Dammit.
Tampa lost a necessary game and the Avalanche are now on the brink of a Stanley Cup. This is gonna give a few people the red ass. And I’m here for it. Tony Siragusa has died. Shame. He was a pretty cool dude. The PGA Tour commissioner is getting scared. And that’s pretty much all that’s happening in the world of sports.
But they’re gonna tell you to keep getting vaccinated. Over and over and over again. This is such a fucking anti-scientific scam.
This is a fucking shame. No, not the family getting the money. But the fact that it is’t being taken from the police budget or retirement plan.
Stupid, worthless asshole
This is a start. Next thing they need to do is get a court order to release every single bit of data that have (video, audio, etc) for that day and stick every single cop in jail for contempt who refuses to release it. And they need to do it now before they destroy it. Even though they’ve probably already started to destroy it. And here’s the case that can be used to compel them.
He’s going against the narrative? What a breath of fresh air. Too bad his solutions will probably be more meddling.
Sometimes its best to just stay silent. A polite “no comment. We would like our privacy please” is the best response, you dumbasses.
I’m not so sure this is necessary. But I’m sure the left will say its a reason for universal unverified vote-by-mail though.
Stupid, worthless asshole
This should come as no surprise. She is an unlikable asshole, after all.
Cornyn, you piece of shit. You need to resign. You are not following the constitution or the will of your constituents.
And now we wait for the SCOTUS decisions to come down. At least one biggie today and the other tomorrow, I would wager.
Here’s a masterpiece. I don’t play them much, but I am today. So here’s another gem. Enjoy.
And enjoy this blistering hot day, dear friends. I’m going on the lake after I get some work done.
“But they’re gonna tell you to keep getting vaccinated. Over and over and over again. This is such a fucking anti-scientific scam.”
Big pharma wants to be paid for helping them with the 2020 fortification and the great reset.
So get the clotshot bitchez!
Ugh.. that article. “The Omicron sub-variants evade prior infection antibodies or the vax — but the vax still provides ‘substantial protection'” (with zero explanation of how that would work, etc.) My tiger repelling rock will continue to protect you — even though this study says tigers ignore it!
And the later “COVID is believed to have considerable potential for further mutation” (or somesuch)…. well, yeah — *that’s what viruses do*. This is right up there with “We can’t kill the flu” or “The common cold changes rapidly”. ‘Member only a couple of years back when folks recognized this was one of the big reasons you can’t vaccinate away a coronavirus — because their mutation rate is high and all? Pepperidge Farm ‘members…
Good morning all you happy people. Ok… moderately non-cynical? Ok…. hopefully not lashing out at the world? 😉
IT’S FUCKING MAGIC!
I see you have the unreleased studio cut of the Highlander soundtrack where Freddy decided to work blue….
Oh-ho, it’s magic!
My model refutes your studies!
But what do supermodels say?
The dam might be breaking. I wonder if the study in the article will be noticed by anyone, or just ignored like all of the other data?
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/first-a-trickle-then-a-flood-the
Uvalde is proof that giving up the ability to defend yourself over to a government entity is a terrible idea. The people that could have acted did not or were prevented because political criteria impacted the leadership’s decision making. Nobody wants to talk about that fact. The usual gun grabbers just want to use the tragedy to grab guns, and nobody really wants to focus on the fact that the only people that will have the highest motivation to act will in a crisis these days where political priorities dominate the decision making always will be the people impacted.
Yes.
We just need to put more police in schools. /Sean hannity
Not sure if disingenuous or just dumb.
My vote is “Dumb”.
Why not both!
😂 this is why I come here.
I used to think, as recently as 2016/17 that the federal government had very little effect on people’s lives and all the ballyhooing about the whichever administration was just that. But we’ve seen such a marked decline since the start of 2021 that I really have to call into question the wisdom of that idea.
There is a massive effect from regulations, mostly formulated on the executive side, not to mention taxation, spending. I still think local has a larger effect(see the lockdown orders, for an example) but federal is not at all trivial.
Yup. The state of Texas didn’t make my employer mandate vaccinations. The city of [insert name here] didn’t force the urgent care clinic to require masks to enter. The Texas legislature didn’t print up a bunch of checks and pass a bunch of grift legislation that caused inflation. The city council of [city here], while definitely not helping the situation, didn’t set up the financial regulations that allowed the housing bubble to inflate.
I used to think it didn’t matter because it didn’t impact me. Now I think it doesn’t matter because it impacts everybody to such a level that the authoritarians wouldn’t dare release their stranglehold on power.
Trshmnster, per our convo last night mixed with insomnia, I give you a wall of text:
I am not a conservative. A least that was the case. See, I was raised by a conservative father and liberal mother during the Reagan/Meese years, and during this time I picked up a lot of civil liberties beliefs. Due process, freedom of speech, freedom of religion (not that I subscribe to any faith) and these were tempered with a strong dose of personal autonomy; gay marriage is an unalloyed good, who is to say what I can or cannot put in my body, why do I have to ask the gov’t permission to marry someone, and so on. This was tempered by a strong love of the shooting sports and an equally strong belief in the second amendment, namely that we are all the militia, and it isn’t for the gov’t to say who is and who isn’t part of that.
And while I started my political thinking as a Democrat, as they were the only people who really seemed to care about those things, and in my youthful foolishness I rejected the Libertarian party due to its weak stance on environmental issues. See, my liberal mother is a true Berkeleyitte, and her cousin was president of the Sierra Club for a time, and always a lawyer for them. I grew up steeped in the ideas of environmentalism. But as I got older, watched Dem politicians I thought I respected fail at their stated morals, I found myself drifting away from that party of my youth. And about one week into the Obama administration, when he was proposing HRC as Secretary of State that I left in disgust.
And as I have gotten older, and more acquainted with the libertarian philosophy (I am a compulsive reader) that I began to really understand political history in both the US and (to a much lesser degree) the world at large, I began to believe in on very strong thing that has animated my libertarianism; namely that I don’t really care if the world gets more progressive or . Because it will, in cycles both large and small. And that the most important thing for a person who is pretty centrist is to maintain the balance that allows for this, the switching of poles, with those civil rights. That all men are created equal, God damn it.
You see, in any given body of people, half will be more conservative that the other half, and vice versa. And while that is a tautology, it informs my perspective. What allows for change, is the see-saw action of the desire to move society forward, against the desire to put the brakes on too much progress. And while the people at either end of the bell curve (as that essentially what the Left-Right axis of the political spectrum looks like) will not move, the apex of that bell curve will sway back and forth across the mid-point of that graph. This is due entirely to the push-pull of those two poles, the desire to keep going, damn the torpedoes and the desire to sit down and throw a spanner in the works. Libertarianism aims, through a pretty solid philosophy, to not split the baby, but allow multiple babies to be raised. Just don’t step on anyone, and you can do what you want.
Do you want to live by the tenants of your faith? Get down with it, but you don’t get to cross the all men are equal line. Want to try your hand at heaven on earth? Knock yourselves out, but you don’t get to take away my right to defend myself or my loved ones. And this can be boiled down to the Non-Aggression Principle. Or, don’t hurt anyone and don’t take their stuff.
Now, there are people who seem to have a limited view of this, and an example of that is related to Reparations. Now, for those of you who do not know (what hell, damn guy!) this pertains to paying those affected by slavery some sort of cash/social amount. Some look at this as just, some look at it as no more than paying the Dane Geld. Well, here is where I stand on it; show me a person how has suffered from slavery, and I will point to a person who deserves reparations. And I will be very tight on that. Who was the owner of this slave? Are they still alive? No? Is the former slave still alive? No? Sorry Charlie, no reparations. You see, I don’t believe in takings, and if no one alive took the liberty of someone, there is no current taking. Except the takings enforced out of some ancestral guilt, which is BS. They, the ancestors, did no taking, so aren’t guilty of anything. Oh, people will say all sorts of things after that. They will talk about Redlining, Jim Crow, things like that. On the later, I will agree that was an effect, so now you need to show me the specific effect, who was harmed and who did the harming. You see, the number of people who have been fucked over by shit laws that weren’t struck down, for whatever reason, is legion. Gays, Jews, Hispanics, women, and so on. You see, this is where that pesky little demon Progressive, come in handy. No conservative wants to go back to those days, that is not what they are about. Usually. So, society moved on, because it needed to. And in that moving on society ended up here, and that ain’t too cool. So, we are seeing the beginnings of a social pushback. This is the general slowing down and speeding up of society. All normal. As long as everyone plays by the rules. (Hint, I think the D’s are cheating.)
Oh, wait, I kind of elided that whole Jim Crow thing, didn’t I. Well, you see, we had reparations for Jim Crow, they are called Affirmative Action. And, well, they worked out for the first generation, and then have slowly slid down the slippery slop until we have what is going on now: a sinecure. And it is failing to halt the slide of African Americans into a gutter of racial politics and resentment.
And this is part of what I mean by not wanting to live in utopia. It won’t work. Why? Well, there are people there, people who don’t believe in your, or any utopia. And what starts as a calling, becomes a business, turns into a racket. Now, do we want any part of that as our government? I didn’t think so.
JHTFC, Zwak. That’s 1,094 words, the perfect length for a Glibs post. You could be famous, you could have a key to the Glibs writers lounge…
This guy can sell a freaking A/C unit to an Eskimo….
[zombie voice] jooooiiiiinnn usssssssss [/zv]
Hey, I got one in Drafts as we speak, so, you know, the thing… I thought about it, but I wanted to strike will the metal was hot, so to speak.
