No, seriously, every day I hear more and more frustration, mostly about the news and about all those OTHER morons. So I think the momentum (symbolized p for panic) is slowing. That’s mostly good, but unfortunately too late, after $2 trillion of money forcibly extracted from us is being hurriedly flushed down the national toilet by the various chimps in suits whom we refer to as “congressmen and senators.” Not sure if this little analysis has been repeatedly linked here, but if so, visualize drugs falling out of my ass.
Birthdays today include a remarkably shitty Secretary of State; his partner in crime; a Mormon president whom I actually knew; Mr. Fuck That Shit himself; the alter ego of Mel Lewis; one of the two people who started the whole BPA scare; one of my favorite living philosophers; and of course, Joe Biden’s speechwriter.
Now to the news.
CNN asks itself, “Why do people hate us so much?”
CNN asks itself again, “Why do people hate us so much?”
This goes along with all those “Christmas baby” stories.
Is this why comments are a bit light this morning?
I mean, look, I favor hunting down Yankees fans, but this might be pushing the boundaries of the constitution just a weeeeeee bit.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
I love how this is exactly the same story I read in 2016, but with the names swapped.
Old Guy Music: I’m not sure why I waited so long to break this out again. It’s timely. It’s a masterpiece.
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Morning, OWMC. I’m going OT because I got some things to do. *Bows deeply in apology*
An emotional press conference.
Well done sir. I bow in your general direction.
The folk from the land of the rising sun make an early appearance! Both you and Tejicano.
That is one of my favorite videos. Also he represented my friend’s region and she was quite embarrassed that it became international.
Did she understand the STEVE SMITH reference?
Kind of disrespectful to use a video of a man lamenting the tragic death of his mother. But, it was the only video I could find.
Nice work.
Well done
Nice, Straff. I lol’d
“Buying a gun isn’t then answer”
If you believe that I would say you didn’t understand the question
We’re not going to be arresting burglars, but protecting yourself is not the answer.
Even better is making announcements that they won’t be enforcing the law. That will gain volunteer compliance.
Jon Lajoie with Corona Virus music.
In regards to RI keeping the NYers out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9tlNJmjuKD4
This is interesting.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2020/03/27/covid-19-and-us-mortality-by-i-ratel/
Very puzzling. While it’s too early (maybe) for there to be noticeable excess deaths from the CCP Virus, the crash in pneumonia deaths (where I would expect CCP Virus deaths to be hiding) is baffling to me. The crash in “all cause deaths” is beyond baffling – is the data bad? It’s CDC, so I would think not. Caveat: I have not validated the charts.
The high level of doctor visits for influenza like illness is consistent with my belief that the CCP Virus has been here since the beginning of the flu season.
Our media is populated by, at best, fools. Nobody is looking at any useful data. The data thy have, they report in a misleading way ~ raw numbers of infections/deaths are meaningless, it’s the rate per thousand, million, whatever that matters.
The media, similar to our legal system, is adversarial in nature.
The last thing any of the want is to be measured and balanced. That doesn’t sell.
is the data bad? It’s CDC, so I would think not.
LOL.
I am not aware of bad CDC data for what the charts are tracking.
You being the hospital lawyer probably have a lot more knowledge than I do. I just have a natural skepticism toward the entire public health establishment considering how, among other things, they’ve debased the word “epidemic”.
The other day on the news, despite that we have a real epidemic going on with the Wuhan coronavirus, there was an advertisement from some group bitching about flavored vapes and the so-called epidemic of vaping. These people are truly evil.
I believe the CDC is pretty good at gathering stat on deaths, communicable disease, etc. That’s a long standing function of theirs, and the systems are well developed.
Taking those charts at face value, something is strange. Typically, when I see data that I just can’t believe, I, well, don’t. And those mortality charts are pushing it. The office visits chart is not out of line with what I have observed, though.
Ya, the dive does not make sense.
Mrs. Dean glanced at it and said “reporting lag”. Makes sense.
Yeah, I remember hearing somebody say regarding crime statistics and murder, “A dead body is not just a statistic”. All those other crimes can be gamed, but hiding a whole bunch of dead bodies is another matter.
I’m reminded of the Lancet’s junk science on the 500K extra dead people from the 2003 Iraq War. Everybody at the time was shrieking about where the WMD were, but nobody bothered to think, well, where are all those dead bodies? (Especially since we had been told in the runup to the war how the sanctions were killing zillions of kids.)
Several people at work think they may have had COVID back in January from their symptoms. Evidently there is an antibody test coming out soon so we can know who really had it. The internal projections has mid April starting the surge of admissions and a peak in early May.
That test can’t come out soon enough. Then we might actually have some meaningful data on how bad this thing is. Reporting new cases is meaningless. Look at that, we are testing more people and more people are getting sick!
Ya, I was looking at CDC data last week about office visits for flu like symptoms also but am too lazy to chart such data. I too believe this thing has been here since Nov. Too many people getting some new flu and no positive test for flu. I know multiple people who were flat on their back in Nov and Dec. Two of them I work with and I know they exposed all of us to it before they went home. Why we all didn’t get sick I don’t know.
Scratch that….Not really Nov, but definitely Dec Jan.
It might have shown up last spring. There is a small spike in “influenza like illness” at the tag end of the last flu season in Washington state. Haven’t seen data fro California or New York. If it died back in hot weather, as such viruses typically do, we wouldn’t notice anything at all until the flue/virus season fired up again in the late fall.
I suspect a small percentage of people are likely to get very sick from it but a majority of people either get mildly ill or asymptomatic. I dont know, and neither does anyone else, what those factors are. You have likely had it.
My mother just reminded me yesterday of the flu from ’57, ’58. It was much worse than this thing. A lot of people died and she said she nearly did herself.
I am not sure what makes this particular bug so much more reason for concern. Is there something we aren’t being told?
Speaking of the ’57 flu….
