Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a freedom loving day it always is!
Text Messages Show Cassidy Hutchinson Referring To January 6 Committee As ‘BS’
Flashback: Dems sought to taint Trump 2016 win, change electors’ pledged votes
Biden tweets demand for gas stations to ‘bring down’ prices, gets praised by Chinese state media
Bezos v. Biden: Billionaire and president’s team mix it up over inflation
JP Morgan: Oil Price Could More Than Triple If Russia Decides to Cut Output
After SCOTUS win on EPA case, Patrick Morrisey takes aim at SEC
U.N. Says Joe Biden’s Border Is ‘Deadliest Land Crossing in the World’
That is all I got for today. I hope you have a wonderful weekend with your family! I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Happy Fourth!
Happy Fourth to you, too, CP! How’s Mom?
Thanks. She’s doing OK, but not great. She wasn’t exercising and barely eating after she got moved from rehab to cardiology. So she seems weak and dizzy. The good news is that cardiology got the fluid is out of her and she is medically stable. So since she got moved from the hospital, into a different rehab, they’ll have to wait until after the holiday weekend to do any tests. I’m hoping once she starts moving and eating again, she’ll get her strength back.
::two club thumbs up:: 👍🏼👍🏼
On the road to recovery. Better days ahead, I hope.
Good luck CP, wishing for the best.
Best wishes
Progress. That’s wonderful.
Happy national Caeser salad day!
Good Morning, Banjos, and thanks for doing AM links on a holiday.
Happy Independence Day to all.
Fuck the Brits!
*throws tea overboard*
Except the (good-looking) actors. I love and implicitly trust (good-looking) British actors!
(Of course, depending on what you mean by “F…” …uh…never mind!)
Hugh Grant would approve of your approval. After he got Divine Brown out of his lap.
I’ll have one Emily Blunt, please…make that two.
Is that what you’re smoking this morning?
Ha! Nope, White Widow in fact.
Though she is smoking, I must say.
Happy 4th, GT!
JP Morgan: Oil Price Could More Than Triple If Russia Decides to Cut Output
They might, or they might not.
What would the Russians want with the money they make selling their oil anyway.
Mornin’!
Election irregularity denialists have attempted to stigmatize those who have scrutinized the anomalies marring a presidential election dominated by novel mass mail-in voting procedures imposed late in the election cycle across a range of swing states indispensable in securing Joe Biden’s victory.
Ooh, nice use of climate orthodoxy phrasing there.
I thought it was from holocaust deniers, or maybe there was some other denying before that.
maybe there was some other denying before that
I can neither conform nor deny that.
::pours ‘patzie moar covfefe::
LOL
I was told Peter did it three times back in the day.
Could li’l ol’ West Virginny be a prime spot for Libertopia/Glibs Gulch?? Who’da thunk it! 🙂
It is on my radar…
Now that they no longer have the Harry Byrd federal train of pork and gravy arriving regularly?
Dammit, wrong Byrd.
Byrd is the word.
https://youtu.be/VI40YEWllRg
Dunno, but we have at least 4 Glibs living in the tiny village of Alfred…
“JP Morgan analyst Natasha Kaneva said that Russia cutting production by 3 million barrels a day would push global prices to $190 per barrel. And the worst-case scenario, she added, would be if Moscow cut 5 million barrels per day, which could send the price to $380.”
I have no idea if that’s true, and I doubt that Russia could make as much money selling less oil at a higher price. Biden just cut oil and gas leases in Utah. If the government didn’t restrict the production of fossil fuels because climate change bullshit, there would be way less inflation. TMITE
You get hot air either way.
Russia produces 10Mbpd. I don’t know what their spec or their spot is, but let’s use $120 for brent because easy math: $1,200M/d
10-3 = 7Mbpd x $190 = $1,330M/d
10-5 = 5Mbpd x $380 = $1,900M/d
So her prediction would probably be a welcome result in Russia.
It’s very weird that she uses such precise numbers as $190 and $380, and weirder still that one is precisely twice the other: due to fixed content, few economic curves pass through the 0,0 origin…this in and of itself renders her pronouncements dubious even if we know nothing of oil….it’s just unlikely math.
World production is 80Mbpd, so Russia is around 12%. Demand is utterly inelastic, so the price can skyrocket or plummet on any given day without regard to production levels whatsoever. Indeed, the long-term trend for the price of oil is that it has gone up even as production has gone up (there’s some fun lead/lag stuff there and, of course, the reverse tends to be more true: production goes up after exploration/drilling, and those go up after prices go up).
FWIW the lift+shipping cost for an incremental barrel in Russia is around $30 (US~$60, Arabia~$5). Of course, a nation’s cutting their production in half is not remotely “incremental.” That said, you can see that Russia can suffer increasing average lift costs than most of the world….certainly if spot is tripling.
Prices reflect a base of lift and transportation: below some price, it makes more long-term sense to shut in wells and wait than to produce and sell. Above lift cost, the change in price is largely a function of short-run inventory and emotion: talk about oil prices makes oil go up.
Last: increasing US production will not necessarily change the price. A 10% increase in the US is only 1% of the world market. US production has already doubled in the past decade, and the barrel has gone up and down and sideways in that same time in no way that any president could have controlled.
in no way that any president could have controlled
But, but, MUH rightful ruler!?!?
Even if Biden allowed more drilling today, I’d imagine many producers would be wary of sinking billions of dollars into an investment that may not see returns for over a decade when the executive has shown to be able to shut it down on a whim *and* has spoken about moving on from fossil fuels entirely in the near future.
