So I took the Warty challenge today. No, not to visit his basement. Warty told some of us that he had put a couple of ammo cans in a backpack and walked up and down the hills in his town. Since I live on the tallest hill around (66 ft above sea level) I didn’t get much hill work in. I threw one ammo can in (I’m barely half a Warty) and started walking, heading for the bridge since that’s as close to a hill as we have. I found out that the craft beer store that is exactly 2.25mi from my house is open. So my walk home included a little extra weight. I like those guys, and it was dead empty, so a bottle of Old Rasputin Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout came home with me. Also a couple of other assorted more common beers. I could get into this pack hiking thing. Especially once their taproom is open again.
No COVID update today. It continues to expand. Confirmed cases doubled in six days in FL, and negative cases continue to run 9-1, meaning that community spread doesn’t seem to be a problem.
When Joe Biden says he has no recollection of the incident, people will believe him.
If everything is so unprecedented, why is it still politics as usual? Same goes for the Republicans.
At least the Space Force is going forth to prepare our Moon Base. Or… just launching a satellite into orbit.
I think all omnivores were big on see-food back in the day. Oh, sea food.
Throw-back Thursday. I know y’all hate them, but if Metallica was ever good, it was ’85 or so.
Damn….I was so hoping for Tara Reid.
See, that’s why I let you win today.
So I did a whole bit in the comments to Robby Soave’s story on this at TOS yesterday. I searched all of the news sites that lean left. None of them mention Tara Reade. At all. Not even the old Intercept story.
So I revisit this morning…. Yup. Still radio silence. Huffpo, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, even Jezebel. Nothing.
Judge in 9/11 Case at Guantanamo Retires from Military
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/08/28/judge-9-11-case-guantanamo-retires-military.html
Judge in 9/11 Case at Guantanamo Retires from Military
Are you saying that Judge in 9/11 Case at Guantanamo Retires from Military?
That is a radical interpretation of the text. The official position, to be clear, is Judge in 9/11 Case at Guantanamo Retires from Military.
I read it as some Judge in 9/11 Case at Guantanamo Retires from Military
No, I think he’s saying that Judge in 9/11 Case at Guantanamo Retires from Military.
I still don’t get it.
He had to retire. Drugs fell out of his ass.
That was a fine selection – Old Rasputin rocks. Digging out my old ruck and going to try that on Sunday.
yup
I have a vintage surplus ruck sack, complete with Sgt. Cooley’s name written all over it, probably pre-Afghanistan. Minimal functional design is the nicest thing I can say about it. Anyone who humped a full load in that has my respect.
105lbs was full combat load. I am not doing that much. Ever.
I was at about 40%, and I’m good with that. Maybe I’ll get to 50%. I don’t have Uncle Sam to pay my bills and provide me with a motivational trainer for 12 weeks while I get up to full capacity.
Saw those poor saps in the 7th Marines prepping to do a foot-mobile infiltration of Kuwait in ’91. 105 lbs before they started handing out goodies like .50 cal ammo and mortar shells.
Damn. Respect.
They were not happy young men…
No. Save your respect for the Air Wing of the Marines. We had it figured out. Why hump anything when their is some mechanized transportation available?
The biggest hardship we had in Team Spirit ’88 was that some asshole forgot to bring the remote for the VCR in the squadron mess tent. So someone always had to get up and manually work it.
The upside was that all of us low lifes learned the esoteric rules in who outranks who.
Sigh… Team Spirit ’90 (maybe ’91, they all run together in my foggy memory), it was -14°F and the ground was so frozen we had to have the engineers come out and dig our fighting positions with their excavators.
I have respect for all marines. I spent the early 90’s in the Coast Guard. Nobody respects us, but we don’t care because we know we had better food and the remote never left the mess deck. The remote always moved with us.
Was that the Norway exercise during the Gulf War? I transferred to the battalion going to the Gulf. The rest of the Regiment ended up freezing their asses off.
I’ve never understood the thinking behind such heavy loads. Do commanders actually think it’s a good idea to exhaust their soldiers before they even get into a combat situation?
They deployed assuming they would have vehicles, then somebody decided “let’s sneak them in and ambush the shit out the the Iraqis when they move against our columns”. It worked. And compared to some of the Infantry humps back in training, wasn’t all that bad (20 or so miles a night for 3 nights). But they had to make hard choices on what was worth carrying.
