Everyone asked to watch a movie yesterday, and they all picked Charlotte’s Web. Easily confused with Babe, its a touching tale of a pig my kids enjoyed but I am such a curmudgeon I slow cooked a boston butt and made some sandwiches. This coffee rub by the way is legit.
Now for some links!
Mexican soldiers assault…an amusement park under construction?
Mexico sent in 250 National Guard troops and 60 police officers Monday to seize land next to the pre-Hispanic ruins of Teotihuacán where authorities have said bulldozers were destroying outlying parts of the archeological site.
Mexican archaeological officials reported last week that they had been trying since March to halt the private construction project, but work continued on what local media says were plans to build some sort of amusement park.
Thousands of Brazilian protesters took the streets to protest a fascist politician that allowed them to demonstrate their displeasure at his reaction to COVID. He’s so awful he makes the guy in Colombia look like a um…something.
It can’t be all bad, they get to host Copa America.
This was a president that promised to listen to the scientists.
In a letter to State Department leadership obtained by NBC News, the staffers say that in recent months, the government has continued to “reject scientific evidence regarding the injuries and treatment needs” and to “invalidate our injuries and experiences,” alleging that military and intelligence officials injured by the same unexplained phenomenon are being treated more seriously
Guatemala slated to receive $7 billion in foreign aid from President Harris. Maybe she won’t show up for this too.
Here’s some tunes. Have a good afternoon.
I contemplated not Firsting given the late links. But you people need me.
“The protests erupted when Duque proposed a wide-ranging tax increase, but continued even after he backed off, transformed into a general outcry against growing poverty and inequality in a country where the unemployment rate doubled over the past year of pandemic.
The government and the National Strike Committee have not been able to establish the conditions to open negotiations. The protesters are demanding the government guarantee the right to social protest while Duque’s administration won’t budge from its demand that road blockades that have created widespread shortages be lifted.”
Protesting taxes? Good.
Protesting inequality? Bad.
Right to protest? Good.
Blocking roads? Bad.
Growing poverty sounds like growing equality. So they can’t be protesting growing inequality.
Thanks for the Jet City Woman.
Ditto. Longtime fan of Queenrÿche. Well up to Promised Land.
The best thing the U.S. can do for Mexico and SA is legalize drugs.
cue Salon thumbsucker as to why, ackshully, that would be bad.
Also… everyone’s head explodes at the NY Post.
The second best thing would be to have, and enforce, a sane immigration policy. Acting as the blow-off valve and as a source of funding for corruptocrat/oppressive regimes isn’t doing the people who live there any favors in the long run.
Let’s say all drugs are suddenly and unambiguously legalized. What happens next?
Who manufactures and distributes the drugs?
What’s the effect on overdoses and deaths?
Will the drug war police state be shut down and civil rights and the Constitution be restored? Or will the drug Gestapo find other ways to keep themselves paid and amused?
I don’t know, but lets’ find out.
Happy Pride Month! Celebrate Diversity! That’s an order!
*makes vaguely supportive noise in monotone*
Reads the landing page for the DOT and the FAA…it sure reads like an order to me.
I’ll write you a note for you to give your boss.
My boss isn’t your type unless Pete peeks your interests.
I meant a note identifying you as an “ally.” I fear it will really come to that.
Aw thanks Tonio! Since I am the “I ain’t talking about anything other than work” type of person while at work, I should be okay…
Please write that letter now
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2021/06/01/outrage-erupts-at-google-after-a-transgender-employee-is-forced-to-wear-a-badge-sporting-their-dead-name-n389912
OFFS.
So the guy is an employee of a subcontractor G4S and not Google, why would he be eligible to participate in a Google employee group? Why does a security guard need to have Teams access? If his “dead” name is so troubling, why doesn’t he legally change it?
In a just world, he should be packing up the contents of his locker and being escorted off the property immediately. Grow the fuck up.
I don’t get the dead name thing. People can legally change their name to pretty much anything they want. It becomes their new handle and everyone has to call them that. If Glenn declares he’s now Glenda, his legal name is still Glenn until he files some simple paperwork.
Businesses pretty much have to stick to
using peoples’ legal names.
Just look at this hate filled post and shun him.
Even the kids’ building blocks are turning gay.
My social media is awash in gratuitous postings from my fellow homos, and our virtue-signalling straight allies.
No need to worry about that here!
