Peace out!
The first week of the year is almost in the books. It’s been a wild one for Novak Djokovic. OSU’s men got thumped by Indiana. The NYT makes a big gamble by buying The Athletic. The AB story gets even weirder. Coutinho is returning to England on loan. And it’s an FA Cup weekend, so be prepared for some excitement. Or not. And that’s sports.
Today is the moment of truth. We’re about to find out who, if any go them, on the Supreme Court believes in the right of bodily autonomy and/or free association. I’m cautiously optimistic but prepared for disappointment.
That’ll teach those greedy billionaires! Right, Joe? Right?!?!
A Chicago teacher in his natural state.
Chicago teachers continue their extended vacation. Lazy fucks.
Want to eat? Fuck you, pay me. Want to go to work? Fuck you, pay me. Want to have a life? Fuck you, pay me! (Although the mob never had it this good.)
This entire story is retarded. I’d almost say these people are political prisoners, except for the fact that they’re freer where they are than where they’re trying to return to.
Let me guess: because of climate change? Oh yeah, it’s just winter.
Dead wolf.
Should this not have been expected at some point? Or did these researchers think a predator species would stay put?
God luck, dumbasses. We’ll be fine in Montgomery County, where sanity prevails.
Here’s a bit of Texas for you. Enjoy it.
And enjoy this Friday and have a glorious weekend, friends!
whaddup doh’
Vishnu H. Koresh, it got proper cold here. Something like 5º americanheit
Titty status: frozen
26 American here. Parents haven’t had electricity since Monday.
Woot. My parents have electricity. They can go home tonight.
colder than yesterday but still 5 real degrees
Come up to the great heatsink in the north. We’re up at 15, same as yesterday. Of course, today there’s higher winds, leading to a wind chill of 0.
It was 4 when I came home an hour ago according to my car, supposed to drop below 0. And they’re saying Monday we might be below 0 the whole day.
-32 in Podunkville right now but warming up (in June)
67 at the moment. Just came inside after watching the “Southern Cross” hanging up there in the sky.
Brrr indeed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHL-6cUtZj0
52in sunny Pahrump Nevada.
Come on and visit!
Assuming air travel is still permitted for the unclean, the girlfriend and I will be in Vegas Easter weekend for this year’s Viva.
Hah. -22 Yankee degrees here.
Yeah, colder here than in Galena, too
51 when I got up this morning.
Morning.
I’m wearing frilly underthings. Film at 11.
I know your game, Scruff. You’re just titillating us so we’ll sign up for your $Onlyfans account.
I’m just laying the groundwork for my new fart in a jar business.
Solid plan.
Seems more like a gaseous plan to me.
Vapor ware.
Let me set this up for you.. farting into tupperware. Its a two-fer with the patented burping.
Will there be a party? With free gifts?
Is a fart, not free gift enough?
Different prices based on what you had to eat? No broccoli.
All successful hookers were already paying their taxes.
can you app pay hookers in the states? seems risky. Cash is anonymous
That’s just what THEY want you to think!
I mean, a pattern of late night ATM withdrawals and GPS visits to local hotels would be suspicious.
you do not use cash from the ATM. You take the ATM cash and go to a store you do not usually go to and buy something small and get change. Do this a few times and you have enough in small bills.
The voice of experience.
Bancel better start hiring lots of bodyguards with his new billions. He’s going to need them.
Haha! Watch as Senator scrotum-chin backtracks and offers a mealy mouthed apology to the Trumpsters https://youtu.be/yLr1m14NO50 This is the thought leader of the opposition to the rabid dogs on the Left. This is why we can never have nice things.
That just does not help.
Full marks to Carlson for not letting him off the hook until the end which to me was pretty weak. More of this, please.
Rand and DeSantis are the only prominent Republicans I can think of who haven’t betrayed their base over the past year.
What’d Massie do?
Gaetz? I hope he’s innocent of the allegations. Can’t put anything past those handsome pompadoured guys…
How does one maintain a pompadour in the Florida heat and humidity?
Most people never leave climate-controlled spaces for more than a few moments of the day. You certainly couldn’t be comfortable in a suit in summer.
I know someone who did that for a wedding, poor guy. Good photos though.
I for one am glad Cruz outed himself as an appeaser. He always seemed like a ladder climber who was bitter about Republican voters ditching him in the Primaries.
Him not ditching his Canadian citizenship until it was raised in the Primary told me all I need to know about him. This just reinforces that.
Even if you dont agree with the DC protests that happened Jan 6, 2021 dont talk ill of them. The Capitol is a public building and should have been open for public viewing. So only the vandals should be getting any govt second look. All the protesters who didnt damage stuff were perfectly within their 1st Amendment rights to peaceful assemble inside the Capitol.
There are some RINOs who are okay with govt tyranny for the Kungflu and RINOs being okay with closing the Capitol is an example of that.
Cruz is a slimy and unprincipled snake and all around piece of shit. Not sure where you got thought leader though, most actually conservative conservatives get the heebie jeebies from the guy.
I never claimed that I agreed with him but he is probably one of the best “nuts and bolts” political animals on Team Red. Dude has Constitutional chops. “Scrotum-chin” should have been fair warning.
Yep, I voted for him last go around because it was him or Beto. Normally I would have abstained from voting in that race on principle because of exactly this.
Cruz was better than Beto.
There is no reason why we cant vote to make sure Democrats always lose, then after the Democrat Party is dissolved go after RINOs and kick them out too.
Today is the moment of truth. We’re about to find out who, if any go them, on the Supreme Court believes in the right of bodily autonomy and/or free association. I’m cautiously optimistic but prepared for disappointment.
Prediction: You have no rights when it comes to government requiring you get a vaccine, because compelling government public health interest, but that doesn’t effect the right to an abortion, because emanations and penumbras. Of course they’ll dress it up with bullshit to try to make it seem they didn’t just rule based on preferences and try to rationalize doing what they wanted regardless of the constitution.
They’re playing with fire on this one.
There are a lot of people who will not submit their children to this.
Or themselves.
The Democrat’s overplayed hand was going after people’s kids.
People lived in ignorant bliss that their kids were getting an “education”. Now people find out, not only are experimental jabs being forced on kids but kids are not getting even a decent education anymore. Plus the “education” is full of Commie nonsense.
I love your unbridled optimism. Naive and delusional perhaps, but I love it all the same. Somebody has to keep their chin up and look forward to a brighter future.
I don’t think the blowback is going to be a brighter future.
I do try to remain hopeful but events also show parents are very upset at paying attention and admitting the Democrats are doing this.
The Democrat party at large was too racist and misogynist to award even a single convention delegate to the VP, yet the leadership saw fit to award her that nomination. Anyone who is suddenly shocked at how out of touch EITHER party leadership is with the grass roots – has their head in the sand.
My kid’s HS newsletter contained a missive from the principal and school board telling people to cool their tits since they aren’t brainwashing your kid. 2 articles down was an announcement that the school is offering prizes for reading woke books.
People are pissed but nothing else happened.
Something is happening. Churches in Georgia are building schools like crazy. Churches are not going to spend that kind of capital unless they know that parents are willing to pay out-of- pocket to make sure their kids are not anywhere near those Commie Public schools.
Hyperinflation in the near future looks to be the catalyst for Civil War 2.0 really getting nasty.
I just sold a truck container full of aluminum cans. Price was about $.45 per pound 2 years ago. $.78 per lbs now.
I advised people two years ago, if you dont pick a side a side will pick YOU.
Yeah… the past couple of decisions from the Court hasn’t given me a lot of faith that they’ll decide this the right way.
The so-called “conservative constitutionalists” have been a huge disappointment.
Better than Garland though.
True.
“and everyone will be wearing one of these”.
(“Right off!” I love the delight on her face, and I think she’s too childlike to be a sexual furry.)
She was happy about AL replacing the garage windows too. And the french bread, french fries, french dressing, and to drink Peru!
My favorite movie.
I wonder what the LHJ raisins dish was made out of. https://d31xsmoz1lk3y3.cloudfront.net/big/1033231.jpg?v=1494360813
( https://i.pinimg.com/originals/12/52/4e/12524ed87e3169ace0bff2b380c194b0.jpg !)
The pages ran together, so she….
You like raisins.
The courts allow police interrogations of minors without parents and strip searches at schools.
The courts have been ignoring the Constitution for a long time.
Re latter: thanks, Clarence. Just let the girls suffer through their cramps.
I’m trying to remain hopeful to the idea that completely failing to prevent transmission (even if there are other benefits) does not support the argument that this keeps the workplace safe.
Fuck ’em all, this is my line in the sand and my wife backs me on this decision.
America should have set a line in the sand a lot time ago so we never got to this point…but we’re here now.
Same here. If they uphold this OSHA nonsense, my wife and I will probably both be unemployed a few weeks later – like a few million other people. The economy probably collapses.
Word. I even convinced the gf to refrain from getting another jab, or at least she said she wouldn’t. I hope she sticks to it. After all, I can give her all the injections she needs…
But Communists that are pervasive in officer ranks…perfectly OKAY.
New in 2022: Next steps in DoD’s fight against extremism, including a new definition
What this really is that during the Lefty attack on decent K-12 education in the 1990s to present, kids were brainwashed and their critical thinking skills were dulled. Some kids accepted Communism, some kids became historically ignorant Useful idiots, and some kids realized what happened and question the Communists currently running govt. The now young adults who question Communists in govt are labeled “extremists” because supporting and defending the Constitution is now “extremist”.
That picture though… Every single NCO I served with (including me) had the Charlie Chaplin moustache; it was the only style permitted under AR 670-1.
Mandatory.
https://youtu.be/VftUSEdDKDU
In the US Navy, any mustache has to fit into standards so you can don emergency/escape/firefighting oxygen masks.
