Holy crap. Its only Wednesday? I was in meetings for at least 3 days already today. **Makes note: all future contracts will have a differential rate of +$50/hr for each hour over 4 spent in meetings in any given work week.** Sure, they may talk me down from that, but… its a good place to start. Also, thanks The Other Kevin. You were right, that Chrome in-browser CSS tool is awesome.
I’m pretty sure pressing a whistle-blower case and losing is fatal to pretty much any career.
“All writing is masturbatory, but at least have the good manners to do it in private and wash your hands afterwords” — RAH
I wonder if this sent our habitual firster on a murder spree.
Building fractal armor for fun and profit. I should have gone to grad school for THAT.
That camel commercial was a huge meme one summer at the camp I worked at. Good times.
Mike-mike-mike-mike-mike!
If my experience is any guide, waking up your spouse on a Wednesday by rolling over, hooking a leg over her hip, and thrusting your pelvis at her in time to the question “GUESS. WHAT. DAY. IT. IS?” will earn you an elbow to the ribs.
So don’t do it. Unless you’re into that sort of thing, of course.
“Trump drops out. Biden gets sick. Pence is fired. What if 2020 gets really crazy? The most norm-shattering leader in American history is bound to produce some surprises, especially with his reelection in peril.”
Well, Biden is sick. And I think the big surprise will be that Biden is suicided and Hilary fully loads.
Mrs. Clinton as the designated survivor may be the only way to wipe out all of those in power. Not a risk I care to take.
I think the most likely (and most hilarious) black swan event is if Joe Biden says something racist during the debates.
Second most likely is probably if Trump does.
No one is dropping out, and most likely no one will die, and there will be no heretofore unknown October surprises.
It’s technically impossible for the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate to say anything racist. You do not define what racist is and if you think Biden said something racist that simply means you’re wrong.
+ You ain’t black….
No one will care of Joe does say something racist.
Trump will be accused of it no matter what
No one will care of Joe does say something racist.
No one who is paying attention now will care, because everyone paying attention now is already forming their opinions and narratives. But the vast majority of voters aren’t paying attention yet, and their biggest impression of the potential presidents will come from the debates, so I think any major narrative changers at the debates could have a big impact. About 40 million people watch the news, while 80 million watch the debates.
If debates do indeed happen, I can’t wait for all of the fact-checking articles and teevee news analysis pieces explaining away what I just saw.
One of the conditions the Biden camp is reportedly pushing for is live fact-checkers during the debates. I’m sure they would be completely impartial. And the stories I’ve seen about it so far are “Trump would never allow this, because he knows everything he says is a lie”.
Whenever I’ve checked on what these sites say are egregious lies, they are either Trump speaking rhetorically (e.g. Trump: “no one saw the covid pandemic coming” Checkers: Lie! There were published research papers warning of a future pandemic, thus people did see it coming) or irrelevancies (e.g. Trump: “a third of people did this” Checkers: Lie! It was only 31%, which is not a third!). Both these examples I’ve actually seen added to his ‘lies’.
“live fact-checkers during the debates”
You mean like Candy Crowley?
I completely disagree. In my opinion, 95% (maybe more) of voters have made up their minds already and nothing that is said during debates (that probably won’t be held) will get them to change their minds. It’s all going to hinge upon this question: you’ve seen the last four years. Do you want four more years of this?
Fully-Loaded Hillary is a terrifying band name.
I could go for a hump or two. Or ten.
Here you go!
Grrrr….
Also-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGns_QEUPTw
That’s Lt. Colonel Vindman to you.
Vindman, expert in all things not actually heard.
Not anymore.
“You want me blowing that whistle. You need me blowing that whistle!”
THAT’S LTC(ret) WHISTLEBLOWER!!!!
What a fucking shitweasel that guy is. Good riddance.
He’ll wind up in some DemOp organization pulling down some phat cheddar to bash Trump.
NBC or CNN military expert, calling it now.
Was hoping for this
https://youtu.be/vPObs5eSWOc
He’ll get used to retirement rather quickly.
He should have been reduced to th elowest enlisted rank and sent to Leavenworth for a few years before being dishonorably discharged. At that level, in that position, it isn’t whistleblowing it is a coup.
a close election that nonetheless ends with an unambiguous and uncontested result.
Good luck getting the democrats on board for that.
