Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful and amazing day it always is!
Biden’s admin starts targeting his political opponents.
Nicholas Fuentes claims he is on the No Fly list.
Cuomo’s aides hid nursing homes death tolls.
Judge denies request to stop Maricopa County audit.
Ninth Circuit lifted restrictions on exporting blueprints for 3D printed guns.
Creepy old dementia patient gives speech to mostly empty room.
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Biden’s admin starts targeting his political opponents.
America has gone full Soviet. It’s over Johnny, it’s over.
This isn’t actually anything new.
The overt targeting of political opponents based on trumped up bullshit certainly is new. We haven’t seen this sort of thing before 2016.
No, it really isn’t new.
Well, if a blanket assertion is made twice … how can we not believe! (hint: “overt”)
Okay, I’m willing to be educated, please provide evidence that this was such an overt thing prior to 2016.
I might say that it was kind of an open secret from at least Kennedy through Nixon that this was the way things work. The Light Bringer kicked it off again (using the IRS to target NGOs that were politically opposed to them, prosecuting journalists, etc.).
/Devils Advocate
Not Devil’s Advocate, Truth Teller. FTFY
“The overt targeting of political opponents based on trumped up bullshit”
“open secret” isn’t overt. The key now is it is flaunted, rather than quietly unleashed.
Good point. They do seem to have done away with the mask entirely.
However, I would posit an alternative hypothesis: What if it was always this overt but since the establishment had a monopoly on the flow of information, we never heard about it. Now that there is any number of alternative media sources they can’t just call ABC, NBC, CBS, etc., and get a damning story quashed.
Not the same as the FBI (and other alphabet agencies) being completely in the thrall of one party, and doing that party’s bidding to investigate, harass, raid, and charge prominent members of the opposing party (Flynn, Giuliani, even Trump, a president) based on noting more than bullshit, innuendo, falsified dossiers, etc. in order to punish and harass them to try to cover up their own corruption.
Eugene Debs? Peter Schiff’s dad? Sharyl Attkisson? Danny Casolero? The Inslaw Software folk?
As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison.
Not the same.
Peter Schiff’s dad – convicted for tax evasion based on actual evidence of same.
Not the same.
Sharyl Attkisson
Spied on COVERTLY by the Obama admin.
Not the same.
Inslaw accused the Department of Justice of conspiring to steal its software, attempting to drive it into Chapter 7 liquidation, using the stolen software for covert intelligence operations against foreign governments, and involvement in a murder. These accusations were eventually rejected by the special counsel and the Court of Federal Claims.
Not even remotely the same.
Well i mean if Guliani gets convicted of a crime, it will also look like he was arrested for a real crime.
That Harris County DA who presecuted Tom DeLay?
Small potatoes by a local figure who got nothing out of it, no national support.
It is.
Any Republican who isn’t trying to destroy the FBI root and stem is part of the uniparty. They are the Stasi with infinitely more resources and technology.
I suspect this started even before he took office, but now they are just being blatant about it. It’s payback for forcing them to pretend they investigated Hunter’s criminal behavior and thus admitting they are fucking evil crooks.
???
We’ve fully returned to the days of Hoover. It’s like the Church Committee never happened.
This by the way is the answer to Swiss and WTF‘s objection above, about this never happening before.
Dammit, I’m on the same side of a debate as JI, I may have to rethink my position.
Got too much work to do, I’ll let it slide.
(I mean it all in jest.)
WRONG. “Overtly”.
The Church Committee revealed this hidden misconduct.
I.E. New…The Lightworker siccing the IRS on the Tea Party was not common knowledge until the victims made it so. Even then, the CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/NPR/MSNBC axis made sure it was not mentioned.
Don’t worry. Once the IRS has tripled in size to bring in all the back taxes owed, I’m sure that a new professionalism will arise and nothing will go wrong. And once the back taxes have been collected, all those new employees will just willingly accept their redundancy.
“The overt targeting of political opponents based on trumped up bullshit certainly is new. We haven’t seen this sort of thing before 2016.”
What exactly was hidden about the FBI campaign against say MLK Jr?
Show me the headlines. The radio or TV broadcasts of it. Show me it was common knowledge, addressed and debated.
Oh true enough, they didn’t have social media to peddle innuendo back then.
The hidden crap has been going on for…long, long time. Before Hoover too.
By the early years of the 1970s, a series of troubling revelations had appeared in the press concerning intelligence activities. First came the revelations by Army intelligence officer Christopher Pyle in January 1970 of the U.S. Army’s spying on the civilian population[1][2] and Senator Sam Ervin’s Senate investigations produced more revelations.[3] Then on December 22, 1974, The New York Times published a lengthy article by Seymour Hersh detailing operations engaged in by the CIA over the years that had been dubbed the “family jewels”. Covert action programs involving assassination attempts on foreign leaders and covert attempts to subvert foreign governments were reported for the first time. In addition, the article discussed efforts by intelligence agencies to collect information on the political activities of US citizens.[4]
The church committee was concerned with revelations about covert spying on American citizens, not overt targeting, harassment, and charging of prominent political opponents based on trumped up bullshit. We have not previously seen federal law enforcement bureaucracies in the control of one party overtly doing the bidding of that party by conducting raids and arrests and investigations based on trumped up nonsense of prominent members of the opposing party, such as Flynn, Giuliani, and even a former President in order to punish and harass them simply for being the opposition and in order to conceal their own corruption.
The only thing they left in Guliani’s office was the copy of Hunter’s hard drive.
If they took it, it would be in the evidence chain and subject to discovery when they charge him. The current copy they have is only in investigation and not subject to discovery.
If you need a more blatant example of politicized law enforcement, I don’t think it exists.
I wouldn’t be surprised if what they really were after was any real evidence that compromised the Bidens that Rudy might have (and especially the guy I think they really want: John Solomon). These fuckers want to white wash history, and the way they do that is by making sure nobody can challenge them. Leftists are fucking religious fanatics. No amount of proof will convince them of the evil of their leadership. But those pesky people that don’t pray to Marx while doing Hitler’s work are a problem. So they need to remove the evidence.
Trump should have fired literally everyone the minute he got elected and then started prosecuting all bad actors for everything he could find. Maybe after he win for the third time, he’ll get it right.
I admire your wild optimism.
Trump couldn’t figure out how to hire good people; I doubt he could figure out which people to clear out, never mind know why he was doing it.
Yeah, he was out of his depth in that regard. Navigating the palace politics of the White House and the Beltway in-crowd is far different than running a company.
How do you hire qualified good people when all the qualified people are part of the fucking deep state? There was no winning there. That’s the problem. The swap has reached critical mass, and there is no way to roll it back short of guillotining them all.
Not to mention Trump’s habit of firing people then trashing them on Twitter. Not a good strategy for attracting quality future employees.
And keeping on some of the worst.
Morning, Banjos.
This is how I would characterize it too. Seems like they won’t take any prisoners, either.
But they have to have troops and wire ringing the Capitol because MUH INSURRECSHUN!
Was the entire chain of succession present? I read it was only 200 people allowed.
Prez, Veep. Speaker…top 3 right there.
Al Haig gets a woody….
No, Hillary wasn’t there.
She was getting her human skin dry cleaned. It is molting season for her kind and mucus gets everywhere.
OK, I know I’m woefully out of touch with what’s going on back there but just what the heck is a “designated survivor”?
Post 9/11, one of the fairly high-up in the chain of succession was always hidden away at a “undisclosed location” in case some TERROARUST zapped the gathered Poobahs.
pre 9/11 too.
I know this because during the Clinton years Albright could never be the designated survivor, because she wasn’t born a US citizen, and thus wasn’t in the succession order.
