I checked out of Dave Smith because one can only take so much Big L cheerleading in spite of how I like how the party is moving and what the Misus Caucus is doing, but damn. So I am checking out what Hype recommended. That’l do.
Worth the watch if you have the time. I’m reminded both of why I like Crowder and why I don’t like Crowder. The ad hom bullshit when Stossel was playing devil’s advocate was cringe.
I suspect some foreign country has figured out how to create some sort hologram that is detectable by radar. They’re using it to test the reaction of our military.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 7:24 pm
UAP?
There was a live cable access program in the 1980s in my hometown called C.R.O.A.P. — Christian Research Of Aerial Phenomena. A friend of mine once called in with a report. Hilarity ensued.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 7:26 pm
I’m not saying it was………..
rhywun
on May 18, 2021 at 7:26 pm
Completely tuning that shit out. Wake me up when it’s “take me to your leader” time.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 7:29 pm
Imagine all the new woke rules we’re gonna have to learn for the space aliens. Fuck.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 7:33 pm
Protective underpants/butt masks to protect from the anal probes viruses they may give us.
LJW
on May 18, 2021 at 7:35 pm
PLOT TWIST STEVE SMITH IS THE ALIEN
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 7:42 pm
So, you’re insinuating that the galactically challenged are somehow subhuman and “infecting” us with strange space diseases?
Not Adahn
on May 19, 2021 at 6:24 am
The Golgafrinchians only have 27 genders, but the X’n’n’n have 27481.
It’s on optical and thermal, too. The most fascinating part to me is that the videos don’t seem to show one single form. There are at least two that I’ve seen. The tic-tac and the one that looks like a dreidel.
What is it? No clue. I wish there was a better quality optical photo. It’s hard to make out details on thermal.
Seems to always stay in the middle of the frame, as the terrain speeds by. Dirt/fly on the lens.
I heard one flew away at 50K per hour. Totally destroyed all physical laws known to man or woman kind.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 9:11 pm
I think the reason it stays in the center, is that it’s actively being tracked. You can actually see (and hear the pilots) when the targeting system achieves a lock. So there is something there that the systems (probably multiple) can detect and lock on to.
Fourscore
on May 18, 2021 at 9:35 pm
Thanks
J. Frank Parnell
on May 18, 2021 at 9:03 pm
the one that looks like a dreidel.
Maybe that’s the (((space laser)))?
whahappan
on May 18, 2021 at 10:02 pm
May the Schwartz be with you!
Pine_Tree
on May 19, 2021 at 7:04 am
My guess is actually a US project that’s in test phase. DARPA, or whatever the current org is. Make something with sci-fi level capabilities, and at some point you put it out there to determine under what conditions it’s detectable.
The reason you don’t tell the local units, or even a statement, is that if you did that, you’re GUARANTEED for the info to come out sometime. There are way to many folks who’d have to know who just can’t keep info security. This way, you maintain plausible deniability in the official realm, find out what you want to find out, and let it get lost in the UFO chatter.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 7:21 pm
For all you Twitter haters this here is what makes twitter great.
Oh, no! I haz a sad. 🙁 One of my favorite deadpan comedians. I loved him in Dave with Kevin Kline. Grodin’s stoneface up against Kline’s mania was my favorite part of the movie.
Toxteth O'Grady
on May 18, 2021 at 8:52 pm
It Would Be So Nice if You Weren’t Here: greatest book title ever.
Didn’t realize he was that old.
Fourscore
on May 18, 2021 at 9:05 pm
He wasn’t “that old”, for goodness sakes
Toxteth O'Grady
on May 18, 2021 at 9:26 pm
Ahem. Thought he was younger than that. My apologies.
Diane Cannon character screams hysterically upon seeing Warren Beatty character alive and well.
Charles Grodin character claps his hand over her mouth and stuffs her into a side room.
He calmly explains to the Julie Christie, the guest. “She just saw a mouse.”
Julie Christie character: “In here?”
Charles Grodin: “No, no. Outside in the garden…but she relives it.”
I loved that movie. Best Heaven Can Wait adaptation ever.
l0b0t
on May 19, 2021 at 6:41 am
Great Muppet Caper, he is fantastic in that.
Grodin (as Nicky Holiday, when asked to pay for his share of a meal) – “I seem to have my wallet back in my room.”
Dianna Rigg (as Lady Holiday, his sister) – “You left your wallet back in college.”
Philadelphia’s investigation into the treatment of MOVE victims’ remains will focus not only on the box discovered at the Medical Examiner’s Office last week, but also on a review of the city’s handling of all remains from the infamous 1985 bombing — including those transferred between two Ivy League universities, Mayor Jim Kenney said Tuesday.
The investigation will go “as wide and as deep as we can” and will also scrutinize policies and procedures in the Medical Examiner’s Office, Kenney said during a meeting with The Inquirer’s editorial board.
“This is … a 36-year-old incident that has been mishandled for a long time,” he said. “We would like to be the administration that gets to the bottom of everything that happened and put in place procedures and policies to keep it from happening again.”
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 7:39 pm
They’re saying that they are not confident that procedures are in place to prevent the bombing of small children for basically littering and being dirty neighbors. Maybe, they’ll figure out a way to stop doing that, buddy.
Going to the polls on Tuesday meant Pennsylvania’s registered voters had a chance to not only say who they wanted to represent them but also tell Gov. Tom Wolf how they thought he managed the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are three constitutional amendments and one state referendum on the ballot, as well as local referendums in certain locations. Because Pennsylvania is a closed primary state, where only registered Democrats and Republican voters can select candidates, individuals registered under another party can only cast their vote on the ballot issues.
But that was enough for Brad Wastler, a Libertarian in Cumberland County. He said he “unequivocally” voted Tuesday to express his disdain of Wolf’s COVID-19 response.
“I’m here because the Governor has exceeded his authority to an almost illegal level and that needs to be clamped down on,” the Hampden Township resident said. “People should have individual rights to choose how they want to behave regardless of what the circumstances are.”
db
on May 18, 2021 at 7:41 pm
My cynical take on the proposed amendments is that the equal rights one was held in reserve and placed on the ballot in an attempt to “balance” out the people who would come out to vote for the limitations on the Governor’s emergency powers.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 7:43 pm
Looking at the early results… the numbers are close to flipped for the two sets. Both amendments to rein in Wolf are 75-25 against, and the equal rights amendment is 85-15 for.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 7:43 pm
That’s kind of my point.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 7:50 pm
IOW, either those early results are heavily skewed to the Democrat demographic areas, or the folks who bothered to come out feel strongly both about discrimination based on race or ethnicity, and that the Executive should have essentially unilateral power to declare and perpetuate legal states of emergency.
slumbrew
on May 18, 2021 at 7:44 pm
Yikes.
People want a strongman.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 7:49 pm
I poked around. Some counties have reported mail-in ballot results but so far none of the ones I checked are reporting in-person or provisional ballot results yet.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 7:44 pm
almost illegal
He almost got it.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 7:46 pm
It went all the way to the PA supreme court, and was declared legal by them. Hence the need for amendments to the constitution of the commonwealth.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 7:49 pm
Crazy. Yet, they still paid out millions in settlements. Whole thing’s fucking crazy. Like a precursor to Waco.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 7:49 pm
Wrong thread. Still crazy.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 7:53 pm
Btw, I don’t care what court says it’s kosher. It ain’t.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 7:54 pm
I agree with you, but the PA supreme court doesn’t GAF what you or I think.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 7:56 pm
John Roberts too. Remember he signed off on it claiming that it’s OK if a state court rewrites a state election law, but not OK if a Federal court rewrites the state election law. Reference a similar case in Wisconsin where if I remember correctly a Federal court changed WI’s election law, but the Supremes slapped that Federal court.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 7:41 pm
Yikes.
Early results in the PA primary have the constitutional amendments to rein in Wolf failing. Big.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 7:47 pm
I’m not following because I have work meetings this evening, but any indication of the demographics of the areas counted so far?
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 7:53 pm
It’s a pain in the ass to go through the state’s page with results.
Luzerne, Northhampton, Lycoming overwhelming “no” on the amendments reining in Wolf.
Allegheny overwhelmingly “Yes” on the amendments reining in Wolf.
Beaver, Fayette, Montgomery, Chester, Deleware no results reported.
All results reported so far are almost entirely (99% by my eyeballing) mail-in votes.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 7:54 pm
Basically, you have to click on the county on a map to see that county’s results. There you can see mail-in, provisional, in-person counts, but no percentage of precincts reporting.
On the roll-up for the whole state, you just see a total of yes/no votes.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 7:56 pm
My apologies, but I’m not sure what map you’re referencing. The link you have above has no map when I view it. Not your problem, I just haven’t gone looking for the results yet.
Thanks, but not your duty to do so. I did a search and found it in a few seconds. My apologies.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 8:07 pm
It’s OK. I still shoulda linked it.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 7:55 pm
Luzerne, Northhampton, Lycoming overwhelming “no” on the amendments reining in Wolf.
Allegheny overwhelmingly “Yes” on the amendments reining in Wolf.
These make no sense at all.
rhywun
on May 18, 2021 at 7:58 pm
Right?
db
on May 18, 2021 at 8:00 pm
I mean, Luzerne I can see, because it has a Bethlehem and Allentown, but Lycoming? No sense at all.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 8:04 pm
From PennLive:
Very early returns so far show voters saying no to two proposed amendments to the Pa. constitution that would curb the governor’s powers in disasters. Important caveat: Presumably, the results tallied so far are those cast by mail and typically, the vast majority of those voting by mail are Democrats. It’ll be interesting to watch what happens as more ballots cast in person across the state are counted.
My poking around the state’s website shows almost all votes reported so far are mail-in.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 8:06 pm
Bethlehem spans Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Allentown is in Lehigh.
Luzerne includes Wilkes-Barre.
Lehigh has not reported any results so far.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 8:08 pm
Have a look at Warren County and McKean County and tell me if you think that makes any sense. The in person votes in those two counties, which I believe are demographically very similar, are nearly opposite.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 8:09 pm
You’re right about Bethlehem andAllentown, of course. my bad.
I know they aren’t big counties. Are they done counting or are there more to count? Unfortunately, that state page doesn’t say.
PennLive quoted the Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth. About 800,000 mail-in ballots requested, and more than 550,000 returned.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 7:58 pm
It is encouraging to see those mail in results in Allegheny.
rhywun
on May 18, 2021 at 7:47 pm
Now the the courts have assumed the right to rewrite election law, I don’t know if I trust anything coming out of that state.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 7:52 pm
That’s my thought. In Cali, the elections are a farce. Last year nationalized the trend
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 7:59 pm
CO was right behind CA on that trend. We have had nothing but mail to all registered voters for more than a few years now. They call it the “gold standard” of elections.
