Well, the kit containing the animals arrived. It was made by the same folks who made the main model, but is an older kit for their fantasy line. It’s supposed to make a chariot that can be pulled by either horses or lions. Since our IFV model is far, far larger than the chariot, we’re going to use both horses and lions. They did recruit the aid of a traveling circus after all.
Ragnmar: “Um, won’t the lions eat the horses?”
Dorian: “We just put the horses in front. That way the lions motivate the horses and the horses motivate the lions.”
Circus Lady: “I told you earlier, they’ve all been lobotomized, and had override chips implanted. The controller is built into the handle of my whip.”
Dorian: “Sure, spoil the fun.”
Ragnmar: “You’re a dick, Dorian.”
The chariot kit also has a heap of bitz that will be perfect for adding character to other pieces. My army in the actual game has a lion’s head ensign, so it won’t be hard to find homes for the lion-themed decorations from the chariot. Lets clip all of the animals off the chariot sprue and assemble them. I specifically picked the chariot because the animal were posed to be pulling, and had an attachment point on their harnesses where a simple loop shackle could be fitted. We will eventually attach our chains to these shackles, but we’ve got to get them made first. The base model had the animals attached to a yoke, but has only one yoke in the set. To provide consistency, I want all four to be attached by a similar system.
My first idea was to drill into the attachment point and fit these staples. The loops of the staples proved to be too wide for the model as built. I’d made the mistake of buying the staples before I had the chariot model, and guessed wrong. When I tried to squeeze it narrower to fit the model, I started to realize it was going to be a good deal of work to get it to fit. Not only that, but in the end, it was going to be rather ugly and not fit properly. Oh well, $1 lost. Not really, since the staples are still perfectly serviceable in their original function.
An alternative came along when my first shipment of plasticard pieces arrived and it turned out I’d ordered the wrong size. I’d been buying axles for the main carriage, and these pieces of tubing are way too narrow for that role. But, if I can bend them into a hundred an eighty degree turn, they would fit almost perfectly as shackles for the chains to attach to.
So now we get to our first piece on working with plasticard. What is plasticard? In short, it’s high density polystyrene. Yes, the same material they make styrafoam from, only without the foamy airspace. I have straight tubes of the stuff and I need to bend it. Best way to do that is to apply heat. We’ve ventured into something I’ve never actually done before, but I’m too far down the rabbit hole to stop now. So, the first source of heat I tried is hot water. I took my Japanese kettle, set it to boiling, filled a coffee cup with hot water and rested a plasticard tube in it. I got a gentle bend in the part of the tube in the water after quite a few minutes of waiting. This did not make me happy, as I needed a rather severe bend, and I’m an impatient sort. So I dumped the now cooled water into my brush-washing bin and went to get my hairdryer.
My hairdryer has never been used on hair. I got it when I first needed to put plastic up to the windows on my house. It has only ever been used on plastic, and today would be no different. Now, if you do the math, there is probably more energy trapped in that cup of hot water than I’ll be getting out of the hair dryer. But the problem was, it wasn’t conducting into the polystyrene, but evaporating away with the steam. The hot air moving past it at high rate of speed will transfer more of its heat into the polystyrene than the water did. One thing to note with as thin a work piece as I’ve got here – the airflow out of your standard consumer hair dryer is not even in temperature. There are hot spots directly downwind of the heating elements. These hot spots are what we are looking for, as they will render the plasticard the most malleable. There may be some trial and error involved in finding these spots, but in the end, I got a loop. With the air of pliers and a mandrel, I was able to refine one of those bends into a shackle shape. Some trimming and cleanup later, and it glued neatly to the attachment point on the first horse. That’s a second benefit of switching from metal to plasticard – we can glue it and paint it using the same glue and paint as the rest of the model. The day is saved, we can now get our draft animals modeled. Sadly, as always happens, I get the technique perfected on the last shackle I need to make.
They will need a base, as they were not balanced to stand without being attached to the rest of their original kit. I can get some bases from the game store when I pick up sheet plasticard for something else I plan to do. Fast Forward a Week, and we have a plethora of plasticard options. Except there’s still a problem. I underestimated the diameter of the plasticard tube yet again. On the bright side, the new tubing is of the perfect diameter to serve as an axle for the wheels. So, I’m going to adjust my mental plan for the design. Not by much, mind you, but I had originally planned the MDF axles that came with the wheels and pinning them to the tubing, which would have required tubing wide enough for the axle to fit inside. Did I just say MDF? Yes. When wheels I got are Medium Density Fiberboard. While I can’t glue them to the polystyrene using plastic glue, I can paint them using the same paints.
I’m going to be perfectly honest. Scratch-build is new ground for me. So I’m going to start with a proof of concept and put together a caisson. Since there are multiple definitions of ‘caisson’, lets be clear – I’m talking about the two-wheeled cart for hauling ammunition. The wheels came in packs of four, and I only needed six for the main build. So I have a pair free for this proof of concept. I also have in my bitz collection a great many ammo boxes and fuel cans. As such can build the caisson and heap it with appropriate cargo without any additional investment. Is this a part of the main kitbash? Well, yes, it’s simply going to be towed behind the vehicle.
Comments
366 responses to “Kitbash: Circus of Errors”
I built models as a kid.
First.
What type?
Anything that looked interesting. I was a geek as a kid. I was a member of the Revell Master Modelers Club. I probably built two or three models a month. Kept my ADHD occupied.
I was a member of the Revell Master Modelers Club.
That means you had to eat the cookie?
My son asked me to help him build a model car recently. I had forgotten how hard something that looks so easy is.
I think there is an Iron Law covering that.
I did model rocketry for a spell. Never could get a goddamn one off the ground, cheap POS models.
#metoo
I didn’t have that problem. It was fun.
Well, you’re supposed to use the correct size engine, have an igniter and a guide to keep it pointed up until the lift takes over.
Just getting off the ground isn’t rocket science. (hitting London is)
Actually the V2 was very good at hitting London. The Brits used the XX Committee (controlled captured German spies) to progressively walk the strikes elsewhere by giving bogus impact reports.
But Von Braun didn’t just slap the V2 together. There was actual rocket science that went into developing and aiming the damn thing.
I acquired an AIM-54 Phoenix model rocket. I didn’t build it, so I was happy to cram an engine in there and shoot it off. Seemed a bit top heavy, but what the hell. The field behind the school was big enough that it wasn’t gonna land on anything.
