Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Hunter Biden frequently covered family expenses, texts reveal
Elon Musk declines to join Twitter board of directors
Elon Musk, Truth Social chief Devin Nunes agree on something: Twitter is in trouble
Biden Expected To Release New ‘Ghost Gun’ Rules Within Days
Democrats lead $9 billion pork barrel spree through revived earmarking process
Bank deposits could drop for first time since World War II
French President Macron to face off against conservative Marine Le Pen again
California Is Single-Handedly Making The Supply Chain Crisis Even Worse
Daily Beast contributor accosts Asian man at bar, mistakenly thinking he’s Andy Ngo
Environmental group calls for deflating tires of SUVs to combat climate change
USPS stops deliveries to California neighborhood after repeated attacks on mail carriers
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Hunter Biden frequently covered family expenses, texts reveal”
They JUST discovered this, huh?
Just 2 years ago, but let’s pretend we didn’t already know.
I’m pretty sure it was known well before then.
Oh, based on how the media used to cover Biden before it became necessary to whitewash his past to make him a viable candidate for the 2020 effort so so they could use him as a puppet after they fortified an election to remove the bad orange man that was fucking up their racket, it is a given that they thought he was nothing but a dumbass gangster. They used to constantly make fun of his idiocy and his criminality. Then suddenly Biden became the greatest stateman ever after he had to be hidden in his basement because of dementia. If you needed a reminder of what they really thought about this moron, just look at how the Obama visit last week made them treat Biden. And Obama is on record saying he picked Biden as his sidekick because he believed that since the guy was such an idiot everyone would think twice about fucking him over and putting Biden in charge. Same reason Biden picked Kamal BTW. He learned from that clean and articulate black man….
This is infuriating. Doubly so because I have very little hope anything will come of it.
Next thing you know, they’ll figure out Joe might be “the big guy”.
No reason to look in to that though because the story is so uninteresting.
They will avoid that like the plague, throw Hunter under the bus, have Joe pardon him on the way out, and kick that can down the road hoping to find a way to get the fucking serfs to forget the whole subject.
People barely paying attention as it is. No clearer story showing the utter mendacity of the media than this one.
None of this is new. All of it was there for the media and congress to see. Based on the precedent of what they did to Trump, where the fuck is the special counsel and the impeachment?
The experiment is over.
Look…Trump made a phone call asking if the prior regime was corrupt.
Of course he was impeached.
This just shows that Trump was right. Nothing to see here..
Or slap it on his brother since he seems to be somewhat entwined.
The first paragraph of the article references a text that was reported back in 2020.
“Elon Musk, Truth Social chief Devin Nunes agree on something: Twitter is in trouble”
The one real bonus from this move that I have not seen mentioned is that Elon now is in position to make sure that when team blue comes up with their next election fortification effort for the 2022 midterms, Twitter will have a real hard time walking in lockstep with the team blue social media machine without him tripping these fuckers and that agenda.
Not sure how much he can do directly if he’s not on the board of directors.
Buy more than 15% of the company?
Ooh! Evil genius plan!
Elon buys Twitter. Lefties buy Tesla in retaliation and are left holding the bag when unreported liabilities come to life.
He is on the board. They reached a deal where he’d stop buying more of the company in exchange for the seat.
He refused the board seat, so isn’t limited.
Lets put it this way, Tonio. The major weapon now wielded by Musk is the ability to deny the Twitter top men their income. The CIO, the CEO, the CFO all get paid primarily through stock options. Musk can sell his shares, drop the stock some 20% in the process because of the size of his investment and the impact such a message would have, and leave all these assholes unable to collect anything for their work (permanently based on their contracts). These pretend woke fucks might talk a mean talk, but they are there to grift off liberal stupidity. Losing their income however is the line that goes to far.
And he is on the board of directors. I remind you that musk is the marketing department for all his companies. He is fucking insanely good at persuasion. And if the Twitter morons have not realized that’s the biggest danger from Musk, they are in for one heck of a nasty surprise.
I guess Musk has decided NOT to join the board. That’s gonna hurt Twitter even more cause he can now grow his ownership share and say whatever the fuck he wants, then sell it off when they piss him off and leave the entre top men circle unpaid. Being on the board might have allowed them to prevent him from saying whatever he wanted.
Yeah. He specifically said he would not be muzzled. If he has any support from other shareholders at all, he can flip the whole board the next time they come up for election. And then he can dump the SJW CEO.
I believe that is that plan. If he accepted the board seat, he would not be able to buy more shares until 2024. No doubt that year was chosen for a reason. Also he would have had only a board vote among many others and he would not have been able to change anything significant. Elon, realizing a trap to dilute his actions, did not take the seat. He is now free to pursue any number of actions. If any SJWs are celebrating him turning down the board seat, they do not see the larger picture.
The elon buzz on twitter is something about fiduciary duty and a bunch of hand wringing about elon’s “childish antics”. I don’t know what elon really does to get under these people’s skin but I enjoy it.
Well, I was already proven right. That was fast.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-will-no-longer-join-twitter-board-directors
An article I read on it (over on Townhall or one of the siblings, I believe) mentioned that if he did join the board he’d be limited in increasing his share percentage owned, so one speculation is that he wants to leave it open for a larger stake. Probably worthless speculation, but a data point…
Morning, Banjos.
Too much of my stuff has the same deadline – this friday. 🙁
Do you have to go on a cross or something on Friday?
No. I’m no martyr.
Well, that’s Good.
Or not Good.
He’ll get better in a few days. But it will be a really long week-end.
“Democrats lead $9 billion pork barrel spree through revived earmarking process”
Wait, they only managed to piss away $9 billion? Either this number is under reported, or these idiots have fucked up even their taxpayer-lucre-pissaway-fu.
I read that as only what they specifically added as line item corruption by reviving this process. All the “normal” crap they hide in more creative ways is still there.
“Head of FBI Detroit during the fake Whitmer kidnapping plot was transferred to DC Field Office before J6”
Isn’t he also knee deep in the whole j6 racket? I thought he was leading a lot of that effort.
“Daily Beast contributor accosts Asian man at bar, mistakenly thinking he’s Andy Ngo”
What I liked most was how this asshat doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down when Ngo told him that he was just doing the “All Asians look alike” thing and had the wrong person.
Maybe the bar Asian actually did look like Andy?
Well then…it’s all perfectly acceptable
At least it wasn’t one of those horrible microaggressions.
Macroaggressions are preferable for reasons.
I’m not saying the guy isn’t an asshole, but until I know if the bar guy and Mr. Ngo look alike I’m not going to assume he was getting his ‘all Asians look the same’ racism on.
C’mon man.
How similar would they need to look like for this to be “OK”? How similar would a white guy need to look like Andrew Sullivan before it was OK to hound him out of a bar?
Maybe your bone of contention is the word “racism”? I’m not sure I’d be worked up about the racism angle either, having a hard time differentiating between members of another race is a real thing. It seems silly, though, to say that you’d need to see just how close the two looked alike before you could pass judgement.
If everyone listened to me – like they should – I’d render a judgement of Supreme Asshole just because the guy hounded another human in a bar. The races of the two wouldn’t matter.
