BREAKING – TRUMP TO SURRENDER AT 7:30 PM ET TONIGHT: Via Bloomberg (link to archive, since paywalled).
HAWAII GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WIN COVETED WOODCHIPPER AWARD, YET AGAIN: Blocked only paved road out of town during Lahaina wildfires. Will any of these people ever be subject to personal liability in this?
LEGACY MEDIA SHITBAGGERY WATCH: “After having basked in conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, some supporters of former President Donald Trump are worried that a rally Trump is promoting outside the Fulton County Jail in Georgia ahead of his expected surrender in the state election interference case is an FBI setup.” –NBC News, Aug. 23, 2023, 8:09 PM EDT
ALBANIANS FRUSTRATED THAT ITALIANS COMING TO ALBANIA, SPENDING MONEY (MOSTLY), THEN GOING HOME: The two incidents they describe for a summer of tourism for an entire country are shocking, to be sure, but nothing compared to what goes on at a US beach town in a single busy weekend.
NJ BAGEL SHOP FINED FOR IMPROPER USE OF WINDOW TREATMENTS: Today’s regulatory overreach nutpunch.
TRUST US, WE’RE SCIENTISTS. NO, YOU CAN’T SEE OUR RAW DATA: “[M]any scientists have grown unwilling to cooperate and help their peers by sharing their work. They would “hide” their raw data, despite having taken years-long efforts to collect. They would also conceal experiments that have failed or proved insignificant. All these practices would then result in different teams wasting precious time in running the same useless studies, rather than making further progress and contributing to the world’s knowledge.”
AT LEAST THEY’RE NOT ITALIAN TOURISTS: German raccoons learn how to steal beer. Is it just me, or have lots of animals started going goblin mode on us recently?
HEY, GUYS, WE’RE UP THERE TOO: PRC scientists publish paper on lunar geology with ground-penetrating radar data acquired by China’s Yutu 2 rover which has been trucking around the Von Kármán Crater on the Moon’s farside since early 2019.
AND YOU CAN ONLY GUESS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: SC jail escapee found hiding in dryer. That must have been a tiny and very limber inmate.
“HAWAII GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WIN COVETED WOODCHIPPER AWARD”
There is some stiff competition.
“some supporters of former President Donald Trump are worried that a rally Trump is promoting outside the Fulton County Jail in Georgia ahead of his expected surrender in the state election interference case is an FBI setup”
Sounds reasonable.
The rare case in which the press is actually doing people a service. Even if this isn’t true, putting that thought into people’s minds so they stay out of that situation is a good thing.
“Come to Georgia and fight for Trump!”
sin,
Ray Epps
They’ll still vote 80% Dem in Hawaii
Even the dead ones.
Especially the dead ones.
The dead vote 100% Dem
>100%
To be fair, the Democrats in charge may have killed scores of people, but at least they aren’t Republicans.
Huh…when you put it that way…
“Will any of these people ever be subject to personal liability in this?”
Nope.
Like those cops in Texas… Granny McKillem Pantsuit herself and getting the diplomats killed in Libya… all the SWAT teams and wanna-be SWAT teams shooting kids and other innocents… Accountability is apparently completely off the table as long as you are in the Right Groups ™ these days.
Any relation? And good on Meloni for getting some of that if so.
“goblin mode”
Completely made up by someone on Twitter.
A journalist covering up that they’re just playing Baldur’s Gate 3 instead of working. When the animals go “tiefling mode”, we’ll know for sure.
They need a kender-tiefling mode.
“China’s Yutu 2 rover”
The Chinese built a working car?
3… 2… 1… No they didn’t.
“It’s totes not, like, a Fed setup! You should, like, totes show up there! It’s just a bunch of normal ‘Mericans! Pinkie swear! You gotta be there!” – Legacy Media
If they show it’s intimidation, if they don’t it’s paranoia.
“Hello my fellow insurrectionists!”
Will any of these people ever be subject to personal liability in this?
Not until after the revolution, if ever.
Qualified immunity bitchez!
Hey Lachowsky
https://imgur.com/a/EfTqHGl
Any help you can offer is appreciated.
