Taco Bell’s all fancy now. Demolition Man is real!
Taco Bell Opened A Restaurant With A Fire Pit And Cornhole In Its Outdoor Dining Area
The masterminds over at Taco Bell are constantly testing out new menu items and it seems that their focus is not only on great food but also an overall positive consumer experience. This year, the brand is set to open 1,000 new locations globally to fulfill different needs in each area, and Taco Bell even has a new restaurant location that includes a fire pit and game area.
If you’re only familiar with a classic Taco Bell with a drive-thru and indoor dining area, you should know there are quite a few other ways that locations may be popping up near you soon. In 2015, Taco Bell saw an opportunity to make restaurants that didn’t include drive-thrus for urban areas, and thus the Taco Bell Cantina restaurant concept was born. Additionally, during the pandemic, Taco Bell had to adjust its restaurant experience across the board, which is why designs that prioritized drive-thrus, which it’s calling “Go Mobile” restaurants, started popping up too.
And as long as they kept the cornholing out in the back yard, I assume it will be sanitary enough.
Biden’s New Deal: Re-engineering America, quickly
President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big — and how fast is too fast — to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.
Why it matters … The historians’ views were very much in sync with his own: It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected. If that means chucking the filibuster and bipartisanship, so be it.
Mid-terms a comin’.
Woman charged $5,700 for a single cup of coffee still fighting for a refund — three months later
A Colorado woman has been struggling for months to get a refund from a restaurant after they overcharged her $5,700 for a cup of coffee.
Lisa Angello said she purchased the coffee on Christmas Eve during a trip to the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Centre in Aurora, Colorado, with a friend who was visiting from out of town.
A week later, she was surprised to see an alert from her bank for insufficient funds in her account. “I have never had an insufficient funds fee before. I’m very, very careful with what money is in there, how I pay my bills,” she told CNN.
Angello initially assumed the alert was fraudulent, but after taking a closer look at the amount, she realized that the restaurant had made a typing error and charged her $5,705.70 for the coffee.
“I realized that 570570 was the dollar amount put in twice,” she said.
The resort admitted to the error in an email to Angello in January, CNN reported, and claimed to have refunded the money. Angello’s bank, the United States Automobile Association (USAA), said it did not receive the transfer, and after three months, withdrew a credit given to her to compensate for the financial loss.
JOE BIDEN ASK STEVE SMITH! NO SUCH THING AS TOO BIG OR TOO FAST!
They’re goin to try to pull an FDR on us and make everyone dependent on government whether we like it or not.
I’m reading Amity Shlaes book on “The Great Society,” and I immediately thought of LBJ when i saw that article (and some FEE articles about Biden’s ridiculously expensive and stupid plans).
The self righteousness of those involved in The Great Society, so sure they’re doing what’s best for everyone, is infuriating.
Taco Bell Opened A Restaurant With A Fire Pit And Cornhole In Its Outdoor Dining Area
I have only had Taco Bell while drunk.
That is the best time to have it.
I would imagine having a large amount of alcohol in your system is a good idea for eating there at all.
That is the
bestonly time to have it.I’ve never had Taco Bell.
It’s not the worst fast food, but it is low on the drive-thru hierarchy.
I will say one thing in their defense, I have never been served a regular when I ordered a diet. Only drive-thru I can say that about.
Their regular tastes like diet. #stingywiththediabeetussyrup
That’s amazing since you only say “large soda”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6g0mPo-uJM
I’ve never had Taco Bell.
Remember those weird commercials where it was like sort sort of secret cult?
The ones that had a strong flavor of socialist realism, with the chihuahua?
No chihuahua, as far as I remember. It was like an Eyes Wide Shut thing.
Or for their freezes
I would advise corn-holing first, then Taco Bell.
^This guy gets it.
Not if you’re German
Ew.
Ew.
There was literally a Sugarfree episode today, yet y’all say “ew” to this.
He’s been fairly tame with these so far – which really, really worries me.
As a perv, and a German, I have no idea what you mean.
You’re saying you’ve never starred in a Scheiße fim?
You’re saying you never starred in a Scheiße film?
“Woman charged $5,700 for a single cup of coffee still fighting for a refund — three months later.”
Was it Kopi Luwak? Then it might very well have cost that much.
Well shit…
…indeed.
*tapers stare*
She didn’t notice she was being overcharged?
She needed to drink that coffee first.
What I’ve wondered about Kopi Luwak is why anyone would have dug coffee beans out of a civet’s shit in the first place to try making coffee from it.
Kind of like the first person to eat an oyster. “Hey! There’s some slime in this rock! I wonder what it tastes like!”
I would guess it was the kid eating his own snot – hey, that looks like what I pull out of my nose, I’ll try that.
The bigger question is – how did he convince the next person to eat it?
“Hey Jacques, this beaver’s asshole tastes just like raspberries!”
Desperate times make desperate people.
The historians’ views were very much in sync with his own: It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected. If that means chucking the filibuster and bipartisanship, so be it.
“Historians” who know nothing of the past, and have comprehension of human folly and the fatal conceits of those who rule.
I mean, such a move would make you go down in history, that’s for sure.
Well, Monica Lewinsky…wait, the subject is too serious for jokes, never mind.
“Historians” who have a vested interest in BIG SHIT FROM TOP MEN.
They love that crap. Particularly if they think they’ll be the ones documenting it.
Paraphrasing Mises in “Human Action”, historians don’t know shit about economics.
$5,705.70 for the coffee.
Debit cards are for ATMs. Credit cards or cash are for coffee.
I won’t even carry around my debit card. It sits unused in a drawer.
Stories like this are why I don’t use a debit card. I can’t imagine the circumstance in which it is advisable to give a third party unrestricted access to the cash I have on deposit.
+1
I’ve been using debit cards since the mid-80s. I’ve never had a problem with them.
Credit cards, on the other hand . . .
Debit cards are for ATMs. Credit cards or cash are for coffee.
Very much this.
But coffee’s for closers.
She had to close her checking account… does that count?
The Judges… Will Allow!
My closest liquor store won’t take Amex and I’m not carry around a 2nd credit card but yeah I should probably consider not carrying around my debit card either.
This. I set the purchase limit on my debit card to zero.
I’d prefer to replace it with ATM card, but the bank has made this exceedingly difficult.
I have a debit card that also acts like a credit card. It’s not from a bank but a credit union that is very protective and would probably catch that mistake and remove it from the transactions within a few hours. They’ve been very good with any hints of fraud.
My CU has also been very good with fraud. I’ve had it happen a few times, and they usually catch it before I do, even if I catch it day of. Last time (a couple months ago) they called me literally as I was walking to the back room to give them a call about the charge.
The worst part is remembering where all I have auto-pays set up on the old card.
Yup. The credit card is a buffer in front of my bank account.
goddammit
“Historians” who know nothing of the past, and have NO comprehension of human folly and the fatal conceits of those who rule.
Biden’s handlers are seeking a facade of legitimacy as they take unprecedented measure to undermine the country. ///FundamentalChange
Beschloss said the parallels include the New Deal economic relief that Franklin Roosevelt brought in 1933, which
saved the country fromcaused the Depression and chaos.…landmark legislation on climate, guns, voting.
