Tales From The Woke: The University sent out a tut-tut email to all students, responding to “reports” of people carrying hunting weapons on campus and firing shots from time to time. They wanted to remind students that possession of weapons on campus or any hunting activity is prohibited, despite rumors that they were encouraging on-campus hunting of antlered rats and MAGA-hat-wearing townies. Unfortunately, my weapon is my rapier wit, which I cannot leave behind. I will leave you to determine the probability of people walking around an Oberlin-like campus with rifles. Perhaps the same probability as the reported band of Klansmen that caused the panic a few weeks ago?
Some interesting birthdays today, including a guy who should have been named Retlub; a guy who inspired Heroic Mulatto, and would be horrified at that notion; a guy who’s still dead; the inspiration for a crappy TV show; a true piece of shit whose only redeeming value was exposing John McCain as the crooked shitbag he was; a brilliant guitarist who was incapable of playing a wrong note; a guy known as a cipher expert; the guy I voted for in 1992; a guy known for a “Let’s do it!” philosophy; a true birdman; a folk hero of mine; a guy who actually out-acted John Wayne; and an actor who knows her cars.
Let’s Link before the hunters get us.
I dunno, we’ve had plenty here so far, with more coming.
I wonder what the mohel could have used?
How would this story be reported if the races were reversed?
Old Guy Music today just felt… right. Is there a better country artist alive than Rodney Crowell?
Tales from the Woke is back! Woot!
I had to belay my own tales because I grew quite fond of my own little doe. So nice, so innocent about the workings of the world. It felt like tripping a retard in the hallway. OMWC gets a pass because he is surrounded by the idiocy.
There is no link for POS…McCain.
I think he wants us to guess… and so, without peeking at Wikipedia or anything — I’ll go “John McCain”. No one else made it so clear what a crooked weasel he was as himself.
It’s … the Missing Link. Alert The Science(tm)!
Here’s some McCain.
That anyone on the left would call a Harris/Buttigieg ticket a “strong” ticket just shows how detached from reality they are.
I would say that it shows which reality they are attached to.
In there reality, Diversity and Equity are the #1 driving factors. This ticket has diversity and equity. This makes it unbeatable.
☑☑☑☑☑☑☑☑ = #winning
including a guy who should have been named Retlub;
Don’t you mean Reltub?
A song for Retlub. And Ted’s.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RiTwf45cH6M
Better
Reltub! Reltub!
all work and no sleep makes omwc a dull boy
all work and no sleep makes omwc a dull boy
all work and no sleep makes omwc a dull boy
I don’t think so.
a true piece of shit whose only redeeming value was exposing John McCain as the crooked shitbag he was;
Cool link, Bro!
Too slow.
“exposing John McCain as the crooked shitbag he was”
He left us with a living legacy, unfortunately
She’ll be in Congress soon enough.
Relevant to the photo at the top of the page
“a guy who inspired Heroic Mulatto”
I didn’t see anything in that writeup about eating ass.
I’ll take Shit That Didn’t Happen for $400 Alex.
It’s rural America. The rifle-toting hicks are probably hovering just outside the campus border, gazing wistfully at the fresh meat.
Other way round. It’s the co-eds pining for actual men more likely. What’s with every nearly every guy in the media-sphere sounding like a sissy? I was a “sensitive child” but I sure as hell never talked like a girl or acted like one.
Welcome back Old Man. Great links as usual.
“Was Superman circumcised?”
Larry Niven had a great article on the subject of Superman and his super Wang.
“Man of Steel Woman of Kleenex”
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” is a 1969 essay in which science fiction author Larry Niven details the problems that Superman would face in sexual intercourse and reproduction with a human woman, using arguments based on humorous reconciliation between physics, biology, and the abilities of Kryptonians as presented in Superman comic books. The issues discussed include Superman’s loss of physical control during intercourse, the presumed “super powers” of Superman’s sperm cells, genetic incompatibility between humans and Kryptonians, and the dangers to the woman during gestation
The History Channel just ran an episode featuring a forensic archaeologist who has been researching the origins of Superman. According to his model, there is a 99.4% probability that “Kal-El” is Kryptonese for SMITH. The science is settled.
SNOW SMITH SHOW PETER NORTH! AND BY SHOW MEAN…
Help us, SPACE SMITH!
So, Kryptids?
First world problems
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”
I’ve mused before about Supergirl having a hymen of steel.
