See part one for disclosures and background on the legislative process in New Hampshire.
The week of the 8th through the 12th is a week of committee hearings.
HB 506
HB 506 is an attempt to rewrite New Hampshire’s public accommodation law so that a business cannot refuse service to someone:
- who has not received a vaccine
- who has declined medical treatment
- who has declined a medical test
- who is refusing to use a medical device (like a mask)
I did not contact any legislators about it. I do not like public accommodation laws.
The Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs Committee held a hearing on Mar. 8th, 2021 at 9 AM. I got a late start on my day and did not attend the meeting through Zoom. I watched part of the recording. I noted two representatives wearing masks on the Zoom call even though they appeared to be alone in the rooms they were in. I looked up both representatives, and both are Republicans.
The prime sponsor, Rep. Barbara Comtois, testified first. She claims this is an anti-discrimination bill. The committee’s questioning of her went on for about an hour. My impression is that most of the committee thinks this bill will cause problems. Two things stood out. The first is that the committee chair brought up Typhoid Mary and thinks the bill will allow Typhoid Marys, though the prime sponsor thinks the state will be able to quarantine contagious people. The other was one committee member thinks this bill would prevent “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service”, which the prime sponsor thinks it would not as shirts and shoes are not medical devices.
A representative from the state Human Rights Commission (HRC) testified next. She says this bill will create a new protected class. According to her, protected classes in New Hampshire are generally based on immutable characteristics. The HRC representative thinks the creation of a new protected class as defined in this legislation is too open ended. She thinks the ADA covers the situations this bill is intended to address. The HRC representative also thinks the law attempts to go around what the Governor and State AG are doing with the emergency orders.
There were a lot of people signed up to speak. The hearing at this point had gone on for more than the hour allocated. The committee chair decided to continue along with this hearing instead of recessing so that the next hearing would start close to its start time. The committee chair imposed a strict time limit of two minutes for people to give testimony. I stopped watching the hearing after a few people had spoken. The few people I listened to all basically spoke against public health fascism.
I think there are better ways to fight public health fascism than expanding public accommodation laws.
HCR 2
The House Legislative Administration Committee had an executive session on Mar. 9th. According to the committee’s calendar, their plan was to consider the resolution then. I joined the executive session via Zoom. The committee’s 9 AM hearing on a bill eliminating or modifying existing state committees was still in progress.
When the hearing ended, the committee chairman moved to recess the executive session and reschedule for March 29th. No committee member objected. No action on HCR 2.
My speculation is that the Governor wants to kneecap the effort to end the state of emergency. His mask mandate, remaining business regulations, remaining travel restrictions, and the state of emergency all expire on March 26th, 2021. The first three are the most widely objected to aspects of the state of emergency. If he allows those three to expire, then support for ending the state of emergency will dry up, which means less support for HCR 2. I think he will allow them to expire and not rescind them earlier for political reasons. News coverage of people receiving one of the vaccines is the biggest factor in the political calculation. He will then continue to rule like a autocrat as he renews the state of emergency every 21 days. We will see what happens on the 26th.
In case you are wondering, if HCR 2 dies and later in the year the Governor brings back COVID-19 restrictions, could the Legislature try again to end the state of emergency? In theory, the Legislature could, whether they are in session or call themselves back into session. In reality, the late introduction of legislation is easier said than done. Let’s assume the Legislature is in session. If the Legislature is out of session, it has to come back into session which makes the late introduction harder. The deadline for introducing new legislation has passed. The deadlines for this session were mid-December 2020 for the House and mid-January 2021 for the Senate. In order to introduce a piece of legislation after the deadline, 2/3rds of the House must vote to override the rules to allow a late introduction of legislation. Then the House will consider the legislation and vote on the legislation. I assume the Senate has similar rules. There have been two attempts, both in the House, to introduce a resolution to end the state of emergency outside of the normal legislative process. One was at the end of last year’s session and the other was at the opening of this year’s session. Both failed to receive a 2/3rds vote to override the rules to consider the legislation.
A few days after I wrote the above two paragraphs, I saw a news story about the Governor’s weekly news conference. I think my speculation isn’t quite right. I’m not going to change that section beyond fixing a few spelling mistakes, a few word-use mistakes, and some details on late introduction of legislation. You can judge my speculation. To summarize what the Governor said in his news conference, his mask mandate will stay in place. He will rescind some business restrictions and some travel restrictions. I suggest you read the linked article about the news conference. There are some doozies in there.
After the Governor’s news conference on Thursday the 11th, Reopen NH started asking its supporters to call or e-mail Speaker of the House Sherman Packard to ask him to bring HCR 2 up for a vote. Within about two hours, I saw reports from Reopen NH supporters that Speaker Packard’s voice mailbox was full.
Friday, the 12th, at about 9:30 AM the voice mailbox was no longer full, according to reports from Reopen NH supporters. It was full again by about 11 AM. I called at about 12:30 PM. It was not full. I left a message then sent out word to Reopen NH that Speaker Packard’s voice mailbox is no longer full.
The voice mail introduction message I received hinted that Speaker Packard has staffers. Generally, no state representatives in New Hampshire have staffers. They answer e-mails, regular mail, phone calls, and voice mails themselves. I checked with a legislator I know. The Speaker, unlike most representatives, has a staff. Unless his staff tell him about these voice mails, he knows nothing about them.
At the time I’m wrapping up this article on Friday in mid-afternoon, I see no new emergency orders posted on the COVID-19 emergency orders web page.
