A Louisiana state judge might have overstepped his authority. I don’t understand why this isn’t in federal court. That Lane Kiffin circus might not be as crazy as the one happening at UNC. The Astros won again, but so did the Rangers. The AL West/WC race is really heating up with a little over 20 games to go in the season. Zverev sweated out another 5-setter. And college football is officially back. I know that because Rutgers is officially embarrassing the rest of the Big Ten on the field. And that’s it for sports.
I can’t believe this nonsense is happening. I guess they don’t want to go along to get along when it means getting along with a bunch of imbeciles who will excuse cold-blooded murder.
Wait, why weren’t they doing this all along? Because they should have been.
And speaking of people who should be criminally charged… These assholes should all be locked up.
Don’t take your kink to work. This used to be common knowledge.
This is amazing. And in a good way, for a change.
TANSTAAFL. I guess I’m evil for saying that, according to NPR.
Well, it’s a good start. But we gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this business.
Thanks for the advice, Karen. Now kindly fuck off.
This is a good resolution. I guess the admins had no sense of humor. Now we just need it applied against the other millions of ideologues running (and ruining) college campuses across the country.
Now the clankers are actively trying to kill people. Time for a preemptive strike on them. Who’s with me (besides SugarFree, who will be leading the charge)?
A short little track to start your day. I wish it was 10 minutes long. Same goes for this one. Oh well, enjoy them in their abbreviated perfection.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and holiday weekend, dear friends.
Hikers read map upside down, need rescued.
I suspect this is a case of miscalculated capabilities on both the human and the chat bot.
I still think we should do a first strike on the clankers. Even if it’s not necessary now, they’re eventually gonna try and kill us all.
“Why’s there a hill where there should be a pit?”
+ Wrong Way Feldman
TANSTAAFL. I guess I’m evil for saying that, according to NPR
Nah, you’re evil for going to Tosu. :-p
I am all Lindsey-ed or whatever her name is out. I cannot stand to see or hear one bit from that stupidity. I don’t get the fascination.
I would not call it fascination in my case, but it is overcoming my resistance to the black pill. I knew our society was sick, but this isn’t a fever, this is a gangrenous belly wound.
I’m more fascinated on a nobody defense attorney treating the case as his own social media booster.
He is priming himself for book deals, media appearances, probably a stint on “call me daddy” or whatever that podcast is called.
I normally don’t cheer for prosecutors, but their office is displaying professionalism at least.
I don’t care much about the trial. It’s the protests and revelatory posts by her supporters that have me dismayed. The trial is at worst a single grave injustice. The existence of millions of women with this level of insanity makes the whole concept of justice impossible.
Lindsey’s neighbor: “I have a doctor’s appointment and I can’t find a babysitter”
Lindsey: “Oh, that’s OK, I’ll take care of them while you’re gone, enjoy your day”
(((Jarflax:
There are way more broken people out there than I expected.
Neph:
And angrily contemptuous of any attempt to challenge their wildly fanciful mental constructs. Not defensive about them, not even stubbornly attached to them, but contemptuous of reason for challenging their vibes.
By design.
I’m more interested in the mass psychosis/social media contagion we’re seeing. People who weren’t there, and did not examine evidence or testimony, are 100% sure about what happened based on TikTok and Facebook videos. Any of us can make a video breathlessly citing “new information” that is entirely made up such as “the husband was seen driving 100mph going in the wrong direction with an alien in the car at the time he was supposed to be at the store”.
One of the most important things I learned from Scott Adams is to ask how many times the person was right in the past. I’m pretty sure “pilatesmom25” doesn’t have a sterling record.
But is pilatesmom25 hot enough to skew the hot/crazy matrix is all that matters…
What depresses me is that there will be a bunch of copy cats in the future.
The goal of far too many people is to become “famous”. Just like Columbine inspired a bunch of copy cat school shootings, I’m worried that a lot of crazy moms will see themselves gaining fame for killing their kids.
Being famous is the goal. Why you are famous is beside the point.
I want to know more about who the Clankers are trying to kill before I pick a side.
You know in creative writing class, you need to find your hook. That is what the above is. Its the basis of her storytelling.
Now who knows what the real conversation but it probably was more in line with “you moved out here and have no idea how to handle those firearms, so either secure them, get training or get rid of them before you kill yourself or worse, someone else”
See, I can make up a premise too!