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I thought I did pass judgment, obviously it’s a dick move to accost some one in a bar or elsewhere, as you presume it was just the racism angle that I found to be a bit of a stretch.
Of course he’s a racist. He’s white. All whites are racist by definition, therefore he is a racist.
Even if he didn’t. Progressives believe in blood guilt. All Asians must atone for the crimes of Andy Ngo
Hate is a powerful drug.
Because the intent was for an approved goal, there will be no punishment.
On our way to paradise, just one step towards hell and we’ll get there.
It is just stunning to me that a writer at a national publication is bragging that he went up to some guy in public and accosted him over *his reporting*!!! I mean, another public figure who isn’t a writer would be different. Still horrible… But a writer? I mean, really? That is the example he is proud to set. Everyone now has license to accost writers in public because the reported something factual that makes them uncomfortable.
How completely stupid is this guy?
‘Everyone now has license to accost writers in public because the reported something factual that makes them uncomfortable.’
Guess Thor is safe then, if factual is the key requirement. Guessing there aren’t many facts in his reporting.
I’m going to politely refer to Thor Benson as a douchebag.
Good morning!
Belated grats to KK on her acquisition, even if it has a hand-cranked generator.
It’s her b-day too, so Happy B-Day lady!
California has enough of its own problems without inflicting more on those folks that can’t leave. It’s like reverse Dust Bowl days with out old trucks left to leave in.
Hard to load up that Electric car with all off the possessions and head east
What will the Texans and Floridians call them?
Jokies?
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This word list is definitely tougher than the wordle word list.
It was the same thing for me for the bottom left. The only other “word” I could make with the remaining letters wasn’t in the dictionary.
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“Environmental group calls for deflating tires of SUVs to combat climate change”
Not wishing ill on anyone, but I hope any idiot that tries to do this gets their comeuppance and gets it good.
Fastest way to combat climate change is to execute people complaining about climate change.
All of a sudden, it won’t be a problem anymore.
I think Russia’s Ukrainian invasion has bitchslapped most of the Eurotrash into realizing how fucking stupid & dangerous the green energy grift really has become.
Has it though? I figure in a couple of years after this has died down, they’ll be right back to the same old stupid shit. People have astonishingly short memories.
The Brits seem to realize they need drill for oil and build nuclear plants. The Germans are just going to keep buying Russian oil while feeling bad about it.
You are probably correct if things would just end up petering out eventually, but I can’t see this ending well or just petering off. Putin can’t lose face and stay in power, so he is going to get desperate and escalate. The Euro freeloaders in NATO suddenly are sending massive amounts of money to their defense industry. Germany is buying F-35s after it had declined to participate in that program, and paying a premium price for them. And they are also buying new ships for their navy. The real tell is that they are desperately trying to get their airforce, navy, and army forces back to having respectable readiness numbers, which involves both fixing the long ignored hardware for all these services and getting newer shit in rotation. On the civilian side they are really realizing the Greta campaign that got them to decertify their nukes has left them in no position to say “we don’t want to” during the prison shower scene. A problem they clearly don’t see France, which has 75% of their power coming from nukes, having as they remain Russia’s bitches because they need their fossil fuels.
Just like the Carter era forced the US, and then the world to wake up to the damage done by stupid leftism, I suspect this will be a new cycle where the world will wake up to the fact that the left is fucking not just stupid, but evilly destructive in its ways, and give us a 10 year reprieve at which point, when things get to be good again, we will have a 30 year cycle where weak men step in to fuck everything the strong men put together up again.
The funny thing about NATO countries beefing up their militaries is that if anything the invasion of Ukraine showed just how badly Russia would be crushed if they actually attacked a NATO country.
I think France ought to flex their nuke muscle and fuck Russia up. Then show Germany what’s what.
Crépes in Berlin 2023.
The Germans thought they could conquer Europe through the banking system, and reality just showed them that while economics is a powerful weapon, real weapons actually do have a say too. That whole thing about violence never settling anything forgets man’s history is replete with real live instances where it did.
Starship Troopers (the movie) had a good bit about violence solving things.
The latest attempt would have worked if the EU interference with member states didn’t leave member states poorer. Buuut, no, they were too addicted to central planning.
Data can be hard to interpret. At least some military analysts have drawn the exact opposite conclusions. The Ukrainian Army was 10 times larger than the Bundeswehr land forces and about as well trained and equipped. The Russians very quickly chopped them up into isolated pockets and pinned them down. The big pocket or “cauldron” in the east is going to be wiped out.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/23/larry-johnson-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up/
cyto:
IIRC, that quote about violence was one of the few things that was taken from the book as well.
I’m not really seeing that. The MSM propaganda has been massive throughout this. From some of the regular blogger videos I’ve been watching (Russians who have been blogging about non-political shit for years so this not suddenly spun up Kremlin propaganda), the Russian people are very close to the Ukrainian people. Accordingly, Russia’s military has taken great pains to pull their punches in minimizing civilian causalities.
Clip after clip of great Ukrainian victories hyped by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry turn out to be photoshopped bullshit. There is a distinct lack of any footage of Russian victories against Ukraine… everything posted on Twitter, MSM, etc is always in the other direction. Even if Ukraine really was making hay of Russian troops, there should be still be some videos that go the other way. The lack of this speaks volumes that the story and view we are being allowed to see is carefully controlled.
Yeah… Odd that they have steadily gained territory if the are getting so soundly defeated.
Well at least Greta is past her shelf life.
All hail Queen Greta!..
Greta has no clothes on
Shut up, Kid, you can’t say that, she’s underage
Greta has no clothes on
Well, I thought I was going to avoid vomiting until Wednesday, but thanks for that…
Except recent reporting (including sources I think are reliable) have the Russians giving ground on front after front. Sure, they are just consolidating for their next push, but I think they are down to about Plan M now. And while they consolidate, the Ukrainians restock and dig in.
I still think its true that the Ukrainians don’t have to win, they just have to not lose. Sooner or later, as in Afghanistan, the Russians will get worn out on fighting. They may try to settle for biting off a couple more provinces, but I wonder if that will be enough to justify the damage they will have taken.
I thought they started on Plan Z.
“Not wishing ill on anyone”
*raises hand*
I am.
🙂
They’re targeting SUVs because the last time a lefty tried slashing the tires of a semi, their arm got ripped off by the pressure release. The lesson? If you own an SUV, over inflate your tires.,
This post is satire.
They aren’t even suggesting slashing them, just deflating them. Oh and targetting ‘rich’ areas which means anyone making about their minimum wage and/or employed.
Biden Expected To Release New ‘Ghost Gun’ Rules Within Days
And the constitutional authority for this is where, exactly? Other than the invisible FYTW clause, I mean.
What? It isn’t like there’s some language about “shall not be infringed” anywhere in the contract between the states and the fed about guns or anything….
When Congress abdicated their responsibilities to the Executive departments such as ATF. So a mixture of FYTW and cowardness.
I would say delegation is also FYTW. Where does the executive get legislative authority, or judicial for that matter (administrative ‘courts’)?
It’s specifically reserved for those two branches for a reason.