HB 63
The House Finance Committee was supposed to work on HB 63 during their March 9th work session. I did not attend the session via Zoom and instead watched the recording on youtube. The recording does not start at the beginning of the meeting. The recording shows the committee in the middle of considering bills before them. I did not hear any discussion of HB 63 during the part of the recording where the committee considered bills, so if the committee considered the bill, the committee considered the bill before the clerk started the recording. I have no updates for this bill at the time I wrapped up this article.
SB 155
SB 155 is a bill codifying some of the Governor’s emergency orders into law. I think this is a mixed bag. There are some provisions relaxing licensing requirements for medical providers which I like. There are provisions about remote meetings which I don’t like because I think they allow government officials to hide from their constituents. The Senate committee has given the bill an Ought to Pass with Amendment (OTP-A) recommendation. It looks like the amendment re-writes the bill. The bill is supposed to come up for a vote before the full Senate on March 18th.
HB 402 and 440
I missed HB 402 in earlier articles. I covered HB 440 in last week’s installment and the first installment in this series. The House Judiciary Committee had an executive session discussing both bills. I missed the live stream. Instead I watched a recording of the executive session.
HB 402 restricts property takings during a state of emergency. The bill changes the existing law, RSA 4:46, to require approval from the Legislature in order to take property during a state of emergency. The prime sponsor, Rep. Michael Sylvia, offered an interesting argument during the committee debate in that in a real emergency, that people will just ignore the law. Rep. Sylvia also pointed out that RSA 4:46 is twenty years old and has never been used. Some members of the committee were concerned about the logistics of convening enough members of the Legislature, if the legislature is not in session, to have a quorum. After the debate, the committee voted on its recommendation to the full House. The bill received an Ought To Pass (OTP) recommendation on a 11-10 vote. I think the vote was a straight party line vote. The minority thinks the bill should have an Inexpedient to Legislate (ITL) recommendation.
The committee had some debate on HB 440. One of the committee members thinks this bill will open up a can of worms and hamstring the governor. I did not catch his name. This committee member thinks the governor was guided by science and logic. This member also thinks the Governor did not trample on civil liberties. Other committee members think the Governor went too far during the COVID-19 state of emergency and this bill would stop future governors from doing the same thing. The committee accepted the amendment, mentioned in my earlier article, on a 16-5 vote. After the vote, one committee member said she thinks the amendment would not actually protect civil liberties. The committee voted on its recommendation to the full House. The bill received an Ought to Pass as Amended (OTP-A) recommendation on a 11-10 vote. I think that vote was a party line vote. The minority thinks the amended bill should have an ITL recommendation.
News Coverage for the Week
Laconia Bike Week supporters don’t want restrictions for this year’s Bike Week.
Municipal elections took place in some towns in New Hampshire. Some towns ran elections a bit differently again this year.
A Sununu lost an election. Unfortunately, it is not Gov. Chris Sununu. Instead it is one of his brothers.
Facebook shut down Reopen NH’s Facebook private group. Their Facebook public page is still alive. Reopen NH started moving to other platforms a few months ago. They are on MeWe and Telegram.
St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is coming up. Some New Hampshire restaurant owners are getting ready.
On Friday, March 13th, 2020, Gov. Sununu declared the state of emergency, that New Hampshire is still under, for COVID-19. I didn’t think much of it at first.
On Sunday, March 15th, 2020, I went out to my local Irish pub for lunch. I liked their brunch menu. They had Smithwick’s on tap. I liked the staff working Sundays. Usually I sat at the bar on Sundays to get my lunch. That day, the bar was packed and most tables were packed. I got a table. I had my lunch and some Smithwick’s. I didn’t stay long.
Monday, March 16th, 2020, following Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, Gov. Sununu announced that all bars and restaurants in New Hampshire would be closed except for take-out. The reason Gov. Sununu gave is that he was concerned about people coming up from Massachusetts for St. Patrick’s Day since Massachusetts bars were closed. Since he is concerned about one day, bars and restaurants have to be closed for three weeks. It makes perfect sense.
I thought about going out the evening of the 16th for one last meal at a bar. I found out about the news late in the evening and I was trying to meet a deadline at work. I did not go out. In hindsight, I should have.
Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 was St. Patrick’s Day. Several places I patronized switched to take-out only. My local Irish pub had planned to offer take-out as long as it made economic sense to. A local brewpub I like planned to offer take-out on St. Patrick’s Day and then shut down for the duration of the business shutdown.
I’ve been in my local Irish pub in past years for St. Patrick’s Day. There is almost always a line the entire day to get in there on St. Patrick’s Day. The inside is almost always wall-to-wall people all day. On St. Patrick’s Day 2020, I called to place my take-out order for lunch and drove over. I arrived. No line. The area the pub is in was empty. I walked into the bar. It was eerily quiet. I’ve never seen the place that quiet. The only sounds were from the TVs which were turned to the news. I saw no one. I walked around the corner of the bar area, and saw in the far corner one of the staff packaging up take-out orders. I picked up my order. I tipped like I was sitting at the bar. I wished the staff well.
Later that day, I got take-out from the before-mentioned brewpub. There was a little more life in the brewpub than in the Irish pub. Some regulars were sitting at the bar. They were talking with the staff as they waited for their take-out orders. The staff were worried about how the shutdowns would work out. I picked up my order, tipped like I was sitting at the bar, and wished the staff well.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020 my local Irish pub was again open for take-out. I decided against getting take-out that day and instead get some the next day. That was another mistake.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020 my local Irish pub announced they would not offer take-out for this day and would also shut down for the duration of the business shutdown.
I kept going to the gym and my physical therapy appointments for my disc herniation. Eventually, Gov. Sununu shut down gyms and other “non-essential” businesses.
