Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely wonderful day it always is!
Rittenhouse jury to begin deliberations at 9am
Judge dismisses gun charges against Rittenhouse
Alex Jones loses by default in Sandy Hook defamation lawsuits, lawyers say Jones will appeal
Steve Bannon says he is ‘taking on Biden regime’ after court appearance
A guide to the clusterfuck bill that was passed.
Wyoming Republican Party Votes To No Longer Recognized Liz Cheney as a Republican
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Rittenhouse jury to begin deliberations at 9am”
This travesty of justice, to protect the criminals that enabled and abetted the rioting, looting, and destruction in Kenosha and other cities who were caught between a rock & a hard place because of all the lying to inflame people, should never have happened.
This kid should have been given a medal for his trigger discipline and then had it taken back for failing to put that last scumbag in the ground along with the other two evil fucking assholes.
The thing is, Grosskreutz still had his gun in his hand and was upright after he was shot. He was still a threat, or t least could be taken as one. A follow up shot would have been justified, IMO.
The fact that Rittenhouse didn’t keep shooting at Grosskreutz disproves the prosecution’s (and media’s) claim that Rittenhouse was out there with the express intent to kill people.
As if facts matter…
“Wyoming Republican Party Votes To No Longer Recognized Liz Cheney as a Republican”
Now do that democrat pretending to not be that from Alaska.
Well, she can see Alaska from her porch!
Morning, Banjos.
“A guide to the clusterfuck bill that was passed.”
Wait, someone is finding out that the fucking statists used a bill to parse out a ton of tax payer lucre to connected friends, family, and agents of the party? That a lot of these entities then will turn around and lard the campaign coffers of team blue agents?…
SAY IT AIN’T SO!
The two Ohio Republicans who voted for it are both not running for re-election (Portman – Senate; Gonzalez – House).
Must have had some payout in there they got to vote for it that greases the palm of their future employer….
Sell outs are sell outs.
Voting for it shows they are team players who can be rewarded with a consulting gig.
Mainstream media acceptable Republicans, you’ll be seeing plenty of them in the coming couple of years.
I’m not going to read that because it’s just gonna piss me off.
Rittenhouse jury to begin deliberations at 9am
Is it to late for him to request trial by combat?
Rittenhouse Rye is discounted today at 109 Lei or 25 Americanese Dollars
Not bad!
Worth it.
Yes, do it Pie.
Who would he fight? The DA or the guy whose arm he shattered?
I say both.
AR 15s at 100 paces (but no high tech optical things, iron sights or equivalent.)
Iron sights at 100 yards? Easy shot on a human-sized target.
easy to say that on the internet but can you do it on the range?
I have. Back when my eyes worked better.
Concur. I never missed out to 200m on the pop-up ranges. I didn’t need sights for the 50m targets. I did have problems beyond 200m. Kept me bouncing between sharpshooter and expert.
Forget the range…how about in real life, when the other guy is shooting back.
Thankfully, I have not had to do that.
the other guy is shooting back – well that is rude that sort of thing can break one’s concentration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90x6kAcVP54
Yeah, tell me about it.
Shooting? What about if he has already shot you?
Jackson was a shitty person/president, but the fucker was a badass.
Jackson ended the 2nd bank of the US and nearly paid off the national debt. So, not necessarily a shitty President…if you ignore everything else.
100 paces = 100 yards. That is quite a pace count.
Iron sights are for poor people.
You have gold sights?
I actually do have one gun with a gold bead front sight.
It’s pretty cool, but there’s a reason that everybody is moving to optics.
Because they don’t bother to learn the basics?
Because my eyes only work so well, and I’d like to be able to hit what I intended to.
Dude, I have worn bifocals since I was 19.
Diopters for the win, V-notch for the rest.
I had bifocals when I was a kid. I hated them. I stopped needing them when I was a teenager.
Now with my eyes deteriorating, my eye doctor has been pushing me to get progressive lenses. I have three pairs of glasses: distance, computer, and reading. I am due for a new pair of distance lenses, and I’m going to break down. I am going to try progressive lenses.
It’s almost as if eyes are individual to the person. Funny that.
Bifocals saved my ass when I was 11. I have had trifocals for the last 20 years.
DEG, just go ahead and get them. Nobody can tell, not even you. All you know is you can see far and near.
Back in my Army days, my left eye was better than my right, but I am right handed. Now they are both bad.
I switched to progressives to avoid the constant taking on and off of reading glasses (I wore contacts for distance).
Because optics are easier to use than iron sights, and provide more capability.
I think my Troy’s were $150, which is more than I paid for my Sig red dot.
HK > A2
Red dots suck for my eyes. The dot is always a useless blur unless I squint to the point of getting eye strain.
I have a Vortex Prism optic for my AR. It’s quite nice. But expensive, and a bit too bulky for my tastes for a handgun.
Iron sights it is for me.
/ignore all the collectible rifles with iron sights….
I have the same problem (mild astigmatism) with many red dots. Some brands are better than others, though – Trijicon and Holosun work well for me.
On a rifle, you can use a rear peep sight to clean up the dot. Give it a try, the difference is amazing.
He should have requested a bench trial. It would all be over except the leftist weeping now.
I will repost the duel by fry and laury for no particular reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDsn-RRmDXU
I guess I’ll be glued to Rekieta all day. Again.
weird euphemism but okay
It could take a very long time.
Course I guess it also could not.
9:05 am – “Not guilty” in a sane world.
“If we deliberate until noon, what kind of lunch do we get?”
^^^THIS^^^
After all oriental food while satisfying makes you feel hungry an hour after…
The jury I was on, they took our lunch order at start of deliberations, we finished before it came, but had to wait for the judge to get back from lunch anyway.
The Rekieta Law panel was thinking deliberations would go until around noon.
The stream has started.
Can this man be anymore vile? – the answer to such questions is always yes
For a little giggle on a Tuesday morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LogS0635UUQ
nice one
Ryan Reynolds is a good egg. I haven’t watched single one of his movies since maybe “Waiting”?
Free Guy was fun. Pretty positive, with minimal business bashing given the setup.
*thinks*
I may have seen one of his movies. He was an electric rat, right?
I just watched the movie that was the premise for this farce. It was entertaining for a evening during the week.
I think Ryan Remolds is officially typecast. He plays everything like he is Deadpool.
I found it throughly meh. I don’t think casting two leading men helped it.
Shocking that they spend $200M on that.
Simon Lebon’s wife suggested RR play her husband in the rumored Duran Duran biopic. I think it’s a great choice, but RR is in his 40’s and Lebon started with Duran Duran in his early 20’s.
I didn’t really know anything about Steve Bannon until last year. When I saw him on Tim Pool’s show I really liked him. I hope he gives the regime what-for.
ATOMIC HOBO!
He does have an Uncle Billy quality. Never forgot a cash deposit in a bank lobby that I’ve heard of, though.
“Hobo With A Shotgun”! https://youtu.be/0J4xu0CuCOw
Dilbert man sez:
The Biden administration botched their attempt to silence Bannon and ended up weaponizing him like a Wuhan virus.
They can make things worse by jailing him. So I assume they will try.
I’d say the only thing Binger has managed to prove is that he’s the one who should be removed from society as a danger to himself and others.
You harshing his Rambo moves, man?
noted that only $110 billion of the $1.2 trillion in spending would fund roads, bridges, and other projects that most Americans would consider infrastructure.
what a slam-dunk victory for infrastructure.
Also infrastructure is not really crumbling and better than it ever has been. It’s just something they say when they need to pass some bullshit.
Look… just because all that other infrastructure spending went to grift, politicians, and connected people doesn’t mean that THIS infrastructure spending won’t get spent on the roads and bridges we’re complaining about.
90-95% grift. A few outlier communities might get as low as 65-70% grift but they are the exception, not the rule. Money printer goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
So one of the charges is “first-degree recklessly endangering safety against journalist Richie McGinnis,” and the judge said self-defense doesn’t apply here. The idea is that McGinnis was somewhere vaguely behind Rosenbaum when Rittenhouse shot Rosenbaum, and therefore McGinnis was recklessly put in danger. This is the charge that I think could stick, if any.
