That’s 9 in a row!
Well England finally played a decent game. And they’re through to the knockout stages. The last two groups finish up today, and I’m looking forward to that France-Portugal match. I have a feeling it’ll be crazy fun to watch. Elsewhere, the Astros (and this is how I’ll jinx them) are on a complete tear right now, having won 9 straight and surging to the best record in the AL. The Phoenix Suns alley-ooped their way to a 2-0 series lead against the other team from L.A. I have a feeling the league will step in tomorrow and make sure the Clippers get to the line enough to make it 2-1. And Vegas fell to Montreal in the Stanley Cup “Semifinals”, since in no way should Vegas be playing Montreal in anything besides the finals based on geography. And some dude from the Lakers got arrested in Texas for having weed on him as he tried to get on a plane. Why? Because he was dumb enough to try and get on a plane with weed on him. And yes, Texas should change their laws. But still…what an idiot. And that’s sports.
Thomas
Pharaoh Ptolemy XV (man, that’s a lot of Ptolemys) was born on this day. The Egyptian shares it with hockey great Cyclone Taylor, actor Donald McBride, King Edward VIII (man, that’s a lot of Edwards), baseball exec George Weiss, commie bad guy Li Xiannian, mathematical genius Alan Turing, businessman that’s hated by Clevelanders Art Modell, country singer June Carter Cash, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, rocker Glenn Danzig, actress Frances McDormand, tv director/producer Joss Whedon, actress Selma Blair, soccer player and manager Zinedine Zidane, and some Welsh singer named Duffy.
Weird list. Anyway, on to…the links!
Racism, racism everywhere! Even viruses are racist, I see. What a sad state of affairs when a stupid virus is racist.
If you can’t beat em, seize their assets. Of course, our government will not say a damn thing about this. Why? Probably because they wish they had this power themselves.
One of these two people knows where they are.
I’m gonna give my alternate headline to the article. A truthful one: Biden uses rise in crime to attack gun owners rather than address the root problems. Because none of these steps will do a damn thing but punish otherwise law-abiding people.
Hunter Biden
This is the most insane story you’ll read all day. And if I’m being honest, I’ll admit that I believe every word of it. But it’ll never see the front page of the NYT or WaPo. Because principals over principles.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. “Plays down fears”? Hey dumbass, it’s already happening.
I’ll give you another reason: they’re idiots that don’t understand science. Actually, that’s not “another” reason. It’s the only reason.
Holy shit, Dianne Feinstein said something reasonable. Well there’s a first time for everything.
I had no idea this was a thing. Not that I cared, seeing as there’s no “stereotype” for what is a biker. But you go, girl! Break down those walls (that don’t exist). Just stay away from Twin Peaks in Waco. The cops will shoot you there just for fun. Hey, whatever happened with that? And whatever happened with the investigation into the Vegas shooter? I guess we’ll never know.
Weird video…great song. Enjoy it, friends.
Now get out there and have a fantastic day!
What happened to defunding the police?
They’ve got an idea for a new police force, one that won’t be corrupted by evil systemic racism!
With beer! And hookers!
Oh wait… that’s the existing police forces.. 😉
Well, at the Federal level you don’t even pay the hookers.
Not the central american ones at least
Oh, and at the Federal level, you can get drunk @ a club, get jiggy on the dancefloor, and have your issued sidearm fall out and go off. And not get in trouble.
They are the only ones professional enough to carry firearms.
I do love that video
It’s the idea of a federalized police force. They absolutely need that so they can actually confiscate the people’s firearms in states that take their 2A rights seriously and where non-federal police would actually oppose the feds when they come confiscate our firearms in preparation for full implementation of the 1984 sytle government they want.
Aren’t you an optimist this morning.
Well Mojo, these police types tend to be the type of people that do whatever the power that writes their checks tells them to do, and in 2A friendly states one would hope that the powers that be would actually keep to their word to actually arrest any feds coming to fuck with people’s right to arm themselves against the fedgov.
https://www.atf.gov/news/pr/bozeman-man-convicted-illegal-possession-un-registered-machine-gun
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/anchorage-man-charged-illegal-possession-machinegun-and-silencers
Only local police are racist. A national police force would be anti-racist.
And they’d ride in on the unicorns and turn all the guns into flowers.
I’m just glad the government is stepping in to solve these problems. Who better to solve the problem than those who created it.
I’m sure it’ll work out just great.
Government never solves any problems. Why would people in cushy public jobs, with insane pay, perks, & benefits ever solve a problem and put themselves out of a fucking cushy job? People like to complain about how Big Pharma has no incentive to create cures rather than long term treatments, then see no problem with giving government – the entity that creates a bureaucracy of some of the most inept and stupid credentialed morons – the power to “solve a problem”…
If anything, what you will get is more of the problem so the new government entity can grow itself like the parasite it is.
It’s Trump’s fault for cutting funding for midnight basketball.
First thought — probably more in how they mandate the police spend it, funneling more of the money back to their cronies (race bait consulting, “youth drives”, etc.)
Second thought — might also depend on the police. They’d likely be happy to fund folks like this to keep arresting their political opponents.
That wouldn’t happen in China.
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I like that. “Engulfed in total mayhem”.
I suppose it reads better than “nonviolent parents petitioning their government for a redress of grievances arrested at public meeting”.
That’s quality journalisming.
THEY RAISED THEIR VOICES TO THEIR BETTERS.
MAYHEM!
ANARCHY!
Dogs and cats sleeping together?
>>expanding summer programs and employment opportunities, especially for young people
Once that $15/hr wage cuts in – employment for inexperienced teenagers is just going to take off.
Only if we legalize sex work.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Teenaged sex workers at $15/hr? Where is this libertarian paradise?
Epstein Island ?
Dude… $20/hour plus a signing bonus to work at Cedar Point this year. And they’re still reporting staffing shortages.
There was a headline I saw the other day:
>>Do workers just hate their jobs?
yes!
It isn’t called “play” after all…
You only get the signing bonus if you finish the season. I didn’t get mine in 2005 because I left the job in August to go back to college. Cedar Fair stiffed me!
My son went out to eat this past Saturday. Just fast food. The lights were on at BK, but no one would answer at the drive-thru. The Wendy’s was ‘Closed due to Insufficient Staffing’ and same for the Hardee’s.
He drove across town to the other Wendy’s before he found anything.
Nah, they can get more on unemployment.
Howzabout letting people that have served the time get their inherent rights back? Bridge too far, apparently.
Is everybody boycotting the comments for my links? Jeez.
I was trying to be thoughtful, jeez.
Just taking the time to go thru that Hunterpocalypse story.
There’s something special about a fifty something man who wears a ballcap backwards for topless selfies.
There’s something special about a fifty something man who wears a ballcap backwards
for topless selfies.DO NOT JUDGE ME!
/also wears socks w/slides
At 50, comfort becomes king.
Black socks w sandals,
DA FUQ?
There is NO excuse for sandals…
OK then, just the socks.
Yes, sandals; the leather Spartacus kind.
It’s the best story I’ve read in some time. Of course, if someone wrote it as fiction it would be dismissed as wholly unrealistic. Yet here we are…with the former VP and soon-to-be president finding human trafficking so his son can pay for his coke-and-whore one man party.
We truly are the land of opportunity.
As someone who may or may not be familiar with the seedier side of humanity, none of it surprises me and I believe every last word. The real scandal is that no one seems to think anything happening with Hunter Biden is a scandal. Maybe it just speaks to the decay of the political class. Perhaps they all have a hunter biden in their own lives.
Book pre-ordered.
It’s so bonkers, it might be true. The government agency (or at least agent, maybe former at the time) involvement is interesting.