Lock up those BB guns before you put your eye out!
If there ever was a need for a boating accident…
What good is a locked-up gun when you need it?
She claims to own six firearms– but two of them are BB guns which she claims “count anyway” ’cause effigies/icons contain the spirit of the actual thing by the laws of sympathetic magick.
She owned a 12ga. But when meth cooks moved in she bought a 20ga?
That reminds me – I don’t own a shotgun.
What would be a good starter shotgun?
Not sure what a starter shotgun would be.
For home defense, get a Beretta 1301.
I suppose it would be – not terribly expensive, representative of the class to the point of being generic, doesn’t have any serious quirks or drawbacks for someone unaccustomed to get tripped up by.
So not top of class, but with a lot of commonalities to the other shotguns.
Mossberg 590
Base entry level model: Mosberg Maverick 88.
I love my Browning BPS and My CZ 1012. I hate my Stoeger M3k. I’ll trade you the Stoeger for your S2.
Remington1100, 26″ Improved Cylinder barrel.
Probably the first thing you need to decide is whether you want to go pump or semi-auto.* The manual of arms for each has some significant differences and you may not want to get drill on both enough to get them down to muscle-memory. That said, different shotguns even within a class will run a little differently – safety, shell release, etc.
I’m a semi-auto guy; I think modern semi-autos are more reliable than pumps unless and until you have thousands of repetitions on the pump.
You can get a solid pump for less than a good semi-auto. So there’s that.
*I’m assuming you don’t want to go single or double-barrel.
Once again, I fucking hate these kind of people. You don’t get to assume a position of authority in my world by using this pitiful effort to try and exploit my welcoming nature. Take your lame inherited gun collection and fuck off back to your HOA meetings and wine brunches. You’re not welcome in my space.
Jump right in with a full auto Saiga!
EvilSheldon (corrected accidental typo)
“I’m a lifelong teetotaler, but I just inherited my uncles massive whiskey collection. I now have three bottles of whiskey, and I don’t know what to do with them. I talked to a friend, and they said I should donate them to a bar or dump them down the drain immediately!”
In general any new shotgun by Mossberg, Beretta or Benelli is going to be good.
There is an amazingly broken price/performance discontinuity wherein the most expensive shotguns are O/U break actions. I’ve had skeet/trap enthusiasts try and justify this by claiming the internals on such guns are actually stronger ’cause they shoot a lot more than a hunter will. And yet you can buy a world-class 3-gun/ IPSC shotgun world shoot semiauto model for less than a tenth of a high-end trap model.
RE: starter shotgun – every ‘what is the best gun’ question should start out with the question ‘what do you want to do with it?’ More than most other types of guns, shotguns are specialty tools – a shotgun suitable for waterfowl hunting isn’t going to work for upland game, and a dedicated home defense shotgun isn’t going to be great for 3-gun competition.
What’s your primary use case, right now, in your mind?
EvilSheldong
That is *some* typo.
Filling a gap in my collection.
The reason I don’t own one is that I don’t actually have a use for one. So the odds are I’m not going to acquire one for a while.
Is a shotgun still considered the preferred firearm for home defense unless you really wouldn’t mind too much if you happened to take out one or more of your neighbors along with the burglar? (Oopsie!)
GT. Shotgun is fine. Choice of shells is the issue.
Paul Harrel did some great videos on the subject. #1 Buck will over penetrate your walls and endanger others, but #3 or #4 Buck will do the job and not over penetrate walls
Less a typo, more a Freudian slip? 😜😜😜
GT – a shotgun is a very effective home defense weapon, but they have some disadvantages – namely heavy recoil and the potential difficulty of confidently running a pump action. If you can train through those, there’s nothing legal that hits like a shotgun up close.
That’s why I choose a 20 ga. instead of a 12 ga. to store on brackets on my side of the bed.
My fave: Mossberg 500 (28″ barrel, hunting gun)
One of the most popular in hunting: Remington 870
Cheapest but works: Encore(made in Turkey)
Home defense: Mossberg 500 security or the 590(sweet but high priced)
I prefer pumps…semi-autos you will pay a lot more for and not really have a good justification for it.
I would not take any advice from Paul Harrel – the man was an overpromoted idiot, and his take on shotgun ammo selection was a case in point.
