Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a fine day it always is!
Man drives through a Christmas parade, killing at least 5 and injuring 40.
Biden Admin Quietly Authorizes Largest Oil Lease Sale In US History Despite Campaign Promise
JPMorgan to pay $60 million to settle precious metals spoofing lawsuit
GoFundMe reverses ban on Kyle Rittenhouse fundraisers after acquittal
That’s all I got for this morning. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Why do I try to stay up > 24 hours to try to reset my sleep schedule? It only works if I stick to it, whcih I can’t do on a workday because it’s harder to stay awake then.
You’re a government-sector worker. Isn’t sleeping on the job par for the course?
Only if you’re high enough on the food chain to have an office wit ha door that locks.
The media’s relentless efforts to start a race war seem to be paying off.
Based on this I am gonna say you are 99.999% likely to be right about that claim of yours…
He was just turning his life around, and wanted to make a statement of contrition to the people of Waukesha by joining the parade but his gas pedal got stuck.
How much you wanna bet that when we find out that he did this because of the media lies about Rittenhouse’s case and his belief Kyle killed brothers, the media will not own any of those lies, but blame Kyle & Trump?
He loves his momma.
released from jail two days prior to the incident after posting a $1,000 bail … He has a history of … bail jumping
Jeez, that’s quite a list.
“You said ‘rape’ twice.”
“I like rape.”
Why is someone with a bail-jumping charge out on bail? Unless it was that bail he had jumped.
Very meta.
Where’s the systemic racism?
He is one of those black faces of white supremacy…
This is a tricky case to use as an example that it’s not there.
He did posses a firearm illegally, so that is a problem he will have to content with (Kyle didn’t BTW, and that was why the charge was dropped by the judge). But they didn’t accuse Coffee of being guilty for defending himself from a bunch of assholes breaking into his home at night unannounced.
Right, but the state is still using everything it can to lock this guy up for 30 years. He in theory would have caught this charge even if he had never used it and the cops found him with it.
Of course the state is doing that – he shot at the State’s men! And you can bet they are all pissed that his claim of self defense against COPS was allowed to stand. Chaos and anarchy are hammering on the door.
Fuck no-knock raids.
Bless the War on Drugs.
We can argue about the fact that as someone convicted of crimes, his right to firearms was removed rightly (or wrongly), but the law today says he shouldn’t have had it, and that’s that. About the ONLY argument for depriving someone of the right to bare arms I would grudgingly allow, would be people convicted of felony crimes, especially crimes involving the use of firearms, and then regardless of if they serve their time or not. Once you commit a crime then my sympathy towards you is gone. Not sorry.
The system didn’t fuck him over by allowing cops to claim he shouldn’t be able to defend himself from people that break into his home (lawman or otherwise) and that’s a good thing considering how evil these prosecutors motivated by politics are in general.
Not to be a dick, but–define “crime.”
It’s hard not to be a criminal these days, because as we all know, the law is convoluted and can and will be twisted in any way that suits those in power.
Excessive bingo wings?
“Not to be a dick, but–define “crime.””
Thought I had. Felony or a felony using a firearm. You know. Rape (women or kids), robbery, assault, car jacking, domestic abuse that puts people in the hospital, that sort of shit. I am not talking about some stupid fucking kid arrested with a bag of weed or some douchebag that was speeding down the road (unless he looks for a parade and runs people over).
Yep. Four felony convictions and in possession of drugs. I don’t agree with the law on prohibited possession, but this cat was about as prohibited as you can get.
I’ll go ahead and say it, I’m a little skeptical of Coffee’s self defense claim. But, twelve good men and true get the final say on that one.
Like the people shot by KR – wouldn’t have been a problem is they themselves hadn’t been where they were (and doing what they were doing). So same with the cops here. No, it is not their rightful job to conduct smash-and-grab searches or arrests in the middle of the night. Willing to bet that this raid was about as legit as the Houston narcotics raid that killed two innocent people.
Fuck no-knock shit. You break into my house unannounced and I am setting off the Claymores I have. on my property. Deal with it.
This wasn’t a no-knock raid. Reading the article, it appears that the cops never even got inside the house before the shooting.
This wasn’t a no-knock raid.
Wut
“I don’t understand why the Administration is hiding behind the order of one judge while that decision is under appeal and the law grants the Secretary of the Interior all the authority needed to stop this,” Patton said, according to the Globe. “Frankly, I’m enraged.”
Sometimes political and financial reality kick you in the dick.
Love the Dem cold feet – oh wait, people don’t want to pay more for energy all in the name of climate change? Who knew?
The morons that fall for the stupid and evil shit peddled by the mandarinate really believe they can wish away laws of economic, human behavior, and reality in general, in pursuit of their idea of forcing their version of what should pass for justice on the universe. That they take it in the ass and leave piles of bodies every time they do this shit never dissuades them.
After reading these links, I’m in a better mood for some reason. Thanks Banjos!
That’s wild. I usually feel a bit worse. But maybe I scan for outrage too often.
Good riddance to Goldberg. I don’t know that other guy.
*back to the first fire of the week that needs my attention ?*
Hayes is another asshole that just like Goldberg pretends they are not fucking evil statists from the right, but really are.