(seriously, i have one almost ready to go, I just want to percolate on it a bit longer! And this is just part of a magnum opus I have been working on and thinking about over a few years.)
Yep, kbolino wanted to engage on my point about Pournelle vs. Gramsci – that is a draft article right now.
I’m still savoring last night’s, that I read this morning.
Zwak now has got a good start on today.
Sure, now keys are being passed around. I got a 5 digit combination that I put with my password. Now I’ll never get to go inside and see the Mysteries of the Glibs. I wasn’t excluded but yet…
So what you’re saying is that you’re going to a key party?
Agreed. Post it, or deal with more of my crap! Also the writer’s lounge was nice. Reeeaaal nice. Then I got a key.
There’s a key?
That would have made a nice post.
It’s not too late!
TL/DR
Kidding! Seriously, don’t overthink your posts. God knows I don’t. That off the cuff (ish) comment would be a fine post as is.
OK, OK, it is now in the submission que.
Executive Orders are to blame. When we decided we wanted kings to rule by a pen and phone is when we started getting these wild economic swings, specifically in oil and gas, which underlies nearly everything else economically speaking.
Agreed. We now have precedent of executive orders being the de facto force of government and each new administration penning a slew of them to erase the previous. It sucks.
“I’m not so sure this is necessary. But I’m sure the left will say its a reason for universal unverified vote-by-mail though.”
You answered your own question about why the WHO would think this was necessary. Don’t forget that the WHO is very likely getting its marching orders from the reseters, and their top priority right now is to destroy the US’s people’s ability to rebel against their agenda, and get the plan back on track. To do so, they need the democrats working with the unelected and unaccountable credentialed bureaucratic machine, in high gear, to destroy the US economy and middle class.
Yeah, this is extremely alarming. Not only for elections but it will inevitably mean more years of lockdowns and mask theater – actual science be damned.
“This should come as no surprise. She is an unlikable asshole, after all.”
I bet her response to the poll showing people see her for the moronic creature she is, is to get rid of those people and replace them with people more to her liking.
And I bet it was to laugh maniacally into the nearest microphone.
Where do I pay off my lost bet?
I’m sure her first thought was, “Oh, those sexist, racist bigots!” 100% certain.
It’s a shame that Duante Wright died in the circumstances in which he did.
It’s a shame that Kim Potter’s life is ruined for one stupid mistake she made that killed Duante Wright. Yes, she was a cop and yes she did typical cop things, and deserves to lose her job for the mistakes she made, but I never saw evidence of malice on her part during the trial.
But $325 million? I’m not sure how they arrived at that valuation. Wright was wanted for the shootings of two people at the time of his arrest and also had an order of protection against him from a woman he threatened and injured.
One of the people he shot in the face and is permanently disfigured and I think has brain damage.
I wonder if any of this information was available to whoever was making the decision of how to compensate Wright’s family for their loss?
Not to rehash an old subject too much, but the prosecution in that case actually made the argument that police should have allowed Wright to escape because he could have been caught at another time. At which point, should they again have allowed him to escape? The kid was wanted for shooting people (although the police who pulled him over didn’t know it at the time). Eventually he was going to end up in a confrontation with police or maybe even other citizens, and likely wouldn’t have survived long anyway.
This is yet another case where race was used to obscure the real facts of the case, and it results in a multi-hundred-million dollar payday for the family and their lawyers and likely some advocacy organizations who paid for the lawyers, and the real problems of police violence and street crime get subsumed in the flood of bad information and bad case law.
Potter acted negligently in how she handled a weapon. And that led to a death. That deserves punishment. But the civil penalty shouldn’t be borne by the taxpayers. It should be borne by the police department she’s a part of. That’s the only way (in addition to her prosecution) shit like that ends. Whether it’s a guy wanted in another shooting (she did not know that at the time) or a completely innocent person (and for all she knew at the time she shot him, Wright fell under that definition).
I totally agree that the civil settlement should be borne by the department or individual actors in some way.
I also believe that Potter, while making an egregious error, did not rise to the level of negligence in the legal sense in this case. The common usage of the term, yes, but the judge in this case allowed a misrepresentation of the legal definition of negligence to be presented without challenge to the jury.
I also believe that if this had happened to me (if I were the victim), there is no way anyone would award $325 million to my family and heirs.
$3.25 million
Holy crap did I read that wrong. Woops.
OK, I can see $3.25 million.
Hopefully $2M of that is yanked away to support his shooting victim.
I don’t think those cases were ever adjudicated, so can his victims go after his estate without him ever being found guilty?
Not if the statute of limitations has run.
If it hasn’t, I’m not sure if you can sue an estate for a tort like wrongful death. You can sue a live person without a criminal conviction, even if they were acquitted (due to the lower burden of proof in civil trials). A conviction can be used by the plaintiff to establish fault, so you can go straight to damages.
Definitely.
RC, I am pretty sure you can sue an estate for wrongful death(or any other charge).
The repurcussions otherwise would be ridiculous. But ianal. (My favorite acronym)
I can’t, really. And I have valued and settled a number of wrongful death cases. His future earnings potential was minimal, which is a big part of wrongful death settlements. I would likely expect the value of the case to be more in the high six figures, maybe a million tops.
Punitive damages are meaningless to the state and don’t acccomplish their purpose at all. I would be fine if the state weren’t required to pay them, in fact. They are nothing but a burden on taxpayers.
I would likely expect the value of the case to be more in the high six figures, maybe a million tops.
Maybe they calculated for the current levels of inflation to continue, lol.
So it’s really Putin’s fault the settlement was so high.
His future earnings potential was minimal
This inflation…
Realistically, he was probably a burden on his family, so they should be paying Potter for helping them out.
I read it wrong at first too. 😲
Question: There’s an app I have used for many years on Android phones–a gas mileage tracker. I recently got a new phone and found that the app has been removed from Google Play by the author. I have attempted to contact the author in the past, but have received no feedback.
I was able to get an .apk of the app and decompile it, but I’m at a loss as to how to import the resulting code into Android Studio in a way that will actually build.
Is there an easy way to do this?
I’m thinking of rebuilding this app and making some mods. There are no license files of any kind in the decompiled code other than a license file for one of the libraries the author used. Since I can’t get ahold of the author, any thoughts on the propriety of using this code?
I’m not an Android developer, nor a developer in any way other than “engineer code,” so I’m not up on how all this IDE stuff works anymore. 20 years ago, maybe…
If I could find a developer willing to work on this code and get it buildable, I’d be willing to pay for their time, I suppose.
are you trying to steal someone’s code ?
Aka, Software Development.
Decompiling code usually results in a mess. What exactly was the feature set of the app you’re trying to rebuild?
The app keeps track of fuel usage in multiple vehicles without requiring an account or remote data storage. It just keeps a little database on the phone that can easily be exported as SQL code or CSV.
I don’t want an account, I don’t want cloud storage, I don’t want ads, I just want an app that does these things. I’d even pay for it.
Yeah, you are going to have trouble, even if you compile the app to install it on your device without a store. And then there are the legal problems that would come with use of that code without permisison.
The code actually doesn’t look too bad. It’s of course Java, but all the variable and function names seem like they came from the original build. All the file names are pretty descriptive.
There’s even comments *shocked face*.
I don’t think the author took many if any steps to protect the code in this app from inspection or duplication.
Well, that doesn’t sound like it was decompiled then. Comments would be stripped out of a compiled application. Sounds more like you just opened a script file.
Sounds like a simple spreadsheet may work for what you’re looking for.
A spreadsheet would definitely work but I don’t carry my PC with me to the gas station. This app was great because a few simple taps and entries was all that was needed to add new data. Even running excel/libreoffice calc/google sheets on my phone would be heavily burdensome in comparison.
I was able to side-load the app onto my new phone, but google’s changes in UI fucked with the ability to access the app’s settings page, which is where you can import and export data and add/modify vehicles. So I’d be starting completely from scratch. There’s no way to get to the app’s internal settings now.
Yeah, I think they have a version of Libre Office for Android.
It’s not a script–it came from an APK file, and there are multiple Java source files in the “decompiled” result. Maybe “decompiling” is the wrong word, although that’s the term all the references I found used for it. It seems like in this case, for this app, the APK is just a container, sort of a zip file, for the Java source.
You sure it is JAVA and not Javascript?
It’s an android app, so it’s Java.
basically.
What do you do with the data? Does it change the way you drive?
It occasionally helps me understand if there’s something going wrong with the car or the fuel.
I’m kind of a process data nerd — a lot of my career has been spent looking at temperatures, pressures, flows, etc., and deducing process issues from them, and it carries over to my life. I don’t look at the gas data often, but having it and not needing it is better than needing it and not having it.
Plus it helps me keep track of what I’m spending on gas. The app also has little service reminders that you can set up at various mileage and/or time intervals.
You don’t decompile the code. You download tha .apk and install it manually.
Never mind. I’ve never had an apk I couldn’t just hit “install” (or whatever) but yours is probably different.
As I mentioned above, I did sideload the app but the interface is broken.
But the fact that it is’t being taken from the police budget or retirement plan.
Hey. The rest of the police department wasn’t at fault. You can’t expect them to pay for the actions of a few … Where was I? Oh right, make the taxpayers pay.
The Romanian swimmer who won the 100 and 200 meter freestyle gold medals wants to revolutionize swimming by showing it is better for swimmers to be less muscular and skinny as he does not plan to gain significant muscle in the future (17 now). I thought the swimmer’s body was seen as an ideal because it was lean and muscular. This guy wants to ruin that
The fucking emos are gonna take over swimming?
