Sorry, but this ain’t flag football.
The Saints put a fork in the Seahawks’s season. No way are they digging out of this hole. The League Cup round of 16 is today and tomorrow, for what it’s worth. And the World Series kicks off tonight…in Houston!!! I’m rather excited to see the Astros get in and play the team who had the All-Star Game taken away from them by the idiotic league. This should cause a lot of butthurt from stupid people. Hockey season is off and running, but I need a little longer to make any assessment aside from this: There are some really, really bad teams this year. I’m looking at you, Phoenix and Chicago. And that’s sports.
Not patty cake!
French revolutionary and politician Georges Danton was born on this day. He shares it with actor Jackie Coogan, another franchise Francois Mitterrand, the last Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, actor Bob Hoskins, (underrated) author Pat Conroy, game show host Pat Sajak, sociopath Hillary Clinton, Bolivian politician Evo Morales, actor Cary Elwes, singer Natalie Merchant, country singer Keith Urban, animator/tv producer Seth McFarlane, and figure skater Sasha Cohen.
Lots of crazy people in that list. Oh well, let’s just move on to…the links!
More of this, please. And then laugh when some jackass points out the Supremacy Clause.
Quick, call CPS!
Yeah, no. I will not be accepting these findings, and if you force my kids out of public school, you’ll be doing me a favor.
Just in case you needed a reminder who the bad guys are in this. And it will get much, much worse I fear.
Popcorn! Get your popcorn! It’s fresh, hot, and delicious.
LOL, “Royals” and “commoners”. Some of these nations with their silly, antiquated traditions.
Right more often than wrong, lately.
He’s right, you know. Not that anybody in government is listening.
You should have never issued it in the first place, asshole. But at least you ‘re getting it right eventually, I suppose.
Problem solved! Oh wait, they’ll somehow fuck this up too.
What part of “private” means “public”? I guess the part where they thought anything on FB would be private.
One fired agent in Texas with 10 years in the Border Patrol posted an image of Pepe the Frog, “a symbol of the alt-right and white supremacy,” and doctored images of President Joe Biden touching U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., the report said.
YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FUN OF THE KING OR ANY MEMBER OF THE RULING CLASS!!!!!
What a bunch of bullshit. Oh well, here’s a great song with a video that made me laugh. And here’s a second great song with a video that made me laugh even more. Enjoy them both, friends.
And enjoy this Tuesday and the World Series getting started. Go Astros!
I was listening to an NPR blurb on the World Series today. They couldn’t help themselves from saying how problematic Braves fans are for doing the tomahawk chop. I want to know how we got to a place where any and all depictions that reference native americans are considered derogatory. It’s extraordinary. I don’t think these teams were named to be anything but honorific. No one chooses a mascot to mock themselves or anything else. It’s silly. Ultimately just noise, but silly.
No one chooses a mascot to mock themselves or anything else.
Fighting Whites
Still seems like a proud logo to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Stanford Tree?
UCSC Banana Slugs?
The whole Stanford band is chosen to mock.
How’re you gonna mock a tree? You chop down tree, tree falls on you. Tree wins. And banana slugs is an awesome mascot. My alma mater was a piece of cloth and scottie dog in a kilt.
Enjoy lunch.
Ask the Evergreen State Geoducks. I don’t remember if they have any sports teams. I’m guessing not.
Don’t forget the Scottsdale Community College Fighting Artichokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU2dfgBJyQU
Who could forget the classic sports headline “‘Chokes choke”
Well, it used to be the Stanford Indians.
So, yes, it was chosen to be mocked, just ironically.
Officially it is the Stanford Cardinal (color). The tree is an unofficial mascot that is controlled by the band.
Yep, them damn fool Seminoles don’t understand how exploited and abused they are by FSU. But lord knows, the woke won’t give up ‘educating’ them.
I think the Seminole tribe gets payments from FSU to use the name, which why you don’t hear complaints from them.
Local Op-Ed wrote in specifically to question why Atlanta was able to keep the Braves, while the Cleveland team had to give up the Indians.
Elon is right. There is no such thing as a tax on only the ultra wealthy. You have to be a fool to believe that.
Or you have to be so much of an asshole that even though you know that they can’t just tax the wealthy (which they never do anyway) to pay for the insane spending and will come for everyone, that you are OK with it because you find joy in the belief this stuff hurts other people more than it does you…
These fuckers are quite OK with getting raped by the system as long as they can believe (and it doesn’t have to be true) others get raped even harder and more often.
That’s the really stupid part – they can be shown, repeatedly, that the targets don’t get hit, don’t get chopped down. And still they won’t give up on that obsession.
“I was all for Obamacare; I just didn’t think I’d be the one to pay for it.” (a paraphrase, surely)
George Costanza was right in saying, “We’re living in a society here!”
Willful blindness is a terrible disease.
Someone ought to take up a collection. Dihydrogenous Monoxide Memorial Fund, or something.
But he paid no income tax last year! He must be punished!!1!!
“Under Wyden’s emerging plan, the billionaires’ tax would hit the wealthiest of Americans, fewer than 1,000 people.”
No, it won’t.
But even if it did, how the fuck does this square with the equal protection clause?
Hell, how does any progressive tax square with it?
You could make the same argument against regressive taxes, such as the gas tax.
Not really. It costs the same per gallon regardless who is buying gas.
Yes, but it still taxes the poor more than the rich.
Cigarettes and Booze taxes has a sad.
MJ says “Shh, I’m trying to hide here!”
Well, the federal government can only tax income, because there is an amendment that allows it to do so, while under the constitution any other tax must be apportioned. So a wealth tax is prima facie unconstitutional. And if they’re trying to re-classify unrealized capital gains as “income”, then unrealized losses in value prior to any sale must count as losses of income, which can then be deducted.
One of the justifications for this is that the very wealthy are able to use their 7/8 figure portfolios as collateral for loans with cheap interest. So they rarely sell stocks and avoid paying taxes. I’m wondering if classifying the loans as income and avoiding a wealth tax itself would pass the SC? Not that it matters, since this is of course designed to get the foot in the door to soak the middle class in 10 years.
SLD that I’m against all taxes and the very wealthy should be able to loan against their portfolios without paying taxes or sell stocks without paying taxes. Just looking at some of parts going on with this.
And the middle class does the same thing with home equity loans. Between those and 401k / stock grants, this idea would rapidly spiral into the “God awful insane” category of things. Being taxed on hypothetical net worth is just plain evil.
Anyone ever read Jean Shepherd’s “In God We Trust…” (A Christmas Story source)? Evidently Indiana assessed people’s personal property in the ’30s.
Virginia has a personal property tax. For most people it only hits their car, but it applies to other mobile property. States can tax areas that the US government can’t.
How do they repay those loans without an income?
Another loan, silly.
“Popcorn! Get your popcorn! It’s fresh, hot, and delicious.”
The problem with Minneapolis is the large amount of stupid liberals that live there and have no clue about actions and consequences. I actually had people tell me they didn’t realize the people demanding the police be done away with meant it and that they are now worried about this. As usual supporters of stupid leftism are surprised they are a bunch of idiots. I actually pointed out to a couple of idiots in my own state that the people hurt the most would be the very minorities they claim the police prey on. Not people like me. We own firearms and know how to defend ourselves, so the criminals will have to be truly desperate or stupid before they come after people that can and will fight back.
The intent from the left is to cause so much chaos and make life so unbelievably difficult for the common man that they will agree to anything government wants to do to them in return for a promise of security. They will lose all their rights and get no security at all. Buyer beware.
It’s a bad time to live in any of the historically poor sections of any large American city. Which is upsetting because it reverses a trend of the past 25 years where these cities, especially the poorer parts, were getting better and better to live in. Gentrification became a dirty word but all it ever meant was that these places became livable. Perhaps they were queer and artsy, but that’s livable as long as public safety is the priority. No one, no matter how armed they are, wants to live in fear for their physical safety. Take away the physical safety and you destroy the queer artsy gentrification engine that makes cities cool and good at all.
Why is it so hard for them to get this? I split from you because I can’t fathom this being malice. Perhaps it’s envy.
Because the left wants poor people to live in shitty neighborhoods and to stay poor & dependent on the government.
I mean, how could anyone come to any other conclusion based on the evidence?
I have come to the conclusion that as evil as this seems to be rhywun, no other conclusion can be made based on the evidence. When everything you do seems to reinforce fucking over the people you pretend to care for, at some point there is no arguing that is what you want to do, no matter what bullshit you say about what you are trying to do. The statist do need as many people as possible dependent and bought & paid for to keep power (at least for now) and are hard at work making sure they keep those there already in that box, while bringing in a whole bunch of new people to swell the ranks of those that vote for a living.
But the people that are evil are the ones pointing out that the statist might pretend to care and and talk that way, but certainly don’t do anything that would really help. I no longer wonder why they push equity and everyone getting the same results (something you can only deliver if you drag everyone down to the lowest level) over creating opportunity. They actively hamper the economy because one that is on fire would throw their control racket into chaos. We have a bunch of assholes trying to create a hereditary aristocracy of the credentialed elite expert class and to confine everyone else to serfdom, and a whole swath of idiots seem incapable of seeing that’s what is going on…
What about the beleaguered who don’t fall for that? Statistically insignificant? I hope not.
The few that make it through the rigged system and still find a way to succeed, get accused of being traitors to the cause and will find the left will target them for the entirety of their life unless they become shills for keeping others down.
The left views the relationship as that of consumer [formerly citizen] to producer [govt] – which doesn’t produce of course, it just redistributes. They don’t quite get that last part. The irony is – this is the very definition of CAPITALIST markets!
The left hates economics. And that is economics in the real definition; the study of human behavior. They and I use that term reservedly, don’t like the incentives that finances create, don’t like the consumerist nature of humanity. It is almost a plea for humanity to return to the Shakers and Quakers and such. Small, spiritual communities that forgo the trappings of wealth.
And, yes, I know. None of that brings us the iPhone or the internet. But they hate that part of the story.
Democrats are trying to keep the non-white Americans dependent on govt. If cities were getting safer and had more plentiful jobs, the democrats are set on taking that away.