Well if Trump hadn’t cheated by revealing Hillary’s emails.
Millions of voters that were already to vote Hillary until they got a take on those e-mails, oh, and Satan arm-rasslin’ Jesus too!
The unambiguous result of a few years of civil war and a few million dead Americans?
Multiple interviews in recent days with influential people in Washington’s political class, including strategists and government veterans in both major parties and figures who have served at high levels in the Trump White House, found most people expecting some sort of dramatic shift of plot in this election year.
Our best. Our brightest.
Our most arrogant…
Steve Bannon and some TEAM BLUE consultants?
The bar tenders at the Hay Adams
So, an assistant to and assistant and a couple of interns.
Who is leaking the script?
Funky beat, good vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkfyuH2BhYY
I’m assuming this headline is literal.
https://news.yahoo.com/crushing-experience-awaits-ghislaine-maxwell-004113397.html
Gargoyle accidentally falls on her from the prison walls?
Obligatory no?
Put “windpipe” or “trachea” or “skull” first in that headline and I think it’d be dead on. I doubt she makes it to trial.
Larynx crushing.
Relevant
This is exactly the kind of porn I’d expect you to be into.
Not Classic cinema porn?
Vindman gone? Overdue. Too bad he isn’t wearing an orange jumpsuit.
The Politico article…I have been seeing absurd wishful thinking nonsense ever since they lost their minds in 2016, much of it more laughable than that one.
Sorry to hear about Brooks Brothers
Materials science has made amazing advances.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, is retiring from the US Army after more than 21 years of military service because he determined that his future in the armed forces “will forever be limited” due to political retaliation by the President and his allies, his lawyer told CNN Wednesday.
So what he’s saying is, is Trump will always be president?
#cathynewmanquestions
“It’s less than 50-50 [Trump would pull himself off ticket] but I’m amazed at the amount of New Yorkers that are talking about this — his former friends. … They think he’s looking for an excuse to get out.”
I vaguely remember some talk about this the first time he ran. It was a nothingburger then, I expect it is a nothingburger now.
I recall some people confidently predicted that Trump would resign from office before the end of his first term. Too bad one of them has recently left this place, so we cannot discuss the latest rumor.
There was a lot of talk about that. I remember one where Trump is impeached, Pence appoints Hillary VP and then resigns….they were certain it would happen.
Fevered dreams indeed.
The panty-wetting scenario was Trump is impeached, Pence is impeached, Nancy takes the big chair, appoints Hillary her VP, and then Nancy resigns, and Hillary fulfills her destiny.
Tom Woods and David Stockman had such a bet
“Trump drops out. Biden gets sick. Pence is fired. What if 2020 gets really crazy?“
What if it gets really crazy? What reality does this person live in? That being said, I’d like to see Trump jettison Pence and bring in Kanye because why not?
Stop. You’re making my nipples hard.
Nah, bring in whatshername from North Dakota.
South Dakota
Kristi Noem
Who is firing Pence?
Pardon McAfee and run with him.
For Oxy if he hasn’t seen already.
The FBI’s war on civil liberties and political dissent is kicking up a notch.
Ran down a National Guard soldier for visiting unapproved websites while off duty. We missing anyone?
Ozy – damn spellcheck.
Great goodness, not good at all if true.
The left learned what the FBI was good for from Herbert Hoover and took it to heart.
And Congress keeps passing thoughtcrime bills that enable the FBI to do this type of shit.
Can your CO legitimately order you to answer questions if you’re under investigation by the FBI and don’t have a lawyer present? That sounds like a real no-no.
It is a no-no
But like everything in the army, the law is a long way from your sergeant’s size 12 that is about to be buried up your fourth point of contact.
Fuck that. Even as a boot in the Marines I knew better. By the time I got to the Guard, not an officer or NCO in the Army that I would have obeyed that order from.
Many/most don’t. And it doesn’t matter if you know your rights at the moment. Others around you can lie or illegally threaten or just make your life a little more miserable, just like in the civilian world.
Hey look I got a real hat tip! Glad I could help!
And nobody really noticed…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chief-justice-roberts-injured-head-in-fall-last-month-was-hospitalized
Maybe his handler had to knock some sense into him.
It didnt work.
figures who have served at high levels in the Trump White House
The Diet Coke runner.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, is retiring from the US Army after more than 21 years of military service because he determined that his future in the armed forces “will forever be limited” due to political retaliation by the President and his allies, his lawyer told CNN Wednesday.
