This is kind of weird. I am doing the morning links. How does this work? What should I do with my hands? Do I look okay? I’m not sure how I got here, but I’ll do my best. Which is nowhere near as nice as OMWC’s or Sloopy’s, but you get what you get.
What? What? No. Just hell no. Leave that heart-attack faking sonofabitch in the booth.
Florida Woman’s definition of a “pet-friendly” home is… a little much. I’m guessing bipolar.
OMWC, SP, Sloopy, and PlayaManhattan stand ready to do violence against any who would attempt to take their gas stoves.
I’ve found the ultimate SwissServator Heroic Mulatto crossover story.
Have a great day!
OMWC, SP, Sloopy, and PlayaManhattan stand ready to do violence against any who would attempt to take their gas stoves. – I also have a gas stove. I am not really that attached to it. I wish there was cheapo nuclear energy though so I could heat my house with electricity
I didn’t know you could feel heat and cold.
Electric stoves take too long to heat up.
Worse, they take took long to cool down.
Electric stoves suck balls. I cook half as much because we have one.
This. The only reason I have time to comment on the Mourning Lynx is because my electric stove takes so long to warm up.
Move to Florida, and you could use a bunsen burner and a boiling flask.
You can do that here, in an rv out in the desert. Make a tidy profit, too.
maybe yours is just not powerful enough?
Mine has a wide range of heat, it’s hard to guess how a particular burner is going to act on a particular day. I’ve tried cleaning the contacts and switching the elements around, still a crapshoot.
Induction or standard? Or vitroceramica which is a romanian word I have no idea how to translate in english?
Glass-ceramic?
could work. Is that a thing for electric stoves?
There is a glass-topped electrically heated stove that is usually called a “glass smoothtop” like such: https://www.amazon.com/LG-ELECTRIC-SMOOTHTOP-SMOOTHTOUCH-LCE3610SB/dp/B004GYXIRS/ref=asc_df_B004GYXIRS/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198094310824&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4820866639324493162&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004606&hvtargid=pla-348218571982&psc=1
I don’t know how often ceramic heating elements are used ni electric stoves here.
We have a glass top electric stove and I hate it. Went to a lodge this weekend in a more bucolic part of the state and had a gas stove. Oh, it was wonderful.
^this. You can’t use convex bottom pans. Anytime you are using the higher settings you get spots of uneven heating at the bottom of the pan that scorch your food. It takes longer to heat up than gas, and if you reduce the heat it takes forever to cool down. Add in the fact that dropping a pot lid or accidentally banging a pot is likely to shatter the top. I really do not get why these became so popular, unless it is people who never cook who think the sleek appearance is important. Function > form.
^This.
maybe yours is just not powerful enough?
Thermal inertia. It takes time for the heating element to change temperature as you adjust the applied power. Adjusting the temp on a gas burner is (practically) instantaneous as there’s (practically) no delay between turning the knob and the change in gas flow.
Mrs Fourscore loves her electric. She cooks, I eat. I’m guessing electric is a little more expensive than propane but when the missus is happy, I’m happy.
Electric heat is a different story, however.
My electric oven is great, but I despise the glass-top electric stove top.
Un-even heating, weird element sizes, limited to flat pans, and the top scratches and is hard to clean.
The only electric cooktop we would even consider would be an induction cooktop. They are fast and hot. Still can only use flat-bottomed cookware, so no woks need apply.
I prefer gas, but if electricity was cheap enough to heat I would give up the stove to competently get gas put of the house to get rid of yearly inspections and the gas pipes and shit.
Ideally I could find a way to use individual electric radiators and get rid of the pipes circulating water which are now visible on the walls.
Radiated hot water heat is much preferable to any type of forced air or electric, but I guess situation is different if you need yearly gov’t inspections.
well to go electric for me easiest would be to keep the hot water and just change the gas thing with an electric thing. Other solutions would clearly be pricier.
Yearly inspections? I can’t remember the last time someone from the gas company came to my house. And my house has gas water heater, heat, dryer, and stove.
About a year ago, they came around to inspect the meter. Found problems on their side of the meter and had to run a new line. Dug up my margin while I was writing “Beyond the Edge of the Map”.
I wanted to say I really enjoyed your book. Looking forward to the next installment.
I’ve scheduled the first week of november off from work to try to finish it. I already have the cover art, so delays from draft completion to market will be minimal (editors are more punctual at completing contract work than artists in my limited experience)
Also, I’m glad you enjoyed the existing one.
Is that why the hero’s name is “Dug?”
(Reading still in progress, still enjoying. Just met castaway on island.)
No, he was named before the book was started.
So you’re about halfway through, give or take.
P. 148 of 234. Would be making quicker progress, but I enjoy all y’all’s company too much.
Yes they come with a sensor and go over all the gas pipes and all the places gas connects to the stove / heater. Costs about 250 lei, only takes 15 to 20 minutes but it still needs to be scheduled and done.
That’s a lot of Hawaiian wreaths.
There’s a reason the Romanian economy had trouble for a while.
Now they’re virtual lei.
It’s been too long since I last got leid
I’m starting to get the feeling they just don’t want us to eat or drink.
They do want you to eat cockroach and algae paste that you but, ready to eat.
This seems about it. Honestly, I think the motive driving a lot of these people is simple bullying. They get personal satisfaction over the idea of forcing people to suffer.
Straffin gets it.
Gruel and bicycles for the masses, preferably made from insects and junk, while the overlords live on Wagyu beef, lobsters & crabs, and caviar, washed down with champagne while jet setting around the globe in private aircraft.
Cricket pizza for all!
“Police found 3 children living with 245 animals. ”
So a farm?
“Binz wrote that the home was “the absolute worst residence” he had been to in his five years as an officer because of the “overwhelming odor of ammonia [and] animal hoarding” and the overall living conditions, according to his report.
He notified the Department of Children and Families, calling for an immediate response. The agency removed the three girls — a 7-year-old, a 9-year-old and a 10-year old — from the three-bedroom, two-bath home and sent them to stay with a family member, according to police.
More chaos followed.
Gregg Nelson said he was having chest pains and requested an ambulance. He was later taken to a hospital.
Hamilton said she had taken 17 Xanax pills to end her life because she felt everything was going to be taken from her, according to the police report. She was also taken to a local facility for treatment and evaluation.”
Well, it’s not Florida unless drugs are involved.
Necessary to get over the heat and humidity.
And having cops take your children.
17 Xanax pills?
Jesus, I was completely relaxed for my vasectomy after just one.
They come in different sizes.
I suspect they only come in the largest size in Florida.
That’s sad stuff. My temptation to be snarky is tempered by all of the sadness.
Who cares about the conditions, the important question is who did they vote for? Did they have any Trump signs up?
So, where they into dress up and act out the role of furries? Someone forgot to let the pets have a daily walk or two.
One guinea pig was dead on the scene.
That line was fucking surreal.
Sounds like Friday and Gannon were on the case.
I’ve found the ultimate SwissServator Heroic Mulatto crossover story.
Not thicc enough if you ask me.
These links somehow seem vaguely half-arsed.
Brett is right – it is the perfect cross-over story….but she is not even vaguely close to what HM could link us in the twerking department.
I’ve found the ultimate SwissServator Heroic Mulatto crossover story.
You know who else danced while a city burned?
Trans-gendered punk rockers?
There is no historical record but I would assume Empress Theodora
hmmm
If you look close, you can see when she farts. Let’s hope it’s a fart.
QUEEF!
If she even farted they probably smelled like lavender.
When I was a kid, there were protests because the government was going to forcibly conscript you and send you to some place you never heard of and make you kill the people there. Now, it’s because industry uses plastic straws and bags. I fucking warned you people not baby your offspring.
We dumb Canucks voted for those bastards…
Done by the same people. What freedom lovers.
Mornin’… Brett?
I’m supposed to be documenting processes for my group, but Word crashes on startup and the page to enter support tickets won’t load, so I’m even less busy than normal.
How did you end up here so early?
No kidding. It’s like two comet’s crossing paths. Hey, Brett. *Comet whizzes by*
Traveling. Easier to do the morning links from my hotel room without 3 other humans who need help getting ready for their day.
How did you make the support ticket page fail?
It’s Service Now’s ITSM implementation.
It fails all on its own.
#metoo
It was one of the non-negotiable criteria when I was looking for a place to rent or buy. What I’d really like is the electric oven with a gas stovetop, but that’s out of the price range right now.
I like the ominous glow below the floor of the oven when it’s on. Makes it easy to tell it’s running if I have any doubts from the furnace blast when the door is opened.
Electric ovens are only better because modern appliances are made out of tinfoil.
From what I’ve read the electric ovens can hold a temperature stable better then a gas oven. My stove doesn’t appear to be made of tinfoil, it’s already had at least one unexpected fire inside of it.
Yeah, electric appliances are much better at holding precise temperatures than gas ones, if for no other reason than there is a minimum temperature at which natural gas burns.
Ofc, it depends on your controller.
Electric ovens due hold a more stable temperature than gas ovens because they don’t weigh anything. It’s a matter of having so much mass that hysteresis is irrelevant. Compare a modern home oven to a commercial gas oven or an oven from the 60’s. A house with gas heat doesn’t swing from 60 to 80 to 60. It stays at 70 because it’s the size of a house.
Maybe it’s different for me because there’s a pizza stone (and usually) a cast iron skillet that live in my oven. So I’ve got the added mass already. And comparing home appliance to commercial is nearly always going to favor the commercial ones, but you can always pay the extra cost to get one installed (one of my neighbors from the rich side of the street has a commercial pizza oven in her house).
Gas is better for broiling as well. If we are talking fantasy, gas burners, gas broiler, electric oven. Or just a good gas convection oven.
I also got an electric oven with my gas stove top and I find it better than a gas oven…
You know who else preferred gas ovens?
Betty Crocker?
What? What? No. Just hell no. Leave that heart-attack faking sonofabitch in the booth.
Here is some sport that is less interesting to me than baseball…
Also I was sure the first NBA game was this morning when in fact it is next morning. Stupid NBA app. They should get some Chinese to code it better.
Also Zion getting knee surgery will make the pelicans less fun. Boy needs to lose some weight, 285 pounds a 6′ 5″ or 6 6″ if we generous is too much.
Also Zion getting knee surgery will make the pelicans less fun.
Jerry West banked on him being ready.
He probably needed a lot of gaza strips after his knee surgery.
(do I have to do everything around here??!?)
Also most jazz and laker player shrunk a bit after the NBA actually measured them. Gobert is still 7 1 though and Lebron gained half an inch. Donovan Mitchel went from 6 4 to 6 1. The bald mamba is still 6 5.
“The bald mamba”
Hardly even a euphemism!
Am an unsure if you know who this refers to
Am unsure if you are following long running joke…
Vegans and people whose cooking experience begins and ends at reheating canned soup in a microwave probably don’t see why gas is better, anyway.
Electricity is magic. It just flowed out of walls. If we could just keep building solar arrays and wind farms, once we covered half of the available ground space, we’d get 3 % of our needs without harming the environment And then, we could stop protesting once and for all, right?
Double the outlets and get 6 %. This math stuff is easy.
Just plug in a power strip and you can run everything from one outlet.
I’d say you must know my wife but you didn’t refer to it as an “extension cord thing”.
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/making-case-peoples-republic-china
Cato institute senior fellow everyone.
Weren’t they around before the Roman Empire?
Not really. The Qin Dynasty arose in the 200s BC.
Unless you’re counting from the Shang.
I think Cato here is counting from Mao.
Well, ‘Murica only really existed since Trump was elected, so we’re the fastest!
USA! USA! USA!
China only really got going after killing off a few 10s of millions of slackers. /waves tiny red flag.
Just idiotic. Didn’t the Reds just celebrate 60 years of killing people for their own good? And most of them are still dirt poor.
Sixty years after the Reconquista ended and Columbus set sail, Spain was the richest country in the world with a massive empire. The Roman Empire was born rich – Julius Caesar was the richest man in the world after Crassus got himself killed.
“Sixty years after the Reconquista ended and Columbus set sail, Spain was the richest country in the world with a massive empire”
Well, to be fair. Some (much?) of the Spanish wealth came from using slave labor to mine silver.
And is that much different from using slave labor to mine rare earth minerals or undercut prices from unenslaved nations?
Exactly – how is that different than any empire you can name? Conquered people are either slaves or tax-slaves – why else would you conquer them?
It’s that worse than using slave labor for some other purpose?
I’ve got to rate organ farming as the worst of the currently active slave uses from an ethical standpoint.
Oh, right, there’s only one place we know who does that.
Its tough to out-horrible “mining bat shit for a few weeks until it kills you” but I think organ harvesting is worse.
I misinterpreted your post – I thought you were presenting Spain as a contrast to PRC. My bad.
No – I was arguing that the Cato idiot knows nothing about history since many empires (maybe all of them) have hugely outpaced Communist China in accumulating wealth.
And usually pissed it away. Spain’s a good example.
