This weekend I was shopping for produce and saw a random guy wearing a maroon beret. Its one of those unfortunate pieces of gear that is either worn correctly, or its a wet sock worn on the head This guy was wearing it correctly, but it was an odd thing to see where I live. While there is an AF Base in the Phoenix area, its 45 mins away and it happens to be a training base for F-16 and F-35 pilots.
Maroon also means Pararescue, which is a career field 90% people claiming are full of shit. This guy even had the pin in his beret. I though, “okay whatever asshole”.
Later on I passed him again and saw he was also wearing a carbon-fiber leg. I guess the moral of the story, is not to be so quick to judge.
Anyways. Links.
With so many Haitians running around, Mexicans are doing the unthinkable and giving them tacos.
Since Trump isn’t around to factcheck, the BBC takes aim at Bolsonaro, and predictably seeks opinions from other people that don’t like Bolsonaro to dispute what he said rather than actually produce anything resembling a material fact.
Last week they said El Salvador’s proof of concept was going badly, I guess it depends who you ask.
Venezuelans still talking it out.
Here’s a headline I didn’t expect to see.
Wouldn’t is be easier to just drop all trade restrictions throughout the region? Nah, lets get in on the exploitation game.
Have a tune, and a great afternoon.
Late links? This isn’t even a First.
Not late, latin.
Says right in the headline they’re tarde.
*narrows gaze*
Meh, it could be worse. They could be tardis.
They don’t feel tardy.
+1 Diamond Dave
Yeah, but this happens all the time. Tarde week after week.
They are re-tarde!
Links will be on time mañana, hue.
Here’s why China will win regardless:
China goes cheap and has no interest in their workers or the environment. That’s why there are so many companies doing business there. Us doing the same thing as we’ve been doing, but in other countries, is not going to magically work this time.
It won’t take them long in these other countries to realize that requiring an environmental impact statement would be another source of bribes.
OTOH, countries are starting to realize that the Chinese will screw them over no matter what (ie. Sri Lanka).
Also, without power projection capabilities, countries are going to figure out pretty soon, they can take the construction deal and then kick the Chinese out and default on their loans and there’s not much China can do – no default currency, etc.
Also, without power projection capabilities, countries are going to figure out pretty soon, they can take the construction deal and then kick the Chinese out and default on their loans and there’s not much China can do – no default currency, etc.
How do you say “Teddy Roosevelt” in Chinese?
The merging of free trade and environmentalism under the same ideological umbrella does not make sense for precisely this reason. Free trade between nations with radically different values means that comparative advantage will always give greatest reward to the side with the least restrictive values, and which side wins is not uniform: labor, extraction, and manufacturing is over there; design, engineering, management, and accounting remain over here (for now). An empire must have the same basic legal framework everywhere or else the primary gradients along which division of labor and comparative advantage function are legal ones. Put simpler, to trade with China, we must require China has mostly the same rules affecting the costs of doing business, and moreover be vigilant and punitive about ensuring they get enforced (one could reverse the positions as well, and see that the taste becomes somewhat bitter).
Cool sidebar, bro!
I’m confused. I’m not responsible for the sidebar and I am The Bro.
Bro sidecool, bar!
Every time someone bitches about the sidebar, I want to make sure it stays there…
I said it was cool!
“Here’s a headline I didn’t expect to see.”
Well, I didn’t expect to see a sidebar.
“They said Banchs faces up to five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine.”
Damn.
But they’ll probably end up giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom instead.
Most of the PJs washed out in and ended up in ground radio or radar. They were the biggest docks. Forward Air Controllers are much cooler but we’re also dicks
I met three that washed out into my career field
The combat controllers used to try and take over our break area at Keesler all the time and it was basically scenes from Super Troopers…use radar geeks being the highway and those cocky bastards the locals.
Oh good, I thought you were going to tell me you guys started chugging syrup.
meow
They always got pissed at us for our lack of “military bearing”.
Common retorts we’re:
“You could have joined the Marines, but you’re too much of a pussy!”
Also,
“In a combat situation, your life expectancy is 13 minutes.”
Good times.
I recall my job had a short life expectancy, especially if we fired up a jammer. In training, we tended to outlive our expectancy. I guess the Soviets and Norks were harsher than our OPFOR.
My BIL was a forward air controller. Checks out.
I worked with the FACs when they embedded with us for training. They weren’t dicks around us. Maybe they were dicks to other airmen because most of the Air Force never goes to the field.
I was a radio operator on a FAC team. Good times – until the Battle of Khafji. My boss got pulled into 1st LAI to blow up tanks while I got sent to the prisoner assembly area to medivac wounded Iraqis.
