So, the girls at the shop gave me an education about Tindr. “Look, this is a small town, you know everyone and everyone knows you. What’s the size of the dating pool? Yes, for us, it’s limited; for you, it’s zero. You have to spread the net wider.” They have taken on as a project writing a profile for me. They’re not done but I hear rumblings about phrases like “a fascist chef” and “feeble but possibly fun.” I promise to post the text here after it happens. I think they’re on this because the town is empty, the customer flow is down to the trickle of an 85 year old trying to push urine past his prostate, and they’re just bored.
Birthdays today include a guy who had an STD named after him; a guy who, despite his name, actually organized the stars; the guy you can blame for the existence of George Steinbrenner; a woman you can blame for Panda Express; a guy who killed a lot of Brits; one of the elite of Baltimore yet best known for enabling Lorde’s most famous song; the most creepy and delightful actor in Hollywood; a talented woman who would be pushed aside in today’s sports world; a non-entity who made a career from marrying well; a hilarious and under-utilized actor (who according to one of our actor friends is an absolutely delightful guy); a guy about whom I don’t give a shit because he was a Yankee; and a piece of shit who did one great thing– caused SP to drop her lifelong fandom of the Steelers.
Now for some Links.
I guess this week we’re no longer paying attention to this shit. Good.
I guess this was last week’s thing.
This is interesting if it isn’t just a stunt.
Old Guy Music got RUINED yesterday, so I have to pull a switcheroo. Suffer with great jazz.
Bagel Nazi?
NO LOX FOR YOU!
Oh lord.
Too funny.
Mature profile reviewing available
/Experienced
Some sheriff’s candidates run on not enforcing certain laws
I hear that is all the rage after Friday’s events.
Wasn’t so much the rage when some county clerks said they wouldn’t issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Some also reject the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election and coronavirus precautions, issues that have become polarizing litmus tests dividing the far-right and more mainstream conservatives.
Heretics! Apostates! Godless heathens!
Greetings, fellow far-right chat participants!
The “far-right” back to the “mainstream” conservatives: Get in losers, we’re going to win whether you like it or not
I’m trying to connect the dots from Symington to Lorde.
Does George Brett fit this grouping?
Yes.
*nods* Nice
I usually don’t comment bc I’m stuck reading the birthday back stories and get stuck in a bunny hole. Thanks for birthdays.
Sometimes they can be fun. Other times, it… holy shit, there’s a lot of NPCs born today.
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/4Qv25_DFR2k
That’s an all-time classic.
It’s the most “baseball” story ever told.
Agreed. The whole thing is wonderful. The story, Brett’s telling of the story, the kid trying to get away and Brett keeps following him…great stuff.
My mom took a turn for the worse yesterday. She was going to be transferred to rehab, but developed congestive heart failure. So she’s back in the hospital.
I’m sorry.
Oh damn, that’s terrible.
Sorry, CP.
Sorry to hear.
Sorry to hear that
Oh, no! So sorry, CP! Hope she’s better ASAP!
Best wishes to Momma Tater.
Sorry to read that.
Sorry dude.
Sorry to hear that, CP.
Sorry man.
Oh no, no bueno. Hoping she recovers.
X2 what all the others have said.
I am sorry CP.
I hope she gets better soon.
Best wishes.
So sorry to hear that, CP.
Nope. This does not make me happy.
Sorry to hear CP
Sorry.
Sorry to hear. I hope she recovers soon.
So sorry CP. Hope they can that fluid out
🙁
Oh, CP, i’m so sorry!
Sorry about your mom. Hopefully they can drain the fluid and conquer the cause of it.
Sorry, Count
Sorry to hear that!
Dammit. Thoughts and prayers for your mom, Count.
Experts say the rhetoric has emerged among local officials as political divisions have cleaved the country in the past decade, with fights over mask and vaccine requirements and gun-safety proposals pulling once-fringe views more into the mainstream. Some of the ideas have roots in far-right extremist movements while others may reflect a loose dissatisfaction with political leadership or campaign-season pandering, experts said.
Fuck you and the expert you rode in on, commie.
Which definition of “cleave” are we using here? Why do contranyms even exist?
/Judge Nap
“fights over mask and vaccine requirements and gun-safety proposals pulling once-fringe views more into the mainstream”
I agree that mandatory masking, experimental vaccines, and seizure of guns based on a denunciation from a single person are once -fringe views that somehow acquired traction over the past few years.
They’ll trot out stories from the Spanish Flu about masks, the effectiveness of real vaccines against Polio and Smallpox (but curiously not the side-effects), and decades-old polls about “common-sense gun laws”, to claim that the recent power grabs are actually just part of the continuity of smart scientific governance.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
The strong anti-government sentiments and opposition to gun restrictions and coronavirus precautions have alarmed some experts in law enforcement and radicalism, who say it reflects growing unrest and a strain of right-wing extremism that has permeated law enforcement offices across the country.
Yes, yes, of course. Right wing extremist toxic individualism is the single greatest threat to the nation.
PROTECT THE HIVE.
Cops are turning anti government?
Not faster than they’re being pushed off the force
Be a team player.
You could power a country with the energy required by that much gaslight.
Someone on the zooms suggested that the snowflakes should collaborate with TresCool on your Tindr profile. I would pay money to watch that.
Meant to be a reply to Rhywun
Rhywun is a delight but he’s not my type.
Story of my life.
I do seem to have a flair for writing such things. Particularly when motivated with lots of alcohol and opiates.
Back in the day, Craigslist got me laid a lot. Jugsy can attest- she was supposed to be “one and done” and here we are 8 years later.
Americans don’t need a passport to get to the No. 1 global city to take a working vacation.
Kansas City, Missouri, was named the best city in the world to work during the day and explore after hours without having to use too much of your PTO time, according to a recent analysis from Icelandair.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/24/best-cities-around-the-world-to-take-a-working-vacation.html
Party at Mojeaux’s place! 🥳
Bring your Icelandic phrase books.
Better than Hungarian.
I knew it would be that clip!
For the original story, Kansas City is a nice town.
Meh, depends where you live. I’ve personally spent many a year in its shittier quarters. We aren’t in or around the top ten cities in the nation every year as far as violent crime rate for nothing.
I took him to Bryants.
Stay west of Troost.
^^^This.
Everything’s up-to-date there, I hear
I guess this week we’re no longer paying attention to this shit. Good.
