Inside the flat, a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron. The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. OMWC turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The station (NPR, it was called) could be somewhat quieted, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of NPR, but even to the ideals that the Party was trying to achieve.
But even Government Radio cannot deny the existence of birthdays despite them being symbols of white privilege, and today’s include a guy with a red glare; a guy who had something to say but you can’t hear it because all you can do is stare at the lump on his forehead; a guy who set many records; the patron saint of zymurgy; a guy I think of every time I see a rabbit; a guy who saw eye to eye with Sammy Davis, Jr; one of the few accomplished guitarists who was still lonely; a guy known for his calm stage demeanor and classically trained voice; what Mr. Ed would have sounded like if he were singing; and the best pitchman the world of beer ever had.
Before these become unstories, let us Link.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the guy who will not be your next president.
They say this as if it were a bad thing.
You have to scroll a lot to find the antisemitism, and then you still haven’t found it.
Leo Kottke is a sentimental favorite. He and SP were friends, and she told me that the sort of rambling stream-of-unconsciousness patter to introduce songs was not an act. “That’s exactly what Leo is like when we’re just sitting around talking.” This has both his funny intro and his astonishing playing. I always think of SP every time I hear Leo play. Excuse me, it must be allergy season.
one of the few accomplished guitarists who was still lonely;
Happy birthday Bobby Vinton!
Roy Orbison will always be missed in a Wink.
Orcas sinking boats…
I blame Richard Harris.
So do I
::shakes head:: That’s beneath even you, Ted’S.
I blame the Animorphs
and the best pitchman the world of beer ever had.
Happy birthday Bob Uecker!
*upvotes*
Bob Uecker isn’t The Most Interesting Man in the World!
Joe Cocker, normalizing epilepsy since 1965.
Hate lifts us up where we belong.
But his cover was better than the original.
Which one?
OK, I’m no Soros expert but… really?
There were so many whoppers in that article it was hard to pick just one.
If fomenting violent revolutions and creating social havoc is Jewish…
See – there’s the anti-semitism!
They’re the ones who drew the comparison, not me.
That’s the most antisemitic thing I’ve ever read.
Everything is a dogwhistle for antisemitism.
The stupid is truly boundless.
The allergy season is always upon us, OM. One would think that age would add to immunity but it seems not to help.
Your adventures into the NPR side are admirable but may not bridge the gap.
We’re gonna need bigger boats.
Or 80k more armed IRS Agents.
OR, we could put 80K IRS agents into tiny boats….
I say we get 80,000 IRS agents and put them on the border to make sure all the new immigrants are ‘correctly’ taxed.
Hear hear!
*pounds cane on table
South Park – F*ck You, Whale and Dolphin!
Never gets old.
19,000 donors to a congressional candidate
Fucking tease, not telling us which candidate; have to assume it was an unsuccessful one because a sitting Congress-critters ego and rage would probably go super-nova.
That’s it judge – you threaten with some real consequences there, you fucking worthless shitbag.
Well at least we won’t have to worry about a Scott-Haley ticket on the Republican side.
I wouldn’t be surprised if RFK Jr is more popular among Republican voters than Scott or Haley.
Americans’ view of federal income taxes hit a two-decade low with six in 10 saying they are paying too much, according to a new poll.
The taxes are too damned high.
Plus USG-is-assho does terrible and wasteful things with income taxes.
6 in 10 don’t even fucking pay income taxes.
59.9% of us households paid income tax. So at least .1% thinks 0% is too damn high.
This was for 2022.
Due to losses from shutting down a business, I paid zero income tax in 2016-18, despite making the most I had every made (up to that point) in my life.
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?
I, for one, welcome out Killer Whale overlords.
Hard shell, tasty filling?
I know I’m not supposed to advocate violent overthrow of the government
You’re not? ///Jk. (fuck you, Fed Bureau of Insurrection)
But it only gets violent if all peaceful avenues are removed. Incidentally, USG-is-assho seems intent on removing said peaceful avenues.
The abuses were from 2016 through 2020. So the end of Obama and all of Trump. I imagine, with Biden, they aren’t even bothering to ask the FISC for permission.
Convince me Trump was wrong about the deep state.
Haven’t read about it in detail, but I think those 280K plus violations were just the FBI doing FBI shit without even bothering to get a rubber stamp.
This time, every Jew is with George Soros
He’s about as Jewish as I am Christian, which is to say not at all.
