Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely fantastic day it always is!
Bill Maher mocks far left young people.
Scientist from Obama Admin pushes back against climate change narrative.
Brawl at Miami International Airport.
I honestly, completely forgot this was going on until I opened the new this morning. I look forward to seeing how abysmal the ratings were.
Hundreds gather in a Nebraska field for a pool-noodle brawl over the name Josh.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Oh, Bill Mahr, you are always so close, just peel back that next layer of causation. I know you can do it!
Yeah, this is rich because he’s been pushing all this same BS for decades. He is the causation.
He’s just annoyed because they went beyond his comfort level, not because the underlying philosophical structure is any different.
You are most likely correct. *heavy sigh*
Maybe he’s waking up to reality, and is actually willing to, possibly, reevaluate his views.
I think Scruffy‘s take is closer.
No he can’t. He knows that he would end up shunned by the “cool kids” if he came clean…
I think when you get to be Billy’s age, the opinions of the cool kids get less important. Quickly.
My problem is, I hit that point at about nine years old.
“IS life precious, and if so, how do you explain Bob Barker?” Why has that Politically Incorrect promo echoed in my head for decades?
I hear he’s difficult professionally, e.g., hates being touched, which must be tricky for his makeup people.
I’m just impressed that got the clapping seals to go along (at least, according to the headline).
The clap at anything. Seals.
I always remember that Ann Coulter appearance whenever I see Bill Maher referenced.
Her Trump prediction?
I forget if it was that appearance, but Maher said something stupid and the crowd all clapped, and she said something like: “You people will clap at anything, won’t you?”
Something like that
I remember that being Hitchens, but they both may have made that point.
I think you might be right Hyperbole, maybe it was him. Just goes to show you why witness testimony is the bestess of all testimony!
Related? Dave Smith was on Rogan again and he was close to perfection getting out a message of liberty.
What are pool noodles for, anyway?
*shrug*
Primarily swimming-unrelated craft projects.
Secondarily, flotation devices.
Thanks. They didn’t exist back when I had a pool.
Nice avatar!
Moi? Appropriated from the other day’s WSJ.
In a bind, they make decent pipe insulation. Assuming you have something to cut them open with.
I have always wondered if random kids discovered the utility of actual foam pipe insulators for this, then parents started purpose-buying them, sellers and distributors became aware and started making solid, denser, colored ones marketed to the pool trade.
I use them as anti-dent devises in the soft sheds.
They’re for making poolsghetti, duh.
Udon with the punning?
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Yeah that one is a real feather in his cap.
Ramen me why I should answer to you.
hitting other people during Summer Camp games
They’re good material for knife training. Make a dummy with wooden dowels for limbs and put pool noodles over them, then cover with old clothes. Good slashing practice. See if you can slash through to the “bone.”
Mornin’ Banjos.
Good Morning All
Enjoy this Monday, don’t let them get to you.
Read the links. Too late.
Maher tends to get fed up with the proggies, goes off on them, then goes back to bashing righties.
Leaving Paducah in a bit to head back home. Kansas City, here I come (couldn’t resist, my bad).
Safe travels, Mojeaux.
A company I worked for had an office in Paducah. Oh, the time Ive had there!
/spoiler alert- McCracken County, KY women are slutty
*scribbles notes*
*buys Sean jumbo box of Jimmie Hats*
Yells across the convenience store, “Hey! Sean, do you want the extra smalls, same as last time?”
Mornin Banjos.
That climate change article was a mind-blower (that a former Obama guy pointed out the obvious flaws). I’m sure he’ll be ignored or slandered as a lackey for oil companies.
With the social distancing, I’d be careful to get too behind that study. We’re a year into study findings being interpreted to justify the most malicious actions or completely ignored. I pray for the latter.
Yeah, they will use it to justify lockdowns.
Or passports. They already got their lockdowns, so I imagine they’re horny for some new tyranny.
The irony on Weidman – he broke Anderson Silva’s leg almost exactly the same way. I remember seeing that, don’t need to watch the video.
Was it flapping in the wind like when Lawrence Taylor snapped Joe Theisman’s leg?
Worse. *cringes*
I had $140 to win $100 on Weidman, so im the one who really hurts.
One would think that the airport has security to prevent such violence.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, to see that airport security is just ineffective theater!
Judi works airport security. She and her co-workers couldn’t break up a fight in a daycare.
You’d think Canadian airport security would be tougher, what with having to battle the Hate Birds for runway time and all.
“Judi Works Airport Security” kinda sounds like an awesome long lost Ramones B-side 😉
Now that you brought it up…
Judi’s in the TSA
Now she’s frisking everybody
Judi’s in the TSA
Touching you without being naughty
^ I can dig it!
Security would show up faster if you said someone had 3.5 oz of liquid on them.
Eeeeeeeewwww, that is a lot of liquid.
I love that the name of the store in the background of the Miami Airport vid is “Urban Decay”
Best comment in the replies:
“GD white supremacy again.”
Did you catch the comment, purportedly from ABC News asking for rights to the video? No mention of payment, but a link to their terms. If you pay your own camera crews then you should damn well pay anyone who provides you footage.
*snort*
Why didn’t somebody throw a nerf football to distract them and where are the cops with the long sticks?
I tried to read the abstract for that MIT study. I got about as far as the part where they said they assumed a homogenous (not their word) distribution of pathogens throughout every interior space. What preposterous bullshit.
More garbage in, garbage out.
This if from MIT??? Sad!
But what did the models say?
“Math is hard”
“I dunno; ask China.”
Of course, all the news idiots will pick up on that “no safer than if you were 60 feet” part as confirmation of their worst fears about how horrifically deadly the snifflecooties are.
New regs from OSHA on interior ventilation and filtering incoming in 3, 2, 1….
That dude in the cell next to Hannibal Lector could spread it more than 6 feet.
“he went in as a tight-end, but was released as a wide-receiver!”
Wish I knew how to make you swallow your own tongue. 😉
Zing!!
