Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a lovely day it always is!
Rittenhouse jury ends second day of deliberations without reaching verdict
Rittenhouse lawyers ask judge to declare mistrial as prosecution defends drone video evidence
Multiple Arrests in Kenosha as BLM Protesters Clash with Kyle Rittenhouse Supporters
OSHA Suspends Implemenation, Enforcement of Vaccine Mandate
Conservative 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear the vaccine mandate case
Biden trying to blame energy companies for his incompetence.
Voters increasingly think Biden not mentally or physically fit for office, poll finds
‘QAnon Shaman’ sentenced to three years in jail for role on January 6
House censures GOP Rep. Paul Gosar, strips committee assignments over anime video
Bannon pleads not guilty to contempt charges in legal battle against Pelosi’s Jan 6 committee
Arizona school-choice measures saved taxpayers as much as $27.7B over decade, study finds
That’s all I got for this fine morning. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Mornin’ Banjos.
On Wednesday, the Arizona man known as the “QAnon Shaman” was sentenced to 41 months in prison for being at the US Capitol building on January 6.
Note to self: when attacking the feds, stick to courthouses in cobalt-blue cities, and make sure to mask up.
#BringFireworks
felony obstruction of an official proceeding
He pled guilty, so 3 years for not contesting it. Seems like a cruel and unusual punishment for a non-violent crime.
And in 5 or 6 years a case on that point might make it to the SC.
How many months did he spend in solitary?
This shit is another example that there is a legal system for the enemies of the state and another for the friends. Banana republic time.
No lie! Accused of the same crime that those who disrupted the Kavanaugh swearing in and hearings were guilty of, the same crime at the state level that democrats and unions have been guilty of in state house takeovers…..
More time than the guy who assaulted Senator Rand Paul, breaking 3 ribs. That dude got 6 months home confinement.
I’m first at 10pm!! Got through the hardest day of the work just fine and cleaned up for a surprise tomorrow….
butt sex?
The apartment! Which is a wreck…but maybe…maybe….would be a first….but I’d take Julie down any way she wants…
“? But then / how we love cleaning up again” (to the tune of the I Love Lucy theme)
I AM NOT FIRST!
NO biggie. Girl called me up today in Seoul. Cutie. Had a thing for her years back but just randomly hung out in groups. Haven’t talked to her in several years. She hit ME up!
And she’s coming down to Daejeon to watch the lunar eclipse with me…this….very well may get sexual…
Bow-chicka-bow-ow
Excellent.
Beaver moon FTW!
Vaginal intercourse-a-thon.
What? No ass eating? HM will disapprove….
NICE
Killer move: In a difficult-to-navigate nation, I have a connect-through-a-friend to get weed. Super expensive. About $100/gram. It’s not great weed but it is legit. Cheap mids back in the States? Certainly not cheap here, but you know what I mean.
I purposefully saved my last bowl for the eclipse. Looks like she’s gonna get to share it with me. That’s a pretty good High Card to be sitting on…She’s a very mousy-cute (def my Type) redhead. The offer will be made. She can accept at her choosing. I am certainly twiddling my brain about the unexpected-ness of all of this. It’s been at least 2 years, maybe 3 or 4 since we’ve seen each other. I’m not dumb enough to not see the signal here. Why else would she be contacting me out of nowhere? Very curious.
*Twiddles thumbs* I won’t even be upset if that’s not her intention. She’s a cutie and she used to come to my shows and we certainly were friendly when we were together. Just seems like the only intention she could have. It’s not like I have any money or anything that she can siddle up to and take advantage of. Um…yes. I have been running this over in my head all day. She’s a very cute girl-next-door type and was always funny, smart and fun to be with. Veeeeery curious. Hell yes, I’m gonna smoke her out and watch the eclipse from my roof with her. Four story building. I live on the 4th and the service door to the roof is unlocked and is literally one step away from my apartment door. It’s just kinda perfect. It really fucking is. Life is fun. (Most of the time.)
Be careful with redheads…
They are mousy and all nice until you are in the middle of the act and they start demanding you smack them around, and not in a playful way, but like you were beating up someone you are pissed at up to teach them a lesson), then get pissed and start calling you names and swinging at you when you tell them this is just too far for you and you didn’t want to have to worry about being accused of assault and rape the next day……
I got out of there in record time, and the cut car tire it cost me to eventually finally get rid of her was worth it…
Always stick it in crazy?
Well, close, anyway.
Good evening to you, sir!
I figured they wouldn’t let you out of the house so the high schoolers could take their test.
Joe Biden Administration
https://pasteboard.co/zNEzAcOOPEWP.png
Very apropos.
Morning, Banjos,
Hard to believe 40% of the voters think the prez is physically/mentally altogether. Says a lot about the 40 %ers
Yeah, that’s 100% them living in a bubble, I’d guess.
Usually, on any poll you take, there are 25% of people that you will have to wonder WTF is wrong with them for the opinion they have. I am not surprised that in the democrat population the people with mental disorders is at 40% however.
“… in the democrat population the people with mental disorders is at 40%…”
I know you know that I don’t believe that for one second.
What if I said that was the percentage of the population with sever/serious mental disorders, and the other 60% just had a milder case of the stupid evil mental disaese, Suthen?
I worked in a mental hospital for a decade. After a couple of months of being around extreme cases y ou can spot mild cases in the general population a mile away. 40% is probably about right for the general population. For the left the number is much higher. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number were around 80% (that includes personality disorders and organic mental illnesses).
In my own personal experience, I know anecdotal, I have found many of the biggest cases of proggy stupids suffered from a combination of massive insecurity and massive narcissism, both at once.
They are, however, programmed by the msm.
Enjoy the headline…
IT’S NOT JUST WHITE PEOPLE: DEMOCRATS ARE LOSING NORMAL VOTERS OF ALL RACES
Most of them are either ignoring the news or lying – to themselves and others.
MSM propaganda runs deep.
“People look up to us. They take our lead. So, when a member posts a video of himself killing a colleague, that’s obviously going to have an impact on the way people approach their politics. So, we cannot dismiss Rep. Gosar’s violent fantasies as a joke,” Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., said in House debate on the matter.
What person with three neurons to rub together actually looks up to a congresscritter?
Personally, when someone goes full Charles Sumner on a Squad chick, then I’ll sit up and take notice. Until then, this is just more histrionics from an increasingly unserious body.
Seriously. Maybe she’s referring to the 40% that Fourscore mentions above…
This is all bullshit. If a democrat had done this we wouldn’t be talking about it at all because we would have been told to shut the fuck up already and stop making hay out of nothing.
Dems…remember Kathy Griffin?
Fuck you, shut the fuck up.
Thanks a lot Gosar, you asshole.
I kinda halfway wish that the republicans would respond in kind when they take over in a year…. Scour every jot and tittle of anything any D has said or done and strip all of them of committee assignments. Toss all of The impeachment folks out of congress for “insurrection”.
Ain’t none of them got the balls for it, even if it was a smart strategy, but it still is fun to contemplate….
The republican party has too many old timer idiots that still believe the path to success is to fight a boxing match with Marquis of Queensbury rules against a fucking prison rapist/murderer with a 12 inch shank and a desire to ass rape the shit out of you whether you are dead or alive when it gets to do so.
They truly believe that, though, it isn’t just rhetoric. Years in DC have corrupted their brains into falsely believing they mean something, and are worth more than spit.
The only congress critters that I can remember being attacked or shot at have been Republicans, by Democrats who are stupid-crazy.
Nobody looks up to a waterhead like Scanlon. Fantasies, indeed.
From the dedthred, because adorbs:
—
We have a visitor for the weekend – a brief moment of calm:
https://ibb.co/7JpsNdj
(visitor on the right – they promptly claimed each other’s beds, of course).
It’s like having a low-key running battle throughout the (small) condo.
Awww!
Trillions.
T-T-T-TRILLIONS.
Of dollars.
*wanders forlornly off, whistling *
Rittenhouse jury ends second day of deliberations without reaching verdict
They need to spend 12 hours reviewing new video evidence that was never submitted to the defense until they see what the prosecution insists is on the video and which the prosecutions entire case hinges on.
Of course, the whole case is still bs anyway.
