Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a wonderful day it always is!
DUI charges laid against Nancy Pelosi’s husband
Biden booed while visiting Texas after mass shooting
New York loses $19.5 billion in population exodus, IRS confirms
Firearm, Ammunition Stocks Soar in Wake of Texas School Shooting
Victims of Florida Condo Collapse Reach $1 Billion Settlement
Inflation zaps US savings rate, a warning sign for some
IRS squanders nearly $1B in erroneous pandemic credits, won’t try to recoup
That’s all I got for today. I hope you all enjoy this year’s fine Memorial Day with your family and loved ones and give at least a few thoughts to all those who sacrificed their lives in some foreign land and could not be here. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Happy Memorial Day?
“Biden booed while visiting Texas after mass shooting”
Less popular than Carter?
Carter was at least a decent human being for a politician and wasn’t a combative jerk. Biden makes Carter look like Reagan.
Can you imagine how nasty he is private? Even Suge probably isn’t capturing him at his worst.
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Think of all the worst personality traits of a dementia riddled old man and then multiply them by 10 since he’s been in public service since mastodons roamed the earth.
How do you think Hunter got the way he is?
Lots and lots of drugs?
It would not surprise me one little bit, to find out that Joe had been beating the shit out of his wife and kids on the reg. He really seems like the type.
I don’t have to imagine, one day a week I get a transcript published here at noon.
Interestingly enough, NPR focused on the people that loved Biden, headlining it “crowds cheered.”
Doing Pravda proud.
Thanks for doing AM links on a holiday, Banjos!
Hope everyone has good Memorial Day.
My pleasure!
Can I get a waffle fries and banana pudding shake?
I’ve never had waffle fries in a shake, but you do you!
(And thank you, Banjos!)
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Same!
“It also suggests that investors anticipate sales to rise as customers flock to gun stores to purchase new weapons and stock up on ammunition before tighter gun control legislation is potentially introduced.
A similar phenomenon with regards to a rise in the stock prices of gunmakers took place 2016, when Smith & Wesson jumped 20 percent after a gunman killed 49 people at an Orlando nightclub, according to The Washington Post.”
So let’s see if a bunch of politicians invested before this happened.
*re-configuring aluminum chapeau*
If they were to set up a school shooting for political reasons then why wouldn’t they pick:
Texas
little kids
mostly Latino
shooter bought guns legally
I still want to know about the brankroll of the shooter. Did someone extend him credit his job couldn’t cover? Did Glowies finance him? Relatives?
How much a week was he making at Wendy’s?
“Not a living wage!” /leftists
He made a killing wage though. [too soon?]
Really, who’s going to underwrite a $70k truck loan to him? Unless there was a cosigner, or someone dropping a hefty down payment.
I thought it was his grandmother’s truck.
Firsst I’ve heard that. Of course, my information is incomplete.
If reports turn out as suggested, he’s been planning this for years. With no expenses that I am aware of, I can see his spree piggy bank filling up nicely.
Maybe – if so, he was the most financially disciplined poor gangster kid in history.
Yeah, for a teenager allegedly bullied about being poor, if he had that kind of scratch – well something doesn’t add up.
Supposedly he bought 2 Daniel Defense rifles, ammo, optics, etc. without a credit card. At least $6k, probably a lot more. When you line up the sequence of events, it sounds really fishy…
https://voxday.net/2022/05/29/the-staged-show-in-texas/
That’s a little too conspiracy for me. Also, they’re claiming he was unemployed when we know (?) he worked at Wendy’s.
Let’s see if the media manages to shake out an accurate timeline.
Eh. I think people are severely underestimating how difficult it is for a teenager to get a couple thousand worth of credit.
I remember no one being willing to give me a couple thousand in credit until I had a job paying $45k/y
He got 3 COVID stimulus checks and spent them on guns. How hard is that to understand?
That’s not how it works, ma’am.
The legislature has made its law. Now let them enforce it.
So, she pledged to uphold the laws of Michigan, and now she’s pledged to disregard the laws of Michigan. No wonder the FBI wanted to take her out.
Lol
They booed him because he’s not stripping away our rights fast enough.
Fuck them.
“They booed him because he’s not stripping away our rights fast enough.”
Exactly.
Who should determine winners and losers? Markets or the government?
I’ll show myself out…
Electric Vehicles Proliferate, While Charging Stations Lag Behind
There must be automakers other than VW to extract funds from.
“Proliferate”
The market share, even with all the pushing, is embarassingly tiny.
The EV rents are too damn high!
“ as states figure out how to fairly dole out public funding to kick-start a new service industry”
All you need to know about it. If it requires public funding to get going, the market either doesn’t exist or is vastly distorted.
Ford only lost $3B last quarter betting on electric. Apparently, selling vehicles at a loss, something GM did for years before their first bankruptcy isn’t a winning plan, but Ford wasn’t paying attention.
I figure they know they’re going to go bankrupt regardless so they want to get on government’s good side beforehand.
Ford can’t go bankrupt: it would ruin Billy’s entire family. Of course it is a legal option: I’m just saying that they always fight any position, structure, or venture that they know risks landing them in Chapter 7. If they end up skidding that way, expect whatever divestment and retrenching necessary to maintain their grip.
I’ve been addicted to Chevy smallblocks since before Watergate, but I admire the Ford family’s commitment to the business.
Their alternative in 2008 was using the Fed’s discount window. As far as I’m concerned, they should have gone thru bankruptcy then. But Obama made sure GM’s experience with it was highly political, so I can see why they would avoid it like the plague.
Their alternative in 2008 was using the Fed’s discount window.
Was it optional? Or was it like banks and TARP? I’m forgetting now.
It was optional, but they would have gone bankrupt without it.
The IRS declined to review or take steps to recover approximately two-thirds of the erroneously disbursed amounts, the inspector general revealed.
“The IRS did not agree to review erroneous payments totaling nearly $598 million that were paid to ineligible individuals as of May 27, 2021,” the IG said. “The IRS also did not agree to conduct analysis to identify and recover additional erroneous RRC payments issued after May 27, 2021.”
“What part of helicopter money don’t you understand?” asked Secretary Yellin.
Why we’d be throwing money out of the helicopters instead of communists.
So ~2% (and declining) of the amount flown to Ukraine and helicoptered there?
Mornin’, reprobates. Thanks for the holiday links, Banjos.
“The most competitive states this cycle are those where a court or commission drew a congressional map as opposed to a partisan one”
Shocked, I am.
This year was always going to be difficult for Democrats — historical trends suggest the president’s party typically loses seats.
