I last saw Disneyworld in… what, 1975? I would have expected progress with the animatronics since then, but… meh.
New Robot Biden just dropped at #Disney pic.twitter.com/rkVVd65mZI
— šJim-O-LanternšāŖļø (@jimandthem) August 4, 2021
Go ahead and *try* to imagine mandating that a cat wear a mask. It doesn’t work. Cats do what they do, with no regard to what *you* might want them to do. that’s why they’re awesome.
See, this is just whackadoodle:
What’s more, the “security guard” is all kinds of special who should probably not have been out in society in the first place:
Holmes, who is barred from possessing a weapon because he is a four-time convicted felon and registered child sex offender, was working as an armed security guard at the store
Ummm… what. The article does not detail what his four felony convictions are. But four felony convictions and being a sex offender, never mind a child sex offender, starts to sound like the sort of description that would be best applied to someone who has been put away for life or sent to the off-world dilithium mines. Not to someone paid to provide security for a liquor store, and certainly not for someone doing so with a gun. A gun, it should be pointed out, that he was legally barred from owning or wielding or even touching. This being not only Illinois but *Chicago,* it’s probably technically illegal for him to even look longingly at a gun. So… yet another gun control policy win.
But wait! There’s more!
Holmes, who defense attorney Jonathan Feldman said āhas a big heart and is a kind-hearted man,ā shot the man again, then paced around and shot him a third time before running away
Yeah. And Mike Brown was a “gentle giant.” From the limited information available on the shooter, it seems safe to suggest that he was one minor frustration from plugging someone anyway. But I think at the same time the shooting victim here might have a case for suing the media for ramping up fear about masking.
A topic for discussion: government mask mandates.
It certainly appears that the Commie Cough is on an upward trend again after having been seemingly knocked down by the Trump-era “Project Warp Speed” vaccines. I have no problem wearing a mask in a store or a doctors office, even though I’ve had the vaccine. Being told to by the management of a store doesn’t bother me, any more than “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Business” bothers me. But the government poking its nose into this does start to bother me. Of course the nonsense being done in Australia is clearly far over the line of what a free people should tolerate.
I am, I believe, a practical-minded middle of the road libertrian-ish minarchist. The government should do what it is Constitutionally mandated to do… and nothing more. Not even “for the public good” or “for the children.” If such things are that important, then the Constitution can and should be changed. If you can’t drum up the support to change the Constitution, then it’s not that important. The jobs of laws that restrict a persons behavior should not be to protect that person from themselves (and thus I’m opposed to laws against doing stupid dangerous stuff), but to protect other people from someone’s behavior. And thus a mask mandate… I can see it. If there is a reasonable risk that *you* coughing could infect other people, then *you* masking up makes sense.
But since there is a vaccine… are those vaccinated a risk to others if they are unmasked?
Even if masks are a good enough idea that mandating them in an emergency makes sense, what we’re seeing is the use of such “emergency” powers for long-term power grabs. I honestly can’t see any direct benefit to a tyrannical regime in making everyone mask up; it does not practically hinder the people, but it does make it more difficult to identify individuals for specific oppression. On the other hand, masks are likely not the end goal, but a wedge in the door: get people used to this little intrusion. Then one more little thing. Then another. And soon enough, we’re Australia, and interstate travel ans ceased and the economy is in free fall, and the only hope for the poor beleaguered citizens is Super Government swooping to the rescue with all new payouts. Conspiratorial? Maybe. Unlikely? Probably not. See: Australia.
So, after all that blather, simple, question: government mask mandate, yes or no?
Ride the log flume! Don’t forget to wear your mask!
Subway flooding is infrastructure pic.twitter.com/QCz0qMpJ7T
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) September 2, 2021
Via Instapundit:
And the government of South Australia, one of the countryās six states, developed and is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in the free world to enforce its quarantine rules. People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person. āWe donāt tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,ā
Note that the “people” referred to in the first sentence are those under home quarantine. But that’s not just people confirmed to have the virus (and oddly, “the virus” doesn’t include hepatitis or HIV) , it’s apparently anyone who has traveled beyond the borders of not just Australia, but the state of South Australia.
You know the authoritarians are salivating over theĀ possibilities of instituting such nonsense here in the US. I live on the border of two states; tens of thousands of people cross that border every day for work and school and shopping. Imagine if every crossing involved “papers please” and quarantines.
And so long as we’re on the topic of the Commie Cough, behold the Biden Bump:
Well, this looks bonkers:
This is from the feller what who done brung us “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” “2012,” “Stargate,” etc., so the apparent determination to learn the laws of physics just to do the other thing is in full effect here.
And yes, I’ll be there day one.
This apparently has nothing to do with McDevitt’s “Moonfall,” which is a shame because I seem to remember it being pretty good.
Looks like the classroom commissar has actually been given the opportunity to explore new career opportunities:
Ya gotta wonder just what kind of blur of activity there is just now with teachers stripping their walls bare of their insane and inane political extremist propaganda. You know this guy wasn’t alone.
The 1970’s saw a lot of airlines and airline manufacturers going to great lengths to economize, thanks in no small part to the spike in fuel prices and general economic downturn caused by the OPEC oil embargo. Some of this economizing came in the form of new “air bus” concepts to jam as many people as possible into mid-sized jetliners. Wide-bodied configurations were popular for that. McDonnell-Douglas proposed a new airliner in the mid-70’s that was derived from their long-range high capacity DC-10. The fuselage was cut short and stubby; the third turbofan at the base of the vertical tail was deleted. The wings and tail surfaces were all-new. This made it slightly more economical on a passenger-mile basis than the trijet, but also made it inappropriate for trans-oceanic flight since airlines were not yet ready to accept twin-jets for such routes. Intercontinental flight in twinjets would have to wait for the 777. McDonnell-Douglas figured that up to 278 passengers could be wedged into the available space… and that even more seats could be installed in the below-deck cargo bay.
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Social Justice Warriors in the west can only *dream* of having such power:
Ms. Wei appears to be a lot like Oprah Winfrey… took the profits from an acting gig, became a businesswoman, became a successful business woman, became an *insanely* successful business woman. But then she made the sort of Social Blunders that would get a western celebrity cancelled… but the ChiComs are *really* thorough.