Happy Friday everybody. I hope everyone else is approaching drink, er, lets say two since this is a family site. But maybe I’ve had two brace.
Holy shit, Florida Man! You missed your chance to legally shoot a gator. Also, fuck that. Fuck ALLLL of that. Gator invasion at 3am? No thanks
You know, maybe some things aren’t for tourists.
So, I’m not saying this was an illegal shooting, but when a drunk dude on foot is yelling at you, and you have a motorcycle, maybe you just keep riding next time. On the other hand, Florida Man got what he had coming to him for bringing a knife to a gunfight.
What about Robert Pattinson screams “Batman”? I mean, he’ll probably be better than Clooney or Kilmer.
I heard this guy passed. Please don’t talk about him.
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I know how much it irks them when the 1st comment is OT, so I’m finally getting a chance to do that:
I ate lunch with my wife at this place today: http://www.mldiner.com/
So far as I can tell, Canadian “cuisine” consists of a variety of ways to serve a brick of salt with maple syrup on it, with a side of pancakes.
To their credit, our waiter was like a swarthy hispanic looking fellow with an unmistakably thick Canadian accent. He even called me “buddy” a few times at the end of sentences.
GOJIRA!!!
I hope your response was “I’m not your buddy, pal!”
I ain’t your buddy, pal!
I aint your guy, friend!
I ain’t your friend, buddy!
I ain’t your buddy, pen-pal!
I’m not your pigpen, pal!
I ain’t your pen-pal, homie!
Probably one of those degens from up-country.
What the heck were some of those dishes?
Poutine is a ridiculous dish.
In the US we say don’t cry over spilled milk.
In Canada they say no pouting over poutine.
The only things I see on the menu that I would identify as “Canadian” are poutine and peameal* bacon.
Maybe cabbage rolls, but only because of all the Ukrainians we have out west.
*cornmeal
There is no Canadian cuisine. Some food dishes a national cuisine does not make. Smoked meat, some scones, poutine, and pea soup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_cuisine
and of those, scones are scots, smoked meat is an everywhere thing, and pea soup is throughout the anglosphere by way of the Royal Navy. So yeah, poutine, and calling ham bacon are your things
No, no. The Canadians have even figured out a way to fuck up smoked meat.
Probably better than trying to smoke up fucked meat.
Uhhh…
The tragedy of Canada is that they could have ended up with French cuisine, English culture, and the American work ethic, but instead ended up with American culture, English cuisine, and the French work ethic.
Ted,
I’ve heard that joke for decades but it has always been cumbersome (5 or so countries). This version is great.
I had poutine twice during my stay in Canada. I think it’s fantastic.
Think about it. You have three prime ingredients – cheese, potato, and gravy. Potato and gravy, and potato and cheese already work, so the worst hurdle you have to overcome from a flavor perspective is cheese and gravy. This is not really an issue, as it’s not a mix of just cheese and gravy, so it works.
Then you have the optional additions. Sometimes these don’t work, but they’re optional.
Where did you have poutine?
Bacon and caramelized onions are acceptable additions. All others are heresy.
Also, pierogies are a superior platform to french fries.
Thunder Bay.
Try the Carnivore – Adds hamburger, pulled pork, bacon, more cheese, and bbq sauce.
I also visited a Smokes Poutinerie in Sudbury.
Is Poutinerie really a thing? What do I need to start one? I have gravy and fries, so that’s a start.
Based on the pictures, ugly food is their specialty.
How that guy put them on TV is beyond me.
I never trust these ‘you gotta try this’ shows. It’s often just a gob glob of absurdities dressed with ranch and Mayo.
Don’t get me going with the obsessed fascination with putting cheese and mayo on everything these days in North American restaurants.
I’m constantly having to ask if they put any kind of goo on basic foods and lo and behold more often than not they do.
Hold the mayo!
I know! Let’s move to a swamp and build a convenient way for critters to enter.
Twilight vampire to Batman. Does that not sound like it should be a seamless transition? At least Jason Mamoa had previous experience saying the word “Atlantis.”
Earth-43 Batman has a sad.
Is Earth-43 still around or is it with Earth-1191 now? (1191 is the pre-Crisis counterpart to 43.)
Curt Busiek did a Batman riff in which he was a vampire. That explains why he turns up and leaves silently and suddenly, why he operates at nightime with no apparent need for sleep, why guns don’t kill him, why constant physical strain doesn’t affect him….
In the meantime, Hill has no plans to alter operations, thankful for the “outpouring of private messages and phone calls” he received. “Our tours . . . will continue for years to come. I’ve been bucked by many horses, and the only thing to do is get right back on.”
I wonder what his insurance company feels about this decision.
Insurance is for the weak.
I assume that your hospital is weak.
*checks insurance schematic*
Indeed we are. Hundreds of millions in various lines and limits.
But, our bottom layer is self-insured, offshore. So we’ve got that going for us.
Tower. It’s called a tower 😉
They can be confusing as hell depending on the layers and if the arrangements are quota share or excess of loss.
We don’t have “a” tower. We have a whole financial district of towers.
They can be confusing as hell
Indeed they can. And being the only one who understands it can provide job security. Not that I would ever obfuscate and dilate when explaining something complex, nope, not me.
“You forgot ‘And pay them at least $15 an hour and never be able to fire or lay them off, even if they sleep on the job all day’. Because hey, their version of reality is sleeping on the job all day and getting paid $15 an hour for it, and if you disagree, you’re racist. We win, you lose, bagger!”
Job security at a lot more than $15 an hour. May your next raise get you to $15 per second.
It’s interesting that the article has no mention of any people in the caravan vehicles. Was anybody hurt or not?
I thought it mentioned there were no major injuries.
I was in Lawrence, KS until about 1 pm that day, but drove west. The weather was a bit rough.
In spite of what you might think, I shan’t abandon Inky for a gif of some busty girl walking down the street.
That is all.
You’re a gentleman and a scholar, Q.
He’s not ruling out a gif of a busty girl walking up a flight of stairs…
Or driving on a rough road.
I’m almost ready to switch back. It’s giving me a headache.
I don’t know, it kind of reminds me of the photo books and newspapers in Harry Potter.
I have switched, but alas I can’t find my top-hatted Crimson Ghost anymore, so I’m going with Repo Man
Relevant
FIF !
…hi there
damn you, Q
I’m a life ruiner. It’s what I do.
Everyone needs a hobby.
NETFLIX CONTINUES PRODUCTION IN EGYPT, WHERE ABORTION IS ILLEGAL, WHILE CONSIDERING GEORGIA BOYCOTT OVER ‘HEARTBEAT’ BILL
Netflix’s Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos, stated, Tuesday, that the company would “rethink” its Georgia investments if the “heartbeat” abortion bill takes effect.
