Autumn Hillside (watercolor by SP)
One of the local wineries seems to have put us on the VIP list. This means trouble, and it will be worse when Spud gets here. Last night, I may, theoretically, have indulged a wee bit over my usual amount, and today I’m paying the price. But I can cook hangover food like a champ so… fuck, I’m tired.
But I need to keep moving to stay alive, so I’ll do my best. Birthdays are also on the move, and today’s include the prototypical cop shooting a kid; an example of when they did send us their best; the Krugnuts of his day; the guy who invented the hologram; the most delightful human to ever put on a football uniform; an exemplar of the banality of evil; a guy responsible for wasting even more readers’ time than Tom Clancy; an absolutely frightening lesbian; yet more banality of, well not evil, really, just banality; and a terrifically enthusiastic comic actor.
So that said, let’s see what Links bring us.
I favor Britt. I want her working hard on.. errr… for me.
Whiny tech-averse Boomer is whiny and tech-averse.
Hiding in the basement is a valid campaign strategy. Ask Brandon.
Eight shot, one killed. That’s pitiful. These boys need range time.
Old Guy Music is from a band that is my guilty pleasure. This is a live version so you can really appreciate the amazing guitar work.
FIRST?!
In a sense. Really, *I* am.
No, you are not. I’m the first RESPONDER. I help save the burning children in the orphan mining fire occurring 500ft below us all. Every day. I’m quite good at it. (I only started a couple of those blazes. Damn cigarettes.) I even bring my own ladder. (It’s difficult to wield on a bus. So many criminals can’t wait to get their hands on it. I persevere. We all elevate for my efforts.)
EEK! I’m gonna go OT, but I think with the time zone shift I’m in the clear. I have a driver to pick me up and help me to the check-in counter where I will be hooked up with wheelchair service. Flying to Detroit on Wednesday morning (my time). I’m getting out of here and everything is set.
I want to make these into a possible article, but I’m not sure how to do it. I write mini-essays on FB and save them for my own use. I’ve talked to Tonio about this. I’m not sure how we should proceed. Any observations, insight, or advice would be appreciated. I’ll just post some now to give you the idea.
I think there will be many people celebrating for you when your plane takes off.
Try to stay out of drama till then?
^^^ THIS
Depends. I won’t feel better until he restrings his bow and deals with the suitors.
This phrasing is becoming more clear. “Restring my bow?” “Deal with my suitors?”
Seems like you’ve seen my recent x-ray where my zipper overlaps my impressive, yet flaccid, penis.
Give me the right moment and I can zip it right up to erectile perfection. If I happen upon my deceased grandmothers, I can just as swiftly deflate my power. It’s a honed skill.
It’s from the Odyssey.
“Try to stay out of drama till then?”
I’ve not been doing too great at that. I will continue to try my best. I’m a fucking homeless/unemployed/broken wreck of a human shell.
I do always look on the bright side of life *whistle-whistle–whistle*.
Blood all over all of my hotel room and I’m not even fussed. Worthless to look at the negative, other than to see where one can improve. (It’s not that bad. I did fall over in public several times on Friday.) I also got to play drums and actually did remarkably well. Good and important to focus on those little beacons of happiness.
I daresay I speak for most of us when I say we’ll be even MORE relieved when we hear you’ve safely escaped Detroit.
We could always go get him. I was thinking about taking Ver 2.0 up to Maumee Bay for some fishing anyhow.
Welcome home!
Thanks.
Easiest for me is if you copypasta your fb stuff into a post on here. I can clean up formatting, etc. Also doable is if you email me the fb stuff and I can format it into an article for you. Illustrations (if any) should be sent as individual attachments; it makes things harder if I have to pull those out of a .doc file. Feel free to email me with questions, etc. I sometimes take a couple of days to reply…
We shall be in touch. I write probably 3 (?) of these a day. Not enough for one to be an article, but I think collectively they can be fun and add something. Now it is obviously difficult. I will figure out how to write my Indiana Jones adventure back to Indiana. There’s obviously something there, added by the fact that I’m physically and psychologically fucked at the moment. There’s something there that I need to work out within myself, and then work out how to put it to paper. So many things to digest and boil down. Should be interesting to do and I hope it’s interesting to read.
Thank all of you for your emotional support and a place that I can find some sanity.
I’m going to roll my last spliff. It should be fantastic. That’s the big errand I need to run in Detroit or Illinois. I’m gonna a touch under an ounce (Gotta be safe with authorities!) and have a few days to adjust back to US life. It will be curious. Again, I’m beyond thrilled and terrified at the same time. The former will outpace the latter in quick order. (So I hope.)
Make it into a creepypasta
I’m getting out of here and everything is set.
Good.
What really happened to Evan.
https://youtu.be/ynY2begPzoM
People talking (maybe sarcastically) about helping the poor and “fixing” bad neighborhoods. Me:
Unpopular opinion time: I’ll speak for the US, but this seems to be universal. Imagine a feedback loop:
*People want to “fix” broken neighborhoods and “help” the poor people within. No one likes to see poverty.