It’s next to the clause that allows them to prohibit you growing plants for your own consumption. Wait until they discover the clause that prohibits DIY home projects, home cooking, …
That is actually an accurate read of those ludicrous decisions. No reason why the feds couldn’t ban home cooking and mandate takeout or dine in for everyone. It impacts interstate commerce, however tangentially.
Plus. They could do the Fauci public health thing too. Require all food to be prepared in a commercial kitchen, for the safety.
It’s possible thye might try to redefine what parts of guns require serialization, which would be a complete nightmare…overnight, any spare AR uppers, pistol slides, barrels, etc. would become
firearms* rifles, pistols, shotguns, etc. in and of themselves.*”Firearms” being specifically limited to those regulated under Title II.
The Chevron deference rule really has to go. The constitution doesn’t allow legislation by bureaucratic rule making.
My collection would go from about 20 to about 200 overnight…
OT: The revelation that Zhenro Defaults for First Time After Missing Bond Payments is YUGE. The CCP has been lying through their teeth – for decades – about China’s economic growth and making bank from it, but the shell game has reached a point that even with the CCP’s laws blocking independent audit of the Chinese economy, they are no longer able to hide the serious problems. The CCP’s pact with the Chinese people is that it would do things that would allow the vast majority to prosper and never need to go hungry again in return for a free hand to stack up whatever body count they feel is necessary to keep the ship in the right direction, and the recent developments in China since they let out the Kung Flu and people reacted to their abuse, is seriously straining the Chinese people’s side of that pact. I expect things to get bloody out there sooner than later…
Looks like the CCP might be losing the Mandate of Heaven.
Yeah, that’s the one thing the fucking crime gang running the Middle Kingdom can’t afford to have happen….
Yep. China will be leading us into economic crisis. Unfortunately, we are not financially fit enough to resist falling into the hole with them.
This seems like unwarranted optimism. I think they’ll weather the storm without much trouble.
That’s a pretty big number.
“The engine requirement would reduce various dangerous toxins from the vehicle’s emissions, which contribute roughly 70% of the cancer risk from airborne toxins.”
Who would have thought Cali’s decision to tie everything fo their cancer regulation scheme.
“…roughly….risk…”
As someone thats used air dispersion modeling programs in the past (SLD- not my bailiwick full time), the lengths these people go to in order to correlate risk vs. an actual event is astounding. I suppose the other side of that coin is anyone that works in the insurance industry.
Notice the layers of misdirection. It’s not that those trucks supply 70% of the cancer risk. It’s the toxins they emit. Left unstated is the percentage of those toxins being emitted from those trucks. I’d guess that it’s relatively low.
Narrator: It was never about the cancer risk.
I love the undersell…. “Significant pressure”
I am having a hard time figuring out this “supply chain” issue. They covered it for a while when it was pictures of boats, but since then the coverage has dried up.
Yet I go to the store and there is clearly a huge issue still. Last night at Walmart, half of the ice cream section was empty.
Why? Don’t know. (Read in critical drinker voice)
I was talking to a buddy at church yesterday and he says the HVAC industry is hamstrung by supplies. He keeps having to go back and change orders and jobs because they can’t get a particular model or part. Most of that stuff is sourced in the US or Mexico. Weird. He had no idea what the bottleneck was. Metal? Chips? Compressors? Labor? Nobody is saying.
And the White House and the media are like “nah, it’ll be fine…” (Critical Drinker voice)
Psaki told me Biden has been working on the supply chain every day. Really? What are you doing? Is banning “ghost guns” going to help? Flying illegal immigrants to red states? That gonna do it?
What the heck is going on? How are we supposed to fix it if nobody even knows what the “,supply chain issues” are?
Is it truck driver labor availability? Is it shipping containers? Dock workers? California labor laws? Chip fab backlog? Other parts manufacturing backlogs?
Does anyone in the press even have a tiny bit of independent curiosity?
Anyway… That all I’ve got for…. (Nah, too much critical drinker)
Copier repair guy said (last week) his industry was really hard hit from the chip shortages.
I’m still having major issues getting building supplies.
“Psaki told me Biden has been working on the supply chain every day.”
From the looks of it, he has been.
Is it truck driver labor availability?
From an uninitiated observer, this seems the least likely. There may be a driver shortage, but what we’re not seeing is somebody shutting down manufacturing lines because they ran out of warehouse space. Everybody is scrambling for inputs.
Even products where the inputs are limited and shouldn’t be making a huge journey, like baby chicks and goslings, are in short supply. It’s not like they’re importing the starter feed from China.
I’m less concerned about the inflationary stuff than I am the supply chain weirdness. It doesn’t seem to fit any simply explainable model for how that system could fail.
Do those inputs not arrive by truck?
If there ever was a time to use the invisible ink part of the commerce clause that says the Fed gov has the right to regulate things that impact interstate commerce, this would be it.
That is a really good observation. The few use the commerce clause to decide whether i can grow a plant on my own land that will never leave my own land… But don’t seem too interested in California decisions that have a massive impact on not just interstate commerce, but also international commerce.
This is a national issue as well. A lot of independent truckers use and rebuild pre-DEF trucks and engines to allow them to keep their costs lower. The emissions equipment adds another consumable, time on the road, and possibly MPG if the engine was not optimized to work with DEF. This directly impacts their profitability and viability.
Additionally,
This sounds like a cash for clunkers approach. Lets consume energy from coal to make a new vehicle instead of maintaining and using an existing truck.
So, gunsmiths here?
Any way a magazine could interfere with the fire control?
Gun: CZ Shadow 2. Symptoms: during the initial charging, after putting a round in the chamber, while manually lowering the hammer, the hammer does not release when the trigger is pulled. Trigger does not feel dead. Removing the Barney mag and replacing it with a full one enables the hammer to be lowered. Same magazine used for each Barney.
Does the gun have a “magazine safety?”
Also, why are you lowering the hammer on a loaded chamber?
How else would you start from DA?
Guess I didn’t think of that. I don’t have any DA/SA handguns other than two revolvers.
Don’t most DA semis have decockers?
I’ve never had much interest in DA handguns so it’s a gap in my knowledge, I guess.
Quite a few have decockers, I don’t know about most. My Beretta does, when I buy a PCR it will also.
I <3 DA.
I would say that most do, but the Shadow 2 isn’t one of them. There are other CZs that do have a decocker, but you generally can’t even use the decocker in USPSA. The CZ decocker drops the hammer to half-cock, and the rules for Production and Carry Optics specify starting with the hammer fully down.
Yes, I agree that this is weird.
Like ES said, rules say for a DA gun, you have to start with the hammer down. The penalty for making the gun go bang during this process is match DQ, so people are sufficiently careful that I’ve not (yet) witnessed it happen.
Maybe, if something was really out of spec.
Number all your magazines and see if the problem recurs with any others, or just the dedicated Barney mag.
I’m hoping that’s what it is.
Saturday’s match got postponed due to weather until Sunday, which meant attendance was low enough for me to win it.
I actually won one of the pure shooting skill stages, but my favorite stage wins are when I shoot the stage differently from everyone else. I suck at word puzzles but am pretty good at gun puzzles.
Happy Birthday to Hayek!
Happy Motoring to KK!