If forced to choose, I’d watch the Weidman video on loop for 3 hours instead.
The real question is why they had that on the TV to begin with.
WuFlu ravages India.
America must lock down NOW!
They’re not allowed here any longer and I can no longer travel to Vancouver and back.
Here in Toronto I have noticed that they keep printing tightly framed pictures of India (so there’s nothing in the background to give it away or anything) and stories with non-specific headlines right in the middle of what are supposed to be local news pages. You have to actually read the article just to find out that the devastation they are showing and talking about is actually taking place in New Delhi. I’m sure that is just an accident though.
Mornin’ Banjos! Carolla was right, late night comedians are cowards. Instead of laughs they are begging applause. The first few minutes of his bit he was basically sucking Joe Biden’s dick.
I had my first dose of vaccine and am currently regretting it
Ugh. Good luck, Friend. I’m holding off until forced at wallet-point.
Go with the pink or the stink first?
Why not both?
#Shocker
Sorry Pie.
Bad reaction?
No. Not much of a reaction. Anyway the second dose generally gives worse reactions. I am just doubting it was a good idea
Honestly, I’m thinking you’ll be fine. I get the reason why people would hype the side effects, but really I’m guessing they are very rare.
Not what I’ve heard from friends and colleagues but it sound very age-dependent. I don’t think anyone over ~50 years has mentioned having a reaction.
Every younger person who has talked about their vax shots with me has mentioned bad reactions to the vaccine. High fevers and at least a day or two off work. These aren’t people who need an excuse to take time off.
Co-worker in his mid 50s had a bad reaction to the first one. Still got the second (!) and fared ok on that one.
Pathetic that we’ve been forced to go back to 12th century anecdotal evidence being the only way to try to find the truth. #Mediakills
A good friend in her mid to late 60s had zero reaction to the first shot, 12 hours of whole body muscle pain, 4 severe, to the second. Anecdata
He can see his reflection again.
I haven’t read the reported side-effects on vampires, but Im guessing the study group was pretty small.
Guardians of the True Faith
An anti-Trump conservative group is launching an effort to track and evaluate whether Republicans in Congress, in the group’s view, have acted to either undermine or uphold democracy and democratic values and what role, if any, they played in attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The Republican Accountability Project has created what it’s calling a “GOP Democracy Report Card,” which assigns grades to Republican members of Congress ranging from an “A,” which the group describes as excellent, to an “F,” which it describes as very poor. The details of the report card were first shared with CNN ahead of its release on Monday.
The group behind the effort, the Republican Accountability Project, is led by Republicans and conservatives who were outspoken in their opposition against former President Donald Trump’s reelection, including former Trump administration officials Olivia Troye and Elizabeth Neumann. The group operates as part of the advocacy organization Defending Democracy Together founded by prominent Trump critic Bill Kristol and Sarah Longwell, a longtime conservative and Republican consultant.
Same shit, new bag.
What are these “conservatives” trying to achieve in the end?
The return to being the concealed fake opposition party, I suspect.
Power.
Money.
???
“First you get the money, then you get the power…”
The establishment wants control back. They are panicking that based on their own ratings, they are significantly outnumbered.
Number of Republicans with each grade:
A 16
B 13
C 57
D 38
F 136
LOL
It’s Trump 2: Revenge of the Rockefellers
Lets just get this fight over with a cage match for party control.
Let’s go with Wakanda style.
The Cons keep asking me for money. My response, “Kick Romney, Collins, and Murkowski to the Rats, or you get nothing but a GTFOH.”
You can’t kick out the few remaining True Republicans.
To become this guy in a decade.
https://twitter.com/JimmyKimmelLive/status/1385049832130113536
So, a group of supposed Republicans is supposedly concerned with promoting democracy, even though the US is supposed to be a republic.
Sure, sounds legit.
They’re True Conservatives(TM) like those fine Lincoln Project scholars. Not filthy Trumpaloes.
Woot, local rep got an F. Fuck off asshats.
‘”Every action has a reaction. When you vilify every police officer for every bad police officer’s decision, [people] don’t want to take this job anymore,” Colligan, head of New Jersey’s largest police union, said. “It’s been a very trying and difficult time to put on the badge every day.”‘
I don’t vilify cops for other cops bad decisions, I vilify them for looking the other way or outright covering up those bad decisions in the name of the Thin Blue Line and for spending a massive amount of their time enforcing laws that have no victims…and because those bad decisions are paid out through the city and county budgets, not the pension funds.
On the flip side, I also understand why so many cops are opting out. It isn’t so good to be the King’s Men as it use to be. Especially a white cop in an urban area. You’d have to be a sucker to stay at this point.
Of course, the amount of cops needed would be a lot less if we had stronger gun rights. And of course, most urban areas aren’t going to let that happen. In fact, don’t be surprised if Obama’s federal police force idea is floated again to make up the shortfall…hooray.
What article of the constitution authorizes a federal police force again?
Oh yeah, the FYTW clause.
If you want to reduce the number of cops on the street, you better repeal all of the vice laws. Good luck.
Apparently, NYC is ending qualified immunity. The parade out the door is going to turn into a tsunami.
But it’s telling that the only way to get this sensible policy seems to be to elect a slate of far-left crackpots.
I’ve seen first hand cops doing completely immoral/illegal stuff on at least two occasions. That’s just one guy, moi. Multiply that by however many people live similar lives. Fuck them. The system is rotten and there are enough of them running around thinking they are Jack Bauer.
Watch the monkey dance!
Poor proggie bastard trying to absolve Margaret Sanger of her problematic positions. That’s some real cherry picking and 3 card monte.
It’s always different when someone on their side does it. See, also: Senator Robert C. Byrd.
I wonder if Pelosi will return her award.
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/campaigns/ppfa-margaret-sanger-award-winners#Peolosi
Sanger was absolutely a racist, elitist, and a eugenicist.
