It’s been a lovely weekend here. I’ve been researching Federal regulations on typeface and fonts for warning labels, writing corrective action reports, and checking over a report from a test lab that confirmed that water isn’t flammable (one of our customers demanded it). This is why I suffered through 6 years of grad school and a post-doc, to do useless paperwork to make bureaucrats happy. All was not lost; SP and I had a brief but fun snack with Mexican Sharpshooter and his delightful kids yesterday afternoon. And the weather was super nice, which will not be the case the rest of this week…
And now, before I have to go outside to pick up dog shit from the yard, some carefully curated news:
Pigs are friends, not food. Non-kosher friends, of course.
The Chris Davis watch continues.
OK, we moved to a very weird place.
Deep insight from the deep thinker in the White House.
Bumfight! Well, really, they’d have to actually have accomplished more in their lives to even reach the level of “bum.”
Climate change grifters find an innovative new way to grift.
And if you want to get rich, invest in Duluth real estate.
Indiana guns cause more problems.
Old lawyer joke: “I’d like to fuck her.” “Out of what?”
Old Guy Music. Despite this album being Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Al Hibbler, there’s a delightful little song at the end of Side 2 which featured Leon Thomas on vocals. And I had it as an earworm all day today, so figured I’d pass it on.
/yawns
/farts
/considers going back to bed
Needz moar /scratches balls.
Bumfight!
Bumfight!
“OK, we moved to a very weird place.”
Or maybe the place just got weird once you moved there. IYKWIM
” lock your doors and windows when you are asleep or away from home. ”
So if you lock your doors/windows and you’re not home the villains go to the back and break a window? Most folks here don’t lock anything ’cause they don’t have anything worth stealing.
I came home once and found a wash machine full of ice (as in frozen in the machine) next to my “No Trespassing” sign right in my yard. Need more money for schools, obviously reading was not the bad guys strong suit.
The only times I don’t lock the doors are if I’m only going to be gone for a few minutes, and that’s because we have two big, scary dogs. I live in a small city, though, and not in a great area, so the dynamics might be different. I’m guessing y’all don’t have people cutting through on the way between the liquor store and the public housing every morning.
“I’m guessing y’all don’t have people cutting through on the way between the liquor store”
In the woods with a long driveway in. One way in, one way out. OTOH once you’re in you are rather isolated from view.
And I had it as an earworm all day today,
Yet these are morning links…. :-p
Pigs are friends, not food.
Then what am I to do with all this bacon and pork chops/loin in my fridge. . .
I will help you dispose of it in a safe fashion.
and checking over a report from a test lab that confirmed that water isn’t flammable (one of our customers demanded it)
Are you serious?
A Mesa attorney was suspended from practicing law for two years after getting a client pregnant, the State Bar of Arizona said Thursday.
Later in that article:
He was already on probation for slapping an incarcerated client who was handcuffed to a table.
He sounds like a peach.
Old Guy music is mellow and good.
Mike Royko, from 1996
RIP Mike Royko.
I miss his column. Ye Olde Hometown Newspaper carried it through whatever syndication network he was on.
That MSDS will not meet the requirements of GHS.
MSDS is old and busted, SDS is the new hotness with all new requirements.
And safety cartoons.
It saves 25% in typing time, increasing productivity by $21T annually!
Yes, I’m serious. The water-based product had “non-flammable” on the label, and the retailer carrying it demanded a test report from a certified lab verifying the label claim.
Lube?
I see. They’re worried about getting sued.
If you sell or manufacture product, it’s difficult to have too much paper for ass-covering.
Mmmmaybe. I get the feeling that there’s a drone with a laminated card checklist, and that’s just a box to be checked. I get absolutely nowhere appealing to common sense. “You know, this is the stuff people use to put OUT fires.”
Not always true. Sharpton and Smollet use gasoline.
Oh right. I forgot about those people.
Ever since my employer got bought by a large, well-known tech company, some of my co-workers’ lives have been made miserable by those fucks.
“Reactivity – 1 Slight”
From link above. They even got that wrong.
Do I need to tell the story again about my grandfather and the pig trails?
I can think of lots of water-based things that were later involved in fires, but that’s a different issue.
Can anyone think of a violation of this basic notion I carry: if a compound has oxygen in it, it’s already as burned as it can get. Water: it’s burned hydrogen; the fire event happened already. I can only think of CO – carbon monoxide.
Nitromethane
Odd that I didn’t think of that to use as one of my examples
Water is acidic. I think of it as a weak acid. For non-chemists – weak acid does not mean weak, it means slow. Water is corrosive as hell. It’s reactivity is not slight.
It’s also basic. In pure water, the concentration of H+ ions = concentration of OH- ions, and is like 0.5 ppm. Now, dissolve some CO2 in it and it becomes a bit (a BIT) more acidic, but it’s not the water that’s an acid, it’s the formed carbonic acid.
Water is reactive, but not because of its acidity or basicity (at least by Bronsted definitions).
And we all know there are some awful fucking parasites and bacteria that can live in water. Humans were evolutionarily programmed not to drink it.
And we all know there are some awful fucking parasites and bacteria that can live in water.
Meh. Just get a few silver coins from Swiss and throw it in the well.
Water is ubiquitous! Weak and slow still matter because almost everything gets wet eventually.
Salt is ubiquitous! Now, dissolve some NaCl in it and it becomes a bit . . .
I had this list of truisms in my brain once, and, speaking of corrosion, I’m reminded of a favorite:
a coating is as good as the first scratch.
The list of burnable organic compounds containing oxygen is vast. Starting with sugar.
Gasoline, alcohol… I’m gonna say Don’s notion is almost the reciprocal of the actual rule. If we burn it as fuel it probably contains oxygen.
Alcohol -OH good point
This is why I suffered through 6 years of grad school and a post-doc, to do useless paperwork to make bureaucrats happy.
Without honest, hardworking bureaucrats dedicated to keeping America safe, people like (((you))) would have destroyed the world for a few extra shekels of profit.
Everybody knows that.
All hail America’s consumer safety apparat!
And of course, we were informed that one of the warnings was exactly 3/100 of an inch too small according to a Federal regulation.
I’m so happy that Trump has been doing massive deregulation. At least that’s what they tell me, I sure as fuck don’t see it. Next week, we do our yearly Conflict Minerals reporting, where we have to trace the one pound of tin we use per year all the way back to the mine source, with certifications all the way. This reg was a gift from that notorious liberal Democrat Sam Brownback.
The regulatory apparatus is so thick I don’t think we’ll ever be free of it until it collapses under its own weight. Besides which, the established companies have no interest in lobbying for a rolling back of the bullshit.
You are just mad because you got caught making the fine print a little too small. Now the rubes who would have bought your product will be able to read about one of the side effects of using it will be erectile dysfunction.
Does anyone actually read that shit? Just make something up. Be creative.
Does anyone actually read that shit?
Government bureaucrats.
That is because we don’t let them surf pr0n at work anymore. What else can they do? They read that shit to relieve the tedium of their jobs.
If you blue noses hadn’t put up such a stink back when those muck rakers were printing those stories about all the govt drones watching pr0n at work, they’d be busy jerking themselves around instead of jerking you around.
Back when I was a bureaucrat….I just logged on to that glibertarians.com site when I finished the single task I assigned myself that day.
I’m a little ornery after being up half the night waiting on the damn brisket to break its stall.
At least you’ll have delicious food. I’m ornery after being up until midnight waiting to see if I was going to get called for a maintenance issue, just to get up at 0630 to start a maintenance this morning. Still ongoing, but on a ~15 minute pause while we wait for one of the core systems to come back up.
Pigs are friends.
