Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a wonderful day it always is!
Supreme Court Strikes Down proper cause New York concealed carry restrictions
15 Senate Republicans help pass unconstitutional red flag law
Liz Cheney Is Begging Democrats To Save Her Career In Upcoming Wyoming Primary
Investigators: Pelosi Responsible For Jan. 6 Security Breakdown At U.S. Capitol
Nancy Pelosi’s husband charged in DUI case
You’ll have to go full Volcker if you want to bring inflation back to 1-2%, and that would bring down the entire House of Cards.
Joe Biden flashes official cheat sheet: ‘YOU take YOUR seat’
SCOTUS sides with inmate who wants to die by firing squad
Richest Man in Illinois Moves Business From Chicago to Miami Amid Crime Concerns
Netflix Massacre: 300 Employees Axed in Largest Layoff Since Subscriber Downturn
Lowell High School returns to merit-based admissions
Vermont Dad Attempts To Take Out Troopers With Excavator As They Arrest His Son, Police Say
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Supreme Court Strikes Down proper cause New York concealed carry restrictions”
It didn’t go far enough, but it is at least movement in the right direction.
The caterwauling from the usual suspects is completely over the top. If they strike down RVW, I think Olbermann is going to stroke out.
Inshallah.
“15 Senate Republicans help pass unconstitutional red flag law”
Useless assholes.
I wonder how long we have to wait for SCOTUS to slap that down.
7-10 years seems to be the norm and why the people that keep doing it feel it is worth the hassle since it will not stand once challenged…
crazy to think that even if the senate was 100% republican, there would apparently be major support (albeit under 50%) for massive expansion of federal gun control laws.
Republican Senators and Representatives, even those from red states, do not live like the average GOP voter. The country-club Republican is a dying breed, but not among Congresspeople.
This is my next article, which I am drafting now.
“15 Senate Republicans help pass unconstitutional red flag law”
Fuck these traitors to my 2A rights.
The problem with red flag laws is that they also violate the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and possibly the Eighth Amendments.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/billofrights
Every time these kind of laws are challenged in court, they get smacked down hard. But that doesn’t stop these assholes who supposedly took an oath to uphold the Constitution. I wish there was a way to recall a Senator for breaking that oath – particularly the ones in long seats like Graham and Cornyn.
“Liz Cheney Is Begging Democrats To Save Her Career In Upcoming Wyoming Primary”
She should just switch parties since she is a fucking statist cunte, and the trend now is that republicans that do that shit are losing because people have had enough.
Assuming Republicans would switch back to voting for her in the general? I’d vote for anyone, Democrat, down-ticket party, or write-in, before voting for her. Same for the 15 traitors mentioned above.
“Democrat party’s gestapo raids Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, GOP officials, staffers in multiple states in ‘alternate electors’ investigation”
Remember that celebrity video after Trump won asking electors to vote for Hillary?
The people that told us Trump was an authoritarian/totalitarian hell bent on destroying our democracy, are the ones that used the Obama admin years to weaponized the unaccountable and unelected government bureaucracy, and are using that corrupted machine now to go after their political enemies. There is a lesson for all of us here to pick up on about how the very people that accuse Trump and his people of wanting to destroy democracy (we are a fucking republic you idiots, get that right) because the MAGA crowd questioned an election that clearly has some seriously non-standard things that we now are punished for even asking about, now are again engaging in absolutely banana republic shit to defend and safeguard democracy!
Fucking 1984 didn’t go far enough in showing how insane totalitarian asshats really are.
Ultimately, the democracy-republic distinction is irrelevant to the enemy. They are not that invested in the Roman republic vs. Athenian democracy distinction, and even if you pinned them down as being Athenians, so what? As far as they are concerned, the goal is to interject bureaucratic rule, that is to say rule by themselves, ratified as “the will of the people”, into every facet of life. They might even be opposed to Athenian democracy because it would be too wracked by the occasional populist revolt to truly empower the bureaucratic class.
“They might even be opposed to Athenian democracy because it would be too wracked by the occasional populist revolt to truly empower the bureaucratic class.”
Might? definitely. I was just going to say they are more akin to Platonists, in that sense they truly believe in a republic.
Speaking of bureaucratic rule, whatever came of that court ruling about the SEC being in violation because they cannot make laws, only Congress can?
I know the one you’re speaking of, can’t remember the name. If the court consistently held that line, that would be the most consequential ruling in a 70+/- years.
It is clear that Trump wanted to challenge the results LEGALLY (by using the alternate electors, court cases, and existing government functions) rather than ‘stage a coup’ or an ‘insurrection’. This is all bullshit. Arrest Al Gore while you’re at it.
“Lowell High School returns to merit-based admissions”
Wait a second! The idiots realized that a system that didn’t screen through some mechanism for access allowed unqualified people to be stuck in a situation where they would fail spectacularly and miserably?
The fight from the wokesters is against meritocracies. Credentialled asshats hate meritocracies, because everything serious requires competence, commitment, and working hard. These people know that while they are credentialed and lord that over others, they are abject failures and mediocre fucks that accomplish nothing of note or work. So the effort is to shift society from valuing results to just being impressed with the right credentialing.
Meritocracy and egalitarianism cannot coexist in equal measure. Much of the left understands this intuitively, and they correctly perceive meritocracy as an attempt to smuggle aristocracy (aristos = the best, the bravest, the noblest) under the guise of equality. One of these two things has to yield to the other. Merit, even if we define it more broadly than simply IQ (which is what most college entrance exams and similar tests measure), has never been and will never be uniformly distributed throughout the population. A meritocratic system has winners and losers and despite claims of “equality of opportunity” or similar, even a perfect meritocracy would have little use for the bottom half of the bell curves. To the Leninist left, this of course is opportunity. The right needs to be willing to deal with this reality or else they’ll have it violently shoved down their throats again and again.
You got it exactly wrong – a meritocracy is based on credentials. That’s how the term was originated and why it was derogatory. Every place where talent et al are displaced by someone waving the right piece of paper is a meritocracy. And just about every one of those places is a place that can’t evaluate people’s work to reward those who do better at the job, because the jobs themselves are mostly meaningless.
Meritocracy: A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement.
That doesn’t sound like credentials.
The word was originally coined derogatorily by a socialist, so quibbling about what it really means seems to be a bit beside the point.
(the link runneth over)
Oh sure, let’s just redefine words to suit us, particularly to mean the opposite of what was conveyed.
Hey, wait a minute…
If you mean the book that made the term popular, I’m pretty sure the stratification was based on IQ tests. Having a higher IQ gave you access to better education.
It works for the Ivies because academic performance there isn’t important, getting in is important. Some fields aren’t so degraded by affirmative action puffery. There’s not so much to degrade.
The white privilege is so strong at Lowell that my father failed out 75 years ago.
LOL @ cheatsheet.
Exhibit #1 in the 25th Amendment proceedings.
“Netflix Massacre: 300 Employees Axed in Largest Layoff Since Subscriber Downturn”
The only way to force these corporate entities to stop being political and cultural cudgels for the totalitarian left, is to hit them in the pocketbook. These corporate entities all have concluded that giving in to the left was how they got to avoid financial repercussions because the left simply was too focused on dealing with real life to waste time in the usual tactics used by the left to boycott. And then the other side decided what was good for the goose was good for the gander….
I am never happy about other people’s misfortune, but in this case I am happy the fuckers are getting kicked in the balls for being evil.
Netflix to laid-off employees: See that contract with the Obamas? You paid for that.
“You paid for that.”
To Miami? To avoid crime?
Huh.
They had a killer pamphlet campaign based on their past TV show history.
You know — good ad vice, so he took it.
booo
*narrows gaze*
They have better cocaine? The weather?
That’s unpossible, because Miami has “shall issue” while Chicago has strict gun control!!! So Chicago must be safer, all the wailing lefties say so!
I would ask if Miami crime is … concentrated in certain areas. In Chicago, that was the case for a long time, hence the yawning at high murder rates. However, the past 2 years has seen TEH CRIMEZ pop up everywhere – the Magnificent Mile, the Gold Coast, etc.
Nobody is safe, and those with easy mobility have started to flee.
Plus, if anything bad happens in Miami, Michael Westin and Sam Axe will sort it out in short order.
*kersplosions*
No love for Fiona?
+1 “should we shoot them?”
This appears (to me) to be a direct result of the Obama era push to build “affordable multifamily” housing in the suburbs. Something something thug out of the ghetto, something something ghetto out of the thug.
It hasn’t hit my part of town that I can tell, though what you could call “anti-social behaviour” is way up.
Yes, that. My experience is that it’s a rise in anti-social behavior more than violence. I’m not afraid of letting my wife take the kiddos out for a walk in the evening. I probably would recommend that she avoid the elementary school and park after it gets dark, though. Don’t want to surprise the taggers and vandals by accident.
“Vermont Dad Attempts To Take Out Troopers With Excavator As They Arrest His Son, Police Say”
I see material for some award winning TeeVee show….
Meh, didn’t even Heemeyer the thing.
Again, say what you really mean, motherfucker.
