Coming soon
Joker with a win for the ages. Love him or hets him, you gotta respect how hard he grinned through that match. The rest of the quarters are today, with two Americans, one man and one woman, vying to make the semis.. Go USA! The Astros won again. And the Pac-whatever is finally addressing their woeful media package after their cash cow has decided to leave for greener pastures and is taking the other LA-based team with them. That conference is about to be no more. And that’s sports.
Good luck with that. I wonder if she’ll go to the judge’s house and shit on his bed if she doesn’t get her way.
Oh, Amber. What is you doin’?
This is an absolute injustice. There’s no reason whatsoever to honor their wishes and move the trials to a place where they might get treated fairly. So the political persecution shall continue.
Stay in your lane, feds. The states run their own elections. So you can fuck off.
Had too many CHiPs
Animal House lied to me. Apparently fat, drunk, and stupid is a way to go through life.
That guy is gonna wear himself out. Fortunately, they have a massage parlor onsite so he can get the relief he needs.
Third (or is it fourth now?) verse, same as the first. These dumbasses are still trying to peddle their poison as a panacea. And there’s idiots that are buying it.
How could this be? Don’t they know Contra Costa County is a gun-free zone (unless. you’re rich and/or connected to a politician)?
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for” would have sounded cooler. Alas, he missed his opportunity at becoming a legend. Oh well, he can try again when he gets out of jail.
Here’s the best rock song I can think of with a banjo in it. Because today is my lovely wife’s 40th birthday. And breaking with recent tradition, I’ll play a second classic with a banjo instead of something by the same band. Enjoy them both as a way to help her celebrate.
Abd have a great day, dear friends.
“These dumbasses are still trying to peddle their poison as a panacea. And there’s idiots that are buying it.”
Dumb or corrupt? How much of a kickback could they be getting?
The same goes for vaccinating little kids. That doesn’t seem to have any medical benefit at all, yet they are still pushing it.
Gotta push it on kids now before liability kicks in and their stock price plummets.
Are they liable?
They will be after full approval. They’ll have to release side effects as well.
I don’t think so. My understanding is that all vaccines are basically impossible to sue over side effects.
I believe approved vaccines are shielded by a vaccine court and compensation fund.
PREP Act, right? Thank you Republican Congress and President.
There are two methods to obtain liability protection for vaccines.
1: Be covered an Emergency Use Authorization
2: Be on the Childhood Vaccine Schedule
So far they’ve used the EUA for cover, which is why they keep extending the emergency. They will continue to do so until they get the COVID vaccines on the childhood vaccine schedule at which point the emergency will magically disappear.
Here’s the really shady part, the FDA approved Comirnaty to enable the mandates, but Comirnaty doesn’t have liability shielding, so it’s not made available to the public. But the FDA says you can substitute any of the other EUA vaccines for Comirnaty which of course maintains the liability shield.
This entire exercise has been a massive fucking over of the plebes for pharma profit. Everyone at the FDA should hang along with Pfizer et al.
Learned a lot from this site just now:
https://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/vaccine-programoffice-special-masters
Worth a read.
It’s worth noting what’s not on this list.
https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vicp/vicp-stats-06-01-22.pdf
@scruffy I think that’s because it is in a different program.
The ‘interesting’thing to me is that lawyers got $400 million for resolving about 15000 cases. I should have been a lawyer, what a racket.
The EUA is a red herring and despite repeatedly getting posted here as the source of liability protection, it isn’t. JI has it right. PREP Act declaration gives it liability protection and that protection is not contingent on EUA status. Fully approved products can be covered by PREP, in addition to other liability shields.
The one likely reason that EUA licensed vaccines are still being used is that full approval is not for all childhood EUA approvals. Yet.
I thought that “covered countermeasures” under the PREP Act had to be licensed in some shape or form, thus the necessity for the EUA.
But you are correct about the PREP Act being the root of most of the problems. It’s also being used to absolve hospitals for medical malpractice so long as that malpractice is directed by the NIH.
https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/prepact/Pages/prepqa.aspx#immune4
The qualified immunity of public health.
Have to eliminate the unvaccinated control group so they can better dodge responsibility for the serious side effects of the clot shots.
^
NYC, as usual, is providing the most sickening propaganda in this effort: cartoon Statue of Liberty’s – momma Statue of Liberty with a couple baby Statue of Liberty’s – all with their little face-masks and proudly displaying their jab band-aids.
I thought that was going to go a totally different way, with her heading to the state funded abortion clinic.
I’m a hopeless optimist, so I thing at one point they were trying to help humanity. But a tiger doesn’t change his stripes, so it very quickly became about money. Which is where we are now. This is 100% about money.
Sorry, TOK. This has been cooking for a while. Pfizer is worse than any drug kingpin in Mexico could ever imagine.
And the public health officials have been in on the grift to the tune of millions for two decades – they got their pieces of silver and it hasn’t been about the “public health” for quite some time.
I wonder if fatass cops who can’t chase down a fleeing suspect will be more likely to shoot at them.
At them… in the general direction of where they thought they last were heading.
Same thing.
True dat.
Fat cops are harder to kidnap.
I wonder if fatass cops who can’t chase down a fleeing suspect will be more likely to shoot at them.
Doubtful. They will be hanging out in Dunkin’ Donuts. Time to rebalance the old portfolio, I see an investment opportunity.
There was a fat ass cop in Berkeley, and when reporter commented on it after a kerflufle, he simply remarked that the way kids wear their pants these days, around their knees, he has no problem running them down.
Another good rock song with a banjo in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx6f68Wd9dc
I can’t follow yootoob links at work, but if the best song wasn’t Gallows Pole, you picked wrong.
Good call. I forgot it had a banjo.
I like this one for the birthday girl.
Good one. There are many great other covers of that song … 2 Cellos, washing machine guy.
It’s good to be a billionaire.
Happy Birthday Banjos
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Don’t really care.
I see a problem.
American Davos?
Seems that way. The CIA definitely has its fingers in the corporate elite.
Ewwww!
Yeah, Morell doesn’t seem to have come from money – his Wikipedia bio says he was the first in his family to go to college.
In general that looks like a steaming hot bag of assholes, but WTF Barry Diller, tie your damn shoes.
And of course Bari Weiss is in there hobnobbing with her heroes.
There’s no reason whatsoever to honor their wishes and move the trials to a place where they might get treated fairly.
Never mind that holding people pre-trial for allegations amounting to trespassing is a gross constitutional violation in an of itself.
And the “flight risk” claim is laughable. Half those people probably don’t have a passport.
Surrendering your passport is often a condition of pre-trial release. Also, it’s not like they don’t have a secret government list to flag such people as they go through customs.
Justice Department sues to block Arizona’s proof of citizenship voting law
The feds have no standing here, obviously.
Has a government ever been denied standing?
States suing over the alleged violation of the election laws of other states?
Hmm, fair point.