Too bad this isn’t a Trump offspring. Because of it was, a noble worker at the credit card company would have already released the statement showing The Don paying for the prostitute. Only she would be called a “human trafficking victim” instead of a hooker and she’d be on CNN/MSNBC every night for a month.
Just imagine the coverage we would see in that case! There’s weeks or months of airtime to be mined here. Many anchor-years, if you count it that way.
“Anchor Years”. That’s a good’un!
The amount of bullshit they spew is measured in acre-feet.
Is your point that anyone that thinks they are getting news from legacy media is a moron being psyopsed by the marxist friendly cabal of corrupt mediocratic mandarinate advocates?
One thing you can do to make leftists have a crisis of consciences is point out to them that they have no original ideas but have them given to them by the media. When they ask you WTF you mean, point out that if they get “news” that softens or redirects obvious misbehavior from their team, but presents anything about the opposition in as negative a light possible, and that leaves them basically thinking that when someone on the opposition does something, that something, regardless of if it is or is not, is to be seen as a crime against humanity, but when one of their team does the same or worse, it is the other team’s evil people taking advantage of a situation to paint their guy as a bad guy, that they are being played.
When they realize their response is going to be defined by who did what and how it gets reported, even the most cognitively dissonant moron has that moment of realization that they are morons. It might not last long wwith people that flip their beleifs on a dime, based on what they are told to believe, but the damage is lasting…
I was reading them.
Was that wrong?
I’m watching a bunch of meetings appear on my calendar for today because
moronspeople are realizing that July is fast approaching, and they haven’t even sent in a request for this critically important thing they want implemented by July 6th yet./looks at group that still hasn’t finished first round testing on the really important thing they wanted implemented by May.
I get vender quote requests as part of my new job and I’m starting to get enough data to notice a pattern. Eventually I’ll figure out which customers I can strategically disappoint. Until then, it’s going to be tough.
This is self inflected delay and bad management. I have a suspicion that this project is going to be used as a reason to help one of the supervisors “find a new career path”.
Is “self inflected” a problem caused by sitting around too long pondering the project’s meaning and place in the universe?
Some people in the managerial field like doing this sort of work, because it is the one that is least likely to require a deliverable where you could be late or worse, deliver shit, and lose your bonus….
I’ve never had to ration product before. This absolutely sucks.
This week has been back to back to back meetings.
And it’s not because I’m on vacation next week. We just had a project pileup of everything that’s in motion.
The time you must put into the morno links is greatly appreciated. Many thanks!
Now I’m wondering if your typo was meant to say “morning links” or “moron links”.
/paranoid
Ha! Not a typo, just a take on arvo, Aussie for afternoon.
Now get out there and have a fantastic day!
Good morning! This sentiment pairs so well with my second cup of coffee. I watched Steve Bannon on Tim Pool’s show last night. For alternative news Tim Pool is as mainstream as they come. There were about 40-45k live viewers. Probably will do ten times that in total views when they cut it up and reupload. Whatever you think of Tim Pool, it’s pretty great that he is willing to get controversial guests on his show and dare the google-beast to do something about it.
I wish he’d lose the stupid beanie. Nobody needs to wear them unless it is below freezing.
It made sense back when he was personally reporting — nobody recognizes him without it.
And I thought you guys called it a toque?
I’ve rolled over on that, much like my usage of proper English grammar. Why fight a flood?
+1, I’m about halfway through now.
I got nothing this morning other than slight pleasure that at least the “Fortify For the Steal Act” failed in the Senate — but we’ll see if that just pushes the idiots to trash the filibuster, which would be an equal loss, imho. Won’t actually read most of the links beyond the headlines to avoid rage building.
But given the front page pic and your music link — my vote for “Weird video…. great song — if a little raunchy.”
Have a good one, Sloopy. Morning to the rest of y’all.
Say what you want about Democrats – shortsighted regarding the filibuster – but they are willing to go for broke to get their “worldview”.
The Republicans – as a rule – are infighting or trying to look like “statesmen” by brokering deals, etc.
The filibuster isn’t going anywhere.
I guess it’s that time again. Time to pretend that there’s never been women who ride motorcycles prior to now, again. It’s a cycle that goes all the way back to the beginnings of motorcycling.
They’re trailblazers, trendsetters, fighters of the patriarchy….
“If you can read this, my bitch fell off.”
My 3 motorcycles would like a word…
I predict a long chain of puns following that little double gem.
I’m getting revved up just thinking about it.
I expect such comments to be throttled back
It’s wheelie exciting
I think you spoke too soon.
Don’t hog all the puns, folks.
Oh, but this is a “womxn motorcycle collective”. Totes brave and shit.
So. Fucking. Tedious.
Q: What’s the difference between a Harley-Davidson and a vacuum cleaner ?
A: The location of the dirt bag.
Alternate A: you can only fit one dirtbag on the hoover.
More power to the women for making their own thing, that already exists. There are more types of motorcycle riders than there are different models. There has been a trend of more women on bikes for the past 20 years.
Even my crew of shitlords have been very open to the prospect. We have encouraged everyone who is interested to get on one and try it out. Most bikers beyond the 1%s and the wantabe’s out there are pretty open and willing to talk and give advice to everyone who rides or wants to ride.
There are exceptions, but there always are.
Is that Roger Corman?
Even better, Herschell Gordon Lewis.
I knew I loved you but now I love you a little bit more! My Aunt and Uncle used to take us to the drive-in nearly every weekend, weather conforming. Saw many B and C grade movies.
What is this effing 6:45 a.m. business? Who said 6:45 a.m. was a good idea?!?!
It isn’t but insomnia got me up after about four hours of sleep today anyway. At least vacation starts tomorrow.
PARTY LIKE YOU READ ABOUT NEPH!
Meh. The sun’s been up for two hours at that point, might as well be working.
Have a chore to tend this morning so a) I didn’t sleep well and 2) weather’s nice so the window’s open which means I get up with the sun.
I almost had to turn the damned heat on again, dropped down to the low 50’s overnight.
48 here, was a cool and clear morning, totally unbecoming of summer.
The chore is making 2 trips to get pickup beds full of mulch for my mom. I could stand it to be cooler right now.
*ahem*
The sun coming up means Im coming HOME from work.
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This follows – https://youtu.be/61ScrxEjwn4
I really dig how Turner’s fingertips have become like a tree frog’s after so many years of playing the bass.
After being unable to find a corpse NOT full of .223, they congratulated themselves on their massive seizure of “weapons” (kitchen and steak knives) and had extra donuts at the next shift change.
IIRC.
University of Chicago bioethicist Laurie Zoloth said masks have become symbols, and that some people are being shamed after mask-wearing became politicized. She said that keeping a mask handy is a sign someone understands the pandemic was profound and is still a threat.
Tribal identity display.
Hey, man. She’s a bioethicist. Let her have her moment. Because after this interview, she’ll go back to being irrelevant.
A bioethicist huh? That seems real.
But she’s all smart and stuff and went to the right schools (and knows the right people).
“some people are being shamed after mask-wearing became politicized“
Oddly, she only seems to refer to those wearing masks, not the people who got healed at for not wearing masks.
Right? Evidently that whole mask shaming thing has become a narrative. Had a coworker fretting about coming to Texas (from CA) for a conference. “Even though I’m vaccinated, I’ll wear a mask just to piss the mask shamers off.”
Then I told him that my local Costco was 80% masked and Lowes was 25% masked and nobody gave a shit either way, and he was flummoxed. He expected people to be getting laughed out of these stores for wearing a mask.
“Texans are just a lot more tolerant than you are.”
“Everyone is just a lot more tolerant than you are.”
I think even the Costco here in prog Central Austin is below 50% masked now.
