Seeyalaterbye.
A Michigan football coach has been arrested for something with a computer at work, but nobody is talking about what it is. Although his neighbor said there were a lot of cops at his house arresting him. I’m sure people are gonna freak the fuck out over this. If you’re not an advocate, you’re an enemy, right? A famous wrestler has died in a car crash. Liverpool stopped the bleeding. At least in the FA Cup. And Nadal has been bounced out early at the Aussie Open. Now on to the links.
The coping here is amazing. I can’t wait to see the seething after the next session.
Man, the riots would be off the chain. I doubt it will happen, but can you imagine what would happen if he was successful?
We’ll never know.
Let the speculation begin. I’m sure whatever happened, we’ll never know the truth.
This settlement is smaller than I’d have guessed. I guess ADA compliance ain’t what it used to be.
“Separate but equal?” That seems to be the standard when it comes to classified docs.
The Hedgehog will not stand trial. Post your own quips in the comments. I’ve got too many running through my head to pick just one.
“Thanks a lot, Indiana.” Or was it another state where guns are easy to buy? It can’t possibly be that these cartels got their guns from Fast & Furious though, right?
Grifters grifting
Well of course they do. I still see nothing wrong with what he did and I hope he walks. He needs to walk free as a lesson to any other would-be armed robbers.
Bonus link of hilarious coping. The replies to their tweet are even better.  God, I love the internet sometimes.
Going way back in their catalog for this one. What a lovely song. And now one from much later. What a badass song. Enjoy the diversity of their catalog.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
I know you all Thirst for more Firsts…
I like to turd for third.
“A Michigan football coach has been arrested for something with a computer at work, but nobody is talking about what it is. Although his neighbor said there were a lot of cops at his house arresting him.”
Clintons or Child Porn?
In this day and age, does anybody think that the 3 letter agencies would NOT plant CP on someone’s computer? Not saying this here, but i have wondered.
Well, apparently not Ron Jeremy according to the court….
âThanks a lot, Indiana.â
Winter migration to warmer climate?
Choosy Moms choosing Jif again.
OMG it is a hard G!
Well, teh gunz do have agency after all. They go around shooting people unpredictably, so who could question their decision to move West during winter?
The swallows of San Juan Capistrano could be carrying them with a standard creeper?
Well, an African swallow, maybe…
But African swallows are non-migratory!
“but can you imagine what would happen if he was successful?”
Depends what year, BLM only goes off every four years. Like locusts. Except locusts aren’t vermin.
I would assume with a D in the White House they’d keep it on the downlow until they’re needed to intimidate Republicans again. More than enough grifting from the corporate dhimmi tax… *cough* DEI funding to keep them happy in the nonce.
They started in 2012 in response to Travon Martin before the 2012 election when Obama was President, then again quieted down, then started up again in 2016 when Obama was still President, then quieted down, then blew up in 2020. They don’t actually care about black lives. They only care about money and politics.
Trayvon Martin is still a big deal up here in Cleveland.
Not Tamir?
Oh fuck.
That’s what I get for posting without caffeine.
Yes, Tamir Rice.
/goes to the box and feels shame.
Of course Tamir Rice never got the national outrage and BLM riots, because his case could have actually led to real reform, which doesn’t put money in the race hustler’s coffers.
That’s good at least. It’s possibly the most outrageous example of police brutality I can think of (even more so than Daniel Shaver).
Nike will be ready this time.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/downtown-seattle-nike-store-to-close-at-end-of-week/
OMG that first paragraph. đđ
I know, right? And it gets even better.That whole piece is amazing in its retardation.
I see that retardation and raise you. The talking points have been circulated. This one is so frantic that it almost inspires a little tiny bit of hope that he could be right – about what the court will do; he’s as wrong as he could be about the consequences.
It has effectively launched an attack that could imperil much of the financial regulatory infrastructure that saved the U.S. economy in 2008 and 2020.
For certain definitions of saved.
Yeah that glared at me like a Michael Bay lens flare. OK dude, you’re a lawyer, not an economist.
The horror that they may decree racism unconstitutional.
I’ve got one metric and one metric only.
I shall beat you with it,
“Enough whites have left this institution without useful skills. It’s time more minorities got the experience.”
Itâs time more minorities got the experience.
And it’s time they also got themselves saddled with crushing debt for useless degrees.
No problem. San Fran will forgive their debts.
“Reparations would solve that, honkey.”
-somebody at CNN and/or the US government
My alma mater (UMHB) offers a BA in Transformational Development. Not sure how much student loan money is available though?
*looks at college enrollment of men and women*
So they’re going to be giving men scholarships to make it easier to go to college? You know, to close the gender education gap.
Followed shortly thereafter by:
Is discrimination by race a bad thing or a good thing?
Yes. /Right thinker
In a fantasy world where they were being honest.
The horror… the horror.
Does this mean they’ll smack down the gun control overreach before it takes six years to get to them?
I was surprised that the article DIDN’T mention Bruen, and all the subsequent rulings from lower federal courts overturning state and local laws and policies which infringe on 2A rights.
That’s too terrible to ponder.
Drat, should have went with:
“Not enough trigger warnings to cover that news story.”
STEVE SMITH BREATHE EASIER
no stiff sentence?
Obligatory?
I was expecting this (NSFW – lyrics and band).
No hard time for the Hedgehog!
Well, the case was thick with ambiguites.
Years ago I saw that graphic on a local station when they’re were having technical difficulties. I’m guessing some wise ass broadcast engineer loaded it up as a joke and forgot it about it.
You are pretty close to Springfield…
You guys gotta see the bonus link I provided. It’s at least as fun as the CNN piece.
Needs licensing deal with Sanrio.
You mean like this?
Perfect birthday present for this kid
https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-man-arrested-video-showed-young-child-playing-gun
Well, now we know your Twitter handle if we didn’t before Mr. Sticky Situation. đ We’ll have to see if Swiss is on Twitter to come give you a narrow gaze for that one.
Two thoughts just skimming the article:
1) Is MTG wrong, you twits? All the government guys with guns did was keep the parents from helping. Properly trained kids (and training should start early, shouldn’t it?) could have protected themselves. Once again bringing up that it used to be typical to have rifle clubs and pickups with shotguns all over in high schools and no one thought twice. Stop making soft targets and maybe the psychos will have to live out their vengeance fantasies solely on-line? (But then people wouldn’t be scared and hand over power… I know, I know…)
2) Wait, they’re talking about the Vegas shooting? I thought that one got memory holed deeper than if STEVE SMITH were packing it up America’s collective backside….
The Twitter responses are hilarious.
âThis is why I live in a BLUE state and wonât even travel through a RED state.â
Have fun in Chicago!!
Baltimore says hi. They never seem to think about the fact that the deep blue cities with strict gun control are overwhelmed with shootings and murders. Yeah, sure “Indiana”, but then why doesn’t Indiana have the same problem?
Their inability to make even the most basic of observations is legendary.
Progressive thinking requires all perceptions to be filtered through a kaleidoscope.
Murders up in urban areas, not gun-friendly counties.
Dude, you misquoted xer: “This is why I want to live in a Blue state.”
That makes it even more hiliarious as the most literal reading is that xhe does not currently live in a blue state, but merely aspires to do so.
I was deeply offended.
Kids should learn with iron sights before moving on to red dots and scopes.
Research conducted by the DoD strongly indicates that new shooters learn marksmanship faster when they train exclusively with optics.
The future is now, old man!
No! Everything was better before!
*Shakes bony fist and shuffles away.
conducted by the DoD
That may not be the endorsement you might think it is.