*Help, in the form of government money and welfare, is given to ‘prop up’ the poor and disadvantaged.
*This ‘help’ becomes generational welfare. Thomas Sowell persuasively argues this in detail.
*The poor becoming wealthier through work cross a threshold and cease to get government handouts.
*This diminishes the incentive to become independently successful. It is easier to stay poor and keep getting government handouts.
*Cycle perpetuates.
*We come back to square one, seeing the poor people in bad neighborhoods. Solution: “Well, we just need to give them MORE money and Top-Down SUPPORT!”
*The cycle further continues, and with each go-around the dependence on the government becomes more entrenched.
*The poor getting the handouts will never bite the hand that feeds, so they become a reliable voting bloc.
*Preserving these votes is more important than actually “solving” anything. If the problem is “solved,” then a voting bloc is lost. In the quest for power, that does not help one acquire or maintain it.
*”Look! Those people are living in poverty!” (Poverty frequently being measured as the people whose earnings rank in the bottom quintile. Um. There will ALWAYS be people in the bottom 20% of income. Always. Forever. By definition.) “Let’s give those poor souls more Top Down welfare to help them along!”
***Cycle continues….again…and again…and again…
The government has two main jobs in my mind when it comes to bad neighborhoods:
1) Keep people from hurting each other (keep crime down, some *basic* [I SAID BASIC, YOU NANNY STATE CALIFORNIA BUREAUCRACIES!] building inspection / whatnot).
2) Foster a positive business environment so either companies can draw from the relatively cheap labor pool or make it easier for more enterprising people of the “bad neighborhood” to get something started themselves. Because when throughout history we’ve seen (time and again) penniless immigrants come to these neighborhoods, work and start their businesses that results in the “Oh, that deli has been here for 100 years — or that restaurant helped make this area famous — or that idea sparked a whole factory”. When government (as it does now) chokes new businesses in their cradle with red tape, etc… they deprive the neighborhoods the opportunity to improve.
And yes, there will always be people that don’t want to work hard, don’t want to improve. (Hell, I’m guilty enough of being comfortable in my admittedly not-bad-neighborhood lifestyle… most folks hit a comfort zone, I think). And that’s humanity and it goes back to (1) for me.
Regarding building inspection: this was originally developed by insurance companies that had a real interest in buildings not falling or burning down. The government should stay out of it and let owners and insurance companies decide what is safe. That would also foster greater creativity in building design- which is currently stagnant.
Move fire departments back to private companies contracted by the neighborhood and that might work. I’m mainly thinking that it gets a little complicated in packed urban environments when one firetrap could catch the whole block for a contract between a non-firetrap on the block and their insurance company to do much about it. Shared fire responsibility might help… or might just be a back door HOA slide into petty dictatorship… Hell, I’m just a kernel engineer not a social architect and I’m not really in the mood on a Sunday morning to posit restructuring society. 😉 More coffee and snark instead!
Indeed. Not enough coffee yet.
This is one that I have mixed feelings on – where I live – it’s all volunteer work (Fire/Rescue/EMT). And I should probably kick them a few bucks next quarter since I’m pretty sure I can write it off anyways.
OTOH – what’s really infuriating – on the last Radio Free California podcast – are the “professional” firefighters – who are not only making bank – but then they juggle their hours so that they do a month’s worth of “hours” in 7 days (of living in the firehouse) and then take off 3 weeks at a vacation home in Utah or something while bringing down 250k including overtime and benefits….all taxpayer $$$ too. It came up during a discussion on lifeguarding in CA as well. When I live on the ship overnight (or longer) for duty – you don’t get paid extra. When I deployed to Iraq, I didn’t get paid extra (although tax-free) – I think it worked out to $1.50/hr if you consider a “24 hour work-day”.
Those states have got to get their entitlements under reform – probably far too late though.
If we’re down to arguing about privatizing building codes and the fire department, then we won. And it’s probably an indicator that we won 25+ years ago. Let’s focus on the real issues.
I did my own electrical/plumbing installation. Concerned entities should have been:
1. Me
2. Insurance company
3. Bank, if any money was borrowed (Since I didn’t borrow any, no interest)
4. Utility provider (Power company,etc)
Had any of the last 3 shown an interest I’d been happy to allow an inspection. Instead it was only a state electrical inspector, with no skin in the game, that showed up. His only question was why I used #12 for lights instead of #14 copper.
My septic system, installed by a licensed contractor, inspected by the state guy, failed after 17 years and needed to be upgraded, for an additional 4 K, because the code had changed. Obviously the original code was not very good, so much for codes.
In the midwestern hierarchy, this ranks below slapping your knees, standing up, and saying, “Weeeeeeelp…”
This will get memory-hold because some of the targets were TEAM RED.
“Idiot, admitted sociopath ex-friend: “[The U.S. is] plagued by redundant bureaucracies.”