My Costco is right in the middle of the influx of Californians, so theres some social signaling going on because of that. It’s also heavily Indian and Chinese, who are masking at 85%+ rate. It’s also skewed female, who are masking at a higher rate. I may have overstated it at 80%, but not by much if I did. It was depressing to walk around and feel like I traveled back in time by 6 months.
“Mask wearing became politicized.” Well when the government mandates mask wearing under punishment of law, that’s pretty much, by definition, “politicizing” it.
“f you can’t beat em, seize their assets. Of course, our government will not say a damn thing about this. Why? Probably because they wish they had this power themselves.”
When they told us they would dance with the communist Chinese devil back in the eighties, many people warned these asshats that this would affect us more – and in the negative – than it would to the ChiComm CCP. We are there now. Our inept and credentialed leaders envy China’s CCP the power they have to tell the fucking unwashed masses what they will do or else, but more importantly, they love how the Chicomms, no longer real communists but hardcore fascist totalitarians, have succeeded in creating a nice hereditary power system for their elites, and want that desperately because their offspring are even dumber and more destructive than they are.
Given yesterday afternoon’s comments, I’m not sure if your statement is more of a Winston summons (See! Free Trade Libertarians were really wrong about something!) or an Ozy one now (Hey! China’s pretty cool! [Which hey, Ozy — I’m sure the people are. I still think their government has ours beat for evil — I don’t think even the folks who took the last round of restrictions lying down would have taken “welding the infected into their homes” (which China did in the beginning, don’t forget)… and yeah, maybe that’s my last glimmer of optimism]).
More on topic — I’ve never understood the drive to business with/in China, and I suspect I never truly will (outside of bribery and corruption on certain Arkanciding folks, I understand where *they* were coming from). But I also don’t understand why anyone running a business (or government) would take a short term gain in exchange for complete destruction, which is doubtless also why I’ve never wanted to be a manager much less in the C-suite.
After we beat the USSR and pronounced that we had defeated marxism and proven it was a horrible ideology, the people in charge decided not to do the same with China, because another 70 year Cold War to collapse China was not something the collectivist movement wanted to deal with. So they concocted this baloney that they would bring China over by trading with it. They should have immediately backed out of the deal when China’s CCP instituted rules that completely destroyed the “free” in free trade unless the free was going to China. These fucking evil and stupid people kept to their stupid deal, after all they were making lots of money on paper, even though China had basically told them that money was NEVER going to be allowed to leave China (the special exemptions clause has been allowed once in 30 years from what I hear, and it was peanuts), AND after it became clear China was going to fuck them over by stealing their IP and setting up direct competition to their lucrative slave labor based China factories.
China’s CCP is evil, but our credentialed elite class – the one running government (and especially the intel agencies), Wall Street, academia, the entertainment and news industries, and the tech industries – are even more evil. They enriched themselves selling America and the American people’s future to an evil monster, and they are now quite content with the realization that they have empowered China to surpass the US and become the new world leader. As horrible as that will be, they are OK with it as long as they get to keep their position as our serf masters under the direction of Beijing in the new global order. They are fucking worse than the old feudal lords of old.
My article was an almost word for word copy of an email I wrote when I was there in 2018.
It was about Freedom, not the relative evil of the US v the CCP governments, which I think isn’t quite as hands-down in the US favor as some would like to tell themselves.
That’s what the comments became about, however, because many people turned it into that rather than actually talk about what I wrote because it makes them uncomfortable to consider and it runs counter to how they’ve been propagandized.
It was uncomfortable for me too, as a US Marine of 27 years, and a guy with a lot of friends buried in Arlington.
It’s culture – but no one wants to hear it, because to admit that would be to admit that our culture is dying; and that we are watching the last gasps of a decadent and thoroughly rotted out culture.
China’s government may suck worse, but it’s only by degree, not kind when compared to ours. How many Iraqis did the Chinese kill on bullshit pretenses? How many Libyans? How many innocents in the tribal areas did the Chinese drone strike? How many people have the Chinese force vaccinated? …See what I mean?
The Chinese people have a healthier culture – maybe if I had said that it would have offended people less. It’s also vastly different than ours and we tend to compare using our own values as a measuring stick.
we tend to compare using our own values as a measuring stick
Thank Wilson! America’s holy mission to redeem the world for democracy.
Meh. Not sure what you mean, but I was thinking of home ownership as an example.
It’s something that is an essential part of the “American Dream.” The reality is that it’s home rentership – you have to pay taxes every year, the govt can jack them, and the rule against perpetuities means you can only keep it in the family for a couple of generations at best. But we tend to think of it as if we’re some feudal lord who will have and hold that land forevah!
The Chinese don’t really have home ownership as such, so their values and concerns don’t even factor it in – but we tend to when comparing who is “freer!”
There are a bunch of things like that, including religion. Swissy went there immediately yesterday, but the reality in China is that most people are buddhist, or shinto, or taoists, or confucian, and the govt is absolutely not bothering them. You are free to “practice” the culturally predominant norms without harassment. Indeed, they’re even supported by the govt… Sound like any other places?
It’s culture – but no one wants to hear it, because to admit that would be to admit that our culture is dying; and that we are watching the last gasps of a decadent and thoroughly rotted out culture.
*nods vociferously*
The point you made about the cynicism of the Chinese public versus the earnestness of the American public struck home. A wary, oppressed populace may be more free than a divided populace looking for ways to harm one another. In a practical way, I’m less able to express my opinions publicly because I stand to lose my job, my health insurance, my life insurance, and various other benefits that are paid compulsorily from my salary if my employer takes offense. Furthermore, it’s nearly impossible for me to hang a shingle, join a law firm, or otherwise ply my trade in this state due to professional regulations associated with which state I’m barred under (ignoring the fact that I’m separately barred federally for the purely federal work I do). The regulatory state is so stifling, especially in the labor market, that we way underestimate the impact on our general liberty.
Now, she is one of the co-founders of The Litas Houston, a chapter of The Litas womxn’s motorcycle collective established in 2015 by Jessica Wise in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Aaaaaand done.
A fellow carpet muncher?
A fellow carpet muncher?
I’d have to see if she’s riding a Can-Am Spyder to be sure.
Cause her Subaru is in the garage. With the Melissa Etheridge/L7/Indigo Girls mix-CD stuck in the dash.
Not sure I agree. A preference for leather, tats and the color black come to mind.
Hoo boy. Now THAT phrase conjures up some stereotypes. Not necessarily bad ones, some of my best friends are bull dykes.
Yeah that definitely conjures up images of women that look like the lesbian-feminist character from Boondock Saints.
You mean Paul Smecker?
I will not have you slander Mr. Defoe in such a manner! Clearly I am referring to Il Duce.
There are plenty of stereotypes for a biker. Most have plenty of representatives to prove the point. Squids, Harley dude, BMW elitist, Super Sport biker who treats the road like a track, and the cafe rocker/mod, and the new hipster biker.
I revel in all things on two wheels because they are fun, mechanically amazing, and mostly beautiful. The people on them are usually less one dimensional than they appear to be and usually a bit more risk philic.
No shit. The big black dude in leathers but a hint of a three piece suit underneath blaring Kenny G that rides by my house everyday just screams biker.
If Hunter Biden weren’t a blood relative of the President of the United States, he’d be a Barstool Republican.
And the mob would be howling for his blood.
If he was not Biden’s kid, he would have been kicked out of the Naval Academy and ended up sucking his cellmates dick until someone had enough of his ass and ganked it in prison.
He didn’t go to the Academy – he got a BS direct commission at the age of 43 (along with waivers for his age and past drug offenses), then promptly failed a drug test a month later and was given the boot.
America’s elite.
Yeah, when people vote for things like this, they deserve everything that follows. And I bet this guy’s crime was that he got caught & convicted compared to the other pols.
