VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS WE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!! Or something. Yeah, it’s Leap Year Day, but no-one is noticing because VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS WE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!! Me, this morning I’m just going to sling on my backpack and trudge up some hills to get my heart rate up the old fashioned way. Not as much fun as staying home and commenting, but even Old Men need a bit of a workout now and then.
Despite the rarity of February 29, there still managed to be some notable people born on this day, including a guy whose life was as colorful as his music; a guy who was strung out; proof that white guys could play jazz of a sort; one of (((us))) from Tennessee; a girl who was a fun date; a guy who was a fun date; and a guy who was part of the conspiracy.
The news should follow.
One of my favorite scientists has left the building. Of course, news stories keep referring to him as a “climate change denier,” which is a sneaky and ignorant lie. Whatever, his treatment of renormalization should alone have won him a Nobel, but his scientific life was a series of, “But wait, there’s more!” The word “visionary” should have been invented to describe only him.
You should have seen what they did to the guy chewing gum. Why does this shit always seem to happen in Team Blue-run kleptocratic cities?
Tulsi truly has no fucks to give.
It will be entertaining to see the Left dance around to justify more Forever War. I’m no fan of Trump, but if he pulls this off, I’ll certainly move marginally in that direction.
But only marginally, as long as he keeps drooling out stupid shit like this.
I know, let’s put these people in charge of health care!
Old Guy Music is from… an Old Guy. And a personal favorite of SP’s and mine.
Martin guitars FTW
Taylor man here
Fender, Forever
Dyson rocked, no question about it.
Here’s hoping we get out of Afghanistan, agreed.
And since I had to go into work in Santa Clara county yesterday – if y’all don’t hear from me after a bit, you’ll know why.
And good morning, you irascible curmudgeon, sir!
Semi-OT now: Thanks/shout out to Drake for suggesting Under a Graveyard Sky yesterday. Having Captain Trips and The Stand running through my head half the time wasn’t enough… oh, *nooooo*… you had to find another fun little pandemic apocalypse for me to read through! 😉
Of course, news stories keep referring to him as a “climate change denier,” – it is not, though, a cult or anything…
Apocalypse is totally scientific dude! Doom, end of the world, ragnarök!
Convert or have your reputation ruined (they’ll get around to convert or die later if things go well for them).
Afghanistan truce
zero fucks indeed: just shut up and get out already
You wanna quit in the fourth quarter when we’re up by a goal and the shot clock is running down?
You know who is going to care? The Afghanis. When we leave and stop throwing billions down their money hole, those guys are going to care a lot. What else are they going to do for money? I bet the Taliban gets more grief about the end of the money train than they do over their islamic fanaticism
https://www.duffelblog.com/2020/02/father-of-nine-tasked-with-planning-afghanistan-pullout/
Best unintentional headline? Im not sure that General has ever pulled out IYKWIM
Finally declaring peace and homecoming for the troops. Oh, all except 8 K of them? Its a start but as someone smarter than politicians said “It ain’t over ’til its over”
The Army’s new brigade formations, SFABs, were pretty clearly intended to be a long term security presence and yet, now they are being deployed regionally – per combatant command, rather than in the place they were originally supposed to serve. I guess even the Army is sick and tired of Afghanistan – and with it no longer being a true combat zone, there is no benefit to your career to go there.
Occupation ain’t no fun with out women and booze.
/Remembers Vietnamization
Nah, It is still very much a necessity to go there if you want to advance.
So, Wuornos and Ramierez go on a date, they seem to have a lot in common. They should settle on who is gonna pick up the tab, though, before they set out for their evening of fun, a couple of real cut ups, those two.
My money would be on Wuornos.
I know a dude who makes a very credible claim that Ramirez rented a room in his house. Kind of a flop-house for punk rockers, junkies, and randos. They were quite surprised needless to say.
I think SF is getting to me. I had a weird dream where I was a detective and had to gather evidence against an unrepentant couple who went on a camping trip with a buddy and ate his organs.
SF – saturated fat? go vegan
Hope you didn’t wake up with morning wood after that. That would be a bad sign.
Hard to shake that off.
Not easy to rub out of your memory.
Forgetting something like that would be a hard trick to master. bated memories due to the passage of time is likely the only hope.
The American people cannot have faith in our intelligence agencies if they are pushing an agenda to harm candidates they dislike.
