It’s a delightful Sunday, and I think I’ll go for a walk before the temperatures exceed 120°. SP is in the next room sleeping it off, I’m on my third cup of coffee and ready to wash the car, paint the house, dig a canal to Matamoros, and develop a Unified Field Theory. But first… links.
Some very auspicious birthdays today, leading off with the best libertarian fiction writer ever; the downfall of a great comic; one of the few people who could keep up with Les Paul; the drummer for the greatest rock band in history; and an exceptionally funny woman.
“Bargaining” in the Kubler-Ross progression.
“This is spoils. And I’m not even going to bother to pretend otherwise.”
“And here’s my gay vice president.”
This surprises no-one. h/t Lt Fish via Twatters
Sad news: the death of the godfather of bossa nova.
Trust Illinois to fuck up even an excellent idea.
“I love to talk about undoing Western civilization because it’s just so romantic to me.”
Old Guy Music is my bit of affirmative action and cultural appropriation- let the white guys play a hard bop rendition of a bossa nova classic. And they do, the solos here are nuts. And SP observes that Bill Watrous was in… an awkward phase. But holy shit, what playing!
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
He’s still wrong, no matter how many times you people repeat it.
Division of labor is for chumps.
:starves to death:
He was referring to ability, not vocation.
But that’s not what he said.
That makes sense.
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
Lul.
Return to you cell, Prisoner Cy.
I smile thinking about how many redlights I went through this morning.
I always attribute that to Bernardo de la Paz.
I never know whether to credit the character or the author. The author may not agree with everything a character says.
You need multiple skills to move with the changes in comparative advantage.
Cant both Ricardo and Heinlein both be right?
LOL. This a libertarian site.
I’m OK with doing all that except changing a diaper. Having human feces on my hands? Nope nope nope nope.
When it’s your child, it’s not as gross. Your child is an extension of you.
Hmm… nothing bad has ever happened from the Federal Government pushing for more loans in redline areas, right?
And Her plan would also seek to increase credit access by alter crediting reporting standards to include payments on credit cards, student loans, auto loans, and mortgage payments. I was pretty sure that stuff is included in credit reporting now. Odd.
And good morning, OMWC and other glibs!
And apparently I had no idea that quote tags don’t work here. Sigh. Sorry.
They do, but you have to accommodate WordPress’s version. Italics are “em” and bold is “strong” instead of “i” and “b”.
Thank you sir — I can program a computer, but Heinlein would be quite disappointed that I forget the nuances of various markup languages… 😛
Do you know our markup savior, Eyepiece?
(BTW, the article is a little bit misleading. Eyepiece is the more feature rich script for all devices)
Mornin’
Mornin’
Look, this lady needs some money to expand her operations into a restaurant, a spa for like minded people and a therapy center for those that don’t understand. Come on, Kamala, for the win.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/sonalee-rashatwar-fat-positivity-body-acceptance-sexuality-therapy-20190703.html
“I’m going to sit him on the front of the Downing Street steps and he’s going to do some homework there because it its their responsibility to be looking after and educating our children for five days a week.”
That’s a lot of derp.
Moar taxes needed!!
Silly me, I thought obtaining a good education for a child was primarily the parent’s responsibility, even if that means putting in a little extra effort yourself. Pass the buck, shithead.
“their responsibility to be looking after and educating our children for five days a week”
No it’s not. It has always been and always will be the parents responsibility. Now you can be pissed that the person you were forced to hire doesn’t do it, but the responsibility is still yours.
I went to Catholic schools. At some point my parents explained to me that taxes – which they paid – supported the public schools which I didn’t attend. I thought (silly me) that my parents should be getting a refund or something. Because it wasn’t like _we_ used the public schools.
I like the way Tom Woods put it: American Public Education is so bad that it is a Net Negative for most people. So much so that many people scrimp and save to pay more to not have their kids go there.
Or they move to a district that’s better rated, once they can afford to do it. (Which is what I did, screw religious programming. It’s the reason why I had/ have a guilt complex).
It was a big sacrifice to my parents to pay tuition for 4 kids. But they were committed to religious education.
True. The catholic school is the only real option in my area for a private school. I’m not catholic and never have been so I don’t know much about their schools.
Varies. tends to be a classical style of education, but the politics can range from progressive to “Martin Luther should have been burnt at the stake”
“Martin Luther should have been burnt at the stake”
That’s just facts and science.
There’s a couple non-Catholic private schools in my area. They’re more expensive and “prestigious”, several offer boarding options as well (grade school up through high school).
There are usually more options, but they aren’t very widely advertised. They’re almost exclusively religious, so if that is a no-go zone, you’re stuck with sending them to the secular post-modernist denominational school.
“Or they move to a district that’s better rated…”
Translation: move to a district where the parents are better.
RRRRRRRRRAAAAACIST!
#metoo
I recognize how innovative the Beatles were, but I just am not a fan. If a Beatles song comes on the radio, I change stations.
They’re a lot like Nirvana or The Eagles in that respect. If I’d never heard it before I could see the appeal, but after hearing it played over and over and over… There’re better things I can be doing with my time.
Like most great artists, their best work rarely gets radio play. To this day I still think Tomorrow Never Knows is the most ahead of it’s time song in rock n’ roll history.
I love “Paperback Writer” and never hear it played.
They’re nowhere near as awful as the Eagles.
Ok, I’ll bite, what’s so awful about the Eagles?
They’re the musical version of fingernails on a chalkboard.
…but enough about your music links.
I’ll say it again. I post music links based on being lyrically relevant to the previous comments. I don’t claim that they’re good songs, and if people recoil in horror, well, it’s no different from clicking on an HM link.
I’ll still click on an HM link, no way I’m subjecting myself to the music linked here though.
So you’re saying, it’s not your fault? The lyrics made you do it?
No; watching you guys tap out is fun. :-p
Watching you guy’s tap out.
FIFY
” clicking on an HM link”
Licking on an HM link? Oh, clicking, need more coffee, had me going there for a second
It probably says a lot about me that I have more albums by (and listen to songs from) the Monkees than the Beatles. I’m probably also the only person on the planet who never heard much dubstep before Lindsey Stirling’s first album and wish she’d done more of that.
Last month I went to see a Beatles tribute band, the Toppermost. And I thought they were better than the Beatles.