I don’t recall any of this – particularly gun control – even being mentioned during the campaign. Obviously he has a mandate.
Ah we all know on what he campaigned on – I’m not Trump. That’s all that mattered.
As if the campaign mattered.
+ a few thousand ballots
As if platforms ever matter.
I would loved to have seen Biden publicly advocating stringent gun control in GA and AZ last year.
Well AZ did elect Mr “I’m gonna take your guns away” Astronaut no?
Yes, they did. That idiot McSally never made an issue of it.
He’s senile not stupid.
Yes, he is both.
Mid-terms a comin’.
If HR 1 beats them to the finish line, I wonder how much it will matter.
The shenannigans by the Dems as soon as they get power should be enough to keep any sane person from wanting them to ever be close to power.
The pool of sane people is shrinking.
Yet they still get votes.
That really is an open question. If it passes then I expect Team Blue to abuse the process. I then expect Team Red to employ the same tactics. It will make a mockery of elections.
Require states to restore the ability of felons to vote the moment they are out of prison
The only part of the entire bill that doesn’t absolutely suck.
Well, I’m not sure. The 14th Amendment seems to leave the issue to the states, not Congress, and the only exception would be if criminal disenfranchisement was an excuse for a forbidden kind of voting discrimination (eg, race).
Of course Congress will claim that the only reason any state disenfranchises any convicted felons is because of racism.
In reality, the political reality is that convicted felons are more likely to blame other people for their own misbehavior – in other words, natural Democrats.
I can see an argument that they need to complete probation or parole first. Not being a criminal, I’m not sure which one is the applicable term. Anyway, once they complete their punishment they should be allowed to vote.
The mistake you and they are making is to think that elections are a magic process that grants one nearly unlimited power to carry out an agenda.
They aren’t. The elected branches don’t run the government, and the government doesn’t run the country. Public policy is a circle jerk among the overcredentialed who permeate the institutions of cultural status.
The solution is not likely to come from winning elections any more (I won’t discount it as a possibility but you’d have to win so many elections so consistently and repeatedly that it is infeasible). They think that by taking over the referee spots, they get to run the ball game. But the players can take the ball and go home.
The government is not a substitute for the people.
elections are a magic process that grants one nearly unlimited power to carry out an agenda
Elections are supposed to be a brake on unlimited power, but that only works if the party in power has a risk of losing an election. HR 1 will do much to mitigate that risk for Democrats.
The elected branches don’t run the government
Not any more, this is true. They can and do expand the power and scope of the unelected government.
the government doesn’t run the country
Naturally, it doesn’t dictate anything it doesn’t care about (like, for now, what you had for lunch today), and what it does dictate it enforces arbitrarily and capriciously. But it (even for values of “the federal government”) is far and away the most powerful institution in the country, and its not even close.
But the players can take the ball and go home.
I can? Well, I could stop paying taxes and obeying laws I didn’t agree with, but I wouldn’t have a home to go to for long if I did that.
I can? Well, I could stop paying taxes and obeying laws I didn’t agree with, but I wouldn’t have a home to go to for long if I did that.
The good news is you’d be given a new home. The bad news…
They are likely going to make you choose between keeping the level of freedom you are accustomed to and keeping the level of prosperity you are accustomed to, if not soon then eventually, this much I agree with. But that does not mean you will be homeless or even jobless, even if you may not have the same level of comfort as today. We joke about the camps but that is not the most likely outcome. The most likely outcome is Italy or India. We will have a large government and most people will avoid it to some extent or another. I expect petty things like bribery will become more widely accepted (though still very illegal, of course, but if you happen to have seen Mr. Franklin lately, I’m sure we can reach some kind of agreement).
I couldn’t fault anyone for seeking options elsewhere, since if you’re going to live in a second-rate state, why not live in one that does the things you care about well, but even here, as the government seeks to further expand its remit its power will further dilute. It will do everything but none of it well. Its mandarins will pontificate endlessly and with much seriousness and yet mostly inconsequentially to the daily lives of the average person.
And all of this is very likely going to happen whether that bill passes or not.
So… a lot like China then?
(I’m going to write more on that subject eventually).
I can’t say how close or not it will be to China. I think the U.S. was already on this course solidly from ca. 1950 to 1980. But then Reagan and Gingrich happened, and while they weren’t half what their detractors or supporters made them out to be, they did upset the apple-cart. We are reverting to mean though, I think, which puts us (back) on the trajectory to the License Raj and the (old) Turkish civil service and an infinite horde of petty but bribable bureaucrats and so forth.
China or Chicago.
That’s kinda what provoked some thoughts on my part about ex-patting to France. French culture has long transcended French governance and maybe that is a vibe I could connect with. I can see why that just doesn’t come naturally to us here.
Ignoring the government as much as possible seems to be a national sport there.
As you can imagine, with family in Normandy, the Spousal Unit and I have toyed with the idea of de-camping to the Land ‘o Wine and Cheese ourselves; we finally decided against it, because of various financial unknowns involved in moving there.
But I’d sure as Hell spend six months a year there if I could.
did not receive the transfer, and after three months
Buttle, Tuttle – what’s the difference?
Taco Bell’s only real value is cheap food fast and late at night.
The risk of food poisoning is also quite low.
Great music link SF. I was surprised didn’t last longer and become a much bigger act.
Especially since they got so much exposure being on the main stage for Lollapalooza 2.
That’s where I saw them.
Main Stage: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush.
*shakes cane at damn kids on the lawn*
I love playing old school Ministry to make people confused. They sounded like the Mary Jane Girls.
I wouldn’t go that far. Maybe Depeche Mode?
This Ministry is much closer to the Mary Jane Girls
And now I’m going down memory lane with the track listing from With Sympathy.
I played the shit out of that cassette.
Yes, that is.
Heh. Just that song. I swear it’s the same music as In My House…
I still have the 12″ dance single for In My House.
I’m still bummed my All Day / Everyday 12″ was lost along with the rest of my small vinyl collection.
All Day.
I was passed out stoned by the time the Chili Peppers came on. No loss, never was much of a fan.
Better lineup overall than Lollapalooza ’97 when I went, but that one did have Tool as the headliner. Main stage (as far as I can remember) was one of Bob Marley’s sons, James, Korn, Snoop Dogg, Tool, and a few techno acts who I paid no attention to because I generally hate the genre.
Per wikipedia:
Main Stage: Orbital, Devo, The Prodigy, The Orb, Tool, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tricky, Korn (dropped out in July owing to illness),[10] James, Julian Marley and Damian Marley, G. Love & Special Sauce and the Uprising Band, Failure
Orbital? Tricky? The Orb? That’s right up my alley!
(fine – outside of “Little Fluffy Clouds”, not a giant fan of The Orb).
Oh man, for me, The Orb will always bring to mind late night, MDMA or mushroom fueled mountain bike runs around New Orleans. A leisurely ride down to the Superdome, an hour or so there until security chases one away, then a high speed run up the Mississippi River Boardwalk, through Da 1/4, Marigny, and Bywater; hitting the gates of the Navy base at the Poland Ave. wharf. Then turning around and flying down to The Roundup for cocktails or Port O’ Call for cocktails and cheeseburgers.