And are we as a “free” nation going after Americans for images, jokes, idiocy?
Jerry Seinfeld did a Nazi salute on his show as part of his Heil Five joke.
It is good that many Americans are hoping jumping to criticize govt actions. Hopefully Americans realize that most bureaucrats are tyrants and should not be supported in their claims.
That’s called a Toothbrush, hater!
First FTX out of basic, I started with the Hitler stasche because fuck it if I have to shave more than I absolutely needed to.
*technically not a Hitler stasche as it went to ends of the mouth.
Love the Nazi pics at the top. Just so you GET THE MESSAGE.
I was told there would be a massage? Never mind…
Oh I got THE MESSAGE, alright. The Nazis were Socialists and Democrats are trying to deflect from that fact.
That looks like a parody. And it is ironic considering it is the US government behaving fascistically.
Oliver Hardy hardest hit.
“Extreme” is a relative term that gets tossed around meaning “my opposition”. In this case it will mean “those that dissent from the regime”.
So the media is calling them “protests” but murdering the protesters is OKAY. Also a bunch of Russian troops are being flown in help with the murder.
Kazakh president gives shoot-to-kill order to quell protests
Another reason to have a 2nd Amendment protection, so Americans can shoot back in self-defense against Commie Democrats who give shoot-to-kill orders and their the corrupt agents of the govt.
To be fair, Putin is in the right here. US or Soros (a distinction without a difference) backed insurrection in his backyard must be answered forcefully.
There was some discussion of this last night. Seems Moscow’s perception is that this is another CIA sponsored color revolution and the Russians are having none of it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were correct.
meh. given the state of khazakstan I doubt much CIA involvement is needed.
Either way, the US should just stay the hell out of it.
But that probably won’t happen.
I doubt the US or EU will do anything in Kazakhstan
Some “journalists” will learn where it is on a map and perhaps read it’s Wikipedia page.
It might not be CIA. It might be British, German, other EU Intel op. Europe is affected by Russia turning off pipelines.
This could be a show of force by the CIA to protect Ukraine. In which case, good for the CIA. A shooting war in Ukraine is bad for all and the Ukrainians dont want to live under the Russian yoke ever again. I would rather play this game than war.
The idea that we should be screwing around in Russia’s backyard is insane to begin with. We’ve meddled far too much already and Russia has shown more restraint than we would have if the roles were reversed.
Forward deterrence is a recipe for war.
I have issue with Russia’s backyard… if the US should not get involved in other countries – and they should not – neither should Russia.
I’m not disagreeing on that point.
I have internal debate about this strategy for keeping the peace. I firmly believe in peace thru superior firepower. Its all strongmen understand.
Letting Russian know that America can stoke the fires in countries around Russia will certainly let an old KGB hack like Putin know that America might be fighting Civil War 2.0 but Russia wont get to invade a sovereign nation without consequence.
Russia is warned and Russia needs warning.
Russia is neck deep inside the USA with intel ops and you bet they have operations in Mexico, Central America, South America. Same with Chinese intel ops.
Sun Tzu has multiple thoughts on keeping enemies distracted without firing a shot.
Its not insanity. Just whether America should do it and when this strategy should be used.
The overthrow might be 100% internal anyways.
The only actual duty the USA has in regards to its defense is to defend its borders.
We’ve expanded the definition of our defense to the point that we’re now standing on our opponent’s porch and screaming at them that if they come outside their house we’ll shoot them.
At some point, the guy inside the house decides it’s in his own best interest to start shooting at the crazy guy on his porch.
You defend you borders through intel operations. Just like you can preemptively strike in self-defense if attack is imminent.
Some people dont realize how close America and the USSR came to nuclear war and intel ops actually allowed the sides to get a clear picture of the situation because politican hyperbole was pushing for war.
Its illegal in the USA to shoot someone on your porch who is not actively trying to harm you.
Russia can shoot at the USA but it wont be in its best interests.
Ask yourself, why is Russia spending so much loot on Ukraine and surrounding former-Soviet Socialist Republics?
It’s not clear to me why Russia still has to be the boogeyman enemy. Have Russia and China become Eurasia and Eastasia?
Russia may not be one of the “the good guys”, but they pose as a much threat to American soil as Tanzania does.
Because Russia is getting ready to attack us. Do you realize how laughable that is? They want control and influence over their border states. This is not a Trotskyist regime seeking to make Putin the General Secretary of the entire world.
What does legality have to do with any of this? You’re the one who wants to play the real-politik, Sun Tzu game. Legal doesn’t mean crap under those terms. Power is the only metric.
Why wouldn’t they? We’re in their backyard, rattling sabers., sponsoring coups in the Ukraine with no-shit Nazis, not the tiki-torch variety.
Of course we came close. Who doesn’t realize that? And the USA was just as responsible for that ratcheting up as the USSR. We were sticking missiles in Italy and Turkey before the Soviets tried to put them in Cuba as a tit-for-tat. The “intelligence” agencies, if they ever had the nation’s best interests at heart, certainly don’t now. They exist to serve their own purposes. They’re playing the propaganda game inside the USA as well as outside. They should be burned to the ground and the earth salted before they instigate something else. Their arrogance combined with the arrogance of idiots like Victoria Nuland will get us into another war. Haven’t we been at war long enough now? How many wars should we fight halfway across the world in order to “fight them there so we don’t fight them here”? At what point does it become obvious that this is not about “fighting them here” but something else?
We’re not going to agree on this. The fear mongering around Russia is ridiculous. The kind of actions you’re talking about are antithetical to limited, constitutional government and only lead to the further empowerment of unaccountable agencies that just do as they wish with zero oversight.
That’s pretty easy, IIRC the entire legitimacy of the Russian (and former Soviet, and former Imperial Russian) state is rooted in their beginning as Kievan Rus. Second, Sevastopol is home to the Black Sea Fleet. Ukrainian dreams of being an independent nation state is a modern aberration, enabled only by the rise of NATO and the collapse of the USSR and will likely not last much longer.
Russia is not a boogey man enemy. They have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the USA and have not only threatened to use them but came very close to using them.
Is Russia the USSR? No. Is Russia an aggressive and unstable country? In many ways, yes. Russia also has a very effective intel service in the USA and always has.
Furthermore, trying to keep World peace thru diplomatic goals is not a fools errand. America becomes wealthy and more secure when the World is not going at each other’s throats. Should we put US troops in harms ways for every squabble? no.
The average Russian doesnt hate Americans and Americans dont hate the average Russian. Life is cheap outside the USA and America should not let tyrants run rampant around World. It hurts American interests in international trade.
Some of you can say what you want about Trump but he didnt start any new wars, tried to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and Russia, China, and North Korea knew that the US would fuck them up if they invaded land that was not theirs.
Furthermore, treaties and alliances should mean something to Americans. We should make so many agreements with other countries but when we do, we need to keep our promises. Letting Russia attack Ukraine and China attack Taiwan would be mistakes.
I might have to specify that I NOT for endless wars. Prevent war thru diplomatic means but if some tyrannical nation attacks quickly defeat them with all means available.
Russia gave up all this territory after 1991. They didnt have to give up that territory.
Ukrainians dont like Russians. For those that dont know why, look it up. Russia taking Crimea because of the home port of the Black Sea fleet was a bullshit excuse. Russia is trying to protect itself because it knows it is being too aggressive. They are trying to appease the Commie hardliners and Russian zealots via conquest. When Russians have a bad economy or some internal problems, they invade and appease the “people”. They have been the same shit for centuries.
Additionally, America talked Ukraine into giving up nukes. We owe them something protection wise for that. Ukrainians like us much more than Russians do.
While I agree that Ukraine is in the sphere of influence of Russia and there are limits to what America should do, Russia forming the USSR again would be a HUGE mistake for America. Right now Russia by itself is militarily weak without nukes. Russia adding manpower from all the former SSRs would give them China level of cannonfodder if a war breaks out.
I know some of you folks dont know Korean war history but America (UN forces) suffered some battlefield disasters because of sheer numbers of Chinese that Americans could not gun down or napalm to death.
Dividing the Soviets has worked well for the last 30 years.
Russia is not militarily attacking us but they spend considerable intel assets in America. That is NOT about bordering ex-SSrs. You might not know this but Russia has a doctrine of retaking all lost Russian territory. So Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltics, etc are all on the menu.
Not checking aggressive Russia diplomatically and thru intel is insane and stupid.
Because Putin shooting America for meddling in a sovereign nation like Ukraine is immoral just like shooting someone on your porch not trying to harm you is immoral. You cant shoot girl scouts asking if you want to buy cookies. I didnt give the ridiculous porch analogy.
Ukrainians are Nazis now? I would definitely ask for a citation on that. Ukrainians are Socialist but so is most of Europe and Russia. You are just wrong about Ukrainians being Nazis and why that should even mean that we dont try to keep Russia from invading a bunch of sovereign nations.
So America was as bad as the USSR now? Im sorry if you think that is true. The USSR and Commies are Godless fucking tyrants. They were/are horrible murderers, rapists, and abusers. Honestly, had we nuked the USSR and China back in 1945 for being the Commie fucks the World would be a better place. Commies never stop trying to kill you. Its tiresome to have to defend yourself every day.
As for America being some instigator against the victim Russia, I call bullshit. The USSR had nuclear missile subs off the USA and threatened to nuke the USA long before Reagan put nukes in Turkey. Nukes in Turkey got the COmmies to back down didnt it? Because they are fucking tyrants who knew that they would have 10 minutes notice before their cities glowed. Same with Reagan’s SDI system scaring the shit out of the Commies. The Commies knew that they could not start a war with the USA because most of their missiles would be shot down. The ones that worked. Then America would turn Russia to glass.
But we are here and Russia is still the bad guy and we will play the intel and diplomatic game.