And that’s when the President in question isn’t a hard core partisan bungler who devotes his efforts to telling most of the country to go fuck themselves.
If we’d all just get in line, bend the knee, and be obedient, remorseful children – he wouldn’t have to beat on us.
Wait until the next quarters results come out and we learn we are in a recession.
The only path to survival for those Democrats may be to go “scorched earth” against still-undefined Republican challengers — which, at this point in the race, includes essentially all first-time candidates.
Hate and Envy; their go-to campaign platform.
The only path to survival for those Democrats may be to go “scorched earth”
I don’t doubt they see themselves as holding back so far. If this is holding back, we should get our nuclear bunkers in order.
“Moment excited gun enthusiasts raffle off $10,000 24 karat gold AK-47 rifle together with 1,000 rounds of ammunition for just $5 a ticket during NRA convention – days after Texas elementary school shooting
DailyMail.com video shows an auctioneer flaunting the solid gold firearm to a crowd of gun enthusiasts who reached up to grab it, as the auctioneer told the crowd: ‘You got to manifest it. Speak it into existence.’
In the end, the gun went to one woman, Leslie Castillo, who told DailyMail.com she was ‘in shock,’ and ‘couldn’t believe they called my name.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10864145/NRA-members-leader-LaPierre-vote-confidence-despite-struggles.html
Now she can fulfill her life-long dream of becoming an African warlord.
I chuckled. She just needs an orphan army.
Kony ’22!
Was he driving the wrong way on a one way street in a Maybach? I hope there’s copcam footage of Mister Pelosi saying, “Don’t you fools know who I am?!”
You know Nancy would love to have just “smoothed” this over, but the darned cops and media did their job for once.
I admit to a little schadenfreude when I read this last night.
You’d think he would have a Chinese spy chauffeuring him around. Driving yourself is for the poors.
Ha! All too true. Maybe he was going somewhere he didn’t want anyone to know.
After all, the cat was away…
You don’t use a chauffer to cruise for drugs and sex…
Since a drunk driver killed Biden’s wife and son Beau, you’d think he’d be speaking out about this.
Heh heh
I hope there’s copcam footage of Mister Pelosi saying, “Don’t you fools know who I am?!”
Does anybody know this man? He doesn’t seem to know who he is.
First, in recognition of Decoration Day—I mean Memorial Day, I offer a solemn prayer for the men and women who laid down their lives for our freedom.
Second, it’s now incumbent on us not to squander those sacrifices. Stay sharp, stay frosty.
I have a curious remembrance – my mom’s first husband. She was a war widow when she married my dead. Had her first husband lived, I would’ve been born an (((illegitimate))).
dad – not dead, though he is now
I still think of you as one of (((us))).
My cousin (1R) was killed in action 80 years ago in January. He took off in his P-40 on a reconnaissance mission from Bataan and was never seen again. He was an only child.
“A North Carolina preschool teacher has been caught using unapproved LGBTQ flash cards – which include images of a pregnant man – to teach 3- and 4-year-old children colors.
The teacher, who has not been identified, was found out to have used them on the preschoolers after a constituent of State Representative Erin Pare contacted the Republican about the cards at Ballantine Elementary School in Wake County.
Paré contacted the principal of the school to see if she was aware of the use of the cards, which showcase LGBTQ relationships and also go through what each of the colors in the Pride Flag mean.
The cards are made by a now-defunct company called ByUs Box, which also made sets of flash cards showcasing non-binary and transgender animals, gender neutral nursery rhymes and a ‘Blackness Collection.’ The company was created by two women who said they were inspired by the murder of George Floyd.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10866553/North-Carolina-preschool-teacher-caught-using-non-approved-LGBTQ-flashcards-depicting-pregnant-man.html
We need common sense school control.
George Floyd’s tireless advocacy for non-binary and transgender animals lives on.
♪♫ glory, glory hallelujah…
“non-binary and transgender animals”
I’m guessing hermaphroditic worms weren’t the subject of those.
It should be evidently clear that the current crop of teachers view themselves as evangelists for Woke and really don’t care what the parents want for their kids. They are the enemy.
Wake County? It should be Woke County. Thank you. I’ll be here all week.
Woke 4 Us?
Now I want lunch at Forks.
I still want to know about the brankroll of the shooter. Did someone extend him credit his job couldn’t cover? Did Glowies finance him? Relatives?
His FBI handler has a friend down at the credit union.
Reposting from last night in hopes of Hobbit seeing it:
Bearded Hobbit: sorry to hear about your cancer diagnosis and impending surgery (especially with cracked ribs bonus—ouch!!) But I’m glad the doctors caught it so they can shut it down before it spreads. Best wishes for the process and outcome: ??
I hope you get a chuckle out of this story about Alan Greenspan’s health from 2003. His wife must be a hoot. “He should be so lucky.” ??
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/enlarged-prostitute-indeed
Thank you. They are also removing a nearby lymph node “Just in case”
PolitiFact wants you to know the Texas school shooting was not, I repeat not, a false flag operation. It was a white supremacist domestic terror op straight down the line.
At the local political meet and greet last night, lots of voters and a few of the politicians were buzzing about the abrupt disappearance of any info on the Las Vegas shooting; many comparisons to the Uvalde debacle were made.
Someone should have brought Reynolds Wrap as a fundraiser.
It’s taken a long time for me to lose faith in various institutions of authority, but I’m there now. I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I am extremely skeptical about everything I’m spoon fed.
Well, we all know the media lies constantly to us. Blatantly. Agressively.
This is the most irritating part. You can’t go to a mainstream news source and not get clobbered with some for of propaganda in each and every story. They could write a story about anything and have to wedge in either a gun control, Covid, climate change, LGBTSHAKRHDIW, Ukraine/Russia slant.
Forty years after the Church Commission, with even less handbrakes now. Reynolds doesn’t produce enough aluminum.
white supremacist
These white supremacists ain’t what they used to be.
I don’t doubt they see themselves as holding back so far. If this is holding back, we should get our nuclear bunkers in order.
Democrats: the party of open-armed bipartisan consensus and compromise. Welcome, one and all!
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I’m going back to bed and pull the covers over my head before something worse happens.
At least you got a bye in the first round.
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Ok, two pairs of shorts have their buttons sewn back on. They’re getting kinda old though.
What brand of cotton cargo shorts you guys liking? Nothing too spendy.
Whatever I find cheap on woot.com.
What do you need to get out of them? ruggedness? good length? hides piss stains well?
Whatever I find cheap on woot.com
or in the target clearance rack or at sam’s. I go with the cheap and disposable method.
^ this.
