Buenos dias gliberinos! I normally don’t do this with a day in between, so I’ll have a bit or regular, and a bit of Mexican links.
Not that Mexicans are irregular. I’m writing this on the can as we speak.
I am Jack’s utter contempt for Dorsey. People would distain Jack slightly less if he just came out and said he shadow-bans based on political preferences. He can do what he wants with his platform but this way at least then he’d be honest about it.
Cuba will “unify its currency” by the end of the year.
The monetary reform, expected before the end of the year, will eliminate the convertible peso while leaving a devalued peso, officially exchanged since the 1959 Revolution at one peso to the dollar.
The soon to be removed convertible peso is also officially set at one to 10 pesos to the dollar for state companies and 24 pesos sell and 25 pesos buy with the population.
Mexico puts a property owner in prison…because the building collapsed and killed people…in an earthquake. Isn’t the time to enforce building codes before the earthquake?
Hell yes! They wanted you to have an AR-15.
If you do it for a cheap thrill, wouldn’t a knife be a better tool?
Machu Picchu is open…for a single tourist.
University of Arizona confirms what we pretty much already knew. Thanks Wildcats.
Here’s a tune, have a great Thursday.
“I am Jack’s utter contempt for Dorsey. ”
I actually woke up last night thinking about that.
Not that I don’t already have chronic insomnia, but still.
I woke up with a boner and nobody to assist..
Wait, did I say that out loud?
I’m sorry for your loss but if she was that different from you philosophically maybe it ain’t so bad. +1 not having to travel for nudging.
Join the club!
I thought the founding fathers wanted me to have tanks, mortars, fully automatic weapons, jets, and nukes.
You left out warships.
with stern chasers? Cause I want some brass!
+1 letter of marque and reprisal
Sure. If you were on the right side of History. I’m certain that they didn’t want those yucky Loyalists to even own a matchlock. It never changes.
I’m sure there were hypocrites on this issue, as on many others, but some of the Patriots were stridently in favor of the people’s rights (at least for citizens). Thomas Jefferson made his famous quote about the tree of liberty needing to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants while a rebellion (Shay’s rebellion) was going on against the state government of Massachusetts, a government which was in good standing with the federal government Jefferson worked for at the time. And it should be noted also that Washington did not disarm the rebels of the Whiskey Rebellion after dispersing them, which is not something I could imagine being done today.
Well, maybe not nukes.
Why not? I should be able to own anything the government can, otherwise where do their increased ‘rights’ come from?
The SCOTUS thy plan to pack?
Two possible arguments:
1) Nukes aren’t self-defense.
2) Discriminate vs. Indiscriminate weapons.
If the government can own them, why can’t I?
There is no basis for believing that a collection of people, none of whom are/should be permitted to own x, nonetheless are/should be permitted to own x.
I want a damn nuclear reactor for my house. Buy fuel once. Have heat, hot water, and electricity for 20 years.
Use the depleted uranium for making boolets.
I don’t think that the government should be able to have them, either.
Well, I kind of agree, but that ship has sailed, been refitted with engines, and is cruising along impervious to attacks.
Neither of those justifications are in the Constitution.
You can try to get them in with Amendments. There’s a formal procedure for that.
Arms versus ordnance. You were guaranteed the former, not the latter.
Aren’t bullets considered ordnance?
Ammunition or munitions.
Thanks. *tucks that away in writing folder*
There is no such distinction in the Constitution. Plenty of private individuals, as well as the militias had all the cannon they could get. Are you saying the Feds could have done their own version of Concord to take people’s cannon?
Whereas I’m sure arguing political philosophy with libertarians is a highly productive use of one’s time, as a practical matter, if nukes were legal, we wouldn’t be able to do it now, because some maniac would have already destroyed the entire planet.
Nukes already are legal. For the maniacs running certain governments. Such as, North Korea, which thankfully is run by a peaceful person with a non-volatile personality.
If you can tell me how to effectively ban ALL nukes everywhere in the world, then, sure, I’d say pass an Amendment to ban them for private citizenry in the U.S.
There she is… Thanks Sharpy!
“Cuba will “unify its currency” by the end of the year.”
I’ll take your word for it.
Plenty of things get unified when you flush the toilet, Cuba.
That’s gonna be a shitshow.
“Isn’t the time to enforce building codes before the earthquake?”
Maybe they didn’t know?
Pour encouregez les autres
Did they ever sort out that other Vegas shooting?
There was no Vegas shooting, otherwise there would be news stories about it.
Like there are stories about a Hunter Biden video showing him smoking a crack pipe with a street hooker, emails showing his dad lied about using the power of the VP office to help the Biden family get illegal actions and a load of money, and a slew of other instances where US interests were sold to enemies? Or stories about the recovered emails that Hillary’s people thought they had destroyed? Or…
You get my drift.
Radio silence. Dead Air. Maybe we’ll find out after we’ve all shuffled off this mortal coil. It’s one of the most egregious examples of what can happen when too few pull too many strings.
I’m still waiting. best guess is the guy was a dupe conspiring with an FBI informant, who then got out of sight with the FBI and did the shooting. Otherwise there would be mountains of info on him, just like every other shooter of the past few deades.
You mean they were in the process of setting him up for a bust and he went off grid before they could nail him? That actually sounds plausible.
You articulated it better than I, but yeah, essentially that. The FBI has a ling history of that kind of thing.
How are you going to get some serious kudos, a promotion, and a lot of accolades (and maybe your name in the news), if you don’t help these people along in their quests to do bad things so you can then arrest them, huh? You can’t really just wait for real criminals to decide to do their things……
And besides, like, real criminals can be freaking dangerous. Do you think that the vaunted agents of the FBI signed on for that? Don’t they deserve to go home at the end of the day?
That’s my leaning, also. Just some crazy fucking loner they were setting up that went off. Sorta like the Michigan guys and dozens of others that they enabled over the years.
Seven months doesn’t sound very long.
I’m guessing that is “seven months and counting” since there weren’t that many people who had recovered from COVID more than seven months ago
“When that Second Amendment was written . . . we were talking about the likelihood that a person could purchase a muzzle-loading musket.”
also, cannon, warships, explosives, and anything else you dream up.
When the constitution was written one could grow wheat in one’s field without it being “interstate commerce”.
One could also run a still and sell or trade liquor without an oversight.
“It’s not illegal when the president does it”
RMN
+1 whiskey rebellion
That’s currently the flag I have flying in my yard.
When the Constitution was written you could run a still on your own property.
Goddammit. Refresh the page.
/hands Festus a mason jar full of corn squeezins.
“Hee Haw”
Shaddup or the revenooers will find out about the glib market.
So here in the US, it’s legal to own a still for distilling water and essential oils. On that thin reed, quite a few home brewing shops started selling the equipment. From back in the day of TOS, there were reports that TTB was visiting home brew shops and requesting information on those who have purchased stills.
On the other hand, freeze concentration is still legal in the US.
We used to brew chez Flashman/Humungus. Our brew shop had some equipment for distilling, but not all. My other thought was it would be easy to distill, we just never did it. Then we decided to move to a smaller place (well, no basement and a tiny kitchen) and sold all our brewing gear to some dude in a garage sale for $70/ waaaay less than we spent on it.
One of my law school pals is a local licensing specialist for brewers, breweries, etc. Because Beer City, and all that. I bet if I asked him I could get some used gear. hmmm.
Punchline – you ended up buying back the same gear you sold?
Elspeth:
I haven’t really brewed this year with the bullshit lockdowns pissing me off (and closing some homebrew shops temporarily). I have several acquaintances who have purchased the equipment to distill (purely for essential oils of course). For alcohol, as I’m more of a whiskey fan, it’s really not worth it to me. I doubt the neighbors would appreciate me building a rickhouse in the back yard.
On the licensing side, one of the local breweries (Brew Kettle) purchased the equipment for distilling on a commercial level. However, after talking to some former employees, the owner/head brewer is a bit headstrong and refuses to hire a local lawyer to help walk him through the steps to get the license. So… the equipment sits fallow, and every time they build a new facility, the talk of them opening a distillery gets included.
, freeze concentration is still legal in the US.
Nope.
At one point I looked up the actual federal regulations. Concentration of alcohol, by distillation or fractional crystallization (freezing), requires a federal license.
Ice beers that filter out ice particles apparently don’t concentrate the alcohol enough to require a license.
From my familial experience, FedGov seems to do its level best to push folk into the moonshine business. To distill fewer than 500 gallons per year of non-beverage alcohol only requires the Experimental/Hobbyist Licence from BATFE. That process includes multiple inspections of the site for your still, the still itself, and your mandatory security measures (fences, alarms, denaturing your product as it leaves the tap, etc.) Despite the requirement to add kerosene (or other poison) so as to denature at the spout, you are still required to post a surety bond (cash only) in the amount your product would have been taxed if it were beverage alcohol. Also, your product may never leave the address on your licence and may only be possessed by those also listed on your licence.
