America’s last hope
The US Open played on, kind of. They could get a little action inside as Ida came through town. Tsitsipas skirted the rules once again on his way to a four-set win. Sloane Stephens routed Coco Gauff. And that was pretty much it. Across the pond, Portugal had a miracle comeback against the unlucky Irish. France inexplicably drew Bosnia. And there wasn’t much else eventful in WC qualifiers. Let’s see what happens today. And that’s about it for sports, except for the fact that college football starts tonight for the Buckeyes. Go sink their boat, guys!
My thoughts about all of you
Big birthdays today are baseball HOFer A.G. Spalding, semiconductor pioneer Andrew Grove, baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, basketball coach John Thompson, teacher and almost astronaut Christa McAuliffe, quarterback Terry Bradshaw, tennis bad boy Jimmy Conners, ELO’s Mike Kaminski, actor Keanu Reeves, pitcher Jeff Russell, one of my favorite heavyweight boxers Lennox Lewis, the lovely Salma Hayek, infielder Rich Aurelia, and comedian Katt Williams.
OK, on to…the links!
Let the calls for court packing commence! Because this will be the ruling that does it. Oh well, this will hopefully do some good before it gets unwound.
I like the confused old man in the back of this photo.
He deserves more than hate mail. Although I suspect a lot of people will embrace this. Ratting out neighbors to the government is a German tradition.
What does their sexuality have to do with it? Also, what does their sexuality have to do with their complete misunderstanding of how eviction procedures work? Also also, stop trying to divide us, NBC, you bunch of assholes.
Let me guess: it’s because of racism? Or perhaps its because the greedy-ass progressive inheritance tax policies that destroy family farms have made it impossible for families of any color to pass their land to their heirs.
Maybe they didn’t want to come back home. Isn’t that the WH talking point now? Well good luck selling it.
How nice of them. Any word on the slave labor they’re using in China and how long they’ll get to reenergize?
The only law she broke shouldn’t exist.
You gotta learn to spell. Especially on your interstate travel permit. Which I assume is unconstitutional but is also being applauded by a bunch of idiots.
Rent a U-Haul, you stupid bastard. Then drive the car and other stuff inside it. Jesus, didn’t they watch a single heist movie in their lives?
Here’s some newer music for you. At least by my standards. Enjoy it.
And get out there and enjoy the day, friends. Football is back!
The weapons are increasing.
I used to work in a pharmacy. Lots of doctors can’t spell worth shit.
A case of non-brooksing. Ugh
That’s Gilmore’ing.
Right, I feel so seen. Thanks sloopy!
“The fate of the alligator is not known. ”
In a way, we are all like George.
“Football is back!”
I hope the crowds are back too. The fake crowd noise was annoying af.
Full capacity in the horseshoe. And I’ll be there next Saturday. And the Saturday after that. And the one after that. And then a few more times later this fall.
yo when you’re in da dirty (937) hmu
I work 12-hours opposite, but Ill try to make something work.
Sad I missed Neph, but I can drive 4 hours up there any day.
I’ll probably be there next Thursday night (probably Springboro area at Roosters). I’m driving up for the Oregon game but will most likely fly for the others.
Don’t let me forget, as I’ll be scatterbrained all next week juggling work and the drive.
You know… Cleveland Beer Week is coming up.
And related to last night pondering, Better off Ted is available on Hulu.
Hey – My wife works at OSU. We have ‘season’ tickets (well, just 3 games this year) so I’ll be there as well.
They’re back here in CLE, as is Muni lot tailgating..
Germany, where tax evasion is considered a widely practiced “national sport”
?
The Greeks and Italians laugh.
^^^THIS^^^
Also India…
Do y’all know that in Italy, your property is taxed is partly based on how the outside looks?
While living there, I found it amazing to see a dilapidated outside and beautiful inside.
What looks good on the
outsideinside may be falling apart on theinsideoutside…I had the quirky daydream the other day of having a dilapidated farmhouse (I love the look of them) that is actually well-maintained on the inside. I would carefully manicure the outside so that there is always just the right amount of vines crawling all over it, shutters about to fall off, etc.
Similar phenomenon in France, though I think it’s more because of the French nostalgia for the countryside and the old; all my rellies outside of bigger towns are in farmhouses of one description or another, and they all look ancient on the outside and like Architectural Digest on the inside. It is a bit jarring the first time you step across their thresholds.
It’s also locked in the minute you put a roof up. In areas being developed they’ll put up a roof first then build out the building later.
I do love the music video for today’s offering. The song is fine, but the music video is from a bygone era of music videos. And it does the Hugo thing better than the movie Hugo, which the academy jerked itself off over ad nauseum. Maybe it’s nostalgia, I remember seeing this music video come out on MTV. It was hype, as the kids say today.
Oh, now the right likes when Scotus doesn’t take up a case
It’s all about TEAM.
Welcome back!
I swear, I look down for what I think is a week and then it’s September.
I want them to take up a Vaccine mandate case, before I get fired. Seems like a pressing issue for many people lately.
I hope so.
It will be ruled that it’s completely acceptable as long as you can instead pay a tax.
It is fine as long as private businesses are doing the enforcing.
Not if it’s because of pressure from the government.
OMG. Democrats are Anti-Fascist. Their name says it all.
They can’t lie!
Didn’t you hear? Fascism isn’t socialist. It is only socialism if the government takes ownership. Control through other means is not socialism!
Facediapertax.
Roberts isn’t going to willingly take on the public health bureaucracy.
At least vaxtax has a rhyme to it.
Both of us are going to lose our jobs if the vaccine mandate happens. I try not to think about it. I don’t want to submit but with few real options we might have to. Makes me sick. 59 and 57 years old is kinda hard to start anew. I’ve been desperately poor. I don’t want to be part of the first wave that gets slaughtered before the Courts intervene. I’m just sickened by the whole spectacle of watching our society tear itself apart over basically nothing. The Vax folks want you to die.
#metoo
But I’ll accept the firing rather than submit to the new tyrants.
Sucks if that happens. I would make them fire me for that reason. Dont quit. You would let them off the hook. Remember it only took 70+ years for the US government to publicly apologize to Japanese-Americans for interning them.
My advice is move to Georgia or somewhere else in the South. Employers are having trouble finding employees as our business climate is booming.
Housing is getting more expensive by the day. Still lots of good areas left if you look.
On the other side of the lining, the US economy will shit itself some day. Inflation, debt spending, over-regulation, and Commies trying to destroy us will take its toll on our economy.
Once everyone else is in dire financial straits too, we can all go to the soup kitchens together.
Festus lives in Canuckistan.
Additionally, ammo and guns are readily available in the South. Even in this ammo shortage you would be amazed at the deals you can find.
Time to move to Alberta, Festus. And don’t forget to vote against The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ in our Federal election on the 20th — the dumb bastard is now saying that if he’s re-elected he’ll pass a Federal law banning any legal challenges to mandated vaccine orders.
Because he admires China’s “basic dictatorship.”
The SCOTUS doesnt timely take up publicly HOT cases that impact nearly American.
ObamaCare, massive Democrat election fraud 2020, Kungflu tyranny….
The right would have been happy when the Supreme Court didn’t take up a lot of cases. Wickard v. Filburn for one example.
So Nike needs to get some PTO off of their books, huh?
whaddup doh’
mornin’ beer buzz col’ kickin’ it
#metoo! We are a skipping record at this point, Friend.
I’m more frightened of the boobs than the firearm.
As well you should be, but I think that photo was auto-distorted by WordPress.
