Soon, a required skill in NYC
Quite a weekend, but it is back to the grind. Work is still trying to drive me to an early grave, but I am taking tomorrow off, so point for me! But there is no time off for the links!
- Dey r takin’ r NYC’ers!
- Serious storm evacuation.
- Happy Birthday, Crayon eaters.
- This is a serious issue in the ol’ CH.
I am (as usually is the case) musically uninspired, so you’ll have to provide that.
The comments are open.
SNAP serenade
Keb Mo – Government Cheese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXcTMgPzhm4
Green Eggs and Gubment Cheese.
Anarchy Burger! (hold the government.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4hXR_-7rLQ&list=RDD4hXR_-7rLQ&start_radio=1
In better news, I found Modelo Negra in cans! Why is this important you didn’t ask?
No glass on the course, and I love their Negra, usually sold in bottles.
According to Jurus, due to various structural factors, prices will probably no longer fall to the levels of the beginning of 2024, also due to climate change,
I had to read to the end before the writer blamed climate change? What is the world coming to? The author needs to do better.
Shocking
Christine Pelosi is running for office, but not for her mother’s seat.
Pelosi, the daughter of retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), announced Monday she is running to represent San Francisco in the California state Senate. In a video she posted to the social platform X, Christine Pelosi said that if elected, she will fight for consumer rights, women’s rights, gun violence survivors, immigrants and “our most vulnerable communities against the threat we face.”
“What do we do when our freedoms are under attack? We speak up, we fight back and we organize,” she added.
I can’t believe she’d turn down the hereditary seat. Maybe she’s holding out for a direct shot to the Senate.
A new stock portfolio to mirror emerges!
lol
:: Reserves ChristinePelosiStockTracker.com ::
Do it, TOK! No time like the present to cash in on her.
Technically speaking, her freedom to grift is under attack.
Related: https://babylonbee.com/news/nancy-pelosi-prepares-for-sad-future-of-outsider-trading
Speaking of…
Why a federal concealed carry gun bill must be stopped
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/10/opinion/concealed-carry-weapons-states-reciprocity/
Now explain marriage reciprocity.
pay walled.
Turn off JavaScript.
Paywall bypass for above link.
https://archive.fo/xomqR
I don’t need to read all of it to understand the author needs to f*ck off.
thanks
Thanks. The work firewall gets quite feisty with archive.fo and captcha hell.
Police officers know this better than most. Imagine being a Boston cop trying to verify the legal carry status of an armed out-of-stater from Alabama or Idaho, who simply shows a driver’s license and claims the ability to carry a loaded gun around the Fenway. There’s no national system to verify if the person is a valid carrier or has a criminal history. Officers would be forced to make split-second decisions about armed individuals from hundreds of jurisdictions.
I chuckled. National concealed carry will be used, especially when Democrats are back in power, to come down on states with no permits.
I’d love to see some of those no permit states create a 1 page fill in the blank PDF that says “name here” attests to living in the state of X with all the rights and privileges pertaining.
That’s it – download it or pick it the photo copy and fill it out. There is your “permit”.
With a few having “no name given” as per blue state CDLs.
Fuck him and his stupid opinions. That is all.
But he’s a former Marine. He makes sure to tell you on this Birthday Day!
Related – the best man at my wedding – his 18 year old son just graduated from Parris Island last weekend.
That makes him not just less qualified, but significantly less qualified to hold any opinions on concealed carry, or guns or shooting in general.
JHTFC
Historically, Americans have not legislated toward the least common denominator. We don’t allow interstate reciprocity for speed limits, marijuana laws, or tax codes.
Speed limits is a dishonest and irrelevant argument; the government owns the road the government gets to set the rules. Tax codes is dishonest and nonsensical. MJ laws are unjust from a libertarian POV; it’s a natural right derived from the right of self-ownership, just like RKBA.
When I was in uniform, every Marine carrying a weapon was thoroughly vetted, trained, and supervised. We didn’t declare ourselves “good guys with guns” (our gunnery sergeants would have laughed in our faces) or claim a God-given right to use and carry weapons. Rather, we earned that privilege, as well as the trust of our leaders and platoon mates, through discipline, training, and accountability.
Barf. Fuck your expertism and credentialism.
When I was in The army the least qualified were those running the ranges.
Speed limits is a dishonest and irrelevant argument
Yes, the correct analogy would be drivers licenses.
