Independence supporters in Catalonia
When the Catalonian Independence movement fizzled out, I didn’t expect to write any more updates. But the sad ending has lightened a little bit. A little bit. Madrid still says no chance on independence, and there are still thousands at risk of arrest and such.
Jaw Jaw is better than War War, but without resorting to arms, Catalonia is no better off talking independence today, than 4 years ago. So in the end, Don Swissxote will not ride again. Unless something really drastic happens or the Catalans have a big change of heart.
Not today, Sancho.
Free Catalonia! Or at least the two in the picture above.
Aren’t there four in the picture above?
Only if you’re a separatist!
Lift and separate.
There are 4 Chicks!
I believe there are 5…if you squint enough
For those who want some free beer:
AB InBev is giving a $5 gift card for a beer this weekend
NO! I’m not that interested in Bud for my data, TW dude
Right there in AB InBev man.
History of the Earth, this is a good one,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyRG6CWO0PE
I’m trying to buy a car from this crazy dude up north. It’s a 1975 Olds Starfire, which is basically a Chevy Monza with badge engineering. It has a 350 chevy swapped into it. They are hard to find in decent shape and this one has a nice interior which is extremely difficult to find. It’s about 550 miles north, just above SF.
the guy that’s selling it is basically like an IRL Hihn. He gets all freaked out by stupid bullshit. He waffles back and forth. He’s insisting on a wire transfer before I can pick it up. I just want to drive up and give him cash, then tow it back home. Oddly, the guy is not at all interested in cash. I am not too keen on paying in full before I have the actual car right in front of me. I offered to take him to the local bank and handle the money there, but he got all wound up about that, too. I’m assuming he’s massively paranoid that I might set him up somehow. I gave up on three times already, but he keeps e-mailing me and airing some bizarre grievance from the last convo. Then I just say, ” I want to buy the car, here’s my concerns and what I’m willing to do. Stop being angry, it’s probably not good for your health.” Maybe I’m trolling him a little bit, but sheesh. I made an offer, accept it or not and we’ll move on. I think he’s just getting emotional about letting go of his car. It’s mildly funny, but if he agrees to sell it to me, now it’s going to be harder to work out the travel plan. He banned me from offering on his Ebay ad, and then started e-mailing me.
At least, he’s not using all caps and calling me a bully! This is one of the strangest car deals I’ve ever had. I don’t care if he’s mad, I just want the car at my price.
Back out, Psycho!
There’s no way I’d drive 550 miles and deal with that.
I was surprised they stuffed a 350 in that stock. I just checked Wiki on the Monza and yes, they do. You sure you don’t want a Monza with the Iron Duke and a 3 speed auto or 3 speed manual?
Powertrain
Engine 140 cu in (2.3 L) I4
151 cu in (2.5 L) Iron Duke I4
196 cu in (3.2 L) Buick V6
231 cu in (3.8 L) Buick V6
262 cu in (4.3 L) Small-block V8
305 cu in (5.0 L) Small-block V8
350 cu in (5.7 L) Small-block V8
Transmission
3-speed manual
4-speed manual
5-speed manual
3-speed automatic
I have a fairly serious 355 SBC with aluminum heads and nothing to run it in. I also have an R154 5 speed. I just want a platform for it and all the traditional cars are 30-50k in decent shape. This one might cost me 4k or so. Plus, I like being different.
That actually sounds fun.
You mentioned below that there are some aftermarket suspension and (I assume) brake bits that will help it not to be a complete pig.
I’ve wanted to do something similar to the much unloved Mustang II. Put a nice 302 in one and enhance the braking and handling to get the Mustang that Ford should / would have made if we didn’t have the gas shortages.
Yeah, that car is the most direct competition for the Monza. They made them with 302s stock. Supposedly they were more luxurious. The Monza is pretty spartan and cheap feeling inside.
How about one with a blown mouse?
https://bringatrailer.com/2017/09/02/smogged-305-to-blown-406-1977-chevrolet-monza-mirage/
Man, I would pony up for a nice Mirage. I passed one up about 5 years ago, because it was too beat up. They are rare as hen’s teeth.
On the monza, you can install S10 pickup front brakes and after market sway bars, springs and shocks. The rear end is a three link design that proved so good it was used on the third gen and up Camaros AND the Fox body mustangs. This car already has subframe connectors and a posi rear end. It comes with some period mags that actually look OK. The best thing is the interior, it’s black and really pretty nice. It’s an A/c car, but it’s missing the compressor. I can pretty easily get the cold air flowing on it. It sucks that I gotta play therapist to get to the point of even just buying the damn thing.
