I realize you probably all know about this, in fact you probably discussed this ad naseum. I don’t care, I just wanted to post this delightful picture.
Its like…I hate that guy.
They really aren’t sending their best. Trying to jump the fence in July is stupid.
So Mexico might not be the worst place on Earth?
Right. China won the vaccine PR war. Just ask Chile how 67% effectiveness sounds.
Of course they won’t say anything, they’re communists.
If you don’t bring guns, you won’t change anything.
Anyone want to run guns to Cuba?
At least NPR was willing to admit its a communist regime.
I swear I was not expecting this when I looked up this song.
Tan temprano! Are you sure these are the Enlaces Mexicanos?
Goddamnit. Sorry Trsh.
No worries
I have a meeting this afternoon at 1300. Got my times switched.
I just figured Mexico had shifted to DST.
I had to sign in to confirm my age for a bloody BOC video?
It’s probably the live one where he says “Holy Shit! It’s Godzilla!” in the intro to the song.
I can’t imagine the US government under this administration would be at all accommodating to anyone caught smuggling guns to Cuba. Unless it was, say, the Venezuelans.
Or Chinese.
Don’t be silly y’all. Biden is sending in his ace, Kamala, to get this under control. She’ explain to them that’s not real communism and don’t come here, you’ve got the best healthcare in the world.
She would be the natural choice since she has a Caribbean background. And she needs a foreign policy win.
Would you call that a compound fracture?
I would call that a compound fracture.
Seeing that made my nuts crawl up into my lungs.
I had no idea what that was a picture of until I saw what looked like a weird photoshop effect. Then I had the same feeling you did.
I think I’m a bad person. I want Cuban protestors to storm the Capitol building in DC.
Reverse Bay of Pigs, if you will.
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I don’t know why this posted here. I blame commie squirrels.
No, no, no. “Reverse Bay of Pigs” is when the girl takes her…
I’m not sure I understand, db. Can you draw me a picture? ;^)
I thought you were going to say you’re a bad person because you enjoy watching video of injuries like that (or Alex Smith’s, or Christian Eriksen).
Speaking of weird photoshop effects….
https://nypost.com/2021/07/09/intelligence-agency-busted-for-blatant-photoshop-job-on-report-cover/
That’s one of the worst photoshops I think I’ve seen outside of a meme board.
The funny part is the original image was shopped as well. Look at the shadows on the floor.
And the lack of legs on people in the back row.
LOL. The guy in the middle row just right of center has some clubbed feet. There’s a disability for you.
Notice also how they put all the black people in a group on the left. Couldn’t be bothered to interspersed them throughout the photo.
LOL!
It’s shitty photoshops all the way down.
Compound means breaking skin, yes?
It’s been a long time since I was an EMT. I had to look it up. I can’t tell if bone broke through the skin or not.
yes: that is exactly correct
Compound fractures are when the bone breaks the skin. Also called open fractures.
Not sure if that’s a compound fracture or not, but it doesn’t look like it.
Oh, and don’t click that link if . . . well, probably just don’t click that link.
Having watched it live…over and over again….it did not break the skin.
Hopefully it broke his ego.
I have no intention of clicking that link or any link in this subthread.
How the fuck did he do that?
He had compound interest.
Anyone want to run guns to Cuba?
Do I get to bang Ingrid Bergman?
…
Ah, hell, the answer is still ‘Yes’.
Hello, fellow Libertarians! Who would like to run guns with me to Cuba? Great opportunities await us!
Guns are bad, mmkay?
Hey, if F-Troop wants to get in on the party, who am I to object? Just so long as they understand that I’ll be taking payment in rum, cigars, and classic ragtops…
At least if anything happens to you, you’ll have access to the best healthcare on earth.
“They really aren’t sending their best. Trying to jump the fence in July is stupid.”
That proves it. Donald Trump and global warming to blame.
We got rid of the first problem. Now we need to replace that wall with awnings and water sprinklers. How about some nice kiosks every 100 yards or so from El Salvador all the way up to the border serving lemonade and cocktails, to make the trip more safe and comfy? I bet Pelosi and the squad will volunteer to run the kiosks 24/7. Kamala can stop by for a photo op. America is back! Democracy has won!
That sounds nice. Imagine Pelosi serving cocktails to non-special, dirty people like us. How much fun would that be? AOC dancing around under the sprinklers.
Winner of wet t-shirt contest.
Slip ‘n Slides.
“So Mexico might not be the worst place on Earth?”
Can’t be, they have real socialism now.
Also they have great food, music, lovely beaches, etc. Try as it might, communism can’t totally ruin those things, right?
Wrong.
“China won the vaccine PR war. Just ask Chile how 67% effectiveness sounds.”
You would think the manipulators of the virus would have the best vaccine. Oh well.
What happened to Chile anyway? They seemed to be the best place in SA at one time. Did they get real socialism?
