Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a wonderfully fantastic day it always is!
Plurality of people think Fauci lied and should resign.
35% if registered voters think the 2020 presidential election results should be overturned.
It’s not reverse discrimination, it’s just discrimination.
This will magically solve the labor shortage.
Florida Reaches Lowest Coronavirus Case Rate in the Nation
Keanu Reeves Surprised His Stunt Team with Rolex Watches
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with some songs and move along with my day.
whaddup doh
O-H…..
N-O
G-O BLUE!!
“Novant Health is ordered to pay $10 million in punitive damages to David Duvall, its former senior vice president of marketing and communications, a federal jury in Charlotte decided.”
Now he’ll finally have the time to work on his golf game.
Maybe. I wonder what his actual payout will be after taxes and legal fees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duval
What I get for not being a sports fan. [kicks pebble]
Golf is not a sport. If it is, then so is watching fucking paint dry. If they want to make golf interesting they should take a page from that old beer commercial where they had a bunch of football players rushing the golfer on the tee, hurrying his game, and tackling his ass if he couldn’t get the ball off in time. Shit like that would make watching golf something other than a sign of a mental problem.
Have you ever taken a nap on a Sunday afternoon while golf is on TV in the background? It is easily one of the best napping experiences I have ever had. NFL naps aren’t even close. Baseball naps, while good, just don’t have the same rhythm and pleasant clapping that make golf naps so delightful.
I have not had to watch golf in some 20 years and then only did so by duress before (my ex-father in law loved watching that shit and I had to deal with it when I was at his place) and I have not had a nap since I was a little toddler (medical sleep condition). Even now that I have had treatment for it an no longer go for days without sleeping and can sleep for almost 5 hrs a night, I have not felt the need for a nap.
Wild. I have always been a “can fall asleep at any time” kind of person.
I take a half-hour nap for lunch every day. I couldn’t make it through the afternoon without it.
Full contact golf?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y94wDgaOses
Now this would be worth watching, once in a while at least, and I won’t have to worry that I will be judged for not napping…
*golf clap*
Well done.
If he wanted to kill off half the Woke Crowd, instead of yelling “I’m going to Disneyland” as he leaves the courthouse, he should yell “I’m going golfing with Trump”.
Piling that on a legal setback for their diversity games would be too much for them.
As with all polls about Fauci, partisanship plays a role. For example, he remains popular among Democrats. Only 24% believe he should be ousted.
But among Republicans, 67% want him forced to resign.
First thing we do, let’s kill all the Republicans.
Even knowing the truth about Fauci, 76% of Democrats are still fine with him? Tells you all you need to know about Democrats.
It’s not like he wasn’t sure if it was a lab leak or not and was just exploring possibilities. He knew the entire fucking time. Jesus Christ, stop worshipping this guy.
Did you honestly not already know the team blue people were in a fucking cult and nothing, no matter how evil, would make them cancel one of their own unless it was absolutely necessary to do so to placate the volcano so they could keep throwing in their enemies otherwise? How else can you explain that they would still stay devoted to a political party that has repeatedly proven it is nothing more than a crime syndicate. Note that team red people at least can get disappointed, on occasion, with their imbeciles, especially when they are targeted by team blue, and give up on them.
They will come around when their media masters tell them to, but by that time someone worse than Fauci (yes, it’s possible) will be lined up to replace him.
Almost a quarter of Democrats? Sounds like they need some good old fashioned purging of the ranks.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) touted Florida’s milestone of reaching the lowest coronavirus case rate in the nation on Wednesday, highlighting the “overreach” of vaccine mandates.
Fake news.
I smell a coverup.
I didn’t know Cuomo moved to Florida.
It is like the weather/climate.
Even though it is the best right now, I’m pretty sure at others it will be the worst. In a rational world, people would realize this and not make a huge deal out of either situation.
In reality, the MSM will only run with the story when it is the worst. Like when they trumpet really hot days, but totes ignore cold snaps.
This is true. The weather is reaching the temperate part of the year again, so more people are outside.
But there is a much larger point – Team Vax insists that if you don’t go full mandate the bodies will be stacked up like cordwood in the streets. The fact that they aren’t and are in fact now one of the best performing states destroys their narrative completely. Hell, if Florida were anywhere north of #45/50 it completely destroys their narrative.
My guess, the new narrative will be that, despite the lack of mandate, Florida is still in the top half of most-vaxxed states, and so the vax works after all, and DeSantis is only interfering with the process, and “most people in Florida are smarter than DeSantis and don’t listen to him” or something.
“Los Angeles, Long Beach ports to fine shipping companies over backlog”
Perfect. It’s the evil shipping companies who are responsible for the supply chain issues and price increases. No way the cost of the fines will be passed on to consumers.
Yup.
This crisis was caused by CA’s harsh new trucking laws, but they’re blaming it on the shipping companies.
Fucking awesome. *points to avatar*
Great job, CA.
As I told my GF the other day: There isn’t a big problem we are dealing with that can’t be traced back to some asshole in government fucking putting a ridiculous law into place after getting a payout. Meaning: every big problem we have is caused by government and government decisions. And these people have zero incentive to ever solve any of the problems they create, because they are better kept around as campaign issues. She being a liberal government lover, despite the claims to the contrary, didn’t like that explanation, but knew she couldn’t argue against it.
And that is the crux of our problems: some people, no matter how much evidence to the contrary is presented to them, believe government solves problems. Some realize you have to be a fucking lunatic moron to believe that is ever the case (even by accident)…
Let’s see… what could possibly be the problem with getting containers out of the port?
Maybe it’s the no independent operators rule… nah it’s not that.
Or maybe it’s the rule that requires all trucks to be 2011 or later models…. nah, definitely not that.
*squints*
It’s probably the fault of capitalism. Yeah, that’s it!
Someone is obviously PROFITING from this, thus fines are in order!
I wonder what mischief they’ll get into with all that money. Remember that there are different, looser financial controls for non-appropriated funds (ie, fines) than there are for appropriated funds (tax revenue).
This will just mean fewer ships will come into port.
Why unload unless you have the transportation completed, better to just sit in the ocean.
I realize there is a cost/benefit breakpoint where it is better to pay a small fine than to delay, but with the uncertainty, why risk a big fine?
I look forward to being fined for sitting in bumper to bumper traffic because they shut down all but one lane during rush hour.
