Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a wonderful day it always is!
Remington, the country’s oldest gun manufacturer, moving headquarters from New York, to Georgia
White House tells businesses to proceed with vaccine mandate despite court-ordered pause
Prosecution Appears to Fall Apart as Rittenhouse ‘Victim’ Admits He Pulled Gun First
Kenosha Detective Admits Kyle Rittenhouse Only Shot People Chasing Him
Majority of Americans oppose $450,000 payouts to migrants, want southern border closed, poll shows
US inflation expectations surge to another record high, New York Fed survey shows
Trump to ‘probably’ announce US presidential run after midterm elections
Why is the FBI investigating the theft of a diary?
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
It would seem that the WH wants a showdown with SCOTUS that they will lose.
Perhaps they think that they can campaign/fundraise on it like they did/do with Citizens United.
I don’t like this idea that the executive can willfully do things they know do not pass constitutional muster. It seems destructive. Oh well, party on.
Yep — I keep thinking that the other two branches should really be looking to aggressively slap this down. But I suppose they want to be like the GOPe, useful “opposition” or “counter-balance” without having to actually do anything…
Gee, I wonder why the media isn’t exploding with hysteria over this “KONSTITOOSHUNAL CRISIS!!!!1111!!!!!”
Actually, no, I don’t wonder at all.
The country might be in better shape had an earlier President told the court to shove decisions like Wickard v. Filburn up their robes.
Too late for that now.
Morning All:
Suns up, RE&ME filed. Feel calm.
Hope all gib people have a great day or great evening.
Good luck!
“Remington, the country’s oldest gun manufacturer, moving headquarters from New York, to Georgia”
Why did that only happen now? These companies should have moved away decades ago when they started getting fucked over by the tyrants in waiting hoping to disarm the people so they could fucking put a boot on all our necks.
I am just glad they decided now.
Better late than never, I guess..
I could have sworn this was announced some time back.
New England didn’t become the home of the firearms industry because of the chowder. There’s a huge amount of institutional manufacturing expertise in that area.
Bailouts baby! Its the governments way to control private business which the Founders never considered Americans would allow that.
“White House tells businesses to proceed with vaccine mandate despite court-ordered pause”
I think this settles that Valerie Jarret is the one pulling the Depends Despot’s strings; something this arrogant and audacious has to be her.
Third Obama admin term?
Morning, Banjos.
a bit discombobulated after a hefty string of double shifts, so I’m trying to keep my mind together long enough to get through the workday today.
Yeah, they doubled up on me yesterday. Sucks.
“White House tells businesses to proceed with vaccine mandate despite court-ordered pause”
The answer should be to ignore them or tell them to fuck off.
Guten morgen Banjos, et al
добрая утка
Good duck??
(You mean Доброе утро.)
No, good duck. We tormented the Russian language instructors with such phrases.
Watcha say Marco from Tropoja?
Remington Firearms, the country’s oldest gun manufacturer, will be moving its headquarters from Ilion, New York, to Georgia, the company announced Monday.
I guess it’s worth a shot.
They’ll have to give a primer on Southern culture to the employees.
Sounds like someone made their case, and they took a powder.
The opposition only had hollow points in favor of staying.
The company brass made a solid decision.
The company has been Ilion since the Freedom Group bought it.
…cause they found higher caliber employees in GA.
It’s good of them to bolt. I hope they don’t end up trunnion back.
Well, NY had them over a barrel.
I wonder if their stock will be a thing that goes up.
This wins. I have deemed it so.
Do you ever regret that being a central time kind of guy, these threads go on for an hour before you can get to them?
The gun puns trigger a straight shooter like Switzy.
Georgia welcome Remington.
I would say the company has BRASS balls but this seems more like a desperation move after decades of not Siding with 2nd Amendment protection groups like they should have.
This might trigger some Democrats in New York state to regret their attacks on the 2A.
I typed it then knew that there would be no blowback.
Why is the FBI investigating the theft of a diary?
Have to protect the King.
That’s what’s the most damning. Clear cases they should look into – Hello, Hunter! – they completely ignore or stonewall on. And things every sane person would immediately realize was not just in their purveyance, but a sign of absolute abuse by whomever ordered it, that they do immediately.
At this point we should simply agree the entire leadership of that entity is corrupt and politically compromised, and the only way to fix it is to simply tear it all down and maybe rebuild from scratch.
They are the new Praetorian Guard and the enforcement arm of the DNC.
Psalm of the day
Psalm 138:7-8
Is it bad that I always read those quotes in Samuel L Jackson voice?
“Majority of Americans oppose $450,000 payouts to migrants, want southern border closed, poll shows”
This is precisely why the border is a free for all: the fucking serfs don’t know their place and keep getting uppity, which requires them to be replaced with new people that will be beholden to and happy to follow the orders of their masters!
ICYMI: If there is a Zoom on Wednesday, I will buy any veteran that attends a drink*, in honor of Veteran’s Day.
*I’ll send $5 via the electronic payment system of your choice
Might get expensive on this site.
I hope so!
How about us teetotaler vets? Looks like a little discrimination. My lawyer…
Nice gesture, Thanks, you can enjoy mine. Love your avatar and handle too.
Swiss? Five dollars says he’ll take the the five dollars and say “you’re on your own, buddy!”
Nah, I’d buy him a big Coke Zero!
Only ONE drink ?
Who does that ?
The Designated Driver, duh.
r/ChoosingBeggars/
Red socks underneath?
No. I am a goof, but not that big of a goof.
It’s ok, you’re among friends. I got married in a suit and tie and my jungle boots.
I have no idea how the Rittenhouse case got this far. OK, I know, but I’m still surprised there was nobody in the DA’s office with any sense of shame. Being embarrassed on national TV is a pretty shameful thing to go through for “the cause”.
I am enjoying it immensely.
There’s a theory that the prosecution wanted to torpedo the $10M lawsuit by Grosskreutz against the city.
Huh? They should have prosecuted him and put his sweet ass in pound-me-in-the-ass-prison…
I guess this works. Imagine getting $10M for running down a kid with rifle, glock in hand, and getting your bicep turned to mist.
IANAL, but wouldn’t prosecuting him for the crimes he committed ON VIDEO and admitted to on social media pretty much nullify his claim against the city?
This wasn’t about anything other than the corrupt idiots that run the city distracting from the horrible job they did during the riots, looting, and murder spree, the statists making an example to worry everyone that would dare defend themselves against the terror agents of the state engaging in rioting, looting, and killing, and in punishing those that stood against the state for daring to defy it.
Its a travesty of injustice and proof that the evil people are in charge.
IIRC, the Mayor of Kenosha, the lead prosecutor, and the lead detective are all related to one another.
You cant average Americans killing violent Lefty Useful idiots in self defense. Then everyone will do it!
“I’m still surprised there was nobody in the DA’s office with any sense of shame”
You shouldn’t be. Many prosecutors have been weaponized against political wrongthinkers, whether that be by actively electing Soros-funded Commies or by the DAs’ being spineless and scared that peaceful protests will break out in their jurisdictions if they don’t bow to the mob.
See: Harris, Kamala. The proud owner of the lowest approval rating ever recorded of a public official in the US.
I like how they had to frame it:
Gotta implant the idea that this is because she’s a woman. Not because of policy positions and public statements that are repellant to most Americans. Not because of her obfuscation of every remotely tough question by referring to her race and gender. Not because of her blatant flip-flopping and dishonesty (“It was a debate!!” when asked why she is working with Biden after calling him a racist).
She’s clearly perfect, and anyone who doesn’t like her is a wretched misogynist. We’re truly living in the Handmaid’s Tale.
nobody in the DA’s office with any sense of shame
Do the names Preet and Nifong ring any bells?
“There are justices on the court who want to rein in the administrative state and this is a case in which those concerns are likely to come to the fore,” Vladeck told CNBC.
Judicial activism is bad when it impedes our progress toward Utopian Socialism.
The rest of the time…
Remington, the country’s oldest gun manufacturer
Is Remington still that remington of old? My first rifle was a gifted 1964 Remington Gamemaster 760, a left-handed beautifully checkered 30-06 with a 16″ barrel that kicks like a mule. Quite the thing to put on a tiny 14 year old me in the woods. I don’t think I have a flinch but if I do, I know why.
Remington was my friend a couple days ago.