Good, Tulsi. I don’t want people to have faith in these traitorous institutions.
It is amazing isn’t it – seeing all of the rest of the Democratic party sucking the security state cock. Used to be they were among the sharpest critics, but now all that is forgotten, because OrangeManBad. TDS is a helluva drug.
They always suck the security state cock as long as it’s run by the right guy. What’s amazing is that they were able to convince people that they object to it on principle.
I remember Frank Church.
Not quite Frank Church
Current Democratic church
FBI/CIA were bad when they were used to purge communists and gays.
Now that they are on the hunt for white nationalists and Trump supporters the FBI/CIA are like angels.
What? Politicians lacking principles? Say it ain’t so!
If recent history is any guide, the public not having trust in a government-backed institution has absolutely no bearing on how much funding and power it gets.
It’s also the birthday of great director William “Wild Bill” Wellman.
From the linked article by Representative Gabbard: “If our political leaders and those in the media were really concerned with protecting the integrity of our elections from outside manipulation… they would presumably devote more coverage to proposals to institute backup paper ballots, which would ensure that no malicious actors can ever alter our votes or hack into our election infrastructure. The bill I reintroduced last year, the Securing America’s Elections Act, does exactly that….”
And this segment reminded me of another candidate (albeit from a different party): “The question facing any potential Democratic nominee is this: Am I going to allow myself to be manipulated and forced into a corner by overreaching intelligence agencies and the corporate media where, in order for me to win the presidency, I’m going to have to do what I know is not in the interests of the American people and world peace?
Or will I stand up to the corrupt neocon and neoliberal establishment, condemn their lies and smears, and act with the integrity and foresight necessary to forge a rational policy that will serve all our interests?”
I think she had a fair point that Trump had been weak and cowed into a more bellicose policy towards Russia to prove that he was not a puppet of Russia.
She’s a fool if she thinks Bernie isn’t even weaker. He’s already signaled a belicose stance towards Putin. He’s saying “I’ll play your game”. And why wouldn’t he. He’s seen what the CIA has done to Trump.
Bernie’s too much of a wuss to stand up for himself when someone grabs a mic right out of his hands. He’d fold against the deep state in a second, especially if they worked out a deal where they left him alone on domestic policy.
I’m saying he’s already folded. His statements about Putin are clearly signals that he’s not going to call out the intelligence community.
Maybe, he’s definitely modified his stance toward them already. In fairness though, not slagging the Russians is political poison for most of the left even though it shouldn’t be.
Bernie: All the war the deep state wants and the domestic policies y’all love!
Hello Leon,
“I think she had a fair point that Trump had been weak and cowed into a more bellicose policy towards Russia to prove that he was not a puppet of Russia.”
I am inclined to agree with you here, and I know some who would include governments in addition to Russia’s as well.
When I read “Or will I stand up to the corrupt neocon and neoliberal establishment….” I thought she was referring to herself as the one who will do so.
IDK but she’s clearly in the Bernie train, and too blinded to see the Bernie is weak on this.
I agree though that the other candidates should be trying to beat him on ideas, not baseless smears.
I wouldn’t vote for her but seeing a Democrat speak actual truth to power is refreshing. They’re usually just parroting the states propaganda.
How much of Tulsi’s behavior is just an act because it fits the alley she’s trying to take and how much of it is legit objections? I ask because I don’t know the answer.
You can certainly never trust that a politician is being truely honest. It’s rarely the case that they are. I still give her credit for saying it. That’s not really a winning lane in the DNC anyways. Just like Rand Paul’s libertarianish lane is a loser in the GOP.
And, even if she’s being honest, what is she going to do about it? Just because she recognizes the problem doesn’t mean she’s going to implement the right solution.
How many cities are run by team red?
RIP Trader Joe
(Not that I have a Trader Joe’s in my neck of the woods; the closest seems to be up in Albany.)
I heard the wonders of Trader Joe’s extolled for years. Upon moving to NYC, I finally lived in a place that had one. They built a big fancy location on Atlantic Ave. in downtown Brooklyn. I waited on that blasted line for almost an hour, just to get in. What a HUGE disappointment! Trader Joe’s is nothing but a shopette/gas station style convenience store with ONLY their own branded products. Fuck Trader Joe’s and those filthy Aldi stores where merchandise is just strewn about the store in cut open cases and they make you pay $0.25 to unlock a shopping cart. Go back to Euroland with those tiny food jobbers, American supermarkets are like a beacon unto the World, spreading the gospel of choice and the invisible hand.