Netflix’s expressed reluctance to produce content in regions with strong anti-abortion laws seemingly does not extend to the Middle East, where recently the company has been ramping up the number of undertaken projects, according to Variety.
There must be a reasonable explanation for this.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Netflix for comment but the company declined to comment on the subject.
Nevermind.
~~~an edit faerie has terminated your mistake~~~
Likewise Disney threatening to boycott Georgia while continuing to do business in China which puts Muslims in concentration camps.
Your assumption that their virtue signaling is actually about caring is why you miss the fact they are fucking idiots.
Netflix got a lot of love just for saying they will rethink shooting in Georgia. That’s the kind of limp action that won’t require an abortion.
One of the GoT gals said she wouldn’t shoot in Georgia because of all that. (Nevermind that a good deal of GoT was shot in Ireland… But she still shot there…)
How often are actresses knocked-up and require an abortion on a normal shoot?
Per actress or per cast?
How are the Friday afternoon edit fairies?
Drunk off their gourd, I assume.
Nope, no hypocrisy there. None.
Asking for consistency is a very evil thing there Tonio.
IT’S ABOUT THE FUCKIGN FEELS YOU EVUL MAN!
Whataboutism!
I’m sure some enterprising MSM reporter will follow-up in a few months to ask why they haven’t stopped doing business in Georgia at all.
Well Egyptians are backwards savages. You can’t expect them to be civilized enough to allow 4th trimester abortions.
/Netflix
If its that important, why do they allow people who live in Georgia to get Netflix?
Nice.
Do my kids really need college? Or food?
Damn.
Just sell your house. You can live in the car.
The Glib Bee Inspector came by, passed judgement on the local apiaries. We had a nice conversation over a few hours, Mrs Fourscore put out a nice lunch. He was going back to his motel and read about Glib meet ups so he’d be prepared when he hits the TC.
He’s looking forward to the NoDak excitement tomorrow when he meets MikeS. MikeS, be ready for a wild ride. He is more refined than a lot of glibertarians though.
We will be sure to lay out the good plastic sheeting and Jimbo said he picked up the lemon flavored roofies that don’t taste bad at all.
I picked up the 12 mil at lunch. We’re good.
Give him a couple of white crackers with the roofies though, to ameliorate the strong and unusual lemony flavor
Did he give the hives the white glove treatment?
One of the bees took affront to my presence and bit me three times. It didn’t sting, and the pain has gone away.
All I did was take pictures. I guess no one like paparazzi.
I can honestly say I have never been bitten by a bee.
You’re not even a man until you’ve been bitten by one of those big black hornets. I was walking one day after work, with a massive fucking hangover, none the less, and accidentally stepped on a nest which had fallen out of a tree. I got stung by three of them before I was finally able to rip off my shirt and run far enough away that they apparently couldn’t find me. Luckily, I’m not allergic to their venom or anything, I guess, so an hour later I was no worse for the sear. But shit man, it was like being jabbed with a red hot poker.
It was a very short kiss on the cheek or chin. Now the mosquitoes really like UCS’s presence, so much they came in the house to visit and share. They probably wished he’d stayed longer, as did I. Mostly as a diversion though.
Actually, you got gang raped. A bee only stings once.
It didn’t sting.
So it didn’t consider you a serious enough threat to give it’s life to protect the hive? You merely annoyed it? There’s a lot to unpack there.
Well, it did the job of making me move away from the hive. I was only taking pictures.
I didn’t know bees could bite. *shrugs*
Nevermind, I guess it did sting, as apparently the barbs don’t always catch.
I had supposed since there were three small bleedin wounds from one bee with no deposited stinger, it must have attacked with mandibles.
Come to think of it, there was some tingly numbness for an hour or so afterwards that was probably a small dose of venom.
On the plus side, I know I’m still not allergic to bee stings.
I’m meeting him for lunch at the wurst place in Fargo. If we don’t hate each other by the time lunch is done, maybe we’ll go glove shopping together.
Hrmm… Spaetzle mac and cheese… but there’s no ‘mac’ in it, there’s just Spaetzle and cheese, though that sounds good regardless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pusZXECS0mM
Sigh. My first crush.
You are a man of exquisite taste.
I wonder where this one will end up. A project one went for $70K a couple years ago. There is another nice one over at Hemmings for $98K. This one feels like $125K.
Man, I could get a brand-new F450 Diesel with all the trimmings for that.
Nevermind the Playboy Advisor.
The Lotus ads in R&T showed me the way.
https://images.app.goo.gl/TwJULZoza1b8hDtj8
https://images.app.goo.gl/KgMBTEgJMyKo8D6v7
This one instead for the first one.
https://images.app.goo.gl/RmNiorCJioxASfcN8
That’s awesome!
And optimistic…
Nice. I see where Mazda took their inspiration for the RX7 in that regard.
That’s only about 1 year of college. They can suck it up at a junior college for a year.
There are 10 days left in the auction. It’s going waaaaaaay up from there.
OK, so 2 years of college.
Just send ’em into the trades. They’ll be happier and better-off financially anyways.
Sharp car.
Tell those entitled brats to get their own damn food. It’s a Lotus, the car company that made the totally unreliable 4 cylinder sexy. If you feel really guilty about depriving your kids let them borrow it when they turn 16.
You’ve been posting links to that site for some time and…. damn there are some cool cars for sale there.
If I learned anything from watching Swamp People, it’s that you can’t just shoot a gator anywhere. You have to hit a dime-size spot on the back of its head, or the bullet will just bounce off its thick skull and piss it off.
Yeah, but they use small rifles like .22 lr. Point blank 12 gauge is a little more forgiving with shot placement.
Hell, I’m loath to shoot a raccoon with a 22LR. I don’t want to piss it off and get bit.
Join my crusade to bring back the .25 Stevens rimfire?
Actually, the .22WMR works well on coons. I’ve killed a bunch of them with a .22WMR rifle. Use hollowpoints.
I would probably refrain from shooting a gator in the kitchen unless it had somebody cornered. I would be mentally calculating the possible damage to the floor, counters, and appliances – and picturing my wife dragging me to every store in town to upgrade all of it.
+10 married and homeowner
It would be an interesting claim to explain to the insurance company for sure.
I would be calculating the damage to my eardrums. Although I do have a suppressed 300blk.
Throw pillow and a .45 ?
Are you married? Because my wife would kill me for damaging one of the good pillows.
