8 looks like an old gf of mine.
15 seems fun
35 is a real doll
limey
on November 29, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Tits: calm. Speaking of cult leaders…
Apparently Jesus Jones was one of the first western acts to play in Romania after Ceaușescu died of rapid-onset lead poisoning COVID-19.
KOVIDKristen
on November 29, 2020 at 6:49 pm
You know who else died of COVID-19?
Hitler. It was Hitler.
blackjack
on November 29, 2020 at 6:50 pm
Didn’t he pipe covid in to the showers?
Jarflax
on November 29, 2020 at 6:54 pm
Our Republic?
westernsloper
on November 29, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Everybody?
Evan from Evansville
on November 29, 2020 at 6:38 pm
That was fantastic!
“We can do it. I haven’t done it. I may do it.” Was certainly my biggest.
I may as well.
juris imprudent
on November 29, 2020 at 6:51 pm
How many Biden votes would’ve been swayed to Trump if only they were privvy to the animated Hat & Hair?
Jarflax
on November 29, 2020 at 6:55 pm
There were no Biden votes. Only Trump and not Trump.
hayeksplosives
on November 29, 2020 at 7:00 pm
This is true.
Unfortunately, that is a legitimate vote too.
blackjack
on November 29, 2020 at 7:12 pm
Trump, not Trump AND WW1 veterans.
Rebel Scum
on November 29, 2020 at 7:17 pm
Spanish-American war veterans…War of 1812 veterans…
Urthona
on November 29, 2020 at 6:58 pm
The media suppression of hat & hair is despicable.
hayeksplosives
on November 29, 2020 at 6:58 pm
Outstanding. Bravo!
Rebel Scum
on November 29, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Tits are calm but not looking forward to work tomorrow.
blackjack
on November 29, 2020 at 7:05 pm
Repost from the dead thread:
So, I stopped at a 7-11 on the way to the skatepark. The guy in front of me turned around and freaked right out. He powerwalked down to the end of the aisle and just stood there until it was his turn. Then, He yelled something unintelligible to the clerk. She turned to me and motioned for me to put the mask over my nose. When I figured it out, I put the mask up and said, ” Sorry, sometimes I forget to pretend hard enough.” Dude went right off the deep end. Started pacing and muttering about ” pretending? PRETENDING?” “I can’t believe he said that!” “I’m not pretending, who pretends?” etc.
The guys behind me were saying that dude is whacked, but the cashier lady said to me, ” No, he’s a good customer!” SO I said, “Hey, I’ll do whatever calms him down, if I can figure out what that is.” Dude grabbed his 12 pack of Modelo and stormed out of the hyperventilating and just paced in front of his car for a while. Guys behind were laughing uproariously. That’s the first scary covidian I’ve encountered. Kind of freaked me out.
* dude’s tits were anything but calm!
Urthona
on November 29, 2020 at 7:06 pm
Nice
limey
on November 29, 2020 at 7:10 pm
” Sorry, sometimes I forget to pretend hard enough.”
This situation must be driving people with OCD* absolutely bonkers. There are these government-mandated rituals literally everyone on the face of the Earth must perform 100% perfectly, every time in every circumstance. If just one person fails at performing the ritual perfectly, the whole world needs to start at the beginning again.
*I mean people with real, actual diagnosed OCD, not some Karen that jokes about her sticky note organization.
Jarflax
on November 29, 2020 at 7:16 pm
The correct rituals were set down thousands of years ago. You pick a king. Then you take the king out to the fields at the solstice and sacrifice him so that life will return to the world.
rhywun
on November 29, 2020 at 7:41 pm
If just one person fails at performing the ritual perfectly, the whole world needs to start at the beginning again.
That is exactly what’s going on. It’s maddening.
B.P.
on November 29, 2020 at 7:22 pm
This one will definitely be coded COVID death — heart attack.
I don’t see a society of people who are ready for freedom,if they are too selfish to wear masks without being forced.
blackjack
on November 29, 2020 at 7:24 pm
I don’t see a party that understands what freedom is. Nazi cakes and commie street violence is antithetical to freedom.
blackjack
on November 29, 2020 at 7:32 pm
Never mind wearing masks, and forcing people to read and comprehend what they are responding to. Slavers!
Tundra
on November 29, 2020 at 7:29 pm
Sweet Jesus, that’s quite an impressive mental maneuver.
Fourscore
on November 29, 2020 at 7:37 pm
Don’t read the comments. Explains the failure of liberty when people don’t follow the rules.
Jarflax
on November 29, 2020 at 7:24 pm
Not that thing. The hope for liberty lies with people who value it but are not obsessed with purity. People like us (and I absolutely include myself in this) are useful as philosophers, as educators, as artists mythilogizing the values we support, but not as politicians or legislators. Purity has to be imposed from without, it can’t be reached by compromise inside a system. Political compromises can move you toward a goal but they cannot reach it.
Tundra
on November 29, 2020 at 7:39 pm
It’s the stage. The LP can’t win, but they can move people toward the cause of liberty.
Tulsi goes on Rogan and millions of people think she’s pro freedom. What if an LP candidate who truly was went on?
DEG
on November 29, 2020 at 7:18 pm
Liberal Republicans have no future in the Trumpified GOP and the Libertarian party has no future, period. They might be able to join forces and create a milquetoast centrist party, like Britain’s Liberal Democrats. They could embrace their role as pampered vandals and content themselves with suicide bombing conservatives every four years.
I had lunch with two guys I met through Reopen NH. One is a longtime Republican activist. The other a Republican with strong libertarian leanings who is a former state legislator.
We talked about changes in the state Republican party and the Libertarian Party of NH (LPNH). Things like the NHLA getting a solid pro-liberty block in the state house, ballot access, and this idiotic tweet from the LPNH came up.
Two things came to me. One, that the NH Republican party is being slowly taken over by libertarians, though the old guard still has power. The other is that the LPNH is not libertarian anymore.
Urthona
on November 29, 2020 at 8:00 pm
young libertarians taking over the republican party is the way to go
Lackadaisical
on November 29, 2020 at 8:09 pm
‘ willfully spreading a disease’
I can actually agree with – if you are sick you should absolutely self isolate. The one thing I don’t miss about pre covid days were the A-holes coming in to the office sick.
Everyone else should go about their lives like normal. Just like every year.
Rebel Scum
on November 29, 2020 at 7:05 pm
I understand Biden is getting a cat. This is, of course, a legitimate news story. I expect him to name it Mr. Bigglesworth.
Urthona
on November 29, 2020 at 7:08 pm
Does the cat possess supernatural powers as well? Is it respectful of the ankles?
Jarflax
on November 29, 2020 at 7:09 pm
Poor guy he asked his handlers for a little pussy and the gave him a cat.
Hawkins : Billy. Billy! The other day, I was going down on my girlfriend. I said to her, “Jeez you got a big pussy. Jeez you got a big pussy.” She said, “Why did you say that twice?” I said, “I didn’t.”
[Billy stares blankly]
Hawkins : See, ’cause of the echo.
Fourscore
on November 29, 2020 at 7:31 pm
That’s funny too, CPRM.
It’s almost like you have a hidden mike in the Oval Office, that or you have a plant. Are we gonna see Biden and his dog, in the future? I hope so, dogs tell the truth. Thanks for the update with the H & H.
B.P.
on November 29, 2020 at 7:28 pm
Related: “President-elect Joe Biden fractured his foot while playing with one of his dogs, but doctors found “no obvious fracture” while examining him Sunday, according to his doctor.”