IIRC from a recent election, yes.
Am I running so far behind today or are afternoon links early?
Very early.
Sharpshooter tends to be premature.
That’s what she said?
Yes.
Yes, and it caused some watchchecking as I just surfaced from a 4 hour conference call with associated loss of consciousness. Still not time for lunch.
I remember when I thought that attending meetings, conference calls, etc. was a good thing and that my input would be somehow valuable.
I was very, very wrong.
Turns out it was my boss pawning off crappy, pointless meetings on me.
Hah. Me too.
OBJ, did you used to work for me?
::thinks it’s an hour until time to go home, realizes it’s not, haz a sad ?::
What kind of trickery is this?
It’s good to be reminded that all our socialist politicians are supportive of the communist regime in cuba
My bad…
On closer inspection, one might observe that Mexican Sharpshooter has…
…missed his mark.
You forgot:
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YEEEEAAAHHH!
Your anti-Firsting conspiracy doesn’t matter. Nothing can hold me down. NOTHING.
Not even duct tape?
I am the one who does the duct taping.
You’re an HVAC tech?
You know what? I have to return some video tapes.
I’ll be back at 8:00PM.
Silence is Golden, Duct Tape is Silver.
Sounds like an arbitrage opportunity.
Damn you, Noble Silver!!
You said I should diversify my IRA!
Shapppppiiiiirooooo!
Is being spied on by the communist Chinese any worse than being spied on by Facebook/Google and our own government?
No as Facebook, Google, and our government are all probably so compromised by Chinese intelligence that there isn’t much difference.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/breaking-fourth-circuit-rules-federal-law-banning-handgun-sales-to-adults-under-21-unconstitutional/
Huh.
Breaking along party lines of course.
The Democrat judges simply have zero respect for the constitution. The GOP ones aren’t a lot better, but FFS. 18 year olds join the army and get shot at, but they can’t buy a firearm?
FFS. 18 year olds
join the army and get shot atare adults, but they can’t buy a firearm?That law is blatantly unconstitutional, and has been on the books for how long now? The opinion should have been unanimous, and should have been three sentences long.
People between 18 and 20 years old are adults, and have full protection against unconstitutional infringements on their rights. Prohibiting them from buying a gun is an infringement on their right to keep and bear arms, as protected by the Second Amendment. The statute is hereby ruled void ab initio, is stricken from the books, and the Department of Justice is ordered to seek the immediate release of any person imprisoned for violating this law, is further ordered to completely redact any reference to conviction under this law from all records, and is further ordered to establish a restitution fund for persons convicted under this unconstitutional law.
Of course, there are still too more opportunities for our courts to do the wrong thing – at the inevitable en banc hearing, and at SCOTUS. I have faith they won’t miss these opportunities.
See, I’m not too optimistic about this. The law in question doesn’t prevent sub-21-year-olds from buying all firearms, only handguns. If the question were to come down to the prohibition (or delayed allowance of ownership) to a *class of firearms*, there’s plenty of law for a higher court to fall back on to uphold this.
The hopeful optimist in me wishes this could be the basis for overturning the NFA, and foreclosing any sort of “assault weapon” ban, but I fear it will not go that way.
Of course, the fact that any adult can be denied the right to own a class of firearms is just further proof that we have a garbage judiciary.
And that’s without even getting into other “arms”, like artillery.
Yep. Reading comprehension is not the judiciary’s strong suit, ironically.
9 of the 15 judges on that court were appointed by Obama, in case you were wondering.
Confident prediction: The en banc court rules the law is perfectly Constitutional, and SCOTUS refuses the appeal, leaving the law to stand.
“The Democrat judges simply have zero respect for the constitution. The GOP ones aren’t a lot better, but FFS. 18 year olds join the army and get shot at, but they can’t buy a firearm?”
Those aren’t real people they’re shooting at, just dirty brown sheep farmers.
Anyway, all guns laws are unconstitutional, so easy call.
Whoa. Someone remind me which states are covered by the Fourth Circuit?
Mid Atlantic
Downey ocean, hon.
I enacted my own labor: WV, MD, DE, VA, NC, SC, and District of Columbia
OOOPS, *Not including DE*
Also, not including DC. That’s the DC Circuit. There is also a separate Federal Circuit (WTF).
I blame wikipedia and its map that puts DC in the same color as the surrounding others.
This is just Lucy setting up the football so Roberts and Kavanaugh can jump out of the bushes and punch us in the nads
https://www.ktvu.com/news/meth-addiction-in-fish-poses-threat-to-ecosystem-balance-study-says
That’s a headline I never thought I’d read.
I need to learn how to apply for research grants.
The Tweaker Trouts
Dibs on the band name.
Meth Head Mullets
Meth-Mouth Bass
Explains Billy Bass I guess.
Its a garbage study.