I grew up with those old late-fifties films. Or maybe in a past life my ship was torpedoed?
Admittedly, I haven’t driven a lambo this millennium, but where TF would that Pelican case even fit? I don’t even think it would go in the passenger seat.
Tie it to the roof.
Remember when Corvettes and Porsches had package racks?
No?
My Z3 had a luggage rack available. It went on the trunk, and honestly looked pretty nice.
Tis true!
Love the caption: The stolen Lambo was likely returned to its owner.
But maybe not?
Something tells me they won’t be in a hurry to notify them. They might get to it a couple of years after after they’ve liquidated it.
I had a Glock 17 stolen years ago as part of a break-in. Serial number was submitted to the police as part of the process.
I talked to the detective about seven or eight years later as part of another theft case and wondered aloud about the gun. He looked it up and lo and behold, they had recovered it five years earlier. Nobody ever notified me and they disposed of it after it sat in their storage for a while.
Protect and serve!
“Disposed of it”, lol. Sure they did.
I’m sure it’s in the private, unregistered collection of a cop somewhere.
It’ll show up at a crime scene.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/will-we-work-in-the-future/
I had to see this and now you can too.
Real luxury space communism has never been tried!
“Women hardest hit”
Keynes mentioned in the first line had me on the floor
When the fiat currencies ultimately implode, they’ll be talking about this one little minor thing Keynes didn’t get right, but the rest of his theory was great.
Capitalism ruined Keynesian economics.
Capitalism ruins everything, honestly. It certainly ruins Communism.
“Excess leisure time” brings us things like BLM and Antifa.
Wall-E is not a documentary.
Wait, so now we’re executing people as part of the eviction process?
[Eviction link originally had hilarious typo. -EF]
Reduces rent recidivism.
STEVE SMITH HERE TO EVICT YOU… FROM CONTINENCE!
Back of the envelope math shows black farmers’ numbers dropping but the size of the farms growing larger. So same as white farmers. Could it be that agricultural efficiency has grown and we don’t need so many farmers?
“How you gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?”
/ex farm kid
Or maybe it’s because the economics of small farms aren’t working anymore and the property taxes are killing them.
Property and inheritance taxes. It gets to a point where they have to sell the property off just to pay the taxes.
But we still pretend we live in a free country.
But they can just by some of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance to cover those inheritance taxes!
They refer to inheritance tax in the article as “laws of inheritance”. They just can’t drag themselves to bad-mouth any form of taxation. Also, the USDA gets the lion’s share of the blame for discriminatory lending. So basically, it’s government all the way down getting in the way of success.
Farming is too much work for too little reward.
/also ex farm kid
Going back to bed.
I want to see more of these
https://ibb.co/PNCQ223
That ship sailed awhile ago. During the “Yes We Can” era, I believe. I’d say we are more divided than ever before. Now the state just needs to get our guns, and the full-on purging can begin.
Reverse-Brooksie #2.
NBC News is worse than CNN #changemymind
Nice
“Nevada man, 27, was tortured for hours with a blowtorch, ax and knives before he was forced to walk off a cliff and then shot dead: Three people are charged with murder as DA weighs death penalty”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9949783/Nevada-man-tortured-hours-forced-walk-cliff-shot-3-charged-murder.html
Was he banging the Queen of Russia?
Look, it’s HE’s neighbors!
She “believed” he had hurt one of her kids? Believed? Yeah, sure…
Are we Gary Plauche’ing on a hunch?
I want everyone in that story to get the death penalty.
The suspects had reason to believe he molested one of their kids. Maybe the torture was to get him to admit he did it. The problem with torture is that people will admit to just about anything so you stop torturing them.
If only he were Viggo Mortensen, he would still be alive and getting his revenge.
“Cardi B reveals her Atlanta home is FLOODING due to remnants of Hurricane Ida hitting Georgia and other East Coast states: ‘Storm is no joke'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9950015/Cardi-B-reveals-Atlanta-home-FLOODING-remnants-Hurricane-Ida.html
Wet Ass Property
*wild muppet applause*
Please don’t trigger memories of that SF article from a couple of years ago.
LOL.
Better call the GA EPD, the run off is probably polluting the Hooch.
Is it impacting the entire areola?
The day I akshually take time to worry about Cardi B’s house flooding….hopefully someone will find me swinging from a rafter in the garage. By the neck.
Today in weird happening I get a google maps notification that someone shared their location with me. I aint expecting this and the name does not immediately ring a bell. I click and it takes me briefly to someplace in the US of America and then stops. I assume it was a mistake. I remember the name as the guy who made my kitchen furniture which married an Americaneze chick and moved to America (which sucks because if I need replacements for my furniture I need to go to a different company as his closed)
Apparently he is somewhere near Eastern Allamakee Highschool which is near someplace called Prairie du Chien which is a silly name for an US town.
Goddamn Americans stealing our furniture makers
Isn’t that were Animal went to high school?
I know about Allamakee county but not sure how many highschools are there
Prairie du Chien is Wisconsin, but good furniture makers are always in demand everywhere
In an attempt to not dox myself, I live within 15 minutes of there
sorry to hear that. can you not move someplace better?
??
Prairie of the Dog, Wisconsin is a nice town!
Do ya like dags?
I haven’t been on too much here, but I’m usually around in the discord.
At the risk of doxxing myself, I’ll ask people here for a hand. Ladydooms teeth really took a hit during pregnancy, and we’re now chasing some of those bills.
And then her car died. So now I have an extra car payment that just muddied some plans.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-laine-keep-
her-teeth
I wouldn’t ask if I didn’t think I needed to.
DOOMco:
Corrected the link for you.
Thank you.
I blame Biden.
Says campaign not found.
Nvm don’t. I found it. I hope.
Nephilium got it right for me.
Pretty lady needs healthy, pretty teeth
Update: ladydoom sees you.
“Thank you. This is what community is all about.”
I’m moved. It really means a world to me.
If pregnancy ruined her teeth, you knocked her up the wrong way.
Then again, if you’d done that, she wouldnt have gotten in that situation.
Wait, have I been doing it wrong?
Brah, you missed the previous comment on “Up The Pooper Cooper”.
Id explain it, but our Family Friendly® rating and simple decorum prevents my instruction.
I’ll do a Google search.
“Can you tell them all that I’m very grateful for all of them reaching out to help us- people who they haven’t even met face to face. That I went from a huge panic spiral to a sense of relief, and that I’m able to actually go to the playground with our daughter rather than budget and plan and sell everything left.”
This is excellent news.
Maybe he just needs to take a wicked dump every hour or so.
Loved McInroe riffing on it. And the booing.
It can be invigorating.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9949573/Demi-Rose-puts-eye-popping-display-plunging-gown-Capri.html
Instead he gets to play the race card so nothing else happens.
OFFS!
What a ridiculous article.
What? You mean a difference that’s probably well within the margin of error isn’t blatant proof of homo/trans/queerphobia?
Appeals to emotion is a powerful tool in the quiver of arrows used by people with really evil agendas they need to hide behind “wanting to do good”. Social Justice is nothing more than appeals to emotion targeting the people’s usual envy/jealousy of others by presenting something in an as negative as possible way (often with zero relation to reality).
Hey, here’s a novel idea – pay your fucking rent.
Look, you have to wear a mask everywhere because the social contract says so.
I also don’t have to pay rent because reasons.
Get up. Go to work. Earn some cash and then have your fun. It’s a simple plan. Most of us figured it out with our first lawn-mowing job.
But that’s too hard because of all the oppression and hate.
