¡Martes por la tarde regreso al trabajo, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Dec 29, 2020 | Daily Links | 262 comments

I took an extra day off on account of having too many hours of paid leave to rollover.  Its sort of like having a wallet full of $100 bills:  nice but nobody wants to accept a bill that large outside of a strip club.

Speaking of strip clubs, my local merchant of death had a few items I wasn’t used to seeing.  Notably, a FN FAL in really good shape.  No flash hider so I assume its a parts gun they put together from the mid 90’s.  Only $2500!

The other item?  A sign on the door that said, “masks required”.  Now, I went to the range a couple weeks ago and asked the RO about it and he explained the city began cracking down on  merchants of death in town once word got out gun shops were conservatarian oases and weren’t enforcing the mandate.  Since I’m not about to get into an “I know muh rights” pissing match with a guy that finally has 00….

Needless to say, I left with a couple boxes of Privi Partisan 5.56, and a little baggie with 5 rounds of Sellier & Belliot 12ga 00.

Now for the links!

 

The vaccine is being distributed down south.

What to expect in case you were looking to travel to Cabo.  A few of my relatives corroborated similar restrictions/enforcement earlier in the fall.

If you reserve a certain number of seats in the legislature by law for an ethnic minority, will that eventually turn into a de facto limit on the number of seats held by said minority?

With Trump soon out of the picture, I expect the BS coverage on this guy to turn up to 11.

Spain is falling back to its Francoist tendencies, and putting people on lists.

Environmental activist killed in Honduras.  You probably don’t know him, he was Honduran.

Here is a tune, have a good afternoon.

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262 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    Someone once asked me how many Firsts will it take. When will your hunger to be First be satiated? This person will never know the true meaning of being First. That person is already dead.

    • Plisade

      “That person” got to hell before you.

    • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

      On topic? check
      First!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I find it amusing you hit refresh for the last 8 minutes,

      • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

        I find it amusing you were late, I’m just bored….

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Punctuality is a form of colonialist oppression.

      • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

        I am White so….

  2. Brochettaward

    As the essential man, the First man, I of course have been given a dosage of the covid vaccine.

    • juris imprudent

      Guinea pigs usually do get it first.

  3. Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

    I was asked in an interview how I felt about masks, I told the truth, including,
    “Its your company, don’t like the Rules? leave”

    • Juvenile Bluster

      That’s the thing. Government-enforced mandates are dumb because government-enforced anything is dumb. But if you’re going into a business that has rules, follow them or get the fuck out.

      • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

        My interview answers reflected the cartoon above perfectly, hence the response,

      • mrfamous

        My problem with this is, until Maricopa County mandated it, exactly one store around here, Costco, had a mask policy. Everywhere else was do as you like. As obviously any store who wants to make money would do. It’s not “my business my rules,” it’s “my business and the rules the government is forcing me to enforce against you.”

        That’s the evilest part of the mandates: they’re outsourcing the enforcement of this crap to the businesses by threatening their utilities and licenses and other shit if they don’t comply. The grocery stores don’t give a shit whether you wear a mask, why would they? They care about not having the State or County having the health department come by and make their businesses impossible to operate.

      • Tonio

        There is also the liability thing which would affect large retail chains more than mom-and-pop businesses. The whole area of mask enforcement liability is yet undefined afaik.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        Costco, Target, Publix and the weed dispensary, aka the only places I ever go here, were mandating masks before the county mandate came into place.

        But yes, as mentioned above, it’s liability. Easier to tell people to wear masks than to pay the potential costs if employees get sick.

      • mrfamous

        The Targets here were not doing so and AFAIK had no plans to do so. Then the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors dropped the hammer.

        Again, whatever businesses _want_ to do is fine. I can find a business that doesn’t want to do that. When businesses are _forced_ to do something ,as they undoubtedly currently are, I get pissed. Particularly when it’s useless theater (as the last eight months of mandates with zero observable effect have shown).

      • mexican sharpshooter

        What’s your take on Safeway’s ban on long gun open carry?

      • Juvenile Bluster

        Not asked of me, but I will repeat that a business should be able to allow or disallow whatever they want inside their own doors. Don’t want to make a cake for that gay wedding? Don’t have to. Don’t want to allow certain speech on your website? Don’t have to. Don’t want to allow people with guns in your store? Don’t have to. Want to make everyone walk around your store buck naked? Why the fuck not? So long as it’s disclosed to everyone in advance.

      • Swiss Servator

        Your store, your rules.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        YOU NEVER LET ME TAKE MY GUNS ANYWHERE FUN

      • rhywun

        That’s the evilest part of the mandates: they’re outsourcing the enforcement of this crap to the businesses

        As always.

    • Tonio

      If this was for a new gig, good luck.

      • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

        It is, EE at a Mushroom Farm of all things,

      • DEG

        Good luck!

      • Not Adahn

        First weed and now shrooms. Soon you’ll be working with poppies.

      • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

        Heh

      • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

        And Thanks! Tonio

  4. Rebel Scum

    Americans Keep Visiting Mexico Despite Pandemic Risks

    I’d be more worried about the tap water…and gangs. Don’t leave the resort.

  5. invisible finger

    Every time someone says “the vaccine” I respond “Which one? There are three different ones” and they look at me like I’m the one who is misinformed.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      Aren’t there 2? Pfizer and Moderna?

      • invisible finger

        Astrazeneca also

      • DEG

        The Russians have one too.

      • creech

        What are the Chinese using? I’m told they have zero cases these days. Maybe using their ancient invention, gunpowder?

      • rhywun

        Ancient Chinese secret.

      • DEG

        Not only do they cook bats, but they cook books too!

      • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

        Ancient Chinese secret.

        Calgon, mainlined straight into their veins!