That’s a roundabout way to say, “because nobody trusts him.”
Guess even Schiff wouldn’t sponsor him for O-6. Wonder what Ciarmarelli is up to these days?
That he doesn’t have enough friends in the military to protect him, hopefully meaning he and they are outnumbered by patriots, is a silver lining.
His friends in the military are serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Maybe he will be appointed the Defense Minister in Ukraine. Crazier things happened this year.
Do U.S. Army desk jockeys ever get fragged?
Peter Principle.
Promoted to your ultimate level of incompetence.
Like this?
“one of them damn fools hit me in the eye!”
I love that movie. And a young Chris Rock- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgHcYxKjwVE
a key witness
If your “key witness” is somebody who could offer up only hearsay, you need better witnesses.
From the Politico article:
“A former White House official who worked closely with Trump said, “That will be his rationale and for the rest of his life, we’ll never hear anything but, ‘It was stolen.’ … He can’t admit that he lost, so how he’ll comfort himself or justify it is that it was stolen.””
Oh come on. No one who loses the presidency ever does that.
“You would not urge people creeping close to the average life expectancy for American men (78.5 years) to run for president, even if they were careful about wearing masks (as Biden apparently is and Trump self-evidently is not).”
I’ve been told about 11,000 times that wearing masks is to protect spread to others, not protect one’s self.
““He would throw Mike Pence in a wood chipper if he needed to,” said one former White House official who frequently interacted with Trump.”
I assume the U.S. District Attorney from the NY Southern District is looking into this credible threat.
A politician who would treat his ally ruthlessly if it’d benefit them politically? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
The woodchopper meme really has spread and has staying power. Does anyone remember who started it?
Goddamned spellcheck
Not Rhywun, he said something completely innocuous.
In my vague, not very reliable memory it was in response to my suggestion of hanging the judge from a lamp post in front of the courthouse.
I was drunk over there that night, typed out a nice spicy comment, and thought better of it and deleted it thank God. I’m paranoid enough as it is.
Does anyone remember who started it?
The Coen brothers?
Something something enemies foreign and domestic
Rep. Ilhan Omar advocated for the “dismantling” of the U.S. economy and its political system during a speech on Tuesday.
“As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality,” Omar, a Democrat, said. “So, we cannot stop at [the] criminal justice system. We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it.”
Good work, voters.
Most racist country took in an illegal alien (or was she a refuge?), gave her schooling, food, job (maybe) and an opportunity to represent her area as a congresscritter….but yeah, its oppressive all the way to the core.
Yep. None of it’s good. Tear the whole thing down.
I’d like to pick the glib hive-mind for suggestions on an issue that I think is shared by many of us: protecting our digital libraries from de-platforming.
I have an extensive collection of Kindle books. These include books that collect all of Robert Howard’s original Conan short stories (tres racist), subversive wrongthink like Rothbard’s conceived in Liberty and Hayek’s works.
In the past, Amazon has abruptly removed e-books from people’s accounts. The instance was due to a lawsuit. someone had published 1984 without the copyright holder’s permission.
In the glorious cultural revolution to purge reactionary elements from our society, any of my e-books could be similarly recalled. I want to protect myself from this.
I want to back them up in a format that I can read in the future.
Does anyone have suggestions as to how to do that? How do you feel about different formats (eg mobi, epub)?
Oh crap! That was supposed to be at the root level.
Nobody reply here!
Let’s all reply below.
While she talks the rest of her party is furiously doing just that. The first was such a success that second wave lockdowns are impending.
The NYT agrees with her.
IIRC, George Carlin called this the most perverted commercial slogan ever invented. Also, today the commercial is racist, because of course.
Meanwhile, in Australia…
Coronavirus in Australia: Melbourne begins new shutdown
America governors get a hard-on….
It would be laughable if it weren’t so damned frightening.
They’re assuming that the virus will not be introduced some other way at another time.
Utter insanity.
My formerly apolitical LinkedIn feed is now getting posts saying every single covid case and/or death is Trump’s fault, with a surprising number of likes and supportive comments. No doubt he’s behind Melbourne as well.
Melbourne’s five million residents will be barred from leaving home for six weeks, except for essential reasons.