Leadership requires either respect or fear. Respect is earned, and these downright evil people have not earned any. Fear is fleeting, and fades at the first sign of weakness.
The Chinese rebels are in no position to take a leadership role.
Yeah, I’m so sure they are going to listen to that.
We all know the Deep State and the Chicoms are secret libertarian. I mean they like foreign and go to Fancy schools!
*foreign trade*
I’m pretty sure China has been around for a lot longer than any of those countries, so I call bullshit.
It depends on whether you regard China as a dynasty independant entity, or if the commie takeover of the Empire is a new beginning.
If they kept the same name of the country, they’re laying claim to that country’s historical existence.
Also they lay claim to Tibet and the Uighur territory thanks to the Qing.
You won’t find a Chinese person who doesn’t claim that China has been here for 3,500 years.
There were farmers and squabbling petty warlords in the region 3500 years ago, but China was forged by the Qin Emperor.
They like to claim they invented everything too. But you know what they didn’t invent? Freedom!!!! USA, USA, USA!
Freedom is made from gunpowder.
And gunpowder is a good case study in that inventing something is not nearly as important as implementing it. China is to gunpowder as Nikola Tesla is to electricity.
Electricity and dynamos predated Tesla, he actually helped implement the alternating current we actually use, so that’s a bad comparison.
China is to gunpowder what Xerox is to the GUI.
While I will concede that your GUI example is a tidier comparison, I maintain that the Tesla one is serviceable. Tesla was a key inventor getting AC to work (for Westinghouse), but it was Edison’s company (General Electric) that actually brought electricity to the masses, even though they had to abandon Edison’s preferred DC scheme to do it. In other words, someone else used their own tech better than they did, which is what I was going for.
Jackbooted conformity IS a virtue in the eyes of the PRC.
“showcase the PRC’s virtues.”
What … wait?
You know, submission, conformity, worship of the state, PRC virtues.
Geeze. Is this where we point out that this guy is more of a Chinese asset than Tulsi is a Russian?
I seriously wonder how much Xi is bankrolling Cato and AIER or even Mises.
This.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
I haven’t visited Cato in a long time – that article and most of the others up right now are steaming piles of shit.
Economic growth can be extraordinary when much of the industrialized world outsources industrial labor to your largely captive population? Well duh!
Hmm. Giving this the most charitable reading, the author is just talking about the ‘rise’ of these various ‘leading states’. Drake covers Columbus pretty well. What about the US and the USSR?
Arguably, the US ‘rise’ can be seen starting at one of two points – entrance into WWI or entrance in to WWII. There’s not doubt that before WWI we were a second or third rate state. There’s no doubt that after WWII we were one of the dominant global super powers (see e.g., JMK eating shit in The Battle of Breton Woods). US entry into WWI to V-E day is like 28 years. That’s faster than the 60 years China took.
The UK became a worldspanning superpower by winning one single navel engagement. That’s even faster.
Take away – World empires change very fast, and wipe you chin Cato, you’ve got some white gunk on it.
Russia was a giant backwater leading into WWI and was our counterpoint coming out. So again like 3 decades.
Clearly the US must be counted from 1492, as it’s the least charitable to us.
Trafalgar or Spanish Armada?
Spanish American War was our move into empire. End of WWII is our full realization as a global leader.
47 years is still pretty quick.
I’d go with the founding or the Louisiana Purchase.
So is banning gas stoves next on Singh’s list to Turdeau Jr.?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7595543/Demi-Rose-poses-topless-ripped-denim-thong-racy-Nevada-photoshoot.html
Nevada? Making a little extra cash, was she?
Can she twerk should Nevada start burning?
Her twerking would mean Nevada crumbling.
I’m convinced at this point that both Demi and Daily Mail are just shills for Big Peanut.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qn_spdM5Zg
New Star Wars trailer.
If the rumors are true then the Emperor will be alive with no explanation and he is Rey’s grandfather. And the Skywalkers will all die and she will take the Skywalker name at the very end.
Meh. Star Wars was once in the Pantheon of my childhood’s ‘imaginary worlds I want to live in’. Now, they’ve bastardized the mythology so much that it may as well be an entirely different franchise. I couldn’t care less at this point.
+1 midichlorians
+1 Flying space surviving non-trained Jedi
+1 FUEL!?!?
+ 5000 bombs that fall down in space?!?!?
How sad is it that only Star Trek II and Futurama (that I’m aware of) made it a point that space is three dimensional.
-1 Juan Valdez
“A New Hope” had three-dimensionality, mostly because it was aping WWII dogfights.
Enders Game.
Literally my earliest memory was going to see Return of the Jedi in theaters, running upstairs when we got home, and coloring like three Star Wars coloring books that afternoon. I *adored* these movies. They took up more head-space than He-Man, GI Joe, and Voltron (which I also love).
The prequels were bad enough that I could work up a good anger about them.
These new movies are just… blandly bad.
I’ve said before that the opposite of love is both hate and apathy. I hated the prequels. I just don’t care about this movie.
(PS Rogue 1 was great, for a man who used to be a boy who watched a lot of WWII movies like Kelly’s Heroes)
Obvs, the “Emperor” that got tossed down the reactor shaft was just a Snokian hologram. Sksksksksksksksksks
I oop?
Save the turtles!
That’s retarded. Pass.
Smart move bringing back a Lucas villain after tanking your brand failing to create any memorable characters and then trashing the legacies of all the other Lucas characters.
The smart move would have been the reveal Rey as the villain, having run full tilt down the easy path in force usage and ended up deep in the dark side.
Urthona – I thought Kylo Ren was a memorable character. He is like a 3 year old walking out of the master bedroom holding the .357 he found in dad’s sock drawer.
UnCivilServant – Yes, that would be a good twist. It won’t happen. It would require the villain to be a non-white-male, and would likely require Kylo Ren to be a redeemed white male. The current writers have clearly stated they won’t be doing anything like that.
Fuck character arc!
A principle of writing for porn?
“We are asking lead energy policy advisors to attend from a dozen states with supportive, and in many cases, new governors and legislatures interested in accelerating the transition to a clean, low-carbon economy,” read an invite in one of the emails. You are invited because you are the, or one of the, lead policy advisors to your governor on energy and climate policy,” and agenda stated.
The meeting was a sign that climate activists, including the Basalt, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Institute and Colorado State University’s Center for the new Energy Economy—which is headed by former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter—are working to spread natural gas bans around the country and that activists are continuing to work on the strategy that was originally envisioned at a gathering in La Jolla, Calif. in 2012 to use legal and regulatory actions to curtail the use of fossil fuels.
Well isn’t that special.
Unless they’re trying to get the nation to convert to nuclear power they aren’t serious about clean energy, they’re just peddling the expansion of human misery.
“lead energy policy advisors”
Get Hunter Biden on the phone, ASAP!
Pepperidge Farm remembers when natural gas was the new clean energy.
That’s exactly what I thought, but then doubted my memory.
That was before we were able to extract enough to make it really viable. Now it’s dangerous! I mean it produces CO2 and H2O, and we all know how dangerous dihydrogen monoxide is.
Well, dihydrogen monoxide is quite dangerous but we’re lucky that it is so rare.
Unfortunately, the less well known hydrogen hydroxide is much more common, and even more dangerous!
It produces what plants need, so Natural gas is Brawndo!
You rang?
You have what plants crave!
Yeah, we’re at peak frustration trying to keep our cng Fleet running, so they went with the obvious answer, all electric. It’s cool, though, because there’s not much urgency to keeping an airport running well, right?
there’s not much urgency to keeping an airport running well, right?
Not from any evidence that I’ve been able to observe.
Ah, another frequent ORD flier.
And you know because you gave them a narrowed gaze?
Inquiring minds want to know…
Yeah, another line of that article was really telling:
They were never going to be content with gas. They should be opposed at every turn.
I thought the telling line was their plan will cost everyone an extra $1000+ annually.
That’s where they erred, in admitting the (high) cost. That’s major ammo for anyone who opposes this stupid effort. Very few people will want to shell out an extra $1K for no extra benefit.
That isn’t going to stop the machine Dems from imposing these plans at all. It’s not like the people are going to vote them out.
You may be right, but I’d think “Don’t be cold this winter” would be a winning campaign slogan for the Reps. Although they could still manage to screw that up.
Low carbon would be detrimental to the recent greening of the earth that we have been experiencing.
The first American oil well was functional in 1859. It may have been one of the most humane undertakings in US history.
For most of the country’s history, there was no electricity or power grid. The fuel for torches, lanterns, and light at night (of any kind) came from whale oil. Finding oil in the ground killed the whaling industry and none too soon. We were hunting them to near extinction levels. They are beautiful, sentient creatures.
Part of the Progressive march has to include the erasure of history because otherwise people might begin to understand that fossil fuels were one of the greatest drivers of species preservation on a national and worldwide scale.
If anyone hasn’t seen the movie (and I haven’t read the book), “In the Heart of the Sea” is about the origins of Melville’s “Moby Dick,” which was based upon the whaler Essex. One of the most amazing takeaways for me was the rather explicit demonstration of both the need for whale oil and what it took to go hunt and kill whales (hint: a giant set of cojones to rival Mad Jack Churchill’s).
Now here we are and these assholes would love to send us right back to fucking whaling for fuel, rather than getting it from already deceased dinosaurs who have been decomposing for millenia.
So In the end is Canadas first black and indian and arab prime minister still in power?
No offense but who are the morons voting for that moron? Seriously…
Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, BC.
Also immigrants. I saw a Liberal MP last night proclaiming his victory due to population growth and immigrants.
Of course I thought immigrants were supposed to make us libertarian just like California and NYC.
That MP is correct although you aren’t supposed to say that in public.
Mark Steyn refers to Justin Trudeau as Canada’s Prime Minstrel. I hope every sane person in Canada calls him that forever.
What a bunch of useless twats.
What are the odds that any of them have ever held a real job?
Near zero…
Always, always follow the money. When someone says it isn’t about the money, its about the money
Exactly the same about sports contracts – “This isn’t about money, it is about respect.”
Respect being huge $$$$
All great nations face serious challenges. What matters most is surmounting them.
See, also: Trump, Donald
Taggart’s buyout is $17M. Good luck. FSU athletics is currently $20M in the hole (a family member works in their accounting dept).
Looks like tuition’s going up.
“Wise guys! Barack Obama meets Robert De Niro for dinner after the former president signed a $90m deal to produce Donald Trump impeachment documentary”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7599713/Barack-Obama-meets-Robert-Niro-dinner-Manhattan.html
There is no money in politics.
Netflix is not going to get a dime from me ever again.
Obama has inked a ninety-million-dollar deal to produce a Netflix series about calls for President Donald Trump’s impeachment.
Can’t imagine anyone wanting to see that.
Plenty of people will claim they want to see it.
Netflix is rapidly turning into a little political slush fund for the Obamas. Their shareholders must be thrilled.
That net neutrality pastor ended up not getting them much…
Payout*
I kind of like “pastor” there!
Church of the lightbringer! What is that in latin?
Ecclesia Lightbringer
I feel like Jarflax was looking for something more along the lines of “Ecclesia Lucifera”
You feel correctly
Since Netflix hides the view counts, no one but them will know what a huge flop Obama’s propaganda film turns out to be.
The most Chinese story today. A man in Guangxi paid 2m to have a competitor killed. The guy kept half, hired another for 1m, then another until the 5th was hired for 100k. Figured not worth to kill for so little, he contacted the target trying to fake a death. All 6 in jail now.
https://twitter.com/cowboyInNY/status/1185211851002564608
Damn subcontractors.
Must be the same guy I hired 3 years ago to(apparently not) repair my patio.
HAH HAH HAH!
What does Xi think?
Oh, bother.
No China trip for you!
well played!
This actually kind of hints at one of the big problems with so-called “fair trade”. It turns out when you pay someone way above normal market value, he just hires out someone else to do the job, pockets the rest, and gets another job. Or sits on his ass.
In part, this is because chefs and cooks at all skill levels prefer natural gas burners to electric stoves. Gas allows for quicker heat that can be more precisely controlled. In fact, one study of homebuyers in the Pacific Northwest found that 87 percent ranked natural gas service as important to them, largely because of price and cooking. They were also willing to pay a premium for natural gas over an all-electric home.
That presents a challenge for climate activists.
A challenge, you say.
“You people are so stupid. Why won’t you just do what I say?”
Ya know, when Hurricane Sandy knocked my power out for 5 days, I could still take hot showers due to a gas WH. That was nice.
And I guess next up they’ll be after my gas grill. Fuck these clowns.
One nice thing about natural gas reliability is “line pack”. The transmission and distribution system consists of thousands of miles high, medium and low pressure pipes which function as underground storage tanks, for a while anyway. Also, pipeline compressors are often driven by gas turbines which use a little of what they push through the pipes to fuel themselves.
A really nice system, so our wannabee despots work to destroy it.
Didn’t the State of New York just force a utility to hook up more natural gas customers?