Peace thru superior firepower and Russians are hasbin tyrants.
“Good for the CIA”
What’s good for the CIA is categorically bad for the American (and all other) people. The class interests of middle managers, think-tankers, and NGOers should not be elevated above those of the rest.
Waging war in Kazakhstan so we can defend Ukraine (but why?) is Iraq/Afghanistan redux. The world does not deserve to have globalist “peace” inflicted upon it, to have its character and local ambitions snuffed out so Lockheed Martin’s CEO can buy a fifth mansion and the gay flag can fly from every embassy.
“A shooting war in Ukraine is bad for all” may as well be rephrased as “your country is a petty province of the EU/US and you should be glad to be ‘reformed’ in their image, don’t you dare fight back”.
“What’s good for the CIA is categorically bad for the American (and all other) people.”
That is not necessarily true. CIA focusing on foreign nations instead of Americans means less resources for bureaucrats to use against Americans.
While much of the CIA is likely utterly corrupt and are trying to bring about the end of America, there are silver linings. Some of these Neocon CIA agents will throw themselves on the sword. Less cunning Commies to have to deal with during Civil War 2.0. Also it might leave some openings for decent CIA agents who like America to move up.
Clearly this happened with the Old Guard in the CIA dying, retiring, or leaving and the Commies hiding among us moving up.
Not sure how its global peace forced on the World, when every military conflict America has been in since WWII was be invitation for military forces or self-defense.
Korea
Vietnam
Grenada
Kuwait/Iraq
Afghanistan
To name the big ones.
I have some problems with American policy regarding some wars but as a Nation America is one of the few nations that has casus belli for conflicts. I refuse to let America and any mistakes we make be dragged down in the mud with the likes of warmongering Britain, Germany, Russia, China, Japan, France, Italy….
In lighter news, for l0b0t:
US government agency wants you to know birds are real
And it flew off on a meme tangent to prove it.
Great, now I need to think about if my pet parrot I had when I was young was real or an implanted CIA memory…
CIA surveillance parrot?
The Consumer Product Safety Commission jumped on to drive traffic to their new snitch-on-product-manufacturers-whom-one-doesn’t-like website. That’s not making me feel safer.
There’s a world of pathological creeps on twitter who make it their life’s work to tie up corporate and business social media customer service reps with all kinds of bad faith nonsense and relentless crap just out of spite, knowing that they are lying and making up all sorts weird accusations, but knowing that the reps can’t call them out and have to deal with it. Unsurprisingly the overlap with lefty politics and a similar approach to that makes the Venn diagram a circle.
One of those miserable things I became aware of by accident years ago and wish I’d never visited twitter ever.
I had always though birds were real. Now that the gov’t is saying it’s so, it’s planting some doubts.
Now we see what the idiotic Democrat plan was in 2020 as a backup to stealing election 2020. Turn any peaceful protests by Americans questioning Democrat corruption into “insurrection” terror, say Trump was in charge and prevent him from running for President under Amendment 14, Section 3.
One year later, no one charged with sedition in Capitol riot, despite initial DOJ hype
The irony is that Section of the 14th Amendment was drafted to punish Democrats who joined the Confederate States of America.
So for all you who think the Democrat Party is still not the slave loving, vengeful, and USA hating party of slavery- exhibit A above.
It’s no secret they’re trying for a way to impose a bill of attainder against Trump, the idiot Cheney basically said it out loud.
Once Dick Cheney attached his Darth Vader heart to the Democrat constitutional coup, it’s clearly a nefarious plot to fuck over Americans. Dick Cheney is evil as fuck.
That got overturned under Grant circa 1876. Article 14.3. They haven’t a leg to stand on.
Recent experience should tell you that the actual law and constitution don’t mean shit, all that matters is who is in a position to enforce what they want. And right now that’s the left.
Benjamin Norton
@BenjaminNorton
Kazakhstan already has its version of Venezuelan coup puppet Juan Guaidó:
His name is Mukhtar Ablyazov. He’s a right-wing ex banker living in France, accused of fraud and murder
He’s being promoted by corporate media as “opposition leader,” calling for Western (US) intervention
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1479441662099308546
Funny how tankies can’t find an insanely corrupt authoritarian country they don’t support
https://twitter.com/evanhill/status/1478936221241982978
Kazakhstan is definitely authoritarian and corrupt.
Doesn’t mean that anyone else should be sticking their noses in their business though.
this is true. But people like Ben Norton jump to the defense of the regimes every time no matter the case. I doubt that every authoritarian shithole with fed up people with protests is CIA
Unfortunately, we’ve created a situation where the suspicion will always be there because we have meddled so much.
that does not mean siding with the tankies
Did I say we should pick a side?
training opportunity
I can tell you in 89 Romania the first thing Ceausescu screamed about was foreign trained terrorists. I can also tell you te people were cold hungry and fed up. It is clear that in the cold war thing US and Soviets were competing on all fronts including the propaganda one. And this may have hurried things by a year or two. But the collapse was inevitable. Not all countries are like North Korea…
That showed Covid who’s the boss!
I wonder what other surprises are lurking in those giant bills signed last year that nobody read.
Turns out that the Patriot Act was actually repealed with Obamacare, but nobody actually bothered to read the bill to see what’s in it, so, like Milton, it continues on…
Norwegian army recruits to wear used underwear due to equipment shortages
https://www.thelocal.no/20220107/norwegian-army-recruits-to-wear-used-underwear-due-to-equipment-shortages/
Norwegian conscripts will now have to return their boxers, bras and socks after completing military service for the next recruits, as the army struggles with dwindling supplies due to Covid.
Guarding NATO’s northern borders and sharing a border with Russia, Norway calls up around 8,000 young men and women for military service every year.
Until recently, newly discharged conscripts left their barracks with the underwear they were issued.
But the Covid-19 pandemic has seriously strained the flow of supplies with factory shutdowns and transport problems, leading the Norwegian military to ask conscripts to hand over underwear, bras and even socks.
These underwears are issued on ticket or are they being forced to surrender their private property?
“the underwear they were issued”
Thanks for enacting my reading labo(u)r, comrade
In the US Army, we had to pay for all of the uniforms and such we were issued. The quality was so poor that I only wore the issued t shirts, socks, and boxer shorts in Basic Training. I would have happily given them back so the next schmuck could be issued the same.
Who actually wore the issued brown underpants and green socks after Basic? It was free when I went, but they didn’t give you a clothing allowance until later. The only clothing I ever had to return was some of the cold weather items issued in Alaska.
Same. Although the green socks had been switched over to black when I was in.
I gave a couple unopened packages of the BVDs (I don’t think I’ve seen BVDs outside of supply for years prior) and socks to goodwill when I was cleaning out some old boxes.
No initial issue and then a clothing allowance after 4 months?
How hard would it be to set up a Norwegian manned sweatshop that makes underwear? They already have a draft apparently, what’s the matter with a little bit more forced labor?
The tax-reporting change only applies to charges for commercial goods or services, not personal charges to friends and family, like splitting a dinner bill.
That makes it all okay. No confusion.
FAIR SHARE! FAIR SHARE!
When I espy young milfs in yoga pants, I demand my fair stare.
…girls walk by dressed in their yoga clothes ?
I’m also sure that the IRS would never scrutinize private transactions to see if they may have been commercial charges.
Because they can tell by looking at it if it’s someone paying or paying you back?
No, you will have to provide proof when they audit you.
Laughing at the Yellowstone wolf story. Up here they are trying to save the mountain caribou so they have a two-pronged approach, wolf culls and also banning people from the back country. The third, and most pointy prong is stopping anything to do with hunting in protected areas. I don’t know a single person that hunts anymore. Growing up, nearly everyone’s Dad had a moose tag. Bears and wolves were shot on sight. “Gee, I wonder where all of the ungulates went?” This is not the same country that I grew up in. We are overrun with predator species.
But enough about politicians and bureaucrats…
I live in the inner city in Calgary. I have bobcats in my yard almost daily, including a male easily over 30 lbs. that isn’t afraid of people. I have coyotes patrolling the streets in the morning and evening. If you call wildlife they tell you there is nothing they can do. The big bobcat has taken to sitting on my neighbour’s roof and watching the children play in the backyard. I’m waiting for a kid to mistake it for a cat (which have all been eaten).
Yeah, when I lived in southwest Calgary 7-ish years ago, same problem (although we had less bobcats and more coyotes). All the wild hares disappeared, though you could occasionally find a small mound of their fur, indicating an untimely end.
I’m surprised to hear that Animal Control won’t do anything about the bobcats, though — that wasn’t their attitude back during my time there. Sounds like they’re encouraging Calgarians towards the “shoot, shovel and shut up” method of dealing with ’em.
There are too many. If you are familiar with Calgary there are bobcat families stretching from Mission to Canyon Meadows and on the other side of Fish Creek. Fish and Wildlife claims they have always been here along the river valleys. I am almost 60, have fished every river valley in south and central AB in my life and never saw a bobcat until the last two or three years–all in the city.
For several years we had an apartment on 5 Ave in downtown. There were no bobcats there.
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/wildlife-this-week-bobcats-in-every-corner-of-calgary-1.4992998
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/surge-in-bobcat-sightings-have-calgarians-fearing-for-their-pets
I don’t know much about hunting, but I’ve heard that deer have learned when hunting season is and what areas to avoid. Wolves are presumable smarter than deer. It seems like a problem that will sort itself out.
Deer are not that smart. They might avoid hunting areas because vehicle and hunter traffic increases, so does noise.
Ive blasted a deer who walked up within 50 feet of me. It never saw/smelled/heard it coming. The bullet hit the deer before it would have heard the shot.
We hunt in the States. Ive hunted in Wyoming. I donated a few of my kills to low income folks to have free meat.