Good luck my friend! I’m off to bed here on the east coast.
Don’t do it.
People like that (nuts) can’t be trusted to not lash out at some point before, during, or after the transaction. It’s not worth it.
Give your wife his address so she’ll know where to look for your body.
You’re dealing with a crazy person. Forget it.
Wow, you were not kidding, the eBay listing is hilarious. It could very well be Hihn’s cousin. Good luck with that guy.
Can confirm. That is a crazy person. Not worth the agro, IMO.
For those who want some free beer:
Do I have to be a guinea pig in a medical experiment?
basically a Chevy Monza with badge engineering. It has a 350 chevy swapped into it.
The fastback, or the notchback? A friend in college had one (notchback) with the 260 or whatever it was, and a four speed. That thing was pretty lively.
Hatchback. I had a number of them back in the day. My favorite was a Spyder with a 305 4-speed. They’re fun, but very hard to find anymore. They only weigh around 2900 pounds. Decent handling with the right mods too. I might install an IMSA kit on this one, if I can get my hands on it.
On-topic: Reading a Clive Cussler book which includes a character who is a Basque separatist.
Clive Cussler is like crack*. I keep saying “no more” but then I find his books for 75 cents at yard sales.
*never done crack
*never done crack
Some libertine/ libertarian you are!*
*I’ve never done crack either, but my cousin has and she says it is the best thing ever**
** as long as you only do it occasionally
They hadn’t invented crack when I quit all drugs. Actual coke cost 125 bucks a gram back then. Serious big shot stuff that I only got to try a few times. 125 bucks in 1981 money was nothing to sneeze at, unless the coke caused the sneeze.
Every time I did coke I asked myself, “Why am I doing this? I hate this high.” Finally answered my own question 25 years ago and never did the shit again.
Plus, as you mention, the shit wasn’t cheap and I wasn’t making big bucks.
I was dropping a few hundred a week on that shit in the early to mid teens. (Late bloomer.) I loved it, until it stopped being fun and I had to remove one or two bad influences from my life. No interest in touching the stuff again.
When I was in Colombia in the late 90’s gringos were buying grams of untrampled on the street for $1.50. It was at that moment that I saw that the drug war was about as winnable as a Little League team competing in MLB.
Are you going to make one of these out of it?
That’s the kit, but that one’s a bit wider and slightly more dramatic. That car is a custom tube chassis. The Monza won the Camel GT series in, I think, 1975-76 and 77. I got into them because of Mulholland racers back in the early eighties. They used to street race them up on Mulholland drive.
You already answered my question.
Plus, I like being different.
*thumbs up*
Former AMX owner.
Good work fedex! 36 hours to get between Indianapolis and Royalton MN via Cicero and Aurora, Il. 12 hours between each of those points including between Cicero and Aurora, a distance of 40 miles.
I love when my package bounces back and forth between NY and NJ a couple times before I get it.
I will say it’s sometimes great to be in LA. I had a part that had to be special ordered for my dryer and they quoted me 2 weeks from hitting the warehouse and shipping to me, and I got it the today., a day after they slapped a label on it for ups, because that box got off a ship and into a warehouse probably less than ten miles from me.
Im off to work, kids. “Arbeit macht frei” and all that.
Hold the line.
/stands, salutes Zoom call, moons Tulip
I don’t work for “free.”
I will work for ‘free’ when I am dead.
/lifts a Little Kings Blood Orange
/not really
https://babylonbee.com/news/mounting-evidence-indicates-critical-race-theory-escaped-from-a-lab-in-a-college-humanities-department
Don’t worry, free trade, pot and iPhone will make us immune…
You could have just rolled with the Bee’s very good joke.
But then he couldn’t beat a dead horse.
It’s interesting. There are some very committed “trolls” out there shitting up comment threads on COVID related articles by the major alternative journalists like Matt Taibbi.
They attack ivermectin, lab-leaks, Robert Malone, Bret Weinstein, anything and anybody that challenges the dogma.
Some of them have established curriculum vitae, personas on the internet. Hell if I know if they actually exist or are just fictitious resumes.
I have to wonder of these are lone wackos (no offense to the real one) or if they’re funded disinformation efforts.
