I think we need to push Elon Musk to get that Mars thing going a bit quicker…this planet is nuts! Here is your evidence:
- Nobody involved in this story was horsewhipped, naked through the streets.
- Wait, maybe my Mars request might be a bit premature.
- Ecuador is more skeptical of socialism that the US appears to be. (And Peruvians didn’t pay attention).
- None of the politicians involved in this idiocy have been tarred and feathered.
See what I mean?
AOC “horsewhipped, naked”?
I’m calling rule #34 on that one.
Yah, mebbe there is a wee bit o’ groupthink here.
“Ocasio-Cortez’s office has publicly asked for help in identifying critics in the past, however. On Feb. 4, her campaign emailed supporters asking them to “scan your social media to find posts with misleading information” about the congresswoman, and “use the built-in report feature to flag them for moderators.”
Previously, in February 2019, AOC tweeted that her office was being flooded with “bigoted calls” and said it “forwards all the threats to Capitol Police to build files.” ”
So her Twitter followers called the police?
Or the USCP is casting a wide net on the socials and is calling other agencies to go “check up” on people?
IANAL, but no idea how that was threat.
I wouldn’t put it past FB or Twitter to rat out their users. See also, Bank of America.
YeAh in the process of moving all my accounts from BOA over that “insurrection “ shit. Made them a lot of money over 30 years but I am done.
Horsewhipping a naked AOC?
Kinky, Swiss.
Lord Blackadder:
[sarcastically] Perhaps Lord Melchett would like to whip me naked through the streets of Aberdeen?
Lord Melchett:
Oh I don’t think we need go that far, Blackadder…
Lord Blackadder:
[sarcastically] Oh too kind!
Lord Melchett:
No, Aylesbury’s quite far enough.
So, the two best English TV shows of all time; Blackadder and Peepshow.
Any challengers?
The Young Ones
The Sandbaggers
Black Books
Spaced
The IT Crowd > Peepshow. Also Black’s Books had it’s moments. Black Adder is #1, so you got that right.
The Prisoner?
Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
The [REAL, ORIGINAL] Avengers?
Indeed, I forgot (seriously, I was in that business for years, how sad) Black Books.
But, there is no way that The IT Shroud is better than Peepshow. That is unpossible
League Of Gentlemen, PhoneShop, Green Wing, To The Manor Born, Blake’s 7, Red Dwarf, etc.
I loved that one.
Also for us fogies: Good Neighbors
Coupling?
“I felt scared, intimidated, and violated,” he tweeted. “They knew my name and where I live. It was done on behalf of a congresswoman who advocates against police state tactics.”
Wentz said the officers “right off the bat” described his tweet as a “threat to kill a sitting member of Congress.”
Sucker.
I don’t care if that kid is left, right, or Martian. I’d feel the same way.
I’ll be honest. I kinda do care if the kid’s Martian.
“a congresswoman who advocates against police state tactics”
LOL. Only when they’re used against the wrong people, Comrade.
Yeah, I never got that she was really that principled.
Like I said before, spouting the approved social opinions is not going to make the political class open their doors to you. They see you as a resource to be exploited, nothing more.
This X 1000. They are sociopaths.
A left-wing, anti-war activist…
See, I’m a good one. My criticism was only to encourage her. Why weren’t the police going after the meanies?
First ones to the camps are the useful idiots.
I am guessing there is some information missing from that story.
For example, what the tweet actually said.
Yeah, read that story several times trying to find exactly that.
Would you believe me if I said that the tweet was too threatening to be repeated in the media?
The tweet in question, as near as anyone can tell.
Hey Preet, USCP, NSA, FBI, CIA…. Pretty much every response AOC makes is underwhelming…. Whichever idiot sent goons to this kids house should be identified and fired. The idiot goons who went should also be id’d and fired.
Curse those who pre-empted my links earlier today.
That is all.
Proper curse? Like with witches and bubbling cauldrons and stuff?
Australians “stranded” abroad should consider themselves lucky.
It’s still a crazy story.
Are they like the U.S. and still expect their ex-pats to pay taxes?
No. There are 3 countries that do that (AFAIK) – North Korea, Cuba, and the United States.
“Some lists of countries that tax citizens and legal residents on their worldwide income include Libya, North Korea, Eritrea and the Philippines. The tax systems of these countries are not well developed and data is limited.”
In the article there are three photos of Australians stranded in the US, Japan and Russia. Only in one country the Aussie is unmuzzled. Guess which one.
One of the early criticisms of Trump’s handling of the virus was that he let US citizens return. It really pissed me off that people thought we shouldn’t allow our citizens to return home. Something I appreciated when living overseas was the notion that the embassy had our back if something were to happen. For example, my son was born in the country where my wife worked which was not where we were living. In order to get him across the border I needed to get him a passport and a US birth certificate. I showed up to the consulate on a day they were closed and they still took care of it for me. By comparison, when we got back to my wife’s home country she had to bribe the bureaucrats to give her a birth certificate. It was one of those things that made me appreciate being a US citizen. To tell our citizens that they are not allowed home is unthinkable to me.
It’s obscene what the Aussies are doing. Angry relatives should be stringing the fuckers up.
“ While citizens and permanent residents are scrambling to acquire scarce passage to Australia, thousands of temporary residents including a litany of celebrities such as Matt Damon, Ed Sheeran, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Dev Patel and tennis players who in January arrived for the Australian Open, along with their vast entourages, have been shown the welcome mat. The double standard is fuelling anger and resentment and is also raising questions about citizens’ rights.”
Matt Damon.
Fuckin’ Matt Damon.
