I got a jury summons.
So I bought an Amity Shlaes book, and plan to answer every question with, “fuck these people.”
That should get me out of it.
Here’s some links!
Heh. Mariachi figure skater. Good luck kid.
Instead of returning Pre-Colombian artifacts, France decided to sell them. This pissed off Mexican politicians.
They say remittances are a bigger part of Mexico’s economy than oil. Here’s proof.
¡Mercadolibre! The new way for Don Brett to sell cocaine!
I’m going to say something controversial: Haiti needs a Pinochet.
Geez. When we joke when all else fails prog harder, we’re really not suggesting to prog harder.
See, this is why you should buy conflict free gold…or don’t. Nobody willing to accept payment in gold cares where you got it, only the assay.
I expected mullets, but quite frankly I thought they’d have more scantily clad women.
Something is amiss.
John Titor lives! Seriously…My Thursday is off to a bad start.
Please don’t confuse the work-from-homers as to the day of the week.
🙂
Talk about stepping on the noon article.
I know. That was harsh.
You mean the 8AM article. You know, here in the One True Time Zone.
Zulu?
GMT
UTC
7 PM ackthually
Hey. I fixed it.
You done good, Mr Shooter
yikes
https://www.glibertarians.com/2022/02/gut-check/
Why try to get out of jury duty? Your 1 in 12 vote carries a lot more weight than voting in an election. You could draw a case where your defense of liberty or the constitution frees an “insurrectionist” or stops some scumbag prosecutor and cop from unfairly convicting some poor shlub.
And you get paid for it! And maybe get paid from your day job too!
Minimum wage, right?
I think less.
Barely enough to cover parking and lunch last time I got called.
Army policy was free leave, but only if the court didn’t offer an exemption.
I think I got $14/day when I was on jury duty. Which was great because I was a contractor at the time and zero billable hours a day is what you want.
Got kicked off one trial during jury selection, but made it to a murder trial.
Unfortunately I was an alternate so I never got to vote. Yaaaay.
* The accused was acquitted though. (I would also have voted Not Guilty). So The Man can suck it!
…made it to a murder trial.
Got off on a technicality?
No. I still have no idea why the guy was even charged.
Zero physical evidence
Zero circumstantial evidence
The only thing the prosecutor had was the testimony of several thugs from a small shitty gang. They all swore the defendant shot and killed a guy during robbery. It was pretty obvious that one of the gang members did the deed and they were pointing the finger at a rival drug dealer.
The gang members were the ones who were caught with the murder weapon. Their story was the defendant wanted to buy the gun but didn’t have enough money, so he “borrowed” the gun from them and was going to use it to rob people to get the money to buy it. But he ended up killing the victim instead.
The gang members were ludicrously bad on the witness stand. They were exposed as liars almost immediately.
I was talking about you.
lol. I’m pure as the driven snow. Got nothing to hide. Why would I need fear the govt?
I’ve seen the snow on the plains where you are from. A mixture of snow and dirt called “snirt”
When it’s been ground down and chewed up on the streets, we just call it “oatmeal.”
There’s a lot of oatmeal around Edmonton these days.
Because I’m probably going to get picked for a trial over a domestic violence incident turned murder and I’d rather not be in a room with 11 other people who are barely literate?
Recuses myself.
I have never passed the initial stage of jury duty. I was either exempt, deferred or they just dropped me before I got to the questionnaire.
So much this.
I got to be on a jury in July of ’20. DUI case where the female defendant was young, not very bright and an over-sharer. This led the cop to believe she was drunk. The result was a hung jury, evenly split. There were several of us that saw no evidence of impairment against the rest that deferred to the judgement of the cop. I’m happy to have been able to (maybe only temporarily) prevent an injustice.
Mrs. Tree was on the Grand Jury yesterday. Takeaways:
– One juror was chemically impaired. Either too many drugs or not enough.
– Ring doorbell cameras featured prominently in the evidence.
– You’d think cops would be good at making basic presentations… OK, Glibs wouldn’t, but ya know what I mean.
– Ring doorbell cameras featured prominently in the evidence.
Amateurs. A kill-switch is a must have on the hardwired Ring cameras.
Nuke it! Nuke it from orbit!
*insert stay calm meme here*
ANARCHY! ANARCHY! ANARCHY!
I refuse to comment on this until after 3 PM.
After this comment I mean.
*sets hair on fire, runs around in circles*
*tries to set hair on fire again, but has none left, runs around in circles*
Have you no eyebrows?
Or pubic hair?
The Great Crab Hunt
+ 1 turtle shell
He manscapes.
Its genetic.
Deja vu.
Luckily I firsted hours ago.
Proud to be of the OG on this thread.
We did our part
In Comachuen, a Purepecha Indigenous community of about 10,000 inhabitants nestled high in the pine-clad mountains of the western state of Michoacan, the whole town survives because of the money sent home by migrants working in the United States.
I’m doing my part. Carnitas Michoacan recently opened on Courthouse Road.
Listen, Jack. We’re gonna get it done and that’s how we’re gonna do it.
BIDEN: “There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”
REPORTER: “How will you do that, exactly? Since the project and control of the project is within Germany’s control?”
BIDEN: “I promise you we’ll be able to do it.”
I would like a reversal on Keystone XL as well.
