WHAT IS THE LINE BETWEEN FREE SPEECH AND ELECTION INTERFERENCE: ZeroHedge covers the prosecution of Douglass Mackey.
THE CASE OF THE NOT-MISSING-AT-ALL MAN: We’re not saying it was aliens, but it sounds like aliens.
PBS WHINES ABOUT FIFTH CIRCUIT POST-BRUEN RULING: Fears it might spread.
ECO-TERRORISTS FUCK WITH SPANISH GOLF COURSES: Use seedlings and cement to plug holes in a futile PR stunt.
MESSAGE FILM “SOUND OF FREEDOM” OPENS STRONG: A film about Operation Underground Railroad which rescues sex-trafficked children. Will Hollywood pay attention or keep churning out franchised crap?
THE MAN IN THE TINFOIL YARMULKE: Unz, Unz, Unz. “Antisemitic conspiracy Jews are surely among the most fun Jews.” –Warty
I hear cocaine can give him energy.
“Cocaine give you wings!”
“ZeroHedge covers the prosecution of Douglass Mackey.”
Wait, it was the Jews?
Ding, ding, ding. Folks, we have a winner! Tell him what he’s won, R.J.
Okay, I don’t think they actually said that, for once. But it was a good joke and thanks for making it.
HE’S WON A BRAND-NEW YARMULKE!
My (((colleagues))) over there call it a kippah. Hebrew > Yiddish.
Better prize than he’d get on Wheel of Fish…
“In the end, the phone number on the memes received 4,900 texts.”
LOLOLOLOL
4800 of which only happened after the media picked up on it. Meaning it was almost entirely reporters and people texting the number out of curiousity, not people who thought they were voting.
To be fair, both Clinton supporters and reporters are idiots.
“A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently struck down a federal law prohibiting individuals from “possessing a firearm while under a domestic violence restraining order.” ”
Good, and a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction shouldn’t make someone a prohibited person.
“While the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision lifted most state restrictions on the public carrying of weapons”
Well, maybe in theory.
“The question presented in this case is not whether prohibiting the possession of firearms by someone subject to a domestic violence restraining order is a laudable policy goal,” Judge Cory Wilson wrote for the unanimous appeals panel. The question was whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), the federal law that does so, was constitutional under the Second Amendment. It was not, he concluded.
Now wait one cotton-pickin’ second here. What is this crazy notion of following the law as interpreted by SCOTUS? Doesn’t the Fifth Circuit know that they’re supposed to ignore the Supremes and hope that the appeal is denied cert?
It’s like they don’t even do “results-oriented jurisprudence” there anymore.
If it’s good policy it is exempt from constitutional limits on government power.
It is amazing that he felt the need to State that.
But it is clear that the high courts almost *exclusively* use policy preferences to determine outcomes.
courts applied what is known as intermediate scrutiny to the regulation. The government, to prevail, had to show that the regulation was “substantially related to the achievement of an important governmental interest.”
intermediate scrutiny just means the judge can decide whatever he wants
But that law was common sense. COMMON SENSE!
ZeroHedge covers the prosecution of Douglass Mackey.
Misspelled “persecution”.
If I were a judge, that would be enough for me to toss the case for bad faith prosecution right there.
Of course, thoughts like that are why I’ll never be a judge (and the small thing about never having studied law… but honestly, like the tax system should be simple enough you don’t need an accountant… the legal system should be simple enough people shouldn’t need lawyers for most things… but since most legislators and all jurists are lawyers — now way they’re going to keep work out of their profession…)
Good catch. Thanks.
I am glad someone else saw this…
This one observation proves that this was *entirely* politically motivated. Pulling a Florida case into Manhattan where a friendly prosecutor has a friendly judge who will allow a case to be built entirely on a conspiracy in which none of the co-conspirators actually ever communicated with each other about the subject and a history of “racist and misogynistic tweets” to be presented to a friendly jury predisposed to hate any Trump supporter is everything we are supposed to guard against.
But if you were a judge who wanted to see some guy from the opposing team get railroaded as a warning to others that’d be a Godsend, which it was.
The recent ruling in Mallory v Norfolk Southern doesn’t provide hope that SCOTUS will provide a smackdown.
“the Eastern District of New York was chosen as the venue based on the prosecution’s argument that the fiber optic cables carrying his communications passed through Brooklyn en-route to Twitter’s servers.”
