anonymous sources”
I wish I lived there so I could make a difference to them by publicly shaming them. Despicable bastards.
https://media.spokesman.com/photos/2019/01/10/Obit_Civil_Rights_Organizer.JPG.jpg
Not surprising. That’s the hipster neighborhood of Rochester.
Idiots.
It would serve as a lesson to everyone if they got burnt down now.
Is there someplace businesses go for their hostage messages? A style guide or template of some sort?
Surly Brew Hall closing indefinitely. Hope that doesnt include brewery.
More details…employees started organizing union. Surly went John Galt on their ass and shut down.
I think Neph talked about this last week? Or was that a different brewery?
They announced closing on 9/2, so he probably beat me to it.
Just making sure it wasn’t another! Make me wear a mask, making me go through only one door, but for the love of all that is holy, do not take away my beer.
It’s a fucked up world where mobs can trash a restaurant, terrorize the patrons and the owners express sympathy for them.
It’s the damnedest thing. Business is down by about 92% since that night. I don’t get it.”
Who could have seen this coming?
2020 Democratic running mates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not appealing to young African American voters, Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell said Monday.
“For every African American, especially, young African Americans, we point clearly to the 1994 Crime Bill, which was sponsored by Sen. Joe Biden. One which gave $9.7 billion to build private prisons in our country and provided grants and incentivized states to create what we call the three-strike law,” Caldwell told “Fox & Friends.”
Caldwell said the legislation was “very intentional and it created a fair amount of injustice for African Americans.”
“Joe Biden is a part of the problem therefore I don’t understand how anyone could be thinking he could fix the injustices when he was the one who created them,” Caldwell said.
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Caldwell said young African Americans are not excited about Biden’s candidacy nor Harris’.
“Some of them just say hey, we’re not going to vote because they are a part of the system that got us in this mess to begin with,” Caldwell said.
“Joe Biden is going to have an issue because there is no way he is going to get President Obama’s 2008 numbers when it comes to African American support, which [was] at 94, 95, 96 percent. He is not going to get that, therefore, I think Joe Biden is going to lose this race for president.”
They’re black. Who else are they gonna vote for?
Kanye?
Ahem, if they don’t vote for Biden, they ain’t black.
Good, then they’re American.
Let’s ask this guy: https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1303001789546008576
“Less than 3 hours after President @realDonaldTrump
Retweeted this, Twitter suspended the user’s account.
I’m sure it was just another coincidence.”
OFFS!
Always lived vicariously through these articles, but just joined the club. Wife was always opposed with little ones in the house — current events changed her mind. Look forward to more.
Congrats.
Details needed.
Not much available locally. Starting small and simple (and cheap, per wife’s directive), I went with a SAR 9. Will pick up tomorrow on my way to the lake. Haven’t shot since I was a kid, hoping it’s like riding a bike. P.S. Fuck Illinois gun laws. It took me almost 4 months to get my FOID card.
I’m not really familiar with that line.
4 months!!!! JFC.
Will pick up tomorrow on my way to the lake.
What you did there was seen.
You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.
They say it’s a holiday, but it’s just like everyday to me. Hadn’t heard this one in literal decades.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rKufsF-_jeU
My brother’s name is Bill. He smokes ounce after ounce of “medicine” My kid calls him “uncle Bill”
Everyday
I’m ashamed of you. I actually listen to this song voluntarily. Elvis rocked!
Around 08 or so, I got free tickets to the Police with Elvis opening. Elvis stole the show. Police were barely sufferable after Costello’s performance.
Wait! Defund the Police. It all makes sense, now!
Just cuz. https://youtu.be/Mf8KoaN_dF8
You look just like a commie and might just be a member!
In a sorta similar vein – https://youtu.be/iJRWtKePKuY
Just cuz
Reminds me of a Todd Snider song I’ve heard recently about helping out a criminal on the lam, but I don’t know the name (maybe it’s a Hard Working American cut? anyways I can’t find it) this is similar energy though not what I was looking for.
I felt overly lazy today but still had the need to grill/smoke something. So I smoked hotdogs and beans.
News you can use.
https://people.com/food/little-debbie-partners-with-kellogg-to-launch-oatmeal-creme-pie-breakfast-cereal/
Biden wants to know how her hair smells.
Ok, that is wrong but you can take my Star Crunch from my cold dead fingers. And there is a better than fiddy thirddy chance someone will.
That doesn’t sound good for you. You should send it to me for proper disposal.
Get back to me with the Zebra Cake breakfast cereal. I can put a hurt on them Zebra Cakes.
Pffft. Jaffa cake cereal bars are a thing now.
Way ahead of you, there, fellas.
/It’s like they never met college students before
“1,000 Americans move to Florida EVERY DAY as families abandon northern cities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut – with home sales more than doubling in the Sunshine State”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8706685/Almost-1-000-people-Florida-day-coming-Northern-cities-amid-pandemic.html
Does that mean 500 more Florida Mans?