Looks like it’s on Fox, which generally means single-cam, which generally means better writing, as they don’t have a laugh track to cover how shitty the jokes are. I may give it a whirl.
KOVIDKristen
on November 29, 2020 at 7:29 pm
Nope, I’m super wrong. Why would Fox go into the multi-cam sitcom business??? Shit’s sake.
So no, I won’t give it a whirl.
Toxteth O'Grady
on November 29, 2020 at 7:37 pm
Young Sheldon is kinda cute.
J. Frank Parnell
on November 29, 2020 at 7:42 pm
Honestly, even without a star like Mayim Bialik and Jim Parsons as an executive producer, any show including a cat cafe is bound to be at least a little bit hilarious.
Computer models predict this will be 95% hilarious, so if you don’t laugh then you hate science.
KOVIDKristen
on November 29, 2020 at 7:46 pm
“I Forced a Bot to Watch 1000 Hours of Big Bang Theory and Write Its Own Sitcom. This is the Result”
I have a cousin that really wanted to be a veterinarian, but it was so competitive that he became an M.D instead.
blackjack
on November 29, 2020 at 8:48 pm
Laugh, I pay my vet way more than I pay in copays to the doctor.
rhywun
on November 29, 2020 at 8:50 pm
No kidding.
Tundra
on November 29, 2020 at 9:08 pm
Lol.
My cousin is a vet. He says it would have been way easier to be a doc. But not as fun!
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:11 pm
My very ex GF is a vet. She could have been a Dr. but hates people. I think vet med is probably a more difficult track at first because you have to learn so many different physiologies.
After you go into practice, I’m not sure. On the one hand, vets usually deal with several species (cats, dogs, maybe farm animals, maybe some exotics—but they tend to specialize), but human docs usually specialize and dig deep. Different kind of knowledge and practices?
Tundra
on November 29, 2020 at 9:18 pm
Definitely. He did a lot of his formative work as a big animal doc, but ended up in a small animal practice.
He’s a pretty gifted surgeon, so it makes sense to go where people will pay for that.
one true athena
on November 29, 2020 at 9:40 pm
Best counter argument for the WOMEN IN STEM hysteria is DVM degrees. Over 80% women, the least balanced ratio in any field.
Yusef drives a Kia
on November 29, 2020 at 8:16 pm
you can do it, with time, and money….
blackjack
on November 29, 2020 at 8:21 pm
It just hurts worse after for us old guys. I pulled a muscle skating today. Probably gonna skip a week of going to the skatepark. Bailed from the coping in the smaller bowl. One foot stayed on the board and the other did the splits. Took me out of the last hour and a half of skating. I tried a few times, it just hurt too bad to twist. I wish someone had warned me…
Yeah all you need is a big motherfucking ghost ring with tritium ring and tritium dot.
Jarflax
on November 29, 2020 at 8:35 pm
No
Yusef drives a Kia
on November 29, 2020 at 8:09 pm
Here, Enjoy,
Office Manager Mohammed
Takes a business trip
Assistant Yusef: I really think we should have Rented a car, it’s only 450 miles to San Francisco from here.
Office Manager Mohammed: NO! We must fly so that I may intimidate the INFIDELS! With my presence.
Assistant Yusef: whatever………
1 hour later, at the airport TSA check in,
OMM: no this isn’t Ricin! It’s Castor oil for my lumbago, don’t you even Old Man!
TSA POS:I’m sorry Sir, please step this way…
Assistant Yusef passes through and waits patiently for OMMs impending release.
OMM: Can you believe it! I have been Constipated for 3 days and they Harass me? I shit on the TSA!
Assistant Yusef: Well you’re allowed to fly, let’s go…….
OMM:No, I really shit on the the TSA when they inspected my Anus for Bombs, ALLAH was pleased, and they released me, although the stench was Horrible..
On board flight 221 Ontario to Oakland
OMM: Why are you serving Alcohol? Are you trying to bring down the Plane?
Panic ensues as two Navy SEALS take OMM down and the plane returns to ONT
Assistant Yusef: I told you we should have Driven…
Shpip
on November 29, 2020 at 8:17 pm
Break out the bivalves and bubbly. We’re supposed to like the combo because science. (TW: Guardian)
Informal poll: of you oyster lovers, what’s your swill of choice when consuming?
I’m partial to méthode traditionnelle sparkling wines, but have also paired oysters with dry whites, roses, ice cold adjunct lagers, and stouts.
Yusef drives a Kia
on November 29, 2020 at 8:19 pm
Shark Steaks and a nice Porter,
KOVIDKristen
on November 29, 2020 at 8:20 pm
Iced tea, primarily.
I need 2 dozen oysters, stat.
Shpip
on November 29, 2020 at 8:48 pm
When the US opens up again, we can split a couple of Orca platters at the Old Ebbitt.
Weird thing… it’s only a ten minute walk to there from the Hay-Adams, but about a 30 minute walk back.
The difference is staggering.
KOVIDKristen
on November 29, 2020 at 8:56 pm
we can split a couple of Orca platters at the Old Ebbitt
Hell. Yes.
pistoffnick
on November 29, 2020 at 8:24 pm
About a half pound of butter and a quart of heavy cream. Maybe a little pepper. Oh and don’t forget those little crackers.
KOVIDKristen
on November 29, 2020 at 8:26 pm
No cooked oysters….EVER!!!!
db
on November 29, 2020 at 8:32 pm
I LOVE raw oysters but I also like fried oysters. I will eat most oysters.
Just finished painting some aircraft parts and that epoxy primer has me feeling really good. Or maybe it’s the Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale. Or maybe a combination.
I wear a VOC respirator and a supplied air hood over that while spraying this stuff, but there’s always a little solvent that gets loose in the building, and WOW is it potent, even in ppb levels.
I don’t use recreational drugs so this is probably the closest I’ll ever get to the way most of you guys feel about noon every Friday!
Yusef drives a Kia
on November 29, 2020 at 8:34 pm
“some aircraft parts” scale model, R/C or full size? either way, Cool!
db
on November 29, 2020 at 8:38 pm
Full size. Priming with a super toxic strontium chromate primer.
Do you wanna get high and cancer? Ask Sherwin Williams!
Yusef drives a Kia
on November 29, 2020 at 8:41 pm
Plocher 41 FTW!
Sensei
on November 29, 2020 at 8:49 pm
Just looked up the price. You should be happy that it is only about 2/3rds the price of antifouling bottom paint for boats.
One of my friends is both a sailor and a pilot. Now he only owns an airplane. I think that was the right choice monetarily.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 8:52 pm
With hazmat fees to a residential address I paid about $350 for about 2 gallons of paint (1 gal part A, 1 gal part B)
blackjack
on November 29, 2020 at 9:05 pm
When I had my shop, Harley-Davidson would absolutely not ship paint to me in California. I had to have Las Vegas H-D order it and then an inside guy there put it in a plain brown box and ship it to me. I bought it to fiz a scratch one of my asshole employees put on a fender of a new-ish bike. The guy never came back and I still have his 2008 Brilliant Blue paint quart that cost me almost 200.00.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 8:59 pm
A boat is a hole in the water you pour all your money into. An airplane uses money to drill holes in the sky.
KOVIDKristen
on November 29, 2020 at 8:50 pm
That reminded me – the Tweet mob came for Sherwin-Williams last week. Gotta check and see how that turned out…
db
on November 29, 2020 at 8:51 pm
wait what? I don’t do twitter. Was it something about their slogan “cover the earth” with a big paint can spilling over the planet?