Police say they are setting up a “ring of steel” around the city, with “checkpoints anytime and anywhere” to enforce the measures.
Foochy’s gonna need plenty of lube.
I would’ve gone with “iron curtain.”
Notice they are not pushing face masks.
Facemasks of Steel?
Also, for those of you considering malicious compliance, The plague doctor getup is annoyingly hot now that it’s summer, especially if you add a balaclava and a hat (because why do it if you don’t do it right, right?) I have ordered myself a Jason hockey mask for the summer. I;ll give you a review when it gets in.
Provided they execute everyone entering or leaving, and bury the bodies deep in the outback, it has a chance of working.
On the one hand, their military lost a war to Emus. On the other hand, their military is drawn from the same population they’d be shooting now.
Raven Nation and Rhywun hardest hit. My AFL team looks to suck again this year, barely keeping out of last place in the ladder/standings.
I’m watching Collingwood rapidly slide down the ladder. We’ll join you at the bottom in a week or two.
I’m surprised that the AFL hasn’t suspended the season yet. Instead they relocated all the teams to Queensland and NSW. In Brisbane they even allowed up to 20 thousand spectators. I wonder what will happen next.
I’m hoping this season is simply asterisked away. It should be, as they are playing shortened games.
I find shortened games more watchable.
Do you have a team, grrizzly?
Not really. At the beginning of this season North Melbourne won two games and I liked their mascot. But then they lost the next 3 games, so perhaps I shouldn’t root for them.
grrizzly – the Oz politicians know they have to have some outlets, or people simply won’t take it anymore.
And Brisbane could get 20k spectators. I don”t think Adelaide could. I just checked, and they’re 31.5 point underdogs to the West Coast Eagles, who aren’t exactly burning everyone down. So take heart, Rhywun – neither of our teams is likely to be worse than Adelaide.
“We’re not last! We’re not last!”
And they’ll do it again soon because herd immunity is the only workable solution.
Pigeon superstition
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Wednesday that the state will require resident to wear facial coverings in outdoor settings where they can’t socially distance, extending a mandate which originally required face coverings indoors.
Murphy admitted an outdoor face mask requirement would be “hard to enforce” at places like the Jersey Shore boardwalk, but was necessary given the rise in cases in other areas of the country.
Masks would not be required for those who are alone and away from others or with family. “If you’re congregating with a lot of other folks and there’s no social distancing, you can at least get a warning, if not something stronger. Admittedly, this is harder to enforce,” Murphy said.
“There’s no question that face coverings are game-changers. I think we were the first state in America to require them indoors, they’ve been strongly recommended out-of-doors,” the Democratic governor told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We’re going to turn that up a notch today and say we’re going to ask you if you can’t socially distance then it’s going to be required.”
I have it on good authority you will never catch the plague if you hop backwards on one foot every ten minutes.
Also, take your wallet out of your pocket and give it to me.
How long before we have to wear our underwear on the outside of our clothes? How far are they going to push this?
Apparently Australia is turning their country into a super-max prison.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
If 4chan ever decided to promote the idea that wearing the same set of underwear longer than an hour was a white-supremacist act, wearing them on the outside would be the law in some states within six months.
I’m starting to think all this is in some part a deliberate attempt to prevent herd immunity. The rest is obviously a big political power trip
“We’re going to turn that up a notch today and say we’re going to ask you if you can’t socially distance then it’s going to be required.””
ask
required
Whether New Jersey or Melbourne or Arizona or Texas or wherever, a functioning media would ask a simple two word question that would reveal a lot: “Until when?”
What exactly changes whenever these draconian measures are pulled? What does postponing things actually accomplish?
Until when. I remember there was an uproar when Hungary declared a state of emergency without an end date because of the virus, and the right thinkers were wetting their bed because it didn’t have an expiration date and Orban could become dictator without end. They actually had a point that the law should have had an expiration date, but I find it funny that Hungary has ended their state of emergency and our governors are still keeping us locked down.
Well, our governors (except Florida and Texas) aren’t right-wing boogeymen. Cuomo and Newsome are our dreamy leaders.
Trying again, on my own root level comment! 🙂
I’d like to pick the glib hive-mind for suggestions on an issue that I think is shared by many of us: protecting our digital libraries from de-platforming.
