WATERMELONS SUE FAA OVER SPACEX LAUNCHES: They are going after the launch permit issued to SpaceX for launches from SpaceX’s facility at Boca Chica, TX. Predictably, the lawsuit was joined by a group of Native Americans – creation myth, sacred land, etc. Funny how we always hear about these sacred sites after something gets built on or near them, and how there is no central registry of claimed sacred sites, etc.
CANADIAN TRANS TERRORISTS VANDALIZE WOMEN-ONLY RAPE SHELTER: While I condemn the actions of these people, I hope they keep doing it as it will only undermine them. Background here; note the web domain name in the URL.
INCELS REJOICE: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declares loneliness is an epidemic. Now incels will finally get those government-assigned girlfriends to whom they think they’re entitled. You think we’re kidding, right? That is no more ridiculous or overreaching than the actual laundry list of things Murthy wants: Strengthening social infrastructure, like building more parks and libraries, and enacting pro-connection policies, like having accessible public transportation or paid family leave, are two of Murthy’s pillars he says will help overcome loneliness. He also said reforming digital environments is a pillar of his plan, saying people must be aware of how online environments may negatively affect their social connections.
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT? The Ohio Supreme Court has tossed out a burglary conviction for a man who walked past a homeowner and took a leaf blower, saying it wasn’t burglary because the man made no effort to conceal what he was doing. Perhaps this does not indeed meet the definition of burglary, but why did prosecutors charge him with that instead of simple theft (taking shit that’s not yours) which we presume is also a crime under Ohio law?
POINT AND LAUGH: CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for covid following CDC conference.
WHO NEEDS FACTS? A good read from Taki’s Magazine on the reliability of crime statistics, and people who hate the truth.
VIRGINIA SOCIALITE ARRESTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGES: This is significant because she was arrested as part of an FBI sting operation, and because she was formerly married to a federal magistrate judge.
Maybe he won’t notice?
*shrug*
Mayhaps, but I dobut it.
Heh.
The Great Firster always notices everything. And I, as the vessel of his seed, am his vengeance.
*insert “You’re so vain” here*
He deserves a Weird Al rendition – “You’re in-sane”.
Why are my ears burning?
Maybe Elon can do a land acknowledgement on Mars.
“We acknowledge that this land was taken from the green headed R.J. tribe, and we stand on the ground where The R.J’s once had a sacred 7-11.”
“SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch site is surrounded by state parks, National Wildlife Refuge lands and important habitat for imperiled wildlife, including piping plovers, northern aplomado falcons, Gulf Coast jaguarundi, ocelots and critically endangered sea turtles,” the Center for Biological Diversity wrote in a statement today(opens in new tab).
Luckily things like windmills and solar arrays do not harm these same creatures.
As noted in last Thursday’s links, the US Fish and Wildlife service found no dead birds or wildlife in the Boca Chica National Wildlife Refuge after the launch. The left hates Musk because he exposed Twitter’s censorship and collusion with government. They are using their environmentalist wing and Native American surrogates to attack him.
The swiftness with which he fell from grace among the enviro-nazis and became le based and redpilled space man among the /pol/acks has been interesting to observe.
Sksksksksk, they added.
I’ve driven by the Boca Chica site. There ain’t shit there. If there was a giant explosion absolutely nothing would be affected.
“A few days earlier, a dead rat was nailed to the door. It wasn’t the first one. Spokesperson Hilla Kerner told the Courier that more “dead roadkill” was found nailed to the door recently, and a few months ago someone shoved a dead animal into the mail slot.”
If those rats aren’t from a pet store, that sounds like a lot of work.
” Lawyer Adrienne Smith (who uses “they” pronouns) spoke against VRRWS city funding. Previously, Smith has expressed support for Yaniv, who filed numerous human rights complaints against female estheticians for refusing to wax Yaniv’s genitalia. Smith felt that a BC Human Rights Decision affirming that women should not be compelled to wax male genitalia was a “step backward for trans people””
CWAA
Dammit, not I need to find out if Yanniv was convicted of those illegal weapons it possessed and/or had any punishment.
Convicted, no punishment.
Oh, that’s a good point about the rats.
If they were super rats it would be even more work!
Turtle Molesting Rats?
I thought it was going to be a link to a secret history about the Ninja Turtles and Splinter’s dark proclivities when they were prepubescents. Nope, it’s just about some kid that needs to be put on an FBI serial killer profiling list immediately. Unless he votes Democrat of course.
