The Panthers pressed and pressed their way to another win and are up 2-0 over Edmonton in the Stanley Cup Finals. An interesting side piece about the Finals. I don’t know what else is going on in sports. Oh wait, the Astros blew another game. That’s about it. Moving on…
This is taking a little longer than to should. Although based on the venue we shouldn’t be surprised. Hey, maybe the court can schedule a visit with the First Lady to congratulate them for doing their civic duty. That would be a neat photo op.
What does “unlock legal status” mean? ::scans article:: Oh, it means ignoring due process and the law. Which candidate is the authoritarian again?
This assessment from the Trump campaign is generous. That dude has no freaking idea where, or who, he even is.
The dumbing down continues. Pretty soon kids won’t even have to show up to school to get pushed through.
The law in Atlanta is a shitshow. As if we needed any more evidence that the prosecutor’s office and local judges were insane.
They’re talking about the hostages that were held in the civilian areas by a journalist, right? Just making sure we’re talking about the same raid they’re accusing Israel of committing war crimes during a hostage rescue. Maybe there’s a different group or something.
Wait, when did Nick Nolte transition? Yeah, it’s not a news piece but just a tweet. It still needed to be mentioned because these people are fucking retarded with their endless scare-mongering about anybody to the right of the far leftists that have run the show for decades.
Here you go, 80s kids. Not a bad one. And here’s another one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
Funny, I don’t recall passing the Regents as being required. If I remember correctly the options were “Regular Diploma” (Skip the Regents) “Regents Dipomla” (Pass the Regents) and “National Honor Society Diploma” (get an extra sticket on the piece of paper.) I ended up with the third type.
The Regents were a joke anyway. I slept through them and got 90s-100
I can’t remember if the SAT or equivalent was required down here.
The New York public schools didn’t even expect people to take the SAT or ACT.
Why would they? College isn’t for everybody.
Give everyone a certificate of attendance and pass them to the next group.
Why do you bigoted against truants? They deserve a chance too.
If you miss everyday of school you only get a certificate of enrollment.
certificate of enrollment
Aren’t they already that?
We had the first two in my day. The Regents tests were harder, and considered an achievement.
I vaguely recall them making them mandatory for everybody years later, which can only mean they dumbed them the hell down.
So… if they return things to the way they were, I don’t see any problem with that. But somehow I doubt they have anything like that in mind.
Oh fuck off.
Obviously, schools should just be teacher conferences.
As an ’80s kid, I accept this offering.
Were teachers in the ’80s, outside of film, more attractive than in my ’90s? I remember having only one ‘hot’ teacher. (I was also 16. Mileage/concern tends NOT to vary at that age.)
I have never seen an attractive teacher in real life. All of them were older than dirt, morbidly obese, or both.
I had an extremely hot HS biology (of all things) teacher. I may have spent some time in my bunk.
All the red-blooded boys were into my first German teacher, 7th grade.
Some of the male teachers were fetching, too. Sadly I can’t remember the name of my chemistry teacher….
In my entire schooling, there was one teacher that qualified as passable (to teenage males). To be fair, this was Catholic school, so there was a percentage of nuns.
8 years of Catholic school, 4 years of public high school, graduated in 90. I had zero hot teachers. The closest we got was the Van Halen video.
8th(?) grade art teacher, Mrs. Lutkenhouse was pretty hot. A.k.a., Mrs. Lucky.
There were various rumors…
“All the red-blooded boys were into my first German teacher, 7th grade.”
Yes, my HS German teacher was quite a fetching fraulein. College German teacher had been on the East German Womans Bodybuilding team, by the look of her.
My freshman art teacher (and, for the rest of HS, mime director) was young and hot. (His wife had been my music teacher in junior high and was my Humanities teacher my senior year. She was great but not nearly as hot.)
Other than a substitute straight out of college, no.
But many of the girls were gaga for the biology teacher, who was probably in his mid to late twenties and 10+ years younger than most of the other teachers.
I don’t recall any of the female teachers in any of the schools I attended being particularly attractive (except for a vague recollection of my kindergarten teacher, but I can’t remember if that was the teacher or her daughter/teacher’s aide).
I did hear rumors that my high school “typing teacher”/wrestling coach was popular with the girls, biblically so.
Now what used to be in a HS education can be kicked up to the college level where a “Bachelors of Educated” degree can be the new HS diploma. Teacher get more money, students get longer to learn dependency and the tax cattle get harvested. Win-win-win!
I have no issue with someone baring their breasts, but fuck the Oilers.
have issue if the view is unattractive. This case seems fine, but it’s not difficult to imagine cases where it’s not.
Relevant to my interests. Also, all the local minor league teams where I grew up were called “Oilers” so between that and The Great One, I’ve reflexively liked Edmonton.
I don’t see how Edmonton win this series. The Florida forechecking has just been relentless and they’ve completely controlled the games from start to finish.
This one could be over in 4-5 games.
It’s hokey, so, one of the girls might trip over her skirt.
Maybe the Florida weather is messing with them.
Hopefully the right the ship back in proper hockey territory.
I like Edmonton, but I agree, this doesn’t look good for them. I expect Dreiseitl to get a suspension for that hit.
So the Judge and Prosecutor had a secret meeting? And the Judge is mad that the defense attorney found out?
I think so?
I haven’t had a chance to see the version at the link sloopy provided, but the other summaries I’ve seen were clear as mud.
Not just the judge and prosecutor, but the judge, prosecutor, and a witness. Which is even worse.
Surprised the AJ hasn’t written an article at the contempt of a white lawyer to a black judge yet.
I saw an earlier clip from that trial where the black male judge was excluding evidence over the protestations of the black female prosecutor. She had failed to submit the evidence on time or something and he excluded it. She went ballistic and was yelling at the judge in a way that I’ve never seen before.
NY schools are severely underfunded, they cannot be expected to have exams.
You misspelled Overfunded and Overunionized.
True story: someone in the Teacher’s Union pissed off someone in the NYS legislature, so they passed a law giving merit raises based on the scores of a particular test.
The teachers told students that the test had no bearing on their grade and if they didn’t want to take it they could go off to the gym and chat with their friends.
Then the teachers demanded the test not be used to evaluate them because not enough students took it.
Next step, end all recognition of NYSUT and declare the organization a criminal Entperise and begin procesutions. Extortion would stick. Doesn’t matter what the crime is, precedent is that the accused is guilty until declared guilty.
