Still got a bit of Hu on the brain. Something about these guys sounding like ZZ Top makes me grin.
This is another one of my super-prognostication posts made by reading ahead in the start charts since I’ll be in Ohio, buying much-less-expensive-to-me liquor at Kroger’s to fill the trunk and trying to impress those people who will determine whether or not I get a red jersey. I’ll be done shooting by the time this posts, but will still be working.
More going on this week than last. It’s a good week to have been born under the sign of the crab/crayfish. Not the absolutely best possible, but having Jupiter in the house all month is a great thing, so enjoy that. Watch your diet though.
It’s a bad sign (Mars-Mercury-Earth) for those who have an immediate relative in the armed forces, but notably not for the soldier/sailor/airman/etc. themselves. Tuesday indicates the ending of a relationship — could be off by a day in either direction on this one; that sort of casting is hard to do precisely.
Something I hadn’t really noticed since I’ve been casting these a week at a time is that there’s been a large Catastrophe Cross developing for a while now — Saturn and Mars on one axis and Jupiter and the Earth on the other. As you might infer from the name, this is A Bad Sign. The good(?) news is that it was at its most potent back on the 23rd so kingdom-ending destruction will be less likely as time goes by. If some country got wiped off the map last Monday, remember you read about it here first (if you had been reading this before it as published).
I honestly don’t know if Lena’s going to be there. Justine is registered.
Cancer: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels.
Leo: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination, project.
Virgo: Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law. You know, justice.
Libra: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Scorpio: Queen of Swords reversed – Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
Sagittarius: 7 of Swords – A stupidly risky plan. It might actually work. Might.
Capricorn: The High Priestess – Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed
Aquarius: Queen of Wands reversed – Opposition, jealousy, deceit.
Pisces: 8 of Cups reversed – Great joy, happiness, feasting.
Aries: The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.
Taurus: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, reflection, news, messages.
Gemini: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
“ Cancer: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels.”
Wait, I’m the one being spanked? That can’t be right.
Sagittarius: 7 of Swords – A stupidly risky plan. It might actually work. Might.
“I never planned anything in my life.”
What’s a Hu?
What’s on 3rd.
Mongolia’s most successful venture in seducing western women since the Great Khan.
Okay, I’m dragging this over:
“This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last,” dissenting Sotomayor wrote, joined by the two other liberals. “Yet each time this Court rewards noncompliance with discretionary relief, it further erodes respect for courts and for the rule of law.”
How too too utterly precious.
Who are you to dispute the wise Latina?
Substitute “fear of” for “respect for”.
What’s on 3rd.
Whattaya askin me for?!
Lena is not shooting, but she did stop by over lunch. I think her dude is shooting.
And the revolver guy shooting a Ruger? A total contrarian nerd who enjoys making stats spreadsheets about shooting more than he likes shooting. Also his Ruger looks like a Korth with all the work he’s had done to it.
Maybe one day I’ll send my GP100 out…
https://www.geminicustoms.com/ruger-revolvers/
“ A total contrarian nerd”
Another Glib?
My thought was “what’s his Glib handle?”
Don’t look at me, I have a S&W in the night stand.
ji knows what’s what.
Since 1980 I have been shooting a Ruger Blackhawk .357mag. I received a letter decades ago from them saying they would swap out the firing pin for a transfer bar. I never replied. If I need more than the five rounds that I load then shit is going mighty sideways.
It’s not hard. Load skip load load load load.
Same, but Single Six. Ruger will never “service’ it.
Still got a bit of Hu on the brain. Something about these guys sounding like ZZ Top makes me grin.
They have some good stuff.
Desire, will, determination, project.
Sounds not sufficiently shitty.
You want to swap, mine seems sufficiently shitty.
I just want to not get my money back.
ZZ Top sounding like ZZ Top
🙁
I wasn’t able to get into the match yesterday around here because it was all full up and nobody opted to give up their spot.
Really? How many squads were there?
I didn’t ask that question, as I hadn’t thought of it, and got turned away quite directly.
I dig it. Thanks!
Sounds about right.