So all the lawyer jokes are true.
Possibly, it depends 😉
Depends on what?
Most of the Beatles work after the touring years sound like a bunch a guys with too much free time screwing around in the studio. The only reason others weren’t as innovative is because the weren’t give carte blanch in a studio for indefinite time periods like the Beatles had.
I’ll go as far as to say the Beatles ruined music. Their experimental use of track recording led people away from recording music live in the studio, and most of today’s music follows that tradition.
I say all of that as someone who enjoys some of their music, just not the gibberish that they used as album filler.
Yeah, IMHO they put out 2½ consistently good albums between 1965 and 1967.
I know I’ve said it here before: the only good Beatles songs were written by George Harrison. Every time Imagine comes on the radio I scream “Lennon you communist fuck” and change the station.*
*Disclaimer: I’ve largely stopped listening to radio.
I’ve always said that George made the Beatles, the Beatles. Lennon and McCartney’s solo work doesn’t quite sound like the Beatles. The Missing link is the little things George did.
I hate “Imagine” too, although when I hear the “imagine no possessions” line I imagine Yoko Ono living in penury because she no longer has the rights to Lennon’s songs.
I also hate “Happy Christmas”. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” may be irretrievably trapped in the late 70s, but it’s so dumb and captures the Christmas spirit so well that it winds up being fun.
Wonderful Christmastime could very well be the single worst song ever recorded. It is s travesty.
The are other terrible McCartney grandma music songs that come close.
Imma agree with this, mostly.
the greatest rock band in history
Pots were stirred.
“After generations of discrimination, it’s time to give Black families a real shot at homeownership,” Harris tweeted on Saturday.
[insert Arte Johnson crashing-tricycle gif]
And then when we have the Great Mortgage Default crisis of 2024, the solution will be…more debt forgiveness!!! Just wipe those loans off the books and let the greedy bankers suffer for their sins.
It will make everyone happy and prosperous, just like the Student Loan Bailout of 2021.
“Student Loan Bailout of 2021.”
Talk about rich people welfare….
Does that balding guy really think that’s news? It’s been a big issue in the DOD for years.
I think the bigger issue is there are so many academics in denial about China. Or… maybe it’s not denial. . .
When I’m in a trolling mood, I like to ask people which of the two Chinas they’re talking about.
Racial issues have become a major topic as many Democrats accused the administration of bias against minorities. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, also sought to address racial wealth disparities with a plan that would vastly expand the federal government’s investment in women- and minority-owned businesses.
The 2020 hopeful claimed his plan would “unlock over half a trillion dollars” in resources and “spur the development of 200,000 new women and minority-owned small businesses.”
It also would redirect $100 billion in federal contracting toward small businesses, expand access to mentorship opportunities, open a public credit reporting agency and work through certain avenues to expand access to markets and capital.
Helicopter money = Justice.
It could work.
“Racial issues have become a major topic as many Democrats accused the administration of bias against minorities.”
Huh. I’m interested to see how “we need reparations “ will be spun to make any democrat competitive in the actual election.
It doesn’t make much sense, they already have that section ood the vote locked up. Unless they think blexit is real.
I think it indicates that they are worried. Not that minorities will vote republican, but that they won’t show up to vote.
Hmmm, that could be it. I suppose a decent amount of the attention they’re seeking is the crucial do gooder white progs that will be voting in the primaries.
There are probably a lot of white voters that want to say they voted for a candidate who supports reparations. I don’t think there are a lot of white voters that would want that candidate to actually win.
open a public credit reporting agency
There’s no way that could go wrong.
Just wait until they add the social credit modifier to the financial credit score.
Let’s just move directly to helicopter justice.
Pinochet did nothing wrong.
““I love to talk about undoing Western civilization because it’s just so romantic to me.”
I didn’t think that was a real quote.
My wife is pointing out that she’s probably just desperate for attention.
David Thompson has the tag “Psychodrama” for stories like this.
Hmmm usually someone that large is seeking less attention.
That hadn’t been my experience, at least with a certain class of larger ladies.
It went well with this one:
Stop telling me how to be healthier, doc! Just wave your magic doctor wand and make it happen! Because I deserve it, dammit!
True, BMI isn’t a good metric, but not because it doesn’t work for people who are as obese as Sonalee Rashatwar.
You see, unlike her, who counsels against intentional weight loss, doctors have a moral obligation to tell their patients that they are not healthy.
No, it must be that doctors are fatphobic rubes, and not at all educated about how truly healthy it is to cart around a hundred or more pounds of fat all day, every day. How liberating it is to have to catch one’s breath after lurching out of bed in the morning. The joys of moving from one chair to another by using your Rascal instead of walking because your hips and knees are failing. Come to think of it, hips and knees are probably fatphobic too.
My BMI is high. It is high because I’m fat. Do I think it’s accurate for my body type, no. It’s an overused metric due to its flaws. However, it’s not completely useless for someone to determine that they have a a high body fat percentage. It’s also good for doctors to have something to point to objectively when a fat patient is in denial.
graduated from Temple University in 2011
They must be so proud.
Lamont Hill surely is.
As the fat-positivity movement has gained momentum, so, too, have debates around how fat folks should lead healthy lives. Rashatwar, though, considers how sizeism is affected by racism, misogyny, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism, and she counsels people against intentional weight loss.
Bless her heart.
Too bad we can’t get collectivism added to the Intersectional Bingo Chart.
So is it OK if I unintentionally lose weight!? Or is that verboten as well . . .
“Don’t you dare try to improve yourself! Keep that up and people might expect me to do the same!”
It’s all about keeping the bar on the ground. Why get better when you can just lower everyone’s standards through guilt and playing make believe!
You’re not a boy. You’re a beautiful girl!
I’m not fat. I’m a well endowed gorgeous woman!
Everyone is going to get a free house because the rich people are going to pay for it!
You didn’t take a crappy degree from a shitty college. You acquired a degree way ahead of it’s time and you deserve to have a good job and your debt paid off.
We wouldn’t want any meritocratic conformity.
*copied from some Guardian link yesterday*
I think I like the new rules. Now i can be a fat loser and demand hot young beautiful girls sleep with me. And when they don’t, it’s no longer my fault, it’s because they are bigots who are trying to body shame me.
No more self improvement for me!
“she counsels people against intentional weight loss.”