It was a disclaimer.
No, it is. If there is one thing the DoD is good at (other than funneling money to their cronies), it is taking a bunch of scrubs and getting them trained to a reasonable level of competence in a short period of time.
Just like the FBI, just because they’re a bunch of corrupt evil assholes, doesn’t mean we can’t learn from them.
I’ll agree that that used to be true; not sure it still is or will be into the future.
It’s that “easier” part that makes me want to have them learn with irons.
This makes absolutely no sense to me, but okay.
Easier for them when they do shot a firearm with a dot or scope. Still able to function with irons if need be.
Also, the DoDs findings on this match my own experience with firearms instruction. Red dots are much easier and give more useful feedback. So there.
It’s all fun and games until the apocalypse. You’re going to be stuck looking for batteries and teflon lubricant, while I’m out blasting zombies with my lever rifle with ghost rings.
âgive more useful feedbackâ
Can confirm, at least with handguns. They show you exactly how much, and how, your point of aim wobbles.
And this is why all olypic shooters use irons.
No Spray and Pray.
The only reason Olympic shooters use irons is that they are required to by the rules of the game.
^this
Most of the twitter replies were dumb lefties by the time I saw it, but I did see a familiar name in one of the replies. Sticky situation indeed…
Spent the last 2 days w/ an annoying cough and when I decided to test for it this AM I sure as hell had the VID. No fever, no aches. Just nonstop coughing. Haven’t slept for more than 30 mins total for 2 days now, so feeling fatigued.
At least it means I do not need to go into the office for the next 2 weeks.
Hope it dies down soon so you can get some Zzzz’s sir. Rest, lots of fluids, vitamins…. you know the drill. đ Feel better soon.
Get well soon.
I had the same experience post-vid. FWIW, I found Delsym Cough worked pretty well. They have a regular and a night-time, the latter of which helped me sleep.
Sorry you have the ‘vid. Feel better soon.
Try Mucinex. Or the store brand. It’s just as good.
“Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux”
Way back when I was a kid in Cali there was a Mike Biudreaux in my class that moved away. I wonder if this is him?
Well, considering how many “Freson Idians” live down there, I am not surpised with misspellings.
Jesus. Fresno Indians.
But we believe he went from being a law-abiding citizen to a law breaker. /Quannell X and friends
Well Quannell, if you’re on the jury, great you can have your say. For now, your opinion is like your asshole.
There’s a lot of people here who agree with him.
I am not one of them. In the immortal words of Mickey the Pikey to Gorgeous George: “you stay till the job’s done.”
A few even in this very chat.
Eric stayed until quite a bit after the job was done. That is what is going to hang him.
Anyone have a link to the whole event? I tried finding it from the HC, but had no luck.
STEVE SMITH SAY IT YOUR BEST FEATURE?
Resin…sticky… I see what you did there. đ
Since we talk yesterday about Canadian MAID
Canada performing more organ transplants from MAID donors than any country in the world
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-performing-more-organ-transplants-from-maid-donors-than-any-country-in-the-world-1.6234133
I suspect China still has them beat — they just classify things a little different.
The firing squad is not exactly medically assisted. Then again if you want the organs I don;t think a firing squad is used, you don’t want to poke holes.
Have you met the medical guillotine?
Though, more seriously, China doesn’t shoot their involuntary donors first, they just extract the organs and let that process do the killing.
Charlie, let’s go to Candy Mountain!
Shun the non-believer!! SHUNNNNNN!!!
https://youtu.be/CsGYh8AacgY
LOL
An early years YouTube classic.
Husky almost dies at the pet groomers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTnGqjH2UM
I hope Ivan Provorov sticks to his guns during whatever backlash he’s inevitably going to receive for not catering to the gay pride thing. He’s there to play hockey, not dress up and bear the colors of a cause he doesn’t even believe in.
Even if he didn’t invoke his religious freedom to opt out of the gay pride pandering, why should he be compelled to dress up and wear decorative colors on his hockey stick for ANYBODY’s pet cause? Is he going to be condemned for not wearing the Ukrainian flag colors next?
Give your nuts a tug, and keep your stick on the ice.
Are hockey fans clamoring for this sort of display?
Know your customers, NHL.
About like movie fans are the modern audience.
Yup. I detest corporate compelled speech and wish him all the best. Other than the type of useful idiot Musk had to flush out of the Aegean Twitter Coop, I have serious problems believing most people take a job with a particular corporation because of their political messaging versus “Is it a job I can do and like / doesn’t suck… ” and “Will it pay my mortgage?” and all. But HR departments sure act like the precise opposite is true… Bleah.
But if youâre not âusing your high profileâ to the benefit of the Cathedral, are you even sporting?
The whole point is humiliation and forcing people to bend the knee.
The backlash I truly fear is when the American people tire of the QUILTBAG+ movement’s agenda and go after the relatively normal, non-movement, LGB people.
I’m reading a book by Douglas Murray (The Madness of Crowds) that touches on that very thing, that normal LGB people and their very reasonable advocacy for human rights has been tainted by the rest of the QWERTY+ brigade and thus they are losing ground and being lumped in with the crazy folk.
That brigade was around long before QWERTY and has been tainting normal people for years.
How are they losing ground? They are gaining more power each year, with people being forced to celebrate their lifestyle and sexual preference for one month and one week a year, school kids are being taken to drag shows at public libraries, and the Dems are working to allow gender reassignment on demand with no parental input.
Most T people are normies too.
Citation needed.
I think so, in the sense that they aren’t ‘activists’ but they are all mentally distressed.
The proportion of activists seems much higher than the gen pop though.
It’s obvious from casual observation.
Being transgender doesn’t make someone interested in politics. It also makes sense that if a person wants to pass as the opposite sex they aren’t going to go around making an issue of being trans.
Is he going to be condemned for not wearing the Ukrainian flag colors next?
He’s Russian right? So probably.
We would have been waiting 75 years for this data. I can’t imagine why.
https://dailyclout.io/serious-stroke-adverse-events-following-pfizer-covid-19-mrna-vaccination/
So what would the expected rate of strokes and fatal strokes be? That doesnât give me any useful information.
The denominator is conspicuously absent from the Pfizer data. However, 50% of the strokes were within 48 hours after the shot and the rest tapering over a 41 day spread.
Correlation ain’t causation, but that’s what I would call a “signal.”
That wasn’t covered [up] by the UK Official Secrets Act?
Relevant
https://twitter.com/yessirhumphrey/status/1484033269670760451
“White Louisiana high school secretary is forced out after she sent colleague racist text referring to MLK Jr Day as ‘n****r day'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11646877/White-Louisiana-high-school-secretary-forced-sending-colleague-racist-text.html
Was that wrong?
That own-goal was pretty much an IQ test, wasn’t it?
No way could she expect to keep a job after that.
Thatâs my thought.
Anyone stupid enough to send that message to a co-worker at a school also probably needs help eating and wiping ass.
If there was ever an important Order of Operations, that would be it.
PemdASS
Unless of course, the sender had the mystic skin color of anti-racism.
National News
Yeah, America is so rampant with racism that a local HS secretary using the “N-word” is national news.
Well, the mistake was sending to the black co-worker.
âNo, Iâm sorry. The word was naggers.â
LOL. That one is a classic.
For an unapologetic liberal, MacFarlane is a funny fuck.
That wasn’t Family Guy, it was South Park. MacFarlane has nothing to do with South Park.
Oh, that’s right. Thanks.