So you are saying you oppose federal gun laws?
I get your point, but why does NY state have to directly govern NY city when the latter has its own government? The need for states to be ruled by the “needs” of their largest cities seems to defeat the purpose of having the state as a separate entity.
That right there is why the forefathers created a republic with a bicameral congress…. And also why the left hates that all and wants to cancel the republic.
They have already canceled much of the original republic. Senators were originally chosen indirectly, now they are directly elected. The President was originally the supreme executive, now he can barely choose his own employees. The House was meant to have no more than 50,000 people per representative, now it has more than 750,000. States could have bicameralism with one house representing places instead of people, now they can’t. The Supreme Court was supposed to be “supreme” over the other federal courts, not over all 3 branches and all the states. The franchise was greatly limited, not just to “white male landowners” but just a subset thereof; now we are asymptotically chasing after the illusory “universal suffrage”. The purpose of a liberal arts education was to ground our future leaders in the same intellectual tradition as the founders; now entrants to the country’s most prestigious colleges can’t even read ancient texts and are encouraged to disrespect everything older than themselves. The principle of local sovereignty, once so strong that people considered themselves foremost citizens of the towns and states in which they were born, is open to so many caveats and qualifications that it has, mostly, ceased to exist; even just being an “American” is not as prestigious as being a “world citizen”. And so on.
Pining for the republic of yore is as much a lost cause as The South Will Rise Again.
God damn it, stop writing my article lol. *throws out draft*
You have to admit, he’s rolling this week.
Yup.
Don’t be discouraged. I enjoyed writing mine and I think it turned out well.
Yeah, but no one stole your thunder. 😉
Good comments, keep it up.
*flies Gadsden flag like some fly the Stars and Bars*
The principle of local sovereignty
Hahaha, yeah, tell that to Assange – who never set foot in U.S. territory but is being legally kidnapped to stand trial for something that is a crime only in U.S. territory.
The things on the left in each sentence are bygones.
That’s a damn good comment.
You’d be surprised how much the state controls NYC.
The roads, the subways, most bridges, it goes on and on.
And the city is nearly half the population of the state so guess why the state is stuck with assholes like Schumer and Cuomo.
Hochul is the rare exception but she’s governing exactly like one of those creatures.
I was going to go with “You’d be surprised how much NYC controls the state.”
That too.
Looks like there are going to be two tactics used:
1. “Sensitive areas,” like subway stations, school, libraries, nursing homes where guns are banned… plus a “buffer zone” so that all of NYC is covered under the ban.
2. Private business will need to opt in to allow CC on their premises.
2A) threaten liability suits against business that allow CC
They can’t come out and say “those people” *wink, wink* might arm themselves!!!
That’s exactly what it is and I wish someone would call them out on it.
I believe Justice Thomas did.
I think you’re right, but I had in mind someone that people might actually listen to. Say, a GOP candidate for Pres.
Might choose? They’ve had such a choice in place for decades and it still. doesnt. work.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10947483/Anguish-young-man-sex-organs-removed-NHS-regretted-day-SUES-NHS.html
He figured out too late that the big O ain’t coming back
He complains that doctors did not warn him of the drastic outcome of the body-altering surgery
We’re going to take your junk.
Ok.
Done.
Where’s my junk!
The reason so many people are leftists is that the ideology always gives you and out from being held personally responsible/accountable. Being able to blame others for you being a seriously stupid fuckup seems to be priority one for idiots.
That’s not just leftists. That is a big part of the appeal for the masses per The True Believer – being relieved of responsibility because someone else is making the decisions. When someone pines for a benevolent despot, they’re doing the same thing.
I think the concept of “benevolent despots” is also a leftist thing… Socialism can’t exist without it.
No, Pinochet is regarded as one.
Seriously. What’s more instinctive for a man than protecting his junk? And dudes voluntarily do this?! The piercing stuff is bad enough, but cutting, removing…
You’re desecrating yourself. I don’t get it.
The Mortification of the Flesh has been a thing for a long time.
Yeah, but these folks aren’t that kind of spiritual ascetic.
Even when not on “puberty blockers” (i.e. chemical castration), they’re often put on other “medications” like SSRIs. Adolescence and puberty is overdramatized and overscrutinized to the point of absurdity. Children are struck with fear about it, a reflection of their parents being fearful of it, which seems downstream of cultural attitudes about it. It is a very dysfunctional and dysgenic state of affairs, though not quite as new as some like to think. The current transgenderism wave is in no small part a product of a preexisting problem.
I think there’s a massive amplifying effect that happens when you get 500 pubescent kids locked together in a
prisonschool for 40+ hours a week. Besides them having to carve out a social hierarchy, they also have to navigate the boredom of the situation and deal with the BS that is puberty. And we wonder why they get so messed up around that age.Amen.
Ear piercings, circumcision. etc. All disgusting.
*leaps for cover*
I did my ears but that was my limit.
Long since disused.
The Big O: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_Od9CmTu0
I see the wise latinx is at the bottom this term with 58%.
“Vermont Dad Attempts To Take Out Troopers With Excavator As They Arrest His Son, Police Say”
Dude didnt even fuck-up the cop car. Not a scratch.
Now I have killdozer blue balls.
Thanks for digging into the story for us.
I dozed through the story, personally.
Were they not there because his son was a fucking suspect in some burglary cases? I am not sure anyone in this story was the good guy.
That should be a crime.
I can’t believe they didn’t ventilate him. I would have.
“You’ll have to go full Volcker if you want to bring inflation back to 1-2%, and that would bring down the entire House of Cards.”
I read about how unintuitive it was back in the 80s to the economic expert classes when the people that determined fiscal policy set in motion changes that encouraged investments – tax cuts, regulation cuts, and reduction of onerous government picking winners & losers – and more importantly, how baffled and concerned they were that it not only worked, but caused one of the most impressive post recession & stagflation growths in this country’s history. The people in charge KNOW what policies work to combat inflation. They just do not want them because they see having government having the final power to pick the winners & losers, the ability to mold and controlling society towards some agenda, as more important than providing an economic playing field that supports the American dream and the pursuit of said dream.
The real lesson of the Kung Flu lockdowns was that the expert class fucked us all over royally, and despite their usual woke shit about wanting to fix income inequality and their hate for corporations and the rich, knew what they were doing caused one of the most lopsided and evil transfers of wealth from the people they call the have-nots to themselves. This reset shit is happening. And it is evil. But they hope that most of the dunces that rally to their side will not realize they were played hard until it is too late.
“despite their usual woke shit about wanting to fix income inequality and their hate for corporations and the rich, knew what they were doing caused one of the most lopsided and evil transfers of wealth from the people they call the have-nots to themselves.”
That’s how I felt about the ’09 bank bailouts and screwing with the auto makers solely to favor their cronies in the unions. That I am more black pilled than not most days has a lot to do with seeing that and then seeing how the Tea Party movement was coopted by the sleezy Establishment Republicans to preserve the Uniparty Swamp. Trump’s term and all those shenanigans just hammered it home — and the Great Reset crap is just that they’re not even going to try to keep the mask on anymore.
If the market were to decide which businesses were successful, how do you expect Congress to make money with their insider trading schemes?
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surprised you didn’t get 5 today, I got 4 and you usually do better.
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https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/06/23/hand-ear-and-neck-tattoos-now-ok-for-soldiers-amid-recruiting-crunch/
Ouch. Big takeaway – army only at 40% enlisted recruiting goals for FY22 at end of Q3…
I’d rather they be understaffed than staffed with people who look like criminals. Hopefully this keeps us out of future wars and weakens the government.
I’m surprised that they don’t already let in face and neck tatts, based on the photos I’ve seen of current soldiers. No visible tattoos has long gone the way of the dodo.
Rural farm kids and southern boys don’t want to sign up for crt indoctrination?
^^^THIS^^^
^This right here. They’ve managed to alienate the people that were inclined to sign up in the first place.
Also usually the guys who usually show up in good physical condition and can already shoot. The types who often get selected for Recon, Ranger, and SF units.
usually
Really? I thought those southern boys were on the wrong side of the BMI scale, as in they ate it after finishing off another bucket of KFC.
Probably right on the shooting part.
Seriously, between the mandate purges, the clear going after “wrong think” and the complete cluster-F of the Afghanistan withdrawal — who exactly did they think would be signing up? They basically raised a middle finger to the parts of America that tends to send their kids to serve, and I can’t imagine those kids are going to enlist any time soon.
Now here is the question- does that hurt conservatives, the state generally, or the commies who instituted it all?
My gut says that it is a long-term win by the commies.
Probably. Part of me thinks in older days the type of kids who would have joined would have joined the Guard / some sort of militia out of patriotism. But you know the Guard has to dance to the tune of the Pentagon these days, so that’s out — and any militia that starts to form will almost certainly quickly have a run of “Hello fellow militiamen! Who wants to start an insurrection with me?” supposed recruits.
Honestly I think the only way this crap stops at this point is for Texas, Florida and some of the other border states to take control of their own borders, with their own state forces that they explicitly keep out of Fed control — that might keep them out of the DoD crapfest and set the stage to rein in the Fed. But I’m not holding my breath.
