A Glibertarians Exclusive: North Country, Part II
The Falaise Gap, August 1944
When the invasion of Europe was only days old, the Germans dug in around the French town of Falaise. The Kraut 7th Army and 5th Panzer Army were trying to hold a corridor open to the east so the bulk of their forces to escape. In the north, the British and Canadians were given the job of pushing south while the Americans moved up to meet them, to close the gap.
As part of the Canadian 4th Division, C Squadron, 29th Armored Reconnaissance Regiment, the South Albertans, had struck southward out of Caen like a thrown spear. In one of the lead columns was the American-made Sherman tank in which Corporal Ted Paige of Edmonton was gunner and Lance Corporal Albert Maskwa of Fort McKay was driver. They were one of three Shermans assigned to take a small village, La Hogue, that lay in the divisions line of march.
“I miss the old Ram tanks,” Corporal Paige shouted over the roar of the tank’s Continental engine.
“Why would you miss those old pieces of shit?” shouted Private George Lesk, the assistant driver. “Lot more room in the Sherman.”
“Yeah, but they were ours. This is a Yank machine. Seems like we ought to be able to build a good a tank as the Yanks, eh?”
Like any good gunner, Ted kept the turret moving as the tank advanced through a field bordered with woods. He was looking for targets. Behind him the loader, Private Alex McDonald, sat patiently waiting. The tank commander, Sergeant Bill Gage, was standing in the turret, scanning the countryside with binoculars.
“Only the turret was ours,” Sergeant Gage called down into the turret. He spoke without taking the binoculars from his eyes. “The rest of the tank was American. May as well just have the newer machine.”
“Yes, Sarge,” Ted sighed. He looked down and to his left. His buddy Albert looked over his shoulder and grinned, revealing crooked yellow teeth. Albert had been Ted’s best friend since they both joined the Regiment, two years earlier, and just prior to D-Day had managed to finagle their commander into assigning them to the same crew.
Ted hooked his thumb up to indicate the Sergeant. He rolled his eyes. Albert snorted a laugh and turned his eyes back to the driver’s periscope.
The two men could scarcely have been more different. Ted was a short, thick young man, with a mess of curly blonde hair and blue eyes. Albert, from the Cree nation in the north country of Alberta, was skinny, only an inch taller than Ted but forty pounds lighter, with a ruddy complexion, beady black eyes and a nose that appeared to have been broken several times.
Both were anxious to face the Germans. Neither had yet really found out what that would entail.
The radio crackled. Sergeant Gage listened to his headset for a moment, then clicked his intercom mike. “Halt here, Maskwa,” he ordered. “There’s a village up ahead. We’re to hold here and let the infantry lead into the village.”
“Stopping here,” Albert replied. The tank ground to a halt, the engine running at idle. Ted continued to use his gun sight to scan the trees to the left, and the small village to their right front. He didn’t see any movement. After a few moments, he saw the dismounted infantry moving up. They were heading for the town.
“All right. Move ahead slowly. Stay behind the infantry.”
“Roger.” Albert put the tank in gear and moved forward cautiously.
A loud CLANG to their right startled the crew. Ted popped his head out of the hatch in surprise; to their right, another tank had staggered to a halt, flames pouring from the hatches. The ammo began cooking off, blowing an obscenely prefect smoke ring out of the commander’s hatch.
“TARGET, ANTI-TANK, ELEVEN O’CLOCK,” Sergeant Gage shouted, his voice an octave higher than normal, betraying his surprise. He was still standing in the turret.
Ted dropped back into the turret. He cranked the turret around, looking for the gun. He saw the infantry scattering for cover. Ahead of them, somewhere, a German machine gun started buzzing. Two of the infantrymen went down hard.
A flash from the open door of a barn on the edge of the village betrayed the location of the German gun. The shell whizzed overhead; the Kraut gunner had shot high. “IDENTIFIED,” Ted shouted. He swung the gun to bear. “Give me a Willie Pete round!” Behind him, he heard Sergeant Gage slump down into the turret.
Alex McDonald slammed a white-tipped round into the gun and closed the breech. “UP!” he shouted.
“ON THE WAY!” The gun roared. Albert immediately started swerving, zig-zagging the tank to protect them from return fire.
Ted looked back into the sight. The barn was burning. He saw a couple of smoking figures emerge from the structure, but the infantry cut them down before they could take ten steps.
