Cowboy’s fans are just as sad today
Chelski put Everton in their place. West Ham are a legit team. UCL games today and tomorrow (yay!). And nothing happened here aside from the Cowboys resigning themselves to mediocrity at QB for the foreseeable future. And that’s sports.
She wasn’t ugly, that’s for sure.
Big birthdays today are: explorer (who didn’t discover what’s named after him) Amerigo Vespucci, French revolutionary Comte de Mirabeau, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, commie politician Vyacheslav Molotov, Walton’s actor Will Geer, speaker designer Paul Klipsch, baseball HOFer Arky Vaughn, mystery writer Mickey Spillane, jazzman Ornette Coleman, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, chess player Bobby Fischer, terrorist Bobby Sands, the lovely Linda Fiorentino, quirky college football coach Mike Leach, and baseball great Benito Santiago.
Not a bad list there. And now on to…the links!
Papiere, bitte! But at least it’s the private sector. Oh wait, they’re asking the government to get involved. Kinda fascist if you ask me.
LOL, fuck you CNN. I’m not vaccinated and I can do all of those things. Also, free people aren’t “allowed to” do things. They have a right to do those things. We don’t need your permission.
Thank God they’re not cages, right?
Trump, you evil sonofabitch! Oh wait, it’s March 2021, isn’t it. Well I’m sure it’s still his fault, eh journalists?
Damn, I’d almost forgotten about this little grifter. Thanks for the reminder, New York Post. You bastards.
Oh no! I assume his way of speaking will soon deteriorate into a hybrid of hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang and various grunts.
Let this crazy man go!
What the fucking fuck?!?! This sure as shit sounds to me like he’s criminally penalizing the defendant due to actions he’s only alleged to have carried out. And then he’s to be tried and penalized again. Which, IIRC, is clearly addressed in our constitution. Although our court system is so shitty they’ll not care.
You fucked up. You trusted us. But don’t worry. Apparently it’s no big deal. Which makes me wonder if these vaccines aren’t more for show than anything.
He’s technically right even if he’s an asshole. In fact, this statement would have been right all along, seeing as there’s no law that ever made a mask mandate legal in the first place. But I respect property rights, so I’ll just take my business elsewhere.
The video set to this is a head-scratcher. Oh well, it’s a great song. I hope you enjoy it.
Now go have a great day, friends!
“Oh wait, it’s March 2021, isn’t it. Well I’m sure it’s still his fault, eh journalists?”
Remember when they blamed pictures taken before 2016 on Trump? They’ll find a way.
I mean it will be facepalm retarded to anyone who can understand facts, reason, or has a vague notion how time works, but it won’t stop them from publishing articles that ignore those things.
Which makes me wonder if these vaccines aren’t more for show than anything.
D’oh!
Since most pandemics of this type peter out on their own at this point anyway, yeah it mostly is for show.
CONFESS HERETIC!! THOU HAST DEFILED THE SACRED PRECINCTS OF THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE!!
I guess the Fifth Amendment is optional in Washington, DC federal court.
This judge is a complete asshole.
This time of year you see a lot of fallen limbs and downed trees being disposed of alng the roadside.
Yeah, but what has that got to do with ooohhhhhhh…
The entire constitution has become optional at this point. We are no longer a nation of laws.
The Flynn case made this abundantly clear. The federal courts have become 3rd world political operations. Facts and the law are incidental.
Sentence first – verdict afterwards.
Kiss the royal seal, beg for mercy, and you shall have it.
So that’s what Acevedo does when he’s not covering up for murderous cops.
That’s not fair. He dedicates a lot of time covering up for crooked politicians as well.
He also has a hobby of mugging for the cameras.
““Well, you shouldn’t take that from me, I’m just a teenager, so I’m not — I don’t have the mandate to sort of give grades like that. My opinions on this doesn’t matter,” Thunberg began.”
That’s when she should have stopped talking.
That’s when she should have stopped talking.
You misspelled “five years ago”.
She never should have started. Although I put most of the blame on the listeners.
Her handlers.
This girl is mentally deficient. Every word she utters and move she makes is at the behest of her very sick parents who should be arrested for child abuse, and her handlers, who should be taken in a helicopter ride over a tree cutting operation.
It will be amusing to watch all the Karen-y businesses rescind their mandates at lightning speed after they watch their business crater.
Either that or they’ll demand a nice grant from the US taxpayers to make up for their losses. HR 666 The Covid-Karen-Goodthink Relief Bill. About $1.5 Trillion should suffice.
That Houston paper was doing everything it could to whip up fear and proclaim the sky is falling. I wonder if three or four weeks from now, when nothing else has happened, they will revisit that panic?
…
Ha, no they won’t.
Of course they’ll revisit the panic in 3-4 weeks. They’ll find a new variant by then and they’ll whip up more fear about how “this could potentially be the worst variant yet” with no evidence whatsoever.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
So… since they’re naming the new variants by the country of origin, what happens the next time a variant is traced back to China?
“The Trump Virus”.
“The Trump Mutation”.
“The Trump Variant”.
“The Trump Death”.
绝对不是中国来的病毒
It is exactly why they are so upset that the mandate is gone. Now they have to make their own decision on the issue. And compete against stores that aren’t hassling customers.
Before the mandate here in Sunny Minnesoda I had abandoned Menard’s and Home Depot because they were demanding mask theater. I was sorely disappointed that the small mom and pop ACE Hardware in my neighborhood was also full on masks now masks forever. So I had to go to another ACE down the road for my hardware needs.
Once the mandate dropped I went back to Menard’s mostly because I know where things are.
I am happy to report that the mask diktats are basically dead-letter where I am at. Mrs. F and I went to a winery with some live music over the weekend and nary a mask was seen. I have no idea what the latest edicts are from Baton Rouge, nor do I care. My community appears to be over it.
Luckily we lost (playoff game), but I was playing indoor soccer last night and my stupid team kept complaining the entire time when the other team’s mask would slip or, they just refused to pull it up and were going chin strap the entire time. The ref didn’t give a shit and never called a foul on them, even though he was doing that earlier in the season.
I might change my mind by next winter, but I am thinking I need a new team.
They are forcing masks on soccer players? That’s just… stupid and cruel.
I would tap the hell out of that scene.
Yeah I was pissed, but ultimately it was wear a mask or don’t play at all. I couldn’t hate the facility either since it wasn’t a rule they wanted to implement.
We have an indoor sports facility here, and the owner has been the biggest Branch Covidian I’ve seen.
All masks all the time, even in the midst of strenuous workouts. Soccer players, volleyball players, baseball and softball players. Even when there is literally no one else around.
I avoid that joint like the plague.
My indoor facility has a formal mask policy for entering the building, and a “no spectators for adult games” policy. After they reopened (in late April last year, IIRC), neither of those policies has been seriously enforced. After Abbot’s announcement, they sent out a message saying that “all COVID protocols would remain in place”. And yesterday, as has been for nearly a year, they were soundly ignored. I don’t always agree with the owner, but I do appreciate his stance on the mask theater.
I play over-30 drop in on Sunday mornings and that is more pleasant. The guys wear them inside but then we play with chin straps.
Louisiana wine??
Too local news, a play in one act:
Defendant: I was set up. You know I was set up. You know that cop is dirty.
Albany PD: Pssht. You’re crazy.
Defendant: Subpoena, bitch.
Albany PD: Whoopsie! We lost all those records in a ransomware attack.
Don’t worry. Our unpaid parking ticket database is completely secure.
exeunt
“I would just like you to basically just treat the climate crisis like a crisis. They have said themselves that this is an existential threat,” she responded, adding that Biden isn’t handling it as such.
“They are just treating the climate crisis as it was a political topic, among other topics and, yeah, treat it as a crisis, that’s the No. 1 step,” she added.
Go get laid, you psycho.
You know she has the same attituse towards sex as Zardoz, right?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN RODENTIA ONE. GO ON…
Which is worthless if she does not also accept the gift of the gun.
Greta strikes me as someone who might, having embraced the gift of the gun, unilaterally decide to engage in some cleansing. Plenty of righteous indignation, and just a touch of sociopathy.
Possibly the press has misrepresented her true nature. Or I’m projecting, one or the other.
“They are just treating the climate crisis as it was a political topic, among other topics…”
She’s so close.
“The Red Pilling of Greta Thunberg” will be epic.
Ten. Thousand. Dollars.
In Bitcoin?