Lone wackos. Go to the comment section of someplace with a more orthodox view, and the same sort of wacko is there shitting up the place from the opposite approach. Internet trolls are internet trolls. The worst are ones who are blinded by their biases and think their viewpoint is the true vision. They keep going long after the ones doing to fuck with people grow tired.
Here we go, up here, all the big fireworks are legal like pot, gotta have that revenue, so the Fireworks are going off, now, when I ant to sleep,
Want to sleep,
Meh, we get them all the time. Universal Studios is about 2 miles up the road and those guys blow some shit up at night. I’m pretty used to it by now.
SNAFU
Imagine traveling across the country to visit one of the most stunning national parks in the United States only to find it’s too crowded to get inside.
That’s what happened to Elise Brandenburg of Greenville, South Carolina, when she and her family arrived at Arches National Park in southeastern Utah in late June. She had her kids out the door by 7:30 a.m.
“We rolled in, and we just missed it by a couple of minutes. The park was closed,” Brandenburg said.
Arches was already full. The group would have to wait for many other visitors to leave before they could enter the park — a delay that was not part of their road trip itinerary.
“We really can’t wait three to five hours to then try to get in and maybe not get in and then miss our next stop. So we’ve just got to keep going,” she said. “I was almost in tears. I will not tell a lie.”
Arches is one of a number of headliner national parks in the United States seeing overcrowding as summer gets into full swing in a year when leisure travel volume is expected to rebound to near pre-pandemic levels.
The influx of visitors is forcing the park to temporarily shut its gates almost daily. And disappointed visitors aren’t the only consequence of overcrowding. The natural environment is impacted, and the local community is affected, too.
I blame global warming. And Former President Cartoon Villain,
Wait, I thought we weren’t supposed to go to national parks because global warming, or maybe it was just white people that weren’t supposed to go there because supremacy or equity or something.
I’m so confused.
it’s easy, just shoot the tourists,
/I hate Tourists in my town
Nobody wrote a national news story about all the times I’ve been unexpectedly denied entry for overcrowding at various places. I really don’t think this is all that “Newsy” either.
It is a good way to weasel into a national park, though. This story will have everyone skipping that place because they prolly can’t get in anyway. Then, you can slide in and enjoy the place in peace. Very slick!
Earlier in June i had the river to myself, now it’s full of fat people attempting to go stroight down a river, with awesome resluts
/Snag!
We often drive through Moab on our way to/from Montana. We have seen the the line to Arches Park backed up all the way to the highway (probably two miles). We love SW Utah but this is just nuts.
It’s not completely clear from the article if there are still Covid-related restrictions at Arches National Park. If capacity is reduced, it’s not surprising that people are turned away.
I have to wonder of these are lone wackos (no offense to the real one) or if they’re funded disinformation efforts.
Employees of the Johns Hopkins med school. Or the CDC.
Here’s an example:
“First, the lab leak theory is tripe. https://brianhanley.medium.com/the-covid-19-sars2-lab-origin-story-zombies-back-from-the-dead-c6d987344cee“
Somebody needs to slit his wrists with Occam’s razor.
Why is persistent infection important? Because that gives the virus an opportunity to try out lots of variants. It has more lottery tickets to win its reproductive megamillions jackpot.
Aaaand done.
Sentient virus is coming to get you.
If you’re worried about the delta variant, just do what I did and buy your tickets for American Airlines.
May was a record for visitors to Yellowstone. I expect June to be a record, too. Lots of traffic coming north on 89.
Welp, the Starfire guy just went to all caps. Hihn sock confirmed. BULLY!?!?!
Dude. Person is cray cray. Send one last email and convince him you moved to China before he starts hanging out in the car parked in front of your house and starts pounding on your windows in the middle of the night.
???
I am, also, a separatist.
#let 7.9 billion nations bloom
But we only need 3 nations, GoogleStan, Zuckerborg, and Amazonia.
“Amazonia”
They have the death penalty, but it’s by snu-snu.
lol fucking L
elp, the Starfire guy just went to all caps. Hihn sock confirmed. BULLY!?!?!
Did he mention that one car that sold for MILLIONS at Barret Jackson?
No, that’s what I find strange. It’s not like he’s scamming for more money. He keeps shutting down offers and then trying for less. Super whacky, this guy.
Offer to pay him in gold. Maybe ammo.
Do NOT give up any ammo! You may need it sooner than you think.