That is scarier than anything President Trump has ever said and is borderline close to Cheney/Bush level of crazy.
It’s mind-bogglingly stupid and will not work.
Empty threat and quite possibly counter-productive.
Germany is going to get closer to Russia in response. They’re too vested in the pipeline to back off now.
Idiots
World War 3, Germany and Russia on the same side.
To be fair, that’s how WWII started as well. Right up until Barbarossa.
The German Green New Deal.
Germany is going to get closer to Russia in response.
How could anyone nazi that coming?
The Globalists will just Goebbel that news up!
This sounds great! I’ve got very heil expectations.
I’m trying to reich my brain if this has happened before.
I seem to recall something s… Himmler.
You’re putin up reliable information
Just Stalin for time until Swissy gets here.
He is certainly in no Rus this afternoon.
Quit Stalin and make a real joke.
You guys are really Lenin into it.
Swiss will just have to grin and Beria it.
Maybe all the puns have given him the Trotskys.
There are a lot of red flags in this thread
He has to ice pick and choose what gets the narrowed gaze.
I can’t Eva with all these puns.
The thread is Pact with ’em.
To be Franc, I’m not sure that criticism is German to the conversation.
We will screw up that pipeline any way possible so that the Germans have to pay exorbitant prices to import American liquefied natural gas – America First bitches!
Oh wait, nevermind.
I like where this guy’s head is.
I don’t see why we have any say in that pipeline anyway. But I do know that a good way to limit Putin’s influence would be to drill more here, allow for pipelines here and to get Germany to pay more for their own defense so they have some skin in the game, but I guess all that is out of the question.
Does the Biden administration have any cohesive foreign policy that we can detect?
What did the Trump administration want? Let’s do the opposite.
No joke!
Does the Biden administration have any active brain cells
cohesive foreign policythat we can detect?A 2019 report on drug consumption in the Americas listed Argentina as the country with the third highest rate of cocaine consumption per person after the US and Uruguay.
WE’RE NUMBER 1!!!!!!
Cuba on Saturday announced a new 10 percent tax on retail food sales, as the country endures economic woes marked by rampant inflation.
The levy taking effect Monday will target self-employed people and small- and medium-sized companies in the retail food sector, said the decree published in the official government gazette. These sales were only allowed starting in August of last year as part of reforms in the communist run island.
What could possibly go wrong?
I hate saying this, but Sununu isn’t all bad
The Sununu administration signed on to a legal brief calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to toss out a Maryland law banning so-called ‘assault weapons,’ calling it unconstitutional.
The coalition of 25 states is led by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. New Hampshire is the only northeastern state to join the effort.
“Americans do not require approval from a local jurisdiction to exercise their constitutional rights,” Brnovich said. “We must vigorously oppose this type of misguided overreach at all levels of government.”
(The text of the amicus brief is here.)
The Maryland law in question bans the sale or purchase of semi-automatic weapons with other cosmetic features that some people associate with ‘assault weapons.’ In fact, the guns are no more dangerous than any other semi-automatic weapon. The law also places restrictions on detachable magazines with a capacity larger than 10 rounds.
BIDEN: “I promise you we’ll be able to do it.”
Would bombing Nordstream be an act of war against Germany, or Russia? Or Ukraine?
Self defense. Climate change is an existential crisis.
Yes
I’m sure that narcissist believes he can get Germany on board.
Yeah right.
Time to leave NATO.
The morons at State think they can strongarm Germany.
Germany is already balking at action in the Ukraine and did not support the coup back in 2014.
And the new chancellor appears to be more like Willy Brandt, favoring detente with Russia.
Time to leave NATO.
Is it 1995 already? Man time sure flies.
All the Baltic states who will have oil soaked beaches?
Biden will threaten not to buy any Russian oil, Russia will have to sell discounted oil to China. That’ll put Putin in his place, for sure.
I noticed gas prices went up last weekend and again today.
I thought Prince was dead? Why is he skating in the Olympics?
Must be an Act of God
Purple reigns
purple reins?
Let’s play a game called beat the
Jewunvaccinated.Carville and journalist Al Hunt were asked by a listener why they believed President Joe Biden would not pass a bill blocking unvaccinated Americans from interstate travel during Thursday’s episode of “Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt.” …
“I wouldn’t be against that at all. I’d be for it actually, as long as you put ‘or testing.’ Before you get on a plane or bus or interstate train, you want to be vaccinated or tested,” Hunt said. “I don’t think the Supreme Court would allow him to do that.”
Carville replied, “I don’t either.” …
“I wish what they’d do is pass a law to make you immune from liability if you punch some unvaccinated person right in the face, which I’d really like to do,” Carville said. “If you ask me what’s my first reaction to you if you’re not vaccinated, you don’t have any medical reason not to be, you’re a piece of s–t, OK? I just want to punch you in the god—-ed face. That’s the way I look at these people.”
Hunt responded, “Agreed.”
Bring it, you frail, infirm cunte.
I see ammo prices have dropped a little.
I got me some Federal LET Flite Control 8-pellet 00 buck today. Only three bucks a round!
Pew pew pew.
“Fuck, that was almost ten bucks.”
I haven’t even seen it for sale in a long time. I wouldn’t pay that much for it, though. I still have nearly a case of the 9-pellet. It patterns tight, but I the proverbial flyer does show up.
where did you find it?