More like ButtCoin
*snort*
“Michael Brown’s father, Ferguson activists demand $20M from BLM
“We’re not asking for a handout, but for the funding to keep the movement strong where it began,” said Tory Russell, a Ferguson activist and co-founder of the International Black Freedom Alliance.
The funds in Ferguson would be used in part to build a community center in honor of Michael Brown, the press release said. ”
https://nypost.com/2021/03/03/michael-browns-father-ferguson-activists-demand-20m-from-blm/
Was that before or after the drugs fell out of his arse?
…keep the movement strong where it began
The entire movement is based on a lie.
The “Hands Up – Don’t Shoot” crowd in Ferguson knows there’s still a little gold left to mined.
“The funds would be used “in part” to build a community center….” Did anyone ask Brown senior where the the rest of the swag is going?
“The IBFA also said Brown has received received only $500 from any group associated with Black Lives Matter.”
Brown Sr. is just asking for a raise….
Brown Sr. is just looking for his payout from the ghetto lottery.
I think he has a point. They have literally raised a billion dollars on his son’s name. Forget that the whole thing was a lie, They still ought to cut him in on the grift
Good morning, Sloopy!
Thanks for assembling the lynx, especially the derpiest ones.
Keeping those dudes in jail is breathtakingly evil. But not surprising.
The good news is that they will get their $1400 checks!
And Antifa fucks get out the same day.
There is no equal application of the law.
We all know the Capitol is SOOPER SPECIAL PLACE.
Reading the news feels like watching the Hunger Games.
The good news is that they will get their $1400 checks!
So will the Tsarnev asshole and Dylan Roof. But I won’t.
Yay, democracy!
If it makes you feel any better they’ll just sign over the commissary bucks so they don’t get violated so vigorously and often.
I know Tom Cotton was making a big deal about that over the weekend, but they would have received checks in each round so pointing it out now hardly moves the rage needle.
NPR is on the case
A federal judge ruled Monday that the man often called the “QAnon Shaman” must remain in jail pending his trial for his role in the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol because he remains a threat to the public.
Judge Royce Lamberth said, in his order rejecting Jacob Chansley’s request for release, that “no condition or combination of conditions” would ensure Chansley’s return to court if he were released.
Lamberth said Chansley believes his actions during the siege of the Capitol, an attack in which five people died, were peaceful. That mindset, Lamberth wrote, shows “a detachment from reality.”
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Federal prosecutors describe Chansley as a leader within the QAnon conspiracy movement, which promotes baseless claims that former President Donald Trump is fighting a global system of powerful pedophiles among the elite and powerful in U.S. government.
Chansley’s lawyer argued for his client’s pretrial release citing President Biden’s inauguration and COVID-19 restrictions in jail that, he said, make it “impossible” for the two to communicate privately. The lawyer argued that Chansley’s faith precludes him from taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
Lamberth declined to release him and focused, in part, on the accusation that Chansley stormed the Capitol with a dangerous weapon. Chansley’s attorney described it as a flagpole with a “spear finial.”
Lamberth noted Chansley’s refusal to listen to U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers during the breach as proof that, if released, he wouldn’t comply with conditions of his release or follow orders from police.
Somebody is detached from reality.
Paranoiac hysteria is not a disqualifying condition for a federal judge, apparently.
because he remains a threat to the public.
He was never a threat.
Repeating “5 people died” is detached from reality when only 1 died as a result of direct action taken that day, and that person was shot and killed by police.
I think sitting in the speaker’s chair while wearing bufallo horns is pretty much a dictionary definition case of an unserious action.
I always chuckle at the fact that Grandpa Walton was as fruity as an apple-tini. Apparently he and Grandma Walton were great friends in real life. Pa and Ma Walton were both sots. Micheal Learned, I’ll be in my bunk!
Would.
She has a certain “J,en sais quoi”..
LOL I guess the rube hillbillies ain’t got the message their all going to still die!
https://www.ky3.com/2021/03/06/barry-county-mass-vaccination-clinic-could-be-canceled-due-to-low-registration-organizers-seek-more-participants/
“Only 100 or so people have registered for 1,000 vaccines.”
Kinda fascist if you ask me.
Papers, please.
At the 23 minute mark, someone does one of the funniest Joe Biden impersonations on the Adam Corolla podcast that I have ever heard.
If SNL still had an edgy bone in their body they would be doing something like this.
Dunnigan also does a pretty good Andrew Cuomo.
Banishment
The two German Shepherds belonging to President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were returned to the Biden family home in Delaware last week after aggressive behavior at the White House involving Major Biden, two sources with knowledge tell CNN.
Major, who was adopted by Biden in November 2018 from a Delaware animal shelter, had what one of the people described as a “biting incident” with a member of White House security. The exact condition of the victim is unknown, however, the episode was serious enough that the dogs were subsequently moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where they remain.
I would have put the motherfucker down on the spot.
If Biden was a prole, the cop would have been all too happy to have put the dog down like…well, like a dog.
Dog bites cop, lives to tell tale?
Joe or the dog?
The dogs deserve humane treatment.
You’re not allowed to summarily euthanize White house security — SEIU regs prohibit it.
Dogs are trustworthy judges of character.
Vaccinated Americans allowed to taste freedom
I taste it every day. And I have zero intention of being vaccinated. And I ignore tyrannical virus theater “mandates”.
“Teen Vogue staffers slam newly-appointed editor-in-chief, 27, for her teenage ‘racist and homophobic tweets’ – weeks after her boyfriend quit White House press job after threatening to ‘destroy’ female reporter”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9341461/Teen-Vogue-staffers-openly-slam-new-editor-chief-past-racist-homophobic-tweets.html
Hmm, it’s almost like they intentionally targeted her for what her boyfriend did. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer couple…
*points & laughs*
I love it when they eat their own young.
I came up with a “covid relief” plan the other night and Banjos think’s it would be a tough sell. But here goes:
They should give 25% of what each person paid in taxes for 2020 back to them. That way the people who actually paid into the shitty system get money back. This would largely exclude people who won’t stimulate the economy with additional spending.
Think about it. People getting money and spending it on groceries won’t stimulate anything. The grocery stores are already busy as hell. But what will stimulate the economy is people getting money who don’t really need out to survive. They’ll spend it on frivolous things, like putting in a pool, getting their kids a new mega-fort in their back yard, or buying a new private plane or yacht. People who build/install those things are the ones who have been put out of work and will now have the means to go back. Helping people pay for food, rent, or utilities won’t do shit.
Thoughts?
Looks at last year’s tax return
Hell yeah!
But how do you get the graft to your cronies?
That’ll never work!
Exactly, it’s not about relief, it’s about graft and rewarding their cronies and constituents.
What good is power if you can’t reward friends and punish enemies?
Ray-cisssss!!!
That’s a great and just idea, so it won’t happen. You have my vote.
“But what will stimulate the economy is people getting money who don’t really need out to survive.”
But what about the people who do need it to survive? It’s not their fault the government shut things down.
Most people who could work from home had white-collar jobs in the first place.
No one builds yachts, they are mined by orphan slaves.
After paying last year’s tax return, the result of winning a court case in which we TAXED FOR RECOVERING STOLEN FUNDS, I concur.
We paid about 2x our normal annual income in taxes last year for having recovered funds that were stolen. I’ll take back whatever I can get.
“‘Of course the Royals are racist’: CNN’s Don Lemon says ‘no person of color’ was surprised by Harry and Meghan’s racism claims because ‘that’s what the monarchy was built on'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9340415/Don-Lemon-says-wasnt-surprised-Harry-Meghans-claims-racism-Royal-family.html
This leads me to believe the royals are totally not racist.
I can’t wait for the Times of London‘s “1066 Project.”
LOL
The 43 Project? The British Isles were stolen from their rightful owners. It’s time to give it back to the Celts. Also France, Southern Germany and Northern Italy.
The monarchy was built on racism? How so? It’s telling that these clowns never show their work.
History was never their strong suit even though it remains one of the softest sciences.
The French speaking Normans despised the Anglo-Saxons, it is known…or maybe it isn’t.
And let’s not forget those Norsemen.
Wouldn’t it be kind of hard for the British monarchy to be built on racism when there weren’t any other races in Britain? Or have we already reached the point where, even in the mainstream, expecting rationality is racist?
Just accept the narrative and rage at the right people. To do otherwise is untoward.
“While overseas, he was impressed by the relative freedom he had as a man of color, compared to what he had experienced in the United States. During his time in Ireland, he would meet the Irish nationalist Daniel O’Connell, who would become an inspiration for his later work.
