I’m probably sitting on the back porch, looking out over the bean field behind us. Might have a glass of port at hand. Maybe a beer, maybe a Coke Zero – who knows. But some sort of links must go on.
Actual music link for today.
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suh’ fam ?
I like the comment from the prior thread (cant remember who- Im kinda drunk; night off) when someone “thanks you for your c̶e̶r̶v̶i̶x̶ service”:
“go to the VA cemetery and thank them”. I’m gonna steal that- if I can remember it tomorrow.
Yeah, that is why it always makes me uncomfortable when people say that.
A 28-year-old man was shot and killed by a man riding an e-bike
Joe Biden’s America, fuck yeah!
Was it a smart gun, with a capacity of <10 rounds and no thing that goes up?
One thing we can be sure of, with the way he checks out the young girls, ole’ Senile Joe has the thing that goes up.
Viagra is a hell of a drug.
Having some personal experience with this (as do so many men of my age), I’d say he has the thing that used to go up.
In Ol’ Joe’s distant memory
/Guy that knows these things
For Memorial Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omd9_FJnerY
Whew glad it wasn’t Taps. Cause I can’t make it through Taps without dust getting in my eyes.
I react the same way to “Last Post.”
While on a family vacation to your neck of the
woodsocean about fifteen years ago, my mom requested that we go visit a childhood friend of hers. Kid was six weeks short of his eighteenth birthday when he died of wounds on Saipan.While I was wheeling Mom out to the gravesite, the missus looked around that section of Punchbowl, trying to find a marker for someone over the age of 25. Took her quite a bit of time.
Goddamn sobering place.
All the National Cemeteries are. The one that got me hard, like a Warty kick in the gut, was at Cold Harbor. The number of graves there with “Unknown” is staggering. But the graves that hit even harder with the ones with just parts of names, “JO D Y” or “ND” or “S T”. Those graves really impacted me more than the “Unknown” graves.
The sobering place for me was Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, where those who died in the siege of Leningrad are buried. In mass graves, with the graves simply having a marker with a year on it, and multiple mass graves for each year.
I had no idea the US had national cemeteries in so many countries. Or the numbers buried there. Damn.
The Great War channel visits the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery.
I’ve attended at Canadian military cemeteries in France, and mean to do that in every other European country I can before I die. I’ll probably never make it to the ones elsewhere:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_war_cemeteries
Farg, that’s a lot of young boys.
No Man’s Land.
It is a beautiful day. Just back from the grocery store. Umasked customers and employees, as well as masked.
Dead-ender of the day goes to the girl on the way in, probably in her mid twenties, who was putting her second mask on as I was leaving.
Yes, hon. Do your part. Double up on those masks. You look like a festering miasma of doom.
We got a double bagger over here!
“festering miasma of doom”
Stolen.
Johnson County mental health officials offering gunlocks at vaccine clinics
“Mental health leaders in Johnson County, Kansas, hope a new program to provide gunlocks to residents seeking mental health services will help promote firearm safety.”
Here’s a free gun lock. Just write your information right here. Don’t worry we’ll never use this information against you…
“Whenever we talk about suicide prevention, we talk about meeting people where they’re at,” said Johnson County Suicide Prevention Coalition Chair Sondra Wallace. “This is exactly why we are offering gunlocks at vaccine clinics; it’s the best way for us to reach diverse community members with helpful resources.”
The gunlocks were provided by the Johnson County Suicide Prevention Coalition, an initiative of JCMHC, through a grant from Kansas Department of Health and Environment to reduce suicides. Approximately 50% of suicide deaths are by firearm. Properly securing guns greatly reduces this risk. Throughout its history, the coalition has distributed more than 10,000 gunlocks in Johnson County.”
I’m thinking if someone is motivated enough to commit suicide, then they’re motivated enough to get the key.
If even 1% were actually used, I’d be surprised. Most either ended up in a drawer or in the trash, I’d guess.
Same for the gun locks provided with new gun purchases. I’ve received several in the last ten years or so – couldn’t tell you where they are now.
Some stay in the cases, some end up in shoebox storage.