Don’t you get the quarter back?
I first saw that 30 years ago in lovely Lelystad, although they used a guilder coin, I believe.
You get the quarter back…well, not the same quarter but another one.
Tee hee… my marlinspike fits quite nicely into the coin slot. Not only do I not pay (the other stores in Gateway Mall have implemented the quarter for a cart plan as well), but I’ve actually made a wee profit by rescuing abandoned coins that previous customers just walked away from.
The market will figure it out. I see a lot of traffic at the local Aldi’s. I like Walmart and the big box grocery stores and we get the dreaded, clean plastic bags to carry all our goods home. Then reuse the bags. Win-win.
I’ve never paid for a shopping cart at TJs.
He’s talking about Aldi there.
Yes Ted. I know that.
You lost me at standing in line for grocery shopping.
I like TJs.
Never been to an Aldis.
Aldis is a stripped down version of a grocery store. No bags, pay a deposit for using the cart, less variety, didnt take cards until recently.
If you can work within those constraints, you’re saving a bit of money, even over Walmart.
To be fair, Aldi almost always has the best bacon prices in town.
Here at least the quality of produce can be suspect, but it is great for nonperishable staples.
I don’t have a problem with their business model as it is saving me money. PLus I live in the soviet republic of New York, so free plastic bags are all banned now anyway.
We’ve found that you have to pick the right Aldi. Some are horrible. Some are fine. Personally, I prefer Lidl, but I’m not the home economist of the family, so we shop Aldi more.
Aldi is the only competitor Walmart fears.
We have an Aldi, Sam’s Club, and Walmart in a 3-block line. We have a routine. Things A-J at Aldi, K-O at Sam’s, P-Z at Walmart. Always get baking goods and bread at Aldis, as well as down market spices like onion salt, etc. Canned soup and box mac & cheese.Mr. Mojeaux finds their produce superior to Walmart’s.
There is one in Albany.
I was not impressed when I went there.
Is there anything impressive about Albany?
Sure, the fact that it hasn’t been burned to the ground by angry taxpayers.
One man’s impressive is another man’s disappointing.
Have some impressively hideous architecture.
A symbol of our domination.
I was just there yesterday. I had a meeting in the long building at the bottom, then over in the little tower on the right.
I’m so sorry.
Arkitekt: Forty Years of East German Architecture 1948-1988
That is truly awful. It looks like housing projects.
Another one of Nelson Rockefeller’s “accomplishments”.
In the finest tradition of sixties “urban renewal”.
Wait, they actually designed buildings to look like Imperial Star Destroyers?
I’m from New Jersey.
It’s like Ohio but even moreso.
Well, you don’t have to be so insulting! ::sulks::
The NJ I was born and raised in no longer exists. I loathe having to cross the Delaware river these days.
In fairness, they do have Total Wine in Jersey.
Well the parts that blame Trump for the Coronavirus would be a hoax.
To be perfectly fair that ia what trump actually said. The headlines on MSNBC ad Dailymail give the sensational “Trump Says Coronavisus a Democrat Hoax” but the actual quotes are of Trump saying the Dems are trying to weaponize the virus and use it against him: “That’s their new hoax.”
Part of their overall pattern. He’s not saying the virus doesn’t exist. And he’s not wrong about the way the Dems aren’t letting a crisis go to waste but instead are fanning the flames.
Yes, I noticed the headline-manipulation too.
And the people who are actively looking for more reasons to dislike him eat it up.
You mean OMWC?
Not specifically, but if the shoe fits…
Mornin y’all.
They’re testing dogs for the virus? Why do I find that so weird?
Owner had Coronavirus and the disease came from animal to human transmission.
And it’s still not confirmed as far as I recall or just environmental build up from close contact with the infected owner.
Slate is disappointed there kids didn’t get copies of the little red book instead.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/02/choose-your-own-adventure-books-conservative-neoliberal-ideology-capitalism.html
Fuckin’ 80s propaganda! Everyone should be well aware by now that failure is always due to someone else. These books suppress people, and keep them from getting their victimhood on!
Rebecca Onion??? Gawds what a laugh it would be if this were an instance of Poe’s law.