To graduate from the U of Memphis, you had to take a test that covered general knowledge. Didn’t count for any grades or anything, but the state of Tennessee used it to allocate funds. You had 3 hours to take it.
At the beginning of the test there were 3 or 4 admins who pleaded with everyone to try their best because it was so important to the school.
I was surprised when there were only 5 or so of us who stood up and turned in their test right after it started. I would have thought the line would have been out the door. Yeah, I’m spending hours taking a test that has no benefits for me.
Jury deliberations? They are deliberating about their and their family’s well being.
‘…unlock legal status…’ = abandoning rule of law
The left may not be able to meme but their talent for inventing language is unmatched.
They are really gonna try to put this guy in the WH for another four years? Bullshit. They know he is toast. I wish I could’ve been a fly on the wall when his handlers explained to Kahhhmala what her job is.
Other than what UnCivil says I got nuthin’ on the regent’s thing.
Everything mentioned in the constitution (in this case due process/rule of law) is there for a very good reason. Those guys saw all of this shit before.
When your goal is to destroy a culture letting that culture’s enemies in the front door is SOP.
Fuck the UN.
Back in the day I thought the extremely irritating Sean Hannity was engaging in hyperbole when he equated leftism with mental illness.
The effort to turn Ukraine into WW3 continues. Apparently the plan is to base “Ukrainian” F-16s in Poland and Romania to strike Russia.
Russia rightly points out that would make the planes and those airfields legitimate targets.
https://www.rt.com/russia/599085-russia-strike-nato-airfields-f16/
I doubt that is the plan though.
You really think the idiots in charge have some sort of coherent plan?
I hope you are right. My country is led by neo-con maniacs and your country seems to go along with all their bad ideas.
Let’s see, F-16s flying out of NATO bases strike Russian targets. Definitely an act of war by NATO against Russia. And if it escalates, the Russians will have to resort to nukes since they would get clobbered conventionally given NATO’s overwhelming air superiority.
Good thing Trump’s not in office to start WWIII.
^Yeah this, it’s longstanding Russian doctrine to use nukes if necessary (bang for the buck, they don’t have the $$$ to match us conventionally) and they can and will use them. The game we’re playing is incredibly dangerous and stupid.
The first problem is there probably aren’t any airfields in the Ukraine suitable for F-16s. If there are – they’ll be destroyed as soon as the arrive. Then logistics and maintenance personnel, etc.
Good point Drake, they aren’t suitable for nonpristine runways like the Russian stuff. It’s another good reason to not give them those but they’re obviously hoping the Russians take the bait.
Think of all the target opportunities. Ukraine could strike Kaliningrad from Poland. Planes based in Finland could strike Sankt Peterburg.
I am more curious about why Juneteenth is now a multi-week celebration and why there is a Floyd family member next to the President.
I want to know why it’s anything outside of a Texas, and even there it should not be grounds to close anything.
“A Texas”?
One Texas is more than enough.
What’s wrong with multiple Texi?
UCS:
If there was more than one Texas, they would immediately go to war with each other over which one was bigger.
Doesn’t Texas have a plan in place to split up into 4 or 5 states if it gets a wild hare to do so? I assume they’d be North, South, East, West, and Central Texas, as which would willingly give up the Texas name?
GT – The Republic of Texas already donated land to Six states – 1/1 of Texas, 2/3 of New Mexico, 1/3 of Colorado, a chunk each of Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
Pandering to a slipping voting bloc.
Maybe we need Juneteenth to take over June.
I’ll make the popcorn.
One local chain (4 locations IIRC) announced in their monthly e-mail that they would be closed for Juneteenth. Owners are youngish women with ample danger hair, but they make solid food, and aren’t that far gone yet (the only reason they started doing vegetarian/vegan menus was the price of chicken had gone up, and they were looking for other options). There is definitely a racist call that could be made, as they’re a chicken wing and tender place primarily.
Music….I love this, not sure why. Her voice is a little nasally and the romper…geez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAUQ1lSNeVY
https://babylonbee.com/news/woman-graciously-helps-men-avoid-lustful-thoughts-by-wearing-romper
In my search for the BB romper article I ran across this:
https://babylonbee.com/news/christians-beg-god-not-let-male-rompers-catch-among-worship-leaders/
Ya rompers…beyond age of 4 its a crime and even then, no seasoned parent would put a child in one due to the logistical nightmare they are.
The romper in the bee article is full pants, but the rompers that are shorts remind me of onesies.
“…reminds me of onesies…”
Because they are. *shivers*
Genuine LOLLOL
[blinks, removes and cleans glasses, reads again] A biologist judge? Well, maybe she should be on the Supreme Court.
And none if the judges in the Trump trials are politically motivated at all….
So what is the official glibertarian view of the Brit prime minister not attending D-Day festivities? It seemed to ruffle patriotic brit feathers.
That is for the British subjects to deal with.
off course but people here have an opinion about everything.
We also have assholes Pie. Doesn’t mean we all need to share.
You should know by now there is no official position on any issue here.
Though Sunak doesn’t belong in Britain, let alone in a position of power anywhere.
I don’t really see why some Indian guy would think D-Day was that big a deal.
This.
And he’s only PM for a couple more weeks.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Fucking historic heatwave we having. Goddamnit. 36C in mid fucking June.
We had a high of 50 F yesterday. The day before we were in the 80’s. Today we’re supposed to get back up to 70 at least.
Wow. Texas temperatures. I doubt you have houses and air conditioning built for that so I feel for you.
Yeah, I was in London during a heat wave once. Holy Cow, did that stink. Literally, the Thames is gross in the heat.
I dunno what the humidity there is like but around here I have been busting my ass in 100+F heat indexes.
If you have no AC try sitting with your bare feet in a bucket of water.
25% relative humidity.
I do have AC, obviously.
I would just get in a tub full of water too, you get humidity easily twice 25% here with 95 F +. I too, work in it. If you have access to ice that helps also. Just stay in the tub after work.
What’s that in real units?
Around 50 pounds, I think.
97 – yikes.
Today’s high is 65 here. Nice.
36C is a breast size, not a temperature.
“Pretty soon kids won’t even have to show up to school to get pushed through.”
You mean, like during the Plague Years?
“This is taking a little longer than to should. Although based on the venue we shouldn’t be surprised.”
I doubt they’ll acquit, although I wouldn’t be surprised. I’ll be mildly surprised if they convict. There’s enough ringers on the jury that I think they’ll deadlock.