Hank
on May 18, 2021 at 8:54 pm
“gold standard”
So it’s been abolished?
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 8:59 pm
Believe it or not that’s the motto of LAX. “Gold standard, delivered” LOL. By gold standard, they mean dead last place among other airports.
The Other Kevin
on May 18, 2021 at 7:50 pm
… so then I was like, “This is MAGA country, libtard! Pwnd!”
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 7:54 pm
So I strained my back moving my drift boat (still not finished, I suck) to set my table saw back up which really strained my back. Solid steel top table saws are heavy. Seems the tequila is loosening it up though. The fact I could lift half my boat made me feel good though. I thought I was using too much resin and cloth so I am judging it to be around 3-400 pounds by the out of shape old man lift measurement. I won’t know until done and I can trailer it to a scale. This is the first time I have built a boat and I have made numerous mistakes but whatever, if it floats and the oars make it move I will count it as a win.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 7:58 pm
Sorry about your back.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 8:01 pm
It will be fine but thanks. Probably more ache because I have not used it for four days.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 8:02 pm
Getting old doesn’t suck as much as the alternative.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 8:03 pm
Truth.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 9:18 pm
That’s pretty cool that you’re building a boat. Is it a kit, or plans, or an original design?
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 9:38 pm
I built it based on some designs and lofting in this book. It has been so long I am not even sure what boat I based it off of. I think one of the double enders but I wanted a transom so it is not a true double ender. I do know I used fiberglass on my wood so I did not need near as many ribs as it haves. It also screwed me up on the lofting because you can’t get a 16 foot boat out of scarfing two 8′ sheets of plywood together because you well, scarfed them together. It is going to be 15′ and change. I was really into it and then I had to get a job to pay the bills and it slacked off and I have been slowly dabbling at it for way too may years now. Numerous new years resolutions were to finish it. I didn’t make one this year so maybe I will finish it.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 9:41 pm
Keep it up, maybe show off some progress in the Zoom!
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 9:39 pm
It’s cool that he’s building in fiberglass. I’ve done a bunch of seat pans that way. It’s a huge mess, but it’s a lot of fun.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 9:47 pm
It is marine ply with fiberglass outside. The inside is just resin soaked mat. I have worked in shops with chopper guns and the works as well as boat yards doing 90′ experimental crazy epoxy stuff back in the late 80’s. If I touch epoxy now I break out in hives. I was told sensitized is the word for that. Thanks Chemical manufacturers! Fuck it, ya gotta die from something.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 9:50 pm
I grew up at the beach. As a small child, I’d watch guys build surfboards in their garages. Later I worked for Gene Winfield. He had a mold of a chopped, channeled and sectioned 49-51 Mercury body, with a platform you would walk out on and spray from the chopper gun. I did a lot of finishing and mounting of those bodies.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 9:58 pm
The smell of polyester resin makes me happy. Happy like the smell of two cycle dirt bikes. This boat I tried the vinyl ester resin. From what I read it is close to the strength of epoxy but way way cheaper. Not as cheap as polyester but close. I have done some west system projects back in the day and can’t even imagine the price of those now.
This is the only reporter even trying to make sense out of the “insurrection”, Julie Kelly. The same justice department that has quietly dropped the charges on BLM rioters for trying to set fire to inhabited buildings are now lobbying for no-bail holds on people who were told it was OK for them to be in the capitol. 4 months in solitary with no end in sight for most of them. It’s a page out of Stalin’s book.
Oh ya, I have seen her stuff. Some of that is well a bit suspect. We have all seen the videos of the capitol hill marchers where they did fuck some police up. Not the dudes in jail (afaik), but others fought their way in.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 8:38 pm
There’s video of the “Shaman” dude being told that he’s OK to be there, just not to break anything or get violent. He did neither and he’s still in jail. For trespassing. Contrast that with the BLM/Antifa assholes.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 8:51 pm
Ya, I have seen that one and first saw it on Jan 7. My take is they came in from the S side or some shit if I remember right where the cops did let the marchers into the building. And ya the Shaman didn’t do shit other than be there but they walked past a dude who was bleeding from the head because he caught a rubber bullet to the eyebrow. Cops don’t shoot you in the face when they are letting you in. The front door there were some fights and barricades taken down as well as thrown. It was a right shit show. Those videos are out there too.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 8:54 pm
And I am not saying what happened on Jan 6 is anything like the year of Antifa riots, I am saying more happened than the “they let them in crowd” is saying. The two groups aren’t even comparable.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 8:56 pm
I know all of that, too. The feds are literally dropping charges on rioters from other riots who tried to burn people alive. It can’t even be argued that this is not a purely political prosecution and nobody seems to care. They did a swat raid on that couple from AK for fuck’s sake. They weren’t even in the building. BofA handed over info on anyone who was in DC at a hotel that day.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 9:04 pm
We are in agreement. It is a 100% a political prosecution. I am just not sure what I can do about it other than be pissed off. They need to get their own “Soros” to throw money at electing prosecutors who let their people off. Dude, we are third world. I have accepted that.
pistoffnick
on May 18, 2021 at 9:20 pm
“…what I can do about it other than be pissed off.”
Welcome, friend!
Toxteth O'Grady
on May 18, 2021 at 10:16 pm
Ron Paul’s guest on April 6.
Tejicano
on May 18, 2021 at 10:24 pm
I have been wondering if, at some time in the long term, it might leak out that the capitol police were instructed to let these “insurrectionists” into the capitol.
An NH state representative I met at a liberty event said he ran for representative as an act of self-defense.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 8:35 pm
I’m about to start ignoring politics out of self defense. I handle all kinds of stress with aplomb, but this last year or so has me doubting my ability to keep watching this trainwreck.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 8:42 pm
I’ve been there for years, dude.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 8:26 pm
Of course, everyone is happy to allow fire departments to rack up debt
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 8:36 pm
Update from PennLive:
The results are tightening in the two ballot questions on curbing the governor’s powers in disaster declarations. The “no” voters are still leading but it’s closing: the no votes are at around 56%, while the yes votes are around 44%. The “no” vote was around 70% not long ago. It’s possible most of the early votes were mail-in ballots, which usually skew Democratic.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 8:55 pm
Wow, Allegheny County is bringing the heat now. There must have been a massive mail in campaign on the anti-Wolf side, and good returns in person.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 8:57 pm
Philly and MontCo are reporting. So far, as bad as expected in those two places.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 9:15 pm
Looking at those, their vote totals are dwarfed by Allegheny, so they must not be finished counting.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 9:16 pm
ah, it just updated, and Montgomery has higher than Allegheny now
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 9:21 pm
MontCo has about 830K people and Allegheny County has about 1.2M people, so I wouldn’t be surprised if in the end there are more votes in Allegheny County than MontCo.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 9:31 pm
Interestingly, the MontCo totals are dwarfing Allegheny atm
mail-in ballots, which usually skewget manufactured en masseby Democratic non-profits
FIFY
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 9:57 pm
Interestingly, this time around there is an upper limit to such shenanigans.
The Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth stated that there were about 800,000 mail-in ballot requests and about 550,000 returned.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 8:50 pm
OMG this meeting sucks. 1 minutes of English, one question. 5 minutes of Japanese discussion, then 30 seconds of English answer to the question. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I’m at the point where I really really wish I had followed through on my efforts to learn Japanese the first time I went there in 2011. But it looked like a one-and-done at the time, then 8 years later, the need resurfaced again.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 8:55 pm
Ouch. Sorry.
Tejicano
on May 18, 2021 at 9:14 pm
From having been”that Gaijin”, or. the translator, I can pretty much tell you that the 5 minutes of discussion in Japanese is just figuring out or guessing what the basic question in English is about. Then they’re working out the best answer to that question.
I know it seems bizarre that one seemingly simple question can generate so much discussion – when I’ve been the guy helping the Japanese side work through the question and then the answer I often mentally step back and look at how this must look to the guys on the English speaking side of the conversation. I can see how strange it must feel.
pistoffnick
on May 18, 2021 at 9:18 pm
I should have learned more than just cuss words and female anatomical part names when I went to China…but the itinerant fire brick layers thought it was funny to get the round eye drunk on “Píjiǔ” and teach him naughty words.
Different job, A Chinese engineer asked me a few weeks ago what the range and accuracy of my plumb bob was. I mean I realize China is on the other side of the world, but I think gravity works the same there.
Republican lawmakers across the country have tried to roll back the emergency powers that governors wielded during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they ordered businesses shut, mask-wearing in public and students home for distance learning.
Pennsylvania’s Legislature is now taking its case to the ballot.
In the first vote of its kind since the coronavirus outbreak, voters statewide will decide twin constitutional amendments that would give lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations, to apply whether the emergency is another pandemic or natural disaster.
OBJ FRANKELSON
on May 18, 2021 at 9:05 pm
Good: Seeing at least some legislatures pushing back against executive overreach.
Bad: That it got this far before the thought occurred to them.
rhywun
on May 18, 2021 at 9:10 pm
Worse: It still might fail.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 9:19 pm
Yeah, that would suck.
However, the vote is tightening up. 49.5% Yes to 50.5% No.
An update from PennLive says about 10,000 people voted in Perry County. I looked at Perry County’s results. Based on what I see on the state’s web page, that county is done counting. Close to 71% yes to 29% no for both amendments reining in Wolf. What does this mean? Not much because Perry County is small, but it’s the only county that I’m certain is done counting.
blackjack
on May 18, 2021 at 9:42 pm
Even worse, it don’t much matter anymore. All across the country, the American people have proven they are willing to be subjugated. Ain’t no going back.
OBJ FRANKELSON
on May 18, 2021 at 9:56 pm
I dunno, I would like to think that there are enough ornery, recalcitrant bastards like us to resist this. Unfortunately, it is going to take the abject failure of the ‘top men’ to get us there, and that ain’t going to be good for anyone.
Toxteth O'Grady
on May 18, 2021 at 11:54 pm
Least we know much better now who and where the bed-wetters are.
Hank
on May 18, 2021 at 9:15 pm
“Since lamination is out, the next best thing is a special case for your special card. Similar to buying a passport cover or an ID holder, vaccination cards may be used as a form of identification that you’ll want to protect.”
I imagine there are some third party “replacement services” that can help if your “card” gets “damaged.”
rhywun
on May 18, 2021 at 9:20 pm
This may be the future of travel
GFY
That’s as far as I got.