Why can I not find an LC to LC fiber patch cable among my piles and piles of patch cables. Oh well. Work day is almost over.
Yeah, that ILS fix can wait til tomorrow, certainly.
I’ve got one here. What length do you need?
I want to see AOC “debate” Kaleigh McEnany.
Who gets the horsewhip?
With binders?
Will there be a vat of jello involved?
With vibrator batons.
It’s still a crazy story.
I bailed when the big popup appeared.
Euphemism?
That’s what she said!
Taser, pistol, whatever.
Just as long as the officers made it home safe.
Tased with a Glock 17… oops.
Absolutely perfect time and place.
“‘Holy sh*t, I shot him’: Moment senior female cop killed Minneapolis black man, 20, during traffic stop as officials insist she ‘accidentally drew handgun instead of Taser'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9463027/Minnesota-cop-meant-draw-taser-Daunte-Wright-killing.html
Not the first time this has happened. Makes no sense to carry both on the same side of the belt. Also – fighting 3 cops trying to cuff you will never end particularly well.
I think women should carry these in their purses. That will guarantee they’re never found in time to shoot anyone.
‘As officials insist”
I mean this seemed really unlikely to me at first but in the video she keeps threatening to tase him. I think she really did fuck up.
Curse those who pre-empted my links earlier today.
They’re quality links.
Yanno, I try to read the links, but when they pop up immediately with a blocker or paywalled or so loaded with images and ads that it takes forever to load, I’m outtie.
My Firsts are all that you really need to read to know what’s going on. And they never have pop-ups or are behind a paywall, though I’d make a small fortune if they were.
*checks #1 spot on today’s links*
orly?
You’re supposed to encourage him to paywall any comment focused on first, so that only the engaged comments show up.
Well a) I’m not that clever and b) I don’t mind his schtick because c) he contributes good comments to serious discussions.
I don’t mind the contributions, but the schtick has run too long.
I think he does it now just to piss you off, UCS.
I’m flattered, but that’s also kinda sad.
+1 and everyone else who keeps complaining about it.
Fist of Etiquette brainwashed him, he’s our own Manchurian candidate.
Kind of like the thicc shticc?
Same here Mojeaux. I don’t know who teaches web design these days but they really need to be in a different line of work.
If I wanted to play space invaders or asteroids I would buy the games.
Apparently they work or it wouldn’t still be a thing. I just don’t understand WHY it works. I can think of very few things I want to read enough to accept terms, cookies, sign up for a newsletter, dodge ads, or keep scrolling when the page keeps jumping to load more ads.
I think it works because the metric is not how many people read the content but rather how many times the page gets loaded. If you click the page off seconds after the shitshow begins they still count you as a reader.
People who buy ads really should insist on clickthrough rate instead of views.
“space invaders or asteroids”
So did you fight the Nazis or the Japanese?
But one year later, and with those restrictions still in place, many Australians are unable to return home despite the prime minister’s promise to have all stranded overseas citizens back by Christmas 2020.
I remember an Aussie telling me that despite not owning guns (*), they can make the government do whatever they want. Heh.
(*) Gun owners per capita are declining but guns in private hands are increasing. Newest article I could find.
“A New Jersey man is in the hospital with COVID-19 — just five weeks after being vaccinated.
Francisco Cosme, 52, was ecstatic when he booked an appointment for the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Javits Center on March 6.
After Cosme was vaccinated, he continued to wear a mask and follow social distancing guidelines but he became “very confused and began doing things that were not normal,” his daughter, Michelle Torres, told The Post.
“April 1 was the very first day he started to have symptoms,” Torres said. “He had a cough, fever, chills, everything.””
https://nypost.com/2021/04/11/nj-man-in-hospital-with-covid-after-being-fully-vaccinated/
Wonder how many of these stories will start to get buried
I mean J&J is only 75% effective and that’s being optimistic. This should happen thousands of times.
Note that he wore a mask too and it didn’t do shit.
I blame DeSantis.
If I recall the effective immunity they claim for the vaccine is at 30 days.
And given the populations we are doing with file this is the “no shit” category.
Journalist 2.0 is also all over the “unvaccinated filling hospitals” story. Once again – no shit. Here in the people’s republic of NJ I’m still too young and healthy to even be eligible for the vaccine should I want it.
I hate everybody…
Herd immunity only works if we achieve a 110% vaccination rate!!1! /Scientism
So… like any flu.
It’s not magic pixie dust, people.
Anecdotes are anecdotal.
This might be the best thing I’ve read on the vaccines. I share it here because (a) I just got it from a friend, and (b) I’m not sure how long it will remain up.
https://www.deconstructingconventional.com/post/18-reason-i-won-t-be-getting-a-covid-vaccine
Needless to say, I can verify a LOT of the guy’s points on vaccines and manufacturing… but you all know that already.
I hate to say this, but when a BUNCH of people who took the jab start croaking, I won’t be upset. Not because I have any ill will toward any of the people who croak from it; I will be profoundly sad for them, but unfortunately, if we’re going to play the “broken egg/omelette” game with our rights, that’s the only way to “win” right now because we don’t have liberty-lovers anymore. So only a pile of bodies will be sufficient to win the argument. That’s why they’ve been faking and baking the COVID the numbers all along – I wonder how they’ll hide all of the deaths from the vaccine?
Mark my words.
You fail to see the obvious. People who have dies of terminal herpes were classified ass Covid-related deaths. The piles of bodies will be classified as non-vaccine related deaths.
Haven’t you been paying attention?
Yay, my venti soy latte is here!!!
