We swear it is not Coronavirus related!
Um…Links. Yeah. They are around here somewhere…. Ah, here are some. Enjoy, ignore, comment on whatever. You know, the usual.
- Welp, I guess that means no more advokaat shipments to the Glibs HQ for now. drat.
- And to think, saints used to cleanse lepers sores and such… guess not this guy.
- Guess Harry will have to get a sword.
SO…go forth and cleanse Cascadia, or whatnot.
Enjoy, ignore, comment on whatever.
You can’t tell me what to do.
Sure he can, you’re just not required to act on it.
MERCURY RETROGRADE!
And to think, saints used to cleanse lepers sores and such… guess not this guy.
Maybe they’ll call Benedict out of retirement.
Don’t you have to be Catholic to be a saint?
No, I think there are Orthodox saints too.
Well, Frankie definitely doesn’t have the beard to be Orthodox.
I believe that the have canonized some pre-Christians. Where’s Eddie when you need him?
Technically Paul was a pre-Christian. 😉
He was better called Saul then…
And he was a Good man, too.
Eastern Orthodox has Saint Isaiah.
You know, the United Methodist Church refers to some people as “Saints,” but I don’t know if it’s just an honorific thing, or a carryover from when Charles Wesley was an Anglican or what. I went to a couple of churches named after Saints (St. Stephen UMC and St. Luke UMC). But most of the churches I see these days seem to be named after places (Boston Ave UMC, First UMC of Tulsa, etc.)
My understanding is that Protestants inherited and incorporated all the saints and martyrs, but generally doesn’t emphasize them, especially the less ritualistic denominations. They are particularly averse to St. Mary because of the cult of Marianism, but St. Joseph seems to get a pass because he was just a cuck.
I was raised a United Methodist and saints refers to everyone. Think also of the Catholic church celebrating All Saints Day.
Pre-cleanup, there were also some other legends who got canonized.
/waves at St. Bridget
They are all legendary. I never met any of them, therefore they are all fictional.
Saint Paul the Bunyan?
Saint Clair de Lune
You need not even be recognized by the catholic church at all to be acknowledged as a saint. To be a Saint, with the big ‘S’ is a different matter. Little ‘s’ saints are any of the great cloud of witnesses in heaven. Big ‘S’ Saints are those officially recognized by a church and they have extra conditions, which for the catholic church means they have to be members of the church among other things. The catholic church does however consider most important pre-Jesus biblical figures to be Saints, such as Moses and Elijah.
Saint John the Baptist was a Jew?
Don’t you have to be Catholic to be a saint?
Nope. All you have to do is have a gun for an arm and be willing to back up Brees for a year or two and the Saints will be happy to have you.
Winner!
Right from the mouth of the Pope himself, too!
Guess Harry will have to get a sword.
If they moved to the US she could get a Gun.
She’s no deplorable.
I think we all knew this was coming…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loHJlpekLfg
Relevant
“A hook-handed boogeyman spits out swarms of bees and haunts a housing project in Chicago.”
Wouldn’t that be an improvement?
Both from yesterday, but he just retweeted them. I guess “chocker” is a thing now.
“Mini Mike”
Not too creative but I like it anyway. One and a half thumbs up.
His Biden line was good.
Was it here I read that insane straight up commie-tyrant quote from Steyer? It was a doozy.
Go away, I’m chockin’
Chockin’ the chicken?
We’ll respect your privacy.
I’m disappointed that Team Trump is using “Pocahontas” instead of the more glibtastic “Fauxcahontas”.
You see… there is a limit… to how dumb… even I am willing to sound.
Crazy Bernie is too generic. I prefer Comrade Bernie or Grandpa Gulag.
Big fan of “Liawatha”.
“Sitting Bullshit” was my favorite but I guess even Donald’s twitter team won’t go there.
This one was the best:
Bloomberg paid for a billboard “Donald Trump cheats at golf.”
Trump tweets “Mike Bloomberg cheats… at mini-golf!”
More coverage from last night’s debate.
It was a very good day,
That’s good to hear.
Any specific things stand out, or just good overall?
I’ll explain around 7CST, but definitely some breakthroughs,
Okay.
Yay!
Xstep, invoked and in play,
I don’t know if a new poll came out, but FiveThirtyEight just jumped up the odds for Biden in South Carolina, and a bunch of super Tuesday states. Overall this has increased the odds of a contested convention to 50%.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/
A new poll came out.
I forget the exact numbers, but Minimike has stalled.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/27/poll-joe-biden-big-lead-south-carolina-117839
Poll: Biden crushing Sanders in South Carolina
A Monmouth University survey shows the former vice president 20 points ahead of frontrunner, Bernie Sanders.
So… they actually listened to what Bernie was saying?
i think it’s kinda funny that the only thing potentially saving us from a Sanders nomination is red states.
And Florida.
I am hoping that there is a glitch in results reporting that manifests in Bernie’s share being overreported, then corrected downward.