Where is the alternative “nobody is awesome, and you should feel bad about it” design?
That is the MEGA brand blocks.
You mean, MAGA brand blocks?
If MEGA was brave, they would put out a MAGA brand and watch the wailing commence.
Put some cheap gold paint on their regular blocks, and its a done deal.
Maga blocks
What made them gay Tonio? I also was once told that male gays were born that way, while lesbians were made by guys that had no clue what they were doing to women in the sack….. BTW I identify as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, so I am struggling with this Logo stuff…
There are some signalers in the LP Mises Caucus as well. I thought the point of the Mises Caucus was to get away from the virtue signaling woketarians.
Is Hitler awesome too?
He _was_ a vegetarian, so…
All COVID variants are equal!
Fuck that noise. Activists can’t have my month.
I will just note that I’m taking the high-ground here, and that my response would be otherwise if that had been said by certain other people on here.
I want to be clear. My issue is with the proliferation of “X Issue Month”s and their use by rabid activists to shovel their messaging at people.
Especially when activists are trying to coerce speech, or merely bully people.
Expledtive laten outbursts are often imprecise.
I misread your post. I was kidding and making a snarky dig at my friend OBE.
Was that what that *woosh* sound was? I thought it was OMWC passing gas
Just so long as no one is accidentally mad.
Fuck all of you! I’m mad, and it’s an accident!
I’m sorry I backed my car into your can.
But you should have taken it in from the street earlier today.
I’m with you on that, Uncivil. If there’s anything useful about a Celebrate How I Like To Have Fun With My Weewee Month, I’m too obtuse to see it.
That goes for every other themed month as well.
I read that as “Activists can’t have my mouth”.
They can’t have that either.
That was my original reading, too. And it would have been a quite powerful statement in the sense of “activists can’t compel me to speak on their behalf.”
I’m not fast enough to come up with that until after I hit post. My wits are slow.
I guess it could go either way, so to speak.
The one month a year everyone superimposes a rainbow flag over their social media accounts, including LinkedIn. Which makes it really difficult to quickly identify who or what is messaging you because the whole damn world has a rainbow flag avatar.
I fly a rainbow flag with skull and crossbones because who doesn’t love a gay pirate?
Swordfights in snappy outfits!
Something something booty.
It’s not gay if you’re under way.
So you were in the Navy too?
I think this captures what you are speaking of.
https://youtu.be/49XX208WWqQ?t=101
I was thinking this.
That may be the gayest allegedly non-gay movie ever.
“They’re het, but they’re pirates. They’ll fuck anything warm and concave.”
“Oh, rip the shirt, how cliché!”
“I want to sing and dance
I want to sing and dance
I want to be a pirate in The Pirates of Penzance
Wear me silver buckle slippers
And me tight shiny pants
I want to sing and dance”
…Ray Stevens
I don’t.
I don’t.
I also don’t have social media accounts.
I still have a LinkedIn account, but I haven’t done much with it lately. My increasing neglect of that forum began when I hit the point with my business where I have all the work I can handle from people seeking me out rather than the other way around, and increased when it ceased being a professional networking site and became “Facebook for people with IQs over seventy.”
I forgot. I do have a Minds account. But that’s just because I own stock in the company.
Having not been on FB in years, I may be speaking out of ignorance on this, but LinkedIn takes the cake for self-aggrandizing, pointless navel gazing, and tone deaf virtue signaling.
Me neither.
“And the president vowed to use the power of federal contracts to invest $100 billion over five years into minority-owned businesses by increasing the share of federal contracts awarded to those businesses by 50% by 2026.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9640253/Biden-plans-build-black-wealth-Tulsa-event.html
Still no idea how that’s legal.
FYTW?
I suspect that is his counter after a judge said he couldn’t hand out covid monies to select people, so onto the next best thing he can think of.
Oh, they have been giving preferential treatment to “small, minority, and women-owned” businesses since at least the eighties. During my brief employment as a defense contractor, we would see very small, minority-owned businesses advertising in the trade papers that they were willing to “partner with” other firms. How that worked is the SMWO firms, which were often really small and didn’t have much expertise, would be listed prominently in the proposal, but after an award would be relegated to shuffling ancillary paperwork or completing a very small part of the contract. That was one of the less obscene features of government contracting.