How much of the slack can be picked up by ports in Florida or Texas? It’s definitely a longer trip, and they’d be limited to (New) Panamax ships, but it might still be profitable enough to work.
The fines are also stupid from another perspective: if they actually are enough to change behavior, the fines kick in after 9 days and it is a 7 day detour to go unload in the Gulf state ports. But I guess incentivizing people to go to other states has become somewhat of a CA pastime.
Ocean carriers will be charged for every container scheduled to move by truck that has been dwelling in the port for longer than nine days.
For containers meant to be moved by rail, carriers will be charged after they have been in the port for three days. Ocean carriers will be charged $100 per container, with the fines increasing in $100 increments per day per container.
Port officials said that before the import surge brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, containers for truck delivery sat in terminals for less than four days, while containers for train delivery sat in the terminal for less than two days. The waiting times have since “increased significantly.”
They only leave the containers sitting there because it’s free storage. It’s not like they have any real incentive to get hat freight out of there.
I guess if people decide not to ship containers anymore to avoid the ludicrous penalties, the whole problem goes away by default, so it is a win, right?
Blue warehousing?
JHTFC.
The left really doesn’t have any idea of how economics works at this point. Incentives, what are they again? All of this freight will move to Mexico or Florida and get trucked out, so win-win on climate change!
Cuntes.
“They only leave the containers sitting there because it’s free storage. It’s not like they have any real incentive to get hat freight out of there.”
I think there’s something to that. Thanks to trade imbalance, we send back fewer filled containers than we receive. Ship operators don’t want to waste time and space back hauling empties, and so the empties fill up the space available until there’s no more room. Add to that California’s strict truck emissions regulations, which prohibit 1/3 to 1/2 of the truck fleet from operating at the port.
Here’s a twitter thread from Ryan Peterson, CEO of logistics management firm Flexport, on the problem with empty containers.
https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1451543776992845834
At some point, one would think the balance of profitability would shift such that shipping the empties back to the ports of origin (usually in the PRC) starts to make sense. The PRC may not want to take them, however; I assume they have an industry churning out new ones fast enough to survive the lack of replenishment.
“Los Angeles, Long Beach ports to fine shipping companies over backlog”
LoL! Let no crisis go to waste! We’re going to fine our way to success and prosperity! It’s the California way!
They know that the federal government is going to be dolling out cash to the companies for ‘capitol improvements’ and such, they’re just going to leech on the pigs at the trough.
From local news: “With coastal ports backed up, can Cleveland’s help fill the gap?”
Sure. It’ll be real easy to get those container ships from California to Lake Erie. We’ll just put them on a train and freight them over!
Time to crank up the Erie Canal again.
I saw it when I was in Rochester some 25 years ago. I guess I realized it was just a ditch, but I didnt really realize it was just a ditch.
Pretty much. I doubt it can handle any tech conceived after 1860 or so.
Steamboats are older than that.
Same with the Ohio – Erie Canal. There’s parts up here that are just wetlands now, I doubt a canoe would be usable in portions.
a decent amount of the erie canal has been widened and concrete-lined. It had to have been fairly recent.
“Democrats explode in frustration over stalled reconciliation spending spree: ‘It’s the effing progressives’”
We MUST loot the coffers NOW before the whole thing comes crashing down, don’t you UNDERSTAND!
It really is like that. None of them can come up with a good explanation for why or how this spending will actually solve our problems. It’s just looting. They are panicked because the looting becomes much more difficult after 2022, and perhaps impossible beyond that. The politics of looting, smdh my damn head.
The spending is not about solving any problems other than that team blue politicians need a ton of campaign cash to “fortify” the 2022 elections. These massive spending bills serve really a couple of perverse purposes. To pay off the people that vote for a living, and to have the people that get the largest amount of the cash funnel a considerable chunk of it to the campaign coffers of team blue.
You do realize it’s worse than you think. There are blue voters that really believe in the goodness of their politicians and policies. They honestly vote for it. I wish it was all just smoke and mirrors, but we’re talking real people that vote that way.
I have some dear friends, otherwise very intelligent folk, who feel that way. Also, that the opposite applies to pols from the other side of the aisle – The SHort-Fingered Vulgarian cheated past Grandma Caligula specifically to enrich himself at the public teat and to do mean things to brown people. It baffles me. WHen you get into the weeds with them, they are very much libertarianish (but canting hard to port) on specific issues; downright anarchic on some issues. They just can’t seem to shake that Whig history vision that progress is good and right and promulgated by spotless folk on the right side of history.
Most folk will never jettison the idea of “Top Men”.
As I have mentioned recently: People, in general, do not want to have discussions or explanations of things – form the horribly complex to the idiotically simple – that uses logic and analytics, if that event leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want their heroes to worship and villains to hate. You can do the most thorough of analysis, using some of the most intelligent logic you could imagine, to explain something, only to have them ignore it all and freak the fuck out because your argument opponent says something totally idiotic and false but emotionally appealing.
The fees collected from idling containers will be invested into programs meant to enhance efficiency, the ports said.
This policy was created with the Biden-Harris Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, the Department of Transportation and numerous supply chain stakeholders.
Those ports will be empty in no time.
Democrats explode in frustration
Headlines you wish were literal.
Could be, they may bomb in 2022.
If by droning those pesky PTA Conservatives on US soil? I’d guess that’s going to be more of a 2023 thing. But, everything seems to be accelerating in freefall, so you may be right.
It’s not a slippery slope anymore, we’re accelerating to terminal velocity at this point.
Not if they can get enough cash to fortify the election as they plan to if they can pass a multi trillion dollar “infrastructure” bill…
https://babylonbee.com/news/pfizer-claims-vaccine-will-reduce-average-daily-child-covid-deaths-from-almost-zero-to-almost-zero
It seems to me more children, or at least an unacceptable number of children, will be harmed by these shots. At least they are reducing the dosage. Still…
The parents who are overly eager to get their kids this shot absolutely sicken me. Almost as bad as the pregnant mothers doing the same.
A child in the trial was severely injured. They just don’t care.
She was hurt for a good cause and just an anomaly, so we will hide it in order to make sure you don’t get the wrong ideas…
Unexpectedly
On the Fourth of July, the U.S. economy looked ready to skyrocket.
“We’re seeing record job creation and record economic growth,” President Biden said then as he encouraged Americans to celebrate their newfound independence from the coronavirus pandemic.
By Labor Day, however, the economy looked more like a dud, its midsummer sparkle smothered by a wave of delta variant infections and persistent supply chain problems.