As long as you keep sending money.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck_House_National_Historic_Landmark
This is very local to me. Never been there.
“There will come a time when the tiny advances Russia is making become unsustainable in light of the costs and they will need a significant pause to regenerate capability,” the official said.
Yo, Dummy, I bet your arms are getting real tired from punching me in the face so much.
OT. That everyday drunk salaryman who lost the usb stick with entire city’s population contact info and bank accounts – that’s where my friend lives.
Don’t know that story, but sounds familiar. I’ve found some interesting things on the train.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/worker-japan-loses-usb-entire-city-amagasaki-data-night-colleagues-rcna35227
The man, who has not been named…
Ok, that is kinda funny.
It’s Hyogo Prefecture. My favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YHkZg6LInY
We must work harder to keep the Russians going!
This isn’t rope-a-dope.
Tex Cobb-Larry Holmes
“I was just getting ready to take him”
Tex, after a 15 round battering from Larry. Paraphrasing Larry, “Sumbitch just wouldn’t go down”
That running back that’s gashing us for 10 yards every carry is getting tired, right?
In local news a tram was stuck for 2 hours in Bucharest brcause a woman parked on the rails and went shopping. The line had been closed for maintanance and restarte a few days ago and apparently not everyone knew
TIL it takes 2 hours to get a tow truck in Bucharest.
Speaking of what was supposed to be yesterday’s Old Guy Music, I heard this for the first time yesterday.
Good morning Old Man, Ted’S, sensei, straff, Sean, Pie (probably afternoon in your case,) Tulip, PBrooks, homey, Tonio, CP, Pi, rhy, and RoaT! (And lurkers. Show your
facesavatars!)Met my sisters, BIL, and our surviving maternal-side cousin & her hubby at a delightful Spaghetti Western-themed restaurant in Middletown (halfway between Dayton & Cincy) last night. Cousin has been going through much of her late brother’s stuff (he passed in February,) and found a very old photo of my sisters and me at our mutual grandfather’s house. ::ponders identifying self in pic. Decides to preserve the mystery…for now::
Polaroid? There are more than a few of me as a youngster taken by my grandfather. He loved that thing.
OTH, my other grandfather was a a camera guy and only took slides with his 35mm. So looking at anything he shot was always a BFD.
It was like bookends of 1970s photography.
Not a polaroid. All the old pics I have have that border as well.
My dad was still taking slides during his and Mom’s 1996 trip to Ireland.
I don’t think it was a Polaroid, though I seem to recall the earliest ones weren’t thick like the SX-70 and later iterations.
I recently found a picture of the four of us kids at Grandpa S.’s house, together with him, his second wife, and her mother, whom we referred to as Mama K. since she was technically our step-great-grandmother. Couldn’t have been taken that long before the end of her life, but I was too young to remember when she died.
Mornin’
I’m thinking you’re on the right side.
Nope, but thanks for playing! 😉
I think left side.
It was a tough call between left and right.
You are correct, madame! I’m the baby of the bunch.
From our getup, I’m guessing it had to be Easter.
We’re going through boxes that SP and I hadn’t unpacked, some unpacked for the last three moves. I also found some Polaroids, but decidedly NSFW.
Fun find: I found the newspapers I saved from the Apollo 11 launch and landing. There’s a much smaller story sharing the front page about a senator, a young woman, a bridge, and a drowning.
It’s almost like the brother set the whole thing up to crowd the auto accident out of the news.
If only Ted had a Volkswagen, Mary Jo may still be alive…..
/best National Lampoon ad ever
LOL, that is a classic.
https://wheezersociety.blogs.com/wheezer/2007/02/if_ted_kennedy_.html
There’s a much smaller story sharing the front page about a senator, a young woman, a bridge, and a drowning.
Huh.
Wonder what that could be?
I’ll go there: Ted Kennedy raped Mary Jo Kopechne. The crash was an attempt to murder her and cover it up.
Cute girls. Proof of life newspaper holder is intriguing.
Yeah, I’m not sure, but my best guess is that it’s the cousin we got together with last night. She might have been a teenager then and thus dramatically averse to having her picture taken (especially if it was her big brother taking it.)
Huh, my sister always took the Sharon Stone Basic Instinct pose.
Is she single with latent daddy-issues, chubby, mildly-bipolar, with substance abuse issues? Thats my ideal type.
You’d be settling, then.
At my age, the bar is pretty low.
I know those LAIGS. Thats you on the chair in the background!
Nope!
OK – first guesses have eliminated half of those pictured, so next player has a 50-50 chance of getting it right! 😁
(The LAIGS must run in the family. My first hubby, the Rev. GT, always said my mom had good ankles, though she was a trifle heavy and had huge tracts of land.)
You three look like Ramona, Beezus, and… uh, Susan of the boing-boing curls?
Now I’m going to have to go (back?) and (re?)read that book – maybe even the series. I honestly can’t remember if I ever read those Clearys (Clearies?)
Sister on the right still has boing-boing curls, but now they’re grey and pulled back in a long ponytail. 👵🏼
Morning GT🙂
Good morning, ‘slinger! 🔫😀
Mornin’
Good morning, DEG! Been to the gym? Or is this your day of rest?
I was going to go this morning to make up for yesterday, but I am still feeling like crap.
No fever that I can tell. I’m drained of energy. I have a headache. Sinuses are mildly screwed up.
Despite how I’m feeling, I need to get to the grocery store. So I’m off for that.
Oh, that’s right! I’m sorry – I forgot you weren’t feeling well! 😟 Hope you’re better quick!
It’s Long Covid. You’re going to be dead soon.
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My ability to pick the wrong word out of several possibilities remains intact.
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LT and BR too.
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Inchoate rage
A large group of rioters was seen in downtown Portland, Oregon smashing windows and vandalizing several buildings Saturday night. The group also graffitied messages targeting the U.S. Supreme Court.
The group, made of about 100 people, were yelling and chanting as they marched down the streets and would periodically stop to destroy and graffiti objects.
“Death to SCOTUS,” one black spray-painted message said.
Members of the group smashed several windows of a Starbucks Coffee building and others were seen destroying a Tesla car.
The black vehicle was left with red spray paint and at least two broken windows.
“Abolish schools,” another graffiti message painted on a Portland Scholastic League vehicle said. “ACAB,” said another, a reference to anti-police sentiments.
If only they’d all just set themselves on fire. That would teach us a lesson.
Flamethrower are legal. Just saying.