Wholesale club is where I pick them up, especially after being supremely disappointed with two pairs of Carharts I spent $ on.
I dont buy carharrt jeans for work after the only 2 pair Ive owned tore at the waist after maybe 3-4 washing/wearing.
For the money, specially when on sale, its Dickie’s work pants.
^ this, Dickies are tough and look pro
Durable. ~ 10″ . Not really a concern.
Current crop is probably at least 8 years old. I can’t find that Columbia even makes them anymore.
I noticed Columbia has changed some of its styles. You may want to take a second look. They have a sale today.
What’s with the s/m/l shenanigans? I want a waist size number!
Click on the Show More tab under the size chart.
Yeah, and when you do, you see that their cargo shorts have 32-36 inch inseams. I wouldn’t trust that table.
Whatever I can find at Marshall’s.
That made me go look at Marshall’s. It’s all the shorts a stylish FBI agent would wear. They should all be sold with polos and aviator sunglasses.
It helps you blend in better.
Plus, LE and antifa leave you alone.
It pisses me off. I’ve been wearing polo shirts and Ray Bans my entire adult life. Why does the fucking Feeb get to bite on my style?
About to start on the summer of BLAM! Starting this weekend and going through September, I’ve got a match almost every week. June 11 I’ll be in MTL, but other than that, it’s the three local clubs, the level IIs and the Sig Nats.
I had an altercation with the director of USPSA for my local club at our last match. He keeps trying to add house rules or rather formalizing conventions he thinks are necessary to show the proper respect. I quoted 3.3 to him and he threatened to have me kicked out of the club under some club code of conduct violation. I am really uncertain exactly which species of bug crawled up his butt.
He’s probably the president of his HOA, too.
Actually no. He’s usually quite laid back.
This is his company: https://www.libertybuildersny.com/
I swear, you give some people the least little bit of authority and they just can’t help but use it. I don’t know if the gun sports are particularly subject to this, but I see it in pretty much every club I’ve ever been a member of.
Is there any way you can plant some furry porn on his phone and get him booted under the club morals clause?
I shot the GoShoot Carolina Reaper match down in Sanford, NC this past Saturday. I *highly* recommend it, especially if you like IPSC-style matches run under USPSA rules – lots of speed shoots and short courses, movers, prone shooting, and a complete lack of target arrays. Great fun.
Does IPSC not use practiscore? Zero matches are showing up in NY.
All I know about IPSC is that they use some kind of semaphore to score targets, they allow 15 rounds in production, and supposedly they’re the same thing as USPSA but not really.
When I deselect NY, all the IPSC matches are in Canada.
I always go MILSURP. I find BDU bottoms from armies around the world on eBay, cut them just below the knee, and hem a nice cuff.
Good idea really….granted my blue NWUs are a little tackier, but use what you got… May have a few more actual army BDUs in the bottom of a duffel somewhere.
My main issue is holding onto scrappy stuff too long – once stuff starts getting holes, ratty, I try and save them for yard work, but I need to know when to just toss them vice holding on to indefinitely because I feel it’s too ratty to donate. Takes up too much space.
For what it’s worth, the hardest wearing, longest lasting BDUs I’ve owned have been USMC Desert MARPAT. Followed fairly closely by French OD; but the French stuff tends to be rather tight in the thigh.
French stuff tends to be rather tight in the thigh
Euphemism? Phrasing? Something about that just doesn’t sound right.
Longest lasting has been winter BDUs. Pretty sure I still have the two pairs issued in basic sitting in the bottom of a box in storage. Longest lasting because I couldn’t stand those things and never wore them again.
#metoo I hated the fabric from which the winter sets were made. I have some Romanian desert bottoms that I adore, they use the old British DPM camouflage pattern, but the construction is terrible. They fall apart after a few washings.
cargo shorts ? eewww
^this
I like the Wrangler Authentics Performance Comfort Flex cargo shorts. They’re not cotton, though.
I have some as well. I wear them when I want to move unnoticed in a crowd of federal agents.
Seriously those are some good breezy shorts for a hot day and they are not constricting. Also the pockets don’t wrinkle up in the dryer, another plus.
I will only use Polo Chinos cargo shorts for work. They wear well (I get about 2 years of once a week hard use out of a pair) and if you have testicles on the larger side, the inseam will accommodate you. I have not found another pair of shorts that doesn’t leave me chafing.
https://youtu.be/xPlqLHcphyw
Any opinions about whether the Duluth Trading shorts are worth the $$$? They DO have some in the “Ballroom” category. ?
Their jeans are magnificent. Also their ballroom underwear. I have yet to blow cash on their shorts, and I prefer the stretchy non-cotton Wranglers mentioned by EvilSheldon.
I, too, love their jeans, and I’ve started living in their denim capris again since the weather turned warm.
I have 4 or 5 pairs of Carhart relaxed fit shorts. Love ’em.
I’ll add that a couple of those pairs have spend their life (6-7 years) being abused with yard work and shade-tree mechanic work and have help up splendidly.
I attended a “meet and greet” of GOP candidates at a local bar yesterday afternoon here in Pahrump. I brought my Sample Ballot and was not shy with opening it and scribbling notes as I talked to the candidates.
Here in the very “red” Nye County, Nevada, the mid-June primary is effectively the election, because this November, the GOP will win locally. In fact, some offices aren’t even contested by a Dem.
But at the state level, which is mostly Blue due to gerrymandering, we have a gubernatorial race and a US Senate race. Lots of folks are unhappy about the incumbent dem Governor because of “lockdown” losses and huge crime spikes. This is where things might get interesting. Lots of eyes on these races, and unfortunately lots of non-Nevada money pouring in.
The GOP convention didn’t even endorse some of the so-called front-runners. There’s a lot to learn about this state, and it seems corruption is bubbling under the surface in a few areas.
Corruption in Nevada? That’s just crazy talk!
Corruption? In Nevada?
No way.
Who’d a thunk it?
I hear there’s corruption in Nevada.
The thing you need to realize about Nevada is there is a lot of corruption.
😀
Today in useless virtue signaling.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/05/27/biden-suspends-tariffs-ukraine-steel/8141653709231/
“The significant disruption in Ukraine’s steel production is expected to decrease the total amount of steel produced by Ukraine as well as the amount of steel imported into the United States from Ukraine, which in 2021 accounted for less than 1% of all steel imports into the United States.”
The Ukrainians will be ramping up that steel production right away.
“Ukraine’s steel industry has been significantly disrupted by the Russian Federation’s unjustified, unprovoked, unyielding, and unconscionable war against Ukraine,” Biden said in the proclamation.
Well, maybe not.
