Good morning my Glibs and Glibertarians and what an absolutely fantabulistic day it always is!
Republican Winsome Sears elected Virginia’s first female African-American lieutenant governor
Even more stunning, NJ governor race is too close to call.
Brand new footage of Kyle Rittenhouse shooting released
California zipline employee sacrifices himself to save woman stranded in middle of ride
‘Sopranos’ Creator David Chase Reveals Tony Dies At The End Of The Show
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“GOP sweeps VA”
Are we sure of that? Cause I wouldn’t put it past them to find buses full of (D) votes today that they will claim were not counted…
This is a victory beyond the margin of fraud. They’d need 3 fairfax counties to do the dirty deed.
Yeah. Close enough to steal with mail in votes this week.
Mail-in ballots received through Nov 5 will still be counted as long as they are postmarked Nov 2 or earlier. Earlier this week the Dems were complaining about mail-in ballots “stuck at the post office.”
Busloads of them, right?
When I got on to check my City work email, (which I have the link saved on Edge at home because I’m too lazy to change it) the headlines on the home page were hilariously twisted to try to sound not that bad for Dems.
THE EBIL WHITE SUPREMACISTS LIED ABOUT HOW US WANTING TO BRAINWASH YOUR IDIOT KIDS WAS A BAD THING!
CRT isn’t real, but we need to teach it.
I want to learn about white rage, just like reading Marx, know your enemy and all that. Also, white men are evil and I think we need to be more equitable -gen Miley, probably
It’s funny because the gaffes that hit the hardest are the gaffes that are true. Mcauliffe meant what he said about education and children.
And Murphy meant what he said about taxes. (Paraphrasing, “New Jersey is not for you if you don’t like high taxes.”)
Honesty has always been socialists’ greatest weakness. The thing that militates hardest against Dems’ electoral success is ever actually getting what they want.
Count all the “votes”.
At 10:20 p.m., former Gov. Terry McAuliffe is refusing to concede: “We’ve still got a lot of votes to count. We’ve got about 18% of the vote out, so we’re going to continue to count the votes b/c every single Virginian deserves to have their vote counted.”
That the Democrat’s way, never give up, they can pull as many votes as they need out of the black hole that is any metropolitan area.
Ciattarelli ahead of Murphy by 1,200 votes right now. Local news says lots of mail-in votes uncounted in Passaic and Essex Counties. It would truly shocking if they can’t find / manufacture enough votes to give it to Murphy.
There is no chance the Jersey machine doesn’t rig the election…
The margin here could easily fit on a single hand truck so yeah. Elections should really have deadlines by which they need to count the votes.
But that would disenfranchise people who had to depend on the post office to deliver ballots!
What counts is whom counts the votes, brah..
At this point I am completely ok with disenfranchising people. This quasi-religious obsession with the sanctity of counting every vote is insane. Get the votes in and counted in time. Period. The longer you drag anything out the more you invite fraud.
IT ISN’T FRAUD IF WE WIN
If THEY win there is fraud and collusion with enemies of the state, but when WE win, then democracy was served and anyone that complains will be silenced and then spoken to/dealt with!
Election integrity is a threat to Democracy.
It is important to make sure every legal voted is counted under reasonable circumstances. Its why voting in person is the best.
Its also why the voting rules need to be easy for everyone who wants to vote to vote.
You have no right to make sure the Post office gets your ballot delivered in time when you vote by mail.
Might explain why the post office announced recently that first-class mail can take an extra week to get delivered.
My usual response – so?
NJ election laws are complicated and Judges are already involved. Won’t matter.
There is a deadline: until they count enough votes to win, then the election is over.
They don’t need to. Essex County will put Murphy over the top.
Does anyone ever wonder why heavy (D) areas ALWAYS wait until the rest of the state has come in, then suddenly produce just enough vote to put the (D) candidate over the finish line? I have heard all sorts of excuses about why that happens, but I would figure if the problem was the ineptitude of the people involved, that the system would allow for their replacement. Not reward them as usually happens…
CA doesn’t require that level of corruption, they have adequate stupidity on the part of the voters.
They have both, just in case.
The reality is that demographics are not going the way Democrats want.
More and more Black Americans, AmerIndians, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans are not voting Democrat anymore.
I just assume incompetence. I mean, it’s evident in everything else they do. The simplest explanation is probably the correct one.
ding-ding-ding
Malfeasance is a drop in the bucket filled to the brim with incompetence.
More of what’s rewarded… less of what’s punished…
It’s a feature, not a bug. It’s nice to know how many votes are needed to cancel out the bitter-clingers in the hills and put the right guy over the top.
They will “find” the votes they need.
I refuse to vote, but my wife voted in Essex County and there were “problems” with vote counting machines while she was there making it slow going.
It’s 2021 and the State still can’t find a functioning ScanTron machine for “the most sacred and hallowed of rights”?
BS.
Funny how those things don’t happen in Warren County.
I think EvilSheldon was the first person I saw state confidently that Youngkin would win so props to him for that. You win my respect. I am sick as a dog, Happy Wednesday.
You have what dog disease? Heartworms? Assworms? Ball licking disease?
Fleas.
Don’t make fun of fleas man…
There is a reason in the Middle East that one of the most feared curses is “May the fleas of 1000 camels roost in your private parts:…
You mean they aren’t into that?
Only from their goats & sheep…..
If you know what I mean..
Does anybody actually fear curses?
I worry about gypsies cursing me with Whiskey dick…
You’re not afraid they’ll curse you with a soul? Oh wait, that’s Pie…
I have a cold. I guess dogs don’t get colds. So I am instead as sick as a human with a cold. Drippy sinus headache, mild cough, general distaste for being awake, etc
I thought the Kung Flu killed all flue beasts..
So… the ‘vid?
Dang…I have something similar. It’s a coldemic!
yeah it fuggn sucks. I think the mornings are the worst. I expect to feel better in the afternoon, and hopefully back to 100% by Friday.
Drink plenty of fluids, feed (or starve, depending on what your mommy thought you) that cold, and beg a woman to make you a sammich in a pity voice, and you will be fine..
I’m a feed the cold kind of guy. It seems to make more sense that if I have an appetite, eat.
Neither colds nor flus should be starved. If you can eat you need to keep your body in the best for you can to fight the disease. So don’t deprive it of nutrients in hopes that it won’t use then to replicate virii.
I know of about 4 people right now who are experiencing the same symptoms. My boss lost his voice entirely for two days in conjunction with it.
Well that must be how we know we beat covid, the common cold is back. Joy!
Yup, everyone I know, myself included, has had a sore throat or cough in the last few weeks. Not a big deal, it is cold and flu season now.
Swiss, waffles, get well soon!
That sounds like the cold I had a few weeks ago.
My brain: “Do you like to sleep? Why not take a nap? And another nap. And then go to bed early.”
I would claim credit if it was anything more than wishful thinking. But thanks just the same. Hope you feel better!
This was in doubt?
I admit, I didn’t watch the bulk of show, but maybe the ending was more ambiguous than I thought.
Was that the fuq? The guy is a douche bag. If Gandolfini was still alive and they ha da chance to milk the franchise for a bit longer Tony would be alive and well…
The end of the show left things up in the air with a smash to black with a couple minutes of air time remaining (during which they played Don’t Stop Believing and ran credits. It was dumped on and mocked by most of the reviewers and comedy shows of the time for not wrapping things up.
Morning, Banjos!
If your first instinct is “That’s what heros do” or something along those lines — for the love of Pete, don’t read the comments. My God, some people have issues. Just a sample to give you the idea and spare you: “Everyone doesn’t need to be made into a hero. If the woman was hooked up correctly, he made a mistake grabbing after her and I doubt he let go to sacrifice himself, more like he couldn’t hold on and fell.” Assholes.
The VA and NJ results are encouraging — it would be really nice if the Donks would take it as a warning sign and pull back the mandates and general crap… but my gut is that they’re going to try to “Build Back Better — FASTER!” (i.e. ram through what they can as fast as they can). We’ll see if Manchin and Sinema can hold the line, personally I doubt it. For a purely selfish reason (since as far as I know at this point, *something* is going to start in early December — not like HR has gotten back to my “No, I’m not doing this even without a clear religious objection” case), I *really* hope this combined with the general pushback gets the Zombie Admin to ease off on the contractor mandate a bit with regards to who is working on a Fed contract or not (instead of the One Drop Rule the HR people seem to be inferring).
I know I probably wouldn’t have made it on the jury for Rittenhouse to begin with — but having the prosecutor flat out lie in opening and having the defence show the lie in video would pretty much set my vote as a juror. Almost makes one wonder if they’re *trying* to throw it….
People generally hate being shown how fucking useless and cowardly they are by the example of others, which is why the only heroes they have are political scumbags that peddle stealing from the productive to punish them for being productive.
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What was the specific lie the prosecutor told that was debunked by the video? I haven’t been following this.
That Rittenhouse chased Rosenbaum down to confront him instead of the other way around, apparently.
Just more evidence that the system doesn’t give a shit about you, just their own objectives. They will lie, cheat, and steal in order to climb that government ladder.
Got it, thanks. That’s pretty low, and possibly desperate, if they have to lie that hard to make a case against him.
The whole case hinges on Kyle being the aggressor, which he isn’t. Unless you do the circuitous bullshit of claiming by merely being present with a rifle you were the aggressor. Come to think of it, that is the case the state is trying to make.
HE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THERE RESISTING THE PEOPLE DOING THE MANDARINATE’S DIRTY WORK!
B-but state lines! He crossed state lines! That shows intent to murder black protestors!
My opinion is that he was out of place, had a questionable justification for being there, and made a poor decision to get involved in the situation at all, but beyond that, the video evidence clearly shows he was anything but an aggressor and that all three shootings were in desperate self defense. He should be acquitted.
This is a good take.
Rittenhouse shows every sign of being immature and fantasy-prone. He had no business whatsoever showing up in Kenosha during the riot.
But the three men that he shot were clearly trying to murder him. And being an immature doof doesn’t obviate your right to self defense.
“He had no business whatsoever showing up in Kenosha during the riot.”
According to information I have seen, information that will be shared during the trial, he was there by request from his employer (he lives just across the border and drives to Kenosha for work every day).
