LOLOLOLOL!
As predicted, the Pac-4 is pretty much dead. DeChambeau shot a freaking 58! But people will say it’s only the LIV Tour so it doesn’t count. I’m still waiting on the Astros to do something and the clock is ticking. Messi is taking the MLS by storm. And that’s pretty much it for sports.
Welcome to civilization, Oregon. Get your shit together, New Jersey.
Adios.
I wonder if this will kick off a trend. They made a lot of poor decisions, but the way they were being forced out of it pretty much made the union in control of their chance to succeed. And they saw it as a money grab, so this was inevitable.
She’s not the hero we deserve. Actually, she’s not the hero we need either. And much to NBC’s chagrin, she’s not a hero at all. She’s an attention-seeking idiot that got the attention she sought and now doesn’t care for it.
What a shitshow. Guess the mayor’s assessment was wrong.
I don’t think this was about race. This had a lot more to do with booze. It is hilarious though.
Ceiling bird’s mating call
Well, this is solving half the problem. They need to be sure to give away a dozen or so batteries and instructions on what to do when the ceiling birds start chirping as well.
Oh well. The outrage is justified. The target of the outrage is not.
Houston city government continues to suck. And I hope they face some sort of backlash. Because this is an outrageous violation of rights.
Let’s start the week by rocking out. That ought to do it. But in case that didn’t, this certainly will. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
Welcome to civilization, Oregon.
Eh…
There’s nothing preventing stations from having a self service pump and a full service pump.
I hate having an attendant pump the gas. It feels slower (whether it is or not) But If there are people willing to pay to not have to get out of their car, that’s their perogative.
As part of my job, I belong to and attend a commerce and industry lobbying/advocacy group. At one of the meetings a while back I was talking to the director about the recent failure of the legislature to pass self-service for gasoline pumps in NJ. He said he had asked the state senator who was instrumental in killing it why he opposed it. The answer? “I don’t like to pump my own gas.”
That’s hilarious. I wish there were full-service stations here, but they increase prices for people who are fully capable of pumping their own and wouldn’t be used often.
Also, they wouldn’t be full-service. It’s just a guy pumping gas, not checking fluids and air pressures. So it’s pointless aside from being make-work for union workers.
It’s not full service here and hasn’t been for years. It’s been mini-serv or less. Used to get window washed when I was a kid. That happens once in a blue moon when either the pump jockey is bored or a cute blonde. It’s a make work program period, very few jockeys work at unionized stores (basically Kroger and Albertsons).
Self serve ban only applied to gas fueling, not diesel, didn’t apply to card lock, and more recently didn’t apply to half the state and a further two or three counties after 6pm, or whenever the governor felt like it (covid or heat wave were two of justifications). Totally arbitrary and capricious. At least the hateful dike dictator from Pennsylvania didn’t veto the bill.
Now if the weasels could just end the stupid bottle bill industrial complex and raise the speed limits to normal ones.
He probably spoke with my wife.
She doesn’t care if it costs $10/gallon here – she thinks it is the best law.
In Texas for a while you had full service and self service. If you wanted to pay for full, you could and a flock of attendants would check your car over. After a while, full service went away because it was damned expensive and people would rather just get gas and leave at a reasonable price.
Speak of the devil
Pump Your Own Gas in New Jersey? Fuhgeddaboudit.
Heh. The last time I was in Jersey I tried to pump my own gas, not realizing that it was illegal.
The funny thing was that I am from Oregon.
If you’re too old to pump your own gas, you probably shouldn’t be driving.
Wait a minute! I just can’t figure out the credit card thing but I can still pump my own gas.!
We travel a lot for hockey, and it harder for some of us to pump gas. I use my crutches, but some people have to dig out their wheelchair to get out so self serve would be a really nice option. I would love someone to offer the old style full service where they check your oil and tires and wash your window. Most of the people on the road today have no idea that even existed.
Here in La most stations have a red button activated speaker. If you are handicapped you tell the clerk. They will come out and gas you up, no charge.
The ADA requires that gas stations assist handicapped people, unless there’s only one person in the store.
I’ve seen those buttons, I just haven’t seen anyone push it!
Does the gas station attendant rule apply to electric vehicles in Jersey?
You are not allowed to plug in your own EV….
That’s because the solar and wind farms aren’t producing enough power.
Eat the bugs, bigot!
They will just put you in the que.
Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting…
“I wonder if this will kick off a trend. They made a lot of poor decisions, but the way they were being forced out of it pretty much made the union in control of their chance to succeed. And they saw it as a money grab, so this was inevitable.”
So, the union saw it as a power grab and now the employees are all looking for new jobs? Yeah, I would love to pay dues and have them represent me like that…
Teamsters. So, this is totally normal.
Hostess says, “Welcome to the Hall of Union Killed Companies”.
Of course she is.
Top librarian calls ‘Marxist lesbian’ tweet backlash ‘regrettable’
She regrets discussing her identity?
Ah, lol.
How long until “communist” is a protected class like race or sexual preference?
They’ll have to figure out a criterion that excludes MAGAite from protection.
I think it already is in CA and probably a few other states, which have some kind of laws preventing discrimination based on political beliefs or somesuch.
Of course, like laws against racial discrimination, enforcement is . . . Selective.
Fuck, they wouldn’t shut up about him at the freaking women’s World Cup. Just go away already.
*He hasn’t actually played in an MLS game yet.
At least those insufferable bints on the USWNT got bounced out of the World Cup.
Was it a bunch of 15 year old boys that did that to these idiots?
No, just the Swedish women’s team.
The US team have had their heads up their ass for so long that they forgot how to play soccer.
How did Sweden beat the US? None of the Swedes had dyed their hair a really ugly color. The gal who won it for Sweden at least had a pretty butch haircut, but still.
The Swedish team had a really bad Brave score.
The Swedes identified as the winners.
That’s a good one.