I have an extensive collection of Kindle books. These include books that collect all of Robert Howard’s original Conan short stories (tres racist), subversive wrongthink like Rothbard’s conceived in Liberty and Hayek’s works.
In the past, Amazon has abruptly removed e-books from people’s accounts. The instance was due to a lawsuit. someone had published 1984 without the copyright holder’s permission.
In the glorious cultural revolution to purge reactionary elements from our society, any of my e-books could be similarly recalled. I want to protect myself from this.
I want to back them up in a format that I can read in the future.
Does anyone have suggestions as to how to do that? How do you feel about different formats (eg mobi, epub)?
LMGTFY: https://www.howtogeek.com/162994/how-to-strip-the-drm-from-your-kindle-ebooks-for-cross-device-enjoyment-and-archiving/
I forgot! Google always gives a better answer than people with actual personal experience. 🙄
Is it LMGTFY if you give a result and not the search itself?
I believe you can do that with Calibre, but I’ve never done it from Kindle. You may want to reach out to Mojeaux, I’m sure she has methods.
Funny you should mention that.
After going to bed last night, as usual, I lay there with my mind wandering. In order to relax and go to sleep I often build things ini my mind detail by detail very methodically.
A log cabin. A smokehouse. A bridge. etc.
Last night I imagined in detail a physical library to preserve the works you mentioned and many many more just to guard against the event you fear. A new Library of Alexandria so to speak. A physical library in the middle of nowhere (I know the exact location I would choose) that very few people would know about.
They are already going after books by suggesting we decolonize our personal book shelves. How long before we are living Fahrenheit 451?
Y’all crossed my mind as well….consult on which works to include.
I just started doing that on a small scale with this comprehensive edition of Huckleberry Finn (in dead tree format.) Someone here suggested Orwell as another good candidate, so I’m pondering one or the other of his biggies as my next acquisition. #CulturalPrepping
I did it with just the Alf tools mentioned above. Maybe Calibre is Windows-only or something but I didn’t use it or need it.
NB. It was a major pain in the ass, and I had to download an older version IIRC.
I’ve only used Calibre on the Mac with an iPad. I really only used it for format conversion — abc.xyz to abc.epub. I like it, it’s fast and regularly updated. I’ll be back in it by Halloween I suspect 😉
The first step is getting Kindle to allow you to download them to your hard drive.
Can you do that?
You used to be able to with the Kinder Reader app for your desktop. Would not be surprised if that’s been memory-holed.
I have an old Kindle keyboard that doesn’t have wifi, so I have always had to download and transfer via USB. I only keep that one registered so I can have free access to the books I “buy”. Mr. Mojeaux’s account won’t let him download stuff that way.
Huh. The app is still available. When I’m more motivated I will try to see if it still works.
I got a book downloaded from the Kindle app for PC, but I’m not able to crack it.
That was why I had to use an older version of the Alf tools. The latest version at the time did not support the current Kindle format.
Okay, tried it. Didn’t work, went to MobileReads and found this:
And this is why I keep my Kindle Keyboard
So, Tarran–the answer is, you can keep them on your hard drive, but you might not be able to read them.
“A pint of whisky and four lines of cocaine for lunch: Johnny Depp’s libel trial is shown a picture taken by Amber Heard of his skull and crossbones ‘pill box’ and mountain of drugs and alcohol”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8502659/Johnny-Depps-libel-trial-shown-picture-pillbox-mountain-drugs-alcohol.html
That illustration is hilarious.
Who?
You know who Johnny Depp is.
Capt. Jack Sparrow, who divorced his batshit crazy actress wife when she anger-pooped in his bed.
Good thing he has his mask.
Skinny ass lines.
Not if it’s good stuff.
Looks more like a molehill of drugs and alcohol. I was expecting some kind of Tony Montana set-up.
“PICTURED: The ‘fake’ $20 George Floyd was killed over as rookie cop who was involved in his death argues for the case against him to be dismissed and says he was just following orders”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8503531/PICTURED-fake-20-George-Floyd-killed-over.html
One of you asked about this…
Do you know who else was just following orders?
Hitler.
That’s TWO PAIRS of sunglasses, Daily Fail.
“Don’t Talk to the Police”
A defense attorney and an ex cop talk about why you need to keep your mouth shut (an oldie but a goody, about 50 minutes):
https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE
A lot of you might have seen this already but I never have for some reason. Excellent vid.