I remember the fleet of flatbed trucks, crammed with willing POWs, and only the driver (soldier, Marine, who knows?) and maybe another in the passenger seat to “guard” them, all heading your way. That’s still one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. Sorry you had to deal them.
Had a Reservist MP unit bring a couple hundred prisoners. They were guarding them with .45s. They asked if we had any ammo – they never got any .45 ammo. We gave them AK47s and Makarov pistol out of our giant pile.
We had a detachment of JTACs and Special Weather guys in my outfit at Fort Lewis. They always got to go to the cool-guy schools.
Never understood why we needed Ranger and Scuba qualified weathermen, for the JTACs it makes sense, but weathermen going was just confusing.
Friendly FAC & Green Beret? https://youtu.be/N5tG5bFu0Zw
I thought the PJ’s were cool. When we hauled their stuff to Camp Anaconda in 2003 they let us stay in their air-conditioned tents and eat at their dfac and ogle their very attractive helicopter mechanics.
Many of the Haitians — a large number of whom previously spent time in South American countries such as Chile and Brazil — left Tapachula without Mexican papers because they had been stranded in the city for weeks or months and were unsure whether they would ever be issued documents that allowed them to travel legally through the country.
Thousands of people decided to take their chances of gaming or overwhelming the system. Let’s see how it works out for them. My money is on “pretty well, at least for a significant chunk of them.”
What we need to do is send Maxine Waters down there so she can inform all these Haitians how racist America is and that they will be treated worse than the slaves.
Think about it. It will be the first positive contribution to the country Maxine has made in her entire life.
Nah, it would be a black-on-black crime.
As if any Democrat has a problem with that?
Vast majority aren’t escaping potential death from a dictator so what’s to lose? Get in…life is set. Don’t..go home wait a year or two and try again.
Yeah its like traffic laws: they can’t pull everyone over.
“A maintenance worker who was a ‘person of interest’ in the disappearance of 19-year old Florida college student Miya Marcano has been found dead in his apartment of an apparent suicide.
Armando Manuel Caballero, 27, allegedly broke into Marcano’s apartment just before she vanished and left behind signs of a violent struggle, including bloodstains on a pillow.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10037685/Person-disappearance-Florida-women-19-dead-apparent-suicide.html
CWAA
“Multi-millionaire Obama admits he is among the wealthy who should pay more to fund Biden’s $3.5T budget bill – before blaming Republicans for the ‘dysfunctional’ immigration system”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10037043/Obama-says-afford-pay-taxes-fund-Bidens-3-5T-bill.html
CWAA
You can write the check Obama…no one will stop you
Clearly it’s the Republicans who are to blame for Biden reflexively reversing everything Trump did.
I’m one of those actually o.k. with the government funding infrastructure spending. All 80 Billion of it.
I bet there ain’t $80B of actual infrastructure in the whole 3,500B “infrastructure” bill.
Half of that will go to Penna. to “create jobs” and try to take the Sen. Toomey (R) seat. By “create jobs”, I mean 100 more PennDot employees, six of whom will actually work on rebuilding a bridge or highway.
Hold on… six? How are you going to get six PennDOT employees to hold a shovel up? That’s too much work.
He caught Covid last year and argues that he has antibodies and doesn’t need to be vaccinated.
Bolsonaro is correct.
The Biden administration is considering a U.S.-led competitor for China’s Belt and Road international trade and public works program, and a top White House official will scout Latin America next week for possible projects.
What could possibly go wrong?
“Hi, I am from the United Fruit Company!”
Coke Is The Drink Of The Death Squads – https://youtu.be/5HFZ3cH1UAI
I guess there’s just not enough graft any more in poorly completing ‘Merican “public works” projects.
“Man beat his wife of three years after she FaceTimed him while having sex with another guy in a parking lot
However, another court filing for a case several years ago indicates that Atkinson’s wife is the one with the alarming criminal past.
In 2016, the unnamed woman was cuffed for attempted murder after an argument with a boyfriend ended in gunfire.
The man was not hit in the attack, after she fired a single shot inside a residence in Cumberland, Maryland.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10034715/Man-beats-wife-FaceTimed-having-sex-guy-parking-lot.html
Cuffed for attempted murder?
Lock all three of them in a dark room with half a brick each. The survivor gets to spend the rest of his life in prison.
You are possessed of the wisdom of Solomon my friend.
Nah.
Lock all three of them in a dark room with a single brick. Maybe two half bricks, if you think that’s more sporting.