“But the three men that he shot were clearly trying to murder him. And being an immature doof doesn’t obviate your right to self defense.”
Where are these people he was there to defend from? Are they locals? Cause I am pretty sure they too travelled from far, far, away to go create chaos by destroying & looting to help peddle some marxist narrative.
I would note that having 17 to 18 year old males take up arms in defense of liberty / other people’s property is kind of the way societies have functioned for quite some time. So I’m more than willing to forgive any such impulses in Mr. Rittenhouse, personally.
He should never have been charged.
Right? Seems like the kind of self-sacrificng impulse that would be lauded in times of yore
You can make the argument that it is a dumb choice on a personal level, but hard to say it isn’t something that can help make society work overall.
“…he was there by request from his employer…”
If my employer asked me to show up at the office with a rifle and trauma kit and defend it from rioters, I would laugh my ass off.
Yeah. My answer would be A. “You don’t pay me enough.”; B. “Are you willing to pay for insurance, licensing, training, and legal defense for me to do that professionally?” ; and C. “Hire a security company.”
I don’t have enough information about Rittenhouse’s life to know where he “should” have been that night, however, it appears he was lawfully in Kenosha. It looks to me like he got attacked by people who have some criminal history; and he defended himself better than most cops, in my experience, and probably some mil. (Impressively good trigger discipline). No one else injured despite the heat of the moment, high-powered rifles, and people all about.
He should never have been charged. That he was tells us a lot of uncomfortable things people would rather not discuss. The powers that be would much rather people hyper-focus on the night’s events and completely ignore the preferential treatment that, ahem, the criminal justice system gives certain rioters over *others.* If things continue too much further down this path, there will be a lot more “Rittenhouses” – and the self-defense connections will be more tenuous. We have a federal legal system that openly supports Team Blue’s brownshirts in the streets.
I wouldn’t laugh in their face. I would draft an agreement that specifies I am doing it at their request, and they agree to pay for any costs, legal defense and otherwise. Like Mr. Rittenhouse, I am a member of the unorganized militia, and civil unrest is exactly when we should be willing to step up. I’d be pretty confident of getting fair treatment from the prosecutor and a jury for piling up antifa trying to loot and burn down a hospital, so there’s that.
Of course, I wouldn’t bring a rifle. I’d bring a shotgun.
+2 blasts in the air?
I can’t imagine that a juror will look kindly on the prosecutor getting caught lying right out of the gate. Unless of course they pulled the entire jury pool from the environs of Madison.
Yeah, when some of the first words out of the mouth of the prosecutor is a blatant lie that can be debunked with multiple videos, it’s not a good look for his case. What’s the first thing the jurors will remember? “This guy lied to me.”
This is what blows my mind about Fauci. The SOB has been caught in multiple lies, yet there are people who still believe him.
It’s because he’s “saved.” This is a cult, and Fauci is a/the anointed leader.
Since you mentioned it. Greenwald on point (and yes, this will infuriate you).
I saw that and this is what caught my eye:
There’s a parallel here with the FDA commissioner who abstained from the vote on the vax for kids. He stated afterwards that he was afraid a no vote would undermine confidence in the safety of the vaccine, so he chose to abstain instead of voting against it. One might think that unnecessary medical treatment by itself would be reason enough to vote no, but the narrative about the vaccines must be maintained at all costs.
Uh huh, pull the other one.
Yeah, opened up the Greenwald article, saw the pic, and noped right the fuck out of that one. I already know Fauci is a sociopathic piece of shit, don’t need to see animal cruelty porn.
You got that right.
Fauci and his media enablers need to be [redacted].
Be careful thinking that they didn’t go to great lengths to fill up that jury with people that already felt the kid is guilty and anything proving otherwise is just noise..
Which is why I snarked about Madison.
Are prosecutors subject to charges for lying?
It is one thing to present an interpretation of the facts, but to lie about facts seems like it would be out of bounds for an officer of the court.
LOL
No reasonable prosecutor would press charges.
Heh.
I think they have some significant leeway in their opening/closing statements.
Yes, and that is what I meant by interpretation of the facts.
Then again, I guess the opening is the “Here is what we are going to prove” statements. So, if they then fail, it just looks bad, it isn’t so much a lie. Although saying you are going to prove something that you clearly cant seems wrong.
Nifong spent a day in jail and was disbarred for his actions in the Duke non-rape case.
Yeah, but he actually withheld evidence. Maybe the prosecutor here is trying to avoid that fate. “wow look at this video we JUST found”
And that was a joke on the travesty he committed… The system is evil when evil people like Nifong can abuse it and get off that easy..
he should have been sent to pound-mi-in-the-ass prison for a long stint where he could be made to reflect on his shit.
“….but having the prosecutor flat out lie in opening…”
Elaborate, please. I havent been following this as close as I should.
Nevermind. Others are far quicker than I.
It is interesting that the FBI had video footage of the incident that was “lost”.
Although I did see a “leaked video of a bunch of people running down a street, with captions of which person was which, and what people were saying. I still couldn’t tell what was going on.
It was probably stored with the Jan 6th videos and therefore NATIONAL SECURITY!!!
I looked at your avatar for the first time just now. It is a glass of wine on a table. For some time now—just glancing at it—I thought it was a picture of a robot’s head.
Winebot.
Brandy and a cigar.
Boozebot.
Brandy is fortified wine.
It’s kinda like the run-ups to the 2010 midterms, when all signs pointed to “don’t fucking do this shit, Dems!!!”
And they went ahead and did it.
Yup… my gut instinct cynicism looks dead on. Quick, pass the monstrosity!
Distribuere panis velocius!
The lefts response to abject failure is to double down and do even more of the stupid shit that caused the failure. See communism and the arguments about how real communism never happened and/or the wrong people were in charge…
When I’m feeling down I just need to remember the The Kenosha Hat Trick, it always makes me smile.
I think that it’s irrefutable proof that we’re living in a simulation. because there’s no way that would ever happen in reality.
In the real world, that kid would have gotten a parade and been offered a fast track to SF training or whatever law enforcement agency he wanted.
This is something that I find troubling – Robert Barnes and the heavy hitting jury selection folk, use of force experts, and behavioral analysis people have been kicked off the case because Barnes was concerned about possible shady dealings with the money donated to Rittenhouse’s defense – https://youtu.be/e7p7xL9IYvk
The statists need this guy to be made an example of for anyone that thinks they can resist the state’s agents of destruction when the state sanctions them to burn, loot, and kill in order to scare people into needing more help from the right people being in charge.
Wow. Thanks for that. The issues Barnes raises around 10:40 are beyond mere “shady.”
Well, late yesterday I got the email I was expecting: Now, in accordance with the Executive Order, we will need to require all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated and
to provide supporting documentation of their vaccination status by December 8, 2021.
Fuck you Joe Biden, fuck you to the lowest level of hell. Fuck Heels up Harris and fuck whoever it is pulling you brain dead puppets’ strings.
In a nominally “free country” (HA!) I should never EVER have to decide between my livelihood and having an unknown substance forcibly injected inside of my body that I don’t want.
I should NEVER face the end of my 20 year career that I fought and clawed for (the American Dream, right?) and instead consider what minimum wage part-time job I might be able to find, or maybe starting all over in my field, if I’m able, as a middle-age White male in middle age. Oh and of course at a 50-60% reduction in pay.
Fuck them all, every last one of them and fuck the world. I never thought this would happen in my lifetime.
Sorry to hear that man. I’m currently writing up my request for “religious” exemption. Starting as broad as possible, going to go into specifics on either appeal or when I’m requested to provide more information. At least my company will need to fire me, I don’t remember seeing a suspended without pay option in the HR guide. My personal favorite section is where it’s asking for accommodations that I’m requesting. I was 60% WFH before the lockdowns started, now I’ve been 100% WFH since mid-March 2020.
Thanks Neph, I’m going to grab the template and use it myself — at this point, why not? Sad thing is, I actually DO have a religious objection, as well as a personal one, as well any number of other objections you can name. But I wasn’t going to mess around with a form because 1) it will be rejected, just like everyone else’s is being, and 2) my objections, religious or otherwise, are no one else’s business. The fact that I object FOR ANY REASON should be sufficient in this “free country” (cue Mandy Patinkin, you keep using that word etc etc).
Yeah, that’s part of what pisses me off about this flavor of the mandate as well. I was highly WFH before (because the Open Office plan they moved us to was a nightmare for concentration and all of my coworkers pretty much started staying home as well — most of the folks we worked with were in other states anyway). They consolidated the site tremendously and pretty much told me to go officially remote — so I did a couple months back.
Now I’m supposed to somehow give the COVID cooties to someone working on a Fed contract while being in the same effective self-quarantine I’ve been in since the beginning. I’m not thrilled about it — but I’d be willing to do the periodic testing thing, and I’d certainly understand more if it was “If you come on site, you have to have the vax!” — I just wouldn’t go on site, but I’d understand it more. This obvious “We’ll force the public to go along however we can!” crap is a good part of why I’m not going to do it (besides that I don’t think I need the vax and the risk of harm is greater than the benefit likelihoods). So blatantly unconstitutional for the Executive branch via an *order*, not even a proper law to try to tell a good chunk of the citizens what to do with their own health it is maddening.
That’s just it… I don’t work on any Fed contracts. I have never worked on a Fed contract; however, other people in my department do. The initial e-mail about the mandate said it applied to those working on Fed contracts, and had a section saying “Choosing not to vaccinate and not requesting an accommodation: We love having you at %redacted% and respect your personal decision. Consider staying with us in a different role. Browse %redacted% for current openings or talk to your Skill Group/Department leader to discuss potential opportunities to change your project/support assignment.”
Which is apparently not true, as my supervisor said the mandate covered all of us, even those of us not working on Fed contracts.
The Department of Redundancy Dept.
I feel you, believe me. I’m still holding out a slim hope that my management chain can work out something with HR where I’m clearly not on a Fed contract. Part of me is a little more hopeful as well since we have a higher management Q&A session today that they explicitly sent out an update that it would be a Q&A for the mandates. So there may well be more of me than I assumed in my org (being a part of the company that was a Seattle based group before being bought up and merged into the corp we’re in now, I always assume my politics are a decided outlier and just don’t bring things up). Maybe enough that they’ll seriously try. I know it is slim… but the rest of it is “How can I reduce my bills as much as possible and find what work I can — given that in my part of my field, just about every employer likely has a Fed contract”… so yeah, I definitely feel you. Let’s Go Brandon, indeed.