Ow.
The White House had urged lawmakers to swiftly pass the short-term funding bill as lawmakers raced to find a resolution on Thursday. The action averts the crisis of a government shutdown and gives Democrats space to work on advancing the rest of Biden’s economic agenda and carving out a path to address the debt ceiling before a Dec. 15 deadline.
We wouldn’t want Biden’s economic agenda to die a slow death in the back room. Would we?
Well, the political equivalent of a public flogging would be better — but yeah, I’d take the slow death too.
OFFS.
Remember the piles of dead bodies in the streets the last time the government “shut down”?
a guy known for a “Let’s do it!” philosophy;
Also known for a “Let’s do it” philosophy
I was expecting a Belle Knox link.
/disappointed
I was expecting Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
/not disappointed, relieved
Let’s do it!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3aoGe06E
Do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xSFi-Tn2_g
This sort of stuff always makes me wonder who actually is in prison.
Yeah, I’m not exactly a prison advocate but they are letting a lot of violent criminals out. If any group of people deserve to be in the hoosgow it’s the violent.
The problem with prison is that it doesn’t seem to actually “work” as supposedly intended.
This person apparently doesn’t know anything other than a life of violent crime. What are going to do, lock him up for life?
It raises the question of in a society where the violent are not held responsible for their actions why should the rest of us restrain ours?
‘What are going to do, lock him up for life?’
I’m okay with that, or until they turn 55 and are this a much reduced threat to society, which ever is sooner.
Yes.
Unfortunately, yes.
Anyone who was near the Capitol with a MAGA hat on last January.
Nice piece of journalism there.
“Just a short time later, officers responded to another call about a 27-year-old man stabbed near West 110th Street and Cathedral Parkway.”
That’s not an intersection. West 110th St. IS Cathedral Parkway. You’d think a local outlet might know that.
Too local.
We have an underincarceration problem in this country. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t people in prison who either shouldn’t be there or should be in some other type of institutional setting.
Agreed. It’s not really that we lock up too many or too few people in this country, it’s that we lock up the wrong ones.
“In 2021, Is Superman Circumcised? beat out five other titles that had been shortlisted at the beginning of November. These pieces of higher education writing – indeed, despite their names, all of them come from academic sources or university presses – consisted of The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé; Hats: A Very Unnatural History; Curves for the Mathematically Curious; Handbook of Research on Health and Environmental Benefits of Camel Products and Miss, I Don’t Give a Shit: Engaging with Challenging Behaviour in Schools.”
Somebody wrote a book about the Hat and Hair universe?
One would hope so!
Eventually someone will trawl the internet archive and find that.
Political science
China’s Communist Party took American democracy to task on Saturday, sharply criticizing a global democracy summit being hosted by President Joe Biden next week and extolling the virtues of its governing system.
Party officials questioned how a polarized country that botched its response to COVID-19 could lecture others, and said that efforts to force others to copy the Western democratic model are “doomed to fail.”
Tian Peiyan, the deputy director of the party’s Policy Research Office, said the pandemic exposed defects in the American system. He blamed the high COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. on political disputes and a divided government from the highest to the lowest levels.
“Such democracy brings not happiness but disaster to voters,” he said at a news conference to release a government report on what the Communist Party calls its form of democracy, which is firmly under party control.
Neither China nor Russia are among about 110 governments that have been invited to Biden’s two-day virtual “Summit for Democracy,” which starts Thursday. The participation of Taiwan, a self-governing democracy that China says should be under its rule, has further angered Beijing.
What the fuck does Joe Biden have to do with democracy?
Oh, Burn!!!!
“Imaginary”?
Congressmen to Profile One Political Prisoner a Day Ahead of China Olympics
Which Jan 6 prisoner will they start with?
Good one, Rat.
Miss, I Don’t Give a Shit: Engaging with Challenging Behaviour in Schools.
Sounds like somebody is going to flunk his required gender studies class.
Where’s Limey?
https://www.insider.com/uk-man-wwii-shell-lodged-in-rectum-bomb-squad-called-2021-12
“The British newspaper Metro reported that procedures to remove objects from patients’ rectums cost the National Health Service (NHS) around £340,000 ($450,000) a year”
Apparently collecting war memorabilia is more prevalent than I thought. Start out small, like with a .22, I’m guessing
In a cost cutting initiative, they’re now just prescribing two Ex-Lax and call the doctor in the morning.
