We’re talking show tunes, people.
Well, the sun is out, and it’s 53 degrees with clear blue skies. How could anybody take the links seriously on a day like this?
I mean, who wouldn’t want to come here to face lock downs and mandatory masks?
The Spratly Islands are small potatoes.
Uh oh. Somebodies, got some ‘splainin’ to do. And never talk to the cops.
And the message sent back was, “no intelligent life. Next”.
Quiet little people. She is more equal than you are.
I’m out, Glibbies!
LCDR_Fish: I went to your friend’s place
I screwed that up, hit post comment instead of submit for the link.
Trying again, I went to your friend’s place Gourmeltz, It was a two hour drive, but it was so nice to be normal.
First and most important, the food was excellent. I had a smokehouse burger and my wife had a brisket sandwich.
I was happy to see it was jammed, it took a half hour to get to the counter. My wife was surprised because I was talking people after we sat down. Guy asked if I was carrying a Springfield Armory 1911. Told him it was a Smith and Wesson 1911 .45. Then a retired Marine asked me about my Marine Corps hoodie, and he asked the first guy about his cast. Poor bastard had been hit by a motorcycle while clearing roadkill and said he was lucky to be alive.
Talked to the Lady on my other side about how nice it is not to perform the sacred rituals to enjoy some food.
The place was LOUD. I didn’t realize how sad going out had become.
If the above conversations seem unremarkable, my wife was shocked, because I NEVER talk to people when we go out. I realized other than a few phone conversations with my mother, and banal work conversations, I hadn’t talked to anyone other than my wife in a year. That can’t be good for you.
If a curmudgeon like me misses talking, something is really wrong.
If this continues and the place isn’t crushed by the Gestapo, we might go again in a couple weeks.
I had an extended, quite personal phone call with a business associate whom I’ve never met in person before. This was earlier this week. I’m sure it was due to lockdowns/lack of social interaction.
I feel like i could have written this post. Im socially retarded and hardly talk to anyone besides my wife and kids. Glad you had a nice night out.
Wait, that place is less than an hour from me. You didn’t have to do the mask dance?? And the food was good? I suddenly foresee my first opportunity to dine in normally since June of last year.
No masks, no stupid distancing AT ALL.
I had to squeeze through people.
A couple of workers had masks on, but most didn’t.
Two guys walked in with double masks, they looked around and walked back out.
The food is excellent, but not even a little bit healthy.
SOLD! Already told my husband we have to make a trip. I’ve been dying for a taste of normal life interaction.
Have fun.
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Shocking that Nancy Pelosi would immediately break rules that she helped to put in place. Utterly shocking. *Makes shocked face.*
And first?
Yes, first.
Woot! I have finally climbed the mountaintop.
Well… there was sun today, but the high was just in the teens. Windchill was negative today. The sunburn from last weekend is a fading memory at this point.
Yeah, I had a faint sunburn last weekend that disappeared.
I’m out in the sun now, but the shadows are long. Still due for a frost or two before it’s spring.
The apples have started to blossom though.
The forecast is -17 tonight. Spring time for the MN folks, but almost as bad as it gets here in Iowa.
Yikes! That is brisk for February. Cuddle up with someone you love.
And by love, mean…
Forecast tonight is for a low of -35° Celsius (-31° Fahrenheit). Thank God for triple-pane windows and high-efficiency furnaces, not to mention booties for the ‘pup.
This is cold. I don’t think I ever experienced anything colder than -25-29C.
Yep. Not the coldest I’ve ever experienced (-55° C takes that honour), but I’d rather not go through this. Mind you, thanks to evil fossil fuels we’re quite comfortable, and the ‘pup, thank God, has finally understood why we keep putting booties on her when we take her out, and acquiesces now.
Of course, when it hits that low, we’ll all be bundled up in bed and quite warm. ;-)
Lawn guy land looking at 4-8 inches tomorrow.
And by cuddle you mean…
Cuddle up with someone you love
Try again…..
Cuddle up with someone you love
Last time I tried that, my wife got really mad and treated our guest quite rudely
Loving thy neighbor or his wife can cause problems, if you get caught.
Discretion/valor
I got a minor sunburn on the slopes on Wednesday. What a beautiful, clear day it was for skiing.
It is currently 15 degrees.
Wait. A Tulpette? Tulparina?
Blodgett informed the GOP committee members that he had not yet received a complaint by the Capitol Police regarding Pelosi’s alleged violation – the newly established procedure required for the Acting Sergeant-at-Arms to issue a fine.