No indication of what levels of meth the fish are exposed to in the study, no indication of what levels of meth are found in treated water and, most importantly, no recognition of the fact that trout live in cold “upstream” waters, not in the kind of water you find downstream from sewage treatment plants.
“We got high and thought it would be cool to see what trout would do if we fed them a bunch of meth.”
“Some for the fishies…some for me.”
But you’d also expect some meth cookin’ and stream pissing in those cold upstream waters. Got to keep awake while you’re running that moonshine still, after all.
In fairness, about 90% of the studies that get published have serious problems. There are a ton of journals and publish or perish is a very real thing. A lot of stuff that is peer reviewed was apparently reviewed by a cadre of howler monkeys and gets put out into distribution with glaring errors in methodology, including study design, sampling, blinding, calculations….you name it.
I saw a study once that was published showing that you are more likely to survive a cardiac arrest if someone is there to witness it. I wish I was making that up.
Makes sense to me. The witness can call 911.
Do brown trout swim in Philadelphia? I think I’m noticing a trend with your posts, Sean.
“Do brown trout swim in Philadelphia?”
They tried, but they were all killed in drive by shootings.
But will the trout turn gay?
Maybe if we make them listen to dubstep while they’re on meth?
How much money can we get for that sudy?
*study
Probably millions, but then we’d have to listen to dubstep.
Wrong. You contract the study out to a Chinese lab for 10% of the grant, buy yourself a 7-series BMW, and put the remaining million into a nice new apartment building near campus.
No, but $20 is $20.
Fucking fish. Up all night, taking peoples boats apart and never putting them back together. Thrashing about so fast they churn the water. Can’t we find some fish heroin and let them speedball for awhile, so the other sea creatures can get some rest?
“Demonstrators expressing solidarity with the thousands of Cubans who waged a rare weekend of protests around their island nation shut down part of a major South Florida expressway on Tuesday.”
Don’t shut down highways. You’ll just piss off the normies.
Plus, commies love to make sure the infrastructure is not obstructed.
This really pisses me off. When BLM/Antifa did it, I was fine with motorists driving right through. I support the Cuban protestors and I’m still fine with it.
I just got to honk and thumb’s up a group of about 10. They had a sign that read, end communism free Cuba! They weren’t blocking nothing.
”end communism”
Take the Cubans back to Cali with that message. Going back to cali, back to Cali, back to cali. I’m going back to Cali, umm I don’t think so.
There doing something similar here in Orlando.
Sheriff Joe’s going to have to send in the troops to stop another insurrection.
#DroneFail
“This autocurler needs improvement”
She said she wanted braids.
LOL … I mean… that’s mean, that right here is an ouchy, mister!
“TOO WOKE FOR WAR
‘Every officer is up to speed on diversity training. Not so much ship handling’: Scathing official report finds US Navy is not fit for war because of risk averse, politically correct, control-freak top brass”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9783807/Navy-disarray-focusing-diversity-training-warfighting-report-says.html
Even if the ChiComs aren’t behind this, the wokesters are doing their best to render the US impotent and powerless to respond to military threats. But they’ve always hated America anyway.
Zing! That one is going to leave a mark.
Of course, nobody cares.
Every ship that collides with another or catches fire is another opportunity to create jobs building a new one. It’s like you guys don’t even Keynesian.
There’s a joke in there somewhere about Seamen and the Broken Window Phallusy, but I can’t find it. And it’s Beer:30, so time’s up.
But woke apologia is our strength!
A navy that can’t identify all 57 genders doesn’t deserve to be in business.
Well then, we need to outsource our military to the H.J. Heinz corporation!
Maybe then they’ll ketchup to where they need to be.
THANK YOU! You get more of what you prioritize. Prioritize woke shit, and you get people who focus on woke shit. Prioritize doing a good job at your job functions and you get people who focus on doing their jobs. This is not rocket science.
My company (((owners))) are doing a very good job keeping woke shit out. And I think they are very smart to do so.
Too bad all my coworkers are constantly complaining about being oppressed. Oh wait, no they aren’t.
That shit is going to destroy a lot of bigger companies.
And the worse it gets, the likelier it becomes that any genuine conflict will go nuclear. It’s not that we’re going to lose, it’s that if we’re in danger of losing we’ll unleash the missiles.
Probably this.
We’re panicky assholes.
All militaries [amongst other organizations] are. “Losing is not an option!”
Refreshing….
So, what does this mean? That Trump’s SecNav refused to belay the diversity training and other crap that the “official report” found? I know, I know: Trump just needed another four years to MAGA.
Some evidence for the “lefties are overconfident and moving too fast” theory.
Did you know that energy is not created or destroyed? And that for windmills to work, they have to slow down the wind?