Takes “explosive diarrhea” to a whole new level!
Must’ve been up there with some drugs.
Or a gerbil.
I love Freedom Toons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgeDvrwExTg
That Shapiro Family dinner was *chef’s kiss*
Well this sucks. I usually block a big portion of my weekend to delve into OMWC links seeing as I don’t live much of a life. Looks like I’m gonna just be skimming for the next while. 20 days until sweet fweedom! Xmas Eve can not come fast enough.
Is there a better country artist alive than Rodney Crowell?
DId Willie die?
I also thought that was a bold statement.
No, but he’s gone to pot.
“A blizzard warning is in effect for Hawaii as the lower 48 contends with a snow drought”
Must be climate change. Never in recorded history has there been snow on mountain tops.
Um, my relatives in several northern states have had snow, and it came earlier than normal (i.e., stuff that stuck to the ground prior to Thanksgiving).
When I was a kid, we loved outside Schenectady, NY (my dad worked for GE). I remember seeing freshly killed deer lashed to the hoods of cars during hunting season.
That was pretty cool.
It was an announcement to the World of Manliness.
Back in those days my mother would get a license too, “just in case”. One time the ’35 Chevvie did have 2 strapped on the front, I was a proud kid
“When I was a kid, we loved outside Schenectady, NY”
Pictures or it didn’t happen.
The Aristocrats!
Haha!
The university my father was at had a once yearly pigeon shoot, unsurprising as it was a land grant with one of the largest AG programs in the country. So, you would occasionally see men with long guns on campus.
The place was nothing like Oberlin, though.
There’s still a shooting club at my school. They shoot 22s in the armory building on campus.
“A blizzard warning is in effect for Hawaii as the lower 48 contends with a snow drought”
Them hawoyunz is stealin Denver’s snow.
*Just saw an article about the “unprecedented” lack of snow in Denver this year. Denver is not an especially snowy place.
Here’s a conundrum for ya. Next week I need to re-up my Driver’s license and Medical Card. The week following I am scheduled to get get venomized for a second time. Problem being is that they seize your old ID and shred it on the spot. They use a scanner at the poison palace. I won’t have a physical card, Bought myself another three weeks? Who fucking knows any more?
The “Get-Get” is a dance that just sort of came into being. It’s much like the “Mashed Potato” but with more cardiac problems.
Is it like the tater dig ?
Nicely done.
Do you have access to a bulldozer and welding equipment?
Why not make an appointment somewhere else where you do get a physical card or is that just not a thing at all up there?
No!
A nice sort of bittersweet writeup about Mel Brooks. Apparently he has a new memoir out:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/04/mel-brooks-on-losing-the-loves-of-his-life-people-know-how-good-carl-reiner-was-but-not-how-great
He looks good for 95.
Sadly, the Keating 5 couldnt take down that POS John Glenn.
Unrelated note- I finally cleared all the crap off my desk to test out the docking-port-station thing I drunkenly bought (and didnt arrive until I was leaving for work).
Dual HDMI with VGA, 2 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, gigabit ethernet, and audio. Made a mess of the cables (which were already not cleanly run) dusted off my old, trusty, Microsoft Wireless Comfort Keyboard 4000 and mouse, and got everything going like a charm running off my SurfacePro (1 or 2….wanna buy 1? Cell enabled, even).
Then I turned in my chair and spilled my TallCan™ all over everything, including the hub, keyboard, surface, lap, and doge (it was a 24 oz)
Im hoping for the best.
In your defense, you were left unsupervised. Not really your fault.
No TVs were harmed this time.
Fun fact- the 55″ I crashed into was replaced with a 32″ Vizio. I feel that less surface area could make for a more difficult target.
Left un-chaperoned for another week, too. And then Jugsy will only be home for a day.
When I saw my doc Tuesday, during the ‘consult’ part he asked if I wanted boner-pills. I said, “there’s not much of a need at the moment”.
I find that I fall less often when there is no one to help me. Coincidence? I think not! Stairs and ladders remain a chore.
Good luck with that. I once lost two weeks of work after spilling coffee on my corporate laptop. Learned a lesson about saving my changes to the server.
Don’t beat yourself up too bad, I once spilled a drink into a new Dell laptop that was about a day old. It happens.
Is there a better country artist alive than Rodney Crowell?
I figured you would have linked to this.