And she was not that particular about her hatred of the lesser people. IIRC, she particularly dislike the Irish poors, even though she was Irish herself.
This right here is the best quote from the whole article. I’d bet good money that they don’t apply this standard to any other historical figure.
Of course they won’t.
The left’s entire modus operandi is to judge historical actors against the most extreme modern left ideologies.
Columbus didn’t do anything unethical or immoral according to accepted standards of his era, in fact, he was a beacon that all other men aspired to be, yet look at how they’ve tried for at least a decade to vilify Columbus.
Only leftist icons will get the benefit of historical context.
It’s ok, everybody was doing it.
You could say the same thing about slavery and racism.
Absolutely. Their tolerance for wrongthink seems to be conditional.
Principals, not principles.
This.
This is a clear demonstration of that.
Weidman snaps his leg and everybody is all “ewwwww”. Masividal gets certain brain damage after getting lights out with a massive right and people roar with approval. I’d rather have the broken leg.
Im pretty certain you’re already brain damaged, brah
It’s from all these sucker punches from you.
“you got something on your shirt”
Do the japs play that game ?
“Your mom’s juice”
Yes.
They do but you can’t help but believe them because a lot of the time your shirt is at their eye level 😉
I’ll take that over “Kanchō!!!” every time.
The initiative and its findings underscore the divide in the Republican Party over how to move forward in the wake of the deadly January 6 Capitol attack and Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen. While many in the party continue to embrace the former President and his political legacy, some Republicans and conservatives have argued that the party must change course and hold those who participated in efforts to overturn the election accountable for their actions.
In an interview, Troye, a former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence who now serves as a director of the Republican Accountability Project, described the report card as a “reference tool” and informational resource for voters that can be updated over time in light of new events and Republican lawmakers’ actions.
Troye, who calls herself “a radically moderate conservative,” said the report card “says a lot about where the Republican Party is” and “speaks to the overall direction of where the GOP is based on where Trump has played a role and led it and how Trumpism has taken ahold of the base of the party.”
Bless her heart.
deadly January 6 Capitol attack
Just this phrase alone destroys your credibility, dipshit.
Troye, a former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence
.
Top aide? I’m not so sure I buy it. Pence’s national security advisor says he fired her. You’d think if she was a top aid, Pence would have had to be the guy firing her.
“director of the Republican Accountability Project”
Ah, a grifter then…now it makes sense.
a radically moderate conservative
That’s a much nicer way of saying squishy idiot.
98% of the cops make the 2% look bad.
Who won the Oscar for biggest douchebag?
the entire room?
All of them?
Union Station seems an odd choice of venue (as usual, I didn’t watch).
I consider myself to be “radically moderate” too.
I want the government to leave me and everybody else the fuck alone and stop trying to control every aspect of human interaction.
Go ahead. Call me crazy.
You are crazy.
Crazy like Wonko the Sane in the 4th Hitchhiker book.
None?
Minnesota AG says Floyd bears no responsibility for his death
Your avatar is really on point, Gaijin…
If it’s already falling, let Godzilla push it over.
Probably none, IMO. But Floyd is the conspiracy theory I believe in, I think it was a planned murder due to something between Floyd and Chauvin’s wife.
Careful, that tinfoil might be a little tight.
This is based off two pieces of information and conjecture.
1. His wife filed for divorce 3 days after Floyd’s death.
2. Supposedly, Floyd worked security at a bar the wife had worked at.
IFF #2 is true, it makes the run-in between Chauvin and Floyd a pretty damn big coincidence. Could still happen, but I don’t think its the way to bet.
Okay, I’ll play along. How did Chauvin get Floyd to take 3 times the lethal dose of fentanyl, commit a felony, and resist arrest?
Tricknology
The first part was luck, the 2nd and 3rd part were based on who he was. If I am a cop and want to murder someone, it is easier if that guy has a record. If a cop killed me, it would raise some suspicions. But a drug abuser with a criminal background? Yeah, good chance to make that look like, well, what it looked like. Chauvin got a bit unlucky with the way it ended up going down. But that is true of most criminals.
Its the wife-Floyd connection that makes the crazy conspiracy work. If that isn’t there, then nevermind. If there, I think it should have been dug into by the prosecution a bit more. Maybe they did, and it is BS. But I don’t think the prosecution was really trying to “win”. This was clearly a show trial because of the shitstorm surrounding it.
WHYT SUPREMAZY
That is a foil bridge too far for me robc.
I think the divorce was more likely an attempt to try to salvage their finances. I think I read some court finding already that invalidated the divorce as a reason to protect her assets. The decision said that the Floyds could sue to get those assets as well.
If Chauvin was planning on offing Floyd, he would have been the first on the scene. He wouldn’t have let two rookie cops show up to add more witnesses.
Here is a link to a story about the judge rejecting the Chauvin divorce
Looks like it from the link. And you are closer to it, I havent paid any attention for nearly a year, I was going off info from the first week or so after it happened.
Still seems fishy to me.
I’m more than fine with Chauvin getting put away. Let’s not kid ourselves that this wasn’t a show trial, though.
Totally, they didnt even try to nail him on the real crime.
Agreed.
My new theory is that Chauvin will start serving time. Meanwhile his appeal will slowly work its way through the system.
In about 5 years, his appeal will quietly be heard and a mistrial will be declared. The system will – again very quietly – offer him a plea deal to manslaughter and with time served he will get out and move somewhere far away.
Magic 8 ball contains more text than I remember.
IDK… FedGov is insatiable; IRS is already after him for tax stuff and DOJ is combing through his entire arrest history for possible civil rights violations. I agree this case will likely get tossed out upon appeal, but I think he will be incarcerated for quite a spell on a raft of other charges.
I have a friend who is a local police officer and is working on testing for appointment to our county SWAT team. I want to ask him someday why he is still in this line of work–the risk is far too high, in my opinion.
I think you are right.
I wonder if some of the jurors knew it was a show trial but were too afraid to stop it. So they agreed to guilty on the contradictory charges so he will have a basis for appeal.