  6. Not Adahn

    Only $2500!

    Firearms is a fascinating market. Visiting arms merchants looking for the elusive .22LR HV, I noticed that any gat in a self defense caliber was bonkers high. But the same shop that was selling Tisas 1911A1s for $450 had a Buckmark target model with a red dot for $550.

    While I do have a use for such a gun, ammo is a more important spend atm.

  7. Count Potato

    “Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has vowed to filibuster any attempt at an override on the NDAA bill until McConnell allows a vote on the $2,000 COVID-19 direct relief payments. Trump called for the increase from $600 to $2,000 last week, a proposition Democrats have endorsed but many Republicans have not.

    “McConnell and the Senate want to expedite the override vote and I understand that,” Sanders told reporters Monday evening. “But I’m not going to allow that to happen unless there is a vote, no matter how long that takes, on the $2,000 direct payment.”

    The House voted in favor of the increase to $2,000 on Monday, leaving McConnell and the Senate as the final obstacle. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer attempted to pass the $2,000 increase by unanimous consent during Tuesday session, but McConnell blocked the move.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/29/mitch-mcconnell-trump-ndaa-veto/

    No idea why McConnell thinks that will help the Republicans.

    • Not Adahn

      Yeah the political calculus makes no sense to me either. If he’s really worried about half a gigabuck, amend the bill to strip out an equal amount from some of the most egregious pork, and make the house justify it.

    • wdalasio

      No idea why McConnell thinks that will help the Republicans.

      The much smarter move would have been to demand the funding come from elsewhere in the bill. Given that approximately 159 million Americans qualify for the stimulus, at a marginal $1,400 per check, you’re looking at $222.6 billion. Out of a $5 trillion bill, that should be manageable. Now, don’t get me wrong. I would have preferred a $0 bill. But, the political calculus would be a lot stronger with that.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        Republicans complaining about the budget does nothing for me at this point. They’re a bunch of fucking flakes who only care about deficits when it’s not them in power. The debt has gone up by more than $7.5 trillion in 4 years with a Republican president, 4 years of a Republican senate, and 2 years of a Republican House.

        (this is not about you, but about McConnell and his ilk)

        (and I will never complain about the government giving me the money they steal from me back to me)

    • Drake

      Amazingly tone deaf Republicans – okay with giving many $billions away in foreign aid, but now their fiscal hawks.

    • Chafed

      How long could Bernie possibly go before he needs a bathroom break or faints from exhaustion?

  8. KSuellington

    We just booked a house to rent about an hour up the coast from Cabo. We have been to that part of the Sea of Cortez many times over the last decade and can’t wait to get back down there with the kids in a few months.

    • C. Anacreon

      La Paz? Nice town. My BIL used to have a condo on a marina there, and I helped crew his boat down to there from Southern California, all the way around Baja and past Los Cabos to La Paz. Great memories.

  9. Rebel Scum

    Chile reserves seats for Indigenous representatives ahead of rewriting Constitution

    I am sure that rewriting the constitution is going to go well (not that I know anything in s particular about Chilean gov’t, I just assume the ratchet of socialism only goes one way).

    • wdalasio

      Well….Chilean politics itself tends to belie that. Of course, the reverse ratchet tends to be a bit unseemly.

    • rhywun

      They do seem to be jumping full-tilt into wokist nonsense. Triste!

    • juris imprudent

      I’ve had my eye on Chile for a while now (was giving it serious consideration as an ex-pat destination prior to this unpleasantness), and it’s been enlightening. There are a number of issues in Chile, but not that truly seem to stem from the constitution. The biggest issue with the constitution itself is that it is so strongly associated with Pinochet.

      No I don’t expect the effort to go well either. Interestingly, the new constitution will require a 2/3rds approval in national referendum, or they revert back.

      • Hyperion

        Chile. They’ve recently swung hard left. And they have earthquakes, ones that move the rotation of the planet. And wyipo, all of them.

      • juris imprudent

        I grew up in CA, earthquakes don’t bother me all that much. Now, active volcanoes… that’s another matter.

      • Hyperion

        A 9.8 on the scale might bother you.

      • Chipwooder

        I don’t have the ability to decamp for exile, but Uruguay is usually spoken of highly as a good destination

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, except for the wind.

  10. DEG

    Notably, a FN FAL in really good shape. No flash hider so I assume its a parts gun they put together from the mid 90’s. Only $2500!

    $2500? I bid on a pre-ban FN FAL (i.e. not a parts gun) which was in good shape at a gun auction a year ago. I was outbid. It went for about $3500 including auction fees.

    The other item? A sign on the door that said, “masks required”.

    A gun shop local to me explicitly prohibits masks inside the shop. The owner got a visit from the governor’s goons because a) the governor’s orders require masks when Leper Length cannot be maintained and b) both the state AG and other government goons are very concerned about people who wear masks not being able to shop. I’m serious about part B. No word on if the gun shop received a fine.

    “It’s the best gift I could receive in 2020,” 59-year-old Mexican nurse Maria Irene Ramirez said as she received the injection at a hospital in the capital on Christmas Eve.

    “It makes me safer and gives me more courage to continue in the war against an invisible enemy. We’re afraid but we must continue.”

    Oh boy.

    In Los Cabos, which includes the sister cities of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo, it’s a different story. “There’s no restrictions. It’s beautiful. We feel safe,” she said.

    It’s good to know some people are sane.

    Chileans in October voted overwhelmingly in favor of rewriting the country’s dictatorship-era Constitution, seeking to enshrine greater equality in healthcare, pensions and education.

    This will end well.

    Spain is to set up a register of people who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus and share it with other European Union nations, the health minister has said.

    Salvador Illa said the list would not be made accessible to the public or to employers.