Some clients didn’t oppress the lawn service guy. “Wanna come in for an iced tea? Well, thanks Ma’am!” Others would just invite me in to smoke weed and watch Letterman that they recorded the night before. It didn’t pay all that well but it was probably the best job ever! Strata Council, Confidential!
Grounds at a not fancy golf course was just the warm version of being a liftie in the winter.
People just give you weed.
And sex! (it was the early 80’s)
I was born too late.
I used to deliver groceries in Brooklyn as a kid. Some fat old guy used to request me and only me for deliveries. I still remember his bad hair piece and sunglasses. He would invite me in and offer me a joint. I remember he had posters of Rock singers (i forget which ones) without their shirts on all over and he would ask me if i liked his posters. I told the Jewish old lady who managed the store and she thought it was the funniest thing ever. “Jeremy! Your boyfriend needs a delivery today. Dont drop the change.”
Some invitations were accepted, others not.
That is awesome.
LOL
slightly more likely… to fear
Is there a fear scale I’m not aware of?
The clawing your own eye’s out hasn’t been reached quite yet. Give it time.
What is worse, brand new shoes that haven’t been broken in, or shoes that have been almost worn out?
Yes…
Why not both? I go through them every three months. The comfy ones lose grip and it takes a few days to wear in the new ones. I’m on the cusp right now and my dogs are barking!
I’ll take “What are new shoes?” Alex, for a $100
Worse feeling? New.
Worse if you step in a puddle? Old
Doom!
I’m back, baby!
I don”t believe you.
Where’s the jeep?
dad’s garage. I have the top of the engine apart now, and I’m putting seat heaters I got last Christmas in the seats.
DOOM!
How’s little Doomette?
And momma?
And Bridger?
She’s great!
We’re up to two/ maybe a three word sentence.
“Dada up” was the first one.
Vocab is expanding now so that’s nice.
Lady is good, other than her teeth.
And the LC has been sitting. I’m hoping to get it together Enough to bring to the warehouse at work so I can get more time on it. Not easy when it lives at my parents.
Worse as in worse for your feet if walking more than a mile at a time.
Haven’t been broken in. Since my daily footwear is boots.
I though modern shoes do not need to be broken in
Only if you have ISO standard feet.
Don’t even attempt to wear metric-sized shoes on American feet.
I’ve been having a hard time posting comments for the last two days. Cleared my cache and still no go sometimes. It’s probably just my aged lap-top.
Those people laughing at the suffering of the gator should be prodded into the shallows at spear-point. Cruel fucks.
I wouldn’t cry.
Now do bull fighting.
Don’t get me or Tulip started…
I recall a story a few years back about a three year old, who was chomped on by a gator and dragged into the water, right in front of his parents who could do nothing except scream as their kid was drowned and eaten. Oh, and this happened at Disneyworld.
The only good gator is a pair of boots. Fuck gators.
It’s not about the reptile. Laughing at anything suffering should earn the old shun-shoulder. Oh, Fuck off Tulpa!
Thank you for your kind words. Things are better than they have been in two years, though I am still frequently stupid. Haven’t had a seizure in god-knows-how-long; am not inundated with hallucinations anymore; and am on my own making money doing my thing.
I’m only sad that others remember the truly bad parts, whereas they’ve been deleted from me. I rather enjoy some of the bizarre, former realities. Especially my family as actors. I actually think that’s funny and have worked out the routine that I’ve used frequently at get-togethers. It’s like a Seinfeld scene. Just play it up.
Seriously, thank you all. I’m kickin’ it and in 11 days it will be the 2nd anniversary of The Incident. I’m proud and happy of my (sometimes flawed) recovery. Life ain’t gonna stop throwing you shit. Do your best to rise above it. Keep on truckin’. It ain’t always a blast, but cessation is a far worse outcome.
Keep it goin man.
Glad to see you’re getting better Evan.
“It’s like a Seinfeld scene. Just play it up.”
Jerry, these are load-bearing walls !
Nice recovery from a nearly life-ending event, Evan. Appreciate each day the sun comes up- you possess a worldview that exceeds most people your age, ‘specially in the more civilized parts of the planet.
And always, kill Hitler.
Hey Evan, missed the post last night to comment directly in. Great, post. Good to see you keeping on keeping on and improving.
Good morning, Sloop!
Corgan is a weird dude, but he sure has made a lot of good music. Siamese Dream is a masterpiece.
Go sink their boat, guys!
History suggests that the boat is already listing at the dock. But miracles can happen!
The only miracle is Kevin Warren still being employed when he’s the dumbest fuck in the world.
Seconded on Siamese Dream! That’s a great album.
Yep.
I don’t think that there is a single plop on that entire record.
I also like the stuff on Melon Collie and Adore.
“Blaire White – On The Move – “YOUR WELCOME” with Michael Malice #170″
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWgBTq3ieqo
gay
For a change, sloopy picked up the 19th century baseball HoFer, probably because he is known for other things. In case you didn’t know it, Fruit of the Loom owns Spalding, which means Berkshire Hathaway owns Spalding.
[insert 30 rock corporate ownership chart here]
He did miss pre-war player Monte Pearson, who outranks Rich Aurilia.
After Spalding, its a meh day.
“Podcast host Joe Rogan says he has Covid-19 and used ivermectin, a drug typically used on livestock that health experts have urged the public to avoid.”
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1433361819079434242
CNN ran a bunch of similar bullshit stories “horse dewormer” with no mention that ivermectin is FDA approved and widely used to treat humans around the world.
*cough*
Ooooo
Also *cough*
I would like to see them start running stories about people using ‘fruit fungus’ to treat bacterial infections.
You really going to use old cantaloupes for your infection??
No, Elton John.
…think about it
And they use urine from pregnant mares to treat menopause symptoms!
Billions of doses delivered around the world. Even to children. It has amazing anti-parasitic and antiviral properties. The dude who discovered it got a fucking Nobel Prize.
If there is such a thing as a miracle drug, this is it.
However, it’s off patent and easy to manufacture.
TMITE and the Medical Industrial Complex hate you and want you to die.
The refusal to treat early is evil.
Most GP’s are telling patients to take Tylenol for fever (which isn’t even a good antipyretic) and that’s it.
They don’t want you to die, dead people don’t buy drugs. They want you to live a long, unhealthy, drug-dependant miserable existence.
Aside, it’s really past time for me to get back into the lifting routine…
Disagree.
They absolutely want those of us who won’t be scared into taking all their fucking drugs to die. The ghouls are actively cheering when someone unvaxxed or whatever dies so they can dunk on them and scare the rest.
Evil.
You’re both correct. The disobedient must be killed off. The obedient can stay on the evil money program. There’s a reason the Food & Drug Admins are one unit.
And yes. Move a lot, lift heavy shit, eat good food and get yourself out in the sunshine.
And avoid little kids, sleep well (as you can) and wash your hands.
/experienced non-doctor
Oh, and don’t fall down*
*Very important
I haven’t seen much about this but I am very curious…
is ivermectin a good replacement for every useless cold medicine?
It might be overkill for most colds.
Oh, it was front & center on Drudge, with no mention of clinical applications (FDA approved) and use on humans.
Drudge still exists?
I’ve seen several of these on Rogan already.
TMITE are high-fiving each other right now.
Here is a typical example full of misleading slander from the woke brigade that have taken over the NY Post “news” page.
And when he (overwhelmingly likely) survives, nothing at all will be mentioned.
The Z-pak and monoclonal antibodies probably had more to do with his speedy recovery.
