What should I do? Bitch about the heat? It’s 103 today. Being up at 5 am for this shit? Meh, have to go to work anyway. At 5 am. Notice that the lawn needs mowing? I’m too old for that shit. Way too old, and we have no kids left here. Observe that none of you have the slightest bit of sympathy, what with all your privilege? Shit, I do that daily. Take complaining away from a Jew and what you have is a very, very quiet Jew.
Speaking of not-quiet, there’s many interesting birthdays today, including a guy who is not well known today but was… interesting; one of our true spiritual fathers; the last of the skilled editorial cartoonists; the one true god of jazz piano; a comedian who was more notorious than actually, you know, funny; one of the pioneers of Langmuir-Blodgett films and one or two other things; the one true god of jazz bass; a pop singer who actually managed to make interesting music; the reincarnation of the mummy of Amenhotep; a prolific cookbook author whose dishes were at once earnest and remarkably bland; a woman whom I taught about oral sex; the finest wide receiver I ever saw- or am ever likely to see; a guy whom I can’t decide is more funny or tiresome; and a walking punchline and a doppelganger of Mr. Ed.
Now for the meat course. Oh wait, I don’t eat meat. So there’s nothing here for me. Just news.
One more thing I didn’t have on my 2020 checklist: Trump coming out as bi.
Now, I admit, this is not a topping that SP and I had ever considered.
Silly Negroes don’t know what’s good for them. Thank god there are journalists around to enlighten them.
Not the Babylon Bee. This time.
Old Guy Music today features a birthday boy being, on the one hand, a bit out of character, and on the other, awesome. Gripping hand: it’s Art Fucking Tatum. He play what he want.
“Notice that the lawn needs mowing? ”
Grass actually grows at that temperature?
“a woman whom I taught about oral sex”
What?
If you water it all the time, sure.
I don’t generally miss Arizona, but there are times when I wistfully imagine having a “yard” that was nothing but sand, rocks, and cacti, requiring no maintenance.
There is an attraction to that. Kind of like living on a boat.
“If you water it all the time, sure.”
So stop doing that?
He said “lawn”, not grass…. I suspect it is all tiny cacti.
But would you need to mow tiny cacti?
To prevent them from becoming big cacti?
So SP finally aged out huh?
*rimshot*
Trump is bi?
Sugarfree is going to have to do a rewrite before tomorrow.
Scruffy shuddered with repressed lust as Donald’s hand lingered on his lower back.
“Scruffy,” said the Billionaire Playboy President, “I would have you.”
“Then take me, if you can,” Scruffy whispered and ran away.
Fifty Shades of Gay?
My Nerfy regions just got all tingly.
“I’m not nuking it to kill the wuhan, I’m trying to kill the communism.”
Thank God the Indigenous People’s Day has passed. My Facederp feed was an endless stream of virtue signaling WASPs rushing to show how goodthinker and self-loathing they are.
It was everything I could do to not pepper their posts with images of Aztec sacrifices and Mohawk cannibalism.
Why hold back? Give them the truth.
I need some friends. Not sure why, but I do.
I still find it funny that I live a stone’s throw away from the Cannibal River, and no one notices the name.
start a petition
There’s more important things than cannibal awareness month.
Everybody says that until they’re the one being gnawed on by some cannibal and her little rugrat.
A kidney stone’s throw away?
Those aren’t friends. They would turn you over to the Stasi in a heartbeat.
For posting images of Aztec sacrifices and Mohawk cannibalism.
I am only on Instagram for national and state parks and some full time RV families.
Hot Springs NP actually had a very fair and well thought out message for yesterday. The other parks…not so much
Hey, you were in my neck of the woods.
Haven’t been to Hot Springs yet. Pretty much clicked follow for every national park
Ah. Misunderstood. 🙂
Why follow them? They tend to be stationary. I mean, unless you count continental drift, but they don’t move that fast.
Today is a day to honor the past and history of all peoples – to recognize both great achievements, and also the sometimes devastating impacts that can result. Take some time today to think about the thrill of discovery, the rich history, culture, and traditions of Indigenous people, and how those two impacted each other.
And shop all the Columbus Day sales.
The important things in life
Hot Springs NP actually had a very fair and well thought out message
Did it include a quote from FDR?
Fun question I like to occasionally ask folks: If Native Americans have more right to this land than me, because their ancestors have been here longer than mine, doesn’t it stand to reason that I, being a 14th generation European American, also have more right to this land than some fresh of the boat dipshit whose mom was born in Germany? (Specifically, I like to ask this of my best fried whose mom was born in Germany.)
I think Mises handled this well, and I will be paraphrasing poorly, probably mangling his argument a bit:
—
Might makes right is the reality of ownership. But, the fiction of property rights works. It makes for stable and growing society. So it is a useful fiction we need to adopt. However, as all long was taken by force, no one is the original owner, we need to pick a point and say “From this point forward, property rights exist.”
—
The problem, of course, is that anyone from before the line is screwed over. But whatchagonnado? Personally , I think 99 years is the limit on claims. If you want to make a claim today, you can’t go back to anything before 1921. So, sucks for the Native Americans.
I like it. The Israeli Palestinian conflict could be resolved in 26 years.
But then how are we supposed to press the Italian claim on North Africa and Asia Minor?
Or, which Native American groups have a right to the land at all considering that tribes were conquering and invading each other’s land long before wypipo arrived?
You run into similarly puzzling questions when you try to justify slavery reparations in the current year. This historical grievance accounting leads you down a bunny hole of absurdities.
“The customer had reportedly purchased a Portland Pizza Pie Dough and then later found an undisclosed number of razor blades inside the product, according to a statement by the Saco Police Department.”
Pics or it didn’t happen. All those Halloween apple stories turned out to be bullshit.
What would make the story better is if he’s an out of town Antifa agitator that flew to the wrong Portland.
LOLOL
Opposite coast. Maine, not Oregon.
Which makes it even funnier.
Baseball birthdays galore!!! Hall of Famers Eddie Matthews, Rube Waddell, and Trevor Hoffman. And also Eddie Yost just because. And also Fred McMullin, who almost shouldn’t count as one of the 8 men out, he was so worthless.
Wasn’t “The Walking Man” named as John Kerry’s favourite Red Sox player even though he never played for Boston? I seem to recall that.
The greatest wide receiver I ever saw in person was Calvin Johnson….except the only time I actually saw him in person was the 2006 ACCCG, which was canceled and totally never happened.
Randy Moss.
A friend of mine played HS football against Moss in WV. My friend who went on to play low-level DI football said “guarding” Moss was the most humiliating thing of his life. Completely unfair in every way
A friend of mine played against Shaun Alexander in HS. He was a DE, he said his job was to hold him in place until the LBs showed up, because he couldn’t tackle him alone.
Alexander was a star, but at least you can gang tackle a RB. Guarding Moss as a high schooler is not even possible. And zone isn’t going to help any. On any deep ball, just commit PI and give up 15.
Yep, pretty much. Even very good athletes are helpless against elite athletes, and forget about Super Elites like Moss. Best athlete I ever saw up close was Iverson, both playing pickup and on his HS team. I can’t even imagine another human being quicker and faster while dribbling. He was truly like a cat out there.
A kid I knew in high school played against Iverson in AAU ball. Said it was a jaw-dropping experience even being on the court with him.
Eddie George played against our high school, although he wasn’t supposed to. He did a postgrad year at Fork Union to academically qualify at Ohio State. FUMA used him on their undergrad team, I guess because they thought they could get away with it. He was 6’3″ 215 even then. This was the Prep League – not exactly a powerhouse football league. He was bigger at RB than some of the linemen he played against. Averaged like 350 yards a game until they were caught at the end of the season and all of their wins forfeited.
