No matter the reason for his attempted arrest, this sort of throws a new light on tasing. What is supposed to be a safe way to incapacitate a suspect turns out not to be so safe. Yet it is spread through out law enforcement in this country.

But responsibility does the citizenry share to ensure that when we interact with underpaid public servants whose job it is to enforce the law that we do so appropriately?

The Dirty Little Secret in America is that we don't have a police brutality problem.

We have a respect problem.

And that lack of respect tends to manifest itself most dramatically in black males between the ages of 15 and 25.

We can talk all day about the root causes as to why that is (the decline of the black nuclear family since the implementation of the Great Society and the fact that most black kids grow up in fatherless households) or we can simply be measured and realistic in our responses to events like this when they're over-hyped by the media simply to enrage insulated white liberals.

In the meantime, I'm a big fan of living in a civilized society for the duration that we have one left.

No need to re-tool it to appeal to the behavior of the lowest common denominator among us.

Book-smart

I don't see the "book smart" part, but fair enough......

Pussoir is a low to mid-level "specialist" in whatever his field may be.

That doesn't make him a bad person.

By 2021, levels had dropped more than 20%, close to the lowest level in a century. Why?

Because the innate biology that attracts women to men has been corrupted by superficial --------.

I don't care how "progressive" she thinks she is, subconsciously no chick wants to procreate with some soy-boy ------ who "codes" for a living, looks like a girl, puts his preferred pronouns in his LinkedIn Bio, and doesn't know how to change a tire.

That's why so many of them are suddenly "lesbians".

If the Pool of potential partners is overwhelmingly female in its attitudes and skill sets. why not go for the real thing?

As mentioned the other day, this only became (and remains) a story because the DNC allowed it to be.

They installed The Vegetable in 2020, and now they're done with him.

But let not your heart be troubled.

Herr Schwab and his allies here will soon select you another prop to fight the Good Fight against Nationalism and Fascism(TM) and you will enthusiastically support whomever that may be.

Posting drunk

And I am not intoxicated.

Yet.

Truth Hurts.

Donut.

What is supposed to be a safe way to incapacitate a suspect turns out not to be so safe

Nothing is "safe" when you're jacked up on coke or Fentanyl and behave in a manner that creates undue stress on yourself when you interact with the world.

China's data can not be trusted. They have continually lied about it

So has the West.

The heretics who point that out here just get their accounts banned from communications platforms.

In China, they simply disappear.

Stay tuned.

I just watched this video.

This stupid ------------ was incapable of acting like a civilized human being---probably high AF. He created his own drama, for sure.

It's not really the cop's (or society's) problem that he died.

Unfortunate that he'd procreated---although one wonders how much influence he'd actually had in his kids' lives.

Hopefully not much.

Stupid red state cretins reaping what they sow.

There used to never be tornadoes.

I guess your stupid church didn't save you after all.

Can we please tax them into oblivion and use the funds to research climate change?

Oh Look.

Cachuma Lake is Santa Barbara County is at capacity for the first time since 2011.

Apparently, the climate changed this week.

Both "impeachments" were illegitimate acts by a hyper-partisan Democrat congress.

As was the 1/6 clown show.

The democrat party has done more to damage the legitimacy of the US Government than any foreign entity could have ever hoped to do.

But I suspect that's been the plan all along.

1.) Undermine any semblance of national cohesion and decorum.

2.) Submit to a multi-national Global Order.

3.) Eat your bugs.

Print more money.

Problem solved.

Can you explain your comment?

No.

Shut the ---- up.

G'Day Mate...

---- you.

Sincerely,

~ Tony Roma

The effects of climate change are mostly a 20th and 21st century phenomenon.

No. They're not.

That's why we have Great Lakes and seashell fossils 200 miles inland.

U.S. Drought Monitor

I'm well aware of the drought monitor.

I used to help create it.

Drought has been a permanent and constantly shifting feature of Earth for millennia and will continue to be so for millennia.

Why have the rains apparently dried up?

Why have the rains on the once lush High Plains dried up?

I mean, paleolithic cave drawings discovered in NW Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska depict scenes of hunting crocodiles and other tropical fauna from dugout canoes.

Coronado, when first passing through the area, bragged in his diaries of the abundance of water and thick jungle foliage on the Llano Estacado.

I guess it was all those Ford Explorers that suddenly made it quit raining out there.