No matter how many times I tell the guy behind the LGS counter I want a “Remington bronze,” they keep handing me ones obviously made of steel.
Remington Steele. OMG *swoon*
Just don’t shower with him – https://youtu.be/RayNBSw9HCo?t=1110
That’s a short barrel.
Seems like their quality went suddenly downhill after the DuPont sale in 1993. That was also around the time they started importing a bunch of cheap Russian guns and sticking the Remington name on them; the ones I’ve handled aren’t worth the gunpowder it would take to blow them to hell.
I understand they’ve rebounded a little lately. But if I were looking for, say, an 870, I’d be looking for a pre-93 gun.
Then again I’m known for my preference for pre-64 Winchesters.
Oh, and get off my lawn.
Nanda said the law “explicitly gives OSHA the authority to act quickly in an emergency where the agency finds that workers are subjected to a grave danger and a new standard is necessary to protect them.”
Nanda also said the vaccine and testing requirements supersede “any state or local requirements that ban or limit an employer’s authority to require vaccination, face-covering, or testing.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order last month banning vaccine mandates in the Lone Star State.
Shouldn’t they be obliged to establish the immediacy and severity of this impending DOOM?
Rule of law is for chumps. We want ACTION! and we want it now.
OSHA doesn’t have many resources at the federal level for enforcement. They mostly rely on the states to provide that part of the “service.”
Therefore state bans have a massive impact on their ability to make it happen.
They are threatening to strip deemed/delegated workplace authority from states that block the mandate, too.
IIRC all they can actually do is withdraw funding.
But they’re already so far outside of their legal mandate that I guess one more egregious violation of the act doesn’t matter.
Are they as far outside their legal mandate as the CDC declaring a suspension on evictions?
Interesting…
Rule of law is for chumps.
Emergency authority means they are the law!
Dozens of lives are at stake! DOZENS!
“Prosecution Appears to Fall Apart as Rittenhouse ‘Victim’ Admits He Pulled Gun First”
I broke down and watched the unedited videos of both incidents last night. The first one where he shot Rosenbaum it’s hard to tell what went down because the video quality is poor and far away, but the second video where he shot Huber and Grosskreutz is so obviously self-defense that the DA should be ashamed for even bringing charges (I know, I know, being a lefty means never having to say you’re sorry…). Nick the kid for having the rifle underage (a misdemeanor I think?) and let him go dammit.
Nick the kid for having the rifle underage (a misdemeanor I think?) and let him go dammit.
As far as I know, it was legal. Something about being 17 and a deer hunting “loophole”.
Shooting one of our assholes is not the same as shooting a deer!
/idiots
If the mob had beaten him to death, would any of them faced any kind of prosecution?
Yeah, sure…
Will the corrupt DA face any repercussions for malicious prosecution?
The key takeaway is that the protests are under high quality video surveillance…. and nothing is happening to the looters.
They served their purpose… now they will only face justice if they resist the people that benefited from their criminal activity…
Peaceful protest is protected 1A activity.
/corporate media drone
You have to watch the aerial video of the first shooting. It is clear as daylight from that angle that Rittenhouse was firing in desperate self defense. The ground level views are too foreshortened and far away to be of much use. That’s why the covering up of the aerial video was such a big deal.
This. I watched every available video of this when it happened last year, and the 1st shooting is the only one that isn’t clear cut *at the time of shooting* (beforehand it’s clear he’s being chased and cornered, but the camera view is blocked.)
“People should not wait,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters during a briefing. “They should continue to move forward and make sure they’re getting their workplace vaccinated.”
Go to hell.
More than 750,000 people have died in the U.S. from Covid since the pandemic began, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 1,100 people a day die from Covid, and more than 71,000 people a day are newly infected, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
“If that’s not a grave danger, I don’t know what else is,” Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday.
Objection, Your Honor.
Died “from” COVID
Horseshit
More than 750,000 people have died in the U.S. from Covid since the pandemic began
More like maybe a tenth of that.
How many died that didn’t have the the Big C?
According to the CDC itself, life expectancy at age 0 in 2018 was 78.7 years.
According to the census, the US population on July 1, 2021 was 332,475,723.
Assuming the life expectancy is about the same as it was then, then a
simple division says that 11655 people will die every day (on average, obviously).
Even if every single one of those alleged 1100 people are an “extra” death
in the sense of lowering the life expectancy number such that the average
is 12755 per day, that still slightly less than a 10% increase, and it means
that 8.6% of deaths are “from covid”.
So, even using their numbers, while awful, that wouldn’t really up-end everything.
I note that the funeral homes aren’t advertising delays due to the bodies stacked
up. Also, if 8.6% of deaths were actually from covid, they’d be trumpeting that
fact.
Even if true, Congress has now had years to act. Not an emergency.
It’s less than the past winter.
sorry. hyperbole
“Trump to ‘probably’ announce US presidential run after midterm elections”
Bad idea politically. The Pachyderms just pulled a rabbit out of their hat and got the MILF vote back from the Jackasses. Granted, the GOP didn’t really do anything beyond letting the Donks trample all over their own dicks with CRT and COVID-related hysteria in schools, but at least they didn’t actively fuck it up. Running Trump is the one thing that would shove the MILF vote back over the Jackasses because MUH MEAN TWEETZ and MUH PUSSY GRABBING are more important than kids’ education apparently.
I think that the stupid shit the donkeys did before the election – standing their ground and admitting they believe parents shouldn’t have a say in what the state’s plan to program their kids to be good serfs – and now are doubling down on, will make a lot of people that were conditioned over years of harsh psyops to make Trump a bad guy rethink that stance. They might not want to like the guy, but they will definitely not let these assholes fuck their kid’s education and future over. A lot of parents, even amongst the woksters, are realizing that this shit happening is the public school system is designed to make their kids seriously disadvantaged in the real world, while the people peddling it send their kids to schools where they might get this shit but still get a real education. That’s what an evil oligarchical cabal would do to advantage their offspring over the serfs. And once parents see this, they are not going to let it go. No matter how woke they are…
Strangely optimistic coming from you. I hope you’re right. If you are, I think this parents against CRT education reform is only just beginning. Good.
Stupid people that are willing to turn a blind eye to lies and abuse so they can keep their quasi-religious political affiliation and belief of superiority are able to explain anything and everything away, no matter how damaging personally, but draw the line when the damage is directly done to their kids (they may have real trouble seeing how something hurts the kids in the future, but this new woke wave of stupid and the permanent and immediate damage it does to kids, is too in-your-face to miss). McAuliffe’s stupid claim parents should not oppose the states will to fuck their kids over was a baseball bat to the head. Team blue’s tantrum that people held this against them in the election and their doubling down on acting as if they have a right to do this stupid evil shit, will sour one of their most important demographics: moms against every possible demographic. Black, brown, white, red, yellow, orange, or green, sane and good parents want their kids to be prepared to deal with a world that requires people to not just know how to grift.
Be happy that these morons are not walking this shit back, but complaining they didn’t go far enough with it, and demanding the team double down on more. This will force that demographic to drop team blue for decades. Now lets wait and see how team red finds a way to fuck this shit up…
He’s also old. He will be 78 on election day 2024. It is time for Boomer’s and back to retire. Give Gen X a chance of at least one president before the Millennials take over and fuck things up worse than the Boomers.
He seems to be working hard on not appearing old, but he is old. The boomer stranglehold on the top positions is really something to behold. What was going on in the 80s and 90s that allowed such younger politicos?
Um, the Boomer generation had numbers on their side.
To be fair, we knew that was going to happen all along.
I’d be surprised if Gen X gets even one president.
Same. We’ll just fade away and be forgotten by history.
Meh.
*puts on flannel and lights a menthol*
78 is old and 4 years in the White House doesn’t make a person younger. Look at what happened to Biden in one year, he’s completely a different person? Oh, some old French saying? The more he changes…
I think Desantis could beat him in the primaries.
I agree.
Beat Trump? Not a chance. DeSantis is not nationally popular and a proven Lefty fighter like Trump.
I like deSantis better than Ted Cruz, so maybe deSantis in a few more election cycles..
“The Pachyderms just pulled a rabbit out of their hat and got the MILF vote back from the Jackasses.”
But then they lost the rest of us by helping pass the Regime’s $Trillion boondoggle.
