Too Local News – Pushing Back on the NH Governor – Week of Mar. 29th through Apr. 2nd, 2021

by | Apr 4, 2021 | Constitution, Executive Branch, Liberty, Politics | 216 comments

Earlier Parts:

HCR 2

The House Legislative Administration Committee held its executive session on Mar. 29th.  Some of the emergency powers bills were also on the docket.  HCR 2 was the last bit of business.

The committee voted to retain HCR 2 and some other emergency powers bills in committee over the summer for further work and reconsideration in next year’s session.  According to those that supported retaining the emergency powers bills, those bills need work.  The reason for retaining HCR 2 in committee is that with the changes to the budget related to the state of emergency, there are better ways of dealing with the state of emergency.

News Coverage

Union Leader coverage of the budget.

The Governor thinks the budget is “off the rails”.

Representative Leah Cushman wants mask enforcers to be a little less zealous.

An opinion writer agrees with President Biden in that neanderthal thinking is the only reason anyone opposes wearing masks or wants to rein in governors’ emergency powers.

Anti-mask protester flies a drone over Governor Sununu’s property.

According to this article, HB 187 received another amendment.  If I understand the story correctly, the full Legislature, instead of a special committee, must vote to rescind an emergency order of the Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner.

The Governor had a meeting with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.  At the meeting, he stated the mask mandate will likely end in the next few weeks.

Upcoming House Sesssion

The House will have a three day voting session starting on Wednesday, April 7th, 2021.

Among the huge number of bills the House will vote on, there are some related to the State of Emergency.  Here are a few of the bills and their recommendations.

  • HB 187 – This bill has an Ought to Pass as Amended (OTP/A) recommendation.
  • HB 433 – This bill has an Inexpedient to Legislate (ITL) recommendation.  The committee’s reason for the recommendation is there are other better bills which rewrite the emergency powers laws.
  • HB 220 – The original bill updates the state’s communicable disease law so that no state resident will be subject to a medical procedure without that person’s consent.  My understanding of the current law is that the government may force medical procedures on people when a communicable disease is spreading.  The bill has an OTP/A recommendation.  The amendment waters down the bill quite a bit.
  • HB 417 – This another bill updating the state of emergency laws.  The majority of the committee recommends it passes, the minority recommends it does not pass.
  • HB 402 – This bill restricts the government’s ability to take property during an emergency.  A majority of the committee gives the bill a OTP/A recommendation, the rest of the committee gives it an ITL recommendation.
  • HB 439 – This bill repeals the part of state law which municipalities have claimed is the source of their authority to pass mask ordinances.  The committee majority gave the bill an Ought to Pass (OTP) recommendation, the rest of the committee gives the bill an ITL recommendation.
  • HB 221 – This bill makes the state’s vaccine registry an opt-in program, instead of an opt-out program.  A majority of the committee gave the bill an ITL recommendation since they think there is nothing wrong with how it works currently.  A minority of the committee gave the bill an OTP recommendation since the bill would bring the way the vaccine registry works into line with the state constitution’s privacy protections.
  • HB 506 – This bill updates the state’s public accommodations law to prevent discrimination against people that refuse medical treatments such as vaccines.  The majority of the committee gives the bill an ITL recommendation, the minority gives the bill an OTP recommendation.

While going through the House’s calendar documents, I saw a bill not related to the state of emergency which I think might be interesting to you.  Here is the committee report to the House about this bill:

HB 183, prohibiting municipalities from requiring a license for a lemonade stand operated by a person under the age of 18. MAJORITY: OUGHT TO PASS WITH AMENDMENT. MINORITY: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE. Rep. Tony Piemonte for the Majority of Municipal and County Government. While RSA 31:102-a does give cities and towns the right to license and regulate hawkers and peddlers, the majority of the committee does not find any need for the state of NH to grant to a local government the authority to control and regulate a child’s lemonade stand. New Hampshire is a Dillon’s rule state and thus NH defines what powers it will grant to local government. HB183 clearly states that a city or town MAY NOT claim that the RSA gives them the authority to demand licensing and regulations from some kids setting up a lemonade stand on their front lawn. The committee amendment simply changes ‘a lemonade stand’ to ‘a soft drink stand.’ The purpose of the committee amendment is to allow children to sell a more varied group of drinks. Vote 10-9. Rep. Marjorie Porter for the Minority of Municipal and County Government. Although well-intentioned, the minority finds this bill unnecessary. There are no instances in New Hampshire where a town has closed down a child’s front-yard lemonade stand for lack of a license. In addition, there may be unintended consequences if it were to pass. What would then prevent a nefarious adult, wishing to avoid paying a license fee, from hiring a 17 year-old to operate his lemonade booth at the town fair? The bill prohibits a municipality from regulating a child’s lemonade stand. If a child were to set up a stand in a dangerous spot, would the police or other town official then be prohibited from moving it? And finally, why only lemonade? What about bake sales? Things are working fine the way they are. The minority sees no reason for the government to interfere.