Kinky Friedman ?
https://youtu.be/IS47GljkdEE
No tune from your hero birthday girl?? I’ll do the honors. My intro to the music of her & sis, via MM – a song that couldn’t be released on a major recording label today.
Needs moar preachy collectivism .
How YOU doin’?
I’m good. Just enough milk left for my second mug of chai latte. This afternoon I will drag myself out of the house to attempt a bit of Christmas shopping at a couple small local shops. How ’bout you?
I have a chuck roast and some chicken that I NEED to use up.
Want me to drop off any leftovers tomorrow morning?
I think I have brisket and collards left over, too.
Something from the Judge to raise your blood pressure
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/12/andrew-p-napolitano/what-happens-when-the-government-breaks-its-own-laws-2/
To answer the question raised by the URL, absolutely nothing.
What do I win?
More government! Lots more.
I figured you would have linked to this.
Thats low, Teds’.
What happens when the government breaks its own laws?
Not a goddam thing else.
What did I win?
In my defense, this wasn’t in the thread, so it doesn’t count.
You win getting put on a new list. And a month’s supply of Rice-a-Roni the San Francisco treat.
Now to make the month’s supply last a year in the camps.
And a case of Turtle Wax, with the hard-shell finish.
And a set of Lee Press-On Nails.
Then I turned in my chair and spilled my TallCan™ all over everything, including the hub, keyboard, surface, lap, and doge (it was a 24 oz)
Hose it all down with brakleen. It probably can’t make it worse.
Then light it on fire.
If this were a Zoom call and my BAC was at that level, Id take that under advisement.
Deflect, deny, dissemble
Less than a year after assembling a mostly new team to help settle her into the vice presidency, key members of Harris’ orbit are leaving and even more are eyeing the exits.
Some Harris confidantes and Democratic allies are urging her to more aggressively embrace the concept of a reset, arguing that she needs to put her rocky first year behind her and openly embrace the idea that she’s entering a new phase. But others, including some top aides, are resistant to signaling a major shift is afoot, suggesting that the internal restructuring only feeds a narrative of disorder and that most of the new blood coming to the vice president’s office won’t be visible to the wider public anyway.
Or maybe they’re worried about getting the bum’s rush when the new team takes over.
Anyone who thinks NPR is not a Propaganda outlet is only fooling themselves.
A discomfort with Western liberalism is growing in Eastern Europe
NPR is calling Western Liberalism what is actually Socialism or Communism in action. Then of course, some Europeans suddenly dont like this “Liberalism”.
Que Paso! time for Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/the-week-in-pictures-the-new-new-deviant-edition.php
Thanks for that, Yusef. You know that I love you.
Back at ya Festus, you stay warm,
Get a room already.
TALL CANS!
Thicc!
Sup Tres?
THICC
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/17/79/a1/1779a15f48e3e98d9a3894b7d57dca8d.jpg
too thicc!
No, too thick:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10261933/Lizzo-puts-cheeky-display-makes-art.html#v-5621268441050268415
We’re all winners, here.
Let’s enjoy the ride and admire the scenery. This boxcar is surprisingly capacious.
And warm!
We’re all winners?
Brah….Everyones a winner
From Loveconstitution’s NPR link:
“Hungary is not the West’s colony,” says Magas, an Orban supporter who echoes many of the prime minister’s views. “The whole world is being misled about us. The mainstream media is full of fake news about us. The liberals want you to think Hungary doesn’t know what democracy is because we don’t share their beliefs.”
Europe, he says, is ideologically divided between the conservative East and the more liberal West, something like red-and-blue America.
Oh, no. Another hapless foreigner brainwashed by American white supremacist hate propaganda.
“liberal”
https://archive.md/ZBn04/246483bdbf228e0adefacdb7bfdb2f33f411c0ad.jpg
“And the border is the [former] Iron Curtain,” Magas says. “We in the East are the ones protecting traditional European values, Christian values, while the West has gone crazy.”
*applies for Hungarian visa.
They don’t call it the Frankfurt School for nuthin’.
Of course they are. They learned the lesson the hard way. They got a craw full of leftism. And stop calling them liberals.
Silicone Saturday is sexy, saucy and sybaritic.
https://archive.md/gsy0K
Early Christmas present was put to use this morning – burr coffee grinder and new coffee maker. [Old ones will migrate south when that deal closes.]
Very satisfied with the results.