I initially had some sympathy for the guy. Then it occurred to me. She pretty much handed him a divorce strictly on his terms. And he responds by handing her a means to put him in jail. And perhaps he belongs there – for stupidity, if nothing else.
Half a brick of what?
Cocaine, Lord Nightshade, Cocaine.
Could also be 50 bags of heroin or 2 mg. xanax
If it were up to me, cheating spouses/fiances would be fair game for a little corporal punishment. Aggravating the situation with humiliation/taunting should allow for an actual ass-whuppin’ with no criminal charges. Public humiliation? The cheaters get put into a porta-potty at a 24 hour/day construction site.
Some people just live for the drama.
That’s the only reason to do this kind of shit.
“Viral style! How ‘jab jewelry’ is being worn by vaccine advocates like NY Gov Kathy Hochul to tell the world to get jabbed”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10037689/How-jab-jewelry-sold-Amazon-worn-vaccine-advocates-like-NY-Gov-Kathy-Hochul.html
OFFS!
I like the little syringes, they can do double duty advertising your heroin habit.
Nope. The drive to get vaccinated is purely a rational and scientific decision totally based on reason and sound medical judgement. Not a whiff of social posturing anywhere to be found….
Out: Red AIDS ribbons.
In: Vaxed jewelry.
They haven’t come up with a vax ribbon?
A spiked choker might be appropriate.
Kinky.
I have one somewhere.
Wore my “Come and Make Me” shirt to run errands on Sunday. It got some second looks, and a thumbs-up.
I was wondering if anyone was going to give me shit. It would have been fun, since they would assume I am Unclean, and I’m actually one of the Elect.
I’m one of you now, and I’m trying to get used to it. I don’t plan on advertising my vax status, and I definitely don’t think we should force anyone to do it.
That’s where I am. I was vaccinated a few months ago. It doesn’t make me special or the rest unclean. It was my choice and everyone else should get the choice too. I don’t think it should be mandated, and if they start pushing boosters, I’m probably going to join the ranks of the unclean.
It was my choice and everyone else should get the choice too.
Indeed. And for most people (in the US at least) it’s probably the right choice. But not for all, which the totalitarians and hypochondriacs have a problem with.
From what I’m seeing, including the FDA’s astonishing disclosure that for males under 40 the risk of cardiomyopathy from the vaccine outweighs the risk of COVID, I think “most people” may be an overstatement.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by ‘most’. And of course it’s difficult to make a rational judgement since I find it impossible to trust any data coming out of our institutions, either about the true dangers of covid or the efficacy and risks of the vaccines. What I can gather as independently as is feasible for me, ‘most’ is not correct. Maybe most over 60, or generously, most over 50. But even then I just don’t have a good understanding for actual risks (on either side) here because ‘they’ (you know, they. THEM) seem constitutionally incapable of telling the truth about anything.
What I can gather as independently as is feasible for me, ‘most’ is not correct. Maybe most over 60, or generously, most over 50. But even then I just don’t have a good understanding for actual risks (on either side) here because ‘they’ (you know, they. THEM) seem constitutionally incapable of telling the truth about anything.
Cosigned.
PS: keep in mind that most (healthy) people under the age of 60 have a negligible chance of dying from COVID. Even at 60 exactly, the risk of dying upon catching covid is in the 1-2% range (IIRC). It quickly drops to <0.1% as you get into 40s and 30s.
IMO, People over the age of 65, those with cardiovascular issues, and the morbidly obese/generally in poor health should get the shot. Everybody else should avoid it.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by ‘most’.
By most I simply meant majority, and that is a guess based on the fact that the US has a high obesity rate and a high median age.
Tucker showed some video last night of her basically performing a Covid sermon at her pulpit. It was sickening. Couldn’t find it online, though – not that I want to watch that again.
Getting rid of Cuomo is starting to look like a mistake.
The BBC fact check of Bolsonaro leads me to believe that he is more honest than most politicians.
I put him in the same basket as Viktor Orbán, I get an authoritarian vibe from them but it is hard to tell with the press constantly freaking out.
He does has authoritarian tendencies but telling Merkel to pound sand over burning the forests is what turned the good and proper international against him.
Michael Shellenberger’s book Apocalypse Never goes into detail of how all of Europe was once covered with forests, not so much today. Bolsonaro pointing this out to them triggered their autism.
And after the past two years, there’s hardly any “free” countries with any remaining moral standing to criticize authoritarianism. Almost all leaders have indulged in the forbidden fruit.