Boy oh boy, did I shit the Quordle bed this morning
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Well, you already had the champion spot, so it’s time for the booby prize.
I don’t ever really play so…these words can get fucked. I thought this is easy when I got the one in two with a lucky guess.
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‘Double-chumps’, great term, I’m using that in the DQR™©®.
Oh good, I can sit on the regular Chump Bench and not have to be with those losers.
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Thanks for the birthday wishes!!
I didn’t realize that KK and I were birthday twins too!!
Happy Birthday, KK!
Happy Birthday to you both!
My bday was March 26 – he’s congrats-ing me on my new home
Sometimes its okay to let us think of two libertarian women with the same b-day…in an RV…
*muted, syncopated guitar playing*
Ah. Congrats on that too then.
Further proof that there’s only one or two libertarian women.
Congrats on the house kk.
. . . did I shit the Quordle bed this morning . . .
Me too. I wasted three or four guesses on top right:
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Tired of the horseshit coverage of the Ukraine war? This is a thoughtful breakdown by Scott Ritter.
The way that guy went from a raving warhawk claiming Saddam was hiding his WMDs to a raving anti-war activist makes me distrust him.
Well, that and the sex offender convictions…
“Thoughtful” meaning “confirms my biases”.
Well, I suppose it confirms more of my biases than the mainstream reports which are proven false a few days later. I said thoughtful because he is citing printed works throughout.
“This provision would destroy most of the trucking companies that I deal with,” he added. “I am 80% non-compliant and I don’t know how I will comply.”
Is there anybody who doesn’t think this is the specific intent of the rule?
Call Groomers ‘Groomers’ Because of Their Grooming and Because It Annoys David French
Like I told a groomer this weekend: When I was a kid, we all knew that as soon as an adult told you he had plans for you to do something “fun” with them but that we shouldn’t ever tell any other adults – and especially your parents – about it, you were dealing with a creep and a crime. But today we have a political party telling us that we are the bad guys for calling them out on tactics that involve keeping the parents in the dark of what they are doing….
He didn’t like it.
Parent, a trusted family friend and maybe a doctor were the only people I was told to discuss something privately. I get that any one of those could end up bad and do bad things but this is way beyond out of hand where supposed adults are dropping their sex lives onto children.
Only undress in front of your doctor and (financially) your banker
But today we have a political party telling us that we are the bad guys for calling them out on tactics
A political party? The GOP is rife with groomers. From the Lincoln Project founder to the aforementioned David French to the governor of Utah to notable has-been Dennis Hastert, there is no shortage of groomers and groomer apologists in the GOP ranks.
My question for David: If it’s not ok for his wife to communicate with men by email without his supervision, then why is it ok for adults to talk to small children about sex without parental supervision?
Guess he’s a groomer too, only way it makes sense.
Alex’s discussion above is really clarifying for me. As I haven’t found a great way to convey why it’s clearly wrong.
CARB told the DCNF that California has the largest state budget for clean cars and trucks, totaling almost $4 billion over the next three years. A portion of that budget is set aside for 1000 zero emission trucks, including electric and hydrogen powered vehicles, designed to operate short distances around the ports.
The state is taking over the trucking industry? I don’t know how else to decipher that.
About the only move that could make things even worse is the state taking over a broken system that requires agility and entrepreneurship to fix.
I am reminded of the quip that if the government took over management of the Sahara Desert within 5 years there would be a shortage of sand.
If Oregon and Washington weren’t also run by lunatics, the industry would shift to their ports.
I assume that major shippers are now looking at traffic and costs of using the Panama canal to get goods to southern ports.
I’d be looking at moving manufacturing to Mexico or Brazil. Get out of China and avoid the western ports.
Not to mention handing piles of taxpayer cash over to their “friends”.
What a corrupt fucking racket.
That’s how I read it. How many free electric trucks will Amazon get?
Just great.
Giant Joro spider that ‘parachutes’ by using webs to ride the wind like a balloon ‘set to cover the entire East Coast’
We get sailing spiders along the Ohio River here in the Pittsburgh area. They’re pretty cool. They ride the wind up the river valley.
I have run thru the woods a number of times as a young’un and ran into the webs of these monsters…
When you got one crawling on your hat brim, it’s like the tiger scene in Apocalypse Now.
“Never get off the fuckin’ boat!”
Orb-Weaver and their gigantic webs are what we would run into
Odd article. Lists Joro spiders and then proceeds to have pictures of a half dozen different spiders.
NPR is on the job
President Biden has picked former federal attorney Steve Dettelbach to serve as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as the administration takes new steps to address the scourge of gun violence in America.
The nomination comes as the Justice Department pursues regulations targeting so-called ghost guns, weapons that can often be assembled from parts and that lack traceable serial numbers. The rules would require background checks for anyone purchasing a kit that can be readily made into a working firearm, including 3-D printing kits — just like the background check law that applies to all licensed gun sales.
Kit makers and re-sellers would have to include a serial number on the weapon. The rule would not ban gun kits themselves or strengthen penalties for crimes committed with ghost guns.
There has to be a way to categorize use of a ghost gun as a hate crime.
They’re primarily going after 80% lowers with this. The 3D printed guns are just a distraction.
I’ll just sit here and wait for the first 79% lower to come out.
Suspected?
It is or it isn’t.
Guessing that also includes any gun that had the serial number scrubbed off.
Or is just BS.
Or a crate of unfinished lower kits
Or counting all the individual pieces in an un-assembled upper kit.
They really don’t know.
Also ‘recovered’ as if they belong to the government. Also note, these alleged guns are not even necessarily involved in the alleged crimes they’re investigating. It’s bull piled upon bull.
The list of things feds don’t know is quite long.
What they do know, however, and very well, is who butters their bread.
Reminds me of the memes of the ATF not being able to read.
What do you think of when you think of ghosts?
A: Sheets
What do you think of when you think of sheets?
A: KKK
So obviously ghost guns -> Klan Guns -> Hate Crime
In announcing Dettelbach’s nomination, the White House touted his two-decade career as a prosecutor at the Department of Justice, as well as his record of taking on criminal gang activity, domestic extremism and his experience with data-driven strategies to fight community gun violence. Dettelbach served as U.S. attorney for the northern district of Ohio during the Obama administration before resigning in 2016.
As part of his unsuccessful run for Ohio attorney general in 2018, Dettelbach pushed to reinstate an assault weapons ban and universal background checks.
Senior administration officials pitched the Cleveland-based attorney as a “non-controversial” nominee with a strong law enforcement background. But polarized politics around guns have previously made the post impossible post to fill.
Yes, of course. It only makes sense to nominate a “regulator” whose evident intent is to eliminate private ownership of firearms.
Of course. That position is non-controversial to NPR, after all.. and only those who seek to polarize our politics feel differently.
And did they mention the chocolate ration increase, Comrade?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-of-covid-performance-economic-schools-study-working-paper-lockdowns-11649621806?st=pfykswxmsy91dg4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The authors are University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan and Stephen Moore and Phil Kerpen of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. They compare Covid outcomes in the 50 states and District of Columbia based on three variables: the economy, education and mortality. It’s a revealing study that belies much of the conventional medical and media wisdom during the pandemic, especially in its first year when severe lockdowns were described as the best, and the only moral, policy.
