Rubble found at Georgia Guidestones site after reports of a ‘boom’ overnight
ELBERTON, Ga. — An investigation is underway at the mysterious Georgia Guidestones site after people reported hearing a boom and then rubble was found at the site.
The guidestones sit on a site 7 miles north of Elberton on Georgia Highway 77 and are often referred to as an American Stonehenge. (Read more below)Sky 4 flew over the site about 11:40 a.m. and saw one of the stones destroyed and another one damaged.
Chris Smith said he took the picture above about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
He said he lives about a mile behind the guidestones and didn’t hear anything unusual.
However, some people who live a little closer said they heard and felt an explosion at about 4 a.m.
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The media will be quick to blame anti-environmentalists due to the stones’ dangerous message of mass genocide, eugenics, anti-individualism and general hippie nonsense.
The inscriptions on the Guidestones are meant for current and future generations. Sandblasted along the square capstone sitting atop the structure is the basic message: “Let these be guidestones to an age of reason,” in Babylonian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Sanskrit, and classical Greek. The four granite slabs, each weighing 42,137 pounds and standing more than sixteen feet in height, list ten “guides” for mankind in eight different languages. The languages represented on the four major stones are Arabic, Chinese, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili. The engraved messages can be subdivided into four major areas: governance and the establishment of a world government, population and reproduction control, the environment and humankind’s relationship to nature, and spirituality.
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule Passion — Faith — Tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
OK. #7 isn’t that bad. But in practice, it will leave room for a Birkenstock on your neck rather than a boot.
July’s List of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Is Here, and It’s Huge
A SugarFree QuickGuide to the least of the offerings:
Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore
Ten years after a famous magician vanishes onstage, her introverted sister
Nope (Extra Half-Nope for Pun Title)
Flying the Coop by Lucinda Roy
The Dreambird Chronicles continue
Nope (Extra Half-Nope for Pun Title)
The Icarus Plot by Timothy Zahn
A new sci-fi series begins as a one-armed bounty hunter and his partner, an alien with a super-sensitive sense of smell
Nope
The Jigsaw Assassin by Catherine Asaro
The Major Bhaajan series continues
Nope
Silk Fire by Zabé Ellor
In a massive matriarchal city
Nope
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Over three decades, a pair of childhood friends grow up to become hugely successful video game designers in this novel examining “the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect.”
Five Nopes in a Row Nope
August Kitko and the Mechas From Space by Alex White
A jazz pianist
Nope
Barbarian Lover by Ruby Dixon
The Ice Planet Barbarians series continues
Romance Novel Nope
Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik
A bounty hunter finds herself in a tight spot—and forced to work closely with an enticing teammate
Romance Novel Nope
Half Outlaw by Alex Temblador
In this tale filled with magical realism
Nope
Hooked by A.C. Wise
The latest dark Peter Pan tale
Fan Fiction Double Nope
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
After a fisherman rescues a mermaid who’s been kidnapped by tourists, he further helps her as she slowly begins to transform back into a human. (July 12)
Splash Nope
The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta
This “part space-age epistolary, part eco-thriller, and love story between two individuals from very different worlds”
Romance Novel/Eco-Thriller Douple Nope
They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe
After she splits from her wife, a woman and her young daughter move to her seaside hometown to stay with her aging mother
Woman Returns To Family Home Trope Nope
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
This retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Fan Fiction Nope
(Also… What Moves The Dead? Well, since it is the House of Usher, I’m going with incest and a little necrophilia.)
Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Dawn of Yangchen by F.C. Yee
The Chronicles of Avatar series continues in this origin story for the ultimately powerful Yangchen.
NO! JUST NO!
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
This tale set on Dr. Moreau’s estate—filled with the mad scientist’s human-animal hybrids—expands the world dreamed up by H.G. Wells
Fan Fiction Nope
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
A woman returns home at the request of her estranged mother and discovers some suspiciously unsettling reminders of her father, a serial killer who buried his victims on the family property.