I don’t know how it turned out, but it was probably colorful.
KOVIDKristen
on November 29, 2020 at 9:00 pm
Ah…some college kid worked for S-W for a number of years. He really loved his job and started making Tik Tok videos of different mies. He got several hundred thousand followers almost out of the gate. He had approached S-W corporate with his videos & metrics and pretty much offered up his following for free to the company as a social media property.
I should point out that the guys at our local Sherwin Williams store are great. They are well aware of good customer service principles and they really know how to get you what you ask for (in the paint world-sphere).
Jail, cotton candy, and kissing squirrels; depravity!
db
on November 29, 2020 at 8:46 pm
Kissing squirrels is right out. I really hate those fuckers. Actually I like watching them but the amount of damage one squirrel can do to a building is amazing. Gotta end them if they get in the walls.
Jarflax
on November 29, 2020 at 8:41 pm
I prefer my consciousness alteration without the headache and nausea personally.
Yusef drives a Kia
on November 29, 2020 at 8:42 pm
I was going to write this but thought it might be a little much. Glad you get do do what’cha need.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 8:56 pm
Oh, also, switched to Great Lakes Christmas ale. But almost done with that one. What’s next? Troegenator? Helltown Reaper’s Harvets Rye? Perpetual IPA? La Fin du Monde? Negra Modelo?
Rebel Scum
on November 29, 2020 at 8:30 pm
Watched ‘Bombshell’. Interesting casting. Charleze Theron as Megyn Kelly was very well done. Whatever his name as Rudy Giuliani was not done well at all.
I have a few thousand trees at my disposal. If I chose just one to bare my heart to, I’d feel like I gave all the others short shrift.
EvilSheldon
on November 29, 2020 at 8:52 pm
I noticed today, that my CZ Shadow 2 has a tiny hitch in the single action trigger. You’d never notice it when shooting fast, but it’s just enough to throw one off while shooting a B-8 repair center at 25 yards. So, that does it. I’m gonna have to get another one. Woe is me.
blackjack
on November 29, 2020 at 8:56 pm
Take it to a good ‘smith. They’ll fix it better than new. That way, when you buy the new one, you’ll have a good pair…after you send it in too.
EvilSheldon
on November 29, 2020 at 9:02 pm
You’re on to my plan.
1 – Buy a second CZ Shadow 2 Optics Ready
2 – Send the first one to Cajun Gunworks for their trigger and accuracy package.
3 – Shoot the second Shadow 2 during CGW’s 10-week turnaround.
4 – Send the second CZ to CGW after the first one gets back.
5 – Prof-…well, no. No profit in this game. But I’ll have a couple really nice Carry Optics guns for the 2021 USPSA season.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:04 pm
Are you 40 YO yet? If not, no need for optics. Be a man. If you pass 40, optics are allowed. I’m still trying to shoot irons.
Rear sight, frint sight, target, I can see any one.
Crosshairs or red dot and target, I can see both.
Blind shooting is ill-advised, so Irons are a no go.
pistoffnick
on November 29, 2020 at 9:14 pm
“Look, some people have always had bad eyes.”
*raises hand*
Lifetime masturbater, here.
EvilSheldon
on November 29, 2020 at 9:14 pm
I’m 42, and have 20/13 vision.
No, I don’t particularly need optics. Tell you the truth, I don’t really need pussy, either. But I like it.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:17 pm
fair enough. I have had 20/15 vision corrected since I was 13, but recently it has gone downhill quickly. I hope for better for you.
EvilSheldon
on November 29, 2020 at 9:30 pm
The point is, I started shooting mini red dot optics (MRDOs) on my pistols because they seemed to have some measurable advantages over iron sights, especially for long-range or high-precision shooting. I’ve become convinced that the advantages are broad and deep enough, that I’m in the middle of converting *all* my pistols to use MRDOs.
I think that in five years, certainly in ten, electronic red dot optics will be the standard sighting system for everything.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:38 pm
In ten years, what firearms you are allowed to own will be tied in with your local neural network, and only fire when you really mean it and when the regulations specifically allow it. If you try to squeeze the trigger outside allowed parameters you will be reported.
pistoffnick
on November 29, 2020 at 9:50 pm
“In ten years, what firearms you are allowed to own will be tied in with your local neural network, and only fire when you really mean it and when the regulations specifically allow it.”
Pretty hard to retrofit a 1970 brain that doesn’t want to be retrofitted. Also pretty difficult to retrofit a 1945 Arisaka to some ‘lectronic minder.
hey Sheldon, I stopped giving money to 2nd amendment foundation after researching following a post of yours. is GOA legit? they seem the most likely to hold fast and support real gun rights. I am so tired of NRA and others compromising. NFA owner/operator.
Jarflax
on November 29, 2020 at 9:04 pm
GOA is solid.
blackjack
on November 29, 2020 at 9:14 pm
Out here, we have Calguns foundation. Rock solid and they’ve actually helped a few times with gun laws here. More than one could say about that giant one that takes all the money and delivers nothing.
zwak
on November 29, 2020 at 9:44 pm
Calguns is the real thing. A good group.
EvilSheldon
on November 29, 2020 at 9:21 pm
No. GOA has filed a couple of amicus briefs in state court actions, but most of the donation money goes directly into the pockets of their founders.
2AF has a record of real advocacy and legal work. I can’t imagine how anything I’ve posted would discourage someone from donating to them. The only other 2A advocacy group that I’d look at on the national scene, would be the Firearms Policy Coalition.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:24 pm
I recall a post where you specifically stated that 2AF had money going right to Alan Gottleib (before his death) and that Heller was a fluke that started out as a planned failure.
pistoffnick
on November 29, 2020 at 9:32 pm
Never been an NRA member. Current GOA member.
I have been pretty happy going even more local. Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus actually seems to do stuff.
Maybe your state has a similar organization?
EvilSheldon
on November 29, 2020 at 9:40 pm
I strongly recommend looking into state 2A organizations. Most of the ones I’m familiar with (VCDL, MNGO, CalGuns) give you a lot more for your money than the national groups.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:42 pm
PAFOA seems good. Although I haven’t followed them for a while.
That might have been me. Heller is my (completely unsupported by any evidence) tin foil hat theory that it was an attempt to torpedo 2A as an individual right that went sideways.
Having said that, Gottlieb is a lifelong grifter who has been happy to compromise with “sensible” restrictions and break bread with gun grabbers (such as the bullshit suicide concern). But they’re all grifters to a large extent. They exist to perpetuate themselves. Sometimes they do some good here and there.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:33 pm
ah yes it was you
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:35 pm
And to note, I did pull up their annual reports and found a bunch of expenses not directly related to legal expenses. Most of them seemed like attending conferences and travel and stuff.
EvilSheldon
on November 29, 2020 at 9:36 pm
That was someone else.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:44 pm
Odd how we all have our opinions on whether these orgs are worth our money. I want an org that will ruin the value of my NFA collection by lobbying to abolish the NFRTR.
I don’t want a group that merely lobbies, I want one that succeeds. The incentive to lobby indefinately and not actually win is too great.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:52 pm
yep. For instance the Republicans don’t want a definitive decision regarding 2A any more than the Democrats do. It’s all about creating a wedge and fear of the Other.
“I have advanced trained from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), DHS office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) and Massachusetts Institution of Technology (MIT).”