See also: Every other country, with maybe like three exceptions. Switzerland seems pretty well-run, for example. They are also small and neutral….Not in the EU. Anyone connected with EU is surrooooouuuuunded with redundant bureaucracies. And those are from the (relative) outside!
The bureaucracies are a huge problem. I’ve been railing against the Alphabet Agencies (FBI, CIA, HUD, FAA, etc etc etc) for decades. There’s a simple solution: Get rid of them. Don’t add government. Subtract.
Why doesn’t this happen? Because people in power don’t give it up voluntarily. Their whole mission is to NOT succeed, for if they do, then people will realize they aren’t needed anymore. They’d “succeed” their way out of the job.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”~Upton Sinclair.
On John Lennon’s quote about how non-violence is the way to fight tyranny:
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.“
I think he’s right about humor and mockery being primary weapons. Here’s my FB post:
I think tarring and feathering, along with “riding ’em out on a rail” needs to come back in fashion.
Rulers should be afraid of those they rule. It keeps them in check and preserves the liberty of the People. It gives them immediate veto rights, as it were, over those that try to control them. “Ruling” should be a painful and unpleasant chore. It’s become modern royalty. Hollywood for Ugly People. People have gotten so used to being ruled that the rulers are flagrant about how they abuse their Power (and Money) at the expense of the People.
They have learned how to control people. “Let them be (moderately) comfortable. Make a big show about how truthful and reliable we are (even when we blatantly violate their liberties, take their money, and ignore our duties).” They make sure to say the LOUD part LOUD and the quiet part quiet.
Standard operating procedure, and people are still (mostly) comfortable enough that they let everything slide by, not acknowledging each toe in the door that soon spreads to let the whole leg and body in, so slowly that the intruder is met with raucous applause and a cup of tea.
Tar and feathering is an inherently violent act. The tar left severe burns all over the target. But even if not…. parents are being arrested and investigated as domestic terrorists merely for speaking up at school board meetings. If you are not prepared for rebellion and the inevitable violent response of the State after tar and feathering their agents or forcing them to leave town, then this is a very bad idea.
Lennon was wrong. Nonviolence as a way to fight tyranny is nothing more than children playacting with a rabid predator. The Jan 6th protestors and Canadian truckers are now living with the consequences of following such advice. Jailed without representation or court dates, beaten by guards, livelihoods destroyed, and all of their assets seized.
I stole this opening bit from (I think) TrashMnster)
“To make schools safer, we should clump students together in small groups, or “cells”. We will house them in secure cell “blocks.” To further enhance security, we will have armed guards attentively monitoring these cell blocks. This ensures the safety of all children.
These concentrations of children will be put in camps, where only responsible, government-vetted adults will look after and care for them. It’s all for the safety and well-being of the children.”
Hentie, being a legit sociopath and not getting satire, responded with “Exaggeration, much?” Response:
“The safety of the children is the most important thing to focus on! We need to keep them safe!
This is a fantastic way to further the public school system. We must instruct them and further their education, but ensuring their safety is the primary goal. This is a further way to guarantee such protections.
We must be vigilant in protecting children from the dangers that surround them every day. Watchful eyes ensure that no harm can befall them. This is our obligation and duty. We shall overcome danger.”
HENTIE: Again a sociopathic idiot: “Ok are you being sarcastic now?”
ME: “OF COURSE NOT! Look at the shooting in Uvalde! WOW, 19 kids and two teachers dead? Completely unacceptable.
We need to fortify our defenses to make sure that children can learn in safety and without fear.
It’s simply common sense. We will muster enough support to ensure that our children are always safe.”
Person I know from FB responding to how tarring and feathering and ‘riding people out on a rail should come back into fashion: “Realizing that the French Revolution could be a thing again should be something in the backs of people’s minds.”
Yes. That is a distinct possibility. Reasonable, even, to expect. But it’s gone on far enough. The leash needs to be pulled. Hopefully, in a non-violent way, but the amount of inescapable leniency that the State commands requires a backlash of some kind.
People should be AFRAID to be in power. ACCOUNTABLE for all of their misdeeds and breaking their oath to follow the Constitution.
Mockery and ridicule are out best options for now. People in Power need to be afraid to wield it. This was waved “Bye-bye!” long ago. Something needs to be done for them to feel it once more.
The Political Caste is seen as a religious entity for <90% of the population. That's why it continues and entrenches itself. If they only followed the rules, the nation/world would be a better place.
This needs to end. Yesterday. Last week. Last century. It is not a coincidence, what is actively promoted and pursued by State actors. For that is all they all: Hollywood for ugly people. Who happen to wield tremendous power over those who didn't vote nor elect them. Trouble is coming. Those behind the wheel should suffer the consequences for their actions.
I don't predict this to occur. I anticipate the further erosion of our liberties, all for the sake of looking good on TV to acquire Money, the intimate partner of Power. They always find each other. That is why we are in the place we presently occupy. And with a new poll, the Political Caste will cast a new spell to fix all of "the horrors" we experience. And with that incantation, they will garner more Money and Power for their troubles.