Peter Griffin’s great Wheel of Fortune moment was very different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTBuj9TC-40
I still maintain that MacFarlane is a funny fuck; he seems to realize just how annoying Liberal True Believers (TM) can be.
The South Park about Family guy and Charlie Hebdo is required watching for you
MacFarlane?!??! (Channels Greta): how DARE YOU?!?!?!
GDDDMN Autocorrect!
Nagger day?
Was that wrong?
Insensitive but should not result in firing or resignation.
“Vogt claimed she had applied to be a greeter at the health care system’s hospital in Robbinsdale but, despite being qualified, was refused the job because pandemic masking rules…”
So she wasn’t actually ‘fired’, just not hired. How many other places did she sue while masks were the rule?
Yeah, sure seems like someone seizing an opportunity to grift.
Yeah, not getting hired =/= getting fired, so that’s a bit misleading.
However, I’m glad to see the story in the news because the deaf/hard-of-hearing community have had a terrible time during the (ineffective) masking. I have several friends in that category and they feel like nobody gave a shit that they were completely cut off from the “hearing” world.
One of my libertarian friends in Minnesota worked hard to build his own business selling sports memorabilia, online at first and then finally a brick-and-mortar store, all through his own hard work. He’s almost completely deaf but is an excellent lip reader and his speech is good enough to allow him easy interface with the hearing world. He is LIVID about the covid lockdowns for a number of reasons. Also, during peak COVID stupid, 3 mask-wearing dudes came into his store and stole from him, with one guy going to the “Employees only” door while his accomplices raided the till. They were unidentifiable due to the masks.
It still astounds me that banks required masks to enter. Ordinarily, that sort of thing would be a major red flag worthy of pushing the panic button at the tellers’ stations.
Oh, yeah…. speaking of “Bleah!”… I give you, the ‘orning ‘ordles:
Daily Duotrigordle #322
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 05:25.64
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 359
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quordle.com
Got to love LL with one unknown, 4 green (not the first letter), 3 guesses left and a plethora of possibilities that none of the other words whittled down. Probably should have tried to come up with some word containing all the likely letters — but would have only improved my score by one anyway. Was pretty sure I’d get it before Chumptown. ;P
I give you:
Daily Quordle 359
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Also courtesy of LL.
Daily Quordle 359
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quordle.com
The worst part of this is I had the right word for LR, then changed it to get my ticket to Chumptown.
Daily Quordle 359
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Fuck you, quordle. I don’t need this shit today!
Daily Quordle 359
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*grumbles*
“If youâre not an advocate, youâre an enemy, right?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iV8X8ubGCc
âSure you want to go with âif youâre not with us, youâre against usâ? It might not turn out the way you seem to think it will.â
The Supreme Courtâs reversal of abortion rights last year deviated so much from traditional decision-making that it might have soon appeared an aberration. But now into 2023, the six conservative justices are plainly positioned to remake the law across the board.
That’s quite a couple dishonest phrases.
Their actions in a series of pending cases, reaching out for issues before theyâve been aired in lower courts and taking precipitous steps on culture war dilemmas, demonstrate that they will continue to defy norms and the usual judicial bounds.
Define “norms”. And cry me a river.
Lower courts had upheld racial affirmative action, rooted in Supreme Court precedent dating to the late 1970s.
IOW lower courts have maintained the only actual structural racism in the country.
Ignore that the last affirmative action cases said that it should be limited in duration and should be gone by 2027. Hey, that’s just five years away. I’m sure all of those institutions have been planning to phase out race base admissions already, since we’re so beholden to previous scotus opinions.
“Supreme Court justices are showing their willingness to boost conservative causes”
The courts are supposed to be activists on OUR behalf! IT’S NOT FAIR!!!
THE RATCHET IS BROKEN!!!!
“Why sex on the first date is a good idea: Relationship expert slams ‘old fashioned’ mentality and urges singles to get it on right away
A relationship expert has defended people having sex on a first date, with almost half of Aussies admitting to doing the deed straight away.  Â
Relationship, sex, and mental health therapist Rachel Wright, from New York, said there is no ‘right time’ to have sex with a new partner and going for it on the first date can quickly determine if you want to continue the relationship.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/relationships/article-11646843/Is-ok-sex-date-Therapist-says-beneficial-relationship.html
I mean, it’s true if you’re a size queen.
Also, where was this attitude when I was in school?
Rat posted this this morning, I was going to do so again, but naturally missed drugs coming out of my ass. Reading now.
“Rachel defines sex as any ‘meaningful experience of pleasure'”
That’s… A broad definition. I define sex as sleeping in. Let’s all play stupid words games.
‘Millennials and Gen-Xers were found to be more promiscuous than their Gen Z or boomer counterparts.
Those aged between 18-24 and over 55 years old were the least likely to sleep with someone on the first date with only 31 per cent and 42 per cent saying they have previously respectively. ‘
Gen Z can’t even figure out what kind of genitals they want to have, let alone where they want to put them. Poor things are totally confused.
“‘Sex on the first date can be beneficial… if you want to have sex on the first date. Here’s the thing â there is no “right time” to have sex,’ she said.
‘The concepts of “don’t give away the milk for free” and “they won’t like me anymore if I give it up too quickly” are old and antiquated and can create so much shame for people of all genders.'”
I absolutely think there is a ‘right time’. It may vary a little from person to person, and it depends what kind of life you want to lead, but it is probably less promiscuous than is generally accepted, not more. Do I even need to address dismissing ideas merely because they are old or antiquated? Turns out our ancestors had some things figured out. Chesterton’s fences loom large.
There are all sorts of bad outcomes, measurable ones that come with promiscuity, but we should just ignore that because old ideas are icky.
200 first dates later …
“I guess ADA compliance ainât what it used to be.”
She’s lucky she got anything considering that her disability ran up against Pfauchee-approved SCIENCE! She’s also probably an election-denying domestic terrorist too. Hell, she’s lucky she didn’t get locked up.
The ADA only requires reasonable accommodation for the disabled. Iâm thinking she would have a bit of an uphill climb against the mask mandates on that one. I know – one stupid rule runs headlong into another. You never see that, right?
The reasonable part has sailed. We’re destroying perfectly good sidewalks in favor of trip hazards and requiring pool lifts that are rarely used.
The pool lifts boggle my mind. Maybe that makes me an asshole, but I know they’re not cheap.
Dive into Ass Wednesday!
https://archive.ph/1Jt2q
Apparently the VA “equity demands high achievers not be rewarded” thingy is expanding.
https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/fairfax-county-public-schools-equity-coach-national-merit-michelle-reid-maniacal-focus-on-equal-outcomes-glenn-youngkin-jason-miyares-loudoun-county-public-schools
Look if everyone crossing the finish line together at the Boston Marathon requires breaking a few kneecaps…. progressives have just the folks to do it!
Paging Diana Moon Glampers!
Thanks, I was trying to dredge that name out of the depths of my mind.
An attorney for Derek Chauvin is planning to ask an appeals court Wednesday to throw out the former Minneapolis police officer’s convictions in the murder of George Floyd, arguing that numerous legal and procedural errors deprived him of a fair trial.
Not to mention somehow being convicted on three different sets of circumstances describing one person inducing death on another applied to only one alleged instance of doing so.
Woman, 26, wins $180,000 payout from Minnesota hospital that ‘fired’ her for being DEAF, after bosses said COVID masking rules meant she wouldn’t be able to lip-read
I have had it up to hear with the convid bullshit.
“Ron Jeremy[..]is in âincurable neurocognitive declineâ from which he is unlikely to recover.”