Oh, and for those who don’t know, Iverson was a sensational football player too. High school player of the year in both sports, was a QB and DB who led Bethel to a state championship. Probably would have been an NFL star if he had chosen that path instead.
““We understand if, for the outgoing white envelope that you get that maybe the mail service carrier may have touched, you want to kind of hold that aside for 24 hours,” Bailey-Kanelos told the news station. “Everything inside the pink return envelope, the ballots themselves, they have been inserted by a machine weeks ago, so they are safe.””
Is 24 hours enough? No one seems to know how long this virus lasts on things. Or how long it stays in the air. Or how many active cases there are. Or any kind of practical information.
What most people are doing is hearing a study, then assuming the absolute worst from that (probably with some additional distortion provided by the corporate media).
Some study shows that the virus can survive for up to 3 days on some kinds of surfaces under perfect laboratory conditions… Then everyone is going around saying “it lives for 3 days on surfaces!!” as though it will definitely be there for that entire timeframe and definitely infect anyone who touches that surface.
Then a study says that the antibodies can last at least 3 months.
The next day, everyone is saying “They only last 3 months at most!”
I recently got a car wash where I had to pay a $5 surcharge if I wanted the interior vacuumed. Because they were supposedly doing an interior ultraviolet treatment to protect their employees from the virus hiding in the carpeting. Science!
It was funny at first but I went with “tiresome” long ago.
I always though he can be funny but his shtick gets old quick. He had material for like 10 short sketches made a lot more.
He was never funny.
This. His schtick wore out fast.
He could have taken the approach of goring everyone’s ox, but he decided to give his comedy a political bent instead.
But, no Lenny Bruce means a much lesser chance of George Carlin.
I was referring to Cohen.
My apologies, that’s what I get for making an off the cuff comment without confirming which comic that line was about.
Super tiresome from the beginning.
I have a hard time watching anything that involves pranking people, even when it’s good natured. When it’s done maliciously, I can’t stomach it at all. I tried to watch the Borat movie and made it about 2 minutes once he got to America.
I was watching a Jim Browning anti-scammer youtube video the other day, and I started feeling bad for the scumbag Indian scammer by the end of it.
Yeah, I do that too. Investigative journalism with hidden cameras and then they confront the people, I always end up putting myself in the bad guy’s shoes and squirming.
Like this?
That’s how I feel.
Good morning, Old Man!
And good morning, all you nice people.
I see the Daily Beast is continuing their top-notch journalism. What a pile of shit. Thanks for telling us about Trayvon and the efficacy of the Abbott test.
Blah.
30 more days of one-man tyranny here in the PRM. One bright spot is the number of dudes I saw at Cabelas yesterday without talismasks. Resistance is good.
Nice Old Guy music this morning. Art can play a little bit, eh.
Have a great day, people. The haters won’t know what hit ’em.
Hey, in some good news:
Michigan Supreme Court strikes down Gov. Whitmer’s emergency orders, effective immediately
It really just seems like the courts trying to say, “And this time… we MEAN it!”
Yet they leave in place the same edicts from executive agencies which should not exist.
So they get to look tough but they gave her enough time to circumvent their ruling and she gets to like to look tough too and not a damn thing changes in practice. That’s just pathetic.
What about the rest of us?
He was hoping we’d overlook him.
“…all you nice people…”
WHO ARE YOU CALLING “NICE”?!?!?
Front page of the Daily Mail:
“TRUMP SPREADS THE LOVE”
“Donald Trump throws masks into the crowd and says he wants to ‘kiss everyone’ now he’s ‘immune’ from COVID as he returns to campaign trail to tell Florida rally the pandemic has been a ‘lovefest’ the US has gone through together
President Donald Trump marked his return to the campaign trail by throwing masks into the crowd, calling the coronavirus pandemic a ‘lovefest’ and proclaimed that he was newly ‘immune,’ threatening to kiss members of his Florida rally.
‘One thing with me, the nice part: I went through it, now they say I’m immune,’ Trump said Monday night at the Orlando Sanford International Airport. ‘I feel so powerful, I’ll walk into that audience. I’ll walk in there, I’ll kiss everyone in that audience. I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women, everyone, I’ll just give you a big fat kiss.’
The president was marking his official return to the campaign trail after his battle fighting the coronavirus, tossing masks out to the crowd as he walked onstage.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8832983/Trump-threatens-KISS-supporters-hes-immune-COVID-19.html
He needs to bite the head of a pangolin.
*off
“‘Biden had a bad day,’ Trump said. ‘He forgot Mitt Romney’s name, he didn’t know what state he was in. And he said today he’s a proud Democrat running for the U.S. Senate.'”
Who doesn’t forget Romney’s name?
Who?
George Romney. He was a portrait painter, probably most famous for painting Admiral Nelson’s mistress.
For Tundra
I think they jumped the shark with this one.
https://www.festoolproducts.com/festool-205747-limited-edition-installation-organizer-systainer-imperial.html
Lol.
I’m sure they are quite nice, but come on…
KN95 masks for $1.60 each isn’t bad though.
Trump Threatens to ‘Kiss the Guys and the Beautiful Women’ at First Campaign Rally Since COVID-19 Diagnosis
0_o
?T-M-ITE
T-M-ITE
T-M-ITE
And media is the enemy?
Media Sensation – The Interrupters.
“graciously offers?”
BBC vs The Market
https://www.continentaltelegraph.com/2020/10/bbc-vs-the-market/
Much opprobrium being heaped upon political heads about this ad telling a ballet dancer that perhaps she should retrain into cybersecurity.
https://www.continentaltelegraph.com/2020/10/well-actually-fatima-should-retrain-as-something-other-than-a-ballet-dancer/
A government-backed advert that encouraged people working in the arts to reskill by turning to a career in cybersecurity has been scrapped after the culture secretary described it as “crass”.
Charlotte Bence, from the Equity trade union, said: “Fatima doesn’t need to retrain – what Fatima needs is adequate state support as a freelance artist, support that so far she has been lacking. Freelance workers deserve better than patronising adverts telling them to go and work elsewhere.”
Fatima needs to start an Onlyfans instead of making me subsidize her career.
You beat me to it.
Ballet dancers should stick with the traditional side work for dancers.
Assassin’s?
Prostitution.
Ballets are simply fancy brothels in most iterations.
Is that their “Learn to code” moment? Only instead of looking down on coal workers they are looking down on chicks that do ballet instead of twerking around a pole?
If she’s subsidized, she’s not freelance.
Prostitution to the state is still prostitution. Pays pretty well too, if you’ve got the right connections.
Prostitution to the state is still prostitution – I disagree. standard prostitution is hones work.
Fair enough, but I’d point to yesterday’s discussion about just who counts as a collaborator as a counterweight.
^^^ THIS ^^^
OBEY.
Got news for you. Youtube intends to pick winners just as much as the BBC.
Unrelated, The next evolution of the vinegar soup has changed the recipe to –
white vinegar
red wine vinegar
apple cider vinegar
beef stock of equal volume to vinegar mix
lotsa salt
minced garlic
sage
basil
parsley
Beef, cubed
Onion, diced
Mushrooms, sliced
Mini Gnocchi
Brown the beef, cook onion and mushroom mixture until onions are at least translucent. Caramelization optional.
Deglaze with vinegar mix and dissolve salt, add beef stock, garlic, and herbs. Cook until vinegar flavor is tempered to taste.
Add gnocchi at last minute, cook until done. Gnocchi starch should help thicken soup.
****
I’m going to see how this iteration turns out.
The World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19 stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies.
How many months are we in to “2 weeks to flatten the curve and learn about the virus”?
however many it takes
This Friday marks 7 months here in Ohio.
“Take complaining away from a Jew and what you have is a very, very quiet Jew.”