The USWNT should have been bounced after refusing to sing the anthem. If the whole point of the competition is to represent a country, and you can’t even do the basics like that, coach should have forfited the game at the start.
All the self-loathing western countries do that. Fine, whatever but yeah… you are paid to do several things and one of them is belting out the anthem like you mean it.
‘refusing to sing the anthem’
This crap again? Yeah, they deserved to lose.
How many over-the-hill futbol legends would it take to beat the Women’s World Cup champions?
Six or seven. It would be like that Japanese tv show where 3 professionals play against a hundred kids and score: https://youtu.be/f5Irak2H9GE
I’ll be generous and say 7. A 2-3-1 should get the job done.
With no keeper?
LOL! That was hilarious. “It doesn’t matter if you have nine goalkeepers…”
Back when I played pool, a common bar trick would be to spot the challenger 3-4 balls by taking them off the felt. But this just lessens the number of available shots, so it doesn’t help the challenger. Having a bunch of people who do not know how to work as a team, you got nothing but chaos, which will not help you.
And much to NBC’s chagrin, she’s not a hero at all. She’s an attention-seeking idiot that got the attention she sought and now doesn’t care for it.
Whenever a normie says something the Goodthink Class doesn’t like, the backlash includes claims that “free speech has consequences”. When the Goodthink Class offends the normies, the claim is that free speech *must not* have consequences.
Heads the commies win, tails you lows against the commies and their stupid agenda?
lows=lose
Damned autocorrect!
“She’s not the hero we deserve. Actually, she’s not the hero we need either. And much to NBC’s chagrin, she’s not a hero at all. She’s an attention-seeking idiot that got the attention she sought and now doesn’t care for it.”
No doubt that marxism is the greatest evil foisted on humanity. It is a cult that appeals to the vanity of idiots with overinflated opinions of their own worth and a case of massive envy towards those they hate for accomplishing more than themselves.
I love how the author is attempting the smear “the right” as bIgOtS who hate her “identity” when it’s quite obvious from the responses that it’s the Marxism that they hate.
Plus all the “book banning” misdirection and lies.
Never change, NBC.
Well, one could make the argument that marxism today isn’t class warfare anymore, as its adherents realized that shit wouldn’t fly in the US, so they moved into using racism to pit the people against each other and still offer the same marxist solution of massive piles of bodies and misery for all but the top men.
What’s funny is that every commie regime that’s existed put people like her against the wall or in a work camp.
Well, them doing that isn’t funny. But the irony that she doesn’t seem to know or care is.
Yes, but this is the new improved communism where the blue-haired librarians put the blue-collared workers against the wall.
Not sure what they’re going to eat after that, but whatever…
She is one of the idiots that as she is being put up against the wall to be shot, will cry and tell the executioners that she is a true believer and it must all be a mistake…
If only Comrade Kafka knew!
When they put the marxist lesbians up against the wall, I won’t complain… because I’ll probably already be dead.
No. See, this is Marxist phantisy camp, were everyone can change genders, MAGA has been whiped away from the plenty that communism has provided as everyone shares everything they don’t need, no one wants anything more than what they need, and no one is lazy or cheats…
“What a shitshow. Guess the mayor’s assessment was wrong.”
Citizens of these sanctuary cities should demand that their politicians and bureaucrats be the first to house these law breakers. After they have exhausted that capacity, then, and only then, can they foist this idiocy on the citizens.
Which one? The one where we’re happy to house hordes of sketchy young males for free, indefinitely? Yeah, I’m not surprised that he is wrong about that.
It would be nice if the author of that article had shown any interest in those poor decisions. I can only read between the lines and guess that the Teamsters sucked all the money into pensions. A practice that will kill many more companies, I bet.
My bet is that they not only sucked the money into whatever vehicle allowed the bosses to steal as much of it as they could, but that they then donated the rest of the casht to team blue politicians. Fuck the pensions or the workers.
Not only that, but they were demanding steady pay increases that outpaced inflation and the ability for the company to become solvent. And the government mediators refused to force them to make any concessions in the negotiations. And wouldn’t allow the company to simply walk away from the union either. And this is the result.
Everyone but Bidenomics wins?
It’s it really a bad decision if you don’t get to make a different choice?
Their poor decisions were made before: the size of their fleet, how it was allocated, their rate structure, and their financing decisions. Much of that is what landed them in negotiations with their creditors to avoid this. But once they got there, the government stepped in and ensured the unions were going to be the big beneficiaries of any restructuring and their fate was sealed.
Sounds a lot like Delphi Automotive (formerly DELCO) here in Dayton.
As I recall, the union filed an injunction to prevent the company from filing bankruptcy.
o.O
Sounds like it’s time for some extrajudicial pruning of unions executives.
NLRB “mediators” are a joke. Everyone of them is a pro-union, anti-corporate jackel who does not give a fuck about negotiations, only about raw power.
“Houston city government continues to suck. And I hope they face some sort of backlash. Because this is an outrageous violation of rights.”
This actually strikes me as a tough one. Having these FNB people baiting the homeless into setting up what sounds like a semi-permanent encampment around the library kinda steps on the rights of the normies to use the library without having to wade through a homeless encampment.
Agreed. They are well within their rights to feed the homeless, just not without the property owners’ permission. Go to a church or onto your own property. That’s my view.
It’s public property. They have a right to assemble on public property just like anybody else.
I have no problem with the city removing the encampments. But they’re punishing people for simply feeding the homeless rather than removing the homeless once they’ve set up a semi-permanent camp. They’re going after the ones who aren’t the problem because it’s more politically expedient than going after the ones who are.
True. I wasn’t thinking clearly. Library=public property.
I hear ya, but I think the FNB people are part of the problem of the homeless encampment. I don’t think you’ll get to a solution to that problem as long as the homeless are drawn in numbers to the library.
Turn the library into a giant trap.