Do they really want to open that can of worms? That can apply to nearly everything on the Internet.
What’s the downside? Also by this logic, any telephone or mail threat can be prosecuted at any point along the way.
Yup, seems to be no downside for the admin state. They get to prosecute where it’s most beneficial to themselves.
So could the state of Indiana prosecute two people emailing each other about getting an abortion, if the emails go through a server in the state? That’s where I’m going with this.
Wouldn’t need a server, just a cable.
And no actual proof that the packets traversed that jurisdiction either.
I had the same thoughts. What possible proof could they have had about specific packets hitting a specific cable. Routers rout based on information that has nothing to do with geography.
Fears it might spread.
Let freedom ring.
Fuck off, you limey cunte.
Just when you thought the British couldn’t be more ignorant, one of them hopped on “Morning Joe” and complained about guns in America, the day after Independence Day.
It’s always awkward to see one of my fellow Brits make a tit out of themselves on television, particularly when it comes to the freedoms, quality of life and opportunities that only this great nation can afford to its residents, citizens and immigrants alike. One such nonsensical virtue signal came from the BBC’s journalist Katty Kay on Wednesday’s episode of “Morning Joe,” where she spewed a series of falsehoods about our Second Amendment.
To be fair, I’m sure the Brits were complaining about guns in America 250 years ago, too.
Wherever that line is, it’s nowhere near Douglas Mackey.
Thanks, Tonio!
Sound of Freedom looks depressing but good.
Will Hollywood pay attention or keep churning out franchised crap?
Depends on what China wants.
“ECO-TERRORISTS FUCK WITH SPANISH GOLF COURSES”
A lot of water use regulations and fertilizer ordinances don’t apply to golf courses, which I do think is bull. Also, once defunct, their connected owners get politicians to buy the overpriced and now polluted land… /Grumbling
From the dead thred, even worse than Newsweeks explaining is that they get it so horribly wrong. “Sub” isn’t short for “subway sandwich”…
How long.is the Talmud? Worth reading a translation?
I think most Christians mistakenly believe that Jewish religious texts begin and end with the Torah / Old Testament.
PBS seems to have some sort of anti-cut-and-paste shield on their website.
I used reader mode to get around it.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/world-news/british-airways-passenger-stabbed-wine-27264324
Stupid Brits and their stabbings. Can’t even keep it at home.
A man, thought to be from the Caribbean island, is said to have allegedly attacked a man and his family. Witnesses say the attacker was donning a bucket hat and glasses at the time.
He reportedly smashed a glass bottle in the galley, causing shards of glass to fly through the plane, MirrorOnline reports. He is said to have then marched along the aisle before swinging the broken bottle at a passenger he had been arguing with.
The passenger also thought to be from Saint Lucia, sustained a considerable injury which needed immediate attention from a nurse onboard. The man received further medical attention once the plane landed at 1.55pm local time.
Black Irish, no doubt.
That’s an odd detail.
Was he named Scott Malkinson?
A 400 pound man named “microchip” no doubt.
Congratulations BMW. Everytime you put out another insanely expensive overweight piece of shit I find it less appealing than the prior overweight overpriced piece of shit. At the $200k range I’d take a Range Rover any day of the week and I’d bet it will be just as reliable. Which means not very…
2024 BMW XM | Marketing Trainwreck
Written article for those like me who hate videos for a just a passing interest.
For whatever reason BMW was unable to fit an air suspension on this thing. In order to give it the sporty pretensions they wanted they had to put steel springs on it and both the video and the article here note that it rides like a fucking rock on wheels too.
“At the $200k range I’d take a Range Rover ”
Are range rovers that expensive now? Cripes.
https://buildyour.landroverusa.com/lr2/r/products/_/en_us/l460_k24/4ahpn
I checked. Some of the long wheel base loaded editions starte at $234K! Stripped down “base” is $110k.
That’s retarded, but good for you if you’ve got that kind of cash to burn.
I’d rather have one of these.
Yes. If you must have a high performance SUV, just get a Dodge Durango SRT. Far cheaper.
“It’s more than a vehicle, it’s an experience.”
An experience in expensive repairs probably.
Not those. Bulletproof.