The truth of the matter is, any projectile capable of inflicting a decisive wound on a human being, is going to go though normal residential wall construction like it wasn’t even there. The human body is way more resilient than plaster or drywall.
The way to avoid ‘overpenetrating’ and shooting your neighbors is to manage the lanes of fire in your home, and don’t miss the person you’re shooting at.
Tacticool shotty that has a hell of a kick: Mossberg Shockwave or if you want a bullpup get a Tavor TS12 or Keltec KSG.
GT – I love 20ga. shotguns. I learned to shoot skeet with a Remington 1100 LT-20, still probably the best-handling shotgun I’ve ever owned.
Sadly, good home defense loads are a lot harder to find in 20ga. versus 12ga. It’s something of a market failure.
Which is why, unless you are planning to run thousands of shells through it while training, you should get a semi-auto. The old canard that semi-autos aren’t reliable is outdated; my 1301 has a couple thousand rounds through it ranging from light bird shot through slugs, and didn’t fully eject a couple of slugs.
Yup. And home defense ranges are going to be up close. A 20 gauge gives plenty of stopping power if you are worried about recoil. I find my 1301 is quite manageable on that front; semiautos typically have a little softer recoil.
EvilSheldon — noted
GT – I love 20ga. shotguns. I learned to shoot skeet with a Remington 1100 LT-20, still probably the best-handling shotgun I’ve ever owned.
My first shotgun as young boy!
I’ve got two Mossberg youth model 20ga shotguns from when the Altar Boys were just starting out hunting. They are the ones I’d use if someone broke into my house.
Hopefully I’ll be able to pass them along to an Altar Grandkid at some point without ever needing to use them against a person.
Or maybe gun owners see “keeping guns away from children” as 100% consistent with the stated goal of gun controllers to “confiscate their weapons”, and as the enticing first step on a slippery slope.
The liberals shot their wad on smoking.
Gun nuts after watching the anti-smokers slowly restrict who can smoke and where (as well as cranking up the price) learned the perils of the Slippery Slope.
Common Sense regulations can find no purchase in the stony hearts of the 2A zealots now.
My common sense regulation requires each citizen to train a minimum number of rounds through a functional militia-suitable weapon yearly. Those who wish to opt out may pay a tax to reimburse the ammunition costs for those who do.
UCS:
Local ranges are already too crowded. Last thing I need is to get stuck waiting for a lane behind my idiot neighbors.
Think of it as undue market pressure to open more ranges.
I love how they always say “We should all agree” and then frame their control freak nature as the most common sense and benign thing you could imagine.
You disagreeing with them is mean, but them wanting to impose their world view on you is not mean at all.
Likewise, a lot of “wokeness” is weaponizing politeness, being mean to others, and thinking you’re doing it out of virtue.
Her BB guns don’t count.
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Why would LSU file in federal court when they can get some home cooking in state court?
I find it hard to believe that the vote is 11-1 to acquit. I think the holdout must be the saying “It just doesn’t feel right to convict her.”
Why would the defense fly into a rage and then run to the media bitching about it then?
Coming quite close to jury intimidation I might add.
Maybe the defense thinks its 11-1 against them and is either setting up an appeal or trying to get a mistrial before the last juror flips.
She has a civil case pending. I don’t know if it is the same lawyers, but that case is going nowhere until the criminal trial is over.
They also know the prosecution is not going to drop this case is there is a mistrial (i.e. there will be another trial). There’s no guarantee of what they’ll get for a jury there. Getting a verdict means they can start appeals.
I found the civil case complaint. It’s a different lawyer.
How many women are on the jury? How many of them have tiktok on their phones?
Original jury was twelve women, six men.
In MA, the judge picks those who deliberate and those who are alternates at random before deliberations start. The jury (those deliberating) are nine women, three men. I’ve seen some local sources claiming the hold out is a man.
I would like the Sh0eonhead video, but I don’t want to spread the vile slander to the noble art of astrology that those whackadoodles create.
I’ll link it for you then
I ain’t watching a 40-minute video.
I could only watch it in 5 minute chunks before my urge to kill got out of hand.
Same. As I said above, this has destroyed my last vestiges of hope for our society.
I find it hard to believe that the vote is 11-1 to acquit.
No one knows how the jury voted beyond there is one hold out.
The 3 women wearing pink in solidarity plus the angry defense attorney lead me to believe she is getting off. But you are correct. Nobody knows anything.
