SP: “OMG, what the FUCK have I done????”
We actually did our anniversary celebration a night early so that I didn’t have to worry about being at work at 0500. SP’s fondue is absolutely world class, and we had some appropriate wine with it. So I’ll save my “what did the kids do this time????” story for next week. There’s been some interesting rumbles in our little town, and I think the amusement factor is about to go off the scale.
On the subject of amusement, an auspicious batch of birthdays today include a guy known for his signature achievement; the pride of the Mormon church; a true space man who cut the Gordan knot; a guy who banged Marie Curie; a guy whose work aldered the course of chemistry; the guy who enshrined the “limp dick” rule into law; a guitarist who did OK with two fingers; a true genius of TV comedy; an argument for term limits; and one of my academic grandparents.
Time for the actual Links.
“It worked so well for everyone else…”
“You have been insufficiently panicked, Comrade.”
Unanswered question in these articles: Who’s paying for this?
At last, our national nightmare has ended!
I’m thinking it was Jussie Smollett.
How could Old Guy Music today be anything other than this?
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At least tell us whether the fugitive is still on the lam.
And Happy Anniversary to you & SP. If you hadn’t posted that Old Guy Music, I would have linked to it. But you probably knew someone would.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear she ended up hitchiking on a livestock truck and was on the lamb.
(Belated, but well-deserved)
“Thirty-six out of 54 passengers on a Jan. 14 flight from Fiji to Kiribati were found to have COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated and tested multiple times before leaving Fiji.”
Sounds like the tests and vaccines suck ass.
Since the tests, lockdowns, and ‘vaccines’ have proven completely ineffective, we must do them all harder.
Because “SCIENCE”!
For now I don’t plan on appealing the decision, because it’s not worth the aggravation. If you are considered a “climate skeptic” (whatever that means) Google has already said you are targeted for termination from their Adsense program. I can’t expect their liberal arts-educated “fact checkers” to understand the nuances of the global warming debate.
That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
The truth does not require censorship to prevail.
The party line does not require nuance, comrade. It requires submission and obedience.
SP’s fondue is absolutely world class, – I am not saying it is not but is but that difficult to melt cheese?
Nope, which is why there’s so much mediocre fondue in this world.
Always worth mentioning
I was expecting this.
I’m not into the latter-day superhero movies.
“Jussie”
Oh those kids and their wacky names.
You mean Juicy Smollier?
Of the famous Smollier family of Burgundy.
The very one.
New Zealand is the last major country left that the authoritarians can point to and say “look, they knew how to keep covid under control!”
Now that Israel has been thrown in the failure pile, I am keeping my eye on New Zealand.
If by “under control”, one means “delaying the inevitable”.
They have kept deaths down. If deaths start going up then it will really get interesting for the narrative.
Omicron’s not exactly a huge death-dealer compared to earlier variants, so they may have dodged that particular bullet. But Zero COVID? Yeah, that’s not possible.
As I said from early on, it appeared that COVID would become endemic so the sooner you get exposed to it the better. Most people on Earth will be exposed to it sooner or later.
It was also clear from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan that symptomatic infection rate was ~10% and death rates were <1%. This was on a ship where air is pumped throughout the ship and some parts of the ship never have sunlight exposure to disinfect surfaces.
Nice house
For a normie, anyway.
For the happy couple
That train left the station some years ago.
I thought this was worthy of notice.
https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2022/01/21/what-we-know-ascension-thedacare-court-battle-over-employees/6607417001/
nurses who quit to work for another facility have an injunction preventing them from switching jobs. Full Disclosure, wife is an (awesome) nurse.
ThedaCare seems to be hated by its employees. just before the pandemic they had an entire team leave to set up their own practice (I believe it was cardiology).
Theda care
There’s a term for forced servitude but for the life of me I can’t remember it right now.
I’d suggest these people just start working for Ascension and force the ThedaCare to send armed thugs to remove them from work at the point of a gun, but what would really happen is that CMS would stop reimbursing Ascension. Of course, that just shows how wicked it is for the government to have a financial sword of Damocles hanging over everybody.
The nurses should sue ThedaCare for restraint of trade. They no longer have their jobs at ThedaCare but can’t start working for Ascension. Also, ThedaCare refused to make a counter offer. These are at-will employees which as far as I know do not have a non compete agreement.
Guarantee more nurses wont sign employment contracts in the future, that include that clause.
Denzel?
Denzel does kick a lot of Russkie ass in his flicks.
Not in Training Day. Quite the opposite in that case
Denzel can do no wrong. Even Virtuosity was rescued from near-certain suckage by Denzel.
Also, The Book of Eli is one of my all time top ten favorite movies.
Training Day is one of my favorite movies and I’m not sure I can think of another actor who can make his character that good
RIP Bill Paxton.
“You have been insufficiently panicked, Comrade.” – be careful people might confuse you for one of them deniers linking to things like this
Wait, don’t you have the ‘vid?
who can say really?
Viruses can’t replicate in dead cells.
nurses who quit to work for another facility have an injunction preventing them from switching jobs.
Wage slave is not just a figure of speech?
Congrats, OM and SP.
The second time around is better, the interim was a training cycle. Not where we learned what to do but rather learned what not to do.
Keep on keepin’ on. Thanks for remembering the rest of us though.
Third for each of us. At that, we’re way behind Spud in the count.
“Sometimes it’s heaven
Sometimes its hell
Sometimes I don’t even know”
Yeah — but do her kindergarten playground husbands really count?
The second time around is better
Yes it is.
I have a feeling, however, that a young Onescore preferred this.
I was waiting on that train, too. Ahh, 1961, the year that started my down hill slide.
second time around is better
One thing for sure: no one is going to hammer my ass today over something stupid I said in 1985.
If something happened to my husband, there would be no second time around.
That’s what my mom said. And it’s kind of true, she hasn’t married the guy she started dating a year after my dad passed. They just live together. Very modern.
Relevant:
https://youtu.be/MDqlHcjbLaI
Yeah, no. I’m not afraid to be alone and I don’t need the same things I needed when I was 30.