Another tank fired a high-explosive round. The German machine gun stopped firing. Several Krauts were running now, in the street, trying to flee, but the two surviving tanks cut them down with their bow machine guns.
Ted finally looked back. Sergeant Gage’s body lay slumped in the commander’s seat. The second round from the Kraut anti-tank gun had neatly decapitated him as he stood with his head out of the turret.
They stopped that night in a small patch of forest south of La Hogue to let resupply of fuel and ammo catch up. The company commander had come by, informing Ted’s crew that the tank that had been hit north of town was a total loss, the entire crew killed. The commander stepped away from the tank, motioning for Ted to follow him. He stopped underneath a small larch tree.
“I suppose this tank’s yours now, Corporal Paige,” the captain said. “Can you handle commanding and gunning for now? At least until we get some replacements forward?”
“I’ll make do, sir.”
“Good. There’s a re-arm/refuel point set up about two hundred yards due north. Get your tank reloaded and refueled, we’ll be moving out soon. That mad Yank General, Patton, he’s pushing up from the south. We’re supposed to meet him somewhere east of Falaise.”
“Yes sir. We’ll be ready.”
He went and found his friend Albert. The young Cree was sitting on the front deck of the tank, his feet dangling into the driver’s hatch. He was eating from a can of what the tank crews called “tinned beast” with a faint look of disgust. The other two members of the tank crew were sitting on the ground in front of the tank. The infantry had covered the perimeter, so the tank crews were relieved of having to keep watch.
“Any news?” Albert asked.
“We’re getting fuel and ammo. Be moving out soon, I guess. Probably be moving all night. Supposed to meet the Americans somewhere east of Falaise.”
“Too much fun,” Albert replied. His voice lowered. “We cleaned up the turret as best we could.” Sergeant Gage’s body had been removed from the tank an hour earlier.
“Good. Let’s mount up. We’re heading back for ammo and fuel.”
The loader and assistant driver climbed up on the tank and disappeared into the hatches. Ted stopped Albert before he could climb down the driver’s hatch.
“Albert,” he said in a low voice. “Will you do something for me?”
“Sure,” Albert replied. “Anything.”
“I’m going to write a letter to my folks. Just in case… well, you saw what happened today. Just in case I don’t make it. If something happens to me, would you take it to my folks in Edmonton after this is all over?”
Albert placed a hand on Ted’s shoulder. “Sure,” he said. “I promise I will.” He looked thoughtful. “It’s a good idea. My folks are dead, I got no brothers or sisters, but there’s this girl, back up on the Reserve; if I write a letter, would you do the same? If something happens to me?”
“I will. I promise.” They shook hands.
Albert grinned. “If you go in the winter, dress warm. Gets damn cold up there. When the river freezes, they drive logging trucks on the ice, it’s so solid. I was hoping to pick up a Kraut greatcoat for my gal, I hear they’re pretty good for cold weather. If… well, if I do, I’ll tell you – get that coat out of my gear and take to her?”
“Sure,” Ted said. “Anyway. I feel better. Let’s get aboard. Supply point’s due north.”
Albert slapped his friend on the back and dropped down into his hatch. A moment later, as Ted was climbing up onto the turret, the big Continental engine started with a roar.
***
If you go when the snowflakes storm
When the rivers freeze and summer ends
Please see if she’s wearing a coat so warm
To keep her from the howlin’ winds
I have this time slot tomorrow, I havent read it yet, but am sure Animal’s post today is much better.
There was no sex, no aliens, and no one had their kidneys stolen.
I’m having a hard time parsing whether that’s a good or a bad thing.
You are going to be really disappointed tomorrow.
So yeah, just good writing from Animal.
nice work Animal!
Tankers, pilots, combat infantry. Heroes all. I’m sure I would have shit and pissed myself every day in their situations.
Thanks, Animal. I love history lessons disguised as fiction.
A bit different than Snow Drifts of Madison County, which I also enjoyed.
OT: Five other Australian Open vaccine outcasts
And one of these took the “wrong” jab. That seems to leave, at most, four out of hundreds of players who refused to toe the line.
Not surprised at Sandgren – he is a known unwoke redneck.
Herbert is a bit surprising – he always seemed so milqutoast.