The only band listed above I would pay to see is Lush.
And maybe Ministry. And Tool.
I enjoy a couple of the others but only moderately.
Good gravy those shows were a lot of suck.
Soundgarden and Pearl Jam were both good – They had just released Badmotorfinger & Ten, respectively, before that tour.
The Ministry set at that Lollapalooza was the greatest live act I’ve ever seen. The place was manic. The crowd was overturning garbage cans. Some guy had a hundred or so paper plates and was tossing them into the air like frisbees one after the other. It was sincerely mesmerizing.
I’m not even that big of a Ministry fan.
Hah, it was also during the Ministry set that people tore up (what was then) Great Woods
Meh, their older stuff is much better anyway.
I saw that at the University of Chicago. Great show in a small venue.
The resort admitted to the error in an email to Angello in January, CNN reported, and claimed to have refunded the money. Angello’s bank, the United States Automobile Association (USAA), said it did not receive the transfer, and after three months, withdrew a credit given to her to compensate for the financial loss.
USAA’s customer service, especially on credit card issues, has seriously declined. I’ve had a couple over recent years, and it has been deathly slow and unsatisfactory in almost every way.
All their service has declined – funny, they went from being small, exclusive to officers…then NCOs too…then anyone in….then “hey, you had a relative who had 120 enlistment in the Civil War? JOIN!!!” and they have deteriorated at each step.
Can confirm. However, even their shadow of themselves can still be better than their competition.
The membership expansion is a symptom of their mindset, not the cause.
Yup…
I actually have my great great grandfather’s Civil War discharge. So I’m all good!
I actually have *my* great great grandfather’s Civil War discharge, too. 103rd Ohio Infantry.
GEICO is still good though.
They tried to nearly triple my rates when I moved back to TX. Screw them.
Really? What happened?
Sent them my new address in TX, and the auto renewal that was upcoming jumped from $300ish to almost $700. Umbrella went up even more by percentage, nearly triple.
I’ve never had an accident, short one deer incident a few years back (that didn’t impact the price at all), no tickets, no change in the cars. No nothing. They simply took advantage of me moving and attempted to jack up the price.
I didn’t give them a chance to negotiate down. I jumped to progressive, who was in the ballpark of what I was paying GEICO in Virginia.
Weird. Maybe a difference in state insurance laws?
That’s what I initially thought when they pulled out more than expected for the partial term, but progressive matched my older cheaper geico bill within $40 over 6 months. I don’t doubt that Geico could’ve been competitive, but I don’t reward companies that try to gouge the customer only to negotiate down drastically whenever the customer complains.
I don’t know if Swiss will comment, but as an insider.
Rule of thumb is mutuals are preferred, but there are good for profits and crappy mutuals so it’s a generalization.
GEICO used to cancel policies of people who reported stolen radar detectors. Not sure if that’s the case anymore, but they used to be “speed kills” kind of insurer.
I’ll cheerfully pay a little more for a company that won’t hassle you and nickel and dime you if you make claim. For personal lines – “Here’s lookin at you Allstate”.
I had an evil uncle who worked for Allstate. Never.
I have these pieces of paper in my wallet…
Get out!
Lol.
The Hooker told him she had a good time.
The historians’ views were very much in sync with his own: It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected.
Because they are activists.
Mid-terms a comin’.
As if the electorate’s vote matters anymore.
Seemed to matter for all of the down-ballot offices in the last election.
I’m highly skeptical of the Michigan and Georgia Senate elections.
I mean, such a move would make you go down in history, that’s for sure.
He proved his lifelong commitment to DEMOCRACY! when he abolished the Republican party and appointed himself President-For-Life.
NARRATOR: Which turned out to be a surprisingly short term.
Army announces gender-specific fitness test score percentiles after women’s high fail rates on gender-neutral test
Whoever wrote this should be assigned to a remedial English class. I think they are saying that the chicks will take the same test as the men, then get graded on a giant curve – but don’t let that fool ya, they are just as strong as the men.
If we ever get into a real land war, the Army is going to get the hell kicked out of it.
dbleagle’s comment from the other night has stuck with me in a wildly depressing manner
Didn’t see it then but I agree. I joined the Marines during the Cold War and we were still planning for the big one. For us that meant being harder and better trained than our adversaries who would outnumber us. To fight and keep on fighting even if it came down to knives and fists.
The Army isn’t in a great state, but to be fair, What state is the Chinese military in? What actual scenarious have their leadership been in either?
The Russians at least have had a no shit fight with the Ukranians, and so are probably the more dangerous threat to US than Chinese military.
I bet the Chinese military isn’t actively trying to make themselves less effective.
Don’t you have to be a CPP Member to be an officer? Isn’t that all tied up in Party Politics? I guarentee you that the PLA is fraught with dipshit officers there becaues they know how to kiss Xi’s ass just right.
https://youtu.be/ec7LY8dLYSc
https://youtu.be/fkqGiPB2D8M
https://youtu.be/w2dbIXyB5yY
This is fantastic.
Hey, it’s Frank Grillo!
Gotta pay the bills…
The Chinese will be fighting on home terrain (at least per the recently announced Army strategy for the Pacific). They can be less effective and still have a lot of advantages.
I don’t think the Russian invasions of Ukraine and Georgia have shown the Russian military to be all that much a threat to us. Their navy has all but disappeared as well.
I’m pretty sure the Russian military was coming apart when I was travelling in the middle 90s.
The only issue is whether or not they have any functioning ICBMs with nuclear payloads.
We’ve discussed this on the late late zoomy. China (and when I say China I mean the CCP) is not any threat at all in the traditional military sense. They have no ability to project their forces in any meaningful way. Invading them would be stupid because manpower; small UAVs make naval action against them difficult but containment is not impossible. Honestly, I think they will collapse from internal economic pressures if just shut out from a significant percentage of the global supply chain. The DPRK they ain’t.
Peter Zeihan is very bearish on China – bad demographics and heavy dependence on exports. So that’s two strikes. I’d add that the succession of Xi is unlikely to be smooth – particularly if things domestically (in China) are unstable. And he is projecting this by the start of the next decade.
I had missed that, thanks for the pointer to it.
That’s not Gender Neutural.
What the Army should do is set the standard as the standard, and then not care how much better you do on the test than the Standard.
Xi and Putin are still having their forever cocktail party, now with MOAR COCKTAIL!
War is graded on a curve.
Parabolic?
para bellum?
If the ACFT was the worst of the dysfunction in the Army it would be one thing, but throw in the entire Acquisition bureaucracy – which was deformed not one bit by all of the reforms concurrent with the latest 4-star [Futures] command. All it does is the same old stupid shit, just a tiny bit faster. And then you take a good look at the people making the GO ranks (and in fairness, they are what the system spits out).
Ass kicking? They won’t even be able to find their ass with both hands and a field manual.
They could start by doing a find/replace on “gender” with “sex”.
C’mon man, everybody knows the Chinese are softies.
Fuck, I remember when the new Marine Commandant (Al Gray) showed up in Okinawa and told us that the days of PT being some easy formation runs were over – even for the Air Wing – and we were going to start doing more practical conditioning like humps with our packs.