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You can’t chase single hard words. You need to keep entering seed words to burn off possible combinations.
Having the wisdom to decide when to burn guess 3 on another seed word and when to take a chance on a solution is the crux of Quordle. If you go too aggressive, you’re well on your way to chumping. If you go too conservative, you’re guaranteed to be above the Tundra line.
In this case, JG43 burned 5 guesses trying to get the upper right. You could go through 25 letters of the alphabet with 5 guesses. Burning two “seed” words with 10 different letters should have enabled 4, 7, 8, 9 and no chump.
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“Joe Biden has shipped five million barrels from the United States’ Strategic Oil Reserve abroad, after claiming that releasing them would help ease Americans’ pain at the pumps.
The president faces accusations of a sneaky sleight of hand as it was revealed that between a fifth and a sixth of the reserve oil he bragged about releasing to boost supply made its way offshore to Europe and Asia in June.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10983315/Oil-U-S-reserves-head-overseas-gasoline-prices-stay-high.html
What?
The Democrats hate you and want you to suffer.
The refineries are operating at about 95% capacity. You can ship all the oil you want but they can’t handle any more.
Multiple refineries shut down during the COVID lockdowns, and the refiners won’t expand capacity (to the tune of billions of dollars in capital investment) when the federal government is openly calling for an end to fossil fuels.
Yep.
Wife: I’m gonna divorce you in five years.
Husband: Really? Let me spend 2 minutes and 5 bucks on fixing your brakes.
10% for the big guy
I don’t have a problem with this per se. It’s a global commodity, restrictions on export won’t help things, I think.
“Father of July Fourth shooter helped son buy firearm just two months after cops took away his collection of knives when he threatened to ‘kill everyone’: Parents release statement saying ‘this is a terrible tragedy for many families… and our own'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10986349/This-terrible-tragedy-families-Parents-Bobby-Crimo-speak-out.html
“Highland Park shooter Bobby Crimo ‘sized-up’ local synagogue at Passover and spooked security director who checked his bag for weapons at house of worship that sits just four blocks from massacre site”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10986233/Highland-Park-shooter-Bobby-Crimo-sized-local-synagogue-Passover.html
Is there any solution to this? Besides slowly changing the entire culture?
Stop letting the internet raise your kid.
Stop giving psychoactive drugs to kids.
“Give them puberty blockers instead!”
-Democrats
That would probably reduce violence, at least in males.
Please stop giving them ideas.
It’s 2022.
Killing babies and mutilating/grooming children is solidly part of the Democrat party platform. They’ve already got plenty of “ideas”.
I would still bet he was on anti-depressants, at a minimum. I wonder what else he might have been on?
Are all these shooters on drugs?
Also, the overwhelming majority of people who are on SSRI’s or whatever don’t murder anyone.
Yes, but a certain subset of people who take SSRIs experience psychosis as a side effect. Hell, it’s on the warning labels.
I was told that the high-energy side effect in particular comes from giving an anti-depressant to someone truly bipolar w/o including a mood stabilizer.
Those people either awake for days on end or sitting in a closet sucking on a gun-barrel.
There are genetic markers for bad reactions to SSRIs (in addition to contraindications for other drugs).
Of course, nobody screens these kids for these markers before just giving them the drugs. They’re shotgunning the diagnosis and treatment instead of trying to find out what’s actually wrong.
I’m not convinced it’s not a simple correlation. You take SSRIs as a young person and you probably have very obvious psychological problems.
But still, it deserves to be explored.
There are gene mutations (MAOA for one) that inhibit or enhance serotonin reuptake (breakdown for reusage). As SSRIs work on those pathways as well (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) you can spiral a patient who already has low serotonin reuptake into full blown psychosis.
Because both low and high serotonin reuptake can cause depression or anger issues, it is difficult to discern which is the problem just by talking to the patient. If they already have low serotonin reuptake and further depress that chemical pathway, you’re making the problem worse.
I think the vast majority are. And it’s becoming clear that drugging people who’s brains are not fully developed has some pretty significant deleterious effects.
Further, I believe that SSRI’s are only intended as a short-term treatment. It was never intended to be a years-long therapy.
Sloopy is right – stop drugging the kids.
I’ll have to go find the link, but I read the other way from a reasonable source that psychoactive drugs are prescribed to youths 34x as often as they were in 1994.
And even then, kids were over medicated.
Oh yeah, and one other idea: stop giving these assholes so much coverage. You’re creating copycats.
^ this right here
I think it’s almost all due to copycats. I’ve read a few articles over the years that put it in different ways, but the bottom line is there are people who admire the Columbine killers. As soon as there is a shooting it’s all over the press, and the person becomes famous. Their picture is everywhere. And this just encourages the next shooter, and the next. You can ban all the types of guns you want, but it won’t break this chain.
The question nobody is asking is, Why do people think it’s desirable to shoot a bunch of strangers?
I’m willing to consider some sort of liability for the father here. If your son is threatening to kill people, maybe don’t buy him a gun? Thoughts?
Yes
If that were your kid with the face and neck tattoos and the obvious mental issues and poor hygiene, would you give him access to a firearm?
I won’t let mine have free access until I’m absolutely certain they can handle the responsibility.
I certainly wouldn’t, sounds like recklessness at best to do so.
Exactly right, regarding responsibility. Now, if he is an adult, and gets the guns himself, I’m not saying the parents would be in anyway liable. But that changes if you’re the one providing the weapons.
When my stepsons got into their teens and their stupid mother bought them smartphones so they could/would hole up in their rooms and commune with the internet instead of reality, I bought fingerprint activated safes for all my guns.
The kids didn’t have face tattoos or threaten anyone, but I didn’t want to take a chance with brooding teens. When they were 10 and 12, respectively, we’d taken them out shooting with my dad so they could learn gun safety and retire the “mystique” of guns, but still, no way was I going to leave guns accessible in the house.
(Both kids turned out fine and are each happily coupled and employed now, in their 20s.)
I’m willing to make face tats a red flag.
100%
Straw purchaser?
No, apparently he got his Illinois FOID – look at how well Illinois gun licensing works!
Probably not the smartest thing to do. The parents seem to have been in denial about his issues, that’s for sure. But he was 21 when he bought several other guns and committed the crime.
Ah, I think I misunderstood and that he had used the guns his father recently purchased for him.
If your son is threatening to kill people, maybe don’t buy him a gun?
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_High_School_shooting#Perpetrator
Is there any solution to this? Besides slowly changing the entire culture?
No. I’m guessing that the most effective thing we could do right now is torture him to death on live TV and allow the families of the victims do what they wish with his corpse. Of course, that crosses so many lines that it would create more issues than it solved.
Becoming more savage and violent doesn’t seem to be the answer.
Agreed. I’m pointing out how much we’d likely have to sell our souls to the devil to get traction on this issue. Short of utter, lasting humiliation for each and every one of these twerps, their fetid little subculture will continue to fester.
