I at least know its not cocaine.
It snowed in the Phoenix area yesterday during a ridiculous storm that knocked the power out at my house for several hours. It got me out of work for a bit but I had to run around with a military issue flashlight I was issued for a deployment to Iraq. I’m talking the Vietnam-era, heavy duty plastic deal with the 90 degree bend. Going straight up tunnel rat in my own house is not how I wanted to spend an evening.
Nobody believed me when I said it snowed when I went to pick up my kids. Surely, somebody that spent a significant portion of their life in Colorado and went to school in Flagstaff (second highest average annual snowfall in the country BTW) couldn’t possibly know what snow looks like. Nooooooooo. Arizona man couldn’t know what he’s talking about. My kids go to school in Scottsdale…turns out I was right.
Honduras: Boomercon happy land.
Aw hell, you think everyone is screwing up this virus thing.
I’m actually surprised it took this long. The guy rides coach, mingles with crowds of people shaking their hands, and a year later gets the Chinese death virus.
I thought the pic said, “El Charro” and thought “Dayum, that’s savage!”
Ignored warning, after warning….
Heh:
“But as with most things in life, the saying goes you need two to tango, or two to salsa in this instance. And the question is if López Obrador will want to work with his American counterpart.”López Obrador was one of the last world leaders to congratulate Biden on his victory, and when they finally spoke during the transition period, the Mexican president bluntly reiterated to Biden that he had developed a positive relationship with Trump, according to sources briefed on the call.
It’s snowing here too.
But it’s upstate New York in January, so no one notices.
Yep.
Snow just started here.
I First because there are starving children in Africa who need a hero.
And Mexican links. No wonder they’re late.
LOL
(LOL at not first)
Starving children in Africa are pretty funny too, you have to admit.
I’m going to rate that partly true.
Premature firstulation.
More like fistulation, IYKWIM.
Fist is on TOS
And almost universally first.
Yeah Vegas was hit with the storm. We got a dusting at my house but some places got almost a foot I think in valley. Second time in 3 years…wheres my global warming!
the Mexican president bluntly reiterated to Biden that he had developed a positive relationship with Trump
Unpossible!
Maybe because while there are immigrants from Mexico going to the US there are more less desirables moving from further south that are a problem.
Yeah, if there’s one thing Mexicans don’t like, its *spit* Guatemalans coming into Mexico.
Fucking xenophobes.
Xenophobophilia?
At the very least!
COVID positive?
‘VID BROTHERS!
Graupel.
The Raiders/Browns game was taking place in Cleveland while a storm was blowing in off the lake, and the announcers just learned the word graupel during the game. I think it was used about every drive after that.
You’re just mad it wasn’t cocaine.
You gotta go to Texas for cocaine to fall from the sky.
I got several of those old flashlights lying around – and I came in in 2004. Also had to use them in the Navy – at least for bridge watch when you needed a red light underway to check the chart table.
The Navy’s big on “explosive-proof” flashlights too – basically just an extra wire around the bulb – for working in spaces with gases/fumes/etc. Not sure if they’ve started issuing LED ones on the ships (which is what I used for my inspection) – but I’m guessing they’ll use up all the legacy surplus stock first because it’ll also save a crap-ton on maintenance documentation updates for every single maintenance check that requires a flashlight, etc.
Might have been a few extra rubber gaskets too – I can’t recall now.
2003 air force still used em too. Surplus indeed.
“Moon-beam” is the official nomenclature.
Caramba!
Things what pisses me off, episode 9,743,106:
When my phone starts urging me to “launch” some feature without providing any information about what it is or what it does.
Device manager? Fuck off phone, what is that?
Schadenfreude baby!
Cue howling about “you can’t do that, that’s our shtick”!
Rule of law is white supremacist, yo.
Immigration and the Presidency over the last few years:
Obama orders federal LEOs and AGs to refrain from enforcing the written law and instead act in accordance with his policy preferences. This is lauded as “smart policy”.
Trump orders federal LEOs and AGs to enforce the written law. This is called “fascist racism.” or sometimes “racist fascism.”
Biden orders federal LEOs and AGs to stop enforcing the law as written. This is called “The return of democracy and the rule of law.”
It’s another bit for my file: the policy preferences of the DC-NY oligarchy are now just called “democracy”. Anything outside of that is not actual democracy.
ugh. I’m too slow
pecking out with one middle finger is getting very old
“Exxxxxxcellent, Smithers!”
(Mischief is important.)
I’m never a fan of ” we have to stoop to their level to win”, but there could be an argument made that by doing so is the only way to make such moves “Off Limits”. I.E now that it’s the right using it to limit Bidens power, maybe SCOTUS will come down on it.
Level-stooping or not, you’d better at least realize what game you’re playing.
difference
dont remember trumps eo directly conflicting federal law
this one does, highlights stark difference in the two actors as well
Biden issues another Executive Order.