Apparently using the same proofreaders as Powell.
db
on November 29, 2020 at 9:15 pm
wow that sounds badass. I need to go to his mountaintop and see if he will accept me as a student/slave
Urthona
on November 29, 2020 at 9:38 pm
Think of the breakneck speeds they can get their lawsuits dismissed now. Twice as fast maybe.
I hope so. I really hope so. Im already thinking reloading (and I’m still a novice shooter) because that’s the only way to get the volume of lead downrange that I need to without bankrupting myself. I haven’t shot 8 months because I can’t justify the cost.
EvilSheldon
on November 29, 2020 at 10:47 pm
It did last time. There’s no special reason to think that it won’t again. But it won’t be soon.
KSuellington
on November 29, 2020 at 11:00 pm
I hope so as well. Target shooting is going to end up like golfing at a private club otherwise.
I feel like those all came from a Tinder reply…not that I am complaining, but they seem personal.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on November 29, 2020 at 10:48 pm
What is a Biden Hat and Hair going to be like? Just explosions and Arab kids running through the streets all bloodied? It just doesn’t have the comedic punch to me. I will miss America’s Rodney Dangerfield president
Don escaped Two Corinthians
on November 29, 2020 at 11:18 pm
The original run is far from over: the Hat and the Hair banging around Mar a Lago, cranking out Epstein’s mother notes to various civil courts explaining why he’s too sick to appear, rutting up the greens with his golf cart, wondering why Giuliani won’t return his calls, wondering where Melanya and Baron went, wondering why Putin won’t return his calls, ringing up 100 strokes from the ladies’ tees, groaning through hemorrhoids and limping against arthritis, noticing that no one is interested in his letters or his library . . . sitting alone drinking pink drinks with umbrellas in them reflecting on the greatness of all the legislation he didn’t pass, mourning the deletion of his executive orders by . . . simply . . . executive order, all while the RINOs and neo-cons don’t invite him on FoxNews to play their reindeer games, while Lindsey Graham runs off to suck some new mushroom nubbin. There is much ground yet to plow.
Idiots really don’t understand what they’re doing by taking people’s livelihoods away and normalizing confrontational political violence.
Don escaped Two Corinthians
on November 29, 2020 at 11:22 pm
We seldom disagree.
I hope I can look forward to your calling out all the Glibs who think this is exactly okay when the shoe is on the other foot. I have read here many times that “their addresses are public record” etc.
Chafed
on November 29, 2020 at 11:37 pm
Adopting BLM’s tactics won’t win any friends and won’t change any minds.
Ownbestenemy
on November 30, 2020 at 12:09 am
Bureaucrats and politicians ignoring their citizenry isn’t helping with keeping that from happening though.
EvilSheldon
on November 30, 2020 at 6:28 am
Ethically, I’m 100% in favor of this. Politicians deserve what they get.
Practically, this is dumb. BLM and Antifa can get away with these kind of terror tactics because they have a compliant media backing them up. We don’t.
grrizzly
on November 29, 2020 at 11:46 pm
Don, you spent the last year or three ridiculing everyone who thought that Trump might gain new votes in 2020. I haven’t read every thread here lately, but have you admitted that Trump received 9-10 million more votes this time?
KSuellington
on November 29, 2020 at 11:52 pm
I think this is exactly okay. From the article it said they didn’t go onto private property and they dispersed after a few hours. It was in the afternoon as well, it wasn’t like they were doing this at 3am and keeping everyone from sleeping. This is a public official, not some random person, and a public official who helped to ruin businesses and lives. I don’t see much wrong with protesting in front of their residence. It sure is not blocking a right of way to pass down a road or highway.
I do think there’s a disconnect between public employees’ actions and accountability, but while it stokes my base animal desires, I don’t think going down that road will lead to a better tomorrow.
To further clarify, the idiots I’m referring to are the public officials who think nothing of shuttering businesses and have turned a somewhat blind eye to political violence they agree with.
Ownbestenemy
on November 30, 2020 at 12:07 am
Protestors did no damage, stayed on private property and exercised their first amendment. We can argue the specifics of if they should engage in such actions at the private residence however.
Would they have been better served to protest in front of the local OSHA office? Would they have made the papers if they did?
It is like when my kids ignore the simple question when they are out and about causing mayhem of “what are you doing?” and I get no reply. At that point I am assuming you are ignoring me and I will go to the source to determine if you are still alive or huffing paint with your buddies.
Ownbestenemy
on November 30, 2020 at 12:29 am
I want a hostile press towards our local/state/federal governments. While they were blatantly open to their bias, they were kinda doing their jobs. It actually was nice during the Trump years, but I know it will be going away and we will get dog and cat hot-takes for the next four years.
“Hill says on average one independent bookstore has closed per week since March. Many indoor events, vital for the bottom line, have been canceled.”
Sad. ?
Sean
on November 30, 2020 at 4:41 am
Ugh. Black lives matter are now running tv commercials telling me how racist America is.
Been seeing them this past week.
Stinky Wizzleteats
on November 30, 2020 at 5:58 am
Not liking to see commercials berating you for being racist even though you aren’t racist is racist which means they were justified in running them in the first place. Circular reasoning FTW.
Good morning, gentlemen. It’s raining now, but the radar shows snow in the next county to the west. Our first winter storm of the season. Zippee wow.
And my boss is back from his vacation today. Tomorrow is the start of my two annual Hell Months at work. But at least I have work.
Tres Cool
on November 30, 2020 at 6:18 am
Work that I am just home from. TALL CANS!
/no snow yet, just a really annoying, cold, rain
Gender Traitor
on November 30, 2020 at 6:20 am
TALL TRAVEL MUG!
Tejicano
on November 30, 2020 at 5:43 am
I’ve had paying work to do for the past couple weeks with more coming for another week or two. All one medium sized project but nice to be busy and making an income (even if short term) again – especially doing something the customer really appreciates and is happy to have me on hand for.
I’m saving them a butt-load of money for a task that’s a bit more than trivial but nothing a professional shouldn’t be able to handle – but the quotes they were getting were all fuck-tards rolling up stupid costs from subcontractors using subcontractors using yet another layer of subcontractors.
Tejicano
on November 30, 2020 at 5:58 am
So I’ve been playing this scenario in my head for inauguration day, 2021.
Biden oversleeps and blows off the private swearing in which is where the official transfer of power actually happens. His handlers figure the public swearing in will be good enough anyway so whatever.
Then when Biden puts his hand on the bible he has a spectacular dementia episode, slurs a half-dozen words, high-fives the Chief Justice, and walks off the podium before coming close to taking the oath of office, waving to the crowd.
So now no official transfer of power has happened and Trump is still the POTUS. Biden hasn’t been sworn in so they can’t hit him with the 25th amendment. What to do now?
Gender Traitor
on November 30, 2020 at 6:14 am
Roberts rules that the high-five constitutes an oath? “I could tell he really meant it that way.”
Ownbestenemy
on November 30, 2020 at 6:56 am
I knew our off airport sites were monitored by a company but apparently they are also tied into Metro PD. Two officers came strolling up asking if we were under duress.
Nope. Apparently my power pro counterpart doesnt know how to operate the security pad and hit the emergency button.
Calm tits!
???
Indeed. HA!
Keep your tits calm.
Bravo! I love the setup for the Hairplug storyline (gleefully hoping).
And introducing… The Dentures.
Fourscore remembers. Biden looked like a checkerboard. It was great but success was limited, over time.
Orange Man Rad
Elvis! LOLOLOL!
Tits calm. Heh.
“If you only count the legal votes, we even won California!”