Post Office workers so far haven’t been required to join the Clottery. You might check it out.
Shit. Sorry to hear that. Mine will come down the pike right quick. Of this I am very sure. Welcome to the world of picking berries and grubbing for roots. If I wanted to be a bear I’d have been born one. Asshoes.
That sucks..
For the time being I’m on the ‘or Test’ option. But the cantakerous control freaks might still push for ‘vax or vacate’. I’m looking at my finances and planning what approach would be best in case I end up forced to vacate my position.
Of course I have a heap of objections, but I’m pretty sure the default process would be to stamp them ‘rejected’.
That’s seriously fucked up, sorry to hear that. What really sucks is knowing that most of the people I meet walking around the neighborhood are perfectly OK with all of this, and do not shed a tear for their neighbors who may be made destitute.
Please don’t hesitate to use my religious exemption in the forum in whatever way best fits your situation. Many have cannibalized it for parts already, and a few have had good results with that strategy.
Thanks all, trshmnstr, that’s what I was referring to “grabbing” above. I wasn’t going to horn in on anyone else’s objection, since it’s a personal thing, but like I said, I didn’t agree with the concept so (maybe foolishly) didn’t prepare my own. But at this point, what do I have to lose? Appreciate everyone’s well wishes. And by the way, I haven’t been following it because I didn’t want to think about it, but what the hell is the status of these states’ lawsuits against this? Last I heard there were like 30 states in on it, and I haven’t heard a single peep since….
I don’t think the exemption is the right route. While I understand trying to survive the mandate through an exemption, using an exemption allows the mandate to stand. The consequences companies impose (suspension, termination, etc) should be felt by the company. Make the company fire 10%-30% of their workforce. If they feel the pain of the mandate, they may stop. If they can keep the mandate and issue a handful of exemptions, nothing changes, tyranny marches on.
I personally am facing the same situation. I told my manager flat out I am not interested in an exemption and I will not comply. They have not announced what the consequences will be. Based on statements from my manager(who seems to be against the mandate), I think they truly believe everyone is embracing this.
The solution to all of this involves lampposts.
Yep
I’m more or less in the same place, been looking for new jobs since September or so. The deadlines are passing by and they’re not acting on anyone’s exemptions or even releasing guidance to the people who are supposed to evaluate them yet.
Well I know it’s been a year since I worked for a company but I would be in the same boat as you are now if I had stayed on.
So I would still be facing termination now; given the hackery of the HR department at the company I worked at.
Sorry.
Fuck Joe Bide…. err…. LET’s GO BRANDON!
Knowing that the Astros only championship is the one tainted more than any since the Black Sox will keep me happy for a while. All the other good news is just gravy.
The Reds won the 1919 World Series legitimately.
Here’s the Dem’s chasing their own tails on every news channel this morning – https://youtu.be/iiYW2d7RWw4
Thank you. I very much needed that this morning.
I can always count on you, my friend.
Come on, people, that’s funny!
Look at the Canuck being so wise in our ways.
Well done.
But I like the live version.
Love that one!
Witness the pain
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/qlkmku/republican_glenn_youngkin_won_virginias_governor/
I like how they can’t figure out the problem is things such as real people, even those that tend to be progressive usually, drawing the line at their kids being made drones – to be indoctrinated by the state while ignoring that if they learn no real skills they won’t be able to get a paying job – or having no plan other than to piss away trillions of dollars on specail favors while accusing anyone opposed to the stupidity of being a racist.
As far as I can tell, they’re mostly recent graduates of the drone production system.
“We operate in perfect compliance with our programming – what is wrong with these other ‘people’?”
Thats glorious.
To be fair…that looks like this place, just looking through a different window.
Interesting how the minds of the commenters go towards “You Democrats better pass some relief packages in your states.” No. No, you miss the point entirely. People want to be left alone. Cancel tax increases during tis time of inflation, lift oppressive mandates, remove social pressure to conform to whatever odd idea you have for society. Leave people alone. Nobody wants your stolen money.
Yeah, I thought the ‘we’re just not pressing hard enough left, also this is all Sinema and Manchin’s fault’ kind of funny.
I am also sympathetic to OBE’s point above, but I don’t think many people here would ahve said the same thing about Trump (e.g. that he lost by not being right-wing enough)
Local PA election news:
In statewide races, Republicans Kevin Brobson and Megan Sullivan won their races for Supreme Court and Superior Court, respectively. Retention rate for Superior Court justices was 100%. Republicans won both contested seats in the Commonwealth Court (Drew Crompton and Stacy Wallace). These are unofficial results so far, but listed on the PA elections web site.
In very local PA news, Republicans took all local contested school board seats by over 12 percentage points in all races except one which had only one person running who was listed as “democratic/republican.” Our Township had only one person running for each auditor seat, both Democrats, both won, of course. How in the heck can the R or L parties fail to run even one candidate for auditor? Same situation with the election judge and election monitor offices. Not a single republican candidate for election judge or election monitor in any precinct.
Well Brobson was a come-from-behind win then, because I saw on the news before we went to bed that he was losing. That’s good news.
He (and Wallace and Crompton) were endorsed by GOA. GOA was sending out e-mails every few days for the last few weeks about those races.
Brobson is currently listed at 52.61% vs 47.39% for McLauchlin
Whar’s muh fortification???
Not sure why you’re asking me this.
Oh, sorry, not directed at you – just thrown out there for some other folks.
I voted a mindless straight-R ticket in PA yesterday. Some hyper-local positions had only D’s. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I didn’t even notice if a party-line vote was an option on my ballot.
it wasn’t an option for me, I just didn’t think terribly hard about what or why I was voting. I was just sick of being sick at home so I decided to vote about it.
I guess none of the pundits are in on the soon-to-come ‘fortification’.
Yeah, I am certain you are “a conservative” if you are watching PMSNBC, but only if it is about watching them whine and bitch, collecting their tears, and make fun of their stupidity…
That’s the whole article – conservatives having fun at the expense of the liberal media idiots.
My Minneapolis girl was mad at me last night cause I told her I was bummed that the “defund the police” idiocy looked like it was voted down, because I was all for it passing, so stupid people would get a taste of what living in Somalia was like (and no, not because Somalia is a libertarian paradise, but a parallel of what a progressive utopia would really look like).
HEY! Some of us still live nearby.
With gas prices what they are, though, maybe I’m far enough away that Mayhem won’t be able to drive their carjacked vehicle out to my place.
That was one of her biggest complaints. They are carjacking people! And she is worried they could carjack her with her dogs in the car!
It worries me that the only reason it finally became a problem none of the proggies living far away from the “troubled parts” could ignore was that they started worrying they could be carjacked… Cause I suspect otherwise most of them would have just gone along with this act of societal suicide cause the team said it needed to happen…
What are the odds she’d actually be car jacked? That is The Man trying to scare her into submission.
Hold on a second….
Yeah, maybe she has a point.
They should declare a “no-carjacking zone” and put up some signs.
Send in some social workers, or something…
This is the exact problem with the way the defund movement is going. The “defunded” police will just shift their priorities away from the violent crimes and (more) toward the revenue generating enforcement activities. Decriminalize MUST precede defund.
“Lisa Rinna’s daughter Delilah Hamlin claims she OVERDOSED on Benadryl and beta blockers and got hooked on Xanax after getting the COVID vaccine
To treat the extreme panic attacks she went to a psychiatrist who ended up ‘overprescribing’ her Xanax (alprazolam) which is a benzodiazepine drug, used to treat anxiety and panic disorders.
She claims the psychiatrist gave her 20mg of the drug three times a day. Known as being part of the ‘benzo’ family, the medication can be highly addictive.
Delilah then claimed that she was put on the beta blocker propranolol – used to treat high blood pressure – and caused her to ‘overdose’ when she took it simultaneously with Benadryl.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10158089/Lisa-Rinna-daughter-Delilah-Hamlin-reveals-entered-treatment-Xanax-dependency.html
Ten bricks three times a day?
I’d say she was feeling no pain for quite a while.
Give me that shrink’s name and number. I too feel “anxious”
Will pay in ca$h.
WTF is with those DSLs ?
I mean, Id let her put them to use but she looks like a sex-toy.
That ain’t no bee sting, the whole hive got that bitch’s lips.
Jumpin’ Jimminy – That’s a good Mardi Gras dose; although, I was always partial to Valium for pushing through those 12 hours on/12 hours off shifts.
Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was James Dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would’ve helped that bash
/thank G_d we still have Lou Reed
I don’t know who any of those people are.
Lisa Rinna was New-Hope on Day Of Our Lives when Kristian-Joy Alfonso (actress playing Hope) left. When Alfonso returned Rinna became Old-New-Hope when it was discovered that town villain Stefano Dimera had created her as a clone of Old-Hope to pull some scam on the good citizens of Salem. Then Stefano’s hold on her was broken and she became Billie Reid, upright citizen of Salem. Her husband Harry Hamlin was once a Greek demi-god, then a law-talkin’ guy in Los Angeles, then a famous actor/lecherous murderer who was brought to justice by plucky teen detective Veronica Mars.
The overdose limit for Xanax, according to The Pill book, is 10mg
10mg is an insane amount. Standard dose is what? .5mg?
2mg is considered pretty heavy.
.5 to 3mg is the only range I’ve ever seen.
GOP sweeps VA
It was a white-lash.
Jones said, “You do have the grassroots folks out there fighting for this on the Democratic Party side. The stakes are high. When this election is over in Virginia, we will know have we seen the emergence of the Delta variant of Trumpism. The Delta variant of Trumpism. In other words, Youngkin, same disease, but spreads a lot faster and can get a lot more places. The suburbs, if they fall to him —” ….
“Easier to spread. More easy to spread because if you are looking at what he is doing. He is playing footsie with the worst of Trumpism. He is putting himself forward as a champion of parents. This is a referendum on parents’ rights, and not talking about it, but he is using all of the Critical Race Theory head fakes and head-nods which is a softer version of a very virulent kind of anti-Black posture. I think his is a big deal, because if this is a pathway because if you can flirt with Trumpism, flirt with Trump and still win in the suburbs, that is a new development for us.”