Spurs are going to give Kane a home sending away that is truly memorable – every reason why he should leave.
Memorable for losing to Brentford? *fingers crossed*
Well, for a guy that wants to be playing Champions League, his club is doing everything to convince him to move on.
I wonder if they’re keeping a spot warm for him at LA Galaxy yet, or maybe it’s too soon.
Brentford 3 – that’s done.
Speaking of English soccer – Robc will celebrate, Sheffield Weds overturned a 4 goal deficit and made the promotion final.
Discussed yesterday.
Everton score in 10th minute of ET to get a much needed point @Wolves. I am glad Liverpool got a late draw also, so Newcastle has something to play for on Monday.
This weekend I am an Arsenal/ West Ham/Newcastle fan.
No upsets allowed!
He deserves better plus it’s the last window to cash in on his value. I actually hope he goes.
At least six people were arrested at the Nebraska state capitol building Friday after protests broke out as lawmakers passed a bill that bans abortions after 12 weeks and restricts gender transition procedures for those under 19.
There is no compromising with leftist ghouls.
The vanguard for Crimes of the Future.
I think 12 weeks is too early, but that’s pure pragmatism (not a bad thing when crafting laws). A 22 week cutoff (at viability) has a better philosophical foundation, aligns with a fair number of historical precedents (more or less “quickening”), and I think will be more durable. But that’s just moving a slider on a compromise.
Agree on 22 weeks “except for health of mother,”. If you and the baby daddy can’t come to a decision by then, you are just going to carry that viable little human to term.
At a Faith and Freedom event in Iowa, Scott compelled a crowd of conservative Christian voters in the style of an Southern preacher — a job he said his mother wanted him to have.
Horning in on Obama’s tent show revivalist act? He should be ashamed of himself.
Yeah, cut that shit out.
Yeah, I get it. Every speech is a performance. But adopting a whole different persona is a step too far.
Taxes are too low, and insufficiently progressive. What did I win?
Cocktail party invitation?
Date with a woodchipper?
And the FBI, not content to abuse their own surveillance, outsource even more of it.
It’s a good thing antifa doesn’t exist or they might feel pressured to come up with some excuse for not monitoring their internet activity.
Antifa is just an idea, not like white supremacist extremism.
This is one area where diversity has certainly strengthened the numbers of white supremacists.
Huzzah for the brown, yellow and black faces of white supremacy!
This is udderly ridiculous.
The Dutch government is considering plans to restrict cattle numbers to two cows per football pitch-sized field, putting them on a collision course with the country’s farmers.
Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, has not yet approved the proposed limit of up to “0.35 hectares of grassland per livestock unit”, which is part of a range of measures designed to help the Netherlands meet European Union climate change targets.
The aim is to reduce the large quantities of polluting methane, produced by manure and fertiliser, in grassland-poor areas, while other fields will be converted to grassland, which is good for biodiversity and water quality.
No. The aim is to destroy one of the most productive farming industries in the world as a part of the Great Reset.
Learn To Raise Crickets.
Coming soon to a farm field near you. Things are gonna get wild when they try to confiscate farms here.
That’s why Gates has been buying up the farmland. They won’t be farmers, they’ll be trespassers.
Gates can’t even afford all of the farmland in Washington, let alone elsewhere around the world.
There’s a surplus of toxic emissions from DC, in spite of Gates’ efforts
The FBI has misused a powerful digital surveillance tool more than 278,000 times, including against crime victims, Jan. 6 riot suspects, people arrested at protests after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020 and — in one case — 19,000 donors to a congressional candidate, according to a newly unsealed court document.
Inconceivable!
Dishonest cunte is dishonest and cuntey.
Barr said, “I’ve said all along of the cases out there right now the one I would be most concerned about if I were the former president is the Mar-a-Lago document case.”
Senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge asked, “Why so?”
Barr said, “It doesn’t go a lot on intent or anything like that. It’s very clear that he had no business having those documents. He was given a long time to send them back. And they were subpoenaed. And if there’s any games being played there, he’s going to be very exposed.”
“Look how establishment I am, all you potential GOP nominees!”
Just ignore the raging double standard compared to how other Presidents (and even a certain Vice President and SecState) are treated for their nonstandard handling of classified info.
I support this decision.
As the future of medication abortion in the US remains uncertain, some young women are opting for sterilization. CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen has their stories.