Bernie being the candidate will end up in a crushing defeat for the Dems at the polls, but it could also be the end of their monopoly of the black vote too.
It is pretty obvious that black people – for some strange reason (you’d think they would be used to working for free) – don’t see the benefits of socialism and may decide that it is OK to vote for Trump.
Once blacks start splitting their votes, the Dems are in a real hurt bag. Not even from a pure numbers point of view either. If enough blacks start voting GOP, the usual claims of racism will fall flat.
black people – for some strange reason (you’d think they would be used to working for free) – don’t see the benefits of socialism
God help me, I may use that.
If you want to see Trump get another term that’s excellent news. A narrow Sanders lead going into the convention will mean a Sanders loss and a split party.
it’s like when two teams i hate are playing and i’m rooting for a slug fest.
Lizzy Warren with an Ax?
In the conservatory?
Gave her party 40 whacks?
Damn your nimble fingers.
Gave Mini Mike 40 whacks.
They can LARP “Chicago ’68”
Where the working class police rose up and beat the hell out of the college educated elites. Damn, Marx was right.
Know what? Of all those douchebags (though Buttigieg seems like a decent enough fella) running? Biden is the least insane of the bunch. He’s a creepy and corrupted soul who doesn’t know where the exit is but still better. For two reasons, one his corruption is run of the mill corruption so you know the devil you’re getting and two he’d get slaughtered like any Democrat anyway.
Biden is the least insane of the bunch.
For a man who likely has dementia, that’s saying something.
My vote for least crazy goes to Klobuchar who’s unfortunately also runner up after Warren for most shrill.
I would have thought Buttigieg was the least crazy, but I haven’t been paying close attention.
Yeah, hard to have no personality and be crazy at the same time.
Well, he’s literally mimicking Obama Speeches, so you have all that reside, plus all of his phoniness and insincerity. That’s before even looking into his record as a fuckup mayor.
He’s also milking the shit outta his nondescript military service, as if he were a big hero or something. In reality, he was directly commissioned for God knows what reason so he could be a driver/gofer in Afghanistan.
“I was in the general vicinity of greatness”
Maybe it’s his inability to close his tags.
It’s nice when you can see exactly how you fucked up the html.
He’s a slick empty suit who’s been being groomed for this position for a couple decades. I find him more repulsive the more I learn about him.
I agree with Stinky, Special K is the “least crazy”.
Special K is the “least crazy”.
She is also “least electable”.
Every one of them will sign anything the Ds in Congress manage to pass.
alls i knows is Milwaukee will feel the Bern. and by Bern i literally mean Bernie supporters will burn it to the ground.
Fuck Harry and Meghan. They can pay their own damn security detail. The balls on those two.
Harry had no balls or he wouldn’t be giving up that cushy Prince job he inherited.
I get the feeling he’s being totes manipulated by this chick. No clue who she is except that she’s apparently some typical wokester.
Over/under they last.
I wonder if Vegas had odds.
Do people sell nuptial insurance, and can you purchase it for someone else’s marriage?
Harry has no balls.
Megan chucked ’em down the hall.
Have the British tabloids called her “Princess Yoko” yet?
Not yet apparently. Although it’s out there during a cursory web search.
There’s also a Princess Yōko in the Japanese imperial family.
Love in the faith tradition:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/76f645919f3484d268486277044b15cfa32be51cb861d38ce2111e34e3fa4f33.jpg?w=600&h
Jihadi Spice?
The Vatican has not specified the nature of the pope’s illness, but he was seen coughing and blowing his nose during Ash Wednesday Mass.
It’s kind of obvious isn’t it?
Yup. Gonorrhea.
I was going with Neurosyphillus
Which kind?
Basic Gonorrhea?
Super-Gonorrhea?
Wonder-Gonorrhea?
Electro-Gonorrhea?
Tests say… Goat Clap.
CoronaRhea!
All the ash got in his nose?
Putting your nose in the ash is a good way to get hepatitis.
Brown-noser.
That joke stinks.
True story: until Pope Stephen VI it was called Ass Wednesday. Very different tradition.
Different Times, for different men.
AIDS?
“Canada refuses to pay for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Vancouver security”
Racist
why do they need security at all anyway? who gives a shit about them!
Why do they need all that security? It’s CANADA.
exactly. what are some dull white people going to do to a c list actress and a pseudo royalty figure anyway?
The serious answer is kidnap for money.
“Pay us or we’ll give them back”?
/sarc
The more likely answer is moose attack.
A moose bit mi sister once.
Nasti!
¡Llamas!
J Paul Getty’s ear,
Or, they could spend their pwn money on security.
What money?
There’s the rub. Harry probably has personal income that most of us could live quite comfortably from. And by personal, I mean income from estates and stocks that he has inherited, etc. But that probably doesn’t come close to supporting the lifestyle to which he, and recently Meghan, have become accustomed to. He’s walking away from all of those soft benefits to which members of the inner royal family (the queen and her siblings and descendents) have become accustomed.