I thought that was just the Yentas that did that…
“Gov. Andrew Cuomo placed the blame on cluster outbreaks in New York City.
He announced Monday that there are currently 878 New Yorkers hospitalized with the virus, an increase of almost 60 patients since Sunday.
There were 12 more deaths, in addition to 185 patients checked into the ICU and 86 intubated individuals.
‘The largest single identifiable addition is from the micro-clusters,’ Cuomo said during a press briefing.
‘Remember we were at 18,000 hospitalized so the hospitalization number to us is more relevant as an indicator for where people are, where the cases are coming from again, right?’
The increase in cases last week led Cuomo to reinstate cluster containment zones and to shut down schools in parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
He introduced a new ‘hotspot’ cluster zone map including portions of Rockland, Orange and Broome Counties also.
Red, orange and yellow ‘zones’ were established in areas where positive infection rates are rising.
Independently, the cluster zones have a combined 3.7 percent positivity rate compared to the statewide infection rate, which stands at 1.1 percent. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8832511/GRAPHIC-New-U-S-COVID-19-cases-rise-11-week-Midwest-hard-hit.html
So you are closing shit because it went down from 18,000 to 878?
Absent welding us into our homes, I don’t see how this accomplishes shit.
I’m thinking it’ll accelerate the exodus of people who aren’t entirely mindless robots to authority.
Rhode Island highway blocked by an idea. My old team partner in the Marines is a Rhode Island Statie – I’m sure he would have liked a free hand clear this road block.
It should be a simple thing to round those asshats up and put them in prison for six months. But nooooo…..
Shit is getting way out of hand.
The title of the tweet says it was in Kentucky, but comments say I-95 in Rhode Island, can anyone get basic facts right these days?
“can anyone get basic facts right these days?”
No
What you did there, seen it was.
Evidently my reading comprehension doesn’t kick in before 9 a.m.
“As seen in Kentucky” I believe they were referencing the St. Louis riots where rental vans showed up with BLM / Antifa gear.
St. LouisLouisvilleHard to keep my riots straight in 2020.
I thought the rental vans were in Minneapolis. Or Wisconsin.
The tweet says “as seen in Kentucky” which I take to mean it had previously been done the same way in Ky.
Hey at least they are learning to not make themselves the roadblock.
If you’re trying to win hearts and minds, making drivers sit in traffic because of a roadblock you set up seems like it’ll win hearts and minds for your opponents.
Only 33.5% of Black households owned stocks in 2019, according to data released recently by the Federal Reserve. Among white households, the ownership rate is nearly 61%. Hispanic and other minority households also are less likely than white families to own stock.
And?
Sounds like more equity is needed.
well played
I am gonna cringe when Biden proposes KFC & Popeyes now start offering stock options as dinning rewards…
At one time, all Waffle House employees were owners. I dont know if it is still the case.
And I cant verify that with a google search, although there was extensive employee ownership, at least at the store manager level.
They MUST be given stock!
It’s imperative that people hold riskier assets than they want. For equality.
Perhaps it is time for black America to take stock?
Actual no shit fascists should be placed in stocks? Yes, I agree.
This is quite the astounding analysis:
“Black people “are shortchanging themselves by investing in more secure opportunities that yield less of a return,” she said.”
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing backlash from some Democrats after she sharply rejected Trump’s $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief offer.
President Donald Trump on Friday offered a $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief package in talks with Pelosi after urging his team on Twitter to ‘go big’ – moving closer to Pelosi’s $2.2 trillion proposal. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8834297/Democrat-backlash-House-Speaker-rejects-Trumps-coronavirus-relief-offer.html
That’s only a 400 Billion dollar difference.
I’ll take 1% of that difference if they don’t know what to do with it
Why so greedy? .01% for me.
Maybe we should look a little deeper into why the U.S. economy needs a $trillion stimulus every couple of months and doing something about that?
That’s just crazy talk.
How much can the federal government do about state and local lockdowns?
Enforce 1A, 4A, 5A.
That’s usually done through the courts.
It is a federal crime to deprive someone of their civil rights, so they can prosecute these infringers.
Not a lawyer, but I think they need a specific law. And who are they going to arrest, the governors?
There is a specific law, I don’t know the statute code off the top of my head.
And yes, anyone issuing or enforcing unconstitutional orders should be in the dock for their crimes.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law
There’s also civil claims for deprivation of rights under Section 1983 (1983 lawsuits).
Thank you, Gustave.
Obviously, that law isn’t practiced, just by the 2A alone.
Most crimes these people have committed go unpunished.
Doesn’t mean we can’t start.
I think it is too late to fix things. Hopefully when we go to Nubux we start out on the gold standard and stay there a while.
Everything is fine!
Well… until it isn’t.
If the GOP bails out the blue states, what’s the point of even having them, just let the Dems take power.
I’m sure the FBI, DOJ, and the Minnesota State Police are going to arrest these people any minute now.
Democrat Proposing To His Girlfriend Says He Won’t Reveal Position On Adultery Until After The Wedding
Democrats Hiss In Terror As ACB Pulls Out Crucifix
Libs react to facts, logic, common sense, and reason the same way vampires react to garlic, sunlight, holy water, and holy symbols…
Facederp posts indicate that they’re freaking out about COVID reinfections today. I think they’ve confirmed a couple of cases..
Meanwhile, influenza reinfection rates can be as high as 30%.
It’s amazing to me how much power the legacy media still retains to lead people around by the nose. Those are the same people that are always freaking out about whatever the media’s panic du jour is and I think they could convince a majority of them to literally walk off a cliff if they were so inclined.
Read my comment again, and you will have a good understanding of what drives these morons.
I’m skeptical of the reinfection stories vs they never actually fully cleared the virus.
In any case, it appears to be exceedingly rare.
People are losing their minds over this.
ONE CASE IS ONE TOO MANY!!!1!!eleventy!!
/progtard panic seller
There are people with immune disorders.
Trump’s laser pointer.
Map shows Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District. Gerrymandering is pure madness. I’m puzzled why there isn’t collective outrage about this in the US.
https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1315736254344986624
weird
“There is, to be sure, but district shaping is imposed by the majority in each state in which it appears, so naturally it can’t be voted down. It’s the very hallmark of antidemocratic GOP activity”
This is a perfect example of: everything bad is caused be group X that I don’t like.
Now they should do Illinois…
Or Pennsylvania.
Dems controlled the Maryland House of Delegates 98-43 during the last redistricting. They controlled the MD Senate 35-12.
it was clearly those dastardly republicans who were allowed to draw that district.
Meanwhile, this is what the GOP did in KY. Yeah, the 1st district is a little weird, but not totally crazy stuff.
okay, I missed that up and the link still works.
Not for me. I got a 404 until I edited the URL.
You are correct, paging the edit fairy!
*EDIT FAIRY BLESSES YOU*
It looks like they stuck to county lines, and the 1st was actually “…And whatever’s left over.”
Basically, the state supreme court smacked down serious gerrymandering years ago and requires splitting of the “minimum” number of counties.
The core of the 2nd is Daviess and Warren Counties, and to get those in the same district you don’t have much choice. Those Eastern counties in the 1st are all small population.
There is outrage – my district was Gerrymandered a few years ago and we’ll have a Democrat Congressman until it’s fixed. NJ lost 2 or 3 Republican Reps in that process as they made sure to attach all the conservative western counties to more populated liberal eastern counties.
That’s one reason the fight over Judges at both the state and federal level is so important.
The only way to “fix” that is one large at large district and single transferrable vote.
There are 12 disticts in NJ — each party can put 12 names on the ballot, you can vote in preference order for as many candidates as you want. The top 12 vote getters (with transference once a candidate has enough to win) get elected.