Once again – when was our last refinery built? It has fuck-all to do with one President or another.
One president in particular? No, but the messaging is clear
This isn’t true and Don contradicts his own argument when he admits that emotions heavily impact oil prices.
There is a difference between arguing for nuance when discussing oil prices and then making some blanket statement that openly hostile presidents have nothing to do with rising costs. Especially when you end up with Dems in charge for a majority of the last decade and a half.
“Disney could lose the exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse within two years: The iconic character’s 95-year copyright expires in 2024”
They’ll just pass another “Disney law”.
Three generations something-or-other…
It can’t expire until Disney dies, and Walt isn’t dead, he’s frozen.
U.N. Says Joe Biden’s Border Is ‘Deadliest Land Crossing in the World’
Just because the UN says something that makes Biden look bad doesn’t mean they’re right.
True. The Colombia–Panama border, and many borders in Africa, could be considered way worse.
The Darien gap doesn’t even need evil humans to make it dangerous.
Not deadly enough, apparently.
How safe is that Russia-Ukraine border these days?
whaddup doh’
I’m off tonight, so TALL CANS!
Covfefe for now, Sup tres!
HEY YUFUS!
“Computer glitch”
😂😂😂😂
Uh huh. Sure.
LOL. Now do Trump.
I like that the WH thinks this is a response.
“That was incoherent… You don’t know what you are talking about!”. ”
“He is plainspoken! He says exactly what he is thinking!”
Word salad => brain salad.
“Anybody who knows President Biden knows he’s plainspoken. And he tells you exactly what he’s thinking and in terms that everybody can understand,” Kirby stressed. “So I think we obviously take great exception at the idea that this is somehow misdirection.”
So what you’re saying is the President is a gibbering idiot.
Bonus… They are saying that they believe the American people are all gibbering idiots who will believe whatever the Dems tell them to believe.
And he tells you exactly what he’s thinking
Check.
in terms that everybody can understand
Not so much.
“computer glitch”
That doesn’t pass the smell test.
Yeah… That sounded odd.
What it sounds like is that the union had one member of 12,000 flight crews drop their assignments. And the computer should not have allowed them to do that.
I gotta say… If labor rules allow employees to sabotage a company during peak demand without consequence, labor rules are fucked.
Have you ever talked to a NLRB worker before?
I think employee is a better word than worker in that sentence.
Functionary.
Commissar.
Whatever it is, I’m supposed to fly on American this Thursday.
*sigh*
“So, let’s be honest with one another. My message is simple. To the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump: This is a time of war, global peril, Ukraine. These are not normal times,” Biden said. “Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you are paying for the product. Do it now. Do it today. Your customers, the American people, they need relief now.”
Joe knows cost accounting.
Does anyone know what “to reflect the cost you are paying” means? Wholesale gas has not gone down in price. Does he mean they should sell at cost? Or is he just spouting complete jibberish?
Authentic
frontierWhite House gibberish.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DNC3OciAF3w
Some states have laws against selling at cost. MN for example requires at least a .05 increase in the sales price. It’s so the big evils can’t push out the little guy or something.
Biden wants gas station signs to just say “market price” like when you go to a seafood restaurant and see lobster on the menu
https://www.americantowns.com/news/quakertown-community-day-2022-31396228-quakertown-pa.html
Y’all are invited.
Do I have to change out of my pajamas?
I like that there is a prepper guide on the sidebar.
I was in Quakertown a couple months ago. Seemed nice.
You didn’t stop to say “hi”.
😞
He was reluctant to approach the compound unannounced.
He’d have been OK as long as he didn’t touch the meat. (NOT a euphemism!)
I had to get to the safety of WV. But, I didn’t know that you lived there.
I haz sadz.
Happy “No Step On Snek” day, glibules.
There’s a small business (auto glass? Used to be a mower shop. I forget what’s in there now) around the corner that flies a Gadsen. Might just have to make up an excuse to give them my custom.
Dude was a Stihl dealer. Broke my heart when he closed, cause now I have to drive further out.
Pretty sure CoVID did him in- nobody was out buying lawn equipment.
There is a house a couple blocks away that has it hanging outside. Nice, as this is very much a “In this house we believe…” neighborhood.
Happy 4th!
“”One thing that was deeply disturbing is that President Biden came in, he started to ask not only the EPA to regulate, but he goes to the Department of Energy, goes to HHS, he goes to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Labor, all the federal agencies, and he wants to make them champions of climate change, and transform them into being an environmental regulator,” he recalled. “That’s not how our constitution works.””
They know if people actually understood the consequences of these climate change policies they would never vote for them.
We’re seeing it in action, and Biden’s politicized agencies have barely got the ball rolling on that nonsense.
One group I don’t get is the military leadership. Biden ran a blatant partisan purge when he came in. And immediately began pushing racism and this weird obsession with transgenderism into the military. They have learned “The only color that exists here is green” works for 7 or 8 decades…. Yet there has been no real public pushback.
Those guys live on honor and principle. Yet … Crickets.
The political purges started earlier than Biden, under Obama, and besides that the creatures who rise up the ranks of the military during peace times (and despite Afghanistan and Iraq, these basically were peace times) are political in nature. There is no honor amongst them. They’re thieves, crooks, charlatans. The next time an existential threat appears, they will once again be purged for men who have risen up the ranks because of proficiency at their actual craft. It will likely take several bloody defeats before that happens, as is the norm in American history.