Alternately, you can just take your chances and find a secluded clearing in the woods.
kinnath:
That’s interesting, back when I was regularly hitting up the homebrew talk forum mentioning distillation was an immediate nuking of the thread. While freeze concentration discussions were allowed. It also seems like it would cause issues for items like ice wine and applejack manufacturers (both only need a winery license to my understanding here in Ohio, not a distillery license).
A quick search (stuck on conference calls the rest of the day) shows that the last ruling was back in 1994 by the ATF, and was in regards to ice beer only.
Ice wine is made by freezing the grapes or the juice to concentrate the sugar, which of course can be used to produce higher alcohol levels or used to produce a sweeter product.
Even if you are fermenting to higher alcohol levels, you are just going to push into “fortified” wine and pay a higher tax on the product. (note, 16% ABV big red wine is over table wine and into fortified wine for the tax rates).
Ice beer, is filtering ice out of the finished produce, thus concentrating alcohol. This is what the TTB cares about.
It is a very common misconception in homebrewing the freezing is OK. It’s not. It just really, really hard to get caught doing it unless you are stupid. The TTB isn’t going to know if you accidentally left a pale of wine or cider in the garage in January in Iowa and accidently removed the ice every day until you’ve dramatically reduced the volume (unless you tell lots of people that’s what you did).
Those were the days.
Yes they were!
They really were
THANK YOU!!!!
When the 1st was written we didn’t have the internet. Does it pertain to electronic communications? Durbin’s a sub-moron.
The European printing press had already been around for 350 years. That was the entire idea of the First. The Powers that be can’t come into your shop to destroy your means of communication because they found it unpalatable which happened in Britain for a couple of hundred years. The First is the gold standard of freedom and we’ve seen it winnowed away in the space of one decade.
No he’s not, though that’s not a defense. One of the few congresscritters I know something personally about. _All_ of this is kayfabe to Durbin. It’s a very lucrative job to the guy and nothing more. He does what he’s told and keeps the right people happy and is rewarded for it. Now you could argue that makes it worse, and I might agree, but understand there are plenty of politicos out there like this.
So you’re saying “moron” isn’t a strong enough word.
“Shameless grifter” is more accurate
This. There are, absolutely, stupid politicians out there, but they’re not the majority.
Only if you define stupidity as being “stupid across the board”, and, at least in my experience working at the Hawaii state legislature, even that might be close to a majority.
I worked for an idiot savant – bright about most things, a genius at getting people to vote for him. Could not read or understand legislation, really stupid about that. But he was smart enough to hire me to do that for him.
They always fall back to that bailey. No, asshoe! The right to self-defense is a natural right. It is a part and parcel of being born. You try to fuck with me and I will defend myself regardless of legislative dictats. Fuck Off Slaver!
Never mind that the musket was the M-16 of its day, since it could be loaded and fired relatively rapidly and was therefore good for military use.
That a “militia” can’t have “military” rifles is retarded on it’s face.
um, its
Sorry, Teds.
You could also own slaves. Did you think of that, smart guy? Now hand over all your modern weapons, peasant.
Nope, I think I’ll just take you down to the auction bloc and see if anyone will pay for your worthless hide, tyrant.
Stranded in Peru for 7 seven months…. that would be an interesting experience. But at least he got to see Machu Picchu. I would like to see it too, articles about ancient civilizations are one reason I keep my Nat Geo subscription going in spite of them hopping on the “woke” train.
And the floppy boobs, amirite?
There are a lot of boomers whose first (solo) sexual experience was with a Bushwoman of the Kalahari and they have Nat Geo to thank for that.
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My first boob sighting was probably while browsing thru a Nat Geo. And they were likely long and floppy but thankfully none of them bore any resemblance to Cardi B’s.
“Paper or Plastic, Sir?”
Clicking on the Jack links sent me to twitter, a place I try to avoid. I couldn’t help but notice that the top promoted story on the right was “Biden did not pressure Ukrainian prosecutor to drop investigation against son, Washington Post confirms”. Oh really, I said, WashPo has “confirmed” that it didn’t happen. How did they do that?
Well dear sweet fellow glibs, they did some intense, deep investigative journalism and…wait for it…asked the Bidens if they did it. Case close. Boy does everyone here have some egg on their faces for believing that conspiracy theory…that was admitted to on tape.
So, Joe was lying when he claimed to have done exactly that?
That was Faketruth, not Realtruth.
Look fat, I was just blowin’ smoke.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
Good catch.
Yeah, he only told them to fire the prosecutor who was investigating corruption at the company paying off his son.
PWN’D!!!!
This is a common strategy by the left. It is not the first time they have invented a completely separate allegation and debunked that.
It is as if they learned from Clinton’s parsing of the meaning of the word “is”.
He didn’t pressure the prosecutor to do anything – he just had the guy fired.
With reports of cases of reinfection — in which people are infected with COVID-19 twice — in the United States and elsewhere, questions remain about whether it’s possible for those who have the virus to develop an immune response against it naturally.
Earlier studies assessed antibody production from initial infections and suggested that levels drop quickly after a person becomes ill, providing only short-term immunity.
Narratives were preserved.
Has reinfection actually been confirmed, or just “reported”? I recall a couple of early claims of reinfection not panning out.
Literally tens of cases
WE’RE GOING TO DIE
…eventually.
Covid is so deadly, it will not kill you twice.
We’re these people symptomatic on the first go around? If not it could be a “reinfection” based on a false positive.
Also, some people have abnormal immune systems.
Well then a vaccine would be ineffective, since a vaccine works by stimulating an immune response to the virus without causing actual illness, which response they are now telling us is only good for short-term immunity.
Shush you
Just give me some Remdesivir with a hydroxychloroquine chaser, I’d rather not get Guillain-Barre from a half assed vaccine vetting.
But if it saves one grandma…
Are you kidding – that means you need at least annual refreshers! It’s the razor-blade strategy.
Which is precisely why I have my kids vaccinated by long term vaccinations, like MMR, but don’t bother with short term shit like flu vaccine. It’s risk vs. reward. I’m probably considered an anti-vaxxer by that standard.
^^^THIS GUY GETS IT^^^
Yeah, my wife got a flu shot. Got pretty sick with flu like symptoms for a couple of days, plus the injection sight was painful. Last time she’s gonna try that.
I’ve had flu shots every year for 20+ years since my employer offered them for free at work.
I’ve never had a serious reaction to the shot. Neither has my wife.
I’ve had influenza twice in those 20+ years. Tamiflu solved both of those cases quickly.
No doubt that flu vaccine is one of the least effective vaccines out there. That doesn’t make them worthless.
But decide for yourself. It’s a free country.
I was in a similar position as you some 20 years ago Kinnath. My employer at the time not only gave them for free, but gave people an afternoon off to get it at work, and then allowed you to go home if you got it early enough in the chain. People lined up for it.
I, like many people there wanting that time off, took it for the 3 years I was there. In every case I ended up with the flu within a 2 week period. I knew others that had my experience as well as many for whom it worked like a charm. I want to point out that I had taken it – on my own – the year before I started at my employer, for the first time ever, because my ex was a high risk for flu, and this was a way to help her out, and I got no flu then. I myself seem to recall have gotten the flu only once in the 35 years before I started taking the shot.
My record was basically 1 for 4 with the shot, in a 4 year span, after going 1 for 35, so I decided to stop after that. In the following 21 years, having never taken the shot again, I have gotten the flu once (my ex gave it to me). I might just be lucky in that respect, and as I age would not be surprised I become more susceptible, in which case I will reconsider the shot again.
What usually pisses me off is the attitude that people that don’t take the shot are ill informed or stupid while those that do take it are wise. I believe the value of this particular immunization depends on your personal situation. Mind you, because I lived outside the US for most of my younger years, I took every single serious immunization you can name, and some most people in the US never need. Never had an issue. Reality is that these things aren’t perfect, but most immunizations have such high success ratios they are worth it. For me, the flu vaccine didn’t meet that standard personally.
^^ I get them if they’re easy to get and free. I don’t know the last time I had the flu, but besides having a sore arm for a couple days, I don’t really react to the vaccine.
Yet another issue where the authoritarians are wrong, but the other side overplayed their hand by half. Something can be effective (for some definition of effective) and still not be a panacea. We don’t have to descend into utilitarian purgatory alongside the panicky authoritarian enablers.
What usually pisses me off is the attitude that people that don’t take the shot are ill informed or stupid while those that do take it are wise.
I usually see that tack taken in the soccer mom circles. Highly effective in that audience. Grating and patronizing to the rest of us.
You’ve had flu two more times than me, someone never vaccinated. That sounds shitty.
Note. I am opposed to mandatory vaccines.
I don’t spend anytime telling people to get flu vaccine.
At best, it cuts your chances of getting flu in half. The real issue is what you baseline likelihood of contracting flu is. Which depends upon your exposure to other people.
In this covid-nightmare where people are forced by government to isolate, there is probably less value in getting the flu vaccine than normal.
But I got it anyway. Because, it has some benefit. Even if it is just a marginal decrease in the probability of getting influenza again, because that shit has a habit of killing old people.