That is a 20HP/15KW motor (I think you said 15HP earlier). If the shaft and housing are in good condition, I would agree with Lachowsky’s advice of having it rewound.
Yeah, I forgot. It’s only been in my shop for half a year now.
The question will be whether the steel shot that got into it destroyed the rotor and/or stator.
Thats a 2 pole 20 horsepower 3 phase motor. Assuming that the machine is to be used in the united states, the 380v/50Hz and 415v/50Hz ratings on it are meaningless. The only thing that matters to your application is the 480 Y/60Hz ratings. The motor frame is 132mc. If you can find a 480 3 phase 20 horse motor in that frame size, then all you should have to modify to get you there is the shaft.
There is even a pretty good chance that if you find a motor like described above, you could pull the rotor/shaft assembly out of the one you are holding and put it in the new motor and save yourself some machining dollars.
Also, whats the matter with the motor? Generally when 3 pahse AC motor fails, it is one of 2 things. either the stator windings have gone bad or the bearings have gone bad. There really isn’t anything else to fail, unless there is physical damage to the feet/frame/shaft or endbells. If the bearings are all that’s wrong with it, that’s an easy fix. If the windings are bad, that’s more complicated, but there doesn’t appear to be anything electrically special about your motor. Any motor shop worth it’s salt should have no trouble getting it back going.
quick search comes up with this-
https://shop.forcesinc.ca/products/iec-motor-20hp-3600rpm-208-230-460v-frame-132m-tefc-ija132m3-2-46
Steel shot got in and between the rotor/stator. Smoked the windings.
It’s locked up. We’ll see if the mechanic can pull the rotor tomorrow. Don’t know how much scarring there will be on the inside surfaces.
Ever since they passed the industrial motor efficiency standards circa 2006 or so, the air gap between the stator core and the outside diameter of the the rotors in industrial motors have shrunk to very small sizes. unless it was some very small steel shot, I doubt it got in there to scar up the rotor/stator.
the air gap used to be larger, which made the motors slightly less efficient, but it increased their life span. Now with the miniscule gap, a little wear in your bearings will cause your rotor to start to eat into your stator and cause a catastrophic failure instead of just a little vibration that can be detected and repaired before failure. Thank you much, bush administration efficiency nazis.
Interesting. I’ll let you know what we find.
When you have to replace an existing thing with a brand new thing because the existing one died due to efficiency requirements, it doesn’t count on your environmental sinner card.
I don’t recall the title, and I don’t know if it is in print somewhere… but that pic reminds me of a SciFi short story I read years back about an alien named Splend who came to Earth. He toured the planet, gave out some technological goodies… and then left wtih thousands of women — they found him irresistible, it seems.
All because Splend is a many lovered thing. (that was, in fact the last line of the story or something akin to that).
Quick OT: The Thursday night feature, “The End” is still in pending. If anyone out there has publish powers, please assist.
Even though you tried, it all fell apart…
It’s scheduled, R.J.
Thanks as always.
And special thanks for that illo.
All for you brotato.
OT: But a movie that you may enjoy (that’s an overlooked A movie) has hit Tubi:
Bad Times at the El Royale
Loaded cast (Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Chris Hemsworth, Nick Offerman, and more) in a Tarantino-esque movie.
I think I started it and turned it off.
Added to the list. For some reason it is not playing. Might be the same curse that hit Through the Glass Darkly, which I could never get to work.
Battle Royale (2000) is great though.
I just added a film called “Porno.”
I’m going to assume it’s not based on the Irvine Welsh novel?
I enjoyed it.
I saw Bad Times at the El Royale a couple of years ago, IIRC. It takes a bit to get into it, but it’s actually worth it in the end. Hemsworth’s character is despicable, Bridges is his usual awesome self, Dakota plays a total whack-job, et cetera. All-around good fun.
Will any of these people ever be subject to personal liability in this?
They meant well. They did their best. They deserve honor and praise.
I wonder what the moron from Vox, with the soaring otherworldly view of democracy as the elevation of men to godhood thinks.