I had one branded as “Ruger”. That one locks the shed to the lawnmower. If it’s not branded, it’s chucked into the garbage.
Some of those cable locks make an excellent improvised sap. And they come with a built-in explanation for carrying it – “I use it to lock my bike up.” You can even get away with carrying one on a commercial flight, if you needed to subject yourself to that indignity.
Study shows
More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change.
But scientists say that’s only a sliver of climate’s overall toll — even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global warming such as storms, flooding and drought — and the heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures.
Dozens of researchers who looked at heat deaths in 732 cities around the globe from 1991 to 2018 calculated that 37% were caused by higher temperatures from human-caused warming, according to a study Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
That amounts to about 9,700 people a year from just those cities, but it is much more worldwide, the study’s lead author said.
“These are deaths related to heat that actually can be prevented. It is something we directly cause,” said Ana Vicedo-Cabrera, an epidemiologist at the Institute of Social and Preventative Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
According to my model, my model is correct, you murderous kkkapitalists!
Pay me!
Shorter – The number is too low, we need to drop our current energy production so those cities have no climate controlled buildings and then we can really talk numbers.
On a counta ’cause.
More people die of cold.
And therefore it stands to reason that warming actually reduces deaths.
It also produces more food.
Where to even begin – every sentence is a bald-faced lie.
Some statements are misleading, rather than an unrepentant lie, such as saying * some * people die of heat, while not even mentioning those saved from freezing to death, much less calculating the relative magnitude.
Intern: “We estimate 9,000 people annually die from heat, and 1,000,000 from freezing, so cold is over a thousand times more …”
(Security gags then hustles the wrongthinker out the door)
To be fair, 1 million is only 111 times as much as 9,000 and not a thousand times the size. :-p
an epidemiologist at the Institute of Social and Preventative Medicine
Why should I believe somebody studying “Social Medicine”?
It’s for social diseases. Duh! 😉
Please, Hammer, don’t troll us!
“Poland and its Eastern European neighbors are setting a fine example for America
“By Josh Hammer…
“…Poland, along with its fellow Visegrad Group members Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic — and perhaps also Austria — has emerged as a perhaps unlikely ground zero in the fight to save Western civilization from a debilitating and increasingly all-encompassing liberal decadence….
“…out of the joint tyrannical fires of Nazism and communism were forged, in the decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, a robust appreciation for the integrity of the independent nation-state and the importance of Judeo-Christian-inspired societal goals, such as family formation and fortified communitarian ties….
“…whereas these states properly guard their distinct nationalities despite a past marked by frequent conflict, shifting borders and occupation by nefarious empires such as the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, America is concurrently in the throes of an enervating identity crisis of “1619 Project”- and “critical race theory”-inspired racial fractiousness and national self-doubt, despite a history where, some deeply lamentable pitfalls notwithstanding, there is still far more to take pride in than to lament….
“…Americans could do a lot worse than look to the ascendant nations and economies of Central and Eastern Europe.”
https://nypost.com/2021/05/28/poland-and-its-eastern-european-neighbors-setting-a-fine-example-for-us/
So we should put screen doors on our submarines?
https://www.trendrr.net/25843/most-beautiful-hottest-polish-women-best-famous-gorgeous/
A spring day in Krakow is almost as nice as a summer day in Moscow.
All those Slavic women with the fabulous cheekbones and facial structure. Great models.
Please, Hammer, don’t troll us!
His op-ed is too legit to quit.
Then researchers took observed temperatures and compared them with 10 computer models simulating a world without climate change. The difference is warming humans caused. By applying that scientifically accepted technique to the individualized heat-death curves for the 732 cities, the scientists calculated extra heat deaths from climate change.
hahahahahahahahaha da balls on dem guys.
Narrator’s voice, ” In a world…where the climate stays at the perfect level…no deaths resulted from high temperatures.”
Pretty sure nobody died from excessive heat while doing time in Siberia, maybe they’re onto something.
Sounds legit…
Note how they make sure to specifically mention that this technique is ‘scientifically accepted’. That should probably tell you something.
Seriously- the audience should be throwing tables and chairs at the stage when somebody presents a “scientific study” which is just complete and utter bullshit. Come now, people; have you no pride, no respect for your craft?