Leftist women may finally do good for humanity by not risking reproducing.
Millions of cats purr contentedly.
Leftist women get their tubes tied, then become teachers so they can indoctrinate the children of others.
It’s very clear that he had no business having those documents.
“You… UPSTART!”
Now do Biden and Pence.
And Hillary. Barr is right about one thing. The actual law is quite strict about secret documentation. Prosecutorial discretion means some people get a Mulligan. Others not so much. Since Trump was not part of the right club, he’s in trouble.
Of course when prosecutorial discretion runs in one direction, predictably, then it becomes indiscrete.
FBI officials say they have already fixed the problems, which the agency blamed on a misunderstanding between its employees and Justice Department lawyers about how to properly use a vast database named for the legal statute that created it, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Disclosing use of the data is now a crime.
FBI, fixing problems since Hoover. Granted fixing the problems caused by the 4th amendment. But still.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/the-week-in-pictures-f-men-edition.php
Apologies of drugs, arse et al — I’ve been on the road a lot lately.
Congressman wants to take a look at NGOs facilitating the transmogrification of illiterate economic migrants into noble political asylum seekers.
Bad enough that organizations are coaching people how to enter the country (and stay) illegally. Worse that they’re doing it with my tax dollars.
Yet another massive, years-long criminal enterprise that gets a complete pass from the DOJ.
RACIST! /rheeeeeeeee
Won’t go anywhere, but good.
Good morning, Old Man!
I had no idea Leo was still touring. He’s hilarious.
This was in the sidebar:
Wyatt Earp speaks on gunfighting on the frontier
Interesting.
It wasn’t stated explicitly, because OMWC is classy like that, but the implication is clear that he was awakened by the dulcet tones of NPR.
This is why we have guns.
Small farms are significant emitters of nitrogen, according to Biden’s “climate czar” John Kerry who is pushing for the U.S. federal government to crack down on farming in America to combat “global warming.”
Kerry insists that the United States must massively reduce farming to meet the radical “green agenda” goals laid out by World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations (UN).
According to the former Secretary of State, the world can’t tackle climate change without first addressing the agriculture sector’s emissions – and farmers in the US are front and center of his plans.
“A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world,” he said during his keynote address. “We can’t get to net-zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here the depths of this mission.”
Delivering these remarks at the Agriculture Innovation Mission (AIM) for Climate Summit held in Washington, D.C., Kerry neglected to acknowledge the undeniable fact that the agriculture industry plays a vital role in providing sustenance and ensuring the survival of all approximately 8 billion people worldwide.
They intend to reduce that number by a few billion.
“They hate you and want you dead” was supposed to be sarcasm.
I wondered what would finally push things over the edge.
emitters of nitrogen
That’s not a greenhouse gas, so the connection to climate change, is… what exactly?
Less fertilizer = less food = less people using energy = less CO2.
The Stalin solution to climate change.
https://archive.is/mbDYB/a3cf3e0d527fac2de79b8c61caa71546eb141cc5.png
“Queen to bee! Kate shares new image tending to a beehive for World Bee Day – after previously revealing secret hobby she shares with brother James”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12105603/Princess-Wales-tends-beehive-keepers-suit-newly-shared-image-World-Bee-Day.html
*light fourscore signal*
She does seem like not a horrible person. Who knows, of course.
I could use a helper with the right equipment.
Not sure how much greenhouse gases bees emit. You can be certain that there would be a big uptick in bee allergies from certain people if bee keeping caught on as a hobby.
secret hobby she shares with brother James
Even GoT is non fiction?
Adding insult to injury!
OK then.
Supposedly in accordance with the terms of Lindell’s challenge. Or is everyone in on the fix?
“EXCLUSIVE That’ll move the needle: More than $2 billion of US taxpayer cash has been wasted on unused Covid vaccines, analysis suggests”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12090713/Over-2bn-wasted-unused-Covid-vaccines-13m-Johnson-Johnson-shots-discarded.html
Your tax dollars at work.
Only $2B? That could have been used for Ukraine instead.
That’s just an accounting error.
Remember, when they were first available you had to know somebody to get a shot.
Now they can’t give them away.
Now think about all the used vaccines, those were not cheap (and worthless) as well. Yet, the government is still promoting more vaccines.
Looking back, it’s downright scary how so many people jumped on the band wagon. Now it’s increasing the debt will save us all from a catastrophic future.