Tejicano
on May 18, 2021 at 10:10 pm
I would be sooo tempted to get into that racket.
I would be making “vaccine passport cases” which are integrated into a “handy” armband to have it “ready for any purpose”. These would all be red with a white circle over the pouch and a red cross on the white circle. Through some manufacturing error the red cross would have been printed in black.
Hank
on May 18, 2021 at 9:28 pm
Jeff Greenfield on D. C. statehood:
“Indeed, when I asked one strong advocates of statehood if there were serious constitutional roadblocks, he said, ‘Yes—but don’t tell anybody!'”
Don’t feel too bad, I have been rooting for a Washington State University / University of South Carolina football match-up since I was 13.
OBJ FRANKELSON
on May 18, 2021 at 9:59 pm
Oregon State, rather.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 9:52 pm
Somebody must have clogged a toilet in Beaver, Butler, and Westmoreland counties.
db
on May 18, 2021 at 9:40 pm
I’d expect Beaver, Butler, and Westmoreland counties (none reporting yet) to be similar to Washington County on the questions. They are typically “red counties” surrounding the core blue of Allegheny.
westernsloper
on May 18, 2021 at 9:41 pm
?
rhywun
on May 18, 2021 at 9:48 pm
“It’s happening!”
db
on May 18, 2021 at 9:50 pm
But Amendment 2 is slipping behind and falls in the no column now!
db
on May 18, 2021 at 9:50 pm
Wait, back up to Yes!
Aloysious
on May 18, 2021 at 9:52 pm
Netflix’s Love, Death, and Robots has new episodes.
I haven’t made it all the way through the first episode “Customer Service”, and I’m LMAO.
The [spoiler redacted] is hysterical.
Oh yeah, the animation is top notch.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 9:55 pm
Word from PennLive: Some counties are stopping counting for the night and will resume tomorrow.
Hank
on May 18, 2021 at 9:56 pm
You have *got* to be kidding.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 10:00 pm
Cumberland County says it will continue canvassing the mail-in ballots tomorrow morning at 9. The county said all precincts have reported in; 30 of the 118 precincts of voted mail and absentee ballots have been counted. The county issued nearly 16,000 mail and absentee ballots. Ron Southwick
I misinterpreted their post about Lebanon County.
I saw something about Philly’s counting going into tomorrow, but I can’t find it.
So maybe just Cumberland and Philly.
creech
on May 18, 2021 at 10:11 pm
Philly’s count is way behind, according to NBC, but rest assured the progressive ahole, Krasner, is winning by 2 to 1. The voters apparently want to stew in the increased violence for another four years.
Hank
on May 18, 2021 at 10:13 pm
Who’s his opponent, Charles Manson’s corpse?
Chafed
on May 18, 2021 at 11:35 pm
Fine by me. I just don’t want the locals complaining about what they voted for.
Approximately 54% yes to 46% no on the amendments to rein in Wolf.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 10:32 pm
According to PennLive, all Harrisburg precincts results are in. Harrisburg is in Dauphin County. I don’t know if all Dauphin County precincts (i.e. those not in Harrisburg) have reported, but the state’s website says the amendments to rein in Wolf are winning in Dauphin County 51% to 49% at the time I type this comment.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 10:36 pm
Lebanon County, the place where defiance against Wolf started, is currently at 70/30 Yes/No.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 10:37 pm
At the time I write this, Chester is the only Philly area county where the amendments to rein in Wolf are winning.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 10:38 pm
Berks has still not reported anything, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see the amendments to rein in Wolf win there.
Modernity is impossible without widespread peaceful engagement with strangers.
Looks like my “interacting with foreigners is supposed to make us libertarian” crack wasn’t a strawman.
The reaction to Covid-19 is powerful evidence that our primitive instincts remain alive and ready to reestablish their dominance over the happy accident that is the culture, and resulting institutions, of liberalism. The hysterical fear that Covid stirred in so many people – including in many who are highly educated, of a scientific mindset, and, until Covid, of a liberal bent – and the sheepishness with which people followed the “leaders” who promised protection from Covid prompts Dan Hannan to worry that 2020-2021 is the beginning of the end of modernity.
Chances are high that he’s correct. And if he is, civilization as we know it will end.
Don Boudreaux and Dan Hannan bring out the hope. 🙁
Went to a Brexit talk by Hannan not too long ago, between the vote and implementation. He sounded much more sanguine then — cheerful about the prospect of losing his position as MEP.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 10:48 pm
PennLive just put up a good page for tracking primary results.
The amendments reining in Wolf are winning, 54-46, but when I go into the county results on the PennLive page, I don’t like what I see.
I’m off to bed. I’ll check in in the morning.
DEG
on May 18, 2021 at 10:50 pm
Oh, their result lags the state page a bit. PennLive shows 52/47, but the state page shows 54/46.
straffinrun
on May 18, 2021 at 10:58 pm
Covexit?
straffinrun
on May 18, 2021 at 11:06 pm
As a total casual on that, I can tell you that the wording on those measures are not going to be accurately interpreted by the average person. My proposal: Should we tell the governor to GFHWARCS? Yea or Nay?
slumbrew
on May 18, 2021 at 11:10 pm
GFHWARCS == Go F**k Himself …? What’s the rest?
Gender Traitor
on May 18, 2021 at 11:12 pm
I’m guessing it’s “With a Rusty Chain Saw.”
slumbrew
on May 18, 2021 at 11:14 pm
Yep, that works
straffinrun
on May 18, 2021 at 11:22 pm
Yes.
DEG
on May 19, 2021 at 5:32 am
The Wolf administration got to write the amendment questions.
Any different from what we had last November? I was ready to start dancing to Hava Nagila then but also had to wake up early the next morning. After that the junta was already leading.
I remember listening to a radio interview in September where a Democrat strategist predicted a “red mirage”, where Trump would be leading until the middle of the night, but the Dems would be safely ahead by morning. Amazing how they knew in advance that would happen.
Winston
on May 18, 2021 at 11:04 pm
And our political leaders are not necessarily out on a political limb; increasingly the American public does not understand or fully support free speech either. A 2020 Gallup / Knight Foundation poll found that 56 percent of Americans believe in the right to freely express views on social media—meaning 44 percent of those polled…don’t. This is a sharp decline from only one year prior.
I do find the recent revelation among many libertarians about the culture war rather fascinating. After decades of letting the left win the culture war they are shocked at the existence of a leftist culture! What did they expect? Did they assume that anyone who rejects small-town midwestern WASP culture is an automatic libertarian since they don’t like socons? Sure seems like they did.
Another annoying thing is the willful blindness of many “liberals” and “libertarians” to see the threats we are facing. The Chicoms were very open about how trade with the west would help them with their totalitarian and genocidal goals. The Davos set has been spewing statist shit for decades. The woke, watermelon and lockdowner set have been percolating for decades and were very open about their illiberal and anti-capitalist ideas. It was assumed they wouldn’t actually implement them since History and Progress are on our side and there is no way our elites would actually embrace truly terrible policies, right?
“It was assumed they wouldn’t actually implement them since History and Progress are on our side and there is no way our elites would actually embrace truly terrible policies, right?”
I’ve never assumed any such thing. On the contrary I’ve always assumed that eventually, much like your link says above, humanity would return to its roots of barbarism, penury, misery and death. Liberty is the exception not the rule.
slumbrew
on May 18, 2021 at 11:37 pm
RAH got it:
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
Bad luck is on the rise (see, Chile).
Chafed
on May 18, 2021 at 11:45 pm
I didn’t know that quote was from Heinlen. The things I learn here.
So I’m happy to say: yes, libertarians have been running the world, and we’re happy to take credit for that progress
….
But we’ve written a few times about a libertarian center in American politics. You might say it includes people who would call themselves fiscally conservative and socially tolerant, or people who would say that taxes are too high and who don’t care who you marry or what you smoke. I think that this really is the center of American politics, and I think such beliefs are even a plurality in American politics.
But perhaps my favorite example was that of (retired) General Jérôme Pellistrandi, chief editor at the magazine Revue Défense Nationale, who prefaced his otherwise sharp criticism of the outspoken soldiers with: “Everyone agrees that society is breaking up, it’s a known fact, but…”
What was going on here? Since when do government officials reflexively agree that their country is falling apart? Well, it turns out that a rather shockingly high proportion of the French public seems to agree with the sentiments the letters expressed. The following chart, created from the results of a Harris Interactive opinion poll taken April 29, after the first letter, is in my view one of the most striking statements about the political mood in a Western country that you’re likely to see for some time:
….
.But that’s not even the whole of it – an amazing 74% of poll respondents said they thought French society was collapsing, while no less than 45% agreed that France “will soon have a civil war.”
Jesus Christ. Then again the Fifth Republic has been getting long in the tooth and the previoua four republics were ended by military coups or foreign invasion.
Also I thought Muslim immigration destroying France was some racist nutjob conspiracy?
slumbrew
on May 18, 2021 at 11:41 pm
that looks terrible, but I’d need quite a bit more info on the 1,600 people they polled and the questions they asked.
Chafed
on May 18, 2021 at 11:43 pm
Pffffft. Like that will support the narrative.
Chafed
on May 18, 2021 at 11:44 pm
I mean they are a highly representative sample of National Front members.
Chafed
on May 18, 2021 at 11:43 pm
Possible chicken and the egg problem with the immigrants. Are they not assimilating because they refuse or because, in practical terms, it’s prohibited? All those social programs don’t foster assimilation.
Well, so Mr. Mojeaux’s Guy™ just replaced the crunched doors on my Zippicar and while it doesn’t look sparkling brand new, because the u-pick didn’t have pristine doors, it’s pretty effing nice. He would not take a penny over what my husband already forced upon him. So I get to keep my Zippicar!
And just to let you know, as a motorhead and terminal shade-tree mechanic – had he been able to source a set of extra-pristine, matching doors the Auto Gods would have visited you with a dent and a few nasty scratches before the next moon. You got the best possible outcome.
Sean
on May 19, 2021 at 4:39 am
Yay!
DEG
on May 19, 2021 at 5:32 am
Excellent news!
Gender Traitor
on May 19, 2021 at 5:52 am
O, Frabjous Day! (Should yesterday or today be the official observance of the holiday?)
Festus
on May 19, 2021 at 6:14 am
Glad to hear! Awful about the other news from yesterday though.
That is a bummer about Chile (and a great Heinlein quote). As we know if they change the constitution it will, maybe slowly, but definitely surely.