What I find remarkable is that these banana republic monkeys expect people to swallow this horseshit.
*reads mainstream news*
Oh. Never mind.
banana republic monkeys – RACISM!!!!!
Britain: Everything from smoking to sugar sin-taxed. 11% of GDP spent on the NHS. It is illegal to build an extension without permission from a local politicians. Tax at all time highs.
Financial Times: If they were any more economically right wing, they would fall of our graph
https://x.com/echetus/status/1800240568045326695
I am constantly frankly amazed how many brits see their government as basically economic libertarians.
Summary of Tory manifesto, published just now
https://x.com/Peston/status/1800478114402775406
I am not seeing anything that angers me there. Sure they are going to increase healthcare spending again and bankrupt the country. But the other items seem reasonable if you want the general population to respect and vote for you. I like “no more green levies.” That’s the first step to shutting it down altogether.
My knowledge of British economic policy is limited to watching ‘Clarkson’s Farm’. They seem to be against any activity that makes a farmer a profit.
Yes they are. That Tory manifesto is almost an olive branch. Almost. I imagine they have to take what they can get, just like us.
Britain is the US just 40-60 years ahead (at best).
When you are bred and born of the herd you cant imagine any other way.
And here is the heart of what the long march of the institutions sought to achieve. Cultivate that herd mentality.
Which plays right back into yesterdays debate: Feudalism, is it socialist or not?
As it is extolled, or as it is practiced?
I might accept feudalism – as run under decadent Enlightenment (and Judeo-Christian) values, is socialism.
Respectfully, as run, Feudalism has no resemblance to socialism.
It’s got a pretty Venn diagram. It must be truthy!
And a Venn-ish diagrams where ‘traditional’ social values are clearly authoritarian. Unlike those libertarian/progressive social values. Because of course progressive social value can never be authoritarian! Nice way to conflate two largely unrelated things to make sure everyone understands that the only way to not be authoritarian is to adopt our social values. Or else.
An interesting twist on the argument that the economy is good, but you are too dumb to know: ‘There’s a concerted effort to make people afraid of crime,’
She is sort of right. Crime has come down a bit, but it was at an all time high.
If your crime rate went down because muggable people left the city center, that doesn’t count.
Has it come down, or have people just stopped calling it in because it’s pointless?
Or have the police stopped reporting it and are they downgrading felonies to report them as misdemeanors? There are a lot of ways to game the system.
If you don’t arrest people, and don’t prosecute the few people arrested… Crime goes down.
Also possible – local police no longer report their stats to national agency (FBI/DOJ).
After implementing leftist policies the only argument left is ‘dont believe your lying eyes’.
So fear of crime is white supremacy? That’s a bold stance Cotton…
I haz a confuse. Is it white supremacy because black people commit a disproportionate percentage of crime, or is it white supremacy to notice the crime is happening, or are they saying only white people worry about crime?
WTF:
I think asking those questions makes you an ultra-MAGA white supremacist.
WTF – black perpetrated crime mostly victimizes black people. Ignoring that used to be called indifference to black suffering, now paying attention to it is white supremacy. You can never be right – see, isn’t THAT simple?
When you’re dealing with a political class that deliberately and intentionally WANTS more crime, it’s pointless to even listen to them. Their brains are just too broken.
Explaining to her what ‘rule of law’ is would be a complete waste of breath.
I recommend a straight jacket and a hefty dose of chlorpromazine.
Suthen, she’d school you. See, she knows not only the Law but biology. That is why she offered two teens involved in a home invasion that ended up in murder a plea deal.
I’m sure you will be shocked to learn that the only case she has doggedly prosecuted was that of state trooper Ryan Londregan who killed a black guy during a traffic stop. The traffic stop was legit (driving at night with no tail lights) and the driver had a warrant for his arrest and a gun in the car (which was a no-no, him being a felon). The cops were half in the car when he decided to drive off and Londregan shot him. I’m no cop boot licker, but there wasn’t much wrong with their conduct.
Moriarty brought in several legal teams to try the trooper. She had to get rid of some of them because they told her that there was nothing criminal about Londregan’s conduct.
Finally she said that she was dropping the case. Mostly because rumors were King Walz and Brother Keith were going to take it away from her because of all the damage it was doing to the DFL. Of course we all know the real reason: King Walz hates Queers!
“Teens charged with felony vandalism for leaving ‘black scuff marks’ on LGBTQ crosswalk”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/vandalism-lgbtq-crosswalk-spokane-felony
A ridiculous overcharge…I wonder if they chose the mural because the slickness of the paint made it easier to do burnouts.
Their lawyer should plead that their actions are protected by the first amendment, since they were making a counter political statement to a political statement made in a public place on a public street which was in fact made for driving over. The government can’t discriminate based on viewpoint.
That’s actually a decent argument. Don’t know if that’d fly in Spokane though.
It’s a good argument that will likely get the book thrown at the defendants.
At this point, I am guessing that the kids chose this specific spot, as kids will do shit like this.
I’ve put this comment out about a half dozen times on Twitter:
How do they make a mural on pavement, and get made because people drive over it? Did they rope it off?
No but the scooter company has geo-fenced the location and their scooters will no longer be able to function within the sacred painting. Absolute insanity.
Sounds like a good place to dump all the errant scooters, then.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-intelligence-ios-18-macos-sequoia-ai-b08bb299?st=1dxcqzpylgtlvn9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Wrong, wrong, and wrong.
It needs to be carefully segregated from the user realm and user data, fed carefully curated items to keep it from going insane and deleting itself.
The mad scramble to inject AI that nobody asked for into absolutely everything is pissing me off.
Yes. It will retreat, but there will be a bunch of $1bn plus versions of AOL, Yahoo, AltaVista, etc that will spectacularly implode first,
To Sensei’s point:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/humane-the-creator-of-the-700-ai-pin-is-reportedly-seeking-a-buyer/
It’s like a bunch of mid-level managers saw a shiny new toy to play with and convinced the execs to play along.
I am pretty confused that people think America is in any danger of turning into a theocracy. It’s never been less religious than right now. If you did think this surely it’s the really quite Catholic Biden you should be worried about and not the irreligious Trumpians?
https://x.com/IronEconomist/status/1800212317315137958
I doubt at this point Biden is any sort of Catholic. But I also don’t see how the US could become a christian theocracy, unless you define theocracy as you define fascism: stuff I call my opponents.