The democrat party is the party of slavery. Just because a whole bunch of black bureaucrats and immigrants are in the democrat party doesnt mean the party of slavery is not out to control. The parties require voters. That how our system works. Democrats have to have useful idiots vote for them of democrats lose every election.
…well until 2020.
Fuck the pigs. Fire them all. But to do that and then not allow people to own the means to defend themselves or their property is worse
North Minneapolis is one of the poorest/blackest neighborhoods in Minneapolis. They usually have the worst crime stats too.
Since the Floyd shit started, the violence there has skyrocketed. The residents there are one of the biggest anti-Defund voting blocs because they are so sick of the violence going on there now.
None of the smug white proggies in the safer more affluent neighborhoods give a shit. They are going to prove their bona fides by voting to Defund.
Same dynamic when it comes to Ilhan Omar. In the last election she got outraised 6-to-1 in local donations. All her money came from outside the district. Even the Somalis were giving more to her Somali challenger. She won easily though because the wipipo voted for her in droves because of their white supremacist thinking.
The residents of that area need to enact the full 2nd. They need to form a local militia, arm it, and patrol their streets. They need to do this with their bowling teams, their barbers, local rap groups and any other group. As this would be the actual enacting of that amendment.
It worked in San Fransisco in the late 70s, early 80s with the Gay street patrols to stop gay-bashing. And I know a few who were armed at that point. Hell, it worked in NYC with the Guardian Angels.
suh’ fam
O-H…
(and Ben-Girls, too: WHO DEY!)
I-O!!!
Can’t wait to be in Columbus this weekend for Penn State.
Who would have guessed the Bengals would be winning the division at this part of the season?
“YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FUN OF THE KING OR ANY MEMBER OF THE RULING CLASS!!!!! ”
Remember when a rodeo clown got fired for wearing an Obama mask?
“Pepe the Frog, “a symbol of the alt-right and white supremacy,”
Yes, like milk and the OK sign.
They want to punish people that they don’t like but act butthurt when the other side serves them the same. Evil scumbags the lot of them.
I really just wish they would stop trying to punish us. And me? I have a good education, some financial resources. I can blend in and bug out of most progressive hellscape scenarios. It’s the tractor pull Trumparoos that are really being punished, not me.
No joke, new girlfriend lives in a smallish town 20 minutes out from me and I drive past a Friday night tractor pull on my way there. It is always packed. I used to think they were a myth. I guess I really do live between worlds.
If you have never been to an Unlimited-class tractor pull, you’re missing out. Take earplugs.
I think I saw one at a county fair when I was like 10, but not since. I bet I’d enjoy it as a “cultural experience”.
I have been to tractor pulls. I have been underwhelmed.
Pony pulls, on the other hand, are pretty neat.
My wife and I like to watch the horse pull at the fair.
I went to school in Bowling Green, home of the national tractor pull championships. You could hear it all over town, no need to attend in person.
The university my father was a prof at had a HUGE tractor pull every year. Big event, but not surprising as it is the second-largest AG school in the US.
Tractor pull? How about Combine Demolition Derby?
Some OK signs are more equal than others.
At least this whole OK sign is white supremacy will now go away and dive instructors like me will no longer have to explain that the sign for “I am OK” every diver needs to know isn’t racist anymore…
But fuck, these people are evil when they make it so obvious they KNEW the shit they were peddling was bullshit.
It will not go away
Mexican utility workers have a sad
I can only imagine the rage a guy who got fired for flicking a booger off his finger while driving around town must feel when he sees the Cathedral tie itself into knots defending Sleep Joe.
I remember that story.
What part of “private” means “public”?
The government owns your body and your mind.
You forgot the “soul” part, Comrade.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T44yl-LMSU
Sorry, Miss T, rap ain’t got no soul for this old dog. I loathe it.
I know it only because of Office Space. Not sure of the source of the m/b/s sample.
Replacing the Police with roaming “Citizen’s Brigades” has always worked out in the past. Ask Poland.
Sorry to hear of your work conflict over a BASIC SAFETY ISSUE! Jumpin’ Jiminy, I know I can shimmy up a 12′ ladder to change a bulb, but I’m not gonna risk my neck on the job without a spotter/ladder holder.
Five year ago I was a lemur and would have just agreed to the terms, now, not so much. I hate that my parent company always nods in sympathy every time Canada Post rolls over and farts. They’re desperate to hang onto the contract but the rank and file know that they’ll be hired on by the next rapers.
In honor of the Astros, looks like I’ll have to buy a local beer.
Seven years imprisonment for shouting a “pro-secession” slogan?
If we keep it up, we might get our own Glibs Block in the gulag!
Like we’re any better than China.
The Biden administration has the same policy for anyone who was standing around near the Capital shouting slogans. Except he doesn’t even have the decency to give a show trial or name a sentence.
When there’s no due process, you find out your punishment right away. When there is due process, the process is the punishment and can be dragged out as long as the processors wish, I guess, regardless of whether there’s a defined penalty, or even an actual crime on the books.
I call Secretary to the Warden!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asxrMSVrJ08
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10131799/Demi-Rose-flaunts-eye-popping-cleavage-denim-halterneck-en-route-photoshoot-LA.html
Mmmmph! Mmmmph!!! Mmmuummumuhhhh Mmmumumph…Mmuph. Mmuph. Mmuph. mmuph. mmu… Nope. Fat ass.
Project Veritas confirms what we all knew. After Murphy wins reelection, he’ll be even more of an asshole and try a vaccine mandate.
https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2021/10/25/senior-phil-murphy-advisor-says-governor-will-impose-vaccine-mandate-after-election-project-veritas-exposes/
He should do it before the election to show that it’s good policy and that he’s not a bitch. But since he is a bitch he’s going to do it this way.
Are you close to having your NJ properties sold?
Waiting for my wife’s company to give her the okay. At this point she may just tell the she’s retiring in April and go.
And since my office which I don’t visit is located there, I guess that applies to me too.
And so it begins.
I have a friend who can sell you a fake vaccine proof
Is it a subscription service? Cuz you’re gonna need a new card every 6 months.
Sigh…
Someone linked from Tom Woods yesterday, the un-vaxed Citizens of Lithuania are basically the 15 year-old kid outside the liquor store trying to buy beer. They can’t get real food, they can’t buy clothing, no libraries, no financial services, no pharma or medical appointments. The list went on and on and on. We’re halfway there in BC.
Yeah, that was fucking creepy. That needs to be spread around North America to show people what kind of a world we could be living in.
…they’ll love it!
You see that interview with that evil fuck Chomsky advocating for people refusing to get the vaccine to not only be ostracized from society, but interned and left to figure out how to find food or shelter? Yeah, the guy loved Pol Pot for a reason, and he still is enamored with the idea of killing people he doesn’t like…
Honestly, its great that all these Commies in America are outing themselves…again.
They are making self defense against them so morally easy. They are literally saying that we will be killed if we let them, so we shouldnt let them kill us.
That was me, I still think this is the Mark, that video says I’m fight.
The last thing you need when you are lost are calls from telemarketers.
“Leave a voicemail, asshole!”
I don’t pick up unknown numbers. Too low of a SNR.
Seriously, why in the world wouldn’t they leave a message!
It must not be important.
*applause*
Another shocking revelation about 1/6! And I refrained from smoking gun since it is a Revolver article.
Has anyone identified that instigator guy that showed up in some videos who was advocating moving on the Capitol the day before?
Oh Epps *is* that guy. Hmmmm
That Ray Epps guy glows so hard. The DoJ/FBI have been caught. 1/6 was an inside job.
“Lastly, Ray Epps appears to have worked alongside several individuals — many of them suspiciously unindicted — to carry out a breach of the police barricades that induced a subsequent flood of unsuspecting MAGA protesters to unwittingly trespass on Capitol restricted grounds and place themselves in legal jeopardy.”
Remember the videos — that got banned — showing people with earpieces removing barricades.
How do you trespass on public property, in a public building, inside the seat of representation, during a constitutionally mandated public counting of state EC votes?
The traitors in the democrat party and their RINO enablers are trying to stop civil war 2.0 turning out badly for them.
Defend your scrotum!
“Man, 37, jailed for life 22 years ago for ‘murdering his mother when he was just 14’ appeals to state Supreme Court after experts found ‘gasoline’ on his shoe used as evidence he burned her body was just rubber from the sole”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10130349/Man-37-jailed-life-22-years-ago-murdering-mother-appeals-state-Supreme-Court.html
Dad still alive?
“Dickerson-Bell, who has emerged as the second juror from Politte’s murder trial to publicly express her regret for finding him guilty, said she was pressured to convict the defendant by other jurors.” ?
said she was pressured to convict the defendant by other jurors
Coward.
???
That said, I learned a long time ago how it is relatively straightforward to convince other jurors of your argument once in deliberations. Most people are sheep.
JHTFC, that’s some thin gruel for convicting someone, particularly a 14 year old kid.
There was a really good documentary a few years back, about a rich guy down in the OBX who was accused of murdering his wife with a fireplace blowpipe. Watching it convinced me – if you get indicted for a serious felony and you are not extremely wealthy, you may as well give up. You’re going to prison. If you are extremely wealthy, you’re probably still going to prison.
Dear USAA – Why yes, I absolutely adore having a hold put on put on the bulk of a deposit (particularly when it is a check from another bank) because “…it’s standard when an account doesn’t often deposit large checks.”
They are so weird. I have no issues and a couple friends also don’t. But another set of friends have issues like you just stated.
Though I absolutely love their services
To be fair, this is the very first time I’ve been annoyed by them; I switched over from BofA and have been very happy. The first guy I got on the line couldn’t do anything but he was kind enough to escalate to the Executive Resolutions Team and Betty had my money released in about 5 minutes.
Thats how you customer service.
I especially loved their services when my kids were learning to drive. We were good “customers”. Not good good but frequent.
“EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Gutierrez Reed, 24, is spotted for the first time since the gun she loaded killed cinematographer: Rookie armorer is seen pacing outside her Arizona home on her cellphone after fleeing movie set
Gutierrez-Reed was sporting purple hair with green bangs as she stepped outside her house”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10130717/The-armorer-set-Rust-Baldwin-killed-cinematographer-pictured-home.html
Clearly the hairstyle of a gun expert.