That’s how Jack Ryan became President. Kiefer Sutherland, too.
A scare tactic to convince America how brave our leaders are for putting themselves at risk of another attack from Trump’s stormtroopers.
Boom. This.
You keep someone in your senior staff offsite for big meetings. So the entire command structure can’t be wiped out in one event.
That’s called “hedging your bets”.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5296406/
You know, that wasn’t a terrible show, I mean it did have a bit of the Sorkin, everyone is super-competent thing going on. But it was watchable.
Sorkin should get canncelled for wirting the horrifically racists line “tell Spike Lee to sit down and shut up.”
Sorkin should be canceled for being a state-worshiping toolbag.
State-worship is the very opposite of a cancellable offense.
Yeah. I know. *heavy sigh*
Should be vs will be.
Biden’s admin starts targeting his political opponents.
But Trump and his cohorts are fascists.
“Judge denies request to stop Maricopa County audit.”
When they find out how fucking corrupt these people are there will be more FBI seizures of people’s equipment on trumped up charges…
But Trump was Hitler, a Nazi!…
Progjection is really the thing.
If Cyber Ninjas do manage to uncover any genuine, significant fraud, the Arizona Republicans have handed Democrats an avenue for dismissing it all. The AZ Republicans could have avoided that by hiring a credible audit firm,rather than a firm with known prejudice toward believing the election was stolen.
Judge denies Democrats’ request to stop Maricopa County audit
Finally a judge with some stones (maybe…).
The 9th Circus will overturn on appeal.
It won’t mean that any results are overturned. If they find malfeasance it won’t go anywhere except into the Republican’s prison wallets.
Mornin’ Banjos! That version is fucking dark! I love it!
There Were So Few People In The Room For Biden’s Joint Session, You Could Hear Someone’s Phone Go Off
I know we call them “face diapers” in jest, but Nancy P….
And why were those two idiots behind Biden wearing masks, haven’t they been vaccinated?
Joe is so frail that two people exhaling directly on him might topple him. The masks are to muffle the exhalations to a more manageable level.
The masks are for people like me that read lips not to have clear evidence this is a Milly-Vanilly session and Joe is just talking about the skids in his underwear while a track made by a computer pretends the guy isn’t a demented douche…
Joe wasn’t wearing a mask.
He was wearing diapers, right? That guy talks out of his ass…
Joe Who?
The leader of the free world, the man who controls the economy and is the moral compass of America.
I thought that was Obama pulling Kamala’s puppet strings, while she had her hand up Joe’s ass like a sock puppet?
You’re supposed to say “Joe-Mama!”
Joe Who?
Isuzu what you did there.
Nancy wears hers so her plates don’t go awry. Her spittle is ethspethcially acidic. Kinda like the Alien Creature.
“Muzzles”
I call them “shame muzzles”.
But they fail to perform either function?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Covering Kammies left flank from a primary challenge.
Good morning, Banjos!
No shit. And not just lumber, but steel, corrugated and resins, too. We are getting pummeled right now.
Buckle up, y’all. I think it’s gonna be a little bumpy.
The entire supply chain for construction is fucked up.
Whole jobs are being held up because screws for the roofing are unavailable. I’m six months out on some equipment and have put a hold on any sales of used equipment.
My national competitors are buying companies just to get their equipment inventory.
4 months minimum to get hydraulic cartridge valves. My supplier for molded rubber parts can’t get raw rubber. This summer is going to be interesting.
My understanding is that the Eaton plant in Italy has been operational for 4 months out of the last 12.
And anyone who has ever been in manufacturing knows that a plant that is intermittently up and running is never fully operational because of line start-up issues. So cut that 4 months to an actual 2 months of full production.
I’m not buying Eaton products.
The people who manufacture and repair the truck and rail equipment that transport the parts you are ordering do buy Eaton products, however.
My national competitors are buying companies just to get their equipment inventory.
Holy crap! Is it just me, or does that sound like a line out of Atlas Shrugged?
It’s close.
Much like the rental car businesses, the national equipment rental houses panicked last year and sold off a lot of inventory and didn’t place orders for new when they normally do (September/October). Now demand is spiking and capital equipment lead times are 6 months out and not guaranteed to even deliver then.
And good luck buying new cars to rent with chip shortages stopping automotive production.
Just had a guy out to measure the house for a flooring replacement. He provided a warning that his lead times were 8+ weeks, while chatting, he mentioned the guy he uses for patio/decks is booked solid until next year.
Speaking of going after your enemy….
Feds indict Chauvin and other officers for civil rights violations.
Yeah, fuck double jeopardy.
But this has always been the case. Since the federal government, the several states, and various territories and indian nations are all sovereigns, multiple entities can try you for the same crime. Double jeopardy would only apply if, say, Virginia, tried someone, lost, and decided to re-prosecute him again, just because. The Beltway snipers got tried by the feds, and I think three states. I’m pretty sure whichever judge got the last whack at them declared that all sentences to be served consecutively.
It has always left a bad taste in my mouth that they can do that. One crime one trial. If there are federal charges, the case should be removed to federal court, just like in civil cases.
That’s part of the fiction, but the constitution says you can’t be tried twice for the same crime. It doesn’t specify that you can’t be tried twice by one entity. The other part of the fiction is that the state tried you for state criminal charges, but the feds are trying you for “civil rights violations”, which are somehow different crimes even though it’s being tried for the same act.
It’s bullshit because the purpose of prohibiting double jeopardy was to prevent the government from trying someone multiple times in order to get the verdict they wanted.
Which is especially absurd when they got the verdict they wanted the first time around and then come around for a dog pile.
Yeah, it’s piling on for political purposes to send a message.
Of course the federal government was given NO FUCKING POLICE POWER, so that form of double jeopardy couldn’t have been that big a concern. Which makes an interesting point about that provision – since it really couldn’t protect against federal prosecution (there being essentially no grounds outside of treason), that meant the BoR was binding on the states from the start.
???
The 14th Amendment was technically unnecessary.
Dotted the ‘i’ as the conclusion of the Civil War.
Morning glibs. Taking tomorrow off so today is my Friday.
Thanks for rubbing that in?
And tomorrow this time he’ll be rubbing it out?
“‘We the people’ are the government.”
–Joe Biden, last night
“And we’re here to help. Heh heh.”
*cackles from over his shoulder*
Government is just the things we ass-fuck together.
Government is what the Abuela says it is! *COUGHS BLACK AND SPITS IN THE SINK*
You mean us being ass fucked by them, right? Cause even the ones that are into catching, when it comes to government and lording it over the serfs, want to be the pitcher..
*sticks hand out for no accountability job, great bennies *
Hold yer horses, I’ll be retired in a year and you can have mine.
Ah yes, the biggest of the big lies…
More like “We the entrenched politicians and bureaucrats are the government”.
Also last night: “No amendment is absolute.”
So there are exceptions to provisions of 13A?
Apparently, according to Gropey Joe, or whoever works him as their sock puppet.
Although I guess he has a point, since the draft is somehow allowed despite the 13th amendment.
Oh, no, you see, their crime was being born male, and enslavement is allowable as punishment for crimes.
/socjus
Kamala Harris likes to find exceptions to the 13th
Well, duly convicted is already a reason you can be enslaved according to the 13th. So… 5 years before they start proposing “voluntary restitution” for people duly convicted of hate crime to those they oppressed?
