Look at this greedy little jerk…
Our first link was brought to us by jesse.in.mb, who clearly understood at first glance that this was extremely relevant to my interests.
Here’s a whole new meaning to the term “nope rope.”
Not into animals? Maybe this link is more your speed.
Not into animals? Too bad!
Meanwhile, locally, we’re working on inclusivity and diversity. Lol. Jesus. This city is on fire. Literally.
Today’s music is also brought to you by jesse.in.mb. Man, he’s a swell fella! Apparently the video is based on these real world events.
Last minute bonus link brought to you by mexican sharpshooter. I swear, these guys just get me.
Legend says at least six must be kept there, or the nation will fall.
Well they were subjugated by the EU, still remain the EU’s bitch and have become an authoritarian, Orwellian hellhole due to convid, so…
They were well on their way to Orwellian hellhole status before the ‘Vid.
Yarp.
“I asked them to choose me and not air anything that would allow this senator to tell more lies,” Thompson wrote. “They have chosen to stand with Sen. Daines and I cannot be a part of allowing any member of the #SeditionCaucus to dishonor the memory of Dr. King.”
That’s nice.
Oh great, another fucking hashtag.
Remy Time: https://youtu.be/JeXX_zwhmi8
I dunno, #SeditionCaucus is kinda catchy…
Is that like a #bitchsecession?
Every time someone comes up with one of these hashtags, we should create a band and preempt the name. Sedition Caucus sounds like something from 1983.
Now I’m thinking of Dream Syndicate.
Their first album was good but it was downhill after that.
Well, someone made a choice, that’s for sure.
So, rather than have woke people like himself commemorate MLK’s memory, Thompson is going to cede the field to Daines. IOW, stamp his feet and march off in a huff. Sounds like a mature, reasoned response.
H8 Has No Home Here!
I do love it when the leftist NPCs learn a new word and jam it into their every REEEEEE.
I <3 corvids.
Me, too. Most mornings, I get one or two on my deck, eating all the peanuts… But occasionally a small parliament shows up!
Corvids =/= Covids
Peter Besenyei flying his Corvus
Fable the raven.
That. Was. Amazing!
You should subscribe to her channel. She’s got owls and falcons too.
My sister and I have a running joke. She thinks owls are creepy thanks to the movie The Fourth Kind, and I keep sending her owl pics and memes.
It’s why I was so thrilled to get this picture when I was out on one of my walks over the summer. Amazingly, that picture is taken with my smartphone.
Owls, otters, and cats…the trifecta of evil.
❤❤❤
That’s a lovely pic. I hear the owls in our woods at night, but I’ve never seen them. We also have bats back there, but I’ve never seen them either. I wanted to hang a bat box, but never got around to it.
We have several bats here in the summer. They flit around above our pond in the twilight, hunting and catching insects. Some of them roost in our barn. I want to build a bat box to encourage more of them. They are lots of fun to watch.
They’re worth their weight in gold if only for mosquito control.
I’d say sign me up, but I already did xD
So, I went a-researchin’ ravens for Cods & Cuntes (my medieval romance) because they are crucial to the plot.
At the end of the book, you find out the heroine has been feeding them from her hand (offal and grain) and they bring her gifts (little shinies), although they refuse to say her name without being given a special treat.
And then the hero decides if they’re that smart, they might be able to be trained to assist during battle, so he has all his men feed the ravens and wear a certain color ribbon on their shoulder so that the birds can differentiate between friend and foe.
In the next book, the birds do try and they do make some difference in the course of battle, but not enough.
I don’t know if that would really work in real life, but I’m quite sure they’re smart enough to do it.
Just fascinating to me. There’s a small plate of shiny beads out on the deck, too, near where I put the peanuts. Doesn’t appear that any magpies have partaken of any beads, though. Wah wah.
The Raven that Refused To Sing
The Raven That Refused To Sing
The Raven That Refused To Sing
https://youtu.be/Dzkm2lvdup4
Awesome!
I had a GF a long time ago who did animal rehab (she’s a vet now) and birds were her specialty. In general they are amazing creatures.
I had a pet crow as a kid. It would come to a call and could say basic words like ‘hello’ and ‘feed me’ and would attack any strangers who came to the house. My mother was not a fan as it would pull clothespins out of the laundry she hung on the line. It disappeared shortly thereafter. About 30 years later my mom admitted she brought out the shotgun one day after picking up all the laundry and sent my bird to crow heaven.
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Waay back in college days I had a girlfriend… ohkay, she was the girlfriend of a once friend of mine. I just got the benefits of her company for a few weeks, She was a complete goth nutball. Great body… but whew what a mess!
One day I drove her to the park and she began to chase a raven from tree branch to tree branch. So I’m chasing her… as she is chasing the raven. One of those odd moments that made me wonder what in the hell I was doing in this “relationship”.
How parrots see
Parrots are on drugs.
Ditto snakes.
Says the man with the Hunter Biden avatar.
Crack isn’t a drug. It’s more of a lifestyle.
Drone races? Yawn. But I would definitely bet on BattleBots.
I, for one, welcome our health overlords.
A coalition of health and technology organizations are working to develop a digital COVID-19 vaccination passport to allow businesses, airlines and countries to check if people have received the vaccine.