My wife always says: if you don’t like something about yourself, change it. There has to be a balance between accepting your immutable flaws and improving yourself. It seems modern man wants to believe that everything wrong with them is immutable and thus should actually be celebrated.
Her perspective, one of a fat South Asian nonbinary person…
I have a very limited perspective. It’s being blocked by a fat South Asian nonbinary person.
Rashatwar traces contemporary fatphobia to colonial brutality and how enslaved people were treated. Citing researcher-advocate Caleb Luna, Rashatwar said curing anti-fatness would mean dismantling society’s foundation: “I love to talk about undoing Western civilization because it’s just so romantic to me.”
“I blame society. Society made me what I am.”
Garota de Ipanema will always be my favorite tune
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Not the Beatles
Also not the Beatles
Not the Beatles, too
‘While the vast majority of adult marijuana users consume it without incident, advocates say, the link between THC potency and psychosis has generated increased concern recently among psychiatrists and researchers. Multiple studies have shown a persistent association between marijuana use and psychosis, including schizophrenia, with symptoms such as paranoia and hallucinations.
In March, a study in the British medical journal Lancet went further, and found that daily cannabis use was associated with increased first episodes of a psychotic disorder.’
Huh. I wonder how many first time psychotic episodes were triggered by hard liquor. We should obviously regulate the ABV on all alcohol.
And hasn’t it been shown that most people who have an episode were already suffering from mental problems to begin with? And finally, visual hallucinations caused by THC are so rare that they have basically fallen into the realm of urban legend. Kinda like the LSD induced 2D cartoon world: it just doesn’t happen.
I’d think the correlation is the other way around: people with such mental problems brewing are more likely to take drugs.
Don’t ruin the narrative Ted.
Yep. At least on an anecdotal level, that’s been the experience for myself and almost everyone I know who indulges more often than they should.
Kinda like the LSD induced 2D cartoon world: it just doesn’t happen.
Dammit, I was looking forward to that.
Don’t worry, peripheral shadow monsters and tracers are a real thing. If you’re seeing anything resembling cartoons, it’s not acid. It’s not strychnine, that’s another myth, but it’s not acid.
Just smoke a joint and watch this movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcnQ7Dlk_Ks
Blame it on the bossa nova
https://youtu.be/PaRlW-jz1QQ
Earth is dying. Here’s proof!
Three cities in Alaska experienced record high temperatures on July 4th as several agencies warned Friday of high fire risk in the Upper Yukon and south central Alaska. According to CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA, the Division of Forestry reported over 100 active fires burning throughout the state of Alaska.
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One expert told the Associated Press the high temperatures were the result of climate change.
“It’s a weather story and it is an ongoing changing environment story as well as these kinds of extreme weather events become much more likely in a warming world,” said Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy.
Case closed.
It’s funny how weather that goes against the AGW scare tactics isn’t climate, but the minute we get a weather event that imitates the AGW fear-mongering, immediately weather is climate.
Yeah, it’s rank hypocrisy. I’ve seen some pushback on this BS from the honest type scientists.
That, and privately-funded science is supposedly evil, but government-funded studies that invariably call for more government is somehow totally objective.
The Epstein story seems to be leaving some bits out… consider the source, I guess. Epstein “pals around with” Clinton and Trump. Which one flew on Epstein’s private jet to Epstein’s private island?
Epstein reportedly supplied valuable intel to federal investigators in exchange for his lenient plea deal
“This is the list of people that will go down with me if I’m prosecuted: Bill Clinton, …”
Wouldn’t that just lead to him committing suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head while his hands were tied together in front of him?
If he was a wise man he’d have multiple resources ready to drop info on his political friends if he doesn’t check in every 24-48 hours and is more than happy to let them know that.
in all the renovation chaos i seem to ave lost my passport. just fucking great
Trapped in Romania…
I will assume like dealing with government everywhere it will be a big PITA to get a replacement.
quite so
Probably stolen by the workers and sold on the black market.
that is not helpful
You can still get in the US. You just have to walk.
well sunday I need to get to Scotland not the US. I can use my ID card but will have to cue for a human. With the passport I could have gone through the automatic gates and saved a lot of time
Just show them the sheep glamour photos in your wallet.
How tall can Hadrian’s wall be? Get a running start.
That wall was made to keep the scotts in!
Why would anyone want to go to Scotland?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoXdC2zDi0s
skipping crappy sitcoms scotch
“This video contains content from NBC Universal, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.”
Bizarre. Like I said, people leave Scotland but I cant imagine why anyone would go there. You belong in the US Pie.
i cant get to the US
the youtube was Ron Swanson visits Lagavulin from Parks and Recreation
Well, they do make Scotch there, that would be a good reason.
I think he’s just visiting.
I am going to Islay and Campbeltown to basically visit distilleries
Scotch, beautiful scenery, gin, beer, castles, neolithic ruins, and scotch.
You sure as hell don’t go for the food, though I did have a truly incredible venison steak in Portree.
speaking of gin I was thinking of doing The Botanist tour on Islay but cant bring myself to skip a whiskey tour for that
the thing is I was very careful to take all official documents to my moms before I started I doubt I would have missed the passport but it is not where the rest of the documents are
So your mom sold it on the black market.
>best libertarian fiction writer ever
Funny, but the name didn’t show up with SugarFree.
What makes you think he’s writing fiction?
*takes a moment to ponder, shakes head*
You bring up a very good question.
“I am determined to bring about a day when a white person driving a vehicle and a black person driving a vehicle when they see a police officer approaching feels the exact same thing.”
I’m gonna miss my dog?
That got a legit snicker.
Cops have been working on equalizing that feeling for awhile now. Unfortunately, the reason has been ratcheting in the wrong direction.
That was what I thought.
*golf claps*
That’s a good one.
You want them both to feel miserable?
TE Hawaii:
How are they different from any of the DOD contractors that the government hire to do work for them? They hire lots of former military.
I guess it’s a question for normies as I don’t have a problem calling them not independent from the government.
Damn phone autocorrects.
Huawei is effectively state-owned through a “trade union”.
My personal experience with Chinese tech companies is that they have no ethical standards whatsoever and if it’s beneficial for them to do something, they will do it, no matter who it injures.