Offshore wind turbines are slowing down the wind, disrupting the oceans! Therefore they’re not renewable and we have to reduce electricity consumption (i.e. population) accordingly:
https://earthwiseradio.org/podcast/wind-farms-slowing-each-other-down/
Did you know that energy is not created or destroyed? And that for windmills to work, they have to slow down the wind?
That is nearly a verbatim transcript of nightly conversations that took place in a certain dorm room in 1972 where there may or may not have been heavy consumption of a certain herb, possession of which was at that time highly illegal. The author of this article appears to have been indulging to excess.
“Republicans in the Texas State House voted 76-4 on Tuesday to arrest the runaway Democrats who fled to Washington D.C. to break the quorum and block the passage of Governor Greg Abbott’s voting rights bills.
‘Members, a sergeant-at-arms and any officer appointed by him are directed to send for all absentees whose attendance is not excused for the purpose of securing and maintaining their attendance under warrant of arrest if necessary,’ Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announced from the State House floor.
Texas House rules allow the sergeant-at-arms to arrest members who are not present at the Capitol for a vote – and the show of disapproval Tuesday could result in the lawmakers’ arrest when they land back in the Lone Star State.
The Tuesday vote, however, doesn’t hold much weight as long as the Democrats remain in Washington since by crossing state lines they have escaped jurisdiction of Texas law enforcement. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9783703/Not-afraid-Abbott-Runaway-Texas-Dems-willing-JAIL-prepared-stay-DC.html
Hmmm. What does it take to become a bounty hunter?
At a minimum, you need a leather vest.
A big iron on your hip and some cool armor.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Iavdy2qQCrs
A cool name, like Dog.
A theme song, and a willingness to get shot for someone else’s money.
Dibs on this theme song. As long as it comes with a young Heather Thomas.
Or Markie Post. Or both!
Well, they have to return home at some time. I can see Texas imposing stricter residency requirements on their legislators.
“…have escaped jurisdiction of Texas law enforcement. ”
Yeah that doesnt work for normal folks. The divided Americas in terms of justice rears it’s beautiful head again
We never watch MMA, but we were invited to a friend’s house last weekend. I will never forget all 8 of us going “Ew! Ew! Ew!” for 10 minutes after we saw that ankle break.
You’d think that after that kind of injury and 3 hours of surgery, he’d find a little bit of humility, but nope. Somehow he’s the highest paid athlete in the world and he’s only ranked 5 or 6, and has only one once in the past 4 years.
It could be that lack of humility is what enables him to be the highest paid athlete.
That’s what I’m told. He gets people to watch, and that’s most important.
I don’t get it. You couldn’t pay me to watch that shit.
But there’s a lot of things I don’t get so there’s that.
People used to watch gladiators kill and get killed. This is slightly more civilized.
I don’t care to watch fighting – although I have and would not refuse to again.
I specifically don’t care to watch him. I am just not wired to watch people I can’t stand doing stuff.
Same reason I refuse to watch certain other individuals or teams that everyone else slobbers over but I find repugnant.
He is lucky it was his tibia and fibula and not ankle to be honest.
He should recover from that…ankle…not so much. He is an asshole but asshole sells seats and pay-per-view
How did he break them?
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1414655332928954376
The rapid rise in urbanisation is good for us and the planet.
Cities are the engine of progress, ideas, innovation, and culture.
And the average city-dweller uses less energy, emits less CO2, and has a smaller land footprint.
And the average city-dweller uses less energy, emits less CO2
Bullshit. Subsidized/indirect choices aren’t being priced in here.
That was what I was going to say upon reading that.
Fuck off, townie.
I’m a guessing that the assumption that anyone outside of a city center is some massive land owner/farmer
A couple of the big assumptions are that dense housing requires less energy to heat and cool and the residents drive less.
They probably did a per-capita analysis instead of a per-square mile analysis. Harming Gaia should be measured by how much Gaia is harmed in a certain area, not by how much an individual harms Gaia, right?
Tricknology!
Just ignore the recent unpleasantness from Wuhan.
Note the assumption that these are always and everywhere “good for us and the planet”.
Cities are the engine of progress, ideas, innovation, and culture.
I guess Baltimore didn’t get the memo.
Growing up, I always saw cities as the place where uselessness was warehoused. Nothing was made in cities, no one there worked, everything was made ‘in the country’ and shipped in. Cities were nothing but stagnation and sloth.
*note – I grew up in the rust belt
Any city in this country that’s been consistently large for more than half a century seems to fall into stagnation and decline. New York was a notable exception, but I don’t know much longer that’s going to last. There are piecemeal revivals, and isolated bouts of gentrification, but those are never quite the same as when the whole city was organically rising and in its heyday. Lots of people, and many of us here, blame politics, but if we apply Breitbart’s Maxim (“politics is downstream from culture”) on a local scale, it looks a lot like “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations” but on a societal rather than familial or corporate scale.