In England, Douglass also delivered what would later be viewed as one of his most famous speeches, the so-called “London Reception Speech.””
Read a fucking book, Lemon.
According to BBC programming, the British late dark ages and early medieval period were replete with POC.
I just can’t watch historical period shows that have anomalous things like POC lords and ladies, or POC Greek Heroes, etc. It’s so off-key that it takes away the ability to suspend disbelief and get into the show.
Chernobyl with British accents put me over the edge.
I would actually rather have that than the actors doing Russian accents if they’re going to be speaking English anyway.
^ I agree. Better English accents, that annoyingly bad Russian.
I also like that in ‘The Death of Stalin’ (if you like black comedy, I highly recommend it) everyone spoke English with their natural accent. Having Krushev, Steve Buscemi, speak like, well, Steve Buscemi, added to the surreal tone of the movie.
According to BBC news, the Sami are the only natives Europeans left in Europe. The rest are just white colonizers i guess.
Everyone is a colonizer. The continent largely belonged to the Celts before the stupid Romans showed up.
(Although the Celts were more of a culture than a discreet people group, TBF)
And before the Celts there were others. Because even still you can find remnants of the Celtic cultures (language) in Ireland, Wales, North West Scotland. But they are not natives, according to the BBC. Which i guess makes sense from the State Media of England. Ireland does not belong to the Irish.
https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-phrase-to-be-frank-originate
Wanna bet that all of the “incidences of racism” were just people who were uncomfortable with the outspoken leftism coming from the new girl?
The only reason anyone would object to leftism is obviously because they are racist!
She sipped her tea with the middle finger pointed out rather than the pinkie? She’s insufferable but she may have a point.
Stop using the R-word.
Damn! Nice one.
Far be it from me to defend the royal family, but the shittiest thing about the claim is that it’s not specific. She just threw it out there, like a blanket meant to cover the entire family with the mark of racism. I don’t know when we transitioned from if you have an issue with someone, you confront them and only them directly first to either running to the media, social media, or authority with general complaints.
As a manager, I find the most egregious thing younger employees now do is to run to me to solve their problems rather than confront issues with others head-on first. We have a serious self-determination problem in this society.
Tattle-tales aren’t frowned upon in grade school anymore. It’s part of the anti-bullying crusade.
When I was wee both the tattler and the sinner would both get the strap. It was a good lesson. Never talk to the Police.
Tattling is encouraged, while defending oneself from imminent threat is punished.
It’s fucking sick.
She should have framed it as an anonymous source told her someone said that. Anonymous sources are the most reliable.
I don’t believe a single word out of that smug prick.
History geek detail: The Royal Navy did more for the active elimination of the slave trade than any other institution. Nothing else even comes close.
For sure, they blockaded African ports that the Dutch were using to export slaves. The African Kings kept capturing and enslaving people to sell domestically but mentioning that is verboten.
And it was way more than that. There were active anti-slave-trading patrols in waters all around the world.
Everybody wants to be a princess until it is time to do princess shit.
The English Monarchy is purposefully apolitical. I might even go so far as to say that any claim they have to their position in the United Kingdom depends on the remaining so. Having a wokeist importing American race politics was a threat to that.
I must admit that I’m really enjoying the avatar flashback! I thought my Whisker Biscuit cat-butt image was lost to the aether after a computer crash. I think I’ll hang onto it for awhile.
Today’s episode of “Am I crazy, just old, or just a redneck?”
In re: Major Biden,
Am I the only one who finds todays attitude of ‘ZOMG A DOG BIT SOMEONE KILL IT!” bizarre? Isn’t biting part of a dog’s nature? There’s a reason why “dog bites man” means “completely ordinary” and the setup line for the joke is does your dog bite?
If a dog behaves badly, 99% of the time a human is at fault.
From dead thread – If you use a rescue pup for photo ops you are playing with fire. That dog is a stranger to you and you to him. Fucking Morons.
We had a dog bite a groomer and a kennel worker. It was a golden retriever rescue. I believe the dog had a rough life (abuse) or had some medical condition. It once growled at my son (who was about three at the time) We put it down.
Why? You can’t have that liability in your life, especially if you want to lead a normal life (and don’t want to leave a dog in a cage or tied up 100% of the time)
This is where the “am I just a redneck?” part comes from — when I was growing up, people kept their dogs in their yards. I guess you could call that a cage.
Tying dogs up in the yard is frowned upon these days.
I imagine that it’s different when there is an adult in the house and probably a kid there at least part of the day.
Not to the activists
I grew up with an outside dog. I don’t live in a neighborhood with outside dogs. Yes, part of it is class but also the fact that I’d rather enjoy having the dogs with us than outside all the time in a dirty dog house, etc. The entire attitude toward pets has changed over time.
The last couple of decades, I’ve had a hybrid model — the dog is outside (with garage access) during the work day, inside when I’m home. I’m planning on keeping to that here, though I’ll have to see if I’ll need to put in some sort of heating in the winter.
We just adopted a rescue recently, we think she was abused. She was terrified of me at first, but after I worked with her for a while she discovered that I am a good source of pets and belly scratches, so now we are cool.
IMO you did the right thing.
The first dog we got was a total disaster. Inappropriately named “Angel” by my daughter, she was a territorial monster. All of thirty pounds, and she would attack dogs three times her size. Mrs. T. took her for a walk one day, and let my four year old son take his turn holding the leash. As they were passing a house, a Jack Russell came out to defend his territory. It was on like Donkey Kong. The boy whose dog it was made a mistake and grabbed Angel’s collar to pull her off his dog. She turned on him and chomped him but good. My wife was a wreck.
The next day, I turned her over to animal control on my wife’s orders.
After our rescue ( a pit mix, and I think the mix was the problem) attacked our other dog three times, I had him put down. It was simply not possible to guarantee they wouldn’t encounter each other, and I was done with it.
The last time he attacked her, he locked down on her back leg and was tearing it up. I grabbed her around her chest and pulled her away. In spite of being attacked and in terrible pain, she never moved against me at all. That’s a damn good dog. I had never had a male that would attack a female, so there was something wrong with him. I nearly took him out back and shot him, but I decided Mrs. Dean didn’t need to see that.
Yeah, that was a good call.
What was strange to me was the mother of the boy was upset that I turned her over to be tested and euthanized. I said we can’t have her around small children. “What if she had disfigured your son by biting him in the face?”
The animal control guy even tried to talk me out of it. He likened the event to me getting into a fight, and my wife trying to stop me from throwing a punch, and me elbowing her in the face.
*waits for Suthen to weigh in on this one*
I’ll probably never own another big dog again. I’m getting on in years and if I can’t control him, nobody can.
And if you don’t put your dog down the minute it starts getting old you’re without mercy. Somehow this relates to the overmedicalization of everything.
I’m going to kill myself soon.
We put down a 10.5 retriever with lung cancer this past July. We waited until it was clear she was struggling to breathe. It was an unbelievably difficult decision to make.
forgot the “years old” part.
My dogs will soon be 11 and 14. That day is coming and, as difficult as it is, I always remind myself that being a worthy dog owner means doing what’s best for my pals.
Yeah, the only time I’ve driven drunk was when I had to put down the first dog I raised from a pup. The vet didn’t call the cops on me.
Ugh. Been there more than once. Sorry.
Correctamundo.
We put our last cat down when she started working hard to breathe all the time. Congestive heart failure. Sadly, it took us a while to cotton onto it though.
It sucks when they start to suffer. A month ago the old gray cat (<<<pictured) became the last pet standing. We have had her the longest. We had a Chug dog that wasn't doing well. It's been a long slow fade. My wife had made the decision that she was going to be put down if she could not get immediate relief for her. She made the vet appointment for the following Monday. Chuggie passed on the Saturday night. 🙁
You're the cat whisperer. Tell me what the heck has happened to my quiet kitten cat. She has become VERY vocal and demanding of attention. It's weird because she had no interest in and did not like the little dog. They have had some unpleasant moments. But when she lost her actual buddy dog over a year ago, she had no reaction. I don't get it.
Is she the only animal in the house? Cats are *very* social animals (despite what they want you to think) and if she has NO animals at all in the house, that’s the problem. She needs some sort of company and interaction.
We almost always have 2 cats so they have company. They may not like each other, but they’re available to snuggle if they want to.
When our old lady cat died (put to sleep), I could not STAND having no kitty souls in the house. It didn’t matter whether I saw them or not; I knew they were there. I don’t think a lonely kitten is too far off that.