Anyone with an IQ north of 80 making that claim is being deliberately obtuse.
Woke is the new theocracy. Not that anyone outside of this group sees that.
Refer above to the teens charged with felony heresy vandalism.
That was supposed to have a strike through on heresy.
And Gaia worship.
I believe Biden is a lapsed Catholic. I could see a way for the US to become a theocracy, but it would require some populist religious person to start the process off. Are there any Billy Graham types out there that have a large enough base?
I don’t think he’s lapsed, he still attends mass regularly AFAIK. Of course, many questions are raised about how he conducts himself politically and how that reconciles with a devout faith.
Having attended mass in the past, many Catholics are just going through the motions. Show up late, get communion, leave immediately.
CPA:
Regularly attending mass doesn’t mean that he’s in communion with the Church. His stance on abortion alone puts him out of communion with the Church.
I call myself a recovering Catholic, my still devout friends sigh and correct me to being a lapsed Catholic.
For political reasons. I doubt he believes a word of it.
I’m definitely not saying he is a good Catholic, certainly a bad one, but the term lapsed doesn’t necessarily apply.
Having attended mass in the past, many Catholics are just going through the motions. Show up late, get communion, leave immediately.
I have always been confused by this. Why show up at all? Would you approve of a dinner guest at your house that showed up late and then immediately left after eating?
LOL I fell away long ago but even I’m not that crass when I do rarely attend.
I’ve had several discussions with the “going through the motion” Catholics who have taken offense to me not going up for Communion when I’m at a mass (weddings, funerals and the like). I point out that I have been out of communion with the Church for decades, and going up with be a real slap in the face to the Church. The devout Catholics actually respect me staying seated and have spoken up in my defense at times.
When I’ve been to Catholic churches for weddings and such, I don’t take communion either, on account of I’m not a Catholic. I thought it was, if nothing else, common courtesy. I’m not there to eat crackers and drink wine, after all.
Neph- alternative that is used around here
https://churchofthevisitation.flocknote.com/note/1936401
Also lapsed, and I did that at my sister’s wedding.
Gustave Lytton:
I’ve got no issue with that, but I’d probably just stay in my seat. Having been raised in the Church, I can handle some thrice a year Catholics trying to judge me. Also, I seem to recall a similar gesture used by pre-Vatican 2 participants who still wanted to receive the Eucharist in their mouth instead of their hands. But I’m not sure how many of that cohort are still going to mass.
stuff I call my opponents
Give that man a cupie doll!
I did not know about this.
“…Saudi Arabia’s decision not to renew its 50-year petro-dollar deal with the United States, which expired on Sunday, 9 June, 2024.”
Now the Saudis can sell oil in any currency they want.
https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/saudi-arabias-petro-dollar-exit-a-global-finance-paradigm-shift-670911a
I did not know that such an agreement existed.
Thank you Richard Nixon!
I hope the choose Leu
You’re not on the Euro? For shame.
Yeah and the Chinese are buying Russian petroleum products with the yuan. Frankly we did it to ourselves once we weaponized the dollar.
Kicking Russia out of SWIFT was short sighted, but that is SOP.
Yes, I believe they are backing BRICS.
This is great news for our grandkids.
The agreement allowed the dollar to survive much longer as a currency than it otherwise would have. In effect the U.S. government took the dollar off of a gold-standard and unto a petroleum standard.
As a consequence of this, the dollar is going to get more volatile, with more rapid changes downwards in purchasing power than we have experienced in the past. It also means that the U.S. government’s attempts to monetize its debt are going to have much more dramatic inflationary effects than it has in the past.
This is going to create more popular discontent with both the government and the elites running the country. These elites will either have to curb their inflationary policies or oppress the people harder. My guess is that they will do the latter. If they do follow the oppression path, I expect Texas will attempt secede, and whether it succeeds of fails initially, ultimately it will set in inexorable motion the fracturing of the United States.
My generation will live the rest of our lives experiencing the economic and political chaos and a seeming decline in our living standards. But I think when things stabilize the stage will have been set for our grandkids to have a better lives.
A large part, well almost entirely, of the deficit spending is the welfare state, direct and indirect. The populace won’t be happy at that being cut when they can no longer have their cake and eat it too.
Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙
@DawnButlerBrent
We were all warned about the rise of the far right and INCELS. The attack on Woke feeds into this dangerous rhetoric.
Alexander
@datepsych
The early misperception of incels as a far-right, overwhelmingly White cohort was probably formed by associating the far-right with misogynistic attitudes (“since incels have misogynistic attitudes, incels must be far-right”).
All of the survey data on incels to date indicates otherwise – incels are both politically and racially diverse!
Perhaps ironically, left-wing political critiques of incels and misogyny seem to lack intersectionality. For example, there is little acknowledgment that non-White immigrants from more patriarchal cultures often hold deeply misogynistic beliefs. There is also little acknowledgment that violent crimes against women (VAWG) are overrepresented in immigrant and minority populations.
https://x.com/datepsych/status/1800225363542601861
The reason that the kids don’t have to take the year end assessment is because it would be (more) concrete evidence of how disastrous the lockdowns were for the kids.
The last thing anyone wants is more data to demonstrate that the kids were truly fucked by two years of remote “learning”.
My last job was working for one of the big companies giving these assessments and I have heard through the grapevine that they are having a tough time now because all the states and school districts are doing their best to not give any tests because they know the results will be bad.
They will go back to testing once the kids that were kindergarten in 2020 have turned 18 and moved through the system.
Right now, everyone in govt that had anything to do with lockdowns is pushing for the end to year end assessments. Or at least to dumb them down so much that even the lockdown kids can pass.
I think that is the most logical conclusion.
Well from this morning’s links:
Hunter should have no defense. There is no requirement for you to be “addicted” to illegal drugs (even if the state you reside in it is considered legal to posses and use) on the fed form. You lied on a fed form and got caught, All Stop. Anyone else would be Effed in the A.
I’m hoping this BS trial leads to a change in the BS federal law or if he skates then a precedence setting decision that could be used by non-royalty.
Love and Rockets is wonderful and one of my HS era favorites. Got a chance to see them last Summer and was very happy.
I don’t want a squirrly result. I want them to explicitly challenge the consitutionality of the law.
You and I both, but I’m sure that the goal is to make this as quiet as possible.
