Opening morning at last!
Every year, I wait for this morning, the opening morning of elk season, and this fall of 2100 was no exception. It’s hard getting up at 4:30, but the results are sure worth it. As I climbed out of the warm bed, my wife muttered something about my sanity, but I’m used to that by now.
The bathroom floor was cold; I ducked into the closet for my slippers. Good thing the coffee-maker timer kicked in, at least I had a hot cup to take with me.
The garage was really cold. After all, this was Colorado in November. But I managed to wrap my bathrobe tightly around me and pushed my Lockheed-Martin/Lazzeroni launch unit out into the driveway. I got the launcher raised and locked in place and hurried back inside to warm up.
I had to wait until about 5:30 until I could log into the GameNet system. Lots of traffic on opening morning, and the system was pretty loaded up. I eventually got in. Now, the fun could begin.
The Microsoft/GameStar IV satellite was turning its cameras right on a clearing in the Holy Cross Wilderness right as the sun came up. I’d been waiting for this moment all year! The last three mornings, GameStar IV had picked up a nice 6×6 right in this clearing, right at sunrise. Creature of habit, that bull.
It took a few minutes to switch my computer’s display over to GameStar IV, but I got the picture up just in time to see my 6×6 standing right where I’d seen him before, right at the edge of the clearing. Now, if he’d just hold still for about three minutes. I quickly activated the GameStar’s infrared laser tracking unit and locked it on the bull’s back right between the shoulder blades. Really lucky, too, to get a laser the first try; I’ve lost many a deer and elk waiting in the queue for a laser to come free. The GameStar birds only carry two dozen lasers, and at any given time you might have a hundred hunters trying for a lock.
Slaving the launch unit’s programming unit into the GameStar took only a few seconds, and I quickly got the flashing signal that the Lockheed-Martin/Lazzeroni seeker head was tracking.
This is it! I thought to myself, as I hit the “LAUNCH” key.
I heard the booster ignite, and there was a sharp BOOM as the missile left the launch tube at Mach 2. I turned back to my monitor and punched up the magnification on my GameStar IV link; yes, yes, the bull was grazing unhurriedly towards the middle of the meadow!
About now, the LML booster would be passing through 50,000 feet, and the burn time should be about up. The status window on my screen told me the seeker was tracking, and that the unit was performing optimally. Good, good!
At the top of the ballistic arc, the GameTaker 2100 unit detached from the booster, and attitude thrusters fired to point it downward; I noted that it picked up on the infrared laser designator from the GameStar right away. The GameTaker started downwards.
Now was the critical part, where the bull could blow my whole careful, painstaking effort just by moving into the trees and breaking lock.
All went well, though. At 1500 feet the bio-degradable ceramic heat shroud popped off the GameTaker, and two drogue ‘chutes popped open to slow the bird down. The bull still hadn’t figured out what was up.
I took a sip of my coffee. The GameTaker was committed now; the bull was perfectly positioned in the middle of the meadow. Now he heard the GameTaker coming in, but it was too late – he could shake the laser now, and the GameTaker would still do its work.
As the bull looked up, the final stage activated, and the GameTaker deployed its cameras, snapping off about forty perfect 24-megapixel pics focused on the elk as the unit fell to earth. The last one was perfect, taken from near ground level upwards at the bull looking imperiously downward at the little bundle of plastic and ceramic that dropped in only twenty feet away. I imagine he ran off into the woods right after that, but the GameTaker had already shut off, and I’d closed the GameStar viewing window to start downloading my pictures.
Yep, picture 40 was the best, and 36 was fairly good, too. I set for a 24×36” print and sent both pics to the Photostat printer/framer and went off to tell my wife a tale of another successful opening morning.
Nicely done.
W0t?
No venison?
I am sure he had a vension grow lab in the garage, should have a nice meat-free pseudo venison grown by the afternoon.
His house 3d printer will print up some steaks from the vat grown stock.
Only 2300 fps? Seems kind of underpowered.
It kind of reminds me of the old guy on Northern Exposure who was banging the hot blonde, and mounted his camera onto his old rifle stock to go birdwatching.
I remember him. And her.
He had a good life.
I guess the Fudds were right. 2A is for Hunting.
Taking pictures of animals steals their souls! #EndVideoSafaris
Thus would probably gain traction.
I see the first person to receive the vaccine is a black woman nurse at a Jewish hospital. When will Cuomo send in a SWAT team to arrest everyone for attempted murder in giving the unproven, false, untested, and unscientific Trump vaccine?
Remember when he promised to keep Trump’s rushed vaccine out of NY?
But then EVIL Drumpf threatened to keep his Drumpf Vaccine from New York! So Drumpf is the Baddie.
Fauxchi said the vaccine is totally safe because a black lady participated in its production. Completely relevant and legitimate assertion.
Brah, don’t you even science?
Through all the ridiculous political fads and flavor-of-the-day causes championed at universities, I was always quietly smug about being educated in the sciences. They weren’t subject to fad or opinion.
Then science became SCIENCE!!! and is as likely to be “true” as history, I.e. purely a matter of viewpoint and interpretation.
Just wait for all of our infrastructure to be redesigned/rebuilt by woke engineers.
Roundabouts.
Bulldoze those circles of evil.
I like roundabouts.
Me too.
I do to Moj, but there is some weird Pinapple-Pizza like hatred towards them in Libertarian Circles.
Almost like they represent everything libertarians hate about roads.
I’ve driven roundabouts in England, Ireland, and France (weird going the opposite direction).
They work great in rural areas.