Their model says their presuppositions are correct. What the fuck else do you want from these people?
….and did nothing worthwhile.
Tricky Swiss. I almost missed that link.
TSA spokeswoman Alexa Lopez wrote on Twitter Saturday that the number of passengers screened by the agency is “creeping up to 2 million” as Memorial Day weekend begins.
On the same day last year, the agency screened 327,133 passengers, compared to 2.57 million in 2019, according to numbers posted to the TSA’s website.
So life is slowly getting back to normal. While we’re getting back to normal, can we abolish the TSA?
The EU reached a deal earlier this month on COVID-19 certificates that will show, via a QR code, whether a person isvaccinated, immune based on recovery from infectionor has had a recent negative test. The scheme should be ready by July 1.
Wow. I didn’t expect such a deal. I expected with all the competing concerns and differing standards, that requiring a vaccine or natural immunity for travel would go nowhere.
But note they at least will allow natural immunity to qualify, unlike what we are seeing in the US, which is vaccine or nothing, even if you recovered from the virus two months ago and are chock full of more antibodies than vaccinated folks. I have still yet to see anyone in the media, not even Tucker Carlson, ask why proof of antibodies can’t be as good as vaccine documentation. Makes zero sense, and forces the already immune to get the vaccine, which some reports indicate makes them at greater risk for vaccine side effects.
Dr. Drew does. I gather antibody testing isn’t common.
I have yet to see anyone in the media (or government, or academia, or the public-health-o-sphere…) ask why any proof of immunity is needed at all for a virus that for the vast majority of the population is significantly less dangerous than the flu.
I agree with you completely. It’s just that if they’re going to make an issue of it, natural immunity should be acceptable as well as vaccinated.
My money is that the US doesn’t consider natural immunity because of rent seeking by the Pharma companies.
How about long term immunity, or just natural immunity via T-cell? Is that a thing? I am pretty sure I had this stuff in Dec 2019 because I developed a cough that hurt the bottom of my lungs/chest and I felt like shit but I was still smoking then so just blamed that. Recently a coworker came down with it and even being a young guy it kicked his ass. I was around him all day the day before he was knocked on his ass from the vid. Me nothing, but a weeks vacation. I did an antibody test when they came out back in last Apr/May? and it was neg but I really don’t trust those tests and figure it was a way for a pharmacy to get 20 bucks from me.
Immune systems are just something conspiracy theorists believe in.
The EU gets things done. Why can’t we be more like the EU?
I’d rather just catch covid than get the shot.
Me too and I’m not worried about that either
I want to be Gal Gadot when I grow up. Except with, you know, my own strawberry blonde hair.
Strawberry Blondes FTW!
Howdy Mo!
Hey, Yusef! I’m pretty sure Salba was at the pipe when we went yesterday.
White Hair? it was SteveO, he still rips, glad you got to see the Master!
What is the LDS Church’s position on (((them?))) God’s chosen people? Exempt from all the newfangled restrictions or requirements?
Well, I can tell you how the plain folk feel or I can tell you what a misguided asshole apostle wrote (which should also tell you what I think about it), but as a culture, we have a crush on Judaism and (((they))) are God’s chosen people (along with [[[us]]] of course). We also have a cultural center in Jerusalem for study abroad students. So, generally, [[[our]]] people respect (((those))) people.
Thanks for the chapter & verses for the “10 virgins” parable discussed late in the earlier thread. The church of my upbringing musta just glided right past that one. 🙂
You’re welcome! I LUUUUUUURRRRRVE talking about this stuff.
Who are the {{{ }}}s again?
Uh…oops. I don’t remember. Maybe [[[we]]] aren’t brackets but braces. Oopsie.
}}chicks{{
(Try to think like Q.)
^^^She gets it.
Who are the {{{ }}}s again?
They are known as Alfred Hitchcocks.
OK
https://www.beautycrew.com.au/media/21138/gal-gadot-blonde.jpg
Hm. Not sure that works after all.
You need to alter the skin tone to make it work.
{studio portrait nerd mode off}
I want a gal
Just like the gal
Whose name is
Gal Gadot..
