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Astros pitchers were on fire last night. The Avalanche topped Tampa in overtime to win game 1 of the Stanley Cup final. ManUre has a tough start to the upcoming PL season. And another no-hitter was lost in the ninth inning. And that’s it for sports.
It’s like the “Me Too” movement. But the gay version. Didn’t he face accusations in the US that ended up going away? Wonder if somebody got paid and/or if some lads across the pond decided to finally talk. Guess we’ll find out.
“What rights?”
You call it “progress”, but… it’s little more than a group of assholes deciding which rights we get to keep. Well you can go fuck yourselves.
“Are you sure we don’t need a hand brake?” “Nah, fuck it. Nobody uses one anyway,” he said.
This seems like a good use of state money. And a way for their people to not be represented for very long.
But remember, people accused of crimes at the Jan 6 riot are still not getting bail. But they were doing something horrible, I guess. Way worse than…oh wait. I’d assume this is the last straw for Gascon. He’s getting recalled for sure now.
Things are getting interesting over there. And I think the game of hot potato is about to end with the potto being cast into a trash dumpster. And yes, that’s a metaphor.
Do this…forever.
I don’t give a fuck. This dipshit deserves more than my indifference though. But I’ve got my scorn all accounted for today, so that’s the best he’s gonna get.
“Chaos,” lol. Whatever. You asked a question and you got answers you didn’t like. Suck it up, assclown. Also, is this not considered a public accommodation? Are they not there to serve the public without discrimination? I suppose people are entitled to specific wedding cakes, but a pet is something completely different. At least that’s the pretzel-like logic out courts would come up with.
I better get out there and pick some of these up. Ohh, and I’m sorry it scares you to the point of shitting yourself, Mr Rolling Stone writer. You could always choose to be a man next time.
Some of you might think I was a number off. But I was not. I could always play the number you were expecting. Nah, I’m going a different way. Enjoy them both, dear friends.
And go enjoy this magnificent Thursday. I’ll be burning a bunch of 93 octane. Unfortunately.
Everyone’s got their old avatars showing. Not this guy. Same avatar forever
I’m assuming same — I haven’t changed avatars since setting mine… so it should be the normal or a random pixel art…
I’ve got a small handful I rotate through on other sites, but here I’ve stuck with this one.
*ahem*
I changed mine once, might do it again too. You won’t stop me.
Siiick, waffles classic
Our new server isn’t done propagating. Several of the bells and whistles won’t be fully restored til this evening. But the main functionality is here, which is most important.
Grazie!
Thanks!
Your efforts are appreciated!
I’ll add my thanks!
Plus 1!
db – for your avatar make sure you have selected a “G rating”.
I have.
Thanks Webdom!
I’m not showing my old avatar.
I can’t even upload a new one. It just shows that error image no matter what I upload.
I wonder what happens if I use someone else’s avatar?
test:
It’ll sort out in time. I have my old icon too. Reminds me of when every time I commented I would get a hearty “Fuck you Tulpa.” Ah, memories!
So… you want to date our avatars, AOC ^W DB?
Wish I had better gun control but maybe with a little help from a new accessory I could make up in quantity what I lack in quality
Early links?
I need consistency!
Flexibility?
Sez the old guy.
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No stimming!
REEEEEEE!!!!
Variety is the spice of life. But not for this room full of Aspies, I guess.
LOL
If you mind, I am going to vent a bit.
EPA has changed the Lifetime Health Advisory levels for PFAS.
The old numbers were 70 Parts Per Trillion for PFOS & PFOA.
They released new numbers yesterday.
PFOS 20 parts per Quadrillion.
PFOA 4 parts per Quadrillion.
And they added 3 new chemicals to the list as well.
These numbers are so insanely low. i don’t see how they can scientifically justify it. Unless someone comes up with a magic pixie dust, or uses a nuclear reactor to heat a klin. There is no way we can clean up to these levels.
These new numbers are going to stop all work for a year until we can figure out how to do this.
The scope of work for one of my projects probably tripled (or more)
I remember we had an article on this chemical here. Look forward to anybody who has experience with this class of chemicals.
They have found a way to further control you. That was their goal.
As soon as you figure out a solution, they’ll come up with a new hurdle to jump over. My advice is to start researching and implementing production of shit that can blow other shit up. It’s gonna be necessary soon.
Rant away — I don’t work with the chemicals so can’t do anything other than nod along with the rest of the peanut gallery, but preaching to the choir (and mixing my metaphors as the peanut gallery is apparently hosting the choir seating or something) — this is Reason # 4.5 x 10^9 why the courts should tell Congress they can’t delegate powers like this and have to do their damned jobs (of course, you could argue that this level of micromanaging shouldn’t be Congress’s job either regardless of arguments for “national health” or “chemicals that drift across state lines” because of the obvious slippery slope to “must eat broccoli” or Wickard.
I’m assuming if they did the mandatory comments period they just ignored the comments anyway, and I’m also assuming any lawsuits based on them not doing it right or these requirements being nigh-on impossible wouldn’t be addressed until 2050 anyway… so “Remedy? HA!” is the EPA’s thought… Maddening.
Are you in the business of treating contaminated soils?
EPA issued interim guidance that really suggested that current incineration methods were not getting hot enough to break the C-F bonds, and was trying to figure out proper flue gas testing.
DOD cannot incinerate anything but there is a loophole for RCRA regeneration of GAC.
Has waste landfill is it for now.
I can’t say much here, but I (well, me and a team) have already disproven that incineration is not good enough.
Also, can you send a link? This is…pertinent to my interests.
https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/drinking-water-health-advisories-pfoa-and-pfos
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/06/15/epa-pfas-forever-chemicals/
I’m reading about the exploration of the West, the Mountain Men, the Southern trails explorers (Kit Carson et al). There are many discussions about the lack of water, including cutting a mule’s ear for the blood.
We’ve come a long way, Baby. In the fly-in Canadian fish camps, we used lake water, boiled. No one ever got sick (they got sick and tired of my cooking).
In New Orleans, we were under “Boil Orders” a few times per year, as the city could not properly treat the municipal water
They are altering the deal. Pray they don’t alter it any further.
One word.
Homeopathy.
Autocorrect for the win! I’ll keep it for LOL.
“Scientifically justify,” that’s wonderful.
I have done extensive work with polyfluorinated compounds, enough so that I’ve had two Fortune 100 companies try to recruit me to run their fluorochemicals R&D groups. Here’s a fun question to ask: If these are indeed “forever chemicals” that don’t break down, then they are by definition unreactive, so what’s the mechanism for the toxicity?
Those chemicals are produced by modern industry — and modern industry is the pinnacle of Gaia-raping white cis-normative patriarchy, MAN… Therefore they’re little fragments of EVIL… they corrupt just by EXISTING, man….
Now don’t harsh my mellow while I toke up and write the next set of regulations!
That has been exactly my question to our internal marketing folks and some of our R&D people.
Blank faces is all I get, and “well there *do seem* to be toxicity effects.”
How can a “scientifically” minded person accept the notion that these can have an effect? If they don’t break down or react, then the only mechanism remaining is that they might catalyze some other reaction?
I’m actually involved in a meeting later to review a paper one of our R&D folks is going to be publishing on our experience with certain polyfluorinated compounds (specific to treatment and destruction), but I hadn’t heard about a new standard.
I mean, parts per quadrillion? The existing analytical technology can’t even reliably measure to the previous standards!
The more I think about this the more I get angry. I’d better not say any more.
The existing Method Detection Limit for PFOA on our lab reports is 1 PPQ.
I have MDL’s from an SI work that’s 5 years old. MDL’s were two digit PPQ.
While i don’t see how they are able to extrapolate a risk to 4 PPQ PFOA, I am impressed that they can claim a MDL @ 4.
