On the way to the draft watch party
A lot happened this week. The UCL semifinals are set, the Europa League got cut in half as well. And baseball is in full swing. Hockey is heating up. So what is the entire front page of ESPN about? The freaking WNBA draft. Which, if we’re being honest here, should be sponsored by Subaru and brunch. Because that’s their entire fanbase (of thousands)! Anyway, I guess I chose a rant instead of sports. Which I’m wont to do.
Textbook form
Aviation pioneer (and Buckeye) Wilbur Wright was born on this day. The low-flying Daytonian shares it with comedic acting legend Charlie Chaplin, HOF outfielder Paul Waner, Flemish historian Herman Uyttersprot, actor Spike Milligan, composer Henry Mancini, the pope who quit his job Benedict XVI, defensive back Dick “Night Train” Lane, “The Polish Prince” Bobby Vinton, singer Dusty Springfield, cager Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, football coach Bill Belichick, comedian Martin Lawrence, Mexican singer Selena, and red pilled MMA fighter Gina Carano.
Quality list right there. And now on to…the links!
Congratulations! I guess. Oh wait, nobody fucking cares. At least they shouldn’t in a civilized world where one should seek out the best possible employees, not specifically ones with certain bits hanging (or not hanging) between their legs. They need to focus more on a consistent strike zone than this dumbassery.
No, I don’t believe I will.
This bullshit doesn’t work anymore. Well, not here anyway. Enjoy your repackaged lockdowns, Michiganders and New Yaaawkers. I’m gonna be out on a jet ski this afternoon.
Welp, we’re getting close now. The riots are a mere days away. Any of you Glibs up that direction want a place to stay and wait it out? We got room here in Texas. And the aforementioned jet skis.
I kept waiting for the punchline but it never came. I think this dude is serious. Which makes it even better than satire.
Coming soon. Oh wait, it’s always been this way.
This is pretty shitty. I mean, it’s their right, I suppose. And it’s also my right to criticize it. I guess they’re afraid people will see the leadership of the group they so ardently support is a grifter extraordinaire.
Wait, this is just now happening? Why the fuck haven’t parents burned down every school in the city by now? Also, I get a kick out of the “tentative deal” to have people do 40% of their actual job the taxpayers are still footing the bill for. Here’s how you negotiate with these terrorists (and I don’t use that word lightly): “get back to work, in full, tomorrow or pack your shit because you’re all fired.” That’s it. That’s the negotiation. Force them to sue you and explain in front of all the parents why they think they have a right to continue getting paid to sit at home and fuck off.
Every single person in this story except one is an asshole. And he’s generally an asshole as well, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t ask a legitimate question, that Americans deserve to know the answer to, as a part of congressional oversight.
Man, this would be awesome! But it will probably never happen. Shit, we still have some dry counties. In the 21st century!
Here. Enjoy a redneck song. That’s what the songwriter called it. Anyway, it’s just a lovely tune.
Now get out there and have a great day and an even better weekend, friends!
I thought the punchline was that it already reeked of pot and was crawling with potheads.
It will be a good change from the people that are reeking like piss and have their hobo clothes covered with semen…
“And young and relatively healthy people who have had Covid-19 before should still get a vaccine to prevent reinfection, according to research published Thursday in the journal Lancet Respiratory Medicine.”
Bullfuckingshit…fuck you you lying bitches.
??THIS!!!!!!!!??
A libertarian in real life friend of mine, one of the very few, who’s had Covid already and is in fine health got vaccinated so he wouldn’t get hassled when traveling. I realize it’s a personal choice but man was I disappointed. I kept my mouth shut though but there’s absolutely no need.
My son just got word from his coach that college athletes are going to have to get vaccinated by August 1st to be eligible to play in the fall. We’re pissed as he’s already had it and no one will have liability for issues down the road.
Yep. The lack of liability for requiring the vaccine is allowing all the powers that be, big or small, to flex their authoritarian.
The drug companies are absolved but I wonder about orgs that require it. Are they shielded somehow?
They’re sure acting like it. If they’re not, what they’re doing is insane.
I’m not sure they can be shielded for requiring a vaccine that was only approved under an emergency use authorization.
^^ This. I believe RC Dean has touched on that
Yea I know a few libertarians and fellow travelers that see through all this as a naked power play and they’re lining up to get the shot. I guess the desire to not be hassled is a strong motivator but how can you see what’s happened in a year and think that it won’t get even worse?
I’ve had big fights with my wife about not wearing masks when we go for walks in the park and not wanting to get the shot. She didn’t like it when I quoted Gandhi to her “be the change you want to see in the world.”
I’ve embarrassed my wife a few times recently because if this. I need to remember that Gandhi quote. I have been vaccinated (much to my chagrin) and some usher lady was trying to make a deal of it, so I pushed back. Wife wasn’t happy. She argues that it is the lady’s job and she is just doing what she is asked to. Oof. That was a gut punch because I thought we were on the same page about things.
Ditto. Wife is more anti-mask and anti-shot than I am, but I embarrass her in public when I push the boundaries.
*shrug*
Some things are more important than not feeling embarrassed.
That’s what I have tried to explain, but it just causes tension. I am to the point that I just try to keep my mouth shut about covid-theater and the whole deal, because my blood pressure rises when I start talking about it.
Hey, what’s wrong baby?
They are so desperate to get this in everyone. It only strengthens my anti-covidvax position.
I saw a headline today that infuriated me. Didn’t even want to click through to the fucking article, and sure as shit not searching for it to find the exact wording, but the basics were:
“Rise in suicide cases in long haul COVID patients troubling.”
It looks like everything we used to believe/be told regarding immunity and virology has gone out the window now that the politicians have an agenda, huh?
^This^
I doubt any of them can explain what a virus is.
It’s bullshit and potentially very dangerous advice. Never get a vaccine for any illness if you recently had that illness – the potential for the vaccine to reactivate that illness is very high.
the potential for the vaccine to reactivate that illness is very high
Feature, not a bug. Gotta keep those case numbers up.
“Where does it get to?” Jordan replied after time expired. “When it comes down, what number do we get our liberties back? Tell me the number.”
A number? I’ll have to consult the
modelOracle and get back to you.Oracle says you’re no longer under support and need to upgrade.
That will be $2,000,000
[golf clap]
You need to use an Oracle supercluster. Oracle needs the whole rack to be tuned for our use.
Just one?
You must have a small install. We’ve got six, or eight, or something, and that’s not counting the older boxes.
The government org purchased two. They didn’t seek input from the developers or DBAs before the purchase. When they finally told us, we told them it was overkill for our needs. They couldn’t cancel the contract. We suggested trying to “sell” them to another office, but that was shot down because it would make management look bad. They then sat in storage for months because the server rooms needed upgrades for power and cooling to support them. It then took another month to install and configure before turning over to the DBAs. When we finally used them, they were fast, but it was like buying a gaming computer when all you do is browse the internet.
Yeah… we’re backending a couple of statewide self-service applications, so we get a lot of transactional activity, and loads of complaints if it’s slow.
Excellent.
Never you little pleb. MWU HA HA HA HA!
Magic Eight Ball says ask again (and again, and again, ad infinutum).
“The vaccines have saved thousands of lives already,” Emory University executive associate dean of medicine Dr. Carlos del Rio told CNN. “We’ve seen mortality in the US decline despite cases going up, and that’s because we’re vaccinating people.”
Thousands? Why not millions?
If the cases are still going up with the vaccines, then they’re not really vaccines.
That was what I was going to say. If people are still getting the disease after the shot, then the vaccine isn’t working. His comment is nonsensical.
^^^THIS^^^
Especially when they tell you that you will need another vaccine every year…
This has become a racket now.
We should just nuke Beijing to kill the CCP for doing this to the world already. Then do Washington D.C. just to get rid of that evil too.
Fuck that. Do DC first. China didn’t take us over. The swamp fucks sold us out to them. Clear them out first . Then we man up, and put the CCP in their place. They refuse to stand down? Then test out the stealth capabilities of our over priced bombers.Never mind. Let’s do it your way. If DC goes down first, China, Russia, and Mexico would probably invade before we can organize.
Hey… I played that game!
You are the only other person I know who has.
I will be the second.
Three of us have played, if we find a fourth, we can have a full game. (I know you can play with as few as two.)
For many of those games the minimum was not enjoyable. Part of the challenge is coordination between allies.
I’ve played it!
Hello? Is anyone still here? (sigh)
I missed that one. I had stopped board gaming by then. Sounds pretty good from the reviews.
I was never asked to play any of these sorts of military games, because my first action, regardless of what side I was on, was to nuke Moscow, Beijing & Shanghai, Pyong Yang, Tehran & Qom, Paris, London, Washington D.C, NYC, and Hartford CT, in that order.
Evil must be eradicated!
The civil war optional rule in Axis & Allies?
Are there nukes?
we haven’t seen cases go up. look at any graph.
But….you still have to wear a mask.
Masks don’t work. Lockdowns don’t work and apparently the vaccines don’t work either. Honestly I would not be surprised if the cooties have run their course and they are just classifying any illness now as Covid. They are such lying sacks of shit I would not put anything past them.
and they are just classifying any illness now as Covid
Where do you think cases of flu A and B have gone? The PCR test is horseshit and the creator said it was not intended to be used to diagnose illness.
Tom Woods had a guest on recently who was either the inventor of or a massive contributor to the PCR test. He said that those tests can be dialed in to pick up ridiculously small concentrations of some particle. This is useful for various scientific applications, but yea, it’s useless for diagnosing illness.
Billions of lives saved or created!
This conflicts with the data I heard this morning that the infection rate among the vaccinated was near zero.
If that were true, cases would not be going up among those who took the vaccine.
Why do I suspect that the testing regime sucks?
The latest numbers I saw were about 6000 reinfections out of 66m vaccinated. And of those were ~450 hospitalizations. And of those, they were unclear when they got covid relative to being vaccinated.
The reinfection/potential carrier narrative is an absolute lie being told to continue controlling lives.
Well one of the vaccines was pulled after the handful of clotting issues. No one may die without permission!
And the rate of clotting was actually less than would be expected among the general population sans vaccine, and the CDC admitted they have nothing linking the clots to the J&J vaccine. It seems just an excuse to push the mRNA vaccines over the traditional J&J vaccine.
traditional J&J vaccine
The J&J is not a traditional attenuated virus vaccine either (I had thought it was as well):
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-does-the-johnson-johnson-vaccine-compare-to-other-coronavirus-vaccines
It’s a viral vector vaccine, using another, harmless virus to piggyback the payload into your cells.
Our problem is that people are morons and have completely lost the ability to do real risk management. If you get your information from the dnc operatives with bylines, all you hear is that the Kung Flu, which should never be called that because it is racist to blame the CCP for foisting this plague upon humanity, is the last sign of the apocalypses, and we now need to let the tyrants finally take over to save us all.
I can’t believe how many people with little to no risk whatsoever from this shit are willing to sell their freedoms away for an obviously false promise of some security that nobody can deliver. I guess this is what you get when people have been indoctrinated to depend on daddy government to parent for them and keep them safe.
Fucking stupid will always win, it feels like.
Well, there is an awful lot of it around.
In Michigan they’re testing the fuck out of healthy kids. To play any sport, every kid, 13-19 years old, needs to be tested at least once a week.
It’s insane.
My 12 year old is back at home after one week in person since he played in a hockey tournament last weekend and one of the kids tested positive this week. Since this is a travel team, and he’s the only one from this town on the team, he’s the only kid in his class distance learning. Every day it’s more frustrating that my wife is so resistant to go full homeschool.
Run, do not walk, straight the fuck out of Michigan.
The worthless, corrupt establishment has no intention of ever getting back to normal. Once they get the yoke on you they never take it off. You have to cast it off.
Bingo.
Yep.
A diversity study finds Major League Baseball with slightly lower scores for racial and gender hiring but earning bonuses for social-justice initiatives and hiring milestones
I can continue not caring for baseball. And hopefully wokeball dies.
I kept looking to find out how much of a bonus they earned but found no figure.
Attaboys from SJWs aren’t a bonus. Bonuses have a dollar sign and a number.
At my company, it’s a few hundred dollars. I’d imagine you’d have to add a couple zeroes for a professional sports organization.
Short of golf I would think baseball has the oldest and most conservative fan base out there. I doubt they’re loving this shift and hopefully they’ll vote with their dollars accordingly.
Baseball is something that our demographic grew up with. Younger folk don’t get it. There’s a reason that most of the young stars come from shit-holes. Soccer-Moms want their kids to play soccer. Soccer is lame. Less kids involved in sports plays along with the plan. There’s a reason that those kids that make it to the Little League World Series are becoming more arrogant and terrible, year by year. They are the kids whose parents can afford the expense. The original Karen was a “Baseball Mom”!
Adding some anecdata to this, I could sign my 3 year old up for soccer skills clinics this summer if I were so inclined. I forget whether she could play in a club next fall or the fall after, but either way, she could be playing competitive soccer before starting kindergarten if we were so inclined.