I think there is a equilibrium for hunters and making sure species are not wiped out. If hunters go after almost all the animals, there will be so few animals to hunt thats its not worth the time and effort to hunt. So less hunters and animal numbers come back up.
Park officials said in a statement to AP that the deaths mark “a significant setback for the species’ long-term viability and for wolf research.”
Right. They’ll starve to death in the park.
Mike Pompeo: How I lost nearly 100 pounds in 6 months
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1479174506203815944
glibfit
“I started exercising, not every day, but nearly every day, and eating right and the weight just started to come off,” he said.
Unbelievable.
He’s right, you know.
NEW: @GovRonDeSantis says the anniversary of January 6th is “not something that most Floridians have been concerned about.”
Says events in DC today will be “nauseating” and a “politicized Charlie Foxtrot” (ask your military friends what that last phrase means).
That guy keeps bringing the snark. I know he’s a critter but goddamned if he isn’t funny.
“not something that most Floridians have been concerned about.” – because they are all dying of covid if not dead already
That place was getting too crowded anyhow.
That’s why no one goes there anymore
must report annual commercial transactions of $600 or more to the Internal Revenue Service
So everyone gets extra scrutiny.
Leaders of the nation’s third-largest school district canceled classes for a third consecutive day as heated negotiations continued with the Chicago Teachers Union over remote learning and other COVID-19 safety measures.
Fire them all.
The Dem machine dare not bite the hand that feeds them.
Tim Dillon EXPLOSIVE RANTS Compilation]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEdz2CQ2rKM
As you know I have never been to the US and as such not to Austin Texas and know little of it but for some reason the first 8 minutes of this cracks me up
The Chief Executive Officer of Moderna said that he anticipates people will need a second COVID-19 booster shot this fall as the vaccine’s efficacy wanes over the next few months.
Fuck you and wish you well in Nuremburg 2.0.
My immune system is not a subscription service.
I heard this morning someone in Green Bay won half of the $600 million lottery jackpot. I need to go into the city this weekend to find my new best friend.
You’d better oil up and sprinkle that glitter just so.
A Vichyite postcard from 1942.
https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1478077004335489027
That is rich! Allusion to Balfour 25 (?) years earlier?
I went to see a talk by him just before he lost his MEP job.
(see a talk? who has two thumbs and is not fully awake? ??)
Needs more labels.
See that British chick go into the jew box with America flag on it?
Socialists are not subtle about their anti-semitism are they?
Sorry *(((box))) with American flag on it.
Not just a box but a trap.
Because the British (and FDR) just love the Jews. I suppose they’re the least anti-Semitic of those countries.
It’s a dangerously cold morning around the Chicago area Friday with wind chills well below zero.
And here I am fresh out of bleach, rope and Nigerian white-supremacists.
Wolf hunting
Would you let him out of the box?
Yesterday’s Sunday Times carried a story to break your heart: “‘Life in a box’: young autistic man confined in hospital’s former file room”.
https://www.samizdata.net/2022/01/would-you-let-him-out-of-the-box/
…
The Sunday Times report is much better than its irresponsible headline would suggest. It goes on to describe in depressing detail the failure of various treatments. The young man continues to attack the hospital staff, with the result that they are no longer willing to play football or computer games with him. Ever more isolated, he gets worse.
It’s horrible. But what would you have them do? His mother wants him to be released into supported housing in the community. This was due to happen, but at the last moment the care provider lined up for him pulled out. “They said his behaviour had become too challenging,” Nicola [his mother] said. “But his behaviour is challenging because of where he is.” I hate to say it but her second sentence, while undoubtedly true, does not solve the problem described in the first. Can an organisation be forced to take on the care of someone who constantly attacks their staff?
…
I was going to ask, “What is the Libertarian solution to this?”, but forget Libertarianism – what is any solution to this?
There’s quite possibly medical treatment that would help.
But that would require the medical community to recognize that most autism is at least partially treatable and they are highly resistant to that idea. Perhaps it’s because it runs too close to the “anti-vaxxer” arguments or perhaps it’s just institutional stasis.
I saw it firsthand with my own son. As soon he was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, which is just a description of symptoms, they wrote him off. That was when I began to distrust the medical system and realized that it’s full of glorified order-takers.
Some problems just don’t have any good solutions.
“Can an organization be forced to take on the care of someone who constantly attacks their staff?”
Of course not. They can, however, be paid more to take care of him. The libertarian solution to this is that she finds a different place and/or pays more to have him cared for. That’s the market in action; more complicated service = more money.
This is why people think libertarians are heartless, but it’s the way things work whether anyone likes it or not. And she can always try to raise money from friends or charity.
Autism runs the spectrum, and there are also comorbid conditions. Those at the lower end of the spectrum, especially if combined with mental disability comorbidities, are not going to be able to adapt or integrate. There’s a home for teenagers not too far from us where my wife visited once a week to provide therapy. It’s a tough place. There was always a security guard at her side from the moment she walked in until the she left. And there was one time when he had to tackle a patient who went for her. The teenagers could be violent but the staff was trained and that was the kids’ home. They were cared for, tried to keep entertained, and the objective of therapy was very basic life skills like getting dressed, using the toilet, or communicating that you’re hungry.
That may be the best solution if a parent can’t quit their job for 24/7 care. Even then, one day the parent will pass leaving their adult child alone.
I used to work that gambol. It’s terrible but sometimes I used to wish that these poor souls had never been born. A life of agony, kept alive for no reason. It broke me after about two years. I just couldn’t take it anymore. That was dark times, Glibbies.
@Festus and SSD:
Sometimes all solutions are shit it’s just about picking the least shitty of the shit. Life ain’t fair and it doesn’t make sense. To me, it’s a religious question; most World religion recognizes some intrinsic value of human life, the existence of a soul, a spark of divinity, whatever you want to call it. But someone imprisoned in their own mind… it just makes me wonder. What is their subjective experience of reality like? Are they utterly miserable all the time? I can say one thing: back on the prehistoric Savannah, people who caused that many problems were probably “mercy killed” out of pure practicality to the tribe. Clearly we don’t do that anymore, but is it more merciful? So many unanswered questions…
To my point, they gave the kid an anti-psychotic most likely without running any genetic tests nor any bio-chemical marker studies. Quite often with ASD, the drugs do not work as expected because quite often the kids don’t have the same metabolic makeup as everybody else. It’s well-known among a subset of doctors that anti-depressants will cause suicidal ideation in autistic kids, but the mainstream medical community just throws the drugs at them anyway because maybe it will make them shut up.
Odds are he can’t shut down his adrenal glands and is living with constant panic. This can be due to a number of things, but a systemic yeast gut infection is one of them and is quite common among autistic kids. The yeast infection can and will come with severe neurological side effects. I’ll bet they never checked him for yeast and I’ll bet they haven’t done a genetic screen for common mutations like MTHFR and MAOA. They’re not even bothering to try to find the root cause of the problems and are instead just treating symptoms and wondering why it doesn’t work.
It’s barbaric and unscientific.
This was 33 years ago and B-Mod was God. If anyone should have their neck stretched it should have been B.F. Skinner. What a cunte. Nothing but torture for our poor “clients”. I was hired as muscle to control the most unruly and still bear the scars, physical and otherwise. I walked away but those poor souls were stuck there forever.
When Joe said it was all paid for, he was right.
“This Bill authorizes the Treasury Department ti issue such new regulations as it deems fit, in order to fund the provisions and benefits herein.”
All hail the Administrative State.
This is true democracy in action I believe
It is allowing people to make decisions instead of Congress or the President.
They promised they wouldn’t raise taxes on anybody making less than $400k. Maybe not the tax rate, specifically, but they’ll collect the hell out of any tax, real or imagined, they think they can. We’re gonna need a lot more tax collectors. An army of them.
They’re coming for everybody. They don’t really have a choice unless they suddenly become willing to cut the federal government by 75% or more.
All they can do is lie about it.
An army of them.
I’m torn between Army of Darkness and “…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance…“.
That was a lie. The $400K was for couples filing jointly. If you’re making $250K and filing singly, your taxes would go up.
Anita Sarkeesian Criticizes Gay Porn for Lack of Female Representation
https://hard-drive.net/anita-sarkeesian-criticizes-gay-porn-for-lack-of-female-representation/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxCpBSDiPNc
Gay porn would be more popular if it had an all female cast.
I’m going with Poe’s Law on that one. A sane person would read it as being a satire, but it could be entirely sincere in it’s insane viewpoint.
the site is a satire site
It still comports with Poe’s Law.
This is true democracy in action I believe
Yes. Yes it is.
Mery Playa Spring/Summer 2022 Paraiso Miami Beach Swim Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDW2XBjU6u8
Nice, it’s so much better when they aren’t anorexic and are actually smiling.
So – this will be interesting when the first 55K pages comes out. The FDA said it could only do 500 pp. per month. The court required 12K at the end of January and 55K each month thereafter.
This will be really, really interesting because I GUARANTEE you that there will be so much hanky-panky in those docs it will make people retch. The FDA is just a front organization for Pharma – I bet there will still be deletions and a whole bunch of other bullshit that will be done to try to hide just how much water the FDA is carrying for Pfizer.
https://www.rt.com/news/545350-fda-pfizer-vaccine-documents/
IOW, I expect the FDA will engage in “vicious (non)compliance” and the plaintiffs will have to go back into court more than once.
But good on the judge for acknowledging their importance and taking a dump on the FDA’s proposed schedule. This schedule would mean everything is out there before the end of this year.
The hard drive failed. It had the only copy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
…like, with a cloth?
It’s going to be difficult, but I’m sure they’ll find the resources to scrub it.
I don’t understand why it isn’t “All of it, by the end of the day tomorrow”. What exactly do they need to review it for? What is in there that should be redacted/withheld?