The goal is to distract from any charge that might pull the curtain aside on daddy. They are shielding Creepy Joe. That is all this is about.
The feds almost never charge people for lying on the 4473
This case never really touched on Joe.
The next case, on evading income tax – that has implications not easily ignored. Though true blue Democrats are up to that challenge.
^This. They keep trying to pound the issue of whether or not he thought he was an addict at the time. The form doesn’t just say addict, it says addict or illegal user of drugs. There is no question that he was in fact an illegal user of drugs and lied on the form.
I’m hoping this BS trial leads to a change in the BS federal law or if he skates then a precedence setting decision that could be used by non-royalty.
If we weren’t descending into banana-republic status, we’d end up with one of those two, positive outcomes.
I’m pessimistic enough to believe he’ll skate AND other people will continue to get prosecuted for lying on the forms.
If the fix is in and Hunter walks, I’d like to see Joe explain to all his close black friends how his kid got off while all those poor black kids get rung up on the same sort of gun charges.
Joe’s close black friends?
I don’t recall the Obama girls getting wrung up on gun charges.
Local grievance studies program decides to hire a (((guy))) who says Israel is conducting textbook genocide in Gaza. This has caused some (((resignations))).
Uffda. I meant to make a snide comment on the domain name of the link above. “tcjewfolk.com” is pretty good, but “tcjewfolx.com” would have been better.
As a bonus link, here is an article about the (((guy))) who was offered the job where he claims (((they))) aren’t even from Judea. And he makes up a hate crime by (((kids))).
No idea why you wouldn’t want him running a center that advocates for Jewish people.
Wait, Jews are not from Judea? The Romans called the place “Judea” because that’s where the Jews were from. Just like they called another place “Germania” because that’s where the Germans were from.
These people are fucking insane.
The ‘not from Judea’ is an argument usually leveled at the Ashkenazi Jews. I’m not going to go into it here as it’s not really pertinent. Either it is wrong to wholesale kill a group of people or it is not. Anytime you start parsing that issue, it is usually because you are trying to excuse or perhaps reinstate bad behavior.
So “genocide” is another word that has been stripped of all meaning.
language is fluid.
We are officially through the looking glass.
Language is fluid but concepts are not, thus the endless chicanery.
It’s happened sooner than I thought, but at some point the Holocaust will be a historical footnote like so many distant events. The last survivors are almost all gone and their children are aging too.
Which candidate is the authoritarian again?
Democracy can be slow and messy. They know what the people really want.
Fourscore and seven years ago…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIsnIt1p978
Happy Birthday?!?!?
Mozell Tov!
🎂 🎉 !!
Damn! Happy Birthday. 🙂
Been busy for a while. Is the decision by Adobe to claim all your content in the Drugs/Ass zone?
Adobe has always seemed to be a stupid company, but this seems extra stupid.
There are also people claiming that Adobe won’t let you cancel your subscription and download your content until you agree to the new terms.
Already clarified by Adobe that, no, that’s not what the terms mean.
https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms-of-use
Then they can drop those Terms and write a clearer “Adobe has no acces to your data and it gets encrypted with a key only you have” model.
Possibly. Or they got caught and are now backpedaling.
Seems fishy if you can’t even cancel without clicking the “I Agree” button. But I’m not a lawyer and I haven’t paid that much attention to the details.
I have been burned by Adobe in the past, so I am liking seeing them getting burned by this.
The new explicit authorization to access your content by automated means essentially blows the doors off.
There’s another reason I’m happy I stuck with the last Non-subscription versions I could get my hands on.
Never trust the cloud, a subscription, or “free to play”
From what I’ve read, they are going to catch some lawsuits, lose them, and likely get buttfucked by the judge/jury.
I sure hope so.
No.
There are people still using photoshop?
I have a standalone license from the beforetimes. It doesn’t expire, so I still use it.
My cover artist uses it to digitally paint.
I saw this Friday as a tweet, and said something on Zooms. Deadhead was skeptical, but honestly, it’s Adobe. OF COURSE they would do this. I have a copy of Pshop 7 I use all the fucking time, and I bought it off eBay 15 years ago.
Adobe will do anything to shake down its users.
Unlocking legal status is a unique feature of America’s pen & phone democracy.
Bauhaus w/o Peter Murphy is just Love & Rockets.
Just sent an e-mail to (I hope) your address.
No New Tale to Tell is one of the best songs of the 80’s. Or any decade. I can play it on guitar too.
Something about it just doesn’t work for me. Just a dirge.
De gustibus…
David J is a hell of a song writer. He sung only a few songs in L&R and Bauhaus. Who killed Mr. Moonlight being another one.
Of Lily’s and Remains is another favorite.
You’ve probably never made a more true statement.
Interview your applicants? Why not just have them play Civilization?
https://x.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1800350000293253394
The company is requiring users to agree to the new terms in order to continue using their Adobe apps, locking them out until they do so …
I know a few people who quit Adobe when they moved to a subscription.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8TEJtQRhw
I bet Adobe plays that music on the speakers in their offices
I’m still bitter about Adobe buying Macromedia and ruining everything.
Piker.
I’m mad at Macromedia for buying Cold Fusion from the Allaire brothers and ruining everything.
Then Adobe bought Macromedia and double-fucked everything.
Macromedia products were amazing. Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks were what I used for all my early web work.
I still use Fireworks a lot (got a copy of CS6 for free in a raffle).
Previous research has demonstrated that a stronger belief in free will contributes to a variety of socially desirable behaviors. We assessed the correlation between free will beliefs and health behaviors in four studies (N = 1172). The present research suggests that regardless of whether free will actually exists, believing it does motivates people to engage in healthier behaviors. Belief in free will is positively associated with health protective behaviors (e.g., physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, low fat diet) and negatively associated with health risk behaviors (e.g., alcohol consumption, smoking, unhealthy snacking).
https://x.com/DegenRolf/status/1799686270534271082
low fat diet
Sean haz a sad.
Yeah sure, if you think it’s all our of your hands why ever try to kick maladaptive habits?
So free will is associated with a healthy attitude towards oneself. In other words such people are ultra-mega-MAGA extremists.
The Woke and the Greedy
How to think about the motivations of teachers unions.
https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-woke-and-the-greedy
Teachers unions never stop demanding bigger budgets.
They infamously stand by teachers accused of incompetence or misconduct.
They try to prevent parents from seeing what their kids are learning.
They get angry when parents ask hard questions.
