The judge in this case was basically the Two Buttons meme, where one button was "Extend gun rights" and the other was "Punish an illegal alien for shooting into a crowd".
She has had work done, and they all have had work done. Seeing these women in low res versus straight-out-of-the-camera (much less in person) is quite the experience.
also the more i learn about illegal migration into the states the less jokingly the idea of me crossing and staying for an extended period of time becomes
What was said here once about the worst thing one man can say to another man is that he pities him? That's what victimhood is - someone pitying you.
Notice how the only group of people not Official Victims - sorry, Protected Classes - are the also the only ones capable of building a continentwide industrial civilization from scratch in less than three centuries?
There's a Canadian in our office. He blends in well for the most part, but he does say "mum" instead of "mom" and he says "garage" funny. Also, apparently north of the borders gutters are eavestroughs.
I spent my youth watching Hockey Night in Canada on Windsor tv so I can deal with the mispronunciation of the word out, but the collective proper noun as a plural thing annoys me. I'm not even sure the Brits do that.
I have an Aunt who is younger than me, it can happen with these simple steps. Mix together my grandfather being 18 when he had my father, him shacking up with a much younger wife, trailer park trashiness, and bam Megan's your, younger, Aunt.
I think Jack has some spare cots around. And if his last post is any indicator, you’ll have plenty of wool pants in vacuum sealed bags down there to stay warm.
I'm old enough to remember those brand names once stood for $6 and $8 for a room. By the way, $6 in 1962 dollars works out to less than $50 today so it was a bargain even back then. The cheapest you'll find a Red Roof or Motel 6 these days is about $60 a night.
Well, we have two air mattresses right now, but that's just the sort of cot I would invest in if I ever needed one, like if Speed decided to show up with his Miatas to build us our garage.
Sleeping on an air mattress is like trying to sleep on a beach ball. A few years ago I bought an inflatable bed to try when camping and I switched to a regular cot and pad because I just couldn't get it to be comfortable no matter how much or how little I inflated it. I still keep it for guests but so far, they've preferred the couch.
I may check that out. My biggest complaint about my current system that I got at Cabela's/Bass is that the cot is a bit narrow and the sleeping pad slides around on it. The next time I go camping I think I'll see if I can fix things in place with some 3M Dual Lock.
I can kind of see Mexico’s point, as most of the migrants now aren’t even Mexicans but people from farther south.
That said, it seems like if they wanted to they could close their own southern border a bit tighter and prevent a lot of this. There was some discussion here a while back about the pros and cons of the US paying them to do so, which is unsavory but relatively easy.
They're not "migrants." Migrants migrate, as in make a round trip. These people came to stay.
Which makes them first trespassers, then squatters.
And yes, I think lethal force should be used, or at least threatened, to remove them. America belongs to us Americans. We have every right to say who comes in.
These two undocumented citizens need to be flown here IMMEDIATELY. And as many like them as we can find. I don't care if we have to take the SR-71 out of mothballs to make it happen.
Jack why did you not say it you have it for Arianna Huffington’s interview of Bill Big Cigar Clinton.. Readers might have thought you purchased it as insurance against getting thrown out of an F1 race… 😂😂😂
Considering what LIV Golf is paying out for players, it would be relatively pocket change. They would still need a ROI study. There's not going to be much of a live crowd in attendance. Also, "When?" 24 race F1 season doesn't leave a big hole for drivers. Then toss in contracts with do and don'ts on other driving. Would this be FIA sanctioned? Would the FIA cause grief for drivers stepping out for a rogue race?
-They could pay far more than $10MM, but that would start to generate interest.
-Wouldn’t need to be FIA sanctioned; the commercial side of F1 is at loggerheads with the FIA as it is … and I suspect that the PIF will be the CRH by the end of the decade. The FIA is pretty impotent, because most of their income is derived from F1.
-It would not be open ONLY to F1 teams or drivers - there are plenty of others: Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Koenigsegg, Pagani, etc. But you’d want the big names there to provide their aura.
Not that I want to sound like I don't care these two guys died in their F40, it is sad and tragic (although racing an F40? what a way to go!), but do we have to cancel everything where the people involved know they're taking a risk? I don't mean we should glorify death (I'm the type of person who avoids things like those Faces of Death tapes that went around in the 80s and 90s), but there should still be room for dangerous competitions like this.
Guesses hazarded: feminism, woke-matriarchy (aka the longhouse) and above all else--tort law.
In italy a few years ago my wife and I did pass a train of older, mostly-Colombo-V12-era ferraris (with maybe the occasional non-ferrari car in the train) pushing maybe 6/10ths on fully-open, public two-lanes around Umbria. These guys were not a danger to themselves or anyone else, but if you closed the roads, they could have a lot of fun and spectating might make sense. (edit: I think this was Ferrari Cavalcade, https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/ferrari-cavalcade-is-one-of-its-most-exclusive-events-1234642113/ )
Agreed. Australia seems pretty ahead of the curve when it comes to being, uh, risk-adverse. A history of knee-jerk reactions on that island, to put it mildly.
Roger Penske’s stewardship illustrates that the series has one golden goose - a Sunday in late May during which everyone has their fingers crossed that nobody dies - and … everything else.
He ought to have sold the series to Liberty Media.
In the past, some called Indycar F1.5. What tying it to F anything does though, is hurt the established drivers if the mindset is F not 1 is for up and comers. Nobody makes a career in F2 or F3. Your "Persuade" makes sense.
How silly to complain about the coverage. Is F1’s better, maybe, but the racing sure isn’t. As for ticket prices, wtf are you talking about. Two grandstand tickets for my son and I at Long Beach are a fraction of what an F1 ticket costs. Maybe do some homework before posting?
As for F1 lite, what? Far better that it races on ovals, road courses and street courses. Much more of a challenge for the drivers.
What it really needs is a new car and maybe another OEM engine supplier. Or more than one chassis like they used to have.
I have attended the Long Beach Grand Prix numerous times myself; I’ve been to more than a dozen Indycar races over the past ~10 years, at a variety of tracks - Long Beach, Indy 500, Road America, Sonoma, Laguna Seca, Mid-Ohio, Watkins Glen, etc.
Indycar could remain the cheap substitute for people who just want to watch cars go by, and F1 could be priced to the stratosphere.
One initiative that Liberty is contemplating is a Paddock Club “Prive” tier, the brainchild of Flavio Briatore, which would run about $100K for a weekend ticket. Crucially, the CRH retains Paddock Club revenue, not the promoter.
Why is it silly that I think the vast delta in broadcast quality is important? Would you rather watch a Grand Prix with commentary from the Sky - or F1 TV - team with zero commercials or listen to Leigh Diffey screech on and on before a quick cut to commercials for reverse mortgages, life alert, and Cheetos while a race is taking place?
Penske's ownership has been so incredibly disappointing. It seems like the series was bought by Eddie Lampert rather than the preeminent IndyCar owner of the last 50 years.
Indy Car has some of the best racing on the planet (if not the best). A very full grid. Lots of good drivers. Decent , though not great, TV audiences. And of fans at some races - Long Beach, Road America. Could it be healthier? Yes, just think of the glory days of Cart. And the verdict is still out on Penske. But circling the drain is absurd hyperbole.
-Has he brought in any new OEMs? No; he is desperately BEGGING Honda to stay, meanwhile his other manufacturer is crying because they can’t get into F1.
-Has he improved the TV coverage? No; the product as it currently exists is, frankly, unwatchable.
-Has he emulated F1’s Drive to Survive success? Sort of … Indycar’s copycat product came 4 years later and aired on the CW network.
It’s his money on the line, and he’s entitled to do whatever he wants to with his toy, but tweaking a few things at the margin while Liberty makes substantial improvements to F1 isn’t gonna cut it in the long run. Liberty paid ~$4BN for the equity of F1 7 years ago; the enterprise value was ~$8BN. FWONK - the tracking stock - currently trades at ~$29BN.
BEN SULAYEM CLEARED OF WRONGDOING AFTER FIA INVESTIGATION
A few hours later.....
SUSIE WOLFF FILES CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST FIA
Because Ben is poopy head and the fix is in because he was cleared by the FIA, how can the FIA investigate Horner and end up with the "Correct" result? So, file a complaint in a court of law to muddy any result that finds Horner to be at a worst a Horn Dog.
Oh, and poor Ginger Spice was a side piece for Horner. With the same woman for over 10 years. They have a kid together. About a year later he's engaged to Ginger Spice.
". Any other opinion on this matter is a de facto slippery slope to hunting illegal aliens for sport or profit. " ~ There's a book and movie in there somewhere Jack .
I miss going to the figure 8 races in Saugus, Ca., I believe they've built apartments there now, used to be a Vietnam era bomb factory right next to it long long ago .
I wonder if anyone thought to ask Mexico : ? where do you want the U.S.A. to put the citizens you no longer want ? .