Same here. The SU is, for me, the one and done model.
After all, she was the only one who appreciated my, uh . . . unique character back when we met in Uni.
German Houses vs. American Houses: Construction, Design & Scale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6c2nmFsvkA
Young English Soldier Gives BRUTAL First-Hand Account of Battle of Waterloo (1815, William Lawrence)
shit goddamnit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miSqQjVLjak
I like where she talked about federal ‘subsidies’. Her number works out to a few dollars a year.
Actual individual consumption. On this alternative to GDP which deflates the inflated GDP numbers of tax havens, the US is more than 50% richer than the EU average, and 20% richer than the richest EU country, Luxembourg.
https://twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1485113080493322240
this can’t be true
I’m pretty sure it is. I believe even Mississippi, the poorest state, is wealthier than most European countries. The standard of living in America tends to be quite a bit higher than Europe, unless I am mis-remembering my statistics.
Don’t worry — the Biden administration is on it.
The left always wants to make us more like Europe.
I lived 14 years in Europe, traveled all over the continent and I’ve seen a fair bit of Mississippi. Makes me wonder what the statisticians and economists mean by “wealth”
Right?!?! I spent a good deal of time living in Stockholm and visiting Germany with my kraut (now ex) husband. It was bizarre how much they lived like they’d just emerged from the Great Depression.
We Americans are the luckiest people on Earth.
I despair only that we were better off 10 years ago. We have peaked.
When was that?
I think housing distorts things. Go watch house hunters intl and see how much the rent is for a tiny shitty flat on the outskirts of a major eu city and compare it to the house payment to own a larger nicer place in a better location in the us. And the eu rental isn’t getting you any equity.
To be fair, “owning” property in Europe means that you have even less property rights than you have in the USA.
I wouldn’t want to buy property in Europe either. Youre smothered by Commie bureaucratic red tape and any renters probably have more rights than you do as the owner.
Try renting in a major US city.
✪ Socialist Visuals ✪
@SocialistPics
Joseph Stalin attending an Athletes Parade with Anastas Mikoyan, Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov, Lavrenty Beria and Vyacheslav Molotov (1945)
https://twitter.com/SocialistPics/status/1484855862556598275
That wasn’t real socialism.
Since the tests, lockdowns, and ‘vaccines’ have proven completely ineffective, we must do them all harder.
Because “SCIENCE”!
If you don’t accept our hypotheses about the plague, you don’t believe in gravity!
Thanks to restrictions & vaccine passports France successfully flattened the curve,
https://twitter.com/ArchRose90/status/1484891665630388224
Now this is how you troll your brethren on an appeals court!
When asked how she felt about her decision to cancel the wedding that was due to be held this summer, Ardern replied, “Such is life.”
Empathize with her suffering, peons.
Who the hell would marry Nurse Ratched?
There are plenty of beta males to go around.
Parenting as a public good
Words by Ellen Pasternack
21st January 2022
Issue 6
Society has free-ridden on women for millennia, benefiting from the children they’ve had while bearing few of the costs. But as women have gained other options, birth rates have fallen
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/parenting-as-a-public-good/
I really don;t see where the feminist view that women pre 1950 had zero power or influence in society comes from
It would be instructive to go back in time and ask any man about that.
Prohibition of alcohol for the first mass- Karen event!!
Sometimes I truly do think we’d be better off if women didn’t have the vote.
Society has free-ridden on women for millennia, benefiting from the children they’ve had
Apparently children are a result of parthenogenesis or something, and men have nothing to do with the creation of children.
Nikki is the worst
while bearing few of the costs
Dealing with the nagging, paying for everything and dying in wars notwithstanding.
Hipkins also said New Zealand’s Cabinet has agreed to other precautionary measures, including reducing the interval between a second Covid-19 vaccine dose and a booster shot from six months to four months, and increasing the required length of stay for returning travelers from seven to 10 days in managed isolation and quarantine.
Pigeon superstition. Appease the plague gods harder. Beg for their mercy.
“One cynomolgus monkey remained on the loose overnight after the truck transporting 100 of them crashed near Danville”
That’s a lot of fucking monkeys. Anyway, wouldn’t they just freeze to death? Overnight temperatures are in the single digits.
maybe it still has a novel to finish
My sick brain initially saw that as “one cunnilingus monkey” before I looked more carefully.
What is the Official Glibertarian position on paying 500 $ on a pair of good quality boots, sound investment or waste of money?
also why is there something called Nicks Handmade Boots in my YouTube recommends?
I have three pairs of Nicks. Love them.
Ive had two pairs rebuilt, one resoled.
If they are truly good quality and can be repaired (re soled), then it’s still high, but ok
Depends on the boots. Mine were about $200 which made me gasp, but they got me through 9 winters.
$500 for good quality footwear, is not that high.
My son has handmade boots @ $1400 a pop. Fortunately they are an “in-kind” quid pro quo.
Oh yeah, if we’re talking handmade or made-to-measure footwear, keep adding zeros. Totally worth it, though.
Mine were $400. They can be resoled but I doubt if the soles will be their demise.
It’s nice to have a boot that fits and is warm and dry.
He concludes his concurring opinion with two words: “You’re welcome.”
OMG how juvenile.
What self-loathing retard would marry Ahern?
He called it.
“Non-violent “ remains to be seen.
“Florida man pleads guilty to threatening to BEHEAD Nancy Pelosi and AOC in deranged phone calls
Hoeffer’s criminal record in Florida shows only a charge for violating the protection of manatees, as well as a long list of traffic violations.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10431883/Florida-man-pleads-guilty-threatening-BEHEAD-Nancy-Pelosi-AOC.html
He tried to fuck a manatee?
Hey, Florida Man.
the are easier than whales
Interesting trivia – Manatees have among the smallest penis size/body mass ratio of any vertibrate animal.
How do you know he wasn’t successful?
Meh. It happens.
I was wondering what Brett was up to these days.
Covid panic makes Universities money:
How beneficial has COVID measures been to universities?