Does the Australian Open have to worry about being considered a bit less prestigious now? I don’t know much about tennis.
Not from what I’ve seen. Federer as a dick about it: “If Novak just got the vaccine we wouldn’t be having this problem.”
TBF, I’d say the Aussie Open has definitely been the #4 Grand Slam for quite a while. That has a lot to do with the calendar.
Not with so few wrongthinkers willing to take a stand, among the players, spectators, commentators, etc.
Federer, true to form.
Oh, and the French Open will be the same. France just passed a law.
Cool link, bro!
blolz
WTF
Strawberry is not pleased.
Hi there. Arlington county parent here (don’t believe you are @GlennYoungkin but correct me if I am wrong). Thank you to @APSVirginia for standing up for our kids, teachers and administrators and their safety in the midst of a transmissible variant.
You are still free to shame muzzle your children.
So bizarre that people refuse to recognize the difference between mandate and free choice.
That which isn’t mandatory, must be prohibited.
Their argument will be that the mask protects other people (even though it doesn’t have any significant effect)
Or, if some kids aren’t wearing one then the ones whose parents want them to wear it, won’t.
And the ones whose parents don’t want them to wear one? They’re wrong, so it’s OK to force them to do what we say.
I don’t argue it anymore, no point. People who believe in the power of the mask have their views more deeply entrenched than most devoutly religious persons do to their beliefs.
If Jaden is wearing a mask but Bob, and Billy aren’t. Then there’s a chance that Bob and Billy would tease Jaden about wearing a mask, which would be wrong. Don’t you want to stop bullying?
However if Bob and Billy are wearing a mask we encourage them to beat the snot out of Jaden for not wearing his approved mask.
Of course, it’s for his own good.
Does anybody remember back when when Peer Pressure was bad?
This isn’t Peer Pressure, just a healthy nudging, totally different.
Peer pressure is good when you have a meritocracy and the culture behind it.
Yep.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1482935238959509508
He’ll pull funding.
Just like Northam did when Highland County refused to implement the masks in the first place.
When The First That Will Change Everything comes, Mike Tomlin will be fired once and for all. He’ll go coach the Raiders for two years before being shitcanned there and fade into obscurity like the bug-eyed fraud that he is.
Steelers owner Art II, he of the greasy fucking combed back hair and law degree who knows nothing about fucking football will retire and leave the team to his more competent son.
Ben Roethlisberger will produce a line of progeny over the next 60 years of his life who, in succession, each QB the Steelers for a generation each. One Ben to another.
I’m hooked but I felt bad for the Sarge.
Excellent story, Animal
I lost an old Army friend a few years ago. By lost, I mean he just disappeared. He lived in Pahrump and stopped emailing. After 2-3 months I started looking for him, a couple years later his daughter was advertising her late father’s property for sale. No mention of his death in the obits, etc. Still don’t know what happened to him.
It really pulls you in, fine work as always.
The one thing that Albert would not have had to tell Ted was to dress warm to visit Fort MacKay in winter — it’s pretty much the same weather in Edmonton most of the time (occasional Pacific front excepted). Ted would’ve known, believe me.
Otherwise, really good read. Thanks, Animal.
Would Albert know this?
Thank you for joining the fight against tyrants like yourself.
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we must protect the hard-fought gains he helped achieve—and continue his unfinished struggle for a freer and more just society by raising our voices to confront abuses of power, challenge hate and discrimination, and protect the right to vote.
POS.
All good points really…up until he placed that shoehorn on his other signature legislation that is going down in flames.
“We must end his vision of a colorblind society where individuals are judged on their own merits not the color of their skin or some other collective identity.”
I notice nobody seems to be quoting that famous line from the “I have a dream” speech: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Because being colorblind is totes racist now.
Thomas Sowell had a similar thought.
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
That man is one of my few heroes.
He would always be welcome here
The idea of Thomas Sowell having an extremely raunchy sense of humor greatly amuses me.
And remember . . . . white people are forbidden from quoting MLK.
Good thing I’m not white.
/Italian-Scot privilege
/Irish
/Filthy Germanic/Swiss/Irish/Slovak/Scottish/[former]Papist privilege here
Franco-Norman-Iberian/Black Celt privilege.
Yeah, baby.
Irish/Scot/German/Papist privilege here.
Fuck you, I’m white. /Nordic/Dane/Swede
Translucent even.