The two problems with criminalizing FNB’s actions are:
1. It removes agency from the actual lawbreakers (the homeless setting up camps)
2. It sets bad precedent that allows any organizer of an event to be held criminally responsible for the actions of others that happen once the event ends. I think that would be abused in ways that I don’t like.
I almost wrote that there should be some place the homeless could congregate to be fed, but that’s an even stupider idea that involves the state sanctioning some property as public and others as only fit for homeless. Ideally the groups would pass out fliers saying “we can feed you at “x” location, and take them to private property for feeding and care.
You are correct, citizens feeding each other on public property is not a crime. People being a nuisance by their very presence is not a crime.
Now breaking into cars and attacking people is a crime, and should be punished at an individual level.
If an individual homeless is not causing property crimes, he/she is no more a nuisance than an old man feeding pigeons in the park.
The college town one over does that. And now they have created a homeless tent city, in which vans are semi-hidden by tarps while the cook meth, there is a stabbing every other week, and no one other than the homeless gets to use the parks and river trails. Meanwhile, the every car within a dozen blocks is broken into, and bums a jerking off at grade schools.
“And she’s planning to prepare libraries for the consequences of climate change”
I’ve read some stupid shit, but damn this is the stupidest shit of all of the stupid shit.
“The walls will now be even wallier!”
Libraries must be built on “floating” foundations.
“We must equip our libraries with heat to battle the extreme cold! And air conditioning to battle the extreme heat!”
Didn’t they hide from climate change in the library, in the awful Day After Tomorrow movie?
I assume she’s going to set up some sort of Foundation to ride out the collapse of civilization.
Secretly controlled by a Second Foundation she initially runs, of course.
“The Chicago Fire Department Foundation is teaming up with local food pantries to get working smoke detectors to people who need them.”
Nobody NEEDS a smoke alarm. Fake news!
OK, I guess. But the damn things are about $15 apiece. Nobody doesn’t have one because they’re too expensive.
But think of all the meth factories that could explode! Or all the ebikes with oversized charges that can catch fire! All of this could be prevented by free smoke alarms, as you know that they will install them correctly, and not try to sell them online.
Mrs. O’Leary nods in agreement.
Based?
Nevermind:
The LGBTQWERTY Mafia is real.
Lol, life comes at you fast.
I fail to understand why anyone, especially those with “fuck you” money, submit to the alphabet nazis.
Record label advances.
“DeChambeau shot a freaking 58!”
Whatever. I’ve done that many times. Usually do better on the back nine though.
*golf clap*
Is “back nine” some kind of euphemism?
I suppose it could be in this case.
Is this the Tiger Woods Slutty Waitress Invitational?
Then no.
Weekend put me behind on chess world cup rnd 3 updates:
Carlsen (2835) defeats Tari (2641) 1.5-0.5
*Nakamura (2787) defeats Gledura (2645) 1.5-0.5
*Robson (2689) defeats Gadimbayli (2483) 1.5-0.5
*Dominguez Perez (2739) defeats Guseinov (2631) 1.5-0.5
Nepo, *Caruana, and *So all in tiebreaks today.
I feel bad for Tari in a weird way. As the #64 seed, he was going to face #1 in this round. That isnt it. He is the 2nd best player in Norway, so not only is he completely overshadowed by Magnus Carlsen at home, he gets knocked out by him too. Norway is not a very strong chess nation, but they fluked into producing the GOAT (maybe?).
* Indicates Americans, per usual.
Tomorrow is off day, then Rnd 4 starts Wednesday. That is round of 32. With Rnd 5, I will start covering everyone left instead of selected results.
Technically, didn’t Iceland produce the GOAT?
woosh. Or should I say woos’h?
Ted sends a joke well over my head.
I thought Carlsen’s family took him to Iceland at a young age (long before becoming a GM) to improve his chess game.
wikipedia doesnt mention it. They spent a year in Finland and another in Belgium for his Dad’s job.
But looks like almost all his chess training was in Norway.
Cuba produced the GOAT of chess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ra%C3%BAl_Capablanca
If you are going to go old-school, I would say Morphy was better. So the USA wins.
I think there are 3 possibilities: Fischer, Kasparov, and Carlsen. Generally based on amount of time at the top and level of dominance over their opponents.
I dont think Capablanca was that far ahead of his contemporaries. Morphy was, but for a short period of time before he went insane.
Another decade as world #1 and Carlsen can claim the GOAT easily.
You forget Lasker. Has anyone had the crown as long, 27 years?
Yep, he should be included in the discussion.
Generally the theory has developed so much that some of the older players get less well thought of.
Nepomniachtai (2779) defeats Mamedov (2636) 2.5-1.5 (1st tiebreak)
*Caruana (2782) defeats Yilmaz (2639) 3.0-1.0 (1st tiebreak)
*So (2769) defeats Moussard (2661) 3.5-2.5 (2nd tiebreak)
In one I havent covered Anish “Drawnish” Giri (2769) is tied 3.0-3.0 with Abasov (2646) after 2nd tiebreaker. They are going on to 3rd.
Tiebreakers are in order:
25+10 (25 minutes for each player, plus 10 seconds added per move)
10+10
5+3
3+2
The first 3 tiebreakers are pairs of 2 games. Starting with the 4th, it is sudden death, they switch colors each game, first to win, wins match.
Then rescind the law they broke (the one that requires permission from the landowner).
It’s public property. If they tried to do it on private property without the landowner’s permission, they’d be charged (rightly) with trespassing.
If they handed someone on private property a sandwich while standing on the public sidewalk, they still wouldn’t be trespassing. It takes effort to make handing out food illegal.
Welcome to civilization, Oregon. Get your shit together, New Jersey.
Fuel pumping is probably the least bad thing about how these states are run.
And yet, symbolic?
I thought the whole “LIV sucks” was over now that they are merging into one big happy money making machine.
DeChambeau is major champion – and LIV players have continued to win majors since the split.