I joked above about the Air Wing being a bunch of sissies, but one of the things that stuck with me from my stint in the Marines is how much you can get done with just grit and muscle.
I can’t tell you how many HVAC units the air traffic control squadrons I was in got moved without a forklift by just gathering up every E4 and below and having them grab it.
So yeah, I can believe that the original plan called for vehicles but they were going to be late, so some crusty gunny said fuck it, let’s just walk.
Those poor bastards are gonna have shit for knees later in life. ”There’s no life like it,” indeed.
– 1 “The Soldier’s Load and the Mobility of a Nation” by S.L.A. Marshall
Great tentacly elder gods. My max load when backpacking was about 45 pounds, and this was when I was in my twenties.
These days I’m trying to keep up a 4mph walking pace over flatish paved terrain with no load, and I’m not making it.
What a coincidence. I also have a I have a vintage nut sack which carried a max load when I was in my twenties.
/lights the Swiss signal.
A Intel guy turned SF Commo guy, turned intel guy (compassionate reassignment for family reasons, so of course they send him on an unaccompanied to Korea).
Anyhow, his line regarding his rucksack stuck with me, “My truck was always a hundred and ten pounds of light weight gear.” As the gear became lighter and more compact, space became available for more ammo batteries etc.and being the commo guy on a SF team meant that if it was even vaguely related to electricity the Team Sergeant immediately passed it to him.
I was in 81mm mortars (infantry) for my first 4 year tour. Full combat load plus a piece of the mortar – that piece being 30 to 40 lbs. I’ll never forget the look in the other grunt’s eyes when they saw us – pure pity. We carried everything they did plus some huge chunk of steel and or bronze on top. They regarded us like one would view a group of the damned.
I’m so pissed off that I have no real functional Army gear. Every base I went to required a full turn-in of “everything” – parkas, rucks (old and new, etc). Then my buddy has reams of Marine and now Air Force gear they ordered for him by the pallet-load that wasn’t required for turn-in or anything.
Hull Street Outlet, bro. No longer on Hull, but on one of the sketchier sections of Jeff Davis. Look for the Honest John out front.
I turned in a full set of TA-50 and still had most of the necessary stuff left over. My ruck finally rotted away after sitting in the garage for 10+ years and then a couple years outside. Closure is good.
I’m still pissed I had to turn in my old plastic smells like puke rain gear several years prior. That stuff was far better than the gortex parkas. Packed flatter and didn’t get saturated in heavy rain.
Ruck was large ALICE with upgrades.
I’ll take a look. For personal gear, I’d much rather have a classic ALICE than a MOLLE.
I’m looking for the older MOLLE daypack attachment. In woodland. Think it would be perfect for a woods bag.
Yeah, the Assault/Daypack by itself wouldn’t be too bad.
Yeah I never got the hang of the MOLLE rig, as I understood it, I actually rode better than the ALICE, if you could get the random assortment of straps and pouches in a usable configuration. *If..*
Hated the MOLLE equipment. I had my ALICE gear absolutely set to my body. Whenever I PCSed I would draw the new gear and just let it sit until it was time to turn it in. I still have enough to “go Wolverine” if I ever needed to.
However the only time I even think about using my large ALICE ruck is for carrying out a quartered elk or moose.
Tee hee… Welcome to the light infantry. Add to that basic loadout a 13lb. PRC-77 radio/spare batteries, and a 70lb.+ RIM-92 Stinger missile system and you’ve described my 1990s.
I hiked around with this terrible thing when I was a kid; so incoming experienced while toting it, though
I do have two breweries under 5 miles away.
‘The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has indicted Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicolás Maduro and several key aides on charges of narcoterrorism.’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-drug-charges-20200326-vxeufbfjdrh3bmnpzag4nabuye-story.html
Did drugs fall out of their asses?
I think they’re just subpoenaed to Guantanamo Bay so the 9/11 judge can retire in front of them or something…
Did drugs fall out of his ass?
Did drugs fall out of her ass?
Meta drugs, and meta asses!
Confirmed cases doubled in six days in FL
Florida virus…
I’m putting a bunch of that down to New Yorker’s fleeing south. DeSantis asked Trump to stop the flight of NY denizens to Florida for this very reason.