On the other hand, softball starts at 7 or 8 and travel softball at 9 or 10.
IMO, it’s not that baseball/softball has gone away as a sport. It has maintained its position. Soccer has gone nuts, and the soccer moms are eating it up because “little Johnny is gonna be a sports star.” I’ll skirt around my cultural rant by simply saying that some people have completely done away with unstructured time for their young kids, replacing it with increasingly demanding organized sports or other extracurriculars.
Shit, Dude. I hitchhiked to my All Star practices when our family moved across town. 20 miles, Bro. Making that team meant everything to me. I was 12 years old. I kept playing and made another team the next year. I had to ride my bike down hill 7 miles and then uphill just so I could play. When I was scouted my parents were like “Whatever”. Most parents would be over the moon about that sort of news. Free College?
To be clear, every kid on her recreational team has the same opportunities at age 3. My point was more about the programs available to pre-K kids for soccer these days.
Granted, my kid is pretty exceptional at soccer (she scored 15 goals one game, averages 3 or 4 goals per game), but that isn’t saying much at 3 years old. She has more focus than the other kids, and will likely regress to the mean over the next 2 or 3 years.
Haven’t you seen the latest. MLB dropped from 47 to 12 in net favorability among Republicans in a month.
Yup, they’ve managed to make themselves less popular among Republicans than the NFL.
I gave up on baseball, football(still hurts…come on XFL), and basketball a few years ago. Fuck all of them.
I haven’t watched a hockey game in a year. It’s odd, but I don’t miss it at all.
I still peek at the scores. I can’t help it.
Granted, I already hated the progs, but I superfly-TNT hate them for ruining sports for me.
I’ve followed the Cubs since I was a little boy, can’t even count the number og games I’ve been to at Wrigley and elsewhere, including multiple playoff games. TBH I don’t really even know if they have a team this year. I got to see them finally win the WS and interest started to tail off after that, but now I just have no interest in watching any sport except football.
…and you call yourself a Minnesodan?!
I watch, but have to mute pre-game (usually I jump to the game right at puck drop) so I don’t have to hear all the bullshit. Then its hockey and I move away from it during intermission. Its in my blood, I cannot not watch it.
#Me too. Was going to try baseball again this year but MLB talked me out of it.
I think I’m going to cancel my cable altogether and use the savings to up my internet speed.
We cut cord about seven years ago. Here’s what we do now:
$5/month (donation only) – Locast – anything you can pick up on antenna for your live locals. If you don’t pay the $5 you get an ad every 45 minutes or so.
$5/month – Hulu – basically get you any broadcast series on demand
$15ish – rotating HBO and Netflix
That covers everything we need. The only sports I watch are euroball and hockey and I sponge off my brother’s cable log in for those.
Forgot to mention, the big bonus for these is that you don’t need any equipment, don’t need to wire cable, etc. Just use a roku, firetv, apple tv and you’re set.
There’s also Pluto, Tubi, and IMDB for free streaming options as well.
I congratulate MLB and the NFL for causing SP and me to give up watching sports after two lifetimes of extreme fandom. We suddenly find we have more time for other things, so I can’t see us going back.
Crash. Burn. Faster, please.
Yup. I’ve been watching disc golf to get my sports fix. Their coverage is low key, sport focused, and devoid of most of the human interest bullshit. The most activist they get is donating to charity when a player hits the basket off the drive on certain holes. What does that charity support? Getting kids involved in disc golf.
The coverage is a bit cheesy at times, it’s usually a pair of players talking through the round, but it’s a breath of fresh air after decades of ESPN.
The NFL owned my Sundays. I use to pay to go to MLB and NHL games. They had my attention during playoffs. Now I have more money and time to do other things. I still watch other sports sporadically (mostly rugby and Gaelic football).
At least 21 states have recorded at least a 10% rise in daily average positive cases of Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University data Thursday, demonstrating that the fight against the pandemic is far from over.
The casedemic continues apace, and curiously in places with the most tyrannical leadership.
Far from over.
They shut down Ontario and Quebec. 20 million people told to go to bed without supper.
Democrats have shitty immune systems.
Never seem to hear much about hospitalizations and death rates…just “cases”. Wonder why?
The Democrats and the media are taking the high road, and would much prefer not to be seen standing on top of a pile of bodies.
HOLY SHIT! ACTIVE SHOOTER! ACTIVE SHOOTER!
As metrics go, ‘cases’ is easier to make up and harder to verify.
Any of you globs up that direction want a place to stay and wait it out?
This glob thinks Chauvin will absolutely be found guilty of manslaughter, that won’t be good enough, riots start and the Guard rolls in. Lots of damage, but not like last May.
But I’m staying mobile.
I think will listen to Low Life today. What a fantastic album. Thanks, Sloopy!
You can always head down here. We can put the entire Bernard Sumner catalogue on endless loop (except the Bad Lieutenant stuff), we’ll hang out on the lake, eat some good food, and be very far removed from all the stupid shit going on.
Sounds excellent.
I will say, being in Terlingua for a week was a dusty pleasure. Looked like 2019. I’m glad y’all have a mostly sane populace!
I think I am going to be running a shotgun over to my sister today or tomorrow. Even if she is a hopeless proggie, she should be prepared to defend her new home.
Agree with Tundra. Chauvin is going to be guilty of something. But there will be riots anyhow.
“The lifting of the mandate does not diminish the importance of wearing a face mask,” Sununu said, noting that numbers remain high across the state. “We ask that people continue to take steps to protect their own health, the health of their family and friends, and the health of their community.”
Yes, of course. All good Germans do what’s best for the Reich, even when there is no longer a gun at their heads.
Even though I personally believe the vaccines are gas-lighting, up here the Government fucked it up so bad that we are basically at the same place that we were a year ago. Total shut down again. It still won’t be enough to oust THE HAIR THAT WALKS AS A MAN. 1982 was a dark chapter in our history.
Yeah, it is amazing that Prime Minister Ski Instructor has made it this long. What a turd.
Joe Biden’s America
A gunman opened fire outside and inside a FedEx facility near Indianapolis’ main airport Thursday night, killing eight people, wounding several others and sending witnesses running before taking his own life, police said.
Peace, love and healing.
Or something.
Must not be a white guy or it’d be all over the head line.
They haven’t released the type of gun used either . . . Several local websites all say exactly that. Does it matter what type of gun he used? 8 people are dead you heartless bastards. But even the local media will make it a push to “do something”
I read one account of a witless calling it a submachine gun.
Was it one of these? If so I am totes jelly, I want one.
Sounds like they didn’t catch him yet – so there is still hope.
Did he reanimate after putting a bullet through his brain?
“Witness claims man who opened fire on FedEx facility was a dangerous Lich”
Thanks for the lede trashy, that should get my quota of articles submitted today.
I didn’t read it close enough.
McCartt said he believes the gunman killed himself as officers encountered him. No police officer fired, he said.
That is kind of hedging, like they aren’t sure yet.
Sounds personal/postal.
We’ll be seeing a lot more shit like this, just because everyone’s mental health is massively fucked after a year of house arrest. Don’t think that the Progs aren’t aware of that little side benefit, either.
Could it be that they thought Biden would bring the end times and all the proggie chosens would ascend to socialist heaven? Now their dreams are dashed and they’re lashing out.
^
Do you see what’s wrong with America today? We’ve privatized going postal!
Yeah, the socons are feeling their oats now that The Capital of the World™ has embraced reefer madness. I expect to see a lot more articles like this in the coming days and weeks.
Tucker had that Berenson dude on the other day claiming that pot can cause you to eat someone’s face off.
Yeah, OK.
I’d rather deal with potheads than drunks any day of the week. The right’s obsession with weed is bizarre.
It’s a small group on the right that still cares. I know a boatload of people that identify as republicans and none of them give a shit about weed. Only the ones that get elected seem to care. Must be a money thing.
There are plenty of boomer Republicans who are still anti-pot.
Pat Mcafee says it better than I could
William F. Buckley
Thomas Sowell
Charles Murray
Walter Williams
You sir know your shizz…
Thomas Massie
Rand Paul
The Capital of the World™
Is that a real thing people say? OFFS!
I used to see it on those lightpole banner thingies that business associations put up.
Nobody says it, and I haven’t seen it in ages, probably since the Giuliani era.
Yesterday I got N’Yawkersplained what A New Yorker’s View of The World was, so this seems to fit the theme.
Tucker’s alright about certain subjects but his neo-con tendencies really shine bright from time to time. Wish he’d give up the fake laugh and the UFO nonsense. It’s cool that he invites people from the other side on his show and lets them (mostly) speak their piece. Maybe he’s like Shapiro, more happy in indignance rather than principles.
Nobody’s perfect and he makes no claim to being a libertarian. When weighed on the good/bad scale he’s mostly good which is miles better than most of the MSM scum today.
I like his fake laugh. He usually applies it in the right places. E.g. in response to extreme derp.
It was really telling that his “Woke Sherpa” stabbed him in the back last year. Shame, I thought she was really cute. Just goes to show my taste in women.
I have no idea what this is. I wasn’t watching him last year.
She accused him of #metoo but it came to nothing and she tucked tail. I know he’s a TV personality but come on. Really?
I hadn’t caught that: Cathy something? She was tiresome anyway.
I don’t get the pot thing or the UFO nonsense but that sounds like a fair assessment. He and Mark Levine are the only ones I bother watching. The other networks make me want to retch.
I remember being told that Tucker is anti drugs because he had someone close that was negatively impacted (death) and had relatives in law enforcement. People with those background characteristics tend to be irrational about pot use, cause all drugs are DA DEVIL.
The NY Post is thick with those types. They’ve been relentlessly pushing against pot.
I think you lost this one, guys. *shrugs*
Tucker admits to having smoked pot in his youth, and he was a Deadhead, so other recreational substances in his past are likely too. There’s no more fervent drug warrior than a former user.
Never have done them, but I never understood the drive some have to deny others this even though I have tragedy in my immediate circle related to drugs. My only expectation is that users accept the same reasonable limitations we put on alcohol consumption. Get as fucking high as you want at home. Then again, the worst drug out there to me is the cell phone. The fucking addicts to social media can’t be bothered to follow any kind of safety rules when on the road, so there maybe really is no solution.
That’s why I stopped watching broadcast TV a couple of years ago. You tube (not so much anymore) and Bitschute and the others are your friend, Friend.
The riots are a mere days away.
But will they be better in Minneapolis or Philadelphia?
Minneapolis is my best guess.
DC is going to have a some good hard peaceful protesting. I’m sure no unarmed people will be executed by the capitol police. Must be nice to be a protected class.
? Great opening to my favorite album of theirs.
Ugh, I lied. Brotherhood is my favorite.
Carry on.
Stinging rebuke
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has mocked Chelsea Clinton for accusing him of discouraging Republican men from getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
In response, Carlson said, “Our body, our choice,” a slogan often used by women who support reproductive rights.
On April 14, Clinton posted a tweet mentioning that Carlson’s show remains active on Facebook even though his broadcasts and its page spread disinformation about the vaccine.
“Especially troubling given Republican men are currently most likely to say they’re not interested in being vaccinated,” Clinton wrote.
In response, Carlson mocked Clinton on the Thursday installment of his show.
“Internationally renowned humanitarian and intellectual Chelsea Clinton has had about enough of this show, so she’s called today for Facebook to shut us down,” Carlson said. “Why? Because we asked obvious questions about the coronavirus vaccine.”
Bum fight.
“Please corporate overlords, ban those I disagree with.”
-Chelsea Clinton
“MOOOOOOOOOOOOM! TUCKER CARLSON IS BEING MEAN TO ME! DISAPPEAR HIM!”
I hope Carlson wins this one. Sure, he’s a jackass. But Chelsea Clinton is a despicable human being.
Hey! She is highly qualified to engage in discourse. She has loads of experience. Her adoptive father was president and her mom was the most qualified candidate ever!.
Don’t forget her experience at NBC and on boards for various organizations. Those job opportunities mysteriously dried up after 2016.
He keeps asking the same two questions any sane person would.
“If the vaccines work, why would vaccinated people still need to wear masks and avoid going out in public?”
“If vaccines don’t work, why would I put it in my body?”
The mainstream and Fauci attack him without ever addressing the questions.
Yeah, fuck her and her Mother’s horse cock that she rode in on.
Wheeeee.
Tales for the Grandkids.
Baseball birthdays.
#1 Big Poison, as covered by sloopy.
#2 This is what an eventual HoF career looks like, Nolan Arenado, in year 9 and already at 40.8 WAR. Its not a slam dunk, he is 30 so could fall off a cliff. But 2019 was his peak so far, so not quite yet.
#3 Dutch Leonard – and with that, we are done with anyone breaking 20 WAR (Leonard was 36.9).