Florida already did that, kinda.
https://flsg.myflorida.com/
And TX has had their own state guard including naval militia for a while.
One of the things that got me to leave the guard was that the senior leadership desperately wanted to be coequal branch rather than a part time break in glass reserve. No comprehension what year long deployments (plus train ups) every 3-5 years does for a civilian career (which they really didn’t care about because getting stars was their goal). It’s great when you’re 25. Not so much when you’re 36.
That and little pissant shit like demanding proving your employer and employer contact info so they could communicate directly. Hey dipshits, chain of command flows both ways, you don’t know my work situation, don’t bypass me and decide what you think my civilian bosses should hear and when. That’s my job.
I halfway expect some outlaw biker gangs to have membership surges.
With today’s price of gasoline?!?
The Army hasn’t lowered standards
We’ve just redefined them to allow people to qualify who previously didn’t meet them.
Hahaha – Army to introduce new PT test for actual combat soldiers since the new improved unified PT test for all Army isn’t sufficient.
The Army might be on the cusp of yet another change to its new fitness test after lawmakers backed an effort to switch to job-specific standards.
I like the idea of CMF and MOS standards.
Is that 40% of the annual goal, or 40% of the Q3 milestone?
Sorry, way late but as I read the article it was 40% of the entire FY goals.
“CNN’s Don Lemon asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the commander-in-chief’s cognitive abilities earlier this month.
“Don, you’re asking me this question, Oh my gosh,” Jean-Pierre told Lemon.
“He’s the president of the United States. … This is not a question that we should be even asking,” she responded.”
TFW you’ve lost Don lemon.
“He’s the president of the United States. … This is not a question that we should be even asking,”
Yes, he’s nominally the most powerful man in the west… “has his brain turned into pudding” is exactly the question we should be asking, Sideshow Bob.
The avoidance of an answer is all the answer I need.
Correct. They know his brain is pudding, otherwise they wouldn’t need to write all that shit down.
“He’s the president of the United States. … This is not a question that we should be even asking,” she responded
Really? TMITE was asking it every day of the OMB administration.
“This is not a question that we should be even asking”
It was incessantly and disingenuously “asked” repeatedly by many people during the last President’s tenure, so it looks like fair game to me.
No, it was asserted, they didn’t bother to ask.
As usual, no principles at all among the government and media class.
“So you are refusing to answer?”
“Justice Elena Kagan wrote the opinion, voted 5-4, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett penning the dissent and joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch.
“This broadly authorizes suit against state officials for the deprivation of any rights secured by the Constitution,” Kagan said about the law, Section 1983, at issue.
Forbes reported that this would mark the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010.”
Naturally, misleading headline.
That is an interesting split. I would have thought Gorsuch would be on the other side. But really, I don’t think you have a right to choose your own adventure in the constitution… details of the case would probably dictate which way it ought to have gone. E.g. he may have the right to appeal his punishment, but not the right to pick his own.
Soon to come — plentiful lawsuits for Death by Snu Snu.
Exactly.
‘Nah, Judge, I want to serve my sentence in a different prison.’ Not sure it works that way?
I don’t know the details (and can’t be arsed to find out) but I could see an 8th amendment violation if the proposed method is “Cruel and Unusual”
Agreed, perhaps I didn’t word it well, that is exactly what I was trying to say. But I find it strange Gorsuch would be on the other side of that.
Uh-oh, they left don’t creep on prepubescent girls and don’t shit pants off the list.
“New York Gov. Kathy Hochul eyes special session to pass law that would make entire CITIES ‘sensitive locations’ like schools and stadiums so she can keep concealed-carry rules despite Supreme Court ruling
New York governor Kathy Hochul is looking for creative ways preserve restrictions against carrying a handgun in public after the US Supreme Court struck down key portions of the state’s gun-licensing and concealed carry laws.
State and New York City officials are zeroing in on specifying ‘sensitive locations’ where concealed weapons could be forbidden, including a concept that would essentially extend those zones to the entire metropolis.
Other options under consideration include adding new conditions to get a handgun permit, such as requiring weapons training.
Hochul, a Democrat, vowed to call the Democrat-led legislature back for a special session to pass new rules.
‘We have a whole lot of ideas,’ she said, adding that she discussed policy options Thursday with the mayors of the state’s six largest cities.
New York City mayor Eric Adams supported expressed support for Hocul’s efforts, saying ‘We cannot allow New York to become the Wild West.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10947109/NY-leaders-vow-new-gun-limits-Supreme-Court-ruling.html
The “Wild West” had way less crime.
Since time/place/manner restrictions are allowed, Hochul can decree that concealed carry is permitted, but only as long as the firearm is concealed in the rectum.
That bucktoothed bitch is a real piece of work, ditto Mayor Asshole.
Didn’t NYC essentially try to make the whole city a gun free zone and repealed the law when it looked like it was heading to SCOTUS?
yes. But doing it again after swearing not to buys them a few more years of bans.
I see a new sleight of hand coming: the Supreme Court decision is now retroactively responsible for the crime rate rising in NYC (and dozens of other places) despite that trend starting 2 years ago.
Putin’s Murder Hike in NYC. Seriously, hopefully you’ll see more “criminal killed by CC gun owner.”
Come now, you don’t think they’re actually going to start issuing permits or letting the hoi palloi carry, do you?
There’s talk of labelling whole cities “Sensitive Areas” despite the Bruen decision stating that there is no grounds to do so.
Part of me hopes they ignore the court’s decision. I mean, if that’s what we’re doing now, cool.
Why?
To highlight the current situation and potentially drive a smackdown.
Credibility lost. Let Texas or Tennessee ignore other decisions.
Straff – That does not seem to be beneficial to anyone.
db – Who’s going to provide said smackdown if the court rulings are toothless?
The Nazgûl got a few right lately. Good, but don’t forget the century and a half of BS they have done.
Well, I see it as two-pronged. Either the SCOTUS gets even harsher and more specific with their decisions to limit work-arounds, or as straff says–they lose credibility with the populace. Sometimes I think the only way out of this mess is for something to cause the scales to fall from the eyes of the general public and have them realize how screwed they are by the system we have.
Yes, DB, that is all that is left. You can’t make a slut a virgin again.
Sometimes I think the only way out of this mess is for something to cause the scales to fall from the eyes of the general public and have them realize how screwed they are by the system we have.
The problem is such a revelation doesn’t necessarily translate into positive outcomes, as my wife frequently points out. Despair, hopelessness, and anger at the red piller.
@Gustave: Yes, that’s how you get the French Revolution
Worse? How Could it get any worse?
Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah
“Yes, DB, that is all that is left. You can’t make a slut a virgin again.”
I think Madonna disagrees with you based on that song she had about virgins…
It’ll be an interesteing experiment in policy if that happens. One might expect to see a sharp difference in crime rates along the borders of no-carry areas and carry areas.
It’s not even an experiment. You already do.
Only if ‘CC gun owner’ wants to go to jail.
*Bernie nods in agreement*
This is why I firmly believe the Supremes should not always wait for a case to wend its way to them. When politicians pull crap like this right after a decision, come back out with a follow up opinion making it clear that “Hey — that’s crap too, knock it off you weasels.” The current New York City / State gets to keep yanking the Charlie Brown football away for 7 years until the next case makes it to the Court is just stupid.
Of course — NYS could just recall the moron…. and monkeys could fly out of my butt….
Constitutionally, the Court has original jurisdiction only in certain matters. In other matters, it has only appellate jurisdiction, which means it has to wait.
It would just take one out of state gun owner suing to give the Supremes original jurisdiction, no?
Nope. It’d have to be another State suing. I suppose they could sue to have New York recognise their carry permits…
The States themselves have to do that.
“The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;–to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;–to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;–to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;–to controversies between two or more states;–between a state and citizens of another state;-”
Not saying it would work that way, but reading the constitution certainly makes it seem that way.
Shouldn’t have cut off the quote as it reinforces me more…
“In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.”
Right, they have appellate jurisdiction over controversies between a state and another state’s citizens. Original jurisdiction is quite limited.
I read the next paragraph as “In all cases […] in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.”
the next line ” In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.” I think (?) makes that clear.
IANAL
That part of original jurisdiction has been interpreted to strictly mean when a state sues a citizen of another state. If the state is not the plaintiff, or the case is initially criminal and not civil, then original jurisdiction doesn’t apply.
Generally speaking, the Supreme Court prefers to exercise its appellate rather than original jurisdiction because it reduces the amount of work they have to do. A case received through the appeals process has had all of the relevant facts sussed out, and the only matter before the Supreme Court is thus the Constitutional controversy which only they can truly answer (according to their own self-image anyway). Whereas, a case received through original jurisdiction must essentially have its fact-finding process speedrun by a court-appointed official to get it to the same place they’re used to dealing with.
KB, maybe I’m misunderstanding what it means to be a party to a case, I always thought that included defendants.
I agree about what you’re saying in regards to how the court traditionally operates.