The bigger picture is that Americans have the right to decide who comes into America, and the right to kick out all who are not Americans any time we want, for any or no reason.
Mexico wants to continue to use America as a dumping ground for its surplus poor. Fuck no. America is not a human landfill.
Frankly, I don't CARE if Mexico doesn't want them back - WE didn't want them first. We will parachute them in if necessary, under air cover, but the Mexicans will take them back. You let them through YOUR territory, Mexico, you can let them BACK through the way they came.
Jackson is only on the Court because she's both black and a woman. That's it. There, I said it.
That’s the Post-It note version of the following, “There's a thin veneer of hyper competent professionals that keep the lights on and water drinkable, replace them with the unworthy and the water turns brown and the lights go out.” Maybe I’m just old and grumpy but I swear I’ve seen the lights flicker lately.
The question I ask DEI enthusiasts (or people who parrot support without knowing what it really is) is "In DEI, equity means equal results. Can excellence even exist under an equity regime?"
I understand that talking about intelligence makes a lot of people uncomfortable but if we were talking about anything else, such as the ability to play music, or basketball, at a high level, nobody talks about equity. Parity, perhaps, as in the NFL, but that means something completely different. Speaking of parity, related to par, do we really want some kind of societal handicapping system to ensure equal results? We use things like handicaps in golf and balance of performance in racing to make the competition "fair" but nobody pretends that winning a tournament or race because you have a higher handicap makes you the better golfer or have a faster car.
The problem with DEI is it is just pity. I worked with people with disabilities for 13 years. They either have learned helplessness and work is a foreign concept or they'll work any job that lets them have every 3rd day off for their bowel routine. Neither group appreciates, or benefits from, pity.
My wife cycles between correctly-sized frames for her face and GIANT LENSES and she's adorable both ways. I'm willing to allow black women their eyewear choices. This is America, after all!
There used to be this stuff sold that was a wax mixture in a chapstick tube that you’d rub on the bridge of the frame to keep it in place. It worked pretty good, my wife just lost it so back to the pushing. Oh found it: https://nerdwax.com/
Maybe now that Nathan Wade lost his DA hookup in Atlanta he will move up the food chain and start a relationship with a big assed Supreme Court justice
They will probably argue that they don't want the other-than-Mexicans that have been pouring through. This is somewhat reasonable. Anyone can be repatriated anywhere by C130 airdrop.
None of this nonsense will stop until lawfare is brought against the NGOs ferrying them up.
it's actually much worse than that with Jackson. She's been doing Democrat Crime Family favors for years. Did you know she was the judge in the lunatic "pizzagate" shooter case? She's like a low-IQ, one-man CIA psyop cleanup crew
Here's another thought: Is allowing Trespassers to become American police officers yet another part of the plan to destabilize American society, by pushing the Honest & Peaceable further into the corner, until we have no choice but to fire on illegitimate cops?
There's the whole idea that They're shipping these military-aged males here to turn them into their rainbow-colored army to suppress all the evil white supremacists in the countryside. I mean, they are housing a lot of these guys in military-style barracks. Giving them guns allows them to go to war against us natives. BUT they're all tribalistic weirdos from failed societies and instead of fighting whitey way out there in the countryside they're going to turn on each other the first chance they get. Instead of DACA cops doing the will of the government it's just going to be sectarian violence from Africa only in Brooklyn or wherever with gangs of cops with different allegiances shooting at each other. Of course, it has to get to that point first, the current order has to not collapse before it can happen.
They were not 3/5 citizens because they were not considered citizens at all. The three-fifths compromise had to do with apportioning congressional districts. There are some echos in the migrant debate in that a state's legal residents, not the number of U.S. citizens who live there, determine congressional apportionment, so it's possible for illegal migrants to influence American elections even if they aren't illegally voting (which I presume many do).
Take the ethnic group blessed with more generalized intelligence, drive, ambition & capacity for directed, purposeful violence than all the others put together, with a history of taking their ways to the far corners of the earth and bending the entire world to them, marginalize them inside their own countries and then attack them verbally & physically in a thousand & one ways from a position of temporary strength.
You know how we have hunting seasons mainly so humans don't kill EVERY LIVING THING in the forest? Well, that's also one of the purposes of Judeo-Christian morality, too.
"You lost your idiotic little war on normal people. But don't worry. We're not going to eat you or cut your heart out on some rain god's altar. We're just going to dump you in Siberia or The Outback or Sub-Saharan Africa with nothing but the clothes you're wearing."
I like how the first amendment now only covers 'political speech'. Wow, large bit of propaganda there!
The First amendment covers ALL speech that the Government, wants to control. Doesn't matter if it's political or not. Once the government starts regulating speech, any speech, it's breaking the law.
I'm not surprised she couldn't figure that out, but then again, I doubt she understands any of the constitution at all. Probably had somebody 'explain' it to her.
As documents go, it's pretty clear. But the length that the left goes to LIE about it, and often quote it with certain Words REMOVED, so as to change the entire meaning, has been going on since before I was born.
As for Texas? Send them back, if mexico opens fire, go to war (I live in Texas by the way) the Mexican government has a very disturbing habit of attacking people in Texas across the border. Time to pay them back.
Have you seen the new think with substack? If you're a 'conservsative writer' you now have to provide them (Stripe - the sole payment processor) with total access to your banking records. So they can see where you spend your money, and where you get it from. Another one of those 'Government Organizations that really isn't a Government Organization' is apparently pushing for this across all payment processors.
The only thing wrong with that is that we do NOT have anybody protecting our airspace along the mexican border. We barely have anybody protecting the airspace on either seaboard.
I seem to get friendly visits inside the ADIZ if I am not in flight following or an IFR flight plan. In fact we used to do this on purpose so buddies at the 125th ANG at Jax international would get scrambled rather than sitting around. We pop up, they scramble, we drop down and head to the beach and they get to call no joy and fly for a bit.
The antics that ensue between Homestead and Navy in Key West when the Cubans get their monthly flight time is hysterical.
WV made it pretty easy (I’d been doing the independent contractor deal w political clients for 3 years. Which worked when I made 30k a year, less so at two or more times that). As a “young entrepreneur” (a pretty far reach considering its a business with no physical location, no website, with a pun-inspired name based off the Latin term for raccoons) I think I paid like $20 for the registration and another $20 for a DBA.
Again, that's coming to an end. Spend some time living with one or the other parent? $591/day fine. Move in with a girlfriend? $591/day fine. Ditch the seldom-used real estate and live in an RV? NOT ALLOWED AT ALL, COMRADE.
The Soviet Union used to require internal visas. Post 9/11 requirements for a residential address are getting very close to that.
Owning an LLC requries notifying FinCen of your *RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS*, providing photo ID, and promptly any changes to said address or accrue $591 a day fines.
I've filed taxes using PO Boxes and other non-residential addresses my entire adult life.
And I've had LLC's without having to provide a residential address to FinCen for distribution to WHO KNOWS WHO for WHO KNOWS WHY for most of my adult life.
“Jackson’s very human concern is that the government not be prohibited from disseminating crucial information — and, therefore, discouraging harmful misinformation — during times of crisis. “
That seems to be a very charitable interpretation.
In her hypothetical, the government’s dissemination of crucial information-“hey, kids, don’t be dumbasses”-will have no effect on the behavior the government seeks to diminish. She then goes on to expound a Commie favorite, the argument from safetyism, and then begins to openly consider how government can justify coercion of private actors based of the government’s duty to protect citizens.
Fix the roads, keep the shipping lanes open, and stay out of expanding the governments “duties” to its citizens. Unless I missed something, which happens more frequently key than I care to admit.
Democrats in 1856: The Republicans are pushing a dangerous and discredited narrative that blacks are equal to whites and should be freed and become citizens.
Never give power to someone you love that you wouldn't give to someone you hate.
The principle of non-refoulement gets tilted to allow unfettered mass migration. Enter Dem politicians preemptively saying that the Haitians who come here must be allowed to stay here until conditions improve there (seems about as likely as me settling down with a Church girl and driving a Chevy Bolt to my gig as a ScrumMaster), despite the fact that no significant number has really arrived here (yet).
Let’s be serious. The whole point of yelling about ‘calling them illegals’ is to ensure you can’t talk about them at all. Not even as a complication, much less as a problem.
This week’s acceptable term is ‘Administratively-challenged’. I checked, you’re welcome.
I take no news report seriously that uses the term "Migrant" and only "Migrant". It's like they are all using the AP Stylebook and instituting "Good Think".
We really need to rethink the whole idea of "refugees". Many Americans live in cities that are more dangerous than war zones: should they be entitled to claim refugee status in Switzerland and live in a luxury ski resort for 7 years while their claims are adjudicated?
And should both the Crips and the Bloods be able to BOTH claim refugee status at the same resort? Taking in German Jews was kind of a special case.
The U.S. didn't take in as many German Jews as they could have. See: S.S. St. Louis.