From the reporting I have seen it looks like a couple of the jurors are taking longer to come back with “The state is fucking stupid for ever have put us through this shit show for political reasons, cause this was clearly self defense” because – and this is their saying so to other jurors – they fear for their own safety….
I saw that assertion from Jack P, but he’s a bullshit artist, so im extremely skeptical.
I saw his post too, but after I saw the other one claiming this…
Barnes hints that he has various connections to folks on the scenes and describes it as 2 or 3 Karens on the jury who are in the category he warned about… Leftists in the lefty bubble who will never be convinced of innocence, regardless of evidence. He has polling and mock jury data on this.
He worries that one of the Karens is the Jury foreman. He said you don’t worry about people who are not leaders… They will crumble. But a leader who is a holdout for conviction? Serious danger of a compromise verdict to get out of there, putting Rittenhouse in jail for life.
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!
Get your shots people!
The Ottawa Senators Have a 100% Vaccination Rate—and 40% of the Team Has Tested Positive for Covid
The sidelining of an NHL team this week shows that, while vaccination rates are high, indoor, maskless activities can still lead to an outbreak
How dare you say they are vaccinated. Not all of them get a daily booster shot!!!!
Unfortunately, only half-joking.
If it leads to an outbreak of mild/no symptoms then who gives a fuck? Also, masks don’t really work. You see, other than a fitted N95 that’s handled with care and changed out regularly…aaaah, fuck it….
You can’t reason people out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Look, do you not want to kill grandma or not?
other than a fitted N95
Not even really that, for some definition of work. N95 means stop 95% of particles larger than 0.3 um. With a virus of ~0.06um, you’re not stopping particles with 100s of individual virus particles, even with an N95. The only thing an N95 will do will extend the time time it requires to get a viral load large enough to trigger an infection. I’m not sure we know what that load it nor how long it takes to reach that threshold – there are too many factors, the most important of which are air flow and saturation. So basically, if you are in an enclosed space with an infected person, both mask-less, it may take 15 minutes for you to get enough of viral load to become infected. Both wearing a cloth mask, maybe 16 minutes. Both wearing N95’s maybe 20 minutes. Note numbers extracted joyfully from nether regions – just illustrative. Point being, it might buy you some time, but only in the minimal subset of situations between 15 minutes and 20 minutes of exposure. Which is why, empirically real-world, you never see an effect, whereas you can construct a clinical trial where you’ll see an effect – that will never manifest in the real world.
What makes me crazy is we’re going into our third winter of this crap where you can step outside and EASILY observe the efficacy of your mask. Properly fitted or not.
Yep. Clinical trials with N95 masks, used by professionals who know how to wear them, have shown no statistically significant difference in viral transmission.
My friend, a nurse, was fully geared up every day – N95 (x2, maybe?), face shield, strict scrub-in/scrub-out protocols (in a hospital that treated a large homeless population) – she still got the ‘vid.
Anecdote, not data, but if they can’t get it right with those protocols…
A relative of mine and her husband wanted gas stations closed to keep people from going out. They wore masks whenever out, and admonished people who didn’t wear masks properly. They wore gloves when grocery shopping and wiped down their groceries. They wouldn’t socialize with anyone unless they were outside and more than six feet apart. Gotta be safe!
They got the ‘Rona.
After recovering, they continued to wear masks and keep distance so as to “not spread the virus asymptomatically.” And to make sure everyone is comfortable around them.
Then as the vaccine roll-out came closer, they bitched about not being able to travel until they get vaccinated.
They got vaccinated in Ohio because they were still not eligible in Pennsylvania, but were in Ohio. They were on a road trip out West, but claimed they didn’t plan the road trip around getting vaccinated in Ohio.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say those professional athletes in peak physical condition will survive this (occasionally) deadly disease.
Based on the soccer world, and common sense, they are in far more danger from the vaccine.
20 somethings in prime physical shape? Yeah, the vax seems like a risky move to me.
Your maskvax protects me, my vaxmask protects you!
D… dip the mask material in the vaccine?!? You’re a genius!
“44% of those asked willing to give him a positive job review”
I remain amazed that it’s this high. Just goes to show how far religious zealotry can take people.
It is religious zealotry. These people are so invested in their political religion that they are willing to destroy everything to avoid admitting they are idiots and fell for/believe in bullshit.
OSHA Suspends Implemenation, Enforcement of Vaccine Mandate
I kinda wanted them to push on with it. I never miss an opportunity to raise my middle finger to the government.
How many employers will now back down, though? Cause right now mine looks like it is doubling down. And what about the military? Will they stop the separation processes they started against people that refused the unconstitutional vaccine mandate?
Well… I’m pretty sure any operating in Florida will start backing down.
/still waiting decision about my appeal for not needing the vaccine
“On Wednesday, the Arizona man known as the “QAnon Shaman” was sentenced to 41 months in prison for being at the US Capitol building on January 6.”
Absolutely absurd. For a guy who was, judging by video evidence, let into a taxpayer funded building, didn’t have a weapon and didn’t engage in violence. Where are Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on these prisoners of conscience? Oh right, they’re just another couple of stars in the vast constellation of corrupt lefty NGOs.
They don’t care about this guy because he is not one of the true believers.
He’s obviously someone that can be convinced of wacky things. It’s not surprising that jackboot models could “convince” him that he was a worthless sinner who is grateful for being given such a lenient punishment for his horrible crimes.
People kept for long periods in abusive conditions and solitary confinement can be “convinced” of many things. And given how utterly corrupt the entire proceeding has been thus far, the guy could be forgiven for believing there’s no chance in hell of getting a fair trial and possibly ending up in the click for decades. I can’t say I wouldn’t do the same thing in his position.
/looks at past 20 months of lockdowns in some parts of the country
/looks at skyrocketing crime rates and seemingly increasing incidents of random violence everywhere
Are you joking? He was the mastermind of the deadliest insurrection in US history – and did you see those horns? Someone could have been GORED
So what will the people that claimed these people were involved in a insurrection do when the mob decides to riot & loot no matter what the Rittenhouse verdict is? Will it again just be “mostly peaceful protests” or will they suddenly have to worry about explaining why the insurrection looks like a bunch of kids acting out while the riots & looting looks like real horrible behavior, and they are left excusing the later…
CNN claimed “mostly peaceful” as a city block burned behind their reporter. Comparisons to the “insurrection” will not be acknowledged.
They’ll just say the rioters are doing it for a good cause, unlike the insurrectionists, who were trying to destroy democracy.
That’s when I look at someone and ask are you really that stupid, or do you think I am?
Apparently prosecutors convinced judge that the staff was a spear/weapon.
he Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says it has suspended the implementation and enforcement of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses.
Meanwhile, those gutless fucks at the Chamber of Commerce are “urging” dutiful compliance.
In a letter to Chair Lina Khan Wednesday, Biden said there’s “mounting evidence of anti-consumer behavior by oil and gas companies.” The letter noted that prices at the pump have remained high despite a decline in the price of unfinished gasoline. “This unexplained large gap between the price of unfinished gasoline and the average price at the pump is well above the pre-pandemic average,” the letter said.
I wonder what changed in the last year or so.
anti-consumer behavior
Wreckers!
Look, just because the cost of all the raw materials went up, they shouldn’t be passing on those increased costs to the consumer!
It’s depressing how many people believe that.
There’s finally an Alzheimer’s vaccine in the works
If proven safe and effective in human trials, it could treat and even prevent the disease altogether.
https://www.mic.com/life/alzheimers-vaccine-humans
“The vaccine would work by using an experimental immune modulator to activate the white blood cells in the lymph nodes in the neck, the statement explained. Those white blood cells would then travel to the brain and start the process of removing beta-amyloid plaques, which are clusters of protein fragments known as beta-amyloid, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. According to what’s known as the amyloid theory, when these plaques form deposits in the brain, they lead to memory loss and other forms of cognitive decline.”
I am quite skeptical of the amyloid, seems more reaction than cause of the issue
Do you want Reavers? ‘Cause this is how you get Reavers.
I thought the amyloid hypothesis (that it’s causative, and not simply correlated) had been pretty clearly disproved.
I cannot be disprove, even if fake, until the people leading the field, who made their careers with it, die. One funeral at a time, science advances.