It. Must. End. You want “mob justice?” That’s just another polite term for “democracy. There’s a reason the US is a republic and not a democracy. Down the latter road, evil and madness lie. See also: Our current state.
On that note, I will relay this, with the comment that I didn’t think there existed a red-pill potent enough to reach her. It’s damn near scary.
The last thing keeping us free in America, as the lights go off all over Europe- and Australia, and Canada – is, yes, we must face this fact, the Second Amendment.
Sigh.
There are guns in all of those places.
The problem with losing freedom isn’t lack of guns. The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto did more with less.
The problem is culture and a desire to have freedom.
But, I’ll take the win of Naomi Wolf coming around on guns.
“I did not buy the handgun, as I need a class and a permit and four references. That is as it should be. ”
Fuck her.
Baby steps.
Seriously – she’s on the road to Damascus and you’re bitching she isn’t all the way there? It is still an epiphany.
Absolutely.
Well, that was a pleasant surprise.
I should’ve posted as your daily ray of sunshine.
Nice
Hiding in the basement is a valid campaign strategy. Ask Brandon.
It depends on how much TEAM BLUE can “fortify” the election.
So the thing is – that only worked in certain precincts, not the country at large. And now many are wise to it, which makes it a lot harder to pull off save in the places they were going to win anyway (Chicago, Philly, etc.).
And then you get this kind of stupidity.
OFFS.
Hopefully the Libertarians will have someone on the November ballot. Otherwise that line is getting left blank.
LPPA candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, and senate.
After reading through the Senate candidate’s website, I think I’d write myself in if I were still in PA.
I guess aspiring to be a senator ain’t what it used to be.
Breakfast in the featured image looks delicious.
SP’s art is good.
Deputies were called to the home around 6:30 a.m. for reports of an armed person and two shots fired. The caller had exited the home and contacted the Juneau County Sheriff’s Office from a nearby residence, according to the release.
I’ll bet they responded faster than they would for a school shooting.
hitting Britt over her support for a state gas tax increase in 2019 as CEO of the Business Council of Alabama.
She supported a tax increase? Fuck her. She better lose.
Remember 2020, when we were thrilled to be dining outdoors after a three-month lockdown?
Yes I remember 2020. I remember being pissed about the fucking lockdowns. I was happy when the lockdowns starting rolling back, but that didn’t end my anger over the fact that they never should have happened in the first place.
Old Guy Music is good.
Hockey update: Yes Tundra we are continuing our dominance. In 3 games we scored 22 and let in 3, and one of those was an own goal (no it wasn’t me this time!) Today we have our championship game. Yesterday I met our resident Pope, which makes 3 of the 3 Glibs I’ve met being delightful human beings.
22-3? Damn! Will there be pictures of you hoisting the championship trophy ??
I don’t know if we get a trophy, but there will be photos. I’m taking notes so I’ll write another article.
Where in Indiana are you at? I think I remember up north.
My family is all in Indy/Carmel. I should be back on Wed morning. Could be interesting. I certainly have stories and am a very odd human, but in a pleasant, charming way.
I’m in Valparaiso, in the upper left corner.
I’ve spent way too much time in Valpo working for Reiter Automotive.
Fun fact- when you lift the carpet in your car/truck and see the sound insulation that looks like its made from shredded socks? Its made from shredded socks (and other fabrics). The material is laid on a mold for a particular model vehicle, sprayed with a phenolic resin, and put into the old Dr. Otto Angleitner press.
I don’t go to trendy hipster restaurants.
“Why do Obama and Biden have beach houses?”
Don’t get me started. We’ve had a lot of flooding here over the past few years, and of course this must be due to climate change:
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/bergen/oradell/2022/04/12/new-milford-flooding-hackensack-river-suez-water-nj/7280566001/
“Her experience painted a picture of the intense flooding that the Hackensack River watershed has been experiencing over the past few years. A warming climate is bringing more intense storms.”
Sure. Surprised this hasn’t been memory-holed:
https://patch.com/new-jersey/riverdell/bp–historic-floods-of-the-hackensack-valley
Proving once again that Fukuyama is just not that bright.
However, the author nails exactly why I am leery of the “let’s emulate the left but on our own terms” new-right:
The challenge to freedom is the size of government; it’s the main thing, and the parties and their extremes have applauded every dime.
If government were the size it should be, we wouldn’t much mind if a woke person were elected: the lack of power would imply little threat.
The conservative reaction to wokeness is normal….and stupid in that dull, mobbish, American way same as the left….but that’s okay…and it would be unnecessary and fairly dry up if Republicans weren’t just as stupidly enthusiastic about increasing government size and scope as Democrats. Imagine a tiny government and everyone quietly managing his own life, the education of his children, and his own business to suit himself.
Progs are stupid, but we will never see things get any better until Republicans undo their Big Lie: that they believe in small government.
Imagine a tiny government and everyone quietly managing his own life, the education of his children, and his own business to suit himself.
I’ll be in my bunk.
[Which would in our real world be immediately followed by “hey buddy, stop doing that”.]