“House Sergeant at Arms imposes the fine after receiving an unusual occurrence report from the United States Capitol Police (USCP),” he explained. “An unusual incident report from the Capitol Police is appended to the document sent to the Member providing notice of the fine.
“Only the USCP can determine whether an individual has failed to complete security screening as only the USCP has sufficient training to determine compliance with USCP screening procedures,” Blodgett continued. “I have not received any unusual incident report from the USCP concerning the Speaker of the House,” he added.
Right.
Tucked into the Coronavirus bill was $600 million to set up voter registration tables in the middle of the desert.
Quiet little people. She is more equal than you are.
Sorry, Louie, it’s not unconstitutional.
From Article I, Section 5:
I think the migrant caravan thing puts Biden in an interesting position: can he stop migrants at the border (some of whom are no doubt ill with and shedding covid) into the country without sounding like an icky isolationist?
Not that he will be held to account for any decisions he makes anyway.
So just doing the opposite of what Trump did isn’t turning out to be a very good plan?
Yeah, “Orange Man was Bad” isn’t going to churn out much in the way of useful policy stances.
But Biden “cares” so even if he enacted the same policy, it would be ok because his heart is in the right place, or something.
It really has been indiscriminate undoing with a stoke of the pen, hasn’t it?
If he had any brains, he’d have quietly left in place EOs that were not popular with the lefty base but that really needed to be done. That way Trump gets the blame but the benefits accrue under the Biden administration.
I still don’t understand how it’s legal for POTUS to halt the XL with just an EO. Aren’t there laws and such?
Same here. Seems like that would be something for Congress and the states to work out.
“Aren’t there laws and such?”
*chuckles*
Get a load of this guy.
He’s not making any decisions.
Poor Nancy. Her colleagues fail to grasp that everyone outside of Nancy herself is part of the little people.
*cackled while licking spoon of $30 per quart boutique icecream.
“Let them eat Blue Bunny.”
All of them grasp that.
Why the hell would the Mexican migrants want to come here now? The economy is in shambles. People just don’t have the spare cash for a landscaper at present.
No one is hiring .
You’re assuming the current migrants are looking to work. Incentives change who gets attracted.
Now my tummy hurts.
Thanks for the reality check. 😛
In north central Ohio, there are tons of jobs, My drywaller can’t find help, I can’t find siding/excavating/roofing guys (I can find them but they are booked three months out), there are 5,401 jobs listed on the find a job site I just looked at, The box stores and Kroger’s/Meijer’s have had help wanted signs up at the entrance for as long as I can remember.
Yup, I just looked at my city’s “new companies, closed companies” register. 12 new shops opened up, 2 closed.
The economy is doing weird things right now, I don’t trust any predictions.
Yeah, my business is dead while my brother is going gangbusters.
We’re hiring too. I need at least two new employees in the next couple weeks.
Dude, nobody wants to actually work. They want to design mobile games or go into government and tell everyone else what to do.
the spics coming up from Mejico do, I used to have to beat the wetbacks off with as stick.
DO THAT AGAIN, FACE BANHAMMER.
PHRASING!
-2 Preferred Nomenclature, Dude.
I find his out of the box thinking refreshing and honest.
*narrows gaze*
Do what?
Wetback is a term coined by Americans of Mexican descent, most notably Cesar Chavez.
Oh, I am sorry….it was the ‘beat off’ part. Bad Hyperbole! Bad, bad, bad!
Lets ask TPTB how they like “spic”. How about you, good with you?
I have to admit I didn’t know you had verboten words here, I’ve used every derogatory term I can think of (hell I occasionally had to look them up, ‘coonass’ for example) Hell one of my crossword puzzles was nothing but my attempt to insult every ethnicity that I could think of. Do what you will but I stand by my racist hateful language.
It depends on who’s doing the talking to whom.
I’ll call my best friend right now and greet him with “Hey, spic” to which he’ll reply, “Not much, you fucking redneck.”
I’ll call another close friend and greet him with “Hey, fag”, to which he’ll reply “Nothing much, you fucking redneck.”
But outside of them, were I to foolishly say that, I’d be asking for a deserved ass kicking.
I am ok with any racial slur. They are meaningless and completely interchangeable. My usual response is ‘Yeah, whatever’.
What we really need is a better word for rednecks other than cracker and honkey. They just dont seem to have much bite.
Peckerwood, and I like Ofay, but most peckerwoods don’t even know that it’s an insult, whixh kinda defeats the purpose.
I don’t use a lot of words, though I know them all but I grew up with “Sticks and Stones will break my bones but, words will never hurt me” attitude.