I’m going to start a business called ‘North America Car Camping’ and start restoring Volvo 240 wagons and flogging them around for a quarter-million each…
I wouldn’t pay a quarter mil, but my 240s are still the best vehicles I’ve ever owned.
I wouldn’t mind one of those, or an old diesel Mercedes wagon, the W123.
At that range, I would expect a Duck.
For that price, I’d just wait a couple of years for one of these.
Or if I felt like toting along the orphans in luxury, get its Lexus equivalent.
Kia
I’d buy a Honda or Mazda and bank the rest.
Same. Although we did just buy and MDX for my wife.
Yes. Mine has an Infiniti although it didn’t cost any more than the equivalent Subaru. I still drive a Mazda with a manual.
I barfed.
The front of that car looks like a pig’s snout.
The styling cues on that Beemer make me think it’s mostly aimed at the Asian market.
From the video. US based TikTokkers, the Middle East, and Asia (ex Japan).
Switching from BMW to Subaru is one of the best decisions I’ve made. MY WRX STI is vastly more fun than anything without an M in the name and it’s 20% of the price.
We had one of those many moons ago. A hatchback. It was a little rocket, a blast to drive (manual, natch). Shame the airco was pitifully inadequate for Texas summers, so we sold it when we moved to Texas.
From out of nowhere, Angel Studios’ Sound of Freedom, about Tim Ballard, a former Homeland Security agent who left the department after he was frustrated with the U.S. rescue efforts with trafficked children in third-world countries, is racking up $7.2 million in ticket presales before its July 4th opening at 2,626 theaters, sources tell Deadline.
Borrowing a thought from Tom Sowell: is that a lot? compared to what?
How much they spent to make it would be good to know.
25 mil
“EXCLUSIVE: CDC accused of ‘blurring politics and science’ over advice that suggests trans women CAN safely breastfeed — but fails to mention health risks to baby”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12262959/CDC-advice-says-trans-women-safely-breastfeed-babies-doesnt-mention-health-risks.html
“America’s largest teachers’ union recommends controversial books ‘Gender Queer’ and ‘White Fragility’ for educator summer reading lists”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12267095/Americas-largest-teachers-union-recommends-controversial-books.html
No.
Wow. I had no idea. Can they milk a bull too if he is given a whole bunch of hormones?
“fails to mention health risks to baby”
I’m sure those health risks are nothing compared to the health risks of a person denied free drugs and surgery when they want to transition.
https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/05/supreme-court-affirmative-action/
So much for the libertarian bonafides of Big Tech.
Small Tech, when it was starting out, was solidly leaning to the libertarian/libertine tendencies of the overwhelmingly male practitioners. Once it became a money-maker, that all ended.
I agree, there was a definite libertarianish tendency among the denizens of the interwebs until about 2008 when the Internet really became mainstream. Libertarians, as is their habit, extrapolated this into some Permanent Fact.
These exact same companies, in fact. Google was famously pro-freedom at their core. They used to have the official motto : “don’t be evil”. They open-sourced all sorts of stuff, including their Android operating system.
Being a public company has killed all of that.
Facebook was founded as a way to rate how hot the incoming freshmen girls were. Watching that company go woke is pretty surreal.
They all started out pounding the drums of free speech. It didn’t last as long as I thought it would though.
Wasn’t “Wired” started by a bona fide libertarian activist?
Lol, pretty sure those bona fides have been dead and buried for a decade at least.
Those have been gone for at least 10 years… haven’t you paid any attention to those of us in the industry who’ve reported that culture shift? Or that Big Tech’s been working hand in hand with the IC since 2020 at a minimum, 2016 more likely? That Big Tech has been doing its best to game politics to keep the H1-B lottery / indentured servitude program going?
I mean — part of it is probably stemming from the MS monopoly lawsuit (that’s when tech companies realized they had to lobby / bribe like other companies and play the game), some from the Java / Sun lawsuits (corporate lawfare and influence peddling), some from just retirees being replaced by properly indoctrinated college grads (because the tech sector has always loved ‘youthful energy’ (aka “We can get them to work 90 hours a week dangling ‘options’ and ‘you’re doing cool work.. you rebel!’), so tends to push out older workers in favor of grads… ageism being one of the discriminations they seem to get away with…)
Thr Intelligence community integration with big tech happened at least before the 2008 election.