I believe one of the alternates already came out and said as much.
Doubtful and even the murder he was convicted of was due to a quirk of Minnesota law. It’s good in this case that they call manslaughter murder though, it makes people less riotous and arsoney.
I just noticed (another) one of my light bulbs has failed. It used to be you could buy a bulb for about 75 cents and the thing would just chug along unobtrusively for about ten years, providing light (and heat) at the flick of a switch. Now, it seems as if you’ve hit the light bulb lottery if you can get a five dollar bulb to live longer than about six months.
SCIENCE!
I guess a lot of those good union jobs Comrade Biden talks about will be in light bulb factories. Something something chocolate ration has been increased.
This, despite the selling point being that the new fancy bulbs last much longer. Also, when they burn out, it is much more likely the glue fails or the bulb breaks when trying to replace them, making it a more annoying task.
I think someone here said that Heit LEDs are duds.
Feit. Yes, they’re POS in my experience. Had good luck with GE and Philips.
I have a bunch of Feit bulbs and no problems yet since I bought the first about 4 years ago.
Oops: yeah, those. Thanks for all the brand recommendations.
Agreed, my Phillips LEDs are long lasting as hell. I just changed a still working but dim Phillips bulb over my stove. It’s been there for at least 4 or 5 years.
Yep. The base is more likely to break off in the socket so then you need to go to the circuit box and then do the potato trick. Not cool.
so then you need to go to the circuit box
???? you don’t trust the switch?
I’ve found that it really is a matter of who made the bulb. I may be biased, but the cheaper made are heavier and put more strain on the structural elements leading to those types of separations in short order. I found some Sylvania made LEDs that are much lighter in construction and haven’t had any separation issues. They’re made with glass instead of plastic, but since Sylvania’s expertise is vaccuum tubes and light bulbs, they are the lightest and brightest I’ve found so far.
Proof that we’re entering a new dark ages.
I’ve had good luck with the generic Lowes LED bulbs. There are two in my workshop that I leave on 24/7. They’ve been going strong for about 5 or 6 years now of continuous use. Maybe a buck a piece or less.
I started writing the dates on the base. I don’t know what I will do with the information. It’s mainly to see if they last as long as advertised or not.
Baseball birthdays:
Amos Otis, Virgil Trucks, questionable HoFer Hack Wilson, Ray Caldwell, Sal Maglie.
#8 is Aaron Judge, moving on up.
#9 is Granny Hamner, which is a great name.
RE: Hack Wilson. He is the ultimate argument for peak vs longevity. 1926-30 he was putting up big numbers. Especially 1930, which is the year that got him elected. But that was it. Those 5 years was basically his whole career. 38.2 career WAR, 30.3 in those 5 years.
That is a good baseball name, right up there with Rollie Fingers and Catfish Hunter.
Bringing over from the dead-thread, I’m thinking about an article regarding personal ethics and temptation. How did you resist or succumb? Did you let that devil on your left shoulder whispering in your ear prevail or did your better nature prevail? I’m not a writer so instead of an actual post it would be more of a question posed. It seems an interesting topic to me because I’m dealing with a few issues lately and I’d like the feed-back. I’ve aged out of most kinds of bad behavior but the Glibertariat is so wide-ranging that it would be cool to see what drives some of us toward our most stupid and wisest decisions.
I’d say just go ahead and write it. The questions will form automatically and then you’ll think about it, add to it and come to a conclusion. Don’t sell yourself short. I’m sure we’d appreciate what you come up with.
I mostly regret things I didn’t do, either for myself or others.
That’s because you’re a Saint, Miss O’Grady, not a Sinner… Thus my interest in the subject 🙂
Heh, I wish. I will bask in the morale-boosting compliment anyway.
In case anyone wants a new avatar.
That’s so wrong, yet so right.
I noticed my old avatar is back, which is fine, I was meaning to do that anyway. Glitch in the matrix?
Great now the office ladies down the hall think I am (more) of a lunatic.
You slay me, Friend!
Could be cannibalism.
Either cannibalism or photoshop.
Wait, you don’t think Alex Jones was really at the scene?
He staged it, clearly.
Toadally.
Twitter link? From me? OK, I got this from a friend. Relevant to the Oscars discussion and likely to be deeply appreciated here.
Another from the same person – killer.
That guy died? I guess there won’t be another Black Panther flick.
No cheating and hovering over the link. What would make you turn completely Ted K?
Around here it’s prudent to hover over most links as if they were a piss-covered toilet seat in a Chicago gas station.
Straff, it’s not cheating, it’s standard operating procedure.
You’re the type of guy that put’s a toe in before jumping in the gene pool.
Who are you to kink shame someone’s foreplay?
I had a HS gf that read about using the big toe in the bathtub and wanted to try it out. Unfortunately, we were sophomores nad never had the opportunity to have a bathtub to ourselves.
Her name was Peggy.
If the Republicans don’t sweep the next Michigan election… I will be… Well actually I won’t be surprised they screw up every opportunity the Democrats give them.
Why do you keep expecting so much from your fellow citizens? Some people actually LIKE this shit.
Better fourteen months late than never.
NPR is aghast
First time gun owners, young and old from across the country, are helping to push record levels of gun sales for what looks like the second year in a row.
“My gun store has had a run like I’ve never seen before,” said Todd Cotta, the owner of Kings Gun Center in Hanford, Calif., in the state’s agriculturally rich Central Valley. “It was just an avalanche of new gun buyers for the first time.”
These buyers are white, Black, Asian, and Latino and come from all political beliefs. And they’re being driven by uncertainty, fear, and a need to feel safe.
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A 2020 survey by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for gun retailers, ranges and manufacturers that lobbies Congress, said gun shop owners reported 40% of customers were first time gun buyers from Jan – April 2020.
Mark Oliva, public affairs director for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said the largest demographic increase was among non-white Americans.
“Today’s gun owner looks a lot less like me and looks a whole lot more like America,” Oliva, who is white, said.
