Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious day it always is!
Two states are pressing forward with legislation that would allow teachers to carry in public school
Gas costs more than double since Biden took office
No worries, they are coming up with polices to make it triple
9 states, DC now suffer average gas prices above $5 a gallon — and all but two are run by Democrats
Average U.S. gas price surges to $4.85 a gallon Sunday
Baby formula out-of-stock rate increased to over 73% nationwide by end of May
Inspector General to investigate Biden administration’s response to baby formula shortage
In Seattle, defund the police efforts led to an embarrassing $5 million mistake
Veteran died after VA turned him away because unconscious man didn’t show his ID, watchdog says
Arizona man drowns in front of three police officers who ‘ignored his desperate pleas for help’
Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal team says there are up to 15 ‘solid’ defamation cases
Carolina Panthers Adds First Dude Pretending to be a Chick to Cheer Squad
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with some songs and move along with my day.
“78-Year Anniversary Of D-Day”
Damned Krauts…
Don’t be sour.
He’s on a Kaiser roll
First the brot, then the Käse.
He doesn’t really mean it, he’s just panzering to the crowd.
Das ist genug!
Careful, you have a tiger by the tail!
Tanks a lot for the heads up! Why didn’t anyone warn me before?
Because they were being quiet as a Maus, most likely.
(Alternate take: Because they were busy with their chicken and waffen.)
Das was ein befell!
“Two states are pressing forward with legislation that would allow teachers to carry in public school”
How many people have had some gun grabber tell them that they hope the guns go to the groomers so they can then hold the kids hostage?
I pointed out that I would really be surprised if any of these groomers would even deign to touch something as icky as a gun, but that if the gun grabber’s point was that they would use the gun to hurt the kids or the parents, then all it would do is double down on the argument these groomer teachers were not mentally fit to teach in the first place. Of course, that was not well received.
Morning, Banjos.
Mornin’
whaddup doh’
“Gas costs more than double since Biden took office”
And it has not even gotten close to how high rich marxist shlobs want it to get at, because the agenda is to for now discourage and in the future ban the serf’s ability to remain mobile. When the hammer comes down even harder on the team blue states, they need as many of the people as possible destitute and/or unable to afford moving.
Democrats like poor people, that’s why they try and make as many as they can.
“Inspector General to investigate Biden administration’s response to baby formula shortage”
Why waste tax dollars on this? Here is a likely scenario: “We blame the J6 terrorists and PUTIN!”
“Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal team says there are up to 15 ‘solid’ defamation cases”
I hope he ends up with enough money from these asshats that he can afford a yacht for his guests that goes around in the pool of his own personal yacht…
Brian Stelter in a clown outfit crying bitch tears on camera: “CNN, the network for real news owned by Kyle Rittenhouse!… Sniff, sniff”…
“Brian Stelter in a clown outfit crying bitch tears on camera…”
I’ll be in my bunk.
eewwwwwww /teen-age girl
This is my new favorite unit of money
There’s “I have a yacht” and then there’s “I have a yacht for my yacht.”
Was out sailing in San Diego Bay last weekend and actually saw the yacht for the yacht. It’s a huge support yacht named “Hodor” that carried all the toys for some even bigger mega-yacht. Four wheelers, a giant speedboat, a helicopter, and more. Insanity. I can see why people think others have too much money.
There is no way on God’s green Earth I’d be buying shit like that if I had that kind of money. I don’t know WHAT I would do with it, but not that. It just seems so…wasteful, and I’m a bit of a minimalist at heart.
Rent one, sure. Buy one, no fucking way.
Someone has to own it. Most of these mega-yachts are available for charter, making their use available to mere multi-millionaires.
The thing that bugs me about a mega-yacht is that they require a crew. I would want privacy on such a luxury space.
You just need the right crew.
Part of the crew training for that crowd is to be invisible Not Adhan….
JI: Are those dual-purpose, or merely decorative?
Alex: What happens in international waters stays n international waters.
The thing that bugs me about a mega-yacht is that they require a crew. I would want privacy on such a luxury space.
Do you not have enough orphans? I can loan you some.
I’d rather have a mobile airport for my fleet of aircraft.
I remember a story about Balmer’s yacht. It had a bay for a tender to take guests to and from shore.
A 65 foot tender.
Where I come from, 65 feet definitely is well out of “boat” territory and into “yacht” territory.
Nuisance money!
Gas costs more than double since Biden took office
The first time I filled up my Equinox in February 2021, I paid $2.379/gallon, and I felt I was overpaying because I wasn’t at one of the normal stations I use. The last time I filled up two weeks ago, I paid $4.919.
I remember paying a few cents over 2 dollars in January 2021. Yesterday it was over $4.85 a gallon. I can afford it even if it just pisses me off to need to pay double, but I know for a lot of people this is crippling financially. But that’s what the people that want to create the new globalist world really see as a better world. Think about that.
The Friday after Election Day, I think I paid $2.099. But that was in the Subaru, and I don’t have all the old receipts in one place like I do with the Equinox.
Gas in Lake George (admittedly, a tourist trap town) was $5.599 weekend before last.
The first time I filled up my Equinox in February 2021 – I thought that Equinox was in March / September
Time zones.
If you’re on the equator, every day is more or less an equinox.
(That’s if you measure from when the center of the sun’s disk crosses the horizon. Since sunrise/sunset times are listed from when the first/last little bit of sun is over the horizon, every place has more than 12 hours of sun on the first days of spring and autumn, never mind dawn and dusk.)
“Veteran died after VA turned him away because unconscious man didn’t show his ID, watchdog says”
Fuck the VA.
Success. Another wait list entry cleared.
I have made it a point to always be able t buy my own best private insurance (or get it from my employer) because I lurend from my VA experience…
Fortunately my experiences with my local VA have been satisfactory. Then again, I just go there for check-ups and meds. If I really needed trauma care or cut-open Id look elsewhere. I will say that Im impressed with their use of imaging. X-Ray, CT, MRI….they order it and its done.
*anecdotally, my Barber is a vietnam vet that needed heart bypass. His was done at the Cleveland VA adjacent to the Cleveland Clinic. He has nothing but good things to say about their quality of care.
My limited experience with the system has shown wild variability. The St. Pete hospital was a mediocre at best, the New Orleans hospital did not set my broken shoulder properly, but the Tallahassee hospital was quite good.
I don’t like to gamble. Especially with my health. That’s why I avoid it.
I’ve seen wild variability within the same VA hospital. My Uncle went to Dayton (probably where Tres goes). And the first round of lung cancer was treated amazingly. A couple years later when it came back. He told them he had pain, they implied he was just drug seeking. Turnes out the cancer had eaten three of his ribs and he was in an immense amount of pain. If they’d done the scan they should have when he first started complaining he may still be alive today. Instead, he died a couple months later.
That said, VA Hospice was phenomenal.
I’m sure they’re quite happy to escort patients right out of the system with dignity.
Veteran died after VA turned him away because unconscious man didn’t show his ID, watchdog says
Single-payer for the win!
Arizona man drowns in front of three police officers who ‘ignored his desperate pleas for help’
There’s water in Arizona?
Yes.
Seems to me the idiot committed suicide. I don’t blame the cops for this one, they were not trained or equipped for water rescue.
Assuming the cops didn’t walk to the waterfront, I guarantee there is a spool of rope in the trunk of the cruiser. Or perhaps they could have used their radios to call for someone who is trained in water rescue.
The guy knew how to swim, and swam a good way out, beyond the reach of a rope. One of the cops told the others to stay and keep and eye on him, and he would call for a boat. Seems likely that he could have survived if he’d stayed calm and just floated.
The bill is being sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who announced on MSNBC in March, “I’m co-sponsoring … a bill on windfall profits tax. We get it, supply and demand, prices go up, but profit margins should not go up, that’s just oil companies gouging.”
“Big oil companies are making higher profits off Putin’s war,” tweeted Warren.
Our best. Our brightest.