North Sea here ….. Islay/Ulster whatever so long as there’s a fight to be had
Miss Georgia is mostly Norwegian; she’s shrinking, not a spec over 5-11 at this point
Ukrainian / blend of Euro (not sure which, some Irish and others) / more Cherokee than Liz of the Fauxhicans.
*The new rifle arrived on schedule and got mostly fitted out. Still needs a sight, but I’m waiting to see if Mrs. Dean wants a different sight for hers before I invest in yet another one.
*I know, needs more steak.
*points to avatar*
Where does this fit into the sell-defense scheme? Serious question. The rifle is designed that way for a specific reason I presume.
Shorter length. More wieldable in tight spaces. And rifles are better than pistols.
Three obvious points.
What I don’t get is why I want to be throwing 5.56 Nato around in tight spaces.
Its designed for urban fighting, really. I’m not planning to use it as part of the home defense scheme, really. That’s what the shotgun and handguns are for. I don’t see needing more range for home invasion scenarios than what they can cover.
But if social cohesion continues to decline, and especially if there is a shock to the system that really knocks it on its ass, I can see some applications for maintaining order more generally that this would be the right tool for the job.
Now that makes a lot of sense.
Thanks. That was my guess.
I don’t plan to be in any urban areas.
My collection is currently limited to a pair of 20 gauge shotguns, a Ruger PC9 carbine, a Ruger Mini-14, and a Springfield M1A.
Was just to determine if I had a gap in my coverage that your beauty would fill.
You and I have pretty much the same calibers on tap. I’ve got 12 gauge shotguns, but the Mini-14 matches the Tavor, and an M1A is an M1A. I do like pistol caliber carbines, but don’t have one (I am resolutely not following up on the rabbit hole for converting an HK USC to a UMP).
Honestly, the M1A covers everything (including longer ranges that the Tavor/Mini-14 are probably not optimal for), but its kind of a beast to haul around (and feed).
I don’t plan to be in any urban areas.
For tactical purposes, “urban areas” includes anyplace with streets and buildings close to each other.
I lived in a rural development. The closest house is a hundred feet or so from mine. Everything else is farther.
If we get to a time when travel into “town” is both necessary and dangerous, I would take the PC9 carbine or the Mini-14.
Seems like 5.56 rounds flying through the walls could be a problem.
Not my problem.
OK, I know it would be my problem. Depending on your loadout, wall penetration is nearly a universal problem. I know I’m looking at going with #4 shot for the combat shotgun for reduced wall penetration. Nearly anything that is ballistically effective on a person is going to punch through drywall, though. Some will punch through more drywall than others, of course.
I saw a youtube video test regarding #4 shot v. 00. The 00 would go through two interior walls plus an exterior wall with enough velocity to be fatal outside the exterior wall. The #4 also made it outside the exterior wall, but with non-fatal velocity.
Anything capable of stopping a human threat, is going to burn through several residential interior walls at a minimum. The solution to this problem is strict adherence to Rule #4, and hitting the threat target 100% of the time. It doesn’t hurt to have your areas of fire worked out in advance, either.
5.56x45mm actually penetrates less wall than a 9x19mm (at least the M193 ball ammo, not necessarily the M855).
It can be safer to use indoors because of that. Loud as fuck, though, which is why it’s a good idea to put a can on it.
Split the difference.
The Tavor with the 16.5″ barrel is pretty much the minimum to avoid getting into the SBR/”brace” clusterhump.
Per PA state laws, that can be legally carried in a car, fully loaded (with a LTCF). A rifle cannot be, and rifle ammo must be in a separate container.
The barrel on the PC9 is 16.12″
I am certainly no expert, but I think there is a total length requirement. The Tavor is shipped with a ridiculously fat buttpad to get to the total length. The one I replaced it with is longer on the top for that reason, but that curve/extension also sits exactly right on my shoulder. And its a Made in USA part, which is helpful in complying with other stupid and pointless regulations.
I am certainly no expert, but I think there is a total length requirement.
Yes.
Where’s the rest of it?
The suppressor is out of stock.
Relevant
Nice!
Nice!
A good day for civil disobedience.