I thought Hugh Hefner proved that fucking an unlimited supply of young starlets was the fountain of youth? Maybe it doesn’t count if it’s done on camera.
No no, it was the constant wearing of silk that kept him young. Also his supply of young starlets willing to fuck him was radically limited for the last couple decades of his life.
His brain is starved for blood because so much of it keeps going elsewhere?
Cumulative damage from repeatedly diverting too much blood from the brain. Hefner had a smaller issue with that.
Syphilitic paresis?
The Justice Department decided against having FBI agents watch over a search for classified documents conducted by President Bidenâs lawyers at his Delaware homes â in part because the attorneys were deemed to be cooperating with the DOJâs investigation, according to a report.
Unlike Trump and co., who were cooperating with the investigation/archives.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The group of activists said the shooter’s actions went beyond self-defense.
The skin pigment composition is wrong, which is what this is really about.
A group of local activists is now calling for the 46-year-old shooter, who police have not named, to face criminal charges, opining that the shooting went beyond self-defense and was a “cold-blooded execution.”
Don’t want to get ventilated and die of lead poisoning? Don’t rob people.
They clarified that they are not condoning the actions of the robber, who was later identified as 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington, but said he deserved to be punished and sent to jailânot killed.
Curiously if this individual with a mile long wrap sheet was in jail where he belonged (and if he didn’t attempt to steal) he would not be dead.
He did indeed deserve to be in jail. But he wasnât. So, that option is off the table, reminding us again that the legal system is there to protect criminals from us, just as much to protect us from criminals.
I tend to agree with the activists here. You plug the guy and he drops, fine. Kick the gun away, call 911, wait for the cops. No need to quintuple-tap.
Nit picking the number, placement and timing of shots in order to prosecute a hero for killing scum in the act of committing an armed robbery is not justice, is not good policy, and should be discouraged with tar and feathers.
Re: the Rings of Power discussion:
I have not watched it, nor do I plan to. However, Andor is a great example of how to create a new work within a beloved universe. I believe one of the things that helped the series is that it avoided using any of the main characters, reducing the need to “reinterpret” or “update” those characters for a “modern audience.”
Andor is so good that it’s diminishing my enjoyment of The Peripheral. The first two episodes were amazing, but starting on ep 3, I get the feeling that Ernst Blofeld, Auric Goldfinger and Hugo Drax would be telling the villains “maybe ease it back a bit there.”
Watched one and a half episodes and had enough. I heard in only got worse.
I watched the first episode. I’m a LOTR fan and have even slogged my way through the entire History of Middle Earth series. They didn’t take liberties with the source material – they shit all over the source material. It’s hot garbage.
Even if you didn’t like Lotr, you’d hate it because it is poorly written with unlikeable characters making implausible moral and strategic failings.
“A linchpin of the case against Young Thug who faces 120 years in prison is his particular art form. âI have some legal advice: Donât confess to crime on rap lyrics if you do not want them used,” the DA said.
The indictment alleges few if any direct acts by Young Thug. Instead, prosecutors are using the words in his songs to argue that he runs a criminal street gang. Anyone who cares about the First Amendment and racial justice should be deeply concerned.
Carrie Underwood didn’t get indicted for singing about taking a bat to her cheating boyfriend’s car. Johnny Cash didn’t get indicted for killing a man in Reno just to watch him die. This doesn’t happen to white artists.”
https://twitter.com/larabazelon/status/1615361813310504960
This genius is a law professor.
If that’s all the evidence, then it’s a really weak case and will likely fail to result in a conviction.
Right?
I’m not seeing the first amendment implications here.
What I’m seeing is a grandstanding DA attempting to build a career for higher office based on weak evidence and emotional claims.
That’s not all the evidence.
is there hard evidence?
Hahahaha – even better, this is the same DA going after Trump in Fulton County for election interference! She SOoooo racist!
youtube recommends are getting weird
Irina Akulenko – “Justice” from “Tarot – Fantasy Belly Dance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGIRLwcw4o
https://twitter.com/wyattreed13/status/1615340757925216256
Zelensky advisor Aleksey Arestovich has resigned after admitting on live TV that Ukrainian air defense was responsible for destroying the apartment in Dnipro.
But I’ve seen a week of TV and newspaper headlines saying it was Putin Himself directing the strike, shirtless, from the back of a bear.
“The coping here is amazing. I canât wait to see the seething after the next session.”
To what extent does this prove the ‘but Gorsuch’ people correct?
âWe are a court of law, not policymakers,â Justice Neil Gorsuch admonished his colleagues in late December, as he dissented from the majorityâs latest incursion on immigration policy at the southern border. Gorsuchâs words were not without some irony as he usually joins with his conservative allies moving aggressively on the law.”
The author is so… Stupid? Misleading? Both maybe.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/bethlehem-mayor-powerful-forces-have-different-goals-for-church-properties/article_c59006b8-96d8-11ed-a9b9-d7d01db28580.html
TW: local politics
As much as I think the university is overly aggressive in its takeover of the city I think the city itself is hilariously ill-equipped to do anything positive with these properties. but they’ve got ARP funds that must be spent by the end of 2023 and by golly they’ll spend them. I remember this old site kvetching about Columbia doing some eminent domain stuff. This is somehow even worse.
I guess no private buyers think the old churches are worth that much. Lehigh no doubt just want the ones close to campus and will sell the others. The city? who knows what they’ll do.
Neither one should have that land. Remove it from the city jurisdiction and create a freehold.
This is hilarious. First thing you see in that small snippet of the city is the large amount of parkland, which dwarves the size of all three properties. Not that the city should be in the affordable housing scam business anyways.
Hush you! California has proven there are millions to be made in the affordable housing scam!
they don’t make any money, they just take it. it’s a black hole. unfortunately we are determined to make the same mistakes.
Hell no the govt isn’t supposed to make the money – that’s for the govt’s cronies to do!
Don’t you grift bro?
this is why I’m poor đ
the city had an opportunity a decade ago to get this old federal armory site for absolutely nothing. the city passed on it and a developer bought it. the developer built it into luxury apartments and I bet it really grinds the city gov’s gears. I’m willing to bet at least part of what animates the city here is spite.
affordable housing can only be created by creating more housing. every single action the city has taken on this front has made housing more expensive. it’s madness.
I would love to live in an (inactive) church.
I had a dance teacher who had one of that semi-strip mall design with the commercial double doors leading directly into the sanctuary. That was her studio space and she lived in the offices.
Just weeks after a 6-year-old shot his teacher, a gun trade show in Las Vegas is hosting a manufacturer promoting its âJR-15,â a child-size AR-15 rifle.
Excellent trolling. Also looks like a fun plinking gun.
So much stupid in the Tweet responses.
Needs an integral silencer. It’s much easier to teach marksmanship if you don’t have to worry about hearing protection.
I still wear hearing protection with the suppressor on my bullpup. It helps, even quite a bit, but percussive sounds are bad for my remaining ear.
A suppressed .223 or .308 is not hearing safe. A non-suppressed .22LR might be, depending on the barrel length.
I’m with you on the 5.56mm. There are very few cans that will make a 556 ear safe, especially with a bullpup or shorty.
With pistols or .22s, I don’t bother.
Bikini Show – Miss CittĂ di Marghera – Venezia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWpduQ9iTd0
“Messages to You Can Play, a social activism campaign that has partnered with the NHL since 2013, and the Philadelphia Falcons, an LGBTQ+ soccer program that was an invited guest of the Flyers at the game, were not returned.”
