Thank God!
The Yankees are on a rampage. The Orioles are red hot, having won two whole games in a row, which might be their season-best win streak, Houston might finally be pulling away in the AL West, the Pardes slide might be enough to see the Reds in the playoffs, and The Giants and Dodgers are battling it out for the best record in the NL and a wild card spot where anything can happen in a one-game matchup. The Ronaldo to Man City deal is almost done. Mbappe is most likely headed to Real Madrid. The UCL group draw has some interesting matchups. Man United got a cakewalk and Group G is just shit. Otherwise, some really good teams are gonna and up in the Europa League by spring. And that’s sports.
Tuesday’s gone, man.
Birthday celebrants today include founder of Hasidic Judaism Baal Shem Tov, novelist we all were forced to read (but I actually enjoyed) Theodore Dreiser, chemist Carl Bosch, automaker Charles Stewart Rolls, serial killer Ed Gein, cricket legend Don Bradman, imbecile Lyndon Baines Johnson, baseball player Peanuts Lowery, author Ira Levin, baseball player Joe Cunningham, the lovely actress Tuesday Weld, Bond girl Barbara Bach, catcher Ed Herrmann, public masturbator Paul Reubens, guitar great Alex Lifeson, fashion designer Tom Ford, outfielder Brian McRae, infielder Jim Thome, and actor Aaron Paul.
Decent list there. Now it’s time for…the links!
Wow, it didn’t take long for the “Republicans pounce” headlines to start after yesterday. Well here’s the thing: they should pounce. Because the catastrophic and spectacular failure in ending the Afghsnistan occupation should come with a political price. The dumbfuck in charge needs to go (in addition to all the top generals and heads of the intel agencies). Even if that means Kamala takes over.
An absolute shitshow of epic proportions.
This story is local for my parents and it has the entire area wondering what will happen. It’s spent some time in the national news, but I bet it starts spending more. It’s a weird-ass deal.
Talk about an overreaction. They called the freaking police and went into lockdown over that? What a bunch of pussies. Well, they’re probably gonna get sued on 1A grounds, but in the 9th Circuit it probably won’t go anywhere.
All that grandstanding and nothing to show for it. Next time, show up and do your job, even if you don’t think it’ll end up the way you want it to.
As far as Afghanistan goes, this may have been the dumbest thing the admin has done so far. I say “so far” because I expect them to do something even stupider today. Or tomorrow. Or next week. Or already but we haven’t heard of it yet. You know, since they’ve literally fucked up every single thing they’ve done.
It’s about fucking time. By the way, if you want to read something terrifying, have a gander at Breyer’s dissent. He basically says laws don’t matter and that emotional appeals should reign supreme if there’s a disease running around. That dumbass probably needs to review his job description and absolutely needs to revisit his oath of office.
Imbecile.
How stunning and brave. Oh wait, I meant to say “how fucking stupid.” He also missed the fact that all those other things he’s alluding to are actual laws that were passed by a legislature. And also that nobody is forced to drive a car but kids are forced to attend school.
These guys deserve a medal. But it’s San Francisco so I’d expect them to end up being charged with violating rights. Because shooting up smack and/or taking a shit on the sidewalk is somehow more important than the safety of people trying to safely walk to their car or home.
I guess these guys hate the First Amendment too. Well, at least the discovery phase won’t be boring. Actually, it shouldn’t get to that if the judge recognizes the 1A rights of the defendant We shall see if that happens.
Let’s end the links, and the week, with an upbeat song. We all need this. Enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great Friday and an even better weekend, friends! College football is here and things are looking up.
whaddup doh’
That girl on the pic for the morning linx…. She looks familiar… Or maybe it is the look in her eyes that is familiar… Especially with the knife in her hand.
She looks rather like Eliza Dushku to me… but it may just be the general look. Certainly she did more than her share of crazy roles, so it is possible….
Hey Tres, hope work went well. I dig the chick with knives theme this week but I prefer chicks with guns myself.
Maybe next week, ok? No promises, but I have been known to take requests from time to time.
Pics of Winston’s mom plying her trade?
Glibs is a family-friendly site.
Addams family-friendly, for sure.
I thought it was Manson-family-friendly the last time this came up? We’ve gotten less dark and a bit sillier?
They can have “classy” working mom’s pics, yo….
And we can have little articles so we can all say we are reading it for the articles…
This is more than acceptable.
Why did you go straight to the belief I was asking for “Shwank Magazine” or “Big Uns” style content is what worries me though waffles, cause I don’t like people being in my head that way….
https://www.pinterest.com/morenomarinc27/gunsnwomen/
Thanks, Sean. I’m always looking for wholesome, active girls for my Thursday PM links.
I rather like that image of burning porta-potties you usually use sir… It reflects the times very appropriately…
Ta.
Shout-out to Trashy who first started using feature illos of stuff burning, now it’s become trendy.
You need one of a dumpster fire with a caption in a foreign language to make it classy..
“Focco di Cassone”, for example, sounds nicer than dumpster fire…
Oleg Volk has a bunch of wholesome girls with guns photos.
http://www.olegvolk.net
Thanks. Also, hot guys with guns!
Well, I suppose I could have Mrs. Animal take a few snaps.
^^^BAD ASS^^^
I noticed when I was at nationals, all the women wearing lycra were the kind of women that should have been wearing lycra.
“Talk about an overreaction. They called the freaking police and went into lockdown over that? What a bunch of pussies. ”
This is all by design.. Fearporn is needed to keep people from realizing this shit is about making us bend the knee no matter how ludicrous or stupid the order is.
Even money says the teachers and admins were secretly hoping the cops would get to shoot one of them to make sure the rest of the kids knew who the bosses were.
The thing about fuckups is that there’s sort of a snowball effect where each fuckup triggers and magnifies the next until all you can see is fuckups in every direction. That’s where we are in Afghanistan, every possible path is now a fuckup.
Fuckups ALWAYS make thing worse, because they are more focused on covering up and avoiding fuckups than doing the right thing.
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This also explains the COVID crisis.
It is certainly happening in Afghanistan, where the idiots were so focused on avoiding a Mogadishu Black Hawk Down event, because team blue knows they have a reputation of being inept when it comes to projecting power globally and are seen as weak by every bad actor in the world, that the geniuses making the decisions ended up creating something much, much worse…
They seem to think that threatening to drop a few bombs and send hard
menxem with nifty toys is a good substitute for diplomacy.I am starting to suspect that they are hoping things go horribly wrong so we decide we need to surge more troops instead of getting out of that shithole.
I am sure every E-7 and below was amazed at each order that lead to the fuck-ups. Probably asked for confirmation and got yelled at by an imbecile officer.
That squad of Marines didn’t need to die in this chaos.
Amazing that through all of the incompetence and carnage, the MSM is still trying to carry water for Biden and the Dems. They really are shameless, immoral propagandists.
Matt Bracken on the impossible situation in Kabul. At this point we have to blame somebody else (like ISIS) and be nice because that airport is open only because they are allowing it.
https://gab.com/Matt_Bracken/posts/106828039518815387
https://ifunny.co/picture/77hTDLVr8
Dumping on a POTUS is always fine by me, but these things always seem to gloss over the fact that the unnamed military brass were the ones encouraging and strategizing the excursions and the unnamed congress critters that repeatedly voted in favor of increasing the funding for said excursions despite the lack of results.
and either the Pentagon was ignoring the intelligence they were getting regarding the viability of the ANA or their J-2s were blowing smoke up their collective asses. I’d put money on the former, but either is plausible.
Anyone that has even been tangentially involved in an operation with the ANA knows that they would not move an inch without US air and ground support. Perhaps the rapidity of their collapse was a bit surprising, but their collapse was an inevitability.
That’s fair. I was just looking for an excuse to use the pic.
Every unit that worked with the ANA or security forces knew they were weak and would quickly fold. I will bet dollars to doughnuts that the reports were submitted saying “Hey, we found a pile of horse shit in the street.” By the time the reports were airbrushed up the chain of command to the 4 star they were saying, “We have a pony.”
They worked so hard to get rid of the guy they hated and that threatened their mandarinate, taking any and all actions, regardless of potential future consequences, to convince low information people to hate, and now find themselves with so many landmines they created themselves blowing up on them that peddling the faerie tale has become problematic.
I remind you that for 50 years everyone, including the usual propagandists in the media made fun of Biden and considered him one of the dumbest and most corrupt fucks in the senate. They even pointed out how brilliant Obama was for picking him as his Veep (cause nobody would want to kill Obama and put that dunce in the big seat), and were all calling him a dumb mentally slow idiot during the primaries for 2020 election until it became obvious the field of other options was nothing but horribly stupid losers. Then Sleepy-Slow Joe became this genius statesman by decree, as all the people that had made fun of him previously, suddenly pivoted on a dime to become cheerleaders.