I recommend against ever testing that theory by falling down in a crowded hog pen.
Heh heh. No shit.
Sometimes you have pork for dinner; sometimes you are dinner for pork.
Iowa Democrats know Sanders, the Vermont senator who lost the state — and the Democratic presidential nomination — to Hillary Clinton in 2016. At two town halls in counties he won during that caucus fight, Sanders’ questioners asked most about making health care more affordable.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul’s doctor = free unlimited health care.
Who doesn’t want that?
I love that a self-avowed Socialist is berating people for having multiple kinds of deodorant while owning three homes and giving a speech wearing a suit with pick stitching.
I’m a little ornery after being up half the night waiting on the damn brisket to break its stall.
Huh. Flight simulator humor.
What’ll they think of next?
Texas brisket don’t fly, son….
/drawl
Of Sanders, Abel said, “He knows what it’s like to not have money.”
Trust him like you would your brother Cain.
Interesting backstory on the underling the FBI used to catch Hanssen
https://nypost.com/2019/04/06/i-risked-my-life-to-expose-my-boss-as-a-russian-spy/
I have thought Duluth would be a great city to start a few tech startups. It is cheap, it is close to a lot of things that hipsters say they like to do (canoeing, backpacking, etc). It is close enough to the Twin Cities if you really need major league sports.
The only problem is that it is too close to Wisconsin.
The idea that people will relocate there for climate reasons is laughable though.
Wisconsin is Superior.
*readies missile strike*
The initial blast would kill a lot of them, but that would be about it. The debris scattered by the blast would probably improve the lot of most survivors (who would think it was some sort of free shit give away by the new Dem governor) and radiation isn’t going to do any damage to people who drink pain thinner to celebrate Packer victories.
For all our cheeze warts, we didn’t go for Hillary.
cheese warts
I thought those were called curds? You’ve been gone too long from your home stomping grounds Straff.
+1 Culver’s.
Culver’s curds are to die for.
Minnesota vs Wisconsin. It’s like watching Beto and Sanders go at it!
Listen the NoDak, the Buttigieg of states
Superior? Only if Minnesoda gives them a Lift (bridge)
Ohio is Erie
I like Duluth a lot, but I’m with you. No way in hell are people going there for the weather.
Ditto on all counts.
Well, when Global Climate Change (the big one) hits ol’ Fourscore gonna be sittin’ on a fortune selling beach front lots to those folks that don’t want or need to live in the Duluth ghetto.
Hey Tundra! Thanks for the tip on the puppy spot in Turks and Caicos!
My irritable 17-year-old son lost his travel grouch mode as he sat inside the corrals playing with the little guys. Unfortunately they only allow you to take one for a walk on the beach at 10am, and the lady said “there’s a lot of demand and only nine puppies, so we recommend you get in line by 8:30 am to have a chance at one”. We decided enjoying our vacation for two hours instead of waiting in line was a good call, so passed on that.
A stray tabby had four friendly kittens in the bushes next to our condo, though, so we did have a little bit of fun on the beach with young animals after all.
Can’t believe we’re already back home as of late last night. Vacations always go by far too quickly.
Agreed. It’s not even that cold. The lake moderates the temps. I also wonder how many people will be happy about 55 degree temps in July. I personally love going to the shore in summer when the temps become intolerable (85+) inland.
85 at the beach in only slightly above perfect. Must be a humidity thing? Around here, 55 is damn cold, wear your warm stuff weather.
Contrary to popular belief in coastal states, it actually get’s quite humid in the middle of the continent as well. But yeah, 55 is damn cold in the summer. Especially if you are by a body of water and there’s a cool breeze coming off it.
Yeah, the ocean is a giant swap cooler. If the wind is onshore, it’s nice and cool and offshore breeze roasts the place up. They call the offshore wind Santa Ana winds and it flows desert air over the whole region drying and heating us.
I’m allergic to heat being I’m a mutt of Northern European descent. I sweat once it gets above 65. Throw in anything above about 40% humidity and I’m dying.
I don’t swim in Lake Superior. At least not until late summer when the water warms up to 60 degrees or so.
With 90 percent of the world’s largest cities vulnerable to inundation as glaciers melt and seas rise on a warming planet, modular platforms anchored to the sea floor could be connected in a ring to house communities atop the oceans, members said.
Aaaaaand done.
“Pigs are friends, not food.”
Yes. Yes they are. Very delicious friends.
* crunches more bacon*
“Chris Davis…”
Who? What?
“…broke in through an unlocked back door…”
I think I see the problem
*pats giant dog on the head*
She hates more than Israel. If some crazy wants to blow her head off…meh…I wont shed a tear. Fuck that POS.
Bumfight indeed. Heh. Neither one has a chance in hell. Let’s see how much the DNC can piss away on these commie shitweasels.
“As sea levels rise…”
Has anyone bothered to walk down to the beach and actually look at the water? Jesus fuckin’ Christ on a pogo stick.
Or look out of the window? Goddammit.
OMWC, if you dont stop getting me to give NYT clicks we are gonna have a fight.
“…police said people at the scene were not cooperating with detectives.”
Why is that? How could that be? It’s a mystery.
Old Guy Music excellent as usual.
Good morning everyone. Maybe my power will stay on today. Ugh, it’s gnat season. Everything is green and beautiful, the hummingbirds are here but for a week or two the gnats will be driving us nuts.
Suthenboy has arisen!
A whole page of giphy’s!
Nice
Ok, no fair. that made me laugh.
the gnats will be driving us nuts
Just because OMWC refuses to give up on his allegiance to the Orioles, doesn’t mean you have to stick with your loyalty to the Washington baseball team.
The best method of enjoying sportzball is to have no real allegiance to any team and jump on the band wagon of this year’s hot team and enjoy all the winning.
OMWC, if you dont stop getting me to give NYT clicks we are gonna have a fight.
“Paper of Record.” Best read in porn mode.
And you’re ingratiating yourself with Swiss.
I think he’s still neutral.
Yeah, that jumped out at me, too. And it was only in the linked local story, not the national one. I wonder why. It’s almost as if there’s a certain narrative that might be undermined by its inclusion.
Not long ago, when the topic of global warming came up (despite my best efforts to avoid it), I used Buffalo as an example. As in, “How many people move to Phoenix, or Las Vegas, as compared to the number of people moving to Buffalo, New York? It’s almost as if mitigating the effects of heat is easier than mitigating the effects of cold.”
I would say the opposite, burning stuff much simpler than a.c.
The real problem isn’t the weather, it’s the governmental climate.
Yeah, I think the “appeal” of southern/hotter climes is a bit overstated myself.
Was in FLA in October and the same temps we get here were way less comfortable. 80s-90 here are no big deal, out there it was bothersome. When I was a kid, we never had a/c and didn’t miss it at all.
Yeah, on the east coast you really need both temp and humidity to judge the weather on any given day.
Six people were shot, including two children, at baby shower in Chicago Saturday evening, police said.
Governor Northam sends his condolences to the four victims.
Damn… that was cold.
I like it.
It’s a Bromance!
.
I’m guessing their hookups involve beer.
Now do the liberal members of the court. How many times have they voted together?
Uffda. I had no idea Joe Biden was such a classy person.
The guy he was smearing as a drunk driver had already died when Joe and couldn’t defend himself.
That’s not even a gaffe. How’d you like to have that guy in charge of ordering drone strikes?
What an asshole. Now I’m hoping Camaro Joe gets the nomination so that can be trotted out in a debate.
Or if he wins, I hope some GOP pol invites that family to the State of the Union address.
What am I thinking? No one in the MSM would breathe a word on who that mystery family was.