“LGBTQ+ soccer program”
Needlessly redundant journalism
Just want to achieve this level of supreme weirdness with my art
https://twitter.com/codexnoirmatic/status/1615560042324828160
Deaf chick that won the settlement against the hospital? Would
doggy style so she cant read your lips while you talk filth?
Now I’m wondering if reading lips in the mirror is a thing or not. I assume it would be since speech doesn’t make use of bilateral assymetry.
You gun nuts with your technical terms for things.
Geraldo Rivera just said with a straight face on The Five that the “AR” in AR-15 stands for “Automatic Rifle.”
At least he didn’t say “assault rifle.” But he did say “AR-15s have no place in American society.” Please square that assertion with 2A, you walrus-mustached cunte.
I thought it was aromatic rifle and I assumed it just smelled nice.
Or is it aromantic rifle cause incels use it to murders the wimmenz
ARmalite.
that can’t be it it makes no sense
AR-15 = Armalite Rifle model 15.
stop trying to trick the poor European
Armalite Rifle.
this is becoming harassment
He also said that the 2A applied to muskets, not assault rifles. Damn idiot.
Interestingly, muskets are, in fact, ‘weapons of war’.
Exactly, muskets were the “assault weapons” of their day, because they could be reloaded and fired relatively quickly for massed fire formations. Idiots like Geraldo keep saying that the AR-15 isn’t protected because it’s not useful for hunting, without understanding that the 2A is not actually about hunting.
That and the AR platform is perfectly cromulent for hunting.
Hunting is irrelevant in the question of whether arms are protected.
All arms are protected without regard to the reason the citizen wants to own them.
The misuse of arms can be regulated.
Read Misuse as “murder, and similar direct offenses against the person of others”
I prefer to call out all falsehoods in a false statement.
That gets you easily distracted by irrelevant chaff.
His doubling down resulted in hilarity.
https://twitter.com/geraldorivera/status/1615502683540017156?s=46&t=LUCkap4facKrF89CKoB-MQ
Healthy user bias is obvious in booster data as well
Are the only RCTs the ones done back in 2020 by the drug companies?
Yup. And those were cut short when the effectiveness being shown started dropping toward the the threshold for FDA approval.
I’m going to have to go back and try to find the protocols on those. It seems to be accepted that we allow people to define you as unvaccinated up to a week+ after you second dose, meaning maybe 3-4 weeks after you start taking the intervention – How the hell did we every let the become an accepted definition? You can sweep so much ineffectiveness, harm, etc under the rug if you’re allowed to define things in a way the most beneficial to your hypothesis.
In the trials, I believe a similar sort of trickery was used; don’t report illness/symptoms in the first week or more after vaccination, etc. That skews your effectiveness so far in favor of the intervention so as to be ridiculous. The downward trend in the effectiveness could actually be just a regression to the norm; you were exaggerating effectiveness by manipulation of definitions, but as your trial progresses (and staggered enrollment normalizes out), one regresses to the mean of 0 to negative effectiveness. Factor in the loss of measures of adverse events including death in that period following intervention in the treatment arm, and I’m not convinced that the original trials – in addition to showing very small absolute benefit even with the playing field tilted by skewed metrics and definitions – actually show 0 or negative benefit, both in prevention of infection, disease death, and all-cause mortality.
It’s mentally exhausting being such a cynic. But, given the corruption in these systems, it is necessary.
>blockquote>Itâs mentally exhausting being such a cynic. But, given the corruption in these systems, it is necessary.
Only real problem with being cynical is that sometimes, I’m not cynical enough.
WV needs to rid us of this closeted commie cunte.
Joe Manchin argues against the First Amendment at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos:
“The problem we have is the open press system and basically all the platforms.”
What an asshole.
I’m not a fan of him in any way, but I need more context.
A better choice would be “issue” or “concern”, but when you are answering a question off the cuff you make these kinds of remarks.
Context: he was invited to Davos to speak to the WEF.
I get it, I mean what he was asked about. What “Top Men” panel he was on and the like.
I’ve got CNBC forced upon me at the office. I know all too well everything coming out of Davos.
I would have to quit. That’s a hostile work environment.
There’s no context that makes it acceptable for an American politician to say this.
An open press system and “all the platforms” are hallmarks of a society that values free expression. There is zero room for negotiation on this topic.
TPTB, I appreciate you even more now that I had to do updates on my own WordPress site and it didn’t go very smoothly.
The Dutch government was forced to release the source code of their DigiD digital authentication iOS app. It is written in C#.
https://twitter.com/JeroenFrijters/status/1615204074588180481
So we are doing this dance again.
Moderna on Tuesday said its vaccine that targets respiratory syncytial virus is effective at preventing disease in older adults.
The vaccine was 83.7% effective at preventing lower respiratory tract disease, defined as two or more symptoms, in people ages 60 and older, according to the Boston biotech company. It was 82.4% effective at preventing lower respiratory tract disease with three or more symptoms. …
Modernaâs RSV vaccine uses the same messenger RNA technology as the companyâs successful Covid shots. The Covid vaccine turned Moderna into a global name and delivered windfall profits, but it remains the companyâs only commercially available product and demand is fading.
Hard pass.
Modernaâs RSV vaccine uses the same messenger RNA technology as the companyâs successful Covid shots.
Lol. Financially successful though.
Chris Freiman
@cafreiman
Weird how many âlibertariansâ argued that mask and vaccination requirements in public schools were impermissible but claim that the state may restrict immigration because it may dictate exactly how public roads are used
https://twitter.com/cafreiman/status/1615353537768132613
I don;t remember hearing that argument from a libertarian
I’m sure they’re the same libertarians who argued that wage increases in 2022 caused inflation.
Libertarians are well known for their support of public roads.
The state may restrict immigration because the state has a boundary.
We have a road that if you are driving northbound, you are in Missouri and if you are driving southbound, you are in Kansas.
So if you were traveling northbound at the speed limit, got in the left lane and were doing 90 while passing somebody but got back to the speed limit before going back into your lane, would the Missouri cop be able to pull you over for speeding?
If a Kansas cop saw you doing it, could he pull you over even though you were no longer in his jurisdiction by the time he caught up with you?
I believe there is a certain reciprocity of jurisdiction between Kansas and Missouri. For instance, if there is a car chase (like there was recently), the initiating cops can continue chasing into the other state and catch them. Then when caught, the locals are pulled in for the arrest, and the municipalities involved work things out amongst themselves. The municipality where the most serious crimes happened gets priority on charges.
“I knew I ‘as right all along. I gots jurisdiction. Let’s go, Junior. We got us a Bandit to catch.”
literally no libertarians have ever made that argument. Libertarians HATE roadz!
And how does it even make sense, if you cross somewhere there is no road, what then? Are there libertarians arguing that the constitutional exclusion zone just needs to be more than 150 miles from the border and should encompass the whole country? Bullshit.
Preview of the future?
The United Nations said last month it would appeal for $719 million for Haiti in 2023, about double the amount in 2022. Ulrika Richardson, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Haiti, said last month that efforts to combat the worsening crises would be ineffective unless the root causes of Haiti’s problems are addressed.
“It’s going to be very difficult if we don’t address this now,” she said. “We have corruption. We have impunity. We have governance. And all of that needs to really be at the center of our thinking as we go forward.”
This is the road the world is headed down.
We have corruption
More money is the solution for corruption.
Wait for it.
đ
It’s almost like the virus is evolving to get past things that would stop it’s transmission. Nah, can’t be.
Sorts like the common coronavirus we’ve been living with for decades if not longer. So fucking weird.