    “Not made accessible”? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

    Music selection is excellent.

    • Not Adahn

      The Blue gun shop forbids the wearing of masks as you enter, ostensibly to get your mug on their camera. In reality, they’re in so tight with the LEO community that they were deemed “essential” and will never have any fines levied on them.

      • DEG

        I’m not sure how tight this place is with the local cops.

        I know the owner is concerned about security. The owner is also a Reopen NH supporter.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Honestly, most of the shops around here are tiny, and make more selling at gun shows rather than at a brick and mortar storefront. Which sucks if you like to see before you buy.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Not meant as a reply to your reply

      • EvilSheldon

        My local arms dealer was about 50/50 on masks, back in November when I was last there. Social distance? Not a chance. The place was elbow-to-elbow with a line out the door.

        By the way, don’t you think that ‘arms dealer’ sounds better than ‘gun store’? I do.

      • Not Adahn

        When I worked selling for a custom knifemaker, I put “arms dealer” on my cards.

      • Chipwooder

        Ours has signs all over the place but a lot of the patrons don’t wear them – pretty much the only place where I don’t see 99%+ compliance – and I’ve never seen them tell anyone to put one on.

    • DEG

      I’m serious about part B.

      I should elaborate on part B.

      Some folks involved with Reopen NH have complained to the state AG about businesses not honoring the medical exemption in the Clown Prince’s orders. The response? “Private property, they can ignore the medical exemption if they want.”

    • Drake

      I was tempted to get a DS Arms FAL – heard they make em well.

      • EvilSheldon

        DSA are okay at best. I would hold out for a gear logo Imbel.

  11. Rebel Scum

    Bolsonaro plays politics

    When in Rome.

    • Hyperion

      One thing I can say about Brazil. There’s even more corruption that there is here (readily in view), but at least politicians in Brazil go to prison for their bullshit, unlike here.

  12. Hyperion

    “With Trump soon out of the picture, I expect the BS coverage on this guy to turn up to 11.”

    Bolsonaro doesn’t have Trump’s skill set. But he’s also a more fierce opponent than Trump. He doesn’t give two fucks.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I liked how he told the EU to fuck off over burning the Amazon by simply pointing out the utter lack of forests now in Europe. Gee, where did their forests go?

      • Hyperion

        They cut them all down to build ships to escape to the West.

  13. DEG

    Newfields, NH police bring the hammer down on people protesting at the Clown Prince’s house

    Newfields police used a controversial new ordinance to ticket protesters gathered outside Gov. Chris Sununu’s home Monday night. They also ticketed an NHJournal reporter covering the event, despite being repeatedly informed that he was a journalist on the job.

    Monday morning, NHJournal broke the story of the Newfields Select Board passing an ordinance banning picketing at private residences. According to minutes of a December 8th meeting, the ordinance was a response to weeks of peaceful protests against the governor’s statewide mask mandate by opponents outside Sununu’s Newfields home.

    “It is unlawful for any person to engage in picketing before or about the residence or dwelling of any individual in the Town of Newfields,” the ordinance reads. Violators are subject to fines up to $100 for each offense. Chris Sununu’s brother, Michael, is a Select Board member in Newfields and his name appears on the signed ordinance.

    In response to the new rule, which some free speech advocates believe may violate the First Amendment, a group of about 10 protestors gathered outside Sununu’s house Monday evening. The gathering, organized by a group calling itself Absolute Defiance, was announced on social media. State and local police were on hand to greet the protesters when they arrived.

    • Tonio

      “They also ticketed an NHJournal reporter covering the event, despite being repeatedly informed that he was a journalist on the job.”

      Womp, womp.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    But if you’re going into a business that has rules, follow them or get the fuck out.

    NO NIGGERS.

    • Hyperion

      Well, if someone would have thought that segregation is the way to go again, then… oh wait, they already did think of that.

    • Not Adahn

      *Gets Brooks kicked out of college*

      • rhywun

        Make sure you file this page away for years so you can threaten any future employment prospects too.

    • Tonio

      I denounce Comrade Brooks for WrongSpeak.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I watched a video yesterday some idiot manger at an AMC theater called the police on a family because their disabled daughter couldn’t wear a mask. The rest of the family was masked up but the daughter could not safely wear a mask (and was clearly very disabled… the poster-child for the medical exemptions). A passerby recorded everything on video and it sounds like the family are going to pursue ADA violations against the manager and AMC.

      The family waited for the police so they could have a written record of the event, presumably for court. AMC is already hanging by a thread and I’d bet the negative publicity from this will run the local theater out of business. Some businesses are doing what they can to get by and others are active collaborators. I won’t shed a tear when someone chooses to go up against the collaborators.

    • Drake

      Silly rabbit, no freedom of association for you.

    • ruodberht

      Oooo, I like it. I’m in Allegheny now. Looks like none of my pre-vid haunts are man enough.

      • DEG

        I see a few places I frequented before I left PA, and a few places that I frequented that cropped up after I left.

        I plan to support them all when I’m down next, assuming they’re still around. Plus I plan to stop in at some of the places on the list to see if I should add them to my “places to visit when in PA” list.

  15. Ownbestenemy

    Apparently University of Florida and Southern New Hampshire University pop up as top CS degree programs.