I am hesitant to criticize anyone who has had their family slaughtered about they way they react. Something that catastrophic….well, you cant exactly expect sanity.
If the article is accurate, he let people go on believing the truck driver was drunk at the time. I’m gonna criticize him on that no problem.
People have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that the world is a shitty, shitty place. Horrible things happen and there isnt a goddamned thing you can do about it. That cant be. You have to have someone to blame. It has to be someone’s fault. There has to be someone you can punch back.
He probably actually believes that.
I’m not. We’re talking about a conscious decision 28 years later to slander the guy’s name in the furtherance of whatever political goal Biden had in his head at the time.
And from the description of the accident it sounds like she was distracted and drove into an intersection without right of way. If there were fault, it was probably hers.
Personally, I think it’s just an outgrowth of a career spouting bullshit. What’s one more?
This is the same attitude that brought us the people in the USSR who said things like “If Comrade Stalin only knew about these abuses, certainly he would but a stop to it.”
“Oh Biden is mistaken, surely he wouldn’t be deliberately lying. Let’s write him, I’m sure he’ll correct himself on the record.”
I’m guessing there *was* a drunk driver involved; it wasn’t the person driving the truck.
Well, we don’t know that Warren wasn’t around but we do know that she likes a brew on occasion. Coincidence?
It’s National Beer Day.
Good thing I bought a bottle of Evan Williams last night
So what you are saying is Sunday Funday.
I have bourbon in my tea right now. I will have beer later.
*Looks at clock. Looks at vodka bottle.*
/Looks at beer cellar
/Looks at on call schedule
/Looks at 0600 flight tomorrow morning
After I’m done my tea, I’m going to use my leaf blower to get started on my spring yard cleaning. Then I’m heading out for lunch to a new brewpub in the area. Then back home to get stuff done for work.
It’s the first nice weekend of the year (temps in the mid-60’s yesterday, 70’s today), and I’m stuck within 15 minutes of internet access. I would have liked to get the first bike ride to a local brewery in, but that’s not happening. Already looking like we’ll be back in the 50’s next weekend. Oh well, the 17th, I’ll be warmer climes.
Tea done, time to work in the yard.
It’s getting cloudy here. There is supposed to be rain later today, and we’ll have a few days of rain according to the long term forecast. Yuck.
I’m on my way to the San Diego airport right now in a nice Selam Transportation sedan.
Finished packing the final items today, had time for a quick shot of Tito’s (I keep it in the fridge), and am ready for others to drive for the rest of the week, including the airline pilots.
Woot!
I’m so happy that Trump has been doing massive deregulation.
After he’s done deregulating the business sectors he operates in (that’s why he ran for President, in the first place), maybe he’ll get around to deregulating you.
Soon the financial services industry will be one vast ocean of loan sharks.
+1 tax breaks for movie industry
+1 tax breaks for peanut industry
+1 contracts for Halliburton
etc. etc.
They all do it.
We’re beating this dead horse again?
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/437659-five-things-to-watch-in-trump-tax-return-fight
Oh, right, you all fucked up about ‘mah Russia’ and now you need to continue the Orange Man Bad narrative.
I wish he would just tell them to go fuck themselves instead of this blathering about “audits”.
Taxpayer funded opposition research.
This and the other 82 investigations by the Democrat Congress.
“Gilbert police are hoping to identify the person caught on camera. They also encourage you to lock your doors and windows when you are asleep or away from home.”
Nice way of saying ‘you should move. We don’t like the sound of this’.
Oddly, that town is apparently the largest Mormon community outside of Salt Lake City. Nonetheless, the big grocery stores do an amazing business in liquor.
Is there a Nilbog street?
Mormons are the most polite breaker-and-enterers.
It is known.
They steal your jewelry but do your dishes and laundry?
Any Glibs in the Tampa area?
I got press ganged at work into going to a conference this week in St. Pete’s Beach (W-F). Could probably find a way to meet for a libation or two if anyone is interested.
Lucky bastard. Looks like the last big Snownami is headed in Thursday.
It’s time for winter to go the fuck away.
I’m going to be in Dunedin (~ 20 miles north of St. Pete Beach) Tuesday night. Something like 8 brewpubs in their little downtown.
Buttigieg fever hits New Hampshire
I just liked the headline.
Should I be concerned about the vector that carries it?
Are New Hampshirians aware of his desire to make their votes worthless?
Thank goodness I’m vaccinated.
The other, OTHER white meat:
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/an-everglades-record-largest-female-python-captured-in-big-cypress
It’s never open season on invasive species. The fuckin’ state has to figure out a way to get money out of it.
“Feral hogs are unprotected, exotic, non-game animals. Therefore, they may be taken by any means or methods at any time of year. There are no seasons or bag limits, however a hunting license and landowner permission are required to hunt them.”
https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/nuisance/feral_hogs/
WE have a stupid season here in LA. They recently loosened it up a bit so we can hunt them at night.
I would rather see “Wanted dead or alive” posters year round.
I had to buy a pig tag yesterday. I have no idea why it is required. It’s not like the state does anything for the money and they are an invasive species, so no need to worry about the tragedy of the commons.
Orange man bad
The Trump administration wants up to two years to find potentially thousands of children who were separated from their families at the border before a judge halted the practice last year, a task that it says is more laborious than previous efforts because the children are no longer in government custody.
The Justice Department said in a court filing late Friday that it will take at least a year to review about 47,000 cases of unaccompanied children taken into government custody between July 1, 2017 and June 25, 2018 — the day before U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw halted the general practice of splitting families. The administration would begin by sifting through names for traits most likely to signal separation — for example, children under 5.
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Sheer volume makes the job different than identifying children who were in custody at the time of the judge’s June order, Jonathan White, a commander of the U.S. Public Health Service and Health and Human Services’ point person on family reunification, said in an affidavit.
White, whose work has drawn strong praise from the judge, would lead the effort to identify additional families on behalf of Health and Health and Human Services with counterparts at Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement. Dr. Barry Graubard, a statistics expert at the National Cancer Institute, developed a system to flag for early attention those most likely to have been separated.
Say what you like about the Nazis, they kept meticulous records. They’d know where those children could be found.
“the general practice of splitting families.”
They just cant stop lying.
*clicks link*
Oh fuck. Time magazine? Of course *laughs*
Why is there 0% blame placed on the parents who chose to bring their children on a dangerous, illegal journey into a foreign country?
Empathy?
And from the description of the accident it sounds like she was distracted and drove into an intersection without right of way. If there were fault, it was probably hers.
If that guy hadn’t been drunk, he could have avoided her.
It would be funny if this story from the Ukraine was true.
I’d love to see the Deep State machinations pulled out into the public for everyone to see.
Know why I’ve grown weary of everything?
Nothing will happen.
Just like this cockhead Trudeau won’t be held to account for his indiscretions, neither will that twat or any Democrat who pulled this stunt.
The Peter Zeihan video I linked yesterday might interest you – given his opinions on Canadian politics (I take it a major shitstorm is brewing up there).
Which video?
Peter Schweitzer and Jon Miller have done a lot of work on Biden helping his son get contracts and investments from foreign governments that Joe was dealing with while VP. It’s documented and corrupt as hell.
That’s because he has never had a real job lady.
“He knows what it’s like to not have money.”
Yeah, me and 99.9999999% of the population of the world too. So what?
You are not in a position to be able to steal from others and give the money to that lady so you don’t count.
the world is a shitty, shitty place. Horrible things happen and there isn’t a goddamned thing you can do about it.
Exactly. The lust for large government is an outgrowth of the feminine urge to eliminate all risk and the masculine urge to create structure. The reason there are no female libertarians is that almost all women want something to protect them from everything.