No, they’ll lose to the Emus.
That was just an insurance commercial.
You may not like it but this is what peak male performance looks like
https://www.antena3.ro/thumbs/amp/2022/06/22/david-popovici-finala-100-m-liber-775193.webp
Existential Comics
@existentialcoms
Marx: we have no way to conceive of the form a communist society will take, and it is not our task to describe it.
People on this website: they won’t have golf there.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1539262876929511424
also no food, besides the no golf thing.
And no freedom, and no homes, and no…
this is why they don’t describe it one would assume
They don’t/won’t describe any of it so they can always argue that the pile of bodies and the misery came from you not doing marxism right….
A lot of land only for a few people to enjoy at a time.
So you are saying golf courses should be able to play through your property?
He might have been saying that since golf sucks ass, they should make the sport more interesting by having people chase the golfers with baseball bats… That I might watch.
I might have found the second time I agree with Marx here (the first was that people should never let the government disarm them) on the topic of golf sucking ass.
Golf is a fantastic sport. You’re talking nonsense.
to play maybe I don;t get the watching in on the teevee
Indeed, to play. Here in Phoenix, AZ, we have more golf courses than McDonalds. And, we live in a desert. So, fuck Marx!
And fuck China. Closing 111 courses. Idiots. Just water them a bit less. If grass grows in Phoenix with our 8-10 inches of rain a year, it’ll grow in China where I’m sure they get more rain than that.
I suspect the golf courses might be used a substantial amount of water in Arizona.
The bigger problem with the way courses are managed is that they literally poison the land and you can’t do anything useful with it afterward.
Many courses in Arizona used reclaimed water. My point was if Arizona can maintain golf courses and a lot of them, China should be able.
Poison the land how? I don’t actually manage a golf course, so I’m not clear what this means.
The use of large amounts of pesticides herbicides and fertilizers (I’m honestly not sure what the culprit is exactly, of those 3) results in heavy metals contaminating the soil to levels that make it unsafe to use as a residence afterwards. I have seen multiple gold courses shut down and they always become brownfields after and are rarely redeveloped.
Poisoned? There’s a couple of housing complexes here in the suburbs that were built on old golf courses (that surprisingly were not built on ancient Indian burial grounds).
There’s a development near me that was built on an old plutonium dump.
But it’s cool, because they cleaned it up.
*eyeroll*
Hint: They only moved the
headstonescask labels.Lackadaisical – Interesting. Thx for sharing.
While I don’t know enough to discredit what you’re saying, I can tell you here in Phoenix area there are a number of times recently where they have tried to turn a golf course into homes. No information on the pollution side. The reason it usually doesn’t happen is lawsuits about zoning and such.
I’m not saying it can’t be done, just that it costs a lot to clean them up. I’m sure it will vary based on the management practices, duration and intensity of use as well. Maybe they don’t use the same chemicals as they used to anymore, I don’t know.
Just that golf courses are not as value neutral as one would suppose. Definitely can’t be a Christian and play golf though (to rope in another comment thread for the lulz).
Get a bigger
hammermagic wandEnergy Secretary Jennifer Granholm indicated that President Joe Biden has considered using the Defense Production Act to help mitigate the record-high gas prices, but stressed that it is just “one” of the tools at the president’s disposal.
“President Biden, like all other leaders around the world, are grappling with this for their citizens,” Granholm said Wednesday at a White House press briefing. “And the president is doing everything he can to reduce prices for American families.”
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Biden announced he would call on Congress to approve a gas tax pause for three months. The federal government currently charges 18 cents in taxes per gallon of gasoline and 24 cents per gallon of diesel, the official said.
Officials had raised concerns that rushing to remove the gas tax due to concerns that it might undermine recent funding Congress passed for the infrastructure bill, but Biden made a point of insisting Congress remove the tax without stripping money from the Highway Trust Fund that finances highways and mass transit.
Granholm previously hinted that Biden might take other, more drastic actions to help combat record-high gas prices. During an appearance Sunday on “State of the Union,” she noted that the president has a number of tools to use, including the Defense Production Act to try and direct resources.
“Let’s just say the president is prepared to use all of his authorities to do what he can to increase supply,” Granholm said during an appearance Sunday on “State of the Union.”
Those big bad Republicans who run the oil companies are just sitting on billions of gallons of refined ready-to-sell gasoline, but they hate Joe Biden.
Highway Trust Fund that finances highways and mass transit.
I am not a native English speaker, if it is called “Highway Trust Fund” why is there an and after highways ?
Because more opportunities for graft, vote buying and subsidizing TEAM BLUE cities.
A perfect example of how Republicans are useless cowards. Should be an easy sell that people buying had shouldn’t be subsidizing rail lines, etc. But they never do shit about it even though it empowers their political nemesis.
Each party has their grift. GOP is just too fucking stupid to realize the Dems have increased their grifting by 10x. But GOP cannot stand on principles here because they don’t have any, without admitting their sin.
They kept SAYING they were for smaller govt and never, ever made it smaller.
Don’t forget trails for pedestrians and especially bicyclists. They pay taxes you know.
Until there’s an equal tax on EVs, the fuel tax will always be punitive, IMO.
One of Trump’s unfortunate legacies was the revival of the Defense Production Act, which is apparently now an all-purpose tool for top-down micromanagement of the economy.
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So if 22 is par, is 15 a double eagle?
Nice job!
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I was looking up whether they are used in breast implants. I’m not sure.
But today, I (re)learned Feldspar and Quartz are the most common minerals in Earth.
It was the first thing that came to mind that rhymed and made no sense.
Maybe it does make sense. They are both quite popular, along with many others I suppose.
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Granholm advised that the Energy Information Agency has forecast that gas prices in the third quarter will average about $4.27 a gallon, but reiterated that world events could “upend” those numbers.
Based on what? A tsunami of electric cars?
Based on the massive economic hit from the recession, and nobody has money to buy gas. Thus, demand goes down. See, Biden admin is helping us by pushing the recession along, to lower gas prices. Stupid serfs asking so many questions…
Christians being confirmed or baptised in the Oxford diocese will henceforth be asked to commit to protecting the environment as part of the church’s formal liturgy.
The addition to the ceremonies is supported by the Right Rev Steven Croft, bishop of Oxford, and asks people being baptised or confirmed to “strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the Earth”.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/22/christians-commit-protecting-environment-oxford-diocese
Sustain the environment by providing sufficient CO2 ?
So the CoE is moving to Earth worship.
Just one among the pantheon.
Back to paganism!
From sky god to mud god.
That is one of those things actual Christians would call “heresy”.
If done in the spirit of Genesis 1:28-30, it wouldn’t be:
Those subterranian critters, tho. That’s off-limits.
But if you worship the earth, and give it precedence…not so much.
Agreed.
^ This
Listen, nothing un-Biblical about being a good steward of what God provides, including our environment. Not sure how believing un-support science that CO2 is warming the earth helps the environment; (when that, in fact, has NOT been scientifically proven). They keep pushing this non-sense. They never explain that most CO2 is naturally occurring and us puny humans only contribute around 7-9%.
But taking an oath to Mother Earth is definitely idol worship. Plenty of scripture that tells us God isn’t too fond of that.
So who is a better steward? Texas, for making a zillion man made lakes to collect water and provide wildlife and people better resources? Or California, for shutting down dams to save salmon?
What Texas did reshaped the state for the better. What California did was squander God’s gift and wreck it by trying to keep everything the same. Conservation is constant improvement, not stagnant stupidity.
Rant ended. Screw those wrong-headed environmentalists. The world constantly changes, and we must change our environment as well.
I agree with your post. Texas > CA.
My post wasn’t a judgement/decree about what constitutes good stewardship. Except for disagreeing with the assertion that CO2 causes global warming, which clearly isn’t what the evidence indicates.
Subdue? TOXIC MASKULINITEE!
I’m with you, but yeah, but that’s one of those “Ifs” that’ll never be.
Man’s dominion over the creation is there so that he can serve and glorify God. And this stuff……just ain’t.
It’s (deliberately) wrapped up in vagaries (sp?) that lets the Proggies claim it, but it’s BS. What it really is is the worship of the creation, instead of the Creator. See the beginning of Romans.
Yes Prime Minister anticipated this kind of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2dNCw0hPLs
And one more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eVHna4Unlk
Awaiting rescue
Medics and emergency staff from around the country are converging on the site, with assistance from some international agencies such as the World Health Organization.
However, help may be limited as many organizations pulled out of the aid-dependent country after the Taliban seized power last August.
The Taliban government has deployed emergency resources, including several helicopters and dozens of ambulances, and has offered compensation to victims’ families.
It has also called for foreign aid, pleading for “the generous support of all countries, international organizations, individuals and foundations” on Wednesday.
The quake has compounded the problems already plaguing Afghanistan.
Though the economic crisis has loomed for years, the result of conflict and drought, it plunged to new depths after the Taliban takeover, which prompted the United States and its allies to freeze about $7 billion of the country’s foreign reserves and cut off international funding.
The move has crippled the Afghan economy and sent many of its 20 million people into a severe hunger crisis. Millions of Afghans are out of work, government employees haven’t been paid, and the price of food has soared, with reports of some families so desperate to eat they have resorted to selling their children.