The damn thing wanted to be a missile! It got 10′ off the ground, tipped over into a horizontal orientation, and tracked towards the school. Thankfully it caught a downdraft halfway through and skimmed a berm.
“SCHOOL SHOOTING!”
/bloomers
We did a lot of model rocketry. We got quite good at it. We finally figured out that if you really want to see a rocket you just make fins from a milk jug and put them straight on the motors. The rest of it is just dead weight. Those little buggers would go up and out of sight.
I was an avid model rocketeer, always in hock to Estes and Centauri. My friends and I, being who we were, equipped them with warheads. It was not a cheap hobby because of the one-time use, but soooooo much fun.
I did one with a warhead. Bad things happened, and I was grounded for a month.
For us, bad things happened and we were smart enough to avoid being caught.
This one was unavoidable. The payload landed in the middle of a baby shower 10 houses down the block. Everyone knew who did it.
Did it, though a comedic string of events, lead to the baby being born that day in a traffic jam on the way to the hospital?
Playa was the the cute but troublesome little boy on a CHiPs episode?
You misunderstand, other more cute but troublesome boys were launching babies with their trebuchet and his lame rocket landed among them.
#metoo
lots of fond memories of building them and blowing them up; after loading them with fireworks. Or other science experiments like sending bugs into high(er) altitude… ok low alt.
I’m surprised that buying Estes is still legal. I bought one a few years ago for Xmas and was so geeked that I put it together and launched it during a blizzard. The kids who were sledding as they saw this adult running across the fields trying to find the little orange stringer.
*were puzzled
I did model rocketry for a spell
What sort of spell? Love spell? Turn your enemy into a newt?
fireball
Lightning Bolt is superior.
#metoo Cars.
I tried getting back into a it a couple years ago, but mostly WWII aircraft this time. Got all gung-ho, bought a dozen or so models, bunch of paint, brushes, etc. I got a P-51 nearly complete…and then just stopped. Mostly because I don’t have a good space to work on them…yet.
Ship rigging was my nemesis.
Uff-da. I don’t think I’d ever even try that. I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t have the patience.
Wire is your friend, and can be painted, Nice work, keep it up!
Wire doesn’t come into it until my in-progress article.
I would have used Stat wire for the shackles, but then again, I have miles of the stuff,
As I may have mentioned, I don’t like cyanoacrilate, and that’s my only option for gluing metal to plastic. Besides, the diameter of this styrene fits the model’s harness perfectly.
No one needs miles of wire
Oh, so you work for Comcast?
I do
Hoarder!
“How I became a libertarian, by Reason Magazine”
Unfortunately, due to my busy schedule, I only have time to read non-fiction.
“You keep using that word, libertarian. I do not think it means what you think it means. “
Nick’s entry is a name-dropping extravaganza.
This Joe Seyton kid is quite the kidder.
Say what you will about libertarians, but they don’t lie or change their loyalties to make people like them.
From Hillbilly Socialist to Rootless Cosmopolitan
Ronald Bailey
*snicker*
Losing Showed Me the Value of Tolerance
Scott Shackford
*guffaw*
Oh man….
And guess who this is?
a Republican household by parents with socially liberal tendencies, and after I went to college I discovered there was a word for that
Well, more of an acronym – RINO.
To be sure.
YAL > SFL
Real libertarians don’t join shit.
You shut your filthy whore mouth.
Young Americans for Liberty is an infinitely better organization than Students for (State Approved and Socially Acceptable) Liberty
SPLITTER!
“Divider” is a superior term than “Splitter”
Burn the witch!
I never thought I’d have to explain a Monty Python reference on a libertarian site.
Oh, I got it.
But, I prefer Kids in the Hall.
No true libertarian would say otherwise
Without reading it, let me guess:
Rico – I had to find a way to sound edgy and standout in college or the progressive girls wouldn’t hate-fuck me.
ENB – I have always wanted to be a prostitute but I’m too chicken. Now I have an excuse to live vicariously through them while maintaining the fiction that I give a shit about self-ownership.
Shikha – MUH IMUHGRUNTZ
Richman – You think I’m a libertarian? HAHAHAHA!
Tuccille – I started from a framework of individual liberty and property rights then extended that logically to a political philosophy.
Gillespie – I might have believed this shit 20 years ago but it’s way more lucrative to be a Diet-Prog.
ENB – I have always wanted to be a prostitute but I’m too chicken. Now I have an excuse to live vicariously through them while maintaining the fiction that I give a shit about self-ownership
I believe you’ve hit the nail right on the head there, sir
ENB actually accepted cash for a blowjob, so…..
Whaaaaaaaaat?
Link?
I think it was Gilmore who found it.
Something about her signing up for a sugar daddy website and dressing up as a cheerleader.
I got to see that link. That’s insane.
She’s living the dream.
ENB actually accepted cash for a blowjob, so…..
If you lollygag on the field, and lollygag in the clubhouse, what does that make you?
Management material?
Richman – JOOOOOOOOOOOS!
Eh, I like Richman. Him and Scott Horton now run the Libertarian Institute.
Maybe Richman is good on a lot of other things, but since virtually everything he wrote for Reason was either Iran apologetics, Israel attacks, or both, mt only impression of him is negative.
There are plenty of legit criticisms to be made of Israel. He just always chose to make shitty ones instead.
You’re no different than Adam Lanza.
Chapman – I’m slightly to the right of Pol Pot, I must be a libertarian.
skimmed it
the comments seem unusually patient and sincere
good for them; whatever: I’m staying here until I’m thrown out
Really? It’s sarc and a few others browbeating a guy for calling the writers progs.
I just want to add my view that I think it was actually somewhere between the way you two describe it.
unusually patient and sincere
maybe I should have said that they don’t suck nearly as much today as usual (less ad hominem, more theory)
To be sure.
Let’s have a carbon tax.
If you make a joke about sammiches I will ruin your life.
Just common sense gun control. Who can argue against common sense?
I wanted a post-racial America.
…Yeah. I only read non-fiction as well.
The most ridiculous article that I recently read there was a contributor suggesting that the lawsuit against Harvard for discriminating against Asians wasn’t “libertarian”, because competition is actually the answer.
This is a tired and transparent trope that cosmos always pull.