Airbags and inoculation have ruined us: if you don’t live to 100, it is certainly someone’s fault; there oughta be a law, and there definitely will be a lawsuit.
almost all women want something to protect them from everything
Certainly true of SP, but that “something” has a magazine of .380 rounds in it.
FirstWife had (still has, Sonny reports) a 9 in her purse and a .38 (I bought) in the bedstand.
NewWife can shoot but would rather be gang-raped on the town square than let me so much as buy her a little something to keep in her 4Runner.
How about pepper spray? Better than nothing.
There’s some advice afloat about not giving a weak-hearted person a weapon that can be readily taken and then used on them.
I’m more worried about my emotional responsibility of having given her a false sense of security when I damn well knew what the correct answer should have been. As things stand, her choices and the foreseeable consequences reflect no counsel from me.
This is why “X’s law” is such a bad idea. The perpetrator is already being punished or removed from society but the survivors endlessly, desperately need something, someone to punish because they cant right the wrong. They can never get back what they have lost. So, they end up punishing everyone. It is understandable. It is also understandable that everyone else would enable them to do so in a society of empathetic individuals. Those laws are an exercise in poor judgement based on emotion.
Buttglug is a gay “intellectual”. Just ask him.
*Something something if you have to tell people…
Is his name really pronounced “booty judge?”
I prefer Booty-gag.
Love the smiley faces on the intruder’s notes. I wonder if it’s a family member trying to scare the others into better security. Kind of like George Bluth and his one-armed buddy.
They got him on video the second time and didn’t recognize him.
Ah, the middle kid strikes again.
Buttglug (currently on Meet the Press) is a fabulously prissy, sanctimonious little twat.
And will be the 2020 nominee. Just watch.
So the parties really have switched and the dems are now the stupid party?
They’re both the stupid party.
No shit. The R’s will figure out a way to out-stupid them.
I am so angry at the R’s for how they have fucked things up in the last two years I can hardly see straight.
I think that it is very telling that they had both houses and the presidency and did none of the things they always pander to their base about.
Exactly. Instead many of them fought a president of their own party tooth and nail. How many of them said they would rather see President Hillary than a guy that promised many or most of their own professed agenda?
Goddamned worthless lying sacks of shit.
Apparently, the city he is mayor of is not doing so well.
And will be the 2020 nominee. Just watch.
I’m not prepared to bet against it.
He’s perfect for people who believe that “common sense gun control” and “climate science” is a thing.
true of SP, but that “something” has a magazine of .380 rounds in it.
Something stylish, with the initials “P P K” I hope.
I has one. Its fun.
“Bond, SP Bond”
The SPy Who Loved Me
Someday I will buy one. But I have at least three pistols ahead of it.
This is why I don’t go to baby showers anymore.
I’ve had to go to a few, and each one was torture. A bunch of women chatting in increasingly high pitched voices and fawning over baby clothes and stuff “Oh how precious! That is so darling! No one in the world has ever had a baby before!”
The minute Target came out with online gift registry was my the official end to my attendance.
Thank you, free markets.
“A bunch of women chatting in increasingly high pitched voices”
Welcome to my holidays:)
“The minute Target came out with online gift registry was my the official end to my attendance.”
This is my wife’s experience as well. Great minds and big boobs….
http://nhne-pulse.org/study-women-with-large-breasts-are-smarter/
It’s not that women with large breasts are more intelligent. It’s that women with large breasts make men less intelligent.
Can confirm. Borderline catatonic in my case.
That logic checks out.
🙂
I knew there was a reason I like you Hayek.
*Wishes wishes wishes the next funeral I have to attend is my own*
I’m immune to funerals after having run the AV booth st church for then for years.
Look, visit me when I’m on my deathbed while I can appreciate it. When I’m gone it’s a bit late.
“Shall not be infringed” is pretty fuzzy. It leaves plenty of wiggle room for gun control. No nukes, for example. And, once we’ve got that clarification, we can really get down to business.
Also, “You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater.”
What if Walking Tall is playing?
https://youtu.be/juMRl4G-ReI
I like to say that setting aside the logistical barriers to buying and storing a nuclear weapon, if you think that a nuclear weapon and twenty additional rounds in a magazine are equivalent, you’re an idiot.
What’s interesting to note is that the 4th Amendment mentions “unreasonable search and seizure”, so the Framers were familiar with the idea that some rights were not absolute. But there’s no such language in the 2nd Amendment; it just says “shall not be infringed”. If they wanted “reasonable restrictions” on gun rights, why wouldn’t they write “shall not be unreasonably infringed?”
re: Chris Davis. His bats, they are sick. He needs to Jobu to come, take fear from bats.
Airbags and inoculation have ruined us
We won the War Against Running With Scissors, and this is what it got us.
Take off the labels for a week and let nature take its course, I say.
Why are law licenses only suspended? You’d think that reducing supply is a primary goal of every cartel.
Woohoo!
The website findlaw.com says Montana has some of the most “permissive” gun laws in the nation. They write:
A Montana resident does not need a registration, license, or permit to purchase or possess firearms.
A background check is not required when buying a firearm. Any person can go into a Montana retailer and purchase a firearm as long as he/she is not intoxicated or under the influence of a controlled substance. The only form of possession that is regulated in the state applies to children under the age of 14.
The Giffords Law Center rates states based on the strength or weakness of their gun laws. This center gives New York an A- and Montana an F.
I personally have seen people in camo shooting guns at a public shooting facility. It’s a scary, dangerous place. Stay away.
“A background check is not required when buying a firearm.”
Aaaaaand there it is. Gun grabbers are liars. Every goddamned one of them. Lying. Sacks. Of. Shit.
Leftist Power-grabbing Method:
1. Claim that something is “completely unregulated” and have the media run fake stories backing this up
2. Propose laws
3. Repeat until the government controls the entire thing
It’s the same strategy they’ve used with the healthcare and banking industries (and many more).
I have a client who has an FFL. I’m sure he got it just for shits and giggles.
My local Sportsman’s Warehouse USED to have a sign on their door asking customers not to carry in the store. Wonder where it went?
A background check is not required when buying a firearm. Any person can go into a Montana retailer and purchase a firearm
I fucking wish.
*I didn’t even see that, at first. What a grotesque barefaced lie.
I watched The Highwaymen last night. Really enjoyed it all, but my favorite scene was when the Costner character went into the gun store and came out with an arsenal. No background check, no locks on the guns. Just products for sale, just as God intended.
Great scene.
Yeah, that was great. Especially after just reading about the 1894 Winchester on this site.
Gun Jesus reviewing and shooting a Monitor.
https://youtu.be/Jb6C9ASylmQ
I want one, but not for $70K.
I think there was some effort to exempt guns made in Montana from federal gun laws. Although I doubt it succeeded.
They are made of metals mined in other states. Oiled with hydrocarbons from wells in other states. The stamp used to emboss them was manufactured outside of Montana. In fact, the air inside the gun store blew in from Washington or Oregon.
I recall reading about AZ considering a similar bill along those lines regarding NFA items. Thats a hell of a task though to build nearly anything entirely within a state’s borders.
What about the ink in the pen you use to fill out the NICS form? What about that?
You seem a little too good at this bureaucrat thing.
Are you wearing a wire!?
Suthenboy is Leonard Read.
Constitutional carry has passed the legislature twice and has been vetoed by governors Schweitzer and Bullock.
Ya, that jumped out at me. Pretty sure that one is Federal.
Like Idaho, a background check is not required if you have a CCP. You’ve already gone through a more in-depth background check. Paperwork is still required.