Keep the faith, Hat!
Slutty Sunday rock and/or roll.
https://archive.li/9JbS1
#22. Face diaper. Blech.
She can be my face diaper.
So you’re saying it is true love.
Yes, I suppose I am.
She has a face? I didn’t notice.
8 looks like an old gf of mine.
15 seems fun
35 is a real doll
Tits: calm. Speaking of cult leaders…
Apparently Jesus Jones was one of the first western acts to play in Romania after Ceaușescu died of
rapid-onset lead poisoningCOVID-19.You know who else died of COVID-19?
Hitler. It was Hitler.
Didn’t he pipe covid in to the showers?
Our Republic?
Everybody?
That was fantastic!
“We can do it. I haven’t done it. I may do it.” Was certainly my biggest.
I may as well.
How many Biden votes would’ve been swayed to Trump if only they were privvy to the animated Hat & Hair?
There were no Biden votes. Only Trump and not Trump.
This is true.
Unfortunately, that is a legitimate vote too.
Trump, not Trump AND WW1 veterans.
Spanish-American war veterans…War of 1812 veterans…
The media suppression of hat & hair is despicable.
Outstanding. Bravo!
Tits are calm but not looking forward to work tomorrow.
Repost from the dead thread:
So, I stopped at a 7-11 on the way to the skatepark. The guy in front of me turned around and freaked right out. He powerwalked down to the end of the aisle and just stood there until it was his turn. Then, He yelled something unintelligible to the clerk. She turned to me and motioned for me to put the mask over my nose. When I figured it out, I put the mask up and said, ” Sorry, sometimes I forget to pretend hard enough.” Dude went right off the deep end. Started pacing and muttering about ” pretending? PRETENDING?” “I can’t believe he said that!” “I’m not pretending, who pretends?” etc.
The guys behind me were saying that dude is whacked, but the cashier lady said to me, ” No, he’s a good customer!” SO I said, “Hey, I’ll do whatever calms him down, if I can figure out what that is.” Dude grabbed his 12 pack of Modelo and stormed out of the hyperventilating and just paced in front of his car for a while. Guys behind were laughing uproariously. That’s the first scary covidian I’ve encountered. Kind of freaked me out.
* dude’s tits were anything but calm!
Nice
*spits drink*
That’s when I knew she was pretending!
This situation must be driving people with OCD* absolutely bonkers. There are these government-mandated rituals literally everyone on the face of the Earth must perform 100% perfectly, every time in every circumstance. If just one person fails at performing the ritual perfectly, the whole world needs to start at the beginning again.
*I mean people with real, actual diagnosed OCD, not some Karen that jokes about her sticky note organization.
The correct rituals were set down thousands of years ago. You pick a king. Then you take the king out to the fields at the solstice and sacrifice him so that life will return to the world.
That is exactly what’s going on. It’s maddening.
This one will definitely be coded COVID death — heart attack.
Shots fired.
Oh gag. I hate this logic.
Maybe don’t nominate a douchebag next time.
Fuck him! I would’ve been tempted to vote miss “BLM is a good cause” if’n I’d have read that before hand. Asshole.
Im a Glib for Trump. Not my fault. And that petulant writer is full of non-arguments.
All UR VoTeZ R bELong tOO us!
I actually agree that the LP, as it stands, has no future.
But things change.
State of the LP: https://twitter.com/Br1anna_Coyle/status/1332944921955872768
I don’t see a party that understands what freedom is. Nazi cakes and commie street violence is antithetical to freedom.
Never mind wearing masks, and forcing people to read and comprehend what they are responding to. Slavers!
Sweet Jesus, that’s quite an impressive mental maneuver.
Don’t read the comments. Explains the failure of liberty when people don’t follow the rules.
Not that thing. The hope for liberty lies with people who value it but are not obsessed with purity. People like us (and I absolutely include myself in this) are useful as philosophers, as educators, as artists mythilogizing the values we support, but not as politicians or legislators. Purity has to be imposed from without, it can’t be reached by compromise inside a system. Political compromises can move you toward a goal but they cannot reach it.
It’s the stage. The LP can’t win, but they can move people toward the cause of liberty.
Tulsi goes on Rogan and millions of people think she’s pro freedom. What if an LP candidate who truly was went on?
Liberal Republicans have no future in the Trumpified GOP and the Libertarian party has no future, period. They might be able to join forces and create a milquetoast centrist party, like Britain’s Liberal Democrats. They could embrace their role as pampered vandals and content themselves with suicide bombing conservatives every four years.
I had lunch with two guys I met through Reopen NH. One is a longtime Republican activist. The other a Republican with strong libertarian leanings who is a former state legislator.
We talked about changes in the state Republican party and the Libertarian Party of NH (LPNH). Things like the NHLA getting a solid pro-liberty block in the state house, ballot access, and this idiotic tweet from the LPNH came up.
Two things came to me. One, that the NH Republican party is being slowly taken over by libertarians, though the old guard still has power. The other is that the LPNH is not libertarian anymore.
young libertarians taking over the republican party is the way to go
‘ willfully spreading a disease’
I can actually agree with – if you are sick you should absolutely self isolate. The one thing I don’t miss about pre covid days were the A-holes coming in to the office sick.
Everyone else should go about their lives like normal. Just like every year.
I understand Biden is getting a cat. This is, of course, a legitimate news story. I expect him to name it Mr. Bigglesworth.
Does the cat possess supernatural powers as well? Is it respectful of the ankles?
Poor guy he asked his handlers for a little pussy and the gave him a cat.
Mrs. Slocombe has a sad
Hawkins : Billy. Billy! The other day, I was going down on my girlfriend. I said to her, “Jeez you got a big pussy. Jeez you got a big pussy.” She said, “Why did you say that twice?” I said, “I didn’t.”
[Billy stares blankly]
Hawkins : See, ’cause of the echo.
That’s funny too, CPRM.
It’s almost like you have a hidden mike in the Oval Office, that or you have a plant. Are we gonna see Biden and his dog, in the future? I hope so, dogs tell the truth. Thanks for the update with the H & H.
Related: “President-elect Joe Biden fractured his foot while playing with one of his dogs, but doctors found “no obvious fracture” while examining him Sunday, according to his doctor.”
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-twists-ankle-while-playing-211918492.html
“Biden was under examination more than two hours after arriving at the office Sunday afternoon.”
I assume this is step one to Biden being put out to pasture.
‘Prolly broke it shoving it into his mouth.
Dr Biden said it was a fracture. Please don’t contradict a doctor. Don’t need no damned X-rays
There’s a voting irregularities joke in there somewhere.
I’d like a second opinion, how about we ask a hundred thousand dead people?
(!) This claim about bone fracture has been disputed
OK, that might be your best one yet.
Well done, young man!
https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2496034/when-mayim-bialik-and-jim-parsons-new-tv-show-is-set-to-debut
Set your dvrs.
?
Just saw a commercial for this. Pass.
Looks like it’s on Fox, which generally means single-cam, which generally means better writing, as they don’t have a laugh track to cover how shitty the jokes are. I may give it a whirl.
Nope, I’m super wrong. Why would Fox go into the multi-cam sitcom business??? Shit’s sake.
So no, I won’t give it a whirl.
Young Sheldon is kinda cute.
Computer models predict this will be 95% hilarious, so if you don’t laugh then you hate science.
“I Forced a Bot to Watch 1000 Hours of Big Bang Theory and Write Its Own Sitcom. This is the Result”
That would probably be funnier.