I don’t know if it is wrong, but after 30 years and tens of billions and zero results, I would say investigate other possibilities.
Was this tied in to the fetal stem cell research controversy 20+ yrs ago? I recall reading some articles that fetal stem cells had very negative effects on some individuals while adult stem cells showed significant improvement for some health conditions.
‘QAnon Shaman’ sentenced to three years in jail for role on January 6
And by “role” you mean being invited in, meandering around and telling people to be peaceful.
He’s going to be used as precedent for cornholing the bejesus out of the others who are charged with basically nothing.
From this morning’s dedthred:
Think about this – has ANYONE heard of a single exemption being accepted? I’m sure someone here has, but I can’t recall a single one.
We accepted over a hundred – medical and “religious”.
has ANYONE heard of a single exemption being accepted?
Many.
Haven’t heard of any from gov’t/military institutions yet.
at my place of work, my understanding is everyone who as filed one has been accepted. They are essentially rubber stamping them.
I hope mine does that, too, if it comes to that.
Answers my question then. Although I’d like to believe that the libertarianish vibration that emanates from each of us somehow influenced this. Because my line of work is adjacent to several very large healthcare providers, and word I have gotten from that side makes it sound as though requests are being denied summarily, possibly even without due consideration. Clearly RC Dean’s outfit isn’t part of that….
And still remains to be seen how it gets handled in my own place of work. Time will tell I guess.
This is NYC government we are talking about. The fascists are fully in control.
T&A aplenty on your Thot Thursday.
https://archive.md/nHwEH
“Shaman” boy got off without being burned at the stake.
That’s a win.
Heresy is usually a capital offense.
House censures GOP Rep. Paul Gosar, strips committee assignments over anime video
Hopefully this teaches the GOP members that are not rino’s that Dems are not their friends.
A year and a half ago gas was $1.75 per gallon, we had achieved energy independence, unemployment was at record lows overall and for every demographic, taxes had been lowered, incentives for poor states to subsidize richer states had been removed, companies were moving back to the US that had fled before….
What changed?
Congratulations. You know who I mean.
Stolen elections have consequences.
A year and a half ago gas was killing Gaia.
The fucking racists are at it again, because after letting Cthulhu’s agent on earth, Hillary, constantly tell lies about being shot at in Bosnia, they are now attacking this brave black woman for doing some of the same!
Whatever you do, don’t make an anime video of her getting her lying head lopped off.
Wage and price controls! Government production quotas!
That’ll get the ol’ economy humming.
It’s not about getting the economy humming for these people: it’s about making sure government gets to pick the winners and losers. In the name of social justice , of course…
Don;t forget food rations. Did wonders for the real problem of obesity in the commie world. Tried and tested
What we need is a five year plan.
If proven safe and effective in human trials, it could treat and even prevent the disease altogether.
Get your Alzheimer’s shot today!
Or else.
*OSHA smiles*
I keep forgetting to schedule my appointment. If it’s mandated, I’m using the Steve Martin Defense
Luck of the Irish: Ireland Imposes Midnight Curfew… Boosters For Life
it is the fault of the selfish 10% who are not vaccinated.
California Man in 4-Day Standoff With Abandoned Amazon Truck in Driveway
When Captain Lou ordered toilet paper from Amazon, he had no idea he’d end up with a Sprinter van, too.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxd58y/california-man-in-4-day-standoff-with-abandoned-amazon-truck-in-driveway
About an hour later, Lou left to pick up his daughter from a football game and noticed the van was still in his driveway. The driver was gone, and so were all the other packages. It was unlocked with the keys in it. “The driver had repositioned the truck so I could get out of the driveway, which is great,” Lou said. “But after the initial contact, the driver didn’t say anything, didn’t leave a note at all.”
Saturday morning Lou’s daughter came into his room and told him that the truck had turned around in the middle of the night. “So sure enough, about 8 o’clock in the morning, somebody came and started the truck and drove it out into the street,” Lou said. “Apparently it was not capable of going anywhere, so they just put it right back into my driveway—but 180 degrees from where it was the night before.”
That’s great.
The whole lack of accountability at Amazon is ridiculous.
I would have just moved the fucking thing into the street and left it there.
Nice of him to reach out to Amazon but after they told him to just call the cops & have it towed, I’d have it towed. His refusal to do so is… odd.
(it’s not an Amazon van, it’s a subcontractor)
Towing somebody else’s car, or even moving it into the street, can be grand theft auto, depending on local laws. I would have told Amazon to get it towed their own damn selves.
Towing from private property should be legal. If on public property, call the police to report an abandoned vehicle.
At least in NJ. You call the cops. They ticket it. You call a tow company. Since it is ticketed they can tow it.
I’m pretty sure that if someone leaves something on your property, you have the right to remove it, going all the way back to English common law.
If it was such a locality, wouldn’t that be at the discretion of the cops to bring a grand theft charge?
Way to cuck out…
Two Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger joined all Democrats as the House voted 223-207, with Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) voting ‘present.’
Figures.
“I do not espouse violence towards anyone. I never have. It was not my purpose to make anyone upset. I voluntarily took the cartoon down, not because it was itself a threat but because some thought it was. Out of compassion for those who genuinely felt offense, I self-censored,” Gosar said.
Smdh.
Republicans warned Wednesday of a slippery slope where they might choose to remove Democrats from committees in retaliation if the GOP takes over the House majority in the future. Kevin McCarthy pointed to Maxine Waters telling protesters earlier this year to “get more confrontational” about police brutality toward Black people and Ilhan Omar saying that “Israel has hypnotized the world” as examples of remarks that Republicans might sanction.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
ehm former republican Liz Cheney
She identifies as a Republican.
I identify as ’70s Mick Jagger.
Why isn’t every girl I see begging to fuck me?
They’re bigots, obvs.
Cause they want to make sure you can keep singing “I can’t get no satisfaction” and mean it?
What are the odds OSHA has laid off on “enforcement” as a gambit to kneecap lawsuits based on standing?
“We haven’t fined you, so you have suffered no actual harm.”
Wasn’t standing already determined when the first injunction went into place? OSHA is (surprisingly to me) following the current court order.
This is 100% a ploy to stop any retaliation from the working class until after the holidays.
I should have said something earlier but kept it to myself, but, I had the exact same thought. The original deadline was pre-Christmas, which would have ruined many peoples’ holiday (you know, losing your income and all). I believe there was a meeting between the puppet masters where it was determined to push it till after the new year, so everyone will be fat and happy with new gifts and a new year’s buzz, and will just roll over and take whatever at that time (their thoughts, not reality).
I 100% believe this and I’m glad to see maybe I’m not as crazy as I probably am.
My work just sent out the announcement that the contractor vaccination mandate has been delayed so that instead of vaccines being mandatory by Wednesday (11/24), they’re now mandatory by 1/4/2022. I’m wondering if I should take the delay in a decision on my appeal a good sign, or a bad sign. The fact the company didn’t announce to use the change in date (which was announced by the Biden admin earlier this month) makes me wonder how many true believers are in the HR department.
Why is the presidential seal blurred?
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal is now law.
Not really Law – just a rough plan to raid the Treasury and expand the regulatory state. You’ll love it.
But it’s zero cost!
Crank up the printers!
TIL:
18 U.S.C. § 713
It’s not an official video from the USG, it’s a political ad from the Dems, so they may not use the seal.
Fair enough. But every other private org. (media that purports itself to be news, for instance) shows the seal.
I think because it’s from the Democratic National Committee it’s obviously being used for political purposes.
CNN is, of course, just an objective purveyor of news.
You sir owe me a new monitor – mine has coffee all over it.
My work here is done.
They really couldn’t come up with an E and an N word to complete the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal?
“Eviscerates Nation”
See… I think that’s the real proof that Biden isn’t really running things. How could he have passed up the opportunity to have the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Enriching the Nation passed under his watch?
The guy sounds like a catch, you should absolutely wait for him.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16763416/wait-for-my-boyfriend-prison/
Without reading the article, and knowing it’s the UK…
What’s he in prison for? Misgendering? Unloicensed possession of a potato peeler? Obstruction of a rape by a preferred minority roup?