I don’t know where it stands now but the “leaders” are talking out of both sides of their mouth on this, one side to the green grifters and the other to their constituents who kind of need energy.
Actually, truth be told, I’d take a propane line for the stove over natty gas, all things being equal.
Damn subcontractors.
If you want it done right…
Do it yourself, screw it up three times, then call a subcontractor?
Why would you (unless you’re the general contractor) ever talk to sub contractor?
If you have an insurance repair, you can set up the subs and claim the 10 and 10 for yourself. The more you know…
I thought they only paid overhead and profit if you have a general contractor’s license number? Otherwise you just get the value of the rebuild.
Insurance companies got slapped down in court. If you arrange the repair, generally three or more trades) it should be there. You shouldn’t even have to fight about it.
And you get to three trades for ANY repair if you have anything that needs to go for garbage pickup.
Call a General. Let him have the headache.
Environmentalists began collaborating with state government officials from across the United States at a closed-door gathering in New York this summer to lay out the plans for policies that would prevent consumers from using natural gas to cook their food or heat their homes.
Fine. Charcoal and wood stoves it is. I am sure that is much cleaner.
But seriously, fuck these environazis.
I’m a bit baffled at all the houses up here that still use wood heat.
I use wood heat. I need the exercise, I have the wood, nostalgia from being a kid and maybe save a few pennies though doubtful.
Honestly, it seems a bit of a death spiral.
Houses old enough to use wood heat are also less well insulated, which means they need more energy to heat them, but wood has a lower energy density than anything other than wind or solar.
And then, the wood needs to be seasoned so as to not creosote the chimney into a deathtrap.
And how many tree-growing days does it take to replace a cord of wood?
You’re supposed to stack the wood around the outside of the house as insulation.
And give the rodents a place to live safely next to your house.
They’re little space heaters.
To be fair, rodents are adorable when they’re in their floofy winter coats.
“Houses old enough to use wood heat are also less well insulated”
Not always true. I built my house myself, I have a double 2 X 4 off set walls, R22 plus 21″ of fiberglass in the attic , R50. Maybe the best insulated house in MN. I have a high energy propane furnace but the wood is used most of the time.
The real disadvantages are the temps vary during the day. Easy to be in the mid-80s in the day time, when the sun is shining on a -25 day. My wife wears a t-shirt a lot in the winter but occasionally will have a comforter on while watching TV after sunset.
Wood is definitely dirtier, from cutting time to ash clean out time. If I had to buy wood, propane would be cheaper.
As the days creep into years I’ll be switching over, I dread that thought.
A buddy of mine uses an insert. His house is smallish, but fairly new and well-insulated. He heats his whole house with maybe a cord and a half a year. Now, if everyone in town did that, yeah, it might be a problem as far as getting enough fuel.
On the other hand, I know a few people with pellet stoves who swear by them, and those are just sawdust and waste wood, so I’d imagine they’re a hell of a lot more sustainable.
The chimney creosotes up anyway. My Dad installed one of those woodburning water jacketed outhouse-like things in the yard. Hot water from the contraption was continuously pumped through a heat exchanger that repaced the furnace in the basement. Whenever the thermostat called for heat, the former furnace fan blew air through the HX and existing duct work. It used a lot of wood, but kept the house warm gave the Old Man something to do.
But sheets of creosote always formed on the waterwalls of the contraption. When it built up enough, he would let the thing cool down, knock the stuff off the walls and burn it too.
Are many people using fireplaces though? Wood burning stoves are still pretty popular. My parents lived on wooded property and could run their wood stove on a few pieces of wood a day and their furnace almost never came on (in Michigan).
My wife’s family uses wood heat. It costs them $225 to have enough seasoned wood delivered to keep their home somewhere in the 70s throughout the winter. I remember sitting around there one Christmas in shorts and a tshirt with 18 inches of snow on the ground.
We have a wood furnace but either use the oil furnace or heat pump because it’s more convenient. I’d like to install an outdoor wood furnace one day and then switch over. I have 15 acres of woods. I already have a lifetime supply of fuel from just the fallen trees sitting there rotting away.
Outdoor wood furnaces are very popular in this nape of the way. We live in a sub so a no go for us. I’ll stick with natural gas and our wood fireplace.
How efficient is the outdoor wood furnace? Seems like you’d lose a lot of energy getting from the burner back to the house, especially if your lines are in frozen ground.
I believe they’re very efficient if installed properly. Insulated water lines below the frost line should retain most of their heat.
I think Lach might have an outdoor furnace. He might be able to weigh in if he’s around.
I do wish we could have natural gas but there the closest line is probably 15 miles away. I’d convert my electric stove over in a second. Same with having an unlimited fuel supply for the generator. I have to store propane for it now, but could easily convert to NG.
Anecdotal data point: my father-in-law is an electrician in a rural-ish area, he recounts a conversation he had with a guy that was running an outdoor wood-burning furnace. Pros: all the sawdust and ash stay outside; the furnace burns more efficiently with large pieces of wood so less need to split into smaller pieces. Cons: the furnace burns all the time, whether the in-house air handler/thermostat is calling for heat or not. This guy went through a fantastic amount of of wood, like 10+ cords, in one season.
We lived ~10 years in a ~1700 sq.ft. two story that only had a wood stove for heat. We burned maybe 1.5 – 2 cord a year, and stayed plenty warm. We built a bigger place, with a propane furnace, but still have that wood stove in the basement as a last-ditch heat source.
Dung fuel or GTFO!
And you wonder why people never visit you twice.
Is CO better for the environment than CO2? +1 lovely cherry red complexion.
Good morning, Brett! And thanks for the lynx!
My house has a NG furnace, water heater, fireplace and range. They are cheap to run and quite efficient.
So, I’m gonna have to say fuck off to all the fancy “environmental activist groups”.
Make it a great day, people! And enjoy that blue flame!
I have propane (in ground tank) for all. I’ll need an unbiased study to clearly explain how anything other than nuclear generated electricity is a cleaner alternative.
And, like someone mentioned, the electricity drops, I still have hot water and heat.
I was about to argue that my thermostat was electric, but then I remembered that it’s battery-powered.
Even without the furnace, my fireplace puts out a lot of heat.
Don’t have one of those.
I like it. Keep the house a little cooler and fire it up in the morning and evening when we are actually on the main level.
The last NG furnace we had powered the thermostat from a thermopile heated by the pilot light. It was in an old house with gravity hot water radiators, so it needed no electric fan to circulate heated air through ductwork.
Very reliable.
But the trucks that deliver the propane to you (are mostly*) burning gasoline! They should be switched over to electric right now, in order to be green.
*There are propane powered vehicles out there including some bobtails. Of course, it’s pretty easy when you have the giant tanks to fill from at your office.
CN’s national research institute Chinese Academy of Social Science 中国社科院 posted a full-on conspiracy today detailing how “CIA is behind the feminization of male celebs in China and Japan…Japan’s Johnny & Associates is founded by US agent to de-masculine Asia”
https://twitter.com/tony_zy/status/1186079351009202181
In their defense, that is the sort of stupid shit the CIA would get involved in.
+1 powder to make Castro’s beard fall out.
“THEY”RE MAKING THE CHINAMEN GAY!!!!”
I thought that was because of the shortage of Chinawomen.
Have some of those guys tuck it under and twerk, and presto!
So who is behind the feminization of male celebs in the US…?
PUTIN, DUH!
Or maybe Kim ridding on his white horse in the mountains?
I’m sure every tween girl is checking in with her CIA contact before deciding which boy band to fawn over.
Fine. Charcoal and wood stoves it is. I am sure that is much cleaner.
Shredded tires and fuel oil.
Wait…. you’ve been to Hammond, Indiana?!
Tard Tuesday: Make Your Body Talk
: puts on bullshit diploma hat:
3/ After Donald Trump engaged in ad hominem attacks toward Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer left the meeting. After the meeting, Donald Trump tweeted out the above image which will no doubt become historic.
4/ After Donald Trump engaged in ad hominem attacks toward Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer left the meeting. After the meeting, Donald Trump tweeted out the above image which will no doubt become historic
It is well known in the tele-orthographical-psycho-analysis community that repeating yourself is a sign that you fuck goats.
LOL
Reality bites…
Notice that they did it twice, with two number 3’s. I think that means they like the sheep as well.
Nobody gives a shit.
(to the quoted tweets)
Is this about the pic of Nazi Pelosi standing and pointing at Bad Orange Man? She looked unhinged in that one.
Somebody pointed out that a US Rep. did it to Obama, and the press freaked out long it was totes racist.
It was the governor of AZ. And to be fair, she was right up in his grill when she did it, not across the room. Still, the outrage was bullshit.
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Drink
For the love of god, can’t we all agree that PD’s need to stop making PSA’s?
They’re not police departments. They’re public nannys.
Cry
I refuse to be a little bitch like that kid.
^^^THIS^^^
First of all, do you have a loicense to do wither?
Not a license, but I have a permit.
I didn’t turn the Audio on, but judging from the comments it’s pretty bad. Did she call him a little bitch?
You didn’t need sound.
I don’t know how you missed the hearing impaired interpreter at the bottom.
Embrace differences. But don’t appropriate culture.
“Consolidated”, “homogenous” and a lack of deep cultural divisions. Sounds pretty collectivist.
Oops
https://www.libertarianism.org/media/liberty-chronicles/world-wide-revolution
Not surprising coming from the organisation that things secession is everywhere and always wrong, because those slave holders did it.
“spoils” of liberty is a telling word choice. Anyone who would use it neither values liberty, nor understands property.
“Dividend” is more appropriate.
The first progressives thought the mentally ill should be executed, or just “humanely” sterilized, for their own good. Let us not play this “the original X were not CURRENT YEAR thinkers” game forever, eh?
when Hurricane Sandy knocked my power out for 5 days, I could still take hot showers due to a gas WH. That was nice.
If a winter storm knocks my power out, my pipes won’t freeze, because I have gas (propane) heat, with pilot lights, as well as a gas water heater.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has threatened that as president she would consider cutting off U.S. aid to Israel…
Wait, isn’t that what they are accusing Trump of doing in the Ukraine (despite zero evidence in the call transcripts)?
“We’re not anti-Semitic, you’re anti-Semitic!”
/proceeds to bankroll Hamas
“We’re not anti-Jewish, we’re just anti-Israel.”
/Dems
Dems don’t hate blacks either, Dems love blacks as long as they stay on the plantation.
If she stopped at “cutting off U.S. aid” I’d hate her a little less.
That’s the first time she’s ever threatened to not spend money on something.
^^Winner!
Rand Paul: Rising Support for Socialism Among American Youth Is ‘Mind-Boggling’
“I think it’s important for this generation to realize what socialism was in the last century and how [it] really invariably was associated with violence, with genocide, with famine, with horrible tragedy and you know, today’s youth seems to have forgotten that,” he said.
He said in China, as many as 40 million died during the Great Famine in the late 1950s, and today, in Venezuela, people are eating their pets.
“That is the end result of socialism, there is no food in the stores,” he said. “Venezuela has more oil than any other country in the world, they have more oil than Saudi Arabia, they were one of the richest countries, and now they’re in calamitous poverty.”
His book tells the story of a young woman in Venezuela in a gang that controls territory — six dumpsters where they can search for food.
“How did they get there? It’s almost, it’s mind-boggling. How do you even explain it?” he said.
He said he does not think America is ready for socialism, but pointed out that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — who does not call herself a socialist but is running on socialist policies — appears to be the Democrat frontrunner.
“The socialist doesn’t win, but the person who has all the same policies who doesn’t call herself a socialist, Elizabeth Warren, and right now is looking like the frontrunner, but she’s for most of the policies that Bernie Sanders is for and so that will be the question, will we elect someone with socialist policies?” he said.
Paul debunked the myth that there is socialism in Scandinavia.
“They’re not socialist in Scandinavia. They have private property, they have a private stock market, they don’t even have a minimum wage, prices go up and down, but they do have a big welfare state. So while they’re not socialist they have a big welfare state. They do have free college, free paid leave, all these sort of welfare goodies,” he said.
“They have private property,”
Other than the first 60% of your income.
They didn’t forget. They were lied to by the education system.
Should have stopped the public schools and universities when you the chance. Morons.
Who? Nobody anywhere near the levers of power had any desire to do that.
For once a tornado set down in the rich folk’s neighborhood instead a trailer park. Hope any prosperous Dallas Glibs are okay.
Yo, Fourscore: Delayed reax to your Letter to the Editor post from last night. Bravo.
Same here. I was thinking about it all day. The logical answer would be for children to be taught repeatedly that government isn’t some deity to be worshiped. In fact, it should be viewed skeptically and constantly exposed to intense scrutiny. No pledges to it. No oaths to defend it. It has to earn it’s right to be called “legitimate”.
All I know is Tulsi Gabbard puts the ASS in RUSSIAN ASSET.
Paul debunked the myth that there is socialism in Scandinavia.