The Vaccination Credential Initiative, announced on Thursday, is formulating technology to confirm vaccinations in the likelihood that some governments will mandate people provide proof of their shots in order to enter the nation.
The organization hopes the technology will allow people to “demonstrate their health status to safely return to travel, work, school and life while protecting their data privacy.”
FUCK
…
OFF
“while protecting their data privacy”
Yeah, sure.
Question: are there any consequences for said health officials if such data is breach…HAHAHAHAHAHA!
I plan on getting into the forged vaccine passport market. It ought to be lucrative.
I see we are tempering our language. Not.
Comey said, “First, they are terrorists. They are people bent on coercing a civilian government, attacking our democracy because of their warped view of reality. The reason their view is warped is because of the president’s lies, and it’s not just the lie about the election, which is the prime mover for this attack on Capitol Hill. It’s four years of constant lying about the virus, about our institutions, about our courts, about our democracy. The demagogue’s lies have great power, especially when they’re echoed by his enablers in the Senate and the House and the media. This is how Al-Qaeda radicalized, a constant torrent of lies at vulnerable people.”
He added, “We have millions of vulnerable people in this country who have consumed these lies, and some portion of them have been radicalized to the point where they believe they’re on the side of the angels who have to engage in violence directed against us. So it’s a serious threat. It’s a terrorism threat. Donald Trump and his enablers —we want to make sure we keep the receipts because a lot of people are going to deny they had any connection to it come a few months from now, but that group of people is a radicalized group of terrorists.”
Unity/healing/etc.
“So this is always going to be small,” she said before mentioning the Capitol protests that occurred on January 6, adding that it necessitates additional security.
“Now, with the insurrection of last week, it is necessitated by security to have more security but hasn’t changed the nature of the swearing-in,” the 80-year-old lawmaker said.
“I think it’s important for people to know that,” she continued. “This is not a concession to the terrorists. It is a recognition of the danger of COVID.”
That gangly fuckstick is a liar of the first order. I truly hope he meets his just rewards.
If they are terrorists, then so are those screaming harpies who cornered Flake in the elevator. So are the people who invaded the Wisconsin state capitol several years ago.
“We have millions of vulnerable people in this country who have consumed these lies, and some portion of them have been radicalized to the point where they believe they’re on the side of the angels who have to engage in violence directed against us.”
You might want to invest in a mirror, bub.
You might want to invest in a mirror, bub.
I knew that you were secretly Wolverine.
If only.
FBI = the enforcement arm of the DNC
Researchers observed that the snakes move quite slowly, slip often, stop to rest and breathe heavily while climbing in this way.
Just wait until the snakes develop jet packs.
Well, Home Advisor created a project just to answer that question. They went through the latest scientific research to find out and visualized how animals see.
This article is neat.
That comes after Snake Jazz.
Just wait until the snakes develop jet packs.
Been done. “For I Am A Jealous People,” Lester del Rey.
Drones= Gyros=Not true R/C flying, but they are fun,
Howdy!
Mmmm, gyros.
It looks like my local news website, sfgate.com, has dropped comments. I wonder if it’s a temporary bug, something permanent or something temporary but intentional. I’m guessing they don’t like that a large proportion of the commenters call them out on their BS.
When sfgate commenters are rebelling, they should know something is amiss.
Oh, we’ve been revolting for a long time.
Without comments, they will be shocked to find their viewership declines…
Yes. Which makes me think it is temporary.
The only people who like to sniff their own farts more than internet journalists are internet commenters.
wait, um…
Mine smell like roses.
I was commenting there for a long time but had to stop just before T Dog got elected and haven’t made one since. I have noted the wrong think that gets displayed there still (and see your wrong think sometimes too) and wondered how long they would allow it. If they ditch the comments they’re likely to lose a significant amount of page hits there. The reporting is fucking atrociously bad.
I girl my son went to college with wrote for them. Not sure of who it is though, or if she is still there.
Bad Orange Man must be purged from all existence in civil society.
A Palm Beach County official this week examined a contract with a Trump Organization affiliate to see if the county could end its lease with the president’s signature Trump International Golf Club in unincorporated West Palm Beach.
Howard Falcon, chief assistant county attorney, told The Palm Beach Post on Wednesday he was asked by an unnamed county commissioner about whether the lease with Trump International Golf Club could be canceled.
Falcon said he does not think the county can end its lease with Trump, who pays $88,338 a month in rent for the property.
“My initial reaction is it would be a stretch,” Falcon said.
What are your bets on Trump and his family being completely driven from civil society, and destitute by the time he dies?
With the debt he’s carrying, surprisingly good. He may have to have his kids get into the Senate before he can recover.
Let’s keep doing ineffective things!
Gov. Chris Sununu is extending New Hampshire’s mask mandate, citing the state’s high coronavirus case rates, hospitalizations and fatalities.
🙁
Any hope from the new legislature?
According to contacts I have who are involved in the legislature, Sununu threatened state Senators who were considering support for bills to reign him in. His family owns the Republican party leadership/apparatus/establishment. He threatened to have the party withhold support in 2022 when those Senators are up for reelection. Those Senators went from being interested in reigning in Sununu to not wanting to touch any of the legislation to reign in Sununu.
Expect nothing will get through the legislature because of the Senate.