“I am ok with any racial slur.”
Don’t try that here, ok?
You have a burr under your saddle or something? Lighten up.
You have been talking with me for more than ten years. When have you ever known me to insult someone based on some immutable trait? I judge people on their character, on what they do, not who they are.
Dont tell me what words I am allowed to use.
Suthen…you are in our living room right now. Capise?
I thought you had manners.
You want to run around your neighborhood yelling “kikes, niggers and spics!” at the top of of your lungs…go for it. But not here. Is that something you can live with, or are you going to tell me how I have to behave in my house?
TPTB?
The Powers That Be
I thought his point was he doesn’t use slurs so why are you attacking him. ?♂️
How about a simple “don’t fucking use racial and ethnic slurs you dumbasses?”
We’re still good for slurs about sex and sexual proclivity, though, right?
I’m about two beers shy of slurring everything I say. It’s Saturday night. I’m starting to sound like creepy uncle Joe.
Really? Thought wetback was a generic term for any Hispanic who’s in this country, as slur that they entered illegally by crossing the Rio Grande.
In basic, the Texan two bunks over called my Illinois battle buddy a dampback given how far from the border he was.
And if you called him a spic, how would he have greeted that?
He probably would have blown it off, I guess. He chuckled as the Texan saying he was a dampback.
Not my slur though, and not one I would have used then or now, particularly with my nephews or my BiL.
Wetback is a term coined by Americans of Mexican descent, most notably Cesar Chavez.
That doesn’t make it less of a pejorative.
…and Chavez? Fuck that guy,
How about “Mojado’s”
Vivan los Mojados, eye-hi-eye!
“But, but… American Jews came up with ‘kike’ to differentiate themselves from those awful Central European Jews back in the day…so that one is OK too, yeah?!”
How about “Mojado’s”
Its still a slur, only in Spanish.
For all the jokes we make about being watched by some NSA plant, let’s at least not make it easy for them.
It’s a very famous mariachi song, Vivan Los Mojados. Badassed accordian lead and all. It plays at work sometimes.
For all the jokes we make about being watched by some NSA pla
They’re not going to split hairs, and it’s even likelier they’ll take Swiss’s interjections here as proof that we’re just a flimsy bit of moderation away from lynching folk in the html margins.
Tampa vs Kansas City tomorrow for all the marbles. Who you guys got? I’m not betting against TB12 at this point. The guy is the greatest QB of all time, as much as I don’t enjoy admitting it.
I have one employee who’s from Tampa, so I will root for TB i guess.
Really, I’m just hoping for an outstanding game.
Poor Tampa Bay, They are hosting the Super Bowl on a year when they are appearing in said bowl, and they can’t even fill the stadium or have big block parties.
Florida is open right?
Is the NFL blocking it.
PS Cannot root for Brady.
Looks like mostly NFL super governmental shit.
The article cites the NFL statement about “partnering” with local health officials. Masks mandatory, 6 feet distance mandatory, etc etc.
https://en.as.com/en/2021/02/02/other_sports/1612224472_814356.html
OFFS!!
6 foot mandatory distance. I could see a situation in which fans decide they want to be closer to the field, fill the lower stands, and have a confrontation with security/police. Shit gets out of hand and there’s a Kent State-like tragedy. That’d be a shitty thing to happen–and it would be televised nationally on one of the most highly rated programs in any given year.
Let’s hope not.
Florida is open right?
It’s open compared to the rest of the country but it’s not open open. Plenty of businesses keep abiding by whatever limited capacity restrictions they feel like.
Now that things have settled down at work and I’m about to max out on vacation time, I’d love to get away for a while. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the closest state to SW Ohio that doesn’t have a statewide mask mandate is Tennessee, and many of its counties are masked. Gotta be some place close enough to drive, ’cause I’ll be damned if I’m going to break my streak of not flying commercially during this masquerade.
I can’t find anywhere I won’t be worried about being harassed.
The stressor seems to be the fear of dealing with people.
As an aside, did you get my reply yet?
Yes, and almost done with my reply to your reply.
“PS Cannot root for Brady.”
Yep. I don’t care who wins, I just want Old Tom to lose.
I really don’t care who wins, just hope it’s an entertaining game. After this no more football for 7 months! That’s the worst part. But I can’t root against Brady, either, it’s nice to see someone who is not all that much younger than me still playing the game, much less at the top …. I fear I won’t be able to say that ever again.
It’s the most exciting thing to hit Tampa since 1975 – https://youtu.be/ZlRSfC6StTQ
KC.
Always AFC. Always.