Trump has been right on most of the stuff the Lefties have been doing and trying to pull.
The remaining Democrats who dont want to be Commies see that now.
Trump will get more votes than his record vote count in 2020.
How many of those plague deaths can be directly and conclusively traced to workplace transmission?
Probably the same amount that can be traced to indoor dining (e.g. definitely not enough to justify the pants-shitting response)
We will not let you counter our false narrative with any facts that make us look like a bunch of lying hacks doing propaganda for a political party with no vision to offer people and that can only survive by dividing people and setting them against each other, you fascists…
These people are not journalists: they are no better than the Goebbels DNC propaganda brigade…
Truth > Facts
Heh — I’m kind of amused… I actually lived in LaGrange, GA for a few years as a kid (went to high school there), and my first thought on the headline was… “Be funny if it was LaGrange”. And so it is. Kudos to Remington — it is a nice town, assuming it hasn’t changed too much. I’m betting I know the industrial park they’ll be in.
Semi-OT — but there’s been a lot of speculation here: A wild Newsom has been spotted.
Or they trotted out a body double close enough to fool most folks if you’re conspiratorial. What I love about it is the absolute “We’re f’ing ROYALTY” vibe you get from the whole proceedings. Commandeering City Hall and draping it in rugs and tapestries, etc. But the rest of us peons get to live with ever higher gas prices, brownouts, mandates, passports (just SF and LA but I don’t doubt he’s thinking about it). Oy.
I am surprised it took Remington this long.
Ignore the courts. What a shock that that is the tack the left would take. It is a good thing we live in a country that reveres the rule of law instead of some tyrannical banana republic.
There never should have been an indictment for Rittenhouse. Now the prosecution wants a mistrial. They want to be able to exclude any and all exculpatory evidence when they take another run at him. The judge should (but probably won’t) deny that motion.
450K for illegals, nothing for legal immigrants and only 100K for veterans that gave their lives. Also, what about families separated during the Obama administration? What about families separated under the Biden administration? Nope, just Trump.
Ask nearly any pol to define the word ‘inflation’ and see what you get.
I fully expect Trump to run and quite possibly win. The left will spend those next four years foaming at the mouth and wondering how that happened.
Because they could care less about crime and are nothing more than political hacks carrying water for the left? I am just spitballing here.
Biden was completely unhinged on this, both mentally and from reality.
His administration had multiple appearances talking about the 450k payments and emphasizing “,because Trump”. When asked about it, Biden called the reporter a liar, claiming they would never do something so crazy.
24 hours later, the handlers had corrected POTUS. Now he angrily finger wags at the camera that parents had their children stolen and would absolutely be compensated.
And the press?
Exactly how should a free press cover a president who angrily denies that his administration would ever consider something that they had been promoting at the highest levels for days, then angrily proclaim that it is the only right and just thing to do only a day later?
I suppose reasonable folks could disagree as to exactly how to cover it…. But I don’t think any reasonable person would agree that “nothing to see here” is the appropriate or honest angle to take.
“Exactly how should a free press cover a president who angrily denies that his administration would ever consider something that they had been promoting at the highest levels for days, then angrily proclaim that it is the only right and just thing to do only a day later?”
A free press would call out his lies and demand real answers.
Our press will gaslight the populace and when that fails, call them racists.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger appeared stunned after a key prosecution witness in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Gaige Grosskreutz, admitted that he was only shot after he pursued the fleeing teenager and drew his own weapon, a handgun, and pointed it at Rittenhouse.
“You were supposed to say what we coached you to say!”
I noticed during the cross examination, he kept looking to his left after every response. I couldn’t tell what he was looking at, I think the DAs were sitting in front of him, not to the side. Maybe he had his personal attorney present?
He was turning to face the jury. The internet wags I was watching said it was quite off putting and something he should have been coached to avoid.
Also, his personal attorney was in the gallery. I would have loved if the cameras caught her reaction when he torpedoed both of his civil suits in one fell swoop by admitting, under oath, that he lied in the filings of both suits (he neglected to mention that he was armed in either suit).
Running Trump is the one thing that would shove the MILF vote back over the Jackasses because MUH MEAN TWEETZ and MUH PUSSY GRABBING are more important than kids’ education apparently.
Let’s not forget Trump’s legacy of authoritarianism and blatant disregard for the Constitution.
We can’t abide that.
Another American fast-food chain will enter the Romanian market
https://www.romania-insider.com/Popeyes-entrance-ro-nov-2021
Sterling Cruise, a company that operates several restaurant franchises in Romania, will bring a new restaurant brand to the local market.
The company has signed an agreement with the American company Popeyes, according to Ziarul Financiar.
It plans to open 90 Popeyes units in Romania in the next ten years and become a significant player in the fast-food market, currently estimated at RON 2 bln (over EUR 400 mln) per year.
Enjoy your salty fried chicken.
I’ve never actually had Popeyes. We have quite a few chicken restaurants around here, and Popeyes has never been high enough up the “looks good” list to bother trying.
Is good. Biscuits are good. Chicken is good.
If fast food is what you are being and fried chicken is the variety you want, this is a good choice.
If in groups, and fried chicken is the requirement, the value solution is Publix deli fried chicken. Very good chicken, larger birds than most chain restaurants get so meatier pieces , and relatively cheap. Also, similar value on sub sandwiches.
+1 on Publix subs
Disagree on the biscuits, but the red beans and rice makes up for that.
I may have to try it out next time. I’m usually a ChickenE or Golden Chick kind of guy on the rare day that I want fried chicken.
Those are both good choices.
Although I may have already told this story, one of my few examples of encountering no-shit-for-real racists in the wild was a family who went to Chicken Express because they had “good white boys working in the kitchen.” Which was true and deeply suspicious considering the part of central TX I was living in at the time.
I miss Golden Chick
I’ve learned the hard way, it’s exceedingly rare to find a good Popeye’s outside of Louisiana, and even those locations took a nosedive when Al Copeland died. IMO, Publix has, far and away, the best storebought fried chicken on Earth. But I do really love fried chicken so I’m open to tasting any and all challengers.
can’t speak to Publix
or changed after Copeland, but it does not taste the same around here as when we ate at a location on St Charles.
Also, their new chicken sandwiches aren’t nearly as good as the poboys they discontinued.
Its not bad. Its not great.
From my time in the South I miss Whataburger and Po’Boys.
So, when do we get a Romanian chain in exchange?
Isn’t that what the Red Cross Blood Bank is already?
You lucked out. It’s considerably better than KFC, and you might even get to sample red beans and rice.
Seconded on the red beans and rice.
Recently went to Popeye’s and purchased the 12 pc. dinner. Includes six biscuits and two sides. Total came to US$42.
Seemed a bit spendy.
Today in propaganda:
NBC Today Show with “Important testimony in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial”…
One of the men shot testified that he was at the rally as a volunteer medic and he feared for his life after watching Rittenhouse kill someone in front of him.
Cut to Grosskrautz saying he only pulled his gun because he was trying to protect himself and others.
No mention of the moment that every legal observer on the internet pointed out… That he testified that Rittenhouse held fire until the moment that Grosskrautz pointed his gun at him.
So if you watch NBC news, it is clear that “the walls are closing in” and a conviction is obvious and immenent.
NPR goes a lot further:
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1053567574/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-gaige-grosskreutz-testimony-kenosha
This article paints Grosskrautz as a heroic figure, selflessly devoting his life to helping others, gunned down and maimed by a murderous white supremacist vigilante thug.
If you follow any of the more in-depth reporting, you know that this is a self-serving and highly inaccurate portrait. The dude has domestic violence troubles, an extensive online history as an activist who is comfortable with violent action and generally nothing at all like the portrait they tried to paint. In contrast to the tearful testimony that NPR describes as he says he couldn’t kill anyone, that isn’t who he is or who he wants to be… He told his brother immediately after the incident that he was going to blow the kid’s head off.
So two worlds. A world of corporate media working in lockstep with the establishment to pedal a narrative that is at odds with reality, and a world of independent voices of various ideologies and levels of trustworthiness that at least contain a these of truth running through the mess somewhere.
As I said yesterday, the corporate media are stenographers for the ruling class and J-schools are boot camp for making brainless propagandists.