Most often, the first timers are purchasing a semiautomatic handgun, outpacing the second-most purchased firearm, shotguns, by a 2 to 1 margin, according to NSSF.
Solomon, owner of Redstone Firearms and who has been running California’s only Black owned-gun shop since 2015 with her husband, said in the last year, she’s noticed an increase in the number of Black women who have come into the store to buy a gun.
Part of that interest stems from the strained relations between the Black community and police, and a real fear of dialing 911 in emergencies, she said.
“Because of that most of our customers that have come in here take on that personal responsibility to be able to protect themselves,” she said.
Whycome them no put faiths in government?
Everybody knows a belief in self-sufficiency just leads to chaos and anarchy.
Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
Cognitive dissonance is a myth.
That’s just what you want to believe.
They do not experience any dissonance. We think they should, but they don’t. They just merrily go on their way.
I’m sure the police in their neighborhoods are kind, courteous, and show up promptly when called for the occasional noise complaint. In poor neighborhoods, not so much. The NPR douchebags lack empathy but we already knew that.
Oh noes!
Eeeeeeew.
I lol’ed.
I suspect that preferred color of gun is less of a factor than expected.
All they have left are the pink guns. I could have settled for yellow or blue, but not pink.
A related, much more appropriate NPR sob story:
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/24/990353928/boba-shortage-could-stretch-into-summer-leave-businesses-in-a-bind
Not my tasteless tapioca balls!
I find it encouraging that despite some people’s best efforts at pushing a narrative, reality still comes through and smacks them in the face.
This huge influx of new and nontraditional gun owners is the reason I’m kinda ambivalent about the whole ammo shortage thing…
At the match yesterday, some old guy (who I’ve seen around, so is a legitimate member) was selling Winchester Super-X ammo out of the back of his SUV. He had many cases worth packed in there. At $20/box. I bought five.
I’ve been pretty good about resisting temptation through the years. Many, many opportunities to mess around with a friend’s girlfriend or wife but I’ve never acted upon it. I may not be a Christian anymore but the Golden Rule is still an excellent philosophy to follow. Couple that with a strong sense of self hatred and temptation can be thwarted…just hate yourself a little more, Festus. Get it to the point were cheating would completely break your soul and you’ll never stray!
It’s not just that TH. I mean to ask an over-arching question. Cheating would end me. I couldn’t deal with it. What about lifting some post-its or dumping your garbage in the Company bin? It needn’t be about adultery, theft or even murder. Just a an exchange about what white lies are “white”. Where are the boundaries? Which are yours?
Dammit, for Festus. Comment 27.
That’s funny.
“Man wants liberty to become the man he wants to become.” — James Buchanan (the economist, not the president)
In the wake of mass shootings at workplaces, grocery stores, and spas in Indianapolis; Boulder, Colo.; and Atlanta, lawmakers have called for comprehensive gun control legislation.
That effort often has an unintended effect.
“We see this trend often – whenever high profile mass shootings occur people begin stockpiling weapons out of fear that the government will restrict gun rights,” said James Densley, co-founder of The Violence Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that tracks public mass shootings in the U.S.
“It’s a reactionary response,” he said.
Stupid fucking plebs. How dare they?
It’s a reactionary response to reality.
“nonprofit”
All you people who hoarded toilet paper? You’re gonna die!
An article asking the hard hitting question: Is your TP safe?
I’m pretty sure that he means if you don’t clean your ass properly bad things will happen. But the wording of the journalo does make it seem like only a fool wouldn’t properly clean his feces.
Washlets for the win
Journalists aren’t very bright. It probably came as a shock to him that he needed to be clean.
This feels a taint exaggerated.
Perhaps a bit distended.
NOOOOOO!
*narrows gaze*
I’m wiping this out of my mind, Swiss…
I don’t get the gaze narrowing.
Did he mis-punctuate his response? Was there supposed to be a semi-colon in there somewhere?
Nah, it takes a full colon.
But not a colon full stopped.
Are you sure it shouldn’t be an asterixis? – )*(
*puckers ass*
“On the next episode of, ‘Zoomers Afraid of Everything…'”
Well, I believe the Mythbusters did show that you could polish a turd.
Takes about ten coats of varnish and some drying time. I’ll allow it.
No, it requires the proper consistancy of stool. Some beasts droppings are more polishable than others.
Obligatory.
1) That brawl in Miami is obviously between a bunch of Aunt Toms. If they were real-deal-Biden-voting black girls, they would all have had knives.
2) Candace Owens is missing out on an opportunity. She should be cutting all her enemies and then claiming that is just how her black culture works and anyone who doesn’t like being stabbed by her is an out and out racist.
My wife is a teacher. I’m going to get her to teach me some hand-to-hand combat since the Army only provided a minimal amount during BCT.
If I were a single man, Candace could come over for stabbin at her own convenience.
When will one of the crazies start claiming that it is totes racist for the TSA to take away knives from black girls when they go through an airport security line?
How will those girls be able to interact with their peers when they get to their destination without their blades?
Are the schools distributing them to the poorer kids who can’t afford to buy any?
So I got a birthday card from my mom today. Problem is I was born in November. Do I return the Werther’s?
Uh, half-birthday?
That is indeed odd. Do you have many siblings?
Yeah. 5. But I ain’t sending that sweet candy to my sister (May b day).
Blame it on the USPS.
The USPS is finally getting to all the other mail it had to pause to fortify the election?
Yeah, is the postmark legible?
Well you are on the other side of the date line. Maybe your mom just doesn’t have a good grasp of how far ahead Japan is from Wisconsin.
Or there is a bad batch of paint thinner making the rounds in Wisconsin.
At least she remembered that you were still alive.
We must act now to consolidate our power grabs
Vice President Kamala Harris will make the case before United Nations members on Monday that now is the time for global leaders to begin putting the serious work into how they will respond to the next global pandemic.