After the employee of a Boston pizzeria allowed five unvaccinated women and a girl to order food and bottles of water, the store manager intervened and called the police on the group for not presenting proof of Covid vaccination. …
One of the women, Shana Cottone, a Boston police Sergeant who was placed on leave and relieved of her badge on Jan. 8 over her criticism of the city’s mandate, shamed the officers for choosing money over human rights. …
After speaking with the shop owner, Office Arigonas warns the women, “I am a police officer and I got called. I am here to talk to you.”
“About what?” Cottone fires back.
“The manager of the establishment says you guys won’t show your vaccination cards,” Arigonas said.
“That’s crap. We don’t show papers,” Cottone maintains.
“Papiere bitte”
Never thought I would live to see this shit in America.
Really? History suggests that it’s always just a matter of time.
We are truly fucked up beings.
The prosperity cycle.
Well, not you.
Zing
See here I thought it was a clever play on lack of cycle. My brain is broken or something.
That’s what I thought also.
I lack 3 cycles:
menstrual cycle
prosperity cycle
motorcycle
No, I am not prosperous.
I meant that you are not a fucked up being.
Ah ha! My sorcery has worked!
Her curves, red-hair, and fucked-uppedness are what will keep me forever drawn to her.
That, and riding a motorcycle in a dress. In the snow.
Oh, you cheeky devil you!
Yep, it was only a matter of time. I just wish it was for something a little more weighty.
Sure, I just didn’t think it would happen so quickly.
And for something as insane as this.
This should (but won’t) be a lesson to conservatives on their knee-jerk unconditional support for the police. The police are just the government’s armed enforcers, and don’t give a shit about freedom or the constitution.
Yep, if a governor today, say Utah, said “round em up” they would. Maybe a few outliers wouldn’t, but the vast majority see them for what they are. Gang members enforcing their hoods.
Same with the armed forces. Might be a little reluctance at first, but with the proper framing, aura of legitimacy, and some you or them, it’ll go the exact same way.
“Sarge said we’re supposed to…”
TSA checking IDs at airports
DUI checkpoints
probably others.
You’ve been seeing it for a while.
Who wants to tell them?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” This #MLKDay2022 and every day, the #FBI remains dedicated to service and committed to protecting our communities.
Incurious journalism coupled with masses shitting out whatever thought comes to their tiny little heads and be rewarded for it has led to this moment.
Ventured out into the winter wonderland and procured groceries, most importantly the chai latte mix (I cleaned out their stock of the lower sugar stuff. What?? It was on sale! What else could I do?) and, in honor of the month and the weather, some of this.
(Narrator: She really just wanted an excuse to link to that song.)
Snowy days and Mondays always get you down?
::lights Mojeaux signal::
I love Ted’S so much sometimes.
Nothing like soup to warm one’s bones on a bleak midwinter day.
I have beef stuff leftover from the brisket I made, and some cheese. Im thinking onion soup.
We had some homemade tomato soup yesterday with grilled cheese. Left over brisket chili is nearly gone. I was planning on a gumbo tonight.
Made chili yesterday, leftovers for lunch and dinner probably. Might have to restock my chili supplies for snowmageddon round 2 next weekend. Or maybe I’ll make ribs. ///descisions
Got my J&J vax today, fair thee well, should I not make it.
I call dibs on any maps with locations of boating accidents
I live too far away from water, but have friends with heavy equipment. X marks the spot.
I got it. Didn’t even have a sore arm. Hope it’s the same for you.
What I’m wanting, and “fully vaxed” with one shot until they mandate boosters.
The three of us are on the same page. I got mine to be minimally compliant. I had slight chills for one night, went to bed, and I was ok the next day. Arm was sore for about a week.
Minimally compliant is the second best type of compliance, right after malicious.
Fixed it for ya boss.
I got it on a Friday and felt like crap all of Saturday. Never had soreness.
I guess I am fully vaxxed until they change requirements and then I might be fully fired.
They haven’t bothered me about providing proof to the office yet.
I got it end of September. No reaction. But, about third week of October, I started getting heart problems. I already had a-fib, a lovely parting gift from my father. But I’d have an episode maybe 1/month, or less. Then I had a two week stretch with with four episodes. It’s a crap shoot now if cardio exercise triggers an a-fib episode, or at least tachycardia. Alcohol is right out. Happily, morning coffee still seems to be okay. I’ll go in for an ablation to address the a-fib in a few weeks. We’ll see if that helps any other symptoms.
ugh…hang in there
Hope it gets better for you, it sucks they are mandating things that are medically questionable. I would not have gotten it otherwise.
