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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    This latest school shooting is certainly touching a lot of nerves, and is in contrast with another such incident: Yet another "Yet another '''Hump Day shrapnel post''' post"



    How do the fat pukes in the Uvalde PD justify their continued existence?

    From the Wall Street Journal

    "Monday’s murder of six people, including three 9-year-olds, by a deranged attacker at a Christian primary school in Nashville is another sign of mental illness unleashed. Many on the left and right barely paused in horror before renewing the nation’s culture wars on gun control and now transgender politics, not that any insight has been the result.

    The heroes in Nashville were the police, who were on the scene quickly. With great discipline and courage, they entered the building, ran toward the shots, and killed the attacker once she was cornered. Two have been identified as Officer Rex Engelbert and Officer Michael Collazo. A timeline posted by the Tennesseean says the attacker entered the elementary school at 10:11 a.m., shooting out the glass doors. A call to police came at 10:13.

    By 10:23, officers were inside the school. They shot the attacker at 10:25. Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters that “someone took control and said, ‘Lets go, lets go.’” The department has released body camera footage that is harrowing.

    Waiting to confront the attacker was the mistake last year in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed. “Three minutes after the subject entered,” the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety later testified, “there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject.”

    Officer Engelbert is a four-year veteran of the Nashville department. Officer Collazo has nine years under his belt. News reports say that neither had been in this kind of situation before. Few cops have.

    But this is what police officers all across America know is a possibility every morning as they put on that uniform and kiss goodbye to their wives, husbands and children. Going to work is an act of courage for those who spend a career without seeing an active shooter. For all the political focus on bad or abusive cops, most are good men and women who face potential danger to protect the rest of us.

    On the left, the pat answer is always stronger gun control. President Biden has called again for Congress to ban “assault weapons.” The Nashville shooter allegedly had an AR-15-style rifle, but that’s also one of the nation’s most commonly owned guns.

    “About 1 in 20 U.S. adults—or roughly 16 million people—own at least one AR-15,” the Washington Post says, and Americans use them for everything from hunting to home defense. The Nashville attacker could as easily have used another rifle or a handgun instead.

    The shooter was being treated for an emotional disorder, and perhaps Tennessee could consider a “red flag” law in such situations. “Her parents felt like that she should not own weapons,” Chief Drake said. But she hid the guns. After selling one firearm, they were under the impression “she did not own any more.”

    We’ll no doubt learn more soon about her mental health and possible motive, including her history as a transgender former student of the Christian school. But there is nothing but madness in murdering 9-year-olds."


    Men with guns and training- it is impossible to tell the heroes from the cowards until they are tested under fire. The cowards of Uvalde failed!

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    Very cool. The Canadians will respond by changing the rules to require that lifters in the Women's Division must be dressed in sexy singlets with cleavage showing. But they lack the balls to actually face reality. Might hurt someone's feelings. And feelings are by far the most important thing in powerlifting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guardian5 View Post
    Here's an article with a few more words about the event and protest Male Powerlifter Breaks Women's Record In Protest Of Trans Policies
    Here's the fucked-up part:
    The women’s bench press title holder in the 84+ kilogram category is Anne Andres, who is a biological male. Andres has won eight of the nine competitions he has entered as a woman and is even recognized as a female on the Open Powerlifting ranking site.
    The Open Powerlifting website agrees with the lie. Fucking pussies. Shameful.

    Quote Originally Posted by CommanderFun View Post
    The union army in the civil war had similar issues, namely with its commanders. All the good ones left and put on the grey. But they improved over time, more worthy guys ended up rising to the top by necessity. It's kinda like how that ESG shit is probably going to really be put to the test in coming years. It's easy to stop caring about merit when you don't need it. But if you're in business during a sinking economy, or in a military during a major war, ignoring merit means you die.

    Also, China has similar issues. In the past few years I've seen stories about how their ranks are filling up with wimpy, out of shape skinny-fats. This was before the big media push shifted gears to the recent war-footing we have now. Thats why they have been pushing top-down to force more masculinity into their culture. In the US, the top-down push is to force masculinity out, but there is a lot of pushback in the actual populace.
    Note the recent initiative from the DEA/FDA to restrict testosterone prescriptioning to in-person patients only. Wonder what that might be about?

    Quote Originally Posted by anticausal View Post
    DeSantis spouting bullshit about climate change: "I see the sea rising. I see the increased flooding in south Florida."
    Just when we were getting comfortable with the guy. Someone must have had a word with him.

    Well, you don't want a stupid CEO running your company.

    Quote Originally Posted by IlPrincipeBrutto View Post
    Chinese Currency Used in LNG Trading

    It seems as though some big systems are moving at great speed; when this happen, they usually leave a trail of debris in their wake.
    This is extremely important. If dollars are no longer necessary to hold in order to buy oil, we suddenly have $32 trillion useless fucking dollars. That might cause problems. And the "Biden Administration" will have destroyed the previously-most-powerful nation in history.

    Well, to be honest, it's had lots of help.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anticausal View Post
    DeSantis spouting bullshit about climate change: "I see the sea rising. I see the increased flooding in south Florida."
    I told you so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jovan Dragisic View Post
    I told you so.
    Yeah, they've got a lot riding on this climate bullshit, and they're not going to back off from the biggest power acquisition in human history -- the new religion of the 21st Century, the equivalent of the Roman Catholic Church for a thousand years. And what an excellent playbook to follow!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    Yeah, they've got a lot riding on this bullshit, and they're not going to back off from the biggest power acquisition in human history -- the new religion of the 21st Century, the equivalent of the Roman Catholic Church for a thousand years. And what an excellent playbook to follow!
    Ape of the Church, indeed.

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    Couple that with decreasing of population via stealth tactics.
    A miscarriage of statistics: The thalidomide sequel

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    As I have said before, all this shit ends with a new map, and not before: 88(R) HB 3596 - Introduced version - Bill Text

    A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

    AN ACT
    relating to proposing a referendum to the people of the State of
    Texas on the question of whether this state should reassert its
    status as an independent nation.
    As you might expect, in this case the Democrats and California and The Rolling Stone are opposed to Democracy: Texas Republican Introduces Bill Calling for Secession Referendum – Rolling Stone

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    Police did tens of thousands of dollars in damage to a McKinney woman's house -- she got them to pay for it all via eminent domain

    This was a brilliant legal move:

    So, if law enforcement or other governmental entities damage your property, their liability is limited.

    Victims often lawyer up and take their claims to court. But state and federal judges almost always side with agencies or police due to sovereign and governmental immunity claims.

    In Texas, the state can't be sued successfully without consent from the Legislature. And under Texas law, the Legislature doesn't admit liability by granting permission to sue.

    Because these protections are in place, a claimant’s shot of winning in court is often low.

    Enter Vicki Baker. Her attorney Jeffrey Redfern won because he sidestepped challenging governmental immunity altogether.

    "The real strategy here was to avoid immunity entirely," Jeffrey Redfern said.

    "Our whole theory here is that this was a 'taking' under the Takings Clause just like eminent domain."

    The Takings Clause is pivotal in many cases where eminent domain is used.

    Redfern and fellow counsel argued that the city had a right to 'take' Baker's home during their raid for public use but that she should be compensated under the Fifth Amendment in the U.S. Constitution.

    "The courts have said when the government takes your property intentionally for some public use, you get justly compensated," Redfern said.

    The strategy worked with a jury.

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