Possible depiction of Thanksgiving at the Swiss home.
Back to the slog. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving break. The links may be a bit light on substance, considering the slack news cycle (everyone has covered TEH OMICRON DOOM, so I shan’t repeat it). But let us go take a look, shall we?
- Something, something, Asian drivers. Those of you that have been to Seoul, will this hinder, help or have no impact?
- 10% for the Big Guy?
- A reminder that there are some pretty horrid places on this Earth.
- Be careful what you wish for…
Bombardier to Pilot: Comments away!
“Senegal calls on China to get involved in war-torn Sahel region”
That’s like asking STEVE SMITH to adjudicate a domestic dispute.
It may be fun to watch China get involved in a meaningless guerilla war. They wouldn’t have our problems with rules of engagement, but I doubt their junior officers have any ability to deal with asymmetrical warfare.
10% for the big guy is right wing russian collusion, except you know, real.
I bet it sounds unhinged to the team blue true believers. I had trouble reconciling it with my own worldview a little over a year ago. Naturally nothing will happen.
“As Jim talked, Bobulinski marveled at the political risk to Joe’s career if his family’s flagrant influence peddling during his vice presidency came to light.
“How are you guys getting away with this?” he finally asked. “Aren’t you concerned that you’re going to put your brother’s [2020] presidential campaign at risk? You know, the Chinese, the stuff that you guys have been doing already in 2015 and 2016, around the world?”
Jim chuckled and looked knowingly at Bobulinski.
“Plausible deniability,” he said, using a term coined by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to describe the practice of keeping the president uninformed about illegal or unsavory activity so he can plausibly deny knowing anything if it becomes public knowledge.”
That just sounds too good to be true. But then again, the stuff on the laptop also sounded too good to be true. And yet there it was.
I think that the dirty secret is that EVERY pol in DC is doing the same thing. Of course no one is going to say anything because they all are living in glass houses.
How else can they amass such fortunes? You are correct – the rot is deep.
The now open secret is that U.S. foreign aid is nothing more than the world’s biggest kickback scheme.
And now I see they’re floating the idea of 60 BILLION IN CASH to Iran, because I guess Obama didn’t pay those murderous thugs enough last time.
The Iran “Deal” was terrible and stupid the first time, and they’re gonna do it again… because…? they get a piece? they want to destroy Israel? they’re just stupid? I don’t understand the love for Iran from OBama and his toadies.
The persian rugs they got in return really made the room come together?
I’ve never dug into the steelman argument for giving them gobs of cash – I assume there’s some case to be made but it seem so stupid on its face.
I think the lower levels of Democrat apparatchiks believe that shit, that just waving around the rainbow flag will make all this BS that they believe works because it worked on them. All the little nimrods who went to the Seven Sisters or the Ivies were indoctrinated in this crap, and because none of them learned to think critically feel its totes awesome and the natural way to go about getting to point zero.
In a just world, there would have been a special counsel appointed and the Biden’s would have all gone down on RICO and racketeering charges
C’mon man! You don’t believe that the $10M we gave Pakistan for gender programs will really be used to help women in Pakistan?
“Possible depiction of Thanksgiving at the Swiss home.”
Needz moar Alpenhorn.
Is that a euphemism?
Imagine the hell an ex-girlfriend of Mayor Oh must go through if she starts dating a new boyfriend who is paranoid and jealous.
Dr: Why do you think your girlfriend is still carrying a torch for her old boyfriend?
New BF: Because every time we are having sex she starts calling out his name!
Isn’t that a Led Zeppelin song?
Hearing impaired Dr.: “Come again?”
“Wait, she’s yelling ‘Oh So-soon?'”
Punchline to an old bad joke — “It translates to ‘wrong hole'”
The Bee notes another typical Chicago weekend.
Meanwhile, at the Jersey Shore…
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/11/live-world-war-ii-era-munition-found-on-wildwood-beach.html
Nice bullets!
Where we all turn for up to the minute political news!
Oh no, oh no, oh no.
Matthew McConaughey has decided to not run for Texas governor after all.
The Oscar-winner announced on his Instagram account on Sunday that elected office was a “path that I’m choosing not to take at this moment” and that he wants to focus on serving the people of his home state in ways other than pursuing public office.
He was polling really well.
Had to know, though, the instant he out a D next to that name it would all change.
Campaign slogan — “Better than Beto!”