And they struggle to crush any form of school choice!
..
If you read The Parent Revolution carefully, however, you’ll discover a long list of union activities that aren’t plausibly motivated by greed. If your overriding goal is to get piles of money for your members, why would you enthusiastically defend the right of biological males to use girls’ bathrooms? To compete in girls’ sports? Especially in the public sector, standing up for unpopular causes seems like a demented way to make money.
Do teachers unions care about money? Naturally, but it’s on a spectrum. Call it the Woke-Greedy Spectrum. And once you concede that there’s a spectrum and sift through the evidence, the further from the greedy pole and the closer to the woke pole the unions seem to stand.
Fundamentally misguided thesis. There is no trade off for the unions between wokism and greed, so there’s no spectrum. I don’t see anybody agreeing to make financial sacrifices in exchange for wokism. In short, por que no los dos?
The unions support boys playing girls because they were skin-suited by radicals just like every other institution.
Bwahaha – stop being mean to me and my dedicated purely professional and non-partisan staff!!!
Garland is the joke. Everyone is laughing and he doesn’t know why.
I heard a bit of Comey speaking in the last few days. Same shit, obviously coordinated effort.
Low trust nation
A left-wing activist on Monday released secret recordings of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts, discussing a range of politically sensitive topics.
In conversation with the activist, who represented herself as a religious conservative and did not disclose in the recordings she released that she was producing them and would make them public, Justice Alito endorses her suggestion that “people in this country who believe in God have got to keep fighting for that – to return our country to a place of Godliness.” “Well, I agree with you, I agree with you,” Alito says.
At another point, the activist represents herself as a devout Catholic, telling the justice, “I don’t know that we can negotiate with the left in the way that, like, needs to happen for the polarization to end. I think that it’s a matter of, like, winning.”
“I think you’re probably right,” Alito responds. “On one side or the other — one side or the other is going to win. I don’t know. I mean, there can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised. They really can’t be compromised. So, it’s not like you are going to split the difference.”
The recordings were made by Lauren Windsor, a self-described documentary filmmaker who said she made the recordings during a dinner hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society last week. The subjects appear to be unaware that they were being recorded by Windsor, who called the clips “undercover audio” on X.
First, tell me how this is any different than that right wing jackass who does the same thing to people like Planned Parenthood.
Next, tell me how we survive this incessant chipping away of that e pluribus unum fantasy.
endorses her suggestion
So, FBI operation?
Well, obviously being SCOTUS they completely lose the ability to have personal opinions, beliefs, and wants.
Unless it is a wise Latina!
oh shit – represents herself as a devout Catholic – so you are saying she lied. That’s not a slight representation issue.
I can see how an undercover reporter might have to lie to get the story. That doesn’t bug me that much.
What I don’t see is anything terrible that the justices said. As Stinky said below, it seems like they are mostly being nice and not picking a fight with her. And even as a non-believer, I don’t see anything wrong with a religious person saying that the country needs to get back to godliness.
Where is the part where one of them talks about putting people in camps? Or admitting that the fix is in and they will vote a certain way no matter what the facts are?
O’Keefe got the Acorn people to not only agree with him but to help him fill out forms to get money and other bullshit like that.
Your Holiness: You dont find anything they said wrong because you are not a left wing lunatic. Their reaction, like that of a schizophrenic, is completely different for reasons you cant fathom.
I repeat from my earlier comments, I used to think Sean Hannity was engaging in hyperbole when he equated leftism with mental illness.
By the way, thanks for answering the age old question “Is the Pope Catholic?”
I’m not sure how common this is, but I have a few widely-dispersed left-leaning friends for whom ‘religion in the public sphere’ is a spittle-flinging trigger point.
For example, one of my D&D buddies, an otherwise highly intelligent and thoughtful career man, is offended to the point of ranting about, “One Nation Under God,” being printed on our currency.
“For example, one of my D&D buddies, an otherwise highly intelligent and thoughtful career man, is offended to the point of ranting about, “One Nation Under God,” being printed on our currency.”
I always ask those people if they think crosses, Stars of David, and other religious symbols should be removed from tombstones in Arlington National Cemetery. I never get a straight answer.
Also, she actually said the stuff, the perfectly reasonable stuff IMHO, and they were just being agreeable and kind of parroting her concepts back to her. Are these people under the impression that SC justices don’t have political viewpoints (they aren’t under that impression but they’ll pretend to be)?
THEY ARE WRONGTHINK!!!! WHAT DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT!!! NOW STFU AND OBEY!!! /prog-tards in full voice
Sure, right ahead of the election. I doubt Team Blue is going to let that happen. So they will either put a gun to management’s head or force them to mediate and push it past the election.
Dockworkers Cancel Bargaining, Threaten Strike at U.S. Seaports
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dockworkers-cancel-bargaining-threaten-strike-at-u-s-seaports-b5712a1a?st=r6s5lt9r5kagfqa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Team Blue will absolutely force management to give concessions as a vote-buying ploy. Of course, with junk mail voting, last minute shenanigans count for less every cycle.
Well, well, well – almost succeeded in burying it. Of course she’ll be returned for another term.
You see, politicians aren’t half the problem that voters are.
“The voters are getting what they voted for, good and hard.” – Menken…I think.
I never get what I vote for.
“I never get what I vote for”
I do. I was told if I voted for OMB we would get WW3, so I did. They were right.
Eh, they don’t have to bury that, it is soto voce what SF wants.
I think about this California high-speed rail story all the time
https://x.com/AlecStapp/status/1800348696439300336
That’s amazing.
Well, not “amazing”. “Perfect encapsulation”, maybe.
That is hilarious.
Also, trains in CA? If there is any state you cant live in without a car it is CA.
Yes, but this isn’t just any old train, this train is going to help California to change the climate.
You see, politicians aren’t half the problem that voters are.
You know that old saying, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others”?
I’m beginning to suspect it’s bullshit.
I knew a very intelligent and accomplished lawyer who could argue convincingly that monarchies were the way to go.
I am a monarchist if and only if I am the Monarch.
I can be emperor of America if needed.
My God, why would you want that? Speaking of bullshit the ol’ “It’s good to be king.” is just that.
Everyone else’s problems become your problems. Who needs that shit?
why would you want that – for the wine and the women
But you’ll get Whine and “women”.
The Founders knew it is bullshit. That is why WE DONT HAVE A DEMOCRACY.