/popular old timey song
“I want a girl,
just like the girl,
that married dear old daaadd!”
Memorial Mammary Monday.
https://archive.li/TwT0Z
“‘Their legacy is immortal’: Trump and Melania pay tribute to the ‘unrivaled heroes’ who have made the ‘supreme sacrifice’ as MAGA fans hold Memorial Day boat parade in Florida with Roger Stone
After seeing the boat parade, Trump released another statement saying: ‘Wow! I hear they have thousands and thousands of boats parading in Jupiter, despite the fact that they tried to cancel us. Everyone is having an incredible time. On this day, we especially appreciate everyone who served and fought for our great Country. I love you all!’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9637215/Trump-honors-Americans-supreme-sacrifice-Memorial-Day.html
I’m surprised the article did call for him to apologize for the thousands of heroes slaughtered by his raging insurrectionists.
Funny how fast everyone forgot Brian Sicknick. They shut up about him almost as fast as they forgot Ashli Babbitt.
It seems much quieter around here lately. People away for the weekend?
Our weekend haunts have been pretty empty.
They’ve been shipped off to re-education camps.
They all died from the Vid and are stacked up in morgue freezers like cordwood?
Objective reality is oppression
“Including pronouns is a first step toward respecting people’s identity and creating a more welcoming space for people of all genders,” the organization said in its guidance. “By providing an opportunity for people to share their pronouns, you’re showing that you’re not assuming that their gender identity is based on their appearance.”
If you want me to respect you, do something worthy of respect.
I don’t think that person understands what “gender” means.
Oh, so there’s more coming? I can’t wait.
But, I am assuming that your gender identity is based on appearance. Because if it’s not, then you’re pretty much by definition an attention seeker and I don’t want to have anything to do with you.
Re: GT’s anecdote of polygraph by photocopier
This practice first came to my attention when I read David Simon’s Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (yes, Simon’s an insufferable lefty, but he’s a damn good writer). You can see the book here.
What I recommend is starting on page 109, at the phrase “You are the citizen of a free nation” (Ctrl-F it) and reading on from there, as Simon walks you through the life of a small-time criminal who’s just committed murder. The photocopier bit is on page 114. Unsurprisingly, HBO’s The Wire utilizes the same ruse in Season 5.
It was widely debunked by the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup. No one could ever come up with a citation, always “some friend of a friend told me about this”.
I see more whining about the filibuster in the headlines. I guess DEMOCRACY! is best illustrated by a razor thin 50.0000001 percent majority jamming their programs through Congress (by any procedural legerdemain necessary). Getting ten Senators from the other side on board is surrendering your principles.
Now you’re getting it. See eventually every man has their breaking point. /Marxist
https://www.fox13now.com/news/coronavirus/local-coronavirus-news/utah-school-district-apologizes-after-masks-added-to-faces-in-yearbook-photos
Seriously?
I’m not even a little surprised.
“”It was a really rough year, and the fact that we got through it — I think we should see the truth,” she said. “And we don’t get to.””
She will never forget this life lesson.
That year book editor would fit right in under the Propaganda Office of Truth
I didn’t even leave home today.
I’m gonna grill up some steaks for dinner and chill.
I’m predicting a lot of full police blotters tomorrow. Lots of pent up energy + drinking = amateur hour.
I worked this morning but a short day so all good. On the way to work my car freaked out and the batt light came on. Got out the volt meter and the alternator is shot. I watched a few youtubes on changing the thing and holy fuck Nissan engineers need to all die in a car fire caused by putting the alternator right under their faulty valve covers that leak incessantly making the alternator to short out. You have to remove the radiator fans, radiator, battery, battery tray, and sometimes the AC compressor to change the alternator. Even then you can not actually ever lay eyes on the top hangar bolt. I hate engineers who have never touched a tool which seems is all of them. Luckily I did all my grilling for the week yesterday. Asian chicken salad tonight!
You could buy Muhrican.
Oh bullshit, all cars are the same now. If I could find one in decent shape I would buy a 70’s era F150 for my daily commuter but they go for more than what I bought this piece of shit. I refuse to have a car payment in spite of having the income to make one. I will have this fixed in a few days and gives me something else to bitch about.