Holy shit, that VFD guy looks exactly like someone you’d expect to be murdered in a polycule fight gone
wrongright. How did he not die of heat stroke the first time he put on his turnout gear?All the guns were locked up?
He looks like Farva.
I thought it was going to be a story about Chris Farley faking his death and hiding out as a fire captain.
Granted that police mug shots are always going to look awful – but if I were a kinkster (waitasec, I am a kinkster!) I would make a considerable effort to not look like a caricature of a medieval gaoler. But then again, some people probably go for that, so who knows?
The pic of him in his VFD uniform is worse than his mug shot, imo.
Typical double dipping government union slob.
Don’t take your kink to work. This used to be common knowledge.
Creosote Achilles hardest hit.
He hasn’t been around in a while.
He must be all tied up.
Tacoma FD missed out on this storyline.
Did they though?
And for some reason this is “controversial” – but only in the United States.
All this after we were told they weren’t voting…
So the percentage of employed working age men dropped because of deportations … hmmm.
Ten minute song you say?
Seen and raised.
Do we have to do this?
Yes we do
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3-ua0SeZj3-ZDL1adQzJCF9MI8Wi-qJC&si=QXzNr6hkE02Zdfcy
Game Set Match
I am not going to look, but I will guess at the band…
“Yes”
Great song.
A video to appeal to a broad variety of Glib interests: mixology, hitting the sauce before the camera rolls, lumbersexuals and Mountain Dew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjhQklW-njc
Almost forgot: pretentious tasting notes and editor snark regarding same.
Mountain Dew ? laaame
I used to watch that guy until he said some stupid left wing bullshit and I stopped.
They are fucking the kids’ heads up with this nonsense and patting each other on the back for how “progressive” it is to hide it from the people who are actually responsible for the kids – locking these monsters up is being kind.
I am going to risk excommunication by posting an offbrand Ray of sunshine
Do not worry about excommunication my son! As long as you are tithing, your sins are all forgiven.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
NPR – as an arm of the DNC – literally wants as many people as possible on the dole, in order to better control them.
They cannot conceive that a person might have to ability to figure out how to feed himself after being unhooked, rather than just dumbly sit there and starve to death.
They don’t understand that such a scheme will eventually crash (or they want it). Either we run out of productive people supporting the freeloaders, or the currency crashes when too much is printed. Either way, chaos and violence ensue.
NPR is an arm of the CIA.
I know, a distinction without a difference.
Everyone in Minnesoda now gets free school breakfasts/lunches. Why? Because it is too shaming for the needy kids to get free lunches when the other kids have to pay.
Don’t even think about proposing alternatives! King Walz is too magnanimous of a leader to let the poor kids live like that.
For example when I was a kid, you “paid” for your lunch by giving the lunch lady a paper ticket. I’m sure some of the kids got their paper ticket for free back then, but no one knew because everyone used the same ticket.
I have to admit I’m deeply prejudiced against parents who don’t make feeding their kids their #1 priority.
No cafeteria, brown bag, 2 p’nut butter sammiches,white bread. No milk, no dessert.
/Survvior of the school food desert
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I am ready to call bullshit on the economics one. Most studies are laboratory studies which are not really that relevant to real life behavior.
The two naturalistic studies say high class individuals behave worse in traffic.
“As vehicles are reliable indicators of a person’s social rank and wealth (15), we used observers’ codes of vehicle status (make, age, and appearance) to index drivers’ social class. Observers stood near the intersection, coded the status of approaching vehicles, and recorded whether the driver cut off other vehicles by crossing the intersection before waiting their turn”
yeah if high class means you bought a BMW you can scarcely afford, there are many such “high class” people in Romania. They are not high class.
I have to say though at this point I am skeptical of every single “social science” study.
They have the nicest track suits! That makes them high class!
We adopted a paradigm used in past research to activate higher or lower social-class mindsets and examine their effects on behavior
This induction primes subjective perceptions of relatively high or low social-class rank.
priming is well known bullshit.
Since virtually all social science today consists of finding, or making evidence to support the predetermined conclusion, I’d say skepticism is warranted.
The MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status uses a 10-rung visual ladder to measure how people perceive their own social class and standing relative to others. [1]
How the Scale WorksThe Visual Ladder: Respondents view a drawing of a 10-rung ladder representing the societal hierarchy.Top vs. Bottom: The top rungs represent people with the most money, highest education, and most respected jobs; the bottom rungs represent those with the least.Self-Placement: Participants mark the specific rung where they believe they stand.
sounds like science.