I just don’t actually think would work, though. Hard to explain exactly why, but the notion of doing that assumes that the promise of humiliation, dishonor, and shame would “work”. But I really don’t think it would on folks like this. The existence of face tattoos pretty much tells me he’s deliberately crossed that line already. Would probably be happy with more.
Yeah, I’ve wondered the same as I engaged in the thought experiment. It the “potential school shooter” cohort so far gone that they’d cheer on the humiliation of their former “friend”? Is there any affinity between members of the group, or are they all just individuals who enjoy harming others and watching others being harmed?
If there is no way to deter them, the only thing left to do is neutralize the threat before it is borne out, which is problematic in and of itself.
Regarding your first paragraph: I was actually thinking it would make these kind of events MORE common. Because all of the actions scream to me (face tat example again) that these individuals WANT to be publicly shamed/humiliated/hated. So seeing it as the outcome would elevate the payoff for them.
Maybe that argues that some reverse-psychology is in order, but I don’t know what it is right now.
these individuals WANT to be publicly shamed/humiliated/hated
Hated, yes. Humiliated is the one I’m not sure about. I’ll not pretend to understand the psychology of a mass shooter, but it hasn’t escaped my notice that they tend to be pencil necks obsessed with making others feel helpless and powerless. I don’t think they want to be humiliated as much as they want to humiliate others. I don’t think that them crying and begging for mercy is what they want to portray to their “friends”.
I fully admit that I could be off base here. There’s a lot of me projecting “normal” psychology onto a deranged person going on here, so I could be completely wrong.
That would be exactly what the shooter wants.
Mass shooters want attention more than anything else. They want to be famous, they want people to talk about them. Getting to be on TV is worth dying for, if you’re a self-aggrandizing malevolent narcissist.
One thing that could really reduce the copycat effect would be a media blackout on spree killings. Another would be to not allow children on social media. Yet another would be to burn every public school in the country down to the foundation.
Malevolent narcissism isn’t a mental illness, rather a personality disorder. I don’t know that psychology has a lot to offer in terms of attenuating it. It is worth noting that very few non-political spree killers come from abusive backgrounds.
Remember the Rolling Stone mag issue with the face of the surviving Boston marathon bomber on the cover? They tried to make it as much of a glamor shot as possible, and some girls actually found it attractive in an “I can Fix him!” sort of way.
Ugh. I despise that particular trait in women. It never works and they always come crying afterwards.
How dare you persecute this stunning and brave transwoman!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/highland-park-shooting-robert-crimo-planned-b2116362.html
Have these pics been confirmed as genuine?
https://twitter.com/_wes/status/1544262119150977024
I am particularly suspicious of the fresh tat pic. It’s too perfect of a tribal marker.
This is pretty good.
“Is there any solution to this? Besides slowly changing the entire culture?”
IMO, there’s nothing to solve. It’s tragic without a doubt, however these events are still really rare. I reflexively assume that media are lying around how “mUh MaSs ShOoTiNgS gEtTiNg MoAr FrEeKwUnT!!!111!” is bullshit just like the claims that hurricanes are getting more severe (they aren’t). However, even if it is true, not locking people up for two years over a flu bug would be a good start. Fixing that unfortunately requires a time machine.
The very rarity of spree killings makes mitigating them a problem. Security is expensive and inconvenient, and no one wants to pay for it unless they’re getting results.
The Israelis have good school security because they live under a constant existential threat. We don’t.
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But it emerged on Tuesday that Bob Crimo had sponsored his killer son’s application for a gun permit in 2020, even after the murderer had threatened to kill himself and his family.” Maybe genuinely irresponsible parents ought to face civil liability.
He later turned 21, and bought three more guns on his own, before committing the crime. I don’t see how the parents are liable.
“‘You don’t want to do this. I work for the mayor’: Eric Adams’ aide is crime-ridden Big Apple’s latest victim, and fought with armed muggers before they shoved him to ground and stole his phone”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10985001/NYC-Mayor-Eric-Adams-aide-robbed-GUNPOINT-Brooklyn-scouting-location-official-visit.html
“I work for Dick Jones!”
“I’m one of you guys! We’re on your side!”
Dick Jones was a misunderstood hero.
The deal was we look the other way if you only prey on the peasants.
I wish Bernie Goetz had spawned 100 kids.
Do you know who I am?
No. Do you know who I am? Then we’re even.
Does anyone know this man? He doesn’t seem to know who he is.
Obviously the Supreme Court’s fault.
Government advisers debated Tuesday if Americans should get a modified COVID-19 booster shot this fall — and exactly how best to update it to fight a virus that surely will change even more by then.
Forego the clotshot and take your vitamins.
Current COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives globally and those used in the U.S. still offer strong protection against hospitalization and death — especially after a booster dose. But their ability to block infection markedly dropped when the super-contagious omicron mutant emerged.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
And then there’s this absolute insanity:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/fda-will-not-require-clinical-trial-data-authorize-redesigned-covid-boosters-2022-06-30/
WTF???
They’ve backed themselves into a corner. They’ve broken so many laws and crossed so many ethical and moral lines that they cannot stop now.
They’re going to ride this gravy train until half the country drops dead, all the while planning for how they’re going to escape culpability.
They know there is no way to get the vaccines out before the virus mutates again, not if they’re going to actually test them.
It’s almost like they’ve known from the start that it’s very hard to keep up with these kinds of viruses as they mutate. You’d think that their experience with the flu shot would have informed expectations.
But no, it’s like an episode of Star Trek to them. “We have 45 minutes until the virus turns us all into howler monkeys, you can do it doc!”
That brings me to this: in the one episode where people revert to an earlier evolutionary state, why did all the human crew members revert to different animals? And how did Troi revert at all since she’s a human-betazed halfbreed? Her father was completely human and her mother completely betazoid. She’s literally the first in her line of her species.
That episode was bullshit.
They will approve it and they will put it on the Childhood Vaccine Schedule.
This is a foregone conclusion because to do otherwise would start the ball rolling towards them being held responsible for their utter and total failure to protect the public. They’re in CYA mode and will fight tooth and nail to avoid accountability.
Good morning, Sloop!
And happy birthday, Banjos!
God, that Sun Valley article is nauseating. But this was good:
Sure, as long as that CIA money keeps flowing, no worries!
Both good birthday songs! I’ll always give the nod to the Who, though.
Have a great day, everyone!
Cry Moore.
I, Michael Moore, standing up for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, and being completely fed up with recent events that have upset my tranquility, herby declare the following on this Fourth of July, 2022:
1. I refuse to live in a country threatened by white supremacy — and I’m not leaving. So we‘ve got a problem.
2. I cannot in good conscience continue to receive the privileges of “full citizenship” in this land when all of its women and girls have now been, by Court decree, declared official second-class citizens with no rights to their own bodies and conscripted to a life of Forced Birth should they fall pregnant and not want to be.