The thing is, he wouldn’t have had to put a D next to his name. As recently as 2006 Texas had a legit four way race for governor (results were 39-30-18-12), so it’s not impossible to run as an independent/third party here and have a shot.
And I appreciate that! So, Gadfly for Governor?
Lol. I’m gonna have to pull a McConaughey on that.
When I was in ROK in ’88, the taxi drivers were notoriously bad. We called the horn on a car “the Korean brake pedal” because many of the taxi drivers would simply honk their horn before blowing through a red light.
We were told that for the first 50 rides they got 15% of the commission and after that they got 40% of the commission so they drove as fast as they could to get to the lucrative part of their shift (all numbers are made up). I believed it at the time, but as I’ve grown older I have learned a lot of things we believed in the Marines was not true.
The worst taxi experience we ever had was when a bunch of us had to leave the bar district and get back to the base by midnight. We got into two cabs and each of us told the drivers that whoever got us back to the gates first would make an extra $5. The resulting drag race was scary enough that no one ever did that again.
“as I’ve grown older I have learned a lot of things we believed in the Marines was not true”
C’mon man, at least they aren’t like political hacks that would never mislead you. Now just go over there and put your mask on and everything will be alright you’ll see.
Next thing you’ll tell me is that the Corps never taught you about Old Gimlet Eye.
I am having a hard time outright believing the Biden-China connection because of the Russia collusion bullshit.
On the other hand, whenever I read strategic reports, news, or just about anything else, I can’t imagine a better way to help China succeed in its goal to destroy the existing international order than to do what the powers that be have been doing.
Seriously. We all know that an outright war would result in a total collapse that would harm China just as much as the rest of the world, but a controlled decline gives them time to adapt and overcome the changes.
Slippery ain’t it? that slope I mean.
I have no issues believing it. Biden has and does live large, way large for someone who’s never done anything outside of public office.
Now do Pelosi
Whether you believe the Biden corruption boils down to whether you believe a couple of things:
Did he pressure Ukraine to drop the investigation into the oil company paying his son $1MM/year by threatening to block a funding deal?
Is the Hunter Biden laptop legit?
Unlike the Russia collusion bullshit, there is actual (purported) evidence of Biden’s corruption. The question is, do you think the evidence is legit, or do you think it was all cooked up by his enemies? I note that the Ukraine thing is a matter of public record, and the laptop has never been denied or challenged by the Bidens.
If the laptop isn’t real, then somebody is the spy of the century for putting it together complete with drug-addled Hunter nudes.
Those probably aren’t really that hard to come by….
Ewww, phrasing.
It seems very probable that all this smoke really does mean something is on fire, it’s just that everything is fucked up I have a hard time believing just about anything anymore. It’s personally frustrating and causing me a lot of angst, but that’s about the extent of it. I’m already at the same point as other commenters…it’s all going to burn down and I need more ammo. It’s just depressing.
While I agree that we shouldn’t have stayed in Afghanistan as long as we did, we migjt as well have stuck a bow on it and handed it to the Chinese to complete the Belt and Road initiative. They’ve now got a complete pathway to their allies in Iran and control of a large swath of rare earth metals in Afghanistan (if they can extract it). Couple that with the noted involvement in Africa and they effectively control the entire “green” economy that the Dems are so keen to get us hooked on. It seems like they played a perfect game. The only hope I found was in Thomas Sowell’s “Wealth, Poverty, and Politics” where he notes the influence of geography on those same regions and I hope China gets so bogged down in them that they collapse in the same way the various colonial powers did.
I hope China gets so bogged down in them that they collapse in the same way the various colonial powers did.
I suspect that’s likely – what are they going to do differently than the US? The Russians? I have to think all likely approaches fall somewhere in there.
A less scrupulous power could probably tame Afghanistan if they wanted. The Taliban managed it, with far fewer men and materials than the US. Sure, they’re partly home grown, but it’s not like they had majority support either.
Tame, as in “Kill them all – God will know his own” kind of way? Seems to me that might be what it takes.
You could also go with a roman peace. depopulate the area, salt the earth, leave it wasteland, call it peace.
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
I’m not sure what would allow them to succeed in Afghanistan where the Soviets and the US failed.
Working with the existing rulers rather than against them? They seem a little more hands-off than previous empires. They expect people to bend the knee and tithe rather than convert, for the most part. The geographic area immediately around China is a different story as it’s viewed as a part of China that was lost. The rest of the world just needs to respect the mandate of Heaven, or whatever it’s called, and go on living.