“They’re not socialist in Scandinavia. They have private property, they have a private stock market, they don’t even have a minimum wage, prices go up and down, but they do have a big welfare state. So while they’re not socialist they have a big welfare state. They do have free college, free paid leave, all these sort of welfare goodies,” he said.
They at least know enough to keep the goose who lays the golden eggs on life support.
Last month I impulse bought a ticket to the Scott Gorton vs. Bill Kristol SOHO Forum debate in May 2020. NYC glibs interested in getting dinner May 11 or its antecedent weekend please hit me up.
*Scott Horton
Hey Pomp, welcome back.
How was your stay in the reeducation camps? What do we have to look forward to?
Thanks.
Considering as how I have an advanced engineering degree, the Norks tasked me with several months of hard duty doing concrete work. I now subscribe to Juche and the material dialectic is currently my jam. Unfortunately I also have a lot of tapeworms, but that was the CIA.
That’s awesome. The Oxford style is certainly going to help Kristol. There can’t be many people going in with his opinion to start. I hope not anyways.
I intend to vote in the neutral and to keep an open mind, but as you point out there is a distinct possibility of the preference bias of the ticket buyers stacking the the disadvantage against Horton. It would be useful if Gene Epstein managed to rustle up some ticket sales from neutral “outsider” sources.
Are you really “neutral” on the proposition? Just don’t forget to get your free drink from Gene.
Nope. I’m not really neutral on the proposition.
If you’re willing, it would be interesting to read your write-up of the debate. I’d bet TPTB would publish it as an article.
And you would be betting correctly.
Will consider.
Senator Rand Paul Calls-Out Chairman Lindsey Graham for Doing Nothing Except Protecting the “Deep State”…
Heh.
He’s a Russian asset. Like totally.
Back in the primaries, I remember lamenting that Rand wasn’t quite pure enough. Many others had the same opinion, but there is no doubt in my mind now that he was the best person running that even had an outside shot.
I like Rand just where he is. I don’t think he would be as effective as Trump at drawing fire, and ultimately it’s good to have him working behind the scenes to at least try to slow Leviathan.
He is the one politician still standing who aligns not perfectly but by far the closest to my views on most issues. Anytime he runs, I’m voting for him.
He is the only politician I have ever made a campaign donation to.
If the libertarian party ever actually ran libertarian candidates, I might consider them.
Tard Tuesday: Chemotrophs Unite!
He use big words. He must be science.
Only the super rich benefit from not losing their private health insurance.
Democrats are insane authoritarians that want to forcibly disarm peaceful people, police speech, and tax everyone into poverty. But go ahead and vote to give them power.
Pandering to the parasites
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will join public school teachers on the picket line in Chicago on Tuesday, where she will be joined by the head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) as they support the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU).
Local news affiliate NBC 5 reported Monday that Warren will appear at an elementary school on the city’s West Side on Tuesday alongside AFT President Randi Weingarten before heading to Iowa for multiple campaign stops.
Vote for me. I’ll steal from the rich and give it to you!
She’s protesting against other democrats. Indian giver.
I’ll steal from the rich keep a bunch and give it the leftovers!
You don’t even need to attend classes to get a diploma in New York any more. Silence from the teachers’ unions – surprising, I know.
Because the teachers lack any sort of culpability the kids become the victims. Unions are the big winners.
Need more green card Indians/Asians to actually do the productive stuff.
BREAKING NEWS:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is saying her meeting with Union Officials was canceled when it became apparent that she was a woman.
she was a woman.
two responses spring to mind
1. Assumes facts not in evidence
2. When did she transition?
So what are the children doing while this strike is happening? I suppose this means that hundreds/thousands of parents have to be out of work to look after their children who would otherwise be in school. I am sure that is good for wages and the local economy.
The world’s loudest bird who sings at 125 dB:
https://newatlas.com/biology/worlds-loudest-bird-sings-125db/
If one of these things was chirping outside my window he’d be shotgunned off the branch pretty quick.
Looking at this tweeter thread… are socialist actually retarded? Pie ponders…
https://twitter.com/jahskillen/status/1186397188907294726
I don’t think you’re allowed to say that word.
are socialist actually retarded?
Some (the more innocent) are. The rest are just hoping everyone else is retarded.
Cause they hope to prey on envy and jealousy to upend the current order and steal any wealth. After all, working to make wealth is harder than just stealing it.
Yes, Pie, they all want cake.
DON’T MAKE EYE CONTACT!
J.F.C Canadians can’t be this stupid.
What the heck did they just watch the last four years?
You have a narcissistic remedial twat who was found to be guilty of breaking laws and you know the rest and they still give a fucken mandate?
My opinion of this place has never been lower. Apathetic and no balls. Limp like a bunch of clowns who deserve to get fucked up the ass and lemme tell ya, if you think this shit head wasn’t already idiotic, you just watch. ‘Just watch me’ is his slogan. He’s going to take Canada further left than Obama could have dreamed.
He claims Canada chose a ‘progressive agenda’. Ie This means an ideological commie bent to him. But did they?
I see a rebuke given he only got a minority. Plus Ontario are the usual assholes like Californians.
Get this. Scheer won the popular vote.
The progressive parties lost in the realm of 36 seats while the conservatives gained 23 and the pop. vote. Quebec decided to go with the separatist Bloc Quebecois party which was dead in the water and Justin single handily revived. They chose the Bloc over the conservatives.
Poor showing for Bernier.
Had the conservatives not been idiots and just put Bernier as leader, with those numbers, he would have beaten the fake liberals.
Condolences.
Let me add. The Liberal seats lost, which is troubling for conservatives, didn’t go to the conservatives. It fractured among the parties on the left: Green, NDP, and Bloc.
Canada is decidedly left. You can interpret the result they thought the Liberals WERE’NT LEFT ENOUGH. There’s no way Justin interprets this as needing to govern more to the centre as these assholes demanded when Harper had a minority. He’s just gonna say well, ‘those votes went left and so progressive ho!’
These next four years will be really bad I reckon. Hope I’m wrong.
Where do Canadians threaten to move to if elections don’t go their way? #ApplyForAssylum
Nowhere, really.
I’ve said it before and, now that the results mirror what I suspected they’d be, I’ll say it again: These next four years are gonna be a Western separatist’s wet-dream. If Canada implodes because of this election, Central and Eastern Canadians will have no one but themselves to blame.
Oh well. Nice country while it lasted.
These next four years are gonna be a Western separatist’s wet-dream.
The U.S. could use a couple of additional moderate-to-conservative states.
The anti-pipeline thing is the clincher. In a country that makes its bones through resources, it’s the most foolish and irresponsible issue to die on.
Quebec is anti-pipeline and voted in a party who is dead set against it. So basically it’s a Quebec v. Alberta proxy war.
Ironically, it’s Le Dummy Dauphin in the middle of it like his father in the 1970s.
My ridings: Where I live: Liberal. Where I work: Bloc.
The difference between Quebec separatism and Alberta is this: The former is a have-not province that sucks out more than it gives, while the latter foots the bill for the country.
And now they want to kill that goose that laid a egg as Bugsy put it.
Hopefully in six months something happens. Trudeau’s hubris can still take him down. The SNC-Lavalin thing is not settled and the Liberals no longer control the committees. Trudeau is not a smooth or screwed Parliamentarian. He just governs via arrogance. If I’m conservative I go full out war as if the country is at stake. I may even call Bernier and grovel he come back.
Accuse him of being a Russian asset. You don’t need proof and, in fact, proof that he isn’t only proves that he is.
Tom woods did a great episode on this yesterday. I can’t believe there are people so mindless that they are trying to cover for Clinton on this. And “respectable” libertarians no less. Their arguments?
“You don’t have to be a knowing asset, you just have to be parroting the talking points that benefit Russia”.
IN other words, what we have been saying the whole time. Anyone who disagrees with the Foreign Policy establishment is a Russian asset.
You wouldn’t want to benefit Russia even if it benefits you, too. It’s gotta be win/lose or you aren’t realpoliticking correctly.
Is banning fracking, fossil fuels in general being labeled bad and being replaced by unreliable and ultra expensive shitty options, and nuclear being held hostage not helping the Russians whom make major money from gas & oil exports and would love for oil/gas prices to skyrocket?
Yes, this has been pointed out in reference to Cuomo blocking a pipeline to New England.
Not in the MSM, of course.
I stopped for a coke in…Evangeline parish(?)….a few years ago. The clerk rang up my stuff and told me the total. I was shocked.
“Holy crap, how much is the sales tax here?”
Her – “Well, we just got hiked to X%. It got voted in in the last election. It won overwhelmingly.”
Me – “Really? Do you know anyone that voted for it?”
Her – “Uh….no I don’t.”
Me – “I dare you to go out and ask around and find one person who voted for that.”
Her – “Now that you say it like that….”
I got into it with a co-worker once about a Zoo Arts and Park tax. I said: If you like the Zoo, Arts and parks then pay for them yourself. Untill then lets not have the poor who can’t afford to go to the zoo, or art museum anyways, pay for your entertainment.
She then said “Well you rent, this is a property tax increase, so why do you care? You aren’t going to pay it.”
That’s when i knew to stop having the argument.
Same here with the Boundary Waters fees. Everyone pays, only those able to have time and a few extra bucks use the Great Outdoors.
Motel taxes, great way to discourage tourism.
+1 Nixon voter
Get this. Scheer won the popular vote.
So does that mean we get to call Trudeau a “Canadian Trump”?
Get out before we have to erect a northern border to stop the Canuck refugees fleeing progtopia.
border wall*
5,000 amps sent through a wrench
https://twitter.com/GalacCuriosity/status/1186355864111931399
I was present when a “mechanic” decided to test a set of forklift batteries with a crescent wrench. I couldn’t yell STOP quite fast or loud enough before he crossed the terminals and blew the end of the wrench off, sending molten metal droplets flying in all directions.
I’m guessing the instantaneous current discharge was in the tens of thousands of amps.
“Yep, those were live batteries.”
Two friends in highschool put a couple of nails in a socket and then pushed them toghether with a stick. A fuse was blown.
A fuse was blown.
Yeah, your science teacher’s.
Multimeter probe contacted battery and ground on a power supply while checking voltage after replacement. 250 watts of plasma before the fuse popped makes a heck of a wakeup and the tip were missing a noticeable amount of metal.
The guy that does those videos does his “experiments” in his attic.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9OJE9OpXui-gRsnWjSrlA
Network penetration testing at the physical layer.
https://twitter.com/TomLawrenceTech/status/1185701047798521856
And on this note, I’m going home.
Well played…
I assume it involved a Vampire Tap?
Is it safe?
Millimeter waves are mostly absorbed within a few millimeters of human skin and in the surface layers of the cornea. Short-term exposure can have adverse physiological effects in the peripheral nervous system, the immune system and the cardiovascular system. The research suggests that long-term exposure may pose health risks to the skin (e.g., melanoma), the eyes (e.g., ocular melanoma) and the testes (e.g., sterility).
Since 5G is a new technology, there is no research on health effects, so we are “flying blind” to quote a U.S. senator. However, we have considerable evidence about the harmful effects of 2G and 3G. Little is known the effects of exposure to 4G, a 10-year-old technology, because governments have been remiss in funding this research. Meanwhile, we are seeing increases in certain types of head and neck tumors in tumor registries, which may be at least partially attributable to the proliferation of cell phone radiation. These increases are consistent with results from case-control studies of tumor risk in heavy cell phone users.
5G will not replace 4G; it will accompany 4G for the near future and possibly over the long term. If there are synergistic effects from simultaneous exposures to multiple types of RFR, our overall risk of harm from RFR may increase substantially. Cancer is not the only risk as there is considerable evidence that RFR causes neurological disorders and reproductive harm, likely due to oxidative stress.
As a society, should we invest hundreds of billions of dollars deploying 5G, a cellular technology that requires the installation of 800,000 or more new cell antenna sites in the U.S. close to where we live, work and play?
Instead, we should support the recommendations of the 250 scientists and medical doctors who signed the 5G Appeal that calls for an immediate moratorium on the deployment of 5G and demand that our government fund the research needed to adopt biologically based exposure limits that protect our health and safety.
Precautionary Principle, FTW!
“Scientific” “American” wants you to be afraid. They also want you to give billions of dollars to science for “research” into whether or not your cellphone is killing them. Don’t you fucking love science?
I mean the power is pretty low and the earth is already irradiated a lot but whatever no one needs 5G internet
If there are synergistic effects from simultaneous exposures to multiple types of RFR, our overall risk of harm from RFR may increase substantially. Cancer is not the only risk as there is considerable evidence that RFR causes neurological disorders and reproductive harm, likely due to oxidative stress.
Invest in tinfoil suits.
Utter bullshit. 30 to 40 percent of millimeter wave power is reflected by the skin. The photon energy of millimeter waves is roughly 10,000 times lower then ionizing radiation. You’re going to get more local heating from the battery discharging in your hand than from the transmitted power.
So, within 8 minutes, someone competent was able to come along and explain why this is utter bunkum.
At what point does it become overly generous to assume ignorance or stupidity and work from the assumption of actual malice?