3. I demand an end to the mass incarceration of Black Americans, an end to police shooting Black people, and I demand that reparations be made to the Black community for all they currently have to suffer and endure.
4. I insist we remove every single Republican from office in November. The Republican Party has dismantled itself and its remaining rogue elements now exist purely to overturn legitimate election results and overthrow the elected will of the vast majority of the American people. This must be halted without delay or equivocation.
/looks at the vast Republican control over Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, and other localities in my area that have had police violence against the black community
Why doesn’t he just move, then? He’s probably rich enough to buy his way in to any country he wants.
He’d most likely go to Canada. And he knows with his shitty health habits, he’d be back in the US getting medical care whenever he actually needed it.
*yawn*
wake me up when he does something about it.
Seriously.
What a pompous ass.
He says what he will do:
Until women’s rights have been fully reinstated, and their equal rights are enshrined in our Constitution (now that the required 38 states have passed the Equal Rights Amendment), I will not shut up about this. If you invite me to dinner that’s all I’m gonna talk about. Have me over to your party and it’s going to be, “Dobbs, Dobbs, and more Dobbs!” And I won’t stop until Roe is reinstated and 51% of Congress is female.
I will not shut up
So, same-old, same-old MM.
If Moore had any shame, he was have skulked away after Milton Friedman handed him his not quite so fat ass all those decades ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9f9lsbctZA
Don’t forget he plagiarized South Park in his “Bowling for Columbine” movie. That was not the South Park boys who did that cartoon. All around, a stupid fat asshole. And he only declared he would be more of a stupid fat asshole in the future. That’s hardly anything he needed to keep trumpeting, we all knew that.
Well, okay then…
crosses MM off the invite list
Hey, waitasec…he wasn’t on the list in the first place. Imagine that…
He just hogs all the dip.
And by hogs, he cranks the hog into the dip and then eats it.
“…demand…insist” Ok.
And you’ll still have to pay for pussy, bro.
Is he straight?
He was married to someone named Kathleen, but I’m not a biologist.
Round isn’t really straight is it?
Nothing like declaring to the entire world that you are a clueless idiot.
You’ll be dead soon anyway you massive lardass, so problem solved.
All these women getting hit by busses right out of the blue.
I suppose pregnancy is a disease until the left needs children to use politically.
Pregnancy is slavery!
To be clear, this is not a claim that forced pregnancy, which occurs when abortion is not an option, and the absence of the full spectrum of other reproductive justice rights is analogous to slavery. [Never mind the dozen paragraphs I just wrote making pretty much that argument.]
So you’re voluntarily waiving your 1A, 2A, 4A, 5A, 6A, 8A, 9A, 10A, 14A rights then? As well as your right to vote, yes?
Hey, why not put some soldiers up at one of his properties while we’re at it?
Dear Michael Moore:
Kindly fuck off.
Regards,
America.
Get out of my country: This July 4, let’s declare our independence from the Founding Fathers
Two hundred and forty-six years ago, Americans did something extraordinary, declaring their independence from a colonial rule enforced from a great distance with the cruel and arbitrary hand of oppression. And now it’s time for us to declare our own independence, from Founding Father fetishism. …
As we’ve seen recently, the American right has found in the framers an extraordinarily effective tool with which they can roll back social progress and undermine our democracy. It may have found its most ridiculous manifestation in the tea party movement that emerged when Barack Obama was president, when people started prancing around in tricorn hats and every Republican was supposed to have a favorite Founder. But today it has gone from an affectation to a weapon, and a brutally effective one.
We saw it in the recent Supreme Court decisions that supercharged the legal philosophy of “originalism” on abortion and guns. Reproductive rights, said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., are neither found in the explicit words of the Constitution nor “deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” so they don’t exist as rights. As for states that want to regulate guns, said Justice Clarence Thomas, only regulations that have “a distinctly similar historical regulation” from the 18th century will be allowed. The America of 1789 becomes a prison the conservative justices can lock us all in whenever it suits them.
Originalism was a scam from the start, a foolproof methodology for conservatives to arrive at whatever judicial result matches their policy preferences: Cherry-pick a few quotes from the Federalist Papers, cite an obscure 1740 ordinance from the Virginia colony one of your clerks dug up, then claim that scripture leads us inexorably to only one outcome.
Originalism was a scam from the start,
This is not optional for them to argue. They have to say it. If they didn’t, people would go poking around and realize that we’ve been living in a post-constitutional era since the 1920s. They have to slap fidelity to the constitution with a label (“Originalism”) and denigrate that label lest people find out that “Originalism” simply means stripping away the unconstitutional usurpations of Wilson and Roosevelt (and beyond).
They are right about something. Originalism is reactionary. You can couch it as “simply” this or “basically” that, but it is beside all that, a declaration of war on progressivism. They know it in their bones, and they’re absolutely correct. The only reason anyone ought to pretend otherwise is for the same reason progressives hide many of their true intentions as well: because retail politics forces people to lie. The marketing slogans “pro-life” and “pro-choice” are great examples of this forced lying. I won’t go so far as to say democracy is inherently sinful, but this aspect of it certainly is.
But they are also projecting. Progressivism is also “a scam from the start”. There is a public-facing side, where they talk about equality, democracy, and scientific governance. Yet it does not take one with especially good eyes to observe that progressives are elitist, oligarchic, and consensus-driven, all of which seem like inversions of their stated goals. If you look to the writings of the early progressives, many of them were quite honest about their intentions. Some of this is probably because they used euphemistic language at the time but the euphemisms were demystified later (an interesting corollary of the euphemism treadmill).
So I do not care that originalism may be called “a foolproof methodology for conservatives to arrive at whatever judicial result matches their policy preferences” since 1) my enemies love to accuse me of doing what they’re already up to, 2) my policy preferences are what I want to see achieved so why should I denigrate the means to achieve them, and 3) a charge of hypocrisy can only be credibly leveled by a trusted friend who shares my values, not by an enemy who wields it maliciously to get me to do what they want.
[wild standing ovation]
Wut?
“Baby you’re a firework” is a 10 but women in the US have fewer rights than an actual sparkler smh
She lives in California.
women in the US have fewer rights than an actual sparkler smh
“Tell me one right a sparkler has that a woman doesn’t”
“The right to an abortion”
“Bullshit, try again”
“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”
Dumbasses.
Katy, you were clearly not put on this earth to think.
My song is a 10!
Women aren’t allowed on airplanes either? Maybe I’ll start flying again.
oooof
She’s just mad because her sparkles are just about all burnt up and she is going to be tossed on the trash heap soon and completely forgotten as the next young “sparkler” gets all the attention.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1544541672305938432
This must be confusing for Q
I hate you now.
I can’t believe her husband never got a BWI (motor)Boating While Intoxicated
Meanwhile, in Holland.
