“A miraculous recovery, Mr. President, just miraculous,” Steve said, going in for a handshake. When Donald drew back from the proffered hand, Steve let it drop back down to his side.
“What’s wrong with your face?” Donald asked. The hair heard the hat snort from Donald’s suit jacket pocket. He tried not to quiver with laughter on Donald’s head.
“Mr. President?” Steve asked, showing his huge teeth in submission.
“That whole thing,” Donald said, swirling a raised hand in front of Steve’s face. “Why does it look like that? Were you in a fire?”
“That’s just his normal face,” the hair whispered in his ear.
“Are you sure?” Donald asked out of the side of his mouth.
“Let’s just get this over with,” the hat grumbled from his cozy pocket.
“What were we talking about?” Donald asked Steve.
“Your recovery, Mr. President, how miraculous it is,” Steve said, showing his teeth again. Donald shuddered.
“I was never sick,” Donald said.
“But Mr. President…”
“I was never sick,” Donald said again, his eyes going dead.
“Where am I?” Joe asked.
“Your viral bunker, sir,” the Secret Service agent told him again.
“Where? I’ve got a campaign to get back to!” Joe said, reading off the note taped to his forearm.
“Take another,” Hillary urged.
“I don’t feel well,” Huma whispered and lay back, closing her eyes.
Hillary rattled the bottle of fish parasite medicine at her. “You need it,” she said. “You’ll get sick.”
“I’m already sick,” Huma said, not opening her eyes.
“That’s just the chloroquine getting into your system,” Hillary said softly into her ear and then kissed it gently. “I don’t want you getting this virus.”
“Your virus,” Huma said faintly.
“I needed my original body back!” Hillary shouted. Huma flinched and gagged.
“I love you no matter what you look like,” Huma finally managed to say.
“If I’m going to get the nomination…”
Huma grimaced and clutched her stomach in pain. Hillary went to the open window of the room and coughed out it, trillions of the virus particles her body was producing every minute spraying out into New York City, settling as a deadly mist over the street below.
“You have to be OK, Huma,” Hillary said. She sneezed violently, a light breeze carrying her filth down the avenue, infecting thousands, COVID Hillary, viral disaster zone.
“You have to be OK,” she said again. “We have to go to the convention, you have to help me make them all pay.”
Huma leaned over the side of the bed and vomited onto the floor.
“What’s happenin’ in here?” Bill asked, shuffling in, his gray skin sliding down his face, his folksy accent still firmly in place.
“GET OUT!” Hillary screamed, jowls quivering.
“I was just askin’. Geez,” he said, turning to leave.
“No, wait,” Hillary said. She crossed to where Bill was by the door. Her hand shot out and grabbed the loose skin of his face. She looked in his rheumy eyes, those blue-gray eyes that he had used to seduce so many women.
“I have something to give you,” she said, her rancid breath scraping across his face.
“Oh?” he asked meekly.
She smiled and then spat into his open mouth.
Whoa. Funny. Funnier. Dark turn.
I love it!
^This
And it’s interesting how at the end she goes from being “villain evil” to just straight “evil.”
YES!
ripped straight from the headlines as usual, bravo.
And simultaneously ripped from our worst nightmares.
I imagine it looking like when the vampires on The Strain fed.
Huma
I love tall chicks.
Who am I kidding: I love all chicks.
Reporter – “Mr. Pablo Picasso, you just turned 90. What do you think?”
Famous womanizer – “Remarkably I am no longer interested in women.”
Reporter – “Oh? What is that like?”
Famous womanizer – “It’s like a millstone has been lifted from my neck.”
Huma? No thanks.
Pablo Picasso
I was going to be very disappointed if it wasn’t that!
Salvation, through the door on your left.
Topical: I did not read this new article/post/offering from SugarFree, because I recall portions of SugarFree’s comments from another place and other times.
Off topic: Anything unrelated to whatever it is that SugarFree presented.
Who is Steve?
Treasury secretary.
Ahh….thanks.
Just imagining the hell there would be for SF to pay if the Clintonistas ever got wind of this.
“How did he shoot himself in the face three times?”
SugarFree did not kill himself.
*kek*
Back of the head, and then twice or thrice, more likely…
Dunny-on-the-wold is a dangerous place.