I tweaked a back muscle while warming up for squats which hurts and is annoying because it was warm up weight. I blame Warty.
1989 Pontiac Grand Prix
https://youtu.be/oNEmfmvVTHA
GM says it’s going to have a million buttons and literally 30 way adjustable seats. But no way are we fucking paying for an airbag. Enjoy the damn seatbelt on the door people.
I mean all American cars suck so who cares
80s vintage was a low point. I blame all the coke.
82 crown vic
85 Z28
86 Z24
87 Z24
87 Shadow
And a Grand Am…maybe 87. I forget.
Man I hated those seat belts. I refused to rent or buy a car with one if those.
Pontiac (and Saab) were trying to innovate and build fun cars before GM and Obama killed the brand.
Total MILF
https://mobile.twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1530543529377906689
White supremacist.
Will be curious if they prosecute.
No way in hell. Think they have bad press now, wait until discovery in that trial.
Sure seems like a lot of people were able to get in and out of that building except cops trying to stop the shooter.
Just remember, on 9/11, “authorities” told the occupants of the South Tower to remain in place after the North tower was struck.
The authorities don’t necessarily have better information than you do; trust your instincts.
Good for that mom.
Prior to that point it isn’t bad advice.
People evacuating get in the way of people fighting the fire. It also leaves room in the stairways for people who HAVE to leave their floor. People also have heart attacks during the descent.
Highest I’ve ever descended is 30 floors. It sucks. And as I hoofed it down I got dizzy because you just circle and circle.
Cops are pretty consistent about one thing. They would rather you do nothing to save yourself and wait for them to be the heroes.
How did she escape the cops?
The original article
https://sports.yahoo.com/mother-handcuffed-outside-texas-school-202952406.html
“According to The Journal, Gomez was put in handcuffs by federal marshals for “intervening in an active crime scene,” as she and other parents demanded officers enter the school. Gomez persuaded Uvalde law enforcement officers to release her, and she moved away from the crowd.”
Why would federal marshals be doing crowd control?
They weren’t saving children so they needed something to do?
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I have a silver bullet in the chamber. If only there were a suitable target…
no werewolves around?
I’m not in London!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKF_F8Lel8
In other thing that suck, the goddamn Celtics made the finals. I as rooting for the Heat. Warriors in 5
Yes, let the hate flow through you…
Steve Smith sighting.
Two men capture clip of ‘Bigfoot running through the trees’ as they drive in forest
JALU SWIMWEAR – Biggest Fashion Runway Show with 49 (!) models @ SLS Hotel | Miami Swim Week 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-G84gSzQBE
ATTN: Ladies!
He’s available.
99-Year-Old Man Divorces 96 Year-Old-Wife After Finding Out She Cheated 60 Years Ago
I’ll bet this guy is single, too.
Japanese man spends $15,700 on dog costume to fulfill lifelong dream of transforming into an animal
Never change, Japan.
Did he visit a cat cafe afterwards?
Hardcore.
What’s this story about the Mises Coalition taking over the Libertarian Party?
Sarwark is crying in his Special K this morning.
Apparently he bumped into some guy at the convention and started screaming “assault” and tried to get him ejected.
He’s pure class.
What a fucking loser.
He glows brighter than a type I supernova
I’ll know it’s real when they make and addition to the bylaws that requires Nick Sarwark to perform “I’m a little teapot,” prior to making any statement.
Some are claiming that the LP gained 200k members since the coup.
Also, one fellow posted a screen shot from a Lawrence Vance article, highlighting the sentence “we should rethink Hitler”. I read the article. It was arguing for non-interventionism, not that Hitler had some good ideas, or whatever.
I should add that his comment on the screenshot he posted was, “WTF, Mises Caucus?” Something like that.
Rethinking Hitler: Like Hitler, Nick Sarwark is a petty little dictator.
TOS had a decent article about it.
https://reason.com/2022/05/29/mises-caucus-takes-control-of-libertarian-party/
Note; I didn’t even glance at the comments.
From the article: “Christopher Thrasher, who has been senior staff on multiple Libertarian presidential campaigns and ran ballot access for Gary Johnson’s 50-state sweep, worries that the Mises Caucus troops lacks granular knowledge of the terribly complex regulations surrounding ballot access and running campaigns. This, he says, is especially dangerous for the L.P. as inflation hits the cost of collecting signatures for ballot access.”
Why should ballot access be so complex?
At some point, this kind of shit will mean nothing for most people. It’s just a smear without meaning. Most likely, many people have reached and gone beyond that point.
REAL Libertarians support hate speech laws and race-based government programs!
That’s all I need to know.
Good morning, Banjos.
Thanks for taking lynx duties today.
For Memorial Day.
Memorial Day soundtrack
Tracking returns filed in 2019 and 2020 showed that 479,826 people left New York for another state or country in those years. Over the same timeframe, just 231,439 people moved to the state. That means the state suffered a net loss of 248,387 residents.
And yet somehow the census showed a sudden uptick in population in New York after the 2018 estimates.
Something something it matters who counts the votes.
But there is no election fraud…
Sean, this one’s for you.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/05/27/Guinness-World-Records-Carolina-Reaper-chili-peppers/5971653680074/
“A California man put his love of spicy food to the limit when he broke a Guinness World Record by downing three Carolina Reaper chili peppers in 8.72 seconds.”
That’s gonna burn on the way out.
Pussy. Reapers ain’t even the hottest peppers anymore!
(I ain’t doing that. Ever)
The best part there is he had to do a do over.
Here it comes
A 10-year-old fifth-grade Florida boy was arrested Saturday and charged with making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting, according to police.
When the juvenile suspect, a student at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral, Florida, allegedly sent the threatening text, the School Threat Enforcement Team was immediately notified and began analytical research, police said.
The Youth Services Criminal Investigations Division assumed the case due to the age of the child. Police arrested the boy after detectives interviewed him and determined probable cause for his arrest.
“This student’s behavior is sickening, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said. “Making sure our children are safe is paramount. We will have law and order in our schools! My team didn’t hesitate one second…NOT ONE SECOND, to investigate this threat.”
Real? Who the fuck knows?
He’ll get an invaluable lesson.
What is the proper response/ remedy when a kid reveals himself to be a bad seed? The Uvalde shooter had a history of cruelty to animals, etc, but he shouldn’t have been in prison for it. Yet he probably shouldn’t have been left untreated and unwatched.