You’d think Portland would be sick of Antifa’s shit by now.
With only 100 of them and they seem un-organized, Im guessing Soros cut their funding and now they’re just looking to remain relevant.
OW! I sprained my eyerolling muscles.
You know who else had an STD named after him?
Herpes the Love Bug ?
How old do you have to be to get that joke?
Not gonna answer but it was a giveaway
I tried to make the same comment throwing in a Benji or Pippi Longstocking reference, but I just couldn’t put it together.
*beep beep*
::thinks hard:: Ummm….Mr. Chlamydia?
“Nice to meet you. Im Steve Trichomoniasis.”
Buster Crabbe?
Off to save the world
President Biden is heading to Europe, leaving a nation in turmoil over abortion rights to take on dueling missions abroad: find ways to lower food and gas prices while keeping allies unified in their pressure campaign against Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Biden’s meetings over the next week with the Group of Seven (G-7) nations and NATO allies will be largely focused on addressing Moscow’s continued bloody assault on Ukraine and the global economic shocks stemming from the invasion, though issues at home threaten to overshadow his time overseas.
It’s hardly the first high-stakes overseas trip Biden has embarked on since taking office last year, but comes at a time of stark domestic unrest. The Supreme Court ruling striking down the constitutional right to an abortion will demand much of the White House’s attention, even as Biden seeks to project U.S. strength and leadership on the world stage.
While the president has succeeded thus far in uniting allies around a common approach to punishing Russia and aiding Ukraine, the trip will present a pressing test of his ability to keep countries unified as the war stretches into its fifth month with no sign of a resolution.
“It will be, I think, very important for the president to drive that message of we’ve got to stay together on this and we’ve got to continue to support Ukraine in every way we can,” said Rose Gottemoeller, a former deputy secretary general of NATO. “Even with these economic crises gathering force right now.”
It must be a different President Biden than the one I’m thinking of.
I was out doing stuff yesterday and didn’t see any turmoil (except gas prices).
Gas prices have been dropping in southern NH.
How much are they paying these writers to pretend Biden is still with it?
If anyone can get the ball rolling on WWIII already, it’s whoever’s programming Uncle Joe.
Every time I see Biden I think of the gratuitous Walmart greeter that stands by the door, then disappears for an hour, reappears from the Men’s Room, straightening his shirt with pants still unzipped. Resumes standing by the door.
Mrs B should be ashamed of herself. Letting Joe out is down right elderly cruelty.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/24/what-the-post-wishes-joe-bidens-cue-card-would-say/
LOL
Hey! 🤨
I’m pretty sure, if anyone was actually doing whatever he told them to, we’d have started WW3 half a dozen times already.
I don’t think that is exactly what Biden is projecting. A housewife told me the other day she want Trump back. I just smiled.
I head someone say Trump could grab her pussy all day if we got 2.00 gas.
Biden on Thursday released the third tranche of assistance for Ukraine just this month, a $450 million package that includes four more advanced rocket systems as well as patrol boats and ammunition. U.S. officials have said they are committed to providing Kyiv the military and economic tools it needs to push back and strengthen its position if a negotiating table with Moscow becomes an option.
Both summits will require member states to confront sped-up challenges of food security, climate change, battling disinformation and strengthening democracies. The war has contributed to upward pressures on both energy and food prices, exacerbating global inflation amid the ongoing pandemic.
“I’m doing everything I can to blunt the Putin price hike and bring down the cost of gas and food,” Biden tweeted on Wednesday. “I led the world to coordinate the largest release from global oil reserves in history, and I’m working to get 20 million tons of grain out of Ukraine to help bring down prices.”
The White House has been intently focused on bringing down gas prices at home and finding ways to reduce European dependence on Russian energy. Just this past week, Biden called on Congress to pass a federal gas tax holiday to lift the burden on American consumers.
Truly a godlike figure. The man the nation needs. Without him, we’d be lost.
I really do enjoy the attempt by the press to sell the white house spokesperson simply repeating “the President is focused, every day, on lowering gas prices” as some sort of policy initiative.
We have gone from “don’t report on what the president does or the results or what he says in speeches, report on tweets and what Democrats think he means” to “don’t report on what the president says or does or the results, report on what the press secretary says they want you to believe and on the unhinged republican reaction”.
OFFS. Spinning so many discs at once… how does he do it?!
Bad Boy Bill(Biden)
AG’s don’t prosecute violent criminals: *crickets*
Sheriff’s don’t enforce gun laws: INSURRECTION!!!
Yup.
Throw in a my body my choice to them over vaccines after that.
“my body my choice” isn’t even a good argument for abortion access. They are completely unwilling to admit that their ideological opponents on this issue see the fetus as a person with rights that cannot be violated by the mother.
It’s a euphemism for “unlimited consequence-free sex”.
Recreational sex > procreational sex
Erections have consequences
Yeah, that was a very long article to have written without any mention of a well funded and coordinated national campaign to elect not only prosecutors, but judges and election officials who pledge to ignore the law.
“BREAKING: Oklahoma Democrat announces that he’s planning to introduce a bill that will “mandate that each male, when they reach puberty, get a mandatory vasectomy that’s only reversible when they reach the point of financial and emotional stability.” RT IF YOU SUPPORT HIS BILL!”
https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1540854067466883072
Need the vas reversed card to buy a gun as well
“We’re going to abolish marriage, but then we’re going to reverse engineer its purpose through non-religious legal, social, and technological means”
Shades of the “sex strike” women were threatening earlier.
+1 Lysistrata
Yawn.
Tell me when he really does it.
Hes in the pocket of Big Urology
Please do it. I encourage Ds in every state to do it.
I thought Ds wanted them to get the junk cut off at that age.
I give him credit for proposing a cutting edge solution to a hard issue.
I predict that support will be flaccid
Yeah, I agree, that few will be OK with this proposal.
Vas Deferens does it make?
4(20) wins the Internet today! 😆
So…what are you going to do with your winnings?
It’s all just sementics.
The Kevin D. Williamson turn to villainy arc is almost complete. Still bitterly raging at the people who, by association, cost him his future at The Atlantic.
I think Williamson is a smart guy, but the lack of humility here is amazing.
Pretty much the argument many people made for why you should still vote for that boorish oaf Trump in the general election was the incredible importance of restoring the supreme court to sanity.
Those people happened to be right and we can all see it now.
Time to admit it.
“Beginner’s luck!”