His quote: “Right now we’ll be the best looking mob with our fancy red running shorts to ever get run off a hill”.
I’m guessing he wouldn’t have been a big fan of this sort of sissification of the Corps.
Al Gray was – and still is last time I saw him speak – the shit.
Last time I saw him speak at a Marine Corps birthday ball, he was invited to speak AFTER the Chairman of the JCS (and former Commandant, Joe Dunford) had just finished speaking as the guest of honor. Gray got up and essentially swatted the sitting CJCS by saying something to the effect of: “I don’t know about all of that, but when I was with Chesty Puller at Choisin…” Gray’s speech lasted about 1 minute and had the place roaring.
I looked around my table and was like, “Did Al Gray just bitchslap the Chairman?” A lot of heads were nodding and laughing. (And I should note, I know Dunford personally. He was always known as a great officer and a good guy and still seems to be that).
I have some friends who have epic Al Gray stories from when he was the CG for 2nd Mar Div.
Mark Rippetoe occasionally complains about PT in the military, and how wasteful it is to spend so much time running/marching, when strength training will benefit soldiers more (and they’ll still be able to hoof it with heavy gear).
Cinnamon Toast Crunch now with MOAR CRUNCH!
Hold on to my carrot a second…
That photo was sent to me by a coworker yesterday. It was taken by his daughter at her apartment. The story (according to him):
Daughter buys a bunch of carrots at CostCo a couple days ago. She’s making lunch and gets them out and opens up the bag to find a hairy lump inside (you really need to look at that photo now). She screams and runs from the room.
She calms down and comes back to the kitchen and sees that yup, that was a bat in her bag of carrots. Even better, it wasn’t a dead bat! Nope, he had just been hibernating from being stuffed in various refrigerators. After being left out on the nice warm counter he was beginning to come around and was slowly moving.
Daughter freaks out more, throws everything in a bag and tosses out of her apartment into the front yard. She then called the cops to report the incident.
That is where the story ended. The coworker didn’t know what the cops said or if they ever showed up.
We’ve been teasing him about the all the settlement money his daughter threw out the front door.
I wonder how it got in there?
It hitched a ride across the border on one of those illegal farm laborers from Wuhan.
Bats are scary.
one of the coolest cats I’ve ever known lived in Tallahassee. His name was Foot, and he loved to perch on the roof of the carriage house and when the bats would emerge from the dormer window, he would leap and tackle them midair. There would be heads on the porch, to let his humans know what a good boy he was in the morning.
Oh shit, I haven’t opened either of those 2 lb. bags or carrots I just bought at Costco…
Have you told Costco yet that you didn’t want any bat with your carrots?
“We’ve been teasing him about the all the settlement money his daughter threw out the front door.”
I wonder if Costco would let it go to court, or if they’d look at their internal documents and say, “nope, don’t want any of that revealed, let’s settle.”
NOTE TO COSTCO LAWYERS: I said I don’t know.
You didn’t see that tiny print on the Costco label that can only be read with an electron microscope stating ‘Costco is void of any liability for the bats found in your product?’.
“It’s listed right there, after monosodium glutinate.”
Minnesoda’s Supreme Court unanimously shitlords all over rape victims. I look forward to the strident howling and passage of terrible laws to “fix” this.
Another good quote:
The local newspaper wrote a story! And the Supreme Court doesn’t take it seriously? Or listen to the journalos?
THIS SHALL NOT STAND!
What if they are both intoxicated? Mutual rape?
The report found that the current law poses a “significant roadblock”
There is no such roadblock to prosecuting cases. “But she was drunk” is not a defense now or ever.
That’s been the rule forever. Basically, if you get shitfaced, you assume the risk of being shitfaced. Don’t want to assume the risk? Don’t get shitfaced.
Consequences for rape victims from this ruling? Zero. It doesn’t change the law, and it only says the enhanced penalties for a convicted rapist don’t apply.
I, too, look forward to the gross misrepresentations and lies about this ruling.
This. This. This.
“I drank myself retarded” is no longer an enhanced charge.
So you can’t sue your friends for making fun of your beer goggles?
I can easily see the twitterati screeching: “Minnesota legalizes Rape of drunk women!”
Also, this is the fundamental difference in vewipont on the purpose of the courts. The Court says “Hey your law that the legislature voted on, doesn’t allow for this”. If the people of michigan want it that way, they should go to the legislature and make them fix it. The Court should not (though often does) serve as a super legislator changing the laws to make people feel good. Therin lies the seeds of tyranny.
male and female soldiers will be evaluated on separate gender-specific percentile tiers, amid concerns female soldiers are scoring lower and disproportionately failing the test compared to their male counterparts.
They should do it like one of those staggered-start races where everybody theoretically gets to the finish line at the same time. Let the men start doing pull ups first, and then have the women start after a delay. For the mile run, give the women a lap and a half head start.
Back in my day, the WM’s didn’t even do pullups, they just hung on the bar for as long as they could. I can’t remember if they had to do the three mile run or if it was shorter.
We had a female gunney in my squadron in Okinawa who was a big time triathalon racer. She won a few of them while she was there and was an exceptional female athlete. She tried a few times to run in all male formation runs and had a hard time keeping up. And we were just average swinging with the wing types (well except for me).
Pretty much how it worked in mixed gender Marine units. The women ran 2 miles, stopped, and watched the men run the third mile.
Thanks, I thought they ran a shorter distance, but I couldn’t remember for sure.
The real issue is that running doesn’t mean shit. I was never a great runner and there were women in the unit who could outrun me. But when we put on our combat gear and went for a long march, all the WM’s stayed behind or road in a safety vehicle. Not one of them could have stayed with us for even a mile with gear on.
We had a salty gunney in Memphis who was always making us do the Old Breed pt tests.
Climbing up/down a cargo net, a broad jump with a pack on, rope climbing. It was fun and probably a lot better for training than simple running was.
I had to climb down a net from a ship to landing craft in the middle of the Pacific once – terrifying.
And they consider themselves a reputable Military reporting outfit.?
Presidential historian Michael Beschloss told Axios FDR and LBJ may turn out to be the past century’s closest analogues for the Biden era, “in terms of transforming the country in important ways in a short time.”
DOOOOOOM!
FDR and LBJ may turn out to be the past century’s closest analogues for the Biden era
War it is, then.
A 2 front land war in Asia?
Not quickly enough.
NH man in fatal shoot-out had an AK-47
The man who entered into a fatal shootout with a New Hampshire State Police trooper two days before Christmas was a convicted felon who used a modified AK-47 and two high-capacity magazines in the gun battle, authorities said Wednesday.
Mark R. Clermont, 45, was shot and killed in the night-time shootout with Trooper Matthew Merrill in Dalton, according to a press briefing and 47-page report released today by Acting Attorney General Jane Young. Young ruled the shooting justified under New Hampshire law.
At least 30 rounds were exchanged between Merrill and Clermont, while residents of a Bridge Hill Road mobile home huddled in their play-room shed in Dalton, a town of about 1,000 in the North Country just north of Whitefield, authorities said.
Clermont initiated the gunfire when he and the trooper struggled on the ground. During the struggle and two separate gun battles, Merrill felt confused at times, couldn’t see and felt his trigger was gummy, said Associate Attorney General Jeff Strelzin.