Contractor I know says there is a new method that can detect 2000 variants. Only cost 2K per sample.
And I ask, what after PPQ?
1 PPQ is not possible at this point, as far as I can tell. My R&D colleagues are telling me the best it gets in water samples is 0.5 ppt for most PF compounds.
The sampling protocols are crazy because it’s almost impossible *not* to contaminate a sample to levels of fractions of a ppt. You can’t even use glassware that has ever touched a PTFE stirbar, FFS.
That’s the point.
Make the standard impossible to meet and de facto ban the products.
Witness the internal combustion engine. What’s funny is how the automakers are going along with this shit. Do they not realize the end goal is to ban personal transportation entirely? They will be out of business when we’re all forced onto the trains. What is it with socialism and trains anyways?
They do know and they don’t care. There are cushy regulatory positions awaiting them when that happens.
What method are you using that gives 1 PPQ MDL?
Its not me.
Its a DOD accredited lab out of Orlando. & I think its a proprietary variant of 537.
537 uses labeled isotope recovery — they spike labeled compounds and compare the peaks in the LC-MS-MS results to unlabeled compounds — to determine the concentrations in the sample.
I have very little hope that these methods can ever be brought to the level of simple analyses like other water contaminants. testing for these compounds will, for a very long time, be very very expensive and inaccurate at such low concentrations.
I remember receiving a spec from Nokia for a filter that required us to test every unit for spurious signal products at levels below earth noise.
I attempted to inform them that besides being next to impossible to measure, it would have no impact on field performance whatsoever. Nope, didn’t care, that was the spec, just do it.
So we bought some equipment and made a setup that we pretended to test on. Amazingly, no unit was ever returned for failure to meet spec.
My two cents here.
What causing the problem is the functional ends of these chemicals. To me (and i have no research to prove this), these chemicals mock the phospholipid membranes that comprise our cells. They have a hydrophobic and hydrophilic ends.
It’s possible. I can’t say much here about it, but we’ve seen some interesting effects of certain treatments for sequestration and destruction of PF compounds. But as I said above, the existing tech can’t measure reliably the compounds at the concentrations of interest to regulators.
This is to the point that the #1 premier company in the world for measuring PF compounds in natural samples (air, water, soil, etc.), that has developed what is likely to become the standard measurement technology for those applications can’t duplicate results between their internal labs. So we have to use one specific lab of theirs if we want comparable results. And the limits of detection of those methods are so high compared to the concentrations of concern, that they’re not really useful.
I mean, holy shit, the typical limits of detection for PF compounds are 0.2-0.5 parts per trillion in clean water (that is, with no other contaminants at all), and the reporting limits of those methods are 1.5-2.0 ppt.
ppq is a pipe dream
“EPA makes a point to highlight that the health advisory levels for PFOA and PFOS are below the level of both detection (determining whether or not a substance is present) and quantitation (the ability to reliably determine how much of a substance is present). Therefore, it is possible for PFOA or PFOS to be present in drinking water at levels that exceed EPA’s health advisories even if there are no detections during drinking water testing.”
Sounds like episode 2 “The Search for More Funding”
We know these chemicals are deadly, but we cant detect them, so we need pile of money to invent a method of detection. Sound like they are chasing ghosts or trying to detect the effects of prayer.
PPQ I have never heard of such a small threshold. At that concentration I sure there is nearly everything in our water.
This is the linear extrapolation model at work.
They did this with radon as well. Basically they take a rate of disease associated with a fairly high exposure and draw a straight line approximation of bad outcomes. They set the limit at what they consider to be acceptable, like one incidence of illness per million people.
The catch is that exposures don’t work that way. There is typically an exponential dropoff in the rate of disease below a certain threshold that is much higher than what the regulatory agencies decide is “safe.” Your body can eliminate a certain amount of toxins if your metabolism is functioning correctly.
The “funny” part is that the CDC and FDA completely ignore this model for the aluminum adjuvants in vaccines (and previously thimerosal). The cumulative exposure to aluminum (directly injected into your body) over the course of the entire childhood vaccine schedule is way above any level known to be safe.
https://www.gasdetection.com/interscan-in-the-news/magazine-articles/radon-silent-killer-maybe/
Interestingly, when I was researching the toxicology of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), the receptor binding versus concentration curve looked like an upside down horseshow, that is, the toxicity peaked at a particular (low) concentration and actually decreased above that.
What do you suppose was the mitigating factor at the higher thresholds?
In a sense, the receptors got… confused. But the curves were very consistent, just peaking at different concentration and different maximum binding.
I have literally no prior experience to inform my imagination as to what this would look like.
Horseshoe, but typed by an idiot.
I see an equestrian arena with all the horses hanging upside-down from the rafters, riders in their tight pants and knee boots clinging to the saddles, wishing they rode western so there would at least be a saddle horn.
Or this.
Shit raining from the sky?
Same with radiation hormesis. All the standards assume some sort of linear damage from low doses, but all the actual research shows low doses are beneficial.
“Ra-di-ation. People tell the most pernicious lies about it. Goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you! Everyone could stand a hundred chest x-rays a year! They oughta have ’em, too.”
If these environmental standards matter so much, why are they never imposed on international trade partners? If you ban it in the U.S. but then have low-tariff trade with a country that doesn’t ban it, applying “foreseeable consequences are not unintended” tells me they intend to harm domestic industry and benefit foreign.
Yeah, see for example how much of US industry was exported to Shenzhen. And how they are now claiming we are “healing the earth” or some shit.
Ballpark figure for how long this takes to wreck the economy? I mean, that’s probably the intent.
Dude, he lives in California…he’s basically banned from packing heat no matter what.
It’s like the criminals don’t appreciate the beneficence of their progressive over-lords.
Working with another manager on hiring a person who reports to me but works at his facility. This guy is so borderline ADHD it’s really annoying. I’ll be working on the problem with HR in the background–I don’t copy him on most things because he doesn’t need to know most of the details–and then he blasts into everyone’s DMs with demands to know what’s going on. It’s like he has a 6th sense for when someone has just done something and then he sends a bunch of messages about how the thing that was just completed needs to be done. Then he goes silent for days.
Dude, chill, and pay attention to the things that you need to pay attention to.
I’m not the only person who has observed his pinball-like behavior.
I can picture the journalist furiously stroking their gun control boner over the thought.
Particularly after it caused a misfire or jam like those things seem to do.
OTH, similar to other mass shooters and the police response he would have had plenty of time to Google how to clear the weapon.
Hell, he had time to field strip and clean.
I’m confused. Unless it grants a shooter the ability to teleport from one locked room to another, it wouldn’t have made a difference. He barricaded himself in a room and killed everybody in there, save one kid.
Now, if they want to touch on what could have made the body count considerably lower, like the cops not being a bunch of fucking pussies, I’m all ears. But there’s nothing that could have made it worse.
Oh shush you. It’s called HELLFIRE and the advertising is in poor taste! Of course it would have been worse!
Exactly. Its main use would be to direct more rapid fire against a group of people at longer ranges. There’s nothing more lethal than a single aimed shot at close range. More rapid fire in this case would have made more holes, but not more dead children.
Is there anything on the ATF’s wishlist of things to ban this guy didn’t have?
FBI khaki-bro checks memo from ATF… “No, I *think* we got it all…”
sad lol & my exact thought
Maybe he could have fixed a bayonet and stabbed a few people?
Biden: “The founders never could have imagined privately owned bayonets!”
Just missing 3 copies of Sims.
He bought 2 Daniel Defense rifles – the Pro version equipped with the absolute best trigger you can find on an AR. Then fucked it up by putting that toy on it?