A brief bit by Mark Steyn on Fox late this week on the sick joke that is the US legislature.
https://youtu.be/yLaeDyjeIXU
“we the people are hanging upside down and there’s no safe word”
*chef’s kiss*
That one did make me laugh, despite the grim truth of it all.
Damn that was brilliant. Fortunately for me I had no idea they were holding a victimhood olympics.
I wonder if StiffTheCitizenry.com is taken.
It is. But dot net is available for $11.99.
That is great. Steyn should have a late night TV show but he has the wrong politics.
He’s become the regular guest host for Rush during Rush’s chemo.
I can’t imagine him taking the full time gig though. They have overlapping but very different audiences.
And he’s a damned furriner.
“Take Your Child Bride to Work Day”
Ahem.
I’m so happy he included the Rep for Tundra and I, Dean Phillips and his “I never knew what privilege was” speech.
Phillips is the scion of a very wealthy family that made their money distilling the bottom shelf booze here in Minnesoda. He’s been fantastically wealthy his entire life and he never understood privilege until now?
It’s a Saturday, so that means that the Zoom/Happy Hour/Encouragement of bad habits will be launched at 20:00 Eastern.
I think I created as many problems as I solved today.
I need a doobie.
Wine + Cyberpunk = Much improved day. Even with shitty developments at work, dying trees and a lack of vaginal intercourse.
https://archive.li/hbqpb
Silicone Saturday.
Dying trees? What’s that all about?
Deer violently raped one of my favorite trees getting its velvet off last autumn and it’s not gonna pull through.
Deer got four of mine. Two dead as nails. One probably won’t make it.
lack of vaginal intercourse.
Get used to it.
Hasn’t been so bad until week 36. Things really hit an iceberg then.
Yep, you got about 2.5 weeks more of “don’t touch me” followed by “you will have sex with me every day until this baby comes out”
you will have sex with me every day until this baby comes out
I have no idea what you are talking about. Didn’t happen with either of mine.
(semen contains the active ingredient in Cervidil, which is used to induce labor)
Well, no one told me about that back in the 70s.
I am sorry to hear that and I hate to tell you but…it always does eventually.
Guess now I know what to look forward to, we just hit 14 weeks today. Aside from her anxiety and a little lingering morning sickness things have been pretty smooth.
We tried to go to Trader Joe’s today. Fucking line way down the mall, due to metering people allowed into the store. It was cold and windy out, so I said fuck that noise.
Went to Wegmans instead. They were fucking mobbed. No distancing, even if you wanted to. I didn’t see any fucks given.
I forgot how good their cheese selection is.
I tried to go to war-mart in June. They had a hundred people lined up on the concrete and were only letting a handful of people in the store at a time. It was a 45 minute wait to get in the door. It is a 24 hr. store but when I tried to get in at 6am the ‘greeter’ informed me they didnt open until 9am and she was kinda nasty about it.
Ok, you dont sell ammo anymore and now you are torturing people who want to shop in your store. Y’all know what summer is like in Louisiana? I haven’t been back since and I won’t go back. Fuck them.
Wife said that Walmart is intentionally understaffing to force people to wait in self-checkout lines in an attempt to save money. After a few bad experiences at our local one, we swore off of them.
Unfortunately, that means either using Target or Amazon for the stuff we can’t get at Aldi.
They still sell some ammo. GF scored some .22 recently.
WTF. I haven’t seen lines at a door since around June. And yes, I won’t put up with that. There are plenty of other places to shop.
The closest Trader joe’s to me has had lines about 80% of the times I’ve been near it. I’m not going to wait in lines to get into a grocery store until we all have to.
The Fred Meyer (Krogers) has free pickup if you buy more than $35. I have been all over that shit. Let my wife do the fancy cheese and fish shopping.
SPACE SMITH LAUGHS
THERE NO SPACE SMITH. NO TALK ABOUT SPACE SMITH. WHO NOT EXIST.
Huh. So is the My Pillow guy’s proof real proof?
I don’t know, what is his proof?
https://www.worldviewweekend.com/tv/video/mike-lindell-brannon-howse-and-mary-fanning-present-absolute-proof-exposing-election-fraud
We have enough useful idiots in this country that absolute proof means nothing. You could point out that the sun shines in the daytime and you would get nothing but blank stares.
They voted for a guy that said “Damned right I am going to raise your taxes and I am going to raise them a lot”. “Damned right I am coming for your guns.”
On and on and they sputter something about OMB for reasons and pull the lever for the commies.
Don’t forget that there is a not insignificant cadre of people in this country who openly advocate for Communism.