Meanwhile, the owner of the property and his family, Chris Landry, at one point struck Clermont with the handle of a machete to keep him from entering their shed, which was the family playroom. And after Merrill shot Clermont fatally, he retreated to the house of a neighbor across the street, who let him in, called 911 and tended to his wounds.
struck Clermont with the handle of a machete
Dude, yer doin’ it wrong.
What do they meant by “High-Capacity” magazines. Was he shooting out of a drum or a standard 20 or 30 round magazine?
From the article:
Strelzin said authorities have not determined how Clermont obtained the weapons. He said high-capacity magazines, which hold a maximum of 30 rounds, are legal in New Hampshire.
I wonder what the guy would say if he hears about my 40 round magazines.
They mean more than 1.
Police shooter had AK-47, two high-capacity bullet clips
Wow…That’s some headline.
modified AK-47
Like with an optic?
Modified AK-47
modified AK-47
Like with an optic?
From the article:
Serial numbers had been removed from the weapon, and its stock was removed, which made it easier to carry around.
Huh…from my lessons in Heartbreak Ridge, it did not have the distinct sound of my enemy’s weapon of choice. Movies are bullshit man.
FBI confiscates BitCoin ATM from Murphy’s Taproom in Manchester, NH
A Bitcoin ATM connected to an FBI raid last week in Keene has been removed from Murphy’s Taproom on Elm Street.
Last week, the FBI arrested Free Keene leader Ian Freeman and five others who are part of the libertarian movement on charges related to an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange they ran through churches they were closely affiliated with.
The cryptocurrency vending machine (CVM) in Manchester was installed by Bitcoin Embassy NH, which is connected to the Shire Free Church, according to business records. The group has operated the machine at Murphy’s since 2016.
Unlike a traditional ATM, CVMs sell the virtual currency for cash, like other vending machines. This particular machine did not allow users to trade Bitcoin or other crypto currencies for cash.
Using a church as a shell? Nice try.
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and The Nation of Islam laugh at you.
It’s OK when the right people do it.
They only laundered good ol’ greenbacks.
Hurry, before it’s too late
After mass shootings in Boulder and Atlanta that killed 18 people in the span of a single week, lawmakers are once again calling for stricter gun regulation in America. The gun industry is already preparing for a surge of sales.
“When you hear more calls for firearm restrictions, we have observed gun sale increases primarily from people buying before they’re not able to,” said Rob Southwick, founder of the market research firm Southwick Associates.
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On Tuesday, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass gun-control legislation that Democrats introduced earlier this month.
“I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common-sense steps that will save lives in the future,” Biden said, listing a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as strengthening the background check system by closing loopholes, as areas he would like to see Congress act.
If you have been thinking about shooting up a school, or a mall, or maybe even your place of work, you’d better get on it, before Joe decides to make it illegal.
Don’t get left out of the fun.
Michael Beschloss is the one historian named in the Biden article – I checked the titles of his books, and it looks like they would be in the spank bank of any would-be dictator/President:
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963
Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair
The Presidents of the United States of America [with Hugh Sidey]
Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance [with James MacGregor Burns]
The Presidents of the United States of America [with Hugh Sidey]
Who the hell is Hugh Sidey, and why is he being included with the presidents?
coauthor
for you
Oh, yes, ha ha, I knew that, I was just checking to make sure *you* knew it.
The Presidents of the United States of America
Sounds Peachy
+MILLIONS
It’s not fair to lump them all together.
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945
Stalin and Churchill had a lot more to do with that.
Serves her right for having an opinion that questions the narrative of St. Floyd.
A Bishop Ready High School theology teacher was fired after making comments during a virtual class last week disputing whether George Floyd could breathe while a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck May 25.
Deborah DelPrince’s employment at Bishop Ready High School was terminated Friday after she was placed on administrative leave the day before by the Catholic Diocese of Columbus, Deacon Thomas M. Berg, Jr., Chancellor of the diocese said Tuesday.
She had been a teacher at the Catholic high school in Columbus’ Hilltop neighborhood since 1999. When reached by phone for a comment Tuesday afternoon, she hung up immediately.
During a class on Feb. 24, she responded on camera during a virtual class to a student’s screen showing LeBron James wearing a shirt that says “I can’t breathe”: “That’s not necessarily true, but it perpetuates a myth against police.”
Forget politically charged bullshit, how many teachers are just unloading their emotional problems on the students these days? Or just otherwise failing to maintain the emotional separation necessary for a proper relationship where one of the individuals is in a position of authority over the other. None of that unprofessional behavior gets punished (unless it crosses certain specific lines, and even then only if they get caught). It’s not so much that the “standards” go one way as that there aren’t really any standards at all.
I tell my wife this, but as i get older, the more and more i realize that large swaths of stuff i was told by teachers are just shit they made up.
“But she was drunk” is not a defense now or ever.
Now I want to see a story about a Divorce Court “But she knew I was an asshole when she married me” defense.
I assume this means that the admin is converting the border facilities into labor camps.
President Joe Biden put Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of his efforts to fix the border crisis that has erupted under his leadership after he reversed many of the policies that the Trump administration used to secure the United States-Mexico border.
“With the move, Biden hopes to show Americans he’s taking the border situation seriously after facing stiff criticism from Republicans as the flow of migrants has increased since he took office in January,” The Associated Press reported. “But the high-profile assignment for Harris, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and is expected to run for the White House again in the future, could be politically fraught.”
The move comes after Harris was widely criticized this week for laughing when she was asked if she was going to visit the southern border to view the crisis. Thousands of children have been detained in federal custody after crossing the border, many of whom have been kept for periods of time longer than legally allowed and in facilities that have been described as “akin to jails” where they have been subjected to “horrific conditions” that include “disease, hunger and overcrowding.”
“…put Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of his efforts” Yeah and Grizzly Adams had a beard.
As noted in the dead thread, if you have anything of interest to the community, that you own the rights to or that is in the public domain, and you wish to share it as a download, email me and I’ll add it to our Downloads page.
Additionally, I have added a new section near the top of the Forum to make it easier to find and share resources.
Jam some once-in-a-lifetime changes into Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.is/QKbhb
It was a #1 and done until #33 showed up and I forgot where I was.
The audacity of saying you urgently had to pass another $3T of spending on the heels of a $2T boondoggle is amazing.
Especially since you have already signaled that you are willing to use chicanery to get it passed. Fuck, you read stories about how the states don’t even know how to spend the hundreds of billions they already got.
But the states know they can’t use that money to create any tax relief – for 5 years.
Have I mentioned how much I loathe Michael Moore?
The life of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa shows that people can come from all over the world and truly assimilate into our beloved American culture.
So, Moore is saying Alissa shouldn’t have left Syria to be corrupted by America’s violent mores?
Coming to American automagically made him a racist. Maybe we need to close the border?
To be fair, he would have fit right into Syrian culture right about now.
Why do we want him to give up his delightful Old Country ways and force him to assimilate into a systemically racist country?
Assimilate == mow a bunch of innocent bystanders down. Well, OK then!
I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but it’s as if Moore doesn’t like his country very much.