Nadler hasn’t wet his beak yet.
Unlike his pants.
Did him a solid.
LOLOLOLOL!
Her missed shot is what happens when you go for glory. Simplest is best and in this circumstance it means pick a side, keep it low, and pass it in. Do not risk missing the upper 90.
“I was excited to highlight and celebrate two aspects of my identity that are really important to me, and are often under a lot of scrutiny,”
Maybe don’t be such a self-absorbed cunte.
Do not challenge our propaganda/lies and bullshit, or else: Biden WH Threatens Reporters With Expulsion If They Continue to Interrupt Press Briefings…
There’s some weasel words for ya’
There is no news: there is propaganda to program the lemmings to believe what team blue and the unelected/unaccountable bureaucratic cabal wants to peddle.
I remember the WH press corps rallying together to demonize the trump admin for threatening the same things. Let’s see if they have any principles here.
::note: I do not expect them to have any principles::
When Jesse Ventura issued press passes with “Official Jackal” on them the press got all huffy.
All the press had to do was laugh at the joke and it would have been over. Instead they went into a huge hissy fit and all us regular Minnesodans rolled our eyes at them.
I miss that Jesse Ventura. Too bad he went insane and became a “throw the unvaxxed in prison” assclown.
Marxism is a political theory developed by German philosopher Karl Marx in the 19th century that critiques capitalism and analyzes class relations, and influenced many communist regimes.
That sounds pretty innocuous. What’s the big deal?
The fact that every time it was put into practice it resulted in a pile of dead bodies and everyone else living with a boot on their necks?
I mean fission is just a natural process as well, so no big deal, but if I drop a fission bomb on your ass, you ain’t gonna like what it does to you…
I saw a post saying Stalin wasn’t a communist. Real communism is good.
I’m sure Stalin wasn’t a communist. Like Lenin, he used communism as a vehicle to power, but he didn’t actually believe in the system.
The system was designed specifically as a vehicle to power. From that I guess you could say all of those guys were true believers.
All socialist cults are a means to oust the current feudal lords and replace them with new, always more evil, feudal lords.
I can guarantee you that any insurance an entity bought to cover legal issues has a clause that absolves the insurance company if you are really stupid, and I am not surprised Oberlin got told that the insurance company thinks they did something real stupid.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Great, kid. Don’t get cocky.
Ease up. He’s too young to be hen pecked about his decisions.
That won’t happen. The chicks are gonna love that kid.
That peckerhead? I doubt it.
He’s got grit. He’ll be fine.
Speaking of Librarians, isn’t that how South Park got you to read books on the Booktastic Bus?
The ALA will launch a “campaign school” to support and encourage “people who believe in intellectual freedom” to run for school and library boards, Tracie Hall, the group’s executive director, said at the group’s national conference in June.
And, of course, intellectual freedom is defined as lockstep obedience to our core beliefs.
Well of course wrongthink is not eligible for intellectual freedom.
regarding twitter/X paying posters for impressions, damn that 5M impression per month requirement is a lot. essentially you need to be a daily twitter addict and get a viral tweet every month. I also think only impressions by paid accounts add to the payout. It’s giving a select few accounts a decent payout while others kind of scramble.
it’s not worth it, but interesting as until now there hasn’t been anything similar for mostly text-based social. twitch/tiktok game but for shitposters.
I don’t think this was about race. This had a lot more to do with booze. It is hilarious though.
Luckily no one was keeled.
This week, Houston judges dismissed the cases against volunteers trying to feed the unhoused population near a downtown library, but city officials are not letting the issue slide. Shortly after the judges made their ruling, Houston City Attorney Arturo Michel issued a followup statement announcing his intention to refile the dropped cases, reported Houston Public Media’s Patricia Ortiz this weekend.
How is this legal?
“Because outlawing double jeopardy is racist, homophobic, and an attack on democracy.”
-Sylvester Turner (probably)
Drabinski said that she doesn’t want the ALA to “get stuck talking exclusively on the terms that they have set for us rather than the terms that I think the rest of us operate on every day.
“My own personal political viewpoint is a target right now, but my personal agenda doesn’t drive the association,” she said. “It’s the agenda of all of us together.”
So she admits the association as a whole is driven to promote this crap?
I saw a post saying Stalin wasn’t a communist. Real communism is good.
Poor Stalin. He tried so hard.
“Real” communism can never exist because it does not even work on paper. Any attempt can only devolve into totalitarianism and misery.
That is the definition of “real communism” isn’t it?
Insurance saves the day? If the insurance companies win, that could slow or stop DEI. Every lawsuit would come straight out of pockets. Might align with Elon’s strategy of covering legal fees for people who had action taken against them for liking tweets.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/oberlin-college-sues-insurers-for-refusing-to-cover-36-million-it-paid-gibsons-bakery-for-defamation-and-other-torts/
It’s not surprising. Oberlin went nuclear first thing. I imagine the insurer would have liked to settle for something in the moderate six figures along with an NDA.
I’m also not surprised the Oberlin didn’t care that it was going to run this risk.
I’d also like to know WTF it’s per occurrence limit was. I’m darn sure it wasn’t anything approaching $30m.
It was a slam dunk – they had a victim of color to rally around and proprietors of pallor to hate on.
Well, until the facts came out.
🙂
You can have your gun, pleb, if you can afford it.
More than two dozen House Democrats put forward legislation Friday that would slap “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines with a 1,000% excise tax, a change that would raise the price of a $500 weapon to $5,000 in a bid to reduce access to guns across the country.
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., and 24 other House Democrats introduced the legislation Friday. It’s the second time Democrats have put forward the idea. …
The text of Beyer’s new bill was not out as of the weekend, and it was unclear if any changes were made from his 2022 version. His bill from last year imposed the tax on any magazine or related device that can accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition. …
“Congress must take action to stem the flood of weapons of war into American communities, which have taken a terrible toll in Uvalde, Buffalo, Tulsa and too many other places,” Beyer said then. “Again and again assault weapons designed for use on the battlefield have been used in mass shootings at schools, grocery stores, hospitals, churches, synagogues, malls, theaters, bars and so on.”
