NoVaMoMe 2020:
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May 24, 2020
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (5/24/20)
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
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The Quotes of The Day
Quote I
“This is insanity, and at some point we are going to look back in shame as we consider it. Politicians will always seize the maximum amount of power, they can. That’s why they went into politics in the first place. The question for us is: ‘Why are the rest of us allowing this to happen?'Tucker Carlson
Quote II
“We have to keep safe, but if you’re going to wear [a mask], you might as well wear it in style. You want to look good in it.” Yosel Tiefenbrun
Quote III
“VP Biden’s statement today represents the, arrogant and out-of-touch attitude of a paternalistic white candidate who has the audacity to tell Black people, the descendants of slaves, that they are not Black unless they vote for him. This proves unequivocally that the Democratic nominee believes that Black people owe him their vote without question; even though we as Black people know it is exactly the opposite. He should spend the rest of his campaign apologizing to every Black person he meets." Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television & RLJ Companies
Quote IV
“I’m not being sarcastic, and I know your concern is genuine and well-intentioned. That said, a crocheted mask is about as effective as a balsa wood battleship.”James Woods
A man claiming to be Dr. Marc Mallory, the husband of nasty woman Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, called a docking/boat company late last week requesting immediate access to the couple’s boat for Memorial Day weekend.
But because the company, NorthShore Dock LLC, was already severely behind schedule because of Whitmer’s oppressive shutdown orders, his request had to be denied.
All of this was revealed in a Facebook post published by one of NorthShore’s employees.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves became the butt of the joke while paying tribute to high school graduates when he fell for a prank Bart Simpson would be proud of.
On a Facebook live session Saturday, Reeves started reading the names of graduates from Florence High School, his alma mater, when he came to an unusual name – “Harry Azcrac.”
The Republican, 45, read it, paused briefly and kept going.
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Born on this day: 24 May 1941
Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman), American singer-songwriter, author, and painter. Dylan has released over 40 albums since 1964, and was a major influence on The Beatles. His biggest hits are the 1965 US No.2 single 'Like A Rolling Stone', the 1969 UK No.5 single 'Lay Lady Lay', and his 1964 UK No.1 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. He has won many awards throughout his career including the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, and twelve Grammy Awards. Dylan was also a member of The Traveling Wilburys. via thisdayinmusic.com
Brown allegedly robbed the Oklahoma Capital Bank in Skiatook on March 12. The captain, who had an account at the bank, was recognized by one of the employees from the way he walked and his muscular build, according to an affidavit provided to CNN by the Skiatook Police Department.
The second robbery occurred on May 7 at the Exchange Bank in Sperry. Witnesses for both robberies said the suspect wore khaki pants, black gloves with a yellow logo, and used a black backpack to collect the money, the affidavit said.
Brown was arrested in the parking lot of his fire station Monday and was released on a $50,000 bond two days later, Shoemake said. He is scheduled for arraignment June 18.
The Tulsa Fire Department placed Brown on administrative leave.
"We expect our employees to act in a manner that continuously builds upon public trust we have worked so hard to obtain," it said.
#Believeallwomen right? Oh, wait. Since Tara Reade came along and put feminists in a tough spot by accusing Joe Biden, #believeallwomen is supposed to be some kind of right-wing plot despite the fact that feminists were the ones that made it popular. Now it’s #believewomen, as if that’s really any different. Even if we use the hashtag #believewomen, this woman we’re supposed to believe lied through her teeth, got caught, and is being hit with the sort of punishment all women that lie about rape should face (after the jail sentences they deserve):
A University of Minnesota law professor who was falsely accused of rape in 2017 won a $1.2 million defamation lawsuit filed against his accuser.
…According to court records, Parisi and Wright met in 2014 and began an intimate relationship. Later that year, the two agreed to purchase a condo together, but the relationship soon fell apart completely and the prospective property became the subject of several protracted lawsuits.
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Weekly commenter stats for week of 5-24-2020
Top 10 commenters:
1 [664 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower' [93.21 posts/day]
2 [445 comments] 'qdpsteve'
3 [423 comments] 'Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)'
4 [399 comments] 'Skip '
5 [397 comments] 'fixerupper'
6 [371 comments] 'Tom Servo'
7 [358 comments] 'Miklos the Stakhanovite'
8 [344 comments] 'blake - semi lurker in marginal standing'
9 [343 comments] 'runner'
10 [339 comments] 'Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together!'
Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [350 names] 'Miklos the Stakhanovite' [49.13 unique names/day]
2 [88 names] 'Duncanthrax'
3 [72 names] '18-1'
4 [38 names] 'A Scold of Karens'
5 [35 names] 'Axeman'
6 [33 names] 'LeftCoast Dawg'
7 [30 names] 'freaked'
8 [28 names] 'Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker'
9 [26 names] 'Mr. Peebles'
10 [22 names] 'Meade Lux Lewis'
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Gun Thread: Memorial Day Weekend Edition! [Weasel]
—Open Blogger
It's Memorial Day Weekend, traditionally the start of summer with parades, backyard barbecues and long lazy days. How this Memorial Day is celebrated in the Age of Stupidity and "social distancing" remains to be seen, but all too often the real meaning of the holiday is overlooked. It's a day to remember and honor those who have given their lives in military service to our Nation. It's a debt we carry which can never be repaid, but each of us can take the time to reflect upon, and be thankful for, the ones who made the ultimate sacrifice and make certain we are in some way worthy of their precious gift to us.
And with that said, let's get to the gun stuff, shall we?
First up, our pal Sua Sponte sends in the following range report:
I had been researching and reading many articles and watching many reviews on the Ruger 22LR Precision, a scaled down version of their Precision Series, for quite some time and finally decided to, pardon the pun, pull the trigger. I often find myself doing way more contemplating and research prior to most purchases, bit of an OCD type, however, that has led me to making pretty much zero regret purchases.
Anyhow, this thing is a tack driver right out of the box. It didn't come with the scope or bipod. I had both laying around and let's face it, you can't just have a scope and bipod laying around not attached to anything.
These were the first rounds I put through it (Aguila Super Extra CPRN; 40 grain; 1255FPS) and plan on seeing what it can do from 100y and more with other types of ammunition. With 22LR still being fairly available and inexpensive, it makes for a great day of plinking.
Aguila Super Extra - 75 Yards
I went back out with much calmer winds and put a target up at 50 yards. I've just been having all kinds of fun with this rifle. Plan on doing a bit more testing with other ammunition once I can get my hands on it.
Aguila SE CPRN
CCI Mini Mag
CCI Standard Velocity
Winchester Super X CPHP
Aguila SE LRN
So here we have a nicely documented range test using several types of .22LR ammunition. What is your analysis of the results?
Nicely done, Sua Sponte!! I am happy to see someone else who appreciates plinking with a .22 as much as I do. Keep up the good work!
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Next, our pal Butch made it to the range and sends the following:
I finally went to the range today; its been six months. Still pushing down; I need to do this on a regular basis.
I took my S&W 6906 semi-auto, DA/SA, 9mm. It was a LEO trade in. I cannot recommend this pistol highly enough. Currently, Aim Surplus has them available @ $390 each. They also have S&W 15-round mags at $15 a pop.
While I was there, I foolishly checked out the counter wares. I took home a FN Browning BDA, .380 ACP. Basically a Beretta Cheetah 85 without the open slide top.
Here's a video review of the Model 6906 by AIM Surplus:
Nice job Butch, and congratulations on the new pistol! I don't know about you all, but $390 for that pistol is awfully tempting, but unfortunately they're sold out now.
Much to my pleasant surprise, ammunition seems to be coming back earlier than I expected it would. I checked a couple of the links shown below and popular calibers are beginning to reappear. Please, I'm begging you now - if you're one of the people caught short when the recent hysteria began, please, please, please make it a priority to start stocking up as you can. OK? Please? It's ging to happen again, and it may be sooner than you think.
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Virginia
Elections have consequences as we've famously heard, and you know what influences elections? Jackass dipshit politicians pissing off the voters, that's what. Staunton is a charming city in west central Virginia, and has been a reliable democratic stronghold in an otherwise conservative part of the state for years. However, this past week saw a huge shift in local politics when Republicans swept four open seats on the City Council, flipping the city from blue to red. Think any of the recent gun grabbing bullshit had anything to do with this?
The Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms will host a series of FREE online grassroots training sessions run by Glen Caroline. Glen recently joined SAF and CCRKBA as their Director of External Affairs. Most recently, he worked for NRA for 29 years, primarily as NRA's Managing Director of Grassroots Programs & Campaign Field Operations.
There will be three recurring training sessions. The content will be the same, but SAF wants to give individuals the flexibility to choose the one that best fits their individual schedules. The sessions are FREE and will last roughly one hour. The summits will take place on Tuesday, May 26th 7:00 Eastern Time, Wendesday, May 27, 7:00 PM Central Time, and Thursday May 28th, 7:00 PM Pacific Time. Just click on the date that fits your schedule to register for the summit. We all know what happened in this year's session of the General Assembly. We can't let that happen on the federal level. Choose the session that works best for you, register, then log in next week!
This seems like a great way to learn what's going on and to find out how you can help.
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Free Shit
Free is good, right? I mean, who doesn't like free shit? Follow this link to free printable targets courtesy of Alien Gear Holsters. All you need is a printer and some 8.5 x 11 paper to print your own![h/t redc1c4]
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ATTENTION NoVaMoMe 2020!!
Sad people who cannot make the new NoVaMoMe date of August 29th
Due the Chinese Cooties hysteria in Virginia, the NoVaMoMe 2020 has been postponed until Saturday, August 29th. The time and location remain the same. If you haven't already, please check your email and let the Central Planning Committee know if you are able to make the new date. If not, your registration fee will be refunded and we will open your spot to those on the wait list. Questions? Just email us at NoVaMoMe2020 at gee mail dot com. Thank you!
For those of you frightened and confused by the free diagnostic targets linked above, here is a simplified version. [h/t Butch]
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Please note the new and improved gmail account morongunthread at gmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!
That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Food Thread: Skinless Or Natural Casing...The New Crossbow vs. Longbow
—CBD
That's the highlight of the menu for today's attempt at subverting governor Murphy's fascist diktats. Oh, there will be ribs and fried chicken too, but a good natural casing hot dog cooked on the grill is pretty hard to beat.
Except...I like the skinless ones too, so I was torn...standing in my local butcher shop trying to decide which to get. The butcher upsold me while I was thinking...sauerkraut and baked beans. Two more minutes and he could have sold me a selection of mustards, but I decided before the bill hit triple digits.
Long-time commenter "Lin-duh" asked about gas grills last week, but shockingly made her decision without waiting for dozens of suggestions, some of which might even have been worthwhile. I'm not sure why she didn't wait for "slap some hot iron," but I am sure she did well with a new Weber.
Speaking of which, it seems as though there are more brands than ever before. I saw a new (to me) brand while waiting for a propane tank fill, and it was extremely impressive; heavier built than my Weber, and with a ridiculously great infrared side burner. That is something that looks amazingly useful.
My big Weber is about 10 years old, and is already rusting in a few places. That is to be expected, since burning propane pumps lots of water into the air, and some of it is going to condense on the grill. But I would prefer a stainless steel frame to minimize corrosion.
Besides, just look at those grates! I'll bet the food tastes better with those grill marks...
Anyway, the brand -- Napoleon -- is new to me, so I won't be buying one until I can agonize and vacillate and change my mind 800 times. And that should take a few months.
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I'm tired of the Sous Vide shit. I get it. It's a cool way to cook. Move it along.
These are Sous Vide beef ribs, courtesy of commenter "ibguy." It is a cooking technique that lends itself perfectly to low-and-slow cooking, especially of cuts that need the time to break down connective tissue.
And...damn! They look great! I can't find meaty beef ribs like that anywhere. The only times I have gotten good ones is when I convinced the butcher to cut them from the sub-primals, and to leave more than a thin ribbon of meat on them. That was worth it, but it's not an everyday thing.
Look how great that looks. Perfectly cooked, and I'll bet they were grand.
Yes, it's click-bait, or an agonized and desparate attempt to churn out one more article about food, when everything seems to have been said 100s of times before. This one is particularly silly, because the only common denominator is color, and I rarely choose foods based on hue. "Gee, let's have something red tonight!"
But a few of them are classics, so it's worth a read.
In particular the recipe for Chimichurri, which is really easy and really good. I first had it in the 1980s at a restaurant in Berkeley (Mark Miller's Fourth Street Grill). It was served on a simple grilled steak with impossibly thin matchstick fries, and it is still in my memory as a wonderful meal.
[Hat Tip: Misanthropic Humanitarian]
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Food and cooking tips, Large-breasted Muscovy ducks, young wild pigs, bartenders who use vermouth in Martinis, crisp bacon (although I am moving toward less crisp), low-temperature-roast chicken, and good tomatoes that aren't square, pale pink and covered with Mestizo E.coli: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. Any advocacy of French Toast with syrup will result in disciplinary action up to and including being nuked from orbit. And yes, shaking a Manhattan is blasphemy...it's in the Bible!