You end up with reasonable representation. GOP/Dem split will be about right. White/Black split too. In the larger states, the LP will even get representation. And the Greens. And, who knows, the communists probably. In CA, you would need under 2% to get a spot. In NJ, you would need 8.33%, in KY 16.67%.
You would also get geographic representation if Democrats tend to prefer the local D and republican prefer the local R.
There are 12 disticts in NJ — each party can put 12 names on the ballot, you can vote in preference order for as many candidates as you want. The top 12 vote getters (with transference once a candidate has enough to win) get elected.
Minus the transference, that is how some state house districts in NH work.
The town I live in is one state house district represented by multiple people.
The transfer is needed to limit (not eliminate, Arrow proved that is impossible) strategic voting. You just have modified gerrymandering with multi-member districts.
Another baseball thing…Okay, listen Death 2020, its the rule of three: not the rule of thirteen. You are supposed to take 3 in a group, you have gone overboard this year.
World’s greatest private collection of Roman statuary goes on show in Rome this week after being kept under wraps for decades by noble Torlonia family. Just been to press viewing and here are some pics..
https://twitter.com/tomkington/status/1315652101901635584
Is it just me or are some of those statues culturally appropriating hair styles?
Don’t let Antifa hear about this. Statues set them off.
And they were slave owners too. Better smash them just to be sure.
https://twitter.com/henryrodgersdc/status/1315866044469313536
Did Trump catch the gay?
These would be the manliest, most non-sexual kisses in the history of men kissing. The best man-kissing.
The most heterosexual dancing to the Village People?
I’m surprised Brochettaward hasn’t been summoned by this.
Maybe he’s in his bunk…
Chemicals in the water. Alex Jones once again being proved correct after being mocked.
Well, Trump loves having people love him, and that one poll came out saying that 45% of gay men would consider voting for him, so…
https://twitter.com/Dojafat/status/1314983386029711360
I got a score of 4…
1
Snails are right out. I knew somebody who got a bad one and dropped dead.
I got sick from an oyster once but I ate oysters recently and was fine
I scored higher (like 20), but eliminating dead animals and pus really ran up the score.
see if you ate meat you would not be stuck in Arizona you could move to Alaska like the rest of the glibs.
There’s nothing on there that I absolutely would not eat, but there are four things I really don’t like. They’re all pretty basic too.
Ketchup
Mayonnaise
Milk
Celery
Ketchup aka BBQ sauce – yum for the latter
Mayonnaise – TDC (The Devil’s Condiment)
Milk – It’s in a lot of food as an ingredient
Celery – Part of the trinity of both French and Cajun cooking
Ketchup != BBQ sauce.
If you draw a Venn diagram of BBQ sauce and ketchup, you get a lot of overlap.
Most, though not all, BBQ sauces use ketchup as a base, to which you add molasses, brown sugar, spices, etc.
I live in South Carolina, I run into more vinegar based than ketchup based BBQ sauce now. Or at least close enough to an even split to not assume.
I can take milk and celery as ingredients, but I can’t drink/eat them straight. If ketchup and mayonnaise are used in a recipe to the point that they no longer taste like ketchup or mayonnaise, I’m good with that too.
Same. There’s nothing on there that I’d starve to avoid, but I don’t care for Bleu Cheese, Snails, Oysters, Tomatoes, Zucchini, or Beets. Cottage Cheese is on the line.
I literally made a salad yesterday using half of those foods.
Four, pork, and three due to chocolate.
I got a zero, but I’ve never had escargot before, so I’d try it once before deciding. Liver’s not my favorite, but I’ll eat it, and most of the rest was fairly mundane stuff.
I scored 34 on “things I’ve eaten in the last 10 days.
Zero here, too. The list wisely omitted beef jerky.
9 for foods I truly won’t eat, 27 including foods I can’t eat. sigh
That’s a lot you can’t eat.
Tell me about it. IBS is a cruel master. If it weren’t for protein & rice, I’d starve.
3 for me…
And why no mention of eating ass? This thing seems biased against HM.
14. And why so few controvertial ingredients? You’re leaving off most of the organs, periferal body parts, and preparation methods which render food inedible.
I got a zero. I’m a very adventurous eater – go out of my way to try new stuff. Going to Denver soon and trying Rocky Mountain Oysters.
Truly vile stuff – water chestnuts, durian fruit, bitter melon. That’s about all I can think of.
It is not about adventurous. zucchini is not fit for human consumption.
Now that I think about it cauliflower was one of my 4 because I was thinking how much I hate it cooked, but pickled cauliflower is among the best of things…
I can go down to 3 I suppose and maaaybe 2 because while I don;t like it I can eat broccoli.
But zucchini no and white chocolate I haven’t had in a long time and I assume I could it it but it is lying chocolate so o general principle is a no
Same for me, including the dislike of water chestnuts. Those and a couple of things on the list I don’t like, but I’ll still eat.
The only way zucchini was palatable to me is when my grandmother made some patties out of grated zucchini mixed with grated cheese, breaded and fried.
I hated zucchini until I was about 10, now I love it.
I don’t get the zucchini hate either. Sure, it has to be prepared right, but so does steak.
No zucchini bread for you?
I make delicious keto zucchini muffins.
If you make zucchini bread with dried fruit, soak the dried fruit in dark rum or brandy. Also a plus, bits of dark chocolate.
You’ll never be the same.
Fussy Eater
“What’s this? Never mind, gimme a whole lot of it!”
“That’s rat’s asshole, Don.”
“Well, it sure makes a hell of a fondue!”
I’d say 2.5. Liver and snails definitely. Cooked fish – I only eat a few of them. Tuna steaks, swordfish, flounder, cod. That’s pretty much it.
6, but 4 of them I am allergic to. I hate cucumbers unless pickled and canned tuna is cat food to me.
Well how can you have tea without cucumber sandwiches?
I am not allergic / intolerant to anything. Just some foods I dislike.
Cucumbers make me burp and I taste them for hours. It might be another intolerance/allergy.
There are “burpless” cucumbers.
Remove skins and seeds. Another possibility is to buy English, or as the top hatted tuber calls them ‘burpless’ cucumbers.
If that doesn’t work… well then. I guess we know.
6
This virus thing seems to be in the news a lot lately. You’d think someone would show a graph depicting #of “cases vs # of tests. I’m guessing there’s a correlation. Mebbe another one showing the age grouping of the positives.
Nah, just keep showing the totals and wait for them to go down.
It’s all cases all the time now.
Meanwhile the hospitalization rate is declining rapidly.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html#:~:text=A%20total%20of%2059%2C728%20laboratory,was%20183.2%20per%20100%2C000%20population.
The line on the graph’s getting low and we can;t have that.
(Yeah, it’s a Joe Jackson lyric, don’t get bent out of shape.)
This morning, the chick on Bloomberg said something to the effect of, “NOBODY is advocating for another lockdown. They just want to put more restrictions in place.”
Well okay, then. That makes all the difference in the world. Can the pigeon superstitionists be any more disingenuous/
Nobody wants to take your guns away you crazy rednecks!!
If by “no one” those gaslighting sumbitches mean, “Joe Biden”:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/21/joe-biden-lockdown-us-coronavirus-400126
It’s like they think humans have no long term memory.
They know their lemmings don’t. They will lap up whatever dogshit they are told to eat that day and forget that the day before they were made to eat different shit, and they will do so with pride in their allegiance to the cult.
George Orwell says, “Hold my Victory Gin”:
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984
High School English teachers only assign that book and Fahrenheit 451 when a Republican is in the White House.
We really need to go back to teaching The Lottery in sixth grade.
And probably black out the abortion rant in F451.
Freshman year, Honors English we had Brave New World and 1984 assigned as part of our summer reading. Fahrenheit 451 was assigned in 7th or 8th grade IIRC.