The fact that most people don’t immediately presume an agenda until proven otherwise – by facts and logic – baffles me.
Most people assume that there are agendas on both (all) sides of any question and end up feeling helpless and fatalistic because everyone is lying.
I know too many people that not only believe there is only an agenda by the non prog side, but that they are on a holy crusade to save Gaia from the fucking evil people…..
Ignorance and stupidity are the order of the day. There’s probably no one left at Scientific American who can recognize, understand, and explain why p-values aren’t God and how the cult of publication is ultimately destroying the very scientific establishment they worship. This is “late-stage” scientism, cargo-cult priests aping the motions and sayings of people long gone who once understood how the world works.
Invest in tinfoil suits. I am starting a business .
also start smoking.
But I can feel it cooking my insides, man.
If you get a chance, visit a library that keeps old magazines in its stacks and compare an issue of Scientific American from, say 1964, with the current issue. Then weep for the death of your country’s intellect.
Canadians hate themselves I suppose.
iberals won 157 seats in the Canadian Parliament with 33 percent of the vote share or 5.62 million votes to Andrew Scheer’s Conservative Party’s 121 seats with 5.88 million votes or a 34.5 percent share.
Trudeau, in Montreal, Que., told his supporters and staff Tuesday that this victory was because of them.
“You did it, my friends. Congratulations,” he said. “From coast to coast to coast tonight, Canadians rejected division and negativity. They rejected cuts and austerity and they voted in favor of a progressive agenda and strong action on climate change.”
Does the Hudson Bay really count?
Slow your roll on that assumed mandate. The margin ain’t that big, Trudy.
President Donald Trump was quick to congratulate Trudeau on Twitter for his “wonderful and hard-fought victory.”
“Canada is well served,” Trump said. “I look forward to working with you toward the betterment of both of our countries!”
I suppose Trump figures Trudy can be pushed around.
The best way to deal with what appears to be a mild rebuke is to double down.
Rejected division? THE FUCKEN BLOC QUEBEC WENT FROM 10 SEATS TO 32!
There hasn’t been a greater divider than this piece of shit since, well, his father. My father used to say in Italian, “Pierre is a communist. I know because I’m a fascist.”
It was a type of Calabrese riddle. His point was it was easy to spot it through those lenses. And he was right.
Let’s all reject “austerity” and see what happens.
Wait, you mean the Conservative Party won the popular vote? I thought that’s what mattered to the left.
Yup. When Harper was winning the illiberal morons who vote for this dips hit the popular saying was ‘but Harper only won 30% of the vote!” and ‘two thirds of Canadians didn’t vote for him ergo he must govern for them!”
I hate progressives more than I do red muppets.
Does the Hudson Bay really count?
The Arctic Ocean says “Hi!”
Great. Now we’ll be inundated with Canadian refugees.
Well, they’ll all be of a conservative or libertarian bent, so there’s that.
After Georgia’s gambling bill was able to fund, essentially, college for all, those who couldn’t attend the flagships had to look out of state. Floridians were angered as their mediocre kids were competing with foreigners for their own down-ticket schools. Zell Miller glibly observed that he didn’t know what Florida was complaining about: the Georgian migration was raising the average IQ of both states.
I miss politicians who can do math.
Miller’s HOPE had 3 super-predictable impacts:
– Costs went up radically for all the things (fees, mandatory housing) not covered by it, so that the bureaucratic rice-bowls kept getting filled.
– Wreckage of the high-school GPA system to game the system so that (almost) everybody qualified.
– Wreckage of the collegiate GPA system so that the sweet HOPE lucre kept coming to the schools instead of students getting disqualified. Particularly pissed at the impact to grading at Tech, based on the kinds of numbers I’m seeing reported now.
Kinda like all those CA refugees?
Massive “prisoner” exchange at the border?
How about a state/province exchange?
TW: I’m not a animal person.
Just had two Dogs, run into my yard. I opend the door and called to them to see if i could get them back to their owner. They came running at me growling. I was able to chase them off, but now i’m pissed. A lot of my neighbors own dogs and far to many of them do not do enough to keep them contained, and have no regard for what they do when they are wandering stray.
I really want to say “Love your animals? Keep them in your yard or they are liable to get shot.”
Two dogs came onto my property several years ago (got through 3 perimeters of fences) and killed a bunch of my rare-breed chickens that I had special ordered. A lot of people around here would have shot them, but I caught both and called animal control since I couldn’t find a phone number on the collars. I was pissed, very pissed, but one was a sweet lab that just didn’t seem right to put down. Not like a feral dog. Turned out to be my neighbors’ house dogs that had gotten loose. Their kin are all around me too. Made the right call on that one.
The dogs were very lucky my own dogs were inside at the time. They don’t tolerate intruders. But I guess the dogs would have stayed away if mine had been out.
Shooting wild dogs was just common sense in my childhood.
Oddly, the big push in MS to outlaw “abuse” of cats and dogs came from “hunters” who enjoyed trespassing and didn’t want to pay the obvious price when their dogs were caught at it.
However, dogs harassing stock may be killed.
So, if you have rude neighbors who hunt with dogs, it is necessary to buy a chicken to keep in your backyard to point to when the sheriff comes to investigate complaints that you shoot merely trespassing dogs. If your credibility is low, kill the chicken and have your own dog chew it up a bit before the constabulary arrives.
Yeah, that’s wouldn’t fly with me at all. Friendly dogs that roam are a PITA, but aggressive dogs get put down.
I’m in the ‘burbs and it’s a problem, too. My dog got attacked by an off-lead golden. I pulled them apart and got some stitches and a tetanus shot for my trouble.
Are you sitting down? Because you wont’t believe this. According the the golden’s owner, “he’s never done that before!”
Fuck off, lady. And put a goddamn leash on your dog.
Did you call Animal Control and report this and demand proof that the dog was up-to-date on Rabies vaccination?
Nope. Dog had a rabies tag on his collar and I don’t talk to cops 😉
Of course he hasn’t
Bang. And he’ll never do it again.
Yup. Half the neighbors let their dogs out unleashed. Hell, we do it. No big deal because they mostly stay to their own yards and get let back in within 5 minutes. Ignoring the next door neighbor’s yappy mutts, I don’t mind the friendly dogs occasionally happening to end up in the front yard. Ours doesn’t leave my sight (he’s elderly and a wanderer) unless he’s chained up, and I wish the neighbors would abide by the same guideline, but it’s not a huge deal.
A completely different scenario is one neighbor whose dogs get loose once every few months. Inevitably, they end up in my backyard, aggressively barking at one of the cats. A couple times ago, one of the dogs got under the back deck (in a foot of snow) and was getting after my cat, which was up on a window AC unit. He got a steel toed boot to the diaphragm because I couldn’t grab a shovel or axe fast enough. If he hadn’t taken off after getting the wind knocked out of him, I was ready to kill the dog. I fully expected him to turn on me when I kicked him.
But then you will get the reputation as “that animal-hating person” and anything that happens anytime in the future to anyone’s pet will have your name mentioned. While sometimes dogs do legitimately escape their yards it is in my experience always the same dogs escaping, ie negligent owners. While this may be too close to calling the cops for your comfort, the best things is to call animal control since that will subject the negligent owners to process.
^This is advice specifically for suburban areas, obvs.
Yeah. I’m in suburban Rural area, so i’m pretty sure shooting in the city limits is a no-no. The Dogs where chicken shit once i threw something at them and yelled, so no big harm done, but When i’ve got 3 little girls under 4 years old, i do get pissed that there are dogs going around that are at least somewhat aggressive. I think i saw where they ran off to so i might leave a note for the owners.
If you’re going to shoot your neighbor’s dog, do it with a sub-sonic .22, and treat it like a Federally protected species. Shoot, shovel, and shut-up. Even if you find the dog literally eating your livestock, your neighbor will never forgive you, so… “Nope, I haven’t seen your dog.”
Annapolis has worked to develop a reputation as a “dog-friendly” city, which translates to people dragging their anxious, poorly-trained, and ill-behaved dogs (almost always dogs like Labs, Goldens, or Labradoodles) to bars and restaurants–even into retail stores now–and “walking” them without a leash. It infuriates me. It doesn’t bother me when friendly dogs get loose on accident, but when you’re deliberately making your dog my problem I see red. And the worst thing here is that city police don’t do anything about it, but punt it off to county animal control instead. Their average response time is something like one day. So, while it’s illegal to have your dog in a public space off a leash, no one will actually enforce that law, so your stupid Lab can shit on my lawn and get my dogs riled up and then traipse down the middle of the street a block away from you while you think about how cool it is to be a yuppie piece of shit.
poorly-trained
not arguing with what you wrote, but it’s the owners who are poorly-trained; with few exceptions, dogs are just dogs doing dog stuff
A neighbor’s bulldog ran into my yard and growled at me and my son when he was a toddler. I was barefoot and unarmed, otherwise it would have turned out very different. I’m pretty forgiving, except when it comes to threatening my child.
Ah, you too? I positioned myself between the bulldog and my daughter and slowly picked her up without breaking eye contact. Once she was safe inside, I grabbed a shovel and proceeded to ensure he went back where he came from. I haven’t seen him in a few months. Hopefully he’s dead or otherwise never coming back to the neighborhood.
I am as big a dog lover as you will find, and I agree 100%. I do not let my dog off the leash in public places for exactly those reasons, and I am very careful that she does not get out of the house or our backyard. It’s basic pet ownership – dogs are still animals and still need to be controlled. I love my sweet little doxie, but she absolutely could bite a person or attack another dog…..because those are things that dogs do.
If you don’t have any pets yourself, there are certain substances (don’t recall what exactly) that smell terrible only to dogs and other nose-sensitive creatures that you can put on your yard to keep such animals out. Although if it rains a lot in your area that might not be practical.
I really want to say “Love your animals? Keep them in your yard or they are liable to get shot.”
Dogs that roam don’t come home.
I am not for killing anything that I won’t eat, but if your dog comes on my property and causes me grief, I am making an exception to that rule.
OMWC, SP, Sloopy, and PlayaManhattan stand ready to do violence against any who would attempt to take their gas stoves.
FTA:
Good luck getting the colder climes to follow Berkeley’s lead. Gas is used to heat a lot of people’s homes, and I can only imagine that one cold winter would be enough to get people to turn on these green freaks and their handmaidens in government.
The “no gas hookups” people always seem to be from warmer climates and the “no a/c” people always seem to be from cooler climates. Curious, that.
And here i am, stuck in the middle with you…
Curious, that.
Indeed. I wonder how much of a grant I could get to study the issue. I’m thinking summers in Maine and winters in Florida would be the most objective way to analyze this.
Electricity in Ohio comes from burning coal. Do they ever think about that?
The Nazis are coming for your little boys!
Joanna Schroeder has a warning for parents of teen and tween white boys: If you don’t pay attention to their online lives, the white supremacists will.
“They’ve studied the way that our young men interact online, and they have looked at what these boys need,” she said. “And they have learned how to fill those needs in order to entice them into propaganda.”
That’s what she found when she asked her own teenager if they could go through some of his social media together.
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“I know my kids understand Hitler, but as I scrolled through his [social media] I saw more memes that joked about the Holocaust and joked about slavery,” Schroeder said. The impact, she said, seemed to be “desensitizing our kids to things we should be sensitive to.”
Schroeder decided to dig deeper with her sons, one a teen and the other a tween, when she heard them saying words that had been used by trolls against her.
As a writer who has published pieces about men’s issues among other topics, Schroeder has suffered online criticism and abuse from those who virulently disagree with her.
“I know that the people who bothered me and harassed me and made my life miserable for all these years are influencing my kids,” Schroeder told CNN. “These are my sweet gentle boys saying this stuff.”
A California mom of three — she has a baby girl in addition to her sons — she says she is progressive and liberal, before adding she does not shun mainstream conservative thought.
But she was jolted when she heard her elder son talking about being “triggered.”
“You’ll hear this from your conservative uncle, and you may also hear this from a kid that’s getting a lot of alt-right messaging online — that everyone’s too sensitive today,” she said. “That is entryway kind of terminology. It’s not racist. No, it’s not. But it’s often used against people who are calling out racism or sexism or homophobia.”
Schroeder sent out a thread of warning tweets that went viral, including among parents getting ready to send their children back to school at the end of the summer.
“I wanted parents to know,” she said. “To pay attention, because this particular group of boys is being targeted and these parents have no idea.”
She does not shun conservative thought, but OMG. So scary to think these little boys might escape from the bubble. Keep them away from that crazy uncle, too. He might infect them with toxic individualism, and then who knows what they might do or think?
The world is a frightening place.
That’s not going to work out the way she thinks it will.
“Stop triggering me, mom.”
ahaha oh that’s hliarious. her little ones are sick of her brainwashing bullshit and finding all of these criticisms online of her work. i bet they’re reading her stuff and rolling their eyes. kids are too tech savvy to pull that shit on them.
But she was jolted when she heard her elder son talking about being “triggered.”