I don’t understand the “pages”. They are actually printing shit on 8×11 pieces of paper?? Everything is fucking computer documents, spreadsheets, and databases. They may have to spend a couple weeks de-personalizing some data, as if suddenly HPAA privacy applies when the government has to surrender information.
I believe the argument was that they had to remove Pfizer proprietary methods.
Which is horseshit since the US government has bought and paid for everything involved with this vaccine and Pfizer has been thus far shielded from liability. It should all be in the public domain and anything relevant to the FDA’s decision making should be made completely open to view.
Or are we not a “democracy”?
Anarcho-tyranny in the small. The rules and their enforcers remain, but they are only and exactly used to fuck with you.
No, you will have to provide proof when they audit you.
And then you will have to somehow establish the cost basis of the lamp your grandmother left you thirty years ago when you finally decide to part with it.
I foresee a lot of “Discount for Cash” signs in America’s future.
Until they ban cash.
Friday Funbags provides plenty of female representation.
https://archive.md/aRGb7
“Charley Chaplin” mustache…
Nice try, Adolph.
Tonight’s a perfect night for doing noir shit in LA, unfortunately there’S COVID
“I had six shots in me. Two were bourbon. Three were Pfizer. One was a .38 slug that the doc never bothered to fish out of my shoulder. And on a night like this I was feeling all of em.”
https://twitter.com/acekatana/status/1476468276129517569
? I don’t want to know those people. Avoid Venice, WeHo, and Silver Lake?
Pretty cold nights in SoCal lately, relatively speaking.
Well got the driveway clear, 4-5 inches of fairly powdery snow; with the wind blowing and the drifting I’ll probably have to re-clear it this afternoon.
Well got the driveway clear, 4-5 inches of fairly powdery snow; with the wind blowing and the drifting I’ll probably have to re-clear it this afternoon.
Get out there with the leaf blower.
flame thrower
🙂
That stupid Sunwing story about the “influencers” has pretty much everything except for that one chick that fell to her death. I want my party bus tragedy, Dagnabbit!
There was a PBT here a few months ago on the freeway, the poor drunk wee blondie.
Good morning, Sloop!
Too bad about the wolves. I can only imagine the freakout when we need to start culling Grizzlies too.
“as the number of infections soar and 40 million adults in the US are still declining to get vaccinated.”
As I said yesterday, the soaring number of infections in vaccinated people seems to be a strong argument that vaccine mandates aren’t going to keep people “safe” at work. But this will be a political decision.
“Moderna CEO says fourth dose of COVID-19 vax will be needed this fall”
In other news, Ford CEO says only Fords should be allowed on the nation’s highways.
“Chicago Weather: Bitter cold moves into area, with lowest temperatures in nearly a year”
Well yeah, that’s how winter works. You might want to look into it.
“Charlie Brown, I’ll hold the football, and…”
IOW, I expect the FDA will engage in “vicious (non)compliance” and the plaintiffs will have to go back into court more than once.
What is the likelihood of a court-appointed “master” to oversee the release, and limit their ability to drag their feet?
I believe that is the term.
Well, now we’re into the arena of rank speculation, so let me indulge myself:
“None” – right now… BUT – if there’s one thing federal judges can’t stand, it’s people flouting their orders. Federal judges expect their orders to be followed. That’s basically how we won in Doe v Rumsfeld. The FDA and DoD just kept fucking the judge off and he got increasingly unhappy about it.
Given what I believe is in those documents, I expect the FDA to play games, so… Yes, there is a chance that the court at some point says, “That’s enough fucking around.” And a special master is a tool available to them to oversee the production.
There are several other options I can think of, but now you’ve got me thinking. I’m gonna go dig up some FOIA cases and see what’s happened when the govt has played games.
Also, if anyone wants the link to the live Supreme Court argument on the OSHA mandate, here it is: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx
I listened to part of Biden’s BS yesterday on the way home from my barber. I had to cut the radio off when he said something about “…this sacred hall…” because the dry-heaves were making it tough to drive safely.
Amateur.
It was the ‘sacred’ that got under my skin. And the “_____ was in fear for his/her life” stories. Like someone commented up-thread, its a public building. When I think ‘sacred’, its a church, a cathedral, or my bathroom.
Fuck Biden and fuck Congress.
Yes indeed.
I listened to none of that ratfucker’s lies. The owned media has memory-holed this, while pretending this was an insurrection.
The truth is they all know in their own tiny hearts that they are corrupt parasitic scum – and if there was a real Bastille Day they would deserve to be guillotined in the plaza.
The onion used to be more real
https://twitter.com/vin_jc/status/1479174688140054544
Only unvaxxed asymptomatic people can spread the plague. It’s sneaky, you know.
It is a cunning virus.
Like a linguist?
also 5 year olds
Particularly after 10pm and before sunrise.
What increasing the COVID-19 threat to ‘Level 1: Red’ means for Harris County
More convid tyranny I suspect.
Trevor Noah is continuing to work on being based. What is happening.
Clarification needed before praise given
I doubt he means no covidiocy and other tyranny.
He was the first talking head to balk at boosters because the pharma CEOs said so. He has a long way to go, yes.
Don’t discourage even small progress (and yes, he’s got a long way to go).
So… push for libertarian policies instead of statist ones? Roll back government overreach, remove lockdowns and mandates?
I could get behind that.
We can start the experiment at the state level in about a week.
“If you’re such a prude, why are you on Tinder?”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17241309/why-is-online-dating-so-hard/
He has a point. How about Match or EHarmony?
Not to mention choking and foot worship are practically Ozzie and Harriet now, just wait until she hears about sounding.
It’s the coldest winter since… :checks notes: Last winter!
DAMN YOU, CLIMATE CHANGE!
Same here. Winter weather turns out to be cold and snowy. Ermigerd!
“Climate change” typically goes into hibernation for the winter, largely because it’s really hard to get the rubes fired up about “warming” when they’re freezing their asses off and being reminded daily that in the cold, you die fairly quickly if you don’t have any fossil fuels to burn.
My take is that all the stupid klimate krisis hoopla is quietly forgotten when it becomes apparent that ^this is near to happening.
Maybe even earlier, since there is no money to implement all the green fantasies anyway.
The only question is how many trillions more dollars will be pissed away first.
That’s all it was ever about anyway – just another grift in a long line of phony fucking grifts by Leftist twats… (I should note that Leftists aren’t the only grifters in government, just the boldest).
We were experiencing climate change in Nov and Dec because it was unseasonably warm.
This is CNN
“You can’t love your country only when you win.”
That’s President Joe Biden during a speech he gave Thursday morning to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the US Capitol riot. It’s not only a memorable line — it’s likely to be the one that gets repeated the most today and in the days to come — but also a hugely important one if we hope to fully come to grips with what happened last January 6 and everything that led to that moment.
More sanctimonious claptrap from Team Not-My-President. The same people who are trying to ram their win-at-any-cost agenda over the goal line before they get kicked to the curb in the mid term elections. Because Republican control of Congress would literally spell doom for the nation.
You know them as the true blue Democrats ho all just shrugged their shoulders and said, “Well- the guy beat us fair and square. Let’s see how we can work with him,” back in 2016. Just like when Gore lost.
When all else fails double down on the double downing.
I have to admit, if that asshole CEO can sell people on a 4th jab, he’s doubled down on the double down.
In local new they are reintroducing masks outdoors GODDAMNIT
also vaccinated also need to quarantine if they have contact with a covo-positive
How do you say you people can eat a dick in Romanian?
we say more along the lines of take a dick simply ia pula but that was all covered in my article a few years back 🙂
According to Goolag Translate, “Mănâncă o pungă de puși [or ‘penis’].”
I guess.
puli… o pula doua puli
sacoșa works better than pungă as it is bigger.
N95s I hope.
no also those standard medical masks but not cloth masks
So wait, cloth are forbidden?
they are not forbidden but they don;t count as wearing a mask and you get fined if you walk around with a cloth mask
Fined for wearing a cloth mask.
*resists urge to take black pill*
I mean it is the same fine as for wearing no mask at all… so you are not specifically fined for wearing a cloth mask you are fined for being maskless which a cloth mask is the equivalent of
Well, I think anyone wearing a cloth mask in public should be fined.
Also, a surgical mask, an N95 mask, you name it.
I think it’s time to gather 1,883,424 of your closest friends and walk around town without a mask.
Neat.
Well, not if you’re trying to board a ship full of hostiles.
What do we call airborn infantry?
Skeet.
I don’t know what the situation is now, but a few years ago the Montana wolf season had a hard cap.A s soon as the nth wolf kill was reported, the season was closed, no matter how many unfilled tags there were.
It would not surprise me if that still exists, but was intentionally left off.
I’m on Dr. Malone’s substack and dude is just awesome. He’s all over this bullshit. Dude’s my new hero. And he’s funny, too. One of his most recent substack posts has one of those standard headshot photos and says, “Dr. Robert Malone, MD” under it, then right next to it is the same picture photoshopped so he’s wearing a cowboy hat and has face tatts and shit, and underneath it says “Post-Malone, MD.”
Lemme guess, sotrovimab’s effectiveness or lack thereof isn’t spike protein based.
I know anecdotes are not data, but my wife, fully vaxxed and boostered because she works in a hospital and they required it, got very sick a week ago, is still congested and coughing, and can’t return to work for another week because she tested positive for Covid, along with at least half the staff in her unit. I am totally unvaxxed, and after the wife got sick I had very mild cough and congestion for one day only and have felt fine ever since.
Anecdotes ARE datum though.
Everything you wrote IS data, not anecdotes.
And anecdote is: My wife and I had an argument last night.
Data is: My wife and I had an argument last night so I shot her.