The Immigration Act in the early 1920s made it fairly difficult for Jews to get into the United States. Some made it. Other didn't. Canada treated German Jewish refugees as enemy aliens and put them in camps in Nova Scotia with German POWs.
I am aware of that, and I think that that history has shaped some of our current policies. You probably wouldn't want all the Crips and all the Bloods to show up in Jerusalem claiming "I am a refugee from a violent society and you are obligated to feed and house me indefinitely" (and I would not blame you).
Another thing, very specifically, is that in the German situation, it was fairly easy to understand sides (excluding edge cases like George Soros, a Nazi-collaborating Jew). But what about the civil war in Eritrea? Which side do we support? And even if we pick a side, how can we reliably distinguish members of that side?
Worse yet, in a situation like Eritrea or Chechnya, isn't it more likely that the people who an afford a plane ticket to the US and are not massacred on their way to the airport are much more likely to be on the Oppressor team, rather than the Oppressed?
A song from a different time, when planes crashed and illegal immigrants were sent back to their homes, at least after agribusiness was done with them. Hey, planes are crashing again, maybe we are on the cusp of renaissance of deportations.
Commie or not, the fact is that examples abound of private entities putting walls up around the commons for their own gain. Everyone from Bundy using our land to feed his cattle to the Waltons using our tax dollars to subsidize their executive compensation via WIC and medicaid.
Nope, it was intended as it presents.. for all the complaints about people who do procreate, you cannot compete with them by complaining instead of having your own kids.
Immigration policy is one of the major reasons why I was always too poor or overworked to procreate. Which is part of why I'm so angry about the situation (the GAME, not the PLAYERS, with whom I have often had excellent relationships as individuals).
"Jackson’s very human concern is that the government not be prohibited from disseminating crucial information — and, therefore, discouraging harmful misinformation — during times of crisis"
But she's still wrong. The government does not get to decide what speech is crucial, safe, or true. For God's sake, especially now as even the mindless bureaucracies of the US government are openly partisan and ideological...
The Bill of Rights amendments are hard limits on the scope of the government... these are not limits we should be trying to rationalize into soft limits.
What will be interesting is if they somehow use Cox V N.H. here as they have ruled in the past that while they can't regulate the content of speech, the gov't can regulate the time and place of speech. The question is, is the time of "never" allowed?
Jackson’s argument presents a corner case—youth, en masse, leaping from windows—to argue for allowing government action that will likely be seldom applied in such extreme cases, but will be applied routinely to stuff like “hate speech.”
If such an unlikely event can be called an “epidemic,” why can’t you use, say, the LGBT youth suicide rate, call it an “epidemic,” and say that the government can force online communications platforms to remove anything criticizing the trans or “non-binary” agendas? Taken from its extreme origin to its most likely usages, what Jackson proposes might seem in the interest of public safety or welfare, but will almost certainly be used to enact the agenda and stifle dissent of the Democratic Party and its more socialist analogues. It’s the Patriot Act all over again: proposed in the name of safety, culminating in massive Uniparty-approved surveillance efforts against US Citizens.
Sometimes, opening the floodgates to government action in a pretty common sense case sets the precedent for use of the same action against ordinary Americans. Bad logic; but the feckless SCOTUS Justices (of which Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett seem to be joining the ranks, leaving just Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch as genuine constitutionalists) will go for it anyway.
Note, I don’t say the Republicans would use such action to stifle dissent against their agenda. They prefer sham hearings, fluff-laden floor speeches, and crowing about nothing on “Hannity” to the Democrats’ hard ball approach of forcing corporate America, the media, etc to bend to their fucking will.
Jordan and my worthless local congressman (Alex Mooney, a real dud) spoke together last year at an event in my hometown.
He’s truly unimpressive. Brays on about fighting the left and all that. And to be sure he’s yelled at a lot of witnesses. But he’s never gotten a piece of legislation passed, and prefers a lot of talk over action. Doing stuff isn’t his forte.
I'd argue, without a republican in the Executive, there isn't a whole lot they actually can do. They do hold the purse strings and of course, like always, they caved.
We're a good three generations deep into them being bred in captivity. It's unreasonable to take a lion out of the zoo, send him out in the wild, and expect him to fully assert his dominance over some uppity hyenas wreaking havoc in the plains.
The best instance of an elected Republican in our lifetime who really imposed his will is Jim Brainard as Mayor of Carmel, IN for the last 28 years. Everywhere else it's slavish losers, or people with good instincts but no knowledge or resources to guide them on following through.
"If such an unlikely event can be called an “epidemic,” why can’t you use, say, the LGBT youth suicide rate, call it an “epidemic,” and say that the government can force online communications platforms to remove anything criticizing the trans or “non-binary” agendas? "
I don't think we would see extreme action like that for... oh, WEEKS after this decision goes their way.
Not to go back to my Philip Rieff enthusiasms, but it seems pretty clear that increasing government use of “therapy speak” with even the President and VP talking “mental health” as a public health crisis (which, especially in cases relating to veterans, it truly may be), is building towards precisely the sort of action where anything that hurts the feelings of a protected group (it will be the LGBT) is going to be treated like the covid “conspiracy theories.”
Im nominally on the spectrum. My father almost certainly is, too. I doubt I’d seek a diagnosis for my own kids for something as simple as aspergers (they changed the name, but whatever). The schools will get lazy and put a 145-IQ aspie into a class w non verbal and Down Syndrome kids (not being “ableist” but that shouldn’t occur), as opposed to just forcing them to deal w ppl in real classrooms (not that I’ll ever send my kids to a public school anyway). Luckily I went to private school most of my life, which didn’t have special ed and I thus turned out pretty normal. I know a kid (grew up in my neighborhood) who probably had a 145+ IQ: spent his time doing physics equations in an autism room in the 6th grade, dad had a PhD from Carnegie Mellon but neglected the kid. Parents were ok with him never being challenged. I am less intelligent than him, yet I just got a 169 on the LSAT practice test and he works at McDonald’s. Were his parents not complacent, could’ve been different.
Doctors would no doubt tell me I have half a dozen Very Serious problems. Prediabetes, liver disease, those sorts of things. Except that I have no physical symptoms for any of them. And doctors are hammers in search of nails anyway.
What I do have is a tendency to worry about nothing, a stressful job, a poor diet starring sugar & caffeine, nowhere near enough exercise, an entire lifetime of sleep deprivation caused by being a night owl in a morning lark's world and two decades of consuming demoralizing, apocalyptic conservative media.
Come on. If the aches and shivering and pains and tingling all go away when I stop thinking about them, is the problem really from the neck down?
If I grew up in that enviroment I would agree. The few therapists that I spoke to that were any good weren't in it to win it. It was the journey that mattered. The best actually ran the behaviorial health portion of a free clinic can't afford that level of care now or then but they can make a difference.
"Epidemics" are instances of widespread dangerous disease. NOT common problems of a non-medical nature.
"Trannies offing themselves because they have weak character and heads full of bad wiring" is no more an "epidemic" than "gun violence," which is actually GANG violence.
Something similar going on with the Tiktok brouhaha. Feeding us a line about the importance of not letting China scrape our data while sneaking in insane presidential power to take down any internet platform the administration dislikes.
Also, why are we depending on a foreign adversary to supply most of our prescription medicine, to say nothing of our sex toys and solar eclipse cardboard eye protection?
Wait until you find out that India is the SOLE source of many medicines right now, because they were the only ones who could crank the shit out at an insurance company approved rate.
Don't forget all of those people that went blind using Indian over the counter eye drops. Let's contract out medicine to a country that isn't sanitary for a few bucks.
Alway ask the pharmacist the source of your medication. We will not accept prescriptions not made in the USA, Canada. Or Israel… it’s not raciest it it for safety….
Know this: many of the so-called chemists at the Indian pharma-mills don't know the chemistry behind the generics they produce. Which is scary for those generics that are wholly and solely produced there.
Where you gonna get ivermectin if not india? Are US compounding pharmacies making it available, at what cost per pill, with what source for their ingredients (if the ingredients come from india *regardless* why not just go straight to the source)?
The concern here is legitimate but in the case of the no. 1 line of covid defense it might be better to take the indian-possible-poison-pills rather than enjoy the ill-effects from Ralph Baric's beloved bioweapon
I've never thought of TikTok as a data collector, but as a mind destroyer. It's the constant nudging to the lowest common denominator that is the problem. TV decades ago was called the Idiot Box. TikTok is that on steroids.
When I had my plasma-donation-induced brush with death and ended up in the ER for a few hours, the nurse turned on the TV and it was set to Jerry Springer. If I didn't have kids I'd have just walked out to die alone and unloved rather than stay there. Luckily she came back with a remote and I turned it off and read the book I had brought instead.
Tim Conrad finds a way to get wealthy businessman Martin Mueller as a client. Impressed by Tim's ingenuity, his boss Lance Fender says he is a candidate for a promotion but wants to get to know him better. He invites him to a dinner in which he must find and bring an eccentric person with a special talent to be mocked by the executives; the winner earns a trophy and the executive who brought him or her gets glory.