The virtual address, Harris’ second to a U.N. body since her inauguration, will come as the United States makes progress on vaccinating the public and much of the world struggles to acquire vaccines.
“At the same time that the world works to get through this pandemic, we also know that we must prepare for the next,” Harris will say, according to excerpts of the speech obtained by The Associated Press. The speech will be co-hosted by U.N. permanent representatives of Argentina, Japan, Norway and South Africa.
The Biden administration will mark its first 100 days in office this week. President Joe Biden is scheduled to address Congress on Wednesday and is certain to highlight the headway his administration has made in responding to the worst public health crisis in the U.S. in more than a century.
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Harris says much has been learned over the last year about pandemic preparedness and response but that it would be unwise to rest easy
“We have been reminded that the status quo is not nearly good enough, and that innovation is indeed the path forward,” Harris says.
We cannot allow this higgledy-piggledy localized response model to persist any longer.
We must have iron-fisted control of the global population. All governments must be subservient to the New World Order.
And what’ll the next global health threat be I wonder? My bet is it begins with “climate” and ends with “change.”
Can she name one policy — besides travel restrictions — that at all is associated with a better covid response in the West? I can’t think of any really.
She’ll just read off a list of dubious bullshit measures that’ll be accepted as gospel by the usual suspects, never you mind Sweden, Belarus, South Dakota, Florida, and Texas.
All governments must be subservient to the New World Order
I have no doubt that is a deeply satisfying fantasy to some, but it’s just a touch tough to put into practice. Turns out those govts view each other with even more suspicion than we view them. Two cheers for human nature.
Pining for communism?” he continued. “It’s like pining for Betamax or Myspace.
This is a terrible comparison, Bill.
It’s more like pining for poverty.
It’s like pining for cable television, especially premium channels?
I’m pining for the fjords…
Betamax killed my father, you bastard!!!
Speaking of Kamala….
Did you guys cover the story of her book being given to the kids in cages yet?
I’m sure Kamala donated those books to the kids. No way she’d try to profit on the backs of the tax payers.
In the kits you get for crossing the border, you get the Kamala book *and* a Biden t-shirt.
I’m not kidding.
She’s claiming the locals decide what goes into the propaganda-packs.
?
And of course she is going to donate her royalties now because she doesn’t want even a whiff of impropriety, right?
No, no – she was all paid in advance. Her fingerprints have been sanded off.
Well I mean it’s totally possible. El Paso is a very blue place.
More likely the case that they would choose her book in order to curry favor.
JHTFC
We’re through the looking glass.
Is this like the 19th-century street urchins that would shake passers-by down for a toll to walking through ‘their’ neighborhood?
“Newsies!”
Book “sales” are a traditional way to funnel money to politicians. Look for organizations, foreign and domestic, to buy pallets of them to give out.
Or straight to the landfill.
I wondered about that. A magazine I get regularly prints 75,000 copies and sells 50,000 (according to their circulation statement). Have printed and sold this level for many years. Why? Even knowing that each additional one printed costs less, wouldn’t their production manager or controller have scaled back the print run by now? What about the dumpster costs and landfill fees for those extra magazines?
Do they give those extra 25 k away? The difference in advertising rates between 50 k distribution and 75 k distribution may be greater than the cost of printing the extra copies.
Library copies maybe?
No, the freebies, etc. are accounted for in the 50,000.
Renweable biomass energy?
FOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUURSCOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You tricked me and now all I have is cancer and no super powers!
It’s not the bees we have to worry about. It’s the ants. I’ve seen the historical documents.
I thought it was the trees that had it out for us. I saw a documentary with Marky Mark on the topic.
Funny that they left out China in that list along with a few others. Is there no news agency that a bunch of yuan can’t buy?
It’s really the giant fungus that covers half of Washington and Oregon.
https://thatmushroom.com/2020/09/largest-living-organism
I’m out, Globs. Yesterday was unpleasant and tomorrow promises to be the same. God speed!
Keep your sunny side up!
I feel like a lot of conservative news outlets are letting this one blow by so … here’s a little summary of what happened in the U.S./China “climate change” summit last week:
1) China spent the first 20 minutes of the meeting lecturing the U.S. on how they are responsible for equal human rights violations to what the Trump administration called out China on.
2) The Biden delegation had no response to this whatsoever. Either they were unprepared for this because they know nothing of China or likely — because they are Democrats — they agreed with China.
3) After humiliating the U.S., China then pledged to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2040. China is presently slated to build more new coal plants than the U.S. has coal plants in total, but they’ll apparently stop this new building process by 2025.
4) No questioning of whether this utterly blatant lie that is not even remotely achievable will actually take place.
5) No mention of how China is funding a fossil fuel boom in regions like Africa that would undercut anything the country directly does anyway.
6) The Biden delegation then patted themselves on the back for success with China and the media penned glowing stories of how they’re saving the world.
7) Chinese delegation goes back home, has a big party where they laugh about how easy it is to manipulate the stupid Americans.
Stupid baizuo will never learn.
That’s what “10% for the Big Guy” buys you…
Non profit equity
Historically, it is state attorneys general who police charities, and in California, a state with 115,000 charities, that is a big job.
Jan Masaoka, the CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits, compares the California regime to the Federal Aviation Administration’s system of regulation. Just as the FAA needs information from airplane manufacturers and airlines to ensure safety in air travel, California and other states need information from charities to ferret out fraud and self-dealing.
“All of us–nonprofits and donors–we want to have that confidence that the rules are being enforced, and we need the [state] attorney general to do that,” Masaoka says.
Delaney, who was was responsible for that enforcement in New York state, says the only way for a state to monitor so many charities is to have scannable information, and computers programmed to search for red flags that identify potentially problematic organizations.
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But Sullivan, the lawyer for Americans for Prosperity, says there are alternatives to what she calls California’s “sweeping” demand for donor information.
“They can use targeted audit letters or subpoenas if they ever need that information for a legitimate investigation,” she says, adding that “where the government doesn’t need to know the names of your donors, it shouldn’t be allowed to under the First Amendment.”