Woman Returns To Family Home Trope Nope
The Last Storm by Tim Lebbon
In a world where climate change
Nope
Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason
This anthology spotlights authors from historically excluded backgrounds
Nope Nope Nope
Priest of Crowns by Peter McLean
The War for the Rose Throne series continues
Nope
Youngblood by Sasha Laurens
At a swanky boarding school for vampires
YA Nope
The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne
This retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale
Fan Fiction Nope
The Eye of Scales by Tracy Hickman and Richard Garriott
The fantasy series based on the Shroud of the Avatar game
Game Tie-In Nope
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
In 2083, aliens arrive on Earth to convince humanity to leave their climate change-ravaged planet
Nope
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadow
Two royal scions from neighboring kingdoms are pressed into an arranged marriage—a far from ideal situation that at least acknowledges the fact that they’re both gay men. They’ll have to learn to trust each other (and maybe fall in love?) when they’re targeted by a murderous foe.
Romance Novel Nope
When Stars Come Out by Scarlett St. Clair
Being the new kid at school is rough enough even when you don’t have magical abilities
YA Nope
Stealing Infinity by Alyson Noël
In this contemporary fantasy, a student with a peculiar gift
YA Nope
Best political ad of the mid-terms. I’m calling it now.
Make Rifles Great Again 💪🏿
👉https://t.co/J7lHnodhku#JeroneForCongress#2A #SelfDefense pic.twitter.com/Gs6iAHVVAP
— Jerone Davison for Congress #AZCD4 (@Jerone4Congress) July 6, 2022
message of mass genocide, eugenics, anti-individualism and general hippie nonsense.
While we are taking down monuments…
Good point, CNN’s enough of a monument to Ted Turner’s vanity anyway (can’t prove it but I suspect he was behind their construction).
The Georgia Encyclopedia article to which Sug linked above explicitly states that the monument is on county-owned land. The Wikipedia article indicates that the monument is on privately-owned land, but I haven’t followed the references through to their original sources. Both GE and Wikipedia indicate that the monument was privately funded and erected.
The Wikipedia article I read says the the person who erected them (on behalf of a group of people) “… later transferred ownership of the land and the guidestones to Elbert County.” The county assessor website there also says it is county owned.
Aliens all the way down!
ET can deep throat?
Who’d a thunk?
Screw Congress Jerone, go straight to the top, do pass go, do collect $200 (or rounds) and make us proud.
Queue up scene from Blazing Saddles as he arrives at the Capitol: “no one moves or…”.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands…
*sigh*
It almost has to, really.
2019 seems like a long time ago, doesn’t it?
It does.
I was locked out of my office today. Thankfully my boss saw me and let me in. My crime? Not dutifully getting my covid nose swab and uploading the results to our HR portal in time. Oh, and now I have to pay $128 for a swab and then wait for insurance to reimburse me.*
*i haven’t confirmed this, but I stopped when they wanted me to enter my credit card info, which wasn’t required in the past.
*queue the busy office music as HR charges $1,000 of porno on your card
At this point, I’d gladly pay the blue hairs $1k in old issues of Hairy Pits, Shaved Slits if they’d stop turning off my badge access each week.
https://youtu.be/DvCrDIPSEM4?t=163
A reply to that thread on the police firing on farmers: Wow, see the Uruguay news. Pfizer has 48 hours to prove vaccine works or Uruguay doesn’t want it. I love that country.” Anybody heard of this before?
You’d think this would be newsworthy but crickets from the MSM.
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Just enough of me, waaaaay too many of those other people.
So 500 million humans. Everyone else are expendable untermensch.
Absurd Trolley Problems
I got 69. ///Giggity
Glibertarian Quordle!
Know what comes after 69?
Mouthwash.
There’s no excuse, ever, for not using enough explosives. It’s like leaving a putt short in golf.
It would be an interesting exercise to calculate how much Tannerite you’d need to pulverize four 42-thousand pound slabs. You can’t take it for granite that you’d automatically have enough.
That was stone cold.
They should start again from a clean slate.
That’s Rocky… Janet.
Are you drilling holes? My old demo math seemed to imply that properly packed explosives add about a 20X factor.
Although I’m not sure that tannerite has the proper velocity for cutting.
Drilling boreholes would take a while, but there’s always the possibility of tamping the charge with water bags. If there’s a hosepipe nearby you could fill them on-site…
Make sure you do a good job of sizing up your quarry.