Yep.
in less depressing for me events the last piece of furniture i ordered arrived. Not the last I need but the last I could afford for now. Is wardrobe the US word? Or just brit? Anyhoo
Not the best looking as the budget was not very large but it is of good capacity, 270 cm wide 280 tall 65 cm deep
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-ddvwQgXInrmyoXxAlWBxU_-wnapRcr2
Link no work.
works for me… second try
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-ddvwQgXInrmyoXxAlWBxU_-wnapRcr2
That worked. Looks nice.
Would it be fair to say communist built accommodations were not big on closet space?
Too bourgeoisie
the apartment I lived in predates communism, was build in 1940
commie built apartments are awful though
That’s typical everywhere in continental Europe from what I understand.
Try the one in the next comment.
the bedroom
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-ffoRvMFli3WDQWBYZq8OVtL27BGM-yy
Pie, your place is nice! I like the floor. What’s that liitle nook off the bedroom with the window?
in the original apartment that was a balcony facing the street, Back in the day people would go out on the balcony to speak to neighbors passing on the street. Not much trafic in the 30s. Much now. So I had no use for the balcony and incorporated it in the bedroom, put windows on it and insulation. where the passage is was where the windows and door were before renovation. the best part is that my AC unit is on the balcony facing the window so I feel no movement of air in the room, which bothered me when I slept.
Very nice!
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/05/trump-administration-preparing-drug-price-executive-order.html
Most libertarian president ever. Then again, he may just be blowing smoke as usual. Still, the rhetoric isn’t exactly encouraging.
Sorry, rest of the world – your drug prices just went up 5000%.
Ruh-roh
In two separate exchanges during a town hall in Las Vegas on Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders was asked how he would distinguish between sex work and sex trafficking, an issue of particular relevance to people here. But the Vermont senator could not give a clear answer.
The first question came from a woman who said she had been a supporter of Sanders from the beginning, but wanted to know how he would proceed without conflating the two terms, and what he would do about the House and Senate bills, together known as FOSTA-SESTA, that were designed to reduce sex trafficking, but have in turn made it harder for sex workers to stay on the job.
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Sanders was again clear about what he didn’t want.
“I don’t want sex trafficking. Nobody wants 13-year-old girls to be locked up and become, you know, forced sex workers. Nobody wants that.”
Go ahead, Bernie. Say, “I believe in a woman’s choice to engage in sex for money. We cannot, and should not, use government force to impose morality on our citizens.” See how your fans react to that.
Please make this happen.
Gee, I don’t know, how do you distinguish between chattel slavery and union jobs?
Bernie Sanders was asked how he would distinguish between sex work and sex trafficking
Please ask Biden this question.
Biden is toast. He’s giving ground to the loonie wing. It’s like he learned nothing from Trump’s success.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/07/biden-apologizes-comments-segregationists/1667501001/
Don’t worry, The Hildebeast will step up to save the day.
What misconception? He did work with segregationist senators.
He didn’t convey his obvious disgust at working with them to the satisfaction of the identity politics crowd.
Oh, I see. “They came to me and I choked down the vomit rising from stomach and did the legislation with them. Hated every minute of it. Damn racists.”
What an absolute clown. He keeps getting bones thrown to not look like a loon and he just throws them back every time. Jeebus, man.
He’s still winning by 10%. Not exactly toast.
Also I think Harris’s gambit will be short lived. School busing is just dumb and she’s been forced to admit in recent days she doesn’t actually think it’s a good idea.
You are right about Harris. Short term win will turn into a long term loss.
100B towards home ownership in redlined communities.
Redlining is a thing of the past. Slavery is a thing of the past. The KKK and white supremacy is a thing of the past. All of the grievance issues the left pushes are issues of the past. They keep trying to revive them because it is all they have.
Is it too early to start drinking?
As I have been told by fellow glibs, it’s NEVER too early to start.
nope. on my second glass of wine.
also had some beer earlier
Only if that is why you’re drinking. How’s the arm?
Sore as hell but no sign of infection. Thanks for asking. That fucker chewed me up good. Last night while rewrapping the wife was putting antibiotic on it and a big flap of meat flipped over. She didn’t realize how bad it was until she saw that. She ran to the toilet and started retching. At the same time she keeps tearing up over having to have the dog put down.
I don’t know what the hell to do. I am this close *fingers almost touching* to calling off putting the dog down.
Hey Suthen, just did some catching up and saw about your arm. That sucks, man. I hope you’re taking good care of yourself and giving yourself time to heal up.
You know your own mind best, but for what it’s worth, I’ve had to put down rescue pits who just couldn’t be adopted because of temperament, and attacking a person in the home is one of the deal-breakers. We had one who had a lot of scarring from being used as a bait dog. She was really sweet with us and got along with our dogs really well, but she nipped one foster’s daughter–not that big a deal, given the circumstances–but whenever we brought her to potential adopters she’d lose her mind. Other dogs, strange people, she’d go from hiding behind one of us to going full-bore after whatever it was.
Someone who had the time and environment to devote to rehabbing her might have had a shot, but in the rescue biz it’s all about trying to adopt out as many dogs as you can. You’ve got limited resources and you’re adopting out to regular people who might have kids or other pets, not professional animal handlers, so it’s about getting to as many of the dogs who have the best chances as you can. Myself, my wife, and the woman who ran the rescue had all been around our fair share of unstable dogs, and this poor thing was a serious injury waiting to happen. So, we had to put her to sleep. It sucked, but her last few months were better than a lot of dogs’ whole lives, and she went peacefully. That’s the best you can offer, sometimes.
Sounds like you should consider stitches?
I can’t imagine being around something that hurt me so badly, but I’m not a dog person in the first place. In part because I don’t trust them to begin with.
I went through a bossa nova phase years ago. Now I find it hard to listen to unless I’m drunk.
Aaaaah, so that was my problem. Sobriety
Kind of enjoyed the link. Sounded like Charlie Brown fingering his teacher.
OT but my last job interview/lead went south so looks like I’ll be going back Stateside next month. Not too bummed about the results, but I’m hoping to visit the other gaijin glibs here while I’m still around.
Deal. Set up a date and should be fun.
Excellent, I’m looking at being in the Tokyo area from August 3rd until the 10th/11th. I gotta figure out some stuff at the office tomorrow, but that’s my early early head’s up.
That should be good. See if Tejicano and Mustang (if he’s still around) want to meet up.
