vxbush 1/14/2021 5:32:05 AM

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Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 5:47:08 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

Yes, AFAIK.

And in each case, it brings a new meaning to “Trumped-up charges”.

vxbush 1/14/2021 6:01:29 AM

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In #2 Occasional Reader said: Yes, AFAIK. And in each case, it brings a new meaning to “Trumped-up charges”.

Heh. The puns do write themselves, don't they? 

I'm just sitting back in amazement at this move. This doesn't tell me they are confident in their positions at all, but that they are scared silly. It's clearly a move to block Trump from running again because nothing else has worked to get him out of office. 

Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 7:33:51 AM

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I'm certainly finding a lot of very selective memories at work among people known to me.

In a group chat with college buddies, they were asking "how are things in DC".  I replied - factually! - that all had been quiet in my neighborhood; that the problems last Wednesday were confined to Capitol Hill; and that the riots from last spring were a lot bigger and scarier.

"Good thing they didn't threaten the Republic, like last week" said D.

 
I replied:  "Well, except for the part where they tried to force their way into the White House."

buzzsawmonkey 1/14/2021 7:33:56 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:

+++++++

buzzsawmonkey 1/14/2021 7:33:56 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:

+++++++

buzzsawmonkey 1/14/2021 7:46:21 AM

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Listening to the gloat-fest about the "impeachment vote" on Morning Sedition, and the mention in passing that there will be no Senate vote "until the Senate reconvenes" after Trump has left office, I was struck by the following:

1) The "impeachment vote" is utterly worthless.  If the Senate does not vote on it until after Trump has left office, then any Senate vote is moot, null, and void---first, because "impeachment" means "removal from office," and if Trump is no longer in office there is nothing to "vote" on; second, because any initiative pending in either House or Senate dies with the adjournment of those houses and the installation/convening of a new Congress post-election.  Accordingly, the vote in the House will be utterly dead---the impeachment initiative null and void---with the Congressional adjournment and re-convening.  It is mere virtue-signalling.

2) Just as the pretexts on which the Left has fomented other riots and unrest---Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd, the false claims of massive police prejudice against blacks, etc.---have been predicated on people and incidents whose backgrounds have been murky at best, this bogus impeachment initiative is of a piece with them.  Any attempt to pursue  the House's moot charges, any attempt to vote on these dead letters in the Senate, will simply create social unrest: "They're not valid!" "Yes they are!" "No, they're not!"

3) The charges this time around contain mention of Trump "encouraging sedition" on the grounds that he contested the bogus election results; while certainly this is aimed at Trump, should he choose to run again or should he choose to participate in politics in any way, it is even more aimed at preventing anyone from ever questioning the Left's in-plain-sight election fraud ever again.

Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 7:48:28 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 5:

Thank you, but I can't possibly be the only one who's thought that up... 

turn 1/14/2021 8:31:36 AM

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Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 8:45:23 AM

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Reply to turn in 9:

and don’t you love how the same people who were calling for the overthrow of the United States government for the last four years, are now sucking their thumbs about “treason and ““ Insurrection“?

JCM 1/14/2021 8:45:41 AM

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Court ruling blocks Seattle's efforts to create supervised heroin injection sites

SEATTLE - Seattle’s efforts to create a supervised consumption site for heroin users to inject while being watched by a nurse received a setback Tuesday.

In a 2-1 vote, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a consumption site in Philadelphia could not open because it would violate federal drug laws.

The supporters of opening a site in Seattle are hopeful a Biden administration with a Democratically-controlled Congress will make it easier to open one legally.

Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 8:46:34 AM

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And now for something completely different: I just happened upon this link to an article which claims that on the whole, handguns have been a successful tool for defending against bear attacks, something I would not have thought credible:

https://www.ammoland.com/2018/02/defense-against-bears-with-pistols-97-success-rate-37-incidents-by-caliber/#axzz6jXR1uWtJ

Kosh's Shadow 1/14/2021 8:55:25 AM

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In #12 Occasional Reader said: And now for something completely different: I just happened upon this link to an article which claims that on the whole, handguns have been a successful tool for defending against bear attacks, something I would not have thought credible:

So handguns are right for bear arms?

JCM 1/14/2021 8:57:48 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 12:

.22 is quite sufficient for bear.

Just shoot your companion in the knee and calmly walk away.

JCM 1/14/2021 9:05:18 AM

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I can find you articles almost every year for the last 20 years about how gorebul warming was going to leave the Cascade Mountains bare of snow in the next few years.

Goes into my bulging failed climate fear mongering predictions file, right next to the empty file of predictions which came true.

Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 9:41:47 AM

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Reply to JCM in 15:

How dare you! You are guilty of sedition and insurrection and treason, against the very planet itself!

Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 9:44:11 AM

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Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 9:45:12 AM

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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: So handguns are right for bear arms?

I'd prefer to have a well regulated militia to back me up.

vxbush 1/14/2021 9:56:53 AM

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In #17 Occasional Reader said: Personally, I would be awfully reluctant to go up against a grizzly bear with anything less powerful than a 44 magnum, minimum. Better still, .454 Casull; even better, .500 S&W.

Not knowing how much kickback those guns have, I'd be worried that I would not hit the bear with something so powerful. 

vxbush 1/14/2021 9:59:35 AM

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In #9 turn said: How many members of Antifa who instigated the raid on the Capitol will be identified by law enforcement? My guess is zero, they will deliberately seek out only Trump supporters. Even if they happen to find an Antifa member it will go unreported by the MSM.