You could shoot it with a basalt rifle.
Gneiss one, Teds’s’
I don’t give two schists about your opinion.
Give it a chance to metamorphize.
You can’t take it for granite
Ore really? I can do whatever I want! You ain’t the loess of me.
Can’t find the train explosion scene from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
https://youtu.be/wdKveFZd40A?t=111
Well, they’ll stone you when you’re tryin’ to be so good.
They’ll stone you just like they said they would.
They’ll stone you when you’re trying to go home.
Then they’ll stone you when you’re there all alone.
But I would not feel so all alone.
Everybody must get stoned.
I like the new avatar, but it’s not as clear what it is as the previous one.
I honestly didn’t notice it had changed. How’s this one?
Much better. I was seeing something totally different in the old avatar at first.
https://twitter.com/treyradel/status/1544672145321693187
That is a clever, though could have been a bit cleaner, way to turn Newsome’s opening pitch on running (not running) for president ad on its head.
That’s hilarious. I’d love to see a Newsom v DeSantis matchup in 24. Greasy Gav actually thinks he has some kind of chance. “Let’s run the country like California” would’ve been an okay campaign in 1985 perhaps, these days, it is a joke. He’d lose by the greatest margin since Reagan v Mondale.
He might get Kamala Harris poll numbers.
Carhenge is the American Stonehenge.
Stonehenge is the British Carhenge.
The best Stonehenge is in Goldendale Washington. It isn’t all broken and run down like that shitty British one.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YOtqhRM6mU0/maxresdefault.jpg
That ad is spectacular! – Jackie Childs
OT – Do you think he met with Clinton or Epstein?
Russian Oligarch Yuri Voronov Found Dead in Swimming Pool
Jackie Chiles!
and casings
Hmm, multiple shots in a suicide?
My first thought too.
I think that was kind of the point. Anyone who could potentially foment trouble for Vlad needs to begone.
Everyone else in the Russia-verse gets to see what happens to those who could cause problems for him.
Another victim of COVID. Sad.
These cuntes haven’t learned yet I guess.
A Virginia school district is prohibiting teachers from consulting parents when students as young as kindergarten-age switch genders at school.
Fairfax County Public Schools is instructing teachers and administrators to forgo parents’ permission when a student requests to use a bathroom or locker room associated with his or her so-called gender identity, according to screenshots of a mandatory faculty training module obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The district will also allow schoolchildren without parental consent to change their names and on its virtual learning portal “identify as male, female, or nonbinary.” Teachers could not proceed with the “Supporting Gender-Expansive and Transgender Youth” training until they checked the correct boxes, regardless of their personal beliefs.
Burn NoVA to the ground and salt the earth.
Let me know before you get started, please.
So you can join in?
At the very least, I have some helpful suggestions…
This stuff may get VA to change their laws to permit charter schools.
Utter goo and drivel. There is no “perpetual balance” in nature. What these idiots think of as ‘balance’ is a drunkard’s walk through a vast and continually changing fitness landscape. You can’t keep any balance perpetually; species adapt or die.
Doesn’t mean they won’t try though
Doesn’t mean the won’t keep trying.
“Nature” is trying to kill you. One day, she will succeed.
Next you’ll be telling me the Black Sea and the Sahara Desert are less than 10,000 years old or that a third of the planet was covered in ice just a few thousand years before that. All the while different species around the globe were either slowly thriving or slowly dying off.
OK, if you like:
“The Black Sea and the Sahara Desert are less than 10,000 years old or that a third of the planet was covered in ice just a few thousand years before that. All the while different species around the globe were either slowly thriving or slowly dying off.”
Heh.
#1s & 2 are pretty much antithetical to 6, 7, & 8. How do you maintain a population size and guide reproductive rights across the globe without an all-intrusive global government run by meddling bureaucrats that stomps on individual rights?
Carousel!
I wonder how they got the guns.
Police in Richmond, Virginia, said Wednesday that they thwarted a planned July 4 mass shooting after receiving a tip that led to the arrest of two men and the seizure of multiple guns — an announcement that came just two days after a deadly mass shooting on the holiday in a Chicago suburb.