(1) Declare a company or product that is heavily dependent upon government revenue of being “private”
(2) Attack people who criticize said company or product as being against “private business”
(3) Pretend as if the actual solution to the problem is theoretical competition, rather than regulation or the elimination of government revenues from supporting said company or product
(4) Await your cocktail party invites
You’ll see articles calling farmers looters for the subsidies that they receive by the federal government. And articles noting that tariffs meant to bolster manufacturing hurts every consumer. But, you rarely if ever read anything here even hinting at possibly de-funding these institutions that engage in discrimination and whose very subsidy from the federal government makes it possible for them to continue to raise costs faster than the rate of inflation.
So weird
On Tom Woods last week, even Welch had a pretty lame “How I came to libertarianism story.” I don’t believe Reason has one single deontological libertarian in it’s ranks.
“I don’t believe Reason has one single deontological libertarian in it’s ranks”
Yes. But, they also don’t have any anti-war libertarians as regular contributors either. There are a lot of type of libertarians that they lack within their ranks. Their writers seem to only run the gambit between “libertarian squish” to “soft progressive” to “why the fuck is Tuccile still writing here?”
Doesn’t Richman qualify?
Yeah, but I don’t think Richman writes for them all that regularly anymore. And his most inflammatory stuff hasn’t been posted there ever since they put their tinfoil hats on and embraced Russia Fever Dreams
Also:
Hihn Sock?
Way too sane for a hihn sock. Most likely one of the writers under a pseudonym
Not everyone can be a Hit & Runpublican
I got a book in the mail from Reason this week. It’s in the trash, where it belongs.
I got it too. It’s keeping the kitchen table level.
Dammit, I don’t want your rejected books!
Sorry. Next time I’ll jettison it straight into space.
#metoo
Except I put mine on the shelf with all their other books I haven’t read. I do like to look smart.
Get an E-reader bro. You can look at porn and claim you’re reading the Ulysses by James Joyce.
Better to lie and be thought a pretentious fool than tell the truth and be thought a perv?
Me too. It’s interesting that I moved since I donated to Reason the last time and they still got my new address.
OT: (Rhetorical) Questions that deserve to be answered but won’t be.
1. If Social Security is so great, why isn’t it voluntary?
2. If diversity is so great, why are the progressive globalists seemingly intent on dismantling borders and cultures in favor of some massive global monoculture?
3. If Medicare runs more efficiently than the private market because of government, then why not go ahead and nationalize everything?
4. If printing money doesn’t matter, then what’s stopping us from minting trillion dollar coins and paying off the debt?
Rhetorical I know. Just blowing off steam.
1: “Because those wreckers don’t understand what a great thing it is”
2: “To erase the un-diverse whiteness.”
3: “We’re trying, kulak.”
4: “Debts don’t matter either, duh.”
/Progic
1. It isn’t voluntary because everyone deserves it.
2. Who said anything about dismantling 3rd world borders and cultures, it’s just the 1st world we’re after.
3. OK
4. OK
As long as we have our guns they have to make ridiculous spider-to-fly arguments. These are the same people that want gun control. Don’t forget – No one wants you to be defenseless for your own good.
1. Everyone has the right to retire. Do you want your grandfather dying on the assembly line?
2. Its not a monoculture….
3. Everyone has the right to healthcare. Do you want your dying grandfather throws out of the hospital because he injured himself working on the assembly line when he was 88?
4. That’s a good idea…
Is that what they are calling VA hospitals these days?
Hundreds of US troops heading to the border to deal with migrant caravan, official says
This is it! This is where literally Hitler makes his move!
They’re going to need a lot more than 800.
Yeah, that’s not enough. You can bet they’ll be unruly. You need enough to apply the level of force you’re willing to use against all of them more or less at the same time. 800 could execute a shoot to kill order, but not a round up and process or deport order.
The troops won’t have much or any direct contact with the caravaniers. That is for the border patrol.
The troops are for logistics and support type functions just like the National guard
Insufficient.
Apologies again. This should have been in the morning links, but putting it here instead.
Turns out I need to apologize to Brother Keith. He is quite the outdoorsman and will easily win outstate Minnesoda voters with his turkey hunting acumen.
2 shells, no shotgun?
Biden’s bringing one
He builds a zip gun of all natural materials that he finds while stalking his prey.
That thing is more of a bomb than the pipe shipped to CNN.
*snicker* Ellison doesn’t know how to use the three shells?
My guess is that when he went hunting he used an over/under or side by side. So, being a DFLer, he now thinks that all shotguns have only two barrels.
If you showed him an 870 or an automatic, he’d probably say that was an assault rifle.
My guess is, he’s never been turkey hunting in his life.
And what’s with the equation of “rounds taken hunting” and “rounds needed for self-defense”, anyway? That’s such a colossal non sequitur I just can’t even.
The turkey was unarmed, and was subsequently murdered during the course of Ellison’s invasion of its home. I wish someone would point that out to him.
“My guess is, he’s never been turkey hunting in his life.”
Bingo. He’s a lying sack of shit.
I repeat my response to Q above because this is exactly what I was referring to: “As long as we have our guns they have to make ridiculous spider-to-fly arguments. These are the same people that want gun control. Don’t forget – No one wants you to be defenseless for your own good.”
Perhaps he was actually hunting Geese?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/three-seashells
I got it.
Uffda. How did I not know about this? Colin Peterson is the Congressman for my old home town and I knew his kid fairly well.
Anyone who has killed a wild turkey and tried to eat it, knows what a giant lie that is. No way a wild turkey is going to be as tasty as some fat coddled pen raised turkey.
His wild turkeys come in a bottle.
Mine does. WT 101 is tasty.
In my experience, the dark meat is borderline inedible. The breasts, when brined (as one should any turkey), are quite tasty – maybe a little denser that domestic turkey, but otherwise very similar. After our first couple of wild turkeys, we would just take the breasts and leave the rest for scavengers. Nothing went to waste, trust me.
I have a moral objection to feeding scavengers.
They are an essential part of the food chain/ecosystem. I don’t hunt to feed them (other than, possibly, one epic pig/coyote hunt where I actually ran out of ammo shooting coyotes off of a dead pig, but that was more “bait for coyotes” than “food for coyotes”), but I don’t regard the leavings after I clean an animal as wasted just because I’m not going to eat them.
Noted outdoorsman Josey Wales has something to say about scavengers
Why does it matter how a critter dies. There are all sorts of scavengers who’s job it is to clean up that stuff. Like RC says, it is part of the circle of life.
Oh, no, I just don’t want to give anything free food.