Both were Catholic schools (one Ursuline, the other Notre Dame).
These days they assign these books as How to” manuals to the brainwashed morons they inculcate marxist beliefs in.
Joe Biden was for another Lockdown before he was against it!
Q2. CRT shifts ways of knowing from the dominant emphasis on objectivity, neutrality, and ‘evidence-based’ (which fetishises science) to contextual, story telling and lived experiences; a different epistemology.
How can we challenge the dominance of the former?
https://twitter.com/ClearTheAirUK/status/1315363788871303169
How can we challenge the dominance of the former?
“Its easier to get what you want when you wrap it in your unassailable ‘lived experience’ and scream whenever people try to ignore you”
Twitter living up to being the intellectual sewer of humankind.
Has anybody else seen the “Plague is totally different now than it was in March!” headline?
Yes, it is less deadly.
I’m happy to report my youngest has successfully completed her volleyball season. Some of her games were cancelled due to the other schools being on lockdown, but there were no major issues. In person school continues.
Late breaking Melanin Monday
Trigger warning for those whose taste in women runs the full gamet from Glidden Winter White, to Behr Bit Of Sugar White – lotta brown sugar here.
https://thechive.com/2020/10/12/black-white-latinosexy-is-sexylike-these-rockin-beauties-88-photos/
or
https://archive.is/u2eMl
#24 looks vaguely familiar
Do you agree with Justice Scalia that Roe was wrongly decided? – Difi
I cannot comment on precedent or pending cases because I do not want to be seen as having an agenda or precommit to any decision on any case. – Barret
Difi can’t accept that position.
The only people that are heroic when they make that stance are team blue hacks that invent constitutional rights. When team red people do that it is a travisty.
She should invoke the Biden standard – you’ll know after I’m elected (or in this case, confirmed).
You must give us the power to do it first first before we let you know that we will use it to ass rape you without even the benefit of a reach around to make it less humiliating…
And you can keep your plan and doctor too!
There’s been a troubling spike in gun sales. – Difi
Fuck off, you cunte.
Troubling because your husband wasn’t dealing the guns?
“There’s been a troubling spike in gun sales.”
WTF does that even mean?
“Our efforts to disarm the public and demonize arms have hit a speedbump.”
It means that I can’t buy small pistol primers for love or money right now? That’s troubling to me.
It means the gun that I almost bought (but thought was a touch overpriced) at $1250 in January is now selling for $1800.
“Those meddlesome proles keep buying guns so they can shoot back if we get too tyrannical. This is obviously bad.”
Gosh Di, what troubles you about that?
You’ll Never Work Out Again: Liverpool’s local lockdown lunacy
https://capx.co/youll-never-work-out-again-liverpools-local-lockdown-lunacy/
Meanwhile in Sweden…
But Finland has much lower death rates…
I always find it funny when someone mentions Sweden pro lockdowners say what about other nordic countries but do not accept what about belgium as if those norther countries are identical
Saw some stats that Sweden had a mild flu season last year compared to other Nordic countries-this meant Sweden had more “tinder “for the ‘vid this year.
Still half the deaths of NJ with more people.
Also funny is touting Sweden as doing nothing when their restrictions were more like milder US states.
Germany’s Justice Ministry has sparked a spat over gender and language by drafting a bill that uses only feminine endings, giving some the impression that it applies only to women.
Legal texts in Germany usually use the masculine version of words such as “employee” or “landlord” to cover both men and women.
But campaigners have been arguing for years that using this language excludes women or gives the impression they are less important.
The draft law on insolvency and restructuring exclusively uses terms such as “Arbeitnehmerinnen” (female employees) instead of the masculine “Arbeitnehmer”.
“I think it is good that we are now discussing gender-equal language in legal texts and that a ball has been set rolling,” Katja Mast of the Social Democrats (SPD), the party of Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht, told the ARD public broadcaster.
But the Interior Ministry said Monday it had demanded a revision of the bill over concerns that it “might apply only to women… and would thus most likely be unconstitutional”.
https://www.thelocal.de/20201013/row-breaks-out-over-draft-german-law-that-uses-only-feminine-titles
What a load of scheisse.
“I’ve been unsympathetic to a lot of past complaints about voter suppression, but this is CLEAR voter suppression and it’s not even close.”
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1315709497743224832
Because letting people line up to vote is suppression?
I mean, they only have six weeks to get through that line.
Appeals to emotion are idiotic.
UNLESS YOU CAN CAST YOUR VOTE AT ANY TIME! AND NEVER HAVE TO WAIT! IT’S SUPPRESSION!
This is so stupid.
Don’t forget casting your (and other people, including dead people)’s votes as well…
If the people actually cast a vote when they get to the end of that line it’s not suppression.
It’s not like they have 30 more days to try.
Hunh. Enthusiatic voter turnout, combined with 6 foot distancing to make the line seem long, is voter suppression?
The six feet distancing makes lines seem a lot longer than they probably really are.
“175 doctors tell the partisan Commission on Presidential Debates that it is perfectly safe to hold a Second Debate
But the Commission doesn’t care about science, only covering for @JoeBiden’s poor debate performance & hiding him from the American People!”
https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1315750499958878213
“175 doctors tell commission Biden-Trump debate in Miami can be held safely”
https://nypost.com/2020/10/09/175-doctors-say-biden-trump-debate-in-miami-can-be-held-safely/
When we say listen to the science, we don’t mean those guys. They are all quacks.
“Ben Sasse asks, “What is court packing?”
Answer: Republicans breaking all precedents in order to completely bias the Supreme Court to produce a legislative outcome—the destruction of healthcare for millions of Americans—that they couldn’t win in Congress.”
https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/1315680311917899779
CWAA
That’s the story the Dems are sticking with, partly to cover for something unpopular, and to cover for Biden who won’t tell people his position. “We have to add seats to unpack the court of conservatives”.
Which really distills the Only consistent Democratic Policy: Never shall conservatives be allowed to hold power of any kind.
Merkley is an genuine idiot.
I disagreed with much of their stances, but I miss Mark Hatfield and Bob Packwood.
Republicans breaking all precedents
Except they aren’t.
in order to completely bias the Supreme Court to produce a legislative outcome … that they couldn’t win in Congress.
That’s what Dems have stated is the point of their proposed actual court-packing.
“Republicans breaking all precedents”
Precedents are according to the new progtopia, you will deplorable.
I’m sure all those independent fact checkers out there are all over this latest nonsense from the Democrats. Right?
Let me ask you as a person…
Irrelevant premise is irrelevant.
Caso then took out a gun and fired a round toward the ground, which ricocheted and hit one of the passengers in the lower leg, Gillett said. The passenger had minor injures and was treated at the scene by fire officials, Gillett said.
Joe Biden’s advice was to shoot into the air!
Ghislaine Maxwell hasn’t committed suicide yet
Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, will urge a federal appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling she says jeopardizes her ability to defend against criminal charges she enabled Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will review a judge’s order to unseal sworn testimony related to Epstein, including a April 2016 deposition from Maxwell and a deposition by an Epstein accuser.
Maxwell, 58, has said negative publicity from the disclosure of “intimate, sensitive, and personal” information from her deposition would violate her right against self-incrimination, and imperil a fair trial because jurors might hold it against her.
The British socialite has pleaded not guilty to charges she helped Epstein recruit and groom underage girls as young as 14 years old to engage in illegal sexual acts in the mid-1990s, and not guilty to perjury for having denied involvement under oath.
and not guilty to perjury for having denied involvement under oath.
Erm, something, something about self incrimination?
Democrats fundamentally misunderstand what a judge is supposed to do – Grassley
Word*.