I guarantee he blows a load like a shotgun through her back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yivtalR5V6A
I’m away. Chicken wings await. Happy tidings to all of the Glibs!
I’m always of a mixed mind re govt shutdowns. On the one hand whoever works out the contracts I support is generally smart enough to have them categorized as the type which is fully pre-paid and not affected by this BS. OTOH, I’m still in the reserves – and currently on orders – and not getting paid (or delayed as happened sometimes when I was active duty) is a lot of BS.
He [Orban] also took a page out of Trump’s playbook and suggested that Brussels and Washington are planning to meddle in the upcoming election.
Wait, what?
It was Trump who invented the “foreign election interference” narrative?
The things I learn…
Yet another reason we are fucked,
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/biden-brings-more-pain-to-the-pump
They don’t really believe that. If they did, nuclear energy would be a major plank in their platform, instead of a passing reference they finally threw in to mollify the more intelligent Democrats who understand that converting everything to solar and wind overnight is impossible.
It’s just another moral bludgeon to use.
From the Powerline week in pictures link:
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-11-28-at-8.48.46-AM.png?resize=600%2C514&ssl=1
FUCK!!
Oregon is proposing making masks permenant. Still in the proposal stage, but I can’t think of a more depressing thing. Such bullshit. Party of SCIENCE!! my ass.
https://twitter.com/GenevieveReaume/status/1466582866674872322
Oh poor, sweet Genevieve.
As I’ve said repeatedly:
The only way this ends is if people stop complying en masse.
Yup.
It has zero to do with rational thought. It’s all about the feels and the hopes.
Same bullshit that powers the environmental movement.
Certain pockets of this country are permanently fucked.
My blood pressure spiked when I saw it. The ones doing it are isolated by staff. Can I bitch out Brown or Allen? No. So they’re free to continue without consequence.
It’s not about science, it’s about domination. Force your conquests to
watch their women be raped and bear your childrenwear a symbol of their defeat in perpetuity.Visualize your DOOOOM
King tides are normal occurrences that can happen multiple times a year when a new moon or full moon are closest to Earth and Earth is closest to the sun.
They are of particular interest to environmental scientists, who say that while the tidal shifts are not a part of climate change, they do provide a glimpse of what higher sea levels could look like as a result of global warming and the damage that can cause local communities. They are indicators of how and where rising water levels can extend further inland, especially when they occur under storm conditions. And, in addition to increased flooding, encroaching waves erode beaches and cliffs, and raise coastal groundwater levels.
In August 2020, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office reported:
“Scientific estimates suggest the magnitude of sea‑level rise (SLR) in California could be at least half of one foot in 2030 and as much as seven feet by 2100. Moreover, storm surges, exceptionally high ‘king tides,’ or El Niño events could produce notably higher water levels than SLR alone.”
According to the same study, up to $10 billion worth of existing property in California is likely to be underwater by 2050. An additional $6 billion to $10 billion will be at risk during high tides.
Yes yes,, of course.
“We’re not saying it’s global warming, but it’s global warming.”
Soon, waist-deep water will be a commonplace occurrence on Rodeo Drive and the Sunset strip. Pacific Palisades will be the hot new beachfront community.
Pacific Palisades will be the hot new beachfront community.
Glendale.
Well then, I guess we better stop wasting money on bullshit green schemes and start building seawalls, right? Right?
Steaming piles of horseshit.
I guess NPR readers eat it up.
Scientific estimates suggest the magnitude of sea‑level rise (SLR) in California could be at least half of one foot in 2030
Everybody making and promulgating this claim should be required to retroactively and in perpetuity attach the following disclaimer to every piece of professional writing they do:
“Warning: I have advanced false claims in furtherance of the climate change narrative. You should not trust any prediction I make, nor any agenda I push. Do not accept anything I say or write as true, unbiased, properly researched, properly vetted or in good faith. Reader beware. “
(that is, they should be forced to do so starting Jan 1 2031 when the prediction is proved false)
That sounds very Big Tech. Like all of the disclaimers they put on “misinformation”… like when Trump lied about having a vaccine ready before the end of 2020.
*nods surreptitiously*
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1496
Someone tell that lying shitbird that sea level rise has slowed over the last 5 or 6 thousand years.