Speaking on a phone call with reporters ahead of the trip, a senior Biden administration official said that the president would participate in seven working sessions focusing on issues including climate change, infrastructure, energy security, the global economy and Ukraine.
SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!
I promise to post the text here after it happens.
I look forward to seeing it.
“The Russians have fully occupied Severodonetsk, our military has retreated to more prepared positions,” Mayor Oleksandr Stryuk told Ukrainian TV, the BBC reported.
Huh. I thought the Ghost of Kiev would have saved them.
“Time is of the essence. Lives will be saved,” Biden said,
Go fuck yourself.
“We are prepared to resume talks in the coming days. What is important for Iran is to fully receive the economic benefits of the 2015 accord,” said Amirabdollahian, adding that he had held a “long but positive meeting” with the European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
Iran needs more cash?
The idea of constitutional sheriffs is associated with the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, which believes that in their jurisdiction, sheriffs have “constitutional authority to check and balance all levels of government” up to the president. Founded by former Graham County, Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack, the group has been called extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center. A banner across its website calls for an “Election Fraud Investigation.”
These guys have been around for a while. I think they oversell the powers of a sheriff. What they say is true In some states where the sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer for a county. That is not true in all states.
“I want to say clearly, as I have said before, that each member’s constitutional arrangement, as republic or monarchy, is purely a matter for each member country to decide. The benefit of long life brings me the experience that arrangements such as these can change, calmly and without rancour.”
This sounds…. almost sensible. Charles said it?
the group has been called extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Endorsed by the SPLC? They can’t be all bad.
I think they’re not all that bad, despite my criticisms of their overselling.
They’re no libertarians, but far better than many others in law enforcement.
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I’m glad today’s words weren’t yesterday’s 🙂
Meh.
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Paywalled. But I’m assuming his argument is that Trump doesn’t deserve credit for overturned Roe.
Not sure I buy that. I didn’t vote for Trump in 16, but if I had to pick between him and Hillary, it would be Trump solely because of the SC. I’m fairly certain that the margin of victory in a lot of the states he won went his way because of that reason.
RIP. That was supposed to be a reply to kbolino and his NR article and KDW
It says there’s a paywall for me but I can still read the article. There’s no real substance there, he’s just whining verbosely. He also mentions Pinochet and Franco as though Trump is somehow comparable to them. Some “choice” elements:
He’s the sorest fucking winner on the face of the Earth. Nobody else, certainly not Jeb, was going to win against the Hildebeast and he fucking knows it. So Roe would stay on the books, and the Second Amendment would be gutted, and he’d be at The Atlantic talking about how this is all so undesirable but hey that’s just how our system works.
The right has had so few cultural wins, it’s a reflex to complain about shit even when they win.
The Russians are apparently consuming (for lack of a better word) resources as they engage in their war against Ukraine. Westerners steeped in their new found culture of “action without consequences” and “everything should be free” apparently find this baffling.
I hope to never need a dating profile, but mine will be so brutal my only contacts will make Lena Dunham seem like a ’10’. And I will still probably have to lie about being anti-abortion.
I helped my sister write her Match.com profile on the Friday after Thanksgiving over 10 years ago. That Saturday she got LOTS of pings. I dissuaded her from several of them and pointed to one I thought sounded great for her.
They met that Sunday for lunch. They had their 10 year anniversary last year.
Funny thing we learned later was that it was his mother who’d written his Match profile. So in a way, it was a family-arranged marriage! They are very happy and have a great blended family.
That’s great, I love a happy ending /no euphemism
They had their 10 year anniversary last year.
Awww, what a nice anecdote.
“my body my choice” isn’t even a good argument for abortion access. They are completely unwilling to admit that their ideological opponents on this issue see the fetus as a person with rights that cannot be violated by the mother.
That’s crazy. An abortion is no different than getting a tattoo, or having a pre-cancerous mole burned off.
The worst argument I’ve heard condemns the fetus as a “parasite” sucking up the carrier’s resources.
I used to have sympathy for pro-abortion folks because if you don’t think a fetus is a person with a right to bodily protection, then the fact you can’t abort it is an imposition on you. But if you do think the fetus is a person with a right to bodily protection, then you’re outraged by abortion. I saw it as a matter of perspective.
But then the Molech cult became the standard bearers for abortion, and I went all the way pro-life. There are lots of ways to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.
“Shout your abortion!”
I have no idea if the first ten weeks are a life or anything and I never really cared about pro life laws.
I don’t really believe our government effectively protects anyone anyway. So whatever.
I just think Roe v Wade was silly, badly argued. and an excuse for a left wing judge to pretend that the outcome he wanted was supported by the constitution.
judges
There’s room for disagreement about abortion, but there is a ghoulishness in the pro-choice activist community, exemplified by a clip in last night’s local news featuring a young woman holding up a sign reading “Abortion #proud!”. Proud to have had an abortion? WTF?
Because here in NJ abortion is so threatened.
That’s why we need lots of local coverage and local stories. Trenton must act now to virtue signal harder.
I am interested in the story about sheriffs running on the platform of non-enforcement of unconstitutional laws. I seem to recall it did some good in Colorado when some knee-jerk laws/decrees were passed after the Aurora theater shooting.
Since my sprawling town of 50,000 refuses to incorporate as a city, our top law enforcement is the Sheriff’s department. A couple of weeks ago we elected a new sheriff (who made a good impression on me on the few occasions we met during his campaign), and I’m hoping for good things.
On another note, I get to pick up my two new guns next week! Can’t wait.
On another note, I get to pick up my two new guns next week! Can’t wait.
🙂
Good news on the new guns, but I’m a little confused: is there some sort of waiting period in NV? Here in PA it’s cash and carry and I tend to expect that everywhere.
Nah, no waiting period. They had to order the one with the grip I wanted, and the impulse buy one I added, they laid aside for me so that I only have to do the paperwork once and pay the $25 fee once.
If they’d has the one in stock that I wanted, I’d have them both at home now. Should come in tomorrow or Tuesday.
cool
Am I glad to see Roe gone? Absolutely. Do I think that Trump’s role in this could have been performed by a reasonably well-trained monkey? Absolutely.
Not shown: any remotely credible alternate monkey.
Yeah, Biden doesn’t seem particularly “well-trained.”
Monkey throws dirt.
Best monkey.
Guessing that’s KDW?
#moveon
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023251/quotes/qt0458817
Armor TREET > Hormel SPAM.