#MeToo
They were cool once.
Tuesday morning (Aug. 27) staff and volunteers arrived to find threats — “Kill TERFS, Trans Power,” “TERFS go home. You are not welcome,” “F*** TERFS” and “Trans women are women” — scrawled across the windows of the group’s Commercial Drive storefront space that is used for support and training groups.
Keep pushing, cuntes. You may find yourself transitioning to an early grave.
That is no more ridiculous or overreaching than the actual laundry list of things Murthy wants:
Strange- I did not see state subsidized brothels on the list. Probably just as well, as expressing biological sex preferences would most likely not be acceptable.
They’ll be union shops, and the workers get to choose whether to take the customer based on seniority.
Obligatory.
Hookers are allowed to accept EBT.
saying it wasn’t burglary because the man made no effort to conceal what he was doing
It’s not a crime if you don’t conceal it? Rapists are going to have a fucking field day with this reasoning.
Maybe the point the court is making is that the prosecutor charged the wrong crime or the guy was overcharged. According to the FBI, “To classify an offense as a burglary, the use of force to gain entry need not have occurred.” If that definition holds in Ohio, then it’s probably the correct decision. The last sentence of the article reads, “Bertram had been sentenced to eight to 12 years in prison, but now is facing no more than a year in jail.” That indicates that he was convicted of something, maybe theft and/or trespassing.
I believe the article mentions Criminal Trespass as what he was convicted of. Which seems a bit light to me, but I’m just a guy in Ohio, not some fancy lawyering type.
Ah, right you are. It does seem they should be able to get him on theft, but the court is right that there really was no force involved. It sounds like a screwup on the part of the prosecutor.
Force, stealth, or deception. Neither of which the criminal did apparently.
https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2911.12
“WHO NEEDS FACTS?”
I have to wonder if that Hassan dude is mendacious, stupid, or if he the thinks he’s made a really clever point. Maybe it’s all three.
Let’s say he knows his audience, in which case mendacious and stupid are prized attributes.
While thinking they are clever.
[ji high fives JR]
They made it big
Good Samaritans jumped into action to help rescue a pair of tourists who apparently followed their GPS directly into a harbor in Hawaii.
As first reported by the Washington Post, the incident happened on Saturday at the Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona, the west coast of the Big Island.
Next- suing the rental company and the manufacturer for hundreds of millions over a vehicle with an opaque windshield.
I’ve been right there – apparently they were looking for the manta ray dive that leaves from right next to the ramp. I somehow managed not to drive into the water.
The manta ray dive was spectacular – if you’re on the Big Island, go.
“That is no more ridiculous or overreaching than the actual laundry list of things Murthy wants.”
I’m sure that list includes changing government policy to never use lockdowns or school closures in response to another “pandemic”, right?
That is exactly where my mind went too.
All of those people dying along, grieving alone, missing out on births, weddings, etc. due to Faucivirus.
One of my coworkers says his teenaged daughter is still broken from the Covid lockdowns. Happened when she was 13-15 y.o., so a very critical time for many a young teen girl. If he ever meets Fauci in person, I swear he’d kill that little gnome.
Florida Man is nuts, but Texas Man is a real jerkoff.
A predator who broke a woman’s leg in four places while chasing after her and masturbating has been let off with probation by an ultra-liberal district attorney in Austin, Texas.
Antonio Rios — who also is facing numerous indecent exposure charges, including exposing himself to a child — is free to roam the streets despite copping to aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury.
His sentence of 10 years of probation is too soft, according to Lynn Isaak, the Austin engineer he attacked while she was jogging in her neighborhood.
During the 2021 ambush, Isaak told The Post, she tried to outrun Rios for seven miles and fight him off, but claimed he fed off her fear, fondling himself as she tried to escape.
And again I wonder, what would it take for the shitheads in Austin to ever turn on the Democratic Party?
Sorry lady. If you can’t outrun a guy who is chasing you while jerking off, I have no sympathy.
I was thinking that. Maybe he had a lot of experience and he’s honed his technique.
***Picturing very NSFW Rocky style training montage***
Training in the walk-in freezer, beating his meat?
Tripping on the treadmill after making it sticky? Making his own version of a high protein shake?
Maybe he took lessons from this guy.