About a year ago the Orban outrage du jour was that the Hungarian Parliament gave him emergency powers without an expiration date. The concern is reasonable. If they are going to give the executive emergency powers, which is questionable, there should at least be an expiration date. Anyway, since then he’s rescinded the emergency powers while so many governors in the US have grabbed emergency power without any kind of authorization from the legislature.
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!!!!!!!
NHPR on libertarian activists
Coronavirus-related disinformation has steadily escalated in New Hampshire: at the State House, in debates over school policy and in public protests. Some of it has taken the form of individual protests, with citizens showing up with homemade signs on street corners and the State House lawn.
But plenty of the activity is driven by anti-government groups with long-standing ties to conservative politics in the state. With coordinated social media, fundraising efforts, candidate endorsements and advertising, and activist training, the effort resembles, in some ways, a burgeoning political campaign.
“Covid-fascism is our motivation, stopping that from happening,” said Andrew Manuse, a former Republican lawmaker who’s long been active in libertarian-leaning activism in the state and is behind several of the groups organizing protests.
“I think we have a lot of work to do,” he added. “I’m not sure we’re planning to go away anytime soon.”
The public faces of this protest presents a mix: There are fervent citizens for whom the pandemic has been a personal awakening and those with no apparent ties to traditional political organizing. There are people with years of experience in anti-government protests: those who frequented Tea Party rallies of a decade ago, pro-Trump events in recent years, or even run-of-the-mill partisan Republican events.
But this movement is more than a few activated people. There are also several organizations working to build broader support behind these efforts. Groups with names like Absolute Defiance, the Government Integrity Project, Rise Up NH appear loosely connected on social media via Facebook, listserv emails, or on right-leaning platforms like Telegram. They share information about upcoming protests, give updates on local COVID developments and post news stories — much of it fueled by conspiracy theory or disinformation — about what they call the risks of vaccination.
They left out the part about leaving palettes of bricks. Oh wait, I’m thinking of something else.
It is interesting that they can do a deep dive on the origins of peaceful protests in New Hampshire, but the funding and organization of violent left wing mobs remains a mystery. Why, as far as they can tell, there’s no actual organization called Antifa anywhere to be found!
This is why we know our republic is truly dead. I no longer have any optimism about there being an semblance of justice or peace in the future. The only way this gets resolved without a civil war is if all the Top Men get removed from every government agency including the Dept. of
DefenseDystopia.I’ll be shitting marzipan bricks, farting rose petals, and pissing enough Moët & Chandon to feed the masses before that happens.
Our Republic died over 100 years ago.
It had a cancer known as slavery and the chemotherapy they used on it also killed the host.
Progressivism is a virus. WWI ushered in the beginning of the end.
Still, I’m going to die happy. Just to spite the fuckers.
Coronavirus-related disinformation has steadily escalated in New Hampshire
I’m sure it has, but not (just) the way they think.
We certainly can’t have those kind of people advocating and protesting…
So actual private citizens showing up to protest is bad? And they are all dumb cranks?
But when unions pay people to show up at a protest with pre-made signs that is totes dedication to the cause?
It is not your job to interpret events. It is your job to repeat how the media has told you to interpret events. Noticing obvious indicators like “AFL-CIO” plastered all over the signs are just tests of your faith.
Unless they’re looting the inner cities
I guess the moral of the story, is not to be so quick to judge.
Truth.
I find, however, that I reflexively judge. For instance, when people make snide comments about the unclean I judge them to be fucking ignorant meat sacks who aren’t worthy of the breath God gave them.
I clearly have some more work to do.
That’s different, because that is judging based on their demonstrated lack of critical thinking and empathy.
No, you don’t have more work to do. I find my self constantly exposed to snide, crappy comments on politics, by people who would shout me down if I even bothered to mention my beliefs. “Judge not lest ye be judged” is great advice in a normal environment – but when you are “surrounded by assholes” (Mel Brooks) don’t consider that judging – you are correctly appraising a situation.
Not judging =/= not supporting truth, even vociferously. Jesus called people fools. He called people hypocrites. Avoiding judging others doesn’t mean you can’t call them out for acting stupid or for grasping to falsehoods.
https://twitter.com/f_piazzoni/status/1442223754747301889
Nice.
This is what the world needs
That is delightful.
The Conservative Treehouse has called Biden’s vaccine mandate a con:
On September 9th, Joe Biden made the announcement that all employers with more than 100 workers would be required to enforce a national worker vaccine mandate. The White House stated that OSHA would, “develop a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated.”
However, following the announcement we noted OSHA was not taking any steps needed to engage with business interests to trigger the first-step in the organization of a process to initiate a rule-making process.