I am the worlds biggest idiot. Had I stayed in FL when I first moved there in 86, or even the second time when I moved there in 94 I could have sold what I acquired and bought that sailboat.
Then you would have lost it all keeping up a sailboat.
Break out another thousand!
#myth
But then you would only have two good days left in your life.
“Pensioner blows his house up while trying to kill a fly with electrified bug swatter
It is not known whether the fly survived the blast, but it appeared that it had at least escaped being incinerated by the zapper.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8705197/Pensioner-blows-house-trying-kill-fly-electrified-bug-swatter.html
Waiting for one to say ” pensioner ruins his mashed potatoes shooting fly with bug-a-salt.”
I currently live in the wealthiest suburb in America w/ over 100,000 people that also has the lowest crime rate of any city with over 100,000 people. Plano, TX.
But I feel like the police are ubiquitous. I see them everywhere. I don’t even like the police. I’d prefer not to.
But it’s total crap to say suburbs don’t have a lot of police. I believe they do and those jobs are very coveted because the cops don’t regularly risk their lives.
Whoops; this was supposed to be a reply to some shit above.
If you are where I think, Urthona, you aren’t far from one or more sub-stations. Plano didn’t get to be the place everyone wants to settle in (as far as N Texas is concerned) by not keeping the riff-raff out.
Plano does have a mixed, at best, reputation.
I see the cops regularly in my neighborhood, or rather, on the way to my neighborhood. All the houses are situated in a mountain meadow with only one road that leads in or out, and that goes to the interstate.
There are two fire stations, and the cops seem to visit there once in a while.
It feels more like they’re the neighborhood watch or a security guard than cops.
I imagine these guys are past their physical prime.
I live in one of the safer neighborhoods in NYC* and I almost never see a cop. ?♂️
*we got our first murder of the year this morning – eat your heart out, Brownsville!
?
linky
? the crime scene markers.
? field expedient
But damn! In front of the donut shop? That’s one step up from getting murdered right in the precinct house.
Dunkin Donuts. The only thing I miss about the NE.
Last time I had one of their donuts, it was much smaller than I remembered, and way too sweet.
This. They’re terrible. I have a mom’n’pop across the street that still makes proper donuts.
yup, last time I tried dynkin, I swore it would be my last. no bueno
All the cops in the donut shops say way-o, way-o…..
“much smaller than I remembered”
This.
“I thought you’d be bigger.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbnqOU6yoBo
Congratulations?
But it’s total crap to say suburbs don’t have a lot of police. I believe they do and those jobs are very coveted because the cops don’t regularly risk their lives.
This. I have a few friends who are cops in various Dallas suburbs, and the ones who started in DPD got the hell out ASAP.
Also, I’m a couple miles north of you in Frisco, and I see cops out and about every single time I leave the house. It’s a constant presence, for better or for worse.
cannot believe how many former DPD officers we have in my agency. For as small an agency, I’d say we’re pushing at least 1/3 former DPD.
Cops are regionally managed. They are different everywhere you go. The nature of being an “enforcer” is always the same, but the degree to which they are deployed in nice neighborhoods is widely varied. I live in the midst of the rich and famous ( no, I’m not one, personally) and I never see cops. I will tell you this, I’ve lived here about ten years and they’ve repaved my street about 4 times. Most of the other streets have never been repaved. I gotta assume someone important wants our street smooth. I live near the animals that are more equal than the other animals. One of my motorcycle customers brought his bike by for some work and said ” I can’t believe they let you live here!” LOL!
Unless you’re Kansas City, Missouri. Hrmph.
My municipality is too small to have cops. The next town over, which has the tax base from all the shopping, has enforcers out quite a bit.
We have to share the town drunk with another bigger village. The ladies of the night only work day shift.
We almost never see the county sheriffs patrolling our subdivision, but every time someone here has called for help (most recently, neighbor across the street locked her keys in the car with her toddler) they were on the scene in less than five minutes. That’s how I like them. Then again, hardly anything every happens in our ‘hood, and the majority of homeowners are armed; I’m sure they don’t feel the need.
This should be every response to MSM and politicians twitter feeds.
Watching the Baztan Trilogy on Netflix. Pretty good overall but Marta Etura is a smokeshow.
What’s it about?
Alfie?
Spanish cop investigating murders, which are possibly tied to her personal history. It’s dubbed but not a bad job of it.
First one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Guardian
White nationalists rally at state capitol.
Local MSM partisan “journalists” are all over the comment at the end and selectively quoting it. Same ones who carried water when Gov Kunt and the Democratic establishment threatened the use of armed state agents against their political opponents who weren’t cooperating with their power grab. Fuck those hypocrites.
Ha! Gov. Kant Klown! You leave the valley and it is super obvious she has zero sway over the state. What a joke.