You can polish a turd and give it a great sheen, sell it’s image as expensive chocolate, but sooner than later, someone will take a closer look when the stank gets to be too much, and if they take a bite, they will know they are eating shit.
I bet even the largely ornamental Command Sergeant Majors at the General Officer level at least raised an eyebrow when this plan came down the pike, particularly if they came from a combat arms background.
I feel … shame? anger? at the poor grunts on the ground who are trying to follow inept, politicized orders. Biden has blood on his hands.
And this was all obvious to anyone with any kind of fucking knowledge of military history. It was blindingly obvious.
I am interested to see if Joey was ignoring his advisors or if his advisors were yes men that were full of shit.
This make children wear masks at school is the stupidest issue I’ve ever seen.
Yes.
I’ve been saying it for over a year now. We are the dumbest people to have ever lived. It’s not even close. Prosperity has enfeebled the brain muscle in profound ways.
My daughter has to keep hers on during HS volleyball practice. And they actually make her keep it over her mouth and nose the whole time.
Have her “collapse” at practice one day. Seriously. Tell people she’s having trouble breathing. Go fucking Eric Garner.
“but kids are forced to attend school”
Only sorta. The law requires that parents educate them. But government schools have an effective monopoly on education, and everyone has to pay for that “service” whether they use it or not.
Good ideas must be mandatory.
My son said “I don’t want to wear a fucking mask.” Normally I would punish him for profanity, but told him that was an acceptable use.
It’s not too wise to work for Amerika,
Howdy Kids!
If I was Taiwan, I would have a secret and expedited nuclear weapons program since last November….
If they are working closely with Japan that may be possible. From the fiction and hearsay I’ve consumed Japan has readily available all the components to make a nuclear warhead and would be willing to do so in a time of war.
Japan could put one together in weeks. I still think they are gambling with China which also knows that detail. Seriously, if we want to check China, let Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan go nuclear. Yeah, I hear the people that worry they could use them against us someday, but that ship has sailed when China’s CCP intends to make everyone their colonial serfs.
At the risk of going total anime weeb I really think Japan is really the best hope at there being a “good guy” in the region. America right now? We ain’t it.
Sure, but the military of Japan only seems effective against giant lizards.
Are you sure? I recall the lizard always wins…
And they also have a problem with entities with a lot of tentacles going after their hot women…
…November 1950 or so.
They have a bunch of civilian nuke generators. Can probably assemble warheads faster than i can assemble a peanut butter sandwich.
They should tell China what Israel told Iran: “We have no nuclear weapon’s program, but if you happen to fuck with us, our submarines will send some cruise missiles to your big cities with a nuclear warhead in the weapon’s cone.”
The CCP in Beijing will think a little harder if the cost of capturing Taiwan is a few radioactive Chinese cities and needing to turn Taiwan into rubble. Note that China’s CCP’s primary reason for wanting to capture Taiwan was not that they only think Taiwan should be their bitch, but that they know Taiwan is the world’s number one computer chip producer, and if they control that, they control Europe, America, and every other modern bitch state out there outright.
“Wow, it didn’t take long for the “Republicans pounce” headlines to start after yesterday. ”
Every story they can exaggerate or make up to hurt a republican is about how bad republicans are. Every story about how bad democrats really are, is about how evil republicans take advantage of the fact democrats are all team crime syndicate and these ones got caught.
Laughable stupidity, but low information idiots clap and play with their little man in the boat.
Giants and Dodgers are battling it out for the best record in the NL and a wild card spot where anything can happen
So surprised the Yankees turned it around this year. Looked like a terribly built team most of the year. I still expect them to bomb in the playoffs with all their all or nothing offense.
Giants just cant do anything wrong this year—team is a bunch of has-beens having career years. Darin Ruf bats 3rd for this team! Wilmer Flores? Who are these guys.
This is all I know about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEejfq1KhkU
“I guess these guys hate the First Amendment too. Well, at least the discovery phase won’t be boring.”
I am going to go out on a limb and bet that this was done by someone with political ambitions or by order of a member of the crime syndicate (dnc), and as with all their other shit, will go horribly wrong but get a lot of press coverage about how enemies of the mandarinate are terrorists and republicans pounce…
WRT the overturning of the eviction moratorium, the NY Post ran an article which includes this gem from DiBlasio:
“This is an attack on working people across our country and city. New York won’t stand for this vile, unjust decision,”
Actually, working people are usually able to pay rent, it is the unemployed who have issues. Did something happen recently to put thousands out of work? If that’s the case, should the people responsible for that something be held accountable?
You mean like Trump not locking down the borders? That’s how we blame Trump for this, right?
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
BTW, blackcherry shrub concoction is done, made a killer drink with club soda last night. Thanks for the recipe!
Not a problem, glad you enjoyed it.
Blas is literally a commie. Anything short of the elimination of the private rental market is “vile” and “unjust”. That POS can’t be shown the door fast enough.
Mayor See-n-Say. Pull the string and he’ll play one of 16 pre-recorded cliches.
“Nowhere to hide, Joe: President adopts fetal position as he crumbles under questioning and tries to blame Trump for Afghanistan catastrophe after 13 troops were killed along with 90 Afghans in ISIS bomb attacks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9931085/Joe-Biden-tense-forth-interesting-guy-Steve-Doocy-Fox-News.html
I don’t think that’s what fetal position means.
I thought the limeys spelled it “foetal” anyhow.
I believe “foecal” is correct here.
Apparently, they spell “Peter” as “Steve” in the UK, too.
Breyer is a moron and a threat to liberty. That’s all I have to add.
But decent ice cream, though.
In February 2022 the dwarf planet Pluto will be in the same spot in the heavens as it was on July 4, 1776. The first time this has happened in U.S. history.
We should never have demoted Pluto. It is now the harbinger of our doom.
Revenge of the slighted god of the underworld…
in the same spot in
the heavensrelation to the sun as it was on July 4, 1776.IOW, the solar period of pluto is roughly 245 years.
Spoilsport.
Pic I took while stopping at a NYS owned rest stop a few months back that I had forgotten about:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/thruway-scaled.jpg
Someone moved it there as commentary.
And what sort of sicko takes pictures in a public restroom?
*glares*
Sen. Larry Craig ?
He just takes pictures of shoes.
+ Wide Stance
Hardcore piss-drinking fetishists, bro. They’re actually a thing.
This is what I love about this site. We have experts for every imaginable topic.
Is Howard Hughes their patron saint?
Howie never drank it, but I see your point.
I’m told it’s quite healthy – https://youtu.be/AK3LduV4-tg
In the Street Sheet piece, Friedenbach calls for the dismantling of HSOC and argues that a “compassionate alternative response to homelessness that is not an institutional response” “fully equipped to work with people and try to address their needs” should take its place.
Okay, then. why has no one thought of this sooner?
Hey Sloop, appreciate the Don Bradman shout out.
He’s a legend. He deserved it as much as any other legend would.
All these knife-wielding chicks are hot but the have my “crazy bitch” sense tingling.
So… never let crazy stick it into you?
^^^ Internet winner!
That’s usually what makes them interesting until it no longer is…
“Ashli Babbitt’s widower says the Capitol police officer who fatally shot his wife during the January 6 riot should ‘suck it up’ after the cop’s tearful interview where he said he’s been receiving death threats.
Aaron Babbitt told of his outrage at Lieutenant Michael Byrd’s interview with NBC News on Thursday, hours after he was unmasked as Ashli’s killer.
Aaron said: ‘I don’t even want to hear him talk about how he’s getting death threats, and he’s scared. I’ve been getting death threats since January 7th – two, three, five, 10 a day – and all I did on January 6th is becoming a widower,’ he told Carlson.
He spoke hours after Byrd said his actions showed ‘utmost courage’ and that he ‘saved countless lives’ during an interview NBC News star Lester Holt on Thursday.
Before the primetime TV interview, Byrd’s name was leaked online and he said he’s received death threats and was the subject of racist slurs….
Byrd said he had no idea if the person he shot was carrying a weapon. It was only later that night that he found out the rioter was a woman who was unarmed.
‘I was taking a tactical stance. You’re ultimately hoping that your commands will be complied with, and ultimately they were not,’ Byrd said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9931675/Babbitts-widower-blasts-Capitol-cop-killed-riot-complaining-death-threats.html
I love that it’s the same guy who lost a loaded weapon in the john and didn’t report it.
A real class act.
He’s a piece of shit who should be fired and probably prosecuted.
The media playing him up as a hero reveals their level of hate for us. Literally dancing in an innocent woman’s blood because she disagreed with their politics.