Not married, just living in sin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkkJAhVoosk
Friday Funbags will stand in for a new avatar.
https://thechive.com/2019/05/31/bad-ideas-for-the-weekend-99-photos-2/
82 is a repeat and it still makes me want to pray
34 reminds me of something that happened when Mrs. TOK and I had our first apartment. We had a male cat, and didn’t realize he’d gotten out into the hall. I went out to get the mail, and there he was lying on the ground getting scratched by a hot brunette, just like that photo. She found him in the hall and didn’t know whose he was. And nothing else happened. Well, unless you count the cat getting a bad case of fleas from the carpet in the hall.
And your beating from Mrs. TOK for lingering a minute too long?
“‘This is naked aggression against our stability and international security,’ the Saudi ruler told the gathered officials.” Use your own imagination as to context.
I might buy a ’60s Lotus Elite if it came with the ’60s version of Emma Peel.
Sigh. My first crush.
Emma or the Lotus?
Yes
I’ll have what he’s having.
Well my life is going to get a lot more interesting soon. The Coast Guard has decided to assert its sovereignty and shut down the bridge across the Illinois at 7 AM on Saturday in advance of an anticipated levee breach.
Against that background FEMA and the state version, IEMA, are doing their thing by complicating or outright blocking sandbagging efforts. See, sand, bags, and plastic sheeting supplied by them comes with their set of rules. For instance, if bags are intended for a residence or non-essential business, they can only use sandbags left over from 1993 if they took bailout money then. Also, in general they are discouraging any sandbag or mediation efforts because there will be less damage. Why would they do something that seems completely contrary to their stated mission? It seems there has to be a minimum amount of loss to the community before they do anything to help with relief.
It’s crazy.
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.”
Now bend over and grab your ankles!
/right?
Thank the Army Corps for all of that BS.
Are FEMA and IEMA prohibiting bags, sand, etc. that come with less strings from other sources?
I have not seen that.
Several families and businesses have sourced their own sand and bags because they can’t get any, legally, from the “free” sand the government emergency agencies are buying. You’ll need about 2k bags and 40 tons of sand to do anything appreciable, so these are large deliveries.
At least the code enforcement guy will be along to demand your permit and complain about the setbacks.
Coast Guard has decided to assert its sovereignty and shut down the bridge across the Illinois
+1 Chris Christie
“The rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois…”
That’s the first line of the Illinois state song. Not so accurate right now, you’re saying?
“I heard this guy passed. Please don’t talk about him.”
I’m told that Lou Reed really choked up when he heard the news.
Aside: I learned to play Redbone’s guitar version of Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehaving when I was a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6d1-k2p1Ck
I learned Harvest moon on the uke, his version
Always enjoyed him on the old SNL.
Special ed, MIT version
Some companies have hired ethicists to help them spot some of these issues. But philosophy professor Abby Everett Jaques of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that’s not enough. It’s crucial for future engineers and computer scientists to understand the pitfalls of tech, she says. So she created a class at MIT called Ethics of Technology.
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Srinivas Kaza, a computer science major, says learning about ethics has influenced what companies he’s willing to work for. “I eliminated a lot of choices,” he says and laughs.
Kaza says he wants to work with image technology, but he’s really concerned about doctored photos and the spread of misinformation. “I think it’s just important to not contribute to the problem,” he says.
And that’s exactly why Jaques created this class — for these students to understand that ethics is essential to their work as engineers and computer scientists.
“Companies better get ready because the students are going to be asking a lot of questions,” she says.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Good luck paying down your MIT tuition loans with that barista gig.
MIT deigning not to pursue these avenues will certainly slow the rate of progress at the Technical University of Shanghai. NOT.
How can we cope with the outcome of the technology if we don’t understand it ourselves?
Don’t take my comment as to say I don’t think there should be a discussion of ethics concerning technology. Hopkins require it for all biomedical engineers.
It’s just that my definition of ethics and theirs are probably going to be fairly distant from each other.
That is my problem with all this. I see ethics as “Do not, even if it makes you money, gets you laid, or gives you power, do anything which deprives other people of their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” they see ethics as “Make sure every identifiable ‘group’ is equally represented” which is diametrically opposed to my view.
Eh, MIT CS grads have options, I don’t have a problem with his decision.
I declined to talk to the Facebook recruiter since I think that company is cancer, but I also already have a job and other options beside.
Companion article: the College Bureaucracy that Never Shrinks.
The article has some good stats in it about how college admin is getting more bloated every year. There’s one great observation that really points out how fake all of this is: There’s a new Georgetown VP of DIversity, hired because supposedly Georgetown is such a hotbed of racism, etc. The article points out this same woman has been involved and in-charge of diversity stuff at Georgetown for FORTY YEARS. If it were really so bad, wouldn’t that be an indication she’s lousy at her job? But no, of course not, she’s promoted. LOL
Yeah, some nice mildly dark humor in there.
Drinks! I knew my hand was missing something!
“he’ll probably be better than Clooney or Kilmer.”
Would be tough not to be.
“Be super careful. Sex is extremely dangerous for women. No matter who it’s with.”
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1127363703286960138
I think she handed over her Twitter account to Jill Filipovic.
That’s uberlibertarian Elizabeth Nolan Brown’s buddy Jill Filipovic to you, pal.
Andrea Dworkin.
I’ve heard that following Alyssa Milano on Twitter will be listed in the next periodic update of the DSM as a severe form of self-harm.
Now do masturbation.
“Sex is extremely dangerous for women.”
Another way to say ‘I haven’t had real sex for a very long time, and I don’t even know why!?’ /The End
“Barack Obama Is Lying about America’s Gun Laws Again ”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/barack-obama-is-lying-about-americas-gun-laws-again/
Yawn. He’s so 2015.
HIs mouth was moving, wasn’t it?
Give him a break. He’s suffering from a bad case of BBH (Bolsonaro Butt Hurt).
“As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great Nation, let us also stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation. My Administration has launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and invite all nations to join us in this effort!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134538168324300800
Don’t read the comments.
I thought he hated them? Thats what I am told.
Not kowtowing to the most radical end of the LGBT movement is the same as hating them.
It’s literally genocide.
Also condemning countries that literally have law codes that require stoning consensual homosexual acts, and even the victims of involuntary acts is blatant bigotry.
It’s just that my definition of ethics and theirs are probably going to be fairly distant from each other.
For some reason, I don’t think “Does the product do what you said it would, and did it provide value for money?” are what academic “ethicists” are looking for.
LOL. No, it’s definitely not that.