New York isn’t one city, it’s half a dozen. If you break it into smaller districts, the decay patterns return.
I would not describe Houston, San Antonio, Miami, Dallas, etc. as in stagnation and decline. Places like that is where the people from cities in decline tend to flee to.
Dallas and Houston are borderline, but Miami and San Antonio are babies. They haven’t had more than a million people for more than 50 years. My original terms were a bit vague, but compared to say Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, etc. the cities you listed are considerably more recent in their development.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1414961572527607812
No question that a feature of lockdown ideology targets the city for destruction. Fauci himself dabbled in this. It will not happen. The social and market forces that created the city are more powerful than the planners.
Interesting then that the lockdowners are all urbanites…
https://mobile.twitter.com/InstituteGC/status/1413063955979853829
Note that Tony Blair and Bill Clinton were pretty much the sole proof of the glories of Nineties “neoliberalism”…
About those Texas Democrats flying private to DC without masks. I was under impression that the mask requirement didn’t apply to chartered flights. I was wrong.
The politicians should be pilloried for not wearing masks on board. With prejudice. Only then they will cancel the mask mandate for the rest of us.
Why does no one seem to care about the blatant “rules only apply to the peasants” attitudes of our elites?
Because 95% of people are stuck in the “my elites v. your elites” mentality.
Yep. Politicians on a whole have the worst public outlook in terms of approval yet you ask individual persons it’s not their critter.
Many also want to be elites, or at least patronized* by the elites, and so attacking the elites themselves for being elites would curtail their own opportunities.
* = patronized in the same way a Renaissance artist was by the banks, church, or nobility
This one goes out to all the double standard politicians.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PlAoL2NPac8
Huh. That, absolutely, should be a cudgel to beat them with.
Are there fines associated with violating it?
I’m fine with them not wearing masks so long as they remove the requirement for everyone else.
Otherwise, I’d be fine with them getting the lash.
What needs to happen is people in droves this weekend refuse. Force TSA to be thugs and/or ground a shit ton of flight.
/ok..I’m back in the real world.
I’m not sure if it’s the pilots who are supposed to enforce it, but if they didn’t, coming down hard on the politicians would probably have significant consequences for the pilot in command.
Government “help”. Michigan style.
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2021/07/michigan-mistake-means-up-to-650000-could-be-forced-to-repay-unemployment-benefits.html?outputType=amp
That “sad trombone” player sure is getting a lot of work these days.
Ooh goodie. I hope they have to auction off all the guns and ammo they bought.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1415027441681240066
Democtats are ramping up the “Republicans are traitors” rhetoric. Difference is they are willing to throw a bunch of Republicans in prison and plenty of Republicans and Libertarians will be fine with that.
Also the media and corporations and the courts will be fine with it too.
The Democrats Reichstag fire.
I think they’re going for that, but right now nobody but the true believers are falling for it.
Such unity!
Well it is the Soviet idea of unity…
They’re playing with fire.
Well the Right hasn’t done anything yet besides angry tweets..
*contemplates buying more ammo*
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our LEGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS
Fweedom!
*cackle*
Ok, somebody with better photoshop skills than me should put this meme together.
A poster that says “Methods of persuasion” across the top.
The bottom part is split into three sections, Ethos, Pathos, and Legos. The ethos and pathos images being ancient greek style pictures or drawings. The Legos image being a picture of the US Capitol Lego set.
*enacts labor*
Straff should be around later.
first pass: https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/MethodsOfPersuassionA-600×307.jpg
*applause*
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/MethodsOfPersuassionB-600×307.jpg
corrected, I think
Republicans are traitors
Well technically, they are. I’m okay with SLiz and Mittens being locked up in the same 4 x 10 ft. cell until death. Bitch MC can bring them stale bread and nearly spoiled meat, plus empty their chamber pots daily.
There’s a lot of Democrats, a fair few “Republicans”, and some “independents”, who say they want to see the Republican Party destroyed. Considering that they are pushing the political right into choosing between subjugation and rebellion, they may not like what happens when the GOP isn’t around to be their whipping boy who corrals the opposition and keeps them impotent.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1414695013666082823
CCP influence works by giving individual politicians and elites tiny amounts of the money the west has paid China for cheap goods, in exchange for their support for devastating policies like lockdowns and vaccine passes that reverse centuries of the enlightenment wholesale.
Why is it after “Best Year Ever” freedom lost so quickly and easily?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/13/anyone-thinks-covid-certification-would-temporary-measure-fooling/
There is nothing more permanent than a temporary government program…
Laying the foundation for mandatory vaccinations:
https://nypost.com/2021/07/13/covid-cases-are-surging-in-almost-every-us-state/
“Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said the spread in highly vaccinated states is “worrisome.” “Anywhere there are pockets of low vax coverage is at risk!” she wrote on Twitter.
I wonder what the solution could be.