“What are you raising your hands for?!? I told you not to talk to him!”
Huh, clicked through expecting it to be one of the ones sponsored by Flex Your Rights, which has done some similar interviews in the past.
So speech therapy today was actually closer to cognitive therapy. I did incredibly well on every memory/attention test that they gave me. I went through about 10 of ’em. I actually had a great experience. It was mental puzzle time and I got to have fun with it cuz I like such challenges. I only went to make my mom feel happy but the therapist was lovely and…we never talked about speech. Which was nice. I showed her that I beat that part of my rehab. I saw others at the clinic that I could tell had issues much more severe than mine. I wish them the best.
I have everything recorded, and I candidly admitted to her that I have zero memory of having met her before. Didn’t even recognize her face. Apparently I had a seizure in the office the last time I saw her. No recollection of that whatsoever. Which is good. I think my brain is now wired to absolutely forget shit that I don’t want to remember. Better for recovery. That’s something I’m thankful for. No point in dwelling over shit you can’t even remember.
I wish I had my stats! I’ll have to wait. But I’m patient. I’m not concerned about the results, but I feel like a ball player who wants to know his batting average. I wanna be better than most. That’s a bit of an arrogant thought, but one I think everyone can relate to it.
Thank you to everyone for your kind words yesterday relating to my bike adventure. I’m not done exploring. My next step will get me where I want for now. Onwards. Upwards.
Stick with it Evan. I am glad to hear the good news.
Rock on dude. I can’t imagine having to go through that.
Thank you all for your support and kind words.
Honestly, I don’t think it’s that big a deal to go through. It used to be. The month-long coma was real. So is rehab. But now that I’m passed the worst of that, I focus on the good side of everything. I’ve recovered and have the opportunity to learn things that most people can’t experience and don’t even, on an experiential level, know exist. If I dealt my hand to anyone else, which I don’t wish to do, there’s I think a zero percent chance they would have handled it the calm way that I have. I’ve never complained. I’m still alive. What the fuck else can hang their hat on? Be happy you have what you have. Plenty have it worse.
Focusing on negative things sucks into the spiral that makes you see them more frequently. If you fall or jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, most sink into the mess of tragedy. Try to bounce off of it. Learn. Recover. That’s how you make yourself better. If you believe in ‘systemic racism’ then you LOOK for it and you will find it everywhere and give the idea more power. If you look at how people actually act toward another, you will see kindness and how lovely almost everyone is to one another regardless of something as stupid as color or race or ethnicity.
Refuse to sink. Bounce. That’s what you learn from. That’s how. It’s hard to express how angry I get by the way most people focus on sinking rather than bouncing. It’s why I detest the mask wearing. Stop sinking into your fake fear over a bullshit fucking illness. You go outside even though mosquitos kill 1-2M people per year. No one panics over that, but you’re panicking over this horse shit? Fine. You do you. Don’t you dare tell me to sink when I want to bounce.
That’s why I love you all. You all don’t get shook by the fear that the media and WHO, etc, are trying to sell you. It makes me happy to have a place to be.
I need to write a piece. I’m guessing y’all would like to read about the rehab process, but I still have global adventure stories that I also want to express. If you guys let me know what you are curious about, I would be thrilled to expand on it.
I haven’t even told y’all about how I bought coke for my friend and I in Medellin, Colombia! Just let me know!
As a pathetic loser whose international travel experience consists of a few hours in southern Ontario, I’d love to read any of the “global adventure stories” you’d care to share! Do it!!!
AH! It might take me a bit cuz I’m editing a novel right now, but I’m on it.
Cambodia?
Thailand?
Morocco?
Colombia?
Russia?
Vietnam?
I doubt Korea or anywhere I’ve been in Europe would get the eyes I’d like.
I’m thinking Cambodia, but I’m open to ideas!
Yes to all. Would read with interest and doubtlessly pleasure.
This is excellent news. You go!
Excellent!
Hope you are better soon.
There hasn’t been nearly enough gun talk today.
I have been perusing this site as he sells things I dont have molds for: https://www.mattsbullets.com/index.php?main_page=products_all&zenid=m9534if2omlbks7ig4nj0rk9e2
I think I only have one hollow point mold and it is slow, painstaking work to use it. I have one hollow base mold and it is for shot gun slugs. I particularly like his hollow base wadcutter selection.