Me-ow.
Facts not in evidence? I know the Daily Fail flirts with libel all the time, but that seems like a mistake on their part.
Gun she was responsible for…
More accurate.
She may have been contracturally responsible for it, but the only person that matters is the one holding the gun. That’s where ultimate responsibility lies. If the standard procedure in the film industry is for an armorer to tell the actor that a gun is safe, then the procedure is wrong, utterly wrong. The procedure should absolutely require that anyone holding a gun or accepting it from another person personally verify its condition. I don’t care if the actor has never handled a gun before; they should be given adequate training as an inviolable condition of being hired and continuing to work on the film.
If their policies try to get around the laws of gun safety by making someone else procedurally responsible, it’s doomed to failure. Certainly, have multiple people checking–the armorer, the assistant director, whoever. But the ultimate protection is the person holding the weapon doing right.
It’s a little weird when you think about it – Hollywood to create the fantasy has to break all the rules we abide by in reality. So then they have to create other rules, which in this case got broken as well.
What I don’t get is, yeah, she’s the daughter of a famous armorer. So what? She wasn’t an apprentice under him. Is good gun handling presumed to flow in the bloodline?
/looks at the number of dynasties in acting/directing/producing in Hollywood…
Yes?
It breaks my heart to see her thrown under the bus, as appears to be happening. She may very well have been in over her head as Lead, but there is plenty of culpability yet to be sussed out. I’m still unconvinced it wasn’t direct action from a disgruntled union.
Hairstyle aside, the rest of her appearance and online conduct does not suggest professionalism in any way, shape, or manner.
Welcome to the 2020s
At one point she was pretty cute…then…blah. I was down the path that she is the major reason but since have turned a page that she was one of many screwups that lead to the fatality.
Sum total, that is a rough-looking 24.
And yeah, probably keep the edgy BDSM-themed t-shirts hidden away until the investigation is over.
I have a real dislike of women who make being into submissive/kinky sex their personality. I will not elaborate other than to say it’s distasteful. Having seen this, throw her under the bus, I don’t care.
Heh. “Don’t yum my yuck.”
The rest of the appearance does not inspire confidence either, especially the metal caps on teeth 6 and 11.
From another fine tinfoil hat homie:
“ The woman who was shot on the movie set, her next project was a documentary on Hollywood pedophile rings.”
Anyone see news on that?
that has to be fake, generated by a fake news meme generation tool
I haven’t had time to look up her film biography and verify.
Titty Tuesday is thoroughly unimpressed.
https://archive.md/ABISb
Popcorn! Get your popcorn! It’s fresh, hot, and delicious.
Am I the only one who sees defunding of the police and ultimately police disbandment as a positive advancement? The modern police state is a cancer in our society and needs to be cut by at least 95%. Better to completely terminate it and then build it back the right way to the level needed.
The police aren’t there to protect us or our families. At best, they are just armed revenue agents for the State if not petty thugs. While some people will be hurt by defunding and removing the police, freedom isn’t free. They would do better to take responsibility for their own safety and that of their families.
I guess it depends on if people start taking vengeance on criminals as opposed to turning them over to police.
It may be a narrow positive from the perspective of reducing the power of the police, but while it might reduce the probability of police abuse simply by reducing the amount of contact the police have with the public, it won’t change the nature of the police as a tool of the state. Here’s why: to offset the reduced police contact with the populace, cities will add other layers of social workers, mental health “experts,” crisis counselors, and others, all of whose scopes will overlap in inefficient ways, and a bureaucracy to support them.
That closely interacting group of non-police state agents will get even more up in the face of individuals in society and, ultimately, will be backed with the force of violence in the form of the remaining police. Don’t want to talk with the social worker? They escalate to the police.
In the long run, the new public social health bureaucracy created this way will find themselves in danger frequently, and either the police staffing will be increased to protect them, or they will become armed agents in their own right “for their protection.”
In the end, it will simply lead to even more state intervention and presence in daily life.
I hear you DB, but I’m not all convinced the State couldn’t just do this now if they wanted to. The Public Health state is already growing at an exponential pace and there’s not even a token budget constraint anymore. A new Public Health Corps could be created at any time and embedded with existing Police state. It happens now with the police becoming involved if you won’t talk with a social worker.
Here’s why: to offset the reduced police contact with the populace, cities will add other layers of social workers, mental health “experts,” crisis counselors, and others, all of whose scopes will overlap in inefficient ways, and a bureaucracy to support them.
Caseworker Alice Pitney gets moist just thinking about this.
Narrator: They are not going to let people take responsibility for their safety.
That’s assuming the intention is not to replace them with something worse.
I would say police reduction needs to be gradual and overtime and concurrent with other changes in the law, don;t just drop the funding today and leave everything else as is,
I do want my freedoms protected. And while I’m happy to do that for myself, I don’t want to have to turn my home into a fortress nor be on guard 24/7 like I’m back on a battlefield. Police presence is effective. But there need to be reforms to their procedures and exceptional legal protections. Their only privilege should be to initiate force in limited situations; other than that they should be treated, legally, as any other citizen.
This. Absent the ability to contract with a private security force at an overall cost competitive with the portion of taxes I pay that goes to the police, a small but capable police force is necessary. We can’t all stand guard at our houses all the time.
Of course, that leaves aside the question of whether today’s police forces care, or are even required to, protect you and your property (spoiler: they’re not).
This is all my point. Do you think the police are currently preventing your home from being broken into?
Several of my neighbors have had their homes broken into. No arrests… the police didn’t care. Another neighbor had their truck stolen. Turns out the thief was a CI for a neighboring county and all charges were dropped. Several years ago, a different neighbor called the police to report a break in at a gas station nearby. The nearest officer was 30 minutes away so the dispatcher asked if my neighbor had a shotgun. When the neighbor said yes, he said to just go over there and scare them off.
I think a battlefield level of awareness is too extreme, but my home is fortress-like because I have no faith in the police to defend my family or property. Fences, gated access, dogs, and cameras. It’s as natural to me as concealed carrying and boggles my mind that anyone who doesn’t trust the police to defense them in public would trust them to protect their home.
A tweaker lost control of their truck, plowed through my fence, and rammed my gate a few weeks ago. I got him on camera and a neighbor recognized the face and truck. I gave him a chance to do right by paying for the damages with no police involved. Got my cash a couple days later, which is more than any of my robbed neighbors got back after calling the police.
Not just your home. Minneapolis youths have discovered the joys of carjackings and those are out of control.
There were 12 carjackings of uber/lyft drivers in the last week.
Cops might not be actively protecting you in your car or home, but it sure seems like them withdrawing has led to a lot more violent crime.
I get where you’re coming from — but when the current movement is paired with both decriminalizing a lot of crime (see: SF, other places where most things shy of murder don’t seem to rate the DA’s time of day) *and* coming down hard on any “normal” who dares to take action to protect themselves / others, it seems more a recipe for disorganized roaming mobs instead of a more organized (and hopefully at least somewhat controlled for politics’s sake) mob [aka the police].
If it were “defund the existing police and let armed neighborhood watches step up”, I’d be more amenable.
Then again, doubtless my Caucasian privilege and all — but I’ve been lucky enough that my police interactions over the years have been reasonable — so it is harder for me to want to tear that whole system down versus being much more stringent in rooting out corruption / getting rid of obvious abuse like asset forfeiture, etc.
The defund movement needs to follow the deregulate movement (which doesn’t exist). Unless the revenue collection laws are removed, any police remaining after a defund action will focus their time on those revenue generating activities.
Two things, you need to allow people to defend themselves, and get rid of the war on drugs.
We just need better people, folks like you and me. Jesus!
Also police need to be accountable for their actions. Just like everyone else.
https://www.rt.com/business/538452-oil-prices-remain-high-years/
Oh.
It was one short year ago that you guys were net exporters of oil. All this shit happened in ten months but it’s OK because BOB!
Well assuming policies don’t change anytime soon, how else could it be otherwise?
How could they possibly come down as long as the government is crippling domestic production and the ports are too fucked up to import more oil?
Meanwhile Mayor Pete is talking about maternity leave and feuding with Tucker Carlson.
Go Wednesday, Go! Let’s Drink Pop!
Up until about two years ago, Judi thought that Blitzkrieg Bop was that. I still know people that think that Jimi is singing about kissing a guy.
Which one
https://twitter.com/MrsFlowers007/status/1452893810468458504
Honestly, both the pictured “american” and “english” breakfasts are way too much for breakfast, to much food to many calories
Also there are much better pictures out there for both variants
I only eat breakfast for dinner. I can’t imagine eating that amount in the morning but I’m skinny, so there is that.
I have never eaten either one.
An Irish pub near me does a decent irish breakfast but it is the sort of thing I would eat for both breakfast and lunch.
The place I stayed in on Islay made a really good one
This. Plus…”carbs, eeeew”.
That’s stupid huge. Nobody could regularly eat that big.
Oh, I regularly ate the “american” during a time I was doing lots of manual labor.
Nobody said anything about ‘regularly’. Swap out the pancakes for French toast, add a big piece of country ham, and that’s my breakfast at Cracker Barrel.
Well, they failed to fully cook the english eggs, and tomatos on the vine don’t belong there.
And quite frankly, it’s not usually pancakes and hash browns and bacon and eggs. That’s far larger than typical.
those eggs seem cooked just right if not slightly to much. The yolk should be fully runny and the white fully cooked.
There are few taste and texture combinations more foul than runny yolks.
See UCS this is why no one takes you seriously
I am honest.
I don’t understand why you people like puke on your plate.
Eggs are awful in any form. Hitchcock was right.
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Nothing whatsoever.
Deep down, you know it.
Would be handy to like eggs in any form. Sulfurous.
Not to mention that chick-sexing is cruel, but anyway…
This is a rare instance of UCS being correct.
No. Although I prefer over-easy vs. sunny side up.
*throws the tomatoes on the vine*
Runny yolks are best when you have toast to dip in them. Personally, I prefer over medium, where there’s still a bit of liquid yolk at the very center, but it doesn’t dump out on your plate when you cut it.
Two sunny-sides on a plate next to a boneless rib-eye with a big pat of Kerrygold butter; once all the runny yolk, meat juice, and melted butter converge… oh baby!!