Hope you don’t think I was accusing you of being one of the flue vaccine yuppies Kinnath. I was not.
No problem Alex.
I am trying to track multiple threads and work at the same time.
I was just trying to make my position clear.
Can someone correct me if I am wrong, but if reinfection is possible, doesn’t that make vaccines worthless? At that point don’t we just say, well it’s never getting better so might as well reopen and just live with it. Nothing we can do.
You could ask that question in good faith, but you’d be branded a dangerous heretic who refuses to be “led by the science”.
Every vaccine has an efficacy rate. None of them are 100%. Not even the smallpox vaccine.
So some people randomly will not form lasting immunity. I think it has something to do with the formation and depletion of memory cells. In the immune system, some of the cells differentiate into immunoglobulin producing b cells. These hang around for months to years. But there are some that form memory b cells. These are progenitor cells that can be activated to create more b cells. They’re specific to a target antigen and form a rapid immune response when presented with the target that they recognize.
I worked on vitamin a derivatives for boosting immune responses. One form of retinoic acid was capable of massively boosting the immune response to tumor cells. The trade-off was that it used up all of the memory cells. So challenging with the same antigen later actually had a reduced response if you pushed the retinoic acid too far.
I did not keep up with the research past my initial rotation project, so I don’t know whatever became of it.
Earlier studies assessed antibody production from initial infections and suggested that levels drop quickly after a person becomes ill, providing only short-term immunity.
It’s been a little while since my immunology course, but isn’t this how the immune system works? The immune system doesn’t keep high level of antibodies continuously active… that’s how autoimmune diseases rip the body apart from the inside. Instead the immune system remembers how to make the targeted antibodies from the initial infection and then quickly spins up antibody levels if the pathogen is introduced again in the future.
Long-term immunity has more to do with T-cell memory than with continuously high levels of antibodies. But you won’t see that discussion because it doesn’t help keep the masses frightened and under control.
At the barber yesterday…. a TV on in the corner had NBC Nightly News on. If I was trying to design a feature to induce panic and hysteria, I would hire the NBC crew. Every image was guys in moonsuits, lots of medical equipment, etc. No actual content on hospitalizations or deaths, just INCREASING NUMBER OF CASES!!!!! Feh.
So the ‘Vid benefited me yesterday !
I was supposed to have a day-long custody trial in far flung Newaygo county, Michigan (via zoom since their court house has yet to re-open).
10am – 4:30pm, close enough to all day for me (I was dreading it and yet wanted it to be over, like dental surgery).
And then (at 9am) the clerk contacted me to say “all judge’s docket is adjourned” for the next two days at least. Due to short staffing. Which I have learned is code for “someone’s got the Rona, and we can’t get a substitute clerk in here,” but they can’t say that.
So I didn’t exactly play hooky but I did a “go slow” day.
Hey Elspeth! So happy to see you back. I know it’s been a few days but I wanted to say it in realish time.
Likewise !
If having the disease does not confer lasting immunity would a vaccine?
Of course not, you need to buy a new dose every four months.
SCARY
Two big pieces of space junk are zooming toward a close approach that will occur Thursday at 8:56 p.m. EDT (0056 GMT on Oct. 16), according to California-based tracking company LeoLabs.
The encounter will take place 616 miles (991 kilometers) above the South Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of Antarctica. LeoLabs’ latest calculations peg the probability of a collision at more than 10% — a scarily high number, considering that the combined mass of the objects is about 6,170 lbs. (2,800 kilograms) and they’ll be barreling toward each other at a relatively velocity of 32,900 mph (52,950 km/h).
Wear your hard hat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2dcVIEQwEE
That is terrifying! You mean there will be a potential collision thousands of miles from the nearest person?
It’s not the distance from people that’s at issue.
It’s more the amount of debris dangerous to spacecraft or satellites that the collision can produce.
Yes, I know. The hyperbolic story deserved a hyperbolic response.
I’ll be donning my Aluminium chapeau.
Has reinfection actually been confirmed, or just “reported”? I recall a couple of early claims of reinfection not panning out.
There was that one story the other day. At CNN. Dependable as all get-out.
Confirmed… but “More than 38 million people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus, and as of Monday, fewer than five of those cases have been confirmed by scientists to be reinfections.”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/14/world/covid-coronavirus#yes-you-can-be-reinfected-with-the-coronavirus-but-its-extremely-unlikely
So more panicky bullshit. Good to know.
Good morning, Glibs. Here’s a roundup of some of today’s birthdays (without links, natch):
Philosopher, futurist, transhumanist, and athlete FM-2030; a man who shared his chosen nomenclature with a soLdering iron
Favorite thinker of miserable, shallow, millenial beta men, Friedrich Nietsche
The brilliant P.G. Wodehouse
Roman wordsmith Virgil
Congressional panhandler Lee Iacocca
A man famous for describing his penis as a small horse, otherwise known as Ginuwine
Haim Saban, one of the people that gave the world Power Rangers
[Insert clever OMWC physics pun] physicist Julia Yeomans
Celebrated Nigerian musician Fela Kuti
Actress Linda Lavin
and finally, Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather trilogy
Reviews
“It’s formatted wrong.” – 2/5
“Fuck off, euro commie, that’s OMWC’s gig.” – 1/5
Pedant Warning! There was a trilogy of Godfather movies, but only one book.
Nice catch!
Wodehouse was a Nazi / troll.
To be honest I can recite a lot of his stories. I was a huge fan.
I don’t know much about his life in internment, or much at all about his life in general, but I do find his characters very amusing.
+1 Market Snodsbury Grammar School prize
“Not that Mexicans are irregular. I’m writing this on the can as we speak.”
Is it the violence going on in the country that scares them regular, or all the tequila & hot sauce?
Don’t forget the high-fibre diet.
You really shouldn’t chew on those internet cables. They’re not good for your teeth.
Yeah but ever since my filling fell out (in a soft taco, no shit) my head doesn’t get the wifi signal.
Yes
Giardia
No shit, I knew a guy who had Giardia 3 or 4 times. (like 3 or 4 seperate instances where he contracted it and then would go through the treatments). I told him he should probably stop drinking downstream water when he was camping.
Such events, and Thursday night’s potential collision, highlight the growing threat that orbital debris poses to spaceflight and exploration. The International Space Station has had to maneuver itself away from potential collisions three times in 2020 alone, for example. And as the costs of launch and satellite development both continue to fall, Earth orbit will get more and more crowded, often with craft operated by relative neophytes.
The spaceflight community therefore needs to come up with debris-minimizing guidelines, and soon, many experts say. Such guidelines could include a requirement that spent rocket bodies be deorbited shortly after launch, so they can’t be involved in close encounters like the one that will occur Thursday night over the South Atlantic.
Only governments are qualified to shoot junk into space.
Here’s one rule that would make it tons better: Deorbit your shit when you’re done with it, commies!
I’m drinking beers in an alley behind a ramen shop and the smell of sweaty panties is refreshing.
I’ll meet you in the alley.
straff is Louis CK confirmed.
Gangsta.
Is that an ingredient when making ramen? Or is the shop full of slave labor ladies wearing only panties sweating into them? Inquiring minds want to know… Any pics?
the smell of sweaty panties is refreshing.
Do you cut eye holes in them before you put them on your head?
Not necessary
DA FUQ???
So brilliant.
I am so happy that I was not an actor on that set…
Hentai Kamen (film)
The Japanese are fucking weird.
If by weird you mean hilarious, then yes. See my link just above.
Yes, yes of course.
This is what happens on island nations. Great Britain, I’m looking at you, too.
When that Second Amendment was written . . . we were talking about the likelihood that a person could purchase a muzzle-loading musket.
There is a reason the term “arms” is use, you cunte.
used*, even.
*gets coffee*
Mexican links are not irregular?
So, no Motezuma’s links?
Montezuma and links do not compute. It’s more akin to a super highway.
You leave Kayleigh alone!
Twitter suspended White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s personal account on Wednesday after she tweeted copies of an email from a Burisma executive to former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Publishing like a publisher.
I like her very much even though she is a naked propagandist. She’s purdy, too. Whoever thought that Pie could be eclipsed? I want to have her babies.
Unfortunately, she isn’t actually naked.
Rule 34 applies (NSFW):
https://archive.is/kdDZq
Mexico puts a property owner in prison…because the building collapsed and killed people…in an earthquake. Isn’t the time to enforce building codes before the earthquake? – I don’t really have a problem with that. It is more libertarian than building codes. No codes but this shit happens you are fucked. Also the people who build it, if they can be found.
A few years ago Italy prosecuted geologists for not predicting a volcano eruption. A few years before that they prosecuted geologists for causing panic by predicting one.
Advice to Italians: Don’t study geology.
LOL
My paisans are nuts. Did you know that when an airplane crashes, it is not the the aviation safety board people that get first access: it is the police, because they expect to charge someone criminally….
Prostitution is more lucrative and less risky business. Especially when coming from commie pope….