I would agree to have all of the entitlement money spent sending them a one way to Caracus, or Pyongyang.
Whatever he says, I’m down with it.
The sun comes up in the morning and water is wet. The democrats cheated their asses off.
No one believes any different no matter what they say. After their 4 year complete and total freak-out and the rampant TDS no one believed they weren’t going to. We didnt have to have Puddin’ Cup tell us “I have the largest voter fraud organization in the history of the country” straight to our face.
Lindel wasted his money.
Some lady claims to have proof that computers in China hacked individual counties. I’m not tech savvy enough to evaluate her claims.
There are very fine people on both sides.
Who’s gonna take one for team and watch it?
Rhywun just nominated himself.
Takes a large step backwards
Hah-Ha! We put the volunteer line behind the candidate line.
Go give it a watch.
It’s only 2 hrs
“only”
You are kidding, right? I have nothing against Lindell but I can barely stand his 1 minute commercials. It might be a safe bet to say not one single person has watched it through.
2 hours? That is torture.
Well, technically I think it’s an hour 57 minutes
Evening Glibs! Hope everyone’s day was as peaceful and productive as they wanted it to be. I tried making carbonara sauce for the first time tonight; never had it before and I’m asking myself ‘why,’ now that I’ve tried making it. The kids gobbled down everything I cooked and demanded I put it into rotation and it was so easy! Happy day.
Evening LG!
I got my damaged wheel replaced, bought some cheese, and had takeout Indian for dinner. Not a bad day. ?
That does sound like a good day. Hope the takeout was good!
If you put cream in it for God’s sake dont tell Westernsloper.
I followed the recipe from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking; no cream. And I waited until the kids had put their stamp of approval on it before I told them what was in the sauce. 😀
+1 Marcella Hazan, you’re doing it right unlike all these fucking philistines around here.
Love that cookbook! It’s probably the most stained-up and well-used in my collection.
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Great cook book that I rarely use. I need to dust that one off.
Oh, I am all about the cream. It is Hyperbole who is the Carbonara nazi.
Have I told you about my Carbonara pizza?
1 Large flour tortilla
Smear with store bought Alfredo sauce.(recommend Newmans own. They give to the poors)
Sprinkle with jarred imitation bacon bits.
Top with shaker can parmesan.
Bake at 3fiddy until done.
You’re welcome.
(I made that up as a joke but I might just make it tomorrow for super bowl snacks)
I tried alfredo from a jar once. I had to toss it, it was so gross.
#TossFredo is the next #RecallNewsom
I better not let my husband see that or he’ll be tempted to try it. He likes cheez-wiz, too.
We’ve been getting Every Plate. They have some easy sauces. I’m learning a lot.
I’ve been trapped at home without the ability to dine out for so long (I’m stubborn and won’t do the mask dance) that I passed beyond that phase where I’d had a hard day at work and was too tired to cook, and can just power through it anyway because I’m sick of burgers and sick of paying $50 plus for dinner for the family in one go. At one point I managed a streak of cooking at home every night for 36 days straight. So I’ve been digging through my old recipe books and trying things I haven’t before. Interestingly, while my grocery bill shot up by about 50 to 80 more a week, the bills went down because we almost never dine out any more. And we’re eating a lot better, although I miss the whole “going out to eat in a restaurant” thing.
I’ve had really bad luck with their steak. I think twice now they’ve sent me a chunk of gristle with some meat around the edges. Their burgers are pretty good, though.
Home Chef is a bit more expensive but generally has better recipes and better ingredients.
My sister sent us some home chef. Unlike Every Plate, the veggies are already peeled and chopped. I haven’t tried the EP steaks, as we are ordering “healthy”.
My biggest cooking problem is not tasty food, but portioning.
Breakfast for dinner here. Biscuits, scrambled eggs, and sausage/bacon breakfast sammiches.
*eyes bacon under the broiler*
Nice.
Got a reverse-sear filet in the toaster oven.
Every time I hear “Reverse sear” I always get a menatl image of steak browned on the inside and less cooked on the outside. I can’t help it, it just conjures up the image of an inside-out cook
*thinks about the cooking apparatus required for such a cook*
I’m thinking you’d need a spherical array of infrared lasers.
What about those radioactive seeds they use to treat prostate cancer?
The gamma-knife style setup of ir lasers would probably be both safer and more reusable (the gamma knive being a different cancer treatment where the individual rays are harmless, but the intersection gets damaging levels)
Yeah, the gamma knife is how they treated my mom’s cancer initially. There’s still a lifetime allowable dose though.