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/LimpingEducatedEmeraldtreeskink-size_restricted.gif
::fistbumps Sean:: Good morning, Doctor!
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That’s because he’s fucking wacko, dude.
Dude, that’s because he’s fucking wacko. Stop talking to him before he shows up at your house.
But the car – Blackjack wants it.
(To be read in Gollum’s voice)
And one H-body to rule the world!
De precioussssssssss
The eBay listing is a classic. Mucho caps.
*googles*
That dude is craaaaazy.
I think we need the complete listing of 8 tracks that come with that sweet ride.
I can see KISS installed in the deck. You keep on shouting, YOU KEEP ON SHOUTING!
My favorite part:
“ I have 4 replacement center cap decals for the mag wheels They are the Buick eagle that is long associated with the Starfire because of the Buick power plant engine. I have 3 red ones and and one blue one. ”
Three red and one blue? I’m sold.
And you need to know which one is stuck in the player.
Yeah, it pisses me off because it’s so hard to find a decent interior like that. There’s a couple of others and they’re all up north too. They are beat to shit. I wish I never cultivated an ability to deal with crazy people. I’ve pretty much given up on this one, though. Between the driving and the… well you all know. Ain’t worth it.
The updates are gold. “I don’t understand why nobody is watching my Facebook videos”
The update about “some dude in Fresno” seem like a personal attack, Blackjack 😀
No, that guy was so last week. He was up around 4600. I never got higher than 4400. Apparently, I’m not special.
Yeah, he could just sell it to the dude in France, I mean, that would only be fair. The dude is bonkers, but I would imagine he is legit. Not a fucking chance a scammer of any sort would place an ad that nutty.
“but I would imagine he is legit”
Legit insane?
He actually had an auction going. It’s also on C/L too. I hit him up on C/L. The fresno guy was from the auction. He just cut/pasted the text from the auction into the Ebay ad. It’s all pretty funny.
He blocked Fresno dude and the top bid went back down. Then it went down again. Then it was ended. That’s when he switched it to the ad. it was all pretty strange. I was gonna outbid the auction until it disappeared. So I hit him up on C/L. Now, here I am.
That is hilarious. The interior is in damn good shape, I can see why you dig it. That thing would look sweet as fuck with a white paint job with red and blue stripes.
“here is an envelope of cash, please sell me your car.”
“Nope, too risky”
He’s a crazy person.
: I live in Los Angeles. I want to buy this car. I saw the ebay auction and will give you the 4050, in cash on Friday. I have to work tomorrow, but can take a personal day on Friday and drive up to get it. I have cash. I will take you to Bofa and transfer the money in person on Friday if you want. I am very serious. I also have family in Santa Rosa, and it’s possible I can have them take care of the purchase, I.E. give you the cash and hold the car until I can come get it. My only concerns are A, does it have any rust and B, is the registration current/title clean with pink slip. Let me know if you are OK with this. I need assurance that the car will be there if I’m going to drive. I will not hammer you on the price. The pics look good enough for me. Let me know, I’m at 818-xxx-xxxx. I am for real. My name is Brent. Thanks.Let me know.
him: Based on the fact that you asked if he had rust and a clear title even when it stated in my auction it doesn’t annoys the shit out of me and telling me it’s worth shit since it is not a Monza too I don’t want to do any cash in person deals because the Craigslist ad has been a total waste of time plus telllmg me I have to pay fees thru eBay who gives a
Shit how is
That
Your concern you are not gonna make an offer thru eBay or you already would and again I’m not doing any cash deals in person bank wire transfer or direct cash deposit so like everybody else stop
Wasting my time and go away I don’t want to hear how your serious or anything else it is all bullshit
me: Hey man, I’m really not trying to harm you and I’m sorry if you feel insulted. I must have missed the mention of the title and the rust in the wall of text on the auction. I still never found out if the tags were up to date. It’s cool. I want to buy the car. I’ll do it however it works for you. I’m not trying to harm you, just trying to make an offer. I planned on offering on the Ebay ad today after work, (now) I just wish you weren’t so angry about everything. It doesn’t bode well for a prepayment of thousands of dollars for a car that’s 500 miles away. I’d like to have the car, but it’s hard to feel good about the terms. I’m pretty comfortable with the condition of it. I am willing to drive up and one way rent a car dolly to bring it home. It’s just kind of scary to wire so much money to someone who is so obviously angry with me.