That’s why I have a bunch of libs, including the girlfriend in Minneapolis, all pissed at me for telling them I am all for them demanding these sorts of stupid things and then having to take it in the ass when the world ignores their fantasies of how it should be and gives them what they asked for hard and good, when they get what they asked for.
Anacostia, I should have known
It’s not unique to Anacostia or DC. A guy in jail for having sex with an underage intern was elected to the Virginia legislature back in 2015.
“If you can read this, my bitch fell off.”
*outright prolonged laughter*
There were a couple ladies who always showed up to our bar’s Bike Night wearing the companion shirt – “I’m the bitch who fell off.”
Don’t be surprised when the utility actually uses their control under “smart saver” programs.
Yeah — it isn’t like they’ve hidden their intent with those programs. You entered a contract where they throttle your power at their whim, of course that’s going to happen….
Yup. Saw this coming from a mile away. “FREE NEST THERMOSTAT WHEN YOU SIGN ON WITH US*¤☆♧”
*you have to return it to us when you leave us
¤ it’s technically ours
☆ we control the horizontal and the vertical
♧ oh and we listen to your conversations with it
Here in KY they have a similar program, but they just throttle the amount of energy you can draw, so if you have too much running, you get a brown-out.
The program, which customers have to opt-into,
And that’s where my sympathy for them ended.
Yup.
BTW, any of you who signed up for paperless billing and automatic payment programs — check the terms and conditions.
Automatic payment programs are basically agreements to let them clear out your bank account whenever they want to.. Never do those. Most people set these up for convenience only to find out they got dicked someday..
I have had an uphill battle because the previous owner of the house I purchased back in 2017 opted in to that program here in NV and apparently that opt-in doesn’t die with change of ownership. Of course, if something where to happen to the control wire that allows NV Energy to change my temps due to ‘mice’ in the walls, I ain’t letting in some energy rep into my house to fix it.
How can they convey a contract to you when you buy a house without your knowledge?
You should take this up with the title company that transferred ownership. If they didn’t disclose that you would have to honor a contract you weren’t party to, then that’s actionable.
Probably wasn’t enforceable at all, it was NV Energies thermostat that she bought and installed. I converted it back to a basic thermometer and no more random temp changes have occurred.
So more on my details and how I presented them than program opt-in I suppose. However, as soon as I entered that house and transferred my account, yes NV Energy should have said “your old house didn’t have this, but we see we have our thermometer in your house, would you like to continue its use?”
My thermostat is dumb. As are the locks to my doors.
I have so many windows in my house that locks are really pointless except to tell the insurance company “yeah, I lock the doors.” The main way to discourage burglary is to have cameras.
I just scatter used brass around the entrances. Kind of a rodent repellent, you might say.
I have a couple of those chalk body outlines on my driveway and some police tape to show them that’s their future…
Good strategy, but you have to keep polishing the brass, lest anyone think it’s been too long since it landed there.
How about a window in the door?
Fucking having “smart” anything. Yea, I have a smartphone just for the pure convenience and for emergencies, but that’s easy to leave at home or toss in another room if I am seriously concerned having my conversations spied on. I’ve even considered the possibility of not having a cell phone at all, but that’s hard to do in this day and age.
Loudoun County Va. parents call out ‘wokest and worst school board in America’ after meeting erupts into chaos
A school board superintendant has the authority to declare “unlawful assembly?” I can see them having the power to declare a speaker or protesters out of order and have them removed, but “unlawful assembly” sounds like a pretty big deal.
There is a great opportunity for the private schools in the area to do some growth.
I feel really bad for my friends out there, but most of their kids are either home schooled or private schooled. Everybody knew the public schools were very quickly going to shit.
Meh. Conservative sites have been touting this “1 million lost” figure but that’s still 1 in 50. Almost everyone is getting educated by the state still. Because they already have to pay for it.l
That’s a good start. And I seriously doubt that such a trend will reverse anytime soon.
I do. I think it’ll be back up to normal in no time.
If I had kids, even if I could afford private school, I just don’t think I could pull the trigger. You really do get double screwed. First, you have to pay tuition, which I understand is very high for a good private school. Meanwhile, AFAIK, you’re still required to pay property taxes, which then go to fund those same schools that you don’t want your children in anyway.
The benefit is of course, lack of indoctrination, which is huge to be sure. But financially, you’re getting just reamed up the arse….
That’s by design….
1. Private schools are generally more woke than public schools.
2. Besides the back-breaking taxes and the uncertain economic situation of the last year, people now have to double pay for schools? They’ll still be paying for public, and now you’re saying, hey, they can fork over tuition for private? They’re trying to reform the public schools they already pay for. Good for them. Not everyone is rich AF.
Re 1:
Often, but you can pick and choose.
And go to another easily if you don’t like.
I went to a Texas public school, then a Catholic affiliated private high school, and then a pretentious Ivy League school. The private school could not have been more opposite in values from the fancy Northeast school.
I think it’s worth noting the majority of Americans favor school choice and I’ve yet to encounter any decent argument against it.
Sen Dick Black.
Heh.
So… has anyone heard from Tres Cool this morning?
He was complaining about medium cans in the pre-morning discussions.
He is currently unsupervised…
That led me to this:
Apparently masks are good for something.
Yeah, Cleveland tends to lead many to the void.
That was funnier before you edited your post to add a link.
If I’m being honest, most of my comments are better before I write anything at all.
I was expecting an image…
I saw that article as well, I try to avoid posting the dark depressing stories of man’s inhumanity to man (well, women in this case).
Oh, I saw a bit of that unfold yesterday.
#NotMyHood
God, they DO love shooting doge, don’t they ?
“A dog at the home was shot by an officer when it charged at police. “
Here’s my thing about cops/dogs- when John E. Law and his SWAT pals kick the door in with a rubber-stamped warrant (likely for the wrong address thanks to the crack-head CI), and doge follows instincts and defends his territory and fam, they have no problem emptying clips into FiFi or Fido (or Phideaux if you’re Suthen). But heaven forbid then send a cop K9 in after you and you fight back and injure or kill the dog. Im pretty sure you’ll find an enhancement to whatever charge you were originally facing. Cause that mutt is “special”.
Boudreaux is the preferred generic dog name (or name for a character in a joke) ’round these parts.
I typed that because I recall Justin Wilson having a coonhound with the name “Phideaux” which I thought was clever.
For a cou rouge.
Prison island
After enjoying nearly four months without any community transmission of the coronavirus, New Zealanders were on edge Wednesday after health authorities said an infectious traveler from Australia had visited over the weekend.
New Zealand has taken a zero-tolerance approach to the virus and continues to pursue an elimination strategy.
The country’s response has been among the most effective in the world and the nation of 5 million people has recorded just 26 coronavirus deaths. But its vaccination campaign has been far slower than in most developed countries, with just 11% of the population having gotten their first dose.
They’ll make a good case study for anthropologists after one hundred years of total isolation from the rest of the world.
Maybe they decided they’re being used for the wrong book trilogy and decided to rename themselves Solaria…
They’ll make a good case study for anthropologists after one hundred years of total isolation from the rest of the world.
More inbred than mother England?
Restaurants Are Now Adding ‘Equity’ Charges to Customers’ Checks to Fight Oppression
For now. Until shortly when they go out of business.
Their wait staff won’t be receiving any tips soon. Or any pay. Because this will result in them shuttering their restaurant. At least it would in a sane world.
Given the past track record of places that do these things, I’m confident is saying they’ll either drop the policy or close the doors before too long.