Third-quarter economic growth, as reported by the Commerce Department on Thursday, is expected to be less than half of what it was in the spring quarter.
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There’s no mystery about why a soaring economy suddenly slumped.
“What happened was, delta happened,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told reporters last month.
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While some businesses were hurting for customers, others struggled to find workers. Millions of potential employees were either out sick with COVID-19, staying home for fear of catching it or busy caring for loved ones who were sick.
Millions. At Death’s door. Bodies piled high. Empty stores. Empty streets. A few forlorn survivors, huddled around their radios, awaiting the latest tally of the dead and suffering from NPR. Stay home. Stay safe, America.
Nothing a bit of money printing and debt won;t solve
““What happened was, delta happened,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told reporters last month.”
CWAA
So even thought the globalist political class decided to do a world reset, it is Kung Flu’s fault this shit is destroying lives?
as he encouraged Americans to celebrate their newfound independence from the coronavirus pandemic.
I was never dependent on it.
There’s no mystery about why a soaring economy suddenly slumped.
“What happened was, delta happened,”
No, what happened is government.
Even if “delta happened,” it was entirely predictable. That’s what viruses do–mutate and avoid countermeasures. Oddly enough, the more countermeasures you put in their way, the more you select for mutations that avoid them.
This is not news to anyone, but they use it as an excuse for their failures.
And now for something completely different
Meanwhile, Tonto, disguised as a pool table, gets his balls racked…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0WOIwlXE9g
Another
Banjos, today’s musical selection made me very happy; thank you.
I wonder what mischief they’ll get into with all that money. Remember that there are different, looser financial controls for non-appropriated funds (ie, fines) than there are for appropriated funds (tax revenue).
Just don’t call it a slush fund.
Uncle Dave Macon, The Dixie Dewdrop, doing All Go Hungry Hashhouse – https://youtu.be/eoEIPURz1cg
For some reason that sounds racist.
Women athletes allege body shaming within Oregon Ducks track and field program
https://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/2021/10/women-athletes-allege-body-shaming-within-oregon-ducks-track-and-field-program.html
“Six women athletes who left the University of Oregon track and field program in recent seasons say they felt devalued as individuals and at risk for eating disorders because of the program’s data-driven approach to their weight and body fat percentages.
Five of the women departed with remaining eligibility.
One said she began binge-eating while at Oregon.
Another says she struggles with body dysmorphia and has nightmares about competing at Hayward Field, Oregon’s iconic track stadium, while UO coaches stare at her and say: “You’re never going to be good enough.”
DEXA scans, in particular, have become a flashpoint for some athletes, who say the precise body fat percentage measurements can trigger unhealthy behaviors.
After her first DEXA scan, the nutritionist told her she couldn’t travel to away track meets unless her body fat level was below 12%.”
US college teams need more badass names. Ducks? Really?
Also 12% body fat seems kind of low for a chick.
On the one hand this seems excessive, on the other being an athlete is a choice.
Article is useless without pictures so we can mercilessly judge these young women.
The only metrics that matter are their performance in the meets.
I thought you said “performance in the sheets” and thought “whoa! that is exactly why there are no libertarian women”.
Then I laughed and laughed.
Do you even stats, bruh?
If I wanted to work under a metric based training regimen, I would have gone to a Canadian college!
I’m not a straight male, but judging anecdotally, to the extent straight men watch women’s sports, it’s not for the outcomes.
https://www.facebook.com/Gherca.roberta/
European polevaulting events need more airtime.
*something, something, “polevault”*
Yet another area in which transwomen athletes are superior to women athletes.
I bet none of the transwomen tracksters are complaining. None of them have eating disorders.
This isn’t the first time that this sort of thing has happened at Oregon. I appreciated my wife’s opinion on the matter when watching a documentary on the Nike Oregon Project a few weeks ago. She said that on one hand, you know what you’re getting into, so bitching about it after the fact is really self serving. On the other hand men and women respond differently to the same coaching style. Men will react positively to weight or body fat goals. Women will not. It’s stupid to force a male training system on females, because you’re going to end up with exactly this situation.
I think a lot of coaches don’t realize the chasm between handling men and women athletes.
A friend of mine played for the Gopher hockey team and was a teacher. So he was recruited hard to coach local hockey teams. He quit coaching boys hockey because of the parents. Then when girls hockey became an official sport he was drafted to coach the first girls team at his school.
He quit after one year because of the girls, not the parents.
The straw that broke his back was when one of the girls asked to see him after practice and then started crying and accusing him of favoritism. She told him how much it hurt in practice when he showed so much favoritism.
Buddy: What are you talking about? Just today in practice I told you what a good job you did on that drill
Girl: Exactly. You said “good job”, but then you said “great job Becky” later in the practice. See? It is obvious how much more you like Becky!”
My buddy said that was the end. How can you coach when you have to think about crap like that.
I know someone who runs a soccer league. His observations on coaching boys and girls teams have put me off from ever wanting to be involved. It’s constant crisis management with parents and players.
As someone that coached baseball, football, and basketball for my kid’s town leagues, I tell you that the bulk of your time isn’t dealing with the kids, but with the parents. And I tell ya, some parents are just downright fucking idiots (and they practically always tend to be on one side of politics). But I will point out that phenomenon is not restricted to coaching sports. I also saw something similar while I was on the board of my kid’s after school program and part of the volunteer firemen in town. A lot of people are stupid busybodies.
Yep. I coach goalies and the first thing I do is sit down with parents and lay things out. Is your kid going to be 6’4″? No? He isn’t going to play goalie in any type of major junior or D1 college hockey. Temper your expectations. I want the kids to have fun and enjoy playing. We go through basics but I work more on their attitude. Have fun. Talk trash. Be a good skater (not just a goalie, they’ll have more fun in beer league in a few years).
I always ask the kids ‘what’s the most important save’. They usually will pick something from earlier in game. I nod, say no. It’s the next one.
Don’t let the name confuse you. Nike Oregon Project was not part of the UO. It was Nike’s professional program ran by Alberto Salazar.
It was run in Eugene, and Eugene ain’t that big.
There may have been some part of it , but it was at Nike’s campus in Beaverton. Again, it was a professional program not a collegiate program.
Fair point. The docu I watched made it seem like the university and the Nike program were joined at the hip.
Dude, that Duck mascot kicked Disney’s ass. Show some respect.