The state House is a different beast. The state parties generally don’t get involved in House races because of the number of races (one Representative per roughly 3,000 people means there are 400 Representatives). State Representatives, especially those that have been in office for a long time, tend to be well known and well liked in their community, so even if the parties got involved in those races to hurt a sitting Representative, they have an uphill battle.
There is a block of Representatives, all Republican, who want to reign in the governor. They are a large enough block that given the slim majority the Republicans have, they can stop a lot of things unless they get what they want or there is an unlikely mass joining of Democrats with Republicans. I know some folks in this block have a plan. I don’t know if what they have told me about it should be public at this time so I won’t say more.
You didn’t ask about the Executive Council. I posted yesterday about the petition opposing AG MacDonald’s appointment as Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court. Four Councillors are Republican, the other a Democrat. Two of the Republican Councillors are Reopen NH endorsed. The Democrat opposes the appointment for partisan reasons and is unlikely to change her vote. I don’t know if Sununu has leaned on the two Reopen NH endorsed Councillors. If he has leaned on the Senate, he will do the same with the Council. I expect the remaining two Councillors will support MacDonald. In fact, one voted for MacDonald the first time Sununu tried appointing MacDonald to the state Supreme Court. If the two Reopen NH endorsed Councillors vote against MacDonald, Sununu has a loss and a key part of his “rule by edict” won’t be on the State Supreme Court.
I have heard some business owners talking about things becoming more normal, if not normal, sometime between March and May. I don’t know if that is wishful thinking or if, through contacts of theirs, they know something.
Thanks for the update.
You’re welcome!
As was mentioned on the previous thread, the Establishment is beginning to push the idea that reopening is OK now that OrangeManBad is out of office.
This wasn’t only a possibility, it was predicted by anyone with 1/2 a brain that the obfuscation of info about CV would end along with lockdowns right about the time Joe was inaugurated.
And to see Cuomo among the first is fucking rich. Fuck that guy. 6 weeks ago he was fighting in the supreme court to make sure Jews and Catholics could be curb stomped for noncompliance, and now he’s the voice of re-opening?
GTFOH.
Cuyahoga county (which contains Cleveland) has extended their stay-at-home order until January 31st. There are no punishments for disobeying it, so it’s a complete token gesture.
I’ll re-state: twenty years. That’s my over-under on the mask mandates in public buildings. I’ll be almost 70.
They eventually have to work.
Maybe the masks will suffocate all the elected officials.
That would be working.
And when those numbers start to wane in the spring, they’ll tout it’s because of mask mandates and not the seasonal pullback all respiratory diseases make, therefore we must keep wearing them.
“I think it’s important for people to know that,” she continued. “This is not a concession to the terrorists. It is a recognition of the danger of COVID.”
A concession to the killer sniffles. That’s perfectly reasonable.
They have been for awhile but now it is overt.
Lou Dobbs
@LouDobbs
Arm of the State: @LibertarianBlue says Big Tech now acts as the “muscle” of the Democratic Party, used to silence dissent and shape public opinion on a scale comparable to Communist China.
“Ah-yikes! Lou Dobbs!”
I miss when we all used to watch The Independents together and Gilmore would comment on the fashion.
Wow, doesn’t that already seem like an incredibly simpler and more benign time?
Yeah, I remember when Dobbs started to come on and someone would say ‘Oh noes, Derbz!’.
Yeah, a much simpler time, when we’d mourn our fake cocktail libertarians going off and a Bush era Neocon coming on.
MA flu vaccine requirement for students eliminated
Massachusetts health officials have removed a requirement for nearly all students to receive an influenza vaccine this year, writing that the flu season has been mild to date.
The mandate was part of an effort to prevent hospitals from being overcrowded during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The state Department of Public Health announced over the summer that students would need the flu shot before Dec. 31. Last month, the department said that deadline was extended to Feb. 28. But now, the shot is no longer required to attend school, according to an email from DPH officials.
Wait, what? They were required to get a flu vaccine? That’s ridiculous.
How gracious of them.
From a friend who works there, JHU students are all required to be tested for the vid 3 times a week, whether or not they go to campus, were all ready requited to get flu shots, and are now required to get the vid vaccine. It’s draconian. If I were a student there, I’d tell them to get fucked. $60, 000 for that shit? Fuck no.
I ran out of freezer ingredients, so I did some grocery shopping and made shrimp friend rice for dinner. The curry powder turned it yellow.
I also made too much. It’s been so long since I made rice that I improperly estimated the final volume.
But is it yummy? That’s important
Yes, it is.
I should think the “friend” ingredient would make it a little gamey.
The rice is friendly to shrimp.
“…shrimp friend rice…”
I hate to see what you do to your enemies!
Mincemeat pies.
It’s a Friday in the new abnormal, this means the Happy Hour/Zoom/article requests will be going on, and I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
I’ll bring the goat!
You should come so we can piss everyone off by endlessly talking about triodes vs. pentodes.
Is it weird that this comment makes me want to show up more?
Jeffrey Toobin.
There, that ought to discourage you.
Ew.
. . . endlessly talking about triodes vs. pentodes.
Gotta get me some of that.
I can talk about the SP8, the Eico ST70 I’m restoring, and the Music Fidelity A1 and Hafler SE120 I bought to play with. That will liven up the conversation!
NERDS!
-Hyperbole
I won’t join tonight, but if there is one tomorrow, I’ll join.