AI based model? I trust that even less than a human intelligence built model. And they’re fucking lying about validation. No one validates their models – for a complex one, it is too fucking hard if not outright impossible.
What do you think happened, @BBCWorld
? Was there some major event in the 20th century that may have caused this?
https://twitter.com/Harry1T6/status/1479462555672268803
Vox
@voxdotcom
The average American eats 174 animals per year:
Rooster 23 chickens
Pig ⅓ of a pig
Cow ⅒ of a cow
Turkey (bird) ¾ of a turkey
Duck a small amount of duck
Fish 12 fish
Shrimp 137 shellfish (mostly shrimp)
Going plant-based can have a meaningful impact on animals, your health, and the planet.
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1479161560165765129
you need to eat a larger amount of duck. duck is tasty.
Go get fucked.
I eat way more than 1/10 of a cow.
#metoo
I can assume in parts of the southern US 137 shellfish is like dinner for 2
Same here. We got a quarter cow for the freezer, and its looking like it will last around 5 months, maybe a little longer. So that’s at least a quarter cow each, per year.
The other critters look on the low side, too, except maybe shrimp.
All of them look low, except the duck. We do eat a bit of shellfish and seafood in our house.
Missing lamb too. I’d eat it more but the wife isn’t a fan.
Her name isn’t Lisa, is it? https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E05/296612
What? No venison?
I like turkey at Thanksgiving, but how dare you suggest I eat 3/4 of one for the entire year.
Or, alternatively, you could mind your own damn business.
But I am a MESSIAH! I will lead you to salvation!!!
Which is a sad enough commentary on humanity, the worse is how many people are ready to follow one.
Richard Pryor’s advice to Eddie Murphy on Bill Cosby is quite apt – https://youtu.be/dMU1D9gqTzo
Would it be better in the scheme of things for animals if they’re never born then because if they aren’t food that’s what’ll happen.
137 shellfish (mostly shrimp)
Whatever happened to eating bugs?
Completely off topic, I’ve got a thread going over in the forums about a potential meet up down in Columbus (Ohio) the second weekend of February.
With that much lead-time I could maybe clear my schedule.
Is there a nerd conference going on ?
The girlfriend (and admittedly me as well) wants to check out the Marvel exhibit at COSI. So heading down for a weekend, plan is to check out the exhibit Saturday, so that leaves Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday morning open and clear.
with omicron around? why do you want to murder other glibs?
you need to eat a larger amount of duck. duck is tasty.
I would happily eat a big bag of ducks.
Somehow I have managed to catch the coof. It was nice knowing you all.
Unciv gets the M3k.
Sean gets the Shadow 2.
Anyone that shoots SSP or is just a Beretta fanboi can have the M9 with the LTT TJIB in it.
ES gets the few cases of 9mm I have left.
Unciv gets the M3k. – giving your guns to the government? for shame
also vit D and basic bitch aspirin
I take 100ug of vitamin D daily since we only get nine hours of sunlight this time of year, and my skin is mostly covered up when I’m outside.
Tested positive or have symptoms? Or both?
Home test. The symptoms have been identical to a sinus infection.
Which means I should probably not go to the dog park 🙁
^^^ This has been the symptoms that I have heard from peers that have gotten it in the recent weeks. Something is fishy
Vulnerable to kennel cough?
Go to the dog park!
Anyone that shoots SSP or is just a Beretta fanboi can have the M9 with the LTT TJIB in it.
*raises hand*
I can be a fanboi if it gets me an M9.
A nicely upgraded M9.
And I hadn’t even considered who to give the P365 to. It should probably be a TPTB. Swissy is the obvious choice, but it might be tricky to get it to Chicago. Banjos!
I don’t live in Chicago.
I will gratefully accept it.
RIP, NA.
I’ll take good care of your dog.
It was nice knowing you.
Get well soon!
Hush, you!
I want my new Beretta, and this kind of thing isn’t helping.
“I’m getting better…”
“No you’re not. You’ll be stone dead in a moment.”
Was that in your astrological forecast?
Oh good lord, you never cast your own horoscope, that way lies madness.
Besides it doesn’t work. The Great Abir Al-Quasim discovered that the act of reading alters the reading for the reader. Later Werner Heisenberg shamelessly ripped him off, which is why the Arabs hate the Jews to this day.
Socialist Visuals ✪
@SocialistPics
Joseph Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov and Vyacheslav Molotov at the Moscow-Volga Canal (1937)
Kristian Niemietz doesn’t like the Colston 4
@K_Niemietz
Hey, look! It’s Stalin, Voroshilov, Molotov, and definitely nobody else – especially not to Stalin’s right – at the Moscow-Volga Canal (1937).
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1479426448989601793
Minneapolis and St. Paul mayors prove that they are dumber than our governor by imposing their own mask mandates. Walz understands that no one will obey these stupid edicts and isn’t going to pretend anymore. The mayors are also talking about vax papers too.
The real reason to link to this story though is because of their “expert” witness. Go to the story, look at the bar fly that they use as “sensible Man of the People”. Then look at his quote:
*Note that in the picture of Hanson that they run, his mask is pulled down under his chin. And would you really take advice from that guy? The guy that was day drinking when a journalo rolled around looking for quotes?
HEY! SOME OF US ARE PERFECTLY RESPECTABLE PEOPLE!
No kidding. What an elitist.
Is a bump pre-breakfast considered day drinking ? Asking for a lot of friends
I think Irishing up a mug of coffee doesn’t count…but if you go to a second one…yeah.
/looks around shiftily….
/backs out of room
Absorbs the germs from the tracheotomy hole on that geriatric Kurt Cobain?
gahhhh, ppl iz stewpid.
Glenn Kessler
@GlennKesslerWP
It turns out Tom Cotton predicted correctly — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bomber, did get a stimulus check. So we’ve adjusted the Pinocchio rating on this 2021 fact check.
https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1479234127891214349
Already the justices have struck down a separate attempt by the President to mitigate the impact of the virus. Last August, a 6-3 court blocked the government’s eviction moratorium, holding that the agency at issue in that case, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, exceeded its authority.
Sadly, I am thinking Chief Justice Penaltax is not going to repeat the performance.
The chief executive officer of Moderna said he anticipates people will need a second COVID-19 booster shot this fall as the vaccine’s efficacy wanes over the next few months.
Of course.
The group even stoked the ire of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said: ‘Like all Canadians who’ve seen those videos, I’m extremely frustrated.’
Go fuck yourself.
Theo Fleury from the top rope.
https://twitter.com/TheoFleury14/status/1479296250776227841?s=20
Listening to the SCOTUS oral arguments about the challenge to the OSHA vaccine mandate.
Kagan and Roberts are, as expected, hammering on how necessary it is.
They and Breyer are talking about how awful the pandemic is without a single word considering the outsized impacts to people affected by the mandate.
They’re making fools of themselves by repeating the BS from the news.
That fucker Roberts. I have some respect for Kagan because she knows what she is. Roberts is a pathetic coward.
He’s forever trying to slice up Solomon’s baby.
I have a working model for Roberts’s SCOTUS votes that so far has had perfect accuracy in predicting what he’ll do in a particular case: I pretend that the Dems have some compromising photos of Roberts with little boys. So far, that model has proven foolproof in predicting his votes on tight cases that Dems care about.
That seems about right.
Although I don’t think you need to go as far as compromising photos. Roberts is a DC guy. He’s gotten as far as he’s ever going to go career-wise and it’s not like anyone’s going to be taking him out of his position. So, he decides whatever way is going to make him popular on the DC social scene.
Roberts knows that he is a RINO Lefty fucker. Always has been.
Lefties ignore the Constitution. Roberts found Constitutional force to buy health insurance when there is none in the Constitution.
That particular splitting of the baby sealed my opinion of him.
He’ll do what is necessary to appease.
The worst kind of judicial activism because his opinion was rooted in neither of the pleadings before him. Straight out of his corrupt ass.
Not a single word from the Justices that have spoken yet about people’s rights.
According to most judges and all the justices but Thomas and Gorsuch, Americans dont have rights.
The Patriot Act should have struck down as unconstitutional based on pleadings or sua sponte
Obamacare same thing.
Vax/Mask mandates same thing.
This case shouldn’t even be close. OSHA regulates WORKPLACE hazards, not endemic respiratory viruses. It’s right in the fucking statute.
They’re not asking questions that allow this. I’m sure it’s in their written briefs, but in the oral arguments, they’re not allowing him to say this.
Gorsuch is asking some technical questions.
Barrett asked some questions specifically about limiting OSHA’s power.
Also Influenza has killed per year far more Americans after getting it from some coworker than COVID has. If we look at real COVID death numbers.
Breyer is a cunt, arguing that stopping the mandate is the same as stopping vaccinations.
Always has been.
I loath that piece of shit. He’s consistently pro-tyranny as long as the fig leaf of intentions is applied.
That which is not mandated, is prohibited.
Frame it as either/or. Now that is some top-notch legal rhetoric.
I jumped on about ten, fifteen minutes ago.
I think we’re fucked based on what I’m hearing.
Yeah, I’m not encouraged. Thomas and Barrett sound favorable. Others are bad.
One justice just claimed that “seven hundred and fifty million new cases were announced yesterday.”
These are not impressive people.
The robes are supposed to cover that part up. Maybe they need to go back to powdered wigs too?
Completely irrelevant as to whether the constitution grants the federal government the power to do this.
They are arguing the veracity of news articles at this point. Are they truthful on COVID? If yes, we will hold you down and pump you with whatever we want to.
Those justices are not going to understand why Americans start defending themselves with force against govt agents.
Americans just dont know what is good for them, you see.
Say what?
Obviously just a “speak-o.” Except misspeakings by Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America during oral arguments while the court is in session certainly have no weight whatsoever in law or public policy.