In the late 90’s I spent about 15 days in Chile. Flew in from San Jose, Costa Rica to Santiago on a cheap Central American airline that stopped in every capital along the way. When I got the boarding pass at the SJ airport I looked at it and said in Spanish, “no, I wanted a non smoking seat.” The ticket woman said, “lo siento, es todo fumante.” And it was indeed all smoking. You couldn’t see the front seats from the haze. I got seated between a revolving cast that ended up being old lady puffing away and then two young Chileans that got on in Ecuador. After a bit I got talking to the Chileans, a young guy and his hot girlfriend that were out in the jungle there and we got along fabulously. The drink cart never stopped serving complimentary booze and even though I didn’t really smoke cigarettes, I eventually was bumming them off the couple. When we were getting close to landing they asked me where I was staying and I told them the cheap hotel district in Santiago, which I didn’t even have a reservation. Seeing as we ended up landing at 3 am they wouldn’t hear of me wandering around that area at night and told me to come with them to his dad’s house in Santiago. They lived in Valparaiso and were going to stay with him for a night or two on the way back home. In the airport going to get a cab we met a Swiss couple that asked for directions to the city centre. The Chileans said, “fuck it we already have one gringo, we may as have two more” and they joined us going back to his father’s place. We showed up at almost 4am, crashed for a few hours and ended up getting served eggs and homemade white wine by his dad in the morning. I went to a hotel that day and met them later to eat beef hearts and drink wine in Santiago and then visited them for a couple days in Valparaiso and had a great time drinking at bars and their little house. It was a solid intro to the country. I then caught buses and hitched up to the Bolivian border over the next ten days. Fun times. Me gusta mucho de Chile.
Awesome story! I was in Santiago and Valparaiso 5-6 years ago on a lecture tour and absolutely loved the place and the people (as well as the food and wine). So depressing to see where it is headed, I always planned on returning some day.
KSuellington
on May 19, 2021 at 12:36 am
Right on C! I hope you end up getting to do your África safari that you had to cancel. If you ever get back to Santiago (if you didn’t go there last time) check out the central seafood market. You can eat super fresh seafood for very cheap in the stalls next to the fishmongers. Because of the Humbolt current they get amazing stuff there, cold water species, muy fresca. The Chilenos are a cool bunch, kind of like modest Argentinians. I’d love to get to the south of the country, I only went north from Valparaiso through the Atacama, which was amazing, but I do like the type of geography that is more alpine, which is the south. One day I’d love to go all the way to Torres del Paine.
Didn’t know anything about him before, but I get the idea.
This emoji will need servicing soon: ?
Sean
on May 19, 2021 at 6:15 am
Mornin’
Toxteth O'Grady
on May 19, 2021 at 6:20 am
Ciao.
Am told it’s out of blinker fluid and can’t wink anymore.
Yusef drives a Kia
on May 19, 2021 at 5:06 am
I got my Tax return, in less than a week!, not very much, which is good, but enough to pay my Home insurance for the rest of the year, so that’s cool,
Toxteth O'Grady
on May 19, 2021 at 5:09 am
?
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Gender Traitor
on May 19, 2021 at 5:25 am
That’s great – and quick! We owed the Feds but are hoping to get our bucks back from DeWine in time to cover our anniversary weekend getaway.
Good morning, Yu and TO’G!
TARDis
on May 19, 2021 at 5:31 am
Let me put it another way. We got fisted by the Feds, but we got a gentle reach around from the State.
Mornin’ Glibred! Hope you get your stolen money back in time.
Toxteth O'Grady
on May 19, 2021 at 5:35 am
Peter? Paul? Who can tell anymore?
Gender Traitor
on May 19, 2021 at 5:50 am
We got fisted by the Feds
Especially apt, since per TT, most of that was because more of his SS was taxable. 🙁 You can’t even get back what you were forced to put in without getting reamed again.
I took two years of French in high school, and in all that time we never got to past tense. When I got to college and enrolled in a “one-semester review of basic French,” it stopped being review almost immediately.
I took something like six years of spanish in elementary/middle/high school.
I was unable to ask a monolingual laudromat attendant if I’d left my phone there the night before. Fortunately there was a bilingual customer who could translate.
The public school spanish education was worthless.
(I actually left the phone at the restaurant where I’d had lunch and got it back from them)
Gender Traitor
on May 19, 2021 at 6:12 am
When I was in eighth grade, Dayton started a part-time magnet school program in foreign languages, but I would have had to take it for two years in order to get credit and/or skip the first year of whatever language I studied. I ended up going to the office skills magnet program instead, mainly to learn to type. I also got pretty durn quick on a ten-key adding machine.
I guess that program turned out to be more pertinent to my future “career.”
Festus
on May 19, 2021 at 6:26 am
I took five years of “Conversational French” and by the end I could barely manage a doughboy parlez vous! My teachers liked me so they let me pass under the radar with C’s. This was even after an exchange program to Quebec. Alright it wasn’t that bad but by the the time I was in 12th grade my fluency was basically “Please to do the needful, now.” Don’t know how I passed that verbal exam because French was the last class of the day and some people did some things over the lunch break.
Been there, done that. In my case it was a datacenter move.
Tejicano
on May 19, 2021 at 5:21 am
This part of the day ’round these parts reminds me of early mornings on the first day of a Reserve weekend drill. People showing up, either getting something out of the way or just hanging out until morning formation (the entire unit goes out and forms up in ranks, um, I guess civilians would call them lines). Just kind of a “checking in” period.
Gender Traitor
on May 19, 2021 at 5:39 am
Exactly, I guess that’s why I don’t mind running around taking everyone’s temp each morning at the office, even though I’m an introvert who’s not really into socializing with my co-workers. Luckily, I don’t have to do it at the door before they’re allowed in – I usually wait about 15 minutes to let everyone clock in, check their voice mail, check their e-mail, etc. After I write down their magic number, most of them just rattle off “Yes, no, no, no” as their canned responses to the magic questions. Then we chat about what’s going on that might actually mean something and wish each other a good day.
Good…what time of day is it where you are?…Teji!
Tejicano
on May 19, 2021 at 6:04 am
“What… Is your favorite colour?”
“Green… No blue!”
“Aahhgg!!!”
Festus
on May 19, 2021 at 6:28 am
You just like the anal-swabbing part. Admit it, Red!
DEG
on May 19, 2021 at 5:26 am
Overnight counting continued.
Official state results page has both questions to rein in Wolf at roughly 54% yes, 46% no. The state results page don’t say how many precincts reported. PennLive does, and says about 70% of precincts have reported. I dug into the county level results on the PennLive page.
Huh. I thought Perry County was done counting based on earlier reports. PennLive’s county level results say they are not.
I’m concerned about some of the Philly area counties. Except for MontCo, they’re at low levels of reporting based on PennLive’s page. Philly itself is at about 73% reported, and both amendments failed in Philly as I expected.
PennLive says Allegheny County is at 98.94% reported, and both amendments failed in Allegheny County.
It’s supposed to hit 86 here in the Hudson valley.
Ugh 🙁
Gender Traitor
on May 19, 2021 at 6:17 am
Ick poo. 🙁 And you don’t have central A/C, do you? Hope you have a good window unit or a good collection of fans! ::decides to skip painfully obvious “fan club” joke::
I have four fans going. In order to get cross-ventillation I need to coax the air from the back room through the kitchen and living room and out the front room. Elsewise, the air somewhere gets stagnant.
I still have a single room AC unit for the bedroom, but I don’t want to put that in yet.
TARDis
on May 19, 2021 at 6:35 am
I have a space heater on in my tiny office because it’s 68.5 degrees. Not summer in here.
Morning all. Do any of you nerds really cool tech savvy guys/gals know if you can disable a key on a keyboard. The left hand CTRL key on my laptop is very sensitive and my fat ass hand keeps unintentionally hitting it when I type and strange things happen, new windows pop up, I go into a dark mode, things shut off, etc. All my googling comes up with are ways to change the F keys or the keyboard language.
We’re not worthy.
You can’t tell me what to do! You are not the boss of me!
You’re not my supervisor!
Am I being detained?
I want to see your warrant.
I checked out of Dave Smith because one can only take so much Big L cheerleading in spite of how I like how the party is moving and what the Misus Caucus is doing, but damn. So I am checking out what Hype recommended. That’l do.
Mises…whatever.
The Missus caucus is extremely influential.
Stossel interviewed Crowder on Rumble
Worth the watch if you have the time. I’m reminded both of why I like Crowder and why I don’t like Crowder. The ad hom bullshit when Stossel was playing devil’s advocate was cringe.
Anyone have any good theories for this?
https://youtu.be/ZBtMbBPzqHY
I suspect some foreign country has figured out how to create some sort hologram that is detectable by radar. They’re using it to test the reaction of our military.
UAP?
There was a live cable access program in the 1980s in my hometown called C.R.O.A.P. — Christian Research Of Aerial Phenomena. A friend of mine once called in with a report. Hilarity ensued.
I’m not saying it was………..
Completely tuning that shit out. Wake me up when it’s “take me to your leader” time.
Imagine all the new woke rules we’re gonna have to learn for the space aliens. Fuck.
Protective
underpants/buttmasks to protect from theanal probesviruses they may give us.PLOT TWIST STEVE SMITH IS THE ALIEN
So, you’re insinuating that the galactically challenged are somehow subhuman and “infecting” us with strange space diseases?
The Golgafrinchians only have 27 genders, but the X’n’n’n have 27481.
hologram that is detectable by radar
It’s on optical and thermal, too. The most fascinating part to me is that the videos don’t seem to show one single form. There are at least two that I’ve seen. The tic-tac and the one that looks like a dreidel.
What is it? No clue. I wish there was a better quality optical photo. It’s hard to make out details on thermal.
We need Leonard Nimoy to explain it to us.
As in.
Seems to always stay in the middle of the frame, as the terrain speeds by. Dirt/fly on the lens.
I heard one flew away at 50K per hour. Totally destroyed all physical laws known to man or woman kind.
I think the reason it stays in the center, is that it’s actively being tracked. You can actually see (and hear the pilots) when the targeting system achieves a lock. So there is something there that the systems (probably multiple) can detect and lock on to.
Thanks
Maybe that’s the (((space laser)))?
May the Schwartz be with you!
My guess is actually a US project that’s in test phase. DARPA, or whatever the current org is. Make something with sci-fi level capabilities, and at some point you put it out there to determine under what conditions it’s detectable.
The reason you don’t tell the local units, or even a statement, is that if you did that, you’re GUARANTEED for the info to come out sometime. There are way to many folks who’d have to know who just can’t keep info security. This way, you maintain plausible deniability in the official realm, find out what you want to find out, and let it get lost in the UFO chatter.