I was at my gym on the last day the gym was allowed to be open. I remember the woman who works the front desk, who is a single mother, being worried about what the future would bring.
The physical therapy center I went to stayed open as they were not affected by the order. Unfortunately, due to a large number of cancellations the owners could not justify staying open. They closed with plans to reopen when the situation changed. We moved to on-line sessions.
Eventually, the owner of that above-mentioned brewpub decided to re-open for dinner take-out on the weekends. I was there every weekend, sometimes twice a weekend, for take-out during the shutdown.
On May 1st, Gov. Sununu announced that on May 18th, 2020, he would allow bars and restaurants to reopen for outdoor dining only. That began the slow reopening of the state. Eventually, all businesses opened but with restrictions.
Here we are a year after the initial state of emergency declaration with life still not back to normal.
I am planning to head out for St. Patrick’s Day this year. My plan is to head to an Irish bar in Manchester, NH which is owned by a supporter of Reopen NH. This bar will open at 6 AM on St. Patrick’s Day, 6 AM being the earliest you can legally sell alcohol for on-premises consumption in New Hampshire. I will not go to my local Irish pub as they are very strict about enforcing COVID-19 restrictions and will have a maximum table occupancy time on St. Patrick’s Day. I will stop in at the brewpub after I get done work. I expect the day will be a good day.
Preview for the Week of March 15th through 19th
The Senate will have one session day during this week. The only vote I’m interested in is the one for SB 155. I expect it will pass the Senate.
The House has no session days scheduled for this week at this time.
Both the House and the Senate have committee hearings next week.
A Senate committee will have a hearing on SB 138, which is about price controls during a state of emergency.
I looked through the committee hearing calendar for the House for bills Reopen NH is watching. There will be another committee hearing for HB 187, which restricts the powers of New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS). I covered this bill in earlier installments in this series. The first committee gave the bill a recommendation of OTP-A for the bill.
I will write more next week.
I happen to think that a pair a shoes is much more a “medical device” than a face diaper.
*continues reading*
That’s a lot of heavy lifting right there. I can see how you threw out your back.
I hope you are feeling better soon. Back problems suck.
Thanks.
Things are much improved with my back.
Damn, it feels good to be a Firster
A real Firstin-ass nigga plays his cards right
A real Firstin-ass nigga never runs his fucking mouth
‘Cause real Firstin-ass niggas don’t start fights
And niggas always gotta high cap
Showing all his boys how he shot ’em
But real Firstin-ass niggas don’t flex nuts
‘Cause real Firstin-ass niggas know they got ’em
Now, everything is cool in the mind of a Firster.
‘Cause Firstin-ass niggas think deep
Up three-sixty-five, ayo, 24/7
‘Cause real Firstin-ass niggas don’t sleep
And all I gotta say to you, wannabe, gonnabe
Cocksucking, pussy-eating pranksters
IWhen the fire dies down, what the fuck you gonna do?
Damn, it feels good to be a Firster
That’s just so perfect. Makes me happy we don’t have edit or delete buttons.
ANTI-FIRSTING TRICKNOLOGY
Oh yeah. I’m having a good laugh.
I Firsted not once, but twice before anyone else posted. And no comment displayed. Now, now it appears. It’s a conspiracy. It goes all the way to the top.
Wait, you cannot first twice. That’s a first and a second. Now you’re just bullshitting ( as if this whole line of thought isn’t bullshit, anyway!)
A Firster never lies.
I first read that as ‘fisher’, and for some reason my first thought was ‘Broketard, fisher of dicks’.
I’ve been banned from Firsting.
The anti-Firstites are employing anti-Firsting technology against me.
Shoulda looked at the purse!
No, you just lost your touch Bro, it’ll be OK, just post like the Smart person you are and it will be fine,
Cheers!
You’re a rabid anti-firstite!
No, I just Hate Brochetta,
/JK, he’s intelligent other than Fisting…
You’re expecting way too much from Broketard. Just trying to save you from certain disappointment.
kinda funny
An Op-Ed comparing NH to Oceania from “1984”.
IIRC, weren’t Eastasia and Eurasia operating on the same exact principles as Oceania? And NH….
IIRC, weren’t Eastasia and Eurasia operating on the same exact principles as Oceania?
Yes, I think they were.
Speaking of lockdowns….
“Assembly for me, but not for thee
The anger over the police assault on the Sarah Everard vigil has exposed the double standards of the liberal elite
There were two disturbing things about the scuffles at the Sarah Everard vigil. The first was the behaviour of the cops. The second was the shock of some of the attendees and of the high-profile feminists, columnists and politicians who were cheering them on, who genuinely could not believe that their public assembly was being assaulted and dispersed. These people seem to think that lockdown measures don’t apply to them. That the authoritarianism of the past 12 months that many of them demanded and celebrated is for other people, little people, those people whose views and beliefs and right to assemble are not nearly as important as ours. Saturday’s depressing spectacle illustrated just how out of touch both the Met Police and the chattering classes are in 2021…..”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/14/assembly-for-me-but-not-for-thee/
It’s also funny because the ruling class of Britain largely wants to import mass numbers of single Muslim men from third world countries with zero semblance of respect for the notion of women’s rights. But then they latch onto some story about a moderately attractive white woman being murdered by a cop to get on their high horses about the subject.
I really like Brendan O’Neil. He is a principled lefty who won’t bend the knee.
Catching up on reading AUSA’s rag. It’s always been the institutional voice of the MIC, but the wokeist garbage is passing through unfiltered now. Maybe our traitors in uniform and in high public service can rename those evil confederate names with more appropriate ones such as heroes of the Khmer Rogue or the Cultural Revolution as a fitting tribute to whitewashing history.