It’s almost as if he’s doing everything he can to send this to the appeals court
After a fatal police shooting near Minneapolis on Sunday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s attorney expressed concern that jurors in his murder trial could be swayed by the events. Judge Peter Cahill denied the request to re-question jurors and immediately sequester them.
Cahill said the jury would be fully sequestered beginning next Monday when closing arguments are expected to start.
Defense attorney Eric Nelson asked that jurors be questioned on what they had heard about the police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, a nearby city in Hennepin County. Unrest followed the shooting: Police deployed tear gas and flash-bang grenades to clear protesters who had gathered outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department.
Same guy who turned down the request for a change of venue.
Also important: make sure the venue pays you in cash and not drink tickets.
One of the jurors lives in Brooklyn Center, and others have ties to the city, Nelson said. He said jurors should have already been sequestered due to the high-profile nature of the case and its tendency to evoke strong emotions. Nelson asked that jurors be warned at the beginning of each day to avoid all media.
Nelson also expressed concern that jurors might be made nervous to deliver a verdict with which the public does not agree.
I’m surprised the jurors haven’t been sequestered from day one.
You and me both. That plus no change of venue should give any guilty verdict a hard time surviving appeal.
Along with the coroner’s report and lack of evidence.
Appeals courts pretty much take jury verdicts at face value, as far as sufficiency of the evidence goes.
Procedural fuckups are more their thing.
I keep hearing conflicting reports about the coroner’s opinion. First it was “Floyd had 3x the fatal dose of fentanyl in his system. He was a dead man walking before the cops got there. There was nothing anyone could do to save him.”
Now I am hearing the coroner’s opinion is that Floyd died from Chauvin kneeling on him. The whole thing is so politicized I don’t believe a word I hear about it.
The cross examination had the medical examiner effectively admit that there were at least three other potential causes of death that would have been put on the cert if not for the trial.
As in – in isolation each of them would have been regarded as the cause of death had the body simply been found dead and autopsied.
There was so little trace of the officer or positional asphyxia that I’m convinced he was a dead man walking before the car stopped, and that’s just from the coroner’s testimony, despite him being a prosecution witness.
I think the regular coroner said he OD’d, the one hired by the family said it was the cops. Floyd also said “I ate too many drugs” at one point.
Maybe that’s the whole point. Get a guilty verdict to placate the crowds, then appeal, get it overthrown, and hope it has blown over by the time the second trial starts in a year or two.
“Biden releases breakdown of what needs fixing in his $2trillion infrastructure plan that Republicans have called a ‘dog’s breakfast of slush funds for Democrat pet projects’
The Democrats are also looking to push the spending bill Congress without GOP support. Biden advisors have came forward and said the president has changed the meaning of bipartisanship.
‘If you looked up ‘bipartisan’ in the dictionary, I think it would say support from Republicans and Democrats,’ senior Biden adviser Anita Dunn told the Washington Post on Sunday. ‘It doesn’t say the Republicans have to be in Congress.’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9461953/Biden-releases-breakdown-needs-fixing-2trillion-infrastructure-plan.html
So they’re going to set another false-front like the Lincoln Project to claim they have Republican support?
“Biden releases breakdown of what needs fixing”
Did “elections” make the list?
The bank accounts of friends and family.
“President Joe Biden’s rescue pup Major will be removed from the White House to undergo additional training after a second biting incident raised more questions about the dog’s behavior.
The White House argues the three-year-old German Shepherd is still adjusting to his new life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And, to help him, he’ll have a few weeks of training in the Washington D.C. area.
‘Major, the Bidens’ younger dog, will undergo some additional training to help him adjust to life in the White House,’ Michael LaRosa, a spokesperson for first lady Jill Biden, told DailyMail.com. ‘The off-site, private training will take place in the Washington, D.C. area, and it is expected to last a few weeks.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9462345/Bidens-pup-Major-sent-two-weeks-additional-training-biting-staff.html
Even the family dog is an asshole.
If you’re dog bit multiple people you’d be ordered to put it down.
He gets the same immunity from prosecution as Hunter.
Major is running the show. He’s the Big Guy getting 10%. He killed Sicknick in the basement of the Capitol. He feeds on unaccompanied minors crossing the border. Connect the dots, people!
And there is no way the ISPs will game their routing here…
The FCC wants you to test your internet speeds with its new app
Yeah, I’m going to load an
NSAFCC app on my devices.The Netflix speed test actually tests throughput to their servers as your ISP routes.
Assuming they rotate these around it would be much tougher for your ISP to game. They did this after Comcast decided not to upgrade its peering and Netflix customers speeds slowed to a crawl.
Now I was actually sympathetic to Comcast there as Comcast was funding Netflix’s expansion. OTH, Comcast was also being paid to deliver a certain quantity of bandwidth. There wasn’t an easy answer, but Comcast decided to use its customers as pawns. They basically lost and given what they did I’m not especially sorry.
My Google Home app (yeah, I know, almost the same thing) already does this.) I have a Google Mesh Wi-Fi.
More on last Friday’s NH House voting session
We learned that it took us a full day from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm to get through 33 House bills. All were recommended by their committee as Ought To Pass (OTP) by their respective committees, except for the last 3 bills that were recommended as Inexpedient To Legislate (ITL) by their respective committees.
They were from Judiciary (4), Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (3), Municipal and County Government (10), Science Technology and Energy (3), State Federal and Veterans Affairs (1), Transportation (4), Ways and Means (3), bills pulled from Consent Calendar (2), Commerce and Consumer Affairs (2) and Environment and Agriculture (1).