“Sears and Miyares, you are wanted at the white courtesy phone.”
If everything is racism, nothing is.
I believe that is about where we are.
LOL, Van Jones.
You know, when you’re the Jones that makes even less sense…
Another Jones says it is white ignorance
Stupid white people don’t even understand how evil whiteness is.
*sensible chuckle*
Exactly. Why won’t these crackers sit at the back of the bus like they’re told?
Still peddling that lie? Shameless.
Youngkin is the first Republican to copy Trump’s electoral strategy, without acting like Trump. Being friendly and outgoing, while still being willing to mix it up in the culture wars, is gonna be strong medicine.
It didn’t hurt, of course, that McAuliffe has the worst case of resting bitch face ever seen on a male human. He should consider some reconstructive surgery or something…
Decades of servicing the Clintons will do that to you.
Just astounded at the inability of the Dems to grasp why Youngkin won. I hope the Dems continue to misjudge motives and lose everything. At least then the majority of the populace can go about their lives without constant government interference.
“Will QAnon fans believe anything? Hundreds of conspiracy theorists who believe JFK Jr faked his death headed to the Rolling Stones concert for his big reappearance after he failed to emerge at the grassy knoll where they had gathered all day”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10157959/QAnon-supporters-gather-grassy-knoll-await-JFK-Jr-announcing-2024-run-Trump.html
What?
JFK Jr was too stupid to fake his own death.
Blame the tertiary syphilis.
A fine name for a first-born Son!
Wannafud?
No thankee..
This is a FBI/CIA plot to drive idiots nuts.. Seriously, QAnon is a fucking psyops by leftards to create the violence they need to crack down on people and bring in commietopia.
Nah, it’s the same as chem-trailers – just whacked out people. You take a big enough population and those tails on the end are pretty far out there.
I tend to think drugs are involved, either prescription or otherwise with this, and the flat earthers.
Yes, seriously.
QAnon folks think JFK Jr faked his death, has been in hiding all these years, but spent the last few years helping Trump break up child smuggling rings.
It got kinda cold here for this time of year (30ºF or so). When I left for work last night, I noticed the truck wasnt anxious to spin over.
I had to get a jump from a co-worker this morning. Scan-tool says the alternator is just dandy, so its off to get a battery.
Since when do automotive batteries cost over $200? I mean, the diesel I understand- dual 750CCA batteries.
But for a gas GMC ?
That’s because of Trump’s supply-chain issues.
I have the same task this morning. First I have to find the right wrench to unclamp the battery since they made the screw too long to use a socket wrench.
I may have mentioned previously that I dont curse the assembler that made today’s DIY maintenance a pain.
My ire is directed at the engineers that designed the damn thing.
GM must have been taking notes from the Germans when they settled on a design for the battery clamps and case. I think its 3 different fastener sizes at least.
The battery should sit right up top, just like God intended.
The one thing I did appreciate about my BMW Z3 is that while it had the battery in the trunk, it had jumping posts in front where US cars have their battery. So really, you could jumpstart it easily no matter how the car was stalled out.
My Challenger had that too. It was really nice and clean when I had to change the battery. It was in a neat box, all the fasteners were easy to get to. A pleasure.
I watched a video of how to change the battery on my fusion in horror. You have to disassemble the trunk, taking out most of the liner. Then you have to take out 3 or 4 mounting bolts before actually removing the battery.
Thankfully there was enough residual charge to get the e-brake disengaged and out of the way of the garage door last night. I’ll replace the battery when it’s not raining. ?
Can one of the car makers put together a simple car with no electronics and a small enough engine to fit in the engine compartment with room to spare? I’d buy that thing in an instant.
My BMW is like that too, although really you just have to empty the trunk and pull up the floor. The hold-down system is relatively straightforward to release the battery.
Let’s not forget with most recent BMWs you need to use a scantool to set the battery construction (AGM, Wet, etc) and capacity.
Otherwise it will over / under charge and/or throw an error code on the dash. Because it’s BMW…
yep, that is a pain in the ass.
I never really planned to own a BMW, but I think you just helped insure that I never will.
Back-up cameras are now mandated, so no.
I’m going to keep my 2006 Sonata as long as I possibly can.
OTOH, my 2000 Ram truck had to have an OEM part that was difficult to find, so I’m not sure how well that’s going to work out or for how long. (Re truck: Now the dealership wants to charge us $1200 over what we were quoted. If they keep insisting [as in, not returning our calls], they’re going to get to keep it. 21yo truck with 400k miles and an owner who won’t be browbeaten…)
That sucks Mo, which part was hard to find?
As an owner of a 20yo Dodge Ram with 350k on it I feel your pain.
Waiting for my battery install at Wal-Mart right now. I’m could have bought the proper metric wrench set, but I’m packed to move and don’t need more crap to haul.
Wow, packed already? You’ve put this move into high gear, haven’t you?
The realtor walked through our house and was like “Holy crap, this looks like a model house.” Most of the clutter is gone or boxed.
^^^ This guy knows how to sell!
Pro Tip: If you lay the wrench across the battery terminals, it will weld to them and make a convenient lifting handle.
How many spare wrenches do you have that you can waste them like that?
Well, none; I borrow all the tools I use…
You are the kind of genius that scares me.
Same issue here. Went in to repair a water pump, couldn’t start the car after fixing (I think) the issue. $202 for a new battery.
Interesting hot-take…
Julián Castro
Youngkin has shown Republicans that they can launder dog whistles through huge unregulated platforms, driving base turnout—even while distancing from Trump.
Democrats need to better control the narrative—with our own wedge issues and with a positive, forward-thinking message.
“We can’t win when people can discuss issues amongst themselves.”
At least they’re signaling what they intend to do.
If only more people would listen.
dog whistles
If you can here it, you are the dog.
What about if I can there it? I hear english majors get mad at me for doing that…
Can you everywhere it?
You are such a graham-er not-see
That is a terrifying statement from a sitting Congressman no matter which Party he represents.
With democrats it is always about making sure all the fucking serfs know & believe is the narrative they want them to. Because that’s how democracy is protected & served….
Republican Winsome Sears elected Virginia’s first female African-American lieutenant governor
So you are saying that Winsome Sears is the black face of white-supremacy.
That one doesn’t mind well.
Minutes after polls closed in Virginia on Tuesday, MSNBC’s election night co-hosts made it clear that they were pessimistic about their chances as they instead continued to lie about gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, his voters, and Republicans writ large by calling them “dangerous” human beings “to our national security” and racists “in fleece” peddling “lies” about critical race theory (CRT).
Way to tone down the rhetoric.
Why stop now? It’s worked so well so far.
We’re not teaching CRT. Also, CRT’s awesome you bigot. They’re beyond redemption.
Our knobs go to 11.
My knob goes to 12, twice!
You’re looking at the clock.
Nah, it don’t bend that way.
Try LSD.
Not a nut punch:
The dingo didn’t get the baby after all: Missing Australian girl found alive 18 days after going missing
So who took her to that home?
I’m guessing the unrelated 36 year old who is in custody is accused of that.
Get out!
If you are looking for something to binge-listen to, may I recommend the Critical Drinker, on YouTube. He does movie-reviews while drunk, or something. He is Scottish.
He has an alternate channel called “The Drinker After Hours” where he joins with other movie fans to talk about different movies. They are hours long. So far I have listened to their discussion of various of the Star Trek movies, Indiana Jones, and the Rocky Films. An interesting story from the latter: in Rocky 4, Stallone told the actor who was playing the Russian to hit him as hard as he could in the chest (Stallone wanted it to look real). Stallone woke up two days later in the hospital. The other guy had hit him so hard that he dislocated Stallone’s heart.
I can’t figure out how to link directly to his channels, so here is a video from his original: https://youtu.be/CQ92cggLMx8
And this is from “After Hours”: https://youtu.be/F4J3RwhkDwQ
“I must break you” indeed.
That would have been Dolph Lundgren, the Swede with a chemical engineering degree. And yeah, he can punch. Stallone was buying his own bullshit at that point.
Not to mention several ISKA open weight championship trophies. That was almost as great as Out For Justice, when ‘Judo Gene’ LeBelle choked Steven Seagal until he shit himself…
CD’s great, funny dude…
I just discovered him about a month ago and I think I’ve managed to go through every video he’s made on his main channel. He’s really articulated the reasons why I hate most modern cinema better than I ever could. His hatred of JJ Abrams and his talentless group of friends that have infested and ruined almost every beloved franchise is legendary. He’s definitely worth your time if you’re a movie buff.
His latest comparing new Star Trek to classic was great.
I recently rewatched Star Trek, Khan, Search For Spock, and Undiscovered Country and the difference between them and new Trek are immense.
Yeah. I’d just kinda been ignoring new Star Trek, but watching that video made me remember why I used to like and infuriated me. The skin-suiting that Hollywood has been doing lately by taking interesting, philosophical and intellectually curious properties and forcing them to become simpleminded mouthpieces for their cause-of-the week woke activism is unforgivable. HBO’s Watchman has to be even more egregious than what they’ve done to Star Trek.
This is almost as delicious as 2016. Good lord, the screeching is epic and nearly as harmonic.
The writing is on the wall for them, but have no doubt that the lesson they have learned from this rejections isn’t that they are fucking nuts, but that they MUST be even more divisive and destructive, cause power comes from splitting Americans into groups and pitting them against each other, and then, ramming the evil shit they want to foist on us so they can keep power and keep robbing the coffers with more speed, cause the fucking serfs are being/getting too uppity.
Brand new footage of Kyle Rittenhouse shooting released
And he is still going to get shafted.
I’m still holding on to hope for him being exonerated.
My money’s on hung jury.
Not likely when they do some serious jury tampering to make sure the jury knows the cost of not delivering the verdict that the statists want…
Hopefully there’ll be at least one that won’t fold. We’ll know soon enough.
Didnt work for Nifong tho.
I wonder where he is these days. I should call Wendy’s.
All male, huh?
And they was right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaK_FgrIlYY
Being chased and shot at multiple times before he ever pulls the trigger. Then chased by a mob – two of them very obviously try to kill him.
I was listening to the jury selection… yeah, he’s going to be just fine.
The fact that the gunshot prior to his first shot is now confirmed is fucking huge.