The travesty is that I am certain she knows exactly what evil she is up to and is laughing at the idiots that think she cares about anything but fleecing the private sector to line her own pockets…
Notice they are using this as yet another bit of welfare to buy votes.
It’s sickening.
Weird. I blockquoted three words up there and got the “Internal Server Error” – twice.
Nobody type “we get it”.
we get it
Considering the Dem, Repub and Libertarian running for the Senate seat in PA – they do look about par for the institution.
profit is evil. windfall profit doubly so.
Is there proof profit margins went up?
Bah: see Asshat in name.
What I am really asking is, if revenue and expenses are increasing similarly, there of course is still going to be record profits. Is profit as a percentage of revenue also increasing*?
*Even then, GFO Warren.
*rereads both comments*
Nevermind, the rhetoric works as I have clearly just thoroughly confused myself.
[Elizabeth Warren walks away saying “my job here is done”]
Unpossible — a progressive’s work is never done.
How to lie with half truths. Profits are probably up in many industries, but if you look at the profit margin %, I’d say many industries are making a smaller percentage than they used to.
I work in a meat department for a grocery chain, and our costs have risen wildly in the past year, and retail prices went up, but not nearly enough to maintain the same GP as before.
Can’t really blame cops for not jumping in to save the idiot who drowned himself.
Dammnit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a lifeguard!
Seems like they could lean down and offer a hand, though.
He swam a pretty good distance into the river, there was no way to do that.
At least they didn’t shoot him.
Low expectations and all that.
-1 Stop resisting
Similar,. but not AS life threatening. . . .
I broke down on a Sunday afternoon in Chicago. I was in the middle lane, at a stoplight, about three cars back on Michigan Ave, at the corner of Roosevelt. It was busy as can be and cars were flying by me. I saw three cops on a bridge a street or two over. I asked if they could help me push it to a side road or alley. They laughed at me and watched for about two hours.
Cars were flying by. I sat on the sidewalk waiting for a tow truck hoping no one would hit my car. After a while, a nice guy in a pickup blocked traffic and helped me at least push it into the right lane.
There to Serve! Fucking dicks.
That cheerleader did NOT use Blair White’s surgeon.
Ramamurti admitted that there would be a potential impact on supply if a windfall tax on producers was imposed, but he said he did not see this as an “insurmountable hurdle.”
“One thing you want to be aware of when you are looking at those types of proposals is how is it going to affect supply as well,” said Ramamurti.
“I don’t think that’s an insurmountable hurdle, but it is an important question at a time when there’s clearly a supply issue.”
His comments came just a day after he told reporters that the administration’s plan to combat inflation included shrinking the Federal budget deficit, by raising taxes on high-income individuals and major corporations.
We’ll tax our way to Glory.
It’s about making sure government controls all the leavers that pick winners & losers..
Once they have enough power there will be no leavers.
Word, your holiness, word…
Gee, I wonder if there is any other way “shrink the Federal budget deficit”.
If only that was part of the equation.. Their penchant for tax increases has nothing to do with reducing deficit spending, balancing the budget, or reducing the debt.
Hyperinflation?
Once we nationalize the oil companies, we cam bring in some Venezuelan consultants to run them.
I thought so… One of the reasons I never got the vax was because an older guy in town suddenly had a prion disease a month or two after getting vaccinated. Since he had never been to the UK or the Middle East, that seemed really suspicious. He died a couple months later, his brain was gone a few weeks before the rest of him.
Two new clinical studies – one peer-reviewed by researchers in Turkey, and one pre-print by researchers in France – have begun to establish an alarming link between an incurable, degenerative brain disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and the experimental Covid-19 vaccine.
Naw, those kids just ate beef from the UK.
So heart attacks, AIDS, and Mad Cow Disease all in one needle?
psst – don’t forget the nano-bot trackers
Stay away from those 5g towers.
*adjusts tin foil*
I have a family history of heart attacks and blood clots and am in that prime age of the “vax” causing them. I took my chances with Covid, which only ended up being a week and half long flu for me.
Wait until they tell you that “the science” now says you are not really protected because you had it and didn’t take the jabs, since the Kung Flu is the only virus in nature for which the human body’s immune system is unable to generate resistance like it does for every other fucking one since the dawn of time!
It will be amazing if one can finally speak of potential issues with the vax. Before the 7th dose that is
After “The Great Reset” nobody will need to talk about it, Pie…
A doctor friend of mine just got her second booster. I didn’t even know what to say. Anything I could say wouldn’t make a difference at this point.
I had several colleagues, people who research medicine and health care for a living, rush out to get their young children vaccinated as soon as it was approved. I expect the same to occur once it’s approved for toddlers.
It’s a deeply held team principle at this point. Might as well discuss religion with a fanatic.
And isn’t that the irony – you can bet these are people screaming “SCIENCE” and scoffing at anyone with a religious belief.
These will be the people screaming the loudest and demanding government do something about the evil profit chasing pharma industry a decade or so from now when we start finding out how many jab jonesers are having their lives destroyed or taken from the side effects…
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a deliberate population cull.
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At my last checkup, the doc was amazed that I was willing to get the shingles vaccine and not the booster shot.
My original doc has retired and the new doc was just a kid. He was 100% down with the Vax Now, Vax Forever program.
He kept trying to debate me on how wonderful the vax was. I finally told him to – and I’m quoting here – “shut up about the vax, I’m not doing it”.
Semi-Spartan is right. It is all about establishing what team you are on; team TDS vs. team deplorable.
Same with the masks at this point. They are no different than a Christian Crucifix or Hajib.
My daughter had a ballet recital yesterday. Across 21 classes performing, there were 4 girls wearing masks (0 boys, but the sample size was small). All 4 were older elementary, not the real young ones.
I see therapy in the future for them.
I see them ending up on stripper poles..
Maybe when they are teens they will break out.
Don’t count on it. Dermatologists have some really good drugs now. Acne isn’t what it once was.
You’ve not heard of maskne? A bunch of people had zit breakouts where the mask covers their face.
Don’t you just shake your head at people still wearing masks out and about, I feel bad for them. I can’t believe people are still buying any of it.
At our local Wendy’s, there are two guys who often work the payment window at the drive through. Both wear masks all the time. Both are young black men. The rest of the employees at that restaurant never wear masks.
For some reason, black people have been much more compliant about masks than the average. You can literally see young black men who cover their face but don’t cover their ass.
On my run this morning on the dog park trails, there was one 30 something black guy wearing a mask on his walk.
I have noticed this phenomena – I’m not sure if they are believing the media, or if it has become a fashion accessory. The rare mask sightings I’ve had lately are usually black people, but half of them have it hanging off one ear, or pulled down to the chin.
The middle school kids walking by themselves in the California sunshine are the ones that get me. Even if you bought all the damned madness — you’re by yourself, you’re in the sun with lots of UV, that mask isn’t doing a damned thing, kids. Just maddening.
Not only was the invasion a success, it’s probably the most impressive American military accomplishment of the past 100 years.
Debateable.
Relevant.
Desert Storm II is probably the pinnacle of the American military in the past 100 years. Likely the next 100 as well.
As I am wont to do every year on this day, I ask the question, How many many men, if given a view of the future, would have said, ‘Hell no!”?
Frau Doktor Hossenfelder on trans athletes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9YAFYIBOU
TL;DW: Testosterone makes transmen vastly stronger, estrogen makes transwomen a little bit weaker.
I love how the woke are being bamboozled into supporting the patriarchy and having to cheer it on…
President Joe Biden is under intense pressure from his party to ease gas prices before the midterm elections in November, as the approval ratings for the Democrat-controlled Congress continue to sink in the polls.
Except for the Green New Deal Urbanist wing, who are telling him to tighten the screws because they’ve got us on the ropes.
Fuck gas. Where’s my coffee rebate?
Coffee? Roasted ground crickets are what Gaia wants you to drink.
At least two states are pressing forward with legislation that would allow trained school teachers to carry firearms on public school grounds in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
While arming teachers has faced widespread hostility from gun control organizations and national teachers unions such as the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, allowing teachers to carry firearms in schools was among the recommendations made by several school safety commissions formed in the aftermath of school shootings in 2018.