Another question I would have: would actual high class people participate in such studies?
Anyhoo. I am not saying high class people behave ethically. They obviously don’t. But boy do low class people also behave unethically.
All social science results fall into one of two categories:
-Trivially obvious to a layperson
-Bogus
Note, however, the virtue signaling at the end:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260904_N01/index.html
for collecting evidence that babies smell wonderful to their parents, but teenagers do not.
well parents wash the babies. the teenagers are responsible for washing themselves.
Plus babies don’t have BO, when my son was 15 he STANK.
I said the same thing to my teenage daughter when she complained about how all the boys smell at school.
We hammered into the boys that at minimum, hit the main parts. Head, pits and crotch. Takes 2 minutes.
Generally, they did so.
Did they interpret it as crotch, head, crotch, pits, crotch, crotch, crot -OMG YESSSSS?
You know…that is generally creepy…
Teens eat too many carbs.
Bacteria love carb sweat
10-15 years ago the ignobles were funny. Not so much anymore.
Well, the 2020 one where they did the psych study to convince people the flu was a deadly pandemic kinda killed the fun.
Cue up your cockroach milk latte ladies!
I’m assuming that the Aussie researcher has quite a bit of poisonous-snake-stepping-on conventional wisdom to either confirm or disprove.
design a splash-free urinal
That’s a perfectly useful bit of research.
the use of mosquito proboscises as high-resolution 3D printing nozzles, a process called “Necroprinting”
Metal. 🤘
Would dead mosquito bits even hold up to the heat and materials used? Or do they have to use some specialized print material to not destroy the dead mosquito bits?
Smile!
It’s going to be a great weekend
no it won’t
Speaking of teens and washing, there is a thing among gen z males to avoid showers and deodorant to attract the ladies. It is called pheromonemaxxing
So the big trends are:
looksmaxxing
pheromonemaxxing
retardmaxxing
Evidence suggests that the third category is far and away the most successful.
Brilliant plan started by some dude who wanted to reduce the competition.
Agreed. Has to be. Or it’s a large circle back to social media and the mass psychosis of woman as evident from the trial.
“Today’s settlement vindicates Reges’s right to express his own opinion rather than towing the university’s line,” Walters stated.
Half credit.
Yeah, that made my eye twitch.
Proof that Minnesoda is unfairly maligned for having no taste at all
Mich Golden is my goto bar beer. Mostly because it is always the cheapest thing on tap.
It’s not no taste, it’s bad taste.
I thought you didn’t drink carbonated beverages…if so, how would you know?
That Minnesodans in general have bad taste?
Collectivism! Even libertarians can play!
I keed, I keed.
More Minnesoda Beer History
I fondly remember Lakemaid. It wasn’t a bad cheap beer. You also have to pull for the brewer that tells the Feds to pound sand
Special Export was always a better trunk beer. It got better with heat.
“It’s the ultimate beer that was brewed for refreshment rather than flavor,”
It could not have less flavor than Hamm’s.
I would say bad things about Hamms, but my grandpa worked there as a union steam fitter. He was well paid and dog loyal to them.
I don’t know how old I was before I realized that there were decks of playing cards that were not emblazoned with the Hamms logo. Gramps must have owned several thousands of decks of Hamms cards and given them away to anyone who he knew.
“Sergio Galvez-Perez, a 38-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, is wanted in Monterey County after authorities say he fathered a child with his own 14-year-old daughter. Investigators say the girl was only 13 when she became pregnant.
The newborn, named Baby Angelita by detectives, was found dead on the side of Struve Road near Moss Landing on August 1, umbilical cord still attached, with signs of traumatic injury.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/outrage-repeat-illegal-alien-accused-impregnating-his-own/
WTF?
Yeah, we all know what “California values” are.
WTF
I know! Wasting a perfectly good anchor baby like that!
Counting down to the appearance of a story in the MSM decrying this guy being deported. The headline will be about this 14 year-old girl being ripped away from her father.