But then the prosecution argued that the first shot at Rosenbaum hit him in the pelvis, and subsequent shots were at a falling Rosenbaum, so Rittenhouse was shooting towards the ground the whole time.
They all might stick and they all might not.
I should tell you stories of juries I was on later.
It’s a crapshoot.
It will be immediately be used by various political entities to make sweeping praise or condemnation of society.
Despite what everyone says though? This outcome doesn’t mean a fucking thing.
Does it not mean a thing? Is it only in my imagination that it has far reaching implications for when or if anyone can ever stand up to the mob? Does carrying a gun in public mean the mob gets to beat you to death?
I say it doesn’t. Next time it happens it will just mean another crapshoot.
Someone can *think* it means something and alter their behavior but that won’t last forever.
It also means that *not* carrying a gun in public means the mob gets to beat you to death.
Yeah.
I mean if the verdict is innocent on everything you can still carry a gun and have some politically motivated prosecutor come after you. And he might win still. Just needs the right jury.
On the other hand if it’s guilty and you choose not to carry one you could still get the life kicked out of you.
I would proceed roughly the same way regardless of verdict.
This is wise.
The only lesson learned from Kenosha is – if you go out looking for trouble, you might find more than you’re able to handle…
And always make sure your skirt isn’t too short.
And this is how the statists win. Even if Kyle walks, people are seeing that even a clear cut self defense case will get the book thrown at you and forced to cough up ridiculous amounts of dough in legal fees. The message is clear: only the state and it’s goons can be violent.
I’m of two minds. I agree with EvilSheldon as I don’t want to go out looking for trouble. I agree with Brawndo as at some point communities need to stand up against the mob and be supported by the legal institutions for doing so.
Tough stuff.
Two things:
1. Kyle DID handle the trouble from Antifa that came his way. It’s the trouble from the government that is giving him trouble.
2. Saying that he should actively leave places where bad people are is straight up approval of the heckler’s veto, but on a much grosser scale.
NA – exactly this.
‘No victims, only volunteers,’ is unkind, not untrue.
Kyle isn’t the only one on trial… Middle America has been charged alongside him. This monstrous regime wants to also punish you for resisting their propaganda campaign, for refusing their racial caste system, defying their medical apartheid, and rejecting their anti-Americanism
Hmm…sounds made up. Perhaps I, like so many others, got swept up in following this trial. It is a real malaise of this age and I succumbed.
Not in a direct reply to you, but I am going to say the same thing here that I said over at Taibbi’s place:
I absolutely, completely, unequivocally agree with this.
Rittenhouse was not wrong. He was foolish. Different problem.
Based on my semi-shallow understanding of events, his mistake was either or both of (1) trying to put out a fire with rioters still around (which set off the chain of events that led to two dead and one left-handed lefty stooge) and/or (2) getting separated and going it alone.
In general, the whole Kyle Rittenhouse show was plagued by poor planning, poor understanding of mission, and poor assessment of the opposition. Wandering off alone was definitely his biggest mistake.
Dramatic defense of Polish (EU) border against migrants trying to enter from Belarus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ethIAhMLbeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8KuV7f6BlI
Poles are a bunch of xenophobic racists,.
then again it seem slightly weird for middle eastern migrants to end up in White Russia.
Supposedly, Belarus invited them in for this purpose. Why? Who knows.
I know mine fields are banned these days, but this seems like a scenario where they would prove useful..
I was told the United States never signed that treaty. Wonder if it’s true.
We were told, in the 1980s/’90s Army that FedGov would never be a signatory because of massive, and wholly necessary, minefields along the Korean DMZ.
l0b0t, I caught your comment about Kino sandals in Key West. Bought a pair of flip flops.
Sweet! They were the only footwear of my childhood and, unless he’s in his work boots, the only footwear my step-dad has worn since the early 1970s. I hope you enjoy them.
That’s correct.
Are the migrants Belarussian? Or are they from unnamed middle eastern or african nation? Hard to tell what with all the winter clothing.
Lot of Syrians.
Chucking stones at the people guarding the border doesn’t seem to be the best way to engender sympathy.
Rittenhouse jury to begin deliberations at 9am TODAY as Kenosha National Guard prepares for chaos: Judge tells jury to ignore ‘everyone’s opinion’ including ‘that of the president’ after Biden labeled teen a ‘white supremacist’ in 2020
Because it is perfectly legit to riot when a trial does not go the way you want.
Kenosha has its own National Guard?!
Probably the third best national guard behind Poughkeepsie and Des Moines.
Yeah, don’t mess with Des Moines!
We played a club in Des Moines. Tapping into 220 was one by connecting to a wire coming out of the floor. A few months later the club burned down. The band playing there lost all of their equipment in the fire. The band’s name? Destiny.
The riots when Trump was in the white house and all the support from team blue to keep them going was good, having riots now that team blue is in charge is bad…
Obviously they’re expecting Trump-loving MAGA racists to riot if Kyle gets convicted and/or have a celebratory riot if he’s not.
Contempt of Congress?
There aren’t enough jail cells on the planet.
That’s why Australia is building camps.
And has anyone noted that internment camps fall under infrastructure?
Employers, consider giving your Black employees a day or two off after the Rittenhouse verdict. Regardless of the outcome, it’s going to be hard for Black people to work and it isn’t fair to expect them to.
https://twitter.com/GregoryMcKelvey/status/1460363150096621570
If OWMC does not do this I will boycott his establishment
Old With Man Candy?
I like it.
I see many a gay couple fitting that description.
Old Women Make Cookies.
Black people are so fragile.
Childlike, really.
Maybe it’s to celebrate Kyle killing a man caught using a racial slur?
Fair,considering the number of black people Kyle shot.
Say, pardon me, but could you help out a fellow Glib who’s down on his luck? https://www.gofundme.com/f/vedvr-trying-to-save-my-home
Yep.
Dropped some money in.
St. Peter will remember your mitzvah.
Can this man be anymore vile?
He’s like Littlefinger but more dishonest and less intelligent.
“You lose the right to self-defense when you’re the one who brought the gun, when you’re the one creating the danger, when you’re the one provoking other people,” Binger said.
I didn’t realize that simply carrying a weapon constituted provocation. Silly me.
“Everyone takes a beating once in a while, that doesn’t give you the right to shoot someone.”
-Fatlock
Regardless of the outcome, it’s going to be hard for Black people to work and it isn’t fair to expect them to.
Them darkies is just like children, and cannot be expected to control their emotions or behave rationally. They are little better than dressed up monkeys.
Tell me again; who are the white supremacists?
I had some liberal hag tell me without people like her – white liberal douches that never have to be subjected to the idiocy of their beliefs and actions, and believe all darkies are idiots that can’t survive without their white liberal saviors, I pointed out to her after the fact – these poor darkies would all be back in chains and being abused.
KR didn’t even kill any POC’s. Wtf is this asshole bloviating about?
Rittenhouse casually murdered two white Allies and injured another white Ally who were justly destroying a town because a BLACK man was shot a few days prior!
/journolisming
I assumed this was satire. Was I wrong?
You can’t assume satire anymore.
They are already so drained from trying to figure out how to get a valid ID.
Mr Bannon did not enter a plea Monday and is due back in court on Thursday for the next phase of what could be the first high-level trial in connection with January’s insurrection at the US Capitol.
January’s what? That didn’t happen.
That’s some mighty fine infrastructure.
“Cheney responded to the devastating vote by calling it “laughable.” Republicans have “allowed themselves to be held hostage to the lies of a dangerous and irrational man,”
But enough about Dick Cheney and the neo cons.
“We ain’t talkin’ ’bout yo’ Dad!”
Brought over from the dead-thread – We are completely cut off from the Port of Vancouver and probably will be for weeks or months. Every highway, freeway and railroad is devastated. Gone. That’s a supply chain disruption. There are entire sections just swept away. Bailey Bridges won’t do.