“Obstruction of a rape by a preferred minority group?”
Genuine LOL.
Stupid bitchez love bad boys…
Out of compassion for those who genuinely felt offense, I self-censored,” Gosar said.
“I’m deeply, sincerely sorry you’re such a bunch of retards.”
Killer Storms Drive Deadly Scorpion Swarms Into Home-Invading Fury
At least three people have died due to venomous scorpion stings.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/storms-scorpion-swarms-egypt
New plague just dropped.
Massive rain, dust, and snowstorms (yes, snow too) in Aswan, Egypt have caused swarms of scorpions to wreak havoc on the city — leaving multiple people dead as a result, Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram reports. So far, three people have died and more than 450 have been injured in a single night of scorpion-stinging fury.
The New York Times reports that the insects themselves are roughly four inches long and are often unofficially dubbed “deathstalkers” due to how deadly they are. Hundreds and likely thousands of the venomous scorpions were driven from their desert burrows due to intense rainfall and descended upon the homes of Aswanis.
One funeral at a time, science advances.
Bravo! Author! Author!
*applauds, stamps feet*
Leave the campus environment unmolested.
Old Dominion University announced it had put a professor on leave following comments attempting to normalize the phrase “minor-attracted persons.”
“Old Dominion University has placed Dr. Allyn Walker on administrative leave, effective immediately, from their position as assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice,” Amber Kennedy, a spokesperson for the university, said in a statement on Tuesday evening.
“Reactions to Dr. Walker’s research and book have led to concerns for their safety and that of the campus,” Kennedy added. “Furthermore, the controversy over Dr. Walker’s research has disrupted the campus and community environment and is interfering with the institution’s mission of teaching and learning.”
“Administrative leave” should be “fired”.
If the jury should announce the verdict at 8 am – long before BLM and Antifa wakes up.
The Aussie doggie family has decided to adopt the 3 GSD puppies that were born on the farm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQyvqZmGy98
are the dogs also the lazy descendants of criminals?
Not lazy, no.
Do you have Australian Shepherds in Romania? If not, what is the preferred breed for frisbee chasing?
there are some. not that many. But I see one every few days on my walks
https://archive.md/zuWLV/4f161b75d44772685a650918d5469f78aa909024.jpg
So they have:
Joey the kelpie
Tilly the cattle dog
Cutie Pie the pug
Freddo the rottie
Banjo, Rosie, Matilda the GSDs.
I guess if anyone can take on that many dogs, it’s them!
This guy could
Stupid dusty condo.
They are doing this to us – ON PURPOSE – because I won’t let them get enough supply out of the ground to meet demand (and all cause I need gas to be so expensive that electrical finally makes some kind of economic sense)!!!!
The other day I asked some pompous asshat telling us all how awesome it was that gas prices were high and he was living large & in charge cause he drove a Prius (you could almost imagine him swirling his own fart in an expensive crystal whine glass) compared to us fools driving gas guzzlers how much his electric bill had gone up. His wife smirked at him (I guess even she was tired of his bullshit). He was not happy when I told the others there that if you drive an electric car in a state that burns gas/oil for most of its power generation, you are very likely paying more than you would at the pump to keep your crappy toy running on your electrical bill (unless you foisted that charge on others at some parking station). And you were not really doing jack shit for the environment either.
Don’t forget those semis delivering your goods run on gas.
They are doing this to us – ON PURPOSE
^This. The Dems aren’t stupid. Neither are the eGOP. Being stupid implies they have at least somewhat good intentions and just don’t understand the consequences of their actions.
They know exactly what they are doing, and it’s never been intended to help us or this country.
Ayup
Meanwhile in Germany…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/german-love-island-takes-x-25485896
“The nudity is meant to help contestants find a real connection with each other[…]clothes can be emblematic of social status and muddy one person’s perspective of another”
Yeah, you really remove that superficial, physical aspect by having the contestants in their birthday suits. That evens the playing field.
It changes the size focus from the wallet to the penis.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goldicock
I bet there is gonna be water sports and fecal games too if the Germans are involved…
Insanity will break out if the invite the Czechs and the Dutch
The Dutch?
So video of fingers being stuck in dikes?
The Czechs?
Video of Jerry Springer prostitutes?
I thought the Germans typically went after Belgians first, then the French.
Nothing to see here, move along.
https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/fda-asks-federal-judge-to-grant-it
!!!
They need most of the people fucked over by this stuff to be dead before the others get to know what they did…
How convenient. All the proles will be dead by then.
And more importantly, all the culprits.
Holy shit, that’s brazen, even for these times.
Me as judge: “Take as long as you want. However, until the last page is produced, the head of the FDA will be in jail for contempt. I will give him a free pass for the first 24 hours.”
Yeah… I definitely would be a bad judge. No judicial temperament for that.
I would have given them a week and then tossed them in jail for contempt if they failed to produce it at the next hearing on that date.
Alternatively I might ask if the data was in electronic format. Hearing “yes” I would give them 24 hours to post it online.
I think in cases such as these where the government intentionally delays the release of self-incriminating documents until all parties are dead, blood guilt should come into play.
It should be communicated to those who delay that if it comes out later that they committed crimes or betrayed the public trust, their children and grandchildren will hang for it.
Assume your tongue is firmly in (your own) cheek. Unearned guilt, sins of the father, etc.
They blood guilt should be administered in the here and now. Of course these sorts of delays should never be allowed to start with, solve the whole problem. The fact that they are or are even entertained by the system means that the blood guilt will have to be extracted outside the system.
Only partly in cheek…
There’s no disincentive to this type of behavior in current existence. The government fucks the populace over and hides behind legalese for decades. The alternative solution is potentially worse, namely revolt.
Which is worse, no consequences at all, or consequences delivered to people the evildoers (presumably) care about?
(to both)
I think I draw the line at consequences visited people who have nothing to do with the evil being done. That’s a box with lots of Pandora in it, to say nothing of the ethical problems with it. I don’t think we accomplish much avoiding what might need to happen (revolt) if in the process we turn into bad people ourselves. It’s dishonest to think we can fix an evil by being just as evil; and punishing someone for the sins of their father or grandfather is wrong.
I think I’ll cross the purity line with forcing employers to not require medical procedures as a condition of employment – the state is so tied up in employment decisions that we only ever seem to ‘win’ when the result is a lessening of individual freedom. But I’m not willing to cross the purity line to punish a guiltless person.
I agree, Putrid.
A tangent: As I was telling somebody recently about assisted suicide – once that line is crossed, its crossed. Any requirement that the dead-person-to-be consent to it is a fig leaf. Declare someone incapable of making their own decisions, and bingo bango, the State can make it for them. Those unsocial types who won’t go along – mentally ill, “irredeeemable” even, society would be better off without them, etc.
As much as I disagree with handicap activists, this is one of their bugaboos that I agree with.
On a level playing field, I agree.
But to me it’s an open question of whether those who are given authority over others should be held accountable to a standard beyond that which we should apply to our neighbors. I’m musing here, but there is no accountability in our current system and they have gamed it in order to insure that it accountability will never come or at least come so late as to be meaningless and no disincentive to bad behavior.
The VA (at least 7 years ago when we were dealing with it for my dad) was big on soft peddling assisted suicide. Gotta get that budget down to spread the lucre around.
@Scruffy.
whether those who are given authority over others should be held accountable to a standard beyond that which we should apply to our neighbors.
They absolutely should be. But THEY should be. Not their grandkids. If they’ve gamed the system such that there is no accountability and no chance of accountability through civil institutions, then our system is screwed and likely can’t be saved. Trying to pretend that we can save it through those institutions if you are convinced it cannot be saved absent evil behavior – with no assurance that the threat will actually work anyway – I can’t get behind.
Ford Steps Into the Chips Business
The auto maker and GlobalFoundries agree to develop, potentially produce semiconductors in U.S. under strategic pact
Not Adahn – didn’t you mention you don’t have much capacity on the large nodes that the automakers use.
130 nm is not large
Not in the US. Unless Ford is willing to pay a stupid premium it would make no sense to produce domestically anywhere other than maybe VT.
Of course, if there was a plan to buy up some older fabs from NXP/TI/Micron…
The commies in VT would probably shut that shit down, like AOC shut down Amazon in New York.