Not to justify what may happen, but I think it’s important to understand that THIS is exactly what all of the MSM propaganda is for. SCOTUS judges live in a complete bubble, an ivory tower in which all they consume is the NY-DC Beltway bullshit.
That’s what the propaganda is for – it’s to create a faux reality so pervasive that decisionmakers have almost zero connection to reality. Yet they cite “facts” and statistics and outright lies as (inevitably) justifying their bubble decisions.
This also applies to Congresscritters, with a few exceptions that helps to prove the rule. e.g. Joe Manchin of WV. Dude is a Team Blue guy representing a hard Team Red constituency. He absolutely canNOT simply go along to get along with the MSM-Beltway faux-reality because he would be gone in the next election.
SCOTUS justices have no such concerns.
^
This is the primary function of the media. The Supreme Court is the final arbiter of all things nowadays, and so it is the most important institution to “hack”. It’s not just the Justices, but also their employees and social circles. You can manufacture consent in a small group just as you can manufacture consent in the general population.
Lefty lies told enough times becomes the scientific basis for destroying Constitutional protections before your eyes folks.
I shopping for another wood chipper as we speak.
“Worst pandemic in American history”?
Spanish flu?
Opening with a lie.
Yep. complete falsehood. They claimed that such a pandemic is completely unprecedented.
Perhaps because the pathogen was engineered?
Biological weapons are designed to be the worst.
Kagan really loves to hear herself talk, and keeps interrupting others in order to do so.
Kagan, in all of the cases in which I have listened to her, has been 100% a political animal, making political and emotional speeches, never talking about the questions of law. She’s an embarrassment to the practice of law, IMO.
Did she really claim that omicron is as deadly as delta?
yes, straight up
If that was her, yes.
Someone said it, but I don’t recognize all the voices.
Andrew Branca just made a comment that listening to Kagan is like having Rachel Maddow on the bench.
Maddow is much much more attractive.
The worse is not going to be when they allow this, it will be the governmental response and the backers. I do not see any light at the end of the tunnel on this.
That light is the primer igniting.
It’s why I’m back on the secession train.
Alito just asked a great question getting to the idea that the risk in the workplace is primarily to unvaccinated workers who have chosen to remain unvaccinated, not to vaccinated workers.
It’s a pyrrhic question, like most utilitarian ones and concedes the premise.
I hate when judge concede the unconstitutional premise.
Like with gun control laws. Most judges concede that some gun control is constitutional. Just tweak which ones and for what “reasons”.
Im not a judge because my opinions would all include the preamble that all gun control statutes are unconstitutional on their face. There are no exceptions allowed in the 2nd Amendment protection. None.
Masking is important, he added — not to protect oneself, but to protect others. It’s a civic duty, he said, just like other things we do as members of society.
Sorry, bub. I am not my brother’s nursemaid.
The group even stoked the ire of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said: ‘Like all Canadians who’ve seen those videos, I’m extremely frustrated.’
Your mom knew how to have a good time. How do you suppose you got here? Your dad was a big commie party pooper. I guess you take after him.
I think I mentioned before – my brother’s co-worker played some pro hockey and tells of the time when he walked into his hotel room to see two of his teammates double-teaming Margaret.
Is it even a question that Castro is Trudeau’s father?
Justin would be a good bit smarter and cunning if Castro was his daddy.
That IRS move is going to be disastrous. What are their hopes? That the buyer doesn’t mark down goods and services and marks personal and then goes after the seller? I guess my wife’s $40k business is really a billion-dollar business, we have just been hiding it.
We already pay taxes on that income
This is about power for another federal agency. This involves federal taxes. maybe some sharing with state tax agencies.
To run a small business, you already pay sales tax, licensing fees (taxes), gas taxes, employee taxes, regulatory costs (lawyers, etc), etc.
We already pay taxes on that income
Zombie Dems – MOAR TAXES!!!
Chameleon Bimmer.
People still around here? Might have had a big thought process that might change everything. Nothing bad. Thoughts of moving away from Korea and going back home.
Much to vent. Maybe even an article. Shit. Just seeing if anyone is still around to maybe posit a return to America. Worried about not ever been an independent adult in the US. Writing gigs (book is on the ledger) as well as editing. Want to learn everything I can before making this decision. You guys are fantastic contacts to have. I am curious.
I’ll certainly ask this a few times, so forgive me for that. Got royally fucked (not monetarily, but privately/medically/professionally) fucked today. I think my happiest swell of opportunity comes from this return to America simply being the next big adventure to add to my docket. Brain’s going a million-miles-a-second. I think with excitement….
Writing gigs (book is on the ledger) as well as editing.
Because I am cautious/cowardly, I would want to confirm to some degree that there is enough money in that for you.
Big question: where in the US?
My bro and his family are in Indianapolis, and my parents are in Carmel, a nice suburb of Indy. I have full-reign to stay with them, though I know I will want a private vacation when I get back. I technically am free to go anywhere, I’m an adult, but that’s the safety net of my adult return to the US. Hands-down makes the most sense, unless there’s I run into a profound opportunity elsewhere.
Are you looking at freelance editing or full-time editing as an employee? A full-time editor can start out at $50k + benefits and eventually reach into the $70k range. At least in the medical field.
Freelance is a hard road. I know successful freelance editors and writers, but all put in their time as employees to get the trade down and build reputations before striking out on their own.
I’ll do whatever. I’ve worked freelance online but that was hit-or-miss. Got in-person work before I elevated that, but I have experience and a passion for it. I’ve independently edited several plays and books, one by our own UCS!
I couldn’t edit in the med field if it required knowledge of that field. I can do research but I wouldn’t at-all feel on firm-footing in that realm, unless it was purely for linguistic editing. I can, and will, do that all day for journalism, fiction, comics, advertising, whatever. I love it all.
Side project would be my book, which I think I can make compelling enough to sell. But that’s a future goal. For now, focusing on money and independence.
Medical editing does not require knowledge of research. That’s helpful for understanding intent, but it’s really about linguistics. There are a lot of Medical Communication Agencies and Contract Research Organizations out there that employ editors who can work remotely.
Documents that goes through a regulatory review (dossiers, product applications, reports, etc) are usually edited by a professional editor. Due to the size of the various international regulatory states (FDA, EMA etc.) the work is in high demand and pays well. Check it out as a possible option.
Ask Mojeaux about it. If you can spell ophthalmology* and have a medical dictionary–?
*thanks to Linus van Pelt and Sparky for teaching young me that one
I think he’s talking about editing medical articles for journals, not editing dictated medical reports. We used to do straight transcription before voice wreck became not such a wreck.
While I can spell ophthalmology (and those people do God’s work, carving into eyeballs), a medical transcriptionist/editor will have a special plug-in dictionary of medical terms AND one will use an expander/autocorrect to expand a word. For instance, if I type sgn, I will get “significant”. If I type “tp”, I will get “the patient”. I don’t need that many expanders with just editing.
I expect you would have to know many things about medicine when editing papers and journals. For instance, you’re not going to want to look at “spondylosis” or “spondylolysis” and okay it when the text really should say “spondylolisthesis”. You must know from context which is the proper one to use and flag it or correct it because by golly, some doctors won’t know or care because “the editor will catch it”.
We have a saying in the medical transcription world: “Look it up. You don’t know what you don’t know.”
Thanks for all your feedback. I hope for more!
This is a very curious thing. This may be my inherent passion coming to fruit.
You sound a bit hypomanic. Inhale 4, hold 8, exhale 4.
What happened?
To make a long story short (too late): Got off work and went to my neurologist. Just needed to see him to get a re-up on my meds. Had to rush to the pharmacy before it was closed. Was very worried about that in my meeting with the doc. (I am out of my meds. Would be 5-or-so days before I could get more.)
Got my meds with 3 minutes to go, and got that accomplished. In the parking lot…my BOSS calls me! The doc phoned her (she technically is my “guardian” here by fed law) and she called to check to see what was up and if I was OK. Well…yeah. That obviously bothered me.
My contract is up on March 1. Was thinking of signing for one more year to make another ~10k. I have a few incidents, more than normal folk, maybe 2-3, over this year that made me miss some work. Only for a day and a few hours the other times. This became another, even though I was just getting my meds. No symptoms/problems. I think this makes me a liability to her and less-likely to resign me for the last contract that I would be willing to do to get that money.
It seems like this is a good chance to return to America and have that be my next adventure and stepping stone, to return for “good.” I’m much more relaxed now. I just have a limited amount of time to digest this information and make a few decisions. Messaged my brother to share this with and just get older-brother wisdom to bounce off of.
It’s so strange. My next BIG adventure is going BACK to where I was born? I haven’t lived there in 12 years for any meaningful time….it really is an exciting journey. That part of it really piques my interest. So many thoughts. Digestion needed.
Maybe that would be best unless you can find another good gig there.
(Your self-editing is suffering a tad.)
Maybe so! It’s 2am here and I’ve had a weird day and got stoned for the first time in a while! I’m not at work! That reality raises the bar significantly.
And I would only have made one change, though I am stoned and it’s late: ” I have a few incidents..” should be “I have HAD a few incidents…”
Other than that, just the vocal cadence and flow of online talk
In 12 years you have changed and so has your original home. Measure twice, cut once.
Heart-head, which to follow?
That’s what’s spinning my brain right-round right-round. The more I’ve thought about it tonight, my return seems to make the most sense.
I….will have to ponder this further at length. I am stroking my chin and ruminating deeply.
Scary campfire tales
Domestic extremist groups ranging from the QAnon conspiracy movement and the Proud Boys to militia organizations and avowed white nationalists have re-emerged in recent months, frequently trying to effect change at the local level.
But it’s not just the strategy that has shifted. Most far-right domestic extremist movements have also adapted their infrastructure and messaging, according to a report by the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council, a nonprofit international affairs think tank.