New York has seen the most rapid rise anywhere in the world. More than twice as fast as Italy. Whatever they are doing, it stinks. And now they are fleeing to other parts of the country because Cuomo finally started shutting things down with shelter in place orders. An order that New Yorkers have interpreted as “get the hell out of here so I don’t have to shelter in place”.
‘There is no robust proof that the coronavirus can be spread by someone with no symptoms of the disease, said Dr Shawn Vasoo, clinical director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases.’
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/no-proof-of-asymptomatic-transmission-of-coronavirus-ncid
Interesting. Article is a month old. Did that just show up in your feed or linked elsewhere?
He is going for volume, not quality.
Asymptomatic transmission rose in priority for attention.
Invited to a meeting. Unspecified number of other attendees. Told will be capped at ten. Told temperatures will be taken by non-contact. Where the meeting is, if the cap is reached, do not see how ten people will be kept at least two to three metres apart.
From WHO itself.
‘Maintain social distancing. Maintain at least 1 metre (3 feet) distance between yourself and anyone who is coughing or sneezing. ‘
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public
One metre.
I hose coughing / sneezing people down with my backpack sprayer filled with Clorox.
lol
Careful. IIRC, hoodie or anything else that hides part of face (such as in Scruffy Nerfherder’s avatar) in combination with backpack equals suspicious person for mass murder scenarios.
And rightfully so.
Agreed.
In America we do everything bigger. It’s 6 feet in freedom measurement.
Yeah and none of that commie measurin’ nonsense. Like any freedom loving American we base our measures on the physical dimensions of foreign monarchs! ‘Mericia!
One meter? Good lord, that’s too close in all but serious crowding situations – no pandemic needed. Don’t get that close to me just standing in line at the supermarket.
Can you imagine walking up behind some lady at the checkout and standing two feet away from her (just a bit inside the 1 meter perimeter)? She’d call the cops if you didn’t move back..
10. ChipsnSalsa on March 26, 2020 at 12:11 pm
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-gavels-house-out-of-session-after-just-three-minutes-will-not-commit-to-vote-on-coronavirus-relief
“House was in this morning at 10 a.m. and 42 seconds. Out at 10:02 and 37 seconds No business of note. No resignations, etc. Back in tomorrow at 11 a.m.,” Politico’s Jake Sherman reported Wednesday morning.
no resignations, damn.
Down to posting other’s links postings from other threads? Maybe slow your roll for a bit.
LEAVE BRITTNEY ALONE!
If Metallica was ever good?!! I’d say they were great throughout the 80’s.
I mean, I really think they peaked at MoP, but enjoy …And Justice as well. But I came of puberty about that era. Some here disagree.
I kick myself for not seeing them on the MoP tour. I was in college and have no excuse.
Justice is my cut-off. I was probably like 10 when that came out so it was formative for me, but when I look back on it I put it third behind Master of Puppets and then Ride the Lightning. It’s a great album but the bass always bothered me.
I just listen to that ’89 Seattle concert.
great through Master of Puppets, And Justice For All was very good, everything since ranges from mediocre to awful
This is accurate.
Yep.
Vote was 96-0 with four abstaining
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/25/senate-passes-coronavirus-stimulus-bill-unanimous-/
Five senators were in quarantine
Cory Gardner, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Mitt Romney, and Rick Scott
https://wfin.com/covid-19/five-senators-under-quarantine-due-to-covid-19/
But Romney out in time to vote
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/romney-tests-negative-for-coronavirus
‘Sen. Mitt Romney said he tested negative for the coronavirus after interacting with Sen. Rand Paul, whose test came back positive.’
No COVID update today.
I have one. While cleaning the shop I found one used and two still in the package N95 masks. Any offers?
I’ll trade you one used and two still in the package condoms for that.
I still have an unopened package with two N95 masks that I bought before my trip to Japan in mid-February. I even saved a receipt in case I decide to return them to Lowe’s. That now seems like distant past.
50 quatloos.
Is a quatloo slang for a used condom? If it isn’t it should be.
Quatloo (QTL) is a cryptocurrency. Users are able to generate QTL through the process of mining. Quatloo has a current supply of 7,718,882.846.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/quatloo/
*checks link*
So worth less than a used condom. My original statement stands.
QTL to used condom exchange rate?
Different episode.