I’m not a scholar on this, just have a habit of reading a lot of books about China and the area, so I could be mistaken. I enjoy the counterpoints offered by the commentariat.
They do seem more hands off to a point. They probably will happily leave the poppy fields alone as long as the product is shipped to the West. However, they use Chinese nationals to manage companies in the countries where they invest. If they start big mining operations in Afghanistan, I suspect the locals will see the Chinese nationals as invaders who are capturing the wealth of the land and/or sources for ransom money and it will escalate from there. Or perhaps they will spread enough of the money around to keep the tribesmen happy.
Remember that war is the health of the state. That holds for large states like the US, the USSR, and the CCP as well as smaller states like the Taliban and Hamas.
Also remember the US and Taliban cooperated for well over a decade until one or both sides tried testing the limits of their cooperation. China is not any different. The only unknown is how long their cooperation lasts until their limits are pushed.
than to do what the powers that be have been doing
Or, never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity?
This is also very likely. It’s not like they’re trying anything differently than they have in the past.
Those two are not mutually exclusive.
Let me get this straight – you’re having a hard time believing that the exact same people who were behind the Russia collusion hoax, as well as weaponizing the FBI against their enemies, might be so corrupt as is depicted on that laptop (and corroborated by Bobulinski??) So… the credibility of the laptop is suspect because of the truth of the Russia collusion hoax?? You do remember it was Joe Biden who reportedly suggested they use the Logan Act to go after Mike Flynn, yes? You do know he’s the same piece of shit who’s been standing on his dead family members for political gain for more than 40 years? The same Joe Biden who has always been a serial liar and plagiarizer? It’s hard to believe THAT paragon of virtue would be doing something this dirty?!? Really??? Obama’s right hand man wouldn’t dare do something so dastardly?
Dude, you know I love you, but… uhh… there’s no Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny, either.
No worries.
It’s not that I don’t believe it, but with all the lies that are out in the open over the last two years, I have a hard time believing anything at all. It’s why I started going back to church…just to have a foundation. The very few things that I know for certain are constantly under attack. I could just as easily see it being a Chinese plot to further divide us all. A nudge here, a push there. They’re masters of it. We tear ourselves apart over this stuff and I don’t want to fall into the same trap as the people who believed the Russia lie, that’s all.
I don’t believe that China is masterminding some grand plot, but I do believe that they are throwing gas on other people’s fires.
They don’t have to. Like you said, throw some gas on key fires and it’ll take care of itself. I know a lot of my peers that are convinced that China has a grand plan to replace the US as the world’s hegemon. That may be, but it’d be a lot easier and less expensive to just poke and prod and let the US flounder under its own failings and for the world to revert to competition between great powers like in the colonial era, with no clear leader. The only counter to this, to me, would be for the US to become more classically liberal and liberty-loving so that free people have a place to go. I don’t see this happening, hence my perpetually-depressed state.
Amen, Mustang. It’s hard to remember, but this is only a temporary shelter for our souls, a proving ground for learning how to love the rest of creation… yea, even the a-holes.
Remember when Trump bragged about being able to shoot someone on 5th Ave and get away with it?
I’m thinking he was a piker compared to Biden. Joe and Hunter could show up on some video with a double ended dildo while Xi is shouting “ass to ass!” while showering them with money and nothing would happen.
The truth is that laptop should bring down our government. The incredible number of people who were and are aware of the extent of corruption, and either participated in, sought to hide it, or both is enough reason to liquidate the entirety of the executive branch at a minimum.
Same with the Clinton emails.
And the Maxwell trial the media is carefully ignoring.
Almost stunning in the contrast to the Rittenhouse trial, isn’t it?
Forget corruption.
The amount of people who have pretended Joe is all there mentally is astonishing. I wonder if the aide who had to wipe Joe’s ass during the campaign is still able to rationalize his actions?
The way Joe was dragged across the finish line is just as bad as the corruption.
Not as bad. Ronnie Reagan was probably just as bad at the end of his 2nd term.
Not even close. About a year after he left….maybe.
No kidding. My recollection is that Reagan was getting a little confused (?) during his second term, but nowhere near what Biden is, and has been.
What are you talking about? The emperor is wearing some very fine clothes.
Speaking of which… calling a lid.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-cancels-supply-chain-address-last-minute
According to the fount and source of all knowledge:
Jeez that’s fucked up. I’m reminded of meeting the first team guy I ever got to know on a first-name basis – he had just returned from a deployment, and when I asked him where, he said, “The second worst place on planet Earth: the Central African Republic.” I pressed him for what the worst place was and he answered, “Fort Bragg.”