You’re too kind. Little rapscallions, the lot of them!
I love that word. I really need to try harder to occasionally work that into conversation.
That article about northern cities being climate refuges reads like a high school term paper.
Were I teaching HS and someone turned that in I would fail them.
It didn’t even mention Polar Vortex’s. What about Polar Vortex Super Storms of Death? #NoSafePlace
Vortices is a perfectly cromulent word.
damn
“Yes it’s so odd how several journo-lists magically tweeted out the same out of context year old story at around the exact same time almost as though…”
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1114556054002634752
“Lmao “Actually MS-13 members who stab a person 100 times, behead them, then tear out their heart are good” isn’t the convincing argument you think it is”
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1114566600936644609
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened shortly after new polls showing strong support for Trump among Hispanics.
Or AOC speaking like she is black, and then making the absurd claim that’s how Hispanics talk.
Defending MS-13
Taking away all electricity/ heating/ cooling/ transportation/ paint/ tennis shoes/ cement/ lumber/ toilet paper/ fabrics/ glass/ etc
tranny bathrooms
trashing the constitution and civil rights
trashing national sovereignty
fuck you deplorables
segregation
too many kinds of deodorant
I dont see how they can lose.
Yeah, I think Trump is the least of the DNCs problems. But they keep beating that dead horse.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-russia-novichok/uk-novichok-victim-told-all-would-have-died-if-russia-was-behind-salisbury-attack-idUSKCN1RJ0DC
Got to love the Russian defense on that one…
I am torn. On the one hand I am tempted to say ‘yeah that’s probably true’, and on the other the Russians manage to get everything almost right. Almost.
“Russians manage”
Ironic use of language, that!
Mother Russia is arguably the richest territory on Earth; Venezuela is top ten. Their perpetually abysmal standards of living should be the most conspicuous argument for free markets and small governments ever, the epitome of irrefutable evidence.
Hear hear.
Stolen and tweeted.
Virtue Signalling, Level maximum Derp:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-australia-electric-car/dutch-adventurer-finishes-three-year-electric-car-journey-in-australia-idUSKCN1RJ04O
“I went on a three year vacation in Australia.”
“Ahem, I mean… Save the environment!”
It took three years to drive across australia in that hunk-o-shit? I am not sure that is the endorsement he thinks it is.
Electric cars are the dumbest idea of modern times but then stupid MoFos are stupid.
Slutty Sunday beckons.
https://thechive.com/2019/04/07/start-your-sunday-with-some-beauties-31-photos/
25 wins the Nerdy Hot In Lingerie award.
You made me look, I agee!
Scary shit. TW: TOS
“Santana Adams of Milton, West Virginia, has been charged with falsely accusing a man of trying to kidnap her 5-year-old daughter at the mall.”
https://reason.com/blog/2019/04/07/santana-adams-kidnapping-mom-mall
Jesus. That’s some grade a crazy.
The woman told police . . . a short time later . . . he was taken into custody
Anyone else struggle to find probable cause in there?
Dude probably didn’t even know his rights, visiting from another country.
I thought about that a bit, but then I thought about my own likely prospects:
a/ violently confronted by rent-a-cop
b/ smashes rent-a-cop in place
c/ arrested by real cops for smashing rent-a-cop
d/ spends $10k in legal
Cops are so fucking stupid. If party one says party two is a mass murder, swat teams will be deployed, guns will discharge projectiles, “perps” will be dispatched and it will all be within policy. Cops can’t be expected to determine for themselves if a crime is being committed. Common sense is too much to ask for. I got reported for “kidnapping” my kid, because he’s black and I dragged him out of the store by the wrist. Guns drawn, vehicle stop, “prove he’s yours” bullshit. Kid was three. Everything he did was against his will, all day and night. Fucking retards.
“For the last few years, there has been a string of moms going on Facebook, breathlessly claiming that they were out at the mall (or Ikea, or Target), when suddenly they realized that they were being stalked by a kidnapper clearly planning to snatch their kids and sex-traffic them.
The evidence is usually something like, “I saw a guy staring at my baby.” Or, “I saw the couple in one aisle and then I went down a different aisle and there they were again,” or, “I looked outside and there was a van with its door open!”
Inevitably, the mom congratulates herself on having had the wherewithal to figure out what was going on just in time, and bravely thwart the heinous crime by, uh, staring the guys down. Then the mom usually says something like, “if it happened to me it could happen to you,” without reminding readers that in fact, nothing happened. No one grabbed a kid. No one was sex-trafficked. (The head of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, David Finkelhor, says he knows of zero cases of a child kidnapped from a parent in public and sex trafficked.) It’s all in the moms’ heads.
Yet they get thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of approving shares and comments on social media.
Here’s one story. Here’s another, and another, and another. Here’s one that went mega-viral a few years back. You get the idea. It’s a panic, with a twist: adulation.”
It’s been going on for more than a few years. I remember reading these stories back in the email days, way before Facebook.
Other than the woods I dont like to get out much but when I do it reminds me why I dont like to get out much. Thanks Count, you just reminded me without me having to actually get out.
Well, eventually, you are going to need more sugar and dog food.
I know….dammit.
We dont have grocery delivery in these here parts. Yet.
When I go out people stare at me too but its usually ’cause my pants are unzipped.
he wherewithal to figure out what was going on just in time, and bravely thwart the heinous crime
The gaps between what people believe and what they see is astounding: the produce and the process are both pure balderdash. The realm of see something say something and other would-be citizenship tropes are astounding. We are at a time when primary fears are dreamt up whole cloth.
Rational Observer: why are you all constantly whistling?
Mommies United Internationale: to keep the elephants away!
RO: there are no elephants anywhere on this continent
MUI: see how well it’s working!
These stories remind me a lot of the alien and ghost stories people tell each other.
Uffda. This is a fear of mine because I am like catnip to kids. They love me. (Probably because I am as immature as they are). I never think before hand about this insanity and will someday stick my tongue out at some kid to make him laugh and have Mommy Dearest call the cops on me. Then like Don says, things will go south.
The big fear I have is finding a kid in the store separated from his parents. It has happened and I asked someone to help, like call the management. Never, never take the child by the hand ’cause that could lead to serious ramifications.
Possible penatlies are a $500 fine and sixth months in jail.
The stakes need to be higher for bullshit like this. The poor bastard who was falsely accused was looking at a lot longer time in the joint if the bullshit hadn’t become so apparent.
Same with the fake rape charges. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that anyone who accuses a person of rape in an alternative justice system like college without also filing with the cops should be instantly convicted of slander.
Well, that’s your problem right there.
“The ‘Trans’ Child as Experimental Guinea Pig
Standards of evidence have been discarded, and children are being altered for life
Last year Jeanette Jennings, as part of the reality-TV show I Am Jazz, threw her 17-year-old child, Jazz, a “farewell-to-penis party.” Guests cheered as the teenager hacked at a phallus-shaped cake with a knife, shouting, “Let’s cut it off.” The party may have been a bit contrived even by reality-show standards, but the subsequent operation was all too real.
In any other context, we might consider the drug-induced stunting of a child’s penis, followed by its surgical removal, to be mutilation. But in an era of culturally and legally enshrined transgenderism, it’s not just permissible; it’s entertainment.
Some American girls have had double mastectomies as young as 13. Planned Parenthood operates on an “informed consent” basis — meaning that young people are briefed on “both the risks and the benefits” of cross-sex hormones and do not require a letter of referral from a therapist. The organization’s website states: “If you are eligible, Planned Parenthood staff may be able to start hormone therapy as early as the first visit.” Meanwhile, in 2015 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $5.7 million taxpayer-funded grant for a five-year study on “the impact of early medical treatment in transgender youth.” According to a progress report, the minimum age for the cross-sex-hormones cohort was decreased from 13 to eight.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/04/22/the-trans-child-as-experimental-guinea-pig/
https://twitter.com/madeleinekearns/status/1113829067860606980
When they do actually get lined up against the wall I wont say a word, lift a finger or shed a tear.
