BREAKING: SCOTUS BLOCKS the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-test requirement for large workplaces; upholds vax mandate for workers at federally funded health care facilities.
ALSO, BREAKING: First Jan 6th sedition charges filed against Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oathkeepers.
Wildlife doing silly things link.
They’re not completely wrong, you know, link.
Science! link.
Duuuuude link.
Shit is f*cked up link.
Weeping for America link.
Dis be early.
I think you may have missed also that Sinema just said she will not be budging on filibuster in blistering speech.
Good gnus today.
We published early because of the breaking news.
Good on Sinema. Thanks.
That is good news. But man, does democracy in America hang by a thread. The whole Democratic party wants to make elections easier to steal, and I don’t think that’s on accident. Eventually the Democrats are going to get an actual majority and ram this through.
She’s been a pleasant surprise.
How can a charge of “sedition” stand against the First Amendment?
There’s a big difference between charges and a conviction. They are over-charging everyone who participated in this. The deep state has long a a hardon for Rhodes.
Exactly. They over-charge, hoping he’ll plea to something, and let w/e is left stick for the judge or jury to sort out.
I hope he has a decent lawyer.
“Over-charging” can work both ways, too. When one of the King’s Men gets caught, the prosecutor grandstands and publicly announces that that individual is being tried for (x), when they know it wont ever stick.
See also: Ray Tensing.
You need a decent GPU to see ray tensing in action.
My cynical take is they threw “sedition” at him since people kept pointing out that nobody had been charged with sedition.
As you say, charges ≠ conviction.
This.
Charge him now, and when it doesn’t stick no one will remember.
Yup. His trial won’t be until after the midterms, so the media and the Dems can say sedition to their hearts’ content.
Ze process, she is ze punishment.
When this comes to trial in 5 years, he’ll get off with a warning.
He wants people who took an oath to keep that oath! The only loyalty that is allowed is to the PARTY!
Do they have anything on this guy?
*sigh*
I love technoesoterica. It’s the cause of so many of our problems.
And why am I the only one who remembers half of it?
Well, the workday is over, I’ve broken down the bulk food packages into meal sized portions. Today’s dinner is on the stove.
I think I’ll vegetate.
UCS, I really enjoyed the article on blacksmithing.
Looking forward to your knife making.
#metoo.
I’m glad.
That one won’t be until feb, as the class is the last week of this month.
Me too
Same here. Cool article and cool things you made thanks.
SCOTUS decision. Finally!, but may be a little late for me. Last week I got in trouble for not wearing a mask at a hospital I deliver to. (no one had said a word for 9 months, I’m there at 5am) So, I kind of lied saying I would not wear a mask, I relented for the hospital and a couple of others that have a sign on the door.
Today my boss had to come meet me for a delivery and talked about wearing the mask because of OSHA. I didn’t do it, I will make a concession for a place of business like the hospital, but I was not going to do it because of OSHA, to hell with that.
So who knows, will it be water under the bridge? or I get fired for insubordination? I don’t care, a little financial hardship is not near what the patriots at Valley Forge endured!
I’ll do the mask thing for a few minutes if someone whines about it. cause i don’t care that much.
The vaccine requirement was atrocious.
To me, the mask is just one more little “push/nudge” oh its not that big a deal, you just have to wear it for a few minutes. To me, just one more step on the path to losing what little is left of self autonomy and liberty.
Yeah I was meh last year.
Not anymore. I’m done. The only place I can see myself submitting is a medical facility. Everywhere else I will either ignore it or not visit.
I submitted the other day when the in-laws from Tokyo came over for a visit. They wanted us to wear masks to avoid getting the baby sick. Whatever, 15 minutes of masking to make them happy. Of course now they’re stuck in the US for an extra week because they popped positive on a covid test. I guess all that masking wasn’t enough. ?
“I don’t need a mask, you need a muzzle.”
I’m stealing that one.
I’ll do the mask thing for a few minutes if someone whines about it. cause i don’t care that much.
I caved to see my mom in North Carolina last October because she’s recovering in a convalescence home.
But otherwise? Fuck no. I am not taking part in the pandemic fear bullshit. Masks are a part of that.
Reading the ruling, I noticed a snip-it about OSHA being well within their right to mandate masks. So expect that rule to come forth if it’s not already a thing.
Additionally, as someone who does some federal contracting, the ruling for allowing the mandate for healthcare facilities that accept medicare (i.e. 98% of all health facilities in existence), I’m worried how that ruling may be used to allow the continuation of the federal contractor mandate.
All in All, fuck Roberts and fuck Kavanaugh.
Yep. I’m under the Federal Contractor mandate as well. So, back to waiting…
Reading the ruling, I noticed a snip-it about OSHA being well within their right to mandate masks. So expect that rule to come forth if it’s not already a thing.
Fuck. Well, like with the vaccine mandate, I will not comply.
All in All, fuck Roberts and fuck Kavanaugh.
Seconded.
Yep. Expecting that too. Plus a dose of National Security means we can do whatever.
Wear the talismask. If you don’t follow the rituals the whole community will be subject to divine collective punishment from the plague gods. We’re all in this together.
So far, my work is used to me not wearing one, even though it’s required on federal property.
Luckily my office only has 14 people and they know I get headaches.
I still haven’t worn one to go shopping, and back when restaurants required it to walk in, I never covered my nose.
I wear it in the VA hospital, but don’t cover my nose, that led to them refusing to do an ultrasound on me.
I have to go back in 2 weeks, and will try to argue, but I now have an unmask.
It doesn’t hold heat in like any other mask I’ve tried that looks legit, so I might not get a headache.
How does it look IRL? What color did you get?
I have a plane trip coming up, I think.
I got a black one.
If you hold it up to the light, you can see right through it, but on your face it looks real.
Agreed. Get the black for the most normal look.
Ah, sweet – black is back in stock (was out last night).
Whoops, no – that’s just child sizes.
Hopefully they crack the whip on the orphans and churn out some more.
Part of me thinks about it.
Another part says “Don’t even pretend to comply.”
For me it’s only the hospital and flying.
I also leave my nose out in the airport and on the plane, I pulled my hood up all the way to cover my face and slept. Never got bothered, but I am sure there are Nazis out there who would check.
I have the black one from miniamallycompliantmasks.com.
Never been challenged.