There was no way to know. /Sam Harris
Sam’s arguments are even dumber: “imagine covid being worse and that the vaccines actually worked, then we would be right.”
I had a health teacher in high school who used to say, “If my uncle had tits, he’d be my aunt.”
I heard it more often said as if my grandma had balls shed be grandpa.
Because fat uncles can have tits and not be aunts.
Well, his argument is contingent on what we knew when, the available data, etc. So uncertainty is the bedrock of his baloney.
The fact that the lockdowners were wrong about everything, hid inconvenient data and ignored preexisting science is where any reasonable person should conclude that it wasn’t a matter of facts.
And that evolution to “get past” this bs treatment is causing ADE, making people more vulnerable to the virus variants.
âmay be more likely to infect peopleâ
More likely than what? Previous strains? Unvaxxed people? Which is it?
may be more likely to infect people who have been vaccinated … Getting vaccinated and getting the updated booster is still the best way to protect yourself
They think we are stupid.
They’re right more than they’re wrong…
It’s hard to tell who’s evil and who are the true believers.
Hoffer’s point is that the True Believers are quite willing to be evil, so – one and the same?
Good news. My wife went back to roller derby practice last night, and despite an online post that says those unvaccinated need to wear a mask, she acted like a true shitlord (shitlady?) and pretended she didn’t see it. No mask, and nobody said anything. Somebody said they’d be more strict if our county went into “condition red” but whatever. I am proud of her for going back, she is 10 years older than the last time she started and this time it’s a little more taxing.
But was anyone wearing a mask?
I don’t think anyone had a mask.
Even the goalie?
Oh wait, wrong sport. Never mind.
That’s MY sport. It’s interesting, when COVID restrictions were in full swing, we had to comply with whatever our sponsor (a hospital) wanted us to do. So masks much of the time, and a vaccine. But after one season of that, they dropped all of it and we haven’t heard a peep about it since, other than “If you don’t feel well don’t come to practice.”
Reading your hockey stuff, I keep thinking I’ve got to get off my ass and do something social outside of work. Hell, if for no other reason than the fact I’m going to destroy my house it I don’t have something to occupy this idle brain and idle hands. But then there’s all these OTHER PEOPLE! with their foolish ideas/requirements that you have to put up with as you mention. I looked at volunteering with Habitat (so I could make all my mistakes on other people’s stuff before attacking mine!), but they had (still have?) so many ridiculous Covid rules/suggestions/requirements that it was a hard pass; I’ll stay home. Maybe I should do volunteer dog-walking for the local shelter, get my fill of PUPPIES!!!!! that way. Of course I’ll end up with 10 dogs living at my house after a week of doing that so ….
Any local parks that are looking for volunteers? I know that several of the systems here look for volunteers to walk/ride the trails to check on people, or just wait in areas and answer people’s questions.
Park Stalker is a weird volunteer job
OBE:
They work in pairs, usually on the multiuse trails with basic first aid kits and bicycle repair kits. Not a bad gig for someone looking for a way to fill up time on nice summer days.
Heh.
Someone did this to me. I always eat my lunch in a park, so I’m dressed in my work clothes (I’m a stylish guy obviously). Well this cute black girl asks if I’m okay. Now, I’m completely confused, but I guess it is unusual to see someone at a nature preserve in dress pants, etc. Must have thought I was about to have a mental breakdown.
Don’t be put off by what is officially out there. Lots of restrictions are listed, but not followed by anyone.
Just my experience so far.
The last time I browsed Pinterest, a random image of a girl of toddler age breastfeeding popped up. It was from an elevated view, the toddler was looking up at the camera and smiling, the full breast visible. It scared the hell out of me as I was thinking that this was a child porn trap so I deleted the app.
Don’t think that I’ve seen this posted here. Ian McColumn cl;aims the sole reason for the SBR ban was to close a loophole in a proposed handgun ban:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsE0naVApPU
No idea if that’s true, but Ian seems like a pretty reliable guy when it comes to research. Even so, existence bias will be working against eliminating that nonsense.
I’ll have to look at that when I get home. I wasn’t aware of any proposed pistol ban that was anything more than a pipe dream. Especially post-Bruen.
This is about the original NFA, which (apparently) did try for a handgun ban.
Oh, I get you now. Yeah, I thought it was pretty well known. The original draft of the 1934 NFA did cover all handguns.
Tax us nowâ: ultra-rich call on governments to introduce wealth taxes
Disney heiress and actor Mark Ruffalo among âpatriotic millionairesâ who addressed worldâs elite at Davos
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/18/tax-us-now-ultra-rich-wealth-tax-davos
This shit again.
Nobody is stopping you from donating your wealth.
Almost think they know whatever tax increase the may get will be a wash with the cutouts and exceptions but will still net the slightly doing somewhat okay peeps that cant meet those expectations
Nobody is stopping Ruffalo from cleaning up messes he makes either:
https://movieweb.com/mark-ruffalo-hbo-sued/
Stephen Colbert to Produce âChronicles of Amberâ TV Series Adaptation
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/stephen-colbert-chronicles-of-amber-tv-series-adaptation-1235492097/
for fans of either amber or colbert
The Chronicles of Amber are great. Unfortunate that Colbert is involved with the adaptation.
Colbert is a big sci-fi fan. I’m sure he’ll make sure this telling of the story is updated for Modern Audiences.
As an Amber fan, that is the nightmare I am anticipating.
I just can’t wait for Corwin to be re-imagined as a strong diverse woman!
He is the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust him in all things.
Oh goody so now they will shit all over Roger Zelazny’s work, too.
Gem.anl.gov/tool
One thing I hate about GIS making people is they don’t understand contrast in colors. They made the middle amount yellow, but in either side of yellow are light browns, so light brown can be above average or under average and it is very hard to tell which is which.
Also, they are using at most 1/2 of their color range provided. Nothing on the map is in the lower or upper 25%, which means there squished their resolution by half.
Playing chicken
The Biden administration and House Republicans are heading toward an initial Thursday debt ceiling deadline without even a hint of an endgame, ensuring a months-long standoff thatâs poised to rattle financial markets amid worries about a recession this year.
The two sides are effectively shrugging as the Treasury Department warns the country will hit the $31.4 trillion borrowing cap Thursday â though itâs not a hard deadline, as the department can still use extraordinary measures to pay the bills for another few months. But it means the potential economic doomsday clock is officially ticking, with House Republicans still insisting on massive spending cuts before they help raise the debt ceiling and Democrats refusing to engage the idea.
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Even some Republicans viewed as more likely to negotiate with the White House are already taking aim at the administrationâs position after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said last week: âWe will not be doing any negotiation.â
âMaybe we should not just draw lines in the sand immediately, including the White House,â said Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.), calling the administrationâs refusal to negotiate on fiscal reforms âdisappointing.â
Everything was fine until the Republicans pulled this stunt. No one had the slightest concerns bout the long term stability of the economy until now.
Fortunately, Janet can stuff the piggy bank with IOUs. For a while, anyway.
debt ceiling deadline
It has never been a ceiling. So I don’t expect it to be now.
press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said last week: âWe will not be doing any negotiation.â
Democracy!
Biden continues to misunderstand Gun Rights
It is not a misunderstanding. It is dishonesty.
“The deer aren’t wearing kevlar.”
I still don’t understand this line. .223/5.56 is too small to hunt deer. It’s just words to elicit an emotional response from ignorant people I suppose.
Not the best choice, nut not too small.
Just switch to full auto.
