Ooops.
Taking a bit of a break from the day, I am looking out at things on the series of tubes… and all I can say is “Wut?!” Here, see what I mean;
- Skynet is trying to waste the Prime Minister of Iraq. (Note to breathless, paint-huffing TV talking heads – this is what a truly bad reaction to an election loss looks like).
- Alec Baldwin might as well have been filming in Australia.
- Switzerland looks like it only has a few people left who aren’t going to kneel before Zod. Used to be a fairly live-and-let-live place, the ol’ CH was.
- Finally, someone gets to come home.
Shakin’ my head, and going back to work. The comment section is yours.
Ahhh…the public sector engineering job sent me an offer letter. This complicates things as they are both paying more than I anticipated and I really didn’t expect to hear from them again. The private sector job wants to talk to me again on Thursday afternoon. Plenty of time to go talk to them. I never thought having too many job options would be as stressful as too few.
Thanks glibs for the encouragement in these trying times.
Are you getting handshakes at the interviews? They making you mask up?
Public works interview was mask up until in the office then masks off. Old engineer gave a handshake, young engineer a fist bump.
I interviewed a young engineer here at current employer, handshake.
Private job was a ms teams call, in person this week. I expect no mask, handshake. We’ll see.
Fist bump!?
Yeah, at least it wasn’t an elbow bump.
Deep soul kisses or GTFO!
I will absolutely refuse to do either of those when a handshake is called for.
My interviews are no masks and handshakes.
One weirdo didn’t want to remove his mask. 🙄
Easy way to find out who not to hire.
Best wishes!
I had two offers when I made my recent switch. It’s a good position to be in.
It’s stressful, but powerful. Good luck!!
That sounds encouraging. There will always be stress, this is the good kind. Nice to have choices.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi escaped unharmed from an armed drone assassination attempt in Baghdad, officials said on Sunday, in an incident that raised tension in Iraq weeks after a general election disputed by Iran-backed militia groups.
Clearly they learned this from the MAGA insurrectionists.
Clearly, but holy shit this is wild. Drone warfare where any and all groups that want them can have them is now upon us.
I think they’re called “hunter seekers”.
HK!
Depends.
No toilet for returning SpaceX crew, stuck using diapers
Using the Biden engineering module I see.
Nice. Nasty. but nice.
I’d be pissed.
Yes. Yes you would be.
I don’t know. It depends.
So the SHTF ?
Alec Baldwin might as well have been filming in Australia.
The whole thing seems to be poison.
“Alec Baldwin might as well have been filming in Australia.”
This had better turn out to be a damned good movie.
I’ll watch it. Just for the memes.
Critics say they’ve been dying to see it.
*narrows gaze*
Nothing like a bucket of popcorn and a good shoot ’em up.
I was told it’s going to be a dud, but that could be wrong.
Cinematographers also dying to see it.
Organisers claimed the rally attracted 5,000 people, though police estimate between 3,500 and 4,000 were in attendance.
A lot of holes in that estimate.
That was a pretty cheesy comment.
Clearly, but holy shit this is wild. Drone warfare where any and all groups that want them can have them is now upon us.
This makes me sad.
Wait- not sad, exactly. What’s that other word, like when you want to laugh and dance around clapping your hands?
Shadenfruede?
Hail Confœderatio Helvetica !
Not much, anymore.
My family is all from Werdenberg.
Chin up.
Early OT – apologies – but it appears the “critical” drunk driving detection made the “infrastructure” shit sandwich bill.
Here’s what the infrastructure bill means for road safety and EVs
Welp, I better buy a used newish car in a year or so.
And also, fuck the 13 Republicans in the House that voted for this shit for the sake of being bi-partisan. I’ve noticed that bi-partisan shit never increases liberty even if it’s incremental, it usually goes the opposite direction.
Wonder how difficult it will be to disable.
And what the penalties will be when they discover it’s been disabled.
Most new cars have a steering angle sensor. Especially those with electric power steering. (Used by many for fuel economy among other benefits.)
One of the current arguments is that drunken steering inputs are pretty easy to discern from regular driving and the current system can be made to detect this with minimal cost.