The security thing is huge, and probably something he, or more likely Meghan, didn’t consider. Easy to hide that in the government budget in the UK, not so much in North America.
Full of… Canadians!
DOUBLE THE GUARD!
We don’t want any of those Albertan-types sneaking in here.
I thought Albertans were Texans who BBQ’d with maple instead of mesquite.
And do you really think Meagan wants any of those deplorables near her?
Oh, you were using the royal we.
Sorry, I should have made that a quote. Yes, that was supposed to be a panicked snob.
Maple? Try crude oil.
Why would you BBQ in crude oil?
Someone might assume their genders. In Canada, that’s akin to a violent assault.
there are still Roundheads in some of the colonies..
/shiftily glances over shoulder
Now if they could refuse to pay for Justin Trudeau’s security….
I’d accept my taxes doubling if they promised to eliminate his security.
sicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8050671/Demi-Rose-wears-face-mask-jets-LA-amid-global-COVID-19-outbreak.html
She needs to cut back on the pasta.
And possibly the bat meat.
A patient in the Netherlands has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus Covid-19, Dutch health authorities said on Thursday, the first confirmed case in the country.
If they aren’t careful they will go double.
Guess Harry will have to get a sword.
Isn’t wielding a sword what created his problems in the first place?
Israeli company says they’ll have a coronavirus vaccine ready in a matter of weeks:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-scientists-say-they-will-have-coronavirus-vaccine-few-weeks#comment_stream
We’ll see…oh, and stay the hell away from the comments. Good Lord.
Didn’t we (the US) have one that seems to work? Or did I misread something somewhere??
Lemme guess, this proves it was a (((bioweapon)))?
It was a (((conspiracy))) all along…
My preferred method of protection against coronavirus
Welp… Now I have a new fetish.
Thanks.
Doesn’t it mutate fast though? It’s an RNA replicator, like a cold. Any vaccine success will be short-lived.
Given the Jew hating slant of Zero Hedge comment sections on stories that have absolutely nothing to do with them, I can only imagine what they’re like on a story about an Israeli vaccine.
Holy shit. I’ve never sunk into the comments there before.
Isn’t that what our CDC should be doing too?
Too busy with gun studies and lesbian obesity.
Welp, I guess that means no more advokaat shipments to the Glibs HQ for now. drat.
Sounds like gay news.
So, ISideWith is up and running. Take the Quiz.
I’m apparently 93% Libertarian and 82% Republican, and I should support the Green Party and the Socialist Party ahead of the Democrats.
Hmmm
Sounds about right.
93% Constitution 91% Republican 86% Liberertarian
93% Libertarian, 87% Constitution, 78% Republican
Funny part is I have a higher rating for Socialist (15%) than Democratic (13%)
Me to. 17 S v 10 D
I was single digit for D. 9%
16% Socialist.
I had 2% socialist. 5% dem
I suspect it’s a false positive.
You guys are all Commies. I was 3% Socialist and 1% Green.
Filthy Pinko Commie Bastard.
I found the Anti-War positions would give you Socialist Cred on the quiz….
Me too – they must be to the left of the socialists at this point.
89% libertarian
85% constitution
81% gop
9% socialist
8% democrat
On the Presidential poll, I am 80% Trump, 46% Tulsi.
Found the Parties tab:
90% Libertarian and Constitution, 87% Republican, 22% Democrat.
The fact that the Libertarian/Constitution and Republican scores are so close tells me there are likely some flaws.
78 Trump, 43 Tulsi. 92 Libertarian, 87 Constitution, 81Republican. 21% Socialist? That must be my ass.
Bottom party was Peace and Freedom at 12%, just below Democratic at 14. Bottom 2 candidates were Liz at 10% and Bernie at 15.
Nice, I’m 93% LP 89% constitution and then 77% GOP, followed by Socialist, Peace and Freedom, Green and finally Democratic.
This is a fun quiz, and i like that it has the option too look at more nuanced answers.
Looking over the results, apparently on the question of the Draft, if you answer No, you agree with everyone.
91% L
85% Constitution
81% R
10% D
91% Republican
89% Constitution
85% Libertarian
Apparently only the Democrats and Socialists (i know this is a proxy for their platforms) think that Gun Manufactures should be able to be sued by victims of gun violence. I would have thought the Greens would be on that train.
LP is the only party against mandatory vaccination.
I found it hilarious how nobody aligned with me. I was either on the middle on issues where they weren’t or wildly on one extreme where they were clustered.
Same here. 93% Libertarian, 90% Constitution, 82% GOP, then 17% Democrat.