    • Raven Nation

      HM is up in the northeast. He may be able to tell you more about SNHU. I know they’ve had a massive marketing program in the last couple of years about their move to online. I think their engineering program came from Daniel Webster College via ITT:

      “SNHU absorbed the faculty and staff at Daniel Webster College along with the engineering and aviation programs, operating the college’s campus in Nashua for the rest of the 2016-17 academic year after its parent company, ITT Technical Institute, filed for bankruptcy.[26][27] SNHU purchased the college’s aviation facilities (including a flight center, tower building, and hangar) at Nashua Airport, for $410,000 and enrolled up to 30 students in their Aviation Operations and Management bachelor’s degree program.[28][29] An undisclosed Chinese university, which plans to open a satellite campus, outbid SNHU for the former campus.[27][30] To accommodate the new students, SNHU converted an unused warehouse on campus into space for classrooms, laboratories, and a machine shop.[31] A dedicated engineering and technology building was later completed in January 2020.[32][33][34]”

      via Wiki

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thanks. That doesn’t instill confidence but then again, I have been out of school for a long time.

    • Not Adahn

      She draws fake tits?

    • Hyperion

      Look, liking boobs is wrong.

      Millennial Twatterbots have been damaged beyond what we thought. They are now completely braindead. Listen, you triggered dumbfucks, just kill yourself, do it now.

      But, Billie, no idea who you are, don’t apologize to the losers, rest assured there are still some of us who like boobs too.

      • LJW

        They have to be perpetually offended it doesn’t matter what you say, it’s wrong. If she said boobs are gross they’d stop following her for not promoting body positivity.

      • Hyperion

        yep

    • LJW

      I’ve never seen a picture of Q, but Billie Eilish looks like Steve Buscemi in a wig.

    • Chipwooder

      Counting down to when she declares she’s a nonbinary man named Bruce…..

  16. Rebel Scum

    Spain to keep register of those who refuse Covid vaccine

    Make them wear some sort of identifier so the good compliant people know who are lessor than them.

    • Ted S.

      Tattoo the forearms of the people who have taken the vaccine.

      • Tonio

        What? You missed the opportunity to take him to task for “lessor” versus “lesser?”

        I are disappoint, Ted’S.

    • Not Adahn

      Tattoos would be more secure.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      They don’t need a registry. The secret Bill Gates nanochips will take care of that.

      • Hyperion

        Bildo gets the first nanochip, a lead one.

  17. DEG

    Remember the CA restaurant owner that blocked a health official’s car? This GoFundme claims to be for his and his restaurant’s support. It includes a link to the video of the incident.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Excellent. I have been there. Downtown Covina is quaint and this guy is deserving.

  18. Tres Cool

    “The first doses were whisked to a military installation in the south of Mexico City on Wednesday, guarded by a security escort to prevent them from falling into the hands of the country’s powerful criminal gangs.”

    Chicago says, “well, dammit”

    • Ted S.

      Nope.

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. Bombshell.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    I want McConnell to offer the Democrats the opportunity to put up a bill saying, in twenty five words or less, who would be eligible for a handout, and how much they would get.

    The media would have a meltdown worthy of a two year old.

    • Tonio

      I might be touching myself inappropriately. Thank you, Derpy.

    • Hyperion

      Don’t worry, Biden is going to threaten Putin and draw a red line. Then Putin is going to step over it. And nothing else will happen.

    • Tonio

      In a sane world the Western health weenies would back off their hysterical clams that the US is the worst. In our crazy, mixed-up world they will doubtlessly use this as a springboard to say “see, it was even worse than we thought worldwide” and calling for more lockdowns.

  20. Count Potato

    “President-elect Joe Biden is eyeing cuts to America’s $1.2 trillion nuclear modernization program and could reverse the Trump administration’s efforts to develop a new warhead, sources have said.

    According to CNN, two transition officials and an outside adviser to the incoming administration have said that Biden instead intends to place a greater emphasis on arms control.

    The incoming commander in chief plans to reassess the more than $1 trillion nuclear modernization program and determine whether it warrants the large expenditure, the three sources told the news organisation.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9096071/Joe-Biden-eyeing-cuts-Americas-1-2trillion-nuclear-modernization-program.html

    • Rebel Scum

      Dismantle our equipment/resources and sell it to the Chinese. You can’t hug with nuclear arms.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    My problem with this is, until Maricopa County mandated it, exactly one store around here, Costco, had a mask policy. Everywhere else was do as you like. As obviously any store who wants to make money would do. It’s not “my business my rules,” it’s “my business and the rules the government is forcing me to enforce against you.”

    That’s the evilest part of the mandates: they’re outsourcing the enforcement of this crap to the businesses by threatening their utilities and licenses and other shit if they don’t comply. The grocery stores don’t give a shit whether you wear a mask, why would they? They care about not having the State or County having the health department come by and make their businesses impossible to operate.

    This.

    Absent a government edict, if a store decides to enforce [insert stupid policy here], I will comply or not, as I see fit.

  22. Rebel Scum

    Kamala Harris Injected with Coronavirus Vaccine

    Well, not the first time she was penetrated for political gain.

    “Literally, this is about saving lives, it’s literally about saving lives,” she said about the importance of getting the vaccine. “I trust the scientists. And it is the scientists that created and approved this vaccine.”

    Harris rolled up her sleeve and said to the nurse, “Okay let’s do it,” and looked away and adjusted her mask as the vaccine was injected into her upper arm.

    After the injection, Harris laughed and said, “That was easy!”

    “I just barely felt it,” she continued, as the nurse put a small bandaid on the injection area.

    So are you and Willie Brown haz a sad…literally.

  23. Derpetologist

    ***
    Exec #1 (Graham Chapman): Item six on the agenda: “The Meaning of Life” Now uh, Harry, you’ve had some thoughts on this.

    Exec #2 (Michael Palin): Yeah, I’ve had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and what we’ve come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: People aren’t wearing enough hats. Two: Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However, this “soul” does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.