*Obvious caveat about preferring originalism (which is the only legitimate view basis).
Misunderstand? No they don’t misunderstand. They know exactly what they want a judge to do, and ACB will not do that.
This.
If there’s anything that is more frustrating than the right pretending that the left is good faith misguided, I don’t know what it is.
THEY WILL SAY AND DO ANYTHING TO ACCUMULATE POWER! START TREATING THEM LIKE THE AUTHORITARIANS THEY ARE!
Of course, the kicker is that the few on the right who arent hypocritical authoritarians themselves don’t have enough power to even get the message out, let alone do anything about it.
I actually like her and I don’t much care for religious right folks.
“Democrats fundamentally misunderstand what a judge is supposed to do – Grassley”
They’re sposed to prog and legislate from the bench!
What cannot be achieved politically must be done from the bench! /progs and so-cons
I realize this is a dumb question, but what does “positive test percentage” have to do with anything? What possible reason is there to care?
Depending on the pool of test subjects, it could be zero, or it could be 100. If you only test people in the morgue, not only is your positive test rate something approaching 100%, it is lethal in all cases.
The assumption is that it can be used as a trend to indicate the velocity of spread. But the assumption is wrong because it’s based on a number of fallacies- testing is based on random sampling rather than targeted testing, non-covid causes are static (allergies, other colds/flu/ILI, etc), acceptable positivity rate is non-arbitrary, and so on. GIGO.
To be fair, I’ve been saying this entire time… but every spike in covid has lead to at least a small spike in hospitalizations and deaths within a few weeks. So it does mean something.
When I look at the graph though, it’s more of a plateau than a spike. Seems fairly acceptable to me.
every spike in covid has lead to at least a small spike in hospitalizations and deaths within a few weeks.
Well, not necessarily. The small “spike” in positive tests related to colleges reopening/the virus moving into non-vulnerable populations coexists with a decrease in the death rate, and I believe hospitalizations, in AZ. It has been weeks since we have had a ‘Vid patient in our ICU, and our hospitalized ‘Vid patients have stayed in the single digits.
I mean it makes sense that that would be the case. I just always say that, though, and am frequently wrong.
It could be a valuable number, if we had a consistent program for testing. Since our testing fishtails wildly all over the road, its not very valuable at all. When the denominator varies, what the numerator is matters not much.
Will anyone see me if I comment down here?
No.
What are you replying to?
Do you hear the voices too?
Maybe not.
Figures…Glad to see this place is still as loving and sensitive as I left it. With warm stories fro SF and no grump folks.
Fuck off, absentee tulpa!
OUCH that is uncalled for.
Everyone, including prodigal commentators, gets the tulpa welcome.
Btw, avatars got nuked in a word press upgrade a couple months back.
I don’t recall what mine was but will pick a new one soon. I expect to be commenting more frequently as life without Glibs sucks. However, I am NOT going to ready SF fanfic…I refuse to admit it in public anyway.
ALSO, I very occasionally peruse TOS comments and it is a hot mess.
“…occasionally peruse TOS comments…”
Eeewwww!
Are you a Tulpa? I can’t be arsed to check.
If so, welcome!
If not, I apologize for not remembering your moniker.
I can’t be arsed to check.
You’re keeping track? Did you name names?
she has binders full of tulpae
Well she does write fiction, so keeping track of her tulpas makes sense.
It has been…years. I got busy right after the exodus and was only able to hang here a short time before life intervened. I hope all are doing well. And aren’t we all Tulpa? Speaking of Tulpa, he really isn’t in here is he? seriously…that isn’t funny…he’s not on here right? Did John ever make the jump to here or is he still only fighting sock puppets on TOS? He is fun to set off.
We are all Sparticu… I mean, Tulpa!
He lasted only a few days IIRC. Can’t remember if he flounced out or was defenestrated.
Even a stupid guy is right occasionally….
He’s bad at math, just like every other Democrat.
3 seconds in: questioner mentions 56% of Americans
21 seconds in: Biden refers to 54% of Americans
26 seconds in: Biden says of the 56%, “Their memory is not very good, quite frankly.”
I will give Joe the benefit of the doubt when he talks about faulty memories.
CNN totally had a Trump Voter on who said she felt betrayed and conned, and that this isn’t the “Great” america she had voted for. Clearly Trump is bleeding support from his base.
Needs moar NRA members for gun control.
Wut?
Claire McCaskill
@clairecmc
This is a picture of voter suppression. Why do Americans have to wait in lines this long? This is the line in Suwannee Georgia today to vote.
waiting in lines is oppression.
But bread lines are equitable!
/Bernie
So if I have to wait in line at Cedar Point on Saturday, is that Coaster Oppression?
Now do background checks and waiting periods for firearms.
“Exactly
Cause US has become a 3rd world country, guns are easy accessible but healthcare or education is not.
Voter suppression happens in the open.”
Says someone who hasn’t tried to buy guns or ammo lately.
Truth.
In what was is education not easily accessible? Other than Dem teacher unions refusing to reopen schools, that is.
They say that like an effective means of self defense being easily accessible is bad.
Why do Americans have to wait in lines this long?
Practice for when the commies finally take over.
People voting in droves, and lines looking long because everyone is 6 feet apart = voter suppression?
Voting should be automatic with no effort. In fact, I think the government should just handle it for us so our voting rights are preserved.
Fuck off, Leahy. He wants her to commit to recusing from election related cases. The point is to have an odd number of justices so there won’t be a deadlocked court, you cunte.
She should just politely refuse to do so, or not answer. Nothing they can do. Votes are in, now it’s just theatre of the absurd.
It’s the same for every set of questioning. She says correctly that she can’t give personal views or pre-determine a position on any particular case or discuss policy but that is all they (Dems) are asking about.
And the lines of questioning are premised along the lines of wanting to get her to say she wants to exterminate gays, remove healthcare and create a Handmaids Tale dystopia. It’d be comical if not so stupid and sad.
She has been impressive in the few clips I’ve seen. She’s saying that the SC just can’t make up policy, they have to wait for a case to wind its way through the system, and then make a decision based on that specific case.
What a concept!
He wants her to commit to recusing from election related cases.
On what basis? There are actually rules of ethics for judges (I’ll give you a moment to get off your fainting couch) that spell out when a judge should recuse.
“Cases involving the administration that nominated you” is not on the list.
Oh, this is going to be fun. The state govt computer systems all appear to be down in VA and today was the voter registration deadline. Talk about a mess.
Obviously it’s the GOP suppressing votes.
I wish. The VA GOP couldn’t suppress an erection with a fistful of saltpeter and Hillary Clinton’s nude boudoir snaps…
*barf*
Are you ghostwriting for SF now?
The SF virus, we’re all infected, it just progresses differently – see Kinnath’s contribution last night for example.
Just a wee bit infected
*blushes*
Thanks, but I have a way to go yet…
Can’t you just register on the spot if you vote early? Cuz you can here in MD. Otherwise today is the deadline.
Last I remember in TX, even if everything about your registration is fucked up, they’ll let you cast a provisional and fix everything later. Granted, provisionals are basically just ignored unless the race is so close that a handful of votes will sway it.
SO what is everyone drinking>?
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/orowines+blue+grey+doca+priorat+catalonia+spain/2015
Not bad really… A bit on the sweet jammy side on the nose for me but overall decent.
Coffee
Same. It still morning in the timezone that matters.
Got a vitamin water for later and probably wine with dinner tonight.
Iced tea. I didn’t even get a chance to make coffee this morning, got pulled into a conference call for an intermittent error that looks to be related to a DB server change three weeks ago. I’m just the phone system guy, so I get to be moral support on the call and showing that the company I work for is willing to try to go the extra mile to assist.