Swiss just has the Alternate Director’s Cut of TOS where Mirror Spock made the Gamesters of Triskelion fight each other on the ISS Enterprise for bread and quatloos…
Good one.
Wrong Franchise
–Cornfed as Spock
I have one package of N95. I’d donate them if there’s a need, but the local hospitals are saying they’re fine for now, despite the state government’s sky is falling claims. I just don’t know where the truth lies.
Ya, I thought of that. The scenario doesn’t make for bad jokes though. Turns out I might be needing them.
I guess what’s good for the gander and all. Where are the mobs insisting we BELIEVE HER?
Appropriate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xfo7elN8k4
“We told Republicans it was unacceptable to omit strict prohibitions on Trump businesses having access to the Treasury lending, as well as critical transparency measures, and that we would hold up the bill until they included them in the final text,” Schumer told POLITICO. “They relented and these important accountability provisions were successfully added to the final bill.”
But plenty of money for Democrat causes/slush-funds.
I thought the cover for this was that the clause affects all of Congress too, but there’s Schumer talking specifically about Trump. Weird.
It is supposed to be for all members of Congress and the Executive branch, including kids and in-laws.
But of course, the only watchdogs in the press will be 100% focused on the Trump family, and any story about a D member of Congress profiting will be considered “too local”.
WHERE ARE THE LINKS! I’M AT HOME ALL DAY AND NO AFTERNOON LINK! Oh, finally, there they are.
BTW, in case no one has posted this yet. Remember when those reports were going around the someone in our government was ‘leaking’ reports to the NYT that the apocalypse was going to last 18 montsh?
Looks like we finally found the source of that.
The End Times to Last 18 Months
Do NOT read the comments, you’ve been warned.
You telling me one fucking guy caused this? With one fucking model?
You betcha
Top Men, baby!
What would we do without them?
Save a few trillion dollars?
It seems that this is possible. Something something mulching devices…
Michael Mann just got knocked off his pedestal.
This guy walked it back at least.
Hey Imperial College
Where would one pick up a woodchipper in the U.K.?
Not sure, but they have plenty of lamp posts.
18 months is the optimistic time frame for a vaccine developed and fielded.
Likely outcomes
– Vaccine 12-18 months or more. Possibly never.
– eradicated through large scale testing, isolation, & quarantine well beyond what we have now. Probably impossible at this point. Original SARS outcome.
– herd immunity after enough people get it but goes endemic, flares up from time to time. More if it mutates wildly. Unproven if recovered people are immune and how long immunity lasts.
– or combinations of all three (similar to current flu approach)
I’m voting herd immunity, which is further advanced than we now think, following the equivalent of a nasty but short “second flu season” starting about now, with a possible worst case scenario “stacked” flu/COVID season this winter that will yield less than 20K excess COVID deaths.
Also likely outcome – all the idiots and assholes who are wrecking our economy completely unnecessarily will suffer approximately zero detrimental affects of their idiocy.
Also note the linked article on how a group of Dem activists set up the website used to panic government officials into wrecking our economy.
I am so tired of seeing Clay Jenkins’ stupid face.
I used to really enjoy his show, but there were a few episodes in 2014 or so where his personal bled too far into his educational and I quit.
Oh trust me, it was noted.
The Babylon Bee knows me.
Man Begs Internet To Stop Making Him Defend Trump
MARYSVILLE, OH—Local man Dennis Pavone is a middle-of-the-road conservative. He’s not crazy about President Donald Trump yet finds himself constantly being forced to defend the man against ever more deranged attacks from both the left and the Never Trump right.
Pavone says he’s always getting dragged into arguments where the accusations leveled against Trump are so outlandish that he’s forced to take the president’s side.
“OK, I’m really not a big Trump fan, so please stop making me defend him, you psychos,” he wrote in a recent Twitter thread after a progressive accused Trump of forcing a couple to drink aquarium cleaner. “Seriously, how insane do you people have to be to make me side with Trump every time? I didn’t even vote for him!”
Recent social media posts saying Trump will be responsible for millions of coronavirus deaths have only exacerbated Pavone’s dilemma, as he’s not a Trump guy but can’t bring himself to be as unhinged as those who oppose Trump. The media’s constant distorted reporting of everything Trump says and does also puts Pavone in “a real pickle,” as he has to pick between condoning wild-eyed conspiracy theories about the president and begrudgingly supporting the man pretty often.