Pigs gonna pig.
I still fail to comprehend how the right can supposedly be so suspicious of government yet so supportive of government enforcers.
Boomercons, they’re incredibly dense.
They believe what communists believe: if we only had the right people in charge.
It’s slowly but surely changing, at least in the circles I pay attention to.
There’s no shortage of authoritarians on the right.
Looks like the next Fast ‘n Furious might be watchable.
Fast and Farmerous?
*narrows gaze*
Fast and Faminous
THIS.
Not the hoe’s I was expecting
Fortunately those farmers were all smart enough to avoid the new Deere equipment that supposedly can be shut down remotely.
BRCC is trash run by trash but they had nothing to do with any murder, except for murdering their own brand.
The Dallas Cowboys sparked criticism on social media Tuesday after announcing a marketing agreement with a gun-themed coffee company with blends that include “AK-47 Espresso,” “Silencer Smooth” and “Murdered Out.”
The partnership with the Black Rifle Coffee Co. was revealed on Twitter the day after seven people died in a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago.
It also comes a little more than a month since the Cowboys announced their role in a $400,000 donation to support victims and survivors of the school shooting in Uvalde in South Texas, where 19 students and two teachers died.
The tweet announcing the agreement between “America’s Team” and “America’s Coffee” drew about 200 comments in the first few hours, most of them critical and suggesting the timing of the announcement was poor.
BRCC is much less America’s coffee than Budweiser is America’s beer.
The partnership with the Black Rifle Coffee Co. was revealed on Twitter the day after seven people died in a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago.
Non-sequitur. Imagine if it was applied to cars.
The partnership with the Ferrari Coffee Co. was revealed on Twitter the day after seven people died in a massive pileup on the Dan Ryan in Chicago.
Didn’t Black Rifle Company crap on their assumed base a while back?
Bigly.
Not to mention that their coffee is garbage.
There’s a reason it’s always the last thing left on the prize table.
And the fact that they can donate so much of it for prizes should indicate their margins on what they sell.
Probably a necessary condition for them to land this deal, too, though I doubt that’s why they did it (turns out a company run by unapologetic feds isn’t going to step too far out of line with acceptable thought).
Yes.
a $400,000 donation to support victims and survivors of the school shooting in Uvalde
I understand people feel bad and want to make gestures, but what the fuck do the victims and survivors need gobs of money for?
Dude, don’t shame the ghetto lottery.
Funeral costs, loss of income?
People with dependents have, or should have, life insurance to cover those things.
SSRI’s, obviously. Gotta keep that cycle going.
It’s a marketing expense, nothing more.
/cynical
No mention of the historic Twins play last night as they beat the White Sox?
Twins Turn First 8-5 Triple Play in MLB History
Neat!
That almost counts as a Ray of Sunshine!
I’m not sure Swissy would agree with your assessment.
Honestly, I would have been just as interested if the Sox did it. History is history.
Sorry, Swissy!
@#$%!!!!!!!!!
Hah! Nice baserunning by your team.
The season in a nutshell…besides stupid injuries, bad managing and lack of player effort.
🤭
“8-5 triple play”
It took 9 hours? I’m glad I don’t watch baseball anymore. I couldn’t even handle games when they were in the 3 hour range.
I’m ruling this a fair ball.
I’m not even batting an eye at your ruling, but I bet some people will think you are way off base
Some may cry foul, even.
Don’t balk, I’m saying that would be an error.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Dogs are the best. My cattle dog mix goes insane whenever my daughter comes to visit.
Hasn’t passed out yet, though.
Aw, schnauzer. A sweet breed.
SJWednesday: Fat, Liar, and Narcissist Is No Way To Go Through Life
The link even had to hide itself in shame.
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/04/fat-shamed-by-male-student/
Why does she assume the caller identifies as male? Seems pretty transphobic to me.
It is a shame. I wanted photo to go with rant.
Pretty sure this is her.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/08/02/2E38890300000578-0-image-a-24_1446950665194.jpg
Pretty much what I expected. 300 pounds of stupid and entitled.
Still, WOOD
Those roots, tho.
I was so scared I waited for it to go to voicemail
I, too, have a panic whenever I receive a call from an unknown number. This is totally normal and completely not a sign of some form of anxiety disorder.
I just assume it’s Morpheus and tell him to GFH.
Drop the class then, kid. Or save it for the evaluation.
Is it more likely that this was God calling her, or that this never happened?
I’ll take “things that never really happened” for $500, Alex”.
Don’t care who wins the men’s as long as it isn’t Nadal.
Nadal still pick his butt crack before every serve? It was weird enough when Lendl would yank out eyelashes before his.
That and arranging his junk. Ugh he’s so twitchy on top of being an authoritarian asshole.
The Chilean sure had an epic comeback in the Round of 16, but you’ll have an unseeded semi-finalist either way.
Garin? I like that guy.
Kyrgios will probably pull another improbable win out of his ass, unfortunately.
What if it’s Kyrgios?
Ugh. Him either.
Prepare for rear entry on Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.ph/Dok3w
Govt incompetence leads to decent results
The genius GOP Senator behind this good thing.
Minnesoda DFL brags about pulling a Biden to get this passed
OK, they didn’t call it ‘pulling a Biden’, but I think when you go into hiding to avoid debate, the label is apropos.
I like the results, but I don’t think that backroom deals are necessarily a good thing. If you think something is good, go ahead and defend it. Besides, the GOP idiots who continue to think that people want to keep pot illegal would have fought this and seemed stupid to just about everyone. Why help them by passing this?
SJWednesday: Me Me Me Me Me Me…
“This is what it really is like to be a YOUNG BLACK TRANS artist/model/talent in 2022”
From what I can tell, you have people falling over each other to give you gigs?
“…are oppositional to you and your work from a purely racist, sexist, or ageist place, likely some combination of all three.”
Unless you’re a mind reader, you’re projecting. Or it’s wishful victimhood thinking.
“over-sexualized” LOL, no.
Fetishized, maybe, because there’s a market for everything these days. But trans men are not handsome and trans women are not pretty.
“Get over yourself.
Luv,
The world”
Own goal.
Well we knew Republicans weren’t all that bright, but it appears they’ve still got it over the Democrats.
WE WANT A KING
And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
Deal. 10% is better than what my so called representatives are taking from me now.
You must have missed the part about putting your ass to work.
Pwnd.
Lauren Boebert Flattens Eric Swalwell When He Tries to Equate Her to Highland Park Suspect
Swalwell isn’t the brightest bulb in Congress is he?
He is the stinkiest one, though.
That is because he doesn’t watch his diet and Fang Fang’s pegging sessions always end up as a Superfund cleanup site.
Makes sense. Coffee and Hormel chili wouldn’t be so good.
Corn and blueberries on a salad would be a power move.
And why did you make me read that? Shudder.
So you are one of the Uber Woke who took umbrage at that?