I hope you get treated for your bulimia.
we call that “Over Medium.”
I prefer “Over Easy,” which has the whites being just barely slightly runny as well.
Knew there was a reason I liked you
You do you. I’m in the “Over Hard” camp, myself. Preferably with a nice crispy border on the whites….
Yes!
pancakes and hash browns and bacon and eggs
Yeah, that’s a lumberjack breakfast out in rural parts of Oregon.
The American one needs sausage as well as bacon. Also biscuits and grits, and an omelet instead of those dreadfully overcooked scrambled eggs.
The English?? Well, they sure do know to ruin a perfectly good tomato. And beans for breakfast is weird.
I forgot grits! I love ’em, but getting them properly made in the North is difficult.
how hard can it be to make corn mush?
Clearly you’ve never had it properly cooked.
well I never had it period. Obviously. Grits are not a thing in Europe.
Grits is like fish. Oozed properly you’d enjoy. Cooked wrong it turns you off for life.
Think mamaliga but runny, like mashed potatoes with a lot of milk in them.
Polenta is a thing in Italy, which is basically Italian grits.
mamaliga comes in many forms, from rather runny to hard depending on the usage. If you want to eat it mixed with cheese and sour cream it can be quite runny. But I cannot make statements on grits as I never had that particular form. Also, being American, I assume it is half sugar by volume.
Nah, grits are savory.
Grit can be both savory or sweet. It’s a neutral base for however you want them. Add salt, butter, sugar, maple syrup, bacon, cheese, shrimp, whatever.
Indeed. The worst grits I’ve ever had were from Tom’s Diner (a semi-famous place in Brooklyn with a good 30 minute wait on a weekend morning). “Cheese Grits” was what the menu said; what I got was a bowl full full of warm hominy corn (whole kernels) with a handful of shredded mozzarella on top.
Grits (oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, etc.) must be made with cream; milk if the larder is bare, but never water.
OMG, that’s awful.
Pancake House, Cream O’Wheat, a dollop of butter, a breakfast even a deep Yankee can enjoy.
“Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”
I over-did the Cream of Wheat a couple of years ago. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for about 3 months. I don’t know when or if I’ll ever be able to eat it again.
OMG you people. Next time youre in the South get grits. You will be pleasantly surprised.
Also fresh biscuits. With butter and honey.
Sweet rolls.
Smoked brisket, ribs, anything really. The meat falls off the bone.
I’ve had both, in America and England. I think I prefer the American style. The sausages I had in England tasted off to me, but I think it’s just a difference in the way they’re spiced. I love tomatoes with breakfast, and mushrooms are good, but baked beans are a lunch or dinner food for me.
I do remember really liking the breakfasts we had in Instanbul — hard boiled egg, tomatoes, cheese, sliced meats. A good, light way to start the day, but really tasty as well.
Overall, give me one pancake (blueberry) or French Toast, three jumbo eggs over easy, four slices of thick bacon (not crisp), and a slice of wheat toast.
My favorite breakfasts, though, are hashes. Make ’em with corn beef, pulled pork, leftover brisket, whatever. yum!
four slices of thick bacon (not crisp)
You lost me at “not crisp”. I hate soggy bacon as much as UCS hates runny eggs.
All depends on the thickness of the slice and type for me.
This is the correct answer.
Also, runny eggs are teh bomb.
You really are terrible. Flaccid bacon is the only way to properly enjoy it.
See, also, lardons.
Mmm, corned beef hash. The Philippines has a breakfast dish called cornsilog: corned beef, garlic fried rice, and fried egg.
And now I really, really want some cornsilog. That sounds fantastic.
There is a line of silog breakfasts – meat with fried rice and eggs. There is tosilog – tocina (cured pork), tapsilog – tapa (cured beef), longsilog – longanisa (sweet sausage), hotsilog – hot dog (the red Filipino style), spamsilog – fried spam, …
I do not like tomatoes, Sam I am. Baked beans belong at a barbecue, not breakfast.
Runny eggs are good two ways: on toast, on steak. Bonus points for Hollandaise. I don’t eat eggs at the present because my ulcers don’t like them.
Bacon must be crisp, especially the fat.
Lastly, breakfast for dinner is awesome.
Dinner for breakfast is awesome too.
British baked beans aren’t smoky or BBQ-y, just sorta tomatoey.
(Moj, the Hint water I mentioned is fruit-flavored, just not gassed or sweetened.)
I’m not a fan of fruit-flavored water. I love lemonade, but can’t stand a spritz of lemon in my water. When I make lemonade, it’s barely more water than lemon.
So your lemonade makes for permanant pucker face?
Yes. My daughter can drink straight lemon juice (so could my dad), but I can’t.
I’d wager most people can’t down undiluted lemon juice.
Jeez, don’t let her.
I use Splenda in my lemonade, which sweetens it just enough. Sugar doesn’t let it retain that kick I like.
Both.
Two hours into this subthread and no one has posted this?
Son (and imaginary libertarian chick)… I am disappoint.
I LOL’d.
Scroll down until you hit that gorgeous major wheel throw into neck crank from mount. Rawr!
Wish they had a European breakfast shown.
Oh wait, the commies in charge of the EU wont allow what food rations the serfs get.
Morning all. Neighbor update:
800 lb gorilla of a law firm retained. We’re attempting to negotiate a peaceful resolution that doesn’t leave the wife or me open to future problems or end up with the neighbor in a home getting fleeced by a court appointed guardian. I think it’s possible, but we’ll see how the other party reacts to my proposed solution which does come with some risk to us. What a clusterfuck. Lesson learned.
I hope it works out–for you and for your neighbor. You have to protect yourself first, but from what you’ve posted, it sounds like you neighbor’s”vulture friend” is angling to become a court appointed guardian or in some other way strip her of everything she has. People who do that are lower than dirt, and need to be rooted out and stomped.
There’s only so much I can do for her at this point. It’s going to cost me some good money to get clear of this but at least there appears to be a way out.
If I have to, I’ll file a defamation lawsuit and ask for a competency hearing. If she has a decent lawyer, they will inform her of that possibility and scare her into working with us instead of fighting what I consider to be a very gracious offer for resolution on both sides.
I am out of the loop on this one so o idea what is happening but best of luck…
Gah! Sorry you touched the hot stove, here. People are evil. Who was it that had a kid fall off the golf cart? That one is hell in a handbasket…
The neighbor isn’t really evil, just old and failing mentally which is leading to paranoia. Her friend is another story.
Her friend is another story.
I think that is the one that fall under people are evil.
+ 1 here.
Er, an East Coaster IIRC (AITID). Don’t mention the war…
Hurrah for the Nerf household!
Its the trying to help others that makes you a good person. You get burned sometimes but America would have fallen apart a long time ago if most Americans didnt be nice sometimes and help others.
I honestly don’t get how any of you are able to read this shit, even for irritainment purposes. Think today will be the day I block CNN at my router so even guests won’t be able to ingest that cancer while in my house.
Your handle is fitting but simply turning away from this shite wont work either. Everybody has their own way to deal with this. Mine might work for me but it may not work for you. Godspeed. I mean that!
Believe it or not, the more Commie propaganda that is spouted by the democrats and the MSM the more average Americans are learning the truth about these democrats. Sometimes you have to heard the evil for yourself and figure it out.
This is a bit of a self-own, given that Amazon Prime works.
“We can’t cope, because people have this Amazon Prime mentality!”, said no Amazon spokesperson ever.
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1452904973751177219
From the article
“A doctor has blamed an increasing number of patients who could have been seen by their GP attending A&E instead for an increase in demand, calling it an “Amazon Prime mentality”.
Dr Jonathan Griffiths, a GP in Winsford, Cheshire, spoke out after record numbers of people sought help at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle last week, leading to nine-hour waits for beds.”
Waiting times: the state-run health system of the UK vs the private health system of the Netherlands]
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1452735489304301571
As far as I re3member my mom’s cousin who lives in England waited more than 100 days for knee surgery, but those are average times I suppose.
We want Democracy where politicians respect our wishes for a PUBLIC NHS. Doctor EXPOSES Plan to Sell NHS to American Corporations
https://twitter.com/LauraAlvarezJC/status/1452616332244029444
Why do American corporations want to buy the NHS? seems like it would be a pain in the ass.
I guess that’s the answer to “What’s worse than the NHS?”
Haha, like “corporations” don’t already control what the NHS does.
Phizer Corp ?
Remember when the leftoids used to fear Raytheon and McDonnel Douglas? Pepperidge farms remembers…
Bluddy stupid northerners!
I hear GPs are mostly useless lately (er, last ~1.5 years or so) and Emergency is the only way to get seen in person; judging by Mail headlines anyway.
Everything I know about the NHS, I learned from British TV – https://youtu.be/PMUBoa0URlY
Head of video at Novara then. And now. Yeah, you see the problem now?
https://twitter.com/ronlondoncon/status/1452962711734788099
Unfortunately Tankie Central was apparently re-instated on youtube
Why is it so hard for them to get this? I split from you because I can’t fathom this being malice. Perhaps it’s envy.
Because their ideal world is one giant public housing project, one with minimal personal living spaces and ample communal space. This gives them the panopticon they can employ to shape humanity into their little cadres, it gives them the world they want where every iota of life is under the control of the “community”, as determined by them. That’s why you’ll see progressives still singing the praises of Cabrini Green. If their fever dreams only produce misery, suffering and dismay, that’s not the fault of the fever dream. It just means that enough resources weren’t poured into it. Because the end goal was never an affordable place for down-on-their-luck people to live in some semblance of comfort and civilization. It was a means to create “a community”. And that’s why they detest “gentrification”. Ghettos improving out of essentially benign neglect, beyond serviceable police protection, rather than out of their grand experiment, is anathema to their deepest desires.
So, real-life Sims*?
*have never played it, or cared to
Good God! Mr. Brenner, is that you! My fifth grade teacher. How’s it hangin”?
Okay. That just went way over my head.
Candyman was a pretty unique and solid horror movie. Thanks for reminding me to check out the sequel.
Also, yes, this appears evil to people like us who do not share their perspective. But in my heart of hearts, I don’t think these people mean evil, they just do.