For all you Twitter haters this here is what makes twitter great.
I larfed.
My dedication.
I am listening to link in comment #3 so can’t muddle them.
Our man in Japan. Good work!
I get all choked up when I think of Chris Cornell.
RIP Charles Grodin.
Goddamnit.
“Shut the fuck up!”
Probably my favorite movie ever.
Oh, no! I haz a sad. 🙁 One of my favorite deadpan comedians. I loved him in Dave with Kevin Kline. Grodin’s stoneface up against Kline’s mania was my favorite part of the movie.
It Would Be So Nice if You Weren’t Here: greatest book title ever.
Didn’t realize he was that old.
He wasn’t “that old”, for goodness sakes
Ahem. Thought he was younger than that. My apologies.
CG rerun(s?) on Carson.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5UNbKzcpQ
Diane Cannon character screams hysterically upon seeing Warren Beatty character alive and well.
Charles Grodin character claps his hand over her mouth and stuffs her into a side room.
He calmly explains to the Julie Christie, the guest. “She just saw a mouse.”
Julie Christie character: “In here?”
Charles Grodin: “No, no. Outside in the garden…but she relives it.”
I loved that movie. Best Heaven Can Wait adaptation ever.
Great Muppet Caper, he is fantastic in that.
Grodin (as Nicky Holiday, when asked to pay for his share of a meal) – “I seem to have my wallet back in my room.”
Dianna Rigg (as Lady Holiday, his sister) – “You left your wallet back in college.”
MOVE in the news again
Philadelphia’s investigation into the treatment of MOVE victims’ remains will focus not only on the box discovered at the Medical Examiner’s Office last week, but also on a review of the city’s handling of all remains from the infamous 1985 bombing — including those transferred between two Ivy League universities, Mayor Jim Kenney said Tuesday.
The investigation will go “as wide and as deep as we can” and will also scrutinize policies and procedures in the Medical Examiner’s Office, Kenney said during a meeting with The Inquirer’s editorial board.
“This is … a 36-year-old incident that has been mishandled for a long time,” he said. “We would like to be the administration that gets to the bottom of everything that happened and put in place procedures and policies to keep it from happening again.”
They’re saying that they are not confident that procedures are in place to prevent the bombing of small children for basically littering and being dirty neighbors. Maybe, they’ll figure out a way to stop doing that, buddy.
PA Primary coverage
Going to the polls on Tuesday meant Pennsylvania’s registered voters had a chance to not only say who they wanted to represent them but also tell Gov. Tom Wolf how they thought he managed the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are three constitutional amendments and one state referendum on the ballot, as well as local referendums in certain locations. Because Pennsylvania is a closed primary state, where only registered Democrats and Republican voters can select candidates, individuals registered under another party can only cast their vote on the ballot issues.
But that was enough for Brad Wastler, a Libertarian in Cumberland County. He said he “unequivocally” voted Tuesday to express his disdain of Wolf’s COVID-19 response.
“I’m here because the Governor has exceeded his authority to an almost illegal level and that needs to be clamped down on,” the Hampden Township resident said. “People should have individual rights to choose how they want to behave regardless of what the circumstances are.”
My cynical take on the proposed amendments is that the equal rights one was held in reserve and placed on the ballot in an attempt to “balance” out the people who would come out to vote for the limitations on the Governor’s emergency powers.
Looking at the early results… the numbers are close to flipped for the two sets. Both amendments to rein in Wolf are 75-25 against, and the equal rights amendment is 85-15 for.
That’s kind of my point.
IOW, either those early results are heavily skewed to the Democrat demographic areas, or the folks who bothered to come out feel strongly both about discrimination based on race or ethnicity, and that the Executive should have essentially unilateral power to declare and perpetuate legal states of emergency.
Yikes.
People want a strongman.
I poked around. Some counties have reported mail-in ballot results but so far none of the ones I checked are reporting in-person or provisional ballot results yet.
He almost got it.
It went all the way to the PA supreme court, and was declared legal by them. Hence the need for amendments to the constitution of the commonwealth.
Crazy. Yet, they still paid out millions in settlements. Whole thing’s fucking crazy. Like a precursor to Waco.
Wrong thread. Still crazy.
Btw, I don’t care what court says it’s kosher. It ain’t.
I agree with you, but the PA supreme court doesn’t GAF what you or I think.
John Roberts too. Remember he signed off on it claiming that it’s OK if a state court rewrites a state election law, but not OK if a Federal court rewrites the state election law. Reference a similar case in Wisconsin where if I remember correctly a Federal court changed WI’s election law, but the Supremes slapped that Federal court.
Yikes.
Early results in the PA primary have the constitutional amendments to rein in Wolf failing. Big.
I’m not following because I have work meetings this evening, but any indication of the demographics of the areas counted so far?
It’s a pain in the ass to go through the state’s page with results.
Luzerne, Northhampton, Lycoming overwhelming “no” on the amendments reining in Wolf.
Allegheny overwhelmingly “Yes” on the amendments reining in Wolf.
Beaver, Fayette, Montgomery, Chester, Deleware no results reported.
All results reported so far are almost entirely (99% by my eyeballing) mail-in votes.
Basically, you have to click on the county on a map to see that county’s results. There you can see mail-in, provisional, in-person counts, but no percentage of precincts reporting.
On the roll-up for the whole state, you just see a total of yes/no votes.
My apologies, but I’m not sure what map you’re referencing. The link you have above has no map when I view it. Not your problem, I just haven’t gone looking for the results yet.
Sorry, shoulda linked it.
Thanks, but not your duty to do so. I did a search and found it in a few seconds. My apologies.
It’s OK. I still shoulda linked it.
These make no sense at all.
Right?
I mean, Luzerne I can see, because it has a Bethlehem and Allentown, but Lycoming? No sense at all.
From PennLive:
Very early returns so far show voters saying no to two proposed amendments to the Pa. constitution that would curb the governor’s powers in disasters. Important caveat: Presumably, the results tallied so far are those cast by mail and typically, the vast majority of those voting by mail are Democrats. It’ll be interesting to watch what happens as more ballots cast in person across the state are counted.
My poking around the state’s website shows almost all votes reported so far are mail-in.
Bethlehem spans Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Allentown is in Lehigh.
Luzerne includes Wilkes-Barre.
Lehigh has not reported any results so far.
Have a look at Warren County and McKean County and tell me if you think that makes any sense. The in person votes in those two counties, which I believe are demographically very similar, are nearly opposite.
You’re right about Bethlehem andAllentown, of course. my bad.
Gotta do it.
Those Warren and McKean results are weird.
I know they aren’t big counties. Are they done counting or are there more to count? Unfortunately, that state page doesn’t say.
PennLive quoted the Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth. About 800,000 mail-in ballots requested, and more than 550,000 returned.
It is encouraging to see those mail in results in Allegheny.
Now the the courts have assumed the right to rewrite election law, I don’t know if I trust anything coming out of that state.
That’s my thought. In Cali, the elections are a farce. Last year nationalized the trend
CO was right behind CA on that trend. We have had nothing but mail to all registered voters for more than a few years now. They call it the “gold standard” of elections.
“gold standard”
So it’s been abolished?
Believe it or not that’s the motto of LAX. “Gold standard, delivered” LOL. By gold standard, they mean dead last place among other airports.
… so then I was like, “This is MAGA country, libtard! Pwnd!”
So I strained my back moving my drift boat (still not finished, I suck) to set my table saw back up which really strained my back. Solid steel top table saws are heavy. Seems the tequila is loosening it up though. The fact I could lift half my boat made me feel good though. I thought I was using too much resin and cloth so I am judging it to be around 3-400 pounds by the out of shape old man lift measurement. I won’t know until done and I can trailer it to a scale. This is the first time I have built a boat and I have made numerous mistakes but whatever, if it floats and the oars make it move I will count it as a win.
Sorry about your back.
It will be fine but thanks. Probably more ache because I have not used it for four days.
Getting old doesn’t suck as much as the alternative.
Truth.
That’s pretty cool that you’re building a boat. Is it a kit, or plans, or an original design?
I built it based on some designs and lofting in this book. It has been so long I am not even sure what boat I based it off of. I think one of the double enders but I wanted a transom so it is not a true double ender. I do know I used fiberglass on my wood so I did not need near as many ribs as it haves. It also screwed me up on the lofting because you can’t get a 16 foot boat out of scarfing two 8′ sheets of plywood together because you well, scarfed them together. It is going to be 15′ and change. I was really into it and then I had to get a job to pay the bills and it slacked off and I have been slowly dabbling at it for way too may years now. Numerous new years resolutions were to finish it. I didn’t make one this year so maybe I will finish it.
Keep it up, maybe show off some progress in the Zoom!
It’s cool that he’s building in fiberglass. I’ve done a bunch of seat pans that way. It’s a huge mess, but it’s a lot of fun.
It is marine ply with fiberglass outside. The inside is just resin soaked mat. I have worked in shops with chopper guns and the works as well as boat yards doing 90′ experimental crazy epoxy stuff back in the late 80’s. If I touch epoxy now I break out in hives. I was told sensitized is the word for that. Thanks Chemical manufacturers! Fuck it, ya gotta die from something.
I grew up at the beach. As a small child, I’d watch guys build surfboards in their garages. Later I worked for Gene Winfield. He had a mold of a chopped, channeled and sectioned 49-51 Mercury body, with a platform you would walk out on and spray from the chopper gun. I did a lot of finishing and mounting of those bodies.
The smell of polyester resin makes me happy. Happy like the smell of two cycle dirt bikes. This boat I tried the vinyl ester resin. From what I read it is close to the strength of epoxy but way way cheaper. Not as cheap as polyester but close. I have done some west system projects back in the day and can’t even imagine the price of those now.
Titty Tuesday with the aesthetically pleasing distribution of adipose tissue.
https://archive.li/4nm8z
I like this gallery.
This is the only reporter even trying to make sense out of the “insurrection”, Julie Kelly. The same justice department that has quietly dropped the charges on BLM rioters for trying to set fire to inhabited buildings are now lobbying for no-bail holds on people who were told it was OK for them to be in the capitol. 4 months in solitary with no end in sight for most of them. It’s a page out of Stalin’s book.
The link……………
Fuck! Try this.
Oh ya, I have seen her stuff. Some of that is well a bit suspect. We have all seen the videos of the capitol hill marchers where they did fuck some police up. Not the dudes in jail (afaik), but others fought their way in.