That’d be an “inverse sear.”
Look at Mr Money bags over here. I will be having leftovers. Or maybe an omelette but I had that for pre-nap lunch. It was really good though so I might go round 2 on the omelette. Ham, black olive, avocado and colby/jack.
All hail the classic!
Bratwurst and burgers, here. The jalapeno poppers cooled significantly while I was getting the rest of the stuff off the grill. Baby it’s cold outside! Forecast for -17 tonight.
Pizza dough and 2 batches of sourdough are rising rising on the counter. Tomorrow seems like a good day to run the oven.
There’s something special about Brinner.
Dr. Turk agrees.
A group of House Republicans wasted no time in going after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday for allegedly breaking the new security measures she pushed to have passed earlier this week.
The old “Ha! You’re a hypocrite, so pay up” technique. Calling out govt actors for being hypocrites hasn’t really slowed the growth of govt much, but I suppose it is still fun for some people. You aren’t going to get your freedoms back by insisting they following their own rules because they never will. Have we forgotten the FYTW rule?
Caesar’s wife weeps.
Damn this sirloin is chewy. Only possibility is that the steer saw Lena Dunham naked.
Died fearful?
Cortisol is a hell of a drug.
Yes, poor thing.
What was LD doing naked in a slaughter house?
I really don’t want to know, and I suspect you don’t either.
That question led to some unpleasant mental visualizations on my part.
I don’t want to know.
I don’t know either but it sounds like Dr Grandin needs to address this disturbing new trend.
Getting ideas for her next boob job?
She keeps pointing and saying “Not that one, the udder one?”
After an hour or so, the workers started thinking she was milking her visit
Most likely a protest. This being Lena Dunham, being naked is a normal state.
From what I can see it looks like a legit shooting, but it sure is interesting to watch it go from “Defund the police” to “Shoot his ass!”.
https://twitter.com/Tsthetruth_24/status/1358082481455591429
Scroll down for the wing-walking cat.
I could have gone all day without seeing that.
Sad, isn’t it. Dude was clearly out of his mind.
Yes. I cant really blame the cop, he was definitely defending himself and probably everyone else there also but I wish he had not been alone and wish he had had a taser.
In my time working in a small police department (in a mental hospital larger than the town it is located in) we never, ever, ever went anywhere alone. Never.
Of course at most police departments cops almost never get into physical confrontations. At a mental hospital only one fight per day is a good day.
I absolutely blame the cop, for not having the requisite level of physical and emotional fitness, to say nothing of training, to do his job.
Legally, this was a justified shooting. But it was not an unavoidable shooting.
I am a little curious about the lack of a taser or pepper spray. I grew up in Montgomery County, and it’s about the richest, yuppiest, most whitebread suburb of DC there is. The cops there are funded to a fare-thee-well. He should have had a Taser and other less-lethal options. But he also shouldn’t have needed them.
Cop wasn’t fit. Cop was alone. Assailant was larger, aggressive and armed. Cop. was terrified. Cops dont carry what they want, they carry what they are told to carry.
Two cops both with lesstthan lethalmleans
It was part of the cops’ job to keep himself fit and to manage his fear, and he should have been able to subdue one emotionally-disturbed senior citizen by himself.
I’m not discounting that the gunshot victim posed a legit threat, but a competent response would have been something like double underhooks to inside leg reap #2, flip him, flatten him out, and get him cuffed. Not constant ineffectual verbal commands, and backing up until his panic completely overwhelms him and he starts pulling the trigger.
My curiosity about the officer’s lack of LTL equipment was based on his being an officer in a rich department in a rich county. I’m surprised that he wasn’t *issued* a taser. He clearly wasn’t the kind of cop who would be carrying a personally owned weapon. Everything about him screams, ‘minimum effort.’
He didn’t pose a LETHAL threat. To anyone.
I cant disagree with you.
I will say that if there were two to four cops there it would have a much less tragic outcome.
Still avoiding upthread, eh?
Its the Bolivian Air Force Crashing into a Mountain claim all over again…
Yeah, I’m with you. Although, I really fail to see how that dude was a lethal threat to anyone. Maybe when he was flailing the stick around, but once he lost even that, he was just a shmuck who needed to be taken to the ground with a foot sweep. I’ve seen (and been) hits with various sticks and pool cues, never once did anyone need killing for it. Once, a guy came to our door and hit one of our friends with a cue stick. It broke in half on the guy’s shoulder. The hitter ran for his life after that. Sore shoulder. Boo-hoo.