Hayes isn’t much different than Goldberg. An inside the Beltway “conservative” who has never had a real job in his life. Used to write for the Weekly Standard. His job is pretend to be conservative while attacking anyone to the right of Mitt Romney.
Goldberg’s reference to Buckley purging the Birchers makes laugh and laugh. In retrospect, the Birchers were correct about everything and Buckley’s parlor-talk conservatism has conserved absolutely nothing.
Oh puh-lease. The Birchers were not correct about anything.
The rot in this country is not some infectious agent from malicious sources – it is purely organic and internal. We’ve prospered our way into decadence. Hell, in that sense, Marx was right – the seeds of destruction were built into the system. He had the mechanism all wrong – it wasn’t immiseration, it was boredom that would bring doom.
That’s a bold and overly broad statement.
They were cranks about communism. The SPLC is the same fucking thing with regard to racism/hate.
But were the Birchers sincere, as opposed to the Morris Dees Lifestyle Enrichment Fund?
I mean, except that the KGB was running influence operations in the US since the end of WWII, with the explicit and documented intent of damaging American society to make it more susceptible to a Communist takeover. The Verona papers were very clear on this.
You can argue over how successful these operations were, but there’s no question that they existed.
The KGB owned a Congressman BEFORE WWII.
It will be interesting for future generations to read our declassified Cold War materials, and see if the claims of beating Communism had any bearing on the actual collapse.
These days its the CCP that owns a swath of them..
The Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower administrations were NOT awash with Soviet backed agents?
I don’t presume that their spies were all that much better than our spies. Awash? No, I wouldn’t accept that. Presence, sure, just as we had ours in theirs.
I think the mistake is assuming that our spies had our best interests at heart and not their own agenda.
The leadership of every 3 letter agency in this country was corrupted by the Obama appointees that changed the priority from just the stuff they felt was important to the state to the stuff that was important to the new version of the state that would pick the winners & losers that Obama had in mind (fascism/communism). At this point there is no cleaning that up. These people have totally subsumed these agencies and corrupted them in favor of the globalist leftist movement/agenda.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the man who nudged FDR to give the Soviets the equipment they needed to repel the Germans was KGB or Soviet bought
I think the question of whether the genesis of our self-destruction was from the outside or not is largely moot.
A significant percentage of the populace is fully on-board with the insanity. We’re making more of them every year using our federally funded educational system.
If there’s a corrupting influence to be named, it is our federal government. There will be no reform or restoration until it is gone.
And our education system is a german “plot”, so, yeah, an argument can be made for outside influence.
Hell, that goes back to Fichte in the late 18th century. At that point, we may as well go back kill Plato in his crib.
Fucking Greeks.
Some is American bred desire for Communism but some is actual foreigners who try to destroy America. Some is sheeple who succum to propaganda and a horribly inadequate education system. Some just want to join a commie cult.
Not only have intel services of adversaries infiltrated American institutions and culture but intel services of Israel, England, etc.
Then you have Canadians like seth rogan and michael moore who get rich off Americans while simultaneously advocating the destruction of American successes like the constitution.
Then you have foreign interests that want to clip American economic power at the knees.
America is a target.
“GoFundMe reverses ban on Kyle Rittenhouse fundraisers after acquittal”
I still hope he sues them and makes a mint. Their policies are not enforced equally when Antifa criminals can fundraise before they get a verdict while he couldn’t.
Not gonna happen. In fact, they’ll be emboldened to continue since nobody has bothered to find and use less prog-fascist alternatives.
“Biden Admin Quietly Authorizes Largest Oil Lease Sale In US History Despite Campaign Promise”
Yeah, they now are seeing the writing on the wall and desperately trying to find some quick fix that will let them skate by the next election before going back to doing a lot more of the same. Note also that they are emptying the reserve at a time where us tax payers will now be made to pay premium dollars to refill it, not because of a national emergency (unless you consider a politically and evil motivated campaign to force prices up so you can justify stealing tax payer lucre for green energy shit), but in a panic after your evil fucking plans fuck the people you claim to care for – the unwashed poors – in the ass and turn them politically against you.
Fucking grifters.
Lots of snowplows out and about today. It hasn’t snowed, it’s not snowing, it’s not predicted to snow, and it’s above 40 degrees. I guess their contract says they start getting paid now so their management demands they DO SOMETHIUNG?
Local NPR story was about an animal hoarder. At first I believed it, but when they said that eighty animals she kept in he house included cats, chickens, ducks, turkeys and Hate Birds, the Birds that Hate, I knew it couldn’t be true.
8 animals makes a hoarder? Yeah, that sounds like real serious bullshit…
I don’t even consider a lady with cats a cat lady until she has at leas 10 of them…
If you’re under 40 and single it only takes 3 cats to be a cat lady.
I thought that was the standard for Millenials or Gen-Xers.. Kids today…
GET OFF MY LAWN!
Under 40 is Millenials and Gen Xers.
Not Xers. Gen Z or whatever.
They all look the same to me (with a few exceptions): Too stupid to know they know shit.
eighty.