Network programming is just embarrassing at this point. Is anyone watching Bob Abishola?
*shrugs*
Last scripted network show I watched as it came out was somewhere in the middle of season 2 of big bang theory.
Bridget Loves Bernie for the 21st century?
No.
https://twitter.com/sargentoart/status/1333065930574880771
And some of you people say twitter is a cesspool.
?
I have a cousin that really wanted to be a veterinarian, but it was so competitive that he became an M.D instead.
Laugh, I pay my vet way more than I pay in copays to the doctor.
No kidding.
Lol.
My cousin is a vet. He says it would have been way easier to be a doc. But not as fun!
My very ex GF is a vet. She could have been a Dr. but hates people. I think vet med is probably a more difficult track at first because you have to learn so many different physiologies.
After you go into practice, I’m not sure. On the one hand, vets usually deal with several species (cats, dogs, maybe farm animals, maybe some exotics—but they tend to specialize), but human docs usually specialize and dig deep. Different kind of knowledge and practices?
Definitely. He did a lot of his formative work as a big animal doc, but ended up in a small animal practice.
He’s a pretty gifted surgeon, so it makes sense to go where people will pay for that.
Best counter argument for the WOMEN IN STEM hysteria is DVM degrees. Over 80% women, the least balanced ratio in any field.
Which one of you is this?
https://youtu.be/M8d5Wr9au9I
Not watersoaked, not mine
None of us would trust Alexa.
Alexa, report me to the BATFE, DHS, FBI and diversity police.
* electricity goes out *
“Alexa? Alexa? ALEXA????”
President-elect Biden announces an all-female senior communications team
You know who else?
They all have two black eyes, because they were told twice to shut the fuck up?
*sorry, not a real misogynist, I swear!
When my wife and I first started dating, a friend of mine told that joke and guffawed. She glared at me and had stifle my laugh.
Stunning and brave.
Qaddafi?
Bond villains?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8hiSHuhiI
Just because it is cool and I can’t do it.
you can do it, with time, and money….
It just hurts worse after for us old guys. I pulled a muscle skating today. Probably gonna skip a week of going to the skatepark. Bailed from the coping in the smaller bowl. One foot stayed on the board and the other did the splits. Took me out of the last hour and a half of skating. I tried a few times, it just hurt too bad to twist. I wish someone had warned me…
Narrator: “blackjack was too old for this shit.”
Over my cold dead …wait, nevermind.
You need to make yourself one of these.
https://imgur.com/0ha6i9d
We are so nerdy in this household.
Earlier today – “Look honey, I put tritium sights on my shotgun”. (Fallout 4)
“That’s so cool.” she said. As the sights glow in the twilight.
Tritium is an isotope of hydrogen. What’s with tritium sights?
Tritium is like a green rudolf. You could even say it glows.
*adds ghost ring sights to my Christmas list*
Get a laser, you can drive Biden’s cat crazy!
Laser on a shotgun just feels a bit gratuitous
Yeah all you need is a big motherfucking ghost ring with tritium ring and tritium dot.
No
Here, Enjoy,
Office Manager Mohammed
Takes a business trip
Assistant Yusef: I really think we should have Rented a car, it’s only 450 miles to San Francisco from here.
Office Manager Mohammed: NO! We must fly so that I may intimidate the INFIDELS! With my presence.
Assistant Yusef: whatever………
1 hour later, at the airport TSA check in,
OMM: no this isn’t Ricin! It’s Castor oil for my lumbago, don’t you even Old Man!
TSA POS:I’m sorry Sir, please step this way…
Assistant Yusef passes through and waits patiently for OMMs impending release.
OMM: Can you believe it! I have been Constipated for 3 days and they Harass me? I shit on the TSA!
Assistant Yusef: Well you’re allowed to fly, let’s go…….
OMM:No, I really shit on the the TSA when they inspected my Anus for Bombs, ALLAH was pleased, and they released me, although the stench was Horrible..
On board flight 221 Ontario to Oakland
OMM: Why are you serving Alcohol? Are you trying to bring down the Plane?
Panic ensues as two Navy SEALS take OMM down and the plane returns to ONT
Assistant Yusef: I told you we should have Driven…
Break out the bivalves and bubbly. We’re supposed to like the combo because science. (TW: Guardian)
Informal poll: of you oyster lovers, what’s your swill of choice when consuming?
I’m partial to méthode traditionnelle sparkling wines, but have also paired oysters with dry whites, roses, ice cold adjunct lagers, and stouts.
Shark Steaks and a nice Porter,
Iced tea, primarily.
I need 2 dozen oysters, stat.
When the US opens up again, we can split a couple of Orca platters at the Old Ebbitt.
Weird thing… it’s only a ten minute walk to there from the Hay-Adams, but about a 30 minute walk back.
The difference is staggering.
Hell. Yes.
About a half pound of butter and a quart of heavy cream. Maybe a little pepper. Oh and don’t forget those little crackers.
No cooked oysters….EVER!!!!
I LOVE raw oysters but I also like fried oysters. I will eat most oysters.
No raw oysters. Something needs to be done about that disgusting texture and appearance before it can be eaten.
I LOVE raw oysters but I also like fried oysters. I will eat most oysters.
Can’t we all just get along?
I don’t do raw anything. But of course we can still get along.
So no little rebs?
Raw-dogging notwithstanding. And no little Rebs that I am aware of…
I can get along just fine. But uncooked invertibrates are among those things…
Chardonnay with seafood.
Vodka martinis and oysters. ?
Yeah, I forgot about martinis. Hendrick’s, Nolet’s, or Monkey 47 for me. Chill well, skip the vermouth.
Beer.
Toss the oysters ? and pair the bubbly ? with… anything else.
Not caviar. I hate caviar.
Never had it. Never wanted to. I really don’t like most seafood.
I’ve had caviar and mussels and ???
HEYO GLIBBOS
Just finished painting some aircraft parts and that epoxy primer has me feeling really good. Or maybe it’s the Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale. Or maybe a combination.
I wear a VOC respirator and a supplied air hood over that while spraying this stuff, but there’s always a little solvent that gets loose in the building, and WOW is it potent, even in ppb levels.
I don’t use recreational drugs so this is probably the closest I’ll ever get to the way most of you guys feel about noon every Friday!
“some aircraft parts” scale model, R/C or full size? either way, Cool!
Full size. Priming with a super toxic strontium chromate primer.
Do you wanna get high and cancer? Ask Sherwin Williams!
Plocher 41 FTW!
Just looked up the price. You should be happy that it is only about 2/3rds the price of antifouling bottom paint for boats.
One of my friends is both a sailor and a pilot. Now he only owns an airplane. I think that was the right choice monetarily.
With hazmat fees to a residential address I paid about $350 for about 2 gallons of paint (1 gal part A, 1 gal part B)
When I had my shop, Harley-Davidson would absolutely not ship paint to me in California. I had to have Las Vegas H-D order it and then an inside guy there put it in a plain brown box and ship it to me. I bought it to fiz a scratch one of my asshole employees put on a fender of a new-ish bike. The guy never came back and I still have his 2008 Brilliant Blue paint quart that cost me almost 200.00.
A boat is a hole in the water you pour all your money into. An airplane uses money to drill holes in the sky.
That reminded me – the Tweet mob came for Sherwin-Williams last week. Gotta check and see how that turned out…
wait what? I don’t do twitter. Was it something about their slogan “cover the earth” with a big paint can spilling over the planet?
What did they do, sell black paint?