There has been rumblings of moving a lot of stuff over to the classified side because too much information is being exposed. If the GOs would just shut their fucking yaps and ban all participation with AUSA and other industry groups and media – the intel guys on the other side might actually have to do some work.
A man of principles.
Curious how a state law like that would work with things like airlines and other forms of interstate travel given the federal guidelines. I don’t see most businesses restricting access to people based on whether someone was vaccinated. Masks are more of an issue.
“I do not like public accommodation laws.”
Either the Commerce Clause allows governments to take over everything or it doesn’t. Reasonable people are in a tiny minority on this one: Bake the Fuckin’ Cake, I’m told.
This. It applies to tech companies. It applies to gun manufacturers. It applies to bakers and airlines. Either they own their business or they don’t.
I know of some business owners in New Hampshire that are quite into Covid theater. Some of them have called for greater government enforcement directed at businesses that aren’t participating in Covid theater.
I admit that if this bill passed, and those business owners came under the government thumb, that I would enjoy a little Schadenfreude at those business owners’ predicament.
That still doesn’t make expanding public accommodation laws right.
Sadly, right and wrong are way back in the rearview mirror.
Besides, if those business owners are so convinced that SARS-CoV-2 is an existential threat to the unmasked masses, then they should be willing to close their doors and go on welfare, rather than put their employees and customers at risk…
Not to mention that those business owners would be directly contradicting like, actual science.
Masks (or at least mask mandates) are not appreciably more effective than placebo, according to a CDC study examining the effects of mask mandates.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cdc-about-be-canceled-google-facebook-covid-heresy?fbclid=IwAR2llkzickrlO1l708eD249Jntm15zJJWoPNLJ22yPXg61IXMbQuUZs3C5U
Didn’t I post this exact link yesterday?
If drugs are falling out of your ass, it just means you didn’t stuff enough drugs up in there in the first place…
Maybe?
Somebody did.
And I put so much drugs up my ass, coughing them up is more likely than them falling out.
You did and butt chugging FTW!
Over the 20th century and beyond the number of studies on masking and transmission rates is probably in the triple digits. Not a single one of them showed that masks are effective, in fact some showed that by inhaling in the mask you are re-introducing viral particles into your body, upping your viral load and increasing your chances of serious illness.
Government comes up with a mask mandate, Fauci pushes it, people complain and all of a sudden the CDC shits out a study showing masks work. Riiiiiight.
What egts me is how they pretend like all this mask stuff is brand new. Like we had no knowledge whatsoever about masks prior to covid. We absolutely knew if they would work ( they don’t) and we knew that lockdowns wouldn’t work also. This shit has been studied ad nauseum. Doctors wear masks and we have a good database about them. I’ve been trained on how to avoid exposure to germs and telling the general public to tie some t-shirt material around your jaw is not going to help.
Exhaust gas temperature?
I’ve mentioned before about my experience at the Rocky Flats nuclear facility. It was a no shit, properly-fitted mask will save your life situation. I had to shave my beard to get the mask to seal. A t-shirt over the nose isn’t going to do squat.
Today wearing the mask is like having a COEXIST bumper sticker on your Prius; virtue signalling at its finest.
High temps on that sensor suggest you’re running lean. Time to enrich the fuel mixture!
GunBroker is back up.
My credit cards just let out a lil cry of anguish.
I placed a bunch of bids on Lee-Enfield variants at the upcoming Amoskeag Auction.
I really shouldn’t bid on more stuff, but…. temptation.
Oh… I forgot.
I also bid on a Remington made Berthier. No serial number because the French practice was to put a serial number on military arms only after the military inspectors accepted the weapon. The French inspectors at the Remington factory rejected the rifles. So no serial numbers. Scuttlebutt is that there is nothing actually wrong with these rifles.
I threw out some bids this evening. Including some ugly guns. I need an APX, for reasons I’m not sure of.
APX? Do you need an intervention?
I don’t need an intervention due to my buying of old rifles, so therefore Sean doesn’t need an intervention for buying an APX.
More science-y than Fauci.
We were packing stuff up to get moved today, and as I was inventorying ammo I came across a shitty Chinese 30-round AK mag and about 200 rounds of even shittier steel-case 7.62×39 ammo. I stuck it on Gunbroker for $25. Lasted about ten minutes. Someone got a hell of a deal. I probably could have gotten more, but I don’t really give a shit, just wanted to get rid of the stuff.
“Media Falsehoods and Excessive Police Force: An account of the Montreal lockdown protest
On Saturday, March 14, 2021, thousands of Quebeckers protested in the streets of Montreal against the Legault government’s strict lockdown measures still in place despite the falling case counts across the province.
The organizers of the “Marche Des Insoumis” or “March of the Rebellious” protest wrote on the event page that the protest is for people who question the government’s lockdown measures.
The protest assembled in front of Quebec Premier Francois Legault’s downtown Montreal office on Sherbrooke Quest near McGill University at 12:30 pm.
The March of the Rebellious is being described as the largest lockdown protest in the city’s history, amassing nearly 10,000 attendees at the height of the protest. Some people believe the protest was even larger….”
https://westphaliantimes.com/media-falsehoods-and-excessive-police-force-an-account-of-the-montreal-lockdown-protest/
“Dutch police crack down on anti-lockdown protesters who were peacefully gathered in a park. A woman is struck by a police van.”
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1371175043292532736
Can’t even express how happy I am about seeing things happen in Europe that SHOULD be happening here right now.
It’s fucking deflating as all hell, actually. To know that the thoroughly subjugated Euros are protesting while we meekly wait for our government overlords to kindly allow us back out is depressing.