“‘Ready? Here we go’: Denise Richards, 51, launches her OWN OnlyFans page – days after ex-husband Charlie Sheen slammed her for letting their 18-year-old daughter Sami join the X-rated site”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10947111/Denise-Richards-joins-OnlyFans-days-18-year-old-daughter-Sami-signed-up.html
Winning?
lulz
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and gonorrhea*
Which one of them is which?
Charlie is just pissed that now he is going to have to subscribe.
“The bill would also prohibit romantic partners convicted of domestic abuse who are not married to their victims from getting firearms.”
No potential for abuse there.
That sounds like a restatement (without seeing the actual text) of the Lautenberg Amendment.
Historically people have been nothing but honest when it comes to their exes.
Haha! Thx for the good LOL.
“Cheese got it! US woman WINS the UK cheese rolling championships in 15 seconds after travelling 4,000 miles to take part in the competition”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10949349/American-woman-WINS-UK-cheese-rolling-championships-travelling-4-000-miles-part.html
USA, USA, USA!
Supreme Court Strikes Down proper cause New York concealed carry restrictions
We have to stack the court to save democracy.
If you’re an accelerationist the stack the court idea will give you wood. There’s be no surer and quicker way to end the US than by doing just that.
Eliminating the Electoral College might do it. Really, anything that locks in “largest population centers get to dictate to the entire rest of the country in perpetuity” is going to trigger it. There’d be zero reason for the non-urban parts of the country to stay in at that point.
“Netflix Massacre: 300 Employees Axed in Largest Layoff Since Subscriber Downturn”
That is a fairly small proportion (3%) sounds like they have far fewer employees than I thought… btu then they probably contract out most the actual production, so why the hell would they need so many people anyway?
The DEI department alone is probably about 1,000.
Yup, I doubt those were the ones even being axed.
“In San Francisco, Lowell High School has long been known as one of the most successful schools in the state, if not the nation. It produced a generation of gifted and talented students who were sought after by the country’s most prestigious colleges and universities. The school used a merit-based admissions process, selecting applicants who showed the most promise. Or at least they did until a couple of years ago when the social justice warriors on the school board scrapped the merit-based process and replaced it with a lottery system to be more “fair.” As we recently discussed, the failure rate at the school went through the roof, to the surprise of almost nobody.”
When are they going to stop attributing the success of the students to the teachers?
Seems like most of the results are due to the student body and little else.
Teachers can help facilitate success, they cannot create it.
Exactly. Good teachers help good students to achieve.
And good students isn’t necessarily the smartest, it is just those wanting to learn.
A good teacher can especially help a struggling good student.
Student body plus support at home/parental engagement/people that care about student performance.
Well in the minds of the meritocrats – the value is the credential, not the earning thereof.
I could bring up my safety rant again, which applies here, but I should get off my ass and write a real article about it.
Imagine the reaction if an official commission of the Russian government was drawing up plans to partition the United States. I’d be pleased, but the progs in charge would be talking nuclear war.
The US Government’s Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) holds a briefing on the “moral and strategic” necessity of partitioning Russia
I can’t tell if these people genuinely don’t conceive of nuclear weapons as a serious threat, or if they know something that we don’t.
When they are placing articles talking about how a limited nuclear war might be good for the environment suggests a certain amount of ignorance.
Fuck around and find out, I guess.
These are the people who imagine how an argument will go in their head. If only the other parties kept to the script.
I don’t argue with people in real life if I can avoid it because while I know I’m right, in my head I’m allowed to finish my argument, in meatspace, they just start shouting me down.
They get to fuck around. We get to find out.
Based on everything else they’ve been doing — I lean towards “Just that f’ing stupid”.
They know where the bunkers are.
Yep. They built them with the money they stole from you so they can hide in there when they inevitably push another nuclear power way too far.
I don’t think it’s a matter of being stupid. The Davos crowd openly talks about how the planet needs depopulation. Goading that “maniac” Putin into “starting it” “unprovoked” so they can still claim to be the good guys seems right in their wheel house.
Too stupid for words. Lunatic.
Good morning, Banjos!
And good morning to all of you.
I don’t think having a cheat sheet for presentations is terribly unusual, but that’s kind of sad. Karine Diversity Hire trying to run cover for him is pretty funny, though. She’s only marginally more aware than he is.
Red flag laws seem like a really good way to provoke some righteous violence.
Great song choice. Really missing the ’80s lately.
“Great song choice. Really missing the ’80s lately.”
You are going to like Mex’s Saturday article.
Sweet! Looking forward to it!
And with any luck it will mark the first day of the NHL off-season!
As reported by The New York Times, “In the last week, Wyoming Democrats have received mail from Ms. Cheney’s campaign with specific instructions on how to change their party affiliation to vote for her. Ms. Cheney’s campaign website now has a link to a form for changing parties.”
Seems one has a problem when she effectively joins the opposition party.
I thought she was expelled by the state party? How is she even on the primary ballot?
Does the state require party blessing for primary registration?
Ballot – Get enough signatures, and I think you are on. But I do not know WY law.
Registration is generally open, everywhere, to anyone who declares it. It stops you from voting in any other primary, so most party folks are not going to switch.
That gives me a sure-fire plan to win the governorship of NY.
I’ll start the “Trump is Hitler” party.
Sources close to the investigation exclusively tell The Post Millennial that the raid is part of the Biden DOJ’s probe into the “alternate electors” slated by multiple states in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
I look forward to our political persecution future.
‘future’
The GOP members found that Pelosi repeatedly failed to implement necessary improvements to the Capitol’s security system.
This has been known since J6, 2021.
Wanted to thank kbolino for your excellent article from the other day.
The point about alt right and libertarians “noticing” things is spot on. I’ve started to come around to the idea that culture is incredibly important for a free society to exist. I’m not so sure that a limited government can coexist with such a toxic culture.
It’s also a source of optimism to me. When I saw the blatant cheating on election night 2020, I was very concerned, but I think the culture is on its way to correcting itself and the government is starting to lose its grip.
We’ll see if I’m wrong.
Cheers.
I am reminded of the “thick” vs “thin” libertarianism debates of yore. At the time, I sided with “thin”. Now I feel so far to the other side that “thick” is insufficient.
Must have been before my time. What does that refer to?
AFAICR:
Thin libertarianism is “libertarianism only”: the Non-Aggression Principle, individual rights, and free-market economics.
Thick libertarianism is “libertarianism plus”: all of the above items, plus a “culture of liberty” which ensures the sustainability of these principles.
At the time, it is worth noting, it seemed (to me) like most of the thick side were progressives, i.e. those who felt that a focus on only individual rights might lead to a return of discrimination, segregation, etc. and so had to be tempered with a culture opposed to those things.
I should also clarify my post what I meant by “toxic” culture. What I meant is degenerative. Eroding the family and community, etc. An actual toxic culture is more like what pops up every 4 years during the election cycle, but has seemingly not gone into it’s normal hibernation since 2016.
I used to think that a degenerative culture could be compatible with small government. I’m now less sure, but not entirely convinced it’s impossible. It depends on how much of it is an invention of progressivism or merely a co-opting for power purposes by progressives.
The toxic culture of identity politics, class warfare, etc that normally only crops up during election cycles is, in my opinion a result of the government being so large and all encompassing. Every 4 years two political tribes (which very closely follow cultural lines) fight over who wields the largest government in the history of the world over the other.
I think the causality arrow points the other way. The divided culture demands a stronger government, so that the winning faction can dominate their opponents. Libertarians generally agree with civil rights, for example, but it took a massive government (not quite as massive as today, though) to make the modern civil rights regime happen. This is now considered a done deal, old-school segregation is long dead, but the precedent for the use of state power has definitively been set. The left is quite correct to believe that dismantling the state power which was wielded to crush segregation will lead to the growth of what they consider to be unacceptable things, even if their specific caricatures of what will happen, and where it will happen, may be off the mark. The right is also correct to believe that, similarly, if state power is diminished in its capacity to punish crime and police the boundaries of acceptable behavior, we’re going to see libertinism run amok. Now, maybe, both sides can accept to live in separate countries, as ironic as having the Trumpenreich and Weimar Redux right next to each other might be, but a single regime to rule them both will inherently have to pick a side.
I used to think that a degenerative culture could be compatible with small government. I’m now less sure, but not entirely convinced it’s impossible. It depends on how much of it is an invention of progressivism or merely a co-opting for power purposes by progressives.
Breitbart’s quote about politics being downstream of culture looms large.
I also think people’s answers to the question will vary wildly based on when they see the seeds of the decline being planted. Personally, I see the seeds being sown in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the plant sprouting leaves in the 60s and 70s, and now we’re getting the cultural harvest from the prog-fascist plant. Viewed from that lens, the political stuff is second order, at best. The culture is the driver.
“Now I feel so far to the other side that “thick” is insufficient.”
That’s what she said.
Seriously, I was on the ‘culture’ side before being a libertarian. So I’m almost coming at things from the opposite side… not to say that there is a role for government in shaping culture (that is largely how we got here anyway).
Thicc libertarianism?
Stop, I can only get so hard.