I’ll drop in if I am awake and make a fool of myself for a while,
Maybe after we get back from driving to Cali, but it will be on the tail end if so.
Bravery under fire
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez assailed President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus economic recovery plan, saying the $1,400 checks he proposes for most Americans are not enough.
The New York Democrat pushed for a round of $2,000 payments, meaning many Americans would receive $2,600, since Congress doled out $600 checks in December.
AOC told the Washington Post: “$2,000 means $2,000. $2,000 does not mean $1,400.”
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Biden on Thursday unveiled his $1.9 trillion economic recovery plan, which he’ll pitch to Congress as one of his first acts as commander-in-chief.
The big-spending bailout, which he’s calling the American Rescue Plan, proposes $1,400 checks for most Americans, an extension of the eviction and foreclosure moratorium until September and a national vaccination program as local distribution rates continue to fall short.
Biden’s plan will deal with the nation’s faltering economy and lagging vaccine distribution efforts. But it also includes broad liberal promises to “invest in racial justice” and “intergenerational inequities.”
Call it broad liberal promises if you want. It still smells like bullshit to me.
It takes bold leadership to saddle future generations with impossible debt loads and claim to be investing in intergenerational inequities.
I was going to buy you something nice with the money I took from your wallet!
Sounds like my Wife,
Only they won’t saddle future generations, they’re going to saddle YOU NOW when they increase taxes on Americans to European levels to pay for all the bullshit they
are planning. IOW, say goodbye to your 20% income tax bill and say hello to your new 60% income tax bill and a 25% VAT tax on everything you buy. Don’t forget to thank them for your ‘peanuts’ as Nancy says.
60% wont come close to covering the bill they are currently running up. It will take a few years years at 100% for the debt to be paid off. If they take 100% though, they will probably need to feed and water the people they taxing. They may be able to put up some sort of makeshift community housing to hold the workers in though. They can’t tax everone at 100% though. There needs to be people who keep the regular economy going to feed the people in the makeshift community housing. They will have to find out a way to determine who gets to interact in the regular economy and who has to interact in the debt repayment economy. There should be a way to score people to decide. Something like a credit score, but more social justicey.
They’ll use the European model. Government ran healthcare that is heavily rationed but extremely expensive, so 60% federal income tax rate and a 25% VAT. They will of course keep running up debt until China calls them on it, and then we’re just be a Chinese puppet state, which is what the dems want after they’ve ensured themselves high positions in the CCP. I hope the first thing that happens then, is that the CCP decides to execute all of them.
Aren’t there a $15 minimum wage and bailouts for states in there?
It’s fine, only large corporations are left and they can handle a $15 minimum wage.
Sure, because they won’t have any competition after all the small businesses have been put out of business.
Look forward to really shitty service from Amazon and higher prices on everything.
All the blue states and cities will get massive bailouts now, guaranteed.
Plenty too for West Virginia, a solid Red state (just happens to have a Blue senator).
And we can all get our shocked faces out of the closet when the bill doesn’t do anything useful.
What, three weeks ago she was fine with a separate bill to get the $600 to $2,000?
I’m going to be marginally fair here. Most estimates of the population eligible tor receive such a payment number about 150 million. At $2,000 per check, you’re talking about $300 billion. Even if we went to a ridiculously high estimate of 300 million eligible recipients, we’re still only talking $600 billion. If Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is willing to limit the stimulus to that, a smart Republican would at least offer her that as a “compromise”.
That compromise leaves no room for all the members of both houses of congress to get their pork put in. Therefore it has no chance of ever passing. The direct payments are hush money paid to us to keep us quite with they shovel the lions share of the lagress to their criminal friends.
It’s like you never watched school house rocks when you were a kid. They go over this very clearly.
Here’s one for you and three for me.
$2,000 means $2,000
How about I counter that with “No Means No” ?
And you guys said she couldn’t do math.
An interesting article on how “a dominant group” can exercise “moral and intellectual leadership” throughout society by “winning the voluntary ‘consent’ of popular masses.”
And those “friends” really hate it when you call them out on their bullshit.
“ever-looming ostracism, rampant awkwardness, underground rule-breaking, resentment, frustration, and distrust.”
Sounds like NA’s horoscopes……
Sounds like a Tuesday here.
Or high school.
AOC flashes white supremacy sign during Instagram session!
She must resign immediately!
I’m sure the left will call her out for it. *eyes roll out of head*
Well today is the one year anniversary of the death of a local punk rock legend. Chris opened up his house to basement shows, just about anyone who wasn’t an asshat, and much drunken debauchery. Lots of good times back in the 90s / early 2000s.
He died in a hit & run accident down in Georgia where he was working in the tool & die trade. His ashes were brought back here to be buried. A whole mob of freaks and geeks showed up to pay their last respects in the cold of winter.
That sucks.
Two Pennsylvania teachers are suspended after attending the rally in DC. They didn’t enter the Capitol building or its surrounding grounds.
And you can bet the union won’t back them.
WTF??
Let’s face it, everyone who remembers how McCarthy’s Red Scare unfairly ruined the lives of people who, in their youth, may have joined a commie front group or said something nice about Stalin, must now be dead or in a memory care unit. Their ideological descendants are now trying to ruin the lives of those who may have questioned the wisdom of the Democratic Party.