The father of a high school friend was murdered as part of some Albanian vendetta thing. Don’t mess with them.
The posted article details how one 80-Euro dine-and-dash incident and a separate incident of stolen bed sheets led to an international kerfuffle, so I think I’ll heed your advice.
“231,000,000 Views, and still counting. The Biggest Video on Social Media, EVER, more than double the Super Bowl!’ he wrote on Truth Social just before he was set to leave his Bedminster golf club.
‘But please excuse me, I have to start getting ready to head down to Atlanta, Georgia, where Murder and other Violent Crimes have reached levels never seen before, to get ARRESTED by a Radical Left, Lowlife District Attorney, Fani Willis, for A PERFECT PHONE CALL, and having the audacity to challenge a RIGGED & STOLLEN ELECTION. THE EVIDENCE IS IRREFUTABLE! ARREST TIME: 7:30 P.M.”
Because they all want cake?
I guess he’s not working on a plea bargain.
I want to see a few hundred Trumpistas outside the courthouse holding candles and singing “We shall overcome”.
I’d rather they stay home. They’d be arrested for “obstructing an official proceeding” or “assembling without a permit” or whatever the DA can come up with… then added to the RICO case because they were supporting Trump, who tried to overturn the election — therefore it was an act in furtherance, yadda yadda yadda…
Yes. They would find a way to put any supporters behind bars for years.
Alice’s Restaurant?
The peaceful protests and arrests have to reach the Civil Rights Era levels before enough citizens are sickened by the government’s behavior to do anything about it. Sadly, it will take more martyrs than Ashli.
The difference is civil rights protestors had quite a bit of elite sympathy and the elites were worried that it was fodder for Soviet propaganda.
Our elites hate Trump and don’t seem to care if Xi or Putin calls them hypocrites fo arresting Trumo.
He should tell them all to stay home. But he won’t, because his fucking ego won’t allow it.
Him not pardoning all his people from the J6 capitol tour in the two weeks before he left office shows you what he really thinks about his supporters.
As if it would have mattered. The state would have nullified those vetoes before the ink dried and added it to the impeachment charge sheet.
Still was worth a try.
Not even trying says a lot about the man.
His idea of loyalty is a one way street.
Absolutely.
Pardons, not vetoes. Wtf GL?
The second impeachment is also supposedly the reason why Trump didn’t pardon Snowden or Assange in the last days of his term. The Senate Republicans had to be placated.
That sure worked out well for him. Snowden and Assange are still in exile or prison and he is under fifty billion years of indictments and not the president. Art of the Deal indeed.
Three thoughts:
1. Ironically Trump was very willing to go along with The Deep State and the Media when it mattered. Covid is one obvious example.
2. The fact that Donald Trump is the only one willing to challenge the Deep State and mostly due to his ego says a lot about how bad everything is. Most “nice guys” don’t have the stomach for it and will cower at the first attacks from media.
3. Since Trump is being crushed anyway there are only two options: either the Deep State crushes us or we have a populist strongman who DGAF.
There are not going to be any deals next time.
I think he is still laboring under the assumption that we are still a constitutional republic. A lot of people here are laboring under the same load.
The republic is dead. All hail the empire.
Having said that…I don’t think most people will go that quietly.
We are in unknown territory.
Dammit. Past the edges of the map.
I was trying to say that we are past the edges.
Why is my brain so slow? I really want to come up with pithy, humorous replies.
*slumps down.*
People are so far are. And if they don’t, who knows what will happen.
Conventional wisdom seems to be that there’s no clap back because people are fat and prosperous and have a lot to lose. The current leadership class is certainly chiseling away at that.
Maybe the ones going along are the half or so of this former country.
What will happen is a split if we are lucky. Civil war is bad. No one should advocate for it. We need to try to figure out a way to accomplish this.
Unfortunately, we are lacking in the leadership to do so.
Yay, us.
There is no way to split a country that is divided largely on urban/rural concerns. You gonna have a red country that looks like Swiss cheese? I don’t think so.
I still can’t believe that it was Trump of all people who was then outsider who caused the crisis that ended the Republic.