We learned that House Democrats were very annoyed at how the Speaker ordered the calendar. Speaker Packard placed the budget bills on Day 1, which took us the better part of the day to get through since House Democrats made us go through 20 of their amendments; all of which failed. On Day 2 we were to vote on OTP bills and then on Day 3 we would do the ITL bills.
“‘It was like sitting down to a bowl of Cheerios’: Man who took 50 oxy pills a day says it took him 15 minutes to get them all down after doctor told him he couldn’t get addicted to painkillers”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9462541/New-HBO-documentary-Crime-Century-examines-American-opioid-crisis.html
I wonder what was wrong with him?
I’m thinking he’s a congenital liar? What doctor would ever advise you that you couldn’t develop an addiction?
A doctor getting paid by Purdue Pharma?
Ding ding.
This was actually a part of their marketing campaign for years – if someone is really in pain, they can’t get addicted to opioids; its only people who aren’t in pain who get addicted.
No shit?
Since I’m suing the opioid industry, I’ve got all kinds of stuff on their marketing. Including internal documents.
Fun fact: the industry created the “happy face” 1 – 10 pain scale and got CMS to include “pain control” in the patient surveys that hospitals are required to do (and which affect our reimbursement).
Idiots would’ve been smarter to just get into heroin, etc.
There’s more to this story.
How much can you tell us?
Not a lot. Currently hung up on interlocutory appeals, and the value of the case is eroding as the opioid biz goes bankrupt company by company.
Can you say anything about the cause of action?
In a nutshell, that the opioid industry created a public nuisance which cost my hospital tens of millions of dollars through a campaign of willful deception.
Okay.
I’m surprised you’re helping prosecute the War on Opioids.
The same one who prescribed my wife a 30 day supply of Valium without mentioning the addictive qualities?
Back in the 80’s and early 90’s doctors wrote large scripts of benzos (eg. 30 2mg xanax) all the time.
Valium has been around since the late 50’s. No one called it “addictive” until pharmaceutical companies wanted to market patented SSRI’s as anxiolytics.
I’m thinking he must have been taking them for a long time, otherwise taking 25 oxy would have killed him.
Biden advisors have came forward and said the president has changed the meaning of bipartisanship.
‘If you looked up ‘bipartisan’ in the dictionary, I think it would say support from Republicans and Democrats,’ senior Biden adviser Anita Dunn told the Washington Post on Sunday. ‘It doesn’t say the Republicans have to be in Congress.’ ”
“We just need to find a poll in which people who identify as Republicans agree with vaguely worded Democrat talking points, and we can claim a bipartisan mandate. Simple.”
An easy way to tell if the poll is misleading is if it implies the bill has anything to do with infrastructure.
I created some pretty satisfying infrastructure this morning.
Oddly, I did look up thte definition of bipartisan, and that’s not how its defined. At least, not yet. Its defined as having the support of two political parties who typically oppose each other. Not random members of the parties, but the parties themselves.
Which is interesting, given the way its used in the media – a single Repub yes vote will make a Dem bill bipartisan, and vice versa, a single Repub no vote will make opposition to a Repub bill bipartisan. I very rarely see it applied the other way around, but that could just be my confirmation bias that the media is bunch of Dem propagandists.
I don’t know, Anita, maybe the guy who actually served in Congress longer than you’ve been alive knows the definition of “bipartisanship” and you don’t?
Differing approaches on guns between NH legislature and US Congress
While President Joe Biden took executive action and pushed Congress to act aggressively on gun control last week, New Hampshire lawmakers moved in the opposite direction, in favor of repealing local ordinances limiting firearm use and other pro-gun lobby bills.
Biden said within 30 days, the Justice Department will propose a rule to stop the proliferation of so-called “ghost guns.”
These are kits available for purchase that contain nearly all the components needed to make a gun. Law enforcement officials said that the guns can’t be traced to a crime because they don’t have serial numbers.
Congress should adopt laws to expand background checks and tighten gun licensing laws, Biden said.
For the past two years, Gov. Chris Sununu has been on the defensive when it came to Second Amendment restrictions, vetoing 10 bills that would have closed gun show loopholes, created state waiting periods to buy a handgun and permitted judges to take guns away from those deemed to be dangerous.
So that means the ballistics tests they run on guns to tie them to crimes are bullshit?
Clicked too soon.
How exactly does a serial number on a gun tie it to a crime, anyway?
A few years back in some states, they passed laws requiring a test fire be put on file to be associated with the original
weaponfactory-delivered barrel with a given firearm’s serial number. Replacement barrels are not covered as far as I know.It doesn’t, it just tells you where it went in lawful commerce, and possibly if it was reported stolen.
I’m sure this will come as a shock, but there are people lying about this.
Every word gun-grabbers say is a lie. Every statement calculated to deceive in some way.
Their ignorance is their greatest strength.
Forced Masking Is Behavioral Science, Not Medical, And They’ve Been Playing Us The Whole Time
“Previously, in February 2019, AOC tweeted that her office was being flooded with “bigoted calls” and said it “forwards all the threats to Capitol Police to build files.”
How DARE you question mah authoritah !
Does she forward all her threats against the American people?
Meanwhile: Capital Police Shredder go BRRR
This just came up in youtube. Looks pretty dope – esp for the price. And looks like my Shield 2.0 and Sig 220 are available. May have to try it this summer. Will wait and see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mjw23aXZv0
I have a 1911 CoolFire trainer. I tried it a few times, but honestly found it to be more of a pain in the ass than it was worth. Opinions may vary, but I wouldn’t buy one without trying it first.
Thanks. Not sure if there’s much of an option for that given that it’s designed by weapon, but I’ll ask around at work.