Their methods were… unsound.
Were they’re comments ungrammatical?
oooh, Edit Fairy sneaked in there…
“Snuck.”
If you wanted to do that more sublty, EF would have just altered my reply…
I wanted to make it obvious.
I don’t see any method at all, sir.
“Arizona State University students rally to boot Kyle Rittenhouse
Leftist students at Arizona State University are campaigning to get Kyle Rittenhouse kicked out of his studies — calling him a racist, “blood-thirsty murderer” even though the teen was acquitted of all charges.
Four groups led by Students for Socialism are behind a rally planned for Wednesday to boot Rittenhouse, 18, who revealed that he was an online student at the Tempe school and would like to live a quiet life on campus.
“KILLER OFF CAMPUS,” reads the flyer, calling for the university to “protect students from a violent, blood-thirsty murderer.”
A list of four demands includes getting the 18-year-old cleared killer withdrawn from ASU, as well as for the school to “release a statement against white supremacy and racist murderer Kyle Rittenhouse.””
https://nypost.com/2021/11/29/arizona-state-university-students-rally-to-boot-kyle-rittenhouse/
Not to seem harsh, but anyone in a group called “Students for Socialism” should be taken out and shot.
“It also calls for a multicultural center to be a safe space “from white supremacy.” The groups also want police funding to instead go to a multicultural center and to get a CAARE “healing” center.
The protest is also backed by Students for Justice in Palestine, the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition and the Mexican American student group MEChA de ASU.”
Also known as Fuck The Jews, Give Us More Money, and We Shouldn’t Even Be Here.
I’d just tell them to put a cork in it or face expulsion.
The list of people he can sue for defamation just gets longer and longer.
What percentage of students scairt of Kyle The Murderer are wearing Che, Mao or other t-shirts with commie logos?
“Also known as Fuck The Jews, Give Us More Money, and We Shouldn’t Even Be Here.”
Lol
I liked it too.
He shot 3 Jews. Shouldn’t he be a hero to the Palestinians?
Not to seem harsh, but anyone in a group called “Students for Socialism” should be taken out and shot.
I used up my allotment of harshness this morning. Just kick them out of school and let them go get jobs.
Get jobs? Why, that’s violence too. But at least you aren’t being silent, because that’s also violent.
Get jobs? What, me worry?
Before they do it to you. Because you know that’s what they want.
I’m old-fahioned. I prefer helicopter rides.
“Students for Socialism” should be taken out and shot.
Right in the bicep.
Bicep is an odd term for a commie-burying spot.
“Students for Socialism” is not as bad as NAMBLA.
Close, but not quite.
I always pictured more wheels of tasty cheese in the Swiss home.
I mean, a wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano only goes for what, $1800? Very affordable. ?
But does it have a bries way?
No, but it does have a cottage out back.
Does the property extend to the curd and what is the walk whey look like?
It’s a gouda thing Swiss ran off after lynxing.
I feel like this thread would turn him into a real muenster.
Or maybe just make him a bit blue, who knows.
I have it on good authority that determining the curdle-age of a home is a complicated topic.
Probably a narroeed gaze incoming, but that’s OK. I Camembert exactly where I first heard this, but it’s better to ask forgiveness than Parmesan.
I tried to narrow my gaze at you ne’er-do-wells, but I think I threw a hip.
I don’t know how Swiss does this day after day.
Professional gaze-narrower. Prolly gets lots o’ practise at his day job.
You have no idea…
I found out why my friends are mad at me, I looked at the NFL standings, HaHa!
/ Go Green Bay!
*narrows gaze*
https://www.nssf.org/articles/background-checks-top-687000-during-black-friday-week/
We helped with that.
Nice.
Thanks.
I wonder how many rejections there were. There was a dude at LGS a couple of months ago who got rejected and started trying to explain his life to the guy behind the counter…the counter guy was like “well, regardless of the reason, we charge $50 for any NICS rejections. Cash or charge?”
We helped with that.
🙂
I won the antique rifle I bid on at GunBroker. No background check for it.
🙂
And I’m bidding on another antique. Will find out tonight if I win.
Oooh, what ya get?
British, German, American?
Here is a cover of Lisa Loeb’s 90’s hit Stay by some guy wearing a dress. I think it will fit some Glibs musical tastes. Check it out. It is a little different than Loeb’s version.