Yep, she’s alone now. We bought her two new buddies when my cat got run over a decade ago. Constant fights. We are going pet less, so she will the last for now. We’ll she have to love on her as best we can.
When the Dean Beasts, all of 10 weeks old, first plopped down in my yard, literally my first thought was “They will break my heart some day.” We came very close to losing Big Dumb One several years ago to valley fever. Both are fine now, but the muzzles are getting gray, and the day is coming. Its a good reminder to take every day as a good day, because its all fleeting.
I’ve never had one of my pits show aggression toward a human. I’ve had a couple that would get pretty hot toward other dogs. We downsized from full-grown American Staffordshires (80 – 100 pounds) after one of those attacked our other dog three times. The current Beasts are British Staffordshire Terriers (also called Staffordshire Bull Terriers), which run 40 – 50 pounds, which is a size we can confidentaly control no matter how obstreperous they get. Which so far has been never, and they are old enough I doubt they ever will.
Good coverage of Day 1 in the Chauvin trial.
TLDR Kangaroo Court? Much butt-covering was done? Please don’t burn the City down again?
I am sure that poor bastard will be convicted regardless of the facts in order to sate the mob. And if by some miracle he isn’t, then the feds will try him on civil rights charges, because fuck double jeopardy.
There have been stories that Chauvin was willing to plead guilty to 3rd degree murder as long as he was guaranteed no Fed prosecution. Barr as AG nixed that because he felt it was too early to make such a deal.
I dunno, the defense has some pretty compelling evidence. Traning slides teaching officers to do just what he was doing in the video and the fact that he had nearly four times the amount of fentanyl than what the medical examiner would have considered meeting the criteria for an overdose.
And I believe they called an ambulance but it was delayed. Which is why they didn’t just toss him in the cop car right away and take him to jail.
This is far from open and shut. The optics are bad on the video, but that’s what investigations and trials are for. Why, if we went around jailing people for things that look bad at first blush, Hunter Biden would be doing hard time right now for what was on his laptop, right?
They tried sitting him in the squad car and he pleaded to be out. What a different story if he had just died sitting in the back seat.
No, mostly confusion about adding a third degree murder charge to the pile. Under MN law, it doesn’t make sense, particularly as he is already charged with second degree. There is also an interesting dynamic wrt the Noor trial and the application of third degree.
Basically trying to make sure there is no way Chauvin walks.
Great song choice – I approve. The video – WTH?
And the FBI is still trying to find evidence that Sicknick was “murdered”.
“The FBI director declined to comment on the cause of the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who collapsed after responding to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and died the next day.”
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/fbi-probe-of-capitol-officer-death-ongoing/2592504/
A super-villian who can cause strokes in people hours after merely being in his presence is loose somewhere in the country?!
Or are they still banking on the bear spray angle?
Well beautiful girls must be super villains by your definition. How many hot teen age girls in bikinis have caused 13 year old boys to stroke out hours later when they were showering?
*applause*
When The Menace of Ridgemont High was loose no boy was safe…
Many,many… said in voice or George Gains.
Loads of footage inside the Capitol, no doubt all of it in the hands of agents who have pored over every frame a dozen dozen times to ID trespassers, but they can’t find one shot of this bear spray incident?
I’d say they’re banking on the “If we don’t say anything maybe they’ll forget” angle.
They know exactly what killed him, and they know it had nothing to do with the riot.
If they would have found even the flimsiest of evidence it would be paraded in the media.
But they’ve gone radio silent about an autopsy (on a now cremated body which says they absolutely know exactly why he died), which means they have exactly dick.
They know exactly what killed him,
Indeed. The autopsy is final. The official cause of death is pretty much set in stone. Yet the autopsy hasn’t been released. It is extraordinarily common for the cause of death to be publicly known at the outset of a criminal investigation, so I’m not buying the “releasing the autopsy would interfere with the investigation” story.
The family needs to file a FOIA. It would probably lose, but it would keep this farce in the daylight, maybe.
It was a Russian poison that had a delayed effect, because Russia.
Woo hoo! Annual Incentive Plan results! Between the run on microchips and myself managing to look competent when the bigwigs happened to be around I got a bonus large enough to buy a case of ammo!
…but it’s going towards the fence.
The ones around The Capitol?
Well, yeah, 29% of it is going towards that one…
Yep.
Isn’t biting part of a dog’s nature?
A) disclosure: I don’t particularly like dogs
B) there is a difference between play biting and serious biting
C) there is a difference between working dogs and pets
D) there are a lot more bad owners than bad dogs, but I don’t care
E) biting dogs get the bullet
Look both ways before crossing the street.
Don’t enter dog-guarded property without the owner.
Don’t try and touch a dog that doesn’t want you to.
But of course, if a dog runs up and atracks you on a public thoroughfare, waste it. You can do the same thing to a human in that situation.
It’s different these days. The number of 120lb girls I see walking 120lb dogs who threaten to yank limb from socket every time a leaf twitches is frightening.
The next door neighbor has a golden that is as big as any person in the house and is borderline feral. They don’t walk him much, but it appears to be an adventure when they do.
Irresponsible dog owners are commonplace here in the ‘burbs. They range from annoying (when they have ankle biters) to downright hazardous.
Exactly. The vast majority of my neighbors are very irresponsible dog owners. Most dogs aren’t bad, or even mean. But if i don’t fucking know your dog, and it runs up to my 3 your old kid from your house, you can be sure as hell that a swift kick in the head is the kindest gesture it will get from me. (This actually happened to me as i was walking my daughters to church, I swear one of these days those dogs are going to end up with a bullet in the head.)
“Oh, he’s just being friendly”
*dog standing in aggressive posture in front of 3 year old*
“He loves kids!”
*growl escapes from laser focused dog’s mouth*
My dog would never run up to anyone when outside, unless called, but if anyone (invited) came inside, they were fair game for a friendly licking. I think she was turned in from a dog fighting operation, and was a failure. She had some scarring on her face and snout. I think I’ve only heard her growl at three people the whole time we had her, and they deserved it. With me she would play fight quite aggressively. It unnerved my wife to see and hear it at first. When I would get tired and had enough, I would just stop moving. She would immediately sit, tail thumping on the floor. My arms and hands were often bruised, but no punctures.
Sounds like a good dog. Going into someones home is one thing. My complaints are exclusively about my neighbors who have a propensity to let their dogs wonder off leash, and make the most pussy footed attempts to keep them under control.
Sounds like a “bait dog”. You’re both lucky she survived.
I fucking hate dog fighting. It may not be Strictly Libertarian, but I’m happy to say it should be a felony, vigorously enforced.
People intentionally abusing animals and children challenges my libertarianism to the core.
Add it to my list of “Why i don’t call myself libertarian” anymore.
I still share the core ideas, but i just don’t really call myself libertarian for a myriad of reasons.
It makes me sick. And yes we were very lucky, blessed even. That dog was so good with the kids and the cats. When the kids were small, she would run full speed at them in the back yard. As soon she got close, she would rear up, and never touch them. I would pay big money to have a do over, but this time get her as a puppy.
One of the cats we rescued was from a litter of bait cats. He was missing half his tail. Some people are just sick with evil.
Some things are “wrong” because they are illegal, and some things are illegal because they are wrong. Dog fighting is in that latter category. I don’t see any conflict with my own personal brand of minarchism.
You don’t like dogs?!!!!
I’m with Brooksy on this one. I don’t mind petting a friendly one now and again and I will talk baby talk to it, but only for about 3 minutes once every 2 years or so, and then I’m done. And the only dogs I’ve interacted with in the last 10 years have been neighbors’ dogs getting in my house through the cat door (and terrorized the bunny) and ones that slipped their leashes and came to my yard, and I held them while we got their owners to come get them.
Yes, all the neighborhood dogs come to my yard.
Its the milkshake, right?
Sadly, no. They come of their own volition and I wish they’d stop doing it.
milkshake?
I have a fantastic picture of a dog-terrorized bunny.
It’s right up your alley too. Or at least you look at this kind of stuff for work all the time.
No, I don’t need to see that. Already dealt with a dog-terrorized bunny.
Also I don’t look at stuff for work. I just type or edit reports of stuff doctors do.
The last one was a doozy. I’m saving it for Zoom.
You sure?
It even has a full eyeball!!
Thunberg declined to name one thing she would suggest the president do to fight climate change, but said getting people involved is a top priority.
Ten. Thousand. Dollars. In the ass. Offer is still out there.
Isn’t she getting a bit long in the tooth for you?