Followed by, “Why are you here in my bunk, ‘Buddy’?”
Wait, I thought history ended and there wasn’t anything left to write about.
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I guess those QR code menus will come in handy when inflation requires hourly price updates.
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#metoo
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I love when people complain. It’s a signal to mix up seed words.
Maybe. But today there were 15 unique letters. That’s tough to overcome no matter what your seed words are.
For me, a pretty danged good morning. My preferred two starter words gave me enough clues to work with:
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I don’t always read the overnight threads — so I didn’t even know I was actually still in last week’s tourney until almost the semis (saw Mike S call me out specifically as “How did he make it that far! 😉 ) Honestly thought my first bust would have knocked me out… so was quite amused that I wasn’t the “Get matched against SDF-7 and it is equivalent to a bye round” I thought I was.
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Ugh, hot garbage.
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QuordleBot’s still on vacation (actually, I am and i didn’t bring my computer)
Meh. Not enough morning coffee.
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Note to self: No coffee after dinner. Woke at 4, toss and turned until 6, pass out until 8. Body must have thought today is a work day.
I was up until 02:00 watching B5 and I was still up at 07:00 for some reason. Multiple catch-up naps will be needed.
It’s slowly dawning on me that the days of sleeping in on the weekends are over. I’m gonna need to start day-drinking or something if I have to pack it in at 23:00 or 00:00 for the rest of my days.
day-drinking
Maybe that’s what it was. No beverages until after a later than usual dinner yesterday. I have to start earlier to get the necessary medicine.
Yeah, it doesn’t seem to matter what day of the week it is or what I did the night before. I will be up at 5am, rested or not.
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Terrible
But he’s not wrong.
I wasn’t aware of this practice – it’s abominable.
It’s annoying to read a menu on a phone. Gimme some paper.
I can see the appeal on one level.
If the customers pretty much ubiquitously have cell phones and are willing to do the QR thing (I fit the former, but not the latter… I never bother with QRs), then you can adjust your menu more dynamically — quickly include specials / spot pricing / switch lunch vs. dinner, etc. It is all really just pulling up a web site (unless I’m misremembering how QRs work — they’re basically a graphical tinyurl at heart, aren’t they?). Keep a few paper menus around for those who want them (I’d have them by the door or by request), knowing that they might be relatively stale and you’re good.
Of course — I think the per-table tablets with payment processing / tip / survey / games for the drunkards ^W I mean kiddies makes more sense if you can keep them secure. Better in this identity theft world to have the customer never have to hand over their card if they aren’t just doing near-field or whatnot, no question of your menu being available, etc. Servers might not like it if the tips don’t go straight to them (as they should), but that’s likely an issue anyway.
I think the per-table tablets with payment processing / tip / survey / games for the drunkards ^W I mean kiddies
I saw these at La Guardia airport several years ago.
I expect they will proliferate if the minimum wage for tipped employees ever goes up.
The tablets and robots to seat you (and bring food) is at the local Chili’s.
That is a better solution. Bigger screen and no need to futz around with your phone’s camera.
I assume it’s also an attempt to gather some sort of customer data from the phones, too.
I think that too.
Ayo.
First of all, never scan QR codes, period. A large percentage of the ones you find in public are gonna load a website that installs malware on your phone.
Second, restaurant menu websites are universally garbage anyway.
I have reached the point where that article about whoever this Britt person is is nothing but incomprehensible gibberish. They may as well be talking about the deep behind the scenes maneuvering with regard to who is taking whom to the East Buttfuck Louisiana senior prom.
Yeah, I bailed after the first paragraph or so. It doesn’t help that I’m not up on my Alabama politics.
The point was lost on you, but would not be lost on a straight guy.
Oh, I got the point from your blurb but I didn’t even see a pic when I scrolled down. But yeah, I am not motivated to go looking for one.
First of all, that’s not a nice way to talk about Houma, LA. Second, tell me more about this prom; I’m intrigued.
I wasn’t aware of this practice – it’s abominable.
Just put a sign on the door:
“Here be hipsters”
I bet that “hit list” story would be getting a lot more play if Nancy Pelosi and AOC were on it.
It broke the narrative for both sides, so it’s absolutely of no use.
QR codes suck. I’ve seen some poorly organized menus but even the worst one is easier to navigate than a QR code menu. I’m not entirely averse to a phone menu, but it’s pretty obvious that most places take zero pride in how their QR menu looks
The road to Utopia has a few bumps
The bitter, expensive recall election has turned into a referendum on some of San Francisco’s most painful and protracted problems, including homelessness, drug addiction and property crime. The election has also become a test for a liberal city’s appetite for continuing to pursue criminal justice reform.
Boudin described his 2019 victory as a sign of a “massive thirst for change.” But polls suggest he may not survive the recall. His supporters now fear a result that could have a chilling effect on the nationwide effort to elect reform-minded district attorneys.
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Boudin has sought to reshape a criminal justice system that he and his supporters see as profoundly unfair. He has refused to seek the death penalty or try juveniles as adults, significantly reduced the use of sentencing enhancements and sought to push people accused of low-level crimes fueled by drug addiction into treatment instead of a jail cell.