Change my mind.
Didn’t know Armour had an entry in this culinary niche. Young Patzer loved him some Spam and eggs, I will now have to check out the competition.
https://www.spam.com/varieties/spam-tocino
The difference is you can’t hear an Ar Mor?
(may be misremembering the joke)
Now I want “Viney” sausages./Coal Miner’s Daughter
Vienna sausage! or
Beenie Weenies!
Yikes, this is pretty awful.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/26/south-africa-police-investigating-at-least-17-deaths-at-east-london-tavern/
“We are going to immediately be embarking on autopsies so we can know the probable cause of death,” he told Reuters as forensic personnel continued their work at the cordoned-off crime site at Enyobeni Tavern.
Gun violence?
Bootleg jenkum.
Yikes! That story is nearly content-free.
Mass poisoning ?
Most likely. The “chemists” who concoct party drugs don’t always know what they are doing.
Carbon monoxide? Can it work that fast?
Chasing a comet
Yay equality?
Guessing that’s KDW?
Yes. Plucked from kbolino’s comment/link above.
Unusually large turkey and her chicks in the yard this morning. Did I mention Lily is not fond of dinosaurs taller than she is?
Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.ph/DW5W8
ATTN: Festus.
“Other local offices, from county clerks to municipal boards that once flew under the radar, have also become hyperpartisan in recent years. A woman vying to be El Paso County coroner is running as a “freedom doctor.” Once-sleepy school board races have become caustic battlegrounds.”
Translation: Revolutionary Leftists are heap-big annoyed that people they despise won’t just roll over and accept slavery.
What’s Tindr? Is that, like, old people Grindr?
Bumble is old people Tindr.
Still don’t know what Tindr is. Is it Grindr for scientists? Grindr for cafe owners? Grindr for NYers?
I thought Grindr was the gay app, but I’m not exactly au courant on dating apps.
(I’m just funnin’ you – Grindr is the only app that’s spelled that way, so I think you had Grindr on the brain when writing this post 😁)
I’m too naïve to fun. No idea how any of this shit is spelled, but Tulip talked me out of even trying this. Of course, I’ll let the girls set it up and write it for the lolz, but nuke nuke nuke.
That wasn’t my intent.
I thought that was Our Time.
My Time was BC.
Grindr for straights
I mean, I would think Tinder would be the better option.
You obviously don’t have a M.A. in Silicon Valley Startup Naming.
Why not STDeez?
puts on Dunce cap and sulks in the corner
Farmersonly.com for normies.
There’s always FriendFinder or Adult Friendfinder. They’re both for adults, but I think you can figure out the distinction.
I just think Roe v Wade was silly, badly argued. and an excuse for a left wing judge to pretend that the outcome he wanted was supported by the constitution.
The funny part (in the most unfunny way imagineable) is torturing a “right” to abortion based on some sort of Constitutional guarantee of privacy should effectively eliminate 99.83% of all other government activities as disallowed infringements of private behavior.
“How much money did I make last year? None of your beeswax.
Exactly. I’ve never been able to square that reasoning with all the other laws we have.
“We’re investigating you for murder. Where were you two nights ago.”
“This is a violation of my privacy.”
“You’re right, case closed. Have a nice day sir.”
There’s room for disagreement about abortion, but there is a ghoulishness in the pro-choice activist community, exemplified by a clip in last night’s local news featuring a young woman holding up a sign reading “Abortion #proud!”. Proud to have had an abortion? WTF?
Action without consequences.
I’m considering joining the local sheriff’s department specifically because of what those in the article are referring to. The deputies I’ve talked to in the departments around me seem to be of a similar mindset.
The local press is reporting how in America evil pro lifers are running people over with cars in iowa. Any truth to that?
Totally. It’s well know how evil Iowans are.
Yeah, Animal had to flee Iowa to get away from Kinnath.
And kinnath is “busy” this weekend. Hmmm…
Leave Kinnath alone, making K-mead is a trade secret, you’ll get your chance at HH is you play your cards right
If that was true it would the top story in every newspaper and shouted from bullhorns on trucks driving down every street.
Idiots Out Wandering Around
I could see pro-choicers doing their protest road block thing, and pro-lifers/normies pushing through. Don’t know if that’s happening, but it would be reported as you describe.
I live in Iowa but haven’t heard about it. *Goes back to cave.*
Checking the internet, I found a couple of articles:
One
Two
Probably the best description of what started it (from the second article): Police say a preliminary investigation shows demonstrators were crossing the street with the proper signal and then it changed while the group was still crossing the street using the crosswalk.
Random thought:
If some drunk driver in the 1920’s had struck and killed Adolph Hitler as he was walking home from the grocery store, would there be monuments all over the world honoring the drunk?
why would there be? sounds silly to me.
So, almost two weeks ago I had “outpatient” back surgery. Which, while they send you home at the end of the day, sure as shit wasn’t some minor, wee, itty, bitty, no deal thing. It laid me out for the greater part of a week, and I was looking forward to my check in with the doc to give me the all clear next week. But, lo and behold, I had a sore throat Friday morning, which turned into a full blown case of… The Ragin’ ‘Rona!! Sick as a dog the last few days, hacking and sputtering, I fell a couple times, mostly due to the whole thing kicking my MS into remission, so I got a nice flare up out of the deal. 24 hours later, I am starting to feel better, and wouldn’t you know it, but now the wife has the ‘VID also.
Son of a bitch.
“outpatient” back surgery – there is your problem, you should have gone to an old woman in the village to be healed with horse placenta.
Get well soon anyways…
LOL I love you, Pie.
Pie, you know horse placenta is only for hip problems, not back problems.
Follow the SCIENCE!
Fuckin’ A right!
there is your problem, you should have gone to an old woman in the village
Could you be more specific? Adair is growing by the day now and there are a bunch of old ladies there. Asking for my foot.
Hang in there Zwak, hope it’s all better from here and the missus has as quick of a recovery too.
You poor guy! It must just be your turn in the barrel. Hope both of you recover quickly and that you can get your follow-up and medical thumbs-up soon!
Here’s hoping you heal quickly and you and your wife feel right as rain soon! Hang in there.
Thank you, good sir!
I offer my compassion, for what it’s worth, Z, hope you are on the mend. Some things take a long time.
Don’t fall down
Yeah, I did, and it sucked.