Well, I saw one last fall, but for some cruel reason, probably related to AGW and radiation from power lines and cell towers (that dastardly 5G strikes again!) and the global Jewish conspiracy, they are few and far between.
Yes, it is a tough life, and I see no relief on the horizon.
By the way, anyone know how they taste? I guess you use #12 shot, and probably nothing bigger than a 20 gauge.
The NYT Continues Its Hysterical Anti-American Agitation, With An Obscene Front Page List Of Wuhan Flu Deaths
—CBD
It's another grim milestone! Of course they don't do this for any other "pandemic," like malaria or Muslim terrorism or all of the other things that kill people at a rate several orders of magnitude greater than Sino-Lung-Rot. How about obesity, courtesy of the geniuses in the federal government who figured, "What the hell...let's change America's diet to a really bad one, based on nothing at all."
What's the body count for that little mistake? One million excess deaths? Five million?
Or the really big one, the holy grail of progressivism, their sacrament...abortion.
How many dead from that leftist savagery? 60,000,000?
The purpose of this horrid and manipulative front page is simple...to sow fear in the hearts of Americans, and make them question whether the federal government is doing anything to help. And the motivation is even simpler; the defeat of President Donald Trump in the presidential election of 2020.
The NYT WANTS America to be afraid. They WANT America to cower in our homes and continue the destruction of Trump's vibrant economy, courtesy of insane, capricious and probably corrupt rules governing who can and who cannot conduct business.
And they don't care that real Americans (unlike the frauds on their editorial board) are being injured, that the real work America has done over the last four years to pull itself out of the morass of government regulation and over-taxation is being destroyed.
Perhaps the legacy media will crumble into dust as a result of the very policies that they embrace. That would be a fitting send-off for a portion of the economy that has been disastrous for America.
That's one business whose failure we should applaud.
Good morning to all you 'rons, 'ettes, lurkers, and lurkettes, wine moms, frat bros, crétins sans pantalon (who are technically breaking the rules), the low-lifes, shady characters, "funny uncles", and the rest of you ne'er-do-wells. Welcome once again to the stately, prestigious, internationally acclaimed and high-class Sunday Morning Book Thread, a weekly compendium of reviews, observations, snark, witty repartee, hilarious bon mots, and a continuing conversation on books, reading, spending way too much money on books, writing books, and publishing books by escaped oafs and oafettes who follow words with their fingers and whose lips move as they read. Unlike other AoSHQ comment threads, the Sunday Morning Book Thread is so hoity-toity, pants are required. Even if it's these pants which may be from some "take your daughter to work" event in DC.
The National Library of Ireland was established by the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, 1877, which provided that the bulk of the collections in the possession of the Royal Dublin Society, should be vested in the then Department of Science and Art for the benefit of the public and of the Society,
The mission of the Library is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland and to contribute to the provision of access to the larger universe of recorded knowledge.
On January 20, 2001, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. became the 43rd President of the United States for the second time...
Newly elected President Al Gore is given a mysterious device that allows his mind to travel back in time and relive his presidency. He needs it, too! There is always some disaster forcing him to start over. Soon, the time-traveling President begins to suspect there’s more going on with this device than he first suspected.
Read the hilarious story of the President that never was, and discover why history turned out different.
Madness, murder, and mystery permeates throughout this Edgar Allan Poe-inspired thriller!
It is early April 1853. Franklin Pierce, the newly elected President of the United States, has suffered the greatest personal tragedy of his life, plunging him into a depression fueled madness. The Vice President, William King, unexpectedly appears at the White House in the middle of the night having overheard details of an international assassination conspiracy that threatens both King and Pierce. Unfortunately, Vice President King is killed without any clue as to who could have done it. Can President Franklin Pierce overcome his personal demons and discover who killed the Vice President before they kill him too?
Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President is a thrilling psychological horror, starring the president from the 1850’s you forgot in 4th Grade. It’s an exciting read, and you don’t have to be familiar with Franklin Pierce at all to enjoy the story (in fact, it may be a better story if you go in knowing almost nothing). This is perfect for the American history-buff and "normal people" alike!
Franklin "I Can't Get No Respect" Pierce rebooted as a detective/crime-fighting badass gets points for originality. This novella is also priced at 99 cents.
Morgan always assumed that if she could survive growing up in the mines of Planet Hillman – feared for its brutal conditions and gravity twice that of Earth – she could survive anything.
That was before she became a starship mechanic. Now she has to contend with hostile bosses, faulty equipment, and even taking care of her friend’s little girl. Once pirates show up, it’s a wonder she can get any work done at all.
This is not part of the sale, but while I was pulling together the relevant bits of information for this item, I noticed that the Kindle edition of Star Soldiers by Andre Norton was on sale for FREE (as of Friday afternoon), so I grabbed it. Because free. And also because Norton is an author I have never gotten around to reading.
I hope it's still free when you're reading this so you can take advantage.
472 As I’ve said, my brain can only handle pulp and picture books during These Uncertain Times, but if you’re fully functional, bully for you!, and here’s a list of Tomes of Substance:
https://spectator.us/lockdown-list-books-quarantine/
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 26, 2020 12:01 PM (Dc2NZ
Here's a series discussed in the Spectator list that I don't believe has been mentioned here before, and if it has, I missed it:
If you like science fiction, but don’t want anything too close to the bone, I can recommend the Destroyermen series by Taylor Anderson, which is about a World War Two destroyer that passes through a portal in the space-time continuum and plunges its crew into an alternate universe in which highly-evolved lemurs and lizards are engaged in an epic struggle for control of the earth’s resources. It sounds rather lowbrow, and I suppose it is, but the characters are very well-drawn and every inch of the canvas is filled in. The author is a gun buff so there’s lots of detail about ordinance, if you like that sort of thing, which I do. Highly recommended —.
And there are 14 Destroyermen novels in the series, so if you really like it, you have a lot of reading to do. Here's a link to the first in the series, Into the Storm, which Kindle edition costs only $2.99.
Misc. Book Notes
'Ette author Sabrina Chase sent me a link to some online explorable libraries
I doubt the hamsters can handle a direct imbed but the links might be fun for people to try. I'd warn people not to try the Klementinum library site when drunk, it's a little TOO responsive. I got dizzy looking at it sober.
Here's the link, 7 Spectacular Libraries You Can Explore From Your Living Room. In addition to the Klementinum, you can take a virtual tour of Harvard's Widener Library, King’s College Library at Cambridge University, and four other great libraries.
Inappropriate Children's Books:
Moron Recommendations
Catch Thirty-Thr33 e-mails in a recommendation:
For anyone wanting to read a good book on the history of Berlin with a focus on the postwar era, I'd recommend Frederick Taylor's "Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989". The book covers the whole history of Berlin, but it focuses greatly on the postwar era, as the title indicates. Mr. Taylor goes into personalities on both sides of the Wall, and goes into the events as well. The airlift, the building of the Wall, and even the uprising of June 17, 1953 are featured in the book. Escapes and escape attempts from East Berlin are chronicled therein, and there are extensive sections on how East Germany kept its citizenry in line, through generally bribing the population whenever possible and of course through the usual measures of vicious police state tactics, such as the use of the Stasi. Finally, Mr. Taylor goes in depth into the Fall of the Wall and what happened afterwards (up until 2007, which I believe was the year the book was published - I bought my copy that summer). Best of all is that the book is very readable - it delivers the goods in easy to digest language and does so in a way that pulls the reader in and holds his or her interest. This is not a dense academic work - it is aimed at a general audience. This is exactly the kind of book those out there who were either born after 1989 or were too young to have a memory need to read so that they can get a sense of what a society ruled by a communist government is like. The memories are fading, I fear, and the sooner younger people are educated on topics like this, the better off we will all be.
I'm not quite old enough to have remembered the wall going up. I've always been curious as to the engineering involved, how the commies put it up in one night. And I am old enough to remember when it came down.
On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends, and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly split a city of four million in two...it became an imposing 103-mile-long wall guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism that stood for nearly thirty years...In the definitive history on the subject, Frederick Taylor weaves together official history, archival materials, and personal accounts to tell the complete story of the Wall's rise and fall.
On the morning of July 12, 2017, the FBI Boston field office receives what appears to be a hoax call: a man rescued from the waters off Massachusetts has claimed that his sailboat was hijacked and used to smuggle weapons and terrorists into the United States. With local agents tasked to prepare for an evening Presidential visit to downtown Boston, and with procedures requiring a response to any threat, no matter how unreliable it may seem, FBI administrative staffer Ben Porter is dispatched to investigate the call. Can Ben, untrained in field work and relying only on his wits and intuition, uncover the deadly plot … in time to stop it?
This is the Amazon blurb for an action thriller that Rush Limbaugh was raving about a few days ago, False Assurances by Christopher Rosow. Apparently, there's going to be a series featuring the character Ben Porter, and the second installment, Threat Bias, has already been released. The Kindle versions go for $2.99 each, not a bad deal.
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Books By Morons
'Ette author and short-story specialist Lisa Mathisen has just released the latest installment of her 'Glimpse' series, 'Glimpse vol 9 – BEST SCENES' which is a
...mixed genre sampling of fan favorites. Short story maverick Mathisen highlights the best of her penetrating observations and musings, 50 uniquely original tales in flash fiction style ranging from biting humor or spiritual to frightening and dystopian.
Sometimes it’s a shocking mix to keep you guessing. A wild thrill ride through the lives of protagonists you never saw coming, it has something for everyone.
Mathisen reflects Mark Twain's sardonic humor; pinches of Poe's creepy elegance and large helpings of Heinlein's ability to wrap futuristic fantasies in human frailty. If you enjoy a quick read these 2 page stories will leave you thoroughly entertained.
A Dress For A Queen Lizzie loves to perform daring tricks in strange places- the only trouble is -her day job gets in the way.
The Story That Got Away
Deidre works alongside Rodney an editor, who turns up his nose at every story she writes. Until she comes across photos of his mother’s past life.
The Lady In The Box
Pete thought he knew everything there was to know about yoga until he meets the Lady in the box.
Boudicca And Mavis
The tail of a dancer waiting for a chance, she wants attention, she wants adoration but what she gets is a different story.
A comical collection of 4 short stories, all for $2.99.
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'Ette' author artemis has just released a new Regency romance novel, a nice summer read called The Spanish Mask:
A Spanish postulant is living quietly in her Andalusian convent until suddenly, the various factions from the Napoleonic war descend upon her, believing that she alone knows where the Spanish royal treasure lies hidden. As she attempts to convince the British Commander that she is not the missing royal, she finds she must also convince him that the attraction that crackles between them is forbidden, and for more reasons than one.
So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, bribes, insults, threats, ugly pants pics and moron library submissions may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at the book thread e-mail address: aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm.
What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as you all know, life is too short to be reading lousy books.
A very useful guide to applications of common tools – you may want to review frequently:
DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.
WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, 'Oh shit!'
DROP SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.
BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.
HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle... It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting on fire various flammable objects in your shop. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.
TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.
HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.
BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.
TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.
STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.
PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.
HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.
UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.
ADJUSTABLE WRENCH: aka "Another hammer", aka "the Swedish Nut Lathe", aka "Crescent Wrench". Commonly used as a one size fits all wrench, usually results in rounding off nut heads before the use of pliers. Will randomly adjust size between bolts, resulting in busted knuckles, curse words, and multiple threats to any inanimate objects within the immediate vicinity.
SON OF A BITCH TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'SON OF A BITCH!' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need. H/T Cousin Chuck
I normally attempt to keep the Saturday ONT carefree, light and perhaps even funny. I try to stay away from current events. However, this story made me snicker.
Why yes, I'm from the government and am better than you and smarter than you. LOLGF!!!
Washington state officials have acknowledged the loss of “hundreds of millions of dollars” to an international fraud scheme that hammered the state’s unemployment insurance system and could mean even longer delays for thousands of jobless workers still waiting for legitimate benefits.
Suzi LeVine, commissioner of the state Employment Security Department (ESD), disclosed the staggering losses during a news conference Thursday afternoon. LeVine declined to specify how much money was stolen during the scam, which is believed to be orchestrated from Nigeria. But she conceded that the amount was “orders of magnitude above” the $1.6 million that the ESD reported losing to fraudsters in April
Seyfarth Synopsis: Reopening businesses must quickly prepare for customers claiming the ADA exempts them from face mask requirements.
Business re-opening their doors to serve customers have many issues to consider, and now they must add to their list customers refusing to wear masks because of a claimed disability.
Many businesses are now requiring customers to wear masks at their places of business, either on their own accord or to comply with governmental mandates. There are now reports of customers refusing to comply with this requirement, claiming that their disability prevents them from wearing masks and a refusal to grant them an exemption violates the Title III of the ADA. We have even seen a document which displays the Department of Justice (DOJ) seal stating that the ADA exempts individuals with disabilities from wearing masks and references penalties for ADA violations. While it is apparent to us that the document is not issued by the DOJ, is there a basis under the ADA for the objection?