I’ll believe it when it happens and we don’t read about some ridiculous issue with an “unforeseen” false positive problem.
They can simply legislate technology into existence no problem.
Given the number of times those systems in my cars tell me to pay attention when I am paying attention, I’m not looking forward to the drunk driving software update.
Mine has a feature which beeps when you leave your lane but on a country road it was going nuts.
Fortunately I could turn it off.
The wife’s outback does that. God, I hate it.
Mine pops up on the screen every time I start it up “Always pay attention to the rules and regulations of the road while in motion” and then shows a button that says “I Agree”. To which I say aloud every single time F*CK.YOU. and then ignore it for a while and it goes away. I’m not now nor ever will be accountable to a f*cking car.
Then, when you try to pair your phone to play music, it says “option not available while car is in motion”. Never mind if the person pairing the phone is sitting in the passenger seat while I drive. It makes me do the way more dangerous and inconvenient move of pulling over and putting it in park.
Yeah sure, I’ll be “old man yelling at cloud” here, but I want my car to go when I press the gas and stop with the brake.
Yeah, I wonder what happens with some kind of breathalyzer type thing when the designated driver is sober but the passenger is shit-faced.
Never buying another new vehicle.
Old ones will be made illegal. ///BuildBackBetter
Or just have an expiration on the re-licensing of them.
No one really needs a car more than 20 years old, right? It’s better this way.
I’m lusting after the new Z, but the level of nannyism is appalling in new vehicles.
How much is this gonna increase the cars?
Party of the poor!!
cost of
“Come on man, we don’t think of that shit when we are doing something good for your safety.”
I was driving in NM with a leftist friend and she was bitching about all the hooptys and beaters on the road because of NM’s lack of state inspections. Yes, I said, it’s terrible that the poors have access to transportation. That shut it down.
Whether it’s intentional or not, the Left despite their protestations that they love the poor, in reality at best they don’t quite understand how the lower classes live and at worst, they hate them.
Boom. Excellent.
Yep, I have that same conversation with my mom. Every, damn, time.
Democrats love the poor. That is why they want to make more of them.
I feel bad for the Asian drivers.
(Yeah, I went there.)
Fine.
Ill do it.
If I go back in time, I’m going to kill the founder of MADD in her crib.
You mean Candy Lightner? She isn’t involved with MADD any more, and has spoken out against the organization she started.
Doesn’t matter, it’s like killing Oppenheimer before he built the bomb.
Miles Dyson was a good guy in T2, yet he still made Skynet
This measure is fucking insane. Bipartisanship is what happens when you get fucked by a Donkey and an Elephant.
something something Republicans are more freedom-loving something argle bargle
STEVE SMITH GO BIPARTISAN ON HIKERS.
Assuming the air collection analysis that detects alcohol get turned over to the government, there is one hell of a Fourth Amendment problem built into that law.
Chafed my friend, we’re in the Brave New World of private businesses doing the government’s dirty work. Business points at government and says it’s his fault, he says he’ll fine me!
Government points as business and says ‘hey it’s not legal for us to do that! Blame business, they’re doing it!
No one is accountable and therefore no one loses. You know except the hundreds of millions of innocents whose rights are trampled into a thick gooey paste.
It was only a few years ago the Supreme Court ruled a warrant is required for a blood draw when DUI is suspected. The game isn’t over yet.
You know how they got around that? They now keep a judge on call 24 hours a day and now all a cop has to do is radio in and a judge will rubber stamp a warrant.
Oh I forgot, they call it “No Refusal” and that name pisses me off almost as much as the concept. They’re rubbing it right in your face: don’t want your blood drawn? Tough shit, you have no say in the matter.
Good lord that website is awful. Statist fucks. More regulation!
The pants shitting in this one is hilarious, and the comments…
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/02/supersized-trucks-and-suvs-seem-here-to-stay-unlike-the-auto-show
Woman kicked out at the Hockey game for wearing #LetsGoBrandon shirt.
Was that really the reason? I like that people started chanting.