+1 robber button
And he did it after removing his testicles with a dull spoon. Impressive.
This is not fair. Someone should “do something”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52007780
Female privilege. We need to achieve life span equity.
Do something like have drugs fall out of our ass?
Men die first because they want to.
I don’t need to read that. Is there any question?
By the end, males are praying for death!
Off topic.
Promising new treatment?
Hello Lady Z.,
One or two doses of the shorts entitled “Cyanide and Happiness” have not been proven to prevent contagion.
Watch at your own risk.
But Trump said….
I think we have some potassium cyanide in the pantry. Same thing, right?
Save me a teaspoon.
Instead of sneeze, you had Hillary queef the virus across 5th avenue, I would’ve puked.
I could find no evidence of queeful transfer of the virus. I didn’t want to just make something up.
Touch your face after one of those… just say’n.
It’s your focus on accuracy that makes the writing speak with such truth.
Thank you.
You’re more committed to the facts than CNN. I’ll give you that.
Tommy Flanagan is more committed to facts than CNN.
The Jon Lovitz version.
True, I’ve should have set that bar a little higher. If I set it any lower I’d need James Cameron to go find it.
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
“Where? I’ve got a campaign to get back to!” Joe said, reading off the note taped to his forearm.
Underappreciated line.
Wow. That got dark.
Morbid humor is the best humor, Thanks SF, nightmare confirmed….
She smiled and then spat into his open mouth.
Dear God…..
Nice butt.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-H1N0Uhojd/?igshid=1553w8c6fne5h
It sure is. I was actually surprised that it was literally a butt. I was expecting something more abstract for some reason.
I might have to rethink the whole ass eating thing now…
You realize this is a tranny?
*chuckle*
If she looks like that, I don’t really care if she was born a guy.
Are you sure she’s not just from Iran?
“APRIIIL!”
*investigates further*
I was being facetious, but I guess that didn’t come through OMWC…
I don’t think so.
Plastic butt but wooody would. Glad she’s back from her hiatus.
I don’t know if this means we are all going to die … or already have.
As a member of the Infernal Bureaucracy, I’m not allowed to tell you which.
Everytime one reads an SF story, they die a little on the inside.
La petite mort
If only
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/golf/fore-golfers-play-on-for-now-with-precautions-in-place/ar-BB11GIuy?li=BBnb7Kz
I made these suggestions a week ago and continually get bombed on the local paper’s site over this.
Golf is about as non contact as you can get, I play daily,
There is a big kerfuffle in AZ now over the governor listing golf courses as essential businesses, thus prohibiting local governments from shutting them down.
I would have accepted “Every business is essential to its owner and employees”, but this will have to do, I guess. To his credit, he is not issuing imperial edicts from the god-governor’s office shutting down businesses and prohibiting people from leaving their homes. Says its for localities to decide. Naturally, the actual legal authority for any of them to do so is never raised.
What a waste
https://nypost.com/2020/03/25/british-teen-dies-after-suicide-attempt-due-to-coronavirus-fears/
“dies after suicide attempt” is so passive you’d think you’re reading police coverage
Also, if the suicidee dies, while true there was an attempt, it seems like it’s a lesser included.
Suicide is not illegal, as there is no criminal to prosecute.
Attempted suicide is illegal.
Oh come on, corpses have been put on trial before.
“It was ultimately a successful suicide attempt, but it was touch and go there for a minute.”
She was on life support due to the suicide attempt, and her family took her off it. So it kind of makes sense in this instance.
I can’t understand the perspective of someone who is so overwhelmed by this that it actually drives them to suicide. I hope I never do. She seems to have had family who care about her, and been high-functioning enough to hold down a job and be especially empathetic to people in a similar situation to her.
Ya either get busy livin’, or ya get busy dyin’. I suppose the coronapanic done got in the way of her getting busy livin’.
I completely understand wanting to check out
but my version of checking out is joining a trail maintenance crew in Denali or becoming a fishing guide in Montana or helping run an orphanage in Guatemala.
“…helping run an orphanage in Guatemala”
My nephew and niece were adopted from an orphanage in Guatemala – the orphanages sure could use your help.