The real controversy here is that covid is almost always very easy to treat in the early stages – and every effective treatment has been blocked and / or banned by the authorities. The NIH recommended treatment for covid in the early stages is… nothing. Just wait around until you get better or end up in the hospital in dire straits. The HCl / Zinc / Z-Pak cocktail is very effective at keeping people out of the hospital – so it was suppressed by the states and mocked in the media.
Unless you are a rich celebrity with access to sports doctors will to prescribe the right drugs, you get no treatment until you are literally dying.
The FDA is talking even talking about banning NAC supplements – because they can help prevent or lessen the severity of covid and a bunch of other conditions.
OFFS!
Over the counter Quinine and Zinc supplements seem to be effective in half a dozen cases that I know of.
Someone had an amazing graph on Twitter of the Covid death rates for African countries that had been using Ivermectin to treat some other disease (it’s on-label use, I believe) vs. the African countries that hadn’t.
It was stunning. Basically – those that didn’t had that normal Covid double spike graph – and those that had been using it basically had a flat/noise line along the bottom. Correlation may not equal causation, but holy shit – get Ivermectin.
I’ll look, I saw that one the other day
If Ivermectin were correlated with a 0.00001% decrease in the COVID death rate, it would still be demonstrably more effective than masks and lockdowns.
I like this one.
The dunking on Ivermectin as deadly horse dewormer is stupid. Of course people are overdosing because people are dumb. But defining your point by the dumbest people on the other side is disingenuous as fuck.
Its like anything on the gray market. If Pharma’s subsidiaries the FDA and the AMA weren’t blocking it, then it could be prescribed at the proper dosage, and pharmacies could provide it at the proper dosage.
Any of y’all have a good “how to” and “when to” guide on using Ivermectin for this?
This seems to be a good resource.
hos mad that healthy 54 year old didn’t die from covid.
I was on a text thread with some folks who were carrying on about what an idiot Rogan is for using ivermectin. Why should someone care what someone else is ingesting to attempt to head off a pathogen? Wait, I know: Cast out the heretic.
Ivermectin is listed by the WHO as an essential drug.
It is mainly used against parasites but its antiviral positives might come from attacking the mosquitos as they suck your blood.
The media are liars, so if they dismiss something, there is something they are hiding.
“They really played a 50 year long game, sacrificed it all at every opportunity, held the line against all odds and won just to make white women have babies.”
https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1433281219320496129
CWAC
What does going off the gold standard have to do with white babies?
Overturning Roe v. Wade doesn’t make abortion illegal, it just means people in the various states get to vote on it and decide for themselves.
Technically, the voters in the State decide. No individual decides anything. Don’t we hate this shit?
Don’t we hate this shit?
Not when it comes to murdering people
/minarchist
“You gotta learn to spell. Especially on your interstate travel permit. Which I assume is unconstitutional but is also being applauded by a bunch of idiots.”
Of course its unconstitutional.
BTW: The Constitutional clause that prohibits states from passing any Bills of Attainder is how the Founders sought to prevent tyranny from stupid shit like vaccine restrictions. states are making not getting a vaccine a crime by preventing movement among the states and forcing their employers to fire them.
Crimes that are Constitutional apply to everyone and dont change based on the winds of politics or junk science.
Hey VA Glibs! I’m gonna be shooting the USPSA match at Fredericksburg this coming Sunday (9/5). Would any one be interested in a late lunch/beer at Gourmeltz afterwards?
I’m gonna be shooting the USPSA match – shooting is easy but will you be hitting the targets?
I will. Really fast, too!
Shoot Alphas, really fast.
“No Mikes, just happy little alphas”
“Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand,” Sotomayor wrote.
“No federal appellate court has upheld such a comprehensive prohibition on abortions before viability under current law,” she wrote. “Taken together, the Act is a breathtaking act of defiance — of the Constitution, of this Court’s precedents, and of the rights of women seeking abortions throughout Texas.”
Now do every single firearm law contrasted with 2A and court precedent.
“Emanations and penumbras” are more sacrosanct than actual enumerated rights.
exercising their constitutional rights
Fuck off, mass murderer!
LGBTQ people of color and youth are especially at risk for eviction, which advocates say could affect their ability to find housing for years to come.
*rolls eyes*
I’m a business owner and I would rather not hire a pink-haired harpy for my customer service desk. That makes me the “bad guy”. Sure.
When that song came out I had graduated from normal college and I was taking art classes in Chicago at night. I remember listening to it as I drove up there. Good memories.
My “drawing 1” class is not “Hey, it’s day 1! Here’s how you draw a circle, and this is how you shade things and how to look at light”. It’s “Hey, it’s day 1! Here’s a difficult still life, then we’re going to draw that still life falling off the table, and then draw it in a heap on the floor. And for extra good measure, we’re going to do some shading on a very difficult-to-draw sculpture.”
There seems to be no beginning drawing. It’s picking up where I left off in high school … 36 years ago.
I can bite off more than I can chew on YouTube. I wanted some remedial training. I’m a little peeved.
🙁
Though I suspect no art teacher wants to teach remedial art.
Maybe so. I’m going to stick this out this semester because I actually CAN do the work, but I can do a while lot of tutorials on YouTube, too.
I’m going to stick this out this semester because I actually CAN do the work
While revisitng the basics always has value, if you can stretch to do the work, that sounds like a good class for you.
Thanks, RC. That was a perspective I needed to hear to put my mind right.
My OCD wants to start everything anew if I haven’t done something for a while.
Some do. I used to teach beginning drawing at a community art center. I took it as a personal challenge to find a way to teach someone with 0 skills how to draw. To me art isn’t just belching your feelings onto a canvas. I like the idea of craftsmanship and technique, and I see a lot of science in the process.
I’m really sorry to hear that. I have had some classes where they just throw you in the deep end. But I have also had some where they explain the step by step sequence you use to draw. The best drawing class I had was at an atelier in Chicago. This is the technique they taught: https://www.sightsize.com/
I may have some time in the next week or two for an online class. I’d be happy to talk about drawing instead of painting if you’d like. I really hate to see someone who genuinely wants to improve but doesn’t have the right resources.
I was killing it when Siamese Dream was released. “Top of the World, Ma!” We all know how that movie turned out.
Black U.S. farmers’ struggle to get debt relief
Aren’t all farmers?
extends painful history soiled by racism
I thought being required to farm back in the day was the problem…
The soil is racist?
You know what, Stuart? I Like you!
Cotton be White!
Any word on the slave labor they’re using in China and how long they’ll get to reenergize?
Next you’ll expect nike to recognize the existence and sovereignty of Taiwan.
Tourist’s allegedly fake COVID-19 card with ‘Maderna’ vaccine gets her arrested in Honolulu airport
Fake vaccine, fake vax card. What’s the problem?
If she wears a fake mask it’ll protect everyone else.
Fake pandemic, too.
It all works.
Nurses fill out the cards. Mine says Pfizer but the handwriting is not easy to read.
Youre in the system and thats how they know.
In an unsigned opinion, the majority wrote that while the clinics had raised “serious questions regarding the constitutionality of the Texas law,” they had not met a burden that would allow the court to block it at this time due to “complex” and “novel” procedural questions.
Huh. I figured they would have blocked it.
A German regional official’s plan to let authorities receive anonymous online tip-offs about potential tax evaders has prompted a flood of hate mail, with some accusing him of reviving habits from Germany’s totalitarian past.
Danyal Bayaz, the finance minister in southwestern Baden-Wuerttemberg state, on Thursday retweeted some of the messages sent to him on social media that included racist references to his Turkish family roots.