Joe Biden flashes official cheat sheet: ‘YOU take YOUR seat’
Now imagine if Trump was caught with something like this.
Lowell High School returns to merit-based admissions
Merit is muh-racisms.
The suspect’s parents attempted to hinder the arrest, and ultimately the suspect’s father menaced and attempted to assault the troopers using an excavator.
Way to dig yourself a deeper hole.
*narrows gaze*
Are you trying to dump on the efforts of parents to help their kids?
There is a difference between a helicopter and an excavator.
One can be made into a killdozer, the other is for throwing commies out of?
I just thought of a new aerial precision sport.
Helicopter parent – parents who hover over their kids making sure they never get in trouble
Excavator parent – parent who lets their kids learn from their mistakes but helps them dig of the hole they are stuck in
Did you just make that up? It’s quite good.
*scuffs toe of sneaker in dirt and mumbles thanks to Mrs. Caron my third grade teacher*
Yup. I did, but I can’t believe someone else hasn’t come up with it too.
Maybe I should get Mo to ghost write some parenting crap book and Tundra to do the book tour and just sit back and collect royalties?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Wow. What a fantastic story.
Thanks, Holiness!
Facebook? No thanks, I’ll stay in the darkness.
Asia was a great band. And they had those cool album covers.
*high five*
The whole was never as good as the parts.
The general problem with Super Bands. Or Sports teams sometimes. As good as they were, the Miami Heat didn’t dominate like was planned.
Those two hits though, nice.
I don’t know anything else they did.
Wildest Dreams — a cool piece describing a society falling apart from forever wars.
And the fall into totalitarianism
Only time will tell how their music holds up in the long run, but in the heat of the moment, they were a real hit.
I loved Asia, still do.
John Wetton was supposedly working on a project to remaster the first two albums (with the original lineup including Steve Howe as a major contributor). The idea was to bring it up to more modern standards of mixing and bring the bass range back to what it should have been. Tragically, he died in 2017 and I think the project hasn’t gone anywhere.
So, is SCOTUS supposed to “read the room” before giving opinions. Preet and other pulpable material on Twitter seem to think so.
They are supposed to consult the protestors in front of their houses.
It’s not intimidation if you believe you’re right. Something like that.
Your gif should be Fauci-Hitler breaking shit, Straff…
Also l, the “room” just saw the people who get to own and police the guns stand around for an hour while two dozen children get murdered.
Standing around would be an improvement.
I watched the cops tase parents, tackle one, and then form a line with hands on rifles ready to shoot any parents that tried to rescue their children. The same parents who were receiving phone calls from their children screaming and begging for help.
Each one of those cops needs to be tried as accessories to murder. My take is that only because many of the parents were illegal immigrants, and thus presumably unarmed, prevented a pile of lead-filled bodies in blue at the entrance to the school.
One of the teachers who bled out called her cop husband to help. When he got there, the heroes stopped him and took his gun.
I wouldn’t wait for a fucking trial.
Yeah… there would be problems if that happened, especially because the system WILL NOT hold any of them personally accountable.
Haha. I love this message board.
The only objection to what I said was it wasn’t nearly harsh enough.
Not just the school district or local PD, it was federal marshals. Somehow they show up, organized, and do crowd control at a school shooting? Bizarre.
I’ve seen many comments here on the deterioration of rule-of-law in the U.S. and our new two-tiered legal system. It’s stupid and dangerous.
Respect for international law is going to the same way. That’s also stupid and exceedingly dangerous. Latest example is the the Lithuania / Russia Kaliningrad dispute. The formal treaty on closing passage is very specific about how to close down that passage.
Buy hey, who cares about treaties and diplomacy? Let’s just use force to get our way.
“Buy hey, who cares about treaties and diplomacy? Let’s just use force to get our way.”
So…kind of like invading Ukraine?
The Lithuanians:
1) Hate Russia for conquering/colonizing them more than once, and
2) are being squeezed by the EU and NATO – and they want to keep that sweet cash flowing more than anything else.
I’m going with 2.
You realize there’s an “and” in there, yes?
2, but that’s so very fucking dangerous. It’s almost as if NATO really wants war with Russia.
When you literally are a hammer, everything looks like a …
Sickle?
Nice
Thumb.
I see you too are a man of culture have done home improvement.
Exactly like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRDt2NWmlV4
The economic warfare has backfired on the west spectacularly and now NATO is blind with rage. They are desperate to get Russia to open another front to ease the pressure on Eastern Ukraine.
OT: saw your new homeowner travails in the late night post.
Can’t decide if this
https://youtu.be/8HK0MDsnL-I
or this (the before photos)
https://youtu.be/rZPv5UrvXko
is the right minds eye of the gardening.
Completely unrelated to the unrelated, just saw new Kraisy Kin Bahndo album in August.
is the proper mental image for your gardening adventures
That guy is the man. I’m already prepared to tap out after a week.
I’d love to have one of those micro excavators.
Gah, editing fail.
“International law” is getting revealed for what it always was, justification for more powerful states doing whatever they wanted.
Assange nods sadly.
““We do not believe that arresting people and convicting them for illegal gun possession is a viable strategy to reduce shootings,” a representative from Krasner’s office said in January, which, when you think about it for a moment, is fucking insane.”
https://twitter.com/Scrollletter/status/1540082373110517761
“Speaking of gun control, the upshot of Philly’s progressive DA refusing to prosecute illegal gun cases is that legal gun purchases have more than doubled and justified homicides shot up 67% last year.”
https://twitter.com/Jacob__Siegel/status/1540085465449222144
So they are for illegal guns, but against legal guns.
“Speaking of gun control, the upshot of Philly’s progressive DA refusing to prosecute illegal gun cases is that legal gun purchases have more than doubled and justified homicides shot up 67% last year.”
Winning.
A dead criminal cannot reoffend.
A dead criminal killed by their intended victim serves as a warning to other potential criminals.
legal gun purchases have more than doubled and justified homicides shot up 67% last year
And people say there’s no good news.
“The kind of people who desperately want to carry concealed weapons in public based on a “generalized interest in self-defense” are precisely the kind of paranoid, insecure, violence-fetishizing people who should not be able to carry concealed weapons in public.”
https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1539996166150037511
CWAA
Projection
Uffda. Some animals are more equal than others. Yes, of course the pigs are the best.
I’m sure Chauvin will also be getting out after a couple years.
“Brice Williams, aka Anastasia Diamond – a drag queen who recently has been working with youth- is charged with 25 counts of child pornography.
Brice is also a licensed social worker.”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1540133637839958016
My surprised face: 😐
^this.
I’m always a bit a suspicious or child pornography. It seems like such an easy crime to set someone up for, and I am suspicious of law enforcement in the country. And it’s on the back end victimless.
Now the photographer in the “very special episode” of Different Strokes seems like a different matter.
I’d add that pictures of 16 year olds is considered child porn. I don’t understand why we can’t differentiate pre vs post pubescent in regards to any sex crime.
*not condoning sex stuff with 16 year olds, just saying it’s a different thing than a 7 year old
Yeah that is a delicate subject to talk about, but there’s something to me deeply suspicious and arbitrary about so-called child pornography and it can ruin you for life.
From television, I imagine pre-puberty children and it’s disturbing to think about.
But is that really what it is most of the time?
I don’t like that they can ruin a teenage boy’s life for having nudes his girlfriend took and sent to him.
Side note: at my last house, way in the back corner of a closet, hidden really well in a nook, were polaroids from the late 80’s early 90’s. It was a girl playing with herself. No face. Could have been underage, who knows. I put them back for the next owner to find. Seems like something that should be passed along with the house.
Oh yeah. Of course. And that is actually the vast majority of cases. I hate that shit.
Doesn’t even need to be someone else. The way the law is written, anyone who has a nude picture of themselves prior to age 18 can be convicted. So that girlfriend is also going to jail, plus the added charge of distribution.
I think it boils down to the ability to consent to random weirdoes seeing you naked for all eternity.
I would fall on the ’16-year olds are not old enough to consent to that yet’ side, and thus criminalization. Assuming force is not utilized, age of victim would be something I would certainly consider at sentencing.
Even if they aren’t, it has the lowest recidivism rate of any crime and its sentence and other consequences seems disproportionately harsh given that fact. A 16 year old can be fully sexually mature and the cut off feels somewhat arbitrary. Furthermore, sexual behavior at that age is usually not unnatural or immoral so shouldn’t be too harshly punished.
I was under the impression it had a high recidivism rate.
Any age will be arbitrary. But I don’t think an open-ended inquiry into the sexual, mental and emotional maturity of someone is a good basis for criminal law. Its supposed to be a set of clear rules that an ordinary person can apply in the moment, which will always be somewhat arbitrary even in the best circumstances.
that is one of them far right fake news thingies I bet
While ending the Fed and going to free banking is obviously the best solution, Scott Sumner has me convinced that in a world with the Fed, NGDP growth targeting* is the far better means of operating, compared to whatever the hell it is the Fed is actually doing.