Of course he *would* like America better if it were reconfigured to fit his specifications.
I’ll gladly donate to any fundme page buying him a one way ticket to China.
Admit it. You guys are all jelly because you only have NPR to inform your world view. In Minnesoda we only use NPR as a backup news source because we have MPR. Behold….
Roads are getting deadlier for pedestrians; fatality rates are worse for minorities
Racism (with the new improved Asian flavor)! Scary SUVs! For The Children! All of that and fun with statistics:
No where in the story do they give you the actual numbers from 2020. How many were killed? And if driving during the pandemic is down, the rate could increase even without an increase in deaths.
So maybe the increased drinking during the pandemic could also be a factor in all those pedestrian deaths? Why not spin it as: Lockdowns causing more pedestrian deaths!?
Likewise, it sounds like mass transit and bike riding are a good way to die. And these people want MOAR mass transit?! Do they want minorities to die?
Are you a heartless bastard who wants to see poor pedestrians die? There’s a growing transportation equity gap in this country. It is time for President Harris to have Congress jam through legislation providing late model, U.S. made cars for everyone who wants one.
You don’t need to see the source data, just trust their analysis. They do the work so you don’t have to, Citizen.
If nothing else, your updates remind me that Massachusetts isn’t really the derpiest state.
So black folks are like Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer – incapable of understanding today’s scary fast modern world?
Or, as is often the case, they just tend to be more urban, and pedestrian hits and fatalities (like a whole host of other statistics) are worse in urban areas. “White people more likely to die in ATV and pickup truck-related incidents” would be a more obvious inverse of this.
Asians are especially at risk because they tend to live in neighborhoods with a lot of Asian drivers.
Damn! Looks like Ima have to figure out the three seashells
“Footage has emerged showing the moment Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was attacked with bear mace during the January 6 insurrection.
Sicknick, 42, died the day after he and two other officers were sprayed in the face with chemicals as a mob of rioters sought to overtake the US Capitol building.
The alleged perpetrators, George Pierre Tanios and Julian Elie Khater, were arrested last week and are facing multiple felony charges including assaulting police with a deadly weapon.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9397417/Moment-Capitol-cop-Brian-Sicknick-hit-bear-spray-MAGA-riots.html
There you go, proof positive. You get sprayed with bear mace and you have a stroke the next day. Everyone knows that.
So how was it that he was injured and didn’t get any treatment?
I’m sure there’s a perfectly logical explanation for why they’re still sitting on the autopsy report.
They aren’t charging them with murder.
And waitaminute – bear spray is a deadly weapon now? But when the cops use it, its “non-lethal”?
It’s lethal if you use it on a grizzly, because it just makes him want to kill you.
I was about to say that the autopsy report would certainly be part of discovery for murder.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘I consider it human trafficking.’ California foster parents are being asked to take in ’26 or more’ migrant children as social services scramble to place a ‘record number’ of unaccompanied minors crossing the border”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9397697/California-foster-parents-asked-26-plus-migrant-children.html
WTF??
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘They have doctors and chefs – they’re living better than us!’ Angry Texas residents tell how the Biden administration is housing over 500 migrant youths at an all-inclusive $33m ‘man camp’ just feet away from their homes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9389205/Angry-Texas-residents-tell-Biden-administration-housing-500-migrants-near-home.html
“they’re living better than us!”
Well, if they would just forget about that old racist Constitution thing and vote for the right people, they could have nice things too!
Sure it is cramped with 26 migrant children, but we do have the nicest lawn on the block now.
And all of our tomatoes are picked!
Oh no you di’nt!
*shrugs* Orphan supplies are running low because of the Pandemic.
Wow. What a clusterfuck.
I’m honestly shocked there isn’t a big public outcry about this. For a year we were locked down, kept out of work, restaurants, gyms, and all the other things we enjoy. We were kept from our loved ones, even as some of them lay dying. We were tested and masked and social distanced. We were told to quarantine if we traveled across a state line. And now we have thousands coming over the border. No precautions, no testing, no social distancing, just, come on in and make yourself comfortable!
Is there even a “big public outcry” if the media doesn’t report one?
I’m sure that they don’t spread Covid. Just like the mostly peaceful protests.
But WaPo just assured me that there’s no surge.
Wait a second. I fought California policy was not to cooperate with federal border and immigration enforcement. Why are they suddenly coughing up foster care?
*thought, not fought
“FDA warns people not to drink alkaline ‘Real Water’ linked to five cases of hepatitis – with one man suffering liver failure and needing transplant: Scientologist CEO apologizes as lawsuits pile up”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9397447/Real-Water-CEO-apologizes-man-suffers-liver-failure-drinking-FDA-launches-probe.html
It doesn’t say it caused hepatitis, though.
“suffering liver failure and needing transplant”
Meaning he’ll have to not drink any alcohol for at least 6 months before he can get on the transplant list. In the new normal, a fate worse than death.
“It doesn’t say it caused hepatitis, though.”
I mean, was the water infected?
Today I learned there is an “alkaline water craze”.
SMDH
Welp…I am going to die…..usually what I pickup on my early morning days cause its 2 for $2 bucks….
“Under Nevada law, retailers can also be held liable for selling defective products. ”
Cause they should be responsible….Nevada has so many good things…and then they have this.
That is… insane.
Why would anyone open a retail operation there?
Given the news…I would probably guess is they are responsible if they sell a known harmful product and not just one that has been found years later to cause harm.
I am trying to find the law now…
NRS 42.005 Exemplary and punitive damages: In general; limitations on amount of award; determination in subsequent proceeding.
Section 2, Subsection A: A manufacturer, distributor or seller of a defective product;
I would suspect to initiate that clause, you would have to prove the manufacturer or even the seller knew the product was defective and continued selling it.
So normal laws…nothing to fret about from what I see.
“Chuck Schumer in angry Senate clash with Mitch McConnell as he tells him Republican bills that roll back early voting ‘smack of Jim Crow'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9398551/Schumer-saying-state-crackdowns-early-Sunday-voting-smack-Jim-Crow.html
Who wants to tell him?
That he’s handsome, brave and has nice breasts?
Re: Biden trying to transform America:
I’ll say this about the Left/Progs — they don’t fart around when they get all the levers of power. Our own Conservative Party in Canada, recently led by PM Stephen Harper, believed that whilst in power, “gradualism” or “incrementalism” was the best way to proceed, to slowly, oh ever so slowly, move the Overton Window to the right, to help the poor reluctant dears in Central Canada and on the left side of the political spectrum here get used to it.
When the Liberals took back power in 2015, they damn well yanked the steering wheel left and stomped on the gas virtually from Day One, and fuck anybody to the right of ’em.
Cons never learn. NEVER.
At this very moment, the RINOs in Congress are lining up around the block to get back to bipartisanism and give the left everything they want.
Bipartisanship means 300-400 people get to insert their cronyist amendments into the bills instead of just 270.
Of course! Who wouldn’t want to be part of history!
Whelp, I learned a very basic lesson over again today. The sharp part of the knife isn’t a good place for fingertips. I made the dumb mistake of making the sponge go the wrong way across the blade. Thankfully I don’t think it needs stitches.
Always blade down….always….
Ouchie.