You know what would be helpful?
If some enterprising “journalist” would make an effort to show just where we are on the diminishing returns curve, with respect to those deadly truck emissions. I suspect we’re well into hockey stick territory.
The latest diesel engines put out air that’s cleaner that what goes in.
In terms of particulates?
This Hunter Biden thing reminds me of that scene in Johnny Dangerously, where is brother says “I’ve got eyewitness testimony, recordings, receipts, photos, fingerprints, blood samples.” And the DA says “It’s flimsy. It will never hold up in court.”
“No reasonable prosecutor…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txa8XHq3N-8
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Wish I’d met this guy when I was in high school.
Actually did meet the guy who held the World Record for the Mile Run, at the time it was 4:03 or so. Now every high school has a sub 4 minute guy, it seems.
He had me running in circles
There’s yer problem right thar, Fourscore. If’n you had run a straight line, ya coulda beat him!
Wow.
Thanks, Holiness. That is a good one.
I haven’t even read it, but I already know it’s bullshit.
https://www.psypost.org/2022/04/donald-trumps-presidency-associated-with-significant-changes-in-the-topography-of-prejudice-in-the-united-states-62880
Science!
I have to give them credit for somehow creating a study that proves the existence of a straw man.
The topography of prejudice? What the fuck does that even mean?
Rethuglikkkans bad!
Word salad that allows the priesthood of the idiots that claim they believe in science to peddle garbage as science.
Prejudice dependent on land surface features and altitude.
The hills are alive with the sound of hatred
With bigotry they have spewed for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of nazi-ism
My heart wants to shout MAGA
I’m guessing they don’t include prejudice against white people and Christians.
Last year, about 20,000 suspected ghost guns were recovered by law enforcement during criminal investigations, according to the ATF, marking a ten-fold increase in reported ghost guns compared to 2016.
Maybe they consider any gun whose serial number proves to be completely useless in tracking the perpetrator to be a “ghost gun”.
Just like Mexico finding that 99% of seized guns with US serial numbers can be traced to the US?
There isn’t a very large domestic firearms industry to supply the Mexican demand for guns. So they come from the closest supplier available with established trade ties – the cross-border cartels.
Oh, and the Mexican Army. Can’t forget the Army guys making a buck selling the arsenal and requesting resupply.
Good morning, Banjos.
How fucking embarrassing are the Bidens? Hitting up the meth-head for cottage repairs? Don’t you people work?
By the time the feds put out their ‘ghost gun’ bullshit, there will already be a workaround. Nice try, though, fuckos.
Great song choice! It is one of my faves.
Have a fantastic day, peeps!
I notice that he spilled the beans on the vig for the boss…. Said dad’s take was 50% of his pay.
We were way past “smoking gun” with just Biden telling his Ukraine story plus Burisma.
But now?
I have to believe that someone with lesser connections would have been indicted long ago.
Unfortunately for Sunset, this really is a good chance for the DNC to get rid of him. You can’t tell me they couldn’t have kept a lid on this until November.
Strange shit is afoot.
Conspiracies always seem to break down when the heat is applied.
“I ain’t goin’ to jail for that sumbitch”
I think Tundra is closer… A faction of the DNC sees the mental shit show that this guy is and thinks that shuffling him off for Kamala will help their chances next time around.
We always predicted that he would not last more than 2 years. But that was before we saw Harris in action…. She is such a dumpster fire, I don’t know which way it cuts.
A great song choice indeed.
The top comment for the video: “As a kid i thought Edward scissorhands [sic] was a member of The Cure.”
He wasn’t?
The researchers found that explicit racial and religious prejudice increased amongst Trump’s supporters, while prejudice decreased among those who opposed him.
And the cows stopped giving milk, and the brood pigs all spontaneously aborted, and the chickens laid eggs with no yolks.
And the windmill construction was delayed by Snowball ^W Trump yet again… work harder for Comrade Napoleon!
I wonder what is the SI unit that measures “prejudice”.
That would be the Grift.
The Traditional unit used to be the Klux, but that was retired when it was no longer measurable.
These “researchers” churn out these supposed objective measures of the left’s superiority on a regular basis.
It is kinda like they are completely lacking in self-awareness. But it does dovetail nicely with the stories about submitting gobbledygook papers to SJW academic journals and getting published. What was it.. incidence of dog rape at a public park?
Aydin Paladin did a great series on alleged measures of authoritarianism. Turns out Leftists cannot be authoritarian and the measure basically told whether you were a conservative or not, but was reported as if it was measuring a real thing.
I assume this is the same.
Sharpton
Kilosharpton
Megasharpton
To the extent this measures any observable phenomenon, it’s media-induced.
Both right and left by and large thought BLM riots were full of, you know, black people. When Rittenhouse put 2 in the ground and 1 in the hospital, “oddly” they all turned out to be “white”. He was assaulted by a black guy earlier but 3/4 is still pretty unlikely relative to common perceptions.
The society’s refuse who form the BLM/Antifa ranks come in many forms. The media is still selling a 1950s race riot narrative, partly because they’re clueless suburbanites who know nothing else, and partly because it fits into established programmed patterns better. The goal here is a war on noticing, and we’re already 2 steps removed from actually noticing, which means the same old script of “the negroes are rioting but you should pretend they’re not” is completely “believable”, leading to a fake dichotomy between people who think it’s uppity negroes causing trouble vs the people who think well gosh darn it they must have a good reason, when neither of those positions remotely resembles reality.
During the first set of BLM protests/riots I noticed similar slogans with the same fonts being carried by numbers of people at the front in person and from news clips across the country. There were a whole lot of “refusefascism.org” in smaller font at the bottom of these signs. A bit of searching online finds out that they are an offshoot of Bob Avakian’s commie cult group, the RevComs. They are exactly who you’d expect them to be.
Successful grifters?
That it is rife with bought and paid-for commies is not remotely surprising, this is true.
But those commies are on the payroll of international capital. That part ought to raise more eyebrows.
The race aspect is a cover story.
I’ve said it before but naming your Marxist org “Black Lives Matter” was a stroke of genius. They got every guilty white person in America to throw money and support at them.
What I haven’t figured out is are they an offshoot of Antifa itself, or did Antifa just glom onto them for cover.
When BLM cropped up in St Louis, it sure looked like it was a “grassroots organization” move planned from above. Antifa is definitely a “grassroots organization” planned from above in a completely different way. I was introduced to them by the Today show at Charlottesville.. the hosts had their script in hand, but incorrectly identified the parties…saying the black clad antifa people attacking what looked like a random sampling of Menard’s customers were Nazi white supremacists.
When they went to a break. They flipped the coverage without comment.
So clearly NBC was in on it with whoever was coordinating antifa.
Thought experiment since Im kinda drunk and this is my Friday: who had the better voice, and why? Janis Joplin v. Grace Slick.
Discuss.
Janis, circa 1971
I was a friend of Jamis. Oh, you said Janis.
Perhaps, but Slick seems like she’d be more fun even if Joplin wasn’t dead.
https://youtu.be/eQopdEwzRj0
They both had great t0ts.