Even inside the valley, outside of the leftist occupied portions, it’s the same. Unfortunately, they control the state due to numbers and gerrymandering. And non-native carpetbaggers like Gov Kunt herself.
Do my eyes deceive me, or was that a dude in assless chaps?
Must be deceiving, because anyone who actually saw that would purge it from their memory immediately.
Wait, that guy looks like a POC, I thought we were supposed to bow down to them and not criticize.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1303081030115500032
Pro Trump caravan. 1,000+ vehicles allegedly.
Antifa supporters are whining that some obstructed their license plates (so they can’t be doxxed easily). ???
Sounds like something Nazis would do. ?
Ryan Browne
@rabrowne75
In an unprecedented public attack by a sitting US president on the leadership of the US military, President Trump has accused US military leaders of seeking to start wars to boost the profits of defense contractors
My God, what a monster. He doesn’t even want to start new wars.
Apparently the guy never heard of Eisenhower talking about the military-industrial complex.
uNprEceDEnTeD
Fucking mook.
CNN’s national security correspondent isn’t old enough to shave. They probably haven’t gotten to to that point at his grade school yet.
Which is odd, because I remember that quote being brought up constantly by people on the left back in the early 2000s when Bush was starting a war in Iraq to boost Halliburton’s profits.
No dount the same authors writing this now, back then endorsed “no blood for oil!”
Funny how war is only bad when the correct people are against it.
But then the Lightbringer laid his healing hands upon those wars and sanctified them, and now they are holy crusades which must never be questioned.
Some of the top officials in the Pentagon are in revolving doors with the Defense Contractors. Some get caught.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/07/ilhan-omar-calls-riots-uprising-centuries-racial-neglect-oppression/
Sure, all those pasty white, soy sucking Antifa punks have been oppressed for soooooo long.
Their mommies did not love them. It’s not their fault. Most men move past their family issues and make their own lives. These turds can’t.
Bold move for somebody who just got here. You are welcome to return to the land of equality and justice you came from.
Omar: “Whether they are brutalized by police, by austerity economics, or by politicians who simply do not care about us, our nation is crying out desperately for change.”
Yes, those crazy austerity economics that have led to a piddling $25 trillion deficit. When are we really going to start some positive federal spending?
At what point do we start blaming Brett and his gator meth for the disturbing lack of new posts?
I for one, do not blame the gator for Bretts inadequacies.
I don’t see the point of starting a new post when this one’s barely broken in.
Waste not, want not.
Indeed. Why start another and dead thread this one?
Wow
https://youtu.be/EIC_OyptiVQ
Fake news. There oughta be a dude with a jetpack at around 3000 ft.
I assume the powers that be are all still tripping from this https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Ro47kVKp77E
I’m watching Trump go after the military industrial complex with this look on my face.
I want a photoshop of that Jesus guiding Trump’s hand meme except it’s Ron Paul as a Jedi ghost.
Interesting. Work internet blocks gab and bitchute, but not twatter, derpbook, or boobtube.
They used to block whatfinger, but not anymore.
My first smokeless powder firearm was a similar item – a Garcia Bronco. This was a single shot 22 rifle with a skeletonized stock. The barrel twisted to one side to load/unload and the entire barrel assembly came off with the turn of a lever. Just a good, little backpacking rifle.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_odds/2020_president/
What happened? Did the betting markets realize they overestimated Trumps odds? Did something change and i missed it?
That’s right around the time Biden hit the mattresses. As long as avoids speaking at all, he’ll maintain his lead.
Until election night. Then, he’ll get creamed. A few weeks later they’ll have found enough votes to proclaim him the winner. After that, it’s all up to the courts.
This is my fear also.
We might never know who really got more eligible votes.
I will bet money this is what’s going to happen, to one extent or another. They’ve already primed the well with the ” he won’t leave if he loses!” stories. It’s a given right now. They are going to use the same cheats they used in CA during 2018 to take the house. Mark my words.
PragerU needs to hire those Shriner’s hospital kids. They’re adorable.
Ok, I’m drunk.
Donate, and you’ll get a blanket you can use after you pass out.
“ZOOM HORROR Teacher collapses and dies ‘of coronavirus’ in front of shocked students while teaching lesson on Zoom
The professor complained she was not feeling very well and was suffering breathing difficulties as she taught a lesson on Zoom, reports Diari Mes.
Her condition then worsened and soon students were begging her to give them her home address so they could send an ambulance.
De Simone reportedly however on managed to gasp “I can’t” before collapsing in the middle of the lecture.
In the days leading up to the tragedy she had expressed concerns about her health.
The teacher had been suffering persistent coronavirus symptoms – including a cough – for more than a month.
Local media reported her husband, a doctor, found her dead when he arrived home.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12595697/teacher-collapses-dies-coronavirus-zoom-lesson/
Yeah, that makes it more believable ?