2@Pfizer last year
positive a moment ago; fever for three hours last night, scratchy throat almost gone and managed with lozenges, not really even tired; this is a very very small price to pay for a dose of home-grown resolve and antibodies
Hope you continue to get better.
Stay out of the sewers if you don’t want to catch COVID.
Rats are catching it from humans? Serves you right, plague-spreading vermin!
Figured I’d better read Part 1 before Part 2, glad I did (last week was lost to work, every now and then I actually earn my paycheck). I was one of the knuckleheads who brought up Girl From the North Country, and this is shaping up to be terrific (already is, truth be told). If I was still drinking, there might be a tear in my beer.
(Unnecessary parentheses provided for benefit of Tonio)
I like parentheticals and phrases set off by em-dashes. They serve a purpose. A cheeky one, to be sure, but a purpose nonetheless.
This is good.
Art that challenges the regime will not be tolerated.
Somebody put up this incredible street art in DC over night.
Knowing DC it’ll be ripped down within hours. All must comply!
If you know the artist drop it in the replies!
…
ANNND some lady is already out here ripping down the “dangerous propaganda.”
The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking.
The other day I was thinking about how once upon a time the left was against “the man”, and now they ARE the man, more than anyone has ever been the man.
They were against the man because they weren’t the man. It’s always been the end goal.
The left does not desire simply to be left alone.
You would love my HS classmates, TOK. Went to Woodstock, marched against the Vietnam war, took down Nixon, fought the power (and coincidentally, got high and got laid). Now they are all “get jabbed if you want to participate in society”. Proud to be a boomer, I am.
Wealth and prosperity will do that to a man. They are comfortable now, why rock the boat anymore?
Have you ever watched that show Dharma and Greg? We watched a few of those recently. These days I very much relate to Dharma’s dad, especially the part where he’s paranoid about the government spying on him.
If you havent already, try “The Ranch” with Sam Elliot (not certain what service its currently on, but I think it was a NetFlix product).
The patriarch played by Elliot would keep his cell phone in the freezer/fridge to avoid being tracked.
Not a bad show overall. Kicking out Danny Masterson was a bummer. Wonder how his trials are going.
He was the best character on that show, though Greg’s dad wasn’t far behind. I especially liked the episode where Dharma’s dad found his old bottle of Hai Karate aftershave, and smelling it brought his memory back.
Despite not being my stereotypical “type” Jenna Elfman = HAWT
I don’t have many standards, but she’s a scientologist. Deal breaker.
exwife had that Jenna Elfmann thing about her
Wouldn’t have kicked her out of bed..especially her role in Keeping the Faith.
https://www.notrecinema.com/images/usercontent/star/jenna-elfman-photo_23645_43955.jpg
Oh yeah, that was a regular for me and Mrs. Patzer. Dharma’s dad wasn’t wrong, was he?
Love those. Really well done.
I’d really rather spend my money on something other than ammo.
“It’s a public health concern”…..ID4 needs to be real life.
Love those. Really well done.
Also curious about this…
On second thought, probably better no one knows who it was.
Yea. What would be petty vandalism would be turned into a sedition charge. Best stay quiet and expand to people willing to post them up along with yourself.
That is unusually good street art. So much so that I’m suspicious that an actual conservative-type created it…
See: Sabo and Sabo. He’s very good.
OT: I’m beginning to wish I had taken the holiday today. I’m dealing with people who are reporting audio issues when calling an internal extension. The idiots are calling phones that haven’t been plugged in for over a year, and there’s no one in the office to answer them. That’s not an audio issue, that’s calling the wrong number.
It took hours to get the information to find this out of them.
I hear you, man.
I just want to know what this group has been doing since March of 2020 when their office was shut down. You’d think their supervisors or managers would say something… until you realize it’s the supervisor reporting the problem…
We have field offices that took our “reduced maintenance” orders to the extreme and did nothing for 2 years. There are areas of the country I do not want to fly into cause I know equipment was not maintained well or at all.
Hmm. If a vaccine passport is required, I will not be permitted to fly. This may be a good thing.
call in sick
try to remote into server: no see ’em
call offsite tech support who scratched head over phone
turns out the box I remote to has been turned off for a month
#HighTechProbs
Religious test submitted. Assholes.