And BTW: I try really hard to avoid taking pleasure in others’ suffering, but the guys Rittenhouse shot were criminal Commie scum whose best outcome in life was dying like dogs in the street. The world is better off without them.
Rossenbau had multiple child sex offenses against him and had major mental illness. Won’t cry for a pedo.
Huber threatened his brother and grandmother with a butchers knife and threatened to burn the house down with them in it because they weren’t cleaning the place well enough.
Grosskrutz is a bit cleaner, but I lost all sympathy for him when he lied on the stand that Rittenhouse’s gun jammed and that was the only reason he pulled his gun. Lying to put an innocent kid away for life, yeah fuck that guy too.
And the lie was premeditated. He previewed it on twitter.
Wait, what now? How stupid is that fucking guy?
https://twitter.com/cathyrusson/status/1457775841367105542
Jeez…
So, perjury it is…
Despite how they spin, I think they know he’s getting off. I’m seeing a lot of copium blaming the judge for being bias. They go back to his pretrial ruling that Grosskrutz, Huber and Rossenbau can’t be called victims, but can be called arsonists.
Of course, they leave out the fact that the judge, the longest serving judge in Wisconsin btw, has a standing rule that literally existed before Rittenhouse was born to not call people victims until after the jury has had its say. He said you can call them arsonists if you can prove they are arsonists, like by having Rossenbau on video lighting dumpsters on fire.
But yeah, I’ve had the whole trial in the background as I work and it has been an unmitigated disaster for the prosecution from day 3 on. No facts on their side and every witness either describing self-defense or impeaching themselves.
It’s been entertaining for sure. Especially the every witness either describing self-defense or impeaching themselves.
Nah he’s not getting off.
The jury wants to live a life of peace.
^This. The blatant jury intimidation will result in a conviction for at least something, although likely not murder.
Weapons charge nullified after the fact by the judge.
Look an example needs to be made and some small fibs here and there are necessary
He (Grosskreutz) got popped on a DUI a week or so ago where he blew 0.21%. It was not admissible at the trial.
Wait, I thought RittenKiller was carrying an AR-15 Murder Machine. You have to rack those each time you fire now?
Maybe he had the California legal version.
Watching GrossKreutz on the stand claim he is a die-hard 2nd Amndt. supporter, then 20 minutes later, testify about the high-caliber rifle Kyle had and how Kyle had to “re-rack” the “slide”, which is “on top on an AR” was an absolute treat. Then hearing him testify that he “would NEVER shoot anyone because that’s not who he is” despite having a CCW permit that had expired some time ago and still carrying a loaded, chambered handgun was like a dollop of cream on top.
Good lord…
Not surprising. CNN did an article that was a glowing review of the “victims”. It failed to mention the colorful histories of said “victims” and any of their actions that led to their demise.
a murderous white supremacist
It is amazing that they go with this representation considering only whites were shot and there is zero evidence of bigotry on the part of KR.
Well, there is the infamous “proud boys” video in which he has lunch with his mom at a place where a bunch of proud boys happen to be. He responds to a question with the OK sign, a sure indicator of white supremacism.
I would say it is more likely than not that this chance encounter was coordinated by the FBI.
They’re setting the stage for more rioting after his eventual acquittal.
Kenosha Detective Admits Kyle Rittenhouse Only Shot People Chasing Him
This was already obvious having viewed the totality of video available.
But are you going to trust the prosecution or your lying eyes?
In this case, the prosecution claimed that the video would show that Rittenhouse chased down and murdered multiple people because he was a white supremacist.
So the prosecution put on a string of witnesses who each described the decendants chasing and attacking Rittenhouse, causing him to fire in self defense as they either grabbed his gun or pointed their own gun at him.
So in this case you can believe your own lying eyes that say “,self defense” or the prosecution withnesses who all say…. “Self defense”.
Oof.
“Thousands of people may/might/could die if you don’t let us coerce the nation to do this, Your Honor. Do you want to go down in history as a mass murderer?”
Yeah, it’s such a dire “emergency” that implementation can wait until January 4.
Majority of Americans oppose $450,000 payouts to migrants, want southern border closed, poll shows
White-supremacy persists.
“Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.”
-Rita Rudner
https://archive.md/GimLK
Titty Tuesday.
Why is the FBI investigating the theft of a diary?
Pretext to silence political opposition.
Pretty much the only possible answer…. Even if we did not have the recent history of multiple such cases of the FBI acting as political agents.
Only thr FBI is allowed to have dirt on the president.
Mornin’ Banjos! Your song was very good as was most of the news. I celebrated my second birthday today. I’m forty years older than I was when I tried to end my life at 16. Not everything is going as well as I would hope but I’m still kicking at the walls so that’s something. Hope that you and every Glib have a wonderful one!
“I tried to end my life at 16”
Jesus Man, I’m glad you failed.
4 u.
https://archive.md/UI16S
Ditto on the glad you were unsuccessful. I love you Brother Festus, and I don’t want to be in a world that doesn’t have you as well.
Life is supposed to not be easy Festus. That’s what builds character. I am glad you didn’t succeed back when as well, and I hope you see that you were given a second chance when you didn’t succeed..
Festus, m’boy, as Alex said. You’ll have a lot more character than most and that’s what we need. Being a teenager is tough though.
Getting old comes fast enough and then its over. “Don’t look back, somethin’ might be gainin’on you” Satchel Paige
Thank you, Friends. It’s been a challenge but that part seems to have faded away since 1987 or so. Black Dog will hunt.
Didn’t need to share that. Carry on.
Happy bday Festus. Much glad you are still with us on the right side of the grass. Keep on keepin on.
I’m glad you were unsuccessful at your attempt to end your life. You’re a good person.
Dapoxetine to delay and cabergoline to go a second (or third, or fourth…) time.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16660060/cant-satisfy-girlfriend-in-bed/
Or just learn how to use your tongue you selfish bastard.
Did he never learn to unload the gun before you go out on a date?
Biden: I’mma do this thing.
Lower court: No, you are not.
Biden: *does the thing*
Supreme Court: Stop that. RIGHT NOW.
Biden: Nope.
Congress: We hereby make it official you are to stop doing the thing.
Biden: Make me.
Congress: *censure*
Biden: *doesn’t notice*
*crickets*
That’s how it’s gonna go.
Lolwut? Chuck&Nancy?
Coulda saved myself some typing there, I guess.
You left out,
Biden: *shits himself*
Biden’s handlers: Journalists out of the room NOW
“Biden” is assumed to be a constellation of handlers.
I wonder if they have a poop/fart sensor in his diaper, or can they just read his facial expression?
Intern with parabolic microphone just off stage.
No.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/gran-whos-spent-25k-tattooing-25413291
Did he know the Clintons?
Man reportedly found shot in the head at Reflecting Pool on the Mall near Lincoln Memorial in DC.
He’s also old. He will be 78 on election day 2024. It is time for Boomer’s and back to retire. Give Gen X a chance of at least one president before the Millennials take over and fuck things up worse than the Boomers.
I couldfn’t find it in a quick look, but Nikki Haley recently said there a lot of extremely old people in the government in addition to Joe Biden who should be subjected to cognitive testing. Barbara Boxer? Nancy Pelosi?
Grifters don’t willingly let go, ever.
Barbara Boxer was never cognitive.
There is a 90-something with dementia in the NH House.
Feinstein…she is slipping faster than Biden.
“Americans expect inflation to be up 5.4% a year from now”
The beauty of inflation is that it compounds year after year. The faster I run the farther I get behind.
Let me see, I’m getting, maybe, 1 % on my savings, taxable, won’t be long until I won’t have to report it.
Inflation is how the grifters used to make dollars. Inflation meant that interest rates would rise. My Dad got wealthy from that scam. When rates were high you would invest in Universal Life. The bottom fell out of that about 1991 or so. He lost everything.
Meant to say he was an insurance agent and financial planner. I saw the writing on the wall and noped out circa 1983. Fuck it, I’ll mow lawns or cook breakfasts.
Good luck with that… They will find a way to tax you on negative returns as well, cause the goal is to completely shift the responsibility of who decides how money earned is spent from the one that earned it to the people in government that feel they should choose who wins and who loses at life…
Don’t believe for a second that
A). Inflation is as low as they claim. That doesn’t even pass the giggle test. (2 liter sodas have been one of my bellwether staples… The price was stable at a dollar from 1980 until 2000, and remained available at a dollar for the sale price until a year ago. For the last 3 months, the best price on Mountain Dew 2 liter bottles has been $2.50… the good price was $1.25 in August. That is 100% in 30 days)
B). They will index tax brackets properly to inflation. Bracket creep has been a feature of the system since before I was born.