According to the tribute, Jacobs’ friends called him RJ, but he was affectionately known as Uncle Bunky or "The Bunkster" to his family. Jacobs fearlessly lived his life in a way “that would have sent a lesser man to his grave decades earlier” and always did as he pleased.
“Uncle Bunky burned the candle, and whatever else was handy, at both ends. He spoke in a gravelly patois of wisecracks, mangled metaphors, and inspired profanity that reflected the Arizona dive bars, Colorado ski slopes, and various dodgy establishments where he spent his days and nights,” the obituary read. “He was a living, breathing ‘hang loose’ sign, a swaggering hybrid of Zoni desert rat, SoCal hobo, and Telluride ski bum.”
Known and loved for his one-of-a-kind personality and sense of adventure, Jacobs had a “chaotic energy and hysterical charm” as well as a “gentle soul.”
Meet Robin Hamilton of Hawthorne, Florida; the only woman ever to peer into the Ark of the Covenant and live to tell the tale.
Robin is a simple woman with simple tastes. She likes long walks on the beach, cuddling her favorite towel, and a roaring house fire with people inside.
Robin Hamilton, 57, was arrested shortly after Saturday’s fire behind a Hawthorne trailer home.
A woman told Alachua County deputies that she was renting the shed from Hamilton and living there with her two dogs. The woman said Hamilton had been drunk and threatened to “burn her out” because of a missing towel that had sentimental value to Hamilton.
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The Occasional Fishing Thread, Circle of Life Edition [Bandersnatch]
—Open Blogger
Welcome Piscators and Piscatrixes, Nimrods and Nimrettes, and Rough Riders of all genders to the current installment of the occasional fishing and hunting and other wholesome outdoorsness thread, It’s All Connected Edition.
One of the joys of the outdoors is its invitation to Nerddom, or the way it invites compulsive or spectrum types to explore increasingly expanding circles of knowledge. You start with the simplest question – where should I fish? Well, the fish are where the bait is. Why is the bait there? Well, if you’re a freshwater guy, it depends on whether it’s a freestone creek (water tumbles down hillsides) or a spring creek (water upwells through limestone) and the different chemistries of those waters. Then you can branch out into bug biology or geology and each of those will lead you somewhere fresh and new.
Like that pretty little feller up top. Mayflies are of the order Ephemeroptera because they are ephemeral. They get born under rocks in a stream and live 364 days as nasty little crawlies who get eaten by trout whenever they come out from under the rocks. Then they moult as butterflies do and struggle out of their bug shells at the surface and emerge as pretty, delicate, flying creatures. They fly around pretty for one day and have all the bug sex they’re ever going to have and die. Insert your own metaphor.
Of course, you have to dial in the level of nerdiness that fits you. I was on a stream once when an old guy told me that the pattern I was using was a mayfly with two tails and the kind that was hatching now has three. Thank you, Isaak Walton. You don’t have to know everything. If there’s a good shop near where you’re fishing they’ll tell you what’s going on.
That’s from Upcountry Sportfishing’s Framington River report. If you ever fish central CT check them out.
In saltwater – and I’m really a saltwater guy – it’s the Moon that’s important, at least inshore. In a forum like this (fishing Morons) we were talking about when to fish and one guy said I like Plum Island at dawn at low tide, particularly when it coincides with the New Moon. I said it always does. He said huh?
The tide follows the Moon inexorably. The Moon has a 28 day cycle which means that in a 24 hour day it advances the tide by close to an hour a day. So if high tide was 7:00 this morning it will be close to 8:00 tomorrow. A very handy thing about the tide on Boston, which includes Plum Island and the Outer Cape, is that high tide on a Full and a New Moon is at Midnight. Hence low tide at dawn. There are two tides a day each about six hours in each direction. So if I’ve been watching the Moon for a few days to know if it’s waxing or waning I don’t need a tide chart. I’ll catch the end of the outgoing at Scorton, then look at Bourne’s to see what it’s doing, then wander out to Nauset, it should be halfway into the incoming by then.
Now I’m going to tell a story about how some people are just magic. There was a famous fisherman named Tony. Every local knew his truck – he called it his buggy; he called his cabin on the sandbar a camp; I think all the camps are gone now and so is Tony – and people would shadow him. He hated that and if he were on to a fish when someone he didn’t know showed up he’d point his rod straight at the fish so that there was no bend to it and the onlooker wouldn’t know he was on.
So one night I saw his buggy at cutoff #3. The way the Oversand Permit works is you can’t drive on the beach, you drive a sand road behind the dunes and enter at the numbered cutoffs. I kept going and fished at #5, #7, and #9. It was a flat calm night, There was no wind, no surf, no sounds. It was the kind of night where any fish chased any food you’d hear the the food splashing from a dozen yards away. You’d see the bait ripples on the moonlit glassy surface. I scientifically verified that there were absolutely no fish.
I stopped off at #3 just to say hi. I didn’t take my rod out of the truck, just a friendly tonight sucks chat. “Hey Mike! Can you believe ALL THE FISH!” What? Mother Eff. So the thing to do that night was to lay out a black eel-like plug and not retrieve it, just twitch it on the surface. I went back and tied on a black eel-like fly, twitched it, caught a fish on the first cast and went home.
I’m making him an honorary late Moron for tonight:
hi mike, just want to say hello...
been fishing just about every night... had a good season so far... hope to get my second over 70#s soon... i hope i hope!!!
gotta be positive you know.
still love hunting for that first hit... i love finding those crazy fish!
when you get bored and want to do some bass hunting come on down...
hope all is well with you
take care tony
heres whats out there
‘Ette extraordinaire, the lovely and talented Nurse Ratched went outdoors with Morons.
This was our view this past weekend at Camp Defiance.
Winston, a Dreg of Society took the shot.
We had an EPIC campfire. Simply freaking ROARING. Didn’t hit the sleeping mat until after 2.
And there was a lot of bourbon involved, and wine. And beer.
But there was mostly freedom and laughter. And camaraderie.
Then again, we’re talking about Morons.
Moron attempt at setting up a shelter. It was raining slightly. And NO, we didn’t have the excuse of wind. I think the boy were just drunk.
And they refused to read the directions.
Like I said, it was a hoot.
And with that we move on to the raison d’etre of this here HQ, the comments section. Brickbats, praise, and fish brag pics are welcome at aoshqfish at sign gmail thing
Goal: Black can force mate in 4 moves
Hint: Get the King pinned in the corner
6k1/pbR2p1p/1p1p2pQ/4r3/6qP/6N1/P4PP1/6K1 b - - 0 1
Advanced Problem - Black To Play (1147)
How can Black secure a winning advantage?
8/8/8/q1pp1p2/4k2P/1PQ3P1/1K6/8 b - - 0 1
Dress Pr0n For The 'Ettes:
The new blog is ***finally*** up and running and today I have been posting all of my historical posts from 2016 onwards. It will take a few days for everything to be up to date. It's funny to see how my writing has evolved since my first years at university, and nice to see 1/2 pic.twitter.com/GtRxZsAs9A
Not wishing time away, it is far too precious, but I am gazing wistfully at floaty frocks, wondering if it will ever EVER stop raining here in the UK? In lieu of actual sunshine, here is a cheery early #1920s ensemble by @LANVINofficial, hat & all @metmuseum#fashionhistorypic.twitter.com/aN0nYCGl9y
The e8 square must be secured for queening. Premature is 2...Kf3? 3.h5 d4+ 4.Kd3 Kxg3 5.h6 f4 6.h7 f3 7.h8=Q and Black has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Back up at move 4, another move for White to escape the check is 4.Kc2, but then 4...Ke2 5.Kb2 d3 6.h6 d2 7.h7 d1=Q 8. h8=Q Qd4+ 9.Qxd4 cxd4
4.Kb2 will also fail, and I leave that line as an exercise for the reader.
Hope to see you all next week!
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Note: that cryptic line of letters and numbers you see underneath each board diagram is a representation of the position in what is known as "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", or F.E.N. It's actually readable by humans. Most computer applications nowadays can read FEN, so those of you who may want to study the position, you can copy the line of FEN and paste into your chess app and it should automatically recreate the position on its display board. Or, Windows users can just "triple click" on it and the entire line will be highlighted so you can copy and paste it into your chess app.
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So that about wraps it up for this week. Chess thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to my yahoo address: OregonMuse little-a-in-a-circle yahoo dott com.
Thanks to Jake Holenhead for this interesting video.
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Meet The PetMorons
Love the Pet Thread and the site I never miss it!!!
The first picture is our Pomeranian, Haggard. He is a red merle Pom so our son suggested Haggard as in Merle Haggard, it stuck. He will chase a ball all day if you let him. He loves getting in the pool. My husband cannot get in without him. The second picture is his sister Prissy. We first named her Dolly but changed her name to Prissy because she is. The third pic is of our garage cat, Gabby. After Hurricane Michael, Cat 5, in 2018 we found her in the neighbors torn up garage and brought her over to ours since she and our house cat, Baby, do not get along. She will talk your head off. Sweetest cat I have ever seen. I love the white heart on her chest and the painted toes on her paws. She will lay in your lap and purr for hours if you let her. She comes and goes from in the house whenever she wants. The fourth picture is Baby, she is shy and a typical cat.
We are in Panama City, Fl and got hit really hard by Hurricane Michael. People are still working to fix their homes and businesses. I just wish we didn’t lose all of the trees, I miss them. - Thank you - Tina
We are happy to have you as a regular and contributing to the thread today. It certainly appears that your home is pet friendly. Thanks for sharing today.
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Hi MH,
I love the pet thread and just about everything else on AoSHQ.
Maybe you can find room for our kitty. Just an ordinary tabby housecat but she got her name in an interesting way.
We got her from someone advertising free kittens on the supermarket bulletin board. She was the last of the litter and a runt so the owner kept her for a few extra two weeks.
No idea what to name her but we got takeout Chinese food that night and my Wife asks the guy at the counter how to say “cat” in Chinese. He says “mao and hao mao means “good cat” (assuming he meant well behaved).
HaoMao is 19 now. She has chronic renal failure, hypertension and hyperthyroidism but is doing great. Hope to have her for a little while longer. Cheers! - Eric
Eric we always find room for a PetMoron. Sometimes it takes a little time for them to get their 15 minutes of fame. Sounds like HaoMao has had a wonderful life with you folks.
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These are my good friends Buster (brown) and Barry Wayne (grey). They are best of friends and will play with anything they find laying around including someone’s misplaced boots. Both are big snuggle bunnies and very affectionate. Of course having a full grown donkey lay the whole weight of his head on your shoulder isn’t very comfortable but they get a pass for being so sweet. Buster has been known to give a little love nip if you haven’t him enough scratches.
Both of them were rescued from the kill lots. - MW in Texas
Love nips eh? Hate to see what happens when they can't sit on the couch with you. J/K. You certainly have a large heart and it is quite apparent. Good on you for the rescue.
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Mis Hum
I sent you a picture of Elvis a couple weeks ago but I saw that you said you had lost a bunch of recent emails so here is another one.
This is Elvis a couple days after I adopted him. Turns out he loves going for car rides and seeing the sights. He's a very happy guy and despite his attempts at acting like a tough guy he's a big marshmallow. - JackStraw
I can see why Elvis loves car rides. On a sunny warm day not much beats riding around in a convertible. Thanks for submitting Elvis' photo again.
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Hey Mis Hum,
You have featured our latest rescue when we got him 8 months ago. On his 8th month anniversary of his new home, Wiley got bit by a rattlesnake. He likes to leap onto our patch of fake grass, and he saw it mid leap but there wasn't time to correct course. When he landed the snake bit him on the nose. Mr. Wee Kreek saw it and yelled to me. We thought he might not have gotten bit because Mr. Wee Kreek said he leapt almost three feet in the air to get away from the snake. When I got to him, I saw blood dripping down his nose. I had to get him and our other dog inside, and Mr. WK got on the phone to the Vet. In these times of "social distancing" there aren't as many Vets for emergencies open and we had to go about 20 minutes away to get to one that was open for emergencies. The bastard snake got away while I was getting the dogs in and I will always regret that. Wiley spent about 21 hours in the hospital, got three vials of antivenom, and we spent $2800. He is doing great. He is already back to his amazing self after only a week. We have spent the week preparing our fencing for an additional layer of "snake fencing"on the outside which means digging a 2 inch trench and clearing back all foliage so we can attach 1/4" wire mesh buried two inches down and extending 34" above ground. Most of you think digging a two inch trench is no big deal, however we live on a mountain full of rock so this is more of challenge than it sounds, as well as being in the mid 90's. This is supposed to keep the rattlesnakes out. All the local stores were out of the 1/4" wire mesh so we had to order it online. I have attached a picture of our little man after he got home. His nose is a bit swollen and his neck is pretty puffy. We only could find 1 puncture so we think he only got half a load of venom, which maybe why he has done so well. Any other petmorons out there with advice about keeping the snakes out? Has anyone else installed snake fencing?