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-are-we-responding-slower-today-than-during-the-last-pandemic/
*Searches around in drawers and shelves*
Goddammit. I cant find a ‘Fuck you’ big enough for CNN. Trump is doing a good job as president and those lying fuckers cant have my guns.
The first time I used a rubber I was about 17. I tried to pull it off from the end and it was stuck. It stretched out about 18 inches and slipped out of my grip. Yeahhhhhhh…I haven’t used one since that painful day.
PronHub? Meh.
*Puts Rhode Island on list of places to never go*
“…workers who are legally entitled to a check…”
I dont know where to start with this one.
One way or another they are gonna put Hillary up, aren’t they? They will go with Joe and her as VP. No matter who they put up if she ends up as VP the president will last about three days before they trip, fall and hit their head on a bullet.
“Condom shortage looms after coronavirus lockdown shuts world’s top producer”
We have to get our hands on this condom shortage. Its a Trojan horse around our necks but maybe the US producers will be up to the task.
The condom business has a lot of stiff competition. I am sure someone is up to the task of filling that hole
I like your spunk
You too? Is this comiing out day or something?
“Condom shortage…”
Yeah, some brands just aren’t long enough. So you guys get that problem too?
What company should Trump slam with the Defense Production Act to fill the hole?
Well there should be enough pork in the stimulus bill to raise the supply.
Oh, I beg to differ. Buying bullets is entirely appropriate if you ponder the big picture.
At this point, it’s not just America divided on basic values, it’s all of North America. I find myself realizing ‘know what? Fuck these assholes. Come at me.”
Awesome.
This just in CNN scares a nation of 350M and then comments on how irrational it is that the nation responds.
Also , “customers line up to buy ammunition, handguns, shotguns, rifles — and even the deadliest of assault weapons.”
I would like the deadliest of your assault weapons.
I’ll take two!
To make a thing go right?
Back when some mashup featuring that was popular (Fatman Scoop?) I used to think “hell yeah” when I would hear it come on but then get disappointed after it only played for 30s. It was some megamix thing that featured about 30 seconds each of a bunch of old school hip hop tracks that was kind of infuriating because I liked all the tracks individually but anyway everyone else was drunk and stupid and didn’t seem to mind. I don’t miss going out and getting drunk to ear-destroyingly loud music just because it’s what everyone else was doing. I’m not even in touch with most of those people any more. I done growed up I guess, or at least decided the night life is a huge waste of money and anyone over 23 is “ewwww! old much?!!”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg5tQnYdZbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQNYPYFq1c
Obligatory.
“Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee on Election Day”
Interesting way to put it. Have a fake nomination, even campaign, then swap him out? Can someone who is not on the ballot for President even be elected? The VP steps in for a sitting President. I don’t think it works that way for nominees. Elected but not sworn in – who knows?
According to the Dem nominating rules, if nobody has enough delegates to get the nomination on the first ballot, they can then nominate anyone they like. So they kneecap Biden with the sex assault charge to keep his delegate count below the threshold and then nominate Cuomo.
But why say he won’t be the nominee “on Election Day”, rather than just not the nominee, period?
Because they don’t want to give the game away.
I was going to say that the electors can choose whomever they want, but that’s not true in all states.
I think electors can vote for whomever they want, regardless of what state they’re from.
What’s not clear is what punishment can be met out to a so-called faithless elector.
At least that was my conclusion from the last time I looked at it.
The Dems are more crooked than a barrel full of snakes. There is no slimy, dirty, twisted trick they wont pull to get their way.
I am still convinced they are going to try and slip Hillary in some way or other at the last minute. It wont matter. Trump will win and the lunatic fringe will lose their minds all over again.
I dont know what they have left but I am sure they will come up with something that defies belief.
Not sure what the process is for a candidate who dies in a plane crash one month before the election. I suppose it’s up to the party tp pick somebody.
Or if they were to go on trial for say…sexual assault.
All that matters is who the electors vote for. The parties could run different people in each state to try to get votes for whomever is popular and then send a memo to the electors for whom they want to vote for.
The Whigs in fact tried that, and it was a horrible failure.
True. Can you imagine the shitshow if some Dem wins the voting, but all the Dem electors put someone else in office?
I can’t imagine any kind of switcheroo garnering much public support. People like consistency, not surprises.
However, it’s impossible to overstate how irresponsible it would be to put Senile Joe in a position to make important decisions.
Well that’s why they want to make him president. That way the real life Bradley Whitford can make all the calls, while they occasionally water Joe. It’s a West Wing fan’s ultimate jerk off fantasy.
Biden is beating Trump by an average of 7% in the polls and pulling a rabbit out a hat would be incredibly dangerous. No, they stay with Biden.
Just like Hillary was in ’16.
I think you could have a write-in win technically but even a month out would be far too late to get on the ballot for virtually every state – especially now that early voting goes so long.
I concur with someone at NRO who said that we should just have the entire weekend to vote at our leisure.
Good start for a quiet Saturday, OM, thanks
while not sure how authentic, Pie’s first ever cock o’van is quite tasty
What is that, an Irish cock?
I wish, girlfriend.
Uh…your what? *rugs eyes*
Is this a coming out thing?
I see you do not speak french
Nether do you. It’s Coq au vin.
For no good reason, that reminds me of a time long ago when I was helping out at a used book sale hosted by the local chapter of the American Association of University Women. While sorting through the donated books with an older, genteel member of that esteemed organization, we came across a volume titled The I Love to Fart Cookbook, or “Who Stepped on the Duck a l’Orange?”
Speaking =/= Speling
“Speling”.
Excellent John-O
Weiner Mobile?
OMWC’s new ride?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_dQDra1dMEaLBcxhMgpSKrH2T8CfWc8A/view?usp=drivesdk
Looks good.
Ok, if that is coming out I might have to come out as well.
That looks pretty damned good.
Coq au vin is delicious and not particularly difficult, it just takes a while.
Perfect for our endtimes lockdown.
Also, chicken chasseur
Coke with wine? Man, us French can ruin almost anything. That sounds awful.