“Stop putting me in this position, guys!”
If this keeps up, Pavone says he may just resign himself to becoming a Trump supporter. “He’s the worst option except for everyone else.”
There is clearly a Bee lurker here.
Well, given the honey producers have outed themselves….
You kidding? People love defending Trump here
:Runs, Hides,
Fights:He who smelt it dealt it, PC.
I’m not in Marysville, gotta be one of the other Buckeyes
*side eye*
.30, .50 or 20mm ammo cans?
20mm or 25mm is far too large to fit in a ruck.
I was thinking packs like this
Suppose that counts as a “pack”. That’s definitely a way to arrange a large can on your back – but you’d have to raise it so high it’d be a danger to powerlines.
.30, if you are are ground pounder. .50 is for treadheads. Same with the 20mm. Now, 40mm might be OK.
As mentioned above, I’ve seen Weapons Company Marines ordered to break up their .50s and MK19s and hump them into battle.
Don’t forget the mortar rounds! Mortar squad can’t carry them all.
I actually had a bunch of weighted cardboard cylinders at one time. Worked great for ruck weights.
Always felt bad for the guy who had the mortar base plate. The weight would suck but the fact that it looked awkward and uncomfortable as all hell would suck more.
“When Joe Biden says he has no recollection of the incident, people will believe him.”
It doesn’t matter. There are so many #MeToo wannabes running around wanting their 2 minutes of fame, no one pays much attention anymore, let alone takes the accuser seriously.
Even though I think it is funny to see the Dems get hoisted by their own retards, I have to wonder why this gal didn’t go to the cops when this happened?
A guy gropes you and shoves and finger rapes you and you don’t think a trip to the cops is worth it?
You couldn’t get to be an internet celebrity back then by claiming you got raped.
released a Star Trek-esque logo
Which borrowed from the NASA logo…
Vote was 96-0 with four abstaining
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/25/senate-passes-coronavirus-stimulus-bill-unanimous-/
Five senators were in quarantine
Cory Gardner, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Mitt Romney, and Rick Scott
https://wfin.com/covid-19/five-senators-under-quarantine-due-to-covid-19/
But Romney out in time to vote
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/romney-tests-negative-for-coronavirus
‘Sen. Mitt Romney said he tested negative for the coronavirus after interacting with Sen. Rand Paul, whose test came back positive.’
“The moon unit will be divided into two divisions: Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa.” – Some Space Force guy in a gray Nehru jacket.
Nice.
I am actually one of the few? people who think the SF is a good idea.
Warty challenge: I have one of those GoRuck brand rucksacks. It’s insanely expensive for a backpack, but it was a gift. I put 30 or 40 pounds in it to walk the dog, and it ramps up the intensity pretty well.
O just use my regular backpack when I’m getting ready for a trip. Not a lot of elevation here, but the weight does definitely help.
No rucksack here, but when the fam walks down to the local for dinner and a couple beers I usually carry my daughter back on my shoulders. She’s in the 40 pound neighborhood and it’s about a mile and a half.
Naptown coming home from the bar with the Mrs.
When my boy was younger I had one of those fancy kid-haulin’ backpacks, and I took him all over the place — up mountains, across town to breweries, etc. It was a great way to get a little extra “free” exercise.
“insanely expensive for a backpack”
“It’s not a backpack.” -GoRuck website.
But seriously, their products are not insanely expensive compared to a nice overnight frame pack from REI.
True that. I was thinking in terms of comparing it to something my kid might lug books to school with, since it has such limited utility (one big compartment and a little zipper compartment on the front).
I have a Dana Designs, which is now Mystery Ranch, I guess. It’s pretty much this thing: https://www.mysteryranch.com/terraplane-pack which is $400 now.
I recently went to an REI for the first time in over a decade and was shocked at the gear. My backpacks and climbing packs were state of the art 20 years ago. Now they are like dinosaurs. The new stuff is much lighter and have some great features.
The issue with the new gear seems to be durability. All that very light nylon won’t stand up to the abuse of use like my older packs will. Plus $400 for a backpack? Not me.
Hi Brett!
I’m not a Metallica guy, but that was good.
It’s sad, though, what 35 years does to a man, though.