Wee Kreek Farm Girl
We are glad to hear that Wiley made it. I have no personal experience with snakes living in the frozen tundra. He certainly is loved by you folks. Hopefully there are some Morons here who can help out on the snake issues you face.
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This is Lily, tricolor Pembroke Welsh corgi, age 4-1/2 months. Mr and Ms Les Kinetic are getting trained by her.
So that little cutie is herding you and the Mrs. up already? So cute yet so much work, good luck with that.
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I sent a pic of Bogie and Bacall back when they were 14 week old kittens. This is them now at 2 years old. Don't regret a second of getting them.
Kilroy wasn't here
Adorable kittehs Kilroy. Sounds like a fun 2 years with hopefully many more to come. Thanks for sharing today.
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Thank you all for your submissions of links, pets and their stories. A wonderful group certainly!
We still have quite a full in-box here at the Pet Thread. We will get to your pets as soon as we can. If you do need to reach out in the meantime petmorons at gmail dot com.
The Pet Thread staff wishes you a safe and happy Memorial Day Weekend.
Saturday Gardening and Puttering Thread 5/23/20 [KT]
—Open Blogger
Hi, everybody! Above, a flag at sunrise from Larro, in honor of the Memorial Day Weekend. Below, the first Gaillaria of the season from 40 miles north.
And Larro also found a surprise in his garden this week.
Didn't remember planting anything. Wonder if someone else did?
International gardening and other outdoor activities
Our new Swiss garden guide dog, Gioia, takes us today on a retrospective jaunt through the woods to a little grocery store, during their lockdown, which is now being lifted with some conditions.
There was a little rock garden outside the grocery, with an alpine ground cover
And some appropriate succulents
Back home, there were early primroses and bulbs.
This week, she went to visit her mother, Bella, on the farm where she was born.
She flirted with a horse.
Back home, there was a rhododendron in bloom, and barbecue in preparation.
Sausages and asparagus. So Swiss. Cheesy potatoes and other fixin's not shown.
I have often suspected artichokes of murderous intent. Do you have other suspects?
Warding off the diseases of aging is certainly a worthwhile pursuit. But evidence has mounted to suggest that antioxidant vitamin supplements, long assumed to improve health, are ineffectual. Fruits and vegetables are indeed healthful but not necessarily because they shield you from oxidative stress. In fact, they may improve health for quite the opposite reason: They stress you.
That stress comes courtesy of trace amounts of naturally occurring pesticides and anti-grazing compounds. You already know these substances as the hot flavors in spices, the mouth-puckering tannins in wines, or the stink of Brussels sprouts. They are the antibacterials, antifungals, and grazing deterrents of the plant world. In the right amount, these slightly noxious substances, which help plants survive, may leave you stronger.
I am not afraid. Here is the veggie garden of friends of ours. Looks better than ours. We're doing weed control.
Can't be killed
Looks kinda tropical with its big leaves Big leaves can be spread to choke out weeds or thrown right in the compost bin
Can be used as a fan You can hit people with the stalks
Easy to process Can split one plant into 2
The fiber in it helps you poop * Like sour celery
Say, strawberries go with rhubarb. Cumberland Astro has strawberries!
I'm enjoying the first backyard harvesting of 2020 - my Tribute
Strawberries are once again coming in strong from my little 4' by 4'
strawberry patch. I started picking about 20 berries a day about a week
ago, with an especially good harvest today (see pictures.) This heavy
production will go on for a few more weeks before tapering off to a
steady trickle of berries throughout summer. These aren't huge
strawberries, but they are flavorful, and they're not hollow in the
middle like many large strawberries. Other than this little patch
planted three years ago I've never grown strawberries before. I've given
them no special treatment or care yet they've stayed healthy and
productive, so I'm very pleased with this varietal.
Long-season berries!
Gardens of The Horde
From the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Invisible Hand. Matilija Poppies, backlit.
Biggist wildflower in California. They spread underground, forming colonies, so the plants get big, too.
If you would like to send information and/or photos for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:
ktinthegarden
at g mail dot com
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Could you have guessed last year that
this year cutting hair would be risky business?
Have you noticed a few changes in recent days in the ways that people are assessing risk? Have you noticed more emphasis on risks generated by lockdowns just in the past, say, couple of days?
Maggie's Farm has been featuring a number of posts and links recently which are related to risks people face at this time and assessments of risk vs. safety more generally. Some of these include ideas from Mike Rowe. For a while now, since way before The Virus, Mike Rowe has been kicking around the idea of "Safety Third". A little more on that later. I think this video about putting safety first during the time of the Chinese Virus is fascinating:
We can be a safety first country, but only for very, very, very short periods of time. And then we're reminded that the chief goal of living is not merely to stay alive.
Those with a literary bent may be interested in the story told in Mike Rowe's podcast concerning the Staplehurst Train Disaster. It features a novelist you may recognize, plus some ideas about risk assessment and character.
On Dirty Jobs, I was struck by the number of safety professionals who repeatedly insisted that nothing was more important to them, than my personal safety. "Your safety," they said, over and over again, "is our top priority."
I usually heard these words moments before I was invited to walk up the cable of a suspension bridge, or field test a stainless-steel shark suit, or climb into a bosuns chair to wash windows at the top of a high-rise. I still hear them today from pilots who invite me to strap myself in as they attempt to defy gravity in a pressurized aluminum tube that travels through the air at 600mph. And now Roger, I'm hearing them from you. You're telling me safety must always be first, no matter the cost. . . .
I'm not trying to be provocative, or insensitive. As I wrote on my first day of quarantine, I have two parents in the at-risk category, and I'm terribly worried about their well-being. But assigning a cost to preserving human life is hardly a new calculus, or a sign of misanthropy. We humans are constantly deciding which calamity to worry about, which disaster to panic over, and which tragedy to outright ignore. Just yesterday, 24,000 people died of starvation. The same will happen tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, and the day after that. Over nine million a year die of hunger related illnesses. Why is this not a global emergency? Why doesn't cable news report these tragic deaths every minute of every day, like they do with this virus?"
Anyway, to answer your question, Safety Third was my slightly subversive attempt to start an honest conversation around occupational safety back in 2009, and to acknowledge the unintended consequences of exaggerating the importance of safety on the job. For what it's worth, it worked. Attached is a short video that spells it out for you.
And here's one of a hundred articles written by various safety professionals who actually agrees with me. . . .
Be careful out there...
Does this quote fit into these concepts somewhere?
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering
which the order of nature
and the existence of free-wills involve,
and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C.S. Lewis
Sports
Mike Rowe notes that as official safety measures increase a sense of safety, people tend to take more risks. But still, individuals vary in how much risk they want to take:
Wow.
Probably wouldn't want to try this now. Not enough social distancing.
Do Democrats need to do a new risk assessment?
There are all kinds of risks. Is is safe for Democrats to let Joe Biden talk?
Was anybody surprised yesterday when Biden said If You're Black But Can't Decide Between Me and Trump, Then You're Not Black?
Well, ZUBY, a non-American black, had a good laugh about this on video.
Come collect your boy, Obama. Collect 'im. This guy's done.
He posted a helpful campaign slogan for the Democrats.
It's the unofficial start of summer. Enjoy your weekend by not running with sharp objects, not pissing in the pool, not pulling the 'ettes hair and being nice to one another.
Yes, it's a fake, apparently these guys do a lot of this kind of stuff, inserting themselves to news stories, and it's an awfully good one. And when they find the burnt remnants of a Cardassian optolythic data rod which somehow miraculously survived the explosion, any imperfections in the forgery will appear to be a result of the explosion.
I can live with it.
(Quick Quiz: guess what my favorite DS9 episode is? Well, it's either that or “The Visitor “)
Doing what American entrepreneurship does best: adjusting to changing times and finding a way to thrive. I swear to OG, just once I would like to live in an America that was working properly the way the Founders intended, with minimal government and maximal personal responsibility. I can see why God doesn't allow it, however. People wouldn't want to leave for heaven when they died.
The Cannonball Run record is now under 26 hours, New York to LA. That means an average speed of at least 107 MPH the entire way. Incredible.
Oh, and just for the record, The Lamborghini Countach in the opening credits of the movie could have walked away from the cops chasing them in that Firebird.
This is why the media is claiming that the murderous incompetent Andrew Cuomo is a national hero -- they know Joe Biden will not make it to the election.
— John ‘Murder Hornet’ Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 22, 2020
Biden's staffers are so worried about what Grampa might say next that they're interrupting his staged, telepromptered interviews to answer questions on his behalf.
— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 & get the APP (@TrumpWarRoom) May 21, 2020
I'm not sure what the staffer thought would happen here. Was she speaking into Biden's mic or did she have another line to the anchor's earpiece and it got picked up by his mic? Either way, it's clear she wasn’t thinking this would be on the broadcast. But there it is, Biden so unable to even manage even a simple interview, having to have his staffer step in to tell the interviewer what to do next. It makes one wonder whether Republicans get to call their shots like this, though perhaps local networks have to go with the flow with a national figure like this.
More of Felonius Fingers' recent cases of sundowning below.
Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris introduced a resolution last week calling on the Senate to condemn the term "Wuhan virus" as racist.
The resolution, introduced May 14, describes the terms "Chinese Virus," "Wuhan Virus," and "Kung-flu" as "anti-Asian terminology and rhetoric” that “have perpetuated anti-Asian stigma." The resolution on the Senate to condemn "all forms of anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID–19," including "all manifestations or expressions of racism, xenophobia, discrimination, anti-Asian sentiment, scapegoating, and ethnic or religious intolerance."
This is a perfect example of what they complain about on Morning Rising: China needs to be punished for unleashing this plague on the world, and hiding it, and buying all the world's PPE while it hid it, and threatening to unleash more coronavirus on the world.
Furthermore, the current state in which China makes all of the US's medicines (all of the generics, and all of the base medicines from which more advanced non-generics are made) cannot be allowed to continue. The US manufacturing capacity for core, essential goods must be brought home.
But that would mean upsetting the main money funding the Democrat Party, which is the main money funding the Republican Party, too: transnational megacorporations and the China Lobby.
So instead of talking about anything real, anything that actually matters, Democrats just flood the ether with constant frivolous Identity Politics non-proposals.
Instead of discussing the effect that 30+ years of a complete national surrender to the China Lobby's interests have done to American national security, American health security, and the wages and life outcomes of the American middle and working classes, instead we get more fucking censorship and speech-patrolling and Identity Politics poison.
And the GOP Establishment is more than happy to fritter away its time fencing with Kamala Harris on this point, because that spares them the need to discuss China, too.
Appellate Court Lawyer: Of All The Options the DC Court of Appeals Could Have Chosen in the Emmet Sullivan Matter, It Chose "The Most Extreme, Rare, and Drastic" of Them
—Ace
Yesterday I wondered if it was a big deal that the DC Court of Appeals -- Emmet Sullivan's overseeing judges -- had issued the order to Sullivan to personally explain himself to them.
As a Twitter thread from an appellate court laywer found by John Sexton explains: Yes, it's a huge deal.
Most of the thread is below, but here are the main points:
1. The appellate court could have just dismissed this motion out of hand, which they do most of the time. (As I noted, when you're dealing with a jailhouse lawyer's frivolous filings, it's only a matter of time before he cries prejudice and demands a new judge.)
They did not do this, obviously. They're taking this seriously. That fact means that this motion has already cleared a "huge hurdle" -- the appellate court accepts that this is serious matter requring their attention and not just a desperate last-chance gamble.
2. They could have politely "invited" Sullivan to file a reply with the court. Which is friendly and collegial.
They did not. They "ordered" him to. Which is unfreindly and reminds Sullivan who the ranking officers are here.
3. They could have asked an amicus -- a friend of the court; a respected lawyer or judge or legal commentator -- to file a reply on Sullivan's behalf and thereby spare him the indignity of having to, effectively, defend himself and act as his own lawyer.
They did not do that. They insisted that Sullivan himself reply.
This all seems like good news.
The three judges on this panel were appointed by Reagan, Obama, and Trump.
I assume the Obama appointee is a loss -- this case, after all, is about the misbehavior of Obama's ministers and minions.
The Reagan appointee, I don't know. People always think that Reagan appointees must be conservative, but that's not true at all. Emmet Sullivan was a Reagan appointee, originally. This was back when there was no Federalist Society, and when, frankly, liberal Bushites were running most of the government anyway. So this one could go either way.
The Trump appointee, Rao, I assume is good draw for us.