This incident came to mind with the Covid lockdown stuff. What if it was a serious disease and caused plenty of deaths and the “experts” did not recommend drastic measures, are there some countries that might try to “hold the accountable”?
Not nearly the same thing
JFC, what a relief. The power is back on. I have air conditioning and internet service.
Mrs. Suthenboy turned on the TV and the first thing we see is the power company bragging that they have restored power to 47% of customers. I am not confident it will stay that way, we still have trees falling.
I didn’t mind the rain but we could do without the wind. No more hurricanes please.
Hey man, glad to hear you’re ok.
Glad you’re OK!
There you are! Feelings of relief flood through Glibland!
Welcome back Suthenboy.
You could come up north, here we just have blizzards, mild earthquakes, and the occasional tornado.
Hurricane Ike knocked out my power for a week in Louisville. I thought I was at least safe from hurricanes there.
falling tree libs are the bane of overhead power lines existence,
Good for the Republic, though.
The tree of liberty must sometimes be pruned of falling tree libs.
Jeez, and not a single comment about woodchipers? Y’all are failing me.
If you tie the noose right the libs don’t fall
Glad to see you back.
Good news at the Suthenboys, great news, a lot of concern here
Good to see you’re okay.
Glad to hear you are above water, Suthen. Of course I wasn’t worried because only the good die young.
Thank you all for your concern. There was never any real danger here. I have ridden many of these out. It is just a pain in the ass having no power, trying to find gasoline and ice and end up having to toss the freezer contents.
We are looking into getting a dedicated generator.
Glad to hear you’re OK.
Glad to hear your okay, Suthen.
I can’t recommend enough getting a natural or propane generator instead of a gasoline one. Storing fuel for one is much easier and is readily available with no lines after a natural disaster versus the gasoline shortages you’re encountering.
Instead of a standby generator, I put an interlock on the panel and ran a generator outlet to it. I just plug my portable generator into the outlet and it safely powers the entire house through the panel. Something to consider.
This what Pater Dean did, on account of ice storms taking out the power, occasionally for a week or more. They don’t have natgas piped to the house so it’s propane. Whole house generator tied into the panel. I love the setup, but we really have no need for it here.
Mine is dual fuel so it can swing both ways. Highly recommend the interlock, if you’re not ready to go to whole house fixed generator. Electrician put the inlet on the inside of the garage and I’ve been meaning to relocate to the outside.
My offer still stands on the generator advice/sale. Let me know.
Dedicated gennies are awesome…
I have one and when I lost power for 9 days after we were hit with the winds from some Hurricane back some three months ago and the state got leveled, I was able to keep things going.
We bought one as soon as we learned about how reliable our local service is (and before we needed it).
We should have had backyard nuclear generators by now. 60s SF was a lie
Yay Suthen’s back!
Glad to hear you are OK 🙂
Hope you didn’t have any major damage.
Good to hear you are OK.
A little late (as usual) but let me add my “welcome back!” – and glad it was only a lack of internet to your abode.
Hurray!
In other LA news, the mail order satsumas place has weathered it without much damage as well. Supposed to start shipping in a week and a half. Can’t hardly wait for that taste of fall.
Nice work ‘Zona, you get a cheer.
Wildcats, sing a-long. Yeah
you really got it goin on
Wildcats in the house,
Everybody say it now.
Wildcats everywhere, Wave
your hands up in the air.
That’s the way we do
it, Let’s get to it,
Time to show the world.
What?
Listen, I’m just happy they produced something of value that wasn’t Barry Goldwater.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8842815/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-crochet-bikini-Maldives-trip.html
Dude. How large is your shrine and how many candles must be lit before the self-flagellation begins?
By self flagellation you mean monkey spanking? Meat beating? Chicken choking? Baloney bopping? Spaghetti noodling?
I thought there was going to be some kind of worship ritual – maybe candles and chants – before he got the hand lotion out.
yes
To be fair, I was envisioning a knout rather than that but your version works just as well.
I hope he is also properly hydrating so he doesn’t die from dehydration…
You’re getting paid by her publicist, aren’t you?
Sober analysis
It’s hardly surprising that racial diversity had no place on Trump’s agenda, which seems to be doubling down, to the delight of his base, on the effort to force the federal court system further to the right — even if that is the opposite of what most Americans want.
Given that reality, the pertinent question for Biden is not whether he believes in packing the court but whether he sees a way to correct for some 40 years of blatant political activism that has left the federal courts full of far-right conservatives dedicated to transforming America. What should we do, Mr. Biden, if we end up with a Supreme Court dangerously out of touch with the American public? Do we, in the interest of political decorum, simply accept that, and ask the next generation (these are lifetime appointments) to accept it as well? What is the proper response, Mr. Biden, when a party that once stood for recognizable political principles now stands determined to seize — through voter suppression, court stacking, and any other tool available — power that the majority is unwilling to grant it?
Would we ask a boxer staring at an opponent brandishing brass knuckles and a switchblade whether he is willing to abide by Marquess of Queensberry rules? If not, why ask the equivalent of Joe Biden, when the question so evidently makes no sense?
The Federalist Society has turned America into an 18th century white supremacist theocracy, or something. And Amy Coney Barret has a secret agenda, unlike Saintly Justice Ginsberg.
Ginsberg’s agenda wasn’t very secret.
+1 champion for women’s rights
I wish she was a champion for constitutional government.
How would that give the left absolute power over the serfs, which is all they really work towards and care about?
It’s hardly surprising that racial diversity had no place on Trump’s agenda
What does that have to do with the court? Trump has people of all stripes in his admin and at his rallies. Wtf is this loser talking about?
You are not part of the diversity count if you are not a marxist poc that resides on the dnc plantation.
That Supreme Court of far right activism is not the droid you are looking for, you fucking imbecile.
If it isn’t dragging the country to the glorious future of progress – then it is hauling it back to the 18th century, chains and all.
40 years of blatant political activism that has left the federal courts full of far-right conservatives dedicated to transforming America
Wait, did we just enter Bizarro World? Because that’s the exact opposite of reality in this timeline.
No joke! Hard to find a charge that better fits the phrase “made up from whole cloth”.
If people are buying this it’s truly become a post truth world.
I wish I had a dollar for every time someone said to me explicitly or implied “I can’t dispute any of your arguments but I cant accept the conclusion they lead to.”
The first time I heard that I was stunned. Eventually I just accepted that people prefer to believe the world is what they wish it is, reality be damned.
I guess they just fucking love science.
At least people used to realize there was a discrepancy though, now they seem to doublethink their way into beliefs that run counter to known evidence and they don’t even know they’re doing it. It’s dangerous.
cant accept the conclusion
Hell, that’s Chomsky’s problem in his own fucking book.
That fucker has been poison for four generations of thinkers.
Get this all the time. Lay out an argument, get agreement on every point, address all the downsides only to end with “yeah but people will never agree with that” Well God forbid, guess I’ll just pack up my argument and cede control to a mob of people then.
It’s fucking annoying.
I like to ask them, “If 51% of citizens in some small town in Mississippi want to ban gay marriage, what right do you have to override that?” Then they’re forced to admit that “the people want it” is not the be all end all; that there’s another principle of rights for which democracy must cede the way.
It usually ends with them shrieking, “that’s different!” but I refuse to allow them to be comfortable about their hypocrisy.
What should we do, Mr. Biden, if we end up with a Supreme Court dangerously out of touch with the American public – again the American public opinion is irrelevant. Is a law constitutional or not. If the American public wants different the constitution needs to be changed.
Sooo, since we know Biden / Harris is likely to pack the court should they win, shouldn’t Trump, if he wins, claim that he now can and will preemptively pack the court on the basis that the Dems signaled that that practice is OK?
Oh, the mental gymnastics if Trump were to propose that.
He should tell them he will do that since he knew they were planning to do it, just to troll the fucking leftist morons.
Glad to see you’re okay, Suthen.
“Second batch of smoking gun emails reveal Hunter’s conversations with jailed Chinese chairman about his $30 MILLION consultancy contract at bankrupt”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8842965/Hunter-Biden-pursued-deals-interesting-family-major-Chinese-firm.html
“‘I found Hunter’s emails – and I feared I would be MURDERED’: Trump voter reveals he is the Mac repairer with Biden’s secrets – but can’t say if he went to FBI or they came to him and won’t say how Rudy Giuliani ended up with a copy”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8841255/Man-Hunter-Bidens-emails-Trump-voter-say-told-FBI-came-him.html
Meh, the Bidens ain’t the Clintons.
Obviously, Clinton would have wiped that thing clean.
Crack is stronger than chardonnay.
Double-barrel Joe prefers to shoot randomly into the air.
Always and forever.
I wonder if he’s starting to wish he had at Hunter’s conception.
This guy would have been “mugged” already.
I’m a little skeptical, has the FBI made a statement about this at all? Not skeptical about the fact that Biden is corrupt but that he was this careless.
The thing is that if there was a politician who was not careful about their corruption, Biden would be it.