Young Grace was hotter than the hinges on the gates of hell.
Janis was a moped girl.
Janis had the better
voicestage presence. She sang from the gut.Grace Slick, because she taught our generation how to count to 10 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5stWhPNyec
Jazzy spies look like flashers!
Stranger danger!
I liked Grace a lot better because she didn’t scream a much as Janis did.
Speaking of the trucks- how many other states will adopt those rules, now that Biden’s EPA has said they will allow California to go back to setting emissions rules for the nation?
Nevada cause we are now Cali’s little bitch.
Is it too late to buy milling equipment without being back ordered into background checks?
OT – happy accident. Needed a VPN to watch geo blocked YouTube in Japan. Don’t care about privacy so don’t want to pay.
Chanced upon this – https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/free-openvpn-server-finde/cmonbbaipgkkooachioonbkjbbddclpe
Uses OpenVPN Client. As the author is based in Kyoto many of the servers are Japan local. Usually takes 5 or 6 tries to find one with any kind of bandwidth.
How do the server operators make their money? CIA?
Usually they are educational and do gooders.
Used by people in places like China to get around governmental blocks.
I wouldn’t trust them for any kind of privacy.
Wow, I’ll have to look into that. I wonder how it does with Netflix? They seem to be pretty good about sussing out vpns. If not, I may be unproductive at work this week. If they still have Nozaki Shuhei Auditor of Bank…
This is the list that the plug in is “wrapping”.
https://www.vpngate.net/en/
I have to give them credit for somehow creating a study that proves the existence of a straw man.
They must teach that in school, now.
Start with a conclusion, then carefully sift through the data until you find something which “proves” it. Or just make it all up out of thin air.
The ends justify the means, and when you are trying to “BASH the FASH”, this is all fine and dandy…
I think lawyers call that a “parallel construction” of sorts.
“I’m sorry, sir. I can’t sell you a replacement recoil spring until you pass the background check. And then there’s the sixty day waiting period.”
It’s more like “These springs have potential alternate usage in firearms, we need you to fill out the background check and complete the waiting period after approval from the licensing officer and filing of a tax stamp.”
“Here at Lowes, we make buying hardware convenient! With over 10,000 FFLs on file, we can have your spring or screw to you within a week!”
My gun safe came from Lowes.
The department secretary emailed me at 6 AM to say happy birthday and that she hopes I get to take the day off.
Hadn’t really planned to, but now it seems like a really good idea.
Happy Birthday!
Thank you for enacting my labor. My go-to b-day song.
You should indeed, happy birthday!
The only time my supervisor ever told me to take the rest of the day off was when they were going to fire my colleague, with whom I shared an office.
Shit, they made me defacto security guard during layoffs. Picking on the big guy.
https://www.ft.com/content/e87fdc60-0d5e-4d39-93c6-7cfd22f770e8
Interesting article.
That’s a really good idea, assuming it’s actually working.
Insulation insulates.
Yes, but does holding out over your head really stop a drone from seeing you? What if the drone is a bit oblique to you rather than directly overhead? Does a big patch of uniformity moving around not send off warning signs?
Send there’s lots of ways that could go wrong or not work. Especially if your opponent knows what you’re doing.
Would be highly dependent on how good the thermal imaging is as well.
The TIS in the M60A3 was so good you could read name-tapes at 150 yds in the late ’80s.
Defeat thermal imaging with this one neat trick.
Just use river mud, it worked for Arnold.
River mud’s effectiveness at blocking IR detection doesn’t last very long.
Do any of Biden’s 2020 voters feel even a hint of remorse or shame when faced with absolute proof of his corruption and Hunter’s antics?
“It’s Trump’s fault!”
/Biden voter
Nobody I know voted for
NixonBiden?We have our answer from that conference with Stelter et. al. That one lady was asked directly about her reporting that it was all “,Russian disinformation” and she said the real reason she did not cover it is that she “,just doesn’t find it interesting”.
LOL. The president of the United States is on the take…. And that isn’t interesting??
Nope. It’s because they believed that Trump was an existential threat so they cast aside their “principles” so Biden could win.
This is why Trump needs to not run in 2024.
He is because he can’t help himself. He was entertaining as hell and it was fun to watch him shit all over the corporate media, but he’s also a giant ego maniac who has the impulse control of a six year old.
Those are all the bare minimum traits anyone should have before taking office. If the President is not making war on the media, he’s the media’s bitch.
BS. Obama made the media his bitch.
“He makes the enemy mad so we should bench him” does not ring as well to my ears.
I know at least two people that still think this way. They absolutely consider Biden a disaster, but that somehow Trump would be more of a danger. They’d vote for DeSantis in a second over Biden, but would not vote for BadOrangeMan. I’m really hoping that TDog gets a serious health scare next year that he ultimately fully recovers from so that he has to drop out the race. It’s the only way that I can see him not running again.
They’d vote for DeSantis in a second over Biden, but would not vote for BadOrangeMan
I find this hard to believe. Not that they didn’t say it, they very well may have, but when push comes to shove, I don’t think they’ll do it. DeSantis is public enemy #2 right behind Trump, there’s 6 months left to the midterms and 2.5 years left to the next Presidential election, that’s nearly infinity in media time. There remains plenty of opportunity for them to find an offramp and “realize” that DeSantis is just as “dangerous”.
At this point, if it was Biden vs. Trump, I’d probably swallow my pride and pull the lever for Trump–unless there was a libertarian-ish candidate that had a chance and we had ranked choice voting in PA.
But I wouldn’t like it, not one bit.
Hell, if we had ranked choice voting nationally, I have a feeling that some very interesting trends would become evident. It’ll be interesting to see how Alaska fares with it on a state level. I hope it works well and represents a turning point.
Every presidential debate in 2024:
“Governor, are you finally willing to admit that gay people exist? Will you ever say ‘gay?'”
Desantis would be smart to tell the debates to piss off.
If I was DeSantis, I would give the debate coordinators fair but reasonable conditions like being able to have a “bipartisan” panel of his and Biden’s choosing, 5 minutes to answer questions and 3 minutes for rebuttals, and the panelists not getting involved in the debate at all. Publish that shit and if the debate moderators won’t agree to anything of his conditions, tell them to fuck off.
If there is a time limit, there has to be an automatic timer that cuts the microphones when the time is up, and cuts the panel’s microphones when it’s the candidates time.
I don’t know. These two may not be indicative of much, but one is a registered Republican that voted for TDog the first round and was just disgusted with his antics after a year or so. The other is a good buddy who is technically an independent, but almost always voted D , who has slowly come to realize that my prophesying about the woke shit is coming true. I was highly surprised to hear him praising DeSantis the last time we rode bikes together. And yes, of course the media is going to dial up their propaganda to 11 against DeSantis if he decides to run, but I don’t think it will be nearly as effective against him as it was for Trump. He is far less likely to make the type of unforced errors with insults and silly tweets and such that helps cement the media’s portrayals in voters minds.
The media will make the narrative.
Trump: “there are good people on both sides, and I’m not talking about white supremacists”
Same day, same place, same speech, literally seconds later, he refutes the media’s characterization of his words.