So, just a couple hundred million out of our infrastructure bill should cover it, right?
The passage of the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill would not have been possible without the support and advocacy of 19 Senate Republicans and 13 House Republicans.
Useless cuntes.
That’s called bi-partisan healing. Like when you drop the frozen head of your enemy on your foot and it still manages to gash you with it’s teeth.
Awesome.
The 31-29 vote Saturday in Buffalo, Wyoming, by the state party central committee followed votes by local GOP officials in about one-third of Wyoming’s 23 counties to no longer recognize Cheney as a Republican,” the Associated Press reported Monday evening.
Lulz. But what the hell is wrong with the 29 that voted in her favor?
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That’s awesome, Mojeaux! The interrobang is sadly under-appreciated.
Yes. I love it and I thought about using it in typesetting my books, but it’s never available in the fonts I use.
Brought over from the dead-thread – We are completely cut off from the Port of Vancouver and probably will be for weeks or months. Every highway, freeway and railroad is devastated. Gone. That’s a supply chain disruption. There are entire sections just swept away. Bailey Bridges won’t do.
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Category 5 Kaiju attack.
Floods and landslides. It’s mountainous terrain. When the valleys flood, everything gets shut down.
Article from Washington Post yesterday
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/15/canada-floods-british-columbia/
BC is wild. I drove up there through Idaho once in a snowstorm at night. It felt sketchy to me in a rented for Explorer but all the vehicles I passed seemed indifferent to the conditions.
One for the vexillologists:
The French presidency has reverted the blue of the country’s tricolour flag back to the pre-1976 navy tone in a nod to the Revolution.
The change of blue of the flags adorning the Elysée Palace was first made a year ago but went largely unnoticed.
Previously, the shade was lighter to match the blue of the EU flag as decided by President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 1976.
https://www.euronews.com/2021/11/15/macron-reverts-french-flag-to-navy-blue-from-lighter-eu-shade
Frexit?
neah just some meaningless bullshit
FRANCE IS THE TOP AND THE REST OF YOU ARE THE BOTTOM! VIVE LA FANCE!!
/Frenchie
Tiny nod to the Yellow Vests?
I like how they put up side-by-side shots of the new and old flags so you can compare.
Oh, wait, no they didn’t – quality journalisming.
if you wait for everything in the site to load they included a tweet with a comparison
Ah, so they did – I sit corrected. Brave just savagely suppressed a whole lot of crap on that page.
Tricolor? I thought it was all white.
Existential Comics
@existentialcoms
What’s weird to me about the coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse is that people often like to bring up theoreticals like “what if he was a left wing protestor?”
We don’t have to wonder, Michael Reinoehl was accused of the same crime. He was executed by the police without a trial.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1458195556296101888
They didn’t do a thing to this guy.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/090/592/202/original/aa27f477c859c38c.jpeg
Wasn’t Michael Reinoehl that shithead who shot a guy trying to pepper-spray him, then later decided to bang it out with the cops who came to arrest him at his apartment?
Yes
There’s something about firing a gun at cops that really seems to piss them off.
He was executed by the police without a trial.
That’s a weird way to say “was killed in a shootout with police”. But he draws shitty comics, so he must be right.
Meaning he did not surrender to the police?
Most thoroughly vaccinated place on Earth sees big rise in covid cases.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1521786/Gibraltar-news-covid-cases-rise-Christmas-lockdown
Obvious solution is more vaccinations.
Until every 5 year old is triple vaxxed we cannot know for sure
Continuous IV drip for all!
It’s because anyone can just sail into the Mediterranean and give them covid.
Fucking trade winds are going to kill them all.
The French presidency has reverted the blue of the country’s tricolour flag back to the pre-1976 navy tone in a nod to the Revolution.
Stimulus for the flag makers.
This tyrannical garden gnome needs to fuck all the way off.
Fauci says that there is a “misplaced perception about people’s individual right to make a decision that supersedes the societal safety.”
I have other ideas about what to do with him.
Send him to Egypt with no shoes?
Will that lead to him being eaten alive by sandflies?
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/11/16/deadly-scorpions-leave-500-egyptians-in-hospital-following-flooding
Scorpions, last time I checked.
How about scorpions? Can I drop scorpions on him?
Is that fucker even an American? Does Common Law mean nothing, anymore? Do I ask too many questions like Nap?
“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job. A recovery is when Anthony Fauci loses his.” – Ron DeSantis.
Pope Jimbo goes on a bender?
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/charges-man-threatened-to-kill-tsa-agents-at-msp-airport-headbutted-tvs-stripped-and-masturbated
I mean, I can’t judge. I have wanted to do all those things at the airport.
What da fuq is in your water out there?
Maybe he liked the probing. I can’t fathom getting a stiffy while being abused by the TSA but different strokes…
Doh! I would have beaten you PO’d if I didn’t have a stupid work meeting at 8!
Nope, I’m still at large. Has anyone heard from Fourscore?
Coulda been, except for the masterbatin’ part, not enough time for that.
The case for a judgemental liberalism
https://www.1828.org.uk/2021/11/11/the-case-for-a-judgemental-liberalism/
Classical liberalism differs from other political traditions in that it does not offer a vision of what a “good society”, or a “good life”, would look like. Conservatives value tradition, the family, patriotism, the work ethic, and historically (less so nowadays), religion and hierarchy. Progressives value diversity, multiculturalism, inclusivity, tolerance towards minorities, a particular concern for “the underdog”, and an equal sharing of resources.
Liberalism does not have a direct equivalent of that. Liberals do not advocate a specific set of moral values. Instead, they simply argue that people should be free to live their lives according to the values they choose, be they conservative, progressive, some combination of those, or something else entirely – subject only to the constraint that they do not violate anyone else’s rights. Liberals prefer to argue at the meta-level: we talk about what the rules of the game should be, not what we think the players should do, or what the outcome of the game should be.
That is the classical liberal conception of free speech (explained better, and more thoroughly, by Jamie Whyte in Why Free Speech Matters). But if that is your starting point – how can you oppose cancel culture? Cancel Culture does not come from the government.
Liberals have long pointed out that a free society need not be a libertine, tolerant, anything-goes society. It can be a society with very strict social norms and expectations, not enforced by the police, but by intense social pressure. In a sense, that is what Cancel Culture is. Cancel Culture is not per se incompatible with liberalism. If it is legitimate for, say, a Catholic university to “no-platform” Richard Dawkins, then it is also legitimate for a “woke” university to no-platform an “unwoke” speaker. If it is legitimate for a private company to require its employees to wear business attire, it is also legitimate for them to require its employees to adhere to a woke speech code.
A liberal answer to Cancel Culture could be:
“Yes, private organisations have a right to cancel people. We are not calling for any laws or regulations against it. People have a right to join online mobs, and people have a right to cave in to online mobs.
But if you do so – we will judge you for it. We will use the platforms we have to criticise you for it. We will publicly ridicule you for it, and we will defend the people you are trying to cancel. If you don’t cave in to the woke mob, they will give you a hard time – but if you do cave in to the woke mob, we will give you a hard time.”
Damn a lot more text than I meant… sorry
I agree, but in — like — a fraction of the words.
Yes, private organisations have a right to cancel people.
Not bakers, florists or photographers.
“it does not offer a vision of what a “good society”, or a “good life”, would look like”
Bullshit. It offers a vision of a society and a life free of coercion unless you violate someone else’s rights.
As you allude to, everyone’s version of what the “good life” is would be different. So, why try to push for such?
Vote for Joe
Billions of dollars will be poured into California’s roads, pipes and wires, among other infrastructure projects, after President Joe Biden signed the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Tuesday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Kamala Harris at his side.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., celebrated the passage of the bill for Californians in a tweet Tuesday, citing the historic lack of investment in the state’s infrastructure and the state’s subpar grades from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The bill’s signing comes after weeks of arduous debate and demands for cutbacks. The bill eventually received support from a critical mass of Republicans, including Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky..