“Don’t believe for a second that[…]Inflation is as low as they claim”
I’m capable of basic math and my memory is long enough to remember what groceries cost this time last year. ~5% is laughable.
Another bellwether… Toilet paper. Name brand Charmin large roll, thick stuff was $11 to $13 for the huge pack at the wholesale club pre-covid.
Walmart brand of the nice TP is now over $20 for the 24 pack .. nearly a buck a roll. About t 100% in a year (up from about $9 pre covid).
Cat food. The tinned Fancy Feast was $0.50 per at the start of 2020. They are now $1.00 each.
The special stuff for the special one? Way expensive. Worth every penny, though.
Hard to find recently. I bought two expensive cases because Amazon keeps saying out of stock.
Frisky’s Indoor delights?, sorry Sophie, You eat generic this month, All Oscar Meyer products, gone like they were never there.
My vet called Fancy Feast “junk food for kitties” because when they won’t eat anything else, such as the super expensive stuff I normally fed them, they’ll eat that.
pre-covid.
My dyslexia made that “pre-owned” and I was thinking an intervention for Cyto was in order.
There probably is a lifetime network show for that….
Is that 5.4% month to month?
It’s a good deal if you have a ship full of oil or consumer goods parked off the coast. When you finally do get to a port to unload, you just made more money.
“When you finally do get to a port to unload, you just made more money.”
Peter North agrees.
His seamen are always ready to unload a lot of goods.
In port? Nah, he unloads just offshore.
I have a 5 gallon can of gas in my garage, waiting for the price to go up even more. Then I’ll sell and buy another 5 gallons, see, that’s the way you make money. Ol’ Fourscore’s got this inflation thing figured out.
That is grade A humor right there…
IASIP did it
Just icing on the cake. Or muffin.
I just took a wet salami, deeply scored it into pull-apart cubes, slathered it with 2 different mustards, and threw it into a 450 F oven for about 45 minutes (until the edges got crispy). It’s quite yummy.
Not even bothering anymore…
These euphemisms are getting so convoluted these days…..
But did she cum first?
I used to like to slice up a Hillshire Farms “polska kielbasa”, fry it up, and add La Choy Sweet & Sour Sauce at the end to just barely caramelize it.
That sounds fantastic.
We have a place here that does homemade kielbasa. Packaged kielbasa is barely edible to me.
Well, I would never fry real kielbasa in La Choy Sweet & Sour Sauce. Hence the Hillshire Farms. It has to be Hillshire and La Choy. It doesn’t work otherwise.
Its been my experience that almost anything is good when you’re hungry and buzzed.
Also, when I make ribs I share with my 72 year-old neighbor who proclaims them “off the chain”. I dont care for them; Im picky with ribs.
My other corollary is that “free food tastes the best”.
Free “drunken” food tastes the best!
“White House tells businesses to proceed with vaccine mandate despite court-ordered pause
Why is the FBI investigating the theft of a diary?”
Imagine the corporate media if Trump pulled this shit?
Meanwhile, back at the “Anonymous Sources Say” ranch
Soon after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, senior leaders of the National Rifle Association huddled on a conference call to consider canceling their annual convention, scheduled just days later and a few miles away.
Thirteen people lay dead at a high school in Colorado. More than 20 were injured. Images of students running from the school were looped on TV. The NRA strategists on the call sounded shaken and panicked as they pondered their next step into what would become an era of routine and horrific mass school shootings.
And in those private moments, the NRA considered a strikingly more sympathetic posture toward mass shootings than the uncompromising stance it has taken publicly in the decades since, even considering a $1 million fund to care for the victims.
NPR has obtained more than 2 1/2 hours of recordings of those private meetings after the Columbine shooting, which offer unique insight into the NRA’s deliberations in the wake of this crisis — and how it has struggled to develop what has become its standard response to school shootings ever since.
Why did the NRA not call for confiscation of all citizen-owned firearms after Columbine?
Battlespace prep for the Supreme Court, I guess. Smear the NRA and their attorneys with things said by other people twenty years ago.
“recordings of those private meetings”
Does this ever end well?
Smear the NRA and their attorneys with things said by other people twenty years ago.
Why not when progjection is common?
Wait, the NRA staffers aren’t the unemotional uncaring monsters we thought they were and were horrified at what two murderers did?
The funniest bit about Joe and Camilla is that he let a horse fart go in front of a horsey-person.
Camilla, while certainly no Diana Spencer, was attractive in the manner of toffee-nosed, weak-chinned, British aristocracy. In recent pictures, she looks so desiccated, as if she gets packed away into a big crate of salt every night.
YKINMKBYKIOK
YKINMKBYKIOK
I love that stuff with a side of Udon noodles.
*Props up a mirror for Swissy* Have at it
Also-
Poison the well with disdainful things said about the gun nut hicks by the NRA leadership.
“Wayne laPierre said that, about me? Twenty fucking years ago? I’m gonna cancel my membership!
Just making sure there are no chinks in the armor.
China appears to have built models with the dimensions of a U.S. aircraft carrier and other warships in a western desert, illustrating how the People’s Liberation Army is focused on increasingly realistic training as tension with the U.S. rises over Taiwan.
Satellite imagery from a remote desert in the western Xinjiang region of China that the PLA uses for exercises shows outlines in the shape of a Nimitz-class carrier and at least two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, according to details provided by two Colorado-based firms. The findings show the carrier-size structure appears to be built on railway tracks to enable its movement.
This is bad.
Well won’t they be surprised to find no US aircraft carriers in our deserts.
Now the Navy knows to avoid them.
That is funny.
Not Bee funny… But definitely better than SNL funny.
I find this unsurprising.
We keep trolling our carriers along their coasts like we own the place.
China wants the resources of the ocean to their south and east. Other nations depend on this area, like Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines… they are moving to take permanent control of the area via military might.
If this were anywhere pre US/Russia cold war, this would be a sure sign that war is unavoidable. You have multiple nations contesting a valuable resource that all see as indispensable. Conflict would seem to be unavoidable.
If it’s unavoidable, then we should just get the fuck out of there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DbDKPvl3Vw
We either stand together against this, or we are going to be picked off one at a time. Throwing other people to the alligator in the hopes he leaves us alone is not a solution in this case. We will have to deal with this problem. Sometimes doing anything and everything in order to avoid a conflict is precisely why it will come to your door…
This is one of those cases. Our leadership class thought that if they created economic ties to China, they could avoid this problem. China used their idiocy and greed to fuck us over every which way they could, including building a military that will soon allow them to flex their muscle with us having to worry about the consequences of replying in kind. They have seen this writing on the wall for over 15 years and have not changed course, be it because they were more concerned with their own pocketbooks or simply didn’t understand a way out, and here we are today. The longer this goes, the more horrible it will be when it does come.
The powers that be are hoping China implodes from within. While I see that as a possibility, I am also aware of how that always plays out in history. See Argentina’s failed economy and the following failure of the whole Falkland wars affair. Now do that with a desperate CCP and the rest of the world…
China is also easily containable now due mostly to their geographic location. If they can manage to nullify Japan and Taiwan as threats to their shipping they’ll be much more difficult to deal with. Bailing on the whole thing has a certain allure but it’s a bad idea in the long run.
No worries, all Navy personnel are all squared away on their diversity and inclusion and CRT training.
I’m capable of basic math and my memory is long enough to remember what groceries cost this time last year. ~5% is laughable.
Last year’s ~$18 sack of provisions is pushing $30, for me.
Not to mention that tank of gas going from less than $30 to around $60…
Or cars….
Kia Telluride going for $15k *above* sticker. If you can find one.
$15K?
Wow
Yeah. Primary reason I still have not replaced the minivan and am living with 1 car.
That’s crazy.
Howard Leight earpro have gone up by more than 60%.
Of all the gaslighting the Biden admin and media does, this one may be the most insidious.
I still remember when it was transitory.