Few aid agencies remain, and those that do are stretched thin. On Wednesday, the WHO said it had mobilized “all of the resources” from around the country, with teams on the ground providing medicine and emergency support. But, as one WHO official put it, “The resources are overstretched here, not just for this region.”
How many generations does it take to break free of learned helplessness?
One, once the learned helplessness stops being facilitated and supported.
Didn’t help that their population doubled out tripled during the war there. Amazing how many people you can pop out with America subsidizing it all.
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Noped the fuck out of the Beatles. I am at a point of needing to burn down Abby road, whatever town they came from (Liverpoole?) all of the master tapes, and anything else just to get closure from that over played generational idol.
Now that rant is over, here is a little Black Venom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nclSNIamjg
The Meatmen – One Down, Three To Go
Excellent. Love the Meatmen.
So cool to come home and see copies of lumpen mag in my mailbox! Once again shout out @BrianMteleSUR
for giving me the chance to write about Puerto Rican independence!
https://twitter.com/Gaius_Gracchus_/status/1539725692329463810
The US is TERRIFIED of an independent socialist Puerto Rico it would show the flaws of Capitalism
CP-ATX
@CPUSA_Austin_TX
We, the working people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, need socialism—a system based on people’s needs, not on corporate greed. A radical critique of capitalism and the vision of socialism form the basic ideas of the Communist Party, USA.
https://twitter.com/CPUSA_Austin_TX/status/1539658553317015553
Socialism appeals to people that know they are fucking lazy no good douchebags, and tat they will depend on others to do the heavy lifting.
Bernie says hello.
socialism—a system based on
people’s needsthose who control government determining what the people need while they live a good life off the peoplenono government just withers away. Don’t ask them to describe how though
Funny how it ALWAYS turns out this way. Do these idiot notice the thousands of people risking their lives to escape Cuba and think, why are they leaving their communist paradise to come to our filthy capitalist shithole?
Puerto Rican Independence?
Please, don’t throw us into that briar patch.
/looks at independent socialist Cuba
Sure thing. Can we vote to give Puerto Rico their independence?
You want a ton of them to drown trying to cross over to the US on rafts and car husks turned into desperate boats?
I have told the marxism/socialism peddlers that I am going to consider I might have been wrong about their cult’s dogma the day I hear someone is trying desperately to break into one of these socialist paradises because they believe life there will be better.
Well…bye.
Oh God, I’d be so happy to be rid of PR. But I wouldn’t wish socialism on them, that’s just cruel.
You can’t make this stuff up.
State Department Selects Blackrock Chairman Donilon to Oversee China Relations
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-state-department-taps-beijing-bull-to-run-china-shop/
Pfffft, I’m sure it’s all above board.
Best way to make sure there is no criminal activity is for the crime boss to put one of his crime sub-bosses in charge of doing the criminal activity and then telling the rubes that all is great and above board….
Cornyn’s retiring isn’t he? Now he can let his freak flag fly and he doesn’t have to listen to his piece of shit constituents or to assholes that think like me. The guy’s obviously been pretending all this time and feels liberated.
Or he got a fat deposit in an offshore account.
He (and Graham) are in “long” seats. Not up for reelection until 2026.
Cracks in the edifice?
Health officials approved COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months last week, but Florida-based Publix will not be offering the Moderna and Pfizer shots to children younger than 5.
A spokesperson for the supermarket, which is headquartered in Lakeland and has nearly 1,300 locations across the southeast, confirmed the news to Fox 13 Tampa Bay on Wednesday.
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President Biden visited a vaccination clinic in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday where children younger than 5 were receiving shots for the first time.
“The United States is now the first country in the world to offer safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months old,” Biden said Tuesday. “In the first time in our fight against this pandemic, nearly every American can now have access to lifesaving vaccines.”
They want little children to die, just as surely as if they physically tied them to the railroad tracks.
The feds will lean on them and they’ll cave but good on them for the time being at least.
“fight against this pandemic” – Sigh. What fucking pandemic?
COVID has turned into a sinus/head cold at this point. Why is anybody wasting effort on an ineffective vaccine! The fact that anybody, ANYBODY, is doing this is a massive indictment on how fucking stupid our country is now. Hell, I cannot believe people are dumb enough to vaccinate any child under 25. The numbers, even the fabricated numbers, don’t lie. Young people and especially children are NOT being affected by COVID.
How Big Pharma went from a villain to an unquestioned savior so quickly should shock a thinking person.
‘a thinking person.’
So you’re saying there’s no hope?
haha! pretty much.
I wish I could tell you this isn’t real but this is really how the Iranian community is reacting to Britney Spears’ marrying a Persian man
https://twitter.com/FarnoushAmiri/status/1539625982142947328
Seems that when your country is run by fucking lunatics, most of those people living in that world will be conditioned to see bagging a lunatic as a big win….
If only they’d relocate to Tehran, bonus points if they take Christina Auguilera with them.
Yeah, I don’t want that….
She’s marring Mega-Chad?
Naw, just Median-Chad
Kbolino, damn good post last night. I just finished reading it this morning.
I did not start questioning my libertarian bona fides until the Canadian Trucker Protests. Some condemned the truckers as aggressors and violators of the NAP. Which is a fair viewpoint. I’m not sure I agree with it, but it’s certainly fair.
If such a rigid interpretation of the NAP holds though, I don’t see how libertarianism can function in a non-libertarian society. It seems that following the NAP to such an extreme means waiting for the State to kick down your door to put a bullet in your head before you can meaningfully react. Solzhenitsyn described in great detail how reacting at that point is just too late. Too react earlier means violating a rigid interpretation of the NAP. Maybe the NAP isn’t as simple as it’s made out to be. Or maybe I can’t consider myself a libertarian anymore.
Cheers.
For me, it was the George Floyd protests/riots. There is a principal-agent problem undermining the utility of the NAP as a political philosophy. George Soros, for example, has never personally attacked me, or anyone as far as I know, but if the allegations about how he has used his money and influence are true, he deserves nothing less than exile to a remote island, or else a short drop and quick stop.
The NAP tells me that is wrong, an unacceptable initiation of force. I disagree. A nation which cannot exercise exclusion is not a nation at all. It is just an economic zone. But I was born here, I cannot claim a right to live anywhere else, but I can claim a right to live here. And someone who wishes and acts to disenfranchise and dispossess me in my own home is not a person deserving of the privilege of non-aggression.
I also have come to believe corporal punishment should replace most uses of prison. A tiered system of punishment, from community service, to canings, to death when necessary, seems far more appropriate than prison. I’m not sure the NAP is even okay with prison, as we know it today, but I’m pretty sure it’s not okay with beatings and executions. However, prison presents a far too obvious mechanism for politicians (and their string-pullers) to unleash upon the law-abiding a plague of the dangerous and derelict. Corporal and capital punishment are irreversible; to a libertarian and the NAP, this is a problem. To me, this is a great benefit. My rights are not up for a vote, and that includes both the state directly acting to undermine them, as well as the state manipulating “foreseeable outcomes” to undermine them.
I disagree that the NAP says anything of the kind.
Same here. See my comment below about using the systems put in place to limit/eliminate physical violence being twisted to allow and encourage legal violence.
ES and db, would you consider the Canadian Trucker Protests to be a violation of the NAP?
I am neither of them, but no. It is, in my eyes at least, no different that shooting first when someone pulls a gun on you.
I guess I don’t know enough about them to say. My impression was that they were blocking public roads, and not infringing on private property. I’m unaware of any violence done by the truckers on individuals.
Is violence required for a NAP violation to occur? The argument I’ve heard from anti-truckers was that they were harassing local residents by blowing their horns at all hours.
Thanks both. There were several who did consider it a violation of the NAP at the time, so I’m just wrapping my head around the different interpretations.
I’m unaware of any violence done by the truckers on individuals.
And yet the truckers were locked in jail and had their assets seized following the peaceful protests. If they had instead pre-emptively enacted violence against the individuals who subsequently aggressed against them for protesting, would that be a violation of the NAP? This is where I’m starting see more fractures.
Peaceful protests and non-violence wouldn’t have helped Solzhenitsyn. To use Zwak’s metaphor, I’m thinking libertarians have a broad spectrum of definitions on what constitutes a metaphorical pulling of a gun that then justifies pre-emptive force following the NAP.
Historically, peaceful protests usually only work when there is a violent alternative in plain view.
And he realized it too late:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”
-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Of course, Americans don’t have to rely on hammers, etc. We have plenty of guns which, if deployed against agents of the state, would end the arrests within a few days.
The question is, will Americans resist state terror in time, or at all?
There is a principal-agent problem undermining the utility of the NAP as a political philosophy.
This sums up my issue with the NAP very well. It’s a principle that works well in isolation, saying while living among one’s neighbors, but fails on a larger scale.
I agree with you on corporal punishment, or at least removing most uses of prison. Serious crimes (e.g., murder, rape, home invasion) where the aggressor is a continual danger to society would be execution. Less serious crimes would give remuneration directly to their victims (e.g., theft) with possibly corporal punishment. There should be no reason for prisons to exist other than jails as temporary holding cells prior to a speedy trial. The prison system with the accompanying militarization of police has become just as dangerous to liberty, if not more dangerous, than the military complex.
“Corporal and capital punishment are irreversible; to a libertarian and the NAP, this is a problem.”
I’m not convinced this is true. Once someone has broken the NAP, it isn’t clear that they can reenter society without consequences. Philosophically, they could be effectively excommunicated and subject to any punishment or abuse (e.g. an outlaw), or only readmitted after paying the price.