4) Rule 21(b)(1) allows the DC Circuit to deny the writ petition outright, without asking for a response. This is what happens with the vast majority of writ petitions. #appellatetwitterpic.twitter.com/R9gJjnhQmk
8) Rule 21(b)(4) states that the appellate court "may invite or order the trial-court judge to address the petition or may invite an amicus curiae to do so." #appellatetwitterpic.twitter.com/E9zQK1IsoR
10) Even if it wants to hear from the trial judge, the appellate court can simply "invite"--that is, request, or ask--the trial judge to respond. It does not have to ORDER the judge to respond. #appellatetwitterpic.twitter.com/ZNLFavvlXT
16) Had the DC Circuit appointed amicus, that lawyer's job would have been to present legal arguments defending Judge Sullivan's refusal to grant the DOJ's dismissal motion, NOT legal arguments purporting to show why the DOJ's motion should not be granted. #appelatetwitter
18) Instead, the DC Circuit ordered Judge Sullivan to PERSONALLY respond and defend his actions, without an amicus attorney to do it for him. #appellatetwitterpic.twitter.com/ess2zmL1JN
22) It has ordered (not requested) Judge Sullivan to personally (and not through appointed amicus) respond and defend his actions to them. #appellatetwitterpic.twitter.com/mb9MQPIvej
Stay-at-home orders intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus could end up causing “irreparable damage” if imposed for too long, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNBC on Friday.
“I don’t want people to think that any of us feel that staying locked down for a prolonged period of time is the way to go,” Fauci said during an interview with CNBC’s Meg Tirrell on “Halftime Report.”
He said the U.S. had to institute severe measures because Covid-19 cases were exploding then. “But now is the time, depending upon where you are and what your situation is, to begin to seriously look at reopening the economy, reopening the country to try to get back to some degree of normal.”
Michigan Chief Medical Executive Dr. Joneigh Khaldun had argued in an affidavit that Manke's shop was a threat to public health, but Stewart said not enough evidence was shown to prove that.
"The attorney general has not presented any studies underlying the doctor's conclusion,” Stewart wrote in his opinion. "The attorney general has not shown any nexus between the cutting of hair and an increased risk of transmission. The attorney general's filings rest more on general facts about COVID-19 than specific practices or conditions at Manke's business."
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Nessel [the fascist AG] personally attacked Manke last week, questioning his motives for wanting to open his barbershop.
"Mr. Manke, he's not a hero to me," Nessel said. "He's not a patriot. A patriot is a person that fights all enemies, foreign and domestic, and does everything possible to protect his fellow countrymen and countrywomen. And, to me, Mr. Manke is doing just the opposite of that, and he's being selfish in his behavior in that what he's doing is allowing the virus to spread."
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"The government is not my mother," the barber said to hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in front of the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing last week. "Never has been. I've been in business longer than they've been alive."
In a scathing nine-page decision, Lake County Common Pleas Judge Eugene A. Lucci excoriated Acton and her health department for exceeding their authority, saying the director "has no statutory authority to close all businesses, including the plaintiffs' gyms." Acton, the judge said, "has acted in an impermissibly arbitrary, and oppressive manner and without any procedural safeguards."
Judge Lucci went on to say that fundamental liberties--the right to own and use property and earn a living--are at stake in this case. Acton has "criminalized lawful businesses, imposing strict liability for violations, including severe criminal, civil, and equitable penalties," the judge opined, noting that "some of the plaintiffs' businesses will not survive the lockdown of two or more months."
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Members of the Ohio legislature have been up in arms in recent weeks, calling for Acton to be stripped of her unchecked power--and rightly so, as Ohioans continue to suffer under the weight of the lockdown orders, which have devastated families, business owners, and the state's economy. Ohio has nearly a million jobs in the last two months.
A measure currently under consideration in the Ohio Senate (and already passed by the House) would limit Acton’s shutdown orders to 14 days and require her to consult a joint legislative commission if she wishes to extend such an order.
Ohio Governor DeWine, heady with power, has vowed to veto the bill if it lands on his desk.
Judge Lucci seemed to disagree, saying that if he failed to issue an injunction, "There would be a diminishment of public morale, and a feeling that one unelected individual could exercise such unfettered power to force everyone to obey impermissibly oppressive, vague, arbitrary and unreasonable rules that the director devised and revised, and modified and reversed, whenever and as she pleases, without any legislative guidance."
"The public would be left with feelings that their government is not accountable to them," Lucci warned.
Oh, would they?
What a crazy feeling. Only crazy people would feel such crazy feelings.
Kayleigh McEnany: "Boy it's interesting to be in a room that desperately wants to seem to see these houses of worship & churches stay closed."
Reporter: "Kayleigh, I object to that. I go to church. I'm dying to go back to church. The question that we're asking... is it it safe?" pic.twitter.com/UA2l0yzyLg
The new trailer for Christopher Nolan's Tenet, which, as the palindronomic name is intended to suggest, is about spies with the ability to reverse time. Over short periods, seems like -- seconds to minutes.
I really don't understand how this is supposed to work -- I don't mean the technobabble explanation, I mean, I don't understand what this is meant to accomplish --but I guess they're keeping that a mystery.
It might seem strange to be talking about a movie. Do they even release movies anymore?
Well, that's the whole question -- one which Tenet may or may not answer.
Supposedly Tenet will be released -- in theaters -- July 17, and Warner Bros. is preparing to do just that.
And if 80% of the theaters aren't open by then, Tenet will join many other movies in delaying its release until Christmas or later.
Here’s what we know at this time: solid sources hear that Warner Bros needs at least 80% of the world’s theaters to be open, including New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco (which rep 25% of a pic’s opening weekend), in order to keep Tenet on its original release date.
If such signs don’t appear positive in the next three weeks or sooner, Tenet moves.
In fact, this won't just be about whether Tenet opens -- Hollywood sees Tenet as a test case. If Tenet can open and make money, then maybe they'll try releasing more movies this summer.
If not, they shut down and won't try again until... Christmas.
Well they say Christmas, but I imagine they mean Thanksgiving.
From the Washington Post (no link for propaganda organs):
The studio is pressing ahead with release plans for "Tenet," the mysterious and much-anticipated new movie from "Inception" director and proven moneymaker Christopher Nolan. Executives are making plans to open the movie widely across the United States as scheduled on July 17 amid the ongoing spread of the coronavirus. They're going through all the paces of a big summer release despite many reasons a successful rollout may not be remotely possible.
At stake, say entertainment players and analysts, is nothing short of the nation's preeminent form of public entertainment.
"If 'Tenet' doesn’t come out or doesn't succeed, every other company goes home,” said a marketing executive from a rival studio who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. "It’s no movies until Christmas."
Honestly, going without new movies, which are almost all complete shit, is at the very bottom of my list of covid complaints.
Here's a legit question, and not just one of those stupid questions they ask on the internet to increase engagement:
Assuming you want to see this movie, or any movie -- maybe Wonder Woman 84 -- would you go to a theater if they were open in July/August, or would you say, "Not worth the risk, not worth the hassle, I'll wait 3-6 months for PPV"?
Even assuming that we're less worried about strangers breathing near us by July 17 -- I think my general feeling of being skeeved out by people has been permanently increased. I never loved being in close proximity to strangers. And even if I'm not consciously worried about covid, I'm going to see strangers as bags of hot breath, sweat, and disease.
Do I want to sit in chairs that other people have just been farting into for two hours? Nah.
Of all the things I'd like to do when we reopen, going to a physical theater is very low on my list. It's not on my list at all. I think I'm done with physical theaters, virus or no virus.
I would like to see Tenet, but I think I'll take a pass on the theatrical exibition.
And if that hurts Hollywood, well, I'll just have to live with that pain.
Here's Tyler Perry's plans for restarting his BET shows:
He'll test the cast and his "drastically" scaled back Atlanta-based crew when they arrive at the studio and before they begin production, and four more times during the two-and-a-half-week shoots for each show. Everyone on the set will wear protective masks, and group scenes will be held until after the fourth day on set, when everyone has been tested again. Meals will be served in different "catering pods" on the largest soundstage to maximize social distancing. Perry will fly out-of-town cast members in on his private plane, and, since the studio is a decommissioned U.S. Army compound, everyone working on the production will live on campus.
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Not everyone is on board with the idea of going back into production before there is medicinal treatment or a vaccine for COVID-19. One director of a studio movie that was in pre-production when everything shut down thinks such plans are irresponsible. The filmmaker, who spoke to Variety under the condition of anonymity, resents that he was sent to scout locations in March when it was clear to him that the world was in a pandemic, and he thinks any plan to restart is ludicrous. "A movie can’t work with masks and social distancing -- everyone is all over each other all the time," he says. "To not face that, either you’re in denial or you’re ignorant, or you’re pretending to not know so the company isn't liable."
The First Pentecostal Church of Holly Springs in Mississippi burned down early Wednesday morning. The congregation had been in a legal battle to continue holding services despite the novel coronavirus outbreak and subsequent lockdown orders.
The building went up in flames between 2-4 a.m. Investigators said the church was spray-painted with graffiti before an explosion blew out the front of the building, according to Fox 13. Maj. Kelly McMillian of the Marshall Count Sheriff’s Department confirmed the fire to be a criminal act of arson.
Thomas More Society senior counsel and lawyer for the church, Stephen Crampton, spoke with Fox News about the fire and said the perpetrators spray-painted a message that read, "I Bet you stay home now you hypokrits."
"We're in a time where I don't think it's any secret that there's a growing hostility toward churches, across the board," Crampton said. "And now, here are churches like First Pentecostal that are sort of stirring up the waters by being outspoken and somewhat firm about seeking to protect their Constitutional rights."
Tim Pool covered this story, and suggested caution, which I think is appropriate. He doesn't like the fact that the arsonist left a graffiti message letting everyone know his motive was political. We've seen that sort of thing in false flag cases -- the hoaxer wants to make sure you "get it."
Also, he doesn't like the misspelling of "hypokrit." I think his idea is that this is an attempt to mislead the cops into thinking the arsonist is illiterate, when he's not.
But I see it as equally if not more likely that he is illiterate.
Also, I'd point out that while there was that one case of a false flag church burning, most of these hoax cases involve graffiti and criminal mischief, not stuff as serious as arson. Hate crime hoaxers tend to commit "hate crimes" -- graffiti, fake nooses, and fake scarf-grabbings -- and not real crimes, like arson or arson by explosive.
Anyway, I agree with Pool that people should be suspicious about the breadcrumb trail being left on the ground for us here, but I wouldn't ignore the possibility that this is exactly what it looks like: an attack on a church by some crazed leftwing atheist Karens.
(Are there any other kind?)
Meanwhile -- and maybe relatedly -- Trump decrees that church services are "essential services" and tells governors to allow churches to resume operations, or he'll overrule them.
NEW: President Trump announced that houses of worship are now “essential places that provide essential services" and said state governors should immediately allow them to re-open.
Trump said he would “overrule” governors who did not allow churches to resume services.
I'm not sure how that works, but then, I also don't know how governors decided that they can suspend the Bill of Rights on a whim. And while governors were doing that, all the media attention, and all the NeverTrump attention, was on Trump's claim that he had "total authority" to reopen the country.
They continue ignoring actual, current, real fascist actions committed by the Democrats they support in order to focus laser-like on hypothetical possible future actions of Trump.
I would note that Presidents have, in the past, used the US Marshall service as well as the National Guard to guarantee civil rights.
When schools in the south refused to permit black students to enter, in defiance of a court order, the US Marshalls were sent in to enforce the order.
There will be few judges willing to agree that leftwing governors have the right to shut down a liberty explicitly protected by the Constitution while allowing gay swinger glory hole clubs to offer.
So yeah, that's how it will happen: A judge's order, followed by the US Marshalls and maybe the fucking National Guard.
So if New York, New Jersey, Michigan, etc., want to take their chances with the National Guard surrounding and protecting chuches -- make my fucking day.
Media: under what authority can the president demand governors allow churches to open? Also Media: why doesn't the president force the states to close down?
Yes, how is it that the media spent February, March, and April insisting that Trump had the power to unilaterally order states to shut down, but now demands to know what his authority is for demanding they open up?
In fact, CNN is pushing a story today claiming that if the US had shut down two weeks earlier -- that is, if Trump had asserted a mythical ability to order the country shut down -- many lives would have been saved:
BREAKING: Everything that is good should have happened sooner thanks to the miracle of hindsight plus selective forgetting of context. https://t.co/Iec1q90EHI
But he doesn't have the power to protect a right enumerated in the Constitution? Strange!
By the way, that CNN story should really be talking about New York shutting down two weeks earlier, because New York City and only New York City was the epicenter of the pandemic which then spread it to most other parts of the country.
But they don't want to acknowledge that Andrew Cuomo is responsible for murdering people -- so they change the headline to the "U.S." being late to shut down.
Virginia City That Voted For Obama Twice, and McAuliffe, and Governor Mammy Blackface, Ejects All Democrats from City Council and Installs All-Republican Council In Its Place
Three Democratic members of the Staunton, Virginia, city council were ousted by Republicans on Tuesday despite receiving more votes than they did four years ago.