91% Constitution
90% Libertarian
88% Republican
14% Socialist
14% Democrat
Constitution 89%
Libertarian 88%
Republican 87%
Democratic at the very bottom with 8%
Trump 85%
Gabbard 40%
Bloomberg 28%
This is obviously bullshit, the one true libertarian only gets 92%, seriously flawed methodology! Fake News!
the one true libertarian only gets 92%
I don’t regard agreement with the Libertarian Party as having much to do with my status as the One True Libertarian.
^Look at this guy.
Jimmy Weeks has a sad.
You miss typed, I got 93%.
94% libertarian
85% constitution
71% socialist
70% green
Maybe I did something wrong. I only chose yes or no. I didn’t bother with the “other” choise.
Look at the N00b, here. Have you gotten your official FOT, yet?
Cute icon, avatar, whatever you kids are calling it these days.
New? This is my 179th comment, which averages to about 1 comment per week.
There were a couple where I went with other:
Abortion until viability, but not after. (Had to write that one in)
Convicts can vote after they serve their sentence.
Dunno how those affected my results.
You need to indicate how extreme you are.
91% Libertarian
90% Constitution
82% Republican
81% Trump
36% Gabbard
92% Constitution
91% Libertarian
89% Republican
10% Socialist?
8% Democrat
7% Peace and Freedom?!?
7 % Green
LOL! The first characteristic under Peace and Freedom is Bog Government. I think we can safely call this retarded.
Although I did include Pope Jimbo in the local election.
LOL! The first characteristic under Peace and Freedom is Bog Government. I think we can safely call this retarded.
I had the same exact thought.
Also don’t feel bad about the Socialist, i got 33%
Bruh! You’re practically a Bernie Bro, brah!
I promise – if elected – to never show up for any meeting, assembly or government function.
Why the fuck do you think I always vote for you? Hint: it’s not your sterling personality or good looks!
(And I did actually include you. I hope it shows up on others quizzes)
How did I get 14% for Green? I’m as anti-environmentalism as they come.
Is nuclear pro or anti-environmentalist?
Prop environment, anti-Green Party.
I’m pro-nuclear, the Green party is against.
Apparently, the Green party has positions unrelated to environmentalism. That’s how I got 14%. Among the most surprising issues that I agree with the Greens is No to “Should victims of gun violence be allowed to sue firearms dealers and manufacturers?” Now looking at the question I think I should have given a more nuanced answer–or maybe not, victims of gun violence don’t include victims of firearm malfunctioning.
Huh.
I got “100% Canadian.” Great quiz. Much accurate. Bigly good.
I am so sorry.
92% Libertarian
89% Constitution
86% GOP
Seems about right.
Universal Background Check, Other Gun Bills Pass VA Senate
Oh look, my dear senator Dunnavant voted for one of them. Cunt.
“HB9, a lost and stolen firearms bill, was amended to extend the time gun owners have to report lost or stolen firearms to police from 24 to 48 hours. The bill actually tied 20-20, but Lt. Gov Justin Fairfax cast a tie breaking vote and it passed 21-20.”
Would this hold up I wonder? This is the revictimization of crime victims plain and simple.
I haven’t read the actual bill, but it seems like this would be unenforceable. When does the time start? Discovery by the gunowner? It all seems completely arbitrary. How is the state supposed to know when the items were stolen if the owner can’t even know? And I can think of a dozen scenarios where the owner may not know for quite some time. It is horseshit legislation from horseshit people.
This is the revictimization of crime victims plain and simple.
Government victimization of victims/would-be victims is a common theme.
It’s basically the law here in MA.
Justin Fairfax is an empty suit.
Fuck them all. Counting down the days until we can put the house on the market… 33 and counting.
Stocks dropped 800 points in the past hour. This dump is as irrational as the past year’s gains.
Shit’s getting real. And if this is how the downturn is going to begin (people dumping stocks over fear of coronavirus) then what is the Fed suppose to do in response? The ten year treasury note is hovering around 1.25%. You can’t get any lower than that. So what’s they’re move? Investors and the public are going to demand that the Fed does *something*, *anything*. More asset purchases seem almost guaranteed at this point.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/worst-thing-my-career-us-stocks-suffer-fastest-collapse-record-highs-great-depression
A wall of charts in this article, but some good stuff.
The fed should do – nothing.
Not fear of Coronavirus. https://www.aier.org/article/sanders-stocks-the-threat-of-pandemic-disease/
I think this guy makes a reasonably stromh point that it’s more likely fear of Bernie Sanders.
*strong
It appears to be the perfect storm of an overvalued market and a looming global pandemic and the slowdowns and supply disruptions that entails.
The point the article makes is that the market knew about all that well before now.
Sanders might play some role but the virus also was found to have to spread to a host of different nations late last week and over the weekend. When it was just in China for the most part people were holding out hope that it can be contained and they’re realizing now that it can’t.
It feels eerily like an apocalypse movie in real life. A virus, no one freaks out too much, it jumps countries, we still stay cool, next will be a mutation that kicks it into 12th gear and time to panic.
AKA sometime in the next week will probably be a great entry point.