Exactly that – except right now it’s kind of difficult to go anywhere, or volunteer for anything other than the NHS covid-19 party here, which is better than nothing I suppose.
I’m about half way there. Not because I’m scared. But because of the realization of just how many fucking sheep there are in the world.
Not suicide, but this panic has solidified that if it came down to it, I’d prefer to be lined up against the wall and shot than continue to live in a society ruled by these grovelling, sniveling, statist fucks.
A song for you.
On my cardio playlist.
Truth
Emily Owen, a 19-year-old waitress from King’s Lynn, about 100 miles north of London, died in a hospital Sunday after trying to take her own life due to fears of the “mental health impacts” of isolation amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the Sun reports.
Looks like she succeeded. And she was definitely impacted mentally.
Normal for Norfolk?
his folksy accent still firmly in place
Beautiful.
There are days it is very very difficult for me to format ebooks without getting pissed off at the content. I have formatted shit that insults my race, gender, religion, philosophies, tastes, and sometimes all five. Most of the time it doesn’t bother me.
TODAY I am formatting a Marxist screed. Particular points?
* Make it easier to amend the Constitution
* Abolish the Electoral College
* “Fix” the 2nd Amendment (I didn’t read too deeply into that one)
Ugh.
File a lawsuit for massive monetarty compensation from the drain bamage it caused you to deal with that garbage?
If I were you I’d charge extra for indulging those hateful clowns.
Dude’s nice. The only PITA surcharge I have is if I think the CLIENT is going to be a pain in my ass.
There are projects I won’t take (anything promoting Islam is an instant no), projects I’ve dumped (content that reminded me negatively of my dad, never mind the client was a PITA), and projects I shouldn’t have taken (an autobiography of a man who grew up in the foster care system in the 1930s and 1940s, which was harrowing and heartbreaking).
Fair enough. You’ve got to have a certain amount of patience and tolerance to get through some of this to make a living at it I suppose.
Make it easier to amend the Constitution
At least there is recognition that the constition needs to be amended. Most conversations start out with the constitution being dead letter because it’s too hard to change, so we should be able to just ignore it.
No need to amend the constitution, just appoint SCOTUS justices who will ignore it to rule the way you want.
Mostly unrelated, but it involves Mormons and horror stories so it fits the general vibe of the thread, I’m almost done with Monsters and Mormons. I’m taking my time and making notes, I wasn’t prepared to analyze poetry, and the illustrations/comics were a nice surprise. So far it has been very enjoyable, and the views into Mormon culture and religion have been enlightening. I’ll put together a full review when I’m finished if you want the feedback.
Oh, that would be awesome! Thank you!
Part 2 of my story is dropping tomorrow morning.
I won’t have a complete review for everything by tomorrow, but I’ll do the first third.
You’re awesome.
Ah the professional ranks: helping people do well things that shouldn’t be done at all.
I don’t think I would have built the ovens at Auschwitz, but, for the most part, I’m a shameless mercenary. The good news is that the prompt publication of bad ideas leads to even prompter rebuttals. I see vehicles every day with dumb, expensive ideas that I worked on rolling around, underserving and overcharging their owners.
oh well
I’ve watched a documentary about the Final Solution from an engineering standpoint that was positively chilling. They discussed early failures and how they went about scaling up the process.
Since this was Germany they naturally extensively documented everything.
Tangent: HBO’s Plot against America has some weird WW2 footage.
They represent newsreels in the US showing Nazi atrocities in the streets of Poland. That footage has since been found, but I can’t imagine how dozens of scenes of street executions would have made it into Allied hands. Simply running the original reels would have made more sense to me. Similarly, from the Battle of Britain, they show plane-level footage of bombs falling out of bombers: again, German footage not available to newsreel folk. Unless, I suppose, Nazis distributed such stock and Americans managed to get aholt of it . . . seems very unlikely.
The bomb bay footage is like from propaganda reels that probably could be found throughout the Reich. As for the execution footage, who knows. The fact that it exists all is a testament to the horrors that one can inflict when fighting for the “Greater Good TM” and that those involved in the production of said film were assured in righteousness of their cause. One doesn’t film or otherwise document events for which they feel shame.
I “overcharge,” in that people get sticker shock when they get my quotes. But I specialize in a thing and it’s going to be long and tedious and you’re going to pay for it.