“Yes! I’m going to be writing a book about this whole idea, and Choose Your Own Adventure would be just one example in the book. I’m thinking of calling the book Funneled by Choice. I think what happens a lot in different areas of our lives is that we’re given two choices, maybe three, and we make those choices and it feels very free. But we’re not thinking about how people are funneling you down certain lanes. ”
This is what gets me going. The true greats think outside the lines, they buck the system, yet this twat discounts their greatness. The whole point of emphasizing choice is to emphasize that thinking for yourself is what enables greatness, it doesn’t guarantee it
Milton Friedman for Children sounds great!
I can watch his lectures on YouTube all day.
Seek help.
That would involve free choice.
Theiy’re
If anyone is a coffee fiend/afficianado, and are looking for tasty coffees, https://www.doorcountycoffee.com/ has a sale for Leap Day of 29% off orders.
Take me reco with a grain of salt, if you wish, but I love their brews. Plenty of tastes and options. If you are curious but don’t want to commit much, look at their full pot bags–if you do single cup brewing, you get about 4-6 large cups (about 4 12oz cups, give or take).
So…yeah. LEAP29 @ checkout. Multiple shipping options.
Promoted content?
Not judging, just asking.
They grow coffee up in Door County?
Fuck that noise. I have a burning hatred for Door county.
Why?
Because years ago I used to have to drive all the way through it to go salmon fishing up in Gill’s Rock. You can drive all the way to Green Bay in about 5 hours. Then you spend 3 hours trying to drive through Door county. All because the progrie/yuppie tourists wander about on the street in every town in Door county. Don’t get me started on those stupid fucking goats that walk on the roof of that restaurant in Sister’s Bay. The amount of time I’ve been stuck there waiting for the touristas to get the fuck out of the street is way too much.
Life is so much better now that we fish out of Algoma.
Climate Denier is one of those perfect insults because it allows the speaker to establish is feeling of intellectual superiority without having any knowledge of the subject. They are smart because they puppet what they’re 5th grade science teacher taught.
How dare a truly great mind challenge my faith! He must not be such a smarty-pants after all.
Hey, man. Were you asking about the Time Travel to Kill Hitler short story a few days ago? I think it was you. I apologize if it wasn’t. Anyway, for whoever the hell was asking:
https://www.abyssapexzine.com/wikihistory/
Funny stuff.
That was me. Thanks
I am always reminded of a coworker, a fairly intelligent person otherwise, who said “I don’t think I could vote for a President who doesn’t believe in evolution.”
That attribute alone has no bearing on a person’s competence for office of President. It also expresses an oversimplified view of the world. Everybody has quirky opinions on some topic or another. Why is that topic so important?
Heh.
I just had this conversation with some people from work (at the bar), me and another younger guy both said it doesn’t have any bearing on practical day-to-day things, so didn’t really matter. The older guy was very anti-creationism, but he was form LA so…
They are smart because they puppet what they’re 5th grade science teacher taught.
inorite?
Everyone knows it is the 5th grade English teachers that really shape the world.
I wonder if using “Liberty Denier” would work just as well as “Fuck Off, Slaver?”
Oh, I like it!
Despite being a liberty denier, Nancy Pelosi spent six years as Speaker of the House.
Predictions: Biden wins tonight, media go crazy to try to pump his numbers higher in super Tuesday states
You say that as if it were a bad thing.
I want to see a contested convention.
Oh me too.
If Biden is the candidate, just wait for the debates. Trump knows damn well all he has to do is keep taunting Biden until he loses it and goes into a foaming-at-the-mouth, unhinged dementia-laced rant.
Show them the real Joe, the one that’s sliding into a particularly aggressive senile dementia, and Trump wins.
Joe’s campaign is a shadow campaign. See who he picks as running mate and you’ll see who is running it. They win and Bam 25th amendment his ass
They won’t use the 25th amendment unless he’s so far gone he stops doing what his advisors tell him to.
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HC
Should I live blog my vote for Tulsi today?
Won’t you get a ticking off for smartphoning at a polling station? We in UK not allowed to use smart phone in polling station – at least they put signs up – I don’t know if the officials can deny you your vote based on cell/smart phone use, but you might get tutted at, or something.
I tried to photograph my ballot during the 2016 election, so as to show a friend’s son that I did indeed write him in as POTUS. I got scolded 6 ways from Sunday by the 2 NYPD chicks who were patrolling my local polling site. Never got to take the picture; the police were quicker to shout “PHONE!”, than they would be to alert to a firearm.