At the very least, accepting this point of view requires rejecting Blackstone’s Maxim (“better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer”) either outright or conditionally. Some number of the people who get punished won’t deserve it. We should strive to minimize that number, but we can’t eliminate it to zero, and should not be struck with crippling indecision or suboptimal solutions out of fear of it.
Yes, I know, “how would you feel to be the one innocent man suffering?” I would feel terrible, I’m sure. But ten guilty men going free is a gang, and even if that gang murders only one innocent man, that is (at least) just as bad as the state executing one innocent man.
The problem isn’t the specific 11 men in question.
It is the precedent and trajectory it establishes. You’ll never run short of the guilty when you allow the state the power to punish the innocent.
The state always has “the power to punish the innocent” because it has the power to punish. It is not divine, it cannot suss out the innocent from the guilty with 100% accuracy. In a good example of “the woke are more correct than the mainstream”, the intent behind whom the state punishes and how does matter. Punishing the McCloskeys and Rittenhouses of the world is more deleterious than punishing the Browns and Floyds. The political left disagrees. Down their path, even if it hypothetically leads to fewer innocent people of certain kinds getting prosecuted by the state, still lies more innocent people getting threatened, stolen from, attacked, and killed.
Any principle which leads predictably to more wanton crime is a bad principle.
The innocent are those who have not transgressed against others, or as we might say violated the NAP. Allowing the state to punish them with impunity does not mean you will ALSO necessarily punish all of the guilty. I may risk anarchy, you would risk tyranny, and it is in between those that we must navigate. Anyone selling certainty is a liar.
If the state agents know that someone is innocent, and punish him anyway, that is a grave error, and the people involved are themselves criminals. But when the people involved believe the person is guilty, and yes belief is how this actually works, pretenses of science and evidence aside, then they should not stay the axe or the whip.
You don’t risk anarchy, in which people can at least decide their own rules, you risk state-mandated entropy, in which neither the state nor anyone else is allowed to provide order. Outside of intentional tyranny there is still anarcho-tyranny, where the job of the tyrant is outsourced and the anarchy is only enjoyable by some.
That seems a completely different topic, that’s really just a question of reasonable doubt. We could cue Dave Chappelle opining about what evidence he’d need to see to convict R Kelly here (on camera doing the act, with his birth certificate in hand, and Grandma confirming it was him).
Prison is justified, as I see it, on the basis of reversibility. Arguably it isn’t reversible, especially after a long stint, and of course, the prevalence of prison rape puts paid to the reversibility lie altogether. However, the fundamental question pointing the direction of criminal justice “reform” has largely been “what of the innocent?” Most people don’t give a rat’s ass about the guilty, though they do adhere to some sense of proportionality. It is stories of innocent men being punished that animates reform movements.
So rather than beat around that bush, I attack it directly. We cannot be more concerned with the accidental punishment of the innocent than we are with the intentional punishment of the guilty. Concerned, yes, as any righteous man ought to be. But not more concerned.
Like RC below, I don’t think prison is reverse able. If you slaves a man’s caning it over years instead of administering all the blows at once, would that make a difference?
So is imprisonment – the years behind bars can’t be recovered.
I’m not going to address the bulk of your article from last night because I haven’t finished reading it, and it appears to be worth thinking about.
I will mention here, and may consider writing an article about it, that I fear that the whole concept of participatory government is endangered by the scope creep and aggrandizement of power to central government. But more important may be the problem of differentiating between physical violence and legal violence.
We (the West) have placed process and law up on a pedestal to be worshipped. We are taught to believe that the Law is what keeps us from being violent savages to each other. And in large part, that is correct–we (attempt to) isolate and punish those who do violence to their neighbors/fellow citizens. But it is considered perfectly acceptable to attack others within the bounds of law. Anyone can try to sue me in court, even with threadbare cause and evidence, and force me to respond, spending my time and wealth to fight back. In most cases, the very systems erected to stop physical violence enable and encourage legal violence.
How is that any different, in effect, if the system can be used to sap and demoralize individuals and drain their wealth as sure as if their homes had been raided by roving bandits?
Please do write an article. This is interesting.
SSD, this is helicopter thinking.
Honestly seems to save a lot of lives (compare Franco to Lenin or Pinochet to Mao). If we just had the wherewithal to dump a bunch of high level commies into the ocean we could save a lot of trouble…. For a generation anyway. Note, yes, this is not moral to do
Agreed that it was a good post, got the noggin percolating.
Personally, I’d rather have Lee Kwan Yew than Pinochet or Franco, but I’m not sure we’re gonna get that spoiled for choice.
And that’s the problem with invoking Plato’s benevolent despot – they may exist in theory but they are damn rare in practice.
Agreed, the risk is very high that you don’t get what you hope for. Sadly we’re not that far removed just by electing a certain group of people to be the hopefully benevolent dictator.
Fwiw, Plato’s republic may be the most overrated philosophy book I’ve ever read.
You can have Kamala or Trump, your pick.
We went from “THERE IS NO INFLATION!” to “Well, there is inflation, but it is transitory.” to “Inflation is good because it will hurt the rich the most.”, to “OK, there is inflation, but it is Putin’s fault.” to “Shit, the inflation is a global problem and others have it much worse.” to “Don’t worry about a recession.”, to “A RECESSION IS NOT INEVITABLE!”, to “OK, there might be a recession but it is transitory/will hurt the rich.”, to “There will be a recession, but will it really be that bad?”
Getting shanked isn’t that big of a problem, is it?
Look I already told you that a recession is inconvenient to me at this time so stop it
Joe Biden, is that you?
It’ll be a transitory recession!
Yeah, Recession transitioning into Depression.
Yeah, I keep having this thought too. Everybody’s house of cards fiscal policy and global fiat currency. What could go wrong?
Based on post performance, the more they deny it, the more serious and certain I think it is.
It’s not that bad.
Is it?
I’m gonna say yes. We’re going to see more business closures ramping up. I think service industries (restaurants, etc.) are gonna take a big hit.
Tech industry is really struggling to hit their revenue goals and fulfill their orders because of supply issues. That could balance out in an unpleasant way with those orders being cancelled en masse as the customers start to withdraw into their shells.
Not just tech. We supply contractors in commercial construction and things are getting pretty bad.
We (as a company) aren’t hitting production goals due to staffing issues.
Saying that inflation or recession is worse for the rich is ridiculous. The rich are not materially affected. When your head is just above water, any rise in the level is perilous.
But it sounds good to the progressive lemmings. Doesn’t need to be true. Same as, “the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes” or “tax break for the wealthy”.
Isn’t it better to sink all the boats, rather than let those fat cats sail to high? /Prog
“Six people are killed after vintage 1962 helicopter that appeared in Die Hard and Baywatch CRASHES at historical aircraft event in West Virginia
The helicopter crashed into the road on Route 17 in Logan County and burst into flames but the cause has not been established. It is thought five passengers and the captain were killed.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10944169/Multiple-people-killed-helicopter-crash-WVa.html
“Black ex-Tesla worker, 52, who claims he was called ‘N-word’, had swastika drawings left for him and faced ‘daily racist epithets’ REJECTS $15M payout after judge slashed it from $137M”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10944311/Former-Tesla-worker-rejects-15-million-award-racism-case.html
“claims”
even if true he should not get no 15 million
Got any audio recordings? Video? I mean if this was daily, you had ample opportunity to collect evidence.
BELIEVE EM!
It’s so suspicious when there is no video evidence. No photos, no scrawled papers, etc… Not to sound even crappier, but the race of the harrassers was not mentioned so I assume they were also black.
Zoe Whittall
@zoewhittall
I can’t believe we have the choice between wearing masks and a slow, certain global extinction event and we’re choosing the latter.
https://twitter.com/zoewhittall/status/1539323846779670529
eXtincTIon
CS Lewis had thoughts on that. He favored extinction.
Why do some people choose to be afraid? I really don’t get it.
Categorizing COVID as “a slow, certain global extinction event” is such an incredibly hysterical, unscientific statement. Is there any facts or evidence to support this statement? Or just the irrational fear of an entitled, intellectually challenged Millennial?
Today, in utterly unsurprising “news”
A majority of Americans tuned out on the House select committee hearings on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot last week, a new poll released Wednesday found.
Normal people with lives to live don’t want to watch a bunch of politicians preen and masturbate for the cameras? Shocked, I am.
With the country circling the drain and sky high inflation and whatnot the concentration on that horseshit rather than real problems is a slap in the face more than anything else.
I say let the Democrats keep slapping, harder. They need to make sure they really get America’s full attention.
Must be why they are going back on hiatus so the reality TV producer can come up with a different angle for this shitshow…
That new evidence isn’t going to manufacture itself.
don’t want to watch a bunch of politicians preen and masturbate
Hold on their Cochise. Watching Pelosi go to town with her Genuine 12″ Mega Dong (sfw review) on CSPAN might be the only thing that would make me put down my latest copy of Granny Gash and pay attention.
It’s MAGAdong*, shitlorde.
*Now with bluetooth!
*considers nuking entire site, banning Jimbo or pouring Drano in my eyes*
Seriously? After years of SF?
The Pontiff’s attempt at horror didn’t even register. I realize I may be broken.
But, hey, since I’m not unsympathetic: say good morning to Jessica!
He’s trying to throw us off the scent of his FB review. How long will it take us to figure out who wrote that review?
A lot of us remember his rant at a recent Zoom Happyhour about Life Alert and their lack of professionalism.