Also, speaking of snotty kids…
Where is my
flying carProgressive Pillow?!?! Hogg better have some really good excuse for why he hasn’t put My Pillow out of business by now.Making money by providing useful goods and services is hard!
You mean forming a diversity committee probably shouldn’t come before you actually make a single product design that might one day end up as a prototype?
Shocking!
I was late. See below.
Will her arm be enough girth for you?
https://krcgtv.com/news/local/boone-county-inmate-allegedly-hid-small-revolver-in-body-cavity
I don’t recall seeing this being posted.
Did they find it when it fell out of his …
Nevermind. That joke stinks.
The trigger is going to be sticky.
Goddam – it wasn’t even hammerless!
Which body cavity… (Looks at mug shot) Ugh. Never mind.
the outspoken leftism coming from the new girl
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the matter in a nutshell. I’m a republican, not a monarchist. But, if you’re going to have a constitutional monarchy, you’ve got to have rules that make it work. And perhaps the biggest one is STAY THE HELL OUT OF POLITICS. It’s sort of ironic that the head of state has to be apolitical. But that’s the essence of it. The royals have to be there on behalf of the entire country, no matter which way the political winds are blowing. Tory governments can come and go. Labour governments can come and go. But, the monarchy has to endure. And the only way you do that is not being associated with one side.
Both Markle, and Diana before her, tried to get political. And a royal who does that has to be squeezed out.
I guess there might be something to be said for having a non-partisan head of state.
Well, yeah. But, it only works if that head of state stays non-partisan.
Diana’s activism wasn’tnecessarily too political, landmines and AIDS, whatnot. Nothing to be assassinated for. It was when she started slumming and getting pregnant by undesirables that she crossed the line. James Hewitt was okay. Dodi Fayed was beyond the pale and on top of too much.
Record number of unaccompanied migrant children held in facilities meant for adults
So you are saying that they are separated from their families.
I’m sure they’re safely placed with people to claim to be their parents.
Ouch.
https://twitter.com/MarlaIsAwesome/status/1369117925487964163/photo/1
I’m sure they have plenty of combat experience.
I also noticed that according to the latest commercials from the Air Force, only women are pilots now.
This makes me wonder. What happens when the U.S. loses a war? I mean, we pulled out and declared victory in Iraq. We could probably do the same in Afghanistan (even if both are losses for all intents and purposes). But, what happens when there’s a loss that is obvious and can’t be denied? The military is one of the few elements of the government that really still has any public respect. What happens when that one is discredited?
I would assume that in a war after getting a couple of ass-kickings in battles, that the usual shift would take place from having politicians as generals to having war-fighters in charge and getting the shit sorted out before the entire war was actually lost. But maybe at this point the political will just doesn’t exist anymore to change things even in the face of obvious need.
Not only the political will, but you have to have the war-fighters waiting in the wings. My impression is that a lot of them have been pushed out.
Don’t count on that, even though you can see it is a long historical pattern.
I don’t know about a “loss” – is the Taliban government occupying the US? The Hussein family ruling us?
They got beat, but we stuck around too long because of mission creep. Cripes, we are still in Korea, FFS.
Yeah, they got beat. But, you can hardly say we’ve accomplished our goals in either case. The United States didn’t rule Britain at the end of the American Revolution. We still consider that a win for us and a loss for them.
Win for the DoD, loss for State?
Cripes, we are still in Korea
You say that like it is a bad thing, Kimchi breath.
I bombed Korea every night ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=52Rgsihd6WM
An absolutely underrated piece by Cake. Along with “Federal Funding”.
Piece OF Cake, surely…
Will have to look into that one.
Sounds like the Monkees (a compliment).
Has everyone forgotten Viet Nam? We f***king lost, barely managed to run away (helicopters on Saigon rooftops) and left no military presence behind, other than POWs.
What will happen will depend on the popularity of the war, its proximity, US politics, and the local aftermath.
And battalions of hardware that the Vietnamese couldn’t afford to keep operational.
They had tanks and helicopters aplenty, but no way to keep them running.
The lessons I’ve learned from Vietnam and Afghanistan are that if you want to beat the US military, you don’t have to win, you just have to keep fighting.
Dang! Poor Greta! I thought that she would have taken up OMWC’s offer by now seeing as she lost her grift last February. Is that $10,000 offer still standing?
Little Old Man is greased and ready.
Public health experts and their research
Eating meat regularly increases a person’s risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, pneumonia and other serious illnesses, research has found.
It is already known that intake of red and processed meat heightens the risk of being diagnosed with bowel cancer. But these findings are the first to assess whether meat consumption is linked to any of the 25 non-cancerous illnesses that most commonly lead to people being admitted to hospital in the UK.
The academics from Oxford University who published the study found that consumption of red meat, processed meat and poultry meat such as chicken and turkey, either alone or together, at least three times a week was linked to a greater risk of nine different illnesses.
Their results add to the growing evidence from researchers and the World Health Organization that eating too much meat, especially red and processed meat, can damage health.
All cost, no benefit.
SCIENCE, baby!
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/02/06/is-red-meat-unhealthy/
When Amazon “banned” his book, Mrs. Dean began exiting Amazon, where she bought a lot of household stuff. She decided it was worth the effort to go product by product and get it from the maker. I largely did the same about a year ago for what I buy. I only use Amazon now for ebooks (still) and cheap commodity stuff (I ordered new shoelaces for my dress shoes) that I can’t be arsed to track down somewhere else.
Don’t enter dog-guarded property without the owner.
Don’t try and touch a dog that doesn’t want you to.
Absolutely.
I lost this comment earlier when I had to re-log in.
We fostered a dog a while back that would come stand next to me and nuzzle my hand if it was at my side. Then if I bent down to pet him, he’d respond with very aggressive posture/stare. So I’d stop and stand back up, move and he’d come over, nuzzle again and look as wrong as hell when I petted him. Though he did this, he didn’t ever actually make an aggressive move. Very strange dog.
Show and tell gone wrong
A Michigan high school student accidentally detonated a homemade explosive device he brought to school Monday morning, injuring himself and four of his classmates, police said.
Officers from the Newaygo Police Department responded to Newaygo High School in west-central Michigan at 8:52 a.m. after a report of an explosion inside a classroom, state police said in a tweet. A preliminary investigation determined a 16-year-old student had accidentally detonated a homemade explosive device he brought to school, police said.
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Based on the initial investigation, it appears the student had no ill intent and did not intend to detonate the device, Michigan State Police spokesperson Michelle Robinson told CNN.
The 16-year-old was taken to the hospital for moderate to severe injuries, while the four other students were taken to the hospital by their parents for minor injuries. The classroom teacher also went to the hospital, as the explosion involved smoke and there was concern about the chemicals potentially used in the device, Robinson said.
“The investigation continues into what kind of material was involved in the explosion and the circumstances contributing,” the state police said, adding that the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on scene to help identify the explosive materials involved.
Next time, bring your stamp collection. Or try to get some pyrotechnical pointers from that FBI guy who hangs out by te bleachers after school.
It was a clock!
Just the teacher went to the hospital because of “smoke”? Were there no other kids in that classroom that were also savaged by the Smoke Monster?
Also, that kid should be given a medal. It is good to see some youngster with the moxie to actually do stuff. Not just sit around whining and staring at their phones. Sure you might want to have a chat about lab safety with him, but other than that kudos!
Great, just fucking great
I’m sure that this poll will be used to “prove” that even if Chauvin is convicted we are still irredeemably racist as a society. Still it doesn’t bode well for a conviction if opinion is moving against it that much.
Also this quote about the horror of not focusing on race 24/7
Polls also show that people think thousands of unarmed black people are killed by police every year, and that black people are more likely to be killed by police than white people, neither of which is true.
The last I saw any numbers, blacks were more likely to be killed by police in that a larger percentage of people killed by police are black in comparison to the percentage of blacks in society as a whole.
Blacks make up ~13-15% of the population, but represent a higher percentage of police shootings.
That said, far more white people are killed by the police in raw numbers.
They get killed in higher percentage than their population due to a higher percentage of encounters with police. Black males make up about 6% of the population, but account for 50% of the violent crimes. And studies have shown that white people get killed at a slightly higher rate per encounter than black people do.
That’s like the time on FB when I shared a donation to a charitable organization (in the hopes of encouraging others to do the same), and some lady went OFF on me for not supporting her pet cause.
That Unfriend button is handy when people show their crazy.
He was overcharged and will probably be acquitted. Should have charged him with manslaughter.
He is charged with manslaughter.