Paint base is white, thus paint companies are white supremacists
/just a guess
White, or eggshell?
Egshel is a texture, not a color.
/wellackshually
Lol
I don’t know how it turned out, but it was probably colorful.
Ah…some college kid worked for S-W for a number of years. He really loved his job and started making Tik Tok videos of different mies. He got several hundred thousand followers almost out of the gate. He had approached S-W corporate with his videos & metrics and pretty much offered up his following for free to the company as a social media property.
Sherwin-Williams fired him.
That all sailed over my head.
Dude makes paint mixing vids
People love them
Sherwin Williams fires him
oh I heard about that shit. I’m not sure how to feel about that.
Is the mix formula a trade secret?
He worked in a store, not in manufacturing. He only showed what any customer could have filmed.
I think I spotted where this started taking a wrong turn.
love mixing paint? you might have the personality to be a youtube star
I’m more of a paint drying type, myself
I should point out that the guys at our local Sherwin Williams store are great. They are well aware of good customer service principles and they really know how to get you what you ask for (in the paint world-sphere).
Oh, I kid. Nothing wrong with loving your job.
Just seems… rare, these days. And therefore odd.
Isn’t the fumes from drying paint and glue the reason for getting into these hobbies?
/snark
(I just like creating stuff, and it’s something I’m partially decent at)
A song about the dangers of sniffing glue. https://youtu.be/VQ-Vy7TvGSA
Jail, cotton candy, and kissing squirrels; depravity!
Kissing squirrels is right out. I really hate those fuckers. Actually I like watching them but the amount of damage one squirrel can do to a building is amazing. Gotta end them if they get in the walls.
I prefer my consciousness alteration without the headache and nausea personally.
I was thinking of us both,
Airplane glue?
“…guys feel about noon every Friday!”
Or “after work daily”
I was going to write this but thought it might be a little much. Glad you get do do what’cha need.
Oh, also, switched to Great Lakes Christmas ale. But almost done with that one. What’s next? Troegenator? Helltown Reaper’s Harvets Rye? Perpetual IPA? La Fin du Monde? Negra Modelo?
Watched ‘Bombshell’. Interesting casting. Charleze Theron as Megyn Kelly was very well done. Whatever his name as Rudy Giuliani was not done well at all.
If glibfitting, I’d be the one on the right.
Sorry: Twitter
That’s fuckin awesome
LOL
hilarious
Too Good,
https://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2020/11/barking.html
Next EPA Administrator.
I have a few thousand trees at my disposal. If I chose just one to bare my heart to, I’d feel like I gave all the others short shrift.
I noticed today, that my CZ Shadow 2 has a tiny hitch in the single action trigger. You’d never notice it when shooting fast, but it’s just enough to throw one off while shooting a B-8 repair center at 25 yards. So, that does it. I’m gonna have to get another one. Woe is me.
Take it to a good ‘smith. They’ll fix it better than new. That way, when you buy the new one, you’ll have a good pair…after you send it in too.
You’re on to my plan.
1 – Buy a second CZ Shadow 2 Optics Ready
2 – Send the first one to Cajun Gunworks for their trigger and accuracy package.
3 – Shoot the second Shadow 2 during CGW’s 10-week turnaround.
4 – Send the second CZ to CGW after the first one gets back.
5 – Prof-…well, no. No profit in this game. But I’ll have a couple really nice Carry Optics guns for the 2021 USPSA season.
Are you 40 YO yet? If not, no need for optics. Be a man. If you pass 40, optics are allowed. I’m still trying to shoot irons.
Look, some people have always had bad eyes.
I started wearing glasses in 3rd grade.
Rear sight, frint sight, target, I can see any one.
Crosshairs or red dot and target, I can see both.
Blind shooting is ill-advised, so Irons are a no go.
“Look, some people have always had bad eyes.”
*raises hand*
Lifetime masturbater, here.
I’m 42, and have 20/13 vision.
No, I don’t particularly need optics. Tell you the truth, I don’t really need pussy, either. But I like it.
fair enough. I have had 20/15 vision corrected since I was 13, but recently it has gone downhill quickly. I hope for better for you.
The point is, I started shooting mini red dot optics (MRDOs) on my pistols because they seemed to have some measurable advantages over iron sights, especially for long-range or high-precision shooting. I’ve become convinced that the advantages are broad and deep enough, that I’m in the middle of converting *all* my pistols to use MRDOs.
I think that in five years, certainly in ten, electronic red dot optics will be the standard sighting system for everything.
In ten years, what firearms you are allowed to own will be tied in with your local neural network, and only fire when you really mean it and when the regulations specifically allow it. If you try to squeeze the trigger outside allowed parameters you will be reported.
“In ten years, what firearms you are allowed to own will be tied in with your local neural network, and only fire when you really mean it and when the regulations specifically allow it.”
Pretty hard to retrofit a 1970 brain that doesn’t want to be retrofitted. Also pretty difficult to retrofit a 1945 Arisaka to some ‘lectronic minder.
Fuck off, slaver.
Your negative social credit score means you are now no longer allowed to own property.
Be better.
That problem gets solved by pogroms and confiscation.
Time to learn reloadin’.
I believe a fellow Glib has a whole series.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2018/08/beginning-reloading/
hey Sheldon, I stopped giving money to 2nd amendment foundation after researching following a post of yours. is GOA legit? they seem the most likely to hold fast and support real gun rights. I am so tired of NRA and others compromising. NFA owner/operator.
GOA is solid.
Out here, we have Calguns foundation. Rock solid and they’ve actually helped a few times with gun laws here. More than one could say about that giant one that takes all the money and delivers nothing.
Calguns is the real thing. A good group.
No. GOA has filed a couple of amicus briefs in state court actions, but most of the donation money goes directly into the pockets of their founders.
2AF has a record of real advocacy and legal work. I can’t imagine how anything I’ve posted would discourage someone from donating to them. The only other 2A advocacy group that I’d look at on the national scene, would be the Firearms Policy Coalition.
I recall a post where you specifically stated that 2AF had money going right to Alan Gottleib (before his death) and that Heller was a fluke that started out as a planned failure.
Never been an NRA member. Current GOA member.
I have been pretty happy going even more local. Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus actually seems to do stuff.
Maybe your state has a similar organization?
I strongly recommend looking into state 2A organizations. Most of the ones I’m familiar with (VCDL, MNGO, CalGuns) give you a lot more for your money than the national groups.
PAFOA seems good. Although I haven’t followed them for a while.
That might have been me. Heller is my (completely unsupported by any evidence) tin foil hat theory that it was an attempt to torpedo 2A as an individual right that went sideways.
Having said that, Gottlieb is a lifelong grifter who has been happy to compromise with “sensible” restrictions and break bread with gun grabbers (such as the bullshit suicide concern). But they’re all grifters to a large extent. They exist to perpetuate themselves. Sometimes they do some good here and there.
ah yes it was you
And to note, I did pull up their annual reports and found a bunch of expenses not directly related to legal expenses. Most of them seemed like attending conferences and travel and stuff.
That was someone else.
Odd how we all have our opinions on whether these orgs are worth our money. I want an org that will ruin the value of my NFA collection by lobbying to abolish the NFRTR.
I don’t want a group that merely lobbies, I want one that succeeds. The incentive to lobby indefinately and not actually win is too great.
yep. For instance the Republicans don’t want a definitive decision regarding 2A any more than the Democrats do. It’s all about creating a wedge and fear of the Other.