[EF blesses you.]
That was amazing!
That’s like nothing I’ve ever seen!
I’m speechless!
the Sound of Silence?
Oops, I linked to the original, not the cover. My bad.
Who edits the edit fairy?
I see what you did there.
Well EF makes us all look like we enjoyed it. Pfft
Okay, I think I found the cover version to which NaE was referring to above. Reader service. We are all about reader service here at Glibs.
Thanks, Tonio
Are you okay, buddy? Did you have a TIA?
Edit Fairy done bad. Anyway here is another Hanukkah song — sort of.
Gotta bring forward that the FedGov mandate on its employees is effectively pushed back 6 weeks. Good news for me and makes sense on why I haven’t heard a peep out of the reasonable accommodation requests that haven’t been addressed. My original guess of 60-70% ‘fully vaxxed’ is probably correct as they are counting those that have at least one shot or have a medical/religious accommodation pending as part of their 96% vaccinated number they are pushing.
I know this is looking too far forward, but if these mandates are struck down, can someone then sue private companies for having their own mandates?
Maybe if there’s a state law prohibiting it? Otherwise, a bit difficult, particularly with the fed agencies sanctioning it like they have with mandatory vaccine attestation, temperature and health checks, etc.
The flu vaccine precedent will make it tough, although there should be some mileage in the EUA status of the vaccines. Some federal court already ruled that was A-OK, but with the other mandate cases pending, who knows if that will stand?
I think the delay is probably because they are going to redefine what it means to be “fully vaxxed”. As in have you had your 6 month (at the most for now) booster shot?
Could or could be the mounting losses in court and mounting lawsuits. Every single person denied their religious exemption in the FedGov will instantly have a EEO case
*Touches nose.
The guidance they issued to DOD employees reads like “Apply for exemption, we’ll faithfully look at it before we turn it down, but go ahead and apply.”
I have a few members who requested exemptions. Since I know they can’t force the shots while the exemptions are being processed, I’ve just been sitting on them, hoping for time to run out and the mandates to get rescinded. In the meantime I’m absorbing all the tips from here to write my recommendations for approval by highlighting the very minimal threat that COVID actually poses. It’s my little resistance effort.
The booster is what is giving me headaches (metaphorically). If they go with boosters to be fully vaxxed, then I think my employer will require them. At that point, I will ask for full WFH status as my “exemption”. If they push it, I’ll make them fire me and we’ll see if they really want to bump uglies and deny me my severance.
Don’t you have to sign an NDA to get your severance?
He’s not allowed to say.
….maybe.
My work keeps making noises about getting vaccinated without any talk of enforcement. They were banking on OSHA giving them legal cover.
I did go get my first ever covid test this morning so I can visit a hospital client later this week (assuming I don’t have the rona).
For the general public, yes. For hospital workers not in the slightest. We have all been compelled to turn in proof of vaccination or to grovel in hopes of a medical or religious exemption. If we don’t comply, we face termination.
CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services…they can’t keep track of the second M) decreed that any hospital that doesn’t fully comply with their mandate cannot participate in Medicare. Since Medicare is the biggest source of money for every hospital in the country, that means every hospital immediately sent out threatening emails to everybody they employ.
We don’t need government owned healthcare, we’ve got our own fascist system already in full operation.
Same boat Contrarian, FedGov was faced with proof of vax or request an accommodation (medical or religious).
There’s a state law here that explicitly protects healthcare workers from vaccination mandates. The state ignored it and issued state level rules anyways.
Of course…extraordinary times require extra-constitutional measures.
That’s the one that just got struck down. Linked in the last thread. A Missouri fed’l judge just blasted the CMS mandate and told them not to take so much as an iota of additional movement on it.
That one was always doomed. Ditto for the fed contractor and fedgov employee mandates. Not a chance those survive in the wake of SCOTUS’ per curiam slapdown of the CDC rent moratorium nonsense.
That decision has been front and center in the recent 5th Circuit decision and in this one, too. Every court knows that the fedgov vaccine mandates are bullshit and if you want to stay a judge, you’re not going to be able to cook up a legal rationale as to how the Procurement Act (passed in 1949) suddenly confers executive power to mandate vaccines for govt contractors.
Didn’t seem to matter. The deadline was today for two of the hospitals where I work. They have not withdrawn the threat to fire anyone who doesn’t comply.