I just picked up a pile of IMI 5.56 at Midway.
Says the geriatric has-been desperate to stay relevant in the New Party that has no use for him.
Fucking Carville hasn’t been the same since that nasty hobbit stole his ring.
The same people who are obsessed with racism and Nazis are the same people who wouldn’t lose any sleep over the government creating a separate society for the vax and non vax.
Until of course they see that it adversely affects their favorite minority groups but even then they would only want exceptions to the rules and not to scrap the law in it’s entirety.
Ed, as a patronizing white liberal person let me help you…
IT’S A TRAP!
I tell ya Ed, Sensei will put you back in chains! He’s using tricknology on you.
You’re a good man for taking up that burden.
‘Until of course they see that it adversely affects their favorite minority groups’
On this front I’m not convinced of even that.
Would support, as long as the un-vaccinated get immunity to fight back.
I don’t think James Carville, as a perennial contender for ” the most punchable face award” should be considering laws that would make it legal. That guy would get punched to death within ten minutes of any such legislation passing.
President Joe Biden would not pass a bill…
Somebody needs to watch Schoolhouse Rock again.
My thoughts exactly.
Carville is such a POS.
Hunt and Carville when you try to punch them back:
https://c.tenor.com/4_MZh5UHOT8AAAAC/wreck-it-ralph-glasses.gif
Its like they live in another world where these shots are effective. Nobodys told them yet?
No, they live in a world where you need to do what your overlords tell you, OR ELSE!!!
A robbery suspect was brought to heel (as it were) by a po-po dog today. My neighborhood is a shithole (but as far as DC neighborhoods go, it’s not too bad)
The office manager keeps breathlessly emailing the community email group about how she was interviewed by the cops, and even sending a photo of the aftermath.
I drove down to Pocatello to scope out a house yesterday. Not perfect (for me), but probably something I could live with. Nicer than what I ordinarily would even look at. In a funky older neighborhood on a west-facing hillside; a place where you could definitely hang out in the evening and drink a few quiet beers.
I got hold of my realtor a while ago to see if I could get in to look at it. She says they already have a stack of offers.
[sad emoji]
Neighbor just sold his house here in Vegas and it was on the market for 10 hours before he has 6 offers. My hopes it stays that way for another 2 years when we are making our exit.
I think things are about to come to a screeching halt. Certainly a leveling off at a minimum.
We accelerated our plans based on that suspicion.
Yes, please
We pulled up the map showing houses for sale in Tucson on Sunday (as we are wont to do).
It was absolutely shocking how little inventory of any kind is on the market. I would guesstimate 1/5 or 1/4 of what it usually looks like. The map has different colored markers for houses that are under contract but not closed. About /2 to 2/3 of what there was, was already under contract. When we expanded the map to nearby towns, it was the same there, also.
It looks like some multi-billion dollar REIT came through and just bought frickin’ everything. Which didn’t happen, but seriously, in the last month or so damn near everything has sold and not much new has come on.
Im heading to North Carolina while kids are on break next week to look at some places.
You’re competing with California, Oregon, and Washington.
This is my earworm, so you must also suffer.
At least it’s not “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”
This will make it go away: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWU4DWxh8Xc
So evil.
I like to call it “the nuclear option.” ?
I believe this qualifies as more evil.
I’ll return the favor.
Oh, that’s NEAT!!!!
You’ve never seen this before? Moje!
I think I have? It seemed vaguely familiar.
Here.
That’s a good call too. I enjoy covers where people both seem to enjoy the original and want to try to do something new.
For example, would you rather listen to Dylan or Hendrix?
The correct answer is neither, and if forced, I will go curl up in a fetal position in a corner, cover my ears, and rock while chanting no no no no no no no no no no no no
Also very cool. Must be another off shoot of Scary Pockets if Jack Conte is involved. If you don’t know them they do amazing funk covers. One of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdG2U2c0NQ
I think Pomplamoose predates all Jack’s other side projects by far. I first heard them in 2010 or so.
It would appear so. Apparently that’s his wife. I just got schooled. Crazy to think that’s the guy who started Patreon.
Yes, Nataly. She has her own side projects, too.
And also, did you say funk?
Also funk and yet more funk.
That’s 2 different links. Damn.
Don’t get me started on the golden gods of Vulfpeck. Joe Dart is my spirit animal. Which leads me to….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTUnDV3MgVQ
Nice!
Disclaimer: The “Running Away” link was brought to me by Heroic Mulatto, whose links one should know not to click, but I did, and I’m glad.
Gimme the Funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLyGHK__Dxs
Excellent!
The Funky Nation
Nice! I have a big crush on Mary Spender. If you’re a musician, she has a really great Youtube channel. Super talented.
She’s cute as a button!
Yeah and being actually talented has about a 10x multiplier.
Doesn’t hurt that she’s classically trained to boot. Serious chops, and a great lower-register voice.
Is that a Mormon thing?
The long story is that I was listening to some soothing music (no lyrics) while I worked, and one of the pieces had a similar riff and then it morphed and then it got stuck in my head.
You just made my daughter happy, Mojo, I had to forward your Donnie
Awwwww, I’m so glad!!!! I loved that song when I was a little bit.
Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.md/YyhJz
Educational material.
https://i.imgur.com/euZL43d.jpg
“I wish what they’d do is pass a law to make you immune from liability if you punch some unvaccinated person right in the face, which I’d really like to do,” Carville said. “If you ask me what’s my first reaction to you if you’re not vaccinated, you don’t have any medical reason not to be, you’re a piece of s–t, OK? I just want to punch you in the god—-ed face. That’s the way I look at these people.”
Hunt responded, “Agreed.”
now we’re getting somewhere.
Bloody streets are somewhere.
You were better when on script and/or not talking.
“Over the past decade, I’ve hardly thought about my abortion, except for when I think of those who may not have access to one,” she wrote in an essay for The Daily Beast.
Vayntrub uses her more recent experience of a difficult labor to argue why the Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade.
“Now that I’ve experienced a full-term pregnancy and given birth, I find myself thinking about how imprisoning it would be to go through this if I didn’t choose it,” she wrote. “All of us with a uterus may soon be stripped of the constitutional right to an abortion. Forced pregnancy and birth sounds medieval—as medieval as secret, unsafe abortions. And yet, here we are.”
Human procreation is medieval I guess. Stupid comments aside, still a “would” for me.
Was she raped? She should press charges instead of talking out her asshole.
Murdering babies is good. It’s good because fulfilling my biological function is icky and backwards. Like, how can I be empowered if I’m, like, forced to keep pumping all these babies our?
Look, she could have gotten hit by a bus and just wound up pregnant.
Older than humanity in fact.
” In the eukaryotic fossil record, sexual reproduction first appeared about 2.0 billion years ago in the Proterozoic Eon although a later date, 1.2 billion years ago, has also been presented. Nonetheless, all sexually reproducing eukaryotic organisms likely derive from a single-celled common ancestor” TW from Wikipedia.
https://twitter.com/dax_christensen/status/1491158737109020672
Cops only know how to do one thing and that is to escalate a situation that gives them their government license to kill people.
Going after the truckers’ kids is one surefire way to kick this off from a protest past the riot stage and into actual revolt.
I doubt these trial balloons are coming from the cops. It is from the Eichmans upstairs and the cops will only be following their orders.
This is how it becomes a shooting war.
No, this is how you get to see a bunch of Ottawa cops getting the living shit beaten out of them, 10 truckers per cop.
Christ, TPTB can’t ever seem to stop trying to be even stupider today than they were yesterday.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘You can’t go anywhere without being fearful.’ Families of gun violence victims in Baltimore – dubbed ‘a bit of Haiti in the mid-Atlantic’ by Tucker Carlson – blast Democrat leaders for failing to take action after deadliest January in 50 years”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10485441/Baltimore-residents-speak-against-citys-high-murder-rates-Tucker-Carlsons-comments.html
Which major blue state city isn’t the most violent in years?
dubbed ‘a bit of Haiti in the mid-Atlantic’ by Tucker Carlson
Cry ‘RACIST’ and lets sip the lattes of soy!
[golf clap]
Bravo!
For reference, Baltimore has 586,000 people, Chicago has 2.7M, and New York 8.8M
January homicides
New York – 27 or 0.3 per 100,000
Chicago – 48 or 1.8 per 100,000
Baltimore – 36 or 6.1 per 100,000
Baltimore has more than triple the murder rate of Chicago. TAKE THAT, LIGHTFOOT.
They’ll catch up when the weather gets warmer.
Come on, Chicago, you ain’t trying!
Neighbor just sold his house here in Vegas and it was on the market for 10 hours before he has 6 offers. My hopes it stays that way for another 2 years when we are making our exit.
What I have working in my favor is I am not really looking for a “move-in-ready-home” like a normal person. I’m more interested in shop space I can camp out in. It’s what i have been doing for nearly twenty years.
That was a particularly appealing location. I’m going to start driving around that neighborhood looking for old people to “befriend”.
Pro Tip: Make sure to hide the plastic bag where your new “friend” can’t see it. You’d be surprised at how fast an old geezer can run when they are properly motivated.
Ya got to trick ’em: “Does this smell like chloroform to you?”
What you’ve got to do is cut the hamstring on the back of his leg right at the bottom. He’ll never be able to come through on anything
Did someone mention that SS checks came early this month?
I heard that there will be no COLA increase in SS payments this year! (That should kill any geezer with high blood pressure or a bad heart)
No, it’s an election year so the announcement about a big COLA increase will come out well before we oldsters fill in our mail-in ballot and hand it to the Democrat operative that will be canvassing the retirement community.
I thought they got 5%?
“EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden tried to broker a $120million oil deal between Chinese energy firm now under US sanctions and former Kazakhstan prime minister who has been accused of treason in hopes of pocketing a fortune, laptop emails reveal”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10465061/Hunter-Biden-tried-broker-oil-deal-Chinese-firm-ex-Kazakh-prime-minister-emails-show.html
RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION!!
At least Daddy Biden is trying to get his son some free drugs.
I am waiting for the Hunter Biden official US crack pipe.
It’s gonna be lit.
“I don’t often smoke crack but when I do…”
Rock the World!
He’s going to crush it!