The one breast I had was really tough, but it was a big tom, so I’m sure that affected it the same way old age affects other game animals. My father reports the same thing. He makes soup out of the legs and that is about it. The rest becomes dog food.
I also like juxtaposing the fact that he shot a jake and his statement that he isn’t into “trophy hunting”.
Which is sort of unfair. I wouldn’t give any other beginner hunter for shooting a jake (or yearling deer) if it is their first time out. I’d just expect that the next time out, they’d be a bit more picky. But with Ellison, you know he probably didn’t even know what a jake is.
Related topic, and apologies to those who have heard this one before. I had 10 heritage turkey poults being raised in a pen. Beautiful bourbon reds and slates I drove a 3 hour round trip to get.
Fucking owl dove through the mesh top and killed every one. It got it foot twisted up in the nylon mesh and was trapped in the pen with the carcasses. My wife came out first that morning and wondered how our plastic owl replica ended up in the pen. Then it turned its head and she screamed.
Yes, like a fool I let the owl go. It proceeded to slaughter another 100 chickens or so over the following year.
Predators that kill your food should be killed in turn. Fuck that owl. The pig/coyote hunt was mainly because they were both tearing up Pater Dean’s cow/calf herd during the calving season.
Protip: While a .300 Win Mag is a proper tool for the job of hunting pigs, its a little much for coyotes if you are thinking you’d like a pelt.
I’m sure you could stitch together something from the pieces…
The chick from last night’s Subaru horror theater thought she could.
AR-15 in a helicopter with a brass catcher.
Is this in relation to hunting for pigs and coyotes, or in relation to dealing with the migrant caravasion?
I’ve got a soft spot for owls and eagles. Of course, with a potential sentence of years in prison and tens of thousands in fines for killing just one, that will always be public stance. My neighbors, on the other hand, have mentioned more than once about burying hawks. They need to work on the third S.
No hesitation with eliminating land-based predators.
If you do kill an owl, make sure you follow the 3 S’: Shoot, Shovel and Shut up. Owls and other raptors are all protected under the federal migratory bird act and killing one is a no-no.
Not all owls are bad!
Ironbeak eludes authorities again.
I think you meant Hatebeak
It must be completely enclosed with chicken wire, sides and top. It must be completely encircled by electric fence.
Been there, done that.
Yep, learned that one. My chicken tractor is completely enclosed with field fencing and 1” chicken wire. I tried a new breed, Jersey Giants, that I’ve had a lot of success with now. They are too big for hawks, so get to free range during the day and go into the pen at night. They may be too big for owls, but have not tested it.
Jersey Giants were the biggest breed I could find and the roosters are surprisingly amiable. No aggression issues with the wife and kids. There’s a new breed that’s crossed between a Jersey Giant and a Malay Game Fighting Bird, but my wife quickly vetoed that. It would be interesting to see an owl tangle with one of those.
I hope one of them is named “Little Jerry”.
Wild turkey?
I keep my Wusthofs razor sharp and honed, and I had trouble portioning the dark meat. I actually had to use some tools from the garage.
Wild turkey is a step above roadkill.
I can’t believe this crew doesn’t just take the breasts. Has all of Q’s work gone for nothing?
Brine them up real good, and they are just fine.
This was a one time deal. Never again. Costco turkeys are just fine.
I roast the crown separately from the dark meat. 3 day orange/garlic/rosemary brine. 10% sodium phosphate solution on the dark meat for extra juiciness.
My Grandfather on wild turkeys: “The longer you cook them, the tougher they get.”
“Mmmmm, tastes like smug.”
Keith “2 Shells” Ellison
Makes a nice set with Donnie “Two Scoops” Trump.
Someone should ask him how many shells he thinks the turkey would like to have were it able to shoot back.
I would like a gatling shotgun with about a hundred thousand shells. I need to turn the air between us into a solid wall of lead.
https://youtu.be/ct4wwgQl_ko
Needs a better feed mechanism.
And less incest
Earlier in the episode they design a open box mag, but it wouldn’t feed properly.
Just because They failed, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
What if I’m hunting squirrel or quail or rabbits?
He’d clutch his pearls and admonish you as a monster.
Well, he’s not wrong…
But that’s irrelevent to the discussion!
I shot a squirrel in the face with a bug salt gun the other day. It still digs up my garden, but not right in front of me anymore.
They are pretty clever and determined. I’ve given up on bird feeders.
Drench the birdseed in capcaicin, and mix in some pepper seeds.
Never done battle with squirrels?
I put out a hundred pounds of walnuts. They didn’t dig every single one up, just the good ones. All of the ones I could find still in the bed were dried up on the inside.
They could smell the good ones from the bad before digging them up. Little bastards.
Chemically, it shouldn’t impact the birds, but does negatively effect mammals. Hense the drench the seed in it. Throwing in the extra pepper seeds doesn’t do anything.
It doesn’t stop the rodents from trying a bite though. When I first moved, I took some ghost pepper plants I had indoors at my old place and put them on the patio. When they started fruiting, twice I found peppers with a single bite taken out of them. I hope those little bastards suffered.
We have a pair of pet guinea pigs, and I grow wheat grass to feed them.
The squirrels can smell the seeds from a mile away, and will rip apart the entire garden to find them.
After I shot the first one in the face, he stayed away for a day. I guess he decided that the seeds were worth it, though. Just shot him in the face again this morning.
I shot a squirrel in the face with a sub-sonic .22 out of a Savage rifle. It never bothered me again and nobody heard a thing.
I’m tempted to get my Gamo out and practice on the squirrels. I’ll never win, but I’ll have fun trying.
Was it a Noble Savage Rifle?
Sarc aside, what model? My .22 is a Mk II.
These things are perfect for squirrel plinking.
Just remember that squirrels run about 30 feet after you shoot them unless it’s between the eyes.
Mark II FVT. My son used it in the club youth rifle classes. With decent ammo it’s a tack driver.
https://www.youtube.com/user/EdgunUSA
I have a tightrope that the feeders are hanging from. Those damned Squirrels are acrobats! Not that it matters, the seeds all sprouted in the feeders this year, and I got sick of ripping seedlings out with pliers.
Try putting about 6 to 8 feet of 3/4″ pvc on either end of the tightrope. They cant walk that.
Two coon cubs keep getting into the bird feeders (that are set up as entertainment units just outside the catio). They’re just too cute to annihilate, so I’ve just upped my budget for seed and nonsense. The cats don’t seem to mind them in the least.