Dumbass.

I'm not quite sure I understand this reasoning.

I've no doubt we could spend half a lifetime musing over things you don't understand.

You're saying since rivers sometimes dry up in the course of history, which is certainly true.
But that seems like an even better reason to not take too much water from a river, in case it starts drying up, as sometimes happens in the course of history.

That's simple water conservation, Obtoofy. It's a good idea. Especially west of the 100th Meridian. That's why we have River Authorities and Groundwater Conservation Districts.

I mostly agree with that statement.

I don't really give a ---- whether you agree with it or not, to be quite frank with you.

maybe the area had to draw more water from the aquifer because the other menas of watering the crops (e.g., rain) were no longer sufficient.

That goes back to my earlier point about plowing under short grass prairie in a semi-arid ecosystem to cultivate crops requiring irrigation.

Yes, you will have have excellent summer rains some years and will therefore not be required to pump much.

But it's also the High Plains of North America---which has never been a place where you want to "bet" you're going to have consistent, adequate rainfall to sustain row crops.

Why do you assume that NOAA data is the only input of data that the climate scientists use?

Why do you assume the modeling of proxy data is sufficient gruel upon which to re-arrange civilized Western society?

No other time in human existence has seen the climate change this rapidly.

LOL Really?

What does the NOAA data tell us about the weather trends on the High Plains around 800-900 AD?

You poor, hysterical little ----.

Put your mask on.

so who cares about the world my daughter grows up in?

Oh ----.

You've procreated?

It's not fair to call a drought a drought. It's simply the amount of water is falling below the (current) ability of mankind to extract it in an economically feasible manner.

It's not a difficult concept, Obtoofy.

Will a drought impact the levels of an indirect recharge aquifer like the Ogallala?

It certainly will.

But the Ogallala has set there for millennia as the land above it experienced both bad droughts and wet cycles that refilled the playas that recharge it.

It wasn't until we started drilling high capacity wells into it a little over 100 years ago that it began to drop precipitously.

Therefore, using the aquifer level as a barometer of anthropogenic "climate change" is incorrect.

What about the idea that manmade carbon emissions (cattle, cars, etc.) can somehow destabilize climate during our "nanosecond on the scale of geologic time?"

That would require one to buy into the idea that there was ever such thing as a "stabilized" climate---or much stasis in the natural environment at all.

People who think that's the case are generally the people whose Birkenstocks have rarely left the pavement---and whose understanding of natural science was generally formed by Walt Disney movies and Salon articles.

Reservoirs are going to drop when there are massive droughts resulting from mankind releasing mass quantities of C02 into the atmosphere

No.

Reservoirs are going to drop when there are droughts resulting from prolonged periods of below-average rainfall.

Such periods have commonplace since long before your lineage oozed out of the primordial slime from whence it came and have continued to be commonplace ever since.

The unqualified hubris of the typical Progressive dumbass never ceases to amaze.

Can you tell us where the water went?
Maybe ask Pinche to help with that. He knows.

The Ogallala sits under shortgrass prairie in a semi-arid region. It's country meant for buffalo and cattle and should have never seen the plow. But it did, and so for decades big Cummins engines have been pumping water out to irrigate the food and fiber crops. The Ogallala is not a karstic aquifer (like the Edwards) and doesn't recharge rapidly and directly with widespread rainfall. Instead, water stored in natural playa lakes on the plains slowly, slowly, slowly infiltrates the water table.

It's a very simple water-balance calculation that, as Visitor so adroitly pointed out above, has ------- to do with "climate change" or "COVID" or California or whatever other existential crisis you've decided to flail your little wrists about this week. When you pump water out of a reservoir at a faster rate than it recharges, the levels in said reservoir are going to drop.

It's not so much that the Ogllala is literally "drying up" so much as it is the water table is falling below the (current) ability of mankind to extract it in an economically feasible manner.

Rwingers are more concerned about owning them a lib by focusing on why the climate is changing rather than the fact that it is.

What a stupid thing to say.

Of course "tEh cLiMaTe iS ChAaAnGiNg(!)"

It always has.

Fun Fact:

There's a reason you can find fossilized sea shells 200 miles inland from the Texas coast.

Hard Pill:

That reason has nothing to do with mankind's insufficient fealty to the nostrums of modern dumbass Progressives Climate Change Scripture.