Well, I’m here briefly, then off to Baltimore. Not a happy trip. But at least it will be over quickly. And then I’ll be back, hopefully without any rat stowaways in my luggage.
And we can celebrate birthdays, too! Those would include a guy from the Delta; a dyslexic general; a guy who was the perfect foil in one of my favorite silly comedies; Heroic Mulatto’s hero; the Pride of Los Angeles; a notorious high jumper; and a football player who exemplified “team first”.
On to the news.
While I always applaud someone opposing government subsidies, taking a victory lap for converting a 25,000 white collar job opportunity to a 1,500 manual labor job opportunity strikes me as a bit weird.
Every time a cop gets killed while fighting the drug war, an angel gets his wings.
Really? Now let’s see, who beat them last week…?
Now, it’s tough for me to decide who to hate the most in this story. Oh yeah, two parties that didn’t appear in the story: the union that enabled this, and the government who gave the unions this power and passed all kinds of laws forcing employers to go through these charades to get rid of a ridiculous expense.
Apparently the government is watching me taking a shit.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, that cops would lie for revenue and kicks.
Old Guy Music today is something to get me in the Christmas mood, which for my people is to hide from the vengeful goyish crowds who want to throw us down a well.
What is an eight-year-old doing in prison?
“The girl’s mother told the newspaper that her daughter already suffered from bipolar disorder, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.”
Would that disqualify her as a drug mule?
I don’t know what they are complaining about…. it isn’t like they ordered a cavity search…
“The names of the girl, her mother and father are being withheld by The Virginian-Pilot because she is a minor and because of the trauma she experienced.”
https://www.pilotonline.com/government/virginia/vp-nw-strip-search-20191206-wd2ejtrtqfgbvkbj7xzh7btemu-story.html
I believe the strip search was a requirement in order to see her father who is in prison.
In other words, they’re looking to see if she’s smuggling stuff into the prison.
I’m not excusing the behavior, just explaining their rationale.
“I believe the strip search was a requirement in order to see her father who is in prison.
In other words, they’re looking to see if she’s smuggling stuff into the prison.
I’m not excusing the behavior, just explaining their rationale.”
You are correct, Scruffy.
Unlike yourself, however, other individuals are not only excusing their rationale, but seem to be very accepting of it.
From the comments: “It’s easy to ridicule the obvious civil drawbacks of visitation policies.
People don’t understand the extent to which criminality persists in prison populations.
Visitors, children, and crooked staff are the underground railroad. Body cavities and diapers are suitcases. Visitation areas are drop locations. Crooked staff retrieve and forward drugs/weapons/phones. Glass is not a barrier.
If a dog positively identifies visitors, they are getting the treatment.
It’s an ugly environment for everyone. Stay out of prison.”
Rather than strip searches, why not have the interactions observed to ensure no illegal activity takes place/no illegal substances or items are given to the inmates? What the commentator I quoted misses is that if there are “crooked staff” bypassing glass barriers then these individuals will simply retrieve the illegal substances themselves during the strip search and pass it along anyway. The humiliation of visitors is not necessary, especially considering part of the commentator’s premise.
They should have just shot her and watched for any contraband to fall out
That only works if you’re shot in the nuts.
Are you assuming her gender you shitlord?
Prison employee here. We would have just strip searched the inmate before and after the visit. The visitors never get searched beyond passing a metal detector and an ion scanner.
Yo, Tulpa. I have the feeling there would be great interest in a post or two about the realities of life inside a prison.
Ditto.
Yes. Especially if he’s ever been in a Turkish Prison.
Do you like gladiator movies, Billy?
I know this a dead thread, but…..
“Yo, Tulpa.”
awwww, I feel accepted.
Feel free to ask me anything. Somethings I cant answer as I dont want to divulge anything that would legit compromise security. I’ll say this though, there are probably alot more libertarian, or at least libertarian leaning, corrections officers than you think.
I won’t call you Tulpa, but I will say that I am quite sure you could write some interesting articles for the community.
“Officers chased after him, at which point the suspect opened fire, shooting the officer in the heart despite the fact he was wearing a bulletproof vest”
Bullet resistant is different than bullet proof.
Sam’s Club had protective vests for sale that were rated “Good, Better, Best” with different prices, of course. I was thinking I might need a Best but being a cheap guy I thought I could get by with something a little less expensive. May be 2 T-shirts or something
This is one fashion accessory that I can’t imagine cheaping out on.
Like PJ O’Rourke said, wearing a flak vest just makes you very aware of all the parts that are not covered by a vest.
The proper term is “civilian-involved shooting”.
(Well, other than the fact that cops are civilians too.)
Maybe he got Terry Crowley-ed by one of his colleagues? Jus’ sayin!
I keed.
And then I’ll be back, hopefully without any rat stowaways in my luggage.
Not Adahn has a sad.
Nah, rats too cheap to fly coach are the poor white trash of the rat world.
‘They want to get rid of the older flight attendants,” she said. “I think they put us on a higher surveillance. It’s because they have to pay us so much because we’ve been there forever and your pay scale goes up each year. I think they can hire four newer flight attendants for what they pay me.”
Well, that’s true. Not much of sample, but I knew a couple of middle-aged flight attendants who couldn’t find work, because according to them, the airlines wanted to hire younger women.
C’mon, 79 ? Go home, Grandma, bake cookies with your grand children. Run for President. 79 is not the new 30 or 40 or 50 or 60.
A quarter million?
Uh…. can I be a flight attendant, please? I can pass out cookies and point to the exit… I promise!
That’s barely enough to deal with crowds of entitled assholish people face to face all day long.
I actually believe she was set up. A woman who’s been there almost 60 years doesn’t just suddenly start being a problem employee.
Onset of dementia can change a persons personality rather abruptly. (Could be a possibility, at 79)
Naw. This shit happens with female coworkers and sometimes you only have to exist. It’s awful. Yes, I can absolutely believe she was set up and driven out.
Or she does that kind of thing all the time (not a big deal, right?) and they finally decided to get rid of her to save some money.