Glad you made it out alive.
Also, if they can see you have a phone, they can probably see who you voted for.
Isn’t that true for all absentee ballots? I’ve heard that in Cali, the evil ones actually sort through ballots sent in by registered Republicans and “make the ballots disappear.”
The few cases here have said that laws against taking pictures are illegal.
Finally got some sleep and they woke me to draw more blood.
Sigh.
I hope that the swelling is at least making you more zaftig.
Seriously, get well soon!
Hope you’re on the mend today, HE. Sleep will help, if the medics will leave you alone.
Hopefully they’ll be able to get you on the mend right away.
I think that’s what drove my brother to hospice. He literally could never get more than two consecutive hours of sleep while in the hospital. How does someone get their strength up for chemo treatments when they are sleep deprived for a month??
Good luck, hx.
Couldn’t agree more. The current dominant medical philosophy doesn’t seem to do enough to maximize (or even limit interference with) the body’s natural defenses and self repair mechanisms.
Get better Splo’sy.
How is the hospital caricaturist? I would think that a modern hospital would simply take a picture of your blood instead of drawing it. But what do I know?
Get better quickly!
Not entirely a conspiracy if they’ve gone on record as stating they would like a recession in order to push out Trump, then hyped the ever loving shit out of Coronavirus to create a recession.
They’d really rather see the economy tank than Trump in the White House again.
Actually, they’d rather tank the economy themselves after Trump leaves, so they can take credit for our new glorious socialist utopia.
Why justify anything when they can simply ignore it?
In other news, I picked up a couple cases of Lake City M885. Because hey why not?
https://www.luckygunner.com/lake-city-5-56×45-ammo-for-sale-5-56x45mm62fmjm855lcity-1000
Precious metals, baby. Brass and lead. Never a bad investment.
I’m not anticipating any major societal collapse in my lifetime – a nation the size of the U.S. has a long ways to go before any such event – but if there were one, the people who have been counseling purchases of silver and gold are going to be proven horribly wrong. In a real shit-hits-the-fan scenario, the only value a bar of gold will have will be as a boat anchor.
Ammo, though – if the manufacturers are shut down due to a societal collapse, ammo will be the new currency. .22 rimfire rounds will be the nickels and dimes, shotguns and centerfire rifle rounds the tens and twenties.
My father always stressed the advisability of sticking to calibers that may be readily acquired from First Responders/LEO/military (I really HATE the term First Responders, the humans at the scene of an event are the FIRST responders; LEO/emergency services are a phone call and a bit of a drive away). So apart from my obsession with Warsaw Pact small arms, most of my (sadly lost to the choppy waters of Jamaica Bay) collection is .45, 9mm, .12 gauge, and 5.56.
Long winded way of saying I agree with you, Animal. Also, distilled spirits will (IMO) be useful as a trade commodity.
Basic commodities would take on a whole new value. For example, Mrs. Animal some years back grew interested in making soap, and has experimented with quite a few different processes. All you need is a supply of fat and lye – which you can leach from wood ash – and you can make soap. Soap would likewise be a valuable trade commodity.
As for firearms, if I thought a major collapse was likely (I don’t) I’d give some serious thought to buying a smooth-bore flintlock musket, and a big supply of black powder and bar lead. Producing modern ammo from scratch is a job for a well-equipped factory, but folks have been making black gunpowder for a thousand years or so.
I bought a M&Pc in .40 after one of the great ammo shortages since it was always in stock.
I remember that during the Colorado shortage. .40 and 6.5 Creedmore alwys in stock locally.
Nice. Both excellent rounds. I don’t own a 6.5. I lots a ton of .40 ammo in a boating accident.
Listen…I’m just buying rounds.
Still waiting for rail-gun technology to get down to man-portable size. I want an electric pistol taht fires thousands of tiny needles per minute.
I’d like a Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range please.
That antique? You know how much they’re going for?
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/the-week-in-pictures-volatility-edition.php
For whatever reason, the mini-golf one made me laugh.
Speaking of PL, Mirengoff – the Joe Biden of PL – has a new slob job up on Tom Cotton’s newest bill to make selling fetanyl even more bad.
The anecdote they are using to sell this newest escalation in the WOD is
Yup. The old “The black market hurt this person so let’s make the black market bigger” trick. Surprisingly Mirengoff is getting destroyed in the comments.