They are terrible in urban settings.
The fixation of American urban planners to stick them in cities and shopping districts in a disaster.
I saw three sizes of roundabout in Nottingham. The smallest was a regular intersection with a circle painted in the middle. The ones where there was a change in asphalt were controlled by street lights because even the british couldn’t get them to work.
Driven roundabouts in England, but don’t remember them in France, where I was not doing the driving.
They are in my municipality in the shopping districts and they seem to work fine. Now, teaching XX how to do it is another thing entirely…
Oh, what I DON’T like about them is trying to give directions.
“Second spoke off the roundabout” is almost impossible if there are a lot of cars and you don’t know where you’re going.
Your average US driver is to busy diddling on their phone to stop at red lights and stop signs. Now they are expected to figure out roundabouts? Ha! We have a couple around here, enter at your own risk.
The circular format of the retrogressive roundabout does not allow sufficient diversity – all roundabouts will henceforth be constructed as cloverleafs with approaches configured as double-diverging diamonds.
Covid is so dangerous that even though the hospital my wife works at already has the vaccine, they won’t be vaccinating staff until after the photo-op first vaccine in the state is done tomorrow at University Hospital in Newark.
And now i’m wondering how long it takes a vaccine to work. Like you don’t get the vaccine and then immediatly have immunity. It must have some incubator time
This one is two shots, around 4 weeks apart (if memory serves). How long after the second shot until you are immune, I have no idea. Of course, some (many?) people have T-Cell immunity, so their marginal increase in immunity may not be much.
Well the booster has to be administered 17-21 days afterward for the vaccine to actually be fully effective, so probably a month?
Russia is saying 42 days for their vaccine, and no drinking alcohol during that stretch, which means no one in Russia is going to comply.
Word is Trump is going to pardon Assange.
I’ll believe it when
the Rushuns Pay MeI see it.Yeah. It is such a logical choice (along with Snowden) to spit in the eye of Brennan, the FBI and the CIA. But Who knows.
Also. Will the Media Air Trumps Farewell Address?
Skepticism is warranted, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Trump sees it as the best way to get a final poke in the eye of the Dems.
Lame:
Very lame
no way.
I hope he also pardons Ulbricht but I doubt it though.
I don’t believe Trump will pardon anyone except those that he will benefit from pardoning.
Oh I think he’d pardon anyone if he felt it was a big enough FY to his critics, and that’s about as far as it goes.
He Can’t he hasn’t been convicted of anything. There hasn’t even been a ruling from his extradition trial in England yet. He could tell his justice department to quit trying to prosecute Assange, but why would he. He is the one who sicked them on Assange in the first place.
???
Assange entered the Ecuadoran Embassy in 2012… about 2 years after the US Government started investigating Wikileaks in 2010.
Obama clearly sicced the DoJ on Assange.
SCIENCE DENIER.
Deaths in the USA over the years…
2010: 2.5M
2011: 2.5M
2012: 2.5M
2013 :2.6M
2014: 2.6M
2015: 2.7M
2016: 2.7M
2017: 2.8M
2018: 2.8M
2019: 2.9M
2020: 2.5M (as of November)
Where is the massive spike?
See Lockdowns do save lives!
My favorite faulty conclusion:
Influenza is down 95%. Masks and lockdowns really work! We should do them all the time!
..
Note that you can’t get 2 colds at the same time because the diseases compete with one another and covid works the same way.
Or maybe the seasonal flu disappeared because flu cases are being counted as presumed Covid cases.
Yes, that is another distinct and likely factor.
Yup. One can an influenza and coronavirus at the same time. But flu is mostly diagnosed based on symptoms, not a half-assed PCR test.
Influenza is down 95%. Masks and lockdowns really work!
COVID is raging! Infections are way up! We aren’t masking or locking down enough!
Seems like you should have to pick one.
Seems like you should have to pick one.</em<
You just don't understand SCIENCE!, Mr. Shitlorde.
At least he understands HTML. :-p
Their argumentative model is “What do i have to say to get you to do what i want”.
Once you see that, it’s much easier to get past their open inconsistencies.
Schrödinger’s Masks!
Nice rack!
And a nice story, Animal.
He should try and mount it.
I think that’s more Q’s thing.
Petulant, preening cunte.
“You really should have read the Constitution and a little bit of history before you got into office,” Scarborough said to Trump. “I heard you had ‘Mein Kampf’ by your bedside. I think your … ex-wife said you had ‘Mein Kampf’ by your bedside. Should have been the Constitution. A little bit of history, and you would understand that Supreme Court justices — they can’t do what you’re asking them to do. And we have institutions in this country that actually have not folded to a failed reality TV host. You lost. Just go.”
He later added, “Go ahead and say it was rigged and dadadada and mail-in ballots and blah blah blah and locusts descending from the heavens, blah blah blah. Give your statement, and then say, ‘I’m going to move on.’ And then finish strong over your last two months, and don’t set yourself up for losing every single day, which you still keep doing. And it does not work. It makes you look weak and pathetic.”
Donald Trump is Hitler. And Joe Biden is an upstanding statemen adhering to the constitution and looking out for the little guy. ///Truth&Reconciliation
statesman*, even.
The way these talking heads act… It doesn’t sound like they feel like they are winning.
I actually think they’re not winning really when it comes to hearts and minds. It personally looks to me like the popularity of Democrats is way down. It really has been steadily going down since Obama’s first term with a little spike up when Trump was first in office for a bit.
#MeToo
I won’t let the Perma-Pesimists here get me down.