From the dead thread, “smartest” man in the room:
Apparently using the same proofreaders as Powell.
wow that sounds badass. I need to go to his mountaintop and see if he will accept me as a student/slave
Think of the breakneck speeds they can get their lawsuits dismissed now. Twice as fast maybe.
Sub 60-cent brass case 9mm, while it lasts
my gods I remember when 9mm was so cheap you could shoot it like .22LR and didn’t because .45 ACP was for real men and affordable.
I did the math and I’d be in for over $100 in ammo alone if I went to the range and did my normal 90 minute regimen.
I balk every time I have the chance to go to the range. You’re not even guaranteed to be able to replenish the supply these days.
Ammo doesn’t do you any good gathering dust in the closet…
…so make sure it’s in an airtight storage container.
*taps nose*
Slightly cheaper.
https://ammomart.com/9mm-luger-sarsilmaz-115gr-fmj-50-rounds/
Will the price of ammo ever come down to make practicing somewhat affordable again?
I hope so. I really hope so. Im already thinking reloading (and I’m still a novice shooter) because that’s the only way to get the volume of lead downrange that I need to without bankrupting myself. I haven’t shot 8 months because I can’t justify the cost.
It did last time. There’s no special reason to think that it won’t again. But it won’t be soon.
I hope so as well. Target shooting is going to end up like golfing at a private club otherwise.
https://archive.li/36OIl/60a802dea3e2a51d8f3ce7f1352a8bd254388c59.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/i0NWp/d37c18d651c873163e16bbb7d1707b68d6f55d82.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/vkkXt/a07616f2cda9e33c637f05250b6e3158038c89f6.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/oX2Wd/56b395757d489383e76f0cd1d41c1fe627c765f3.jpg
NSFW.
Noice
I feel like those all came from a Tinder reply…not that I am complaining, but they seem personal.
What is a Biden Hat and Hair going to be like? Just explosions and Arab kids running through the streets all bloodied? It just doesn’t have the comedic punch to me. I will miss America’s Rodney Dangerfield president
The original run is far from over: the Hat and the Hair banging around Mar a Lago, cranking out Epstein’s mother notes to various civil courts explaining why he’s too sick to appear, rutting up the greens with his golf cart, wondering why Giuliani won’t return his calls, wondering where Melanya and Baron went, wondering why Putin won’t return his calls, ringing up 100 strokes from the ladies’ tees, groaning through hemorrhoids and limping against arthritis, noticing that no one is interested in his letters or his library . . . sitting alone drinking pink drinks with umbrellas in them reflecting on the greatness of all the legislation he didn’t pass, mourning the deletion of his executive orders by . . . simply . . . executive order, all while the RINOs and neo-cons don’t invite him on FoxNews to play their reindeer games, while Lindsey Graham runs off to suck some new mushroom nubbin. There is much ground yet to plow.
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/11/protesters-target-home-of-oregon-osha-inspector-who-fined-gym-that-defied-closure-order.html
Idiots really don’t understand what they’re doing by taking people’s livelihoods away and normalizing confrontational political violence.
We seldom disagree.
I hope I can look forward to your calling out all the Glibs who think this is exactly okay when the shoe is on the other foot. I have read here many times that “their addresses are public record” etc.
Adopting BLM’s tactics won’t win any friends and won’t change any minds.
Bureaucrats and politicians ignoring their citizenry isn’t helping with keeping that from happening though.
Ethically, I’m 100% in favor of this. Politicians deserve what they get.
Practically, this is dumb. BLM and Antifa can get away with these kind of terror tactics because they have a compliant media backing them up. We don’t.
Don, you spent the last year or three ridiculing everyone who thought that Trump might gain new votes in 2020. I haven’t read every thread here lately, but have you admitted that Trump received 9-10 million more votes this time?
I think this is exactly okay. From the article it said they didn’t go onto private property and they dispersed after a few hours. It was in the afternoon as well, it wasn’t like they were doing this at 3am and keeping everyone from sleeping. This is a public official, not some random person, and a public official who helped to ruin businesses and lives. I don’t see much wrong with protesting in front of their residence. It sure is not blocking a right of way to pass down a road or highway.
I do think there’s a disconnect between public employees’ actions and accountability, but while it stokes my base animal desires, I don’t think going down that road will lead to a better tomorrow.
Fuck the dashboard button.
To further clarify, the idiots I’m referring to are the public officials who think nothing of shuttering businesses and have turned a somewhat blind eye to political violence they agree with.
Protestors did no damage, stayed on private property and exercised their first amendment. We can argue the specifics of if they should engage in such actions at the private residence however.
Would they have been better served to protest in front of the local OSHA office? Would they have made the papers if they did?
It is like when my kids ignore the simple question when they are out and about causing mayhem of “what are you doing?” and I get no reply. At that point I am assuming you are ignoring me and I will go to the source to determine if you are still alive or huffing paint with your buddies.
I want a hostile press towards our local/state/federal governments. While they were blatantly open to their bias, they were kinda doing their jobs. It actually was nice during the Trump years, but I know it will be going away and we will get dog and cat hot-takes for the next four years.
Music!
https://youtu.be/w1pm5hTxvEA
Music!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2gR9LAI6rZQ
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https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/the-pandemic-is-re-writing-stories-of-many-independent-bookstores/article_22506286-30e1-11eb-9a3c-dbb91947fecd.html#tncms-source=article-nav-next
“Hill says on average one independent bookstore has closed per week since March. Many indoor events, vital for the bottom line, have been canceled.”
Sad. ?
Ugh. Black lives matter are now running tv commercials telling me how racist America is.
Been seeing them this past week.
Not liking to see commercials berating you for being racist even though you aren’t racist is racist which means they were justified in running them in the first place. Circular reasoning FTW.
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It’s so hideous, that it’s almost tempting.
Fuck. Back to work today. ?
Same here.
Good morning, gentlemen. It’s raining now, but the radar shows snow in the next county to the west. Our first winter storm of the season. Zippee wow.
And my boss is back from his vacation today. Tomorrow is the start of my two annual Hell Months at work. But at least I have work.
Work that I am just home from. TALL CANS!
/no snow yet, just a really annoying, cold, rain
TALL TRAVEL MUG!
I’ve had paying work to do for the past couple weeks with more coming for another week or two. All one medium sized project but nice to be busy and making an income (even if short term) again – especially doing something the customer really appreciates and is happy to have me on hand for.
I’m saving them a butt-load of money for a task that’s a bit more than trivial but nothing a professional shouldn’t be able to handle – but the quotes they were getting were all fuck-tards rolling up stupid costs from subcontractors using subcontractors using yet another layer of subcontractors.
So I’ve been playing this scenario in my head for inauguration day, 2021.
Biden oversleeps and blows off the private swearing in which is where the official transfer of power actually happens. His handlers figure the public swearing in will be good enough anyway so whatever.
Then when Biden puts his hand on the bible he has a spectacular dementia episode, slurs a half-dozen words, high-fives the Chief Justice, and walks off the podium before coming close to taking the oath of office, waving to the crowd.
So now no official transfer of power has happened and Trump is still the POTUS. Biden hasn’t been sworn in so they can’t hit him with the 25th amendment. What to do now?
Roberts rules that the high-five constitutes an oath? “I could tell he really meant it that way.”
I knew our off airport sites were monitored by a company but apparently they are also tied into Metro PD. Two officers came strolling up asking if we were under duress.
Nope. Apparently my power pro counterpart doesnt know how to operate the security pad and hit the emergency button.