I’m only talking about the basic guidance aspect. The labor discussions with internal and external customers of the DoL, OSHA, etc. to set a calendar for how to implement “guidance”, just that part. There was nothing, and there is nothing.
So they’re half-assing this just like everything else? At least this time it’s working in our favor.
I hope this is just political posturing.
If not, I’ll wait until the mandates come through and most likely bend the arm. Sorry,
If you hold out long enough, it will almost certainly fail to hold up in court.
Doesn’t matter.
It provided cover for any business that wants to impose a mandate to do so as quickly as possible. {see kinnath’s employer}
At least with my employer they would lose about a third of their employees by my wild guesstimate. So they’re going to wait as well.
Yeah, mine has so far released two blurbs in the weekly newsletter saying “they’re still looking into it”.
If that isn’t “we don’t want to do this” I don’t know what is.
I envision Biden’s narrative collapsing while all the Karens quit to find work with only anointed ones.
I’ve talked with a couple of my larger customers and that’s the same language they are using. I think a lot of companies are gonna slow walk this for another month, hoping it will fizzle out.
My employer is slow walking as well. This place is actually pretty low key, so I am not surprised that they aren’t jumping on board.
They did send out an email offering $100 to anyone who sent in proof of their getting jabbed.
Not only did I not send in my vaccination card, but I shamed a coworker who said “Hey at least we got $100!”. I told him that some of us weren’t taking their filthy money because it was none of their business and $100 isn’t enough to buy off my convictions.
Didn’t sway the coworker at all. He already knows I’m a nut and he was happy with his $100.
Same here. The notice my work sent out even included the weekly testing option and said they were waiting on “guidance” from the Fed.
I’m expecting my employer to do it.
We’ve changed from “we’re not going to require vaccines” to “if you are unvaccinated and in the office, you must wear masks and keep six feet away from anyone. Vaccinated people don’t have to do this” to “Prove that you are vaccinated by [some date] or you lose access to the office. You can keep working remotely.”
I expect in a few weeks to a month we’ll get, “Prove that you are vaccinated or we’ll fire you.”
Yup, it’s coming. We’re planning for a period of unemployment when the other shoe drops. I’ve been interviewing for other positions, but until I know how this vax stuff shakes out, it doesn’t make a ton of sense to change companies. At this point it’s about piling up cash and being ready to make fast moves once thing become more certain.
I figure by the time the rule is promulgated the latest wave will have already passed. They will claim victory and quietly withdraw the mandate that never was.
This does track with the silence from the pentagon…..
(with my luck i get the email in 5…4…3…2…1…now.)
The NY Post was also bitching about this the other day, from the pro-authoritarian, hurry-up-and-forcibly-inject-everyone perspective.
Well, maybe there’s hope I’ll keep my job. I will keep preparing for the worst, however.
Mine asked for an attestation and proof of vaccination by November. Not surprising given its a CA based health insurer, so they will get it—in November.
A Politico reporter was sniffing around our archived press releases (2012-2021) today. Can’t wait to see what new publicly-available incriminating information they can dig up on Trump.
Woke Jesus.
Tesla’s Columbus Egg
Neat.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/09/cassowary-the-worlds-most-dangerous-bird-is-believed-to-have-been-raised-by-humans-18000-years-according-to-new-study.html
Neato.
Super cool!
At which point they kill you.
They are dinosaurs. So are chickens. So are chickadees, robins, ducks, Hate Birds/The Birds That Hate, hummingbirds, and all Aves. They’re a branch of the Coelurosauria, which are a branch of the Theropoda, which includes beasts like the various raptors, allosaurs, and T-Rex.
T-Rex?
T-Rex.
Not T-Rex
But stylish and worth linking.
Missed headline opportunity.
“World’s most dangerous bird created by world’s most dangerous animal?”
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/09/bill-would-give-parents-front-row-seat-to-what-students-are-being-taught-in-pa-schools.html
“It’s just not the students, the parents or guardians,” he said. “It’s also the taxpayers who are paying who should have a chance to see it.”
Huh. Imagine that.
Let me guess, the unions are fighting tooth and nail against it.
It does say every Democrat is opposed. Shocking, I know.
I don’t think this goes far enough. Parents should have video access to any class their child is in.
Or what Urth said.
I’ll take ‘Things that go without saying’ for $400, Alex.
It it kind of surprising that public schools don’t have permanent surveillance for the parents to look at.
100% of private day cares do.
https://www.thatsitfruit.com/products/keto-kick-vanilla-mini-energy-bars
How is that keto? There’s no fat in it!