NGDP growth rate ~= RGDP growth rate + inflation rate (the approximation is that there is a cross term too, but with lower percent and low percent, that is small). One of the nifty things I learned from this is why people think deflation is a problem. It isn’t, which was always obvious to me, the problem is negative NGDP growth. If NGDP growth is positive, then deflation just means that RGDP is even stronger, which is a good thing. The problem is when you have deflation and a recession (or anemic real growth) at the same time.
Scott favors NGDP growth targeting about 4-5%, which would mean persistent inflation of about 2%. I would prefer target it at 2-3%, so inflation hovers around 0%.
Of course, refer back to the first line, free banking would be preferable.
*and as automated as possible
Your acronyms are mysterious.
GDP = GDP
N = naked
R = rowdy
N=nominal, R=Real.
Wouldn’t “real” GDP be inflation-adjusted and ex-federal borrowing?
Or we could nuke the FRS and have a money supply not subject to governmental tinkering.
Ummm…I mentioned that as best option twice.
Some NBA talk for Pie….
I can’t believe Minnesoda kid Chet Holmgren went so high. The couple times I saw him play this year, he was easily pushed around by other college players. He has no chance against the goons in the NBA.
On the other hand, I was pleasantly surprised by the T-Woofs picks. I like that they got a big bruiser to help on defense. They needed a big physical guy.
I can’t believe Minnesoda kid Chet Holmgren went so high.
He was 2 in every mock draft in the last year. Every one. So it was 0 surprise
I think he will do great. The first few game the opposing bigs will get paper cuts then will stay away from him
Actually mock drafts got very close this year unlike most years.
Tom Cruise is insane.
In a good way.
I once did a consulting gig with a company that managed all those big towers. They were trying to measure the movement of those towers in the wind so they could determine how much stuff they could safely hang on them. As part of that we got to view videos of people having to climb way up those towers to change bulbs.
A video of them climbing to the top of that building
That was the same gig where I learned about vortex shedding
The ground looks like a matte painting. I was ok until he climbed outside of the cupola.
My uncle used to change light bulbs on radio and TV towers. Didn’t think a thing about it. He did say that he was a little scared when he started doing it in NYC on top of skyscrapers . . . this was in the 70’s and he didn’t use a safety harness, just free climbed
Fuck that noise.
*chains self to ground*
Do you have any spare chain?
Most still don’t use harness’s, and free climb. They think, and I agree after having to use a Bucksqueeze to climb power poles, that it uses too much energy.
Yeah, don’t believe it. Neither his insurance nor the CoS would allow him to ditch the safety harness.
When we saw Maverick one of the trailers was for the new Mission Impossible movie.
Tom Cruise rides a motorcycle full speed off a cliff and jumps off.
It is the only trailer I’ve ever seen that made the crowd speechless.
The MI movies are dumb, but they are entertaining.
I know I’m weird, but dumb isn’t that entertaining to me.
My wife likes them and I know she really likes when I point out the dumb decisions and plot holes.
Rolling eyes = approval, right?
Didnt Citadel nearly go under shorting Gamestop? Are we sure he is still the richest man in Illinois?
Did Robinhood get its comuppance for its interference with the little people buying the price up on that? Or are they just as unscathed as ever?
I stopped following after a while, don’t know how it all ended.
GME seems to have settled in around $150. Which is huge compared to the less than $10 when everything started.
So what do y’all think? Roe going away? Will there be riots if it doesn’t?
Totally not domestic terror, though.
I am not Catholic, but my Lutheran church has been big on supporting two different crisis pregnancy places. I am armed, and I am a 10 minute walk or 2 minute drive away from the sanctuary and classrooms building.
my Lutheran church – HERETIC!!!!
True… but not as bad as a heathen.
I’m sure he has his reasons.
Here we go.
And if someone shows up with molotovs, you are too far away. I think 24 hour security would be in order for churches in urban areas for awhile.
They will burn and cities will say “We didn’t expect this level of peaceful protests”
Definitely maybe.
After fooling around for more than a week trying to figure out how to get a dumpster dropped at my house (the best quote, when I finally got one, was more than $350), I finally channeled my inner Fred Sanford and loaded up the truck with nasty disgusting carpet and took it to the Bannock County landfill yesterday. Dump fee: eight bucks. I spent more on gas getting it there and back. Another load later.
Dumpsters are nice because you don’t have to pick and choose what to throw away. You just keep going until it’s full or you can’t find anything worthless around the house.
But I guess your situation is different–moving in versus moving out or decluttering.
There is still one house on my street under construction, so I have access to a “free” dumpster for a little while longer.
“you can’t find anything worthless around the house.”
I dunno; I don’t think they want to find in-laws, spouses and/or kids tossed in the dumpster. That’s still illegal in all 57 states.
You need a burn barrel. I pulled up carpet in a couple rooms last year. Just cut it in strips and burned it, along with the padding. Just don’t breathe that shit in.
That seems like an incredibly bad idea.
At our old house I found a half-buried old burn pile that the previous owners had used to dispose of carpet when they remodeled the house. There was basically a solid lump of charred, melted plastic that had recognizable carpet-looking stuff sticking out the edges. It was so huge a lump it was almost unmoveable. I couldn’t cut it up or dig it up so I left it buried.
Stump grinder?
They did a poor job burning it then. I needed to dump a cup of gasoline, but the carpet and padding burnt right down to powdery ash.
Nah, everything flammable goes in the burn barrel that will fit. Hasn’t ever been a problem. Might rethink it if I had close neighbors.
Now I’m envisioning a burn barrel with a forced air system to increase what qualifies as ‘flammable’
My neighbor takes that qualification to the extreme. He runs a very small scale black market landfill for friends. Dumps a trailer load of whatever you got in a deep pit, throws a bunch of old tires on, and goodbye trash. Eventually even works down fire resistant drywall.
The Borough here claims burn barrels are only to be used for burning paper, plain cardboard and untreated wood.
So, being Alaskans, everyone hereabouts just says “fuck that shit” and burns whatever they want.
“Getting this glass to ignite has been a royal pain though”
I rented a 15 yard roll off last week – cheapest I could find was $300. Tore down my deck and got rid of a lot of junk – the convenience was worth the cost. And they didn’t fuck up my asphalt driveway in the process – rubber wheels.
It’s insurrection then.
“WE WILL NEED TO SHUT THIS COUNTRY DOWN”
Pro Abortion Protesters proclaim if Roe v Wade is overturned they will “rise up” and “shut this country down” outside of the Supreme Court here in DC |
@TPUSA
I keep mine regular. Healthy prostate and all that.
“REGULATE EJACULATIONS”
A Pro Choice Protester calls to “regulate ejaculations” in front of the Supreme Court here in DC |
@TPUSA
Bah. ENB says Jane’s Revenge is a hoax.
I saw recently ENB reproduced. I was really hoping she was one of those “I don’t want any children types” I can’t see her raising someone who is good for society.
Sigh, maybe we can all hope it sets her head straight.
You must be a dreamer.
He’s not the only one…
Worse, she gave birth to a boy.
Revenge of the death bed confession* Jane, or the remorseful Jane?
*Sounds like she is down to say anything.
Keep going lefties. Let’s see just how many seats they can lose next election.
REGULATE EJACULATIONS
AKA “Stop me before I fuck again!”
She only needs common sense turkey baster control if she wants to avoid pregnancy.
RIP George Carlin
“REGULATE EJACULATIONS”
31 reasons why you should never masturbate again:
https://twitter.com/TeriqQuitPorn/status/1537405638191595520
THREAD
Dobbs dropped. Alito authored, Roberts Concurrance.
No time to read through it at work.
Summary is – as per the leak, the bad precedent was overturned, abortion returns to the states.
Doesn’t go far enough, but I’ll take it.
My sentiment for several of these cases so far.
Honest question: How much further could they go than outright overturning Roe and Casey and declaring no federal role? I think the way they worded it even sets up a challenge to federal abortion laws.
Which one is that?
Abortion.
Great, now this will embolden all the pro-life people to riot because they’re so happy about it.
And freshly Armed!
*celebratory gunfire*
Burn burn burn burn
Actual hysterical shrieking outside the courthouse. These people are seriously damaged.
It is crazy to think they are shrieking because they are being called out on what they claim abortion isn’t for; contraception. I know not all, but that is the big portion of it. Everything in life you do has consequences and screwing every guy you meet and then going down to the clinic the morning (or a month) after is not the purpose of abortion, or at least, not its original purpose.
not its original purpose
the original purpose
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jH0O564vc0
Also included in the Cheney campaign literature are directions on how Democrats can obtain an absentee ballot, as well as the specific start and end dates for when voters can acquire and return said ballots.
“Voted absentee ballots must be received in the county clerk’s office by 7 p.m. on election night in order to be counted,” the campaign mailer says. “Ballots received after this deadline will not be counted.”
OMG voter suppression!
Right?! Sheesh, now what am I supposed to do with that fake postal stamp I bought.
Put it in your stamp collection?
I still say I should get a vote in US elections given the impact the US has on the world
Do you have enough money to buy the election? If not, you’ve got as much say as I do.
You probably can. Easily.
My holiday plans got screwed and this caused an weird indecision in me which led me to a decision I will probably regret as always. I envy people who do not regret every single thing they do.