Yes, and a plethora of other charges. He’s a cunte but he shouldn’t fry for political purposes. I want off this bullshit planet yesterday.
charging him with murder 1 doesn’t bode well for conviction. I don’t know if Minnesota is one of those lawless places where the prosecutor can bring on any charge and the jury can just convict for a lesser charge.
He’s charged with murder 2, murder 3, and manslaughter 2
As someone with Lionel Hutz level legal knowledge, how can someone get those charges on a single person? Was murder 2 the knee and manslaughter 2 not calling the ambulance in time?
It’s a “choose your own adventure” thing for the jury. Essentially, the DA is saying “we think murder 2 fits, but if you don’t find that it does, then murder 3 fits. If not, then man 2 fits” .
Huh, thanks. I didn’t know that prosecutors could do that and not make the case for a set violation of law. But what I don’t know could fill a warehouse.
I’m not sure if i like that construction. It just benefits the prosecution to overcharge.
I’m of two minds on it. Yes, the prosecutor can overcharge (to an extent… as shown in the Chauvin case, the defense will try to get any charge thrown out that isn’t reasonable given the evidence), but it gives the jury more flexibility in cases where they feel that the prosecution overcharges on the top-line charge. Without lesser included charges, the jury has to choose between convicting on an overcharge or letting a guilty person (of a lesser crime) go free.
One of the problems is that our AG Brother Keith pushed aside everyone and demanded to run the prosecution himself. He doesn’t have any trial experience (that I know of) and has had to select the prosecution team himself. I’m sure he picked them based on a) their politics and b) them having no desire to steal any limelight from Brother Keith. So maybe not the best team you could actually get. And they were not given the leeway to recommend realistic charges based on the evidence uncovered during the investigations.
Because of political grandstanding they have over charged him. I hate that they can throw multiple charges at him and hope that something sticks, but in a practical matter it is a good thing in this case because the mob will get their blood even if it is only manslaughter.
He recycled Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden?
He’s not charged with first degree. He’s currently charged with the weaker of two flavors of second degree and manslaughter. There may be a third degree tacked on.
I guess i was mistaken. I thought they had elevated the charges to murder 1 a while back.
I must be getting it mistaken with the Rittenhouse thing.
From LI:
The Coronor’s report shows that Floyd overdosed on fentanyl and was a dead man walking before the cops showed up, but what do facts matter?
Good morning fellow Glibs. Long time, no post. Got burned out in general from work, people shitting their pants over over the ‘rona and some health nonsense ( hope) and I basically went dark for a few months. But spring is here, the sun has been out in the daytime and life is good again even if I’m probably going to shitcan someone this week.
Fuck off, Tulpa!
White Indian and Mary told me I was free to gambol here all I wanted.
I think that approval from chad and Tony is still required but I haven’t taken the purity test lately 😉
I really hope they let white Indian out of jail. It’s too bad that he has become the face of the Capitol riot.
Nice to see you again! Nothing like sunshine to make things just a bit better.
We’ve had about two weeks of mostly sunny days and getting off of work and stepping outside with the sun and its reflection off the snow really does wonders.
Vitamin D FTW!
Somehow I ended up with the lowest Vitamin D levels my doctor has ever seen, which is a bit disturbing in a place known for chronic Vit D insufficiency. If only fortified wine came with extra vitamins.
Tanning booth is your friend.
Welcome back. How do you like living in the same state as Animal?
I met him and the MIssus and they are lovely people. Well, as much as any of us can be as Glibs.
And as the weather continues to improve, we’ll be buying a grill and hosting cookouts, so plan on coming up to the Valley!
I’ll be there with plenty of sockeye salmon filets from the islands!
Yay! Someone more Northern than me! We’ve had to put up with Beam and his lovely ladies for awhile in second place to me.
“Put up with”? PUT UP WITH?
Just for that, Imma go find the ugliest portrait I can that doesn’t violate copyright and use it as my avatar.
“Put up with,” indeed!
I assume his way of speaking will soon deteriorate into a hybrid of hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang and various grunts.
That would, like, so hilarious.
Missed opportunity: That would be, like, so
hilariousfetch.“Stop trying to make “fetch” happen! It’s not going to happen!”
If Gretchen sat on my lap and I could sniff her hair, you’re Goddamned straight that “Fetch” will happen! (Joe Biden’s dream diary).
He will be a perfect extra on the set of Idiocracy 2.
Maybe he’ll join Trump in Florida and take to wearing shorts, trucker hats and flip flops.
Hey!!! I have Klipsch speakers!
Which I can’t use anymore because the main bar blew out when I was watching a nature documentary at a reasonable volume. Super quality. Much durable.
My Klipsch bookshelf speakers from 1998 still work. Clear and responsive at any volume.
I have Logitech speakers from 2003 connected to my iMac and they still sound great.
I don’t know why.
I’m finally looking at upgrading my PC speakers. The ones I’ve got now are some old JBL that came with my first Windows 95 box, which was a DEC that had been discontinued. For PC speakers, they’re surprisingly good (they even have subwoofer outputs and the like).
Mine were a gift, and when I went to look up a replacement, I was a little shocked at the price. Mine lasted about 10 years, so they did OK. I’m not gonna replace them, though.
If you were ambitious, you’d have a pair of La Scalas or AK-6s.
Honestly, I can’t stand to listen to any of their high end speakers. Beautiful woodwork, though.
I have no clue what our speakers are (except the subwoofer, which was missing when we moved in, and I can’t recall what I bought). They are built in to the walls, except the center channel, which I have never even looked at.
Mrs. Dean wonders, with good reason, why I insist on surround sound and good (Sony) electronics when I’m deaf in one ear and losing the hearing in another. I think I’m just in denial, myself. Or trying to squeeze out the most from what hearing I have left.
Make the jump, get the hearing aids. I was in the same position, took me five years to admit that i couldn’t hear shit. I now have been wearing them for about 8 years and it’s nice to hear the birds sing, and other stuff I had missed.
I’ve got hearing aids. They definitely help, but its not the same.
What?
I feel bad for Mrs. Dean. Among the many reasons it can’t be easy to live with me, that’s got to be pretty high on the list.
Don’t get into a conversation with P Brooks.
Sony is good?
Since when?
Old Man, ever heard of Clark Specialties speakers?
Unfamiliar.
What’s the forecast for rioting these days? I’m supposed to have practice in Chicago tomorrow night, but in the past I’ve had to skip because the city was locked down due to mostly peaceful protests.
Tomorrow, fine. Next week…who knows?
The forecast for rioting in DC last week was just as accurate as the local news trying to predict a snowstorm, so…
sloopy hit #1 and #4 for baseball birthdays. Missed in top 5 today were Bert Campaneris, Jackie Jensen, and HoFer Billy Southworth.
Also, yes, Everton’s place is 6th. Which is 2 above Liverpool.
I remember seeing Jackie Jensen on an old episode of Home Run Derby when I was a very young boy aspiring to be a baseball encyclopedia and thinking “who the fuck is this guy and how have I not heard of him?”. What an athlete he was.
Man. Home Run Derby. I think I used to watch that on ESPN Classic.
Me too, I just realized I kinda made the first one sound like I was watching Jackie on the original broadcast ? oops
A federal judge in Washington has ruled that an Arizona man who stormed the U.S. Capitol two months ago while sporting face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns will remain jailed until his trial.
Judge Royce Lamberth concluded Jacob Chansley’s willingness to resort to violence and refusal to follow police orders during the siege signal that he wouldn’t follow court-ordered conditions of release.
Funny way to spell “invited in by police”.
Few were storming, most were sauntering.
What specific acts of violence did he commit? Oh, none of that has been proven, only asserted.
What specific police orders did he refuse to follow? Oh, none of that has been proven, only asserted.
What other people charged with violence and refusing to follow orders have been jailed without any chance of bail? Only a tiny minority, you say?
What a fucking farce.
They know the case won’t stick so they are making the process the punishment.
I see there is something going on with the avatars. Couldn’t see them yesterday and now they appear to be older ones.
From yesterday’s morning links:
Young said researchers were surprised by the results of the poll, which, he says, shows that racial justice is no longer “front and center” in many people’s minds, especially for those who are not impacted daily.
“It’s disheartening,” Young said.
“If I’ve told them once, I’ve told them ten thousand times- the sky is falling! But they just won’t listen,” said Chicken Little.
This is how you get put back in chains people!
New and better chains.
You wouldn’t believe how much carbon is sequestered in those steel chains.
Green New Deal for the win!