Yeah, I don’t want to catch the current version but the Black Death it isn’t. A mutation could be an entirely different story.
A mutation is as likely to render it harmless as to make it worse
If it is an engineered virus a mutation will likely castrate it but the original form will still be around
I don’t think it’s the fear of Sanders. If Sanders is the nominee then Trump will be reelected–nothing to worry about. It’s coronavirus. In 2014 there was a mini-correction due to Ebola. While Ebola was a more serious decease, it affected only utterly irrelevant countries in Western Africa. This time it’s China that manufacturers everything or parts of everything. Also, around the weekend coronavirus hit South Korea and Italy, who knows what countries will be affected tomorrow.
I heard 40 countries already this afternoon
Ebola is also more deadly and tends to kills off the host before spreading too far.
and can’t survive outside a steaming jungle environment for more than mere moments?
Dunno. Seems to be more from wherever/whatever animal(s) are the reservoir for ebola.
We’ll see a seesaw in gold while the flow into safety and the liquidation to cover losses compete with each other.
Yes, the S&P erased 3 months worth of ridiculously steep gains. It’s really just a return to rational. Look up the S&P PE by month. I know the PE isn’t perfect but it’s still a good indicator.
Coronavirus is going to have a serious negative impact on the supply-chains of a lot of companies. I was expecting them to wake up and realize this sooner.
Not just supply chains. Travel related companies. Person centric activities (trade shows, live entertainment). And possible change with alternative work arrangements such as telecommuting.
My company has two offices in Singapore. There’s no physical movement between the two. No going over for face to face meeting. Nothing. Even within the offices, large size meetings are not being done.
What happens when March Madness is cancelled? Or is held without spectators?
They are seriously talking about cancelling the Olympics right now.
If they do that and people get used to it, that would be a sea-change in the world due to COVID-19. Well, that and the zombies.
I doubt I would even notice if the Olympics were cancelled.
Japan is already holding baseball games and musical performances without audiences. Unless something improves quickly, that becomes an almost certainty. The head in the sand approach by the Japanese government is not helping.
They just canceled the next month of school – I assume that means they’re serious.
The 2022 Olympics or the 2020 winter “Olympics”?
I think today was full on panic selling mode, which is when I start licking my chops at cheap stocks. I already put $3k into my roth this year, but plan to do the other $3k here soon.
Finally
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/business/dunkin-donuts-snackin-bacon-trnd/index.html
OK, I’m out – I’m heading to Dunkin Donuts, right the hell now.
Dunkin’ wants you to know that it’s not just any ordinary bacon. It’s high-end bacon that’s been smoked with natural cherrywood. It’s then treated to a sweet and savory blend of brown sugar and black pepper seasoning.
Pick me up a bag too!
I am apparently the only person on Earth who thinks adding pepper detracts from bacon
Yes. Yes, you are.
Bacon, no other ingredients required, the perfect food…
+1
I like pepper and bacon, but not together.
Heretic!
I’m at that age where I can really appreciate the small things, like a new, sharp, razor.
Or in today’s case, fresh contact lenses.
TALL CANS !
Contact lenses?
Hell no.
Sharp things are safer than Dull things, and,….
TallCans!
Sup Tres!
UCS, Im vain and dont care for frames on my face. Also, lenses on your eye allow you peripheral vision that glasses dont.
However, at my age, I still have glasses that bifocal.
HEY YUFUS!
I look better with eyeglasses than without, as they help break up the potato-like profile of my features. Plus, I don’t have to stick anything in my eyes, and slightly dirty glasses don’t cause infections at anywhere near the same rate.
LASIK.
Not a chance in hell.
Life changing, dude.
Mine worked great (for almost two decades) and it was done back in the dark ages where they used a blade to slice a flap out of your cornea and a teeny paintbrush to lift it out of the way.
While you were fully conscious with your head clamped in a vice and an additional vacuum ring immobilizing your eyeball.
Then they gave me a pill that knocked me out for 12 hours and a second one to take immediately upon waking that put me out for another 12.
I awoke more rested than I’ve ever been before or since.
Helped me. I went from pretty much non-fucntional without glasses, to only needing readers (typical for serious lasik for nearightedness) to, after about 5 years, needing glasses again (also not unusual). But my prescription is pretty light, and I can get by without them.
But, yeah, having somebody cook a layer off your eyeball is kinda weird.
True story: I was in the chair, sedated, when the doc comes up, checks his clipboard, and asks me if I have any questions. I said “Yeah. Who am I?”
He looked at me funny (probably thinking I was a tad oversedated), so I said “I want to make sure you give me my correction and not someone else’s.” He laughed and read my name off the chart.
That second when everything goes black is weird, but sitting up and reading the clock across the room was groovy.
No regrets here.
Yeah, I was very happy with mine. I’m back to needing bifocals, but that’s 19 years later, 15 of them with readers.