Yes to hate mail, not to racist digs on him.
Last week, Matt Marrazzo, a senior manager at Nike, posted on Linkedin that employees at the sportswear company’s corporate offices in Oregon would have the week off from work.
“Take the time to unwind, destress and spend time with your loved ones. Do not work,” the post reads. “This past year has been rough – we’re all human! and living through a traumatic event! – but I’m hopeful that the empathy and grace we continue to show our teammates will have a positive impact on the culture of work moving forward.”
Nike already offers employees flexible schedule “Summer Hours.” Nike managers say the new move prioritizes the mental health of the company’s staff and leads to increased productivity at work.
I wonder what the real reason is for the time off.
Whichever is correct, the Texas Department of Public Safety gets to sort it all out. At the request of DPS, Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies pulled over the driver of a Lamborghini Huracán recently and found a plethora of illicit contraband inside the small supercar, according to HCSO Deputy Thomas Gilliland.
Which Glib is missing?
I’m just here for an alibi
D5 CRU and @TxDPSSoutheast conducted a traffic stop and it’s believed the Lamborghini was stolen. The vehicle was seized and the investigation led to the seizure of over 100 Lbs of marijuana, meth, cocaine, guns and $230,737 in cash! 2 in custody. @HCSO_D5Patrol @HCSOTexas
No way all that fit in a Lambo.
Probably not, but it’d be fun to try…
The Other Kevin are you in this movie?
That link isn’t working for me. I haven’t heard of it, and I wasn’t interviewed, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t appear in some game footage. Do you have a different link? I’d love to see it.
Uffda. Should be the right link
A link to the production company that did Empty Net. Links to the Amazon Prime video.
I have seen that. Well worth a watch. It was fun for me because that year 5 of those guys played with me in Chicago (Roybal, McKee, Lee, Dodson, Misciewicz). And I’ve either practiced with or played against almost all the other players.
I can’t remember if I’m in it. If so I would have been “anonymous skater” in the background during practice or a league game.
I don’t think it’s the same company, but before COVID hit someone was looking for extras for a film about the 2002 Paralympic sled team in Salt Lake City, who won the first gold for USA. I hope they make that because I know a few of those guys too.
So Biden asking Ghani to lie about the Taliban and how strong they were is not going to get any traction either? I mean its on tape. WTF?
Clown world
Thanks for that pic of the lady and her guns, sloop.
It got a rise out of me. ?
A couple of 45s, right?
Poor, colored women hardest hit.
“Today, a new law takes effect in Texas that directly violates the precedent established in the landmark case of Roe v. Wade. This all-out assault on reproductive health effectively bans abortion for the nearly 7 million Texans of reproductive age,” Harris said in a statement.
“Patients in Texas will now be forced to travel out-of-state or carry their pregnancy to term against their will. This law will dramatically reduce access to reproductive care for women in Texas, particularly for women with low incomes and women of color,” Harris, who reigned as one of the most left-wing Democrats during her time in the U.S. Senate, continued.
No mention pf the unborn poc’s.
I’m confused. You still have six weeks to execute the procedure, correct?
Why do you hate procrastinators
I’ll tell you tomorrow.
I haven’t decided.
Because they do it for money not the love of delaying things.
I vastly prefer the amateurcrastinators.
Now do the 2nd amendment!
My friend is still on the vent, approaching day 14, but she is getting better, so they are going to do a tracheotomy, take her off the vent, and put her in long-term care.
Improvement is still good.
Prayers heading out!
It’s good that she’s improving.
It’s heartbreaking to know that they could have been treating her with therapeutics which might have prevented this.
Or at least shortened her suffering.
Heading in the right direction, glad to hear it. When will you be able to see her?
Once she’s in long-term care.
Like Ireland, Scotland seems rather intent on being enslaved.
The certification scheme will only be introduced later this month once all adults have had the opportunity to receive both doses of the vaccine. Children and adults that are ineligible for vaccination will be exempt.
From Friday, people will be able to download a PDF copy of their vaccination certificate, with a personalised QR code, to print off instantly or store on their mobile phone. …
“We believe that a limited use of vaccine certification in certain higher risk settings, could help us to keep businesses open and prevent any further restrictions as we head into autumn and winter.
“They will be for use in very limited settings and never for public services such as transport, hospitals and education. This is a significant step forward and not a decision we have taken lightly but it is in line with certification in other European countries.
“The original protective measures such as wearing a face covering, physical distancing, hand washing and isolating when necessary are still key to reducing prevalence of the virus but getting vaccinated remains the single most important step that any of us can take to keep ourselves and others safe.
“Ensuring that as many people as possible get vaccinated remains a key priority and the Scottish Government will continue to do everything we can to improve on the already high up take of the vaccine.”
Sure…
Dangit.
“And the pawl on the ratchet goes click click click, click click click. All though the town.”
Sing it with me now.
The Scots are a broken people.
A very large portion of them have been agitating for communism for a while now.
Longshanks bred the resistance right out of them.
Well… further cementing my guess that this Viva will be smaller then the others I’ve been to. Those who were booked at the backup hotel (the Gold Coast) just got notifications that their reservations were moved over to the primary hotel (the Orleans) as there will not be a special Viva shuttle running non-stop this year. The fact the Orleans has the rooms (rooms in previous years sold out the year before) is somewhat telling.
Also received confirmation that Charles Phoenix will not be there for this Viva, but is planning on returning in fabulous form for the next one in Spring.
Still going, and still planning on having a good time.
This Malice quote becomes more relevant every day:
“I don’t want to change your mind or argue with you, but I don’t want to share a country with you either.”
How does the divorce happen, do you think?
Hopefully, peacefully.
The schools are a good opening right now. The feds are saying states can’t say “no mandates”.
Let’s get some more serious standoffs than pot.
I want the divorce to be amicable and a result of migration and the legislative process.
I fear that economic cataclysm or accelerating authoritarianism will cause it to happen quickly and with bloodshed.
A fast break with the legislative body working out the dumb “who pays for ft sumpter” after.
Then a migratory period.
I’d also love to have counties or towns vote to join neighboring states pre/during the break
There’s a ton of things that would have to be worked out. The complete list would be astoundingly large–it would be an incredibly massive situation to handle. Just to take one thing I’m familiar with, what would be done with the National Airspace System? Most people don’t think about it, but the navigational systems, charts, and procedures for all air travel in the US is handled by a single Federal agency at this point. Splitting it up, while not strictly impossible, would take a lot of resources.
For instance:
Who would pay for maintenance, upkeep, and improvement of the Global Positioning System, ground based systems like WAAS, VORs, and other navigational aids? What about charting and upkeep of instrument procedures? What about air traffic control, radar systems, and weather radars?
For another example, what would happen to NOAA, the National Weather Service, and all the satellite and ground based systems they maintain and operate?
All of these things can, of course, be funded and operated by private concerns, but I’d be willing to bet that after a hypothetical split, you’re not going to have one side be Libertopia.
If a split has to happen, it had better be peaceful and without acrimony because as much as we like to criticize the Federal Government for its overreach, there are a lot of essential services it provides. Again, these services could certainly be provided by private entities, but the division and funding would not be easy. It would be easier if the two parties could agree on what is “essential” and how to maintain it.
This is the fundamental problem with our Federal system now: it has become more and more centralized, until it now represents a nearly untangle-able knot.
And, even multi-use things like the GPS system are run by other agencies that would also need to be divided.
How did Alexander deal with the Gordian Knot? Exactly.