Byrd said his actions showed ‘utmost courage’ and that he ‘saved countless lives’
This is the opposite of what is true.
Byrd said he had no idea if the person he shot was carrying a weapon.
Lying liar lies. You shot in the direction of other law enforcement that was monitoring the situation, you cunte. You should be in a jail cell. At best you are inept and not fit for the job you were supposed to be doing.
He’s awfully impressed with himself.
“Byrd said he had no idea if the person he shot was carrying a weapon.”
That is an outright admission he did not have good cause, and should be prosecuted.
LOL, good one.
The official video of her murder makes almost zero sense.
I didn’t hear commands. No one freaked out or ducked or ran when the shot rang out.
The other police just stood there.
The GOP is divided over how hard — and how quickly — to go after President Joe Biden in the wake of Thursday’s deadly attack on US troops at the Kabul airport.
So you are saying that the GOP has diversity of thought.
I’m looking forward to the Barbara Tuchman (RIP) style history of America’s follies in Afghanistan. And speaking of Tuchman, it’s like nobody, anywhere read her book on our follies in Viet Nam.
If you haven’t read The Guns of August then you are not educated in regard to western European history.
Britain – Vampire Of The World, a delightful piece of Imperial German WWI propaganda published in English in Lawn Guyland after being smuggled over by Irish rebels.
Picture girl is intriguing? She can stab me in the heart any day. I wouldn’t mind all that much. It’s pretty much all over but the crying now.
I hear that the crying can go on for a long, long, time….
The USSR managed to make it’s own people cry for almost 70 years before it imploded, and the crying about what they foisted on humanity is still going on strong and stacking up bodies…
Dude- fat is where it’s at. If you noticed the pic I posted previously….you can easily out-run that.
Sorry, Festus. Reach out if you need anything.
I’m fine, Sexy Tonio. Just feeling a little bit low. Festus will abide.
I present for your disgust, what may be the dumbest take of the week:
Akron Marathon to require runners, volunteers be fully vaccinated or have negative COVID-19 test to participate
Because people will generally go run in a marathon with a respiratory illness. I’d also be willing to bet that the participants are probably well below the average for comorbidities.
There’s always that one guy with a disability that finishes 6 hours later. You gonna deny him his place in the sun?
They are just following the lead of the PGA, which forced Rahm to withdraw from a tournament in which he held a five stroke lead after testing positive. Imagine if he hadn’t been on death’s doorstep, might have had a twenty stroke lead. And fuck the rest of the field in that tournament, they should have all withdrawn.
They’re dropping like flies in the tennis world. Every time they spin up a “positive” test, they have to drop out of another tournament. I wonder where they’re stacking all the bodies.
They called the freaking police and went into lockdown over that?
The kids were wielding weapons of mass-respiration.
*sigh*
“kids are forced to attend school”
Except, apparently, the kids who got banned for not wearing them. Those kids should be thanking the school; they don’t have to wear masks and they don’t have to go to government indoctrination facilities anymore. Finish out your GED, get a degree in something worthwhile, make money, be happy.
Public schools try to lure students back amid enrollment decline
Home school is school.
H.I. Holland Elementary Principal Shanieka Christmas-McDonald said educators were calling families to say, “Hey, where’s my baby?”
Fuck. Off.
Your kid is school property.
speaking of Tuchman, it’s like nobody, anywhere read her book on our follies in Viet Nam.
It’s different, this time!
Friday Funbags wants you corpus spongiosum.
https://archive.li/bbndX
Free doughnuts? That changes everything.
🙄
Makes sense. Gaining a few pounds is a great way to combat the ‘vid.
The nearest KK to me is in north Denver. Sad.
I thought she was still on the East coast?
40 miles for a donut…nah. Go to Peace Love & Little Donuts on College.
They have a branch much closer to me than the one on College.
Loveland?
HEY? I’ll give you two bucks if you let me inject you with an eperimental drug that has about the same odds of harming you as the disease it protects you from for just a few short months. Sounds like a great deal.
An absolute shitshow of epic proportions.
Like everything else with this disaster of an administration it seems too stupid to be stupid.
Following the Taliban takeover of Kabul, US officials there gave the Islamic extremist group the names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies so they could be allowed to enter the Taliban-controlled perimeter around Hamid Karzai International Airport
I can’t imagine what could go wrong…
They pushed bullshit and purged anyone who didn’t toe the line for twenty years and believed their own nonsense as a result. I don’t think they’re smart enough to screw up this bad on purpose.
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15973677/offering-second-chance-new-man-join/
Kinky…
She wants to cuck him.
“NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warns Apple program that scans iPhones for child porn will ultimately be used to spy on owners and opt-out will be axed
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has issued a chilling warning about Apple’s plans to begin scanning iPhone photos of users, saying the proposal will give governments terrifying access to citizen’s private data.
Snowden, a former computer intelligence consultant, who in 2013 leaked classified documents to show the scale of government snooping on U.S. citizens, condemned the new plans in strong terms, and says they set a precedent which will ultimately be abused by corrupt politicians to destroy individual privacy.
He said that Apple had chosen a dangerous path with their scheme to access users’ photos, and that governments will manipulate the rule to give them greater access to data they claim they need access to – such as a phone owner’s presence at a protest.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9930903/Apples-privacy-disaster-Snowden-blasts-scheme-scan-iCloud-child-porn-images.html
The largest distributor of child porn is the U.S. government.
Everyone remember, don’t update to iOS 15.
Your device will bug you to madness if you don’t.
And eventually the older OS won’t support a lot of apps anymore.
By that time I should be ready for a new phone.
I know Apple is notorious for throwing backwards-compatibility out the window but I better be able to squeeze 4 or 5 years out of my fairly new one before it becomes unusable.
Yup. Hopefully there’s a way to turn that off – not sure.
I’m still at 13.3
What’s an iOS?
Cisco Internetwork Operating System.
I know the basics, but I was never a networking guy.
Back in the day, I could muck around with iptables, but its been a decade since I touched that stuff.
I was annoyed when Cisco bought linksys and their home router range stopped using IOS.
I already shut down updates. I was well on the path to exploring Linux alternatives. Particularly like the new Pi400 for daily use. Any one else have ideas? Also where the heck is my rasberry pi phone?
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/pureos-mobile/
Snowden lives! Finally, an answer to the question “Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?”
That’s a Heller of an observation…
Good catch, yo
That’s a hell of a catch…
I thought the largest distributor of child porn was Nirvana/Geffen Records.
Thanks for the Icicle Works tune! They had some great stuff.
Imbecile.
I know we are not supposed to attribute malice, but I attribute malice.
Christ on Toast! I’m feeling pretty blasted away. What a waste. Wish I were golfing or fly fishing right now. Something that I’m half-assed good at, at any rate. Another day gone, only so many left, what a fucking drag…
Its too fuckin hot here for anything other than a swimming pool.
It’s so fucking humid here I’m in a swimming pool just going outside,
Tell me about it. I’m pretty sure my cycling kit is still moist from a short ride yesterday evening.
You would love the chubby little thing at my favorite beer store! I always call her “My Dear” and she always calls me “Honey”! Just an appetizer for you though. Super cute but a chunky-munk.
Our Summer is done.
Not here, 85 today, 100pct. Humidity, as I stand in the rain having a brand new tire repaired
Pain in the ass but warranty is good. Do you have AAA because the rest of those tires are going to fail.
would it be rude of me to ask just what the fuck has been going on for the last twenty years?
At this point, McMaster continued, “it’s time to reverse course.” He then called on Biden to scrap the troop withdrawal, extend the perimeter around the airport, create other safe areas in Afghanistan where civilians can be protected from the Taliban and even “engage” with anti-Taliban resistance groups that have begun fighting in the northern regions of the country.
More broadly, McMaster called for a renewed and more robust war on terrorism in the region.
“We have to redouble counterterrorism efforts broadly across the region, with Central Asian states,” he said, “in the areas of intelligence sharing and going after these groups quite aggressively — not just with military but with law enforcement capabilities, with financial actions — to isolate these groups from sources of support. We have to make clear that we will not tolerate American leaders advocating for recognition of the Taliban.”
You clowns have had twenty years to magically put an end to the tribalism and hate, and failed miserably. But you deserve another go?
Fuck you.
Everyone above Lt Col should be fired and the Pentagon turned into low rent housing. I’m becoming convinced that the upper echelons are just straight up morons.
McMaster is a warmongering moron who ought to hang from the gallows.
It’s almost like this was the plan all along.
And those thousands of American hostages/ human shields? Just writing them off, I guess.
Capitol Police Lawsuit: I think I might actually prefer corrupt thug cops to whiny bitch suehappy cops. The former I can understand at least.