I guess I’ll get out of bed. Benadryl did its job.
Getting out of bed never leads to anything good
Before I get out of bed https://youtu.be/Y59GVNIdavg
“The reason why is that the government intends to track Americans down and deliver their corona-bonus using the tax information they submitted in 2018 or 2019. But a fairly large number of households don’t file returns to the IRS each year because their income is so small that they are not required to.”
Spare me the violin.
All of those people are already likely missing out on the EITC by not filing.
True. But the only time I ever didn’t make enough to file taxes, I was a teenager working part time minimum wage.
I think there must be a reason for it, like RC said below with illegal status. A lot of people around here work for cash, under the table, 11 months out of the year. They make damn sure to get one month of W2 work for that EITC credit.
“a fairly large number of households don’t file returns to the IRS each year”
Because they are here illegally?
So I screwed up by taking cash payments and not reporting them?
THE VIRUS IS A HOAX!
The overblown hysteria certainly is.
italians are panicking… i wonder what they will do come catholic easter
Smoke cigarettes, flirt with women walking down the street, get yelled at by their mothers?
[applauso di golf]
Are there any Glibs or Glib lurkers who purchased their first gun in the past week or two?
Let’s hear from you. What did you get?
Are there any who want to get one now, but don’t know what to get?
does airsoft count?
Years ago, we use to have airsoft gun fights at work. One day, dude snuck up on me and killed my monitor in the ensuing assault. ?
“Alright, maybe we could shoot an eye out, MOM.”
I have long guns, but have been thinking about getting a pistol. I’ve been checking out the selection at PSA. The availability/affordability/glibs-recommended sweet spot seems to be the CZ D PCR Compact and the CZ 75 SP-01. Any thoughts or comments on purchasing online? I know they have to ship to a local gun dealer. How much hassle is that?
I plan on doing range time with the pistol once all this is over, something I’d been planning for some time.
Concealed? Open? Nightstand?
Mrs. Dean has a nifty little 9mm Kahr for concealed carry. I have a slightly larger Sig for concealed carry (waves at Sean).
My hogleg double stack Para Ordnance .45 is pushing it even for open carry. The damn mag alone weighs a pound, fully loaded. Pretty much a nightstand gun, although I am looking at getting an open carry holster for it after being reminded that the veneer of civilization is thin indeed.
UPS is showing Tuesday.
Thumbs up back atcha.
Concealed/Nightstand. I’m old enough that I can get away with wearing a fishing (or insulated) vest out in public.
M&P9 Shield
Reasonable size, easy to find holsters
Mine just shipped – a lot sooner than expected.
Check out Bravo Concealment for holsters. I love mine.
Your dealer will likely have to send a copy of their FFL to PSA.
Not that much of a hassle.
CZ makes good stuff. Though they’re not my first choice. Everyone has different tastes.
Again, this is driven by availability. The CZs are among the few mid-priced models still available.
For me, no hassle at all. I give the seller the phone number for my gun store and they handle all of that. I sent payment and the gun store calls me when the gun arrives. I pay them a 20 dollar fee for the transfer and I have a new gun.
Most of the stuff I buy is even less hassle. I send payment and a signed copy of my C&R license. They ship the shooting iron directly to my house. No problem.
That limits me to 50+ year and older guns, but those are the ones I like.
So early Colt AR-15s?
Or a G-series FN-FAL… /drool…
For the FFL transfer, go here and find your local FFL Dealers https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/stores. Pick one, give em call, and ask if they do FFL transfers. I have great place by me, kind of like a general sports store with a small gun selection, that’s always happy to do it.
The daily carry for both the wife* and I are Springfield XDS 9mm.
*Until she let her CCW expire *sigh*. That’ll be fixed this week.
My local gun range is on the PSA list of “we have their stuff on file” dealers, so I’m guessing they do that.
Even better.
I recently acquired my first pistol, but before the panic. An M&P 2.0 9 compact.
I have the original compacts in 9 and 40. Great pistols.
Glibs? First guns? You’re joking, right?
I’m pretty sure we all lean that way, it’s just that not all of us have leaned all the way there yet.
I’ve been trying to make up the difference until they all catch up.
Gun less glib(s) exist(s). I am leaning towards getting one. I sold my first rarely used or practiced with gun years ago.
But here have been a bit too many 4am “uturns” on our driveway/fake street recently
Guns are one of those things which are better to have and not need than to need and not have.
I got one of CNN’s deadliest of all assault weapons, only to immediately lose it in a tragic boating accident.
Keep thinking about a home defense shotgun. Main reasons I’m dragging my heels: 1) Don’t expect anything is actually open to do it here in California land. 2) My dad would probably go nuts [before the boat accident he’d made it pretty clear I should just take something off his hands… too bad about that boat…]. Of course, him being on the other side of the country and my not wanting to even imaging the paperwork to bring it into CA makes me question how much I really need it… and 3) Not at all sure what to get / how to practice with it / what I can actually handle recoil-wise (really only practiced with competition-grade air/pellet rifles before, and being a wussy computer programmer who never works out, my upper body strength is doubtless on the low end).
But yeah — thinking about it just in case break-ins start picking up.
Have at least googled/bookmarked the nearest gun shop and looked at the study guide for the mandatory CA firearms test before they’ll let you buy.
I lost 2 each .22 rifles this week after the ice went out in the river. 2 grand daughters left with smiles on their faces and it wasn’t from playing with dolls.
I would say get a good pump action 12 gauge – Winchester or Mossberg (Remington’s are OK but they do have a problem if you don’t cycle them fully to the rear before cycling forward again).
You do need to schedule time to train and get comfortable with it. If you can’t do that get a baseball bat. It can be more dangerous to you if you aren’t confident with it.
You can always go with lighter loads (less recoil) if that’s a problem.
I got a pump 20 gauge on the theory that shooting it would be less likely to land me on my ass. (Also a youth model for the shorter reach, since I’m 5’4″ish.)