I keep my weekly spending bills for at least 2 years so I can go back and look at what my spending habits are like, and on every bill I see the same pattern compared to last year: between a 10% to 50% jump in prices (sometimes the lower jump reflects that the packaging was shrunk while the price only went up a little) but we keep getting told all is well…
Yup, it’s quite noticeable since spring.
I have a 5 gallon can of gas in my garage, waiting for the price to go up even more. Then I’ll sell and buy another 5 gallons, see, that’s the way you make money. Ol’ Fourscore’s got this inflation thing figured out.
If you play your cards right, at some point you’ll be able to swap that can of gas for a hamburger.
“Do you like my submarine? It’s long, hard and full of seamen.”
Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, plead guilty to fraud following more than 30 years of falsifying the outcomes of strength tests conducted on steel that was utilized to make Navy submarines, according to the Associated Press.
She previously served as the director of metallurgy at a foundry that provided steel castings utilized to create submarine hulls, according to the AP.
“From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of strength and toughness tests for at least 240 productions of steel — about half the steel the foundry produced for the Navy, according to her plea agreement, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma,” the AP noted. “The tests were intended to show that the steel would not fail in a collision or in certain ‘wartime scenarios,’ the Justice Department said,” according to the outlet.
CWAA
Only took them 30 years to figure it out.
Congrats to the Navy and its shipbuilding partners on stellar incoming quality controls.
But I bet their certs and reps were all in order.
My guess is that it was administrative and not actually that the materials didn’t meet specifications.
That said, I don’t care what kind of paperwork chase I needed to go through, I couldn’t put lives at risk by falsifying paperwork.
I seem to remember reading in the past year or so about a bunch of metal used in satellites and/or space probes that was actually failing because of a similar fraudulent documentation.
Independent tests?
SpaceX had a similar problem with parts on their early F9 rockets. A bracket that holds the helium tank was not built to spec and failed on launch, causing the loss of the vehicle and payload.
SpaceX tested all of the parts themselves and found a massive failure rate. They moved production in house. Lesson learned.
I wonder if there is a parallel in other areas.
Hmmm…. Is there a possibility that allowing the pharmaceutical companies to provide their own tests of safety and effectiveness with no outside verification might be a problem?
NASA says a parts testing fraud caused $700 million in satellite failures
Found it!
If high yield steel on subs didnt meet specifications, we would have had subs that imploded.
When I took the State Dept security briefing, they bragged about the Myers case. I thought “why the fuck are you bragging about not catching Cuban spies within your own ranks for THIRTY FUCKING YEARS?”
They had more important tasks like rooting out masculinity.
I’ll give her some slack here. I’ve encountered stupid requirements from customers before. But mine had nothing to do with the seaworthiness of a submarine. She should have refused and run it up the chain.
Lol.
There is received wisdom that every litho tool and process owners “knows:” that the TMAH concentration is the developer has to be controlled to the fourth decimal place and can’t be allowed to vary.
When we took over the lab that had been doing the analysis, I found that the data had been fudged for over two years. Regardless of the actual endpoint, the reporting was done so that the result was dead center in the spec.
And yet, the fab never had a problem.
I went through this with Nokia years ago.
They required a measurement of third order intermodulation distortion that was so low as to be near earth noise. It’s almost impossible to measure and the performance cannot be met in the field because of dirty connectors and the realities of cell tower installations.
“Biden” is assumed to be a constellation of handlers.
“All of us are dumber than any of us.”
Race-baiters gotta race-bait.
In response to the clip, Martin declared, “I think Carville should shut the F up, because I’m sick of these white men whining and complaining about wokeness when you like it when black folks and Latinos and young white voters and Asians are voting for candidates. How about this, James Carville? How about you go learn how to cut some Lincoln Project-type ads for the Democratic party?”
He wasn’t done.
“How about creating some actual memes?” Martin continued. “Where is the video this morning of the infrastructure bill? How about you go raise money to run those ads on OAN and Fox News and Newsmax and telling those broke white folks in those various states how the infrastructure bill is going to benefit them? I’m sorry, James, I need you to shut up and do your job and stop trying to pin it on people who are doing the work.”
Sure, ignore a Dem strategist that actually knows a thing or two. Let me know how that works out while you double down on stupid.
I recently encountered the same sentiment within the LP.
From a white dude.
Carville is a slimy snake but he’s politically shrewd. Glad the Dems seem determined to ignore his advice.
He’s a McAullife level sleazeball but he’s grounded by a recognition of reality. The people in that clip aren’t.
a foundry that provided steel castings utilized to create submarine hulls, according to the AP.
Castings? Steel?
Was she handling the paperwork for building the Monitor?
I am pretty sure none of the Virginia class boats they floated has that name…
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10179977/Demi-Rose-exhibits-jaw-dropping-figure-perky-derriere-sizzling-snaps.html
Nope. Showstopper.
Morning!
el presidente Biden and his commie handlers are trying to recover decades of gun purchase records and digitize them. This is prohibited by federal law that enacted the background check in 1986.
See Federalist article. (Sorry, Not able to link at this time)
Remember 18 months ago, when suggesting that the ATF was gathering a registry was tinfoil hat shit? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Trying? No, the ATF has been doing it for years. What they want to change is the twenty year rule (and ultimately just send serialized ownership data directly to the feds at purchase). They’ve been mining out of business records all along.
If it’s unavoidable, then we should just get the fuck out of there.
We should just sit back and watch. When the smoke clears, we can go onto the battlefield and bayonet the wounded.
How about this, James Carville? How about you go learn how to cut some Lincoln Project-type ads for the Democratic party?
Yes, please do.
“Hi. We’re a bunch of wishy washy simps who will do anything, and we mean anything, to sit at the feet of those who held the reins of power. We need your help.”
The Lincoln Party types will turn out to be an even bigger disaster for the Dems than they were for the Reps. They already contributed to the loss in Virginia and they’re just a repulsive bunch that drives people away in droves.
They’re pederasts, Stinky.
“AOC hits back at ‘creepy Neo-Nazi fundraiser’ Paul Gosar for sharing an anime video of him killing her as she arrives at COP26 with Nancy Pelosi and 21 lawmakers on a government jet”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10181919/AOC-rips-Paul-Gosar-sharing-violent-video-arrives-COP26-Pelosi-government-jet.html
This whole thing is stupid.
In local news…
Why have so many iconic Greater Cleveland businesses closed lately? Here are the reasons for 6
It’s a complete mystery why a bunch of places have closed in a downtown area that has no office workers coming into it, and had little to no entertainment draws for the past 18 months.
I’m going to guess: Greed, Hate, Misogyny, Racism, Transphobia, and Bioterrorism
:checks article:
Damn, only five out of six… :kicks pebble:
Climate change
Good morning, Banjos!
I really don’t want to listen to Trump any more.
I’d rather listen to more DS.
Have a great day, peeps!
Drugs? Ass? I don’t know, but I care about our Canadian women neighbors! Won’t anyone think of the beavertails!
I know what she needs.
Shorter Dr. Kyle Merritt: “LOOK AT MEEEEEE!!!!”
How you know when you need a different doctor.
Alternate title… Doctors who diagnose Morgellans syndrome for 1000 Alex ..
Financial engineering is what we do
General Electric, the industrial conglomerate founded by Thomas Edison in 1892, is breaking up. GE announced plans Tuesday to split into three separate companies.
GE will become separate publicly traded companies for its aviation, healthcare and energy businesses. The company said it hopes to spin off the healthcare business to shareholders in early 2023 and that the separation of its renewable energy and power business will occur in early 2024.
Shares of GE (GE) surged as much as 17% in premarket trading on the news before retreating to about an 6% gain an hour before the market open. The stock was already up more than 25% in 2021 before the spin-off announcement.
It’s about time.
Of course, if those fucking idiots hadn’t done that reverse split, my shares would probably be above water this morning. A six dollar stock is a lot more likely to double than a hundred dollar stock.
If they keep woke assholes running the 3 new companies, they will still stay the course towards oblivion. That is one company I was happy I quit working for when I did.
Since Culp took over GE in 2018, he has sold off assets and restructured the business in order to cut costs and lower GE’s massive debt pile. In 2016 it sold its appliance business to Chinese household goods manufacturer Haier for $5.4 billion. GE even shed the iconic light bulb unit in 2020.