That was the cycle where the NYT ran puff prices lauding HRC’s big tech advantage. Eric Schmidt of Google fame started a company called “The Groundwork” designed to help democrats by integrating with the back end of the big tech companies and providing Intelligence and promoting or hiding content as needed.
There is little doubt that the feds had their fingers in that pie.
“A Supreme Court affirmative action ruling that bans race-conscious admissions into higher education”
It does no such thing, you know. Either de jure or, certainly, de facto.
The entire article is a pile of horseshit from start to end, so there’s that I guess.
“Scientists warn Africa is splitting in HALF: 2,000-mile crack that appeared along southeast of the continent is widening by one inch every year”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12267587/Could-Africa-split-HALF-2-000-mile-crack-widening-one-inch-year.html
That’s a lot of crack.
* Hunter Biden hops on plane to East Africa
Also, that’s not even close to half.
NEWS FLASH: Earth keeps doing what its been doing the whole time, humans irrelevant to planetary changes.
Follow up — Sol could give a flying fuck what you hairless apes think too. Don’t even start on the Galaxy…
So Africa really isn’t black?
Pauses…. puts two and two together…. Opera clap.
Women and children hardest hit.
Talk to me in 25 million years, then we get some seaside property
After a prolonged period of allowing myself to get “sidetracked” and, to be honest, fretting about my diagnosis being proven wrong, I finally forced myself to go road test the Civic. The freshly rebuilt distributor (new ignitor/module, coil, cap and rotor) seems to be pretty happy. Idles fairly smoothly, improved throttle response, pulls better, revs higher…
And, while I did not go very far, when I pulled it back into the shop and shut it off, it restarted with no problem. Last summer, I parked it because it wouldn’t restart when hot. Next time I’ll do a longer loop.
Next up, it DESPERATELY needs new shifter bushings. The gearshift is “like a chicken leg in a bowl of mashed potatoes.” [attributed to Mario Andretti]
Good news!
The gearshift is “like a chicken leg in a bowl of mashed potatoes
That’s unpleasant
Sounds good for dinner though….
For sure. Cool and gloomy here today. A little comfort food would hit the spot!
People still have cars with distributor caps?
$170,000 as-tested SUV can hit the road, track, and trails like never before. This German masterpiece takes aim and conventional design and flips it on its head. This nearly 700HP V8 is everything artistic Gen Z and Gen Y enthusiasts have longed for.
*outright prolonged laughter*
The other girls at the country club will be livid with envy.
That’s Savage Geese being tongue in cheek. They hate the thing.
“So much for that boycott then! Kid Rock is selling Bud Light at his bar again despite shooting up case with his AR-15 in protest at Dylan Mulvaney tie-in”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12267997/Kid-Rock-selling-Bud-Light-bar-again.html
Cocktail list doesn’t sound bad if you ignore the flavored vodka.
Can’t blame the guy, he probably got a great deal on it. Probably the same for White Claw.
Let’s assume free.
“Free” may or may not be a good deal. If I thought I couldn’t sell it, I wouldn’t want it taking up space in my stock room.
Since my husband wins so much shit, I’ve become sensitive to the costs of “free” (or substantially lower cost than believable).
Kid Rock is not someone who can afford to be seen as a sell-out…
I play hockey with a dude who works for A-B. He said the taps were back within a couple weeks.
I’d take a Range Rover any day of the week
Defender.
We did own an Land Rover LR3 for about 7 years. Reliability on it was as expected when you cross BMW technology with LR engineering.
The Discovery had such a bad reputation that the Discovery 3 in every other part of the world was called the LR3 in the US.
The Discovery is back in the in the US, but the new Defender is also the one I’d pick. But it’s an electronic mess compared to the ones of old.
Old model, not the current one.
“America’s most prolific Bigfoot hunter Claudia Ackley, 51, who filmed mythical beast ‘chasing her daughters’ and documented hundreds of ‘sightings’ is found dead at home in a chair”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12267797/Claudia-Ackley-prominent-Bigfoot-hunter-dead.html
STEVE SMITH GO FUNERAL TO PAY RESPECTS AND BY PAY RESPECTS MEAN RAPE
STEVE SMITH REMEMBER HER WELL — EYES NOT BUG-OUT CRAZY UNTIL STEVE GREETED HER IN TENT… AND BY GREETED….
SEA SMITH SEND CONDOLENSES.