Pessimism and realism are becoming synonymous at this point.
Hardly. I may be young, but my entire life Conservatives have always been forseeing how they are “on the ropes” and that this next Dem Admin is going to be the end of everything. It is all quite disgusting IMO.
Agreed.
Really anytime they lose (which happens as a matter of course throughout history) every single political party becomes slightly hysterical.
I may be young, but my entire life Conservatives have always been forseeing how they are “on the ropes” and that this next Dem Admin is going to be the end of everything.
To be fair, when I was a little kid (in the early 90s), healthcare was affordable, kids could play outside unsupervised without having the cops or CPS called, racism and sexism were widely seen as defeated, communism was freshly dead, affirmative action was still controversial, and most of the wars were short and used in a way that distracted from the fact that the president was getting some sucky sucky from an intern, SNL wasn’t funny but at least it was watchable, CNN wasnt unbiased but at least it was watchable, ESPN was focused on the S, and politics was still verboten in the workplace. Not saying that the 90s were great, but with 25 years of history between then and now, I completely get the pessimism.
Really anytime they lose (which happens as a matter of course throughout history) every single political party becomes slightly hysterical.
And it’s always unwarranted.
Except when it eventually isn’t, because some party like the Nazis just got power and will use any means necessary to never give it up.
because some party like the Nazis just got power
Perennial fear stoked by both parties about the other, to fire up the base.
It personally looks to me like the popularity of Democrats is way down.
No way, the Dem’s pesidential candidate got an overwhelming record number of votes!!
I agree.
I just don’t think much good will come of their loss of popularity.
The Dems are quite popular with People Who Matter.
And that’s what matters, isn’t it?
I feel like the guy in V for Vendetta that keeps watching the news and saying “Bullocks!”
Look at Johnny Sunshine over here. I can’t do my volunteer work, can’t go to church, can’t see a coworker’s face in person, can’t send kids to school, can’t eat in a bar or restaurant, can’t travel internationally for my 20th anniversary, and can’t get into a practice studio with my band. But some rando gave their governor the finger yesterday so Freedom!!!!!
I might be wrong but I honestly think the Democrats and the Left are going to fuck themselves over real bad for the next four years. Think about it. These jackals haven’t even gotten to the White House yet and they are discussing prosecuting Trump and his some of his underlings, nominating incompetent (more than usual) people into power based on their genitallia and skin color, and trying to usher in the glorious socialist future on top of battling a pissed off Progressive wing. And on top of that, they are going to push Kamala as the contender for 2024 who no one likes.
Saying that though, I think the Never Trumpers and the Trump wing of the GOP are going to fight it out and the Never Trumpers are going to rig the nomination to get their guy (or gal) into the Presidential race handing Kamala a fucking Hail Mary during the last minutes of the game.
2024 is gonna be lit as fuck.
I do as well.
Also, either Trump was way outperformed by average Republicans or Democrats cheated enough. Either way, they don’t really have all that much of a mandate for the mad executive order shut they’re supposedly gonna pull.
And this whole idea that they’re gonna replace Biden with Kamala? Well, if they do that they are really and truly fucked. Americans can’t stand her.
They are absolutely going to do that. Why do you think the Biden family corruption story is suddenly acceptable to publish? Six weeks ago, you had all of the media putting the kibosh on the NY Post story, now they’re all running stories.
Then the House is gonna be a Republican House in two years.
And the executive orders are gonna suck, but the courts are more well positioned to harass it than ever before.
This is the way it always goes.
Dude, you’re pissing all over the end of the world narrative here.
The Dems are basically un-fuckable at this point, since they have confirmed they can cheat their way into power so actual voter sentiment doesn’t count.
Republicans usually lag behind the Democrats in cheating by like half a decade.
They’ll get there.
Thanks to learning ballot harvesting finally they managed some big wins in California of all places.
*slaps forehead*. Republicans go to Church! That’s a good place to ballot harvest! Duh! Can’t believe how long it took them.
Except the Dems control the big urban centers where vote harvesting and fraud in large enough numbers to matter is a lot easier to do.
Which is why they will lose the House. Too many districts without a big urban center.
they don’t really have all that much of a mandate
Dood. If a Dem wins by any margin it is a mandate.
It doesn’t matter. Your door gets kicked in the same whether the politician signing the law had a mandate or not.
they don’t really have all that much of a mandate for the mad executive order shut they’re supposedly gonna pull
And if they were responsible stewards of the public authority, I’d be pacified. Whether or not they actually have a mandate, they’ll govern as if they have one, because they’re power hungry tyrants. They’ll also clean up the slip ups from this election and make sure that their fraud isn’t nearly as detectable next time.
You put into words a feeling I have had.
It seems like they haven’t learned the lessons of 2016. In their minds, Trump’s election was an anomaly and he only got there because of the Russians and racist assholes. Bernie Sanders for all his shittiness at least correctly recognized that this shit wasn’t an anomaly. It was because there’s a giant disconnect between the elites and the working class. AOC, Kamala, Warren, and the rest of these assholes could give two shits about the working and middle class. If anything else they see them as an obstacle towards their glorious socialist revolution.
Sanders has stronger political instincts, and so does Biden for that matter, than Cortez, Harris, or Warren, but he still sold out. Free trade and free migration only make sense in a capitalist economy with low barriers and low supports. Race and gender distinctions distract from class solidarity; sexual orientation and gender identity are bourgeois decadences; Islam is no less regressive than Christianity; etc. Or at least, that’s what an actual Marxist would hold. Sanders might know better than he speaks, but he’ll still say whatever he’s “supposed” to say now that he’s gotten more attention.