One of the local cocktail bars has changed format to a patio only one (nothing wrong with that for summer), switched to pre-packaged mixed cocktails that are offered to-go as well (and you have to mix the wash and such yourself… less interested), and said they are adding a 20% charge to all orders “so we can pay our workers a living wage” (at that point the girlfriend and I both decided we wouldn’t be going there).
I’d tell them. Seriously, if the only feedback they get is from people who support the move (but likely don’t patronize the establishment), they’ll continue with the policy until they’re out of business.
So give them your opinion in hopes that if enough people do, they’ll rethink their policy. Businesses tend to respond to large amounts of negative feedback when they set off in a new direction.
^^^THIS^^^
Don’t just stop going there: let them know you plan to do so and why…
I’ll check and see if they even have an e-mail address on the site. During the shut downs, they had a sign up for e-mail list (which they didn’t send out any notice on), and then pushing Facebook and Instagram. The issue isn’t charging 20% more, it’s putting it on as a service fee instead of just building it into the price of your drinks.
Actually the issue is that they think this living wage shit should convince people to give another 20% for service that sounds like it is non-existent or a poor experience. Having traveled a lot, I have seen how service in European establishments for example, where they give people living wages and they have zero incentive to hustle to make a good tip, work: its shitty if you are lucky, and worse otherwise. And if you are lucky to find someone that isn’t pissed at you for making them work and provides some service, they will likely not be there long. America’s model is known as one that has a built-in incentive to make people working in it provide decent service. The living wage racket for these sorts of jobs is just another effort by people that want to be paid to do the least (or no) work.
Before the shutdowns, their model was that unless you requested a specific cocktail, a waiter/bartender would ask for suggestions from a flavor wheel they had. After that, it would be a brief discussion and a suggestion. Regular drinks were around $15/each (and they had a reference database they had coded for tablets the staff used).
Current model has a much shorter menu, with no adjustments, cocktails are $12, shots are $7. The area they’re in is a hipster/woke enclave, so it could be signaling to those who they think will be more likely to come out with that line on the menu.
Yeah, I avoid that sort of woke place by default cause I neither enjoy nor like the smell of stupid or patchouli.
Alex:
The place had knowledgeable staff when it came to cocktails, and were able to pull off some delicious surprises the times I had been there in the before times (and were always willing to provide the recipe for the drink I had when I asked). While they were in a woke area, they didn’t feel woke inside. Old stone building with stained glass windows, always dark inside (except the bar area), with the following house rules:
Rule 1: Women initiate conversation
Rule 2: Google can’t settle arguments; only arguing can do that.
Rule 3: Religion and politics encouraged (see Rule 2).
Rule 4: No fighting.
Rule 5: No kissing.
The girlfriend loved the cocktail wheel experience, and they had a decent happy hour prices as well. Never saw anyone bounced for any rule violations either.
Rule 3 seems designed to doom Rule 4.
until they’re out of business
That will teach all the lesson that is necessary.
WE WUZ NOT WOKE ENOUGH!
As Ron White sez: you can’t fix stupid.
“Studies have also shown that there is inequity and built-in bias in the way consumers give tips,” the statement reads. “In general, Black or Brown
servers receivediners give less tips than Caucasianserversdiners. There is gender bias as well.”What the ever loving hell… That would be an instant “Never coming here again”.
Oddly, she only seems to refer to those wearing masks, not the people who got [yelled?] at for not wearing masks.
That’s not politicization. That’s SCIENCE!
Why do you hate SCIENCE! you ignorant redneck?
Good morning, Sloopy!
I believe every word of that Hunter Biden story. What a family. Yesterday, Malice ran a poll asking if people thought Hunter and Beau shared Beau’s wife before he died, or if he went the classy route and waited. I agree with the respondents.
That song is old enough to be served at the bar. Damn, that went fast.
Vote for meeeeee!
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, facing a Republican-led recall, is pushing the state legislature to approve his plan to use $5.2 billion in federal pandemic relief money to pay 100% of unpaid rent owed by low-income residents.
Lawmakers are also considering several other pandemic aid measures proposed by the governor as they finalize the state’s annual budget, including sending $600 stimulus checks to low-income Californians, providing universal pre-K, and investing in new housing for those at risk of homelessness.
The state has the cash to meet the need. It got more than $27 billion from the American Rescue Plan, which passed Congress in March — and is enjoying an unexpected budget surplus boosted in part by capital gains tax revenues from wealthy California residents.
California also received a combined $4.7 billion in federal funds allocated specifically for rental assistance from the American Rescue Plan and the economic relief package Congress passed in December.
A chicken in every pot. A pony in every garage.
One chicken per family per year. The pony (single) replaces all wheeled vehicles other than bicycles and recumbent tricycles.
In other news, the chocolate ration has been replaced by a water ration to use to make stock out of the chicken bones. See your Ag Extension Agent for instructions on how to cook safely over a fire at home.
Etc.
OT but good news for a change! Stupid LG washer started behaving as soon as I tilted it back and started searching the web for replacement parts. It’s like he said “I promise I’ll be good!” Four loads through.
>>Four loads through.
STEVE SMITH DO THAT LESS THAN FOUR SECONDS
Yay.
“four loads” ?
What are you ? Peter North of the Great White North eh ?
I’m a little ashamed to get the reference but one of my friend’s brothers did own the Library of Congress porn collection when we were teens. That’s when we started calling undesirable people “butt-plugs”!
In other Covid Censorship news:
Pierre Kory and Bret Weinstein on Rogan.
Try to get your doctor (pharma rep?) to prescribe Ivermectin. Enjoy the lols.
Cat is out of the bag, though. It’s just too bad the mass murderers won’t be held to account.
Got mine. Myfreedoctor.com and the Medici app.
Asked for the FLCCC COVID outpatient treatment protocol
Worked like a charm
Cool!
Here’s some more from FLCCC
Is this just in case, or because you had to fight it off?
In order to have it on hand.
I do not trust that it will be available if I actually need it. The powers that be are gunning for ivermectin in a big way.
Y’all drinking the fish tank cleaner too? Just because bad orange man told you too, right?
No, I bought the fish tank cleaner for my wife.
#KORY2021
Does anyone know off the top of their head why pusher prop planes don’t work as well as planes with the propellers in front?
Stability is part of the issue. Having never flown a pusher though, I don’t know all the ins and outs.
Okay. thanks. I was mostly just curious, but not so much that I was going to skip my work meetings to start combing the internet.
There also appears to be an issue with an interruption of the laminar flow of air across the wings (turbulence) that decreases the efficiency of the pusher prop.
sounds like fun
“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.” ~ Dwight Eisenhower
This is why the Scottish aeroplane business never got off the ground.
I thought it was not enough throost.
Once air travel was legalized, no one needed pusher props anymore.
*applause*
Generally 2 things: cooling and controllability. Unless it’s a turboprop, getting the cooling right is surprisingly difficult and burning up engines is hurtfully spendy. Mostly it’s controllability: propwash over the elevator and rudder on the tail is very important, especially in the low-speed parts of the envelope. That contributes to stability as well.
Thank you.
’cause they’re going backwards?
The Convair B-36 says hello.
Pulling is far more efficient than pushing. Especially when metals or aerodynamics are involved.
The string analogy is an excellent one.
And the most beautiful one
https://youtu.be/9FJVxtTNjJk
“Even though I’m vaccinated, I’ll wear a mask just to piss the mask shamers off.”
Bless your heart.
Ass Wednesday sez BAN HIGH WAISTED PANTS
https://archive.li/kyG7T
Does anyone know off the top of their head why pusher prop planes don’t work as well as planes with the propellers in front?
Weight distribution?
No understeer ?
I would guess turbulence in the airflow over the props.
Lol: AMC: An Open Letter To The Apes – The Stock Market And Reality
All of the above says “Sell AMC”
*AMC’s earnings prospects can’t come close to supporting the current stock price. Gravity will do its job.