This is not the land of the enlightened, home of the free and brave. I’m disappointed…
As if I needed a bp spike.
Thread
Think about the crazy covid stuff people did simply because the government told them to:
The baptism one was a Bee thing
“The world’s richest Jew”
It’s impossible to find reliable information about the guy, but I thought he was a Nazi collaborator?
In his teenage years he allegedly helped the Nazis out. I saw an interview where it seemed like he almost bragged about it. Can’t find it now (What a shock, it was taken off the Internet).
Although this is disputed: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/george-soros-nazi-jew-conspiracy-theory-roseanne-barr-twitter-rant-a8377301.html
There are similar articles among lefty papers – Vox and such – they say he wasn’t involved. They also deny allegations I’d never heard of, like him being a Nazi soldier. When he was 15.
Whatever, judging him by his actions in the last 2 decades, I think he’s a piece of shit.
The video absolutely exists. You can find it on Twitter. And he is not remorseful in any way or form. Definitely a psychopath.
“Bey’s bunker! Beyoncé and Jay-Z buy California’s MOST EXPENSIVE home for staggering $200M: Brutalist Malibu mega-mansion is fashioned from raw concrete and has breathtaking ocean views”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12104701/Beyonce-Jay-Z-purchase-expensive-home-California-200-million.html
ugly and in California
Hideous.
The architect should be dropped from a helicopter.
You haven’t seen the rest of his work yet!
https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/2019/07/08/25-works-of-tadao-ando-every-architect-should-know-about/
Jesus.
They’re not fooling me — those are all prisons.
Some of the are machine gun bunkers.
Machine gun bunkers can be useful. I guess if you’re prepping the concrete house could be useful as well, but you may as well go full missile silo if you’re going to do that.
Wait til you see all the post-reparations mansions.
Casey Jones killed seven people in a traffic accident day before. Police aren’t identifying any of those killed ‘due to notifying the families first’. Im skeptical that’s why.
Yep, and quotes from the unidentifieds’ family members backs up exactly who were in the van.
https://kval.com/news/local/semi-driver-charged-with-duii-manslaughter-after-crash-killed-7-people-on-i-5-in-oregon
I saw “Portland” and I was hoping it was a vanload of antifa on their way to do something mostly peaceful.
Why would they keep a story about dead illegals – oops – scrappy asylum seekers secret?
They’re hardworking immigrants in this story. Including a family that was just about to go on vacation.
The good news is, that family got their anchor baby before the wife was killed.
And since when do family members of victims address the court during bail hearings? Not to worry, the judge is keeping him in jail because he’s a danger to the public. Despite his lengthy driving rap sheet, I doubt he’s going leave the courtroom and get right back into the cab, unlike many other arrestees who are released immediately through the revolving door to go back to their ongoing criminal activities.
That never happens.
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1659774444624019459
Love the Bee
Terrified Paparazzi Photographer Starting To Think This Meghan Markle Girl Is Stalking Him
https://babylonbee.com/news/terrified-paparazzi-photographer-starting-to-think-this-meghan-markle-girl-is-stalking-him
Top-heavy babes tempting you with tantalizing titties on Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.is/osYJO
OMWC’s Saturday Night?
https://archive.is/OKWGd/a9fe71b2e7c2532e69cae8d3f5051e5de6035c66.jpg
G 69!
If stupid one size fits all government rules created this problem that means we need more stupid one size fits all government rules
Mandatory parking minimums helped shape the modern makeup of America cities. They become a self-fulfilling prophecy, in effect. More parking spaces mean bigger parking lots. Bigger parking lots mean more buildings isolated from roads and sidewalks, separated from arterial infrastructure by vast oceans of asphalt. Faced with so much mandatory automotive-centric infrastructure, many people abandon walking and choose to drive.
Parking requirements have come with other downsides, and a growing number of cities and towns — in both Republican and Democratic-led areas— are now reforming their parking rules. The effort to end parking requirements has gained federal support as well.
In their zoning codes, many cities mandated that any new or re-purposed real estate projects include a minimum number of off-street parking spaces, often based on the size of the development or type of land use.
But now, US Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California, recently introduced a bill that would eliminate parking minimums for new affordable residential, retail, industrial and commercial construction. Separately, he introduced legislation to scrap parking requirements close to public transit.