For seven miles…
I gotta admit, that’s some impressive stamina.
That’s what she said?
I imagined the chase being on Segways. Just for my own amusement.
That sounds like it would be extra difficult, having to keep two things erect.
I imagined it was STEVE SMITH. After shaving.
The Ohio Supreme Court has tossed out a burglary conviction for a man who walked past a homeowner and took a leaf blower, saying it wasn’t burglary because the man made no effort to conceal what he was doing. Perhaps this does not indeed meet the definition of burglary, but why did prosecutors charge him with that instead of simple theft (taking shit that’s not yours) which we presume is also a crime under Ohio law?
If the homeowner kills him with an axe in plain view in the driveway does that not count as murder, because he made no effort to conceal what he was doing?
The “He needed killin'” defense never looked so unassailable.
A few days ago I was arguing that the conventional wisdom that the GOP has permanently lost women on account of abortion is probably overstated. Stories like this raise the question: What exactly could the collective left do to lose women? Anything? If they all left the GOP in a monolithic bloc because of 6 week abortion bans in a handful of states, is there any possibility that ladydudes in women’s prisons and rape shelters might eventually put them off, or are is the entire sex actually all just single issue abortion voters?
That is an important question. The idea of a single issue voter came to me the other day when thinking about my mom and dad. They are about as conservative as it gets (they are now going on about trans stuff), but always have and always will vote Dem. It’s because they are single issue voters. They’re worried about their Medicare and Social Security, and though they might complain about the other stuff, they vote on that one issue. Looking at it that way is saving me from a lot of mental frustration.
Thing is though, I don’t see the Republicans going after Medicare and Social Security.
Boomer republicans love those two.
They aren’t. But the Dems have mastered messaging in that area, and thus they get the voters.
Evil Republicans want your grandparents to die and eat cat food!
Vote Democrat!
By “mastered messaging” you mean deliberately lied, right?
To-may-to, to-mah-to.
Suburban urban moms are. And they are the female swing vote.
Overall, women are more pro-life than men. It’s just that RvW being overturned motivated pro-choice women to vote in the midterms.
Women in polls indeed have tended to be a bit more pro-life than men. It’s just that the pro choice side is a greater percentage. And what said Last American said above, suburban and urban moms are heavily in the pro choice camp, and if they aren’t single issue voters abortion is in their top 3. They may not like trans stuff, but don’t feel as personally threatened by it.
That’s the part that I don’t get, probably on account of the penis or something. Birth control is ubiquitous; rates of abortion and teen sex are lower than they were when Roe was decided in the ’70s. Abortion is still legal in every state and probably always will be within reasonable limits not dissimilar to those in every other advanced Western country. It’s a minority of women who get abortions, and that’s further skewed by the even smaller minority who have had multiple abortions while most women have had zero. On the other hand, you have little pissant towns rural Texas with MtF trannies using middle and high school gym locker rooms with the girls and blowing up their sports programs. The liberal urban and suburban enclaves are far worse. There probably isn’t a school district in the country that isn’t dealing with at least one pain in the ass tranny making this an issue. But the thing that’s fucking up your kids’ education and extracurricular activities on a daily basis takes a back seat to a woman who lives 2,000 miles away being unable to get an abortion in the 2nd trimester?
I have accepted that I am an outlier, and no longer try to rationalize other people’s priorities. Especially when they can’t articulate their priorities or principles to start with.
I’m pretty much with Neph on that Pat. I’m just describing, not giving my own preferences. To me, yes, the trans stuff is actually a big deal, but then I have three little kids that I have to explain this insanity to at a much earlier age than I ever expected. I’d be fine with a 12-15 week ban on all abortions save medically necessary ones. The day after pill should be, like birth control, over the counter.
For decades the Dem messaging has been relentless; “they are gonna get rid of Roe v Wade and when they do the next thing they will do is try to ban it state by state.” And then along comes the Elephants and try to push 6 week bans and put up candidates like the nutter in Michigan for governor who basically said if you get raped then tough luck deal with the kid from it.
Oh I get that entirely, I have no quarrel with you personally on the topic. It’s just such absurd illogic I can’t get my head around people who believe that way.
I think they see it like most of us view thr anti gun crowd. We know that if they got the chance they would completely outlaw all private use of firearms. They know that won’t fly so they try to get there incrementally. I do believe the pro life side would absolutely do the same if they could and as they can’t they pursue a similar incremental restriction route.