Carlson has also said that the vaccine may not be as effective as some claim since infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci recommends that vaccinated people continue to wear face masks. Carlson had a similar reaction to Pfizer’s recent announcement that people may require a third vaccine 12 months after their second dose in order to maintain immunity.
You can’t ask those obvious questions! Take the shot. Wear the mask. Obey the orders. Sit quietly with your hands folded in your lap and await the All Clear.
That’s gonna be a long ass wait.
Dave Groehl and Mick Jagger team up for a fine anti vax song. What’s that, they shit on people that don’t want to get the vaccine and that think the deep state is a thing?
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/mick-jagger-dave-grohl-team-pandemic-anthem-77047856
That’s some fine antirebellion right there…” But there seems to be hope. Jagger looks ahead and sees a “garden of earthly delights” when vaccines are administered and lockdown ends.”
That pot article, didn’t it say something about affecting brain function?
Jagger I can see. That fucker has lived about a hundred lives but Grohl? Fuck him.
Are you talkin’ ’bout his generation?
They won’t get fooled again?
Or are they 2,000 light years from home?
Grohl’s moved into Nickelback territory with that “Waiting on a War” song. It’s a shame.
Among the last sticking points, according to the union, were accommodations for teachers with health challenges, the difficulties of limiting close contacts in high schools where students switch classes regularly and the union’s desire for the city to open vaccine eligibility to those 16 and older.
No person under the age of 50 and/or not having some immunodeficiency or other comorbidity should be taking this
gene therapyvaccine.“get back to work, in full, tomorrow or pack your shit because you’re all fired.”
Word.
And then there’s people like this…
Wow…
No Sex was forthcoming for the subject…
He didn’t quantify sex with a partner, which I assumed meant his solo sessions…
Maybe there was going to be a partner. Not sure if duct tape would also be an option.
SHE PUTS ON THE LOTION OR SHE GETS THE HOSE!
I hope Carlson wins this one. Sure, he’s a jackass. But Chelsea Clinton is a despicable human being.
No such thing as a “win”. The people who think Chelsea Clinton is anything other than functionally retarded will tell themselves she totally pwned that crazy white supremacist hater.
Same for Team Carlson.
I know Chelsea Clinton is the daughter of Hillary and Janet Reno!
“Your time expired, sir,” Waters said, raising her voice to be heard. “You need to respect the chair and shut your mouth.”
Pwnd. //jk
Fauci then began what was likely another nonanswer with, “I can’t give you —” before Waters started speaking, much to the dismay of Jordan.
You can’t give us much of anything at all can you, you dishonest/ignorant garden gnome?
Since I am now aware that cheese is racist, I was thinking what can be done. Do you remember the days of video rental stores? The problem videos were in an enclosed area with a curtain and signage warning of content. Regulars could browse without worry they would encounter something offensive.
Maybe grocery stores should adopt a similar policy. Racist foods can be moved to a separate section at the sides so regulars won’t encounter these items. As awareness increases and demand drops, the items can be removed entirely. In time space will clear to move the next tier of problem products over. Eventually stores will only have non-racist, non-allergenic, non-GMO, organic, fair-trade, minority-produced, 5th-level vegan products.
Dairy products in general are bigoted because many minorities lack the gut composition to digest them correctly. We’re all going to be eating ground locust paste by the time this is all over.
“…and the locust and wild honey were his food.”
Actually a person develops lactose intolerance if they stop eating dairy soon after being weaned. If a person grows up eating diary they don’t generally develop lactose intolerance.
So it’s due to white privilege then? That makes it twice as bad.
Mark it as “whites only”.
I’m still baffled why the same people who trumpet that “Science is Real!” are anti-GMO.
Somehow eating GMO is harmful but injecting GMO is SCIENCE!
Just like 99.9% of non-“vaccinated” people…
Cases of COVID-19 are extremely rare among people who are fully vaccinated, according to a new data analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Among more than 75 million fully vaccinated people in the US, just around 5,800 people reported a “breakthrough” infection, in which they became infected with the pandemic coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated.
The numbers suggest that breakthroughs occur at the teeny rate of less than 0.008 percent of fully vaccinated people—and that over 99.992 percent of those vaccinated have not contracted a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
And what are the numbers over the same timeframe for unvaccinated people?
But THIS IS SUPER CONTAGIOUS and horrible – even if you don’t DIE you’ll get long-haul (at about the same likelihood of death)!!!!
Two goddamn ships at the outset and not even half on board ever got the bug at all.
Crap. I’ve aged out of riots. What’s a middle-aged man to do this weekend for fun and profit? Plant a garden? Change the oil in the truck? Decisions decisions…
I may burn some things … in the firepit.
I’ve got this weekend free, but the following weekend I put my new dog through her first hunt training.
I’ve been starting a raised bed garden, but some scalawag keeps adding soil to it at night when I’m asleep.
The plot thickens…
Night soil?
Dammit. Beat me to it.
White Woke Narcissism Knows No Bounds
Much has been written about the Woke religion. Years ago, Shelby Steele identified the phenomena of white guilt. This is behind much of the white Woke excusing the rioting and looting that took place after the George Floyd incident because of what they called blacks “enduring years of racial injustice.” On one level, it demonstrates the soft bigotry of low expectations in that blacks are held to a lower standard and not expected to follow the rule of law and protest peacefully. On another level, the white Woke, being aware of the racism of their forebears, can have their guilt expiated by excusing criminal behavior and supporting Leftist policies. All of this feels good, but it doesn’t do good.
Orthodox Catholics know how good it can feel after certain trips to the Confessional. You go in with a 500 lb. gorilla on your back and leave light as a feather. With the white Woke, expiation of guilt restores a kind of moral authority that was lost through slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining. They are imputed a certain kind of righteousness that causes them to become a part of the Woke Church, and, thus, stand in contradistinction to the non-Woke, what Hillary Clinton referred to as the “basket of deplorables.”
Belonging in the white Woke pays huge emotional dividends. The orthodox Catholic is gratified to learn in the Holy Writ that she is a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation (1 Peter 2:9); the white Woke feel good about themselves in knowing that they are not racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic, etc. They can hold their heads high as they sip their lattes at their local Starbucks and read The New York Times. It’s an identity by negation, and a moral superiority is cultivated that results in virtue signaling.
This, over and over. Hoffer identified this trait among true believers decades ago.
“It’s no accident that the size and scope of the U.S. government grew significantly when (liberal) women got the right to vote. The less fortunate became their children and progressive policies the means to address their deprivation.”
I seem to remember someone on this board making a similar point earlier this week…
I’m still sitting on a start of an article on this topic. I’m not sure I want to poke that particular bear because no matter the amount of disclaimer I put at the front, it’s still a whole lot of me generalizing based on sex, which gets contentious.
People who study demographics hardest hit.
Tedious misogynist is tedious.
I resent that! I pride myself on being a misanthrope, not a misogynist!
Considers responses, decides creep isn’t worth the effort.
“Creep”; now that’s accurate.
I find the argument that female suffrage was causal of anything specious. Horace Mann and John Dewey were shitheels of the highest order, responsible in large part for the major problems of our educational system, and they both appear pretty male to me. And female suffrage itself was voted into being by a large majority of males, so if it’s the root of much evil, what does that say of the people who enacted it? If the answer is something like “gullible dupes” then it really does start to look a lot like misogyny.
Put another way, correlation is not causation. Female suffrage was a progressive goal; the progressive movement has been on the march for almost 150 years now. The only thing that really might be causally linked to female suffrage is enacting Prohibition and even that is hard to argue since polling and demographic analysis weren’t the same in the 1920s as they are today. Plus, there were plenty of male Prohibitionists.
I find the argument that female suffrage was causal of anything specious.
Me, too. I find it amusing on kind of the same basis as conspiracy theories. There’s a certain post hoc flavor to it.
I think there’s something in the demographics data that speaks to some difference. That men and women in the same community, same socioeconomic stratus, same household vote noticeably differently points to something being different. Is the difference nature or nurture? I dunno, but I hesitate to heap it all in one bucket or the other.
My likely-never-to-be-written article was going to theorize that a difference in nature results in differing voting priorities between men and women, but such differences can be magnified or attenuated based on nurture and by experience.
The implication that women ruined this country is trolling at best. Fascists ruined this country.
I find any argument claiming that men and women are fundamentally the same ON AVERAGE to be equally specious. I think there are many interesting analyses that can be done looking at male vs. female behavior/viewpoint in aggregate; ie, looking at the slight deviation in the peak of largely overlapping Bell Curves. On an individual level, you can find men and women with identical viewpoints and viewpoints that cover the whole spectrum. However, democracy doesn’t look at people on an individual level, it deals only in Bell Curves. What’s the overall effect of drastically increasing the franchise? I don’t think anyone can say, but IMO opinion there’s work to be done showing that it does nothing. Imagine giving the franchise to convicted felons or illegal immigrants or teenagers 13+; that would shift things somehow. Is it good? Bad? Frankly, from a high level, value judgements are meaningless, it is what it is. The problem lies in majoritarian rule without a backstop for individual rights, which was the plan all along. Women’s suffrage didn’t “ruin” anything anymore than the franchise for any other group “ruins” things. The problem lies in the human condition and the nature of how we organize ourselves.
Q, you have a persistent, ongoing pattern of posting misogynistic statements. This particular theme – women voting is the source of most ills – is one you’ve posted multiple times, most recently Monday, but it’s hardly the only theme. There are always a few mouth breathers that jump in all “har har, yeah!” so of course you persist.
Typically, I just ignore it and treat it as the price I have to pay to have a place to talk about libertarian ideas and be part of a libertarian community.
But fuck it, the price is getting too high.
Apology not accepted.
Yeah i find it distastful. I think they’ve done studies and the thing that female suffrage did was double the voter base. Husbands and Wives tended (and still do) to duplicate each-others votes. the rest was marginal.
The primary reason in my mind for expanded suffrage is that the rules still apply whether you can vote on them or not, so why shouldn’t you get a vote? The social contract is bullshit enough, but taking suffrage away from someone now means they get no direct say whatsoever (not that voting is much of a say, but ceteris paribus not being able to vote is even less).
The primary reason against any kind of suffrage in my mind is that it almost always consists of people trying to make fewer rules that apply to themselves and more rules that apply to others.
Women don’t vote in unison so singling them out for scrutiny here doesn’t really make much sense. “Single white female professional with a college degree” starts adding up to predictive power in terms of voting but all of those qualifiers can be treated as variables and most of the other permutations still have high predictive power. And much of what that predictive power says after cross-sectional analysis is: people will vote for their own interests and against (or at least inconsiderate of) the interests of others. This includes shit like “helping the poor” or “caring about minorities” which align with the social and moral interests of many people outside the putative targets (aka social signaling, white knighting, bleeding heart, etc.).
The only way to alleviate the central fallacy of this system is to form communities of conscience, and anyone who believes the ca. 330 million people in this country can form a single community of conscience is delusional.
^^^This guy gets it.
But, I enjoy singling (some) women out for scrutiny!
And that delusion lines up very closely, I think, with what Q described below as “the fetishization of democracy”. Democracy is a sampling method, and even if it were not a biased sampling method, the population is not of one mind and the righteousness of an action is not simply a function of majority support.
Bad ideas are bad ideas no matter how many people support them; and the goodness or badness of most ideas is situational. Maybe some people really would fare better in a system of communal property; that does not mean all of us would. Maybe some places and times are better off ruled by monarchy or oligarchy. That does not mean everywhere is for all time. Maybe our current system of government can do some things well which we libertarians take for granted. That does not mean it does everything well and should be foisted into every realm of human endeavor.
And as we can see, universal suffrage is just a thin veneer over a largely unaccountable system controlled by a relatively small and definitely not representative group of people. Most of them are rich (for some definition thereof), but it’s not a plutocracy (that might be preferable to what we actually have). Most of them are well educated and accomplished (again for some definitions thereof), but it’s not a meritocracy. So and so forth. There are a great many premodern ideas which got thrown out like the baby with the bath water which nevertheless keep cropping up like the Gods of the Copybook Headings.
I’m glib about being a misanthrope rather than a misogynist, but I stand by it. The problem is not female suffrage, the problem is universal suffrage that derives from the fetishization of democracy and the franchise in general. There is nothing fundamental to any particular class of people other than “humanness” which carries with it qualities that are antithetical to liberty. Humans hate freedom. They talk a big game but at core they would prefer to be told what to do. By expanding the franchise by a factor of 2, the problems just compounded, but since the problem is humanness those anti-liberty issues would have happened no matter what. There is no system that doesn’t eventually result in lack of liberty; like existential philosophy says, no matter what we always get dragged back into the muck of human drama.
TL;DR – As I’ve said before many times, this is all humans acting exactly like humans; expecting otherwise is unreasonable. And I’m sorry if my glibness/attempts at humor caused offense.
Agreed.
I would say this is also the cause and/or effect of “analysis paralysis” when a human is given too many choices, which is anxiety-inducing, and s/he can’t decide anything.