Some people were wearing gas masks and others had helmet/face mask combos that did an effective job of hiding their features. There's no way of knowing how many of those folks were Antifa, though. 

JCM 1/14/2021 10:12:25 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 20:

FBI had intelligence two week before of people planning violence.

Who are those folks?

doppelganglander 1/14/2021 10:14:39 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 17:

Personally, I would rather not go up against a bear at all. But as I discovered in Asheville,  sometimes the bear strolls down the sidewalk in the middle of town.

doppelganglander 1/14/2021 10:24:21 AM

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Meanwhile,  my daughter reports from the Javits  Center that vaccinations are proceeding relatively smoothly. She sits with the nurse, checks the patient's paperwork, and after the shot she sends them to the kiosk where they can schedule their second shot. The nurse has 6 shots ready to go, and when they run out, she goes for more while another nurse steps in with 6 more. It's surprisingly efficient. Daughter is great with people and she loves talking to old time New Yorkers with Bowery Boys accents.

We are very proud if her. Her dad told her she's doing God's work. She said that's not true, because God has a plan. 

Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 10:27:16 AM

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In #19 vxbush said: how much kickback those guns have

10% goes to "The Big Guy". 

Oh, not that kind of kickback... 

Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 10:29:15 AM

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In #22 doppelganglander said: Personally, I would rather not go up against a bear at all. But as I discovered in Asheville,  sometimes the bear strolls down the sidewalk in the middle of town.

1. Abso-tively.

2. Apparently I missed the Asheville story. 

Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 10:39:50 AM

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The American Left no longer even pretends that the country they want to emulate is, say, Sweden or Denmark; it's now Communist China.

vxbush 1/14/2021 10:44:39 AM

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In #21 JCM said: FBI had intelligence two week before of people planning violence. Who are those folks?

I missed that news, but we know they scoop everything up from the Internet via the NSA programs, and chances are very good a request was made by FBI to NSA to get that data and look for such chatter. 

JCM 1/14/2021 10:52:39 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 27:

FBI Defends Actions Despite Reports it Ignored ‘War’ Warning at U.S. Capitol

doppelganglander 1/14/2021 10:54:16 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 25:

In the Before Times, my BF and I spent a weekend at a lovely B&B in Asheville.The day we checked out, there was a bear at the end of the block, just chilling. The owner said that happens pretty often. The city is right in the mountains and they come looking for food.

It's not unusual to see bears in the suburbs north of Atlanta, either. Their habitat is being displaced by new construction. 

Kosh's Shadow 1/14/2021 11:13:32 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 29:

I have yet to see a bear in town, but we did have bear footprints in the yard a few years ago, and the vet told us one day the lab pickup got delayed because there was a bear on the step.

lucius septimius 1/14/2021 11:39:54 AM

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doppelganglander 1/14/2021 1:17:25 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 31:

An excellent opportunity to teach your kid how to spot misleading statistics, logical fallacies, and outright lies.

JCM 1/14/2021 1:27:46 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 32:

My oldest was given an assignment about blacks killed by cops... yep high school English.

His first comment was this doesn't sound right about the number he was given. So I showed him FBI UCR data and Heather MacDonald's WSJ article.

He smelled the rat right away.

Occasional Reader 1/14/2021 1:33:58 PM

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Reply to JCM in 33:

As I like to say:

You be be a Prog IF....

You believe that American cops are generally racist psychopaths, who go around gunning down black people for sport; AND

... that only cops should be allowed to have guns. 

doppelganglander 1/14/2021 1:51:57 PM

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Reply to JCM in 33:

Smart boy. How did his teacher react to being challenged?

JCM 1/14/2021 1:58:05 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 35:

Grade was okay.... but there's a mark in the copy book I bet.

At work the internal phone directory has interest groups you can add to page. It has your employee info, where you work, your org chart etc. It has a section for accomplishments. I hadn't done much with that I decided to see what was available to my surprise were 3 firearm groups and a Republican group a Constitution group. I added all those to my phone directory page.

doppelganglander 1/14/2021 2:11:18 PM

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Reply to JCM in 36:

He probably has T for Troublemaker in his permanent record, LOL.

It's commendable that your employer offers those interest group options in addition to the usual left wing labels. However, I am not a fan of interest groups at work. It's like being forced to wear flair, à la Office Space. I don't care about how my coworkers identify - I just want them to be competent and cooperative. 

JCM 1/14/2021 2:55:37 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 37:

I feel the same way.

However I decided to add them to "come out" so to speak. 

doppelganglander 1/14/2021 3:12:44 PM

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Reply to JCM in 38:

Totally understandable. 

JCM 1/14/2021 3:39:23 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 39:

Amazon deplatforming Parler pissed me off, especially since there are no grounds in their ToS to do so. I thought about that stuff before I signed on, big tech signing on to the social justice mania. It just never comes up day to day. Everyone on the project is competent and cooperative, and focused on the work. Before shut down we had a weekly happy hour. The team would go to a local watering hole, boss would expense the drinks, and we just had a good time together.

Since they offered the opportunity to "advertise" such things... I decided to take advantage of it.

buzzsawmonkey 1/14/2021 4:41:35 PM

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