Grandpa Jones, Stringbean, Roy Clark, and Tennessee Ernie Ford – https://youtu.be/5HKnMtFnjSY
Mornin’ Banjos! Thanks for the wonderful GIF, I Kinda needed that today…
Yeah, that one is a keeper.
I reached out to someone that I’ve worked with before. My job might be gone very soon.
UGH! I feel your pain; that’s awful.
Sorry Festus. I hope your former colleague can help you find a place to land.
Speaking of More of This type stories. Moar Ilhan Omar pouting please.
Long story with lots of awesome quotes in it about Omar whining about Joe not canceling all student debt.
If you read real close and pay attention, there are some decent parts to that story. They obliquely talk about the root cause of the crisis being that kids are tricked into taking out huge loans.
The universities have created a mythical image of themselves as concerned and well-intentioned guidance counselors for young adults.
The reality is that they are bilking entire generations with a fraudulent product at inflated prices that are enabled by the federal government.
“The reality is that they are bilking entire generations with a fraudulent product at inflated prices that are enabled by the federal government.”
The housing market is on line 2, they’d like to have a word.
Specifically, Ryan Homes and Centex Homes, who build some of the shittiest houses in the country at exorbitant prices.
There’s a Ryan plan going in about a mile from my neighborhood. They want “High 200s” for these “Villa Style” (whatever that means) adjoining row homes that can’t be more than 2000 sq ft., built to their famous quality standards. In our township, median home prices are higher than the surrounding area, but $200k will get you a decent home built in the ’80s or ’90s with 2500-3000 sqft and an acre of yard, without having to hear every grunt and groan in your adjoining neighbor’s house, and that won’t need a new roof in 12 years and collapse under its own weight in 30.
^^^ This ^^^
Interesting that they pick film, one the most restrictive and regimented career paths. After graduating from film school, everyone, and I mean everyone, starts as a PA (production assistant – the all around gofers for every department). After “making book” – having 300 or more days of work as a PA documented in your book full of all your daily call sheets, then you can apply to other departments or unions. Until then, all newcomers are making (here in NYC) a day rate of $125 for 10 hours. I got into carft services because it required no degree and is non-union. A smarter retrospective me would have gotten a CDL and become a Teamster (usually the highest paid and least working people on set.)
It is not too late – and there is a helluva trucker shortage!
What are the requirements to become an Armorer?
serious question
The couple I have worked with directly were unit armorers in the military, then took gunsmithing and machining classes. They were both hoping to be working gunsmiths but happened to be in the right place at the right time where a guy knew a guy who knew a guy who was looking to hire on more people because this new show (Law & Order) had him swamped. Most of the work seemed to involve getting the talent comfortable holding an icky death stick without sweeping people, and an insane amount of modifications to semi-auto and auto guns to get them to reliably feed and fire blanks. Also, formulating powder charges for blanks for safety/cycling or to create different effects. I’m pretty sure you already have the requisite skills and there aren’t that many theatrical armories…
I have, on occasion, considered getting an FFL and making a go at such a thing as a side venture, but I imagine it’s hard to break into the industry.
The interview Ian did with the Canadian fellow was eye-opening. They are freer up there with regard to gun purchasing. Canada has given the theatrical arms firms a blanket immunity from Canadian firearms law. They have to write a letter saying they need something: RPG, ADA gun, sub-gun, whatever and they are allowed to purchase and import. In the US, rental houses are still subject to FFL restrictions on post-’86 and dealer samples, destructive device, etc..
Yeah, and until only a few years ago, you didn’t even need a letter or an exemption in Canada to get the good stuff. The film industry said “fuck the little guy, we need our exemption” and the Canadian government said “sure.”
In the US, if you have the appropriate type FFL and pay the SOT, you can deal in all the stuff necessary, or with a manufacturer’s FFL (Type 07) and an 02 SOT, you can build what you want. If you buy from a manufacturer or another dealer, you need to do the dealer sample stuff, as you note, including obtaining a letter from a law enforcement agency that they need you to demonstrate a gun to them, but I’d imagine that the film industry has a number of chief LEOs in their pockets who will sign a letter for anything to get the weapons needed for a production.
Apparently there are none.
In the case of the Rust set armorer – she had a name! Daughter of a famed Hollywood armorer, though she never apprenticed under him.
When I read that she was 24, that was all I needed to know. While not impossible, it’s just not believable that a human can have gained enough experience in 24 years to be given that responsibility. It’s like recent college grads who are supposedly life coaches, motivational speakers or business consultants.
Well I for one am shocked that there is nepotism in Hollywood!
Other than that, let teens be teens and throw a crazy pageant. Most of all…you don’t video and don’t post about it.
In my completely uninformed opinion, the experience, while important, would take a back seat to the confidence required to make your presence felt on set around a bunch of strong personalities. I guarantee there was some voice in the back of her head saying “something isn’t right here”. It takes time to develop the confidence to stand up and assert that voice.
Oops, meant to quote this part:
When I read that she was 24, that was all I needed to know. While not impossible, it’s just not believable that a human can have gained enough experience in 24 years to be given that responsibility.
Don’t despair though. The writer kept her eye on the ball and correctly identified the real cause of the problem: Discrimination!
Dr. Baker needs to get a Woke thesaurus and spice up her denunciations with synonyms for discrimination. She was a bit repetitive wasn’t she?
“And we can choose to lift the burden.” Lead the way then. Donate all your disposable income to a scholarship fund. What do I have to do with it?
Dude, do you realize how many ex-husbands and family members she has to support on a measely Congress woman’s pay?
To be fair, there is a lot of overlap between those two groups in her case.
Nice 🙂
But seriously, you make the point that progressivism leads to a competition to have the least ability and the most need.
It is right in their slogan: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
Combine that formula with the Iron Law “more of what you reward, less of what you punish” and it is obvious how people will act.
Nah, I’m good thanks. Got plenty of my own burden, 99.9998% of it created by you and your ilk.
“Loan forgiveness”
That’s right, your University Debt is your sin, the federal government is your god and they will forgive you!
we suffer from greed
Funny how a government subsidized system in which the schools are not incentivized to cut costs turns out.
After her first DEXA scan, the nutritionist told her she couldn’t travel to away track meets unless her body fat level was below 12%.”
Nice. Let’s focus on peripheral bullshit. How fast can she run?
Sounds very Nazi eugenics like.
What are these women even doing – don’t they realize that all of that competition is cishet-white-patriarchy?