I’ve learned over the years to give my clients very few choices (e.g., print layout styles), and I choose them based on MY experience, not whatever they really want.
Furthermore, boundaries are imperative for art. You can breach the boundaries, but only effectively after you’ve gotten them into your muscle memory. If the sky’s the limit, no telling what nonsense you’ll put out and call it “art”.
It’s like “Voice of Fire” but not Canadian!
Just a few more magic words on paper, and all our problems will vanish in a puff of smoke
Gov. Phil Murphy proposed a host of new gun policies Thursday, including only giving permits to residents who pass gun safety classes and raising the purchasing age from 18 to 21.
The proposals follow the surging number of homicides in New Jersey and several mass shootings in other parts of the country.
If enacted, the changes would “perhaps be the most sweeping gun violence prevention package in the history of our nation,” Murphy said to more than 100 people during a press conference in a Newark community center.
“We cannot sit back when we know there is more to do to address the danger of gun violence in our communities,” the governor said.
Other proposals would require guns to be locked up in homes, stamping ammunition to make it easier to trace, mandating an electronic database of all ammunition sold, banning .50 caliber firearms, requiring people moving to New Jersey to register their guns and a bill to make it easier to sue gun manufacturers when their weapons are used in crimes.
Here’s crazy idea. Stop driving people insane with a nonstop campaign of fear and hate and division.
That idea is crazy, all right. Extremely neurotic people are much easier to control…
I know we’re now part of the self-sorting of political ideologies that probably won’t end well for this country, but fuck am I glad to be in a second amendment sanctuary/Constitutional carry state. That’s not the main reason we moved here, but it was up there on the list.
Oh, and we got our LLC officially relocated. No more Colorado state taxes, either. Fuck yeah.
require guns to be locked up in homes
Removes the access when it is needed and is generally unenforceable.
stamping ammunition to make it easier to trace
Lol, yeah right.
mandating an electronic database of all ammunition sold
Registry.
banning .50 caliber firearms
Because those are so prevalent in crime…Also, wholly unconstitutional.
requiring people moving to New Jersey to register
Idk why anyone would voluntarily move to Jersey, but fuck off with that bs.
make it easier to sue gun manufacturers when their weapons are used in crimes.
Because we have to punish someone that has not committed a crime.
Morning Glibs! Heres a different song if your feeling like you’re in trouble
Local activists very Brooklyn Center cops didn’t lie back and take it.
Because the “don’t be confrontational” approach used after the George Floyd killing worked so well. And maybe if you didn’t want the Natl Guard out there, you shouldn’t have been looting.
How Dare you sir! I mean REALLY! The Gall!
Don’t you understand?! Burning down the police station is part of the grieving process for Black, brown and Indigenous communities.
Swiss gets it.
Sort of a Viking funeral but on land.
Don’t you dare compare my historical peoples to these barbarians.
You besmirch the name of barbarians with the comparison.
Only civilized folk can be so vile.
Point conceded.
Don’t try to blame the descendants of the Vandals for this. Don’t get me started on the Goths.
Or the Emos, they’re the worst.
I hate Tickle-Me Emos.
TMITE — tickle me in the emos
Viking funeral
Around here we call that the SuperBowl. (or NFC Championship lately)
What stage of grief (in the black, brown and indigenous communities) is looting?
Filling the void in their lives.
Acceptance… of property.
Arson is clearly anger. Perhaps looting is bargaining? Then they loop back to denial that arson and looting is significant.
It’s the Weregild. More Viking cultural appropriation.
White supremacy strikes again!
Early Christmas shopping.
But why is it always being done by unemployed angry white kids from well-to-do families with a penchant for marxist idiocy?
How else do you expect them to express their solidarity with those who are materially deprived (relatively speaking)?
Heh…
Some smart-ass dropped off a copy of Boehner’s new book at my office. It’s even signed!
I filed it in the appropriate place.
Queue the woke left screaming about how Ted Cruz wants to burn books.
Not that I know for sure, but I think the guys on Red Eye Radio might be guilty of that one…
Cases of COVID-19 are extremely rare among people who are fully vaccinated, according to a new data analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It’s pretty goddam rare, period.
We are horrified by the state’s preemptive force against its people
“preemptive”?
The cops went to those “activists'” homes and teargassed them as they were eating dinner?
Hey! you can’t do that untill after we’ve set a few buildings on fire!
Far be it for me to defend Facebook, but the Daily Mail BLM Founder story is a bit doxxy with the houses, locations, etc.
Granted, all of those photos are probably on Zillow or the like and if one wanted to, looking at real estate sales in their local paper/whatever, connect the dots.
Frankly, I could give a shit what houses she buys and where she lives. And a house at 1.4m in Topanga is NOT some kind of mansion. It’s probably a 2-bedroom.
I must say I’m impressed with her grifting skills more than her choices in real estate.
Like you, I could care less. But as far as doxxing goes, Id argue that she postures herself as a “public figure” by and through the acts of her grift-ivism, and therefore has a diminished expectation of privacy.
Busty bathykolpian beauties for your Friday Funbags.
https://archive.li/lY3fQ
“bathykolpian”
(bath•ee•KOL•pee•an) Adjective: -Deeply bosomed. – Large breasted. From Ancient Greek words βαθύς (bathus, “deep”) and κόλπος (kolpos, “bosom” or “cleft” or “gulf”)
Thanks, Q, I learned a new word today.
+1
Also the phrase, “Deeply bosomed”. Winner.
I am going to have to introduce that during foreplay with my wife.
This piece from Vox comes very close to “getting it”. Of course, being Vox, they still claim it is all about racism. Which is too bad because they understand reducing cops ability to hassle people is a good thing and that the reason they do it is all about money.
Wright was pulled over for the tabs. When they first started talking to him the cops also told him that the air fresheners were bad.
Maybe journalos don’t know any poor white people? That is why they think that it is racism. If they knew poor people, they’d realize that cops hassling people over tickets is way more of a class thing than a racial thing.
Stupid racist HTML tags!
*EDIT FAIRY SHARE COFFEE AND BLESSES YOU*
I know its a drawing, but wood?
I would like to see the statistic for the number of people that end up in an altercation requiring the use of deadly or other kinds of force that actually are not creating the need for that because they are idiots in their interaction with the authorities, and more importantly, the people that don’t try to resist arrest when they know they are in the wrong. Cause I suspect people that know what to NOT do, tend to maybe have a shitty experience with the assholes in uniform, but they always get to go home at some point after.
but they always get to go home at some point after.
I would switch “always” to “usually”, since there are instances of unarmed people trying to cooperate while having multiple, contradictory orders screamed at them getting executed by the cops.
Yet police officers and organizations say pretext stops are a “valuable tool” to promote driver safety or to find drugs and other illegal activities. Car accidents are a serious and deadly problem, killing thousands of Americans every year.
Of course they do. Totality of circs, officer safety, smooches.
hth.
OBEY! CONFORM!
Maybe they wouldn’t be so concerned about being alive to go home at the end of their shift if they weren’t constantly screwing with the lives of people who have the least to lose. Naw, that couldn’t be the case.
A redneck song? I guess if you squint it might pass for Toby Keith lyrics. Great song, great band, as always.
Believe it or don’t, I’d be totally okay with it if it just stopped snowing completely for a few months.
Great, just fucking great. Good news and bad news. Good news is that the electronic pull tabs are pulling in even more money than expected and the Vikings stadium fund is full, full, full. Bad news is that there is a pile of money sitting there while the legislature is in session.
Get your damn dirty grifting hands off our money!
I guess I should be thankful that King Walz didn’t use his emergency powers to dictate that the excess funds are to be sent to his personal bank account.
That’s my senator! He’s not bad all things considered. He left the DFL over their shenanigans.
All Lives Matter…unless they don’t.
Graffiti sprayed during the Los Angeles #BLM march for #DaunteWright says “Kill cops” and “No more white babies.”
Well Planned Parenthood is already trying to ensure there are no more black babies…
“The Town that Murdered Their Bully”
https://odysee.com/@countdankula:d/the-town-that-murdered-their-bully:6
A pretty neat story if you’ve never seen it. Sixty normie townspeople witnessed it and nobody seen nuthin and not the Wild West either, early 1980s.
Two goddamn ships at the outset and not even half on board ever got the bug at all.
All those people crammed like sardines on airplanes, last spring and summer, before the public health wizards finally ordered them to wear a magic talisman for protection.
So many dead, you can’t even count them all. Such a tragic waste.
It is definitely a different sort of track for them.
Ugh that was a reply to TOK
My youngest son thinks Night Train Lane is the greatest.
We were watching the Greatest 100 Players of all time and they did a segment on him. They talked about how he ran around clotheslining everyone for a couple years, so they created a rule against that. Then helmets with facemasks came out and Night Train spent the year running around grabbing facemasks to tackle people. The next year they passed a rule against that.
The Altar Boy thought anyone who personally was responsible for two rules against brutal tackles is one of the greats.
Surfing through radio while driving yesterday I came across Mark Levin talking to O’Keefe about twitter banning Project Veritas. O’Keefe is suing for defamation. Sounds like the goal is to get discovery so they can then prove a link between the Democrats and Twitter. We all know they work for the Democrats, but if they could prove actual coordination the 1st amendment lawsuits will come rolling in. I put the odds of this being discovered at less than 1%.
It’s going to be hard to prove coordination when the reality is that Twitter is just staffed by woke assholes.
That’s my thought too. They know how to use plausible deniability to their advantage. That’s how Obama’s minions worked.
When everyone is of like mind no coordination is needed. That being said, it wouldn’t surprise me if it explicitly occurred either.
The Neo-Reactionary types call this a Prospiracy, and it’s one of the few things they really get right.
It’s going to be hard to prove coordination when the reality is that Twitter is just staffed by woke assholes.
True, but I’ll still be surprised if there isn’t traffic between Democrat operatives and Twitter. And it takes a certain discipline and smarts to set up good plausible deniability. We’ll see if they have it.
That would be great, but a lot of people wouldn’t change their worldviews anyway. WikiLeaks laid it bare that CNN and many other corporate media outlets colluded with the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016, and we still encounter people who consider them a reputable, unbiased news source.
Has “I can’t wait for them to sue because ‘discovery’ will bit lit” ever actually panned out? Does this happen outside of legal thrillers, I imagine it may happen in small criminal cases we never hear about, but in the Big News stories it never seems to happen.
Happens all the time, but Twitter has a whole army of lawyers who have heard those stories and has done what they can to keep it from happening to them. That said, you never know what may turn up.
What happens is, if anything truly damaging comes out in discover, the case is quickly settled with the usual confidentiality/nondisclosure provisions, and the good stuff is kept out of public view.
I guess I worded that poorly, I was trying to ask if the people claiming to be so eager to get discovery so they can expose the other guys sin ever actually expose the other guys sins? I can’t remember a case where that has happened.
Flynn case?
Why would any engineering firm, space industry, or accountant hire anyone with an education from California….
https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf (T/W PDF file)
Curious.
The study defined five core principles or beliefs that drive most journalists. And it found that non-journalists offer unqualified majority support for only one of them – the idea that the press should provide people with facts.
It’s almost like every other factor fall under this umbrella.
I think I will pass. Sometimes, my only exercise for the weekend is the walk to the fridge.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/meet-worlds-most-advanced-beer-pissing-robot
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.
A bill meant to protect drivers who hit protesters during the course of fleeing a riot passed the Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday.
House Bill 1674, which passed through the Senate by a vote of 38-10, would increase penalties for blocking roadways while also providing immunity to drivers who kill or injure motorists while fleeing the scene of a riot in fear for their lives, according to the Associated Press. …
According to the bill, it would become a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine for protesters who block a public street.
a little miffed that it doesn’t include a point system.
huh?
Well, either a legislator or a journalist fucked that up. Either is perfectly capable of it.
Pwnd.
Rep. Eric Swalwell
@RepSwalwell
· Apr 14
When you aren’t on any committees you can propose stunts like this. twitter.com/mtgreenee/stat…
Marjorie Taylor Greene
@mtgreenee
Well we all know how you serve on Intel, Judiciary, and Homeland Security Committees.
With your pants around your ankles, giving it to China.
I serve on the Committee of the Whole, and hold all of Congress accountable by demanding recorded votes, so the People know our record.
Its funny but her stance would be better without the pants around the ankles bit. But I get it, you have to fight dirty – we are far from civilization at this point.
I’m way past tone policing anything having to do with politics.
^^
So that discussion yesterday about the right adopting the tactics (and mirror image positions) of the left? This is why I’m not enthusiastic for that.
Isn’t that exactly the dream of the left? What makes it better as a position of the right?
A bit of a leap from James O’Keefe doing undercover reporting to this, eh?
More worrisome since Vance is potentially a candidate for office. O’Keefe is just a gadfly.