See above, also pea-soup-eating floppy heads.
HB 506
HB 506 is an attempt to rewrite New Hampshire’s public accommodation law so that a business cannot refuse service to someone:
who has not received a vaccine
who has declined medical treatment
who has declined a medical test
For me, the distinctive test is if there is a collusion with government. If the federal government instituted a national vaccine database, I would support a state government passing a law that businesses cannot use that federal database for determining a person received a vaccine or not. A business in that state would still be free to refuse service on vaccine status, but it will fall on them to undertake the costs and liabilities of setting up their own vaccine verification company or contracting with a private company to do so.
Listen at this DEG guy. Shitlord sponsor of terror confirmed.
According to the CDC’s analysis, between March 1 and December 31 last year, statewide mask mandates were in effect in 2,313 of the 3,142 counties in the United States.
And, looking at the county-by-county data, the CDC concludes that mask mandates were associated with an average 1.32% decrease in the growth rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths during the first 100 days after the mask policy was implemented.
Any statistician worth his salt could take that data into the torture chamber and come back with a report showing mask mandates detectably increased the incidence of infection.
It’s pretty damning to me that the best result they could get is 1%. I mean, odds are the people doing the study were determined to come to that conclusion. And the media outlets trumpeting it as some sort of win for the maskers are just delusional.
I haven’t seen a peep outside of this one mention.
1.32% isn’t statistically significant in any way whatsoever. It’s well within the margin of error.
Anyone who would believe that this is a win is an idiot extraordinaire.
The CDC and fact checkers in the media beg to differ.
They are clinging to the claim that the correlation was statistically significant. And anyone who claims that the impact is minuscule is a lying liar.
I live how they neglected to publish the actual information in the study, resorting to “researchers say it’s a statistically significant difference.”
It’s 1.32%. That’s not statistically significant by any realistic measure.
I picked up on that as well. The closest they come to stating the actual number is when discussing the impact within the first 20 days.
They know that if most people knew the number they’d think it’s a bullshit claim, too.
Hey, that’s probably +/-3% so it could be as high as 4%.
And as low as -1.8%.
Like I said yesterday, “if it saves one life” they can justify anything. It’s happened before.
Emotional appeals is all they’ve got.
Tragically, it’s enough to excuse all sorts of legislative and executive sins.
FOR THE CHILDREN
Also 1%? holy shit that sucks.
1 POINT THREE TWO, GODDAMMIT!!
I did the math for KY.
If they study is correct, almost 5 million people have been subjugated to mask mania for nearly a year, in order to save a whole 67 people.
“Furious mum shares painful moment a man laughed at her trans child for looking at a dress”
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/03/14/taryn-de-vere-trans-children-daughter-tedx-derry-transphobia/
https://twitter.com/TarynDeVere
This person totally not doing it for attention.
Get over yourself, bitch.
That goes for the fashion and virtue-signaling accessory you call your child too.
*taps out*
I remember when gay and lesbian became lesbian and gay, and then the bi’s joined in, and then the trannies. Since the trannies are clearly the top of the stack now, I wonder when the letters of the acronym get shuffled around to reflect that.
Pretty soon gay men will be booted out to the same purgatory as the “Asians” because they seem to excel based on merits and are now pretty much mainstream.
Sorry dude. You’re just too functional and self-reliant for the Grievance Club.
White gay men have already been booted.
It’s too late. That’s already happened.
The biggest mistake the gay community ever made was aligning with trans. The issues aren’t even remotely the same.
Oh, it’s Tglb now.
It’s your fault, rhywun. You weren’t stunning and brave enough.
T-glib?
Our best- our brightest
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday defended the recently enacted Covid relief package, saying the benefits for the economy far outweigh any concerns that the burst of government spending could lead to inflation.
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Yellen said, “We need to defeat the pandemic. This package really does that.”
Uh, that’s not actually how epidemiology works, ma’am.
Obammy, lover of fugly butch dykes, is most definitely still in charge.
Some tinfoil hat site had something about how he’d moved back into the WH in secret and was running things like a Sith lord. I suppose the grain of truth therein is that he’s taking the opportunity to resurrect some of his awful legacy debacles via pen-happy Joe, and more importantly put himself in the spotlight to sell memoirs and build his great monument to himself in Chicago.
Obama was a moderate compared to the people who are pulling Biden’s strings. Undoing everything Trump did to return us to the Obama baseline is just a way-station in preparation for their real goals.
I knew I could weather the Obama years. I don’t have that same sentiment now.
Cuz, you’re not wrong there.
Way station!
This may be the surest sign inflation is coming.
What do you mean?
I thought the Covid bill was the vaccine?
the benefits for the economy far outweigh any concerns that the burst of government spending could lead to inflation
To be fair, by the time the economy crashes, the spending will be so far in the rear view mirror that the media won’t even have to actively ignore it.
Another bit of NH news.. Will NH become a flying car mecca?.
No.
Also any time a headline asks a question the answer is always no.
I considered this earlier after having encountered an exception to this rule, but off hand I don’t recall what it was.
“Will Foochi ever stop fucking sheep?”
Does anally swabbing the sheep count?
That was an interesting read.
One paragraph acknowledging the killjoy standard issue commie ?
If TM wasn’t TE, they wouldn’t have even bothered with the paragraph. However, since TMITE, they have to find some destructive type to feature as yet another way to trial balloon yet another aspect of totalitarian communism.
I’ve no problem with them acknowledging opposition or alternative viewpoints in such a manner. I don’t know if I’d have bothered with that had I written the piece, since apparently that guy is hardly relevant, but it gives at least one different view, even if it’s just some guy’s warmed over Marxist crap by numbers.