I’ve heard left-leaning youtubers (on entertainment channels, not political ones) joke about about being “triggered”. If you think joking about over-sensitivity is “alt-right”, then you must be a hard core leftist who thinks most people are right-wing.
“I saw more memes that joked about the Holocaust”
So it was a Larry David meme? Or a Jerry Seinfeld one? Or a Mel Brooks one?
Goddammit
Schroeder decided to dig deeper with her sons, one a teen and the other a tween, when she heard them saying words that had been used by trolls against her.
Mom’s a MILF that needs to be P’WND.
I hope she hasn’t seem them make the Ok Sign. Particularly down by their genitals.
If she was getting it regularly and good, she might not be this fucking flakey…
Hello Glibs – I’ve been pretty quiet lately, but I’m still lurking. Life has just been very busy lately. How busy? I haven’t read a single book this month.
Good morning, Leap!
I have not read a single book in more than a year (other than the ones I’m paid to edit).
Good to see you ’round these parts. Yeah, life happens sometimes.
Welcome back. Hope all’s well.
You need to take a couple days off and get in the woods.
Tell me about it!
I hope you’re doing well, Leap!
I am. I’ve mostly been busy with recreational stuff, a little work too, but it not *too* taxing to watch anime for an hour with my son most evenings.
Gas.
I hate my electric stove. HAAAAAATTTTTEEEEEE with fire of a thousand burning suns.
COP is 3:1 over Electric, due to losses in transmission, gas is better and cheaper,
When you think about it, it’s really stupid to use technology to transform low value energy from combustion into high value electricity, then use the high value electricity just to generate heat again.
+1 Steam Plant
What a fucking bubbling cauldron of moronic selfrighteousness:
She responded to criticism that she was trying to “brainwash” her children.
“All parents are trying to bend their kids’ minds. Whether it’s getting them to wash their hands when they normally wouldn’t or getting them to think about social issues in a way that’s going to help society get better,” she said.
She’s found a positive way to engage her sons.
“The kids and I are conspirators together,” she said.
She might point something out and then tell her boys, “These alt-right guys were trying to trick you. Like they think you’re dumb and you’re not. You’re smart.”
“Now get ready for bed, Fredo, and I’ll come tuck you in.
It’s the condescending tone.
She should just argue with them instead. Force them to support their conclusions.
But then she would have to support hers as well.
Yep and the more she tries to restrict and demean it the more they’ll seek it out.
“These alt-right guys were trying to trick you. Like they think you’re dumb and you’re not. You’re smart.
Did you explain why those alt-right guys were wrong? did you provide good arguments for why you were right? otherwise you are as guilty of treating your sons as dumb as the alt-right guys are.
Also, as a young teenage boy, i think nothing would have made me feel stupider than having my mother tell me that my independent exploration was all wrong and that i should come to her for all knowledge. If you want to raise critical thinking boys then you have to be comfortable with them coming into contact with bad ideas. If you felt confident in their intelligence, then you wouldn’t worry about them being tricked by the bad ideas.
Nobody I know and respect as an adult was dependent on their parents for their opinions. Typically it was the opposite, even if they came to agree later in life.
If you want to raise critical thinking boys then you have to be comfortable with them coming into contact with bad ideas.
I don’t think that’s what she wants.
If you felt confident in their intelligence, then you wouldn’t worry about them being tricked by the bad ideas.
In fairness, though, smart people are tricked by bad ideas all the time. Intelligence is over-rated.
Correct. The Tuskegee Experiment was a product of intelligent people. The sterilization of Carrie Buck was the product of intelligent people. The analytics that lead the NYPD institute Stop and Frisk was the product of intelligent people.
What would have prevented those things are not more intelligence, but a moral education. Unfortunately, those were quite goache for a century and America has no idea how to implement that, by and large.
Further update on the Texas Tiny Tranny court case.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/texas-father-blocked-from-stopping-gender-transition-of-son-james-7-to-girl-called-luna
Q: Anybody here who would take the kids and flee the country to keep this from happening?
Where’s a good spot to keep them safe?
According to ZeroHedge commenters, southeast Asia.
I don’t mean that hyperbolically, either. Get yourself some American dollars, find a village deep in Loas or Vietnam or somewhere like that, where they have decent services to live including internet, and you can live like a king (by their standards), provided you don’t need to be all fancy schmancy. Learn the language, home school, get a job online, and then let them go when they’re 18 or 21 and let them make their own choices.
I do believe it is a fad kids go through when they are exposed to it as a cool, “in” thing to do (and that thinking is everywhere in the middle schools and high schools, trust me). I’ve told my kids they can do what they want—when they’re out of the house and paying their own bills.
The lobotomies of the 21st century
I understand that in Mexico the local officials can be bribed quite reasonably.
Mexico might not be far enough away.
Patagonia was also suggested.
Gotta grease those cartel palms too, though.
At the minimum
Same. I don’t care if it cost me every last dime I had.
The sad part is that mom and her enablers have already warped the kid’s mind. Even if you abduct him, it’s going to take years to undo the damage.
Snatch the normal one and run, Luna is already gone…..
^^^THIS^^^
Luna is a stage name. So this is fun time, vanity project for mom.
While I don’t have kids I would definitely harbor such a family group overnight.
You’re going to get interdicted before you land in a no-extradition country. If there’s one thing these people will not tolerate, it’s fleeing their power.
Absofuckinlutely. This is sick. And this is happening in TEXAS.
If Texas courts do this kind of thing, nowhere is safe.
Coppell nonsense. I again call for burning Dallas County to the ground even though taking care of Coppell will put decent folk in Tarrant County at some risk.
FWIW, the mom is a board-cert pediatrician with an MD from UT Health Science Center in San Antonio.
You know who else was an actual physician and liked to perform cruel “experiments” on children?
This guy?
Herta Oberheuser
This guy?
I don’t know, though, if he was Board Certified.
I believe that 50 years in the future, we will look at these decisions the same way we look at the Eugenics decisions of the 1910s-20’s. Of course the Progressives will talk about how the parties switched sometime between now and then, so really it was the dirty conservatives that were all for child abuse.
Stolen without attribution:
Child gender transitions are the 21st century’s lobotomy.
I’m struggling to process this.
Some music to help.
The entire reasoning behind this, as far as I can tell, is about “suicide”. If you don’t acknowledge your child’s “real” gender, they’re going to kill themselves. This is what is fueling this entire “debate”. Only by engaging in irreversible chemical/physical alteration of the person can you save your children from offing themselves.
But it’s a bald-faced lie. The stats are juked to hell and back. Suicide remains a constant risk for people (especially those born male) in the 12-24 (and beyond) age group. There’s little evidence that “affirming” (which really ought to be called “coaching” or “grooming”, as it resembles the Satanic Panic more than coming out) has any positive impact (i.e., reduction in suicide attempts or success rate), and some evidence that, for a subset of those who get “affirmed”, the regret over having it done is a factor in their suicidal attitudes and behavior.
To me, this is the entire “mental health crisis” in a nutshell. These are evil people, who are manipulating others into believing their ideas are “good”. Nobody should be stopped from doing to their selves and their bodies what they wish, but this is not an organic movement of individuals.
f you don’t acknowledge your child’s “real” gender, they’re going to kill themselves.
The curious thing is that the “Trans community” has a far higher rate of suicide than the average for the population. One would think that would be a consideration. But one would also think that one would allow a child to grow to maturity before making life-altering decisions.
Fucking insanity…
That is child abuse, plain and simple. The mother should be in prison. The “medical” professionals who recommended the procedures and vouched for their necessity to the court should lose their accreditation and be banned from practicing any kind of medicine or therapy.
Or…
If the father is sadly unable to prevent the mother’s accidental head-first fall into a woodchipper he should be awarded sole, unchallengeable, immediate custody of both children and no criminal or civil investigation should ensue. For the children.
I keep on expecting (hoping?) to find out more of this case, that it really isn’t how conservative sites have reported it.
Sickening.
Unfortunately, I don’t think you will. The current thinking is that you have to stop puberty before it happens to “properly” transition. That pushes the age at which this “must” be done to be truly “affirming” into the single digits.
In other words, the reasonable approach of why don’t we wait and see until he/she is old enough to make the decision for him/herself is unacceptable, because by then it will be “too late”.
My God,
/shaking head…………
The cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously claim that,
1) Young adults can’t handle alcohol until 21 because it is a mind-altering drug
and
2) Pre-teens are capable of deciding that permanent, body (and mind) altering hormone treatments and possibly surgery to be acceptable for themselves
, is beyond astounding. We’re well into the lunatic fringe here.
It all makes sense if you realize they’re all really afraid of death.
Of course, the part that doesn’t make sense is how they same people are generally very pro-abortion.
To some extent it does. But I think there is an element of vanity involved as well. The fear of death can be used as a justification in their own minds.
Pushing birth control and abortions into the same segment without parental involvement has been going on for a number of years.
Nevermind that treatment requires a lifetime of hormone injections in order to maintain the illusion that your body is “wrong” for your mind.
These people are psychologically abusing children and convincing them to act on the induced delusions in a way that causes permanent physical and mental repercussions. It’s sick, it’s vile, and it should be resisted at all turns.
I’ve aired out my views about transgender stuff here before and I don’t want to kick that particular hornet’s nest again so soon, but the medication aspect is sort of the “tell” for me. If your “gender identity” requires surgery and regular medication to avoid reverting to the “wrong” sex you were born with, it’s really just an extreme form of cosmetic surgery. That’s fine if that’s what you want to do, but it’s not different than people who want to make themselves look like cats or lizards because they feel some kinship with those animals, or people who believe they’d be happier without an arm or whatever. It is not a physical illness, and the initial, baseline treatment should treat the mental illness at its core. If the concern is that a person with gender dysphoria may kill themselves, you treat the mental state that makes suicide a risk. Someone contemplating suicide isn’t going to be “cured” through hormone therapy.
Reading the story it’s even much worse than all this.
The kid apparently doesn’t think that way, according to the dad. He doesn’t even want to transition. He think he’s a boy and wants to stay a boy.
When you add that to the story, it’s even new levels of sickening.
The current thinking is that you have to stop puberty before it happens to “properly” transition.
This is technically correct, in the same sense that they had to castrate boys who wanted to be Castrato singers, but it’s just as wrong-headed.
Agreed. Also, it’s funny (well, sad, really) how biology suddenly matters again.
curious: is any left media outlet covering this in any way?
No. That’s one of the reasons I was skeptical that I was getting the full story.
i tried the court website to see the ruling and it does not work for me.
The dad needs to walk away.
I know this will irritate a lot of people reading this, but the fact is it’s very hard to grab the kids and flee. He will get caught. He will lose custody and likely end up in jail.
Having been mired in the probate court system for better on ten years, I know of what I speak.
The court system is full of professionals who don’t give a shit about the kids’ welfare. All they care about is the process – which pays them quite well – and which is backed up by pretty nasty levels of force.
The more he fights this, the more everyone involved in the process will try to prove him wrong; and the way they will do that is by further medical and emotional abuse of little James. And believe me they won’t give a shit if the child ends up on the streets whoring himself out for drugs. What matters is that resistance to their rule is stamped out.
Note the shit about dad not being allowed to bring James anywhere anyone who won’t call him Luna or won’t call him ‘her’.
It’s setting dad up for a nasty contempt charge. It suggests to me that mommy really wants to hurt daddy and is willing to do nasty things to her children to get at daddy. And I can attest from direct personal experience, the courts are all too happy to jump on the bandwagon of the vilification campaign.
The best thing for both twin boys is for daddy to walk away. Because if he isn’t in their lives, then mommy can’t hurt him by hurting them anymore. And then when she tangles with a teacher or doctor or medical professional/shrink it will be her vs the system instead of mean old daddy trying to twist things around against her.
You’re probably right. But I lean somewhat to the side of woodchippers in this case.
Makes me wonder if the Catholic church would have the stones to give the father and child sanctuary if they showed up and asked for it… Not that I would advocate “putting your child in the hands of the Catholic church” as a means of keeping them particularly safe…
Explain. Can they legally do that?
Where in the Western world does the Church have that kind of power? They’d have to abscond the child out of North America and Europe. If the police caught wind of it, then not only would it fail, it would further cut into the Church’s already greatly diminished image in the West.
No, they’ll likely not do anything.
In my town, churches provide sanctuary to illegal aliens subject to deportation. Sometimes for years on end.
They can only provide sanctuary because the political leadership and law enforcement don’t want the bad publicity. There is zero legal basis for it.
Exactly. Their only power is that it would take armed men in black body slamming an 80 year old nun and standing on the heck of a 90 year old priest to get at the child, where the Church committed to providing them with sanctuary.
This may or may not be a deterrent to the authorities.
It’s not irritating, just heartbreaking, because you are right. But at some point in this kid’s future, he’s going to ask daddy why he didn’t fight harder to keep him safe.
Oh yes….
This happened in my wife’s extended family.