Maybe a “doctor” like Jill Biden?
Really did you want someone that dumb to be teaching your students?
/Callous Leon
I’m with you.
Many of my high school graduating class have elected to home school their kids, including 2 who used to be public school teachers.
I noticed that it’s mainly my smarter friends doing this. They can afford to live on one spouse’s salary, and they don’t want their kids in public school.
I’m no intellectual slouch, but I am a shit teacher and teaching is a skill—that I don’t have.
Me, Mr. Mojeaux, and XY will be confined together in about 200 square feet of basement starting 8:00 a.m. tomorrow. XY is my office mate. XX, the lucky duck, will be at a desk upstairs.
I was honestly reading that thinking “BB or not BB?”
Poe’s law.
I’m looking at the polling and it really doesn’t look like it has budged. Maybe the effects of the riots are too localized to show up, maybe people don’t care, or maybe they really do think it is all white supremacists doing it.
TMITE
Including social media. The censoring of social media is the worst thing happening right now.
My husband told me someone or other was banned from LinkedIn.
LinkedIn? WTF? That’s a career related site, full of resumes and stuff, not social media.
Hah hah. Used to be. Everything is political now and there are no boundaries.
Now that I have a job again I hope to not have to look at LinkedIn for another decade or more.
Wait a sec?! Congratulations! (Maybe?)
Laid off at the end of last year and then 2020 happened.
Nope. I’d say that fewer Biden voters put the blame for the riots on White Supremacists as the number who understand it as a reaction to systematic racism, which has been part of America for generations and is thus Trump’s fault.
“systematic racism”
Do you think that means anything to people in the middle?
Nope. That’s why I specifically stated “Biden voters”
The polls are shit. More so than they were in 2016. I’ve posted about the reasons several times here. Biden has never been ahead and never will be. It’s all fake news now.
I’d like to think that if I were naive enough to have been a prog voter in the past, then a braying mob converged on a restaurant I was dining in and forced me to raise a fist in a “Black Power” salute, that it would make me scrutinize the left and perhaps even leave it.
“that it would make me scrutinize the left and perhaps even leave it.”
You’re not the only one. Biden had slightly less chance of beating Trump than Hillary did. That’s over now, he has no chance. It’s more likely that Trump wins by a very wide margin than it is that Biden wins, not happening.
I hope you’re right.
They don’t even want to win. If they could, it would pin all the shit they’re blaming on Trump, solely on them and everyone will see just how damn crazy they are.
You probably have much more sense of self than most progs…
If you were a prog, it would be exciting! Your chance to be a part of the movement and you didn’t even have to give up your dinner reservation.
The restaurant’s owners seem to think the screeching and minor property damage adds to the ambiance.
What I’m reading between the lines is the restaurant owner is glad he/she is only out some plates and glasses. Make too much noise and that mob could come back and burn them out. I can’t say I blame them for playing it down. The police obviously aren’t going to help and I can imagine the owners would get prosecuted to the full extent of the law if they armed themselves and made a stand.
Lying about Biden’s lead is helpful to the endgame of manufactured mail-in ballots putting him over the top. They used that tactic for Hillary also. This time, they have widespread mail-in voting. They are going to turn this election upside down. Watch the rioting after it gets contested. Watch. Kamala already said it, they’re not going to stop. Get used to it.
They’re not going to be able to get enough mail in votes to even try to make a believable attempt to overturn it.
They dream up shit like this because they’re desperate.
They’d better go sulk in their corners, because they don’t want a civil war in which they will lose and will set their grievance culture shit back a generation.
They have long since dropped any need for their schemes to be believable. As long as beltway “journalists” parrot the crazy shit they say, they think it’s working. For most dems, it is. This is a very post-truth era.
Polls reported in the media may be shit, but what about internal polls the parties do? I’m reliably told that a county GOP (suburban Philly) has techniques that give pretty accurate predictions (e.g. they poll the same voters every election cycle) and are finding Biden now killing Trump in the suburbs where Hillary merely won. Pessimistic word to their candidates is: disassociate yourself from Trump if you have to. Word to their heavy contributors: forget about sending money to the Trump campaign, re-direct to our local candidates who do have a chance.
?
Hey–when you’ve “lost” Gaffigan…
FFS, Jim–I figured you had to be conscious to be a successful comedian…or, was this meant to be a joke? Raised by radical Marxist, around other radical Marxists (and, murderers, too, if we’re being honest); pushed, and got, the biggest “tax” ever on the US public….but, nah–he’s no “S-S-Socialist”!!
I’m finding that a bunch of friends who were never the slightest bit political before confiding in me recently that they are now Trump supporters. They were all probably leaning left before. An extremely limited sample, of course, but i wonder if it means anything on a larger scale.
“Were lockdowns a mistake? To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes.