*If you don’t want to own a movie theater, don’t own the stock.
*AMC short sellers are driven more by common sense than by some conspiracy.
*AMC’s stock price contains an enormous emotional content, and a change in those fickle emotions will change the stock price quickly.
This guy really cares about the meme stock holders.
Disclosure: I am/we are short AMC. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
The author of that letter is intentionally missing the point. The apes are punishing the naked shorters. This isn’t about intrinsic value, it’s about Wall Street rigging the game.
There are worse rallying cries than, “we can stay retarded longer than you can stay solvent”.
And a certain segment of the population is not in it for the money they are all about invading Wall Street’s walled garden and shitting up the place and I am not opposed to that at all. It is good that these types are reminded that dice do not have memory and your various formulae are not going to dissuade actors that don’t have the same goals as you do.
Makes me think of the Shooter McGavin’s reaction to the unwashed masses going to golf tournaments in Happy Gilmore. (Back when Adam Sandler made funny movies)
And that’s what it is about: the elite are pissed that the unwashed fucking masses had the temerity to come at their racket and beat them doing it…
They identify with the Randolph brothers in Trading Places.
I don’t want to own a movie theater but I do want the author of that article to suffer for his hubris.
That’s half of my emotional burden for the last six years. I’m trying to be more than that. They just won’t leave me be.
There’s nothing wrong with that, just don’t go overboard. It’s just human nature after all.
Wait, American Motors is still a thing? It’s not too late for me to get a new Pacer?
People 75 and older have accounted for about 57% of all Covid-19 deaths in the US, but the balance was shifted in May, with 59% of deaths among those under the age of 75 for that month, CDC data shows.
Instead, those between the ages of 50 and 64 have represented a significantly larger share of deaths recently. In May, about a quarter of deaths occurred in this age group, compared to 16% of total deaths throughout the pandemic.
And adults under 40 represented about 3% of Covid-19 deaths in May, more than double their share of total deaths since the pandemic began.
Age of victims is plummeting. PLUMMETING, I tell you!
Now do total numbers in each of those age groups. They’re eliding the truth.
The low hanging one foot in the grave fruit has been plucked already so of course this is going to happen.
Also telling that they use percentages instead of actual numbers.
Huge red flag that signals that if real numbers were used people would realize the good news that deaths have cratered.
Wouldn’t people 75 and older account for most deaths of any cause at all?
Culture of Death Exhibit 773,344,810
https://twitter.com/carly_manes/status/1392270547535515649
“Mommy loves you soooo much that she couldn’t possibly bear the idea of you having to share her love with any other child!”
I was always pro-choice until it turned into the weird death-cult that it has become over the last 30 years. It took you people to open my eyes. I’m still agnostic about the issue but that’s probably because I’m safe from having to deal with it personally.
I was pro-life for most of my life but have shifted positions over the last decade plus. I do agree with OBJ below, though. It isn’t exactly something to be blasé about, much less proud of.
I don’t care where you come down on abortion, you have to be grossed out at the, ‘Shout your abortion’ crowd. Those people are vile.
Anyone that “Shouts” is usually vile.
There are exceptions, of course.
I’m dumb enough, and drunk enough to click. But I know what it is….
I knew it.
However, this is superior.
Agreed; first album is better than the big hit one.
Poor Roland gets biffed in the eye pretty well by one of those paper aeroplanes!
So safe, legal, and rare is out? Even if it is just strictly a medical procedure it’s no more a point of pride than having an ingrown toenail removed.
Reminds me of people who brag about their time served in prison.
Dude, you fucked up royaly, what’s to be proud of?
How else am I supposed to find meaning if I can’t take pride in my past surgery?
Their next book — “What’s a sacrifice to Tlaloc, anyway?” is sure to be a big hit…
Tears to help the rains come.
“Health equity plays into this because as we have learned over the past year, we are not safe until we are all safe,” Cooper said. “As long as some people in our society don’t have what they need to stay healthy, we are all at risk of the infection spreading, overwhelming our health systems and leading to lockdowns that harm all of us through their negative effects of our psychological and social well-being, our physical health and our economic stability.”
Experts stress that continued vaccination efforts are critical to stop the spread of the virus and prevent more deaths.
Obviously, we need more effective means of encouragement.
It takes the jab, or it gets the hose.
Oh yea. The virus just “led to” lockdowns. There was no human will or volition there.
Kind of like if an abusive husband told his wife, “Honey, when you fail to have the dishes done and dinner on the table when I get home, it leads to beatings that give you black eyes and hurt my knuckles. Why don’t you just have those things done so that we don’t have to suffer those consequences anymore??”
Death is a social construct
The dangerous Delta variant poses a risk to the United States as the country works to ease out of the Covid-19 pandemic, but experts say the nation has the tools needed to overcome the threat — if the public takes advantage of them.
“Covid-19 vaccines are available for everyone ages 12 and up,” US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said at a White House briefing Tuesday. “They are nearly 100% effective against severe disease and death — meaning nearly every death due to Covid-19 is particularly tragic, because nearly every death, especially among adults, due to Covid-19 is at this point entirely preventable.”
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“This virus is an opportunist,” Walensky said. “As long as there are those who are not vaccinated, Covid-19 will remain a threat.”
You just have to believe harder. If you take the doomsday cult sacrament, the Devil cannot enter. SCIENCE! will make us immortal.
“This virus is an opportunist,” Walensky said. “As long as there are those who are not vaccinated, (insert virulent pathogen here) will remain a threat.”
And still we pretend that natural immunity ceased to exist at the onset of the ‘vid.
It’s insane.
Alleged scientists unironically anthropomorphizing a virus and giving it traits like ‘opportunist’ out themselves as either an idiot or science worshipper.
The paper, Apple Daily, had managed to survive the arrest of its founder and of its editor in chief, and of several top executives. But last week, the government froze its bank accounts, crippling the paper’s operations.
Government is asshoe.
Yanna goes to the cottage. He smokes crack, they drink vodka, have sex, make porn. He balances a line of M&Ms on his erect penis and takes photographs of it.
Is Hunter a closet Glib?
But some vaccinated people who will keep wearing masks have personal reasons for keeping mouths and noses covered. They range from having immunocompromised family members to simply having enjoyed a year of not getting as many colds as in years past. Some people plan to keep masking in transit areas in hopes of avoiding all germs from fellow travelers. Others said they have family or friends in health care who have always worn face coverings and plan to follow their lead.
Translation: There is something wrong with these people.
1. Totalitarian govt is totalitarian
2. I have never hired a prostitute or put M&Ms on my dick
3. They are hypochondriacs.
4. Links confirm we are drowning in an ocean of stupid. I am going to buy vodka.
You know, if the government didn’t have a long track record of giving questionable shots to minorities without their knowledge and approval, they might not have such a hard time selling minorities on the efficacy of the vaccine.
The government made this bed. Now they have to sleep in it.
No, its a big cozy bed and we’ll be compelled to sleep in it, fleas and all.
Procrustes, is that you?
I’m getting a T-Cell test today to see if I was infected by COVID last year. The test is a measure of the T-cells not antibodies, so it should tell me if I was truly sick from COVID last year or if I’m fooling myself. It will also tell me if I still have substantial immunity or not. This is my way of getting more information to make my vaccine decision.
It should take a week or so to get the results. $200 out of pocket.
Good plan. Which company are you going through?
https://www.adaptivebiotech.com/
I believe they are the only ones who have the test and are widely available. You can order the test and they send the orders to a LabCorp draw center.
https://www.t-detect.com/
The actual product.
Thank you. Good information.
Thanks
Interesting. Any advice on how to obtain one?