I was invited to a meeting of the executive board of Johns Hopkins as a student representative during my undergrad days. They asked me about the state of ethics on campus. My reply, which seems ill put now, was “What ethics? Students cheat and steal textbooks in order to bend the grade curve in an all-out effort to get into med school. The ethics classes don’t talk about that behavior, just whether or not offering a particular solution to an engineering problem is an ethical choice.”
To this day, I’m not sure that’s exactly what they were asking about nor did they really want the answer I gave.
A friend in graduate school who went to Hopkins explained to me what he called “the mole cell 500”. It was watching all the students in one class run at top speed to Molecular Cellular Biology through a side door in a hall.
Naturally he and some of his fraternity brothers chained this particular door shut turning it into a dead end.
It played out like the marching band lead astray during the parade in “Animal House”.
I know exactly where that happened.
In my experience, the subspecies of academic ethicists that pass themselves off as “bio-ethicists” assume that nobody has agency and can or should make their own decisions.
Now, this would seem to mean that the very concept of ethics is incoherent, but they don’t pack up shop and leave. Oh, no.
They then go on to say that ethics requires that people be denied care, or in rare circumstances, receive treatments regardless of whether they want it or not.
They have managed to create an ethical system that is so counter-intuitive and internally contradictory that any listener is struck dumb while the struggle to formulate a response. This allows the bio-ethicist to make xir pronouncements and leave the room uncontradicted.
Sort of like medieval priests
Their job is to justify murder and death.
If you meet a bio-ethicist you’re about as close to the devil as you’ll get.
Successfully crushing capitalism! The residents there just need to open co-ops now.
https://fee.org/articles/california-town-sees-businesses-vanish-following-minimum-wage-hike/
The city of Minneapolis is working to pass a la that will prohibit landlords from using background checks to screen potential tenants.
http://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-considers-limiting-landlords-ability-to-screen-tenants/510644802/
o/u on how many years before someone gets sued for unknowingly renting a duplex unit to a rapist who proceeds to Steve Smith a woman living in the other half of the duplex?
I’m not sure if we are talking about financial checks or criminal checks. Too lazy to click the link. If it’s criminal background checks, there probably should be a limitation, like going back 5-10 years. Lifetime bans on anyone who has ever even had a misdemeanor needs to stop. Either that, or we set up leprosy colonies, or just execute people and bury them in mass graves.
Both, apparently.
Well, you definitely have a right to know if a person can/will pay the rent. I mean, it IS possible someone might lie to you to move into that luxury suite until you can legally evict them. But arguing against common sense is what progtards do best.
You mean, a voluntary limit on background checks, not a state-enforced one, right?
Lifetime bans on anyone who has ever even had a misdemeanor needs to stop.
The only time I have seen that is in the Wisconsin state-imposed background check and hiring requirements for hospitals.
Remember, Jim Crow wasn’t businesses voluntarily discriminating (although there was plenty of that), it was the state requiring that they discriminate.
Well, I’ve never actually ‘seen it’ in real life, but have read about it many, many times. One case that comes to mind is a woman who was fired from her job working at a bank, she’d been there for 20+ years and was a model employee, because they found out that she had been convicted of shoplifting 40 years before as a minor. It definitely does happen and needs to be stopped.
I fired a guy once when I found out he did 30 days in County for beating up his girlfriend. The infraction itself wasn’t why I fired him; as I explained to him very plainly when I let him go, I fired him for lying about it on his job application and lying about it to my face in an interview.
We had a very simple question on the stock application basically “have you ever been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor carrying a sentence of 30 days or more?” And I always repeated the question in interviews.
I wouldn’t mind hiring a guy who answered “yes” to that, if he fit the role in other respects. But I won’t retain a guy who lies about it.
Welll, that’s a little different. I once hired a lady who admitted to us she had a DUI, about 6 months before. The fact that she was smoking hot had nothing to do with it! Seriously it didn’t, but she was.
Yeah, I fired a guy who lied about having a conviction for kidnapping with a weapon. I think it was his own kid, but it didn’t reflect well on him when I pulled the background search after he “borrowed” a company truck for personal use.
Seriously, though, Animal. I’d have to take a lot into consideration there. Did he fear he’d be discriminated against because of something that happened that long ago? Has he done anything like that or committed any other crimes since then? Did he admit it when you confronted him and tell you why he lied and apologize?
I may not be as hard line as you on this. Humans are prone to errors in judgement and sometimes they lie, even when it’s better to tell the truth, because they’re scared for their own well being. I guess I’m just a softy these days.
A bar fight or drug felony would bother me way less than a dude beating up a girl. Perhaps not rational, but there it is.
“or drug felony would bother me way less ”
Not sure why a drug felony would bother anyone, since such a thing should not even exist at all.
If you’re hiring a truck driver, it has to bother you for insurance reasons.
Hyperion: He had finished his sentence about two months earlier. We only found out because he gave his probation officer the workplace phone number, and the probation called looking for him because he’d missed a couple of scheduled checkins.
My boss and I pulled him in after that and asked him again if he’d ever been in any legal trouble. He lied again, to both of us, so we told him his probation officer had just called. He just looked at us and said “oh.”
I can’t abide being lied to.
Shit. Animal. My bad, you said 30 days, not 30 years, LOL. My bad, I get it.
It definitely does happen
I have no doubt.
and needs to be stopped.
Needs to stop, yes. Needs to be stopped by government interfering, again, in free association and employment, not so much.
Well, that’s sort of what I am saying. The real problem I have is when our Congress critters decide that they have a right to discriminate against people who have already paid their debt to society, for life. See: Clinton administration’s total destruction of the Bill of Rights, with a heaping helping of GOP help.
One of my lab techs had a sanction against him such that anyone who hired him was forbidden to receive FDA funding.
He lied on his resume. In addition to his B.S., he had an M.D. He was doing medical research, he faked test results and four people died. Yes, he did time (also not on his resume) We fired him for lying on his resume. And he was a pretty shitty lab tech.
Hyperion, with all due respect. Fuck off slaver. You are literally (true meaning of the word) saying that because criminals need a place to live as well, Landlords should be forced to accept them.
Gosh, I don’t see how that could end up having the opposite effect of what they intended.
I have total respect for these people’s desire to live in a 3rd world shithole. Just so long as the rest of us don’t have to. Problem is, the latter part doesn’t fit the plan.
You can have the politics of a 3rd world hole and still be a 1st world power as long as you are hit by a magic rock from outer space (Wakanda).
“…nearly all the new businesses that have opened have embraced the counter service model that requires fewer employees. Paradita Eatery, whose original plan was for a full service sit-down restaurant, cited Emeryville’s wage ordinance specifically for ‘pivoting’ to a counter service model. Counter service models require fewer employees to offset higher labor costs. …The only full service restaurant that has opened since the Minimum Wage was passed was 612One Asian Fusion which folded after just two years in business.”