I don’t think these people mean evil, they just do.
I don’t really care if they think they are evil and revel in it. You are what you do when it counts.
“Must be a yearning deep in the human heart to stop the people from doing as they please. Rules, laws–always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: “Please pass this so that I won’t be able to do something I know I should stop.” Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them “for their own good”–not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.” –Heinlein
Just when you think you can’t reach peak moron.
A hiker got lost, then ignored rescuers’ calls because they came from an unknown number
The only good thing is that this is just ridiculous enough that DC may decide the solution to saving hikers is to finally do something about all these unwanted phone calls.
Strange. If I have a missed call from an unknown number I don;t always call back but I do answer.
Rat on a train weeps for the drugs that fell out of your rectum… (#13 above…).
I searched first… You need better keywords.
Don’t you mean hashtag? AOL keywords aren’t useful.
Why doesn’t he answer his phone? Does he not care that his car warranty could be expiring?!
This is a courtesy call. We’ve sent you several notices…
We’ve sent him five final notices. Perhaps the sixth will convince him of the finality of the offer.
The sad fucking truth is, those calls work some infinitesimal percentage of the time – just enough to keep the scam going.
STEVE SMITH JUST CALL, GIVE HELP!
The Left can’t meme.
https://twitter.com/lrjmajor/status/1452584844161163267
“If we don’t act now, it’ll be too late.” That’s the warning from Sir David Attenborough ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59039485
I thought 2012 was already to late. No point in it now. Let us just enjoy these last moments.
Says a near-centenarian.
Well someone’s world is about to end.
Word salads, it’s what the left likes to do.
Ugh. He did so many animal shows you can actually watch them get woker and woker over the years. To the point where the latest ones are almost unwatchable.
Gooble gobble, gooble gobble. Fair share! Fair share!
Instead, to win over Sinema and others, the White House has been floating a new idea of taxing the assets of billionaires and another that would require corporations to pay a 15% minimum tax, regardless of if they show any profits. Those both appear to be gaining traction with another pivotal Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who told reporters he supported new ways to ensure the wealthy to pay their “fair share.”
15% of what, now?
I actually could be induced to favor a (very small) gross receipts tax, but only if every single social engineering and economic “fine tuning” provision were stripped out.
Spoiler alert: that will never happen.
The only tax I’d sign on to is a flat tax paired with the elimination of the IRS.
Preaching to the choir here — but “Fuck you, cut spending!” increasingly leaps to mind.
It was no prize — but rolling the government back to 2007 levels or so (pre TARP and all that crap) would be a good start. Back to 1927 would be better, of course….
1907 would be better yet. Pre WWI.
Fuck that. 1788 or GTFO.
We would have no deficit at spending if the feds spent what they did in 2014. You remember, the famously tightfisted and austere Obama administration.
Holy shit, a 15% tax on gross receipts? I guess they really do want to destroy the economy.
Yes, they do.
They openly root for this.
They’ll compromise on a VAT which is something the left has wanted for decades and will make my life much more complicated.
Then it will be harmonization just like the corporate income tax talks. Why should someone in the US be able to order from Amazon.de and not pay VAT?
VAT refund can make one favorably inclined toward a country…
Wait, the new memo states all stick, no carrot? Duly noted.
^Which explains the recent push to eliminate the underground cash economy using a $600 reporting requirement.
Yes
VATs are a damned reporting nightmare and simply a vehicle for abuse using the taxing authority.
A VAT would move the needle a good ways toward “expat”.
“He’s right, you know. Not that anybody in government is listening.”
He may be right in this case, but fuck him he’s made a lot of his billions off of government subsidies.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday signed an executive order directing state executive branch agencies to cooperate with the Alabama attorney general’s office as it challenges the Biden administration’s Covid-19 vaccine mandates and, when possible, to not comply with the federal effort.
We have a state law in NH preventing any state entity or subdivision of the state from requiring a vaccine for employment or access to government services. UNH is state owned. UNH is complying with the Federal contractor vaccine mandate and requiring vaccines for employment. I expect when it comes up in Federal court, there will be an application of the Supremacy Clause, and UNH will win.
There are bills proposed for the upcoming legislative session to prohibit state employees and employees of political subdivisions of the state from enforcing Federal vaccine mandates and a bill proposed making it a felony for any person to enforce a Federal vaccine mandate.
Interesting that Ivey is going down this road. She locked Alabama down and kept her face diaper mandate in place longer than Mississippi’s governor kept his in place.
Safety data from more than 3,000 children who received the vaccine in Pfizer’s trials turned up no “new safety concerns.” The smaller dose’s side effects were similar, or in some cases less frequent, than those seen in adolescents and young adults. Pfizer’s vaccine is currently authorized for ages 12 and up.
Huh.
Critics in Hong Kong say the National Security Law erodes freedoms, such as those of expression and assembly, that were promised to the city for 50 years when the former British colony was handed over to China in 1997.
“I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.”
‘Eventually, they run out of other people’s money and then they come for you,’ Musk tweeted.
He’s a grifter, but sometimes I like him.
Yeah, that’s presumably why our HR stressed that this was “Federal law” (it isn’t) and that it supersedes state laws. I think our multinational is technically HQd in Texas, so that would presumably arise as a potential issue.
Wish one or more of these companies wasn’t so danged brainwashed / part of the cult / whatever is the infection at the C*O / HR level and would just say “You know what? You can’t change the terms of the contract like that, and we’re not going to force medical decisions on our employees. We’ll be discontinuing all federal contracts while this is in place and suing you for breach. Good luck running the country with no support.” If any appreciable set of companies did it, the Feds would be in a world of hurt really quickly — but I know they either won’t because of the $$$ or because they’re all true believers too. I miss the time when it seemed a good chunk of the populace actually wanted liberty and respected individual freedoms. Maybe it was all to look different from the USSR — but I really think the folks in the 1970s wouldn’t have put up with this crap, much less the early to mid ’80s.
The Supremacy Clause is only operative for those things that the Federal government is authorized to do by the constitution. Vaccine mandates ain’t one of them.
14th Amendment and/or Interstate Commerce Clause and/or General Welfare Clause FTW!
Not that it really matters. Spooner pointed out that the Constitution was already not serving its alleged purpose well before any of the modern jurisprudence around those things existed. They’re just convenient fig leaves to obtain the desired outcome.
Don’t forget tax authority allows a fine for any behavior or lack of behavior.
The Feds have the ability to contract. Lots of contracts include a changes clause.
I expect some tortured reasoning a la the penaltax to tie Federal contracting laws with the Supremacy Clause to stomp on state efforts to stop enforcement of the mandate about contractors being vaccinated.
How in the ever living crap is that a contract then? I mean — that’s right up there with the stupid verbage in EULAs of “We can change this at any time”. You can’t have an agreement where one side gets to change it at a whim (I know, I know… FYTW).
Yep. FYTW. Sometimes the Feds reign themselves in… but…
Take the devil’s money, do the devil’s bidding. This is the meaning of “soft power”: paying people off to control them.
Nobody’s offering to pay me off, but they are still trying to control me.
The carrot is paying you directly. The stick is forbidding others from paying you at all.
How in the ever living crap is that a contract then?
It’s not. For us normies, changing the terms of a contract, even if agreed to by both parties, is unenforceable if not exchanged for something of value.
In the wiki article I linked, it states that contractors are supposed to be compensated.
^^^
You can’t change the terms of the contract like that
I’m not sure that current contracts are being modified, but I’m hearing renewals/new bids are being modified to include the mandate specifically (along with the rest of the endless terms and conditions that go with federal contracts).
So far, the company I work for has been very clear that they’re waiting on Federal rules to come out. They do have federal contracts, but there has not been any notices sent out regarding mandating disclosure, vaccination status, testing protocols, or any dates. Seems like they’re aware they’ll lose a heft chunk of workforce that would be hard to replace on short notice.
“So far, the company I work for has been very clear that they’re waiting on Federal rules to come out.”
My company, a woke ass one, is doing the same for fear of financial repercussions. So they weaselly decided to make us all declare our status without telling anyone they need to get a vaccine. I have refused to comply on HIPAA grounds and am dealing with HR about it.
Yet state and local sanctuary laws will be left alone.
Yep.
All of this has me back on the secession train. I know the legislative leadership was putting pressure to withdraw on the Representative that introduced for the upcoming session the secession constitutional amendment. I don’t know if he’s sticking to his guns or has withdrawn the constitutional amendment.
I am curious to what happens here, there’s enough pushback locally.
Oops. Put this in the dedthred by accident:
It is autumn. My mulled cider wax cubes are warming my space via scent. The leaves are turning late this year, which means an easy (or at least, late) winter. Yet it is sunny out and not raining. WHY?! I WANT RAIN, dammit!
The Ikea people and handyman are coming today. I must make myself presentable. Sadly, my house is not. I don’t know where I’m going to put this ginormous cabinet together, but it was an emergency purchase. My one-butt kitchen has almost no storage space and what it does have goes up to the heavens and I can’t reach it even with a stepladder, much less try to hoist heavy baking pans and glassware up there.
You don’t appreciate wall-to-wall carpeting until you have a hardwood-floored house with cathedral ceilings and everything echoes like Fantastic Caverns.
THAT SAID, we are OUT of our POS house and into a nice place that I am proud to call home (or will be, when I get all my stuff sorted). And my landlord lets us mount stuff on the walls (like TVs). When we move (when our nest is definitively empty), I will repair everything before we leave. I already asked the LL what color he used to paint the walls so I could do so.
It’s raining here.
I don’t think it’ll stick around long enough for you to make it out here.
I had wall to wall carpet in the apartment. I’m glad there’s no carpet in the house, this floor is easier to clean.
Carpet Showers FTW!
Sunny and not raining but not hot is perfect weather. Walking in the rain is ok if it is not to heavy, but if you walk 1 hour at a time you can get wet. I do not have special rain pants myself.
The Ikea people – buy American.
You don’t appreciate wall-to-wall carpeting until you have a hardwood-floored house with cathedral ceilings and everything echoes like Fantastic Caverns. – I still would not apreaciate wall to wall carpeting regardless. bleah
Quiet and soft!
I’m easy and cheap. They had something I liked and needed that I can also afford.