The ARE the existential threat – right now.
Yup.
Same thing happened in the Soviet Union. They went all in on political commissars, but after a run of “bad luck” in WWII, they stopped that right quick.
Part of the answer is that most normies have “Tom Clancy syndrome”, just like Trump did. And just like Trump, it will doom them (us).
Part of it is that institutionally, GOFOs are politicians anyway and always have been. Today is worse because of how many there are and how they’re treated like little kings. Part of it is that Obama started the purge of wrongthinkers, so that the military was Proggied-up and weaponized against the Constitution just like the alphabet agencies. And part of it is that they can just literally force their will on the vast majority of the members, in a way the other parts of the government can’t.
Make no mistake – it’s all deliberate, and for today’s military leadership, the enemy is the American people.
I keep trying to tell people, but everyone rolls their eyes at me and thinks I’m insane, but I’ll say it here: the Dems are dying, DYING to use the military domestically against Americans. They believe that if they’re able to burn the “Posse Comitatus” bridge they’ll have what they need and it won’t matter that the proles have all the guns. That’s what they think, anyway. Because they’re morons, generally, who understand nothing about how an occupation actually works – or how many maintenance hours per flight hour it takes to keep a plane in the air, or a tank rolling, or an arty tube firing, etc. You hear them say shit like this all the time, from Swalwell (we’ve got Nukes) to Biden (about “fighter planes” v. guns) and other Dems, they really believe that if they can get to use the military domestically they won’t even have to pretend to listen to our complaints anymore.
They already used the military against citizens in Waco. IIRC there’s a loophole in the Posse law that allows military to be used to police drug crimes which is how they were able to get army choppers to strafe the Branch Davidians. There’s also evidence that the Delta Squadron (real name is Combat Applications Group or something, I forget) was there by direct order from Clinton.
There’s lots of loopholes, even in the current posse comitatus law. Like for a domestic insurrection. And a bit of history of using it too for domestic purposes.
If you’re talking the initial assault on the Davidians, that was nobody but ATF – justifying the expenses of putting together a SWAT. After that, I don’t doubt that every Fed of every flavor wanted a piece.
They’ve wanted to do it for a long time.
I remember hearing during the Clinton years about surveys issued to servicemembers with questions about “will you shoot on Americans?”
Ozy, you and me both. Just a few months ago the local wing commander described the Constitution as just a document written by some old white men. I’m not exaggerating.
None of the conservatives I’ve talked to want to believe it. They don’t shut down the idea, but I think it frightens them too much to acknowledge.
And the biggest part of why recruiting has tanked.
Who would’ve ever guessed the transtrenders wouldn’t have picked up the slack?
After all, there are SO many of them, and they all are SO eager to serve (hahaha, doing what they’re told? hahahahaha).
I get why the communists who have infiltrated the DNC are all for this. I get why the authoritarian establishment is all in on a power grab.
But I don’t understand why the media is a monolith in selling this shit as shinola. I get that they are all partisan. But at some point they have to say”enough”. At least, some of them. You have all the national anchors making huge 7 figure paychecks for decades. Surely they have FU money… Enough to call this stuff out.
Yet they all actively work to sell the lie.
True believers.
Its a version of the protestant work ethic. That they are making so much money on the back of the cause only shows how righteous they are.
We’re all in this together
If you had the unpleasant experience this July Fourth weekend of paying close to $5 for a gallon of gas, you can always comfort yourself with the idea that your pain is for a good cause: the “liberal world order.”
So said Brian Deese, White House director of the National Economic Council, when he was asked on CNN: “What do you say to those families who say, ‘Listen, we can’t afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years. This is just not sustainable’?”
Deese, like his boss Joe Biden, is unmoved by the suffering of ordinary Americans, more than two-thirds of whom say gas-price increases are causing them hardship, according to a recent Gallup poll.
“This is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm” until Ukraine defeats Russia, declared Deese.
Some people are just in it a little deeper. Right up to their necks, you might say.
You might even say they need their necks stretched.
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Let’s see if I can get out and break some clays today.
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It’s not even 9am, and I’ve seen three memes about how awful it is that people are celebrating when women were just stripped of all their civil rights.
We all know that the men who fought for independence and who stormed the beaches at Normandy were doing it for abortion on demand.
Had to be men storming the beach cuz the women would’ve been trying to get hit in the uterus.
This joke is just sitting there. *crickets*
Damn. Tough womb.
*looks around, claps politely*
*looks around, air claps*
I couldn’t pay my taxes because of a computer glitch.
It’s the new “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
I celebrated the 4th by hating that government. Patriotic, no?
I celebrate every day by hating the government. It’s what every decent, true Libertarian should do, IMO.
We are doing the small town america family 4th of July, visiting the wife’s family in Northern Wisconsin. Every little town around here has a 4th celebration. We did Lake Nebagamon yesterday, and we will head in to the big city of Duluth tonight. Nebagamon was great. They had fireworks over the lake at the town hall (which is a big barnish meeting hall you can rent out for weddings and family picnics). They had sound over a PA and finished with the Star Spangled Banner. USA all the way.
But I did see something bizarre. In town at the Superior Walmart, I think I saw the first actual white supremacist I have personally encountered in my adult life. (An adult life that includes owning a house in Stone Mountain Georgia with a view of the Confederate monument from my front years… With my African-American ex wife.)