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Study in Wales found that 2/3’s of Covid cases were vaccinated. 80% of hospitalizations had the jab.
It’s funny how the media propaganda still attempts to pin this all on the unvaccinated. It’s an effective PR campaign that you won’t question unless you do your own digging.
Well because our data says that 99% of the hospitalized people are unvaccinated. I think. Or does it? They claim that at least .
That was the case months ago.
Oddly, current data is not easily available. Weird, huh?
yes.
I was in an argument earlier with someone who claimed that deplorable a were to blame for everything.
I schooled him of course.
But if I had data that people taking up hospitals weren’t all unvaccinated I would REALLY have schooled him.
So if you see any pass it right along. I’m getting suspicious.
As far as I can tell, they’re actively trying to bury the data that would prove this was a mistake or at least not going well.
They are — luckily — not very bright.
Today we learned even more how much Biden lied his ass off about Afghanistan.
I predict more to come on this as well.
Since March 2020, as far as I can tell, we in the United States are only to believe two countries exist: ours, where the deplorables subvert the beneficent decision-making of our scientific elite, and China, where the scientific elite are unfettered and have achieved inarguable greatness.
I could be wrong, but I think we’re getting past the “we can count this one as unvaxxed because the shot that put him here was administered less than 2 weeks ago” numbers, too. Now people that got the shot 2 months ago are getting sick again.
(anecdotal) case in point: Co-worker and entire family are down with the ‘Vid, and were vaxxed back in April-ish. Fortunately not too serious, it sounds like, but these are starting to be unavoidable situations for hospitals, so the only remedy is to completely ignore it.
I think I’ve read that the US is several weeks behind this trend that we’re seeing in Israel or I guess now Wales. I guess we’ll find out.
News is reporting on grocery store shortages.
Short version – brace yourself for even higher prices.
Goddamn this government sucks ass.
Follow up story – petrol shortages in the UK.
Goddamn that government sucks ass.
?
Goddamn
thatgovernment sucks ass.FTFY
There ya go
NatGas is what’s going to hurt in a few weeks.
We had the heating oil tank filled today. $2-something a gallon. Guy driving the truck thinks it will go up. One thing that might help is that heating oil/kerosene/Diesel and so on are produced here in Alaska. I think there’s one refinery now making gasoline, down in Nikiski, but I haven’t verified that myself.
Anything we don’t have to ship up from the 48 helps.
Since we’ve got shitloads of it in Alberta and successive decisions by both Canadian and U.S. governments have led to at least partial lock-ins of our NatGas, I’m hoping we avoid the worst of the price hikes.
Goddamn Trump. Out of office 8 months and still wreaking havoc,
Gosh I wonder what is the cause of all this. It is a mystery.
https://twitter.com/ABAbook/status/1442891868786675717
Where the white women at?
? Weed Halloween candy local media alert! Weed Halloween candy local media alert! Weed Halloween candy local media alert! ?
https://twitter.com/JaclynLeeTV/status/1442911783916761090
No one is going to shell out for edibles and just give them away to ungrateful children.
I’d say they should try arguing the candy is laced with rum to mix things up a bit, but the resurgence of the CWTU would be a little too on-the-nose.
Pass them out if you have them.
https://www.candywarehouse.com/candy-flavors/liquor/chocolates
Will.
(Hello, CO!)
But don’t let your guard down on the other dangers. Razor blades in apples etc.
The replies are what I love most about these kinds of things. It’s one of the only unifying things on the Tweeters.
Good for Frito-lay getting in on the legal weed business.
This shit again? Here kid have a $48 chocolate bar.
I am not sharing with my booger eaters, let alone someone else’s.
Bradley Beal (NBA sportsball guy) asking some good questions to a (nearly) silent room of reporters at a press conference.
Video Link
As much as I wish everyone would do their own analysis, the reality is that it’s people like him, or Nicki Minaj, or other celebs, that will provide most people a little bit of a wakeup call.
I thought this was a great moment: No tinfoil-hat-sounding theories or raised voice, just some calm, pointed questions.
DO yourself a favor and don’t read this. It truly boils the blood and boggles the mind, and even more, illustrates the rift between us. We truly will never be united again; I for one will never live in the same world as these people.
Linky no worky, mang.
You can be absolutely sure I’ll f*ck up a link on ya. It’s kind of my thing now.
Let’s try it again
Candace Buckner, WaPo staff Pearl Clutcher™.
CWAA.
People might start to notice that a lot of people who don’t want this vax or at least have doubts about it aren’t the stereotypical Trumpaloes.