I understand the argument for the 20 gauge and smaller bores but I believe it is easier to find the most appropriate load in 12 gauge than it is to find it in 20 gauge. 12 gauge is just so common that you can always get rounds which are manageable which will perform better than the 20 gauge – and performance is really what it’s all about.
Cool… I was tending to look at the Mossberg 12ga line — they seemed not too crazy in price / not a bunch of “leet tactical!” stock add-ons, etc. Local shop shows out-of-stock on *everything* on line (which may just be their way of keeping it to known clientele for now, I know…).
Have the baseball bat already, fortunately. So that’ll tide me over.
My wife is opening to the thought of her own self defense weapon for home. I’m actually leaning towards a .22 so she doesn’t herself become disorientated by the large concussion/flash of something like a 9mm or 12ga. She agreed.
1. Is that logical thinking? First thing is that she has to be comfortable with it, right? And a .22 can certainly do enough damage to get an intruder to make him retreat.
B. Any recommendations for .22 handguns? I’m leaning towards revolver.
A full size 9mm is a pretty soft shooter, Mike. May want her try a couple.
Or a rifle?
That’s a good pint. Right now, she’s only assuming the concussion is too much for her. I just need to get her some range time with what we have now and maybe she will want to try out a 9mm after she gets used to the pew-pew.
I would not recommend a Mossberg Shockwave. The name implies the concussion you’re going to feel. I’ve got one and I really would not want to fire it indoors. Outside without ear protection is bad enough.
I have an SR22 Ruger. My hands aren’t large (I’m only 5′ tall – only my waistline is big). Easy to shoot, handle, reach safety, etc. FWIW – I’m a reasonably experienced shooter (back in the day military expert pistol/rifle), but no way I could/would handle those weapons at this point.
https://www.brownells.com/firearms/handguns/semi-auto/sr22-22-lr-bl-poly-3-5-10-1-prod120110.aspx
Also agree with Tundra that there are some nice 9mm.
Thanks RA. I’ll take a closer look at that. She might like that.
A 9mm is not bad for somebody who has already or is willing to put in the range time to get knowledgeable and comfortable with a semi-auto handgun. Most people new to firearms, in my experience, aren’t ready to commit that much time. Better to stick with a revolver which is much easier to master and even intrinsically more accurate. Revolvers also allow you to vary your load (how powerful the bullets are = how much recoil you are dealing with) which you don’t have so much choice with a semi-auto.
I looked at a SR22 because it looked like a nice plinker. As I remember, the safety is down for safe and up for fire. The opposite of all my other pistols, so I didn’t get one.
In an enclosed space I doubt the noise/concussion of a 22 would be that much below the threshold for disorientation for most people. There are noise responsive (not sure the right term) ear plugs – I have silencio ear plugs but there are ear muffs which work the same way. As with all things you would have to get used to them – use them at the range and get comfortable.
For a first time shooter I would recommend a 357 magnum loaded with 38 SPL, 4 to 6 inch barrel. Get a few speedloaders and practice reloading. Not too big or heavy but enough extra to be controllable for anybody.
I had a set-up exactly like that before the boating accident.
I am attempting to do so, and in fact reached out to The Great Minnesota Glibertarian E-mail Group for advice, of which there was plenty. Minnesota requires a permit of so for a handgun, but you can buy a shotgun without one. I went to a few separate gun shops — the shotguns have been completely picked over, so I’ve not yet had luck. My plan now is to do a bit more shotgun research to determine which one specifically I want, as one of the shops mentioned he’d be putting in an order over the next week or two. I am also taking a gun course online such that I can show up to one of the ranges, pass any sort of ‘on-site’ requirements quickly and be in a position to get a handgun if I so choose.
As far as my background, I mentioned to the Minnesota glibs that I’m pretty green about this stuff. I grew up in the suburban Chicagoland area. My parents were by no means anti-gun zealots, but at the same time nobody in my family hunts or has any particular passion for them. I should have been prepared for this well before now but alas, here I am. Now is as good a time as any to put in my research. And for any folks who are like me and can’t tell an AR-15 from a tommy-gun (okay, I’m not *that* much of a twit), needless to say there’s a great community of folks here who know their shit.
Here is a handy guide
Thanks to that Defcad link, I’m looking at machining my first lower. I’m tempted to try to build something based off of my favorite line, the Mas.44 but it’s probably be better just to do the old ar15.
Not I, but my good friend is adamant about purchasing his first gun after all this crazyness. He likes the simplicity of revolvers.
I’m gonna suggest he get a .357, not sure of brand/model, I figure we’ll just look over the options for sale, talk with the salesperson, and buy something.
Ruger GP100 is a good place to start.
George Clooney, libertarian!
these stories, whatever side you are on, do not address what the alternatives for those children are. art school? i think not
This bill was not perfect, but we needed to pass it and hey! Thomas Massie!
Tennessee doctor reveals the state’s health department advised doctors to use DIAPERS and swim goggles for protection
Big PPE is behind the virus hoax!
Okay, we need a term for this. Quarantine Theater? Not sure that the more-accurate PPE Theater is as accessible and snappy.
I’ve already called it that. The forehead thermometers people are being screened with are crap. You’d have to be on fire to show a fever.
Anal probes. It’s the only way.
Kudos on the term.
Quarantine Theater
Appropriated!
My (former) boss and I don’t see eye to eye on this mess, but he has to toe the CDC line. I can’t wait to use the term on him.
Freeedom! *Drops Hanky*
https://mobile.twitter.com/DerbysPolice/status/1243168931503882241
They proudly call themselves ‘subjects’.
Need I say more?
*There is also a large number of people there who wish they were here because they dont buy into that shit.
Yo, when Trump gonna get my money?!??
Ugh. Wife is watching the Hallmark channel . Apparently they have started their Christmas every time all the time shows to try and cheer people up. Excuse me while I go cut my wrists.