Essex Junction VT is our oldest US fab. It’s still running 200mm wafers.
I know, but the commies would probably be opposed to any increase in production, like they always are. And there are lots of commies and NIMBYs in VT. The commies will scream “environment!!!” and the NIMBYs will scream “traffic!!! the childrunz!!!”.
(my dad was a manager there when it was IBM)
Maybe they are going to join the 21st century and redesign them for smaller nodes.
I understand why they use the “if ain’t broke” don’t fix it attitude. But if you can’t get the parts anymore it’s essentially broke.
it is really not that easy, especially reliability wise. Also when a few power MOS devises take 75% of the chip there is little incentive to shrink the rest too much.
*devices
I totally get that.
It’s an interesting problem. Historically, we just outsourced the “low margin” problem to places with lower costs who also had less issues with the environmental costs or their remediation.
Also smaller nodes take years to develop, stuff produced now is on quite old tech
From the press release, weasel words bolded:
Win – Win.
GF looks like it can capitalize on shortages when it likely can’t and Ford can look like it is addressing its shortage problem when it will take years with this approach.
Soviet paratroopers decamp from a Tupolev TB-3, 1933
https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1460687315634900998
Next time Stalin said that they would get working parachutes?
The first that fell acted as cushions for the rest.
Wheeeeeeee!!!!!
In a letter to Chair Lina Khan Wednesday, Biden said there’s “mounting evidence of anti-consumer behavior by oil and gas companies.” The letter noted that prices at the pump have remained high despite a decline in the price of unfinished gasoline. “This unexplained large gap between the price of unfinished gasoline and the average price at the pump is well above the pre-pandemic average,” the letter said.
It’s almost as if they expect prices to rise in the future.
When even George Clooney calls you out…..
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/alec-baldwin-worse-and-worse.php
From the related links…. One of the script girls has filed a huge lawsuit for assault and international infliction of….
Her attorney? Gloria Allred.
Baldwin has money… So I am not surprised a powerful attorney smells the $$$…
Interesting. The protocols he describes are what I would expect – multiple checks after the gun has been delivered. Similar to what I have seen, and what I do when I am at the range with somebody else (although I don’t check that the the barrel itself is clear). We confirm that each other’s gun has been cleared. Mostly. We could be better about doing it every time. Of particular interest to me was his statement that the term “cold gun” is not used on set, which is Baldwin’s entire defense.
When Mrs. Dean was helping me with my shotgun form in the garage this past weekend, I cleared the gun, and showed it to her before we started.
Americans Don’t Hate Work, They Hate the Workplace
https://lawliberty.org/americans-dont-hate-work-they-hate-the-workplace/
I personally hate driving to work (costs gas and car wear & tear for shit use) in shit traffic with idiots reading their papers, putting on their makeup, or chatting with their moms on their cells while ignoring traffic, and then having to pay for parking in some shitty garage where there is always some guy with a winter coat and nothing else under it flashing guys, all to be in a place where the people that don’t do any work keep coming over to my desk and constantly interrupt me, the most about the workplace.
That sounds pretty exciting.
I would rather go back to being fired at again than deal with stupid people in traffic.
there is always some guy with a winter coat and nothing else under it flashing guys
Wut?
Hartford, CT.. Flashers like dudes and kids and not the ladies for some reason…
^^ yep. Granted, the crazy guys when I worked downtown were more of the scream insane things on the train types.
I have to agree. Monthly woke diversity and equity you’re evil for being white training is starting to annoy me. Also suspect I’ve been passed up for promotion because of my sex and race. Guess I should shut up and enjoy my privilege.
I’m mad because our Oktoberfest (drinking beer in a tent in our company parking lot) AND Holiday party (drinking beer in the company cafeteria) have both been canceled this year because of the Rona.
I guess HR thinks that there are too many people still worried about crowds.
They are promising an extra kick ass party next summer. We’ll see.
* Our last Holiday party was a disaster (2019) because they ran out of beer early. Way early.
Our last Holiday party was a disaster (2019) because they ran out of beer early. Way early.
Lots of employees from Wisconsin?
http://beerinfo.com/beer-consumption-by-state-per-capita/
And look at that, both Dakotas are above Wisconsin.
Every state that borders Minnesota is above Minnesota. Slackers.
Because our beer consumption slacks off in the winter when we switch to butterscotch schnapps while ice fishing.
butterscotch schnapps
That may be the most disgusting alcoholic beverage I have ever heard of.
You are a rootbeer or peach schnapps kind of guy? I can live with that.
Peppermint is the only schnapps that I won’t tolerate around me.
Off-brand Rumplemintz is pretty low class, you betcha
Yukon Jack. But yeah, ice fishing requires different antifreeze.
Not too many. Just seemed to be some horrible logistics fuck up. The caterers only brought one keg of beer and that was it.
In fairness to the company, they normally have lots of drinks on hand.
And all that happened is we had to switch to drinking wine instead of beer.
Too bad, I’ve got an almost full bottle of your dreaded schnapps that my daughter left here. You were first on my list but now the offering goes to Tundra.
I heartily agree with your decision to give schnapps to Tundra.
So far it has been (surprisingly) light on the “woke” training; although I did just get this happy horseshit:
AFAICT, they really want me to further blur the line between my personal life and my work life.
Fuck. Off.
How about everyone just does their fucking job then goes home and does whatever moves them? This is a job, not a lifestyle.
Umm… do you get to pick the coworker that you uncover your gifts and passions in a conspiracy of love with? And if so, are you hiring?
You wanna be that coworker, huh?
Anytime something is advertised as a “powerful, eye-opening experience” yeah, that’s trying to pull you into the cult.
Nothing whatsoever to do with business or the doing of your job.
It’s some ESG nonsense. Everything about those guys scream “grifter” to me, if you check their website.
There’s a (lightly) password-protected Vimeo video I could share – does nothing to dispel my impression that it’s bullshit.
I’m hoping that’s optional.
Yes, thankfully. We’re not that far gone.
We’re a tech company, filled with engineers – my overall impression it’s mostly the non-technical staff who are interested in these things – HR, obviously, Marketing, Finance, etc.
The more-woke technical staff are, unsurprisingly, not the technical superstars.
I hate my commute and the $40/wk gas cost.
Nothing to see here…
https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/18/ex-wife-of-jailed-russian-tycoon-found-dead-at-her-10m-london-flat-15621874/
Having dirt on Putin is almost as hazardous as having dirt on the Clintons.
weird in Russia they usually accidentally fall out of a high building window
If only they had better building codes…
In China they disappear you and release an “email”.
Who thought whom how to do this? Did the Clintons educate Putin or vice versa?
I know I probably shouldn’t… But I really wouldn’t be upset if a bunch of our current crop of tycoons got tossed into prison.
Biden’s latest request comes as the administration tries to quell the surge in gas prices and its contribution to inflation across the economy. In August the administration called on OPEC and its oil-producing allies to boost output and also asked the FTC to investigate price-gouging at the pump.
The administration has repeatedly said that it’s examining the tools at its disposal to alleviate some of the burden on consumers, which could include tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The national average for a gallon of gas stood at $3.41 on Wednesday, according to data from AAA. That’s up from $3.31 one month ago, and $2.12 one year ago.
This is why we have to get all those evil internal combustion vehicles off the road. It’s bad politics to have the plebs standing there grinding their teeth in fury as they watch the “total sale” number flash ever upwards on a regular basis.
as the administration tries to quell the surge in gas prices and its contribution to inflation across the economy.
There is actually a very easy fix to this.
Anecdotal and based purely on my own observations of port activity on the webcam, but it seems there’s a pretty significant uptick in cargo traffic in Miami. I’m guessing that these are not ships that were trapped offshore of Long Beach, but perhaps ships that have decided to reroute from their origin to avoid bottlenecks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQHTAXC4tUk
A nice cheese plate with some good chocolate, usually.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:67.3/centery:-13.4/zoom:2
Zoom in to Long Beach CA
Unless Ford is willing to pay a stupid premium it would make no sense to produce domestically anywhere other than maybe VT.
So what you’re saying is Ford will give this the green light? Because, well, Ford.