In cutting services to students, Harvard went from a operating SURPLUS of $283 MILLION, as opposed to 2020 where there was a DEFICIT of $10 million.
https://twitter.com/txsalth2o/status/1484904485378232320
Add in the CARES Act stimulus as well
New York State is drowning in so much “relief” money that the latest budget proposal is more than triple what I remember from around 20 years ago (in unadjusted dollars).
The new crop of far-left candidates has their work cut out for them. At the ballot box so far, the pace of the far-left takeover of the party is still more evolution than revolution.
Sure, because they can only win non-competitive districts. That severely limits the prospects of them becoming a more serious contingent. All they are now is noisy, but they’ll always be limited in number. There just aren’t that many moron districts (same applies to the Republicans).
they need to use more direct revolutionary action. also educate agitate and organize.
Sure. But keep in mind that AOC’s district, for example, is not some hot-bed of progressivism but an ordinary middle-class outer-borough district. There are plenty more of those to conquer. They are of course one-party districts but until recently there were plenty of “moderate” Democrats to go around.
IOW they are quickly taking over the party.
And they are the ones will survive in November and will be the base in 2024 and 2026
Nope, they can only win AOC-like districts, where the voters would elect Hitler-in-drag as long as there was a “D” attached to the name. Morons.
Welcome to Chicago!
thanks.
Damn – SF’ed it.
“All 14 black Mississippi state senators, all Democrats, walked out before a vote on a bill that forbids teaching students at public schools and colleges that ‘that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior.’
The bill later passed passed 32-2, with only two Democratic legislators – David Blount and Hob Bryan, both white – voting against it. It now heads to the Mississippi state House for approval.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10430153/Black-lawmakers-walk-Mississippi-Senate-vote-anti-Critical-Race-Theory-bill.html
What happened to the magic swap?
“Anti-racists” are delighted at this. “More, please!”
Black racists upset that they can’t indoctrinate students with racism in the classroom. Cry me a river.
Against the survival of the prettiest
Many modern buildings put up today seem uglier than traditional ones around them. Some say this is because we’ve torn down the ugly old buildings, and only see the survivors. Are they right?’
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/against-the-survival-of-the-prettiest/
the author thinks no, old buildings are pretties
Because buildings aren’t replaced for aesthetic reasons, they are replaced for economic reasons.
I’m reasonably certain that the author is right. Even his examples of ugly old buildings are still pleasant to look at.
Yeah, I could add numerous examples of my own of beautiful old buildings that are gone.
The more important question is why is modern architecture so fucking ugly.
“That’s not a building, it’s the box a building came in.”
“They thought they were in for a couple of hours enjoying the ‘radiant’ talents of the Cuban-Spanish actress Ana de Armas.
But two fans who hired the film Yesterday on Amazon Prime after seeing her in the trailer were outraged to discover she did not make the final cut.
Now they are suing Universal Pictures, claiming the Hollywood studio duped them with deceptive marketing that used De Armas’s ‘fame, radiance and brilliance’ to promote a film in which she did not appear.
Conor Woulfe, 38, of Maryland, and Peter Rosza, 44, of San Diego County, California, say they each paid $3.99 (£2.94) to watch the film and are seeking $5million (£3.7million) compensation in a proposed class action on behalf of all affected viewers.
Yesterday, originally released in 2019, is a romantic comedy about a singer-songwriter who, after being hit by a bus, discovers that he is the only person on Earth who remembers The Beatles.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10431401/Two-fans-sue-Universal-Pictures-Ana-Armas-appeared-Yesterday-trailer-not-film.html
‘radiant’ talents of the Cuban-Spanish actress Ana de Armas – just subscribe to he onlyfans
Where’s my money for that missing Spider-Man twin towers scene? That’s the only reason I’ve watched all 8 Spider-Man movies!
Tom Bombadil was a requisite part of To9lkien’s story without whom, the tale would have ended with the death of the hobbits to Old Man Willow and the Barrow Wights. Excising the oldest living thing in Middle Earth, only to add a fucking car chase and craft a romance subplot out of whole cloth solely for the dullards in the American audience ruined the franchise for the majority of the viewers! Gimme, gimme, gimme!
Experts
What the next part of the pandemic looks like and when it will get there are what Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist at Stanford Medicine, and experts at federal agencies, academic colleagues and local public health leaders spent the holidays trying to figure out.
There was a general consensus among the experts about what happens next: “We really don’t know exactly,” Maldonado said.
There are disease models and lessons from pandemics past, but the way the highly infectious Omicron variant popped up meant the scientists’ proverbial crystal ball got a little hazy.
“None of us really anticipated Omicron,” Maldonado said. “Well, there were hints, but we did not expect it to happen exactly the way it did.”
——-
“Generally speaking, the level of immunity in our population is going to be much higher than it was going into the Omicron pandemic, and that’s going to help us not only with Omicron and Delta, if they’re still circulating, but it will also help us with any new variants,” Swartzberg said. “To what degree will depend on the availability of medicines to intervene.”
Right. Keep throwing experimental vaccines at it. It’s our only hope.
“ the scientists’ proverbial crystal ball got a little hazy.”
Except for those scientists who predicted exactly what happened and got unpersoned for it.
“We have no idea, therefore it’s endless lockdowns and jabs in arms JUST TO BE SAFE!”
“None of us really anticipated Omicron,” Maldonado said. “Well, there were hints, but we did not expect it to happen exactly the way it did.”
Then you are a moron. Respiratory illnesses mutate constantly. Take your vitamins and move on with your life.
https://www.libertarianism.org/topics/cities
See libertarian worship of the city is not a strawman…
And the last two years have clearly demonstrated that cities are indeed locis of corrupt political power and far from the bulwark of freedom…
The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
It does work because most people respect the rule of law, even as the law is being perverted right before their eyes. When that respect is broken, it won’t end well for anyone.
“A Florida teenager was arrested after he tried to kill a jogger, planning to keep the man’s corpse in his closet “to fulfill his sexual fantasies,” law enforcement officials said.