I don’t mind the squirrels, but my dogs hate them and will drive me insane if they see them in the backyard.
Dean, just read your barrel comments. Very cool.
Any reason bourbon couldn’t be continuously stored in these? It would look a little classier than the handles I have sitting out.
evaporation?
That would be one reason (the amount would really depend on the humidity where you are), the other would be that aging too long is a thing too.
Fair points on both.
I thought one batch of the rye I have been aging got to a point where it was getting kind of over-oaked, so I think its possible to leave the booze in the barrel too long. Plus, there’s the evaporation. You should be able to age four or five batches, so using a barrel for just one would be kind of a waste.
I’m really curious to see how the tequila will turn out.
When I was unpacking them, I set the 2 liter barrel on the counter next to the 1 liter barrels. Mrs. Dean comes in, sees the big barrel, and says “Daddy’s home.”
Sounds like you married very well.
Somewhat to my surprise, she strongly prefers the barrel-aged rye in her cocktails. Hence, the 2 liter barrel.
Good points. That’ll be interesting with the tequila. I think reposados are aged for about a month.
That’s funny.
I have five 10L French oak wine barrels I still need to do something with.
You need to fill two with rye, two with bourbon, and one with jungle juice and invite us all over for a party in a couple months.
I was thinking about suggesting a Solera. Then I did the math on how many gallons those were…
Have you thought about setting up to do a small batch Gueuze? If you need a lambic culture, I still have a batch aging, as well as a bottled batch I could send you.
I have two 6-gallon carboys full of 2yo sour ale — one red and one blond. I have made two 6-gallon batches of young sour red, and I need to make two blonds as well. Later this year I will blend the old and new beers; bottle condition some; keg some; and then store a full carboy to repeat the process next year.
I may make the transition to barrels at some point.
Awesome article UCS. I don’t have the patience myself for precision work, but enjoy reading about this.
And what’s with the equation of “rounds taken hunting” and “rounds needed for self-defense”, anyway? That’s such a colossal non sequitur I just can’t even.
Those turkeys are WILD, dude. They can attack without warning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwpo_j4c1Hk
OT: This is painful.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/10/hilariously-awful-clair-mccaskill-radio-ad-shes-not-one-of-those-crazy-democrats/
Good grief. Calling people “crazy democrats” is either a racist or homophobic dog whistle now?
Crazy fucking Democrats.
My guess is that it’s an attempt to legitimize McCaskill’s claim that she’s not one of those crazy Democrats by responding to the ad like…welll…a crazy Democrat.
okayyyyyyy..
MariaChappelleNadal
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@MariaChappelleN
Using the term “crazy” — while targeting a specific group — is the exercise of white supremacy. No bueno for POC.
That’s some top shelf cultural appropriation there, Maria. “no Bueno” is somebody’s culture, not your flippant Twitter response.
Isnt she the one caught on video saying she lied to her constituents to get elected but after the election intends to vote like she said she wouldn’t and her voters would “just have to get over it”?
Yep
I find it interesting that, in the year of the Blue Wave, McCaskill is running from her party.
“Claire’s not one of those crazy Democrats,” the other man adds. “She works right in the middle and finds compromise.”
She was caught on video saying the opposite.
o/t…..Holy shit, have any of you seen Jessica Simpson lately?? She….well, let’s say she has not aged well. Britney’s gotten at least fairly close to her superhot teenaged self, but Jessica’s gone the other direction.
https://pagesix.com/2018/10/15/jessica-simpson-doesnt-think-shes-a-fashion-icon/
Yikes. I know she’s pregnant, but it looks like she ate herself. She was premium fap material 15 years ago.
I can’t believe that thing is younger than me.
She’s like 4′ 1″, no surprises there
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/chuck-grassley-refers-michael-avenatti-and-julie-swetnick-for-investigation.html" Senate panel refers Avenatti, Kavanaugh accuser Swetnick for criminal investigation
This should be interesting…
Ah derp oh well it still works
This really isn’t a good week for him.
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No, it doesn’t.
Shhhh….hear that? That’s the sound of millions of prgressive’s heads exploding.
Naw, they have a built in release valve. The response will me “See, Tumphitler is suppressing dissent!”
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/chuck-grassley-refers-michael-avenatti-and-julie-swetnick-for-investigation.html
He’s a HERO!
I just got cancer from clicking on that link. You’ll be hearing from my lawyer.
I’ll assume you’re using Avenatti,
Yikes… hover is your friend.
Wow. Talk about a low-rent grifter. Things are not gonna end well for that guy.
Well now he has to run for president.
Since when does a Democrat want a republic? I thought they were all direct democracy and democratic socialism and shit.
Avenatti has conclusively proven that progressives will eagerly latch on to any grifter, no matter how slimy they are, as long as he or she says the right magic words.
Someone please make this happen.
When did Team Red find their gonads?
When McCain died, apparently.
Makes you wonder…
It does that.
I am convinced that every bit of the things they said about Kavenaugh are pure bullshit made up out of thin air. The stories were so bad, so inconsistent, so unbelievable that I have to call bullshit. There are still idiots running around calling them ‘credible’. Really? Which part of which version?
You need to use a Progressive Dictionary, *subject to change at any moment, on a whim
#Basta!
Take some time away from feverishly speculating who we’re all going to smear as the new baddie for mailing pipe bombs and enjoy a game I like to call “Model or College Girl”
https://www.barstoolsports.com/philadelphia/oh-pharaoh-belgian-playboy-model-arrested-for-taking-nude-snaps-in-egyptian-temple
Naughty model or……………………
https://www.barstoolsports.com/barstoolu/barstool-monday-morning-smokeshow-jaimee-jaimsoup
……………..supposedly a college girl
While I appreciate the outright nudity, I’m gonna have to go with the College Girl; she just plain has a better body.
I see you’ve played this game before
Playboy still exits?
The answer is always college girl.
Naughty model worked normal modeling jobs. Not sure she still does. She also has a tendency to shave her head.
Personally, I liked her better with longer hair.
I bet whoever wrote this headline doesn’t even realize how subtly biased it is.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pipe-bombs-sent-to-biden-and-robert-de-niro-latest-trump-critics-targeted/ar-BBOSaSr?ocid=spartanntp
Subtle?
Plane-crash subtle. And almost as one-sided.
Aaaaand she’s gone:
https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2018/10/25/megyn-kelly-out-at-nbc-after-blackface-comments-report/23571593/
Never ever apologize, ever.