Oh, I thought that name sounded familiar… Anthony Swofford, who wrote this editorial, was the same abject shitbag who wrote Jarhead.
It’s really funny that he falls back on his time as a Marine considering that he wrote a shitty little book about just how undisciplined and shitty his life as a Marine was. He made a profit mocking military service and the Marines (though laughably claims he came back with PTSD while seeing no real combat), but when it comes time to pen an anti-gun screed for the Boston Globe, he wants to talk about the discipline and rigorous regulation of firearms in the military.
The entire thing is littered with half-assed logic and isn’t worth responding to, but the above is the most notable takeaway. He wrote an account of Marine life that would appeal to the sensibilities of proggies and all that entails. He lost the right to earnestly fall back on his time as a Marine to support his gun control bullshit.
In a surprise to no one, Bethesda has botched the FO4 anniversary roll out.
I mean you want to play to your reputation when selling people an anniversary edition of the game they already own.
Just like they did the Skyrim anniversary rollout. Probably screwed all the modders too
I picked up the collector’s edition of FO3 when it came out. While the lunchbox was on point, the bobblehead is mediocre, and the “PIP boy” was DOA, and would have cost ~$40 to claim the warranty replacement, so it stayed busted.
Is Ghislaine Maxwell trying to get a commutation of her sentence
Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump, a whistleblower has told House Democrats.
The whistleblower came forward with the information to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and also alleges Maxwell is getting preferential treatment in prison.
“I am struggling to keep it all together as it is big and there are so many attachments,” Maxwell wrote in an e-mail to her attorney, Leaf Saffian, which was reviewed by NBC News. The subject line of the email reads “commutation application.”
In a letter to Trump on Monday, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., demanded the administration release information about the commutation application and called on Trump to reject her request.
Suddenly Democrats don’t like groomers.
“Playing politics is MY job,” the congresscritter added.
Won’t somebody save democracy from this brutal attack?
As we witness President Trump’s daily attacks on the rule of law, constitutional rights and democracy, I recall an incident from 1964, the year I graduated high school.
In the early morning hours of Mar. 13, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed to death outside her apartment building in Queens. The New York Times reported later that nearly 40 people saw or heard the attack but did nothing to stop it. It shocked the nation that no one had the courage to intervene. Psychologists called it the “bystander effect.”
Whether or not this account is entirely accurate, it provides an apt analogy to what we are witnessing today, as a criminal president and his allies assault our republic. The elected leaders and institutions assigned to defend us stand by and watch travesty after travesty, as though helpless to stop it.
The perfect analogy. Needs a dollop of Stockholm Syndrome on top.
Still waiting to hear a description of these awful travesties being perpetrated in my name.
*whistles, taps feet*
Still waiting…
Every one of the “travesties” I’ve heard has been a media-perpetuated lie.
“it provides an apt analogy to what we are witnessing today”
Or, now bear with me, you are a deranged nut job.
Straight-up TDS bullshit. Trump is explicitly trying to make our cities safer and is being thwarted at every turn by blue city mayors.
Narrator: That account is not accurate.
But don’t let that stop you from pushing The Narrative.
Do they explain how, exactly, Trump is, to quote them, attacking “the rule of law, constitutional rights and democracy?” As it is kinda rich, coming from someone who is aligned with the party of ignoring border and immigration laws, student loan repayment, and advocates for racism via DEI programs.
Also, that the city of the Kitty Genovese killing was Democrat controlled at the time, and that it happened as a direct result of the policies of that party.
Exactly, my first thought on reading that was “citations needed”.
Yet, with Trump and the radical right rapidly advancing the destruction of the Republic, our most powerful institutions aren’t lifting a finger. Elections are meant to be the remedy for such inexcusable cowardice, but the Trump machine is moving to permanently destroy representative government and the electoral system before voters can save them.
What is equally disturbing is that 77 million Americans allowed themselves to be duped into handing the presidency to a convicted felon who tried to steal an earlier election. Those who voted for him cannot claim ignorance of his conduct, as they knew Trump’s victory would allow him to escape trials on the dozens of additional charges against him.
Traitors, the lot of them.
This guy is liable to swallow his tongue in a fit of apoplexy one of these days.
JFC the chutzpah.
They believe that shit
*Reposted from the lunchtime thread*
Hey all. I know that there are some Utah boys and girls in here. I’m flying out to Utah in a couple weeks for the PCSL 2-Gun National Championships in St. George. Does anyone have a line on BLM land in that general area, that would be open to a little recreational shooting/confirming zero before the match?