But his message has lost traction among an electorate that has grown increasingly concerned about visible crime and homelessness. Boudin’s background has made him an easy target for opponents who paint him as a fringe leader disconnected from his city.
Boudin is a Yale-educated Rhodes scholar who worked as a translator for Venezuelan socialist President Hugo Chávez. His parents were members of the radical left-wing group the Weather Underground. They went to prison when Boudin was a child for their roles in a 1981 armed robbery in New York that left three people dead, including two police officers. His mother, Kathy Boudin, was paroled in 2003 and died of cancer last month. Boudin’s father, David Gilbert, received parole last year.
Who wouldn’t want that guy in a position of authority?
Something something mugged by reality.
It won’t work. There are enough sane people to sign the petition, not enough to overcome the insane communists who live there and believe they are in utopia.
I dunno. Didn’t they recall some crazy CRT educrats recently?
Good question. Did that succeed?
Yes. Three school board members were recalled.
From yesterday’s birthday list –
“Dr. Ruth, is a Jewish German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.”
Haganah sniper? Am I the only one getting turned on from that?
Because you figure you have a shot?
Nope!
I wonder how true that factoid is. 17 year old female midgets aren’t the typical demographic for a scout/sniper
Well…it WOULD be harder to spot her from a distance…
Trye. She’s 4’7″. I’m not sure i
I’m not sure I could spot her up close.
Desperate times.
Yup. The Haganah was all about working with what they had.
My vague recollection is that she moved to Israel in 1947 or 1948. Pretty much the whole population was part of the military .
Three polls funded by the recall campaign and its backers earlier this year found a majority of San Francisco voters favored removing Boudin. Polling paid for by the anti-recall campaign last month painted a slightly rosier picture, with 48% of voters described as pro-recall, 38% opposed and 14% undecided.
Polls reflect the hopes of the people paying for them? Say it ain’t so, Shirley.
Boudin’s supporters have flooded neighborhoods with mailers that encourage voters to reject the “Republican-funded recall,” telling voters that “conservative billionaires” want to “impose their radical conservative agenda in San Francisco.”
If Boudin is recalled, Jenkins said, “it will be Democrats that vote him out.” Just 6.7% of San Francisco voters are registered Republicans.
It must be Paradise on Earth.
I suppose there is no mention of the radical leftist billionaires that fund the likes of Chesa around the country in the first place.
Indeed. They may be about the learn the lesson that the party no longer represents the interests of its typical voters.
It is! It is! Just make sure not to step in the human excrement on the sidewalk.
I hope they don’t find out about SugarFree
That was an…interesting…read
I think OMWC would have more to worry about than SF.
I wouldn’t call the SCA a “LARP” group, and I’m pretty sure they’d not appreciate the comparison. SCA (depending on the crowd, granted) is a lot more about practical recreation of medieval arts and crafts, not dropping bean bags and yelling “Lightning Bolt!”
I read Jennifer Roberson in college. I don’t remember it being perverted, but my memory sucks.
The SCA is not LARP. Although the first parties were basically LARP-like.
It’s not exactly living history, though lots of people go that route.
It’s not exactly full-contact martial arts, though lots of people go that route.
It’s a pretty big fucking tent, and you can find someone living almost any stereotype you want to paint the group with.
There’s plenty of bleed over between people who are in the SCA but also LARP, or RenFaire, or HEMA, or whatever.
The QR code author is right.
You know what livens up a social gathering? Everyone staring at their own phones.
Idk why the qr code mafia don’t just put a url under the image. 9 times out of ten I can get to the web menu faster than the qr code just by googling the restaurant. If you put the url on the stupid card it would be even easier
I don’t like the QR code menus because I like to leave my phone in the car while dining. Restaurants are a phone free zone for me.
Sugarfree is one of the reasons for this.
Aaaaaand someone just fired up a chainsaw at the house diagonally behind ours. ? So much for my peaceful Sunday morning back porch time listening to lovely sacred choral music.
I need to replace the muffler on mine (Stihl 041AV). If I went out and started it, you’d be able to hear it.
Holy crap! They were cutting down a whole damn tree! An good-sized evergreen, from what little I could see of what came crashing to the ground. Miraculously, it did not seem to land on either of the small out-buildings on the property.
But now they’re going to be cutting it all apart. ***SIGH!!!***
Here god takes care of the trees, after he/she takes them down it’s up to the property owners to work with them. I got a lot of firewood that way.
I only encountered a QR code for a menu once, and I said to the waitress “I can’t do that, can I have a menu?”. No problem, she brought one out, I ordered camarones diablo in my broken Spanish and she had them cooked for someone who spoke Spanish. Muy Caliente!
Hot girls makin’ sammiches.
https://archive.ph/oRGZ3
Slutty Sunday.
Nice, and very few tattoos.
Okay- There is a bizarre ad running at The Hill about “Safeguarding America from illegal trade”.