Fast, cheap, good: Pick any two.
How many months for good and cheap?
Minimum 12.
Faster than I was expecting, sounds like a good deal.
oh, I’m a Tier One guy: I build in cost so that my clients must overcharge their clients; I second-guess their judgment which is a sort of self-deprecation. I could do more cost-effective work, but my clients seldom share my view.
my opinions on value are limited to my own nonsense
Mojeaux: do you do indexing?
I do not YET, but I promised my billionaire client I would learn how because he only wants to work with me. So if you need me to speed up that process, I can do that. 😉
How do you do indexing without fixed page numbers? Would you have to set each instance up as a sort of reverse footnote?
I assumed Raven Nation was speaking of a print book, as I do print design, too.
I indexed an ebook. ONCE. I will never do that again. Linking endnotes is one thing (think wikipedia links). Documenting EVERY INSTANCE of a keyword is a nightmare.
Here.
That page is a bit out of date (a lot out of date). I need to upload more recent examples.
Do you decide on keywords or the author?
The indexer does. That’s the job.
Pulling out the index words would be easy with an etext, just use the find function. But I’d think you’d have to put in a link to every instance in the index to go back to the location of each index to really make it work. Depending on work selection criteria, even a short work could be a thousand link anchors to set.
The middle boggles.
But, yeah, hopefully Raven is talking about a paper edition.
Hmmm. Now I’m going to have to look up the technical specifications of different ebook formats, that’s crying out for a script and I’m bored as hell with no work, that’s a perfect little project to keep my skills sharp and to ward off the madness for a little while longer.
A few randomidities:
1. I did a book for a lady who was INTENSE but she paid very well. Anyway, with regard to the print version, she had indexers, so I didn’t have to do anything about. But every time I had to repaginate*, I had to send it to the indexer who would send it back in a matter of minutes, the index completely redone. So I assume that the difficult part is determining the keywords.
2. In certain circumstances, for various reasons that will bore you and make no sense, the bookmarks and links have to be done by hand. In an ebook, that would be the table of contents and the endnotes. I charge $1.50 to set each and every endnote reciprocally and 75c for a one-way link. I can set a reciprocal endnote bookmark and link it in 30 seconds (yes, I’ve timed it). Say you have 120 endnotes. Do the math. I once did a document with 562 endnotes. It’s not my favorite thing to do, but that’s why I charge so much. (Once I did a quote with 380-ish endnotes, got paid first half, realized that the document was already linked, did a regedit find/replace and fixed it in about 10 minutes. I did not discount.)
3. The ebook that I did the indexing had many multiple instances of reference links after each keyword in the text. It was a pointless exercise because ebook readers have a search function. After that, if I am approached, I say no, I won’t do that and this is why. That project drove me batshit insane, but I was still young in this career.
*I set type in Word, not InDesign. Most designers, especially ones who work for publishing companies, will tell you it can’t be done. Au contraire, mon frere. It most certainly can and because reasons, my business was built on the fact that I do NOT use InDesign at all. That was my sole selling point because that was what the market demanded at the time.
Well, let me finish that thought.
Because I’m in Word and it does not have an automatic “check widows and orphans but make sure that it doesn’t look stupid in a printed book and then if it does, adjust the kerning upstream somewhere.” I check pagination manually. Because it’s not InDesign.
Even in InDesign, I check pagination manually.
Computers are often told to do something by their programmers that I’d rather they not do.
Right, and there is also the matter of rivers and gutters. Nothing more distracting than an almost perfect diagonal line of space across and down the page.
Don’t need you to speed up. The manuscript I’m working on is still 2 years away from the final copy-edit. But most publishers expect authors to either index themselves or pay for it. We usually have discretion over who does the indexing.
Leon: “Do you decide on keywords or the author?” As Mojeaux noted, it’s the indexers job but the author gets a little bit of input. I don’t remember the details now but, after I received the first version, I asked the indexer to make some modifications. I don’t remember the details now, but I think I asked them to break out some terms which they had included under one term. It was a kind of technical thing that the indexer wouldn’t have been aware of.
I would assume the author would have a list of things s/he wanted indexed and the rest is up to the indexer.
Or, the current Democratic Party platform.