I do believe the pro life side would absolutely do the same if they could
Can confirm. If I could wave a magic wand, it would be treated the same as any other killing, with all the same penalties and carve outs (self defense in the case of life threatening issues, for example).
The social conditioning is really starting to pay off!
Holy shit…
folk will literally comply with anything without asking questions
I won’t…
Living with 3 dogs, I wouldn’t mind a complimentary lint rolling, but I get the point of the video.
Check out the P&T Bullshit episode about recycling, where they have people sorting garbage into a dozen different color coded cans.
I’m going to say government-assigned girlfriends is more ridiculous or overreaching than building more parks and libraries,
A Fleshlight in every nightstand?
Shut up and accept your new girlfriend, Steve, er Stephanie.
CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for covid following CDC conference.
I’m too lazy to RTFA. Would any of those people even have known, had they not been tested?
*Maybe the question should be “How many of those people…”
LOL! Nice lede.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declares loneliness is an epidemic.
As much as I want to mock, I’m not sure that this isn’t true. It’s so fucking unhealthy. Not that the government solutions will do jack shit.
Still,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKeH7JYE48
I think there is something to it. Kids especially are so into their electronics and social media, they don’t have actual human connection, and they grow up without learning how to relate to people.
Yes. Also the fear mongering that scared parents out of free ranging their kids had profound negative consequences.
My older kid is 5 right now and I’m definitely really starting to see how well the fear mongering has taken hold. She plays with our next door neighbor’s kid all the time, but the other mom still insists we escort them between each other’s house. We live in one of the lowest crime cities imaginable. What does she think is going to happen?
I find myself always naturally leaning towards helicoptering my kids, not because I’m concerned myself, but just because I don’t want to have a confrontation with some helicopter Karen.
I think there’s an open question to what extent online interaction can replace in-person. It may be the case that people adapt to it the same way as they did to steam engines, electricity, factory work, telephones, etc. Of course, it’s going to be a better fit for some than others owing to natural variations in personality. I was kind of an in-between. Digital socializing wasn’t really a thing until I was an adolescent, and even then it was primitive and certainly less ubiquitous than now. And look at me, it’s not like I turned out to be a neurotic privacy schizo or anything…
It’s okay. You’re in a safe space for neurotic privacy schizos.
Maybe you shouldn’t have locked down society for a year and a half, jackass.
This and what TOK said.
You know why you’re lonely? Because you have no friends. Do you know why you have no friends? Because no one likes you. Do you know why no one likes you?
Because you’re a real jerk.
Next question
On the other hand I don’t have to deal with friends needing to borrow 20 bucks or help them move. Being an asshole has it’s benefits.
He’s not wrong.
But all of the points others have made here are true.
This was published in 2001:
https://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Community/dp/0743203046
It’s not a new trend.
Fucking courts! Keeping a man from doing what he loves!
Shawn Kemp has a sad
Bro?
Cro – does it the old way, personally delivered.
I’d like to see any manmade court try and stop me from Firsting.
Better bring a lot of friends to enforce that one because I aint going without a fight.
They say if you find a job you love, you’ll never work a day in your life…
a dead rat was nailed to the door
The unions won’t take that sort of intellectual property infringement lying down.
It’s ok, their thing is the Giant Inflatable Rat.
*cringe*
North America shares a unique history and culture that emphasizes innovation, equitable development, and mutually beneficial trade to create inclusive economic opportunities for the benefit of our people. We are not just neighbors and partners. Our people share bonds of family and friendship and value – above all else – freedom, justice, human rights, equality, and democracy. This is the North American DNA.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is foundational to the strength, vibrancy, and resilience of our countries. We focus on providing marginalized communities opportunities for their full, equal, and meaningful participation in our democracies and economies. To advance these objectives, President López Obrador, President Biden, and Prime Minister Trudeau reiterated their joint commitment to protect civil rights, promote racial justice, expand protections for LGBTQI+ individuals and deliver more equitable outcomes to all.
In partnership with Indigenous Peoples, we will promote innovative and sustainable solutions that honor traditional knowledge, foster Indigenous-led growth and drive job creation. We will continue our cooperation to build societies where Indigenous women and girls can live, learn, and lead without fear through the Trilateral Working Group on Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls. Indigenous women from all three countries will convene in the coming weeks to facilitate discussions about priorities and best practices including in areas of political, economic, and social development. The three countries also reaffirm our commitment to gender equality and empowerment of women and girls, in all their diversity by aiming to improve financial and political support for women’s and girl’s rights.