/waves tiny flag
“Man, I just cannot keep up”
It’s easy, does it agree with progs 100% of time?
Agrees with progs all the time == SCIENCE!
Does not agree with progs all the time != SCIENCE!
Dumb tweet of the day? not like obviously out there critical justice stupid, but essentially…
American cities, what’s keeping you from looking like this?
https://twitter.com/justindeanlee/status/1315728696372854785
The answer is Freedom and lack of excessive inbreeding.
Under my rule, all dwellings will conform to my preferred aesthetic.
I look at that picture and see small, cramped houses with garages that are difficult to get a vehicle in and out of.
And streets that are miserable to actually drive on. Nice place to look at, but shit to live in.
I see streets nearly impossible to navigate in a wheelchair.
Technology.
Sanity.
Different places have cultural differences. Shocking.
The fact that there is no demand for houses like those?
Oh yes, an apartment-sized house with constricted access, probably in a designated ‘historic’ neighborhood that limits what you can do to the building, potentially outdated amenities, and neighbors practically living on top of you, despite being on separate properties.
What’s not to desire?
British houses are highly incompatible with Romanians
https://jsbangs.com/2011/12/13/draft-romanias-silent-killer/
There are streets like this in America. They just look better.
This is strange
https://news.yahoo.com/analysis-failed-kim-jong-un-161352701.html
Norks unveiling their deep fake abilities?
“”Our people have placed trust, as high as sky and as deep as sea, on me, but I have failed to always live up to it satisfactorily,” Kim said, at one point appearing to choke up. “I am really sorry for that.””
So he’s more humble than Obama?
*chuckle*
We didn’t live up to Obama’s promise.
Denver Post has posted all the frames their photographer apparently shot at the scene of the shooting.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/12/denver-protest-shooting-photos-full-sequence/
Bear spray guy clearly moves toward security guard and protectee in a hostile manner, but can’t determine why from just the pictures.
In addition to the lack of a security guard license, guard would also not have a plain clothes endorsement and even if he did, seems to be lacking the required displayed identification. surprising that Pinkerton is that inept
The claim now is that the tv station called Pinkerton and Pinkerton subcontracted the job. Still doesn’t answer the question of who this guy worked for and how he ended up with this assignment, given his history of leftist activism.
I find it very hard to believe that Pinkerton would have subbed out a personal protection gig to anyone, much less to this yahoo…
Big thread here:
https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1315664993761685504
Lots of other stuff on her timeline.
Uh no, “we” don’t know that at all. Having dealt with contractors subbing out work, they often do not tell you.
I tapped out halfway through. Malkin is a loon to start with.
Also, someone blew up the picture where the deceased smacks the “guard” – it looks like he was carrying on the left side under his vest, and it also looks like the “guard” was reaching for it and that drew the swipe.
If you look at the ground and fencing from that frame to when he was shot, he was moving backwards before the guy shot him.
I’ve seen that and the technical analysis looks correct. Conclusion that guard was reaching rather than just random hand placement is shaky. The lead up and context, particularly why bear spray guy approached the two with raised spray to begin with, is still missing.
Looks like the dead guy slapped fake security guy, who had reached out and tried to grab him, and was backing off when fake security guy pulls his piece. I see no legitimate self-defense claim, regardless of how it started. Backing off is backing off. The still frames are less useful than the video in terms of capturing who was moving how at any given moment, but there’s no question fake security guy went for his piece pretty effing early, and shot when he was not at imminent risk of death or serious bodily harm.
The TV station is at risk of liability here, as is the contractor and perhaps Pinkerton. On the contractor/Pinkerton side, putting an unlicensed guard out there is very, very bad. On the TV station side, well, they might have a defense that they relied on the contractor/Pinkerton, but its going to depend on what their contract for faek security guy actually says, I think.
Backing up a short distance and activating bear spray is not retreating nor is it non-hostile. May not be justifiable for lawful use of force but bear spray man isn’t some innocent that security guard just whacked out of the blue (like the Portland shooting)
Yeah, I’d say shooting someone with bear spray is solid ground for lawful use of lethal force in response. The real question, in my mind, is if the security guard had a duty to retreat before engaging in lethal force. That’s based on individual state law, including if the security guard contributed to escalating the situation prior to being sprayed.
Oh, and CO doesn’t have a duty to retreat.
Even if the shooter contributed to the escalation of the event? I don’t know that the security guard did. VA has stand your ground but it evaporates if both parties escalated and duty to retreat then comes into play.
Correct and we have that law tested somewhat regularly.
Backing up a short distance and activating bear spray is not retreating nor is it non-hostile.
Backing up is retreating. It looks pretty clear to me that the dead guy slaps fake security guy in order to disengage and retreat, after fake security guy reaches out and contacts him. The video is a little more clear.
Fake security guy goes for his gun while the dead guy still has the bear spray by his side. Look at frame RALLY_871, Frame #: 2639. Things are moving very fast, I know; they basically both start raising their “weapons” very close to the same time.
I’d say shooting someone with bear spray is solid ground for lawful use of lethal force in response.
I struggle very much with the idea that you can gun down somebody who is threatening to hit you with pepper spray. I don’t think pepper spray crosses the line to an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm. It is non-lethal by definition, and doesn’t cause long-term injury.
Serious question: someone looks like they’re going to hit you with bear spray. You are holding a gun. Even though the bear spray is “less than lethal,” at what point does the person armed with a lethal weapon legitimately concerned with what happens after being hit with bear spray? Depending on the circumstances, one might fear a debilitating (or even lethal) beating, having one’s weapon turned against oneself, etc.
Or even having one’s weapon stolen and turned against others?
I struggle very much with the idea that you can gun down somebody who is threatening to hit you with pepper spray. I don’t think pepper spray crosses the line to an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.
The purpose of pepper spraying is to disable a person. If someone is trying to disable me, I’m assuming their intent for disabling me is nefarious and includes the threat of death or serious bodily harm. Someone attacking me doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt that they have good, altruistic motives for my health in disabling me.
There’s no question what would happen if someone pepper sprayed a cop. The responding shots from the officer would be justifiably held up as a good shoot for the same reason.
I hear you, but I think it will be hard to get over the line as an affirmative defense, burden on the shooter and all that. Remember, there is no question fake security committed some flavor of homicide/manslaughter here. Its up to him to prove it was justified. Not sure what the burden of proof is in CO; it can be preponderance of the evidence (“51%”), or clear and convincing evidence (call it, 70%).
Of course, cops have different rules than Little People. They aren’t required to have a “reasonable” fear; their shoots are justified based on whether they are afraid, regardless of whether a reasonable person would have been afraid.
If someone is trying to disable me, I’m assuming their intent for disabling me is nefarious
That assumption could get you in serious trouble. The question will be, would a reasonable person make the assumption that they are disabling you in order to kill you or cause you serious bodily harm? Could their use of spray be justified as self defense on their part, such as if you were reaching for your gun while they were backing away?
As ever, much turns on what led to the actual deployment and use of the weapons. Did fake security guy initiate the physical confrontation? I don’t think we really know, yet. But if so, he’s in real trouble.
I have not seen a lot of the video feed out there but the point where it all breaks down to me is the fact that supposed security dude was in an altercation with somebody who was not a direct threat to his principal. I have run security details/organizations and the idea of engaging in some confrontation like that sounds totally alien to me. Either you draw back as it isn’t a threat or you take it down – if he isn’t presenting lethal force use less-than-lethal means. This verbal engagement – seemingly prodding for a reaction – is just wrong.
6yo at home: bugging his sisters, whining, bugging his sisters, fidgeting and making irritating noises, bugging his sisters.
6yo at Grandmaman’s: so far today has gardened, dug up bulbs, dredged the pond, and currently learning to chop wood. Happy as a clam.