Hell yeah, man.
I would be down for that. Let’s put something together.
Sorry to read!
It’s all good. I have some plans back stateside if things didn’t work out and I’ll get to be around my family again so I’m all right. I’m just glad I got to have a decent time and experience a different culture for so long. Thanks though, 先生.
did you have just one prospect? i though Japan is increasing the number of jobs for foreigners
I applied to about 11 places, 2 got back to me, but both fell through. My current job contract ends next month and I gotta change up my visa stuff/move if I get a job in a different field than my current one.
Dinner invite here.
Get your van over here and you’re welcome to the party!
………and eat it.
Don’tcha make me repeat it!
Mo Collins still looks good. Huge vagina though.
What a great show. I pray for another season.
WTF Japan
I just watched this and want four minutes of my life back.
https://en.pirikarakochan.com/
I…anime is one helluva drug.
Forget it Sensei, it’s Fukuoka town.
When ever she’s excited, she grabs Sousuke-ojisan and launches a “Mentai splash”.
Oh my.
Local Headlines: Man who burned American flag outside Walmart in York County says he doesn’t hate America or flag
$10B. Do I hear $10T? Come on democrats, don’t hold back.
Stay classi.
That Epstein story could get interesting if he starts talking.
it would still be hard to find the truth since the the MSM will hammer on the presumed GOPer who once shook Eps hand in a business meeting while ignoring the Dem who flew enough on “Lolita Air” to get Gold Status. As for big Bill, forget it.
Just don’t mention prioritization
In a shocking example of political overreach, Dunleavy announced 182 line-item vetoes to his state’s 2020 budget last week. He thereby cut the budget proposed by the Alaska legislature by almost $410m in general funds. Almost one-third of the cuts will come from the University of Alaska system, which will see its budget cut by $130m – a staggering 41%.
In a shocked response, the University of Alaska system’s president, James R Johnsen, said Dunleavy’s veto “will strike an institutional and reputational blow from which we may likely never recover”. Scott Downing, faculty senate leader at the University of Alaska Anchorage, told the Washington Post: “It’s going to be devastating. The effects on programs, on the students, on staff and faculty are just going to be – it’s kind of unthinkable.”
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Economists have shown that investing in universities boosts the economy of countries and states. They found direct and indirect effects of higher education spending that led to a significant increase in GDP across time and space. From Ohio to West Virginia, public universities have added billions to the state economies. Alaska is no exception. As my colleague Marshall Shepherd noted, the University of Alaska system provided $714m (directly) and $402m (indirectly) to the statewide economy in 2012 alone.
Investing in higher education is also a matter of social justice. The cuts will undoubtedly hit the regional campuses the hardest. These campuses service rural populations, and often ethnic minorities. Alaska Natives constitute the majority of students in some of the regional campuses of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, such as Kuskokwim (70%) and Bristol Bay (62%). Many will be unable to attend university if their regional campus is closed (or certain programs are closed).
University budget gets major haircut. Instead of taking a long, hard look at the value provided by the various departments and degree programs, the university president shrieks, “Not fair! Nothing left to cut!”
I hope the legislature just shrugs their shoulders and say, “Well, if you can’t figure out how to deal with this in an orderly fashion, we’ll have to bring in somebody who can.”
That is quite a nice chunk outta there. If only they got to cut more.
From the weather story above, some ideas of where to cut first
Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
Largest company in each state. Some interesting tidbits.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/the-largest-company-in-your-state
I’m a “professional researcher” who doesn’t recognize the distinction between correlation and causation
I’m a researcher who studies the intersections of health and politics. That means I look at how people live and how they die, and how the votes they cast and the politicians they elect alter lives and life expectancies.
In America in 2019, that means I study guns.
My current research focuses on white gun owners in Missouri—a state where politicians have dramatically scaled back laws regulating how guns are sold and carried, leading to what’s been called a “natural experiment” in the effects of a heavily armed modern populace. Many gun owners cheered these developments as extensions of their constitutional rights. But the new laws went hand-in-hand with spiking rates of gun injury and death, including dramatic rises in gun suicides.
Just needs more grant money, I guess.
“the new laws went hand-in-hand with spiking rates of gun injury and death,”
Bullshit.
That means I look at how people live and how they die, and how the votes they cast and the politicians they elect alter lives and life expectancies.
So What’s the Matter with Kansas with a very thin veneer of “research”.
Yes, let’s ignore the fact that most gun violence isn’t in Missouri isn’t concentrated in white communities and go ahead and concern troll white gun owners who happen to be suicidal for using the most efficient, painless way possible to end their own lives.
Omit the isn’t.
I’m going to guess that what an anti-gun “researcher” writing for Vice considers “heavily armed” and what I consider heavily armed are very, very different.
He’s probably shit himself going through my house, and I think I don’t have enough guns and ammo.
On the other hand, you can never have enough guns and ammo.
Ditto
Thanks for screwing it up for everyone else asshole.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/lsd-fueled-rampage-in-california-leaves-8-injured-man-who-stabbed-others-with-pencil-landscape-light-shot-by-cops
Pie, why cant you get to the US?
Well I need to get a visa first. And the plane ticket costs a lot of money like 800 bucks and it takes like 12 hours to get there. And If I will come all the way there I need to spend a few weeks to be worth it. And hotels there are expensive as shit. And car rentals. And stuff. I figure it would cost me like 200-300 dollars a day to visit the US. That would be 6k for a 20 day trip.
Nonsense. I bet there are plenty of glibs, myself included, that would be willing to put. you up. The problem with me is that I live in the middle of nowhere and there is nothing to see around here unless you like woods. I’d still put you up, feed you and drive you anywhere you want to go. This is a huge country and there is lots to see, just not around here.
I would probably be to scared to go in deep rural Louisiana, but if I am ever in the state I will take you up on that. Also I wanna shoot something if I get there
Brother, if you show up here you will burn up a ton of gunpowder. Count on that like the sun rising.
Forget what you have seen in movies. There is nothing to fear here. The people here are the friendliest people on earth. People wave at each other when they pass on the road and that is people they don’t know. I’d bet if you spent a week in Cajun country you would go rogue and be an illegal overstaying your visa.
a ton of gunpowder? see more spending 🙂
I saw online 30 dollars a pound if 2000 pounds in a ton that us 60000 dollars
Yeah, but for most Glibs a ton of gunpowder is just the “ready ammo” and not what is boxed up.