The House will also vote on the budget bills, HB 1 and HB 2.

I’ll write more next week.

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DEG

DEG

Will work for guns, ammo, booze, books, and cool cars.

216 Comments

  1. Ted S.

    At the meeting, he stated the mask mandate will likely end in the next few weeks.

    I’ll believe it when I see it.

    • DEG

      I want to say #metoo, but I know he is getting pressure.

    • Sean

      I’m still seeing the occasional double masker in the wild. The other day, it was some younger guy at the booze store.

      • Hank

        At least he cares about his health!

      • Sean

        It was the guy behind the counter, behind the plexiglass shield. ?

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        What.
        an.
        idiot.

      • Hank

        I thought you meant a customer.

      • DEG

        Fuck.

      • Nephilium

        A couple days back, I saw a couple joggers masked up. Thankfully most of the people I’ve seen on the trails have been more rational.

      • Ted S.

        I saw a few walkers with masks on the trails behind my house right at the beginning of the mandate.

        On Labor Day I made the mistake of going to a recreation area that’s actually a bit more developed, with a few picnic tables and a porta-potty. The amount of masked-up people who looked like they don’t normally get to the great outdoors was saddening.

      • blackjack

        Went to Will Roger’s beach Friday. Decent crowd, only a few masks. One lady wore hers swimming, which made her look pretty stupid. Up at the bike path by PCH, more people had them, but none with real enthusiasm.

      • DEG

        I think I’ve only seen one in New Hampshire.

  2. blackjack

    Flew a drone? Fuck these people! It wasn’t a murder drone and anyways, that seemed just peachy when Obumbles did it. How dare he post aerial pics of the castle.

  3. TARDis

    Vaccine registry?

    FUCK OFF. That is all. Well, and die too. That is the rest.

    • DEG

      I think every state has a vaccine registry.

      New Hampshire was… slow to implement its registry. When the Covid state of emergency started, that changed.

      • TARDis

        I think every state has a vaccine registry.

        This scares me. I did not know this.

    • DEG

      Good gallery.

    • blackjack

      The time to oppose election fraud is in the election during which it occurs. You can’t be a big fucking pussy and let it slide because, ” we need to move on and have trust in our institutions” when it’s so clearly been stolen. If you don’t do it every time, it’ll work, never( not that these people care one way or the other, btw.)

    • CPRM

      these left-wing boycotts of the All-Star Game or frankly, any other event or product, would cause huge economic damage and send jobs to other low-tax states.

      This is not an argument for freedom, and not even a good argument in defense of the laws. I hate everyone.

  4. CPRM

    Fun times that I have. I’ve been up for 23hrs, I’m on beer Xteen, I have a bum ankle; walk into the kitchen to see a snake at least a foot long slither around the corner out of the room. I’m in no condition to chase it down, so when ever I go to sleep tonight I’ll do it knowing there is a snake somewhere in my boot house.

    • Ted S.

      I have a bum ankle

      Better have the doctor check it out for lupus.

      • CPRM

        The doc did check it out. It’s not lupus, it’s never lupus.

      • Nephilium

        So it’s snakecancer?

      • CPRM

        Malignant Viperoma

    • Sean

      You need a cat.

      • CPRM

        To claw me in the face while I sleep as the snake wraps around my neck?

      • blackjack

        Yeah, my cats would eat me if they were a hundred pounds heavier.

    • blackjack

      I have a bum ankle

      So, won’t walk for food but please give it money for beer?

      And, snakes are like women, the smaller one’s seem to be more dangerous.

      • CPRM

        I know it’s not a dangerous species, but it’s still fucking annoying.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

    • EvilSheldon

      Look on the bright side, if you have a house snake, you don’t have mice.