him: The car is registered with good tags
I drive it all the time I’ve sold
Cars on eBay for several
Years if it
Is done thru eBay you are
Protected I have sold cars on there for 20 years every time they wire money and pick up the car because I’m not interested in committing a crime and going to jail anyway I already just got a better offer and I’m not going to do your way and now I’m angrier with you know anyway because you think I am dirty filthy liar and a crook so why would I do business with you anyway
me: Dude, I don’t know why you’re so angry with me. I’m just trying to make you an offer. I have had issues with Ebay both as a seller and as a buyer. They are…unpredictable. I don’t know you from adam. All I know is the few interactions we’ve had, you’ve seemed really upset with me and I have no idea why. I hope someone gives you the whole 8k. I want your car and I would happily drive up and get it. I bumped my offer all by myself. I feel kind of bad for you, with your whole predicament. Stop accusing me of stuff. If you don’t want to sell me the car, then fine. I’ll wait for another or buy something else. Life’s too short for all of this angst. If you decide you’ll go 4400.00 just let me know and we’ll try and work out something we both can live with.
There’s a lot more.
Holy shit. Head for ze hills, dude.
I would not meet this dude in person without bringing along a powerful firearm and a large, well-trained Akita.
He’s an actual crazy person. JFC.
Wow, that is something else. I wouldn’t advise making the trip to NorCal for that dude’s ride.
“He’s an actual crazy person. JFC.”
He doesn’t want to sell that car. He’s using the car to lure people into his personal psychotic soap opera. Now, he might be crazy to the extent that he just needs to keep that going for attention, or he might be crazy to the point that he eventually starts killing people and and keeping them in his freezer.
There ain’t no good reason to take that chance, I mean that’s just my opinion. But this guy just sets off blaring sirens and flashing red lights. Fuck that shit.
I have met actual crazy people on more than one occasion and it’s not pleasant.
I had a friend who was always doing these flea markets, she was really into it and made some money. So I’d sometimes go out there on Sunday and talk to her and walk around. One year, there was this weird dude who had set up his stuff right next to her spot. I never liked him, he totally creeped me out. He had this Great Dane tied up to his van and it seemed to have a nasty personality and would growl at you if you’d stop and talk to the guy.
One day I walked over there and this guy pulls out this bag and pulled a skull out of it. I mean a human skull. It looked real enough, but I thought you know, it’s fake. And then he goes ‘here, look at his’ and then he looks around and says ‘this one’s a little fresh, I’d better put this back away’. Of course I thought the asshole is just mouthing off the way he always did, but something about it just pissed me off. I told my friend ‘I’m calling the fucking cops because he’s such a fucking asshole, I don’t know if he’s serious’. And I did. I don’t know what ever came of it, but I never saw that jackass again.
See my comment above.
Massive heart wave last week – clear evidence of climate change, denier!
Possibly record cold tomorrow – that’s just weather.
How cold?
It’s 61 right now, which is crazy cold for July 3rd in Connecticut.
61 is cold up there? It’s 65 here right now. I can’t even tell what is cold recently, it rains all the fucking time. I don’t mean like normal rain, I mean monsoons, like you’re in the fucking Amazon. It’s been like that for weeks. Not that this is anything abnormal for MD in the summer.
That’ll teach me to pay any attention to the TV weather people – 61 is below average but the record for the 3rd is 48.
We’re not hitting that.
OH MY GOD!
The Transportation Security Administration said Friday that airport screenings have climbed above 2019 levels for the first time in the pandemic, signaling strong travel demand during Fourth of July weekend.
The TSA screened nearly 2.15 million people on Thursday, close to 3% more than the 2.01 million people who passed through security checkpoints at U.S. airports on July 1, 2019.
The trend is unlikely to hold. July 1, 2019 was a Monday and a low point for the week, when screenings increased by more than 706,000 people to peak on July 5.
Still, the milestone shows the surge in air travel demand since a broad rollout of vaccines in the U.S. this spring and a relaxation of pandemic-related closures or restrictions. The increase is mainly due to domestic U.S. leisure travel, with most business-related and long-haul international travel still on hold.
And of course the reportertard pukes this up as if it’s somehow meaningful, instead of a gigantic waste of everybody’s time, money and energy. Ooh, look how many lives the TSA saved today, everybody!
DEFUND THE TSA.
They’re gonna make me quarantine when I get back from Florida on the 15th. We must do something, and this is something. I think it’s been lowered to ten days. Fuck it, they’re paying for it. I have 80 hours of special sick leave just for such a thing.