“Oscars nominations 2022: The Power Of The Dog leads the way with 12 nods while Dune earns 10 – Benedict Cumberbatch and Kristen Stewart are up for Lead Actor awards – but Academy comes under fire for backsliding on diversity”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10489629/Oscars-nominations-2022-Power-Dog-Dune-head-head.html
White lesbians don’t count?
Oi! Stop talkin’ ’bout Cumberbitch that way!
That complaint’s not getting any more tedious at all.
Dude thinks he came to the land of the free.
The father recalled his horrifying experience in Bosnia, warning that the crackdown on his people “started with simple things, like taking away your right to speak and to say the things that you want to say.”
“It was the simple small things, because you couldn’t walk down the street and tell your neighbor how you really felt, because your neighbor might rat out on you,” he said. “And that’s where we’re at right now, we’re staring to see that.”
“Secondly, they forced every one of us to register our guns,” he continued. “I was very young, but I have vivid memories of the Serbs coming in and beating my parents, beating my mother, doing many other things to many other women.”
“So, I came over here and started out in 5th grade,” the dad said. “I was always the person to stand up for my principles, so I’m starting to teach my child to do the same thing.”
“There is no land of opportunity like there is here, and I’m just one person to say that. And you know, there are 60,000 of us in St. Louis, that are here for a reason, not because we want to live the way we lived in the 90s [in Bosnia], in fear of what’s next,” he said. “This is becoming way too political and way too tyrannical. There’s absolutely no reason for this. None.”
“I have to say one more thing, and it’s simple: We all want to be civil, and we all want to do this the right way, but I’m telling you, if you do not stop complying, you will lose everything that you have,” the father warned, met with applause from parents.
What do you think this is? America?
When I was in Zagreb in the late 90s after the war, I met a Croatian guy who was returning to his hometown in what had been a Serb majority area. He said “When your neighbor comes home wearing the uniform of the Serb militia, you have 3 choices. You can join the Croat militia. You can do nothing and hope nothing happens. Or you can leave.”
None of those choices sounds too appealing, and these days I don’t think 3 is even an option.
“Trump physician and GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson ‘broke legs off chairs to use as clubs and ripped the base off a hand sanitizer dispenser to wield as a baton’ to confront Capitol rioters – before he voted AGAINST certifying election results”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10489961/Rep-Ronny-Jackson-broke-furniture-confront-Capitol-rioters.html
Makes you wonder how much of the vandalism was done by congress critters.
So Pelosi defecated in her own drawer?
Do you expect her to put her Depends in the trash?
Drawers. For some reason you put an s on it, just like pants.
*golf clap*
At least he wasn’t cowering like a little pussy.
Did she spend it on hookers and blow?
https://people.com/crime/calif-nun-sentenced-for-stealing-more-than-800k-from-catholic-school-to-fund-gambling-addiction/
She lost it all at the tables in Vegas. She wouldn’t have been there except they had to spring one of their fellow nuns from a gangster there.
Did they catch her trying to teach a class of disinterested students in a school that was scheduled to be shutdown?
Whoopi Goldberg taught her how to sing.
She taught the Old Testament. She was quite the scholar when it came to Jews.
‘Kreuper stole about $83,000 per year, which is the equivalent of tuition for 14 students’
Or, the cost for 4 students at a public school.
Catholic? It was bingo.
A nun had an expensive habit?
I’m listening to Rogan’s podcast today with Akaash Singh. He’s still dishing out his coronavirus takes.
No racial slurs though.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-quietly-adds-language-warning-unfavorable-pre-clinical-clinical-or-safety-data-may
Hmmmm…..
Probably the bad news is that the vaccine doesn’t work against omicron at all.
That was last week’s news on their Omicron specific vaccine.
Better get another booster, just in case.
MIAMI (AP) — Two leading voices in Congress on Latin America have introduced bipartisan legislation to spur closer U.S. security cooperation in the region and turn back what they see as the growing, malign influence of China and Russia.
Is the Monroe Doctrine no longer a thing?
He was white and racist or something!
THE FIRST IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE
Dude you are like 4 hours too late
You know nothing, Ownbestenemy.
Something we need to look at
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on CNN on Monday that “we need to take a look at” placing unruly passengers on a federal no-fly list as pressure mounts on the Biden administration to continue to address rising violence on airplanes.
“I think we need to take a look at it. Look, the airlines are often doing their own internal no-fly list. Some of them have spoken about maybe coordinating on that, and we’re looking at these policy recommendations as well,” Buttigieg told CNN’s Kate Bolduan in an interview.
This comes as Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian sent a letter last week to US Attorney General Merrick Garland reiterating his call for the Justice Department to prosecute unruly passengers and place them on a no-fly list.
Buttigieg has previously expressed openness to a federal no-fly list for violent airplane passengers, telling CNN in late October that it “should be on the table.” The existing federal no-fly list is used to prevent terrorism.
Fuck off, you loathesome little homunculus.
So he parrots Delta’s calls for a no-fly list? What a cuck.
What could go wrong?
No-fly nightmares: The program’s most embarrassing mistakes
I mean if it only takes something like 6 phone calls from Sen Kennedy’s office to fix it, why would it be a problem for John Q, Public?
Of course in an actual free market, this coordinated no-fly list would just be an opportunity for a new airline to target their business. It’s well past time the domestic airlines could be considered as an anything but extensions of the federal government.