That analysis, which tracked violent domestic extremism and political violence since Jan. 6 via news reports and known extremist networks, found that despite an initial decline, domestic extremist groups have evolved and resurfaced, encouraging local action while recruiting and spreading their messages through culture-war debates including vaccines, race and education.
“The domestic extremist landscape was battered by Jan. 6,” said Jared Holt, a resident fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab and author of the new report. “But extremism is dynamic and fluid. It is always trying to adapt to fit the container that it’s in.”
They’re coming for you. They’re coming for your children. They’re coming for DEMOCRACY!
Antifa still doesn’t exist, right? Whew.
Tyrannical cunte is tyrannical and cuntey.
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) responds to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signing executive orders to end mask mandates.
Why are her eyes so far apart?
It’s so that she can watch every dick.
Ask David Eick, for a lizard person she looks fairly passable.
Eyes look OK (apart beats close: see Jackie O v. Fauci). It’s the Pink Flamingos eyebrows that scare me.
I’m going to bed now, my fine folk. Even when I have weird fever like dreams it seems to be better than reality. At least in them I’m usually portrayed as a younger version of myself. Lotsa hot girls but too many parental intrusions. Have a great one!
Bye Festus!
Sleep tight. Dont let the Commies bite.
Once a penal colony always a penal colony.
Now it’s a reality in Australia, and #AustraliaHasFallen is trending on Twitter. Australia’s “Health Officer” (is there a worse-sounding totalitarian title than that?) has determined that the unvaccinated in Australia’s Northern Territory can no longer leave their homes for the rest of the week in the case that they have to work or…get this—exercise.
That’s right, the “health” officials are prohibiting fresh air and exercise for unvaccinated Australians. For real. This is not The Onion.
“There are only three reasons to leave the home now, not five,” said Michael Gunner, the Northern Territory Chief Minister. “Work is not a reason to leave the home for the unvaccinated. The Chief Health Officer has also determined that restriction of movement is critical right now and that one hour of exercise for the next four days is not essential.”
Kagan, in all of the cases in which I have listened to her, has been 100% a political animal, making political and emotional speeches, never talking about the questions of law. She’s an embarrassment to the practice of law, IMO.
Kagan got that seat as a reward for her many years of faithful service to the Clintons, Obama and the Democratic Party.
I find this interesting from Roberts: Where is Covid not a danger? And his explanation of the question: “What you are trying to workaround?”
This is going to get done through the commerce clause isn’t it? That clause that allows the FedGov to do whatever the fuck it wants?
LOL. That would be very Roberts.
PenalCOVIDtax.
Penalvax.
YAY!! Minute Of Mae – BAR 1918 https://youtu.be/TddhGBIs9Ww
WTF? I routinely do this to family, friends, and missionaries. Does this mean I will have to pay taxes, or they will???
This is horseshit.
Well if you mark it down as personal, just make sure it is actually personal.
Just an excuse for them to do more fishing expeditions. They’ve been pushing it for years with anecdotes about all this tax evasion supposedly happening.
It is! Giving to the kids is personal. Giving to the missionary family whom we met before they were even a family is personal.
The missionary we used to give through his organization with charity status. But in November he became quite ill and he, his wife, and three daughters had to come back from Uganda to Minnesota
I called it a gift. Will PayPal and the IRS see it that way?
Do they really want to shut down plain old person-to-person charity??!!
You were going to hire somebody to do your taxes for last year, right? Because of the complicated California taxes?
Yes.
Do they really want to shut down plain old person-to-person charity??!!
Apparently, yes, they do.
They are showing themselves as a new breed of nasty totalitarian fascists. The fascists were merely authoritarian, our crypto-Maoist masters have elevated that to totalitarian.
“Nothing outside the State” – that definitely includes person to person charity.
The Canadian gov shut down “mere” gift-giving a long time ago (before the turn of the century, if memory serves). All transactions of value (whether financial or other) are supposed to be taxed at their fair market value. When I was still involved in running the software dev company I helped found, we couldn’t just give our employees a Christmas bonus or any kind of a gift (one year we did digital cameras). Everything had to be accounted for.
I’m not saying everything was accounted for, and I’m not saying it wasn’t . . .
I’m not clear on whether they send 1099s for each person who paid you over $600, because the person who paid you should be doing that, or if they send you one 1099 as a collective. Paypal has never had to do that before. SquareUp does do it. Amazon and Smashwords does it regardless of the amount (although my beef with them is they are NOT my publisher and shouldn’t be sending out 1099s as “royalties”).
The problem is, if the person who paid you sends out a 1099 and Paypal sends out a 1099 ON THAT SAME INCOME, the IRS is going to expect you to count both, without regard to the fact that only one should be counted.
That said, I go through my Paypal and pick out which ones are actually revenue and which ones are just transfers of money (for instance, if my kid pays rent via Paypal, that is NOT income).
Yeah, this is going to be a damn mess with our 2022 taxes.
The real purpose of the regulation is to ensure the established players in the electronic payment space remain the only players in that space.
Great. So now I have to send golf coins.
Or stop giving according to my own will and let the government redistribute my wealth as they see fit.
Denver airport was awful yesterday.
Flight was supposed to land at 2:05 MT. We landed at 3:15. That wasn’t Denver’s fault, but everything after it is. We then parked in the plane waiting area, it took over about an hour 45 to get a gate. And then, Denver baggage claim was on a 3-4 hour delay. The announcement of “Hey Denver, we found your bags, they should be up shortly” wasn’t encouraging. Made it to FtC at 10:15.
Hey Phoenix, not Hey Denver.
Bleagh. Sorry for you pain in the ass trip.
I gotta go to Lawrence Livermore in a couple weeks.
Wish me luck.
Try the wine while you’re there.
I believe I shall…
This is why carry-ons, unless you’ve got bulk cargo or firearms or liquor, is superior.
Yep. I got to spend a couple extra hours there when American put half our fucking bags on a later flight. Fun times.
It could have been worse. You could have been on Amtrak for more than a day.
I have a work meeting to attend. I gotta stop getting pissed off…. errr…. pause the Supreme Court arguments live stream.
WRT to SCOTUS arguments on OSHA, if Barrett sounds favorable, that may be enough to carry the day.
Based upon all of the stuff I’ve been reading on the various vax lawsuits, Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito line up fairly clearly on the “no authority to do this” side.
Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer line up on the other side (of course).
Which leaves Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett and we need 2 out of 3. (See my model for Roberts’ votes above).
Kavanaugh wrote the Alabama Ass’n of Realtors opinion (I believe), although it was a per curiam 6-3 opinion, that struck down the CDC eviction moratorium. ALL of the lower court opinions shutting down these mandates have relied upon that case.
The lower court opinion basically said that case is inapposite – CDC isn’t OSHA – although that’s a bizarre claim because the CDC unquestionably has more powers to regulate infectious diseases than OSHA.
So, this oral argument is likely just theater for the Leftist judges to make hay that will get repeated in the Media, even though the deck is clearly against them.
I was worried about Coney-Barrett, but if she’s openly signalling hostility, then this would give the “conservatives” at least a 5-4 majority.
Let’s hope so. It shouldn’t even be close, but I honestly believe that if it goes the wrong way, civil violence will be upon us shortly.
This will give SCOTUS TWO decisions that led to Civil War. (The other being Dred Scott, of course, when the court threw out the Missouri Compromise and ruined any chance at a peaceable death to slavery).
My beautiful reproduction of a tinted photo portrait of General Grant arrived last week. It has a place in my office right across from me but that few others notice since they usually plop down across from me or use the sidewall dry erase board.
But I see Grant, calm and cool under pressure, never self aggrandizing, working alongside “his” slave at Hardscrabble, freeing him even when he was destitute prior to the war, being at his calm, calculating best when everyone around him was in a panic.
Grant also never paraded around his men with feather plumes and “Huzzahs” like me so many other generals on both sides. He had only one personal staffer: a runaway slave.
God bless US Grant.
Lee freed his inherited slaves too. His father in law’s will gave him five years to do so, and Lee took right up until the last day to comply.
I honestly believe that if it goes the wrong way, civil violence will be upon us shortly.
That’s the best we could hope for. The alternative would be to end up like Australia.
Sotomayor really doesn’t understand the difference between state and federal power? Yikes.
Oh she understand
She knows. She just doesn’t care.
She’s all about the ends, at least her personally preferred ones.
Don’t question the Wise Latina. She has access to methods and precedents your white make ass ain’t worthy to question, or even read about.
QED, bitches.
Yeah, just ask her.
(That quote would have been embarrassing enough coming from a third party, but out of her own mouth? Where’s my Acme portable hole??)
Today I’m off work. Seems like a good day to buy ammo.
Also I’m kinda liking this:
https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/model-442
Just for the halibut? Or are you looking for a small carry piece?
It all about the bass
Don’t let this become a haddock.
Great. So now I have to send golf coins.
Or stop giving according to my own will and let the government redistribute my wealth as they see fit.
Why is this reply here? This website is fucked.
Anyway, I do want a hammerless 38. My current one has a rather noticeable hammer, and I’d like a smoother pull.
As many times as I’ve trained with my Glock 26, I still feel like if the rubber hit the road, I’d be more comfortable with the revolver.
My most recent shooting coach said I had the smoothest pull on a revolver he’d ever seen.
That one has the Hillary hole.
This one does not: https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/model-642-0
And yes, the trigger pull is noticeably better.
Ooh, pretty.
Thank you.
Daddy sang bass.
Dont be silly revolvers are old tech no one cool uses them anymore
Excuse me?
I know, right?
Silly eurotrash vampires…
Police: Arizona man fatally shoots leashed dog that was out for a walk
I do believe I would have shot him on the spot.
It’s not “Arizona: Policeman fatally shoots leashed dog …”?