Notice he hit exactly zero people he shot at who weren’t in the same room as he was?
“…turns a rifle into a bullet hose…” – this guy has a way with words. Also, mentions bump stocks being illegal but no credit to who banned them or what incident spurred them being banned.
Didn’t he drop a backpack with his extra magazines in it at the entrance? It might have been a LOWER body count had he emptied his only mag in two seconds flat…
“If you lie about being an NRA supporter, make no mistake, we will sue you for fraud,” she wrote. “If you believe that it is our responsibility to protect ourselves in public places and arm ourselves with a gun — do not come to us to adopt a dog. We have a choice of who we work with.”
Oddly, bakers and florists don’t have that choice.
whaddup doh’
Indeed is pissing me of today.
Grammar, your sentence lacks. Understand you, I do not.
Add an f.
…pissing me off…
That’s every day.
To be fair, they’re “having a company wide” problem, but the lady I was talking to was very nice.
Oh… they’re a *company* I’ve never heard of… ok, your sentence makes more sense now (I assumed the “off” part…). Reading it as “Indeed, it is pissing me off today” which is as close as I could assume still left me at “What is pissing you off?” 😉
Companies shouldn’t be able to name themselves useful words or something. (joking)
https://www.indeed.com/
I’m a little surprised you’ve not heard of them. *shrug*
I’m a kernel engineer specializing in virtual memory and platforms/virtualization. You’re lucky I’ve heard of LinkedIn. 😉
Virtual popcorn is the future.
And it will be glorious!
https://youtu.be/bjT7ECeCKO0
I probably should read the overnight threads — but I don’t. 😉 So if y’all have already thanked Mojo and WebDom for server maintenance last night (I assume they were our culprits), I’m still going to belatedly thank them anyway.
So… Thanks for the squirrel patrol to any and all who contributed. Seems nice so far this morning. 😉
And the rampant rodents did remind me it was well past time I kicked a little cheddar towards the Powers That Be here to keep the lights on — but if we are hitting resource boundaries and need to scale our hosting up a bit and there’s any sort of a $$$ issue, please let us know so we can kick a little more if need be. This place is cheaper than the massive coronary I’d probably have from bottled up rage if I had to rely on the rest of the web… Thanks again.
The new server was something SP had planned before she got sick. WebDom jumped in and made it happen; like mother, like daughter. It’s not terribly expensive but not cheap- I think something like $2400 per year, which the kind donations from the site users covers nicely.
WebDom! She’s the awesome one.
Federal authorities reportedly don’t believe the device was used in the attack. But had it been deployed, the carnage at Robb Elementary School — where 19 children and two teachers were murdered — might have been, unimaginably, worse.
Fap fap fap.
When they say “how many dead children will it take to get you to support gun control?” one must read it not as a sincere inquiry but rather as a threat and a fantasy.
“And go enjoy this magnificent Thursday. I’ll be burning a bunch of 93 octane.”
Preferable to a bunch of #2 diesel?
He doesn’t want to have to pee in that side tank based on yesterday’s links (iirc).
Yeah, diesel is a nightmare right now.
Tell me about it.
On the bright side, it’s probably cheaper right now than it ever will be in the future. So enjoy!
You shut your whore mouth!
I’m hoping to burn some 100 octane low lead this weekend. Smell and taste the sweet, sweet death and mental degradation from my exhaust!
It used to be the hundred dollar hamburger. How much would you say it is now?
Pretty soon that’s going to be what you and I will pay to drive a car to the local burger place and eat there.
So I’d say pre Brandon the difference was 5x or so. So figure on the $500 hamburger at the local airport greasy spoon.
Not the $250 martini?
I’m doing that at COTA in 6 weeks.
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I was going to make a joke about Quordle To Onion To Carrot, but I thought it might be too obscure. So I won’t.
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For the record, I got a 21 yesterday, but wasn’t able to post. (3-5-6-7)
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I thought I had 3 options for LL…guessed the most common of the three. Oh, look at that, there’s a fourth option I didn’t think of.
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Nice place, but… you might want to wait a few days, to see if it’s still there
Getting to the grocery store will be an issue if the bridge washes away (again).
I think the gods got really pissed off about changing the name of that mountain.
That shed though…
I don’t think I’ve ever seen rural brutalist architecture.
Getting to the grocery store will be an issue if the bridge washes away (again)
Maybe you need a built-in boathouse?
Not once.
You are just bitter because you got zoned out of your dream home.
*Note to non-Minnesodans: Phyllis Kahn was a progressive kook for decades in the Minnesoda Legislature. She was the queen of talking big but making sure she and her cronies were always covered via some loophole. She was finally unseated by Ilhan Omar.
But two provisions, one focused on incentivizing states to implement violence prevention programs, and another dealing with closing the so-called “boyfriend loophole,” are now plaguing negotiations, chief Republican negotiator John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Wednesday.
“If we can settle these two issues, I think we’re on our way, but I am concerned now given the time it takes and the need to complete our work really by tomorrow that we’ve got to settle these issues,” Cornyn told reporters Wednesday morning.
I’ll note that constitutional limitations on the government are not apparently an issue for the elected officials that supposedly are beholden via an oath to said constitution.
Oath keeping is bad, don’t you know?
Ford recalls 2.9 million vehicles over issue that may cause them to roll while parked
The ideal is to only *look* like it’s moving while sitting still.
It’s part of their heritage.
The little warning label that saved Ford from a 23-million-vehicle recall
diesel is a nightmare right now.
remember when “cheap fuel” was the big selling point for diesel engines in passenger cars?
Can we make biofuel from ‘member berries? Cause I ‘member…. (I also ‘member that the diesel Olds my sister drove really lacked power back in the late ’80s…).
I had a little diesel pickup back in the day that literally took a minute to get to 60 and topped out at 65. The furious looks from other motorists while they were passing me was a sight to behold. I miss the damn thing though.
Those GM diesels were horrid.
Chick juggling balls.
That’s like magic. It looks like she’s breaking the laws of physics.
She’s amazing. Unbelievable hand work.
But remember, people accused of crimes at the Jan 6 riot are still not getting bail.
I don’t know what part of they violated the citadel of American democracy is unclear with you extremist, right-wing, bigot, fascist insurrectionists.
Sloopy just wants to give me that massive coronary from bottled up rage anyway…. So so many people that should be fired and or jailed for the mistreatment and violations of the Constitution… and so so many clapping seals lapping it up… I should go take a walk before the vein in my forehead starts throbbing.
They pretty much killed this guy.
https://trendingpolitics.com/sickening-jan-6th-prisoner-now-in-dire-straights-due-to-denial-of-cancer-treatment-wiley/
New CNN boss Chris Licht’s latest crackdown at network BANS staff from calling Trump’s election fraud claims ‘the big lie’ because it is a Democratic party catchphrase
Never mind the fact that the Dems using the phrase are the Nazis in this scenario.
Goebbels has been reconstructed much as Orwell – as the how-to guide.
“Kim seems to be missing some crayons from her box,” another user wrote. “I’d be damned if someone told me I could not adopt due to owning a gun. You are putting politics above the pets that need homes. Bravo for the ignorance, I needed a laugh tonight.”
There is nothing that the left will not politicize.
What are the odds our esteemed Sect’y of the Interior declares her intent to leave all damaged Yellowstone infrastructure unrepaired, since people and their contrivances are a pestilential abomination in its natural beauty?
Left to nature it’ll be covered with vegetation in a few years and be mostly out of sight.
Loved the scientific consensus on how long Mount St. Helens would be a hellish view. At least a generation as I recall.
On last year’s FreedomFest Road Trip, I stopped by Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The South Unit has a loop road around the park. Part of that loop road is closed due to the road collapsing. If I remember correctly, erosion wore away what was underneath the road, and there goes the road.