If you’re ever in or around NoVA, I’d be happy to let you try mine.
Anything that makes dry practice more fun or engaging, is a good thing. I just never really clicked with this particular gizmo.
Do you have the laser targets with it, or just the base system? Shooting at things in the house with recoil and response seems like a major plus.
I think I have the laser. I’d have to look through my spare bedroom full of gun stuff…
Shooting at things in the house with recoil and response seems like a major plus.
I’m a believer in the following for dry practice:
Have a place where you do it, and only do it in that place. We use the garage. Take down whatever targets you are using when you are done. Don’t have any distractions – TV, whatever. There’s too many accidental discharges from people who do it in their house and pick up the gun, etc.
And, of course: Do not have any ammunition wherever you do dry practice. We have dummy rounds that we use to practice loading/unloading and clearing malfunctions.
The recoil gizmo sounds very interesting, though.
The video is pretty cool and the guy does emphasize safety and quadruple checking everything.
I like that it replaces the barrel with one that can’t take ammo. I may get one for Mrs. Dean’s new HK – they have them for VP9s. Sadly, my Sig P228 isn’t on their list. But the 1911 should fit my Para-Ordnance.
I still think its a good idea to only use it in one place. Just too easy to have a brainlock and pick up a gun you’ve been dry practicing with but is now loaded if you dry practice in your house.
Growing up we did not say prayers before dinner. We said “Check to see if it is loaded.”
It depends on the barrel type. Paras usually have a Clark/Para type ramped barrel. Other types are the original 1911 (non-ramped–rampis part of the frame) and the Wilson/Knowlin ramp.
I agree with all of that except the ‘taking dry-fire targets down when you’re not using them.’ It’s maybe a good idea from a safety standpoint, but if you’re dry-firing every day (and when I’m heavy into training, I’m dry-firing twice a day), it’s gonna get really cumbersome.
I also recommend only doing dry-practice with a gun that has been mechanically disabled. That’s one benefit of the CoolFire system – there’s no way it can take a live cartridge. I personally use these BarrelBlok things. If you’re short of cash, take a piece of string and run it through the barrel of your pistol and down through the magazine well. A ‘roped’ gun can’t chamber a live round, and the string won’t interfere with holstering.
So speaking of scientism and the religion of COVID, I listened this weekend to Heinlein’s Orphans of the Sky. It was a good listen and very reminiscent of the current social/political environment. In fact, in that story the scientists are the religious leaders.
The second thing, by youngest brother is a blathering idiot. He posted to his twitter that he thinks none of us can see that he was in the bathroom at work crying because his company relaxed the mask policy to highly recommended and that people aren’t wearing them anymore. He is vaccinated, but his leftist tendencies have sucked away all logic thought processes. He is a Branch Covidian.
Performative emotional displays are a popular new hobby.
It’s been decades since I read that.
+1 Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B
It was a fun listen. I was working on a chicken coop and pretty much listened to the whole thing. There was a lot of crossover to Douglas Adams. It seems as though DA got some ideas from the Muties.
You need a few dozen telephone handset sanitizers these days.
JFC
We are ripe for an invasion.
It’s funny because my dad has an arsenal that would keep out a small country, yet my youngest brother is a raging leftist asshole who is, as far as I can tell, afraid of his own shadow (not to mention guns). What he lacks in gratitude he makes up for in smug self-absorption.
Adopted? Or just swam up out of the shallow end of the gene pool?
Or maybe an outside donation.
He’s biological. Eh, he’s a self made anomaly. I think he has crawled so far up himself it isn’t funny. Long story short, we have a brother who is about 4 years older who was killed in a car accident about 10-years ago. We all took it hard. The youngest was in high school at the time and kind of lost himself. He has spiraled in a direction of seeking validation from whomever he can get it, so he chases any validation, when he gets it, he moves on. He is also a type-1 diabetic and has never really taken good care of his diabetes, so I’m sure that hasn’t helped.
Dude, sorry to hear that.
I will say that progressives all seem to share a need for constant external validation.
It’s very much his story. It this point, he has really shut himself out. He despises my dad, but my dad is a good man and puts up with the bullshit because he doesn’t want to lose another son. It’s really disheartening.
Yeah, sorry to talk shit about your brother. Blood and all that.
Sorry.
I am fortunate in that my younger brother is not that way. Once he and I were sitting in a gun shop drinking coffee and listening to a bunch of old men tell jokes and lies when one asked me “You are conservative, arent you?”
I said no. All of the old men stiffened up in alarm. I replied “I would have to move a good bit left to be considered conservative.”
My brother piped up “What he said”
All of the old men relaxed and started drinking their coffee again.
My brother that is just younger than me is a lot like I am, though he is a traditional conservative. I’m working the long game on getting him to come the the AnCap side of things. He gets pissed at the youngest brother a lot easier than I do. Our brother who died (yes, there are 4 of us, with 1 sister) was very much libertarian minded (he was a 19-year-old musician, but was big time anti-big government, as reflected in the songs he wrote).
A New Jersey man is in the hospital with COVID-19 — just five weeks after being vaccinated…the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine
Great. That’s the one I (reluctantly) got. I wonder if they’re giving some of us a placebo (saline) since I didn’t have any reaction from the shot. It’s all part of the continuing trials.
That OK, GA (I think) shut down their J&J vaccines after they had something like 18 people feel ill at one of their center(s).
I’d happily take a placebo if it gave me proof of vaccination.
I think a black market for credentials is where we’re headed.
^This^
No way in hell will I take any of. them.