In other too local news, there are three big hospital groups in the Cleveland area: Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and MetroHealth. One of them (MetroHealth) has just announced a Covid vaccination mandate for all employees with a deadline of October 30th. This could lead to some interesting competition, especially as the other two both said they were worried about losing staff with a vaccination mandate.
I am waiting for just one business, of whatever type, to announce a vaccination mandate…BUT they will also count anyone who has tested positive previously as vaccinated.
Someone out there understands science.
Except none of this is about science. It’s about exercising control through a never-ending “crisis”.
But then they’d have to admit that half of the positive tests may have been cooked, so those people need the vaccination anyways.
Even if it’s a coin toss on whether the positive test result was a real case and thus granted immunity, that’s still a better protection rate than the ‘vaccines’ showed.
I thought of that, if test results were reporting cycle count, you could set a threshold, something like 28 IIRC.
Lots of healthcare workers having protests against the vax out here on long island. Surprising but in a good way.
As mask mandates have spurred heated debates at school board meetings nationwide, one Texas man took a bold approach to showing his support: He stripped down to his swim trunks.
I don’t get it.
“I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!”
-Some guy from a funny movie that couldn’t be made today
Board President Barbara Stroud addressed the stunt, which drew a mix of gasps, laughter and cheers from the crowd.
“Mr. Akers, I understand, I believe you’re a swimmer, but if you wouldn’t mind putting your pants back on for a comment that would be appreciated,” she said.
It was worth it just for that response.
“Maybe you should put some pants on if you want to keep fighting crime today.”
Obviously a Libertarian Party official.
Which one of you is this?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-gets-infected-earlobe-after-24847471
Eeeeeew.
Higher intelligence comes with a few caveats.
Rice dick?
Seven Capitol Police officers have filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump and others involved with spreading election lies that led to the attack on the Capitol.
So many assumptions in one statement.
The suit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, names Stop the Steal rally organizers and members of far-right extremist groups including the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers as “vicariously liable” for the riot, claiming, “Many Defendants in this case planned, aided, and actively participated in that attack. All Defendants are responsible for it.”
Even the FBI disagrees at this point.
Is it wrong of me to think that those seven officers should be permanently shipped to Wake Island to protect it?
Out of control
On Tuesday, Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, also known as H.R. 4. As Ian Millhiser explained in Vox, H.R. 4 essentially overturns the Supreme Court’s recent attacks on voting rights: Its central provisions give both the Justice Department and federal courts sweeping authority to block voter suppression laws. But one crucial section takes a more creative approach: The House bill actually repeals the court’s own rules for deciding election-related cases—which strongly favor states’ ability to suppress votes—replacing them with voter-friendly directives that would force the justices to safeguard equal suffrage. H.R. 4 also takes on the “shadow docket,” prohibiting the Supreme Court from issuing unreasoned emergency orders reversing lower court decisions that protected the franchise. And it abolishes the legal doctrine that allows the justices to shield anti-voting laws from judicial scrutiny in the run-up to an election.
H.R. 4, in short, is court reform. It is the clearest indication yet that House Democrats are getting serious about reining in an out-of-control Supreme Court.
The Constitution is just a fucking piece of paper!
We must remove all obstacles impeding our path to Utopia. Get on board or get run over.
“anti-voting laws”
I really dislike these assholes and their perpetual and exhaustive need for framing.
This better not turn out to be true… Cause if the democrats managed to pull this off, we need to end this government. Voting was already a bullshit thing, but now they really have made it irrelevant.
It’ll pass in the house and die in the senate.
Democrats exhibit all the characteristics of actual fascists but anyone who disagrees with them is a “fascist”.
It’s not fascist/sexist/racist/harassment/illegal/immoral when we do it!
So the hangings begin at dawn?
While reading through 18th-century historical records, Colonial Williamsburg’s Gender and Sexuality Diversity Committee researcher Ren Tolson discovered something telling buried within the hundreds of pages of land requisitions and court filings.
It was a pair of marriage license requests. The document told of an affluent landowning Virginian woman. On her first attempt, she filed a marriage license to be wed to a woman who worked at her post office. It was denied, citing marriages were solely between a man and a woman. …
The following day, Tolson said the woman returned, dressed in traditionally male clothing and sporting a short haircut. Her request was approved, granting her the right to marry a woman.
“It’s not that the information isn’t there, it’s that it hasn’t been properly researched and a lot of other groups are overrepresented in the historic record,” Tolson said. “We just assumed that people had similar ideas as current day and moved on but that’s not entirely the case.” …
And, with more history coming to light, Kelly said the foundation plans to introduce programs and reenactments geared toward educating the public on LGBTQ history in the colonies.
Incentives were different when marriage was seen more as a contract involving real property than the lovey-dovey, romantic idealism of modernity?
I wish the government got out of the marriage business and went with contractual unions of households. Allow non-romantic unions like two old ladies who want to live together. Leave marriage to social groups.
Even that is too much, IMO. Enforce contracts that are produced in court. Make verbal agreements subject to the same analysis as any other verbal contracts. Perhaps provide a default contract for those who got a marriage license in the before times. Anything more than that is imposing culture, and imposing culture is what got us into this mess.
^^THIS^^
OK and AL were making very small steps (okay, that is even pushing it, a few legislatures were talking about very small steps) in that direction before the Supremes stepped in and killed the idea before it could get started by making gay marriage legal everywhere.
I know I upset some folks around here, but I thought expanding government marriage was a bad way to fix the problem. And I was right, as the solutions being considered have gone away.
legislators.
It is like public accommodation. People complain that some groups get special rights. Instead of voiding the special rights, they add more groups to the list.
Yup. Perfect analogy.
So, expect to see drag queens when visiting Colonial Williamsburg? Will Jamestown Settlement add a trans-gender Paspahegh village?
*sigh*
CW is well on its way to financial ruin and they think they can intersectional their way to popularity again.
Most people who visit it aren’t interested in this at all, and it certainly was a rare thing in the colonies. They could put one person on it to research the history and I think it would be justified and interesting, but nope, they need a whole committee that will try to reframe the entirety of the period in modern cultural mores.
We went to Williamsburg last year. Jamestown Settlement wasn’t bad with masking inside the visitor center/museum section but no size limits. No masking outdoor with regular activities and people gathering around reenactors. CW closed their visitor center, had masking for all indoor activities with size limits that resulted in long waits, and closed some buildings. I guess CW doesn’t want visitors.
The best thing at CW is the art museum. The Governor’s Palace being second.
They really need to step up their game with actors and the sort. Stump speeches on the corners and in the Bruton Parish, etc… It would bring some liveliness to the experience that they desperately need.
Do they still play the Steve McGarrett orientation film?
And here’s the glory hole where the village idiot used to blow the town crier.
They would be better off to bring back the whores that covertly worked out of the taverns.
?Yeah, this…I’d probably even pay a visit.
Do they charge historic rates?
Yeah, but they require hard currency.
I’m always hawking Dorothy Sayers in the “what are we reading?” posts. One of the things you pick up in the Peter Wimsey series is that in Common Law, marriage is really really about the orderly devolution of property. She’s all for love, etc., but understands that marriage as a legal institution is about clarity there – with clarity of property rights being one of the obvious and overriding foundations of law.
Relatedly, Common Law does with it does to deal very specifically with the biblical understanding that a husband and wife are “one” – one legal person where there were previously two – and the law handling that as a “normal” thing. It’s why there have to be witnesses to a wedding. It’s part of why a divorce (“undoing” a legal person in the eyes of the law) required an Act of Parliament.
“Rep. Ocasio-Cortez joins @JoyAnnReid to discuss the Afghanistan withdrawal ”
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1431042937417314304
Frost/Nixon
More words:
Because the Supreme Court answers to no one, it can always, in theory, adopt a “crazy reading” of the Constitution that requires federal courts to suppress the vote. But with H.R. 4, House Democrats have made a bet that the justices will stand down in a game of chicken over voting rights. If it exerts extraordinary new powers to avoid the bill’s limits, the conservative supermajority will only demonstrate the need for much more sweeping court reform.
Unless the Senate scraps the filibuster, there is little chance that this measure will become law in the near future—though it has the backing of the White House and seems poised to pass the House. Its time may not have come quite yet. But H.R. 4 is what happens when Democrats get serious about protecting the Constitution from the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court is a fascist dictatorship hell bent on subjugating the Little Man.
I wonder what this guy thinks about the eviction ban? He’s probably frenziedly working on a spittle-flecked tirade as we speak.
Sort of a declaration of war by one branch of fedgov against another isn’t it?
Anyone claiming that the Democrats see the constitution as anything other than an impediment to their power which must be circumvented is either a moron or a liar, and probably both.