It is very possible. It’s possible she’s a complete pain in the ass. It’s possible she was a queen bee and made every other person’s life miserable.
Did she have any past complaints? Has she been written up? Does the airline have a policy of not feeding its employees? Is this the first time she’s filched milk and cookies?
So u less she’s got a long line of paper laid on her and/or complaints about her behavior, it is ALSO very possible she was targeted for the most trivial of reasons.
Have you ever worked with a bunch of women? If so, have you ever actually paid attention to what goes on among the women underneath what goes on?
Trust me, you don’t know, can’t see, and if you could, you wouldn’t know how to deal with it, so you’d block it out so as not to deal with it.
Yes, she could be an asshole and ruling the skies for 57 years. She could also be targeted for reasons other than that she exists and gets paid a whole lot of money.
I give it 50/50.
Trust me, you don’t know, can’t see,
To my eyes, the assistants (all female) in our suite get along just fine.
I am informed by the female executives, though, that it is a cesspit of conflict and backbiting.
What I mean to say is that her existence and salary might be enough to target her, but when I say “other reasons” I mean that she got unlucky with some extra catty co-stewardesses.
Sometimes women do this stuff for shits and giggles.
I spent a lot of time coaching gymnastics and taught high school, prifessions dominated by woman.
You people can be awful – mostly to one another.
Yeah. It’s difficult for people like me who don’t understand how to play the game, so I refuse to play. That’s a fast track out the door because everyone else gangs up on you. One wrong move, one wrong word to somebody you trust but shouldn’t (who wants your job), and that’s it.
Sorry. I don’t mean to be snappy. This has happened to me before.
I was getting that distinct vibe.
Note that I wasn’t saying you’re wrong, I’d also put it around 50/50.
Finally, Rand was able to whisper in Trump’s ear and actually affect policy. Unfortunately, it was for his low-flow faucet hobbyhorse, not foreign policy.
It’s a start.
Man found with rattlesnake, liquor and uranium tells his side of the story
Oops, that was supposed to be a new post, not a reply. ?
Gilmore! How ya been?
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Love the handle. My favorite tv show.
Most people don’t realize how much stuff is mandated by the government. toilets, light bulbs, televisions, just about every aspect of cars (that’s why they all look alike now) gas cans, you name it. So, maybe this making the news cycle will help the rubes to see that, at least.
When government mandated passenger-side airbags, kids started getting decapitated, so rather than allowing cars without passenger-side airbags to be produced, the state started a campaign to demonize people who put their kids in the front passenger seat.
The obvious result is that people who weren’t doing their daily routine forgot that their infant kids were now in the back seat, leaving those kids to roast to death in hot cars. But again the response was to demonize the parents rather than admit how government policy led to this.
The gas can thing is just retarded. The math on this is easy:
fool + gasoline = fire
No amount of government can repeal the law of nature.
The gas can thing is especially annoying because the spouts spill fuel everywhere, obviating the ostensible reason they mandated them in the first place.
I bought a giant metal one, pours just fine, occasionally I spill because its coming out too fast and I overfill the tank, but gotta crack soem eggs to make omelettes.
*leaves water running for fun*
The only new one I bought, barely trickled out fuel the first time I used it. The next time, nothing would come out. I had to drill it out with an extra long bit to get anything out of it at all. I mess with motorcycles, gas cans are mandatory. You have to drain the tank to remove it and refill it later. Now, I buy the old ones at yard sales. I always imagine the Chinese people making them just laughing their asses off at how we can’t even be trusted to pour gasoline.
If you have to get a new can, get one of these and retrofit the can.
Unfortunately, half of them will side with the vast array of government bureaucrats that will loudly oppose any of Orange’s attempts to maybe let people decide for themselves what kind of faucets or light bulbs they want to operate.
“Trump Orders Toilet Rule Review Over Low-Flow Flushing
By Justin Sink”
LOL
“The president mentioned that effort during Friday’s event, complaining that new energy-efficient bulbs made him appear orange.”
“As for his color, illegal immigrant workers at his properties this week told the Washington Post that he uses an orange-colored make-up brand from Switzerland called Bronx Colors in BHC06-Orange, which left rust marks on his collar.
He had to have two full and one half-full containers in his room at all times, the workers said. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7765215/Trump-gripes-orange-light-bulbs-low-pressure-toilets.html
I swear I thought that was the Bee.
It’s getting harder to tell the difference. My wife showed me an article yesterday about how Trump’s salt and pepper shakers “tower” over those of his guests. My first question was, “is this parody?” Nope, just a Business Insider article.
Same difference.
So, the prez is raising a stink about the low flows, huh?
What a shitty story.
79 years old? It’s hard to believe there isn’t a mandatory retirement age.
Isn’t there one for pilots?
That’s pretty old, but considering their job consists of a) wearing makeup and b) taking people’s napkins, why not keep making more than some doctors?
What about getting the passengers off the plane safely in case of emergency?
Maybe she’d be great at it, with the gravitas of experience.
“Everything will be fine. The exits are a lot more clearly marked than on those DC-3’s. Trust me on that.”
The spirit may be willing but the flesh is not.
Forced by your wife to watch the Nutcracker (from the song)? Not me, I’m into manly shit the rest of the year, but the Nutcracker is quality.
One of my best friends growing up was the son of a ballet teacher, so yeah, I don’t need to hear the Nutcracker any more.
(Apologies if this goes through twice; the first time I got an error.)
“This time it wasn’t me” is in the lede for the greatest movie review of all time.
If foul language and extreme derision for bad movies offends you, don’t follow that link!
That’s quite excellent.
fun stuff right there, tha
That was hilarious, as well as accurate. Favorite line:
The sheriff’s office has identified the shoplifting suspect as 40-year-old Sean Theodore Kaiser. The encounter between Kaiser and the deputy, who has not been identified, was captured by her body camera and released by the sheriff’s office Wednesday.
Video from the camera shows the deputy arriving at Kaiser’s home in, where he is standing outside and confirms that he had been at the store where the shoplifting took place. As the deputy begins reading Kaiser his rights, he goes inside the home and she grabs his sleeve and follows him, the video shows.