But even one Hate Bird would be impossible to keep in a house and survive.
The new plantation.
Thanks for that.
I watched the 30 second clip of Carlson’s interview with Rittenhouse. It’s of course edited, but he’s well spoken and poised. He says the case “was never about race” and that he “support[s] the BLM movement” and calls out prosecutorial misconduct in that context in many other cases than his.
If those 2 prosecutors don’t face legal action then despite this verdict, the system of justice in this country remains at risk. What they did when they knew they had no case is not just shameful, but despicable. As someone that understood the need for the death penalty, after seeing these fucking assholes at work, I now would never trust the state with that power (or any other power). If people like this are not punished for abusing the system then the system will eventually be subverted to their evil causes.
+ 1 Reasonable Doubt
Well, consider the prosecutor in the case I linked above – wanting the absolute maximum sentence on the gun charge after the acquittal on murder. Is that particularly reasonable and defensible?
Prosecutors seeking the maximum sentence is not really that unusual, you know.
He wouldn’t have cared about the gun charge except it was the only thing he was left with.
I am against the death penalty, but I would make an exception for its application to agents of the state.
Hi Preet!
“With great power, comes great
responsibilityaccountability”Prosecutors always do that shit. The difference is that it was televised for all of conservative America to see.
?
Let’s see if the lesson sticks.
Putting my money on Gell Mann amnesia.
Maybe he supports BLM. More importantly to him, he doesn’t want a Federal trial, so he’s saying all the things his lawyers tell him to say.
A federal trial would be such a flagrant abuse of power. I don’t see how anyone could support that and still live under the illusion that we have rule of law.
I guess on civil rights violations? But that might be a stretch enough to break that law completely.
If you believe rule of law means the leftist marxist/fascist cabal gets its way, then you would support this federal shit despite the obvious fact that you know it is a travesty of real justice. The people pissed about this verdict might be talking about racial issues, but the real anger is towards the fact that the court was not able to send the message to the people that would refuse to bend the knee to the marxist/fascist shock troops the left likes to deploy to force people to bend the knee, that if they fought back, THEY would be punished.
This shitshow was not about justice of any kind, at all, but totally about the left wanting to make sure ANYBODY not on their side was made to understand that there was no right to resist the evil shit the left was/is doing hoping people just sign away all their freedoms to a totalitarian state for the promise of security from the helscape they created in the first place.
When the hellscape comes to your suburban Christmas parade there seems to be no escape. Activist DA’s and bail reform have done a lot of damage.
All by design. The agenda right now is to leave the little people – of all races and backgrounds – terrorized and in fear so the state can offer them a way out if they just give up all their (and other people’s) rights & freedoms to the state…
Some of us suspect we are not living under the rule of law; at least the sort of law before which everyone is equal.
We are not. We are living under the rule of men, as it has been for almost all of human history.
I think I recall he was on record supporting BLM even before the fateful night–social media posts of his or something.
Man drives through a Christmas parade, killing at least 5 and injuring 40.
I also hate Christmas before Thanksgiving, but won’t go that far.
It’s Wisconsin. You have to have the parade a month early, while the roads are still passable.
I hate dancing grandmothers but would never go that far.
And I love dancing with grandmothers so it all evens out. One day, one day, we all wake up and the grannies are our new sex symbols. Getting old is not for sissies.
What if I told you that they were twerking grannies?
#stopchristianhate
RE: “Rittenhouse” CVS video
I’m sure it’s been discussed here at some point, but the left was throwing it around this weekend as evidence of guilt. This is the video where looters are at a CVS and someone who sounds like Kyle says he wishes he had his rifle to shoot at them.
1. Prosecution never revealed the source of the video correct? Hence why it was not admitted as evidence?
2. Rittenhouse’s cell phone was examined and nothing came off of it?
3. Video was taken 2 weeks before Blake/Rittenhouse shootings. Where was this CVS that was being looted?
4. It does sound like Kyle, but video seems to be bullshit.
Is my understanding of the video correct?
I mean that sounds horribly unconvincing. But if there were such a video and it was believable he’d be convicted.
I don’t see how such a video would be evidence of anything other than a prosecutor practicing mind-reading.
Plus if they somehow got the judge to approve, the defense should be allowed to introduce the backgrounds of all the assailants.
Which is why we’re only interested in the facts as they pertain to the specific incident, and not lots of extraneous ‘character’ stuff.
Doesn’t meet the standard to be entered as evidence into a trial, but good enough to poison the narrative to try to get people riled up about it
The enemies of the state must be dealt with. At this point there is no saving the FBI. We should make sure the rank & file knows that the excuse “We just did what we were ordered to do” didn’t work at Nuremberg either.
They’re everything people talked about the KGB being.
It’s like the James O’Keefe raid/arrest – they only thing they were missing was hooding him before dragging him out.
The FBI needs to be pulled out and destroyed – root and stem.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/11/if_the_vaccines_work_why_arent_they_working.html
Take them anyway says our overlords.
Heh.
GoFundMe reverses ban on Kyle Rittenhouse fundraisers after acquittal
That was mighty white of them.
Better news: GOA is giving Kyle a new AR15.