How many people know the truth, even today? Hell, the lie about what was said and meant was an integral part of Biden’s “campaign”.
The messed up part is that you can show people that the media was obviously lying and yet they’ll still believe whatever crap the media throw against the wall. I wasn’t a fan of Trump but honestly the fact that he waged war against the corporate media and hired Press Secretaries that was combative convinced me to vote for him the second time around.
There remains plenty of opportunity for them to find an offramp and “realize” that DeSantis is just as “dangerous”.
^ I don’t see any real difference between Trump and DeSantis. DeSantis will just become the next Trump through the lens of the MSM.
In terms of outcomes if elected, no difference there either. Through either incompetence or design, outsider Trump was not able to reign in the Swamp. There is no way a career politician like DeSantis will actually enact meaningful change. He’s an actor that’s playing to his script. At best, we would get a few bones thrown our way while the entire apparatus continues it’s leftward expansion. Same as happened under Trump.
I agree that he will not likely transform the federal government. The Florida state government was more amenable, and maybe he was a bit Machiavellian about it, though I think he was lucky more than anything else. The feds are already completely 100% organized and aware and ready for him before even day one of his hypothetical administration.
However, the point is frustration. The President retains much symbolic power. Fully reigning in the bureaucracy might be beyond the reach of any man short of the next Stalin, but they can still be slowed down. And using the bully pulpit to insult and embarrass the media, even if it only reaches some, is worth it.
I wonder if DeSantis can beat Trump straight up in the primary. He’s already much better known and liked by Republicans outside of Florida than would normally be expected.
Trump made a really big error in backing Dr. Oz. That guy is populist poison.
Of course, this is really par for the course with Trump.
I think DeSantis wipes the floor with him in a primary. In 2016 he had no record. If I were debating him, I would just repeat “John Bolton” or “Anthony Fauci” over and over.
I want desantis to be voted governor for life.
He can still become president, but he’s not allowed to stop being governor.
Just think, you could have Governor Meth Addled Orgy Aficionado
I have zero illusions that a President DeSantis would seriously reign in the Federal entrenched bureaucracy commonly known as the Deep State. Absolutely no one could at this point. He is not my preferred Presidential candidate policy wise, for that I’d rather see Massie or Paul, but those two stand zero chance of getting elected to that office and Florida Man most certainly does. His response to COVID Panic took serious balls, especially as the Guv of a highly populated state. That at least shows he is willing to take serious heat and not back down. The media will of course try and make the narrative, but they don’t wield nearly the kind of power to form opinions as they once did. When Trump made his many outlandish statements (“they’re not sending us their best, they’re sending murderers and rapists…”) it helped confirm in many people’s minds that the media were at least somewhat correct in their portrayal of him. There is no way that I see DeSantis as being so undisciplined as to give them that type of ammo.
As someone point out above, it will be ‘he wants to ban gay’ and we would have non-stop stories of dying transkids
The media will play an endless mantra of “don’t say gay bill”. The difference is that Trump very well might tell a joke about transgenders that would get endlessly repeated for a year. DeSanits would not do that and he would keep repeating that it is not okay to groom kindergartners.
I thought he was a particularly weak candidate and did not understand how he won the nomination. I was clearly wrong in my assessment.
Don’t ask me to analyze republican voters. I clearly have no clue about them.
Not one, most haven’t heard of it.
Hunter? No, they shouldn’t be allowed to have guns. What was the question again?
Moscow’s forces were thwarted, too, by pieces of foam mat — the Ukrainians call them karemats — costing as little as £1.50. The mats prevent Russian thermal imaging drones from detecting human heat. “We held the karemats over our head,” said Konoko, explaining how his men moved stealthily in tiny groups at night.
That’s not fair.
Do any of Biden’s 2020 voters feel even a hint of remorse or shame when faced with absolute proof of his corruption and Hunter’s antics?
How many of them are willing to recognize, even in private, the depth and breadth of the incompetence of this administration?
Oh good grief.
They didn’t even deploy “criminal mischief” against BLM and Antifa rioters.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10706131/Pennsylvania-man-arrested-placing-did-Biden-stickers-gas-pumps-protest-prices.html
Good.
Keep it up, idiots.
Even commenting on this distinction outs you as a conspiracy theorist. And a Nazi white supremacist. And probably someone who likes deep dish Hawaiian pizza.
Those are all over the gas pumps out here. I of course know nothing about anyone placing them.
I saw a few in the wild in New England. Haven’t been close to many pumps around here for a while because I can’t afford it.
I often seem them scratched out or otherwise defaced. It’s mostly harmless fun but the regime really takes these affronts seriously. Sheesh, I can’t imagine reporting or arresting someone over this.
At approximately 1250hrs, Thursday, March 31, 2022, East Hempfield Township Police were dispatched to Turkey Hill – 1503 Columbia Ave. for a Disturbance in-progress involving an irate male at the gas pump area of the business. Upon arrival officers encountered the male, who began yelling at police. The officer attempted to verbally de-escalate the situation to no avail. The irate male then ran towards a store employee in an aggressive manner. The officer was able to intervene and subdue the male, who was identified as Thomas R. Glazewski, 53 of Lancaster. In speaking with witnesses at the scene, police learned that Glazewski had reportedly placed “Joe Biden” stickers on the gas pumps, and he made reference to the high price of gasoline. A store employee approached Glazewski and told him he could not place stickers on the pumps. Glazewski reportedly got in the employee’s face and began screaming at her. Glazewski was subsequently transported via EMS to a local hospital for treatment of self-inflicted injuries that he sustained while seated in the back of a police vehicle. East Hempfield Police were assisted in bringing the situation under control by officers from the Manor Township and Manheim Township Police Departments. On Monday, April 4, 2022 a criminal complaint was filed against Thomas R. Glazewski charging him with one count each of: Resisting Arrest (M2); Disorderly Conduct (M3); Criminal Mischief (Sum); and Harassment (Sum). Thomas R. Glazewski is presumed innocent.
Looks like the sticker thing was incidental to him just being kind of an asshole about it.
He wasn’t exactly a saint according to the article and the arrest was probably due to his probation; otherwise criminal mischief would have probably just landed him a fine and/or community service.
Same out here. Usually there’s several partial ones that were scraped off.
How long until the police and/or FBI target the sticker makers.
Aiding and abetting.
The stickers need cereal numbers. We can’t have Ghost Stickers causing spontaneous insurrections or erections or whatever.
*applause!*
Glazewski made it even more difficult to remove the stickers after spraying the surface with clear coat, a Turkey Hill employee told police.
Dude’s an asshole he deserves what he gets.
Yup, total agreement. One thing to put on removable stickers, another to try and make them a pain in the ass to take off. He acted like an asshole when confronted about it as well. No sympathy for that dude.
really?
I have no problem with people putting stickers up as long as it’s not a permanent defacement of private property and doesn’t represent a significant expense to the owner to remove.
I agree that doing something to make the sticker harder to remove is not cool.
But really, “deserves what he gets?” Let me know what other petty criminals you think deserve whatever the system can throw at them. That can be quite a lot.
Fair enough if they give him the chair that’d be a tad much.