Logan Smith, 18, of Cocoa, tried to strangle the jogger to death but was overpowered by his victim, who detained him until police arrived on the scene, according to an arrest report obtained by Fox 35.
The troubled teen hatched his morbid plan after watching the slasher movie “Scream” and had watched the jogger for six weeks, police claim.
Smith allegedly told cops he studied the jogger’s exercise routine and running route, which went by the teenager’s house.
Smith had placed a rubber mallet, an aerosol Axe deodorant can and a clothing robe belt between two parked cars in the driveway of his home as he waited for his victim, police said. He allegedly planned to strangle him, and drag him back to his home in a bedsheet. Smith told police he planned to hit the victim with the mallet and impair his vision with the deodorant spray.”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/23/florida-teen-logan-smith-arrested-for-plot-to-kill-jogger-keep-body-for-sexual-desires/
Wile E Coyote is only 18?
Young fella is gonna be the object of someone else’s sexual desires.
18 year old guy wants to kidnap and sexually assault other male.
Male victim beats the shit out of kidnapper.
I see the whole homosexual attack fact being downplayed in the media blitz. For some reason we can never publicly admit that there are some homosexual men who have desires to hurt unwilling men/boys for sexual attacks. Cant question the LBGTQ Narrative that there is nothing wrong with any people in that community.
I’m waiting for the videogamescauseviolence Nannie’s to try and ban Netflix.
He shoulda just Axed him.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22/health/fda-authorize-monoclonal-antibodies/index.html
“FDA considers limiting authorization of certain monoclonal antibody treatments”
They’ve banned every other effective treatment, so it was probably inevitable. Funny how they don’t jump in and ban penicillin if it doesn’t work against certain infections. They just let doctors figure it out.
Left unasked is why the FDA doesn’t make a recommendation on usage and then leave it to the medical providers to make a determination in the field on appropriateness.
Why do they need to restrict authorization?
Pretty sure “FOLLOW THE MONEY” is the answer, even though it feels worn out as a plot point.
Dissolve the FDA.
https://brownstone.org/articles/is-natural-immunity-a-case-of-lost-knowledge/
Can we finally dispense with the notion of inherent march of progress? Should have done so in 1914…
And not only does this lead to the “complacent and infuriating Panglossian optimism” but also very flawed views on society and culture. Traditions, customs and social norms must all be destroyed because they are old and what replaces them must be better. Our institutions can always be trusted because they will never change in a bad way…
Permission to shoot on sight?
inherent march of progress
How many prog-tards are you prepared to kill?
Only the ones trying to kill me.
2018 Fauci said natural infection is the mother of all vaccines.
[dons sunglasses]
If you would please pay careful attention to this light I’m about to flash…
A monkey.
“Monkey Truck Crash”
Band or album?
Band.
Genius of the “and” — self-titled album for the band.
Neighbor kids
They’ve banned every other effective treatment, so it was probably inevitable. Funny how they don’t jump in and ban penicillin if it doesn’t work against certain infections. They just let doctors figure it out.
“Medicine is hard.”
-Public Health Expert Barbie
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1485054665620402179?s=20
Gee I wonder if Woke M&Ms have sn ulterior. It is pretty funny how woke leftists are mindless corporate stooges..
M&M joke I heard on the radio this week:
Peanut M&M’s will now be able to identify as plain M&M’s without having their nuts removed.
Can those with nut allergies consume them and not have an adverse reaction?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/if-you-liked-covid-censorship-youll-love-the-latest-climate-change-censorship-push/
Censorship is patriotic, or something.
To be fair, the ʼvid censorship hasn’t led to the destruction of the economy at the speed or scale the elites were hoping for, so it’s time to pivot to the next fraud.
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1484355983082094598?s=20
She also says: “We can come together……and design beautiful things together”
Man an unaccountable Glibal elite centrally planning the world for our own good. What could go wrong?
Government is just the name for the things we choose to do together.
—J. Stalin
I mean Obama. It was Obama.
Wait, my body, my choice doesn’t count any more?
Barak Ostalin.
Great Narrative Conference
Something something religion something opiate something masses.
The “ay-leet” she says. Who knew Fonz was part of the ayyyyyyy-leet?
See libertarian worship of the city is not a strawman…
What the fuck are you blathering about now?
More masturbatory pseudointellectualism? You’ll go blind.
Just about the same time you disappear up your own asshole. Have a nice trip.
Posted an article from Cato that is quite correct. It does flat out state that except for the agrarians most liberarians do support urbanization and gives reasons why.
So, most libertarians support urbanization, except for the libertarians who don’t support urbanization? Is that what you’re trying to say?
Stop trying to act smart. It’s not convincing anyone.
Do you think the article is wrong?
You know the battle between the Agrarians and the urbanites over who is the true lover of liberty is nothing new right? That was a lot of the fights between Jefferson and Hamilton. And Herbert Spencer was talking about how the urban merchant class being the “society of contract” compared to the feudal rural society in the 19th century…
And the agrarians have lost a lot of support with increasing urbanization.
You know the battle between the Agrarians and the urbanites
As Brooks pointed out, masturbation is best done without an audience.
OnlyFans would beg to differ.
I didn’t read the article and I have no intention of doing so – I have better things to do with my time than spin myself up over an opinion piece from a powerless beltway think tank.
Why do you think that anyone on this site gives a single dried-up fuck what the Cato Institute thinks, writes, or does?
It’s fun to point and laugh?
Sure. But keep in mind that AOC’s district, for example, is not some hot-bed of progressivism but an ordinary middle-class outer-borough district. There are plenty more of those to conquer. They are of course one-party districts but until recently there were plenty of “moderate” Democrats to go around.
Wasn’t her original campaign based on what’s-his-name’s abandonment of traditional constituent services in favor of pursuit of personal party prestige and power?
How’s that working out for the voters?
The last backlash from conservative democrats against the left I can think of was Ed King beating Mike Dukakis in the ’78 primary. Leftists have nothing to fear from within the party.