God, that’s a tough read. I’m sure Josef Mengele would be thrilled to know there’s an entire movement in the “enlightened” West based on psychological manipulation and medical mutilation.
“God, that’s a tough read.”
I refuse to read it. It’s sunday and spring. The pollen is bad enough. I dont need smoke in my eyes on top of that.
In regards to climate change I can already the effects it is having on the real estate market for coastal California. Prices are dropping like a stone. For example, this palatial mansion built in the 1950’s in a modest neighborhood that sits squarely on one of the foggiest stretches of coastline in the country could be had for only perhaps two hundred thousand above asking price. The deals just don’t stop coming here as people flee to the temperate climes of Buffalo.
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Pacifica/204-Shoreview-Ave-94044/home/584210
What’s nuts is that the home sold for mere $620k in 2012. Add 7 years, you’re getting 140% more than paid. Wow.
The odds are pretty good that whoever buys it will own a Prius and care deeply about climate change. While having the Pacific Ocean a few feet from their 1.7 million dollar investment. It boggles the mind.
We bought a house that same year and have seen a similar jump in value. It’s constant temptation to sell and move states, but I have three young kids and the only family in this country all live within a few miles.
That kind of return is typical where I live in L.A., also.
The magic of restrictive zoning.
That, indeed, is a large part of it. Right now I am going through the process of getting permits to put an addition on our house. It’s going to cost an extra couple hundred grand because of all the bullshit that the city makes you go through. It will be a one year process just to get the permits and they will cost about 25 grand (yes, you read that right). I’m not even doing anything that is out of character for the neighborhood. Before you even apply for a permit you have to give all neighbors a notice and have a meeting where they can see your plans. We did it a couple months back and the two nosy old biddies who live in the apartment building next door came over to bitch about how loud my kids were and how loud the construction would be.
I was talking to a builder last week who has done work in Telluride. He told me on one house he had to have his guys cut out plywood trees, paint them green and stand them up so the neighbor could approve of the landscaping because the new home would be blocking his previous view.
Ha! I can believe it. Most of my family here is involved in the building trades and I have lots of stories of that kind of insanity. Typical of progs that they love to scream about “affordable housing” while doing everything possible to make it more costly.
It’d be vastly less expensive and much quicker for me to knock our house and build a new one, but I do not have that option here.
“Affordable housing” – not here, over there, silly!
L.A. has addressed the homeless issue….by raising taxes on new home builds. Then, for good measure, they mandated solar for all new homes. As if new homes have any bearing on shiftless drunks who want to live in tents on sidewalks and beg all day for beer money. I don’t believe the problem is lack of housing, although it certainly is artificially unaffordable for many, but they do. If you think we need more housing, why would you intentionally increase prices?
“Yes, we need more affordable housing, right there next to that homeless navigation center, far away from us.”
“So when Repairman emerged from that room emotionally shredded and totally confused, I felt prepared to walk him through the horror he’d just seen.
That night, in the quiet video store, we discussed the video and the reality of abortion (I suspect someone left Silent Scream in the VCR and either intentionally or unintentionally had forgotten to remove it before drop off). He was so disturbed at the sight of the baby screaming in agony, and its attempts to get away from the instruments inserted into the women’s body, that he immediately was repulsed by the idea of abortion. He explained that he’d always been pro-abortion but that really, he hadn’t thought much about the issue.
The most profound moment came when Repairman said, “If more people saw that video, there would be no abortion. No one would do that to a baby!”
I have been thinking a lot about Repairman and his reaction this week. That incident in the video store almost 30 years ago helps me better understand why Unplanned scares so many in the abortion industry. The movie might just do what Repairman predicted: change minds.
It also explains why there is a well-coordinated effort afoot to marginalize the movie and to make it disappear. For instance, several prominent cable networks — Lifetime, Hallmark Channel, HGTV, the Travel Channel, the Cooking Channel, and the Food Network — have all refused to allow ads for the movie, saying it’s due to its “sensitive nature.” Meanwhile, movies about rape, kidnappings, incest, mass murder, and child abuse are all given ad space.
On the movie’s opening weekend, Twitter even suspended the movie’s Twitter account and then gave some completely convoluted reason for the move. But we know why. Despite this media blackout, Unplanned made a strong debut on its opening weekend (meanwhile, Disney’s star-studded movie Dumbo, which opened the same weekend, flopped).
Unplanned is a major inconvenience to those who want to keep information about the abortion industry quiet. Planned Parenthood knows it must keep people in the dark if it is going to survive. But this strategy won’t work in the information age. This small-budget, independent movie is a modern-day Silent Scream, and, like my repairman, the world is about to wake up from its daze.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/abortion-debate-unplanned-movie-will-change-minds/
https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1113982092227088384
I see our education system is working swimmingly.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2019/04/06/the-rise-in-unhappiness-among-the-young/
Because Orange Man is burning the earth and murdering POCs!
Um, say what?
I could attend a daily 3 hour lecture on all things gay and I assure you that I’m not going to walk out of the lecture hall with an urge to suck a dick.
You have not met the salesmen I have.
Why would such a skilled salesman waste his time on that when he could get you to purchase a timeshare?
How about if it came with a big free flat screen TV just for watching 3 hours of gay videos? And just the tip?
“Sell me this pen … is”
Chicago says it’s prepared to sue after ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett misses deadline to repay $130K
I am betting he doesnt have it. I bet he is flat broke.
Low six figures an episode just doesn’t stretch like it used to.
In the absence of a conviction, any competant lawyer would argue that forcing a person to pay the police for investigating someone is a violation of due process and a huge power grab.
“We tried and failed to convict you. Now pay us for putting you through the wringer.”
Yeah, I don’t see this going anywhere other than wasting yet more taxpayer dollars. Sorry, Chicago – you got played.
Except they didn’t try. A grand jury indicted which isp robably close to a lock that there is a preponderance fo the evidence that Jussie done it.
“Low six figures an episode just doesn’t stretch like it used to.”
No such thing as a bottomless pit.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3bZaMUXoAAKL_i.jpg
LOLOLOLOLOL
Sleeping with cats.
Cheetas are cool. It is the only big cat that doesnt naturally prey on people. Easy to tame, easy to make friends with.
The NA big cats dont prey on people either, normally. But they dont tame well. Cougars dont tame at all.
The Egyptians trained cheetahs for hunting.
“Cougars don’t tame well.”
I … aah, too easy.
“too easy”
That’s the best part about cougars.
Also, they prefer to do the taming.
Way to pick up the spare!
*taps mic*
Is this thing on?
That’s not a microphone!
What time did the tarot cards say your next article would be published?
…actually there is something in there about things not going according to schedule/plan.
So it is real!
Tarot is every bit as effective as psychotherapy.
That I don’t doubt.
Btw, my Tarot deck is a Smith Waite set that does in fact honor the Artist, as opposed to the card company, Ryder…,.
Excellent!
I want to frame them, they are beautiful
The Overlords are sleeping……,..
Is OMWC prepared to sink to hanging out with us lowly Burger King patrons?
Can I get a 100% beef, 0% Burger King sandwich?
No thanks.
I drive down the road and see cows in the pasture….I salivate. Sorry OMWC and SP. I do.
Nothing competes with the smell and taste of seared beef. Ok, maybe buffalo.