I suppose this is by the interstate commerce clause?
*covered by*
https://babylonbee.com/news/equality-at-last-disney-confirms-winnie-the-pooh-will-be-voiced-by-bear
It’s about time…
lol
So what is more nationalistic? Creating a new state or keeping an existing nation state forcefully together…
Uhh humm, someone has not been keeping up. If you’re a lefty, both of those are saving democracy. If you’re not a lefty, both of those are stealing democracy.
WUT?
Ok, Smeagol, many woke, much brave.
He is really trying hard to play the Woke game.
He needs to judging by all the criticism Amazon gets and for how they treat their employees.
So, he’s going to kill some old lady on an experimental glorified airplane he thinks is a space ship? Get the fuck outta here!
I’m drinking this right now. It’s been
sitting around gathering dustcellared since 2016. Very sour. I might be struggling towards the end.Stop bragging, dude, I just drank a beer that has been in the fridge since last Sunday! I swear there was dust on it!
I’m drinking an Evan Williams, iced tea, and Perrier. Cheers!
Washington COVID-19 bullshit ended on Wednesday. Today, Mrs. Gould and I went to The Shambles. Sat at the bar, had cocktails, ate pickled veggies, foie gras, and steaks. Good day.
Cheers! Same in Baja Washington.
Cheers!
We just went through SFO a couple weeks ago to go to Mexico and I thought that you would dig this exhibit they had in Terminal 2. Fricking sweet guitars and surf rock memorabilia.
https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/surfs-up-instrumental-rock
https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/surfs-up-instrumental-rock
Scha-winng!!
Yeah, I’m also a big fan of instrumental rock. The early surf stuff is fantastic. I really love the instrumental cinematic and cop show stuff with the big horns and keys. Listening to this compilation album now that is just great. One of the standouts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7WA2coGk1w
Big loud cop show themes are awesome. If you like soundtrack/library music stuff, check out Morricone Island on WFMU radio. https://wfmu.org/playlists/PE
Soundtracks from all genres, video game soundtracks, library music, interviews with composers, directors, musicians. Really great way to expand your ear.
Excellent. That’s going in the favorites.
I was trying to link to the “Mosrite Ventures Mk.V NAMM Custom 1966
played by Don Wilson of The Ventures
Mosrite of California | Bakersfield, California
Courtesy of Black Book Guitars”
Nice guitar. I’m heading over to the vintage music shop in Seattle tomorrow. Looking for a similar type guitar. Probably come home with a vintage Ludwig bass drum (again). Or a Silvertone tube amp.
Everyone with good taste loves a Ludwig bass drum, properly tuned of course. Did you ever visit Sam Adato’s drum shop in SF? He moved it to Portland about a decade ago. The guy is classic, I’d imagine you may know him. I bought one of the first wood snares he ever made, still have it. I traded him a copper snare that I really regret letting go though. That thing had a two minute ring to it, beautiful.
So there was drama over the LPNH recently. Seems the Mises Caucus types…have won? I guess their takeover is inevitable then? Wonder if they can do any good.
Also the behavior of the Prags does sum all of the flaws of pragmatism: not principled, don’t work and give up at the first sign of pushback. If they couldn’t handle their internal rivals they sure can’t handle the MSM…
I’m excited to see how that pans out. I would love to see Dave Smith on a national debate stage calling out the US-backed genocide in Yemen. But as we’ve seen with Trump, anyone who calls out the Establishment’s bullshit is going to get the full wrath of the government thrown against them. Dave Smith, being far more outspoken than Trump, is going to get a proportionally harder Trump treatment. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they arrested him for drug trafficking charges for his Delta 8 THC ads on his podcast and held him in custody for the duration of the election.
PS: How does one join the LP under the Mises Caucus? Do you join the LP and then pick your caucus, or do you have to join through a special link from the Mises Caucus?
Join the LP and contact the Mises Caucus on their webpage, I think it’s LPMisesCaucus.com
https://mobile.twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1410902612329836546
The cops were busy arresting Maxim Bernier instead…
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Holy bazoombas bat man!
Whelp, one of my sites was broken into on Thursday night and I can’t get a straight answer about what happened from either of the girls that sub-contract there. We are friendly and text back and forth regularly. I’m thinking the cops told them that I was probably in on it.
Yikes! I hope not! That doesn’t even make sense! If you’re there regularly, why the hell would you break in?