I’ve also learned to rest the hand holding the knife on the edge of the sink & bring the sponge/brush to it vs. the opposite. I’ve slipped more than once, doing it the other way.
Oh man I did that a couple of months ago with a new 8″ chef’s knife I got for Christmas. No stitches, but I took a nice filet almost completely off of the pad of my finger. I reattached it and kept it bandaged and disinfected and it healed in a few days. Curled up around the edges though, and I had to trim it back as the old skin died off.
Sportsmans Guide has shipped six M1a mags already. They’ve had pretty good service so far.
Just picked up two AR mags for $13 each with a 15% discount on to of that. Can buy mags, just can’t find anything to put in them.
“Hundreds of parents and students dial in to San Francisco school board meeting to SLAM member for ‘disgusting’ 2016 tweet calling Asians ‘house N****s’ – but she still refuses to resign”
I think they’re one asterisk short.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9398037/Parents-blast-San-Francisco-school-board-VP-disgusting-tweet-calling-Asians-house-N-s.html
Not if you are into rap music.
Her Facebook screenshot has “n****r”
I mean, asterisks and all.
nascar? Seems legit
That would also be hate speech in SF.
“nagger”
Negger, please.
Not if she used the rapper-approved version.
Someone just read about Minnesoda getting all that Fed money for spending. Cost of wall for new light rail line increases by 356%
I don’t want to hear any wild conspiracy theories from you guys about connected cronies jacking up prices just because the pols here have a couple hundred billion burning a hole in their pockets.
$93,000,000 per mile for a wall? I’m in the wrong business.
Gee I wonder why…
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/education/homeschooling-explodes-in-popularity-ccsd-and-census-data-shows/article_12fbcb7a-8c4b-11eb-843a-47862cc65fd8.html?block_id=1002218
Related.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2021/03/17/michigan-public-schools-enrollment-decline/4730513001/?commentID=9488454a-382d-423b-abe0-56d901cf42b8
Governor of a state that the tragic shooting didn’t take place decides to signal
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/gov-sisolak-orders-flags-at-half-staff-for-boulder-shooting-victims/article_51d5df26-8c36-11eb-8e02-0373ce942107.html?block_id=1002219
Lets just keep them permanently at half-staff.
“It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected. If that means chucking the filibuster and bipartisanship, so be it.”
Hence the National Guard at the Capitol.
When I was young it was popular amongst the teens to steal the bell from Taco Bell. This was when it was an actual bell that wasn’t cemented in place or just an illuminated sign. Alas, it was a little before my time. Too young to be hippies. Missed out on the bell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeqGuaAl6Ic
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/jay-leno-asian-jokes-apology-manaa-nbc-fox-1234937201/
Jay Leno Apologizes for Decades of Jokes About Asians: ‘In My Heart I Knew It Was Wrong’
He was never that funny.
Still, NEVER FUCKING APOLOGIZE.
Still, NEVER FUCKING APOLOGIZE.
Forever and ever, amen.
Jeebus, what an idiot.
“The majority of Leno’s old jokes perpetuated stereotypes about Asian communities consuming dog meat.”
This stereotype is also perpetrated by this organization:
“The mission of China Rescue Dogs is to rescue and rehabilitate dogs from the meat trade in China and provide them with loving homes in the U.S. and Canada.”
https://chinarescuedogs.org/
And here’s a Reuters article from April 9 last year:
‘China reclassifies dogs as pets, not livestock, in post-virus regulatory push
[Trigger warning: Photo of slaughtered dogs]
‘…Though dog meat remains a delicacy in many regions, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a notice published on Wednesday that dogs would no longer be considered as livestock. It uses that designation for animals that can be bred to provide food, milk, fur, fibre and medicine, or to serve the needs of sports or the military….
“Dog consumption has become increasingly unpopular in China, and the southern city of Shenzhen became the first to ban it last month.
“However, the Humane Society International, an animal welfare group, estimated that around 10 million dogs a year are still killed in China for meat, including stolen pets. The city of Yulin in the region of Guangxi holds an annual dog meat festival in June.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-dogs-idUSKCN21R1VI
Surely you know by now that facts are irrelevant.
Oh, well.
“South Koreans eat more than 1 million dogs each year — but that’s slowly changing. Here’s why.
“Young Koreans lead efforts to end a centuries-old practice”
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2019/02/25/south-koreans-eat-more-than-2-million-dogs-every-year-but-thats-changing/2930025002/
To be sure, it’s USA Today, and maybe they’re being pranked.
You know, I’m feeling a bit queasy, I guess Western arrogance does that to you.
How many animals would not be endangered if the Chinese market did not have a demand for all sorts of stupid patent medicines?
Listen, if you know a better way to get your dick hard than drinking powdered white rhino horn mixed with beer then I’d like to hear it.
*Insert Q link here*
Did he say “I aporogize”?
I could never stand him. I watched Carson occasionally but when Leno took over I never watched that show again.
I wrote a shaggy dog story about Asians eating dogs. Got an A in creative writing class.
If you still have it, dare one of your kids to turn it in for an English assignment. 😉
Subborning Plagarism?!
How dare you?
I wrote a short story for my kid’s English class because she just couldn’t, I knew that, and it was stressing her out disproportionately. She got an A.
Natch.
LOL I used it for creative writing 2 also. That time it got a C, but the prof had never heard of a shaggy dog story and he preferred middle-aged male existential angst stories. There were other problems with him. One of very few times I can honestly say, “It’s not me. It’s you.”
*GASP*
CANCELLED!
PSA: Václav Havel’s essay “The Power of the Powerless” (51 pp., 12-point type, PDF, 458 KByte) can now be downloaded from this site. If anyone notices an error, please let me know and I’ll correct it and ask SP to re-upload the corrected version.
Thank you both!
It says I need a decryption key.
I certainly didn’t encrypt it when I made the PDF, and I did a test download when I saw it was available. Worked perfectly.
Anybody got any ideas to help out CP? Alternatively, you just wanna tell me what your e-mail is and I’ll mail it to you?
Just tested here, and it downloaded and opened just fine for me in Foxit Reader (which I liked a lot more before they kept trying to install other apps with it).
The pdf isn’t asking for a decryption key, mega is, so I can’t download it.
Like I say, tell me your e-mail and I’ll just ship it to you. Did it for Tundra earlier today.
Opened fine in Acrobat Reader for me.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExMkxFgVcAgY4rq.jpg
Even Ray Bolger couldn’t play this tweet.
He should change his name to BrooklynDad_BrainDamaged.
This gave me AIDS.
I was waiting for the parody punchline and then I realized I had AIDS too.
Ugh, just think, some poor fool is married to that person.
https://twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1374796744710557696
All is well. Ill kick and scream on the internet as long as I can.
“THREAD: Here are all the idiotic leftists who immediately jumped to politicize the tragic Boulder shooting to push their narrative, only for it all to fall apart when it turns out the shooter is muslim…”
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1374389676790804482
So many faces in need of punching
Polish immigrant in Michigan arrested for keeping her pizzeria open released after paying $15K fine:
https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2021/03/24/michigan-diner-owner-marlena-pavlos-hackney-out-of-jail-after-ignoring-virus-orders/
At least the Eastern Europeans get it.