That I know, that I know. Why do you think if my job goes private and isn’t sold out to Raytheon/L4/Lockheed (okay we all know that is going to happen) my wife and son will be starting up the company in their name so I can bid on the contract. Her a woman with TBI and he a half little Mexican. It is the perfect plan! Wait, I am missing some social points in there aren’t I? Oh his girlfriend is ‘bi-sexual’
Wait, I am missing some social points in there aren’t I?
Cut your dick off, and you’ll be golden.
Can’t you just identify as a black woman?
I was thinking a tattoo of a vagina on my butthole and lay claim to a whole new subspecies of human beings.
Rule 34 says there is probably some side business that you can hustle up with that plan.
“his girlfriend is ‘bi-sexual’”
That never ends well for the straight boy.
That’s not been my experience at all. Even when they’re legitimately bisexual and not just inhabiting the role of a freer, more interesting person, the women seems to decide that it’s a better life to remain with a guy than a woman or a throuple.
I’ve seen both. Thing is, some folks think “bisexual” is a quantum state. It’s not. Human behavior is more complex than that. I had a friend in college who professed to be bisexual, but she described herself as “80% into guys, 20% into girls.” She ended up marrying a guy and has been happily married to him for thirty years now. I’ve known folks who went the other way, too.
It’s a spectrum, I think, rather than a list of strict categories.
“Even when they’re legitimately bisexual and not just inhabiting the role of a freer, more interesting person…”
Poetry, Not Adahn. Pure poetry.
I think *for women* it is more of a spectrum. I think it has always been more socially acceptable for women to *ahem* take comfort in each other, or seen as something rather innocuous.
I’ve made sure my kids are enrolled as PI not white so they can benefit from all the racism.
“Portland teacher says colleagues who don’t want to teach critical race theory are like PEDOPHILES and warns they’ll be fired if they keep up ‘old views of colonialism'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9640189/Oregon-elementary-school-teacher-warns-colleagues-theyll-FIRED-refused-teach-CRT.html
CWAA
Except they don’t fire the the teachers that like to groom their young students…failed comparison.
Idiot DailyFail. It’s a middle school in Beaverton School District with a Portland mailing address because postal and school district boundaries don’t line up. No one would describe it as a Portland school nor is there a Beaverton, Portland.
I once dated a girl from Beaverton. Was definitely as advertised.
$20 bucks says she also supports the quasi-grooming LGBTQWERTY curriculum.
The “Next One” is here.
A man in eastern China has contracted what might be the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu, but the risk of large-scale spread is low, the government said Tuesday.
The 41-year-old man in Jiangsu province, northwest of Shanghai, was hospitalized April 28 and is in stable condition, the National Health Commission said on its website.
No human case of H10N3 has been reported elsewhere, the commission said.
“This infection is an accidental cross-species transmission,” its statement said. “The risk of large-scale transmission is low.”
Oh, good. We get to start the goalposts in roughly the same place again.
Today was our first day in the office.
We had an amusing morning meeting looking at the gunk in one of our coworkers desk drawers. He is an inveterate snacker and left all sorts of goodies in his desk drawers when we left last week. Several of them had decomposed into interesting looking pools of gunk.
As we were looking at them, someone posited that this is exactly how the next pandemic will start. Returning workers will stumble across some mutant bacteria or virus that has taken up residence in the abandoned cubes.
No, a superfungus.
Did the bacteria obtain space flight yet? If not, you are good.
“I don’t know what it was, but it was weird and pissed off!”
To be fair, I don’t take people seriously who unironically say “invalidate my experiences” either.
This is becoming a trend.
Thousands of meat workers had no work for a second day on Tuesday after a cyberattack crippled the world’s largest meat processing company. A government minister said it might be days before production resumes.
JBS is also Australia’s largest meat and food processing company, with 47 facilities across the country including abattoirs, feedlots and meat processing sites. JBS employs around 11,000 people.
JBS USA said in a statement from Greeley, Colorado, on Monday that it was the target on Sunday of an “organized cybersecurity attack” affecting some of its servers supporting its North American and Australian IT systems.
“The company’s backup servers were not affected and it is actively working with an Incident Response firm to restore its systems as soon as possible,” the statement said.
Happened on Sunday, Monday someone let executives know and they are finally getting to the backups today…maybe. That is how I read that.
I can get my system at work back up in less than an hour. Granted it isn’t running industrial equipment, but still.
If it happened Sunday US time, that would have been Monday Australian time.