“I’m delighted that President Biden has signed this historic bipartisan infrastructure legislation into law,” Feinstein wrote on Twitter. “This is a huge win for everyone across the country.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed concurred, calling the bill “a hugely important piece of legislation” in a statement.
A “historic lack of investment in infrastructure”? In California? Honestly?
Why don’t people like Diane Feinstein just burst into flames when they make imbecilic claims like that?
Yeah, because they’ve chosen to redirect all the damned money elsewhere. Not like we have super high taxes, gas taxes, etc. that should have paid for all this crap.
They want you destitute: Democrat Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: “I Believe Line 3 [Pipeline] Should Not Exist”
Well Line 3 is up and running already so too bad for her. Also, Line 3 was to replace an already existing pipeline that was old and getting dangerous.
So she wants to run oil through a pipeline that will have an accident and pollute the wild rice in Minnesoda? Instead of building a new pipeline that is safer?
She wants you to not have any oil.
That’s exactly what she wants. Then it is easier to point out the dangers of fossil fuels.
Good choice of words.
DEFENSE: Kyle Rittenhouse “has as much right to go there as anybody else in the city of Kenosha, and be unmolested by the likes of Joseph Rosenbaum…”
I see what he did there.
Fauci says that there is a “misplaced perception about people’s individual right to make a decision that supersedes the societal safety.”
The guy is nothing more than a village idiot who has declared himself to be the rightful Pope, except instead of pelting him with horse apples and rotting produce, people kneel down and pray to him.
I don’t think he’s an idiot. I think he’s a highly intelligent psychopath.
And possibly the most prolific mass-murderer in history – although he had many willing accomplices.
People are aware this guy funded gain of function research on bat SARS in Wuhan and then lied about it right? This isn’t a conspiracy theory any more is it?
That’ what I don’t get. He should be sued into abject destitution. The CCP too.
New strain…
A new Covid strain with unprecedented changes in its spike protein has reportedly been discovered in the northwestern French region of Brittany, according to local media.
The new strain was reportedly detected in people who contracted the virus back in mid-October. It infected a total of 24 people in France, including 18 children attending the same school and six adults who had contact with them, French media reported.
It is almost like the disease is endemic like every other respiratory illness.
New vax scam…
A British company is moving towards phase 1 trials for its novel Covid-19 vaccine, which is applied as a skin patch and uses T-cells to fight back against the virus. In theory it offers longer-lasting protection.
Speaking to The Guardian in an article published on Monday, Emergex Chief Commercial Officer Robin Cohen hailed the awarding of regulatory approval by Swiss authorities for allowing his Oxfordshire-based firm to push forward with the clinical trials.
Cohen stated that it was the first time a regulator had approved a Covid-19 vaccine for clinical trials in which the vaccine’s sole purpose was to “generate a targeted T-cell response” rather than an antibody response.
🙄
And if your half-assed “vaccines” only defend against the spike protein, that’s the part that will quickly mutate.
No one could have seen this coming.
Trashy comments on Colossians
Colossians 1:15-20
After the introduction, Paul transitions into some Christology, describing first who Christ is (vv. 15-20) and then how we relate to him (vv. 21-23). This excerpt does a few interesting things. First, it affirms the deity of Jesus. Second, it provides some description of the operation of the Godhead. Third, it describes Jesus’s pre-incarnate role, answering why the Son was the one to take human form.
The first sentence is particularly interesting. He is the “image” of the invisible God. For those with some exposure to Christian language and theology, this may seem familiar. “Image of God” or “imago Dei” often refers to that spark of the divine that we humans harbor in our souls. However, I don’t think such an interpretation of this particular sentence gives it justice. Paul isn’t saying that Jesus has a spark of divinity just like the rest of us. The rest of the excerpt would make no sense if that were the case. No, I think a better interpretation would be that Jesus was the invisible God in human form. This, of course, affirms the divinity of Jesus, which was fundamental to the new burgeoning Jesus loving sect, and was being challenged or co-opted by various groups at the time.
The second half of the sentence is no less interesting, because it’s easily misinterpreted. “The firstborn of all creation” may seem to imply that Jesus was the first created being. However, that’s a poor interpretation, and the next sentence puts the lie to it. Firstborn has implications of highest authority in 1st century Mediterranean cultures. It’s not that Jesus was literally born first, it’s that He has the total authority that was granted to the firstborn in those cultures. You can see the second sentence starts with the word “for”. Whenever you see that construction, you can replace the word “for” with “because” and connect it to the prior sentence and get the meaning. Using that interpretive “trick”, it would read “the firstborn of all creation [because] by him all things were created” . Further, by replacing the confusing “firstborn” with “highest authority”, I think we get to a decent interpretation of sentences one and two. “the [highest authority over] all creation [because] by him all things were created”. IOW, He is the Creator, thus he is the highest authority over the creation.
Since I spent a lot of time on the first couple sentences, I’ll just flag a few other interesting things in this excerpt. “And he is the head of the body, the church” is interesting because it affirms Christ’s title of Great Intercessor. If you want to poke a hornet’s nest, start asking questions about how Catholics interpret this verse in comparison to Protestants. This is a huge difference between the two. Protestants say all you need is Jesus to communicate with God (part of the reason that many end their prayers with “in Jesus’ name”). Catholics point to some deuterocanonical books to affirm their belief in saints as intercessors (praying to the virgin Mary, etc.) and Pope as head of the church (although they’d never phrase it that way because it would be plainly heretical). “the firstborn from the dead” clearly refers to the resurrection, but one interesting denominational difference that exists across Christendom is what they believe happened while Jesus was dead for 3 days. Some versions of the Apostles Creed state that he “descended into Hell”, presumably to evangelize the damned. As somebody who grew up in and out of the Lutheran Church, I had said the Apostles Creed a hundred times and assumed that it wasn’t controversial. My wife (evangelical upbringing) had no clue what I was talking about when I brought it up one time. “and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross” –> Christ as creator sacrificed Himself to mend the brokenness between creator and creation despite it not being His fault. It’s the definition of mercy.
assumed that it wasn’t controversial
“it” being the descending into Hell thing. She was plainly aware of the Apostles Creed, even though creedism wasn’t really part of her upbringing.
Are you gonna start asking for money? Because that was the start of Jimmy Swaggart’s downfall.
““the firstborn from the dead” clearly refers to the resurrection”
Why not Lazarus?
Floods and landslides. It’s mountainous terrain. When the valleys flood, everything gets shut down.
Eek.
More of that global desertification I have been hearing so much about?
I’m still looking to see if this guy has a newsletter that we can subscribe to.
And before you try to tell me that this is just some rube from flyover land who is a one trick pony….
Why did this guy need this much disruptive behavior to get himself off? Could he not just done a David Carradine and just hung himself in the closet and spared the poor people at the airport that shitshow? Then again, it used to be a free country so he might have a good argument to make…
So I missed last night’s post and when I looked at it this morning it got me curious as to COMIRNARTY. According to this that is a marketing name for the BioNTech product. Is there some other material that indicates it is a completely different thing?
IIRC, it’s the same thing, but the production process and regulations are different for an EUA versus a licensed product. The details of the differences are beyond the research I’ve done.
Also, there are two BioNTech EUA formulations out there, with slight chemical differences. I don’t know whether the chemical differences make any practical difference, but it’s interesting that “the Pfizer jab” refers to 2 chemically different pharmaceuticals with 3 different production processes.
I was confused because it seemed Ozy was saying they were two entirely different things.
Legally they are. Chemically, they are not. Essentially, they’re not being produced using the FDA mandated process for licensed products. Why is that important? The process is ostensibly for ensuring that the quality of every lot is up to standards. How much of that is actually true? I have no clue.