A “hero citizen” overheard a conversation indicating there was an attack being planned on the city’s popular Independence Day celebration and called police to report it, Police Chief Gerald Smith said at a news conference.
Police initiated an investigation, along with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FBI, which led to the arrests of two men on charges of being a non-U.S. citizen in possession of a firearm. Additional charges are possible, Smith said.
Wow. A gun story where the cops acted appropriately.
‘charges of being a non-U.S. citizen in possession of a firearm’
Uh… Is that constitutional? I don’t remember the second amendment being restricted to citizens.
Permanent legal residents may also own guns. I think that leaves out the temporary and undocumented.
B
arobarian Lover by Ruby DixonDon’t knock it til you tried it.
NOPE
Hippies lost me at 1.
But that song is glorious!
Fuckin’ animal’s comment sent me after some Joe Walsh.
That’s the first time a political ad gave me a stiffie.
It was the AR, wasn’t it?
It helped.
Yeah, I love that version of the scary black man.
Thanks for the song. I saw TMBG at Metro in Chicago in the 80’s. High school was fun now that I look back at it.
I believe they’re back out doing a Flood tour now. Mask/vax requested at all shows (and one of the Johns had to cancel part of the tour due to a car accident, he’s back with the band now).
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Dear Birthing Person,
We have noticed that you have failed to log your menstruation this month as required by law. Please correct this or report to the nearest Gaia Abortion Service Provider for mandatory reproductive freedom.
And then composting.
“Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”
That probably has a significant number of the formerly My Body My Choice crowd nodding in agreement.
Fireworks can be such a headache.
A San Antonio man was killed by fireworks on Monday night, according to the San Antonio Police Department.
It happened around 12:20 a.m. in the 800 block of Harriman Place on the city’s Southwest Side.
The medical examiner’s office identified the man killed as Pablo Ruiz, 43. His cause of death was determined to be a head injury due to a fireworks mishap/incident.
According to police, a witness and Ruiz were shooting fireworks and had been drinking when he decided to light a mortar-style firework from on top of his head.
Police said the firework exploded from the bottom of the tube, piercing the man. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A couple of years ago someone died from a fireworks accident in the next town over, near some friends of ours. The mortar malfunctioned, and the guy looked into it. And then it functioned, literally taking off his head, in front of his wife and kids. They found pieces of his head two houses over.
There were a couple of house fires this year here that were attributed to “kids” throwing fireworks towards the buildings.
Darwin award. A couple of decades ago, when I used to help my buddy with a local fireworks show, the rule was to wait a *minimum* of 30 minutes before starting to break down. One time during the show a 4 in shell exploded right at the top of the mortar tube. It was REALLY LOUD. The mortar tube was peeled back at the top like Elmer Fudd’s rifle barrel. i can easily see that taking someone’s head off.
A July 4th cook-off.
Got to admire a guy who goes out with a bang.
I hope this thread fizzles soon …
Really? I thought it was a bit of a sparkler.
Why do I have to admire Jimmie Walker?
… Do I have a commercial for you!
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/OHLI/the-medicare-helpline-extra-2021-medicare-benefits-featuring-jimmie-walker
NUKE IT FROM ORBIT, SALT THE EARTH, THEN NUKE IT AGAIN JUST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE
Maybe he had it upside down?
No details yet, but a local man here died from fireworks this year
Was he vaccinated?
Explosive COVID death?
There has emerged a video of HippieHenge being asploded.
https://twitter.com/21stCenturyWire/status/1544767760051339264
L. O. L.
So clearly there was a camera fixed on this 24/7. Why did we only get the footage of the explosion since there is obviously footage of the explosive rigging as well?
Publicity stunt?
I seem to recall a CNN sponsored video that got leaked after the first airing that showed extended footage where people were seen rushing onto the screen to lie down and pretend to be dead after a “terrorist attack” in the Middle East during the early Obama administration but Duck Duck Go has kinda gone the way of Google and memory holed a lot of videos and articles that counter the narrative.