I have no problem at all with what O’Keefe does. The media is the enemy. Who would have a problem with O’Keefe’s methods if they were used to get information from Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan? We would praise him as a hero.
Who would have a problem with O’Keefe’s methods if they were used to get information from
Nazi Germanyconservatives orImperial JapanRepublicans?WeThe media would praise him as a hero.I’m puzzled by the assumption that anyone still benefits from the full protections of the Bill of Rights.
Well, except the People Who Matter, but that makes it more a Bill of Privileges.
Not mentioned: solving this problem by reducing those impacts.
PROOF POSITIVE
They’re the most elite, lethally trained members of the U.S. military, widely considered the best of the best. And yet in secret Facebook groups exclusively for special operations forces that were accessed by NBC News, they share misinformation about a “stolen” 2020 election, disparaging and racist comments about America’s political leadership and even QAnon conspiracy theories.
Among the hundreds of Facebook posts NBC News reviewed from forums for current and former Rangers, Green Berets and other elite warriors: a member of a special forces group lamenting that several aides to former Vice President Mike Pence were part of a “Concerted effort by the thieves and pedophiles walking the hallowed halls of the peoples government” to undermine former President Donald Trump.
“In a just world, they would have already been taken out behind the court house and shot,” another member commented.
In yet another post, a member of one of the groups responded to criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement with an image of a noose and the message “IF WE WANT TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE EVIL PEOPLE FEAR PUNISHMENT AGAIN.”
“The story of radicalization in special operations is a story that needs to be told,” said Jack Murphy, a former Army Ranger and Green Beret who has written extensively about the special operations forces community. “It has shocked and horrified me to see what’s happened to these guys in the last five or six years.”
Extremism in the military has been in the spotlight since more than two dozen current and former service members were linked to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. But the private Facebook groups reveal an underbelly of a segment of the military that has long been revered as America’s front line of defense.
Radicalism in our armed forces, oh, my!
We need to send those poor deluded misanthropes to sensitivity training.
You know who else rooted out and eliminated so called extremism in the military?
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix?
DACOWITS?
These are definitely the people who I want to abuse and disenfranchise. No way could that ever go wrong.
On last night’s Missive from Evan thread, Hayeksposives posted:
I’ve wondered the same thing. I think what’s happened is the education system and news media has gotten a lot of people to revert to an authority-based model of knowledge; one where we regular people don’t have the means of determining the truth, but we have to rely on (what they tell us are) authoritative sources and experts, and it becomes true because these people said it.
Many people can’t seem to evaluate a claim on their own – they have to see who “fact checked” it and make their determination from that.
And of course, we’re seeing tons of people now who extol blind obedience to the government as “following the science”.
Pardon me going O/T from your comment, but I wanted to alert you that SP is visiting our neck of the woods next week, and we’re planning a Glibs meetup for lunch Wednesday. Please see the topic she started in the Forums. Hope you might be able to join us!
i keep saying it, so I’m probably starting to sound like a broken record. Idiocracy got the dumbing down of society down pat. What Judge did, though, is misidentify the problem. The dumbing down is not a bottom up phenomenon, with the number of dumb people just exploding or the dumb people getting dumber than before. It’s a top-down phenomenon. The ostensibly educated and intelligent are, on the whole, far less intelligent than they were previously. The educated, even more than the less educated, seem weak or incompetent at developing or assessing a cogent argument, in a lot of cases even relative to the less educated.
I personally believe that it is a function of insisting everybody has to be educated. Huge numbers of people simply ill-equipped for education are being funneled into higher education. The colleges and universities, needing the continued flow of tuition dollars, dumb down their material to accommodate a weaker student body. But, in turn, even those who really should be in an academic environment are not only given material far below the level they should be challenged with, but are effectively pushed (peer pressure, academic bullying) into the lower standard of reasoning to allow the schools to “teach” to the majority of students who otherwise wouldn’t be there.
At this point, even a significant portion of the professors are probably of the sort that really shouldn’t be in academia.
I remember you saying that and believe it’s the case. But I would add that the actual intelligent people seem to be shrinking down to a tiny number of elites – after all, someone has to run Big Tech, develop weapons for the military industrial complex, and devise the strategies for controlling public opinion.
But yes, colleges are cranking out over-credentialed people with zero knowledge of how the real world works. The fact that AOC was handed an economics degree illustrates this.
But I would add that the actual intelligent people seem to be shrinking down to a tiny number of elites
Actually, I hope you’re right. They seem to be outsourcing a lot of that anymore, anyway.
Going by what I observe, I’m not so sure though. You’re talking about a few areas of specialization. Huge areas seem like they’re just wasting away, even at the elite level.
Is the elite really shrinking? Or have we set up a growing faux-elite, based on credentials, that is the problem?
Think of how small the elite was that established this republic.
As I said, I do think we’re setting up that faux-elite.
But, I also think we’re seeing a shrinking of the intellectually competent. Thirty years ago, you could regularly find intelligent people, even in the popular culture, arguing about ideas. A lot of those ideas might have been stupid and wrong-headed, but people could readily make an argument for their ideas. Today, there’s a few aging people still around as legitimate public intellectuals. But, mostly they’ve been replaced by second-rate partisans. Thirty years ago, you could readily find well-written books from accomplished authors. Today, we’ve got Marvel Comics and young-adults books as the cinematic and literary phenomena. We’re a dumber society. And it doesn’t seem to be coming from the bottom, which doesn’t seem much dumber than it’s ever been. There aren’t more dumb societal phenomena. Just much fewer intelligent ones.
If I were king for a day (and didn’t abolish the DOEd) the first thing I’d teach kids – as soon as they were cognitively able – is how to identify logical fallacies. And not so they can grow up to be political speech writers who use them intentionally to mislead.
Democrats Propose Packing Court With Illiterate Justices To Make Sure There’s No Chance They’ll Be Influenced By The Constitution
Biden Forms Commission To Examine Whether Or Not We Should Dismantle Constitution
They want to burn it all down..
The only part of the constitution they don’t want to dismantle is the part that gives them power to stop insurrectionists and treasonous non-Democrats.
Sounds like the goal is to get discovery so they can then prove a link between the Democrats and Twitter. We all know they work for the Democrats, but if they could prove actual coordination the 1st amendment lawsuits will come rolling in. I put the odds of this being discovered at less than 1%.
Facts have a liberal bias, silly. They all agree because they have reached the correct conclusion independently. No collusion needed.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9477051/Demi-Rose-sets-pulses-racing-poses-NAKED-tiny-denim-jacket.html
She’s naked except for a jean jacket but there’s only a photo from the waist up. That’s just not cricket.
That’s just not cricket.
That’s hobbit.
The politically charged ones often ridicule President Joe Biden — describing him as “senile” and weak compared to leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin — and refer to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin with derogatory terms like “bubba.”
Many of the posts express support for Trump, including his false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. One member of a group, for instance, commented on an image of law enforcement officers with their guns drawn while barricaded inside the House chamber during the Jan. 6 riot, writing, “too bad they didn’t bother to defend the Constitution.”
Oh
my
GOD!
1) Joe Biden is senile and obviously so.
2) The Democrats spent millions of dollars and 3 years on their election conspiracy hoax which the media didn’t censor at all.
3) the defending the constitution jab is a cliche but accurate zinger.
I don’t care for calling the defense secretary bubba though.
Garry Reid, director for defense intelligence at the Defense Department, said the Pentagon is trying to better “identify, detect, categorize and take action against any such behaviors in this department.”
“This is very disturbing material for me and very disturbing content that in no way would mirror the behavior expected of persons employed by the Department of Defense, and certainly not serving in the U.S. military,” Reid said.
We require robotic unquestioning obedience to the current political administration.
Okay, that’s good to know.
Perhaps an oath, of personal loyalty, to the glorious leader?
Are Komissars- er, ‘Political Officers’ far behind?
They signaled that the day Biden was inaugurated. They want purists in the ranks that don’t abide to the Constitution, but to the party in power. Since they are acting like they will have that power forever now and fortifying to make sure it happens, they now have the armed forces at their heel.
They certainly have the generals and equivalents who are just politicians in uniform. The lower level officers and enlisted personnel I doubt it.
they now have the armed forces at their heel
Hahahahahaha. It takes a long time to work through the institution. They’ve started, I’ll grant you that, but given the conservative (to tradition) nature of the military, that ain’t going to change overnight.
Didn’t say otherwise. Maybe my construction of that thought was a bit disjointed, I was speaking as if they have solidified their position of power and have weeded out those who still view it as a service to the country/constitution.
Most of this purely assumes that all opinions voiced in opposition of the current administration and its values must come from white bigots. I would present the fact that today’s military is much more multi-cultural than this implies while still being much more conservative than the narrative wants to accept.
Case in point – a retired warrant officer in my social circle (African-American who enlisted to get out of the south 60-some-odd-years ago) always referred to one of the previous Commanders in Chief as the “Halfrican”.
So now speech is “behavior”? The military no longer cares as much about how well you do your job as what you say off the job?
Is there a single major institution in this country that isn’t rotting before our eyes?
You forget that rotting is a natural and beneficial process. We can bemoan the death of the body, but if it does not rot, many will continue to claim that it is not dead, but sleeping.
Report: Conspiracy Theorists Now More Accurate Than Journalists
Biden Bringing U.S. Troops Home So They Can Guard The Capitol
“‘This content was removed for violating our privacy and personal information policy,’ a Facebook spokesperson told DailyMail.com.”
Twitter pulled the same bullshit, suspending some black reporter for the same absurd reason.
violating our privacy and personal information policy
I’d be very curious to see what that actually says.
I have zero doubt that there are thousands of posts a day that violate it, unremarked by Facebook.
Not taking time to research . . .but didn’t a bunch of stories about Rand Paul’s assault doxx his location? I’ll bet they weren’t removed.
“Eight people are killed and seven injured in two minute FedEx gun rampage: Man opened fire with assault rifle in parking lot of Indianapolis facility and continued firing as he walked inside before killing himself”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9477549/Multiple-victims-shooting-FedEx-facility-near-Indianapolis-airport.html
So you are saying a Democrat is in the White House?
It does seem like there’s been a flurry of mass shooting incidents since the Dems announced their push for gun control.
I’ve been wondering if it’s only a perceived increase from the media deciding to push these stories front and center to support legislation/EOs or if it’s an actual increase. The timing of the latter would be more interesting. I notice we still know nothing about the Las Vegas shooter.
I’m all for amphibians being comfortable with their sexuality, but the more I think about it, the more I think the Las Vegas shooting was a set-up.
What are the odds that Fedex bans firearms in the workplace and possibly on the property entirely? Close to 100%?
Yep, because it FEEEEEEEEEEEELZZZZ good.
Already banned I believe. At least the Fed Ex facility I used to take packages too had a no gun sign posted on the door.
Sorry, I mean they already have a ban in place as part an existing policy, not that they’ll enact one now.
And it did so much good in warding off evil!
Can confirm.
Before 9/11 FedEx had allowed employees to ride “jump seat” (space available) on their aircraft. They cracked down on weapons in luggage after one employee pulled a ballpeen hammer from his bag and tried to take out the crew – he was subdued by the copilot. Subsequent investigation revealed that he was expecting the aircraft to crash leaving his widow to cash in on his life insurance and possible settlement over his death.
Deadheading was and still is the practice for flight crews. I remember that incident. The pilot at the controls really pushed that DC10 to the limits to thwart the attack.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705
^This^
2+2=white supremacy
The California education department is considering implementing a statewide math framework that promotes the concept that working to figure out a correct answer in math is an example of racism and white supremacy invading the classroom. …
The “Equitable Math” website states its training manual was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the primary private source of funding for the Common Core State Standards.
“White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions,” the document states. “Coupled with the beliefs that underlie these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, denying them full access to the world of mathematics.”
Public school is child abuse
I mentioned above – what engineering firm would ever hire someone with an education borne from California if they go with this? I want to the see Gates hire these kids to develop his next big software idea or computer with math that is “equitable”
Pretty sure Billy Boy had all his software engineers stick to regular math when developing Microsoft products. You can come up with whatever kind of “equitable” shit you want, but if you want bridges to stand and planes to fly, you better use real math.
And what aggravates me even more is that it’s fine if you want to talk more about the various non-white people who also made foundational contributions to math (mostly Arabs and Indians) but that’s not what they’re doing. They’re devising some form of nonsense math under the notion that it’s more “equitable”.
Also, Wiki sez that the Nazis also politicized mathematics and caused a lot of mathematicians to flee to other countries. Yay!
There’s a bit in Atlas Shrugged where the Wet Nurse chides Hank Rearden, saying that the time is past when people should be bound by rigid principles. Rearden tells him “…son, try pouring a ton of steel without rigid principles.”
The Wet Nurse eventually came around. Most of these people won’t.
Speaking of steel, at least during during the Great Leap Forward, Mao had an idea of a more prosperous future even if his methods and process were utterly wrong and horrific. These idiots are rejecting even that. Forget reset, they’re determined for a Great Leap Backwards.