WTFSRSlY?
In my head, I hear, “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
Something something stupid and futile gesture
For months, Biden has suffered sagging poll numbers, and that Democrats fear will be extremely challenging to turn around by November given rising inflation and other hard-to-control economic issues. He is facing a mountain of domestic and international crises and is under pressure to deliver more results.
Angst is particularly high on the left.
After Build Back Better, Biden’s social spending bill, stalled in the Senate, progressive lawmakers tweaked their strategy to call for the president to take more executive action.
The Corinthian news, first reported by The Hill, indicated Biden is reacting to those calls.
“We are hopeful that the Biden Administration sees student debt cancellation as one of the tools to uplift struggling students, borrowers, and parents,” said Cody Hounanian, who serves as executive director at the Student Debt Crisis Center.
President Pinball, lurching from catastrophe to catastrophe.
Shorter: “Third-rate Obama retreads discover that running a shadow government behind their demented figurehead is a lot harder than they thought.”
Also: “These outrageously illegal handouts to people who were already going to vote for us are totally going to get them to vote for us.”
It can’t fail.
“Sexsomnia”? Is there a newsletter on this topic I can subscribe to?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18778054/pleasuring-myself-in-my-sleep/
That’s a weird way to say “wet dreams”.
“Targeted relief doesn’t go far enough,” he said. “The president has the authority to provide meaningful student debt cancellation for millions of others and he must use that power now.”
The essence of modern progressivism?
Ban qualitative analysis!
Bullshit. The president does not have the authority to spend tax dollars. Stop lying.
Instead of QR codes, hipster restaurants should have the wait staff provide menu information via interpretive dance, and bongo drums.
“I’ll have the Mamba special, with a side of those ‘rat-te-tum-tums’. Sweet iced tea, no lemon.”
Mambo, not Mamba, dang it.
The mamba meals and drumming are found in the authentic African restaurants.
The kind of stories US media should be covering.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/fashion-beauty/model-32l-boobs-celebrates-platinum-27149901
Braxton Brewington, spokesperson for the Debt Collective, said that the Biden administration can learn from the mistake of delaying relief for Corinthian students.
“Now we see that unilateral cancellation was the most sensible and just solution all along, and the same is true for broad-based relief,” Brewington said. “Biden’s next step must be to immediately eliminate all federal student debt for all borrowers. Means-testing student debt cancellation isn’t just administratively impractical, it’s simply not what racial and economic justice demands.”
Braxton Brewington? Cut it out.
Just lynch all the usurious bloodsuckers.
Is it functional?
https://singularityhub.com/2022/06/02/in-a-first-doctors-transplant-3d-printed-ear-made-of-patients-own-cells/
Pat Garrett, part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5paWwu9qdV5IhvZIbg16ol?si=tSpFYN5CQ7CGudMfUauoAA
Pat Garrett, part 2: https://open.spotify.com/episode/34Bh1LslRgcrVXVLZvzt0O?si=sEdSJ_5zRCi-GQyTBLcwNg
Where’s Random Drunken Asshole when you need him?
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich denounced Texas lawmakers’ inaction on gun legislation Saturday at a gathering in support of the Uvalde, Texas, community following the mass shooting at an elementary school that claimed 21 lives last month.
“We’ve heard all the comments on television from some of our government officials about thoughts and prayers and condolences and on and on and on,” Popovich said. “They’re the same statements after every massacre, exactly the same, and it never changes, and more children are dead and more teachers and more civilians, dead.”
Now go interview the guy who cleans the toilets at the stadium. I trust his judgement at least as much.
I’m torn whether such people are just stupid and haven’t thought this through or are, in fact, totalitarians.
Most of them are just the useful idiots that the left relies on. They repeat the talking points put out by the Top Men which validate their emotional responses to things. Some are more famous than others, but they’re function is still the same. If you ask them to explain how any specific piece of legislation would have prevented a particular mass shooting, they’ll look at you as if you have three heads and no heart.
It’s like everything else; most of them are stupid, some are totalitarians, and there’s some overlap, so some are stupid totalitarians.
I was thinking about the discussion of malice versus incompetence from a few days ago. I think that the real lesson from that quote has been lost – that malice and incompetence should be treated the same way.
“Mass shooting in Philadelphia leaves at least three dead and 11 injured after gunmen open fire on crowd of revelers outside bars on city’s popular South Street: One suspect has been hospitalized”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10886099/At-13-shot-3-dead-popular-weekend-strip-Philadelphia.html
Seems like there are way more of these now that Biden is in office.
It’s the media, and memetic contagion transmitted by the media. It’s pretty well established that spree killings happen in clusters, because the relentless news coverage of the first atrocity encourages other unstable fuckheads to accelerate and execute their plans in the hopes of getting their turn in the spotlight.
If there were a way to prevent the media from reporting on spree killings, I have no doubt that there would be substantially fewer of them.
“Gunmen”
They’re not speculating so I will: gang shit and the victims were caught in crossfire.