I tried them, but still felt heat and wound up with a headache, the unmask seems promising.
I had a great black one like that which I’ve been wearing on plane trips, but I lost it somewhere in my seat on a much-delayed cross-country flight last week, after they kept giving me Jack and Cokes for being so patient. Damn, and now they’re all 20 bucks, when I first got it 6 months ago it was just ten.
What ilk of tom-fuckery is this? Its only 15:11H (God’s Time) and there’s new links?
I need more beer.
Christ I need to stick my head in the sand. I get infuriated by something like this every few hours.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/robert-malones-doctor-had-her-license?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMTYyNjE4MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDcwODAzNjQsIl8iOiJjNFRYayIsImlhdCI6MTY0MjEwNTI0MCwiZXhwIjoxNjQyMTA4ODQwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTQ4MzU0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.rImCflmeDPnddpKkWjrIWJZxKB1XzsZ4rzcqcPOvNNI
Meryl’s good people. She was incalculably helpful during the anthrax vaccine debacle, too.
Of course they pulled her license.
What are her prospects for appealing this, or failing that, moving to another state and relicensing?
She’s going to run into the same problem in other states.
Now, the amount of power state medical boards have varies by state, but every state’s medical board is going along with the NIH/CDC.
hmm, I was making an incorrect assumption that medical licensure was less politicized in other states that aren’t as fucked as the “Blue” ones.
Yes, the medical establishment is firmly in the Narrative bubble.
Its not so much geographic as it is a matter of social class.
The NH Legislature has at least one bill reducing the power of the state medical board with respect to doctors that don’t go along with the covid narrative. It recently had a committee hearing. I haven’t been following this session’s legislative activity like I did last year because of work and other things.
But until that passes, assuming it passes, the state medical board, like the boards in other states, will bring the hammer down on any doctor that doesn’t follow along with what NIH/CDC wants.
Speaking of which, I really need to finish reading this document at work.
“Ordered to undergo neurocognitive assessment.” They are misusing psychiatry just like the Soviets did.
“Dr. Meryl Nass, is no longer able to practice medicine. Her license was suspended for spreading COVID misinformation. This is ridiculous.”
It is ridiculous, because doctors often express all sorts of different opinions.
…pour encourager les autres
More good vaccine data. The depopulation theory looks better and better every day.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/covid-infections-and-deaths-soar?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMTYyNjE4MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDcwNzA2NDYsIl8iOiJjNFRYayIsImlhdCI6MTY0MjEwNTU0NywiZXhwIjoxNjQyMTA5MTQ3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzYzMDgwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.gUCPj5GL7zSJ5IFg-aCj88hS1v2xXHCF2skNRHUuqbk
You know you can trim the “?” and everything after it.
Next you’ll be telling him to use the “a” tag…
No I will not.
Ok I’ll give it a try next time. Posting a link is the most coputer savy thing I ever do.
Unvaccinated Man Feeling Left Out As All His Vaccinated Friends Have COVID
It’s a lonely time for us purebloods.
Heh.
Not far from the truth. We had 8 people come down with covid over the weekend and add that to the numbers we had over the past month. I however remain unaffected. I had covid last year FWIW.
That said I’m sure some are taking advantage of our paid covid leave. You call in and say you have symptoms. You get a covid test that reads negative. You come back after 5 days of paid leave.
Last week my partner got covid. Both of us are vaccine free. Me? No symptoms whatsoever. But I also didn’t test. It’s been 24 months of having no cold/flu/covid symptoms.
My wife had it, I didn’t. Or at least I didn’t have any significant symptoms.
The usual response when somebody who was just vaccinated gets the ‘Vid is, is “well, the vaccine didn’t have time to take effect”.
Or, “this wouldn’t have happened if every human being on earth was vaccinated”.
“CBDA and CBGA’s “virus-neutralizing” capabilities are definitely promising, but researchers said the compounds would most likely have to be consumed in the form of a pill or liquid in order for people to truly experience their benefits, and that’s only if the Biden Administration authorizes the use of cannabis for researchers to begin experimenting with other ways of fighting off the disease.”
Seems very unlikely that will happen.
First Jan 6th sedition charges filed against Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oathkeepers.
I, for one, am glad that we defeated fascism.
Our officers rescued a moose that had become trapped in the basement of a house in Breckenridge on Monday. The moose had fallen through a snow-covered window well and into the home’s basement.
No sign of squirrel?
It was Boris and Natasha’s fault.
It then bit my sister.
NASA has hired a climate scientist as its new chief scientist, a move that reflects the greater emphasis the agency is placing on climate change studies.
Did we dissolve NOAA? Stay in your lane…
Why should they? The more you do, the more funding you require.
The CDC tracks gun deaths and I don’t think those are a disease.
Arguing a criminal justice problem is a public health problem should get the public health advocate banned from anything to do with public health, save perhaps sweeping streets.
NASA has been going that way for thirty years. They’re just following the money.
James Hansen, anyone?
So much this.
New Study Finds Cannabis Could Block COVID-19 From Entering The Body
I have been conducting the same study with wine/beer. Good results so far.
Thumbs up on that one. The week I quit drinking I got it. YMMV
Someone else that needs to stay in his lane.
WxRisk Up All Night
all GOP are really just GQanonP
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Greg Sargent
Cheerful suburban dad Glenn Youngkin convinced many Virginia parents that their children were under threat of CRT indoctrination.
Now Republicans in the state plan to:
* cancel minimum wage hike
* require voter ID
* cut early voting
* expand open carry
Your snow and other weather forecasts are only so-so. Maybe keep your retarded/dishonest politics off of your weather page. BT-dubs, if I call it an automobile and you call it a car we are talking about the same thing…
And he just can’t stop with the “MUH-SCIENCE”…
I hope so, but remain skeptical.
Open carry is stupid, IMO. First person to get popped is the guy with a gun on his belt when a crime starts.
I think it’s less likely to deter crime than criminals not knowing but suspecting any place they go may have armed citizens.
Certainly there should be no restrictions on it, or on concealed carry, but I think it’s bad policy to do so.
I hear that all the time, but have never seen an article here that actually happens.
I am a open carrier because I refuse to get a permit.
Thank you.
Your welcome.
Maybe, but it should still be legal everywhere, without a license.