A group of us tourists were talking with a Park Ranger. The closed section of the loop road came up. It’s been closed for quite a while. The Park Service has a plan to fix it, but it has to go through all sorts of environmental approvals and other reviews before the Park Service could put a contract to fix the road out to bid.
The Ranger seemed very cynical and pessimistic about the prospects of fixing and reopening the road.
(I also ‘member that the diesel Olds my sister drove really lacked power back in the late ’80s…).
Haha. GM pretty much singlehandedly destroyed the market for diesel passenger cars in this country for decades.
Don’t repurpose gasoline engines to diesels is the lesson there.
Et tu Isuzu PUP?
Yep, the thing had what was originally a forklift engine in it. I wish I still had the thing but I sold it and bought a new pickup when I got my first career type job.
My Dad had one. Pretty much all three of us kids learned to drive on it. He drove it until it was irreparably broken. No idea how many miles.
Replied to the right person, wrong part of the thread dammit.
I remember helping two different people replace Olds 350 diesel engines.
This was a weirdo Diesel car a friend of mine had in college. I had no idea they existed until I saw his.
http://davidsclassiccars.com/ford/91427-1984-ford-tempo-gl-20-diesel-survivor-great-shape-rare-5-speed-turn-key.html
The Uvalde Shooter Owned a Device That Makes AR-15s Even More Deadly
Velociraptor attachment?
Hellfire devices turn make semi-automatic weapons fire almost as fast as their banned, fully automatic cousins.
You can fire faster by pulling the trigger faster. This point is irrelevant, especially given the circumstances of the shooting.
Why are they legal?
Because it’s illegal for the government to make illegal and would serve no purpose relating to preventing crime?
We are now carrying out on-the-ground raids in Syria.
Let’s go, Brandon.
All the seditious bastards who lied to Trump and kept troops in Syria should hang.
There’s not a hornet’s nest that exists that we aren’t stupid enough to stick our dicks into.
To my point about oath keeping now being a bad thing.
Speaking of the actual crimes of individuals that are supposed to be subordinate to the elected executive…
Pulleeeeeeeaze!
The Ukranian impeachment was all started because some uptight light colonel didn’t like Trump’s policies there. Of course that should be illegal that some pol not follow the enlightened guidance of the Deep State.
I think Colonel Uptight was the useful idiot in the strategy to “accuse your enemies of what you’re doing.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In5UeN7PT3Q
Miss one day and I already forgot how to post! That was supposed to be the Daily Ray of Sunshine
Almost the story of how I got in the Army. Girl friend missed one small dot and away I went. Not true but a good story.
Now they are
cullingkilling the cattle. (Sean hardest hit)Apparently this is video of the 3000 cattle that died in SW Kansas. Original tweet said heat, farmer I talked in Kansas said it wasn’t the heat.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Antifa were sabotaging the food supply. They’re crazy enough to try.
*sheds a single tear*
They’ve said repeatedly that ending fossil fuels is the goal.
“At what point do these [gas] prices…become unsustainable?”
ENERGY SEC. GRANHOLM: “Yeah, I think the prices are unsustainable…there’s not a quick fix. However, your point about also accelerating our progress toward clean energy is very, very important.”
The Kool-Aid will be consumed by all, whether you want it or not.
It’s Flavor Aid, damn it!
/s Kraft-Heinz
Sigh. Green Kool-Aid is my favorite. I’m still mad they don’t make a sugar free version of it.
Do binary triggers, hellfire things, or even select fire make much of a difference in deadliness? Seems to me well-placed single shots probably are worse than random full or rapid semi-automatic shooting. I know we have some IPSC guys here. Would you be better if you weren’t restricted to one trigger pull = one bullet?
I doubt it, but I have limited time shooting any semi-automatic rifles. And for me ammo is too expensive to spray it away.
My not-so-informed opinion is that anything that increased the rate of fire will make the barrel rise and throw off your aim. Unless the person is shooting into a big crowd like, say, a concert in Vegas.
Once on Mythbusters they did an episode about gun myths. They had a handgun expert on and he was shooting accurately and reloading incredibly fast. Of course this was in a controlled setting, so he wasn’t under stress. But someone with a lot of skill and experience like that could do a lot of damage in a very short amount of time. Thankfully I can’t think of one mass shooter who had that kind of skill.
Transition from one target to the next takes longer than the trigger pulls, which is why Steel Challenge was invented.
No.
Handheld full auto fire is useful for breaking contact with an enemy force, or for area denial, or in submachine guns where there’s very little recoil and I can feed the target half a mag to make sure that he stays down.
The determining factors in mass killing are time on site, and control of the perimeter (i.e. do the victims have any means to escape, or can they only hunker down and wait for help that isn’t coming.) The weapons used are nearly irrelevant.
No. I shoot automatic weapons on a regular basis, and while, with training and experience, it is easy to place repeated automatic fire on target, at close range and in a controlled environment, single aimed shots are just as effective.
As EvilSheldon points out, rate and mode of fire is completely unimportant. Perhaps if you were firing at a massed crowd at medium ranges, rapid unaimed fire would be effective, but it’s really not at all relevant.
Why am I suddenly reminded of volleys of musket fire?
Do binary triggers, hellfire things, or even select fire make much of a difference in deadliness?
Bullet. Hose.
Unless you are carrying a prodigious amount of ammo, or firing into a large crowd, they could well reduce your total body count.
I would far rather face a lunatic with a tricked-out AR and a trigger dingus at 50 yards than an experienced, competent rifleman with a bolt-action .30-06 and a good scope at 300 yards.
You can even get rid of the scope on the .30-06, and I’d still take the guy with the tricked-out AR.
True enough. A good rifleman should be able to hit a human-sized target with irons at that range.
Which is why I don’t consider myself a good rifleman. I just haven’t put the time in. Hell, I would need an ideal sight picture to shoot at a deer at that range, with my MOA .300 and variable power scope.
I used to be a pretty damn good rifleman. I still have the skills, but my eyes ain’t what they used to be. I’m a lot more reliant on optics than I was.
But with Thunder Speaker, my favorite, a rifle that I built myself and handload every round for, I’m pretty damn certain I can hit a grapefruit at 200 yards. And that’s .338 Mag rounds, too.
That is, of course, a rifle I’ve carried in the game fields for twenty-five years and with which I have extensive experience.
“An unlicensed air rifle”
https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/crime/camelon-lollipop-man-used-unlicensed-air-rifle-to-shoot-at-squirrel-in-his-home-3691277
Fookin snitches ought get the gibbet, aye?
That is one noisy neighbor. I shoot a couple meals worth of squirrels every year out of the apple tree in my back yard and you’d have to be very close and know exactly what you were listening for to know when I had taken a shot.
You cannot have dangerous things lying about willy nilly
I can. I is an adult.
“It’s as simple as that.”He said the airgun was a .22 calibre, and “not a powerful, high-velocity weapon”.
Sheriff Simon Collins QC fined Barrett £350, and ordered the forfeiture of the air rifle and pellets.
He said the maximum sentence he could have imposed would have been 12 months imprisonment
Wow. As a kid who had an RWS model 34 in .22 I had no idea I was doing limeyland crimes when I went to war with the backyard woodchucks.
Dude, that’s a serious crime just like posting insensitive things on Twitter, and unlike raping twelve year-olds.
I had one of those in 0.177! Great little guns, and an even greater logo.
Welcome to NJ.
Air rifles and pistols are considered firearms. Although most prosecutors don’t charge such offenses they can and have.
TSA considers Nerf toys firearms, at least per signage posted last time I flew out of Vegas.
It is hard to believe this is the country that once conquered much of the known world, but given what’s happening closer to home, it seems the spirit is fleeting.