“But H.R. 4 is what happens when Democrats get serious about protecting the Constitution from the Supreme Court.”
Hell froze over?
Roe
v.
Wade?
Sloopy missed Buddy Bell’s 66.3 WAR, which is a damn fine total for a non HoFer. Thome is 73.1, for comparison.
He also missed Ernie Broglio (#4) and Luis Tiant(#11 – but spent his 20s in the Negro Leagues).
But…but…MUH FEELZ.
Judy Sherry, a longtime Kansas City advocate against gun violence, founded a volunteer organization to mobilize legislative efforts in Missouri after the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. Since then, she woefully admits, “nothing meaningful” has changed on the gun reform front in her state. On the contrary, in June, her Republican governor, Mike Parson, passed a new law supposedly meant to protect Second Amendment enthusiasts from “government overreach.” But advocates like Sherry and even law enforcement officials—who normally support gun rights—believe it is a dangerous nod to Parson’s right-wing base.
The Second Amendment Protection Act bars state and local police from working with the feds to enforce any laws, rules, orders or actions that “violate the Second Amendment rights of Missourians.” Any officer who “deprives” Missouri citizens of their right to pack a gun could be liable for $50,000 in damages—including cops. Although it doesn’t go into effect until the end of August, advocates, local police and federal officials have said it’s already hurting shooting investigations in a state where they are rampant.
“It’s hideous,” Sherry said of the law. “They talk so much about the rights of gun owners, as if non-gun owners and the rest of the population have no right to feel safe.”
Your rights end where my feelings begin.
If you want to feel safer maybe buy a gun.
You misspelled “nominally.”
Sick burn!
Boy, do I have bad news for you…
also, wouldn’t “the rest of the population” just be another way of saying “gun owners” in that sentence?
Loser.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/26/woman-marries-herself-to-defy-social-expectations-15152462/
Better than that Euro chick that was into fucking (or was it just finger banging) a chimp?….
*blinks*
It’s ok, she just pressed her tiddies against the plexiglass. No harm, no foul.
She’s paying for the honeymoon by putting pictures of the wedding night on OnlyFans.
Excellent, excellent song. You have great taste in music.
Seconded. That is a masterpiece.
Good morning, everyone!
Are you all stoked for President Harris?
Is this some burn that witch joke Tundra?
The only saving grace in that scenario is that members of her own party don’t even like her.
They didn’t like Joe either.
Jo Jorgensen?
The second time that I’ve heard that song! It’s pretty good!
Amusing thought regarding booster shots…how many people laminated their cards?
“Are we not doing phrasing anymore?”
I don’t see it.
There’s the official response and then there’s the alternative.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-special-operations-vets-carry-daring-mission-save/story?id=79670236
The evil which is conservatism
TW: Bloomberg “News”
A divided U.S. Supreme Court lifted the Biden administration’s moratorium on evictions, ending protections for millions of people who have fallen behind on their rent during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Saying landlords were suffering “irreparable harm,” the conservative-controlled court ruled late Thursday that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacked authority to impose the moratorium under the decades-old federal law the agency was invoking. The decision comes amid a spike of Covid cases around the country.
“It would be one thing if Congress had specifically authorized the action that the CDC has taken. But that has not happened,” the court said in an unsigned opinion. “It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the administration was disappointed with the decision, crediting the CDC’s eviction moratoriums for saving lives.
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The decision is the conservative-controlled court’s second blow to Biden this week. On Tuesday, the justices left in force a ruling that requires the administration to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to wait in that country while their cases are being processed.
Conservatives should be rounded up and shot. Only then can America achieve true greatness.
Landlords are suffering irreparable harm and it’s obvious. Taxes are still due and upkeep is needed whether the rent’s coming in or not. This is about moving the rental market from mom and pops to giant conglomerates that can both absorb the costs and be easily controlled.
I fully expect the persons who did this study to publicly flog themselves for such betrayal of SCIENCE!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/ends-debate-israeli-study-shows-natural-immunity-13x-more-effective-vaccines-stopping
I’m normally a fairly snarky guy but I find myself more weepy rather than laughy over the last two weeks. If we don’t stick to our principles we lose everything. We get the shot(s) and they leave us alone for awhile. I’m thinking gigantic middle finger.
Fuck it. I will not comply.
That’s the spirit!
+1
At first it’s nerve wracking, but you get real creative when the rent comes due,
I just got a Design/build offer for a large Electrical job, for example, And I still keep my Soul!
Glad to hear that! It’s our bodily autonomy. The first civil right. I will probably lose my job but it’s not much of a job, anyways.
Fingers were pointed
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” the political landscape in the U.S. has become so divided, that it has become impossible to acknowledge that both political parties share responsibility for the horrific terror attack that killed at least 13 U.S. service members and left scores of innocent Afghans dead near Kabul’s airport.
“We have become so tribal in this country that it is impossible to believe that two people can share responsibility if they’re from different parties,” said Kinzinger, who flew missions for the Air Force in both Afghanistan and Iraq. “Both parties, Republicans and Democrats, have failed the American people, and the American people deserve far better. Demand better of your leaders.”
Kinzinger outlined why both Republicans and Democrats share responsibility. He told host Shepard Smith that part of the blame lies with the Trump administration and its subsequent deal with the Taliban back in February 2020.
“They created a deal that was the worst deal since, you know Neville Chamberlain, they never followed through on that deal, and the whole time Donald Trump instead of backing up and saying they have to follow the deal, he kept celebrating leaving,” said Kinzinger, who is currently a member of the Air National Guard.
I’m not saying it was Trump’s fault, but it was trump’s fault.
And that tribalism thing? It’s only because people think they can get away with disagreeing with me.
We should just stay there forever, We’ll make it a state as soon as we can convince the Afghans to vote democrat.
Did he cry about it?
Still shilling for the Dems even though they will likely re-district him out of his seat.
What an asshole.
His seat is a stepping stone to a lifetime of grift and sinecures, not a terminal position.
Both parties, Republicans and Democrats, have failed the American people
True. But you are still a disingenuous cunte.
Case in point: they never followed through on that deal
Biden-Harris scrapped the plan created by the Trump admin resulting in the current shitshow and hole that the current admin keeps digging further into.
Typical flaccid Illinois Republican. “I want the Democrats to love me!”
Man City have pulled out of Ronaldo negotiations. Man U now the front runners to land CR7.
Good morning!
So this will probably be interesting only to Not Adahn and the other two or three USPSA nerds here, but…
https://berryshooting.com/blog/i-was-wrong/
This past Tuesday, the United States Practical Shooting Association board of directors voted unanimously to remove Mike Foley as president.
I got an email about that — haven’t read the minutes yet to find out what’s the story behind him being shitcanned.
My only interaction with the guy is that he gave me a ride to my car with his golf cart at Factory Gun Nationals.
The tipping point, was Foley got into a public yelling match with a shooter at the Lo-Cap Nats (also while in a golf cart…)
The subtext, is that a lot of people are kinda fed up with Foley’s history of online and in-person tantrums.
Add that to the recent unpopular rule changes, and a couple of so-so Nationals, and the board decided that they’d had enough.
The link has some details.
Background?
From what I can tell from the linked posts, he’s just a dick?
There is an unfortunate amount of politics in USPSA.
I don’t know if I’ve told this story before:
This is called the “Option 3” story. It happened at stage 1 at Frostproof and is typically used to explain how rules changes happen. But for me it also showed that there is a good ol’ boys network in effect.
Stage 1 at Universal Shooting Sports Academy is a shoot house. The walls go most of the way up, but there is about a 2′ gap between them and the roof to allow some light in. There is no electricity to the stage.
As is now, your foot has to touch the ground out of bounds for the shooter to be out of bounds. But at the time, the rule was simply that any object touching a boundary line was considered in bounds. What happened at this match was instead of exiting the house to engage some targets, a competitor climbed up and shot over the wall. In this case, there were steel targets, and after measuring the distance, they were closer than 23′ from the position which the shooter engaged them from.
The RM said “I’m declaring a forbidden action because of an unsafe shooting distance. Option 1: you reshoot the stage. Option 2: You take a zero for the stage.” The shooter replied “Option 3: go fuck yourself.”
He was DQ’d for unsportsmanlike conduct of course. Had the story ended there, it would have been amusing. However, it goes on “and this asshole keeps requesting to take the RM course. Like I’d ever let this asshole advance in the org.” It’s not that I necessarily disagree with the need to keep assholes out of positions of authority, it’s that I disagree with the implication that if you get on my bad side, there will be long term penalties.
This is an example of what I mean by so-so Nats. The real problem here is that that stage should never have made it through vetting for a section match, never mind the Nationals.