Video from the first time human greed caused sea levels to rise, 6 million years ago. The AGW alarmists’ wet dream, if only it could happen here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQeEgPhSfI
Six inches in less than ten years? That’s orders of magnitude above just about anything I’ve read before. That’s extremely unlikely, I’d say.
Breach the Grand Canyon and lower the sea level.
I’ll meet you down in Arizona Bay.
Oregon is proposing making masks permenant.
More pandering to the mostly peaceful protestor demographic?
The I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE!!! demographic.
Ignorant fuckers can’t tell religion from methodology.
Well, Nikki always was the worst.
Is National Review still in full TDS mode? I wouldn’t expect them to leave the “rest of the story” for the final paragraph:
I think it varies by writer. KDW certainly remains so.
I think VDH gave up on NR, I certainly haven’t seen his byline there in quite a while, and he was always arguing to give Trump a chance (against the prevailing TDS).
Oof.
Worse, the left is horrifyingly prone to confession through projection… And they really, really love to label others “authoritarian”. (look no further than Biden talking about Trump)
I’m wondering just how near we are to moral panics on campus leading to the formation of student-based “protection teams” which will eventually venture out to intimidate townies and maybe bust some glass?
An Evergreen idea.
Townies are a lot tougher than ambiguous gender liberal studies douchebags might envision.
I wouldn’t bet on the students doing particularly well.
Get enough brownshirts together who are on the same general political side as the media, and you might be surprised what they can accomplish.
This is why we didn’t try to find townies to sleep with in the military, you find the out of state college students instead. You don’t mess with the townies
Townies are a lot tougher than ambiguous gender liberal studies douchebags might envision.
That depends on the college town.
I was just ruminating on how empty “activists” lives are. Just like Hoffer said, the only people attracted to mass movements are people who are deeply damaged who find their own individual lives worthless. The only way they can find any kind of meaning is attaching themselves to some idea. The choice is between activism and suicide.
I believe there is some truth to that, but it’s not so black and white. There are definitely certain pathologies, or a group of pathologies that lend themselves to it. I doubt that most self-identified “activists” are covered exclusively by that. Many have problems, but a good deal of them are brainwashed, naive, and/or vulnerable to external factors like peer pressure, which – oh okay I see your point.
It’s Saturday ??
I will leave you to determine the probability of people walking around an Oberlin-like campus with rifles.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say…. zero.
White woman plows throw BLM protectors set for trial versus SUV involved in parade accident, driver feels dehumanized
TMITE
Have a heaping helping of stupid from the NY Post:
But you’re perfectly happy with the existing ones?
I have news for you: you don’t get to take your mask off ever – and I don’t care if you track down every last Unclean on the earth.
I really am having a hard time watching people tie themselves in logical knots….
“The vaccine works! It will protect you!!”
“if you come into a restaurant while unvaccinated, you put all of us vaccinated folks at risk!!”
Wut?
Once you buy into the lie, it is very difficult to admit you’ve been snookered.
If they admit that they’ve been lied to, it’s a cascade of things they have to confront. Most people don’t like that process and would rather go their grave than go through it.
“The rest of us want to take our masks off.”
If something makes me feel unsafe about going outside, it’s up to you to do something about it.
From another chat,
“Dave_from_Florida • a minute ago
Questions that need answering:
1. Who buys a 15 year old a Sig handgun for Christmas? Maybe a shotgun or deer hunting rifle in MI but not a handgun.
2. Who buys a obviously mentally ill 15 year old a Sig handgun?
3. How does a 15 year old buy handgun ammo?
4. How the hell did he find Sig ammo?”
Having worked in a mental hospital I can tell. you that the people, at least here in La, really do belong there. The people who choose who is accepted into the hospital really know what they are doing.
When family visiting day came we got to meet the committed’s families and it was easy to see where the crazy came from. The family members were often worse than the patients.
That is who would buy a 15 yo nutter a pistol for Christmas. A lunatic.
Yes, and in this case they paid for it first
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_High_School_shooting#Perpetrator
I bought my own at 14. Technically my dad bought it and I paid for it. A High Standard Model H with a 4 inch barrel. I still have it
To gun grabbers, the 2nd Amendment protections of the people’s right to keep and bear Arms always has to be justified.
Don’t even get me started on Age of Majority exceptions that these tyrants like. 15 year olds can be arrested at school and/or tried as adults but you cant buy ammo or alcohol until you’re 21 years old.
“How the hell did he find Sig ammo?”