Listen, Jack. We don’t want to harden schools and protect children the way we protect money and politicians. Why, in God’s name, would we do that? It’s absurd. What we need is commonsense – uh – you know the thing.
Chinese Influencer’s Ice-Cream Pitch Inadvertently Introduces Fans to Tiananmen Square Massacre
Thanks Winnie the Pooh!
Gas costs have more than doubled since the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency.
US gas averaged $2.39 per gallon the day of President Biden’s inauguration. It’s since risen dramatically to $4.82 per gallon.
It’s because those greedy oil corporations don’t want to drill, or so I am told.
I know – let’s have the govt subsidize drilling!
And put the same people in charge of the Sahara Desert.
Elon didn’t go to Epstein’s pedo island. Everyone else did.
Elon looks like he has no problem getting bitchez… He also doesn’t look like he is into seriously weird kink. Now Bill Gates…
Sometimes I think my list of enemies is too short, so …
Heh…
I watched part of the women’s French Open final and I have to say they really need to get some men in women tennis to raise the level. I think every other first serve was in the net.
But then what would Tennis Channel show?
The Biden administration is considering a proposal to tax oil and gas windfall profits to provide a gas subsidy for American consumers struggling with high energy prices, said Bharat Ramamurti, deputy director of the National Economic Council at a panel sponsored by the Roosevelt Institute think tank on June 2.
Sound economic policy is what this administration is about.
Definition of Windfall profits: any money the political class is unable to get their “taste” (used as a term of having to pay the gangsters their due, not culinary) of…
Sounding economic policy?
Charlie Ottley, director of the famous documentary Wild Carpathia, robbed in Timisoara. He ran out of drones and photo equipment
https://romania.postsen.com/news/19321/Charlie-Ottley-director-of-the-famous-documentary-Wild-Carpathia-robbed-in-Timisoara-He-ran-out-of-drones-and-photo-equipment.html
Well the point of travel is to experience the local culture
What is the Wild Carpathian version of “Deliverance”?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3992800/
Is there a line in there telling someone they got a purdy mouth?
How is that not in the Thurs rotation yet?
Your fingers, nimble they are.
Hmm… It’s a web series on Vimeo, and I can get to it without a paywall. Consider it done!
Also there is a hillbilly werewolf movie called “Bubba: The Redneck Werewolf” i can do that one too.
Paging R.J. RJ to the white courtesy phone.
lol
I went down the IMDB rabbit hole….
“Shark Exorcist”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3120314/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
That is available on Tubi. It’s not like I can pull the “I have standards” line, so I shall watch it. Could be absolutely horrible. I was planning on doing Corona Zombies sometime soon so I can never again complain that a movie is not watchable.
GypsiesSpongies?arming teachers has faced widespread hostility from gun control organizations and national teachers unions such as the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association
I’d be interested to see what the rank and file in-the-classroom teachers think.
Seriously – would you trust Randi Weingarten with a gun? Even a BB gun?
I think framing the issue as “arming teachers” is another motte and bailey tactic of the Left. The bigger issue here is the restriction on adults legally carrying guns in school.
I do hope that the legislation focuses on dropping the restrictions for all adults and not just school employees. That is probably wishful thinking though. It’s a legal minefield for adults to legally carry on school property, even outside of school hours. I believe in VA, a CCW holder can carry in their car in the pickup line as long as they never step out of their car. But the rules and gotchas are always changing.
We’ve had that for nearly 30 years here, with no problems. Didn’t stop the gun grabbers from rolling it back (excuse me, school boards can “choose” to prohibit concealed carry on property).
Need more preemption.
Oh, preemption was in there for those thirty years. It’s still there for most restrictions but the chipping away has started.
I wouldn’t trust her in front of a chalkboard.
I’m curious how Randi and friends justify their opposition to this idea without giving the game away that they’re just leftist front groups laundering money for the DNC.
What does she care about giving away the game – who’s going to do anything about it? She, and everyone like her, can spit in our faces and laugh.
It would increase her chances of shooting herself.
Also warriors in 5
“Carolina Panthers Adds First Dude Pretending to be a Chick to Cheer Squad”
Whatever floats your boat, peops….
Maybe this is about enticing the prison crowd?
I wouldn’t have guessed that Charlotte is that kind of town.
Hmm, Rae Carruth was recently released from prison.
I have a lot of compassion for the people trying to raise kids, buy gas and housing on a limited income. I remember my earlier life, before the price gougers, and it was tough enough.
We’re bumping $5 a gallon here too but since we don’t have many places that need going to and we consolidate our runs it’s not so bad for us.
What I really hate about ‘current thing’ virtue signalling is the effect it has on my view of the world. Yesterday, I was in a restaurant getting lunch, and the staff changed the channel on one of the televisions to some sporting event. It showed a person in the audience waving a Ukrainian Flag, and my initial reaction was disgust. A little while later, it turned out the sporting event was a soccer match between Ukraine and Wales, so it was just typical sportsball fandom behaviour.
I tell all the usual woke morons judging the past by their current insane and ludicrous standards, that their time will also come. Maybe when some generation in the future gets to look at them and demonizes them for the standards we have today after the world’s economy collapsed and we went back to living in the equivalent of the dark ages. Or worse, when some even woker generation in the future finds them faulty for not engaging in some even more insane practice. I can see the wheels turning in some of their empty brain pans, but more often than not, it goes straight over their heads…
That begs the question though; would they even bother showing that match up if not for Ukraine being the current thing?
Well, half the stadium was in blue and yellow with a bunch of said flags. The other was in red and yellow with the welsh dragon waving around.
9 states, DC now suffer average gas prices above $5 a gallon
I paid $5.60/gal for premium this weekend.
Yep, over $5.15 here.
I need to get my bike out again…
Average U.S. gas price surges to $4.85 a gallon Sunday
Let’s go, Brandon.
Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro has been awarded $715,000 in defamation damages over two YouTube videos.
Mr Barilaro sued Google in the Federal Court over its failure to remove the sketch videos, which were made by comedian Jordan Shanks and published in September and October 2020.
The former Monaro MP said they were “vulgar”, “offensive”, portrayed him as a corrupt conman and included “racial slurs” referencing his Italian heritage.
A Federal Court judge accepts Mr Barilaro was “traumatised” by the videos
The videos constituted a “relentless and vicious campaign”, the court hears
Comedian Jordan Shanks settled a parallel case with Mr Barilaro last year
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-06/nsw-barilaro-v-google-defamation-judgment/101128344
The Ukraine suddenly seems to have dropped out of the news – except as an excuse for inflation and gas shortages. It’s an end-game in the east. The real question is what happens after the Russians win? Sounds like the country is going to be partitioned from both ends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdUYtvk4sqE
Yep. The Germans don’t want an expansion of the war, and the French are hesitant as well. Nobody is going to save Ukraine and they were just being used by the West as cannon fodder in some insane long game against Moscow. This should have been negotiated before it even began. It’s now known that Moscow contacted DC at least twice before they invaded to meet over the situation and the Biden administration just flat out ignored them, not even a response. If that’s being the adults in the room, I’d hate to see what children would do.
Meanwhile, NATO is continuing to talk like a bunch of lunatics who don’t care if the entirety of Ukraine is turned to ash and rubble. The split between the aims of NATO and the aims of its member states should be reason enough to disband the organization.
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/06/03/nato-chief-says-ukraine-shouldnt-drop-goal-of-driving-russia-out-of-crimea/
Ukrainians are pawns in a much larger game.
This is what sovereignty looks like–it causes and shows indifference to human suffering in pursuit of its own goals. It is the gigantic steamroller that crushes the garden and its well kept picket fence, mutilating the flowers and animals, not even noticing its wake.
31:00 – Oliver Stone talking about one of Putin’s first international speeches – on sovereignty – while John McCain sits in the front row sneering and laughing. Oh how I would have liked to punch McCain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygAqYC8JOQI
A whole lot of stupid in the comments of that video
You’ve been touting the “collapsing Ukrainian Army” for days…I am still waiting.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-5
ISW has less credibility than Baghdad Bob.