No idea what is true or not but I heard the guy that discovered the emails first contacted the FBI and never heard back from them.
The FBI is rotten to the core.
You mean he contacted the FBI that was busy investigating Trump for colluding with the Russians. A collusion that they knew to be entirely the brainchild of the Clinton campaign and higher ups at the CIA and FBI?
That FBI?
In the interest of fairness, the FBI does a fantastic Job as stopping the terror plots they initiate.
They stopped Whitmer from getting kidnapped after they encouraged some knuckleheads to talk about it.
I have not seen anybody taking a dive on that.
As soon as I heard that story, my initial reaction was “I wonder if this is another one of those entirely manufactured by the FBI sorts of plots.”
The more I have heard, the more I suspect that this is the case.
There was apparently some claims to that affect made by attorneys for the defendants. They claim that the FBI agent was actually the leader of the plot and was pushing for it the whole time.
I have not seen any further reporting other than the claim. And the counterclaim by the FBI that said that he was just a leader in the group and did not push for the kidnapping plot. Which sounded like an admission that their claims were true to my ears. Since when does your undercover agent assume a leadership role?
It certainly seems very October surprise as well. And it seems odd that nobody like reason or mother Jones or rolling Stone have bothered to do any digging. I guess investigative journalism is dead.
The FBI was busy keeping the story under wraps until after the election they hoped to carry him across the finish line, at which time they could use it to help Kommo-LOH become prez.
“Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden slams Donald Trump for ‘trampling on the graves of some of the best heroes’ by tweeting QAnon theory that Joe Biden had SEAL Team Six killed
Trump retweeted a QAnon conspiracy theory this week that bin Laden lives
The former Navy SEAL who shot dead Osama bin Laden hit out at the QAnon conspiracy theory pushed by President Donald Trump that claims Biden had SEAL Team Six killed after the raid.
Robert O’Neill, 44, appeared with Chris Cuomo on CNN on Wednesday night to voice his disgust that the ‘highest-ranking person in the country’ would be ‘trampling on the graves of some of the best heroes’ by claiming the team had not killed Bin Laden.
The online theory has suggested that O’Neill only killed a body double of bin Laden in the 2011 raid and that the Obama and Biden administration were implicated in the killing of the mission’s team to cover it up.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8841465/Navy-Seal-killed-bin-Laden-slams-Qanon-theory-Bidens-SEAL-Team-6-killed.html
I guess I have to go find that Trump re-tweet…
QAnon is nonsense but, to be fair, the whole Osama post haste respectful burial at sea thing was fishy as fuck.
Fiction rules: If you don’t see a dead body, it ain’t dead.
+2 Cigarette Smoking Man
Gah! I read that at first as dead baby. I really need to sleep.
“fishy as fuck”
No shit. But then everything that happened during Obumbles admin fit that description.
The New Normal. I saw it coming, what with the worshipfulness. That’s why you Americans frighten me a bit.
Also, no pictures.
I have watched the first three episodes of The Boys (season 2) and I am rapidly losing interest. Is it worth it to keep going?
Yes. I felt the same way, and posted here with those sentiments. It picks back up after a while.
Some of the messaging remains heavy handed and a bit off-putting, but the story gets more interesting as they move away from introductions and into the action.
I thought it was amazing, start to finish. Yeah, some woke signaling, but the hardcore theme “don’t trust politicians or the media or anyone else in power, they’re all lying shites” was delicious.
The Critical Drinker just addressed this issue:
https://youtu.be/VhAv2lPxkGs
The heavy-handed leftist shit was a little off-putting, but it was still entertaining.
It is almost like there were talking points out out.
Heavy handed
Off putting.
Huh, it’s almost like a lot of us on this site have similar thoughts about things.
Wait, didn’t you take the non-conformists oath? I thought we all took the non-conformist oath. Stop conforming! What kind of non-conformist conforms like this?
hellohellohellohellohellohello! TulpaTulpaTulpaTulpa?
I felt the same way. The last few episodes were better and more violent.
Yes. It’s incredibly heavy handed with some themes that would have been best left subtly with a wink and a nod but it’s good and it’s the closest we are going to get to an actually transgresive show at this point in woke culture.
I found that the funniest part this season. The most Jewish looking woman in the world was cast as the Nazi, and she seemed way more worried about blacks than (((them))).
In the modern times Nazi’s are allied with the Jews against brown people how else do you explain Israel and Donald Trump’s kids?
I thought the funniest part was the marketing stuff, especially about gays:
“We thought revealing that you’re actually bi was off brand and would confuse the message.”
I’d say yes. The second season is a bit ham fisted overall, but it picks up in the last few episodes and has a good ending.
If a bit too pat.
Season 2 is extremely less focused than Season 1. It tends to drift and wander and focus on characters you probably don’t care as much about.
Also, the inclusion of yet another plot over well-trod ground (Spoiler Alert: Nazis) is underwhelming.
I posted on FB that I wished The Boys was just an hour of Karl Urban punching people every week.
One of the biggest issues with the adaptation is that Butcher’s character in the comics has his shit much more together than these writers allow.
And now for something completely different. For those looking for something to do Friday night, Audrey DeLuxe (of Viva Las Vegas and burlesque notoriety) is hosting an online show.
Speaking of Viva, the Bombshells and Dollies documentary about the Pinup competition is currently included with Amazon Prime.
The love of a high-end burlesque performer is very different from the love of an amateur. Good Lord they had a burlesque show here in town and it was about what you would expect. Lots of fat-positive and “You Slay Kween!” I just want to go to sleep and never wake up until this century is over. With that, I bid you all a fond “Adieu”!
Baseball birthdays: HoFer Jim Palmer and a whole lot of nothing.
“Women will NOT be prosecuted for abortion in California if Roe v Wade is overturned, State AG vows amid Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court hearing”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8842715/Women-NOT-prosecuted-abortion-California-State-AG-vows.html
Because it wouldn’t be illegal, you grandstanding ass clown?
“The Legislature finds and declares that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to personal reproductive decisions. Accordingly, it is the public policy of the State of California that:
(a) Every individual has the fundamental right to choose or refuse birth control.
(b) Every woman has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to choose and to obtain an abortion, except as specifically limited by this article.
(c) The state shall not deny or interfere with a woman’s fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to choose to obtain an abortion, except as specifically permitted by this article.”
https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/health-and-safety-code/hsc-sect-123462.html
CWAA
What would be interesting is how many anti abortion laws are still on the books. When SCOTUS overturns a law, it generally remains part of the statutory code, but isn’t enforced.
And besides, I thought it was usually the doctors who got prosecuted in times/places where it was illegal, not the women.
Minnesoda has been averaging less than 10 deaths a day since the last week of June. Yesterday 29 new deaths were reported and the ghouls at the state’s Health Department were creaming their pants with joy. Finally some good news for them. All their past predictions of apocalypse were finally going to come true.
If you read the story though things started getting fishy. First off, that total included “six deaths with probable links to COVID-19 via antigen testing”. Yup a new test was able to prove that those croakers were really victims of the Rona.
The state workers were crowing about how they’ve been telling us that those deaths were lagging indicators and all those cases we’ve been ignoring are now going to start dying.
Also, the one doctor in that story didn’t seem too alarmed yet.
They are focusing on the what specks we could be missing and ignoring the data related to the side effects of what they are advocating. Cherry pickers are ruling the world.
I wonder how many non-voluntary committals and suicides are wagered against the big bad Corona. How many blackened eyes and broken limbs? Fuck it. I’m done.
In propaganda machine news, I watch ABC good morning today. Well, not all of it, but it was on for about an hour.
They did a full segment on the New York dog walking lady. Not only did they do a couple of full stories, they had a live stand up and went around the studio clucking their tongues about just how much racism there is in America.
Meanwhile, the story of Hunter Biden’s emails was conspicuously absent. now, I did not watch the entire show. So maybe they covered it at some other point. But it was not featured while I was in the room, and The major stories did get repeated a couple of times.
Heck, even if you don’t think the New York Post story is important, the social media story is certainly massive. social media is banning mainstream media outlets who have actual reporting on an incredibly important issue relevant to an upcoming election? That is not newsworthy?
Come to think of it, they have to have covered it at some point. I must have just missed it. there is no way they did not cover the fact that the White House press secretary Kaylee McKinney got banned from Twitter. That is just too juicy of a story.
Well it’s fake news because Twitter asked WaPo and WaPo asked the Bidens and they denied it.
Fauci is coming out full-steam against the Great Barrington Declaration.
They’ve moved the goalposts so far that you can’t even see where they started anymore.
In the discussions I’ve seen of that, I have not seen any reference to actual scientific data. They just claim the mantle of science and leave it at that.
The only examples we have are Sweden and New York. Both seem to be doing fine after having allowed the virus to run its course.
I have not seen any science being done on what is actually going on in these locations.
After similar initial bouts of infection, they took different paths on what to do next. But they have similar rates of ongoing disease. So one might question whether New York’s subsequent activities have had anything to do with limiting the spread of disease.