I see we’re still doing “casedemic!”
Lockdowns are coming by fall at the latest. I’ve been saying this for months.
For blue states maybe.
For red states I doubt it. Republican governors who did lock down are already getting a ton of flak. As they should.
This. I would be shocked if any red state went back to lock-downs. Even some of the blue states seem to be tired of the theater. Maybe California, Hawaii, or Massachusetts might lock-down again, but I doubt many more will.
The harder Blue states lock down, the higher housing prices go here from the refugees who’ve had enough fleeing here and buying houses. Tesla and all those jobs moved here after CA fucked them over in lockdown, to give just one example.
Center for Health Security
Wut?
Their mission is preventing one single human from ever getting another boo-boo again.
“said the spread in highly vaccinated states”
Maybe, just maybe, the scientists who posited that mass vaccination during a pandemic was a really bad idea because it puts evolutionary pressure on the virus were correct.
What happens when they vaccinate everyone and it still spreads?
‘Surging” is a vast overstatement.
For our baking Glibs*
*No, not the baked Glibs.
“No, not the baked Glibs.”
Well, there is a substantial overlap between the baking and the baked.
“Are there any more of those chili fries, man?”
So… just like the rest of my grocery bill.
I haven’t been able to find the WW flour I like for over a year.
Good to know. I’ll stop at the grocery store tomorrow.
*looks at 100lbs of AP flour*
Maybe some bread flour to add to the collection…
The wheat fields aren’t looking exactly robust.
https://beta.cp24.com/news/2021/7/13/1_5507196.html
Blame Canada.
I always do that first.
I’m still in Jury selection, darn. I have to go back tomorrow. I get a bus pass so I don’t have to pay for parking. The Pass is $5. Wow, civil cases take forever to pick a jury. Just pick people, I don’t care roll a die.
It is wrong that I also want theme music playing when I walk in to the court room.
Chai Girl’s walkout music
Just tell them you’re a libertarian and be dismissed already.
“I work in the insurance industry” has gotten me excused a couple times.
Don’t try to duck jury service. It’s one occasion where your vote does really count. And chances are the poor sap on trial is being railroaded to some degree by the DA and/or cops.
It is a civil case.
WTC-7
BR-549
fact is stranger than fiction !
Re: the Texas House members fleeing to Washington DC, to avoid a quorum for voting reform:
Yes, the arrest warrants leave Texas law enforcement out of their jurisdiction, and yes, maybe this was an empty grandstanding ploy by the governor. But, Abbott seems to have grown some stones lately. And if someone breaks a different law in Texas and flees the state to avoid arrest, it becomes an FBI matter.
Sooo, is the FBI gonna refuse to enforce valid arrest warrants because Biden doesn’t like that outcome? You would think Abbott would have a plan if the FBI refuses …
Yes.
Secede? Maybe it will work this time.
“secede?”
*** puts flowers on Grandpa’s grandpa’s grave; gets cancelled ***
“Yes, the arrest warrants leave Texas law enforcement out of their jurisdiction”
Bullshit, wait until they come back and meet them at the airport.
“Sooo, is the FBI gonna refuse to enforce valid arrest warrants because Biden doesn’t like that outcome? ”
Yes.
So, what happens if Abbott orders Texas state law enforcement to refuse to comply with the FBI on cases in Texas until the FBI shows reciprocity?
Texas state law enforcement, knowing which side their FLEAA grant is buttered on, continues to work with the Big Law ‘in the interests of justice…’?
Blue states do that shit all of the time. It’s called sanctuary cities or states. Until the GOP grows a spine, they’ll just keep pushing it.
But, Abbott seems to have grown some stones lately.
I think this is due in part to him trying to shore up his right-flank, as I’ve heard some people have been upset with him about not being as good on COVID as DeSantis.
Abbott sucked on COVID earlier, using an EO to get a statewide mask mandate.
Then he undid that. Then he ordered cities and counties to drop theirs. And when he lost the mask court cases for Austin/Travis, he used an EO to end their EOs. Now this voting reform stuff.
Methinks he’s worried about being primaried, as you hinted above. And about losing the general and the state flipping Blue if he doesn’t put a stop to widespread voting fraud.
And about losing the general and the state flipping Blue if he doesn’t put a stop to widespread voting fraud.
In all honesty I think Texas does pretty good at having secure elections already, the main goal to prevent fraud is to prevent the blue cities from flaunting state law. I think the new restrictions are more aimed at shoring up right-wing support (since there is broad appetite for greater election security on the right) than at heading off widespread fraud.
It’s been touch and go keeping fraud to a tolerable level. The county Houston is located in tried to send out mail in ballots to every single registered voter. That alone could have flipped the state Blue if they had succeeded, and then did a mass ballot harvesting.
Texas is quickly heading toward where GA and AZ are right now.