Ehhhhh. You crack someone in the right spot with a pool cue, you can easily fracture their skull.
People are weird. I know a dude who got in a brawl and got clocked with a shovel, HARD, five or six times and didn’t notice until the blood from the scalp lacerations started seriously interfering with his vision. I knew another guy in school who got punched in the face, fell down, hit his head on a parking curbstone, and never woke up. His parents turned off his life support three weeks later.
The old dude broke his stick in half and then lost the small part. He was just an old dude trying to bum rush the cop when the trigger was squeezed. I would probably be OK with it if he’d have fired while being struck with the stick. He waited until the guy was unarmed.
Btw, I got sliced with a switchblade when I was 14. I saw the blade flicker and I ran about a mile to the mall to get away. The people in the mall clued me in that my shirt was ripped and there was blood all over me. I’d have never known, otherwise. Knives aren’t very good at stopping people, at least not in any hurry.
I’ve seen (and been) hits with various sticks and pool cues, never once did anyone need killing for it.
Big fucking Meh to this one. You attack me with a big stick, you are employing potentially lethal force against me and my response will be in kind. Plenty of people have died or been permanently maimed by assholes wielding “harmless” sticks.
Well, that was sad on many levels.
Not mentioned in the Saturday morning lox lynx: OTD 50 years ago, we witnessed the most famous sclaffed six-iron shot in history.
I never used my broiler before because it is essentially at floor level. So I tried a very simple dish – cheese on split pretzel rolls. I discovered that there is a heat graident where the back of the broiler is hotter than the front, as that end of the grid was blackened. (Only one tasted burnt) While the bottom of the ones in front were still cool. I also discovered that the broiler cavity is small, and it was difficult to get a quarter baking sheet into the space.
*Quarter sheet pans are my go-to for random things going into the oven, since they fit easily with plenty of room to spare.
I’m not sure what’s taking up the space to either side of the broiler, since there’s no drawer, just a door.
My broiler is the same way. Works out for the bacon because wife likes them overdone and I like them to be on the edge of crispy.
Last house had a convection oven, which helped even things out some (but wasn’t perfect)
I used to broil steaks down there. Never used it for anything else.
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Feeling a bit of the horn, ol’ buddy?
I talked my very pregnant wife into sex one evening. Very early the next morning her water broke and about 12 hours later our first daughter was born.
Ditto.
#MeToo, but it was a bit longer before her water broke. Like 9 months longer.
Ha!
Giving the people what they want.
What’s with you guys having to talk your wives INTO sex? For 20 years I was exhausted and at least a couple of times per week I had to ask “Can we wait a little while? Just give me a bit.”
Now THAT is a humble brag.
There is nothing humble about it.
*puffs out chest and raises chin at high angle*
Yup. Then menopause hit.
Bye, bye, whoopie.
What does taking out the garbage have to do with sex?
Uhhh, using a different FFL for a Gunbroker purchase. Everything is taking waaaaaay too long.
They are closed tomorrow, but I’m going to have to give them a call on Monday, hurry things up.
I tells ya – it’s them skwirrelzz!!
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I still have a package that Amazon says has been “out for delivery” since 8am. I wonder if it will arrive tonight. ?
Anyone posted this doozy in the LA Times?
“justice and truth”
I’m not sure this guy knows what this means.
It is a gal. I’m sure her husband is tickled pink that he won’t have to go out and shovel.
The woman – who was never going to shovel anyhow – agonizes for thousands of words about what a predicament this has put her in. She even works in a no-shit Nazi reference.
Her poor husband.
This.
That said, I imagine him a gigantic pussy, and probably deserves every bit of it.
She nailed it when she said ‘and they probably aren’t looking for absolution anyway.’ This twit spends all this time agonizing over whether or not to thank a neighbor for saving them a lot of time and effort, but it probably never occurred to the neighbor to either ponder her politics, or think that plowing the driveway was an attempt at making amends. They were just being ‘nice’, something not limited to rich white neighborhoods. What an awful place she must come from, that that sort of thing doesn’t normally happen.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GrC_yuzO-Ss
Dammit, I hated her from just the blurb. Why did i read some of the rest of it, too? WHY?!?
SO, glad to get the help and now trying to stif them on response
Healing. I can feel the warm glow approaching.
I look forward to the article next week where she complains somebody pushed all the snow from the entire subdivision into her driveway.
This.
Push all the snow into her house. With a CAT 988 Wheel Loader.
I literally LOLed
Fuck her.
I mean fucking seriously? How goddamn self righteous do you need to be to be so entitled that you feel someone owes you penance because of who they fucking voted for? They don’t owe her shit.