That’s one hell of a woke word salad.
Then what do you need a government affirmative action program for?
“Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls”. That’s something that pops up in the news now and then. What is the source of the violence? Is it bad wipipo taking advantage of poor Indian women, or is the violence coming from inside the wigwam? Whenever I see a media story about it, they are assiduous about avoiding that question, which probably indicates it’s the latter.
Go fuck yourself.
these sacred sites
YOU DIDN’T ORIGINATE THERE ASSHOLES. Your people migrated – just like every other human group, out of Africa – and then your great**(x)-grandparents made up stories.
The Bud Light boycott is just the beginning
Again, chicks in beer commercials are supposed to be hot.
Eh, if Lizzo did a Bud Light commercial I don’t think there would have been a boycott.
Tres would’ve gone broke buying Bud Light tall cans.
If it were some hot trans I don’t think there would have been a boycott.
Hmm, maybe. A Hershey’s boycott didn’t take off, and that lady-man was not attractive.
…can you name a hot trans?
Yes. There are many of them. Although, besides those in sex work, media, or entertainment, most don’t go around advertising that they are trans.
This meme explains the backlash as succinctly as possible.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs4F6OlWIAEA_qF?format=jpg&name=large
Perfect.
In a call with analysts to discuss the financial results, Anheuser-Busch executives were peppered with questions about the backlash. They repeatedly noted that the promotion was limited to one influencer, Dylan Mulvaney, and one social media post, and that beer cans displaying her image had not been produced for mass distribution.
The company said that senior executives would oversee all marketing campaigns before they are rolled out, and that it would largely focus its advertising and marketing around sports and music. The company noted it was a sponsor of the recent NFL draft and the Stagecoach music festival in California last week.
Paywall
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/business/bud-light-transgender-promotion.html
It’s really entertaining to me to see how this boycott appears to have legs. People who drank nothing but Bud Light have learned about other AB-InBev brands to avoid them too. This is something that usually only the beer geeks really know.
Bros Drinking Cosmos Laugh At Friend Ordering Bud Light
I want it to destroy Anheuser.
The control of corporations by the mutual funds who hate the customers needs to die.
Cheers. May this be the first fuckwit corporation to die. May small business and caring about your customers flourish.
*Raises water glass and takes antibiotic
May the Fourth be with you? (PNSFW)
Bravo!
It’s really tight in there, you’re going to have to feel your way in.
Using the force might not be a good idea in this case.
No quick plunge, just take it slow and steady.
The assistance of a last minute friend might save the day
There is a good chance you’ll fail to make it in and impact will be on the surface
“Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls”. That’s something that pops up in the news now and then. What is the source of the violence? Is it bad wipipo taking advantage of poor Indian women, or is the violence coming from inside the wigwam? Whenever I see a media story about it, they are assiduous about avoiding that question, which probably indicates it’s the latter.
Let’s just say the Seventh Cavalry had it coming.
And…
Who can reply?
People @NESN mentioned can reply
Juuuust a bit outside.
∞% better than Fauci.
“I can open any organization I want and discriminate against the people I don’t like… but when I start to bring taxpayer funding into this, it makes this entire room responsible for my actions,” she said.”
Yes…YES! Let them feed upon themselves!
Ugh, I have a box full of Dat72 tapes that can’t just be tossed. We don’t have a degausser of course…looks like pulling tape and putting in shredder is in my future….or drive 20 minutes outside of Vegas and have a little night time bonfire.
isnt there a chain of custody involved in document destruction these days?
I know back when I held a clearance there was.
No I just put on a Hillary nametag and its all good. It isn’t secret info, just needs to be disposed of but can’t be in regular trash. So complicated.
The UPS Store does document shredding. They might let you shred the tape as long as you remove it from the cart first.
Can’t you just get some powerful magnets?
Tannerite, brah.
Iron Mountain will take it off your hands, and provide a paper to that effect.
https://locations.ironmountain.com/nv/las-vegas/IM064/
I think that’s who actually does the shredding under contract for the UPS Store locations as well.