My condolences.
just go fishing or something
I cant. They drained the lake upstream from me to kill weed and the alligators had no where to go except….my back yard. I could probably catch a fish but there is no way in hell will I get it to shore. Seriously, as soon as my bait hits the water a dozen giant lizard pop up and say “Hey, whatcha got there?’
^ This is one major reason I wouldn’t want to live in Louisiana. Being a country boy, I’d want to live in gator country, but the whole thing about it being gator country is a bit off-putting to me.
Washington state closed all recreational fishing.
I’ve never seen one of those. I have this odd desire to – I have a sentimental streak which is at odds with my cold, black heart and dead eyes.
Well, there is no circumstance short of being threatened with termination where I would not go to work, so I doubt I will get the chance before the world descends into a hell of cannibal rape zombies wandering a blasted wasteland of hellish mutant viruses. Which, according to this chart of exponential growth, should be Thursday, maybe Friday.
Try them sometime. The problem is that they are like candy. It is easy to overdose on ‘cheesy’ and ‘overly sweet’.
It is the same story (Cinderella) every time, just different faces and settings, although the settings always include lots of Christmas lights, snow, and log cabins.
Smart. Everybody knows that Christmas is the least stressful time of the year.
“Staying drunk for two weeks is no way to go through life, Grandpa”
“OK, OK, I get it” Under my breath, “Little Snot Nose”
Speaking of CNNPC- I turned on the teevee earlier, just in time to catch a CNN segment about people hit by the plague lockdown. A female reporter, one of those women with a preternaturally vapid expression permanently affixed to the front of her head, was interviewing NYC nightlife artists, or some damn thing. DJs, fog-and-laser-show producers, whatever. No crowds, no raves. A cultural tragedy playing out in real time.
“Well, what is going to happen? Will you survive?”
“Not without a bailout. We need help. From Washington. Send me free money.”
Party. Don’t party. Makes no difference to me. Finance it yourself.
No shit.
On top of that I would rather stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork than spend time at one of those things.
They appeal to people with the IQ of an Opossum. Loud music, sparkly lights and lots of eye candy. I bet you can get the whole crowd to chase a laser light on the floor.
Well, I’ve always maintained that stupid people should be conspicuous. I can’t think of a better detection method than to note who is lined up outside of one of these venues, waiting to get into their moron convention.
Ha! See my post upthread somewhere in response to a Ted’S link.
Nah, Suthen, you need to simplify with these folks. A peice of string will do nicely.
I guess it’s a break from the hospital porn that plays 24/7 on the local channels now.
The DJs’ stripper girlfriends are having a really hard time financially supporting them with the whole 6 foot social distancing rule in effect.
The Untold Story of Wood, the Well-Endowed Man From Those Coronavirus Texts
At least some things are real, unlike the virus!
Too real https://youtu.be/DJdIaKEgQdc
Right on. I love that album.
“Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee on Election Day”
“You know, in retrospect, maybe the smoke filled room method of choosing candidates has some advantages.”
https://twitter.com/fitelson/status/1243583285424463874
such meta, very humor
There are MASSIVE protests developing right now on the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge that joins the Hubei and Jiangxi provinces in Eastern China.
The situation is rapidly evolving.
THREAD
Down pointing backhand index
https://twitter.com/TruthAbtChina/status/1243486956455002114
Rumor has it that the protests were triggered by a fight between the Hubei and Jiangxi police!
Hubei police arrested a Jiangxi cop after a fight and in response Jiangxi sent police to arrest people in Hubei!
Haha! I can’t see how this doesn’t end with many ordinary citizens being killed, imprisoned, or disappeared, but it’s progress. The CCP’s hold is finally showing some cracks.
Oh,, they have always been there but like the old USSR they rarely let anyone see them.
Their useful idiots in the western media continue to assist in the deception.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/28/very-scary-pleas-for-safe-harbour-from-stranded-cruise-ship-near-panama
Who is dumb enough to get on a cruise ship right now?
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure?
Who is dumb enough to get on a cruise ship
right now?FTFY
I kid, I kid, I would never call people stupid just because they enjoy doing things I don’t.
You’d be stupid not too.
From the headlines:
Dyson (he of the extremely powerful electric motor and air flow/filtration technology) has developed a small, efficient ventilator. Central planning works!
The CDC will probably step ini and squash it.
He’s a Brit, and the company’s British. It’ll probably be the NHS. For the greater good. Of course.
From an actual link:
Later, ignoring traditional codes of the presidency at a time of trial, the President lashed out in a TV interview at Democratic governors channeling appeals from overwhelmed health care workers in their home states as Covid-19 exacts an increasing toll.
What the everloving fuck, CNN?
Code of the presidency: The president is the Commander in Chief of the military and he signs bills into law. He also appoints officers to various positions who are then confirmed or not by the senate.
That is about it.
Ever notice that 99% of the shit candidates for president promise are things they have no power to do as president?
Something, something, two-way street.
Ford to 3D-print face shields, help create respirators and ventilators
lol keep driving your gay commie homo Teslames!
Isn’t 3D printing one of the least efficient methods of manufacturing evvvaaaaahhh? I thought it was mostly just for prototyping. Like, at the consumer level you leave something printing for 8 hours, only to find that your $3000 printer missed a bunch of steps and scrapped your part, leaving you with melted plastic blobs to clean up, so then you spend 4 hours looking at the g-code scratching your head only to try the same thing again until the planets align and your finally manage to print your prototype, then spending at least 2 hours with a boxcutter or something cutting off all the supports from your part, then dousing it in acetone or sanding it smooth, only to realise your fucked up in CAD somewhere and you have to do it all again.
Presumably the industrial machines are faster, more reliable, and geared toward mass production. I really just wanted to shit on janky consumer grade 3D printers. Even the “top of the range” ones are a steaming pile of virus-infested dog shit as far as I can tell. I like to make things the old-fashioned way.
Yeah. A face shield? Shouldn’t that be cookie cuttered out of a 4×8 sheet of clear plastic, 50 at a time?
