A half century ago the local Lion's club had a fund raiser using a pre -WWII Buick. $5 got you three swings with a sledge hammer. Update to today, $250 gets you a .50 cal. for a minute.
Dang! A minute with a .50 cal machine gun (I'm assuming that's what you mean, and not, say, a sniper rifle) is a *lot* of ammo, as much as 1,300 rounds.
Your non-comment on my non-comment caused me to do some more research. 650 rounds per minute for an M2 @ lose to $4 per round would equal $2600 per minute. Guess we'll have to charge $3K per minute.
Well, yeah -- you gotta charge to account for wear and tear on the gun. I never got to shoot a machine gun in the Marines, so I don't know what the sustained rate of fire is -- a whole minute of full auto might risk damaging the barrel from excessive heat, for all I know.
Doesn't the lack of guardian angel billionaires swooping in to save Alex suggest that the guardian angel billionaires aren't interested in swooping in to save Alex?
I would fucking LOVE to get that sonofabitch in a room and ask him if it eats at him knowing he could have made ten times the money he acquired as a prosperity gospel televangelist.
Can't we just tag X with "fka Twitter" from now on - y'know, like "aka" for aliases - or is that too much like "f*cking-a Twitter" and why would that be a bad thing after all anyway?
"Jones couldn’t quite explain why that was happening, because that would mean acknowledging that the proceeds will go to Sandy Hook parents to whom he lost a $1.5 billion defamation lawsuit after claiming the massacre never happened and they were all just actors."
I work in litigation and my understanding is that it's a routine thing that defendants are asked if they understand the charges that are being levied against them. Per attorneys' advice, the answer is always yes - otherwise they'd have to set a hearing to delve into WHY a defendant doesn't understand the charges (a notable outlier here is none other than Donald Trump, who affirmed he understood the charges in the N.Y. hush money case and then immediately walked out into a press scrum and claimed that nobody knew what the case was about).
Anyway, fuck this guy all to hell.
(We pulled off I-95 in Connecticut one time to get a bite to eat on the way to Boston, and apparently it was the one-year anniversary of the shooting, and the diner there was decked out with remembrances and memorials to the victims. It was so raw and harsh that I couldn't even choke my food down through my tears.)
How dare this monster take advantage of such an atrocity?
So, if Jones' allies buy all the assets and just give them back to him so he can continue firehosing shit everywhere, and the proceeds from the auction aren't enough to pay the judgement, does that mean the court can seize all the assets again and auction them off a second time?
He’s put the supplement business and other grifting nonsense in his father’s name. The safe bet is that his father has the money and the desire to “overpay” for all of this crap and will. No one should be surprised when that’s who gets it and Jones goes to work for dear old dad and then Second Verse same as the first.
He’ll have to sell some of his personal stuff but his father is going to bail him out of most of this and the Sandy Hook folks will get nothing.
That’s my takeaway form listening to Liz Dye on Law and Chaos
A half century ago the local Lion's club had a fund raiser using a pre -WWII Buick. $5 got you three swings with a sledge hammer. Update to today, $250 gets you a .50 cal. for a minute.
Dang! A minute with a .50 cal machine gun (I'm assuming that's what you mean, and not, say, a sniper rifle) is a *lot* of ammo, as much as 1,300 rounds.
Your non-comment on my non-comment caused me to do some more research. 650 rounds per minute for an M2 @ lose to $4 per round would equal $2600 per minute. Guess we'll have to charge $3K per minute.
Well, yeah -- you gotta charge to account for wear and tear on the gun. I never got to shoot a machine gun in the Marines, so I don't know what the sustained rate of fire is -- a whole minute of full auto might risk damaging the barrel from excessive heat, for all I know.
When a machine gunner in a SeaBee Battalion, I was told that after 100 rounds on my M-60 I better change the barrel out or suffer damage.
I thought it was pretty low, but I couldn’t remember and didn’t want to just pull a number out of my ass because I thought it sounded about right.