These guys were in a big, lifted pickup with a couple of giant flags in the back. One was a Confederate battle flag, and one was a black on black on black US flag. I have never seen that one…. Not the blue lives flag.
Back in the south, a rebel flag does not necessarily mean white supremacy. But up here? It seems pretty blatant.
Also notable, no Trump paraphernalia. The wife tried to call them out as Trump supporters… But there was no such indication.
15 years my ex and I lived and traveled in the deep south, and I never saw any overt display like that. Well, except the idiots in Cumming on GA 400 who had the big flags in front of their trailer. But even that was possibly excusable as more a defense of culture and heritage.
So. It looks like the Obama plan to build back racistm is working.
I saw what looked like an honest-to-God neo-nazi waiting for the subway in my neighborhood once. Tatts, insignia, the works. Dude was aggressively pacing back and forth at the far end with a deranged look in his eyes that sent me quietly in the other direction, far, far away.
Schizophrenia and violent ideology is a tough combination.
So, a Google on the black flag shows everybody is selling them.
And 3 articles about it say that it is a right wing militia symbol that says they are supporting Jan 6 and are a threat to do political violence.
The Amazon and Walmart links don’t say that.
The articles also say that people who fly them are trumpists who are ready to take violent action to enact the Trumpists agenda.
I kinda like the phrase “Trumpist agenda”. If there is one defining thing about Trump’s political philosophy, it is that he didn’t really have one.
Trump had an agenda – kicking sand in the face of people that believe in enforced do-gooding.
Yeah… I guess agenda is the wrong word.he lacks a coherent ideology. But “drain the swamp” sums up the agenda pretty well.
Too bad he dint drain the leadership at CIA and FBI first.
It’s not really possible,but he should have started higher up, the DOJ and the DOD. If those two got cleaned out, everyone else would fall in line. Not going to happen without blood shed though. There are too many high level traitors in the bureaucracy now.
Happy Fourth! I still have my health (I think), coffee, booze, and steak,
Damn few – far too few – serve at the pleasure of the President.
A black-over-black US flag could also be military cosplayers.
Being familiar with NW Wisconsin I can say confidently that, while it’s always possible you saw a white supremacist in the wild, the more likely option is bombastic high schooler type that never grew up. Those dudes are everywhere.
The confederate battle flag has been around the rural areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota for years. It almost always bro-dudes. Generally harmless, if a bit asshole-ish.
In my limited experience, racism up here is directed at the native American crowd….other minorities being in short supply.
Which is odd to me… I don’t know many native Americans from the area…. But the two mixed women I do know are piping hot. Hard to be racist against Halley Barry.
This is true. It comes from a disagreement about hunting and fishing rights, especially after some court rulings in the 80s.
Hybrid vigor, FTW!
It isn’t uncommon to see the confederate flag all over the PNW and even in Canada, as it doesn’t mean Southern Pride to them anymore, but rather Rebellion/Rebel in some form. And as the political power here rests on Portland and Seattle, both of whom have politics that do not even remotely match the other parts of the state, it is also a thumb in the eye to leftist shibboleths. The more the leftists hate that flag, the more it is going to be used by people who enjoy flipping them off.
That’s the impression that I get here. I saw a bumper sticker with that flag that said “Yankee by birth, Rebel by the grace of God.”
Three generations something-or-other…
Ivy Leaguers. Three generations of Ivy Leaguers is enough. We now have the data to declare the experiment a failure.
*Standing Applause*
“Bizarre new TikTok trend sees large groups of young men don formal suits to attend Minions: The Rise of Gru screenings – but some cinemas are BANNING the behaviour”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10979625/Bizarre-TikTok-trend-sees-large-groups-young-men-don-suits-attend-Minions-Rise-Gru.html
Everything is stupid.
I sure loves me some Minions, and I do want to see the movie soon…but I think maybe we’ll wait until this fad has run its course (maybe even until it hits the cheaper screens.)
So your formal menswearwont seem to be too faddish?
Won’t. So it wont seem fad…. You know… Just damn. My thumbs are not doing a good job today…
#notme. I kinda miss wearing dresses – bunch of pretty ones I haven’t worn since so many of my co-workers started WFH at the beginning of the ‘VID. In-office, jeans are A-OK as long as you’re wearing corporate logo wear on top. (Land’s End is my little friend.)
Hoping I can swing wearing a sundress to The Party on 7/30…if
it passesI pass the full-length mirror test in it. 👗My middle child is a tomboy who has only worn a dress once in the last 5 years or so. She is just hitting the tween stage and has suddenly found an interest in clothes…. No dresses… But she is all about the crop top.
So far. No major conflict because mom has steered her to ones that are big and not revealing. And she has not developed.
But if this keeps up… Dad is gonna have a conundrum on his hands.
I know a guy who can get you a good deal on towers.
I do have a plan to move to Alaska and join a crab boat crew…. There is a second daughter right behind. There was more than enough estrogen in the house with just the wife to deal with….
I don’t know what any of that means.
Social media based moral panic. Just think back to the old days of ritual satanic child abuse in childcare facilities.
Banning that is dumb as fuck. Younglings in formal attire should be ecouraged. A resurgence in formal dress is overdue, imo.
UCS could be an influencer on which gloves are appropriate to which formal dress!
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Cinemas are so crowded these days they can afford to turn away paying customers.