Goddamn Virginia, making me buy a 7.62Ă51 AR…
Ruger makes the small frame one now…
https://ruger.com/products/sfar/models.html
Ruger SFAR is getting a lot of press lately…
No legal in many states for deer, for what thatâs worth.
That’s what I was getting at. Not that it wouldn’t kill a deer.
âThe deer arenât wearing kevlar.â
He love that line. How many times has he repeated it?
You mean they get out of the vests I’ve been dressing them in?
If they were wearing kevlar, I would hunt with at least .308 or 30 .06 black tip. Common hunting calibers that will penetrate more armor than 5.56.
Or maybe 9mm…
Alright, Davos is no longer a serious threat, it is a farce. Potato participates.
So now the question is – where is the REAL conspiracy happening that this goof is just cover for, hmmmmmmm?
Two options:
1) The central banks
2) China
So Jooos? 1 implies Rothschilds and 2 is the food (((they))) eat at our goodly Christian holidaze!
You made the connection, not me.
Your denial confirms it!!!!
China has always been the real threat. The Davos elites are being used to implement Chinese authority all over the world. Davos and Klaus are pig-headed morons with Jesus complexes that are being used as pawns to weaken the west. Sadly those idiots will never realize that until it is too late for all of us.
China post-Xi? The chaos when he goes, and the official demographics admitting more deaths than births? China is reminding me more and more of Japan in the 80s.
I side with Worth.
(full quote from here)
[psst: it was a snarky set-up]
I was just going to go with the full deranged quote… but apparently it had too many trigger words for the spam filter, and the internal server error wouldn’t allow me to post it. (trying again):
The truth about private fire brigades
https://www.samizdata.net/2023/01/the-truth-about-private-fire-brigades/
Alright, Davos is no longer a serious threat, it is a farce.
Like Burning Man?
“Nobody (cool) goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
Where will they pop up next? Somewhere in the Andes?
SE Asia would be too obvious.
Like Burning Man?
Never knew it was a threat, but I guess some people did/do. As for coolness – well, if that’s what you are in it for, then yeah, it’s over – something else is cooler now.
Fyre Festival!
Berchtesgaden seems like a nice place.
Stupid hill to die on.
“The Australian ballot is un American!”
Eh, it is a question I always had.
Part of the process is stopping people from being intimidated, etc.
You can’t control that for mail in ballots, why should they be allowed?
Right, because someone is going to intimidate you when you are filling out a mail in ballot? Or is this another one of those – it must protect other people, not me?
So because I don’t personally think I will get pressured to vote one way or another that means it is a perfectly good system?
It isn’t hard to imagine a situation where a care taker is the person really filling in the ballots for those who are incapacitated.
Retirement homes say hi.
Don’t forget the prisons!
There is no requirement within any constitution to be a perfectly good system. Poll taxes could be constitutional – literacy tests could be too, if they were administered fairly (which was never the intent behind them).
Quite frankly, we’ve fucked up the franchise sufficiently that even allowing non-citizens a vote isn’t so far beyond imagination that there are those who actually believe in that. Hey like they live here [now] man, let them have a say. Of course that’s stupid – stupid is what we’ve got in abundance.
Not perfect, but it should follow the state constitution regarding secrecy of the ballot. Whether you think that’s is dumb or not. If it is stupid, change the Constitution.
Hell, my wife asks me how she should vote. Under the plaintiffs theory, I would have to be out of the house when she fills in a mail in ballot.
Well it was unconstitutional for women to vote until relatively recent…so that is understandable.
A buddy of mine has been an election observer in some of the former communist countries. Some of the things they look out for is the man of the house trying to cast ballots for the entire family and the village strongman placing a representative in the voting booth to make sure everyone votes the “right” way. Mail-in voting enables both of these.
I am on both sides if this fence.
Also union bosses requiring you to bring your ballot to the union office, etc.
Or the owner of the factory having employees fill in their mail in ballots at work.
The secret ballot is secret for a very good reason.
And it is the exact same reason these people want to undo those protections.
And a bad argument. One could say the secrecy clause is violated due to someone else having control over your ballot after it is mailed in and possibly opening it, examining it and determining if they will send it through the ballot reader.
The assumption of the losers is that no one in the entire chain of custody is trustworthy. If they were, we wouldn’t be the losers complaining about losing! It’s brilliantly circular.
Agreed, I just feel that is a better argument than “someone might intimidate you!”
They are both very real and valid arguments, as is the more nebulous “voter confidence” argument…. that the people should be able to trust that our elections are free and fair.
Nobody anywhere on the planet trusts an election where one side counts the ballots behind closed doors and then announces that they won.
Nobody anywhere in the world trusts an election where there are not observers from opposing parties at each step of the process.
Nobody on the planet trusts elections where somebody from the government watches you fill out your ballot.
These are all very fundamental things.
You don’t need anything fancy. Simple paper ballots, a locked box and people from opposing parties watching the lists of who gets ballots and who puts them in the box, then following the box until all the ballots are counted is all it takes.
I didn’t catch this detail when the reparations plan came out:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/01/san-franciscos-insane-reparations-program/
Insane? Straight up racist garbage.
“Give us infinite monies”
those who are still low-income after they are given $5 million
So after the hookers and blow, you just wasted the rest?
There was a really racist term for that phenomena that used to get thrown around.
The taxes required to pay for all this would reduce San Francisco to an empty wilderness. Makes it tempting except all those people would end up elsewhere.
I say they should go for it.
Let the games begin in earnest.
Sell them into slavery, use the proceeds to pay the reparations.
$5M invested at say a 4% annual return is only $200k. You can’t expect anyone to live comfortably on $200k in San Francisco.
Well, there is a $97,000/year incentive to blow the $5 million.
250 years? Won’t SF be buried by the rising sea levels long before then?
It’s the most epic grift in history. I doubt there would be any voters left to change the program in five years let alone 250.
Tell us you think your fellow black peers have no potential to look after themselves without actually saying it.
Shouldn’t it be 400 years?
Lets not get carried away Rat
See! That’s how reasonable they are being. They are offering a compromise right off the bat.
Hold up, I think the National Review is wrong…
The eligibility doesn’t seem to require you to actually be a resident of San Francisco.
Has presidential candidate in waiting Gavin Newsom trashed this ridiculous recommendation? Maybe the GOP, if it still exists in California, can somehow entice him to actually endorse it?
California is busy working on its own proposal and Gavin is all for it.
Has anyone else noticed that the same people who think capitalism is a horrible system that mercilessly exploits the common worker also believe that in the 1950s one person working an entry level job sweeping floors could afford to pay for a mortgage and keep a spouse and a couple of kids fed and clothed at home?
See my above comment about progressive thinking and kaleidoscopic perceptions.
one thing both lefties and righties agree is how fab the 50s were
Well, race-based segregation is the new new hotness among the left…
Today’s idiots in cars.
Turn signal means I turn
Iâm convinced half the people out there have their side mirrors pointing at their own car. Assuming they even look at them.
No one checks.
I was driving around with my in laws once and they asked ‘why do you keep looking around? So and so never does.’ I had to tell them it’s called checking your blind spots.
I’ve seen people with their side views turned in also. Of course the person was an aggressive driver with a dog in their lap…
The one demerit I received on my driving test was not checking mirrors enough. I sure as hell do now, I didn’t like that was what I failed to do back when I was 16. Luckily, it has rubbed off on my kids as they are some of the best drivers at ages 17-18 as you could expect.