IMO, it’s typical agenda insertion. The “backlash” is one guy who has nothing better to do than navel gaze about flying cars. It adds nothing to the article and serves only to push forward the lens through which the media wants you to view the whole flying car thing.
Agreed.
This isn’t some “opposing viewpoint”, it’s 1 asshole’s opinion.
“flying cars will allow the super rich to wall themselves off from social problems that he feels demand “collective action” — for instance, alleviating poverty and climate change”
CWAA
Mistakes were made
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said in a new interview that he regrets mistakes he made in handling the state’s response to the coronavirus outbreak over the last year.
But the embattled governor rejected a petition to recall him from office, an effort that had earned more than 2 million signatures from residents as of last week.
“Next time. I’ll put some serious teeth in my dictatorial proclamations. You losers just didn’t OBEY hard enough.”
Sure, mistakes were made, I misspoke here, nothing to see here, sheeples, move along.
So much this
Wow. That’s more than you’ll ever get out of Cuomo.
He’s saying what he has to. Did he get specific about what mistakes he made because I’d wager that you’d never get him to admit that he was too draconian.
I just found this.
Guy is definitely a member of the greatest guitar trio of all time. Although I’d definitely give the top spot in that trio to Steve Gaines, who was even more unlucky, dying only months after he joined the band, along with his sister, Cassie. I saw them in Cincy only a couple of months before that crash.
Allen Collins
Lucky bastard! I decided they were my favorite band shortly after the crash. I was pissed that I’d ever get to see them. I did go to the ’87 show and probably about 10 shows thereafter, but no Steve Gaines and Ronnie. Allen Collins makes me want to buy an Explorer but they are scarce and expensive.
“The HRC representative thinks the creation of a new protected class as defined in this legislation is too open ended.”
Oh, *now* they tell us!
Viva & Barnes is live.
Barnes: The Chauvin prosecutors are striking jurors who voice concerns about to mob violence if they acquit, which puzzled me at first, but it makes sense when you realize they’re striking anyone even entertaining the possibility of acquitting.
Best jurors money can buy.
Either way the verdict goes there’s gonna be a hot time in town the night they tear Ol’ Minneapolis down.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Chauvin pleads guilty to a lesser charge, get 10, serves 5 or less. That 27 million looks mighty good.
Barnes predicts Keith Ellison et al. will pull out all the stops, however corrupt and debauched, to get him declared guilty, and it’ll be overturned on appeal in a couple years as their conduct comes to light.
He’ll get convicted and he’ll deserve it. That’s not to say there won’t be misdeeds by the prosecution, however. He had two other cops telling him he should back off a bit and said no. I bet he cause some pain to himself holding that position for 9 fucking minutes, imagine if his neck was being squeezed by a grown assed man for that long. He might of died and he wasn’t fucked up on anything but power. I’m so sick of the “excited delirium” lie. Why aren’t there people dying like flies when there’s no cops around? They’re still doing drugs and getting excited about things.
It’s more the probable misconduct by prosecutors and the lynch mob mentality in the jury box. If they fuck up and let an evil man go free by dint of their overzealous, ideological politicking, all the more reason to spotlight their conduct.
Yep, like OJ – LAPD got caught framing a guilty man. Of course Ellison and Company can make the claim they were fortifying the verdict. They’re on the right team to get away with it.
weather
Snow
We dont know when
we dont know how much, but,
Snow! Run! Global w, oh whatever….
Went shooting today with an old friend, and we went for beers and grub afterward. Had to put on a mask to walk up and order, but the girl behind the stick had hers down below the nose, and when we went to pay we conveniently left them around our neck/chin so as to talk. Nothing was said.
Also, the BLM sign in the window before was now gone.
I went into Home Depot with my mask down because I had been on the phone with my wife and was distracted. Nobody even looked at me funny. At least no more so than usual.
Standing in line at the local grocery I heard this:
Customer: Seems like things a more expensive
Cashier: Well, the way they are printing money means that there is going to be more inflation.
The dyed-blonde twenty-something at a small town grocery store has more understanding of basic economics than 98% of the idiots in Congress. I was impressed.
Would?
That would be a “hell yes” if I was 40 years younger and not married.
Did you lay down a slick line?
Add a Groucho eyebrow wiggle.
Nice
My usual ground coffee (in the now std 12 0z) jumped a couple bucks in the past week. I’m sure it just the only thing I noticed.
I bought something recently that was packed 14.4 . I thought that was a strange measurement ’til I realized that’s 90% of a lb. Small print, almost the same size container. I see a lot of 15 oz stuff at the grocery
I’ve encountered the exact same thing at small shops here in NYC. These people are hanging on by the skin of their teeth in the best of times.
I’ve been dropping some slightly political lines during business conversations lately. I’ve been getting good responses from the people I’ve been talking to. Somewhat encouraging.
She probably gets that a lot and has read the reasons why.
Too much paper chasing too few goods always ends up with the same result.
Someone wiser than me, though. needs to explain why inflation keeps not happening.
Similar, the Uneducated Economist
https://youtu.be/bvNn72rxU24
Guy looks like he’s about two steps from meth bumhood and works in a lumberyard. Less relevant video now, but gotta go for the hat and the scenery.
My handle started out here.
Not really relevant, but it just rolled around on the playlist and it made me happy.
Thanks for all you and your people are doing, DEG. Way more than most of us can say.
I’m not the one doing the heavy lifting. Others are.
RE: your handle: Minnesoda got warm quick this year? Because you still aren’t well chilled.