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Local outlet Augusta Free Press reporter Chris Graham called the results "stunning almost beyond words."
"Democrats got their voters out better than they have in a May cycle in years," Graham wrote. "Republicans got turnout more akin to, not quite a presidential year, but approaching gubernatorial."
Graham cited gun control legislation in the state as well as COVID-19 lockdowns as key turnout drivers for Republicans in the city.
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Nearby Wayesboro also put two conservatives, Lana Williams and Bruce Allen, on their city council to "give conservatives a working majority," Graham reported.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a recent interview with a female representative of the segment of the human species identifying as female, Biden made a strong case for why all women everywhere should vote for him without question, or at least let him sniff their hair.
"Look, the thing, you know what it is," Biden said. "The womenfolk know what's at stake in this election. It's hairy simple. Just let me vote on you, or you vote for me, the vote, b-b-b-blond applesauce baloney. Simple choice. If you don't let me smell your hair, you ain't a woman!" Biden then sat back in his chair with a smile, having "totally nailed" another interview.
1.3 million black Americans already voted for Trump in 2016. This morning, Joe Biden told every single one of us we “ain’t black.” I’d say I’m surprised, but it’s sadly par for the course for Democrats to take the black community for granted and brow beat those that don’t agree.
Could You Have Picked Up a Resistance to Covid... Without Having Ever Been Infected with Covid?
—Ace
A new paper suggests that 40-60% of the population already has T-cells which are activated to defend against covid, even though they've never actually encountered covid-19, because covid-19 is so similar to other coronaviruses.
To explain this on a fairly technical level which might lose some readers:
T-cells identify viruses by the little doodads sticking out of their bulbous bits, and I think the ideas is that these other coronaviruses have doodads which are not exactly like covid's but which are close enough to covid's that T-cells know to treat it as enemy (and block those doodads so they can't jimmy their way into healthy cells).
But you know, I'm speculating in a hopeful direction rather than in an apocalyptic, we-must-weld-ourselves-inside-apartments-or-we'll-all-die direction, therefore my speculation should be banned on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and will not be treated as Real Science by the Fake Twitter Scientists' Club.
"... CD4+ T cell responses were detected in 40-60% of unexposed individuals. This may be reflective of some degree of crossreactive, preexisting immunity to SARSCoV-2 in some, but not all, individuals..."
TO: THE CITIZENS OF COLORADO
FROM: GOVERNOR JARED POLIS
THE OFFICE OF THE COLORADO OFFICE OF COVID-19 MICROMANAGEMENT
Re: Restaurant Reopening Guidelines Update
Greetings, fellow Coloradoaoans!
The plan for a phased reopening is proceeding as well as could be expected. But we're having difficulties with restaurants, with recalcitrant owners complaining that the requirements for cleaning restrooms every 30 minutes, asking customers to wear masks at all times except when actually putting food in their mouths, petty and meaningless floor decals, the expense of preparing large numbers of single-use menus, forbidding buffets and self-serve stations, etc. being onerous and unnecessary. Customer registration is also going well, and we totes swear that we will not be using any information gathered to track movements outside of public health concerns. But we are having difficulty establishing the whereabouts of a number of citizens who have registered at various restaurants in the state:
Heywood Jablome
Mike Oxlong
Daffy Duck
Hugh G. Rection
Queen Victoria
I. P. Freeley
Jenna Talia
Drew Peacock
Brock O'Leigh
Anita Gofradump
Ross Ewage
Phil McKraken
Emperor Palpatine
Incontinentia Buttocks
Miles O'Toole
Colin Oscopy
E. Norma Stits
Buzz Lightyear
Chris P. Bacon
Richard Nixon
Amanda Huggandkiss
If you know the whereabouts of any of these individuals, please contact our Restaurant Enforcement Compliance Officer Karen Von Snoop at 303-XXX-XXXX. Thank you.
This morning on “The Breakfast Club” - the presumptive Democratic nominee @JoeBiden said this- “If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." 🤔
Wedneday's celebs: Father and daughter Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie, as nearly everyone guessed (Every now and then I like to toss out an easy one). Most of you know they did make a movie together, namely, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Most of you probably don't know, however, that they also appeared together in a comedy movie, Lookin' To Get Out. Since it has a 1982 release date, Angelina must've been, what, 7 or 8 years old? And since her name appears way down toward the bottom of the credits, it was probably a very small part. I think that even at that age, her beauty was enough to attract the attention of Hollywood child rapists, so I really hope her father was able to protect her from them.
Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Baked Sour Cream Donuts:
Good morning, kids. Friday, and another grim milestone of yet another day of America held hostage.
Some good news as we head into the Memorial Day weekend. A Michigan County Court Judge has smacked down Wretched Whitmer's illegal order to forcibly shut Owosso barber Karl Manke's business. Underboss AG Dana Nessel said the decision would be immediately appealed, but as of now his shop is open for business. I would assume that the decision applies to all businesses, not just Manke's nor just barbershops (legal eagles in the audience please weigh in on this). That said, I don't know the makeup of the state's Supreme Court but if a significant swathe of businesses decide to open, a Supreme Court decision to reverse the lower court could touch off a firestorm.
Meanwhile, real science, growing evidence and the will of the people be damned, the dead-ender denizens of the Democrat collective gubernatorial fuhrerbunker are still hell bent on destroying their economies as a means of defeating President Trump at the ballot box - or the mailbox. It's a fools errand and the consequences of their actions may not be what they expect come November and into the future. Along with the smack down of Whitmer, Illinois fat-berg JB Pritzker sensing political blowback has withdrawn his emergency decree criminalizing business owners although a GOP lawmaker was forcibly removed from the state legislature for refusing to wear the useless, idiotic facemask. Let's face it; the only use they have is to keep the public terrorized into believing that they will either die or spread death if they go without it; a not so subtle reminder to obey or die.
Trump totally gets this, which is why he refuses to wear one in public and did not relent while heading to the embattled state of Michigan on a visit to a Ford plant. This drew a puerile response from AG Nessel who shrieked that Trump was no longer welcome to visit the state. Paraphrasing Democrat hero and role model Josef Stalin, "how many divisions does Dana Nessel have?" Michigan remains the focus because of a horrifying attack by a 20-year-old nursing home employee - no doubt Democrat and an SEIU member - who was caught on video beating a defenseless, bed-ridden elderly patient. The metaphor is self-evident: Democrat-Socialism and America or tyranny and liberty. Meh, those are redundant. Naturally, when the President called attention to this atrocity, Evita Whitmer instead attacked Trump for defiling her royal majesty by not wearing a facemask at the Ford plant.
Meanwhile, as Tom Wolf spouts the idiotic line of no freedom until there's world peace or a vaccine, and Wilhelm Klink DeBolshevik suddenly finds walls and fences quite effective when it comes to denying New Yorkers the freedom to go for a swim, Florida's governor Ron DeSantis is coming up looking like a champ. His decision to open the state caused him to be blood-libeled as a heartless mass-murderer, but weeks later, with essentially no spike in deaths or infections, you get crickets from the Democrat-Media Complex. And he's having none of it. From a political standpoint, I think this bodes well both for Trump's second term (please G-d) and for the post-Trump environment. This three-month (and counting) fiasco has seen vicious attacks on conservatives and Republican political leaders and like DeSantis, more of them are no longer bending over and taking it the way that Dubya used to do. We still have a long way to go in transforming the GOP-e into more of a Trumpian party, but the phony pandemic lockdown might be the spark that ignites that transformation, or at the least kicks it into overdrive.
...But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth[e] last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour.
Three links in particular coalesce around the gravamen of my discourse:
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS, FICTIONS AND FACTS
Rand Paul drops a 100-megaton truth nuke, JP Morgan with a devastating analysis on the uselessness of lockdowns, Trump reassures on so-called "second wave," Pennsy GOPers torch Tom Wolf and tranny freakazoid health director, Angel-of-Death Cuomo has the unmitigated temerity to blame his guilt in the mass death of nursing home residents on Trump and the CDC, there is a huge crisis in those facilities as is demonstrated by the alarming report on Minnesota, kids are the least likely by far to suffer or even die from the Beijing Breathing Blight and yet we're scaring them and everyone shitless, science - real science - will have the answers that we need, and Trump gives in to Malig-Nancy Pelosi and Cuck Schemer to have flags flown at half staff when the McDonald's victim sign passes 100,000. Giving this sham-demic the air of some sort of legitimate war that gives the Left the power to control the narrative and thus ram home their policies is a mistake. Meh, I guess it's good optics. Still, it makes me nutsy-fagin with rage.
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE LUNG MARCH
Heartbreaking stories all around thanks to this self-imposed national suicide, Angel-of-Death Cuomo murdered thousands of old people as well as the livelihoods of those who cared for them, Victoria's Secret stripped to the bone, Malig-Nancy supporting bill barring Chi-Com companies from US stock exchanges but her "stimulus" is political cancer, over two million more on the dole but Kudlow cautiously optimistic, and "oil powers almost all transportation - and Chinese COVID-19 will only intensify its dominance."
DON'T FORGET UKRAINE... AND CHINA
Government watchdog raises questions about Chinese influence at University of Pennsylvania's Biden Center, Biden's brother targeted by RICO, and "new reasons to suspect Joe Biden will not make it to the nomination finish line."
SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION,
Cocaine Mitch goes off on the Democrats trying to taint and obfuscate Obamagate, more on the DC Circuit potentially booting Emmet Sullivan, "the proponents of Michael Flynn's persecution aren't fighting for justice. They're fighting to keep their weapon," and lastly, another depressing assessment that Obama will essentially skate on trying to overthrow the country.
DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
New docs raise further questions about shadowy Dem tech firm and CEO Tara McGowan, and Nevada Dem gets ready for his wrist-slap.
POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION
Voting by mail is totally safe and anyone who says it's ripe for fraud is a racist, sexist, bigoted, Nazi, homophobe, Islamophobe, transphobe meanie! For real! Yet there is a flipside to this that Rush Limbaugh mentioned yesterday. Even with voting by mail, Katie Throuple's old seat in bluest of blue California still went to a Republican by double digits. Perhaps voting by mail may even increase the number of Republican votes cast. That said, it's not the voting that counts, it's who gets to count the votes.
Also, Biden's swimsuit competition heats up with dark horse Amy Klownbuchar suddenly making an appearance while dark whore Kamala-Toe Harris and Paleface Elizabeth Hekawi still in there, a warning that "a day may yet come when Americans will all live under the Pax Abramsiana. Her politics are the future," do the delusions of Donkey-Chompers make her evil?, prognosticating Biden's chances, crooked shyster Andrew Weissmann headlines Biden fundraiser (shocking), and Claire McAssKill projects. How great is it that she got her ass kicked to the curb and by someone potentially as great as Josh Hawley?
FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
Trump might have joked about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue and still getting elected, but this Communist is serious, Trump still beating the press even with the sham-demic, Biden is all about being transparent - transparent fraud, Fake-Jake Fapper derides and ignores the real crimes of Obama and gang yet pimped "muh colluzhnikovs" forever, GQ stenographer seems to forget, or perhaps was never taught, that George Wallace was a Democrat, the smearing of Pompeo is a farce, YouTube reinstates video of doctors promoting HCQ, Schiff-for-Brains is a real comedian, Trump half-jokingly wants to send the media into orbit, and more on the media covering up Obamagate. Hell, they were demonstrably co-conspirators in the fabrication of evidence.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Chi-Coms using the Sham-demic to finally break Hong Kong, Koch-Soros alliance in bed with the Mongoloid Marxists, Conrad Black warns the Chinese not to mess with OrangeManBad, so-called "Palestinians" would rather die from real disease than get Joo-cooties, examining Syrian quagmire which thankfully we are out of (I think), and finally, young krauts are dumb.
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
If universities refuse to cooperate, then use the law and the bureaucracy against them until they cry Uncle Sam, Trump admin backs out of Open Sky treaty due to perpetual Russky cheating, and common sense on Chi-Com drones spying on us.
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
I can't wait to see Wretched Whitler and Tubby Reifenstahl blame Trump for this fiasco, and Noose-'em and the other blue state failures try putting the bite on red states.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Whoever this beast is deserves to be taken out and horsewhipped on live television, Whitler tap dances in puddles of flop-sweat, Houston you have a problem (where's Sheila Jackass-Lee?), and the Georgia man who filmed the Arbery shooted arrested for murder.
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Climate change isn't why the Colorado River continues to run low," and "wind and solar energy are uneconomic methods for generating electricity but sound convincing to the naive."
CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
This is what happens when Democrats rule, Christian Toto on Netflix's Jeffrey Epstein documentary, more on the life and times of Clarence Thomas, and " dryly satirical Israeli/European film about a soap opera produced by Palestinian television, set in the run up to the 1967 war, is included in Amazon Prime subscriptions." Actually, a good review. Have a great weekend.
NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.
ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.