Sounds like multiple shots prior to his. Possibly fireworks, though?
We do know that someone 30ft away fires a single 9mm shot into the air and then 2.5s later Kyle shoots Rosenbaum. The state claims the shot into the air is unrelated and that Kyle could not have been responding to it when he gunned down his first victim in cold blood. I, however, think a pistol firing 30ft away is plenty loud and alarming to react to.
Defense attorney: “Your honor, I’d like to demonstrate the volume of a 9mm pistol at 10 yards.”
heh
Also, the aerial footage shows just how fast his attacker goes down when shot. The other shots are taken from the ground, so it’s really hard to see how close the guy was to actually catching Rittenhouse from that angle. From the air, you see he’s nearly in reach and probably could have tackled Rittenhouse in another step or two. When Rittenhouse fires, the guy drops like a sack of potatoes. Rittenhouse fires four times, not sure how many hit, but a 5.56×45 at that range is going to do some massive damage. It’s like the guy’s central nervous system just quit.
According to the prosecutor’s opening statement, the fist shot entered his thigh and shattered his femur, the second through his pelvis. He started pitching forward immediately so third shot was into his shoulder, and fourth shot (the State claims this was the fatal shot) went into his back.
“I fired my weapon until I no longer feared for my life.”
Only the king’s men may say that.
“…but a 5.56×45 at that range is going to do some massive damage.”
QFMFT.
Was kind of hoping the Minneapolis would vote to eliminate the police department. The weekly stories would be amazing.
I am beyond thrilled that the Braves won the World Series. They are my hands-down favorite team after my Cubs. I will always root for any NL team to beat the AL and intrinsically despicable, and anti-baseball, DH. I am very upset that it seems apparent that there will be a universal DH next year. Having 9 offensive/defensive players at the same time is a fundamental part of the strategy of the game. Being able to hit, hopefully, or at least be able to give a decent at-bat and able to lay down a bunt, makes the game better. It makes the manager decide when it’s worth taking out a pitcher in an important offensive spot, or to choose to risk it and get the best outcome possible. It’s important. Also leads to lower-scoring games and a more 9 v. 9 game that it was always (’til ’74…) was supposed to be.
I hope that Maddux (my favorite pitcher ever), Chipper Jones, Smoltz, Glavine and many more were able to see it live. It’s also fantastic to see the cheating ‘Stros lose and get blanked in Game 6.
Thursday is my hardest teaching day of the weak and I’m gonna have to get to bed in two-hours max. Must pop in the shower and get sorted for all of that. Prep is done, but rest needs to be banked so I’m fully recharged for a long day of teaching. Which here, as I’ve mentioned, is also a very long day of performing and being in ESL Teacher Character. Teaching all ages tomorrow, from age 5-14. BUT! Payday is in two days. Good to keep that hunger in perspective and stay sharp. Still upset that I didn’t break that bone. Plenty of antibiotic meds on cue, but a very unseemly dark blue streak in the gash in my finger. Ain’t no thing. Never complain about things you can’t directly affect. That’s how you sink further into the depths of depression and hell.
Shower time! I’ll catch up and should be around checking in.
I kind of wish I had watched it. I don’t have time, though. Also, no cable tv.
I watched the Cubs win in 2016, though. I am not much of a sports guy, but I had decided that the Cubs were my favorite baseball team ever since that game where the fan messed up the play, and the Cubs lost. “These are my guys,” I said.
Since they won, I have to pick another team. The Cleveland Idiots would be the next logical choice, but maybe there is an even losinger team I can root for.
The way they manage pitchers now – a complete game is a rarity – changes the game more than the DH.
I agree that the way they manage pitchers has profoundly altered the game. But at least the rules of the game are still followed. The manager has to risk keeping his starter in for longer, especially if he’s doing very well. If he decides to remove him and get a pinch-hitter up there, that will take out a pitcher who’s doing great and have to put the game into the hands of the BP. That’s a decision that they have to weigh over and make. That’s their fundamental job. With the DH, ya just leave the pitcher in for as long as possible and never have to be confronted with that sort of decision. That cheapens the game.
Without the DH and with the ever/over-present pitching changes, that fundamental decision to remove a player forever from the game still has to be made. With the DH, I agree that it’s easier for the manager to leave the pitcher in longer, but only at the cheapened reality that that choice never has to be confronted.
Why not have a DH for the catcher? Or just to hell with it, a 9-man offense and 9-man defense? I’m very upset that it’s going to come to pass, the universal DH. Having your weakest hitter up there on the spot, struggling to do whatever he can to help his team, even though that’s not his specialty, is an important and riveting part of the game. The fact that pitchers hitting leads to more strikeouts isn’t a flaw. It’s an aspect of what the game is about. It also leads to shorter and tighter games, which I find to be far more exciting than 13-11 offensive romps.
Even cricket still makes their pitchers bat. Although in something like Twenty20 it will never get to them, if you are any good at all.
#BanTheDH
Yes. It’s disgusting. The only things about it that are fun: 1. I do understand its value in keeping someone in the game for longer. They can still hit but are older/etc and can’t play the field anymore. Keeps that type of person in the dugout and maybe can act as a player-coach like influence. 2. I actually enjoy the World Series home field rules where the NL is advantageous playing on the road and the AL is severely screwed playing in the NL park. I am roughly OK with the idea of keeping it an AL/NL split, but I detest it and will always root for the NL over the AL. I’ve rooted for the fucking Cardinals before specifically because, although I hate them, I hate the DH more.
Never root for the Cardinals. Never.
If there is one thing that Reds and Cubs fans can agree on, it is that the Cardinals are all that is wrong with the world.
I will never root for them, ever, ever, ever. They have players that I love.
Ozzie Smith was fantastic. When he was with StL, Pujols was an absolute BEAST. Tremendous player. Saw him 18 times a year and he was mother FUCKING terrifying and effective. Edmonds was great and I enjoyed his time with the Cubs. But the Cards and LaRussa (back in the day) can go fuck themselves.
I did not mean to forget Scott Rolen. Helluva ballplayer. Majestic on the field and powerful in the box. Respect.
My one and only title with my fantasy team had Ozzie at shortshop.
I dominated steals (Smith had 40 but it was Grissom’s 78 that put me over the top) and saves and was still going to finish 2nd until my team as a whole hit .400 in September.
I think Bagwell must have hit about .600 that month.
Not a Braves fan, but after MLB moved the All Star Game from Atlanta to Denver because “racist voting laws”, while still trying to honor the late Hank Aaron, having to broadcast WS games from Atlanta and then having the Braves win is delicious.
This could be hilarious if the guy pulls it off. The NJ Senate President could lose to a Republican truck driver who spent … wait for it … $153.00 on his campaign. An obvious sign we need to control spending on political campaigns.
He was able to use white privilege that isn’t available to Democrats.
Having the $153 truck driver win would be the best outcome.
OMG, that would be delicious. Sweeney is such a tool, couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
That would be great. Ed looks way too normal to be on the NJ Senate.
That lady in the picture, with the gun?
I’d vote for her to be President of the USA.
Tulsi is pretty lefty, Dude. Be careful what you wish for.
But the picture is of Winsome Sears.
“President Sears! Antifa forces have breached the perimeter!”
*Chi-chunk*
“Arm yourselves, gentlemen. You can borrow one of my guns on the rack, there.”
Sounds like the premise for a good remake of Air Force One.
Swiss waffles….mmmmm.
Heh. Holy misthread, Batman!
Festus broke out the heavy duty beer goggles this time.
Jamaican, right? Became an American citizen after serving is what I was told.
Unfortunately not natural-born 🙁
native-born…whatever the term is, I can’t remember.
But yeah, she ran an electrical business with her Marine electrician training – blue collar all the way.
Shepherd’s pie and sleep. God-speed, fellow Glibs, let’s watch the cheat later today.
In our local elections all anti-CRT candidates won school board seats. I wonder if that translates to the congressional seat flipping back to red in ’22.
That’s great. And to make things even better, they will have the FBI to protect them from protestors!
Um, no. When a school board member proposed scaling back the school lunch program to include only the poor, the man received multiple death threats, and not just internet comment board “die in a fire, asshole” threats. FBI said it’s a local matter.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/22/how-fake-news-from-the-washington-post-rocked-one-wisconsin-school-board/
The Defund the Police initiative got trounced 56 to 44. AND Boy Mayor Frey won.
I hope Frey goes to work exacting revenge on every one of those fuckers who made him do The Walk of Shame. I would love to see him fuck over all the crazy fuckers on the City Council and defund all the nonprofits that are run by the crazy proggies.
The Rent Control measure seems worse than that one. And it passed.
Better no police and no rent control than police + rent control.
Of course, both failing would have been the best result.
Our rental laws are already so fucking nuts that rent control probably won’t have any real world effects.
I had several friends who all thought rental property would be the path to long term wealth, and all of them gave it up after a couple of years. Mostly because the renters could not pay for years and avoid eviction. All the while filing complaints that forced them to upgrade their properties.
“Our rental laws are already so fucking nuts that rent control probably won’t have any real world effects.”
Oh, it will have the effects the people that plan to use the chaos and pain these changes cause, want, for sure, your holiness…
Mornin’
Businessman Glenn Youngkin was declared the winner early Wednesday morning in Virginia’s closely watched gubernatorial race, defeating former Gov. Terry McAuliffe in an election widely viewed as a bellwether on Democrats’ agenda and rule in Washington.
🙂
Republican Winsome Sears, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, was elected Virginia’s first female African-American lieutenant governor on Tuesday evening.
🙂
Pundit Stephen L. Miller joked, “It’s early yet but MSNBC is pulling a bit ahead in the election meltdown. Still waiting for returns from some of CNN’s more loyal viewers and the late night returns but Joy Reid looks to be pulling away early. Still too close to call though.”
🙂
Ciattarelli was recently asked at a campaign event about his feelings about mandates and he said there’d be none under his administration — an allusion to mask and vaccination mandates.
This is why I want to see Ciattarelli win, even though I thought Murphy would win. Let’s see how the day goes.
A California man dies after sacrificing himself to save a woman on a zipline after fearing they’d both fall under the weight.
That is a hero.