That’s nonsense, replies Scott Nelson, of the the nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen.
“The idea that an investigator can start a full-blown investigation and issue a bunch of subpoenas completely blinks the reality of how bureaucracies work,” he says. Regulators “have to get some kind of a red flag before they know which charities to pick out for that kind of investigation.”
Justice is blind. State attorneys general would never use donor lists to engage in selective enforcement, or to exert back door pressure on donors or organizations. They would absolutely never surreptitiously divulge such information for political reasons.
They only use their powers for good.
Regulators “have to get some kind of a red flag before they know which charities to pick out for that kind of investigation.”
Just like the NY AG’s fishing expedition into Trump’s tax returns.
Red Flag = Red Hat Insurrectionist Nazi
To quote Matt Welch: “How can you know if it is a fishing expedition unless you do an investigation?”
I think the lie here is in the phrasing. Subpoenas require a court. Regulators, however, can make your life a living hell if they so desire.
Not explained:
Why donor lists are needed to properly monitor nonprofits for legal violations. Nonprofits have that status not because of who their donors are, but because of what they do with the money they raise from donors.
In the Supreme Court, an astounding 63 briefs have been filed in support of the Koch brothers foundation. And while the overwhelming majority were filed by conservative advocacy groups, a small but significant set of briefs were filed by liberal groups like the ACLU and the NAACP legal defense fund.
As for the Trump administration, it sided firmly with the Koch brothers foundation in 2020, a year after the tax-exempt Donald J. Trump Foundation was forced to dissolve–a result of an investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office that uncovered a “shocking pattern of illegality” that included using $10,000 of donor money to fund a Trump portrait and more than $100,000 to settle a Mar-a-Lago legal dispute.
The Biden administration has changed the government’s position in Monday’s case, and will urge the justices to send the case back to the lower court for further findings and legal analysis.
Still the case is seen as a very big deal, and something of a stalking horse.
“This fight is a skirmish in a larger war,” observes Delaney, the former New York regulator.
No shit, Shirley?
And- to no one’s surprise, NPR writer finds it “astounding” that anybody could bring themselves to support the Dread Brothers Koch in their nefarious quest to destroy the American Way of Life.
Yet another columnist has said Bernie Madoff “bilked investors out of at least $20 billion.” How is this possible? One family couldn’t spend that much on hookers and blow, or other consumables, in their lifetime. One could do it only by buying assets. Presumably, those assets – islands, chateaus, yachts, rare coins, Van Goghs, etc. – could be located and sold off to reimburse the investors. How does one net a $20 billion loss unless Madoff vastly overpaid for assets that later sold for pennies on the dollar?
Don’t overlook the power of depreciation and bad stock bets.
Plus, 20 bil might not be the net loss, it might be the gross investment collected. Columnists tend to get those sorts of details mixed up.
That, and they also probably didnt adjust for the clawback they did to some Madoff clients who had cashed out. If you had gains from Madoff investments, you had to reimburse others.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/madoff-investors-must-return-profits-in-clawback-2d-cir-rules
Key passage:
The liquidating trustee reported that, as of Aug. 21, he has recovered more than $14 billion for defrauded investors.
“The street value of these drugs…”
Went to the park near my office today to eat lunch. Had an hour to kill so I started sketching some more skulls. Worms and maggots coming out of the eyeballs. Had my ear buds in and was really getting into the music and drawing. I look up and this 6 or 7 year old kid is standing across from the table staring at me. I take my buds out and say, “Hello.” He says, “Hello. What the hell are you doing?” (equivalent Japanese). “Oh”, I say. “I’m just sketching”. He responds with, “That’s kind of strange, don’t you think?” Odd experience, but he did say, “Good bye” when he turned around and walked away.
Just tell him “Attack on Titan Season 5. Shhhhhhhh”
And now a message from the Ministry of Truth
Alaska Airlines has banned an Alaska state senator for refusing to follow mask requirements.
“We have notified Senator Lora Reinbold that she is not permitted to fly with us for her continued refusal to comply with employee instruction regarding the current mask policy,” spokesman Tim Thompson told the Anchorage Daily News on Saturday, adding that the suspension was effective immediately.
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Reinbold has been a vocal opponent to Covid-19 mitigation measures and has repeatedly objected to Alaska Airlines’ mask policy, which was enacted before the federal government’s mandate this year.
Last year, she referred to Alaska Airlines staff as “mask bullies” after being asked by flight attendants to wear a mask aboard a flight, the newspaper reported. After the incident, she reportedly sent a cake to some flight attendants bearing the inscription: “I’m sorry if I offended you.”
Alaska Airlines has banned over 500 people.
Thompson said the length of Reinbold’s ban will be determined by a review.
Nice work, NBC. Once you have assumed the proper conclusion, the rest of the argument falls neatly into place.
Yet another columnist has said Bernie Madoff “bilked investors out of at least $20 billion.”
Why did the SEC ignore the hundreds of complaints from investors who were concerned about suspiciously high rates of return?
Good morning, Banjos!
And a good morning to the rest of you fine people!
I woke up with an excellent ear-worm today.
The original.
A worthy cover.
I love it when that happens. Have a great day, peeps!
Earworms are evil, don’t share them.
Earworms, like human hearts, have the evil/good duality.
This is clearly good so I am spreading joy and love, motherfucker.
Anything that gets stuck in the head spreads only suffering.
Again, if it displaces negativity and gloom, it’s wonderful.
Besides, no one is forced to click.
Yeah, they make the host especially susceptible to suggestion.
That cover is dead on.
LOL!
Let’s try that again!
Bauhaus’s cover of Ziggy Stardust is much better than Bowie’s original.
+1
Just another Mammary Monday.
https://archive.is/t5X1W
“This emphasis on distancing has been really misplaced from the very beginning,” he said. “The CDC or WHO have never really provided justification for it, they’ve just said this is what you must do and the only justification I’m aware of, is based on studies of coughs and sneezes, where they look at the largest particles that might sediment onto the floor and even then it’s very approximate, you can certainly have longer or shorter range, large droplets.”