Good morning, Old Man!
And good morning to all of You People, particularly the lovely ‘Splosives. Nice to see you out and about.
I would love to see troops out of every shithole around the world, but it doesn’t look like to many people are on board. Great money in adventurism, I guess.
I think you’ve linked Gorka before. He’s got a nice style, perfect for an overcast Saturday morning. Thanks!
Make it a great Leap day, peeps!
Think our Leap is wearing a crown and flouncing around the house making his family bow and scrape on this, his day?
You mean that’s not his normal behavior?
Brawndo: there’s nothing it can’t do!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/28/i-have-coronavirus-so-far-it-isnt-that-bad/
I’m starting to think that Glibs should have a ‘Corn Pop Daily Gaffes’ column.
CORN POP STRIKES AGAIN!
“I’m looking forward to appointing the first African-American woman to the United States Senate.”
Wow! The Dems are fucked. They should have gone with the CILF. At least she’s not batshit insane or senile.
CILF? Communist I’d like to fight?
Child I’d like to fuck.
OMWC would vote for the CILF.
Well, all Democrats are children really.
I want to put my Labour into her Means of Production.
What does it say about the education level of your readers when you write that article and feel it is necessary to say:
You know exactly what it says.
I couldn’t read the actual article posted, so I’m basing my info from here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51689443
Sounds pretty good, except that 14 months is a long time. I’m guessing that is so it happens well after the election? I also don’t think the Taliban will stick to the deal, but if they do, win-win.
Get. Out. Of. Afghanistan.
Get. Out. Of. Everywhere.
Yes. Starting with Asscrackistan.
Starting with my bank account…
Prediction: Taliban assholes commit some atrocity and U.S. decides it can’t leave. You might ask “Why would anyone rile a heavily armed enemy who is the process of withdrawing?” but these jihad dudes never seem to realize that if they just took a one year vacation from terrorism, the U.S. might get the fuck out of their way.
Prediction: CIA funded assholes commit some atrocity…
shoot, it is just as plausible that one of the native grifters pulls the false flag operation to keep that sweet sweet sugar from Uncle Sam flowing in.
Anyone ever shot one of these?
https://www.kimberamerica.com/k6s
I handled one at a local death merchant. Feels great but its like….what did Kimber mess up?
I’ve heard good things about. I’ve never shot one, but I have shot lightweight small frame .357 mags before and did not find it fun at all. I would try to rent one first or a similar weight 357, maybe along with an S&W 66 or 686+ to compare to. Should try some defensive ammo out of it.
It may be as ugly as a bag of dicks with no handle, but the Chiappa Rhino is fun as hell. The lower bore angle makes a huge difference; .357 feels like shooting 9 mm.
Interesting.
YouTuber Yankee Marshall has done some videos on it. He’s a big fan. Makes perfect sense.
what did Kimber mess up
I was thinking “making a super-lightweight .357 Mag snubbie”, but you beat me to it, Almighty.
All firearms are loud but if you ever have to shoot a .357 snubby without plugs you’ll end up deaf. 38s are good enough.
Can confirm. I owned one and decided I needed to shoot it with hydra-shoks at the range a few times, just to know what it felt like. You don’t want to shoot 20 rounds out of it like that, I promise you. It hurts. The other end seems…very bad.
Obviously I’d shoot .38’s but the option for .357 is nice.
Ooh, pretty.
Silicone Saturday is ready to get out the whips and chains.
http://archive.li/1OxBO
I see Amash and Massie are getting dragged as “racists” for voting no on HR35.
Why not make all crimes federal hate crimes?
Raise your hand if you didn’t see that coming.
Tulsi putting “journalists” in quotes:
https://i.imgflip.com/104r6n.jpg
Leftists eating their own at…The University of Oklahoma?
https://youtu.be/OX2eiPTqiTg
I stand corrected. The Democrats should have ran Popeyes Chicken Sandwich for President.
Cut all public funding from these loony bins.
You’ve got my vote.
I wouldn’t think Norman was like that. https://kfor.com/news/local/sit-in-hunger-strike-over-racial-issues-at-ou-ends-administration-pledges-changes-improved-communication/
Rewarding a stupid temper tantrum is always a good idea.
I wonder what the “racial issues” were that convinced the admin to impose struggle sessions.
See the link I posted at the top of this sub thread. The issues are nothing of consequence.