The first time I even heard of Youngkin was September when I was driving through the Virginia portion of the Delmarva pennensula to reach the bay bridge and tunnel on the road trip. There was a sea of signs in many of the parts of the state I drove through, though I admit, Norfolk was the biggest city on the route through Virginia.
“California zipline employee sacrifices himself to save woman stranded in middle of ride”
This story is painful, assuming the harness wasn’t actually ripping, he should have held on. Anything with a weight limit (250 lbs in this case) involving loss of human life should have a safety factor of like 5 so chances are the system would have been fine with both of them.
I don’t trust safety gear to even make it to the rated value.
Safety gear is usually several times stronger than rated.
Modern manufacturing is often done in places where shortcuts are taken and the people don’t care about the quality of the end product, facing few if any repercussions from the brands whose name goes on them.
Not generally true for climbing and aerial rigging gear.
For sure there can be any number of defects from abuse or lack of quality control, sttistically it is likely to be more than strong enough. Especially in the situation described I would absolutely hold on.
Yeah, I would’ve held on for dear life with the hopes the margin would save me. RIP to the guy.
That was my thought. The story sounds better with the hero angle but the facts are this is a tragic death. I maintain that ziplining in most forms is absolutely lame which makes this especially tragic.
true. I’m surprised. I thought it was pretty safe though.
Rare ways to die get vastly over reported on. All the people who go ziplining every year, and this is the first time I’ve read about a fatality from it.
From the article: Roughly 16 people die a year from ziplines.
Of course, no link to confirm that in the article.
I’m not real excited about hooking my ass to somebody else’s safety gear and hanging from it.
I’ve heard from people that it’s kind of a let down and boring. Seems like the risk/reward isn’t worth it.
I believe South Park made an episode about it several years ago.
Exactly. When I had my kids do it, the little 15 year looked at me confused when I asked to see their latest inspection and that I wanted to inspect the gear also. /former certified climber instructor,
I took the kids to one of those climbing monkey mazes a couple weeks ago where they have a harness hooked to a track above you.
I wasn’t concerned about the 70 lb kid, but when I looked at the wear on the plastic track bushings I opted myself out.
Do they die “from” ziplines or “with” ziplines?
near. It was the sudden stop.
Zipline related complications.
My first thought was “Rated for 250?! I’m not getting on that thing.”
And no, I don’t weigh 250.
250 lbs under what acceleration?
I believe it was rated for “zzzzzzzz”.
No shit.
What something is rated for and what they can actually handle are two different numbers, and sometimes the difference is pretty big. A footbridge rated for 15,000 lbs. won’t collapse under 15,001 lbs. of weight.
New hotness!
Combine the yearly disdain for deplorables who like to go deer hunting in Minnesoda with…… CORONA PR0N!!!
Sounds like we need to ban meat eating then and you Covid denialists can just all suck it. Soy and pan fried fried locusts for everyone.
Well, all the serfs. The top men will still be getting Kobe beef and lobster.. Caviar occasionally.
Sounds to me like we need to eliminate all the SUPER SPREADER deer. And it needs to be done from farthest distance possible. Time for the Barret to become the hunting rifle of choice, for the children.
Well, when can we start “vaccinating” them?
^this.
The lockdowns will end as soon as all the deer are vaccinated. Outside is not safe people!
*notes 10 deer in backyard*
I wonder if we can leverage corona panic to get the tree huggers on board with culling the herd. Who am I kidding, it’s NJ. But the exploding heads would be entertaining.
Oh, fuck off with that bs.
Well, duh — isn’t the whole “animal reservoirs” thing both known and a big part of why people are telling the ZERO COVID BLAAARGG! crowd that it just isn’t possible anymore than ZERO COMMON COLD?
Just when you thought the day couldn’t have any more good news….
Minnesoda Nice!
When they do it it is patriotic dissent. When their enemies (I use that word because that’s how they see those not standing with them) do it, it is a sign of hate and evil.
Good read….
Thanks! Just ordered 🙂
Fuck Joe Biden? Not even with Hillary Clinton’s
dickprehensile reproductive appendage.“And there it is: AP calls the Virginia governor’s race for Glenn Youngkin.”
https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1455756399380779009
That’s settled law then.
Looks like a bot glitch.
I love the call to tax churches. These fucking idiots don’t seem to realize that preaching politics is a regular practice at “black congregations” around the country. The Reverend Al and the Reverend Jesse didn’t separate their politics from their preaching, and Reverend Wright didn’t either.
Go ahead, fucktards. Hoist yourself on your own petard and alienate the black voters.
Meanwhile, in 45 years attending Catholic masses, the only thing close to politics mentioned is “pray for our leaders to have wisdom, pray that they embrace peace, pray that they respect all life.” None of which is political activism.
Yep. Growing up Presbyterian, there was only vague talk, almost like old school teachers, about politics. Nothing specific, just religious platitudes to persons elected.
Republican Winsome Sears, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, was elected Virginia’s first female African-American lieutenant governor on Tuesday evening.
Not legitimately black.
No * true * Scotsman / black woman could be an AR-15 toting Republican!
Curious: What does your wife think about this?
Exactly as I expected – just asked her:
Me: “What do you think of Virginia electing a black female governor?”
Mrs Prole: “She’s a nutjob. I’m extremely disappointed in the people from my home state.”
*disappointed sigh*
At least it isn’t a surprise.
My wife isn’t particularly right wing, but we had a proposition for giving everyone a ‘right to clean air and water’. Her first question was “what the hell does that mean in practice?”
God I love her.
I get to listen to the Steve Harvey show in my office(lucky me) and they went through a list of the black people who had won.
They didn’t mention Winsome.
How odd, they must have forgot her.
Funny. When I [[[Mormon]]] graduated from a Southern Baptist evangelical school, they made posters of and mentioned at the ceremony everyone who was going to college and where they were going, except for … me. I was going to BYU, unquestionably the most prestigious and hard-to-get-into school represented by my class.
*settles back, awaits gracious-in-defeat comments from Democratic mob*
Oh sure…
I bet we will be told the racists won cause they cheated…
RUSSIA!!
Or something like that…
Tard Tuesday: Special Election Follow-Up Issue
Anyone that doesn’t believe what I do is a racist! Evil! BAD BAD BAD!
This is so stupid it hurts.
Not nearly enough [to the moron that wrote it].
Ok, you are wrong. Your premises are wrong. You’re lying through your damned teeth and you are an imbecile. Any other requests?
This person is down a deep well and cannot be saved. Apparently the very simple explanation that people don’t like Democrat policies, especially now that we’ve seen them in action, is too far-fetched.
Someone needs a fainting couch.
Vigilante Bounty Hunting? Seriously?
sitting President blew up our peaceful transfer of power
Biden didn’t take office?
Violence is not only acceptable, it is rewarded.
For leftists, yes that is the case.
Supporting an authoritarian dictatorship is not only acceptable, it is rewarded.
So you are against Dem lockdowns and mandates?
The violent overthrow of American Democracy is not only acceptable, it is rewarded
Show me on the doll where the election touched you.
That person is insane.
Yep. 30 years ago he would be the town nutter that everyone poked fun at down at the bar.
Well, ranting at DU is about the same thing.
This person thinks supply chain issues were caused by Trumpist guerrillas setting off roadside bombs and hijacking trains.
Sweet – it’s LHD too.
Anybody want to go 50/50?
No Reserve: 1968 Toyota 2000GT
I doubt I fit in that thing.
But I would have liked to snag this at that price: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2005-mazda-rx-8-11/
I had one of those on a ridiculous lease deal. It was a 6 speed and I bought the base model. Dealer was not happy with me.
Fun, fun car with really nice handling. Motor sounded great and it was fun to reve the heck out of, but the lack of torque was annoying.
Given that most independents won’t work on them I don’t need the aggravation. My understanding is that coils are a weak spot and folks have adopted GM LS coils that work much better.
Yeah, the rotaries just don’t pump out the torque. I had an RX-7 way back when, before I unintentionally mated it with a Camaro at 60 mph.
But they’re fun when you get them wound up.
How am I supposed to attach an anti-aircraft gun to that thing?
I’m annoyed at that site. I searched specifically for the Hilux, and it showed a generic serach for “Toyota Pickup”. I asked for a specific model, if you don’t have any, just say so.
Ooooh yeah. That’s a beaut.
The dealership I take my Tacoma to has a bunch of 2000GT posters and memorabilia all over the shop – I’ve been tempted more than once to steal a poster for my living room.
Virginia stared evil in the face, and a majority of them chose evil.
And the wind cried, “DEMOCRACY!”
Democracy sucks but at least I don’t hold it up as some kind of false ideal when “my side” is winning.
In this guy’s case, the wind cried, “loser!”
“Virginia stared evil in the face, and a majority of them chose evil.”
Huh, I could have sworn I just read again that McAuliffe lost. I guess that shipment of ballots finally arrived from Broward County.
People that tried to fake a racist incident, not once but twice, lost to evil, huh?
What kind of fucking stupid bubble must you live in to feel that while your side clearly does evil shit, the other side is the one that is evil because it calls you out on your evil?
Progjection – it’s a thing.
Terry concedes.
What he isn’t waiting for the cheating to save his ass? How can this be?
Margin was too large.
Three possible explanations:
(1) The NOVA areas where the Dems have the machinery to vote are controlled by people answering to the Obama/Biden faction of the party, and don’t much mind a member of the Clinton faction being turfed out.
(2) The Dems are concerned with the numbers of people who think the Presidential election was . . . questionable, and don’t want to raise a big red flag for a mere governor’s election.
(3) It wasn’t close enough to cheat without it being too obvious, especially now that the scales have fallen from people’s eyes.
I wonder how the intellectual pygmies on Morning Joke are handling their disappointment.
With grace and quiet resolve, no doubt.
Scarborough is going with the stupid, deplorable rubes came out in force for Youngkin and overwhelmed the educated, noble elite who voted for McAuliffe.
So appealing to his viewing audience.
This person is down a deep well and cannot be saved. Apparently the very simple explanation that people don’t like Democrat policies, especially now that we’ve seen them in action, is too far-fetched.
OMFG!
Buyer’s remorse is REAL!
Speaking of the horrific message encapsulated in the election of a Republican governor…
Why didn’t all the lefty carpetbaggers slink back to California and their other native haunts when Gianforte won in Montana, last year?
NOT FAIR.