You have to be a screaming dumbshit to take Rep. Donald’s words as praising Jim Crow, when in fact he was praising the strength of black families in spite of Jim Crow. Fortunately, the LA Times found a screaming dumbshit.
And of course Granderson ignores Sowell’s point that the laws deeper origin was a means to deal with free [poor] whites in the South.
Fortunately, the LA Times found a screaming dumbshit. – to be fair, that is not easy these days, so few of those around
Don’t worry, the MSM will run with the narrative that he was praising Jim Crow. Because he’s a Republican so of course he was.
BREAKING: Far-left radicals are rioting in Paris over the landslide election results
https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1800370278234792092
to be fair do the french need a reason to riot?
It doesn’t need to be a substantial reason. Any flimsy excuse will do.
They haven’t gone this nuts since the price of *insert disgusting odiferous semisoft cheese here*doubled.
Reconstruction of a Palaeolithic cave exploration through footprint analysis – the Italian Basura Cave, revealing two adults, a teenager and two young children crawling and walking through the dark with a pine wood torch circa 14kya
https://x.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1800456691021906024
two adults, a teenager and two young children
Clearly the first evidence of Paleolithic LGBQTRIAGN++ couples raising their non-binary trans children in the face of racist neanderthalic patriarchy.
When an idiot drives a short wheelbase RWD vehicle with likely bald tires.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1dd0pfh/oc_its_a_jeep_thing/
– Former 2door JK owner
I don’t see he did much wrong. He didn’t seem to be going fast and lightly wet streets and RWD just does that on its own. Couldn’t tell if his tires were bald. My truck is very touchy on lightly wet streets and I hate driving it when it’s wet and I refuse to drive it in the snow. And its tires are DEFINITELY not bald.
something slippery jumped out of nowhere in front of it
Give a little time between rains and a bit of oil floats out of the pavement and stays there with a short, light rain.
The road can be slicker than owl shit and you cant see it.
Just like those army rangers climbing up that cliff
Warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a Donald Trump White House, a group of House Democrats has launched a task force to start fighting the proposal and stop it from taking hold if the Republican former president returns to power.
Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman of California is unveiling The Stop Project 2025 Task Force on Tuesday, the latest sign that congressional Democrats and outside groups are treating Trump’s campaign seriously in the expected rematch against Democratic President Joe Biden this fall.
“The stakes just couldn’t be higher,” Huffman told The Associated Press.
Huffman said the Project 2025 agenda will hit “like a Blitzkrieg” and lawmakers need to be ready.
“If we’re trying to react to it and understand it in real time, it’s too late,” he said. “We need to see it coming well in advance and prepare ourselves accordingly.”
Their loyalty to the government is infinite. No sacrifice is too great.
“Core to the Project 2025 plan is ousting thousands of civil servants and replacing them with personnel from a database of applicants, an effort to reverse the setbacks of Trump’s first term, when many of his more extreme ideas were thwarted and blocked by those refusing to break norms, violate laws or overextend presidential powers.”
Presidents staffing the executive branch with people who agree with them? SHOCKING! How will democracy survive!
refusing to break norms, violate laws
Norms like Executive agencies doing what the Chief of the Executive Branch tells them? Laws like military leadership not conspiring with foreign militaries?
“My Caribbean vacations don’t just pay for themselves, you know.”
Proteomics confirms the colonial ‘myth’ that the palace walls of Dahomey were bound together with human blood.
https://x.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1800080257200115753
You’re racist for noticing that.
That is what they used to say about Cortez’s account of the Aztec temple build entirely out of human skulls.
Since said temple was recently discovered below the streets of Mexico City there has been a deafening silence about it.
I always thought Cortez was too kind and generous in his treatment of the Aztecs.
Huh…seems unsafe, they must have bribed the code inspector.
I blame the white patriarchy.
The Democratic-led task force comes as groups on and off Capitol Hill are increasingly alarmed over Project 2025, a sweeping blueprint from the conservative Heritage Foundation that is preparing to quickly help staff a new GOP administration with plans for dismantling aspects of the federal government and installing loyalists for a second Trump term.
Right. The end is nigh. Anarchy and chaos await.
“Perfection is impossible.
In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches.
But what percentage of points did I win?
54%
In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play.
When you lose ever second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot.
You teach yourself to think:
‘Okay, I double faulted…it’s only a point.’
‘Okay, I came to the net and I got passed again…it’s only a point.’
Even a great shot, an overhead backhand smash that ends up on ESPN’s top 10 playlist – that too is just a point.
Here’s why I’m telling you this.
When you’re playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world. And it is.
But when it’s behind you, it’s behind you.
This mindset is crucial – because it frees you to fully commit to the next point with intensity, clarity, and focus.”
https://x.com/DylanJardon/status/1800191077695062038
A wordy way to say don’t dwell on the past but I concur.
it was a commencement speech he had to stretch it to fill the time I guess.
R C’s commencement speech:
“Well, you’ve got a new credential and are going to need find something else to do now. Don’t fuck it up.”
Core to the Project 2025 plan is ousting thousands of civil servants and replacing them with personnel from a database of applicants, an effort to reverse the setbacks of Trump’s first term, when many of his more extreme ideas were thwarted and blocked by those refusing to break norms, violate laws or overextend presidential powers.
There is no Deep State, and you should get down on your knees and thank them for saving you from Trump’s power mad blood lust.
That’s a roundabout way of describing insubordination to thwart the will of the people’s elected representative.
Yep. In a word – sedition.
What’s with these КИ cars? I thought we were sanctioning Russia.
Ask Yusef.
He does not appear to be around.
I see it as the Nine inch Nails logo, ridiculous really
I think of that sex cult where the women got tattooed.
When you’re playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world. And it is.
Be the ball, Danny.
We have really changed the meaning of the word “dystopian” in a world where capitalism has worked so well that people have run out of things to complain about.
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1800305846641135740
Perfect timing! She gets tackled and starts screaming the second she says “racist police.” Give that officer a raise.
Thank you to the UCLA encampment for starting again, I didn’t realize how much I missed these videos.
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1800516365771812932
How would Uber know if your phone battery is low?
I assume the app can access that info
Going off of the grid seems more appealing every day.
Why? If the Dems win the whole grid will break anyway.
As a founder of the Freethought Caucus on Capitol Hill, Huffman said he has particularly been alarmed about the rise of Christian nationalism within GOP ranks and efforts to push more conservative theology into government.