Certainly, they were a novelty. As novelist Lionel Shriver writes, “We’ve never before responded to a contagion by closing down whole countries.” As I’ve noted, the 1957-58 Asian flu killed between 70,000 and 116,000 Americans, between 0.04 percent and 0.07 percent of the nation’s population. The 1968-70 Hong Kong flu killed about 100,000, 0.05 percent of the population.
The US coronavirus death toll of 186,000 is 0.055 percent of the current population. It will go higher, but it’s about the same magnitude as those two flus, and it has been less deadly to those under 65 than the flus were. Yet there were no statewide lockdowns; no massive school closings; no closings of office buildings and factories, restaurants and museums. No one considered shutting down Woodstock.
Why are attitudes so different today? Perhaps we have greater confidence in government’s effectiveness. If public policy can affect climate change, it can stamp out a virus.”
https://nypost.com/2020/09/06/its-now-looking-like-the-lockdowns-may-have-been-a-huge-mistake/
Wait, who has greater confidence in government? Who thinks public policy has affected climate change? Say what, now?
Does anyone here think some crazy shit will happen on Friday?
You mean worse than a usual Friday? This year is wall to wall, man!
I have a doctor’s appointment, so… I hope not.
Why this Friday?
9/11
Umm, let’s see. Trump moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
Trump makes peace between Arabs and the Zionist devils.
I see, makes sense.
19th anniversary? Needs music
https://youtu.be/sAseQGeATH8
Good article, never heard about those before.
I hate to OT already, but I have to do something because I cannot stop laughing still.
Make it stop!
Right abound the 3:50 mark. I was in stitches for at least 10 minutes, my god, my side is still hurting.
I missed it. Is that part where Steltzer fell off a wall and couldn’t be put back together?
Why is his voice so squeaky? It’s like he is on helium.
They have to pump up humpty so he won’t fall of the lyin wall.
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1302800998801399808
The climate crisis is actually more real. It may be actually warming over the past few centuries, on and off, but it’s to do with still coming out of an interglacial period, not human activity. On the other hand, there is no real pandemic, it’s just another cold virus exploited purely for political purposes.
The Screen Rant Pitch Meeting guy always cracks my ass up. Today’s meeting: Live action Mulan.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j_USHuhOqyk
This from the comments section cracked me up too: “forget to mention we are going to do a marketing campaign where the actress will support the real empire, chairmen Xi by supporting Hong Kong police on cracking women and childern skull and sexually assault them.” “very sassy!”
“So, you have an original movie for me?”
“Uh, no… actually.. uh”
“Just kidding”
lol
That guy is awesome.
Got 2 sconnie brewed beers tonight, I just cracked some Mudpuppy Porter (it is damn tasty), and I have some Chocolate Lab Porter to try next
Just cracked the Chocolate Lab. A bit more flavor wise going on, but I think prefer nice dark chocolate flavor of the mud puppy. Both are tasty though, should be a good night.
Red dog sold out?
There is some sort of shortage going on, not sure if it’s just the local distributor or Miller itself, it’s been 2 months since I could get some Red Dog. (I was told by the local store owner that it isn’t discontinued though.)
Haven’t had one in decades. Betcha I’d still like it, though.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E10/292141
Mmm… needs more dog.
Still trying to learn to play CK3. The more I learn, the more I learn how deep that game is. I’m still playing the tutorial game, which is South Ireland based. I married a Welsh girl, she’s the meanest ginger in all the land. I mean in the whole of the UK. I stay away most of the time in battle and only go home to get her preggie again. When I’m home, I sleep with one eye open. Hoping to get some sons with my militia skills and her prowess and downright meanness.
I don’t get (too) political on Facebook, first because I don’t need other people’s flame wars to appeal in comments on my posts, and second, because I might have to apply for a job again someday.
I hate that second part, but that’s the world we live in now, whether they explicitly call it a Social Media Score or if it’s done with a nod and a wink. And a delete key.
Like all things, this current era of wokeness and cancel culture shall pass. It’s a completely untenable situation and the serious blow back is way overdue. It’s only lasted this long by being propped up by the media 24/7 and their legitimacy is waning by the day.
Perhaps, like the Peace Movement, it will largely disappear upon the election of a Democrat president?
That’s one reason I’ve scaled back on social media, in case I ever do need to go apply for a job. Also, my IRL personage has no social media footprint at all.
I’ve tried discussing things like free speech, min wage etc. on FB. And, yeah, it turned nasty quickly. It was the lefty I was talking with, but fucking randos that popped in with horrible slanders. Some people’s kids *SMDH*
*It wasn’t the lefty…
Well, my Labor Day was spent laboring, as was XX’s. I’m bushed.