Last week or so I saw an in-home antigen test for the Kung Flu antibodies; FDA “conditionally” approved. $25.
I may give it a shot.
The one I noted above is a T-Cell test and is intended to see if you were infected it will go back months to years depending on how long the T-cells exist for COVID (this is part of the research they are also doing). It also has emergency FDA approval, same as the vaccines.
If you had it and survived, you have immunity. Becoming immune is how you survive. Its pretty tautological, I believe.
Bullshit. I have a hard time believing where I live is some outlier to access to a vax if you want it. You can’t go a day without some piece of advertising pushing you to make more money for Pfizer, Moderna or J&J and where to do it.
It’s nonsense, younger people aren’t getting it because they don’t need it and minorities aren’t getting it because they don’t trust it. It has little if any to do with access and they’re well aware.
There are a shit-load of us not getting it because we don’t need it.
There are a shit-load of us not getting it because we don’t
needtrust it.FIFY!
Joe Biden will put an end to this
On Tuesday, the Arvada Police Department chief identified John Hurley as the Good Samaritan who was killed during Monday’s shooting in Olde Town.
The chief called Hurley a “true hero.”.” Witnesses told Denver7 that Hurley confronted the gunman.
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Bill Troyanos was working at the Arvada Army Navy Surplus store on Monday afternoon when Hurley walked into the business. He said Hurley was inside for just a few minutes when they heard gunshots outside and saw the gunman in the plaza. Troyanos said Hurley swiftly pulled his gun from his holster and jumped into action.
“He did not hesitate; he didn’t stand there and think about it. He totally heard the gunfire, went to the door, saw the shooter and immediately ran in that direction,” Troyanos said. “I just want to make sure his family knows how heroic he was.”
That “good guy with a gun” myth needs to be stamped out, once and for all. It never happens in real life.
Damn.
I always hate reading about those kind of tie games, but they do happen, more often than anyone likes to talk about.
But still a bit of nice work, Mr. Hurley. You made a difference when it actually counted.
Am I too cynical when my immediate thought is “the cops mistook Hurley for the gunman and shot him”?
Not one bit.
That would indeed be the cynical view.
But, although it pains me to say it, cops as a whole are usually pretty good about not inadvertently blasting the guy defending himself.
In the 20-odd cases I know of, where a private citizen engaged a public spree killer, I’m unaware of any in which the responding cops shot the defender.
So, not impossible, but more likely that Hurley caught one in the gunfight and bled out.
Glad to hear my more cynical take isn’t necessarily the right one.
Ya, me too. but until confirmed, I am leaning that way. It is Denver.
I really hope I’m right about it.
Still, best policy is to not have the gun in your hand when the cops show up.
That would seem prudent.
Meanwhile, in Hawaii.
Wasn’t this the premise of Top Gun?
Needs MOAR Jack Lord
Pushback against goings on in the Black Sea:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-black-sea-fleet-fired-warning-shots-near-british-destroyer
Weird video…great song.
Ya, I like that song.
And still we pretend that natural immunity ceased to exist at the onset of the ‘vid.
It’s different this time!!!!!
Best Headline to ever appear in the NYT?
“If you can’t beat em, seize their assets. Of course, our government will not say a damn thing about this. Why? Probably because they wish they had this power themselves.”
It’s not that they aren’t trying. So far, the democrats just send letters out to get media outlets they don’t like shut down. But soon enough if they continue to be successful at election fraud, they’ll be doing the same here. I’m sure all that money they’re shoveling into the IRS will help that effort.
The slope that started with banning state-legal pot businesses from banking, went on to choking off banking access to some gun businesses, can easily include blocking “subversive insurrectionist” publications as well.
“serving as a gateway for all women to become riders in a comfortable and safe environment. ”
Must they suck the joy out of everything? Pun intended.
Ex-gf (OG-1X-OG) was a member of a ladies-only motorcycle club ~15 years ago?
Having rode with them, and partied with them….those bitches are seriously empowered.
While the psyops dnc operatives with bylines are ignoring a huge story about the top Chicomm CCP intelligence defector NOT going to the usual suspects (the CIA, NSA, or FBI) but choosing to go to the DIA, some are pointing out that the problem is our intelligence network is compromised by it’s political agenda. The guy specifically going to the DIA is huge. He chose military intelligence over the other government entities because he KNEW they were not just compromised because of their politics and the fact that their political masters are bought & paid for by China’s CCP.
There is a reason that the FBI is running ops to allow team blue to pretend that team red or anyone opposed to team blue’s agenda are terrorists. It’s the same reason that our non military intel agencies chose to lie to a president and to the media about the origins of the Kung Flu and the shit China did once it escaped their lab.
Well, it looks like there may be something that will turn D’s against Chipman
Jones said the former ATF agent recalled Chipman saying: “Wow, there were an unusually large number of African American agents that passed the exam this time. They must have been cheating.”
According to Jones, the former ATF agent was “incensed” upon hearing Chipman’s comment and reported the incident to the EEOC.
I wonder who the second choice is?
So he’ll get shitcanned for mild bigotry but not for participating in mass murder.
Got it.
Don’t think he participated in it – he just gloried in it afterwards.
So the motorcycle accident I came upon the other morning made the paper – https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-motorcycle-crash-light-pole-rockaway-queens-20210621-ap3dvknsgzebvcgk2niju4ijwy-story.html
Poor fellow was only a block from his house, but was travelling so fast he hopped a curb onto a wide grassy median, and hit the giant light post with enough force to shear it off at the concrete base. Part of the memorial is his helmet, painted white, on a white wooden cross. The helmet is complete cracked in half, split from the visor all the over the crown and down to the collar. SLOW DOWN!!!
Ugh. My neighbor’s wife died when some kid in a jacked-up truck blew a tire and crossed the median. Her sick sad white cross still stands lo these many years later. Death corner. Lost my first dog there.
Paging Dr. Darwin, Dr. Charles Darwin.
When people aren’t the First of Firsters, they feel insecure when attempting to be First and they took needless risks. Instead of trusting the universe to bend to the Firstness, they try to bend themselves.
“Pawel Boszczyk, 37, was a block away from his apartment…”
37 ?
Either it was his 1st bike, or he was drunk/high. Or both. As someone thats ridden for almost 20 years, he should know better.
Damn. Could have been me a hundred times in my ute. I was (some would argue still am) dumb as dog shit. Luckily I could only afford the Ninja of the 500cc variety and it only barely topped 100mph. 110 I reached once on the A1A between Jupiter and Hobe Sound on a pitch black night.
A1A ?
Detroit Avenue !
Correction. US1. The A1A is not that stretch of road. It was 1988(?) so forgive my misremembering. As to roads, I renewed both my DL and vehicle registration today, so if you drive on CO roads soon, you are welcome! Motherfuckers. Fees, fees, and more fees. Even a fee to hire more DMV employees….
OBEY
The Federal Aviation Administration is cracking down on rowdy passengers, announcing $124,500 in proposed fines on Tuesday against eight passengers who allegedly refused to wear a mask, drank their own booze on planes, or assaulted flight attendants.
That brings the total to $563,800 in fines that the FAA has doled out this year against dozens of passengers. The agency has received 3,100 reports of unruly behavior in 2021, 2,350 of which were related to passengers refusing to wear face masks.
One of the fines announced Tuesday was for a Southwest Airlines passenger who repeatedly refused to wear a face mask. A customer service supervisor eventually tried to escort him off the plane and the passenger hit him in the jaw.
My sympathy for those who get on airplanes is extremely limited. It’s not as if the mask rule is a big secret.
The airlines and the FAA are working hand in hand to make flying a Hellish nightmare, but that won’t stop the bailouts. Maybe it’s part of their plan to get more trains.