I drove past her restaurant on my way home tonight. The doors are boarded up. There are quite a few homemade signs of support on the wall though.
I assume she’ll pay more later for the piles of ‘vid-riddled corpses she will have been responsible for.
Just got back from a nice bike ride. Just over 15 miles, very few face masks in sight. I felt vindicated when I caught up to and passed someone on an e-assist bike.
Teensy bit of good news from Ohio? We’ll see if it ends up having any practical effect.
Speaker Cupp, who is a former member of the State Supreme Court, said after the House vote that he has studied the bill in detail, looking for a weakness that would allow a successful constitutional challenge. Cupp said he could not find a constitutional issue that would threaten the bill.
Paging John Roberts, Paging John Roberts!
On a serious note, I hope this sticks and has a good effect.
“DeWine and other critics had earlier called the bill dangerous because it would limit quick action in response to an emergency.”
That argument was somewhat valid exactly a year ago. If you are still running around like a chicken with its head cut off, then you have no business being governor.
I love how all these restrictions and lifting of restrictions have such long out dates. This is an emergency, we need to close things down next week! He’s overstepping his authority, we’ll take it back in 90 days!
They learned from the banking industry
90 days? So they still won’t have gotten rid of the illegal orders by the time I’d normally be on vacation?
From the article:
There’s also the expectation of a judicial challenge, but it’s unknown if the Governor is going to launch the suit or if someone else will. DeWine apparently thinks laws passed to limit his authority are unconstitutional…
The problem is, Ohio is between me and most of the country. Without either PA or Ohio flipping to normal, my options start to get limited in terms of how to get somewhere without dealing with the illegal lockdown shit.
DeWine has said that if the case counts get down to 50 per 100k for two weeks for the state, he’ll lift the restrictions as well. It’s been at ~150 per 100k for the past couple of weeks. Local news is reporting ~25% of the population has gotten vaccinated as well.
The question is which will happen first (and will there be a lawsuit).
Forgive me if I don’t trust his word.
I’d have serious doubts about your judgment if you did.
I think when the courts inevitably start overriding the legislature on this issue and extending the governors’ powers, we might start to see some actual political violence.
And it will be justified.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says hi!
OK, to be fair, there is a provision in the PA constitution stating that concurrent resolutions, except one to adjourn the legislature, have no effect unless the governor signs them.
I just came across “FOMO” on the internet. Apparently it’s the fear of missing out. Anxiety disorder caused by social media where a person fears they are not having as fun, or enriching experiences as their peers? This sounds stupid.
Social media is fucked. People are stupid and fucked. Fuck all of this stupid shit.
Go listen to The Jesus and Mary Chain. That will help.
Thank you. Excellent suggestion.
Yep. My wife asked me just the other day “Do you miss Facebook” and I said “not one bit” What I have is all I need. Mom mails me pictures (which I got a huge box full of), oldest I talk to on occasions, and brother and sister we talk when we can. Life moves on. Except you bastards, I cannot quit you dirty lot.
FOMO has been a marketing tactic since, well, more or less forever.
Sounds stupid but it’s real. People are insecure, and social media makes it worse. I see it with my son. By nearly every measure he has it pretty damn good, but in his mind someone somewhere always has something better.
There was also an article I read that went into how most people show only the highlights (trips, new stuff, fancy meals, etc.) and don’t show the bad times, hard work, or debt that was used to get them.
It’s like getting the gloating letter in the Christmas card every daggone day.
I’m pretty sure “keeping up with the Jones'” predates social media.
That describes almost every teenager that ever lived.
Ha! And you all were worried about Roberts.
“I still like statist cock!”
Not seeing any preexisting exemptions in there.
Nor is there a community caretaker exception.
There is when the Nazgul decree there is.
They need to have their invisible ink pen shoved up their backsides Suez Canal in a sandstorm style.
Sounds like someone needs a little community caretaking. Let me make a quick phone call….
And statistically 442 people die by accident…what is his point?
He doesn’t need to carry, why do you?
“Let them eat lead.”
“Americans have ‘no right’ to carry guns in public, 9th Circuit Court rules
“There is no right to carry arms openly in public; nor is any such right within the scope of the Second Amendment,” the court ruled in an “en banc” decision that involved several of the panel’s judges.
“We can find no general right to carry arms into the public square for self-defense,” the majority wrote, claiming that the Second Amendment applies to the “defense of hearth and home.”
“The power of the government to regulate carrying arms in the public square does not infringe in any way on the right of an individual to defend his home or business,” the judges wrote.
The court noted that “we have previously held that individuals do not have a Second Amendment right to carry concealed weapons in public” which means people in the West Coast states it covers have no right to carry a firearm in any capacity in public.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/24/9th-circuit-court-no-right-carry-guns-public/
In other news, Count Potato ruled, “The 9th Circuit can eat my ass.”
The only thing the 9th Circus is actually good for would be to test the derp power of a wood chipper.
Hadn’t the 9th previously ruled that CC could be restricted as long as open carry was allowed (or vice versa)?
They’re evolving! (For some values of “evolve.”)
Nope, it was the 7th Circuit.
Does that count as a circuit split?
A short circuit
Who’s Johnny?
Or,
“NO DISASSEMBLE NUMBER 2!”
Noticeably absent is any mention of the defense of self.
…or defense against government tyranny. How could they have forgotten that??
It’s a new world with a kinder gentler government that would never ever do the kinds of things that made the Revolutionary War necessary. Quit it with your atavistic tendencies.
“Pregnant people”. Christ on a crutch.
Corn hole is horse shoes for sissies.
I agree with you Western…though still fun.
It’s way less threatening. The target is concave rather than convex, and doesn’t challenge one’s personal self-image with its welcoming void, as opposed to the horseshoe pin which is all erect and scary.
Horse shoes?
You’re supposed to play hand grenades.
Oh yeah! Here’s my favorite song from Horseshoes and Hand Grenades:
Popular Creeps
The ‘Mats breakup did not go well.
Three wild turkeys in the middle of Harvard Square tonight.
They aren’t wearing masks! They want Grandma to die!!!11!!1
Looks like they confirmed Levine.
Hide yo kids, the schools are going to be pushing hormone therapy to them before the mid-terms.
I can’t tell if sugarFree likes author bios or not
uh oh, wtf is going on with bitcoin? I can’t load Coinbase pro; I did have a stop loss order that I think executed a while ago.
yep, sure enough, it dropped a few large in the last few hours.
Meh, it’ll go back up.
Frankly I hope it dips a lot more–my stop loss was near the top
If it does, I may get some more.
Yeah, I’ve done pretty well by guessing the tops and dips. Missed a few, but scored on more. it seems like just when I forget about it it makes a big move. I try to leave stop limit orders in to protect my position but they have played out a little too conservative a few times and I missed one big price move recently. Better to miss out on a big gain than to lose most of it, IMO.
Taco Bell is the best chain fast food going. 3 regular tacos, 3 soft and 2 tostadas please. I’ve done well on their stock too, may have to buy some more shares of Yum! Making me hungry just thinking about it. It’s not real tacos, but it is real good.
Jack-in-the-Box is better and just as efficient on my bowels.
Arby’s is the best