Judges can strike down whatever they want, but the enforcers just go on doing what they were going to do anyway.
What state? The decision from earlier today only applies in the ten states which are party to the suit.
Florida brought a separate suit on the CMS vaccine mandate, and that got shot down.
Good point, DEG.
The Congo story makes me wonder about the Australian COVID quarantine camps–obviously there is security keeping the detainees inside, but what protections are guaranteed to the detainees against any outside attacks? Like, imagine a situation developing where some sort of COVIDian nutcase militia forms and decides that the detainees are dangerous in some way?
Obviously, pretty unlikely, but…concentrating people in camps might not be the best idea.
Looks at prisons…nah nothing like that will happen.
Oh you meant an outside faction….
“Attica, Attica…” [rattles tin cup against bars]
Australia effectively disarmed its populace, IIRC.
I’ve linked to it before: There are more guns in private hands in Australia now than there were before the Aussie gun restrictions passed. True, there are fewer gun owners per capita now than before. I also understand that there are strict regulations on ammunition.
However, none of that matters.
People have done more with less. See the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the recent activity in Guadaloupe.
Being interned in a camp (or whatever they call it) should be a very big bright line.
One would think…
Like, I would hope that people in this situation in Australia are engaging attorneys left and right on this, but who knows?
The latest AU dodge to avoid “Konzernlagern” accusations is using hotels. As-in, buildings that were purpose-built as hotels. Unknown whether hotel companies continue to manage these, or whether they have been wholly taken-over by the government and/or “security” contractors.
We may need a few 3rd Amendment activist groups here soon.
The Third is that old grandma in a rocker, sewing original thirteen flags by hand, wondering why nobody ever visits.
https://www.theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379
I mean, you can call it whatever you want – if I’m being held there by force, it’s a prison. I don’t care how soft the mattresses are.
Am I free to gambol?
Oh, I completely agree that “am I free to leave” is a bright line.
And to add insult to injury, apparently they are also being billed for their
incarcerationquarantine housing.A gilded cage does not a not prison make.
BatBoy would know!
De Blasio has taken over a bunch of hotels that the government put out of business with its covid hysteria and thrown a bunch of homeless into them.
And yes, the media has shown little to no curiosity about it.
The Northern Territory is using a former mining camp. A nice mining camp, but still a camp: https://aecom.com/projects/manigurr-ma-village/
Even being a bright red line, it’s difficult to know ahead of time what’s going to happen. Unless if you pre-emptively plan on engaging as soon as force descends on you, when does the moment of resistance begin? Solzhenitsyn grappled with this in Gulag Archipelago:
Yeah, as per usual, Solzhenitsyn lays out the problem exactly.
And on the other side of that process, Solzhenitsyn said:
Certainly. And he does answer his own question that “Yes, resistance should have begun right there, at the moment of the arrest itself.”
That sounds good on paper but is hard to translate into action. Are any of these regular joe citizens in Australia mentally prepared to open up with whatever they have as soon as a squad of Aussie LEOs descend on their homes? Are Americans who have an interment redline prepared to forcibly resist if a squad comes to the door tomorrow? Political interment is already happening here with the Jan 6th protestors. Speaking up at school boards and questioning the Covid vaccines are now being tied to domestic terrorism.
I think many of us with such redlines would still have questioned the justification if any of the Jan 6th protestors violently and preemptively resisted arrest in their homes over the past year during their roundups. Yet that’s exactly what Solzhenitsyn is saying is needed. By the time it becomes obvious and accepted… it’s also too late.
That sounds good on paper but is hard to translate into action.
Just like liberty.
I think the question is: what are you willing to die for? Because I hear plenty of tough talk, but I wonder how many would actually forfeit their lives in pursuit of freedom. When does it just become a pointless suicide mission?
When there’s nothing left to lose or no longer care what you lose.
“Treason doth never prosper. What’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
There are no memorials celebrating Timothy McVeigh.
The best time to start that resistance was 30 years ago.
The second best time is today.
I am rapidly approaching the point of noncompliance with…anything.
Swiss-approved Mammary Monday.
https://thechive.com/2021/11/29/flbp-will-help-keep-the-monday-monster-at-bay-69-photos/
Archive not working again…
#34 and myself could have some great conversations.
Rule 34?
OBE can’t converse when under rule 34. Ball gag and all.
I’m pretty sure I went to high school with #9
Same name and all. There is a bit of photo shop on the face.