Some useful idiots paid the price for their flirtations to some degree and McCarthy later was an ass, but the big lie was and is that the Red Scare was just a scare.
The father of one of the kids my son plays baseball with went to the rally. He posted a ton of pictures of it on FB. He is a mechanic in a automotive repair shop. I bet he will be fine.
If by fine you mean broke, unemployed, lonely, ostracized and homeless then you are probably right.
Only suspended? Do better PA!
All of the Corvidae are amazingly intelligent. Once we’re settled in the Great Land, Mrs. Animal has expressed interest in obtaining two ravens, which she will of course name Huginn and Muninn. And I, as usual, will do my best to indulge her, as I do in all things, because, after all, she very gracefully puts up with me.
Call them Heckle and Jeckle.
I mean, what else would you name a pair of ravens?
Mojeaux posted a link farther up about a raven named Fable. Fascinating stuff; might even be useful for your future plans.
. . . what else would you name a pair of ravens?
Pickin’ ‘n Grinnin’. ;-)
Quoth, obviously.
Don’t worry, he refuses to do the N word.
At the gym right now – the TV news readers are in front of a giant “Siege on the Capital” logo. The same fucking assholes who barely mentioned riots that burned down whole city blocks a few months ago.
This years letter is P
P is for propaganda
That is all it is, well, that and eyeballs and clicks.
How dare you! How dare you compare our fight for justice and equality to the siege on the Capital?
Feds: Capitol mob aimed to ‘assassinate’ elected officials
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/us_world_news/feds-capitol-mob-aimed-to-assassinate-elected-officials/article_d08d929d-083c-5850-b419-fcb409558c38.html?block_id=1002221
Unless there is more that they haven’t said, I am not sure “Chansley wrote a threatening note to Pence that said: “It’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.”” rises to the level of assassination or threat thereof?
Who wants to bet that he will be our first public execution streamed?
Chansley is the Buffalo Guy, who seems pretty harmless. If he’s the worst of the worst, then there really was nothing to worry about.
Yeah his actions on video didn’t seem like a person on a mission to find anyone…
His mind seems to have gone around the outside.
I see what you did there.
All that scratchin’ is makin’ me itch 😉
One look at pissed off normal Americans really spooked these people.
That is why they are being described as Q Terrorist, Q Cultist, Trump Cultist, Insurrectionist….they have to propagandize the general populace into believing this.
If my gym friends are any indication, it isn’t working.
I don’t get the Q hate*. Whether or not what the believe is wrong I think every decent, upstanding, moral individual should be against sex-trafficking/murdering children.
* I mean, I get that it serves a narrative. ///truth > facts
Magpies are raucous little assholes, but they’ve got tons of personality. I missed ’em terribly when we were in the Lower Rainland™. Now they cavort right outside my home office window, and play with the pup when she’s outside.
“Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman: “This idea that saying that Pennsylvania was ‘rigged’ or that we were ‘trying to steal the election’ — that’s a lie. And you do not have the right, that is not protected speech.””
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1350116536581808128
CWAA
It is rigged and they were trying to steal the election. Seems I do have the right to say that.
You have the right to say that whether it was rigged or not.
I want muh country back.
I’m no constitutional scholar, but I’m pretty sure that’s protected speech.
Or else saying “that is not protected speech” is also not protected speech and Fetterman just committed a crime.
Also love the misquoted and misused “fire in a theater* portion too.
They will succeed in this sadly and it has been apparent that the First Amendment has been targeted with much more ferocity that then any other at this time.
–Speech is chilled or outright iced for a large portion of the country
–Can’t assemble without being lumped as an insurrectionist
–Can’t redress your grievances with your government without facing calls of being accused of sedition
–Private companies removing persons from their services AND politicians now saying we cannot say those words; giving it an air of legitimacy
I’m sure Dopehat will be scold him once Dopehat is done clutching his pearls over Trump…
Already did.
He’s “vexed” and he wants the tyrannical cunt to “do better”.
The Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania is a private company and can do what he wants.
Shit, I just forgot, this is the fake tough guy clown that the Jacket dunked on when he was on Bill Maher’s show. I see he’s continued his political ascent since then.
https://youtu.be/kKtX8g1_TQQ
Bird murderer
The Trump administration said Wednesday that it would slash millions of acres of protected habitat designated for the imperiled northern spotted owl in Oregon, Washington state and Northern California, much of it in prime timber locations in Oregon’s coastal ranges.
Environmentalists immediately decried the move and accused the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under President Donald Trump of taking a parting shot at protections designed to help restore the species in favor of the timber industry. The tiny owl is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and was rejected for an upgrade to endangered status last year by the federal agency despite losing nearly 4% of its population annually.
“This revision guts protected habitat for the northern spotted owl by more than a third. It’s Trump’s latest parting gift to the timber industry and another blow to a species that needs all the protections it can get to fully recover,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director for the Center for Biological Diversity.
Somebody was waving the local paper around and squawking about this yesterday. There was a photo of some kind of owl with the story.
It was about all I could do to stop myself from saying, “Trump is going to kill that owl with his bare hands and make a hat out of it.”
*the squawker was the wife of a guy I know, so I bit my tongue. I did say something about how everybody knows if you cut a tree down the bird who lives in it dies.