Someone doing actual science would probably be helpful in this. But, we could go with hiring a random telegenic MD to offer whatever opinion you’d like on national TV. That seems to work too. / Sarc
I heard that other than Fox, none of the networks have so much as mentioned it.
That’s hard to believe, the story’s just too juicy to bury it. It has all the ingredients for a money maker: power, intrigue, sex, drugs, and all in the middle of a presidential election.
It hurts their candidate. They are nothing but Democrat propagandists, not news organizations.
Just wait for the push to bail out the media companies with government money.
https://abcnews.go.com/
Try to find the word “Hunter”.
Oh, they will cover it once Joe is President. Perfect reason (better than senility) to impeach him and install Kamala the Californian Giant.
They won’t impeach. Just “more in sorrow than anger” pressure him to reign, like Nixon.
Why not let the GOP impeach him? A few “moderate” Dems would be allowed to vote to impeach him. But then you keep the blood off their own hands.
They will just keep him in the basement encased in a cyro tube till he dies or 2024 when the run Kamala.
“Fact Free Covid Dystopia” by Tom Woods:
https://youtu.be/Xy3tP-BW5do
An excellent speech ~45 min
Listened to that today. Good balance between why the lockdowns were nonsense and why they were immoral in the first place. Will the elites ever admit they were wrong? Probably not.
Not just immoral, illegal as well.
I liked it. I just don’t think Tom Woods is the best messenger.
+1 champion for women’s rights
Needz moar scare quotes.
Move along, nothing to see here.
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
“Kaleigh McEnany attacks Twitter for not banning articles that accused Trump of collusion with Russia and reveals she won’t have her account back until she deletes the story about Joe and Hunter Biden”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8842331/Kaleigh-McEnany-attacks-Twitter-reveals-account-locked-deletes-Biden-tweet.html
“Twitter boss Jack Dorsey apologizes for blocking Biden Ukraine story ‘with zero context’ – but STILL doesn’t let users share it because it ‘contains private information like email addresses’ – as Trump threatens to remove Facebook and Twitter protections”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8840113/Facebook-squashes-New-York-Post-story-Joe-Biden-saying-needs-fact-checked.html
How about that utterly false Atlantic story about Trump? Didn’t see fit to ban that, did you?
It that utterly false story about bounties in Afghanistan.
Or that story about Kavanaugh attending gang rape parties.
Or that story about Trump’s taxes… Both unverified and if real, from stolen documents… So there goes that excuse.
Or how about Smollette? You guys loved that. And you still allow people to claim it is true.
Or how about any of the sub-cases under the heading of the Russia hoax?
Or how about all the stories you keep promoting about how it is a proven, scientific fact that there is no such thing as vote fraud?
The other thing is that Twitter imposed that no hacked stuff rule in response to Wikileaks to protect Clinton.
At this point I don’t get why they have not charged all these Silicon Valley criminal enterprises with violating campaign loss and not reporting this stuff as in-kind campaign donations to the dnc and the Biden campaign. They should be forced to admit that this is what they are doing, fined insane amounts of money (which Trump then promises to redistribute to make it even more palatable to the tax and spenders), and then fucking forced to register as political entities. That will kill this bullshit.
loss=laws.. fucking autocorrect.
Yeah, when it is a news organization it is all entangled with first amendment rights when they show propaganda for one team or the other as part of a political ploy. Even when the New York times publicly admits that their news organization is organized around and designed for propagandizing for bringing down Trump, that still falls under protected first amendment activity.
Somehow that does not extend to printing signs. And the left was unanimous in decreeing that it does not extend to people making movies. But I am not sure exactly how that extends to suppressing online speech of others. Surely promoting information helpful to one candidate and hiding information derogatory to that candidate is much closer to an in-kind contribution. And less entangled with free speech.
But it still seems pretty speech-centric.
[Unmarked warehouse in the valley]
Dorsey is pacing alone, half giddy, half nervoud
Dorsey: I did a good job this time. I’m a good boy. Now she will be happy.
Steps are heard, Hillary enters from Stage right
Dorsey: Madame President, Did you see! I Stoped the Fake news –
Hillary: You ignoramous! Now everyone is talking about it. I knew i never should have saved your ass after last time!
Dorsey: But… They were going to spread lies. Like last time… we had to –
Hillary: You had to make it the biggest news story?! We had CNN on it, WaPo. Everyone was going to ignore it. But our Little IQ 70 Genious from Twitter had to save the day.
SF rubs off on us like that nasty jumping cactus. The more you wipe, the more it barbs.
*Dry washes hands*
Just wipe more…deeply.
Ha! The Jumping Cholla is proof that Satan exists –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkQz6NqSOQM
Remember when they blocked all the stories about Trump’s hacked tax returns that contained private information?
Me neither.
Those weren’t hacked. They were careful to point out the leaker had legal access to them.
PWND!
Like the repair shop had legal access to the laptop?
So they were leaked by someone that violated laws protecting this sort of personal information from being leaked, and that was fine?
Yep.
I think the Section 230 protection should come with a requirement to allow all 1st amendment protected speech.
If you want the 230 protection, then you cant edit*.
*exception for banning illegal activities.
Sure, and if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. I see where this is headed.
*shocked face*
Leaked audio of @NYGovCuomo admitting that the new COVID lockdowns in New York (targeting Orthodox Jews only) is not based on any science or medical expertise, but rather in his words is a “fear based response.”
Jews ARE scary.
huh? oh…
Heh.
PG13 rating
I don’t get it. Why is House getting his hair brushed in the bath?
That’s Hunter, isn’t it?
yes
Where is the crack pipe?
Not screening. Imagine that?
Leahy is such a cunte.
Leaked audio of @NYGovCuomo admitting that the new COVID lockdowns in New York (targeting Orthodox Jews only) is not based on any science or medical expertise, but rather in his words is a “fear based response.”
Do-Something-ism, FTW!
Why can’t we just have some guys do a ritual dance around the fire, sacrifice a goat, or not let food touch our lips between dawn and dusk for a week the way the ancients used to handle this stuff. If you’re going to make us do something which is little more than a gesture why can’t it be something that doesn’t steer the economy off a cliff?
What we are seeing is an exercise in raw political power … but might does not make right …what is happening here is not normal … history will judge us… – Blumenthal
And some more moral preening.
As if Democrats would not already have voted to confirm a justice if the tables were turned. Fuck off, you cuntes.
And this asshole has already stated outright that he will not support her confirmation so idk why he is even talking.
I don’t need to wait to judge that lying sack of shit.
At least he didn’t scream that they should take him seriously because he was in Ping-Pong province in Vietnam surrounded by gooks that wanted to eat his guts…
The people who say this have an overactive imagination and an out-sized valuation of their own importance. History will hardly deign to make Blumenthal a footnote, and this confirmation will only be remembered in the fact that ACB will go down as one of the many justices that have served on the court, but no one remembers.
500 years from now, the only names from the 20th century that will be known to the average person will be Adolf Hitler and Neil Armstrong. 1000 years from now, the only name known will be Neil Armstrong.
And Hitler will be the name of a pop music group like Genghis Khan.
^^^ Yup.
1000 Years ago, England was still ruled by the Saxon Kings, The Crusades hadn’t occured yet, etc…
I don’t know if there is anything you could reliably ask about 1000 years ago that the general public would know.
Alas, William the Bastard slew the last King of England, and there have been naught but pretenders since.
The Stuarts were the rightful kings of Scotland though. Damn Orangeists.
But we know who the Last King of Scotland really was.
1000 years ago? I doubt that 50% of the American people could name one sitting SCOTUS or even know that there are nine Supremes and 57 states.
Well, yeah. There are only 3 Supremes
Waiting for a video meeting to start, and the inevitable homeschool/back-to-school/bored kids discussion starts between all the breeders. Kill me now.
Just get infected with Covid and you’re as good as dead.
You should give them parenting advice.
Just comment how quiet and calm your house is with no kids in it. Then start talking about vacations you’re planning.
Yeah, they love that.
In recompense for yesterday’s almost booty-less links, here’s Tushie Thursday linx:
https://thechive.com/2020/10/14/congrats-on-making-it-to-hump-day-have-yourself-a-reward-38-photos/
or
https://archive.is/nduLJ
My bet is that this idiotic bullshit petulant display of grandstanding was done after this idiot Xi got advice from Rocketman on how to shake down westerners.
Isn’t it the job of any military to “prepare for war”?
*looks at current news stories about US armed forces*
Uh….
Only if they want peace.
You can’t get upset with the chineese “Preparing for war” when literally the DoD’s whole mindset for the last 10 years has been “Pivot to the Pacific”.
What came first? Chicken or the egg?
China has been prepping for war since forever, cause they have some inferiority complex to make up for., and under the CCP rule, that warboner was looked over by the globalists that sold us out..
The egg. The Red Junglefowl which laid the first chicken egg was not itself a full chicken.
Also some degree of grey junglefowl DNA is in the mix is modern breeds, along with eleven herbs and spices, and whatever else constitutes the modern chicken.