Hot Fuzz: Illegal Weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wlUwRqQgDA
Russia caught themselves some dumbasses.
It’s going to cost a lot of frozen reserve currency and seized yachts for these guys to not come home in a box.
I wonder whether they’re just straight up mercs or ideological zealots. Whatever the case it was a dumb move, the Ukraine treats the foreigners as cannon fodder.
And now it will all be “save me Uncle Sam”, and “you can’t kill an American no matter how stupid he is”.
Surgical precision
A senior Islamic State militant group leader and bomb maker was captured in a raid in Syria, according to the U.S. military.
Officials did not identify the person detained in the operation, which took place in the very early morning hours Thursday local time in northern Syria.
“The captured individual is an experienced bomb maker and operational facilitator who became one of the top leaders of Daesh’s Syrian branch,” a statement from the U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force — Operation Inherent Resolve said.
Daesh is the Arabic acronym used by the U.S. military and others to describe the Islamic State group.
There were no injuries to coalition forces, the task force said in the statement. No civilians were harmed during the operation and there was no damage to coalition aircraft or assets, it said.
You’re next, Putin.
Good God, we are still fucking around in Syria? Did we strike some kind of deal with Assad?
American foreign policy and military adventures are nothing if not schizophrenic.
Last I checked, we were still arming Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Apparently we’re not bothering him, so he doesn’t bother with us.
RE: Music links
My personal favorite Joe Walsh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to7B2hN2WE0
You dissapoint me, robc.
I Like Big T*ts – Joe Walsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc69L0V1alg
Obviously NSFW, unless you are an ornithologist
Research Spotlight: Collagen protein isn’t great for promoting muscle hypertrophy
Research Spotlight articles share concise breakdowns of interesting studies. The study reviewed is “Whey Protein Supplementation Is Superior to Leucine-Matched Collagen Peptides to Increase Muscle Thickness During a 10-Week Resistance Training Program in Untrained Young Adults.”
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/research-spotlight-collagen/
Seems legit.
Per federal source, DHS is preparing to discipline multiple horseback Border Patrol agents who were accused of “whipping” Haitian migrants in Del Rio last summer. I’m told DHS will imminently allege “administrative violations”, agents will be able to respond @FoxNews
Per federal source, this announcement is expected to come down any day now. It’s unclear what “administrative violations” the BP agents will be accused of, but they are not being accused of any criminal conduct. The horseback unit involved is based out of Carrizo Springs, TX.
It has been nearly 9 months since this incident took place. The agents have been taken off their normal duties and have not been allowed to have contact w/ migrants since.
President Biden assured the public at the time that “there will be consequences” for the agents involved.
I hope all of the Border Patrol goes on strike or quits in response.
What difference would it make at this point?
A sympathetic story about Tundra’s old neighbor. The human ear wasn’t designed for that much chattering.
Fitting – Escape from Noise by Negativland
The shadow government persists.
For more than a year, Democratic lawmakers and like-minded advocates have pleaded with Joe Biden to create a “gun czar” to address the epidemic of violence.
Each time, the president’s team pushed back with force, contending it has the perfect person already in place, someone with command over the issue and extraordinary access to the president himself.
That person is Susan Rice.
As director of the Domestic Policy Council, Rice leads a team of roughly a dozen staffers examining ways to push through modest gun reforms should Congress again falter, and explore new executive orders even if lawmakers succeed.
Ruling by decree is ok when Dems do it.
It’s democracy – hurr durr hurr.
From Drake’s link:
The official added that the Biden administration discouraged Americans from going to Ukraine and joining Kiev’s troops.
“It is a war zone,” he said. “And if you feel passionate about supporting Ukraine, there’s any number of other ways to do that that are safer and just as effective.”
Send cash to an approved and vetted “charity”. The Big Guy needs his baksheesh.
Sorry, I already gave at the IRS.
The war zone that senior American officials and politicians keep visiting like a vacation destination?
More like an old-school Swiss bank with unlimited withdrawals.
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About time! <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/st-paul-moves-closer-to-giving-reparations-for-black-residents
About time we get more <a href= round here?
Uffda! What is going on today?
Anyhow, I was going to make a pithy comment about the city of St. Paul – known center of slavery – is finally doing something about it.
So the city that is built on land that they stole from the Dakotas is going to pay descendants of slaves (which were here in tiny numbers)? OK, I guess we have a ruling on the Victim Ladder.
The blood spilled in the Civil War was payment enough and that guy can fuck the fuck off.
400 years of slavery
You might think 1865 minus 1619 is considerably less than 400, you might even think 1619 is itself too early to serve as a representative starting year, but you have to ask yourself, are you a cishet white male colonizer?
Using math to debunk talking points is racist and probably homophobic and misogynistic as well.
Umm, didn’t Minnesota come out of the Northwest Territory where slavery was outlawed in 1787?
1619 was before 1787, so you are wrong.
Oh c’mon I’m a white-cis-male shitlord talking about actual history, so of COURSE I’m wrong.
Talk about moving goalposts.
What happens when “reparations” fails to accomplish the new goal they have set for us?
They’ll reparations harder.
AMF – ante [up again] motherf***er.
So, cut welfare, encourage the nuclear family, strongly discourage the urban ghetto culture, and incentivize staying in school?
I learned recently that there was an Irish slave trade as well. Plenty of Micks in St. Paul – they should petition for reparations as well.
Dublin was founded by Vikings as a port to export captured Irish slaves. It was a universal institution throughout the world 200 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk8vUP1yewg
Youtube recommended me a poker stream form The Lodge in Texas with Liv Boeree and Doug Polk. Liv Boeree was popular on the poker circuit back in the day being one of the few young attractive women with skill. I noticed that she is still hot despite pushing 37 years old. Also I watched some Lodge streams and texas poker is insane. There is no two cards those people won’t three-bet. Or bluff all the way. I assume there is money to be made provided you have a deep bankroll and can emotionally handle the massive inevitable swings. Because you can go down 10k real fast.
Some other interesting live poker streams are Texas Card House, Hustler casino, and Live at the Bike (although LATB has kind of been usurped by Hustler, they are both in the LA area).
Liv Boeree is great. She has a degree in physics.
Progjection is always more fun when it’s riddled with sanctimonious references to people and concepts that leftists hate.
“2022 is going to be the most consequential election of our time. As the reporting has shown, you’ve got hundreds of these people who are literally running on the idea this I’m going to overturn an election if it doesn’t go our way.”
He added, “We have a republic if we can keep it. I think in 2022, we’re going to answer Ben Franklin’s refrain whether or not we can keep this republic. If Republicans do win this election, I think to Dowd’s point in 2024. We’re going to lose democracy.”
Belcher concluded, “You know what African Americans, African American men who are showing the lowest motivation to turn out in this midterm, you think things are tough for you right now. Where do you think you’re going to stand in a country in America where there’s no democracy, where they have absolutely no interest at all in respecting your rights? We’ve got to let these people understand they’ve got skin in this game. We’ve got to scare the hell out of them because, quite frankly, they should be afraid that we’re going to lose our democracy.”
The GOP hasn’t got the spine to end democracy.
Well which is it? A republic or a democracy?
Make up your mind.
I don’t think forcing them to state their preference between Athenian-style democracy and Roman-style republic is all that useful. Both were failures in the end.
Nothing lasts forever.
Yes, but my broader argument is, what does getting them on the record as supporting one versus the other accomplish? If they all declare their undying love of direct democracy a la Athens, do we gain something from the unmasking?
Humpty-dumpty quantum politics – words mean what they want and are completely different and you are never allowed to understand or question.
You may only obey.