Amen.
These were grilled for lunch today.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/zu9xmEJWRziI6wejO7lXEQ.g_0blcbDuYZfoM6BI-4txN
What’s impossible is that any actual BK burger will look as good as the ones in their pictures.
There’s a reason God made cows slow.
In other news, Canadian children are stupid.
“Today, many kids in #Toronto skipped school for yet another #schoolstrike4climate. Check out what 9-year-old Serafina Bennett had to say at Toronto’s first #FridaysForFuture protest from Mar. 15. What do you think? #climatechange #meme #climatestrike #kidmeme”
https://twitter.com/CBCKidsNews/status/1114247303538335744
Well, they are easily suggestible by manipulative adults. Not necessarily stupid.
One thing I’ve learned so far as a parent is that my daughter is smart and perceptive but just as vulnerable to dealing with imperfect or bad information as anyone else. She’ll come to perfectly rational, reasonable conclusions that are wrong just because she’s starting with bad data. And although she has a healthy skepticism she still relies on what she hears from adults. If I spent a year telling her something that was catastrophic, imminent, and ultimately unverifiable I could easily see her making very rational choices on the basis of spurious information.
#schoolstrike4climate sounds about as obnoxious as kars4kids.
When either my son or I wants to tease my wife, all we have to do is start singing “K..A..R..S.. Kars for Kids!”.She absolutely loses it and starts screaming “Stop! Shut up!!!”
I’ve heard that goddamn song so many times I’m immune to it now. I used to jump for the remote every time that came on, now I don’t even notice it.
I want to hear “Cars Against Kids”.
Oh, man, when I’m in the car with my wife we’ve both gotten to the point where we can anticipate when that commercial is about to play and instinctively reach for the volume, bumping each others hands like two outfielders running for the same ball.
You mean to tell me that children take every excuse to get out of school? Weird.
We had so much climate change in Minnesoda this year that the Minnesoda legislature had to pass the “Snow Relief Act” to allow schools to not have to make up all the snow days that the kids missed.
SEE? SEE?
Climate Change is responsible for children not being
indoctrinatededucated!I hope the teachers strike because the kids are losing 3 days of their valuable free education. Sure, make the kids suffer. The days missed may have been the difference between learning to code and folding shirts at Target. Won’t no one think of the kids? Those days missed will appear on their permanent record, too.
Our district’s budget is based on kids in seats on a day to day basis. They freak out over every absence. They would totally strike over a three day closure because of the money loss.
The replies are good.
From the NRO tranny story:
“At age sixteen, my daughter ran away and reported to the Department of Child Services that she felt unsafe living with me because I refused to refer to her using male pronouns or her chosen male name. Although the Department investigated and found she was well cared for, they forced me to meet with a trans-identified person to “educate” me on these issues. Soon after, without my knowledge, a pediatric endocrinologist taught my daughter — a minor — to inject herself with testosterone. My daughter then ran away to Oregon, where state law allowed her — at the age of seventeen, without my knowledge or consent — to change her name and legal gender in court, and to undergo a double mastectomy and a radical hysterectomy. My once beautiful daughter is now nineteen years old, homeless, bearded, in extreme poverty, sterilized, not receiving mental health services, extremely mentally ill, and planning a radial forearm phalloplasty [a surgical procedure that removes part of her arm to construct a fake penis].”
As I said last night; history will not be kind to these people.
*shudder* How does she plan to pay for that?
The state shall provide.
Yeah, probably. Unbelievable.
“Despite themultitude of free flaps that have been used and pub-
lished (frequently as a case report), the radial forearm is
universally considered as the golden standard in penile
reconstruction [3,7–11]. However, even this gold-stan-
dard technique does not meet the ideal requirements for
penile reconstruction, and the patients undergoing this
procedure still suffer a significant morbidity in both the
donor site and the recipient site. In addition to this, there
is an excessively high incidence of complications and
difficulties with urination, with sexual function and with
the aesthetic aspect of the penis.”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226229352_Radial_forearm_phalloplasty_A_review_of_81_cases
I think I don’t want to know any more details of this procedure than that.
Huh, so you can’t make a functional, normal-looking penis using an arm? Go figure.
They could just stitch a mushroom on, couldn’t they?
what about a baby’s arm?
https://youtu.be/nVRCznRsCgY?t=20
Huh? Clearly that operation doesn’t cost much. It only costs an arm. Not an arm AND a leg.
When someone asks you ‘what is evil?’ Show them this quote.
a radial forearm phalloplasty [a surgical procedure that removes part of her arm to construct a fake penis].
WTF?
Write the daughter out of your will.
Someone needs a-killin’
The wokeness of telling morbidly obese women they are beautiful and shouldn’t change for anyone and the wokeness of telling teens they need surgery to be true to themselves really is a display of how effective newspeak is.
Well, beauty is subjective, and fat people can get surgery that actually will make them thinner, so there are at least two important differences.
The future is in bionic penises.
Paging Suthen
Santa!
Now imagine how that critter would behave inside your house.
LOL. Every year my wife goes on a crusade to caulk up gaps in the basement to try to keep the mice from coming in when the weather gets cold. I try to explain to her, how tiny a crack a mouse can fit through, but she refuses to believe it.
I need to show her this.
Can anyone recommend a good, secure email service?
I’ve got a year-long contract with Lavabit that’s halfway done but that damned thing is about useless. No email client I have used on my PC will authenticate correctly with it, including all of the ones shown in the “tutorial” section of their website. I’ve gone back and forth with their support about it and they say that even though my password was long enough, it was shorter than the magic number of 24 which they mention nowhere at all, and so this somehow resulted in longer decryption times during authentication, which would register as a failure. After five of these the account locks for 24 hours. At any rate, even after I changed the password to a longer one it’s still happening, and now support won’t get back to me. So, you know, fuck Lavabit.
Basically I just want something that’s reasonably good on encryption and privacy but that’s, you know, usable. I need IMAP support and I’d like it to not cost an arm and a leg. I’ve been looking at Protonmail but I hear mixed things.
AOL? I hear you get a free coaster….
Those actually suck for coasters. The condensation slides off onto your tabletop.
I use Protonmail.com
Just signed up for an account. So far so good, it works with Mailbird, which is more than I can say for Lavabit.
I am just at a loss as to why people don’t trust the news media.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45646/far-left-activists-democrats-media-spread-ryan-saavedra
This deception was already floated by the Dems and debunked last year. They really are shameless.
At least when I selectively edit what trump says I have the decency to have a cartoon character say it.
The defending comments on Twitter are even worse. Along the lines even if he was referring to Ms-13 he is still claiming all immigrants are Ms-13. The mental gymnastics they go through must cause a lot of pain.
Lol. I was cleaning the pistols (not a euphemism) prior to next week’s range outing with my boss. While I was cleaning the M9, I was amazed at how non-gunked up it was. I started wondering if maybe the open slide or the falling block breech kept residue out of the thing, then I realized, I’ve only had it two weeks. I was comparing a gun with 200 rounds through it to one that has 1810. Yes I’m a bit anal about keeping records of such things.
I…uh…ok. Are you sure it was 1810? Not 1811?
I just estimate how many K of rounds I averaged per week. One to five K for 30 years. The prior ten years I couldn’t afford that many so rounded to 5H to 1K.
Yes, the range I shoot at only lets you use ammo you have bought there, so it’s easy to keep track of, and since I have’t had any dud primers, it’s a nice round number.
If I can get a membership somewhere, I’ll start buying cheap bulk ammo and the likelihood of a number not ending in zero will increase.
Or one of these days you could come down here and walk all day, never see another human and shoot as you please.