You are going to go fight Scottish soccer hooligans?!!!!
On christian denominations, if your baby does not have a small but real change of death or serious injury during baptism it is the wrong one
By baby, you mean 12 year old, right?
😉
Hell, I got baptized at 24.
My old church in KY used to do an annual Sunday at a local park, including baptisms in the crick. Hypothermia was a real danger.
I don’t have the original source recorded, but this is from the diary of a Baptist minister in the eighteenth century:
“I once baptized twenty-six myself on a cold, freezing day-the ice cut about six inches thick where people stood close to the edge of the [ice]”
This, but he is right otherwise.
6 months or you are a heathen
How does an infant ask for baptism?
that why there are godparents to speak for the infant
So like how first birthday parties are for the parents.
Carl
@HistoryBoomer
Strange coincidence, my middle name is Normative Patriarchal Social Conditioning Bollocks.
https://twitter.com/HistoryBoomer/status/1540065450700292096
I still say I should get a vote in US elections given the impact the US has on the world
Sounds legit.
NBC piled right in with “half the states will ban abortion.” I doubt there will be five states that totally ban abortion for any reason at any time.
Unless the media has been lying to me, there are quite a few states with trigger laws on the books that will automatically go into effect.
Well, the media are known liars, so we can’t rule that out.
And an unknown (to me) number of states who still have their pre-Roe laws on the books.
Those laws place restrictions, but I don’t believe anyone has shadow-passed an outright ban.
The left as usual doesn’t want to have to have a serious discussion. By putting the issue back to the states candidates for state offices will all have to defend their positions- something the left has been happy to avoid for the most part since Roe.
Yes, the cognitive dissonance of “the majority of Americans support us” and “we’re going to lose in every state” is really quite a spectacle.
We want democracy! Oh wait…that means we have to deal with it at a local level? We want bureaucracy!
And half the states will give anyone who asks an all-expenses-paid abortion holiday.
So what’s their point?
It may be my imagination, but it’s almost as if women who are changing their names due to marriage are more pleasant to deal with than women who are changing their names due to divorce. 🤔
The freshly married are statistically more happy from their recent life events, the freshly divorced have had some reason for unhappiness.
Agreed, however there is also selection bias on the side of being good/nice people generally (someone wants you) for those just married and against those traits for those just divorced (you repel others or others repel you).
In order to get divorced, you have to first get married. Are you arguing that divorcees change from being good/nice to being repulsive at some point in the marriage? Or are you saying what I was saying that their emotional state impacts the way they interact with others?
I’m sure there is some emotional factor involved, but I would go further that there is real sorting.
Say: P(nice)=0.5 in never married set
P(nice)=0.75 in married set and
P(nice)=0.25 in divorced set
Your postulate is also possible. People change.
I won’t speak for wimmins, but when my divorce was final, I was pretty damn happy.
Then again I was 26, and my PDFF registered on the Richter Scale.
I was a mixed bag but as soon as that final decree was issued I did have some elation.
Reminds me of why I didn’t go into family or bankruptcy law. I don’t want my best day as a lawyer to still be the worst day of my client’s life.
That said, I did a pro bono clinic with a girl looking to get child support from baby daddy, and that was more impactful than a month’s worth of my day job.
Don’t call them crazy, that’s needlessly hurtful and it obfuscates the dire need to confiscate all privately owned firearms
Last month, the massacre at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 people dead was followed just days later by another massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in which 21 people — 19 of whom were young children — were murdered. This string of violence has many Americans wondering: Can mass murderers be stopped?
Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist and a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, has been researching this question since the 1980s, when he started examining stalkers who sometimes carried out violent attacks. Meloy published “The Psychopathic Mind,” a key text about aggressive behavior, in 1988. After the 9/11 attacks, Meloy expanded his research to examine terrorists who share some characteristics with other kinds of mass murderers and started working with the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI.
Meloy largely dismisses the common talking point, often touted by the NRA and its allies, that mass shootings are caused by individuals with mental disorders. Instead, Meloy focuses on how these mass murderers typically go down a predictable “pathway to violence” and the type of interventions that can sometimes derail them from carrying out a violent act.
They are the real victims. Stop shaming and vilifying them.
Can mass murderers be stopped?
Yes. By people armed and capable.
Huh. Minnesoda switched to a semi-closed primary in 2020.
Seems like Liz Cheney is courting election fraud to me.
Happy birthday to me!
I’m sore as heck because my wife has started running me through some of the fitness routines she teaches at her gym. I, being a sedentary lump, have spent the past few days popping ibuprofen to retain the range of motion in my elbows. My triceps are laughably weak, but I wasn’t gonna be a loser in front of my wife and give up. Thankfully, I know it’s only temporary and I’ll eventually get used to the exertion. This time it’s gonna stick. My Adkins-ish diet has become a habit, and this physical activity, besides sucking in the moment and for this first week, is already paying dividends in energy level and emotional state.
Happy birthday trashy!
And good on you for getting GlibFit. All upside, brother. Despite the DOMS.
I’m sore as heck because my wife has started running me through some of the fitness routines she teaches at her gym – is pegging involved?
Anyway happy birthday don’t eat cake it is bad for you drink scotch instead
Where’s my Birthday Cake?
Also comes in barrel aged variants.
It went into the burn barrel, sorry.
Happy brithday trashy! Keep on keepin on for sure!
Reminds me when my wife and I went to a 5k ‘beer run’. As we were jogging a pregnant lady ran past me…I couldn’t accept I would be lazy and I ran with her the rest of the way. We had a great conversation during that run. My wife asked at the end “you just couldn’t see yourself get outrun by a pregnant lady could you?” Nope, not at all, it means I wasn’t pushing myself.
LOL, I was the “pregnant lady” at the 5k we did a couple weeks back. I had the 19 month old strapped to my back, and there were quite a few walkers who picked up their pace and tried to keep up with me when I passed them. They weren’t happy about the fat guy with 40 lbs strapped to his back outpacing them.
Happy birthday, trshy! 😃 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIRrmNN_CQ
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday sir!
Happy birthday and good health to you!
Happy Birthday!
I wasn’t sure where that was going. Haha. Happy bday!
Happy Birthday, trash monster!
I think I’ll go out and buy myself a S&W 642 in your honor today.
Hang in there, Trash. It only gets better.
“Supreme Court OVERRULES Roe v. Wade 6-3 saying the ‘Constitution does not confer a right to abortion’: Ends nearly 50 years of constitutional protection for terminations”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10949577/Supreme-Court-reverse-Roe-TODAY.html
Today is going to be an insane day.
There were exactly 0 years of constitutional protection of abortions.
There were 50 years of presumed court protection.
At least that headline called it ‘constitutional protection’ and not a right. All the other articles are written that the court ripped out a right.
Abortion NEVER had “constitutional protection”; it had protection made up out of whole cloth by a previous set of justices. The current court properly found that the constitution has nothing to say on the matter.
More importantly and will be the bigger issue, all other cases that relied on Roe v. Wade that found that protection and/or ‘right’ will be in question.
I am not sure this is a strategically good decision… irrespective of what the constitution says
I would prefer we make constitutional decisions rather than strategic ones. Strategic gets us luke warm wimpy ass decisions or outright lack of standing because justices are ‘afraid to affect blah blah blah’
Dred Scott was a strategic decision, to pre-empt the issue. We can see how well that worked.
that was like ages ago man it doesn’t even like count
until the constitution gets proper wrecked… though this is inevitable anyways
The constitution was wrecked in the 1930s. Any shred we can claw back is a win.
It’s a pre-med terms gift to the DNC.
Mid
Except, the average living voter cares more about other problems right now.
I am not so sure. If we didn’t have inflation, gas-prices thru the roof, rolling food shortages, etc, I would agree. People right now are more concerned that they aren’t going to blow through whatever savings they have to pay for living and less worried about the gnashing of abortion.
Or what UnCiv said
All true. I guess what I’m saying it’s the one thing that might galvanize democrat voters into turning out at the polls…or give the DNC cover when the election results are “fortified” again.
And it could, but could galvanize the other base too. It’s going to be ugly either way
give the DNC cover when the election results are “fortified” again
They don’t need the cover. Nobody with any power to stop them is going to ask any questions. The elections are a conquered institution and playing politics to try to sway an unbiased election is like playing a rigged card game and expecting to come out ahead.
^This.
I’m pretty sure single-issue abortion voters vote in every single election, regardless. I doubt it will move the needle much.
The bigger concern is that the squawking in the Dem-Op Media Bubble will influence Republicans, who also marinate in that crap.
6-3? I assumed 5-4. BBC tells me it was “along ideological lines.” Who knew there were 6 conservatives on the court.
Roberts had a squishy concurrance, but because it was marked as a concurrance, it was 6-3.
Euphemism?
What do you bet Roberts wanted to vote to retain RvW, but didn’t think a 5-4 vote was good for the country? (A 6-3 vote putting it on firmer ground in some sense.)
Today is going to be an insane day.