Tim excitedly tells his long-time girlfriend, Julie, about the possible promotion and dinner but she is offended by the idea of inviting strange people to a dinner just to mock them, telling him to refuse the invitation.
No one told Jerry's guests to refuse the invitation.
It's amusing how the Patriot Act was passed before you were born, yet still impacts your life and/or rustles your jimmies. I thought kids these days only paid attention to TikTok memes?
Im not sure where I developed my bizarre Ron Paul political bent, but even as a kid watching Glen Beck with my parents I always kinda leaned that way. The fact that I watched Beck w my parents probably explains something.
Ive never had TikTok, rarely use Snapchat. And I only use Instagram and Facebook for messaging features, I doubt I post more than once or twice a year on either. If you looked at my media consumption alone you’d probably think I was 50. I mostly read books and watch old movies. Probably why only the strangest and craziest of women are endeared to me, most “basic bitches” look at me like I’m Mork from Ork. Which is ok, I probably wouldn’t understand their habits any better (and dating one may require me breaking my personal challenge of never listening to a Taylor Swift song).
The judge in this case was basically the Two Buttons meme, where one button was "Extend gun rights" and the other was "Punish an illegal alien for shooting into a crowd".
She has had lots of work done. You can see all of her cheek filler in pics of her with Christian from the Middle Eastern races earlier this month.
Travesty. An F1 pilot should not have to be with a woman that needs work.
I believe Christian has had some work done, as well.
Look at pics of him from 15 years ago vs now - his chin, his teeth, etc.
John Z. DeLorean had some very successful work done.
She has had work done, and they all have had work done. Seeing these women in low res versus straight-out-of-the-camera (much less in person) is quite the experience.
why does alonso have a g36
also the more i learn about illegal migration into the states the less jokingly the idea of me crossing and staying for an extended period of time becomes
man i love warm weather
Come again?
That's what she said.
Well, that's up to her...
Your stay in the US would probably depend on where you stand on the Left’s Pyramid of Victims. Otherwise you're not getting a Stay Out of Jail Card.
What was said here once about the worst thing one man can say to another man is that he pities him? That's what victimhood is - someone pitying you.
Notice how the only group of people not Official Victims - sorry, Protected Classes - are the also the only ones capable of building a continentwide industrial civilization from scratch in less than three centuries?
That's a UMP.
this is what i deserve for writing a comment in a rush
Come on man, get your shit together, we don't mistake HK infantry weapons here, this isn't a Tyler Rogoway article
I'M SORRY OKAY
plz no ban
Yo, if you can build a garage I'll set up a cot in our basement for you.
good way to avoid culture shock
I've wondered if it would be possible to waltz around some of the northern states and blend in due to my "accent".
Come to Wisconsin. The number of times I have been thought to have a Canuckastian accent while talking to customers on the phone numbers over 100.
There's a Canadian in our office. He blends in well for the most part, but he does say "mum" instead of "mom" and he says "garage" funny. Also, apparently north of the borders gutters are eavestroughs.
Sounds about right. We also pronounce "bag" and "roof" differently or as I like to call it
correctly
Say about. Sayyyyy it.
Okay okay I’m Canadian. But I live in Toronto. So we all say “fam.”
I miss when rob ford was mayor.
"Toronto are going all oot tonight".
I spent my youth watching Hockey Night in Canada on Windsor tv so I can deal with the mispronunciation of the word out, but the collective proper noun as a plural thing annoys me. I'm not even sure the Brits do that.
How about Z? My dad had a 240Zed…
(Red trying to get Dalton to say the word "About.")
Red: "Okay Dalton, Americans make fun of us for how we say this."
Dalton: "Please register your firearms?"
Uncle Speed!
this is funnier if you know that im about 10 years younger than he is
MD has to explain to his kids who that guy in the basement is.
"I met him on the internet, he has Miatas, he's fine."
I'll let you park one of them in the one-car garage we do have.
That doesn't really contradict how biological uncles work.
correct
i dont know how uncles work
Most of my uncles just made big money hanging out in New York publishing offices.
So I don't really know, either.
I have an Aunt who is younger than me, it can happen with these simple steps. Mix together my grandfather being 18 when he had my father, him shacking up with a much younger wife, trailer park trashiness, and bam Megan's your, younger, Aunt.
My daughter-in-law's father remarried a younger woman. My grandkids have an aunt an uncle younger than they are.
Sounds like a country song!
https://youtu.be/05FmjQZFHTQ?si=ZJWkVEJK80Rr2fA2
I think Jack has some spare cots around. And if his last post is any indicator, you’ll have plenty of wool pants in vacuum sealed bags down there to stay warm.
i could simply ensconce myself in the wool pants to stay warm
if i ever find myself wandering across the untied states i may take you up on that offer
beats the hell out of getting shanked outside a motel 6
I've got a great idea for Super 8 Motel commercial. "Super 8 Motel. It's not fancy, but beats the hell out of getting shanked outside a Motel 6".
"Super 8! It's two more than 6!"
I'm old enough to remember those brand names once stood for $6 and $8 for a room. By the way, $6 in 1962 dollars works out to less than $50 today so it was a bargain even back then. The cheapest you'll find a Red Roof or Motel 6 these days is about $60 a night.
The bedbugs are complimentary
Is it the Cabela's Lounge Cot? Because I've slept in hotels that were worse. Surprisingly comfortable.
Well, we have two air mattresses right now, but that's just the sort of cot I would invest in if I ever needed one, like if Speed decided to show up with his Miatas to build us our garage.
Sleeping on an air mattress is like trying to sleep on a beach ball. A few years ago I bought an inflatable bed to try when camping and I switched to a regular cot and pad because I just couldn't get it to be comfortable no matter how much or how little I inflated it. I still keep it for guests but so far, they've preferred the couch.
Exactly this. Give me a thin form pad on a floor and it's just a VERY FIRM mattress, which is way better than a bouncy castle ride.
I tried one of those Sleep Number beds years ago. Same problem.
Why are couches so damn comfortable? I need a bed made of couches.
I HATE air mattresses. They're part of why I hate camping.
Well, that and the fact that family vacations were nightmarish camping trips when I was a kid.
I may check that out. My biggest complaint about my current system that I got at Cabela's/Bass is that the cot is a bit narrow and the sleeping pad slides around on it. The next time I go camping I think I'll see if I can fix things in place with some 3M Dual Lock.
This is the only cot that actually fits me. I used an inflatable pad on it and the pad does move, but not terribly so.
IMO, it's more comfortable without the added pad. You kind of sink into it a bit.
Don't know why this came to mind, but it's one of his greats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0O3gZVUp9o
I like how it opens with a guy getting thrown out of a K-car.
You're the sort we actually WANT.
Ergo, exactly the sort that the power structure does NOT want.
time to become somebodies problem then
"Who are you?"
"I'M YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!"
"KEEP FUCKING AROUND AND I MIGHT HAVE TO POLITELY INTEGRATE INTO YOUR SCOCIETY"
"...INTO (what's left of) YOUR SOCIETY"
Engage SEP Field!
I can kind of see Mexico’s point, as most of the migrants now aren’t even Mexicans but people from farther south.
That said, it seems like if they wanted to they could close their own southern border a bit tighter and prevent a lot of this. There was some discussion here a while back about the pros and cons of the US paying them to do so, which is unsavory but relatively easy.
They're not "migrants." Migrants migrate, as in make a round trip. These people came to stay.
Which makes them first trespassers, then squatters.
And yes, I think lethal force should be used, or at least threatened, to remove them. America belongs to us Americans. We have every right to say who comes in.
I don't think drone strikes or machine gun turrets are entirely out of line all along the border.
If we can put a man on the moon, as the old saying goes, we can station a million sentry guns and an armed drone fleet from San Diego to Brownsville.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS2PtmM9mwU
It has long been said that if the migrants were young European women Border Patrol would have nuclear weapons.
If pretty European girls were trying to migrate here I'd drop everything and become a coyote.
Skim some of the product as your cut.
That's an ignorant thing to say.
They'd be doing first strikes in the countries of origin to discourage it, like we do with cocaine.
It's been going on a while (also notice also how few refugees we get, compared to other wars?):
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-female-soldiers-uniforms-/32576432.html
https://gdb.rferl.org/F63FD5D4-78A4-405D-AD83-E7398F35F851_w650_r0_s.jpg
These two undocumented citizens need to be flown here IMMEDIATELY. And as many like them as we can find. I don't care if we have to take the SR-71 out of mothballs to make it happen.
Spoiler: they already did those firs strikes, and it was called
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden
Point well taken.
There might be some East German border guards around still looking for work.
Well, there's no Low Countries to roll through, at least.
Patton said static defensive fortifications were a monument to man's stupidity.