I just wanted a pic of the new pet playing. Instead, I got TPTB new fodder to rebuke your misbehavior.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YFpVt8OKXA58G72odLzgTOuCiHLj-qIr/view?usp=sharing
I saw this on the inside of an electrical panel about an hour ago. Funny thing is, R.W. and L.M. are both people I know and are kinda far up in the company these days.
I have a locker at each of our production facilities so when I visit I can have easy access to my uniforms (I tend to get really dirty when I’m out in the plant). At the one plant, inside my locker door, which is in the management locker room (union rules) is stenciled:
“When the going gets rough, Jackson takes three days off.”
Apparently the locker used to belong to some guy named jackson, who was universally reviled.
This guy just doxed himself as D.B. Jackson. :-p
Shoulda’ said “Cooper,” dammit!
While I think the “attack” on the Capitol was a bad idea, I have to admit that part of me is glad that the politicians are getting a little taste of fear given how, uh, glib so many of them were during the summer’s riots. I wonder if they are truly this out of touch, a la The Hunger Games, or if they are cynically ramping up the theater.
If you have a fluid belief system the you are never out of touch and such a belief system allows you the mechanisms to ramp up whatever theater you wish while always being in touch and right.
strategically it was probably a bad idea. I sure was happy to see all those blood suckers on the hill cower in fear for their lives though. The ruling class needs to be scared of it’s population.
Bill Gates – Suthen’s new neighbor.
https://notthebee.com/article/bill-gates-has-been-quietly-buying-up-242000-acres-and-is-now-the-top-private-farmland-owner-in-america-why
I’m sure that the Great Reset fans would be into taking as much farmland off the market as possible. If there’s no food, all these sheeple cannot eat, and we get to our goal of eliminating 7.5 billion from the herd much more quickly.
The dark-eyed owl prefers to nest in old-growth forests and received federal protections in 1990, a listing that dramatically redrew the economic landscape for the Pacific Northwest timber industry and launched a decadeslong battle between environmentalists and loggers. Old-growth Douglas firs, many 100 to 200 years old, that are preferred by the owl are also of great value to loggers.
They “prefer” old growth. Did the Audubon Society conduct a survey?
STEVE SMITH PREFER OLD GROWTH. HE SPROUT OLD GROWTH EVERY DAY!
“Another new one: Texas woman allegedly live-streamed going into the Capitol, “Life or death, it doesn’t matter. Here we go.” Later in the video, the feds say she also made a pitch for her services as a realtor. ”
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1350120445303992325
Freedom is for closers.
Lol
On the road again.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/nra-files-for-bankruptcy-says-it-will-reincorporate-in-texas.html
NRA files for bankruptcy, says it will reincorporate in Texas
WASHINGTON – The National Rifle Association said Friday that it has filed for bankruptcy in U.S. court as part of a larger restructuring plan aimed at moving to Texas after New York state had sought the organization’s dissolution for allegedly misappropriating funds.
The gun-rights advocacy group said it would restructure as a Texas nonprofit to exit from what it described as “a corrupt political and regulatory environment in New York,” where it is currently registered.
“The plan can be summed up quite simply: We are DUMPING New York, and we are pursuing plans to reincorporate the NRA in Texas,” wrote NRA CEO and executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, adding that the move will have “no major changes are expected to the NRA’s operations or workforce.”
In his statement Friday, LaPierre said that the NRA is not insolvent and the move to Texas would make the organization stronger. “We are as financially strong as we have been in years,” he said.
Who knows, maybe the NRA will finally stand up for Title II firearm owners when congress reclassifies all modern sporting rifles under the NFA.
I would like to see the NRA go away, so that its niche can be filled by a group that actually gives a shit about gun rights.
That said. That’s a wise move. Probably should have been done a decade or two ago, but nobody ever accused the NRA of having much foresight.
The leadership really liked their lifestyle in the Northeast political circuit.
OTOH, it wasn’t so long ago that firearms manufacturing was concentrated in the northeastern states, and there was a solid gun culture there.
Wayne LaPierre can fuck right off. He is nothing but a grifter. Maybe if more NRA money went to actually defending second amendment rights instead of his lavish lifestyle, the NRA might not have to file bankruptcy.
EF messed up her back somehow – probably while doing lunges yesterday – and is now stuck on the sofa, asking for gin & tonic refills. And then I have to cook supper and go on a booze run. Oh the humanity!!!!
Are you sure she’s not faking injury?
no kidding. Hey LH, my back hurts too.
::pours out G&T::
is there anything else I can get you, my majesty?
Huh. Is EF related to the spousal unit?
“Oh, my fitness coach had us doing the most awful things yesterday, I’m really sore. Can you refill my wine glass, please, honey bunny?” {bats eyes alluringly}
It never leads to sex. Never. I’m beginning to think I’ve got some kinda warranty problem on my hands.
Hopefully she heals quickly.
The vast right wing conspiracy to overthrow our government
Federal prosecutors said in a new court filing there is “strong evidence” that the pro-Trump rioters who invaded the U.S. Capitol last week intended “to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government,” including Vice President Mike Pence.
Prosecutors also noted in that filing that “news reports suggest that the U.S. Capitol siege may just be the beginning of potentially violent actions from President [Donald] Trump’s supporters.”
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Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, during a press conference later Friday undercut the idea that there is evidence of assassination plots by the rioters.