Oh complete asshole with a record and in violation of his parole for sure. He was arrested for that and resisting, not for putting stickers on the pumps.
yeah I searched his name and lost all my sympathy. If you’re going to do the sticker protest thing, discretion goes a long way. The younger people get this when they did the IT’S OK TO BE WHITE thing.
“Environmental group calls for deflating tires of SUVs to combat climate change: target ‘wealthy areas”
Ejits. These fuckers got the idea from some other group of lefty ejits, The Mission Yuppie Eradication Project, that put up a bunch of fliers in SF advocating the same thing back in the late 90’s as the Mission and Soma were turning into tech bro havens version 1.0.
It’s an almost verbatim copy of Tyre Extinguishers in the UK.
Yeah, these fuckers tend to copycat far left tactics from each other.
Pennsylvania man, 54, is arrested after putting ‘I did that!’ Biden stickers onto gas pumps to protest high prices
TREASON!
Econazis won’t be deflating Mammary Monday.
https://archive.ph/pfvss
WordPress seems to be acting up.
I’ll believe it when it posts your comment as a reply.
acting up
As long as it isn’t punching down.
So a very good friend of mine is about to acquire a gov’t job working with the Air Farce. True to gov’t fashion, he already has a start date (next week) but the contractor charged to conduct his background check (https://www.caci.com/) are just now calling me. Any thoughts on how I give a paid spook a sterling reference ?
“For a man of his hygiene, he doesn’t steal as much as you think. He’s also done an excellent job, almost perfect really of keeping his drug deals off of company property”
“Character? I mean, except for that little peccadillo from last year, but I understand that since all the witnesses recanted and the sheep lived, that all the criminal charges were dropped?”
I might hire him back, if I need him
Last time I was a reference I just answered the questions matter-of-factly.
Wait…the spook isnt my friend. He’s just the engineer getting the job.
Its the spooks (not POC) I have to talk to.
Meh, as UnCiv said, matter-of-factly. No details
My default is “you’ll have to ask him”.
When I did it for somebody, they just asked some pretty basic questions. What’s your relationship, how long have you known them, where do they keep their bomb making supplies, etc.
You didn’t get questioned if you own ray-bans and/or an unhealthy amount of Chinos, either pants or shorts?
Speaking of Janis…
No. That a shit song for hippies and people that play lottery daily.
You need to sit in the corner and cry.
“USPS stops deliveries to California neighborhood after repeated attacks on mail carriers”
Delivery desert!
Not Dessert Delivery? I haz a sad.
Oh wait for the “we can’t vote cause USPS wont deliver ballots.”
Something tells me “assault on a Federal employee” in any other situation would garner a somewhat different response.
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html
Big medical business is evil.
Seems rational to me to lay out the economics of an industry that you cover.
/s Former Stock Analyst
I believe I have made my best batch of bacon yet. Thats it, that is the comment.
Are we talking about curing the bacon or cooking it?
Home cure for 7 days, day in the fridge and then smoked to 150 for 6 hours. Used a spice blend I normally use for ribs. Salt content is near perfect too. Just fried up a few pieces after I let it sit to firm up in the fridge again.
Tell me about this cure. Mine always ends up too salty.
I use this
Cryptic
Fucking hell. It just posted without me hitting anything.
https://eatcuredmeat.com/meat-curing-calculator-tool-equilibrium-curing-brining/bacon-curing-calculator/
Also spud has a great article series on here that helps.
Once I get my salt/cure ratios down, then you can play with other spices. I did a huckleberry one about a year ago.
Another site, is https://www.localfoodheroes.com/calculators/big-bacon-calculator.htm
‘Is curing
patientsbacon a sustainable business model?’See..I didn’t go up and read comments to fully appreciate this. Well done sir, well done.
You have my attention.
Here is Spud’s articles
https://www.glibertarians2018.link/2018/08/12/bacon-two-ways-a-two-part-series/
https://www.glibertarians2018.link/2018/08/26/bacon-two-ways-part-due-pancetta/
Just for the record, Hunter Biden didn’t kill himself.
Any thoughts on how I give a paid spook a sterling reference ?
“He’s out, already?”
Wow – this election season might be fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xztJw19j-CY&t=30s
I watched a made-for-streaming movie “All the Old Knives.”
I didn’t know Greek tragedies were still a thing.
Anyone who watches a movie based on Old Knive’s Tales is a motherforker.
Aren’t they all based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s works?
That sounds absolutely horrible.
I knew it!
We talkin mainland or those dirty Sicilans
Yes.
I tried to not be adversarial with the dude doing my friend’s background check. And I know he was reading from a checklist and not wanting to deal with a buzzed asshole like me. However:
Him: “Is John married?”
Me: “Yes”
Him: “Do you know his wife’s name?”
Me: “Yes”
Him: “Can you tell me what it is?”
Me: “Yes”
Him: “What is it?”
Me: “You already know, dont you?”
Him: “Yes, but I want to know if you know.”
Me: “Then how do I know if you know if you’re asking me if I know?”
Him: ” (sigh) Mr. Cool…”
Me: ” It begins in an R and ends in an N”
HIm: “Correct. But can you tell me her name?”
Me: “Dont you know it already?’
Him: “Next question”
Are you trying to get your buddy’s chances for the job tanked?
No shit!
Funny, though!
When the FBzi came around to ask about a buddy of mine for a security clearance, I told them he was a great guy. I am a good friend… I had his back. I told them he told great stories about the stuff he was working on. I also told them about the way he kicked his heroin habit after being held in that jihadi camp forr all that time before he pledged his life to Suliman Bin al Awadi.
Hs job doesn’t require a clearance. I don’t know why they tacked this on unless he’s building a containment area around Hangar 18
If I was a real prick Id say “no, I don’t know about him having any affiliation with extremist groups. Have you seen Hunter’s hard drive?”
Its been a requirement but most agencies have only really done it upon entry. Its supposed to be reviewed every 5-years.
My TS/SCi was supposed to be good for 10 but they hit me 2X (in-service + when I was working for a contractor)
lulz
Him: How long have you know X?
Me: Since X started on this project.
Him: When was that?
Me: I don’t know. I’ve been on this project for a long time.
Him: Can you give an approximate date?
Me: I can give you a range of years.
Him: I need something more precise.
Me: Ask him when he joined. That is when I first met him.
Him: I need a date from you.
Me: Fine, July 2015, but I could be off a decade.
His wife’s name is Ron? Ryan? Ramon?
NTTAWWT
Rosalyn?
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/45158/half-a-dozen-chinese-y-20-cargo-jets-popped-up-over-europe-last-night
How many of those do they actually have?
Upwards of 34 I believe
How many are air-capable, and how many were “built” to meet quotas?
Jane’s defense said that China ordered more than 1,000 back in 2024.
2014.
Is that for the war of 2077?
That was an eventful holloween. The ghouls liked it so much they stuck around.
Thank G_d we still have Lou Reed.
Just wait til the property bubble crashes. /Every sino-skeptic for the past 20 years
I hope Austria doesn’t issue an ultimatum to Serbia over this delivery.
I read that URL as “1/2 dozen Chinese-y cargo jets”
heh…Long Duck Dong approves
+ “rake….big rake…..”