Gibberish in, gibberish out
There was one young man who I really appreciated how straightforward he was about this, where he is a reproductive justice advocate. He’s a Democrat. He very much believes in the Me Too movement’s mission, but he did tell me that he felt that it could be very anti-cis male. And I think that this is a feeling that a lot of young men felt where they were made to feel like they were the bad guys, that they had done something wrong, even if they felt like they never had, or that they were going to be bad guys just by virtue of being men. … In the 2024 elections, as we saw a shocking number of men turn out for Trump. Normally, young men behave like young people, which is to say that they are on the Left. But instead, what we’re seeing among young men is that they’re behaving more like men, which is say that are moving to the Right.
And I wanted to just emphasize, though, that there is this resentfulness that’s happening among young men and then there is this fear that’s still happening among young women. I think for me in reporting this book, the things I was trying to hold in my mind is understanding like, OK, young men might have felt like they were demonized, and maybe they really were demonize by this movement, but on the other hand, the dangers that are facing young women are so real. And in fact, the dangers that are are facing men are still more real. False accusations of sexual assault are extremely uncommon. Men are more likely to be sexually assaulted than they are to be falsely accused of sexual assault. And I think in this sort of rightward push by men, that truth can get obscured. The fact that men, too, can be victims and that they, too deserve resources if something goes wrong, that is being pushed aside.
Sex is confusing.
Yes men, you may have been treated badly, but you are still to blame, okay?
So they are doubling down on their position by doubling down on the double talk.
Brooks, that is an easy translation. Reproductive justice advocate = abortion ghoul.
The fact that men, too, can be victims and that they, too deserve resources if something goes wrong, that is being pushed aside.
And once again, the point sails directly over their pretty little heads. No we don’t need to be victims. No, we don’t need ‘resources’.
Stop trying to feminize everything. Stop pathologizing maleness. Stop seeing every situation through the lens of femininity and assuming that every situation needs to be resolved in a feminine fashion. Stop trying to figure out how we’re victims or lacking resources or aren’t female enough. Just leave us the hell alone to be men, you be women. It’ll be fun!
“The point of demoralization is to make people so that no matter how much information they have they cannot draw a sensible conclusion. If they cannot identify problems, they cannot solve problems. If they cannot solve problems they cannot defend themselves or their family or their country.” – Yuri Bezmenov
The ‘feminists’ are just a communist front. Their goal is to emasculate the west. Everything the left does is to disempower individuals. Destroy rational thought, prosperity, solidarity, morality, masculinity…everything that empowers western culture to resist subservience. They have a wing assaulting every aspect of our culture. Gun grabbers, feminists, watermelons, marxist professors permeating every level of academia, race grifters and guilt mongers of every stripe…..
In a nutshell they are evil slavers. That sounds silly and paranoid until you start looking at everything they do collectively.
Stop trying to feminize everything. Stop pathologizing maleness. Stop seeing every situation through the lens of femininity and assuming that every situation needs to be resolved in a feminine fashion. Stop trying to figure out how we’re victims or lacking resources or aren’t female enough. Just leave us the hell alone to be men, you be women. It’ll be fun!
For all the complaining that left-feminists do about social conditioning, it’s not traditional gender roles that are socially conditioned – it’s the notion that men should be more like women.
The vast majority of women are still attracted to the traditional type of men who exemplify good protector-provider traits.
Probably not good for anyone’s mental health. They’re telling women to deny what they naturally want deep down, and telling men to be something that women don’t want.
😂🤣
So did #NotAllMen get officially memory-holed? It wasn’t just a “feeling” that men “felt”, they were literally attacked for saying “hey, I’m not a rapist.”
What, by the way, on God’s little green road apple, is a “reproductive justice advocate”?
Best I could come up with was “testicular torte”……I got nuthin.
Guess Ill go mow and sweat.
Someone who knocks someone up and demands she has an abortion. Jeffrey Toobin fits this mold I believe.
Pro-abortion. That simple. How pro? His ‘ambition’ will equally match hers. Perhaps, if he’s bold, he’ll OUT-abortion her to prove his valor. All the way to fuckin’. (And likely being tossed aside.)