Inside the house, the deputy tries to negotiate Kaiser’s surrender for several minutes, while his mother pleads for him to comply.
At one point, Kaiser grabs the deputy’s wrists as she tries to take him into custody, the video shows.
Later, his distraught mother can be seen attempting to hold Kaiser back, but he gets away and charges at the officer. She fires and misses him but strikes his mother, who was standing behind him, the video shows. A neighbor can also be seen in the video.
Kaiser was arrested by another deputy who responded to a call for backup.
The suspect’s mother was transported to the hospital, Brown said. He did not say where she was shot or provide her condition.
When she dies, they’ll charge him with murder.
They need to train that deputy to useher GRRRRLish superpowers more effectively. Jiujitsu him into a choke hold, or something.
“Brown said. He did not say where she was shot or provide her condition”
Maybe the bullet is in her yet?.
Last night, I watched a movie called The Scalp Hunters. Burt Lancaster and Ossie Davis. A very interesting racial dynamic, which could never get the green light in these post racial days. Some really good dialog, too.
Old Guy music
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7765941/Demi-Rose-sets-pulses-racing-plunging-crimson-gown-Christmas-bash.html
Whose pulses?
I could use a little help but that link didn’t crank up my pulse (or anything else)
Plastic surgeons desirous of a boat upgrade.
“A man built his own fake border crossing in the woods in Russia — then collected huge amounts of money to “smuggle” migrant workers into what they thought was Finland. It was still Russia.”
https://twitter.com/siobhan_ogrady/status/1202621436797636610
What’s Russian for “meep meep”?
«Мип мип»?
Now that’s an entrepreneur.
“Someone needs to go back and get a shit load of dimes”
Jake Erwin, Kaiser’s attorney, said his client maintains his innocence and will plead not guilty. Erwin said the deputy overreacted during an investigation of a nonviolent offense and should have waited for backup rather than entering the home.
“I don’t think it takes any kind of experience or knowledge to watch that video and see that officer was out of line and escalated the situation at a variety of different points,” he told CNN Friday. “Things did not have to go that way and I think it was her actions that made it get this bad.”
If she had waited, they could have gone in with overwhelming force superiority, and demolished the house.
Like I said yesterday, we have higher standards for dogs than for cops. There won’t be any consequences for her.
OMWC, sorry about your mother. I saw the news when I was catching up on old threads.
Old Guy Music today is something to get me in the Christmas mood, which for my people is to hide from the vengeful goyish crowds who want to throw us down a well.
But…. but…. this Gentile likes busty Jewesses. I’m not going to throw any of them down a well. Actually, I’m not going to throw anyone down a well. That’s kinda rude.
Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, took a victory lap after her argument that the subsidies were unnecessary was vindicated.
AOC can go fuck herself. Amazon was going to set up shop in NYC regardless of subsidies. Too many customers there to not have some sort of fulfillment center.
Colleagues also claimed Llanos put Bailey’s Irish Cream in her coffee.
That fired flight attendant can’t be all bad.
“A clear tox [blood toxicology test] does not necessarily exonerate a person beyond any shadow of a doubt,” said Phoenix Police Det. Kemp Layden. Layden is the statewide coordinator for Arizona’s drug recognition experts. Officer Morris is one of 26 DRE officers in the Phoenix Police Department, and Layden reviews some of his DUI reports. Layden said Morris has more than a 90 percent accuracy rate when he completes drug recognition exams on suspected impaired drivers. He has an 83 percent accuracy rate for overall DUI arrests.
They have to protect their own. They can all go fuck themselves.
“A clear tox [blood toxicology test] does not necessarily exonerate a person beyond any shadow of a doubt,”
Good thing it’s not up to the suspect to clear themselves, then.
I lived there for a year in the nineties. Those shady assed cops did that same bullshit lying about the three tickets I got while I was there. At one point I went to court and asked for a continuance, but the judge denied it and entered a plea of not guilty over my objection. He forced me to go to trial. I just ignored everything they did after that, thinking I’d just wait out the statute of limitations, since I was leaving anyway. 20 years later, they tried to seize my drivers license for some astronomical fines. I fought it and won. 20 fucking years later. They told me that if I had robbed a liquor store, I’d be in the clear because of the S/O/L, but for this, I was screwed. They were lying.
A complete lack of evidence doesn’t necessarily mean a suspect isn’t guilty of the crime for which they were arrested. By that logic, I’d say Det. Layden is guilty of assassinating Kennedy.
That you Frank?
” Layden said Morris has more than a 90 percent accuracy rate when he completes drug recognition exams on suspected impaired drivers. He has an 83 percent accuracy rate for overall DUI arrests.”
83 percent accuracy on DUI arrests? Are you kidding me?? You are touting 83 percent accuracy as good?!?!
Holy crap son, you need to step out of management. That’s terrible. Someone needs to get down there and find out just how bad the rest of the department is doing if they think that being right about a DUI arrest 83% of the time is “good”.
This isn’t exactly a randomized trial. This is 83% of people they–for other reasons–already suspect of DUI. If you can only get 83% accuracy in that population then it’s REALLY bad.
Also, “That’s the system,” Layden said. “I can’t control anything beyond that.” = “I’m just following orders”
Not even “just following orders”.
His clear implication is “They should have thrown them all in jail, but the stupid lawyers don’t always follow through”.
Yeah, you’re right. It’s more like, “the only reason we lost 17% of them is because those pussy prosecutors let them go just because there’s no evidence.”
Which brings me back to my original conclusion…. that guy should not be in charge of anything. At least not at the police department.
It would be interesting to see what the haul is for the state on DWIs in the various states. It used to be around 10K in Florida and about the same here in Louisiana.
That is a first offense. Second, I don’t know.
Holy crap! The fine for a DUI is ten grand?
The fine, court fees, mandated treatment at some Cargo Cult addiction mumbo jumbo….yeah when you add it all up a DWI pumps about 10K into the system.