But random YouTube commenters you agree with have lots of credibility.
You’re confusing me with Drake.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks Jimbo. I’m going to try that, see if I can still do a spin. Maybe get a treat?
Our local aviation museum has restored a flying C-47 that was used in WWII from September 1944 onward. Dropped supplies and equipment over Bastogne and took part in operation Varsity.
Inspector General to investigate Biden administration’s response to baby formula shortage
Let them eat
cakemilk.And supposedly he’s set to visit Saudi Arabia to grovel and beg for them to push prices down.
What a fucking joke.
They have already told him to piss off, twice.
Do you think he remembers?
BLAINE, MN — The National Sports Center was the scene of a coming out party this weekend for sled hockey’s newest superstar.
The Other Kevin capped a weekend of magnificence with a hat trick in the championship game.
This intrepid reporter had a hard time fighting his way through the throngs of admirers to interview the dashing left wing for the Alaska sled hockey team. His good looks were only eclipsed by his boyish charm and humility.
The Alaska team – behind TOK’s play – routed all comers in the weekend tournament.
“We just got out there as a team and I took what they were giving. I can’t thank my teammates enough,” said TOK. “It means so much to come here to the State of Hockey and play well in front of crowds that really appreciate good hockey.”
Seriously, TOK has been hiding his light under a bushel. I was impressed with the hockey I saw.
I told TOK that my arms were sore from having to row my scow of a fishing boat for a hundred yards through a channel. I can’t imagine the upper body strength it takes to whip up and down the ice like they do.
I tried to talk him into coming to the Honey Harvest, but I’m not sure he wanted to drive even further into North Country. Fourscore, maybe we could fill a kiddie pool with some ice so TOK could give a demo of sled hockey at the HH? I bet that would get him here.
Like all the other Glibs I meet, TOK was great and makes me feel like the little brother of Glibs. Tagging along with the bigger, cooler kids even though I can’t keep up.
I’m betting there are Glibs willing to do some of the driving and meet TOK along the way.
We need to rustle all available, willing and unwilling, to a Glib rendevous. Now that the Covid fiasco is fiasco’ed out we’re hoping to set a new record.
Now that Evan from E’ville will be around Indiana that might just work. OTOH Evan’s track record is a little sketching these days
BLAINE, MN — The National Sports Center was the scene of a coming out party this weekend for sled hockey’s newest superstar.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Congratulations to Kevin!
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” a coming out party”
Well, it is Pride Month after all.
Seriously, though. Congrats TOK and we all look forward to writeups, photos, and (dare we hope) video of all this.
Doh! I hope you weren’t expecting me to take video too?
I’m not sure how compelling that an hour of video that is just my thumb over the lens. Granted that is better than my other movie: Two hours inside my pocket
No, no, no, you call it Two Hours in the Pope’s Pants and watch the box office take off and the awards roll in.
Is there really a market for a movie targeted at young boys only?
I bet you could get Kevin Spacey on the project as EP.
Thanks Your Holiness, you are too kind! I wish the games were more competitive but half of us are from Chicago. We train hard and play well together. To put it in perspective, we won that game 12-0 and we didn’t even hit anyone. I do have photos and a write up that should be out in a week or so.
Following up on this. I noticed that Kevin’s team was way more willing to go hard into the boards to dig out a puck. Other team’s sort of skated near the boards and waited for the puck to bounce back into play.
I guess being from Chicago, they didn’t have to worry about their looks being marred by accidently being smashed into a board.
We’re ready for our closeup, Mister DeMille
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is preparing for a crucial week as it prepares to finally share with the public the fruits of its monthslong investigation into the riot in primetime on Thursday.
The 8 p.m. hearing kicking off a series of meetings shows the committee is eager to reach a broad segment of Americans and relay the extent to which democracy itself was at stake that day.
“The goal here is to construct this narrative,” said Molly Reynolds, a senior fellow in governance studies with Brookings.
“What they want to do is go through the countless depositions that they’ve taken and other evidence that they gathered and figure out a way to try and convey a story to the public.”
The challenge is making a captivating case for a wide audience, particularly those who feel they already know what happened that day or who are ready to move on from the attack.
Another challenge is to overcome the loathing and revulsion of the vast swath of the population who think this is nothing but empty emotionalized grandstanding for the party faithful.
Shorter article: “we are trying to figure out the best way to propagandize this.”
They could make the viewing compulsory and they’d still come out the worse for it. Idiots should know how to read a room.
the extent to which democracy itself was at stake that day.
No, it wasn’t.
“The goal here is to construct this narrative,”
Obviously.
Democracy wasn’t at stake, but it should have been. Governments should fear their citizens.
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Carolina Panthers Adds First Dude Pretending to be a Chick to Cheer Squad
Sportsball seems intent on self-destruction.
Yesterday my wife (Okinawan) was sitting on the couch and I could tell she was thinking hard about something.
Then she asked me if I was going to “Tractor Surprise”.
I almost fell off the couch laughing.
She was trying to figure out if it was “supply” or “surprise” and she chose…poorly.
Supplies!
Narrator: “And from that point forward, Mike called it “Tractor Surprise”.
I would think that a Tractor Surprise is when you unexpectedly stick something in the exhaust pipe of your Deere loved one.
Only to find out you stuck it in the PTO instead.
That’d be quite a twist.
Thank you, thank you. That was the first thing I thought of with “Supplies!”.
Also
Spatula City Commercial (1989)
https://tenor.com/view/supplies-motherfucker-gif-5333571
These cuntes are angling for an actual civil war: Liz Cheney on Jan. 6 insurrection and the “ongoing threat”
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection and its attempt to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss, talks with CBS News’ Robert Costa about what the upcoming hearings will reveal to the American people about the threat to democracy. She also says there is a GOP “cult of personality” around Trump, presenting a moral test that the Republican Party is “failing.”
Hell Liz, if the Republican Party had morals – your daddy would’ve been swinging from a lamppost a long time ago.
If you had not caught on that the left’s concern with Americans owning firearms is very much about limiting that right to the people they approve of, meaning the wealthy & powerful, just read about this idiocy going on…
When I recerted my “People’s Republic of Connecticut” carry permit over a decade ago at the same time I was helping my recently turned 18 year old son getting his, after paying a fortune in fees and certification bullshit, we had to go to the town hall to get the final seal of approval. There my son actually had an old hag that was the final “Yay or Nay” caller tell him she was happy he was a clean and decent person because she was in the habit of turning down anyone with long hair, too many tattoos, or the wrong attitude or background.. I almost lost it and went off on her, but I wanted him to get the permit. It was absolutely galling that this sort of shit was the norm, and of course, it was a blue state.
The only just outcome of Bruen would be a ruling for Constitutional Carry, but I expect the court will at most go with ‘Shall Issue’, and in response, there will be more bureaucratic obfuscation added to the process in the anti-freedom states.
Think you are mad now? Wait until you find out that they will subsidize the purchase of those assault weapons for BLM supporters. Because it is unfair that a POC can’t afford a weapon to take down the Proud Boys.
“We think that a 1,000% fee on assault weapons is just the kind of restrictive measure that creates enough fiscal impact to qualify for reconciliation.”
Dems hate poor people.
I had several colleagues, people who research medicine and health care for a living, rush out to get their young children vaccinated as soon as it was approved. I expect the same to occur once it’s approved for toddlers.
It’s a deeply held team principle at this point. Might as well discuss religion with a fanatic.
It has nothing to do with medicine or health, at this point. It’s just primate display behavior and tribalism.
They really want 10 dollar a gallon gasoline, don’t they?
No, they want it much higher…
Obama: “Under my plan, of a cap and trade system, electricity bills would necessarily skyrocket”
My mom didn’t believe me when I told her he said that.
When I showed her the video, she said, and I quote “he doesn’t mean that”.
“So you’re admitting he is a liar?”
They know it. Deep down… But he is their liar…
It’s not like that quote is taken out of context. He clarifies that he means it in what he says after.