BuWizz, a Slovenian firm that specializes in making motors for Lego cars and scaled-down trains, claims to have built the fastest detailed 1:8-scale Technic model in the world.
Neat.
Of course, professionals in fields like medicine are different from those who may have been misled about the value of their degree in the current marketplace, or those who face the possibility of never seeing a salary that justifies the economic investment they made in college or graduate school.
Wait, what?
At this point, for most people, college isn’t an “investment”, it’s an entertainment expense.
Universal daycare?
Remission from Chronic Anorexia Nervosa With Ketogenic Diet and Ketamine: Case Report
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00763/full
A smarter retrospective me would have gotten a CDL and become a Teamster (usually the highest paid and least working people on set.)
Get paid (handsomely) to drink coffee and watch the PAs unload and load your truck?
Yes indeed. The generator driver got $1000 as his day rate for a 12 hour day. For the generator driver, every day runs longer than 12 hours; first on set in the early morning, last to leave at night. Anything over 12 hours is time and a half. Park the truck, check the levels throughout the day, and graze at the crafty table, not a bad workday.
This is why I oppose even private sector unions. That is just stealing.
This connects to the Rust story too, but why the freaking long days on set?
Isn’t there a way to work smarter and gets things done within an 8 hour shift? I can see the need for the occasional 12 hour or 14 hour day, but why is that every day?
A great deal of it is breaking down and setting up all of the equipment required for scene changes or shooting the same scene from a different angle. It funny because there is a great deal of downtime for many departments but the production is constantly happening with a little interruption as possible. I worked Macys shoots for many years. It was a twice a year job, nine days at a time, 10 – 14 hours per day, but those 18 days resulted in every single piece of tv or print advertising Macys would do for the whole year.
Because equipment and location rentals, accomodations for the cast and crew, food run up a tab. If shooting outdoors, there may be weather concerns and seasonal concerns. It’s a big deal setting up stuff for a shoot. Better to pay the OT and be done in a week than spending 2.5 weeks working bankers hours.
Do they work more regular hours when on set in LA?
My understanding is that it depends. Movies have a shooting schedule and targeted release dates. Some tv shows shoot in batches and then take several days or weeks off. Game shows like Pice is right shoot a batch and then have rooms off. Either way, you might be tying up studio space and it cost money even if idle. My general understanding is movies are the most intense, then tv shows then soaps then game shows.
This story about Minnesoda school board nonsense was posted at the end of Morning Lynx yesterday. I’m super disappointed that it hasn’t caused a firestorm locally. Holy Shi-ite!
Shame on the dude for giving his name and address and being Minnesoda Nice. The proper response should have been a big Fuck You followed up by some body shaming of that fat cunt running the meeting.
Um, Jodi all your meetings are public business that the public has every right to attend and speak at.
More high school kids in drag. Less creepy than the KY incident.
Anything is possible at this point.
Might the art form become the new blackface? – or blackface will be acceptable again for the transracial
New Jersey Is the Best-Run State in America. Really!
No comment necessary.
L O fucking L.
As a lifelong resident of New Jersey, I can say that is one of the most insane, demented things I have ever read.
Basically an unpaid ad for Murphy.
I feel really great about all the wonderful stuff I get for my $1,200 per month in property taxes (plus income, gas, and sales taxes). I can’t think of any of them off the top of my head.
You’re not dead from Covid, due to Murphy.
You should send him a thank you card.
Don’t worry, once he has bamboozled the idiots in your state to reelect him, he plans to send you all a “thank you” card of his own: a Kung Flu vaccine passport demand…
I don’t think I can bring myself to read that.
‘De Blasio’s going to get people killed’: 45% of firefighters and 27% of cops have NOT yet had vaccine and face unpaid leave on Friday when mayor’s mandate kicks in as trash piles up due to protest by sanitation workers who don’t want jab
Due to the schedule they have most Firefighters in NY have either a second job or side business which would make the unpaid leave threat not hurt as much as the cops and sanitation. Going to have to use the threat of termination next.
If you’re ever find yourself near Broad Chanel, I can’t say enough nice things about this FDNY side-gig. https://www.instagram.com/deliosfoodtruck/
Looks great. Will definitely do that if Im in the neighborhood.
Yum. I’ve definitely never been in or near Broad Channel.
Four years after graduation, 48 percent of Black students owe an average of 12.5 percent more than they borrowed
Fucking compound interest- how does it work?
Cowboy Bebop | Official Trailer | Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULCIHP5dc44
Does not look bad imo
Looks promising.
Cowboy Bebop | Official Teaser “Lost Session” | Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JDWm1f6-M0
Deplorababes on Thot Thursday.
https://archive.md/ds9GH
Excellent gallery.
A few bad tats aside, a bunch of really good looking women who look like fun.
One of the best I’ve seen. Thanks, Q!
My Church Doesn’t Know What to Do Anymore
Some people want government mandates so they don’t have to tell the covidiots to grow up.
LOL
The Episcopal church in general is woke as hell, and I imagine that St. David’s is too given the neighborhood where it is located. They’re reaping the paranoia of their liberal laity.
Conservative Episcopal churches are as rare as hen’s teeth.
That’s because they’re called “Anglican Churches”
Or per the Bee “Kirkland brand Catholics”.
*applause*
It is exactly what led to Zero Tolerance policies in schools.
Pussy school administrators were too gutless to tell the parents of the shit kids that yes there were unequal punishments after the fight. The reason? Because your kid was being an asshole bully and deserves to be punished more.
So policies were enacted that tied the hands of school administrators. Now they could just shrug and tell the parents that there was nothing they could do.
Middle management loves anything that prevents them from having to make hard choices.
Mask mandate went back into effect in Larimer County last week (timing the peak perfectly). Our pastor said 2 Sundays ago, “The staff will be wearing masks, what you do is up to you.”
Maybe 25% mask rate at Church last Sunday. Which was up from the 2 people wearing masks before the mandate.
Because, in general, when there is a small group asking for special consideration beyond what people consider normal life, we set aside a separate space for them to have their preference, out of respect for their desires. Get it?
Vietnam is the least obese country on Earth (2.1% obesity rate)
Before Summer 2021, extremely few people had died of C0VlD
https://twitter.com/echo_chamberz/status/1453101542148648963
Irrespective of what the tweet is talking about, the replies seem focused on Le phat dong
Note that a lot of people also smoke in Vietnam….