Eh, I’m slightly more sanguine about ’em — I’m gonna wait for six or seven hundred million people to field-test ’em for me first before I make a decision.
Not that it really matters where I live, since the Canadian government can’t get its act together and get significant amounts of any vaccine into Alberta any time soon . . .
My boss asked me my plans in this matter. I should have told him to stuff it.
Work says they aren’t going to “require” it but who the hell knows any more. I can already envision the science-deniers getting the cold shoulder at the office.
” I can already envision the science-deniers getting the cold shoulder at the office.”
You say that like it is a bad thing.
Ha true.
But I was grasping for a pithy way to express what happens when your co-workers (or your boss) decide to make your life miserable.
he was in the bathroom at work crying because his company relaxed the mask policy
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[Indeed]
“I felt scared, intimidated, and violated,” he tweeted. “They knew my name and where I live. It was done on behalf of a congresswoman who advocates against police state tactics.”
As a matter of principle, I’ll stand on the ground that things like this should never happen. But, do I feel sorry for the guy or sympathize with him? No, not really. It’s pretty clear his only problem is that he was on the receiving end of this. If it were some righty or some libertarian, he’d be cheering it on.
And since he doesn’t appear to have learned, I hope the lesson gets repeated on him until he does.
“At long last, a Kamala mashup.”
https://twitter.com/demswatchdog/status/1381421688148127744
Re: Confusing a gun with a taser.
I believe it happened like that. I will give two examples.
1) There was once a spate of cars “losing their brakes” and people getting into accidents. It was found that often the person was unfamiliar with the car, and they pushed the gas thinking it was the brake. Once the person was “certain” they were pushing the brake, their mind’s autopilot took over and they just kept jamming their foot down.
2) On one of those morning talk shows, a doctor was giving the hosts some kind of shot. He gave one a shot, then gave one to the second host, and you could see the confusion on his face as he realized he had used the same syringe for both hosts.
In a high pressure situation, your mind will do messed up things. Even confuse a gun for a taser. But as a lot of you said earlier, the only way to guard against that, especially in a life or death situation, is to train, train, and train some more.
Agreed. Train and develop situational awareness. Develop a level of self-awareness that can help manage the visceral/instinctive response. Maintain a cool head. All easier said than done, but don’t the military do a hell of a lot of just that kind of training? I know it seems a counter-intuitive when we’re so opposed to “militarizing” the cops, but in that particular regard, if you want cops to respond effectively and safely, it might be an idea to train intensively.
Or don’t give the cops an option, you either carry a taser or a gun.
As much as I hate to give the damned English credit for anything, I do think that they have the right idea on policing.
The cops, both as individuals and as corporate organizations, have amply demonstrated that they are not willing to put in the energy to become competent shooters. So, the typical patrol cop should be armed with OC and Tasers, only. The department can have an armed police unit that can be deployed for high-contact situations.
I’m despairing again. Eeen my contryyy, we have a new “scandal” involving one specific example of standard corruption and grift being splashed all over the headlines, however, the responses are so dismally predictable. It’s either the establishment creeps saying that “lobbying” is a “normal part of democracy”, but that it’s bad unless you grift by the rules and somehow their by-the-book grifting is A-okay. The other response is just as dismally predictable, and is the twitter-loud left, opinion writers etc, painting this entirely as a partisan issue and a phenomenon purely of “capitalism” and the right. It’s true that, at it’s core, the Conservative party are plain old grift-friendly establishment people. The ability of the entirety of the moron spectrum to deflect from the root cause of the problems, and pathologically rationalize away the bad incentives is spectacular.
In other words, same old shit.
The ability of the entirety of the moron spectrum to deflect from the root cause of the problems, and pathologically rationalize away the bad incentives is spectacular.
Also known as human nature.
Recently someone posted an Edmund Burke quote from ‘Eugenics and other Evils’ that described the psychology of that rather well. I wish I could find it again but I have had too much to drink which makes me very lazy.
The idea is that long, flourished explanations tend to lull weak minded people into agreement whereas cutting to the heart of the matter and stating your point in few succinct words tends to shock those people and they will shy away from truth. I should have saved the quote.
Here you go:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25308/25308-h/25308-h.htm
Thank you Sir.
I am too lazy to scroll through it to find the quote. It is 185 pages.
Don’t think Burke was in any of the “Eugenics” quotes by Chesterton I shared – but he did show up a few times in “What’s Wrong with the World” (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1717/1717-h/1717-h.htm).
So work just dropped the bomb that we are expected to return to the office on June 1.
The couple people who expressed an opinion on it during my last meeting did not seem pleased.
I am not pleased either. For starters, because the entire “safety” theater remains in place. I am NOT going to be a happy camper if I have wear a disgusting wet mask for 9 or 10 hours a day and for 2+ hours of commute.
I could go on. ?
Oh that bites. I’m sorry.
It’s just batty.
The only person I would interact with in person is my boss. Everyone else I work with every day is spread around the world. I would literally have no reason to talk to anyone else in the office. They gain nothing by reducing my productivity in this manner.
I hope they come to their senses.
Remember Biden said “100 days, not forever”? It will be 100 days at the beginning of May.
It was 100 days (since the start of the outbreak) more than a year ago.
Yeah, we’re at about Day 400 of 15 days to slow the spread.
28th fortnight-versary.
It might be time to claim a medical exemption of some sort. Face diaper rash?
I’ve been wearing a mask at work every day since last April (not during the commute though). Don’t imagine they’re gonna be inspecting you though or making a big deal about folks in their individual offices – unlike being in a military facility – although lots of masks do slip during discussion – not to mention eating, and nobody says anything at this point.