I’m easy and cheap.
Go on . . . .
Just remember if you’re not doing this work yourself – TV’s should not be mounted to sheetrock directly.
I’ve seen claims of the sheetrock anchors that make amazing static weight claims that I wouldn’t trust in any way. Find a wall stud.
I’m a DIYer–you should see my power tool collection–and I’m not going to trust anybody else with my husband’s Precious. No, I would never mount a TV to sheetrock. It boggles the mind. And I use carriage bolts.
Heh, speaking of My Dude’s Precious… His TV is huge and suits our purposes. He wants a bigger TV and I just give him the side-eye. We have a smaller TV to put in my space, but…it’s really not big enough for that particular space. So I said–ONCE, MIND YOU–I said, “Maybe I’d like a little bit bigger TV.” OMG he almost turned cartwheels. “I can give you MY TV and get a bigger one!” Shit, why can’t I keep my mouth shut? So now he’s got his TV on a stand, just waiting for the day I relent and say, “Yeah, okay, bigger TV, whatever.” Let’s see which one of us can hold out longer. See, I can go without TV and I don’t mind watching TV on my tablet. He…can’t. Heh.
Don’t you rent properly? You aren’t supposed to care about others property! Punch holes! Slather paint!
Bruh, no paint, man. I’ve had enough of painting to last a lifetime. Besides, the ceilings are so high you need an extension ladder to change the contractor-fixture lightbulbs. As in, yes, I have to call the LL when I want lightbulbs changed.
Also, when hanging pictures, these are the bee’s knees.
Also, when hanging pictures, these are the bee’s knees
Yep! Massive time saver.
See? We’ve agreed on 3 things this morning already: hook hangers, crispy bacon, and runny eggs with toast.
Oh thanks for that…I have a picture to hang up outside
Not when your walls are solid brick
Ohhhhh. Hanging things on brick sucks big fat donkey balls.
Somebody worked at Michael’s. Yeah, those hooks (and the OOK Hooks with multiple nails) are great. The single wire version works wonders for hanging my big heavy extension cords in the closet as well.
Me, me, me, me, me! I worked in the framing department and I think you did too.
But I did not discover them there. I saw them on late-night as-seen-on-TV and thought, “Not sure how that can fail” and sure enough, it didn’t!
Neat. Gonna check those out.
I haven’t hung anything in here. Except a clock which is using a nail inside an existing hole.
I have a pole gizmo (no euphemism!) for changing our can lighting. We have some 12 foot? maybe higher? ceilings. Works a charm.
You don’t appreciate wall-to-wall carpeting until you have a hardwood-floored house with cathedral ceilings and everything echoes like Fantastic Caverns.
Moj, you and I are probably the most opposite people on the planet. It’s awesome that we can commune together here at Glibs!
IMO, carpet is for, at most, the bedrooms. Our last house had hardwood everywhere, but they had carpeted over the hardwood in the bedrooms. I had them yank it all out and expose the beautiful wood underneath. We have carpet in most of the current place, and I’m not a fan.
Large rugs are great at deadening the sound in cavernous spaces like that. We found good ones at ikea.
To be fair, the only REAL hardwood is in the kitchen. The rest of it’s vinyl. I think with standard 8′ or 10′ ceilings, it wouldn’t be an issue.
Two houses ago the living room was all bamboo flooring (it was okay, I prefer darker wood) and we had a 12 foot cathedral ceiling. Sans furniture and rug, it was super echoey. I loved that living room. Once we got furniture in there, it felt spacious without feeling cavernous.
We discovered the same thing. Really nice hardwood under 40 year old carpet. Just finished ripping out two rooms over the weekend with three more to go.
I’m with you. Eventually I want a huge wooden Norse hall with stone floors and tastefully hung tapestries to help with the echo.
I have area rugs. I need to get more.
I thought I would get an area rug for my office, but I have decided I like being able to roll across the floor like I’m a NASCAR driver.
They sell rollerblade style casters for office chairs. It’s night and day different if you’re on a rug or medium pile carpet. When I replace my current chair, I’ll be keeping the aftermarket casters.
Link? I’ve got an office chair with broken casters that either need to be replaced or thrown away.
I’ve had those and they’re awesome if one of your metal arms on your chair is not bent just the slightest bit out of whack. I have to replace mine once a year, but I am NOT replacing this chair. I <3 it.
https://www.amazon.com/Rollerblade-Replacement-Casters-Hardwood-Rolling/dp/B076CRCKNT
Nm. Found them or similar.
I’ve replaced the legs (what I think Mo is calling arms), piston, coasters, and seat upholstry on my chair. I think I’ve spent more than the initial $110 purchase price on new parts.
Sorry Moj. Was reply to myself, not to you. Thank you!
Tapestries:
“To muffle the screams of my enemies”
Hardwood looks great but is more effort to clean in my experience.
Though I will admit that proper carpet maintenance involves getting a rug shampooer and using it every so often which is harder than it sounds (just rent one! good luck, all the Rug Doctors at the store are filthy and/or broken; just buy one! good luck, they’re expensive, they break easily, and getting them to work right is tricky). There’s a reason many apartment complexes just replace the carpets instead of cleaning them these days.
Looking back, my mom was something of a clean freak – puts me to shame today.
I remember several sessions with the Rug Doctor and we were renting.
Hire a carpet cleaning service once/twice a year. Typically about $40 per room. Make sure they use water that is almost steam temperature. You can tell the difference.
Wall-to-wall was on my wish-list last time because cats.
Next time I want hardwood only.
You want cat pee to soak into the carpet and padding?
There is some of that. Oh well.
No, I wanted them to be comfortable on the floor. Maybe they didn’t care, who knows.
Get the waterproof carpet padding. We got the pet proof carpet and padding. 25 year warranty. Spot cleaner gets the cat barfs and any pet accidents up and no pet accident odor.
Once pet urine/barf seeps between wood/laminate you can never get the smell gone without enzymes.
We are having the warmest October on record. Leaves are very lackadaisical about changing color and dropping.
I’m still harvesting hot peppers.
Yep. Last year they started turning the beginning of September. The trees (I believe are maple) on my street are just going into dead orange, but not dropping yet.
It’s funny, in a life cycle, how we fear death and find it rather ugly, when we pay good money to go look at dying leaves because they’re so beautiful.
They aren’t dying, they’re shedding.
Also, best autumn music as the leaves are falling, Dead Poets Society soundtrack.
I was just in Michigan this weekend. The leaves are mostly green there too.
Holy shit, a 15% tax on gross receipts? I guess they really do want to destroy the economy.
They’re probably not talking about 15% of gross receipts (yet) but I have not seen anything specific about what they think they can apply that minimum tax rate to.
Just like a tax on unrealized gains, they will tax unrealized profits.
Why am I looking at starting my own locksmith business in the Biden administration…
15% of zero?
Morning everyone! Boy I can’t wait to have all my measley funds in retirement accounts to be taxed to death.
Right!? This totally unmakes the idea that people can have any retirement at all. Working is for suckers!
Seriously, what’s the point?
There’s a reason we’ve cut our contributions down to the match and have dumped the rest of our retirement flagged income into getting our ducks in a row in the moment.
The idea that we can save up a nest egg of a couple million in a mutual fund and live off of it is feeling rather precarious these days. Between inflation, insane stock market valuation, and the left’s targeting of anybody with any assets, it feels safer to make long term purchases now, invest in things that reduce the cost of our lifestyle, and hold off on the heavy investing until the picture becomes more clear.
Priorities will obviously change as things shake out from the covid crap, but preparing for hard times in the short term seems more valuable than squirrelling away lots of acorns for the distant future.
Is that Doom Jr? They grow up so fast.
It is! This year has flown the way she’s changed.
bonnie wee babby!
Just wait until the national property tax passes. They specifically mentioned “unrealized gains” in real estate in one article that was linked here over the weekend.
The people that feel government should pick winners and losers have wanted a way to go after the people that did their own thing forever. It’s a matter of time, but they will go after anyone that did their own retirement investing, because that is unfair to the people that didn’t (public explanation) and then they will fucking rob you blind (which is what they want to do).
+thousands of Jeannie* Buellers
*unfair to JB: she did get her redemption arc
You wealthy fucker! If you dont depend on the govt every month, your retirement account will be Nationalized.
Huh. A clip of school children in California staging an anti-mask protest.
Good for them.
It’s raining in Idaho.
I drove down here in the rain yesterday. My brand new wiper blades work really well, until about 55-60mph, when they develop enough aerodynamic lift to lose contact with the windshield. I think it’s those stupid “winter blade” rubber gaiters on the frame.
Here the leaves also started falling late-ish but now they are starting to fall
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TyU_jOBEsrJfo6umTu_xBLASL20eDefW/view?usp=drivesdk
Nice! We’re past peak now, but I like the deep colors as everything really falls to the ground
When The First That Will Change Everything comes, school children will no longer need to stage protests of masks. TV’s will no longer be needed. There will be only synergy.
Well, this is embarrassing.
“It didn’t take long for people on social media to notice the error. The airplane featured in the design was backward, pushing the banner rather than pulling it. Images of the original Wright Flyer show the wings are actually located in the back.”
How embarrassing!
The wings are where they are, neither “front” nor “back.” It’s a canard design, so the horizontal stabilizer is located forward of the wings.
They’re just hoping to horn in on all the money from the Inverted Jenny
Talk about embarrassing… North Carolina put pictures of the Wright design on their license tags, then put their Civil War reputation across the top of them.
“Semper Retro”?
I’m easy and cheap.
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Good morning, Sloop!
I pray that the people of Minneapolis pull their heads out of their asses and vote no on that stupid amendment, but we’ll see. I know that no one considering voting yes has spent any time on CrimeWatchMpls. It’s a train wreck and the fact that no one in that article spent any time on the revolving door for violent felons is telling.
Too depressing.
The music, however, is not. And Morticia is a solid wood.
Have a great day, y’alL!
Why am I looking at starting my own locksmith business in the Biden administration…
You want to pay your fair share?
I’m charging them double.
Ugh, I remember this phase from the first kid. The teeth grinding phase. Now going on 90 minutes straight.
*shudders*
Sorry, brave Gunga Din.