Watching Rekieta Law stream in the background. Today he interviewed “Photo Chad,” the guy who, when on the stand under cross examination by the prosecution, straight up accused them of trying to get him to change his statement.
In the stream today, he talked about the specifics of this–he claims he was in an interview with the prosecution and they gave him a copy of his statement to read, then asked him to identify a person in a photo. He said he didn’t know who it was. They proceeded to show him a picture of the Zaminsky guy, then hold it up next to the photo, tell him it was Zaminsky, then ask him if he wanted to modify his statement, in which he had said he didn’t know who was in the picture.
Sounds like outright witness tampering, and it could affect the upcoming Zaminsky trial early next year.
Another awful thing is that the witness, “Photo Chad,” works in some capacity at multiple “big box” stores (I’m assuming delivery driver), and is currently under unpaid leave after a woman and her husband recognized him in a store, and shouted at him, accusing him of “supporting a murderer,” until it got so bad he had to leave the store. He’s currently trying to set up a GoFundMe that is still on hold, as GFM has neglected to approve it so far.
Yeah I listened to it. Dude is just a straight up good person.
Photo Chad did not kill himself.
Also, I didn’t know Zaminsky was going to trial. I assumed everyone associated with the Rittenhouse prosecution who committed crimes on video that night skated or struck an immunity deal or something.
JFC this country is fucked up.
Another awful thing is that the witness, “Photo Chad,” works in some capacity at multiple “big box” stores (I’m assuming delivery driver), and is currently under unpaid leave after a woman and her husband recognized him in a store, and shouted at him, accusing him of “supporting a murderer,” until it got so bad he had to leave the store. He’s currently trying to set up a GoFundMe that is still on hold, as GFM has neglected to approve it so far.
Fuck.
If that GoFundMe or something similar (like say off of GiveSendGo) goes live, I’m donating.
I never listened to Gavin Mcinness, but I like his style, drugs, ass, maybe,
https://youtu.be/lPpb-nfQW_8
I’m not sure if I’m happier that the decision of what to cook for dinner is “what has the earliest expiration date” for the next few days.
Possible depiction of Thanksgiving at the Swiss home.
That looks like a good time.
“Autonomous driving is not a technology of the future anymore,” Oh said. “It is already here with us. Today, public self-driving vehicles have started to serve our citizens.”
No thanks.
Senegal’s Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall on Sunday said she hoped China would lend support in the fight against insecurity in the conflict-ridden Sahel region at the start of a China-Africa summit.
“Be careful what you wish for” is right. What could possibly go wrong?
NH Gun shop on twitter
More, which references some domestic violence charges against the owner. I suspect, based on what I’ve been able to find out, that these charges are the results of a mentally ill woman stirring up shit.
Full disclosure: I’ve done business with the shop. I also wholeheartedly support the shop’s anti-mask stance.
Do thye have .45 colt ammo in stock? I’d drive out there to find some, they’ve vanished from my area.
I’d be surprised. Their ammunition selection tends to be of the more common calibers.
Their website, includes contact information and hours. If they have it and you decide to drive out, let me know. I’ll set up a meet-up if you’re interested.
I’d contend it is a common caliber. Especially for collectable firearms.
Despite what the URL says, they don’t deal much in collectible firearms.
Even so, .45 colt is not common. .22lr, 5.56 NATO, 9mm, .45 ACP, .30-06 are among what I consider common in the US. It’s not an exhaustive list of what I consider common.
They don’t have much room for ammunition, so he’s not going to have every caliber under the Sun. For that, go to Cabela’s, or for NH gun shops, Shooter’s Outpost.
https://ammoseek.com/ammo/45-colt
Sean, NY outlaws shipping ammo to residents. I have to find someplace I can get to that sells it.
An ammo seller from Indiana has just charged my credit card. They didn’t bother to verify if I have any firearm permit in MA. Out of three online ammo purchases this year only one seller asked me to upload my ID and LTC/FID.
The ban in new york has no tie to permits, it’s a flat “mail-order ammo is illegal” ban. Since there’s no heavy paperwork, sellers simply comply rather than risk repercussions to their business.
Tacky, perhaps. A ‘call to violence’? Blow it out your ass, you whimpering little bitch.
“She later shot herself and their two children to death.”
Those are the actions of a perfectly sane and responsible person.
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Good, fuck NGOs,
https://lawliberty.org/talking-bilge-about-global-poverty/
Yeah, I’m enjoying Musk calling those idiots out on this.