Sorry, going to preach to the choir here for a bit. The whole “No Amendment is absolute” is such bulshit from a philosophical standpoint, and realistic standpoint. Obviously they mean “No Rights are absolute”, and short-handing amendment because he specifically means the 2nd Amendment (and growingly the left is also targeting the 1st Amendment). (Unless he’s planning to use this logic to circumvent the 22nd Amendment.) But if the constitution does not mean what it says, then what is the point?
Remember 15 months ago when all the Democrats lined up in black talking about how bad it was that they had to do their solemn duty to impeach the president to uphold the constitution.
But if the constitution does not mean what it says, then what is the point?
Exactly, the amendments are in fact absolute, because that’s the entire fucking point. The fact that the government has continually used creative fictions to infringe on them doesn’t render it any less true.
But if the constitution does not mean what it says, then what is the point?
Woodrow Wilson said the part that was supposed to stay quiet:
Progressives have always been evil, mendacious pieces of shit.
^^^ THIS right here.
I hate that word “progressives” the way I hate the word “elites”. “I’m a progressive” is a typical bit of new-speak bullshit they are do good at…. “See, I want PROGRESS…. I just want us to PROGRESS. Sure you aren’t against us PROGRESSING, are you?”
Same as when we call Hollywood or DC jerk-offs “elites”. Look up that word and tell me if you think Meryl Streep is what it defines. “Elites”, my ass.
I’ve said it before, but “no amendment is absolute” is the very blackletter definition of “enemies…and domestic” in the oaths that a whole bunch of people have taken. Period. Not that anybody cares.
Oath keeping is dangerous territory don’t you know.
we the people are brain-dead it seems
We the people’ are the government.
Let’s just assume, for the sake of argument, that that’s actually true.
So what? I’m supposed to be okay with getting f**ked over because its my neighbors f**king me over? Because, quite bluntly, the only conclusion I can draw from “We the people’ are the government.” is that “We the people” are a bunch of contemptible toads.
Two wolves and a sheep is democracy. Democracy is a means not an ends. The culture is more likely to produce democratic socialism than libertarianism.
One wolf, 2 sheep, same result. Voting doesn’t matter but guns do.
I’m not holding my breath when it comes to collecting $12M restitution ordered for Minnesoda man convicted of burning police station.
It’s been a successful strategy of the proggies, getting all these fanatics to believe they’re part of some social revolution, when they’re actually naught but useful idiots being used in a last-ditch desperate attempt to keep Murrican Marxism from dying. I’m convinced that Biden will be the last in the line.
You’re very optimistic. So long as the fraud machine is in working order, nothing will change.
We’re not getting rid of sloth and envy, so the dream will live on.
“So long as the fraud machine is in working order…”
Agreed. And it appears that the first dominoes are falling, e.g. Maher’s recent anti-woke and semi-pro-capitalism rant.
And I should’ve said that it’s the Biden Admin that’ll be last in line, or maybe Obama’s court.
last-ditch desperate attempt to keep Murrican Marxism from dying.
Easy on the white pills. You can OD on those things.
Newsletter?
“I’m convinced that Biden will be the last in the line.”
Biden will be the last tired old corrupotocrat pretending to be a commie for his last hurrah graft mission. The next democrat president will be serious full on commie.
This is my opinion too. The actions of the left/progressives are not the actions of a successful ideology, but of a dying one in its death throes.
The real question is how much damage they will do as they flop around. This has already killed the education sector, the media, and now what else is the question.
I keep hearing the “dying” rationalization of their behavior, but I just don’t see it. Feels like wishful thinking to me.
Viciousness isn’t solely within the purview of the cornered, dying animal. Viciousness is also seen from predators against prey.
Stalin was quite vicious, and he was the tail end of the ascendancy of the Soviet movement.
^ Yeah, I’m not seeing “dying” either. These are the actions of people who believe they have finally achieved their desired endgame and see no need for restraint.
There is an argument that people in a position of strength don’t need to resort to subterfuge, or secrecy. Brute Force is a symptom of overwhelming power. (Classic Achilles vs Odysseus).
I think the more precise argument is that the Propaganda isn’t working as well anymore. Because of that things that in the past didn’t seem so blatant are now becoming crystal clear. In the past they could do this stuff and get cover for it by the Media, and glowingly people don’t trust the Media.
Baseball birthdays:
1. HoFer Luis Aparicio
2. Noodles Hahn
3. Rick Burleson
55. J.R. Phillips
I mention Phillips only because he is amazing. A first baseman who played parts of 7 years in the majors (1993-99) and never hit above the Mendoza line, except for his 16 at bats in 1993 and his final season of 39 at bats (Colorado though, so inflated). The Giants gave him 235 at bats in 1995, he hit .195.
Career .188 hitter. FOR A FIRST BASEMAN. He had some power, which was the reason he kept getting chances. Of his 94 career hits, 23 were home runs and 19 were doubles (also 1 triple).
I remember the hype over him in my fantasy league.
He finished his career with -1.6 WAR, dead last for 4/29 birthdays.
In 1999, he hit 41 dingers at AAA. He was a standard Quad-A type who could mash in the minors but do nothing in the majors.
But that .247 career majors OBP is just wow. Terrible.
Just for fun yesterday, I looked up I-joists, to see how much they are. Lowe’s says “This product is unavailable.”
Menard’s showed them at $3/ft.
I-joists – what are those and why would anyone need one?
Heavy-duty floor holder-upperers that are stronger than the usual 2x12s, but also very light. https://www.apawood.org/i-joist
They replace 2×10’s in flooring systems, They are lighter and can span farther, they are more uniform and supposedly help reduce squeaking and creaking, They also burn up really fast so if you use then you have to do extra fireproofing* which more or less eliminates any savings over the 2x materials (and can be a PITA for other subs) and thus no one uses them any more.
*check your local building codes, may not be the case everywhere.
I’ve noticed that my kitchen floor is no longer level. The house is 3 years old. Expected, or is the homebuilder a jerk?
You wouldn’t be the first person who got a substandard foundation.
True, though I don’t notice cracking or anything like that in the basement.
Slab on grade in the basement?
How much are we talking here. A little settling is expected (almost unavoidable ) as well as some shrinkage in the framing members but I’d be concerned if the change is apparent to the naked eye. Can you inspect the floor joists and beams or is your basement finished? assuming you have a basement, that is.
Yup, basement, unfinished. I think I can see it, but that might be an illusion since I definitely can feel it underfoot. And of course, when the puppy pees on the floor I can see the flow. I’ll give the joists a looksee.
I’ll assume that your basement slab is floating in between the footers and not turned down, so you may not see any settling or cracking in it. The footers take all of the weight.
You can use a rotary laser in the basement to check for settling around the perimeter (assuming it’s not broken up by interior walls).
Are you certain it was ever level? most houses are not. There are just too many things that can affect it. The foundation walls could be off you can have different thickness in the sill plates and floor joist themselves, if the subfloor was exposed to the weather you could have varying thickness there. Add up a fraction of an inch here and a fraction of an inch there and soon your talking real numbers. When I set cabinets in brand new homes it’s not at all unusual for me to have to shim some cabinets up 1/2 or 3/4 of an inch. Of course across the length of a kitchen even a inch off is only going to be a few tenths of a degree out of level. I don’t know at what pitch puppy piss starts to flow and it probably depends on the surface also. Could be it always sloped and the puddles have just recently made you acutely aware of it.
You’re right that I didn’t check when I moved in. It’s also entirely possible that what I’m feeling in my feet isn’t an issue with the floor overall being level but some deviation from flatness caused by sagging/stretching of the floor and/or joists.
I bought 5 pieces of treated lumber from Lowes last week: 3 12×6 and 2 8×6. $70. Usually I buy cedar to patch rotten boards in my deck with but Lowes did not have any. The guy at Lowes said people aren’t buying cedar any more for decks, they buy synthetic decking, so Lowe’s quit stocking cedar.