And you know there has to be a possibility of the author not paying. She has the ability and he has the need, after all.
Silver lining – you are taking money from Marxist idiots.
Also, the dude doesn’t spell very well and I am barely keeping myself from correcting the mistakes.
No, it’s not FOOBAR.
No, it’s not scrapping when you’re scraping.
On the other hand, he can pay me a lot of money to format a simple Word DOC and I’m broke, so who’s the idiot again?
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/midweek-in-pictures-groundhog-day-edition.php
Those are great:)
The Vincent Van Gogh and the N95 mask got a chuckle from me.
I enjoyed that one too.
https://www.firearmspolicy.org/pa_gun_shops_open_covid19
extra credit for all governors for finally getting right what we knew all along
That’s a new level of linking evil…
Its certainly sugary.
Or is that brooks’d ? I cant ever keep them in order.
ugh: I couldn’t have done that if I’d tried
better link?
Is this new news?
Fun regardless.
That is pretty cool.
Fuck, my BJJ academy / shooting range (yes, it was both) is going out of business. I guess they realized there was no way they were going to be able to pay their bills with no income for a month or two or three or four.
I’m beginning to be a little annoyed by this Chinese Virus Bioweapon thing.
My range is open limited hours. It’s a nice facility with plenty of overhead. I hope they can make it.
Not looking good for my favorite Mexican restaurant, though.
This sucks.
Buckle up, buckaroos.
Behold!
Almost time to wrap it up.
That is a fine-lookin’ hunk of meat you got there.
Thank you.
The second piece looks a little underdone.
Bad troll. Bad!
😀
I thought he had invented the uncooker.
Nice.
Already cooking the victims?
She smiled and then spat into his open mouth.
Doood! Very uncool, I just ate.
So did Hillary.
Heh, nice. But seriously, I almost burped up a scampied shrimp.
If it came up out of your gullet would that make it a scampered shrimp?
Everything old is new again…
“If any person infected with the plague, commanded…to keep house, shall contrary to such commandment willfully and contemptuously go abroad, and shall converse in company, having any infectious sores upon him uncured, such person shall be adjudged a felon…[without the benefit of clergy]”
Coke, “The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England” (1669)
But the last occurance of the Black Death in England was 1666. After the great fire of london, there wasn’t another outbreak.
Or is he using plague in a generic sense for any pestilence?
Have to assume it includes smallpox and all the other lesser plagues back then.
I doubt they would have known that anyway.
I’m sure in 1669 they didn’t think the plague has disappeared for good. Interestingly, I also found this:
“[Breaking quarantine] is a felony; but by the blessing of providence for more than a century past, incapable of being committed in this nation.”
Blackstone, “Commentaries on the Laws of England, v.4” (1775)
Oh, sure just because someone had the plague three years ago doesn’t mean it isn’t gone for good.
/sarc
My wife began working from home today and her struggles to get her computer setup working properly, and the accompanying screaming, have me ready to slam my head in a car door.
Our marriage has endured many trials over the past not-quite-seventeen years, but being around each other 24/7 for at least the next month or so is going to be the most daunting one yet.
I have predicted that we will get both a baby-boom and divorce boom in 9-months.
Lawsuit challenges Tennessee false campaign literature law
The complaint contends that “core political speech” is protected by the First Amendment and thus should not be subject to possible criminal prosecution. The group says it wants to distribute campaign materials urging voters not to reelect Rep. Bruce Griffey, from Paris, that describes the Republican as “literally Hitler.”
Of course that should be protected. It’s only Hate speech and Fake news Russian propaganda that needs to be punished.
“…his gray skin sliding down his face, his folksy accent still firmly in place.”
Wonderful – almost haiku.
Quelle surprise: Iranian officials sequestered medical supplies, stole more than a billion dollars in emergency funds from European countries.
Who could have predicted this utterly predictable betrayal?
fromdonated by European countries“Iranians – they’re so predictably treacherous.”
I’m sure a stern memo is being circulated for edits and comments amongst the European diplomats as we speak.
That’ll learn ’em!
That is american propagamda
I was asked to do a short piece explaining to laymen a recent proposed bill in Ohio realting to the ’emergency’ I am not sure how interesting people here will find it, but since I am having to tone down, my already held in check snark for the final version the real estate group will be using, I wondered if people here would be interested. I am going to submit it, but TPTB will not offend me if it is too industry specific and local for use.