A rare moment of honesty from that one.
At least…
If that is your starting position we have nothing to discuss.
David Cicilline spits on the Constitution
‘Spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights’
I’ll bet you David got all upset about Jan 6th being an attack on our sacred institutions as well.
If you want to throw out the governing documents then all bets are off buddy. Let’s go.
?It’s just another Mammary Monday?
https://archive.ph/OtoDq
RE: Tranny cheerleader.
How’d she ever get past the casting couch? Or do they have a special team to handle those cases?
She prolly could suck a golf ball through a garden hose….
Casting couch guys have their kinks too.
Lots of oddities today. And yesterday. Whatever.
Flight from Incheon to Detroit, Wed. 10:45am. 13 hours 5 min. I arrive at 11:00am Wed, for a fun synchronicity.
I’m going to get a shitload of Hitler’s Bday Fun. Family knows and is OK with this. Good. Finally. I’m running out of pain meds. I’m supposed to take 3/day. I have four left, for Tuesday and flight day on Wed and beyond. I’ll have to be careful with it. The flight is the most important to save it for.
I’m probably gonna post some of my little essays I write/post to my communities on FB. (I hate aspects of FB, but it’s a vital thing to have when you live abroad.)
I fell over many times this weekend. I was being dumb and I deserved it, but I also got to play a bit of drums and feels like a fitting goodbye. I don’t know how to say goodbye to Lady. She’s pretty sick of me. We are such stubborn magnets. We don’t want to escape the pull that we have, even though we know we both should. Difficult gymnastics to manipulate and it will manipulate you if you’re not on your game.
Stay safe, and stop falling over, you have a broken leg.
I’m trying my best. Walking is an ordeal. I’ll be Stateside Wed morning. Probably in a bit of a fit.
You’ll make it, you have no choice. I have confidence in you.
Get prepped for Honey Harvest in September.
Thanks for pointing out who not to vote for.
But Ryan, one of Washington’s most powerful Republicans from October 2015 through the end of 2019, applauded Rice and other conservatives who — as Rice has argued — voted their conscious to impeach Trump.
“There were a lot of people who wanted to vote like Tom but who just didn’t have the guts to do it,” Ryan told a small crowd of supporters at Hotel Florence. “There are a lot of people who say they’re going to vote their conscious, they’re going to vote for the Constitution, they’re going to vote for their convictions but when it gets hard to do that they don’t do it.”
“Tom Rice is a man of conviction,” Ryan added. “Tom Rice is the kind of person you want in Congress.”
I guess it’s opposite day.
That lying fucker sold us out on countless bills that expanded the federal government.
This guy is a scumbag. He is just pissed that his dreams to be in the WH were dashed by his ugly divorce and Trump upstaging his ass and exposing him for the establishment shill he and his ilk all were…
Some of the people with the most hatred towards the orange man are not the usual team blue crime syndicate cast members, but the team red lackies of the Deep State and the Deep State agenda that used to have an easy time playing the idiot voters by claiming to be the opposition.
Speaking of. I am not going to be surprised to find out he had several Epstein pedo island visits under his belt after the details of how he treated his wife ruined his career.
Paul Ryan isn’t divorced.
“I do think that the committee will have difficulties in communicating messages because of the kind of segregated information environment in which a lot of the American public exists,” Ryan Goodman, co-director of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law, told The Hill.
“That said, I do think the visual of a solemn public hearing and live testimony plus, in all likelihood video material, could focus attention in a way [for] the members of the American public are otherwise not thinking about these issues.”
Putting the hearing in primetime shows the committee doesn’t want to just reach those who already view the attack as a grievous assault on democracy. It wants to reach independents and even conservatives who have heard GOP leaders brand the panel as a partisan witch hunt.
Right.
And it gives the shit flinging howler monkeys a chance to dance and do tricks in front of the cameras.
It’s not FAIR that networks can say things we don’t want them to!
I do think the visual of a solemn public hearing and live testimony
Crying cunte Kinsinger doesn’t do anything for me.
INDAH Swimwear Fashion Show SS 2018 Miami Swim Week 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFvLBiIIeJ8
I’ll say again, what would he be doing differently if it *weren’t* intentional?
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/gop-sharpens-new-attack-line-what-biden-doing-america-intentional
We don’t hear much about Ron Klain, but that sheepfucker is setting the administration’s agenda and deserves some attention for it.
The problem is that Biden isn’t doing anything but shitting his shorts. His handlers, the leftover Obama admin fucks back in charge, are the ones doing this to us. They are doing it in overdrive too because the voters ruined the plan they had for Clinton to fucking do this shit to us after Obama, by voting in numbers that were so high they overcame their “fortification” efforts in 2016.
Better late than never, I guess.
As someone pointed out above, they’ve been telling us how they will fuck us over since at least Obama.
Someone ought to compile all of these statements into one document.
Ok, groomer.
3rd grade teacher claims that one of her students told her:
“When I grow up I want to be lesbian like you because you are awesome.”
I actually had my SIL during a car ride, a highly religious and very polite creature, yell at her 10 year old daughter, whom had been telling everyone that she was bi because of the grooming at school, that being bi meant she was into eating pussy. Her daughter did a double take and screamed EEEW! Turns out many of these kids equate being bi or lesbian/gay with simply being friends with other people.
LOL
Most kids at that age have no idea what they’re talking about, and the adults pushing their sexualization know it. They want the kids using the language.
I can’t believe we have gone from “Stranger Danger” to “let’s sexualize all the kids” in such a short time.
If you’re gay, be gay. If you’re straight, be straight. If you’re bi, be bi. I don’t care. Live your life and let live.
But the sexualization of children is beyond the pale.
In the vein of “this is deliberate”, they are doing this to help destroy the country. I bet if you sat in on one of the Marxist indoctrination classes they all took in college, they’d be talking about it openly.
If we’re very, *very* fortunate, this will turn out to be a fad, or a social phenomenon that fizzles out like the satanic abuse scare did.
But there’s a lot of damage to be done.
Reminds me of one of the dumbest shirts I ever saw: My Superpower is Being a Lesbian.
Maybe she’s really good at scissoring? You don’t know.
Huh. That’s a superpower? Considering I’ve eaten more pussy than most lesbians…
My impression is most lesbians aren’t exceptionally sexual. I know that my experiences are highly anecdotal, but most highly sexual women I’ve met are straight, or bi at best. And Most have daddy issues.
Adding to that, I’ve know a lot of lesbians with daddy issues as well, but their issues seemed to make them less sexual.
They’re definitely pugilistic.
Yup. U-Haul on the second date and Lesbian Bed Death are both real things.
As a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, I equate with that…
So, my brother is one of those people who believes what he sees on TV news. And that’s made him decide he needs to leave the country. He got laid off last month, and has only been applying to jobs in the EU. He’s decided that paradise on earth is… Crete.
He’s on the third round of interviews for multiple jobs, including at least one in Crete.
So, he’s into Greek, eh?
Dunno. His wife tried to hook me up with her sister. I have an irrational attraction to trailer trash, but that whole family is on the wrong side of the crazy/hot line.
Minotaur wrangler?
That’s a euphemism for something.
An A-mazing thing!
So – Creten?
Hold out for Lesbos. I hear that whole island smells funny.
I would not expect Crete to have a wide variety of jobs.
He’s one of you IT types.
he should probably go remote
One of the jobs is based in the EU, supporting the US. Which means he’d be working US business hours wile in the EU. That might be fine with your siestas and 23:00 suppers and all.
I hear there’s a burgeoning construction industry, but because of social welfare programs, they’re having problems getting workers, so they’re using prison labor, mostly.
They’re working on concrete solutions to the problem.
w00t, w00t, w00t!!!
Now I set mine up a touch more subtly.
I usually use the fast cure formulation–it has a greater chance of cracking up.
These puns are so bad I might have to go back to the saloon for another drink. Yes, I think it is best if I rebar.
At least you’ll be properly re-inforced.
Like Romania is a economic wonderland of jobs?