  5. CPRM

    cities and towns the right to license and regulate hawkers and peddlers, the majority of the committee does not find any need for the state of NH to grant to a local government the authority to control and regulate a child’s lemonade stand.

    Why only a child’s? Don’t know.

    • DEG

      I think they should do away with all business licensing, but I’ll take baby steps.

      I included this bill because I remember TOS covering government shutting down kids’ lemonade stands.

    • blackjack

      When life gives you lemons, just check your self into the county jail.

    • creech

      My God the horror! What’s next? Girls in uniforms selling “cookies?” Little vampires and witches going around the neighborhood begging for candy?
      Dogs and Cats living together?

  6. commodious spittoon

    I think my closest friend might be bisexual. He keeps asking me are you okay, are you alright, really gay shit like that. I don’t know how to tell him that I’m not into him.

    • blackjack

      Annie are you OK, are you OK Annie? Something-something, smooth criminal…

      • CPRM

        We know, Billy Jean is not his girl and the kid is not his son.

      • commodious spittoon

        The 90s, we hardly knew ye

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Yeah, no straight guy would ask his closest friend if he was okay (eye roll).

      I’ve dragged a good friend out of the puddle of his own puke so that he could breathe. I’ve also dragged another good friend off of the ground (so that he wouldn’t die of exposure) and into the house when he was catatonic-drunk.

      It’s okay, and not gay, to help out your buds.

      • commodious spittoon

        In fairness to me, I’m pretty sure he’s bisexual and I’m not sure what to make of it. He has kids with different women, and is serially monogamous, constantly with really attractive women, and he never fails to make me feel a little bit uncomfortable when we drink together. Which is a shame because he’s a terrific drinking buddy, probably why he’s such a hit with chicks, but fuck off, dude, I don’t want to wrestle.

    • Tejicano

      Hey, you know he’s a real buddy when he goes downtown, buys a couple blowjobs, then comes back and offers to give one to you!

    • blackjack

      Nope. I linked to the only U2 song I have tolerance for last thread, AND the superior version by Warren Haynes.

      • rhywun

        Which one was that?

        I like a number of early U2 songs but this one ain’t one of them. Hell, this one is already past their sell-by date as far as I am concerned.

      • blackjack

        One. It’s about a psycho chick. My kid of song.

      • rhywun

        That album is the exception to my earlier statement. There are a few good tracks on it, including yours.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Harlem Shuffle > Angel of Harlem

    • Gender Traitor

      A musical memorial from not long after the incident.

      • rhywun

        LOL transported back to 70s elementary school music class. Holy crap my teachers were all a bunch of hippies.

  7. kinnath

    Booze people

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovz1wdLMUWk

    A long forgotten treasure of fermented honey and grapes just landed in our lap. There’s only one thing to do at a time like this. Run it through a still and make high proof booze!

    • Nephilium

      There’s a distillery in Pittsburgh (Wigle) that for a while sold “rum”, that was a mead based distillate. One of the times I was there the girlfriend was all excited to try the rum, and the poor girl working the tasting room had to go through the spiel about how it wasn’t technically rum in the US as it wasn’t based on sugarcane.

    • commodious spittoon

      I shouldn’t be drinking on a Sunday evening, but you know what, Sunday the 4th of April only comes around once every mumble years, so

      • Sean

        I have just one gin and diet tonic in the evening. Sure it’s like 4+ fingers of gin, but it’s only one glass. Some times followed by a vodka drink…

  8. straffinrun

    Fantastic breakdown, Deg. At least our enslavement will be documented.

    • DEG

      Thanks.

      At least our enslavement will be documented.

      It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it.

  9. Hank

    SF school board to restore problematic names like Lincoln to 44 schools – they’ve been sued and probably were spooked when powerhouse attorney Larry Tribe was one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers.

    But they aren’t happy about having to restore these evil, evil names:

    ‘“Petitioners’ lawsuit is nothing more than a transparent attempt to thwart a lawful and duly-noticed action with which it disagrees,” states the resolution before the board. “The board is deeply grateful for the work of the panel, but wishes to avoid the distraction and wasteful expenditure of public funds in frivolous litigation.”’