“I’m sorry you’re offended, Grow up.”
Who said earlier that she was nuts for throwing in with them and not expecting a struggle session sooner or later? I dont know what she was expecting.
All that said, she’s likely walking away with the entirety of her contract – $69 million. So, who’s the bigger idiot, her or NBC?
I thought her contract was guaranteed, and NBC would have to pay it even if they fired her.
Me. And I see what she actually said now and it’s as inoffensive as I expected. The article says “she may cover the election in two weeks.” Bullshit. She should burn some bridges and walk the fuck out of there.
She should burn some bridges and walk the fuck out of there.
Nope. If she walks, then they can say she quit. Then she doesn’t get the $69 million. The bigger “screw you” to NBC would be to make sure they had to fork over the money.
She should go ahead and cover the elections, but in an absurdly pro-Team Red biased.
Oh hell – I’d watch her on election night for that.
Oh, I’m assuming she keeps the money anyway. That’s what it says in the article.
My understanding is that, with these contracts, they’ve got to pay if they fire her without “cause”. If she refuses to do the elections, they can say she quit.
Yep. She should just play chicken with them. There’s no way they’ll put her on the air for the elections anyway. None of the other virtue-signalers on staff would agree to work with her.
Yep. She said it’s ok to blackface for halloween if you are honoring someone but it’s not ok to blackface to belittle or ridicule.
Perfectly reasonable, but the outrage crowd is never satisfied, has no sense of humor or of subtlety. They are like a school of piranhas, on wrong move and they go into a frenzy.
Playing the prog game always seems to backfire in the end, doesn’t it?
Still would. Oh yes I would.
And yet they never learn.
Every one of these idiots thinks rolling over and showing the progs your belly or neck will suddenly make them stop coming at you, only to be surprised when the progs go for the kill.
47yo Megan Kelly looks pretty damn attractive to this over-the-hill dude.
She’s 47??? Holy shit!!!!!
Wikipedia says — Born: November 18, 1970 (age 47 years)
Still would.
I saw her first!
Also, seconded on the main point: Never. Apologize.
Kelly is set to be paid out her entire $69 million contract unless the network can prove she violated a clause in some way
For those who don’t want to bother clicking. Here’s the terrible, horrible, racist things she said:
“I dont know how that got to be racist”
Then you haven’t been paying attention.
“Racism is the ketchup of the left. They put it on everything they dont like.” – Thomas Sowell.
Oh, that’s a good quote.
Nice.
“Because we went in knowing we’d find some excuse to punish her for wrong-think before her contract was up.”
Yup. They’ve got to have cause. And I don’t think they can get away with saying that she was for saying what she did.
It’s horrible that she protected herself from this completely foreseeable result
I all for the heads rolling.
So now where does she land? She’s damaged goods and persona-non-Grata at basically every large news outlet except…
If I was fired for a bullshit reason and was getting $69M in severance – I’d land in fuck-youville on kiss-my-ass lane.
I think people like Kelly like to be around the corridors of power. She probably wouldn’t be happy sitting around by herself.
That’s unfortunate. Some people just don’t know how to be happy.
She probably wouldn’t be happy sitting around by herself.
Dammit! I was hoping that would be her next media project.
Given her wealth, she has a fairly modest second home on Long Beach Island, NJ not far from a shared family vacation home.
Don’t get me wrong – it’s right on the beach in fairly quiet part of town, but it’s not massive or crazy looking.
“We at Reason are proud to welcome Megyn Kelly as our newest Senior Editor. Megyn will be filling in for Elizabeth Nolan Brown and occasionally for Peter Suderman. We look forward to her trenchant libertarian analysis.”
It would probably be a big improvement.
I think it would. I might even peek in over there now and then. We are just as likely to see unicorns that shit gold bricks.
Pie’s job is becoming available, no?
Oh. Good call. That wouldn’t shock me at all.
Although it plays right into her haters’ hands. I guess it depends on how many shits she gives about what those people think about her.
What a smug prick.
Who made Roker the official spokesperson of colored folks?
Roker, who dressed up as Charlie Brown?
Also, Clark Kent/Superman.
what kind of weatherman doesn’t have a degree in meteorology?
“What do space rocks have to do with the weather?”
/TV Weather Personality.
DENIER!
*shivs Jarflax between the ribs*
“Be careful out there, we have a thirty percent chance of wind gusts.”
folks of color
Colored folks?
I’d go with the acronym: FOCs. Which also lends itself to a more “active” version: FOCers.
Lol, beautiful
The crazy thing is that all that has to happen is for someone to say “That’s racist” and you’ve got 80% of the public nodding there head. I’m convinced that most people don’t have a good idea of what is or isnt racist (if you asked them the would say things that are undeniably racist) but as soon as someone cries racisim they shut down and just agree.
It’s more like 25 percent but they’re very vocal.
2.5% and extremely vocal
The rest are just along for the ride and scared shitless.
“Racist” is whatever the tiny percentage of their audience of liberal housewives that writes in complaining about anything says it is.
The problem isnt racism. That is built into human nature. It isnt inherently bad, it is just an acknowledgement of differences. The problem is bigotry.
Racism – > (Insert race) dude is different than me.
Bigotry – > I am better than him, he is worth less than I am.
Agreed. Most people dont know what racism is. But then most people cant make distinctions between a lot of related concepts even if their differences are not subtle.
I always understood racism as requiring or desiring negative or positive action taken towards a specific race. Bigots were just prejudiced.
I am not following you.
This is part of the problem. Those words, and a lot of others, have been used interchangeably for so long nobody knows what they mean.
So what word would we use instead of racism to describe an acknowledgement of differences without any moral or value based judgement?
Racism – Advocating for or taking differential action towards a specific race.
Bigotry – Prejudging someone based on their race but not taking a different action.
These are my opinions. The current accepted definition of racism inverts it. You must give preferential treatment towards races prejudged by society to deserve it or you are racist.
you live in a different world than I do.
Racism is a subset of bigotry.
Bigotry is a subset of prejudice.
Every person on earth pre-judges every other person on earth.
If you’re referring to my last sentence. I’m just giving the social justice definition. It’s not mine.
As to the others, yours is more succinct, but it needs clarification. When does prejudice become bigotry, when does bigotry become racism?
When does prejudice become bigotry, when does bigotry become racism?