YT;DW but thanks 🙂
In his own simple climate model, Dyson underplayed the effects of greenhouse gases. Atmospheric physicists savaged his model for going against a broad consensus. That stung Dyson, who insisted that “global warming is grossly exaggerated as a problem.”
Gosh, what a radical position to hold. And again the consensus. Consensus! Everybody knows science is all about popular opinion.
We’ll just ignore the fact that so far, his predictions seem to be more accurate than the “consensus.”
Consensus was reached long ago that the universe is geocentric. Everything since then has been a parade of deniers.
Cancel the sinner!
There’s No Such Thing As ‘Cancel Culture’ – Op-Ed By Adolf Hitler
He should have hired a 16 year old in pigtails to be his front man.
Seriously, “how dare you! You’ve stolen my dreams and my childhood” is an appropriate response to the people who want to gut the economy and send us back to the Stone Age.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14450
Morons at my office are falling for the coronavirus horseshit and asking to work from home.
“ERMAHGERD! You can transmit it before you have symptoms!”
…just like the flu and a zillion other diseases.
“ERMAHGERD! If you get it, your chance of dying is like, totes, sooper high!”
Relatively I suppose. It’s much higher with Ebola and Rabies, but you’re not asking to stay home for fear of that. And most of the people who have died are elderly and/or have preexisting health problems.
“ERMAHGERD! WHO said it’s a GLOBUL PANDEMIK!!!!!!”
WHO is as useful and trustworthy as the UN.
You’re correct about relatively high, it looks like around two percent while the flu is around one per two or three thousand.
As the bulk of cases are still in China, all data is highly suspect. First, of course, the ChiComs are lying and have been since day one. Second, there are factors in China that don’t translate to a lot of other countries (crap medical system in most of the country, high smoking rate, terrible air quality), all of which point to a higher death rate. Last I saw, the “dead v recovered” ratios for China that are in the low double digits. That won’t happen in more advanced countries, but We. Just. Don’t. Know.
Yeah, you can’t trust the Chinese numbers due to them covering it up and sick people being terrified to reveal their sickness and be locked in their homes or sent to a “hospital.” Who knows what the truth is but it’s probably safe to say this is a good bit worse as far as death rate goes than the flu.
The reported Italian numbers are 900 confirmed cases and 21 deaths… Roughly 2%
Obviously the real number is much lower, but that’s a pretty high percentage.
My working assumption is that this will be pretty much like the flu in the US. Since the flu reliably kills over 10,000 a year in the US, its worth making the effort to keep it out as long as we can.
WHO is as useful and trustworthy as the UN.
True, but WHO delayed its declaration due to pressure from the ChiComs. This thing qualified for pandemic status for awhile before WHO pulled the trigger. Pandemic status is mostly a threshold for travel restrictions, the essential measure to reduce the spread of an infectious disease. This thing is worse because WHO delayed. Just as its worse because the ChiComs dragged their feet last year when it first surfaced.
Assuming this thing is roughly equivalent to the flu in civilized countries, that is still plenty bad enough to try to clamp down on travel to “flatten the curve” of its spread until we get a handle on it. Epidemiology is, rightly in my opinion, a risk averse discipline, because of the potential for geometric spread and increase in illness and death. It can also be highjacked by “never let a crisis go to waste” types, but at least currently, a lot of those are bought and paid for globalists whose interests run the other way when it comes to travel and immigration restrictions. They are limited in the US to trying to use this to score cheap palace intrigue points against OrangeManBad.
A lot of difficulties with modeling something has many unknowns. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Flattening the curve can be done both by emphasizing and increasing hygiene and social distancing (including the kind Q is ridiculing up above). Now is the time to review business continuity plans and looking at alternatives. If people don’t need to be in the office, start developing work from home plans.
We have to send suspected corona virus tests to Atlanta. The punchline: apparently, they only send results on weekdays. A pandemic of still uncertain transmissibility and fatality
is obviously no reason for pubsecs to work on a weekend.
Dude, that’s extra paperwork and probably a violation of union rules.
It’s all Trump’s fault.
Climate change and overpopulation both solved.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/china-cornvirus-coincides-plummet-nitrogen-dioxide
Speaking of the Left eating their own:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8059419/Michael-Bloomberg-worse-Trump-AOC-blasts-former-NYC-mayor.html
AOC says Mike Bloomberg would ‘be a worse Trump’ if elected president and claims her fellow Democrat has ‘less obvious’ fascism because he is ‘more sophisticated’
Silly bartender. Democrats can’t be fascists.