There’s a funny meme somewhere with that picture and the overlaid text of Master of Puppets lyrics edited to be about shopping and bargains.
https://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1234727/barg-300.jpg
That’s what happens when you’ve made it.
Neanderthals made extensive use of coastal environments, munching on fish, crabs and mussels, researchers have found, in the latest study to reveal similarities between modern humans and our big-browed cousins.
Fishing: So easy a cave man can do it.
Except when the state closes fishing.
WA ahead of the curve?
They are breathtakingly retarded.
The Neanderthal pictured in that story looks kinda like Abe Lincoln.
Hmm… I think you might be onto something.
https://youtu.be/2AzAFqrxfeY
“So I took the Warty challenge today… Warty told some of us that he had put a couple of ammo cans in a backpack and walked up and down the hills in his town.”
These are metal ammo cans for a .30 cal machine gun, right? Empty or full (and of what)? Seriously, I’d like a weight estimate.
Mine is actually one of those square surplus .50 practice ammo cans loaded with a case of #2 buck and 2 or 3 large knives. Maybe 30lbs.
I’m thinking of buying 2 25lb bags of play sand, which we have a sandbox for and would use this summer and loading that instead.
Sand from a sandbox has been peed on by at least 6 cats.
Guys, there’s a better way. Just buy an hydration backpack such as a CamelBak and use water as the weight. Since it’s an hydration pack you can also drink the water.
Pro-tip: always water, only water, drain and dry after each use if you want to drink from it.
You can also store the bladder in the freezer to prevent molding.
You ain’t seen nothing yet
Boba Guys’ Chau is urging the state and federal government to pass laws freezing commercial rent and mortgage payments.
“If they do that, the landlords will ease up, and then the tenants will ease up,” Chau said. “If they get rid of that, most small businesses would at least breathe a bigger sigh of relief.”
Last week, a chorus of San Francisco business leaders and industry activists — including heads of the Chamber of Commerce, Hotel Council, and several restaurant groups — wrote a joint letter to Mayor Breed, calling on the city to tap unused funds from a health care program to support hospitality workers. The program, Healthy SF, pools money from businesses to pay for uninsured employees’ health care, and the surplus is held by the city. The signatories are asking the city to use the money to pay wages lost by restaurant, bar and retail workers during orders to shut down.
Can you say, “Slush fund,” children?
That’s one way to collapse every REIT out there.
TBF, my buddy with his wings and sammich joint is trying to work things out with his landlord too. It just seems stupid that someone would want to kick out a good-paying business because they can’t make the rent for a month or two (you can’t get blood from a stone) – when the state has effectively mandated that they shut down for 80% of their business – especially since there’s next to no chance of getting another tenant in at least the next 4 months (not to mention the costs of renovation, etc – when you won’t be getting rent either).
Maybe individuals could separately negotiate in good faith with each other: the renter with the landlord, the landlord to the bank, and they could ALL take a haircut, but nobody get their throat cut. Except the bank. The bank Always Gets theirs.
Talked to my buddy – he’s going to ask to defer the rent to the back end of his lease. I told him to keep me posted – because that sounds like a really common sense solution.
A lot of retail leases are based on sales; you’d think that would spread the pain.
I don’t support the meddling
but there are few sectors and fewer players out there who don’t deserve a haircut
Concise and correct (IMO).
The REITS and hedge funds may deserve a haircut, but an awful lot of my clients would go down the drain on these measures, and I find it hard to see how some 65 year old blue collar guy who has scrimped and worked weekends for 35 years to end up with 10-15 houses to cover his retirement deserves to have his income suspended.
Dow jumps 1,300 points in biggest 3-day surge since 1931
Fred Imbert, Pippa Stevens and Eustance Huang
15 mins ago
msn.com/en-us/money/markets/stocks/ar-BB11DCB1
Stonks be ‘wylin
Is that good or bad?
That was quick.
Dow Escapes grizzly Market With a 6% Rally
FIFY
Another hilarious headline.
The blue-chip index is now up 20% from its low, qualifying as a new bull market
Simultaneously a bear market and a bull market, because its also still down more than 10% from its previous high.
My take: the equities markets are fucked up, yo. I’m in ride it out mode. I wouldn’t put new money in, and I wouldn’t take money out.
I’m still a long-term investor. If you are a short-term investor, do what you do.