My first major relationship was with a girl who was ultra-pro abortion. We’d talk about shit. (We were good at that, for quite a while.) And she kept taking my bait when I pushed on how far “late-term” really meant. I got her say if the umbilical cord was still attached, Mom had Absolute Power and have the baby killed. (Or…do it yourself, pussy.) In later conversations, without that moment’s vitriol, she repeated that belief.
Uh. Huh. We were together for four years and talked about kids, and both of us expat teachers, were firmly on the No Kids side. (I was 25-29?) She was clear she *never* wanted to have children. To her credit, she was apparently serious, to the best of my knowledge. (Hrm. Likely not much, to be perfectly fair.)
Busted by the Thought Police
The 43-year-old music icon drew criticism for wearing a shirt emblazoned with the image of the Buffalo Soldiers, a historic group of African American soldiers who served in the U.S. military after the Civil War, but whose legacy is marred by their role in the Indian Wars.
While many initially assumed Beyoncé’s shirt was meant to highlight an overlooked piece of Black history, critics quickly pointed out the deeper and more troubling implications.
Of course they did.
Black woman finds outhow greasy the victm stack is.
I was under the impression we weren’t supposed to sweep negative aspects of our history under the rug.
It depends. To find out which is which just find out if the grifters are getting paid or not.
Negative about male whitey? Spotlight it. Negative about BIPOC or womxn? It’s a lie and should be forgotten. Also white males did it.
I met Lena once. I went to see her daddy about something…I dont remember why now. Something about casting? Whatever. She was running around about knee high to a grasshopper looking for mischief while we talked. God, she is 30ish now?
Did you notice when she shot her revolver it failed to fire twice? Gun needs a stronger hammer spring. Taking the spur off makes it light. I cut the spur off of a J-frame smith and it has the same trouble. One of these days….
Stop pathologizing maleness.
Normally, young men behave like young people, which is to say that they are on the Left. But instead, what we’re seeing among young men is that they’re behaving more like men, which is say that are moving to the Right.
“Men” not same as “People” . They are a defective subspecies.
When will we get to “having maleness” in the context of disease and infirmity? Or are we there already and I just wasn’t paying attention?
Ask your doctor if estrogen supplements are right for you.
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Normally, young men behave like young people, which is to say that they are on the Left. But instead, what we’re seeing among young men is that they’re behaving more like men, which is say that are moving to the Right.
“Men” not same as “People” . They are a defective subspecies.
When will we get to “having maleness” in the context of disease and infirmity? Or are we there already and I just wasn’t paying attention?
OT: OH MY GOD THE SKY IS FALLING!
In the wake of that vote, the New Hampshire Auto Dealers Association is again raising alarms that eliminating inspections will make state roads — where accidents are already up — more dangerous.
“The elimination of annual inspections is both reckless and shortsighted,” Dan Bennett, president of the New Hampshire Auto Dealers Association, said Friday.
Right now, 14 states require annual safety inspections, while 14 others don’t. The remander of states have have varied inspection mandates.
Bennett added that two states that repealed annual safety inspections, Florida and Colorado, both saw an immediate uptick in car accidents.
“It’s hard to believe that despite facts and data, the ‘safest’ state in the nation just chose to eliminate vehicle safety inspections,” Bennet added.
He left off the refrain?
People will die!
So, I’m more likely to have an accident in FL or CO ’cause I don’t have an inspection sticker?
I’m thinking the police should have their weaponry inspected (and a sticker of proof) so they don’t have an accidental discharge.
Ever visit r/tires?
I’m not entirely against safety inspections. 🤷🏼♂️
No, I have not been to r/tires.
I don’t care. Inspections are a scam.
I’m just going to assume that’s a lie.
Or, not getting the numbers correct. Both Florida & Colorado are seeing rapid population increases. Perhaps there is an uptick in accidents but maybe not an uptick in accidents per number of cars on the road?
Yea, my “lying with statistics” alarm went off on that one.