Tonight is Midsummer Eve, the night before the feast of St John the Baptist. It was once a high point of the festival year, a time for bonfires, ghosts, love, and roses – a night when plants had a special power of healing and fire could drive evils away.
https://twitter.com/ClerkofOxford/status/1539865221493309440
For some reason I always thought Midsummer was 21st of June the day of the solstice but it seems it is actually the closest Friday or Saturday depending on country. Go figure
CARMEN SOL 4K / Bikini swimwear fashion show / Los Angeles Swim Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_cOf3ye7vs
Primitive totemic cultists
The Uvalde, Texas, elementary school where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers last month will be demolished, the city’s mayor said.
Speaking during an emotional council meeting with residents Tuesday, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said he did not believe any child or teacher should be asked to return to Robb Elementary School, where the deadly shooting unfolded May 24.
“My understanding — and I had this discussion with the superintendent — that school will be demolished,” he said.
“You can never ask a child to go back or a teacher to go back in that school ever,” McLaughlin added.
After they raze the building and salt the earth, they should erect a giant obelisk to honor the brave and noble policemen who sat around sucking their thumbs.
It does seem pretty stupid.
They razed Sandy Hook too. The demolition crew had to sign NDA’s.
What did they say the NDA’s were for? I’m having a hard time coming up with a reason why that would be at all necessary.
I have no idea, but I could easily see no selfies and no social media postings about it.
A good reason? There isn’t one.
Making sure whatever needed covering up, stayed covered up, is the only reason that I can think of.
I think it was less cover-up than that they didn’t want pics of the bloody scene going public.
Not a totally defensible reason, but I get it.
I can’t believe they didn’t have it cleaned before demolition. Crime scenes are routinely cleaned, after all.
Not wanting people to sell pics of the bloody scene to tabloids or corporate media (but I repeat myself) seems plausible. The problem of course is that while it may be deeply uncomfortable to look at and disgusting to think about the parasitic media profiting off it, it should still absolutely be within public knowledge and available for scrutiny. NDA’s just make it seem like there may be something to cover up. Especially to those of us that pay attention and are keenly aware that most of what governments put their energy into is payoffs and coverups.
Animists.
Are they going to pay for a new school with the police budget?
I say keep the school standing and make that room the new police headquarters.
I like that.
“The Union wanted a shiny new building, so we used this excuse.”
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The Drawbacks of “Cheat Meals” (and More Advisable Alternatives)
Cheat meals can lead to negative psychological effects and hinder progress toward a weight loss goal. In this article, we discuss two science-based alternatives that scratch a similar itch without the negative consequences.
https://macrofactorapp.com/cheat-meals/?ck_subscriber_id=694511178
like much of stronger by science, longer read
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/germany-trigger-phase-two-three-065910268.html
A lehman effect? Now?
Shirley you must be joking.
I think a recession is starting to look like a best-case scenario.
NOT NOW goddamnit
Lots of panicmongering. Not sure if anything is happening.
Architect’s concept for replacement Uvalde school
I need an overhead photo. With all those long wings extending out from a central hub, I’m worried the nazi bastards are trying to put in another swastika building.
Looks like a prison.
“Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant will be able to mimic any person’s voice after hearing a short audio clip. Amazon markets the tech as a way to remember a deceased family member.”
https://twitter.com/JanNWolfe/status/1539741257337118720
“Amazon’s Alexa will soon be able to read you stories in a loved one’s voice – even if they’re dead”
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1539708513626234881
That’s just wrong.
Can you get Alexa to nag you in the voice of your ex?
That costs extra, even downtown.
How long before mistresses use this technology to fake phone calls that they leak to the wife?
This was the plot of a Black Mirror episode. Of course, the show takes it to the ultimate conclusion.
That was a plot point of Neuromancer also. With the AI having the same wish at the end.
“The name radioshack is derived from me shacking up with your mom and playing the radio real loud so the neighbors couldnt hear us playing full contact rugby in bed.”
https://twitter.com/RadioShack/status/1539758847816073216
What is going on with this account?
A little background:
https://youtu.be/vP_6Un9-PuA
that is good stuff.
Speaking of kbolino’s piece last night…
Is this so-called “libertarian to alt-right pipeline” a real thing people talk about? Libertarianism is a gateway drug to totalitarian despotism? Because i can totally see that.
It is though because what people call “alt-right” is just believing in so-called conspiracy theories about the government.
Being a libertarian is the shortest pathway to believing the government is capable of anything.
Yeah, I don’t see that either. It’s a variety of disaffected folks on the right; there may be a libertarian element, but it can’t be that significant.
Is this so-called “libertarian to alt-right pipeline” a real thing people talk about?
It was. It seems 2017 was the year of the pipeline (as far as concerned thinkpieces go). I haven’t seen it get as much attention lately, but part of why I wrote what I did is because a “journalist” is “investigating” it again, and that implies to me another wave of such thinkpieces may be on the horizon. It also jogged my noggin.
It’s just that alt-right has no inherent meaning. Anyone who believes something the media thinks is nuts or extreme is alt-right.
Ergo, the connection is obvious.
Yes well in two short comments you’ve summed up my 1200-word piece.
I award thee one “brevity is the soul of wit”
Oh sorry. I didn’t catch it yesterday.
I’m not upset. I think I had a few other things to say besides, but I do think you summed up the core elements well.
So, I didn’t get a chance to read last night’s, but will. But from what I’m gathering, I get the basics and want to jump in and add one thing if it’s not already there: PUSHBACK.
It’s real – and it’s in all of us, from childhood – we resist accusations, some influence, force, etc.
So if you’re gonna get called a racist (or whatever) no matter what, you know what a lot of people will actually do? They’ll move that way – they’ll decide to go ahead and commit the offences they’re going to be accused of. Nothing they can do can get them out of the accusation, so why resist?
It’s subconscious at first. And then it’s not.
Yes. Related:
rekt.
Ackshually, I think its “storm the bailey”.
Oh, and did you know that motte-and-bailey is a fallacy? The internet says it is, so it must be true.
To me, that has it backwards. The bailey is the fortified keep, the last fallback position. The motte is the outer defensive wall. The motte is the extended, harder to defend position. I always thought motte-and-bailey arguments were along the lines of the motte being the controversial position that is an extreme logical extension of the bailey, which is an anodyne principle that most people agree with.
R C Dean, I think you’ve got this entirely backwards. Read the quote I posted sympathetically instead of antipathetically.
Yep. Just like somebody (sorry, forget who) said the other day. Pick a despicable target, then widen the circle until it includes everybody you don’t like.
“Punch a nazi”
I think another way to define alt-right is “anyone who realizes the establishment politicians and media are completely full of shit.” Thus you get hit pieces calling Russell Brand and his hippy-dippy act alt-right.
I thought with RB it was he is altered right.
The point is that he’s a danger to the narrative thus dangerous to the ruling class, thus simply dangerous. Alt-right just has a better ring to it and they already worked overtime to equate the phrase with real actual torch wielding NAZIIIIISSS!!!!!
Hmm, my use of altered may have been jargon-esque – it’s what Burning Man folk use to mean drunk and/or high, and thus was punnish meant on him being hippy-dippy.
Ha! Sorry the joke went over my admittedly short head.
Interesting. I don’t really see it, but maybe that’s because I’m looking at it with Reason in mind. Libertarian to neoleftist douchebaggery pipeline in that case, and I think there’s plenty of evidence to argue that is a thing that exists just as much as Lib–>right pipeline.
I think it’s more a symptom of a lack of rigor and seriousness in political discourse. I think you touched on it in your article, but people don’t really know what libertarianism is, not even libertarians, because there are lots of flavors. A generally questioning attitude can lead to a great deal of political points of view, but some people stop before they’ve asked enough questions and have simply found something that suits them along the way to enlightenment.
The libertarian-to-neolib pipeline, which could be the topic of another article (though I’d have a hard time writing it sympathetically), functions among a different set of people. The old jokes about cocktail parties point in the right direction: whereas the libertarian-to-altright folks are autistically noticing things without regard to social consequences, the libertarian-to-neolib folks are so oversocialized that they can’t do anything that has negative social consequences. Their animating principle, instead of explaining how they think the world works even if it’s offensive to do so, is to never cause offense to whom they consider their peers even when that means saying the naked emperor is fully clothed. They were dissidents to the mainstream narrative only insofar as it was socially acceptable to be, and when the winds shift, so too do they.
I love that idea of libertarian-to-neolib pipeline. You could just call it CATO for short.
If I were to write it, I’d rather write it sympathetically, but as I’m obviously coming from the other direction, that is difficult to do.
My first shake at it would be: at core, the libertarian-to-neolib crowd abhor racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. This is their animating principle, above all others. If anything, even what others consider to be the “truth”, leads to more racism, sexism, etc. then it must be wrong. Allowing a space for the growth of such ideas will lead inevitably to the rise of reactionary thought, and with it a new Holocaust.
But this still doesn’t seem all that sympathetic to me.
I think you’re in the right ball park. That probably describes ENBs of the world. Most of the people who are “woke” come to it from a place of sincerity. They believe the language and the narrative and they think that they are helping minorities and “historically oppressed people.” Like most political ideologies, wokism’s basic appeal is in it’s simplicity and it’s righteousness. A third grader could hear the basic premise and their initial reaction would be to see it as morally good and hard to argue with. The problem, also like most political ideologies, is that the people creating and controlling the movement are almost completely insincere. The cheapest and easiest way to score political power is to pretend like you’re trying to get it to “help other people” and no matter how many times it turns out to be a scam and history repeats itself, there’s always a new gaggle of useful idiots ready to fall for it.