“We were able to beat back some of the worst of this Christian nationalist agenda, this authoritarian agenda, in the first Trump presidency, because they didn’t really know what they were doing,” Huffman said. “The fact that they have been putting all of this forethought and research and planning into a second Trump presidency means we’ll be dealing with a much more formidable foe, if it comes to that this time around.”
Bibles in every classroom. Prayers everywhere. The Ten Commandments carved over the entry to the Supreme Court.
I read that as the Free of Thought Caucus.
RE: yesterday and the difference between personal best and arbitrary classification system.
In this case I’m going to defend the classification system. It’s based on taking the best people as the standard and then comparing the rest to them. For a match score to count, there have to be enough really good people there in order to declare that the standard is legitimate — if it’s just one they might be having a bad day. Real life example: I beat Max Michel. Once. On one stage. Because he fucked up. In the case last weekend, the guy at the top of the charts was Sal Luna, who is a great shooter, but maybe he had a cold or something. Without other GMs on the standings to verify Sal’s performance, it shouldn’t be used to determine how well I did.
Speaking of, some guy is modifying the ELO system to try and make it work for shooters. His software seemed to do a good job of predicting where I finished.
False consciousness
Even if Hochul is telling the truth about restaurateurs’ complaints, they’re still a terrible justification for her flip-flop on congestion pricing. The same goes for public leaders elsewhere who scuttle other urban transportation reforms that merchants often loathe, such as replacing street parking with dedicated lanes for bikes and buses. When it comes to shoppers’ travel habits, small business owners simply don’t know what they’re talking about — and not just in New York.
In study after study in city after city around the world, researchers have found that merchants exaggerate the share of patrons who arrive by car and undercount those who walk, bike, or ride transit. Those misperceptions lead them to oppose transportation reforms that would limit the presence of cars and make urban neighborhoods cleaner, more pleasant, and less polluted — and would likely increase spending at their business, too.
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It’s also possible that business owners are misled by what they are told about local transportation. Think about it: If you’re on your way to a restaurant and your train is delayed or you can’t find a nearby bike corral, would you complain to the staff? The thought likely wouldn’t cross your mind. But what if you were in a car, and you had to circle the block a few times before squeezing into a parking spot? Now the odds of sharing your annoyance are probably higher, since there are few more universal American experiences than complaining about parking. If store owners hear more griping from car owners than from transit riders, cyclists, and walkers, they might conclude that the bulk of their customers are driving — and that any policy that worsens drivers’ burden could spell doom.
Good old Vox is here to tell you why you’re stupid.
Commie researchers find that restaurants are miscounting their tills. Someone should alert them.
Free translation – “We hate small businesses because we can’t control them, so we support hounding them out of business.”
I’m unclear on how reducing transportation to and from urban neighborhoods will increase the number of people going there to spend money, myself.
Cuban Missile Crisis II?
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2024/06/11/russian-ships-submarine-florida-coast-cuba-ukraine-putin/74054477007/
Again, I was told that if I voted for Trump…
Hard evidence of Russian collusion. They are there to pick up classified documents from Mar a Lago.
Hunter Biden eligible for 20+ years in pmita prison. Now how will the judge sentence?
Hunter convicted!
https://apnews.com/live/hunter-biden-gun-trial-day-2-jury-deliberations
Can’t wait for tomorrow’s midday story!
Huh. Well, here we are.
I’ll be damned. I would have lost that bet.
Not yet. He’s guilty – now what will the sentence be?
So will it also be “convicted felon, Hunter Biden”?
Presidential candidate and father of convicted felon Joe Biden.
I’m still not sure why the Biden DOJ when ahead with this. There has to be an angle and I don’t see it yet.
Regardless, tomorrow is Wednesday, and it’s going to be epic.
I predict Cracky has a breakdown.
Presidential pardon in 5… 4.. 3…
Whatever its genesis, the pro-car bias of business owners presents a major roadblock to urban policy reform.
And there it is. We want what we want, and anybody who doesn’t like it can go fuck himself.
People with cars have money to spend.
“Your Honor, we tried and we tried, but we just couldn’t figure out how to spring him.”
Now how will the judge sentence?
A stern admonishment, and time served.
Good question. The feds have pretty strict sentencing guidelines and the judge has to publicly justify going low.
Regular drug testing could be amusing.
He is gonna do time, same as Trump, then we do a prisoner exchange,
Cheers!
See something, do something
The King County, Washington, Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has charged a man with second-degree murder and assault, both felony counts, for allegedly shooting a teen he thought was holding a gun and who he believed was about to rob a sporting goods store.
Aaron Brown Myers, 51, told police he believed the 17-year-old victim had a gun and was going to rob a Big 5 Sporting Goods store in the Seattle suburb of Renton last Wednesday as the teen headed toward the retailer with two others, according to court documents filed by the prosecutor, Leesa Manion.
The boy was holding an airsoft gun, according to a police affidavit. An airsoft gun is a replica firearm that shoots low-power, nonmetallic pellets.
The two teens who were with the victim told police they were going to the sporting goods store to either return or exchange the airsoft gun because it was malfunctioning, the affidavit said.
Another dumbass spooled up by nonstop paranoid panicmongering from the media?
This is what the nonstop battle against “normalizing” gun ownership gets you.
* self-contradiction disclaimer
Huh. I see a fair number of people carrying firearms into Cabelas, there are a good number of concealed and open carriers, yet I haven’t heard of one mistaken shooting locally.
That story makes no sense.
It gets better-
“The investigation revealed that the victim and two other 17-year-olds were walking toward a store to return a handgun-style BB gun when the armed suspect got out of his vehicle and confronted the trio,” according to the filing obtained by ABC News. “There was an altercation that turned physical, and the suspect allegedly shot the victim multiple times.”
Myers told police he works as an armed security guard elsewhere, and he had just gotten off work and was waiting in his car in a parking lot as his son attended martial arts classes nearby, according to the police affidavit.
“Myers indicated that he conducted ‘overwatch’ at the location as he has seen numerous crimes occur in the parking lot in the past,” the affidavit read.
God job, Wyatt Earp. Have a nice time in the slammer.
I’m still not sure why the Biden DOJ when ahead with this. There has to be an angle and I don’t see it yet.
They tried to bury it with that plea deal, and the judge laughed them out of court.
I have a theory about the verdict, but I’ll save it until 12:30 EDT.
I look forward to it.