Cucked before even getting into office.
Glenn Youngkin, the Republican Governor-elect of Virginia, will be allowing localities in the state – including cities, counties, and public school systems – to implement mask and vaccine mandates, but says he will not impose a mandate at the state level. This differs from Republican governors in stronghold states like Florida, which have banned the practice of mandating vaccines outright. …
“Localities are going to have to make decisions the way the law works and that is going to be up to individual decisions but, again, from the governor’s office, you won’t see mandates from me,” Youngkin said in an interview with local media.
In which case, I’m in a safe county. But I expect there’s going to be some more fireworks at board meetings shortly.
Meh, I don’t think anyone thought he was some right-wing firebrand.
I was always under the impression he was a standard issue uniparty squish.
Eh
As long as they don’t follow Xiden’s lead in mandating that people working from home for companies in NoVA must follow the mandate.
It’s Virginia. The guy is a red gov in a blue state that only elected him due to a shit economy and CRT bullshit in schools, and Terry was a shit candidate.
He needs to pick his battles.
Which means he’s not going to make more government rules. I’m not seeing the problem here.
I’ll call it now. Judge will reverse the vaccine mandate decision after Christmas.
On a side note, who/how do people sue if for some reason the decision isn’t reversed? I wonder how many current law suits are out for those forced that had adverse effects.
Optimist
This is how you get motherfuckin’ snakes on a motherfuckin’ plane.
Scorpions and rattlesnakes are among the barriers major airlines are facing as they return mothballed planes to service and scramble to hire crews to meet a surging demand for air travel as pandemic travel restrictions ease. However, despite airlines reaching nearly pre-pandemic levels ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday – when 4.2 million people are expected to travel by air – dozens of passenger planes remain stranded in the Mojave Desert, where they’ve been stored since the pandemic began crippling the travel industry early last year.
lolwut
Keep those mothballs handy; I see restrictions going the other way.
I don’ t know why this guy is so mad. His dating profile clearly said he loved animals.
But wait! There is another side to this story!
What times we live in. “Hey! I’m not into bestiality, I’m pedophile. Give me a break”
“Must love dogs”
OT – Pope – I thought the adults were back in charge with the BIden administration.
U.S. Effort to Show Unity Backfires as Japan, South Korea Officials Walk Out
Never could have seen this coming…
My wife and I had one party at our apartment – one – where we invited both our Japanese friends and Korean friends. After that disaster we would only invite either the Japanese or the Koreans.
The worst were the Korean guys. They got drunk and started picking fights with the Japanese guys. The Japanese guys were total wimps. They were “woke” way back when about their behavior so they didn’t push back right away. Which only egged on the Korean guys.
My wife said the women were very catty towards each other, but I have no real idea how women score points so I couldn’t tell you much about that.
When the Norks go on one of their threat binges, people ask if I am worried about them shooting at the South. I always tell them that if Kim decides to launch a nuke it will be at Tokyo and there will be a lot of people in the South very happy.
Sounds about right.
Although typically small groups get along as you’ve noted with your family in Japan and I’ve experienced in my language classes with Korean students. Any my friend in Japan teaches Japanese to lots of Korean immigrants – she’s been to their churches and their homes. At this point she has a number of Korean friends.
Yup. Micro level interactions are usually pretty good.
And to be fair, young Korean guys and booze almost always ends up in fights and disaster. The problem with having a Japanese guy around is that the Korean guys are now unified in their assholery.
At least they didn’t fuck the 88 year old mom….
Her knees are too bad to let her do it doggy style. Total turnoff.
I can’t tell if that pic is the 33-year-old or the 58-year-old. Gah!
Well, the dog was asking for it, looking so innocent and all. It was well known that the dog had been around the block, IYKWIM
Japan looks to accept more foreigners in key policy shift
Not mentioned – the language requirements. I started studying too late for easy acquisition, but after a decade of study I probably only have about a 75% chance of meeting the fluency requirements.
Start lobbying for a Bukkake exception? You can either go for doing the spraying or being sprayed, but that allows you to be considered ready to join the community..
Prepare to be disappointed. Everyone I know who applied for the bukkake exception has taken it on the chin.
It isn’t as easy as it looks.
I simply must compliment you on the consistency and quality. Top notch and fully deserving of the most narrowed of narrowed gazes. Regularly brings a smile to my face.
*blushes, kicks at imaginary dirt clod*
*shyly mumbles thanks to Mrs. Caron my third grade teacher who believed in me*
The bukkake exception is a difficult process. In the end I only felt like I was surrounded by a circle of jerks.
It’s a bunch of dicks doing their best to screw you.
Singing in the rain… I’m singing in the rain…..
Oh, come now
Come again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNFCRO0DTTI
(It’s just a song)
I wonder how many “blue-collar” foreigners possess the desired fluency in Japanese.
Mornin’
Defense attorney Corey Chirafisi told Judge Bruce Schroeder his team would have approached the case differently had it received the higher-quality video earlier. He said his newest motion for a mistrial would be made “without prejudice,” meaning prosecutors could try Rittenhouse again if the judge grants the mistrial.
Hmm… I think it should be with prejudice, but what do I know? Today’s Rekieta Law livestream.
Though the warring groups tried to keep the peace to the point of sharing pizza with each other, tensions escalated as a pro-BLM protester began hurling misogynistic insults toward a pro-Rittenhouse female protester. When police attempted to quell the situation, people started pushing back into the street, prompting several arrests.
Let me guess: the pro-BLM folks arrested were promptly released. Any pro-Rittenhouse folks arrested are still in jail.
With the 6th Circuit, it’s still getting struck down, in my opinion, but it’s possible the court might not take the entire administrative state down in the process.
It’s possible? It’s definite the Circuit won’t take down the administrative state.
President Joe Biden is asking the Federal Trade Commission to look into behavior from energy companies as prices at the pump hover around a seven-year high.
It would be more productive to look in a mirror, but that’s asking too much.
Just posted my reaction to a clip on the news below.
The level of gas lighting and dishonesty in the media is astonishing. They created this on purpose, and even bragged about it…. And now the news reports this diversion with a straight face?
Is everyone stupid? It has been like 3 months since they were all telling us that gas prices need to be high and it is a good thing that Biden was able to accomplish this. It is just maddening. Can’t someone stick their hand up and ask about drilling moratoriums, pipeline cancellations, regulations…
Is everyone stupid?
Lazy.
I was talking with a friend of mine about the Rittenhouse case. He’s pissed about how people are following the case and spreading lies.
I told him I’m a bit biased about the case because I contributed to Rittenhouse’s defense back when Lin Wood was his attorney. Unlike many people, I’m watching a livestream of a livestream (the Rekieta Law livestream of the case). Sometimes I look at the mainstream media to see what they’re getting wrong, but I have the actual source information. Many people aren’t doing that. That’s hard. It takes time. It’s so much easier to pull up CNN or NBC or ABC or Fox or whatever you want to get their take. But the problem is, it’s their take. Did they get it right? Digging into that is hard, so most people won’t do it.
If “national level news opinion writers” can’t be bothered….
Why expect anyone else to try?
Still.. The entire point of having national level opinion writers is to have a layer of informed analysis to help us form our opinions. If they are all just repeating talking points… Why do we need them? They are not helping, they are making the problem objectively worse.
Why do we need them? They are not helping, they are making the problem objectively worse.
Yes.
And CNN’s ratings have been tanking.
When failing miserably, don’t revisit the fact that you have been peddling lies to help despicable people fuck over the rest of the country and stop that evil shit, but double down on more of the same evil shit?
Under the heading of WTF…. Just heard Biden on the news.. Gave a speech saying the American people are angry about high gas prices and he will not tolerate price gouging by oil companies and will stop illegal collision and monopolistic behavior.
Sounds about right.
I’d expect that level of comprehension from most of the staffers that are both running the place and writing his speeches.
I feel like he could just save us all a lot of time and wear a shirt that says “Fuck you! Pay me!.”
Kulaks and wreckers…
I guess HR thinks that there are too many people still worried about crowds.
Something something nobody I know…
The whiners whine to HR, so HR gets the impression that the vast majority of the company is scairt.
Normal people don’t say shit so the whiners get their way.