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/s-f-school-board-may-reverse-its-vote-to-rename-44-schools/ar-BB1fh2FD

    • creech

      Wah wah wah. Payback for the nine million frivolous lawsuits the Left has filed to stop every expansion of individual rights. Time for the Right to start using environmental regs to stop bullet trains or election law changes that give you nine weeks to vote after you’ve died.

    • Gustave Lytton

      You know who else served timely notices to keep Lincoln out of their buildings?

      • blackjack

        Dunno, but Linkin Park asked to be excluded from here. Close enough?

        Ok, then, Nazis!

  10. straffinrun

    Why do I keep asking myself rhetorical questions?

    • commodious spittoon

      You know why.

      • Sean

        It’s because he touches himself, constantly.

    • Sensei

      だろうね。

      • commodious spittoon

        I don’t get it.

      • Sensei

        1. seems, I think, I guess, I wonder, I hope (see also: でしょう)
        2. don’t you agree?, I thought you’d say that!

      • commodious spittoon

        でしょう

        That is an excellent emoticon.

      • Sensei

        The ね at the end also softens and seeks implicit agreement with the listener.

      • commodious spittoon

        でしょう

    • Gustave Lytton

      Why do you keep answering is the real question.

      • straffinrun

        I don’t think therefore I’m not.

    • rhywun

      ‘Cuz you’re an idiot.

      /a Heather

      • rhywun

        ugh NOT a Heather

      • zwak

        Veronica?

      • rhywun

        That’s the one.

      • zwak

        ’88 or ’89?

  11. commodious spittoon

    The Samsung Galaxy Buds+ are terrific. I mostly listen to podcasts but things are excellent for music. I especially like that they connect with my Samsung Internet Phone Device.

    • hayeksplosives

      You were reading my mind! I wanted to ask the Glibs for recommendations for EarPods. I hate the default Apple ones.

      • Sensei

        They integrate well within in the Apple ecosystem.

        Mind you they aren’t the best sounding, but you could do a whole lot worse and spend even more.

        What issues do you have with either the Apple wires or wireless IEMs?

      • rhywun

        I have a nice pair of wired headphones but last year I discovered that the intersection of wired headphones and mask mandates is an evil from Hell. So now I’m mostly wireless buds. I like them but I think they’re reaching end of life because they keep killing my phone. As it, I’m shopping and my phone just dies so I lose my shopping list.

      • Sensei

        So they drain the phone, it’s not the batteries in the buds?

        Odd. My wife is the Apple person. I’m Android and standard Bluetooth Shure 215s with their Bluetooth cable.

        Not nearly as sexy as the Apple stuff.

      • rhywun

        When I get home and plug the phone in, it jumps immediately back to 90% or whatever it was before I left. And the buds too.

        I don’t know what’s happening other than the buds and the phone are both old as shit and probably need replacing.

      • commodious spittoon

        I’m being facetious but not really. I love these things.

        A week ago I accidentally dashed one under the end display at the grocery store. I forced myself to find someone to provide me a broom so I could fish it out from underneath. Anything else I’d have instantly written it off because I don’t want to deal with people, and the memory still makes me cringe. That’s how much I like these things.

      • slumbrew

        I really like the Jabra Elite 75t earbuds I have

      • egould310

        Jabra ?

      • egould310

        Plus, J-Lab earbuds are very good and cheap.

  12. hayeksplosives

    I am thoroughly enjoying these in-the-ground reports from DEG. I’m also following NH adventures partly on Tom Woods show.

    Tom woods keeps apologizing for so many episodes on SARS/COVID but his point is that this is THE issue for individual freedom, for truthful good faith debates in intellectual and academic fields, for rule of law, for rejecting UN sovereignty.

    The Covid debacle IS the hill to die on. The big L party failed, but we must keep resisting and educating.

    • DEG

      Thanks!

      The Covid debacle IS the hill to die on. The big L party failed, but we must keep resisting and educating.

      Yeah.

      Any updates on your husband?

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, I have not been putting updates on every thread, BUT

        He is through open heart surgery and the new valve is working. His lungs are still unhappy about the whole heart failure thing, but he’s off the ventilator, awake and breathing on his own.

        Couldn’t ask for better, given the circumstances. He’s cracking jokes with the nurses and is super super high.

    • Gdragon

      “The Covid debacle IS the hill to die on.”

      —–

      I keep trying to tell people up here this. They tell me that while they don’t completely disagree with my concerns I’d be happier and feel less stressed if I stopped thinking about how shitty things are so much. It feels like a bad novel turned into an even worse movie.