My guess is that it’s the only part of the production line they could actually use without spending many millions to retool only for a few weeks of production.
Maybe the head band?
Still seems stupid easy to make the old fashioned way.
That’s my thought – a specific part of the mask. Companies love to show off their use tof echnology and the press eats it up; plus the fire and motion strategy – “we’re using nanotechnology!”
But all of the issues you list pale in comparison to the costs of designing and machining the molds to do it the “traditional” way.
As you presumed, industrial 3D printing technology has made huge strides and it is fast becoming a a preferred method of manufacture in the right situations.
It also lets you answer the question with “oh, we started production TODAY” instead of something about getting molds made, etc.
So when all the questions are about response time, it’s your go-to method, even though it’s not what you’ll use for long-term throughput.
+1 “When seconds count…”
But Trump sought to minimize the lethality of the virus.
“A lot of good things are happening. The mortality rate is, in my opinion … way, way down,” the President said. “That takes a lot of fear out. It’s one thing to have it. It’s another thing to die. When I first got involved, I was told numbers much higher than the number that seems to be.”
The President’s comments, on a day when more than 200 Americans were reported to have died, risked coming across as callous.
They also minimized the impact of the crisis. The coronavirus is so problematic because even if it kills only 1.5% of the people who get infected it is highly contagious, has no vaccine and humans have no immunity to it. That means rising cases risk crashing the US hospital system, overwhelming available equipment and forcing doctors — who are risking their own health and lives to treat patients — to choose who lives and dies.
That bastard is throwing water on the fire we’re building! Not fair!
Why focus on solutions, when you can run around with your hair on fire, shrieking about the problem?
Silicone Saturday marvels at the unknowable.
http://archive.li/1oVhs
18 32 50
15 or 36 have the right amount of melanin for my tastes.
Our very own Manhattan Player was retweeted by Michael Malice yesterday.
https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1243576366559363079
Playa is Español for “beach”. Do the math.
I’m still going with Playa is still a Tinder user in NYC and jesse is from Manitoba.
And Sloopy is an Inca.
Yes, I know. I was going for a Tonio-esque play on his username. The funniest of which was calling Swiss Servator…”Swedish Waiter”. I still chuckle about that one.
This is GAME CHANGER. Abbott to market, starting next week, a fast point-of-care #coronavirus test, delivering positive results in 5min and negative results in 13min. Will deliver 50K tests/day to start. Kudos to Abbott and FDA’s Jeff Shuren and team at CDRH who are in the fight.
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1243696001958981632
from the replies :
There must be no way for these tests to be intercepted by Trump to withhold them from us! Abbott should go directly to the governors and state health departments. Keep Trump out of this.
How about directly to consumers?
“Nooo!!!”
They are literally blind to anything but the state. Not labs, not provides, not consumers. Only the Almighty State.
Strikethrough “Trump”, replace with “FDA bureaucrats”.
No, only to New York because it is the greatest ever and the fly over country yokels can just marinate in their own CCPvirus.
Technically, doesn’t it deliver negative results in 5:01, since you can rule out a positive result if it doesn’t come back in five minutes?
TRX All-in-One
Thoughts? Opinions? Experiences?
meh. get a squat rack and barbell.
I have one. My experience is that my body weight outstrips my strength (embarrassing but true), so I was having to heavily modify the exercises. I stopped using it. Wife doesn’t have that issue, and she used it on a regular basis.
$150 is really expensive. It occasionally pops up on woot for under $100
The spousal unit incorporates it into all her workouts. Let’s just say the results are pleasing to the eye, ‘specially when she gets NEKKID. /where my woman at?
Pics k thanks.
My concern is that I weigh too much and will destroy a door/wall.
I screwed the X-mount (I think that’s what they call it, it’s an optional extra) into the downstairs ceiling just where two 2×10 joists are, using 4-inch lag bolts. No worries ’bout that failing.
And I have asked permission to post some pics, which received a “don’t you dare” from her. It’s a shame, a couple are very artistic, and all are tasteful. One’s even my screen saver (she really likes that one, but is still uncomfortable sharing with the world).
My opinion – possibly worth every penny it cost you – is that you can do as much or more with a pull-up bar and some kettlebells. Even if you can’t yet do one pull-up the path there is not as hard as you might think. Hey, if one female Marine Major can change the entire Marine Corps’ mind about women doing pull-ups there is nothing about them that any person with two functioning arms can’t do.
But there are some things to learn and know about it. I’ve been doing the all my life and just three weeks ago figured out a bunch of stuff I was doing wrong for a guy my age. Let me know if you’re interested.
“…I’ve been doing the all my life…” =} “..I’ve been doing them all my life…”
Interested.
Fixed my form after 50 years of pushups. Who knew they weren’t supposed to hurt?!?
Isn’t 3D printing one of the least efficient methods of manufacturing evvvaaaaahhh?
That was my reaction. Why would you do 3D printing instead of injection molding, or some other well established high volume production method?
Maybe Ford wants Uncle Sam to buy them some shiny new toys for prototyping car stuff when the hysteria dies down.
Is this one of the glibs?
https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/after-nearly-20-years-police-say-cascade-flasher-has-been-caught/
Due to the alleged multiple acts, Pastoor has been charged as a sexually delinquent person. If convicted, he could remain locked up until he is deemed to no longer be a threat, even if it takes the rest of his life.
Ermmmm, I think this guy should be punished, but a potential life sentence? Really?
Maybe he’s really really really offensive to look at with no pants on.
Yikes. The guy needs to be in a hospital, not a prison.
“I’m homeless.”
“Case dismissed!”
…and he’s a Pastoor, too…
Of The First Church of the Dangly Bits, Unreformed.
China: ‘We’ve Completely Cured Coronavirus And Everything Is Fine Here And No One Is Allowed In To Check’
Did the virus fall out of their ass?
It may have. Dammit.
Ever notice that 99% of the shit candidates for president promise are things they have no power to do as president?