There’s video of the “Shaman” dude being told that he’s OK to be there, just not to break anything or get violent. He did neither and he’s still in jail. For trespassing. Contrast that with the BLM/Antifa assholes.
Ya, I have seen that one and first saw it on Jan 7. My take is they came in from the S side or some shit if I remember right where the cops did let the marchers into the building. And ya the Shaman didn’t do shit other than be there but they walked past a dude who was bleeding from the head because he caught a rubber bullet to the eyebrow. Cops don’t shoot you in the face when they are letting you in. The front door there were some fights and barricades taken down as well as thrown. It was a right shit show. Those videos are out there too.
And I am not saying what happened on Jan 6 is anything like the year of Antifa riots, I am saying more happened than the “they let them in crowd” is saying. The two groups aren’t even comparable.
I know all of that, too. The feds are literally dropping charges on rioters from other riots who tried to burn people alive. It can’t even be argued that this is not a purely political prosecution and nobody seems to care. They did a swat raid on that couple from AK for fuck’s sake. They weren’t even in the building. BofA handed over info on anyone who was in DC at a hotel that day.
We are in agreement. It is a 100% a political prosecution. I am just not sure what I can do about it other than be pissed off. They need to get their own “Soros” to throw money at electing prosecutors who let their people off. Dude, we are third world. I have accepted that.
“…what I can do about it other than be pissed off.”
Welcome, friend!
Ron Paul’s guest on April 6.
I have been wondering if, at some time in the long term, it might leak out that the capitol police were instructed to let these “insurrectionists” into the capitol.
Charles Grodin was great in Heaven Can Wait.
I don’t think he was also in the porn version “Oh Heavens, Can’t Wait!”
He missed a fun time.
Using your handle “Chafed”, you would have been a natural to star in another porn classic based on a popular movie name, “Pulp Friction”.
Results look a bit better in PA. 43-57 yes/no for the amendments reining in Wolf. Still early.
It’s like stocks. Don’t even look until it’s done. If your preferences are voted down, just claim the election was rigged. Works every time.
Heh.
If only it were simple to hedge against losses in the governmental realm. I guess that’s why the real players buy lobbyists.
Hate the game, not the Player.
An NH state representative I met at a liberty event said he ran for representative as an act of self-defense.
I’m about to start ignoring politics out of self defense. I handle all kinds of stress with aplomb, but this last year or so has me doubting my ability to keep watching this trainwreck.
I’ve been there for years, dude.
Of course, everyone is happy to allow fire departments to rack up debt
Update from PennLive:
The results are tightening in the two ballot questions on curbing the governor’s powers in disaster declarations. The “no” voters are still leading but it’s closing: the no votes are at around 56%, while the yes votes are around 44%. The “no” vote was around 70% not long ago. It’s possible most of the early votes were mail-in ballots, which usually skew Democratic.
Wow, Allegheny County is bringing the heat now. There must have been a massive mail in campaign on the anti-Wolf side, and good returns in person.
Philly and MontCo are reporting. So far, as bad as expected in those two places.
Looking at those, their vote totals are dwarfed by Allegheny, so they must not be finished counting.
ah, it just updated, and Montgomery has higher than Allegheny now
MontCo has about 830K people and Allegheny County has about 1.2M people, so I wouldn’t be surprised if in the end there are more votes in Allegheny County than MontCo.
Interestingly, the MontCo totals are dwarfing Allegheny atm
Middle of the night vote dump coming.
mail-in ballots, which usually
skewget manufactured en masseby Democratic non-profitsFIFY
Interestingly, this time around there is an upper limit to such shenanigans.
The Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth stated that there were about 800,000 mail-in ballot requests and about 550,000 returned.
OMG this meeting sucks. 1 minutes of English, one question. 5 minutes of Japanese discussion, then 30 seconds of English answer to the question. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I’m at the point where I really really wish I had followed through on my efforts to learn Japanese the first time I went there in 2011. But it looked like a one-and-done at the time, then 8 years later, the need resurfaced again.
Ouch. Sorry.
From having been”that Gaijin”, or. the translator, I can pretty much tell you that the 5 minutes of discussion in Japanese is just figuring out or guessing what the basic question in English is about. Then they’re working out the best answer to that question.
I know it seems bizarre that one seemingly simple question can generate so much discussion – when I’ve been the guy helping the Japanese side work through the question and then the answer I often mentally step back and look at how this must look to the guys on the English speaking side of the conversation. I can see how strange it must feel.
I should have learned more than just cuss words and female anatomical part names when I went to China…but the itinerant fire brick layers thought it was funny to get the round eye drunk on “Píjiǔ” and teach him naughty words.
Different job, A Chinese engineer asked me a few weeks ago what the range and accuracy of my plumb bob was. I mean I realize China is on the other side of the world, but I think gravity works the same there.
AP article on the PA ballot questions
Republican lawmakers across the country have tried to roll back the emergency powers that governors wielded during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they ordered businesses shut, mask-wearing in public and students home for distance learning.
Pennsylvania’s Legislature is now taking its case to the ballot.
In the first vote of its kind since the coronavirus outbreak, voters statewide will decide twin constitutional amendments that would give lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations, to apply whether the emergency is another pandemic or natural disaster.
Good: Seeing at least some legislatures pushing back against executive overreach.
Bad: That it got this far before the thought occurred to them.
Worse: It still might fail.
Yeah, that would suck.
However, the vote is tightening up. 49.5% Yes to 50.5% No.
An update from PennLive says about 10,000 people voted in Perry County. I looked at Perry County’s results. Based on what I see on the state’s web page, that county is done counting. Close to 71% yes to 29% no for both amendments reining in Wolf. What does this mean? Not much because Perry County is small, but it’s the only county that I’m certain is done counting.
Even worse, it don’t much matter anymore. All across the country, the American people have proven they are willing to be subjugated. Ain’t no going back.
I dunno, I would like to think that there are enough ornery, recalcitrant bastards like us to resist this. Unfortunately, it is going to take the abject failure of the ‘top men’ to get us there, and that ain’t going to be good for anyone.
Least we know much better now who and where the bed-wetters are.
“Since lamination is out, the next best thing is a special case for your special card. Similar to buying a passport cover or an ID holder, vaccination cards may be used as a form of identification that you’ll want to protect.”
https://nypost.com/article/where-to-buy-vaccine-card-holders/
I imagine there are some third party “replacement services” that can help if your “card” gets “damaged.”
GFY
That’s as far as I got.
I would be sooo tempted to get into that racket.
I would be making “vaccine passport cases” which are integrated into a “handy” armband to have it “ready for any purpose”. These would all be red with a white circle over the pouch and a red cross on the white circle. Through some manufacturing error the red cross would have been printed in black.
Jeff Greenfield on D. C. statehood:
“Indeed, when I asked one strong advocates of statehood if there were serious constitutional roadblocks, he said, ‘Yes—but don’t tell anybody!'”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/16/washington-dc-statehood-guide-constitutional-workaround-political-obstacles-488349
When you steal something, you don’t care much what happens to it. Fucking burn it, it was free anyway.
GFY.
That’s as far as I got.
In local news: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QiEpSIEevm8 Very long but funny.
That’s adorable.
Forgot to add: no masks that I could see.
Approximately 49.9% yes to 50.1% no on the PA amendments reining in Wolf.
Yes votes on the amendments reining in Wolf are now winning.
Beaver County still not reporting (among others)
Mustn’t…joke about…serious situation and…names of political subdivisions….
http://www.villageofintercourse.com/
There’s a township in Beaver County called Big Beaver Township. There used to be a restaurant in that township owned by a lady named Sadie.
Sadie’s Big Beaver Restaurant
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lizhenry/4964536520
Actually it might be Big Beaver Borough
Don’t feel too bad, I have been rooting for a Washington State University / University of South Carolina football match-up since I was 13.
Oregon State, rather.
Somebody must have clogged a toilet in Beaver, Butler, and Westmoreland counties.
I’d expect Beaver, Butler, and Westmoreland counties (none reporting yet) to be similar to Washington County on the questions. They are typically “red counties” surrounding the core blue of Allegheny.
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“It’s happening!”
But Amendment 2 is slipping behind and falls in the no column now!
Wait, back up to Yes!
Netflix’s Love, Death, and Robots has new episodes.
I haven’t made it all the way through the first episode “Customer Service”, and I’m LMAO.
The [spoiler redacted] is hysterical.
Oh yeah, the animation is top notch.
Word from PennLive: Some counties are stopping counting for the night and will resume tomorrow.
You have *got* to be kidding.
Cumberland County says it will continue canvassing the mail-in ballots tomorrow morning at 9. The county said all precincts have reported in; 30 of the 118 precincts of voted mail and absentee ballots have been counted. The county issued nearly 16,000 mail and absentee ballots. Ron Southwick
I misinterpreted their post about Lebanon County.
I saw something about Philly’s counting going into tomorrow, but I can’t find it.
So maybe just Cumberland and Philly.
Philly’s count is way behind, according to NBC, but rest assured the progressive ahole, Krasner, is winning by 2 to 1. The voters apparently want to stew in the increased violence for another four years.
Who’s his opponent, Charles Manson’s corpse?
Fine by me. I just don’t want the locals complaining about what they voted for.
Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues
He can’t win for losing
haha of course.
Because that is what we do now. FFS
What I do now is go to bed. These people are ridiculous. They have one job.
It’s time
Jesus shit, are they trying that shit again? And, more importantly, will they get away with it?
Well, you know, they might just have some faulty plumbing that needs immediate repair.
Numbers in York County, Wolf’s home, just flipped. The yes votes are winning on the two amendments to rein him in.
That is good news. Now if we can get the other forty-something percent to get a good grip on both ears and pull their heads out of their asses.
https://archive.li/1AfVC/78797cd5b69d381a135d28fc119c7d31a67d86e1.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/QfsBC/b4b39c4697eb3a3ce17415a1dfa734357adb6995.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/i0L23/2bc0bb8f9b5b6028f54964be885af8c893bc7c1b.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/Xx5Gt/a54679e3d6b442cd8c7eed4e616f7617e6d1d005.jpg
NSFW.
All four are good.
But some last-minute ballots put this one in the lead:
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/89/98/d5/8998d58304db6b1aa1f06c82428b8bfa–os-simpsons-cartoon-pics.jpg
Heh.
Oh yes. Q brought his A game tonight.
Approximately 54% yes to 46% no on the amendments to rein in Wolf.