Son from marriage #1 showed up on his 25th birthday to tearily confront his biological father for abandoning him and leaving him at the mercies of psycho mom and her string of abusive boyfriends.
Biological father had to sit son down and tell him that he walked away because the crazy abuse got worse whenever he spent time with the son – that bad as things had been, they’d have been even worse had he stuck around.
The confrontation started out ugly and with an undercurrent of gathering clouds of retributive violence and ended several years later with them having a close and loving father/son relationship.
What amazes me is that as I sit here within 9 months of my 50th birthday, how frequently the pattern repeats of terrible relationships of nice people with crazy people, where the latter abuse and hurt children to make the nice person suffer.
The words “don’t stick it in crazy” are about the wisest words I ever heard. In my case, I didn’t have a working crazy detector. At least one that could be heard over the “she loves you, marry her” drumbeat of my mating drive.
One correction… my wife is not nuts. My ex on the other hand… 🙄
I used a “medievalized” version of “don’t stick it in the crazy” in my next book and I’m going to attribute it to Glibs in the acknowledgments.
I would like to thank the academy, my mom and dad, my personal trainer, my dog whisperer and my life coach, and all the people that read Mojeaux’s book and found us Glibs to be wise and worthy of this recognition…..
The Galling thing is that, despite being completely eliminated from any parental rights, he will still be on the hook for Child Support.
Nothing for it at this point.
He’s fucked. She’s evil, and the courts are happy to sell themselves out to her.
The good news is that if it’s only money, then all he does is pay the “I stuck it in crazy” tax and use the rest of his earnings as he desires.
Moving far away is a good idea too.
^^^This^^^
Parents use their kids as pawns in their fights all the time. This is just taking that to a whole new level.
The dad needs to walk away.
Sadly, this is the rational and correct thing. When it comes to their own kids, though, people aren’t rational.
Ideally, he would cut a deal where he surrenders all parental rights, and is released from any obligations, mainly child support.
And, yeah, I’d vote to acquit if he put a bullet in her.
You don’t get out of child support.
And trust me, mommy isn’t letting him off so easy.
If he were to offer a settlement granting her full physical and legal custody in exchange for low or no child-support payments, she won’t agree to it.
In my experience, the people who want to hurt their spouses want to hurt them. They want to watch them suffer. They want to know that they are in agony.
They won’t ever accept a clean break, even if that’s what they claim they want in their court filings.
I know.
Which is why I’d vote to acquit.
if he isn’t in their lives
Then she won’t get alimony, which I doubt she is willing to give up.
Reading through it seems I assumed the outcome incorrectly.
The best thing for both twin boys is for daddy to walk away. Because if he isn’t in their lives, then mommy can’t hurt him by hurting them anymore. And then when she tangles with a teacher or doctor or medical professional/shrink it will be her vs the system instead of mean old daddy trying to twist things around against her.
If someone is going to castrate your son what are the proper limits of your response? I really hesitated to post this because there are no good responses in this situation and you are correct that nothing Dad does will have a good outcome, but if someone is about to castrate your son is it proper to be counting costs to yourself at all?
It’s like rescuing the guy shot by the sniper. What good are you to your cause if you’re dead next to him?
I came within a hair of losing custody, legal and physical of my kids.
Now I have primary physical custody, and my ex’s crazy shit is really, really circumscribed.
Because I played the game. Had I not played the game, it would have been disastrous to the kids.
It sucked. It meant years of driving my kids over to a place that I knew to be unfit for their habitation. It meant years of waiting for my ex to do something so crazy she couldn’t explain it away as being my fault. It meant years of frustration as DCF explained away 51A’s being filed by teachers, therapists and doctors as “unsupported” because they were convinced I was coaching the kids, or because there were no photos of the bruises (a lie, I had copies), etc.
Were the kids worse off because the court didn’t immediately recognize my ex’s unfitness? Yes. Were the kids better off because I took the long view and made sure I was allowed to stay in their lives? Yes.
If the most likely consequences of rebellion are going to leave your kids worse off than if you comply, then, if you truly care about your kids, you comply.
Certainly, if I were in the situation he describes, no options would be off the table…. including fleeing with the kids to the local Turkish consulate and requesting asylum.
why would a jury do this?
I can’t find details… is the actual court report somewhere?
You remember my article on how the culture war has been lost? That’s why.
Strictly instructed to follow the letter of the law which does not say anything about
gender transitioningmedical abuse being against the law.It is of course possible, especially given that there seems to only be “one side” of this story available online, that the father’s take on it is not the jury’s take. Maybe there were other factors in the custody decision, and the “gender transition” was not the reason (or not the only reason, anyway).
reading around, it sounds like the jury was provided all of the information regarding the mom’s crusade to transition her son so this is on them. mom is a batshit true believer and the kid’s kindergarten teacher is too. the dad wants his sons out of that environment. either he’s a horrible judge of character or the mom pulled a bait-and-switch on him post-marriage.
does Luna have a grandfather? b/c if my daughter pulled this shit, i’d have to assess just how much of this was my responsibility and how i could change the situation for the sake of the child.
I’m guessing that mama comes from a pretty messed up home life.
apparently she’s an MD so her upbringing could not have been that hard.
Too bad it’s not a Clint Eastwood movie where Eastwood’s character kills his daughter to prevent chemical castration of his grandson and then surrenders to the police.
strongly backed the idea of chemically castrating her son and beginning hormone replacement therapy
This is child abuse.
In the future, we’re going to look on this and say ‘what the fuck were they thinking?’
Humans just have a penchant for evil. Simple as that. This is EVIL.
Everyone involved is EVIL.
“Think about social issues in a way that’s going to help society get better.”
Yeah. Expand the definition of “antisocial” to the point of meaninglessness. Keep driving that wedge deeper and deeper. What could possibly go wrong?
All your base are belong to Titty Tuesday.
http://archive.is/PT3E1
I call fake news.
Q: Anybody here who would take the kids and flee the country to keep this from happening?
You left out the “not”.
Yeah, I should’ve realized the default position.
I saw something in a TV show I have never seen before: The tacit approval of parents killing a child, or at least, they left it morally ambiguous.
On the TV show Evil, where they suss out the possibility of demon possession. They had an out-of-control boy who was trying to kill the new baby. The parents had done everything and as a last-ditch effort, called the church for an exorcism. They finally agreed after the boy threw the baby into the pool bundled up in a blanket. The main characters agreed to the exorcism, but when they got there the next day, they told him the boy had run away. The police were there to take the runaway report. The mother was distraught but acting funny and said something pointed.. When she shut the door, the characters realized that the parents had killed him.
There was no SVU posturing that they’d done the wrong thing, then arrested the parents. Just a slightly horrified line, “They killed him,” and that was that.
Good call.
Pet Semetary?
One of my aunts tried to smother her younger sister in the crib with a pillow. Later in life, my father actually had to restrain and disarm her when she, at 17, tried to stab her with a pair of scissors. I don’t mean like poke her and run away, I mean she was trying to kick her bedroom door in to get to her. Whenever I get annoyed at my daughter for taking it to DEFCON-1 over not wanting to eat a vegetable I always think of my dad and his aunts.
The theological question on the show was posed by the psychologist skeptic: Would your God make a 9-year-old psychopath. The believer answered a firm “No.”
Except … there are such things. Studies have been done and children like these have been studied and written about.
I don’t know if God did it. I believe there are infinite possibilities in infinite combinations (of genes). Could God have kept those genes from entering the pool? Yes, but he didn’t. It’s another theological dilemma I have to sort out.
That believer needs to read the Bible a bit more. The “why” question might be a hard one. The “would” isn’t.
It doesn’t fit the premise of the show. The believer is studying to be a priest. He has 2 skeptics on his team, one psychologist to find a diagnosis and the other an IT dude to rule out technological trickery.
They work for the church to figure out who needs an exorcism and who needs the loony bin.
Well, there are sociopaths who learn to interact relatively normally with the rest of society; many of them build very successful careers as politicians. Not joking or exaggerating there, either. God could’ve made me taller or more handsome, but He didn’t; I’m the product of billions of years of the universe chugging along, and, in the near term, two crazy kids from the same neighborhood liking the cut of each other’s jibs. Put another way, to change genetics God has to remove choice, and God doesn’t remove choice because that’s cheating.
True and I read a great book on the subject. I think it was called The Sociopath Next Door. It’s estimated that 1 in 4 people have sociopathic tendencies and many of those have narcissistic personality disorder. Very few of them are at Dexter level. Most of them show up as the gaslighting coworker who drives you out somehow, and they do it for their own personal amusement.
Anne Georgulas, the mother of the two boys, has advocated for James to transition into Luna and has strongly backed the idea of chemically castrating her son and beginning hormone replacement therapy.
It’s worth it, if it keeps him from getting recruited by the white supremacists.
How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
Sounds like the plot of a sci-fi book.
Thought that was gonna be a link about Betty White.
We’ll keep guessing until it fits…
Sure feels that way…
It’s a bit weak as an article because it only explains one Newtonian calculation, but I don’t know how to convey the competing estimations to most people. How to tell this story is a greater conundrum than the story per se.
What is it with powerful and wealthiest regions that vote solid fake liberal? The biggest state in the USA reliably gives its electoral votes to the Dems, while Ontario shits red.
Peer pressure. No joke (even though the phrase gets misused a lot to the point of cliche). California wasn’t deep blue until very recently. You can’t be seen to have voted the wrong way. They’ve weaponized interpersonal interactions for politics. There’s no (apparent) upside to opposing them and no (apparent) downside to agreeing with them.
What changes happened to California that suddenly turned it deep blue, I ask (I am being factitious) ?
I can’t speak to California’s culture that specifically, as I am not a resident of the state. The state I live in, Maryland, has been in the hands of the Democrats for a lot longer than California has. However, I can say that there has been a change here, too. While there are of course still plenty of Republicans around, even if they are outnumbered, and we have a Republican(-ish) governor (hopefully not our last), and the Democrats have long held a supermajority in the legislature, the attitudes average people have about politics have changed. The word “hate” gets thrown around a lot more than it used to, in phrases like “hate groups”, “hate speech”, and “politics of hate”. It’s still “okay” to have voted for Hogan but definitely not for Trump. The degree to which it can affect you professionally is mitigated somewhat, compared to California, by the large proportion of DoD employees and contractors. However, many people will start to look at you differently and treat you differently if they suspect you voted for Trump, even if they can’t get you fired (yet). I was younger then, so it’s hard to say for sure, but this animosity was not the same for Bush.
I think it might depend where you are. In Annapolis, Bush stole the election from Gore, and Republicans were always racist warmongers who hate the poor. The emphasis was less on racial politics than it has been lately, though. I think Obama changed that. Southern Maryland seems to be different, though, as does far western Maryland and the eastern shore. The Baltimore and DC metros have all the votes, though.
In the US its all about the population density. States with multiple big cities usually end up blue, states with one or two usually go red. Or at least they are trending that way. A presidential map by county is basically a map of urban areas.
All but about 3 California counties are red. It’s because the cities have swollen with parasites.
Not that long ago, that would mean divided government. But the Supreme Court said “ha!”, found some hidden ink in the Fourteenth Amendment, and did away with geographic representation at the state level (how, exactly, they had the authority to do this is still anyone’s guess; they rewrote provisions of state constitutions that said they could not be amended, or could only be amended by vote). While CA would probably still throw all of its electoral votes to Democrats, if the counties were represented in one house of its legislature, the cities would not get to dominate state government (they already have their own local governments, I don’t understand why they always need more power).
You seem to not understand liberalism’s totalitarian bent, if you don’t see why they like the top down power structure with nothing but their dogma tolerated. Many warned back in the 60s that the left ONLY championed fredom of speech for as long as it would take for them to brainwash the masses into buying into marxist tropes, and here we are today, and these people suddenly are the most adamant about not just shutting down other points of view, but punishing those that have them. Our credentialed class loves this system, because it protects them from their own ineptitude and criminality.
Well, it may be worth noting that California always had popular representation in both house of its legislature. From the original 1879 constitution:
It’s because people are cowed into “caring.”
For shame
A Republican candidate to become mayor of San Francisco is under fire after erecting a billboard attacking incumbent Mayor London Breed (D).
GOP candidate Ellen Lee Zhou’s cartoon billboard depicts Breed, a black woman, in a red dress with her feet up on an executive desk while holding a cigar and counting cash. A thought bubble extending from Breed shows homeless individuals with numbered signs.
The billboard also includes an image of a man carrying away a girl with money in his hand and the messages “Stop slavery and human trafficing in SF” and “Vote Nov. 5, 2019 Ellen Zhou for Mayor.”
Breed told reporters Monday that she was “pretty shocked” by the billboard’s depiction.
“I think the billboard speaks for itself,” CBS 5 reported Breed said. “It’s unfortunate that it has come to this point.”
Maggie Muir, a consultant for Breed’s reelection campaign, called the billboard “blatantly racist and sexist” in a statement to The Hill.
“This blatantly racist and sexist ad has no place in our political discourse or our city,” Muir said. “Race-baiting like this is divisive, dangerous and shameful, and must be rejected.”