The ecowarriors’ wet dream of forcing us all back into mud huts is proceeding nicely.
Uffda. Shit just got real. Minnesoda county administrators getting flack for hosting King Walz for this year’s opener.
Fishing opener is just a smidge behind deer hunting as a Minnesoda institution. Hearing that locals in NW Minnesoda are pissed that they are hosting King Walz’s Governor’s Opener is hearwarming to me.
The association board discussed the event, he said, and decided that turning it down would be inappropriate given the hundreds of thousands of dollars it would provide to hard-hit hotels and restaurants, as well as more than $1 million in media exposure.
Bullshit.
My hometown has hosted a Governor’s opener a few times. The hotels would have been full on opener no matter what. The big difference is in the bars and restaurants. Everyone is drinking and eating on expense accounts so a LOT more money flows into the respectable joints.
My father got roped into being a local guide one year and he was stuck with three journalos. He was impressed by the amount they drank. They actually caught a few fish and they were ecstatic. According to them no one ever caught fish before (in the C-list boats, I’m sure they always have scuba divers ready to hook a fish on the Gov’s line).
“Leonard told Otter Tail County commissioners on Tuesday, April 27, that the annual fishing opener is an economic event, not a political one.”
Awww, that’s cute. Who wants to tell him?
Ya think?: Federal Judge Says California Gun Control Law May Be Unconstitutional
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw has handed down a 15-page opinion upholding the lawsuit, or at least the part of it that challenges the Handgun Roster requirements (the portion of the law challenging the legality of the state’s Unsafe Handgun Act itself was dismissed by the judge, who ruled that existing Ninth Circuit precedent prevents that part of the case from moving forward).
The state of California argued that even if the number of handguns available for sale in the state is declining, it doesn’t amount to an infringement on the right to keep and bear arms because other guns remain available for sale, but Judge Sabraw wasn’t buying it.
I agree. It is time to change the constitution.
They don’t have the stones, or the ability to amend the Constitution. They can’t a super-majority the house or senate without getting TEAM RED to show their bellies, which is very unlikely but still possible because that is what congressional Republicans do. However, there is almost zero chance that they get a super-majority in the state legislatures.
So they will continue to nibble around the edges until they make 2A dead(er) letter.
My understanding is that the strategy is to to nibble around the edge (like you say) to reduce gun ownership. They figure if they can get ownership down far enough, gun owners won’t be enough of a political force to challenge their more aggressive pushes. That one really doesn’t seem to be happening.
Well any gun control law is unconstitutional, so of course this one is.
It stops at ‘shall not be infringed’. Anything beyond that is unconstitutional. So all gun laws on the books are just that.
Consistent with earlier data (https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1209619298999771137?s=20), white conservative men (women) rate themselves as more masculine (feminine) than do their liberal counterparts
https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1387494576546582530
‘Cuomo’s team silenced New York’s own public health officials, including the commissioner Howard Zucker, from releasing an accurate depiction of how many people were dying in New York nursing homes. This occurred as Cuomo instituted policies to prevent nursing homes from turning away patients infected with COVID-19 who had just been released from hospital.’
And nothing else happened.
‘Cuomo also stopped an academic paper with this data from being published, going on to withhold the results of an audit for months after it was finished. Two letters that detailed the gravity of the situation were also thrown away at the direction of the Governor’s office.’
And nothing else happened.
‘An accurate count of nursing home deaths was only released by the state attorney general in January of 2021. This report revealed that Cuomo under-reported nursing home deaths by as much as 50 percent. The real number of nursing home deaths in New York as of April 2021 is 15,500.’
And nothing else happened.
‘It has now been discovered that Cuomo and his aides knew the accurate number of nursing home deaths last spring, yet withheld the numbers and covered up the amount of deaths. This happened while Cuomo began writing, pitching and marketing a book on his response to the pandemic.’
And nothing else happened.
I’m not sure which is worse: The blatant, unapologetic corruption from the Governor, The collective ‘meh’ from most of the media or the collective ‘meh’ from NY voters.
It’s pretty obvious to me. The “the collective ‘meh’ from NY voters” is the ‘meh’ that means it isn’t going to change.
It’s actually mostly NYC voters, but yeah.
The downstate machine isn’t as famous as it once was, but never lost its stranglehold on statewide offices.
John Carpenter had the right solution to NYC.
Unleash horrible shape-shifting aliens that consume organic matter?
No, wait, I’m mixing up films here.
Confine it to official state buildings and you might just have something there.
I like it. A reverse Biden, instead of barricading the plebes out, we barricade the leaches in. I am on board.
True, I forgot to add the “most of” for the voters.
They sentenced German functionaries to the gallows for much, much less. I’d wager that a great many of those poor oldsters were also Jewish. Evil fucking man.
It’s why I got the hell out of there. You wake up one morning and realize that it’s not that your “friends and neighbors” don’t get it. It’s that they do and just don’t care. At that point, there’s no use trying to argue with them. It isn’t that they don’t see what they’re doing. They’re complicit. No amount of reasoning is going to work. Because the reasoning would only work if they just didn’t see what it was you were trying to explain. They see it.
In a sane world… In a free world, filled with free and energetic and optimistic people… the current spike in prices for construction materials would unleash a massive wave of innovation and creativity. In Joe Biden’s America (an America dominated by millions of local planning and zoning boards and their NIMBY co-conspirators)?
We’re fucked.
We’re fucked. – that barrel of lube y’all made fun of will sure come in handy soon
Ten bucks for a waned 2×4. Doesn’t look like much building being done at Chez Festus this year…
So glad I’m not DIYing anymore.
We were thinking of replacing our deck this year. A buddy came over gave me a much bigger estimate than I had expected. He suggested that I wait a year and hope that the price of lumber comes down.
Of course, next year will be after Biden’s $2.2T Infrastructure bill, the $3.1T Education bill and the $3.9T Security bill, so inflation might be a problem by then.
Get Trex.
While I’m sure a giant carnivorous dinosaur would do a great job tearing away the deck, I’m a bit skeptical about how well it will do building the replacement.
Hard to swing a hammer with those teeny little arms.
“That’s a big pile of shit!”
https://www.awesomeinventions.com/tiny-t-rex-arms-for-chickens/
*narrows gaze*
The power of pithy propaganda
https://www.samizdata.net/2021/04/the-power-of-pithy-propaganda/
Don’t believe big citrus.
Good stuff.
I like this one.
I-joists – what are those and why would anyone need one?
An “engineered lumber” product, invented to overcome the lack of long straight natural boards. Stronger, straighter and lighter; made of what once was waste products.
I-joists
Goddammit! This is depressing news! It’s been raining for days and it’s supposed to be Springtime… I need some pretty girls in sundresses, STAT!
Here.
Here ya go…
Remember, be woke!
Fuck that noise.
Alex explain to me why blackface is bad, but guys wearing dresses is Brave?
I would rather talk about quantum entanglement computers or how many angels can dance the head of a pin, cause that stuff makes more sense to the common man that has not suffered brain damage..
So what’s the practical bitrate for data transfers over a quantum entangled pair?
According to the physics it would be 100% without any latency. That’s why I think looking for communications in the radio spectrum is fucking stupid. Over the vast distances of space, quantum entangled particle driven computers/communications is the only way to do that without the delay making the effort meaningless.
That wasn’t the question asked. How much data can we currently shove over one of those connections? Or is it all still theoretical.
How does one go about inducing entanglement to set up a transfer connection?
Sounds like Ansible.