How would they ever get elected by saying, “Take responsibility for yourself. Want a better life, make your life better.”?
That isn’t too far off from Trump’s message and he got elected.
Nixon’s silent majority is still out there.
The LP has been conducting that little experiment for 40 years.
I remember that ponytailed twit bleating “meet our needs” at H.W., Clinton, and Perot back in ’92.
I was rooting for Bush to say something like “Tell you what. I’ll get the government off your back, and you go meet your own goddamn needs.”
Probably would’ve been electoral suicide even then, though.
Good morning, Old Man!
And good morning to all you whacky Glibs!
Lotsa lynx this morning, but the first one’s the best one. I know, I know – testing, blah blah blah. We suck at a lot of stuff here but medicine ain’t one of them.
I am frankly shocked you didn’t already trot out that beautiful Zappa weirdness. Awesome!
XTC for me this morning. How about some euphemisms?
Make it a great day, people!
Is Eating Ass a Good Way to Boost Your Immune System During COVID-19?
Facts people. Show this to your wives. You’re welcome.
So, eat shit and dont die?
All of these years I had it wrong.
***SIGH!!!*** ::headdesk::
Likewise, there’s a commercial for some anti-AIDS drug that includes the disclaimer “[Drug X] has not been studied with people assigned female at birth.”
THIS is why there are no libertarian women – apparently there are no more “women” at all!
I must not be “with it” because that jumped out at me too.
Count me in with this silent minority. Once I hit that line my brain just faulted out.
So HM writes for Mel Magazine ?
Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco
They ate the homeless!
Something to take your mind off the plague
You can rip out the automatic (WTFSRSLY?) and stab a five seed in it while you’re awaiting the All Clear.
Nice!
I still prefer the GT6, though.
“rip out the automatic” and “stab a five speed in it”
I’ve actually done this to a Datsun 510. It’s more work than you imagine when you realize that you’ll need somewhere to hang that clutch pedal so it connects to the bell housing behind the engine. Even knowing everything I was going to have to do (fabricate tranny mount, shorten drive shaft, etc) it was quite a project.
And then you realize you’ve attached something backwards so it’s got one forward and four reverse gears…
Standard setup for the Italians.
Actually, that’s how French tanks are designed to run!
Too much work for me.
I’d rather buy it already done!
seed, speed… whatever
Brooksie, I thought you would be all over this one.
New Yorkers are throwing ‘corona potlucks’ and visiting ‘speakeasies’
Rock flag and eagle!
Yard art
If you’re making a movie and need a car to throw over a cliff… A little paint, and you’re good to go.
I was watching a TV show the other day, and my son was sitting watching with me. I told him, “that guy is going to crash his car”, and sure enough he did.
“How did you know?”
“He was driving a 20 year old Taurus with a fresh paint job.”
Everything You Never Knew About The Making Of Escape From New York
Legend.
Nice find! Thanks.
That tii is much too nice for me.
Lol. Who cares? It’s like checking out hotties.
SPeaking of hotties, I’m watching this one.
I suspect it will go for more than I paid for my house.
This captures pretty much how I feel about the situation.
http://www.bookwormroom.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-panic-makes-no-sense-so-ive-got-a-few-theories/
Just as the Mises piece describes.
Terrific essay.
Thanks for linking.
+1. Thanks
One of many flaws this situation has exposed is the shockingly poor state of science education in the US. (And perhaps West generally.) If we administered the ACT Science Reasoning test to all of the “highly educated” politicians/talking heads/columnists etc, how many would score well enough to get into Podunk Valley State?
Science today = believing in evolution and global warming (even if you don’t understand either of them)
The scary thing is that, when Chrichton identified and named the Gell-Mann amnesia effect in 2002, the members of the media were more intelligent than they are today.
why we’re going more crazy about coronavirus than we did about AIDS (when we knew very little about it), MERS, SARS, Bird Flu, Swine Flu/H1N1, the ordinary flu (30,000-70,000 deaths annually), and MRSA, just to name a few? – thoses things are not all the same
Socialized medicine is awful. Even in the good times, it operates by rationing care, so the slightest uptick in demand puts unbearable strain on it. – all medicine is rationed one way or the other
Innumeracy is the order of the day for the media. Many don’t seem to understand that the mortality rate drops as more people are diagnosed but don’t die – many do but do not know where the rate will stabilize
However, I can’t get past the fact that people will always die. We’re all headed down the same road and something is eventually going to get all of us.- this is silly and pointless.
all medicine is rationed one way or the other
Not having enough money to pay is not rationing. Rationing is an allowance or allotment up to a fixed amount. If the government says you can buy 1 pound of butter a day but no more, then butter is rationed. If you can buy as much butter as you can afford, then butter is not rationed. Medicine is no different.
ok. all medicine is limited and it takes some time to scale up for a significant and unexpected uptick
Yes, and that’s true of everything else, too. Scarcity is not the same thing as rationing. Rationing is one of many non-exclusive solutions to the allotment of scarce resources.
Good summary.
One of my favorite J-Pop artists just had her tour shitcanned thanks to the CCP Virus. I was a bit surprised this morning to see this pop up in my YouTube feed:
水樹奈々【LIVE RUNNERリハーサルスタジオミニライブ】
Looks like they grabbed a recording hall and decided to have some fun and make the best of things. At first I thought it was a practice for the tour, but after the first song in the video she explains what is going on.
What I found really fun was that this video is two songs and the second is enka. I’m not sure if this was supposed to be on the tour or she just did it for the hell of it. Nana Mizuki actually trained as a singer and that included this style. She is amazingly fit and regularly works out. Not bad for 40! I’ve seen videos of her running and singing from one side of a stadium to another and you can barely tell the difference in her voice. Bonus points is that she is well under 5 feet tall.
Nice!
Speaking of singers not in their teens/twenties:
https://youtu.be/68H9_NEYgus
Shizuka Kudo, with a little help from some friends, doing one of her past hits.
SPeaking of hotties, I’m watching this one.