HOPE FOR BURIAL AT SEA.
the new Defender is also the one I’d pick. But it’s an electronic mess compared to the ones of old.
Sad, but unsurprising. All you have to do is look at resale prices. Range Rovers and Discoveries are dirt cheap. Defenders, however… A long time back I had this great idea to see if I could pick up a Defender on the cheap for a “winter car”. Yikes.
All the cool kids are customizing first gen Lexus GX470s.
Smart. Way cheaper than 4Runners.
The saga of TOK vs The Water Softener continues. I decided to replace the resin in the softener myself. Today 1 cubic foot of resin arrived, then when I double checked the specs I realized it requires .7 cubic foot PER TANK, not for both tanks. So back on Amazon to order another .5 cubic foot.
Rest assured, I’m documenting everything and will write about this. Meanwhile my hair smells like pocket change.
For TOK (and our other artists):
Artist Justin Bateman makes portraits out of pebbles, Through the medium of land art, he constructs intricate mosaics
You artist types freak me out.
That was awesome! This artist dug it,
Cheers Tundra!
Associated Press on people self-sorting by moving to red or blue states…
https://www.denver7.com/news/national-politics/conservatives-go-to-red-states-and-liberals-go-to-blue-as-the-country-grows-more-polarized
“One of those politically motivated migrants is Kathleen Rickerson, who works in human resources for Weinstein’s firm. Rickerson, 35, lived in Minnesota for seven years, but during the pandemic grew weary of the blue state’s vocal anti-masking, anti-vaccine minority.
Rickerson’s parents and sister urged her to join them in Texas, but that was out of the question. Ready for a change, Rickerson instead zeroed in on Colorado. She moved to a Denver suburb in December 2021.”
So, someone in a blue state had to move because it was home to someone who disagreed with her.
I’ve certainly seen it here in Dixie.
I would have thought Colorado (outside of Denver / Fort Collins) would have a more sizable conservative set than Minnesota. But that’s just impressions.
Yes. I’m in more of an exurb, but if my neighbors are any indication, there is no love for the crazy fuckers. Even the libs are quiet.
Outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota is rural. People are an odd mix of redneck democrats… they like social safety nets but they are pretty redneck otherwise. Much more racist than anywhere I have lived in the south… although Indians are more likely on the racist radar than blacks, outside of the cities.
We have (had) some Indian issues for sure. But I think a lot of it was hunting/fishing tensions.
It’s where the power gets concentrated. My neighbors in Minne weren’t freaks either, but the people that are willing to pursue political positions are ALL fucked up. From the school boards on up.
And I don’t think you can really escape it. The best we can hope for is radical decentralization so we have to look at our neighbors face to face and work things out.
California did a number on Colorado years ago.
Oh, goodie.
Sixty-year-old trend continues in 2023. Film at 11. Except it was never and still is not a “state” issue. It is an (sub)urban/rural issue.
I only skimmed the story and hated everyone involved.
Everyone is now a narcissistic asshole?
Artist Justin Bateman makes portraits out of pebbles, Through the medium of land art, he constructs intricate mosaics
Somebody was doing that on the Yellowstone river a few summers ago. Rock pictures on the banks and on islands. I don’t think he or she (possibly they- as in a group) was ever identified.
Ass Wednesday on another rainy afternoon.
https://archive.is/3uP4t
The New Yorker:
The Perils and Promises of Penis-Enlargement Surgery
One doctor’s Promethean quest to grow the male member is leaving some men desperate and disfigured.
I’m sure it’s healthier to cut it off and call yourself a woman.
I had an elephant trunk installed years ago. Occasionally it shoves a peanut or a tree branch up my ass but all in all I’ve been pretty happy with it.
I’m glad you’re getting to live as your authentic self.
OMG
See, this is why I like my side hustle.
🤢🤮
So, someone in a blue state had to move because it was home to someone who disagreed with her.
And she moved to Colorado. She might as well not bother to unpack.
“A Supreme Court affirmative action ruling that bans race-conscious admissions into higher education”
It does no such thing, you know. Either de jure or, certainly, de facto.
No black person will ever be admitted to an institution of higher learning again. Ever.
Not even to the HBCUs!
From BP’s link:
Americans are segregating by their politics at a rapid clip, helping fuel the greatest divide between the states in modern history.