    Exec #3 (Terry Jones): What was that about hats again?
    ***

    And now for something completely different:

    ***
    The Phrygian cap (/ˈfrɪdʒ(iː)ən/) or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including the Balkans, Dacia and Phrygia, where it originated.[1] In first the American Revolution and then French Revolution, it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty, although Phrygian caps did not originally function as liberty caps.[2] The original cap of liberty was the Roman pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome, which was an attribute of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty. In the 16th century, the Roman iconography of liberty was revived in emblem books and numismatic handbooks where the figure of Libertas is usually depicted with a pileus.[3] The most extensive use of a headgear as a symbol of freedom in the first two centuries after the revival of the Roman iconography was made in the Netherlands, where the cap of liberty was adopted in the form of a contemporary hat.[4] In the 18th century, the traditional liberty cap was widely used in English prints, and from 1789 also in French prints; by the early 1790s, it was regularly used in the Phrygian form.

    It is used in the coat of arms of certain republics or of republican state institutions in the place where otherwise a crown would be used (in the heraldry of monarchies). It thus came to be identified as a symbol of republican government. A number of national personifications, in particular France’s Marianne, are commonly depicted wearing the Phrygian cap.
    ***

    • pistoffnick

      “Phrygian cap”

      THAT’S A SMURF CAP!

  24. The Late P Brooks

    I denounce Comrade Brooks for WrongSpeak.

    *shaves head, puts on dunce cap*

  25. Rebel Scum

    Well, yes. One requires the proper motivation. Plus they may have orchestrated it.

    So the FBI can solve a bombing in under a day, but give them Hunter’s laptop, Hillary’s emails, Epstein’s black book, and proof of play for pay in Ukraine, years later they don’t even know they have it?

    • Juvenile Bluster

      Every time there’s an actual bombing in the US I just assume it was one of the FBI’s little fishing projects that got away from them. My one slip into conspiracy theory land, though I’m not sure that’s really a conspiracy theory.

      • Rebel Scum

        Speaking of, whatever happened to that Seminole non-bomber attempted bomber with the over-the-top MAGA van that sent non-functional “bombs” to CNN and such?

      • mrfamous

        Every time the FBI sends in a mole to join (IE, mastermind) some terrorist plot, that, by definition, is a conspiracy.

  26. Plinker762

    Eating lunch inside a restaurant! The horror, I could die!

    A little bit of sanity as I drive through Wisconsin.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      I have my issues with Governor DeSantis, but the restaurants have been open here for months and we’re not doing any worse than other states, despite what the media keeps screeching about.

    • Rebel Scum

      Convid is only threat in the five steps that it takes to get to your table.

    • The Gunslinger

      Ha! I had the same crazy experience of sitting down and eating inside a restaurant today in Indiana.

  27. Plinker762

    Did the FAL have an actual FN receiver?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      No, DSA. Fuck you very much George HW Bush.

      • Plinker762

        I bought a Century L1A1 back in the stupid times. It is one of the good ones with an Imbel receiver but had the thumb hole stock.

  28. Rebel Scum

    Lies how? Actually older or younger?

    Renea Baek Goddard, a radio journalist from Arkansas who worked for ⁦
    @kuarpublicradio⁩, is among four suspects who have been formally charged in connection with the firebombings of police cars during Black Lives Matter protests.

    Renea Baek Goddard, the Little Rock, Ark. journalist federally charged over BLM firebombing attacks, is an amateur porn star. She lies about being 18 years old in her Twitter profile. She goes by the name “Slutty Asian Teen” on adult site OnlyFans.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    White supremacist terrorbombers are coming to get you

    “I’m actually very concerned that there will be violence on Jan. 6 because the president himself is encouraging it,” Olivia Troye said in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” shared by Mediaite.

    “This is what he does. He tweets, he incites it, and he gets followers and supporters to behave in this manner, and they believe they are being patriots because they’re supporting the president,” she added.

    Trump tweeted Sunday “See you in Washington, DC, on January 6th. Don’t miss it. Information to follow!”

    Troye, who served as a homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to Pence, left the administration in August and has since blasted its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

    Her comments come following a Washington Post report that the Hotel Harrington and Harry’s Bar, both frequent gathering spots for the far-right Proud Boys group, have announced they will be closed Jan. 4-6, ahead of the potential protests.

    The group’s presence in the city has been accompanied by violent incidents and clashes, including a December stabbing outside Harry’s. The affiliation of the suspect is not known.

    The streets will run red with blood. Just watch and see.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      I have a feeling that a lot of people in media are going to be genuinely disappointed when January 6 passes and nothing really happens outside of Trump and his supporters crying on Twitter.

    • rhywun

      Troye, who served as a homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to Pence, left the administration in August and has since blasted its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

      Hell hath no fury like a scorned Trump-administration functionary.

    • Chipwooder

      The windows in DC were all boarded up before the election. Once Biden was deemed the winner, they came down, because people know which side is actually the one that riots.

      • Count Potato

        The MSM barely covered the riots.

  30. Annoyed Nomad

    Hey all, sorry I missed the posting of my article earlier. I’ve had a busy day. Thanks for all the nice comments.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Didn’t want to go up the incline!?!? ?

      • Annoyed Nomad

        The tour guide for the Pike’s Peak bus tour spoke about the incline. After we did the St Mary’s Fall trail, Mrs. N had no desire to do the incline. If we ever go back, I might be able to talk her into it.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I was 28 when I did it; it took me an hour,

    • Tonio

      Just so you know, I’m saving it for later. Everyone loves a good travelogue.

  31. Count Potato

    “The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump

    “The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom….The dominant strain of U.S. neoliberalism — the ruling coalition now in power again — is authoritarianism.””