The elites now don’t care about hiding their disgust of the not-elites.
I’m a proud kulak! Kulaks and wreckers gonna have fun thwarting the socialist utopia.
Why would they? Half of the not-elites think they’re categorically different from the other half anymore. If elites plus wannabe elites plus elite apologists gets you at least 50%, you don’t need to pretend to care anymore.
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“Wannabe elites” perfectly describes my Ivy League schoolmates who became teachers/administrators//useless bureaucratic apparatchiks..
Yes. I talked to the wife about this yesterday. Much of what we see is people parroting what they heard from the Media Head on CNN, and so when you say something that goes against that, they can feel superior to you by mocking you and then mindlessly quoting CNN etc. They must be smart because they repeat everything they hear from that smart guy on TV.
It is a way for non-elite people to feel like they are elites.
*dismayed sigh*
they are going to push Kamala as the contender for 2024 who no one likes.
The great irony that she did not win a single delegate in the Dem primary but might still get to be president.
2024 is gonna be lit as fuck.
As will the 2022 midterms.
I have been saying this (albeit not here) for years now. What goes up must go down, and all that. But every institution that they have hollowed out; academia, gov’t, media, and so on, is a shell of its former self and everyone can see it. College has devolved to signaling, the media is a propaganda arm of one political party and the gov is as dysfunctional as it has ever been. And in the current media era, all of that is out in the public eye. There isn’t going to be some grand libertarian moment, but people are pushing back as our so-called betters are flailing at the virus. Trump or no Trump, watching Newsome, Walz, Wolf, Murphy, et al fail all along destroying any business that doesn’t go lockstep with the new cruelty is eye-opening.
Pope Jimbo has been showing business pushing back, and more importantly, sheriffs pushing back. And it isn’t in conservative areas, it is the poor sides of LA, Minnesota, gyms in New Jersey. It might take a few years, but the left is pretty much done, but what damage it will do in its death throws remains to be seen.
I don’t think they expected to lose ground in the house and not sweep the senate. They didn’t expect 73 million votes against them for the president. They didn’t think the cheating would be so obvious. They are starting to piss on their own legs while calling it rain.
And in the current media era, all of that is out in the public eye.
The Tech Lords smile, and hit the delete key.
and everyone can see it.
Color me skeptical. The skinsuited institutions still control the dominant culture. You still need to pass through a 13 year gauntlet of teacher’s union progressivism to then go pass through a 4-10 year gauntlet of tenured commie progressivism to graduate into adulthood. You still need a degree to get most jobs that are available. TMITE still controls the news cycle and can gin up fake outrage or smother real outrage without lifting a finger. The administrative state is suffocatingly large and is throwing its weight around in ways that cause people to knuckle under. Now, emerging leftist control and authority in HR, Legal, and the C-suite of most major companies has made it where those who want to resist this shit had better get their ducks in a row, because all it takes is the wrong comment to the wrong person, and you get canned for not being inclusive.
Maybe there is a ground swell of support for unthroning the progs. I’m really not seeing it. I’m seeing a bunch of true believers of varying levels mixed with a handful of wrong thinkers who are too afraid to speak up because they risk losing everything.
Progressivism has been good at misdirecting. “Afflict the comfortable” does not mean shout in the face of any cisgendered white man you meet until he acknowledges his privilege, it means holding the feet of the people who live off the fat of the institutions to the fire. Between the true believers, useful idiots, quiet wrongthinkers, and Emmanuel Goldsteins there live quite a few very comfortable people who stay just beneath notice and who know not to rock the boat. They don’t always have smarmy faces, but they do always ensure that everyone’s attention is directed somewhere else. These are the people whose existence is essential to keeping this system afloat and yet who also are quite vulnerable to persuasion. Winning the overculture is difficult but it was not the progressives by birthright any more than it is inherently stacked against conservatives. Not that I particularly want either one to win forever and all time, but they are out of balance right now.
There is a bigger push now for the trades than at any point in my life, and I am pushing 50. There are more podcasts going against the media now, think Rogan, Bongino and such, than at any point in the last few years. Think of each and every business going under right now due to the gov’t actions regarding Covid. Think about all the kids out of school due to teacher freakouts, both K-12 and higher ed. We all see and hear the panic reports of kids partying, and that gets around. We see how churches have gotten the thumb of the government pushing them down.
There isn’t going to be any libertarian moment, but people do see when they are getting fucked personally, and will act accordingly. If they are getting paid to work at home now, they won’t do anything. But those who are getting screwed are seeing this, and they are acting. See all the sheriffs in CA who have told the governor that they aren’t going to enforce these laws. They aren’t doing that when the laws are popular, they are doing that when the people are actually angry at this.
And I said this the other day, but there was a time when Texas was a solid Dem state. All that goes up, must come down. And we saw this with the R’s and the dying of the Christian right back in the eighties. It won’t look like what we dream of, but it will change.
And I said this the other day, but there was a time when Texas was a solid Dem state. All that goes up, must come down.
Different things motivated party affiliation in the 1960s than motivate it now. Conservative Democrat used to be a thing, and Texas was full of them.
The parties didn’t “switch” like the left trumpets, but they certainly did realign in the 80s and 90s. In fact, I’d even hazard to say that Trump is a byproduct of that realignment.
tl;dr: I’m not a subscriber to the pendulum theory. Yes, there’s some swing back and forth, but the axis of rotation ain’t fixed and is moving leftward.