What a science denier.
Supreme Court takes up major case over right to carry guns outside the home
In the case the court agreed to hear on Monday, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Keith Corlett, No. 20-843, individuals and a state organization are challenging a New York law that requires individuals to show “proper cause” in order to receive a permit for the open carry of a handgun.
Robert Nash and Brendan Koch, the individuals who brought the suit, both applied for licenses to carry handguns for self-defense and were denied. A district court reasoned that neither man had proper cause because neither faced “any special or unique danger to [their] life.”
Watch, regardless of the ruling, New York won’t issue permits to unconnected plebs.
1. By this logic, even if every person were in dire immediate threat of attack, no one would have the proper cause. Uniformity of danger is not an excuse to prevent people from attempting to thwart that danger.
2. The use of “his” instead of “their” as modified by the editor/author would be grammatically correct, especially since in the same sentence, the word “man” is used to refer to both individuals.
To follow up on 1., consider whether any individual, under this logic, would have a “proper cause” to attempt to counteract the negative effects of, oh, say, global climate change on himself.
But they can hire armed security for protection without a permit.
Watch Roberts. My money is on him voting with the majority to eviscerate the ruling. Heller, with all of holes Scalia put into it, will look good by comparison.
It’s already gutted, because the proper ruling is that the Constitution forbids the state from requiring permission to purchase, own, or carry arms. They’ll never give that ruling.
Yeah, somehow SCOTUS has given each state the authority to abridge, as they see fit, the right of the people to bear arms.
Don’t you understand, DEG? It’s a tax!
From the article – “… requires individuals to show “proper cause” in order to receive a permit for the open carry of a handgun.”
I’m pretty sure this is about concealed carry – but it seems obvious that ‘real journalists’ don’t need to actually understand the subject they are bloviating about.
This is the opportunity the SCOTUS has been looking for to show that the court don’t need no packin’–they’ll make a 6-3 decision to eviscerate the right to carry in exchange for the Dems leaving them alone, for a time.
So basically SCOTUS is against packin’ under any context.
Thanks for that
Turns out those govts view each other with even more suspicion than we view them. Two cheers for human nature.
Everybody wants to be the “benevolent” dictator who makes the world a better place. Some more so than others.
Bill Maher annoys the shit out of me, but he’s pretty good in this one about white shame…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0q2ZR4nBuE
And yes, his audience will clap at anything.
I want to believe there is nothing to worry about.
Oh, excuse that pile of drugs between my ankles.
You could have brought up the Asset Forfeiture Case before the court.
Thoughg I have’t read the details there yet.
They didn’t want to talk about it 🙁
John Roberts will, as always, roll over and die.
It must be some kind of Republican instinct
Yeah, the alleged 6-3 tilt to conservatives is barely 5-4.
The Supremes accepted a 2A case apparently:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-consider-concealed-carry-gun-laws
Will wonders never cease? Now stay healthy right wing oldsters.
Whatever happened to the court case with ACA being declared unconstitutional by the lower courts due to non-severability or something?
Good question, the latest I could find on that was from 2018 when the lower court made the ruling with anticipated SC hearing by 2020.
Guess who missed their flight? And gets stuck in Chicago until Tuesday?
Im such a fuck up, but wow,
Oh dear!
No kidding, but I have friends…
🙁
That sucks.
This going to cause trouble at
wokework?Nope, boss told me to calm down, all good at work, thank Adams
Maybe there will be a looting opportunity while you are stuck there.
“I’m sorry, sir, but that flatscreen is too large for carry-on.”
LOL!
That bar at O’Hare must be pretty nice.
Ill stop in when I get there, now in SanDiego, I have a double shot, a pint, a large coffee, and some water for the flight.
A nice gal in the smoking area shared a blunt, so Im cooooool
Wow, bold of the nice stranger.
Bold of me for asking, but I can talk to anyone, I’m charming
Sorry
Except for the propaganda blaring from the P.A. and 10 dollar shots of whiskey, its alright
Why donor lists are needed to properly monitor nonprofits for legal violations. Nonprofits have that status not because of who their donors are, but because of what they do with the money they raise from donors.
Oh, hush.
FreedomToons on Joe Biden making first contact with aliens.
Awesome! Thanks,
Some Karen just told me to put my mask on I was ready, ” Im drinking here!”
Bitch
More eloquent than my response to a random stranger trying to tell me to put a mask on.
I just said “Piss off”.
I didn’t have time to think of anything clever, because I was outside for a walk.
“Sooooo kind of you to take an interest.”
I’ve been thinking up a nice reply for whenever I might get the chance to be back in the US. All I can come up with so far is – “I don’t feel inclined to wear a mask because most people don’t mind seeing a good looking face. However we do appreciate you keeping yours on.”
My dad likes to joke around with cashiers. His recent repertoire includes asking if he can get a discount for being good-looking.
The best response he’s gotten yet was “No, we don’t. But if we did then we’d have to charge you extra”.
I ho[e he got a good laugh out of it.
He did. It made his day.
This big city stuff is overwhelming,
Once you’re gone, you can’t come back,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfV1dTTMLU
Am probably repeating myself.
Seamus is the heat. He is on a very short list of YouTube types that I will support with monies, when I am better able to support myself with monies, that is.
I thought this one was pretty funny.
Coates is such an overrated hack.
John Roberts will, as always, roll over and die.
He just wants those nice progressives to rub his belly.
He’s a good little doggy.
Republicans Have Ruined Sports for Republicans
Those dastardly Republicans injecting politics into sports when the players just want to play.
It’s all those culture warriors fault. Its only Culture war when the right does it.
It takes two for a war. If the normies would just roll over and let the commies “transform” America, there would be no culture war.
LOL the lack of self-awareness is breathtaking.
OFFS