Probably something like 50%.
Heroic rescue
The overwhelming use of force is being questioned after a chase in Florida ended in a deadly shootout with police. It started when two men, who the FBI said were already wanted for two similar heists near Miami, robbed a jewelry store and hijacked a UPS van.
After a 23-mile chase, the officers opened fire when the gunmen shot at them, leaving drivers in rush-hour traffic panicked and scrambling.
The two men who police said robbed the jewelry store were killed. But so was 70-year-old Richard Cutshaw, who was waiting in his car at the intersection. The UPS driver who was taken hostage, Frank Ordonez, was also killed.
Ordonez was father of two daughters, ages 3 and 5. Now his stepfather is criticizing the officers’ actions.
“They disregard the hostage, they disregard for the people around the scene. They went out there like the old West,” said Joe Merino.
Miami-Dade’s police director, Juan Perez, explained why officers had to move in on the suspects, saying the suspects weren’t just fleeing, they were being violent and “confronting officers shooting at them.”
But Manny Orosa, who was Miami-Dade’s police chief from 2011 to 2015, questions the tactic given the number of civilians and the hostage.
“If you’re shooting into a truck and you don’t have a clear vision of who you’re shooting at, you don’t just shoot at the truck,” Orosa said.
It’s not clear yet who fired the shots that killed the UPS driver and the innocent bystander. A complete investigation could take months, even years. The Miami-Dade officers who opened fire have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard during these types of investigations.
What a clusterfuck. Thankfully, no policemen were harmed.
Haha, that’s not even true. Half or more of the cops involved will end up on disability due to the trauma.
What would they be saying if one of us started shooting wildly into a chaotic hostage situation? Probably not, “Good shoot.”
We were in legitimate fear for our lives?
“ A complete investigation could take months, even years.”
Only because it will make cops look bad. A ballistics test and autopsies are all you need. Those can be done in a matter of days.
Any driver who ran over a cop attempting to escape the chaos is completely justified on self defense grounds.
That reminds me…. I’ve never heard the outcome of the investigation into that shooting at the “black spring break” in Miami a few years back. The police shot a few folks as they fired into a moving vehicle that went the wrong way down a blocked off alley. Then, when the guy put the car in park they walked up and executed him in a hail of gunfire. They later claimed they found a gun on the floor in the back.
The whole thing certainly sounded like one police officer over-reacted and then a cluster-F of miscommunication had everyone thinking this guy was shooting at people when it was actually police shooting at him.
But they certainly didn’t publicize the results of whatever investigation took place like they did the initial incident.
“‘A clear tox [blood toxicology test] does not necessarily exonerate a person beyond any shadow of a doubt,’ said Phoenix Police Det. Kemp Layden.” How on Earth is there any response to this other than, “you’re fucking fired?”
Everybody is guilty; it just takes the pigs time to find the crime.
Show me the man and I will show you the crime.
Water
“Still crickets from Dems on her participation in anti-Semitic conference”
https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1202969870205411328
Cancelled
Pinterest and the Knot Worldwide, two of the country’s biggest online wedding-planning platforms, are changing their policies to stop promoting wedding venues and content that romanticize former slave plantations, representatives for the companies exclusively told BuzzFeed News.
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A Pinterest spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the company will restrict plantation wedding content on its website, and is working on de-indexing Google searches for plantation weddings on Pinterest. Though users can still search for it, they’ll see an advisory that some of that content may violate Pinterest’s policies.
“Weddings should be a symbol of love and unity. Plantations represent none of those things,” the Pinterest spokesperson wrote in an email. “We are working to limit the distribution of this content and accounts across our platform, and continue to not accept advertisements for them.”
That’ll show those rebels.
People are planning their weddings on Pinterest?
And how long does blood guilt last?
Until the reparations check clears?
We’re already paying reparations.
What if they call it “large farm house”? Would that make your feelz all better?
“It gives Disney a huge catalog from which to pull remakes while burying the original films. Not kidding. I know writers and directors who have been approached to “pick a project from the catalog.” For a new generation, the original will not be available for comparison.”
https://twitter.com/EddieMuller/status/1203021776646627328
Writer/director: “I want to do Song of the South.”
Muller is talking specifically about what Disney is doing to the Fox back catalog that it now owns.
Let’s see if Congress has the balls not to extend copyright when Steamboat Willie is about to enter the public domain.
‘“It gives Disney a huge catalog from which to pull remakes while burying the original films. Not kidding. I know writers and directors who have been approached to “pick a project from the catalog.”’ For a new generation, the original will not be available for comparison.”’
Rudyard Kipling’s original Jungle Book series had Kaa the snake assisting in the rescue of Mowgli from the monkeys. If I recall correctly, after reaching the primate’s lair Kaa memorized many monkeys so that the Baloo and Bagheera could effect an escape. In Disney’s version, the snake is trying to eat Mowgli rather than help save him.
“Far from being nightmare fuel, Kaa the rock python is one of Mowgli’s wisest and most helpful companions, and he saves his life on more than one occasion. He doesn’t have any psychedelic eyeball-thing going on, but he does have a strange dance he uses to stun his prey, namely the chattering monkeys.” Source .
After a brief search I did not find the original article I read years ago, wherein the writers for Disney’s Jungle Book were berated by him for writing a story that followed too closely to the original.
Tokenism and stereotyping. Every jungle boy has a wise, sassy snake friend.
Stravinsky was pretty pissed at what they did to Rite of Spring.
Spiraling into madness
It’s a new beginning for the Peloton woman.
When last we saw her, she was celebrating her yearlong fitness journey and thanking her husband for giving her an exercise bike for Christmas. Both the bike and the husband were nowhere to be found on Friday.
In a video posted to his Twitter, Actor Ryan Reynolds seemed to poke fun at the recent controversy around an ad for Peloton, the indoor bike start-up. The video, a commercial for his Aviation Gin brand of distilled spirits, opens with the woman now dubbed “the Peloton woman” staring blankly at the camera while out with two girlfriends before they toast to “new beginnings.”