Were the accidents related to vehicles malfunctioning or just classic bad driving? If you can’t demonstrate that it was the former, don’t throw that fucking factoid around like it proves something.
Let’s look at states that eliminated inspections and see what happened to them. Start with Arizona. I was living there when they got rid of inspections. As I recall it made no difference whatsoever.
Apropos
In a cost-cutting move, New Jersey ended its annual auto safety inspections in 2010. State officials cited a lack of evidence that inspections improved public safety.
“If we’re going to invest millions of taxpayer dollars year after year in a program, then it is essential that we be able to justify the expense and effectiveness of said program,” then-Motor Vehicle Commission Chief Administrator Raymond Martinez said. “With a lack of conclusive data, and the current fiscal crisis, we cannot justify this expense.”
Eight years later, the journal Contemporary Economic Policy published a study on the effects of ending New Jersey’s inspections. It concluded that “discontinuing the law resulted in no significant increase in either fatalities due to car failure or the percentage of accidents due to car failure.”
The article includes links to other reports on efficacy of car inspections with respect to accident rates.
It’s the same shit the gun grabbers do… When one state loosens gun laws in some way and there’s even a slight uptick in crime, they blame the gun laws. They never mention that other states had upticks as well, or other states loosened gun laws and had steady or even decreasing crime, or many states have super-strict gun laws and have crime absolutely out of control.
Just pick one data point and pretend that’s the whole picture. That’s the game.
Shocking to find a Jersey official saying a government program cannot be justified.
Ah yes, the ritual of hidding rust damage and going to the service station where you “know people”
I was watching a recent South Main Auto video and while he was working inside, a tow truck was picking up a car outside the shop. Eric says the sub-frame literally split in half. But the car had a recent inspection sticker from another shop. Vehicle inspection PRNY style.
“The elimination of annual inspections is both reckless and shortsighted,” Dan Bennett, president of the New Hampshire Auto Dealers Association, said Friday.
This has nothing to do with losing a state mandated stream of income. This is naught but selfless concern for the wellbeing of our fellow man.
It’s a dilema for dealers, they want people’s old cars to condemned but want to be able to sell defective vehicles that won’t be inspected
Since Sean sent me to reddit, and Im now more retarded:
Submitted w/o comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/crappymusic/comments/1lmptu2/guess_whos_back/
That girl needs several sandwiches.
And by sandwiches, I meant eat, cheese, and condiments between slices of bread.
Oh, and fuck autocorrect in the ear with STEVE SMITH’s chainsaw.
Back? I have no idea who that is.
And people complain about *my* music links.
🤣😂
Taurus: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, reflection, news, messages — I’ll take reflection and application for the win! It’s been an interesting week, proving vital. Thursday, the start of my workweek, started kinda especially shitty, and I gave myself a stern talkin’-to. Friday went significantly better, with one reaffirming grand slam, followed by an all-around splendid Saturday, continued today. And it’ll continue tomorrow!
I restarted my old drinking habits a while ago. In a foolish attempt to control myself, I was ‘successful’ in limiting myself to a standard x/day, though I never attempted to lessen the Every Day aspect.
Bitch-slap-self slogan, utterly true? “Ev, you ain’t ever gettin’ laid again ’til you stop drinking.” –> Wonderful Friday affirmation? This supernova hottie occasionally works ‘in’ our store with another salesman chatting up customers for phone plans. Every time someone walks by, they say hello and try to initiate, other than Walmart employees.
So she’s never said anything, nor I to her, tho I constantly note her profound fecundity *poured* into her tight pants. But I walk by that day and she decides to take a moment to be playful with a silly Made-ya-Look joke with something on my shirt. I didn’t ruin it, but I was too shocked to swiftly rebound. Internally: “Honey bunches o’ Oatmeal, ya make *me* look every damn moment! Don’t jitter my gyroscope! Its focus is settled!”
The world seemed brighter. Far less casual negative chatter with myself. Duh, yes. “Nothin’ chases the blues like a depressant!” ~Lenny, when the Simpsons was good.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S09E07/960075
CNS depressant, like benzos or opiates.
Libra: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Hurtful. Just plain hurtful.
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