So… is he lying, or is it the dementia?
Mar 102020
Mar 102020
Ladies and gentlemen, the possible next President of the United States:
Biden, accused of wanting to end 2nd Amendment, responds: “You’re full of sh**”
“This is not OK, alright?” the man said, to which Biden replied, “Don’t tell me that, pal, or I’m going to go out and slap you in the face.”
“You’re working for me, man!” the worker said.
“I’m not working for you,” Biden said. “Don’t be such a horse’s ass.”
Detroit auto worker: "You are actively trying to diminish our Second Amendment right and take away our guns."
Joe Biden: "You're full of shit."
Biden staffer: "Alright, thank you guys–"
Biden: "No, shush! Shush!"pic.twitter.com/j1fIE5c0HN
— Matt Wolking (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@MattWolking) March 10, 2020
WATCH: Joe Biden calls a Detroit auto worker "a horse's ass" after the voter confronted him over wanting to take away Americans' Second Amendment rights. pic.twitter.com/G7R6PJbcKv
— Trump War Room – Text EMPOWER to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) March 10, 2020
He wants to make AR-15’s as illegal to own as machine guns. And AR-14’s as well. And you shouldn’t be allowed to own 100 bullets if I’m hearing him right. And if you say he wants to take our guns, why, you’re wrong. Somehow. I’m sure if you are senile enough it makes some sort of sense.
What the frak is it with these jackhole politicians who, on the one hand, say quite clearly that they want to make standard capacity magazines illegal and to ban conventional firearms that millions of people own… and then promptly say that they’re *not* going to take the peoples guns away?
ADDITIONAL: When Beto O’Roarke endorsed Biden, Biden made sure to point out that Beto – who has previously declared his intention to decree tens of millions of Americans overnight felons, eligible for no-knock SWATting raids with doubtless many summary executions – to be his point man on dealing with the “gun problem:”
Beto O’Rourke championed eliminating your #2A rights, confiscating your guns, & punishing law-abiding Americans
Joe Biden just promised to put Beto in charge of “the gun problem” to “lead this effort”
Joe wants to take away Americans’ guns just as badly as Beto!
WATCH👇 pic.twitter.com/G9T4MFuoPB
— Trump War Room – Text EMPOWER to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) March 3, 2020
Mar 092020
Protestors try to lob a firebomb at the Mexican Presidential residence and end up setting their own ablaze.
Stunning and brave, ladies.
Mexican pro abortion Feminists try to learn how to throw a bomb… without much success pic.twitter.com/PaEYqCBPvH
— Alejandro Bermudez (@albermudezr) March 9, 2020
Tim Pool has some interesting comments on this incident and the protest around it.
Mar 092020
I’m not much an ideologue on the issue of abortion; I can see valid points on both sides. But *this*? Nope. Nuh-uh.
There are good reasons for getting an abortion: rape, incest, dire health risk to the mother, visible monsterism. But because you gots ta get rich? Ya suck.
By the way, that thumbnail created for the video is never going to not be hilarious. Especially given that the Bond villain shown is known for *not* being much of a monologuer.
Mar 092020
Swedish actor Max von Sydow, famed for his roles as King Osric, Brewmeister Smith and the voice of Vigo the Carpathian, has died:
Max von Sydow, star of films from ‘The Seventh Seal’ to ‘The Exorcist,’ dead at 90
A pity, he was a hell of an actor.
Mar 092020
In 1985 Rockwell International thought that there might be a business case for space based nuclear power systems. The customer base for nuclear reactors in space seemed to be restricted to military satellites (warning and recon mostly) and deep-space exploration systems. Advantages over solar power include resistance to the degradation of PV arrays due to passing through the ionizing Van Allen radiation belts and no need to track the sun. Costs, however, were high… high enough that in the end nothing came of it.
Mar 092020
Mar 082020
Coronavirus: Northern Italy quarantines 16 million people – BBC News
Say, that’s neato.
Italy has placed up to 16 million people under quarantine as it battles to contain the spread of coronavirus. Anyone living in Lombardy and 14 other central and northern provinces will need special permission to travel. Milan and Venice are both affected. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte also announced the closure of schools, gyms, museums, nightclubs and other venues across the whole country.
TP and bottled water
AARRRGH, blather, Crazy, dumbassery, Gah., Hmm..., news, wisdom, ಠ_ಠ
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Mar 072020
Yeah, this ain’t rational:
Panic shoppers line up around the block for hours amid coronavirus fears as stores are forced to tighten rationing of disinfectant wipes and toilet paper
An article from the Daily Fail describes and illustrates with a number of photos from Costco stores on the east and west coast that, apparently, a lot of people are freaking the fark out and buying mass quantities of things that they think they’ll need during the forthcoming plaguepocalypse. Somewhat rationally, disinfectants of various kinds – as I’ve mentioned – are in great demand. But so are toilet paper and bottled water. Why bottled water? Frak if I know. Things would have to get *real* bad before metropolitan water supplies either shut down or become tainted. Toilet paper? Ehh, I suppose that’s not *quite* so loopy as TP has a long shelf life and is something you’re eventually going to need anyway… if you can stock up a reasonable amount at normal prices, then, shrug. But going buggo and buying a carload of the stuff is not only silly, it’s *rude.* A lot of people might be legitimately just about out of TP, and if they can’t resupply because you wandered off with a truckload of the stuff… well, there’ll be unhappiness. THIS ARTICLE talks to some shrinks to try to figure out why people go buggo for TP, and according to them the reasons are all (SURPRISE!) psychological.
But it’s not just the US. Australia and Britain are also joining in the fun:
‘It’s crazy’: Panic buying forces stores to limit purchases of toilet paper and masks
I’ve seen a lot of panic buying over the years as people go bugnuts over fears of a major winter storm, or a hurricane, or a petroleum shortage, or a gun ban or an ammo ban, and joy unbounded, now I get to add fear of a pandemic to the list. Curiously, I did some grocery shopping today and found that at a local grocery store not only was toilet paper fully stocked, it was on sale. But if things continue, then it’s safe to assume that these buying panics will spread further. The toilet paper manufacturers will of course bump up production to meet demand, but once things settle down I wonder if they might be hurt by this. Because there will be a *lot* of people with a *lot* of toilet paper and no need to buy more for months or even years. A healthy profit this year might not help if their sales plummet soon after.
Note: a whole buncha Tweeter posts after the break. some informative, most darkly amusing. Some refreshingly uncivilized Brits.
Mar 072020
By 1985, the “Solar Power Satellite” program of the late 1970s was effectively dead. SPS rose to prominence atop the rising oil prices due to OPEC oil embargoes and the like, but in the early 80’s the global price of oil collapsed and potentially competitive systems such as SPS suddenly were no longer remotely competitive. Still, Rockwell International hoped that they could leverage their considerable experience with SPS to generate a [profitable business. But it was not to be.