“expand open carry”
Don’t know if this is what he’s referring to, but Del Tim Anderson (R, Va Beach) has filed a constitutional carry bill, ie concealed carry without permit or any other sort of government permission, registration, or involvement.
When McAuliffe was governor last time he made it illegal to OC into the DMV and ABC stores.
They also revoked statewide preemption, so some locales have made OC illegal.
I made the mistake of reading down further. There’s an argument about voter ID requirements where someone says with a straight face “What’s racist is the entire system that makes getting an ID a luxury many don’t prioritize.”
Getting an ID = Luxury. I don’t recognize the planet these people live on.
I am now very entertained. It appears that while the client we support is doing a massive upgrade this weekend.
Word is trickling down that the company I work for has decided to announce that we will be taking MLK Jr. day as a company holiday. This is apparently going to be announced either today or tomorrow.
Still working under “what’s a holiday?” rules. I will miss it when we get assimilated.
I’m just waiting for the official word that I’ll get paid to not work on Monday.
I have the feeling that I’ll still probably be getting called quite a bit due to the upgrade.
New York already declared it a holiday years ago.
So I will not be working monday. We are almost done with the repercussions of the upgrade tuesday.
We just got it as a holiday as a DIE effort.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes arrested, charged in Jan. 6 conspiracy. Charges include seditious conspiracy against him, and ten others, per people familiar.
Was he a suspected Fed? Or am I thinking of the Proud Boys guys?
The moose had fallen through a snow-covered window well and into the home’s basement.
That’s a hell of a big window well.
Taliban official: “Sixty percent of women over 40 in the West marry their pets.”
/considers a crazy cat lady ex-girlfriend
In a certain way of thinking, he’s not wrong.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning people to stop using the LuSys Laboratories COVID-19 Antigen Test (Nasal/Saliva) and the LuSys Laboratories COVID-19 IgG/IgM Antibody Test due to the high risk of false results.
I guess those companies don’t have the right connections.
Manager Vy Nguyen said this is needed after a customer ordered a traditionally prepared Vietnamese dish, pho, and then harshly criticized the restaurant for how it was done.
If I were in Des Moines, I’d patronize this business.
“Ordered to undergo neurocognitive assessment.” They are misusing psychiatry just like the Soviets did.
“Rest and relaxation is what you need. I prescibe a nice long vacation in Siberia.”
This is why the filibuster shutdown is important. If they do get past that, expect a congressional bill for vaccine mandates.
That poster is now hanging in my office.
That is all. Carry on.
Blame the US government.
Mexico is suing U.S. manufacturers for $10 billion in damages, alleging those manufacturers participate in negligent business practices and are responsible for “massive damage” that is “destabilizing” their country. Mexican authorities take no responsibility for failing to enforce their own gun control laws or acknowledge the fact that corruption by narco-terrorists is a way of life for many of their own government officials. Mexico is ranked as 124 out of 180 countries on a corruption index by the watchdog Transparency International. That put Mexico on par with Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Mexico claims in their lawsuit, according to Reuters, that over a half million firearms are illegally trafficked into their country in a deliberate scheme to undermine their strict gun laws in ways that would knowingly arm drug cartels, fueling murders, extortion and kidnappings. Their lawsuit alleges that 68 percent of the firearms recovered are manufactured in the United States.
I guess America is the Indiana of the world.
Where TF else do they think they would come from? It’s not like China or Russia or Bulgaria are right next door.
Manufactured in the states, but shipped to the Mexican Army which then sells them to the cartels.
I wouldn’t be surprised at that.
Mexico is ranked as 124 out of 180 countries on a corruption index
The US is only ranked higher because it has more money to bribe the people that rank the countries.
due to the high risk of false results.
Something tells me false positives wouldn’t be an issue for them.
One of the things that I have heard a number of times over the past two years both in media and in discussions with friends and acquaintances is the “it’s not that big a deal” line in regards to masks. This often appears when you mention some of the many studies that have shown little to no benefit to wearing them. Well, to me, and obviously many others it is a huge fucking deal. I explained to one such person the other day that if Trump wins the next election there has been talk of a MAGA hat mandate. Just wear the hat, it’s not a big deal, it’s only when you’re in public. Also it helps protect against the suns rays and fights skin cancer. Think of the follicly challenged and people of pallor. Just wear the damn hat. It’s only for four more years.
My [family member] said once, back in 2020, “in World War Two people put tape on their windows and now some whiny selfish idiots are moaning and whinging because they have to wear a piece of cloth on their face?”
She said this with a scowl, and some comedy emphasis that would be chilling if it wasn’t so absurd, and without a hint of awareness of what she was doing. I simply said, calmly and quietly, “so you have to caricature and straw man those you disagree with—”
I was cut short. She started screaming “I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS NOW! I’M NOT TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THIS NOW!”
In a blind panic and literally shaking (see, it really does happen), she left the room through the door furthest away from me. At this point another family member entered the room, without any idea of what happened, and became very upset with me for upsetting the other.
I’m kinda the black sheep. Baaaa.
“She started screaming “I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS NOW! I’M NOT TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THIS NOW!”
That’s how they roll when you calmly debunk their bullshit with logic and reason.
Do you fly a Corsair?
I wish. I used to love the 1:72 model plane kits when I was a kid and the F4U was one I never got around to.
Good memories there. We would spend hours meticulously assembling and painting our airplane models – only to blow them up with firecrackers or hang them in trees and shoot them with BB guns.
Boys are dopey.
That we are, although most that were finished were strung up on fishing line hanging from the ceiling of the bedroom my brother and I shared. Not that there weren’t a few casualties there.
There ewe go again trying to ram your opinions onto the ones who still have the wool pulled over their eyes.
:applause:
I had to go on the lam(b) for a while. They certainly weren’t flocking to my point of view.
The last two years have really damaged a lot of people’s brains. I don’t know if there’s any coming back for them.
Back to what? I think of all the True Believers that I know and they were proggie dipshits before this all happened.
Many of the Covid Cultists in my family were squishy Democrats. Not Progressives at all.
“You don’t think its a big deal to dehumanize people? What about making it harder for people who have a hard time hearing to understand others? Or make it easier to get away with committing crimes? You don’t think its a big deal for babies to go through critical formative years without seeing anyone’s face other than their parents? You just don’t really care about any of that? Huh. Good to know.”