Ta, Dok. I have never had the displeasure and see no need to start now. Pay up, clown.
Doesn't the lack of guardian angel billionaires swooping in to save Alex suggest that the guardian angel billionaires aren't interested in swooping in to save Alex?
Man, he looks BAD.
Steroid abuse is a helluva drug.
Looks like a hairy baked potato.
He always did, it's the crazy leaking out.
Hope Rudy is next.
I would fucking LOVE to get that sonofabitch in a room and ask him if it eats at him knowing he could have made ten times the money he acquired as a prosperity gospel televangelist.
He’d probably tell you he has *some* standards.
The government won't take away your free speech, but it also won't shield you from the consequences when you break the law with that same speech.
How much do you think the Trucker Speed is gonna go for? Asking for a friend.
20 bucks, same as downtown.
Lord (not Lord) Monkton is not swooping in on the inbred express to gobble this up?
You really find out who your real friends are when you have to settle 1.5 billion in liabilities.
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
I really, really hate it when these traitorous bastards refer to themselves or their followers as "patriots."
I translate it in my head to assholes.
It is my personal pet peeve to see someone flying a Dump flag next to an American flag.
Yes, I always want to set the dump one on fire.
Mine too. It's absolutely disgraceful.
Makes me wish I had a bow and a flaming arrow
" X, formerly known as Twitter..."
Can't we just tag X with "fka Twitter" from now on - y'know, like "aka" for aliases - or is that too much like "f*cking-a Twitter" and why would that be a bad thing after all anyway?
It's Xitter to me. Pronounced "shitter."
I prefer to just call it twitter. There’s something about dead naming 💩 owned by apartheid elmo that amuses me.
I'm disappointed they aren't selling his freedom.
"Jones couldn’t quite explain why that was happening, because that would mean acknowledging that the proceeds will go to Sandy Hook parents to whom he lost a $1.5 billion defamation lawsuit after claiming the massacre never happened and they were all just actors."
I work in litigation and my understanding is that it's a routine thing that defendants are asked if they understand the charges that are being levied against them. Per attorneys' advice, the answer is always yes - otherwise they'd have to set a hearing to delve into WHY a defendant doesn't understand the charges (a notable outlier here is none other than Donald Trump, who affirmed he understood the charges in the N.Y. hush money case and then immediately walked out into a press scrum and claimed that nobody knew what the case was about).
Anyway, fuck this guy all to hell.
(We pulled off I-95 in Connecticut one time to get a bite to eat on the way to Boston, and apparently it was the one-year anniversary of the shooting, and the diner there was decked out with remembrances and memorials to the victims. It was so raw and harsh that I couldn't even choke my food down through my tears.)
How dare this monster take advantage of such an atrocity?
We stopped at what is probably the same diner on a trip to Canada some years back. Even ten years later I got a chill when I realized where we were.
Yeah, the people in that community were HURTING (and still are, surely).
Jones knows exactly what brought him to this situation. He’s just doing what he always does, which is lying.
I hope this bloated tick is living on the streets one day holding a sign that says, “will spread lies for food.”
With Tangeranus and Stone under an overpass.
Wish this was also happening to his hero.
So, if Jones' allies buy all the assets and just give them back to him so he can continue firehosing shit everywhere, and the proceeds from the auction aren't enough to pay the judgement, does that mean the court can seize all the assets again and auction them off a second time?
Asking for a friend.
He’s put the supplement business and other grifting nonsense in his father’s name. The safe bet is that his father has the money and the desire to “overpay” for all of this crap and will. No one should be surprised when that’s who gets it and Jones goes to work for dear old dad and then Second Verse same as the first.
He’ll have to sell some of his personal stuff but his father is going to bail him out of most of this and the Sandy Hook folks will get nothing.
That’s my takeaway form listening to Liz Dye on Law and Chaos
I’m pretty sure they can at least garnish his wages.