“Don’t be a racist.”
See how easy that was? Why didn’t anybody else think of that?
Graupel? I just call it “little ice balls”.
AKA why snowmen can’t father children.
Welp, Biden’s suspension of deportations just got enjoined nationally.
Now that non-leftists are using the courts to set policy, I expect SCOTUS to suddenly become interested and say its a no-no.
Now, traditionally, courts don’t “declare” the law prospectively, they “discover” the law, meaning their pronouncements have retroactive effect.* IOW, if SCOTUS says its beyond the authority of District Courts to issue a national injunction, that should mean that every national injunction issued by a District Court, including those stopping Orange Man Bad from doing Bad Orange Things, is void ab initio. That could get interesting.
*Of course, this rule of jurisprudence is applied selectively.
meaning their pronouncements have retroactive effect
That could get very interesting.
Essentially, the argument is:
If its beyond their authority now, wasn’t it always beyond their authority?
and do what about it?
anyone gonna get kicked off of the bench? disbarred?
“45 Republican senators including Mitch McConnell vote that Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is unconstitutional because he is no longer in office – in sign they will vote to acquit
The Republicans who went against Trump and with Democrats were Senators Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Pat Toomey.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9189847/45-Republican-senators-vote-Trump-trial-illegal-sign-vote-acquit.html
When Sasse first came onto the scene I thought he was better than he turned out to be,
That’s a pretty standard political trajectory isn’t it?
Always.
Even the “good” ones.
Fucking Toomey.
That gives Trump a handy list of Senators to try to get un-elected.
Now that the Senate is in the business of trying private citizens, I wonder who’s next?
I’d especially love it if he goes all in and gets the Trumpaloos to register for the Dem Party in blue states so they can vote for a primary candidate.
Now THAT would be trolling at the God level.
THE PARTIES RE-SWITCHED!!!
It would be even better trolling if Trump joined the Democratic Party himself, meaning they’d be impeaching a Democrat.
Edited for accuracy.
Romeny…
Sigh. 4 more years….
No recall mechanism?
Not sure. I don’t know if you can recall a Federal official, I think there might be federal laws around it..
Now i’m looking for it since the legislature is meeting right now. last year, i guess there was an effort to get it to be possible to recall a sitting Senator.
But in happy news, the Utah House did vote to pass a law that would remove the requirment to have a Concealed Cary Permit to carry concealed.
Constitutional Carry rules.
The only drawback is that you miss out on the reciprocity with states that reciprocate with your state, and do not have constitutional carry laws. So while you might be able to carry in your state, try and travel out of state, even a gun friendly one, and you run in to a patchwork of different carry laws that may leave you in the wind.
Permits also carry the advantage in many states as a means to skip the federal background check when buying new guns. Walk in, pick out your gun, flash your card, pay for it, walk out. No need to wait. If you buys guns regularly, it can save considerable time.
Utah may leave on option for its residents to get a permit if they want. The state is firmly in the business of issuing permits to non-residents. I doubt they’ll shut it down completely.
NH has Constitutional Carry but still gives out permits. The only purpose for giving out permits is for reciprocity.
DEG: Alaska does the same thing. You can also get an added perk on your CCL that enables you to bypass the background check.
esoteric legal question from a non-lawyer it might be, but isn’t the senate trying a private individual a writ of attainder, something expressly forbidden in the constitution?
I’d say yes.
From the Wiki on Bill of Attainder. Trump _was_ president when the articles of impechment were ratified. It is a really weird position, one, i think, the founders didn’t think about because even if someone had brought it up they would have realized that impeaching someone who was leaving office in 10 days is stupid and purely political. Also it makes you wonder what rights a President (or former president) is obligated to have under a Senate Trial. Just because a trial isn’t done by an article 3 court, doesn’t mean you don’t have any rights still.
Bill of attainder, no not exactly. That would be passing a law to make a person a criminal – in the criminal justice sense. This won’t do that, particularly given that they aren’t going to get a Senate conviction.
Right. Why bother with this?
Issue a Letter of Marque.
Nah, I want one of Reprisal.
Whatever. Get on with it and put a bounty on his head.
Followup. The redditer who started the whole GME thing with his post last year, as of end of day today.
He has 50000 shares worth over $7MM.
He has 800 Apr 21 $12 calls worth over $10MM.
Plus over $4MM cashed out.
This is starting with $53,000 in option purchases last year.
*sigh*
The original thread is awesome. People telling him to cash out because he is up to $75k and its GameStop, so don’t be stupid.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9184821/Demi-Rose-showcases-toned-curves-frilly-pink-bikini-shares-stunning-throwback-snaps.html
tedious?
Me gusta la nueva foto.