Anyway, I was going to link that.
this is the one I remember
Nay, this was supposed news footage of a suicide bombing in (I think) Syria or Lybia in the early 2010’s were actors dressed in ragged clothing and wearing fake blood rushed into the camera’s field of view on a street/set filled with burning debris and ruble on a city street. I’m wanting to say Syria because the Assad angle was making the news regularly back then. Could easily be wrong but my mind isn’t so far gone as to be misremembering if the incident occurred. It was hilarious and stuck with m. Reminded me of a young Kristen Dunts and her role in Wag The Dog.
Not bad. I would have tried to cut out a few chunks from the bases of the upright slabs, maybe get them to topple over and shatter.
Giant cannonball. Knocking them over would be so satisfying.
Let’s go bowling!
Well since you asked…
Let’s Go Bowling! – Rude 69
Here I thought it would be this…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=INnFvMgET1E
#metoo
#methree
That’s way too predictable. Besides, if I was going to do that song, it would be this version.
Where did the Georgia Guidestones come from?
It was aliens, wasn’t it?
The Greys giveth, and the Greys taketh away.
They were beamed down by aliens circling in their Georgia satellites. You damned apes were supposed to keep your damned dirty hands off them, but then you blew it all up.
Nope, it was the New World Order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Unearthed#Season_2_(2013%E2%80%9314)
Also: https://www.history.com/shows/america-unearthed/season-2/episode-2
Best political ad? It ain’t even the best political ad by an African American politician (possibly NSFW)
Floor painted in two more rooms. Light(ish) slate blue. I like it. The next guy can do as he pleases.
Democrats in Klan hoods?
Preposterous.
I can’t believe it’s Wednesday already. Tulip is too busy to trifle with us, and asked me to kick off the Wednesday Evening GlibZoom, which I will do at the usual hour of 20:00 ET.
Speaking of that… I’m going to be otherwise indisposed this Friday evening, what with going to a beer fest and punk concert all day.
Either Tulip or I will host. I’ll talk to her later and see if she wants to; if not, I’ve got it. Have fun.
Pulleeeeaze. If you were going to a real beer fest, you’d be in Minnesoda
I’ve been to the GABF before, that was an interesting time.
This story keeps on giving.
This is a followup to the story I posted this morning about Minnesoda legalizing THC edibles and drinks. Turns out that they snuck the law into another bill and didn’t have any taxes or regulations about who could sell them because they didn’t want to alert everyone to what was in the amendment.
To all the people whining about the law, maybe you ought to actually read the laws you are voting on?
Guess which GOP person is the smarter one?
I’ve had the “pleasure” of meeting Jim Abeler when I was naive enough to think I could help improve governance by working within the GOP.
I was not impressed.
Uffda. What would you expect from someone who comes from Anoka? He became senator because he had the most boss Polaris jacket. (Democrats go with the flashiest ArtiCat jacket).
To all the people whining about the law, maybe you ought to actually read the laws you are voting on?
But, Your Holiness, they had to pass it to find out what was in it.
To all the people whining about the law, maybe you ought to actually read the laws you are voting on?
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Repeal of Roe v. Wade is already having dire consequences.
The poor handmaidens in our New Patriarchy – denied access to home pregnancy tests – a having to resort torabbit tests and the results are dire.
OK, maybe the rabbits are just being killed by a crazy person.
But a organization named Peacebunny is funny. Said organization being located in a town named Savage is even better.
Roger and me – Pets or meat
TW – Evil Commie Apologist
So many small animal rescue organizations end up like this. People start these organizations and quickly become overwhelmed with the large number of animals given to them, coupled with their inability to say “no,” when they reach their capacity. These people don’t always have the best organizational skills wrt getting and managing volunteers, scheduling, etc. They eventually suffer organizational fatigue and collapse into nightmare situations like this.
Our oldest spawn runs an informal bunny rescue. Fortunately it’s in a small enough community that she doesn’t get overwhelmed, especially since she’s also working two jobs and running her own little clinic.
Upside is our granddaughter (this girl’s niece) is getting into 4-H and she’ll be raising bunnies as part of that, with advice and assistance from Auntie. Small towns are great like that.
Another problem is that these organizations usually can’t buy medical supplies, either to help the animals get back to baseline and find a new home or blue juice to humanely put animals down. Vets are cost prohibitive as anything but a luxury for pets or for large operations that can spread the cost out.