You can’t watch a show on archaeology without being forcibly lectured at by a far-left academic these days. Their mode of address is very practiced. Classic Marxist style. Think Richard Wolff but more intense.
Rome fell because of patriarchy and climate change? Latin being a gendered language probably contributed as well.
It was a take on the UK govt response to the Potato Famine, which, as far as I can tell, I think was pretty stupid too, but that’s irrelevant when you’re faced with someone who has no interest in a dispassionate, objective, reasoned approach to their subject matter, or indeed whether or not anyone might agree or disagree on certain points. The classic Marxist “academic” has no interest in any real discourse. Ultimately it’s all about power to them. Any magnanimity or willingness to debate amicably on certain points they will see as a weakness to be exploited. Outside the academic setting, there are so many who think, in such naive good faith that “well I guess there might be something to that”, they don’t realise that their good faith will only be exploited and used against them by the Marxist who has only contempt for them.
Well that went a little out into the weeds.
It’s not just archeology.
I know :sad face:
Anyone link to this earlier?
https://quillette.com/2021/03/29/the-campaign-to-thwart-paleogenetic-research-into-north-americas-indigenous-peoples/
Got there via Insty, I think.
In short – “indigenous” people want you to stop testing ancient DNA since it puts a kibosh on their claims of being there since time immemorial.
Mostly, it shows there was lots of killin’ and lots of moving around. Since, you know, thats what people, everywhere have done forever.
The proper response is “We’ll have to test the DNA to see if they’re related to you before you can decide what happens with the remains.
If only they had the stones.
i.e., he knew full well they weren’t Penobscot artifacts but handed them over anyway.
This is nice, too:
They did the work, they have the data but the results would clash with the Penobscot claims to have always been there, so into the memory hole the results go. Can’t be insensitive, you know.
A scientist who wouldn’t dismiss Young Earth Creationism would be viewed with disdain. But can’t have you pointing out things like “many Indians are lactose intolerant, like other people of Asian descent” would bring a shrieking mob down upon you.
This is insane. It really is the narrative over the facts.
In short – “indigenous” people want you to stop testing ancient DNA since it puts a kibosh on their claims of being there since time immemorial.
Which also shoots to shit their “holy places” claims.
“Rhodes did not enter the Capitol building on January 6 but is accused of helping put into motion the violence that disrupted the certification of the vote.”
Now do Ray Epps and the megaphone guys.
“Among the last successful convictions for seditious conspiracy stemmed from another, now largely forgotten storming of the Capitol in 1954, when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House floor, wounding five representatives.”
Then Carter pardoned them?
Yes. Carter pardoned them.
Which, incidentally, was way worse than this event.
By a large margin.
“Man claims he has lost 1.5 inches from length of his penis after COVID caused him severe vascular damage – and doctors have told him it’s irreversible”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10397797/Man-claims-lost-1-5-inches-length-penis-Covid-vascular-damage.html
Damn.
I doubt it.
I’m guessing he means he lost erection strength which is common with cardiovascular disease.
Hey! He stole my bit. That’s what I’ve been telling the ladies the last couple of years.
Meanwhile in the Democratic People’s Republic of Canuckistan.
A judge in the Canadian province of Quebec has suspended a father’s right to see his 12-year-old child because the father has not been fully vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus.
Superior Court Judge Jean-Sébastien Vaillancourt temporarily denied the father’s access rights to his child in a judgement dated on December 23rd and reported this week, arguing that it was not in the child’s best interest to have contact with this father due to the man’s vaccination status.
“It would normally have been in the best interests of the child to have contact with his father, but not in his best interest to have contact with him if he is not vaccinated and is opposed to sanitary measures in the current epidemiological context,” Judge Vaillancourt stated, newspaper Le Devoir reports.
“Forget it, Jake — it’s Quebec-town.”
Judge Vaillancourt – they misspelled “Villain”
Playing with fire volume 3,254
I have only sympathy for the father. For Canada, not so much. They seem to be fine with this sort of stuff.
“EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein brought EIGHT young women with him on his trips to see Bill Clinton at the White House: Displayed photos of himself posing at the Briefing Room podium at his Palm Beach mansion”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10394863/Jeffrey-Epstein-brought-eight-women-Clinton-White-House.html
Nothing to see here, move along.
Qanon people may be loons with outrageous conspiracy theories, but there is a little bit of truth sprinkled into their theories.
There can’t possibly be a cabal of powerful politicians who are pedo/ephebophiles! Surely the news would have told us! CNN was on the case.
Note: not Qanon, but I basically agree with LJW.
ephebophiles
Thank you!
I know it’s a weird thing to get hung up on, but I see “pedophile” I think “someone who needs to kill themselves”.
But then I read “17 year old girl” – then it’s just “yes, they’re sexually mature, but that’s sleazy, don’t do that”.
The former engenders actual revulsion in me, the latter just makes me think the perp is a creep, but not actually ill.
Again, a weird thing to get hung up on, I admit.
Right there with you.
I think there’s a rather large difference between having sex with a consenting 16-17 yo vs., say a 12 yo. Certainly if the person is 18-24 or so. Like you said, if the person is older than that, but the 16-17 is consenting, I think the blowback should be more left to the “wow, you’re kind of a creep, aren’t you?” realm.
Admittedly, I might think differently, and view it more dubiously, if I had a 16-17 yo daughter. Also if there were potential collusion, as maybe the case at Epstein Island.
Say, who exactly did Epstein traffic those girls with? I must have missed that part of the Maxwell trial. Surely they named the johns.
The FBI found a cache of records of human trafficking, including video recordings, in his safe.
They then walked out and left them unguarded, and the evidence disappeared. Because a search warrant only allows them to search for evidence, not actually take it.
Honest to God, that’s their story.
I remember reading that. At this point I’m honestly not surprised.
Dead man’s switch? If anything happens to her. If so much as lightning bolt strikes her dead. Those names get released.
At least if she had any sense and extra records.
Oh, and the judge in her trial sealed all records that were related to her case. To “protect the victims”.
The coverup is comprehensive.
Yes, that’s the bit I was snarkily referencing.
Blatantly protecting the powerful.
How is that Maxwell woman’s name pronounced, anyway? I’ve heard “Gill-lane,” “Elaine,” “Jizz-lane.” That last one is probably where it’s at.
The first way? Dunno for sure.