The caption: “Exercise bike not included.”
Peloton has recently come under fire for a holiday commercial showing a woman documenting her year with the Peloton bike her husband gave her for Christmas. Critics have pointed to the ad’s purported sexism and deafness to the privilege of its subjects. Some have said the woman appears to be pressured to work out by a husband who gifted her an exercise machine unprompted.
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In Reynold’s commercial, the same actress is initially seen staring, expressionless.
She comes out of her daze and tells the two friends around her that the gin she is drinking is smooth.
The friends look concerned about her, one offering to get her another drink and the other telling her “You’re safe here.”
She toasts to new beginnings before downing her drink and taking the second offered to her.
“You look great, by the way,” a friend tells her.
The triviality of American news culture is truly a wonder to behold.
An ad that is on the edge of irrelevancy the day it is released, sounds like a plan.
So trivial they don’t even have links to their stories!
Strip-search of girl, 8, at Virginia prison leads governor to halt policy
Governor blackface/klansman does something right.
And I fully expect Team Blue to do the right thing on marijuana as they are claiming they intend to*. ///stoplaughing
*Unfortunately I know they are serious about their unconstitutional and seriously dangerous firearm proposals. The worse part is that the VA constitution is even more clear than the federal constitution on the matter.
“Scoop: Four representatives have sent a letter to Bill Barr this morning, calling on DOJ to prosecute hardcore pornography that meets legal standards for obscenity. I‘ve got the details at @NRO:”
https://twitter.com/xan_desanctis/status/1202970924112371713
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/exclusive-u-s-representatives-call-on-barr-to-prosecute-obscene-pornography/
Hopefully it includes diaper fetish freaks. That’s just not right.
I guess we’ll find out if he is as dumb as they think….
The highest officials in the land skate on treason and various other heinous felonies and this is what he thinks is important??
“Here’s the plan: we distract him by getting him to watch a bunch of porn…”
No. Just… no. Stop it.
It’s the least qualified people rendering judgment.
Also, one out of every ten boys are lying.
Meanwhile, on the Good Ship Pequod
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday put a temporary hold on House subpoenas requesting President Donald Trump’s financial documents from two banks. In a brief order, Ginsburg said a lower court opinion that allowed the subpoenas to proceed would go on hold until December 13.
Earlier in the day, Trump had asked the justices to freeze the subpoenas to give his personal lawyers more time to ask the Supreme Court to take up his appeal.
Ginsburg, who has jurisdiction over the lower court, likely acted to give her colleagues more time to consider Trump’s request. She also instructed the House to respond to Trump’s petition by Wednesday.
Lawyers for Trump told the justices that the subpoenas are “extraordinarily broad” and that they raise “profound separation-of-powers concerns.”
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The latest case concerns subpoenas that the House Intelligence and Financial Services committees issued to Deutsche Bank and Capital One asking for a variety of documents from the President, members of his family, the Trump Organization and several affiliated entities. Trump’s lawyers are seeking to block the subpoenas from going forward, to give the President time to formally ask the justices to take up his appeal.
A federal appeals court allowed the subpoenas for most of the documents to go forward earlier in the week, but agreed to put the ruling on a seven-day hold so that Trump could ask the Supreme Court to step in.
“Unquestionably, disclosure of the financial records sought by the Committees will subject [Trump’s] private business affairs to the Committees’ scrutiny,” the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals held on Tuesday, “however, inquiry into private affairs is not always beyond the investigative power of Congress.”
The court said the “interests of Congress in pursuing the investigations for which the challenged subpoenas were issued substantially overbalance the privacy interests” of the President.
We’ll land that whale, yet.
Still no clear indication of what, specifically, is the focus of the “investigation”.
Schedule C: Self-Employment: $5,000,000,000,000,000 To be Putin’s Bitchboy
Trump is the focus of the investigation. Duh!
Congress has oversight authority over the president. Therefore, they can investigate anything, anywhere, any time they’d like concerning the president. Old girlfriends. Past businesses. Online activity from the 90’s. Whatever.
And I know what you’re thinking. …. No, this isn’t a fishing expedition. They are specifically looking in to Trump. So it is not overly broad. It is specific to Trump and people and things associated with Trump, or that might be associated with Trump, or that might lead to someone who is associated with someone who knows something about Trump. So it is very specific.
When you’ve lost the Notorious RBG….
More likely lost a RBG staffer
49ers are now the NFL’s scariest team
So they will appreciate their invitation to the Belichick/Brady invitational in February.
The NFL sucks.
In the latest petition, lawyers for Trump argue that the Supreme Court should treat him differently from ordinary plaintiffs and agree to the emergency petition because he is entitled to the “high degree of respect due the President of the United States.” They argue that in issuing the subpoenas, Congress exceeded its legislative authority by improperly engaging in law enforcement. These “dragnet” subpoenas, the lawyers argued, “look nothing like a legislative inquiry.”
Something something we’ll know it when we see it.
flight attendant, 79, making $250K
I am in the wrong industry. Then again, I hate people and would therefore be awful and miserable in any service job.
The president on Friday said he ordered a federal review of water efficiency standards in bathroom fixtures and complained that “people are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times as opposed to once” in homes with low-flow appliances.
Better to use the correct amount in the first place. Same goes for paper towels. If you make them too thin people just have to use more of them.
“Trump Orders Toilet Rule Review Over Low-Flow Flushing”
Well, at least he did one thing right. Now do Obamabulbs.
I will say that having moved on past compact florescents and in to LED lighting has been a major upgrade. We’ll see if they last as long as advertised. I got a bunch of bulbs on sale at Lowes for a buck 2 years ago, and they are all still going strong. Hard to argue with that price point. Now if they’ll just make me a nice 150 watt dimmable for a buck or two…..
Yeah, I’ve pretty much converted everything to LED and they are super nice.
And under the heading of “unintended consequences”… .because they are so low power, I don’t yell and scream about leaving lights on. I leave them on more frequently than I’d care to admit. The wife leaves the lights on out back all the time. I want to argue, but when it runs me $0.25 a month.. meh…
Same here. So far not blown away with longevity, but they have improved them greatly as far as the quality of light goes.