A slight aside – a customer of mine when I worked in sales in Pensacola went to high school at Pensacola Catholic with Scarborough, and he didn’t have a single good thing to say about him. This was like 12 years ago, way before he went full on Democrat, so it had nothing to do with that. It was because Scarborough was what he called “the ultimate teacher’s-pet type”, a smarmy, brown-nosing suck up.
Disgruntled ex-spouses are the second best source of reliable information, after “anonymous sources familiar with the person’s thinking”.
Hate to go OT, but I don’t have much to say about nuking elks, other than “it sounds like fun!” good piece, Animal.
Interesting vid on China vs US economically, regarding bonds.
And so it begins.
The defense-industry swamp is eager to engulf the Biden administration
Filthy.
Americans want blood and they will have it.
Now I have to go listen to AC/DC…..
Now i’m wondering what song i inadvertently struck off in your brain…
If You Want Blood (You Got It)
Not this?
Srsly?
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Dirty Deeds, Done by the Lowest Bidder.
J/k. The deeds are done by the most “connected” bidders.
Americans want bread and circuses and they will look past a whole lot of waste, fraud, and abuse to continue getting them.
Americans have way more bread and circuses per capita than any other people at any time in human history.
Thanks only to what Karl Marx pejoratively described as “capitalism”.
Well, 51% anyway. The other 49% can get fucked, apparently. I have not seen a baser level of wolves and sheep democracy in the U.S. than in the past 9 months.
Of course they are. The neocons have flown back home to roost in their natural party. They left the dems 60 years ago, but are now back where they belong.
War, Inc. always wins.
No matter who wins you get McCain.
+1 Tom Woods
A great development is that i have a hard time seeing, even under Obama, mainstream Right-leaning media, going this hard at the Dem President. They are openly saying that Biden is corrupt and that his administration will be corrupt (which is well founded). Hopefully this will continue. No more “procedures were followed, protocals were met” Fuck these guys, they are corrupt, let everyone know about it.
Some of the fringier types will, but the NR types – IOW, the ones who get on TV – won’t.
mainstream Right-leaning media
Who would that be?
Me opening Robinhood
Add another vendor to the “do not buy from” list.
Got an email: “115gr 9mm $169.99/case in stock!”
Me : “holy shit! That’s before-time prices!” *quickly goes to website, adds two cases to cart, then has enough self awareness to take a closer look at the product description*
CASE OF 200 ROUNDS
Fuck. You.
Fuckn A. That’s almost $1 per bullet.
It might be cheaper to just hand over the wallet…
I just paid a bit more than $1/round for surplus .303 British. 1,000 rounds of South African surplus listed on Gunbroker.
The last time I saw some of that come up for sale, it was an auction. Maybe 300 rounds. I bid on it and lost.
The Lee-Enfields that I’ve shot have shot better with the South African surplus than the Greek HXP surplus.
My local store had zero 9mm but .40 at $20 for a box of 50 a couple of days ago.
It usually pays to keep at least one less popular caliber weapon around.
Ruger had to come out with their version of 5.7
Fuckers.
I need to load up on 40. Thats the only caliber that I have zero surplus.
When I buy a 2011, it’ll probably be in .40 so I can compete in Major.
I recently paid that for 147 gr hollow point.
Still sucks.
I have an intern here at work that through a series of transactions mostly involving old motorcyle parts ended up with with 2000rnds of m855 green tips. I have been working on talking him out of it as he doesn’t own anything that shoots it.
I have a heavy sense of foreshadowing here.
Have you checked to make sure your intern is not an ATF agent?
I bought a bunch of 50bmg in September. About $2 a round. Glad I did.
Yeah, that’s some bullshit. Cases are 1,000 rounds. I could maybe let it go if they were selling ‘cases’ of 500, but 200 rounds is a box.
Just noticed the curtains in one of the room I don’t usually go in (I don’t think I’ve been in there since august) moving. Turns out the window was half open. Might not have been very energy efficient since winter began…
Great. Now where am I going to sleep?
Well, I didn’t lock it, just remember to close it next time.
Pfizer vaccine.
I haven’t had a 102 degree fever in more than 20 years.
I’ve had it once – in January, in what I’m now fairly convinced was the China virus. Had high fevers on and off for almost a week.
Me too. Everyone in my office got sick the same time.
I had side effects after the first shot for 24 hours, and only a few hours after the second.
This may be something legit, but i have never heard of a fever localized to a certain spot.
Well except in the song “Hot Blooded”, but i think that was metaphorical.
haha
I’ve never checked my arm for a fever.
The fever is probably the 1%.
I bet way more people got the sore arm that you get with these type of shots.
You would expect to get a fever as a result of the required immune reaction.
My concerns are more along the lines of long-term side effects. Acute short-term issues are generally weeded out in the trials.
Yep.
I’ll let others be the guinea pig.
Thank you.
I have a strange compulsion to buy Microsoft products right now. It’s… odd.
I have a strange compulsion to buy Microsoft products right now. It’s… odd.
At least it isn’t a compulsion to buy Apple products.
Let us know when you start talking to your favorite paper clip.
He haunts my dreams. Always asking if I need help understanding the complexities of Microsoft Word.
My first thought was, “Damn, the Lil Rona Panic affecting people’s behavior in 2100? When will this shit end?”
My second thought was, “Are these folks really willing to pay more than a hunter that will kill the animal? Wildlife management takes money.”
I can’t say this isn’t expected. Americans knew how Biden would run his adminsitration since at least the impeachment, and still voted for him.
Largely Americans didn’t vote for him, though.