A) Blood bank receptionist
B) Blood bank janitor
C) Blood bank nurse
D) Mirror factory worker
OK, I was just kidding about the last one
The problem is they all want 3rd shift.
Evil Capitalist: Sorry, but payday is at noon Fridays. You must be there in person to pick up your check.
Isn’t that where they make Grecian formula?
Also, when he gets the job, I’ll go visit. And then I’m assuming there’s cheap flights to Bucharest.
Wizz Air
$120 Euros? Giggety. I run bar tabs bigger than that.
Hopefully that isn’t a con job.
It’s not a terrible idea per se, for the travel opportunities. I looked into doing that myself years ago. But the economics were impossible, the jobs just didn’t pay enough.
When he leaves that job, will he be an ex-Crete?
The Cheese Rolling Race is BACK! Ozzy Man Reviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17RtLpZgqiA
That was hilarious, I was eating an apple and almost choked laughing at the girl from north Carolina.
She went for it.
In a debate about gun control and how America is so dangerous. He brought up Burundi and Switzerland to try and say why the US is so bad. It was infuriating. And predictable. Meh. Might as well post it here. Sorry if it’s long. I write about 5 of these a day. I spend a lot of time on some of them. Editing and creating brevity. I enjoy it, especially when it’s about such topics. This one was a bit more casual. Some of them I spend a great deal of time looking over to perfect the messaging. This isn’t exactly one of them, but I take my time in my own way. I must work with Tonio/TPTB to put these to some use. Maybe it’s dumb, but whatever. I’m always in the mood for criticism.
I need to talk to family right now. I’d say this is 80% edited. I’ll look at it later and find things to change. Fuck it:
You’re conflating things in an understandable manner, but are contrasting things that are impossible to compare.
Korea is a distinctly homogeneous country of ~55M people. About 95% of Koreans are straight-up and far-back Korean. America is composed of a tremendously variety of races, ethnicities, color, religions, backgrounds, etc. It also has ~330M people over a tremendous amount of land. (That’s why power was specifically given to states, and cities and neighborhoods should have more power, but the People waved bye-bye to that long ago.)
Burundi was colonized and (pretty randomly) tied to Rwanda in the 20th century. It was also “given” to Belgium after the Germans lost in WWI. It’s also incredibly tiny. Not a good comparison to the US.
Switzerland is great! They properly remain neutral and are not in the bureaucratic mess of the EU. They even have four official languages! But they are small and independent. A large city-state. Such a great idea.
The Swiss also have mandatory conscription. They learn the rules of firearms (The Big Four) and are comfortable with them. They strongly support this mandatory service and overwhelmingly voted to preserve it. They are comfortable with firearms because they are used to them. They aren’t the scary boogeymen that many Americans (and others) fear them to be.
“Armed neutrality.”
The Swiss have 2M privately owned guns out of 8.3M people. The country’s overall murder rate is near zero.
Huh. It’s almost common sense! (For rational people.) You don’t pick fights with people that can fight back and kick your ass. Go to 1965 and punch Ali. Go to 1995 and try to sock Tyson. Go for it. Doesn’t sound like a good idea? Why do you think that might be?
Ah, yes. People want to win fights, so they fight the weakest. That’s why the government wants to disarm the citizens. Then, the People can’t resist. They put their toe in the door and wedge their way in. The frog boils so slowly that it’s comfortable and happy about its rights being stripped away. First they came for their neighbor and you applauded. When they come for you, with all of the terror you allowed to materialize, you’ll stand there in shock and awe. Dumbstruck that it would one day be used against you.
That’s a shame. I hope you open your eyes. I won’t be surprised that you won’t, or are unable (or more likely, unwilling) to do so. The pain from that will be the silver iodide burned into your retinas. Sadly, you will still be racked with confusion. No realization will ever dawn upon you.
That’s your business and your life. Don’t dare subject me to the same fate.
Mass murder
The first weekend of June had a greater number of mass shooting deaths in the United States than the previous three-day weekend, which ended with Memorial Day.
The tally for weekend violence through Sunday night was at least 12 killed and at least 38 injured in mass shootings, defined by the Gun Violence Archive as an incident in which “four or more people are shot or killed, not including the shooter.”
During the holiday weekend nine were killed and more than 60 were injured in attacks fitting that definition.
The best definitions are malleable and expansive. Words can mean anything you wish.
I saw the Philly “mass shooting” on the local news. Wrong kind of shooters – that will be immediately memory holed.
I saw a black person interviewed on local tv and she actually advocated the cops randomly stop and frisk young men for weapons. With a prog DA and an ineffective city government, Philly is about one more violent weekend away from the non-criminals taking matters into their own hands in defending their kids.
If you don’t get that this is being done to this population – by design – by the democrats in charge, you are missing the point… Want better security & protection for your community, make sure you are loyal to the people in charge, or else…
Yep, Sacramento all over again. You ‘member that one don’t you – cause the media sure doesn’t.
The Hidden Beauty of Venezuela, Choroni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdaYAxK83bE
The chick is cute but not cute enough to risk Venezuela for
In my experience during my globe trotting years of my youth, Venezuela was one of the countries with the highest incidence of incredibly attractive women. They tended to also be some of the most insecure and spoiled bitchez you would ever run into. Then again, one of my old military buddies of mine will tell you Venezuela is a trap. Something about him hooking up in a hotel with the hotest woman that had ever shown an interest in him only to discover hers was bigger than his when they went up to his room….
I understand you need a lot of situational awareness these days not to get robbed and maybe murdered. My advantage is I would not believe a really hot woman would randomly show interest in me so I would not fall for it.
Back when Venezuela was a lot more stable and crime was rare, but we were also hardcase young men with the belief we could take on any problem… I guess he lurned that some problems – like telling your team mates something like this – was nuclear in it’s destructive capabilities…. He still has not lived that down…
Anyway the large amount of hot women in Bucharest is depressing enough as it is
Funny, at the empanada place (about 7 minutes in) an equally beautiful and barely dressed woman wanders into the shot for no reason.
The cultural revolution continues apace.
For 70 years, the slave-owning Confederate general Robert E. Lee has stared down at West Point cadets from a massive portrait in the academy’s library, a slave guiding his horse in the background.
But that portrait could be coming down.
The commission that was established to rename military bases that honor Confederate generals is expected to recommend that West Point remove the 20-foot portrait of Lee in his gray Confederate uniform, according to two people familiar with the group’s deliberations.
I guess a surrender to save the lives of your men is not considered honorable anymore.
Yes, but it came months (and many lives) after it was clear to Lee and everyone [Lincoln’s re-election sealed the deal] that the Confederacy’s, and Lee’s, cause was hopeless.
It’s almost like they’re deliberately shitting on history for the purpose of turning us against each other.
Old and busted: Reconciliation
New Hotness: Total Domination
Just a bit of scope creep?
Training should be expanded to include “rock, paper, scissors”
In the years since, training has continued to evolve in response to the most recent school shooting.
“There’s been a very strong movement in law enforcement training for law enforcement to go in as a solo response. And what that means is an officer goes in and stops the threat to stop the killing from occurring,” said Lisa Dadio, a senior lecturer and the director of the Center for Advanced Policing at the University of New Haven. She is a retired police lieutenant from the New Haven Police Department in Connecticut.
Though this may be the standard now, instances have shown that fear may get the better of responding officers.
No kidding.
But- these are the same gun toting baboons who strut around pretending they are better than the “civilians” they work for. Bad ass he-men should never flinch when faced with some pimplyfaced teenage video game LARPer. Channel your inner Dirty Harry. Get in there, guns blazing.
If you can’t get it up to get the job done when it matters most- don’t you EVER dare to try to pass yourselves off as anything more noble or deadly than a janitor.
They are the guard dogs that protect the sheep! They are so brave and wonderful.
Of course, they are also the same dogs that will herd up the sheep to be sent to the meat packing plant….
The commission that was established to rename military bases that honor Confederate generals is expected to recommend that West Point remove the 20-foot portrait of Lee in his gray Confederate uniform, according to two people familiar with the group’s deliberations.