How about the 10 year old who lit an 8 year old on fire, after tormenting him on several previous occasions? I can’t see that 10 year old becoming a model citizen, but what do we do with him? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10775273/Boy-6-burns-lit-tennis-ball-thrown-face-terrorized-bully-8.html
I’m starting to think a return to involuntary institutionalization might be needed, but with minors?? And how would we ensure such a system itself does not abuse people?
Maybe we just have to risk it and let these guys alone, as part of the risk of living in a free society.
Our pastor brought this up contextually yesterday – wasn’t sure how he would address it, but like the other church I attended in Cville – he focused on…are we as believers reaching out to the “bad eggs” that we encounter esp in their formative years? Could it have been caught by an adult reaching out to him after seeing or hearing him acting out or isolated, etc? No way to know at this point, but it should be a wakeup call for action on an individual level as well rather than just waiting on govt to take “action”.
Agreed; a personal outreach is probably the only way to get through, find out the origin of the bad behavior and try to overcome that root cause.
Unfortunately, as in the case of the 10 year old I cited above, sometimes the parents enable the bad behavior and block any “outside” influence from a friend, a teacher, a church member. Don’t know what more to do in those cases.
And then I think there are some people who are evil psychopaths no matter what; the Charles Manson or Ted Bundy types. They will slip through the social “community watch” and perpetuate their evil for a long while.
But that’s very different to these “go out in a blaze of fire” types like the school shooters and disgruntled workers, who know they won’t make it out alive. Those people really are a tragic mix of a cry for help and a bitter break and resentment of the living.
I think your pastor is on to something. How many of these kids would be helped by an adult giving them the time, attention, and guidance they need?
Or scout master, coach, teacher, or, really, any mentor worth a damn. But we are unravelling all that we have built at an alarming pace.
Men having a close relationship to youth are probably pedophiles, and thus such relationships should be forbidden. All scoutmasters, coaches, priests and the like must be required by law to be women. It’s not safe that there are any adult/youth relationships not based around the public school system!
I’m not going to say that women in power has managed to emasculate little boys and young men, but let’s not pretend there’s not enough of men diddling little kids that went on to mess it up for all the other men who could be good role models.
Glib, but probably an accurate depiction of what people have been trained to believe nowadays.
Are you talking to me or NA?
If me, I do believe there are enough incidents/predators to need to be wary, but not enough to look askance at every male in kids’ range.
I do, however, blame SVU for how much fear of bogeymen there is nowadays.
Looks like the link to the flaming tennis ball incident is broken.
Here’s another. In happy news, kid seems to be healing nicely.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/dominick-krankall-who-was-allegedly-attacked-with-flaming-tennis-ball-released-from-hospital/amp/
Heartbreaking! Or what happened to the America I knew and loved? I graduated from a high school not too far North of there in 1989. Being rural Florida, there were a great many trucks in the student parking lot. All of those trucks had gun racks in the rear windows. Students over 18 had shotguns in those racks, students under 18 had pellet guns (the Crossman 760 being particularly popular.)
Yeah, I grew up seeing (occupied) gun racks in the back windows of trucks in Oklahoma. Quite normal at the time.
But then somebody on the high school campus got expelled for having a knife in their car. The knife was a basic dinner knife with a mildly serrated edge like the ones you probably use at your table. Somebody had it in for this kid, I guess. Or was a burgeoning Karen.
IRS squanders nearly $1B in erroneous pandemic credits, won’t try to recoup
Ya, this is my shocked face. ?
Thanks for the links. May the smoking of meats commence!
Tales of shrinkflation:
I haven’t bought beer at the grocery store in quite a while (glibfit) but I got some for the holiday brats. Apparently 6-packs are no longer a thing, it’s all 4-packs. However, a 4 pack of Ommegang pint cans wasn’t the most expensive choice, so that was (relatively) good.
Think it depends. All the cans I see from indie/microbrewers also use the 16oz cans – bottles, etc are still 6 packs.
New Holland and Founders would like a word about 4 packs,
“Right now is not the time to act like a little delinquent,” Marceno also said. “It’s not funny. This child made a fake threat, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”
Muh precious law enforcement investigative resources!
I purchased a DVD from Amazon, finally received it, and discovered it is a region 2 DVD.
Get an all-region player. Invaluable!
True. For DVDs, too easy at this point – although on a PC, VLC player will handle it without any issues.
Some DVD drives, especially older ones and read-only drives, enforce the region locking in firmware.
How old is “old”. It was an issue on many desktop drives 20 years ago, but the last couple laptops I’ve bought over 8+ yrs have enabled software mods/programs regardless of technically what the model states.
That said…if you need to return it via amazon or sell/trade it via ebay – is still pretty easy. I know amazon lists non-R1 discs a lot more frequently than it used to be (don’t have to go to amazon.co.uk for imports as frequently as I used to) – just scroll down and double check the listings.
Yeah, by “old” I mean pretty dang old. Once HD-DVDs and Blu-rays entered the scene, and 16x DVD+/-RW burners from Taiwan were common, the region-locking problem largely fell away.
That happened to me when I ordered a ZARDOZ DVD
The penis is evil!
Any particular brands you recommend?
If that was directed at me, I got this one.
I have a lot of region 2 DVDs and it’s played all of them so far.
Unfortunately, there is at least one Region A Blu Ray in my small collection of those that it won’t play. That manufacturer is asshoe.
Got one of these – been 8 years, so probably my model is gone now.
All DVDs without mods, just a remote function to switch BR regions.
https://www.220-electronics.com/region-free-blu-ray-players.html
Also, one fellow posted a screen shot from a Lawrence Vance article, highlighting the sentence “we should rethink Hitler”. I read the article. It was arguing for non-interventionism, not that Hitler had some good ideas, or whatever.
Nobody wants to be his generation’s Neville Chamberlain. That guy sucked.
He is presented as profoundly naive. I don’t know anything about him besides the selected quotes, such as “peace in our time.”
On another note, little is said, these days, about the nearly universal praise in high-falootin’ corners for fascism, as a reasonable “third option” between capitalism and communism. Did some of this color Chamberlain’s perception of the situation?
That went well.
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Shtinkflation in the beer aisle
I will cop to a love of Miller High Life in the wee pony bottles. During Mardi Gras, we always kept a supply of them iced up behind the bar for employ use only. When given a chance to catch our breath, we would all chug one, then return to slinging drinks for the madding crowds of Carnival.
I met my now-wife due to her bumping into my buddy whose arms were full of High Life ponies and jello shots. She was invited to help us consume trove and here we are…
I meant to add that I have a soft-spot for High Life ponies to this day.
Aww… I’m a sucker for a good meet cute.
Our DGC is grilling at the course today with all the American fixins’
We began night golf last week so now it’s play all day, take a Churchill nap, eat dinner and back to play at 10PM.