Dead ones did. Also, braindead ones.
Right, but the actual votes don’t match reality. Largely, it looks like people turned out in record numbers to vote for Trump, and fake votes had to be manufactured to make it look like Biden won. So it’s odd to blame Americans for what they didn’t actually do, and made efforts to negate.
^ This. I don’t understand the talk about pushback from voters when Harris uses the VA model to push through a progtopia. The just released report shows the vote counts were demonstrably altered in Michigan. Elections are a rubberstamp now without any sort of regulatory feedback mechanism for voters.
without any sort of regulatory feedback mechanism for voters.
*sharpens pitchfork*
Yet you can’t produce any real numbers about the made up votes. I’m a little sick of this narrative.
Without audit trails, ballot envelopes, etc., there’s no way to know.
Of course, with sufficient* credible* evidence of shenanigans sufficient to change the outcome, the results should be tossed and the legislature should appoint the electors.
*Naturally, given the time constraints, gathering and testing evidence for widespread fraud is likely to be functionally impossible for given values of “sufficient” and “credible”. Our system appears to be incapable of responding to widespread fraud.
Alternatively, where state law was not followed, the results should be tossed and the legislature should appoint the electors.
I don’t trust the outcome of this election. I don’t know that Trump would have won if every legal vote was counted correctly. But I have seen enough to convince me that there are serious enough problems that the outcome is untrustworthy.
That’s a far more reasonable stance than Trump’s or the average sentiment expressed in his support.
The problem is, the SC failed to curb the state judicial initiatives to recraft the rules. Had the SC stepped on the first case, hard, to set the line – I tend to think all other courts would’ve respected that. You ain’t getting the toothpaste back into the tube after that.
It is going to take the state legislatures to set straight those problems. I’m not holding my breath.
We can know and there are real numbers that were just released today:
On election night, the Dominion machines used in Antrim County Michigan tabulated 7,769 votes for Biden and 4,509 votes for Trump.
A recount on November 21, showed 5,960 votes for Biden and 9,678 having been cast for Trump.
68% of ballots were flagged by the machine as errors requiring adjudication at a different location. This 68% error rate was reproduced by the forensic experts. The adjudication logs were illegally wiped but the tabulation totals were still available as shown above. The IT guys are now trying to recover the deleted files, but the real numbers are there.
Recount may not be strictly accurate. Regardless of terminology, a tabulation of votes performed on Nov 21.
We can know and there are real numbers that were just released today:
Weird that the movement in votes after election night was toward Trump, by a lot.
That’s one county, with the audit report released in mid-December. And that report hasn’t been responded to. Too little, too late.
Here are more numbers. Not sure whether they’re accurate or not:
Let me guess: Debunked with a “nuh unh” from the secretary of state or the person who put those numbers forward was icky or something like that, right?
Has anybody actually addressed this analysis from GA? I’m legitimately asking because here are some numbers, and I have no clue whether to believe them or not.
Weird that the movement in votes after election night was toward Trump, by a lot.
That’s one county, with the audit report released in mid-December. And that report hasn’t been responded to. Too little, too late.
It is just one county, but it provides tangible evidence with real numbers that the Dominion machines did manipulate count totals. That affects much more than one county.
Depends on what you mean by response. The Michigan SOS got a judge to issue a gag order preventing the release, which was only rescinded just this morning. I’d consider that very strong response.
Taking it at face value, it shows Dominion machines can manipulate vote totals. Where else it happened, and to what extent, this report doesn’t say.
By “response”, I was thinking of something more technical. In corporate audits, there is often a formal “management response” to the audit findings, sometimes contesting them, sometimes with the corrective action plan. I don’t know what the election officials for that county, or Dominion, have to say about this report.
Has anybody actually addressed this analysis from GA? I’m legitimately asking because here are some numbers, and I have no clue whether to believe them or not.
Me neither. Since its been quite clear that the GA governor, secstate, and legislature aren’t going to do anything, regardless, there’s been no need for anybody to respond. Sad, really. Very disturbing, taken at face value. And Nothing Else Will Happen, not even a post mortem look at election procedures.
I do not inhabit the same reality as this person.
Last month Rittenhouse, who has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, was released from jail after posting his $2 million bail, much of it raised through crowdfunding by his supporters. More than 13,000 donors donated nearly $600,000 for his legal defense on GiveSendGo, which bills itself as the “#1 Christian Free Crowdfunding Site.” “Kyle Rittenhouse just defended himself from a brutal attack by multiple members of the far-leftist group ANTIFA — the experience was undoubtedly a brutal one, as he was forced to take two lives to defend his own,” the page reads. “Let’s give back to someone who bravely tried to defend his community.” Months of mythmaking had led to this point. His insistence that he was acting in self-defense, and his self-appointed mission to cross state lines from Illinois to “protect” Kenosha businesses, as he told a Daily Caller reporter that night, was almost immediately taken up by figures across the right. Among Rittenhouse’s many defenders were President Donald Trump, who claimed the shooter “would have been killed”; Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie, who told a West Virginia radio station that Rittenhouse had shown “incredible self-restraint,” and Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who said the shooting happened because authorities had stood back and “let Kenosha burn.” The right-wing media apparatus has made heroes of killers before — cops being the primary beneficiaries — creating the figures they need to sustain the notion of a nation under siege. But it would seem, with Rittenhouse, that the recruits into a deadly culture war now extend to a pool of civilian foot-soldiers for white supremacy — no matter how young, or how far outside the law. …
There’s a strong parallel between support for Zimmerman and Rittenhouse, rooted deep in American racism — Zimmerman was acquitted of killing a Black teen outright, while Rittenhouse set out to quell an uprising for Black rights. Zimmerman’s actions were also framed as self-defense — despite the fact that, against the advice of a 911 dispatcher, he stalked Martin through his neighborhood, gun at the ready. Still, Zimmerman, his supporters, and the jury saw what he did as “standing his ground” — making him into the neighborhood watchman, the beat cop, defending one’s home turf from a dangerous other, encountered by chance, turned by a malevolent imagination into a looming threat. By contrast, Rittenhouse’s actions feel more warlike, part of an offensive charge: crossing state lines into a sea of people, gun drawn, a soldier entering enemy territory. The right-wing mindset in the era of Rittenhouse has ripened into one of total war, propped up by the vocal support of key figures in the Republican Party and silence in the remainder of its upper echelons.