He didn’t. It ended decades before that IMO.
he was just the first that forced them to show it. Technology played a huge part in that.
I think the Republic ended in 1945. The U.S. emerged as the lone superpower in the world whose country hadn’t been raved by the war, with a brand new enemy to fight an unlimited cold war against. We inherited the management of all the former European powers colonies as they lost their empires and we took over as the new world hegemon.
Since then it has been 80 years of damn near constant war with all the debt, corruption, and death that comes with it.
We had a chance in 1991, when the soviets union dissolved, to renounce our empire, bring all our troops home and go back to being a limited republic that minded its own business and respected its constitution but we blew it with 30 years of intervention in the middle east and eastern Europe.
I’m sure we could play this all day but let’s go back to whatever year it was that whichever amendment was passed that created the Income Tax. (I’m not a details guy when it comes to history.)
Imagine how much less damage if the Feds hadn’t had all that money to play with.
You have a point. The ball really got rolling with the federal reserve act and the income tax. It took a little while after that, but that was the beginning stages of the cancer. Giving the feds the right to steal income and print money was never going to end well. So, I’ll leave it at this.
It’s Woodrow Wilson’s fault. It is always Woodrow Wilson’s fault. It has always been Woodrow Wilson’s fault, and it will always be Woodrow Wilson’s fault.
Seriously, fuck that guy.
Oh yeah, fuck that guy.
I got to thinking about “money” as I am moving from an enormous city to a small town and while both are filled with lefties, I was walking around the small town recently and it’s obvious they don’t have the kind of money to play around with that the enormous city has.
So I’m hoping for less craziness.
I totally agree with you guys.
Yet…YET…he is the one candidate that seems to drive the usual suspects crazy.
I don’t really know why. But at this point I am comfortable with a big FU to the powers that be.
They don’t represent me or mine.
He did some good things and failed on a lot of other fronts. I don’t know why they are so afraid of him, either – it’s not like he fundamentally changed anything.
I think they are afraid of what he (claims to) stand for – draining the swamp, basically. If someone serious about that – and it looks like it won’t be Trump – actually gets in, their jig is up.
I don’t know all the specifics, but he failed because his entire admin was diametrically opposed to everything he wanted done.
His one true sin, is that he didn’t start mass firings.
Like that would have happened. Gov employees are protected.
The fact he is not, is the proof.
There are trillions of dollars at play here. Is there anyone naive enough to think that anything is off the table?
He’s also a member of the elite who supported the Deplorables and openly named and attacked the Deep State. Can’t have that.
Is this not just the most Bizarro World, fucked up thing? They took mug shots of they guy’s LAWYERS for giving him law advice. At what point shy of hanging him in a public square does somebody step back and say, “You know, maybe we took this a little too far.”
Huh, Hanging’s too good for OMB the source of all evil in the world.
Burning is too good for him
Smug replies I have seen “lawyers can break the law too”. Technically correct I guess
Like Lisa Page?
Two tier justice.
Three tiered:
1 — Politically Connected: Just keep the body count small, and we’ll keep you out of jail.
2 — Nobodies: Coin flip on what happens, unless the DA is in reelection mode. Then your ass is grass.
3 — Enemies of the State: Lavertiy Beria treatment.
They wouldn’t think that until they’re the ones doing the hemp fandango. Even then, they’ll think they were the good guys/rebels/underdogs/etc.
They should send some soldiers over to his house and use it as a barracks just to make sure they touch all the bases.
😂
You mean something like this?
All you need to know about Albania. https://youtu.be/-F_tT-q8EF0?si=b1JRil5o9oX0YVbg
Of Albanian decent and all I need to know
“Biden administration SUES Elon Musk’s SpaceX for ‘only hiring US citizens’ and ‘discouraging’ asylum seekers and refugees from applying for jobs”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12442589/Biden-SpaceX-Elon-musk-hiring.html
OFFS!!
I wonder how many “asylum seekers” NASA has on its payroll. 🙄
I’d bet money that they do.