The company that we contracted to do bulk paper shredding also did hard drives. Should be able to handle tape cartridges as well.
This.
We have hard-drives shredded. They can handle tapes.
“Shake Shack announced its new vegan desserts, featuring AI-generated dairy-free milk, will be in all 260 US stores on Friday.
In 2022, the fast food joint partnered with NotCo to use its AI-generated dairy-free milk, called NoMilk, for its chocolate milkshake and frozen custard.
NoMillk was created by “Giuseppe” — NotCo’s AI system — that can analyze food products on a molecular level and replicate it using only plant-based options.”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/shake-shacks-vegan-shakes-and-ice-cream-were-created-by-ai/
AI generated dairy free milk? How do you milk a computer? They don’t even have nipples.
Computers have always had internal milk processing units. Without them, serial ports wouldn’t work at all.
I suppose you could probably milk the mouse too.
Well, now that they no longer have balls…
During the change over between optical and traditional mice, several help desk people at a place I worked got in trouble for asking people reporting problems with their mouse if it was “male or female”.
I think it was referring to the optical sensor as the clit that really got them in trouble…
Like the funeral home guy who got in trouble for asking “smoking or non-smoking?”
Those balls just got dirty and sticky and stopped working after a while.
It’s happened to all of us.
Something something more of what you reward, less of what you punish
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said Tuesday she’s “outraged” by a video of a crowd assaulting a man at an illegal sideshow on Sunday.
Multiple local TV stations shared video of the sideshow, which featured cars speeding around in circles and doing doughnuts and other stunts at the intersection of 34th and Adeline streets. The TV stations reported that the man who was attacked had been frustrated by the sideshow. NBC Bay Area said he threw a bucket at one of the cars before the crowd began beating him; KTVU said he hit a participating car with his hand. The TV stations also posted video of the man being kicked and punched. (Warning: The videos are extremely disturbing.)
“The brutal attack was just the latest example of how illegal sideshows put our communities at risk and create unsafe environments that can lead to violence,” Thao wrote on Twitter.
The Oakland Police Department said it is investigating the assault. The department said it received multiple calls about sideshow activity, gunshots and reports of the attack.
And when organized “vigilantism” appears, the mayor will be shocked and appalled and call for the police to crack downruthlessly on the spoilsports.
What was great was Gavin was off complaining about other States’ violence while this was happening.
“Sideshow”? OK.
Gotta marvel that the guy seemed to expect some different outcome.
A couple blocks from my great grand parents’ house. Growing up in Bay Area I couldn’t imagine wanting to live anywhere else. And I lived in a housing project in East Oakland – a different. World now.
That says a lot.
This is significant because she was arrested as part of an FBI sting operation, and because she was formerly married to a federal magistrate judge
and the judge is using arrest to ask for custody. No incentives there…,
“Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was convicted on Thursday of orchestrating a plot for members of his far-right extremist group to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election.
A jury in Washington, D.C., found Tarrio guilty of seditious conspiracy after hearing from dozens of witnesses over more than three months in one of the most serious cases brought in the stunning attack that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, as the world watched on live TV.
It’s a significant milestone for the Justice Department, which has now secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the leaders of two major extremist groups prosecutors say were intent on keeping Democrat Joe Biden out of the White House at all costs. The charge carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/ex-proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-found-guilty-of-jan-6-sedition-plot/
“At all costs”, all the way up to walking calmly into a building past security hold doors for you, and into a queue between velvet ropes.
Ray Epps? Ray Epps who?
I would have thought NYP would have actually had the balls to point out that it’s widely and openly known that Tarrio was an informant. The guy that just went to jail for orchestrating a coup attempt was in regular contact with the Feds, but I guess there’s nothing fishy about that whatsoever.
This morning Fourscore complained about an expensive plumber visit to unclog a drain.
If it makes you feel better, that was a reasonable price. Over a decade ago the wife could not contain herself from flushing baby wipes in the main bathroom. There is apparently a rough spot that these can hook on near the joint of that spur, so this happened repeatedly, eventually blocking a chunk of the house.
The plumbers charged $360 to power auger the thing. This happened twice and I went looking for alternatives. Turns out, you can rent the machine at home depot. It was $45 back then.
So every couple of years I rent the thing and my wife swears she didn’t do it, despite having bought “flushable wipes” and telling me it will be fine when I object.