They want whichever system gives them the results they want. If democracy doesn’t get them legalized gay marriage in California after multiple attempts, run to the courts. If SCOTUS doesn’t give them what they want, pack the court until the majority votes their way.
Voting has never been easier.
Anyone you have to beg to go vote is not someone that should be voting.
Every retard in politics believes there is a vast majority of the non-voting public that is 100% behind the retard.
Homeopathy in reverse.
One of my favorite little ironies: listening to 92Q in the Baltimore area, music is low-grade trash, glorifying sex and crime, but periodically the station owner comes on to remind you to wear a mask and get vaccinated, and the DJ reminds you to go vote.
My employees are usually undergrads and occasionally I regale them with stories about The Before Times, The Long, Long Ago. I explained radio to a hushed audience:
“Imagine listening to songs you don’t want to hear in the hopes you may hear a song you do want to hear and between it all are ads played at 30% higher volume and a moron tells you repeatedly you are on the channel that you already know you are on.”
Forget your fiction, it’s your non-fiction that’s more depressing.
They also never believe me that Clint Eastwood starred in two movies with an orangutan.
“Right turn, Clyde!”
Fun story: We actually know the guy who owned and trained that orangutan.
We’ll be right back after this pause for station identification. You’re reading Glibertarians.com, your source for biased snark and nut punches.
“WINO time (bing bong) five minutes past the big hour of five o’clock!”
No black person should want to experience the horrors of the lowest unemployment figures for blacks in the history of the country again.
Looking at recent polling, I’m not sure he really wants more minorities to turn out this fall.
It’s funny how Republicans are going to destroy democracy, yet in the same day we’ve got stories of Biden appointing a gun czar who’s going to use executive actions to get around democracy.
I like how an election going against you is the end of democracy. Isn’t that exactly democracy?
2022 is going to be the most consequential election of our time.
I’ve heard that before.
My consistently appreciating Tesla. Thanks Brandon!
June 15th Price Increases
I can sell it now three years later for more than I paid for it new.
“George Washington University will drop ‘Colonials’ nickname for its athletics teams after branding term offensive despite majority of just 1% calling for it to be scrapped”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10922095/George-Washington-University-drops-longtime-Colonials-nickname-deeming-term-offensive.html
Threat to democracy.
“Abbott shuts down its Michigan baby formula plant AGAIN after severe storms flooded parts of the building”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10923511/Abbott-shuts-Michigan-baby-formula-plant-severe-storms-flood-parts-building.html
OFFS!
After the clean up the FDA inspections should only take another six months.
No biggie.
Is there nothing that Climate Change cannot affect!
Foochy tests positive.
Will there be candle light vigils?
PrayerDrum circles?“One in FIVE pregnancies was aborted in 2020, new research shows, with 930,160 terminations carried out: Demand for procedure rises for first time in 30 years as Supreme Court moves to end Roe v. Wade
An exact breakdown on how advanced each of the terminated pregnancies was has not been released.
But Guttmacher researchers did determine that 54 per cent of all terminations which took place in 2020 were the result of the so-called ‘abortion pill.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10921451/One-FIVE-pregnancies-aborted-2020-930-160-fetuses-terminated-new-research-shows.html
Safe, legal, and rare?
Fucking GOP. They are going to fuck themselves with this gun control BS. It will remind all us rubes that they cannot be trusted and why bother showing up to vote for them this fall?
Yep. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in November.
Some of them are paying attention. This race is the one to replace Portman, who signed on for common sense infringement, and isn’t running for re-election.
Yep. If Mehmet Oz (FOR FUCK’S SAKE I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE THAT QUACK WON HIS PRIMARY) loses in November, it will be because of people like me, voting third party or write in or not at all because the Republicans are fucking stupid as shit.
But they showed us all witch ones need to be primaried/removed. Razor ranted about this the other day.
Germany, France, Finland and few other countries banned the Moderns vax for people under 30.
FDA just passed it 21-0 for use in 6 months to 5 year olds.
Wait, what?
Moderna.
The Pfizer and Moderna are almost identical mRNA.
The difference is the dosage of the vaccine. Moderna did trials at much higher dosages with higher side effects.
I’ve no idea what the infant dosages vis a vis Pfizer versus Moderna are, but I know Pfizer is significantly lower pediatric versus adult.
Enjoy your myocarditis kids.
This is proof that no matter what studies show, no matter how bad this garbage is—it is going to go in as many arms as possible no matter what anyone does. Can maybe someone ask why its not safe for those European countries but safe for out toddlers?
This gets fun when they make them mandatory.
CNN – We’ve got him now!
Only one of them? I don’t even get out of bed for less than 200 signatures from “retired” officials.
If this was “well developed”, then that’s all the more laughable at Trumpian incompetence.
Are you mad that he isn’t Machiavellian or that he is but isn’t good enough?
I mad at the stupidity, which knows no partisan allegiance.
Lol. I wonder what a less well developed plan would look like
Well, for one, the FBI and USCP wouldn’t have facilitated it.
“Well, that’s what they told me on TV.”
So Well-Developed that, in infinite parallel universes, it succeeded!
Sure, despite all the evidence to the exact contrary.
it is absolutely unbelievable that i am just now seeing an image of the guy who emailed everyone at google to tell them his AI was sentient and then got put on leave from the company
https://twitter.com/punished_cait/status/1537192595469783045
stylish
I have to admit I would not have thought of something like this…
https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1537329555081412610
The Romanian HGTV?
Right next to the metal bed frame too.
Why not just use the bed frame for even more devices?
Sigh. I just got McConnahay (or whatevs)’s gun control scene sent to me by another relative.
I am probably in trouble because I wrote back “Pretend that he was talking about abortion. Every time he talked about people in the middle agreeing on common sense laws, swap in abortion for guns and see if you still agree”.
Perfect. That should get you out of Thanksgiving.
Even Jordan Peterson was damp after watching that performance. I thought it was disgusting.
I thought it was hilarious because they literally brought a joke/meme to life.
Someone should send His Holiness’s reply to Peterson, but swap speech for abortion
Peterson’s a sucker, a good guy for the most part but easily taken in by bullshit.
That was a whole lot of emoting and nothing else.
YOU STUPID RUBES, YOU OBVIOUSLY DON’T CARE THAT CHILDREN DIED
From CNN:
Fauci has been working nonstop during the pandemic. In May, he said he hadn’t had a day off since Covid-19 came to the US.
He has worked tirelessly to destroy self-ownership and establish government’s power to control every aspect of life.
Let us offer him our thanks.
All those appearances on TV can be exhausting. Being a narcissist is hard work.
Some of those green rooms didn’t even have proper spreads for him to nosh on.
Was distracted so didn’t fill the tank at an appropriate time and had to refuel at an exit 20-something hole in the wall.
Non-ethanol gas was $6.209. At home it’s $5.559
eh what is 70 cents these days
Full English by Michelle B
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1536242259682811904
I am fascinated how some English prefer tinned tomatoes to fresh ones for breakfast. Like why… Though I assume the tomatoes you get in England are shit.
Salt and oil, I guess
Breakfast of champions by Sully B
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1536239019373232129
ehm this is also breakfast it seems
I saw a commie tweet calming that before 1990 commie Easter Europeans ate more calories on average than westerners and I am thinking how? In Romania you cued for hours for each morsel
Simple. Commies lie.
Capitalism = excess production = food waste = many calories wasted
Socialism = planned production = no food waste = all calories consumed
My best guess as to their line of argumentation
All the chocolate eggs, obviously.
Fucking Cadbury…
I’m back!
Not sure if this falls under “zany hijinx” or “catastrophe.”
I boarded Lily, and apparently one of the dozens of dogs there taught her a few tricks, because the chipmunk catch rate has jumped to 100% since she came back.