I can see it now, 10 years from now a kid walks into MSFT and interviews for a job and given a math problem (that is given to everyone) he begins to tell the interviewer it isn’t equitable and claims it is racist that he got the problem’s answer horribly wrong. MSFT hires the kid on the spot knowing that if they don’t meet their quotas, the Federal Government will fine them or begin to look into their hiring practices.
Kid goes to being on a team that is developing software for an onboard computer system for our space program, it fails miserably but it at least wasn’t inequitable in its failure.
Personally, I think we’re going to see the emergence of a new career of “professional victims” who are given a do-nothing job so that the company can avoid being scrutinized for “unequitable” hiring practices. Any visible minority could do this, and anyone willing to pose as a gay/trans person could get in on the action too.
Companies think they’ll be able to escape the wolf by doing this sort of thing but they’ll still be sued for shuffling off to a professional victim corner instead of the regular career track and for failing to promote to ever higher ranks of management.
Like my companies executives bemoaning that they’re mostly white and almost entirely male. So which one of you assholes wants to give up your job to make room for a token? A year later, the answer is none.
10 years from now
Happening already. Earlier this year I was strongly encouraged by my boss’s boss’s boss to interview and consider recommending a woefully unqualified candidate because of her genitals. By woefully unqualified, I mean somewhat qualified to go into the pharma industry, but no qualifications for the tech industry.
My company highlighted a dozen women for “women in tech” except none were. They were all marketing & sales or management or such. But they had some nice titles like “engineering manager” or “solutions architect”. The sad part is there are many women in real technical positions in my company but they’re mostly just doing their jobs, not participating in the grievance mongering and divisivity efforts.
Not just math.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
Pretty sure Billy Boy had all his software engineers stick to regular math when developing Microsoft products.
*ponders long history of Microsoft mediocrity*
Hard to say.
Heh. They aspire to mediocrity and rarely reach those heights.
I need to sign off from one of the derpiest derp-fests that ever derped on this wonderful site. Heavens! I’ll see you folk tomorrow morning…
“‘They’re all on the same team’: Twitter is slammed for ‘protecting’ CNN after Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe is banned from the site days after publishing expose on network’s liberal bias”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9476623/Project-Veritas-founder-James-OKeefe-vows-sue-Twitter-account-permanently-suspended.html
This is the kind of shit that bugs me a lot.
If Trump does a social media network, focus on a twitter replacement.
That place is the worst offender by far and sucks ass.
“Twitter said on Thursday that ‘The account you referenced (@JamesOKeefeIII) was permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules on manipulation and spam.
‘As outlined in our policy on platform manipulation and spam, ‘You can’t mislead others on Twitter by operating fake accounts,’ and ‘you can’t artificially amplify or disrupt conversations through the use of multiple accounts.”
O’Keefe said he would sue the company.
‘I am suing Twitter for defamation because they said I, James O’Keefe, ‘operated fake accounts.’
‘This is false, this is defamatory, and they will pay. Section 230 may have protected them before, but it will not protect them from me.
‘The complaint will be filed Monday.'”
The account with his real name is fake?
I’m gonna enjoy this.
It’s not a bias, it’s an agenda. In a bias they focus on look at evidence and grant more weight to some things than others. We all do this. What they do is decide what the story needs to be beforehand, then cherry pick information to support that narrative. Now they will destroy evidence and people that go against the narrative.
Accept bias for what it is; part of the human condition. Reject bullshit agendas.
^^
*sigh*
At least eight people were killed after a gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis late Thursday before also killing himself, police said.
Multiple other people were taken to hospitals with injuries, police said.
The shooting was reported shortly after 11 p.m. and officers arrived to an active shooter incident, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Officer Genae Cook told reporters.
She said the gunman killed himself at the scene. Authorities found eight bodies during a search, she added.
That number did not include the gunman. …
A FedEx employee told NBC’s “TODAY” show that he was sitting outside the building when he heard what he initially thought was a car with engine problems. He soon realized the sound was actually gunfire.
“And when I stand up, I see a man — a hooded figure — I was unable to see his face in detail however,” Levi Miller said.
He said the man had a rifle “and he started shouting, and then he started firing in random directions.” He couldn’t tell what the gunman was yelling. “I thought he saw me and so I immediately ducked for cover,” Miller said.
Hm…
Odds on it being “Allah akbar?”
I figured it would be “I want a candy bar”
“Aloha snackbar!”
But I don’t want to make any assumptions. But also I couldn’t find a description of the shooter in the article…
If, in retirement, I open a small breakfast/lunch/coffee joint, I am going to have a very hard time not giving it a tropical theme and using that name.
I often mused about opening a breakfast joint called the Eggs-essential Cafe.
And you’d having nothing on the menu?
Blank page except for the words “no substitutions”.
Oh, and if you did go with Aloha Snackbar, you would need the sub-title of Halal ya’ll.
I would definitely make sure we had kosher and halal menu options. From my very limited knowledge, the rules are very similar, with the main difference being which set of grifters get paid to certify.
Hawaiian themed kosher spam products?
“Police have not identified the suspect, but the FBI says its personnel are currently assisting in a search of his home. ”
I hate thinking like this, but if you know where is home is, you know who he is. So….
I loathe my senators.
U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner introduced federal gun control legislation Thursday to mirror some of the laws that recently passed their home state of Virginia.
The policies include expanding background checks, limiting handgun purchases and enacting red flag laws at a national level. The senators are calling the legislation the Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act.
“Virginia knows all too well the heartbreaking consequences of gun violence,” Warner and Kaine said in a joint statement. “We’ve seen it in the tragedies of Virginia Tech and Virginia Beach and the countless drive-by shootings, domestic violence, and suicides by firearm across the country. We’re proud of the Commonwealth for leading the way to advance gun reform; now it’s time for Congress to save lives.”
The legislation would expand federal authority over gun policies in areas that are currently left up to the states to regulate. One of the most controversial reforms would be extreme risk protection orders, which are based on red flag laws adopted in Virginia and other states. It would allow a magistrate or judge to order the temporary seizure of a firearm from a person if there is evidence that he could be a risk to himself or others. The order would apply even if the gun owner did not commit a crime and is not even suspected of committing a crime.
Handgun purchases would also be restricted in the legislation. It would prohibit a person from purchasing more than one handgun per month.
Due process is overrated, I suppose.
This kind of thing is why I strongly suggest keeping some guns stashed off-site.
Take the guns first, due process later.
-Donald J. Trump
Thanks for the precedent there Don.
I think he was just throwing Feinstien a rhetorical bone. He did it a few times.
The ostensibly educated and intelligent are, on the whole, far less intelligent than they were previously. The educated, even more than the less educated, seem weak or incompetent at developing or assessing a cogent argument, in a lot of cases even relative to the less educated.
Something something unknown unknowns.
People wo don’t realize how much they don’t know are dangerous.
Yes, they are.
But, I’d like to emphasize, it isn’t just a case of ignorance. As Akira and Hayeksposives pointed out, many of them don’t even know how to think. I would be willing to bet that I could more easily train a moderately successful carpenter, electrician or plumber with a high school education in, say, economic analysis than I could a lot of kids coming out of college today. At least their work has given them something approximating training in structured, analytical thinking about topics.
The Capitol Police were told not to use their most aggressive tactics ahead of the Jan. 6 riot despite warnings of violence in which “Congress itself is the target,” according to a new report by an internal investigator. https://t.co/ox9MgP5byd
So Government pulled a classic feigned withdraw movement – beginning to really believe they meant for it to happen for the outcome we are seeing once they opened up the doors.
And yet not a single hair on the head of any Congress critter was harmed during the entire time. So much for being a target of violence.
You forget that AOC cowered in terror in her office closet not even in the same building?
And Pelosi was gearing up for the stand at Thermopylae
Why do you think the Sgts at Arms were allowed to resign so quickly and gracefully and without serious questioning?
While Texas is leaps and bounds ahead of the bullshit, they are not without idiocy
https://abc13.com/texas-drillers-youth-baseball-team-tournament-covid-vaccine-rules-for-kids/10513340/
Are kids that young even eligible for the vaccine?
Take that back, not Texas – Texas youth team wanting to play in NY
No, not at this time.
I have an old rule of thumb on bureaucrats.
Their first priority is always risk avoidance.
Simply put, unless a fuckup can be directly attributed to them, they can never be fired. Therefore, they always pursue the path of least risk to themselves and their organization, no matter the cost to anyone else.
I think the COVID lunacy is the ultimate example of this in action.
Youth sports turned my childhood around and these kids are getting a good hard look at what it means to live in the United States nowadays.
unless a fuckup can be directly attributed to them, they can never be fired
Even a fuckup won’t typically cost them their job, just maybe a reassignment.
Failing up is the surest way to the advance in a bureaucracy.
Sometimes all the way to the top. Right, Joe?
Look at Fauci. His handling of AIDS was brutally criticized.
So he got a promotion.
Looks like New York is the source of this idiocy. (Imagine that.)
The senators are calling the legislation the Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act.
Because these things have been such an unequivocal success in Virginia? “Gun violence is a thing of the past, in the great state of Ol’ Virginny?
They were successful at driving me and my tax revenue out of the state post-haste.
Heh, Danville is affectionately named Murderville and there are places in Richmond where the cops won’t even go.
I remember taking the wrong exit off the interstate soon after getting my driver’s license and got lost somewhere near the docks in Portsmouth. Pre GPS days. A cop saw me and told me I needed to get the hell out there fast and then led me back to the highway. One of the good cops I guess.
About a year later, 17 or so, some friends and I were at a concert and one of the girls drank way too much. We stopped by a park near the zoo in Norfolk around midnight so she could puke in the bushes. The parking lot had a bunch of caddies and other cars, a large group of people at the tables, and then what I took to be guards posted all around the perimeter. A couple of the guards came up to us, armed, and asked what the hell we were doing there. I pointed out my puking friend and was told not to come any closer, hurry up, and get the fuck out. Then the cops came and everyone split fast.
Filed under “Somebody Is Going To Get
AShot”https://www.businessinsider.com/st-vincent-volcano-cruise-ship-evacuation-only-for-vaccinated-2021-4
Thousands of years later and people are still feeding prisoners of war to volcanoes.
It’s pretty shitty but if another country is magnanimous enough to let you in as a refugee you should follow their requirements even if they’re stupid. Now if that’s his requirement, oh brother.
That’s assuming that they even have enough vaccines (or any at all). I’m not cool with the idea that a humanitarian disaster may be unfolding on St. Vincent and they’re being denied safe refuge elsewhere based on their vaccination status. If they continue to be denied and their volcano finally shits the Big One, many more will die than could’ve possibly died from the ‘Vid.
But, I’d like to emphasize, it isn’t just a case of ignorance. As Akira and Hayeksposives pointed out, many of them don’t even know how to think. I would be willing to bet that I could more easily train a moderately successful carpenter, electrician or plumber with a high school education in, say, economic analysis than I could a lot of kids coming out of college today. At least their work has given them something approximating training in structured, analytical thinking about topics.
1) Back in ye olden times, it was fashionable to say, “A good liberal arts education (or education in general) teaches you HOW to think, not what to think.” That fell by the wayside long ago.
2) I have known quite a few people who, despite never having set foot in a college classroom, were easily among the very brightest people I have ever known, in terms of raw intelligence.
It’s all part of the plan. Dismantle the structures that lead to meritocracy. A functioning higher education system is a major hurdle to the lazy, the victim class, the addicts, and the walking bad decision machines in society.
What meritocracy? Remember that that word was coined as a derogatory.
I hope what I said didn’t come off as a snobby equation of education and intelligence. My point was to observe that the correlation almost seems to be starting to go in the opposite direction. Yes, I’ve also known brilliant people who’ve never gone to college. But, I still wouldn’t necessarily expect that college would be a “red flag” that someone might not be intellectually trainable (and I mean teaching them how to understand ideas and not brainwashing). It seems to be starting to go that way.
Liberal arts used to be the Trivium (logic, grammar, rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music) and would have given a person at least the groundwork for starting an argument from first principles and building it up in logical steps. This was considered necessary knowledge for a free person to know before participating in democracy (hence “liberal” arts).
Then liberal arts got conflated with the humanities and went to total shit.
Despite its reputation as a drug for gentle, zonked-out hippies, marijuana use is strongly associated with the likelihood to commit weapons offenses, according to the National Institutes for Heath. A major study by Oxford researchers found that marijuana use boosts the odds of violent behavior among people with psychotic disorders.
I tapped out here. The NY Post can go fuck itself.
From the Daily Fail article:
And Twitter faced a major controversy in the fall when it temporarily locked the NY Post’s account for sharing an article on the contents of Hunter Biden’s recovered laptop.
Twitter banned James O’Keefe, stating that he had multiple accounts. O’Keefe is suing Twitter for defamation.