Yeah, the IP thieves usually arrive with visas but I suppose it’s possible they’re sneaking over the border too.
NASA was pretty much started by asylum seekers.
Former nazis?
they were current at the time…
Paper clip was what it was. I don’t think we have moral authority to judge the past. Those people made decisions in their time.
I know this makes me a fascist.
Auto-correct was unable to correct fascist. How strange.
I don’t even know if that is the correct spelling. I’m an old fella and lots of words now seem to look funny.
By all means, let’s launch top secret satellites with non-citizen refugees on the payroll.
UH, most satellite and launch tech is probably covered under ITAR, and it’s perfectly acceptable to limit jobs handling related information to citizens only.
They would “hide” their raw data, despite having taken years-long efforts to collect.
“Hah, that’s nothing, we just deleted ours. Try to dispute our findings now.” – Climate scientists
“Biden’s alcohol czar warns Americans could soon be told to limit themselves to just two beers per WEEK under strict new booze guidelines
Biden’s health czar told DailyMail.com the USDA could revise its alcohol advice to match Canada’s, where people are advised to have just two drinks per week.
Dr George Koob — who admits enjoying a couple of glasses of Chardonnay a week — said he was watching Canada’s ‘big experiment’ with interest.
‘If there’s health benefits, I think people will start to re-evaluate where we’re at [in the US],’ he told DailyMail.com.
Current US recommendations say women can have up to one bottle of beer, small glass of wine or shot of spirit a day while men can have two.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12438233/Americans-limited-two-beers-strict-new-alcohol-guidelines-Bidens-booze-czar.html
A man who only drinks a couple of glasses of chardonnay a week doesn’t deserve to have an opinion on drinking.
I have a response to that suggestion.
I would have accepted “No. Go fuck yourself.” — but will freely admit yours has more style.
That’s fucking awesome!
Hear hear!
*Bangs pint glass on table.
Cold. Dead. Hands.
There’s an alcohol czar?
These people never think about the mental health benefits of being left the fuck alone.
Oh STFU
Let me know when they revise the secondhand smoke advice to reflect the data they’ve collected since they banned smoking in public accommodations.
Which is to say, secondhand smoke is not damaging unless you’re in a small room with a chain smoker and can’t escape and the data shows it.
They don’t give a flying fuck about the data. They get off on their authoritarian fantasies.
My kids really hated it when they banned smoking in vehicles with minors. especially when it is raining and they had to stand out in it.
Couldn’t you just tie them to the roof and keep going?
Funny how the war on pot started after prohibition ended and with the war on pot dying down the war on booze is ramping up again.
The psychotic ruling class gotta have something to stomp on.
The libertarian hope that legalizing pot would mean people don’t ban and regulate things has not worked out.
That seems like a stretch, did even the writers at TOS harbor that fantasy?
Pot legalization was supposed to part of increasing social tolerance.
Because if it isn’t then the concept of a society banning stuff it doesn’t like and legalizing stuff it likes is not at all different from the “intolerant” society.
Also how many libertarians expected the existence of a Pot legalizing tyrant like Justin Trudeau?
I doubt the libertine degenerates who can have their pot laced Mexican ass sex really care.
Who cares about Trudeau? Is this a trick question?
Well here’s going to be at least one crime/felony they can’t indict Trump for.
If growing wheat for your own consumption is interstate commerce… I’m sure they can come up with some legal theory anyway.
You are probably right. All Trump has to do is tell folks to “celebrate July 4th” and he’ll be accused of inciting backyard bbq overconsumption.
😂🤣
No.
How many do I get if I’m a polygender two-spirit?
Your concerns about my health are noted, but not appreciated. Kindly go fuck yourself, somewhere else.
You can tell me all you want. And I’ll tell you to fuck off all I want. Deal?
2 beers a week. HaHa
Ok, Karen
Makes sense why they are scanning IDs to buy alcohol un Nevada…fuck off slaver
The government wants to make your life miserable then remove* anything that might improve it somewhat.
The founders would have actually overthrown the government several times by now.
*My prediction is that this is a move toward Prohibition 2: Boozy Boogaloo.
have lots of animals started going goblin mode on us recently?