“Ive beaten you and slayed you,
by the very Gods that made you;
You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”
Yeah…good luck
Yeah that’s the worst noise. Babydoom wants to put whatever food is on her fingers into her eyes and it’s going to kill me.
*shudders*
Well maybe you could take a break and take your dick out of the kid’s mouth? At least wait until this phase is over?
(Uffda. That went over the line didn’t it? Sorry)
This site wouldn’t have much going on but for line crossing. And my dick ain’t getting anywhere near this kid. I’ve already gotten a bite on the kneecap and fingernails to the scrotum this morning in her frenzied attempts to steal my phone.
I’d love to see the Venn diagram of people who believe that the governor in Alabama has no right to defy the Feds with people who believe the Feds have no right to force states to enforce pot laws.
…and both groups think the schools are doing a helluva job, Brownie…
Venn diagram is a joke.
On the linear political spectrum, libertarianism is centrist. Conservative is right with monarchy/theorcracy are right wing. Socialists/Democrats go left with communism being Left wing.
Centrist is minimal govt. left and right directions both are okay with varying degrees of govt.
And, of course, the headlines on googlenooz are all about “OMG [insert kkkapitalist running dog] HATES taxing billionaires!”
Billionaires are, by definition, evil; confiscating their ill gotten gains is just and right and patriotic.
Surely you just mean billionaire capitalists! Selfless public servant billionaires like Pelosi shouldn’t be lumped in with these bad people.
Billionaires are by definition evil though. Now if you’ll excuse me Imma gonna browse Amazon for a product that used to cost at least twice as much before they came along.
I don’t mind the low prices. What I miss from the good old days it the “Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery”.
It was so fun to get something delivered long after you had forgotten that you had even ordered it. Stupid Amazon delivers it so quickly that you haven’t had a chance to put it out of your mind.
Package for Bugs Bunny!
You know, if ACME stopped making products and just went into delivery services…
I’ve cut back on purchasing from them. Run in to several issues with counterfeit items opened and used items sold as new. These are items sold by and shipped from Amazon not some shady seller.
Doesn’t that make Amazon a shady seller?
Yeah, don’t buy Hanes undershirts from Amazon–they’re counterfeit. They have tags and the fabric feels like burlap (slight exaggeration).
All vaccines, all the time.
Why am I suddenly reminded of the great Loyalty Oath infestation in Catch-22?
PROVE YOUR FEALTY.
I want to fly missions!
Surely you just mean billionaire capitalists! Selfless public servant billionaires like Pelosi shouldn’t be lumped in with these bad people.
Oops. My bad.
Aussie shelter dogs, from day 1. Conrad the GSD has been adopted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ID8dJGGOE
Bobby looks _so_ much like my girl.
I’m killing time in the dealership waiting room, and a commercial comes on the TV for a personal injury law firm, starring… The Shat?! Really? I wouldn’t have thought he needed to shill for ambulance chasers.
I like him because he doesn’t take himself too seriously.
Ditto. His role as The Big Giant Head on Third Rock From the Sun was perfect.
Funniest moment: he tells Dick there was something on the wing of his plane.
Dick says, “That happened to me!”
I thought it was funny when I knew John Lithgow was in the Twilight Zone movie as the passenger with the creature on the wing.
It became exponentially more funny when I watched the TV show and the passenger was played by Shatner.
N-O S-M-O-K-I-N-G! ?
Lithgow seems like a good egg, if Stereotypical Hollywood Lefty.
My wife met him a few years back. Just walked right up to him and said she’s a big fan of a lot of his work, and he was flattered and gracious and posed for a photo. People can be kind and humble even if their politics suck l
Just got invited to a “Pampered Chef” party. First MLM invite in years – maybe I can be a boss girl too!
Hampered Chef? You going?
Orange peeler works OK, ditto the both-ways measuring cup.
Their garlic press is amazing. I’ve had the same one for decades, and I use it at least once a week. We have a lot of their stuff. Some we use a lot, some are just taking up space in a cabinet. But it’s all really good quality.
Did you already give your old job notice?
Well lookie here, Nukes are green all of a sudden,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/feel-good-story-of-the-day-9.php
Apropos of the Alec Baldwin discussion regarding reponsibility for the tragedy, I’ll share my story of a negligent discharge.
Many years ago, there was a program at a local university aimed at getting students interested in shooting and teaching safe gun handling practices. The program was run by individuals outside of the University’s purview, but focused on students from that school. The organizers would rent out a large outdoor range and volunteers would provide guns and ammunition as well as safety oversight and handling training to the students. There were multiple stations that each had around 10 guns, each station aligned to the type of gun. So, a revolver station, a semiauto handgun station, shotgun, rifle, semi rifle, etc., all the way up to machine guns, both shoulder fired and mounted belt feds.
Each of us volunteers would bring as many guns as we could, lay them out at the stations, and then each station would have three volunteers ensuring safety and instructing the students. We had a lot of participants and a lot of guns, so it was a full day–about at least 6 hours of shooting. At the end of the day, all the guns were cleared by their respective station attendees, and everyone went down range to inspect and recover the targets. We were told we could go pick up our guns while people were down range. When I got to the semi rifle station, I checked my rifle to make sure there was no magazine, inspected the chamber, racked the action three times, pointed the rifle loosely at the ground in front of me, and dropped the hammer–on a live round.
It made a huge hole in the ground about five inches from my left foot, blowing dirt and gravel up into my face, and left my ears ringing. I was completely stunned. Everyone down range nearly shit themselves. I stood there petrified for at least a minute, staring at the rifle.
I still think about that incident. I personally looked in the chamber. I racked the action several times. It was only the fact that I had it pointed in a marginally safe direction (and still nearly blew my foot off) that no one was hurt. What happened was that I found that the rifle had a weak extractor and was filthy dirty after having fired at least a thousand rounds that afternoon without cleaning. We were using dark-colored steel cased ammo, and it was early evening in the fall, so the lighting was bad. These conditions all combined such that at least three people including me had missed seeing a live round in the chamber, and the case couldn’t be extracted, so racking the action was no help.
Arguably, we should absolutely not have been handling guns while people were down range, but multiple people had cleared all the guns, and “down range” had little meaning at the time because such a thing could happen anytime someone is clearing a gun or moving it to a rack, or casing it at the firing line.
If someone had been hurt, the responsibility would have been mine, but we all learned a powerful lesson that day in why the rules of gun safety exist.
I had a close one in a CMP clinic.
The instructors had M1 Garands and bags of ammo for each attendee. They said that bags of ammunition had 50 rounds of live ammunition and one dummy round. They wanted us to take the dummy round from the bag for some dry fire practice.
I looked through my bag, and every round looked the same. I didn’t count the rounds, but I remember thinking to myself, “I thought dummy rounds looked different from live rounds?” I looked through the bag again. Every round looked the same. I said to myself, “I could put one of these in the rifle, but if that fires, I got a problem.”
I went up to the instructor, showed him the bag, and asked, “I thought dummy rounds were different from live rounds? All these rounds look the same.”
His eyes went wide, his jaw hit the ground, and he got a frightened look on his face. He took the bag from me, and said, “Let me get you another bag.” He got me another bag which had 50 live rounds and one round that looked different. The dummy round.
Yikes! It’s a good thing you checked and raised the question. They probably should have handed out the dummy rounds separately, and probably not even given out live rounds before finishing whatever they were going to have you do with the dummies.
Yes, that’s what they should have done.
And this minor compared to yours. It’s good no one was hurt in your scenario.
I’ve gotten a bit lazy about sticking my finger in the chamber to make sure the chamber really is clear. Your story tells me I need to stop that.
Some rifles are really hard to stick a finger into. AR pattern rifles in particular. Chamber flags are probably the way to go.
True, good point.
Every firearm I take to the range has a chamber flag in it. The flag goes back in as soon as I am done shooting.
I don’t use chamber flags. I think I should.
*makes note for next trip to the gun store*
I’m thinking of printing some chamber flags with the Glibs logo–are there copyright issues?*
*hahahahahahaha!!!!!
Ask our PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER, MR. STEVE SMITH, ESQ.
I’ll just take that as a “YES” then.
Dummy rounds should never, ever be mixed with live rounds. What are people thinking?
I keep my dummy rounds in my gun bag, and never put live rounds in there. I keep live rounds in my range bag, and never put dummy rounds in it. The range bag is locked up before I take out the shotgun for any dry practice, with or without dummy rounds.
I have a special box for all my dry-practice equipment. Dummy rounds, dummy magazines and followers, and barrel blocks. Live ammo never goes anywhere near that box, and all my dummy ammo is highly visually distinct from the live stuff – like a blaze orange plastic bullet.
Holy Shit! That had to have been terrifying.
Part of the check includes sticking your finger in to physically check.
I always do this,(20 years of Marine Corps brainwashing), but never saw the reason. Always figured you would always see a round in the chamber in daylight.
Ugh… that sucks
I had one myself when I was fourteen with a 22 rifle walking thru the woods, lost my footing and grasped the trigger, safety was off. Completely stupid on my part. Nobody was around, so I just swore to never let it happen again.
I don’t worry about lowering the hammer on any ARs for storage. Is that really a thing?
I didn’t do it for storage. My normal clearing procedure essential mimics the USPSA “If finished, unload and show clear. If clear, hammer down.”
Army procedure for arms room exchanges:
Person giving: Hand through the window butt first, no magazine, bolt to rear, cover open, selector on safe.
Person receiving: Hold weapon pointed up, release bolt, select to fire, pull trigger, close cover.
I always chamber check and mag check any gun the moment I have it in my hands. Gun store, gunsmith, at home, at the range. Even if I put it down five minutes before.
Yes, I have had a negligent discharge – after a day of hunting, I just didn’t clear the chamber and pulled the trigger so it wasn’t cocked during storage. Fortunately, I was checking the low light performance of my scope, and had it pointed at a tree with a rise behind it.
Wow.
Worst oh shit moment for me was cleaning my Glock. I’d checked it was empty at the range several times. I pulled it out at home to clean it. Glocks need to be fired to remove the slide, so I pulled the trigger without confirming it was empty. It was pointed in a safe direction and it WAS empty, but as soon as I pulled the trigger I realized I screwed up. My heartbeat shot up and I sighed in relief.