So… if that type of plumbing is where your clog is, the machine is fairly easy to use and does save most of the cash.
Downside is you spend a couple of hours schlepping and cleaning and running it. My particular issue is hard to reach as the snake has to run up the correct leg of the drain system. So it takes a few tries to get it unclogged.
I have the snake but the years have been kind of non forgiving to Ol’ Fourscore. Besides everyone needs to eat. The plumber said he had another job after me so that probably took his whole day. In addition he may not have a another call for a day or two.
I pay for his time, mileage and expertise. I don’t like it but my wife is happy so I’m happy. I complain and that’s why I have no friends…
His real name is Joe, so Joe the Plumber
A day for the olde farts to call a plumber. Just had to do that _haven’t heard back yet. Snake didn’t work, neither did pressurizing the drain with a drain bladder and the garden hose.
OT @ 4score: I’m planning on heading west from Wisconsin after CPRM’s b-day fest, arriving in MN on 5/14. I’d email you directly about possibly meeting you or even staying in your cabin, but can’t find your email addy. Remembered the Baltic country, but that’s all. If you could kindly let me know, or hit me up at pjshpip (at) gmail (dot) com, I’d appreciate it.
I ended up renting a snake from a local hardware place after calling three different drain companies and one full-service plumber and being blown off for 2 days with no functioning toilet. Want anything done right…
If you have less than 25ft that you need to go and own a drill, you can get one of these and DIY for $15. I have one and it’s worked multiple times.
I have a smaller one like that for the indoor drain lines, but I needed the 75 footer for my main line to reach the street.
Also, there is no such thing as a flushable wipe, no matter what the package says. Do not believe them! IT’S A LIE!
I have a 25 footer, I couldn’t make a turn at 90 degree elbow the last time, 3-4-5 years ago. It was long enough but in spite of my efforts I couldn’t navigate the turn. It worked for a couple years or more but alas…
TIL, Ken Bone is still around and following Michael Malice:
And kinda based.
Today in lolz: https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/04/i-am-a-white-person-uc-berkeley-scholar-apologizes-for-wrongly-claiming-to-be-native-american-her-whole-life/
On Monday, Hoover issued an apology that confirmed what other Native American scholars and activists had been saying about her for more than a year — that the Ivy League-educated expert on environmental health and food justice in Native American communities is a White person who long presented herself as a Native American academic, as she built a high-flying academic career and gained a position at one of America’s top public universities.
What did they have to lose?
A hole?
Ooh. An “expert” in “food justice”. Who would have thought she could be a scammer.
Good news dept: South Carolina will repeal its certificate of need laws this week.
🥳🥳🥳
It still boggles my mind how CON laws could have possibly been constitutionally upheld.
The police power of the states to enable police states.
Excellent.
Ugh, I have a box full of Dat72 tapes that can’t just be tossed. We don’t have a degausser of course…looks like pulling tape and putting in shredder is in my future….or drive 20 minutes outside of Vegas and have a little night time bonfire.
I don’t know if this would work for you, but one of my friends got some impressively powerful magnets from Amazon. Maybe you could wind the tape slowly with a drill in contact with a strong magnet.
Don Lemon and the demise of the sneering media
Lemon will be replaced somebody with exactly the same opinions. Tucker won’t be.
I read the Spiked article this morning. They have some good writers. Like early reason in a lot of ways.
Indeed. Before the Kochosoros monster lost its mind and ate Reason, they used to have Brendan O’Neill as a guest columnist from time to time, which is actually how I found out about them.
I’m definitely stealing Kochosoros.
With numbers like that he’s a shoo in for President, as we learned in 2020.
But what if Tucker earned the loyalty of millions simply by not insulting them every night?
“I been to one World’s Fair, a picnic and a rodeo, and that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a pair of earphones.”
I’m sure Soros only backed the most eminently qualified DA candidates in all the local campaigns he bankrolled. 🙄
Among the many issues with this one is that apparently when she was supposed to be, you know, prosecuting criminal cases, she was attending nursing classes. 🤡🌎
(May need to be opened in Private window.)
Soros supported the candidates most likely to create havoc. He’s a vandal.
I see upthread that the Proudboys bunch got convicted. If you’re to the right of AOC stay the hell out of DC, you simply won’t get a fair trial. Maybe put NYC in that category too.
One of the guys wasn’t even in DC on 1/6. This is beyond fucked up.