SWEET
It was originally orange. Looks way better now.
Dead sexy from every angle.
Sort of like this!
To (poorly) paraphrase a comedian, who once said to him while he was ogling another woman:
“You’d leave me for that woman, wouldn’t you?”
“Honey, I’d kill you for that woman!”
I can picture his face, but I can’t remember his name.
Andrew Dice Clay?
Unrelated, but why is a flying shitter so spellbinding?
And how’d the damn thing get airborne in the first place?
Yes, well, I’m sure quite a few people around these here parts know how I feel about him. ????
What caused your fire towards President Kimball? That was before my stint as LDS.
Ire, not fire. FN autocorrect.
The Miracle of Forgiveness
trying to micromanage married people’s sex life
It’s more work than you imagine when you realize that you’ll need somewhere to hang that clutch pedal so it connects to the bell housing behind the engine. Even knowing everything I was going to have to do (fabricate tranny mount, shorten drive shaft, etc) it was quite a project.
If you’re lucky, you might get away without having to modify the tunnel. I didn’t say it would be easy.
I was lucky that manual transmission versions were common and both auto and manual versions of the car had all brackets in place for the pedals. And the clutch was hydraulic.
I only had to fabricate about a half dozen parts and the rest I picked up at a junk yard for a pittance.
Yes, the trick for converting to manual is doing it to a model which was made with both types.
It’s easy to do with old Chevy trucks
Another one. Some assembly required.
Meerkats have never seen no shit like that before.
https://twitter.com/gnuman1979/status/1243662961266262022
Made me think of river Otters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-7UbU45a1U
I’m off to the corona improvement warehouse. Need some more trim moulding.
I’ve heard some people believe you can to improve a corona with a slice of Lyme.
Essential trim moulding.
A little trim is always essential.
Husky Dog Adopts Stray Cat Saving Her Life
I think I overdosed on cuteness.
I think we’re all contestants in an old game show (apologies if this was already linked).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5AZwkz8zLU
Faith in humanity dwindling. Summit County gets 400 complaints, businesses may be violating state order. I really would like to be able to see a list of the people who called in these complaints so we could avoid them as much as possible.
By avoid you mean publish their names as the gestapo collaborators they are.
“we’re all in this together”
The Greater Good!
“wir nehmen das schicksal der nation in die hande!”
Sounds like it’s employees of those businesses calling in. Sitting at home and collecting unemployment benefits after the place you work gets shut down probably isn’t as fun as they think it is. It’ll be enjoyable for a week, tops.
I’m not surprised. People are assholes.
“…businesses may be in violation of a state order…”
Orders? I dont take orders from you. You are just the hired help.
Inspiring
Donation Not Taxation on March 26, 2020 at 7:11 pm
Idea 2 fix public perception
https://cinechitchat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Corona-Beer-name-changed-to-Ebola-Extra.jpg
However, I can’t get past the fact that people will always die. We’re all headed down the same road and something is eventually going to get all of us.- this is silly and pointless.
Why, Pie? why is it silly and pointless to openly recognize a simple ineluctable truth? The mortality rate, in the aggregate, is 100%. Always has been, always will be.
Yes. randomly recognizing this truth in an article about contagious disease is stupid. Were all gonna die sometime so why be careful?
That is not at all what the article said.
what I am saying is there was no point to have that line in the article at all.
Interesting stats out of NYC.
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-coronavirus-cases-deaths-hospitalizations-by-age-chart-2020-3
That’s functionally impossible so what we’re seeing is the result of testing implementation.
Yes, I also wonder if the initial surge included late reporting as well. Unless maybe HM orchestrated a giant ass eating festival the week before.
‘$2 trillion of money forcibly extracted from us is being hurriedly flushed down the national toilet by the various chimps in suits whom we refer to as “congressmen and senators.” ‘
Elton John to host a benefit concert with the entertainers performing from home. Maybe the cause is to get US$2,200,000,000,000?
https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2020%2Ftv%2Fnews%2Fcoronavirus-concert-special-fox-elton-john-1203544741%2F
I was glancing thru a photo essay of Northern Italy this morning. The one thing that stuck out to me is almost everyone in the photos who’s afflicted is old and/or fat.
Their hospitals have to be total hot zones now, infecting everyone who comes in.
In comparison. From Cuyahoga county, which has Cleveland and three large hospital chains: Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and MetroHealth. Is it wrong of me to read that, and get even more annoyed at this stay at home order?
Even if the cases and deaths drop to zero, that just means what we’re doing is working. So we must forever shelter in place so that the monster never (re-)awakens.
I’ve got some coworkers who are terrified to leave their house, and are buying into all the terror and hype. I can’t wrap my head around that. One of them was complaining that their house was too hot because he didn’t want to turn on the A/C, because he didn’t want to catch a cold. No high risk factor in his family here at all.
Too many people seem happy with these shutdown orders for my comfort.
I’ve noticed this attitude among our clients – many of my conference calls this week started with “what the heck is Trump thinking trying to open up the country?”
One of them was complaining that their house was too hot because he didn’t want to turn on the A/C, because he didn’t want to catch a cold
… what?
It appears he holds to the belief that cold air causes colds. One of my other coworkers continued the discussion, I tapped out.
I don’t think 65% is that reassuring of a number. Sure, it means there’s 35% capacity left, but that has to be weighed against the (potentially) exponential growth of people requiring treatment.
That having been said, nobody can really measure the effectiveness of the stay-at-home and close non-essential business orders because there is no control group.
Belarus!
We finally got it! Mohave County has 4 cases,
/Must. Remain. Calm.
RC Dean said:
“ The high level of doctor visits for influenza like illness is consistent with my belief that the CCP Virus has been here since the beginning of the flu season.”
I very much agree, it has been here in SF since at least early January. I hope this antibody test comes out soon as we will find out that hundreds of thousands already have had this thing. At least then maybe we can have a slight bit of sense in regards to the proportion of deaths this thing causes. It is being massively overhyped (as I think most here agree).