    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1343588046999085057

    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarianism-in

    • Hyperion

      Zuckerberg is proof that the grays actually walk among us. We can stop making fun of the Ancient Aliens guys now, because IT’S FUCKING ALIENS! Bezos now looks like Smeagol ‘The precious, the precious!’. Tim Cook might be contender of the year for most punchable face.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Zuck’s obviously a synth a la Alien. He doesn’t quite pass the Uncanny Valley for me

      • Juvenile Bluster

        I thought Zuck was an early model android where they didn’t get the “human” part right.

      • Count Potato

        It’s actually a very sensible article.

    • DEG

      According to sources, local man Jason Greenman is enjoying his last few days of living like an utterly debased and filthy slob before his anticipated turnaround comes on January 1st.

      I didn’t know I changed my name.

    • Hyperion

      No one has ever failed to keep a new year’s resolution. SCIENCE!

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Umm, I will do it this year.

      ***runs away sobbing***

      • Ted S.

        Technically you’ll do it next year.

  32. Chafed

    Nice music choice MS. ?

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Paging the Vaccine Fairy…

    President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration’s effort to distribute and administer Covid vaccine shots, saying that the administration has failed to meet its own goals.

    “The Trump administration’s plan to distribute vaccines is falling behind, far behind,” he said at a news briefing. “As I long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should.”

    He said his administration will “move heaven and earth” to accelerate the distribution and administration of the Covid vaccines once he takes office on Jan. 20. He reiterated his administration’s pledge to have administered 100 million doses of vaccine by his 100th day in office.

    To meet that goal, he said, it “would take ramping up five to six times the current pace to 1 million shots a day.” He said his team will act more aggressively to ramp up administration of the shots, but even at 1 million per day, it will take months to vaccinate the majority of the population.

    ——-

    Dr. Atul Gawande, a member of Biden’s Covid-19 advisory team, said Tuesday on “CBS This Morning” that the incoming administration does not “have all of the information that’s required to understand where the bottlenecks are.”

    He also noted that he’s concerned the Trump administration is being overly optimistic when it comes to the vaccination timeline. Trump’s HHS Secretary Alex Azar has said that the general public should be able to get vaccinated by March.

    “I’m worried about over-promising on when things are going to be able to be back to normal,” said Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and Harvard University professor.

    Yeah, okay.

    If Biden says it, it’s completely believable. If Trump says it, it’s bullshit.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      I don’t get why this is so difficult.

      My grandmother is 92 and hasn’t really left her house since March, and I’m still running around trying to figure out how to get her vaccinated. Nobody seems to know anything.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        How would they know the person age? It’s not like the doctors ask your age everytime you go in for a visit.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Just tell Grandma that 25 year old residents are more important than she is so when they and their work buddies are vaccinated, then they might consider her.

    • rhywun

      It gets vaccinated or it gets the hose again.

    • Drake

      I’m really comfortable waiting around for months to see which of these hastily designed experiments fucks people up the least.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        I’ll say this, since nearly everything I do nowadays is doing securities filings for pharma companies and I have to keep up on the research. It really wasn’t hastily designed. Okay, that’s not true. It was hastily designed. I think Moderna did it in two days back in March, and the rest of the time has just been testing. But it’s part of a long line of research. A ton of companies have been doing mRNA research for years. Pharma companies had vaccines in process that they really didn’t end up needing to use for things like SARS and MERS, and those formed a base as well.

        I’m just glad the FDA cut a little bit of the red tape (though they should have allowed challenge testing) to get it approved this fast.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It’s not that the studies were hastily designed, it’s that there is not enough time to thoroughly evaluate the risk profile of the vaccines. A phase III-equivalent randomized controlled trial I ran to demonstrate equivalency with an already approved product took years from design to publication. And that was for an product already known to be safe and effective .

        The Covid vax trials can demonstrate efficacay relatively fast but it’s not possible to draw any sort of conclusion on the drugs’ safety. The unknown risk is well worth taking for those most susceptible to Covid. I will strongly encourage my father in law to get it since Covid would likely be a death sentence for him. On the other hand, I would never let my children be injected with any of it. The risk to them from the unknown safety profile of the vaccine is incomparably higher than the virtually non-existent risk to them from Covid.

      • slumbrew

        The risk to them from the unknown safety profile of the vaccine is incomparably higher than the virtually non-existent risk to them from Covid.

        That’s the crux of it.

        As a 50 year old dude in good shape (mostly. kinda. does drinking too much count?), my judgement is that I’m at higher risk from a vaccine with unknown long-term effects than I am from the Wu Flu right now. Not by a lot, but still.

      • Drake

        The blanket immunity they’ve been granted doesn’t inspire confidence.

      • C. Anacreon

        I’m on day 11 since receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

        No side effects yet, but I’m still hoping for penile gigantism, that would be fun to report to the FDA.

      • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

        Just as long as your partner doesn’t have to report your death from ADE six months down the road.

        Ain’t takin’ that shit.

        My nightmare scenario is that a billion people in the Western world get “vaccinated” (i.e., “gene-therapied”) in the next six months or so, only to suffer ADE when they finally get the ‘Vid, and a mass die-off occurs. Imagine what de-populating the West would look like at the end of 2021. It’ll be Chung Kuo, except for realz.

  34. Stinky Wizzleteats

    An interesting 2 hour plus interview with Curtis Yarvin. He has some interesting views on the election (among other things) and thinks that electing Biden amounts to punishing our, meaning the right’s, enemies and rewarding our friends, comparing depriving the left of Trump to depriving an addict of their crack:

    https://youtu.be/Kt44Ui2HvEE

    He’s being too cute by half IMHO but who knows, maybe he’s right. We’ll see I guess.

    • Not Adahn

      Anyone who thinks Roko’s Basilisk is a serious argument is, frankly, not worth listening to.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Never heard of that one, a quick search shows it to be a vaguely interesting but ultimately why bother kind of intellectual circle jerk.