Nah, you’d be fine. Urban Louisiana (New Orleans) is really where you should be concerned about. I still wouldn’t avoid it, just keep your situational awareness up.
Pie, Suthen is right. Plenty of Glibs would be happy to show you round their neck of the woods and take you shooting.
Including me.
Your estimated budget is way overblown.
Having said that, if you literally can afford $300/day you will be having a great time.
Yes
Look, as long as you promise not to gaze too longingly at my neck, AND you can prove you have a reflection in a mirror, you’re more than welcome to have a place to stay, and a tour guide if you want to see Niagara Falls. I’ll even throw down some real BBQ. 200 a day? Brother, it’s free for you here in Western New York.
Yup, if you want to crash at my place during horse racing season, you are welcome to.
Come in late may and catch the Indianapolis 500. I won’t pay for your ticket, but I’ll let you stay at my place for free.
I have a spare bedroom you can share with my cats’ litterbox if you’re coming to NYC.
so how much is a hotel in NYC? I had a friend who had a litterbox in the bathroom and damn it smelled.
The Best Western in my neighborhood starts at $233. And you’re a 30-minute subway ride from lower Manhattan or 45 minutes to Midtown.
I will bookmark this and hold you lot accountable if I should ever visit 🙂 . But thanks.
Pie, count me and Mrs. Bum in, Austin Tx. No drinking other people’s blood, you’d have your own bedroom and bath/WC. Just need to pitch in for food, booze, and weed.
If you come to the San Francisco Bay Area you’re welcome to stay with us. We have an in-law apartment that would be all yours. And you wouldn’t be the first Glib to stay there.
“I regret it and I’m sorry for any of the pain or misconception they may have caused anybody,” Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, said during a campaign event in South Carolina. Biden said that he was “wrong” to “give the impression” that he was somehow praising segregationist senators.
This sounds a bit like a non-apology apology, but Biden should have stuck to his original plan: “Apologize for what?” he asked reporters who brought up Booker’s request. “Cory should apologize, he knows better. There’s not a racist bone in my body. I’ve been involved in civil rights my whole career. Period. Period. Period.”
“After generations of discrimination, it’s time to give Black families a real shot at homeownership,” Harris tweeted on Saturday.
Funny, I don’t see anything about getting rid of Great Society programs in there.
I chuckled that Politico included a video of the first gay man to run for President under a major party on the Buttigieg story… and that man was a Republican. Good troll.
I read the Sonalee Rashatwar and realized she looked familiar.
We rarely fully learn why a person is driven to suicide—each episode has its own painful logic of despair. But gun researchers can ask the broader questions: What larger factors contribute to suicide trends, and what might help us change course?
One answer may not surprise you, but it should enrage some gun owners: The NRA.
Never saw that coming, did you?
Clueless pseudo-researcher assumes his target audience is equally clueless. Film at 11.
Cultural question do Americans eat apricots and if so do you eat the seeds?
Outside of pies and jams I never touch the stuff and then not often. No reason in particular, it just isn’t that popular of a fruit in my neck of the woods. Regions may vary.
Yes, we eat apricots. No, we do not eat the seeds. We eat them fresh, in pies or preserved and you can buy apricot juice easily.
I’m hard pressed to think of any pits from pit fruits that are eaten here.
Almonds. Those are peach hybrids grown for the pits not the fruit.
The Pits? I had an apricot tree growing up. I don’t like them raw.
I’ve seen them when in season, but I’ve never heard of someone eating the seeds.
those look dry. when they are less dry I eat them. I peel the outer membrane though, you cannot do that when they are dry.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-n3mz6Pvsqu57ZGKd1lpL9czLMWya7Ke
how they look when I eat them.
the apricots are small this year. Too many of them and I didn’t thin them out when young
Lots of apricots grown around here. I am not a fan. Peaches are king fruit.
Never heard of eating a pit.
My totally unsubstantiated guess is that the majority of apricots eaten in the US are dried, thus the seeds are not an issue.
I eat dried apricots all the time. I also like frozen dried figs.
apricots are some of my favorite fruit but not ripe, I eat them mostly green, from fully unripe to about half ripe
well three quarters ripe also works, they need to be a little more sour than sweet. Green ones are fully sour though. I don’t much like ripe fruit, some I can eat fully ripe some I just don’t. I do not eat fully ripe apricots, or plums, or peaches, or nectarines. they need to be a little green. If they are sweet I don’t like em. Sweet and sour works. On the other hand, unlike apricots, plums and peaches I do not like when they are green. they need to be somewhat ripe.
Probably more dried apricots get eaten, but fresh ones are also eaten also, along with plum and nectarines. Peaches are undoubtedly the most popular fruit of that type though.
My Prussian grandmother used a lot of dried apricots in cooking.
dried are sweet and sugary so the opposite of what I want
Not too many tart fruits are popular in the US, with the following exceptions:
Green mangoes, some apple cultivars, and cherries. All the others tend to be bred for maximum sweetness. This is why Americans are fat.
“I don’t much like ripe fruit”
Now you are just telling fibs.
*pours another glass of wine*
its a problem because I can rarely find fruit I like to buy because people like them sweet
I was teasing you about your love of bottled sweet fruit.
oh… did not make the connection. Fermentation changes things though.
This will probably earn me a catbutt from the powers that be but what about adding a little vermouth to an overly sweet wine? Or is that considered sacrilegious?
how would that help?
A little bitters to counter the sweet? I don’t know, I’m just talking out of my ass here.
Pickle the fruit. Cuts the sweetness
I believe apricots, like peaches, have a pit, a single large inedible seed that looks like the shell of an almond instead of multiple small seeds like an apple.
yes. you break that peel the membrane and eat. like in the above linked picture
Nobody is talking about taking your guns away, you ignorant paranoid hicks
Gun control policies that don’t confront the core issue — that America simply has too many guns — are doomed to merely nibble around the edges. Everywhere in the world, people get into arguments. Every country has residents who are dangerous to themselves or others because of mental illness. Every country has bigots and extremists. But here, it’s uniquely easy for a person to obtain a gun, letting otherwise tense but nonlethal conflicts escalate into deadly violence.