Amazing that you can make a menu just for gay bottoms and still get dragged by gays!
Part of being a progressive, is never accepting an opponent’s surrender.
Those white gays, at it again. They’re the worst, amirite?
Also, you’ve been doing a fine job of branding yourselves as hedonists. *Glances at pride parade*
This is just getting weird now.
Sushi on a first date?
What do you call a lesbian with long fingernails ?
Single.
Expensive sushi requires you to put out on the first date. The proverbial Sushi Roll in the Hay
It’s that time… FOR FIREWORKS FAILS
https://old.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/vsb6o0/best_finale_ever/
*golf clap*
Awesome.
MOAR YOU SAY?
https://old.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/vsfqnc/holy_bonkers_are_they_okay/
The comments.
DecoyOne 3834 points 15 hours ago
“Good idea. Where should we light them?”
“Right there in the grass. 10 feet from the box with all the fireworks, 10 feet from the people, and 10 feet between the box and the people.”
I’ve always been a big fan of the guy who put the bottle-rocket in his butt-hole and then clenched down when the sparks burnt him.
Darwinian.
Happy birthday to the lovely and talented Banjos! I hope you’re not fretting 40, it’s not the same as it was for our parents. I feel like my 50 is their 30.
My theory is that if I just act as immaturely as I did when I was 19, that will be my real age forever.
It is anti-democratic for democratic majorities to express the wishes of the majority that elected them!
Please dude, no Lawrence Tribe.
The sentence I wrote wasn’t enough of a tip-off?
I made it to the third paragraph. That whole article is a steaming pile…
Fuck, finally some good news.
If only…
“This is us. This is 100% us, and it’s because we are essentially slaves to a document that was written more than 230 years ago by a tiny group of white slave-owning men. And we cannot break out of the bondage that we have imposed on ourselves from feeling like we have to– everything by our Supreme Court is decided in reference to this ancient document which is just not serving us well. It is causing enormous problems and enormous tragedies at this point.”
…and there is a method of amending said document written into it. Good luck.
Criminally dishonest person says criminally dishonest things.
Pritzker tweeted a video of his comments on the attack, saying, in part, “Our Founders carried muskets, not assault weapons, and I don’t think a single one of them would have said that you have a constitutional right to an assault weapon with a high-capacity magazine.”
In another portion of his comments Pritzker said, “It does not have to be this way, and yet we as a nation, well, we continue to allow this to happen. While we celebrate the Fourth of July just once a year, mass shootings have become … our weekly American tradition.”
Our Founders carried muskets, not assault weapons, and I don’t think a single one of them would have said that you have a constitutional right to an assault weapon with a high-capacity magazine.
Something about militias.
The Founders would have creamed their knickers at the sight of a semi-automatic rifle, or for that matter, a bolt-action.
The founders thought everyone had a right to canons and warships. And muskets were the military assault rifles of their day, since they could be reloaded relatively rapidly and were good for mass fire by infantry against other infantry formations.
And it’s not like rifles and repeaters didn’t exist. They were just not fully developed and deployed in massive numbers yet.
Not to throw shade on the original colonists, but if they had “assault” rifles, there would be no reservations today. The Native American tribes would have been wiped out entirely.
The Comanches had basically blocked western expansion because they were better militarily with their mounted tactics and bows and arrows than the Whites with single shot rifles. The tide only turned when the revolver carried by the Texas Rangers gave them enough firepower to win (the Rangers were also smart enough to update their tactics and learn how to fight from horseback too).
Check out Empire of the Summer Moon for more on this
But the white eyes basically ceded reservations to the Indians because it was easier than fighting them to the last man. Not because they had any love for them at all.
As a general rule genocide is bad….but the comanches…. eh. I’ll allow it
https://www.forttours.com/pages/torture.asp
I don’t know. Sure the Comanche might have been truly horrible brutes, but any group that changes the name of their medicine man from White Eagle to Coyote Vagina after his medicine fails to protect against bullets as promised can’t be all that bad.
If we had as much culture we’d now be calling Fauci “Dr. Skunk Vagina” by now.
Fun fact: Quanah Parker’s direct descendant Quanah Cox was my middle school history teacher.
He was a great guy.
https://www.duncanbanner.com/news/quanah-cox-remembered-fondly/article_e00c1411-d492-5096-a2d0-f65bc50b3d6b.html
Good lord…
But noble savages and all that jazz.
Yeah, the Comanche were not very nice.
Nor for that matter the Aztecs, whose neighboring tribes were more than happy to help the Spanish wipe them out.
Totally. They’d be all sad. “In my day you had to lead bayonet charges against fortified positions. You snowflakes just refuse to stand up in a dense formation and trade volleys with redcoats. You fight lying down half the time. Pussies. None of you even SEE the whites of their eyes anymore.”
whites of their eyes
RACIST!
I thought killing white people was okay.
Am I not doing diversity right?
Grifting is a tough business.
Best rock with a Banjo? Royal Republic and their side project the Nosebreakers covering their own tunes with a country western vibe (they’re swedish).
https://youtu.be/xH7v_n4rAD8
I thought Sloopy of all people would have linked to some video of a beat up van rocking down by the river as “The best rock with Banjos”.
I did what I did.
From Juris’ link:
Constitutional textualists such as former federal judge J. Michael Luttig, the preeminent conservative jurist, already see what lies ahead.
Luttig recently wrote that the pushers of this debunked theory would also seek to apply it to presidential elections to “‘steal’ from Democrats the presidential election in 2024.”
As we all know, elections are the rightful property of the Democratic Party, and any Republican victory can only be by definition thievery.
Pritzker tweeted a video of his comments on the attack, saying, in part, “Our Founders carried muskets, not assault weapons, and I don’t think a single one of them would have said that you have a constitutional right to an assault weapon with a high-capacity magazine.”
And I bet none of them ever said, “Goddammit it takes forever to reload this fucking thing. Somebody should invent a rifle that you can shoot as fast as you can pull the trigger.”
VDH being his usual cogent and bad-ass self.
Now do MAGA. [snicker] I snark, but it is a good read.
Fuck off Greta, you misanthropic little shit.
Reject Russian nuclear?
So allegedly correlation doesn’t equal causation and stuff, but the world WAS a much better place back when Europeans regularly froze to death in the winter. So why not give it a try?
If it makes them start doing good architecture, art and music again, I’m willing to let them sacrifice.
Malthusian advocating potentially deadly policies. So what else is new?
Some people.
“ No, definitely not.
It needs nuclear fuel which is limited. So it just can’t be renewable.”
Oy
Because the component materials in solar panels and windmills are renewable?
Hey, the sun will burn out one day.
In 1000 years we might run out of cheap, easily accessible fuel used in single use reactors… but then we’re right back where we started!
Of course, we can get 4x than that by re-using fuel, so that’s enough for 4000 years… but then we’re right back where we started!