The Russian minefields seemed to haved vexed NATO tactics in Ukraine last summer.
Mexico has become a sewage line for all sorts of nasty unwanted debris and now they're fitting on a backflow valve.
Can illegal immigration hurt Mexico?
That's like asking if it's okay to pour old paint down the outhouse.
Your second paragraph. If they didn't want immigrants from countries south of them, why didn't they deport them first?
May 1998 Playboy. Thanks for heads up there, Chief!!!!!
Here's a factory-sealed one, I think it's important to buy these "unread"
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I only bought it for the Dilbert interview.
The Back Page.
As long as the pages aren't sticky.
Jack why did you not say it you have it for Arianna Huffington’s interview of Bill Big Cigar Clinton.. Readers might have thought you purchased it as insurance against getting thrown out of an F1 race… 😂😂😂
She was smokin’ hot. Nice bush
Yes she was.
Interestingly enough, the prize for the for winning driver of the "1 Million Dollar Thermal Challenge" is actually "only" 500,000.
How about a race with a real monetary prize:
-A modern Mille Miglia
-Held on closed “public roads” (i.e., purpose built roads) in the Middle East
-Pit stations every hundred miles
-Open to any manufacturer fielding a street legal production car
-Driver plus navigator (could be anyone - Alonso, Verstappen … some rich guy)
-$10MM prize to the winning marque / team
-Wall to wall video / social media coverage with sponsorship from the PIF or Mubadala or Mumtalakat or Red Bull (or all of the above)
Considering what LIV Golf is paying out for players, it would be relatively pocket change. They would still need a ROI study. There's not going to be much of a live crowd in attendance. Also, "When?" 24 race F1 season doesn't leave a big hole for drivers. Then toss in contracts with do and don'ts on other driving. Would this be FIA sanctioned? Would the FIA cause grief for drivers stepping out for a rogue race?
-They could pay far more than $10MM, but that would start to generate interest.
-Wouldn’t need to be FIA sanctioned; the commercial side of F1 is at loggerheads with the FIA as it is … and I suspect that the PIF will be the CRH by the end of the decade. The FIA is pretty impotent, because most of their income is derived from F1.
-It would not be open ONLY to F1 teams or drivers - there are plenty of others: Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Koenigsegg, Pagani, etc. But you’d want the big names there to provide their aura.
-When to do it? December?
ROI or a crazy car obessed sultan or sheik?
They don’t need ROI to justify anything, and even if they did, all of these projects are small loss leaders in the scheme of Vision 2030.
I had lunch today with a friend who just returned from a fundraising trip to Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He was VERY impressed.
Didn't they do something similar Australia? IIRC two Japanese guys crashed and died in their F40 and the event was canceled.
Not that I want to sound like I don't care these two guys died in their F40, it is sad and tragic (although racing an F40? what a way to go!), but do we have to cancel everything where the people involved know they're taking a risk? I don't mean we should glorify death (I'm the type of person who avoids things like those Faces of Death tapes that went around in the 80s and 90s), but there should still be room for dangerous competitions like this.
Guesses hazarded: feminism, woke-matriarchy (aka the longhouse) and above all else--tort law.
In italy a few years ago my wife and I did pass a train of older, mostly-Colombo-V12-era ferraris (with maybe the occasional non-ferrari car in the train) pushing maybe 6/10ths on fully-open, public two-lanes around Umbria. These guys were not a danger to themselves or anyone else, but if you closed the roads, they could have a lot of fun and spectating might make sense. (edit: I think this was Ferrari Cavalcade, https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/ferrari-cavalcade-is-one-of-its-most-exclusive-events-1234642113/ )
Agreed. Australia seems pretty ahead of the curve when it comes to being, uh, risk-adverse. A history of knee-jerk reactions on that island, to put it mildly.
From Penal Colony to Free Country to Penal Colony in N generations.
Which is ridiculous. I thought Aussies were he-men.
I feel like I need to see the Isle of Man TT in person before it gets canceled.
This is a fantastic idea. I would gladly spectate.
They could even have an historic division for the lucky spanks of the world to ball up their priceless 60s Ferraris.
i like the street legal production car!
"Good tickets still available!!!" Even the "Swells" with property there, who's only reason for being there is cars, don't GAF.
Indycar is really circling the drain.
Roger Penske’s stewardship illustrates that the series has one golden goose - a Sunday in late May during which everyone has their fingers crossed that nobody dies - and … everything else.
He ought to have sold the series to Liberty Media.
What would LM do with it? It has sunk so low what do you do?
-Turn it into F1-lite?
-Revamp the coverage to be more like the F1 product, which is galaxies better than Indycar’s.
-Encourage / “persuade” OEMs to join.
-Ensure that ticket costs remain affordable so that they can really reach for the stars with F1 races.
In the past, some called Indycar F1.5. What tying it to F anything does though, is hurt the established drivers if the mindset is F not 1 is for up and comers. Nobody makes a career in F2 or F3. Your "Persuade" makes sense.
How silly to complain about the coverage. Is F1’s better, maybe, but the racing sure isn’t. As for ticket prices, wtf are you talking about. Two grandstand tickets for my son and I at Long Beach are a fraction of what an F1 ticket costs. Maybe do some homework before posting?
As for F1 lite, what? Far better that it races on ovals, road courses and street courses. Much more of a challenge for the drivers.
What it really needs is a new car and maybe another OEM engine supplier. Or more than one chassis like they used to have.
“Maybe do some homework before posting”
I have attended the Long Beach Grand Prix numerous times myself; I’ve been to more than a dozen Indycar races over the past ~10 years, at a variety of tracks - Long Beach, Indy 500, Road America, Sonoma, Laguna Seca, Mid-Ohio, Watkins Glen, etc.
Indycar could remain the cheap substitute for people who just want to watch cars go by, and F1 could be priced to the stratosphere.
One initiative that Liberty is contemplating is a Paddock Club “Prive” tier, the brainchild of Flavio Briatore, which would run about $100K for a weekend ticket. Crucially, the CRH retains Paddock Club revenue, not the promoter.
Why is it silly that I think the vast delta in broadcast quality is important? Would you rather watch a Grand Prix with commentary from the Sky - or F1 TV - team with zero commercials or listen to Leigh Diffey screech on and on before a quick cut to commercials for reverse mortgages, life alert, and Cheetos while a race is taking place?
What's wrong with reverse mortgages??
I was a comment on the age (old) of Indycar fans and how expensive the ad space is (not very).
Penske's ownership has been so incredibly disappointing. It seems like the series was bought by Eddie Lampert rather than the preeminent IndyCar owner of the last 50 years.
Eddie Lampert. Ooohhhhhhh. That's a low blow. But, accurate. You think "This guy is worth a fortune. He has to have a plan".
Indy Car has some of the best racing on the planet (if not the best). A very full grid. Lots of good drivers. Decent , though not great, TV audiences. And of fans at some races - Long Beach, Road America. Could it be healthier? Yes, just think of the glory days of Cart. And the verdict is still out on Penske. But circling the drain is absurd hyperbole.
What has Roger Penske done to improve Indycar?
-Has he improved the calendar? No.
-Has he brought in any new OEMs? No; he is desperately BEGGING Honda to stay, meanwhile his other manufacturer is crying because they can’t get into F1.
-Has he improved the TV coverage? No; the product as it currently exists is, frankly, unwatchable.
-Has he emulated F1’s Drive to Survive success? Sort of … Indycar’s copycat product came 4 years later and aired on the CW network.
It’s his money on the line, and he’s entitled to do whatever he wants to with his toy, but tweaking a few things at the margin while Liberty makes substantial improvements to F1 isn’t gonna cut it in the long run. Liberty paid ~$4BN for the equity of F1 7 years ago; the enterprise value was ~$8BN. FWONK - the tracking stock - currently trades at ~$29BN.
BEN SULAYEM CLEARED OF WRONGDOING AFTER FIA INVESTIGATION
A few hours later.....
SUSIE WOLFF FILES CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST FIA
Because Ben is poopy head and the fix is in because he was cleared by the FIA, how can the FIA investigate Horner and end up with the "Correct" result? So, file a complaint in a court of law to muddy any result that finds Horner to be at a worst a Horn Dog.
Oh, and poor Ginger Spice was a side piece for Horner. With the same woman for over 10 years. They have a kid together. About a year later he's engaged to Ginger Spice.
I wonder if this complaint can be resolved in a manner that gets rid of Susie Wolff AND the F1 Academy.
Do I have to do the "toto voice" during the process
We don't even have a whole town anymore. It got merged with our neighbors in Mark.
". Any other opinion on this matter is a de facto slippery slope to hunting illegal aliens for sport or profit. " ~ There's a book and movie in there somewhere Jack .
I miss going to the figure 8 races in Saugus, Ca., I believe they've built apartments there now, used to be a Vietnam era bomb factory right next to it long long ago .