It was 77 degrees by midnite and flying stupid bugs, they don’t bite or sting just run into you and bounce off.
Remember the Fallen!
https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1531270725138632706
LOLOLOL
“Minnesota fire at commercial egg farm likely leaves thousands of chickens dead
The sheriff’s office estimated that 200,000 chickens died in the barn fire”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-fire-commercial-egg-farm-likely-leaves-thousands-chickens-dead
What is going on?
Radical Vegitarians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVL5_I4CvTc
That’s even bigger than my last barbecue.
At the Daejeon courthouse. So many counters! No machine to get a number! Where to go?! Scan left to right and Korean legalese confounds. I get to the last one and in English: “Desk for disabled and foreigners.”
Walking w crutches…I’m disabled AND a foreigner! I know EXACTLY where to go! My loud chuckle attracted curious glances and furrowed brows. Little things frequently give the day that little sparkle.
One goal, turned into two, accomplished. Tomorrow is the hospital. I know how everything I need for immigration. Then a week to set up my ride from here to the airport, with baggage help to check-in, where (once I get that direct flight to Detroit) I will have the airline/airport wheel me around.
I woke up today and my leg was DRASTICALLY better. Walked around the tiny hotel room without crutches. Nowhere near 100% but much better than it was yesterday. Gonna go to the hospital to get back-up serious pain meds. The journey goes on.
Seriously considering getting my first ink.
“Onward. Upward. Always.”
Onward will be in English. Upward (상승) and Immer (German for “always”) on the inside of my left forearm. I’ve lived with all three languages. FUCK. Will I look like an ass because I have a foreign language on my arm? I know the word and know how to read hangeul. Grrr. WIll that make me look like one of those dumb college fucks, despite actually knowing the Korean and German?
Complicated. Advice is asked. It means something to me, so I guess I don’t care, but I don’t want to be one of those dicks with Chinese/Japanese on them that they have no idea how to write or what it even means. Could just say “sheep fucker” and they’ll promise that it means “Elevation” or whatever the fuck is in their heads. Grrrrgle. Difficult. Advice. Good conversation-starter since I actually know it and can read Shakespeare in Korean (not that I know what 99% of it says, but I can make the sounds), or me looking like a fucking dumbfuck.
Am I being stupid? Seems like it might be an appropriate goodbye and something that I’ve (as you’ve seen time and time again) that helps me focus on the positive. Get hit by the ball. Get a seamer. Without words demonstrate a casual “Thank you” and take first base, ready to take more.
Onward. 상승. Immer.
*I now have everything I need for immigration.
Seriously considering getting my first ink.
Put the design in folder for an Evan, then take it out and consider if it’s still cool.
/would not do it again
I have one, and I still like it, but I was in my 40s when I had it done.
Still, I probably wouldn’t do it again.
Tattoos are for you, not other people. If you want it, do it. Also, have you read CS Lewis? “Onward and upward” was Aslan’s cry in The Last Battle to encourage Narnians to leave the physical world behind and join him in paradise.
I have but not for over a decade. I don’t recall that phrasology.
It’s just a mantra that has followed me around for quite a while.
Maybe get the proposed tattoo printed on a custom t shirt and wear it every day for a month, then decide if you want it permanently inked on your skin.
Good luck with the rest of your journey!!
It’s another leg in a bizarre and interesting journey. Evan, Indiana Jones-ing himself back to Indiana.
As I’ve said before: A fish out of the water being excited to go to a new habitat…the water where Evan the Fish was raised. (I was born in WV, named before my dad even got the job to move to Eville when I was 6-months-old.)
Oh goodness, he’s spawning isn’t he?
Spawn spawns again. New adventure to a place that I no longer know but grew up in for ~22 years.
It will be fascinating, easy, interesting, yet intimidating. It will be hard to just speak English all the time. I’m…not used to that. An odd curve ball that’s really a slow, straight pitch right over the middle. Just gotta in the box. I’m ready to swing at the strikes and (I think I) know when to casually take a ball with grace.
An article definitely needs to be written about my transfer to a “new” place that isn’t new at all. I’m not sure how to add brevity to it. There’s so much to cover. I don’t know what to focus upon. I’m unsure of what y’all would think is the most interesting.
Any nudge or wink would be helpful. Oh, lord. This shouldn’t be such an odd transition, but of course it is. So much to say. Must find focus.
I got my first tattoo when I was 18. Even though it is now not my favourite (I’ve added about a half dozen at this point), I don’t regret a thing.
Part of having a human suit with which to traverse this plane is the ability to use its surface to express yourself, share parts of your journey, and ground yourself in the world.
Tattoos should have meaning to *you.*
It should feel good/aligned/empowering to *you.*
Your tattoo should stir something within you when you look at it.
It shouldn’t be for others, and it shouldn’t be done with deference given to the strangers (or loved ones) who may have an opinion.
If you want it, if it feels aligned in your soul to do so, do it, and don’t give another moment’s thought to what people will think.
“Your tattoo should stir something within you when you look at it.”
That it does. Y’all folk know what I’ve been through. Focusing on the positive is instrumental. Sinking into despair is quicksand you can’t escape from. It draws you under.
I’m -ish convinced to do it. Seems like a nice goodbye to Asia. I do need to make sure the needle marks from the IVs fully heal first. That gives time for the idea to gestate and become a reward. Hrm.
I have a friend who asks every person with a Chinese tattoo “why do you have General Tso’s Chicken on your arm?”
Awesome
At my Bob Ross pain-along yesterday, I brought a friend that I’m trying to set up with the other friend with whom I was painting. Ball (heh) is in their court, I guess. I hope they exchanged phone #s while I left them alone.
Now, if someone would just set me up, everything would be right with the world.
I think I’ve mentioned this before, but in my “past life” I lived in Muncie, IN, and knew a gal who worked at Ball (speaking of Balls!) State’s public TV station, where Ross taped his shows. She swore he really was like that in real life.
Nice! Our conversation devolved into whether we thought Bob was just as soft-spoken in bed as he is on his show LOL
Well, she didn’t say whether she knew him THAT well…
He was after he left the military. Before that, not so much.
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“ Bob Ross pain-along”
To know happy trees, you must first SUFFER!
LOL – Freudian slip? I was actually really fun & I’ll certainly do more once I get better brushes. My trees were not at all happy due in part to a flimsy fan brush.
Joy Of Painting / Hellraiser mash-up
“BREAKING REPORT: Mom of Texas school massacre victim is told her DAUGHTER COULD HAVE LIVED after being shot through the back but she bled out in the 40 MINUTES it took for cops to storm classroom…”
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1531053174693543936
Same shit happened at Columbine. How many years ago was that?