“Federal judge appointed by Donald Trump strikes down Joe Biden’s 100-day deportation moratorium”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9189877/Judge-bars-Biden-enforcing-100-day-deportation-ban.html
Of course per precedents set by non-Trump appointed judges. They did say that, didn’t they?
Experts opine
Even 1.5 million a day, which is enough to fully vaccinate 750,000 Americans with the two-shot vaccines, might not be fast enough for many experts’ goal to complete the bulk of the vaccine campaign by or in the summer.
According to experts, about 70 to 80 percent of the country, and possibly more, must be vaccinated to reach herd immunity and sufficient population protection. That means 245 million Americans likely have to be vaccinated, with 19 million already getting at least their first doses.
At a rate of 1 million shots a day, the US may not hit herd immunity until as late as next year. At 1.5 million, the campaign could drag into the fall and possibly winter.
Peter Hotez, an infectious disease and vaccine expert at Baylor College of Medicine, previously told me that America should aim for at least 2 million shots a day — and preferably 3 million. That’s what would get some of the most important parts of vaccination efforts done this summer or earlier.
There are genuine questions about whether the higher goal is feasible, since vaccinators may face more vaccine hesitancy, as well as logistical difficulties, as they expand to more and more of the country.
Herd immunity is only achieved by vaccination, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Those Vox guys are on top of things. You can’t fool them.
The entire thing is absurd. Now they’re talking about variants. Really, a virus has mutated? How long has it been such you’ve heard anything about cold viruses or flu viruses mutating? That’s right, because that’s been common knowledge for 50 fucking years.
Maybe actual doctors should be in charge of medicine again, instead of glorified politicians. There’s an idea.
the whole thing is bullshit and the strategy is for it to never end
It would have been possible if only Trump had a plan. Poor Biden was left with no plan that still somehow vaccinated million per day.
They are just following WHO guidelines on what herd immunity and how its achieved.
I think I see the problem
I have a definite recollection of Trump’s Dr. Atlas being slapped down for saying herd immunity was the only way out of the pandemic.
And just like that, herd immunity is the only way out of the pandemic.
Does he think there’s the ability to do 5mm or more a day, and somebody is saying “Nah, a million ought to do it. Cancel those orders.”? Does he really think the goal is anything other than “as many as possible, as fast as possible”?
Our system is moving heaven and earth just from an IT perpsective. I can’t imagine the logistical, staffing and other concerns.
I was introduced to Peter Hotez once. Small world.
“Honduras: Boomercon happy land.”
Fortunately for the Hondurans, no one lives there. They live in MD and VA.
So when you moving?
To Honduras? I don’t know, no hablo espanol. West Virginia is looking pretty good though.
“Joe Biden calls Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission ‘ignorance and lies’ as he signs orders on racial equity saying George Floyd’s death has ‘opened the eyes of millions’ on fighting ‘white supremacy'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9189133/Joe-Biden-order-national-policing-commission-wake-George-Floyds-death.html
How many actual white supremacists are there?
12 or 13
Whites make up about 70% of the population, so that’s something on the order of 250 million.
Both you and Sean above are correct.
Thousands, maybe tens of thousands.
How many dollars can the US taxpayer send to leftist activists to put them on the payroll for GOTV in 2022 and beyond? Billions.
Hard to say – we including the FBI informants and undercover cops in that number?
Depends on your definition. If you’re going by the “sane” definition, probably not many. But if throw money at the FBI and tell them to find some, you can bet they will.
And of course the article didn’t cite any of those lies, but Joe is a truth teller, so I’m sure he’s right.
The article also said Trump banned racial sensitivity training, as opposed to Critical Race Theory. I’m sure they wouldn’t lie about that either.
Critical Race Theory is both a right-wing lie that hides their insidious racist nature and also of the utmost importance to shove down every office worker’s throat with “mandatory training”.
Maybe he’s going to have a news conference to explain why it’s ignorance and lies and defend the 1619 type bullshit the NYT publishes? When will that be. I rarely watch TV, but I’ll watch that.
“‘opened the eyes of millions’”
Including Joe? Since, apparently, the administration of which he was part did nothing about it for 8 years?
Hell, he IS the white supremacist who directly caused many afflictions faced by minority communities today.
Can’t you just feel the unity?
As if Trump’s Big Beautiful Wall wasn’t disincentive enough for Central Americans to stay put.
Why have we forgotten about crocodile and piranha infested rivers? I mean even the middle ages folks had figured that out.
Needz moar laser beams.
“Joe Biden reads from his cue cards in order to get another pudding cup.”
FIFY
The redditer who started the whole GME thing with his post last year, as of end of day today.
He has 50000 shares worth over $7MM.
He has 800 Apr 21 $12 calls worth over $10MM.
Plus over $4MM cashed out.
This is starting with $53,000 in option purchases last year.
