You know one fact that strongly shows that systemic racism in the US is a lie? Immigration. We have people of literally every race, creed, color, whatever, including from Africa, literally forcing themselves into our country by whatever means possible, whether legal or illegal. Would they really be...

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:11 am
You can buy me a doughnut the next time you come through East Texas.

For some reason I felt like Texas had a oddly-large number of donut shops when I lived there. Looking back now, I realize it was the appropriate amount of donut shops.

Here’s a safety bar squat 405# to 20” https://gofile.io/d/0AaYvf I’m hovering around 210# at the moment. Until I watched that I'd never seen such a setup. Mine is quite primitive in comparison with nothing underneath me and the bar (and weights) resting on my shoulders. Fell over once backwards. Bu...

Heh

WiseOne wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:39 am It occurs to me that last fall was a particularly bad flu season, attributed to the vaccine being a wrong guess as to the dominant type of flu. I bet it was actually a mix of COVID and flu.

I'd bet you're right.

Bonfire Of The Vanities could be a fun read this year.

I think you've overlooked a few things. A drug cartel cannot exist in the absence of police who attempt to prevent buying and selling drugs. We probably wouldn't call it a drug cartel, but the hierarchical group of guys with heavy weapons, knowledge of small unit tactics, and close bonds to each ot...

Every reader of detective fiction knows that private insurance detectives are far more efficient than the police in recovering stolen property. How is that an argument? Not only is the insurance company impelled by economics to serve the consumer—and thereby try to avoid paying benefits—but the maj...

Idly wondering if the advent of community policing and (later) legalization of drugs is going to catapult street gangs and cartels to unprecedented positions of power. There are already videos circulating of Latin Kings and other latino gangs protecting neighborhoods from looters. That's how a prot...

The club has a 20-station shotgun range for turkey shoots, and a 100-yard handgun and rifle range, 5-8 target pistol range, plus two horseshoe pits. ---------------------------- Then according your definition it is a shooting range? This is all outdoors, I believe. How far do gun shot sounds travel...

I don't think so, no.

Idly wondering if the advent of community policing and (later) legalization of drugs is going to catapult street gangs and cartels to unprecedented positions of power. There are already videos circulating of Latin Kings and other latino gangs protecting neighborhoods from looters. That's how a prote...

Couple of comments. Trump is a poor extemporaneous speaker. He has good, maybe excellent problem solving and decision making instincts but can't explain things very well. Seems like a fair criticism. You can't shout or protest your way to better race relations. In fact I think that sets back the pr...

That's pretty sly.

I can't believe how many people I know have run out and bought guns, are getting their carry permits, etc. It's like everyone is doing it. These are people who are basically conservatives, but just never felt the need or desire to own a gun. 70 year old men, 22 year old women, you name it. It's coo...

Related, Starship Troopers has 4 entries, vs 13 for TMIAHM, on the SF inventions page.

I've seen The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress mentioned so much I'm gonna have to read it. Starship Troopers was so good; I'm expecting great things.

Anyone who invents a word that long is a butthole.

In the face of a novel virus threat, China clamped down on its citizens. Academics used faulty information to build faulty models. Leaders relied on these faulty models. Dissenting views were suppressed. The media flamed fears and the world panicked. That is the story of what may eventually be know...

Western Massachusetts aside from Springfield is rural. Western Massachusetts is also extremely Democratic. Vinny Is the government encouraging thugs? If so, it will be overrun by them before long if the populace isn't armed. Another factor may be the Massachusetts leads the country in education: ht...

That was a rhetorical device. The author is Jeffrey Tucker, anarcho-capitalist and former editor of mises.org.

Who must be new?

https://www.bitchute.com/video/YQqBTRgoAkA/ I like that guy. He’s the one kriegs posts sometimes. The comments underneath are a little bit kill-the-Jews, aren’t they. A youtuber I watch (Garand Thumb) usually starts out his videos with some kind of humorous warning about how his comments section is...

I always thought Sleeping Sickness sounded like a pretty chill way to die.

He also assumed that the person didn't rebalance (or add to it). How is that relevant or useful to those of us who do?