Deleted
I hope this becomes a corollary of the Streisand Effect. You try to shut it down, we make it louder.
Wearing my LGB shirt grocery shopping tomorrow. I’ve gotten nothing but good reax, so far.
That’s like me and my socialism kills shirt. I like wearing it to Wegmans
I don’t think that’s accurate. I think she was kicked out for screaming profanity.
At a hockey game?
I’d believe kicked out for NOT screaming profanity, maybe.
“I was at a fight, and a hockey game broke out!”
[golf clap]
This^^^
MSG, 1989 Rangers/Islanders playoffs, sitting in red (lower) section. Beers raining down from blue seats, to a chorus of “Red seats suck!” Strong language was the least of our problems.
At the very first Tampa Bay Lightning game, a hat trick was scored. A lone fan threw his hat into the rink and was promptly ejected by security. Sigh…
Rittenhouse prosecution goes pear shaped
https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1457774701673996298
I love the reactions on the side.
I love the reaction of the prosecutors. I can just see the thought bubble. “You weren’t supposed to tell the truth. I don’t care what oaths you took. You were supposed to say what I coached you to say.”
Obligatory…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79mxYFBM1yE
That prosecutor is about to be Nifong’d I hope.
Y’all – this is pretty big & damaging. Looking forward to Viva Barnes discussing it on their livestream.
I’ve been glued to Nick Rekieta’s feed all day; today has been an absolute shit sammich for the prosecution.
It’s even worse than that.
Grosskreutz just admitted that Rittenhouse shooting Huber was self-defense!
That’s pretty amazing, if accurate.
Considering the source, I’ll wait for some more reputable outlet to report it or uncut video to emerge.
Any chance this guy is prosecuted for his admitted crimes in the first paragraph?
If he didn’t get immunity in return for his testimony, he’s dumber than he looks.
Yeah. He should be the one on trial for attempted murder and various other riot associated crimes.
He also told police when they first interviewed him that his pistol fell out of his waist band and he no longer had it.
Pwnd.
Doesn’t matter.
Lone survivor shot by Kyle Rittenhouse at Kenosha protests testifies he thought he “was going to die”
A witness at Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial testified Monday that he confronted a rifle-toting Rittenhouse with a gun of his own to try to stop the bloodshed, and thought he was going to die as he closed in on the young man. Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, ended up getting shot and seriously wounded in the arm by Rittenhouse.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Grosskreutz had a gun in has hand, with his arms raised, when Rittenhouse fired, shooting him in the bicep. A prosecutor asked Grosskreutz why he didn’t shoot Rittenhouse.
I’d vote to acquit Kyle on his haircut alone.
/personal bias
You will be shocked (shocked!) to hear that NPR is spinning it exactly the opposite.
Grosskreutz attended the racial justice protest as a volunteer medic when he encountered the vicious racist and only advanced on the racist when he killed a man mere feet from him.
*plays clip of Grosskreutz saying how he thought he was stopping an active shooter*
Grosskreutz brandishing a gun was in fear of his life so Rittenhouse’s shot at him was attempted murder. Ashli, unarmed, caused a cop to fear his for his life, so cop’s shot is a good one. Justice in America. But wait, cop was hovering over AOC protecting her from being ravished and murdered, so even more good shot.
This one’s for Moj
https://pasteboard.co/sbHAszFBfjRu.jpg
Wow, and I thought that my ex was a skank!
STEVE SMITH WELCOME VISITORS AND BY WELCOME MEAN. . .
In a row, or…. (NSFW)
Missouri loves company!
Proctologist convention.
“The conservative moral panic over a new California bill on children’s toys”. https://www.sfgate.com/california-politics/article/Moral-panic-over-kids-toys-16590192.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
It’s not the morons who felt like they needed to pass a law that are having the moral panic. Oh no. Just those that oppose this good common sense regulation.
Lamp operator and pipe rigger Jason Miller was bitten by a venomous brown recluse while helping wrap up film production after Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Oct. 21, Sky News said.
Brown recluse. Ouch.