They should replace it with this
DOCTOR Jill and her husband were in Rehoboth Beach for the weekend. They flew Air Force One into Dover and motorcaded the rest of the way. It is 120 miles from the White House to Rehoboth. Marine One helicopter goes about 150 mph. So why the fuck spend all that taxpayer money (and pollute the air) with using AF#1? And we think the Brits overkill with their monarchial celebrations.
I seem to recall reading something similar and the issue is that the per flight hour fatality rate is significantly higher with rotor so they idea is to minimize presidential exposure. So in this case I’m guessing he avoids the helicopter on the DE leg of the trip. Naturally he’s still going to fly by helicopter to the DC airport…
Also having AF1 there means when WW3 starts he gets to have the “presidential command center” crap right there with him
So pretty much bullshit all the way around, but important people and all that.
If the helo is fine for a squad of Marines, then it should be fine for Brandon.
The public does know that several law enforcement agencies responded to the school that day, including the school district’s police department, U.S. Border Patrol and the U.S. Marshals Service. In Dadio’s experience, she knows that this kind of response can create an even more chaotic working environment for responders. She has seen it now in Uvalde, in Florida (during the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting) and in Las Vegas (during the attack on the Route 91 Harvest music festival a year later).
A mass shooting “involves multiple agencies coming together. So you’re dealing with different training, you’re dealing with different responses, and of who’s in charge. So it’s massive chaos,” she told NPR. “And at the same time, you have people that are injured, that are dying.”
How officers respond will always be different as long as different agencies across the U.S. ultimately follow different training methods.
“There needs to be national standards or universal training for situations just like these,” Giacalone said. Recommended national standards do exist, but they are still just a suggestion.
And there it is. Federalize the police. That’s the root of the problem. Those local yokels don’t have proper credentials.
the school district’s police department
No one seems able to explain this. WTF is a school district doing with a police department?
I eat pieces of seconds like you for breakfast, chump.
Bro likes the seconds. Noted.
Rather sloppy of him to admit it like that…
You eat seconds for breakfast?!
It’s a little past 10 on a Monday morning and yet I’m certain that I’ve already read the stupidest fucking thing I’m going to read all week.
The last Republican mayor of SF left office in 1964. Yeah, that’s pure California Democrat rhetoric.
Not only that, the last Republican city council member left office in 1973. SF has been governed entirely by leftists for 49 years, but yeah poor Chesa Boudin’s problem is that SF just isn’t proggy enough.
It fits with the rest of the state. The California Democrats blame Republicans for every ill that exists even though they control the state legislature with an iron fist.
Democrats wouldn’t need to stay united to ram things through with super majorities if Republicans would just cave.
But…. Milk (and forgotten Marscone) was killed in 1978… that means a Democrat did it??? No way!
That is awesome. From the original article.
That was the dark times – before every fucking aspect of life was politicized. Oh how much better things are today!
*does math*
So the “most” of the 20th Century is 51 out of 100. We’re also fast-approaching being 1/4 of the way through the 21st Century with total Dem control. Does this guy write for the Bee?
In other news, Detroit and Baltimore are also the fault of Republicans.
Chicago too. With its last Republican mayor in 1931 it still hasn’t recovered. That’s how bad the Republicans are.
LOL!
So much derp packing into so few words.
I only read the headline and feel dumber.
An important part of active shooter drills for police is learning how to organize a chain of command amid chaos, Giacalone said.
“It’s about the unifying of command. It’s about having an unseen coordinator. It’s about somebody dictating what has to go on inside and when somebody has to go on dealing with things outside,” he said.
Where is your command post? Where is your organization chart?
Without bureaucracy, there can be no order.
One Ranger, one riot. [Long forgotten Texas law enforcement lore]
That’s the exact opposite of how the police are trained and how they are supposed to react. The training and policy says “go after the shooter immediately with whatever and whoever you have. If officers go down, keep going until the shooter is put down”.
Forget it; he’s rollin.
Well obviously organizing a chain of command has a higher priority than trying to stop an active shooter who’s killing children.
I listened to the latest Part of the Problem podcast last night and Dave played an interview of the woman that was cuffed but managed to get into the school.
My blood pressure probably hit record highs.
In reviewing the latest movie trailers on Youtube, I’ve noticed that the comments seem to be turned off for pretty much every upcoming Disney product.
Interesting. Although I think that has become more common for many movies and the like.
Just because…
To all the people who believe Jan6 was an “existential” threat to American governance and life as we know it:
Do you not believe in the system? Let’s say Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence and anyone else you care to name were actually dragged from the Capitol and strung up on Pennsylvania Avenue. Is this nation governed by men, or by laws? Do you not know there are processes in place to deal with the removal (by any means) from office of individual politicians? Would the government collapse if the Speaker of the House (or the President) died of a stroke?
Are we really governed by a bunch of ignorant banana republic personality cultists who believe in nothing so powerfully as their divine right to rule?
THE TEMPLE WAS DEFILED BY BARBARIANS!!!
The Temple of Dead Old Racist White Guys? That temple?
Only when the guardians of true democracy are in the minority.
At the time it was being overseen by the wizened crone of the west at her holy and mighty lectern.
Would the government collapse if the Speaker of the House (or the President) died of a stroke?
My objection to the excessive Secret Service protection to the President (and security details for other politicians) that inconveniences ordinary Americans. They are only one person and there are millions of possible replacements in this country.
When protests outside the New Zealand parliament came to an end, the NZ prime minister criticized those who had “defiled this sacred area.” So, yes, it’s the Cult of Democracy.
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That drowning story is sad, and the lack of a response is maddening, but I don’t expect police to be able to save a drowning person, especially a grown man. Unless you’re trained for water rescue, you’re putting yourself at risk of being pulled under by the person you’re trying to save.
It sounds like there may have been a boat nearby they could have used to rescue him sooner, seems like they should have started with that as soon as he jumped in, considering the lake is off limits for swimming.
That drowning story is sad, and the lack of a response is maddening, but I don’t expect police to be able to save a drowning person, especially a grown man. Unless you’re trained for water rescue, you’re putting yourself at risk of being pulled under by the person you’re trying to save.
^This. I lifeguarded a few summers as a teenager and the rescue course hammered the danger of being drowned yourself while trying to save someone. A lot of training was spent on keeping the drowning person calm and how to escape if they panic and start drown you. Rescuing a kid is never a problem, but a large adult male that is panicking can pose a real risk.
Which isn’t to say that cops shouldn’t be risking their lives for their fellow citizens. That’s part of the job description. But if they’re not trained for water rescue, I get that it’s out of scope.
if they’re not trained for water rescue
I go back and forth on this.
On the one hand, having two dead instead of one just makes it more tragic.
On the other hand, I would argue that certain roles (that we have volunteered/applied for) demand that there are circumstances where we go off script to try and save or assist another.
Otherwise, it becomes the “we didn’t go into the school because we hadn’t finished our annual Mass Shooter Prevention training” or something.
But like I said, I waffle somewhat, as when I was in Search and Rescue, it was made clear – and is logical – that if we take stoopid risks, now the team has to find/recover more people, and that’s not good for anyone.
All judgement calls; I just don’t know if “I’ve had training” is the correct line in all cases.
I nearly drowned on my first attempt at final Livesaving merit badge test. And that was with someone playing a role. There’s a reason Go was the last choice of responses.
Reach, wade, throw, row, go.
40 years ago and I still remember it.
When I was a scout in the dark ages, they taught us multiple escapes for getting out of the grasp of drowning people.
When my son was a scout, they taught the kids to let the drowning person drown, then pull them out of the lake and perform CPR.
Escapes don’t work. If you get in the water with a drowning person, there will be two bodies at the bottom of the lake.
Well, the cop said he would call for a boat about 45 seconds after the dude started swimming. Unfortunately, the swimmer obviously panicked when he didn’t think he could make it to safety and started flailing, instead of staying calm and treading water or just floating.
Some good news from Pharma.
A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient
Interesting.