Yikes! Sorry 🙁
If it’s not safe enough to be maskless while sitting in your cubicle, it’s not safe enough to be going into the office every day.
This times a thousand.
Sorry.
That sucks. I have to wear a mask for my 9 hour shift, and have been since last June. It’s sucks ass. I also have to log onto an app and certify that I have no symptoms and what my exact temperature is everyday before clocking in. They strongly “request” vaccination information be provided to HR. I’m a vax resister so far. I almost got the J&J, but I just can’t bring myself to inject an experimental drug to avoid some lousy flu that won’t really even harm me anyway. It’s just a hard pill for me to swallow, so to speak.
Our theater also includes a daily questionnaire. And that’s not to mention whatever nonsense the building owner we lease from cooks up.
“This is worst than the 1st night of the Minneapolis riots last May. Numerous stores have been hit around the area and there are not enough police – people keep returning to looted stores to finish off when cops move. Extremely chaotic and no one is going home.”
Lots of videos here:
https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon
I mean the timing and placement here of this incident is impressive.
I have a meat thermometer that had a probe which can be left in place while the piece is cooking, and an alarm can be set when it reaches a defined temperature.
The problem is it also has a ‘low level’ alarm that sounds when the meat is too cold.
It sounds exactly like the ‘at temp’ alert.
Sounds more like a BBQ thermometer – to maintain a range…
I can’t change the ‘low level’ value, and it’s below 60 degrees F.
Huh…seems odd..most meat is going to start out somewhere in the 32-60F range depending on if you let it come up to room temp or not (or close to it)
I’m just kvetching. The beeping annoys me until it heats up enough to stop. I’m not going to go hunting for a new thermometer over it.
Don’t put in the thermometer until it’s been in the oven a while.
And open the oven more than twice?
Yes
“CHIEF GANNON: “I was front and center at the protest, at the riot.”
QUESTIONERS: “Don’t do that… There was no riot.”
CHIEF GANNON: “There was… The officers were being pelted with frozen cans of pop, pelted with concrete blocks… an officer was hit in the head with a brick””
“QUESTIONER: “Will you commit to protecting protesters and the people of this city.”
CHIEF GANNON: “I am committed to protecting the peaceful protesters of this city every day.”
QUESTIONER: “Not yesterday.”
CHIEF GANNON: “Peaceful protesters.””
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1381665895286722569
They were nerf bricks I bet.
I think you mean Vikings Brick.
Bricks to the head are just an idea.
I believe that is called “Gaslighting”.
The effectiveness of the Dem propaganda campaign is demonstrated in the comments.
Ugh.
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Luckily I will be busy with real work.
Afternoon Glibs.
the Youtube has started recommending Henry V clips to me, and i must say the performance here is pretty dang good
If shakespeare aint your dig: here’s a (non-moby) song
Branagh’s Henry V is fantastic. So many great actors, and that long tracking shot after the battle of Agincourt, with Patrick Doyle’s marvelous score – superb!
“Pentagon scientists reveal a microchip that senses COVID-19 in your body BEFORE you show symptoms and a filter that extracts the virus from blood
Pentagon scientists working inside a secretive unit set up at the height of the Cold War have created a microchip to be inserted under the skin, which will detect COVID-19 infection, and a revolutionary filter that can remove the virus from the blood when attached to a dialysis machine.
The team at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have been working for years on preventing and ending pandemics.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9460389/Pentagon-scientists-invent-microchip-senses-COVID-19-body-symptoms.html
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, is this like the Hitler Game?
Mutant Super Soldiers go Rogue?
Horse-fucking-shit.
Can you imagine the hooting and shitflinging from the media monkeys if Trump had announced that?
This project seems like it will completed just in time to be shelved after wasting millions upon millions of dollars.
That money isn’t wasted. Its vacationing in the offshore accounts of defense contractors.
Odds on Fauci and company being Malthusians?
Also, odds on me letting ‘government scientists’ insert a microchip under my skin.
You say “microchip,” CDC says “pre-emptive medical demand reduction device.”
See my reference to the Burke quote above. That is a lot of gibberish to say ‘tracking chip’.
Exactly. If I had called it a “remote control killer chip” it would sound a lot scarier. It doesn’t have to heal you to reduce your need for medical attention.
Stop being such a Luddite and embrace the suck.
Ah, Mr. Suthen, I see you’ve covered both ends of the probability spectrum, so… 1 and 0, yes?
I didn’t realize it would be math class today! What do I win, Mr. Teacher?
How are you Sir? It is always good to see you around.
Thanks, Suthen! I’ll be around tomorrow, as well. I have a piece in the 9AM slot.
I started a new gig, so I’ve been buried at the bottom of the steep learning curve, but I’m starting to find my footing.
I’ve been lurking and writing – or at least, trying to keep up.
Also got the house under contract and once it’s sold, we’re looking at moving up near Miss Mojo and the KC Glibs.
Hope things are good in the bayou!
I have been trouble keeping up also but I am doing well, thank you.
We had 100 acres to plant. That has eaten up my time.
I tried to show up early to meet the planters but they beat me to the punch. I showed up to catch them burning the boxes the seedlings were packaged in. They do that so that you can’t count how many seedlings they actually brought.
Fortunately my brother had showed up in time and I just didnt see him. He had stepped out into the bushes to see a man about a dog. When he appeared out of the dark he told me “Don’t worry, I counted them. We are good.”
Those guys are amazing. They planted 100 acres with trees 8’x 10′ spacing in less than a day. Those guys are machines.