*I dont like ranges. People I dont know have guns and their rules are stifling.
“As sea levels rise…”
They’ve been rising for thousands of years.
Yep, about 20K. More dramatically for the last 15K. The rising has slowed quite a bit lately. Looking at historical photos of shorelines they are indistinguishable now from 150ish years ago.
*indistinguishable from the beginning of the industrial revolution…you know…the big jump in CO2 emissions.
18K years ago, where my house is in Central Ohio was covered with a mile thick glacier.
I have some AGW-hyped family, and I use that argument on them.
“Where you’re standing right now would be under a glacier 15,000 years ago. Why else do you think everything from Dayton north is flat as a pancake? Or why there’s a suburb named……MORAINE?”
Manhattan Island keeps growing.
The Boeing scandal is an indictment of Trump’s corporate America
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/07/boeing-737-max-regulation-corporate-america
There is growing alarm in the US that Capitol Hill’s bonfire of the regulations has led to hundreds of deaths. It may be a turning point – ehm the plane was designed way before trump
dulgent free market economics, Republican libertarianism and a political system in hock to corporate lobbying has just contributed to killing 356 innocent people. – I am constantly fascinated how the left sees free market libertarianism everywhere cause i sure as hell cant see it. It is strange how different people can look at the same thing and see completely different…
If only Boeing had the fail-safes present in the National Health System!
I was watching Milton Friedman vids yesterday (now can’t find the one) where he said something like: ‘big Government opens itself up to being ran by corporations and is why small government is desirable.’ Might have been Thomas Sowell. I don’t remember, I was really hung over.
“It is strange how different people can look at the same thing and see completely different…”
Most people see what they want to see. Their world is what they wish it was.
All people. There is no human free of cognitive bias due to the very neuro-psychological structure of our brains and minds.
Agreed, but without question some more than others. A little bit of intellectual honesty goes a long way.
They have a solution. Now all they need is a problem. Any problem will do.
An aircraft approved by the FAA six weeks after Trump’s inauguration, and designed before, is an indictment?
Doh! I see Pie mentioned that already.
“Climate change grifters find an innovative new way to grift.”
Has anyone ever seen an actual documented measurement of these sea level rises? Because I haven’t. Surely those must exist?
I think Ron Bailey published an article a couple of years ago showing that sea levels were rising at 0.0000001mm faster than normal. Panic!
It’s laughable.
https://www.livescience.com/37977-underwater-cypress-forest-discovered.html
https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180228/archaeological-site-7000-years-old-found-in-gulf-near-venice
This one is in 20 feet of water. There is at least one village site in 60 feet of water but I cant find a link to it.
Here is one under 120 feet.
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/announce/oldcity.htm
I have no doubt that sea level rise and the scrubbing of glaciers has erased most of human history.
Who the hell knows what was going on prior to the last ice age? Robert Howard’s fiction doesnt seem so far fetched as it once did.
There’s a site, if I remember correctly, that is in modern Turkey, which is 12,000 years old… Oh yeah, here it is:
Gobeki-Tepe
As usual, when they don’t know what the fuck something is, they say it’s ‘ceremonial’. For a bunch of hunter gatherers struggling against nature to survive, they sure did have a lot of time for ceremonies.
Anyway, that was during the last ice age.
What intrigues me is…what was going on before the last ice age? What were people doing then? We were here. We probably weren’t much different than we are now.
No Jesus riding dinosaur jokes please.
There is nothing new under the sun.
There are cities in Israel, more than 10,000 years old. According to paleo anthropologists, people were mobile hunter gatherers before the last ice age. There was no agriculture or permanent settlements then. I think that site in Turkey is the oldest ever discovered, but there is no evidence of permanent human habitation nearby, so hunter gatherers apparently used it as a ceremonial site, seasonally. I still wonder where they got the time so carve animals into rocks when they should have been occupied full time with being able to get enough to eat. Seeing as there was no agriculture of domesticated animals.
asks me to imagine what the landscape would have looked like 11,000 years ago, before centuries of intensive farming and settlement turned it into the nearly featureless brown expanse it is today
Ok… 11,000 years and it’s human civilization that caused the change.
There is so much we don’t understand. It’s almost like for every action there’s a reaction.
https://geographical.co.uk/nature/climate/item/2570-sea-floor-sinking-under-the-weight-of-climate-change
“‘I was quite surprised by the outcomes,’ says Thomas Frederikse who authored the study. ‘Over the last 20 years the oceans have become ~2.5 mm deeper.”
I can’t be sure, but he seems to be saying that the ocean is 2 and a half millimeters deeper over a twenty year period. That’s just under 100 thousandths of an inch, for people who didn’t grow up in Canada. I live at the ocean and It fluctuates by multiple feet over the course of a single day. The surface is unstable and constantly heaving up and down by many feet. Whatever entity claims to have noticed a sup 1/8th of an inch increase in depth is flatly lying. It’s just fucking ridiculous on it’s face.
Where are all the nations of impoverished dark skinned island dwellers, which I was ensured a decade ago, would now be under water? I can’t find anything about that now. It’s just like all of the progtard Hollywood freaks who were bragging about how great Venezuela is. Now they just disappeared, they don’t want to talk about that anymore.
Ugh. The Atlantic is spreading. The mid-Atlantic ridge is rising. The amount of water in the oceans is not constant. The amount of sediment going into the oceans, and leaving it are in constant flux. Since the peak of the last ice age the amount of ice on land is generally decreasing but not evenly…sometimes it increases. continental land masses are rising or falling depending on where you measure. The shape of the damned earth is not constant. The list goes on and on. The variables make measuring any of that shit a waste of time.
Those people are full of shit.
Them: Doom! The oceans are rising!! You must pay me!
Me: But there is no measurable increase in sea levels.
Them: That is because the sea floor is sinking!
Me: I see. Ok then. Don’t worry. The check is in the mail.
This fucking retarded article is claiming that the ocean floor is “sinking” by .003″ per year. That’s pretty much a human hair’s thickness. They claim to be able to measure the depth of the bottom of the sea accurately enough to discern a single hair’s thickness of variance. It should be ridiculed as comedy by any thinking person. Instead, it’s driving consumer choices and draconian public policy changes throughout the world. We are DOOMED!
“claiming that the ocean floor is “sinking” by .003″ per year”
Yeah, but that could become a real problem right before the sun burns up the last of it’s fuel. So you’d better be giving the scare mongers all the power they want, so they can save you in about a billion years.
Rest assured that your taxes will increase by .003% this year to support further ocean floor studies.
So what you’re saying is…we are safe from sea level rise?
2.5 millimeters over 11 years?? Am I really supposed to fucking believe that they have measurements THAT precise?
Well they are a bit more precise in calculating the gap between 1993 and 2014, so there’s that.
“…we are safe from sea level rise?”
Heh. Yep. That’s what the morons are saying.
The article is parody, right? It has to be.
Trump’s ‘pattern of cognitive decline’ alarms psychiatrists
Trump’s dad was born in one of the 57 states, not Germany. That’s why he didn’t grow up speaking Austrian.
We should be like Europe. People there get 6 weeks payed vacation every year, travel the world and get early retirement with full pay pensions. Their healthcare is free. They are so enlightened.
*grinds teeth in anticipation of paying taxes*
Fuck them. Let them starve.
We can give you that for only 60% of your income and a hefty VAT tax. We’ll also decide for you if you can have that life saving surgery, or if you just need to take a pill and die, grandpa.
People should pay for their own stuff? That’s insane!
The guy is a world-class bullshitter. If Trump believed his own patter, maybe we’d have a problem. But he doesn’t care, and he doesn’t care that you care.