Thank you 4×20
If you’re not a communist now, you’re complicit
https://twitter.com/icbreathe/status/1540380004134973440
The next graphic that anti communism is fascism is…. uh… interesting.
You spelled moronic wrong.
“MickNose1960🇬🇧🇮🇱
@MNose1960
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4h
Replying to
@icbreathe
Sent from your iphone.”
LOL
“How do I get a job at the CIA?” starter kit
Now that I’m in the land of beards & guns, I’m thinking maybe I should try the online dating again. Smaller population, but I would think the % of attractiveness among the available dudes would be way higher.
Honestly, even I have difficulty telling middle-aged bearded guys apart.
+1 They all look the same
Totally unrelated:
Some minor AV pron for you:
https://mega.nz/file/nKISyZTB#rIDAWv-6_ebTBlL164EWGcgv9GWgq5srFA_JTigVezc
Not disagreeing, but I don’t get upon what you’re basing that theory (which is yours.)
Because men in DC are….different.
cultured well groomed politically correct everything a woman could want
Someone on the Zoom last night was remarking that a woman had remarked that many of the male grad students surrounding her showed signs of a distinct deficit of testosterone. Similar to DC?
OMWC
Oh, yeah – “Hollywood for ugly people.”
Kristian Niemietz, 🇱🇮 state-affiliated media
@K_Niemietz
Now that IPAs have gone mainstream, I think I’ll have to start sneering at the people who drink them, and switch to fermented shark meat-flavoured sour beers from Icelandic microbreweries.
IPA? Yeah, I liked their early work, but…
If it’s not a Sour from Höfuđborgarsvæđiđ – it’s basically just Heineken.
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1540732397141909507
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I dunno it seems to me local IPAs got sweeter in the last few years most are too sweet for me.
IPAs are Satan’s ejaculation.
This is pure love
https://twitter.com/sunny_hundal/status/1540829177598861312
don’t look like to me poor horse…
Friends build real castle from scratch with simple tools only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajqort8ldXA
It took him 38 years, but he did it all by himself – https://coralcastle.com/
Cool! Something similar down between Dayton and Cincy. Went there once on a youth group canoe trip when I was a kid and met the guy who built it.
Wow! I’ve never heard of that place, but I’ll have to visit next time I’m in that area. One of these years, I’m hoping to go to Homestead for a week to get some training in powered paragliders.
Funhouse mirror extremism
But a number of Democrats do think that the return of abortion policy to the states could constrain an expanding battlefield, which has only gotten more favorable to Republicans as the midterms have gotten closer.
“For a long time, many voters didn’t believe there was a threat to the status quo — legal access to abortion,” said Marshall Cohen, the political director of the DGA. “Even in bluer states where there are protections in state law, Republican candidates’ extremism is uniquely off-putting to a broad swath of voters, not just Democrats, but independents, and moderate Republicans as well.”
Democrats immediately went on offense following the decision on Friday, broadly blasting Republican candidates as extremists who are out of line with popular opinion.
Note: there may be some distortion when looking at the outside world from your bubble.
Apparently the most pressing political threat to blue states and Western European countries (but I repeat myself) is that somebody somewhere in a red state gets to do things differently.
ATTN: OMWC.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18998082/anonymous-letter-perfect-daughter-prostitute/
If true, WebDom is doing a great job covering up the money.
“This is repulsive at every level,” Hochul said…
…without a trace of irony, as she plans to make me pay for more abortions than ever.
Well, the left took a couple of big ass L’s this week. They really aren’t used to it and don’t much like it. I’m hoping that next week will bring in number 3 and the EPA and the administrative state gets its well deserved slap down. What are they gonna do about it? Of course there will be the wailing and rending of garments that we have already seen. And of course fuckstick guvs like Newsom and Hochul will promise to do their best to get around the SC decisions and be the best darn place in the world to relax on an aborcation and not get a CCW permit. I’ve read a few pieces that claim it will fire up the Blue base this November, but I could easily see the opposite happening. I do think we will likely see a sped up movement of Hispanics towards the Elephants as any deviancy from “abortion up to 9 months” from the Donks is going to be full apostasy. I still think we wouldn’t have seen the full ditching of Roe without the last two years of Vid restrictions, forced masking and injections.
Conservatives would do well to target the Hispanic demographic with heavy play of ads regarding the Democrats’ support for later term abortion.
They wouldn’t even have to go with over-the-top dramatics, just statements of fact. But count on them to fuck it up somehow.
Absolutely agreed. I’d say a very large percentage might not want to see a full on ban on all abortions, but are very much disgusted with the “celebrate your abortion” bullshit. I know I am. The left managed to push me farther into the “there should be some restrictions” position than my previous one of “government should keep its fucking nose out of it altogether.” And as a Glib or two commented in the last days, if the GOP were smart they would be instituting a full court press right now to get hormonal contraception as OTC and get as many Dems as possible on the record against it.
I think the OTC hormonal contraception push could be a winner for the GOP. It would bolster their simultaneous claims of “we really just want to reduce the use of abortion for non-medically-necessary situations because we feel it is morally right to do so” and “we still support women having a measure of choice in when or if they bear children.”
Those on the left pronouncing doom and predicting that conservatives will obliterate contraception next are going to find out that that’s probably too far to push their rhetoric. It’s too easily disproven.
I think conservatives should reject both of those positions, as it essentially amounts to trying to outflank the opposition from the left, but it might be electorally successful (looking at you, British “Tories”).
I’m not suggesting that contraceptives be subsidized, merely made available OTC.
Or are you suggesting that conservatives *should* reject an individual’s ability to choose the timing of pregnancy?
I don’t think that contraception is a particularly “left” concept.
Griswold set the stage for Roe. The conservative position is chastity and discipline, with punishment and repentance for mistakes. Any framing that wants to reduce the consequences of immoral acts is left-coded.
Moreover, hormonal manipulation as contraception (i.e., “the pill”) is as degrading to the mind and spirit as SSRIs, benzos, and other common “medications”. Even if one accepts that these things have a justifiable use in some cases, they are in the present day used by far too many people and for far too long. A technocratic dystopia where drugs take the place of physical and spiritual experiences may not be leftist per se, but it is not desirable in any case.
I’ll give you that, but will respectfully disagree with the rest. In my opinion, moral decisions like chastity and discipline, while in some cases admirable, are personal decisions of the individual, and should not be codified in law, but remain between the individual and his or her god.