I, for one, am just glad that rifles, muskets, swords, knives and sharpened sticks have never been use in organized conflict know as war.
Are they not selling firearms fast enough now? Do they really have to do this in order to really juice their sales numbers?
When I see that bill, I think of how many people are going to invest heavily in firearms. That $500 rifle will be worth $3000 easy after that bill passes.
Sometimes it does seem like these idiots are secretly working for the gun manufacturers.
Get out your credit card and grab a dozen ARs. Beats investing in the stock market.
Until the confiscate them with no compensation.
Question is if that happens to the 401(k) first…
I wish there was a law that said any person who votes for something that’s declared unconstitutional be removed from congress and be barred from ever holding a government position ever again.
Wasn’t there some SCOTUS decision saying that a tax on newsprint was an unconstitutional infringement on 1A?
Yes.
That didn’t stop the NFA.
‘Again and again assault weapons designed for use on the battlefield…’
I’m no firearms expert. Far from it, in fact. To be honest, I really don’t give a damn about them in my personal life’s day to day. That being said, and please correct me if I’m wrong but, my gut feeling tells me most modern militaries we may possibly someday come into conflict with in the now or near future would be overjoyed to see our service members armed with weapons graded for commercial sale amongst the American public.
Yep. Drives me nuts. It’s just another semi-auto rifle. It’s the Volkswagen of semi-auto rifles, so it attracts a lot of flack. Functionally it’s the same as any other semi-auto rifle. Personally if I was going to go shooting up a place I would go for an automatic shotgun. I’d hit lots more targets.
So if you tax the crap out of just AR-15s, then what? Everybody gets good at modifying Chinese SKS rifles? You can get those with a wood stock, so they don’t look so evil.
Walnut stock Mini-14. Clearly a hunting rifle.
Those songs don’t mess around, they get right to the point. And I love it. I wish I had been able to see them live.
Even Minnesoda cuisine is better than this.
I’ll believe the hype when I see the jackasses at the next shindig in Davos eating it.
And, what are the benefits, exactly? Here in the US we don’t eat insects because WE DON’T HAVE TO.
You signal your submission to their authority, serf.
Feature not a bug?
ISWYDT.
Oh, fuck no.
Oh that can’t be right, all the influential news sites say that’s a white supremacist conspiracy theory.
Arrogant, dishonest and hysterical is no way to go through life.
On Thursday, Donald Trump was arraigned in Washington D.C. for alleged crimes in connection to his Jan. 6 coup plot and larger attempt to end multiracial democracy by overturning the 2020 Election. So far, Trump has responded to this third indictment predictably. He has lied, played the victim, and threatened violence and destruction against the MAGA movement’s perceived “enemies” – even House Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
As we have seen repeatedly throughout the last seven years (and beyond), Trump and his allies will also channel antisemitism, racism, and white supremacy in these attacks and other attempts to derail the investigations and criminal trials. On cue, after being indicted by the Department of Justice on Tuesday, Donald Trump issued a statement via his Truth Social disinformation platform where he attacked the prosecutors for being Nazis. …
In essence, Donald Trump is comparing the Holocaust, which is one of the greatest crimes in human history, to his being held accountable in a court of law where he will be allowed a robust defense and his civil and human rights respected. To distort and minimize the realities of the Holocaust is itself an act of antisemitism. That Donald Trump, a man who as president said that the neoNazis who rampaged across Charlottesville in 2017 are “very fine people,” would invoke the Holocaust makes his most recent antisemitic behavior even more disturbing and gross.
The lie that will never die.
When is he going to start suing these people for libel? He must have the strongest case in history by now.
“multiracial democracy”
LOL
Never mind the Left calls anyone they don’t like “Nazis”.
If you click through the author’s name, the first page lists 15 articles. Thirteen are about Trump.
I don’t know if (or how much) they modified that Nashville street course, but it was remarkably caution-free, until the end.
I’m also not surprised the Oberlin didn’t care that it was going to run this risk.
They were wrapped in their impenetrable cloak of righteousness. They couldn’t lose.
I worked at a full service gas station in the early 80’s. Back then a “full service” station didn’t mean just having a pump jockey fill your tank, check your oil, tire pressure(on request) and clean the windshield. This station sold tires, batteries, did auto repairs (3 full time mechanics on duty from 7-5) and had towing/road service (3 tow trucks). The station had 2 pump islands, one self-serve and one full service. Both islands had air hoses for filling tires. The station also had a bell that would ring anytime a customer pulled in – remember those? Gas at the full service island was usually .10 cents higher than self-serve. Most of the regular full service customers were old and/or well off. Except when the weather was bad, the full service island was always busy on rainy and cold days.
Yes. Those were nice. Just not really economically supportable. Today it probably would be $3 a gallon added to your bill.
I’ll believe the hype when I see the jackasses at the next shindig in Davos eating it.
“If you mix a little of it with some caviar, it’s almost edible.”
Character building.
10-year-old child was disrespecting his mother, so she called a veteran to come and set the record straight
The marxist will make the mother that had enough and this vet that put this future inmate on notice, the bad guy, because of…. well, victimhood.
Well, I hope that’s the father?
If not, I guess you make the best out of the situation you can. Kind of depressing. :/
Obvious joke is obvious here…
Hey all, my wife and I are about to make a deposit for the GLIBCRUISE 2024. I’ve posted some comments in the Forum for the cruise. I found an article about a sale Celebrity is having and asked the travel agent how it compared to the group rate. The sale is only a possibly better deal if you aren’t worried about a nonrefundable deposit and/or don’t want the “extras” (drinks, wifi & gratuities). We like the group rate’s refundability (until July 2024) with the extras for the price.