Was it multiple choice?
More likely questions and answers to put in my federal jacket on my religious beliefs. Bitter Bible clinger and all
Dr. Malone with supposed evidence of India’s home treatment…
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/socrates-thought-police-ivermectin
Pure fire
https://thechicagothinker.com/editorial-uchicago-must-end-its-booster-mandate-we-are-not-lab-rats/
2. We demand that the university name those responsible for creating and implementing its COVID decrees, especially with regards to vaccination. We also demand it name those responsible for reviewing and approving both medical and religious exemptions to vaccine and booster mandates.
This. Way more of this. The decrees and mandates are hiding behind governments and corporations. The individuals responsible need to be identified in civil suits or criminal prosecutions in states where they are going against the law (e.g., school systems in states that have banned compulsory vaccines). Make them risk their own personal funds and freedom.
Yes. Expose the cowards.
They’re hiding behind the “just following orders”, with zero personal accountability. Right down to the HR
repbusiness partner who parrots the decrees and acts as a firewall from any pushback. Own it, bitch.^^^ In FedGov we are told it is a ‘team’. Who is this team? Who makes up the team? What qualifies them to determine my religious beliefs and if they are deeply held?
“Great. A team has members, right? So, who are they?”
Thanks. Sharing this with #2 son, whose uni has implemented similar stupidity.
In response to Q’s previous post that mentioned me: Plus size model flaunts curves in sheer corset and declares ‘I’m round but sound’
Whomever managed to pull me out of her would be the next king of England.
Why do I get the feeling you commented there?
Not enough FUPA for me, but dem Hipss and LAIGS.
Sadly, she seems to shave. As someone that grew up in the 80s (1980s not 1880s), I prefer a pubic thatch that I can lose my truck keys in.
Mercury is a real good car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCJZij74-J0
That wins post of the day from me.
Seconded. When I was done retching I applauded.
The great thing about big women? No matter what part you grab, it feels like it could be titty.
#ThiccThighsSaveLives
Mid-day YT break…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDT-ct8VCCE
End time oppression
It would be interesting if Virginia went the Arizona route. There is another bill introduced to ask the US Department of Commerce to assess the impact of DST.
Happy George Floyd Day everyone!
Oops
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1483151874224177157
If I was in that press pool, Id like to think Id ask him “Now do Hitler’s global impact”.
Also, Im not buying drugs from you. They smell like ass.
Give everyone you love gifts of Fentanyl.
Who?
Am I supposed to put my knee on someone’s neck in remembrance?
Sell some “loosie” cigs, too.
Take the knee before entering your cubicle.
For 8 minutes.
“I have a dream that one day we will be able to pop fentanyl and scam store clerks not because we are criminal drug addicts, but because we are upstanding citizens.”
So many great black persons and this is who our government is hanging its hat on. What a damn joke.
Nick Rekieta ranting about the State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8AhitYDoZg
He had this rant the other night…definitely one of us
The only guy I knew from the synagogue wasn’t there. His son wrote me a few hours ago.
My kid was 100# on his 7th birth; this kid was bigger. Watching those two bang around under the boards even before middle school was a riot. Kid got on with Coach Pirate, Esq, did the tour at Washington St where my FIL went and continued with him at MSST which is in the county where my people are from. It was great to hear from him after ten years.
Three jabs can’t protect 4-stars. GEN Milley has da Vid.
https://nypost.com/2022/01/17/gen-mark-milley-tests-positive-for-covid-19-amid-omicron-surge/
And no one will think…why are we forcing a medical procedure for something that doesn’t protect anyone, especially our ‘fit’ fighting force?
Fat fuck should have been doing more pt and keeping his muzzle on.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/cnn-skewers-bidens-voter-suppression-lies-yes-cnn/
lulz
My umbrella won’t work unless you use yours.
If you have not gotten vaccinated, do it. Personal choice impacts all of us—our hospitals, our country.
COVID-19 is one of the most formidable things America’s ever faced. We have to work together, not against each other. We are the United States of America. We can do this.
Really need a Bellamy salute emoji.
I would figure the following is the most formidable thing we have ever faced: Great 2020 poopchute paper shortage. Fuck Joe Biden.
Its not even top 10. Or likely even top 20.
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