Stalinism 101
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is taking steps to remove Sheriff Alex Villanueva as the head of the county’s emergency operations center during the coronavirus outbreak, a move he called a “pure power grab at the worst time possible.”
Three supervisors reached late Wednesday said the proposed change is months in the making and stems from the need to centralize disaster operations after a fragmented response during the deadly Woolsey fire, which killed three people and burned nearly 97,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties in 2018.
But Villanueva said the timing suggests retaliation for his decision to close gun shops during the pandemic, viewing them as nonessential businesses.
“This is pretty much a silent coup, what they’re trying to orchestrate,” Villanueva said. “We should be worried about masks, about test kits, and I have [Supervisor] Kathryn Barger worried about guns and ammunition.”
The sheriff should just take the Board of Supervisors into protective custody. For their own good.
We should be worried about masks, about test kits,
Says the guy who was so worried about guns he closed gun shops.
All together now:
Fuck off, you fucking fuck.
Rob Reiner✔
@robreiner
We will get through this. But unfortunately not with the help of this President. First he must be removed from the public square to let competent experts take over, then he must be removed from office to allow US to heal.
Well, ok then.
“let competent experts take over”
Well, I feel better now.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has been praising the Trump Administration’s efforts.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for this to lead tonight’s NBC News with Lester Cornholt.
I heard he fucks sheep.
removed
Hans Herman-Hoppe’s ears perk up.
‘the façade of democracy’
‘to let competent experts take over’
Here’s one …
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/26/the-scientist-whose-doomsday-pandemic-model-predicted-armageddon-just-walked-back-the-apocalyptic-predictions/
Umm… glances upthread…
*cringes* Point.
Where’d all these drugs come from?
Will you stifle it there meathead? Jeez….
He will never escape Meathead. So stupid to have taken that role.
He was young, and probably broke. Michael Caine once said that he did so many bad roles because he learned early on that “a gig is a gig.” I believe Ricardo Montalban said exactly the same thing. Two actors who knew what was what.
The only time you normally turn down a gig is if you’re already rich. I learned that in the software development field.
My wife’s rarely-contacted cousin (I’ve never met her) is married to Meathead’s brother, so in a distant way I guess he’s almost family.
My wife wasn’t invited to the wedding many years ago, but her father went. Said the Reiner family, especially Carl, were ‘interesting’.
Like the competent experts in the FDA and CDC?
Dow Escapes Bear Market With a 6% Rally
I need another dip, goddammit. I’ve still got some things on my shopping list.
Chelsea Handler✔
@chelseahandler
Trump is holding a press conf about corona yet is unable to answer any real questions on the matter, and then turns it over to pence, who then praises trump for what a great job he’s been doing. How stupid do we have to be before we get rid of this moron. Not a question.
He has surrounded himself with doctors in order to handle medical inquiry, but sure.
How stupid do we have to be before we get rid of this moron. Not a question.
I mean… Stupid enough to ask a question, and then say that it is not a question?
¿If there is no question mark and they ask a question, is it still a question?
So, getting rid of Trump would be the act of a very stupid person? Is that what you just twitted?
Why, yes, I believe so.
Wasn’t it during Henry Ford’s libel suit that he said he didn’t need to know certain things as he could just call someone up who had the answer?
This. Effective Management 101.
Odd how this Biden sexual assault (?) thing is getting media play now. Could it be that the DNC-MSM is gearing up to foist Cuomo upon us?
Cuomo and/or Her Shrillness.
Yes, the praise for Cuomo is picking up. The governor of the state loosing population is the savior.
The oppo file on him must be epic.
Searching for Rip Hamilton saying “Yessir”…
“Loading…”
/Biden and Sanders stand on a stage.
And the Democrat nominee is…..ANJEW CA-WOMO!
TA-DAH!
Thot Thursday needs more .223.
http://archive.li/F98K4
#20.
#30 looks healthy.
Stop this miserable totalitarian nightmare. My sister is absolutely loving this. Knowing that the whole country is on lockdown and police can stop anyone doing anything is heaven for her. She feels safe knowing that other people can’t go out and he deplorable and make their own decisions
I just looked at youtube and the Telegraph has a video piece up from Derbyshire police who have been flying a drone over the Peak District to film and shame people who go out into the middle of fucking nowhere by themselves to walk the dog or just take a stroll. “Not essential” they say. What the fuck is wrong with walking to the middle of fucking nowhere? That’s ultimate social distancing, but no, the stasi can’t have that. SWEET FUCKING METEOR OF DEATH NOW.