Yes. They’re losing their fear of humans, and it’s leading to unusual behaviors.
Yet more damn Americans travelling to Europe and causing trouble.
Tucker / Trump interview up to 231 million views. Suck it Fox.
FOX is dead. They just don’t realize it yet.
It’s time to rename some parks to head off future hurt feelings…
https://denverite.com/2023/08/24/denver-parks-renaming-troubled-history/
“Pasquinel’s Landing and Grant Frontier had the highest percentage of votes to rename the properties. Pasquinel is a character in the book “Centennial” by James A. Michener, which was turned into a “racial insensitive” [sic] television show. For Grant Frontier, the committee took issue with the word “Frontier,” because it means uncharted territory. The word erases Native American history.
For La Alma Lincoln Park, the committee suggested removing the “Lincoln” portion. That comes from President Abraham Lincoln, who did assist in the abolishment of slavery but also authorized the execution of 38 Dakota men amongst other crimes during the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War.”
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““While they had many contributions in society like Abraham Lincoln, there were some other complex parts of who they were or what they participated in that we should probably consider if we’re going to advance equity,” Rodriguez said.”
If we utter the blessed “equity” incantation, all of this bullshit will instantly make sense. Equity will be achieved if all the parks are named after Che Guevara.
It’s not just in Colorado.
Tribes want to rename Ohio’s Wayne National Forest. Sen. JD Vance does not
I hope they are getting a campaign of sustained eye-rolling in return.
Wasn’t I saying years ago that they wouldn’t stop with the Confederates and will end up going after Lincoln and Grant, Sherman and Sheridan for what they did to the Indians?
And of course James Michener is in trouble. The anti-racists of old (he wrote the source material for South Pacific) are now the new racists.
Just give everything a number. It could be fun going to Park 69.
So weak.
Back home Lake Calhoun magically became Lake Bde Maka Ska. Which means “Suck it, paleface!” in Lakota.
I think I saw Bde Maka Ska open for Johnny Socko back in the day.
Before they sold out, of course.
Thank you. That is close to me and I contemplated bringing it up.
If you wants much more detail:
https://patch.com/new-jersey/westorange/jarrett-vs-town-hall-feud-may-cost-west-orange-bagel-baron-big-bucks
That man has more patience than me. I’d be yelling “Fuck You, I’m out of here!”
Same.
Deep thought
Clarity on how Powell might be weighing those developments is a critical question. Beyond that, any clues about how the central bank might be thinking about a plan for rate cuts in 2024 will also garner a lot of attention. Otherwise, attendees will enjoy heady discussions about “Structural Shifts in the Global Economy,” the official theme of this year’s retreat.
Something tells me the most interesting and enlightening discussions about structural shifts in the global economy won’t be on the record.
“The CDC has some important advice for people who would rather not catch salmonella: Don’t kiss turtles. Specifically, don’t kiss very small turtles.
“Turtles with shells less than 4 inches long are a known source of illness,” the CDC’s website warned late last week. So I guess if you’ve got a turtle much larger than four inches, go on and knock yourself out — but first, make sure the turtle consents.”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/08/24/so-now-we-need-the-cdc-to-tell-us-not-to-make-out-with-turtles-n1721637
The turtle was not unresponsive.
“I’m Mitch McConnell and I approve of this message.”
Holy crap. That was sublime.
Bravo
For those that enjoy music and also honest and sincere craftsman I found this enjoyable luthier’s channel. Plenty of interesting content especially restorations, but this was fun too.
https://youtu.be/j4FwtJjxpTA?si=9Vi75t3UzQRI124l
He basically does $375 worth of work to a $75 violin.
I love these kinds of videos.
Geniuses
Shares in Better (BETR.O) plummeted more than 95% on Thursday as investors snubbed the online mortgage lender, which went public via a blank-check company merger just as mortgage rates have hit two-decade highs.
SoftBank-backed Better completed its combination with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Aurora Acquisition Corp on Thursday, a deal that was first announced in 2021 but delayed amid regulatory scrutiny and layoffs, regulatory filings show.