Um…was it a .357 SIG? Because I don’t understand the question otherwise. I can see that might be hard to find right now–it’s rather uncommon even in normal circumstances.
I have no idea what to make of the ‘Tales of the Woke’.
I don’t see a story on it and it sounds like Crazytown….given the wokety woke wokesters today does that make it more or less believable?
Less. Always less.
I was not referring to the story of people walking around with guns. I was referring to the students claiming there are people walking around with guns and claims of shots being occasionally fired.
Maybe they hear hunters away in the woods, and think it’s on campus?
I hear them in season, Just a thought,
Very plausible answer. Especially this time of year.
Ah. In that case: Who knows. Crazy is hard to understand.
Just another urban legend.
At least it isn’t killer clowns this time.
I was just ruminating on how empty “activists” lives are. Just like Hoffer said, the only people attracted to mass movements are people who are deeply damaged who find their own individual lives worthless. The only way they can find any kind of meaning is attaching themselves to some idea. The choice is between activism and suicide.
It’s a quest for salvation.
Also,related: How can you love somebody else if you cannot love yourself?
You substitute love of the group for love of the self, just like you substitute the goals and accomplishments of the group for your own.
Fried added that “this should be alarming, not just to the people of our state, but the entire country that the Governor who is unhinged, who is going out of his way to show that he is an authoritarian dictator . . . believes that he is above the law.”
So what you’re saying is Desantis is acting Presidential?
Her brain is fried.
“No matter what the economic or national security cost, Democrats honestly believe that climate change is the greatest threat the country faces today.”
No they dont. What they want is for America to look like Twentieth Century Motor Company after “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” has run it’s course. Dramatic world population reduction with the survivors half naked, starving and digging hard soil with sticks to barely eke out enough to keep them alive. Green New Deal my ass.
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1496
Notice the cyclical nature of climate over the last 200k years. Notice that today we are exactly where that pattern indicates we should be. The only place that AGW exists is in the web of lies the left pukes up on an hourly basis. It looks like a scam because it is a scam. Stoking fear of imaginary monsters has always been a hallmark of the grifter’s machinations. AGW is taking normal, natural, cyclical changes in climate and whipping up fear and guilt. The cootie bug craziness is no different. The danger of this bug is wildly exaggerated. In the end all of their solutions amount to more power for them, less for. you.
Warming, cooling, sea levels rising or falling, any weather anomaly that really is not unprecedented…the answer is always the same: Only International Communism will save us. We must get rid of the deplorable and destroy the institution of free markets and private property. America and American ideals, individualism = BAD. Communist China, erstwhile USSR, both slave states where collectivist ideology has crushed the individual, destroying any hope of one bettering their lives or accomplishing anything worthwhile = GOOD.
I see a rising acceptance of the idea of a national divorce all around the country. Let’s see how the woke fare without the people who grow their food, supply their water and electricity, etc. – the deplorables who make a civilized society possible. They will end up being the ones digging with sticks.
This is something I have asked repeatedly, on climate forums and to actual climate scientists.
If you look at the ice age temperature cycles, we are at the top of a millenia long warming trend that has repeated between much longer periods of glaciation. In fact, it looks like we have been holding at just below the prior peak temperatures for longer than normal.
And every other time we get just a little bit warmer, and then rapidly plunge into much colder temperatures, resulting in ice sheets covering much of the land in the northern hemisphere. Sea levels dramatically fall.
I asked “why are we delayed at a few degrees below prior peaks?”
“What causes the rapid drop in temperature into an ice age?”
“isn’t an ice age much more hostile to human life than a warming and sea level rise? “. (Hard to use Europe and northern north America if they are under a mile of ice)
I have never really had anyone attempt an answer.
When asked about the prior cycles and our place on the current cycle, 2 college professors said ” you cannot use the past to predict the future like thst.
One guy was online, so I asked – the 3 prior cycles are identical. Why do we think this one is different?
No answer.
The other guy fillibustered and my turn was over.
Nobody else even wants to address it.
It seems so obvious. It is the only thing that jumps off the page in the long history of earth climate. It is very regular. Much clearer than the global warming alarmist’s story of decimation due to sea level rise. But they never have explained it.
Maybe it is so obvious that it doesn’t bear explaining. Maybe I totally misread the graphs. Who knows? But I would love to know the real answer on that one. Another ice age is a lot scarier to me than a massive sea level rise.