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Zhou, a social worker, told reporters she did not think the billboard was disrespectful and that she didn’t intend for it to be controversial. She said she wants people to focus on her goal to “Make San Francisco Safe & Clean.”
Any Republican running against a black Democrat is racist, by definition.
Make San Francisco Safe & Clean? You might as well have Arbeit Macht Frei as your campaign slogan.
Is that crap at the bottom of the billboard required? Nothing says a free country like needing to place your authorization # on political signs.
Any criticism of a black politician is racist. Obama taught us that.
‘member the cartoons depicting W as a monkey? I ‘member.
Also, talk about the clearest example of who outranks who on the intersectionality totem pole. Sorry, Asian lady, you may as well be Charles Lindbergh.
asians are the wypipo of minorities.
“blatantly racist and sexist”
How?
It’s a convoluted chain of logic that basically ends with any implication that non-white people can be corrupt, even when coming from non-white people, is racist. Because of the implication.
It’s a terrible billboard because it’s too complicated a message for that space.
A simpler version would be poop on the sidewalk image with a simple “It’s time to clean up San Francisco.”
GOP is again awful at marketing/branding.
Say it ain’t so!
If the bureaucracy is not beholden to the elected officials, then the elected officials aren’t in charge of the country anymore. The appropriate response would be to gut the system, burn it to the ground, and salt the earth.
I am starting to worry that we have come too far Scruffy, and that we are left only with this option, if the people want to take control back from the unelected bureaucracy created by the last 50 years of collectivism and weaponized by the Obama administration.
I believe that the last three years have shown that the administrative state has, indeed, slipped the leash and is now effectively unaccountable and in control of most of the “governance” of the country.
And the only way to reverse this would be a catastrophic event, which even then would have a low probability of ending in a country with a smaller, more accountable government.
There is a way to reverse it. But nobody has any interest in doing it. Congress can restrain them. The President, without the other branches undermining his every move, could do a lot too. Hell, even the Courts can reign a lot of this shit in.
But as long as two of the other three branches won’t act, nothing will change.
I should say, there are non-catastrophic ways to reverse it.
Theoretically, yes. In practice, no. As we have seen. Even after three years of Trump, the administrative state continues to carry out leftist agendas that are explicitly opposed by the President. Congress, of course, is a bad joke, and the courts have already signed off and won’t reverse themselves.
You would have to undo a generation of conditioning and propaganda to prep the cultural battlespace to get enough voter/popular support. In the meantime, the Deep State is easily capable of withstanding any efforts by politicians to undo their control.
I must have missed the part where the Constitution created a fourth branch whose job it was to rescue the republic from the other branches.
From my reading of these claims about the bureaucracy’s mission statement, it exists to protect government from bad decisions by the people : such as the people electing someone like Trump that is not an outsider, but hell bent on breaking the bureaucratic state’s lucrative monopoly.
not and outsider = not only an outsider
To these people, “the republic” is them keeping their cushy jobs getting to dictate the rules for the proles. Even though, constitutionally speaking, they are entirely answerable to the President as head of the executive branch, in practice they are an amorphous and unaccountable institution created by the three branches jointly (Congress, through things like the Pendleton Act and of course the department charters; the President through carrying out the law and setting executive policy; and the Courts, through their rulings on the limits and non-limits of the administrative state). That, legally speaking, their entire existence could vanish overnight through defunding is not the slightest of worries to them ought to be a lot more concerning to people. But, the voters will buy sob stories about government shutdowns leading to them starving, which keeps any reform from getting anywhere.
To these people, “the republic” is them keeping their cushy jobs getting to dictate the rules for the proles
This. The Deep State (which this person acknowledges) exists as an entity to itself. To them saving the republic means saving themselves and their systems because that’s what the republic is. Thats how you get Agencies allying with Al’Queda, despite them being enemies of the american people, because they think that they can set enemies as a matter of policy. That’s how you get people who think Tulsi Gabbard, Rand Paul, Jill Stein etc. are Russian assets, because they oppose the Bureaucratic consensus on what the governments objectives should be. They Have fully ingested their own “we are the republic” kool-aid to the point that anyone who disagrees with them is threatening the republic.
“L’etat, c’est moi.“
A Crazy French King couldn’t put it better.
So much that R C Dean.
These fucks are not doing anything noble: they are protecting their status quo and the system they created that benefits them at the expense of others, because they know that in a world where they could be held accountable for their failures, practically all of them would be out on the streets, their long list of educational credentials notwithstanding.
Isn’t that part the Second Amendment?
The people are not a branch of government, but rather the superior power that government answers to.
*snort*
Oh, you’re serious.
Theory vs reality and all that.
rescue the Republic from his excesses
We must RESCUE DEMOCRACY BY SUBVERTING IT!
In other words, come back to me when Trump Suspends elections. Until then, it’s from you, whom the democracy needs to be saved.
The president can’t “suspend” elections anyway. Elections are controlled by the States.
True, but only up to a point. The President of the Senate (i.e., the Vice President of the United States) has to accept and announce the results of the state elections to the Senate.
Bring us
a shrubberythe head of Betsy DeVosTo live up to the “promise of a good public education,” as president, Senator Elizabeth Warren would replace Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with someone who will “listen” to public school teachers, parents and students.
On Monday, Warren targeted DeVos in a series of tweets highlighting her plans for public education. Along with improving funding for public schools and the treatment of teachers and staff, she would nominate someone to the position of Education Secretary that had experience as a public school teacher.
Days earlier, on Friday, DeVos told Fox News host Brett Baier that America was “failing” too many kids. She criticized the amount of money that was spent on education since the Department of Education was created given the gap in achievements between students on the low and high end of the spectrum. She called for a pivot in the approach America takes to education, claiming the solution was school choice.
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“I’ll start–as I promised in May–by replacing DeVos with a Secretary of Education who has been a public school teacher, believes in public education, and will listen to our public school teachers, parents, and students,” Warren wrote.
More pandering to the educrats. Another reason (as if one were needed) to despise Elizabeth Warren.
what if parents and student want different things that the public school teachers?
Than the parents and students need to be sent to reeducation camps! How dare they!
Tired: Gulag
Wired:Gulag but with hugs
https://twitter.com/greysfaer/status/1185937370153132034
Progtard: “Hey, we were nice and tried to redeem these evil heretics, but they would just not see the 4 lights and tell us there were 5 lights like we told them to, so we had to torture them to death…”
“promise of a good public education”
Whoever made that promise was a statist liar.
I must have missed the part where the Constitution created a fourth branch whose job it was to rescue the republic from the other branches.
You’re not wearing the right glasses.
Regarding that horrifying story about the seven year old earlier……I will bet anything that, some day in the future, that kid murders (or at least attempts to murder) the mother.
Saw this on Twitter. Can’t confirm source.
https://twitter.com/stcasimir1/status/1186595975617482752?s=21
I would not be surprised to find out this is precisely why we have this situation. Kids that young are not going to be doing this shit unless their parent(s) put them up to it. It’s just another form of Munchhausen by proxy IMO.
See my post below. According to the dad, the mother absolutely worked hard to force this.
Yeah, figures. And these fucking asshats will blame the father for not being woke like the mother. The sad thing is that the one that suffers will be the kid. I hope there is a hell and a special place form people like this mother if she did this to this poor kid.
The lunatics will always be with us.
The fault lies with the rest of us who enable and allow them to do what they do to others. We either speak out and take action or we’re culpable.
As long as he includes the judge and pediatrician, I’m voting for temporary insanity and his immediate release.
RE: Child gender transitions
You know who else performed medical experimentation on people without consent?
I do I keep reading about it every Wednesday morning
Dr. Moreau?
You know who else performed medical experimentation on people without consent?
The War Department?
With the caveat that this is the father’s story, and we have no way of knowing for sure that this is true…..the story is even worse than it sounded at first.
The interview is here.
My name is Bill and I’m a head-case.
Nothing new under the Sun.
It’s sad that the only likely way this could’ve been avoided was by the dad not getting that woman knocked up to begin with. Failing that, there’s a strong argument for all sorts of preventative, maybe sub-legal measures before this point.
Also, WTF Texas?!
Also, WTF Texas?!
In fairness to Texas, Coppell is in Dallas County, a Team Blue stronghold. This decision may as well have come out of California.
Superhero films are good.
Commodities to generate profits for big corporations are good.
Ken Loach is a boring commie.
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1186392781075505152
This tweet triggered a lot of lefties
that Niemietz fella is killin it. should i know that person?
Call to hide alcohol from view in shops, just like cigarettes
SHOPS should be required to screen alcohol from public view just like cigarettes, Edinburgh’s deputy council leader Cammy Day has said.
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/health/call-hide-alcohol-view-shops-just-cigarettes-816785
Freedooooom is bad mkay / woke William Wallace
I’m confused.
With Election Day just weeks away and the power of the Virginia General Assembly hanging in the balance, actor and Democratic Party supporter Alec Baldwin is coming to Virginia to campaign for candidates in close races.
Baldwin will be in Midlothian on Tuesday, October 22 to knock on doors and speak with voters.
Midlothian is part of the Virginia Senate District 11 race between Republican Incumbent Amanda Chase and Democratic challenger Amanda Pohl.
He will also make appearances that day in Fredericksburg and Fairfax.
For what point and purpose? He has no vested interest here. And it is not even for candidates for federal office. Go home, asshole.
Also, I used to live across from Amanda Chase when I was a kid. Small world. She’s a nice lady (and kinda Milf-y).
I encourage him to do it. He’s an asshole.
Fuck, he’s in Midlothian? I wish I knew where. I would love to go heckle him and rattle his ass by telling him shit my mom and her siblings have said about what he was like as a kid (he and one of my uncles were close friends growing up),
To feed his ego, of course.
I can’t keep track of whether out-of-state people and money is a BAD THING ™ in politics anymore.
At this point they dropped the charade. Any one donating to GOP ==> BAD MUTHER FUCKER. Anyone donating to DNC ==> Angelic Pastor of Goodness.
Look at Ocasio-Cortez – practically no fundraising support in her own district, plenty of money from elsewhere.
I think a lot of those donors are from the other party. I don’t donate political money, but if I was inclined to do so, she would be one of the people I would give money to. She is the best thing that happened to those of us that want the mask to be ripped off the democrats so people can see they are really evil fucks. And just if someone goes there, that is not my endorsement of team red: too many of them are just as irredeemable.
Just my own opinion, but we need to hold a party in Washington along the lines of the Pareto Principle with Congress as the guest of honor, complete with tar, feathers and a large supply of rails.
Once that’s complete, we start on the bureaucracy…
Incidentally, that is a restriction on campaign financing I would support. You should only be able to raise money from those you’d actually be trying to be elected to ostensibly represent.
I’m voting for Amanda Hugankiss.
reading Why Meadow Died about all of the missed opportunities to Baker Act the MSD shooter or at the very least charge him with a crime to prevent him from purchasing a firearm. holy shit it is maddening. that kid was a raging psycho and *EVERYONE* knew it and *EVERYONE* called the police, Dept of Family Services, school district, FBI, etc. and yet nothing was done. a more conspiratorial mind would be forgiven for thinking this was intentional.
here in VA, the new House and Senate may just give Governor Klanhood everything he asked for… and i’ll be made a felon nearly overnight along with 100s of thousands of others here. there are 600,000 CHPs in this state. how many of those will not be renewed or at the very least subjected to new local “may issue” scrutiny and the fee increased from $50 to $150. i know the Clerk of the Court in my city campaigned on the issue of too many concealed carriers walking around.
The Clerk of the Court needs to STFU. It ain’t their business nor their job.
If an office is elected, people are going to campaign on things outside the actual powers of that office.
(pulls out CHP) …the Clerk signs your CHP.
And yes, the sheriff’s office and the school district blatantly ignored Cruz and washed away his violations in an effort to game statistics for more federal funding. This was a direct result of an Obama policy designed to alter legal outcomes for minority students simply because they’re minorities.
And the punchline is that Cruz was a white boy who was adopted by a couple with a Spanish name, so not actually a minority.
Neither are 87% of people with Hispanic names in this country. If you believe the census.
Funny how quickly all of that was memory-holed.
the book obliterates the prog narrative. and it’s heavily sourced. but, so far, it has two cringe-worthy parts that should’ve been dropped during editing: 1. a quick blurb about an astrologer predicting that a teacher would be shot, 2. i forget the other instance. both mentions were completely immaterial but if the book is ever reviewed by NYT, then you can 100% guarantee that both will be highlighted.
Did you see the authors on Malice’s show?
It was pretty interesting (and infuriating).
Have not watched that but will. Thanks. I assume it’s the dad highlighting the school district’s obfuscation and obstruction of his investigation.
Florida Senate subcommittee vote 9-7 along party lines to not recommend Broward Sheriff Scott Israel keep his job. Now the vote goes to the full Senate which begs the question why it bothered going through committee first.
Yes, but a lot of good input from the co-author as well.