“Multiple shooters” seems improbable in an “ordinary” mass shooting.
My thoughts exactly. Multiple-assailant spree killings are quite rare, and are usually gang or political violence. There have been a few carried out by malevolent narcissists looking for the next high score (Columbine is the most famous,) but not many.
Or the mob. I have a vague memory of lots of mob goons living in South Philly back in the 80s, and some of them trying to off each other.
Interesting. And yeah, South Philly is not the usual “gang” territory.
Just ignore the continuous killing that goes on in Philly every other day.
South Street is a wonderfully tacky, trashy, wacky, and fun place.
A German restaurant I like is on South Street, but five or six blocks away from the shooting.
“AOC says she ‘awakened’ to her ‘indigenous heritage’ while protesting the Dakota pipe line with Native American tribes: Bronx-born socialist says she wants to connect to her Caribbean Taino roots”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10885585/AOC-says-shes-awakening-indigenous-heritage-protesting-Native-Americans.html
OFFS!
No-shit actual racism is lumping all non-white cultures as being the same. Same as when actual white supremacists do it.
I know more about Firsting than you, Mr. Glib reading this, will ever know about anything. I have devoted myself so completely to my craft, nearly every waking moment is about The First. How does it feel to know that your entire wealth of knowledge cannot stack up to what I know about this singular topic of such great importance? It must be humbling. Humbling indeed.
Nope — this is exactly how it feels.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10885425/Eiza-Gonzalez-highlights-curves-figure-hugging-green-dress-coffee-run.html
I have no idea who she is.
Neither do I — but the dress looks like curtains or upholstery from the 1970’s… so I guess that fits the “’70s are back again!” theme.
Did the Mail get tired of pimping for Demi Rose or did you just decide the whole “thicc” thing was over, out of curiosity?
Maybe she’s taking a vacation from going on vacation?
This one is from just a few days ago.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10873163/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-poses-miniscule-sheer-sarong-Ibiza.html
Up too late; it was worth it, best zoomie in a long time. Not enough coffee yet.
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At least Worldle was easy today, unlike yesterday’s ridiculousness.
I got Worldle in one yesterday.
I know. Show-off.
I didn’t know it, but I guessed the region. Based on the shape and the reason for the shape, after I got the name, my suspicions about its role in, shall we say, historical trafficking were confirmed.
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“500 Percent Spike In Biden Administration Shutting Down Gun Retailers Over Typos
Lee Williams, an independent investigative reporter specializing in covering firearms, revealed that ATF once revoked the licenses of federal firearms licensees (FFLs) at a rate of about 40 each year. “But, in the 11 months since Joe Biden declared war on ‘rogue gun dealers,’ the ATF has revoked 273 FFLs — an increase of more than 500%,” Williams reported. “However, rather than targeting the true rogues, Biden’s ATF is revoking FFLs for the most minor of paperwork errors, which were never a concern for the ATF until Biden weaponized the agency.”
That’s due to the Biden administration’s “zero tolerance” inspection policy. That means inspectors are revoking federal firearms licenses for even minor clerical errors that previously would warrant a warning letter…
The White House budget request clearly identified that driving gun stores out of business was a higher priority than pursuing criminals. President Biden proposed earlier this year to spend $20.6 billion on the Justice Department for federal law enforcement, crime prevention, and intervention.
Tucked into that spending proposal were plans for the ATF to hire 140 special agents and another 160 Industry Operations Investigators. That’s more inspectors to revoke licenses than special agents to actually lock up criminals. The Biden administration refuses to get tough on crime but is zealous in targeting the firearm industry.”
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/03/500-percent-spike-in-biden-administration-shutting-down-gun-retailers-over-typos/
Criminals don’t get their guns from an FFL.
Fuck the ATF
Eventually people will learn to take the gun-grabbers seriously. And put 2+2 together.
The progs want you to shut up on social media – or, just generally – and they want to take your guns.
Jeez, I wonder what they could have in mind after that…?
You know who else had a tube strike?
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/05/londoners-told-stay-home-ahead-of-24-hour-tube-strike-tomorrow-16772392/
Probably Hillary after Chelsea — thank God.
Clever things to do with an old microwave
[power supply]
That one came up on my YouTube feed. Great fun.
I’ve been thinking about buying a spot welder for a while. Now, I think I’ll probably just build one.
Another use For a microwave:
https://youtu.be/5TapKKQUm5I
The CRPG Addict revisits Wizardy IV.
Not that I necessarily disagree on a practical level, it’s rather amusing taking lessons on morality and shame from a guy who basically lived at the Playboy Mansion.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/06/04/maher_toxic_positivity_and_the_lack_of_shame_and_judgment_has_led_to_the_decline_of_civilization.html
“Harm reduction” is an absurd concept. SLD: shouldn’t be illegal etc. etc., however there’s got to be a better way of dealing with IV drug addicts than this.
It’s hard not to read a deliberate attempt to destroy the country into all of this. I mean, what would our “enemies” do differently re: drugs than flood the country with them and teach us how to use them “safely”?