Because their voters (in general, and in those districts in particular) are total fucking morons that will vote D with less consideration than they give to wiping their asses.
“Australian Open officials ask fans to remove T-shirts with slogan ‘Where is Peng Shuai?'”
https://twitter.com/stephiegal/status/1485102168344612866
They’d rather be a Chinese colony than British? (Not much difference these days)
These days? I just might choose the Chinese over the British.
Posted an article from Cato
Masturbatory pseudointellectualism.
I rest my case.
I don’t disagree actually. My point is that the modern city is very far from libertarianism despite the expectations of the urban libertarians at Cato…
Same guy who wrote that article wrote this a few years back:
https://www.aier.org/article/realignment-not-upheaval-defines-our-political-moment/
Aged like milk…
Well you know, Cato really understands Americans and their preferences. Assholes don’t even understand the movement they claim to represent. They are perfectly captured as part of the contemporary DC establishment.
One of the largest complaints about the modern left, not just here but in general, is that they have no idea of what any other part of the American political scene is like. For a great example of this see Johnathon Haidt or James Lindsey. The last thing anyone here wants to do is fall into that trap, and a good way of not doing that is to read things like CATO, listen to NPR, etc to get a good idea of what is coursing around the left and so-called libertarians of the left. So, Winston is doing a good thing here, at least in my opinion.
Mexican Sharpshooters article yesterday points to a part of this issue, and how it needs to be dealt with. And until then we are going to be branded as white racist/supremacists/yokels/etc. and have our opinions disregarded. And while that might seem a small thing, it really isn’t, as our view needs to become the norm, not a fringe.
until thenwe are always going to be branded as white racist/supremacists/yokels/etc. and have our opinions disregarded.FIFY
Todays societal nut-punch:
Yay, progress!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10430987/Transgender-swimmer-Lia-Thomas-wins-100m-200m-freestyle-races-against-Harvard.html
I for one hope that young lady wins every race
Seconded. Smash every fucking record.
“If you’re gonna play the game, boy,
You gotta learn to play it right”
/Kenny Rogers
Heads up for you carb lovers:
https://www.yahoo.com/now/hostess-ready-valentine-day-strawberry-200500135.html
Sounds interesting.
Go ‘way-
batin’politickin’Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon on Friday responded to railroad company Union Pacific’s (UP) concerns regarding train burglaries in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of LA.
In December 2021, Adrian Guerrero, UP’s state director of public affairs in California, sent a letter to the district attorney pointing to rising retail theft crime in LA County over the past year as part of the reason train thefts were occurring more frequently and asking for assistance in addressing it on UP railroads. UP says it experienced a 160% increase in criminal rail theft in Los Angeles County over the past year.
Last week, UP urged Gascon to “reconsider” Special Directive 20-07, which allows many misdemeanor cases to be declined or dismissed prior to arraignment unless “factors for considerations” exist.
Gascon, however, said UP filed fewer criminal cases to the district attorney’s office in 2021 than it did in 2020 or 2019.
“In 2019, 78 cases were presented for filing. In 2020, 56 cases were presented for filing. And in a sharp decline, in 2021, 47 such cases were presented for filing consideration, and over 55% were filed by my office,” Gascon said in his letter to UP. “The charges filed included both felony and misdemeanor offenses alleging burglary, theft and receiving stolen property.”
Gascon added that out of 20 cases that were declined, 10 “were not filed due to the insufficiency of the evidence presented to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, which is our ethical standard to file a criminal case.” The other 10 were not filed because they “involved offenses such as allegations of unhoused individuals within 20 feet of the railroad tracks and simple possession of drugs for personal use — not allegations of burglary, theft or tampering.”
What is the likelihood Gascon will come down on the Union Pacific like a ton of bricks when they revive the Pinkerton Railroad Security Force model and start cracking heads?
“We don’t know who put those severed heads on pikes.”
-UP
IANAL, but when you fuck around with trains don’t you find out it’s a federal offense? What does the local jurisdiction have to do with this whatsoever?
Wait, wait – I know this one! INTERSTATE COMMERCE
Good question. Probably the big law is too busy working that domestic terrorism teat…
Which federal crimes would those be? Trespass, vandalism, and theft are all state crimes and the state of California does have jurisdiction over crimes committed on railroad property.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/20151
I don’t know; it’s not my area: IANAL; I googled a link above but leave the proof or rejection to others.
But I know railroad rights trump local jurisdictions almost all the time. For example, you can scream all you want about a bumpy grade crossing, but it will get fixed when they are good and damned ready and not a second earlier. Fuck around on the tracks and you’ll get arrested by railroad police and be put in a railroad police car and taken to railroad police jail. They were given considerable rights and land grants to facilitate westward expansion, and there has been little containment since. I am not asserting this trumps everything; I am asserting they have special rules which might be applicable. “Seems like I recall” is all I’m presenting. There’s no Federal Abuse of Grocery Laws or National Haberdashery Protection Act of 1866 or Undertakers Police…..so these guys are special.
Someone will know or find it. There are often exceptions to local jurisdiction: the federal buildings in your home town are exempt from the local fire code even though they expect your fire department to respond to their fires….it’s a one-way deal. Shoot a guy at the post office and your sheriff and DA will have no say in it. I think railroad stuff often is captured the same way. Someone will know.
If you read that, you’ll see it’s setting model code for state laws. About the only specific federal law is entering a train (locomotive, rail cars,) to commit murder or robbery.
Yes, there is and has been quite a bit of leeway for railroads, but they aren’t sovereigns. They also fall under quite a bit of state regulation (states regulated the size of crews and required cabooses, for example). Specifically for this example, the railroads do not operate jails. You’d be lodged into whatever local jail handles it for the area. Railroad police officers have their authority in both state and federal law, but are required to hold state certification/authorization. They’re similar to LAXPD, in that they are the primary law enforcement agency but they can call upon other agencies to assist and other agencies can effect arrests in those jurisdictions.
I tan into some railroad cops in Utah once. They were off duty but had the whole puffed up SWAT cop attitude. Said they had jusrisdiction a mile on either side of the old railroad grant tracks.