They are two different things. If you look at the patents for each and even the redacted shot contents, you’ll see that they have one or two different ingredients and different numbers of ingredients. When this has been publicly pointed out, the Media bots came out in force to say that the differences were “inactive ingredients.” Except they won’t un-redact it, so you’ll have to take their word for it. The bottom line of all of it is that even the FDA says they’re “legally distinct.” This means that they are different products by law. Biologics are heavily regulated (for very good reason) and so an unlicensed vaccine under an EUA cannot be “close enough” to some other licensed product that somehow gives it “cousin-licensing” status. In fact, 21 USC 242 specifically sets out the the rules for “interchangeable” products – and COMIRNATY’s FDA listing specifically states that it has “no interchangeable” products and “no bio-equivalents.”
TL/DR is that it’s all a fucking lie – there is no licensed vaccine available in the U.S.
How is COMIRNATY licensed if it is different, and what is the point of licensing it when it isn’t available? It isn’t like the FDA licenses for anywhere but the U.S.
The whole reason COMIRNATY is licensed is because it’s different AND because it’s not available. You seem to think this is somehow just a misunderstanding, JI, and that’s why you’re getting confused. It’s not an accident. The FDA intentionally licensed a vaccine that isn’t available in “sufficient quantities” (their words) and then claimed that this OTHER “legally distinct” vaccine could be substituted in its place because, well, it’s close enough and this is a really big emergency. Now roll up your sleeve.
Pfizer undoubtedly helped craft the entire sham. Do you think it’s an accident that Scott Gottleib, the FDA commissioner from 2017-19 now sits on the Board of Directors for Pfizer? Or that the Trump guy who was the FDA Commission from 2019-21 now works for the VC company that founded Moderna? Do you also still believe in the tooth fairy?
This has to do with Pfizer buying other companies that were developing vaccines and then claiming these things are all just “marketing” – that’s not how it works at all. In fact, if you look at what I linked in last night’s article, you’ll see that Pfizer isn’t even the responsible party for the BioNTech BNT-162 clinical trial. BioNTech is – which is the German company that Pfizer bought.
Try this, too: go look up Pfizer’s record of criminal fines over the last 20 years and tell me how many you can find and what they’re for. I’ll give you a hint – it’s for misbranding products and making unbacked claims for drugs. Then try to see if you can find the contract between the DoD and Pfizer and what that’s worth. Now do the math on whether the fines – even in billions – matter as a deterrent when you make the profits Pfizer makes on this whole thing.
is licensed is because it’s different AND because it’s not available
I guess there is some logic there, but it is escaping me at the moment. If you’ve got an EUA and you’re violating the terms of that, how does that make it more (or less) of a problem vis-a-vis the licensed product?
The scale of the scandal you are suggesting is kinda staggering, and there’s NO ONE else (near power) that sees this? I guess that’s why I find it a little hard to fathom.
Because there are serious issues with mandating an experimental drug. One court waved it through as a “voluntary” employer mandate, but when the government sticks its dick in, you have state action problems.
There’s a reason why they don’t mandate it for illegals before they cut them loose. I’m pretty sure there are no mandates for prisoners, either, but would need to check. The clearest violation of the Nuremberg prohibition on involuntary medical experimentation is people who are in custody. They needed a fig leaf to cover the mandates, and this is it.
As to why they didn’t just license all the mRNA vaccines, I couldn’t say. They are clearly unconcerned with following their own legal process for doing so, that can’t be it.
If the DOD and Big Pharma have been willing to do and get away with all kinds of sketchy medical shit to soldiers under color of law, why would the pharmaceutical companies think that they couldn’t do the same to civilians since they appear to own the regulatory process?
The scale of the scandal you are suggesting is kinda staggering, and there’s NO ONE else (near power) that sees this? I guess that’s why I find it a little hard to fathom.
I’ll take a stab.
They know and don’t care. Caring means the gravy train gets derailed.
there’s NO ONE else (near power) that sees this
Well, to be “near power” when it comes to COVID, you have to be a pubsec. The notion that Congress, or even the President, can control the pubsecs was pretty conclusively disproved during the last administration.
So the question is, is there nobody at the CDC/FDA/NIH that sees this as a problem? This is either their wet dream, or they want to keep their job.
DEG – really? Rand Paul, Thomas Massie – they’re on that gravy train too? There’s no Snowden equivalent in the health bureaucracy?
I find that hard to believe because look at how fucking fragmented both parties are, and you’re telling me they are ALL 100% unanimous on this.
DEG – really? Rand Paul, Thomas Massie – they’re on that gravy train too? There’s no Snowden equivalent in the health bureaucracy?
I was thinking of public health bureaucrats like Fauci.
If you include folks like Paul and Massie, well, I don’t know. Though, I will say about something that came up with pushing back on Sununu here in NH. Legislators were looking for things to do that would pass (i.e. get votes) that would also push back on the governor. This meant a lot of things the activist base wanted (say, impeaching Sununu) wouldn’t happen.
Other countries will use the the US approval process as a basis for their approval.
It usually works in the other way – EU has been quicker to approve than FDA. Another joke about us being more like Europe.
The FDA approval? Ozy has covered this in more detail, but the FDA document that approves Comirnaty makes it very clear that BNT is a legally distinct product. What goes into it may be the same/similar, but legally they are different.
Our long local nightmare is over here in Cleveland. The baseball team and roller derby team have come to terms.
This is after the baseball team had to delay sales of their new gear (it was originally going to go on sale yesterday morning).
So Cleveland Cucks?
WE’RE #1, WE’RE #1!
I’m sure King Walz and his minions will be along soon to blame the GOP for stripping him of his powers to keep us safe.
This tidbit is also nice:
Health officials say breakthrough rates are not an accurate measure of vaccine efficacy. But the rate of such cases has grown significantly this fall.
“It doesn’t work very well, but we can’t say that directly.”
OK, if positive tests are a bad metric, stop publicizing them, and tell us what the rates are for vaccinated people being hospitalized or dying.
If the metric you’re using is wildly inaccurate, by definition you can’t say changes using that metric are significant.
“WE’RE #1, WE’RE #1!”
As a Minnesotan, that was my first thought exactly.
imagine getting roasted by your wife in her AnimeNYC bio
https://twitter.com/KrystiPryde/status/1459972132750962689
More tentacle pr0n!!
So I notice no one has commented on the Jones link. Default judgment jumped out at me as I thought he was actively defending, and so I looked and saw this,
What in the ever-loving fuck?
Them: Provide material we believe you have!
Jones: That material you want don’t exist and is only some shit in your imagination…
Them: Guilty!
That’s what it actually appears to be. Again, WTF?
Failed to respond to discovery is my guess. You’re not allowed
to hide information and you have to produce documents that
are requested, or state why you’re refusing to do so. I don’t
think you’d get a default without a prior court order to produce,
so he probably somehow failed to engage with the process or
ignored a court order.
I don’t know anything about the case. I’m just going on
what I see here.
That’s what I was wondering.
IANAL (but I do have the occasional I-shoulda-gone-to-law-school meltdown), but isn’t a default judgment given when you and your lawyer don’t show up to court?
I think it’s whenever a party fails to follow essential procedural elements.
The defense lawyers seem to believe they have done so, and will prove that on appeal.
If you fail to condemn yourself via evidence you’re guilty.
As the defendant in multiple civil trials constantly, I can think of a few things, all predicated on a court order to produce documents or witnesses (not a mere attorney subpoena):
(1) The defendant simply never responded.
(2) The defendant responded with “we don’t got nuffin” but the judge doesn’t believe them. In these situations, you need to show you have made reasonable efforts to find what has been ordered, so they may have fallen down there.
(3) The defendant is making some kind of claim of privilege, but hasn’t supported the claim with a privilege log, etc.
Most likely number (2).
Another vax CF in the DMV Pediatric Vaccine Clinic Gave Diluted Vaccine Doses to South Lake Elementary Students; Additional Vaccines Will Be Administered to Affected Students
Lime, Harry Lime, please pick up the white courtesy phone…
I used to check out Andy Ngo’s tweeter during the riots. Out of curiosity I looked today. He has a string of retweets of people calling for violence against the judge, Rittenhouse, Rittenhouse’s mom, etc. On every one he says something like “person calling for violence”. It took me a second to realize that he’s calling out people who are violating Twitter’s rules, and yet none of them have been banned.