Per an email I got this morning.
Interesting; I presume he’ll move to a state where such a thing is permitted.
I wonder if Kyle went to, for instance, USCCA or another self defense legal services company and tried to buy their insurance, whether he would be accepted as a client after all this?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he never wants to touch another gun.
Agree.
It’s quite possible, but based on the extremely limited information I have about his emotional composure under stress, he doesn’t seem to be the type to have a reaction like that.
But PTSD does weird things to people.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1462755954399735808
Is it wrong to want this?
This is the astronomical equivalent of the BBC AR15 chainsaw bayonet infographic. Not even the correct order of magnitude in mass, not vaguely the correct orbital path.
But other than being false in every particular, it could totally happen.
https://tinyurl.com/2f9kz24c
“Now, righting the ship is an academic question,” said Goldberg. “The ‘Patriot Purge’ thing meant: OK, we hit the iceberg now, and I can’t do the rationalizations anymore.”
Hayes, editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Weekly Standard, worried that the documentary could lead people into believing “that there’s a domestic war on terror and it’s coming for half of the country.”
It’s supposed to be a surprise when the knock at the door comes.
Fuck Goldberg and the donkey he rode in on…
I guess they’re blissfully unaware of what the FBI has been up to lately, along with the Democrats’ farcical show-trials.
Or maybe they’re just lying cunts.
Goldberg boarded the Never Trump train back in 2016 and never jumped off.
He may as well be a member of the kid-diddling Lincoln Project.
…he’s not?
It’s supposed to be a surprise when the knock at the door comes.
^This
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
GOA is giving Kyle a new AR15.
The “Let’s Go Brandon” model, I hope.
I wouldn’t want to have any political slogans engraved/printed on a weapon I used for self defense…
Unless you happen to be a ‘roided up cop, itching to murder someone. Then you’re golden.
https://twitter.com/VyceVictus/status/956261379132084227/photo/2
Interestingly, that is exactly the case I had in mind…
GOA can afford something better than PSA.
Mammary Monday wants to rate your dick (which is apparently a thing? https://www.menshealth.com/trending-news/a19535662/penis-rating-job/)
https://archive.md/IRRCs
*glances thru mens health website*
That’s worse than Cosmopolitan used to be.
Well, it’s better than flashing women hoping for a good review.
Zappa weighs in on ratings
NSFW, probably
Schools really are full of rapists!
Damn, either you school age Vikes like to rape a lot, or call anything and everything a rape.
Masks are the burkas of today. Rapists are discriminatory, you know.
At least five people have been killed and 40 injured – including at least 12 children – after a speeding SUV plowed into a Christmas parade in suburban town near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Sunday.
Serves them right for holding a Christmas parade before Thanksgiving. ///jk
Supposedly there is a black on white racial angle on this one. I await apologies from Joyless Reid and co. for inciting such violence.
TMITE. They seem like they can barely contain their glee. Let’s see how this attack is handled. I mean, they still talk about Charlottesville like it happened yesterday.
This may be the only time that worthless shit keeps her mouth shut.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Joy Reid apology or you’ll be the next casualty.
He’ll just be labeled as the latest “black face of white supremacy”. The leftist cunts have no moral compass, no honesty, and no shame.
I fully expect to get an online video message from our firm’s CEO, explaining how our company has fully embraced DEI and how they are saddened by this act of religious (and possibly racial) bigotry, and how they will be forming a new safe-space team for any employees or their allies that need to hash this thing out without the prying eyes of their inherently biased colleagues.
I’ve seen lots of reactions of “it was just self defense. That’s what we’re going with right?”
The Biden administration auctioned off over 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil drilling Wednesday despite a campaign promise to ban new oil and gas leasing, the Boston Globe reported.
The gov’t owns the Gulf of Mexico?
The most expensive item over the first half-decade of President Joe Biden’s climate and social spending legislation is a tax cut for the wealthy
I have it on good authority that the Democrats are the party of the people.
This is how you attack the 1% – you soften them up first.
GoFundMe reverses ban on Kyle Rittenhouse fundraisers after acquittal
How convenient.
As son as the DoJ files federal charges against Rittenhouse, GFM will pull any fundraisers again.
“Whether it’s ‘Patriot Purge’ or anti-vax stuff, I don’t want it in my name, and I want to call it out and criticize it,” Goldberg said. “I don’t want to feel like I am betraying a trust that I had by being a Fox News contributor. And I also don’t want to be accused of not really pulling the punches. And then this was just an untenable tension for me.”
“Betrayal of a sacred trust”?
Oh, please. You’re a dancing monkey who’s just mad at the organ grinder.
With any luck, he’ll vax himself to death.
“anti-vax stuff”
From whom? Or does he really mean “anti vax mandates“?
And is he really so childish that he can’t accept sharing a desktop with someone who might have different ideas from him?
(Don’t answer that.)
In his name? I thought it was Fox News, not Jonah Goldberg’s News.
Never Trumpers Jonah Goldberg, Stephen Hayes Quit Fox News in Protest of Tucker Carlson’s January 6 Documentary
Well…bye.
Not the briar patch! No anything but that!!!