The market corrected the government’s abuse of power with LED bulbs.
One Phoenix police officer, a certified expert in detecting impaired driving, has arrested nine people for DUI who were under the legal limit or had no detectable alcohol or drugs in their systems.
“To protect and serve.”
Its even worse once you realize how often their equipment is miscalibrated…
Lemme guess: in defiance of the laws of physics, the miscalibration all runs one way.
6 Saudis Detained After Pensacola Shooting, Including 3 Who Filmed Attack
Six Saudi nationals, including three who allegedly filmed Friday’s attack on Naval Air Station Pensacola, were reportedly detained after the shooting.
Breitbart News reported that a gunman opened fire at the air station Friday morning, killing three and wounding numerous others.
The Associated Press reports that the Pensacola gunman was an aviation student from Saudi Arabia, and NBC News reports that the gunman’s name was Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani.
Now the New York Times reports that six other Saudis were detained after the shooting and three of those six allegedly filmed the shooting as it unfolded in Pensacola.
The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist media, identified the gunman as Mohammed al-Shamrani, saying he had posted a short manifesto on Twitter that read: “I’m against evil, and America as a whole has turned into a nation of evil.”
“I’m not against you for just being American, I don’t hate you because your freedoms, I hate you because every day you supporting, funding and committing crimes not only against Muslims but also humanity,” he wrote.
Gee, never saw that coming.
Hey Congress, here’s a golden opportunity to take away a bunch more freedom without actually addressing the real threats! It’s go time, people!
Interesting that he specifically calls out war adventuring in the middle east as a motivation.
Also interesting that he does it on a trip as a Saudi war fighter being trained to use American equipment to kill war fighters from other Muslim nations. Specifically Iran, I would suppose.
I’m just a rube from flyover country, but it appears to me as if our grand ME experiment is way overdue for termination.
Oh hey, look at that!
Fuck you, SA. Fuck you, Iran. Fuck you, WarPigs.
But by all means let’s continue giving flight lessons to hundreds of our Saudi BFFs.
If only the terrorist didn’t have easy access to guns on base, then this wouldn’t have happened. We need to make all military installations gun-free zones and then none of the acts of terrorism and mass shootings wouldn’t have happened.
/sarc
I have actually seen this incident held up as an argument against the “gun free zones are mass shooting magnets” argument. Since this happened on a military base where “everyone has a gun”….
The commentary I saw literally used that phrase…. everyone on a military base has a gun. Somehow I don’t think it works the way he thinks it works.
About that.
Because there’s nothing that actually stops someone from bringing a firearm on post other than a paper rule.
Also, don’t let them cover over that the Pearl Harbor shooter was armed as part of his job, and used his service weapon and service ammo for the shooting.
headline at the NYT (article paywalled):
Just a total coincidence that three other Saudis were there to film it?
I think Hillary is actually going to run again. It all makes sense.
The field sucks. They’ve spent the last four years creating a false impression that Trump is a criminal. Howard Stern interviewed her (interesting timing no?). And they tied up loose ends with Epstein
This was all by design and adds up to one thing: The bitch is going to run.
Well, she’s probably better (as a president) than Bernie, Warren, hippie chick or even Biden (seeing as he seems to be going senile). I’d probably take Tulsi over her, just on the fact that there are things about Tulsi I can respect. Free cash Asian dude is probably better. Pete is probably worse on policy… but I’d probably take him too.
And the big money machine in the party will push for her.
Because she knows how to direct the big money toward the machine.
Hillary may be worst case. A vicious, sociopathic criminal with deep ties to law enforcement and intelligence and a burning need to cover up crimes and purge the government?
I think I’d vote for Bernie, maybe even Harris, over her.
At least Bernie is honest about what a commie he is.
And at least Congress can keep Sanders in check.
Hilary should fill people with dread.
SugarFree nods in agreement.
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to the rest of you Saturday Morning Specials!
Good luck on your trip. All the best to you and mom. Do they have Publix in Baltimore?
Quoi? I don’t see Amazon bringing manual labor jobs to a Manhattan office building. Does it say anywhere else what these jobs are?
335k square feet doesn’t sound like cubicles. Sounds like a local distribution hub. Well, a small one…
Hmm… 200 square feet per employee. That could be offices and conference rooms. But what would 1500 office workers do for Amazon in that location? That part makes no sense. Why pay the extra when you could just keep them at your cheaper, subsidized facility you are building in a location without NYC employment taxes?
Gotta be a local distribution hub where packages are taken off of big trucks and sent out for delivery.
The only info I can find is it’s a 20-story office building.
And it’s next to Hudson Yards that just opened up/is still being built.
Make it so
“Bernie believes it’s time to stop relying on profit-focused corporations to get to universal broadband,” the plan reads. “Bernie will provide the necessary funding for states, cities, and co-ops to build out their own broadband networks, and ensure all households are connected by the end of his first term.”
We can get the broadband fairy to do it.
Nice plan. Way to be ready for the challenges of 1997.
Meanwhile, here in the future, we have several large satellite providers bringing backbone services and 5 G beginning to roll out. Combine those two and the rural problem is probably solved. Just set up a 5G tower and use space for the backhaul. Should be orders of magnitude cheaper. You might even be able to do solar powered 5G towers that are not wired to anything.
And that will be up and running way before anything the government might try to implement. And we don’t have to pay for it.
It’s very noble of home to pay for it out of his own pocket.
him, not home. wah wah waaahh
+1 Minitel
Mike!
The policies Bloomberg laid out Thursday would require anyone who buys gun to pass a thorough background check. He would:
Close the “private sale loophole” through which people can more easily buy guns from unlicensed sellers at gun shows or online.
Require retailers to use sales records to track guns used for crimes — and notify police when people have been barred from using a gun.
Implement a central system would track when a gun owner has a criminal conviction or restraining order placed on them, barring them from owning firearms.