Fourth night, still no Gracie (Porch Cat,) but last night’s New Porch Cat reappeared, still hungry and very friendly. Confirmed male, so working title is Grady. (Next in sequence: Gray C, Gray D.) Acts very much as if he’d like to be Tom T’s kitteh, and Tom T is talking vet visit. Doing our due diligence and putting out notice of find on NextDoor, but if no claims…
…and as for me, another 45 minutes on the treadmill accomplished! Now to shower, go to bed, and dream of tomorrow’s nice relaxing swim!
Good on ya, GT. Exercise and vitamin D are my only countermeasures for CV. Life goes on.
There really is something to be said for sunshine and healing.
I don’t know if it’s a direct physiological effect, or just that happier, more hopeful patients do better.
Good for you! We have a extra large black male that comes and eats every morning. Our two girls seem to like him. He eats an astounding amount of food. He’s pretty personable, but nobody here is touching him anytime soon. After he eats, he sometimes lays down inside the house until my kid wakes up. I kind of feel like he’s gracing us with his presence in exchange for the food.
?
It’s a pussycat. Easy killer!
Big black cat? BBC?
It’s like clicking an HM link, around here. What about the family friendly rating?
It’s about 50-50 as to which is more gay.
Says the prolific fister!
It’s a stray. Now he’s yours. I’ve gotten a few cats that way. Enjoy him.
Black Cats Lives Matter
Listened Dave Smith’s debate with that Andy guy. Perfect summation of the fight btw the Sarwark wing and the Mises guys. The Sarwark wing: you guys are icky and platform icky people like Nick Fuentes and Molyneaux. Dave: I have lefty collectivists all the time on my show, yet you never complain about that. Why?
I’m sure I’m biased, but the “debate” was a mauling.
Men at Work didn’t wear hats?
https://mobile.twitter.com/sixxfeetundr/status/1302999441075580930
And I noticed that a few others had done the same thing I did before me. I’m either a thief or parallel jokes. I’m leaning toward thief myself.
I can’t remember exactly, but it was a “Liar,Liar!” one that made me laugh.
At work, we have a “safety” meeting every pay day. I always sing ” we can meet if we want to.”
Fuck you very much PG&E. Just like with lockdowns, now other utilities are turning off power so they don’t get blamed for wildfire
https://portlandgeneral.com/-/media/public/our-company/improving-energy-grid/documents/pge-public-safety-power-shutoff-faq.pdf?la=en
How do they expect people that have lived there whole lives with electricity to go without?
Gratefully.
I’m sure the elites will be just fine.
They get their haircuts, their government gyms, their electricity.
They have to be in tip top condition in order to lead us benighted peasants.
There’s really no point in seeking power of others if you can’t flex every know and then.
And, it’s not like declaring a pandemic really counts–too many people were craving that “tell-me-what-to-do” crap for it to be satisfying.
I’ve ragged on them and the state forestry department, but in fairness, the fire danger is very high now. Forecast high winds and extremely low humidity (5-10%, which never happens in Western Oregon) and it’s been essentially a dry summer.
Went outside and it’s a campfire from blown in smoke. Kind of eerie when you hear sirens going by on a nearby road.
https://twitter.com/_JustinMoon_/status/1302661856075620352
OFFS!
That seems superfluous. But I’m sure his arm is tired from patting himself on the back.
https://twitter.com/KKPHlL/status/1302006711226691584
LOLWTF?
Isn’t that how John Kerry got his fortune?
We have a winner! So clever I almost pissed my pants 😉
Redwings?
Old guy in the park playing gateball by himself. It’s a little Zen watching him. No idea why this makes me happy.
https://ibb.co/PcFHRc9
I can see why it would make a person happy.
What is gateball?
Gate + ball sounds painful
It’s what the Japanese call Croquet
Makes sense
I had to look that up. Never heard of it before. Beats an old man playing pocket pool in the park.
So, this bullshit has happened: https://mobile.twitter.com/i/events/1303157557872091138
Slumbrew–hold on to that avatar.
Fuck
Looking at that picture, I may have a guess as to why it was canceled.
Uh oh–sounds like someone has a filthy whore mouth that has to be shut….?
Come on if you think you are hard enough!
Get a room you two.
Man, this is a hip crowd!
I would never claim to be hip. Square may be an adequate descriptor.
Aaaaaand, cue Huey.
Huey Lewis, 1986, more like hip replacement.
Voice replacement, if I’m remembering his recent malady correctly.
/Yeah, I know–just go with it.
Well then fuck Adult Swim, just release it somewhere else.
My thoughts, as well, though I should add that I found the last two seasons to be kind of dull.
And seriously, fuck Adult Swim. What, you have to find more air time for American Dad and Family Guy?
Two shows I long ago stopped watching.
You got tired of being lectured at too?
My exact thought.
Why do I get the feeling that Fox offered other networks/stations a sweet deal on Seth’s “properties”? I mean, Simpsons is now a Disney+ commodity. But the other Fox animated shows need syndication somewhere, and CN/AS doesn’t have to pay to make those shows, that already have some sort of built-in audience.