What really bugs me though is that the CATO people try to paint themselves as “libertarian”. If I could give the simplest explaination possible for that word, it would be people who value individual liberty above all else. Wokism is, to my eyes, an obviously collectivist – not individualist – ideology. If collectivism is what you want to be your political guiding light, so be it, but why not just be honest about it and just admit your goals line up with progressives way more? After the last few years of concessions on medical tyranny, woke sympathizing and tacitly (if slightly apprehensively) endorsing unlimited money printing, I think they really would be happier over there.
Duante Wright’s family isn’t the only one trying to make some $$ off the local po-po. Police board staffer sues because of racial discrimintation
Given that Amir Locke’s death was a really, really bad shoot, I’m thinking she should have been opening the door for the protesters.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Yes, one helluva fun game last night. OT goal was hilarious – even Kadri thought he missed! I hope the Avs finish it off tomorrow night so we can get back to proper summertime.
And now we wait for the SCOTUS decisions to come down. At least one biggie today and the other tomorrow, I would wager.
Interesting that they added Friday to the schedule. Same as all bad news – release it on a Friday to minimize impact? If they overturn RvW, not sure it’s gonna make any difference.
Summer of Love inbound!
tl;dr- Haha, suckers!
The U.S. Forest Service failed to account for the effects of climate change when it conducted a controlled burn in April that prompted the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s history, the agency said in a report published on Tuesday.
The agency depended on multiple miscalculations, poor weather data and underestimated how dry conditions were in the Southwest when crews ignited a prescribed burn that led to the ongoing Calf Canyon/Hermits Creek fire, according to the agency’s 80-page review.
The blaze, which has burned more than 341,000 acres and destroyed hundreds of homes, comes amid a prolonged drought and extreme temperatures in the region.
“The devastating impact of this fire to the communities and livelihoods of those affected in New Mexico demanded this level of review to ensure we understand how this tragic event unfolded,” Forest Service chief Randy Moore said in a statement. “I cannot overstate how heartbreaking these impacts are on communities and individuals.”
If some retard started that fire by shooting roman candles off in his back yard during a gender reveal party, they’d lock him up and throw away the key. Accountability is for chumps. And civilians.
It wasn’t us! It was climate change! Yeah, climate change, that’s the ticket!
From Gifford Pinchot to Randy Moore. Just going on the name alone, and leaving everything else aside, is indicative of the decline.
The EPA laughs at the USFS amateurs
Although, I bet they are a bit miffed they didn’t work climate change into their excuses.
“We tried that forest thinning/fuels reduction approach and it didn’t work. We’re just going to have to go full on firefighting with additional funding (cue the Antiplanner) and heavy handed ineffective restrictions on how you live and what you do.”
Ranchers in North Texas do prescribed burns. As one cowboy (as in, real cowboy who works cattle from horseback) told Pater Dean “Its a controlled burn until someone lights a match.”
From the Kamala/NH story:
1) The unmitigated disaster of the Iowa Caucuses? I think it was good for Team Blue to work out their “fortifying” voting processes there before trying it nation wide. They worked, but they were crude. It was pretty obvious that Bernie got jobbed out of a victory. What they learned there helped in WI, GA and PA later in November.
2) I think it is silly that Iowa and NH always have to go first. Not because of racism though. In fact, if I was a party big wig, the only other states I’d let go first would be other flyover states like SC, NC, TN, MS, AL, etc. I’d want to try to use a state with normal people to vote first to weed out the weirdos. But what they want is to have NY and CA go first and pick a real whacko.
Remember that is saying the Democratic voters/caucusers are racists.
I wonder how Obama did in those racist white states?
DNC idiots just cannot understand why their own party doesn’t like Kamala Harris. Their first thought, racism. (The irony of why their party is falling apart is lost on them.)
Isn’t letting NY and CA kingmake an extremist an absolute gift to the Republican party in the general election?
Only if the GOP doesn’t nominate some idiot like Mittens.
The only reason Trump won the nomination in 2016 is because he was the one candidate that everyone thought would actually get tough with Hillary. All the rest of them would have listened to the political consultants who would have said that it would be bad optics to be seen attacking a woman.
NY and CA going first does a couple of things:
(1) So many delegates are awarded that the winner there is off to a lead that may be impossible to beat.
(2) The winner will be the leftmost remotely plausible candidate of both parties.
Which gives republicans a huge advantage at winning.
How about we make the parties pay for and schedule their own primaries? Let them set the rules they want and get the states the fuck out of it?
Big Chief Plenty Good Wampum builds his legacy
President Biden plans to appoint tribal leader Marilynn Malerba as U.S. treasurer, making her the first Native American to hold that position — and the first Native woman to have her signature appear on American currency.
Malerba is the 18th chief of the Mohegan Tribe, and its first female chief in modern history. Before becoming chief — a lifetime appointment made by the Tribe’s Council of Elders — in 2010, she was the chair of the tribal council and served in tribal government as the executive director of health and human services. She is also a former member of the Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee.
As treasurer, she will oversee the U.S. Mint, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the storage of gold at Fort Knox, as well as serve as a senior adviser to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on issues regarding community development and public engagement.
She will also lead the Treasury’s newly established Office of Tribal and Native Affairs, which will coordinate tribal relations across the department and house staff dedicated to communication with tribal nations.
“I am honored and humbled by Secretary Yellen and the Biden Administration’s commitment to ensuring that all voices are heard by Treasury as we work together to create an equitable and just society,” Malerba said in a statement. “It is especially important that our Native voices are respected.”
Joe’s jungle fever strikes again.
For all I know she makes Jamie Dimon look like a drooling imbecile, but the obsessive compulsive first!-ing grows ever more wearisome.
Why the fuck does Treasury need an Office of Tribal and Native Affairs?
To Not Tax them.
Esoteric Constitutional law joke, very nice
I figured you lot would get it.
Still ok to penaltrade with them, right?
Has anyone seen Biden and Bro together at the same time?
So she’s not the first female chief of the Mohegans, but you don’t want the count the others because reasons.
And Wilma Mankiller rolls her eyes.
Previous national polling showed that, as of now, Harris is a weak candidate in a general election but has strength in a presidential primary without Biden.
The same Harris that was polling around 1% the last time around? Who dropped out without a single delegate before her own state’s primary?
The way I see it, Democrats were fairly familiar with Harris, and rejected her roundly. Then the rest of America had Harris foisted on them, and they pretty much despise her.
The rank and file of corporate America might grudgingly have to deal with DIE being shoved down their throats, but the rubes in the sticks have made up their mind about a diversity hire for the Resolute Desk — and they don’t want it.
The fact that Harris has been VP, even though she makes the fictional one in Veep look good, is enough. Not sure it’s enough to get her over 50% but it’s enough to get her over 1%. For a lot of people, just sitting in the chair for a time is enough to make a resume.
I hope they run her in 2024. Give Kamala Harris more face time. Even the MSM cannot polish that turd enough to make it a winner. (As long as the GOP candidate is smart enough to let Harris talk and ruin herself. Or, let her laugh!)
Why the fuck does Treasury need an Office of Tribal and Native Affairs?
You slay me.
To study the feasibility of converting the U.S. to a bead and beaver pelt-based monetary system?
Unironically would still be better than fiat
A pox on your house for that joke.
Is that a blanket statement?
Switzy will be along to scalp this thread.
*narrows gaze*
So how many beads for a merkin?
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vilfua/robert_wadlow_the_tallest_man_ever_in_the/
Woah.
Oh, the huge Manistee!
Who was complaining about safety stuff yesterday?
Can you smarty pants find the safety violations in this simple test?
It’s amazing the risks people will take with ladders.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it rungs for you.
You’ve really stepped up your dad-puns.
Chute(s).
Wow.
Although the excavator one is actually pretty cool.
A while back we bought a tree from a nursery. Got a great deal on a really big tree because they had sold it once and the buyer had never picked it up. This thing was probably 20′ tall.
We had them tie up the branches and wrap it for the drive home. Once the thing was standing up in the hole, we needed to cut loose the twine binding the branches… way up at the top.
I ratchet-strapped an extension ladder to the rear tire of the tractor, climbed the completely vertical ladder and snipped the twine. Should have taken pictures.
Bruen Dropped – 135 pages by Thomas.
Not sure how narrow yet.
Looks like it only strikes down the ‘May Issue’ aspect, rather than properly striking down the requirement to get a government permission slip for basic rights.
That’s the way I read it. An improvement, but certainly not a huge win.
This was a huge smackdown on the appeals court though. I’m going to be uncharacteristically optimistic that this decision will open a flood gate of other cases where a gun restriction exists because of the “government’s interest”.
I’m not looking primarily at the courts. I’m looking at New York, where the response is going to be to find ways to make the process onerous enough to prevent issuing any licenses.
A $2500 issuing fee?
Minimum of $250,000, plus annual renewals, forms the size of an unabridged dictionary, two dozen character references, insurance, monthly training requirements…
Intermediate scrutiny which was a fig leaf on rational basis may just have died a very deserved death.
Well, that certainly gives away too much. After all, our historic tradition of regulation includes bans on carrying openly or concealed, bans on affordable handguns, etc.
Court smacks gun grabbers in the face!
https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/announcement-of-opinions-for-thursday-june-23/
Man, what’s going on with Roe v Wade? Doing anything not to release it.
Last one out….as the Justices will be taillights by then.