Heh.
” You have to remove the radiator fans, radiator, battery, battery tray, and sometimes the AC compressor to change the alternator.”
OFFS!
I had to move my boat build out of the shop to make room for the POS car so that took awhile but I at least got the car in, have the fans, radiator and battery/tray removed. I got one of the alternator bolts out but that pissed me off so much I decided to call it a day for car repair. Honestly, there is no reason to have a belt driven piece of equipment on a car hidden behind so many things. Automotive engineers are fucking idiots.
I can’t even change the battery on my 350Z. I just jump it and take it to the dealer.
I have A Guy™.
So my husband’s Guy™ fixed the doors on my car after I got T-boned (low-speed, close-quarters, no injuries). To do this, he had to drive it to his place. He is so taken with my car now that he’s looking for one himself (2006 Hyundai Sonata). He was all, “I can see why your wife didn’t want to give it up. This is a sweet little car.”
Hopefully you won’t have to remove the AC and then have to flush and recharge the thing.
I am going the route of not removing it. I hope. That is why I didn’t take it to the shop because that is what they would have done. For a shop to change this I am guessing 6-7 hundred. One of the you tube guys said the shop manual rated it as an 8 hour job. I am sure that is evacuating and then recharging the AC system because it is much easier if you can remove the compressor because the idiots put the alternator right above it.
See my suggestion below. It will save you time and frustration. If you can’t hang it, rest it on a jack stand from beneath. Either way, removing it gets you much better access to that alternator bolt.
Is the long alternator bolt on the bottom?
It’s been awhile, I don’t remember, but I think so. With the AC dropped just a bit you can get the access you need to make the job easier is what I definitely remember. I have done it both ways and wondered why I didn’t drop the compressor previously.
Better than Toyota V8s. The starter is under the intake manifold and between the cylinders.
They get too hot, burn out early.
#automotiveengineersaremorons
Good news, they moved it on the newer ones. Bad news, they moved it under the passenger side exhaust manifold. I’m not kidding.
Nissan Maxima I take it by the job description. It’s easier to take the AC compressor bolts out, and hang it by a coat hanger w/o disconnecting anything.
I made the mistake of trying to grill hot dogs without checking the weather map.
Had to restart the fire in a downpour and then dump a quarter inch of water out of the hotdog tray while carrying them inside.
I’m laughing with you, not at you.
I left home today for the gym and grocery shopping.
The gym closed early today. It was busy when I was there.
When I went grocery shopping, the highways were busy.
Last night I was at a bar for a liberty meet-up. It was busier than usual for a Sunday night.
“I’m predicting a lot of full police blotters tomorrow. Lots of pent up energy + drinking = amateur hour.”
Don’t forget the promiscuous sex.
Which leads to dancing and bubble gum chewing.
I didn’t leave home Saturday or Sunday. I did go for a six mile walk through the park today, that was pretty nice.
“EXCLUSIVE: COVID-19 ‘has NO credible natural ancestor’ and WAS created by Chinese scientists who then tried to cover their tracks with ‘retro-engineering’ to make it seem like it naturally arose from bats, explosive new study claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9629563/Chinese-scientists-created-COVID-19-lab-tried-cover-tracks-new-study-claims.html
“Earlier this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci defended US funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, saying the $600,000 grant was not approved for Gain of Function research”
We can be sure Dr. Anthony Fauci knows exactly what it WAS used for. Certainly we audit how a country whose government hates us spends the money we send them.
“Certainly we audit how a country whose government hates us spends the money we send them.”
A better question might be why we send any money at all to a country that hates us and has publicly stated that they want to dominate the world.
Remember this is the government that provides funding to Planned Parenthood, but it’s totally ok because that money isn’t used to fund abortions.
“New study shows that nobody trusts studies anymore”
Grand daughter graduated from high school last week. That’s three out of four.
☠☠☠?
Nice!
Congrats! Our youngest graduated from college this weekend – landed a nice gig in Quad cities so nest is empty.
Congrats.
Been a long time since our kids moved out.