There’s a broad appetite for greater election security among voters on all parts of the spectrum.
So I was just out and about a little and there has been a I’m sure brief, but small miracle. The yunguns have taken off their masks. Almost all those I saw today were maskless, indoors and out. To make up for it, I guess, the old folk put theirs back on. As soon as I saw people in the store without them, I ripped mine off.
“”We need to build an economy where you can afford to raise a family on one single income” is code for: women should not work. #Qnuts #Handmaiden #UnderHisEye #BizarroAd #AZGQP #Bonkers”
https://twitter.com/PimaDems/status/1414632823932194828
OFFS!
Surprised the term “dog whistle” wasn’t used in that tweet. It’s one of their absolute FAVES
Isn’t the alleged point of the $15/he minimum wage so single mothers can raise their brood on one income.
There is no point.
The goalposts shift constantly and if you question the rationale then you’re obviously part of the problem.
$15/hr, of course.
I thought that people having to work was white supremacy?
Of course the left don’t want that. A woman’s devotion is to be to the state, not some silly family. This has been the case forever. When I was a kid I didn’t know any family in which the woman worked. The guys went to work and the women stayed home and watched soap boxes or yakked with their wiminz friends all day. And we were all middle class. I mean we had good homes, a garage with at least one car, a big back yard all of that. We just didn’t have a TV in every room, many PCs, and even 3 year olds running around with new IPhones.
But sometime after that, it started changing and now apparently, it’s a shame for a woman to not work and strive to be CEO working 80 hours a week.
I was a kid amid the shift. I remember my mom and her friends discussing the “daycare kids” and what a bad influence they were.
Sure enough, a disproportionate number of us kids raised by mommy until Kindergarten ended up in the top 10% of our class at graduation. *cancelled*
And yet for some reason “latchkey kid” was this awful thing to be.
OMG, I remember the first time I heard that. I hated it as much as I hated all of the other pants shitting stuff. And at that time, I had no idea now much worse it was going to get.
Easy to raise kids where taxes are low and classrooms have 32 students instead of 18. But perhaps they are being disingenuous
first pass:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/MethodsOfPersuassionA-600×307.jpg
Do you have a pass for people who can’t read greek letters?
you understand more than you know (begs the question of whether I know what I’m talking about!)
mainly, theta stands in for English “th”
once you grasp that, ethos and pathos fairly jump right out at you
this all presumes that I A B C’ed (alpha, beta, gammaed?) my way through the PowerPoint symbols successfully and actually found what I thought I found
some literate person will tell us
I like it, but ethos should be ήθος;
Pathos should be πάθος;
and Legos should be banned ’cause they hurt adults’ bare feet. 😉
eta was my guess as well, but it wasn’t after delta . . . . go figure
I found some extended Greek that have dem little accent thingies . . . is this better?
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/MethodsOfPersuassionB-600×307.jpg
Epsilon’s after delta, then zeta and eta (number 7 in the Greek alphabet). Greek sorta has two e’s.
Looks good!
NewWife knows that stuff from the sorority
but if a letter isn’t used in math or science somewhere routinely, I won’t know it
Hmmmm… maybe methods of planning instead. With Gantt Chart the last entry before the punchline.
Weird shit at the hospital:
So, I’m walking through the hospital, and I see a woman in a yellow patient gown going out into a courtyard (we have several, nicely landscaped with tables and chairs, good places to get some fresh air and quiet). Staff use them, but so do ambulatory patients. Didn’t think anything of it until I was walking back. I look out in the courtyard, expecting to see her there. All I see is a yellow patient gown laying on the table. No patient.
I cannot think of a single non-crazy explanation. Keep in mind, you don’t put those gowns on over your clothes.
“you don’t put those gowns on over your clothes”
unless you’re crazy like a fox!?
I didn’t mention that this courtyard has no outside exits, just one door onto a main hallway.
Besides, patients can leave whenever they want. We put trackers on them, so we can always get them back if they don’t pay their bill. A little organ “donation” can really knock down the balance due.
No reports of a naked lady, or is that a regular occurrence in your hospital?
Nm I just read further on down
I did (to the extent possible)
But you clearly had a ghost patient. *pointedly ignores the probable explaination*
There’s a probable explanation? /scratches head confusedly
Thanos
Possible explanations
1. The Rapture has begun and they were chosen
2. Patient was a prisoner who changed clothes quickly and escaped via helicopter
3. You saw a ghost.
4. You have a naked wanderer somewhere in the halls
Hmm. That courtyard is close to the helipad.
This would not be the first naked patient wandering our halls. Although typically they are running.
I’ve always wondered why so few hospitals are haunted. I’ve only worked in one that was supposed to have a ghost. You’d think we’d be covered up in ghosts, as many people die in hospitals.