Also, the RO fucked up. An unsafe action is a DQ, no reshoots, no shooter option, none of that. At Nationals, the ROs should be able to do their jobs.
Wellcamp
Australia’s quarantine camp.
Super Happy Fun-Time Tent City! This is the story that steeled my resolve. I’ll not be jabbed. They can bankrupt me. Fuck them!
They don’t care if we die, it just gets rid of a few more Flyover Rednecks,
I like camp: Arts, crafts, fishing in the lake, playing tennis…what’s not to like?
Welcome to Vaxschwitz
“Vaccination sets you free.”
It’s prettier in the original language.
impfstoff macht frei
I didn’t think they’d be so blatant. I was wrong.
Largely disarmed populace.
Highlighting the nearby international airport is strange. Maybe Australia intends to revive itself as a dumping ground for undesirables from other countries.
The official purpose of the camp is to quarantine people arriving from abroad.
Keith Edwards
@keithedwards
12 people died in Afghanistan.
901 died in in Florida yesterday because of covid.
And you’re mad at who?
Imagine being this person.
And approximately 7,700 people die in the US every day from various causes.
So?
And by the way dying with covid is not the same as dying because of covid.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-allies-halt-evacuations-kabul-airport-over-another-imminent-isis-threat
“Of note, after reading his speech on the teleprompter, Biden said out loud “The first person I was instructed to call upon…” before taking questions.
NOW – Biden: “The first person I was instructed to call on…”pic.twitter.com/eQszACiBLL
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 26, 2021
“They gave me a list here. The first person I was instructed to call on…”
Amazing. And everyone goes along with this.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 26, 2021
Trump also said he ‘bears responsibility for all that’s happened,’ before turning around and blaming Trump for the deal he ‘inherited.’
JOE: “I bear responsibility for all that’s happened”
*** Blames Trump moments later ***
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) August 26, 2021
He then gave Trump credit for the only reason there was relative peace in Afghanistan until now.
Biden just admitted that the only reason there was relative peace in Afghanistan before he came along was because of President Trump.
I’m sure that wasn’t on the teleprompter. pic.twitter.com/NEa35RfEbO
— Amy Tarkanian (@MrsT106) August 26, 2021
Then, towards the end of the presser, Biden said “I have another meeting, for real” – implying other ‘meetings’ haven’t been?
“Yes I do” stand by decision to pull US troops out of Afghanistan, Biden says.
He cuts reporters short saying, “I have another meeting, for real.” pic.twitter.com/muiMtBkuDI
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 26, 2021”
For those that want to know, Clinton’s thing for the chubby intern was because of Hillary wearing granny-panties, and Monica flashing him her sexy thong….
Also SugarFree could tell us of the horrors that would have happened had Willie tried to stick a cigar in Hillary’s hooha.
I think he would end up with a couple fewer digits. Hillary’s cloaca is similar to a sarlac, it is known.
Clinton was a chubby chaser.
But yeah… a silver thong sounds fun. As are thigh high stockings.
“Clinton was a chubby chaser.”
Hittin close to home there. Mind your tongue, son.
I’ve no problem with the chubby gals – dated a few in my time.
“The indecent incident was featured in the Starr Report — an exposé composed by counsel Ken Starr, whose investigation into Clinton’s sexual dalliances with Lewinsky ultimately led to his impeachment in 1998. ”
Ken Starr, who also defended Epstein. His practice really has a draw to sex criminals that need a lawyer.
And I know that a “lawyer that defends himself has a fool for a client” is true. Same for doctors. But when a lawyer hires another lawyer for counsel, do they argue over lawyer stuff ? How to proceed, etc. ?
Monica seems way too skinny for you.
Eminences grises,/em> of the gun world about gun culture today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YJIxUnQO1k
According to them, the US now spends more on shooting sports than golf.
So, they’re saying we’re making progress.
The cost of ammo is inflating faster than golf balls.
When I arrived at work last night the parking lot was empty, no patrons. I was worried it was another COVID shut down, but it wasn’t. I’m not sure the real reason bodes much better. At least our department’s equipment is air-gapped.
Trashy, if you’re hanging around, thanks for the bat house link.
I didn’t figure trashy for a bath house guy, but I’m not judging.
A Band Name in Every Sentence | Foil Arms and Hog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llwGOLilGFY
Huh, looks like the Taliban lost 28 people in the attack yesterday too:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taliban-says-28-its-members-killed-blasts-total-death-toll-climbs-past-100
At least we know who it wasn’t (if true).
I mean if we are guessing it probably was the CIA
I think I read somewhere that the Tolly-bon and ISIS-Special K are at odds with one another. If so, perhaps they can use the weapons we left them to fight ISIS.
Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
THEORY: Joe Biden is in deep trouble with the establishment for the first time, and you can tell because he lost John Roberts on the eviction moratorium. @hughhewitt
https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1431231657063890948
The real question is what would be an acceptable death rate for lawyers?
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s COVID-19 expert Jay Bhattacharya was asked in a trial about school mask mandates, “What would be an acceptable death rate for children?”
The question came from Charles Gallagher, a lawyer representing parents from 12 Florida school districts. The parents are suing DeSantis over his June 30 order banning mask mandates in schools.
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During the trial, Gallagher told Bhattacharya about the recent uptick of COVID-19 cases in the state and the recent coronavirus-related deaths of 11 children under the age of 16, Florida Phoenix reported. Bhattacharya said he hadn’t heard of the children’s deaths.
“What would be an acceptable death rate for children?” Gallagher asked Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya responded, “I reject the premise of the question. The question is not what’s an acceptable death rate. The question is: What are the trade-offs?”
Gallagher complained to the presiding judge that Bhattacharya hadn’t answered the question. However, the judge allowed Bhattacharya to answer as he wished. The judge had said earlier in the trial that because it had no jury, he’d give witnesses greater flexibility for answering questions under cross-examination.
“I don’t think it’s right to say, ‘What’s the right, acceptable number of deaths?’ I mean, compared to what?” Bhattacharya continued. Earlier in the trial, Bhattacharya said that masks can cause “considerable harm” to children that can “last a lifetime.”
In a July op-ed for The Orange County Register, Bhattacharya called the benefits of masks on children “infinitesimally small” and claimed they are “disruptive to learning and communicating in classrooms.” He also said the facial coverings reduce a child’s ability to learn “nonverbal communication” as well as disrupt their emotional bonding with teachers.
That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
What does SCIENCE! say?
He did a pretty good job bobbing and weaving. That was a gotcha question if ever there was one.
“What would be an acceptable death rate for children?” Gallagher asked Bhattacharya.
Ask Disney. We must ban all activity that has resulted in a child’s death!
Historically, we’ve managed with child mortality rates of 20%, so I’ll put that in as the acceptable bound
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scottmorefield/2021/08/26/stephen-miller-vast-majority-of-incoming-100000-afghans-rendered-no-meaningful-assistance-to-us-forces-n2594836
Seems like a drop in the bucket compared to our Southern border crisis, but some vetting should occur.
And our new gov has made it clear that she is ready to spray money at them when they arrive, along with any illegals who make it here.
So they might actually be legit refugees?
the Taliban let them through
And the composition of military-aged males is???
I look forward to our first Afghani member of Congress – who will constantly talk about how much America and Americans suck.
From the article about the San Fran homeless clean-up agency:
“”They maybe have shelter beds … but living in a congregate space doesn’t work for many people,” [some homeless community activist] said. “These people might not want to share an indoor space with hundreds of people.””
It’s official: Beggars can be choosers.
Homeless Inc will never be satiated nor will they take responsibility for their failures. Every answer is moar money.
>> “These people might not want to share an indoor space with hundreds of people.””
Then the homeless lifestyle is not for you.
The chick quoted there is Queen Bum here. She is the biggest Homless Inc Pimpstress in the city of SF. I have heard that she doesn’t actually even live here, but in Marin County, which sends all its lunatics, druggies, and ne’er do wells across the GG Bridge. It’s gotten so fucking bad here that even the proggies are starting to complain about it.
If Newsom does get his ass tossed, it will not be as much to do with the Vid lockdowns and such as the vagrant situation. And if this minor miracle happens, then look for a sea change in the national Dem party over the next three years. That’s not a shot across the bow, that is one dead smack in the bow and the rats will start jumping off the SS Proggie pretty soon after.
Nah, their solution to any setback is always “PROG HARDER”. They are incapable of learning from reality and adjusting their world view.
The proof is in the pudding. If they prog harder, and the streets are still covered with shit and used needles, the backlash will only increase.
SF isn’t so bad. In most places, squatters are found indoors.