A white-supremacist killed innocent white people who were innocently demonstrating for black rights. Another white-supremacist killed an innocent black teenager who was innocently walking to a study group session. ///Truth&Reconciliation
My favorite part of the Zimmerman thing was always “HE DISOBEYED THE 911 OPERATOR!!!!” as if there is some kind of Word of God aspect to some schmo making $15/hr to answer calls.
Trayvon thought Zimmerman was one of the gays stalking him, and confronted him because of that. Gay bashing martyr, I guess.
This whole internet thing isn’t really working out that well.
Someone should go back in time and shoot Al Gore.
Rittenhouse is a white supremacist hero for shooting 3 white felons doesn’t exactly make a lot of sense.
Logic and facts are so White Supremacist.
Context is white supremacist.
Feelings are the faschnizzle.
Platitudes mouthed by submorons to show they have the correct beliefs don’t need to make sense. Hell, it’s a plus…shows commitment to the cause if you can believe nonsense.
I thought he’s part Latino and the three scumbags were all Jewish?
*Can’t be bothered to look it up because I don’t care.
All I know was that 2/3rd of them were sex offenders and the third had some other unpleasant past.
Can’t remember which was which though.
His amiable chatting and offers to assist “protestors” were just a false flag.
I think he’s very solid on the second and third shooting, and with the video showing a gunshot before the first shooting, pretty solid there. For the life of me, I can’t see how h might have violated WI law on minors carrying weapons, since it specifically allows 17 year olds to carry full-size rifles. Otherwise, the woods would be full of felons every deer season.
Don’t give the prosecutors ideas.
A WI prosecutor who decides, despite state law, to charge 17 year old deer hunters with a felony isn’t going to be a prosecutor very long.
Yes it was this and not the “burn down the system” and litteral burning of large portions of cities, the harrasing of random people who won’t join your protest, and assault of people in the streets by rioters that ripened into one of total war. And We certainly never had candidates from the left support this or refuse to call it out. Antifa is just an idea.
What scares me the most about a lot of my friends and acquaintances is their denial of mobs tearing down cities and abusing those who they see as the enemy. There were globs of evidence online that harassment and abuse took place and yet you are still convinced these where right wing agitators?
It was disconcerting and forced me to stop engaging a lot of my friends when it comes to politics because their minds are so warped that talking them would have done no good and even created animosity.
Case in point would be the description of the activities in DC this weekend. The headlines were of Proud Boys turning violent, but the text revealed that said Proud Boys turned on an Antifa goon who pulled out a knife and started getting stabby.
But who RTFA anymore?
“Well first off, Antifa doesn’t exist you right wing loon, but even if they did, they only pulled out that knife after feeling threatened by their odious racism and misogynism.”
Projection ain’t just something that happens in movie theaters.
I started reading someone’s blog the other day, and he began with “Trump thrives on chaos…” That was all I needed to read.
Well, it’s not wrong per se. But thriving on it is not the same as creating it, and nor again the same as profiting from it.
Yeah, I think his broader point was what Leon noted above: Trump created the chaos in the cities over the summer. Yes, there are people who really believe that.
Of course, I have other friends who think Trump is an honorable man with a coherent limited-government philosophy.
“Stop making us
beat youloot, burn, and riot!”Brought over from dedthred.
@Agent Cooper said:
Yes. Absolutely.
The cover says, “This is [subgenre] romance” and sometimes you can tell what sub-subgenre and how explicit it is.
Avid readers want to know instantly what they’re getting so they don’t waste their time. I do it too. I see a cartoon-ish cover in purple, orange, green, and black, with or without a witch’s hat or witchy-type character, I know it’s a fun/snarky paranormal romance. I see a swirly cover with “midlife” and “psychic” on it, I know exactly what it is, which is exactly what I want to read at that moment.
Once upon a time, I was a little girl going through the stacks at the library and pulling out any book whose title looked interesting. I read a whole lot of different stuff. Sagas, romances, scifi, fantasy, horror, mainstream, women’s fiction, spy novels, pulp novels. You name it, I read it. I would have picked out the kind of book I write. I don’t do that anymore and nobody else does, either.
Further, every one of the novels I’ve snarfed down the last month and a half, I found through targeted ads on Facebook. Then I clicked on some “more like this” on Amazon.
If it works on me, an indiscriminate reader, it will definitely work for discriminate readers.
But discrimination is wrong.
I miss the thrill of going to Barnes & Noble or somesuch and poking around the sci-fi section until I find something interesting looking I have never read. Yeah, I got some crap that way, but found a lot of good stuff too. Lots of authors I have read a bunch of started that way. For Greg Bear it was Eon. It just looked freakin’ cool. It isn’t my favorite of his, but it was a great start to him.