I think that is coming to an end. A lot of the normal people are starting to get vocal. That is what the school board circuses are, normal people finally showing up and airing their grievances.
Under the heading of WTF…. Just heard Biden on the news.. Gave a speech saying the American people are angry about high gas prices and he will not tolerate price gouging by oil companies and will stop illegal collision and monopolistic behavior.
So he’s shifting from Franklin Roosevelt to Teddy?
“I will bust the trusts. I will bring Standard Oil to heel.”
With a willing propaganda machine in the 4th estate and a tech firewall to watch their backs, it may not be a bad strategy. People tend to believe what is around them.
I listened to a bit of the last Reason podcast. None of them followed the Rittenhouse trial, but said they knew enough from being around all the coverage to talk about what it means for society. They proceeded to discuss myths from the left media as the facts of the case. How he shouldn’t have been there, traveled across state lines with a weapon.
This is reality.
Crowder did a bit with a very reasonable lefty college girl. Asked her about fake news, and she said CNN was reliable. He mentioned Russian Collusion as an example of lies they told. She maintained that there was actually collusion with Russia. When confronted with the fact that they spent years and millions of dollars trying to find it and they found nothing… She said of course not. You wouldn’t do something like that in a way that could be found out…..
That is how the human mind works. Rather than accepting that your in-group is wrong, most folks will believe absolutely anything else, however crazy it might seem.
How he shouldn’t have been there
Irrelevant argument.
traveled across state lines with a weapon.
Factually inaccurate and irrelevant.
That is how the human mind works.
I aim to make an honest effort to seek the truth and acknowledge when I am wrong.
I aim to make an honest effort to seek the truth and acknowledge when I am wrong.
This seems to be a characteristic of libertarians. Most people aren’t like that.
Don’t you see, the fact that they found no proof of collusion is proof that collusion occurred.
That is how the human mind works. Rather than accepting that your in-group is wrong, most folks will believe absolutely anything else, however crazy it might seem.
Anyone think this doesn’t apply here too? To a lesser extent, sure, but we’re human (save for our absent and lamented Mr. Lizard) aren’t we?
Of course it applies here.
I don’t have much of an issue with admitting I was wrong, but I consider it a moral requirement to do so. If you put your social status above your personal morals, then it becomes impossible to admit anything.
The real trick is to not take a position too early. The rush to judgement is what dooms most people and social media amplifies that.
I don’t think it’s even a question of taking it early – it’s a question of commitment. Either you accept it as provisional, subject to change, or you are one of the many people that having made a judgment have no intention whatsoever of reconsidering it. That is where the immunity to facts or any other kind of persuasion kicks in – it’s just absolute refusal to consider that you got it wrong.
Of course it does. We have the advantage of being mostly right about nearly everything, though.
Well, I don’t know about you, but I know I’m mostly right, so if you agree with me, you’re probably good too.
There are still disagreements over pizza and beer among other things.
no pineapple
no hops
I’ve never had hops on my pizza.
I’ll leave you all the gruit you want. But don’t try to take away my hoppy beers. FFS, one of my favorite seasonal beers is back out now.
No hops = no beer. Sorry, but that’s the law.
Dead on…..
Incredible that we’re waiting to see if riots break out because of media lies about a case from a riot that happened because of media lies.
And when someone else gets Rittenhoused we get to do it all over again next year!
Muh judicial overreach!
A federal judge on Monday issued a nationwide injunction on President Joe Biden’s executive order to halt oil and gas operations on all federal lands in the name of fighting so-called climate change.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry led the lawsuit joined by 12 other states and reacted to the court’s decision, calling it good for America.
*swoon*
President Biden drives electric Hummer @GM: “Anybody want to jump in the back? On the roof? This sucker’s something else.”
Does he even have a license?
Is everyone stupid? It has been like 3 months since they were all telling us that gas prices need to be high and it is a good thing that Biden was able to accomplish this. It is just maddening. Can’t someone stick their hand up and ask about drilling moratoriums, pipeline cancellations, regulations…
[insert Jen Psaki exasperated sigh]
Well played
Lower your expectations.
Fixin to buy more BTC if it goes to, like, $56k
I have a buy order in at around $47k
Hopefully it won’t go that low, but if it does, I’ll buy a whole shitload more than I planned
$57k right now
I sold at $65k. Not getting back into that circus (or precious metals, either). Can’t eat electrons or gold.
In other good news.
https://dailyreckoning.com/the-u-s-is-a-powder-keg/
…And all it would take… is a Spark.
Now available on Kindle.
Or Smashwords.
(Or wherever fine novelettes are sold.) Miss Mojo gets the public thanks for the cover art, with an assist to Tonio for the idea originally from his illo choices.
Bought. Will review when I get the chance.
Nice segway!
No dead tree version this time around?
Not as easily tracked.
Yes, there is. It just hasn’t finished getting through the Kindle filters yet.
Should be up in a day or two.
An etiquette expert on Thanksgiving invitations and vaccines
The key takeaway: blood is thinner than vaccines.
With the December holidays coming, there’s still time for a recalcitrant family member to get vaccinated, but Gottsman said it’s time to face facts: “They’re probably not going to get vaccinated just to come to your dinner. If they aren’t vaccinated, and they haven’t gotten vaccinated, they have some pretty strong feelings, probably. I don’t think that they’re going to change their mind because of one dinner.”
I know of a family who is thinking about doing just that. Granted, there are some boundary issues that have needed to be worked out long ago. Wife is standing firm against her inlaws (who want to see proof of vaccination), but husband (who is a wet noodle) is thinking about caving to go see mommy on Thanksgiving.
Yeah, mom can pound sand.
A solid, virtual relationship.
She suggested keeping in contact with the noninvited family member right away
Are these people really that damned phony and stupid? You’ve basically just told your family member that you value their position on your stance on a medical issue more than you value their presence (obviously, excepting special circumstances like an at-risk family member). Pretty much anything you say to them, right away or not, to smooth things over is going to be utter BS. Your actions have just spoken more loudly than any words you might be able to add. Maybe they’ll be incredibly gracious and overlook the insult. But, you’re on the phone trying to get them to pretend you didn’t just insult them, you’re demanding a hell of a lot more grace from them than you’ve shown.
No kidding. This is just a dodge so horrible people can tell themselves they aren’t horrible.
(obviously, excepting special circumstances like an at-risk family member)
If somebody just has to miss the gathering, wouldn’t the at-risk family member be the logical choice? The gathering itself is a risk, after all. Having the unclean stay away doesn’t really get rid of, or even likely reduce, the risk that much.
I gave that one some thought. If grandma is undergoing chemo, I would probably be okay with the family asking that you be jabbed if you want to be with her at Thanksgiving dinner. No, I’m not going to deny her what’s probably one of her last family gatherings. And I get saying she needs the marginal protection. But if we’re just talking about Uncle Phil who smokes and is forty pounds overweight, well if Uncle Phil is really all that worried that somebody at dinner might be unvaccinated, well, you’re absolutely right. Hell, missing a meal or two might be the best thing for him.
I should add, the “mandate” for granny is only if she wants it. If she’s fine with taking the risk, I’m not going to second guess her.
My aunt and uncle have decided to host T-giving this year. They both are older and in rough shape for various reasons. They missed last year because they were worried.
They haven’t issued any mandate rules for dinner, but that is because all of us are already jabbed. If there were non-vaxxed and they asked them to either get vaxxed or skip, I’d understand. My guess is that they would also accept a negative test too.
If someone else was hosting the dinner, I’m sure the aunt and uncle wouldn’t think of forcing the host to make everyone be vaxxed. They’d just skip it themselves. I’m pretty sure they would also understand.
I think all these stories about families imposing their own mandates are in no way connected to actual health concerns and are all about forcing family to tow the lion.
The covid vaccines do not reduce the risk of infecting others. It makes absolutely no sense to ask anybody else to get vaccinated even if the grandma is dying from cancer. A negative test would make some sense. Both vaccines and masks are ineffective.
Wouldn’t an unvaccinated family member be safer around vaccinated family members than whatever the alternative might be? This is assuming you actually do value them.