What is the likelihood Gascon will come down on the Union Pacific like a ton of bricks when they revive the Pinkerton Railroad Security Force model and start cracking heads?
This does seem to be the way we’re going. I liken it to the South American failed state model – private security firms for corporations and rich folks, vigilance committees and/or bribes to the local gangs for the peons.
UP is in the news about this but I can’t help but wondering about BNSF as well. They have a similar set of tracks in the LA area.
Also, what about SF/Oakland and the Seattle areas as well as Chicago, Baltimore, and smaller cities?
I find it hard to believe this is all happening to one RR in one area.
The more this is publicized, the more I expect that this will spread elsewhere.
I wonder also if UP cut their railroad police in California like they did around here a couple years back. Should check Trainorders and see what they know.
https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/we-are-one-1979-210527.htm
Huh.
Judging by your rhetoric I’d say you are terrified about your waning influence.
Wilson said, “They’re trying to throw so much friction into voting and all the sand into the machine, especially in communities they don’t feel will be reliable voters for them. So they are not going to bitch and moan about early voting in a red county. ”
He continued, “This is exactly the kind of mechanism that proto authoritarian states and authoritarian states set up. They want to say who can vote, when they can vote, how they can vote, when the votes are counted.
IOW voting regulation. *faints*
They want to have a veto of the vote count at the end. They want to also say they can bring criminal sanctions and try to intimidate people who are trying to go out and register voters. They want to bring criminal sanctions with these organizations. You know who enforces the law? State attorneys enforce the law. They don’t need an election police force. This is a tool of intimidation. And it is frankly a sign again. They don’t want elections. They would like 2024 to be the last election. They want to be like the Ba’ath Party in Iraq. They have a thing called elections, and the dear leader gets 117% of the vote.”
The progjection is strong with you.
Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson
Oh, fuck me, and he was talking to the ass-that-has-a-cunte. Curse you RS.
Not the Bee.
As one of the greatest works in Britain’s literary canon, Nineteen Eighty-Four sounds a chilling warning about the dangers of censorship.
Now staff at the University of Northampton have issued a trigger warning for George Orwell’s novel on the grounds that it contains ‘explicit material’ which some students may find ‘offensive and upsetting’.
The advice, revealed following a Freedom of Information request by The Mail on Sunday, has infuriated critics, who say it runs contrary to the themes in the book.
maybe civilization was a mistake
The real TW should be “this is not a how-to manual”.
Grab your pitchforks.
On Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Brabrand issued a “Principal Briefing” that orders administrators to suspend students who don’t wear masks to school, according to a copy of the briefing that a whistleblower provided Parents Defending Education.
The edict is in defiance of an executive order by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin giving parents the right to choose whether their children wear masks to school or not.
These tyrannical cuntes need to be taken down a notch.
I want to see the National Guard escorting the children into these schools. Especially if it’s black children.
‘They didn’t really understand that he was a person, he was just a Twitter account.’
@LabourAgainstAS
‘s Emma Picken pays tribute to her former colleague Peter Newbon who was found dead after a Twitter ‘pile-on’ accusing him of antisemitism.
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1484987482051653632
Just walk away from twitter
Racism and Antisemitism – the magic argument ending words of modern “discourse”.
But then where would I go for my amateur fetish porn?
Never mind that we have this thing that tells the government what it is not allowed to do.
The Economist pointed to the growing diversity of gun owners in America and noted that it is “bad for gun-control advocates.”
According to The Economist, a study by of Northeastern University shows that of the millions of first time buyers between January 2019 and April 2021, “half were female, a fifth black and a fifth Hispanic.”
Moreover, The Economist noted that “the share of black adults who joined the gun-owning ranks, 5.3%, was more than twice that of white adults.”
The demographics are a marked shift from 2015, when first time gun buyers “skewed white and male.”
Gun ownership changes things, thus The Economist observed that people who own guns “are more politically active around gun issues than non-owners.”
Cry about it, leftists.
Economist is mad that they can’t dismiss gun owners as racist white men with small dicks….
They’re not leftists. They’re typical conservatarians; in Europe, with no tradition of personal gun ownership or free speech, they weirdly own the intellectual high ground (let’s be very, even someone who has just been raped, beaten half to death, and all their household goods stolen still does not believe in private guns).
From our high perch on Mount Liberty, this one article seems left, but, in the UK, they are merely conserving what they think are their best positions.
They’re wrong on this point and many others; the typical Economist argument always ends with “reasonable men must, of course, draw the line on liberty somewhere.” We get the same BS from American conservatarians every day; the difference here is that most conservatarians think private gun ownership is okay.
Their sentiment is properly seen as reactionary, not progressive.
economically it is getting more and more lefty
Heh. I was at Elite Shooting Sports in Manassas yesterday. The place was packed – I had to wait almost 90 minutes for a lane (fortunately ESS has plenty of comfy couches, big-screen TVs, and wifi bandwidth.) The lane to my left was occupied by an interracial couple getting basic marksmanship training from a black instructor. The lane to my right had three swarthy bearded dudes speaking (I think) Pashto, trying out a shorty AR ‘pistol’ and a couple of handguns. Down the bay, a white kid in his early twenties was showing his mother and aunt how to run a pistol.
Message to the gun controllers – it’s over. You lost. Y’all had your chance, and you blew it by acting like a bunch of Karens. Everybody now knows that guns are both useful tools and awesomely fun toys. Unless your proggy handlers can engineer an actual totalitarian takeover of society (*sigh*), your confsciation wet dreams are as dead as your sex drives…
HA! The rental range I like to take my Hassidic nephews to in North Miami Beach has a clientele that makes United Colors of Benetton look like a KKK rally and they are also quite crowded unless you get there very early.
https://shop.pembrokegunrange.com/
Love Elite (probably why I’m a member)….always lots of different folk in there. They are very welcoming and nice unlike some other ranges that give n00bs the stinkeye. Lots of the instructors are chicks.