This morning, right as it was time to go to work, she caught another one, and decided to bring it inside to chew on it in the A/C. As I was chasing her back outside, she dropped it behind the couch, and when I went to dispose of it, it was gone. I moved all the furniture but couldn’t find it or even flush it from hiding.
Either I have a live chipmunk in my house for the next several hours or a dying one. I guess the best case scenario is it moved over to the glass sliding door to escape and dies there. I am somewhat dreading what I’ll find when I get home.
No you are not. You are just imagining things
Just enjoy watching her break stuff chasing it around the house.
I boarded Lily, and apparently one of the dozens of dogs there taught her a few tricks
Even in dog prison . . . .
Don’t worry will make up once we produce them in volume!
Ford’s Mustang Mach-E Profit Wiped Out by Commodity Costs
According to our model, our model is correct
Extreme rainfall rates and rapid snowmelt prompted the flash flooding in Yellowstone National Park early this week, washing out roads and bridges in the park and causing “significant” damage to the town of Gardiner, Montana, at the park’s entrance.
Abnormally warm temperatures and torrential rain triggered a wave of snowmelt over the weekend which produced nearly a foot of water runoff by Monday.
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Scientists predicted events like this week’s flash flooding would happen more often in the Yellowstone area as global temperatures climb. A report published just last year on the future of Yellowstone concluded the climate crisis would lead to more rainfall and rapid snowmelt due to extreme spring and summer warmth.
In the report published last year, scientists with the US Geological Survey, Montana State University and the University of Wyoming examined how the climate has changed from 1950 to 2018, and how it would continue until the end of the century based on projected greenhouse gas scenarios from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Two days later, it was snowing in the park. Proof positive global warming will kill us all.
We have driven Gaia insane!
And when the caldera explodes, that ,too, will be blamed on mankind.
Dear Client: Please do not make me put “Fauci” in my Word dictionary.
That right there is a macro-aggression and should not be tolerated.
Fauci is not allowed by Quordle (yet).
Periodic reminder the Mao’s hygiene was poor by Western standards
https://twitter.com/zetalyrae/status/1537342802363035648
I could tolerate sponge baths from two young dancers pretending to be nurses.
“Today Twitter permanently suspended my friend @galexybrane for citing @pfizer’s own press release. Guess that means Pfizer is next, right? Is that how this works?”
https://twitter.com/laurajfagan/status/1537285394219139074
Fraid not, hon.
Cornyn, according to numerous participants, repeatedly assured his colleagues that there would be no federal mandate to implement the laws.
No Federal Mandate for Red Flag Laws, but they’re going to use Federal money to bribe states to implement Red Flag Laws. Heh. Clown World.
The problem involves a bushing that attaches the shift cable to the transmission, which may degrade or detach, according to a recall notice posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Minor oversight.
But had it been deployed, the carnage at Robb Elementary School — where 19 children and two teachers were murdered — might have been, unimaginably, worse.
Even in the trigger-happy US of A, machine guns are supposed to be illegal.
Go fuck yourself. “Might have been” – go fuck yourself. Machine guns are legal. Go Fuck Yourself.
No Federal Mandate for Red Flag Laws
Yet. But funding them is federal approval/support, so how long until we tie, say, federal funding of some kind to them?
The Repubs are morons. They are extinguishing any minimal glimmer of a chance that I might have voted for one this fall.
The dems could spoil the whole deal. Nothing is even written yet.
No Federal Mandate for Red Flag Laws, but they’re going to use Federal money to bribe states to implement Red Flag Laws. Heh. Clown World.
DEMOCRACY! We couldn’t stop those states from implementing red flag laws if we wanted to.
When is SCOTUS going to get around to putting a stop to that shit? There are already a bunch of “red flag” laws.
We’ll make them redder! And then we won’t enforce them just like the gun laws in CA!!!
In addition to red flag laws, we’re adding scarlet and crimson.
I’m getting these again:
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What were you doing/reading/attempting?
Our new server isn’t finished being setup. It takes 24hrs to setup the entire site on a new server and then a couple days for things to propagate thoroughly.
I was trying to post a quote with a link.
Ok thanks. Adding to my list of things to look into.
What internet browser are you using?
Firefox
How great is it that this post showed up on the homepage without being logged in? 🙂
Thanks, I noticed that.
Muchos gracias for that and all the other improvements
seconded.
“This clip is ASTONISHING.
Energy Sec. @JenGranholm demands energy companies to make massive investments to increase oil supply while simultaneously saying they want to shut them down over the next 5-10 years.
WHAT IS THIS WHITE HOUSE?!”
https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1537214216989552641
Did you know decreasing supply can raise prices?
*waives magic wand*
And let me just say, John, we really want to see us move to clean energy, but we also need to see this increase right now, and we are asking the oil and gas companies as well to diversify and make sure that part of the — that they become diversified energy companies, to be able to produce other means of clean energy. Because they have huge deep pockets, they have a big ability to invest in the future, as well as investing right now so that we don’t see oil and gas causing the inflation numbers and people being hurt every day.
“they have huge deep pockets”
Wouldn’t keeping lots of cash on hand run afoul of their fiduciary duty to shareholders?
Lots of revenue != lots of money to burn
Also, methinks the bigger problem is that not enough of their “deep pockets” is going to giving 10% to the big guy.
This is the perfect illustration of the left’s thinking. They are the top men, they are far superior to the rest of us, and if everyone just did as they said, the world would be perfect.
The future of energy is 🌈+ 🦄💨.
Nu clear energy. Maybe separating clear makes it sound better
“Because they have huge deep pockets, they have a big ability to invest in the future…”
Sooo, profit is good now?
Here’s a vision of the future, happening now in Australia.
It’s not a long piece but it explains that, basically, it’s a “market” problem. BUT, read how they define market: it’s got about every talking point you can manage. There’s a market manager, there’s only one market, markets can be suspended, price caps. So, classic statist situation: place all kinds of constraints on the “market” then claim it is not working and substitute more central management.
And, of course, “She said moving to wind and solar, which was around $40 to $60 a megawatt hour to generate, far below a $300 cap, would protect the nation against “volatile international coal and gas prices.”
I don’t understand why international coal prices should effect Australia which produces huge quantities – unless it’s exporting a lot.
Caveat: given the Australian climate, solar would probably be viable in a lot of places.
Price caps causing shortages? No way! Who could ever have predicted that?
I am almost sure that in Econ 101 they teach that price is entirely arbitrary, supply is according to ability, and demand is only what people really need.
That sounds like AOC’s degree.
Because they have huge deep pockets
While the left hand is demanding that they invest their profits in alternative energy, the lefter hand is trying to confiscate those profits.
I was thinking about those “You Will” AT&T ads from the 90’s, and I think the only thing that hasn’t become pretty commonplace is checking out groceries instantly without scanning. It’s being done by Amazon Go, but hasn’t become mainstream yet. Probably just a matter of time, though. It’s truly amazing how much those ads got right.
Speaking of the domestic terror threat…
Full statement from Jane’s Revenge, announcing that it’s “open season” on pro-life pregnancy centers.
Future measures “may not come in the form of something so easily cleaned up as fire and graffiti,” the terrorist group threatens.
Just a note to “Jane’s Revenge”: arson or attempted arson of an occupied structure is generally considered to be an offense justifying the use of deadly force in self-defense. IANAL, This is Not Legal Advice.
The crackdown on domestic terror seems ridiculously one-sided.
seemsis
Parents who don’t want their kid exposed to sexual content in school are terrorists, call in the FBI.
Calling on people to burn down buildings and murder people is just peaceful protest, leave them alone.
Democracy sucks
Less than 24 hours after the GOP flipped a congressional district in South Texas, several Latino Democrats cornered their campaign chief on the House floor with a fervent plea: It’s time for the party to make a crucial course correction.