Fact check = True
It states on the packaging “High Carbon Steel”
There’s no such thing as racial justice, all justice is individual and is not race (or any other qualifier) dependent.
After not going on reason for somewhile I stumbled over this
https://reason.com/2021/03/06/josh-hawleys-toxic-populism/#comments
Scrolling to the comments, I did not know long replies in pink were a thing now on reason. I was kinda surprised.
Longtobefree
March.6.2021 at 8:17 am
“Very long article. I stopped at this point:
” . . . and an officer beaten over the head with a fire extinguisher by rioters . . . ”
Another writer added to the never again list.
If it weren’t for the comments, I would give this up completely.”
It seems some are there for the comments… weird… I find any conversation very hard to follow
Reason… Well at least you can always count on them to be ever vigilant of the threat from conservatives. Just would be nice if they, you know, confronted the left in any meaningful way.
eh they do somewhat
Robby does sometimes, so do Stossel and Tuccille, but they’re merely contributors and not staff, unless I’m mistaken. The rest of them, it’s very rare.
TOS was addled by TDS.
Hey Commodious! Welcome back! Hope you’re feeling better.
Happy women’s day to non-binary?
Folx?
Oh fuck off, there’s nothing gendered about the word FOLKS.
Yes, but if you spell it like a retard, it doesn’t become a Nazi dog wistle. I think the better more inclusive way to write it would be Volk, though, so as not to impose our cultural appropriation of the original language root the word is from.
I look forward to the Folxwagxn rebranding.
That’s called a Subaru.
Lesbaru.
I once had a bit about how backup camera alerts should be a voice telling you more specifically what you might back into. Like rather than a beep, if it was a Subaru, the car would start saying “Lesbians. Lesbians. Lesbians.” or, like a rusted-out 4×4 pickup with no muffler “Redneck. Redneck. Redneck.”
Ever since I bought a Subaru, I have so many short-permed, flannel-wearing women come up to me and strike up conversations about it.
/not a joke.
An older female coworker pulled me aside when she found out I had a subaru asked me in a hushed voice if I knew they were cars for lesbians. I got a kick out out of it. It’s a good car and has managed to hold all my worldly possessions numerous times. It’s only been stuck once and that was after refusing to shovel my driveway all winter and finally getting hung up last spring when the packed down snow turned to deep slush.
Obama was a Nazi, then. Ve haff proof.
It’s pronounced in a way that you could never utter, Bigot!
So you’re saying it’s a shibboleth?
Here’s to all of the “women” winning all of the prizes from here on in.
“Women” can finally compete on the same level as men!
The shameful part of me is looking forward to the real women getting wrecked at the Olympics this year and the subsequent caterwauling. It’s almost like men and women are different or something.
Women who caterwaul about it will be put to the torch along with the rest of the TERFs. This is a war that has been going on a long time, and women have been losing because sticking up for their gender means being called a Bigot, and we know how that plays out in society.
The absolute fury of the people who unironically use the term ‘lady dick’ over the SuperStraight troll was pretty funny and hopefully gives the normies some encouragement to push back against the insanity.
Maybe they are super non-binary.
Try-Nary?
Hand to dog, this trans shit is turning me into a raging feminist.
#metoo
Emphasis on rage.
As ya’ll should be. Men are being too much of pussies to stand up for their wives and daughters over this shit.
I look forward to the future where no one needs special rights/privileges/days/months to be equal.
/not in my lifetime
“ Judge Royce Lamberth concluded Jacob Chansley’s willingness to resort to violence and refusal to follow police orders during the siege signal that he wouldn’t follow court-ordered conditions of release.”
OK, when was that dickhead violent? And if the new standard for allowing bail is willingness to follow police orders then how many accused criminals meet that standard? He’s not the most sympathetic of characters but what a frameup.
Contrast that with this charming story.
The most dangerous people are the ones who threaten or make mockery of the political powers that be, not some rapist who might rape some pleb girl.
Ban guns to save DEMOCRACY!
Heller’s distinctive focus may well have created a blind spot. The Court—changed by Donald Trump’s appointments—is now poised to expand constitutional protections for gun rights outside the home, but may do so without taking into account how the practice of public carry has changed in the past decade. Over the past 10 years, advocates have sought, with some success, to normalize open carry of firearms in public spaces as they participate in market and political activities. The result is not just lone individuals carrying guns while buying coffee at Starbucks or shopping at Walmart. Open-carry advocates in militia dress amass at right-wing political protests, including in Charlottesville in 2017, at “gun sanctuary” rallies, at anti-lockdown demonstrations, and at Black Lives Matter counterprotests.
This phenomenon raises fundamentally different questions than does the scene on which Heller was premised. These gun owners are not wielding guns against home invaders—they are bringing their guns to public spaces, seeking to dominate those spaces. Though armed protesters may employ a language of self-defense and victimhood, they do so to justify acting against those with whom they disagree. Some of them do not even invoke the self-defense that Heller described, but rather rely on the “insurrectionary theory” of the Second Amendment—claiming they are defending the republic against its enemies.
Public-health arguments for gun control do not fully capture all the harms these incidents inflict. Armed mobs threaten democratic life itself. As the organizers of “Stop the Steal” had hoped, the nation witnessed its leaders crouched under benches in the Capitol, unable to count the electoral vote. Such threats and assaults, and the failure to evenhandedly police those harms, transform the public sphere and elevate some rights and some voices above others. In these and many other circumstances, gun regulation defends the body politic.
Gun-rights advocates have thus expanded practices of gun use, and urge the Supreme Court to extend Heller’s constitutional protections to public carry outside the home. But many advocates of gun regulation focus on threats of physical injury only. Without question, gun regulation is needed to address the mass shootings, intimate-partner violence, suicides, and daily homicides that account for roughly 40,000 deaths and 100,000 injuries every year.* Americans also need their democratic government to work, and that means protecting citizens from intimidation when they exercise their civic rights, and protecting government officials from weapons threats when they are trying to conduct normal business.
Gun control is necessary, as a means to silence opposition to your political agenda. All that stuff about defending themselves from political oppression is just a bunch of paranoid hooey.
People who resist your political agenda are denying your power to subjugate them, and that cannot be allowed. Because allowing the wrong voices to be heard is cultural suicide and the opposite of DEMOCRACY..
But many advocates of gun regulation focus on threats of physical injury only.
The 2A doesn’t give a fuck about your feelings.
..may do so without taking into account how the practice of public carry has changed in the past decade. Over the past 10 years, advocates have sought, with some success, to normalize open carry of firearms in public spaces as they participate in market and political activities.
Not that I believe in utilitarian arguments where rights are concerned, but is there more or less violent crime now than there was in the 1990s when gun laws were more restrictive?
The general drift i get is that the “new” argument they are making is that violent crime and saftey are secondary (i.e they are conceeding the point because they know it’s a loosing one) and are arguing that we need gun restrictions because people might have them at protests for icky things, and that would be bad for democracy.
You see, if you protest, but have a weapon for self defense, that is illegitimate. Surely you would never need to be protected at a protest. Governments have never been known to crack down on dissidents that they don’t like, and are unarmed.
It seems like this would be a good argument – “If a person is engaged in peaceful protest, as protected under the first amendment, do they at that time have more, or less, of a right to self-defense?”
The Court—changed by Donald Trump’s appointments—is now poised to expand constitutional protections for gun rights outside the home
I’ll believe that when I see it. John Roberts says hi!
Trump appointed a full 1/3rd of the SCOTUS and he couldn’t get them to take up any of his election cases.
Same here. Kav is a squish. Comey is an unkown who has so far failed to impress, especially on the elections cases. Gorsuch, I think will be pro-2A, but I’m not sure. It would be interesting to see a scorecard of voting on requests for cert on 2A cases.
And when the Dems cross the Rubicon by trashing the filibuster rule, the Court will be packed anyway, and none of this will matter.
There was a question recently about what might prompt me to go expat. There’s a lot variables, but if the Dems trash the filibuster, that would weigh heavily.
I guessed CNN but The Atlantic publishing that horseshit was no surprise.
Fuck The Atlantic. Come take it motherfuckers.
“Armed mobs threaten democratic life itself. As the organizers of “Stop the Steal” had hoped, the nation witnessed its leaders crouched under benches in the Capitol, ”
How many guns were at the Capitol?
*throws professional grade fireworks*
advocates have sought, with some success, to normalize open carry of firearms in public spaces as they participate in market and political activities
The. Horror.
claiming they are defending the republic against its enemies.