THE NO FLY LIST WILL ONLY BE USED FOR DANGEROUS FORIGN TERRORISTS. WHY DON’T YOU BELIEVE EUS.
Several years ago my daughter got flagged about 3 times in a row when we were flying, so I assume that somehow she was on some list. She was about 10 at the time. But I’m sure it will work better this time.
Fine, I’ll start my own airline that only accepts unruly passengers from competitors no-fly lists. It will be like a Waffle House in the sky.
I LOLd.
Will you, in fact, serve waffles?
Freedom Travel Alliance has you covered.
https://www.freedomtravelalliance.com
Man, I wish more people knew about this so they could really start implementing it!
It would be interesting to find out what happened to air travel if the Feds stopped bailing out airlines every half hour.
Maybe Delta and others would tell their stews to shut the fuck up up and be nice to the paying customers?
Delta behaved for a week or two after their last bankruptcy
but the humility was short-lived
Buttigeg has two infants. He’s definitely going on the no-fly list.
What am I talking about? He would never fly commercial with the plebes. I’m sure he’s got a fancy govt plane at his beck and call.
This hits extremely close to home
This pandemic has changed everything in my life. It has made me a vastly more private and withdrawn person than I was before this started. It’s alienated me from friends and colleagues I used to respect, it’s driven me out of the city, it’s changed many of my personal habits. I very much doubt I’ll keep my academic position for very much longer. I’ll never see my way to forgiving them the arbitrary restrictions and the medical harassment of the last many months, and writing for all of you here is more important and more rewarding.
I know I’ve dumped some friends and acquaintances.
I can’t imagine what it would be like if I had remained in tech or gone the university research route.
I’m so glad I never had any desire to be an academic.
Me too. The sheer magnitude of how people have lost their mind over this still amazes me after 2 years.
Just another thing we need to punish our politicians for, hard.
I just got off a two hour phone conference hosted by a guy trying to transfer his work to the rest of the team.
He’s quitting over the Covid nonsense. What a waste. The program is losing a good guy.
Ottawa police returning all fuel they took from truckers by Judges order freedeom convoy 2022.
Time for the tyranny vaccine.
Did they remove all the water they added?
Maple syrup. It gums up the engine.
Chocolate milk is also good, as is Rogers’ Golden Syrup. You can also use molasses.
My grandpa lost a Cadillac motor to table sugar in his gas tank.
I have to say, the Ottawa Tea Party has started to restore my lost faith in Canuckistanis.
The public face of Canada and Canadian politics looks REALLY proggy, and all the ones I know personally (urbanites) are pretty much there. But you look at the country and imagine it surely has come country folk who just CAN’T be on board with it all, but you never hear of them. The Canadian deplorables were basically invisible to me. Maybe you know what I mean.
But to drag up the Yamamoto metaphor, it’s starting to look like Fidel Jr. has awakened a great sleeping giant.
Eh?
One can hope
Umm… I’m not sure that fuel was returned from the Ottawa police. It looks like it was brought in on trailers.
I’m poking around the Internet looking for news stories that a judge ordered the police to return the fuel. Nothing.
Not only is the embalming business booming, but embalmers are seeing some weird shit.
If that is actually going on wouldnt there be more embalmers speaking out? Just seems like there is no way that is possible.
Hell, many pathologists have been speaking out.
The media is censoring it all.
Well, God Bless this cop.
She’s about to lose her job, sadly.
Yeah, and she knows it.
This pandemic has changed everything in my life. It has made me a vastly more private and withdrawn person than I was before this started. It’s alienated me from friends and colleagues I used to respect, it’s driven me out of the city, it’s changed many of my personal habits. I very much doubt I’ll keep my academic position for very much longer. I’ll never see my way to forgiving them the arbitrary restrictions and the medical harassment of the last many months, and writing for all of you here is more important and more rewarding.
This passage in particular, and the plague hysteria in general remind me of that Twilight Zone episode where the people on a normal suburban street are suddenly consumed with paranoia and suspicion that their neighbors are (or are cotrolled by) aliens.
What happens when the danger is declared to have passed? Things said can never be unsaid. Things done can never be undone.
Please tell me heretofore Labo(u)r people are starting to no longer listen to and believe this utter horseshit? At some point the cognitive dissonance has to be recognized, right?
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1491133263767019521
Er, Labour?
I think you mean Liberal. And yeah, there’s still a lot of ’em who do believe this horseshit.
Oops sorry. Got my Limeys & Limey Adjacents mixed up.
Are there at least some former Libs that have seen through the hogwash & folderol?
Well, I’m a former Liberal, although the scales fell from my eyes quite a few years ago.
There’s a Lib MP (from Quebec) who’s just either come into the running for the new leader of the party or is shortly gonna see himself shit-canned: http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/02/08/cracks-2/
Covid cases are way down from where they were a couple of weeks ago. Even Gavin Newsome is ending the indoor mask requirement by Feb 15.
But what do we get in the email today from my employer? A new rule requiring N95 masks or “surgical style” masks. Which are quite different.
Cloth masks and gaiters not good enough. The Union guys doing tough physical work are gonna love this.
Did you hear about that brothel that’s for sale for $1.5 mil in your area?