Furthermore, Beal already had Covid. I don’t see why his vaccine status should even be an issue. Dare I say it’s anti-science to make it an issue.
I counted eight rows of ribbons on Gen. Milley today. Quite the hero. Photos of Ike during Normandy campaign show 2 rows, and the most I could find on any photo of him at the end of his Army career was five rows.
They started giving out awards like third world dictatorships. I’ve done a few run throughs of how many awards a fictional character might have ended up with after two years of service, and it’s gotten silly.
It is silly. Never deployed and had two rows…for what? I am not sure. I think meritorious service and an excellence award of some sort.
I was (technically) deployed twice and had two and a half rows, over half of which were “Thanks For Coming” ribbons.
From some website:
Even though the medal was created during WWII and made retroactive, only 395K recipients? I hoping this is because they earned higher honors. Same with Korea. I thought you had to be IN combat to get it. I guess not.
If you’re talking about the Bronze Star that I mentioned, then you just have to be in a designated combat zone. The Silver Star, if I remember right, has to be for actions in actual combat.
And, sure, a lot of awards are handed out for bullshit – I saw one entire unit given Army Commendation Medals, even though that unit had the same share of nitwits, berry-pickers and sad sacks as any other outfit. I’m just not a big fan of painting with broad brushes, because some people really do deserve the awards they received, and I can see who they could be prickly about statements like another one in this thread.
The Bronze Star was given out to every platoon leader and plt sgt in my battalion. It wasn’t even hidden why it was done.
I hear you. some people really do deserve the awards they received That’s
what pisses me off. The people who truly deserve awards are getting the same accolades as the sad sacks.
It reminds me of the USAF “Good Conduct Medal”. What.a.fucking.joke. If you can’t conduct yourself properly, shouldn’t you just get kicked the fuck out? Boo hoo, I need a decoration for my dress blues.
Anecdotal TBS, but:
I worked with a guy who got denied re-enlistment in the USAF. He joined the Army Guard to get a pension,and got enough education to get butter bars. He was in the engineering corps or some such during Iraqi Freedom. He got a bronze star. I asked what for, you weren’t in any firefights. He said, his Colonel got [some] medal, his Major got a [lesser] medal, so he got one too. Well okay then, thank you for your service.
They studied the California self-esteem movement and created participation trophies they wear on their chests.
Half of them are Rooting Out White Supremacy merit badges.
Some wiseguy ought to ask him how many ribbons are Chinese military awards.
Officers give awards out to one another to boost their careers. It’s all bullshit.
Not all of it. Mrs. Animal was awarded a Bronze Star in Desert Storm, and believe you me, she fucking earned it.
There are soldiers who earn awards. But when it comes to the officer class, the vast majority of it pat-each-other-on-the-back bullshit.
And you know this… how?
I formed my opinion from my deployment and watching the officers do it.
OK. Sure, some of them do. But “vast majority?” I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s under 50% at the company-grade level, which is where I spent my time. At the General Officer level, yeah, there’s a lot of knob-polishing. But the lower grades mostly don’t have to pull to generate a lot of bullshit awards – at least, back in the Eighties and Nineties they didn’t.
Full disclosure: Mrs. Animal was a 1LT when she was awarded that Bronze Star. And yes, she earned it and then some, and now, thirty years later, she’s still dealing with the physical aftermath of that deployment.
Officer are given elevated merit awards. What would be an AAM for enlisted gets bumped up to an ARCOM or MSM depending on rank. I haven’t seen and hope valor awards aren’t inflated, that includes an ARCOM with V. It isn’t high in precedence, but respect to anyone with a valor award.
I want to say that’s actually by regulation, but I’m damned if I can remember where.
Probably. The Army still carries a lot of the aristocrat-peasant culture.
TW Snopes
https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2016/05/soldier-medals.jpg
“He has earned the highest of military honors – the second coat to hold the other awards.”
They look like Christmas trees.
Shiny keeps up morale.
He has 20 medals. The top four rows only have two. The first four rows are all service medals.
I was a lowly NCO with no combat service. I left with 10 medals (3 merit). I somehow avoided getting the NCOPD and was denied a MSM because of my rank. If I had gone to Desert Storm (was in the wrong unit) and KFOR (was a medical hold), I would have another 4.
You know, I’m getting sick of the amazed tone documentaries take on when discussing ancient building projects as though humans back then were too stupid to solve problems. Especially problems like building aqueducts so they can live.
Perhaps the people creating the documentary are indeed amazed, as no one they know would ever be able to calculate, plan, execute, adapt, and solve those kinds of problems?