Not to say I am happy with any of this crap.
Do they still have the show with the meatball and the shake?
No. They cancelled that, as well, for no particularly good reason.
I think the reason was that Dave and Matt were winding it down. They seemed to be phoning it in there, near the end. Plus, Dave has been doing much bigger voice jobs, if Archer is “bigger”. And, it is.
Food police, don’t want to glamorize fast food.
Glamorize? I don’t think there was a real danger of that.
A few years ago is was watching both Archer and Bob’s Burgers. It was a bit weird to hear Bob making non-family friendly jokes.
Uh, who’s been going around calling the others here “gay”? Hank’s been gettin’ his squeeze on with the mobster honey, the Monarch’s…arc, 21. But, ‘Oh, it’s dull’. Uh-huh.
/Yeah, just pick this up, Netflix/Amazon/Hulu
They weren’t funny.
Yes they were. They were also clever and building a new story arc.
Yeah, they were. Maybe not to your #1 standard…
Fuck me! I am pissed! That is one of the very few shows I watch.
It took so long between seasons that it’s not something that can I’ll notice it being gone, but it was always a nice treat when a new season finally popped up. But hey, adult swim has to make room for all their great content like…uh…
I already said my piece about Adult Swim.
It’s what we get for liking a Ted Turner company.
Anyone else leap to the remote when their stupid intertitles or whatever you call them come on? Nothing like being lectured about the ‘vid in the voice of a snarky teenager.
Haven’t watched AS lately, but our remote’s Mute button has been getting quite the workout every time a commercial comes on talking about The Current Situation or however they put it, complete with (presumably) happy smiling people wearing masks. The jab at the button is usually accompanied by an impassioned “SHUT UP!” (That’s the clean version.)
It’s like we were separated at birth.
Brother! : )
The rioters may be smarter than I thought.
Kaepernick remaining unsigned is one of the few sports stories right now that brings me joy.
On target, unlike most of Kap’s passes.
I know and appreciate the joke, but this is an obvious facet to Kaepernick’s story.
He had the Cinderella story and unlikely run to the Superboel.
And then he started sucking. He really wasn’t that good, and the cold hard stats bear that out.
He wasn’t even the starting QB anymore. So then he did the anthem kneeling. In the press conference right afterwards, he fumbled for words.
Only after talking to his lawyer and agent did he come up with the Kneeling for Black Lives schtick.
If he could win games, he’d have been signed.
Sports shouldn’t be about winning against others–it should be about social signaling….and, winning over wypipo.
Most of his passing stats came from wide open vernon davis across the middle or wide open recievers over the top and weren’t on-target passes, but it was usually so uncontested it worked out. And he if that first or second read wasn’t wide open, he’d run.
OK–you’re just putting random words together, now.
It was also his commie girlfriend.
Huh… my dad’s old gun from his youth. A .410 double barrel with a .22lr slung underneath. Light enough for him to carry walking to school back in the 1950s. Versatile enough to account for pretty much any small game he encountered. And surely a handy item for home defense, being so compact and light.
I used to love playing with it when I was little. The break of the barrel was really cool. Popping shells in and out was neat. Setting one or the other or both of the triggers was cool, as was figuring out the simple mechanics of it all.
Apologies to birds everywhere, but–I’m laughing way too hard at this.
The 2-D chicken turned into a badass.
^THIS^
Also, that makes a pretty good mantra.
Or, a spy phrase.
/just saying
I think they ended the video too soon, I want to see what happens next.
Wrapping up on animating the next episode, that’s why I’m kinda quiet tonight. Just counting down the work days until Honey Harvest, I’m taking 6 days off and doing some campin for that week.
Suuuuure….
Cartoon joy. Sleeping in a tent camping? Does camping help with the loneliness? Are you going to go visit the bees?
With STEVE SMITH in the world, how can it not?
Taking an RV (I need power for my CPAP), and negotiating if my brother and his family can come along to negate the loneliness. I’ve taken an actual vacation (take time off work to go somewhere for my own enjoyment), looks at calendar, never, so it feels like time.
nice
New cartoon is uploading.
Bad Lip Reading uploaded a Trump video, I love political comedy that is actual comedy, not just political rants.
Don’t talk about the Lizard People.
Late Night Leak.
I love it when the P’s are involved. Then again, so does Bolton.
/”Notlob” is an anagram of “Bolton”
The Hat really hates them, it’s one of those things that lives outside my writing, I’ve never even met one.
NILBOG!!??
VERY sinister!
Are you pissing on my hospitality?!
I am posting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw2szUP0IRI
♫ Woke up this morning, got myself a gun…
This Trump ad is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw7AnWgjk3s
from the ad
“American combat troops should not be at the center of ancient sectarian conflicts all over the world. Bring our soldiers back home.”