Well, all 40 million of the people who voted for Biden (and all 40 million of their dead relatives) owe me an apology. My taxes are going up and my freedom is going down. The tax thing won’t matter too much, because of the inflation they seem to be intentionally setting off. I have been harmed by their vote explicitly.
At least the $15/hr federal minimum wage seems to be dead in the water. God, talk about a quick way to completely impoverish the lower middle class- hey now you’re only making 5 bucks more than the immigrant, NE teenager, at the place you get lunch. “Learn a trade” they said.
Nee? Too lazy to open another window
What about the effort to roll out cheat by mail nationwide?
Yeah. That’s bad. I think my pillow guy is peddling nonsense, but I don’t have the technical knowledge to judge it, if it’s even been made available for others to check.
But there is no doubt that Governors, Secretaries of State, hell, even local election boards, illegally changed or just ignored state election laws, to one side’s advantage.
I had to be a dumbass and read that.
That lady seriously has a psychological defect.
Seent at the store: mom in the liquor aisle absolutely insistent that her 10 or 12 or whatever year old son doesn’t get near any bottles because he’s underage. The cashier hands the case of spritzer over to mom, and the son reaches out to take it. Mom tells him off. “You’re not eighteen!” Funniest shit I seent, tell you what.
Man, SC2 general chat is based af
“biden doesn’t sniff he simply inhales without inhaling” LOL
Watching one of my favorite feel good movies…Secondhand Lions
Forgot about that one. Great movie.
It is an evil movie that portrays manhood, courage, and faith. I too want to go out with my boots on.
Shouldn’t you also specify that those boots are on the correct feet?
/The Longest Day Reference
I wish Glas was ubiquitous, these Jewel pods leak like crazy. My nicotine money is being wasted.
Juul?
Glas?
I use Juul and yes they suck. I used to switch between various competitors but none of them operate in my state (or maybe city?) any more except Juul – this came straight from the shopkeeper I asked about it.
I think it’s “Glas” maybe with the dots over the a? Really rugged hardware. But you can’t see how much you have left as well. Was the product that got me vaping again, after horrible liquid tou fill yourself. You can probably find a $10 offer at circle k or somewhere for battery and cartridge. I’m going to check if they are still available and switch back. Tired of a brand new cartridge being empty.
Sundance is about to show Pet Sematary and they just warned me it’s not “inclusive and tolerant”.
It’s about time the mob went after Stephen King.
Not enough minorities being terrorized in the movie?
Well, it IS Maine.
They have French-Canadians, isn’t that enough?
Too many adults around that as children weren’t told to shut up enough.
Tin Foil hat time: Lincoln Project implosion, Bezos stepping down from CEO, Time running that article.
I don’t believe in coincidences at all.
What article?
And assume I’m not making the connection because it’s 1am.
Time article about the “secret” forces that fortified the election? I know its 1am in devil’s time…but come on.
I don’t think I’ve even heard of such an article.
Its too late for this game. Its like talking to my teenaged boys.
Just because I’m not paying attention to politics and media 24/7? I honestly missed whatever discussion of that which happened.
And I don’t play games when I ask for more information.
I ask for more information because I didn’t have it.
Yes, this is the first I’m hearing about this.
People don’t like to hear that the drugs fell out of someone’s ass. Even if it’s an important article that deserves to be discussed in more than one thread. Here it is.
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Thank you, grrizzly
I’ve read the article more than once, but noticed this for the first time:
They were?
Also the comment about people fearing post-election violence as voting day approached: the article failed to specify that the summer of unrest, looting, and violence had all come from the left.
The left is eternally grateful for the few weirdos who came into the Capitol building and moved Nancy’s cheese, because now they can retroactively spin it into proof that millions of rednecks clinging to their guns and religion are a big organized mutiny, a clear and present danger to the State.
How do you think they are related?
“We admit that we rigged the election, but we did it because we’re the good, smart people, and you dummies were going to elect the wrong guy.”
Also, anybody talking about how the election was rigged will still be deplatformed. That is all.
This shit is so goddamn maddening.
I mean… FUCK!
Don’t even need the heavy duty foil for that linkage.
I thought the Lincoln Project one was quite convenient, right after they’re no longer needed.
Zoom now: mind blown.
Bed now. Mind fuzzy.
Hillary can hit a plant from across the room.
phew its cold enough to freeze the balls on a brass monkey. I think my truck said 8º americanheit.
TALL SABBATH CANS !
*OFF the monkey
Olo fellow gliberaties!
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