What are the odds the SEC goes after him for market manipulation?
He’ll be lucky if they let him ransom himself out of prison by disgorging all profits.
He can afford good lawyers, at least.
I think a market manipulation case is going to be hard to win when (a) everything was done in public on the internet, (b) no insider information was used, and (c) no lies were told.
You have no faith in the Beria’s of the SEC?
Afford, how after the sec impounds his accounts?
What are the odds the SEC goes after him for market manipulation?
It wouldn’t surprise me, but I think he has been smart and has not given anyone else any advice, just posted what he was doing. And he is a small time investor, $50k is peanuts.
But here is what is freaking out the hedge funds, this is a post from someone else who has thrown money into this:
That’s the thing. If I sold right now the money would be life-changing. But I am not selling any time soon – why? Because this is too much fun, and I am clinically retarded.
Like I said the other day, r/wallstreetbets is the 4chan of investing. These people don’t even care if they make money, they are trying to destroy the hedge funds shorting. Making some money is a nice side benefit.
I’m certainly no expert in how these games work, but shouldn’t the short squeezers cash out high to put the maximum hurt on the hedge funds?
I am clinically retarded
That, I believe. Its like not cashing in a lottery ticket because you like playing the lottery, or something.
Yeah that’s the dumbest fucking thing I ever heard.
I think the perfect time to cash out is selling to the short sellers when they break and are forced to buy. But a lot of the big shorts are trying to ride this out. Apparently. The problem is it is hard to get good info on short ratios in real time. Supposedly it has gone from 100% short ratio to 50%. If so, there is a good bit of up left but not a lot.
“Burnt bodies found in vehicles on US-Mexico border”
Probably the most dangerous group of terrorists operating in the USA. The white supremacist Nazis who call themselves libertarians of course.
Brennan better get on that. Maybe he can ride one of his UFOs around and zap them with Alien laser breams, right after he eats a big bag of dicks.
Heard today.
The one good thing about libertarians being called terrorists is that now the CIA will start supplying us with guns and money.
We do kinda have that contra vibe.
What about the hookers and blow? I’m feeling shortchanged once again.
CIA, not Secret Service.
Seen on twitter:
“Daddy how did the great depression of 2021 begin?”
“Well there was this company called Gamestop…”
This game called Musical Gamestop. See, everyone wants to buy Gamestop Stock so the prices keeps going up. Then one day…
I’m investing in these things called Beanie Babies, everyone wants them, very rare and collectible, in fact I’m cashing in all my
Bitcoin and buy Beanie Babies (and Pogs) (and Cabbage Patch Dolls) (and Pet Rocks). Son, you have to understand that a fool
and his (her) money is soon parted and I’m taking advantage of that.
These Beanie Babies….do you have Blizzard the White Tiger?
Hola Señor!
Thanks for the lynx and for melting what’s left of my brains out of my ears!
Sounds like “get some lube” to me.
letting bygones be bygones
Exhibit A: an impeachment trial against a former President.
Unity and healing, bitches
That band has that effect.
Nobody believed me when I said it snowed when I went to pick up my kids.
When I considered moving to Phoenix, a friend of mine showed me around and introduced me to some of his friends. My friend had grown up in Phoenix, moved to PA, then moved back to Phoenix. His friends had also grown up in Phoenix.
One of them told me about “that one time it snowed” in Phoenix when he was a kid. Mid-80s I think?
How to keep students schooled and safe amid an incipient second wave of a pandemic that has cursed the region with four of the five worst death tolls in the developing world?
I tapped out of the Covid Cult bullshit article here.
Police found two burnt-out vehicles on Saturday and initial findings indicate the people were shot and then set alight.
Shot? I thought Mexico strictly regulated firearms?
Orellana adds that both the state and federal government used the theory of herd immunity to back up their relaxed measures.
I tapped out of this article here. “Theory of herd immunity”. Fuck you.
One of them told me about “that one time it snowed” in Phoenix when he was a kid. Mid-80s I think?
I survived the blizzard of ’85.
I moved there in Aug 85. That winter they had the first measurable snowfall in Phoenix in about 30 years.
I got to Baghdad in 2008, three days after the first snow since 1895.
I still remember that one time when it snowed at my home in the Bay Area in the 70s. We actually had some again several years ago, but it was gone in about 20 minutes.
most of the people issuing edicts dont even know what a virus is
tempted to include Garden Gnome Faucci among them
that one time it snowed
Such a storm happens once every few years. It never sticks.
(b) no insider information was used, and (c) no lies were told.
I’m thinking they’re likely to go after him for frontrunning a story he created. I don’t know enough about it, but I can’t help thinking there are some heavy hitters in the financial world none too pleased about this. It’s okay when “legitimate” hedge funds do it…
That, I believe. Its like not cashing in a lottery ticket because you like playing the lottery, or something.