-Donald Trump, callous war monger and dangerous isolationist who doesn’t care if American troops live or die…according to anonymous sources
I quibble with calling Islam (I’m assuming that is the sectarian violence) ‘ancient’.
Soon I’m finally going to write up the story of why my small company imploded because of Bowe Bergdahl and the fact my business partners assumed I, being a libertarian, would make propaganda for money, because all libertarians care about is money.
Damn that Bergdahl!!
DAMN HIM!!!
Well, it wasn’t him personally, but his parents. Like I said, I’m going to be writing it up soon.
Wait–didn’t they have the NYT for that purpose?
Oh, right….”soon”.
This happened before it was national news. Yes, soon.
The Islamic infighting and expansionism is a variation of the Ishtar vs Baal (or whatever) BS that’s been going on over there since the dawn of time so I’ll give him a pass.
Ishtar was Persia (The Hat spits), Baal was over in The Promised Land TM. There was some breathing room between.
Sumerian but might have been ancient Persian too for all I know.
A very good ad as long as he acts on the sentiments. He has (mostly) the right instincts when it comes to unnecessary wars but he has to be more forceful about ending them.
Crazy lady pets and hand feeds great white sharks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuzcR2vMac
Is there video of when SEA SMITH showed up?
She should try living among them like Grizzly Man, worked out for him
If she isn’t careful “hand feed” could take on a different meaning.
*imagines a joke that no one will ever put into a movie*
CHARACTER looks at the hook where the CAPTAIN’S hand should be.
CHARACTER: What happened there?
CAPTAIN: Aye, I hand fed a shark.
Heh, The Simpson’s’ steamed hams skit as seen through the eyes of Quentin Tarentino:
https://youtu.be/8rQNils2Pko
Whoever did this did a fine job.
I really hate ‘It’s THIS but THIS’ videos. Really played out, but they get more views than my all original content, so they’re smarter.
You expect us to click on that link and to validate that type of content?
First workday after a week off – six thousand unread emails.
Looks like it was a quiet week.
I’m so glad my new job doesn’t rely on e-mail as much as my last job. I was only part time and they would mad at me for not checking my email, Fuck-off. If I’m not getting paid I’m not checking my fucking email 10 times a day for your every whim.
Which fraction of one percent of them actually require your attention?
About 200.
Can confirm. I don’t get that many but only about 20% actually pertain to what I do. Regional office added me to their sub-contractor list for some unholy reason. I check about once a month if I can be arsed.
Start your day with the musical stylings of a Fry from Futurama look-alike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8eJh4i8Lo
Also I submitted a new satire. It’s hot! It’s topical! Hope you all enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO58IoYVsYY
You can’t fool me, that’s a video from Flight of the Concords.
Let’s have some more music.
Marcy Playground’s ‘Saturday’, but it’s Tuesday #1 Youtube Twitter #BobMarley
Nice.
And more.
Have some outrage porn to start your day: https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15589
***
A recent Washington Postarticle lamented the fact that biology textbooks contain a disproportionate number of mentions of “white men.”
The article’s author, Bethany Brookshire, begins by referencing three of the most recognized contributors to modern biology, Charles Darwin, Carolus Linnaeus, and Gregor Mendel.
“Textbooks are also written from a very white perspective.”
“They’re all men. They’re all white,” Brookshire observes. The article then attempts to frame the three scientists’ race and gender as an issue, considering a recent study that found, as Brookshire points out, that “their names appear in every biology book” and “mentions of white men still dominate biology textbooks.”
[RELATED: Prof: It’s ‘distressing’ when white people say ‘all lives matter,’ ‘asking them to stop’ is a ‘form of antiracist action’]
The study does, according to The Post, concede that “the number of women mentioned was proportional to the number of tenured women in the academic biology workforce over time,” but Brookshire later seemingly dismisses this fact as irrelevant, given that the study finds references in textbooks do not “reflect the gender and racial diversity of who’s in the classroom.”
The Post cites an argument made by Spelman College biochemist Mark Lee, noting that “Textbooks are also written from a very white perspective,” as evidenced by the fact that “textbooks define a perm as making straight hair curly. The same process can make naturally curly hair straight.”
***
It’s really great that WaPo hires the mentally disabled.
OK, on with the rest of my day. Another time, glibbies.
OFFS.
The science textbook singles out three scientists, and they happen to be white men.
Never mind that a modern random sampling of three accomplished scientists today would also be white men, just due to demographics. Okay, maybe one or two of the dudes is Asian.
All that aside, the fact remains that nearly all great contributions to Western culture have come from white men.
This is not surprising, nor should it be viewed negatively. White because “western civilization “ and men because that was the way of the world for millennia and still it in most societies.
But a textbook on science and math has no business picking and choosing what is science and what is BS.
One more song.
Thanks for the tunes. I’m pretty much chained to my desk between 7 and 8.
I don’t have a megaphone.