And while they in the beginning were reporting on the fact smokers were far more likely to not have any serious symptoms from the Kung Flu, that has all been disappeared now because this is one heck of a coincidence…
a lot of people smoke in Vietnam
Yup. Napalm will do that.
What’s that? Stick to kids?
Yes, in the orphanage.
*Not medical advice*
Vietnam only wins because they don’t have statistics for North Korea.
Subsistence dirt farming is good for you!
This is how far down the Woke Hole we have gone.
This should have been a quick little story about a legislator trying to have a zoom call, but then having it interrupted by her cute kid. But the journalo had to write it in the most woke way possible:
“Them”? From the video it is pretty clear the kid is a boy. Perish the thought of assuming a kid’s gender!
Also the story ends with the obligatory call out of discrimination
The narrative will not just peddle itself you evil religious fanatic of another cult!
The way it replicates in the minds of the faithful I would almost assume it does, in fact peddle itself. Maybe I’m just cynical. Surely the narrative collapse is happening somewhere and soon.
has exacerbated the pressures of the “second shift”
Don’t want a house to take care of, don’t buy one. Don’t want a kid to take care off, don’t have one.
Here’s the thing, Ro: The president doesn’t make laws, he is given the authority to only execute them. Any representative with half a nut, no matter which party, would have told him to go screw himself with a Sawzall.
At what point did we allow the executive to become so involved in the formulation of the laws, a business which Constitutionally, he is not allowed to stick his nose into? Example 4,729 of how we let our government out of our control and put us where we are today.
Look Fat, passing a law or taking a stand might make you lose your re-election race.
The highest art in Congress now is figuring out how to get the bureaucrats in the Deep State to do your bidding. If any voters get mad, you can blame the faceless drones in the govt and keep your seat.
The President is a similar figure. You can blame him for “forcing” you to do things that you never would have done on your own. After all how can one simple Congressman stand up against the President?
Your assessment of the desired role of the executive is correct but that horse got out of the barn with FDR, maybe before, and the barn’s burned down since. We’re never going back there.
Keanu Reeves: Bad actor, good dude…he was actually alright in River’s Edge though.
Everything I’ve read about the guy points toward him being a genuinely good human being. And yes I know a ton of actors have their PR people put these little nuggets out there that attempt to portray them as just ‘aw shucks good ol’ boys’, but I can sniff those out from mile away. Dude just seems like a cool guy. I’ve liked him since he was Ted.
Freaked – Well worth a watch for its over the top, campy goodness. Keanu is uncredited as the Wolfman.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10139955/Demi-Rose-puts-cheeky-display-flashes-derri-tiny-white-mini-skirt.html
Wow Banjos, somehow you’ve come up with a list of almost all good news. Well done!
*tips hat*
“Rapper Bryson Gray’s anti-Biden song Let’s Go Brandon shoots to the top of the iTunes chart toppling Adele off the number one spot despite being banned by YouTube”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10139953/Rapper-Bryson-Grays-anti-Biden-song-Lets-Brandon-knocks-Adele-iTunes-chart.html
That hat is ridiculous.
I don’t understand the assertion that it was banned by Youtube. The link I have has been active since 10/21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeLO8yVrVx4
It’s MAGA Jamiroquai
+1 crazy hats
That hat is ridiculous.
You misspelled ‘hilarious’
The frustration is starting to boil over among some members.
“It’s the effing progressives,” one moderate Democrat told Fox News. The moderate accused progressives of asking for “unreasonable things.”
If proggies were reasonable they would not be proggies. But the infighting is entertaining. Usually Dems vote in lockstep.
Yes they do. And don’t forget the vote for Obamacare, when several newer reps were called upon to sacrifice their careers by voting for that abomination, knowing they’d get voted out the next election. We’re not seeing that type of party loyalty, and it’s fantastic.
I must remind you of Will Rogers’ famous line: I don’t belong to an organized political party, I’m a Democrat.
Good morning, Banjos!
The LB port story is infuriating. The state’s regulatory fuckery is why we have the problem in the first place. Then this:
This policy was created with the Biden-Harris Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, the Department of Transportation and numerous supply chain stakeholders.
Oh, good. We’re all safe now.
That was a nice present from Keanu to his dudes. I wonder if he checks the guns he is handed?
Gifts are nice.
SHOW ME THE MONEY.
If movies and television shows have taught me anything, it’s that Rolex watches can easily be turned into cash at any nearby pawn shop with no questions asked. Usually with a pistol thrown into the mix.
A buddy of mine who spent a lot of time *ahem* traveling in iffy places, always wore a Rolex Submariner everywhere he went. He liked to say, “You can’t trade a G-Shock for a seat on the last plane out…”
Indeed.
There’s a video by one of the watch guys who used to work retail in a well-known place in NYC, talking about having entire busses full of Chinese tourists coming in and buying multiple Rolexes each. Not because they loved watches but because they’re portable and hold their value well.
As I mentioned, some appreciate, albeit not all quite this much
My buddy quit being the local Pop Warner commissioner – because of the cheerleader moms. Total nightmare, apparently.
Le sigh. Obs supposed to be up above.
However, yes – Rolexes hold their value like crazy – even appreciate.
I will happily take one of those $10,000 Submariners from Keanu.
I bet he does. Did you see that Will Smith clip posted yesterday? https://youtu.be/xDHtHWyvbMM?t=743
I loved that clip. I wish I could find an unedited version that shows the whole sequence without cuts and digital zooms.
In the unedited version he just slaps the gun down. The clearing and verification were done at a later point and edited in.
That’s kind of what I figured.
Keanu Reeves should have given those guys motorcycles
‘De Blasio’s going to get people killed’: FDNY union tells members to show up for work and defy mayor’s Friday deadline to get vaccinated as 32% of firefighters and 25% of cops have NOT yet had vaccine – trash piles up as sanitation workers protest jab
It will be interesting to see how mayor DeBolshevik responds.
National Guard, natch.
I’m disappointed that a plurality of people think Fauci should resign. He deserves to be in prison or worse
?
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough.
Resignation would mean he lands comfortably on the board of a pharma company and he is replaced by an even worse bureaucrat that sees that atrocities are not punished, but rewarded. Somehow that seems worse than just keeping him where he is.
How large does a trebuchet need to be to get 200 pounds into the sun?
35% if registered voters think the 2020 presidential election results should be overturned.
Sounds like some insurrectionist talk to me.