From the past track record, this audience is curious about fields they are not personally experts in, and passionate about the fields they believe themselves to be experts in.
So you can probably get us to read it.
Or at least to comment under it… 🙂
yup
and we’ve had a run of open-post this month
even a damned crossword is better than nothing
I like industry-specific, written by experts – far preferable to take a deeper than average dive.
Seconded.
It’s not that deep lol. The bill itself is only a couple of pages.
The kinky cure: 69 Drugs May Be Effective Against Coronavirus Including Chloroquine
Some of the medications are already used to treat other diseases, and repurposing them to treat Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, may be faster than trying to invent a new antiviral from scratch, the scientists said.
The list of drug candidates appeared in a study published on the web site bioRxiv. The researchers have submitted the paper to a journal for publication.
And states and the FDA are trying to stomp on their use. There is currently a waiver request being submitted to the FDA on bended knee, asking them to waive their requirement that there be sufficient clinical literature to support off-label use.
Our docs are just ignoring it, not that we’ve had any CCP Virus patients to speak of. Our problem has been keeping them out of the hospital pharmacy stocks.
Curious to hear your opinion about companies jumping-in on ventilator production – not sure how this is going to play out from a liability perspective. Pelosi was complaining about being forced to pass legislation to release mask producers from liability.
Heh, I’m sure the ABA is opposed to that particular action. That takes away a part of their gravy train.
Curious to hear your opinion about companies jumping-in on ventilator production
Go for it. They are pretty simple pieces of equipment.
Hell, one of our CPAP and BiPAP machines can sub in for a full-fledged ventilator for some (many?) cases. What we have is a little more industrial-strength than the ones for home use, and I’m confident our biomed people can jailbreak them and goose their horsepower.
The thing is, at worst chloroquine will be ineffective. The drug has been used for 60+ years and a few hundred people on the planet have used it for severe COVID symptoms to see if it helps – if it accelerated the problem in patients we’d know about it already.
Crazy
Some communities have pushed back on shutdowns that have brought daily life to a standstill. Leaders from seven Utah counties, for example, sent a letter earlier this week to Gov. Gary Herbert urging a “return to normalcy,” and said the closure of schools and business was causing panic and hurting the economy.
“As of (Monday), the total deaths attributed to the virus in the United States stands at ninety,” the letter states. “Not nine hundred, not nine thousand, not ninety thousand. Ninety. This number is sure to rise in the near future but we need to keep our wits about us.”
Article about coronaplague in rural flyover shitholes.
I’m sure Gov. Herbert forwarded that to the AG with a demand that they find some criminal statute that it violates so they can lock up the dissenter.
The “Shutdown” hasn’t been to much here. Schools are the biggest thing and most companies have sent people home because the were asked to, but we’ll see how long that goes. Schools are crazy though. Our kids school says it will be shut down till May 1, which is insane.
And y Too much, i mean: It’s better here than in California, Nevada or NY, NJ.
Ours are out until April 24 for sure. Prom (April 25) will likely be canceled, although no word officially yet. My daughter’s irritated by that (upset maybe? she hasn’t said anything), but the non-fitting shoes had already put a damper on it. Just in case, I cleared off my sewing table so I can alter the dress.
My bet is they’ll be out for the rest of the year. They have virtual school, but I told XX she could work. WM’s happy to have her and told her she can work as much as she wanted. No restrictions on how many hours.
Gov. Coonman decreed that Virginia schools are done for the rest of the school year, thereby insuring that jack shit gets done in this state since everyone is attempting to work from home with their kids in the house, which is largely futile.
At some point, locals need to say, “Fuck you” and resume.
I think I’m going to leave the house.
Hopefully, no one will shoot me.
“Where are you going, citizen?”
“To get a carton of eggs.”
“Why are you carrying a tennis racket?”
“Self defense.”
Oh, today is the first day I haven’t been out since everybody lost their fucking minds.
There’s just something about saying, “You can’t go anywhere” that makes me want to go ALL THE PLACES!
Well, I got back.