    • Q Continuum

      “The big L party failed”

      +A Zillion

    • grrizzly

      Reason and Ron Bailey keep educating. But not the message that needs to be spreading.

      The Last Pandemic
      Technological breakthroughs and policy progress mean humanity may never again have to endure a disaster like COVID-19.

      The number of times the words lockdown, non pharmaceutical interventions, social distancing appeared in the article: 0.

      It’s all about more massive testing and approving mRNA vaccines even faster.

      • hayeksplosives

        I cannot figure out the basic psychology. How can liberty loving people just be “OK” with closing businesses, cancelling religious services, deciding whos essential and who’s not???

        No matter how scary COVId might seem to some, surely the fact that doctors and other experts who differ from the mask/lockdown/quarantine line get shut down or lose their jobs should be alarming in itself.

      • Gdragon

        I’m finding my thoughts to be more and more pessimistic these days. I’m starting to think we’re right fucked up here in Ontario/Canada.

    • Tejicano

      ” The big L party failed,”

      I dunno. Saying that they failed seems to imply that they even had an intention to try in the first place.

  13. Hank

    ‘The editors of Sydney University’s student newspaper have been accused of capitulating to Chinese Communist Party supporters on campus by pulling down a report revealing academics’ links to the Chinese government just hours after its publication.’

    It seems the editors are now claiming the article was racist against Chinese people.

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/student-newspaper-pulls-story-on-academics-links-to-chinese-government-20210403-p57gac.html

    • rhywun

      I feel like we’re going to see this story repeated a lot in the next few years.

      • hayeksplosives

        At least during the Cold War with the USSR, we weren’t financially underwritten by our chief enemy the way we are with China.

  14. grrizzly

    Too late for GlibFit: according to my Garmin watch I walked today 5.6 miles from Newport Beach Pier to Balboa Pier and back.

  15. Fourscore

    Shout out to all the Glibs. Thanks for the good words.

    Jimbo showed up with a bag of tablets/I pads/pods or whatever. I Could at least read some of what’s happening in Glibsville.. All I needed was a copier and a printer and he and I would have been back in the Pron business.

    Tundra kept reassuring me he had the Mid west folks under control. (See Cats, Herding)

    PONick was quick to volunteer some labor but at this point everything is more or less under control. He’s not off the hook though

    Thanks, folks, enjoy the new week.

    • straffinrun

      Glad to hear from ya, FS! Heal up!

    • Sensei

      Yeah nothing but hospital food and tv would have driven me nuts. Although I imagine for a good bit of time you didn’t care.

      Feel better!

      • blackjack

        There’s nothing else to eat!

    • DEG

      All I needed was a copier and a printer and he and I would have been back in the Pron business.

      Heh.

    • Hank

      Get really, really well!

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Glad to see you back! Be well, citizen!

    • blackjack

      Heal up like you mean it! Really great to see you back.

    • commodious spittoon

      Still waiting for an invite to your do, asshole.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Still waiting for an invite to your do, asshole.

        Wait, what?

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        I’m probably an asshole.

        Brochetta is definitely an asshole.

        Anyone else, you got some ‘splainin to do.

      • commodious spittoon

        I will wait I will wait for you

    • Gdragon

      Great to see you back!

      Mmm, bag of tablets…

    • Tundra

      I do have them under control.

      Which means they are chaotic in the same direction!

      Glad you are moving the right way.

    • KSuellington

      Good to hear you are getting back in shape and ready for the next score.

    • zwak

      wonnerful, wonnerful

    • Tejicano

      Yo Four-score! Great news! I wish there was something I could do other than cheer and send positive vibes!

    • hayeksplosives

      Awesome! Good health news abounds!

      Now if we could just ditch the masks…

  16. grrizzly

    An anti-mask protester arrested outside Gov. Chris Sununu’s home in December is now on the hook for a $1,000 cash bail after prosecutors say he violated his bail conditions and flew a drone over the governor’s neighborhood.

    Protesting right in front of Sununu’s home might not be the best idea.

  17. straffinrun

    Is today the day Jesus comes back and starts some ass kickings?

    • Don escaped Cancun

      Matthew 10:34

      • straffinrun

        That is why they want to ban ARs.