It’s not reverse discrimination, it’s just discrimination.
Word.
I think there’s something to that. Thanks to trade imbalance, we send back fewer filled containers than we receive. Ship operators don’t want to waste time and space back hauling empties, and so the empties fill up the space available until there’s no more room. Add to that California’s strict truck emissions regulations, which prohibit 1/3 to 1/2 of the truck fleet from operating at the port.
Based on the context of the article, I think they are referring to full inbound containers clogging up the joint, not empties.
“ Biden Unveils New Details From $1.75 Trillion Social Spending & Climate Plan”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-release-new-175-trillion-social-spending-framework-departing-europe
Looks like they cut it in half so wonderful. I’m supposed to feel good about this I guess but for some reason I just don’t.
I’ll go out on a limb here and make a suggestion that *all* details from proposed legislation be “unveiled” and fully discussed before codification in law by a vote. Is that OK?
Are you fucking nuts?
If they did that they would have no excuse for voting for horrible shit that fucks us serfs over but enriches them, yo.
You know, back in the old days, they actually used to pass legislation that was specific to a single thing. And they passed many such pieces of legislation, every year. It was how legislating was done.
I guess we’re just a pair of old men shouting at clouds.
Remember when the entire national debt crossed the trillion Dollar threshold and it was huge deal? In the news and everything? Sigh…
Cost was cut in half, and it’ll be spent in under a quarter of the time! See, you’re saving on both ends!
Officials for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach said on Monday that they will begin fining shipping companies whose cargo containers stay in marine terminals for too long as they work to reduce congestion in their ports.
Seems legit.
I’ll go out on a limb here and make a suggestion that *all* details from proposed legislation be “unveiled” and fully discussed before codification in law by a vote. Is that OK?
That’s just stupid. Nothing would ever get passed under that sort of onerous and arcane rule.
Something must be done! Immediately!
SomethingEverything must be done! Immediately!FTFY
Who made the aliens that did this?
::thinks hard:: … Turtles…?
I read that Twitter thread about containers (v=ia Homple, above) quite edifying.
If you can’t get your empty off the truck, you can’t deliver a full one.
Something I didn’t know I needed:
https://www.npr.org/2011/12/21/144069758/callin-oates-the-hotline-you-dont-need-but-might-call-anyway
I can’t go for that.
No can do.
“According to their own estimates, this tax only covers ~10% of the $3.5 trillion spending bill.
Where will the other 90% come from?
The answer is you.”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1453458800241958916
Billionaires got stupid rich during the pandemic and that is disgusting.
Their total wealth is still *only* $5 trillion.
Let’s go look at the history of federal income tax… it’ll only be for the rich they said…
Mornin’
“Here’s the thing: The president looked at us in the eye and he said, ‘I need this before I go represent the United States in Glasgow,’” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“American prestige is on the line,” he added.
“American prestige”? BFD.
‘We’re pleased with this ruling, and remain confident this mandate is on solid legal ground,’ said city Law Department spokesman Nicholas Paolucci after the mandate was upheld on Wednesday.
‘The city’s vaccine mandates make our workplaces safer, further public health and aid the city’s recovery.’
Go fuck yourself.
Ocean carriers will be charged for every container scheduled to move by truck that has been dwelling in the port for longer than nine days.
The backlog is the ocean carriers’ fault how?
The American Prestige ship has sailed. There’s no recovering from Biden wandering around and getting laughed at during whatever summit that was, and that little thing in Afghanistan.
Let’s go Brandon.
Is that the “prestige” we receive by being the ATM for every third-world kleptocrat looking to “heal the earth”?
Lord Obama told me American exceptionalism was a myth, so….
Jeepers! Every youtube video is bookended by ads from the NYPD Benevolent Association, AND they have sponsored one of those box trucks with video screens on the sides/back to park down at the main beach entrance for the past few days to attack whoever the Defund The Police candidate lady is.
I’d have a beer or 5 with Keanu.
This makes me a bit tumescent – Tiny Taiwanese Sten https://youtu.be/oJ02LIDOL9g
Neat!
I downloaded Dune from the forums. Thanks! I’ll watch it this weekend.
#metoo
No problems with the mp4 version
Watched it as I picked up HBOMax while it was half off.
On the plus side, Dune 2 has been greenlit, and should release in ~2 years.
Like Ian, I wonder why they bothered to make a scale model in .32ACP. Were they that hard up for materials? Were they trying to make a deep cover PDW?
I’d imagine that the cyclic rate on that thing is astronomical.
I guess “astronomical” isn’t the right word for that, given that astronomical bodies take years to many millenia to complete ful cycles, but whatever.
“…a bit tumescent…”
half-cocked?
I hate my senators.
Speaking ahead of Biden at a McAuliffe rally, @timkaine edges close to tying Youngkin to the January 6 rioters:
“They may not be wearing Camp Auschwitz t-shirts…but they are repeating the same big lie about election integrity, the kind of thing Glenn Youngkin talks about.”
Because nazi’s wanted fair elections? Or because you want to treat the Jan. 6 rioters like nazi’s treated the Jews?
All they can do is make stupid innuendo because if they get too close to real accusations, they could be committing slander.
Oh, wait, never mind, they don’t care about that because there are no consequences for spreading lies on their side of the ledger.
Even though he does not currently hold any office, by merely running for office, Youngkin becomes a “public figure”, and therefore the standard of evidence for defamation rises to “actual malice”. Now, you might think calling somebody is a Nazi or at least implying it is very clear evidence of malicious intent, but you don’t have a JD and a judgeship, now do you?
What an unbelievable, repugnant piece of shit.
Tim Kaine and Terry McAuliffe should be sewn into a large burlap sack, and thrown into the ocean.
Never mind that McAuliffe has never walked back his support of Gore in Bush v. Gore, or more recently Stacey Abrams. It’s just amazing how brazenly Dems can lie about Repubs doing exactly what Dems do.
Imagine being this person.
A good friend of mine, one of the nicest guys you’ll meet, was almost driven off the road, and then threatened by a @PapaJohns driver near Cleveland Ohio. Because he has a Trump flag on his truck.
What is even happening?
Good comments “I would be mad too if I was delivering pizzas at that age”
At least he’s got a paying job.
/looks at all the help wanted signs hanging everywhere around Cleveland, Ohio
LOL
A grown ass man that will shortly be fired from his job delivering pizzas for a low-rent pizza chain.
There’s some serious life skills on display.