“‘City gonna burn’: Akron police fire tear gas to quell rioters after black man, 27, was shot 60 times and killed by cops following chase as union reveals victim was involved in ANOTHER pursuit the day before
The shocking footage showed multiple officers approach Walker’s vehicle and open fire as he fled on foot. The hail of bullets sounded like ‘a whole brick of fireworks going off,’ the family’s attorney alleged.
Video from the scene also showed a gun on the front seat of Walker’s car, contradicting earlier reports that the 25-year-old had been unarmed.
The cameras captured what appeared to be a flash of a gun coming from Walker’s car during the chase. Akron police previously claimed Walker had fired a gun at officers who were pursuing him.
The medical examiner determined Walker had suffered 60 gunshot wounds during the incident, Akron Police Chief Stephen Mylett confirmed Sunday. The exact number of shots fired remains under investigation, but initial estimates suggested a hail of 90 bullets.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10979331/City-gonna-burn-Akron-police-deploy-tear-gas-quell-rioters-bent-destruction.html
If he left the gun in the car, how was he armed?
“Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill ’em right back!”
if you shoot at the cops, it’s probably not gonna end well for you. White, black, or other.
“Akron police previously claimed Walker had fired a gun at officers who were pursuing him.”
That doesn’t mean it’s true.
Local news showing video of a muzzle flash. I was only half paying attention though.
60 hits out of 90? These weren’t no ordinary police.
That is an unusually high ratio.
I am thinking of Jose Guerreno, hit 22 times at 15 feet in a narrow hallway by 5 magazine dumps… None immediately fatal. He bled out and died as police refused to allow paramedics to attend him for 2 hours.
I loved (in that intensely loathing manner) the short little cop reaching over the shoulder of the guy in front of him and spraying his shots at god-knows-what. He didn’t want to miss out!
I cannot believe that dude didn’t go viral…
And if I was the other guys, a locker room beat-down was in order. I would have taken his gun like Andy Griffith with Barney Fife.
It was “shot 90 times” yesterday.
Still a crazy-high hit ratio. I’m expecting that number to come down.
I imagine once one of them hit the spinal cord, all the rest of the shots were easier to make.
Accurate.
“It could have been real ugly, but fortunately, I shot him in the spinal chord.” – Moe Szylak
I am betting it being rounds fired, not rounds on target.
Only Imperial Stormtroopers could be so precise.
I am going to finish cleaning the kitchen (a lot of dinner mess from last night), grab some appropriate intoxicants, and walk down to the coffeeshop. Sit on the roof deck with Spud and watch cute college girls in shorts.
This is independence.
Enjoy! Sounds perfect. I’m drinking on the stoop and this tax collector tried to join me.
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Plus they fly unlike the German variety here.
OTH, we had these
https://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/occasional-invaders/camel-crickets/
I got rid of them, but boy do they suck. When startled they jump AT you.
::speaking very softly:: Good morning, Old Man! Have you undone – or at least mitigated – last night’s damage?
Fuck no.
A handful of lovely young women dressed in patriotic garb have set up lawn chairs and blankets on the sidewalk not half a block away from my apartment. Why they have do so at this early hour? Don’t know. But I’m intrigued.
Nice. Hope the scenery is pleasant.
watch cute college girls in shorts.
[insert okay sign emoji]
On my foray this past weekend, I noted the lack of patriotic rah-rah-rahing as is per usual during the Fourth holidays. American flags in the small towns we went through were nonexistent. I think the bloom may be off the rose in Flyover.
Regarding Chafed’s sentiment yesterday about being glad to be here, I interpret it this way: I, personally, love the CONCEPT of the US. I love the idealized, romanticized country that really may never been. I’m nostalgic for what may never have been. Every year, we Americans celebrate a concept of freedom, bravery, individuality, and “thank you for your service” because nobody can let go of how Vietnam soldiers were treated when they got back. But wrongthink voices are actively been silenced and the left would love to see us all imprisoned for not rightthinking and have made a good dent in it.
I’m 54. The Fourth of July used to mean something to me. It just … doesn’t now. The offenses by the government and the left are too much to be borne. And that makes me sad.
Shorter Mojeaux:
—Ozy, from above.
This much is obvious.
Top Drudge story today:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/394202/record-low-extremely-proud-american.aspx
I think there are two distinct and diametrically opposed reasons for this poll result.
This isn’t the country I grew up in, but having seriously looked at expatriating, there still aren’t better options.
Really?
For me, everyone is different.
It’s a big planet. Just gotta find what you’re looking for and accept the trade-offs.
No guns is a deal breaker, and that let’s out a whole lot of the world.
That’s a big one for me. I’m hoping 3D tech evens that out.
Amen.
I could easily live in Japan, but I’d have great trouble working there due to work politics and cultural norms.
As long as they can scapegoat the Chinese. I have a chance.
There are western gaijin and eastern gaijin…
Yes. There is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, no Galt’s Gulch, and no homestead, no matter how well functioning, is safe.
The healthiest thing for America would be for its people to completely lose faith in its political/elite class. They have failed and are creating a potentially catastrophic Frankenstein.
That’s already happened. It’s why Trump got elected. The only people that haven’t figured that out are the morons in that elite (which is to say 90+% of them).
It’s still too high among the voting public. Trump? He was a reprieve albeit very short. I think you need a normie 90% open hostility to this bureaucratic monster to get a chance at gutting it without bloodshed. I like being optimistic.
the voting public
Aye, there’s the problem.
I miss the blissful ignorance of my youth.
Just went DDGing for the notable Independence Day scene in whichever Little House book it’s in (I can never remember,) but first found this, which I thought might be of interest.