I asked a local FFL if he has any Ruger 57s in stock or if he can order them. He said he has nothing in stock and he can’t get them from his distributors.
Reading between the lines, he’s too small to get much of anything from his distributors right now. They’re concentrating on the big boys.
My Mini 14 is coming from halfway across the country. There were maybe three available in the entire USA.
I picked up a new handgun Monday night.
I’m still just one more away from having enough.
It’s an asymptotic approach, isn’t it…..
*sigh*
?
A comment I made on the morning links prompted me to surf Gunbroker today. I’m currently watching four pre-64 WInchester 100s.
Still thinking one of those rebored to shoot the .358 Winchester cartridge would be great fun.
I am not very familiar with it. How much do they run?
These guys tend to have everything but they seem to run a little high on prices: https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/winchester-rifles-model-100.c554_p1_o6.cfm
Winchester has cranked up production on a lot of rifles they had stopped making. I think they make smaller batches now but have very high quality….and prices that reflect that.
Model 100s run from $500 – 1500, depending on year and condition. The really nice pre-64 guns command the higher end of the price range. Lots of them show signs of much field use, but there are some nice originals out there as well.
Check out the link I posted…they have a fair number of them.
If I remember correctly, Obama was also being counseled by a lot of pundits to drop out and not run for re-election because his polls were so bad.
https://nationalfile.com/video-citizen-busts-democrat-mail-in-voting-scandal/
Voter fraud never happens.
Wow, no attempt to conceal the fraud. Why bother when no one seems to check.
Cudos to the citizen journalist. Image what could be accomplished by actual FBI agents trained to identify voter fraud.
Too bad we will never know. I have the feeling that there are too many power players involved that would crush any serious investigation.
Just did my taxes. I expected to pay double the amount from last year. It came out as quadruple, and I have a penalty for under withholding. Fucking thieves….
Since I’m on the federal dole, I told my wife to increase her additional withholding by $125. “Per check?”, she yelled, eyes wide. Yup.
Ezra Klein is an intellectually honest and deeply principled human being.
[doesn’t earn enough to have $125 taken out per paycheck and still owe money]
Ack, that should have been a reply to Tardis above. Lousy tablet.
I can’t imagine what a pit of vipers the offices of Vox are.
I will say it again: appeal to the worst parts of human nature…greed, envy, resentment…and you attract the worst kinds of people.
“As I pointed out yesterday, at least two people who work for Vox were complaining on Twitter about Matt Yglesias’ decision to sign the letter. One of them, a trans woman named Emily VanDerWerff sent an email to her bosses saying that having Yglesias’ name on the letter made her feel less safe.”
Matt Yglesias threatens the safety of exactly zero people.
What does it mean when they say “…made to feel less safe.”
I mean, other than “Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!”…less safe in what way?
I’m sure Emily VanDerWerff could whip up a nonsensical buzzword salad to explain.
It means: “Anybody not willing to voice the same shibboleths as me must be the enemy and wants to stab me in the back. Because that is just what I would do.”
Yeah leaving aside Klein’s censorship, anyone who is claiming to feel threatened by Sadbeard is lying through their teeth.
The weaponization of “hostile work environment” continues apace.
Eventually, all these people who feel less safe, will actually be less safe as the reactionary movement gets tired of their victim bullshit.
Blowback is a helluva thing.
That whole letter was seemingly pretty bland, but it sure has brought a lot of cuntes out of the woodwork.
That’s its real success.
Apparently a bunch of people who signed are “transphobes”, a category to which J. K. Rowling has recently been assigned, because anybody who says anything against or not totally in line with whatever the most radical trans activists just said 5 minutes ago wants to “literally erase” the existence of all transgender people.
Note that none of this has to do with the content of anything that has been said.
Critical theory
It doesn’t matter what was said, only how non-advantaged groups react to it.
But who gets to speak for those groups? There’s trans people who don’t disagree with Rowling and there are trans people who do disagree with Rowling but don’t believe she hates them. Ironically, it is their voices that are getting “erased”.
Why, it’s almost as though the advocates don’t really care about trans people at all.
Transpeople are basically a rounding error, populationwise.
It’s just with gay rights now enshrined in law, with mainstream religious orgs all over the country embracing gay and lesbian people, you need to keep up the fearmongering.