I don’t care what party they’re from, I just love seeing arrogant, elitist hypocrites lose. I love it so much.
^^^
Huzzah!
Of course. Now we don’t have mean tweets.
Biden says that he doesn’t think anyone would “trade this Thanksgiving for last Thanksgiving,” despite prices being “as bad as things are.”
:raises hand: I sure as hell would. I miss energy independence, the economy starting to come back, etc. Even better would be trading today for last October and having people actually pay attention to the Hunter Biden stories. Let’s Go Brandon — Back to 2020.
I would.
“Even more stunning, NJ governor race is too close to call.”
Every time I look, Ciattarelli is a little more ahead.
Makes we wonder when that shipment of ballots are arriving from Broward County?
Latest has Murphy ahead.
🙁
Yeah, Newark is probably just starting to get around to counting its votes.
The blatant racism from the left this morning is really something to behold. Apparently, only white folkx care about their children. Any issue involving protecting & nurturing kids is a white dog whistle.
They are upset because the plan to usher in 1619 project materials has been temporarily slowed.
And even the right wingnut dogs are making racist paw signs now.
Decent schools, decent jobs, and decent neighborhoods? You may as well be in the Klan.
I hope the left continues to drone on about racism. Every fucking day until the next election. I want them to drown in their own tears.
These dishonest cuntes can’t hang: Joy Reid: Glenn Youngkin Campaign Coded Racial Hysteria In ‘Critical Race Theory’ Hype
My wife’s lefty friend from VA just tried to tell her that Biden giving illegal immigrants who had children separated from them at the border, $450,000 each, was fake news made up by Fox News. And she learned this news from CNN, the most trusted news ever.
I mean if it is real, there’s now 2 ways to win the lottery. Buy tickets and get really lucky. Or got to Mexico, walk to the US border and say ‘No Ingles’, ‘Where are my 15 kids? They were just right here standing behind me!’.
I heard on TMITE that there were more than 1,000 kids, captured by Trump, that have yet to be returned to their parents who can’t be found. What kind of b.s. is this, unless, of course, the parents aren’t looking for the kids? After WWII, there were extensive efforts to reunite scattered refugees and huge paper databases created to expedite the effort.
If the feds have a database of the kids, and the parents are looking for them, it shouldn’t take 9 months to match them up.
Have they looked in a pizza restaurant in DC?
Or the Lincoln Project HQs
I think the most irritating thing is the media repeating Terry’s lie Virginia isn’t teaching critical race theory or that it “doesn’t exist”.
The City Journal actually tracked down a McAullife memo that specifically mentioned it by that term and their plan to teach it.
We also have the curriculum for multiple counties teaching Ibram x Kendi, “White Fragility”, etc
Perhaps the first thing Youngkin should do as Governor is commission a full review of related documentation and issue a report on just how deeply it is (or isn’t) actually embedded in the VA education system.
The first thing Youngkin should do as Governor is shut the VA Department of Education, then rehire the bare handful of useful personel to stand up a new agency to handle state-level school businesses.
A commission just gives the bureaucrats something to slow-walk. Get rid of them wholesale, first and foremost, then stand up a new office if one is really necessary.
Good point. I endorse the “strip it to the dirt, then rebuild what’s strictly necessary and nothing else.”
So, nothing.
Scarborough is going with the stupid, deplorable rubes came out in force for Youngkin and overwhelmed the educated, noble elite who voted for McAuliffe.
Once again, the people have failed society. Shirked their obligations to their betters, they did.
He and Anna Navarro ought to get a room. I don’t know for the life of me why they bother to continue with the transparent I’m a Republican farce.
Controlling the Overton Window
Much like David Brooks on NPR
Murphy will win, but this might be tougher to fraudulently fix. Sweeny is NJ Senate President.
Sweeney trailing in re-election bid; Polistina, Stanfied win; Pappas leads Zwicker
Also NJ is a nearly 20 percentage point deep blue state. I doubt there’s much in place to manufacture votes in an emergency at this point.
Murphy just surged ahead by a pretty wide margin, I guess that ballot shipment finally arrived.
It was always going to be that.
Yeah I think they just needed to count the votes.
The thing that really stood out to me about the VA race is that all of the lead that McAullife had at one point was in mail in ballots and early voting. At polling places on election day, Youngkin trouned him pretty badly. This is why dems will spare no effort to keep massive mail-in ballot access as a forever thing. The pandemic was just a foot in the door.
Shockingly the populace of NY voted against a proposal to enshrine no excuse mail-ins, by a fairly wide margin.
I’m sure their rulers will over-rule them. The rubes have no clue how things are supposed to be done.
I read that 300,000 New York City’ers left that section blank.
??
*Looks over at California and their rejection or approval of Prop measures over the years that were ignored by their betters*
“There were two sides to the ballot?”
/NPC
@Rhywun/Uncivil
Crazy thing is only like 25% of eligible voters ever vote, so these are the 25% most politically active people. The lack of checking the back might have resulted in some of the surprising result son the propositions (everything I wanted to fail failed, except the environmental one)
In other good news, Byron Brown got wrote down. So we’ll just have the same plodding party system running Buffalo instead of full-on communism.
Just for the record I voted no on the propositions on the back of the ballot, especially the vague environmental rights nonsense.
I’m glad buffalo isn’t that far gone. Though I have little hope for them.
People eat that shit up! “I like clean air and water! Lets vote for that.”
I voted ‘no’ on everything as well.
Yeah, Walton just got lucky by catching the Party off guard during the primary. There is not such a big appetite for communism here outside of the typical lefty circles. The general area is much wealthier than it was when I was growing up. Don’t know how that compares to the rest of the country, but things are visibly better here than they were 30 years ago. It was kind of laughable having someone claiming Byron did a bad job (mostly by getting out of the way and letting some development occur)
In my time there, Buffalo never sunk as low as Cleveland or Detroit. There’s still hope for it yet.
Maybe.
The murdering old folks platform payed off it seems. They’re schlonging themselves but, hey, whaddya gonna do?
In extremely local election news, our neighborhood HOA is electing all three Board members. Thirteen candidates, three positions, each household gets one form and can vote for up to three people.
Two candidates looked like anti-Karens, about half appeared to be Karens, and then there’s a handful I’m not sure about. Calling everyone on the list, trying to get a feel for who to give my third vote to.
If I can’t find an obvious third choice, should I leave it unvoted on to not dilute my vote, or pick one of the ambiguous choices to make it harder for the Karens to sweep all three spots?
Vote ambiguous candidate. You might be pleasantly surprised. An election that size you can make the difference.
Best would be to vote to dissolve the HOA.
I predict the winner will be whoever gets more than 1000 votes
“But we only have 387 residents?!”
If you only count the living ones, sure.
Write Pie in.
I also love that we had a big event at work today, and you just know that behind the political appointees’ and Congress creatures’ hopeful speeches is utter panic about last night. After their platitudes about what great work we’re doing, they’ll get back on their political conference calls about how they need to double down on calling the electorate racist white supremacists.
I was at the bar last night with two of my retired airline captain buddies, and they were talking about flying Vegas runs. They both remarked on how festive the atmosphere is on board the airplane on the way to Vegas, but how quet and despondent the passengers are on the way home.
Picture that at your meeting!
I was at the bar last night – I hope you were not consuming alcohol on a Tuesday
Is that some obscure Eastern European superstition?
I have decided not to drink an y alcohol for 3 days a week Monday Tuesday and Wednesday and if I ain’t drinking I don’t want any of you lot to
Vampire Karen spotted.^^^
You need to join a Wednesday Zoom. We’ll show you how weeknights are done!
Yeah no way in hell I am awake at 3 AM on a Thursday
The Euros are so puritanical that the Puritans had to run away to a new continent to escape the puritanism.
From multiple trips to Vegas… can confirm.
There is (was? I’ve been out of the loop for a while) a non-stop from MSY to LHR every Monday morning. It was referred to by the flight officers and crew as “The Angry Lobster Express” because it was full of exceptionally sunburned, hung-over, tea-sippers returning to their dreary isle.
“The Angry Lobster Express”
Stolen.
Seems like Brits and Krauts are averse to sunscreen for some reason. In Turkey, the amount of bright-red-skinned Germans was unreal.
Something struck me about the PMSNBC meltdown. Wallace claims Critical Race Theory (CRT) isn’t real. That’s just false on its face. Whatever your political views CRT is a thing that exists. What I suspect she was trying to say is that CRT is not being taught in schools. But, that’s essentially a motte and bailey game. One that even ostensibly libertarian sources seem to be happy to join in on.
Yes, high school and grade school students aren’t reading the collected works of Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado in class. Congratulations. Clap, clap, clap. That’s a beautiful little motte you’ve set up for yourself there. But, when people are attacking the teaching of CRT, that’s not what they’re complaining about. And everyone knows it. They object to the claim America is a uniquely and systemically racist society. They object to the claim that all white people bear collective guilt for black slavery. They object to the notion that the only acceptable explanation for any differences in outcomes between the races is racism. They object to being assigned an unearned claim of privilege. And they object to the claim that only white people can be racist because of the novel claim that racism requires collective racial power differentials. If this isn’t CRT, it’s certainly the assumptions underlying and conjectures arrived at through CRT. So much so that even the proponents of these presumptions casually referred to them under the rubric of CRT until about five minutes after people started objecting. Perhaps a broader “post-modern neo-Marxism” would have been a better label. But, it’s the term that has been used. And its the bailey that so many seem determined to hide .
Actually we know for a fact it was being taught in Virginia. I mentioned above and the Federalist has more detailed articles. And it wasn’t being taught under a euphemism. It was specifically being taught.
That was a straight up lie.
Also note: I’m not convinced that CRT was the big issue they claim. There were numerous other education issues.
CRT is not being taught in schools – if not directly, it influences what is taught. Which can have the same effect.
This is the same crap as screaming about the official definition of CRT. which is not that all important as many things are defined in a way that makes them sound better than they are as basic marketing
They’re teaching the application of the theory, not the theory itself, and that’s bad enough.
Inflation news: New I-bonds are paying 7.12%. My Mom has some older ones that just got upped to over 9% for the next 6 months.
Turns out some local monument/memorial measures failed spectacularly.