Tiny sample size but huge results.
Someone forgot to tell those cancer cells they aren’t allowed to unmask. Dr Jill and puppet told me so
And strike two. The internal server hates Audie Murphy.
Ever since telling my wife I want to get out of Vegas she has been full throttle. I am not sure she will wait the entire year. We still haven’t narrowed down where we will land, but it will be back east and slightly dependent on my job. Been looking at KY, WV, VA, SC, NC so far but open to OH. She said no to AR and TN
Working on the MIL to move is the next goal. FIL is like….lets go!
Why not Tennessee?
Not sure. Do you question your wife? I just nod and say I will make it work
^^^ This is a wise man.
Don is in Memphis (I think?) and Plisade and I are here in Nashville. Is that not a good enough reason? ?
TN does have the zero income tax advantage, although the sales tax is crazy high.
And they didn’t go berzerk during COVID
Don’t they tax groceries?
Yes they do. Like I said the sales tax is crazy high.
In SC, the state tax exempted groceries, but local didn’t, so there was still a 2% tax on groceries. And Charleston County sales tax was even higher than TN.
Same applies here in CO, I think the local FtC add-on applies to groceries, but I usually don’t shop within Fort Collins proper.
Thanks for the info! I think SC has pretty favorable retirement tax benefits
SC, TN, KY, VA and WV are all on par for retirement tax burden. GA and FL stand above them. SC actually rates lower.
Dammit, that second SC should be NC.
How high is “Crazy High”? 8%? 16%? 24%?
9 and change. Charleston Co was 11% in SC.
Thank you.
I think that 11% in Charleston Co was maybe only in restaurants. I want to say 9% on other goods. 2% on groceries.
The bonus 2% was a tourism tax. So maybe hotels as well as restaurants. Honestly I could never figure it all out. Plus covid shut everything down shortly after we moved there, so didnt get the change to figure it out.
Live in TN, on the border and shop in KY? Might be a good compromise
In less you want to live in the middle of nowhere that doesn’t really work. The border is pretty sparsely populated.
Well, Clarksville, TN. But that is worse than nowhere.
There are some nice places in WV, for sure. If you like skiing, there’s good places to go, but they’re not too close to populated areas.
Plus, if you like heroin, there’s always Huntington (which is actually a nice town, except for the heroin).
If you want to be within driving range to a decent sized city, try northern WV to get to Pittsburgh.
Out of those, SC or NC would get my vote. Nice weather, beautiful scenery, good job opportunities. Wife and I seriously considered them as a retirement destination, though we ended up back in Florida and plan to stay because we have more family here.
I want to disappear for a spell. Nothing dramatic. Nothing violent, towards myself or others.
I just want to be out of here. I know what I’m leaving, but it needs to occur. The plans have been arranged. One more full day and I’m out.
It will be an interesting adventure. That’s the brightest thing I can think of. It’s interesting and difficult.
I shall persevere. There’s a reason multiple people brand me as a Soldier. There was a time I had to be in the trenches. Now is my time to seek every apple and ray of light that I can. I’ll do it better than anyone else,. I’ll put my name to that.
Soon, I’ll be back. I plan on eating everything.
God Speed and you know where to find us
From 1912 to 1963, only Republicans governed San Francisco, and they were largely backers of big business who could occasionally draw support from organized labor.
They fucked the place up so badly it’s still a wreck. 60 years of diligent problem solving by the finest minds in modern politics have failed to undo the damage.
Even stranger – two years ago the electorate there was smart enough to elect the great progressive. Now they’ve reverted back over a half century.
Jeeminy criminy! I took just under 1.5 days off at the end of last week, and it’s taken me almost all morning just to catch up on the emails! ☹️
And now I have to go into a conference call! ?
Better than bedbugs and fleas!
California woman finds $36K in cash inside Craigslist couch
Also they tracked down the original owner.
I wonder if Musk is serious about buying Twitter or just wrecking them. He keeps asking how many accounts are bots and they keep not answering.
https://trendingpolitics.com/breaking-elon-complains-of-material-breach-indicates-twitter-deal-could-be-off-due-to-bots-wiley/?utm_source=ElWiz
Bust one, bust them all?
California woman finds $36K in cash inside Craigslist couch
Also they tracked down the original owner.
I saw that the other day. Call me names if you want, but if I were me, and that happened, I wouldn’t tell a goddam soul, much less hold a press conference about it.
Finders, keepers.
I wonder if Musk is serious about buying Twitter or just wrecking them. He keeps asking how many accounts are bots and they keep not answering.
Let’s say you were buying a business, and they claimed to have 100,000 refrigerators in inventory but refused to let you go to the warehouse and count them yourself.
That’s different!
John Doyle confronts parents outside of the Children’s Drag Show in Dallas, TX.
These are the people educating your children.
Meet a teacher with $303,000 in student debt who says Biden’s $10,000 loan-forgiveness plan ‘is not even a drop in the bucket’
Who would expected this particular state either? At least in NJ your goal get your school to pay for the near obligatory “master’s” and not do it on your dime. And the institution is is irrelevant for salary and promotion it just needs to be accredited.
“Did you read the loan agreements? Did you sign them? Yes? Then shut the fuck up.”
“Its like a gun to the head if you want to get an education to take out these loans” /probably what people think without any self-awareness
But they’re fine putting a gun to other people’s heads to pay for their loans to be forgiven.
Its good to be the person behind the muscle. Tale as old as time.
She’s full of shit. She would qualify for PSLF as a teacher. Doesn’t matter if the school is public or private. Her payment is capped at 10% of her discretionary income for 10 years and then the balance is forgiven. Her monthly payment would be the same if she owed $100,000 or $1,000,000 and with no tax bomb at the forgiven balance at the end.
I’d forgotten about that little subsidy. Good point.
I guess the out would be until she completes the 10 years she still faces the remote potential of the actual amount owed.
This program isn’t automatic, is it?
Not that it absolves her of pursuing that option (and it’s a HUGE benefit!), but seems that these programs are often like easter eggs in video games: you have to know where to look to get at them.
(SLD on taxpayer money funding this stuff)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ISTG, I think I know who this is, if it’s really “Cheryl”.
That still doesn’t make sense. She could have been denied receiving PSLF credit for the time in payment forbearance, but there is nothing to stop her from enrolling in the PSLF program right now.
She was denied PSLF (per the article), but she is also anomalous – how do they find these people for these articles? Is there some kind of forum shopping for greivances?
Also, that article concludes with another statement from the nitwit-in-debt:
Self-awareness rating: Zero.
When you are told you can get ‘free’ money from the time you are a junior in high school and that it will be ‘interest-free’ as long as you are full-time or that the loan can be deferred until you graduate why wouldn’t you! Oh and the small advise of just pay the interest goes completely ignored during that whole period.
Too stupid to be teaching impressionable children.
“It is not even a drop in the bucket,” Cheryl, 53, told Insider.
Got a massively overpriced set of degrees (probably at a SPLAC) to become a low-level bureaucrat, ignored the interest on the loan for decades, bemoans utterly predictable consequences.
At that age, she should be at retirement with full pension very soon.
Probably scary if you don’t want to keep paying out of your pension
This is not going to help Brandon and the “adults” in charge.
Mexican president confirms he’ll skip Summit of the Americas
Is that Aconcagua or McKinley?
heh.
They didn’t want the competition.
We’re not quite there yet, which is my I wondered why Brandon would turn down the opportunity to have some top notch tutors come to him.
I’m a bit surprised at the framing of this article. By my reading, the Biden admin is doing exactly what should be done, albeit not with as much tact or diplomacy as they should (no shocker).
Fifteen paragraphs in:
I hate living in this age where other people’s ignorance, fragile egos, and overinflated sense of importance make me have to watch what I say so they don’t misinterpret what I am saying and then get offended, hurt, or both.
It’s not so much that they’re offended; it’s the complete shitshow they can rain down on your life if they choose to…
State and corporate sanctioned bullying as long as you are a rightthinker.
Offense is taken, not given.
Es no bueno.
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