Of course, it was written ten years ago, and a fair (or an UNfair) amount has changed in the meantime (or mean time.)
Well worth the read. Thanks GT!
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries,” (Jefferson) wrote to James Madison in 1787, “as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”
BOOM
With $5 gas/ 2020 elections/ Vid idiocy continuing….
Its hard to feel the “rah-rah”.
Sad isn’t strong enough, maybe regret?
Actually…I kinda agree.
We saw a few people decked out in flag attire…but not many. And no little flags.
Walmart is carrying lots of 4th red white and blue stuff….but we didn’t see much yesterday. It was cold and rainy…61 degrees at the time of the fireworks. So that might have played a role.
America is an idea combined with a group of people. I still love the idea and there are more good people than bad. I’m extremely disappointed by the infiltration of cultural institutions by revolutionary leftists but beyond that, I don’t have all that much to complain about. My life is still better than 99% of all humans throughout history largely due to American ingenuity. Short of having been born a corrupt member of the Saudi royal family, I can’t think of a better situation than what I have.
Well said. Sadly, I feel the same.
I wish I could grammar when I am sad.
I saw your post yesterday about XY coming back. Sorry. I had high hopes for him and that move straightening him out.
Thanks. Just wasn’t ready for independence. Lonely. Didn’t understand how much goes into being an adult.
I wouldn’t want to be alone in SD either! I went to college without any HS friends, which kinda sucked. What’s going to happen with the GF though?
The GF is a very complex and drama-filled topic that best not be out on the internet.
I went to college without any HS friends, and that was okay. I had grown up with the same 15 people in my whole graduating class (private school) and I was sick of their senior antics. In any case, I always knew I was leaving them anyway, so I was emotionally prepared all along. I did find out they didn’t write much because they were mad at me for leaving. I was like, “Dudes, you have known for 6 years I was leaving. Dafuq?”
And after being with the same 15 people, I LOVED being just a social security number at BYU. So freeing.
I’m so old I remember when exam (or was it semester?) grades for certain larger classes would be posted publicly under your ENTIRE SS number.
Good times.
(BTW, just sent you a quick e.)
It is a hard feat to pull off, I know I failed even with a sibling around that first time.
But, now his eyes are a little more open to the foibles of other people.
I had 2 false starts myself, but I was just stupid both times. All on me.
So much for Independence day for him! [He’ll get there.]
Hearsay and innuendo is our stock in trade
The January 6 committee has been split on the issue of criminal referrals, even as members are in wide agreement that Trump committed a crime when he pushed conspiracies about the 2020 election. Cheney told ABC News it was probable that the panel would take a stance on whether Trump should be prosecuted.
“We may well as a committee have a view on that,” she said. “If you just think about it from the perspective of: What kind of man knows that a mob is armed and sends the mob to attack the Capitol and further incites that mob when his own vice president is under threat?”
“It’s very chilling, and I think certainly we will continue to present to the American people what we’ve found,” she continued.
Cheney also said the committee had evidence corroborating Trump’s fury at being told he couldn’t go to the Capitol on January 6.
“The committee has significant evidence on a whole range of issues, including the President’s intense anger,” she said. “You will continue to see in coming days and weeks additional detail about the President’s activities and behavior on that day.”
“We didn’t actually see any weapons, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t have been there somewhere. Those people are capable of anything, you know.”
That really stood out to me… One notable feature was that they did not recovery any weapons… Except a flag pole. Yet they came armed and ready for insurrection.
Gaslighting is one thing… But wow.
They convicted some bastard because he had what they claimed was a holster, an empty holster. Based on the photo – it could’ve been a radio-bucket.
They have convinced themselves, mostly through removing any alternate media from their view, that they have the only acceptable opinions.
It’s the Pauline Kael version of politics “no one I know voted for Trump, therefor it must be due to fraud.”
Ok next do Hillary…
We didn’t actually see any weapons, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t have been there somewhere.
It was witchcraft! There be witches!!
wut?
Oh, please do run with that. 🙄
Maybe that’s what those ghost guns I keep reading about are able to do.
Wife learned an important lesson about smoking meat. You either wrap or at least ensure the meat is over the drip pan. Now for plan B.
These euphemisms…
What happened? Giant flare up and charcoal steak?
Yep.
I have given up on making cheap burgers on the grill because of this. We have a panini maker that will grill 4, and they are pretty good that way…. With no charcoal hockey pucks.
With inflation what it is, we don’t get the good hamburger any more. Stuff is more than crack
Another option – indirect heating during smoking process. 🙂 I really dislike that Traegors have a heating element directly under the grill surface instead of, off to the side. Indirect heating is slower, which is better for slow smoking AND no flare up. Just my 2 cents.
Younglings in formal attire should be ecouraged. A resurgence in formal dress is overdue, imo.
Just as long as they’re LARPing the Axe Gang from Kung Fu Hustle.
They convicted some bastard because he had what they claimed was a holster, an empty holster. Based on the photo – it could’ve been a radio-bucket.
Don’t forget the full-auto ty-raps. More deadly than a Claymore.
The ones that someone helpfully picked up and returned to capital police who had dropped them?
The aphids are back. Bigly.
Moar ladybugs & lacewings on order. Bonus: package comes with two praying mantises.
“”The consequences of climate change can exacerbate the risk of sexual & gender-based violence, especially those facing intersecting forms of discrimination including Indigenous women & girls. Listen to 🇦🇺’s #HRC50 annual statement discussion on women’s rights”
https://twitter.com/AusAmbGender/status/1541655448155131906
Can I get that with Thousand Island?