As the link says: https://www.pronounceitright.com/pronunciation/ghislaine-15257#
That last one is probably where it’s at.
That’s been my take.
Ghee-len.
Throatwarbler Mangrove.
lol
BREAKING: SCOTUS BLOCKS the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-test requirement for large workplaces; upholds vax mandate for workers at federally funded health care facilities.
Great news. And I see that the conservative judges all sided on the right side of the big issue, which is a pleasant surprise. Mixed feelings on the second issue, because while I think it’s bad policy I’m unsure if it’s actually permissible or if the judges made a bad call (given that Thomas and Gorsuch are in the dissent, I’m leaning towards bad call).
Imagine the alternate timeline where Hillary won and we had a court of her justices, instead of Trump’s.
Was just about to post this.
If you count it out, without Trump this would likely have been upheld. He appointed half the judges that blocked it, while Obama appointed 2/3 of they judges who voted to uphold.
God bless Harry Reid.
Hopefully he’s sharing the pineapple with Hitler.
Hitler is fucking Harry Reid in the ass?
It’s fucking Robrrts trying to split the difference.
?
But unlike Solomon proposing to split the baby, Roberts does not have Solomon’s brains.
Why I keep saying he’s going to serve up Solomon’s baby neatly diced.
Right.
I should have remembered.
Here I thought I came up with that myself.
I read it in a book somewhere.
Since Tonio was unable to add a music link…
上坂すみれ「EASY LOVE」Music Video / Sumire Uesaka
OT: A guy I used to work with relocated about a month ago to a large, midwestern city where the only people he knows are his new co-workers. Any idea how he would go about finding a line on quality Cheech & Chongesque items that are not yet available in his new state? Co-workers are not an option he’d even consider. Thanks.
Take a trip to Colorado?
Depends on where in the midwest, Michigan may be closer.
Local hippie store/glass shop, obviously.
Alternatively start making some friends at other things he enjoys doing. It’s not that hard to find stoners.
Become friends with people in the service industry? Don’t look like a fed?
Hang out with black jazz musicians?
Go to Walled Lake Michigan and donate blood.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/01/13/donate-blood-get-free-joint-walled-lake-dispensary/6512785001/
If you get an infusion of stoner blood does it protect you from the Rona?
Of course
Finding a moose in the basement qualifies as a weird day.
*shrugs and hands the moose a beer*
I found a donkey in my garage once.
Not a euphemism. An actual donkey, in my actual garage.
Definitely a euphemism
Did this happen during a trip to Tijuana?
See, I was going to make a joke like that, then remembered that Mr. Dean has recently acquired a new boomstick.
Nah. Lived in West Texas, the garage door was open, the neighbor’s donkey got loose.
The two rather large and territorial/protective pit bulls we had took one look at the donkey and found other things to do. I think they thought it was a giant dog.
I’m still going with the “hosting a donkey show in your garage.” story.
I leave you to your moosey fate
When I was in high school a deer launched itself through a window into a classroom, where a class was going on. The thing ran around knocking desks over and such, and then exited. It was later found dead in a yard from blood loss.
And you had left your hunting rifle in the car that morning.
How about a live goose in your trailer at Burning Man?
This is a good thing. So question is how will Team Red turn it, in typical fashion, into a something bad.
R.N.C. Signals a Pullout From Presidential Debates
But Chris Wallace hosted one, so that proves they are non-partisan.
Christopher Wallace who was of course murdered in 1997.
Everyone knows that the Presidential debates are absolutely meaningless especially when you’re given two or three minutes tops to explain polices that involves a lot nuances and complexities. And on top of that it’s obvious that those debates skew favorably towards the Democrats, after Donna Brazille giving the questions to Clinton before the debates. It’s time for the GOP to grow a spine and not opt out of playing the Left’s games.
They’re more rap battles in prose than anything.
But you don’t even need the news media anymore. Just podcast it on Rumble or some other non-censorious media.
There really is no point. The format really is neanderthal level stupid. Trying to fit arguments into soundbite sized clips in a modern world where airtime is now infinite and free. Candidates can should release videos on each issue that take as much time as they need to explain their position. The brevity of mainstream candidates answers can further demonstrate their lack of seriousness as both elected officials and “intellectuals”. Not that it will matter since it’s all rigged, but at least we could start hearing actual arguments on things that actually matter.
“The format really is neanderthal level stupid. Trying to fit arguments into soundbite sized clips”
Illustrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaIAoFMyk5I
That is the clip I describe when ever someone laughs at me for saying I refuse to vote for a major party candidate. Satirical gold!
Agreed on the format being terrible. IMO the format should be no moderator questions, just let the candidates go back and forth raising questions at each other and answering (or not). And the time sharing should be such that each candidate has a bank (say 10 minutes), and as long as their mic is on their opponent’s mic is off and their time is ticking away, being added to the opponent’s time bank. When they are done speaking they hit a button and the clock stops ticking down and their mic shuts off. Their opponent can then hit a button to turn their mic on, and their bank will start ticking away adding to the opponent’s time, until they are done and hit a button. So on and so forth until an hour or two has elapsed, and then it’s done.
I don’t think they should even face each other at any point. Make videos explaining your positions and post them on your website. Go as long as you want. Make rebuttal videos to other candidates if you want. Or don’t! Getting them together in the room and surrounding them with a bunch of blue-pilled a-holes and an “objective journalist” moderating is the exact kind of pageantry that needs to die a thousand fiery deaths. It’s just an opportunity for low-grade one-upsmanship, cheap points scoring and sound bite manufacturing. People are leaving TV media in the dust because it’s disingenuous and it’s time limits inherently make it an inferior form of gathering info. Take advantage of formats like podcasts. People like Rogan BECAUSE it’s long form and hard to hide dishonesty. Let’s bring this thing into the modern world already.
I would not at all be opposed to having the candidates each sit down with someone like Rogan for a few hours. He seems about as even-handed as you could possibly get in the pundit/podcast/journalist space, and he’s good at asking questions and letting people answer. Plus he’s got a bigger audience than most news programs. Only problem is the Dems would consider him too right-wing, and with the growing polarization in this country I doubt there’s anyone who could be agreed upon by the two candidates.
I think the size of his audience will eventually get some of the backmarkers to cave and go on the show. If the backmarkers get a good poll bump after being on the show, you’ll start seeing frontrunners cave in.