  35. Count Potato

    “There are some studies (from MRC) on the effects of legacy and social media bias on determining election outcomes. Conservatively, it’s a 30-point swing in the polls vs. a neutral media.”

    https://twitter.com/calebqwash/status/1343730175922548736

    “”fact-based” Wikipedia…. you mean the site where Hunter Biden had to hire a PR FIRM to delete relevant additions on his page, talking about his Ukraine gig?

    Because that happened.”

    https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1343980785796263936

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Maybe thirty points, which seems high honestly, but bias and flat out lies both of commission and omission have always been the case with American media and it looks they always will be.

  36. Juvenile Bluster

    Today’s twitter block for JB comes from someone who lists themselves as a “USMC Veteran” and “LEO” who didn’t like me pointing out that hate speech is in fact protected by the first amendment.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      USMC veteran and LEO
      His views on hate speech aren’t going to save him with a background like that.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So probably at least a lie on of those.

    • Chipwooder

      I’m proud to call myself a Marine, buuuuuuuuut…..there are a LOT of stupid assholes who are Marines. A lot.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    A million doses per day?

    Sounds legit.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    didn’t like me pointing out that hate speech is in fact protected by the first amendment.M

    For now, anyway. They’re diligently working to get around that little speed bump.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      They won’t succeed. Matal v. Tam was three years ago, was a unanimous decision, and said:

      Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.” United States v. Schwimmer, 279 U. S. 644, 655 (1929) (Holmes, J., dissenting).

      • C. Anacreon

        That case led to the creation of David Schwimmer, “the actor that we hate”.

  39. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Operation Nordwind 1945, the Other Battle of the Bulge:

    https://youtu.be/HQwjXm9xpqE

    It’s just amazing that they were still able to carry out mass coordinated attacks at that stage in the war.

  40. kinnath

    The blizzard is here.

    Good thing I don’t have to go anywhere anytime soon.

    • Hyperion

      There aren’t any blizzards cause AGW.

      Fact Check: FALSE!

      • kinnath

        WRONG!

        AGW produces more blizzards and worse blizzards. Serious articles told me this when AGW was still the preferred term.

    • pistoffnick

      That is the best time to go driving! I

  41. Ownbestenemy

    I was such a screw up post high school and even through my early 30s for college that my transfer credits and college GPA are trash. I wonder what they will take, who ever I decide to go with.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Arizona State University has extensive online undergrad and grad degree programs. Probably more than any other school. No idea on how good the programs are for computer science, but it might be worth looking into since it checks the online and accredited boxes.

    • mrfamous

      Back in the day they had something called “at-large” students: you could take classes (though not a full load) for a semester or two and if you showed you could hack it, would allow you to register full-time.

      I mean they do want your (or whomever is paying) money.

      • hayeksplosives

        That’s the same as “auditing” right?

      • mrfamous

        No, you actually get credit for those classes while you’re “at large.” It’s like probation. Obviously this would depend a lot on the school involved.

      • hayeksplosives

        Ah. Thank you!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Thanks all. Just looking what will fit the GI Bill/Yellow Ribbon program and my work schedule. You guys are all awesome.

  42. hayeksplosives

    I went ahead and bought a backup battery to get me through “red flag” warnings and their accompanying “planned” power outages. (See, if you’ve ignored your grid infrastructure and funneled money to pet projects instead, you just rebrand the resulting inability for the grid to operate during a stiff wind as a brilliant energy management plan.)

    Now at least I can use a nebulizer without having to go to urgent care/ ER if I’m having an asthma attack. And my spouse and I can use out CPAPs. It can run a crock pot or instant pot too, so we can feed.

    I’m going to try to get it reimbursed as medical expense on my HSA. If it doesn’t pan out, I will live.

    • straffinrun

      California problems? Took a tsunami and a nuclear power plant disaster to take our power away. Just a week and we were back to full power. California’s policies worse than a nuclear disaster.

  43. LJW

    Anyone have any experience with Hyundai? My lease on my Accord expires in August, however I’m looking to sell it in March. I’ve been eyeing the Hyundai Tucson.

    • hayeksplosives

      They have really improved in the past few years. Ive had them as rental cars often.

      The only gripe was on a Hyundai hybrid, the switching between ICE and electric modes was laggy. So definitely try that out on the test drive if your chosen vehicle is hybrid.

    • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

      Seriously, no, mine was a disaster, then i bought Kias, best move I ever made for my needs,
      /not kidding
      /YMMV
      KIA!!!!

    • Mojeaux

      We have Hyundais and are happy with them. My mother is a fan.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        KIAAAAA!

    • DEG

      I have a Hyundai Genesis, from before Hyundai split the Genesis line off.

      My car is OK.

      It has quirks that drive me up a wall, almost all electronic. Hyundai has been less than helpful about some of them, and others have been quite expensive to fix. I suspect Hyundai used the South Korean Lucas for the Genesis’ electronics.

      Mechanically, the car has been sound. In fact, there has been only one mechanical problem, which was covered under warranty.

      • DEG

        I should add: Tonight the odometer on the Genesis hit 100,020 miles. I bought the car with 102 miles on it.

  44. hayeksplosives

    Local “friends of [city]” Facebook page post:

    So a owner lied and said a coworker was out with a family emergency knowing that wasn’t true and that he has Covid… he exposed his entire staff to covid and now my roomie is positive from it. Do we report this business for being now responsible for multiple cases!?

    Responses are ALL from women and are ALL in favor of “turning in” or “reporting” the business.

    Example responses:

    1)This is the exact reason that Congress refused to pass a stimulus bill that included the Republican mandated protections from Covid liability lawsuits for corporations. There are unscrupulous business owners that will do anything to make money regardless of the risk to others.