One of my friends dad is a doctor. His first gig out of college was in a St. Louis hospital. He told us a story about a naked guy wrapped in a bandage from a bullet wound running through the hospital. Turned out the guy that shot him came in to finish the job.
Alien abduction.
“I’m sorry, you have to have proctology privileges to do that in this hospital.”
“privileges” ?
^Winner!
That’s why the aliens had to abduct her.
Extraordinary proctological rendition
I ain’t saying it’s aliens, but it’s FUCKING ALIENS!
OK, Dean, where’d you hide her shoes at?
So Mexico might not be the worst place on Earth?
Not even close or even in the neighborhood of worst places.
Anyone want to run guns to Cuba?
[REDACTED]
North Korea. Cuba. A bunch of countries in Africa. A bunch of countries in Central and South America. Mainland China. All worse.
As bad as some their regions are, overall I’d say Mexico is around the middle of the pack in suckiness.
I hear the United States is the worst because of system incurable racism. Color folk there can’t even go out their house. Nooses hanging everywhere, white power signs on every hand, crackas wearing MAGA hats…
My wife keeps going on about systemic racism. More than once I’ve asked her to give a single incontrovertible instance of someone being racist to her or us here, even when we drove all over the South one time. She had nothing, other than, “It hasn’t happened because your white privilege shielded me”, or “subtle microaggressions”, or some such.
WTF? Does she work for the Teacher’s Union, or is she on Facebook?
And people in the South are way less racist than in Boson, for example. And a hell of a lot nicer.
riiight… my liberal friend is convinced that I just happen to visit the “right parts” of Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The other parts are just teeming with Klan members.
One of my wife’s friend is so worried about her because the wife told her we are moving to WV or SC. Rednecks and guns you know, totally scary and unsafe. Unlike NOVA where there is zero crime.
You have neglected to mention some of the Asiatic areas that might even be suckier than those you mentioned. Some places our government uses our tax dollars to bomb frequently. I am not saying it is
correlationaliens/causationto aliens thing but ya, some places suck.I can top them all.
East St. Louis, Philly, Balmer.
Now, what you got left? Mogadishu? Caracas?
East St. Louis, Balmer, etc all gave running water and sewers. Entitled motherfuckers don’t realize that stuff is luxury.
And he realized that he loved Big Brother.
You’d think they’d stray away from such obviously religious language.
Seems like that story is the opposite of the ending to 1984. ??
After six months in prison, he’s a changed man. He now knows he was motivated by a pack of lies.
Maybe he really believes that. Maybe he’s saying whatever he needs to say to get home.
This is how you inspire loyalty. They’re doing a hell of a job, them Bidenistas, hell of a job I tell ya.
The guy should be made a national hero, just to piss em off. Fuck them all, not my president. Viva la resistance!
We’re well done with masks in these parts, but I saw some today that made me sad. In the Safeway today there was a family of six: mom, dad and four kids. The kids were about seven to maybe 14. The kids were wearing masks. They looked downcast and sullen (even for normal kids). They were the only masked people in the store(and they knew it). Even their parents were maskless.
How screwed up do you have to be to treat your children like that.
Parents could be Teachers union or other government employees. Or the mother just might be a Karen terrorizing and traumatizing the rest of her family when she can’t find random victims.
I don’t know the kids might have been wearing them by choice after the conditioning of having to wear them at school. My 15 year old put one on to go in Menard’s last night and I certainly didn’t tell her to put it on.
Daughter #1 and niece #1 are here visiting their grandmother with their kids. All of them are adamant about wearing masks inside of Grandma’s house despite the fact that both adults and Mom have had the vaccine. We tried (gently) to dissuade them but they insisted. Sad to see the kids forced to buy into the lie. At least D2 and D3 and their families are beyond that bullshit.
Montana has been post-masking for several months and New Mexico (their home) has lifted the mandate at the beginning of the month. Nevertheless, they are still buying the bullshit. I have a suspicion that they are worried because the wife and I are not going to get the vaccine, so we are (somehow) “carriers” or some thing.
Hmm…
Liberate Cuba with Libertarian Army
Get the dark-haired beauties
???
Profit!
Now you’re thinking. And since all the residents of some other countries, like El Salvador and Guatemala will be completely empty soon, we can set up satellites here.
I like the cut of your jib. Get a DDT factory going to kill off the skeeters; some jungle burning to clear some land, grow marijuana and other cash crops; along with offshore banks, server farms, shooting ranges, brothels, casinos…
There will be a new flotilla… of people escaping the New Soviet States of America.
::goes off to start his novel::
The Overwater Railroad? I like it.
I volunteer as many of my orphans as it takes to get the job done.
Rename it New McAfeeland!
I love it!
Step 3 is “Sell the resulting Orphans to work in the monocle mines.”
Hey, we got the Ganja fields, tobacco fields, and all of the offshoots from that. I mean some nimble little fingers will be great rolling those Cuban cigars.