Rate my dick? Then what?
Sneak into the ladies’ room at a posh hotel and publish the review?
Yes?
It’s JFK Day.
Will there be weepy tributes?
Calling it LBJ Day would be more apropos.
It’s Loving Blowjob Day?
I call that Friday.
My opponent fucks sheep!
Just Fucking Kidding?
FYI – Today is the deadline for federal workers to be vaccinated
TW: NPR
Oh ya..forgot about that. Interestingly the narrative is still ‘get vaccinated’, but is heavier on just the ‘attestation’ portion on your status. Apparently, there are people that don’t even want to do that and I don’t blame them. They are probably the ones with retirement dates close enough where discipline actions won’t affect them.
I saw a headline pass my feed that the Biden administration was going to announce they were at 95% compliance. I couldn’t be bothered to click through to the story, but I’d be willing to wager that at no point do they provide a source for the 95% compliance number.
Unless they go after their pension.
We let people with a lack of candor or FWA discipline ride out their days and retire and people in FedGov know those well because of the lack of firings we have had in the past. I am sure if anyone retiring in the next couple of months got their pensions pulled with no congressional oversight…wouldn’t go over well.
The people retiring that I know of out in the field (about 15 people) are just taking this road cause they feel the culture has changed from the mission to DEI and the mandate and want to go out quietly.
I got an email from my boss today. Boss was supposed to upload our RE’s and ME’s to a SharePoint today. Still no idea on process.
Triggered.
The University of Warwick in the West Midlands region of England first officially introduced trigger warnings in classes in 2019 to prepare students for supposedly upsetting or offensive content. However, the school still received several complaints from students surrounding material within drama and literature courses.
In response, Warwick scrapped the phrase “trigger warning” for being too “provocative” in itself. A freedom of information request from the Mail on Sunday uncovered the new guidance, which has updated the warnings to be referred to as “content notes”.
“Trigger warnings are now referred to as ‘content notes’ due to the word ‘trigger’ being itself a provocative word,” the university guidance said.
One such ‘content note’ states: “Studying literature necessarily involves confronting particular ideas, words and experiences that you might find offensive, upsetting, or disturbing. All of the modules you take in the department will involve material that can be difficult for some people, even traumatic.”
It must be exhausting to be so easily offended.
I find trigger warnings triggering regardless of terminology. I’ll live though.
Guessing they won’t be doing a version of The Producers.
I can’t help myself
Considering that Elon Musk’s suggestions for a carbon tax were rejected by the Biden administration for being “too politically difficult,” the fact that Tesla was not invited to the White House’s EV summit earlier this year, the President’s rewriting of modern auto history by giving GM credit for the current EV transition, and the fact that the both Biden and his VP seems adamant not to even mention the word “Tesla” online, Elon Musk opted to poke fun at the White House’s ongoing snub. In a recent post on Twitter, Musk joked that the White House’s leadership might actually be NPCs (non-player characters), so the word “Tesla” may simply be outside their dialogue tree.
In a follow-up comment, Musk playfully urged his followers to see if everyone could get the US President and Vice President to say the word “Tesla.” This suggestion inspired numerous responses on Twitter and other social media platforms, with some EV supporters noting that it would be interesting to have numerous Teslas conduct a drive to Washington. Other suggestions were more humorous, with some noting that Musk should personally invite Biden to Giga Texas’ opening ceremony, and if the President ignores the invitation, the Tesla CEO should simply have a life-sized cardboard cut-out of the politician “attend” the event instead.
It would explain a lot.
Musk believes we are living in a simulation and he has plans to become the universe’s overlord in a robot body.
My boss’s boss owns a Tesla Model S, and loves to brag about it. Given his politics, though, it has to grate on him a bit that Musk is so uppity with regard to the Biden admin. If he even notices; he is quite resistant to recognizing anything he disagrees with.
‘People don’t want to share spaces with the
JewsUnvaccinated’One such ‘content note’ states: “Studying literature necessarily involves confronting particular ideas, words and experiences that you might find offensive, upsetting, or disturbing. All of the modules you take in the department will involve material that can be difficult for some people, even traumatic.”
Good morning class. Welcome to “Patriarchal Stereotypes and Gender Oppression in the ‘Dick and Jane’ Beginning Readers’ Series.” If we have time, we will also attempt to explore the exploitation and species-based slavery imposed on Spot.
I’m in no hurry to go back to my office in NYC. (I realize this is both a weekend and early morning.)
New York man stabbed to death on subway train in ‘unprovoked’ attack: police
Not dead, but deceased. Is this some NY legal thing?
‘E’s bleedin demised!
Used up my apostrophe quota, apparently.
Is Bernard Goetz still around? /also not going back to office any time soon.
I’ve mentioned him on some work conference calls. I’m rather sure my younger coworkers have no idea who he is.
I’m sure they also don’t know this Colin Ferguson either.
That asshole caused my Black Talons to leave the market AND foisted Carolynn McCarthy upon us as a crusading congresscritter.
I remember both. Black Talons were pricey and I never really saw the advantage over (before the boating accident) use of hydrashoks.