One party controls the entire legislature in all but two states. In 28 states, the party in control has a supermajority in at least one legislative chamber — which means the majority party has so many lawmakers that they can override a governor’s veto. Not that that would be necessary in most cases, as only 10 states have governors of different parties than the one that controls the legislature.
The split has sent states careening to the political left or right, adopting diametrically opposed laws on some of the hottest issues of the day. In Idaho, abortion is illegal once a heartbeat can be detected in a fetus — as early as five or six weeks — and a new law passed this year makes it a crime to help a minor travel out of state to obtain one. In Colorado, state law prevents any restrictions on abortion. In Idaho, a new law prevents minors from accessing gender-affirming care, while Colorado allows youths to come from other states to access the procedures.
Dictatorship of the “majority”. That will end well.
It’s almost like the country is rediscovering that it is a federated republic, “fifty labs of democracy”.
“Democrats want to live in places with artistic culture and craft breweries, and Republicans want to move to places where they can have a big yard,” said Ryan Strickler, a political scientist at Colorado State University-Pueblo.
Okay, Simpleton.
It’s breathtakingly retarded.
More Conservatives in the Mist. But you can trust him. He’s an expert.
Living between Spartanburg, Greenville, and Ashville I can’t even keep track of all the breweries and which I’ve tried. Many of them seem to make a nice brown ale.
Is that the same guy who invented fart huffing? I mean come on motherfucker.
“‘Mulan’ singer CoCo Lee dead at 48 following suicide attempt”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/05/mulan-singer-coco-lee-dead-at-48-following-suicide-attempt/
Sounds like she succeeded.
Another thing Asians seem to be pretty good at is suicide. RIP lady.
That is a really odd way to state it.
Without RTFA, perhaps was found alive, but died later.
Yes that was it. She was in a coma.
“There is a point at which we need to stop acting like trying to get along with our enemies is going to preserve our institution,” progressive state Rep. Stephanie Vigil said at the end of the session, after the chamber’s Democratic leader said it was important that Republicans still feel like they have a voice.
Love it or leave it, losers.
This was the Obama Healthcare strategy. Lock Republicans out of all discussions until after the bill is finished, then loudly and publicly hold a meeting with only Republicans to discuss Healthcare.
Yeah, ignoring the opposition, then using them as props and wasting their time is a good way to build bridges…
You forgot to say “tell everyone that it was a republican idea, Romney, Nixon, 11!!”
This Douglas Mackey case shows that Merrick Garland has almost magical powers of leadership. Within minutes of taking office, he has this nobody from Florida being prosecuted in New York City, right across the street from Clinton campaign headquarters.
He has gone on to have probably the most partisan DOJ in history.
So, either he is amazing at leading public servants into corrup action… or…. the DOJ was hopelessly corrupt the whole tine, and prior AGs had simply been holding them back from theri worst instincts.
At least he isn’t on the Supreme Court-worst AG in history, period, and that’s saying quite a lot.
Ya know, when I was a kid, I thought Ed Meese was bad. But, holy shit, Garland takes the cake. I always wondered what Mitchy was worried about, now I know.
Haha… yeah… good times. All the hate for Meese, and he isn’t even a rounding error on this guy. Heck, just Jan6 alone puts him in a class all by himself.
Starlink dishy is due to arrive tomorrow! May I never need to ration data again!
Woot! Can’t wait to hear the reports.
What for?
Good question. Something about a single funeral hits hard.
Yeah, that’s not a lot of fun to watch.
People still have cars with distributor caps?
1990 Honda Civic. The distributor has a trigger which sends a signal to the ECU, which then adjusts timing and fires the coil.
This one’s a few days old, so drugs, ass, etc. Texas couple buys a house, finds out that a balcony railing with the letter ‘Z’ on it is for a previous owner who was tied to the Klan 100 years ago. Local historic preservation commission won’t let them remove the letter.
https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/texas-couple-sues-over-historical-balcony-tied-to-kkk/
““We felt a bit heartbroken. We wanted to do our best to, to be a force for good,” Money said. “Teach our kids anti-racism values. We weren’t going to ignore it.””
I’m sure the homeowners were surprised when a local conservative think tank elected to represent them in court.
Ugh. Shouldn’t they feel enough shame already for living in a KKK house? Hell, for living in Texas? Removing that scarlet letter isn’t going to absolve you of those sins.