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The proposed regulation would also close the “boyfriend loophole,” that prevents married domestic abusers from owning guns, but not unmarried partners. It would set a minimum age of 21 for anyone who wants to purchase handguns, semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.
Retailers like Walmart have already raised their age restrictions to 21 for firearm and ammunition purchases.
The proposal would ban the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, reinstating a prohibition that expired in 2004. Walmart CEO, Doug McMillon, has said that reinstating that ban “should be debated to determine its effectiveness.” The retailer earlier this year stopped selling ammunition for handguns and some assault-style rifles after two shootings at Walmart stores.
Bloomberg would also prohibit guns in all schools, aside from those used by law enforcement.
Genius. I can’t believe nobody ever tried that.
He should take away the cops’ guns and give them magic wands.
England tried this in the early 70s.
It would set a minimum age of 21 for anyone who wants to purchase handguns, semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.
Legal adults will not be allowed to defend themselves but they can be conscripted to kill and die for the government. Seems legit.
The proposal would ban the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
Define “assault weapon” and “high-capacity’.
would also prohibit guns in all schools
Gun-free zones are notoriously absent of firearms with an impeccable safety record since no shootings, mass or otherwise, have ever occurred in one. It is known.
“boyfriend loophole,” that prevents married domestic abusers from owning guns, but not unmarried partners.
Once again, the lying liars lie. Unmarried partners who cohabitate are already covered by the unconstitutional Lautenberg Amendment (fuck you NJ for sending that shitstain to the senate). What they call a loophole is whatever is left from “closing” the last loophole, aka any means to legally acquire or possess a firearm. Next will be to cover the non-romantic friend loophole.
Ah, the “acquaintance loophole”.
I suspect, though, that red flag laws allow for any “loophole” allowing icky people to own guns to be closed.
The loophole is who can snitch on you. That will be expanded to “everyone”.
Last Saturday, the weather was dreary and there was Important College Football to be watched, so I only ventured out long enough to hit a one-day sale at the local art museum’s gift shop. Today, it’s sunny, with a predicted high in the low 40s. Therefore, I declare today to be Eastern Orthodox Small Business Saturday, and I’ll hit the nearby used book store in search of Christmas gifts.
If no luck there, there’s still a B&M B&N near my office. I don’t really care whether the business is big or small.
Light bulbs:
I got a couple of LEDs (mini indoor floodlamps) at Lowe’s a while back. The package said, “Daylight”. I don’t know what planet they imported those bulbs from, it the light coming off those bulbs doesn’t look like any sunshine i ever saw.
Yeah, some are way too blue. I got some at Costco that were much warmer. Look for a temperature about half of the daylight ones and it’s more pleasant.
The color temperature of daylight is blue, it’s just our eyes are real good at adjusting their own white balance, but we’ve come to expect yellow light from electric light, and it confuses our brain.
My brain is confused, anyway.
I like the 5K ones in the garage, but I like the warmer ones inside.
I go with 3000K “halogen white”. I think it’s the right balance between cold blue and dingy yellow.
I use 2700K ones inside.
I have actually seen this incident held up as an argument against the “gun free zones are mass shooting magnets” argument. Since this happened on a military base where “everyone has a gun”….
The commentary I saw literally used that phrase…. everyone on a military base has a gun. Somehow I don’t think it works the way he thinks it works.
Haven’t you ever seen those John Wayne documentaries?
More Mike!:
The proposal would also tackle the gun violence crisis financially, including $100 million a year into local violence intervention programs and at least $100 million for public health research into gun violence. By declaring the crisis to be a public health emergency, the plan would expedite financial support.
Bloomberg also said Thursday said he would repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a 2005 law that shields gun makers from liability for crimes committed with their products. The law has come under renewed scrutiny after families of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre in Connecticut sued gun maker Remington. The families argued that Remington which makes the AR-15-style weapon used in the incident marketed the weapon in a way that inspired gunman Adam Lanza. The Supreme Court said in November that it declined to hear the case.
I wonder what he’d say if someone proposed making Bloomberg News to liabile for fraudulent misuse of financial information.
Howdy! lets have some Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/12/the-week-in-pictures-narwhal-tusk-edition.php
You’re awesome! Its like Saturday cartoons.
HEY YUFUS!
Irish guacamole. I LOL’d.
LOL @ “Bernie Supporters Summed Up in One Photo”
Since the great 10 days v. 10 Day’s question was solved yesterday, how many of you pedants (like me) read this story like theres rogue, wild, semi trailers roaming SW Ohio?
Man struck by semitrailer in Fayette County .
Every definition I saw was a trailer alone, not part of the tractor-trailer combo.
Optimus Prime’s trailer has a blood lust!
The Greenies must have made them get rid of the tractor, the guy just pulls it like a strongman now.
More to go wrong
On Friday, Ford Motor Company issued a recall of certain 2017-2019 F-250, F-350, and F-450 pickups to fix tailgates that might fly open at inopportune moments. The callback has been a long time coming.
According to Ford, the recall affects only those trucks with an electric release switch on the tailgate handle. The culprit? The very thing that breeds life itself: water.
“In affected vehicles with an electric tailgate latch-release switch mounted in the tailgate handle, water entering the electrical wiring system may cause a short circuit, resulting in unintended switch activation and release of the tailgate latches,” the automaker states. “This could cause the tailgate to open unintentionally, whether the vehicle is in motion or stationary. This condition may result in the loss of unrestrained cargo, increasing the risk of a crash.”
A better idea.
Some of the F-150s have that as well. I wonder why it only affects the SD? Or is Ford trying to minimize the scope of the recall?
Like ripping the ass of your pants at a fancy party.
Even if I could afford it, I wouldn’t want a new car. Too many electric parts (looking at you, power windows) (lots of money spent on those) (yeah, I know it’s not new and that ship has sailed) and computer shit. No, I don’t need a backup camera. I like bluetoothing music.
But what, I ask you, is the point of electric tailgates?
I have to admit, I love the backup camera, especially for hooking up a heavy trailer. Also seat heaters and remote start!