There was a small animal rescue who was able to fund medical care by getting the vet to prescribe wholesale quantities. Then she would sell doses retail on her website to those looking for the prescription meds without wanting to go through the whole vet scam markup thing*. That paid for her rescue’s medical costs. Her website got found and shutdown after a few years.
*~I pay $30 a year total for 48 doses of heartworm medication for 4 dogs. Exact same active ingredient that’s in the heartworm pills prescribed by a vet.
The kid has an “in” with a local vet. Don’t know the details, but I do know she pays the costs out of her pocket. She’s not a formal rescue, no tax exemptions or anything, but then she usually only has 4-5 bunnies in house at any time, aside from the 2-3 that are actually hers.
A good example is Clavimox, which is basically amoxicillin. My vet would hand it out for around $80 (for an ~50+ lb/dog). I can get the same dose/amount generic from my Kroger pharmacy for around $12
So which does it need?
Russia’s Tactical Shift in Ukraine Raises Prospect of Protracted War
The West should help Ukraine get more Russian-made weapons, ammo from around the world, think tank says
We can send them all the fully semi-automatic assault weapons owned by civilians if we are brave enough to ban their possession.
I don’t get it. Why do they have to be Soviet-era? Aren’t we already flooding them with American-made weapons?
Because they are already trained on Soviet era weapons.
I wonder if we’re training them, too.
You. All.
https://twitter.com/TheVerdadnow/status/1544741646885175298
Oh man. That is the meme we need today.
LOL
Damn you, MikeS!
Oh sure, you and Mike S are stepping all over each other, while my twerking politician link above gets no love!
😁
Does anybody know how to open a gun safe with a damaged lock? No combo, obvs- came with the house.
Somebody has drilled a 1/4″ hole at about eight oclock behind where the dial would be.
What make and model of safe?
I’m guessing you don’t possess an oxy/acetylene torch.
Perhaps the Lock Picking Lawyer can help:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lockpickinglawyer+gun+safe+
https://youtu.be/wdKveFZd40A?t=111
Call a safe-qualified locksmith?
Find the particular weakness of that model and attack that. YouTube and the internet are really useful for that, if it has any model number or snag identifying info enter that and see what comes up.
Skinny wheel
Where’s Doomco?
Where’s Evan? I don’t read every link but pretty damn close and he kinda went silent soon after getting back to the States. It was good to see Suthen check in a few weeks back…also, Commodius (sp?) Spittoon. He seems just as unbalanced as I am and I haven’t seen him post in months…I worry.
Evan’s been around. I think he posted 3 or 4 days ago.
Right on, good to know.
For all I know there’s a release on the inside. I’m tempted to blast a window in the back with a holesaw.
This must be some of that New Professionalism Scalia told us about.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/06/georgia-sheriff-sergeant-threaten-arrest-traffic-stop/
Apparently Super Troopers was a documentary.
“You know, while y’all are settling this shit, I think I’m outta here.”
*ducks, hits the gas*
Them Duke boys is in a world of trouble…
Too early or too late for GlibFit. I’m quite impressed with my mother who climbed to the top of a big tower of the Grossmünster Cathedral in Zurich. It’s 187 steps. She’s 68. Just a few quick brakes and that wasn’t a big deal. And then we continued walking all over the area, like to the house where Lenin lived and Zürichhorn.
This is the picture on my Demotivational calendar this month
I have a small Government demotivator that I kept on my desk when I worked in government space.
I do the build your own calendar every year but I can’t recall what this month is….
Apologies if drugs, ass, etc., but I’m still trying to figure out if this is satire, or something else.
If Joe Biden’s presidency continues on its current track, he’ll be remembered in a similar way — as a visionary, at least on certain domestic policy issues, who was largely ignored by his peers.
I’ll leave it for you to digest the rest, if you’re into derp.
Americans are not worthy.
VA craft beer update. Got informed by my manager about the new Ice House brewery downtown colonial Beach. Made it there last Sunday, walked home before the fireworks. Flight + 2 pints – some good stuff (and hush puppies and burger). Will definitely walk down there again.
Currently at Vibrant Shores brewing VA Beach. One flight in already and working on a witbier pint and some food truck munchies. Will follow up with their tasty raspberry gose. Good times. Gonna buy some gifts here too – great shirts!