“… who allegedly refused to wear a mask, drank their own booze on planes, or assaulted flight attendants.”
Why not all 3 at once ?
I had no idea it was against the law to drink your own booze on an airplane. They sell bottles of it in the airport. What other purpose would one buy a bottle of liquor in an airport for aside from drinking it on the plane?
Duty free stores have the special bags that seal. But you can bring airplane bottles of booze through the TSA checkpoints. If you’re planning ahead that much, you should also probably have an empty bottle that you brought through the checkpoint as well.
Apparently the only use is to stick it up a stewardesses bung-hole.
Right on cue
Airports around the country will share $8 billion in federal grants to help them recover from the pandemic, which caused a steep drop in air travel and a loss of revenue that airports expect from airlines and passengers.
Most of the money will go to big airports with commercial airline service. They will share $6.5 billion based on the number of passenger boardings, plus another $800 million to offer rent relief to companies that operate concessions such as food and retail outlets in terminals.
Airports must keep at least 90% of the workers they had before the pandemic to receive one of the grants, which will handled by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Congress approved the money as part of a pandemic-relief measure that President Joe Biden signed in March. The Biden administration said the grants would protect airport jobs and construction projects as travel recovers.
Bailouts for everybody!
Why not all 3 at once ?
Hunter Biden, is that you?
But it’s an EMERGENCY
In Friday’s ruling, Merryday ordered that the CDC’s requirements would “persist as only a non-binding ‘consideration,’ ‘recommendation’ or ‘guideline’” beginning July 18. At that point, cruise ships could sail without being forced to meet the CDC’s instructions. Merryday added the CDC could propose new, narrower instructions that were “within CDC’s authority” by July 2.
He concluded Florida is “highly likely” to win its legal argument that the CDC’s conditional sail orders “exceed the authority [Congress] delegated” through 42 U.S. Code § 264, the statute allowing the CDC to issue regulations to prevent diseases. If such sweeping restrictions are within the authority of that statute, Merryday continued, then the statute itself “likely constitutes an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to CDC.” In other words, the CDC isn’t Congress and shouldn’t be acting like it.
“The CDC has been wrong all along, and they knew it,” DeSantis said in response to the ruling. “The CDC and the Biden administration concocted a plan to sink the cruise industry, hiding behind bureaucratic delay and lawsuits.” The court order, he added, was a victory “for every state that wants to preserve its rights in the face of unprecedented federal overreach.”
The CDC is going to make death a thing of the past, if only we would let them.
Ah, I need to bow out. Getting too mean-spirited. I have Quiznos! ‘Night, Glibbies!
Night Festus!
We need to give this gentleman that prevented his car from being carjacked an award…
From the replies: Can you even drive a stick N****? lol. That was the line!
That is the best anti theft device. Three pedals.
Holy fucknuts i completely lost it there. I’m such an awful person.
Also, what the hell? A bunch of white cops rolled up on a black guy holding a gun on another black guy, and they didn’t all burn a couple of clips into everyone around?
Also, bitch, he got extendos.
I got car-jacked once.
Fortunately, I didnt get any on the seat.
/Hey-Ohhhh
That’s why I only want to date swallowers…
Looks like he needs more mags.
I love everything about that video. Including how polite the armed citizen is to the woman on 911 and the cops versus how he’s cussin’ the would be car jacker like a dog.
Yeah, I caught that too. Dudes got some high-level social intelligence – he’s talking to each person using the language that they’ll understand.
Dude, maybe keep your finger off the trigger when you’re point a gun at a guy on the ground who has surrendered.
Well, yeah. Which of us is perfect?
I’m surprised he didn’t catch a false imprisonment charge or somesuch.
Progressive
Can you make an exchange-traded fund out of activist investing?
Earlier this month, Engine No. 1 came out of nowhere and won three Exxon Mobil board seats after a six-month proxy fight. The company says Exxon needed to significantly reduce emissions and move toward a cleaner energy strategy.
Now, they are starting an ETF to promote their methods. Engine No. 1 Transform 500 ETF (VOTE) begins trading Wednesday.
The company says it is seeking “to encourage transformational change at the public companies” and that it will try to “measure the investment made by companies in their employees, communities, customers and the environment with financial, operational, and environmental, social and governance (‘ESG’) metrics.”
It is attracting outsized attention because it is the intersection between three hot investing themes: ETFs, ESG and activist investing.
When we said “coexist” we meant total subjugation of anybody who disagrees with us.
Nothing outside the collective hive mind will be tolerated.
So their mission is to seize control via minority ownership of target companies and then destroy them, while government barriers to entry keep new competitors from effectively emerging? Just wonderful.
Pretty much, yes.
Looks like Sarwark has quit the LP.
Reason haz a sad.
Heh…..Tom Woods latest episode he went a bit off on the LP schism happening. Rather entertaining.
The “prags” are having a hissy fit. Their commitment to liberty went only so far as their ability to remain in charge of a thoroughly unsuccessful political party.
I find it hilarious.
If they want to be in charge of an unsuccessful political party, I hear that the GOP is hiring.
*snort
A lot of this boils down to woke culture infesting the LP.
They simply cannot tolerate being within seven degrees of separation from a “racist” and this prevents them from endorsing actual individual liberty.
The Sarwark LP brigade was well on its way to becoming an analogue of the ACLU.
I remember when they defended the Illinois Nazis from government while still not endorsing the Nazis’ message.
Oh how times have changed. The ACLU is woke central and the Libertarian party wanted the Government to force you to bake a gay Illinois nazi wedding cake.
That was back when the ACLU had some actual adults working for them, rather than the current crop of emotionally stunted man-children.
Kind of like the LP
Sarwark is one of the most insufferable people on Twitter. When you consider what a high bar that is to clear…
A lot of this boils down to woke culture infesting the LP.
They simply cannot tolerate being within seven degrees of separation from a “racist” and this prevents them from endorsing actual individual liberty.
See above:
“When we said “coexist” we meant total subjugation of anybody who disagrees with us.”
From ToS:
The outgoing chair had lost the confidence of many Libertarians, and not just Mises Caucus members, by lending support to a highly irregular attempt on June 12 by the LPNH’s then-chair, Jilletta Jarvis, to break away from the existing state L.P. and form a new one, seizing the former’s digital assets in an attempt to regain control of a Twitter feed that had since the party’s convention in March made headlines by saying stuff like “John McCain’s brain tumor saved more lives than Anthony Fauci.”
That’s gold Jerry… GOLD!
“John McCain’s brain tumor saved more lives than Anthony Fauci.”
They wanted less of that? Did they think that would drive away potential LP members? Jeez, read the room.
They never gave two fucks about the room unless it was the room the elbow rubbing cocktail party was being held in.
I think I finally understand what committed losers the libertarian party really were. Nobody gets into libertarianism through the libertarian party.
Hah!
The NH LP drama has been quite popcorn worthy.
It’s a beautiful line.
If there’s one thing the Trump presidency showed, it’s that the “age of decorum” is long since over. That line is not only rude and funny, it’s also 100% true.
“John McCain’s brain tumor saved more lives than Anthony Fauci.”
True. However, McCain, his tumor, and inflated self-worth killed more sailors and wrecked more airplanes than Fauci has.
Not quite a draw, but 2 equally contemptible assholes. McCain and John Glenn held hands and ran away from the Keating 5 mess singing “tra la la la la”.
Dave Barry said the Keating 5 were called the Keating 5 because calling them prostitutes with lawyers would be a violation of the libel laws.
Daddy bailed him out each time he fucked-up during his Navy career.
Got to love that totality of circumstances got thrown back into LE faces in Lange today. No the semi-pursuit of a misdemeanent does not automatically constitute exigent circumstances.