Was the instructor of the couple kind of shortish and very muscular? He may be the guy that gave me my range test for my basic pistol CCH course. We spent the hour trying different 9mms because he could see I was already somewhat expereienced.
No, he was probably 6′-1 or 6′-2, medium complexion, short full beard. He did have a nice selection of pistols, and a SIG MPX-K that went over pretty well.
Hmmmm…I may need some additional range instruction! LOL
Know what anti-gun people got our of your story? Guns are “awesomely fun toys”
I would have guessed EvilSheldon would catch hell for that from the Gun Nutz side.
I’ve been saying this based on gun show anecdata. Much diversity.
Thirty-six out of 54 passengers on a Jan. 14 flight from Fiji to Kiribati were found to have COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated and tested multiple times before leaving Fiji. Passengers were quarantined in Kiribati’s capital upon arrival.
There is a lesson here that too many people will refuse to learn.
Stay in Fiji?
I hear it’s nice.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1485206030191628293
Anti-lockdown protests sprouting in Brussels.
Unanswered question in these articles: Who’s paying for this?
Taxpayers, of course.
During a run on January 10, however, Solomon was stunned when he came across two large swastikas that had been spray-painted on the bridge and one of its walls. Next to them, someone had spray-painted the words “MAGA,” “Trump 2024” and “Burn.”
Seems legit.
It was the Nigerians again??
Since it was in Raleigh I am thinking Peace College students. (Yes, it is an actual college.)
Gun ownership changes things, thus The Economist observed that people who own guns “are more politically active around gun issues than non-owners.”
Geniuses.
Now staff at the University of Northampton have issued a trigger warning for George Orwell’s novel on the grounds that it contains ‘explicit material’ which some students may find ‘offensive and upsetting’.
They’re talking about the black market antique shop, right?
Our national nightmare is just beginning. Those monkeys were from one of Fauci’s projects.
At 4:05 this AM, I turned 51.
Fuck this shit. That is all.
50s seem to be the predominant age range on this site.
my best guesses
median: 1970
mode: 1968
average: 1969
68 here
chi squared distribution?
I just turned 50. I’m still considering that we live in a simulation, and you are all my tulpae.
44.
Baby inbound.
Happy Birthday?
That’s why I hang out here. I can pretend that I still have my youth and beauty.
Instead of just my beauty…
you barely hit your prime. happy birthday
That’s it? 51?
That’s barely broke in, Zwak!
Happy birthday, brother!
This is where kinnath says “you ain’t old yet”.
This is followed by 4score saying “settle down young lad.”
I’ve learned my lesson.
Happy birthday anyway!
Happy birthday
Celebrate Zwak, you ain’t never gonna be 51 again.
PSM brought to you and you and you …
It does seem a little strange that so many here are near that age. Maybe your Boomer parents had some sort of optimistic revelation and wanted children. Good for them and for y’all.
I can’t speak for anyone else in my age range, but my conception was inspired by the draft.
I’m 52 and my mom was pre-boomer.
Same. In that itty bitty generation just before the boomers.
Happy birthday, kid.
You got married on Roe v. Wade day?
Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company Neuralink is currently looking for their clinical trial director to start testing brain chip on humans.
“You will be able to save and replay memories. You could potentially download them into a new body or into a robot body.”
Sounds dangerous to test.
Test it on Jamie Lynn first.
https://twitter.com/MrPopOfficial/status/1485021965752713216
Skillwires?
I see that we’re still edging towards a cool cyberpunk dystopia.
Seconded. Smash every fucking record.
Could it give me memories? Attach ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion? C-beams glittering in the dark near Tannhouser Gate?
This does seem to be the way we’re going. I liken it to the South American failed state model – private security firms for corporations and rich folks, vigilance committees and/or bribes to the local gangs for the peons.
Philip K Dick was right. Gated communities surrounded by barrios.
Shiksa babes taunt you on Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.md/OeKLg
Wife and kids got boosted yesterday. Wife is sicker than a dog. Daughter is having chest pains and some difficulty breathing. My comment that maybe we shouldn’t have pumped our kids full of experimental medicines, especially when the girl had a bad reaction last time, was not appreciated. Nor was my comment that the symptoms are fake news, Dr Pfauchi told us it was safe for kids.
Off to the ER…
Hope everyone is OK
Fuck/damnit. Prayers headed your way. That does not sound good at all.
sounds nasty best of luck.
Fuck. I hope everyone turns out okay. I also hope that your wife doesn’t stab you.
That sucks. Best of luck.
Shit. Sorry, Hero.
I hope everyone is ok.
Oof. Sorry to hear. I hope they are ok.
Oh my goodness. Godspeed, man.
That’s awful. I’m very sorry to hear that and hope everything turns out alright.
Shit, hoping for the best here.
Update- adverse reaction to vax booster, but not either of the carditis conditions. Go home and rest, bill is in the mail.
2 questions:
1- do I send the invoice for the er to the cdc directly or to my state governor’s office first?
2-anybody have plans for a doghouse large enough to accommodate an avg sized adult male and a small couch for a week or two?
Happy Anniversary you crazy kids!
Off to the ER…
Bummer. Good luck. Especially for your daughter.
I hope this antibiotic works cause my throat is killing me
For a virus?
Does it have to be people? You could just go to the zoo.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17411783/shocked-my-girlfriend-doesnt-share-love-of-voyeur-sex/
thicc
https://twitter.com/aperigator3/status/1485028537656619016
AEW Women’s World Champion Britt Baker says she’ll fight both Jake and Logan Paul in the wrestling ring.
https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1485163746293129217
Happy Anniversary, Old Man and SP!
I’m very happy that you found each other.
Anniversary Song
More traditional.
Your boyfriend’s penis is too small.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17411998/at-age-of-32-ive-only-had-two-orgasms/
And his tongue AND fingers?
get a personal trainer
Re: the monkey story
As someone who has extensive experience in this matter, I can tell you that it’s nearly impossible to get close to macaque without permission.
Monkeys can, however, be convinced to stop their business using patient negotiation. This typically involves a good amount of gibbon take.