Although those products were what made GE well known to the average consumer around the globe, it was the company’s mighty GE Capital unit that made it a corporate powerhouse, providing financing for businesses large and small. In March of this year it closed the books on GE Capital as a standalone unit with the sale of its aircraft leasing arm.
Jack Welch’s legacy, on the ash heap. Boo hoo.
Welch’s legacy didn’t make it past the affair with the HBR biographer.
Canadian woman could be the first patient to be diagnosed as suffering from “climate change” after doctors said heatwaves and poor air quality brought on acute breathing problems.
Panic attacks, induced by hysterical propaganda?
“We want you to take the time off for all the extra hours you put in recently, but we also want you to provide coverage.”
*stares blankly at management*
“So what, like Shroedinger’s vacation?”
I dare you to email exactly that back to management.
Given where you work and what you’ve described I’m guessing they won’t get the joke.
SCIENCE!
California’s coronavirus case rate is twice Florida’s despite mask mandates and recommendations to prevent the spread of the virus.
“You’re paying for your success, which is weird,” Ali H. Mokdad, professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington, told the Mercury News when asked why Californians aren’t “reaping more reward for their adherence to health guidance.”
“You succeed in controlling the virus, and now you’re having infections.”
I don’t think that’s how “control” works.
https://i.imgflip.com/5tj49a.jpg
They need dekulakization if they want to be the rona.
Or ‘success’.
It’s only “weird” if you’re stupid or ignorant or brainwashed or a lying mendacious cunte. Or all of the above.
This. They flipped “follow the science” on its head. Now it’s “science is whatever follows from our worldview”. Public health has been skinsuit Ed for a long time, but the trumpeting of clear cognitive dissonance as some sort of virtue signal is new.
In local news, new hotness is storming the building where the judge of the Kim Potter trial lives.
Cortez Rice has much bigger ambitions than just being a Minneapolis thug
The fact that he won’t be charged with multiple felonies based on this video, and the video about doxing Rittenhouse jurors, is all the proof anyone should need that our law enforcement and judicial system is broken.
It gets even better.
I got nuthin’
How is that guy still walking around free?
Because Keith Elison is the AG and the DAs don’t prosecute real crimes.
Commies.
The nice thing about NYC is that you frequently get to hate everyone involved in many news stories.
Off-duty NYPD sergeant charged with assault after he opens fire in Queens karaoke bar during fight with three men who refused to tip: sources
“NEW – 39% of 18-24 year olds identify as LGBTQ in the U.S., a new study by the Arizona Christian University finds”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1457833719352410116
Either the gay frog chemicals have kicked in, or it’s a load of horseshit.
Gay/trans is the new goth.
Does that make masks the new parachute pants, Z Cavaricci, or JNCO fad? Please?
I cannot make it so.
/looks for a Hypercolor mask
Gay.
Pertinent…
I keep expecting the Onion to memory-hole that.
Stupid is as stupid does…
*shrug*
We in the midst of a cultural movement where it is cool to be an “oppressed minority”. Eventually it will get to the point where it will flip to being straight is oppression. I’ve noticed this in parenting circles. Parents are obsessed with their young kids having some sort of disorder. It’s almost like they are hoping their kid has autism or ADHD.
Someone needs to figure out how to market “identifying as someone who is uncontrollably attracted to middle aged libertarian men” as dangerously countercultural to hot 19-25 year old women.
Yup. Vapid, hollow people desperately grasping for meaning and relevance in their cookie cutter lives.
This is touching upon my newfound respect for religion.
???
As the parent of someone who is desperately trying to deal with and move past his actual genetic disorders, this is extremely irritating.
Also…lesbian is a dying identity. Most are going by “trans” or nonbinary now.
If the narrative is that your future will suck, you might as well get your freak on now.
WE’RE SPECIAL!
Wut
It’s a twitter link. They’re like a russian roulette of stupid, except 7/8 chambers are loaded.
That’s why I curate them for you.
So.. glib poll…
Sarcastic Halloween costume or reality?
I say sarcastic Halloween costume.
I say he lost a bet and his buddies are off-camera losing their minds.
The gloves are the tell.
Agreed.
My VA Doctor last year was dressed similarly.
She had an Indian accent and wouldn’t stand within 10 feet of me.
Accent + mask + face shield + distance
I was what’ing her to death.
I was what’ing her to death.
Is that a euphemism?
?What what, in the butt?
Nah. It’s only the double surgical mask. Real one would be double masking with a N95 underneath or just wear a N100. Of course it is Texas, so..
I go to one specialist where almost no one is wearing masks (including the docs), so the ones who do, you know it’s because they want to.
What about the surgical cap? I have yet to hear from even the truest believer that we need to be protecting our hair from COVID.
*drums fingers while waiting for someone to post a link to an insane article*
My Dr. had one on, she was ready for anything.
Heh.
That’s one of those videos where you start thinking “no no NO!” when watching it for the first time.
I cringed as soon as I saw it start to move.
WTF did they imagine would happen? Did they think it was just going to slide off the side onto whatever is covered by those tarps?
I think I’ve employed those guys before.
Inflation at 5%? Please. Housing prices in Austin shot up 40% in a single year.
And inflation occurs at the moment new fiat money is created, not when the reality of the devaluation raises the prices of any given good or service.
It’s trickle down inflationomics.
Hasn’t the US suffered at least 5% per year since Nixon closed the Gold Window in 1971?
Here’s some numbers: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/
Ooh, thank you… Oh, that’s terrifying.
Housing prices in Austin shot up 40% in a single year. – I blame Tim Dillon
So Joe took over in January and they won’t be enforcing a rule until a year later? Taking their numbers at face value, didn’t this administration just kill 365K citizens? No wonder they are letting those new Americans across the southern border, we need them to clean up the piles of dead bodies.
I think the debate about whether the Bee has a mole here is over.
NASCAR Announces All Fans Must Wear Top Hats, Monocles, May Only Golf Clap And Say ‘Good Show’
The infield of the future – https://youtu.be/19klftNfaW4?t=148
I’m pretty sure I know who, but I’ll never tell.
LONG LIVE THE BEE!!!
For you Everton fan/s: a “meh” take on where they’re at: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59201120
Article:
“- A Marxist analyzes and reaches Marxist conclusion
– A Foucauldian analyzes and reaches Foucauldian conclusion
Crt is like that! It can help make sense of the data if we view it through our lens”
You: “See, that’s like science, it uses statistics!”
https://twitter.com/nwrmbing/status/1457699645577211905
goddamnit I hate my job
That’s why they pay you to do it. If it was fun, you’d be paying them.
/tired hackneyed line
Remington Firearms, the country’s oldest gun manufacturer, will be moving its headquarters from Ilion, New York, to Georgia, the company announced Monday.
Good.
The median expectation is that the inflation rate will be up 5.4% one year from now, the highest level for the gauge since its launch in June 2013, according to the New York Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Expectations. Inflation expectations over the next three years remained unchanged at a median of 4.2%, a series high.
Shit.
In an interview with Fox News, former President Donald Trump indicated that he is likely to run for the US presidency again, in a bid to secure the second term he lost in the 2020 election to current President Joe Biden.
Stay a Kingmaker. You’ve shown you are incompetent.
A link from NH: Sununu will not run for Senate, but run for reelection as governor instead
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu on Tuesday announced he would not run for Senate, ending months of speculation about his political future. The move is a blow to Republicans’ chances of winning a Senate majority in 2022.
Sununu told reporters at a press conference his decision was “about New Hampshire, not about Washington,” and said his skill set was better suited to the role of governor than that of senator.
I’m wondering what is really going on here.
I’ve noticed something that just breaks my heart on my commute. This past week, it seems every road sign has a missing pet flyer on it – cats and small dogs. I think the recent outbreak of signs must be mostly snowbirds.
I live at the very edge of town, and there’s a lot of raw desert still that I drive past, even though there’s also a lot of houses. The chances of a pet surviving in the desert are vanishingly small. Forget about the coyotes, bobcats, javelinas, and rattlesnakes – we have scorpions and toads that will kill a small animal. Those poor pets don’t have a chance, and its not going to be pretty.
My old neighborhood was on the edge of the woods/wetlands. We had cats and small dogs disappear over the years. Plenty of coyotes and owls.
Probably best not to leave them outside unattended.
Oh, yeah, we have owls and hawks, too.