Organisers claimed the rally attracted 5,000 people, though police estimate between 3,500 and 4,000 were in attendance. Speakers addressed the crowd in German, French and Italian on a city square in a largely peaceful demonstration pre-authorised by the authorities.
Better turn-out than some protests in America. And comments turned off for the article….
Lamp operator (electrician) and pipe rigger (grip) are two different departments with two different unions. If they had one guy doing both they were seriously cutting corners.
There was a lot of nonunion labor on this shoot. It had been causing rifts within the crew.
Lol.
Dem Sen. Wyden’s multimillionaire son blasts dad and ‘cronies’ for hating the ‘American dream’
Thanksgiving must be a hoot in the Wyden household.
Based as fuck.
I feel gross, but I’ll take the side of the hedge fund manager over the senator.
“I learned it from you, Dad!”
Until hedge fund managers can make rules that wind up with me in a cage/killed by state agents, I’m 100% Team Hedge Fundie
ding ding ding!
Wow! Someone has no fucks to give.
That’s senator not Congressman. D-NYC.
it appears the “critical” drunk driving detection made the “infrastructure” shit sandwich bill.
Shovel ready.
Seems legit: B.C. doctor clinically diagnoses patient as suffering from ‘climate change’
I can identify as any climate I want.
We have it too easy. In the past if you couldn’t adapt to the environment. You died.
So, hot flashes.
And swamp ass.
Was he saying the woman was frigid?
I remember sconnie docs showing up at a protest writing medical excuses because the protesting teachers had “Walkeritis.”
One of world’s largest investment firms will need permission to hire white men
I should apply then sue when they don’t hire me.
(Link fail)
But, ugh, I can’t even with this. Why would you even want to consider hiring white men, anyway? Ewwww.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/one-of-worlds-largest-investment-firms-will-need-permission-to-hire-white-men
I’m sure hiring for reasons other than merit will improve their returns. *eyes roll out of head*
Cool link.
Having worked at State Street for a couple of years, it my benchmark for “terrible place to work”, even before that sort of woke nonsense.
Worst outcome – you win your lawsuit and then you get a job there.
My first job out of college and the Marines. Worked for them in Quincy ’89 – 91. Not going back.
Speaking of “driving while disabled” I saw yesterday New York has made it illegal to sell a used car with non functioning airbags.
Hook those lethal Takata bags back up, or else.
Cuomo should be putting up “Miss me yet?” billboards.
It’s kind of punching down, but good on you anyway: Newsweek editor shames Brian Stelter to his face
I mean, it’s not the worst idea
https://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/post/667315668734132224
I can grok that.
Stahp.
L O L
Sold
It’s a thing in Austria.
I forget the name of the style. I’ve been in an apartment in Vienna which had the shower in the kitchen. A friend of mine and her then-boyfriend (now husband) lived there. My friend is American, her guy Austrian. He explained it’s an odd Austrian style, but you’ll see it in homes and apartments of a certain vintage.
Were the dungeons for kids in the same period?
+3 Ariel Castro
/too soon ?
Kramer approves.
OMG
https://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/post/655270156862373888
“Oh, we never eat in there.”
I’m crying. That is unbelievable. What whack job thought that was a good idea?
Vegan lesbians?
ME & RE filed at work today. Thanks for the kind words of Trash and Ozy.
I did use the words “smite” and “sacrifice”
I also put in the RE the comment that if they did not respond with “banana” in my denial I deem they did not read my request.
“My name is Ozymandias, and I approve this banana.”
This is not confusing messaging at all.
What the fuck it is with BBB and BIF? Are these jackals trying to pass two monstrosities of a bill to loot the American people?
I wonder sometimes if some of them really believe what they’re peddling.
I mean, someone like me says “there’s no way that a person is capable of tracking and ensuing all that $ goes to where it’s supposed to, so no way would I push this as if I knew”, but maybe others really believe that if they get the money, the solution will just…happen.
Sure, some are cynical grifters, but all of them? Maybe. Don’t know which is the worse option.
Does nothing about the lead pipes or lead soldered pipes in buildings (which are mostly harmless anyways, but that’s true for the pipes used in water distribution).
lead pipes are not actually made of lead.