It’s odd to have food in the house. Normally I don’t keep any around so that I can’t overindulge. I’m trying not to stress eat. But it still feels strange to check the fridge and have… options.
OMG, not having my fridge and cabinets stuffed to the gills would send me into a panic and a complete anxiety meltdown.
It was okay when I was single, but I have kids to feed and that would make me very insecure about my ability to protect and provide for my tax deductions.
I got my hall pass today.
we need to keep our wits about us
Do you even cable news, bro?
Give it a break, dude.
Higher education is indispensable.
https://www.wnd.com/2020/03/major-u-s-universities-ban-saying-chinese-virus/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=2020-03-24
“Do not allow the use of these terms by others.” Sounds like they are advocating violence.
I might agree, if any of those institutions were actually providing it.
*prolonged laughter*
“It’s lazy in the sense that there are more precise names for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and the disease that it causes, COVID-19. We’re smart enough to learn the proper nomenclature,” he said.
That’s not why they use it, asshole.
I have a precise term for you Chief Diversity Officers, it’s “useless fuckwads”
If only they were merely useless. They are actively malignant.
The only reason to use the technical terms is if you are in a technical setting. Using it elsewhere is pretentious, at best.
And virtually nobody uses the separate terms for an organism and the disease it causes in any but the very most limited and technical settings. One word covers both just fine. See, e.g., “flu”, “MRSA”, etc.
You pretentious twat.
Well, people distinguish between HIV and AIDS. But SARS-CoV-2 is too technical, nobody uses it now even when some people already switched to COVID-19.
SARS 2 has a certain ring to it, though.
Needs more
cowbellboogalooThat is assumed.
SARS 2, Respiratory Booglaoo? Outbreak Boogaloo?
Twice cooked SARS
Sars 2: The Wuhan Decision
people distinguish between HIV and AIDS
That’s the only one I have ever seen it for, and even then in common usage the two are used interchangeably.
Common cold and Rhino virus both get used, but as with Aids/HIV often interchangeably.
Around 20% of common colds are caused by coronaviruses, not rhinoviruses.
You mean CIA Virus?
But you have AIDS and that means we will die.
A popular Russian song from the ’90s.
Don’t tell them MERS stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
Diversity officials for the University of California system have banned using “Chinese virus” to refer to the pandemic that originated in the communist nation, instructing students, staff and faculty to discourage others from using the term as well.
As a state agency, I fail to see how this isn’t a violation of the 1A.
Is it a ban, or are they just encouraging their students to
assault wrongthinkerspractice inclusive language habits?I think “Chinese Virus” is kinda stupid. CCP Virus is fine. THD is funny.
I prefer Deep State Virus.
I agree. “Chinese Virus” is too non-specific. They export a new plague periodically – each one should have its own name.
That, and the particularly dumb might think only chinese people can get it.
There is a difference between being harangued over using a common term that someone decided is taboo due to cultural shibboleths and the utterly tedious “Tee-hee, I can say now ‘slanted-eye chink ching-chong’ without fear of social consequence if I add ‘flu’ after it!” that some engage in.
Come on. Very few people do.
I laughed at some tasteless nicknames but what the fuck? Tasteless jokes are important and they die away on their own anyway.
Never claimed it was common. Just that it exists in some parts of the internet and it has gotten tedious.
Absolutely. But any joke, tasteful or not, becomes tedious when it gets said, over and over and over again.
But then it gets funny again if you keep saying it.
Like the rake scene from the Simpson’s.
Mmmmm, no.
Old joke is old now.
+ many “Block Insane Yomama”
Almost as if attitude and intent are at the core of racism.
If they had kept their yaps shut when the unobjectionable and ordinary “Wuhan Virus” was in common use, the door would have never opened for worse names.
So, yeah, the language police can still fuck right off.
I understand action and reaction. The seeds of the quote/unquote alt-right were planted by the excesses of the social justice warriors and all that. But I question if such a reaction is inevitable and necessary by all? No Dean of Diversity is reading your Facebook comments or blog posts, so who is your audience then? How are you flipping the bird at the language police if they can’t see your virtual finger? If you wouldn’t greet an Asian friend to your home with that language, why use it? For what purpose does it serve?