Alex Jones weighs in on HippieHenge
https://twitter.com/skifflegirl/status/1544716401151094789
What make and model of safe?
It’s a Browning. Says “prosteel” on the name plate. I don’t see a serial numberr wher the internet says it should be; unless it’s on the INSIDE. Which is helpful.
Good lord. I’m already getting hammered and I still know how to thread my replies ;p
I know that you’re no longer in Montana but Art and Ray’s in Missoula was able to help me open Dad’s 4-drawer safe over the phone. They saved me (and cost themselves) a $400 service call to Thompson Falls.
https://artandrays.com/
If you want any possibility of keeping the safe intact, call a safe and vault technicians. They’ll be able to defeat what’s left of the lock, probably inside an hour.
If you don’t care, you might be able to tip the safe forward (onto the door), then attack the back with a large circular saw and a carbide blade (https://carbideprocessors.com/heavy-metal-plus-saw-blade-7-dia-36t-0-073-kerf-20mm-arbor-mtcg-grind-tenryu-hm-18036bw). Most gun safe bodies consist of two sheets of 12ga. steel, separated by an inch or two of drywall. Not too hard to get through.
Yup. If it’s not salvageable and/or you don’t care if it is, the grinder and bimetal hole saw are your friends. I’ve gotten into many safes that way.
Scott Adams getting dark today. Not a lot of details though
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1544679510674587648?t=ezVFAl_fgD40PTONdzuxPw&s=19 – thread
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1544763090675179520?t=VmUgfQKRkD7488y_fzKNHQ&s=19
I think there are other solutions but that comes from my personal philosophy and worldview.
Scott isn’t being dark enough.
I think Scott’s crossed the “IDGAF gap” a while ago, and some days I can’t blame him. I’ve had run-ins, as a senior, with teenaged boys that were essentially uncontrollable by their parents and an obvious danger to people, and there weren’t any good solutions to stopping their antisocial behaviours and helping ’em to fly right — even the RCMP I talked to said that they were running into too many teens like ’em and thought their end-state was all-too-foreseeable and not at all pleasant, either for them or their ultimate unfortunate victims (or most often, both).
“He needed killin’ ” was a sentiment and a defense from Texas criminal law that I didn’t understand until then.
Relevant?
Yeah.
Psychopathy is a real thing, and upbringing doesn’t cause it, and there’s no way to treat it. Your choices narrow down to execution or permanent incarceration.
It’s profoundly unpleasant to think that there are some problems that just can’t be solved.
How many teens who are supposedly a danger to self and others actually go on to kill (others) though? They might have a relatively high chance of having a miserable life but the percentage of them that turn into killers has to be pretty low. That being said, he does have a good point about the various programs that aim to fix troubled youth as they largely don’t work.
I don’t think there are any solutions. It’s not a current culture problem and it’s not a media glorification that leads to copycats problem. The existence of extremely rare sick psychotic fucks has predated both. The only option is to limit the damage by not restricting the rights of citizens to be armed. These animals can be put down quickly.
It’s possible the media publicity leads some to go mass murder all at once instead of slowly picking off elementary aged kids playing the woods over a decade. But that’s just a change in the methods rather than igniting the cause. It would be interesting to see if there is an association between an increase in the number of mass killers and a decrease in the number of estimated active serial killers. If just 0.0001% of the United States population had these tendencies, that number would be more than sufficient to cover mass killers, both serial killers and those who go all in at once.
I’m convinced that some of the problem is people with broken brains who do not feel empathy. I’m not sure that’s all of the problem.
I think your right that not feeling empathy is necessary but not sufficient. The percentage of people who don’t feel empathy is probably much higher, and the lack of empathy is separate from an urge to kill. And even then, most of the people without empathy and an urge to kill still don’t deliberately target innocents.
A gang banger may not shed a tear if an innocent gets caught up in a shooting, but even they aren’t deliberately going into a school and executing each child in a classroom.
It’s interesting to me how the serial killer pathology tends to be sexualized in nature (“I remember it was very exciting … there was actually a sexual thrill … It was kind of an exalted triumphant type thing, like taking the head of a deer or an elk or something would be to a hunter.”), versus what appears to be a very much power dynamic focused pathology in mass shooters.