I expect an entire weekend of <violent riots and vandalism fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
Lunchtime, let’s see what’s going on…. OMG.
It’s a Wasps nest
https://twitter.com/JaneyGodley/status/1540089560394235904
BERGEN: What are the most ridiculous things people tend to say after a school shooting or a terrorist attack?
MELOY: When people claim that it is all about mental disorder, that sets my teeth on edge. If you say it’s about mental disorder, how do you then account for the millions of people in the United States who struggle with mental disorders and are not violent?
OLE!
all mental disorders are identical. it is known.
Timeloose: If you say it is about the guns, how do you account for the millions of lawful gun owners who don’t shoot up a school?
Since when has evil been a mental condition?
The left doesn’t believe in moral failings, so it’s always mental problems.
As usual with the left – it’s projection.
They still have unforgiveable sins, like racism.
Helluva religion – all sin, no redemption.
How do YOU account for the HUNDREDS of millions of guns that don’t suddenly stand up and begin spraying bullets?
Ammo shortage.
There is no shortage, just high prices.
There is a shortage when I have to go to multiple locations to find someplace that has it in stock and often don’t find any.
Oh, the whole no shipping to NYS thing?
I wonder how long it will take to get that to court.
The movement along the pathway to violence with its different stages is typically the same, whether it’s a terrorist or a school shooter, and along the way, one of the most fascinating things is these individuals will engage in “leakage,” which is communication to a third party of the intent to attack. And in one study, we saw that more than half of the time, the individual told a third party what they were planning to do.
What frustrates me is that there is a continuous failure of many individuals to take “leakage” seriously and report it to some authority. They often hear a person articulating their violent intent, and they minimize it or deny that they actually heard what they heard, and then they don’t report it. And then a horrible event unfolds. That for me is always very difficult to see repeated again and again as these attacks unfold and to see events such as those in Buffalo and Uvalde, where these killers were troubled and made a number of warning behaviors prior to their attacks, and there was little or nothing done to try to stop them from doing what they were about to do.
However, there are also people who engage in “leakage” who don’t carry out an attack. So you’ve got this paradox that is sometimes very difficult for the public to understand. I worry about complacency, and that even affects people like me who are looking at these cases all the time. You might think: “Well, here’s another case of leakage where there was actually no intent to carry out the attack.” But you just don’t know that. What that means operationally is you have to investigate every case of leakage.
See something, say something.
It’s better to chemically castrate a thousand confused malcontents than risk letting one school shooter go undetected.
What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?
Western experts are blinded by vested interests
https://unherd.com/2022/06/what-happened-to-the-lab-leak-hypothesis/
The WHO has not only said that it was likely a lab leak, they think they know the incident when it happened.
And have known for a long time. Which didn’t stop them from lying about it until recently.
Elsewhere in that interview, the “violence expert” talks about “triggering events”. Things which are so humiliating and idiosyncratically outrageous they make a person want to lash out at the world.
I wonder where a court-ordered mental health intervention and forced treatment might fit into that model.
Question for you lawyer types on here: If you get red-flagged, can you pass a background check afterwards? Also, would you have to answer in the affirmative on a 4473 where it asks something like “have you have ever been adjudicated … “?
If so, it would seem like you would never get your arms back or ever be allowed to purchase another.
You answered your own question
It isn’t an adjudication since it is ex-parte – though that is a real bit of legal hair-splitting. I seem to recall that the model for red-flag is it either has to be renewed or it expires, so as long as the order is in effect, you’re screwed. But once it is over, you should be good. I wouldn’t care to be the test case for that.
caveat: the only thing lawyerly about me is my current avatar
I’m not sure if the initial ex parte finding is an “adjudication”, but it is typically followed by a “real” hearing where I think the burden is on the gun owner. That hearing may well count as an adjudication, but I don’t think the issue is really “adjudication as a mental defective”, so it shouldn’t count. However, it invites “process as punishment”, that’s for sure.
To your second question, almost certainly no. An adjudication of mental fitness is a court proceeding. If you’ve been adjudicated mentally incompetent, you’ll know it.
Lol still melting down.
I’ll man screams at clouds. News at 11
*gets the popcorn ready*
Should we go do a welfare check on the cucks at Reason?
Time to stop day drinking. HAHA!
There’s no Reason to go and shoot them.
Because courts are where we do democracy.
Is the Roe decision an electoral gift to the Demos? Are there really that many people for whom this is likely to be a vote changer? Will it bring the Anybody-but-[your Democrat here] voter back into the loving embrace of the Party?
I certainly don’t know.
At best, it’s a turnout motivator. Those who have strong opinions are already aligned with the respective party that supports their opinion.
Personally, I’m not exactly a single issue voter, but I will not vote for anybody who is pro-choice, even if they’re otherwise in alignment with me.
If you cant afford to drive to the protest, what’s your priority?
Not sure it moves the needle much. While there is a lot of crying on Twitter by the far left progs, we know they were voting anyway. The few protests I’ve seen, pretty small turnouts.
The same poll also found Cheney trailing Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman ahead of the state’s upcoming primary, with Hageman holding a 28-point lead over Cheney (56 to 28 percent).
🙂
The Bee was ready: Roe V. Wade Aborted In 198th Trimester
Somebody put some thought into that one, and had it teed up for a while.
This weekend a friend told me he was watching the January 6 reality show on TV and he was afraid for democracy in the U.S. Now he’s ashamed of his country for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Hey man, now you can put democracy into action in your own part of the country and vote on the issue, instead of the issue being the domain of the courts. I know that doesn’t allow your tribe dominion over far away backwaters, but still…
As always, I politely decline these discussions.
January 6th was an attack on democracy.
Letting states vote on abortion is…also an attack on democracy.
“afraid for democracy in the U.S”
What a pussy! A bunch of unarmed protesters running around the capital building makes him believe our government was close to being overthrown? This argument from snowflake progressives kills me.
I bet Thomas has never forgotten the shit Joe pulled during his confirmation.
“Website blocked: Extremism”
You guys are going to get me fired.
Wonder if I can get a wrongful termination settlement.
Yikes. I don’t click anything on my work machine. Helps to WFH.
I picked friday as an office day because it’s bound to be quiet.
We’re only at 50% remote (though that has now become the permanant policy)
This is a goofy crypto site*: https://bowtiedisland.com/
It was blocked at work for pornography. I am still employed with no awkward conversations for now (this was 2 months ago or so)
*I promise, but maybe don’t test at work
Post win fallout:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/06/24/cancelled-lawyers-who-won-major-gun-rights-case-forced-out-of-firm-n1607750
Stand up a new firm, poach from the old firm any talent or clients who are not raging leftists.
Nice business you have there, would be a pity if you couldn’t access your assets
/bank
But it doesn’t have the Kirkland name!! 1!
/prestige whore lawyers 🙄🙄🙄
I’m reminded of the Bee: Anglicans – Kirkland brand Catholics.
Kirkland name. Can’t help it:
https://youtu.be/sdNmOOq6T8Y?t=38
I was speculating about how lucrative civil suits on behalf of people declined for permits in NY and NJ would be. Sounds like an opportunity.
Looks like they already did.
Cancel culture isn’t real.
Jones Day did the same thing. They had been hired by Trump for election contests, and then dumped him. I’m pretty sure it was a set-up the whole time. Part of the widespread “fortification” conspiracy.
Assume a can opener
Siemens Energy and Air Liquide have announced plans to set up a joint venture focused on the production of “industrial scale renewable hydrogen electrolyzers in Europe.”
The move, announced on Thursday, represents the latest attempt to find a way to drive “renewable” or “green” hydrogen production costs down and make the sector competitive.
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Described by the International Energy Agency as a “versatile energy carrier,” hydrogen has a diverse range of applications and can be deployed in a wide range of industries.
It can be produced in a number of ways. One method includes using electrolysis, with an electric current splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen.
If the electricity used in this process comes from a renewable source such as wind or solar then some call it “green” or “renewable” hydrogen. Today, the vast majority of hydrogen generation is based on fossil fuels.
In Oct. 2021, Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch spoke of the challenges facing the green hydrogen sector. On Thursday, he stressed the importance of scale and collaboration going forward.
“To make green hydrogen competitive, we need serially produced, low-cost, scalable electrolyzers,” Bruch said in a statement. “We also need strong partnerships,” Bruch added.
Just as long as there are enough subsidies to go around.
They also need a way to transport it in bulk, and to store it in sufficient quantity for practical use. Both of those are extraordinarily difficult and expensive.
Its another green scam.
Nonsense! The Europeans have a great history of storing and transporting hydrogen!
Oh the humidity!
Own the lucidity!
Blame the static-isty!
Happy day. Between Roe v Wade getting aborted and The Wild West getting restarted, the proggie screeching and cognitive dissonance is wonderful.
We’re going to need plenty more fainting couches and waaambulances though.
Michael Malice
@michaelmalice
I still consider myself pro-choice but not as much as I consider myself to be pro-anguish
I’m chuckling.
Any particular reason?
What a weird week of an incoherent government on a whole. Coordinated same day FBI raids on republican operatives while the Supreme Court makes some decent decisions.