I get it, but cutting that knot will cause a lot of shit to fall to the ground, metaphorically. Picking up the pieces will be an incredible task. That’s why it’s important to recognize whether a separation is necessary, and make the responsible adult decision to do it peacefully and orderly, over time, rather than to force a catastrophe.
It will be nearly impossible to have such a process not ultimately be damaged by bad actors. Kind of like the reconstruction period is probably the best we could hope for.
Yeah, look how long it took Brexit to happen. And that was just from the eu.
But the entrenched interests that benefit from the current situation and/or those who want to mandate strict control across the country regardless of regional preferences will use/are using the fear of catastrophe to prevent rational discussion of how to solve these problems.
IMO, the best way is to devolve power to the states in a renewed federation. If people want to live in a California-style socialist democracy, so be it. But if people in rural/suburban Pennsylvania don’t, they should be free to choose that as well.
The benefits of the US as a geographical and economic contiguous entity are self evident. The failures of our political system risk all of that unnecessarily.
Therea tons to work out. I suppose when someone leaves they leave though. The “old US” would hold that stuff for the most part.
Yeah there’s not a split that suddenly has libertarians running the show.
But I think there are chances to start over. The minarchy chia pet.
When the dollar fails, all will become clear.
That is the glue that holds the system together.
As an international reserve currency, it can be manipulated and inflated to fund all manner of things we can’t afford, at the expense of savers and investors. If the rest of the world gets fed up, or if another country like China were to make a successful play to supplant the US dollar as the main reserve currency, it would all come crashing down, yes.
I feel like the rest of the world has just as much to lose by the US dollar collapsing, so it won’t happen before, e.g., China draws a supermajority of major economies into an alternate reserve currency to soften the effects of a collapsing dollar.
The FAA should be privatized and paid for by the people who use it.
Jiminy Cricket, DB; you really are my brother from another mother. First you link to my favorite album from one of my favorite bands. Now, you bring to mind my favorite Dead Kennedys’ song – “Anarchy sounds good to me until someone asks who’ll fix the sewers, would the rednecks just play king of the neighborhood?”
Damn it! drunk already – https://youtu.be/Bg5ZcxBbYJY
It doesn’t.
The commies don’t want to give up ruling over the non-commies, and the non-commies shouldn’t make the stategic error of giving the commies a captive population of moderates to abuse with a lot of messy borders.
Even if there is a pretend divorce, there is a war within the decade.
Sadly this is probably accurate
Agreed. Divorcing only delays the bloodletting, which could be even worse.
Some folks involved with the Free State Project have been talking about it for NH for a while. Recently published in support of secession.
I think a national divorce would be just as ugly as most divorces.
There is so much benefit to having a federal system of government, wherein individual states can govern themselves according to their local populations’ wishes, but also normalize relations, travel, finance, etc. within a national system.
The tragedy is that we have the structure already built–but it is so overgrown with weeds and ugly edifices and decaying structurs haphazardly nailed to it, that people are talking about tearing it down rather than stripping it back to its fundamental design.
You need everyone involved to keep a relationship going, but only one to destroy it.
This just hit my inbox. I wonder if it’s because Pfizer doesn’t want anyone to start doing discovery of their emails.
I sure as hell know the FDA and DoD don’t.
https://techstartups.com/2021/08/30/pfizer-board-member-warns-policymakers-natural-immunity-confers-durable-protection-start-assimilating-policy-discussion/
I think I see part of the problem.
I’d imagine you’re just the guy to start such discovery, possibly.
One of Ozy’s favorite quotes: “If you’re going to start talking about how shitty everyone else is, you’d better make damn sure your shorts are clean when discovery starts.”
I see that the two top FDA vaccine regulators just “retired.”
One might wonder whether or not they have any opinions to share on the current situation.
NDA says nah.
The Mail (of course) has a story on it.
Turf battle?
While disappointing, it presents opportunities for exploitation of the situation to a positive end.
Gah! Need to take my snark to the vault and leave my lovelies once more. Multiple chins up! We’ll get through this even if it ends up as badly as we envision. You people mean more to me than I can drunkenly imagine.
“New San Francisco Initiative to Pay Individuals Not to Shoot Others
A new program in San Fransisco will pay people at high risk of shooting someone not to pull the trigger to help alleviate rising gun violence in the city.
The Dream Keeper Fellowship is set to launch in October and pay 10 individuals $300 each month to not be involved in shootings, Sheryl Davis, executive director of the Human Rights Commission, told Newsweek in an interview Tuesday.
Davis explained that the program is not “transactional,” but will rather focus on making investments in communities most impacted by violence.
“It’s not necessarily as cut and dry as folks may think. It’s not as transactional as, ‘Here’s a few dollars so that you don’t do something bad,’ but it really is about how you help us improve public safety in the neighborhood,” she said.
Participants will be paired with life coaches from the city’s Street Violence Intervention Program and will be considered “community ambassadors” who work to prevent violence. They will work on their professional, personal, and community development and will be thought of as “partners” in engaging community members and decreasing violence…
It’s being funded through the Dream Keeper Initiative, which is San Fransisco’s effort to redirect funding into the Black community. The initiative supports a variety of programs, including an art complex, youth development and education, guaranteed income programs, and homeowner promotion says Mayor London Breed’s office.”
https://www.newsweek.com/new-san-francisco-initiative-pay-individuals-not-shoot-others-1624676
OFFS!!
Do you have to itemize all the people you didn’t shoot to get a payout?
So they pay someone to ‘not shoot people’ AND pay a ‘life coach’ to work with them. This is how you get that sweet sweet graft going.
Still advocating the big lie and voter suppression.
Asked during a nearly two-hour interview at his golf club last week what reforms he thinks could fix the system and restore confidence in American elections, Trump listed several things he hopes states will implement to reform the system.
“Voter ID is very important,” Trump told Breitbart News. “Frankly, going to paper ballots is better than anything you can do — paper ballots. Going to paper ballots. You know, Canada uses paper ballots. I think going to paper ballots would be the best thing if you want to have accurate elections. Countries that do paper ballots — solidly watched paper ballots — those are the ones that work. And stop the mail-in ballots unless it’s for military and overseas or very sick people, people that just can’t vote — and they have to have some kind of a real excuse. I think paper ballots, same-day voting would be great. Those things, you’d straighten out your elections.”
“I spent last night thinking of medical work arounds for this horrific law, until it is rectified in the courts.
So, this is what I would tell my daughter or her friends if they were in Texas.
[I know this isn’t enough, but as a mom, and doctor, I am sharing my thoughts].
Get on Birth Control
Now.
Any form that is reliable.
Oral Contraceptives, Nuva Ring, Norplant, IUD.
Something.
Now.”
https://twitter.com/darakass/status/1433051908554514438
That’s some out of the box thinking.
You couldnt do that last month!
You know, you wouldn’t have this panic if you hadn’t gotten into the habit of treating murdering the child as birth control.
A real contraceptive doesn’t risk damaging your ability to have children, and doesn’t kill an already living person.
Or, you could have listened to our advice all along and started taking responsibility for your own actions.
This is incredibly disturbing to me.
It’s the Motte and the Bailey, I’m guessing. Use the reasonable argument to encompass and protect all the harder-to-argue effects of the proposed policy. When critics bring up the side effects, redirect the focus to the reasonable bits.
Now let’s move those to being OTC.
And ya know, not screwing somebody you’re not married to is a thing too.
Pshhhh, look at this patriarchal fuddy fuddy over here! ?
Next thing you know he’ll be blaming rape victims because they said actively courted a sexual encounter!