It’s been pretty nice for the last couple weeks, but we got pounded before that.
This was appropriate, then.
All in all. a pretty easy winter.
I’m pausing Thin Lizzy to listen to this.
Yeah. It works.
Put the whisky back in the jarro!
Just got back from the skatepark. It’s been heavily graffitied since we went last. Apparently, someone named Angel ( who was very beloved there.) died and got a lot of RIP’s . In the bowl, there was this: “FUCK THE SECURITY STATE!” and: ” I wanna die doing what I wanna do” Of course there was a few ACABs and what not, but I was heartened to see some decent sentiments too. Kid dropped into the big bowl for the first time and then smacked his head on the second try. I couldn’t really get too into it, for some reason my left knee just wouldn’t bend. I skated OK, I guess, there was one other grey beard and he just didn’t even try. I think because he saw me he just fucked around on his phone. Plus, he had a really old school board, like not very useful mid ’70’s old school. It was fun, despite the knee.
Oh, and some dude that was in his mid thirties crashed hard. A couple of the younger dudes actually carried him to over by the gate. Gate’s locked and you have to squeeze through to get in/out, so some guy went and got a cordless grinder and cut the chain so the crash victim could stroll out casually. Which was nice, but I gotta wonder why a guy has a cordless grinder in his car.
Really? I’m thinking about going out to buy one tomorrow!
Always be prepared!
You are such a Boy Scout 😉
When seconds counts, the jaws of life are minutes away!
I carry a big ass folding bolt cutters in my truck. You can’t be too prepared.
True, those big ass folding bolts just come out of nowhere.
Hey, sometimes I need to be on the other side of the gate.
I’m guessing parking scofflaw who knows how to handle a parking boot.
Nice. Happy to see that the skaters still hate the state.
Sorry about the knee. Ice and movement, brother.
Yeah, I cruise by the skate park here (its next to the Restore) and never, ever see anyone with a mask there. It’s nice.
Ours has been closed this whole time. They just keep bending fence bars and cutting locks. I’ve never seen it not crowded and only one or two masks out of 40-50 people. It’s a breath of fresh air.
A roller skate screwed onto a 2×4?
A 7″ Gordon and Smith with narrow Tracker trucks and big honkin Kryptonics wheels. Straight out of 1975!
My (older) cousin had a fish-shaped board in the 70’s, maybe half the total size of a modern board.
Steele wheens FTW!
I hope your knee gets better.
Happy Pi Day
Know why you never want to start a conversation with Pi ?
He’ll just go on forever.
Talk about circular reasoning!
Dont be irrational.
And don’t get me started with that asshole E.
An infrastructure policy specialist at the Center for American Progress
Kill it.
With fire.
I’ve been dropping some slightly political lines during business conversations lately. I’ve been getting good responses from the people I’ve been talking to. Somewhat encouraging.
Looking at a place, Friday afternoon, one of the realtors said, “You could rent out that little guest house. Or live in the guest house and rent the other one.”
Without really thinking, I said, “Well, now we know some jackass from the CDC can just randomly tell your tenants they don’t have to pay their rent anymore, my interest in being a landlord is COMPLETELY ZERO.”
He looked at me for a second and said, “Well, yeah. That’s a problem.”
I’m getting worried about our Robot Overloards.
My stupid rice cooker knew to change for DST.
What else does it know about me?
Why does your rice cooker have a clock on it rather than a timer?
My bread maker has a clock but doesn’t do DST.
You can set it to be done/start at a certain time. My life isn’t that well planned.
That thing you did? The one when you thought no one else was around or watching? It knows. And now so do they.
You can’t stop the signal, mikey.
They is obviously referring to Big Rice.
That’s just the feebs watching you. For your own good.
Ceiling rice cooker!
The dyed-blonde twenty-something at a small town grocery store has more understanding of basic economics than 98% of the idiots in Congress.
Or the new Treasury Secretary.
1975 vs. now.
This person is stupid.
lol!
That first one is great!
Reminds me of this!
I expected more children on the back of that big wheel.
SOOOO glad I was raised in the ’70’s!
Just when you think the Well of Stupidity just HAS to be bone dry, some asshole lowers his bucket and it comes up overflowing.
JFC.
We sure that was taken in the last year? I’ve cycled through big swarms of midges while breathing heavily and it’s pretty ghastly. Have to think it’s much worse on a motorcycle. Maybe that’s his deal.
Not that it’s unthinkable, given the stupid, stupid year we’ve had.
You are far too generous.
I know people who wear bandanas and gaiters for soot and whatnot, but that mask is a covid g-string for sure.
Like the university students wearing masks while they jog around the golf course. Young, thin, not likely suffering some respiratory impairment, coming nowhere near anyone else, but masked up like, well, like it’s a fashion statement, really.
but that mask is a covid g-string for sure.
Yep.
Make it a moped or small cc bike, and that second one could be any random Chinese or SE Asian city in the before times.
I did more yard work and shoveling today and I hurt. Last night, I sat in the hot tub which is like taking a handful of ibuprofen. But it is really blustery so I can’t do that tonight. Bummer
I know well over a dozen people who have outdoor hot tubs and most of them are never used.
I use my indoor hot tub daily (when I’m home)
/humblebrag
Mine was well used… By the local wildlife. Biggest effing spider I’ve ever seen and dozens of frogs.
Frogs seem to really love my folks’ saltwater pool. I like frogs, so it works out.
I use mine, but not when it’s this blustery.
I think I’d use one. Have to decide if it’s worth the cost of running electric service out there.