I didn’t have any pain during the procedure, but I did panic a bit, especially when they were moving the flap out of the way.
When I first arrived at the office, they offered me a Valium. I wasn’t worried then, so I declined. Wish I’d taken the Valium but otherwise it’s been great.
I would need a significant dosage to avoid murdering the entire surgical team.
They restrain you so you can’t do that, or injure yourself and jack up their malpractice premiums.
Not anymore. It was literally nothing. A valium and about 5 minutes of actual work. Go home, close you eyes for a little while and good to go. Lots of eye drops for awhile.
My boss had Lasik done a few years ago and said he was underwhelmed with the results. I don’t remember what the nature of his previous vision impairment was.
I much prefer wearing glasses. I wouldn’t be a good candidate for contacts, as I tend to forget to clean my glasses until I start thinking, “Huh. I wonder why it’s so foggy here in the living room.”
Missed a lot of yesterday so apologies if this was covered but Clive Cussler has passed away.
🙁
Alright the bug trend has gone too damned far now.
/ignores that weevils are probably brewed up on a regular basis.
Don’t fret the lesser weevil.
Ahh, what a great scene,
Black crickets?
Ever try to fish with those?
The banality of weevils.
I’ve said it before, but scorpion-infused rum is quite tasty.
I WILL NOT LIVE IN THE POD AND I WILL NOT EAT BUGS
Things sound kind of sporty in Greece.
Who wouldn’t want local goon squads in their neighborhood?
That story doesn’t tell me anything
The story they aren’t telling – they were building an “immigrant welcome center” – and the locals were not having it.
Like Drake said, who wouldn’t want goon squads in their neighborhood?
*ducks, runs*
Specifically, they’ve been housing migrants on Lesbos in order to keep them away from the mainland and the locals are tired of it.
Why that island though? Has no one learned anything?
Those islanders have licked everyone who ever took a crack at them.
Hey! Who took my scissors?
You really muffed that comment.
Too busy yodeling in the canyon, I guess.
You let someone snatch them away?
There’s work opportunities in the carpet business there.
Can we all agree that a ‘welcome center’ for migrants from Asia Minor, located in Greece, must necessarily be named The Hot Gates?
Well, they sure want to give them the Thermopylae treatment.
I suspected that but it mentions the cops calling rioters Turkish seeds
Rioters are called locals also, so who is rioting? With all of the coded language Europeans use I can’t make heads or tails of it
Looking on a map, Lesbos and Chios are actually right next to Turkey, all the way across the Aegean Sea from the main part of Greece (a number of Greek islands are just off of Turkey). That might account for the Turkish reference.
Doesn’t Greece own basically every rock off the coast of Turkey? I always wondered how THAT came about.
I think the answer is ‘blame Athens’
Hired goons?
Riot squad cops from mainland Greece.
Should toys be ‘gender neutral’? Proposal would nix boys and girls toy aisles in California stores
Assembly Bill 2826 (AB-2826), proposed by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) – would apply to all retail department stores with 500 or more employees.
It would do away with “boys aisles” and “girls aisles” and require that children’s products be offered in a single, gender-neutral section.
“Keeping similar items that are traditionally marketed either for girls or for boys separated makes it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate,” the bill states in its description.
If passed, retailers who don’t comply would be liable for a civil penalty beginning on Jan. 1, 2023.
I guess the alternative is an aisle for all genders under the sun.
Thank God I left,
/shaking head while typing, unreal…
Straight up fascism
Yay california
Legislating the Retail layout makes sense to me.
It’s not like retailers put a lot of thought and attention and data collection into figuring out how to place products to maximize sales and minimize customer confusion…
Thank God for the brave legislators who are there to save them from themselves!!!!
This is exactly why companies should be forced to include women on their boards.
Since gender and race are fluid how about if I identify as black lesbian during the times that I work on boards?
Sounds like a secure retirement plan.
Totalitarian
36 Year old metrosexual that went to the Kennedy School of Government representing Silicon Valley
I’m so shocked
incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate
“And the next assertion I will pull out of my ass is . . . “
Geez… there’s just nothing those idiots think they can’t run in this stupid state.
Hey morons, how about you just run the state and let society run itself sometime? *grumble*
“Smash the system”
All by the book.
Note that the headline mentions ‘toy aisles’ but the bill is actually designed to hit Target and macy’s etc, and eliminate Boys and Girls clothing and shoe sections, not ‘just’ toys.
The goal of cultural Marxism is to destroy the civil society so….
Congratulations CA
Well, shit.
Obviously it’s because not all toys are gender neutral yet.
I predict the fatality rate of 2% is gonna start dropping as they begin testing and tracking this virus in more people.
Still early, but the last I saw, the fatality rate in China was still in the double digits (“dead” v “recovered”).
In civilized countries, I expect both transmission and fatality to be well south of what they are in, well, other countries.
China reported a 2.3% average fatality rate but if you’re 80 or over the odds shoot to like 15%. This thing comes down hard on the elderly.