Oh, I had two questions for you
Any sign that the NH mandate is actually expiring?
And is This map accurate?
I just reloaded the map and it shows no mandate for most of the state.
I think I’ll be visiting Claremont tomorrow (Because Keene is stupid and put a municpal mandate in place)
Sununu’s general mask order either expires later today or has already expired. I haven’t checked the emergency order page today to see if someone updated it. Sununu made the announcement yesterday that he would not renew the order. Sununu also announced that on May 7th the current business guidelines and guidance (AKA edicts that must be followed or else) will expire and be replaced with actual guidelines and guidance (AKA not edicts, in other words, recommendations that businesses can freely ignore).
I see some problems in that map. Manchester mandates masks inside municipal buildings. Manchester’s mayor wanted an ordinance imposing a wider mandate, but the Board of Aldermen shot it down. Late at night during a Board of Aldermen meeting, since the mayor wanted something, the BoA passed a resolution asking people to wear masks inside city limits. That’s not a wide unenforced mandate by any stretch of the imagination, and the city’s mandate for masks in municipal buildings still stands.
I think Waterville Valley did the same thing.
Municipal ordinances are still in place. Nashua, Portsmouth, and Durham all announced that they would not change their ordinances. Nashua’s Board of Health did make an announcement that they will come up with an objective criteria to present to the Board of Aldermen for ending the mask ordinance. I think the only way Nashua’s mask ordinance will end is if the downtown businesses tell the BoA to fuck off with the mask ordinance or there is a house cleaning of the BoA in the upcoming city elections.
Tomorrow I have commitments all day. Claremont is also a little far from where the H&R folks all live. Otherwise I’d put out the word.
Thank you.
You’re welcome!
Next time you’re in NH, send me an e-mail and I can get the word out. You have my e-mail right?
We did exchange a few emails, so I should still have it.
This is just the first opening in months to do something normal, hense the short notice and lack of coordination.
I’m currently working on a plan for the week* leading up to July 4 where I’d stop by Ohio, then attend a funeral** in the Adirondaks, so I could keep going east after, but that time frame does tend to be busy for folks. But less busy weekends pop up, and it’s not that far away.
* Give or take
** Ash scattering, but same solemnity
attend a funeral
Sorry.
I plan to be away part of the Summer and for a little bit early in the Fall.
Whenever you’re back, let me know.
Two other notes: I just noticed that map does not list Hooksett. Hooksett had a mask ordinance and I think it is still in effect. Manchester and some of the surrounding communities (i.e. not Hooksett) have always been pretty relaxed about masks. Even when the Governor’s order was in place, lots of businesses in that area never bothered to enforce it. I’ve been in more than a few businesses in that area without a mask and no one said a word. The one time I did have my bandanna on I had my bandanna barely covering my mouth. The employees of that business said nothing about it.
I have no idea what you’ll run into in Claremont. It’s a bit off the beaten path for me.
I plan to act as if everything is normal and hope no one bothers me.
Now do prescription drugs. Because I recall seeing a study showing that the vast majority of mass shooters were on at least one of a handful of prescription drugs. Can’t recall the specific drugs off the top of my head, though.
The WNBA is a massive farce. It’s about as entertaining as middle school basketball. It’s no mystery that no one fucking watches it, yet ESPN is going to force it anyways, because EqUiTy.
But since there will be no financial repercussions from pushing it so hard when virtually no one gives a shit about watching a draft with athletes who would be absolutely destroyed by your average high school basketball player, I guess we have to suffer it.
That is if you’re dumb enough to still be watching ESPN.
ESPN gets paid even when people don’t watch them. They could play reruns of corn hole tournaments all day and still make money.
Not from me they don’t. I cut the cord a few years ago, and never subscribed to anything related to ESPN. They don’t get a single dime of cable bucks from me.
Draymond Green was fool enough to speak the truth about the WNBA.
But he didn’t really speak the truth. He spoke the façade.
The WNBA’s root problem isn’t that they don’t have enough big investors, as Green posits.
It’s that their game is third rate, and no one wants to watch them. Why should anyone watch it when they can see better basketball at virtually any HS in the country?
Corporations don’t give money to the NBA to fund huge salaries just because the NBA marketed smartly. Corporations invest big money with the hope of a massive payoff made by people later on buying their shit.
That hope doesn’t exist for the WNBA, because there aren’t millions watching, because women’s basketball is terrible.
So if big money can change that, corporations need to be convinced it’s an investment worth making. But that requires the WNBA to convince potential viewers that their game doesn’t suck, which would be no small feat. It’s not gender bias. It’s athletic bias. If any woman could do what even journeyman NBA players can do, they’d be in the NBA making big cheese, not groveling for cash while screaming about gender pay gaps.
And then Rappinoe gave her asinine opinion about what Draymond said and was treated like some oracle.
When they can beat the 15u (Boys) National Team with any kind of consistency maybe her opinion on what she gets paid to play soccer will be a shade more relevant.
Despite its reputation as a drug for gentle, zonked-out hippies, marijuana use is strongly associated with the likelihood to commit weapons offenses, according to the National Institutes for Heath.
Wait, wut?
Is this one of those inverted causation arguments?
1)Dope smoker (caring little for magic words on paper) gets busted for smoking dope.
2) Dope smoker (caring little for magic words on paper) gets busted with (or in the company of someone with) a firearm.
3) Presto! Dope smokers are predisposed to “weapons offenses”! No violent or dangerous context necessary.
Inverted Causation (as well as thinking if the statement is true then the converse is true) is a staple of journalism. I’ve seen one saying “Higher inflation is good because it means the economy is strong”. The idea being a strong economy causes inflation, therefore if we see inflation we must have a strong economy.
Association is public health weasel wording when there is no causation. But the public health nannies try to pretend it means causation to support their societal “nudges”.
Science is basically the process of testing (and generally disproving) that an association or correlation is causation.
Baseball fans could not give a single shit. The only people who care about this stuff at all are those who wouldn’t watch a baseball game anyways.
I’m not at all pleased with the MLB having finally succumbed to the woke mob and jumped in the deep end. But I’m a huge baseball fan. It’s in my blood. So I’m going to take the same stance I do with all of my other entertainment: ignore it as best I can and just enjoy the game. I don’t base my listening tastes on the band’s politics, and I’m not going to judge my team based on the MLB or even the team ownership’s politics. It’s baseball season and from a cultural perspective I’m a believer in the idea that on-field sports heroics does more to help than outspoken politics does to hurt. See Pele.
To me, it comes down to how unwatchable it gets. The NFL declined massively in watchability over the course of what? 3 years? Now I don’t even bother with them. If the MLB is on the same track, it’ll be unwatchable dreck by 2023 or 2024. I’m guessing their lagging position will result in a slingshot effect and even this year’s world series will be hard to watch.
By then you will have messages on uniforms, mowed in the outfield, on stadium walls, …
The NFL became unwatchable to me in a matter of about 2-3 years, but it wasn’t because of the woke nonsense. I had all but stopped watching by the time the woke movement began. It was because of the massive shift in rules favoring offense in the early-mid 2010s resulting in several penalties per game that didn’t previously exist, which resulted in game stoppages. Combine that bullshit with various TV stoppages, and the game simply became too disjointed to watch.
Penalty
Penalty
Touchdown
Commercial
Extra point
Commercial
Kickoff
Commercial
Penalty
Penalty
Etc.
Agreed. I could have possibly fought through the woke shit, but the product was declining before that. I’ll add that I don’t give half a shit about what the players are saying on Twitter or what they do in their free time, so basically every segment on the broadcast that didn’t involve drawing on the teleprompter was eroding a bit of my interest. Rules changes (across many sports) to inflate scoring plus the proliferation of human interest segments plus wokeness has really dampened my enjoyment of pro sports.
Showboating players celebrating a tackle for no gain on a 1 and 10 with 14:55 remaining in the 1st quarter.
Sideline reporting.
Interviews during the game.
It’s a bit difficult up here knowing that the team name is going to be changing shortly.
Baseball Team isn’t taken yet.
It doesn’t matter what they do now. Washington will forever be either Redskins or Football Team.
The Cleveland Sports organization has said they will not use a placeholder name.
How about just Cleveland, at least until the city name is canceled?
My boycott of baseball lasted a day.
But at least i won’t be watching the all star game.
I won’t watch that either. It’s a shitty game now anyways, and has been for a while.
Today, in “Making Shit Up”
Leaving middle seats vacant on airplanes can significantly reduce a passenger’s risk of being exposed to the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, a new study suggests.
The risk of being exposed to the virus may be reduced by 23% to 57% on single-aisle and twin-aisle aircraft when middle seats are vacant compared with a full occupancy flight, according to the study published on Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Researchers from the CDC and Kansas State University used laboratory models to simulate how much exposure to virus particles could be reduced when middle seats are kept vacant in an aircraft cabin.
The models were based on the spread of bacteriophage aerosols used as a surrogate to estimate the airborne spread of the coronavirus. Bacteriophages are viruses that can infect bacteria. The analysis did not measure the impact of wearing masks, which is currently required on flights, but the researchers noted that some virus aerosol can still be emitted from an infectious masked passenger and so distancing could still be useful.
But what about the masks? How many masks will they be wearing?
Researchers from the CDC and Kansas State University used laboratory model
Yeah, sure.
Nothing expires confidence like a wide range of results.
And I love how they manage to combine “masks don’t work” with “masks should be worn, PLUS social distancing”.
All that said, one thing we’ve known about virology for a long time is that population density matters.
I can ostensibly see how having fewer people spaced further apart might help, especially when we’re talking plane density where people are stacked for long periods of time.
That ultra-wide range, though. That’s a flag that waves with scientific authority, but the wind pushing it is from a fan.
Another point: I was reading that the airlines have cranked up their air exchanges to some very high level. I wonder if the study replicated that.
This is absolutely making shit up.
It’s shitty models with shitty inputs and shitty results.
It’s the same type of shit they use to justify masks when the empirical real-world results don’t show that they make a difference.
It’s all shit.
Finally caught up a little on the shooting in Toledo.
The kid had a gun in his hand after fleeing from the cops, and very shortly before he was shot, too. Its apparent the cop knew he was armed (he yelled “Drop it”), but its not clear how long before he was shot that he dropped it or whether the cop could see that he dropped it. One photo shows the gun on the ground on what looks like the other side of the fence where he was shot.
Good shoot or not, this one looks like a very close call to me.
It happened pretty fast. It seems to me that the cop was a little too fast to pull the trigger, but that’s easy for me to say from the comfort of my couch.
I also wonder if the ally really was as well lit as it appears in the video or if that’s a trick of the camera. It’s possible that the cop had even less visibility than what the camera showed.
The kid’s name was Toledo, and it took place in Chicago. I am with you, it’s a tough call. But we will still have a 13 year old who was carrying a gun in an alley at 2:30am on a week night held up as a martyr.
I have a friend whose brother was shot by a 12 or 13 year old in a gang initiation. Kid picked him at random on a crowded street, confronted him, and shot him once with a 1911 with hardball ammo. The kid took off after firing the one shot and chucked the gun over a fence into a high school property. He was caught, and the gun found the next morning. My friend’s brother was extremely lucky–the bullet went right through his forearm, into his abdomen, missed all of his vitals, and exited his back. He lived with no long term effects, but he has four scars that look a bit like holes now.
“martyr.”
But he was thinking about turning his life around, was great at basketball, and probably would have been given a full ride at Loyola, made it to the NBA, and spent his tens of millions working with troubled youth.
Is a $20 million taxpayer-paid settlement sufficient?
Reminds me of a shoot here in Dallas a while back. Kid hid when the cops rolled up, tried to chuck his gun into a field, but unfortunately did so right at a cop drawn on him.
“The old baby-on-the-corner trick, huh?” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HvjGHNwr1Nc
Cops are paid to do a very dangerous (in many parts of the city) job. I wonder how many would still take, or stay on, the job if the Rules of Engagement were that an alleged armed suspect had to fire at the cop first before he returned fire? Too many people think tv or movie shows are real, where cop talks down a perp with a gun or manages to shoot him in the wrist.
I expect cops to follow he same rules that I do.
Lethal action only when there is clear ability, intent, and means.
Cops don’t give a shit about intent. And rarely care about ability.
Means is enough to get you killed by a cop.
Fuck them.
Do the job, or don’t do the job.
Rule #1 – Any cop who shoots his gun is fired and must prove that his actions met some very specific set of criteria in order to be rehired with any agency.
Rule #2 – A malfunctioning or disabled body camera results in all contended facts being resolved against the cop.
^ I remember when my buddy got pulled over in for speeding and informed the cop he was a CCW holder and carrying. She saw his CCW was issued in a different city and freaked out (not understanding apparently it was a state-wide permit). I can’t remember if she drew on him… I think so… but her partner had to calm her down. I think a supervisor had to come out as well.