Agreed rhy, his tweets were crushing it
“Former CTO and new Twitter CEO Agrawal in November 2020 interview: “Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment… focus[ing] less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.””
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1465351179538509826
CWAA
So you’re now a publisher and have relinquished section 230 protections for platforms?
Is glibertarian.com a publisher or a platform?
I’d wager probably a publisher, since there is review of articles posted prior to them going up. Or at least a rubber stamp, but it could be argued that there is editorial discretion on content by the site’s administration. Even with a large quotient of user-created content.
TPTB are probably legally responsible for the comments, too.
Not personally, the Glibertarians Foundation would be. It doesn’t have a whole lot of money, just what gets voluntarily thrown into the pot.
Were that the case I’d imagine SP would shut down the site tomorrow, or would have never started it to begin with.
SP has said before she’s got her finger on the nuke button.
Hawt.
CORRECT.
FWIIW, I am GC to the Foundation. We can disappear in a heartbeat.
We are smol. We are only a palimpsest of freedom.
Your little red bucket dollars at work.
Yeah, I’m not going to fund that.
I always drop money in those buckets when I see them.
I might have to rethink that.
Yeah, I’m not a big Christmas fan but I wind up dropping a C or so during the season into the buckets. Nothing this year.
So disappointing…I had been a big fan of them for a long time – had good experiences with them in IL river floods, Katrina, etc.
A shame.
A shame.
And a market opportunity/
The Market Works?
https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/salvation-army-withdraws-guide-asks-white-members-apologize-their-race
I don’t know if I would ever want to have a dog. But if did get a dog, it would be a greyhound – https://youtu.be/8-fmQbrXoxw
Is Tulip’s dog a greyhound? Or am I getting her mixed up with someone else?
They are so wonderfully special.
No, you don’t.
At least not a retired racing one…
Yes, you do. They are fantastic pets. They are work (don’t know anything), but so rewarding.
We had one and as you say, you have to try and teach an adult dog everything from scratch (i.e. if you see food, it is not yours to take). They come pre -disposed to health problems, are already past their prime years. There are plenty of dogs that need adopting that are not such difficult ones to deal with.
Other than bad teeth, they aren’t predisposed to health problems, unlike most pure breeds. They’re bred for health and speed and typically live to be 12-14, which is good for a large dog.
M sister fosters them. I am astonished how nice they are.
Our neighborhood adopted plenty from Geneva Lakes track when they were foundering…not one person got another, after the initial wave. That told me a bit of something, aside from my family experience.
One of my neighbors, who also has greyhounds, says “greyhounds are made of love”. It’s true.
+1 Babs.
+1 Santa’s Little Helper
I’ve been wanting a Deutscher Wachtelhund, but am not really in a good place to take on a puppy right now, especially given the huge time investment involved in turning that puppy into a working gun dog.
Do they have good trigger discipline without opposable thumbs?
(Better than Alec Baldwin, amirite?)
I gotta believe that there is someone near you who can assist with the transition. Almost every hunter I know sends their dogs to Puppy U for some training.
I’ve trained my gun dogs – under supervision of someone competent (last class was with Ronnie Smith). I wonder how it works with farming that out, because honestly – half of what has to be learned is the damn human not being an idiot, not to mention the bond you build with your dog.
It’s cooperative. I believe some of the work is done onsite with the owner.
One of the best dogs that I’ve ever had, a black Lab, showed up on the doorstep of my college buddy. “You’ve got to take this dog, he’s great.” His only flaw was that he was gun-shy. I figured that someone wanted him as a hunting dog and, because of his reaction, turned him loose on the streets.
The dog was amazing. One night my buddy and I were drinking on the hill near my home. I would pick up a stick and throw it into the darkness. Less than 10 minutes later, here would come Spade with the stick in his mouth.
Black guy at my party: “Hey man, cool dog. What’s his name?”
Me: “Spade”
BGAMP: “Say what? Oh, I got you, like Sam Spade”
Me: “No, as in ‘black as the ace of'”
BGAMP: “It’s cool, it’s cool”
Great dogs. Total couch potatoes. They can be challenging if they were raced, as no one took any pains to socialize or train them.
THIS.
“If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists.”
https://twitter.com/paraga/status/28773976508
CWAA
I wonder if Dorsey is just throwing this cat up as a fall guy?
Define “they”, moran.
LOL
Jack’s handing over the reins to, apparently, the stupidest person on earth. I wonder how that will work out for them.
He chose….poorly.