  18. KSuellington

    Man, all this anti Neanderthal hate speech needs cancelling. It’s homo sapien supremacy non stop these days. Any day now we are gonna start hearing about hate crimes happening on Basques. This is not okay.

  19. straffinrun

    They’re taking half your shit, telling you where you can go, deciding who you can associate with, determining what thoughts you can say aloud, limiting your ability to defend yourself, blocking your breathing, bombing, killing, looting, maiming, raping, stomping, kidnapping, lecturing.

    This is fine. ?

    • Tejicano

      In an on-line/e-mail conversation with an old buddy back in the US we got into the idea that things always tend to level out, that the pendulum does, at some point, begin to swing back the other way.

      I try to focus on that, imagine that things will have to improve at some point. But it’s really hard to see right now. It almost seems like we’re at the point of no return.

      A close buddy just lost his mom back in the US. It was a long time coming so no surprise but still not easy. He’s here and there’s no practical way to get back for the funeral. Both parents have been telling him not to bother – it isn’t realistic.

      China is ass-hoe. But the rest of TPTB are giving them a run for their money on that score.

      • straffinrun

        Fortunately, I haven’t had to miss a funeral since this started. Feel sorry for your buddy.

      • Tejicano

        Yeah, both my parents were long gone before this and my mother-in-law passed away a just couple weeks before COVID started becoming a problem for everyday life.

        Recently I feel a lot like your avatar.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        the idea that things always tend to level out, that the pendulum does, at some point, begin to swing back the other way.

        I subscribe to this theory as well. Shit is fucked. For sure, and it’s not really fun. But at some point the squishy middle won’t be as squishy as normal and will help wrest the window back this way a little bit. Peak stupidity is not sustainable.

        The late 60s and early 70s happened, and was followed by the eighties. In other words, mass liberal causes, causing a major ruckus, which was followed by yuppies and the ramping up of war on drugs to ludicrous speed.

        I’d say that, if we haven’t seen the collapse or don’t get involved in a no shit war with high numbers of American casualties, that pendulum will be well on its way back the other direction by mid-late 2020s.

    • Akira

      I’m having the same exact conversations with Leftists today that I had with Neocons back in the 9/11 aftermath… I’m fruitlessly trying to tell them that civil liberties are especially important during a crisis – they don’t just go away – and that if you rush into a “temporary” violation of them, it’s very hard to get them back… And they’re just flailing their arms accusing me of not caring about the people who died and prophesying that if we don’t eliminate everyone’s rights immediately, untold numbers of people will continue to die.

      It gets fucking tiresome.

      • straffinrun

        Govt tyranny with parts outsourced to corporate enforcers so that a veneer of voluntary compliance can deceive people into believing it was all voluntary.

      • hayeksplosives

        Using the corporations to enforce also allows them to claim that the government isn’t denying you your civil liberties.

        “It says Congress shall make no law. But Joe can make an executive order and The credit card companies will enforce it.”

      • Akira

        Using the corporations to enforce also allows them to claim that the government isn’t denying you your civil liberties.

        The creepy thing that the government is doing now is hauling the tech CEOs in front of Congress and grilling them about “misinformation” and threatening them with onerous regulation if they don’t get it under control. Now, that is not unconstitutional per se, but these Congress fuckers know what they’re doing – they’re scaring the tech companies into doing their bidding, and they’ve done it in such a way that they can claim they never violated the Constitution… Because they didn’t actually DO anything, they just threatened to do it (and the tech CEOs are understandably afraid of that – it would be unconstitutional, but how much blatantly unconstitutional shit has become the norm these days??)

      • hayeksplosives

        I might be crazy, but this strikes me as a bigger problem than putting a tax on tea.

      • Tejicano

        Yeah, this goes way beyond the government just wanting to wet their beak from time to time.

      • Chafed

        Those tech CEOs are on board of their own accord. They are appealing to the woke crowd. If they weren’t then they would have fired a small but significant number of their employees for stirring things up and distracting a far larger number of employees.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s metastasized beyond them. Ordinary F500 companies are on board with this crap.

      • Tejicano

        I don’t run into anybody who argues with me on these points – but everybody is voluntarily masked up over here so there really isn’t much controversy. The office where I work (every day) nobody masks in the office, nobody seems to worry about this virus, other than masking up outside like the rest of the people in Tokyo we all go about our lives like none of this matters.