Affordable housing, environmental and public transportation advocates say parking minimums reduce the supply of housing and raise costs. Developers often bundle the costs of parking in rent or housing prices.
If there’s no place to park, cities will be walkable and everyone will be happy.
Yeah, parking is what adds costs to housing. You won’t need a car when you’re living in your tiny one bedroom apartment.
And with just a 15 minute walk to everything [we’ve decided] you need!
It’s only 15 minutes because the elevators aren’t working again.
Elevators are a bourgeois indulgence! Only Party members deserve such luxury.
Parking rules deter developers and businesses that can’t afford to construct the required parking, and spaces that could have held apartments have instead been swallowed up by parking mandates.
They also increase traffic congestion, carbon emissions and make cities less walkable, critics say.
You know what else swallows up land which could be used for apartments? Yards. We should ban yards.
Commercial buildings have had no setbacks requirements for almost twenty years here. Already running into where roads can’t be widened due to the buildings.
I had no idea lutes if this era had so many drone strings. I’m trying to imagine tuning and keeping it in tune.
J. S. Bach – Lute Suite in E Major BWV 1006a – Evangelina Mascardi, Baroque Lute
Okay, glad I’m not the only one.
I’m living the Cali life this weekend. It’s beautiful here and I can understand why people want to live here.
That being said, the cost of living is staggering high in the LA basin. There are some real nice long time locals. There has been a huge influx of Chinese buying properties, I’m guessing as a backup plan for their families.
By the way the Bob Hope airport in Burbank is wonderful and I would recommend it over LAX any day. The place looked like a airport from 1985. Payphones, no jetways, easy in and out, baggage claim was outside right next to the taxi stand. I expected it to have a smoking lounge and a martini bar, but that was asking to much.
I’m here for one more day, so I’m being very superficial.
I’ll try to summarize later what a 50-60 something new wave/goth music festival is like.
Adam Ant canceled last minute and has been replaced by The Squeeze.
https://cruelworldfest.com/
I’m looking forward to seeing Gary Numan later today.
Nice lineup!
Chinese buying properties
Hedge against collapse of the yuan. I think no one in the world trusts the currency subject to manipulation by their own govt.
So the dollar’s right out then…
For us, absolutely. For those outside the country, it may still be a better bet.
The local I was talking to was an Uber driver who just lost his job as a loan underwriter after 35 years. He just went to school to get his CDL and will start doing over the road trucking as a semi-retirement plan.
His big complaint about the Chinese is that they can’t drive. I saw this as well in Shanghai. If you’re 40-60 years old and never drove until you were 30-40, you would probably be pretty shitty at it.
‘Adam Ant canceled last minute and has been replaced by The Squeeze.’
Cool for Cats.
Alleged bike Karen who wasn’t a bike Karen is suing. Good for her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tl4KfKIg80
I think she’s gonna get paid, yo.
Who is she going to sue?
I’m assuming her employer kept paying her. The press is pretty well shielded and the bike asshole likely has nothing.
I believe her attorney indicated they’d go after the media; worked for the Covington kid.
Media orgs for defamation most likely.
That’s a tough road. I wish her well.
CNN wants you to know
Schoening made a series of claims that are not true, but are common amid a backlash to advocacy for trans rights.
For example, Schoening raised the idea that a tomboy – a girl who wore flannel and sneakers – would be told by a teacher, “You know, it might be time to gender transition. Let’s go talk to the school therapist. Let’s go talk to a physician. Let’s do this.” Schoening said she did not know any tomboys who’d actually transitioned after social pressure. But, she said, “Imagine the kids that aren’t strong enough to go talk to their parents and say, ‘My teacher is trying to gender transition me.’ We’re speaking for those kids. And those parents who aren’t made aware.”
Further, Schoening claimed 8-year-old boys could get surgery to remove their penises, and that she feared her state would pass a law saying if parents refused to have their boys’ penises surgically removed, the state would take them away. She thought this issue would eventually go to the US Supreme Court.
Medical guidelines do not call for gender affirming surgery on young children, and many health care providers do not offer it to patients under 18. Children diagnosed with gender dysphoria go through many years of care. In some instances, they can receive puberty-blocking hormones at the onset of puberty. These drugs are FDA-approved to treat children who start puberty at a very young age, but are not approved for gender dysphoria.