What’s odd is, I’ve seen reports from China (so, grain of salt) listing dead v. recovered, and its a double digit fatality rate measured that way (last I saw, its been a few days). Its been coming down, though.
I don’t think you can count people who are still sick when calculating the fatality rate. I wonder if they include them when they come up with the 2% rate. “Not dead yet!”
novel coronavirus
How long before it mutates into the paperback coronavirus? Or doG forbid, movie coronavirus?
3/4 are from the Diamond Princess and aren’t surprising. The community transmission is when I’d be more resigned.
I am not sure why all of the discussion about the dem candidates
In a year we won’t remember any of thier names
Biggest issue right now is hard the virus is going to hit the economy and how long it will take to recover
This is ridiculous – a new 526-page motion, 1.5 million pages of emails, nearly 500,000 other documents, 4,000 intercepted or consensually recorded telephone calls and text messages. – all because some rich people tried to bribe their kids into college. At least they aren’t wasting all this effort fucking over some poor saps for drug crimes but Jesus Christ what a fiasco.
Never get between an AUSA and an opportunity to prosecute a celebrity.
Bonfire of the Vanities was non-fiction, apparently.
[Preeeeeeet, went the train whistle]
As Sir Chuffington Lawyerly steamed into the train station to pick up his load of deplorables…
Envy. It is all envy. Someone gets something you don’t? JAIL Someone has fun you don’t? JAIL
I LOL’d:
https://imgur.com/gallery/uoLju5W
My wife doesn’t watch much TV, but now starts yelling when his face comes on now.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
And Bloomberg had a running start before he started running ads.
Excellent!
No music?
No worries, I’ve got this one.
Going to need a proggie ruling on this story about bullying.
A black special-ed kid is knocked down and kicked on the school playground. He ends up with a concussion. Clearly he wins the intersectional victim crown right? Hold on. The school in question is the American Indian Magnet school. The story didn’t say it, but I’m going to guess that the kids who kicked him in the head were Indian. So now who wins. Does native american beat black?
Points also have to be given to the Indians for being true to their culture:
The old circle the victims trick that we’ve all seen on TV so many times.
*the only person I feel bad for is the kid. Not only did he get stomped, but he also doesn’t appear to have the best mom in the world.
Whitey’s fault, obviously
Don’t you prog?
The dirty secret about Indians is that they are super, duper racist against blacks.
They might not like your white ass, but they will pound the shit out of a black guy if he walks into a bar on the res.
There’s a historical reason for that. It was common for the government to classify Indians as black and make them subject to Jim Crow laws. Virginia was particularly hard on the Indians this way and, which is why there are so few Indians left in the state.
Uh, I’m not going into a bar on the rez unless I’m a guest of the goddamn chief.
And armed to the teeth
You’ll never get any Indian pussy with that attitude!
I’m fine with that. Used to work on the rez, remember?
One time when I was in kindergarten, I got in trouble. The teacher told everyone to sit ‘indian-style’ so I went and laid in the curb with a liquor bottle.
/heyyyyyyyoh!
chattel slavery beats semi-accidental genocide? I guess?
A teacher seeing the kids in the circle and seeing what was happening. She called for help.
“Ima just stand here and watch this special-ed kid get the shit kicked outta him. Stopping a beat-down isn’t in my job description. Don’t like it? Talk to my union rep.”
To be fair, back in the my day teachers of the ‘she’ persuasion called for help too, of course that help was the gym coach, vice principal or math teacher next door and he would beat the hell out of the trouble makers.
Well they should stop, and identify in the “man up” persuasion.
Oh yeah. Speaking of schools here…..
School district gets caught trying to hide $750K of payouts to employees who claimed discrimination or whistle blower retaliation.
So a) school district tries to weasel out of disclosing that they paid a ton of money out b) the employees are too happy to take money for themselves in return for not blowing the whistle on evil employment practices and c) the media is so lazy that they fail to make open records requests for years and years and allow the school district to almost get away with it all.
If the “debates” taught me nothing it’s that NDAs are a sure sign of wrongdoing.
Okay, the padding in my desk chair has been, well, crushed through years and years of use by this fat bastard.
Does anyone have experience with re-upholstering office chairs? I mean, the rest of it works fine, I don’t want to replace it. But I have no idea how difficult a task I’d be looking at.
Easy. Upholstery foam and staples. You can just shape the foam with an electric knife.
I may need new fabric too, but that’s not anything more significant.
I have upholstery foam (I’m using one square as a pillow for the time being)
I swear at one point I owned a staple gun, but I don’t know where it is.
Naugahyde.
I’m being told the natrual habitat of the Nauga has been ravaged, so they’re trying to foist them on people
Dammit. I was gonna start selling Naugahyde ?.
Corinthian leather or GTFO
Fine. Corinthian leather.
+1 Chrysler Cordoba
Scruffy don’t scroll.
