This was supposed to be out a year ago, now it will (hopefully) be out for Thanksgiving. It looks pretty promising to me… this trailer makes it look slapstick-free, a straight-up drama/horror. Obviously, that’s not how it’ll end up playing out, but this approach is interesting.
San Francisco region, so for any other victim, this likely would not be considered a “crime.” Whether it will be here, given the political nature of the victim, remains to be seen. And then there’s this line:
There was no suspect description available.
Someone strong-armed a former Senator in broad daylight, and nobody knows what the assailant looks like? My ass.
Some might consider this very brief video (at the link) to be NSFW, but all it actually shows is a de-brancher in a logging operation. With bonus googly eyes and arms.
People are debating whether this is on the up-and-up, or whether it’s a troll operation of some kind. Either way, it’s fairly hilarious.
Talk is not enough. Commit yourself towards taking action and making sacrifices to correct centuries of injustice. Open up spaces for Black and LatinX communities by refusing to send your kids to Ivy League and US News & World Report Top 50 schools and encourage friends, neighbors, and family members to do the same.
On the one hand, conning gullible wokies is always good for a lark. On the other hand, it’s their kids who would theoretically suffer. On the gripping hand, wokies abandoning the more expensive universities in favor of “underpriveledged” will lead to the “underpriveledged” getting burdened with *extraordinary* levels of student debt, coupled with either degrees of no particular value, or a failure to attain degrees because expensive educations tend to be difficult and demanding ones.
It might be interesting to see if anyone signs up, if the website actually publishes names, and if anyone carries through.
Not to be outdone, rains in India apparently precipitated a rockfall in the mountains. The rocks clobbered and destroyed a pretty sizable pedestrian bridge. Nine were reportedly killed in the rockfall, though it doesn’t immediately look like anyone was on the bridge at the time. The area affected by the rock fall was pretty vast, though.
I’ve watched a number of videos produced by a Russian couple who have a pet cat. Sure, we all like cat videos… but their cat, “Messi,” is a slightly subscale puma that lives like a house cat. Every video I’ve seen of this critter makes me want my own pet puma. And then I put a few seconds thought into it, look at the scratches I get regularly from my normally-scaled house cats who aren’t even trying, and I think better of the idea. Sure, Messi seems astonishingly well behaved. But pumas are not domesticated. One day I think Messi might remember what he is, and then the next video won’t feature the Russian couple… it’s just be the remaining one.
This video from a week ago, for instance. They give Messi some pills. This is a process I’ve had to do myself, and I always come out of it bleeding.
Nope.
NOPE.
Not content to let Germany and China get all the watery glory, other nations have joined in on the Fun With Flooding:
202o was the year of the pandemic and the idiot protests. 2021 has been off to a slow start, but weather looks like it might be in the running for crappiest part of the year, world-wide.
Dr. Henry Wu said in “Jurassic Park:”
You’re implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will… breed?
What an embarrassingly outdated notion. Educate yourself, Dr. Wu! Do better!
Somebody is trolling somebody.
Two boxes with fifty copies of “SR-71” showed up yesterday. Woo! These will be signed and with any luck at all sold.
As previously mentioned, I’m working on a pair of 18X24 prints to go with the signed copies. if you’re on the mailing list, you should have recently received a message (or three… email continues to be problematic) about this.
Here’s a glimpse of the work in progress.
Politifact, a “fact checking” site, claims without evidence that:
The gaslighting is spectacular. The article even quotes Biden:
“The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon, whether it’s a 9-millimeter pistol or whether it’s a rifle, is ridiculous. I’m continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things.”
Politifact claims that this means “only” that President Elder Abuse wants to ban magazines. But he specifically said that he’s pushing to ban weapons that “have the ability” to fire twenty rounds. Bypassing the obvious point that even a single-shot flintlock can fire twenty rounds (it’ll take a quarter hours to do it, but you can do it), there are easily available 20 and 30 round magazines for common handguns. There are drum magazines you can plug into your Glock that hold 50 rounds. This means that your average handgun “can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon” which means Biden wants to ban it.
So either Politifact is lying or Biden is.
Here’s a 20-round magazine for a .45.
Here’s a 40-round drum for a .45.
Here’s a 50-round drum for a .40 Glock.
Here’s a 50-round drum for a 9mm Glock.