I don’t want to live in that world.
Fuck you, specie-ist scum! The state won’t allow me to marry my chimpanzee girlfriend!
Aren’t you already married? Wouldn’t that be a violation of laws against bigamy?
Holy shit. women were using abortion as birth control. That’s so fucked up.
You know, I spent years thinking that it would require a particularly insensitive and deranged personality to consider abortion to be just another form of birth control, but I guess it’s more common than I thought.
I struggle with reconciling the self-ownership argument for abortion rights with the right of life for all human beings. I can’t find a way to separate the idea of the sovereignty of the individual from the potentiality represented by a fetus. So I have to conclude that it’s better to err on the side of preserving life than to extinguish it.
Clearly the responsible thing to do is use birth control or abstinence to avoid ever having to be in the situation of deciding whether an abortion is appropriate for a particular person. But I just can’t figure out why people would think it’s ok to avoid prophylactic measures and let it go that far–to the point where that decision becomes necessary. Why do people back themselves into that corner?
Regarding the question implied in your penultimate sentence: It’s because people are horrible, evil, and selfish. Period. And made more so when they can easily find echo chambers (social media, etc.) that tell them they’re not.
Why do people back themselves into that corner?
Because it’s not a corner for them. They’ve so fucked up their consciences that they see it as akin to picking a scab.
You don’t pick at scabs, that’s counterproductive.
*nods in agreement*
That’s just confirmation that the law was needed.
If abortion is your first line of birth control, then you’re a sincerely fucked up individual.
And I’m willing to bet money this woman insists on wearing a mask, yet doesn’t say a word about using a rubber to her daughters.
And yes, I’m showing my minarchist leanings here.
“That’s some out of the box thinking.”
Well, except for the IUD.
*uncomfortable golf clap*
Hey, kids, I may be tied up (not that way) when next story installment drops, but I should be around in the comments after 12 CST.
Hope you all enjoy.
No whites please.
In an effort to welcome back students to campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host a “Welcome BBQ” intended only for students of color.
The event is scheduled for September 12, four days after the start of the academic year at UW. It will be free of charge to attendees, according to a flyer obtained by The College Fix.
“All are welcome, intended for self-identifying people of color,” the flyer states.
“self-identifying people of color”
Many lulz followed.
When I went to a UNLV/Wisconsin game in Las Vegas I self identified as Wisconsin Alum and took a bunch of free shit from their tent. I was not a Wisconsin Alum.
At least long enough to see if the spread is any good.
Wouldn’t that be an “Unwelcome” BBQ for many students?
Kind of like an “Inconvenience Store?”
It’s a trap!
The New Segregationists
It really is a reactionary movement.
Who was it that said ‘Segregation now! Segregation forever!’ ? A soothsayer?
I dunno, but I bet it was a Republican.
Giggle, snort, chortle.
Also, the comments in that vid you linked last night about the ANA training… HOLY BALLS!!!
Also, all those black kids will be sad when they find out BBQ in Wisconsin means sloppy joe.
Better than “chipped ham barbecue.”
“Purple is a color. Gimme some brisket.”
Viking fans would get a worse beat down in Wisconsin than some cracker trying to crash that party.
Story that I think I have told before, back on TOS, about my days in grad school in Madison.
The school paper (not the Cardinal, the less blatantly communist one) had a “cartoonist” who decided to have a series criticizing Chief Wahoo (he was only 28 years ahead of his time) for being racist.
In one cartoon, that wasn’t exactly funny, but actually hit a point, Chief Wahoo brought in his friend, Sambo. The point being, obviously, that Sambo was clearly a racist caricature and so was Wahoo.
That was not how it was taken. A black student group stole the entire issue of the paper from all the stands and burned them. They could not seem to understand that the cartoonist was on their side. It was hilarious.
See also Huckleberry Finn
But wasn’t Sambo from India? He lived in a tiger-infested jungle and turned them into tiger butter; what’s the connection with Africa?
It’s amazing how a couple days away can reset your brain.
Watching storm damage coverage this morning is also a sobering reminder to appreciate what I have.
Feeling pretty blessed today.
Sneezing a lot? 😛
Follow up: GF returned to work today. To a flooded classroom. She ain’t happy.
Ouch. Sorry.
Tell her to have all the kids dress up as pirates and have a pirate themed welcome back party. Then hand out kid-size mops and have them swab the decks.
literal lol.
While that is an awesome idea, the kids don’t return until next week.
Get her some male strippers in pirate outfits then.
If a split has to happen, it had better be peaceful and without acrimony because as much as we like to criticize the Federal Government for its overreach, there are a lot of essential services it provides.
I understand your point. But, there’s really no reason the two countries couldn’t cooperate on a lot of those matters. I mean, the U.S. and Canada jointly manage NORAD, as just one example. Really, and maybe I’m just being naïve, it’s only the fact that the two peoples try to share one government that puts us at odds. In fact, I’d venture that disunion might actually have the unexpected effect of moderating both populations. The presence of the “other tribe” completely at odds with one’s way of life has, I think, been a radicalizing element in American politics.
Its cost/benefit. Is the federal government imposing more burdens than the benefits it provides? Until fairly recently, I would have said no. But as we speed toward a totalitarian nanny state, my calculus is changing.
Fundamentally, at some point fairly recently, I stopped regarding the federal government as legitimate, for my values of legitimate. It has zero “goodwill”. This is purely transactional for me now.
Transparency.
According to an admission obtained from the State Department, Biden officials recently directed federal agencies to scrub their websites of official reports detailing the $82.9 billion in military equipment and training provided to the Afghan security forces since 2001.
The scrubbed audits and reports included detailed accounting of what the U.S. had provided to Afghan forces, down to the number of night vision devices, hand grenades, Black Hawk helicopters, and armored vehicles. …
The State Department admitted to removing the reports but justified the move as a way to protect Afghan allies. According to a spokesperson:
“The safety of our Afghan contacts is of utmost importance to us. The State Department advised other federal agencies of to [sic] review their web properties for content that highlights cooperation/participation between an Afghan citizen and the USG or a USG partner and remove from public view if it poses a security risk.”
Paging KK…
David Frum
@davidfrum
Americans used to smoke cigarettes on airplanes. They once thought drunk driving was funny. They long regarded spousal abuse as a private matter between husband and wife. They changed. They can change on gun ownership too. Latest in @theAtlantic
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1433405955748806656
You’re right, Eradicate Hoplophobia – Arm Everyone!
What if they pass a law requiring liability insurance for gun owners and it ends up being trivially inexpensive, like 5 bucks a year.
That is probably not to far off what it should be if the insurance didn’t cover criminal acts committed with a firearm. Your car insurance certainly does not cover criminal acts. These ejits thinking this crap up don’t consider such a basic fact in their silly ass pleas for gun insurance.
Then they raise the requirements for coverage until it isn’t trivially expensive. Like, minimum limits. And, of course, requiring coverage for criminal acts.
This isn’t about insurance. This is about driving legal gun ownership out of society.
I actually hold liability insurance for my occasional work as a firearms instructor, as well as legal and civil defense coverage if I have to use a gun in self-defense. Neither one is trivially inexpensive, but they’re not putting me in the poorhouse either. Gun ownership is very safe, by any objective standard.
Frum can go fuck himself.
But did you even take the trouble to mail the poor man a rusty chainsaw?
Why waste a perfectly good refurbishment project?
Keep pushing, asshole, I’m sure that the wild animal you have backed into a corner is going to continue to just make angry faces and growly noises.