        I am wondering what I might run into when / if I ever get the chance to be back in the US. If we’re still in the mandatory masking mode when that happens I might be tempted to get a Hannibal Lecter mask to wear when I’m out and about. Not sure if I might start open carrying if that mask doesn’t get my message across.

  20. hayeksplosives

    I just received a jury summons from the Superior Court of San Diego.

    If I wear my “Does this look like freedom to you?” mask, will I be dismissed?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Possibly, although I hear they’re desperate for jurors. Were you assigned to Vista or downtown?

      • hayeksplosives

        Vista.

        Good part is that we don’t have to report in person early in the process.

    • Urthona

      If you don’t want to go, just throw the jury summons in the trash. Nothing will happen.

  21. grrizzly

    Have a look at the forms the French have to fill out to leave their homes during the curfew or if they venture more than 10km from home.

    There’s even an English version: CERTIFICATE OF TRAVEL RESTRICTION WAIVER.

    • hayeksplosives

      Are your papers in order?

    • Tejicano

      I don’t know why they don’t have one in German. There’s probably an example somewhere they would only have to update a little.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Serfs need their lord’s permission to leave their land.

  22. hayeksplosives

    Tom Woods show with Dave Smith talking vaccine passports.

    Woods opens with saying that the conspiracy theorists who warned that we’d have vaccine passports and we’d lose our civil liberties have turned out to be more accurate than Dr Fauci or the MSM.

    https://tomwoods.com/ep-1868-dave-smith-on-vaccine-passports/

    • straffinrun

      Once again, it’s the radicals that are fighting for the rights of normies that the normies themselves don’t realize are important.

    • KSuellington

      Today I took my kids to the play park around the block for an hour or two to give my wife a bit of a break. My kids don’t wear masks outside. At one point they started playing tag with a couple of the other boys about their age. I could see their mother studiously pretending to ignore me and talking with another masked woman. She was obviously not impressed with us and tried to get them to stop playing together. At one point she said because my kids weren’t wearing masks that they shouldn’t tag each other with their hands but with their elbows. My middle son came up to me and said, “it’s hard to play tag right with your elbows”. Yeah I know son. As we left she was squirting hand sanitizer on her son’s hands.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      (Hayek, is your jury duty a couple of months out? Have you considered postponing it? You sound much too busy in the near future.)

  23. BakedPenguin

    Yeon-Mi Park with a good message for America.

    • KSuellington

      If you care to switch over to 1960’s soul, this is a nice track I heard recently. The best thing about our current timeline is the ability to access incredible and rare music.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmbSC9c2ys

  24. Tejicano

    Never change MSM… oh gawd!

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/suspect-detained-after-asian-american-woman-fatally-stabbed-while-walking-dogs/ar-BB1fisgg?ocid=entnewsntp

    Crazy homeless woman – who was arrested earlier the same week for assault with a deadly weapon – stabs an Asian-American woman to death and OF COURSE the article has to close by pointing out how this was Trump’s fault! Like some crazy, violent, homeless woman could somehow hear Trump’s call to kill all Asians over the other voices in her head.

    • TARDis

      anti-Asian crimes were up 114% in Los Angeles last year

      … and who were the criminals? The mendacious jornolist needs an ass beating.

      • rhywun

        And by which triple-digit percentage were crimes against everybody up?

        FFS, they stated right in the article they let the crazy bitch out of jail “because ‘vid”.

      • blackjack

        Pretty sure they went from 2 to 6. Not that scary when you put it that way.

    • Festus

      It was a KKKlarion Kall to violence!

    • TARDis

      That’s such bullshit. We have been able to dine in since last year I think. At first the rules were stupid; wear mask while walking to your table, about a third of the tables removed, etc. But we were served at least.

      • Sean

        Oh for sure. We’ve gone out to eat a bunch of times. It’s the bar seating for drinks only that’s really changed (and capacity limits).

  25. Festus

    Nice stuff personally – Judi and I have spent 25 years together today. Bad news – Her ne’er do well meth-head son is sleeping on my sofa where the dog belongs. Happy fucking anniversary.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Well, congrats anyway! Where’s the dog?

      • Festus

        Sleeping in my chair, natch!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Is stepson there for the occasion, or another reason?

      • Festus

        Rescue mission, unrelated.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Sigh.

    • Festus

      Ya’ll can start calling me “Duke Silver”.