Kind of the other side of the “it looks easier when you don’t know how it works” issue.
Hard to criticize the amazement when about 99% of guys still can’t learn “don’t stick it in crazy.”
It was impossible to cut stone in such a straight line with the tools they had of the day! *demonstrates* well…you have the knowledge of today to do it!
What amazes me is not that they knew how, but that they had the stamina to actually do it. When we went to Mont St. Michel on the border of the Normandy/Brittany coast, it boggled the mind to contemplate the stonecutters who made the thousand-pound bricks, signed them with their mark, and then somehow moved them into position from the quarries which were many kilometres away, and did this for decades of their lives until either the hernias stopped them or they died of exhaustion or old age.
And we think the Greatest Generation were “real men.”
Well, the same pussies who built that couldn’t fend off the raids of the Vikings.
They didn’t need to. The bay (and its tides) did that for them, and the island remained unconquered long after the Vikings became legend. Couldn’t even be conquered during the Hundred Years’ War.
(I’ve walked that bay, BTW — it has a lot of quicksand, which in itself isn’t fatal contrary to popular belief, but it traps you until the tidal bore roars in, which, at its greatest extent, means you’ll be under fifty feet of seawater in a few hours.)
Defense in depth, mang.
I am always amazed at learning the methods used in bronze age quarrying. That was some really, really hard and exacting work.
We have grit, rock, wood, water, and metals softer than the rock.
We can get this hundred ton monolith perfectly smooth and cut within a fraction of a degree of perfect!
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For you.
I, too, like cold beverages!
G. Love was the boyfriend of my roommate’s best friend back in the 90’s. They had screaming matches on the phone when she came to visit one time.
(the girlfriend was/is a musician herself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWsbc4cWWE)
Would.
Wow!
She’s amazing! Nice job GLove.
I enjoyed the record he did with the Avett Brothers.
Home.
Just Fine.
Lemon pudding?
Of sorts…if you think of it.
Hollandaise… *swoon*
Ohhhhhhhhh yeah.
Most sauces are of divine origin. Except for hollandaise. Hollandaise is of the Deceiver, it tricks you into thinking it is cheese sauce and then you taste it…
. . . and realize that it’s even better than cheese sauce. Ohhhhhhhhh yeah.
Have you checked the warranty on your taste buds?
I do all my own warranty work. I’m far more conscientious than the average tech. That’s why all my radio restorations are the talk of the town. ;-)
This is the correct opinion
Unpossible!!!
Indeed it is orgasmic.
OMG that was good.
On a scale of sex with UCS being a 0 and sex with The Bro being an obvious 10, how would you rank it?
11: sex with _________
Steve Smith.
Duh.
I would have guessed this guy.
Looks like the idea that 2020 may not have been the most legitimate election in US history is spreading across the pond.
“Soon the public will wake up to something even more unpleasant and sinister: that the last presidential election was a fraud, rigged by big business, the labour unions and, more than anything, the media and the tech companies. If that election had taken place in any other country, it would have been called “unfree”. And, as more and more evidence emerges, it terrifies me that the same thing could happen here.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/so-trump-was-right-the-election-was-rigged-and-our-next-one-will-be-too-n0x3lv7fv?shareToken=7f076fa9fc391fc0d0e498adce12fcb0
Not an encouraging start with the “horse-whipping Haitians” lie.
Pass.
Love the sentiment but these dude in the first paragraph parrots the “judge for yourself by the television pictures of terrified Haitian refugees on the US-Mexico border being horse-whipped by mounted American rangers” whale shit, so I don’t really take too much of what he says seriously.
To reply to my own comment, after reading the rest of the article, I’ll give him credit in that he lets the whole damn system have it with both barrels. He goes after the Biden crime family pretty savagely.
That is the thing. They would never have tried this when Trump was in. Those whatever 10’s (20’s?) of thousands of Haitaians were hanging out in South America for all these years and I am assuming doing fine by the pics. They did not look starving. They were organized to come here now because word is out the border is open. Be you an open border Libtard or build the wall Trumptard this all costs money. We all know where the Gov gets its money. My problem is we now have a government funded grifting industry that does nothing but relocate and support immigrants. Fuck that.
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I think they won’t deliver to me until and unless the mag capacity limits are declared unconstitutional.
There are two cases on bullshit magazine limits in the courts now, with one being argued in the coming SCOTUS session.
I wouldn’t wager money on a happy outcome there.
I refuse to give into my intrinsic pessimism.
If that were true, I might actually get the fucking thing.
Hot Española squirts like a firehose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INvrtMg5tSQ