13 years ago. April ’99. I was 12, a week away from 13. Odd time to grow up in school.
23
I’m an idiot. Math be hard.
Disclaimer: Lady just stopped by and hooked me up with a bit of Hitler’s Bday Fun. Or maybe my fingers slipped on the keys. Even Mozart did that a few times…(Yes. I’m that good. *Slowly walks backwards through the hedges.*)
The first “disgruntled worker” shooting I recall was in Edmond Oklahoma in 1986. I was in Duncan Oklahoma, aged 12, and the news coverage was extensive.
The shooting was at a post office; 14 killed. The incident was the origin of the term “Going postal.”
1986 was a shitty year. The beginning of the end of care-free childhood.
I came about in ’87. My birth made everything better!
The Evanescence of it all!….FUCKl Damn that stupid band that took my namesake and the joke about my presence that always changes everything (frequently for the worse). I’m going to get that term back! IT IS MINE! I can do that. Everyone will believe me and attractive women will gush and gawk over how impressive a physical and intellectual specimen they are lucky enough to be in the presence of!
*Triumphant smile quickly turn to somber face. Kicks pebble and slinks away.*
I think that would cause me to lose my mind. I can’t imagine the rage the parents must be feeling.
She almost certainly isn’t the only one. Those cops should seriously fear for their lives. If any of them have half a brain the house is already for sale and they are living in a new state.
“There is NO constitutional right to own a gun. That was literally made up by 5 GOP Justices in 2008 decision of DC v Heller. We need to make overturning Heller a cause like the right made overturning Roe v Wade. My @MSNBC”
https://twitter.com/DeanObeidallah/status/1530593623875719174
CWAA
If the right to own a gun was invented in 2008, why were there big fights over gun control in the 1930s and 1960s?
Forget it, he’s rolling.
The NRA and its dastardly time traveling!
Notice that other British colony origin nations that didn’t enshrine a right to bear arms suffered far worse Covid crackdowns, lockdowns, curfews, etc than what we had in the US? (looking at you Canada, New Zealand, and Australia) t
What is the proper response/ remedy when a kid reveals himself to be a bad seed? The Uvalde shooter had a history of cruelty to animals, etc, but he shouldn’t have been in prison for it. Yet he probably shouldn’t have been left untreated and unwatched.
This is the $64,000 question. There is no more wilderness to drive them into. Reform school? Indentured servitude in the French Foreign Legion? The Lepetomaine Hospital for the Criminally Insane?
There is no good answer that I know of.
Personal intervention is still the best solution. Everybody wants the government to be the first line of defense instead of taking responsibility.
Tighter-knit communities would help a lot, especially on the prevention/early-intervention side of things. But the government, media, and big business are all part of a feedback loop of that encourages ever more atomized individuals, disconnected consumers, and interchangeable employees.
Watched this one last night along with another flick. Posted about it earlier this week.
https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/ilya-muromets-deaf-crocodile?_pos=1&_sid=089ea5927&_ss=r
Trailer in link. Really solid flick – and the HD remaster is gorgeous. Some really great images. Characterization is a little over the top, but surprisingly little sovietization (for 1959) other than downplaying rewards and not wanting to mingle with the nobles, etc. Love some epic scale stuff too – and that 50% deal at Vinegar Syndrome is good through the end of today.
*sigh*
Kitchen supply store doesn’t open until 11am. Guess I’ll sit it out in the parking lot.
At least they are open.
Sounds fun. What are you after today?
Griddle spatula after I burnt my knuckles on Saturday with one that is too short.
My mom’s uncle Bob, who is 98 and still gets around by himself, celebrated his liberation day yesterday. On that day 78 years ago, he was liberated from a German POW camp and knew he was coming home.
Happy Memorial Day everyone!
Man, that’s got to be a good feeling.
Also, the dread that something stupid happens on the way home, like getting I. A car wreck, or something.
My wife and I went to Maverick last night. It was terrific fun. Definitely a big screen experience, though.
Thinking about catching it next week …. lots of good comments – just for the experience – even though I’m not a huge fan of the first one. The cockpit shots look like it should be worth it regardless of how dumb the plot is…
Me too. Completely clichéd, totally predictable, way too pat, precisely tidy, and I LOVED it for that.
The voices are coming from inside your head
A researcher entered the metaverse wanting to study users’ behavior on Meta’s social-networking platform Horizon World. But within an hour after she donned her Oculus virtual-reality headset, she says, her avatar was raped in the virtual space.
“Metaverse: another cesspool of toxic content,” a new report published by the nonprofit advocacy group SumOfUs on Tuesday, details the researcher’s violent encounter in Meta’s Horizon World.
According to SumOfUs’ account, users invited the researcher to a private party on Horizon World earlier this month. Users in the same room then asked her to disable a setting that prevented others from getting within 4 feet of her.
The report linked to a video that the group says shows what happened to the researcher’s avatar from her perspective. In the video, a male avatar is seen getting very close to her, while another male avatar stands nearby, watching. A bottle of what appears to be alcohol is then passed between the two avatars, per the 28-second video. Two male voices are heard making lewd comments in the video.
She’s a “Survivor” now.
According to SumOfUs’ account, users invited the researcher to a private party on Horizon World earlier this month. Users in the same room then asked her to disable a setting that prevented others from getting within 4 feet of her.
You can give a person agency in the virtual world, but you can’t make them exercise it.
Did she strap on teledildonics when asked to as well? So she could get the whole virtual rape experience?
Did she try turning off or taking off the headset?
In a part of the video SumOfUs opted not to share but describe, the researcher “was led into a private room at a party where she was raped by a user who kept telling her to turn around so he could do it from behind while users outside the window could see — all while another user in the room watched and passed around a vodka bottle,” per the report.
Even though it happened in virtual reality, the incident left the researcher “disoriented,” she said in the report. The researcher noted her controller vibrated when the male avatars touched her, resulting in a physical sensation that was a result of what she was experiencing online.
“One part of my brain was like WTF is happening, the other part was like this isn’t a real body, and another part was like, this is important research,” she said in the report.
SumOfUs researchers also reported experiencing homophobic and racial slurs in Horizon World and said they witnessed gun violence on the platform.
In the old days, she would have had to actually go to a biker bar on the bad side of town to do that sort of “research”.
Get. Out.
We need to ban virtual AR15s. It’s the only sensible thing to do.
Wow, I just had a Corsair fly about 100 ft above my house. Full Throttle!!!
