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...I guess he just got sick of being bossed around by a bunch of bossy Karens. Amazingly, this was in Canada.
...yeah, fuck your “holidays” bullshit, it’s Christmas, y’all. Sheesh, I’m an atheist and I appreciate the Christmas spirit.
From the Sounds About Right Department:
...there should also be clubbing and flailing, but I’ll take what I can get.
A sad note:
...the more guns become commonplace, the more people are just going to forget they’re carrying them. Be smart, people.
...I hate the sound of all that J&B glugging down the drain, but oh well… I guess it’s single malt or Famous Grouse from now on.
...and all Argentina rejoices. Ummmmm maybe a little too heartily:
...fool kid obviously never heard of Isadora Duncan before.
And from the Dept. of Global Freezing Climate Warming Change:
...no shit? And I may end up in bed with Nigella Lawson. (Neither is going to happen in my lifetime, in other words.)
...climate change is causing the magnetic poles to move? Like what happened thousands of years ago, before SUVs?
...remind me: wasn’t this the same supercomputer that said that sea levels would rise by 50 feet in 2015?
Moving away from stupidity to common sense:
...I can live without Cuba Libres, so I’m cool with this. I just hope he bans children as well. Serious drinking is no place for kiddies.
And the INSIGNIFICA sez:
...oh FFS.
...I had no idea that “wows” now means “causes mass projectile vomiting”. (Warning: link contains pics.)
Something slightly more pleasant to look at, as we conclude our study of women:
...a much better filling for a “plunging navy swimsuit”, I think.
And that’s all the pre-Christmas news for now.
Loosely under the heading of “news,” and of more interest than Amy Schumer wearing anything more revealing than a refrigerator box, Sondra K and Doug M of sondrakistan.com Knowledge is Power are still among the missing. While it certainly is none of my business if they decided to chuck it all and stop blogging, I miss them and worry about their health. Knowing that there is some overlap in readers from blog to blog, any news would be greatly appreciated.
And no, they do not owe me money.
https://sondraksgulch.com/
Thanks for the assist!
Considering how HOAs act, I doubt I could prosecute the guy. I’ll have to read the story I guess.
The most appropriate swim attire for Schumer, Chuck or Amy would be what is commonly called a mafia block of concrete. Up to the chin would be nice and it would create a barrier reef for the local flora and fauna.
I’m surprised that these junior high drop outs at TSA could even find a gun on someone. Generally speaking I bet none of these people are concerning at all. Probably someone who has carried for so long that going without the gat would be like leaving the house sans pants.
dumbass Argie wins Darwin Award. to quote Jeremy Clarkson, “oh no! Anyway.”
When people wish me a Happy Holidays, I respond with Happy Flag Day to you too! Or I pick some other minor holiday. Exactly which holiday are they wishing me pleasantries? Maybe I’ll start making up holidays such as Festivus and Kwanza.
JQ
The Earth’s magnetic field switches polarity naturally. Evidence of this phenomenon can be found in the geologic record and is used, among other things, to date rock formations. Like the revival of “dead” super volcanoes, it is unlikely that we will observe this in our lifetime.
Regarding the TSA:
Despite 50+ years of metal detectors and baggage x-rays, which evolved into millimeter wave radar scans and AI x-rays, which SCOTUS perfidiously defines variously as “not a search” and “reasonable”, I remind people that not a damned thing the TSA does is consistent with the Bill of Rights in general, the 4th amendment in particular, or a society of free people.
Accordingly, I minimally comply so as to not allow them to be a bar to exercising my right of travel. (And those of you who sympathise with the sentiment that walking is the only protected right of travel can gfy. ) I never lift a finger to help them, even to the point of just abandoning the trays wherever they land. If they engage me in conversation, I will give them a certain amount of measured shit, while scrupulously avoiding anything that might be considered a threat. “Is this your bag?” is answered by “I’ll take that.” “Can I look in here?” is answered by “You’re going to do whatever you do without my consent.” “Is there anything in here dangerous or sharp?” is anwered with “You proceed without my assistance or sanction, so every action you take is at your own full, unlimited risk.”
One guy, while he was rummaging through my bag, while I sat literally twiddling my thumbs with my feet up on a nearby rail broke out of the script once, to show some remnant shred of humanity. “Why are you being like that?” Without the slightest bit of heat or rancor, I simply told him that nothing he or his employer does is consistent with the Bill of Rights, and I didn’t understand how any of them could sleep at night. This guy was honest enough to share the lies their training indoctrinates them what to tell themselves so they can sleep at night: they were protecting the public, and a big convoluted tale about how they were actually enforcing the airline’s safety requirements, not the government’s and so this was not a matter of government intrusion, it was actually a matter of voluntary agreement to the terms of the airlines carriage contract.
By that time he had finished rummaging my bag, measured my TSA approved 6.75″ screwdriver, so I didn’t want to get much further into discussion with the guy, but I did point out that everything he said about carriage contracts reflected government requirements necessary for the airlines to maintain their flight credentials, and therefore was a direct subrogation of government policy to private institutions, something that courts often, but inconsistently find invalid.
I told y’all that, so I can tell y’all this:
That pattern of shell game of government policy being farmed out to private agency is endemic to our polity, and once you know how to recognize the pattern and how it works, you realize that it’s in play everywhere. To people who understand this, things like the Twitter Files are not even vaguely surprising.
The slap in the face of it all is that the courts, apparently in fits of conscience, have occassionally held that pattern to be unlawful and unconstitutional, but you’d never know it from looking around.
And finally, I said all that to get to this point:
Pedants will finely parse and argue the technical meaning of the term “fascist”, mainly so that the label won’t stick to their favorite socio-political team. Nonetheless, what all the credible definitions have in their core is a collaboration between government and private institutions for the purpose of manipulating cultural, economic and political society.
It is through these banal methods, which a good portion of our society pretends not to recognize, that a free society is transformed into something not free.
you’re right and that is yet another reason why I despise flying. I’ve only flown a few times in the last 20 years. In 2002 Spring I flew from a coast to the heartland. out of something like 13 opportunities to be searched, I was searched 11 times. at what point is this harassment? I don’t care if these airlines all go bankrupt.
JQ
I’ve come to appreciate the warnings re: disturbing pics. I learned that lesson the hard way after a post about a creature called Lizzo.
You. Rat. Bastard.
I imagine, after the incident in Canuckistan, that we will be afforded a flood of proclamations from HOA’s from Sea-to-shining-Sea that all firearms will be banned within their jurisdictions.
That should turn out well.
Ah, well, Justin, son of Fidel is already taking steps to see that ‘all firearms will be banned’.
In other news, I was talking to a cop with 20 years of service in Peel Region just west of Toronto (think ‘county’: it used to be called Peel County!) . Asked him how many handguns the regional police had recovered this year, and how many were registered to the suspect the gun was seized from. As of end of November, 495 handguns, only one (1) of which had ever been registered in Canada. That one (1) was stolen from the registered owner.
So much for registration as a means of gun control.