I wonder if anyone thought to ask Mexico : ? where do you want the U.S.A. to put the citizens you no longer want ? .
Maybe the European Union will take them ? .
-Nate
Would be easy to call Mexico’s bluff. Each truck or rail car entering the US is exchanged for 100 illegals. Done.
Economically, Mexico needs America far more than America needs Mexico.
And make it 1,000 illegals.
Wouldst it be so simple .
-Nate
How is it not?
If you have the will.
Sadly it's not that simple, one needs to look at the bigger picture not just feel good non solutions .
-Nate
The bigger picture is that Americans have the right to decide who comes into America, and the right to kick out all who are not Americans any time we want, for any or no reason.
We don't even have the will to turn them away at the border or airport.
A lot of "us" do . Unfortunately the "we" who makes the decisions hates the vast majority of "us".
Mexico wants to continue to use America as a dumping ground for its surplus poor. Fuck no. America is not a human landfill.
Frankly, I don't CARE if Mexico doesn't want them back - WE didn't want them first. We will parachute them in if necessary, under air cover, but the Mexicans will take them back. You let them through YOUR territory, Mexico, you can let them BACK through the way they came.
Jackson is only on the Court because she's both black and a woman. That's it. There, I said it.
One of Diana Ross’ Supremes would have been a better choice, and way more fun.
AAAAAND easier on the eyes.
At least in a Justice Diana Ross hypothetical kid-jumper scenario the kids could climb up a ladder before jumping off the roof
Free helicopter rides?
DEI = Diversity Equals Incompetence
I like that!
That’s the Post-It note version of the following, “There's a thin veneer of hyper competent professionals that keep the lights on and water drinkable, replace them with the unworthy and the water turns brown and the lights go out.” Maybe I’m just old and grumpy but I swear I’ve seen the lights flicker lately.
See Heinlein on bad luck.
Somewhere on twitter today appeared
Didn't Earn It
Also good!
Dale Earnhardt Incorportated. The team Junior and M Waltrip drove for.
The question I ask DEI enthusiasts (or people who parrot support without knowing what it really is) is "In DEI, equity means equal results. Can excellence even exist under an equity regime?"
I understand that talking about intelligence makes a lot of people uncomfortable but if we were talking about anything else, such as the ability to play music, or basketball, at a high level, nobody talks about equity. Parity, perhaps, as in the NFL, but that means something completely different. Speaking of parity, related to par, do we really want some kind of societal handicapping system to ensure equal results? We use things like handicaps in golf and balance of performance in racing to make the competition "fair" but nobody pretends that winning a tournament or race because you have a higher handicap makes you the better golfer or have a faster car.
Equality is envy used to negate excellence.
What I don't understand is the leftists' desire for a society composed of identical, interchangeable people.
The problem with DEI is it is just pity. I worked with people with disabilities for 13 years. They either have learned helplessness and work is a foreign concept or they'll work any job that lets them have every 3rd day off for their bowel routine. Neither group appreciates, or benefits from, pity.
Still can’t figure out why black women wear eyeglasses that are a couple sizes too big for their face!
My wife cycles between correctly-sized frames for her face and GIANT LENSES and she's adorable both ways. I'm willing to allow black women their eyewear choices. This is America, after all!
There used to be this stuff sold that was a wax mixture in a chapstick tube that you’d rub on the bridge of the frame to keep it in place. It worked pretty good, my wife just lost it so back to the pushing. Oh found it: https://nerdwax.com/
Meganekko.
Sized to match the equally-oversized ass?
Maybe now that Nathan Wade lost his DA hookup in Atlanta he will move up the food chain and start a relationship with a big assed Supreme Court justice
At least Jackson doesn't wear the standard Countenance of Vapid Arrogance of his Atlanta booty call.
IS she a woman though? I mean, how can we tell? We can't trust her to tell us, she's not a biologist.
I was thinking that you were going all Candice Owens on me, but then you finished with the “not a biologist” haha well played!
A lot of guys would love to have Michelle's shoulders and lats, just sayin'.
Oh gawd
I've started calling her "Big Mike."
need to know the former first "lady's" cycle
how much tren and dbol is she running
They will probably argue that they don't want the other-than-Mexicans that have been pouring through. This is somewhat reasonable. Anyone can be repatriated anywhere by C130 airdrop.
None of this nonsense will stop until lawfare is brought against the NGOs ferrying them up.
Yeah that shit is nonsense. They should all be criminally charged.
it's actually much worse than that with Jackson. She's been doing Democrat Crime Family favors for years. Did you know she was the judge in the lunatic "pizzagate" shooter case? She's like a low-IQ, one-man CIA psyop cleanup crew
https://archive.is/KjwPThttps://archive.is/KjwPT
(Slaps cheek)
"The hell you say!"
Amy Coney Barrett is only on the court because she is a women..the libs have diversity in their placements,,,good or bad.
Here's another thought: Is allowing Trespassers to become American police officers yet another part of the plan to destabilize American society, by pushing the Honest & Peaceable further into the corner, until we have no choice but to fire on illegitimate cops?
The purpose is to make sure the police have one allegiance, and that isn't to the neighborhood or their peers but to the government who directs them.
DACA cops will be allowed to beat a hundred George Floyds to death, with nothing being done.
It isn't the George Floyds they'll target, for George Floyd is no threat to the Deep State.
There's the whole idea that They're shipping these military-aged males here to turn them into their rainbow-colored army to suppress all the evil white supremacists in the countryside. I mean, they are housing a lot of these guys in military-style barracks. Giving them guns allows them to go to war against us natives. BUT they're all tribalistic weirdos from failed societies and instead of fighting whitey way out there in the countryside they're going to turn on each other the first chance they get. Instead of DACA cops doing the will of the government it's just going to be sectarian violence from Africa only in Brooklyn or wherever with gangs of cops with different allegiances shooting at each other. Of course, it has to get to that point first, the current order has to not collapse before it can happen.
That works for them as well. Having us at each others' throats keeps us off theirs.
See also, Brazil.
See also, Lincoln sending the Irish to kill American Confederates.
And the three-fifths citizen blacks.
They were not 3/5 citizens because they were not considered citizens at all. The three-fifths compromise had to do with apportioning congressional districts. There are some echos in the migrant debate in that a state's legal residents, not the number of U.S. citizens who live there, determine congressional apportionment, so it's possible for illegal migrants to influence American elections even if they aren't illegally voting (which I presume many do).
Wouldn't the Three-Fifths Compromise be more appropriate for midgets?
Brilliant strategy.
Take the ethnic group blessed with more generalized intelligence, drive, ambition & capacity for directed, purposeful violence than all the others put together, with a history of taking their ways to the far corners of the earth and bending the entire world to them, marginalize them inside their own countries and then attack them verbally & physically in a thousand & one ways from a position of temporary strength.
You know how we have hunting seasons mainly so humans don't kill EVERY LIVING THING in the forest? Well, that's also one of the purposes of Judeo-Christian morality, too.
"You lost your idiotic little war on normal people. But don't worry. We're not going to eat you or cut your heart out on some rain god's altar. We're just going to dump you in Siberia or The Outback or Sub-Saharan Africa with nothing but the clothes you're wearing."
Why Judeo-Christian instead of Christian?
Because Jews are a net benefit to mankind, and because Christian morality is bundled up with Jewish morality.
How do you figure? I don't see how the two aren't inextricable.
I'm asking, why Judeo-Christian instead of Judaism?
Christians are just Jews that have been unlearning 'an eye for an eye' for 2000 years.
I don't follow.
True, but here in Melbourne they're funding their sectarian violence by robbing whites.
theres a lot being done by robbing whites
I like how the first amendment now only covers 'political speech'. Wow, large bit of propaganda there!
The First amendment covers ALL speech that the Government, wants to control. Doesn't matter if it's political or not. Once the government starts regulating speech, any speech, it's breaking the law.
I'm not surprised she couldn't figure that out, but then again, I doubt she understands any of the constitution at all. Probably had somebody 'explain' it to her.
As documents go, it's pretty clear. But the length that the left goes to LIE about it, and often quote it with certain Words REMOVED, so as to change the entire meaning, has been going on since before I was born.
As for Texas? Send them back, if mexico opens fire, go to war (I live in Texas by the way) the Mexican government has a very disturbing habit of attacking people in Texas across the border. Time to pay them back.
Have you seen the new think with substack? If you're a 'conservsative writer' you now have to provide them (Stripe - the sole payment processor) with total access to your banking records. So they can see where you spend your money, and where you get it from. Another one of those 'Government Organizations that really isn't a Government Organization' is apparently pushing for this across all payment processors.
"...over United States airspace!"
"What?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FqUyxVD4qc
The only thing wrong with that is that we do NOT have anybody protecting our airspace along the mexican border. We barely have anybody protecting the airspace on either seaboard.
My kid's up there in a 182 Turbo. I'll make sure he has a Mark 23 next time he takes off. Do this WWI style.