Schwab said there will be cyber attacks and he wants us to stop eating meat…
DC restores parallel parking requirement of driving test
They don’t know how to drive. Why should you expect them to be able to park?
Sounds racist.
It’s probably more sexist.
It depends on who “They” are, doesn’t it?
I think NV requires it..which, given the vastness of Las Vegas, doesn’t make sense. However, even if it isn’t required, teens are still learning this very easy parking method.
Put your money where your mouth is.
On Sunday, Fiddleheads Cafe in Mendocino put up a sign stating the fee for those who wear a mask while ordering, NBC News reported Friday.
In March, the establishment announced a 50 percent discount for people who threw their masks in the garbage, according to owner Chris Castleman.
“I don’t think $5 to charity is too much to ask from mask wearing customers who claim to care so much about the community they live in,” he told the outlet in an email.
The proceeds will be given to Project Sanctuary, a domestic abuse organization, for two weeks before another nonprofit is put into the rotation, according to Castleman.
“It’s about time that the proponents of these ineffective government measures start paying for the collateral damage they have collectively caused,” the owner continued.
I’m torn here as I’m not a fan of fiddleheads…
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. I’m over the whole “it’s bad when our side does it, too” thing. I hope they make it $50 instead. Is it unfriendly, socially divisive, petty, and a bit assholish? Yep. Do I care? Not a whit.
Karens come in all shapes and sizes. Predicted this a year ago. Next up will be Karens harassing allergy sufferers and demanding mandates that facemasks shall not be allowed.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9638249/Demi-Rose-sets-pulses-racing-goes-TOPLESS-new-sultry-snap.html
I cannot believe you have outpaced lizard on keeping up the shtick
I’m amazed that the Daily Fail hasn’t been shut down for pandering.
Nope. Goodness!
4 miles, 90 minutes, after not having had a full 4 mile walk since the 21st, and too few shorter walks in between.
Great job UnCiv! Keep it up!
That’s the hard part, isn’t it? Getting out the door.
Very much so. My wife is my motivator and drags me kickin and screamin out the door like I was a two-year old all over again. Then out and about, I enjoy it. Though now that it is 105 degs out side, I am justified!
Ooh Rah that motivated PT!
Keep picking them up and setting them down UCS.
Wow, dude. That’s fantastic!
Do you listen to music/podcast or just take in the surroundings?
I bring a walkman and listen to audiobooks.
The neighborhood surroundings are… spotty. Some areas are pretty, others hideous, but most just blah.
I took This picture while walking Thursday. Along with 91 others.
I walk and do audiobooks too UCS… I am a real fast walker, but the main thing people need to remember is that you should do what is comfortable/good for you: not what other people do…
Nice pic. Walks are my podcast time. No way I would ever get through as many as I do without them
I just wish some of these engines weren’t so loud. Even with headphones on, they drown out the books so much I can’t even tell there’s any noise but the engine.
Lovely shot!
Thanks.
The problem some of you have is that you’ve gotten so wrapped up in sugar, you’ve forgotten the taste of real honey.
I’m feeling very gassy today.
You’re supposed to blame the dog.
He’s covering for the dog.
She’s not at work with me.
Curiously, we have about the least gassy dog ever. Ten years old and I can remember her farting maybe once ever.
How will you smell dog farts in a house full of vegetarians?
I have to assume it’s a diet thing. Last dog and present dog are not particularly gassy (though present dog is on probiotics, which has occasioned some impressive gas).
My beloved late dachshund was great for this because hers were often of the silent but deadly variety, making it easy to blame them on her.
You try eating at Filberto’s again? I thought you’d be worried about cross-contaminants.
Here ya go
It’s barking spider mating season.
Low flying duck!
Let er rip, file a lucrative discrimination lawsuit if anyone complains. It’s the modern way.
You know, I’m shocked, now that the lab leak theory has gained some popular currency, how few people must have considered it a crank, right-wing, conspiracy theory. Every progressive I speak to on DerpBook agrees that they always knew it was possible that the virus leaked from a lab in China. It’s remarkable the conspiracy theory myth became so ingrained when nobody believed it.
Something tells me, in enough time, we’ll see how many popular stances had virtually no adherents.
Pristine election?
Biden doesn’t have dementia?
The Biden family is not corrupt?
Maybe that was Hunter’s laptop after all?