*clutches head*
You cash in the lottery ticket and buy more lottery tickets. Retarded doesn’t even begin to address this.
Yeah, but the lottery tickets went up in price.
If you are just going to buy GME back, no reason to sell.
But yeah, notice that the original “ringleader” has cashed out $4MM worth. He can ride the rest into the ground and have come out okay.
There is a certain kind of attitude i think you have to have when you play this kind of thing, which is that you never count your gains untill you’ve actualized them. So in a sense, he’s a long, long way off from losing any real money, cause if it does start to turn against him he could cash out and still have a ton.
Why do they never think about trying to just mind their own business? The “temporary” fence around the Minnesoda State Capitol building is here to stay.
I’d bet a combo platter of “Stop fucking with citizens by locking them down” and “send out enough cops to bust heads and arrest people before the burning starts” would actually do a far better job of reducing the risk of damage to the Capitol.
By the way, here is a video of the absolute insanity of the protests on Jan. 6th in Minnsoda.
I have to agree with King Walz that the fence was absolutely needed to keep those maniacs from burning everything down.
Holy shit…how do you have a standing capitol after that mayhem!
Check out this story where Walz fumes about his son having to be rescued by state troopers because of “threats”.
I wish I could be a journalo, so I could have said “You sir are a liar and your son is a fucking pussy! 14 and crying? PUSSY!”
Honestly that story is tour de force by King Walz. Trying to pretend that crowd was threatening? Yeah, sure.
By contrast, watch DFL candidate John Thompson and his protest. Thompson organized a protest where he and his mob went out to the house of Police Union spokesman Bob Kroll and screamed at various neighbors threatening to burn the neighborhood down.
Missing from that snippet is when Thompson and the mob beat effigy/pinatas of Kroll and his wife (who is a TV journalo).
A bit different of a tone in the crowds, I’d say.
And as odious of a human as Kroll is, I doubt he’d ever try to win a political argument by saying Thompson made his 14 year-old kid cry.
* By the way, the DFL made Thompson apologize for threatening to burn a neighborhood down, but they didn’t replace him on the ballot. And the voters elected him so he is now in our state legislature.
Charming. Get off my lawn.
Lese majeste
That’s just really sad.
He wants to play with the big boys but he’s just a little bitch.
Walz said yesterday we’re going to have Equal Outcome Schools in MN, even if we have to dumb every kid in the state down. He has a plan and a lot of committees made up of Special Interest Groups. It’s going to take more money, of course, but we want to be cutting edge education.
Why didn’t someone think of that before? Walz has to do the hard work, ’cause he is the onlyiest long time teacher on the Podium. He is an old history teacher until he got the calling for community service. Who better to run the state than a carpetbagger from Nebraska? Off-da!
Public schools these days are a form of child abuse.
ruling class walling themselves off from the people
I wonder how that ends, if only we had seen it before
If you are just going to buy GME back, no reason to sell.
You cash out and find another broken roller coaster to ride.
Don’t ask me, I buy stuff on whether I think they make a product which has value in the marketplace. Like when I said Apple was overvalued at $14.
I am with you. I also like dividends. I am old and boring.
But I can enjoy watching crazy. I see lots of people going broke. The hedge funds are taking a bath. Then later, the wsb idiots who don’t sell are going to ride it hard to zero.
The difference is they will be laughing all the way down.
GME after market is pushing $250. JFC.
My company’s stock was up $5 today. That is an extra $65 when I cash out my Christmas bonus (it was done in stock this year do to covid and lack of cash flow).
Pass the popcorn! Minnesoda’s GOP has possibly grown a pair?
*The link goes to a stupid site that wants you to sign in. I didn’t bother to sign in. I’ll just quote the synopsis from the site I got the link from.
This should be good. I know that everyone I have talked to in rural Minnesoda has been incensed that general funds would be used to repair riot damage in Minneapolis. Why should their tax dollars be used to bail out liberal Minneapolis that did nothing to stop the riots?
The one downer is that I am pretty sure that they will go slinking back to the Biden administration and get that sweet FEMA money retroactively. So thanks to the rest of you?
Big time paywalled.
Yeah, a lot of the papers in the smaller towns around Minnesoda use that platform to publish on the internet. I’d love to see their traffic stats and see how many people bother to register or pay.
That is why I added the summary from the site where I found the link.
Basically we are setting up a battle between outstate and the metro area. I think the outstate legislators are about to be broken on the wheel. The last election proved that the metro area has all the juice politically in the state.
Those rubes out in the sticks are going to pay to rebuild the riot damage whether they like it or not.
Ain’t nothing like gossiping & talking about dudes with one’s hair stylist.
GAY
Don’t worry – I wasn’t talking about you ?
Go Easy on Brochetta, he is still reeling from his late Firsting.