NEW LAW! YOU MUST HIRE AT LEAST 5 EMPLOYEES EVEN IF YOU DON’T NEED THEM!
Like the CBC.
“NEW LAW! YOU MUST HIRE AT LEAST 5 EMPLOYEES EVEN IF YOU DON’T NEED THEM!”
You forgot ‘And pay them at least $15 an hour and never be able to fire or lay them off, even if they sleep on the job all day’. Because hey, their version of reality is sleeping on the job all day and getting paid $15 an hour for it, and if you disagree, you’re racist. We win, you lose, bagger!
“Friday Afternoon Drinks – I mean Links”
And by links, some of us mean drinks. *takes last drink of first beer. Struggles with ambition to get up and go to fridge for another*
Seems like the Dems are more focused on pandering to the media than to voters. I mean if this is your biggest problem, you have no problems.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/31/warren-elect-well-change-law-let-doj-indict-sitting-presidents/
Seems to be showing as well.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/31/poll-trumps-job-approval-hits-48-highest-2-years/
Incredible.
‘WHAT? WHADDYA MEAN WE CAN’T INDICT A SITTING PRESIDENT? NEW LAW!’
‘WHAT? WHADDYA MEAN WE LOST THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE BUT WON THE POP VOTE? NEW LAW!’
‘WHAT? WHADDYA MEAN INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY? NEW LAW!’
Unprincipled retards the Democrats.
“well change law let doj indict sitting presidents”
Sure you will, until your guy is in power.
You’d expect a Harvard Law professor to know that (i) there is no law or Constitutional provision prohibiting the indictment of a sitting President, (ii) both special prosecutors who previously investigated sitting Presidents concluded that they damn well could indict a sitting President, (iii) Mueller’s report itself never said that he couldn’t indict a sitting President and stated that impeachment and indicting after he left office were inadequate remedies, and (iv) the only barrier to doing so is a completely non-binding internal DOJ opinion.
What she really wants is a new law requiring that any sitting Republican President be indicted.
Why stop at President?
“You’d expect a Harvard Law professor”
Considering that I know WHO the Harvard law professor is, I would either expect her to know nothing, or lie about it for political gain (I’m a real Cherokee, did you see these high cheek bones!).
Facialized.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/31/attorney_general_william_barr_i_dont_care_about_my_reputation_i_took_this_job_to_protect_our_institutions.html
No wonder the Democrats want his scalp.
No man is more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose.
Not to harp on the Amash tweets but this is one of the reasons why I can’t fully get on board with him. If Trump was obstructing the investigation, call him out on it, but to not say anything about how the investigation took place and the reasons why seems a tad bit disingenuous.
If Amash could give just one example of what Trump did that meets the legal standard for obstruction, that would help.
But he hasn’t. He just sort of handwaves at the Mueller report “Look, its so long! It wouldn’t be that long if Trump weren’t a criminal. Trump said a lot of stuff but never confessed and never fell for the perjury trap” seems to be his argument.
Trump didn’t drop his trousers and bend over.
I’ve really lost a lot of respect for Amash because of that. All this handwaving about “there’s gotta be a pony in there somewhere” is burning a lot of goodwill.
I loved his posting after every vote _why_ he voted a given way – more of that by more politicians, please.
Yes.
Trump will eventually go away. The administrative state is here to stay.
Barr just impresses the hell out of me. He has nothing to lose and is the smartest person in the room.
Machine learning FTW!
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/31/deepfake-porn-ethics-able-watch-whatever-imagination-desires-9526079/
The first question that I arrive at is not how this might be used for slander, but whether it can remove the ink that ruins perfectly good complexions.
Cartoon is great:) wtf
Are you saying that if I buy one of those new AI companion bots, it can turn me into a porn star? Where can I get one of those, again? Couldn’t find it on Amazon…
It really sounds like the advent of plausable deniability 2.0. That’s not me!
Who wants to be the one to tell this guy that a lot of the gun owners who would say the NRA doesn’t represent them would also say it’s because they’re a chickenshit organization that’s too willing to compromise?
Gun control continues to be a top priority for Democrats heading into the 2020 elections.
Just last week, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D), who is running for the White House, unveiled a sweeping gun control plan that aims to reduce gun violence through community-based programs and more access to mental health facilities.
The 22-point plan includes implementing a national gun licensing standard that would require gun owners to have their license renewed every five years. It would also mandate that gun owners pass safety and storage training.
“We’ve got to change our culture because, again, one mass shooting a day — that’s not America,” Hickenlooper told CNN host Erin Burnett following the announcement of his plan.
Hickenlooper’s fellow Democratic contenders Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) have already introduced their own gun control proposals, which would include executive action if Congress doesn’t act. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) has also made reducing violence from firearms a key issue on the campaign trail, saying he would introduce a proposal that would ban all military-style assault weapons.
Go for it. All it takes is scribbling a few words on a sheet of paper, and presto! no more gun violence. And, when that unexpectedly fails to make a difference, we’ll get a new pen and some more paper.
“military-style assault weapons”
Meaningless, meaningless, MEANINGLESS.
It means you’ll have to give up your penis extension you wingnut. Statistics have shown that two out of seven schoolchildren are shot with automatic assault weapons before they have a chance to graduate.
Gun control continues to be a top priority for Democrats heading into the 2020 elections.
YES! Die on that hill again!
one mass shooting a day — that’s not America
Indeed its not. We don’t have one mass shooting a day in America. Even after lowing the definition from four killed to three killed in 2013, we had less 268 last year. And i think they include the dead shooter in the number killed, so the real number is less than that.
Hopefully that plan will include late nite basketball. That’s the key really.
Because no one gets shot on a basketball court after midnight, ever.
“military-style assault weapons”
Meaningless, meaningless, MEANINGLESS.
Oh, don’t be obtuse. The ones they sell on every street corner.
Vending machines in Indiana.
Who doesn’t like a good fairy tale?
The first MMT textbook, a 600-page volume titled “Macroeconomics’’ and aimed at college students, has sold out of its initial print run, according to publisher Macmillan –- about two months after the launch party in London. Macmillan didn’t specify how many copies it printed. But it said more are on the way.
“I knew there was pent-up demand,’’ said Bill Mitchell, one of the book’s authors and an economist at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in an interview. His co-writers are Randall Wray, of Bard College in New York state, and Martin Watts, also of Newcastle.