Hm. I have been looking for a new line of work, if Hayek were to purchase this brothel. I’ve always said that I should be charging women to have sex with me instead of just giving the farm away for free.
I don’t believe a significant number of women are that into pegging a dude.
LOL
I can’t give it away on 7th Avenue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BjQYQ5p2Ko
If I had $1.5 M lying around, I wouldn’t spend it on a brothel. Just not my cup of tea.
One of the old “historic” brothels near here was destroyed in a fire recently. It wasn’t a brothel any more; it was a restaurant with the “girls’ rooms” converted to hotel rooms.
The locals are hosting a few fundraisers to get it rebuilt for the owner, who seems to be very well loved here. She was the original Madame of the joint.
Takes all kinds.
I’ve yet to hear an explanation for why surgical or N95 masks are required for a less deadly variant of the virus. You’d think the people pushing this would feel obligated to explain themselves after being so sure that cloth masks were effective for the first two years of the pandemic.
I don’t know if you’ve talked to a lot of people about this pandemic, but the people that are still listening to the “experts” and all the insane requirements are almost religious in their desire to not have the reasoning behind any of it explained.
Because they went long in mask manufacturers at the beginning of the crises, and want to make their money?
But we all know there will be no reckoning.
The Pelosi’s have invested heavily into the mask market?
Hunter has a new consulting gig?
In my company’s case, I imagine there were dozens of committee meetings, starting right after Omicron came out, to decide the policy and then to craft the wording of the announcement.
By the time they were finished, this morning, never mind that the omicron wave has passed; they had to roll out the policy.
I had planned to drive in to work this afternoon but that pissed me off enough to keep me here at home.
People were just starting to get back to the office in person and everyone was pretty lax about masking. Now…we’ve just set the project schedule back again.
At least my work doesn’t bother me about masking anymore.
I explained to my boss about how headaches keep me awake if I wear them and that was the last time I heard anything.
I’ll wear them on ships if they say something, but so far no Nazis have made me cover my nose.
^^^ I thought I was the only one that after a day at the office and the constant masking was getting headaches in the evening.
If you’re wearing a disposable surgical style paper mask you may as well strap a napkin to your face. They’re not helpful at all.
That’s why it was so funny to me. Either a “properly fitted” N95, or this lose flap of paper. Whichever you like. Just not cloth. They also told us where we can pick up N95 masks at work and asked us not to take more than 2 per week. So we are being instructed to re-use the masks for days. That’ll be sanitary.
One of my coworkers has a bushy beard. I asked him if he planned to shave it so he could be properly fitted.
Haha, fuck no was his answer.
This is so stupid and maddening!
We have to file a voluntary exempt form (some OSHA form) if we take an N95 from the FAA, because well….you have to be trained to properly wear it and they can’t force the training on you and…you get the picture.
LOL
This one
That was an excellent episode.
I recorded all of SyFys TZ marathon, and am on the 5th season now.
Not all episodes are good, but it was quite a fantastic show overall.
I’ve got the entire box set on DVD, and as bonus features, it included some of the original commercials.
There’s an entire season that almost never gets aired because the show was expanded to an hour for a year.
I was surprised when it changed to an hour, the 5th season went back to a half hour.
We watched Shatner’s plane gremlin yesterday.
Remember that black separatist group that was going to set up a city in the high desert in Colorado?
“The Black Hammer group had $100,000 and a real estate contract for 40 acres where they planned a settlement free of cops, COVID and white people”
Pro tip: If you’re looking to get away from white people, don’t set up your commune near Telluride.
You’ll be surprised to find out it didn’t go well…
https://coloradosun.com/2022/02/08/black-hammer-utopia-norwood-colorado/
Some thoughts: 1) This must be one of those right wing militias we keep hearing about. 2) As long as they aren’t hurting anyone, I have no problem with groups like this going off and doing their own things. c) Huh, huh, Beaver Pines.
Why would you level an unloaded shotgun at someone? Maybe he didn’t realize it was not loaded? Either way bad form and bad decision making.
It seems I must upload a copy of my vax card if I want my work badge re-activated.
Guess I’m never going to the office again.
Ditto. I haven’t broken it to my boss that his idea of the team meeting up one day per week in the office isn’t gonna work.
I’ve been WFH for about a decade but started doing “everyone in on Tuesdays” for meetings for the last few years, up until covid. I kinda liked my one day in the office, but oh well.
I didn’t have a permanent desk but I’m looking at the key for the storage cube at work that’s got a keyboard, trackpad, and assorted junk in there. I’m sure facilities will get around to opening it at some point.
More reasons I hate Kant.
https://www.stephenhicks.org/2022/02/08/3-paired-kant-and-mussolini-quotes-on-individuals-reason-war/
At the risk of going a bit highbrow, let me quote the philosopher Daryll Hall: I Kant Go For That
Courtesy of KK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLDFluf-E9s
Gawd I love that
It’s just so, so fantastic.
As long as it’s not Richard Marx.
What a pissant.
I see Sleepy Joe’s puppet masters seem to think the pivot to gun control is the smart move.
No amendment is absolute.
Yes they are. That’s kinda the point.
I see no reason for people to have weapons of war
I’m so glad muskets were never used in warfare for hundreds of years in conflicts all over the planet.
If they keep pushing, he just might see the reason.
It amuses me to discover that i’m often singing while I am walking in the front door.