Or just carrying in case they need it for defense. Like a condom, rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
elevate some rights and some voices above others
Or maybe rights are rights and you should stop trying to fuck with them.
protecting citizens from intimidation when they exercise their civic rights
There is nothing intimidating about a person simply carrying a firearm.
Indeed. Firearms, do, in fact, protect citizens from intimidation when they exercise their civic rights. What are you complaining about?
Gun Jesus announces a reprint of “Chassepot to Famas”.
Once we appreciate the liberties that public safety secures, we can better hold government accountable for the evenhanded enforcement of weapons laws.
If Americans do not recognize the social dimensions of public safety—the ancient role that weapons laws play in securing peace and public order—the use of guns will come to define America’s constitutional democracy, rather than the other way around.
The “Freedom From Emotional Discomfort” clause.
Nobody should be forced to endure the distress caused by being made aware not everybody agrees with them.
the ancient role that weapons laws play in securing peace and public order
Don’t forget to look at the ancient role that weapons play in securing peace and public order while you’re at it. The correlation between societies where only a select few are allowed to go armed and violence is pretty damn high.
They ought to be horrified at how closely they are parroting Nazi talking points from the 30s.
Its not even that, this is literally crying for the Authoritarian boot, because you think it will come down harder on the icky powerless people, than it will on you. The people who peddle this kind of thiking are symbolic of some of the most evil shit of elitism.
the use of guns will come to define America’s constitutional democracy
What does that even mean? The “use” of guns? Owning and carrying is not using. “Define” democracy?
Its gibberish, intended to inflame the weak-minded.
Exactly. All it tells me is that this person thinks they are part of the elite and want Strongman Biden to come down hard on the dirty rightwing.
Democracy = authoritarian collectivist mob rule
What does that even mean? The “use” of guns? Owning and carrying is not using. “Define” democracy?
I read it (the whole thing) as an explicit admission that they recognize the role of an armed populace in resisting their preferred brand of authoritarianism and intimidation. This both terrifies and disgusts them.
This
I saw that eBay, which pulled the banned Dr. Seuss books, still sells “I Read Banned Books” stuff.
I wonder if they would sell “I Read Books Banned by eBay” stuff.
Woah, when you said Banned Books, we didn’t mean, like “Banned” because they were racist.
Some years back I saw the way the wind was blowing and sold my confederate currency that was in excellent condition.
I figured I might as well get something for them before they are forced underground to the clandestine collectors markets.
Dang, I forgot I had some of that.
“Death ray designer admits to being in the pay of white secessionists”
I said I would post one of these daily so here it is
https://postimg.cc/WhpwwpF0
Note the jaunty angle of his hat. I still have the J-frame S&W with the hammer spur filed off that he carried in his pocket.
I don’t know much about the Oath Keepers, but the photo accompanying this article seemed like a smear to me.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Prosecutors-arrest-Oath-Keeper-seen-with-Roger-16009996.php
Once upon a time we had the USSR as an example of what not to do. I am beginning to think that Reagan made a mistake.
The contrast between the maniacal pursuit of the Capitol Crew and the blase indifference to antifa is truly chilling. Especially when you consider that antifa has injured or maimed far more federal and local LEOs than the Capitol Crew did. There appears to be zero integrity in our law enforcement apparat.
*puts on “expatriate” side of the ledger*
And then there’s the continued lying about “armed”:
Considering the picture is A)from Stone Mountain, GA on 8/15/2020, and not the Capitol riot b)someone not identified as an Oath Keeper…..yeah. it’s bullshit.
From the photo at the top: “aman, with ammunition and a confederate flag, takes part in far right militias and white pride organizations rally near Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Armed militias such as the Oath Keepers have been pushed further underground”
Notice the assertion that the rebel flag carrier is an Oath Keeper is missing but the linkage is strongly implied. Absodamnlutely it’s a smear.
<blockquote<According to prosecutors, on Jan. 6, Minuta "aggressively taunted and berated law enforcement officers guarding the Capitol" outside and inside the building.
ZOMG, not “aggressive taunting and berating”!
Aggressive taunting will result in a giant wooden rabbit being flung at them.
According to prosecutors, on Jan. 6, Minuta “
aggressively taunted and berated law enforcement officers guarding the Capitolvigorously exercised his First Amendment rights” outside and inside the buildingWeekly team meeting where we get to hear about the obscene amounts of money flowing into the agency, and how the Fedgov is tryna get vaccine priority for its employees.
The one upside to Zoom meetings is they don’t cut into my Glibbing.
Ayup
Listening to the Most Uninspiring Leader Ever (our big boss) lends itself well to doing other things.
OK. What is up with this new lingo, girl?
Tryna and Ayup? I don’t even know that that is. I’m worried that it’s some form of heinous VA/Canuckistani hybrid.
We also get to hear about how we’re keeping all these Trump admin projects, but we’re just renaming & rebranding them.
Demands were made
Texas service workers converged outside the Capitol building in Austin on Monday to request vaccine access and demand that the state’s mask mandate stay in place until that happens.
On March 2, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced an end to the state’s mask order starting March 10. Businesses can reopen at full capacity, he said.
Monday afternoon’s rally was hosted by the Restaurant Organizing Project, Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, Austin Mutual Aid and Texas Amplified Sound Coalition, which claim that Abbott’s insistence on ending the mask order shows that he’s willing to sacrifice the lives of restaurant workers, grocery workers and other essential service employees.
In a just universe, Foochy and Osterholm and the rest of those bullshit artists would be hit with multimillion dollar malpractice suits.
Big Non-Profit makes its voice heard, and the media is happy to spin a tale that paints them in the best light. Just another Tuesday.
“Texas service workers converged outside the Capitol building ”
That is an odd spelling for ‘paid protesters’, or also known as ‘astroturf’.
Which union is behind this?
And look at all those shrill white ladies who probably never lost a paycheck in the last year.
Looks like about 20 people LOL
demand that the state’s mask mandate stay in place until that happens.
You are perfectly free to wear a shame muzzle. Wear as many as you want and top it with saran wrap.
“In addition to us now facing an increased risk of COVID-19 exposure, we now face increased risk of violence and abuse from customers who will not adhere to our store policies to continue mask policies until the CDC advises us they are no longer needed,” the groups said in a statement Monday.
Bullying doesn’t work, absent a credible threat of force?
Boo fucking hoo.
Made my rare occasional visit to TOS yesterday. LOL, they’ve found it! Their new and improved TDS, it’s called HDS! Josh Hawley is the new more oranger badder bad man!
I dare you to read that shit and not laugh your ass off.
Suderman is ramping up for his career at CNN. And WYPIPO OMG, WYPIPO GOAN GETCHA, BOO!!!
Hawley? I thought it was going to be Cruz or Paul…kind of a toss up.
No, Hawley is the new worse than Hitler more bad man, apparently. They couldn’t let of their TDS, I guess they have nothing else now, like CNN.
The TOS writers seem desperate for a bogeyman to justify their continual fellation of leftish statists. It’s not even interesting anymore. Honestly, it’s gotten to the point that it’s just plain creepy.
It stopped being interesting shortly after Trump was elected.
It’s a shame, it used to be a daily must read for me
Trump broke a lot of things. Not by his actions, but by how people reacted to him.
It’s the comments that are now a real shit-show.
One sign at the rally said: “We won’t die to serve you.”
Fine. Go work in a warehouse.
Its Texas. There’s a whole lot of ag industry jobs out in the fresh air and sunshine.
There’s a zillion immigrant children lined up at the border to fill those, if Biden would just let them out of those cages.
Lol, those ag jobs are probably more deadly than the CCPV
You don’t like dogs?!!!!
W C Fields said it best.
If you want a friend, get a dog?
No, wait, that was Truman.
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, its too dark to read.”
Lol, those ag jobs are probably more deadly than the CCPV
Shhhhh.
It’s supposed to be a surprise.
Don’t worry, the illegal chillins don’t have any rights and there’s no laws for them concerning covid testing or child labor or anything. Perfect! Just let em out of those cages already, there’s veggies to be picked!
We also get to hear about how we’re keeping all these Trump admin projects, but we’re just renaming & rebranding them.
Good news, everyone! Victory Gin has been discovered to be good for you, now that the impurities have been removed.
You gotta get all that orange out before you call it yours, right?
The TOS writers seem desperate for a bogeyman to justify their continual fellation of leftish statists. It’s not even interesting anymore. Honestly, it’s gotten to the point that it’s just plain creepy.
Suderman just wants his wife to stop beating him.