———-
At Westminster College in Utah, John Watkins said he’s adding the new MMT textbook to his syllabus next semester. A professor who’s been teaching macroeconomics for three decades, he says the field could use more intellectual diversity.
“Most macro texts copy each other,’’ he said. “So many professors have been schooled in mainstream economics, so they likely will continue teaching ideas that have little or no relevance to the world.’’
Mitchell, the textbook’s co-author, said there’s growing interest outside of academia too. Investors and politicians are reaching out.
He’s been invited to the U.K. Labour Party’s annual conference, and “I’m now giving workshops to the financial community,’’ he said. “They’ve suddenly realized this is something they need to understand.’’
And they all lived happily ever after.
Dam the inflation, full speed ahead!
The first MMT textbook, a 600-page volume titled “Macroeconomics’’ and aimed at college students, has sold out of its initial print run,
Umm, you realize people only buy those things because they have to for class, right?
So many professors have been schooled in mainstream economics, so they likely will continue teaching ideas that have little or no relevance to the world
Way to piss on your customers, genius.
They have launch parties for economics textbooks? That must be a real blast.
Christ I hope so.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/nyregion/presidential-candidates-prostitution.html
Dude, the fact that I could pay a woman (legally) for sex and then legally ban her from claiming a right to half my stuff, is just too good to be real, for men. And men are BAD, toxic masculinity!
Until you can buy a stout with your Irish breakfast on a Sunday, I doubt it.
Puritanism runs deep here.
Yeah, NY would be one of the last states to allow it.
Don’t forget that MD has had stupid laws on the books since nearly 200 years before we became a nation.
Idaho has the second highest population of Mormons in the country. The Treasure Valley has TWO temples.
I can drink a stout with my Irish breakfast on a Sunday.
This guy must be a chick magnet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48469798
GAH
Natural warning signs.
Good God…
Forget the question of Pattinson being Batman. The real question is why does there need to be another Batman movie?
They can make 100 more. I can ignore as many as they can vomit forth.
Because hollywood has had no originality for decades.
Because we need moody millenial Batman.
Because they make money.
Nobody needs 23 “different” Batman movies.
Counterpoint: The Dark Knight is the best superhero movie ever. Period. Hands down. Fight me. It gets quoted here daily. It is one of the best movies ever made, and if they had stopped making Batman movies after Clooney and Kilmer it would never have been made.
I loved all three of the Nolan Batman movies. The joker was fantastic and I loved the over-the-top wrestling character of bane.
I just re-watched Deadpool 2. It was a comedy, action movie, and romance. Comedy is really hard to pull off as a writer and an actor. And Ryan Reynolds is absolutely perfect in that role. He also perfectly pulls off the romance as a leading man. And yet I don’t remember him receiving any love from the critics.
In a trend that I first remember noticing when Steve Martin did not get nominated for Roxanne, the academy does not like comedy. It also does not like Blockbusters or action movies. But if you can’t appreciate that performance, you really shouldn’t be a film critic.
(I have to temper that criticism a little bit because a quick Google search shows that he was nominated for a Golden globe for Deadpool and for a critics choice award for the same movie)
“…the academy does not like comedy…” Quite true, although Kevin Kline won a best supporting actor for A Fish Called Wanda, and Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture (it’s more a comedy than a romantic comedy).
The NYT is prohibiting their reporters from appearing on Maddow and some other MSNBC and CNN shows because they’re too partisan:
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/31/nyt-bans-reporters-maddow-odonnell-lemon-partisanship/
Something something when you’ve lost the NYT etc.
Horse, barn door, etc.
Let me know when they get rid of Sarah Jeong for being a raving racist lunatic.
I am drinking a Negroni. All is well.
It would be better to be drinking a Negroni with Negroni, but that still sounds pretty nice.
I am ashamed to admit that
1. this is the first time I’ve actually made one at home – had to go out for gin & Campari.
2. I do not have an orange peel garnish – it could probably use it.
I will, however, attempt to redeem myself my making David Lebovitz’s Negroni slush sometime this summer.
I struggled mightily with the classic Negroni. I like bitter flavors, but Campari – holy shit. I should probably undertake the long and arduous process of developing a Negroni recipe that I like. Dozens of Negronis, using different gins, different proportions – it will be a brutal slog . . . .
Just sub Aperol for Campari?
I learned the hard way the reason it calls for sweet vermouth. With that small change, it became sublime – for me, at least.
I don’t garnish anything (except martinis with olives). I will play around with various bitters if I want some accent.
It’s not Negroni o’clock for me yet, but soon….
I am drinking Glenmorangie. It is a crisp and tasty treat. Not much smoke or peat, but very very crisp.
Since I am in a pedantic mood today:
Leaving aside whether an abortion endanger anyone’s life, Is an abortion medical care? Sure, its a medical procedure, but I don’t think every medical procedure is medical care (nose job?). Having a big nose isn’t an illness that is being treated by a nose job, and being pregnant isn’t an illness that is being treated with an abortion.
Sometimes it’s medical care, sometimes it’s a procedure, just like nose jobs.
More often, it’s a procedure but the pro choice lobby would have you think it’s always care.
I suppose a more accurate description would be it’s always a procedure, but only sometimes required care.
I like how they call abortion part of women’s reproductive rights. Um, the reproduction has already taken place by the time some lady decides to have an abortion. Whatever one’s position, abortion has nothing to do with “reproductive rights”.
Look, right to chose! And by that, I mean to chose things I like! YOU only have a right to chose something if I like it. Chose to put whatever you like into your own body? Racist! Chose to pay another person for sex with no long term contract in place? Racist! I hope you get it now. / Wiminz
The human being primarily interacted with in an abortion is dismembered. If abortion is medical care, so is drawing and quartering.
Dude. They conflate insurance with medical care. At least they recognize a doctor is involved.
Man, this supplier is putting me thru the wringer trying to get an account set up. Three phone calls, multiple emails… All over some disposal bags.
Swedes….
This thing reeks of tinpot 3rd world dictators and Saudi princes, but still cool.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/take-a-look-at-the-most-expensive-suv-in-the-world-the-karlmann-king.html
That’s hideous.
I can smell the Drakkar from here.
LOL yup
“That’s hideous.”
Yeah, it’s real bad. It’s like Ancient Egypt meets the Lee Iacocca era.
The Batmobile after he gets married and has kids.
When you’re looking for transportation that just screams, “I’m a douche.”
If I spend 1.9 mill on an armored vehicle it better fucking have a cannon. I don’t give a damn about chrome, can my supercar kill a bitch that needs killin’?
Yes. You put them behind the driver’s seat and let them drive off. It’s a single use weapon.