China has been moving in multiple directions to increase its influence and power in the Pacific ever since they took over the mainland (Korean War, anybody?). I remember seeing photos of Philippine pirates sporting Chinese-made Norinco M-14’s (no full-auto cutout on the stocks) 25-30 years ago – those were obviously donated by the CCP as there was no other logistical route there. And their current expansionist actions (moving into Hong Kong, expanding their man-made island in the Spratly’s, etc) is really on the uptick.
How did that go the last time?
I knew a Korean War vet that claimed he stopped counting at 100.
China has had the same borders for a 1000 years. They are now an expansionary power. Just because they want influence in their sphere of the hemisphere, doesn’t make them aggressors toward the U.S. If the U.S. military wasn’t anywhere near China’s military would pose no threat to ours. The U.S. dicking around on the far side of Pacific does us no good.
“Just because they want influence in their sphere of the hemisphere”
China has been pushing their influence way beyond “their sphere”. They are trying to get a foothold into Africa, the middle east, and southeast Asia beyond anything that could be considered their traditional sphere.
Taiwan was never part of their empire but they have been plotting to take that away from the upstarts who ran away to that island for the past 70+ years.
What does all this matter to the US? Well, if you think Marxism will be a better path (and benefit the world economy) for Taiwan, southeast Asia, India, and Japan (“They would never do that!” /US 8th Army, circa 1951) then I’d be interested in how you think that would be a good thing for humanity.
I never got people that argue or believe that the CCP holds no nefarious agenda and that the problem is with the rest of the world for pushing back on CCP ambitions to actually create a new empire. This isn’t just about totalitarian marxism, but about the CCP wanting to be the world’s new super power, and the CCP wanting to do so to keep the people under their yoke distracted from the real problems they are facing because of the usual Chinese people’s schadenfreude about the historical impotence of their great country and people (they believe they are chosen)..
You have to distinguish between what is historical national ambition (split into legitimate concerns, and not so legit) and quasi-ideologic drives. Even the CCP isn’t Trotskyist – you can only find his adherents on college campuses and splinter terrorist groups.
It was (and is) a Russian ambition to have a warm water ocean port for only 3 or 4 hundred years. But we treated the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as if it was Hitler rolling his tanks into Poland.
The huge mistake that the West is finally waking up to – is that China was going to be remade in our image. The Chinese think much more of themselves than that – they want to remade the world in their image.
Yeah, I’ve learned their language, travelled in China, and lived in this part of the world for a few decades. China gets that there will always be a hegemon, it’s part of human instinct to recognize a single leader, and they are watching for the US to stumble so they can take the mantle that was passed to us from the British.
From the Harsanyi article ending:
I’d say that placing the entire citizenry under house arrest and then forcibly shutting down their businesses would have provoked an insurrection in the late 1700s.
Not advocating anything, mind you. Just making an observation about the sheeple now.
Agenda-driven nomination, ideologue, rushed process, muh ACA, unprecedented, etc, etc.
They have their talking points. And now they want to motion to dismiss.
You made your bed, cuntes. Now you get to sleep in it.
Of course they are going to do this.
It’s like when you watch the Football team, down by 14 with the ball at 10 Seconds left in the game. You wouldn’t respect them if they didn’t try to make another play, even if it is hopeless.
Politics is just sports for nerds who think they are more important than you.
IN a football game I can respect that. In this case, when one of their first acts should they win would be to tell me I have to live disarmed, I just want to knock them down and kick their teeth in.
I get that, but i’m saying you can’t expect them to take it lying down. They are throwing a fit and then the GOP will confirm her. Everything going on now is just theater to generate red meat for both sides.
To become a Justice on the SC you must pay your dues to the Senate
What kind of person willingly subjects themselves to days of inquisition by grandstanding idiots? Do we really want a Court exclusively made up of such people?
Everything going on now is just theater to generate red meat for both sides.
This. 100%.
It’s about generating donations to their campaigns, generating sound bites for campaign ads, signaling their priorities to wealthy backers, and shifting the Overton window just a hair further.
stolen
Politics is just sports for nerds who think they are more important than you.
Undoubtedly hoping to provoke ACB into making some comment that would go viral among the easily outraged.
This is so obvious – I wonder how far down on the IQ scale you have to drop before most people don’t see this. Blue/Red doesn’t even enter into it
Somehow originalism is now activism. What do words mean?
ACB is a hyper-conservative monster that will destroy our democracy.
You know the last few years are starting to make me dislike this democracy thing.
Democracy was never a good idea. That is why our founders deliberately avoided it and created a republic.
I love Walter Williams, whom again, nails it:
“Dolezal, Krug, Cole and others are not the only white women who have benefited from racial fakery. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, sometimes called “Pocahontas,” claimed that she was of Cherokee Indian ancestry. That helped her land a job at diversity-hungry Harvard University as a professor of law and was paid $400,000 to teach two courses. She described herself as a minority in the Harvard Law School directory and claimed that her great-grandfather was Cherokee. Not only was her great-grandfather not a Cherokee as she claimed but he was a white man who boasted of shooting a Cherokee Indian.
By the way, if as it has now become acceptable to call oneself a woman, when one has the anatomical equipment of a male, then why isn’t it okay to claim that one is black, Latino or Asian when one is really Caucasian? According to the U.S. Bureau of Census, people self-identify their race or ethnicity.”
If dudes can pretend to be women, why can’t honkeys pretend to be black?
Me, I demand people call me Master half-dragon/half-celestial/half-deity (don’t other me by claiming I am like manbearpig however), and show me the proper deference to my magnanimity!
Race isn’t a social Construct! /Nazis and SJW’s
So… can I start claiming to be a Visigoth-American?
I love Walter Williams
, whom; who again, nails it.Don’t get up Ted. I’ll handle this one.
I really thought everyone knew it was “Fauxcahontas”. Clearly DJT didn’t, and Williams didn’t either.
I insist on being addressed as “Your Majesty”.
As long as we are pulling absurdities out of our asses I might as well go for broke.
The Oldie Goldie Grifts are still working even during the Rona panic.
This sounds like there is some unfunded mandate for cities to have a climate plan in place and this Great Plains Institute has a template that they are willing to sell for a measely $15K. But when you figure in all the small cities in the state it adds up.
I could have done it for 13500
Booker: We are the frog in boiling water.
I do not think that means what you think it means.
army of trump website. . .this is a cult of personality . . plots to kidnap elected officials
We’re doomed.
anti-democratic supreme court
Wtf? Oh, you mean “anti-Democratic”.
It certainly is “Anti-democratic” but it always has been.
He said it in the context of making nominations/appointments during an election. As if 1) it is illegitimate (and ignoring the president is constitutionally required to nominate someone) and 2) they wouldn’t have already rammed through a nominee of the circumstances were in their favor.
Like hell it does, freedom of speech does not exist for you to talk about a young woman’s body
https://twitter.com/FernandaPolanc9/status/1316578746162438145
Billie Eilish encourages fans to normalize ‘real bodies’ after she was photographed wearing tighter clothing
https://www.insider.com/billie-eilish-body-shamed-normalize-real-bodies-video-2020-10
Billie Eilish has taken a subtle stance against body-shamers as new photos of her have circulated online.
I assume body shamers are a small group of twitter trolls… Also real bodies can also be thin. Now on old Billie bit overweight but largeish rack
How about we normalize real hair?
OK, definitely not clicking that.
I just lost IQ points trying to process this level of stupid…
Twitter has suspended the Trump campaign:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/twitter-suspends-trump-campaign-senate-gop-accounts-over-biden-scandal-jack-dorseys-mea
Shit is getting real.
zerohedge should have been banned from the internet yeas ago
Damn son. They are doing everything they can. Pull out all the stops. I imagine if Trump wins, and he proclaims it they will ban him.
Yes, they already made a specific rule banning declaring victory.
But it is a conspiracy theory to think that they have any designs on stealing the election.
Where the heck is that eye roll emoji?
The one where the rolling eyes power the electrical needs of the entire East coast?
Time to charge them with campaign violation laws I tell ya…
It is actually but as long as they give legal bribes to both sides that isn’t going to happen.
“When that Second Amendment was written . . . we were talking about the likelihood that a person could purchase a muzzle-loading musket.”
I once bought a few half sticks of dynamite off a street shack in Potosi, Bolivia to give to the miners who for a few bucks and a present would give you a tour. Somewhere in my photos I have one of a miner lighting one of the sticks in his mouth before handing it off lit to a seven year old who ran down a hillside and placed it under a rock so we could see the explosion. OSHA approved.
Speaking of lighting things in your mouth has anyone got a hold of the full video of Hunter with the hooker and the pipe?
https://twitter.com/Fetusberry/status/1316506961777766406
sounds legit
A lot less crazy than the shit they usually peddle…
TENETS damn it
“tenets”
I thought the difference is that fascists are snappy dressers while communists look like bums?
Whitehouse: Don’t think there are two separate of rules. When there is a Republican majority the rule is “because we can” and when there is a Democrat majority the rule is “no you can’t”.