If you can’t manufacture entangled pairs are you stuck just mining for them?
You can create entangled pairs, you can’t use them to transmit information.
Then what is their utility?
Dude. Quantum. Entanglement.
Journalist filtered source The original nature article is paywalled, so I couldn’t verify.
But I now must ask, if observation causes enganglement to disentangle, how do you even prove they were entangled in the first place?
I ask because I genuinely want to know, but find the writing style of quantum physicists painful to the language center.
IIRC, this video is pretty decent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c
If you prefer text, search for Bell’s Theorem or “Bell’s Inequalities.”
TL;DR:
Yes, once you measure one particle, you know exactly what the other will be, regardless of how far away it is. However, you measuring it at pont A doesn’t communicate anything at/to point B.
Oh, and you know they they’re entangeld bacause of how they were generated (and not perturbed since creation).
From the video, It sounds more like a shortcoming of the measuring equipment to me.
In “Singularity Sky”, Stross had precious quantum-entangled material sent from Earth via slower-than-light ships to far-flung colonies (they had FTL, but the jump would break the entanglement).
They’d send messages, bit by precious bit, using these pairs, so communication was extremely limited, with each bit of data passed in either direction consuming a pair.
As I understand it, that would work, right?
If they had FTL, then courier ships seem more likely to actually be a viable for of communication.
It would take far too long for a slower than light transport to get anywhere to establish the link.
It’s been awhile since I read it, but ISTR that courier ships where the norm but still took time to cross the distance. QE messages were reserved for emergencies/time-sensitive things.
No.
What would “sending a message” mean? With entanglement, all you know is that the entangled pairs will have opposite spins. You don’t know which is which, and you can’t determine which spin will be where.
The other problem is if you could “send” a message, how would you “receive” it? In order to know you’ve received anything you’d have to interact with (measure) it.
Very well, I shall watch your 10 minute video…
Skimming this, I think I git it as well:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/01/02/no-we-still-cant-use-quantum-entanglement-to-communicate-faster-than-light/
If we go by the Forbes simplification, there is no such thing as entanglement. These particles are merely created with opposite states and they act fully independantly. All they’ve measures is that until you start poking them, they keep their initial states.
Entanglement implies persistance which was never there.
“You can create entangled pairs, you can’t use them to transmit information.”
If you can observe their state, and making a change to one particle instantaneous makes the change to the other entangled one, you can create a language that allows you to read/write information. And you can make it more efficient by having multiple entangled particles. I grant that moving the particles (in whatever system you have created for communication or computation) where you want to send the message too still is something that is difficult to solve if we are limited by FTL travel not being possible, but that’s cause our application of our knowledge of physics is still immature when it comes to some of these ideas.
This is what apprears to be the false part. Making a change to one particle is not reflected on the other. The “Entanglement” is a statistical quirk of their initial states being opposite and unchanged.
Unless I’ve misunderstood the information so far provided.
News you can use
All funny, all get a big ole “Thumbs-Up”! Thumbs up yer respective asses…
“It’s been raining for days and it’s supposed to be Springtime…”
In my experience that happens a LOT. Last night I woke up and it was raining so hard it sounded like it would just evaporate the roof.
Iron Law of Woke Projection.
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1387466418250305536
James Lindsey is a good egg. He is doing the yeoman’s work of pointing out how terrible Critical Race Theory and the like have completely destroyed the academy. He is also pointing out when this cancer appears in primary and secondary schools.
Plus the troll papers that they got into those humanities journals are pure gold. The Feminist Mien Kampf with Jew replaced with ‘men’ or ‘patriarchy’ is my personal favorite.
It was there in the 1980’s, simmering. By the ’90’s it was coming to a boil.
Judging by a brief perusal of the googlenooz headlines, the propaganda machine is clanking and clattering at maximum steam pressure to portray Ballgag Joe as the Savior of Our Nation.
Must have been quite the rambling stuttering disaster of a “speech”.
Me: mom can we get some F-117 stealth fighter?
Mom: no, we have F-117 stealth fighter at home
F-117 at home:
https://twitter.com/B_Garelick/status/1387434617251188737
The Wainfan FMX-4 Facetmobile is an American homebuilt aircraft designed by Barnaby Wainfan, a Northrop Grumman aerodynamicist and homebuilt aircraft engineer.
even the guys name is weird
Barnaby… I think of the character from that movie/play about the two guys from Yonkers you pretend they are high rollers to get the two chicks to fall in love with them.
My kids have moved association to Wall-E.
Nice! If that guy’s aircraft isn’t a steam-powered gyro-copter I am going to be very disappointed.
Because, quite bluntly, the only conclusion I can draw from “We the people’ are the government.” is that “We the people” are a bunch of contemptible toads.
Mobocracy made this nation great. Why do you hate progress?
The Wainfan FMX-4 Facetmobile is an American homebuilt aircraft designed by Barnaby Wainfan, a Northrop Grumman aerodynamicist and homebuilt aircraft engineer.
I’d rather have this.
SWOTL
The paint scheme could be a little problematic. And only if they fixed those little leaky fuel issues – then that would be cool,
Getting the gang back together.
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Samantha Power to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Senators voted 68-26 to confirm Power, who served in the Obama administration as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
President Biden is also expected to put Power on the White House National Security Council, where she served during Obama’s first term.
I’m sure the 18 Republicans got a nice belly scratch.
Well they thought they would. Turns out the Dems just Neutered them when they expectingly rolled over.
Of course, next year will be after Biden’s $2.2T Infrastructure bill, the $3.1T Education bill and the $3.9T Security bill, so inflation might be a problem by then.
And the non-union carpenter will be as extinct as the wooly mammoth.
Skillful drivers; incredibly efficient system
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1387523521929125889
this lacks the beauty of a permaculture farmstead. Monocrops are killing Gaia.
Way to assume the sentience of the drivers!
How do you know that all that wasn’t done by robots? Self-driving tractors and trucks are real you know!
don’t let Tucker Carlson know or he’ll want to ban them
Some thoughts i’ve been kicking around. I listened to some “anti-extremism” stuff the other day. Now i think it is farily universally agreed that being violent is no-bueno. Nothing i’m saying is contesting that. What i am intrigued by is the method of logic that is used by some of the people purporting this. In particular: 1)”You have a right to believe what you want, but you can’t be excluded from the consequences of those beliefs”, when the consequences they are talking about is government restrictions. Also there is 2) “You can believe what you want, as long as you don’t act on it”.
1) is of course just a weasly way to try to make it look like the law and legal ramifications are not punishments for an illegally held belief, but just the natural outcome and consequence of your actions.
2) Is on i think is more insiduous. It is the attempt to seperate belief from action. You can believe whatever you want, as long as you don’t actually follow through on those beliefs. I find that there is a strong connection, almost if not completely inseperable, between belief and action. Now you might wonder, “Is Leon advocating that people have a right to follow through on their violent Beliefs?”, and i’m saying no i don’t think that. What i do think is that the language being used by government and their abettors is not limited to violent actions. Otherwise they would just have to talk about how you have no right to aggress towards others, regardless of your beliefs. No the point is to make it that certain non-violent actions become verboten. And that is why i find this part more insiduous. The First is just weasel words, this is about trying to break peoples personal beliefs so that they only fit in a defined set of allowed ones.
Nonviolent beliefs and actions might indicate a mindset that leads to violence so the government is justified in using actual physical violence against you if required. It’s pretzel logic but that’s the way it is.
Seems like somebody was taking close notes while watching Minority Report.
So are they applying that logic to all of the mostly peaceful protests last year? No, of course they aren’t, because that was goodthink, not badthink. Fuck this shit: there are FOUR lights.