I must have this truck.
Margaret Sanger never existed.
““I’ve been studying this stuff for 40 years, and I’ve never been able to find a leader of the eugenics movement that came out and said they supported abortion,” Lombardo said.”
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/31/clarence-thomas-tried-link-abortion-eugenics-seven-historians-told-post-hes-wrong/?outputType=amp
… the eugenicist views she dabbled in as her career went on …
She just dabbled in eugenics, so it’s totes cool.
“Dabbled” means continuously and actively promoting abortion as a way to get rid of the undesirables.
Sure, she didn’t. Neither did Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, or She Guevara. You need to lurnt yourself some Historolology.
– Plecker once stated, “As much as we held in esteem individual Negroes this esteem was not of a character that would tolerate marriage with them, though as we know now to our sorrow much illegitimate mixture has occurred.” Plecker added, “If you desire to do the correct thing for the negro race … inspire (them) with the thought that the birth of mulatto children is a standing disgrace.”
South Africa’s current leadership is in complete agreement with you. But totally NOT racist.
Plecker can kiss my brown ass.
Is it brown on the left or the right?
Or front/back?
Left vs right makes it a Star trek reference. Front vs. Back just makes it weird.
I think it would be weird either way, TBH.
Got the Trek reference. I was trying to be edgy and hip. How did I do?
I laughed. But that is also a sign of the weird.
And every smoking hot actor and model in Hollywood of mixed heritage underscores his idiocy.
I got off of an airplane in Newcastle England (very north), looked around and thought…hmmmm, so that is what white people look like.
I got off of an airplane in [redacted] where there is a population of blacks genetically isolated and thought…hmmmm, so that is what black people look like.
I got off of an airplane in take your pick USA and thought…hmmm everyone here is mixed.
Which is why we are so much better looking than the rest of the world!
/Jingoist
And smarter. Mutts generally are.
Hybrid vigor FTW!
I thought the term was “Ugly American”.
Even if Thomas is wrong about the views of the early leaders of the eugenics movement, it has no bearing on the truth value of his central thesis: “Abortion is an act rife with the potential for eugenic manipulation.”
As is forced sterilization, also a common component of the eugenics movement.
Oh, the fucking WaPo. I am not even going to read that. Reading The Flat Earther Newsletter would have more truth in it.
I miss all the copies of Fortean Times my brother used to drop on me when he’d visit.
Listen bub, I looked at the Eugenic’s Movement’s web page for their leaders, and her name wasn’t on the list
Check-MATE science deniers!
from wiki so (Shruggy thing)
Flyers she distributed to women exhorted them in all capitals: “Do not kill, do not take life, but prevent.”[126]:155 Sanger’s patients at that time were told “that abortion was the wrong way – no matter how early it was performed it was taking life
As I recall, Sanger’s opposition to abortion was based on the fact that it was unsafe for the mother, and for no other reason. She was definitely pro sterilization and a eugenicist in the vein of Plecker.
Given her views on other procedures and the views of her organization which immediately became the provider for abortions only 4 years after her death, I gave a hard time believing she had an opposition to abortion as long as it was medically safe for the mother.
That’s one of the reasons she favored sterilization over abortion. Abortion only takes care of one at a time, sterilization solves the problem she was trying to solve.
Buck v Bell is a myth. and retarded white girls should be sterilized anyway…
Well they are White…..
Soooo…. The government was spying on Trump’s attorneys comminication with Flynn’s attorneys?
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/446410-prosecutors-release-flynn-voicemail-transcript-that-mueller-examined
Uh…. How is that legal?
“It’s attorney-client privilege, not attorney-attorny privilege”, I’m sure, never mind that spying on the latter could compromise the former.
They were a part of a joint defense agreement. Flynn was in the act of pulling out of that joint defense agreement. All communications between the two teams of lawyers are privileged.
My brother is an attorney and he thinks that they may have turned it over as a part of a plea deal.
I should not have used the word thanks. I should have used the word speculates
Shiff to deep state: report everything Barr is looking into so that I can protect you
https://www-politico-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/05/31/adam-schiff-william-barr-declassify-documents-1349063?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fstory%2F2019%2F05%2F31%2Fadam-schiff-william-barr-declassify-documents-1349063
They’re scared.
But that is not obstruction of justice.
And they should be.
They needn’t be. It’s been long ago established that, as a Congress critter, I am completely immune from the laws that govern you little people. No law, no anything needed to establish that fact. If I can get elected to the US Senate, tomorrow, I can drive down Pennsylvania Ave at more than 200 MPH, high on whatever drugs I chose to take, drunker than fuck, BAC higher than ever recorded before, and kill multiple pedestrians and NOTHING will happen to me. Prove me wrong. And that is pretty shit compared to what I can do for human rights violations just by voting yes on some legislation.
A congress critter from what Party?
I try not to wish ill things on anybody, but damn, Schiff is a weasely cockbag.
Municipal Center shooting in Virginia Beach
11 dead is what I am seeing.
Disgruntled long time employee fired yesterday…shitty all around.
Hidden tidbit nobody is noticing:. Steele is willing to work with the IG but not with Barr’s prosecutor. That is pretty revealing about his expectations of who would cover for them and who might not….
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/william-barr-dishes-on-what-huber-horowitz-and-durham-are-investigating
“The DOJ inspector general also said it would “review information that was known to the DOJ and the FBI at the time the applications were filed from or about an alleged FBI confidential source. Additionally, the OIG will review the DOJ’s and FBI’s relationship and communications with the alleged source as they relate to the FISC applications.” The “source” is Christopher Steele, the British ex-spy whose unverified dossier was used by the FBI to obtain FISA warrants against Page.
Steele has communicated in recent days that he’d be willing to cooperate with Horowitz but not with Durham.”
Batman is now a Soy Boy? I somehow woke up in the wrong timeline today.
I don’t understand that choice at all. Maybe it is because I have not seen his other work. But his signature work was absolutely horrific, as well as every other member that cast.
I have that down as my worst movie ever made. Not because it was actively awful, but because it aggressively laid there flat as a pancake doing absolutely nothing, just like the actors. It wasn’t boldly incompetent or aggressively awful. It was just a giant empty nothingness delivered with terrific blandness.
Maybe they’re trying to get teenage girls (now in their twenties, surely) into DC movies.
I watched two of Nolan’s batman movies last week and they are dumb, dumb fun. As good as it gets with comic books, which isn’t saying much but says a lot given how good Nolan’s interpretation is. But the source material is godawful. God, I hate comic books.
I kinda think maybe DC should give it a rest with Batman for awhile.