10 Acres Cabin On River in Maine Video! $59,900 MOOERS REALTY ME Real Estate Property Listing! Add It Up… 1640′ Mattawamkeag River Frontage. Long 1313′ Bancroft RD Frontage. Bancroft ME Is In Aroostook County!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKO3V7qt5Jc
that looks in the fucking middle of nowhere.
also I would worry about mosquitoes in that area. the ones in canadia were annoying AF
Bancroft isn’t that far off the beaten path.
ever been?
ever been?
Not in Bancroft, but up in that part of Maine.
It’s between I-95 and the coast. It’s close to the Canadian border. I-95 at that point is a pretty lonely road. I saw more moose on the road than cars until I got close to the border. But, Bangor is only an hour and a half or so drive away from Bancroft. You can get way farther off the beaten path if instead of going south of I-95, you go north of I-95.
Nearly 3 hours north of Bar Harbor? That’s almost Canada.
Uffda.
Boy Mayor Frey is proposing to cut the budget for “violence interrupters”.
Minneapolis is in the middle of a budget crunch and can’t afford to throw money out the windows of City Hall anymore.
The good news is that Frey still wants Community Safety Ambassadors. They will cost the same as the violence interrupters, but there will be fewer of them and they will be city employees (pensions ahoy!).
How could anyone think about taking money away from violence interrupters?
If we have another civil war, and the side I’ll end up supporting wins, there are going to be a lot of Minnesotans hanging from lamp posts.
(((Jarflax:
As long as you stick to Minnesodans from Little Mogadishu and The Range (Fourscore’s neck of the woods), I’ll support you.
Well, George Floyd taught the world that all of this stuff is the fault of cops so why aren’t they just eliminating all the cops? Why pussyfoot around with these silly half measures when the solution is right there.
I think they know their last line of defense, in which they despise, will be removed from actual citizens clearing out the rot?
The cops don’t seem to be covering themselves in glory either*.
* Yes, two cops were shot responding to this asshole’s shooting spree, but I’m withholding judgement until someone confirms that they didn’t shoot each other by accident/panic.
Road diets
Roundabouts
Speed humps
Bicycle lanes
Differential car and truck speed limits
Stay right laws
Traffic engineers learn all this stuff in school by anti car lefties and spread their filth far and wide.
I hate everyone of these bad, expensive, congestion creating ideas.
But the left and so many on the right lap it up.
They hear that roundabouts are safer and never look at the study. Safer than uncontrolled intersections. Ergo in their pea sized brains they are safer than all normal intersection designs.
I appreciate Minnesota being around to remind me that Massachusetts could be much worse.
Although the local lefties (i.e., everyone who’s not me, plus the 6 local Republicans) are doing their best to catch up.
Local ray of sunshine (literally – I would have been in the shadow of this)
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2026/08/31/copper-mill-drops-tower-project/
A shocking number of people were in favor of dropping a 23 story tower among the existing 3 story buildings in the square. But thankfully more weren’t.
Today I learned something new about MA.
The $400,000 Keys That Get You Into Martha’s Vineyard’s Private Beaches
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/marthas-vineyard-beach-keys-1897aade?st=NYzrLH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
In NJ almost all beach is public land and public access.
A shocking number of people were in favor of dropping a 23 story tower among the existing 3 story buildings in the square.
As if getting around Davis Square isn’t bad enough.
The “traffic calming” the utopians are forcing though has even my lefty wife pissed off and cynical.
Oh, but the tower wouldn’t have any parking and tower residents wouldn’t be allowed to get on street parking permits.
As one lady put it at one of the meetings: “so you don’t want families there”
Totally not hostile to car ownership.
Talk about an Orwellian name. There is little more enraging while driving than running into a “traffic calming” feature. Maybe getting hit be an idiot confused by a “traffic calming” feature.
Slumsy:
Don’t get me started on traffic calming.
A local retail development near here just started a new road construction project to add traffic calming to THE major intersection. The reason that traffic calming is needed is because the retail project was so badly designed that everyone drives like a maniac to avoid getting stuck in traffic light hell.
Instead of fixing the basic issue, the city planners decided to constrict traffic even further. I’m sure that this will fix everything.
The property owner and the people who might want to live in it?
Change happens.
UCS:
My most hated term is “road diet”. Road diets have almost become more popular in my neighborhood than roundabouts. If you can imagine such a thing.