He has such a God complex that he does make Trump look like Mr. Rodgers.
All this Corona and Lime git me thinking about all the Medical supplies/ Meds I still have,
Boxes and boxes of Gauze rolls, 4″x4″ gauze pads, sterile water, all kinds of goodies, maybe I should hang on to it all?
Absolutely.
Thanks! I need to ID and inventory the drugs next,
I bought a box of surgical masks last year when recovering from a silly mouth/lip injury. So went to the clinic yesterday, I brought my own.
I have a well-decked out first aid kit and a kit with sterile water and a few weeks of food, plus whatever is in the garden.
I fear loss of clean tap water and electricity more alarming than the virus.
^^This^^
We’ve got a Berkey filter which we run all our drinking water through. Tucson tap water has quite the menu of heavy metals, all in the “acceptable” range, but I’d just as soon not drink lead and uranium. Berkeys aren’t cheap, but they are about the only filter we found that does much about metals.
Electricity? We’re fucked if it goes out.
As a Californian with a Tesla, I would think you could get some phat deals/subsidies for solar. A neighbor of mine had solar, and said he probably broke even, all in, but that you could easily go into the red with rooftop solar if you need any work done on your roof. So I’m thinking solar is more of a “SHTF” decision than a “let’s get free electricity from the sun” decision.
I have solar but SDG&E requires everyone to be hooked up through the grid, so by law, my excess solar gen has to go back through SDG&E and then to me. Even if I had the Tesla Wall Battery option, it has to be hooked in such a way that I can’t use it locally if power goes down.
Ridiculous.
Fortunately there are some good videos about salvaging Tesla Model S batteries from crashes and hooking them up DYI.
Those videos were made and posted by one Thomas Massie.
That is fucking ridiculous. I’m kind of surprised that SD would be like that.
I would imagine if it’s reverse feeding, it probably stems from not back feeding during an electrical outage to prevent injury to linemen. Coupled with broad poorly worded guidance.
I would assume a transfer switch would be required with installation? If that were the reason, then they’d have to ban generators for the same reason. (Maybe they do?)
A technical/legal note: you shouldn’t keep any prescriptions in Wendy’s name, most definitely including any opioids. Your decision is, of course, your own, but having opioids in any quantity that were prescribed for someone else is an invitation to an indictment for diversion or distribution of a controlled substance.
Yes
Depending on the state, it’s not unheard of for police to pay you a visit just to collect unused opioids from a recently deceased spouse. It’s depressingly authoritarian, but that’s how it is.
Haven’t heard of that in Tucson, but we run into this a lot because of our outpatient hospice operation. Its kin d of a catch-22 – outpatient hospice patients often have quite the stockpile of opioids, which our staff aren’t allowed to take back from them (that would be “diversion”). After the patient dies, we usually tell the family on the downlow to just flush them.
This is how we end up with gay, drug addicted frogs.
Can’t remember which state it is (probably New York), but EMTs are required to call in any opioid prescriptions they see in a house when retrieving a fatality.
Well I, Don’t have any of her drugs at hand, they were stolen from my storage unit,…………..
such a waste of taxpayer money
Give ’em back only some in the bottle?
PS. Yusef: Great article the other day. Sorry to hear about the theft, and sorry I wasn’t more helpful the other night.
Sensible disaster preparation never hurts.
I got my food and water supplies in case of Minnesota blizzard, but now it will work for earthquakes (bad ones are rare in San Diego) or fires if we have to throw them in the car And get out. And yes, cat food is included.
You’re 50 miles from the San Andreas, nowhere is safe from an earthquake in Socal
I think I have the Coronavirus. Maybe some vodka and orange juice will help?
Certainly couldn’t hurt. Antiseptic and Vitamin C all in one glass.
Well, that’s all the confirmation I needed. Time to pour a little drinky-poo.
To your health!
Does the Dem party still have SuperDelegates?
Yes, but they have their wings clipped until the second round of voting.
also, their capes are different now.
yes but now they only get to influence a brokered convention.
Voted. If Tulsi doesnt have at least 1 vote in Charleston County, the fix is in.
Keep us posted!
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146362/airborne-nitrogen-dioxide-plummets-over-china
Interesting images. Not the best way to get cleaner air.