I’ve got no problem with thhe second. I honestly believe the world would be a better place if certain people were euthanized, but as long as I don’t act on it, I still consider myself no worse morally than the typical human.
Reid: Get back on the plantation, boy.
“He said nothing about the work he wants to do on this act for which I’d just given him credit before he started speaking in which he’s getting credit from Democrats who are working with him. People see him as trying to be genuine working on criminal justice reform. And he came out and lied about the Georgia bill saying it’s easier to vote in Georgia than in New York.”
Reid added, “I am shocked and a bit embarrassed for him. This was a lost opportunity. Tim Scott has an opportunity to make his mark on criminal justice reform, and this ain’t going to do it. This wasn’t it.”
You mean when they filibustered his police reform bill?
Joy Reid is a leftist first and her loyalty to black people is way down the list. She’s happy to use the worst of accusations against those black folks that don’t agree with her politically.
Didn’t read the whole article. (Supposed to be working.) Did she ever set the record straight and explain how it’s easier to vote in NY?
Burn it down!
Careful if you go swimming down by Harlem River
The constitution is just a fucking piece of paper.
During his April 28, 2021, speech to Congress, President Biden called for a ban on “high-capacity magazines that hold 100 rounds.”
He reiterated his point seconds later, saying:
Biden also called for an “assault weapons” ban, universal background checks, and new regulations on guns that are built from parts kits.
He described gun violence as an “epidemic” and called for Republicans to join Democrats in supporting gun control.
Biden said, “We need more Senate Republicans to join with the overwhelming majority of their Democratic colleagues, and close loopholes and require background checks to purchase a gun.”
It’s like no one understands the premise of 2A.
FUCK OFF FUDDS.
Seriously. I don’t know if its that Dems are so out of touch that they don’t know that most people with guns don’t have them for hunting, or if they do it on purpose so as to make it seem to their base that Gun Ownership is only something those backwards hunting red-necks want.
The idea seems to be that the only reason to own a gun would be for hunting. They don’t want people to start wondering exactly who does own firearms now and why they have them. The dodge is to claim it is just hunters.
The next step is to then claim that even hunters agree that they don’t need 100 rounds.
Yup. Hence Fuck off Fudds. We need to alienate all the hunters who position themselves as the authorities on gun ownership and perpetuate this.
Those Fudds are pretty well extinct by now.
No REAL hunter needs a gun that can kill at a hundred yards! If you can’t stalk any closer than that you’re not really a hunter!
It’s a strategy aimed at demoralizing and wearing down gun owners, that’s all. I’m sure there are gun owners out there that do think that but they’re few and far between.
I know a lot of shit gets thrown on tacti-COOL gun owners, but those are the ones most interested in preserving the 2nd A. I’m all in favor of people arming to the teeth with the latest and greatest gadgets.
Fudds are happy to throw every other gun owner under the bus as long it means keeping their shotgun a couple extra years. They might as well have been active collaborators in Britain during their gun purge.
MY guns are good. YOUR guns are bad.
Saturday night special full etymology.
It’s pretty much known that they are increasing the national inventory of “assault weapons” with their RHEEEEEing. Mrs. Animal and I each have an AR-15. Hell, we don’t even really like them. Mrs. A likes .22 handguns more than anything, and I like my old Model 12s and Belgian Brownings. The only damn reason we have our ARs in the safe is because finger-wagging slobs are trying to tell us we shouldn’t have them.
I don’t even like the AR platform, but I invested in one because of this nonsense.
I think that this is one of the rare cases where the Left’s vitrol is getting in the way of effective advocacy.
The whole ‘No One Needs XYZ’ argument has rung out flat for a generation. ARs and other assault weapons continue to lead the sales rankings. And the idea of using your gun to defend yourself from State tyranny is now mildly edgy meme fodder.
The previous ban on “assault weapons” had no measurable effect on anything. Liars gonna lie.
And when it expired in 2004 gun violence just kept plummeting.
The only thing that’s managed to bring gun violence back up is whatever we are doing right now.
Au contraire.
I would argue that it drove up purchases of semi-automatic sporting rifles almost geometrically.
“We need a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines again. Don’t tell me it can’t be done. We’ve done it before … and it worked. Talk to most responsible gun owners, most hunters – they’ll tell you there’s no possible justification for having 100 rounds – 100 bullets – in a weapon.”
Fuck off, you lying old sack of shit.
Pudding Head is wanting to grab guns, and is lying about his true intentions.
What a surprise.
But then, what do you expect from a plagiarist.
Russians, under the bed, with alien technology
Federal agencies are investigating at least two possible incidents on US soil, including one near the White House in November of last year, that appear similar to mysterious, invisible attacks that have led to debilitating symptoms for dozens of US personnel abroad.
Multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN that while the Pentagon and other agencies probing the matter have reached no clear conclusions on what happened, the fact that such an attack might have taken place so close to the White House is particularly alarming.
Defense officials briefed lawmakers on the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on the matter earlier this month, including on the incident near the White House. That incident, which occurred near the Ellipse, the large oval lawn on the south side of the White House, sickened one National Security Council official, according to multiple current and former US officials and sources familiar with the matter.
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Rumors have long swirled around Washington about similar incidents within the United States. While the recent episodes around Washington appear similar to the previous apparent attacks affecting diplomats, CIA officers and other US personnel serving in Cuba, Russia and China, investigators have not determined whether the puzzling incidents at home are connected to those that have occurred abroad or who may be behind them, sources tell CNN.
Defense officials who briefed lawmakers said it was possible Russia was behind the attacks, but they did not have enough information to say for sure. Another former US official involved in the investigation at the time said China was also among the suspects.
It’s WAR, I tell you!
If the Russkies were one tenth as capable as the intelligence agencies and the pentagon likes to pretend they are they’d have conquered the world long ago.
Hey, they did have the President of the United States in the palm of their hand.
Pretty much the same with the Chinese.
I particularly like the fearmongering about a country with an economy equal to Spain. Granted they have nukes, aging ones, much like ours, which will probably be more of a danger to them than to us with a few more years.
^^^
It would be amusing if one of their old nukes – preferably in some unpopulated area in outer Mongolia – were to accidently explode. Something big enough they can’t hide it but far enough away from anybody that nobody but the poor grunt who run the facility are affected. It would be fun to watch the CCP and their fanboiz in the west try to cover what satellite technology had already made clear to the entire world.
Outer Mongolia is the independant nation of Mongolia.
Inner Mongolia is the Chinese-occupied territory.
“Tolerant” leftists: Get back on the plantation, boy.
Scott expressed gratitude for the “string of opportunities that are only possible here in America” but cautioned that “this past year, I’ve watched COVID attack every rung of the ladder that helped me up,” including families losing parents and grandparents too early, and churches and schools being locked down.
“I get called “Uncle Tom” and the N-word — by “progressives.” By liberals,” Scott added.
Almost immediately after Scott’s speech, “Uncle Tim” began trending on Twitter nationally, aided by several verified accounts that tweeted out the phrase in reference to the senator.
“Nuh-uh, this is a racist country! We will show you, by being racist!”
/prog logic
Oh hey, before I sign off for the day, there was a little glimmer of hope that came my way yesterday. Apparently they’ve reinstituted “Hero Pay” retroactive to Feb 1st. A thousand bucks and I’ll get to either do the front bakes on the Tacoma, some new filters and an oil change or I might just drink it all up. What to do, what to do…
I’ve heard giving all your extra money to a Pal named Leon is rewarding.
Joseph Smith is not on my donor list. Sorry, Pal.
Huh?