Scared the living shit out of me on my deck. Love having a airport nearby. As long as there are no “The World According to Garp” incidents I’m good.
Nice!
We have a small aviation museum on the field about 2 miles from my house. They have a C-47 and a C-123 that they fly for airshows, and a T-28 they’re working on getting airworthy. We’re right under the pattern for left traffic for the eastbound runway, so we occasionally get them flying over when they’re doing their thing.
I’d love to see a Corsair, though.
I got a second look. Looks like a Hellcat or Wildcat.
Either of those is an awesome sight, too. The Hellcat was what eventually beat the Zero in the Pacific Theater. Pure muscle.
At Meta’s Wednesday shareholder meeting, a proposal was introduced to complete a third-party assessment of “potential psychological and civil and human rights harms to users that may be caused by the use and abuse of the platform” and “whether harms can be mitigated or avoided, or are unavoidable risks inherent in the technology.”
However, the proposal was voted down.
Democracy is in ruins!
Notice that other British colony origin nations that didn’t enshrine a right to bear arms suffered far worse Covid crackdowns, lockdowns, curfews, etc than what we had in the US? (looking at you Canada, New Zealand, and Australia) t
The rapidly diminishing distinction between subjects and citizens.
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
-John Donne
My dad used to tell me “No man is an island” all the time, not in a contemplative way, but as guidance. I don’t know what I was doing to make him think I needed that guidance.
I often tease my wife by saying she has “only child syndrome” and point out that both my father and brother have it too. She doesn’t like this, but I do have to point out to her fairly often that she isn’t living alone, and hasn’t in decades now.
Interesting. There are almost 6 years between me and my next sibling (I’m the oldest). According tobirth order theory, I am as good as an only child. Even today I find myself saying “I” and “my” when I should be saying “we” and “our” in reference to my husband and me as a collective. He was #2 of 4 and his older sister pretty much raised him, so he had never had anything of his own until he moved out.
My wife says something similar about me.
I am a rock. I am an island. Hiding in my room. Safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me.
One year in high school, my oldest sister wrote all the lyrics to that song on one of those denim-covered 3-ring binders. ?
(Things got better for her after she went off to college. She found all the nerdy groups and made lots of nerdy friends.)
You know who else made nerdy friends?
Me.
I was lucky. I found nerdy friends while I was still in high school.
Well, sadly, I didn’t make nerdy friends, but I did make some friends nerdy.
Stamping out the curse of toxic individualism and self ownership
Three Democratic-led states — California, New York and New Jersey — have pressed forward with gun reform legislation in the wake of the deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children and two adults dead.
The state action comes as Democrats in Congress eye votes on measures including a federal red-flag law and expanded background checks, however doubts remain over possible Republican cooperation.
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced on Wednesday, just one day after the Texas shooting, that the state would “expedite commonsense gun safety laws that will protect people from gun violence.”
Newsom committed to signing a package of bills, including restrictions on the sale of firearms to minors and so-called ghost guns, or unlicensed kits to build untraceable firearms.
The package of bills would also create “private right of action to limit spread of illegal assault weapons and ghost guns” in addition to enabling gun violence victims and governments to sue manufacturers and sellers of firearms.
“While the U.S. Senate stands idly by and activist federal judges strike down commonsense gun laws across our nation, California will act with the urgency this crisis demands,” Newsom said in a statement.
California also recently had its own deadly shooting, when a man allegedly killed one and injured several others at a southern California church.
Rights? You have no rights, other than to comply with our orders.
“activist federal judges”
The left is always at its lamest when it tries to mimic the right.
Makes perfect sense.
Some crazy shoots up a school in Texas and I need to have some kind of perpetual training here in NJ according my governor.
Last time they tried to pass this bill it failed. They even tried to grandfather existing gun owners. However, from memory you needed to take some damn gun owner safety course every couple of years if you were a new owner.
No kidding? You mean, like the deadly shootings that occur across the country every day? Oh silly me, they only mean the ones that politically motivate them to grab more power.
The left really, really, really wants to get the lawfare machine cranked up.
They can’t win at the ballot box with the gun-grabbing platform, but they desperately need everyone to believe they can.
In case you needed a 99th version of what happened in Uvalde, here’s one that was new to me.
A parent used bolt cutters to get in and help evacuate kids. Some law enforcement helped.
https://www.kens5.com/amp/article/news/local/texas/uvalde-school-parents/273-1ee19781-70f7-4256-887c-906d5ec9be6c
The only one who can stop a mass shooting is a good guy with a bolt cutters.
Shorts update. Found the exactly right pair on eBay and a second pair that looks close enough, but no metal button.
I haven’t ordered from eBay in a while, hopefully I won’t be disappointed.
Hopefully they’ve washed out the bloodstains and patched the bullet holes.
After reading the shorts thread up page, let it be known that any shorts longer than knee length are called capris pants. Men wearing longer than knee length “shorts” are merely cross dressing and should call their “shorts” they/them’s pants.
Agreed. 8″ inseam or less.
Wrong
Once more into the breeches! ?
Shorts are any pants which do not reach the ankles.
I respect your choice to identify as anything you wish.
I responded kind of late up thread…one thing I forgot to mention was the closure button is metal and riveted on. FYI
Jesse Kelly talks about an urban warfare training exercise he took part in when he was in the Marines: https://twitter.com/jessekellydc/status/1531092595039944705?s=21&t=-8r02dVQbLgEVMu6OMRt7A
We did similar in our armory one drill, except no sims or blanks. Place we had been in for years, swept and mopped every cubbyhole. Opfor sgt (and full time AGR) wiped out pretty much everyone entering the orderly room. He climbed on top of a bookshelf in the corner and picked off everyone coming through the door.
May you all have a wonderful Memorial Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omd9_FJnerY
Most Civil War battlefields are not crowded zoos (I’m looking at you Gettysburg) and walking the lines can be both interesting and sobering. At Cold Harbor there is a Federal cemetery as well. Many many graves marked “Unknown” but the harder graves to see had only a partial name. You’d see “J Wa n” or just “N” and wonder who was this man.
I toured a bunch of battlefields around Fredricksburg, VA back in 2016. Not a soul on the battlefields but me most day. I broke down and wept in the Union Cemetery on the hill overlooking Fredericksburg battlefield. Thousands of fathers and sons who never went home because of incompetence and a casual disregard for human life.
Coincidentally I changed my FB cover pic to one of the Fredericksburg cemetery from when I walked it in 2018.
The Sunken Road is haunting.
There’s a good visitor center / museum on site too. I recommend the place to anyone traveling there for business, not uncommon in the defense world.
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