The People’s Republic of NJ also doesn’t like hollow points although they are legal in a very narrow way here. So (once again before the boating accident) I gave up and have loaded FMJ so as to have one less charge against me after defending myself at home.
The People’s Republic of NJ also doesn’t like hollow points although they are legal in a very narrow way here.
I went to Atlantic City with a LEO buddy from VA about a decade ago. He packed his service pistol but made damn sure there were no hollow points. Apparently even the King’s Men (at least the out of state ones) have trouble with hollow points in NJ.
I imagine the wound cavities would be quite similar and the advantage conferred by the blades was largely marketing. I shot my way through a box of them in .45ACP but put them through stacks of wet phone books. The expanded round is quite pretty, so I glued wee magnets to the base of the bullets and use them to pin things to the fridge.
I carry Hydra-Shoks in my semi-autos. My one informal test of the load was simple: I fired a few .45ACP Hydra-Shoks at a couple of metal paint cans filled with water and re-sealed. The impact was pretty impressive, so I figure they’ll work for my self-defense needs.
Still using hard-cast Keith-type SWCs with a gas check in my sixguns.
I used to carry Hydra-Shoks in my 1911s until I read this: https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/self-defense-ammo-ballistic-tests/#45ACP
I prefer the Rmington Golden Sabers (230 gr) now.
But my daily carry gun is a Kimber Micro 9 in which I have Hornady FTX 115 gr ammo now.
Yeah, there’s been a couple of other ballistic test reports that show the Hydrashoks are not as effective as current duty ammo. I swapped out to Speer Gold Dot myself.
He got this gun grabber into Congress.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_McCarthy
I didn’t remember his name but I remember both the LIRR shootings and McCarthy.
He has ceased to be! He’s expired and gone to meet his maker! He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed him to the platform he’d be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He’s off the twig! He’s kicked the bucket, He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! This is an ex-New York man!
Beto the Faux Latino meets a real Latino.
That was pretty good,
Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump, Hayes, Goldberg and the rest of the NeverTrumpers miss a real and significant fact. Trump revealed a reality that conservatives (and, yes, libertarians) would be absolutely stupid to ignore – many of America’s institutions are dominated by a New Class leadership that is largely hostile to a broad segment of the American public and indifferent to the adverse consequences of their policies on that broad segment of the public. My supposition is that the NeverTrumpers miss that reality because they’re part of that New Class leadership, or at least imagine themselves to be. Any attempt to “right the ship” that tries to sweep that factor under the rug or convince people to ignore it is necessarily going to be a failure.
Yep. You can see it in some of the slogans of the red pilled conservatives. “the media is the enemy of the people” (I still claim parallel construction on that one… I’ve been on that beat since high school), “they hate you and want you dead”, “it isn’t a tolerance movement, it’s an anti-[white, Christian, male, conservative, American, etc.] movement”, “there is no political solution”.
The “far-right” is awake to the fact that we’re not in a business as usual political cycle here.
Look at the “Lincoln Project” for the purest expression of that weaseliness.
From David Brooks (TW: The Atlantic… and David Brooks):
The Terrifying Future of the American Right
Brooks can shove his “compassionate conservatism” up his lily-white ass. All his brand of Republicanism has brought is endless war and apologias for the tyrannical left.
Well that future is terrifying, for a credentialed conservative.
“They thought liberals and conservatives both want what’s best for America, disagreeing only on how to get there.”
That illusion was shattered for me after the 2012 Presidential Election. Mitt Romney who is a milquetoast Republican and would have probably compromised with the Democrat’s whenever given the chance was made out to be the worst person ever. These people want to dominate and reshape society in their own image and anyone who deviates from the plan or attempts to stop them must be destroyed.
Look at COVID. They are willing to lock you in your homes, force you to choose between your job or getting the shot and make your life as difficult as possible if you don’t bend the knee. Brooks need to get a fucking clue but won’t because he thinks that he’s part of the club when in reality he’s only a tool to create the illusion of being deferential towards the opposition.
They are part of the credentialed elite, and to be able to attend the nice parties in DC, they have to agree with what that credentialed elite class wants, or else they are disinvited for caring about the proles that don’t live in Panem….
If one is good, two are better, and so on…
Former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said Sunday on “Face the Nation” that he thinks “at some point” Americans who received the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines would be considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 after three doses, although likely “not this year.”
“I think eventually this will be considered the three-dose vaccine, but I would be hard-pressed to believe CDC is going to make that recommendation any time soon,” said Gottlieb.
He said the CDC is currently “sort of stuttering” on making that recommendation because of the “debate” in the public health community about whether younger people who are at a lower risk level to get COVID-19 should get a third dose.
Whatever it takes to get us to Zero Plague.
A daily pill. maybe?
The real question is how many loops they should use in the nooses for our public health caliphs.
Here’s a quick guide to how to get the most out of your daily vax pill.
This works better
Things are sprouting off in Brussels.
Europe descended into a third day of violent carnage on Sunday as tens of thousands of people in Belgium took to the streets to protest against the return of strict lockdown rules aimed at curbing a rise in Covid infections.