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Cruise is in October 2024 — just over 440 days from now.
https://archive.fo/iWbOk
A week ago or so there was discussion on decriminalization, mental institutions, etc.
Someone posted the above link implying that Portugal’s program was a failure. I will attempt to refute, it is a long piece, but this was the most relevant to me:
“A newly released national survey suggests the percent of adults who have used illicit drugs increased to 12.8 percent in 2022, up from 7.8 in 2001, though still below European averages. Portugal’s prevalence of high-risk opioid use is higher than Germany’s, but lower than that of France and Italy. But even proponents of decriminalization here admit that something is going wrong.
Overdose rates have hit 12-year highs and almost doubled in Lisbon from 2019 to 2023. Sewage samples in Lisbon show cocaine and ketamine detection is now among the highest in Europe, with elevated weekend rates suggesting party-heavy usage. In Porto, the collection of drug-related debris from city streets surged 24 percent between 2021 and 2022, with this year on track to far outpace the last. Crime — including robbery in public spaces — spiked 14 percent from 2021 to 2022, a rise police blame partly on increased drug use.”
I think this is the only section with actual data presented to the reader. It appears to be in large past pandemic effects, we are seeing the same in many places including those where hard drugs continue to be illegal. Sounds like Portugal continues to be below average in drug use, even 20 years later. They don’t present rate changes for other countries, but this sounds in line with the United States, despite the legal status difference. This isn’t much to hang your hat on if one wants to violate the rights of others.
RJ points out above that feeding homeless isn’t (and shouldn’t) be illegal. Likewise, taking medication, or anything else you want to do to your own body shouldn’t be illegal either. The problem in California and Oregon, etc. Isn’t the legal status of drug use itself, but the fact that actual crimes are also ignored.
Adults should be allowed to do whatever they want to their own bodies as long as I am not later going to be held fiscally accountable (you do you, and you live with your consequences).
Yes. Only when an individual commits property crimes should that person be arrested. It is well known that drugs and property crime go together, which led earlier efforts to make drugs illegal. Make the crime of stealing or assault illegal, not taking or possessing the drug. That is where the US is falling down right now. San Fran worst of all. If you don’t prosecute real crimes, your city becomes a hell hole overnight.
There are a whole host of secondary issues with “decrimilalization”, not the least of which is; where do the drugs come from? And that is a huge part of what is driving the issue. If they are legal on the user end, but illegal on the supplier end, you have a problem. If people have no way of knowing what they are actually taking, whether that is done by the state or by private means, you have problem. If no one is dealing with second order effects, such as increased theft, then you have a problem. And all of these issues are playing out in the US right now. And all of them could be helped by actually going to more libertarian means, in that the commons need to either be eliminated or protected. Now, I prefer that issue to be handled by elimination, but this point of view is in the minority. But you cannot, and Portugal doesn’t, allow these knock on effects to proliferate. If someone breaks the law to get money to feed their habit, they still get to go to jail in Portugal. Likewise, they are also entered into addiction therapy, which many libertarians have a strong dislike for, as it is too similar to forced incarceration for mental issues.
But the main issue here is that we aren’t Poturgal. So while there might be ideas that would help coming from that quarter, the solutions need to come from this quarter, as that is the only way to actually deal with it. This is no different than trying to put the US’s safety regulations of countries that do not share our valvues, such as China or Pakistan; they will ignore them at every opportunity as they didn’t arrise from the ground up, but where forced upon them from outside.
If you need one of these you belong in a padded cell.
The PBS NewsHour was once again indulging the apocalyptic fears of residents of the liberal bubble (i.e. their viewing audience) with a full segment on the psychological woes wrought by…climate change. On Sunday’s edition of the tax-supported program, anchor John Yang interviewed a “climate psychology therapist” over this rather niche, first-world woe.
“the psychological woes wrought by…climate change.”
As usual, blaming the supposed thing (pandemic, climate change, etc.) For the evil actions of the government and their liberal flunkies (lockdowns, brainwashing, etc.)
The rationale for this insanity is very simple. So many people today have stopped believing in the old religions that were used to keep societies coherent and well behaved. These idiots have replaced that human need for a higher cause/power and a final judgment event – something tat seems to be instinctive – with this scam about climate. it gave them a noble cause, a fight between good and evil (and of course, they are good for wanting to save Gaia), and their own version of the apocalypse. And their religion/col is so much cooler than the old ones where the reconning was unavoidable, because they can beat the evil people into submission, sending us all back to a feudal globalist primitive society, and save Gaia. Heaven on earth, baby!
It’s a fucking insane cult. I wish they had a comet in their preaching and orders to poison themselves so they could take a ride on the comet.
When did “old religions” keep the societies well behaved?” For example, uber religious U.S.A. exterminated most of the American Indian population.
NPR headline:
New charges against Trump focus on lies. Scholars see an authoritarian playbook
An authoritarian regime is weaponizing the legal system against a political opponent, right?
RIGHT?
I see unbelievable lawsuits in the press’ future. Still not sure why Trump has refrained so far. There is so much proof of malicious intent. Is he waiting for this case to be won or dismissed?
“Fears bird flu could jump to humans and spark pandemic leaves scientists at top-secret Porton Down super-lab scrambling to ‘get the tools ready'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12380083/Scientists-Porton-super-lab-preparing-bird-flu-jump-humans-secretive-site-getting-tools-ready-outbreak-deadly-H5N1.html
No.
Once we get the bird flu, you’ll *want* to eat the bugs. /Government scientists
Does this film already exist?
Paging RJ to the white courtesy phone…
If it doesn’t Full Moon Productions will make it shortly. Same group responsible for the excellent “COVID Zombies” movie.
It flopped during the Obama (Bush?) years.
“tools”
Why am I picturing a high-tech version of medieval torture devices?