And this doesn’t even get into Popehat’s ‘goat-fucker’ axiom. If someone keeps talking about fucking goats, ironically; eventually, the irony is lost and a reasonable person would assume that his interlocutor enjoys fucking goats.
ChiComorrhea
https://mobile.twitter.com/JustEric/status/1242800499012907008
Dammit, I’m not a web developer and I hate pretending to be one
Idle thought – why are media lefties all fondling themselves when they watch Andrew Cuomo? Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t NY the one state where this thing actually is out of control?
They don’t really care about results. They want someone who speaks well and acts like Michael Douglas in that stupid American President movie.
Biden is out. They will draft the fuckhead Cuomo.
They will draft the fuckhead Cuomo.
Passing over the second place finisher to draft someone who didn’t even run* should set off the Bernie Bros.
*Maybe he did. The clown car was pretty crowded.
He didn’t, but Wiki sez: “There was media speculation about an possible presidential run, either in 2016 or 2020.[72][73] Several reports indicated that Cuomo supported the Independent Democratic Conference until its dissolution and defeat in 2018 in part to appear more moderate for an eventual presidential bid.”
All of my lefty friends, that do not live in NY, are swooning over Rat-Faced Andy: The Mobbed Up Lawyer. I think the JournoList marching orders have been issued.
Yeah, look at how everybody is saying we need to save people, not the economy.
Because the economy benefits only a few select Vanderbilts and Rockefellers
TOS had a good article on this the other day, and how its a rhetorical point that totally discounts the hardship of people out of work as expendable. The “Panickers” like to say they are looking after people, over money, but they don’t give a shit about people out of work.
They can kiss the Bernie Bros goodbye then. I still say Clinton wants to be the savior on a white horse but Cuomo’s shaping up to be an excellent bet.
Excellent bet until someone remembers the several dozen scandals associated with the guy. How many of his aides have gone to prison, again?
Yup.
And I greatly enjoyed pointing out this morning that the lack of hospital capacity in NY is at least partly due to their CON laws, which have the explicit purpose of blocking the construction or expansion of hospitals.
I will say, this whole kerfuffle is opening some eyes to the gross overregulation of the US economy. Almost every response to it requires the waiver or suspension of some, and often multiple, regulations. And those responses often wait until some bureaucrat issues a piece of paper. Its being noticed.
Although I am sure it will promptly be forgotten.
“ Although I am sure it will promptly be forgotten.”
Yea I would go with that. Granted my “pulse of the people” is a bunch of progtard neighbors. That even with one seeing the likely loss of his business still succumbs to the if it saves one life moronitude it is worth it
If I understand what my coworkers say cuomo is dreamy because he contradicts trump
Avenatti 2.0
“It’s Trump’s fault my socialist policies created a shortage!.”
Which is kind of funny, because it requires a selective parsing of Cuomo’s statements as he’s also spoken some rather complimentary words about Trump as well.
“America was never that great…”
Look, the fact that regulations stopped private companies from acting quickly is proof that those companies need to be nationalized. If they were nationalized, they wouldn’t have to cut through all the government red tape, because they *are* the government.
And everyone knows that the government doesn’t have to obey laws.
Trump should consider staging his updates similarly to Cuomo’s – everyone at a table (avoids Fauci trying to pay attention and stand still), slides with relevant information behind him, show distancing, etc.
Waupaca Co. bar owner accused of staying open despite order
Patriot.
How dare you!
Name the people who ratted on him.
It was an unnamed White House official.
Release criminals, but create new ones.
Waupaca County Sheriff’s Dept. received a complaint
Snitches something something.
An initial appearance is scheduled for May 19, court records show.
Where, surly, he get to face his accuser.
Yeah, the narcing and the shaming going on is pathetic.
The key to happiness is finding someone who loves you as much as Chris Cillizza loves….Chris Cillizza.
I will say, this whole kerfuffle is opening some eyes to the gross overregulation of the US economy. Almost every response to it requires the waiver or suspension of some, and often multiple, regulations. And those responses often wait until some bureaucrat issues a piece of paper. Its being noticed.
I want to believe, but… there are a lot of people out there whose complaints about Trump boil down to, “But the FDA and CDC haven’t approved what Trump wants to do.”
And now, it’s “Trump wants your granny to die just so he can get re-elected.”