That’s how it works. They threaten violence and it’s ignored; They commit violence and it’s justified; They riot and it’s smoothed over. Try any of that from the other direction and you’ll banned from all the mainstream platforms and maybe prosecuted. Differential application of terms and the law as well is what’s for breakfast now.
Eventually that will be useful when a big case goes against Facebook and Twitter for violating their own policies. It is important he keeps documenting that.
I think that’s true. He seems like a pretty smart guy and he understands this better than anyone.
Johnny’s voice just got better’n better as he got older.
Thanks, Banjos, first time I’d heard that song.
Speaking of Foochy, where are our legions of armchair psychoanalysts, when we need them?
Why have they not weighed in on his megalomaniacal grandstanding? What have they to say about his bizarre assertions that an attack on him personally is an attack on the very foundation of SCIENCE! ?
Don’t you even talk that way about America’s Doctor, most beloved doctor of all time.
What’s Doctor Seuss have to do with this?
He hated the Chinks, so…
That isn’t how this works! At least I’m pretty sure that is what a local superintendent is yelling. Since when are people in leadership positions held responsible and denied golden parachutes?
You can bet your bottom tax dollar on the fact that no superintendent of a public school would be bum rushed over just losing a measely $4.3M.
Yeah, when you get fired for cause, you don’t get a severance. If this were my client, I would be telling them to tell her “See you in court. We look forward to explaining why you were fired for losing millions of dollars in illegal investments. With any luck, taking us to court will mean nobody will every hire you again, anywhere, ever.”
But Rittenhouse’s lawyer countered that the shooting started after the young man was ambushed by a ‘crazy person’ that night and feared his gun was going to be wrested away and used to kill him.
I watched parts of the Rekieta Law livestream of the closing arguments. Richards, Rittenhouse’s lead lawyer, did a very good job. It was like watching two different people when I compare the closing arguments with how Richards acted during the trial.
“We are not disputing that the barrel, that the barrel length is appropriate,” the prosecution said, going on to say that the gun used, an AR 15, was not a “short-barreled shotgun or a short-barreled rifle.
I laughed when I saw this on the livestream.
Lead prosecutor in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial Thomas Binger held his finger on the trigger of a pointed gun during closing arguments Monday.
To be fair: Richards had his finger on the trigger when he handled the AR-15, though he did not muzzle anyone. Despite Richards having his finger on the trigger, his gun handling skills were much better than Binger’s.
The judge chastised Jones for not turning over court-ordered documents, accusing him of having a “callous disregard” for the law.
Lawyers for Jones have said he will appeal the ruling.
I’m not a lawyer, but I think he’d be getting off to a bad start with his appeal given he didn’t turn over court ordered documents.
“The 31-29 vote Saturday in Buffalo, Wyoming, by the state party central committee followed votes by local GOP officials in about one-third of Wyoming’s 23 counties to no longer recognize Cheney as a Republican,” the Associated Press reported Monday evening.
🙂
Um, I’m not a professional politician, but how is mocking your constituents a good move?
Can the take her name off any primary ballot now?
Yeah, way more dangerous than her pscyopath war monger dad.
Her dad should have gone on trial for his gunplay way before Rittenhouse.
Malice.
Depends on their rules…if she gets enough petitions signed, she might be able to get on the ballot.
Better Johnny Cash
Mrs. TOK doesn’t follow the news too closely, but today she heard about this on a podcast and asked me the race of the people who were shot. I told her everyone involved was white, including the judge and the lawyers. She also was under the impression the people shot were black.
“Then why is this a race issue?”
“Because the media called him a white supremacist, and that makes you think he shot black people.”
“Why would they do that?”
“Because they want people divided and they want to stoke rioting.”
“…”
You should make up three more words for your posting name with TIK, and then you will be TIK-TOK, and all the young Furries and Bronies will love you.
But then he would be the Tik-Tok man, and have to tell us Harlequins to repent.
Telling Glibs to repent is like pissing into the wind.
“Can this man be anymore vile?”
You can tell a prog just by the stupid ways in which they can hold a gun. Like with the stock pressed right into their face, lol. You’ll shoot your eye out!
You deserve your punishment!
So, what do y’all think about camps for the unclean? I mean sort of like Leper colonies. We can’t just let them walk among us. Bring back Leper colonies, progress!
“unvaccinated should expect to get COVID”
Seems the vaccinated should expect that as well.
Well, most of us do, and probably have.
I took a flu shot yesterday, first time ever, and I woke up last night itching all over. I had to get up, take a benedryl and put lotion on. Pretty sure that was the shot because it was weird.
Absolutely, it’s honestly as if their damn brains are broken and that’s the charitable interpretation.
Being like that takes at least one of three things:
1) You use the emotional parts of your brain for stuff where the rational parts would do much better.
2) You’ve been brainwashed, and haven’t adequately questioned those flawed premises against reality.
3) You’re bad at statistics, math, or economics, and so you can’t even imagine tradeoffs and suchlike.
I saw number three on display with my bleeding heart liberal wife – she was describing a job interview she’d just had, and she’d been asked an elementary statistics question: “If you flip a fair coin three times, what are the odds it comes up the same all three times?”
She replied that she wasn’t good at math. I was kind of staring at her, stunned – she missed out on a chance at her dream job because she didn’t know that that probability was 25%? I keep forgetting that the median individual in this country on any given metric is likely bad at that task.
Ackshually, it’s 12.5%.
I couldn’t have figured that out on the fly, so I googled it.
It’s 25%, since the first coin flip can be either heads or tails.
If they specified it had to be all heads (or else it had to be all tails), then 12.5%.
A bit of a trick question but yeah.
What was the position she was applying for?
It was for a marketing job with a less dysfunctional client than her current company.
Dunno if it was a trick question, if the point was to find out if the interviewee was both math proficient, and able to ask relevant questions before starting an assigned task to make sure you both understand what actually needs to be done.
Well, if she’s a marketing person, why are they asking questions like that, much less a trick question? Is game theory supposed to be common knowledge amongst marketers?
I can’t say for sure what I would have said or if I’d looked like a deer in headlights and stammered, but “I don’t know, but I’ll find out” is usually my go-to when somebody stumps me.
Corollary: Most of the time, when someone says, “Can you do X?” I say yes and then go figure out how to do it really fast. I am the queen of the workaround solution and I get a lot of business because I’m willing to do things in an analog way that my colleagues cannot or will not do.
So we go on the “the covid list” for a couple weeks and nothing else happens for the vast majority of us.
Didn’t watch the video — but a non-trivial amount of the unvax’ed already *had* COVID, I expect — which is part of why they don’t feel they need the pseudo-flu shot.
And yeah, between Australia and Austria – some disturbing trends there.
So JHU, how is that on-going clinical trial coming? You know, the one with the control group that got the placebo? Are they dropping like flies from COVID?
There is no clinical trial, except on paper. It was unblinded after about 60 days or so, which invalidates it, and most of the control group has been vaccinated. No valid results are possible.
Well that rather moots the discussion from the previous post about it going until May 23.
Did you miss the “on paper” part?
None call it defamation.
When we marched in Ferguson, white supremacists would hide behind a hill near where Michael Brown Jr. was murdered and shoot at us.
They never faced consequences.
If Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted, it tells them that even 7 years later they still can get away with it.
I’ll take ‘Things that didn’t happen’ for 600, Alex.
Because if those rednecks you call nazis and white supremacists would have been shooting at you, there’s a very high probability you’d be dead.
If there’s even a kernel of truth there it was probably people setting off fireworks and whatnot. Probably 100% bullshit though.
Related.
Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat, spreads disinformation about a “white supremacist” shooting in Ferguson she says she survived.
Jeffrey Williams was convicted for the shooting during the Ferguson BLM riots. He shot two police officers.
Bet she dodged sniper fire in Iraq also.