They’ve never denied it, and Hunter even said something about how it “could be” his laptop.
I thought the party line on the laptop was that it could be safely ignored because it was “hacked”. Even though (a) it wasn’t and (b) so what if it was?
The implication with “hacked” is that since teh ebil haxxors compromised virtuous HB’s laptop that they planted misinformation.
The agents of Goldstein have been at work, Comrade!
LAPTOP DENIER!
We’ve always been at war with East Asia.
The beauty of being a progressive is that you have the ability to pivot, on a dime, and claim you ALWAYS believed whatever the people that give you your opinions say you need to believe, right after they tell you what to believe and with what fervor, Bill.
Before the cock crows twice?
They also are suddenly admitting that Antifa has been running roughshod over Portland for over a year now.
Are they? The Annual George Floyd Riot didn’t seem to get much press, from what I can tell. They did track down and assault Andy Ngo (again), and even that doesn’t seem to have gotten much play.
There were a few media reports when whats-his-face said the left needs to watch its rhetoric and that signaled that Antifa might be a problem a week or so ago. That is about all I heard.
I haven’t looked into it much, so it might just be a rumor. Supposedly, Andy Ngo was out of the country the last time he got attacked, and they just beat up a random, slightly chubby Asian guy they thought was Andy Ngo.
Okay that was defined him last weekend. https://www.foxnews.com/media/andy-ngo-reportedly-tackled-punched-by-portland-rioters-during-latest-night-of-unrest.amp?__twitter_impression=true
There’s another reason. The intel agencies have an agenda here. They always do.
Tens of thousands of protesters have poured on to the streets of Brazil’s largest cities to demand the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro over his catastrophic response to a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly half a million Brazilian lives.
Worst fascist ever.
Today I had an annual physical. The doctor asked me if I had a corona vaccine or plan to get it. When I replied “No”, he asked why. I responded that I have a low risk of having anything serious from Covid. He pretty much agreed but emphasized that my tests were so good after losing 15-20 pounds over the last 2 years that coronavirus was not a big deal for me. Sure, but it’s not like Covid presented any danger to me when my weight was 170.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/01/report-biden-to-cancel-oil-gas-leases-in-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-anwr-despite-gas-prices/
Remember, these actions by the president have nothing to do with the prices we are seeing and any future increase of prices can be blamed on *checks notes* the evil gas station owners for gouging their customers in this time of need. /Local Propaganda Office
If you wanted to help Russia’s economy and thereby Putin, what would you do differently?
The libertarian response is to ignore everything a politician says or does and assume he is a secret libertarian because history and progress…
“BIDEN: “…young black entrepreneurs are just as capable of succeeding given the chance as white entrepreneurs are, but they don’t have lawyers, they don’t have accountants…””
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1399831108427059201
Totally not racist.
You mean public accountants aren’t similar to public defenders?
Well duh. How can they get those things when they can’t even get an ID?
He was clearly saying that lawyers and accountants are racist (and white), that’s why they won’t represent young black entrepreneurs.
Duh.
So you are saying it’s the jews?
“I’ve been working from home since the Obama administration.”
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1399825799440703489
LOLOLOL
Just wish the hell Trump had pardoned him. Could have forgiven lots of other stuff for that. Too much to expect from a blow-hard that might have decent instincts and occasionally lets them steer him into the right course of action I suppose.
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1399767806762160129
Stay classy, MSNBC
“Washington Post Edits 15-Month-Old Headline That Claimed COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Was ‘Already Debunked’”
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/01/washington-post-headline-covid-lab-leak-debunked/
Stossel triggers roundabout hating glibs
As somebody who grew up learning to drive on the roundabouts of Carmel, I find them much superior to stop lights. The only time they suck is when you have a large volume of traffic coming from one direction and low volumes from other directions.
Here in the land of rotarys, I agree, they’re great – until stupid people screw with them (looking at you, Powderhouse Circle, with your stoplights in the rotary)
I think that rotary is the world’s worst.
For about a year now, they’ve been in the process of turning this nightmare intersection into a roundabout.
Don’t do it. Just close the whole thing.
(looking at you, Powderhouse Circle, with your stoplights in the rotary)
In Somerville? That has lights now? For how long? I don’t remember it having lights back when I regularly went into Somerville, which has been a long time.