According to PennLive, all Harrisburg precincts results are in. Harrisburg is in Dauphin County. I don’t know if all Dauphin County precincts (i.e. those not in Harrisburg) have reported, but the state’s website says the amendments to rein in Wolf are winning in Dauphin County 51% to 49% at the time I type this comment.
Lebanon County, the place where defiance against Wolf started, is currently at 70/30 Yes/No.
At the time I write this, Chester is the only Philly area county where the amendments to rein in Wolf are winning.
Berks has still not reported anything, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see the amendments to rein in Wolf win there.
She ain’t wrong…
Bite the hand that you fed.
https://www.aier.org/article/will-2020-prove-to-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-modernity/
Modernity is impossible without widespread peaceful engagement with strangers.
Looks like my “interacting with foreigners is supposed to make us libertarian” crack wasn’t a strawman.
The reaction to Covid-19 is powerful evidence that our primitive instincts remain alive and ready to reestablish their dominance over the happy accident that is the culture, and resulting institutions, of liberalism. The hysterical fear that Covid stirred in so many people – including in many who are highly educated, of a scientific mindset, and, until Covid, of a liberal bent – and the sheepishness with which people followed the “leaders” who promised protection from Covid prompts Dan Hannan to worry that 2020-2021 is the beginning of the end of modernity.
Chances are high that he’s correct. And if he is, civilization as we know it will end.
Don Boudreaux and Dan Hannan bring out the hope. 🙁
https://youtu.be/ixth_kYzF9c
Went to a Brexit talk by Hannan not too long ago, between the vote and implementation. He sounded much more sanguine then — cheerful about the prospect of losing his position as MEP.
PennLive just put up a good page for tracking primary results.
The amendments reining in Wolf are winning, 54-46, but when I go into the county results on the PennLive page, I don’t like what I see.
I’m off to bed. I’ll check in in the morning.
Oh, their result lags the state page a bit. PennLive shows 52/47, but the state page shows 54/46.
Covexit?
As a total casual on that, I can tell you that the wording on those measures are not going to be accurately interpreted by the average person. My proposal: Should we tell the governor to GFHWARCS? Yea or Nay?
GFHWARCS == Go F**k Himself …? What’s the rest?
I’m guessing it’s “With a Rusty Chain Saw.”
Yep, that works
Yes.
The Wolf administration got to write the amendment questions.
First amendment ballot question.
Second amendment ballot question.
I’ll let you be the judge of how the Wolf administration phrased the questions.
“ Amendment – 3 – Prohibit Equal Rights Denial – Ballot Issue”
I’m not sure if I don’t disagree with that.
Any different from what we had last November? I was ready to start dancing to Hava Nagila then but also had to wake up early the next morning. After that the junta was already leading.
I remember listening to a radio interview in September where a Democrat strategist predicted a “red mirage”, where Trump would be leading until the middle of the night, but the Dems would be safely ahead by morning. Amazing how they knew in advance that would happen.
And our political leaders are not necessarily out on a political limb; increasingly the American public does not understand or fully support free speech either. A 2020 Gallup / Knight Foundation poll found that 56 percent of Americans believe in the right to freely express views on social media—meaning 44 percent of those polled…don’t. This is a sharp decline from only one year prior.
I do find the recent revelation among many libertarians about the culture war rather fascinating. After decades of letting the left win the culture war they are shocked at the existence of a leftist culture! What did they expect? Did they assume that anyone who rejects small-town midwestern WASP culture is an automatic libertarian since they don’t like socons? Sure seems like they did.
https://fee.org/articles/prince-harry-allow-me-to-explain-the-first-amendment/
Forgot link.
Another annoying thing is the willful blindness of many “liberals” and “libertarians” to see the threats we are facing. The Chicoms were very open about how trade with the west would help them with their totalitarian and genocidal goals. The Davos set has been spewing statist shit for decades. The woke, watermelon and lockdowner set have been percolating for decades and were very open about their illiberal and anti-capitalist ideas. It was assumed they wouldn’t actually implement them since History and Progress are on our side and there is no way our elites would actually embrace truly terrible policies, right?
“It was assumed they wouldn’t actually implement them since History and Progress are on our side and there is no way our elites would actually embrace truly terrible policies, right?”
I’ve never assumed any such thing. On the contrary I’ve always assumed that eventually, much like your link says above, humanity would return to its roots of barbarism, penury, misery and death. Liberty is the exception not the rule.
RAH got it:
Bad luck is on the rise (see, Chile).
I didn’t know that quote was from Heinlen. The things I learn here.
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/may/june-2020/why-im-optimistic-about-freedom-progress
Tell that to CATO
So I’m happy to say: yes, libertarians have been running the world, and we’re happy to take credit for that progress
….
But we’ve written a few times about a libertarian center in American politics. You might say it includes people who would call themselves fiscally conservative and socially tolerant, or people who would say that taxes are too high and who don’t care who you marry or what you smoke. I think that this really is the center of American politics, and I think such beliefs are even a plurality in American politics.
Some good news
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/05/oregon-health-authority-director-patrick-allen-appears-to-have-lost-reelection-to-sherwood-school-board.html
Government employees and officials shouldn’t be allowed to hold any elected office as a conflict of interest.
I agree but the interesting reason is why he lost. It appears not all of Oregon will rollover and play dead.
The fat fuck apparently felt no qualms about running his mouth about his constituents on social media
https://twitter.com/khtb677/status/1394868509453164544?s=21
In addition to his anti-parent dictates of him and his boss for the past year
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/reflections-on-the-upheaval-in-france?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjMwOTAxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNjUxMjU1MSwiXyI6IjFtZkVLIiwiaWF0IjoxNjIxMjY3ODE2LCJleHAiOjE2MjEyNzE0MTYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zMzA3OTYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.F38_VDoY3jOejW6ddVJ-zfR2pbZoTap9fnS9Q7_eqHI
But perhaps my favorite example was that of (retired) General Jérôme Pellistrandi, chief editor at the magazine Revue Défense Nationale, who prefaced his otherwise sharp criticism of the outspoken soldiers with: “Everyone agrees that society is breaking up, it’s a known fact, but…”
What was going on here? Since when do government officials reflexively agree that their country is falling apart? Well, it turns out that a rather shockingly high proportion of the French public seems to agree with the sentiments the letters expressed. The following chart, created from the results of a Harris Interactive opinion poll taken April 29, after the first letter, is in my view one of the most striking statements about the political mood in a Western country that you’re likely to see for some time:
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.But that’s not even the whole of it – an amazing 74% of poll respondents said they thought French society was collapsing, while no less than 45% agreed that France “will soon have a civil war.”
Jesus Christ. Then again the Fifth Republic has been getting long in the tooth and the previoua four republics were ended by military coups or foreign invasion.
Also I thought Muslim immigration destroying France was some racist nutjob conspiracy?
that looks terrible, but I’d need quite a bit more info on the 1,600 people they polled and the questions they asked.
Pffffft. Like that will support the narrative.
I mean they are a highly representative sample of National Front members.
Possible chicken and the egg problem with the immigrants. Are they not assimilating because they refuse or because, in practical terms, it’s prohibited? All those social programs don’t foster assimilation.
Getting maskie with Massie
https://mobile.twitter.com/repthomasmassie/status/1394825639597838336?s=21
After that video that SP posted, Massie has jumped Rand Paul for number one in the two congressmen that I like list.
Aw heck, sorry. Fati-guèd.
It was you who got me hooked on the local YT news channel I linked.
Well, so Mr. Mojeaux’s Guy™ just replaced the crunched doors on my Zippicar and while it doesn’t look sparkling brand new, because the u-pick didn’t have pristine doors, it’s pretty effing nice. He would not take a penny over what my husband already forced upon him. So I get to keep my Zippicar!
Huzzah!
Hooray!
Hurray! Good news!
And just to let you know, as a motorhead and terminal shade-tree mechanic – had he been able to source a set of extra-pristine, matching doors the Auto Gods would have visited you with a dent and a few nasty scratches before the next moon. You got the best possible outcome.
Yay!
Excellent news!
O, Frabjous Day! (Should yesterday or today be the official observance of the holiday?)
Glad to hear! Awful about the other news from yesterday though.
BLM re-establishes its bona fides with the American Left, states it stands with Hamas:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/black-lives-matter-hamas-terrorists-israeli
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| Bad luck is on the rise (see, Chile).
That is a bummer about Chile (and a great Heinlein quote). As we know if they change the constitution it will, maybe slowly, but definitely surely.
In the late 90’s I spent about 15 days in Chile. Flew in from San Jose, Costa Rica to Santiago on a cheap Central American airline that stopped in every capital along the way. When I got the boarding pass at the SJ airport I looked at it and said in Spanish, “no, I wanted a non smoking seat.” The ticket woman said, “lo siento, es todo fumante.” And it was indeed all smoking. You couldn’t see the front seats from the haze. I got seated between a revolving cast that ended up being old lady puffing away and then two young Chileans that got on in Ecuador. After a bit I got talking to the Chileans, a young guy and his hot girlfriend that were out in the jungle there and we got along fabulously. The drink cart never stopped serving complimentary booze and even though I didn’t really smoke cigarettes, I eventually was bumming them off the couple. When we were getting close to landing they asked me where I was staying and I told them the cheap hotel district in Santiago, which I didn’t even have a reservation. Seeing as we ended up landing at 3 am they wouldn’t hear of me wandering around that area at night and told me to come with them to his dad’s house in Santiago. They lived in Valparaiso and were going to stay with him for a night or two on the way back home. In the airport going to get a cab we met a Swiss couple that asked for directions to the city centre. The Chileans said, “fuck it we already have one gringo, we may as have two more” and they joined us going back to his father’s place. We showed up at almost 4am, crashed for a few hours and ended up getting served eggs and homemade white wine by his dad in the morning. I went to a hotel that day and met them later to eat beef hearts and drink wine in Santiago and then visited them for a couple days in Valparaiso and had a great time drinking at bars and their little house. It was a solid intro to the country. I then caught buses and hitched up to the Bolivian border over the next ten days. Fun times. Me gusta mucho de Chile.
Awesome story! I was in Santiago and Valparaiso 5-6 years ago on a lecture tour and absolutely loved the place and the people (as well as the food and wine). So depressing to see where it is headed, I always planned on returning some day.
Right on C! I hope you end up getting to do your África safari that you had to cancel. If you ever get back to Santiago (if you didn’t go there last time) check out the central seafood market. You can eat super fresh seafood for very cheap in the stalls next to the fishmongers. Because of the Humbolt current they get amazing stuff there, cold water species, muy fresca. The Chilenos are a cool bunch, kind of like modest Argentinians. I’d love to get to the south of the country, I only went north from Valparaiso through the Atacama, which was amazing, but I do like the type of geography that is more alpine, which is the south. One day I’d love to go all the way to Torres del Paine.