I realize this is a silly question, but have any of the school boards or local officials Hell bent on imposing mask mandates made any effort whatsoever to investigate both sides of the issue, or do they merely bob their heads up and down on the almighty staff of credentialist diktats from other government bureaucrats?
“If the CDC says it, it must be true” is a pretty goddam flimsy hook to hang your hat on, at this point.
The CDC has permanently beclowned itself.
Not that I had much respect for them prior, but for fuck’s sake it’s like they want people to think they’re stupid assholes.
Not solid enough to hang your hat on but it is pretty solid for differing responsibility.
They support the Faucist regime.
*applause*
“These people might not want to share an indoor space with hundreds of people.””
The bums living in the Port Authority bus terminal in the ’70s might differ.
Judi is not backing down, either. One or both of us will become Crispus Attucks. If she stands strong, I’m with her. Brave chick. I’m proud of her.
I’m glad you’re standing up to them, stay tough! Both of you,
If you hit hard times, and can make your way down to Ohio, Ill always have room for you.
…googles GT’s address
I got a spare bedroom as well,
……..Googles Tres’ Address
If y’all want to go in halfsies on that 3 bedroom houseboat, we can start a detective agency. Republic Of Doyle, Simon & Simon, Crazy Like A Fox, 77 Sunset Strip (and clones Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside 6, and Hawaiian Eye), Riptide, etc. have shown us the way to fortune.
NPR, doing NPR stuff
Voting Advocates Say Women’s Equality Day Has A Complicated (And Yes, Racist) History
I think I can guess the ending.
The butler did it.
The
butlerhonky did it.The honky with a penis did it.
But did she use the candlestick?
Thats not a dil-DO. Its a dil-DONT.
Anything is a dildo if you are brave enough!
Brah….you know this is a thing, right ?
Im not even……
https://www.primalhardwere.com/product/OSP
No, but she had a grand old time with the butcher and baker.
“…(And Yes, Racist)…”
By phrasing it this way, it seems like NPR is admitting that a claim of “racist!” is an automatic add-on to any assertion made.
Maybe even they are getting tired of the monotony.
“This history should be a reminder to all of us that selective equality that only affords benefits to a privileged few is simply another form of inequality in disguise,” Jocelyn Frye, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, told NPR. “Thus, it is critical to have an accurate understanding of the history being commemorated by Women’s Equality Day – so that while we celebrate the progress achieved, we also recognize the inadequacy of this progress, especially for women of color.”
Does that mean it’s problematic to observe Women’s Equality Day? Speaking to numerous women of color who are voting rights advocates, the answer isn’t a simple yes or no. In fact, the question itself might be the wrong one altogether.
Autoerotic self-flagellation.
…a reminder to all of us that selective equality that only affords benefits to a privileged few is simply another form of inequality in disguise
So, she opposes Affirmative Action and diversity goals/quotas?
I wonder how she feels about the freedoms of women in Afghanistan, and is she willing to address that.
Meh, this has been around for years. Ms. Magazine went “woke” back in the 1990s and promptly went to no ads (because of declining readership) and then finally folded. Same thing then, if you said anything about it not addressing your issues any more, (I.e. white middle class) you were racist etc.
Historically, we’ve managed with child mortality rates of 20%, so I’ll put that in as the acceptable bound
We have to pretend no child will ever be allowed die. That’s the only realistic course of action.
OMG I LOVE “Whisper to a Scream”. For a mid-80’s pop song, it holds up very, very well.
With all due respect to Icicle, its a great song. But at work, I often listen to Sirius while Im doing paperwork, 80s Alt channel was cool for the 1st 12 hours. Then, like someone working in a bar with just a jukebox, I only heard the same songs over and over.That song came on once every few hours. Im done.
Despite the 2 shows I listened to daily on Shade45, the ROI wasnt worth it, so I cancelled their ass. And by cancelled, I mean I called, got put on hold, was told about a new plan, and finally went to my bank and said “when they auto-renew? Dont pay them.”
How often did they play this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6l5kDWdaDw
Or this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU
Icicle Works sophomore album is worth checking out. It got almost zero play here in the states because some record producer here didn’t like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHGKFbJbhIg&list=OLAK5uy_kigDunsB4SdVaXBPI2nY-LtZH3rhO4xDk
The auroras are back! Rewind all the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwriDd8STdI
I read that as ‘areola’ and though it was a Q post.
On the ride in this morning, nobody was praising Biden’s speech yesterday. It must not have been well received.
Even one of the soft-Dem union employees last night said, “Jesus, Tres….did you hear what this guy did today?”
He’s done like dinner.
I don’t know, I heard Chris Wallace opining this morning that Biden can likely ride this out. They aren’t going to dump Biden and lose their tie-breaker in the senate in order to put Kamala in the big chair.
/Pelosi dries up
Not sure about that. Biden is one off-the-cuff blunder away from being forced out due to dementia so obvious that even the media can’t cover it up.
Money down the drain.
Virginia’s Gloucester Country School Board is paying 1.3 million in a settlement with a trans former student who was upset that they couldn’t use the bathroom that corresponded with their “gender identity.”
Gavin Grimm, who was born a biological female, was told in 2014 that they could not use the boys bathroom at school.
After sparking outrage from liberals with a media blitz, Grimm was permitted to use a separate bathroom — but they claimed in a lawsuit the next year that it was “alienating” and “humiliating.”
Grimm, who is represented by the ACLU and ACLU of Virginia, filed the lawsuit as a sophomore at Gloucester County High School in June 2015.
This whole trans restroom debate is stupid and pointless. Sack up and use the rr corresponding to your parts…or don’t. I don’t really gaf. But stop costing the taxpayers money because of your mental illness.
Did the males at Gavin’s school give a damn if he/she used the men’s room? Most guys I know wouldn’t have given a damn if some woman came in their restroom.
Girls, on the other hand, usually aren’t comfortable with dude parts cruising around the girl’s room.
Testing…
Awaiting moderation?
Something here is amiss…
I was looking through the list of hardware that we left in Afghanistan and it popped out at me that on the list were seven brand new military helicopters (didn’t specify the type) that were just delivered weeks ago there. New helicopter smell is the best.
I think I read that 7 UH-60s were delivered in July for the Afghan forces.
Yeah, I figured that they were Blackhawks. I found that one detail just the cherry on top of the preposterously large shit sundae that this whole exit has been. As the Taliban are busy taking over the country we are still shopping hundreds of millions of dollars of hardware over there for them to take.
The Pakistanis will have a lot of fun! You think the Taliban can fly drones or helos? I’d adjust my tin-foil chapeau but this all seems too pat. Joe Biden is the worst President in the history of the USA. Bar none.
So, today is the day everyone in my state is supposed to wear a mask outdoors, where zero science! has shown there is any transmission risk.
I won’t, as Civil Disobedience Is Civil Defense, but I am curious how many will. When out and about yesterday, even up around Portland people weren’t wearing them outside. Or inside a lot of the time for that matter.
Masking outdoors?!? WTF?
I masked when I went inside a business if they asked but outside, no fucking way. I didn’t go to a friend’s event because they requested that everyone masked up outside. I’m not going to enable people’s fucking neurotic views about this so called pandemic.
So in a tie-in to the chop chop text, I found out the hard way that catastrophic table saw accidents are real. Was ripping a raw cedar board Wednesday and hit an internal knot. Now missing my left index finger and thumb. They tried to reattach the thumb, but only got 15 minutes of blood flow before clotting. Tried a second time but no blood flow at all. That was my dominant hand, though I can pretty much do everything except write and draw right-handed.
Dude! I’m so sorry! I wouldn’t be on the internet, I’d be crying in a corner,
Yikes! I thought I was having a bad day.
Yikes! Sorry to hear that.
Holy Fuck! So sorry man. Is there any way that we as a community can help?
That’s horrible!
I second this sentiment.
Can we do something financially for you? If so, email one of us and we can do a GoFundMe or even something more anonymous if you prefer.
I’m hayeksplosives at ProtonMail with the dot and the com.
Thank you all. The VA may be covering the financial and PT/OT, and family and friends are working on an iron man glove. Spirits are good, it happened, but let me rest a bit and I’ll shoot an email.. I’m SkyTrooper66 at proton
And I would need a way to an it back.
*pay not an
I pm’d Hayek…thank you so much
OMG
HOLY MACKEREL!! I am so sorry to hear that. I hope your recovery is swift. My maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather both lost a couple three digits to lawn/farm equipment. You’ll learn to compensate, but damn… I’m really sorry.
Ouch. Glad you’re still with us.
Holy cow, dude!
That’s awful. I wish you all the best.
You will at some point go through the exact same grieving process that one does after losing a loved one. I’m telling you this so that you recognize it for what it is and can hopefully better cope.
