The idea of the forum is alive indeed.
We have some testers going around and figuring what and how to do it.
It is not the old phpBB type forum, but something more advanced and agile that will take a bit of practice for old farts like me. I mentioned somewhere that I asked AWA for a pick up and he brought us a Bugatti.
BTW there are two types of rules: The standard and very complete set that came with the forum, and then we have The Rules.
Same as in the Blog’s comments, the number one rule is simple: Don’t be a Dick. This is not the Flavian Amphitheatre so we will not have Keyboard Gladiators. This will be a place for discussion and probably in more than one occasion it will get heated, but there is zero tolerance for just trolling for the fuck of it or to prove you have a mighty keyboard.
There will be moderators and their word is final even when they fuck up. Do not go chasing after the owner because you think the spanking was undeserved.
We will play under Roman Empire rules: You will be either ostracized/exiled for a period of time for minor violations; consider them warning. Or you will be expelled/killed from the group for major violations. An accumulation of minor screw ups will lead to expulsion. How many small violations? That is for us to know and you to find out the hard way.
Regarding the buying and selling of firearms and ammunition, we are not responsible if you do not follow all applicable laws and more than likely, we will use your legal problems as teaching example on how not to do things. If it requires an FFL, use a darned FFL. Go to Gunbroker.com and use their list to find one.
I figure we will be opening next week. If anybody wants to volunteer to be a mod, let me know ASAP.
THIS is CNN
I truly sympathize with those dealing with losing — it’s not easy — but at a certain point one has to think not only about what’s best for the nation (peaceful transfer of power) but how any future employers might see your character defined during adversity.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 9, 2020
2/ I mean, I don’t expect the ride-or-die crew to listen to me, but …
“So, it says here on your resume that you drove a sex offender to testify at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, north of the Tacony-Palmyra bridge…”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 9, 2020
Next is making Trump supports wear a yellow “T” at all times so that decent ubermemchen people know who to not hire, not to business with, and shun from society.
They say they want healing but this is the opposite of that.
Congratulations, we are repeating August 1934 Germany where and anyone who voted against Hitler got a visit from the Schutzstaffel.
Did you go to a Trump rally after election day, even though Trump was still the duly elected and sworn in president still in his first term?
They will find you and make sure you never work again.
When they say “time to heal” they mean “time to heel” and that are talking about you to them
Masking forever
It dawned on me why I hate fashion masks, e.g. cloth masks that show a sports logo or are in pretty patterns.
A fashion mask normalizes mask wearing as a fashion accessory instead of a purely utilitarian item you have no emotional attachment to.
It makes me feel that masking will never end.
Not just the threat of a [X]th COVID wave, but cold and flu season, etc.
Essentially, we will be mandated in perpetuity to wear a mask to prevent the spread of a virus forever and because it has become a fashion accessory, people will accept it as normal.
Maybe I’m being paranoid but I’ve not seen one politician who wants to mandate masking say at what point that mandate will end, while at the same time I’ve seen articles on how COVID control techniques have really cut down on the flu.
Robert “Third” Reich on election projection
This is his OpEd:
Robert B. Reich: Can Biden heal America when Trump and his allies don’t want it healed?
In case you missed the news, Joe Biden was elected president of the United States. With almost all ballots counted, Biden has more than 75 million votes and Trump some 71 million. The Electoral College isn’t even close.
But Donald Trump still has not conceded, and some leading Republicans say he shouldn’t.
Elections usually end with losing candidates congratulating winners and graciously accepting defeat. They thereby demonstrate their commitment to the democratic system over the particular outcome they fought to achieve.
Apparently there will be no graciousness from Trump and his allies, and no concession from Trump.
They don’t want America to heal. They don’t want Americans to come together. They’d evidently prefer continuous warfare because that’s the only way they think they can win.
Remember this:
When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) October 17, 2020
I guess “Third” Reich’s definition of healing is subjecting the loser of an election and his supporters to show trials and punishment.
Given the threats of being put on enemies lists and made to suffer and all the evidence of election fuckery, lots of fuckery, no wonder Trump and his supporters don’t want to stop fighting.
The Left doesn’t want to heal in the traditional sense, they want to heal the way you treat a gangrenous diabetic ulcer, amputation. They want to cut off Trump supporters from society.
They don’t want to really heal this nation, they want to continue to divide it to justify the fascist purge they want to engage in.
OK, TS Eta dumped a bunch of water.
I have not seen it this bad since Tropical Storm Leslie in 2,000. Initially know as “No Name Storm” because it formed and dropped ten inches of water on us before the NWS assigned a moniker. I believe TS Eta is close to that record.
Front of the house.
Before and after pics of our backyard
No fish yet visible. Still too soon after the storm for that. There is a lot of flooding across Miami-Dade and Broward and some heavy Damage in Monroe county, The missus was told to stay home becaise of the standing water everywhere and truthfully I would not dare going out with my 2WD truck farther than a block from the house… I tried.
The water level will go up a bit higher as excess liquid from around the neighborhood drains in the lake, but other than that, I can say we are done.
And we are 3 weeks away from the official end of the hurricane season and the begin of the Dry Season which we need a lot!