I’ve been pondering that question since the 60s. I’ll let you know when I work it all out.
observation is the word for that.
Racism traditionally meant an ideological belief (hence the ism) that society should make decisions based on beliefs about the superiority/inferiority of a group.
Bigotry is personal and refers to a person’s belief that some group is in fact superior/inferior.
Racism has been carefully and deliberately expanded to include any observation about differences, even statistical differences, linked to ethnicity.
To me you are approaching bigotry when you try to apply a general statement of “X group is more/less likely to be more/less skilled at y” to individuals. ie. going from the Jewish people produce a higher percentage of intellectuals than Cajuns; therefore OMWC must be smarter than Suthen. You are all in on racism when you advocate laws or policies designed either to support or ameliorate those differences.
That’s along the lines of how I’ve explained my thinking on this for a while. There’s prejudice, and then there’s racism. Prejudice is very common. It’s just a fancy way of saying stereotype (pre-judge, basically), and everyone has some. They can be positive or negative – is “blacks are generally better athletes than whites” a negative assessment? No. It might be a bit ignorant, it might be too broad a generalization based on a stereotype, but it’s not racism.
Racism is an assertion of superiority based on skin color alone. Racism believes that a worthless white man – oh, say, Richard Blumenthal – is inherently superior to a far more intelligent, accomplished black man like Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams simply because he’s white and they aren’t. Actual racism is a destructive force in a polyglot society such as ours. Mere prejudice is not.
By the explanations I see here you all understand the different concepts just fine but have different understandings of the definitions of the words. Like I said, they have been thrown about interchangeably so often for so long it is almost impossible to have a conversation about it. It’s classical “If a tree falls in the forest…”.
I suspect we all agree that a person’s worth is based on their humanity in which we are all equal.
That is different from our economic worth, measured in income. Different from our physical worth based on prowess. Different from our intellectual worth based on cognitive ability….and so on.
There is no point in quibbling over definitions.
What makes me sad is that for a time, pre-Obama, it seemed racial prejudice was about to fizzle out. Then the D’s spent a decade picking scabs…picking and picking and picking, and now look where we are.
Well said Suthen.
Like I said, they have been thrown about interchangeably so often for so long it is almost impossible to have a conversation about it.
We’ve just done the same thing with “sex” and “gender”, to the point where the Trump administration proposes defining “sex” as what’s on your birth certificate, and it is universally reported as “Trump wants to change the definition of ‘gender’”.
Climate and weather. Sex and gender. race and culture. Insurance and healthcare. Diversity and competence. Equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. The left deliberately puts up smoke and mirrors and confusion regarding every issue they take on. You cant have a rational discussion with them by design because they prefer bullying to reason. I think we all know why that is.
Motte and bailey
I’m convinced that most people don’t have a good idea of what is or isnt racist
Something can be racist, but not malicious.
I disagree. Racism is malicious. This is important. This is why Kelly’s “insensitive” comments regarding blackface are not racist.
I am completely fucking tired of progressives moving the goal posts for fifty fucking years.
She should have raped co-workers for years. Then NBC would have never fired her
OK, I’ll ask…UCS, what’s up with the comically oversized wheels? They look larger than the horse.
When the tank sits on the platform, they don’t look disproportionate.
I actually have two sizes, they came in packs of four, but I only needed six. Four of the smaller wheels and two of the bigger wheels go on the main chassis in the next article. The caisson was made with spare parts.
Oh, ok.
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBOEz0t.img?h=630&w=1200&m=6&q=60&o=t&l=f&f=jpg
Here’s your path out of our echo chamber for the day.
The only way forward is through a new path, a new kingdom if you will.
Only Republicans drop bombs. Sounds legit.
LOL
Am I on acid or was it not Democrats who criticized Tulsi Gabbard for going to Syria and arguing that the US should not be involved in that conflict. Not to mention that Democrats happily egged on Trump’s bombings in Syria and insisted that more aggressive posturing be done with Russia.
Bill Kristol and Max Boot are literally cheering for Democrats to take congress. I don’t think Kristol has ever supported anyone who ever wanted any reduction in overseas murder.
This is crazy.
Looking at past stances to criticize the Party is Trotskyite obstructionism Tovarisch. Your divergence from the 5 year plan to achieve True Communism has been noted.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/liberals-love-trump-when-he-embraces-military-intervention/
Reminder this is what Democrats were saying when Trump said he’d bomb Syria
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/11/tulsi-gabbard-is-not-who-you-think-she-is.html
He’s what Democrats have said about Tulsi Gabbard shortly after the election
It should also be noted that Gabbard is the only Democrat who has sponsored and co-sponsors bills in both the Obama and Trump administration to end the US arming of Saudi Arabia in its conflict with Yemen
On foreign policy, Gabbard is 1,000x better than Amash; 50x better than Ran Paul, and 10x better than Massie (who is more in the anti-interventionist brand of libertarianism and has worked with Gabbard on most of her bills with regards to foreign policy)
Plus she’s so much hotter than all three of them combined: https://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_08/1437231/mtp_gabbard-endorsement_160228_1_5b9e6d4aae67524c414061877f7082fb.nbcnews-fp-1200-800.jpg
Those two are blood soaked psychopathic retards and are best ignored.
Let me guess, this new path is really an old path that invariably leads to poverty, misery, fear and mass murder.
Am I close?
But we’ll get it right this time!!
No. This time we’ll have the right top men in charge. Young, independent, men of the people. Like Bernie Sanders style people:
Of course, my favorite part of the article is the disclaimer (emphasis theirs):
“Assassination” by inert device sent to mailrooms. Yeah, sure.
I dont think it is anything other than what it looks like.
It leads to True Communism. Comrade Harris will show us the proper plan to achieve it! It will take 5 years.
We could do it faster say 4 years. But that would cost extra. About 15% more deaths.
The Shining Path is already taken.
The Golden Shower sounds fun and positive! They should that for their economic overhaul.
“forcefully standing up for the little guy” = taking bribes, apparently?
that was sillly. Paste makes Splinter look like a bunch of Nobel Laureates.
America has a $19 trillion annual GDP. That gives us a TON of tax revenue to play with, and we must create a Manhattan Project-style initiative to invest in our future
That said 3.3 trillion dollars isn’t enough tax revenue.
“Andrew Gillum are showing the entire country that there is such a thing as a liberal politician who forcefully stands up for the little guy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE6ica0t95Q
I like that guy.