Different parts of the brain being broken? Different expressions of the same brokenness chosen by environmental factors? I dunno.
There was an episode of Evil where a family had just had a baby who was in danger of her sociopath much older brother. He was actively trying to kill the baby. They tried an exorcism. Didn’t work. When the Mulder&Scully-like duo went back to check on the family at the end of the episode, the couple said the kid ran away. The duo was walking away from the front door and the Scully-like person said to the Mulder-like person, “They killed their son.”
They did not seem bothered by this.
When your child is a psychopath
I really enjoyed the first season of Evil, I need to pick up the second season and see if they kept it going.
It was very well done, but it hit a little too close to my belief-in-evil buttons. I stopped watching it when stalker demon dude got too creepy.
There’s no such thing as too creepy.
+1 BTK killer
+2 Golden State Killer/East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker.
I enjoyed the level of ambiguity they left through the show (at least through season 1, that may be gone in later seasons). And I assume you’re referring to Leland?
Yes. Even his name screams “demon creep.”
I only read a little way in. Is the new treatment to put them into a career in politics?
You gotta get them out of their killing younger siblings phase.
Damn.
I’m just kind of feeling like thanking God at this point.
Got harassed by a psychotic bicyclist on the way home…
Fun times, need to up my home security.
Snipers?
Cameras more likely.
Wish I had that kind of cash.
I like the taxonomy of nope.
We’re building a house and local code requires a storm shelter built in any house with a “daylight” basement. Apparently they don’t realize around here we go out and look for the tornado when the sirens go off. Anyways we have a 8×6 concrete room that will become our new gun room. Anyone have recommendations for a safe door?
This one held up to an attack from LITERALLY HITLER
http://zykansafe.com/
https://www.brownsafe.com/estate-vault-doors/index.html
Your daily dose of Sanford & son:
https://youtu.be/0UDkRxwhsKo
Neat little short about wheelie luggage
https://twitter.com/FreeToChooseNet/status/1544676287415046144
Wheelie luggage was one of the best inventions ever for semi-professional travelers.
Word.
You probably use a fannie pack, too, don’t you?
Real men carry their luggage.
Don’t tell anyone I said this, but you’re absolutely right.
Real men carry their luggage, and real women hire men to carry their luggage.
Real men have orphans to carry their luggage,
Real men push all of their belongings in a grocery cart, while wearing a blanket and shouting about the president.
The last one strikes me as the most correct answer. Things are only invented once they are useful.
Rolling luggage should be illegal.
BIden is suing Arizona over a law that requires proof of citizenship to vote.
That’s a bold move, given the current make-up of the Supreme court.
just closed the books on the past 12 months
in current dollars, I just had my best year ever by a good 20%
in real dollars, I’m a full 15% behind where I was over two decades ago
I’m not complaining; some of that is by choice, and I like my lifestyle; it’s just a general observation about earning power because I suspect I’m still on a better curve than most
I’ve been out n the “back yard” bushwacking grass (mixed with pea vines or something similar) higher than Kristen Sinema’s boots.
I just like saying that.
*I say pea vines because the smell of the thrashed-up vines reminds me of my grandmother shelling fresh peas from the garden for dinner. Yum.
standard badge of honor in my childhood: purple thumbs
What is the point of cheese?
What kind?
The cheese kind?
Somewhere in some edition of The Joy of Cooking, cheese was described as “milk’s leap to immortality.”
Also, it’s delicious.
See, that is the part I don’t get. I take a bite, and it seems kinda tasteless to me. And I have done this with cheese that other people make “ooh” and “aww” sounds after stuffing their pie holes with, and all I get is the shitty smell.
I guess I am a chalk not cheese person.
You probably think cilantro tastes like soap, too, don’t you?
It’s cool.
Even if I were lactose-intolerant, though, I would pound the Lactaid just so I could enjoy the joy that is cheese.
This is the point?
LOL!
A good Wisconsin girl.
Thunderstorm rolling in.
Nothing better.
Goddammit. My phone just puked up a message about potential plague exposure alerts.
Give it the fuck up, you cargo cult morons.