Although, there is enough uranium in the ocean to generate power for millions of years, possibly even until the sun burns out… but then we’re right back where we started!
I, for one, am no longer referring to solar and wind as “sustainable” or “renewable”. I refer to them as “intermittent” energy sources, because they are intermittent.
They are not renewable, either, or at least no more renewable than any other energy source. Windwills and solar panels both have relatively short useful lives (around 20 years), at which point they have to be replaced. Exactly what is “renewable” about an energy source that degrades over time until it must be torn out?
Neither are they “sustainable”, any more than any other energy source. The objection to “renewable” applies here, but windmills and especially solar panels rely on rare earths and heavy metals (even more so if you include the battery backups that mitigate the “intermittent” part). Calling mining for rare earths and heavy metals “sustainable” strips the word of all meaning.
Yes.
And then there is this.
I am a fan of all types of energy. Bring it on.
I said it last night: cheap energy will free the world. Let’s get going!
Well, if you’re looking for cheap energy, wind and solar ain’t it.
Here’s the trick with energy costs: electrical generation is enormously capital intensive. Intermittent sources don’t provide baseline power, so you need a full baseline power capability without them. Intermittent energy costs a lot, though, and so the ratepayers suck up the cost of the “surplus” intermittent capacity. This is why electric prices in Germany have doubled or more, and they still have a major baseline capacity problem, to the point they are taking coal-fired generating plants out of mothballs. Intermittent energy is the opposite of cheap energy – it raises the cost of energy across the board.
👆👆👆
Reliable and always on is far more important than price.
Nuke. NatGas. Hydro. Solar. Wind. Coal. Need ’em all.
I never said wind and solar are cheap. But they do have their place.
Wind and solar do have their place. Off-grid? You bet. Local supplement/backup to the grid? Sure. Knoick yourself out.
But not as part of the grid, if your goal is cheap energy.
We are dumping windmill blades in South Dakota. Can’t we dump them in China like all our other garbage from “sustainable” energy sources?
Tomorrow the European Parliament will decide whether fossil gas and nuclear will be considered “sustainable” in the EU taxonomy. But no amount of lobbyism and greenwashing will ever make it “green”.We desperately need real renewable energy, not false solutions.PAY ATTENTION TO ME -Greta ThunburgFIFY!
What does Michael Moore say?
In a handwritten letter from Brittney Griner that was delivered to the White House on Monday, the WNBA player wrote how terrified she is that she may be imprisoned in Russia “forever.”
Griner’s wife Cherelle told “CBS Mornings” that when she read the letter, she could feel the fear that Griner was experiencing.
“She is probably the strongest person that I know, so she doesn’t say words like that lightly. That means she truly is terrified that she may never see us again. You know, I share those same sentiments,” Cherelle said.
She should be glad she’s not in America.
You ever notice they never interview a spouse that says “my wife? Yeah, what a dumbass.”
So…sorry but I’m not interested in your fluff piece.
Well, today’s her birthday, so it wouldn’t be a good time to start.
I don’t understand how she is being wrongfully detained if she had cannabis oil and it’s against the law in Russia. The only contention I see is whether it was a large or small amount (which might affect the length of the sentence).
The U.S. Department of State, which has been working with Cherelle, said that it determined that Brittney is being wrongfully detained.
Cherelle said that she is working carefully to ensure that her wife is released from prison and is returned to the United States.
“Initially I was told, you know, we are going to try to reserve, we’re going to try to handle this behind scenes and let’s not raise her value and you know stay quiet. You know, I did that and respectfully, we’re over 140 days at this point. That does not work,” Cherelle said. “So I will not be quiet anymore. I will find that balance of, you know, harm versus help in pushing our government to do everything that’s possible because being quiet, they’re not moving, they’re not doing anything. So my wife is struggling, and we have to help her.”
We must declare war on Russia!
Now do US citizens who have Sudafed or Adderall in their possession in Japan.
…and the January 6th citizens while we’re at it.
No WNBA player left behind!
It were climate change what dunnit
California and six other Western states have less than 60 days to pull off a seemingly impossible feat: Cut a multi-way deal to dramatically reduce their consumption of water from the dangerously low Colorado River.
If they don’t, the federal government will do it for them.
A federal Bureau of Reclamation ultimatum last month, prompted by an extreme climate-change-induced drop in water levels at the nation’s largest reservoirs, reopens years of complicated agreements and political feuds among the communities whose livelihoods depend on the river. The deadline represents a crucial moment for the arid Southwest, which must now swiftly reckon with a problem that has been decades in the making.
Despite the oppressive dryness that has plagued the region for more than 20 years, California has, in large part, avoided reductions to its usage of the Colorado River. But now that reservoir levels have fallen drastically, the Golden State may be forced to use less water, a prospect that would only further strain a state that is already asking residents in some regions to stop watering lawns and take shorter showers.
California’s Imperial Valley, with its vast swaths of farmlands, uses more water than its neighboring water districts — and could be a target for much of the cuts. The state will also have to contend with water users in Arizona and Nevada, who face their own sets of limitations and internal pressures.
“You can’t possibly overestimate how hard this is,” said Felicia Marcus, a fellow at Stanford University’s Water in the West program and former chair of the California State Water Resources Control Board. “Each state has their own peculiar set of politics.”
Over the past 20 years, as the effects of climate change have become more apparent, water authorities in their respective states have been able to hammer out agreements on moderate cutbacks. But it hasn’t been enough.
Climate change ate their homework.
I can help those farmers save water – stop growing cotton and alfalfa in the fucking desert.
But… richest soil in the universe!1! or some shit I keep hearing from that crowd
As long as they aren’t forced to use a private company to help with their water needs
Would provide enough water for 400K people in LA. There is a similar plant in San Diego run by the same company that is operating with no issues.
They should’ve immediately shut off water to the 11 commission members. I’ve had dealings with them and they are corrupt garbage.
“Climate change” – because there have never been droughts in deserts before. I mean, it couldn’t possibly be increasing populations coupled with decades of gross mismanagement of limited water resources.
I think you just defined ‘Climate Change’.
/waters lawn in a storm just to piss off California
20 years in the making and only 60 days to figure out what to do.
I feel real bad for them.
Its not just CA that is about to get fucked over this. CA has exported its refusal to provide sufficient water for its residents. “Six Western states”, including especially AZ.
The Compact dates to 1922, and they’ve known since post WWII that it was over-subscribed.
the Pac-whatever is finally addressing their woeful media package
Unless they can somehow address their woeful geographic location, the only way they can do that is by pissing on their actual fans in pursuit of some notional Midwest/east coast viewership that desperately wants Pac-x teams. 8am games can go piss up a rope and Larry Scott can eat a large bowl of dicks.
Didn’t this all happen on the heels of Scott retiring?
You know what would really help the Pac-whatever — winning.
Scott has been pushing that crap for years, including the idiotic Utah expansion.