That is amazing… But still not as crazy as the assertion that banning abortion disproportionately impacts the LGBTQIA community.
Thou shall not re-arrange the victim stack!
white women hardest hit.
I’d say the lesson to be taken this 4th is to never let them take an inch.
Gaijin
Nothing more patriotic than big American titties on Independence Day.
https://archive.ph/ySavI
#2 is Mrs. Q’s boob twin.
“Bezos v. Biden”
Does that mean your personal vanity press is going to rein in the pro-Biden propaganda then Jeffy? I thought not. Don’t wanna risk those cocktail party invites.
GAY
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19077997/cheating-on-wife-various-gay-men/
When I drove through Blackfoot Saturday afternoon, after working at the house, There was a huge crowd gathering at the big park, presumably for festivities and fireworks.
I don’t do crowds, so I kept going.
Dayum, Rachel Ray chonked up.
Aw, poor thing’s house burned down; give her a break.
Circling the drain
For the first time in her life, Marine Corps Capt. Meleah Martin is refusing to wear American flag attire this Independence Day. Instead, she told her family that she will only wear pride colors and apparel. Not because she’s unpatriotic – she’s spent approximately 16 months deployed overseas as an F-18 pilot. But because she believes her constitutional rights are under attack.
Martin said it’s been disheartening to witness liberties such as the right to protest or to cast a ballot come under attack in recent years. Those frustrations turned to devastation for her with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, stripping away the constitutional right to an abortion. Martin hopes to someday start a family, but as someone who identifies as a lesbian, she’s scared her right to marry and have children may also be in danger.
As a result of these fears and frustrations, she said she doesn’t look at the American flag the way she used to.
“We swear an oath, ‘To support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic’ … Well, it’s time to start worrying about the domestic, because clearly we have more of a problem here than we do anywhere else,” Martin said, noting that her views are her own, and not a reflection of her unit or the Marine Corps. “It’s really disappointing when something like this happens, because, like, how do I defend that?”
Weep for this once-great nation, overrun by despotic racists and haters.
Her allegiance is to a new tribe now. Stunning and brave.
Am I supposed believe this ignorant fool wouldn’t hesitate to drop a bomb on a pro-life rally in the name of the Constitution she has probably never read?
She’s just itching to shoot some trumpaloes.
Her lesbian partner. This woman can fly a plane? It must not require much thinking.
Also love that my local NPR station is WITF.
If they find out their turkey baster baby is a boy.
Bepenised women are still women, TERFbigot!
The stupid is strong in the progressive mind… my lesbian partner may somehow knock me up!
My fav response lately has been to ask progtards to tell me which part of the Constitution gives them a right to an abortion. As you can imagine, I don’t get a concise answer but non-sense about old white men telling women what to do with their vaginas. SMH.
This is totally a reflection of the views of the majority of the military.
She resigned he commission when the USMC wouldn’t rename the pilot’s seating area the “cuntpit.”
“the aspiration of possessing the world’s fattest vagina, with the surgeries leaving her genitals looking like “female testicles”.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/model-fattest-vagina-loves-modifications-27393527
wut
That girls surgeon should probably face charges… I am all for personal choice.. but at some point “do no harm” enters the picture.
Isn’t Cronenberg’s new flick along these lines?
So not clicking that
It’s a trap!!!
The American military and its more than 1 million active-duty troops is traditionally seen as apolitical. But in the wake of a historic Supreme Court term that has shifted the nation to the right on everything from the Second Amendment and abortion, to the separation of church and state, service members and veterans on both sides of the political divide are finding it increasingly difficult to remain quiet.
For some, the shifts brought on by the court are cause for celebration. For others, their sentiments amount to a loss of trust and confidence in political leaders, and growing frustration with the country they are sworn to defend.
The Supreme Court’s generally unrecognized dictatorial power to rule the nation by decree. Back in chains, we are.
I like the implication that protecting 2nd amendment rights and protecting unborn children is going to turn the military against the Republicans who are running the country….
as someone who identifies as a lesbian, she’s scared her right to marry and have children may also be in danger.
She’s really living life on the edge.
They allowed states to restrict abortion…. Which endangers my ability to have children…..
Ok, I am in. I need to hear this logic train.
Someone, somewhere might want to choose to live their life with values of which she disapproves.
There is no logic here man. It’s just the feelz, all the way down.
If she did apply any logic, she might recognize that less abortions will probably equal more adoptions. And, since there is no penis in her relationship, adoption is probably her best avenue for having children. Just a thought…
Is she a lesbian that sucks dick, or a TERF?
So is she a lesbian, or does she just identify as one?
I’m not a lesbian; i only play one on TV.
When it comes to talk of the future, she and her girlfriend often discuss marriage and raising children. And though her partner already has a daughter, the two talk about artificial insemination and who would carry their child. But now she’s concerned about what that could look like should a pregnancy put her or her partner’s life at risk.
Martin is scared she may find herself at a duty station in a state where abortion is outlawed. If she and her partner needed to travel to have an abortion, Martin would need to have a leave request approved by her commanding officer, who might have differing views on the issue.
Paralyzed by imaginary fears. You should spend more time worrying about getting killed in a car crash or drowning in your bath tub. Or dying in an Osprey.
Yeah, the number of pro-lifers who want to restrict abortion even when the mothers life is in danger is so small as to be effectively zero.