Get him a Lee-Enfield in .303 British. That'll shot down damn near anything!
A Lewis gun on the top wing would be more fun.
I seem to get friendly visits inside the ADIZ if I am not in flight following or an IFR flight plan. In fact we used to do this on purpose so buddies at the 125th ANG at Jax international would get scrambled rather than sitting around. We pop up, they scramble, we drop down and head to the beach and they get to call no joy and fly for a bit.
The antics that ensue between Homestead and Navy in Key West when the Cubans get their monthly flight time is hysterical.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/stripe-substack-demand-financial
So spend anywhere from a hundred to a thousand dollars? In some states you have to renew your LLC yearly (California) and it ain't cheap.
I have a better idea, how about we stop letting quasi-government organizations run things?
It shouldn't have to be avoided.
They should be having their dick knocked in the dirt. Also, SubStack obviously isn't as 'free' as it claims as they're backing Stripe on this.
Reading Malone's screenshots, I'd have some concerns. I should probably move my Stripe payments elsewhere.
WV made it pretty easy (I’d been doing the independent contractor deal w political clients for 3 years. Which worked when I made 30k a year, less so at two or more times that). As a “young entrepreneur” (a pretty far reach considering its a business with no physical location, no website, with a pun-inspired name based off the Latin term for raccoons) I think I paid like $20 for the registration and another $20 for a DBA.
Again, that's coming to an end. Spend some time living with one or the other parent? $591/day fine. Move in with a girlfriend? $591/day fine. Ditch the seldom-used real estate and live in an RV? NOT ALLOWED AT ALL, COMRADE.
The Soviet Union used to require internal visas. Post 9/11 requirements for a residential address are getting very close to that.
Owning an LLC requries notifying FinCen of your *RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS*, providing photo ID, and promptly any changes to said address or accrue $591 a day fines.
I've filed taxes using PO Boxes and other non-residential addresses my entire adult life.
And I've had LLC's without having to provide a residential address to FinCen for distribution to WHO KNOWS WHO for WHO KNOWS WHY for most of my adult life.
Looks like one judge ruled it unconstitutional...apparently some members of an organization *As of March 1* are exempt for now.
https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/corporate-transparency-act-ruled-unconstitutional-what-it-means-for-beneficial-ownership-reporting
yup
“Jackson’s very human concern is that the government not be prohibited from disseminating crucial information — and, therefore, discouraging harmful misinformation — during times of crisis. “
That seems to be a very charitable interpretation.
In her hypothetical, the government’s dissemination of crucial information-“hey, kids, don’t be dumbasses”-will have no effect on the behavior the government seeks to diminish. She then goes on to expound a Commie favorite, the argument from safetyism, and then begins to openly consider how government can justify coercion of private actors based of the government’s duty to protect citizens.
Fix the roads, keep the shipping lanes open, and stay out of expanding the governments “duties” to its citizens. Unless I missed something, which happens more frequently key than I care to admit.
"That seems to be a very charitable interpretation."
Deliberately so, because if she is still wrong in the most charitable interpretation, she is wrong.
Democrats in 1856: The Republicans are pushing a dangerous and discredited narrative that blacks are equal to whites and should be freed and become citizens.
Never give power to someone you love that you wouldn't give to someone you hate.
Wow, no Sherman coming in hot to defend how beautiful, brave, intelligent and masculine 'investment bankers' are?
Also, am I the only one who is irritated by the abuse of the term 'migrant' now also being used on ACF without irony?
I'll take guidance from the readers as to terms and discussion on this subject.
"Migrant" used to be a pretty value-neutral word but I think that is changing.
Some one else I think ice age already pointed out they're not migrants.
IMO they're invaders or real refugees. No middle ground.
The principle of non-refoulement gets tilted to allow unfettered mass migration. Enter Dem politicians preemptively saying that the Haitians who come here must be allowed to stay here until conditions improve there (seems about as likely as me settling down with a Church girl and driving a Chevy Bolt to my gig as a ScrumMaster), despite the fact that no significant number has really arrived here (yet).
Let’s be serious. The whole point of yelling about ‘calling them illegals’ is to ensure you can’t talk about them at all. Not even as a complication, much less as a problem.
This week’s acceptable term is ‘Administratively-challenged’. I checked, you’re welcome.
You know, I've always thought "refugee" and "fugitive" were way too close for comfort linguistically.
Either way, we're under no obligation to accept either.
refugitive
A refinanced fugitive!
I take no news report seriously that uses the term "Migrant" and only "Migrant". It's like they are all using the AP Stylebook and instituting "Good Think".
Yeah if they were migrating they would go back south in the winter.
We really need to rethink the whole idea of "refugees". Many Americans live in cities that are more dangerous than war zones: should they be entitled to claim refugee status in Switzerland and live in a luxury ski resort for 7 years while their claims are adjudicated?
And should both the Crips and the Bloods be able to BOTH claim refugee status at the same resort? Taking in German Jews was kind of a special case.
The U.S. didn't take in as many German Jews as they could have. See: S.S. St. Louis.
The Immigration Act in the early 1920s made it fairly difficult for Jews to get into the United States. Some made it. Other didn't. Canada treated German Jewish refugees as enemy aliens and put them in camps in Nova Scotia with German POWs.
I am aware of that, and I think that that history has shaped some of our current policies. You probably wouldn't want all the Crips and all the Bloods to show up in Jerusalem claiming "I am a refugee from a violent society and you are obligated to feed and house me indefinitely" (and I would not blame you).
Another thing, very specifically, is that in the German situation, it was fairly easy to understand sides (excluding edge cases like George Soros, a Nazi-collaborating Jew). But what about the civil war in Eritrea? Which side do we support? And even if we pick a side, how can we reliably distinguish members of that side?
Worse yet, in a situation like Eritrea or Chechnya, isn't it more likely that the people who an afford a plane ticket to the US and are not massacred on their way to the airport are much more likely to be on the Oppressor team, rather than the Oppressed?
I can't find the link, but I believe the Babylon Bee ran an article entitled "Gazans Demand Ceasefire In Chicago."
Trespassers. Squatters. Invaders.
Take your pick.
moving targets
You won't have a name
When you ride the big aeroplane
all they will call you will be deportees
A song from a different time, when planes crashed and illegal immigrants were sent back to their homes, at least after agribusiness was done with them. Hey, planes are crashing again, maybe we are on the cusp of renaissance of deportations.
Great song but Woody was still a butthead commie.
This land is your land, this land is my land.
My comment still applies.
Who was a better American songwriter, Woody Guthrie or Hank Williams?
I am not qualified to judge American culture. I just know what I like. I'd take Neil Diamond over Hank Williams.
Commie or not, the fact is that examples abound of private entities putting walls up around the commons for their own gain. Everyone from Bundy using our land to feed his cattle to the Waltons using our tax dollars to subsidize their executive compensation via WIC and medicaid.
"Population Bombers", please.
Sir, I respectfully suggest you procreate.
I liked your comment because I agreed with it. I assume you meant to put "not".
Nope, it was intended as it presents.. for all the complaints about people who do procreate, you cannot compete with them by complaining instead of having your own kids.
Immigration policy is one of the major reasons why I was always too poor or overworked to procreate. Which is part of why I'm so angry about the situation (the GAME, not the PLAYERS, with whom I have often had excellent relationships as individuals).
Investment banking is just a job, one small piece in the broader business of finance.
Important tweet from america's last real immigration czar
https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1768295800377897303
"Jackson’s very human concern is that the government not be prohibited from disseminating crucial information — and, therefore, discouraging harmful misinformation — during times of crisis"
But she's still wrong. The government does not get to decide what speech is crucial, safe, or true. For God's sake, especially now as even the mindless bureaucracies of the US government are openly partisan and ideological...
The Bill of Rights amendments are hard limits on the scope of the government... these are not limits we should be trying to rationalize into soft limits.
What will be interesting is if they somehow use Cox V N.H. here as they have ruled in the past that while they can't regulate the content of speech, the gov't can regulate the time and place of speech. The question is, is the time of "never" allowed?
Jackson’s argument presents a corner case—youth, en masse, leaping from windows—to argue for allowing government action that will likely be seldom applied in such extreme cases, but will be applied routinely to stuff like “hate speech.”
If such an unlikely event can be called an “epidemic,” why can’t you use, say, the LGBT youth suicide rate, call it an “epidemic,” and say that the government can force online communications platforms to remove anything criticizing the trans or “non-binary” agendas? Taken from its extreme origin to its most likely usages, what Jackson proposes might seem in the interest of public safety or welfare, but will almost certainly be used to enact the agenda and stifle dissent of the Democratic Party and its more socialist analogues. It’s the Patriot Act all over again: proposed in the name of safety, culminating in massive Uniparty-approved surveillance efforts against US Citizens.