That’s a good story.
Massie: “Best $500 I ever spent” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-members-revolt-house-mask-rules-new-cdc-guidance And half women!
It’s raining, but it’s Wednesday, grab some Covfefe and say Hi!
http://looneytunescaps.blogspot.com/2014/11/steal-wool.html?m=0
Damn: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DmxFguCnyuQ/U_r-GSq5OAI/AAAAAAAAJ3A/75ntaINE0AE/s1600/Steal%2BWool%2B(7).jpg
Starting at 0800? Slackers.
Weather nice there in Greenland?
04:40 for me. Slacker…….
Ralph, Sam, Time Clock. 🙂
Oh, duh. I am up too late, QED.
I don’t click those links, but then I realized, still slackers…
Well, why don’t you? No Preview function?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d8o3ALIMOws
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Good tune. My auto play segued into Zero 7. Not bad either.
Huh. Never heard that before. Not bad at all.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/six-months-2020-election-fulton-county-georgia-still-missing-legally-required-chain-custody-documentation-nearly-19000-ballots/
Shenanigans.
Nonsense. Our fortified elections ooze nothing but integrity and equity.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/pennsylvania/email-by-gov-wolf-about-juneteenth-prompts-demand-for-apology-from-pa-state-troopers-association/article_68841d64-b81e-11eb-ad5a-032dda0d2c77.html
Mawnin’!
Didn’t know anything about him before, but I get the idea.
This emoji will need servicing soon: ?
Mornin’
Ciao.
Am told it’s out of blinker fluid and can’t wink anymore.
I got my Tax return, in less than a week!, not very much, which is good, but enough to pay my Home insurance for the rest of the year, so that’s cool,
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That’s great – and quick! We owed the Feds but are hoping to get our bucks back from DeWine in time to cover our anniversary weekend getaway.
Good morning, Yu and TO’G!
Let me put it another way. We got fisted by the Feds, but we got a gentle reach around from the State.
Mornin’ Glibred! Hope you get your stolen money back in time.
Peter? Paul? Who can tell anymore?
Especially apt, since per TT, most of that was because more of his SS was taxable. 🙁 You can’t even get back what you were forced to put in without getting reamed again.
Oh – and good morning, TARDy!
Bonjour, chère GT!
Bonjour, mon amie! C’est une belle matinee!
(Don’t know how to do those ax-ont thingys.)
I’m sorry, I don’t speak foreign.
/borrowed british joke.
I took two years of French in high school, and in all that time we never got to past tense. When I got to college and enrolled in a “one-semester review of basic French,” it stopped being review almost immediately.
I took something like six years of spanish in elementary/middle/high school.
I was unable to ask a monolingual laudromat attendant if I’d left my phone there the night before. Fortunately there was a bilingual customer who could translate.
The public school spanish education was worthless.
(I actually left the phone at the restaurant where I’d had lunch and got it back from them)
When I was in eighth grade, Dayton started a part-time magnet school program in foreign languages, but I would have had to take it for two years in order to get credit and/or skip the first year of whatever language I studied. I ended up going to the office skills magnet program instead, mainly to learn to type. I also got pretty durn quick on a ten-key adding machine.
I guess that program turned out to be more pertinent to my future “career.”
I took five years of “Conversational French” and by the end I could barely manage a doughboy parlez vous! My teachers liked me so they let me pass under the radar with C’s. This was even after an exchange program to Quebec. Alright it wasn’t that bad but by the the time I was in 12th grade my fluency was basically “Please to do the needful, now.” Don’t know how I passed that verbal exam because French was the last class of the day and some people did some things over the lunch break.
I cutty/pasty from Google Translate.
Ç’est une belle matinée.
Morning, Glibs.
Been at work since 5:30.
Early morning migrations are the best. /sarc
Maybe they’ll let me leave early.
Goodness, I would hope you’d get some comp time!
Good morning, U.
Probably, but It’ll have to be during the same pay period. As long as my time card adds up to the appropriate number of hours, the state is happy.
I left early yesterday. I didn’t like my attitude, so I sent myself home. Then I got stuck in traffic because people are stupid.
Google says, “You’re route is effed because idiots cause accidents. You’re still on the fastest route….”
Only one road home?
No, there are plenty. The rest were worse. Blue staters go home!
We get the Tourists again, commute is getting worse, blech,
I once had to support a customer’s upgrade. It went sideways and I was up until 5 AM.
Been there, done that. In my case it was a datacenter move.
This part of the day ’round these parts reminds me of early mornings on the first day of a Reserve weekend drill. People showing up, either getting something out of the way or just hanging out until morning formation (the entire unit goes out and forms up in ranks, um, I guess civilians would call them lines). Just kind of a “checking in” period.
Exactly, I guess that’s why I don’t mind running around taking everyone’s temp each morning at the office, even though I’m an introvert who’s not really into socializing with my co-workers. Luckily, I don’t have to do it at the door before they’re allowed in – I usually wait about 15 minutes to let everyone clock in, check their voice mail, check their e-mail, etc. After I write down their magic number, most of them just rattle off “Yes, no, no, no” as their canned responses to the magic questions. Then we chat about what’s going on that might actually mean something and wish each other a good day.
Good…what time of day is it where you are?…Teji!
“What… Is your favorite colour?”
“Green… No blue!”
“Aahhgg!!!”
You just like the anal-swabbing part. Admit it, Red!
Overnight counting continued.
Official state results page has both questions to rein in Wolf at roughly 54% yes, 46% no. The state results page don’t say how many precincts reported. PennLive does, and says about 70% of precincts have reported. I dug into the county level results on the PennLive page.
Huh. I thought Perry County was done counting based on earlier reports. PennLive’s county level results say they are not.
I’m concerned about some of the Philly area counties. Except for MontCo, they’re at low levels of reporting based on PennLive’s page. Philly itself is at about 73% reported, and both amendments failed in Philly as I expected.
PennLive says Allegheny County is at 98.94% reported, and both amendments failed in Allegheny County.
We’ll see what today’s counting brings.
Philly’s waiting to see how many surprise votes they need to add to the pot.
Krasner won the DA primary in Philly. Philly will continue to burn.
Off to the gym.
Meh.
Same as it ever was.
Hey, easy now! They are simply fortifying the election so that the outcome represents the true Will of the People.
Why do you hate democracy?
Fortifying the election helps build strong Democracy 12 ways!
Good (early!) morning, HESS! (I never know whether to call you HE or HS, so I’m going with one letter for each syllable.)
Why do you hate democracy?
Because it’s pig ignorant mob rule.
Oh, sorry. That was a sarc-rhetorical question, wasn’t it? my bad.
Looking at the state website, I noticed Allegheny County is listing the ballot questions in the order of 3,4,1,2. I wonder why?
The Morels are growing! Incubating away, they are very difficult to grow. We also have them wild here, everywhere, kind of neat,
When will they be on the market?
Ill let you know, soon
okay.
Hurray!
suh’ fam
Buongiorno!
Good morning, homey! It looks as if it’s going to be a lovely day today, at least weatherwise, in the Miami Valley!
But you’re going to have to sleep through it, aren’t you? 🙁
It’s supposed to hit 86 here in the Hudson valley.
Ugh 🙁
Ick poo. 🙁 And you don’t have central A/C, do you? Hope you have a good window unit or a good collection of fans! ::decides to skip painfully obvious “fan club” joke::
I have four fans going. In order to get cross-ventillation I need to coax the air from the back room through the kitchen and living room and out the front room. Elsewise, the air somewhere gets stagnant.
I still have a single room AC unit for the bedroom, but I don’t want to put that in yet.
I have a space heater on in my tiny office because it’s 68.5 degrees. Not summer in here.
That’s too hot, need to bring it down to something more comfortable.
I guess I could just strip down to my undies. That should help with the social distancing too.
Yes ma’am. Its finally summer.
Ollo!
::staggers past early bird Glib roomies, pulls milk from fridge, drinks directly out of carton, staggers back past roomies and goes back to bed::
Hey! You didn’t even put the milk carton away.
Or close it!
Ewwww! I don’t want to pour that on my cereal now! (nauseatedface)
(TIL MS Office keyboard emoji shortcuts don’t work in Glib comments.)
Hope I can remember whatever I was going to ask or tell her, besides general wellbeing inquiries.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/people-are-now-eating-cicadas-found-in-their-backyard-and-you-can-too
*racks AK*
Fuck off.
Oh yeah, that cookie or whatever mix I didn’t buy from Grocery Outlet was Chirps.
We really are going be (eating) Soylent Green if we live long enough, aren’t we.
Hey Sean, aim that thing my way.
We’ll be that lucky?
“Land Shrimp”
Morning all. Do any of you
nerdsreally cool tech savvy guys/gals know if you can disable a key on a keyboard. The left hand CTRL key on my laptop is very sensitive and my fat ass hand keeps unintentionally hitting it when I type and strange things happen, new windows pop up, I go into a dark mode, things shut off, etc. All my googling comes up with are ways to change the F keys or the keyboard language.Well, the easy way is to pop the key off the keyboard.
Wedge staples under it. That’s what works on my keyboard at work.
*turns keyboard upside down and shakes*
Last time I did that I lost a half dozen keys. Still never re-instored because they are the useless ones from the tippy-top row.
I think you are on to something , a dab of CA glue should hold it up.
Easy – “Hey Buddy! Stop doing that!”
Go into the BIOS?
Hey Festy!
Mornin’ Miss!
Sorry you’ve been feelin’ mighty low.
Still trying to find which of Bugs Bunny’s enemies says that. Overalls-wearing thug?
This guy, Bugs calls him “Hercules”
Thank you both! I knew it wasn’t boxing or wrestling.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE
The construction worker that wants to build a high-rise over Bugs’ hole – https://youtu.be/kzoN-CvH0qU
Mega Millions is up to $515m. Just sayin.
Like this election, Mega Millions has been fortified!
At least Powerball isn’t that high too… yet. That was expensive.
NJ continues to suck.
“Ban it.” seems to be their response to everything except illegal immigrants.
“Talk amongst yourselves.”
Phew… now that I have permission!
Any one seen this shit yet?
https://reason.com/2021/05/18/chicago-police-search-warrants-anjanette-young-wrong-door-raid-naked-womans-home/
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998110636/new-york-says-probe-into-trump-organization-now-a-criminal-inquiry
Oh look, this show has dogs AND ponies!