I dunno Argentina, I get it, you have a history of letting in questionable immigrants, but New Yorkers? Seems like maybe a line should be drawn.
Damn, (((Jarflax, a little harsh there, no? (Funny, though!)
I kid. Sort of. I have known some really insufferable New Yorkers
In a letter to Trump on Monday, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., demanded the administration release information about the commutation application and called on Trump to reject her request.
I’m glad Raskin has all his other duties and responsibilities so well ordered he has time to devote this sort of energy and attention to petty vindictiveness.
Sorry, presidential commutations are not within the purview of legislative oversight.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-178462132?source=queue
Interesting piece on who really voted for Mammydammy.
Getting closer to owning my home. Only 5 years to go.
Investigating homeownership by looking at NYC is ridiculous. It is not even a question for most there.
No, it’s much simpler than that. He won because resist! Overwhelmingly the young, and the female. None of them were making economic calculations first.
Do they explain how, exactly, Trump is, to quote them, attacking “the rule of law, constitutional rights and democracy?”
They just know. It’s as plain as the nose on your face. Democracy and the rule of law died the day he stole that election from Hillary. Everything else is just harder and faster.
He has talked about cutting funding from the important programs that teach grade schoolers how to have anal sex!
I wonder how much Teen Vogue was getting from USAid.
Battles on Lake Chad
Guardian article on the fighting
As many as 200 terrorists were killed in a turf war on Sunday between rival jihadists in north-east Nigeria.
The fighting between Boko Haram and rival militants from Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) broke out over the weekend in the village of Dogon Chiku, which lies on the shores of Lake Chad, a restive area located at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
The lake’s riverine corridors serve as operational zones for jihadists who also bank on revenues from taxing fishers, loggers and herders.
The violent episode was the latest in a fight between the groups for territory and influence as more non-state actors stake a claim for dominance in the wider Sahel region. According to reports, Iswap reportedly incurred more personnel losses and several boats used in the assault were seized by Boko Haram forces.
Make some popcorn for that.
In honor of a famous event that occurred fifty years ago today, I’m making myself a sandwich on a roll topped with caraway seeds and salt.
I’ll call it “The Weck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
Some BBQ sauce could help it out a bit.
The kind the drugstore sells?
The Hyperbole:
Discount Drug Mart does save you the run around…
I think you are putting to much cheese on it. But, that shouldn’t have jack to do with it.
You’ve found your new roll?
Stage your own goddamn ceremony rather than expecting Uncle Sugar to do it for you
With apologies to those of you who are ex-military, the people who go to the media and expect the media to propagandize for them like this frankly make me less sympathetic to their cause.
The army was simply a job.
And a shitty one at that.
The vast majority of the people I was in with did not join for honor or love of country but for a paycheck and job security. It showed and left a bad taste in my mouth as I did join for those reasons. Took a hell of a paycut to join too.
Came home from work and my newish Windows 11, not from my directive, decided to update itself. Now my cursor won’t move, and with settings toggled to make sure I didn’t accidentally switch anything, there’s nothing I can seemingly do to get it working again. Restarted and shutdown, tried a few times.
Well, my *old* computer kinda decided to attempt to work again after the new purchase, so I’m on it for now as it attempts to remain halfway functional. Always seems to happen on my days off, which I suppose is more pleasing than it could be, but also more frustrating in its own way. A few Big Ideas a’brewin’, and happy to have a catch-up sleep-in.
Yeah, my 11 box self updated, and now my up/down keys don’t work, and there are cookie issues still to figure out.
Damn this rando shit.
😱
Are they trying to get rid of their customers? If they wanted out of the desktop OS business, they could just say so.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5604756/does-microsoft-have-a-fix-for-the-common-issue-wit
It appears to be laptop bug. Are these desktops or laptops?
The Philippines has been rocked by one natural disaster after another this year. 2020 was similar. Multiple Typhoons and volcano eruptions. The people there are great co-workers and nice people. They are mostly working today even with power outages, clean up, factory startup, and insurance claims
At my old company before the current mothership gobbled us up we had a team in the Philippines doing all our releases. Nice folks. Unusual accent.
69th. niccceeeeee.
failure to communicate = Kedir beneath Momotei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ox5LhIJSBE
“What we have heah, is a failure to masturbate.”