Sometimes, opening the floodgates to government action in a pretty common sense case sets the precedent for use of the same action against ordinary Americans. Bad logic; but the feckless SCOTUS Justices (of which Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett seem to be joining the ranks, leaving just Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch as genuine constitutionalists) will go for it anyway.
Note, I don’t say the Republicans would use such action to stifle dissent against their agenda. They prefer sham hearings, fluff-laden floor speeches, and crowing about nothing on “Hannity” to the Democrats’ hard ball approach of forcing corporate America, the media, etc to bend to their fucking will.
Jordan and my worthless local congressman (Alex Mooney, a real dud) spoke together last year at an event in my hometown.
He’s truly unimpressive. Brays on about fighting the left and all that. And to be sure he’s yelled at a lot of witnesses. But he’s never gotten a piece of legislation passed, and prefers a lot of talk over action. Doing stuff isn’t his forte.
Bryce you know better than most, there are show horses and work horses and you need both to get anything done.😉😉
I agree. But we have a lot more show horses, and the work isn’t getting done.
I'd argue, without a republican in the Executive, there isn't a whole lot they actually can do. They do hold the purse strings and of course, like always, they caved.
Democrats actually seem to try and stop Republicans from making progress when given Exec power. Republicans always fold. Weak.
We're a good three generations deep into them being bred in captivity. It's unreasonable to take a lion out of the zoo, send him out in the wild, and expect him to fully assert his dominance over some uppity hyenas wreaking havoc in the plains.
The best instance of an elected Republican in our lifetime who really imposed his will is Jim Brainard as Mayor of Carmel, IN for the last 28 years. Everywhere else it's slavish losers, or people with good instincts but no knowledge or resources to guide them on following through.
BUT IF IT SAVES ONE LIFE
They really don't care about real problems.
"If such an unlikely event can be called an “epidemic,” why can’t you use, say, the LGBT youth suicide rate, call it an “epidemic,” and say that the government can force online communications platforms to remove anything criticizing the trans or “non-binary” agendas? "
I don't think we would see extreme action like that for... oh, WEEKS after this decision goes their way.
Not to go back to my Philip Rieff enthusiasms, but it seems pretty clear that increasing government use of “therapy speak” with even the President and VP talking “mental health” as a public health crisis (which, especially in cases relating to veterans, it truly may be), is building towards precisely the sort of action where anything that hurts the feelings of a protected group (it will be the LGBT) is going to be treated like the covid “conspiracy theories.”
Firs it easier to say you are on the spectrum than you can't cope. Second, Credentialism.
Im nominally on the spectrum. My father almost certainly is, too. I doubt I’d seek a diagnosis for my own kids for something as simple as aspergers (they changed the name, but whatever). The schools will get lazy and put a 145-IQ aspie into a class w non verbal and Down Syndrome kids (not being “ableist” but that shouldn’t occur), as opposed to just forcing them to deal w ppl in real classrooms (not that I’ll ever send my kids to a public school anyway). Luckily I went to private school most of my life, which didn’t have special ed and I thus turned out pretty normal. I know a kid (grew up in my neighborhood) who probably had a 145+ IQ: spent his time doing physics equations in an autism room in the 6th grade, dad had a PhD from Carnegie Mellon but neglected the kid. Parents were ok with him never being challenged. I am less intelligent than him, yet I just got a 169 on the LSAT practice test and he works at McDonald’s. Were his parents not complacent, could’ve been different.
I think there are certain situations that can necessitate proper therapy. I just don’t think there’s too many proper therapists
Find out if their own lives are in order or not. Anyone who purports to fix others' lives while his own is a shit show is not qualified.
Doctors would no doubt tell me I have half a dozen Very Serious problems. Prediabetes, liver disease, those sorts of things. Except that I have no physical symptoms for any of them. And doctors are hammers in search of nails anyway.
What I do have is a tendency to worry about nothing, a stressful job, a poor diet starring sugar & caffeine, nowhere near enough exercise, an entire lifetime of sleep deprivation caused by being a night owl in a morning lark's world and two decades of consuming demoralizing, apocalyptic conservative media.
Come on. If the aches and shivering and pains and tingling all go away when I stop thinking about them, is the problem really from the neck down?
Therapy's a scam anyway.
Depends on the person, the trauma, the therapist.
Also, as with so many things 80/20 rule in effect both for therapy clients and therapists themselves.
Regarding therapists themselves, probably a 20/70/10 rule in effect:
20 make you actively worse, 70 achieve no lasting change over time, 10 transform your life.
the other 30% arent lifting enough
If I grew up in that enviroment I would agree. The few therapists that I spoke to that were any good weren't in it to win it. It was the journey that mattered. The best actually ran the behaviorial health portion of a free clinic can't afford that level of care now or then but they can make a difference.
I can't disagree.
A lot of DSM diagnoses can be ACUTELY HARMFUL.
"Epidemics" are instances of widespread dangerous disease. NOT common problems of a non-medical nature.
"Trannies offing themselves because they have weak character and heads full of bad wiring" is no more an "epidemic" than "gun violence," which is actually GANG violence.
Something similar going on with the Tiktok brouhaha. Feeding us a line about the importance of not letting China scrape our data while sneaking in insane presidential power to take down any internet platform the administration dislikes.
Also, why are we depending on a foreign adversary to supply most of our prescription medicine, to say nothing of our sex toys and solar eclipse cardboard eye protection?
China may be the adversary to our citizens. They certainly aren’t an adversary to many of our eldest uniparty puppeteers (see: Mitch McConnell).
Wait until you find out that India is the SOLE source of many medicines right now, because they were the only ones who could crank the shit out at an insurance company approved rate.
Don't forget all of those people that went blind using Indian over the counter eye drops. Let's contract out medicine to a country that isn't sanitary for a few bucks.
Of course, not to be sarcastic but management is it for management and they will get their share. Great minds and all that bullshit.
Alway ask the pharmacist the source of your medication. We will not accept prescriptions not made in the USA, Canada. Or Israel… it’s not raciest it it for safety….
Know this: many of the so-called chemists at the Indian pharma-mills don't know the chemistry behind the generics they produce. Which is scary for those generics that are wholly and solely produced there.
With apologies to at least one person on this site, I understand that there’s a LOT of this kind of thing going on in India!
Nobody goes to India for quality.
Certainly not for decently-written Web-based applications! Lookin’ at you, Oracle Cloud! 🙄
fuuhhhhh
I should almost do a guest post on this.
Where you gonna get ivermectin if not india? Are US compounding pharmacies making it available, at what cost per pill, with what source for their ingredients (if the ingredients come from india *regardless* why not just go straight to the source)?
The concern here is legitimate but in the case of the no. 1 line of covid defense it might be better to take the indian-possible-poison-pills rather than enjoy the ill-effects from Ralph Baric's beloved bioweapon
Can I get some USA made horse dewormer. Don't know if you csn dose it correctly for humans but we treat our animals better in this country sometimes.
I've never thought of TikTok as a data collector, but as a mind destroyer. It's the constant nudging to the lowest common denominator that is the problem. TV decades ago was called the Idiot Box. TikTok is that on steroids.
Its like if we created a platform to let everyone produce mini “Jerry Springer” skits
When I had my plasma-donation-induced brush with death and ended up in the ER for a few hours, the nurse turned on the TV and it was set to Jerry Springer. If I didn't have kids I'd have just walked out to die alone and unloved rather than stay there. Luckily she came back with a remote and I turned it off and read the book I had brought instead.
Dinner for Schmucks
Tim Conrad finds a way to get wealthy businessman Martin Mueller as a client. Impressed by Tim's ingenuity, his boss Lance Fender says he is a candidate for a promotion but wants to get to know him better. He invites him to a dinner in which he must find and bring an eccentric person with a special talent to be mocked by the executives; the winner earns a trophy and the executive who brought him or her gets glory.
Tim excitedly tells his long-time girlfriend, Julie, about the possible promotion and dinner but she is offended by the idea of inviting strange people to a dinner just to mock them, telling him to refuse the invitation.
No one told Jerry's guests to refuse the invitation.
Low common denominator mind destroying is A-OK. As long as dot gov has editorial veto.
It's amusing how the Patriot Act was passed before you were born, yet still impacts your life and/or rustles your jimmies. I thought kids these days only paid attention to TikTok memes?
Im not sure where I developed my bizarre Ron Paul political bent, but even as a kid watching Glen Beck with my parents I always kinda leaned that way. The fact that I watched Beck w my parents probably explains something.
Ive never had TikTok, rarely use Snapchat. And I only use Instagram and Facebook for messaging features, I doubt I post more than once or twice a year on either. If you looked at my media consumption alone you’d probably think I was 50. I mostly read books and watch old movies. Probably why only the strangest and craziest of women are endeared to me, most “basic bitches” look at me like I’m Mork from Ork. Which is ok, I probably wouldn’t understand their habits any better (and dating one may require me breaking my personal challenge of never listening to a Taylor Swift song).
I was thinking more Billy Wilder!