The rioters are gearing up. It’s gonna be couple months of violence followed by the next pandemic.
Shit show summer.
Long Hot Summer + Monkeypox = Electoral Success
Kind of a weird strategy but we’ll see.
Whoops, I forgot a war. Gotta have a war.
Luckily I think risking nuclear holocaust has moved down to plan D. But plans A (abortion riots), B (monkeypox??? like 8 people have gotten it) & C (total supply chain & currency collapse) are so obviously bad that there’s still a good chance we’ll end up there.
Just remember, all of those things are still better than Republicans having a small minority in Congress where they pretend to push back and slow down giving the D’s everything want but eventually cave. Yep, lawlessness, medical tyranny, backsliding into a third party nation and nuclear war will all save democracy from those totalitarian Republicans!
If only!
Hot Town, Monkeypox City
Burnin’ down, fire so pretty
I’m glad I’m not the only one who had that song pop into their head.
Yay for peeps in commie states.
Malicious compliance will neuter the effect right quick.
From the comments
Because Constitutionally protected rights only apply to the version at the time of ratification. Does that retard really think 1A doesn’t apply to television, radio, or the internet? Probably.
Well ya, press meant a credential not the means duh
/looks at FCC licensing for television and radio
So how fast will this be ignored?
Governor Harpy is already holding a press conference swearing to get around it.
And will NJ pretend it doesn’t apply to their exact same “may issue” law.
Calls from the left for stacking the court in 3… 2… 1…
Or outright dissolution.
A guy too dumb to know he’s paraphrasing Jackson.
Dumb enough to probably think you mean Bo.
Bo knows the Constitution!
And Thomas wrote the opinion.
I’m wrong. I thought it would be Roberts in an attempt to eviscerate the opinion.
I haven’t read the opinion, but this little blurb at the end shows promise:
The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is
not “a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules
than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 780
(plurality opinion). The exercise of other constitutional rights does not
require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special
need. The Second Amendment right to carry arms in public for selfdefense is no different. New York’s proper-cause requirement violates
the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with
ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and
bear arms in public. Pp. 62–63.
I kept trying to post about this but the server ate all my attempts.
There’s language in the SCOTUS decision that appears to make explicit the protection of modern firearms by 2A.
Pg 19 by page number 25 in the PDF.
That’s what I was trying to post about 25 times and gave up. Thanks!
I’d like to see a challenge to the NFA on these grounds.
They’ll leap over to the “unusually dangerous” canard that was left in and keep that abomination alive.
Except they’re not at all unusual. And it would present an opportunity to enshrine in law the idea that “arms” doesn’t just mean “sporting arms.”
Recession? What recession?
The retail industry is up against a potential wave of bankruptcies following a monthslong slowdown in restructuring activity.
There could be an increase in distressed retailers beginning later this year, experts say, as ballooning prices dent demand for certain goods, stores contend with bloated inventory levels and a potential recession looms.
Last week, 90-year-old cosmetics giant Revlon filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, making it the first household consumer-facing name to do so in months.
Now the questions are: Which retailer will be next? And how soon?
“Retail is in flux,” said Perry Mandarino, co-head of investment banking and head of corporate restructuring at B. Riley Securities. “And within the next five years, the landscape will be much different than it is today.”
The industry had seen a dramatic pullback in restructurings in 2021 and early 2022 as companies — including those that had been on so-called bankruptcy watch lists — received relief from fiscal stimulus that offered cash infusions to businesses and stimulus dollars to consumers. The pause followed a flood of distress in 2020, near the onset of the pandemic, as dozens of retailers including J.C. Penney, Brooks Brothers, J. Crew and Neiman Marcus headed to bankruptcy court.
Moar E Z Money, plz. We’ll restructure our way to prosperity, or kill the economy trying.
NO FUCKING WAY!!
From the SCOTUS decision blog page:
“Does anyone else think it is odd that SCOTUS says that the 2nd Amendment is not limited to only firearms that existed when the Constitution was adopted, but the only restrictions on the 2nd Amendment must’ve been around when the Constitution was adopted?”
I certainly don’t find it odd. Eat a dick dumbass.
Both principles are specious, because if we really start digging into the court’s jurisprudence, there are exceptions all over the place. When the First Amendment was adopted, there were state churches. Granted they were all gone organically by the 1830s, but the Founders didn’t see any contradiction between the two things (it was the Federal government, and only the Federal government, that was prohibited from establishing a religion). Meanwhile, like one atheist woman has run amok through the courts gutting any hint of religion in state government.
“establishing a religion?” My pocket BofR says “establishment of religion.” Seems that “a religion” would be declaring, say, that Mormonism was the official religion of the United States; whereas “of religion” would include Christian sects, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, etc. etc. The BofR pretty clearly uses a very broad definition.
I’m not sure what this means with respect to what I said.
There were state churches in 1789 and part of the premise of the union of the states was that none of those state churches would be elevated above the others.
There wasn’t really a fear that Islam or the not-yet-existent Mormonism was going to be established nationally.
I guess I didn’t make clear. I’ve heard people (conservatives in particular) say that the 1st prohibits establishing a particular church, like Methodism, but would allow the Feds to pass laws favoring, say, Christians as long as they don’t favor a particular denomination. Others (libertarian perhaps) believe that adding “In God We Trust” to coinage is a prohibited “establishment of religion.”
Ah. I think the Founders would have largely sided with the conservatives, but a case can be made that Jefferson at least might have sided with the libertarians.
Looks like I was taking Protonix for a REASON and not just running out an rx I had to use while I had ulcers. Thanks, GERD. I gotta get this burping under control so I can go out into the workaday world with one fewer idiosyncrasy. braaaaaaap
Worth a re-post.
Silver-tongued devil.
I wish the clip was a few seconds longer. I can’t stop watching Harris’ WTF look at Joe.
I’ll bet she doesn’t sleep at night. She just curls up in the fetal position, sobs uncontrollably and repeats “how am I less popular than him???” like a broken record.
https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1539979772473839620
6-3, I still don’t know what the ramifications are of this.
It means “May Issue” is unconstitutional – until they pass another law that takes a decade to work it’s way through the courts.
That is pretty much what Kavanaugh said in his concurrence. Shall issue is valid unless a shall issue state is not really operating as shall issue.
It means communist states like New Jersey with “may issue” will simply ignore the ruling, because FYTW.
A lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth?
Malding as usual, but making every state shall issue is a huge improvement. It’s crazy how dangerous it is to travel through some states with even a locked firearm in a vehicle.
Nah, the “may issue” states will place so many requirements on “shall issue” (excessive and absurd insurance requirements, extensive training, “certification” by “licensed” instructors who will be few and far between, excessive background checks and waiting times, etc.) that they will remain de-facto “may issue”.
Interesting footnote in Bruen
While I’m annoyed that they’re letting licenses stand, he does set the groundwork for challenges to the anticipated new roadblocks.
I think this also opens the door for reciprocity amongst the states, like drivers licenses.
I would have thought that the Full Faith and Credit clause would mandate reciprocity.
My dream of being able to cross the Delaware river while armed has awoken from it’s coma.
I’ll have to read that clause again, but I could imagine it being twisted in crazy ways to allow states to ban things in other states.
Are you going to do so standing in a rowboat?
Vaguely worded enough to allow Acts reaching across state lines to restrict liberties? Probably would be struck down but if even a smidge of a camel’s nose were allowed under that tent flap…
In existing jurisprudence it has made it so that states must recognize drivers licenses, marriage licenses and divorce decrees issued by others states. If we are not to declare firarms license requirements appropriately unconsitutional, then the states must recognize each others’ issuances.
Oh, the ignorant hysteria spooging all over Twitter. Or would it be hysterical ignorance?
Yes.
Yes. The progressive tears are an early Xmas gift! Wait until the mid-terms. Tears will floweth!
“Supreme Court lawyer”
I mean…it’s not a constitutional eifgr but I guess we can go with that
Errr…..right
Has he not read the 10th amendment?
That must be the abortion one.
9th would be the abortion one..
An anti-abortion woman I once knew, said “Using the 9th to justify abortion is like using it to justify beating your wife with a branch no thicker than your thumb.”
This is why both sides are so insane on the issue
*Holds up text of the 2nd Amendment next to the identical text of the i’th Amendment*
You have to hold them up orthogonally to compare, though.
Yes, much of this crap does come from the i’th amendment.
That’s the one we need to repeal.
Abortion, what amendment is that, exactly? Because I know bearing arms is the second.
Mood today:
Yes.
+1scorn and rebuke
The irony. An unvaccinated manager is on the team that tracks covid positives and cleanings. Way to go FAA! I shall torpedo the process along the way!
Wrecker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKLIivrA3g0
Fuck Olberman
https://mobile.twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1539984529074622465
Deeply intellectual response there Keith. But nothing we haven’t come to expect from you.
My God, the stupid! It burns!
Why am I not surprised that he’s able to expose his low class and his sexist bigotry in 100 characters?
Fuck Olberman
Ewwww
Put me off my lunch, too.
I don’t think she was offering, I think she was STEVE SMITHing.
^^^^
Was just on a meeting, one of the participants had a very American name, and then she started talking. I was trying to figure out her accent, where she was from, then I figured it out…she is Cajun. My company is based in Memphis, so not a real surprise, but I wasn’t expecting it.
I’m lucky to hear an accent from the continental United States other than those native to new york.
So many Indian contractors…
My accent fits in with my job way more than it does in Colorado.
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