You’re a brave man. I’m so sorry it happened.
Yowza. Sorry dude.
At least you’re not all thumbs anymore.
Ha!
Oh fuck, damn I am sorry that really sucks. Table saws really put some fear into me.
Holy shit! Sorry that happened – jeezus!
Holy smokes. That’s terrible.
That’s terrible! I’m so sorry that happened to you.
Thank you everyone, it means more than you all know.
Damn! Keep that chin up.
Wow,what a nightmare. Good luck on the recovery.
There but for the grace of God go we all. That’s a sphincter puckering avatar pic you’ve got now. Good luck.
Wow, so sorry!
? Sorry
If Newsom does get his ass tossed, it will not be as much to do with the Vid lockdowns and such as the vagrant situation. And if this minor miracle happens, then look for a sea change in the national Dem party over the next three years. That’s not a shot across the bow, that is one dead smack in the bow and the rats will start jumping off the SS Proggie pretty soon after.
I have seen a couple of articles where they say Newsom is begging Democrats at the national level for help, because if he loses, it will be bad news for Democrats everywhere. Just as you say.
I hope he loses, and I hope he’s right.
Kammy just cancelled her appearance here in the Bay at a car rally for Newsom set to have happened this coming week. Slojoe is set to campaign here for him next week, but I predict that may be shitcanned as well. On this point Newsom is absolutely right. In Deep Blue Central having your handsome star Governor tossed for a conservative would be utterly jarring for the Dems. They would not be able to ignore that. I still think Greasy Gav has got a 60/40 chance of making it through, mostly on the counting, because without that I’d say it is a 50/50 toss up right now.
I recently saw a video of a zoomie town-hall thingie with Elder. The participants were almost exclusively Asian women who were hoppin’ ass mad about the changes to the school system under Newsome’s watch; particularly the elimination of competitive entrance exams to magnet schools.
One of the biggest ironies is that the Left made this big deal about Asian violence but their policies are aimed at fucking Asian students over. It’s the same thing for black people. They preach how much they want for black people to have equality and have draped themselves in glory over BLM but their policies have fucked over the black community.
I just want to watch “wokeism” squirming around in its death throes. I’d also like for our friend to have his digits back but that probably won’t happen either. All of us send blessings and healing thoughts to you, PBB!
Thank you Festus, you all have been a huge inspiration to me since well into the beforetimes.
Oh yeah, if he does lose it will put all the other Democrat governors on defense and might make others begin to resist their bullshit mandates. It’s absolutely nuts that the Dems have been in complete control of CA for a while and they can’t even point to anything worthwhile that they did to get the voters on their side for the recall. All they can do is point out how much Elder beats his ex-finance and how’s he a self hating black man. I wish we could recall Governor Pritzker because he’s a piece of shit governor and he implemented the indoor mask requirements again starting next week.
They’ve also resorted to the usual, “If the recall succeeds, people will die!”
Always going to the, “People will die,” well
“If the recall fails, people will die!”
Both are true.
If you read the actual words of his ex-girlfriend it is actually hilarious. She alleges that he demonstrated “silent scorn” in an argument that they had and that at one point he went to a bedside drawer, took out a revolver, checked to see if it was loaded and then put it back. That’s the entire allegation. Oh, and he smoked grass and claimed he introduced Snoop Dogg to it as well and never got any love from him for that. This was reported as “bombshell allegations rock the Elder campaign”. Too funny.
It’s a good thing we have media reporting on dark stories like that. I mean otherwise someone could get access to the highest office in the land while no one new about shady financial dealings, incest, and child pornography.
Dems in California have been doing a decades-long experiment of “Just how much can we get away with band still keep productive people here, since the state is so naturally gifted that people want to be here?”
This is a truly naturally amazing place with harbors like San Fran Bat and San Diego, the agriculturally rich Central Valley, gold and fossils, the wonders of Sequoias and redwoods, Yosemite, etc.
The fact that it’s a land of milk and honey has attracted pioneers and hardworking families but also the corrupt botflies like Newsom and Pelosi that think they can get away with anything without it collapsing.
Please, California, show them that there’s a limit! I’ve hit mine; I’m relatively well-paid here, but next month I’m gone to the barren desert of Nevada.
What a waste of natural gifts is California.
IKNR?!? I spent three years stationed at Ft. Ord, and that whole stretch from Marin County down to Big Sur was the most wonderfully idyllic countryside one could hope to find. However, even in the early 1990s the writing was on the wall.
I spent 18 months at the POM. PT runs through Cannery Row to Lovers Point. Much nicer than the time spent at other locations the Army tends put bases.
There’s a lot of reasons he might get tossed. Homelessness is a big one. Housing costs. Bad schools. Covid. Blackouts. A general sense that things have gone to shit in CA, but the politicians prefer to focus on wokeness and the “Climate Crisis” rather than solving actual problems.
And when the politicians do act on something, it tends to make the aforementioned problems even worse. We have blackouts? Let’s close down the nuclear power plants and push people into electric cars. Cost of housing is high? Let’s create so many restrictions that new homes can’t be built. And while we’re at it, let’s mandate that what new homes are built can’t use natural gas. That will really make housing cheaper and solve the blackout problem.
This stuff isn’t just Newsom’s fault. It’s the whole damn lot of them, but he’s the guy at the top. Hopefully getting rid of him will send a message to the others.
Pffftttt…. the California legislature is chock full of extremely dedicated idiots.
He won’t get tossed regardless of actual votes.
Do you believe for a second that California will ever hold a fair election again?
The Dem’s have done such a good job of turning “Republican” into a four letter word in California I don’t think they have to cheat much.
Apparently they’re scared enough…
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-recall-ballots-drugs-gun-felon-car-police
This stuff is decades in the making from our one party state. There are many culprits, from the Sierra Club to public employee unions, to armies of trial lawyers, to the Dem machine. It would mostly be symbolic if he gets shitcanned, I don’t see Elder being able to turn anything much around in a year with a Dem supermajority. I don’t think he would last more than that year before he lost to the Dem in a regular election. But I would bet that if he does somehow win, that the candidate for the Dems will be a much closer to the center one.
It’s the same thing in Illinois. We’ve had one party rule since the mid 90’s but while the Democrats deserve a huge share of the blame, the GOP were weak willed and complicit and letting the Democrats run wild.
That’s my worry. Even if the recall succeeds, the legislature and the bureaucracy will know they can just wait it out until the next election.
Holy cow, Beach Bum. That sucks.
I have nothing to add.
Thank you PB.
China stopped taking our recyclables (aka trash). Now state and local governments are freaking out and passing laws to charge manufacturers recycling/tipping fees.
https://www.governing.com/now/after-chinas-recyclable-ban-municipalities-shift-gears
“Somebody has to pay for disposal and recycling,” she says. “It’s more fair that it’s the cost causers and not the property taxpayers.”
Maybe they could charge consumers a market rate for hauling away their trash.
Or, hear me out, the city could allow me a proper burn pit in the back yard.
Some local townships around here charge by the bag. So, naturally, those with lots of kids or home-business packaging, raised hell. Our township didn’t want the hassle, so it’s a set monthly fee whether you put out one can or ten cans.
Neighboring jurisdictions started charging for use of their convenience centers. Many started using ours resulting in the county issuing vehicle stickers to use ours.
Well on that terrible note, I’ll be signing off for now. Godspeed BB!
Fair winds and following seas to you and Judi. Keep your chin up; I still want to visit the Great White North and drink many Elsinore beers with y’all.
This took some balls,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/a-cry-from-the-heart.php
So, the news says a Cat 3 hurricane is coming and New Orleans is at risk.
I look forward to Biden handling that one on top of Afghanistan.
Well, I am a contractor for the Navy, apparently the Norfolk area just went to Health Condition Charlie.o we will be teleworking AGAIN. I told my boss yesterday I am close to buying an RV and taking off.
Also got to hear from a lady at work”If people would just do what they’re told and get the vaccine this would be over” Squack! Fucking COVID parakeet.
“That’s bullshit ” slipped out of my mouth before I realized I was going to say it.
“Well how did we beat polio?”
“Was polio an airborne respiratory virus that mutates?” That was the end of that, I’m sure she had more to say, and I was happy to let it drop.
Although the amount of vitriol she had for unvaccinated people was a little disturbing.
They can’t bear the thought that they fucked up when they got it. Crabs in a bucket.
No, that’s not it, she is a true believer, I have seen no indications she has doubt about anything the COVID regime does to us.
It’s going to become obvious to all of America very soon, as the demands to booster come flying in.
I knew Biden was going to fuck it all up… I guess I just didn’t really sit down and contemplate how bad that could be. You always assume somebody somewhere will backstop some of the damage.