The new reality will force the region to shift away from a water source upon which it has relied for centuries, and, in some cases, make tough choices that are sure to ripple nationwide — such as whether to continue alfalfa farming for cattle feed or switch to more drought-hardy crops. The terms laid out in the coming weeks could offer a new blueprint for how America adapts to the increasingly-difficult realities of climate change.
Fortunately, shipping costs for hay from other states are at an all time high. No one knows quite why.
A little warm-up for Joemala.
The 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy staff with thine rod.
Spare the Axelrod, spoil the child-like mind of Biden.
This is quite even handed and a good read.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/106-years-later-the-somme-still-echoes/
And we were contemplating up above what is wrong with our society in terms of it producing young mass killers.
*sigh* “empires” – where are our conquests, what tribute do we exact? We do it quite backward – we pour money and blood out for nothing in return.
A good point about the casualties – I think the first 50 minutes of the British attack had more casualties than we had over the whole 2001-2021 period. But “grim milestones…”
Colonial empires were about conquering and looting foreign countries and lands.
The American Empire is about looting the American taxpayer under the guise of “Spreading Democracy.”
I agree, Swiss, but I think that merely makes the point that Our Masters are incompetent at imperialism, as well.
The current generation might actually be incompetent, but the previous one wasn’t. The American Establishment managed to convince every other empire to give up, though one of them (the USSR) held out a lot longer than the others.
The hell we don’t get something in return – our grifters get the graft!
And even when they abandon territory, like Vietnam or Afghanistan, they don’t fret much because they know they are on “the right side of history”. Didn’t work today, oh well, there’ll be other chances later.
Really good. Thanks, straff.
I’ve read about WWI a lot and still have trouble wrapping my mind around the numbers.
Any agreement with the Imperial Valley district would likely include action on long-stalled efforts to restore the Salton Sea, a lake that provides important habitat for migratory birds in an arid section of the state, even though the fertilizer-laden agricultural runoff has made it inhospitable to fish and other wildlife.
Keep your eye on the ball, California.
So, diverting even more scarce water, and reducing or eliminating fertilizer use.
For some reason, an Iron Law comes to mind:
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
Saving the world, they are
With a bit of glue and spray paint, protesters took action at a gallery at London’s Royal Academy of Arts to demand greater government action on climate change.
A group of at least five activists from the group Just Stop Oil spray painted “No New Oil” underneath the painting Copy of Leonardo’s The Last Supper and glued their hands to the artwork’s frame. The painting depicts the scene from the Bible when Jesus holds his last supper with his Twelve Apostles and tells them that one of them will betray him. The 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece has been attributed to da Vinci student Giampietrino, and painter Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio may have also worked on it.
The protesters that targeted the painting on Tuesday called on their nation’s government to commit to immediately ending all new oil and gas licenses in the U.K., according to a video showing the demonstration. They also called on members of the nation’s art institutions to support a “peaceful civil resistance,” Just Stop Oil said in a statement.
Leave them there to rot. Let people throw rotting cabbages at them.
Easily solved.
(1) Ensure the picture frame is attached solidly to the wall.
(2) Grasp the protestor’s wrist firmly with both hands.
(3) With a sharp and decisive movement, remove the protestor’s hand from the picture frame.
(4) (optional) Point and laugh.
Better plan
It’s important to wait until they shit themselves first.
Let’s take the guns from the people that did not commit the crime.
“Congress needs to have the courage to act and renew the assault weapons ban,” Harris said.
“An assault weapon is designed to kill a lot of human beings quickly,” she said.
“There is no reason we have weapons of war on the streets of America. We need reasonable gun safety laws,” she said.
Courage? Courage isn’t how I would categorize this.
Of course, the previous assault weapons ban had zero effect on shootings.
There is a corollary to Lenin’s “the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them” and it goes something like “the Leninists justify taking away the rights of the Kulaks by pointing to the behavior of the lumpenproles that the Leninists released from the prisons to terrorize the Kulaks.”
Not as pithy, obviously…
“Quack quack quack.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/topless-breastfeeding-mum-boxer-shorts-27318081
Those are not boxer shorts.
What should you do in these turbulent times?
Groceries, gasoline, rent and outstanding debts, inflation and painful price hikes have many Americans concerned about their financial present and future. And with fears that a recession could be lurking in the not-too-distant future, it’s important that people get their affairs in order.
NPR reached out to financial experts on how to better navigate these turbulent times. Here’s the advice they gave from their respective fields.
Donate generously to the Democratic National Committee.
Wrong.
July 4th is the anti-MAGA holiday: It stands for equal rights, consent of the governed, leaders with honor, and the belief we can help others enjoy these rights and secure government by consent of the governed. As the key American holiday, July 4th stands against ‘America First.’
The mental gymnastics are breathtaking.
It all boils down to “Eeeww, those icky people.” Everything boils down to, “Eeeww, those icky people!”
I enjoy how every day they become more honest. They have no desire to wear the mask anymore, and it is glorious.
I believe they left out pluralism.
Well, you got your wish with “consent of the governed” when it comes to abortion, at least. Now go forth and secure the consent of the governed for abortion through the third trimester. What is going to be real tough, though, is saying consent of the governed is the most important thing, but the governed should have nothing to say about abortion.
Believe it or not, you can also get the consent of the governed for gun control. You’ll have to get more consent to amend the Constitution, so you should get cracking.
Bill Kristol is still riding the high from 9/11 when he and his ilk got to manipulate the American people’s tragedy into launching the Global War on Terror, from which Bill and his friends have profited handsomely, though that is not their primary motive. Twenty years of failure in Iraq and Afghanistan should mean Bill’s head on a pike pour encourager les autres but it doesn’t and he prances around smugly because of it.
But bear in mind this is his notion of “consent of the governed”: to turn tragedy into opportunity, to manipulate people’s emotions into supporting the agenda of their parasites.
wut
America only came into this world to redeem it, to show God’s sacrificial love for the neo-con elect.
Well, last night’s wind storm broke three of my maple trees. I now have a substantial clean up project to keep me busy for a while (or to drain my check book if I need to hire someone else to do it).
fuck mother nature.
I hear she’s really pretty, tho. Hot/crazy matrix?
It varies by location 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDkiq5jD5Hc
Definitely a bunny boiler.
A headline from Slate (which I did not click on or provide a link to).
I Make $700,000 a Year, and I Pay a Lot in Taxes. Must I Also Donate to Charity?
Yes, muther fucker. Your taxes are not a replacement for charity.
Well, donations to charity are voluntary, so no, there is no requirement (“must”) that you donate to charity.
I gave some of my earnings to Charity. And the other strippers, too.
Given the “charities” they would choose, chances are pretty good the money is going to end up in the same place anyway.
Poor Kamala
Always getting shafted for that laugh.
The link, it is missing something.
Fuck it. Wasn’t funny enough to go find it again 😉