Charlie dont surf !
Easier, just eat more and upholster yourself instead.
Easy
Coccyx is a tremendous word.
It’s my favorite Rush song.
YouTube is your friend for projects like that.
You don’t want to go with cloth again. You want to spend $1.8M to switch to plastic. It will cut down on “biohazard” incidents.
Jesus.
Ouch. When this is the first comment in the Red Star…
They should replace them all with authentic Corinthian leather.
Those poor Corinthians.
If God didn’t want them covering our chairs, he wouldn’t have made their skins so soft, supple, and fine.
They only make leather out of the rich ones.
I use that “Technical Difficulties Please Stand By” picture as my avatar for my work’s Slack system.
FUCK!!!!
A bill that narrowly cleared a key House committee Wednesday would require adult drivers and passengers to wear seatbelts, a change that proponents said would significantly reduce fatalities in the last state without such a law.
The 10-9 vote of the House Transportation Committee sends the bill (HB 1622) to the full House of Representatives for review next month.
New Hampshire is the only state that does not mandate that adults riding in the front seat wear seatbelts.
Thirty states require rear-seat passengers to wear restraints.
Anyone under 18 must wear a seatbelt in New Hampshire.
Committee Chairman George Sykes, D-Lebanon, was the deciding vote.
“This will reduce the number of fatalities, no doubt in my mind,” said Sykes, a retired deputy fire chief.
On my morning commute. 90% of the people on my train are wearing masks. That’s up from the 86% that wear one in a normal February. Freaky.
Has the level of groping gone down?
Don’t know. Let send out some feelers.
If you don’t wear a mask, do people shy away from you and give you more space?
Don’t think so. There’s no space for one and morning commuters are completely self absorbed.
What if you start coughing very loudly, and google “coronavirus symptoms” on your phone?
I’d fit right in.
LOL
You should go maskless and pretend to breathe on them.
Or you could ride the train wearing nothing *but* a mask.
Annual production was ~5.5 billion with 80% of those imported. Domestic production is up to 400 million per month now with Abe proving 600 million.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200227/p2g/00m/0na/089000c
Frankly I wish they’d start importing those into the U.S. It’s either straight surgical style (often with blue filter media) or respirator masks, none of the comfort or fitted shapes. I’ve got about 10 still in the package for wildfire smoke from my last trip. Won’t last long if I wanted to use them for daily wear.
*promising 600 million
@RCDean — thanks for your answer to my question about ‘facility fees’ in the dead thread. It’s annoying but about what I expected.
It helps that I really really like my doctor. I turn 69 in June, so this is the right time to have a doctor I really like and trust.
“ At Least 22 Turkish Soldiers Killed In Russian Airstrike; Erdogan Holds Emergency Meeting”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/erdogan-calls-emergency-meeting-after-alleged-russian-airstrike-kills-dozens-turkish
It looks like things might be about to spiral out of control over there.
It’s all Trumps fault for abandoning our allies the Kurds.
. . . our allies the Kurds.
No whey!
Company paying so I took a taxi for the last leg of the commute. The taxi had a tablet hanging on the back of the seat, facing me. It says, “This tablet uses facial recognition technology in order to determine gender. All data will be deleted upon completion of trip.” How unwoke.
” in order to determine gender.”
Why?
So the taxi driver could address xir as passenger-San or passenger-Chan?
It was in English, so I assume to deter crime.
You whipped it out, I hope?
Gender detected: non-Japanese
Yeah, I would assume their facial-recognition technology is at least as “racist” as ours.
It’s not their fault. We all look alike.
IFLS.
Good news everyone!
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/2/25/applying-essential-oil-to-anus-cures-coronavirus-iranian-cleric
IFLS
Damn your nimble fingers.
“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. And from our shores, you know, it could get worse before it gets better. Could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.”
Way to take a stand there Donny, I think Derpy might have awarded the gibberish prize too soon.
LOL at least it’s honest. He doesn’t know WTF is going to happen and neither do I.
Obligatory
needz moar “bigly”
Well, thankfully got my offer letter today and sent it back – so I will be heading back to the Dahlgren area for contracting. Starting 30 Mar – which will mean a long commute the first week while I’m working on the move.
(it’s been 5 weeks and I still haven’t gotten an interview request from the apprentice school….I mean, I assume I’m overqualified, but I was under the assumption I would at least be contacted by 3 weeks…very poor service. Next week…I’ll probably send them an email to cancel my application and let them know I’m disappointed by their lack of contact/responsiveness to *any* of my emails/voicemails – never once got someone on the phone).
Congrats! I hope the opportunity that came through is the one you preferred.
Thanks. Posted a bit about it last week. Late appearance – but a bunch of folks and an environment I’m still familiar/comfortable with – the chance to muck around with some newer tech and help develop stuff – hopefully step up to an even higher position by the end of the summer if I can figure out the coding stuff. No rush really though.