Ring doorbell just caught me singing this.
The female comic who bragged about her vaccines (and blasphemed) before flopping on stage.
https://gab.com/InfiniteJest/posts/107764793103983722
Jesus loved her the best, He was trying to bring her home.
Here all week folks
Hasn’t seen the video. Classic.
Maybe she fainted because she had the sudden realization that she’s wasted her life because she ain’t funny.
Her regular gig was on Chelsea Handler’s show, so she was certainly the tallest midget there.
(actually, fuck that – Jo Koy is often legitimately funny).
How is that considered comedy?
“I shat and showered and even shaved my pubes. And, uh, Jesus loves me best”
*NPC laughter routine executes*
That’s typical for leftist female comedians. I went to see one back 2000 and it was 200 jokes about George Bush and her bush.
It was just painfully unfunny.
I see Sleepy Joe’s puppet masters seem to think the pivot to gun control is the smart move.
Maybe the plebs’ unrest is starting to get through to them.
Every time I plan to go somewhere warm during the winter I realize I have completely forgotten how to dress for anything other than ‘current temperature’.
Shorts and jeans, I guess?
https://darksky.net/forecast/26.1392,-81.7958/us12/en
Nice!
*checks notes from 2019 trip to Naples*
Clam Pass Beach and Loudermilk Beach were nice
Peace Love and Mini Donuts was good
We went for an airboat ride about an hour from Naples. I was kind of ho-hum at first, but it was actually one of the best experiences of that trip for me.
Mille grazie.
Our internal contacts site has employee photos – man, the Polish women are good looking.
Yes. I used to work with one that was a goddess.
My colleague will tell all y’all about his Polish ex wife. Quote from him: “no more Slavs”
(I invited him to join the Zoom)
It’s a bit cooked, TBF – for whatever reason, 90%+ of the Poles have professional headshots they’ve uploaded.*
The rest of us just have whatever the facilities guy grabbed with the webcam when they were making our badges.
* you can now submit your own photo once a year? six-months? I now have a handsome crop from a recent holiday card my wife insists on.
Which is to say, I suspect there are plenty of attractive people in our Costa Rican office but they just have the shitty webcam shots the rest of us use.
Krakow in the spring near the university is very, very nice.
And one more song, for no particular reason: How Far We’ve Come!
You’re doing it wrong!
The Chronicle of Philanthropy released its Philanthropy 50, a national ranking of 2021’s biggest donors and which lucky charities and causes received their donations. The group says that in 2021, more than $27.7 billion was donated by Americans, with most of the money going to and from philanthropists’ own foundations and donor-advised funds.
Nearly 86 percent of all funds contributed by donors on 2021’s top 50 list went to a “relatively narrow” slice of charities, such as colleges and universities, hospitals, foundations and donor-advised funds, according to an analysis by the Chronicle.
“From this list, you would not know that we’re living through a global pandemic, and you would not know that as a society we’re grappling with racial inequity. This gift list is completely disconnected from the reality of our society right now,” said Chuck Collins, director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, to the Chronicle.
STFU you preening sanctimonious parasite.
Get your wallet out.
Writes a check to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Trout Unlimited, but yeah.
We do Ducks Unlimited, too.
???
• Alberta SPCA
• Youth Emergency Services
• CKUA Radio (best in North America, my babies)
• Canadian Veterans Foodbank (scandalous that we should even need one for our vets, but this is where we are now)
Ducks Unlimited, yes. Trout Unlimited is straight up communist.
Really? That’s disappointing.
Lots of clean streams, though.
I’m just boring – FIRE & IJ.
I should find something local that’s not retarded.
I’m a fan of animal rescue places.
I used to give to the place we got our first dog from (not local) until the founder kinda lost her shit, became a militant vegan and started spending shelter money on stupid shit.
I should find someone local.
“ and you would not know that as a society we’re grappling with racial inequity.”
And writing a check helps this how exactly?
Well, it helps the NGOs.
Overall, giving to racial-justice and racial-equity organizations was down compared to 2020 levels and other “front burner” issues were also excluded, as Michael Moody, a philanthropy professor at Grand Valley State University, explained to the Chronicle.
“Many people if asked, ‘What is our greatest social problem?’ would point to political division and the spread of misinformation. I’m not sure I see anything on the list that addresses that,” said Moody.
Call me crazy, but those might might really be “front burner issues” if people don’t care enough about them to throw money at them.
*or maybe they recognize the panhanding grifters for what they are and decline to be swindled
Here’s a great idea: let’s pass a law to initiate a criminal investigation of anyone and everyone who ever fails a NICS check: https://www.gunowners.org/na02082022/
Murkowski. Dammit.
According to a GOA study of FBI records, over 94% of denials are false positives.
She’s God awful.
I smell a jobs program for law enforcement.
Will they come confiscate your existing guns if your spouse gets turned down??
Dan Carlin has been busy, more new stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-N7QylfF2w
Tweets from Elon yesterday:
Figured I’d post this this morning again for those who may have missed it yesterday:
GOA on the horrible bill in the Senate to require criminal investigations of anyone and everyone who fails a NICS check when purchasing a firearm.
According to a GOA analysis of government documents obtained by FOIA, over 94% of NICS denials are false positives.
well that was a fuck-up