I posted several weeks ago about how the brown shirt tactics being used by some cops around the country was eroding faith in the police, even among those on the right. Seems I am not alone in these concerns:
Democratic Governors are manipulating our country’s officers into stepping on Americans constitutional rights by arresting them- for something as little as walking in a park.
Of course, after this video surfaced, this officer was lionized for his courage, and held up as a shining example of integrity for his entire department. Nah, brah, I'm pulling your leg.
This right here completely exposes the fiction that these things are being done in the interest of the public health. If you're worried about the spread of a deadly virus, clubs where anonymous men have random sex with each other are the first places you shut down, not the last. It's the same with keeping abortion murder mills open and closing churches. This isn't about health or safety at all. It's about using the Wuhan flu as an excuse to destroy the cultural norms of the country in an attempt to replace them with something sick and evil. I've said many times that Ace has the wrong Mencken quote on the masthead.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
The good rabbi who wrote the later article hits at, but never quite directly states, the conclusion that my own historical studies have led me to: When used as a basis for public policy, “science” always* leads to the expansion of government power and control and a contraction of individual rights and freedom.
*In some rare – very rare – cases, this may lead to positive outcomes for the population, but in every one I can think of the trade off has occurred, and in every case the expansion/contraction dynamic has continued long after whatever limited public good was achieved. Example: Something like the EPA was needed in the early 70s (should have been handled by the states, but it was needed), but whatever good it accomplished back then is far outweighed by the bloated, bureaucratic parasite on the economy that it has since become.
Musical Interlude
Playing Politics
We're 6 months out from the election, but people are starting to produce political ads. Here are 2:
I particularly like the fact that the second ad uses Jon David's “American Heart”. That song has always been a favorite of mine (I like this version better). I think it's high time that song had a resurgence. Funny thing is, this is the second time this week I've come across someone using it. Here's a country version: Filmmaker Creates Country Song that Rejects Fear, Remembers America in Pandemic.
On The Other Hand...
Goth Fonzie would like a word:
In a better America (or one that is much, much worse), this @VerminSupreme commercial for his @LPNational candidacy would be playing nonstop from dirigibles covering the skies in NY, DC, LA, etc... Great groove, editing, vision, message, all from a guy with a boot on his head... pic.twitter.com/ZdY8wny7dY
1) Born in San Francisco and raised in Sacramento, First Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee enlisted in the Marines toward the end of World War Il. At 5 feet, 6 inches tall and 130 pounds, he drew attention when he showed up to lead a platoon in Baker Company, 1/7th Marines. pic.twitter.com/QioFKI2PMG
Last week's ONTs were a bit skimpier than usual, for which I apologize. We (myself, Gingy and Little) decided at the last minute to attend Farmageddon, an annual gathering of folks in Georgia to shoot guns, eat BBQ, and hang out drinking beer, and I didn't have time to write the ONTs before we left. We drove down in the RV, and I just want to take a minute to let y'all know what it was that took me away from my COB duties. In a word: It. Was. AWESOME.
First thing we did when we got to Georgia was wait while my wife got a mani/pedi. It was nice to be back in an America where things were open. When we got to the farm, we spent the first night hanging out and talking. The next day, it was time to shoot, and whoa Nellie was there a lot to shoot. We shot rifles. We shot shotguns. We shot pistols and sub-machine guns and a .50 cal Barrett. We shot tracers at homemade tannerite (which strangely enough was affixed to a Beto For President sign). We even shot 12 oz. cans from a “grenade” launcher. As an added bonus, one of the men there was a licensed private pilot with a Cessna 172 at a nearby field, and he took us up and let us fly it around for a bit. It was the kind of weekend that dreams are made of. Here's Little firing the .50. He hangs his head at the end there because we were shooting at a steel plate about 450 yards out and he just missed high. I had hit. :D
As awesome as it was to be a part of, I am even more humbled and grateful at the way everybody treated Little. Not only did he get the incredible experience of firing all those guns and flying the plane, but he was treated with respect by the men there, accepted as someone who belonged. He got to experience a weekend of American men doing American things and learned a little of what it means to be a man. That was more valuable than all of the other cool things put together.
I want to thank Bill for hosting, Claude for cooking spectacular BBQ, Jeff for bringing the .50 and letting everyone shoot it, ditto Scott with the class 3 license and the sub-machine guns (we fired a Sterling and a Swedish K, but he had a whole BOX of them). Rob was nice enough to bring tracer rounds and pass them out, and Jesse was particularly nice to Little, as well as making bacon-wrapped venison poppers which may be the best thing I've ever eaten. Matt was the pilot who gave Little an experience he wont forget. Hell, everyone there was fantastic, and I'd ride the river with any of them.
Oh, and a special shout out to Alberta Oil Peon who was generous enough to take a frantic call from me after I put new batteries in the RV on the way home and had an issue. He helped me straighten it right out (near as I can figure it was wired wrong to begin with, but one of the old batteries must have been completely dead so it wasn't delivering 24v to a 12v system. When I put the new one in, suddenly it was). Beers are on me the next time I'm up in the hat.
LOL: The Atlantic Magazine Is Laying Off One Fifth of Its Employees; The Rest Will Get Pay Cuts, Supposedly
—Ace
I guess The Atlantic will not turn out to be the Escape Pod that NeverTrump Fake Conservatives were hoping it would be.
The Atlantic is laying off about 20% of its staff -- 68 people across divisions -- per a memo from David Bradley, after collapse of events business. pic.twitter.com/XCJKLeXYTy
Psst, Atlantic: Don't say you heard this for me, but you can offer David Frum the minimum wage and he'd still write his shitty pieces for you. These NeverTrumpers have literally nowhere else to go.
I wonder, is the White Labcoat League of Fake Twitter Scientists discussing this study, or are xhey pretending it doesn't exist?
Please, someone alert the Twitter Fake Epidemiology Council of Tom Nichols, Ron Fournier, Karenpundit, and Dr. Guy P. Benson. I need to know what The Experts think.
Gentlemen, you have guided us through this crisis with your many, many uninformed Twitter Pronouncements -- pray, do not abandon us now in our time of greatest Tweet need!
JPMorgan has a devastating piece arguing that infection rates have declined — not increased — in states where lockdowns have ended, “even after allowing for an appropriate measurement lag.” (Kolonavic)
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) May 20, 2020
Quintanilla also noted JP Morgan’s discovery of the same pattern happening in other countries that have released their lockdowns.
"Same goes for various countries, adds JPM. This means that the pandemic and COVID-19 likely have its own dynamics unrelated to often inconsistent lockdown measures that were being implemented," Quintanilla continued.
Oh, by the way, the CDC now says covid does NOTspread easily by contact with surfaces, making the complete destruction of our economy seem especially pointless.
For those of you still wiping down groceries and other packages amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, breathe a sigh of relief: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says the novel virus "does not spread easily" from "touching surfaces or objects" -- but experts warn that doesn't mean it's no longer necessary to take "practical and realistic" precautions in stopping the spread of COVID-19.
Although when the change was made is not currently clear, the federal health agency appears to have subtly shifted its guidelines from March which simply said it "may be possible" to spread the virus from contaminated surfaces.
"It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes," the CDC said on a now-archived page from March 28. At the time, however, the CDC did note that this possible method of transmission "is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads."
Even so, the CDC now includes "surfaces or objects" under a section that details ways in which the coronavirus does not readily transmit.
Believe Science
Whatever Science says this week. Or whatever you think will help Joey Rapehooks biden get elected.
Refusing to acknowledge these facts: Ron "Mark My Words" Fournier, who predicted, on April 20, a soaring infection and death rate in Florida and Georgia, and whose last word on this matter was "check back in three more weeks."
As Ron DeSantis pointed out: It's now been eight weeks since the media predicted apocalypse.
What is Ron Fournier tweeting about?
How horrible it is that people are protesting transsexual governor "Gretchen" Whitmer's lockdown.
He's still pretending that any loosening of the lockdown will lead to mass deaths.
Previously, he had claimed Trump's secret plan was to continue holding rallies to deliberately infect the old so as to increase his chances of... winning an electioN?
Hey why did @ron_fournier delete that tweet saying the reason Trump is going to hold rallies is to mass infect people with CoVID-19, who will then act as carriers to the elderly, killing them and preventing them from voting, which swings the election? That was a great tweet!
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 17, 2020
Ron Fournier has not commented on Governors Cuomo, Murphy, Wolf, or Whitmer who literally did intentionally infect, and murder, thousands of elderly people in nursing homes.
And senior citizens tend to vote more conservatively.
He doesn't have time to comment on actual facts, but he does have to time to spread unhinged conspiracy theories and existential hysterias.
A handful of New Jersey pastors say they are reopening in defiance of Gov. Phil Murphy's stay-at-home orders to stop the spread of the coronavirus, because of their religious convictions and constitutional rights.
Charles Clark Jr., co-pastor of Solid Rock Baptist Church in Berlin who has been preaching for 45 years, made the announcement Wednesday at the South Jersey house of worship.
"We're not breaking the law by going to church," Clark Jr. said. "The people telling us we can't go to church are breaking the Constitution of the United States. It's illegal...It's just ridiculous in this country."
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Murphy has made it clear that until there's a vaccine or a treatment, mass gatherings, including worship services, will remain restricted, ABC 6 reports.
Phil Murphy murdered thousands of elderly citizens by ordering their nursing homes to be filled with people known to be infected with COVID-19 and contagious. And he knew he was deliberately infecting the only group at serious risk of death due to the disease.
So yeah -- let's do all the things this murderous fascist tells us to.
The leadership of over 700 Catholic and Lutheran churches, represented by @BECKETlaw & @SidleyLaw, told @GovTimWalz and AG @keithellison that the First Amendment doesn’t let the government put churches at the back of the line during reopening. https://t.co/KfQJ9IbS0n (2/8)
BREAKING: The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis will NOT comply with the new guidance from Governor Walz that only allows 10 people inside or outside churches. A letter to parishes across the state is signed by Archbishop Hebda and all six bishops in the state. https://t.co/PyzFIorMed
You'll be happy to hear, however, that America's First Transsexual Governor, Karl "Gretchen" Whitmer, is giving the green light to gay swinger sex clubs while continuing to persecute a barber.
There is perhaps nothing more confusing than Democrat governors' orders during the Chinese WuFlu pandemic. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is by far the worst. That was made clear with the news that a gay swinger's club with "glory holes" is being allowed to operate under her nose in Lansing while she aims her business-killing death ray on 77-year-old barber Karl Manke for giving haircuts.
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The FAQs also ask if there are "glory holes" (if you're blissfully ignorant of what these are, don't Google it) and the response from the website says, "A maze is a network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way, and in our case, it is very dark and made with walls that have a few holes in them," says the club's website.
If Christians have to go to court to fight for their right to go to church, then this country is already done, and it's time to move past the impolite fiction of "American democracy."
I have a feeling it's the latter, because it's my (limited) understanding that appeals courts are very, very relunctant to take any appeals, but are especially reluctant to take interlocutory appeals, appeals about matters regarding a case short of final disposition (that is, over rulings made during a case, rather than after the thing is finally disposed of).
But I'm not sure. It might be that they're obliged to look at an appeal claiming judicial bias. But I don't think that can be the case, because pretty much every single scumbag prison lawyer eventually demands his judge be replaced.
Anyway, we'll now get to see this lunatic submit his explanations to the court as to why he believes he has hitherto undreamed-of powers to bring charges himself and appoint his own private prosecutor.
He will have every Democrat-donating lawyer in America helping him write his reply.
[A] federal appeals court Thursday accepted Michael Flynn's request to have the district judge overseeing his case removed and has ordered that judge to explain why he has gone to such great lengths to avoid the Justice Department's request to dismiss the case.
A special three-judge panel has been appointed to review the matter. A June 1 deadline has been set to respond to the request.
The motion to dismiss Sullivan as having taken off his judicial robes to act as an active litigant in the case was said by Flynn's lawyers to be as like "an umpire who has decided to steal public attention from the players and focus it on himself. He wants to pitch, bat, run bases, and play shortstop."
[T]he answer to the question before Judge Sullivan is quite simple, and it was provided by the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit just four years ago in its decision in the case of United States v. Fokker Services.
There will be efforts to "distinguish" Fokker -- to say it's not a sufficiently similar case to control the outcome here -- and efforts to point to other decisions in the DC Circuit or other Circuit Courts of Appeal which point in a different direction for an answer to the Rule 48(a) question. But that's all a distraction and a waste of time because Judge Sullivan cannot escape Fokker. A District Court judge in the District of Columbia is obligated to follow the rulings of the Circuit Court for DC -- he does not have a choice. He cannot "dissent" and reach a decision based on his own views. He might not like or agree with the outcome that is dictated by the Fokker case, but in order to respect the oath of his office, he is duty-bound -- bound by the Constitution -- to respect and apply the law as it is established by a court of a higher status than the Court he presides in.
Update: Sydney Powell seems to think the appeals court is taking this very seriously indeed.