It was a gentle joke, leon. I meant no harm.
10% to the big guy
No problem, i was hoping that my joke didn’t offend either.
If gun violence is an epidemic, maybe there is some sort of mask people could wear?
Plastic Bags, zip tied at the neck, are excellent preventives for gun violence.
I hope you mean that the bags are over their heads, not from their feet up…
This mask I’m wearing while pointing a gun at your head and demanding money isn’t to protect you from gun violence, it is to protect me … from prosecution.
May I recommend this
As if this case could not get more ridiculous…
Leading up to Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, Justice Department officials had spent months gathering evidence to indict the ex-Minneapolis police officer on federal police brutality charges, but they feared the publicity frenzy could disrupt the state’s case.
So they came up with a contingency plan: If Chauvin were found not guilty on all counts or the case ended in a mistrial, they would arrest him at the courthouse, according to sources familiar with the planning discussions. …
Now, with Chauvin’s state trial out of the way, federal prosecutors are moving forward with their case. They plan to ask a grand jury to indict Chauvin and the other three ex-officers involved in George Floyd’s killing — J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — on charges of civil rights violations, a source said.
If the grand jury voted to indict, the former officers would face the new civil rights charges on top of the state’s cases, meaning all four could be headed toward yet another criminal trial in federal court.
Garbage individual dies of a drug overdose so naturally we have to railroad everyone involved. At this rate I fully expect that cop that saved the girl in OH(?) from being stabbed to be charged with and convicted of murder.
That’s insane thinking Rebel. Everyone, and i mean everyone, thought Chauvin was a piece of shit when this came out at first. I’m not arguing for the Mob, i’m just saying that Cop who shot Stabby McStabface, was not even close to becoming a Pariah like Chauvain did.
I like the gif for this article on the main page.
Keep in mind that with each flight, I wasn’t allowed to check in. I never even got a boarding pass for any of these flights. In each case when I tried to check in at the kiosk, I was told to go to customer service after which the clerk calls TSA for 30 mins and says I can’t fly.
Hmmm… I bet the airlines happily pocketed his money.
The divided Ninth Circuit panel lifted a court order against two Trump-era rules that make it easier to share blueprints for 3D-printed guns, Courthouse News Service reported Tuesday.
Good.
Who is that Nick Fuentes dude?
I’ve never heard of him. Why is him being on the no fly list more egregious than the other people on the list?
He is a guy that is on the periphery of the White Nationalist/Race Realist sect. He is kind of a turd, but putting him on the no-fly list for having terrible ideas is not good.
If terrible views become the standard then we’ll all be on it shortly along with everyone else to the right of AOC.
Winner winner, chicken dinner!
Just so. I mean most of us here knew that the no-fly list was a bad idea from the jump for just this reason. Government lists never result in good outcomes. But you couldn’t have a better example than this.
While it’s possible he has unfairly been place on a federal no fly list, I’d say it’s just as likely the airlines have banned him for his abusive behavior, which he proudly tweeted about. Right now we have only this guys side (an attention whore/provocateur), I’ll reserve judgment until more evidence arises.
Sure I am prepared to withdraw my objections if this isn’t the case.
Are common carriers allowed to collude?
Not sure, but I don’t know why they shouldn’t be allowed to share info. Don’t casinos share blacklists of card counters or cheats and whatnot? Also if he’s proud about being an asshole on one airline it bears to reason he might have been an asshole on other airlines as well.
I imagine if restuarants or hotels had an industry-wide “do not serve” list, there’d be civil rights lawsuits a-plenty.
Narrator: AOC was eventually on the list, too.
Is there an iota of evidence that Fuentes is actually…you know….a terrorist. In a world that isn’t completely insane (ha ha, I know, I know), it’s something you’d think would be necessary to be placed on something called a “terrorism watch list”.
I bet Susan Rosenberg and Bill Ayers (for real actual terrorists who tried to kill a lot of people) can fly with no hassle at all.
Who the fuck knows? The system is designed to be opaque.
In other words, trust your betters.
I do trust my betters, it’s just that my betters aren’t in the govt.
I know that Joe is Gun-Grabber in aspiration, but take a moment to realize that Trump was absolutely Horrific when it came to Gun Laws. Trump was the best thing for Gun Control since Ronald Regan implemented the Import Ban. And most of Joes stuff will likely fail or be thrown out, so Trumps will be the longest lasting.
Fuck Donald Trump.
The rules in this question were removal of restrictions. Though I do recall some other stupidity that I believe is being challenged and the contest still in motion.
take a moment to realize that Trump was absolutely Horrific when it came to Gun Laws.
You don’t need to remind me.
How many times have I bitched here and/or elsewhere about the bump stock ban and Trump’s talk in support of Red Flag Laws?
The economics version of beer goggles
Economic activity boomed to start 2021, as widespread vaccinations and more fuel from government spending helped get the U.S. closer to where it was before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
Gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced in the economy, jumped 6.4% for the first three months of the year on an annualized basis. Outside of the reopening-fueled third-quarter surge last year, it was the best period for GDP since the third quarter of 2003.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a 6.5% increase. Q4 of 2020 accelerated at a 4.3% pace.
“This signals the economy is off and running and it will be a boom-like year,” said Mark Zandi chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “Obviously, the American consumer is powering the train and businesses are investing strongly.”
Truly, we are entering a Golden Age.
If the prior year was a bust it’s easy to have a boom.
At first i thought it said “Investing Strangely” and was going to say that that doesn’t bode well for a strong economy.
I hate this line of reasoning. It was not a slightly worse than the flu viral infection that caused this, it was a bunch of idiotic public health bureaucrats and power-hungry politicians that caused the economic decline.
My wife is itching to remove a wall in our kitchen but with lumber prices going up and up, I have a feeling these quotes we are getting are going to be lower than what the end costs will be.
We planned on rehabbing the kitchen and adding another bay to our garage this spring. I think I’ve convinced Mrs. TOK that would be a bad idea right now.
Maybe we’ll just wait for the economic collapse, and save money on labor by hiring some orphans and drifters to do the work.
“Maybe we’ll just wait for the economic collapse”
Only then, all of the lumber gets burnt for heating your home.
Yep, we were going to redo our kitchen this year and that has been shelved. Might still put some fencing up, but vinyl is starting to make more sense than wood.
I may still pull the trigger on new stove & refrigerator, but the rest will have to wait.
Speaking of which – any Glibs have a induction cooktop?
Local greens are eager to ban gas – my inclination is to switch over now before it’s verboten (it’s been something I’ve been wanting to do for awhile).
In the interest of fairness, I figured I should see if people love induction and not just go with my knee-jerk “gas good!”. Although something that works even when the power is out is nice.
I’m a gas=good cook.
Be forewarned that not all pans will work on an induction stove
Induction is good at what it’s good at. Need to boil a pot of water quickly? Induction. My understanding is that responsiveness is somewhere between electric and gas and that the quality of the Induction burner matters a ton, especially at low temps. One issue I’ve heard of was the cycling of the burner being entirely too slow on low end models, so the pan temperature would swing wildly when set to low temps.
I grew up with old school electric but have been cooking with gas ever since relocating in Japan.
As cooking omelets are part of my routine I can’t imagine ever going to induction. I was staying in a place with an induction cook top on a project and it shut off every time I lifted the pan to spread the eggs. That will never be part of my life.
I’ve installed a few of those vinyl fences, they are really nice, unless your looking for some aesthetic/style that you cant get with the vinyl I’d recommend them over wood even if the lumber prices hadn’t skyrocketed.
I’ve got one that looks a lot like this. Looks good, even years after installation.