We need an acreage.
https://twitter.com/OneHeilanCoo/status/1315786163014172672
I would think this is very dangerous, letting a child handle an ax. Is the US government not concerned at all with child welfare?
If you don’t let a few kids chop off their hands and legs, are you really living in a society that is worth it?
We need
an acreageADHD meds and lectures about toxic masculinity.boys need time to play around and burn off energy outdoors? whoda thunk??
Teachers unions HATE this one weird trick!
As long as the kid doesn’t start shouting “First!” all the time, it should be OK.
Finished The Boys last night. AOC really does have crazy eyes.
I loved the line “you’re one of the good ones” the instant it is revealed that she is not — in fact — one of the good ones.
That show is great.
*before it is revealed
“You’re one of the good ones.” I totally groaned.
They did a good job. I did not suspect she was the one ‘sploding heads.
My question: Self-loathing or wanting to take over the world?
Maybe she’s a Nazi too?
Oh she’s craving some power for sure. But her motives for that will be interesting.
I haven’t seen the last episode yet. Won’t get to it for a couple of days.
I plead with y’all — no spoilers. 😉
Sorry!!!!
I averted my eyes.
But it was a close call. 😉
Oops. Too late on that.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1315967223471566848
Future V.P.?
“The Once and Future VP” is lacking something.
After they win the coming election?
He is the present VP. He cannot become the VP in this election; he can only remain the VP or cease to be the VP. I suppose he is the future VP in the same sense that I am the future Cancelled as long as I do not die, or change my handle this instant, but that would be odd diction.
Over a bit longer than a weekend, Biden revealed he is running for Senate and that he supports a $15 million minimum wage, He also took off his mask during a speech to cough into his hand.
Why do I get the feeling that this gaffe will somehow be bigger news?
15 Million minimum wage? I mean, who wouldn’t vote for that?
I think I might not vote for it, because I have a feeling the $15 million would shortly be worth about a cent.
Give us a Harris-Biden administration for a couple terms and that might just come to pass. But by that point it won’t be enough to buy a cup of coffee.
I’m absolutely floored that Biden is kicking Trump’s ass in the polls despite planning to raise taxes for every single American.
If that’s true, you’ve forgotten all the traits of polls we’ve been pointing out for years.
Public polls do not reveal public opinion, they seek to alter it.
Perhaps. Sounds a bit tin foil, but we’ll know in a few weeks. I, of course, hope you’re right.
“Public polls do not reveal public opinion, they seek to alter it.”
I suppose that we, like Lando Calrissian, should pray that they don’t alter it further.
Relevant
Well, because the media is covering for him.
Can’t Trump just run an ad showing this? I’ve seen multiple non-partisan news sources do a nice graph showing Biden’s proposed tax increases.
His taxes on business are even worse.
Raising your taxes, raising your employer’s taxes, and packing the Supreme Court with leftist nutjubs should be enough to scare some never-Trumpers into not defecting I personally think.
Urthona:
Trump has run ads (at least in my area) quoting Biden saying he was going to raise taxes and hammering home that taxes will go up under a Biden administration.
A lot of people _hate_ Trump.
Looks like an old video, so at the time he would have been the future VP.
I guess that makes sense in Trump speak.
Seemed pretty obvious to me.
How is Suthen doing? I know he is extremely well-prepared, but still.
I am also concerned. I expect that he is in an area where the power is out so even if he is running his own generator it’s probable that he doesn’t have a working connection to the internet. I am hoping this is all it is and he and his family are otherwise OK.
“For the first time that I am aware of, @tedwheeler
has stated antifa by name. In an OPB mayoral debate, he calls out @sarahforpdx
for her support of the violent extremist movement & her early refusal to denounce arson attacks. In response, she says this will get her death threats”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1315907132085198848
Those threats will be mostly peaceful.
Portland is looking a lot like 1920’s Germany right now.
Watch the moment a British retired Royal Marine suffering from degenerative Parkinson’s Disease had his world changed forever
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1315844836151488512
Whoa. That’s amazing.
That is impressive.
What’s with the good news?
You’re going to ruin the vibe around here.
Wow. What is that thing?
Maybe I missed it but what was the treatment they applied?
seemed like electric brain stimulation
That’s what I was assuming but I wonder how invasive (or not) this is. I lost my dad to Parkinson’s and am told that I could possibly be facing the same fate (no actual diagnosis – just genetic possibility).
Dude.
Don’t tell me about the good old days. These *are* the good old days.
Dickhead Durbin said that ACB invented law by having the opinion that barring arms ownership should apply to violent felons only.
Dickehead Durbin is, in fact, a dickhead.
“This is astonishing. Almost every state that’s failing is Republican.”
https://twitter.com/briannawu/status/1315795353136922626
CWAA
What’s literally who’s definition of ‘failing’? I suspect that it’s not the same as ours.
Huh, I wonder what that looks like with all 50 states…
“cases”
Irrelevant.
Also “June cutuff”.
Cant show all the failing New England states.
Yup. This is all about cherry picking. It’s like when they pick Sep 12 2001 as the start point to count “Deaths by Terrorism” to show that it’s actually white supremacy that is the danger.
Because everyone got hit by the virus at the same time.
I like this thread:
https://twitter.com/csojinb/status/1316003967420248069
Yeah, that’s the point, NY was hit bad early on and the point of this chart is to ignore that. It’s called cherry picking.
NY was hit badly early but got a decent handle on it.
Assumes declines after a peak are due to government action. Ignores decades of epidemiology where declines after the peak are just the way it works.
What’s are the death rates and the definition of failing? Also, from the graph, even taken at face value it seems to be a fairly even split.
Whoops, I didn’t let it play. Still, different states got hit and peaked at different times.
“Deaths per capita”
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1315809249864245248
Although, to be fair, blue states tend to have higher population density.
I’ll post it again.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html#:~:text=A%20total%20of%2059%2C728%20laboratory,was%20183.2%20per%20100%2C000%20population.
“The thing I find most notable about ACB’s answers today is that the GOP traded a hundred thousand American lives for her seat on the court, and there are thousands of Americans walking around healthy right now who will be sick and dead by year’s end.”
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1316021651796967425
Que?
Oh noes, the Covid. It’s a damn shame Trump dropped the ball and we ended up being the only country that’s had cases and deaths.
Shut the fuck up, you virtue-signaling little twat.
I swear to Enkidu, if I ever had a thought that asinine, I would dig it out of my brain with an icepick.
And that number would have been zero if Biden were president, right?
Today’s meme fodder:
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1316030303547404288
I had never heard her voice before. She sounds really young.
No high school calendar?
“It’s actually my boofing schedule, Senator.”
And why would anybody care if she was, or what notes she was taking?
Seriously. Who cares?
Because way too many people in that crowd would sound like complete imbeciles without their teleprompters.
Ah, already saw it used as a meme and wondered where it came from.
Some critic is sure to spin it as “she wasn’t prepared” or “is this how she will decide cases without reference to long established case law?”
XX is learning how to drive. On the way to her last lesson, she had a pretty close call on the highway. She’s shaken up and in tears. Good thing we have a while until her appointment time. My heart’s still going a little faster than it should.
the Saudis are right about women driving :).
Glad XX is unharmed.
Oh she’s not by herself. I’m in the car too. She had an unexpected situation to deal with and I gave her confusing instructions.
Glad to hear no contact was made.
Can’t give an advice, close calls happen, and can leave you frazzled for a while. Strangely, I’ve been frazzled longer from close calls than actual collisions.
Yes. I told her that happens all the time, even experienced drivers. Had to get over at an entrance ramp and someone was in her blind spot. I should have told her to speed up instead of looking to see if she could get over. She went over without looking. That truck would’ve creamed us if he hadn’t been so alert.