The power of Twitter employed for good. Refreshing.
Carry pepper spray, people!
Seriously, this is like exactly the situation that spicy treats were invented for – a hostile contact who does not yet represent a deadly threat.
You are a guinea pig.
FDA Voting Member:
“We’re never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it.”
Nancy Pelosi is on the FDA board now?
What in the actual fuck?
Yeah, that’s what the last ten months or so have been all about.
This World Series ought to bring overdue death to Atlanta’s shameful chant.
There are few things in life cringier than an Atlanta Braves home playoff game. Few things will make you wince more than watching a stadium of mostly white fans reach for a team-issued foam tomahawk, rhythmically chop it in mid-air as if they’re scalping someone, and moan a fake, Native American war cry in unison—all at the encouragement of the Braves’ stadium operators, who routinely dim the lights at key moments to coax the fans to perform it with their cellphone lights as well.
The “tomahawk chop” is a plague. It’s impossible to watch it without it feeling like you’ve accidentally stepped through a wormhole and are witnessing a routine so racist and obnoxious that it couldn’t possibly still exist in 2021. Its presence is so odious that if you’re like me, you were dreading seeing the Braves advance to the World Series if for no other reason than that you knew the tomahawk chop would be featured during the sport’s most prestigious event. Alas, here we are. The chop, an embarrassing artifact of a different era, is about to go national.
Eh, Go Braves!
“, an embarrassing artifact of a different era…”
An era where people had to chop wood to cook and heat homes? I think that era is coming again.
Forget it, it’s Slate-town.
Not in $current_year!
Too bad it wasn’t Braves v. Indians.
Got to go back to 1995 for that…
Surviving a Clinton encounter is a crying with happiness moment.
*swipes left*
I dunno why this is so sad to me. I guess because it’s a cry for help from a profoundly devalued soul. Whether it’s the prog-fascist tearing up at a Hillary speech or the MAGAt with the Trump shrine, these are people who have lost all dignity. They worship others because they are ineffective in their own lives. To be that torn down, as a person, is terrible.
It really does sound like a cry for help.
So I can demand abortions to?
Irish county with 99.7% vaccination rate has highest COVID case rate.
Obviously that fault of the 0.3%!
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-irish-county-with-99-7-vaccination-rate-has-highest-covid-case-rate
Those anti-vax fuckers…
Well nuts. I got an endoscope and I got an app – “OTG Endoscope” on the Google Play store. I plug it into my phone (adapter meant that I had to remove all the phone protective cases to fit the connector in – the light comes on, but I can’t get any image on the screen. Guess I’ll have to do some more research. Noticed there’s a second adapter so I may be able to try and do this with my legacy backup phone rather than dismantling my phone every time I use this – if I can even get it to work.
Although I am impressed by your determination and ingenuity, you might want to consider getting a gastroenterologist to do that for you.
No, this was for looking for water damage behind my washer – discussed last weekend.
but yeah, that was funny
Or at least a trusted friend with small hands…
LOL
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10138465/White-House-signals-flexibility-Dec-8-vaccine-deadline.html
Huh.
On of my coworkers expects to be gone by Dec 8. He has no plan to vaccinate.
Right now I know one enlisted guy where I work who’s going to be forced out. I gave him Ozy’s info and site – he had an appt with a chaplain, but didn’t seem to work out. Would like to know if DoD is going to be forced to put a hold on things if the lawsuits are still in progress.
I expect to be gone every week. Nihilism FTW!
“Education before enforcement.”
Will this ‘education’ involve a cage full of rats, by any chance?
No, just another 74,253 viewings of television commercial propaganda. You know, to reach these people who have obviously been hiding under a rock for the last two years because why else are they not following orders I mean come on.
This, plus they’ll conveniently clamp your eyes open so you don’t miss any of the good parts.
Given the choice, I think I’d take the rats…
This doesn’t surprise me.
Hold the line!
Let’s Go Brandon!
unvaccinated workers will be offered education before enforcement
At Camp Covid?
OFFS.
Put up or shut up.
“they’ll go through education, counseling, accommodations, and then enforcement.”
No, I won’t.
Ha! Great minds defy alike, I suppose.
1. Percentage is not as small as TMITE is desperately trying to claim.
2. “not in compliance” – Leftists really should do themselves a favor and stop using this phrase. Do they not realize how fascistic that makes them sound?
3. “they’ll go through education” – No I won’t
4. “counseling” – No I won’t
5. “then enforcement” – Fuck you, bring it on
The closest this fantasy gets to real life is “accommodations”. You can accommodate my refusal to take your jab.
Apologies, the next cartoon will most likely be late. Work, and side work, has been nuts this month. but after last night’s Zoom I was inspired. I now have a script! Now just comes actually making it…But I promise, it’ll be worth the wait!
In regards to the California port fuckery I just hope they keep it up. It will help motivate the shipping companies to opt for Florida as a destination instead.
One final thought on the Alex Baldwin fuckup: if you were the armorer for that production (or any production really) why wouldn’t you hold at least a meeting where any actor or director that is going to touch a gun during production attend? Make sure they all know the four rules and then have them all demonstrate that they know how to check the firearm and handle it. I would think that should be a standard industry practice.
I’m just surprised that real guns are used at all anymore. Robert Rodriguez used was using rubber guns with CGI flare effects way back when he made Once Upon A Time In Mexico.
I wouldn’t expect anyone to take seriously a child with purple hair.
Especially one that it looks like wasn’t even allowed on set due to COVID restrictions.
I know a shrieking SJW when I see one, and my gut instinct is to raise my hackles and dislike on sight. And this girl certainly is one. But the more I read, now I’m just starting to feel bad for her. Even if it was her fault. She was clearly unqualified, clearly nervous, and the chaotic workplace of a movie set just exacerbated it. She knew from previous gigs she wasn’t ready for this job, but took it anyway. Now, if culpable, she faces real and hard consequences for what I’m thinking is just simple incompetence, not to mention she has to know a person is dead.
Hell, I wouldn’t even wish that on an SJW.
Right now Baldwin’s PR team is busy spending lots of his money deflecting like crazy and getting stories like that out there. I also don’t think the armorer is principally to blame. She wasn’t the one who handed him the gun, that was the assistant director. One report I saw said she wasn’t on the set due to Vid restrictions of how many crew could be around. Chalk up another COVID related death.
They can’t all be Keanu Reeves doing live-free drills in the desert.