Keeping this in mind may help ensure that the public need no longer be exposed to wrenching monkey tales.
The hangover, she burns! Maybe this time I’ll learn my lesson about food & water intake when drinking.
Hair ‘o the dog might be appropriate.
full english with a pint of lager
I mix my booze with water. That helps.
lame
Mix yourself an Americano and force yourself to go out for a brisk walk. Your hangover will retreat like a whipped cur.
I approve of this…or just get drunk again
The 7:30am walk with the dog and large coffee and protein bar don’t seem to have done a little, but I’m still oogie. I think a nap later will be in order
It’ll inspire people to do *something* that’s for sure…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/diet-fitness/fitness-guru-launches-sexy-bikini-25991911
Extend Basement Under Your Yard? – Here’s How
https://houshia.com/extend-basement-under-your-yard/
I always thought it would be cool to build a house that was normal size house above ground and mansion below.
You know, in 1776 when Louie Armstrong went to the moon to fight the Nazis to end the Korean War, he did it to fight for our right to party. I can’t help but feel we’ve let him down.
Both my kids have lice. So, I have that going for me. Off to do lots of laundry and shampoo my hair with kerosene.
shampoo my hair with kerosene – this is what we did in commie romania because there was nothing else but I expected better things to exist in The West
Other things exist. It’s just that kerosene is more efficient.
Mayonnaise dude. Mayo!
There was a year where my two boys still lived at their moms and they had lice perpetually. I don’t know if it was the school (they lived in a heavy immigrant area) or she just was too high too take care of it.
Stay away from any heaters in your house
https://twitter.com/CaffComm/status/1485268355716104197
Speaking of global warming, my last job of the week was for a middle aged woman who wore a KN95 the whole time, including when she was out watering her garden and talking to me outside (6 feet away!) when I finished up the job. I asked her if she lived nearby (this was her rental home) and she told me she lived in Redwood City. I have lots of friends from there and when I was young and in a band one of our first shows was at a street fair called Best Fest. It is named after the fact that the town has “the best climate in America by government test”. And it truly does have magnificent weather there., never too hot nor too cold. So I mentioned the “best climate” saying that it’s really such nice weather down there on the Peninsula. “Oh no, not anymore it isn’t ,” came her reply. I asked her what she meant by that, genuinely curious, thinking maybe some other town now got that distinction awarded by our benevolent and hardworking government. “Well, it used to be great climate there , but now it is just way too hot there, due to climate change.” At this point I wrapped up the conversation and told her to have a good weekend and that I’d email over the invoice. But it absolutely struck me that this woman (and many many others) believe that they themselves are now physically more warm than before. Climate change is so real that you can actually feel it. Science!
confirmation bias is a helluva drug
Middle aged woman probably having hot flashes. Wait a few years because when you get old, you’ll feel the need to curl up in a blanket even when it is 85 degrees. Then she can complain about global cooling.
Confirmed.
/Adjusts thermostat
Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is set to begin February 9 after Joe Biden backs DELAYING it saying ‘the more time we have to get up and running the better’
Commies in the House are going to impeach Donald Trump AGAIN!?! HAHAHA. Trump is the best President in US history. Democrats are so scared of Trump messing with their corrupt gravy train, they have tried and failed to convict him in an impeachment trial.
Im sure Johnson was concerned about being impeached. Bill Clinton was definitely worried about being impeached. Trump like the rest of us considers these House impeachment article a joke. They are laughable jokes and Democrats take them seriously.
They really believe that they can prevent Trump from winning election 2024 with more election fraud and say that he’s “disqualified to run” because Democrats say so.
I feel sad for the Commie Democrat Party. Its sad to see lunatics think their reality is the actual reality.
Andrew Johnson decided to get back into politics too. His “friends” in the Democrat party in Tennessee were so appalled by his entry into a congressional race that they slandered the reputation of Johnson’s wife (called her a prostitute). Johnson’s wife committed suicide because she couldn’t stand the
false accusations.
Eliza McCardle Johnson:
Andrew Jackson’s wife however:
Make sure your hot take is from new news next time.
But it was updated 18:58 EST 22 Jan 2021!!!!!111!1
Dude…that article is from 2021
As Festus would say, calm your tits.
LOL. To be fair, it does feel like we are stuck in time.
It would be funny if they impeached him again.
That’s why checked the story, would make for a good hat and hair episode.
That is so funny. It was news aggregated as current news!
I didnt even check because Lefty insanity knows no bounds.
Thanks for spotting that very important detail.
Im still laughing though. The news aggregator listed that in the same feed as Meatloaf and Louis Anderson dying.
For sure it was intentionally offered up to have the appearance.
I just had chills that I was WaPo and posting bad info to elicit a desired response from readers.
Damn I was looking forward to another impeachment trial.
That’s dated January 2021.
LCs head is so far up Trumps ass that he is trying to pull his head out into 2022.
Yea. Pointing out why Trump was a good President with pros and cons makes me a Trump colon fan.
It will be shocking to you that I dont give money to politicians, even TRUMP, and dont ever care to meet Trump.
But, hey keep posting unsupported lies about Trump. They do wonders for convincing people who use rational thought.
It was a joke. Have a great Sunday.
Mine was a joke too. Have a good day.
The crazy thing about it is that when I saw the link I thought yeah, I guess that’s all they have left after watching most of their agenda get dunked over the last couple months. I don’t like to wish ill health on anyone, but I really hope that T Dog has a health scare in two years that will end up being fine but cause him to not attempt the run in 24. After his response to the Vid (best move ever closing the flights from Chinah!) and not firing Birx and Fauchi, I want him nowhere near the presidency again.
panic attack during a CT scan
https://twitter.com/blauer_geist/status/1485048188192976899
L0b0t may disagree, but this is my favorite Publix product and it’s not even close. Also, they were out of fried chicken.
https://pasteboard.co/d0SiLvitXnzb.jpg
I wouldn’t disagree at all. When I was a teen, I could eat my weight in Publix pimento cheese.
Happy anniversary SP and OMWC!
And happy birthday Zwak!