Some drains and sewer pipes are, but not water supply pipes.
Assholes.
Al Gore unveils Mass Surveillance System for Climate
I, for one, welcome our Green Fascism overlords.
Chill. We need more stuff mined from the hands of african kids, and processed in China.
It balances out like a Re-Dox equation.
That grifting SOB just will not go away.
“Gore declares that technology created by the so called Climate TRACE coalition will monitor greenhouse gas emissions and root out the culprits.”
Uh-oh. Biden’s in trouble if this tracks methane emissions.
So is Gore if it detects his private jet.
What if we just demolish every structure in America plumbed with lead pipe? Then we can build new.
Build Back Better.
Make Bastiat great again.
Putting your bathtub in the kitchen makes perfect sense if you heat the water on the stove.
Or, uh, slaughter your sacrifices in there . . .
“We are not coming for your guns.”
The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans who own firearms ultimately ends up in the federal government’s hands, according to internal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The ATF in fiscal year 2021 processed 54.7 million out-of-business records, according to an internal ATF document obtained by the Gun Owners of America, a firearms advocacy group, and provided exclusively to the Free Beacon. When a licensed gun store goes out of business, its private records detailing gun transactions become ATF property and are stored at a federal site in West Virginia. This practice allows the federal government to stockpile scores of gun records and has drawn outrage from gun advocacy groups that say the government is using this information to create a national database of gun owners—which has long been prohibited under U.S. law.
The ATF obtained 53.8 million paper records and another 887,000 electronic records, according to the internal document that outlines ATF actions in fiscal year 2021. Gun activists described this figure as worryingly high and said it contributes to fears that the Biden administration is trying to keep track of all Americans who own firearms, in violation of federal statutes. The procurement of these records by the ATF comes as the Biden administration moves to alter current laws to ensure that gun records are stored in perpetuity. Currently, gun shops can destroy their records after 20 years, thereby preventing the ATF from accessing the information in the future.
“As if the addition of over 50 million records to an ATF gun registry wasn’t unconstitutional or illegal enough, the Biden administration’s misuse of ‘out-of-business’ records doesn’t end there,” Aidan Johnston, the Gun Owners of America’s director of federal affairs, told the Free Beacon. “Instead of maintaining the right of [licensed firearm dealers] to destroy Firearm Transaction Records after 20 years, buried within Biden’s proposed regulations is a provision that would mean every single Firearm Transaction Record going forward would eventually be sent to ATF’s registry in West Virginia.”
They aren’t just stockpiling those records, they are actively scanning and converting them into searchable electronic records.
https://youtu.be/3OaF-j8x5Vc
I mean, someone like me says “there’s no way that a person is capable of tracking and ensuing all that $ goes to where it’s supposed to, so no way would I push this as if I knew”, but maybe others really believe that if they get the money, the solution will just…happen.
Government money is just like magic pixie dust. It goes where it’s needed, on its own.
Rumor has it that Gavin Newsome got Guillain–Barré syndrome from the booster jab.
You think there’s any chance that will be admitted, even if true?
It’s going on 12 days since he last made an appearance, which is a lifetime for that greasy media whore. He ducked out of the climate shindig in Glasgow with no real explanation which was highly weird. That’s his most favorite element, where he can preen his green cred and enjoy the five star accommodations at the taxpayers’ expense. Something is def up.
It fits the fact pattern. Perhaps too well however.
And yet journalists remain remarkably incurious about his whereabouts.
So much this. His family matters claim was fine for a few days. Now that we are approaching two weeks, at what point does our *shudder* Lt. Governor take over?
That would be fantastic.
While some Glibs believe that I want them to die if they are vaccinated that’s actually not true. You are not famous enough to matter. But a famous young healthy person maimed or killed by the vaccine is what’s necessary. I was thinking about professional athletes or young actors. But Gavin Newsome as the poster child of vaccine injury is the best thing that could happen. He looked healthy and young enough.
There is no better face for the problems with the vaccine than Gavin Newsom. Especially if one side of his sloughs for a month or so, like he had a stroke.