Nearly 40,000 people descended on the capital Brussels to protest against new anti-Covid measures banning the unvaccinated from entering restaurants and bars.
Some protesters were seen throwing projectiles at riot police and in response, officers fired water cannon and tear gas at the group. Police have made some arrests, but it is not immediately clear how many.
Video footage from Brussels shows a large group of protesters shouting at police as some light flares and throw them at the officers. One man can even be seen mooning at them.
The protests descended into chaos, with some of the protesters seen setting fires on the streets while others threw rocks through the windows of local businesses including a post office. Two police cars have also been damaged.
Pictured. (NSFW, probably)
I wonder how many of them are black bloc infiltrators. I really don’t see anti-mandate protestors throwing rocks through windows of local businesses.
It is Europe.
Yes, and the people who throw rocks in Europe are pretty exclusively antifa types. They don’t share any common cause with anti-mandate types.
It’s funny seeing all the masked protestors against coronavirus lockdowns.
Just a little irony.
Masks might serve a slightly different purpose in this instance.
I’ve held that masks were normalized last year prior to the summer of love protests to prevent easy identification for the most evil of agitators.
In this case, it’s being turned around on them, but I also suspect rhywun’s concerns are at play as well.
I bet a lot of Jan 6th “suspects” sitting in jail wish they had worn masks.
I had a similar thought last week when some of the folks on that Rekieta law feed were commenting on the potential Karen-ness of a mask-wearing juror during the Rittenhouse trial. I’d probably be concealing my identity to the extent possible too.
“Violent carnage” seems like a huge exaggeration. According to the article, a few cops were injured (probably minor, or they would have said otherwise), and a protester blew up his own hand with a firework.
Yeah, that clearly has a ways to go before it is mostly peaceful.
More:
Gottlieb also said some businesses may soon enforce a rule that a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine for employees or patrons to be considered fully vaccinated.
“I think in cases where entities are going to mandate three doses for people who are six months out from the second dose, they’re doing that because they’re using the vaccine as a way to control transmission and try to end this pandemic,” Gottlieb said.
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Gottlieb said “not inappropriate for businesses to mandate vaccines and certain businesses absolutely should be mandating vaccination in their workplaces,” and he said that in “settings where you have a lot of employees working very closely together, it’s hard to work in a masked environment in perpetuity.” But he said the fight over vaccine rules has become a “political fight at a national level.”
What a bunch of gibberish. And then he accuses “governors” of politicizing things.
He’s just an everyday, average guy: Supercut: People Call Biden What … Exactly?
These fucking people.
I can only laugh.
Call him Brandon.
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the interesting lynx. Lots of fuckery going on amongst our betters.
Speaking of fuckery, Is the documentary gonna cancel Tucker once and for all? Or will it get those poor bastards out of prison?
KYLE RITTENHOUSE -THEME SONG – LOZA ALEXANDER
Long term?
Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine provided strong long-term protection against the virus in a late-stage study conducted among adolescents aged 12 to 15 years.
A two-dose series of the vaccine was 100% effective against COVID-19, measured seven days through over four months after the second dose, the company said.
The long-term data will support planned submissions for full-regulatory approval of the vaccine in the age group in the United States and worldwide.
How the fuck can they pretend to have long term data for any of this stuff? It’s ridiculous.
The level of flagrance of the gaslighting is truly breathtaking.
So, presuming that’s true, why the need for boosters?
Oh, wait, Four Months is considered Long Term now.
Yeah, it doesn’t kill you in four months. World-wide mandates now, kthxbai.
I was in a grocery store last night and in between muzak selections a PSA came on to encourage people to get vaccinated. At the end it said, “This message brought to you by Pfizer, Inc.”
I can see their methodology now:
Vax group: out of 12,500 teens who received the vaccine, none died of COVID-19 in the following six months.
Left unsaid: out of 8,000 teens in the control group who didn’t receive the vaccine, none died of COVID-19 in the succeeding six months.
CONCLUSION: The vaccine is 100% effective among teens! Every teen should be required to get two (three, four, five…) doses!
Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?
Finished reading through the latest issue of Army. AUSA is the voice of the woke army. It always was a contractor fellation publication, but every other article now is highlighting divisivity and exclusion angles, and using them as blunt cudgels to support current narratives. Article on the Triple Nickels claims that the racist treatment they got (during WWII) was due in part to the training installation being named for a Confederate, and that racism was strictly a southern affectation of that era.
South Boston must’ve been a lot more southerly than previously known.
At least it’s not North Carolina!
Stupid autocorrect. Triple Nickles.
And here I was hoping it was an autocorrect for Triple Nipples.
That would really be WAC’ed.
Does each issue still contain a letter from a senior NCO, complaining about AR-670-1 violations he noticed in the pictures of the previous month’s issue?
I got in from PA at 1:30 AM. I am tired. I have a lot to catch-up on, including watching GlibFlick which I missed last week.
I floated with Sean and his girlfriend the possibility of a PA meet-up at the Oaks Gun Show. As we get closer, we’ll see if it works out for me to come down that weekend.