Our back yard is fortified – brick wall, drainage holes blocked with metal grating (that I installed), 12″ flashing along the outside of the wall (that I installed) to prevent climbing by Gila Monsters (oops, forgot to mention them also). a cordon sanitaire four feet wide around the outside of the wall where I will allow nothing to grow, all overhanging branches cut off. I’ve considered, but haven’t got around to, putting up a hotwire on the outside of the wall as well.
“Trump to ‘probably’ announce US presidential run after midterm elections”
Lord help us please no. Although T Dog vastly exceeded my expectations and got my vote the last round we really don’t need another repeat of 2020. I don’t care how weak Jomala is looking right now, that is a ticket to losing again. DeSantis is ten times better as a candidate and would likely easily prevail over any fortifications the Dems have in mind. He’s no libertarian that’s for sure, but he is the closest we are going to get in a Pres candidate anytime soon. Trump massively fucked up his hiring decisions and I don’t know if he has learned a lesson from that. Not firing Birx and Fauchi and “his most perfect move” of shutting down air travel first with China and then Europe were an unmitigated disaster and are a good part of the reason we are still dealing with Vid hysteria.
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From everything I have seen of DeSantis he could easily keep the MILF vote in the column of Team Elephant. He has proven himself willing to fight and was the best Guv in relation to the Vid panic. If he is paired with a woman VP who is halfway likable and competent I think he pulls the female vote strongly. Florida has also been an example that the Dem election shenanigans are able to be countered. That was done before his time, but shows that it is not inevitable that Team Donk can always and forever fortify to their hearts’ desire.
Totally agree with your assessment.
I will add that he also proved how thin skinned he is; really doesn’t like criticism and that results in some messed up behavior and petty revengeful spata.
He has that in common with Jesse Ventura, whose first term was a helpful signal that the electorate was fed up with the usual choices but who really shouldn’t have outstayed his welcome.
Yes. DeSantis should run. Trump should not.
For all of Trump’s business pretensions, he really doesn’t have much in the way of executive ability.
Disagree. trump is the best president in US history.
He fulfilled most of his campaign promises when most politicians dont even try.
Trump fucked up the lefties so bad they impeached him twice. He was doing so much right they conducted an unprecedented election fraud scheme to get him out.
You guys forget already about the relatively few people that would even apply/accept work under trump administration? The ones that did endured stalking by Lefties.
Most of Trumps picks were great and did as good as they could with most bureaucrats resisting. Some turned out to be bad picks. There are quite a few RINOs who lied to get the job and then outed themselves as Democrats.
People crack me up that Trump is supposed to know all and make perfect decisions. Trump depended on others and some didnt pan out.
At least Trump tried to fight Lefties and roll back communism in govt.
Desantis might be good but he has not sent the Lefties into hysteria like Trump has. Trump fucked up Lefties so bad Democrats just lost Virginia.
Companies are starting to get smart. I was reading an industry rag and it was advertising [company X’s] conference on [insert buzzword here]. Figured I’d learn a little bit about the topic and see what [company X] was up to in that space, but got bounced because competitors aren’t allowed in.
I could easily bypass it, but that’s unethical and I kinda respect them for doing that. I haven’t been bounced like that before.
Using private bounty hunters would break this blue wall of silence. Just as you can find lawyers to sue a lawyer, or PIs to investigate a PI, bounty hunters would hunt each other.
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1458054875330252802
One of the responses.
According to him, the current system is doing just fine at prosecuting cops.
He knows it personally!
I hear chatter outside so I look out my window and there’s a bread line snaking around the block again – haven’t seen that since the middle of last summer, i.e. around 14 months ago. Either that or it’s a new jab line but I have never seen such a long line of people waiting for that at any of the usual sites nearby. I wonder what is going on.
A Communist Delegation Went to Karl Marx’s Grave, Then Were Fed Gold Steak by Salt Bae
There’s nothing more 2021 than Salt Bae feeding a communist party official gold-plated steak after a climate change summit.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpdy9/gold-steak-salt-bae-vietnam
That’s always what communism looks like in practice. I’ve mentioned to friends, I’ve seen the face of socialism. It’s a self-important hipster cavorting at a $30k per head gala wearing a dress that costs more than most people’s monthly take-home emblazoned with “Tax the Rich!” which was donated by the tax-dodging girlfriend of one of the Seagrams heirs. While the help is forced to hide their faces in enforced anonymity.
Because the government controlling the means of production means, in practice, that the people in the government control the means of production. And it doesn’t take long for an honest man to realize that, in that formulation, he is one of those means of production.
This is always and everywhere the case.
This is the answer to the question “How do you know they’re real communists?”
Woohoo! I passed my driving test and got my drivers’ license!
Gratz! You can share the road with two newly minted teenaged drivers…god save us all.
Yay!
Time to go street racing?
Huzzah!
Sending you a pair of Truck Nutz as a congratulations gift.
UGH! I switched windows just in time to see some autopsy photos of the first guy shot (the convicted child molester); damn, that 5.56 is no joke. He was close enough to get powder stippling on his hand when Kyle fired. 1st shot shattered his femur, 2nd shot shattered his pelvis, 3rd shot pulped his shoulder and he pitched forward so 4th shot went into his back. Ouch!
Speed kills
Since we have recently added 5.56 to our caliber collection, I have done a little research on terminal ballistics. I’m impressed. I still have a (likely irrational) attachment to larger calibers.
Still trying to find a straight answer to how effective greentips are against body armor . . . . weirdly, it appears the standard body armor testing doesn’t necessarily include 5.56.
https://www.spartanarmorsystems.com/AR500-AR550-test-results/
556 will go through any soft armor. Against hard armor, things get hinky – the reason you’re not finding much in the way of straight answers, is because there aren’t many to be had. It depends on the specific type of armor as well as bullet construction and impact velocity.
Best advice – if a couple rounds to the upper chest don’t do it, try something else.
+ 1 headshot
I did find some interesting tests on ballistic clay for 12 gauge slugs. They don’t penetrate hard armor, but based on the clay, they would be disabling – significant soft tissue trauma, broken bones, that kind of thing.
Ive gotten 12ga slugs to go thru body armor plate in testing at 25 feet.
5.56 green will go thru too. 7.62 will go thru.
Once they hit the kevlar underneath, they dont have the speed to fully penetrate. As designed.
With that being said, you will have some concussion effect to your torso. Better than being dead though.
I have 9mm, 5.56 Nato, and 308 Win. That plus #3 and #4 buckshot. I think that covers most operational scenarios.
That plus 40S&W (and 22LR) is my caliber collection.
I’ve considered 40S&W, but I don’t want to add another caliber to the collection.
I’m wary of caliber creep. I added .357 Magnum solely to get a revolver for jurisdictions where semi-autos aren’t allowed (Uruguay, which keeps coming on and off the list). I added 5.56 because Mrs. Dean wanted a rifle. I figure, heck, now that we’ve crossed that bridge, I might as well get one for myself.
I gave up on caliber creep years ago. At the moment I’m running at least eight centerfire rifle rounds, six centerfire handgun rounds, .22LR and .22 WMR, 12, 16 and 20-gauge shotgun.
But I’m more of an outdoorsman and collector than a Tacticool shooter.
I’ve got *counts on fingers, unzips* 11 calibers in all, although one of them I doubt I’ll ever shoot again (22-250) and should probably sell the rifle, one is blackpowder, and another (.410) is strictly for the snake derringer.
I love my glock 23, it’s more fun than the 9mm to shoot.
But can it reach out 200 yards and kill a moose?
Or even better, a møøse?
May I assume the powder-on-hand part means he was reaching for/grabbing the rifle?
The ME just testified that the deceased not only had powder stippling on his hand, he also could not rule out that he may have had his hand around the barrel when Kyle fired the first shot.
Prosecutor continues to make the defense case.
Meanwhile, I just heard on the radio that “defense attorneys intend to present a vigorous defense, including putting Kyle Rittenhouse on the stand”.
If true, I shall promptly believe the theory that the prosecution is trying to throw a case they know is unjust but must be brought to trial, and the defense is actually political operatives including a security expert who is an FBI informant who are trying to tank the case.
It is a nutty theory. But not as nutty as putting na defendant on the stand after the prosecution case proves your client innocent to at least preponderance of the evidence, probably all the way to beyond a reasonable doubt.