CNN asked Schoening if she was saying she believed there was some kind of high-level coordinated effort to make more children trans and gay. “There is,” she said. Who would be directing it? “Teachers’ unions, and our president, and a lot of funding sources,” she said. Why would they do that? “Because it breaks down the family unit,” she said. And why would they want that? “So that conservative values are broken down, and that we can slowly erode away at constitutional rights,” she said.
,strong>There is no evidence of a coordinated plot to make kids trans.
Haha, what a bunch of nuts.
and many health care providers do not offer it to patients under 18
However, we aren’t denying that there are some that do – but look, they’re professionals, you have nothing to worry about.
The dispute between the two groups was clear, and they took it seriously. The Neighbors for Education crowd thought Moms for Liberty was operating in a different reality.
The “different reality” known as reality.
Well sure, except in moments of honesty when the activists explain that all of that is exactly what they are doing.
“There is no evidence of a coordinated plot to make kids trans.”
BULLSHIT
Like the rest of society, something need not be “coordinated” in order to a thing.
There may well not be a “coordinated plot” to turn kids trans, but it doesn’t mean there’s not a critical mass of those who are doing so.
And I’d argue that destroying traditional values is likely the large goal, and not necessarily turning kids trans. That’s the tool, not the goal.
“Jim Brown, ‘Dirty Dozen’ Star and NFL Legend, Dead at 87”
https://decider.com/2023/05/19/jim-brown-athlete-actor-dead-87/
RIP
Goddam Kraut sniper!
Always liked Brown and 87 is a good run. RIP.
https://archive.is/M6PwO/89012e0bb7dc09528d8c0b267f15fcb0a352f2fa.jpg
CNN asked Lopez if there was a plan by President Biden and teacher unions to make more kids gay and trans to break down the traditional family. She began to get exasperated. “That’s ridiculous,” she said. “Attacking a whole sector of society who happen to be our children in order to push whatever agenda you have is dangerous, irresponsible, hateful, egregious – should I go on? No.”
People who make wild unfounded accusations and use divisive and hateful rhetoric to promote their political agenda should be ashamed of themselves.
It’s not so much a plan, as a general sense of obligation.
You mean like the left having transformed normal, everyday people into far right white supremacist extremists?
We may have overdone it on the plants this year:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/8D7j7lqGTX2ZqTIzJM817A.F6nPVOYqI4Chj7RB7nXRt3
That’s not even all of them.
So when is the chili festival at your place?
In the fall, I suppose. 😉
Lol. No such thing
Tundra, would you like to meet on Zoom about guitar / bass, or was my email good?
It’s almost time to buy a used RV
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rv-bust-worsens-dealers-discount-trailers
I just need a stretch of desert large enough for my rattlesnake farm.
Or fuel costs. Or the market is totally saturated and consumers are shifting back to alternative traditional recreation options.
The fuel cost are the real kicker. I split the diesel cost two summers ago for a trip out west. Easily $1K for the trip towing a nice toy hauler.
First, you find the most extreme and vocal person on the side you disagree with, and quote them saying the most outrageous thing possible. Then, you find a reasonable and moderate sounding person on the side you agree with, and quote them bemusedly tut-tutting those extremist ravings.
That’s how you journalism.
BREAKING: Women Discover Clothes
“Women are wearing a ‘safety layer’ over their outfits in public to deter ‘creepy’ men – with many labelling it ‘sad but necessary'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12093009/Women-wearing-safety-layer-outfits-deter-creepy-men.html
WTF?
A Detroit gas station clerk may have panicked when he locked a door to stop a possible theft before a man shot three bystanders, but he didn’t commit a crime, his lawyer said Friday.
A magistrate set bond at $200,000 for Al-Hassan Aiyash, 22, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a customer. He is accused of being grossly negligent by locking the door when a man tried to leave the gas station with items worth less than $4.
A man was killed and two more were wounded on May 6. Samuel McCray, 27, has been charged with murder and other crimes.
——-
McCray tried to leave the gas station without paying for items when an electronic purchase didn’t work, according to police.
Aiyash, who was behind protective glass, remotely locked the door, keeping McCray and three bystanders inside during the dispute. He unlocked the door shortly before the shooting, but the others apparently didn’t know it, the prosecutor’s office said.
And that’s why you let people walk out with anything they can carry.
“This is democrat Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh who has been drinking the woke kool-aid of insanity. This is not a loop. There is an ending”
https://twitter.com/4Mischief/status/1659751709743169537
So now we have Triggly Puff legislators.