(Clarification: What I “hope not” is that the cops didn’t implicate you.)
I’m under suspicion. Sucks balls.
Cops are cops and are wont to breed suspicion amongst the Citizenry. They probably told them not to talk to me. I have a history, as it were but never for property crimes. Amy is arrow-straight and Jenn is borderline paranoid.
Blame the christians. Seems to be a thing these days.
Holy shit, have people seen that DNC-sponsored ad talking about how things are totally awesome now? It’s not even for a political race, it’s just general propaganda.
Sure it is. That’s why 50% of the former population of DC is now living in West Virginia. You can’t say awesome like everyone who lives here is fleeing in terror for their very lives. Totally fucking awesome.
It’s like the opening sequence of The Lego Movie.
It’s desperation, they think they are about to lose big again. They aren’t wrong. As much as there has been plenty of lamentation that the Dems rigged the last one, and it looks like they managed to get at least the normal amount of funny votes, they didn’t really win. They threw everything they could down to beat BOM. Now they are pegging the meter on full on propaganda to try and sway things, but people have given up on watching. The Vid is ending and there is no entertaining scary clown in the White House, just a rapidly failing old man and his token person of color that wasn’t or isn’t very popular.
Yep. Done like dinner.
Just like in Soviet Russia, we follow the media and the government statements so we know what not to believe.
Is it just plain crazy to point out that if the media hadn’t ever covered Covid that no one would really have noticed anything? Maybe a “bad flu year” like 2017-2018 ushered out some elderly or otherwise infirm folks, but nothing noticeable on a real life scale.
I don’t want to be all time foil hat about it, but could the extreme overreaction be because the US was funding and aiding the “Gain of Function” tests in the Wuhan lab? So they had to make a huge distraction from the facts and act like they were working for the “Greater Good”
I dunno but the stuff we now know about is bad enough… imagine how much worse the stuff that’s still buried is.
We overreacted because the government officials knew what they did and were scared shitless that they had just killed a quarter of the country by accident.
Fauci and Collins are up to their eyeballs in this and should be on trial for crimes against humanity.
Good Lord, the “Innsmouth Look” https://youtu.be/N9CvXyiq6sE It even sounds like it was talking partially through its gills.
Sorry to hear about your troubles. I hope it doesn’t turn into one of those things where your harassed in perpetuity because the cops “know” you did it but couldn’t prove it, because you didn’t.
Hope all the Glibs are nursing their hangovers or enjoying the land of nod.
I cashed my chips in early enough the hangover is but a mild one. A couple of beers should fix it. Now awaiting for the grocer to open because I am craving bacon and have none on hand.
Amazon cancelled my bacon jerky subscribe & save. ?
They don’t carry it anymore. Thanks Bezos, asshole.
I have tried a few bacon jerky’s but have never found one I like.
I was grooving on the Oberto’s butcher cut. I signed up for their applewood version now. First batch arrives next month.
I only had one small glass of wine last night – a nice sweet wine flavored with peach juice, so perfect for high summer. It’s the last of a mixed case I bought from our favorite local winery a year ago April during the shutdown. (I bought it ostensibly to help them financially.) We’re going there today to play at a benefit to help pay for a friend’s cancer treatment, so I’ll buy whatever kind of wine will have a portion of the price go toward the fundraising. I know one called “Berry Monster” is being re-released for the occasion.
?
Hey, now! It gets good reviews… from those who like sweet wines… And the famous Mingo himself might be holding court at the winery today. (He usually is.)
https://www.readingeagle.com/local-news/reading-firefighters-rescue-man-3-days-after-he-fell-into-20-foot-deep-cistern-near/article_442a2e40-db4b-11eb-a7ef-a7bf9220f96f.html
I can’t even imagine. Yikes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bTTT0iarzI8
Cover ?, with Transformers. ?
A hummingbird just stopped at the feeder I’d FINALLY filled and put out while I was on vacation last week! I still wish I could find a Dark Eyes fuchsia to hang near it. (I like to think this vid is “hummingbirdseye view.”)
The little buzzers finally came round?
Yes! And I finally had to refill the regular bird feeders, too. I take that as a sign that the cicadas are, for all intents and purposes, gone!
Good morning!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/science/zoo-animals-coronavirus-vaccine.html
Wut?
The world won’t be safe until every last organism is pricked.
They’re “benefiting “ from vaccines
Give me a fucking break