Delayed firstulation?
Impofirstence
I’ve been wanting to cook wings for weeks now, but the store keeps selling out before I can get my mitts on them. Makes it hard to cook chicken without chicken.
I did make stuffed peppers. Mostly because I bought two Aloha peppers without a clue what I was going to use them for. I filled them with a mix of aloha pepper, mushroom, and ground beef seasoned with cumin, coeander and smoked paprika, topped off with some cheese. They look pretty, but I haven’t eaten any yet.
Now that’s how you prolong an economic crisis
Democrats in the House and Senate reintroduced a bill Tuesday to raise the U.S. minimum wage to $15 per hour, seeking fresh support for the policy during an economic crisis and with control of Congress and the White House.
The legislation would gradually hike the pay floor to $15 an hour nationwide by 2025, then tie future increases to median wage growth. The measure would also end pay below the minimum wage for tipped workers, along with certain teens and people with disabilities
Good thinking, Democrats!
Just fuck the people in Rural towns. If the place you live can’t afford wages like that, you don’t deserve to live there.
They can move to California and get a nice 1.5 million dollar 3 bedroom ranch for their $15 an hour.
What about employees who have already been with the company for 10 years and now make $16 an hour. What are they getting?
A diploma from the School of Hard Knocks
Fucked
$16/hour
This just goes to show the greed of democrats. I say $100 an hour now!
I was skeptical of 15$ an hour, but i can get behind that! It would really benefit me!
:Fast Forward to Unemployed Leon:
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPENING?
You will be free to be an artist. You can thank SanFran Nan when you see her at the gourmet ice cream parlor.
Funemployment!
If you’re good at waiting tables or cutting hair or driving a taxi, you’re already making more than minimum wage. Can’t wait for shitty service!
Look, there are restaurants, salons, and ride services that are still in business. How to YOU propose we fix problems like that?
They’re hoping the $15.00 min wage won’t mean much in 2025. It’s not a bad bet.
Anyone got change for a million?
I don’t carry bills that small, sorry.
$15 minimum, lockdowns, land reform, 100% inheritance tax, hud houses in every neighborhood….
all purely punitive
better stock up on food people. if they get half of what they want we will see famine
Flippy the Burgerbot rejoices!
Yup. And all these kids will go through college and get their first jobs at the age of 24 and have no concept of what is expected of them in the workplace.
And people will be puzzled.
Already happening. We hired some contractors for a limited duration job, and half of them are just out of college and have no concept of how to conduct yourself in a business setting. Like, really obvious things like “no, you don’t get to just adjust your hours on your own without telling anyone”.
Increasing the minimum wage is _always_ popular.
It’s a terrible idea, but a very very popular one.
It just boggles how often “price fixing” has been shown to be abysmal economic policy, and yet it’s pursued over and over again.
Don’t worry, Ohio’s trying to get their ahead of the Fed.
Thankfully, this does not have a good chance of passing.
Swiss got me looking at the Legislatures Agenda for this year. Utah may be Red, but our Blue Lake City has some crazies still:
https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0078.html
Get Fucked (with someone who consents) Angela
You can always change your mind on consent 40 years later. In fact, that seems to be the most popular timeline.
Rand!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senators-sworn-in-impeachment-trial-start-feb-9
Rand seems to be the most outspoken person in the Senate right now on voter fraud and now we have to fix it. Rand is our best senator, it’s not even close.
The only good one, there are a couple of acceptable ones, and the rest are a den of fucking snakes.
Lee and who else would you put in the acceptable category?
Rand and Lee are the only senators I can stand
I don’t know, Cruz maybe? Sometimes he manages to fall ass backwards into doing the right thing at least.
True Story: a teammate of mine (adult baseball) was a high level campaign advisor for Rand during his first election run. All those Tea Party slogans that came out of Rand were all workshopped with this guy.
He’s currently one of the petitioners to impeach Governor Useless (D) as well.
A true modern patriot who values liberty above all.
This guy!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/rand-pauls-campaign-manager-talks-to-the-establishment-republican-he-ambushed-in-2010/2018/01/02/8b1b54b4-d9f1-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html
Adult baseball? Does that mean you play naked?
No. Not that kind of baseball.
https://libertasutah.org/bill/hb-217-creating-a-legal-structure-to-encourage-innovation/
Connor Boyack (Author of the Tuttle Twins Series) is doing good work out here.
working with the legislature on working to create a program that allows buisneses to get regulations waived as a Proof Of Concept that they arent needed or should be fixed.
that is not begging the question and the reason is called regulatory capture ( or corruption )
Western countries are not the only ones severely retarded.
Philippines’ Duterte Tells Children To Stay Home And Watch TV
That’s bizarre but it’s the old timey kind of quasi despot bizarre which I prefer from my dictators. At least he’s just being stupid instead of trying to blow all kinds of twisted statistical bullshit up people’s asses.