The candidate location is where a play set was, so instead of concrete, there is rubber mulch on that section. I think I need to run conduit out to a post or something, then pour more concrete or use big pavers to allow future access.
We bought one from a friend a few years ago who needed some money and didn’t need a hot tub. Currently it is indoors, but this summer we have plans to renovate our deck and install the hot tub outdoors. I love using outdoor tubs when it’s freezing outside. If it’s snowing, it’s even better. But if there are clear skies, that’s the best. Stargazing on a cold clear night from inside a hot tub is very relaxing.
30 degrees is perfect
Doesn’t that cause a lot of the water to spill out of the side though?
Crank up the water heater and bring the hot tub inside.
I know well over a dozen people who have outdoor hot tubs and most of them are never used.
The people I know who have them spend a lot of time talking about how much time and money keeping their hot tubs working requires.
To hell with that. If I ever buy my own place, I’m renovating the master bath to fit in a deep, oversized jet tub.
Mine is almost 40 years old and during that time I’ve had to replace or rebuild almost all of the components. Yet when everything is working it requires only a few chemicals once per week.
Indoors it adds humidity to our desert climate and helps moderate the household heat. Quite worth it to me.
Yep. We have a very nice large one. The circuit board died in it.
I gotta tell ya’, I keep it filled and clean and that reservoir of water comes in handy in a disaster. Twice in the last year we have lost water for extended periods; hurricane and ice storm. I use it to fill the toilet tanks.
If you want to be married and happy your wife must have a flushing toilet.
Did somebody say something about jumping a Big Wheel?
Nice
That was awesome.
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*crickets* around here, eh? Anyways, thanks for info, Deg.
Stop that infernal chirping.
I should be asleep.
*Cranks up the Mariachi*
Watching the America’s Cup live.
Also, I didn’t realize Brad Paisley could shred: https://youtu.be/6i0a7RDPkM8
Getting some random youtube going. Do you know how long it’s been since I heard Inna-Godda-da-Vita?
Very first concert I attended was Buffalo Springfield followed by Iron Butterfly. The second warmup band did a 25 minute version of Spoonful while they were waiting for the drummer for Buffalo Springfield to get to the venue. Later IB did IGdV for almost an hour. 1967 or ’68.
https://youtu.be/ulDC1w1ydLI
Relevant.
Amazing to think the Simpsons used to be funny.
My dear husband was still unable to sleep due to pain, despite two Percocet.
So I stuffed 3 gummies down his pie hole (tbh, I did ask and receive his permission) and he’s resting peacefully now.
Aaaaaaahh…blissful silence.
It still baffles me that in the eyes of the law, opioids are OK for pain but THC is not. On the other hand, I wouldn’t want THC to be as hard to obtain as Percocet is.
I’m glad he’s resting. You may want to get some sleep too.
I was thinking about how some statists want to ban cash so that every transaction is visible to the government or to some intermediary, and thus is ration-able, ban-able, reportable.
What if a state were to centralize ALL personal computer data in the “cloud”? Just like they show on Star Trek there’s one computer, one data store, and then access terminals scattered?
A malicious entity could monitor, delete, or edit the very reality that you thought you remembered.
No more hard drives or memory cards for you! Unless you use this special program to unlock it, thus shunting a copy to the “mains.”
Film cameras, eye witnesses, and shortwave radio. And a trusty Xerox machine…
Somewhere I saw a post/article about how dystopian stories, such as 1984, had an all seeing government agency monitoring the people for compliance, but what we are seeing now is compliance being monitored by non-government individuals through social media and online forums.
On the whole cloud thing, I have paper drawing at least 60 years old, and the idea of having intellectual property being held hostage by subscription software seems nuts to me.
I think it was Tim Pool who had a line about censorship in the digital era – the government is outsourcing it to private corporations. Twitter, Facebook, etal. are doing the work stomping on 1A for the establishment.
I used to sometimes think (1990’s or so) I was paranoid.
Now I realize I wasn’t cautious enough.
They are racing towards a one party fascist nightmare as fast as they can.
Monday already? Zounds, oh well, Hello Glibs! Top O’ the day,
Good morning, Yu!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Shi_ZG-sk5M
Heh.
Nice angle,
Hope that exposed flesh never gets hit by hot casings. 😉
The Silicon chip, inside her head,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPtu5V3kHTM
Ah, an old Finals Week favorite! My roommate would play the version from The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball album.
I loved that song since I was little. So dramatic!
Yusef, you work where?
A mushroom farm in Michigan,
WTF?
I never thought Id end up here,
In honor of the day.
Over two thousand years later and I’m still pissed off about how those jagoffs stabbed Caesar in the back. Especially Brutus, I mean what an asshole.
Classic!
Makes me think of pep band. Great tune though.
Time to make sparks
Carpe Carpio!
Some might call that a euphemism.
Thread fail. Too much blood in my caffeine stream. 🙁
Carpe cappuccino!
Carpe Carpaccio?
I mean, I don’t think carpe can be served raw.
::DDGs “carpaccio”:: Ooh! Sounds tasty!
Ted Cruz pounces.
With Donald gone, it’s nice to see that someone else has picked up the mantle of “laser pointer”.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/03/pennsylvania-nudist-resort-sets-may-date-for-reopening-report.html
Will masks be required?
suh’ ya’all
TALL CANS !
Morning Glibbies! DST can eat a bag of dicks and as featured on the the Saturday Zoom, new broom kicked my ass last night. I actually weighed it at 3.5 lbs. What does an ordinary whisk broom go? A half a pound, pound, pound and a half? This will be my glib-fit going forward. The veins were trying to escape my forearms halfway through the shift. I’ll be Popeye in a month or two.