Arrogance and privilege on *full* display

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Aug 122022
 

One “Angel Guice” decided to be a jerk during a minor traffic stop. The cop gave her repeated opportunities to sign the ticket (for being in a park after closing) and she refused each time. When the opportunities ran out, after having been told that her refusal to sign would lead to her arrest, she feigned confusion as to why she was being arrested, screaming and hollering like a friggen’ toddler. If anyone ever merited a taserin’ it’s right here. The bad acting is phenomenal.

She converted a simple ticket into physical pain and charges with jail time. But I fully expect that Grievance Lawyers will come out and start demanding big payouts for how “unfairly” she was treated.

 

It’s entitled ignorant people like this who are tearing society down, one outburst at a time. But at least they provide some entertaining video for the ride down.

 Posted by at 4:31 pm

Salman Rushdie stabbed

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Aug 122022
 

After thirty years living under  “fatwa” calling for his death issued by a head of a branch of a Surt-worshipping cult, author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck today in New York state. Reports are that the injuries are pretty bad, but info so far is pretty slim. There’s gonna be some questions as to why the man didn’t have a small army of bodyguards.

Check the comments on some of those tweet… there are people openly praising the attack because, to them, saying anything negative about their primitive superstitions is a “crime” punishable by death. This is the mindset that Britain, for example, is welcoming in by the boatload.

Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle must be checking the status of their security team payment plans.

 Posted by at 3:55 pm

No! You don’t say!

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Aug 092022
 

The New York Times hits us with this dumbfounding newsflash:

Electric Cars Too Costly for Many, Even With Aid in Climate Bill

Who could have seen that?

Yes, as technology advances and becomes more popular among the rich, it’ll get cheaper so the well-off can get it, then the comfortable, then the middle class, then the poor. That’s how it happened with computers and televisions and microwaves and such. But the problem with cars is that various governments are mandating that by such-and-such date, this new, expensive technology will be *mandatory.* Never mind whether the price has dropped enough for it to be affordable.

Bonus article:

Most electric vehicles won’t qualify for federal tax credit

The Feds are offering a tax credit of up to $7500. Great. But for a car to qualify, the battery must be Made In America. Also great. Problem: there really aren’t any, because the US allowed the Chinese to yoink all the tech and the manufacturing.

I’m a libertarian, but I’m also something of a nationalist. The US government should be doing things that support US-based businesses rather than funding foreign communists. But in order for a tax credit for a car to be meaningful, that kind of car has to actually *exist.* So maybe rather than demanding a conversion to EV’s, the US government should do like the NACA used to do, and hunker down on the research required to make it happen *and* pass regulations that support US manufacturing… *then* and only then, when electric cars are not only US-made but US-affordable and US-practical (they have a range of 300+ miles and can charge in under 10 minutes, say, while carrying a family of five and a full load of groceries and a couple days worth of range supplies)… *Then* start suggesting that people transition.

 Posted by at 1:16 pm

The co-pilot jumped

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Aug 082022
 

End of July a weird story hit about a small cargo plane that had a rough landing. Nothing terribly new with that, except that the co-pilot was found not in the plane, but some thirty miles away. He had fallen from the plane and crashed into someone’s yard. “Why/how the hell did that happen” has been the question; finally some new information has come to light to fill in the “how,” but it doesn’t help with the “why.”

“My Copilot Just Ran Out The Back Of The Plane”- Chilling Audio From Aerial Incident Near Fort Bragg

P: “No, the dude literally jumped out the back of the plane without a parachute.”

*Seven seconds of total silence*

RA: “Shady 02, did you need to do something else, circle or something, or-“

P: “No, I need to land. I’m just making you aware you’re gonna have a dead body out where I just called you at. He just jumped out the back of the plane.”

Ok, yeah, that’s pretty fricken’ weird. I would guess he panicked? It’s a strange glitch in the human OS that someone would be in a dangerous situation and decide that the best approach is *certain* death. This would seem to be the “Better to Die Than be Killed” trope. It happened at the World  Trade Center, where people threw themselves out of high windows rather than burn to death… but in this case, it just doesn’t make sense. The plane was damaged – missing one-third of its landing gear – but it was by no means certain that the crew would be killed or necessarily even injured in the forthcoming landing. I wonder if maybe the co-pilot had been responsible for the initial hard landing that broke the gear, and was freaking out? Or perhaps he was on something… or the stress just drove him buggo.