I see in the headlines the executive editor of the Washington Post is quitting.
Maybe he’s going to be a speech writer for Joe Biden.
Speech reader.
+1 earpiece/teleprompter
Or a fluffer.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PEAK DERP
Cats and dogs may also need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to help stunt the spread of the infectious disease — amid a threat of the “continued evolution of the virus in animals,” scientists have warned.
Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the Earlham Institute, both in the UK, and the University of Minnesota warned about the “significant long-term risk to public health” from such transmission in an editorial for Virulence.
“It is not unthinkable that vaccination of some domesticated animal species might … be necessary to curb the spread of the infection,” the experts wrote in the peer-reviewed medical journal, the UK’s Independent reported.
While there are no known cases in which a human contracted COVID-19 from a furry family member, Cock van Oosterhout, a professor of evolutionary genetics at UEA in Norwich, said we should prepare “for any eventuality.”
“It makes sense to develop vaccines for pets, for domestic animals, just as a precaution to reduce this risk,” he said. “What we need to be as a human society, we really need to be prepared for any eventuality when it comes to COVID.”
I don’t wanna ride this ride anymore. It’s making me woozy.
Cock van Oosterhout
You can’t fool me, Derpetologist wrote that.
I will one up you
I heard the other day that we are forbidden to pop bubble wrap now because it is made in china. the air in the bubbles may contain cooties.
Somehow I’m not surprised the U of MN came to those same conclusions. We have the Educator in Chief as governor and he’s a teacher so MN students are smarter than other places. Every kid grew up in Lake Wobegon so of course they know about the big V. Don’t handle the fish either, never know and can’t be too careful. If it saves just one life…
“COVID Anal Swabs for Beijing Residents More Accurate, Says Chinese Expert”
https://www.newsweek.com/covid-anal-swabs-beijing-residents-more-accurate-says-chinese-expert-1564381
They should completely replace all other covid tests in America. This is our only exit strategy.
“SARS-CoV-2 can infect a wide range of host species, including cats, dogs, mink and other wild and domesticated species and, hence, the vaccination of domesticated animals might be required to halt further virus evolution and spillback events.”
The scientists added: “Whilst the vaccination campaigns against SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 are being rolled out worldwide, new virus variants are likely to continue to evolve that have the potential to sweep through the human population.”
Meanwhile, the group is also calling on governments to continue enforcing strict control measures, such as mask mandates and social distancing orders, to reduce the evolution and spread of any new COVID variants.
Some people really do need to be institutionalized, forcibly if necessary.
we do that but I think our standards about who needs a bit of tweaking
https://starecat.com/media-coronavirus-can-now-infect-dogs-me-john-wick/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsoOwWTXMAA_htH.jpg
That is perfect!
My ex-GF had one like that.
You ex is also a tunnel rat? Hawt.
Bernie loving Sister-in-law in Tokyo: “Maternity is so much better in a collective capitalist country”
*rolls eyes accompanied with exasperated groan*
She neglected “pretty damn homogenous”
And declining culture fighting the issues that come with an aging population.
“Geologist Finds Rare Formation Inside Rock That Looks Exactly Like Cookie Monster on Sesame Street”
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/geologist-finds-cookie-monster-rock/
TBH, that kind of made my day
Honduras: Boomercon happy land.
Kevihn? Is that a Spanish version of “Kevin”, a typo, or one of those “deliberately misspelled to be different” names?
It’s like the gay version of Kevin. You’d know this if you weren’t uncouth.
Pretty sure there is no Spanish version of “Kevin”.
El Kevino
Heh
Did CNN just admit that Trump was good at diplomacy?
Also,
Is Biden planning to actually enforce the border?
presidente probably said ” look, those caravans you keep organizing to march through our country, that shit has to stop.”
Project Veritas needs to get insider footage of detention centers when they’re well and truly under the control of Harris/Biden. Maybe, say, middle of next year.
dont hold your breath
Need immigrants of a stronger fiber.
love how the nomenclature is always changing.
I like the original ‘invaders’ or ‘illegal alien’ is ok too
In light of the article talking about how AMLO had a good relationship with Trump and that the AMLO-Biden relationship may be strained in part by AMLO offering asylum to Snowden, a thought occurred to me: if Trump gets prosecuted, maybe AMLO will offer him asylum? Trump fleeing to asylum in Mexico would be possibly the best thing that could happen to a post-presidency Trump. So many heads would explode, across the political spectrum.
*Assange, not Snowden
My bad.
The Democrats are so batshit crazy about Trump it wouldn’t surprise me if they actually invaded Mexico in such a scenario. It would be painted as an unprecedented attack on America.