What you can do to help Brooklyn Park
This is utter bullshit. The boarded up Walmart is farther away than a much bigger grocery store (from most of the poor residents). Interestingly, the Walmart is a half mile from a Fleet Farm which has a shit ton of guns inside for sale. Wonder if they got looted?
Brooklyn Center was already a food desert before yesterday’s events
Oh, rly?
That maps shows a nearby town of Coon Rapids. Mucho problematico.
Bullshit or not the heart of his argument is that the people on whose behalf of the rioters were acting are suffering the most from the actions of the rioters. More up is down logic.
If you really want to help the people of those neighborhoods start shooting rioters.
Up is down.
In is out.
Black is Black!
Dude, it’s BC, not BP. The Walmart in BC is on Shingle Creek.
It’s still bullshit as there are tons of stores, even in the shithole called BC.
During the last riots, however, the assholes did make it to the Walmart on 81. Spawn texted me that they moved all the guns to the safes in the back and boarded up the store.
Oh good, I see we’re already at the stage in the “cops shoot black guy” story where people post pictures of the black guy with drugs and guns. That seems faster than normal.
Well, the internet has had a lot of practice.
I’m still waiting to hear what the warrant was for.
Yeah, lady cop is hosed, though. I mean, even without the lynch mob in the Twin Cities.
Aggravated burglary, I believe.
Some of the early reports were that the warrant was not for a felony. Isn’t aggravated burglary a violent felony? So this guy was a seriously bad egg.
It is a retard fight. Imagine Crusty the clown and his field of rakes but replace the rakes with giant, slippery piles of shit and replace Crusty with the criminal and the cop.
The SS Eastland disaster, colorized and in 4K@50 fps:
https://youtu.be/S0gkGYaXlKw
1915, 848 dead, and 20 feet from the dock and I’d never heard of it (the film enhancement is impressive too). Interesting but sad stuff.
That’s interesting; hadn’t ever heard of it.
Any idea why they used a voice synthesized text-to-speech program to do the narration? It’s fairly creepy.
Some channels where the creator has a bad or no grasp of English use those. Not sure if that explains it here though.
I guess that would make sense. The video had logos that implied production in the Netherlands, but as far as I know it’s almost vanishingly rare to find a Dutchman who can’t speak English fluently.
. . . it’s almost vanishingly rare to find a Dutchman who can’t speak English fluently.
Not true, sadly. The Spousal Unit’s (SU) extended family is in the Netherlands, and once outside of the major centres, English-speaking Dutchies are a lot harder to come by. We were once in a small town near Groningen and tried to buy some foodstuffs at the local supermarket, prior to the time when smartphones with translation software were available. If SU hadn’t’ve had rudimentary Dutch skills, we would’ve been hosed.
More recently, we blew out a tire on our rental car and found out that “curbside assistance” in the Netherlands isn’t exactly a thing, and then tried to get a local tire store to help us replace the tire. Hilarity did not ensue, though there were hijinx.
“Hilarity did not ensue, though there were hijinx.”
This depends on whether you are the party involved or just an observer. This is true for so many situations.
Yep, they exist.
I ran into one, of all places, at Amsterdam Centraal. He worked there, cleaning the bathrooms.
I went into the men’s room, and he said something to me in what I thought I was Dutch. I asked him for English or, switching to German, Deutsch, and then back in English that I didn’t know Dutch. He said something else and then walked away.
I learn something new every day!
Or, if they were my relatives, they feigned not knowing English. Frisians, pfft.
Did they photoshop smiles onto the faces of all those who drowned too?
Interesting. Thanks.
Hmm, it appears that the US Postal Service’s DNS is down?
They probably lost the address.
I wish there were a tumbleweed emoji.
ba DUMP pash!
Russia! Wait is that who we’re still blaming?
“Kolaković, Mindszenty, Saint Pope John Paul II, and all the great anti-totalitarian fighters had something in common: they knew they had to study and understand the enemy deeply, in order to resist and defeat him. Christian dissidents of the twenty-first century who face discrimination, ‘cancellation’, or ‘soft’ persecution on campuses, in newsrooms, on Twitter, or even in the office of the company’s Chief Diversity Officer, must bear in mind that they are not facing a political movement, but a rival religion. As Live Not by Lies makes clear, we are facing the zealots of a new sect with its own dogmas, clergy, and easily uttered anathemas, following in the footsteps of the Bolsheviks as the bloody missionaries of communism.”
https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/review/can-totalitarianism-be-soft-why-we-should-study-lenin/
“It was done on behalf of a congresswoman who advocates against police state tactics.”
Oh you poor, sweet, naïve little thing.
I doubt they are naive. They likely agree with that horrible bitch that nothing would be sweeter than a police state that cracks down on their political opponents. She publicly called for Trump supporters to be singled out, listed and persecuted. There is no way in hell they don’t know that.
$9k in government cheese if your loved one died due to covid. All you have to do is make sure the death certificate lists covid as the cause of death… and revised certificates are A-OK…
https://www.fema.gov/disasters/coronavirus/economic/funeral-assistance
What about funeral assistance from suicide caused by Covid lockdowns?
*for suicide*
9k?
That’s a bit excessive.
Our vets receive like $2000 allowance….so yeah
This is most 75% asian thing I’ve ever seen:
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1381654783942070272
Don’t be koi, show us your carvings.
ROFL
LOL
Heh, heh.
Thanks for the links Swiss.
See what I mean?
Ya.
Tonight, I feature a couple episodes of kings who should have stuck with singing, not kinging:
Part I, Henry VIII –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJtFnA_96ds
Part II, Frederick II of Prussia (aka “The Great”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58BS7NNHAf4