One time on Reddit, I saw someone post something like, “Why are you actually turning your neck and shoulders around to look behind you? That’s dangerous! Didn’t anybody teach you how to drive?! Use your mirrors!” Then somebody else said, “That’s … how it works. I wouldn’t ride with someone who DIDN’T turn their body to look behind them.” I learned the value of side mirrors when learning how to drive in a cargo van.
Anyway, Trashy and RCD told me some newfangled way of pointing side/rearview mirrors in cars. I forgot what it’s called, but it’s vastly improved how much coverage I get with my side mirrors now.
Wonder if that commentor never: checks their phone, texts, talks with friends in the car, changes a radio station, adjusts temperature, reaches down to the fast food they just bought, etc.
I know for my mirrors, I will slightly lean to the left and adjust to where I just see the rear quarter panel on the driver side and then vice versa for the passenger side mirror.
Yes, but there are still blindspots.
Oh, absolutely! That’s why I still crane my neck around.
đ
Need more drivers like you.
Oh, I try to set the land speed record everywhere I go. There needs to be fewer drivers like me.
BUT I DO NOT TAILGATE!!!
Mobile Dog Groomers are worse than cabbies…my wife acts like she is in the Daytona 500 with that trailer.
Obligatory
Now that’s a MacFarlane
this is how I got hit just the speed was much lower in my case and the damage.
Todayâs idiots in cars.
Tunnelvision.
Never could have predicted this…
Karine Jean-Pierre shredded after dodges on Biden classified documents: ‘Not qualified for this job”
Well then, that settles it, we tried our best. /CNNNPR
The Press Secretary is supposed to be a very good liar. She is a bad liar.
There’s a process! We are the most transparent admin. evar!
So Mom’s knee replacement is infected. Yippee skippee.
ouch
Sorry to hear that, is it treatable with antibiotics?
That’s what they’re gonna start with.
Yesterday they took a whole bunch of blood out of her knee, but they have to culture it and it needs 72 hours to grow something so they know what they’re targeting.
There are quite a few worst-case scenarios. They aren’t really talking about best-case scenarios.
Sorry to hear, hope it all turns out okay.
đ
Ugh, hope the first round of treatment kicks that infections ass
“Not only did the gay married men allegedly rape the two boys who were adopted through a Christian special-needs adoption agency, they were pimping out their children to nearby pedophiles in Atlanta-area suburbs, my @townhallcom investigation discovered…
Recorded jailhouse calls with the accused child rapists and testimony from a family member uncover the extent of the trauma that the two brothers endured as well as the red flags that the state overlooked during the same-sex couple’s “faster than expected” adoption process…
According to the 17-count indictment, the adoptive dadsâwho are LGBTQ activistsâallegedly performed oral sex on both boys, forced the children to perform oral sex on them, and anally raped their sons. The one child, who just turned 11, suffered injuries from being brutally raped….
Zachary admitted to sending the child porn to “less than a dozen people.” There are other potential co-defendants under investigation that are still “out there” circulating videos of the abused boys.”
https://twitter.com/MiaCathell/status/1615373118205304836
All the rainbow shit is a nice touch.
Hang ’em.
Well…I say try ’em first. Ill continue to hang my hat that they are innocent until proven guilty.
#metoo
They charged the husband of that missing woman in Massachusetts with murder. I don’t care that he’s clearly guilty. Find the fucking body first.
So… no body, no crime?
You don’t need a body to get a murder conviction.
innocent until proven guilty
Am I misreading that there has been admission of guilt?
Yes. The case against them looks solid, but they have not admitted anything.
Plead not guilty, but says “William admitted to forcing his 11-year-old adopted son to perform…” “Zachary…confessed to being the cameraman.”
Oh probably guilty as all hell, I just have this weird notion that I don’t believe the State.
Hmm I guess my mind blanked a little at the horror.
Sure, assuming it’s true… Hang em.
FEWER!!!!
less than a dozen fewer people?
Fewer than a dozen or less
“a fewer dozen” It’s the opposite of a baker’s dozen.
Ugh that is stomach-churning.
And yeah, that much rainbow shit is off-putting to say the least.
They’ll have fun in prison.
Anyway, Trashy and RCD told me some newfangled way of pointing side/rearview mirrors in cars. I forgot what itâs called, but itâs vastly improved how much coverage I get with my side mirrors now.
I think most people orient their side mirrors to look directly to the rear, instead of covering the zone to the side, in order to make the blind spot as small as possible. It drives me crazy to drive a car with no passenger side outside mirror. I use it all the time.
Yes, turning the mirrors out instead of in. I can’t see my rear side panels in my mirrors.
There are no blind spots with properly set side view mirrors
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prashant-Prasad-2/publication/319851766/figure/fig2/AS:631645363249205@1527607398648/Blind-spot-around-a-vehicle.png
What about the ones directly to your side?
If you are able to turn your head, do so, you’ll see those two.
That’s exactly what I mean about checking blind spots.
If you point your eyes at the side view mirror, a car directly to your is visible in your peripheral vision. Thus you know is there. Thus the is no blind spot.
I used those little bubble mirror stick ons in previous cars. That way I didnât have to completely remove my vision from the road in rush hour traffic.
I don’t trust my peripheral vision to that extent.
Dentist appointment this morning.
They finally dropped the “please put this mask on” BS.
The Supreme Courtâs reversal of abortion rights last year deviated so much from traditional decision-making that it might have soon appeared an aberration. But now into 2023, the six conservative justices are plainly positioned to remake the law across the board.
Their actions in a series of pending cases, reaching out for issues before theyâve been aired in lower courts and taking precipitous steps on culture war dilemmas, demonstrate that they will continue to defy norms and the usual judicial bounds.
Everybody knows the court’s true mission is to validate endless liberal expansion of government power and policy.
*Pops champagne cork, prepares for some return of power to the states.
https://twitter.com/shortmagenfield/status/1615703037611282432?s=12
GLOL
Very clever and well done
In case you didn’t happen to scroll down…
https://twitter.com/libertycappy/status/1615582255467974656
Fantastic
Based on oral arguments last fall, the emboldened majority is poised, in cases from Harvard and the University of North Carolina, to eliminate race-based admissions at colleges and an array of practices that have opened the door for more Blacks, Latinos and other racial minorities on campuses.
Getting rid of explicit externally imposed quotas means no poor black child will ever receive an education.
The ruling should only apply to UNC. As to Harvard, the court should just say “they’re free to set their admissions standards as they see fit. But we are forbidding them from receiving any federal or state monies, including student loans or grants.”
That’s the ideal outcome.
How can I be expected to learn if my class doesn’t reflect the diversity of America?
The Derek Chauvin link reminded me of some Too Local News:
Video showing Butler Twp. officer punching person multiple times during arrest under investigation
TW- annoying local news site autoplay
Too much free coffee from UDF* or too little?
Butler Twp cops have never had enough to do. Someone looks as if he wants to get in on all the hot action down the street in OUR fair township. đ
*Regional c-store chain
I love how they’re closed-mouth about anything until 3 this afternoon.
Im no expert on police tactics for restraint, but Im betting a “visible, recordable, closed-fist to the face” is not in their handbook.
Be prepared
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-jan-18-1943-government-bans-sliced-bread-wwii-rationing
/Fourscore remembers
I’m a bit too young to remember, but I found, in my mother’s things, dozens and dozens of ration coupons that she never used for herself and baby me. Supposedly, you couldn’t trade them around but there wasn’t much to stop you. So, I conclude, coupons must have been issued in much larger quantities than people could actually use.
Mobile Dog Groomers are worse than cabbiesâŚmy wife acts like she is in the Daytona 500 with that trailer.
Time is money.