To change the status quo, Democrats should go big. They need to focus on the abundance of guns in the US and develop a suite of policies that directly tackle that issue, from licensing to confiscation to more aggressive bans of certain kinds of firearms (including, perhaps, all semiautomatic weapons or at least some types of handguns).
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The problem is these approaches are just too narrow, failing to seriously address the core problem that the US simply has too many guns. Universal background checks only target a small number of people who have clear, bad histories, and an assault weapons ban targets a kind of weapon used in a small minority of shootings. To the extent that either approach works to reduce the number of gun owners and firearms, it would take generations to see results.
A better, more immediate goal, then, is to make it harder for literally anyone to buy a firearm and reduce the number of guns not just over time but right now. That’s the only reliable way to reduce incidents of gun violence through gun control quickly.
Yup.
Huh. No comment section. I wonder why that is.
Interesting how stacked the percentages are for the Dems. I’m guessing you would see similar stacking on other issues. No diversity of thought allowed.
I read somewhere it is easier to but a gun in the US than an apricot
Nope, that’s BS. They are common fresh produce items in our supermarkets (large grocery stores, the most common sort). Also available as dried fruit.
that was a joke. you know cheaper to buy a gun than a book was said by someone once
Block Insane Yomamma said that.
Thats a big plate o’ links.
Like, the Cracker Barrel breakfast of links.
It’s not that there’s a lack of ideas to confront gun violence. With the right goal — reducing the number of guns in the US — and a serious commitment to it, there are plenty of evidence-based policies, tried in cities, states, and other countries, that could work.
One way to start addressing the issue would be requiring a license to buy and own a gun. On its face, this might seem like an extension of the background check model, since the idea is still to filter between qualified and unqualified people.
But a licensing process can go way further: While a background check is more often than not quick and hassle-free, gun licensing in, for example, Massachusetts is a weeks- or months-long process that requires submitting a photograph and fingerprints, passing a training course, and going through one or more interviews, all involving law enforcement. That adds significant barriers for even a would-be gun owner who has no ill intent or bad history.
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This, however, could only be a start — the kind of thing that ensures fewer people get guns now and in the future. But in a country that already has so many firearms, something also needs to be done to take out a lot of guns more quickly.
That could require rethinking the Second Amendment, whether by appointing judges who interpret it differently in a reverse version of the NRA’s campaign to portray gun ownership as an individual right. It might even mean beginning an effort to repeal it — a project that could admittedly take decades but has gotten less serious consideration and support than packing the Supreme Court or even abolishing the Senate.
It could mean banning more types of guns — perhaps all semiautomatic weapons — and coupling that with an Australian-style mandatory buyback program, which the research supports. If the key difference between America and other countries is how many more guns the US has, then something has to be done to quickly reduce the number of firearms here.
Tell me again- who are the authoritarians Hell bent on destroying America?
To paraphrase Joe Rogan, “They can’t keep heroin out of prison, and they think they can keep people from getting guns?!”
It is only certain kinds of people they want to keep guns away from and those aren’t criminals.
‘But a licensing process can go way further: While a background check is more often than not quick and hassle-free, gun licensing in, for example, Massachusetts is a weeks- or months-long process that requires submitting a photograph and fingerprints, passing a training course, and going through one or more interviews, all involving law enforcement. That adds significant barriers for even a would-be gun owner who has no ill intent or bad history.’
And in the meantime, those law abbing citizens who live in poor neighborhoods where cops don’t go unless called, with people around them who don’t give a shit about legal methods of obtaining guns and are looking to rip you off and harm you can just fuck off and die, I guess.
This elitist shit pisses me off to no end. It’s the lament of an overprivilaged asshole who’s either never lived in bad communities or forgot what things are like.
“…the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
There isn’t a ‘fuck you’ big enough for German Lopez and Vox. You cant take our guns and you cant use the mob to bully people into your commie utopia. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
You seem a bit unstable on this issue, citizen. Let us disarm you for your own safety.
It’s the reasoning behind the argument that irks me the most. Keeping people the most inclined to behave peacefully while armed in a violent environment from defending themselves and being solely reliant on a local law enforcement who doesn’t really give a shit about you, much less spend a moment more in you area than mandatory is pure fucking evil. Full stop.
That’s always been their goal. You can’t impose “utopia” on people who have some means to resist.
The fear of violent crime is a powerful tool for the totalitarian. It keeps people beaten down and meek. You are correct. They only want to disarm the law abiding citizens. Criminals? not so much.
Violent crime is way down in the US, but you’d never know from reading the papers.
Yes, it is and that is because of an improved economy and greatly relaxed gun laws.
“ whether by appointing judges who interpret it differently in a reverse version of the NRA’s campaign to portray gun ownership as an individual right.”
It is a right, regardless what men in robes think.
But remember everyone,
Nobody Wants to Take Your Guns Away™
… And you’re a nutcase Alex Jones conspiracy theorist if you disagree.
Re Huawei
massive leaked database of Chinese CV’s
Huh. Nothing unethical about that.
Paywalled but anyone who doesn’t think that company is run lock, stock, and barrel by and for the benefit of the Party is fooling themselves.
And based on the most recent story, this issue is going to continue to get bigger.
Geez. To think I almost bought their smart watch 3 years ago
On the other hand, you can never have enough guns and ammo.
*uptwinkles*
Sorry. I tried to parse that but the “enough” preceding the words “guns and ammo” did not pass my test for correct grammatical structure.
I can believe in “enough.” It’s “as much as I want to shoot at a given time with a little bit left over but not so much left over that I complain about having to carry the extra around”
Shot my Ruger AR pistol yesterday for the first time and sighted in my EoTech and BUIS. I was very pleased with the performance. I wasn’t shooting long range but it’s a house gun so works perfectly as intended. Nice groups even with cheap range ammo. Also, popped off some rounds with my PX4 which I did some mods on. Happy with that as well.
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Where’s that like button?
unintendedEasily foreseeable consequencesAs director of maintenance and operations at Grand Forks’ Ralph Engelstad Arena, one of Muus’ responsibilities is the rink’s ice cooling plant — an estimated 2,500-square-foot space in the depths of the home of UND hockey.
And by 2020, the refrigerant gas used to operate his system — R-22 — no longer will be produced or imported into the U.S., part of a global effort to reduce greenhouse gases and protect the ozone layer.