Drum Hill was fucked up with traffic lights when Rte. 3 was widened. I usually screw up and get into the wrong lane for where I want to be. Locals tell me they get screwed up too.
Yep, some triggered by pedestrian walk buttons but I think some are on a timer.
Oh, you also have the idiots that think traffic in the rotary has to yield to traffic entering the rotary. Urgh..
Oh my god, so much this.
They work great, when everyone knows the rules (which were established decades? ago)
100%
Huge fan, once everyone learns how.
In Germany that’s actually how it works.
That strikes me as deeply dumb. So you slow up the interchange in favor of incoming traffic? Nice chokepoint.
Nein! Alles ist in ordnung!
Maybe it was a poison-pill by the Allies, just in case…
Those crazy Germans!
I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I love the pair of rotarys in Cape Ann:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6208334,-70.6763111,15.56z
Rush-hour aside, you never have to take your foot off the gas
I remember them. I dated a woman who lived in Gloucester for a while. She lived over on Atlantic Rd. Going through those rotaries at the times of our dates was no problem.
I like roundabouts.
I hate roundabouts but I like Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPCLFtxpadE
I had that bass line in my head even before I clicked through. It’s badass.
Like a ratt on a wheel
Aka, most intersections.
All rotaries were great in Australia except for the one that created a traffic jam because the rotary functioned as the Y-shaped interchange with two streams coming from the top all wanting to proceed down. One of the incoming streams got jammed. You can figure out which one it was.
RE: The red lights comments about the 1min30second mark:
Several years ago a NH legislator introduced legislation in the State House to change the state’s motor vehicle code so that all red lights would be treated as stop signs. I don’t remember if the legislator was a member of the Free State Project. The bill went nowhere.
About traffic lights going out: Some states require that these be treated as all-way stop signs. However, I’ll note that in NH, which requires that, when a traffic light goes out it is a free-for-all of people flying through the intersection without slowing down until the cops show up.
People in the DMV area can’t handle intersections with functioning traffic lights. Why would you expect them to be able to handle an intersection when the lights are out?
Still teaching the teens to drive and we came upon a red-light that just wasn’t changing for our traffic. “Wait 2-cycles and then treat as a 4-way stop before proceeding” “Dad, isn’t that running a red-light”. “You will win this one in court as long as you don’t fail to yield to cross traffic”.
Typically only happens late at night or early morning out here.
For low traffic applications they are far superior. Even high traffic they can work if people have gotten past the learning curve, (I crack myself up) But in uber high traffic areas ya, you need to take Nascar tactics to move through one.
I like roundabouts, but one of the dogs we groom we have to traverse this travesty.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=35.94042733945107%2C+-115.13331197646565&ia=web&iaxm=maps
Satellite view gives you the glory of the Peanut-about!
Which that clip has one of those at the 3:30 mark but looks much more navigational friendly.
They’re not too bad. A bit too pinched for my preference (turns are tight), but they dowhat they’re supposed to.
My caveat on roundabouts:
They work well enough if you know which “exit” you need to take, so you know how to navigate them to be in the right place at the right time. The drive from Tucson to Pahrump has a number of roundabouts, and they are . . . difficult . . . if you don’t know you are supposed to take the X exit from the roundabout.
Coming up on a new roundabout, and not knowing if you are supposed to take the 1st, 2nd or 3rd exit means you don’t know which lane to be in, when to start your turn, etc., all while the other traffic is either cutting you off or piling up behind you.
“Canadians are now WALKING ACROSS the border in order to get around the Canada’s tyrannical “quarantine hotel” detention centers.
Join me as I vlog all the restrictions Canadians have to deal with simply to get back into their OWN country.”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1399809186368835591
I just had to euthanize a squirrel that must have gotten into some rat poison (and should have done it hours ago). I know they’re pests, but poor lil guy… don’t look at me like that…
You did the merciful thing.
Mostly I feel bad for waiting, but waited for the wife to leave. She would have reacted more strongly than I did.
Here in my part of suburban NJ discharging a firearm is illegal.
So my choice would be to beat it with a shovel
I’ve dispatched a snake or two that way.
Punting it into New Jersey?
*beats UCS with shovel*
Dammit, I already appologized for the can.
Quit killing snakes, damnit!
For the last one, at least, wife saw it so it had to die. Didn’t help that it was in our carport staring down a cat, flicking its tail menacingly.