*tattoos “Casio” on Whitehouse’s head*
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1316593512649981954
Journalists are the biggest threat to free speech and the 1st amendment.
And Number 6 shows up in the thread.
Unfortunately i don’t think that is _our_ number6. Says he’s a retired MD and ours worked in finance IIRC.
I miss him, hope he’s doing ok.
Ahh. Our Number 6 is fairly frequent on the Discord. There’s a few other MIAs there as well.
“Very cool how the entire national media spent 5 years trying to invent a some foreign influence on the Trump campaign and found *nothing* and as soon as an actual email popped up w/ a Ukrainian businessman thanking Hunter for brokering a meeting w/ Biden, the media disappeared”
https://twitter.com/Harry1T6/status/1316579719505211394
I have the same right to dispense misinformation as she does.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1316744819327160321
Kamala heard about “Super Spreader” events and decided to know who was encroaching on her game.
TENETS damn it
They’re tenants when they are living in your head.
Very good read on why the Durham investigation is grinding so slowly.
And when Durham just can’t finish his investigation before Biden gets in and shuts it down?
Yeah, that gets back to the politics problem in there.
Twitter has suspended the Trump campaign:
They wuz askin for it.
Oh Facebook, you cunte.
Regarding Twitter’s and Facebook’s in-kind contributions because of selective censoring, I do recall that 4 years ago, Trump got a shit-ton of free time that other R candidates did not get, on Fox, on Rush, etc.
^^ I had this same thought the other day. If this was a campaign finance violation, then pretty much every media company is guilty of it. Throw in Citizens United, and i don’t think any court would rule this way.
This seems like a big fucking deal.
I don’t think it’s going away either.
I get “something went wrong” – maybe it’s a geo-issue, maybe it’s because I don’t have an account there.
It seems that after you get message that, if you click the URL again, you connect. I smell some kind of rerouting capability being put in play here..
“Just saw for myself a behind the scenes look at the #HunterBiden hard drive:
Drugs, underage obsessions, power deals…
Druggie Hunter makes Anthony Weiner’s down under selfie addiction look normal.
#BidenCrimeFamily has a lot of apologizing to do.
So does Big Tech. @OANN”
Maybe. Did you try the Hard Refresh. About 90% of twitter links i have to hard refresh to get it to work.
I get that for every single Twitter link. Just hit refresh.
On the ZeroHedge article: https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/NYP_0.jpg
Who is the “big guy” that Hunter will hold 10% for?
*sigh*
“remuneration”
On the ZeroHedge article: https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/NYP_0.jpg
Who is the “big guy” that Hunter will hold 10% for?
Boss Hogg.
“When all the major tech giants simultaneously purged Alex Jones from the internet in a matter of hours, and a handful of people warned about a dangerous precedent irrespective of whatever you think of Alex Jones… this is what we were talking about”
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1316481788483719169
And all the major newspapers are behind the U.S. extradition of Julian Assange so that he can be tried under the espionage act for publishing the exact same shit that they publish all the time. Shortsighted, are these people.
Shortsighted they aren’t, eliminating the independent competition they are, knowing exactly what they’re doing they do.
The irony of somebody posting about Twitter’s abusive behavior from a Twitter account is tickling me today.
Regardless of the macro-level issues, patronizing a company that you find abusive and counter to your morals and ethics is stupid to the extreme.
I would surmise that they lack the ability to stop all commenters in real time, which is why some people – especially those with very low exposure/followers – are not bothered with or yet silenced…
I don’t think it is. It’s much like the Post Office or when their was only one choice of phone company.
um. there
Sorry, having a bad grammar day.
Interesting take on the Kobe Bryant crash. Blames govt agencies’ policies on IFR vs. VFR for the crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdqkO0OAo-8
I can’t spend 20 minutes on the video.
What is the summary?
The pilot, though qualified to do IFR flight, was bound by his contract, his company’s contract, and the FAA not to fly in IFR conditions. If he were to find himself in IFR conditions and radioed to say as much and declare an emergency, he would have been sanctioned by the FAA. So he chose not to declare an emergency and tried to get out of the IFR conditions without communicating with ATC. Speculation that the maneuvers he made and lack of communication in the final minutes were to avoid trouble with the FAA.
I think it’s ridiculous to punish pilots if they find themselves out of their element and needing to declare an emergency. Weather is unpredictable.
thanks
Pffffttttt….
The pilot is responsible for that decision.
He’s responsible for his reaction, but the FAA deserves scrutiny for this policy. The policy seems antithetical to safety. I think if a pilot violates IFR rules, then he/she should get a chance to demonstrate it was an emergency and therefore should not be punished. I don’t want to die because someone was afraid of losing his license or getting a fine.
Yes, it is correct, but also the wrong interpretation. The pilot knew that the Part 135 cert was VFR only. He should not have been flying that day. The company should have said.. nope weather needs IFR.. please talk to company XYZ, they cost twice as much but they have the IFR part 135 cert.
Or he could have seen that pass, went back 1 airport, landed and called for a Limo… Sorry Kobe, can’t do that pass today.. got you 80% of the way there..
but they had gotten away with it so many previous times… just barely VFR over that pass… until one day… nope.
And even if the pilot did go “DAMN.. I’m IFR.. I’ll pull up.. declare an EMER” It isn’t that easy to go from a VFR mental state to IFR. I have had to get a “pop up” IFR approach into KMHT…. it was quite shaky, If you have been flying IFR for the past hour, then you are in the “concentrate on the instruments”
A non commercial pilot wouldn’t have worried about it.. it happens, nobody looses their license if nothing is bent, perhaps some extra trainiing, but the Part 135 rules are a totally different standard, and therefore VFR operations should not (for the safety of the traveling public) go near the VFR/IFR edge..
“Twitter has suspended @TeamTrump
for posting a video calling Joe Biden a liar who has been ripping off our country for years, as it relates to the @nypost
article.
19 days out from the election.”
https://twitter.com/mikehahn_/status/1316716049946021888
I heard that the dnc operatives with bylines at the WaPo claimed the story in the NYP was fake because the Biden people assured them Biden was not the crook he is. I also have heard some claim the whole thing is fake because the Biden campaign claimed they found no calendar entry showing Biden met with this Ukrainian Burisma oligarch (if all these pols put every appointment they have in their calendars, we should demand to see all so we can find out when they meet with their mistresses and Soros funded entities, and be done with it). Now it seems the Biden people must have gotten wind that the other side has proof Biden met with this guy and is hoping to drop a bomb to make them look like liars, because they are walking the claim Biden never met him back.
“found no calendar entry”
Only in his official calendar, not his personal calendar.
“Hallie Jackson assigned to STRANGLE the @nypost
stories on Hunter Biden. It has the hallmarks of a disinformation campaign??”
https://twitter.com/TimJGraham/status/1316698131082379264
Yes, the 219 year-old New York Post, the nation’s oldest newspaper, founded by some guy named Alexander Hamilton, is a “tabloid”.
Hamilton now the worst man ever again.
Twitter just blocked a government website – this shit is getting real.
It’s censorship when you block the government?
Ok, I get that someone didn’t pay for the repair so you claim the computer as “collateral”, i still don’t think that entitles you to the data on the machine.
So, if the bank repos a car, they don’t get the software that controls it?
The unit is forfeit as a whole, IMO. Including personal data.
So if it had all the guys banking login info, it would then be okay to empty the bank account too? Sell that info online?
What if the info was kiddie p0rn. Do you think that information/evidence shouldn’t be shared?
That’s what you got here, except it is political p0rn that exposes one of the most corrupt people out there (only the Clinton and Obama cabals rank above this guy).
Nope. We have laws against that. That would be a crime.
Wait, he was paid how much by how many people and can’t even be bothered to pay the computer tech? What an asshole.
He couldn’t pay the stripper/hooker he knocked up child support either. Think if he is willing to avoid paying for that, he will care about paying for some computers? He can always get new ones and make more pr0n videos while smoking crack..
Then why drop off the computer in the first place?
To recover the pr0n?
The guy needs it to play count potato looking at his beau…
Reminds me.
I was at a romance writing conference once and a very well-known romance author had taken her computer to a shop. The wife of the computer repairman promptly proceeded to read the author’s rough draft for her next book. The computer repairman, oblivious to how much of a violation this would be, complimented the author profusely on her work on behalf of his wife.
She kept it on the internal drive?
I have 2 drives, one strictly for data and one for the OS and programs.
But were I to take it to a shop (don’t have to, though–my husband does all that), I wouldn’t think to take out the data drive.
This, however, was in the early- to mid-90s when WordPerfect was still relevant.
I use external drives for my work.
Then again, I fix my own computer problems.
I have an external drive for an archive.
I miss WordPerfect
I still remember F3 “reveal codes” and what a gamechanger that was. On Word, I use show all hidden characters. People don’t know how I can work that way, but I can’t work when ONLY the characters are showing.
Oh yeah. Reveal codes was a lifesaver.