Donald Trump waved a rainbow flag at a campaign rally in 2016, and still absolutely crushed the evangelical vote in both primary and general election.
They need to keep pushing the sexual minority stuff, because otherwise the gay dude who’s a VP at GlaxxoSmithKline or the lesbian mechanic who likes to shoot guns might actually vote on tax brackets or guns and not on ZOMG THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO MURDER YOU!!!!1111
This
Fundamentally, critical theory is about power and only about power.
Truth is irrelevant.
It is an excellent recipe for creating conflict.
“I would like to de-escalate this. Nobody is losing their job and I think I’ve spoken my mind very clearly on this subject. I am just trying to move on to other things instead of endless rounds of twitter wrangling.”
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1280958975920558090
LOLOLOLOLOL
Please don’t make this a thing or I’ll lose my job.
He’s right to be afraid. If Sadbeard gets cast out of the tribe, he has almost zero job prospects. He will be persona non grata among the left.
He’d be forced to take a job as a representative of the left on Fox News it something like that.
The Intercept will take him.
“Lady A, formerly known as Lady Antebellum, files lawsuit against blues singer Anita White who goes by the name Lady A”
https://twitter.com/THR/status/1280978597843546117
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/band-lady-a-files-lawsuit-singer-anita-lady-a-white-1302517
Everyone in this story is a huge A.
I haven’t listened to Anita White, but she probably doesn’t suck as much as Lady Antebellum.
That’s my automatic reaction too.
I thought the original name was retarded to begin with.
They’re going to change their name.to Lady Martin King, then turn around and sue the MLK estate.
“I’ve been saying this for years — that the only way to get the Right to reconsider its gun obsession is to have POC walking down our city streets legally armed to the teeth. I’m thrilled to see this.”
https://twitter.com/Allison_Burnett/status/1280725236216815621
CWAA
Yeah I don’t know if it will turn out that way.
But the left really really wants a race war
The only smaller group of people in this country than the left that wants that is the right-wing white whackos that would go along with it. You aren’t even talking 1M people, combined. Go ahead kids, how about we put you out at JRTC with live ammo and you have yourselves the war you want?
I’d be delighted to see POC embrace their 2nd amendment rights en masse and start tossing gun grabbers out of office.
Pleasepleaseplease.
I say we put them on one of the aleutians. Naked. In February.
I live in Louisiana. I see blacks with guns all of the time. No one bats an eye.
New Orleans is not Louisiana.
Lots of us are fine with it, provided those weapons aren’t used to deprive us of our rights.
And her rejoinder to the several such responses to her tweet are “Well you gun nuts might be fine with it, but the middle-class rank-and-file super racists conservatives are the ones who’ll hate it.” All while firmly believing anyone to the right of Lenin is an alt right gun nut.
“Spiritual atheist”
A more succinct way of saying “I’m a social signaling dipshit with no conception of philosophy or religion” could be found.
He might be underestimating the number of “POC” who own guns (legally or illegally).
I wonder how she can square her version of the world with the existence/popularity of Colion Noir?
Old, but good article about Ezra Klein and his ilk.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/10/illiberal-ezra-klein-charles-c-w-cooke/
He really is one despicable son of a bitch.
I dont think for one second that Klein’s intentions regarding the Yes means yes law are what he says they are.
Sitting on the deck, looking at my gardens, and enjoying some ganja and gin. Since the woman is busy working on her latest book, I’m diving into some strange albums.
Favorite so far is a 1981 release “Pink Panther Punk”. Man, what a strange ride. First track starts with the famous Henry Mancini theme and then goes….places.
It has stranger moments after that. I found a copy on youtube…or stop over and I’ll play the actual album. THATS A THREAT TO KEEP YOU FROM COMING OVER.
Ahem.
https://youtu.be/hHYKx46T59s
That Call Me cover is just awful though.
Defund Inspector Clouseau!
Only click on this if you are Q Continuum
Nice glasses.
Damn Ted, my first thought exactly. Crap, does this mean I’m gay?
https://twitter.com/_Tijanizza_/status/1280960261281722369
yikes!
Welcome to Serbia.
PS: They don’t fuck around.
I dont know who the players there are. I know virtually nothing about present day Serbia.
It’s enough to know that they have a very strong nationalist and militarist streak and the men like, no…, love to fight.
*forwards to Portland Police department*