That is appalling. I want no innocent young person to die, for someone to score a point. That is shameful.
I’m sorry but I have to respectfully disagree with you.
This is war. Newsome is not some innocent young person, he is the leader of the enemy. If Ho Chi Mihn slipped on a bar of soap in the shower and broke his neck would you be sad? Or, Osama bin Laden? Or Kim Jung Il?
These people hate us and want to destroy us and our way of life. I would feel no more remorse for the death of Gavin Newsom than I would for the death of a black widow spider in the crib of my daughter.
Animal is right. They don’t give a shit if we die; why should we care if they do?
I’m pissed because so many innocent young people are going to because of Newsom.
Why did you stay silent when practically every sports league mandated covid vaccination? The damage has already been done to these innocent young men and women. They have already been sacrificed.
Looks like South Africa us on its way to full Zimbabwe status…
https://unherd.com/2021/11/how-the-anc-destroyed-south-africa/
You know who else was a corrupt insider supported by big business that made things worse?
Ironic that the horrors of decolonization was mostly adopted from the terrible ideas of their former colonial masters.
Ignore ANC’s leftist and commie ties going back long before they took over but was whitewashed because apartheid was evil.
(That last part isn’t snark or sarcasm, it was and is evil.)
I think that’s pretty par the course with most African liberation groups. The ones who could fight the “colonists” were given weapons and training by the Soviets while there were a dearth of liberation groups that preached economic liberty and rule of law. It’s a fucking tragedy because South Africa was given a head start in terms of economic development, but the ANC managed to squander all of that in 30 something years.
Southern Rhodesia was pretty wealthy too…
There’s no reason Rhodesia should have had a famine.
All true. I find it interesting Mandela didn’t drive it into the ground. He easily could have become the typical plutocrat. It is very much to his credit that he didn’t. It’s terrible that everyone after him wanted their share of the spoils.
The sad fact of the matter is that those best equipped to fight are often the least desirable to rule, while those most desirable to rule are least equipped to fight. Successful fighting often requires the sort of underhanded tactics that turn off people who would make good leaders. In addition to the African examples already provided, I’ll add that the much vaunted French resistance in WWII was so filled with Communists that de Gaulle was worried they would launch a revolution following liberation.
Seeing these articles every month now:
Before there was inflation, the poors had more money in their checking accounts. Fear not.
JFC
Does anyone really believe this is even close to the actual number?
I suppose when you don’t count those that aren’t actually looking for work, maybe, but sheesh, there isn’t a service business around that (1) hasn’t drastically cut hours, service, or both, and (2) doesn’t have a ‘now hiring’ sign prominently displayed.
While I’m employed I’ve been looking for a new job. I’ve applied to at least 20 jobs in the last 6 months. Several I was referred to through connections. I’ve received 0 calls and 0 rejection letters. Several job applications that I submitted months ago still say “new” and never updated to under review or rejected. I think this millions of unfilled jobs market is a load of shit.
You need to spice it up. Add some rainbow flags to your resume, or maybe highlight your identity as a one legged neuroatypical Native American pangender who likes pina coladas.
…and getting caught in the rain.
Ya, maybe this is similar to all the COVID data: just can’t tell what’s true and what’s wrong and what’s manipulated.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m in no way challenging your situation as untrue.
At the same time, every restaurant within driving distance of me has severely reduced hours, staff, and raised prices. Every chain store I walk into barely has enough people to run the place, and most of them have also cut hours.
Seems like there are fewer people on the job for sure, but then there’s situations like yours that seem to provide a counter-example.
I certainly am not big-brained enough to figure it out.
Today I saw a guy sitting by the gas station where I was filling up, he had a cardboard sign that said he was homeless and looking for work… ‘Please Help’. Not ten feet from him were two other yard signs, one offer up to $17.50 for manufacturing work, the other an unspecified wage but offering sign-on money. The gas station shares a driveway with a Taco Bell, their sign isn’t promoting whatever their new disgusting chalupa/taco/Dorito crust thing is, It is promoting “walk-in interviews every Tuesday”. Across the street is a Subway “Hiring day shift and night manager positions”. I gave the guy 20 bucks and a couple bags of pork rinds, that kind of chutzpah deserve recognition.