Those in-laws totally sound like people worth keeping in contact with…
*expectorates tobacco juice neatly into spittoon*
*Doesn’t wear straw Stetson when it’s below 70 degrees outside*
*Doesn’t wear turquoise conchos with horn buttons*
When bullriding, keep the pinky on the left hand extended, and leave the tip for the rodeo clowns discretely wrapped in a Red Man pouch.
When laying out the butcher paper to place your guests BBQ on, make sure the torn ends are folded in first.
Never hang a set of longhorns on a wall directly over a couch, unless the couch is 1) wider than the horns and 2) upholstered in a matching leather.
I can’t pass the potatoes, I’m not vaccinated.
Get the relatives drunk and vax them ypurself
Thankfully, no one in family is a freak like that. My little brother and his ultra proggy wife have never asked about my vaxx status for me to come and visit. Nor has my sister who kept her whole family locked in for most of last year. (in the very beginning she didn’t want me to visit, because I was GASP still going to work and could have the cooties, but that ended last summer)
A lot of the normal people are starting to get vocal. That is what the school board circuses are, normal people finally showing up and airing their grievances.
It’s like mice. As long as they know their place, and scurry around out of sight, out of mind, there can be a level of peaceful blind-eye co-existence. But when one of the little fuckers starts running around on the kitchen counter, it spoils it for everybody. The balance is tipped and war must be declared.
Good analogy. I’m going to use that.
We’re not the mice, right?
I’ll be in my bunk.
Rep. @laurenboebert: “My colleague & three-month presidential candidate from Calif. [@ericswalwell], who’s on the Intelligence Committee, slept with Fang Fang, a Chinese spy. Let me say that again. A member of Congress who receives classified briefings was sleeping w/ the enemy.”
Point of order – do we really have enemies outside of a state of war? Adversaries, sure, and I have no love for the CCP (and no hate for any Chinese people outside of the CCP). It would be no less damning if he was sleeping with a French spy. Or, like a large number of Congressional Democrats, sucking the cock of a British [ex-]spy.
Point of order – She’s hawt. I’ll overlook technicalities and listen to her rant.
Frenemies.
We put on a nice face while they get rich off our industrial secrets and unleash biological weapons.
Technically correct, but I just can’t get arsed about any of the palace intrigue in DC.
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the News of the Day!
I’m rooting for Bannon.
From one of the articles:
‘“No matter which way the verdict goes, somebody is going to be upset,” said Postuchow.’
Yeah, true, except that one side is a lot less likely to burn the city the ground.
I was wondering on the drive in today.
Let’s say the reports are true, that two jurors are holding out on acquittal because they are afraid of riots or personal retaliation. Could the foreman (assuming he/she/xhey isn’t one of the holdouts) approach the judge, tell him that there are two jurors who are refusing to make a decision based on the merits of the case, and ask that they be replaced with alternates?
I think they’d just declare a hung jury.
Nobody involved in the case except Rittenhouse himself, has the balls to stand up to the mob.
LOL!
Ha!
Detective Onlyfans…
Heh.
I asked about it last night on the zooms, but does anyone have a place to view this ‘anime’? I mean, we can watch videos of terrorists chopping off heads, but a cartoon seems to be deigned too far to show?
Time for Rekieta!
Don’t any of those lawyers work?
LOL – I keep thinking that!
HAH!
Yeah. I thought that too.
Repeating the link because I can.
Work work or billable hour?
People are paying to post highlighted comments. I don’t get it, but that is the internet.
No fucking way I’m superchatting a bunch of lawyers
…anybody
FTFY
*raises hand*
WTF is “superchatting”?
People pay actual fiat currency to have their comments show up with priority, in a bid to get a streaming host to notice them.
Rekieta might be a full-time lawtuber now…
Have you seen how many tips/super chats they get?
At one point last night, they had 177K viewers… during jury deliberations.
Of course, I’ll watch Viva Frei and Robert Barnes at any opportunity (and now, Legal Bytes #toebox).
Today, Governor DeSantis will be signing a bill that limits local governments’ and businesses’ ability to impose vaccine mandates.
It’s probably not completely by accident that the signing ceremony will take place in the Tampa bedroom community of… Brandon.
I really dont get 3 day long deliberations. What did the evidence show?
Then again i am still of the opinion this would no have happened if the authorities did their job. What is the fucking point of government if they cannot stop burning and looting. That is like number 1 on the job descruption
The evidence showed pretty solidly that Rittenhouse acted in self defense and didn’t intentionally put others in danger. The problem is that the jury knows their town is going to become a crater if they acquit.
This is banan republic shit no offense if justuce depends on what the mob will do
That’s right on Pie. The community of Kenosha needs to stand up and take their town back. If that means buying body bags in bulk to end the violent riots and protect their homes and businesses since the government will not do it, then so be it.
The alternative is descent into lawlessness and banana republic.
Correct.
Mob justice is Democracy. Whycome you hate Democracy?
3 days isn’t really that long for a multiple murder case. I don’t think, anyway. Not my bailiwick. Juries can be surprisingly meticulous, and in this case they have to try to marry up their recollection of the evidence at trial with complicated jury instructions.
O thought it was just one murder…
No murders.
Two deaths, one injury.
All justified.
The charges include two murders, which make it a multiple murder case.
You are describing the correct verdict.
One attempted murder by a witness…
A convicted felon
Carrying a concealed pistol illegally
At a riot
Where he tried to kill the defendant
…And was never charged.
Nope. Two dead, one newly minted left-handed lefty.
I thought is was the other way around… oh well…
I dont even have a dog in the fight but for some weird reason it is so talked about i want it to be over and done with
It’s talked about because most Americans believe very strongly that they have the right to defend themselves. In this case, the defendant was clearly defending himself against people trying to kill him.
Toss in bogus “white supremacist” nonsense from the lying media and there you have your national media obsession.
The whole thing is a media-driven circus.
Do you tip extra is the waitress is very hot even if the service is not the fastest ?
Of course!
If you’re single, why not?
Don’t be creepy, flashing fangs is bad etiquette.
I had a friend once take me to a restaurant he said was great. We had a real cute waitress, but she was acting a little weird.
Turns out, he went earlier that day and fell in love so he had left a $40 tip. (1990)
An hour later he was back with me so she was a little concerned. TBF my buddy was a little creepy.
I’m as happily married as it’s possible to be and I still tip hot waitresses more. Mrs. Animal knows and thinks it’s funny.
I served tables and bartended in college. My female counterparts always out earned me.
I had a female cousin (very hot) who made an incredible amount of money as a bellhop at a downtown hotel in Minneapolis in the ’80s.
Turns out every guy showing up will agree to have a sexy young lady bring his bags up to the room and tip heavily for the privilege. I’m sure they were all hoping for a Penthouse Forum type situation.
I remember going to family gatherings and she’d be talking about making over $100/night in tips, and I was working a very similar job in NW Minnesoda at the local Holiday Inn and I didn’t make $100 tips in an entire year.
The only people who ever got stupidly large tips when I was waiting tables were hotties.
Speaking of vaccines as we are, Kate over at Small Dead Animals has an excellent post concerning a phenomenon known as negative vaccine effectiveness, with links to a Daily Sceptic article discussing the phenomenon in more detail.
I believe, based on my own reading of the UKHSA raw data, that the various COVID vaxxes do indeed start to show negative efficacy after some time, but I did not know that the phenomenon had been seen (and recognized as something new and possibly very dangerous) before with H1N1 by Canadian researchers working in northern B.C.
Whoops. My above link starts you at the comments, scroll up for the posting.
Ummmm…
“if the pixels don’t fit you must acquit” got a sensible chuckle.
Short and sweet. I like it.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Jesse’s observation.
Oh, snap!
I didn’t know HM was a Marine
Buffalo Guy Wishing He Had Just Burned Down A Car Dealership In Kenosha Instead
“WASHINGTON, D.C.—Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman”, or “Buffalo Hat Guy”, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison. According to sources, he expressed his regret that he didn’t do something more peaceful, like burning down a car dealership in Kenosha.”
Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo!
Flame on!
If by that they meant replaced…
Twisted Metal in real life.
Y my pipi hard?
That’s a Lada heat!
Ha!
I should have made this months ago. Yabba Dabba Doooooo!