Perfectly good 4 lane roads (2 lanes each direction) are being converted to 2 lane roads. The new setup has a central turn lane and one lane in each direction. Since there is still a ton of room left, there are very wide shoulders. Before you suggest that Neph and his fellow cyclists will be happy, you need to know that all these roads also have 8 ft wide bike paths already.
Just a complete waste of space. I’m sure that there was some big pile of cash for local planners to implement road diets and my city decided to grab as much of it as they can.
Jimbo, it sounds to me like the answer is five lane roads. Keep the turning lane, ditch the bike lanes and broad shoulders for two more lanes.
Anyone who complains should be skinned and their hides strung from the traffic lights.
rhy, the developers and the YIMBY folks who, conveniently, would not end up living in the shadow cast by that thing.
If they proposed 10 stories – 3 times taller than the rest of the neighborhood – people would have been OK. But, nope, 23 stories, 500 units.
How about they put a few floors of parking garage above ground and 23 floors below?
Despite five years of efforts to “get weapons of war off our streets,” an estimated 26.4 million American adults now own an AR-15 or its equivalent, up from the 24.6 million Americans estimated by the 2021 survey to have ever owned one.
No. Way.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gun-control-activists-demanded-better-data-what-they-got-surprised-heck-out-them
26.4 million American adults now own an AR-15 or its equivalent
Rookie numbers. Gotta pump them up!
Keep in mind, that’s discounting all those people who answered the survey with, “Up yours, narc.”
The progressives have really lost the gun culture war, badly.
And millions more “at the bottom of the lake.”
Confirmed it’s a male juror “holding out”. That defense attorney is gonna sink his own case though how he is arguing.
He called the juror a liar in open court.
“I’m going to get my client a new trial through an ‘ineffective assitance of council’ claim!”
I am amazed that 11 jurors are in favor of “not guilty”. Wow.
Not guilty by reason of insanity?
Believe all Women, except when they outright tell you they killed their own kids
The judge was educating all the jurors on the meaning of reasonable doubt.
So, somehow 11 people are saying there is reasonable doubt she is guilty of willfully killing kids.
Unreasonable Doubt?
I’m seeing the judge has declared a mistrial.
I’m seeing the judge gave the defense an hour to appeal it.
mistrial
late again
1. There is no deep state.
2. There is a deep state, but it doesn’t do anything nefarious.
3. The deep state is a good thing.
Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/reports-rfk-jr-ordered-measles-deaths-deletion-cdc-still-secretly-counts-them/
I want nothing to do with that tard fight.
The infant was not vaccinated so these people who pin the anti-vax label on Jr can go fuck themselves sideways. Beyond that I don’t give a shit about the he-said, he-said nonsense around all of it.
…This whole “Brutally murder everyone who disagrees with my version of an idealistic society” trope that happens around here from time to time is becoming tiresome…Too much bullshit in my life right now…see y’all at a later time.
Great seeing again Trigger. If we can’t wallow in our fantasies, what else is left?
That’s not me. I suspect the one or two who talk like that – you know who you are – are just doing so in jest and frustration.
Disagreeing with me? no. Actively subverting the Republic to institute a regime that will put me in a reeducation camp or grave? Hang ’em all.
Jarflax knows the difference. Small government people are running out of continents to move to in order to get away from authoritarian central planners.
We seem to sprinting past “authoritarian central planners” and going straight to “psychopathic totalitarians”.
It worked for the Stalinists and the Maoists and the Khmer Rouge…no reason to think it wouldn’t work here. Depending on your definition of ‘work’.
We really aren’t all that far out of the woods…
I agree TH. That way leads to Pure Communism.
Pure Communism has never been tried before.
Hearts and minds are hard to change.
Given power none of us here would stack bodies.
We know that our opposition would because they have a history of doing it.
Oops.
I just made a joking comment about an engineer I work with taking ANOTHER vacation next week.
Yeah, he’s not taking vacation. He’s taking his wife to the Mayo Clinic to remove her brain tumor…
Oh that old excuse? Puhlease.
Oooh, ouch. Both for the mis-timed comment and for your co-worker’s wife.
Ouch. I assume some of the other “vacations” were also related to his wife’s care.
Egg on face. Hope you apologized and sympathized. I worked with a guy many years ago who, over the course of five years and several bosses and lax HR dept., took off three times for his mother’s funeral.
No stoic?…
Stoic?
It wasn’t there earlier!
Blame it on browser cache.
You need to be stoic about what a piece of crap WordPress is.