Aurora went public in March 2021. Shares in Better Home & Finance Holding Co, the newly merged entity, fell as low as 77 cents in early trading, and were last down 94% at $1 in late afternoon trading.
Just a tiny bit late.
SPAC is the sound an investor’s head makes when it hits the pavement after a long fall.
It’s also a concert venue that hosts the Dave Matthew’s Band every summer.
He basically does $375 worth of work to a $75 violin.
Does it sound like a $1000 violin now?
To TPTB, I submitted an article a few days ago.
Well, I went to Kroger to ask around and apologize again to the regional HR person who does orientation. They asked me when I would be able to work. I’m not sure, so I told them that. Broken bones take ~six weeks of recovery time, but my injury surrounds my titanium stem.
Jacqueline said she would email me about another orientation next week. I emailed her the timing of my three medical appointments Don’t want to miss another one!
I needed help getting my sock/shoe on my left foot. I did better than the last time I gave it my best attempt, though.
So looks like I’ve still got my job and have some official duties to do relating to my employment, despite them knowing, and seeing today, that I’m just a bit fucked up. Kroger is serious about giving the mentally and/or physically disabled employment opportunities.
Another step forward. There is a long highway to traverse. Each step matters. “Always look on/ the bright side of life.” *Monty Python troop whistling along*
Abbracci, amico mio.
I’m looking at this story with rose tinted glasses.
I know you are asking how can you spin that in a positive way? Let me tell you. The SCIENCE that now proclaims that the jab will protect you against Long Rona symptoms will ensure that the malingerers and whiners will now join the anti-vax side. No way they are going to get the jab and risk not being able to get long term disability or whine about you not caring about their crippling Long Rona.
Fuck what are the malingerers going to do? Return to using “back pain” as the reason they need to get paid for staying at home and doing nothing? That sucks. When you are faking back pain, there are a lot of things you can’t do. With Long Rona, it can come and go as you need it to.
Vivek is right – bring back the mental hospitals.
https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-promise-of-the-bill-of-rights/
LOL once public opinions sours in guns the Second amendment will quickly become a dead letter since there will be no judges to strike fown gun control laws. And shouldn’t we have learned from the Reign of Terror and Communism that pieces of paper do not a free society make?
This “coexistence is possible through mutual forbearance” was only something the classical liberals reluctantly agreed upon after centuries of religious warfare.
And the big problem is how can you appeal to the Bill of Rights if a large number of people think that it is an outdated document written by genocidal slaveowners?
https://www.cato.org/blog/designing-brac-fiscal-commission-stabilize-debt
This strikes me as a terrible idea. It is only going to work If there is a President that actually wants to reduce spending. And what happens if a big spending president gets elected in the future? And isn’t giving the executive the power of the purse a recipe for tyranny? After centuries of fighting to get control of the budget from the King they want to give it back?
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Julian-Assange-Arrest-Part-of-Lenin-Morenos-Deal-with-IMF-Ex-Foreign-Minister-Patino-20190414-0016.html
Just learned about this today. old news I know, but since Pence is running for president, its a help reminder that he is a piece of shit.
FTA-
In an interview with Resumen del Sur outlet, Patiño claimed that Ecuador had agreed with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on three main issues: to adopt the U.S. position regarding Venezuela, to end South American economic integration, and to expel Assange from the Ecuadoran embassy in London in exchange of a “miserable loan from the International Monetary Fund.”
But I thought Pence was the Nice Guy Republican who secretly agrees with me on everything and will magically fix everything?
Who even ever said that?
Winston…in their head.
The voices inside Winston’s head.
Or maybe what Winston’s Mom moans when she’s faking an orgasm.
Winston’s Mom is the only woman Pence has been alone with other than his wife.
I’m summarizing the anti-populist position.
He’s a cunt.
I never liked Pence. And after this…I like him even less.
Thank you.
Separate but equal?
I’m just glad they have their own Office. How horrible would it be if they had to share with the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office?
I am eagerly waiting for the report that comes out that says all these black American Indian women are being killed by White Supremacy (even though 99% of the people convicted of the crimes are black or Indian men.)