The Dems would send someone to Mexico to kill Trump with an ice pick.
https://youtu.be/Pg2np37JNEg
Do you think they would send AOC, code name Hotsky?
The only two countries he’d be safe in would be Russia and China (which would be out for obvious reasons). India too probably but we’re too tight with them.
For those wondering what Twitter is good for
https://twitter.com/FallerForIt/status/1354095864571174915
For those that want their own
https://fultonindoh.com/products/n476230-00-264-8261/
Does it have all the filters in the base? If not, a rip off.
Those flashlights were tough. When I was a LT one of the NCOs in my company was court martialed breaking another sergeant’s jaw with one blow of his flashlight.
Not sure. Fulton is the actual manufacturer and the filters are standard with the MX991U model but that doesn’t seem to be listed on the website. You can also buy them as replacement accessories from Fulton.
They do claim shock resistant bodies. I dropped mine several times, including to pavement and always worked. Wonder if I still have one squirreled away? After basic, maglites were the thing (before led headlamps) and the crook necks were almost never used.
I was hoping it would be one of these: https://beachpackagingdesign.com/boxvox/soda-machine-gun-safes
I know what I want for my birthday
Biden gets aggressive with Pootie Poot Poot on their first phone call:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-confronts-putin-navalny-election-interference-solarwinds-hack-1st-phone-call
Wonderful, let’s ratchet up tensions with a country that has more nukes than we do right off the bat but at least we unintentionally (?) gave up our status as the world’s petroleum superpower which Russia must just love.
Putin should be giving Puddin Cup some num nums for the whole Keystone thing.
Oh he’s tough on Russia.
After giving Russian fossil fuels a huge boost last week this should totally even it out.
Putin must be laughing so hard that he spit bears’ milk out his nose.
Remember when the 1980’s called and wanted their foreign policy back?
https://twitter.com/bookowl/status/1352386995469877250
LOLOLOLOLOL
So a few days ago someone posted a link about how Seattle intended to now get tough on rioters. In reading another story on the subject, I encountered this gem:
Daily Wire
An interesting news expose on Seattle from about a month ago from a local television affiliate:
https://youtu.be/WijoL3Hy_Bw
And all because the local politicos are absolute garbage. It’s sad really.
Well not all, there’s some personal responsibility for the bad behavior too but they mollycoddle it.
TL:DNW
Can you give a run down?
It is quite a long watch but it just goes into the rioting, the drugs on the streets (which I don’t have that much of a problem with) and the resulting crime, and the coddling of criminal and degenerate behavior. I was surprised at how frank they were with their judgement but, in short, Seattle’s become a crime-ridden shithole.
I mean, this has been the unofficial policy in every big city in the United States for decades now. Almost everybody convicted of misdemeanor crimes is either a non-compliant schizophrenic or has a drug (or rarely, gambling) habit. They shoplift and break into cars, get caught, get convicted, get hit with a fine and court-ordered rehab that they ignore, and get tossed out on the street again. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Larry King is dead. Dead for hours and none of you saw fit to inform me.
Should we tell him about Lou Reed?
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
I’m glad he’s dead.
There.
I said it.
That’s how I felt about Paul Harvey.
And now i know the rest of the story.
oh, THAT’s Paul Harvey. How did I get that name mixed up with Paul Shaffer? I’m glad HE’S dead. Wait, what?!
At least we still have Bowie.
“NEW: NRA and Gun Industry Target Blacks and Latinos for Gun Sales, VPC Study Reveals”
https://twitter.com/VPCinfo/status/1353722305252368385
The Violence Policy Center is totally not at all racist.
My God! They want Blacks and Latinos to have their Constitutional rights and be able to defend themselves!? Will this racism never end?
As well they should, a lot of them live in bad neighborhoods and are probably open to the suggestion.
If I didn’t know any better I’d say it’s almost like the gun industry is trying to sell guns.
Guns are like Cigarrets, so this is actually really racist. Once you buy a gun you never know when it is going to just pop off and kill you. Also it’s addictive so you have to keep buying more and more.
I’ve seen it kill many a good man.
I notice that guns don’t come in menthol, however. Serious adoption hurdle there? I don’t know if menthol ammo would do the trick, that’s more for the target imo.
Public schools these days are a form of child abuse.
Public schools have always been child abuse. Child Abuse just used to be acceptable. I don’t turn 40 for another year, I still attended an elementary school with an Official Paddle. It didn’t have to see any use while I was there, but it could have. Or maybe they were lying. So it was only psychological abuse.
I’m about 20 years older. All the male teachers had their own custom paddles. About half the women had paddles. Everyone who had a paddle used it.
I got paddled. The standard trade was detention or a swat.
I heard the other day that we are forbidden to pop bubble wrap now because it is made in china. the air in the bubbles may contain cooties.
So i burn bubblewrap on Earth Day now instead of tires, got it.