Remember, if you’re employed for even one hour a week, you’re “part-time employed” according to most national statistics agencies (this was certainly true when I was a labour market information analyst for the Canadian government and had to process StatsCan’s monthly employment survey numbers . . . ).
Unemployment could be that low, because the labor force participation rate is total shyte.
In my econ classes even the Left professors made it clear that inflation wasn’t desirable and that we should do whatever we can to avoid it. Of course wages increased (or so they say) but their money’s buying power decreased. What the fuck man?
Something they would have never uttered under Orange.
Because the reason they benefited was from working, not being showered with our tax dollars.
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/never-ending-mask-mandate-rochelle-walensky/
Is mask wearing the new pattern of living supported by libertarians? Get with the times yokels…
Is the new Winston model of engagement nut kicking strawmen? Get with the times, one note flute.
lots of Americans came into 2021 with money in their pockets.
And now- it’s gone.
I hate spiders. My cousin and I were given the job of cleaning out a shed on my great-grandparents’ ranch in CA. We pulled a trough away from the wall and there were a ton of black widows and other nasties behind it. Our solution was to go get torches from the shop and cleanse with fire!
And yes, I know how beneficial they are. Still hate them.
I’ll take spiders over mice any day. Had to tear our a basement ceiling that was infested. Literally rained mouse shit on me.
https://media.giphy.com/media/13gQDQyb4JIWic/giphy.gif
The solution.
Did you burn down the shed?
Of course not!
We were cautious pyros.
https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3155176/goldmans-top-banker-says-many-chinese-ipo-clients?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=share_widget&utm_campaign=3155176
The civilizing effects of free trade…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/03/business/munger-china-economy/index.html
Thanks for getting back to your one note. For a moment it looked like you were doing something else.
Your comment makes no sense. The SEC implemented regs requiring all listed firms to abide by GAAP accounting principles. That requires making financial records available for audit. The CCP won’t allow Chinese firms to abide. Some firms have been delisted. Any Chinese firm that wants to go to market won’t be able to do so in the US. It has nothing to do with free trade.
I am referring to the fact that this is occurring after the suppression of Hong Kong’s freedom..
Sweet yumping yiminy I know right? Considering how exhausting it is on the receiving end, I can’t imagine the dull drudgery of cooking it up every day….
However you feel about Kyle Rittenhouse, I think this case is important due to the fact that it’s going to set the precedent of whether we can defend ourselves from an unruly mob that wants to hurt you and will you be prosecuted from doing so.
One of the disturbing things about the riots last summer was the view by some on the Left that defending yourself and your property was taboo because that’s the price you have to pay in order defeat white supremacy. While the usual assholes and protestors who parrots this line do so because they can’t think for themselves, the leaders of these movements knew exactly what they were doing. In order to gain power and subjugate a population, you must first take away their ability to defend themselves. They can’t do this by confiscating all of our guns because of that pesky second amendment, so the next best thing to do is make it increasingly painful and cost prohibitive to defend yourself and your property.
Rittenhouse is being used as an example in order to cower us from defending ourselves against the mob.
Sadly, he’s a flawed example – it’d be a lot better if he had been defending his own property.
I’m totally cool with him defending someone else’s property, but I’m not sure that’s going to resonate as well with much of America.
He was defending his life, the ultimate personal property.
But yeah, you’re right, that’s not how it reads to Jane Soccer Mom.
Or go into sniper mode, from longer range…
You put your finger right on the reason I don’t have a lot of sympathy for Rittenhouse.
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2021/09/30/steven-pittz/some-final-replies-owen-meyer/
This is the sort of stuff that I find very interesting. Pittz talks about how we need Nietzschian free spirits in order to shake up the status quo and be truly free. However he assures us that “society” will prevent these “free-spirits” from engaging in real harm and when the question is raised that these “free-spirits” might decide that liberalism is one of those old-fashioned dogmas that need to be overthrown he insists it just won’t happen…