I do remember she was so scared about meeting an armed non-LEO citizen that she dumped my buddy’s entire mag out onto the ground. He had to wait until she left and then stood on the edge of the interstate picking the bullets back up one by one.
WTF
How in the hell does someone like that get through officer training?
“Diversity and Inclusion”?
She got an A+ in ‘War On Cops 101’.
Total line of duty deaths in Chicago police department: 551.
https://www.odmp.org/agency/657-chicago-police-department-illinois
That’s over 150+ years.
If you look at the list 4 officers were killed in the line of duty in 2020. They all died of COVID.
So I call bullshit on it being a dangerous job.
Delivering pies is more dangerous.
https://gizmodo.com/dozens-of-fossilized-neanderthal-footprints-found-on-a-1846694107
That stuff is fascinating. Especially to think about how that could happen.
Next, someone will come along and claim the sandbar tests out to 28 million years old, thus proving humanoids from outer space colonized the Earth.
I thought it was well established that the Tau’ri originated on Earth.
Kinda creepy, kinda cute, definitely practical:
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/meet-worlds-most-advanced-beer-pissing-robot
I want one.
There’s a bar near me that has a stuffed dog as a tap. The bartender lifts the dog’s leg and it pisses beer.
So he served Budweiser?
“Researchers from the CDC and Kansas State University used laboratory models to simulate how much exposure to virus particles could be reduced when middle seats are kept vacant in an aircraft cabin.”
Models are garbage, science has shown that over and over again. Only true way to test this is to throw varying levels of Covid positive people into a plane with Covid negative people and see who comes out alive.
Models are models.
Most modelers, it seems, are idiots.
Yep.
“All models are wrong, but some are useful”
And, a model is just a fancy hypothesis. It’s great that such hypotheses can get refined to a high degree of precision and that their internal consistency can be checked by a computer, but running a computer simulation and examining the results is not a substitute for an experiment or study*.
Computers are an accelerator for scientific progress, not a replacement of the scientific method.
* = An exception here being when the computer itself is the subject of the experiment. But even then, there’s typically some externally defined target being hit. “Does this algorithm sort faster than this other algorithm over various scenarios” has the underlying expectation that the results match a known correct sort order.
“All models are wrong, but some are useful”
In the distant past, at the other site, I got into an argument with Thoreau (who had a Phd and was a practicing Physicist) about whether classic physics was wrong or not.
His position was that classic physics was “right” with some error. I said that it was “wrong’ but the errors were boundable, and therefore, not significant for many problems/applications.
So you were both missing the important piece of information – what is the problem you are trying to use it for?
Sounds like it was really an argument about what counts as “right”.
What it really was . . . was a quiet afternoon at work and a chance to argue about silly stuff with a really bright guy in a forum that had lots of those types of conversations.
That, and I needed to prove that he was wrong. 😉
What happened to “aerosol droplets travel dozens of feet in an enclosed space”? Accompanied by the cute little illustration of supermarket aisles with a cloud of death hanging over them.
Another stolen base:
“exposure to virus particles”
It requires exposure to a certain level of virus particles to pose a risk of infection. I note they make no reference to what matters – risk of infection. I would be shocked indeed if I’m not “exposed” to COVID viruses throughout the day as I work. A lot less now that we have very few COVID patients in the building I work in, but for several weeks we had between 100 and 200 COVID factories in this building.
I caught the flu on a very brief plane flight (seemed the most likely source anyway). Have possibly never been so ill in my life but I didn’t swear off air travel. Not for that reason, at least.
Every time we fly to Europe (back in the Before Times), I’d either get a cold or flu a week after arriving on European soil or a week after coming back home. Nothing I’ve ever done to try and prevent that has ever changed it. It kinda baffles me, to be honest.
I have a similar issue when flying to California. Almost every time, no matter where I flew into, I would have respiratory symptoms for 2-3 days after arriving, and they would go away as soon as I got back home, if they hadn’t abated while I was there.
Wtf is a “laboratory model?”
I’m thinking either a 1/10th scale lab, or this.
“What is this? A laboratory for ants? The building has to be at least… three times bigger than this!”
An exercise in question begging.
That link upthread (#69) by ownbestenemy about a tournament in Cooperstown requiring all 12u players to get vaccinated? My kid’s team is enrolled in that tourney. They already have my $1,800 and the letter about the requirement came out the other day. Teams are dropping out left and right. Meanwhile, my kid’s team has been playing regular baseball with no restrictions since last May. The league tried sitting the players outside the dugout at 6-foot intervals, but that quickly collapsed upon contact with reality. And nothing else happened.
As far as I know, its illegal to give someone under the age of 16 any COVID vaccine.
Yep, no vaccine for under 16. Maybe the organizers are just getting out ahead of things with as-of-now-impossible requirements. Or they’re, you know, idiots.
It’s a little close to require vaccinations (“fully vaccinated” = 5 weeks with J&J paused), even if the EUA is expanded to 12-15 within the next week. The Pfizer request has been submitted so it’s just waiting on FDA approval.
Approved and actually getting the vaccination are two different things. We’ve had wait lists of up to two or three weeks for vaccinations, although they have gotten shorter recently.
My impression is that Moderna is more available than Pfizer, too. Regardless, the line for Pfizer could get pretty long, with all the scared mommies trying to get their kids genetically engineered and all. Even if Pfizer gets approved, my bet is that some of kids won’t even be able to get the shot before their tournament starts.
So, first team to get fully vaccinated wins the tourney by forfeit. I suddenly like our team’s odds!
Main page pic reminds me of the HBO documentary series Kindergarten. Twenty years old now (so before The New Cruelty) but still adorable and possibly available on demand. Glib kids 3-6 years old might like it.
How is morel hazzard formed? https://fox5sandiego.com/news/coronavirus/femas-funeral-program-overwhelmed-by-1-million-calls-on-first-day/
I though Morel Hazzard was a fun guy.
No no no… Morel Hazzard is the name of the bad shrooms.
You got it all wrong, man.
‘Bad ‘shrooms’ was just the name of his band.
Ask Yusef for information about forming morels.
That occurred to me.
I saw somewhere (here?) that the COVID funeral program pays out more than the US Government’s funeral benefit for veterans. If that’s true, it’s appalling.
9k for Covid, 2k for dead vets…and you can appeal to have the death certificate changed to death by Commie Cough for that sweet, sweet, sweet fiat money, last I saw.
Humanity can be disgusting at times…a lot of times…the majority of the time.
Humanity is the worst.
We’re all Nikki, to one degree or the other.
How girl get pragnent?
I feel for that guy(/s?), wherever he was from, assuming it was a sincere question.
something something foreseeable consequences something iron law
See, I went to the one about rewards and punishments.
I suspect there is a non-zero number of people in this country who would kill a relative for $9,000.
I know there is a non-zero number of people in this country who would kill a relative because of how they chew their food.
$9K is fuckin’ gravy!
Yeah, but once again, if you did the right thing and had funeral expenses prepaid, you get nothing and like it! My MIL died Xmas day and she had $10,500 in a funeral fund. Mortuary says: Yep! Call it good!
She didn’t die of covid, but she had a couple months before she died (she was in nursing home with dementia). I just assume it’s listed on the death certificate.
Wherecome noon post?
Not enough people submitted content.
We’z lazy.
/blames slef
Yep.
I was lazy about Too Local news and posted it in the comments instead of writing a story.
I have my copy of “The Great Reset” here to write up my thoughts on it, but haven’t started the article yet.
I’ll take a heaping pile of blame as well. I meant to write up the next cocktail post, but had to fix the rear brakes on one of my bikes. Then there were real world things as well.
At least tomorrow I’m going to an actual real life bar crawl again.
Y yo. I have 4 or 5 article starts, but haven’t bothered to finish any
Well crap. I don’t really have anything even half-baked enough in my brain to write a post on.
I should finish “Slaves of Baranga” it just needs the action setpiece and it’d be good to go. No philosophy, no good guys, just pulp fiction.
I have been unable to write anything for the site lately.
Everything I start is filled with profanity and will get me a visit by the king’s men.
So I just keep it to myself.
I’m sure you’ve got things you can talk about that doesn’t wander into that realm.
I do.
My fingers just don’t type them.
Actually, it’s just a motivation problem.
Usually we gat an *ahem* before we run out of content.
Thers plenty of content, technical issues, Brett L or something,
All of the pending and scheduled stuff are series with weekly time slots. Looks like there’s nothing “random” in the hopper. I may finish out a couple articles just to have some ready to fill in.
Come up with a list of subjects and I’ll write something. Go!
Time Travellers stranded in Prohibition era US try to build a time machine to get home while not breaking the timeline.
Screw the timeline! We did in my tale,
But that’s a different story.
Dont be so sure, I get ideas….
I think that was several episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Never watched that. I just tossed out an idea I had decades ago and never wrote.
Oddly enough, that show had some of the best gun fu ever. Much better than that awful Equilibrium
Started out pretty strong, went downhill pretty quickly after the 3rd season or so.
Sapient Rocks encounter carbon-based life for the first time.
Murder mystery in Ancient Mesopotamia
How about a 7-word story?
I came to Glibs for the posts.
“You can’t fit a good conversation in.”
For sale, baby shoes, heavily worn.
(it’s admittedly derivative and not as interesting as the original).
I came
I saw
Then I left
I ruined the drapes.
How to make your own cocktail garnishes (cherries, onions, etc)
History and thoughts behind some modern (2000 and later) cocktails
The ratio and history of alcoholic punches
Then I’ve got the one for home made frozen cocktails I promised.
I’ve got another beginning guitar thing ready. …for months now. But I don’t like it and idk why.
How does one go about “producing content” for this site?
If you do not have contributer status, you take whatever you’ve written up, and contact the editors via https://www.glibertarians.com/submit/ . They’ll then ask for the content and schedule it.
Thanks–I saw that, didn’t know if it was the preferred method or not.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/16/fedex-mass-shooter-was-reportedly-known-to-authorities/
At this point, I think it is fair to conclude that the perpetrator was definitely not white.Cue the tweets blaming this on white supreme pizza… in 3…. 2… …1
The completely not racist guy who killed 10 wypipo was also on the FBI’s
patsywatch list iirc.So… if you translate that into Spanish, is it a haiku?
‘white supreme pizza’
Kale, spinach, Impossible Meat, and non GMO grown portobello mushrooms with artisans mayo designed to resemble the Stars and Bars?
Shit…forgot the califlower crust…whitest thing ever…whiter than a Prius.
At this point, I think it is fair to conclude that the perpetrator was definitely not white.
Maybe he was a she.
So, maybe it was a terf war?
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.
Thanks, asshole. Now I have that stupid song in my head.
/cleanses cerebral palate with DMX
Domestic terrorist brought to justice
An Indiana man accused of being a longtime member of the Oath Keepers pleaded guilty Friday to illegally entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, an important milestone in the government’s effort to understand the forces behind the siege.
It was the first guilty plea secured by the federal government in connection with the riot, which occurred 100 days ago.
“On this 100th day since the horrific January 6 assault on the United States Capitol, Oath Keepers member Jon Schaffer has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies, including for breaching the Capitol while wearing a tactical vest and armed with bear spray, with the intent to interfere with Congress’s certification of the electoral college results,” acting Deputy Attorney General John Carlin said.
Good grief. He’s a regular Eugene Debs.
What sort of legal representation do these guys have? I don’t know much if anything about federal prosecution.
How many of his family members did they have to threaten?
Siege?
American media makes sense if you treat all media like you would treat an article from The Blaze
When you can’t get an actual Reichstag Fire, just invent one!
“illegally entering the Capitol” is a felony?! WTF
Peasants are not allowed to enter the Temple without a chaperone.
HORRIFIC, I tells ya!
Asked Friday if his plea agreement includes a requirement for him to cooperate with the government, including submitting to interviews by investigators, Schaffer answered, “Yes, your honor.”
Chuck Rosenberg, a former federal prosecutor and MSNBC contributor, said the plea was a significant development.
“The best way for prosecutors to build cases is when the people who know the most about the crime — typically the criminals — begin to plead guilty and cooperate.”
If the government is satisfied with his cooperation, prosecutors could urge the judge to reduce Schaffer’s sentence.
Friday’s development was not a surprise. A prosecution document inadvertently posted on a court website in early April disclosed that his lawyers were involved in “advanced plea negotiations” with the Justice Department.
An admission of guilt is insufficient. He must be broken and humiliated and made to renounce his heresies and atone for his sins by helping the government to punish other wrongthinkers.
“Tell us who the mastermind was behind your ingenious ploy!”
“Well, I read about the rally on the Internet. So me and some like-minded people show up at the same place at the same time. We started chanting and stuff. We got a little out of hand. Also, a cop held a door open for us.”
“Ministry of Intelligence! Iran. I knew it! Were the Russians involved, too?”
THERE NEW OPEN POST NOW!
“illegally entering the Capitol” is a felony?! WTF
This sacred temple belongs to the people. You’re not allowed in here!