“Right now, we don’t have direct evidence of kill-capture teams,” said Sherwin, whose office is the one that has lodged federal criminal charges against Chansley and other rioters.
Sherwin said “there may be a disconnect” between his office and those of federal prosecutors in Arizona and in Texas, who have made similar allegations.
But the filing in Arizona says that Chansley, who was wearing face paint and a hat with horns on it, raced up to a dais in the Senate “where Vice President Pence had been presiding just minutes before, and began posing” to be photographed by other rioters.
Right now, we don’t have direct evidence of kill-capture teams OMG they got to him! The coverup goes all the way to the top.
Just give us a little time, we’ll manufacture, er, UNCOVER plenty of evidence.
That surely doesn’t poison the jury pool at all.. Nope.
there is “strong evidence” … “Right now, we don’t have direct evidence of kill-capture teams,”
Uh huh…
Russia hacked the government!
Likely, probably, maybe…
Right now, somebody is reading that statement and thinking to himself, “Might as well be hung for a lion as for a lamb…”
Right now, we don’t have direct evidence of kill-capture teams
Just a modest theory: if there was a rightwing nutjob kill/capture team, they would have brought guns. Like, I can see a leftwing kill/capture team thinking they could Batman their way into the Capitol and snatch a politician, but a rightwing nutjob team would have brought guns. Probably lots of guns.
?
When a no-shit reactionary paramilitary force shows up, there won’t be any fucking around.
Antics is organized to foment violence and discord. They come in, stir it up, and get out. And they’re getting good at it.
Reactionary forces tend to come in and kill people with little fanfare and a focus on efficiency. You don’t ever want that showing up at your doorstep, and it’s unwise to minimize it by comparing it to what happened last week.
Antics = Antifa
Animaniacs?
They’re the worst of all
Hellooooo, Nurse!
Yeah if an American Contra or Ulster Volunteer Force ever springs up, it will have probably as both cadre and rank and file actual military veterans who’ve been fighting insurgents for 20 years and have learned lots of things along the way.
This, right the fuck here.
And what’s worse is that you know they fucking know better too.
I mean, at least 1/2 the FBI and ATF has been embedded in these groups while entrapping 80 IQ (literally) guys in to building a bomb.
They know for a fucking fact that this was rabble, and not INSURRECTION!!, but they’ll play it up like 1/2 a battalion went in.
When the revolution happens, it will be planned and coordinated with military precision and power, because the people who do it will either be ex-military, or else taught by ex-military. It will be brutal and more efficient than most could believe.
If the group the media is describing, rather than the group that was there, had attacked the capital in a bid to kill Congress, they would have done a goodly bit of it without much hassle at all.
Meanwhile-
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb, who has been one of Trump’s most vocal critics in his own party, said in a statement on Friday, “Rage-peddlers are going to try to whitewash the attack on the Capitol, saying that a few bad apples got out of control. That’s wrong … These men weren’t drunks who got rowdy — they were terrorists attacking this country’s constitutionally-mandated transfer of power. They failed, but they came dangerously close to starting a bloody constitutional crisis.”
If Sasse says so…
Maybe if I suck Chucky Moobz dick a little more he’ll pat my head!
Its almost as if all politicians need this narrative for some reason. Just can’t quite put my finger on it though.
Just can’t quite put my finger on it though
Since I can’t tell if you’re serious or sarcastic, I’ll answer seriously.
Culture values personal victimhood. These people now have a chance to publicly express their personal victimhood unabashedly.
Yes
Spineless twats
Sarcastically and I think you hit it on the head.
A tangentially related story… I did some recruiting and a pair of candidates said that they were “first-generation law school attendees” like that would sway me to take pity on them and hire them.
Evidently that’s a thing at California law schools. They have victimhood clubs for first generation law students. If your parents are doctors, youre oppressed. If your parents are PhD chemists, you’re a victim. If your parents are CEOs of fortune 500 companies, you get a pity party, too!
I had heard a wacko leftist intern say that “first generation law student” tripe a couple years ago and wrote her off as nuts. Her dad was an executive at some mid sized company and mom was in the medical field. A bad day for her was when she had to borrow the Mercedes because her Lexus was in the shop. She very much played into my “overprivileged high caste Indian girl” stereotype.
Unsurprisingly, she did not get a full time offer after it was discovered that she did next to nothing all summer.
Republicans love giving dignified, statesmanlike concession speeches.
So el Presidente Biden can be sworn in like a South American dictator.
President-for-life Biden
So till February. Got it.
School girl, sleazy
With a, classy kind of Sasse
Little skirt hangin’ way up her knee
Not a haiku.
The GOP can just go ahead and die now.
saying that a few bad apples got out of control.
Except that is literally what happened.
And notice, this “they were all bad apples” is only being applied to here, this event. None others.
Not entirely, it seems some of the “bad apples” were planning it.
Besides the non-MAGA people that got caught, the actions of the police, lack of counter-protestors, etc. all seems rather suspicious.
Yeah, I agree.
That there wasn’t a large, very loud counter protest going on definitely raises my eyebrow.
Ya, that should raise every eyebrow in the country. Where in the hell ever over the past five years has there been a Trump rally and those shit heels weren’t there to bash some heads.
That attack on the capitol. And the “attackers” just fucking left after a couple hours.
Sounds like a Mel Brooks movie bit doesn’t it?