I’m not much of a fan of drugs in general, but I do allow myself the vice of alcohol consumption in (mostly) moderation. I agree that the use of pharmaceuticals in our society, and worldwide probably, is excessive. Few of them really cure the ailments they treat, and end up being endless maintenance crutches.
“In my opinion, moral decisions like chastity and discipline, while in some cases admirable, are personal decisions of the individual, and should not be codified in law, but remain between the individual and his or her god.”
This is the most pure distillation of libertarianism I have seen yet.
The state does not exist without religion. If it doesn’t have one already, either it will create one, or one will be thrust upon it. And these possibilities are not mutually exclusive; the Romans had a pantheon of gods already but still decided to add the dead emperors into the mix; and despite both of those developments, Constantine still converted and took the state with him to Christianity, arguably because paganism had grown weak and was unwilling to forcibly (re-)assert itself (Julian the Apostate’s short reign notwithstanding).
The state we see today is not atheist or agnostic, it is firmly controlled by the debased-Christianity-without-Jesus that is progressivism, and while the state did not invent this religion, it was taken over by it because it refused (and was disallowed by the courts) to embrace a “real” religion. That this religion succeeded where others did not is partly down to its ability to obfuscate its religious nature. How do you convert a state that has an official prohibition on the establishment of religion? Why, simple, figure out the superficial markers of religion that will hold you back, and remove those aspects and only those aspects.
The personal relationship with God is a fine concept, and very important to the individual and the ultimate success of a religious movement, but it does not explain or account for power dynamics above the individual level.
Probably better for long term health would be IUDs, but unfortunately the Dalkon Shield f’d the perception of those in this country, I don’t see much of any of an argument from a libertarian perspective against making hormonal contraceptives available OTC.
I don’t see much of any of an argument from a libertarian perspective against making hormonal contraceptives available OTC
Agreed, but conservative != libertarian
Absolutely kb.
I would agree with MikeS in that the percentage of conservatives that would like to see contraceptives banned in likely in the single digits.
I think you are overestimating the percentage of conservatives who are against contraception.
I’m not basing what I’m saying on popularity. If you polled Democrats 20 years ago, basically none of them would say degenerate freaks should be educating their kindergartners. Yet here we are now, where Drag Queen Story Hour is a mainstream position for Democrats.
What is electorally successful today is not necessarily what advances the agenda.
My general opinion is that Trump was the tipping point, in the US going from a left centric paradigm to a right centric, a la Regan years type. And that wont last forever either, much like any epoch lasts forever. The biggest issue here, which I don’t think the left quite understands yet, is that a huge part of this is people reaction to them, all of the BS they have been pushing lately. Why, it’s kinda like how at the end of the forementioned Regan years people were sick of the rights BS.
Considering that Bush the Elder’s loss to Clinton was facilitated by Perot and followed almost immediately by the 1994 Republican Revolution and over a decade of GOP legislative control (something they couldn’t achieve under Reagan), I’d pin the point at which people got fed up with “the right” at Bush the Lesser and especially the Great Recession.
Yeah, if that dumbass hadn’t gone full War on Everyone, the last 20 years (and the last 15 in particular) would have been so much better.
Bush’s biggest crime is creating a bunch of new government positions and staffing them with people who hate average Americans.
Avoiding either of those two pitfalls, but certainly the combination of both of them, would have been a huge boon. But that would also have required kicking the neocons, a bunch of barely “reformed” Trotskyites, to the curb early and hard.
Yeah, I do consider the creation of DHS and consolidation/sharing of date within the federal government in the early-mid 2000s to be part of the War on Everyone–it’s a war on the citizenry of the US and on the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.
The argument has always been that the Patriot Act and others were enacted to preserve American national securty as part of the government’s duty to preserve the Constitution, but in practice, it feels like “burning down the village to save it.”
It’s not the powers per se, though obviously enacting the establishment’s longstanding agenda is a win for the establishment, it’s how the incentives were structured to exercise those powers. NoVa became littered with townhomes and McMansions bought by “defense and intelligence” and other post-9/11 spending spree dollars. Yet none of these people were remotely loyal to Bush, and NoVa turned from solid red to solid blue in the span of two Presidential elections. He literally handed money straight to his enemies. Sun Tzu he ain’t.
From my point of view it is the powers in themselves. When you depend for your liberties on the people wielding the powers not abusing them, you will eventually wish fewer powers were delegated from the people to the state.
Yeah, I’ve had the feeling for a while that we have witnessed an apex of the power of the left in this country. Trump’s win was a tipping point, but they were able to strike back effectively and neuter his presidency and regain some standing during the current puppet admin. They way way overreached during the Vid hysteria and now they are reaping the general pushback. I would expect their general influence to keep waning over the next decade or so until they rebrand their shitty act.
I haven’t seen it yet today, but yesterday there was reportage about Megan(?) Rapinoe’s outraged response to the Roe decision.
I think the proper way for her to show solidarity would be to get knocked up by that dick-swinging shemale college swimmer do she can livestream her abortion at six months. Reproductive justice must prevail.
I thought her 15 minutes were up after it looked like she was washed up soccer-wise and she destroyed Subway restaurant chain sales.
Reading some of the comments above, I’m thinking there’s a distinct business case for Glibbr.
No, not a dating app that brings Glibs together. But a dating app that brings Glib-like people together, and makes the Foundation enough money to buy a compound in Wyoming or Idaho. Sort of a Glibs Gulch, as it were.
Enough for a cloaking device?
Maybe not, but one of us should be well positioned to design an impenetrable glass dome over the valley, it that meets the need.
We should be able to compile a long list of Glib-specific acceptable passwords for admittance.
Nice phishing attempt there.
This place is inadvertently turning into Glib Gulch. Even with SP leaving us to vote Democrat, the Glib density here may be the highest in the world. And we have libertarian cops and the local judge. Not to mention our next mayor…
Even with SP leaving us to vote Democrat…
WYDTWS
Peer into a mind driven by pure delusion.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/america-is-growing-apart-possibly-for-good/ar-AAYOl0V
I don’t disagree with his general premise and the article itself is a perfect example of why: we’re watching the same movie, but the conclusions he’s drawing are so wildly out of touch with what I perceive as reality I don’t know that there is any place for common ground.
And the opposite:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/roe-pocalypse-now-apocalypse-abortion/
The twitter thread at the top is something I could’ve written.
The gnashing of teeth and wailing is absurd at best.