And therein lies Muus’ dilemma: Should the Ralph continue to spend money on increasingly hard-to-get — and therefore increasingly expensive — R-22, or should the facility undergo a costly renovation to change its ice-making equipment?
It’s a question being asked in communities throughout North Dakota and Minnesota, where nearly half of those states’ approximately 300 rinks run on R-22.
Fuck ’em. If they can’t afford to upgrade, they should just shut down. We’re saving the planet!
Look, if you need a machine to make ice in North Dakota and Minnesota, it’s clear that the climate has changed.
I was a kid of 10 or so when I noticed a strange smell in my bedroom one day.
I said “Dad, it smells like Freon in there.” Sure enough, some sort of leak in the AC. Dad was just proud of his daughter for knowing what Freon smells like.
First they came for our Freon , then they came for our R-22
I can’t remember how much I paid for the refrigerant recharge here at my house. But, I was floored at the price when I heard it. Screw them. Do they really think it’s better for the environment to scrap my entire system and get a new one?
Same thing with cars. My olds may only get 22 highway, but getting a new car would probably be worse for the environment when you calculate in the process of building a new one and disposing of the old one. Especially if I get a lithium ion battery in the new one. But one one want to look at the true total costs. Then they don’t get to feel smug for having a Prius.
Pet peeve 2 – new windows. I live in a house built in 1910. People always ask when I’m going to get new windows. I explain to them that it’s better to leave in the old ones, But, people always reply, “but the new ones are so energy efficient”
Math says not to replace them. It would cost a minimum of 20k to replace all the window in my house. The new windows are only rated to last 20 years. Then, you need to spend another 20k to replace them again. That means that I’d need to save at least 1k a year in energy costs. The windows wouldn’t save me that much. I’d never break even.
My current windows are over 100 years old and can easily be repaired. If I want less draft, I’d be better to spend my money on storm windows, which from what I’ve read can make my old windows nearly as energy efficient as new windows. And they can last 100 years as well.
my windows cost me 4500 US. I hope they last at least 30 years. My mom has them for 10 and thre is no sign of wear and tear. I hoped mostly for better sound insulation than saving heating costs. My old – from 1940 – windows had some issues but still worked.
https://www.quantapanel.com
These are pretty nice. Low E storms.
I had new windows and doors installed. It cost me about $15K. Triple pane vinyl windows. I had the back French Door replaced with a slider. The water damaged front door (*) was replaced and the side door with the a pet door/package drop slot replaced.
I do not expect to have an energy savings to justify the cost. I justified the replacement on more than just energy savings. I was tired of fixing windows. I had windows with busted seals, windows with busted pulleys and springs (double hung windows, these euphemisms, with a pulley system inside the tracks), windows with drafts, and windows that a previous owner installed storm windows and did a bad job of it.
(*) The rain diverter on the roof above the front door came off in a storm. I let it go for too long. Water would bounce off the steps into the gap between the screen door and the front door. I had a little water damage. I had gutters put on.
“People always ask…”
They do? If someone came to my house and started haranguing me about my windows I’d toss their ass out. Goodbye, don’t come back.
What the hell is that?
My new windows are so “efficient” that all winter long the condensation pools down on to the sills and ruins the paint there, unless I crack them open.
Skip that true total cost business—this is about the feelz
True total costs.
Remember, Prius rhymes with “pius”.
Ahh, the old “scorched Earth” logic that Lefties always use when the destructive effects of their policies are pointed out. “Fuck it, destroy it all”.
Kind of like “If you can’t afford to pay a $15 per hour minimum wage, you can’t afford to be in business at all!”
The Netherlands’ lady goalie looks pretty damn sharp so far.
don’t be sexist. that is just her natural body shape
Oooohhh, you…
Seriously though, she’s killing it. That or the U.S. squad has been very unlucky.
MY club has a .22 pistol gallery that they open up a couple times a month. So I got this
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Rm4h.jpg
This is the first gun I’ve found that is as precise as my Mark I. I’m lurving it.
I swear I edited that:
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Rm4h-e1562514077779.jpg
I pretty much now fuck all about guns but that pistol’s sure purdy.
That’s sweet
I am hitting a 2″ ring at 10 yards at speed. It’s trivial. And makes me happy.
*snickers*
Yep. Not Adahn is hooked. Brace yourself for a life of poverty filled with gunfire and the smell of burned powder.
Nice! I think it’s important to go to the range with goals like that instead of just blowing through lead.
That is very cool. I want one.
I’ve wanted a Mk IV target pistol for a while. Unfortunately, last time I checked, the local gun stores only have ones that haven’t been through the recall. I think I’ll be fine without having the safety fixed, but I’d rather have one that is fixed or was made after the recall.
Did this one go through the recall?
It’s manufactured post-recall.
That is on my, admittedly long, want list. Very nice.
I was recently looking at that exact model on Gunbroker.
I swear that at one time the “competition” model had a longer barrel than the hunter. But apparently that’s not the case (or at least isn’t anymore). I was going to get the competition model but it comes with right-haded target grips, so I pre-bought those Altamont ones that are on it now. I think I’ll put the stock grips back on, they’re a little thinner and they are flat which seems to work better for me on this gun.
And when I found out that the barrels are the same length, I went ahead and got the hunter because of the fiber optic sight. Though the competition model does have lots of flat space for some engraving work…
https://www.tandemkross.com
? In case you’ve never heard of them.
Nice. That is supposed to be the most reliable workhorse on the market. I am still hankering for a Smith model 41 but whatever.
I am very happy with this one, ESPECIALLY after my disappointment with Ruger’s 22/45. You’d think they’d be basically the same gun with different bells and whistles, but performance-wise they’re not even comparable.
Just out of curiosity, what was your disappointment with the 22/45?
I bought a SIG 1911-22. I can hit ok with it. Then I went to visit my brother. He has the Ruger Mk IV. I could hit 10X better with is Ruger. *facepalm*
Violent crime is way down in the US, but you’d never know from reading the papers.
Three school shootings a day. A rape every two seconds. Hundreds of babies die in hot cars every week.
Don’t forget all of the misgendering that goes on everyday. It’s like the Holocaust only worse.
+1 drinking out of a toilet
It is the mission of feminism to make this statistic technically true by expanding the definition of rape include being spanked on the butt, getting catcalled, and having consensual sex that you later regret.