That’s awesome!
?
Not a Memorial Day tune.
Works for me. That is awesome.
I show up at work today, put out a few fires, then go to my task, a Motor control. For the first time in a long time, I was stumped, I finally ran into a brick wall I couldn’t get over, I have to ask for help, very humbling,
Nah. Nobody knows everything. Asking for help is a crucial work skill.
I’m not worried about asking, learning is good,
?
Thermostat?
Close, Contact Heaters, and I haz a Confuse,
Analysis: True.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/mothers-of-tamir-rice-breonna-taylor-criticize-black-lives-matter-benefitting-off-the-blood-of-our-loved-ones_3838434.html
Sad.
https://i.redd.it/i6c285lnyvyy.png
Who are the {{{ }}}s again?
They are known as Alfred Hitchcocks.
I’m sad no one is getting the reference. Does anyone remember the beginning of the old Alfred Hitchcock Presents tv show? }
yes. I remember
I was unaware of those identifying brackets. I mean I know (((they))) are.
I bet y’all don’t know who [[[they]]] are.
Calvinists.
*hangs head*
No.
Now I do.
So, I just found out that Steven Seagal is a commie and want to throw people in jail for ‘hurting the planet’.
How original. Well, admittedly more original that your films.
Wasn’t this obvious after On Deadly Ground?
No, but I don’t really like his films. So if I watched it I was probably just keeping the wife company and didn’t pay much attention.
It was obvious after he joined the Kremlin Party and visited that commie knucklehead bus driver in Venezuela. There’s some type of affliction going on in Hollywood that makes people a special sort of stupid.
Yes. So he goes to pal up with the Russians. The country run by oil-oligarchs with no EPA.
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/why-freedom-lost-so-decisively-to-the-fear-of-covid/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
As a philosophical libertarian, it has been shocking and horrifying to see just how easily and entirely, our government, enabled by the news media at nearly every turn, has been able to “suspend” much of our liberty, with almost no pushback from the general public. In the name of safety, we have seen various government entities, often via edicts from unelected health officers, determine which businesses can by open and how they can operate, our right to freely assemble and associate (unless the gathering is favoring an approved “woke” political cause) obliterated, our schools closed for over a year, and nearly universal forced mask usage — even outside — with real penalties for noncompliance.
I’m sure those Boomers who got shipped off to a jungle half a world away to get shot and came home to get spit upon don’t understand the meaning of sacrifice.
Other than that, decent article.
I raise a glass to SSG Micheal Hosey and many of my brothers that did not come home or survive coming home.
Indtil Valhalla.
Odin Speaks, let the Valkyries take them,
?
Praises to all the gods but I don’t have any direct relatives who made the ultimate sacrifice. My cousin flew 25 missions to bomb Germany in B-25s but made it back. My uncle survived two years in VietNam but was killed a couple of years later in a hunting accident. Gods blessing on those who never made it back. “All gave some, some gave all”.
B-17s, not B-25s. Not that it matters.
Hear, hear!
On this day to remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice, if there is any Canuckistanis here tonight, our government is asking our opinion.
Online Survey: Proposed designs for the National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/art-monuments/upcoming-projects/survey-national-monument-afghanistan.html
I like the first and the fourth. Pretty sure they will pick the crappiest one.
I’m going to piss off a lot of folks here with this question.
When was the last time an American soldier died for “freedom”?
Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, VietNam don’t count. Or do they?
Discuss.
Taking this to the new post.
In the early days of Viet Nam we were mislead to believe in Eisenhower’s domino theory. First VN, then one by one the rest of SE Asia and finally Korea and Japan. I don’t remember ever hearing that the war was about American freedom.
Those like me, too young to remember Korea, just wanted to go and kick some ass. Young people are stupid. For some, like me, it offered opportunities that peacetime didn’t. Promotions, excitement.
Movie title should have been “We Were Young and We Were Stupid”
I’m not disparaging the troops, we were believers. A lot of people did heroic things, a lot of young men and women died for Ike, JFK and LBJ. I’m still bitter.
I’m still bitter.
You’ve earned it.
I’m glad people like you who actually went are here to set the record straight.