Why San Francisco Is a Homeless Mecca
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Blossom Puzzle, August 7
Letters: E I M N O P T
My score: 290 points
My longest word: 10 letters
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Play Blossom:
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Greenwald: Media Launches *Creepy* Love Affair w/ Trump Prosecutor, Jack Smith | SYSTEM UPDATE
That’s typical at this point. Not sure when it started but the pieces on Cuomo are where I first remember it being blatant.
Anyone recall the “Avenetti for President ” calls on TMITE?
Well, whaddaya know?
The latest federal case against Donald Trump is putting a spotlight on the role of false and baseless claims in his presidency. The indictment alleges that the former president and his co-conspirators used lies for the criminal purpose of overturning the 2020 election. For some scholars of history, its forensic look at how speech underpinned an alleged conspiracy to illegally retain power helps to situate Trump into larger historical patterns.
“All authoritarian leaders have cults of personality,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of history at New York University and author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. “Meaning, they propose themselves as all-powerful, as the only solution possible to the nation’s ills. ‘I alone can fix it.’ ”
At times, the drumbeat of false assertions during Trump’s candidacy and presidency perplexed the American press and public. So did Trump’s invocation of baseless conspiracy theories, which invariably situated him as a persecuted victim of a “deep state.” But Ben-Ghiat said in her studies of authoritarian leaders such as Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Silvio Berlusconi and Jair Balsonaro, there was precedent for this.
“The use of lies takes place in a larger effort to turn the public against alternate sources of authority,” she said. Those sources might include independent courts, legislative bodies and law enforcement agencies. Or — it may be the fourth estate.
We examined the gamut of authoritarian regimes from Hitler to Trump himself. What did we find? For starters, they were all anti-democracy right wing populist fanatics.
That is some serious mind reading skills they show there….
“All authoritarian leaders have cults of personality”
Somehow a small group of true believers subverted democracy and convinced more people to vote for Trump than voted for Obama.
It’s interesting that this person wrote a story against lies but the piece itself is all lies. These people are shameless.
Yeah, Trump wishes he had the cult of personality that Obama got.
false and baseless claims in his presidency
Such as Russia Collusion?
the criminal purpose of overturning the 2020 election
In USSA attempting to legally challenge the result of an election is criminal.
All authoritarian leaders have cults of personality
But enough about Obama and Dark Brandon.
Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Silvio Berlusconi and Jair Balsonaro
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn’t belong.
This is the way to do it.
‘Anansi’s Gold’ Review: Treasure Map to Nowhere
He knew how to find the billions of dollars that Ghana’s leader had sent abroad, but first he needed investors to keep him (luxuriously) afloat.
“If you’re looking to see if somebody’s going to be a strongman, what you find is even when they start campaigning, they immediately start trying to turn the public against the press, saying [the press is] biased and that they are the truth teller against the establishment,” said Ben-Ghiat. As that leader’s supporters increasingly come to believe that he is the only source of truth, she said, they will be primed to believe his claims of a stolen election.
“What Trump is doing is, he’s asking for personal loyalty to him to outweigh the rule of law,” said Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. “We see this in any authoritarian takeover of a system. We see the authoritarian say, ‘Devotion to me is more important than the rule of law.’ ”
Unless, of course, the press is merely the propaganda arm of your campaign. Joe Biden would never stoop to “us vs them” rhetoric. He represents everything fine and good and decent about America. Not like that rat bastard Trump.
Maybe it’s because I haven’t studied this, but it seems to me the opposite is true. They don’t oppose the press, they use the press to spread their own propaganda as you said.
Yep. When they are starting out, they usually create their own propaganda outlets. After they take power, they take control of the mainstream press to spread their propaganda. Trump did neither of those things.
I don’t want him to either. But I damn wish he would stop payments to newspapers an press outlets if he gets elected again. Make it on your own, or fold up shop. The press is captive to government payouts.
I don’t want him to either. But I damn wish he would stop payments to newspapers an press outlets if he gets elected again. Make it on your own, or fold up shop. The press is captive to government payouts.
Joe Biden would never stoop to “us vs them” rhetoric.
+1 MAGA menace and the Great MAGA King threat to Democracy
Wait did he actually write that? That’s some serious NK “Dear Leader” shit right there.
“Ultra-MAGA” and “Great MAGA King” were in Brandon’s Red Speech.
Is this like the worst photoshop job?
Kim Jong Un Touts Weapons, as U.S. Worries About North Korea Arms Exports
The stock seems to disappear and one could only hope the Dear Leader was going to take the scope in his eye. I do love DPRK propaganda photos however, they are spectacular in their cartoonishness.
OMG. At least dress him in clothes that make the Photoshop look less apparent.
Marxist propaganda is always over the top, because nothing says you are a serf and you know it better than being made to cheer on. enthusiastically, something you clearly know to be bullshit.
Hmm, not sure it’s a shop.
Shouldn’t we be glad that someone we’re at war with is getting rid of their weaponry? Also, that Russia is now relegated to using third class munitions and arms?
I think the weapon firing is shopped.
Could very well be. It looks like he is holding it, to me.
OH, I don’t doubt he was holding a gun, just that it was fired.
Speaking of artificially enhanced in a variety of ways.
Maryland officials find body near trail woman reportedly vanished from after going for walk
“testing new sniper rifles”
On top of the poor photoshop:
Uhh… clearly an AK47/74 with a scope.
No self-respecting sniper would ever use that platform for precision fire. The gas piston system that makes that platform so reliable also makes it reliably inaccurate.
“the psychological woes wrought by…climate change.”
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” ― H.L. Mencken
“As predicted, the Pac-4 is pretty much dead.”
Not so fast!
https://pac-4.com/
Besides politics, peoples still do amazing repairs. Found this quick video of a man fixing a vintage taillight with hand-mixed epoxy and dye.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/14x8ia9/repairing_a_broken_tail_light_by_hand/
That is some serious talent.