That’s almost exactly what I’ve installed, I should add the labor cost savings alone almost make up for the adding material costs.
This would span my entire back property line so I am pretty much convinced. Issue is the neighbor who already has a fence up and wants to replace it, but he is leaning wood. What makes it really stupid though is most of his back property line is already white vinyl from a different neighbor. So…if I am willing to split the cost for the part we share and he gets one material across the back, why not? I don’t get it.
Use steel.
Steel prices have gone nuts too.
Let them eat cake?
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said that while housing activity is above where it had been and other parts have recovered close to pre-pandemic levels, the recovery remains “uneven and far from complete.”
The rebound also is reflective of previously unheard of levels of policy stimulus both from the Fed and Congress.
On the fiscal side, Congress has allocated some $5.3 trillion toward enhanced unemployment compensation along with a variety of other spending programs that helped push the federal budget deficit to $1.7 trillion in the first half of fiscal 2021 and has sent the national debt soaring to $28.1 trillion. Congress also is considering a $1.8 trillion infrastructure plan from the White House.
The Fed also has come through, cutting its benchmark short-term borrowing rate to near zero and buying nearly $4 trillion worth of bonds, pushing its balance sheet to just shy of $8 trillion.
We just need to prime the perpetual motion machine a little harder.
Once we get the thing off the ground we’ll be good.
I have a feeling we are getting close to a big problem, the way the government is treating Money right now. I could be wrong, but it does seem like the have gotten to the point where they are no longer afraid of the creaking of the ever thinning floorboards they are walking on. They aren’t even walking, but running full sprint, without a care. When the snap comes it will be a horrific shock, and it will be sudden.
This is the economic equivalent of completely of just ditching the torch on your acetylene setup and igniting the gasses coming straight out of the bottles.
Bah, brain fart sentence mangled my something….
the recovery remains “uneven and far from complete.”
Understatement. Still regularly finding staple products out of stock for extended periods at the grocery store.
I was talking to the sporting good manager at a local chain discount store the other day. He said their regular store delivery schedule has gone to shit and the distribution center is basically sending truckloads whenever and the store guys breaking down pallets and throwing the freight are always behind.
My regular grocery store has not had bags of dried red beans in stock for months now.
“housing activity is above where it had been and other parts have recovered close to pre-pandemic levels”
The housing market is completely insane. If you’re looking to buy in a hot area, you’d better have cash, never got to sleep, and be ready for a bidding war.
Two trillion here, five trillion there…
I can’t wait for our trillion-dollar coin future.
I have this feeling that we’re going to burn right through this trillion dollar fad and get right into the quadrillion fad very soon.
The good news is this plan is expected to be DOA in the senate. As was the gun control bill. Even democrat senators think it’s too much. They couldn’t even repeal the filibuster and pass it.
This Biden guy is reaching too far. This will be a pen and phone presidency mostly.
I can’t wait for our trillion-dollar coin future.
Being a debit card trillionaire is easier on the back than a wheelbarrow stacked head-high with paper.
Signing off for the day. Apparently my joke fell flat and I’m trying to be be a kinder, more gentle version of Festus going forward. I can stand the bad bad vibes coming from without but when they are are coming from inside the house, I need to bail. Pace Glibs!
Hey festus, Sorry i had work come up and so couldn’t respond earlier. I hope you see this, but if not i’ll catch you later. Your joke didn’t offend, i was worried that maybe i had pushed a button. Stay safe, and i hope you have a fantastic day.
Metaphor for government?
Ayn Rand thought so.
*snicker*
Giant nuts are bulletproof
Thot Thursday to the rescue!
https://archive.is/8BgVI
Lumber skyrockets 250%.
Me trying to build a house on my property. “Fuck.”
DEG, Sean, EvilSheldon, and anyone else who loves fine firearms and exquisite craftsmanship, I have a video for you to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUXoNUzAyvk
Best and quickest 18 minutes of your life. Not tacktiekwool at all. This is fine art.
Oh yeah. I see from the title this is going to be good.
I’m heading to the gym now, so I’ll watch later.
Thanks!
Fine art is exactly right.
It’s interesting, though, how much computer modeling and CNC the Holland and Holland shop is using. It reinforces the point – H&H guns may be fine art, but they’re still carefully engineered to fulfill a particular purpose.
I would say that in the basic work, the raw actions and generic barrel blanks, there is CNC work if only to save basic time from raw castings being worked down. But the important part of an H&H is the hand fitting, along with the concurrent commitment to handwork. Which that video shows in spades. Another thing that the video shows are the training of apprentices. If you listen closely, you can hear the instructions given, and also see the draw filing of the barrels by what are clearly younger members of the team.
But, to your last point, I would say that level of engineering, by hand or machine, is fine art.
I enjoy breaking clays with a shotgun, but (fortunately) high end shotguns do not trip my trigger.
Which is good, considering Kreighoff is a short trip down the road.
Thomas Bland is down the way, also.
https://www.woodcockhill.com/product-page/thos-bland-121349
If I ever fell into stupid money, say had I dropped $20k into bitcoin at the beginning and pulled out recently, I would ring them up and order a set of their top-of-the-line paired shotgun and big-bore long arms. Upon delivery – once I am established as serious customer – I would request a custom ordered M-1 Garand with all parts which are normally stamped to be made from machined billets. All blued, highest grade wood.
This pleases me.
100s of parents in Vail, AZ attended a School Board meeting, protesting mask mandates for schools. They would not leave. The Board was overwhelmed and outnumbered. They quit. The parents elected new members and immediately struck down mask mandates for kids. This is the way.
A: The board did not quit, they adjourned the meeting.
B: The election didn’t follow the procedures for electing a school board in the locality, so it is only symbolic at best.
Still, they’re learning.
I’ll be more optimistic when they get to tar and feathers.
Cool. I lived in Vail, AZ many years ago. I know it has grown a lot since then but I doubt too much has changed about it.
I used to always run with a rifle at port arms – usually an M-14 or an AK. When the infrequent car drove past they always waved just like everybody did to each other.
All the idiots in the comments complaining about mob rule not being democracy… uhh that’s exactly what democracy is.
100s of parents in Vail, AZ attended a School Board meeting, protesting mask mandates for schools. They would not leave. The Board was overwhelmed and outnumbered. They quit. The parents elected new members and immediately struck down mask mandates for kids. This is the way.
It’s all fun and games until the CDC sends in the troops and crushes the rebellion.
Five years in and I have paid off over 2/3rd of the principal of my mortgage.
And for some reason, I can’t manage to cheer myself up with that.
It does mean that I should be done paying the loan in under two years.
I’ll have saved at minimum $141,000 in interest payments on a house worth half that.
Nice! That should cheer yourself up.
He must be thinking about inflation.
well, I’ve since made the mistake of calculating what my income actually looks like.
37% gets eaten up before it reaches my bank account. Admittedly, that includes 10% going to deferred comp. But still, 27% taxes 🙁
Yeah, crunching those numbers is a depressing thing.
Then add wealth taxes (real and personal property), and consumption taxes collected at businesses (whether or not they are listed on your bill).
Nice!
My goal once I am debt-free is to accumulate enough savings to buy a real house in a free state.
But if you take out a second mortgage you can buy a boat!
If he does that, he’ll just have an accident and lose all his guns.
Look, they’re already somewhere in the Hudson, I can’t lose them again.
But I have no interest in a boat.
Your bank account thanks you.
Super League fallout starts: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/56931186
Don’t get me angry. You won’t like it if I get angry.
/UEFA
Hit the post and put this on the wrong page. Take 2:
Can’t have nefarious dealings in the Ukraine, can we?