Good to see that conservatives are pushing “leave us the hell alone.” Some of us can remember when conservatives were perfectly happy to decide what we could read, watch, do in our bedrooms, and associate with.
Dude, Trump is coming to slaughter democratic babies.
Of course, it’s all Trump’s fault for encouraging his bitter clingers to reject the radical leftist direction the Dems have been pushing for their own good.
They refused to accept, and still won’t, that Trump is not the leader, he is the mouthpiece. His success in the primary and then the general election represents not a top-down political organization, but a bottom-up political movement. No doubt Trump was trying and continues to try to create a more organized movement out of his success, but so far it hasn’t really succeeded. They can get rid of Trump but they won’t do anything to get rid of the material and spiritual conditions that willed Trump to power.
Buggered by reality
Germany is pushing for Group of Seven nations to walk back a commitment that would halt the financing of overseas fossil fuel projects by the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter. That would be a major reversal on tackling climate change as Russia’s war in Ukraine upends access to energy supplies.
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The text remains under debate and could change before G-7 leaders hold their summit in the Bavarian Alps starting Sunday hosted by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The UK opposes the proposal, two of the people said. A German government spokesman declined to comment.
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Asked about the proposal on Air Force One as US President Joe Biden flew to Europe, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said he did not want to preempt discussions at the summit. “Our position last May was that the president was clear that he did not feel like these investments were the right course of action,” he told reporters. “I know of no such change to that policy.”
The prospect of a long cold dark winter will bring things into focus.
Oh and thanks OMWC for the classic Miles track there. I’ve been a huge fan of his for decades, the Kind of Blue album I’ve listened to more than any other of any genre, easily in the thousands. For a year I had it on every night while I slept on replay, and I’m still not bored of it. A year ago I rediscovered the absolute awesomeness of In a Silent Way. What an incredible record that really rewards repeated listens. I’d say it’s my number two of his now, surpassing Bitches Brew and Jack Johnson.
I know I’m not the only one here who looks forward to hearing of your Tinder adventures. It’s great to see you have retained your sense of humor through such an immense loss and trying time.
This was SP’s favorite TV ad.. “If therapy were like this, it might actually be effective.”
I dunno, this might be my favorite Miles album, seeing him in an evolutionary intermediate form.
Sadly, I am burned out on KoB.
That’s a terrific ad, never before seen it. Can relate, I was raised by a father who grew up in an orphan in poverty in rural Ireland of the 50’s.
Somewhere in my top 5 miles is the soundtrack to the excellent film Elevator to the Gallows. I believe he did the whole thing in a couple takes.
Don’t know if you saw last night, I found some great “new” music because of your re-recommendation of SomaFM. Thanks for mentioning them again. I had forgotten about them.
Thanks Mike, I had missed that as I went offline early last nite. I’ve pumped SomaFm so much here I sometimes think folks think, “ okay yeah we get it you like it. “ But it really is I think such a great alternative to Spotify and the paid music services. I’ve found tons of artists there that had never heard of before. After 15 years I still dig Secret Agent Radio, although l branch out quite a bit. On our road trip I played Left Coast 70’s the whole way.
So far I’ve only listened to Boot Liqour. They played a lot good stuff I hadn’t heard before. This week I’ll listen to a few of the other channels.
The debate comes as Europe in particular struggles for alternative sources of fuel to Russian gas. The German government has warned that Russia’s moves to limit supply risk a Lehman-like collapse in the energy markets, with Europe’s largest economy facing the unprecedented prospect of businesses and consumers running out of power.
Germany has responded to the cuts by reviving coal plants and providing financing to secure gas supplies, while continuing with plans to phase out nuclear energy. The World Nuclear Association, an industry lobby group, is urging the G-7 to boost access to nuclear technologies.
It’s almost as if they admit the “green revolution” is a lot of empty gasbagging.
Pretty soon the only industry they’ll have left is scheisseporn.
Oh good, the promise of a future scratching in the dirt remains.
I really dislike discussing the whole abortion situation because I think it is a very sensitive question that deals with some very core concepts of self, liberty, rights, and government. It’s the perfect nexus for requiring careful thought and contemplation, and for decades I’ve struggled to come up with a consistent personal opinion on the subject.
I see little evidence that those who are primarily discussing this in the public square have applied the powers of their mind to the question in a similar way.
As Q observed last night, “my body, my choice” is wearing thin. These screeching harpies support just about every prohibition of non-victimless use of one’s body except for a woman’s reproductive rights.
This is a nice point.
This is, for one, one of those issues when I find it’s fun to argue with someone. Whatever position they take, I usually find that I can take the other side as an intellectual exercise and argue pretty convincingly.
The more extreme their stance is, the easier the argument is for me I usually find.
I rarely enjoy arguing with other people. As long as their positions don’t materially affect me or my behavior, I don’t care to know about them, nor convince them otherwise.
The problem is that because our government is increasingly being used as a bludgeon by those who wish to impose their worldviews on others, it has become harder and harder not to be affected by the opinions of others.
We the People have been bought off every step of the way. It’s more than abortion, we started learning that government makes people happy, first as little kids in school, in my case, with the Pledge of Allegiance, my country, right or wrong, War on Poverty, Obamacare et al. Every admin has to capitalize on the previous mistakes and expand the spending, until one day there is nothing left in M. Hubbard’s cupboard. It was great as long as someone else was paying for it.
We hear the word ‘reform’ used over and over, trying to cover up the previous mistakes. We are now facing a huge challenge as SS/Medicare/debt is being overwhelmed and the cry from the Bernie/AOC circle is Medicare for all. This isn’t the America that the Constitution was written for but the alternative is too scary to contemplate.
It’s a great point that “reform” is used simply to cover up for earlier mistakes. A proper reform movement would look carefully into the root causes of policy failures and dig them out to whatever depth is necessary.
The systems we have now represent a house that has been re-plastered and repainted too many times, such that the interior space for living is reduced, and that has had new sideing applied over the old so many times that the core of the structure now strains to hold up the facade, much less provide protection for those inside.
Abortion is really simple: once the unborn is a person, you need as good a reason to kill it as you would any other person.
The less simple part is determining when personhood begins, especially if you don’t want that same criteria to be used in determining when personhood ends.
^^This.
We should be able to compile a long list of Glib-specific acceptable passwords for admittance.
There can be only one
I thought this woman was responsible for Panda Express
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cherng
Wow, that’s a lot of accomplishment.