    • TARDis

      Happy fucking anniversary.

      Congrats!

      So did you help raise the meth-head? Drug addicted kids must make life miserable. Sorry.
      The only thing I can think of that’s worse, is a daughter with multiple babies from unknown fathers. “Watch my babies while I go out and….”

      • Festus

        “Make another?” The girls turned out fine. Better than fine. This one is a train-wreck. He’s not long for this world. I’m not trying to be funny about this for once.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Oof.

      • Festus

        I do my best not to think about the situation but It will come back to haunt us eventually. Sooner rather than later, judging by the state of him. Fuck. He’s 39 years old pushing 14.

      • Festus

        His fucking biceps are about as big around as my wrist. Face lesions. The 1st Born is gonna break his Mom’s heart and there is nothing that we can do about it. Thirty years too late.

      • Gender Traitor

        I’m so sorry, Fes. 🙁

      • Festus

        I saved the Girls! They are all very accomplished and sorta wealthy. I tried my best with him but he had an abuser that let him run away to him when times got tough. We went to court about it but the Judge said there was no proof. I said “Why is this kid treating his own Mom and Dad like enemies? He’d been groomed for years, his Dad didn’t like him much because the boy way was half-deaf and awkward. By the time I stuck my dick in crazy it was too late. He still mostly lives with his abuser and the abuser’s Mother and nobody says a goddamned thing about it. His Father won’t help him and his Mom can’t.
        Yet here we are. A Meth-head sleeping on my sofa, casing out the joint… Happy Fucking Anniversary indeedy-do!

      • TARDis

        Damn, that is awful. Even though she knows it’s coming, it’ll still hurt worse than you imagine.

      • Sean

        Sorry dude.

    • limey

      Happy anniversary, Fes-dude! Tell your ne’er-do-right step son to slip through the frosty fences and go live on the big rock candy mountain of yankee welfare instead of uglying up your hacienda. Keep it on the QT, though. Don’t tell them United Statesians I said anything about it. Maybe just haul him across the border in the wee hours.

      • Festus

        His Mother IS still an American Citizen. In the old days we would have just stored someone like that in the attic.

      • limey

        Hmm. I suppose attic storage would keep ’em out of trouble ?

        I hope you get some time to enjoy your happy day with Judi ?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        +1 Grace Poole

      • Festus

        You get me.

      • l0b0t

        Happy Anniversary to you and Judi. I’m sorry about the boy.

      • Festus

        When Judi and I first met I thought the boy was tetched.

      • Festus

        He’s our go-to for computer troubles.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, UCS.

      • UnCivilServant

        How are things down your way?

      • Gender Traitor

        Delightful! Beautiful weather outside, so far (knock wood!) no accidents reported along my commute. Gotta fly, but I hope your day is as good.

      • Gender Traitor

        P.S. Sent you a brief e a little bit ago.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ll look for it. (Workday has started so I’ve been composing documents no one will ever read and attending meetings)

    • TARDis

      Guten Morgen.

      • UnCivilServant

        Just don’t ask for my papers.

      • TARDis

        Soon, very soon.

    • Sean

      *waves*

  26. Festus

    Sorry for acting such the cunte on this most auspiscious of days. I’m just a little put out that our 25th got pissed on by the usual suspect. Not that we ever do much, it just sets me off a little. 25 years is kind of a deal.

    • Gender Traitor

      I understand. Tom T. & I spent our first 25th (in late December) with him in physical rehab after his Christmas stroke. Luckily, we have two anniversaries every year (one for when we made it legal, one for when we threw the big party,) so we have another chance to celebrate properly in a couple of months. Desperately hoping the current nonsense has subsided by then so maybe we have a chance to travel somewhere we can be unmasked.

      • Festus

        I hope you get to do that too, Red!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Congrats to the Ts as well!

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Get the dog to bite him? (Pom, you said?)

      I feel for SS too, up to the point of thievery anyway. He sounds traumatized and desperate.

      • Festus

        The Pom will comfort him. He’s a gentle soul.

  27. TARDis

    No worries, Fes. If you can’t vent here, where can you vent? 25 years is certainly a big deal.

    • Festus

      Dusty in here.

    • rhywun

      as witnesses below cheer them on

      I got nuthin’.

    • TARDis

      Democrats, turning America into a third-world shithole, one city at a time.

      • Sean