I hope this happens because it will be delicious and the best thing for we the people since 1776.
The candidate that actually does a long form sit down with any of the YTers or Podcaster and it is genuine and raw will probably be what we need. Be actually brave and sit down with random streamers if you want the next generation’s vote.
What are you, some kind of Nazi? You really want politicians to answer questions and not bloviate and obfuscate? Hitler put his plans right down in a book for everyone to read (or else) and look where it got him in the end.
The Mrs. is in the other room ranting about the people on Facebook saying they have COVID, but thankfully their vaccinations made them less sick. As if there were a way to know that.
Were they sick after receiving each shot?
When my ex was pregnant she had morning sickness but then got over it. Might have been the daily shots…
When my Mom was pregnant with me (late 1950s), her physician told her to have a couple of cocktails in the afternoon to help with her queasiness issues.
I guess that explains why I *twitch*twitch*twitch* all the time.
Yeah, it’s nothing to do with the aging process. I had to get off the GlibZoom last night in large part because I had a muscle spasm in my hand.
Of course, my Mom probably had a few drinks while I was in her belly…
You get those too, huh?
I literally can’t move my thumb when it happens. Also, pain.
Also, sorry about cracking the ‘aging process’ joke – I should know by now, if I’m going to make a potentially rude joke, it should at least be funny.
Riiiiiiight! What ever you say, Mr. Toobin
Fucking disgusting, dude. As if I’d ever work for CNN. The fuck are you thinking?
Afternoon cocktails? [snort] What about the cigarette smoke that went from the lungs to the womb? You know how much of that I got – I was dead before I was born.
It’s all they have left. The narrative is kaput.
I know there are a lot of people trying to wrap their heads around getting all the shots, wearing the mask, and following all the rules, and still getting it, just like one of those filthy deplorables. For example, I have a teammate who wasn’t skating with us during the summer because everyone (aka me) was not vaccinated. Last I heard he, his wife, and kid had it.
Pandemic of the vaccinated
Yeah, I love arguments from an alternative Universe that doesn’t actually exist.
Those are the people who are convinced COVID is a death sentence. Now they get to virtue signal because they just know they would have died without the prick of life.
Yep they completed their logical loop and nothing will ever change that.
Prick of Life. That’s what I call my penis.
ZARDOZ demands this one be CLEANSED!
You can have my penis when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I LOL’d
I’d imagine at that point, it’d fall out of your hand on its own.
It’s an article of faith and an argument from ignorance.
You can’t disprove it because it’s disproving a negative.
Would have got away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids.
I’m pretty certain my vaccine is the reason my covid was mild. There’s only like a 99.9% chance it would have been if I hadn’t been vaccinated.
If you’re all potentially “domestic extremists”, what does that make Pie, myself, and the various Kanuckistani glibs?
If I offer an opinion on a particular political candidate, does that mean I’m “interfering” in an election?
You’re interacting with us here, so that’s “collusion”.
Well, collusion works both ways, so that means we are also guilty of treason for colluding with furriners to overthrow the government.
Colluding with foreigners to overthrow the government: sounds like we have a bunch of Ben Franklins and John Adamses around these parts.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were custom made for you and me.
A commonwealth of conspirators.
Does your opinion have a “FWIW” in it so I can properly evaluate both your opinion and you to decide if remedial help may be necessary?
Not usually.
It’s an international terrorist organization with cells in multiple countries.
Attended my first anti-mandate protest yesterday. Several hundred people gathered in front of city hall to protest mandates. The crowd was very polite and quite diverse. They had a couple guest speakers. It was interesting listening to both a fired-up pastor and a very gay, Hispanic, bilingual dude with a rainbow Gadsden flag and a sparkly Trump hat.
I was a bit disheartened by how many people WEREN’T there but at least I’m not alone here.
Good on you man. Sparkly hats for liberty.
Very good. I forgot, what state are you in?
Attended my first anti-mandate protest yesterday.
Excellent.
Dissent is
the highest for of patriotismtreason. You’ll be hearing from Garland’s Goons.Looks like it’s Manhattan-o-clock.
I picked up a little something for just this occasion:
https://www.highwest.com/products/rendezvous-rye.php
I’ve been doing aerobics daily. It helps when the host is a smoking-hot bearded Brit who tends to get aggressive at the 1/2 way mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0c-4nZjIWQ
Good for you!
Excellent KK!
Whatever gets you moving is the right thing!
. . . a smoking-hot bearded Brit who tends to get aggressive at the 1/2 way mark . . .
That’s . . . some aerobics there, lass. ;-)
She burned out her HRM. Give her a break.
Heh.
Default mental image of smokin’ hot aerobics instructor: female
It took a second to adjust.
Uh, “bearded”?
I mean, I’ll never kink-shame anyone but c’mon man!
/continues to be one of the few males in the spin classes he goes to
And good job.
The only thing I miss about the gym is hot yoga class.
Hot yoga ass,
Bikram Choudhury is an ass clown.
I’m told the documentary on him is pretty amazing. I should add it to the list.
Excellent.
*woof*
Right?
NASA & Climate “Science”. Isn’t it amazing that these people are still looking at a gas that
1) represent 4 parts in 10,000 of our atmosphere
2) is a weak greenhouse gas to begin with
3) has an absorption spectrum that is already mostly covered by water vapor, a much stronger greenhouse gas
all while they ignore any potential changes in solar radiation, the source of 99.99…..% of the radiation the earth receives?
Also, when are they going to list water vapor as a ‘pollutant’? It exists in 10-25x the quantity that CO2 does, and (as noted above) is a much stronger greenhouse gas.
The idea that a non-corrupt scientific establishment could carry on with this fraud for 30+ years without getting questioned is ludicrous. All I can say is that the solar/wind scammers (who cause a great deal of pollution that also goes un-talked about) are paying the correct corridors of power well.
Not really. The OH stretch is well separated from the C=O
I didn’t phrase that as well as I should have. The greenhouse gas infrared absorption spectrum of H2O has a fair amount of overlap with CO2.
The exception being at around 4.3 µm
Me thinks this is what thr government wants us to know about the sedition charges…
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/13/feds-say-they-used-encrypted-messages-to-charge-oath-keepers-leader.html
Maybe it is a good thing I stayed off of Signal.