Really, they should just make copies and pin them to their breasts. Also, change their names to Hestor.
It’s not your house, lady.
The metal decor sits on top of a balcony on their home in the Burleson Historic District. According to the lawsuit, previous homeowner Frank Zimmerman installed it.
He owned a local theatre known for hosting Ku Klux Klan Day in the 1920s.
Okay, so a local theater owner used to rent his venue out to what was a century ago, a mostly-respectable mutual aid fraternal society. This isn’t to ignore what KKK chapters did against blacks, Catholics, Jews, and anyone else whom they thought got out of line, but to get the vapors because some businessman once did, well, business with fellow members of his community is the most ignorant version of what historians call “presentism.”
That said, the current homeowners own the property now, and if they want to remove the grating over the balcony, or install a 200-foot ham radio antenna, or paint their new house baboon-ass pink, no one, certainly not some bureaucratic mecha-Karen Historic Preservation Commission, should be able to tell them no.
Fuck it. Just remove the thing and don’t tell anybody. Claim it came off in a storm or something. It’s always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Mostly agree with one quibble.
If they knowingly bought in a “historic district”, then they should have to abide by the rules that they agreed to going in.
Local historic preservation commission won’t let them remove the letter.
Que?
“In the morning… It was gone!”
Heh. My sister bought a house where there was a Chevy Sprint abandoned in the back yard. They tried to get it towed, but without papers, no one would take it. So, they yanked it onto the streat, and let the county deal with it.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/07/05/republicans-call-on-military-to-take-down-mexican-cartels-n2625328
Thought one — “Ah, the Pershing wing of the Republicans speaks up again…. this has always gone so well…”
Thought two — Wait a minute… you can’t get PPP to enforce the border — how precisely do you think you’re going to get him as CinC to order the military to do jack over squat again?
Because all the shambling wrecks squatting on big-city streets are going to shape up and find something productive to do when their fentanyl-laced tranq supply is cut off.
Beg?
Most likely turn to violent crime.
As political screeds masquerading as policy go, this is one of the dumber ones. Deploying troops to Mexico to do policing? How do they even imagine that working.
Also, our dumb drug policies drive that criminal activity, not the other way around. So not fixing drug policy is going to ensure that the problems persist, regardless of your enforcement strategies.
I’m curious what our drug policy should be. Decrim is fine, but how does that help us with the motherfuckers who want to take drugs all day and fuck up all the places?
Let them ruin their lives.
Let people defend their own property. Keep the derelicts off the street.
Keep the derelicts off the street.
How?
Throw them into a box truck and haul them off to the desert.
Why wreck the desert? It’s a nice place,
Yeah, it’s much more than dumb drug policies.
It’s broken families, broken cities, no jobs, broken mental health care, broken education system, etc. etc.
I hate decriminalization. It only perpetuates all of the problems except excessive jailing and corrupt LEO.
Changing our minds on the idea that getting high is a legitimate purpose. Right now our medical schedule says that getting high is not a legitimate purpose, making that use illegal.
But a legal high would be totally different. Drug companies could design drugs to be safe, minimize addiction, control timing, control dosage metering, amd ensure consistency and quality.
It would be a game changer.
The positives of pot smoking and beer drinking are that the effects come on in real time with administration… so you don’t overdose. The positives of inhalants like nitrous oxide is immediat onset (head rush) and quick recovery.
Heroine has the head rush when injected, but overdose is really easy to do and the effects last long enough to create driving while impaired.
So a Drug manufacturer could aim for the best of all worlds….. while being held to the standard of safe and effective.
Totally different from decriminalization.
I have no idea what to make of this
https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1675758438863761413?t=tepnbJvyuU8o_TjiCGh-kg&s=19
Dark web snuff film staring “Hillary Clinton ” and “Huma Abadine” and a 12 year old girl
It is SugarFree’s world, we just live in it.
I’d watch that for a dollar!
“…confirm the content is “worse than any nightmare.””
Could it be a documentary?
Someone trying to get clicks/likes/general exposure by peddling bullshit. They’re both terrible, terrible people, no need to make things up.
Hunter isn’t looking well.
They are so retarded for not stuffing him in a cabin somewhere.
Maybe he just had a couple too many cups of coffee.
Dont you people usually have a Zoom on Wednesday night?
/totally not a Fed