 Posted by at 9:07 pm

The flip side of Engrish

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Aug 012022
 

I don’t care who you are, this right here is *funny.*

If you think it’d be just neato-keen to get a tattoo in some foreign language, go right ahead. But is it really so much of a bother to put some actual thought into it first? I checked out a number of these, both Chinese and Japanese, on Google Translate, and the video seems to be generally correct in the wacky translations of the ones that are shown. Which means that if you want, say, “courage” tatted on your arm in Chinese, you could get 勇氣  (Yǒngqì) and feel *reasonably* confident that you won’t come off as too much of a fool. Heck, at least you could do your translation, print it out and show it to a Chinese speaker and see if they say it means what you think it does. Is it really *that* friggen’ hard?

I bet a lot of Chinese-speaking tattoo artists are tempted to slap “愚蠢的白人自由主義者” on their customers.

 

 Posted by at 9:01 am

Why isn’t this a bigger news story?

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Jul 312022
 

I’m sure we *all* can think of a lot of incidents that sure seem like they’d get more media traction. But here’s one that seems like it aught to be like catnip for the press… on July 29th, more than fifty shots were fired at a party in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With today’s media freakouts over Evil Guns, this should be a no-brainer. So… why the radio silence?

Possibilities:

1) It sounds like there are multiple guns going off. Possibly a substantial number of people blazing away. This of course means it’s far more likely “gang related” than “lone mass shooter.”

2) Reportedly, with all those bullets flying, only one person killed and two injured (if THIS is the same incident… one dead, four injured). That’s *terrible* marksmanship. Again indicating more like gangs than a lone shooter.

3) Fully automatic weapons are fired. Legally owned Class Three automatic weapons are vanishingly rarely used in crimes. Far more likely, this was an illegally modified Glock. Hard to argue that you need more gun laws to ban something that’s already banned (but they’ll try, of course).

Can’t see diddly on the videos below, other than people panicking in the dark. Can’t see any of the shooters. So it might well be that the shooters are, somehow, in some way, inconvenient to report on.

If this is gang related, then the viewer at home will wonder something like “gosh, why don’t they do something about the gangs.” And we can’t have that.

 

 

 Posted by at 9:18 pm

It CAN happen here

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Jul 312022
 

It’s common enough to point and laugh at crazy furriners carrying out government sponsored acts of terrorism against their own people based on arbitrary and generally insane rules and “laws.” Recently a lot of this laughter has been direction Britainland way, and rightly so. But we should remain vigilant lest the more fascistic of Americans, such as the Democrats, get it into their heads to do the same sort of nonsense here. Because, as we’ve seen from the House recently voting to pass a blatantly and admittedly unConstitutional bill banning the transfer of items in common use, they are more than happy to abuse power.

Moment army veteran is arrested ‘for causing anxiety’ after retweeting meme of swastika made out of Pride flags as force is condemned by its own crime commissioner for the ‘proportionality and necessity’ of its response

I do wonder how many of those police officers actually believe they’re doing the right thing, how many don’t care, and how many are actively opposed to this nonsense. This situation is, of course, monumentally stupid. The dude posted this image:

 

Which somehow caused someone “anxiety.” Why the police should give a rat’s ass that someone has anxiety, I’ve no idea. How they determine that the anxiety caused by a meme is worse/more legally actionable than the anxiety caused by, say, foreign rape gangs or BLM riots or historic statues being torn down or lockdowns or unsolved burglaries, assaults and murders while the police chase down people who post memes, I’ve no idea.

 Posted by at 6:44 pm

Now this story is just *weird*

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Jul 312022
 

I *really* hope the pilot can shed some light on this:

Co-pilot falls from plane, dies before emergency landing in North Carolina

A small cargo plane lost a wheel during a hard landing, then continued on to fly for a while before finally doing an emergency landing that seemed to go about as well as you might hope for a cargo plane with a third of its landing gear gone. But the co-pilot *seems* to have decided to chuck himself out of the plane well before then, crashing in a yard some thirty miles from the final airport. Friggen’ *WHY*?

Was he stressed out? Was he on something? Was the initial hard landing his fault, and he knew that it would go bad for his career?

 Posted by at 2:15 pm
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