“What jumped out to me is that we finally have a structural understanding of the way lies can undermine democracy, of the way trust is central for our democracy,” he said. “Democracy relies on faith in its institutions and laws. Otherwise, there’s no stability.”
So all this talk about structural and institutional racism and inequality is designed for the express purpose of what, now?
structural understanding of the way lies can undermine democracy
Most of the lies are spewed by the government.
Found this quick video of a man fixing a vintage taillight with hand-mixed epoxy and dye.
Nice.
You can’t parody this idiocy.
It is odd. Technically speaking, on a genetic level I have more in common with a Black man than a White woman.
There is no logic in politics, aside from the idea of keeping a good grift going.
Huh, is that really true? I guess x-y difference is probably really big, but since you have an X and a Y is mostly a shortened X, I wonder how that tallies up. I sometimes see stats like humans and apes are 98% similar or some such. But worms are also something like 90+% similar.
Pull the other one.
” expert on microaggressions “
Expert on imaginary insults.
You can change gender at will, but scholars say ‘simply impossible’ to change your race
Talcum X has a sad.
Race cannot be determined genetically, to any great degree of success.
Sex, on the other hand….
“scholars”
Looks like SCOTTISH SMITH posted a personal ad
I don’ want nothin’ to do wit dat monster. He always be commin’ around here askin’ me fo tree fitty.
Wild new footage has shed light on the mass brawl between black cruise staff and white pleasure craft owners on an Alabama dock, with a man heard on loudspeaker saying ‘don’t f**k with the riverboat crew.’
Better play-by-play in that Daily Fail article than for other hockey games.
From the comments:
[OC] Got one!
Good news – the windshield wipers still work.
I read an explanation for that. When the BCM (body control module) that usually runs the wipers loses communication with the ECU many OEMs default it wipers on low.
Yikes.
HA HA HAH HAH!..
She is a Wicked Witch
Who is, incidentally, from the west.
Re: Lincoln Lawyer,
It’s nice to see the tradition of Brit brands shamelessly copying US sounds is alive and well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgeY8K_ohlc
Venue is irrelevant, therefor it is imperative the trial be held in the imperial city
Trump previously wrote on Truth Social that a fair trial would be “impossible” in D.C., suggesting the proceedings should instead take place in “the politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia!” In the post, he described D.C. as “over 95% anti-Trump,” seemingly alluding to the 2020 election results in D.C., which voted 92% to 4% for Biden over Trump.
But Trump’s argument has been repeatedly rejected by federal judges in D.C. who have handled other politically sensitive cases stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants have attempted to transfer their cases outside of Washington, D.C., claiming the city’s liberal lean makes it impossible to secure a fair trial for those who are almost uniformly Trump supporters.
First and foremost, the judges note, the city is large and diverse enough that the presumption 12 impartial jurors could not be found is far-fetched. Secondly, they’ve noted, jurors are selected after a rigorous “voir dire” process that includes intensive questioning by the lawyers and the judge, a system intended to weed out jurors who might have an impermissible bias or be unwilling to set aside political views to judge a case based on evidence and facts.
The citizens of Washington were irreparably traumatized by the horrific violence (both physical and psychological) of that awful day. That is why Trump will be on trial. But that doesn’t mean we can’t find strictly impartial and independent jurors.
They can’t possibly actually believe the bullshit they’re spewing, it’s just blatant propaganda.
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suggesting the proceedings should instead take place in “the politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia!”
Maybe have your team ensure that there are at least a few Republicans/conservatives on the DC jury.
who have handled other politically sensitive cases stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
We know how unbiased those trial have been.
“Malik Obama Did It Again: Tweets Brother Barack Obama “Must Be Gay”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/malik-obama-did-it-again-tweets-brother-barack/
LOLOLOLOL
He just now figured it out?
So, about that PAC12/4/whoknows breakup. I wonder if anyone in the NCAA really understands just how many lawsuits are going to be flying around? ‘Cause every one of those schools has contracts that are affected by this; coachs, revenue sharing, student enrollment, etc. And everyone of those schools has Title 9 obligations that are affected by this decision, as all of them have to have equal access to womens sports, which Football carries. And, as an added bonus, the second level schools in every division, such as BIG10, SEC, you name it, will be running scared, as they will be affected in each of those areas. And that is just the tip of the iceberg coming down after this.
Somebody did not think this through.
The new “Big 12” still looks geographically rational. The new “Big 10” is a bunch of midwest/mideast schools joined to four west coast schools. But, the Big 10 is covering all the eyeballs for the TV networks.
Trump’s recusal motion is unlikely to fare much better. Chutkan has shown no indication that she intends to recuse, nor is there any known conflict that would typically require it. She has previously ruled against Trump in his bid to shield his White House papers from the Jan. 6 select committee, but she has not opined about his innocence or guilt of any crimes associated with the charges he now faces. It’s unclear what other bases Trump may cite to call for her recusal.
She’s a judge. She knows better than to state her biases for the record. That does not mean she is unbiased.
“Selected at random” my eye.
she has not opined about his innocence or guilt
Shocking that a judge would do a basic judge thing.
The Horror.
AfD delegates gathered in the East German city of Magdeburg throughout last week for their annual congress and to decide on a slate of candidates for European elections in a move many pundits believe solidified the hold of radical factions from the regional Thuringian branch of the party.
In the party’s subsequent election manifesto, released Sunday evening, the AfD described their wish to create a “federation of European nations” instead of the current homogenising EU structures as well as to curtail the influence of “non-European great powers” in EU foreign policy, a likely jab at Atlanticist influence over the Continent.
Poor economic conditions and dissatisfaction with German green and foreign policy have resulted in the AfD skyrocketing in opinion polls lately to become Germany’s second-largest party behind the conservative CDU.
Obviously they are the real criminals here.
Store clerks who stopped and beat up a thief are under investigation for assault.
Don’t film it and discreetly dispose of the body next time.