I’m using it now, but I’ll stop as soon as I find a replacement that isn’t compromised. Or is being easily compromised a requirement to get on Apple and Google’s app stores?
Not at all sure it’s compromised – the design & protocol is strong, AFAIK, but no protection against one of the participants handing over the messages.
Or the Feds rooted their phones – not sure Signal can defend against that.
Also – fuck off, Tulpa?
Definitely not Tulpa. I did used to hang out on the Hit and Run boards for a while, so I know who you’re talking about.
I don’t know tech and it may be paranoid, but I’m assuming that the state has made them put in some sort of a backdoor until a satisfactory explanation comes along. My dick pics are too valuable to get into the wrong hands.
Eh, I’ll repeat what I wrote elsewhere here:
The most parsimonious answer is that someone else in the Signal chat turned over the messages.
Yes, the Feds have technical resources, but “flip someone” is usually easier.
Good to know. I probably overreacted in the first place. It’s not my fault, the media trained me to do it!
That caught my eye – haven’t seen if the Signal folks have said anything.
The most parsimonious answer is that someone else in the Signal chat turned over the messages.
Interesting timing:
Moxie Marlinspike leaves encrypted-messaging app Signal
In hilarious news, Yusef just applied to be a TSA officer for MBL in Manistee. they can’t keep people and it’s a tiny airport, easy security, so it could be fun.
Nice! Start practicing your bored look and bad attitude!
Think if all the drugs he can confiscate. Lol.
???
I’m assuming one of three things:
1. You lost your carwash maintenance job; or
2. the above-mentioned job doesn’t pay well enough for you; or
3. the above-mentioned job’s really only a part-time gig and you could squeeze in another full-time job.
???
#3 and again, the airport is only a mile away
Are you doing that so you can seize peoples’ weed?
Toenail clippers. He really, really likes toenail clippers.
“Ewwwwwwww, *gross*!” /end teenage girl mode
used womens undies, I hear there’s a market for that……
You live in Japan?
Export business from MI
I’m not going to kink shame, but that’s weird.
I’m torn here.
On one hand, the TSA is an abomination that needs to be abolished. Freedom loving people should have nothing to do with it.
On the other hand, I can see you tossing a monkey wrench into the works.
On the gripping hand, Fuck the TSA.
“On the other hand, I can see you tossing a monkey wrench into the works.”
You know me well.
Q has a steady supply of photos of the body types of suspected terrorists that you might want to subject to a thorough strip search.
Tom Woods Show Number 2042
Eli Klein, a lifelong Democrat, opposed the COVID restrictions from the beginning, and says he will never demand proof of vaccination to enter his Manhattan art gallery.
Fun with Colorado covid numbers. Current cases is nearly 3x the peak from last winter. Deaths, on the other hand, are less than 1/3 of the peak last winter.
That is a 8/9ths reduction in the CFR. If it was totally due to vaccination, you would need 90% of Colorado to be vaccinated. Vax rate is 66%. So even if **all** of the deaths are amongst the unvaxxed, that is at least 2/3rds reduction in death rate. More if the vax helps at all at preventing infection.
Yes. The cfr is now down to flu levels. This dude is over.
It’s over when the men with guns and camps say it’s over.
I think we have seen signs that even Biden may stop milking this soon because he’s getting hammered in the polls and most Americans are thinking he’s done a terrible job on covid anyway.
You may be right. Corporate media is admitting and discussing things we’ve all known for 2 years. Amazingly without getting banned! I just don’t think most politicians be able to get unhooked from all this power being mainlined right into their veins. I’m hoping that their need to win that popularity contest that provides them sweet godlike powers (and some really nice under the table financial kickbacks) really is the most important thing to them.
It’s going to be tough to wean people if that’s what they’re trying to do. When the CDC announced looser quarantine protocols, work here decided to go with California’s stricter guidelines because they didn’t agree with the CDC…in contrast to the last two years when the CDC’s garbled message was gospel.
I am probably more optimistic because where I am in Texas no one’s done jackshit for like a year anyway. So I’m mostly just wondering when they’ll stop trying with the total ineffective federal ideas that have all failed.
Yep. The thought of loosening any rules terrifies those who have bought into this wholesale.
???
People do not give up their terrors easily.
Biden was just on the news saying you’ll be able to get test kits free next week or so. Just as the omicron variant is peaking. Just in time for Biden to take credit for the upcoming, inevitable plunge in cases. I predict his “favorable” ratings will spike up as soon as nature takes its course in next three or four weeks.
Lol they can’t keep that straight. Harris said next week and WH immediately “corrected” that to maybe end of month and now Biden is also saying next week….what a clown show.
I will put Fuck Joe Biden stickers on them and mail them back to the WH
I can only get total death to cases for Suburban Cook county. But the percentage of cases who died from/with covid dropped from 1.8 % down to 1.3 %. If you were to start the percentage number of people who died vs number of cases starting from this latest surge. I’m sure that percentage would be even lower.
Calling for -20 below, with the windchill on Saturday. Good times.
Watch out for MAGA people. They’re most vicious in cold weather.
They bring along cup warmers to keep their bleach liquid in those temperatures to be able to throw it on gay actors on shows they don’t even watch. They really are a tenacious and dedicated bunch of bigots.
Hey Tulpa, anyone tell you to Fuck Off yet? just checking.
/Sup! Welcome to the show!
Thanks. I’m beginning to think that Tulpa isn’t really here and it’s a big in-joke here. Is it because he used to have roughly a half a billion socks?
TBH, those were jack off condoms,
Any new user name gets the “fuck off, Tulpa” treatment
it’s a big in-joke here
Correct. Protocol, even – newcomers get a hearty “Fuck off, Tulpa!”
They fact you even got the reference means you’re alright. Probably.
The fact they got it should scream Preeet!
You make a good point.
*gives Compelled the side-eye*
“How do you do, fellow insurrectionists?”
I strongly support an increase in the minimum insurrections. I’ll settle for more coups though. Actually I can’t keep track of which is supposed to be worse anymore. This whole newspeak thing is really messing with me.
Sorry you said insurrectionists. You all seem like a swell group of miscreants and misanthropes looking for a good time.
Yeah.
I was going to be in PA this weekend for a swing dance where it was going to be warmer. Unfortunately, I don’t like the timing of the storm coming into the Northeast on Sunday, so I bailed on the trip.