We know that they are victims of white supremacy. Hollywood has told us so. I saw it with my own eyes in Yellowstone.
Here, we just had the two year anniversary of hero Johnny Hurley being gunned down by the cops after he dropped a bad guy. Cops are a menace.
OFFS.
What is going on in Minnesota? I truly do not understand.
You need to move south.
Hasn’t Minnesoda always been shitty?
West would work
Tonio fleeing from the po-po?
I’m shocked the cops didn’t shoot this guy.
Dude shoots at guys trying to break into his apartment. Cops show up and treat the the guys like shit. The one cop pulls out his pistola while searching the house. After it is pretty obvious that the guys are law abiding guys who are co-operating.
Ironically Trump was very willing to go along with The Deep State and the Media when it mattered. Covid is one obvious example.
Not ironic. Not surprising.
I read in a couple of places the authorities in Hawaii told people to “shelter in place”. I can’t imagine worse advice for a fire – unless you want them to die. No real confirmation, but it’s sad I’m willing to believe that.
That was partly their reasoning to not sound the alarm. Apparently they think people would have run headlong into the fire. It’s a shitshow
That is what you tell someone whom you want to die in a fire.
That Maui fire is starting to look pretty fishy. check back in year or so at who bought up all that burned out property and do a little digging on them.
It’s looking more than pretty fishy.
Although I think that it is truly incompetence. And that is so much worse than evil intentions.
I truly think it is more than incompetence.
Ugh.
So, Carlos Santana went on a biology rant at a concert “women are women and men are men” and is now being labeled transphobe.
And Jordan Peterson has been told by a Canadian court to go to reeducation camp for wrongthinkers.
Trans black magic women are black magic women!
🤨
Got a trans magic woman
Got a trans magic woman
I’ve got a trans magic woman
Got me so blind, I can’t see
That he’s a trans magic woman
He’s trying to make a woman outta me
Don’t show your dick to me, baby
Don’t show your dick to me, baby
Yes, don’t show your dick to me, baby
Stop messing ’round with your tricks
Don’t show your dick to me, baby
You just might cut off my magic stick
LOL
“Mister, we could use a man like [???*] again…”
*Jimi Hendrix?
Eric Clapton?
[Insert other guitar god here]
Not Hoibit Hoovuh, that’s for sure.
As I wrote at Small Dead Animals, I would seriously not want to be the “re-educator” who got the contract for Jordan Peterson. By the time he’d finished with the “re-educator,” he/she/they’d be begging for mercy.
Seems the tarantula hawk is back. Wonder where the tarantulas are then.
Toupee wearers, beware!
Wow! Four days ago I submitted an auto rental CDW benefit claim with my credit card after I was charged for a missing hubcap and a damaged tire in Iceland. This afternoon I received a phone call telling me to upload an additional document (a credit statement) and now my claim has been approved and the funds are being transferred to my bank account. Twenty years of renting cars and it was the first time I was charged by a rental company and then immediately compensated by my credit card.
Iceland? Is there a travel article in the works? There’s a bike race through a volcano there that I want to do one day. https://www.therift.bike/
I’ll only rent cars on my AMEX Gold card. We’ve had the bad fortune of having multiple equipment/tire failures with European rentals, as well as getting damaged by other cars, and our coverage on that card was exemplary. Never even heard about the problem ever again. That feature alone has saved us thousands of dollars on those shitty CDW surcharges the car rental companies are always trying to push on us, basically paying for the annual card fees and way more besides.
The nice Polish guy with Avis/Budget in Keflavik assured me that their CDW wouldn’t cover this damage. Fortunately, I never considered getting their coverage. My Bank of America Premium Rewards Elite card covered it right away. Now I know which card to use for car rentals.
“After having basked in conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, some supporters of former President Donald Trump are worried that a rally Trump is promoting outside the Fulton County Jail in Georgia ahead of his expected surrender in the state election interference case is an FBI setup.”
They’re probably not wrong.
Crap no, they are not wrong.
The feds are clamping down.