Nah. Why, NPR even claims to have interviewed one in that very article in one of the rare incidences of allowing any opinion outside the hive mind to be shared on their site.
“The boogeyman is real! We talked to one.”
An additional fear that weighs on Martin is whether she and her partner will be able to get married in the not-too-distant future.
What a horrorscape. So strong and independent she cannot imagine herself living in a world in which her personal relationships are not officially validated by the government.
Happy Independence Day! Enjoy your freedom and food and drinks! I hear there’s a “Fuck the Fourth” thing going on. If you partake, please use protection.
OH NOES!!! Those cheaters done stole out slogan!
Now that anti-vaccination groups have laid claim to “My Body, My Choice,” abortion rights groups are distancing themselves from it — marking a stunning annexation of political messaging.
“It’s a really savvy co-option of reproductive rights and the movement’s framing of the issue,” said Lisa Ikemoto, a law professor at the University of California-Davis Feminist Research Institute. “It strengthens the meaning of choice in the anti-vaccine space and detracts from the meaning of that word in the reproductive rights space.”
Framing the decision to vaccinate as a singularly personal one also obscures its public health consequences, Ikemoto said, because vaccines are used to protect not just one person but a community of people by stopping the spread of a disease to those who can’t protect themselves.
Celinda Lake, a Democratic strategist and pollster based in Washington, D.C., said “My Body, My Choice” is no longer polling well with Democrats because they associate it with anti-vaccination sentiment.
These people can’t take a shit without poll numbers, apparently.
“University of California-Davis Feminist Research Institute”
Your tax dollars at work.
Nothing to do with showing “my body, my choice” is an absolute lie from people who want to control you, body and soul.
“Framing the decision to vaccinate as a singularly personal one also obscures its public health consequences”
Careful there. Once you say the collective gets to dictate medical and health procedures that it takes an interest in, you have opened the door to the collective taking an interest in, say, falling birth rates.
Now won’t that be the irony, when the progressive dictatorship devolves into Giliad.
Then came COVID. The Trump administration politicized the pandemic from the outset, starting with masks and stay-at-home orders. Republican leaders and white evangelicals implemented that strategy on the ground, Reich said, arguing against vaccine mandates when COVID vaccines were still only theoretical — scaring people with rhetoric about the loss of personal choice and images of vaccine passports.
“scaring people with rhetoric about the loss of personal choice and images of vaccine passports.” Completely unjustified rhetoric, of course. No such things ever happened or were attempted.
NPR is just hitting them out of the park, today.
Republican leaders and white evangelicals implemented that strategy on the ground, Reich said, arguing against vaccine mandates when COVID vaccines were still only theoretical — scaring people with rhetoric about the loss of personal choice and images of vaccine passports.
Fuck right off. I have emails in my inbox showing leftist non-profits working on messaging and “behavior modification” for the “vaccine hesitant” masses as of October 2020, and it was a program that existed well before then.
These people are evil, they are liars, and they hate us and want us dead.
Indeed. They’re attempt to redefine what actually happen is rather telling.
So is she a lesbian, or does she just identify as one?
She’s a lesbian when she’s in the box.
Hi-yooooo!
Watching Dry Bar comedy today.
I like this guy. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_T3g1jt-A&t=625s
Happy 4th everyone. Seems to be normal flag waving and sales around here. Head dipshits at my company couldn’t send out a simple 4th of July message but had to try to bring their crap into it (while earnestly claiming to do otherwise). Whatever, they’re dipshits.
Making corn potage for the freezer, then going to pick up a chicken dinner from the church booth at the nearby 4th celebration. And ordering some Made in England tools to really celebrate the day.
I’ve become a convert to this as a new national anthem. Thank you to whoever suggested it last year.
https://youtu.be/c5BL4RNFr58
Who doesn’t need a set of whitworth wrenches?
Are they worth a whit?
Sometimes they are just what you need to get yourself unscrewed.
Especially if they’re nice AF*.
(*across flats)
Just regular modern sizing. Found a place selling NOS Britools before they went overseas. The hallmark of rounded off nuts, or something like that.
I do! (Has three vintage British Bicycles, used to own a BSA motorcycle.)
Was at the grocery store. Prices are stupid. I’m not paying $4/lb for potatoes.
Oreo is the American KitKat wrt contant flavor invention – I see they have nutella ones now.
Count Potato is going to be Duke Potato at that rate.
The new Reese’s stuff is trying my self-restraint to the breaking point. Happily, the prices for candy are forcing me to cut down on their stock in the staff break room – no way I can justify charging just 50 cents per serving. The snack fund would dwindle to zero in no time, and I’m trying to postpone as long as possible raising the default price for everything to 75 cents.
Can confirm, some of the new bars are fantastic. Potato chip cup was interesting.
Source:. Father’s day was a basket of assorted Reese’s.
Oh! My! 🤤
And, as with all father’s day gifts that are not ties, the hoard rapidly consumed all but a few items.
To their credit, they did wait until after I broke the seal the next day. But then it was game on! I was lucky to get what little I did.
Dionne Warwick did it first.
The torch has been passed from Betty White.
Hey, let’s have a round of congratulations for the US Men’s Under 20 Team – qualified for the U-20 World Cup, the Olympics and defended their U-20 CONCACAF championship!
Dude, where are you seeing these games? Needing some soccer games right now.
Have any of you guys done homemade mozzarella? Is it as easy as it looks?