Still remember it to this day.
Worst for me was testing out some mods to my Glock at the range. I loaded it and racked the slide the first time and set it on the bench. Then I picked it up to shoot and halfway up *BLAM*
My finger wasn’t inside the trigger guard or anything, just the action of jostling it from the bench set it off. Thankfully it was pointed downrange, but I didn’t see which direction it went.
Long story short, I had set the adjustable trigger incorrectly so it was sitting halfway on the break. It acted fine without ammunition, but in a live fire situation, it was a ticking time bomb.
A literal hair trigger.
As contrasted to Glock’s New York trigger. That must be awful to shoot.
Yup. One safety procedure that’s a useful adjunct to the Four Rules is when testing a new or modified firearm, load only one round at a time until you’ve confirmed that the gun is working as designed.
Surprises are fun. Machine guns are fun. Surprise machine guns are no fun at all.
Quote of the day!
Surprise machine guns are no fun at all.
I saw the aftermath of that at a gun club I used to belong to.
A guy had an AK bought during the AWB era. It had an American made, and poorly made, fire control group. The AK went full auto on him. Some friends and I arrived just after he finished shooting and had opened up the AK. He showed us the innards of the fire control group. All chewed up and didn’t look right. I’m surprised it fired at all.
These are a good idea…
https://www.amazon.com/UTG-Universal-Firearm-Chamber-Safety/dp/B00CJ7F1T2
Yes, a chamber flag (one that has a rod that extends into the chamber) would have indicated the chamber wasn’t empty. Good idea to use them for sure.
Good Lord, the price.
After you own a 3D printer for a simple shape like that, it’s the first thing I thought.
But that doesn’t take away from its usefulness.
Yeah that was my first thought. A stupid piece of plastic, especially one used for a safety device, shouldn’t be that expensive.
I have been known on occasion to make chamber flags out of the little plastic inserts from .22 LR boxes–if you cut them right they work great.
The last gun shop I was in had a whole bucket of chamber flags available for free. Just take as many as you needed.
Some Army ranges had those. Made it a lot easier for the range safeties.
Chamber flags are required at my club for all uncased firearms that are not actively in use.
I have a big bag of the long yellow versions downstairs for when I go to the club.
The problem with chamber flags, is that you stick them in a hot chamber and they melt and/or break off.
On my ARs, I stick the chamber flag in the ejection port and down through the magwell.
Yeah, that’s one reason I don’t really use them unless the range requires them. I should, but they can cause problems of their own.
Damn. Glad to hear no one was hurt. That’s a very cool program though.
My wife’s aunts had a very close call a couple decades ago. They were drinking too much one night and fooling around with a deer rifle. Rifle was supposedly empty and aimed down towards the floor. Aunt 1 somehow gets her head in front the barrel. Moves her head away and a second later Aunt 2 accidently hits the trigger. Bullet goes through the floor, narrowly missing Aunt 1’s head.
Jeez, near to Burroughs.
I guess my overall point is that you can have multiple people checking for safety, you can have procedures instituted, but it all comes down to the person holding the gun. If someone had been hurt that day, it would have been *my* responsibility–I’d imagine that someone could have sued the organizers or maybe even the volunteers at the station, but it was *me* that caused the discharge, even though I’d done everything you’re supposed to do.
It’s the same as aircraft safety. Ultimately, the pilot is always in charge and responsible.
Arguably, we should absolutely not have been handling guns while people were down range,
I would say, not arguably at all. The managed ranges I have been to, nobody goes downrange until all guns are cleared and laid out, actions open, on the bench.
The unmanaged range in WI I would go to once a year to check the zero on my deer gun was not as strict, but I recall that being adhered to. Unless the Hmong were there. If they were there, I would just turn around and go home. Absolutely zero regard for firearms safety.
I have a friend who is big into guns–he’s an immigrant from the former Eastern Bloc, had served in the Soviet army (conscripted) before defecting to the West. He’s a nice guy, but he scares the shit out of me with gun safety. He’s never learned it properly and doesn’t listen or remember well when people remind him. I try not to be at the range when he’s there.
Never had a ND, though I had a squib lodge in my barrel on the range in law enforcement academy thirty years ago. Fortunately, adhering to range safety procedures got that sorted pretty quickly.
My closest “oh, shit” moment came when another grad student and I were leading a group of freshman biology students on a tour of a local nature park to take note of the various small critters that are typically overlooked by visitors. It was a rather cool (by Florida standards) February morning. My colleague happened upon a smallish snake, said “Ooh, an Eastern Hognose! These are pretty rare around here!” He then picked it up and put it in his vest pocket to add to the classroom’s collection of reptiles and amphibians. I was a little apprehensive of his ID and cavalier attitude, but kept my mouth shut.
The next day, I get a call from an incensed professor. “Who in the ever-loving fuck put a ground rattler in my classroom! I don’t know if one of you thought you were being cute or something, but I don’t find it funny in the least. Notwithstanding that I don’t have the permits to keep venomous snakes, it’s a goddamn stupid idea with undergrads running around.” I could see his point, with the potential of some dumbass messing with the “hognose” to get it to play dead and being envenomated for his trouble — we all would’ve been in a world of legal hurt.
Evidently, the cool morning had put the snake in a bit of torpor, which allowed my buddy to handle it without being bitten. Needless to say, we both learned something that semester.
Oh man. That’s a mistake I can see myself making, mostly because Hognose snakes are teh awesome…
I would say that the bigger mistake was handling guns with people downrange. Missing a live round during a chamber inspection is something that can happen – that’s why the Four Rules overlap.
Handling a firearm behind the line was one of the two things in my classes that would get you sent home, no excuses, no second chances.
All of the ranges I’ve either shot at or ran as the RSO, there was no way that handling weapons was allowed with people downrange.
If I went to a range and that wasn’t enforced, I would not continue there.
There’s gonna be some slack on ranges with no defined firing points (which make up the vast bulk of the shooting that I do.)
But in those cases, the shooter would be under the direct control of the RO.
Point being, the Four Rules are necessary, but sometimes by themselves are not adequate.
Right. At a USPSA match, you have a defined safe handling area. Anywhere else you handle a gun, you’re either under the supervision of an RO, or you’re not, and you’re DQed.
And there’s no live ammo allowed anywhere near the safe handling area.
In this case, as I said, there were people milling around downrange, uprange, everywhere. This could have happened at any point, regardless of where they were standing.
NEVER HAVE ANYONE PAST THE FIRING LINE WHEN PEOPLE ARE HAND!ING THE WEAPONS.
Firing line being the line between the line you shoot from and the downrange targets.
This will prevent all injuries but weapon malfunctions and shooter improperly turning to shoot someone.
Thanks for discussing. Lots of misfires here but sounds like everyone learned their lesson.
Off the firing line, I always erred on the side of making sure a weapon is not loaded by checking 2-3 times. Working a slide, racking a bolt, spinning a wheel.
I have never misfired and I think it is due to this.
As for hunting and such, I use a safety and its second nature to on/off a safety before firng, so no misfires there either.
Practice..practice…practice. Honestly the military makes a weapon an extension of you, so this gun safety because second nature. Although military people misfire too.
And the approach for FedGov tightens. They now are pushing ‘covid will never go away unless we all Vax’ and…..wait for it….’our current efforts have turned the tide against Delta.
And with only a month left til deadline they have moved the needle by 10%. DOT is supposedly at 71% “fully vax”
Echo variant is out there somewhere warming up and getting ready to enter the game
Ahhh, Foxtrot.
Your room spray is trying to kill you.
Whistling past the abattoir?
Innovation investor Cathie Wood on Monday rebutted Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey’s theory on hyperinflation.
The founder and CEO of Ark Invest took to Twitter to expound upon her contrarian theory about deflation after Dorsey tweeted Friday evening that “Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening.” Wood estimates that her hypothesis will start to play out sometime after the holidays.
“In 2008-09, when the Fed started quantitative easing, I thought that inflation would take off. I was wrong. Instead, velocity – the rate at which money turns over per year – declined, taking away its inflationary sting. Velocity still is falling,” Wood said in a tweet.
While many market participants are concerned about rising prices, the hot-handed investor expects deflation amid a breakdown in commodity prices, a failure of companies that fell behind innovation, company stockpiling and innovation trends taking off.
Not mentioned: the difference between helicopter money and bank bailouts, and Fed policies at the time to keep money locked up on deposit instead of in circulation.
Brought forward from last night
https://babylonbee.com/news/janet-yellen-proposes-tax-on-coins-you-acquire-in-mario
Janet Yellen Proposes Tax On Coins You Acquire In Mario
The Babylon Bee is one of the best parts of the web.
The Onion should hang its head in shame.
Interesting story out of the T20 Cricket World Cup: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/t20-world-cup-south-africa-sa-vs-wi-csa-directs-mens-team-to-collectively-take-a-knee-1285251
Little complicated but, basically, Cricket South Africa has been giving its players three options in the fight against racism: take a knee, raise a fist, or stand to attention. But, for today’s game, they decided everyone had to take a knee. One player didn’t and then decided to not play in the game.
Report from the new job, Day 2.
I got up bright and early for the 1 hour drive to North Las Vegas to get a photo badge at 7am. They gave me a no-clearance badge instead of L. Oh well; we can fix that later.
Then I went to IT to get my badge set up for computer access. But their system is down, so I can’t get computer access. Or a computer. Or do anything.
I’m due to meet my boss at 1 pm but in the meantime I’m in the lobby twiddling my thumbs. Maybe I can do a walk-in at the company clinic (we have to do a baseline physical before we start work).
I could be sleeping…
Do you at least get good vibes from the environment, even if they’ve been having issues today?
Yeah, everyone is friendly and helpful. They just can’t force the system online.
Yesterday the CEO joined the batch of new hires over WebEx during our orientation. He said all the official “right things” about COVID policies but is clearly over it and anxious to get us all back into regular work environments. He specifically cited the hallway conversations and water cooler brainstorming we are missing out on.
He said that they’d already been doing very well on the Covid handling (not one known case of transmission at work) but then the “new administration” had set some new rules in place for Federal facilities (“I’m not being negative!” He insisted) that had set us back several months now.