Moje – local new & used bookstore threw in a “proof” copy of this book free fer nuthin’. I devoured it over the weekend. (Telling you now in case “What We’re Reading” gets lost in the holiday shuffle.) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52582586-you-again
Thanks! I put it on my list.
From the synopsis:
I can guess. If I’m right about the conceit, then I’ve wondered that myself. If I’m wrong about the conceit, forget I said that first thing.
Lesbian or straight?
Man Chokes In Restaurant, Dr. Jill Biden Springs Into Action To Deliver Educational Lecture
United Airlines Kicks 2-Year-Old Off Flight For Refusing To Say ‘Black Lives Matter’
https://babylonbee.com/news/facebook-announces-praise-jesus-reaction-button-celebrate-christians
This one got a smirk from me.
Portland MSM Shocked When Antifa Attacks Them for Covering Armed Takeover.
Are Muslim Professions of Peace Trustworthy?
https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2020/12/14/are-muslim-professions-of-peace-trustworthy-n1209739
Not the Bee
People who might murder and kill are also liars.
Not that ground shaking
Must be white supremacists.
Because i’ll tell you something. Reporters care about #1 first and foremost, and if you cross them- Then you must be a White Supremacist.
you must be a White Supremacist if not then I guess you’re Antifa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t86ClLM3ZGY
https://twitter.com/AccidentLiberty/status/1338223543662817285
When you try to own the libertarians, but they all agree with you.
Federalist encourages GOP Senators to ask former Obama / current Biden nominees about the Hunter’s escapades and Biden’s possible complicity.
Nice Idea, but I have a suspicion that the most popular answer to that sort of question will be “On the advice of counsel, I cannot and will not discuss matters that are subject to ongoing investigation.”
+ 55 Senators “pearl cluthcing, this violates the sanctity of this chamber”
I laughed – bitterly.
If the Dems control the Senate, it will be interesting to see how they manage the hearings of appointees.
One thing I am quite sure of – they won’t slowplay dozens of appointments, the way the Repubs screwed Trump.
How did you survive the tyranny of OMB? What is your favorite color? Do you like kittens and puppies? I think that would be the level of questions asked by the Dems.
Just saw an ad for PayPal using Bitcoin. It would be interesting if that generated more acceptable usage of the currency. Though i still like bitcoin cash, and the value tends to be more stable.
perpetrated violence on hundreds of millions of people
Sounds nice.
Forget it, It’s The First World, they are Fat lazy Morons…….
Sorry that’s STEVE SMITH’s number. I’m not buying it from Trump.
We have a friend who insists that Trump = Hitler. When my FIL asked him where the 6 million Jews were, the friends said, “well, he has murdered 200,000 people so far” (this was back in early fall.
Haha
By that measure, the Presidents of the European Council, Brazil, and Mexico, as well as the Prime Minister of India, are all Hitler as well.
I did see that Trump killed more Americans with the ‘Vid than Hitler killed German Jews. I thought that couldn’t be right, but sure enough; fewer than 200,000 German Jews died in the Holocaust. There just weren’t that many of them. A big chunk of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were Polish.
So, yeah, the Trump = Hitler crowd did some actual research.
Because German Jews were better than others? a distinction with out a difference,
A higher share of Jews survived the Holocaust in Germany than in some other European countries.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-losses-during-the-holocaust-by-country
Is this irony? The people calling Trump Hitler, use a statistic that narrows down the group of Jews killed by Hitler so they can score a point. In doing so they are downplaying the Holocaust.
I think that is irony, but irony can be hard to pin down sometimes.
You’re overthinking. Its a superficial factoid that can be deployed in service of Trump = Hitler. That’s it.
LOL, the drama…
Sounds like Debra’s messing up…
First World problems, they need to get over themselves,
Name 3.
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/most-heavily-armed-states-in-america/4/?ftag=ACQ449302a&vndid=5baa838be4b0867006a32078&fbclid=IwAR08WlBXqxlScM_KrVjJTA1HrMguO58UqW5Q8F-1bmlHzQuTy9tfZpA60Zw
I feel so ashamed:
44. Iowa
For every 1,000 residents in Iowa, there are 6.1 guns. That’s 18,880 registered firearms dispersed among 3,090,416 people.
In this picture, then-U.S. Senator (D-MA) and 2004 Presidential candidate John Kerry goes pheasant hunting during a campaign stop in Colo, Iowa.
I doubt there’s anywhere near that few guns in Iowa. Probably off by two zeroes.
Since there is no registration requirement in Iowa, who knows where they got that number.
https://www.outdoornews.com/2019/01/16/iowa-hunters-pass-on-tradition-amid-hunting-decline/#:~:text=About%20223%2C000%20people%20in%20Iowa,the%20Dubuque%20Telegraph%20Herald%20reported.
About 223,000 people in Iowa held hunting licenses in 2018, a 14 percent decrease from 1988, the Dubuque Telegraph Herald reported.
Each party of 10 shares a single weapon.
registered firearms
Nobody knows how many guns are in Iowa. I cannot believe its fewer than 20,000.
Similarly, the idea that there are fewer than 50,000 guns in Wisconsin is risible. They sold over half a million gun deer licenses this year.
And Arizona. There isn’t even such a thing as registering guns here, as far as I know. So where do they get a count of registered guns? I flat guarantee you there are multiples in Tucson alone of the 60K they cite for the whole state.
Looking at the “Methodology” (the first slide) they are only counting NFA firearms, so this is more of a “How many NFA firearms are in your state”.