Domestic US snakes won’t go after a full-grown cat – too big to eat. A large python or a cobra might, but I’m betting that it wasn’t one of those. The reverse, of course, is not true. Domesticated cats kill snakes in large quantities.
And the tail flicking is a defensive display. The snake was trying to warn the cat off.
Agreed. Unless they are the venomous kind and in a high traffic area and can’t be moved LEAVE THEM ALONE! Snakes do more good keeping pests at bay than any bird killing feline ever did.
Good thwak with a shovel but I was concerned since it was still moving (probably nerves) so I ensured the neck was broken with the edge. I tried to be as compassionate as I could.
trebuchet
make it someone else’s problem
Your jib is cut in a manner I approve of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAd3ALa–gg
LMAO That. IS. Awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ya6z-NlDo
There are many, many videos out there.
Yep, you can huck a dead rodent a good distance with a shovel if you have the technique down.
Or just flip it in the air and play batter-up
Why are Brazilians who think Bolsanaro wants to bring back the military Junta mad that he hasn’t declared martial law?
Also I thought Latin America would be somewhat sceptical of lockdowns because of their very recent history of military dictatorships. Guess not.
An odd thought I’d been contemplating.
If a bank which rented safe deposit boxes goes under, and all the bank records have been destroyed (assume malfeasance trying to cover shenanigans) what level of proof would be required to claim the contents of a box, and who owns the contents of the unclaimed boxes?
I own them, the rights to all safety deposit boxes are scribbled on the back of my vaccine card.
That’s not a vaccine card.
*ducks behind cover*
Prove it isn’t.
It’s clearly a weapon.
*chambers round*
Possession of the lockbox key would suffice for the most part. If no one came forward with the key then the liquidators should do a good faith effort to find the owners based on the contents of the box. Now if the contents were unidentifiable. i.e. cash, gold etc. then it would be sold off and added to the assets for liquidation.
Bzzt. Trick question.
The feds would just seize all the contents.
And even if you could prove which was yours, you could never prove what was in it before the feds stuck their sticky fingers in.
Wow.
That surprises you?
The search warrant is baffling. Apparently, it authorized the feds to seize the frames around the boxes (as property of the company, I guess), meaning the lockboxes became overengineered drawers.
It also prohibited the feds from taking any contents. So of course they took all the contents. Seems to me that a cop taking something he is specifically prohibited from taking is theft.
And Nothing Else Happened.
Blocked by one of the WP security plugin shithole companies.
A non-zero percentage of owners will have their contracts for the boxes. Beyond that, it would seem that if the key fits, you must give’m their shit.
This isn’t the same, but when Dad’s stepmother died, the will was safely stored in the safe deposit box. Except, of course, that this gets sealed when the decedent’s death becomes public knowledge. So they had to bring in somebody from the Secretary of State’s office to unseat the box.
When Mom died, one of the first things Dad did was empty the safe deposit box. Each of us kids got an envelope with four bicentennial $2 bills that had been in the box for close to 40 years. I guess I can make it sprinkle at the strip club now.
Not sure what arrangements your grandstepmother made will-wise, but the lawyers offices I knew kept a copy of the wills they prepared for their clients.
Though if it was self-composed there wouldn’t be an office copy.
8 bucks? Not sure you can buy a bottle of stripper glitter with that.
Libertopia!
Drugs ✔
Mexicans ✔
Ass sex ✔
Muh roadzz ✔
Zonezz*
Effing autocorrect
Yep, the basics!
Interesting bit from Thomas Frank. It turns out maybe the folks in Kansas knew a thing or two that he missed. That said, kudos to him for at least acknowledging he got it wrong. As I note above, that beats a lot of progressives. That said, he still seems to accept the rest of the COVID narrative unquestioningly. Nevertheless, it would be helpful to at least see people question the cult of expertise.
Prediction: Procedures were followed and nothing else will happen.
Probably. But, it’s at least amusing right now to watch people like Frank scramble to preserve their world view.
I’ve run into that before. Journalists loudly proclaiming their skepticism, and then believing every damn thing they read, even when the contrary (such as the lab leak theory) is pretty obviously the more likely.
The retards of this state once again prove they’re animist primitives. The legislature bravely banned the display of a noose. Not as a threat or as part of a crime, but the mere display. They better ban lampposts next because each one of them deserves their very own.
Anyone who uses the phrase “the science” should be shot on sight.
I’m coming around to this view.