    2)Absolutely. That’s the only way contract tracing is effective.

    3)Yes how many people have to turn up sick

    4)Report what happened to the County Health Department

    5)Yes! Hubby & I got sick when his coworker didn’t disclose. Their whole dept got sick & loved ones as well. I’m still angry about it cuz I was doing everything right.

    I had to tell myself not to append a “Are your papers in order?” meme to it.

    Way too many people are getting their power-tripping jollies off this crap. And some people really are in fear for their lives even without any at-risk conditions.

    • rhywun

      Poz parties!

      Fuck. This is turning into AIDS all over again.

      • limey

        When they fired reported Andrew Beckett because he had AIDS Chinese respiratory malady, they he broke the law.

        Or something.

      • Ted S.

        Ah, the movie that makes Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner look subtle.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I’d be curious what the demographics are on social media as to gender. My anecdotal observations are that nearly 100% of women are on at least 2 of the big 3, and that more women actively participate compared to men by an order of magnitude.

      Most guys I know admit to having the accounts but always preface it with “I don’t really do much on there but look at pictures from family”.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I social media through the wife. It took 3 years for my family to stop sending me messages via that and actually call me or text me.

    • hayeksplosives

      Oh, most excellent.

  45. hayeksplosives

    My Alma mater is in the Cheezit Bowl, leading for the moment.

    Go Pokes!

      • C. Anacreon

        “Cheezit! It’s the pokes!”

        /Jimmy Cagney, The Public Enemy

    • slumbrew

      Mmmm, poke.

      • TARDis

        I like tuna poke. I can’t eat too much of it though. It’s a bit rich, but satisfying as an appetizer at least. My wife seems to enjoy it too.

      • Mojeaux

        What is tuna poke?

      • Mojeaux

        Thank you. I giess I should’ve googled.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am like TARDis, great appetizer and if you like tuna, its good. I suggest a great Hawaiian place to get it.

      • slumbrew

        It is delicious. I’d be happy to eat poke every day.

      • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

        It is good, but if raw sushi turns you off or is challenging for you, poke won’t be much better.

        As a sufferer of IBS, raw sushi and poke both smell delicious and cause me GI distress. Dammit.

      • Mojeaux

        I am not interested in sushi or any other raw fish, so I’ll pass.

        I’ll stick with raw beef, thanks.

      • dbleagle

        My local poke place and liquor store has an excellent spicy ahi poke. Plus a wasabi scallop poke that is killer as well.

        Poke is da bomb bra and auntie.

      • straffinrun

        Sounds like affirmative consent to me.

    • rhywun

      Mine won the “Camellia Bowl”. At least it sounds like a flower but it’s probably insurance or something.

      • straffinrun

        Didn’t she marry royalty?

    • hayeksplosives

      Sounds like a voluntary thing to me.

      Carry on.

    • Ownbestenemy

      When someone said not to hit the big red button, they should have hit it anyway.

    • hayeksplosives

      I…what?

    • Juvenile Bluster

      The internet was a mistake.

      • Raven Nation

        “and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans“

      • DEG

        🙂

        Don’t Panic!

      • Raven Nation

        I have my towel.

      • TARDis

        Are you riding the cotton pony, Love?

        /English housekeeper

    • Rebel Scum

      I get that there is often more nuance in history than is usually observed, but this ain’t accurate, hon.

    • rhywun

      “Fact check: We find nothing objectionable about this. Carry on.”

    • robodruid

      2021 is going to be great, isn’t it.
      2038 is going to be even better. Ill be in my bunker.

      • rhywun

        The Roaring Twenties has a nice ring to it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        So I should vacation in Poland in ’38 and no later?

      • robodruid

        well not Portland that’s for sure.

    • Count Potato

      Anti-racism is racist. It’s just making students of color ignorant of art and history.

      • C. Anacreon

        Why can’t Homer and Shakespeare be more like Kamala Harris?

    • Rebel Scum

      We must not be learning about historical peoples/cultures because some/most were icky based on our delicate, modern sensibilities.

    • straffinrun

      “Absolving Shakespeare of responsibility by mentioning that he lived at a time when hate-ridden sentiments prevailed, risks sending a subliminal message that academic excellence outweighs hateful rhetoric.”

      Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Eve product?

      • pistoffnick

        THAT got a guffaw out of me!

      • hayeksplosives

        Me too!!

      • Urthona

        Jesus. I mean people know Shakespeare’s plays are full of evil villains right?

      • rhywun

        That bit riled me up. Sometimes “hate” is just “ignorance”.

        And… Like we’re so fucking perfect now – as they keep telling us we totally aren’t.

    • hayeksplosives

      No author is valuable enough to spare, Ms. Venkatraman instructs: “Absolving Shakespeare of responsibility by mentioning that he lived at a time when hate-ridden sentiments prevailed, risks sending a subliminal message that academic excellence outweighs hateful rhetoric.”

      Shut up and make me a curry, bitch.

      • TARDis

        I wouldn’t trust someone like that to touch my food.

        I would ask her why she is concerned about western authors when her ancestral country is still so messed up and multiplying like animals.

    • Drake

      The Indian author sure is harsh on Western classics without ever mentioning the wildly racist place she’s from. Even ancient Greece didn’t have a rigid formal caste system.

  46. Ownbestenemy

    I always question why I sustain myself and my family…

    • Ownbestenemy

      There was supposed to be a link to the Amazon Prime discount for EBT card holders….but it was eaten.

    • straffinrun

      It’s always been that way. It’s just a different form of theft these days. Inclusive theft.

  47. l0b0t

    Sigh… I wince with regret when I recall passing on the $650 FN/FAL that hung on the wall of a pawn shop in Thomasville, GA in 1989.