Being interviewed there by Brian Williams?
OMG! WTF Wisconsin? Rittenhouse has to pick the jurors by lot from a squeaky, spinning bingo basket.
Oh, come on.
I think the ones that don’t get chosen get to play in a Keno game while deliberations go on.
“Choose your fate.”
Which one of you is in New Jersey? I have my tournament starting this Thursday, and I have a schedule if anyone’s interested.
Tournament? Where and when?
It’s at the Ice Vault in Wayne, NJ. My games are:
Thursday 4pm
Friday 11:30am
Saturday 9:30am
+ possibly Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning if we win our first games
I’m playing for Chicago Blackhawks Tier V. Our Tier I team is also playing and that will we worth watching.
Official web site
Hmm, looks like I’ll need to wear a face diaper, but no jab requirement. 9:30 Saturday it is.
Maybe me too. Depends on if and when people are showing up to see the house.
Awesome, it will be great to meet you guys.
Yo! Wayne, IIRC, I’m in
That’s right it was you! I’m wearing #2 this weekend. Hopefully we cross paths.
Good morning, Banjos!
Say what you will, Bannon is a smart dude who understands these shitheads and their games. I’m looking forward to the battles.
I’m not, however, looking forward to more burning cities after the verdict. The obvious answer is not guilty, but we’ll see.
Anyone else missing 2019 yet?
I’d like to go back further, to a year when we seemed fairly rational… not sure when that is.
Anytime in the nineties would do.
The second half of the 80s were nice.
1819? Plus I think I’d look pretty kickass in a powdered wig and tricorner hat.
You’re a few decades off, by the 1810s, powdered wigs and tricorns were long out of fashion.
The media loves to focus in on how Rittenhouse crossed state lines! So what! He lived 17 minutes away and his father lived in Kenosha. Not that it makes any difference where he came from. What about all the people who flew in from Portland Oregon to burn and loot?
The rifle didn’t cross state lines, but that never mattered anyway.
These same pieces of shit who squawk about him CROSSING STATE LINES !!!11!11!1 will be one of the first to tell you “Hey Florida you want to secede? No wayzzzzzzzz we’re the USA!” or better yet “Hey Texas want to shut down your border from a possibly diseased cheap-labor invasion? Too bad borders don’t mean nothun!!!1!1!1”
Deliberations in the Rittenhouse trial start now.
the suspense is killing me… I feel just like Rosenbaum
Resist the urge to rape kids.
only girls, not boys
that did not come out as amusing as I thought
MEDICINE!
Health officials reported that 21,653 people in Arizona have died from COVID-19 as of Monday morning.
One of the frequent questions that arise from this number is “How does one know that these deaths are not just heart attacks or strokes that also had COVID-19 marked on a death certificate?”
The Centers for Disease Control has a statistic that controls for this. It’s called “excessive deaths,” and Arizona has one of the highest rates in the country.
Expected death rates in each state are relatively predictable. Based on previous years’ reporting, demographics, and a state’s rate of growth, health statisticians can estimate a weekly number of deaths that is expected. The dataset also includes the weekly number of observed deaths as it becomes available, a number that is reported to the CDC through the state health department.
Any number of observed deaths over the high-end estimate for weekly deaths is considered an excess death.
——-
The excess death statistics does not give the cause of death.
The consensus among health experts is that the majority of excess deaths are unreported COVID-19 cases.
They’re public health experts, you know.
Isn’t that how they’ve always counted flu deaths? It’s dubious but nothing new.
Lol, wut?
I think I’d be looking for a new bar.
Holy shit, this. Not even if the strippers tip me…
Is that some kind of Wesley Snipes costume?
That scoped revolver is going to be really useful inside the bar.
“Not A Exit”
“ I didn’t quite understand what the purpose of that was, except to put this misplaced perception about people’s individual right to make a decision that supersedes the societal safety.”
I AM THE SCIENCE!!!
Anyone else missing 2019 yet?
Fuck that. I want 1994 back.
1997 for me.
The ‘90s were good times in retrospect. Maybe it’s because I was in my twenties and most people look on their young adulthood fondly but the sense of walking on eggshells just wasn’t there.
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The movement to make a hero out of Kyle Rittenhouse is both ridiculous and dangerous. He was a foolish kid wielding a deadly weapon.
But even foolish kids have a right of self-defense. Based on the evidence, acquittal is reasonable. Validation is not:
https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63
I do not consider a guy a hero and was foolish for his age *to be sure* but I do have a slight notion that if the authorities don’t do anything about looting some citizens will take it into their own hands
I don’t agree with it but that’s a reasonable take. If 17 YOs with deadly weapons were out of bounds we’d have to disband the army.
They’re only suitable after the magic fairy dust of gov’t training has molded them into obeying orders to kill. [Never mind that whole discussion of actual warriors versus somewhat useful versus cannon-fodder.]
I was a child soldier.
I almost was I went to boot camp 3 weeks after my 18th birthday.
Me too, but not at the same time
Hero? No, that does seem a bit much.
Admirable member of the community? By all accounts I’ve seen, yeah. Maybe I’m wrong, but my understanding is that he was there trying to do good (providing first aid, cleaning graffiti, etc.). If we consider that admirable for young men to do in the employ of our government, I think it’s hard for a libertarian or a conservative to say it’s somehow wrong when they do it on a strictly voluntary basis.
You know, consider how people talk about him crying on the stand. You can bet these are the same people that will get swept-up talking about how Paul Atreides weeps for Jamis after killing him.
https://fenixammo.com/collections/gear-accessories/products/30-caliber-ammo-can-used
They’ll laser etch the cans too.
They have a “Let’s go Brandon” option…
Empty?
I already have empty ammo cans, I need the ammo.
I found some on my door step yesterday. Did you check yours?
The only thing I got on my doorstep was a recycling bin I hadn’t asked for.
COMPLY PEASANT!
Heh, they have a Moms Demand Action logo available.
Jackson was a shitty person/president, but the fucker was a badass.
Generally agreed. But, that story does make me wish we could bring back dueling. I can think of a list of public figures a yard long who I’d be delighted to see have to stare down an Andrew Jackson or risk being labeled a coward and poltroon.
Noah Smith Rabbit
@Noahpinion
Americans are obsessed with the idea of border security. In my experience, they generally have no idea of just how much we’ve beefed up border security in the last 15 years.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1460456298139377676
1M illegal immigrants had contact with border patrol in the first 8 months of this year. The vast majority were given some provisions and a bus ticket to the US city of their choosing.
The Clans – Spends centuries building up a warrior culture, gets beaten by the phone company.
Heh
To be fair, they’re a massively inbred group with a smaller total population than Canada.
Is it bad that this made perfect sense to me?
A music fan?
I don’t see it as bad because it made perfect sense to me too.
OK, I guess that makes me biased but I don’t give a shit.
Yesterday, I stopped for gas in Rigby, Idaho. There was a Joe Biden “I did this!” sticker on the pump.
Rigby, Idaho – sounds dismal
I saw one in a small town off of I-25 here in Colorado the other day.
There was a Joe Biden “I did this!” sticker on the pump.
🙂
I have a few of these stickers now. I might or might not use them.
We’ve got some on the way. Mrs. Dean wanted them. I plan on using them at every opportunity. I think I got some that aren’t too much trouble to remove; I don’t want to shit on some stockboy/cashier’s day too much.
Have I mentioned how much I hate modern engines?
Switched to synthetic in the minivan to try to clean out some sludge and ended up clogging the cats as a direct result of my success.
It’s a minivan. Put it out of it’s misery.
My wife would love that, but my wallet would not.
Cut open the roof to install a turret and put in a pair of door guns?
i have dual side doors for 2 gunners, don’t yo even ‘Nam dude?
I was warned on pain of seizing my engine to never switch from one to the other. What you started out with is what you stick with.
You can definitely switch and it does work (with the obvious caveat mentioned above).
Where people tend to get in real trouble is when they try to clean the sludge out by using kerosene in the oil and running it for ten minutes. That will free up enough sludge to clog the oil ports and then your engine is a boat anchor.