“do you feel in charge?”
https://youtu.be/bCXTu5jE-Ng
I love that movie. There are probably 20 quotable lines in there.
It is in the same vein as “they live” for quotable moments.
I don’t know if I mentioned it before but a few years ago my father sold the house my grandfather lived in. He and I went over and got all of the stuff we wanted. One of the things I found was a treasure trove of family photographs that I had never seen before.
I have been trying to scan them all , save them to memory sticks and mail out to other family members. Because of the mixed race discussion that came up over the planned parenthood eugenics program and my noting that most Americans are mixed I will post this one. She was Cherokee. I have no date. I forgot her name but my father knows it, I will have to ask him.
https://postimg.cc/Xrd8m0fz
Cool. I have a Cherokee ancestor as well, and have pictures and a story. We both trump Liz.
Nice. I ended up the curator of my and my wife’s family photos. One of my wife’s GG Grandmothers was Crow. We have only a poor xerox of a bad photo of her.
Her Alabama/Florida panhandle family mostly denied it. Until they discovered they could get college entrance preference and then there was a big effort to prove it.
Fantastic photograph!
I wish we had photographs from that era. our family tree is mostly German, but there are both Creek and Cherokee in there somewhere. At least that’s what family legend says. We can trace our family tree back to the 1500’s, but there are large chunks here in America that are missing. Among those chunks are my grandfather’s maternal lineage. Somewhere up in there are two native Americans. But the earliest photographs we have are of my grandfather heading off to world war I in his uniform.
Not saying they were poor, but they never called themselves dirt poor….. Because I don’t think they could afford dirt. So I don’t think there were a lot of photography enthusiasts in my family during that era.
That is a tin type and I have some others but no names to put with them. I have one great uncle who might know who they are. I plan to visit him soon and ask.
https://postimg.cc/V5XXzFrJ
https://postimg.cc/y3ndkWCb
https://postimg.cc/5j5sNz62
https://postimg.cc/fVyCKg5V
https://postimg.cc/4Yj614m0
This fellow I know. Benjamin Huffman, one of the first settlers in Catahoula parish and my GG Grandfather.
https://postimg.cc/hJbX7KxT
Cool stuff. I’ll post a few family photos this weekend you should get a kick out of. Stills and mules and men with firearms.
Sorta looks like Freddie Mercury…
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Last one I will post. I know this one too. GGG Grandfather Joseph Sandifer and Cynthia Enterkin. Also first settlers in a swampy wilderness. I have no date. The horse is named Grey Buck.
How many people have a photo of their ggg grandfather?
My cousin has one of ours. I’m trying to get a hold of it. He looks like Red Foxx.
Entrikin is a common Quaker name in Chester County, PA. They came over with William Penn. Any ties back to there?
Your Friday Afternoon Nut Punch:
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/body-cam-sheriff-orders-cops-kill/
What the fuck.
The author forgot to end the article though;
“And nothing else happened.”
Seeing this shit makes me want to hoist the black flag sooner rather than later.
The shooting was ruled justified. That’s WTF.
Nice to see the cops who did the executing blubber afterward. Not that he is showing true remorse, but he knows damn well that he took a life and that it was fucking murder. I hope that piece of shit slept his last peaceful night.
Ugh…from a Sheriff no less. ASSHOLE.
More observations in faint defense of the sheriff.
if you listen to the call outs on the radio that he is hearing, it sounds like this guy has rammed several police cars probably injuring at least one officer. The guy on the radio keeps saying here and him again. he is referring to the police officer who is making an in-depth attempt to do a pit maneuver on a trailer, which is doomed to fail.
so he cannot see what is happening and he hears that this guy is ramming into people left right and sideways taking out at least two vehicles. so he says do not try to ram him get a shotgun and take him out. I suppose his thinking at the time is that this guy is using his truck as a deadly weapon and is slamming into people and he does not want his officers getting killed.
which is why you don’t hire a bunch of guys who barely survived high school and then give them guns to run around and shoot at people. They needed someone intelligent on the scene to take control. Somebody needed to tell that guy who kept ramming into the trailer to back off.and someone else needed to do a better job of coordinating their attempt to box him in.
And stacking a little more on to the victim culpability, he wasn’t just not stopping, once they tried to box him in he gave up on avoiding hitting anyone and started bumping them back. I get being scared, but that goes way beyond evading police and even beyond reckless driving.
That being said, the people of that county should take this as a lesson. Don’t hire a d****** to be your sheriff and you won’t have to pay out multimillion-dollar settlements.
Some of that got garbled, but the point was that the radio call outs from the officers on the scene made it sound like their attempts to ram into the fleeing suspect were actually the suspect ramming into them.
I agree but if its car on car action…no justification to just pop him dead.
Watching the other cam when the sheriff is trying to justify to the deputy who just killed someone…wasnt good.
Oh yeah… they have no excuse. Hence the “faint defense”. Dude is a moron and at least somewhat amoral.
Dude on the scene was suffering from adrenaline overload – hence the ready willingness to follow the “deadly force authorized” instruction to “get your shotgun” and put an end to this guy.
What we have here is the perfect confluence of stupid, panicky and at least temporary amorality. But the victim and the deputies were stupid and panicky. At least one deputy was temporarily amoral to go along with stupid. And that sheriff…. wow. He spent most of the story being ignorant to go along with his stupid (ignorant meaning not knowing the real facts), but then he went full “us vs them” evil for at least a little while. And then I suppose everyone fell into cover for each other team-based behavior.
Interesting to see where this leads. Commendations all around? Promotions?
“While chasing the Lawrence, KS tornadic supercell, we were hit with a rain-wrapped satellite tornado 2 miles southeast of the parent circulation,”
Awhile back I learned the term “rain-shielded”. That seems applicable here. And this is why I once was against helping my dad get stuff off of the beach after we saw funnel clouds crossing the sound that became enveloped in rain.
RIP, Roky.
The motorcyclist fired his gun three times, striking the man in each arm and once to the torso. The man is in serious condition at Bayfront Medical Center.
3 shots and 3 hits. If he was a cop he would have had to empty the mag.
And still miss.
A lot of people might think you are being hyperbolic, but I remember Jose Guereno.
5 full magazines from 16 feet or so and they only managed 22 peripheral hits. They had to leave him there for 2 and 1/2 hours to bleed out on the kitchen floor while his wife pleaded for them to let the paramedics in.
they did manage to hit a couple of nearby houses and turn the walls of his entry hallway into swiss cheese though.
Robert Pattinson Is Officially ‘The Batman’
This doesn’t really work for me but am sure he will others will see him gleam brilliantly in this role.
Boooooo….