“Screw you! I work for Donald Trump!”
Driving home from work today, I saw one of those billboards from the FBI soliciting information related to the Capitol incident. Couldn’t read the details at 65 MPH, so I saw just enough to piss me off.
Friday Funbags spilling out everywhere.
https://archive.li/dbXvO
Not bad.
#31 is Angela White.
#33 is Jordan Carver.
In response to COVID, I say: less social distancing, more socialism distancing.
“Practise socialism distancing — that shit’ll kill ya.”
Hey SP! Mebbe we could put that on a Glibs T-shirt! 8^>
Seen it already….
D00d! Where can I buy it?
I can’t remember, Google? but they are real, I larfed,
Hi all, still here, just to busy (not to mention not witty enough) to comment much.
Basketball game (I ref) got called off because of a little snow. Oh well, Coffee stout and whiskey a little earlier than expected!
From last article. Yeah, I go with whisky and a splash of water, not much into cocktails. But enjoy the article and I sure would not turn one down if someone enacted my labor and and offered to me.
Also from last article. When I want to “extend the range” of my French 75 I substitute St Germain for the simple syrup. It is a warm weather delight.
“The Senate has released Crossfire Hurricane transcripts.”
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1350172214029647872
https://twitter.com/senjudiciary/status/1350167364311146499
The Senate has released Crossfire Hurricane transcripts
I hope they’re a gas, gas, gas.
“And nothing else happened.”
The actual end links to download the transcripts don’t work for, and for others it seems as well. Probably a temporary glitch but great fodder for conspiracy theories.
Here?
Yep. If I click on any of those links, it takes me to a “Download File” page and after a short interval refreshes to a 403 Forbidden page.
The Impeachment Trial of an Ex-President | The (Un?)Constitutional Showdown
My trip was quite enjoyable, though I wish I had had more. About 4 grams or so. Take what you can get; I was wise not to break it up into two doses.
I’m in my calm, soothing come down. Remarkably calm, actually. I didn’t do anything creatively as it were, but I had the explorative fun of navigating all the neurological realms of Ev that I could.
Onwards! right now is happily sinking into cuddle-comfy territory. BUT! There is one more hurdle. Food is coming. I may have to sit down with my parents for that. This is my life and I’ve chosen pretty much all of it.
And as I type that, literally, the food just arrived! Shit!
Drugs are bad, Mmmkay?
That went shockingly well. Still got it.
Hey Dad, could you pass the electric eels?
Don’t think it would be a good idea for me to post anything on the internet after taking shrooms. You handle them well.
Heard warning about snakes when I was walking around the base in Guam – we pulled in a bunch of times during my 2013 deployment. The blackbirds there were crazy though – there were stretches of road where they’d just divebomb pedestrians or hassle you non-stop. Almost as bad as hate birds.
Isn’t that just like the Pacific Fleet–thinking about a surface threat and missing the sneak attack from the air?
Nah, you could see lizards and hear the wild pigs in the woods. But snakes in the trees were another concern. The birds were crazy anytime I’d walk from the pier to the MWR or NEX. At least in the middle of the day.
Guam sounds like my kind of place.
Don’t go, you might be the tipping point.
8000 Marines + 1 limey.
Snakes in the trees is something I can do without. I mean, I actually like snakes. But I prefer them to be a two dimensional threat only.
I can see an additional charge of murder slapped on the people who were in the Capitol if a member of Congress dies from the Vid
a guy from here was just arrested: maybe they’re going light just to get him processed and will drop the hammer later, but the charges are weak sauce (“saying bad things loudly”) and there’s not a ton of clear evidence presented yet
I am completely okay with anyone who committed vandalism or assault getting jail time, but being tasteless and loud are pretty much the whole point of the Constitution
My layup defense to that is pointing out that Pelosi brought back one of her supporters to vote for her for Speaker even though she tested positive for the Wu Flu.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-9151963/Switzerland-hold-referendum-strip-government-lockdown-powers.html
I just noticed that you’re Mrs. Doyle. I love Father Ted.
Go on go on go on go on
The unlikeliest catch phrase.
It must be nice to have some semblance of respect for the citizens of your country.
Ours view us with contempt, at best.
(AP) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Announces Crackdown on Sarcasm
“In light of the recent event at the Capitol, it’s becoming clear that not all incitements to violence are straightforward. We at Twitter have created a Sarcasm Locate and Unmask Team to review all Tweets”, Jack Dorsey announced in a Tweet on Thursday. The team will be led by Julie Gambolputty and has broad power to suspend or delete accounts that have tweeted ambiguous support of marginalized communities.
When asked how SLUT will be able to distinguish between legitimate and sarcastic Tweets, Gambolputty admitted it will be a tough task. “We value our users and so will go through their entire online footprint, both on and off our platform, to determine whether a user has been properly expressing non inflammatory messages.” Twitter will be working with former hackers to turn on users’ device cameras and use AI to analyze facial expressions which recognize the tell tale signs of snarkiness.
The ACLU has expressed concern that genuine supporters of marginalized communities may be removed from the platform in addition to those who clearly deserve to be silenced. In response, Gambolputty came to the conclusion that the ACLU was being sarcastic and deleted their Twitter account. “The system worked and our SLUT members have removed this account that once defended Nazis despite that account changing course over the past decade or so.”