I switched in my truck from Rotella conventional to Rotella synthetic and it gave me a new oil leak.
Apparently synthetic is slicker so it gets through smaller holes in 20 year old gaskets.
Oh, to wrap up Dodge drama, the dealership agreed to the $600, but they were pissed about it. I kinda think what brought that about was that we don’t actually NEED the truck, much less for getting to work and back. We could out-wait them.
Good to hear, that sounded like an ordeal.
Mostly because they just wouldn’t call back until My Dude made it his mission to bug the shit out of them.
You can expect to do the valve cover and oil pan gaskets when switching.
The issue I had was the sludge was getting to the point as to pose a risk to the engine. Got to deal with it somehow, but preferably the slowest manner possible.
Mine was the tappet cover.
It’s on the side of the engine, I had to pull the injection pump and all the fuel lines.
Quite fun.
I did that and eneded up with worse mileage, so I changed back to pennzoil,
Switched to synthetic in the minivan to try to clean out some sludge and ended up clogging the cats as a direct result of my success.
Now dump a bunch of acetone in the gas tank, and see what that fucks up.
Word.
Beto O’Rourke running for Governor of Texas after openly declaring his hatred for guns is one of the silliest thing I’ve heard since…
*checks history*
Ever.
Is losing elections just a seasonal job for him now?
He needs activities to occupy his time. I suggest coloring books and playdough.
So long as his campaign coffers get filled, who cares?
The name Beto is brownface.
Pwnd.
Richards eviscerating Binger in “provocation”. And Binger’s face says it all.
Somebody here referred to the prosecutor as “the Binger” yesterday. I’m liking it, and will be referring to him that way from now on.
There was a headline the other day, something to the effect of Beto responding to his widespread unpopularity in Texas by saying, “The election’s not about me.”
Yup. Nobody bases their vote on the candidate.
What a maroon.
The election is about getting present and future funding from Bloomberg and the other antigun douchebags and in that sense he’s right. Being the posterboy for that nonsense can be parlayed into a pretty sweet nest egg.
So that’s what is all the buzz.
Murder hornets didn’t turn out to be the existential threat to humanity we feared them to be in 2020, but similar hornets are still scary if you’re a honeybee. A swarm of Vespa soror—a sister species to Asian giant hornets, or murder hornets—can destroy a beehive in hours. As The New York Times reports, honeybees in Southeast Asia have developed a disturbing defense mechanism against hornet onslaughts: “screaming” at the top of their wings.
In a study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, an international team of researchers describe the haunting sound of an Asian honeybee nest under attack. In the presence of Vespa soror, the bees will lift their abdomens and vibrate their wings to produce a call known as an “antipredator pipe.” Scientists have compared it to the shrieks and cries of larger animals in distress. You can hear what a screaming bee sounds like in the video below.
Screaming Bees – Band Name or Therapy Style?
Fireworks fountain, really
Screaming Trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lpim14aqxY
From the album Buzz Factory
I saw them with Soul Asylum and the Spin Doctors(!)
Their singer Mark Lanegan continues to put out amazing music.
Hah! I saw that tour as well.
If it is some kind of therapy I would fear it would involve Oprah.
I’ll put this up , it’s close.
https://gofund.me/0b23ea7b
Missed that yesterday. Thanks for bringing it back up Yusef.
‘Sesame Street’ debuts Ji-Young, first Asian American muppet
https://www.twincities.com/2021/11/15/sesame-street-debuts-ji-young-first-asian-american-muppet/
They couldn’t go with the slant-eyes, so they went with the racist hairstyle. I laughed.
There are not any caucasian muppets.
Just because the count turned purple in undeath doesn’t mean he isn’t eastern european.
Going by looks alone, I think she’s the first.
Yeah, what the hell is Ernie supposed to be? A Trump relative?
according to the interwebs Statler and Waldorf represent whiteness
They’re not on Sesame Street.
They are pretty damn white, though.
They had a black, Roosevelt Franklin, and his friend Abeecito, a Puerto Rican Communist. They were quietly swept under the rug a few decades ago.
As for caucasian representation, I would offer up Sherlock Hemlock the detective, Guy Smiley the game-show host, Biff and Sully the construction workers, and (childhood favorite) Forgetful Jones the absent minded cowboy.
Also, Blue Man, Grover’s foil – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TJznmLsZAs
Sesame Street pushes Communism –
Ernie’s got yellow fever.
Bert’s not Asian.
LOL but he is yellow
I know. I thought I’d take that a different direction.
We have a winner.
Paging OMWC…
Is That Kosher? Rabbis Debate Plant-Based ‘Pork’
If it ain’t made from pigs, it ain’t pork.
If it ain’t made from pigs or randomly included in an unrelated 1000 page bill in congress, it ain’t pork.
Bravo Pie!
Just saw a poll says 63% of people approve the infrastructure plan. What happens to that number when you tell people what’s in the plan.
My mom voted for Trump very reluctantly, but she said, “Well, it’s for infrastructure and we need new bridges.” I said, “There’s very little of that going toward actual infrastructure. It’s just a buzzword used to make it sound good.”
My mom voted for Trump – I hope you screamed at her for it at the thanksgiving table and dyed your hair purple just to show her
When you say infrastructure normal people think “Well, I know they are going to waste/steal most of that money, but at least they will end up with something tangible like a road, bridge or water treatment plant.”
What is the world coming too? A Kennedy I agree with fighting for my rights?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/hero-robert-kennedy-jr-discusses-dr-fauci-erosion-constitutional-rights-video/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
WTF?
Wow.
Dude realized he’s in the first fifteen minutes of a horror movie.
https://twitter.com/ReviewsPossum/status/1460384901879013379
* scrolls down *
Holy shitsnacks, that dude petting the huge snapping turtle? I seriously thought i was gonna see a hand get amputated live…
What’s amazing is how many people will cheer and immediately sign up.
Apple is sticking taxpayers with part of the bill for rollout of tech giant’s digital ID card
Biometrics are a terrible way to handle authentication. Not that they don’t work, but when the inevitable data breach happens, the bad guys now have your biometric info and how do you change that?
Biometrics just create another digital file for authentication. Just like a password/PIN. The only security advantage is they can’t be/are much harder to guess or brute force. They can absolutely be stolen.
Wow. That’s fucked up.
Anything sold as a consumer convenience will facilitate the police state faster and easier than govt mandates.
Atheists & agnostics:
If you had a compelling religious vision that led you to believe in one of the existing organized religions, and to join one of its churches, which religion do you hope you’d be converted to?
https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1459926982679007238
in the end, is wicca a bunch of hot chicks dancing naked or not?
In the end, there may be chicks dancing naked, but the hot ones are all reserved to the High Priest.
is wicca a bunch of hot chicks dancing naked or not?
No
Only in Hollywood productions. I real life they tend to be the people you would be least likely to EVER want to see naked because of the permanent brain damage from fugly.
Agreed. No.
I’m going to guess “not”.
Get the look!
LOL
Youtube censurers go a bridge too far? I hope they sue the shit out of them and get a big pile of cash.
That was pretty stupid of YT, heads will roll over this,
Lottery today (?) for which circuit hears the OSHA vaccine mandate case
Nov 16 (Reuters) – Lawsuits filed around the country challenging the Biden administration’s workplace COVID-19 vaccine rule are expected to be consolidated in a single federal appeals court on Tuesday, giving the government a chance to revive a rule that was blocked last week.
I think I do not like this. No doubt the judge chosen to hear it will be sympathetic to the government.
I don’t get that, the 5th has ruled, there’s only one place to go from there, SCotUS. What “judicial panel” is this making this “decision”?
So a mandate that is so unconstitutional it got at least a dozen challenges, now gets to get rolled into a single challenge, for which the government gets to shop around and find a friendly court? Am I understanding here? Because that’s some of the most bullshit I’ve ever heard.
All twelve cased should be heard separately and only get merged at the supreme court.