I get to stay up here. Yay.
I thought you were in California?
Future president Harris explains the COVID strategy:
“It’s time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day”
“Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down”
She sounded like an immature 12 year old using fancy phrasing,
/Look at me! I’m a grown up now!
So, Yogi’s not dead.
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future. For our children.”
Move over Shakespeare!
LOL. thanks, I needed that at this time of day
Oh, and the judge in her trial sealed all records that were related to her case. To “protect the victims”.
The coverup is comprehensive.
“The names have been changed, to protect the guilty.”
The Bee has fun,
https://babylonbee.com/news/skynet-is-a-private-company-they-can-do-what-they-want-says-man-getting-curb-stomped-by-terminator
Read the sedition indictment. 15 people or so were going to overthrow the government. They are the ones we heard about ‘stacks’ and QRFs and weapons.
Everyone knows he who holds the lectern rules the realm.
So what is tonight’s movie?
Same thing we do every night: try to take over the world!
Whoops, sorry, reflex.
Green Slime?
Wouldn’t you know?
This one? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064393/
Yes. Last fill in movie before I start working the big new list.
I suppose imprisoning him in the Tower of London is no longer possible?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59987935
They’re not big on the “innocent until proven guilty” principle. Too American, I guess.
Would he still be provided with young women?
Only if he converts to Islam.
Must be nice.
Also, what happened to his 10,000 men?
I respect when people DGAF, even if it is terrible policy.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/guaranteed-income-experiment-black-women-aims-tackle-racial/story?id=82073348
Money Shot “The program won’t offer any financial literacy courses nor advise how participants will use the money…people can be trusted to make the right choices using their resources, but don’t have a lot of resources to start with.”
Our new commie mayor is kicking off a “Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot” shortly. That’ll be a shit-show.
Wanna try it, go for it but attach some string people! Money without education is just gonna be people being a little less poor but still poor.
I don’t know the details yet, but I’m certain it’ll be “free money because racism plus keep all the other benefits you already get”.
I’d consider supporting a UBI if it eliminated every other form of welfare. Here’s some money. Spend it as you see fit, but don’t come back for more. Of course we know that soon there would be sob stories of children going hungry because the parents blew the money on drugs or gambling or whatever, so we need just this little program for the children, and then for healthcare and so on. Not to mention that politicians would buy votes by promising to increase the payout.
Exactly – great in theory, one single payment. We all know the sob stories would turn it into just another welfare handout, with further “safety nets” for the irresponsible.
“Surgeon free to practice again — despite branding patients’ livers with his initials
June 8, 2021”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/08/surgeon-who-autographed-patients-livers-deemed-fit-to-practice-again/
“Renowned doctor who branded his initials on patients’ livers has his medical license revoked
A U.K. surgeon known for literally making his mark on patients had his license to practice medicine formally revoked this week.
Simon Bramhall, 57, admitted to using an argon beam coagulator — a common device used in surgeries to control bleeding — to autograph his initials on patients’ livers in 2013 while working at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, BBC News reported.
On Monday, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) officially struck the once-respected liver, spleen, and pancreas surgeon off the country’s medical register. The ruling means that Bramhall can no longer work as a doctor in the U.K.
January 13, 2022”
https://www.theblaze.com/doctor-branded-initials-license-revoked
I guess it took them a long time to deliver a decision.
Can he turn those into NFTs?
I missed the boat, WTF is an NFT?
Non Fungible Tokens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token
Non-Fungible Token. It’s a scam where you can buy the digital rights to some virtual item like a tweet or a photo. Or maybe a photo of your initials on someone’s liver. It uses blockchain, so it’s gonna be big… And be sure to mark your Silicon Valley buzzword bingo card.
I see youve met the head of my department.
Tattoos are used all the time to mark an internal body part for later reference, sometimes cancer-related, sometimes because a surgery has to be done in 2 stages.
I mean, maybe he deserves a slap on the wrist, dunno, but I don’t see that rising to the level of incompetence that kills.
I used to sign and date my ductwork on commercial jobs, just so the demo guy would see it 50 years from now.
https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-now-offers-food-day-care-help-to-people-earning-200-federal-poverty-level
Why stop at 200%?
https://katu.com/news/local/columbia-sportswear-plans-to-fire-employees-who-wont-get-covid-19-vaccines
Not just for supposed workplace, but for the good of the entire community. I hope those assholes get sued good and hard with personal liability for their execs.
Know your audience: G4 HOST TRASHES ENTIRE FANBASE DURING EMBARRASSING MELTDOWN – “DON’T LIKE IT DON’T WATCH”
After what they did to TechTV they can go fuck themselves.
Stop wearing Columbia shirts. Check.
Submitted an article for review – think I managed to remove the sidebar properly this time.
Oh and thanks Tonio for the Hi-Lux ad. That brings me back memories of our first family vacation we took with the kids in Somalia. I had the wife drive and I took the main gunner duty with the .50 cal in the back with a mouthful of qat from the roadside vendor. The rental company was nice enough to throw in modified AKs specially cimitarra down for the kids so they could feel part of the action. The coastline was fantastic, but it would have been a lot more difficult without that HiLux. Mogadishu in the late spring is sublime.
Ah, the taste of Qat and a good hooka, Memories……
I’ve actually never had qat but I would absolutely try it. I chewed a substantial amount of coca when I was in the Andes for several months and it really helps with the altitude. It’s kind of a mixture of nicotine and caffeine effect. A good hooks is indeed a fabulous thing. It’s been a long while.
Georgia news:
El Commendante Biden gave a speech in Georgia reminding America that the Democrat Party is the Party of slavery and the Republican Party is the party of abraham lincoln and abolitionists against slavery.
Georgia has a $3.7 billion dollar budget surplus. One of the few states to have a surplus, evidently.
Soon to be ex-Governor Brian Kemp wants to spend much of that surplus on Commie teachers who undermine this Constitutional Republic.
One of the people indicted over a year after the Jan 6, 2021 protest is from near Savannah, Georgia. If only these political prisoners would demand speedy and public jury trials and discuss to a jury how our federal govt is so corrupt that even the presiding judge and Us attorney violate their oath of office every day. Urge the of Use jury nullification to acquit and show these traitor commie in govt that using the criminal courts this way wont be tolerated. Or just start up the woodchippers.