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“I hope the DCCC learns their lesson with this before it happens across the country,” said Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who due to redistricting will face GOP Rep.-elect Mayra Flores this fall in a redrawn district.
“They have just forgotten about the brown people on the border,” Gonzalez continued. “And that’s basically what it is. I’m not going to try to sugarcoat it anymore. They are taking Latinos in South Texas for granted.”
When the House convened Wednesday afternoon, several members approached DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney. Democratic Reps. Sylvia Garcia and Veronica Escobar, whose Texas districts are also predominantly Latino, were among them. Garcia said she requested a meeting next week and that Escobar, Gonzalez and fellow Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar and Joaquin Castro all plan to attend.
“I don’t know that it’s an intervention, but it’s gonna be a hard talk,” she said. “It’s going to be a good, healthy family discussion.”
Pay no attention to the policies of the Democratic Party. Those brown bodies are our rightful property.
So triggered. Literally shaking.
Convenient.
Nearly 40% of law enforcement agencies nationwide, including the New York City Police Department and Los Angeles Police Department, failed to report their 2021 crime data to the FBI, according to data provided to Axios Local from a partnership with The Marshall Project.
Why it matters: That will result in a data gap that experts say makes it harder to analyze crime trends and fact check claims politicians make about crime, reports The Marshall Project’s Weihua Li.
That’s fucked.
If they’re failing to report those stats, they’re probably failing to report a lot of other things, including data that would go into the databases that feed the National Instant Check System, which could explain in part how so many “prohibited persons” are able to pas NICS checks for buying firearms.
But we need to add more layers of thigns that will prohibit people from buying firearms so we can not check those things too.
Senior Democrats, including Maloney, say the situation is more complicated. They argue the GOP spent heavily for a symbolic, short-lived victory because the seat will disappear due to a redistricting quirk. The new version of the district will be much more winnable for Democrats.
“Look, I think the Republicans spent millions of dollars to win a seat that’s going away. We’re going to win this seat when it matters,” Maloney said in a brief interview. “You never like to lose, and I understand why people were upset by that. I think Republicans burned a lot of money, and we’re going to end up with that seat.”
Have no fear. They’re playing the long game.
Ok, groomer.
“Drag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says at a civil rights conference in Lansing while speaking out against what she describes as efforts to divide people.
“A drag queen for every school,” she adds.
Not wrong, but they have their place, like all other forms of entertainment. Or, you know, everything ever. Wouldn’t sell apples in Best Buy, now would you?
Maybe i would i have no idea what best buy usually sells
Best Buy
Free shippimg over 35
Extended warranties.
I’ll take two
Lol, well played.
No, you have to go to the Apple Store. 😆
Where’s Swiss when I need a narrowed gaze?
…
Switzerland?
*narrows gaze*
::takes a bow::
Well, would you look at that!
Who would’ve guessed that pedos were behind this shit?
One bad apple
Several people involved with promoting drag queens for kids have been arrested for pedo shit recently.
Charles C.W. Cooke noted that and asked (in disbelief) when has that statement (for every school) ever made sense?
You will endorse the perversity or else.
That is the point now isn’t it? They continually push the boundaries of acceptable behavior until they find what divides the populace. Then they rant and rave about how one side is nothing but bigoted troglodytes.
I tried to post that but it wouldn’t let me.
Oh…
Since day one, the Biden administration has been on a campaign to end the oil and gas industry.
Now they’re blaming oil refineries for not doing a “patriotic duty.”
Drag queens are fun
Not as much fun as non-winged sprint cars on dirt ovals.
*Value is subjective. Your mileage may vary.
Electric cars i hope
Figure 8 tracks make for more fun crashes.
Why do you hate poor people?
Introducing the Assault Weapon Excise Act.
My bill would impose a 1000% excise tax on the manufacturer, importer, or producer of assault weapons and high capacity magazines. It’s designed to bypass the filibuster and win Senate passage with 50 votes.
Seems legit.
https://twitter.com/MAJTOURE/status/1537409140062097408/photo/1
Mass shooters biggest weakness: buying on credit.
Seems to me that if I’m planning to go out in blaze of bullets, running up my credit line isn’t much of a worry.
Anyone know where that kid got $9K yet?
Can we use it to recover the $50 billion we sent to the Ukraine?
And [real] gun thefts go through the roof.
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
I patiently await the mil/LE/.gov exemptions.
“I don’t mean us!”
“The moment you start getting people to say, ‘Well, it’s ok to vote Republican,’ then the next time will be easier,” said Cuellar, who will be defending his own South Texas turf in November against what’s expected to be an onslaught of GOP spending.
Oh
my
GOD!
They’re normalizing Repubicanism.
MurderVote Republicanoneonce, and the rest come easy.Yeah, it’s tough for everyone, man.
“A drag queen for every school,” she adds.
An idiot for every village.
Lucky break
The arrest of 31 men affiliated with a white supremacist group at a Pride event raises questions over whether the federal government is doing enough to monitor hate-based gatherings that could spill into deadly violence, experts warned.
It took a tip to 911 from a “concerned citizen” to set off Saturday’s arrest in Idaho of the men affiliated with Patriot Front, who police say were spotted in a hotel parking lot dressed like “a little army,” piling into a U-Haul less than a quarter-mile from the “Pride in the Park” festivities.
During a news conference Monday, Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said, “We likely stopped a riot from happening downtown.”
But multiple law enforcement experts told NBC News that it was concerning that the group assembled nearby and, if not for the lucky break of the tipster, may have caused bloodshed.
“The manner in which these arrests were made reflects the long-standing problems in the way the FBI and the DOJ deprioritize white supremacist crimes and fundamentally misunderstand the violent element within how the white supremacy movement operates,” Michael German, a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, said referring to the Department of Justice. He is a former undercover FBI agent who retired in 2004.
Why does the federal government steadfastly refuse to protect us from these white supremacist hatemongers? Why do they consistently ignore these existential threats to DEMOCRACY!?
Those guys in polos and khakis looked so dangerous! If they hadn’t been arrested for a pre-crime, they could have walked around and made noise!
white supremacist
white supremacist
white supremacist
white supremacist
…
Not a single weapon on any of them. If there had been, we’d be hearing about it non-stop.
An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment about whether the agency had been aware of the movements of those arrested and any monitoring of the Patriot Front.
Who? Never heard of them.”
The gang at Fenix Ammo continues to amuse. Their email promotion this week included their 9mm “Lung Remover” ammo and their 5.56 “Organ Liquifier” ammo.
Gun glibs…when buying AR mags, be sure to give Lancers a shot.
Lancer is right here in town. Support my local economy. 🙂
https://riflepal.com/lancer-vs-pmags/
I guess it’s just about time to go rip up some more carpet.
fun, fun, fun.
Till your daddy takes the T-bird away.
These euphemisms!
I didn’t know you were a dancer.
Waxing technician, please!
TW – Business Insider
I understand what happened, I don’t understand he managed to transfer this much testosterone to his child. Did he bathe in the stuff? Did he not wash his hands before touching his kid?
Naturally the article provides no information about what kind of contact the father and son had.
A 2-year-old showed signs of puberty after he was exposed to his dad’s testosterone gel. He developed pubic hair and his height was off the charts.
This happened on an episode of House. I don’t remember the details, but IIRC the dad would use his hands to apply it, and then not wash it off. So it was transferred to the kids.
Oh…England…
The nanny state should have warned them.
Young Warty?
I feel bad for the kid – this can’t be good in the long run – but several lines in the article elicited a chuckle. Because I am a bad person.
Between just the three of them they’ve got 232 years of experience. We should be good.
Biden huddles with Pelosi and Schumer on inflation
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