And now you can’t suck a vape which is completely harmless to everyone around you and it ain’t because of “health concerns”.
Just like gun control ain’t about “safety”.
vaping kills teh childrunz
Let’s hear it for deliberate false equivalency!
The fact of the matter (which no doubt scares David Drum to death) is that guns are normal, and normal people own guns.
CWAA
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/school-mask-mandates-downside/619952/
We’re making progress.
Also https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/
Brazilian viper venom shows promise as drug to combat COVID-19
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/570466-brazilian-viper-venom-shows-promise-as-drug-to-combat
At this point the question is what doesn’t treat Wuhan… The mRNA vaxxes I guess.
Vaccines don’t treat anything
True. What they’re supposed to do is act in lieu of, and in advance of the need for treatment. But these ones don’t do that very well, it seems.
They seem to work about as well as flu vaccines regularly do.
Which is mostly okay.
The vaccine seems to be very effective at preventing death in high-risk populations. So high-risk populations should be vaccinated.
Everyone else, not so much.
Well that’s why soon they’ll be mandating a second flu shot every year. 60% goes to 94% doncha know.
But they help milkmaids have a glowing skin *
* probably an urban myth
Actually, I don’t think it is.
I know. The remark was that it seems pretty much everything is “an effective treatment”. Though maybe the nanoparticles are too, but no one has ever tried it.
I know you know.
Just taking the opportunity to be a bit dickish. 😉
Horse dewormer to horse poison.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wg2dbPrLGKRrFkVU9
Rookie mistake teaching your orphans how to read/write
She’ll need to know her numbers at least to hand me wrenches for the truck
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Aww, there’s the cute little tyrant of tooth decay.
I had no idea that pregnancy could cause periodontitis or gingivitis. Good Luck.
She’s worth it.
Thank you everyone. Ladydoom says she wants to send cookies to you guys. She’s really blown away.
Cookies, I love cookies. Hey wait a minute, don’t they cause… oh never mind.
Dude, I just dropped $500 on crown yesterday, and that was just my part. Dental insurance almost sucks as bad as medical these days.
I also got a brief encouragement to go ahead and get my second Pfizer jab to go with it too.
Dental insurance has always sucked though, hasn’t it? And many dentists upsell. But to be fair, the equipment is expensive.
Veterinary insurance seems an even worse ripoff.
My last dental visit did not include any mention of clot shots, and I didn’t wear a mask.
I got the impression she was being pressure by her frightened patients. There was a recent email from the practice essentially stating they were taking precautions but it was none of anyone’s business if the staff had been jabbed. It was my fault for bringing it up by mentioning my status.
One of the first dentists she went to accused her of not being the best on foods or brushing.
That woman drinks no coffee, no soda, no junk food.
I eat like garbage in comparison, and I’d say I’m “normal”
“Ein Kind, ein Zahn.”
We don’t have much, but we got each other.
One of the biggest hurdles to having a national divorce would be that our split isn’t regional like it was in 1860. It is more of a rural/urban divide.
For example, if it was decided that the union was done and states had to join new countries, Minnesoda would be schitzo. Slightly more than half the people live in the Mpls/St. Paul metro area. They could swing an election to join some New Liberal States. If the Outstate Minnesodans have to move, who is going to fill up the countryside?
If you decide that counties can decide to join whatever new countries arise, the metro area is going to be an island. How does that work with borders and things like that?
We wall in the cities and charge them for all the food/water/power they take in.
Yes.
I have long argued for building walls around the big, blue cities.
They wanted that.
They say they hate walls though.
Yup, California is absolutely the same. There is a reason there is a State of Jefferson movement here in the north state.
Even Maryland is all red outside of the Baltimore/DC metro area.
If a serious economic collapse accompanies the ‘divorce’, the population of the big cities will drop like a shotgunned pigeon.
My recent suggestion was to start with the largest cities (NYC, LA, Chicago) and convert them one at a time in descending order to a city-state. Grant them 1 senator each, the state they leave behind still gets 2 (we can grant the city-states 2 if it makes it constitutionally easier to do). We will know when to stop.
The question would be how large to make the city states. NYC would obviously include the 5 boroughs, but how much else? And if it includes anything else, would it take parts of NJ and CT? I think that is going too big.
Would the Chicago city-state be just Chicago or all of Cook County or even more of Chicagoland?
And I don’t want to even try to think about LA.
For Chicago, answering my own question, but locals could chime in, I would think Cook and DuPage counties.
I like this idea.
You’re going to want the city-states bigger rather than smaller, if they idea is to confine their lunacy somehow. More or less, the “metro” area (which I know begs the question of what that really is).
Average commuter range?
That gets messy in places like DC/Philly/Baltimore where commuters may be going any one of three directions, and often come from places a couple hours away.
But wants you get fairly suburban, the lunacy fades a bit.
NYC, Chicago, Portland (and others) are already city states.
IMO, there will either be voluntary migrations or there will be less-than-voluntary migrations. The alternative is conquest of one side over the other.
I see five-ish sides in this fight.
First is the prog-fascist mainstream and their various clingers on
Second is a coalition of secular pluralists clinging to the liberal order of the mid- and late-20th century, including classical liberals, non-woke atheists/agnostics, and some christians
Third is the Christian Nation™ “take back our nation” cultural conservatives clinging to a sterilized view of the country pre-1960s
Fourth is immigrants and other religionists with not much of a dog in the fight
Fifth is a small but growing group, mostly coming from 2 and 3, who have realized that their previously held preferences are either untenable or undesirable. Mostly secular pluralists who don’t like the ease with which their order was overtaken and cultural christians who have realized that they need to choose between culture and christianity.
Civil war 2.0 is over with a few months once the bloodletting starts.
There are zero all democrats states. In democrat states, the cities completely control the state but there are non-lefties that live in rural areas and some in cities.
In republican states, a city or two might be controlled by democrats and democrats sprinkled around the rural areas.
You block the roads into democrat cities and they starve/surrender.. Kungflu hysteria supply problems exposed this weakness of democrat cities, like NYC.
https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox29.com/www.fox29.com/content/uploads/2021/09/932/524/676-Flooding.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
Pic of flooding in Philly.
Is there anything Trump can’t do to hurt America?
Holy shit. The “Wrong Way” signs are a nice touch.
Soo… I should not drive through Philly tomorrow?
*I don’t generally drive through Philly anyway.
https://www.511pa.com/
Looks like 95south is having some issues currently.
*shrug*
Wow. We missed it up in NH, even though my phone was warning me all day.
Haven’t seen this elsewhere. :. propter hoc! https://fox5sandiego.com/news/coronavirus/decline-in-vaccine-effectiveness-linked-to-repealed-mask-mandates-delta-variant/
Brilliant
So, if I’m following, unvaccinated populations aren’t protected by masks (because that’s what the data shows), but vaccinated populations have to wear masks in order to be protected?
I’m really curious as to how that works.
I look forward to actual scientific studies that conclude what a crime and a farce this plandemic is. Will the cowed and brainwashed youths grow up to abhor the statist liars, and demand freedom and accountability? Will the criminals be punished?
*giggles*
I crack myself up. It’s just a fantasy, I guess.
My guess is that it will go down just about like the Japanese-American internment – there will be acknowledgements of wrongdoing decades later, but nobody who played a part will actually be punished. The best you’ll see is a payout (from taxpayer dollars, of course).
And even that’s a little optimistic. I don’t believe it will end until the people pushing it are no longer in office, so I’m devoting my political time and energy to accomplishing that.
That is some weapons grade stupid.