I have Comedy Central on this morning as I work from home because I wanted to watch Futurama in the background, and every single commercial interruption is a comedian make a Trump joke. Except the one about Republicans denying healthcare to children with preexisting conditions.
It has been that way since Trump won the nomination. I cant wait to see how they behave if they lose their ass next month.
There aint enough popcorn in the world….
I don’t think I’ve watched anything on that channel other than South Park since Chapelle walked away. Everything is prog clapter material
I’ll leave Comedy Central on in the background when they have The Office reruns. The commercials are terrible, in particular Trevor Noah promoting the Daily Show.
I wouldn’t even mind the jokes if they were funny. But, most of them are just meant to elicit applause rather than laughter.
It reminds me of a set that Dave Smith did at the Soho Forum after the election where he said something like “We have a lot of progressives in the audience for this debate. It’s good to see them laugh again. You don’t have to pretend like Trevor Noah is funny here.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRm0VGev0Fs
Comedy is dying.
Except for Soros, because of his money, all the targets of those fake firecrackers are people not in power. Waters and Schumer hold office but control jack shit. Robert DeNiro? Give me a break.
As above, I dont think this is anything other than what it looks like. More smoke and mirrors from the left. That’s all they’ve got.
It’s too bad we didn’t get that master of security Hillary in office. Now the Chinese and the Russians are tapping Trump’s cell phones.
*Chines intercept of Trump phone call*
Kelley: Yes, Mr. President
Trump: General Pelley?
Kelley: It’s “Kelley”, sir
Trump: “Kelley” is a girl’s name. You should change it
Kelley: Well, it’s my last name, so..
Trump: Anyways, Tom
Kelley: John, sir
Trump: I’m really missing Hot Girl, Tom. The Failing New York Times always says “Oh, Trump hates women” and “he’s a misogynist”, but in reality, Tom, I love women. Just not ugly women
Kelley: I’m sure you do, sir
Trump: Anyways, let’s get Hot Girl back. The fat one is annoying me
Kelley: I’m assuming you’re referring to Hope Hicks, sir
Trump: Yes, Hot Girl
It means he’ll be susceptible to the classic Honey Pots! And the Chinese will know what kind of women to send!
Holy fuck, this is how Hat & Hair stories are created!
SugarFree, you’ve been made – RUN!
Polls are polls, they go up and they go down, but the blue wave sure is looking like a big flop right now.
c’mon man
The National Republican Senatorial Committee poll…
RCP has Manchin +12.
I was talking more about the rest of it – I don’t believe Manchin is going to lose, and that’s the only poll cited that was from the NRSC
The “media” has been actively trying to steer the 2018 election since the day after Trump was elected. But in the end, they don’t want to be on record as being wrong in predicting the next election.
So I expect to see lots of movement in the public polls over the next couple of weeks towards Republicans doing well and Democrats not doing so well.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/megyn-kellys-lawyer-wants-ronan-farrow-to-attend-meeting-with-nbc-executives/
“Megyn Kelly’s Lawyer Wants Ronan Farrow to Attend Meeting With NBC Executives”
God damn, Kelly is ruthless! She just wants to remind everyone that NBC had no problem employing rapists
Oh, well played.
“So, a comment that blackface used to be no big deal, and isn’t bad if its meant respectfully is cause for a firing. But a long history of sexually inappropriate behavior, that was so well known it was the topic of on-air jokes, isn’t cause for termination? Sure you wanna go with that?”
so when they pull the “moral failing” clause in order to get out of paying her the full $69M, she can turn to Farrow and cite his claims that NBC execs blocked his reporting on Weinstein.
love it.
“A Libertarian opponent from my 2016 POTUS run has stated that my multiple jail terms, allegations of murder, rape, drug manufacture, perverted sexuality etc, should disqualify me from the Libertarian platform in 2020. I’m confused. Have these qualities suddenly become bad things?”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1054923432347996160
God bless, John McAfee. Damn Bill Weld to hell
I’d vote for that party
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?”
Endorsed:
Dammit…
I’m in.
Where to I send my 20 bucks?
If he didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him.
The LP is quickly morphing into the conservative party in our politics as the Republican Party morphs into the nationalist party
Sorry but what the fuck are you smoking? The LP has gone social democrat not conservative.
“Conservative” in the traditional sense of the word. Such as those who cling to respectable opinion, as dictated to them from authority (the news media, the universities, etc.). Not the Buckleyite National Review sense of the word which is more a hodgepodge of liberalism mixed with religious piety.
Nonetheless, I see the point your making
Alright, which one of you guys is Joh McAfee. Or…was he Agile?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/megyn-kellys-blackface-comments-were-completely-in-character
“Megan Kelly is racist, because…muh…FOX NEWS!”
Is this the guy that ENB is married to?
““Much of the praise for her in mainstream or left-leaning outlets hinges on her supposed fearlessness in taking on Republicans and traditional conservative thought,” Suebsaeng wrote. “But in her own way and style, Fox News’ rising star is just as bad as the other horrific actors her network features.” He delved into Fox News’ coverage “of a widely disseminated right-wing, race-baiting meme that the New Black Panthers were destroying American democracy through voter intimidation during the 2008 election,” noting that Kelly was one of the “biggest cheerleaders” of this story.”
I saw the video. I’ll say that two guys hanging out like that at a voting booth is more Voter Suppression than saying “Voting doesn’t matter”, or Joking that it is on the wrong day (Which is funny because lets all pretend that we only see right wing memes saying to go vote on the wrong day, the Left has too much respect for democracy that they would accept the outcome of any election as the will of their peers).
I hate the notion that things that you see with your own eyes are in fact not correct. This is a game that the news media continues to play. Most Americans would think guys standing out front of a polling place with baseball bats would be voter intimidation, but our media insists that what we see is not actually what we see and if you assert that you’ve seen it then you are obviously a racist.
I saw the video as well. Guys hanging out in front of a polling place with weapons and threatening potential voters because of their race is not a meme, it is straight up voter intimidation, no question about it.
This is the kind of completely mendacious shit that makes these fuckers fake news. Don’t like being called a liar? Stop telling lies. This aint rocket science.
In all fairness, it was one voting place in Phila. The precinct voted 100% for Obama and probably no one was going to vote for McCain whether or not the bully boys were out front. We still have a secret ballot even in Philly. What is far more troubling is that ones political contributions are public – your boss, your pastor, your friends, your relatives, etc. – all get to see who you give money to.