Here is the docket & order. A court of appeals grants a mandamus only after the judge has had an opportunity to respond. Here the Circuit ORDERS Sullivan to respond. The short time-table recognizes the seriousness of the issue to the proper administration of justice.@POTUSpic.twitter.com/0VJVVBmvM0
— Sidney Powell 🇺🇸⭐⭐⭐ (@SidneyPowell1) May 21, 2020
I will be reaching out to head of twitter about their policies being violated every day by President Tump. Hope my call is taken. Please retweet if you agree
Mika had a Klatch of Karens supporting her, but others disagreed:
The media should NOT be asking Silicon Valley billionaires to silence the President of the United States. If you disagree w/ what he says—as I also do at times—then engage on the merits. Say why you think he’s wrong. Journalists should NOT be calling for censorship. #FreeSpeechhttps://t.co/3ffq6IjHh4
I will be reaching out to head of twitter about their policies being violated every day by President Tump. Hope my call is taken. Please retweet if you agree
Caution: I'm told that only this USNI site is reporting this "arab male" detail. Might just be that everyone else is reluctant to report a crime by Certain People, as usual. Or this one site could be wrong.
The FBI is investigating a Thursday shooting at a Texas naval air station, after a Navy security team there killed an "Arab male" who stormed a gate at the base, a U.S. official told USNI News.
The official did not have any additional details on the identity of the shooter beyond apparent ethnicity.
That's plenty, if I'm being honest.
An FBI spokeswoman did not provide additional details when contacted by USNI News.
Navy Security Forces responded to an active shooter at NAS Corpus Christi at about 7:15 a.m. EST resulting in the injury to the NSF sailor. The shooter was killed by the NSF team, the official told USNI News.
"The sailor is in good condition and is expected to be released later today," the Navy said in a statement.
The base remains on lockdown while an investigation into the shooting commences.
Carlson: Do you know anybody who trusts the government anymore?
There's a reason for that.
And by the way, it's not just Democrats you should blame. The vast majority of the Russian collusion investigated happened during the first two years of this administration. Who ran the government then?
At the time, Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and every single committee by definition. They had the power to expose this hoax and shut it down, but the did not. Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell and Richard Burr and so many other of the useless Senate Republicans. Total phonies. They didn't really do anything.
(moves to a supercut)
Newsreader 1: Richard Burr is calling Don Trump Jr. back.
Newsreader 2: Richard Burr - who's well-respected - he doesn't want to be lied to. He wants get to the bottom of what happened.
Newsreader 3: Republican Richard Burr had served the President's son with a subpoena.
Newsreader 1: Can you explain why the Republicans would want to do that?
Newsreader 4: Gowdy disputes Trump's "spy" claim
Dan Bongino: I think Gowdy's appearance was disgraceful. According to Gowdy, the FBI ran it by the book, how the Americans wanted them to run the investigation. Really? Give me a break.
Newsreader 5 (to Gowdy) : You said, "I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what Americans would want them to do ..."
Newsreader 6 (to Gowdy) : There was no "spy." Have you seen any evidence of that?
Gowdy (to the press) : I have not. I think you would want the FBI to find out if there was any validity to what those people were saying.
Gowdy (to the press) : I think the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do.
Gowdy (to the press) : The FBI did exactly what we would want them to do.
Gaetz (to the press) : The number one question I get asked by Americans is "why has no one gone to jail and been held accountable?" It was Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy that wouldn't give us that subpoena power. We didn't send out a single subpoena. Not one.
Graham (to Hannity) : I supported the Mueller investigation because I didn't know.
Hannity: Senator, we're talking about a shredding of constitutional law, due process, that we would ever have.
Graham (in session, to Wray) : So you say that Mueller's "a good guy," right?
Wray: That is my experience, yes.
Graham: And you will do anything necessary to protect him from being, uh, interfered with?"
Wray: Absolutely.
Hannity (to Graham) : Where's Director Wray, though? I've got a lot of people yelling at me, telling me he's not doing his job.
Graham (to the press) : Somebody that every American should trust, Mr. Mueller ...
McConnell (to the press) : Bob Mueller was an ... excellent appointment. He will go wherever the facts lead him. He has great credibility.
Bartiromo (to Graham) : People want you to move on this, Senator. Are you going to do it?
Graham: Yeah, but I told you and I'll tell you again ...
Carlson: Total phonies. They tell you they're representing you, but don't. Explain why they didn't really do anything to stop the derailment of America while it was in progress."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
True:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Many will disagree, but @FoxNews is doing nothing to help Republicans, and me, get re-elected on November 3rd. Sure, there are some truly GREAT people on Fox, but you also have some real "garbage" littered all over the network, people like Dummy Juan Williams, Schumerite Chris...
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
....Hahn, Richard Goodstein, Donna Brazile, Niel Cavuto, and many others. They repeat the worst of the Democrat speaking points, and lies. All of the good is totally nullified, and more. Net Result = BAD! CNN & MSDNC are all in for the Do Nothing Democrats! Fox WAS Great!
All he does is cover up crimes. Covering up a crime is itself a crime.
Former British spy Christopher Steele peddled an unfounded rumor in December 2016 that Michael Flynn had an extramarital affair with a Russian woman, according to documents released earlier in May.
Months before Steele discussed Flynn, the FBI offered to pay the ex-spy to collect intelligence on Flynn and other Trump associates who were the targets of a counterintelligence investigation.
An FBI source provided information about Flynn that matches what Steele provided the bureau, an FBI memo from early 2017 also said.
Rumors about Flynn and a Russian-British woman, Svetlana Lokhova, began circulating in the media in March 2017.
An FBI offer to pay former British spy Christopher Steele to collect intelligence on Michael Flynn in the weeks before the 2016 election has been one of the more overlooked revelations in a Justice Department inspector general’s report released in December.
The reference to the FBI proposal, which was made in an Oct. 3, 2016, meeting in an unidentified European city, has received virtually no press attention. But it might have new significance following the recent release of government documents that show that Steele peddled an unfounded rumor that Flynn had an extramarital affair with a Russian woman in the United Kingdom.
It is not clear how and when Steele came across the rumor, or if it was the result of the FBI asking him to look into Flynn.
The inspector general's report, released on Dec. 9, 2019, said that FBI agents offered to pay Steele "significantly" to collect intelligence from three separate "buckets" that the bureau was pursuing as part of Crossfire Hurricane, its counterintelligence probe of four Trump campaign associates.
One bucket was "Additional intelligence/reporting on specific, named individuals (such as [Carter Page] or [Flynn]) involved in facilitating the Trump campaign-Russian relationship," the IG report stated.
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Some FBI agents who attended the meeting questioned whether the lead agent had disclosed too much to Steele about Crossfire Hurricane, according to the IG report.
Remember, Steele was being paid by Clinton and the DNC, and therefore all this classified, confidential, slanderous information the FBI told him went straight into the Hillary Clinton campaign's ears.
No one has been fired yet.
This reminds me of The Joker's observations about everyone being chill about The Plan, even though The Plan is horrifying.
The Plan was that the FBI should commit crimes and then also punish people for non-crimes they falsified and framed-up. The Plan was further that no one at the FBI should ever face criminal -- or even career -- consquences himself.
And no one was bothered at all, because it was all part of The Plan.
No Big Deal, Just Mueller's Main Prosecutor -- Actually, The Guy Who Ran the Whole Show -- Headlining a Fundraiser for Joe Biden
—Ace
13 Angry Democrats.
And 13 politically active Democrats, too!
A friend suggests that Andrew Weissman is taking this breathtakingly inappropriate action because he fears possible prosecution and wants to let half the jury pool know he's on their side.
Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor on Mueller’s special counsel team, is headlining a June 2nd virtual fundraiser for Biden. pic.twitter.com/3lq7ld5m0u
This is the prosecutor who also attended Hillary Clinton's tear-filled election night event in 2016. Doing his best to discredit the investigation. https://t.co/xMbn9LnzY5
Finally! The CDC has done some preliminary research and has discovered that the clinical experience of the doctors on the front lines of our sham pandemic of Sino-Lung-Rot has a scientific basis.
Chloroquine is effective in preventing the spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. Favorable inhibition of virus spread was observed when the cells were either treated with chloroquine prior to or after SARS CoV infection
Obviously this is a different virus than the one responsible for Wuhan Flu, but they are very very similar, and it is a reasonable assumption that a compound that shows promise in the treatment of one will show promise in the treatment of the other. So why the hysterical overreaction to the use of HCQ, in direct opposition to the CDC's own research?
A suspicious and pessimistic interpretation might suggest that the Chink Lung AIDS pandemic was a ginned up excuse to damage President Trump's prospects for reelection, and that the government apparatus dedicated to prevention and control of disease was repurposed years ago as a weapon in the Deep State's arsenal. So a cheap, relatively safe and possibly effective treatment (and maybe prophylaxis) was an unacceptable complication in the war against the President, and if thousands of Americans died because of the attacks on HCQ, well...eggs and omelets!
This does not weaken my and others' desire to see real double-blind studies of HCQ. That is an indispensable part of scientific medicine and must occur sooner rather than later. As much as we all want to believe that HCQ is effective, real data are the only way we will know for sure.
And I speak as the son of an 89-year-old who tested positive for COVID-19 and was given HCQ and azithromycin and did fine, with essentially no symptoms!
Babylon Bee: Stacey Abrams Says She Will Step Down from the Governorship If Asked to be Biden's VP If she does step down from the governorship, the chain of succession is as follows: The new governor will be the current governor, Brian Kemp, who is the actual governor, and will succeed himself as governor, being that he is in fact the governor, and not the Let's Just Pretend to Make the Retard Happy Governor that Stacey Abrams is
A carrot and an altidudinally challenged woman walk into a bar...
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Democrat Stacey Abrams: illegal immigrants "are now no longer able to elect anyone who represents them"
Obese NeverTrump liberal Neil Cavuto now... mask-shaming Trump Meanwhile, the reporter that's on camera questioning Trump about his mask is wearing her mask below the nose, making it ineffective and hence just for show Hey Cavuto maybe read up on the New Science of Carbs I literally never see reporters wearing masks at their stand-ups -- they only wear them for show during White House briefings, and only for the exact seconds the cameras are on them. But the Karen Korps just can't stop with the mask-shaming
Noted Expert Who Obviously "Questions the Science" About the Dangers of Obesity Has Some Thoughts About Those Who Ignore Medical Advice:
@RadioFreeTom
15h
That mook in Costco saying he didn't have to wear a mask inside of someone else's place of business because "I woke up in a free country this morning" is everything you need to know about how some of us only understand "freedom" at the level of a toddler.
From Sarah Hoyt: warning...language!
I DO NOT CONSENT "Well, assholes, I have news for you: I do not consent. Nor do the rest of America consent.
You didn’t even have the decency to get us drunk before you started to lie to us."
[CBD]
#ReleasetheSnyderCut
The Hollywood Reporter says that the long rumored original cut of Justice League is coming to HBO Max next year. It'll be 4 hours long.
[TheJamesMadison]
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Obama: Spymaster or Sandwich?
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg bluffing his way through yet another Charity Appearance on Special Report, claiming there's no crime possible in unmasking, claiming that this was all justified because "Obama knew" that Russia had interfered in the election Boy Jonah sure does trust Obama. It's almost as if he'd be willing to, at some future time, offer impassioned defenses of Barack Hussein Obama's character and integrity.
I guess Jonah the Duffer didn't bother keeping up with current events -- Brennan suppressed evidence that Putin favored Hillary. But Jonah Goldberg did some light skimming on this issue back in May 2017 and he figures that's still good enough to get him by
I do not understand why he does not feel any embarrassment at all at showing up prepared for every single CHARITY appearance on Fox News. Does he think he can just coast on his fucking LOOKS?
I know Bret Baier was college roommates and BFFs with fellow NeverTrump bluffer and bullshit arist Steven Hayes. So I guess he thinks he has to keep doling out Charity Hits to his down-on-their-luck buddies. But can either one of them be troubled to read something FROM THIS FUCKING YEAR about Obamagate? Or are they just going to keep repeating "Trust Mueller, finish the investigation" forever? Oh, one note: The Final Form of NeverTrump for some will be, apparently, obese and with an unkempt beard that looks like one of the Oak Ridge Boys' dirty dick-bushes.
Jonah, seriously, you cannot be both obese and ignorant and unprepared. Either lose some weight or do some reading for the first time since the last book you " " " wrote " " ". One or the other, fatboy. Liberal, Fat, and Stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Oh, what a shock. The Morbidly Obese Bluffer Jonah Goldberg just got his medical license from the University of Twitter and is now making confident pronouncements about hydroxychloroquine. He's overruling the White House physician. I'm sure we're all shocked about that. Boy that degree from Goucher College just keeps on giving, huh?
I wonder if this budding new M.D. knows anything about the health consequences of obesity...
PS, I know that if Jonah reads this he'll actually choose to lose weight, because there's no way in hell this lazy fake intellectual bluffer is going to do any reading.
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