As you say, though, the tech train has sailed. Some of it is related to gaming the MPG/emissions requirements, but I gotta believe some is actual customer demand. People appear to love having all kinds of shit on their vehicles.
Mr. GT’s Forester has an electric liftgate that frequently fails to latch completely after we load the groceries, so we have to pull over so he can get out and shove it shut to stop the little warning signal. Just as glad I don’t have that feature on my Impreza.
Subaru horror family
The FJ has bluetooth for streaming/phone, and a backup camera. Thumbs up on both. Mater Dean’s new ride (Toyota Avalon) has the full suite of electronic gizmos and driver assist. About the only one I would want is the little light on the side mirrors that warns you about people in your “blind spot”.
And the heated seats. Those are sweet.
+1 warm ass
I can see the convenience of an inside-the-cab tailgate switch when you forget to lower it before it hooking up to a gooseneck or 5th wheel trailer. But I can’t imagine paying extra for a feature you may use once or twice. Power mirror extenders, on the other hand, are the bee’s knees.
Also, music for the morning.
That was heartwarming.
I read an article last night:
Dennis Kucinich, Tulsi Gabbard and the Slow Death of the Democratic Delusion
As with cyto’s warning above, if harsh language and a profanity laced opinion piece offends you, do not read what that link leads to.
Great read.
He had me at:
“The Obama Revivalists have to be the most comically delusional conglomeration of convoluted cunts since Obama himself sold half my generation on an 8 year extension of the Bush regime with Hopelandic gobbledygook lifted straight from a Chicken Noodle Soup paperback he found at the airport. “
The sun shines on every dog’s ass once in a while
This is a telling quote form the water throttling fascist
s:
Politically profane?
GFYS.
Also, Trump is right again. Most washrooms I can’t even wash my hands, between how little comes out of the faucet and the damned senors that barely work.
I must be in a very unusual family. I don’t think we spend $400 a year in water, and about 50% of that is mandatory fees regardless of how much I use. Are people really paying 7 cents per gallon of tap water? Most sources I see say close to 1cent per gallon.
Best president ever. Fight me.
I only pay for the electricity to run my pump.
A perfectly cromulent option then.
But shouldn’t be mandatory.
I have to wonder, though: is that based on actual measured use, or a proguesstion? Because in my experience, “low-flow” toilets often get flushed twice, which would seem to eliminate any savings. Low-flow faucets just get run longer, either because you are filling something or you need to wash something and it takes the same amount either way. I’m sure there’s marginal savings, but I doubt its “book”.
Shower heads save a lot, I would think. And the low-flow toilets may sometimes get flushed twice for a #2, but once is sufficient for a #1, which I assume accounts for most flushes.
That said, I agree that the “savings” number are likely grossly exaggerated.
I think my sewer/water is about $70 every two months.
They installed some “Earth-friendly water saving” toilets and sinks at work.
The toilet has different buttons to flush depending on whether you went #1 or #2 (which is a good idea) but unfortunately it’s also equipped with a motion sensor for some reason. The result is that it flushes when you enter the stall, again while you’re doing your business, again while you’re exiting the stall, and probably one more time while you’re washing your hands just for good measure.
Speaking of washing hands, the faucets have automatic sensors too. Sometimes you walk in and the faucet is just running by itself.
Speaking of pickup truck as fashion accessories, here’s a random question:
Does anybody even make a single cab pickup with an eight foot bed, anymore?
I dont think so. My RAM2500 was the 4-door, but I had an 8′ bed. And for people not used to backing it up, that tailgate looked like it was waaaaaaay far away.
3/4t and up have got to have regular cabs with long beds. Crew cab with a work topper or lumber rack is just excessively long.
3/4T with 8′ box and extended cab is not too long.
Example: https://postimg.cc/sMwLShmP
Is that Californian? Look at those gas prices.
Older pic. Diesel around here today is about $2.50 or so.
I’ve got a regular cab 2500 with a work topper and it’s already a bitch to parallel park. Or park in cities period. Thank god for the mostly working backup distance sensor. Has saved my bacon a few times.
Im pretty good at getting my truck into any parking space. However, I was dating a woman that had a ford ranger.
It would take me numerous tries to parallel park it.
When I drive my wife’s Jetta, you’d think I never parallel parked. Just not used to the different turn radius & wheelbase and don’t do it that often.
Now, I will admit that I am extraordinarily competent parallel parker. I backed a cargo van with a pop-up camper behind it to sit between two scrub pines on a sandy camp ground when I was 16 after neither of my parents could do it.
Other people might need a little help.
So yeah, I’m bragging and it’s not even close to himble. *preen*
In my head, I just remember that the trailer moves opposite of the wheel, and know where your corners are.
Chevy does
Yes. But AFAIK, they are all “fleet” vehicles.
There you go. Hope you like white!
[insert “OK” emoji]
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(for RC)
Yes, but no one buys them that way off the lot, so dealers don’t stock them. You can order a regular cab long bed from any of the big three.
I’m having a hard time trying to find a 8′ box and extended cab
As a limey I am in awe of full size pickups. A few folks import them here but for one that isn’t an absolute heap of shit you’re looking at paying new prices for something already well worn in (out), by the time you’ve shipped it, paid taxes/fees, etc. Also there’s no such thing as a gasomaline pickup here on the domestic market – they are all considered “commercial vehicles” and that market only does diesel since fuel here is so expensive. I was looking a while back for a half tonne single cab. Not gonna happen realistically.
Rule of law?
Nice. Assholes.
Huh. Didn’t follow protocol=cleared?
Now, it’s tough for me to decide who to hate the most in this story. Oh yeah, two parties that didn’t appear in the story: the union that enabled this, and the government who gave the unions this power and passed all kinds of laws forcing employers to go through these charades to get rid of a ridiculous expense.
Ahhh sloopster… Delta’s flight attendants, unlike most other US airlines, are not unionized. There is no union representing her.
There is still the ADEA, which gives her something damn close to tenure.
A perfectly cromulent option then.
But shouldn’t be mandatory.
*chuckles indulgently*