The people of Virginia will; bitterly regret their choice, but it is the way of the world, people do not learn to only vote one party
Even with all the screeching and wailing from the media about recent election results I still think “Look, there isn’t enough time in a year to talk about all the different types of rice there are” will be the most silly thing I hear on TV today.
/watching a cooking show
And yet, I really want to live in a world where we can wax eloquently about rice variants while politics are reduced to a point where they may be safely disregarded.
Here here!
No, maybe on a cooking forum.
So, here?
Subtle retort, with a dash of spiciness.
That was rather saucy of him.
Hear hear?
Fuck it, I don’t care right now.
Hear here.
/looks at the number of comments on any post on food
Pennridge School board Republican sweep
The Republicans ran on, in part, an anti-CRT and anti-Lil Rona panic measure platform.
The five Republican candidates running for open seats on Pennridge’s School Board of Directors, including the party’s two incumbents, appear to have swept the race with all but one precinct reporting.
Polls closed at 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
Issues like the school district’s recent drop in state and national rankings, controversial changes to its curriculum and addressing what’s next after the vote to disband Pennridge’s diversity and equity committee await the winning candidates.
Reps took all open seats on our local school board except the one that only had a single “democratic/republican” candidate listed. Two were incumbents.
Get ready for the inevitable burner turned up as “democrat” parents start storming and such of their school board meetings.
They should make them as milquetoast as possible for the time being.
This is from Roger Hallam, founder of “Extinction Rebellion”.
The text is called “Advice to Young People as they face Annihilation” and it goes on and on like this.
https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1455644914327379978
Anyone who thinks people will act like that when they’re not being watched needs to be watched.
I discovered this last night
After that stunt at that meeting, absolutely.
I say stunt. I should call it was it looked like, a political purge and pure intimidation ploy against his detractors.
Yeah, “stunts” are fake and done for dramatic effect. That was straight up political intimidation. Imagine the mindset of the police officers who cooperated with that.
Elaborate, please.
Sununu had an overwhelming presence of State Police officers at a town hall meeting, with officers hovering nearby people as the were speaking to the meeting; and nine people were arrested on really sketchy charges.
Yeah, not a good look. Sounds like you guys were right about him.
Chris Sununu is petty and vindictive. When he doesn’t get his way, he acts more like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum than a mature adult.
NH would be better off if his older brother, John, had stuck around in politics and become governor, or if Edelblut had beaten Sununu in the primary.
I met John once. I was working a table for the LPNH at some political event a year or so after I moved to NH. I had a copy of either reason or Liberty with me to read during the down time. One other LPNH member was there. John Sununu (the son and brother of the current governor, their father’s name is also John) was either a US Rep or US Senator at the time, I can’t remember which. He came by our table. The other LPNH guy and John obviously knew each other. The three of us chatted.
John saw my magazine, pointed to it, and said, “I have a subscription to that magazine! It’s great! A lot of great ideas in there!”
Us two LPNH folks tried to get John to join the LPNH. He wouldn’t do it. We offered him some literature, but he turned us down.
Edelblut is the current NH Education Commissioner. He’s libertarian, or close enough that it doesn’t matter. He and his wife have seven kids, all homeschooled. He’s a big supporter of parental choice in education. When he ran for governor, Chris Sununu beat him by 600 votes in a five person field. The third place candidate was about 11,000 votes behind Edelblut.
To be fair to Chris Sununu: Except for the repeal of state level background checks on handgun purchases, he has signed every piece of gun control repeal that came to his desk, and vetoed every bit of additional gun control that came to his desk. He also has been decent on spending and taxes. Finally, he appointed Edelblut (mentioned above) to Education Commissioner.
I see news reports labeling them as “Proud Boys”, which, doesn’t matter, but the framing needs to be complete before the narrative can be set. Like that video and article from the other day, they are using that one lady and here understandable resistance as front page photos of the arrests.
Executive Council meeting, not a town hall meeting.
The Executive Council votes on state contracts (no contract is binding on the state of NH until the Executive Council approves it), votes on the Governor’s appointments, and sets toll rates.
The agenda for this meeting was some contracts including one involving a $27 million grant from the Feds to have the state push the Covid vaccines. The Executive Council, in a 4-1 vote, shot down that Covid vaccine contract, making NH the only state to reject that bit of Federal funding.
If I remember correctly, none of the audience was speaking to the meeting. One of the Councillors, Kenney I think, was questioning a state employee about some contract. I don’t know if that was the $27 million contract or another one.
My apologies for getting that wrong.
No worries.
You’re right about the sketchy charges. Frank Staples and the woman (the first two arrested, I can’t remember her name) did nothing leading up to their arrests. I donated money to a legal defense fund for the nine arrested.
They prayed silently….obviously in violation of no organized religion in politics!
That website is a dumpster fire.
That said, I wish them luck with that.
matt yglesias really said “dismantle the regulatory state”
https://twitter.com/NLRG_/status/1455535555119308812
I would not go that far
Absolutely. Dismantle it to the footers. Build back only the minimum needed.
So, like, nothing.
Hello Glibs. I hope everyone is well. I’ve not kept up with the goings on around here recently.
How the heck do you direct a movie like Moon and not understand why people enjoy fictional horror lol
Horror was the bedrock of modern science fiction. Mary Shelley going to haunt your ass.
https://twitter.com/TafferKing451/status/1455376500224561154
Odd question. I have a shocking number of AC adapters for which I have no clue what mertron or merator they are meant to mate with. The adapters have plenty of indicia from the AC adapter’s manufacturer but nothing to indicate the brand or type of thing it is meant to used with. Do any of y’all have any ideas?
I do not understand all the words in your question.
Good luck. Best I can say is search model numbers or even output amps/polarity with plug size.
You should have marked them with a paint pen when you first got them.
Slacker.
Trial and error?
Usually works for me.
Until you find one that lets the magic smoke out.
If they aren’t being used, you don’t need them. Donate them to Goodwill so they can put them in ziploc bag bundle for others to figure out.
I typically just dump them all in a big box. If I’m feeling motivated, I might sort them by output voltage and/or connector type.
Stupid touchstone file. Lost half a damn day
Heh.
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
Condolences to VA on becoming radically racist again according to the media…by electing by electing a black female lieutenant governor and a Cuban-American attorney general, rejecting racial essentialism in schools, and replacing a Dem governor who wore an actual KKK outfit.
I thought he was Blackface not Klansman.
He never admitted which one he was IIRC.
You have to love watching the Left get angry whenever they are defeated and their bullshit is shoved back into their faces. I have no love for the GOP but it feels great if only temporary to slow down the Left’s war path towards destruction.
Always worthwhile to remember that every election is the choice between driving the speed limit to communism town, or taking a ferrari there.
Agreed, but I think there is some danger in this. The Left never seems to learn their lesson. Instead of realizing their positions and their messaging don’t resonate with voters, they go farther with the idea that their opponents are racists, dangerous, etc. Today they’re going after free speech, but if it were up to them they’d declare the entire Republican party as “insurrectionist” and ban any opposition.
Call out leftist racial politics and get called a racist.
Garbage hot take by racist Nia-Malika Henderson on CNN: “We see the enduring power of the culture wars and the Republicans are better at playing this game because it’s essentially white identity politics.”
Yes..keep that going. It will help you, we promise.
Yup, Republicans tend to be good at culture war shit when they bother to play.
And math is white supremacy.
I would love to see race become a non-issue in this country, and I think it is among normal people.
“I think it is among normal people.”
It is and that is why politicians will never allow it to be a non-issue.
Those head bobbing seals she’s talking to need to be bitch slapped until they cry. Damned race cucks.
The Republican Party is a terrorist organization.
“Republicans are dangerous…[T]his isn’t a party that’s just another political party that disagrees with us on tax policy. That at this point, they’re dangerous. They’re dangerous to our national security.”
Yes…keep that going. It will help you, we promise.
If anyone knows anything about fantasizing things into existence…
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow claims Republicans ran on inventing a “bogeyman about a form of racial hierarchy” that conservatives “fantasized into existence that isn’t actually taught in schools.”
We’ve been hearing this bullshit for decades. “Political correctness doesn’t exist! It’s made up by right wing kooks!” “Nobody’s going to push transgender policies, they just want to be protected from violence and discrimination!” Hopefully people are finally seeing through this.
Millions of parents found out last year what their kids are actually being taught, but let’s pretend that didn’t happen.
^^^ I think that is the biggest driver behind the school board meetings. Between what was being taught and how the system utterly failed across the board, turning A/B students into D/F students really opened the eyes of parents.
That happened to a couple of my neighbor’s children. When the parents complained to the local school board and teachers, they were treated with either indifference or hostility. But the parents got the last laugh because they ran a great campaign for school board and got themselves some people elected who will fight against this shit.
And shame on us parents for only finding out now about the garbage they teach our children in the classroom. When my daughters go off to school, I’m gonna be that parent who asks their kids what they learned today and will be the asshole at the board meetings when the administrators or teachers are on some bullshit.
The Left made these inroads because people fell asleep at the wheel and was content to let them slowly march into our institutions and take them over. The lesson from last night should be that if enough people are pissed off, woe to those that stand in their way.
It is. We always asked our kids what they learned, let me see some of your classwork etc, but never involved beyond that. Should have been more obviously as this issue didn’t just pop into existence in 2020 to today.
Republican Klan meeting in Virginia.
Lt. Governor-elect of Virginia Winsome Spears: “We’re going to have safer neighborhoods, safer communities, and our children are going to get a good education.”
“She’s a regular Clair Bigsby.” – Van Jones
This range has been on my list of places to check out (location a little out of the way), but this is still cool: https://twitter.com/WinsomeSears/status/1382787440579129345
111!!!!???1!! White Supremacist Dog Whistle! I hears it!
She’s obviously going restart the Hitler Youth program.
I just had a mid morning snack and in fear of what just posted from SF, I only hovered over the ‘next article’ arrow and read just the first sentence. Nope…not yet, gotta let it digest a bit first.
*hovers*
LOL looks like a good one.
Time to make lunch.
BRB
I’m doing the Keto diet thing and I’m planning on doing a couple of white vinegar based pickled eggs batches to keep rolling. Going to add a few leaves of dill, some garlic, jalapenos and asparagus.
Any suggestions or thoughts?
Oh and some little smokies sausages.
Adequate ventilation.