The Federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. A hundred gallons of gas, about nine fillups in my bitty car, would save you less than twenty bucks. If four dollar a gallon gas was enough to stifle travel… taking 18 cents off the price of six dollar gas ain’t gonna do squadoo.
The Babylon Bee is at its best when you read one of their satirical articles and realize that if you didn’t know it was satire, you’d accept that it was a real, if perhaps disturbing and/or insane, article. Well… here’s a website that doesn’t seem to say anywhere that it’s satire, and I can’t tell if it’s satire or complete insanity:
There are a hundred pages of content, with about ten articles per page. A thousand articles of satire is a hell of a commitment to cause… but then, so is a thousand articles of utter nuttery. There are articles such as:
And so on
The site seems to just take whatever “articles” get written and submitted to it. So it may be a fully serious site (a lot of the articles seem fairly normal) that is either:
1) Being bombarded by articles written by loons
2) Being bombarded by articles written by trolls pretending to be loons
3) Being bombarded by both trolls and loons
Either way… I’m all for people paying attention. A bunch of leftwing lunatics who want to tear down civilization? That sort of thing should be noted. Insane trolling proves indistinguishable from honest insanity? That should also be noted.
Trump had a tenuous relationship with hard facts. When he told the American public things that were untrue, it *tended* to be in the form of “I will make everything awesome.” Exaggerations, self-promotion and feel-good propaganda, that sort of thing. But Trump was a piker compared to the Biden administration when it came to bald-faced lying directly to the American public. Biden and his lackeys will look you in the face as your house burns down around you and tell you that your house has never been in better shape.
Keep it up, Joe. November can’t get here soon enough.
Is it *really* that hard to keep it in your pants while you have open, weeping sores? *Really?*
As part of the ongoing “January 6” dog and pony show, Senator Cruz got the opportunity to quiz the FBI on their participation in the events. It would have been *really* easy for the FBI rep to simply say “no” (or “not to my knowledge” or “not in any official capacity”) when asked if the FBI was involved, if the FBI encouraged criminality, if the FBI committed criminality. The actual answers are simultaneously uninformative and say everything.
Ted Cruz asked the FBI if any of them were involved in the riot on January 6. It's a simple "yes" or "no" question. Guess what their response was. pic.twitter.com/Jo4x1s0E3O
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 15, 2022
“Red Flag Laws” are *supposed* to be a way to temporarily disarm people who are a danger to themselves or others. Who could argue against them? Well… anyone who has ever noticed that they are not based on due process. They are not based on sober judgement of people who understand the gravity of depriving a person of their Constitutional and human rights. They are, sadly, based on the whims of people who have, and like to exercise, power. Witness:
>I am not in principle opposed to red flag laws.
You should be. https://t.co/g7PDvOlf4D
— RazörFist (@RAZ0RFIST) June 14, 2022
Remember, Eric Swalwell is the Representative who not only bedded a Chinese Communist spy and did untold damage to the US (with no repercussions as far as I can tell), he’s also the guy who thought it would be a good idea to threat American citizens who do not wish to give up their rights. Threatening to use *nuclear* *weapons* on these citizens. Do you think it would be a good idea to turn over the power to deprive a citizen of their rights to a man with judgement like that?
Notice how some things are running short due to “supply chain issues?’ Get ready for the supply chains to freakin’ vanish:
DEF is Diesel Exhaust Fluid, a mixture of urea and water that has been for more than a decade legally mandated to be fitted to large diesel trucks. It is injected into the exhaust to make it less environmentally nasty, which is fine. But if the DEF system on the truck isn’t working, because, say, there’s no DEF, the engine won’t run at all.
GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE: we’re running out of urea. Guess what: we’re reliant upon Chinese exports of the stuff, and they’ve been clamping down. But what’s weirder are all the conspira-lines that can be drawn:
Annnnddd…
Neat.
Two ways to solve this:
Number 2 makes all kinds of sense. But the problem here is that if things are so bad – either due to malfeasance on the part of Our Betters, or due to their incompetence – that something vital like DEF is allowed to run out, chances are good that diesel fuel itself will go to a hundred bucks a gallon.
A day or two back I was sent a screenshot of a tweet that claimed to be someone working at the Mayo clinic saying that they loved to tell Trump voters that their healthy pregnancy was in fact ectopic (fetus developing outside the uterus, such as within a fallopian tube), with the result that the twit is happy that this will be a healthy white baby getting needlessly aborted. This tweet is in fact a hoax, but one that keeps making the rounds on regular cycles, outraging those it’s intended to outrage.
But even though it’s fake, it got me thinking. What would happen if some malicious medical practitioner made such diagnoses with the intention of causing people to get abortions? For starter, they would probably not have much success; an ectopic pregnancy is probably not something that can be dealt with with standard surgical abortion practices… at the very least the abortionist would note that the fetus is right where its supposed to be. Perhaps abortion pills would do the job, dunno. But let’s say that this theoretical medical malpractitioner scored some successes and got a few healthy babies aborted. What would be the *legal* result?
I’d assume right off the bat whopping great lawsuits… against the malpractitioner, whatever clinic they worked at, whatever abortion clinic did the job. But how about legal? It’s my understanding that if you assault a pregnant woman and kill her fetus, at least in some states you can be charged with murder (wikipedia says 38 states recognize “feticide”). How about if you trick a woman into getting. an abortion? Abortion is of course legal, which raises the philosophical problem of it being ok to kill a fetus in one instance but not another, murder here being based on the mothers point of view, not the fetus’. Here, a legal act would presumably become illegal because the mother changed her mind after the fact.
Strange times. Strange, dual-justice-system times.
So, what do you do if you are in HR *and* you’re a political extremist who loves to use the power your job gives you in order to screw with people who don’t think like you? Well, if you’re smart, you keep your yap shut about how awful a person you are. If, on the other hand, you’re dumb as a post, you do what Tammy here did and broadcast your particular banality of evil to the cosmos:
And these people think they’re on the right side of history? pic.twitter.com/mpfvtFmFCV
— Luke 🇨🇦🍁 (@scotchypoli) June 5, 2022
And here’s the ironic part: what she posted on social media has come to bite her right directly in the keister. Love to see it.
HRPA is aware of this video post by one of its regulated members and does not condone or endorse in any way the statements made about HR practice therein.Further, HRPA is reviewing this matter to determine if there has been a breach of its Rules of Professional Conduct.(Part 1/2)
— HRPA (@HRPA) June 6, 2022
It’s my understanding that in the US (she’s Canadian, so might not apply), HR departments telling other companies HR departments not to hire certain people violates privacy laws or some such. She should be investigated, and if it can be proved that she engaged in such practices, I have to imagine that the lawsuits from people denied employment by her and her ilk could be fiscally damaging to her and her ilk.