There is now a “LET’S GO BRANDON” sign up in the vicinity of the house in southeastern Pennsylvania that used to have a RON PAUL 2008 sign. The RON PAUL 2008 sign went up in 2008, and stayed up until about three or four years ago.
I have to get back to work. Yes Rufus, I work.
The kids know.
This little girl just karate blocked creepy Joe
They thought liberals and conservatives both want what’s best for America, disagreeing only on how to get there. But that’s not true, she believes.
At this point, I don’t think Brooks is writing for conservatives or libertarians so much as keeping his role as token conservative for New Class progressives. However you want to frame it, it’s pretty obvious that New Class progressives have achieved something roughly approximating hegemony over establishment institutions. And its equally clear that they’re taking an increasingly illiberal turn in pursuit of their agenda. Whether that’s out of malice or not, is largely a distinction without much of a difference.
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I don’t think Brooks is so stupid as to not understand what he is.
https://www.rt.com/news/540941-guadeloupe-france-covid19-protests/
Spicy.
Old school. That’s how the Spanish civil war got going.
There are more guns in private hands in Australia than there were before Aussie gun control passed. On the other hand, there are fewer gun owners than before gun control. Even so, people with less have done more. In addition to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, I can point to Guadeloupe too.
That’s quite the hot take.
After Sunday’s Christmas parade horror in Waukesha, Wisconsin, an Illinois Democrat appeared to portray the tragedy as a form of payback for Friday’s acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha.
“It was probably just self-defense,” read one of a series of mocking social media posts from Mary Lemanski, who is listed as the social media director for the Democratic Party in DuPage County, Illinois. …
“Living in Wisconsin, he probably felt threatened,” read another post attributed to Lemanski, referring to the SUV driver in the Waukesha case.
“I’m sure he didn’t want to hurt anyone,” she added. “He came to help people.”
The messages appeared to mock the self-defense argument that Rittenhouse and his defense team made during their recent trial – an argument with which a Wisconsin jury apparently agreed as they found the 18-year-old not guilty of murder in connection with two shooting deaths last year.
That person has undiagnosed mental illness.
Undiagnosed? I don’t think so – social media director for the Democratic Party.
Just… wow.
At this point, I don’t think Brooks is writing for conservatives or libertarians so much as keeping his role as token conservative for New Class progressives. However you want to frame it, it’s pretty obvious that New Class progressives have achieved something roughly approximating hegemony over establishment institutions. And its equally clear that they’re taking an increasingly illiberal turn in pursuit of their agenda. Whether that’s out of malice or not, is largely a distinction without much of a difference.
I have been thinking a lot, lately, about the concept of “style versus substance” as it relates to stated intentions versus concrete observed consequences. There is no limit to how wrong one can be, as long as that incompetence is carried off with style.
The overwhelming majority of current politics is a fan dance of stated intent used as a smokescreen to obscure obviously, inescapably, fantastically harmful effects, panicdemic theater being Exhibit A. This holds true for both sides.
Joe Biden is well on his way to being the most reviled president in history, but that’s a small price to pay for ridding the nation of Trump’s cartoon villainy.”We meant well” ought to be a laughably poor excuse for obvious catastrophic failure, but it seems to be amazingly effective, given the adamant emperor’s-new-clothes media reality distortion field.
Remember The Economist said no-one saw inflation coming.
Eric July said it was a bunch of idiots disguised as elites.
Does anyone have the link that someone posted here about the collapse of the Expert-ocracy?
It was linked right after the Bagram-Afghan withdrawal debacle and it used the Russian withdrawal as a stepping off point.
I can’t find the damn thing in my browser history, but boy, did it capture what’s happening right now.
We are being ruled by morons and people with mental illness. I’m not saying that as hyperbole.
Our “elites” are barely literate morons who repeat stock phrases and whatever the NewSpeak of the Day is while they loot from productive Americans.
Whitey Bulger and the Gambinos would never have even considered trying to steal like our kleptocracy does because it would have been impossible to sustain.
It might be this one. If not, it’s a pretty good read anyway…
https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/08/16/farewell-to-bourgeois-kings/
Thank you, BP!! That’s the one.
That’s a well written piece.
It’s amazing how the “elites” have no qualms about throwing away their credibility.
I told my wife once, “They don’t even pretend to care anymore”.
That person has undiagnosed mental illness.
She’s in politics. That, in itself is a mental illness.
There is no limit to how wrong one can be, as long as that incompetence is carried off with style.
Upon further consideration, I would like to edit that to, “as long as that incompetence is carried out in the properly approved style.”
By “properly improved style,” you mean with a D after your name and most of the media on your side”
JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Tesla’s Elon Musk Feud Behind the Scenes
“If JPM doesn’t withdraw their lawsuit, I will give them a one star review on Yelp,” Mr. Musk said in response to The Wall Street Journal. “This is my final warning!”
Excellent.
That lovable scamp!
😉
Hunter Biden helped a Chinese government-backed company purchase the world’s largest cobalt mine.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/20/hunter-bidens-firm-helped-china-get-electric-car-mineral-report/
I’m sure this had nothing to do with his father’s profession, nor his own overpriced art sales.
Hunter Biden funneled money…. Because that’s all he’s qualified to do.