Your sister sounds like a nice person
I believe she is, fundamentally, in her own way She has her problems, but her view of the world is hyper-proggie. She just wants as much control as possible from top
menpersons to make her feel safe, and people should just go along with that. She treats me as a paranoid malcontent deplorable for questioning this. It’s selfish of me to be naturally inclined toward liberty and self-reliance, and skeptical of those who would tell me they know what’s best for me. She personifies a lot of the supreme proggie arrogance, dishonesty, and disdain without any apparent self-awareness.Hmm, sounds like one of my sisters
I am under a statewide lockdown (Colorado). No one can go to the mountains. Denver Parks took all of the tennis nets down, because everyone knows tennis involves clustering tightly together. There is a baseball diamond nearby that no one ever uses where I like to hit pop flies and grounders, do batting practice, etc. Just the two of us. Nope. Not allowed.
When you say no one can go to the mountains, how the hell are they enforcing that?
Coors Light hardest hit.
I’m half tempted to try to put together some meme along the lines of: Everyone’s job is essential to them.
But I’m not artistic, nor of the correct age range to meme. I still remember when these books were referred to as the Meme Wars series.
A coworker was complaining to me because we are still operating. She asked what made us essential.
I told her my paycheck is pretty essential to me.
That’s the shit that’s actually making me incredibly angry with the office normies. I work on the money side of things, so I can actually give a rough date of “When we all lose our jobs because we’re out of money.” Meanwhile all the normies are all WELL BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY DON’T WANT TO GET THIS CORONAVIRUS ITS VERY VERY BAD WE SHOULD PROBABLY CLOSE TILL JUNE JUST TO BE SAFE.
I have never in my life felt more like I was the only sane man in a fucking loony bin. It’s absolutely baffling to me.
The production leads have a mutiny to quell. I’m sure it is entirely due to concerns about THD and nothing at all related to a tax payer funded weeks long vacation.
How is this?
*applause*
Might be risking our family friendly certification with that one. 🙂
Artisanal hand-dipped dildos?
She looks skeptical.
HM, you give mexican sharpshooter his account back right now. Bad mulatto! Bad!
Well, it was nice knowing you all.
My company has reported its first case of THD.
The guy didn’t work at this site. And he was on vacation when he caught it and hasn’t been back to work since then, but you all know this is a very contagious plague so I probably have it now.
Feel like you should have seen this coming
You can never predict your own death. It’s one of the rules.
Unless you’re a cyclops in the Krull universe.
Which movie was better?
Krull or Hawk the Slayer? Discuss.
Hawk & Chick vs Jellyfish Monster
Hawk & Chick vs. Seaweed Monster
Hawk & Chick vs. 6-Headed Geisha
Hawk & Chick vs. Tsukumogami
Hawk & Chick vs. Sharkman
Hawk & Chick vs. Giant Scorpion
Hawk & Chick Vs Giant Butterfly
Hawk & Chick vs. Snow Monster
Hawk & Chick Vs Sticky Rice Monster
Hawk & Chick Vs Six-Headed Sumo
Hawk & Chick vs. Cephalopod Monster
Hawk & Chick: The Final Battle
Krull, definitely.
Only one has The Glaive.
Can I have your TP and Beer?
No beer. I lost 70 pounds since I stopped drinking it.
You could go buy a bunch of beer before THD gets you. I like Hefes.
Sorry, too busy writing Tinder profile: “Man with coronavirus seeks woman with same to enjoy the last few hours on earth with. No uggos.”
THD
The Herp Derp?
where is Derp?
WaPo Senior Editor:
And then he realized that he’s a complete dick?
All together now…. “And then drugs fell out of his ass?”
I liked McMillan & Company better when it involved Susan Saint James.
Insert Spaceballs “I’m surrounded by assholes” gif here.
I’m thinking a flaming bag of shit at his doorstep might be appropriate.
Could it be that the DNC-MSM is gearing up to foist Cuomo upon us?
That’s Statesman and Leader Cuomo, to you.
I don’t think mafia looking guy will be that popular outside of NYC. Just a guess that goofy old senile Joe has a better chance.
My parents love him. They say he’s got an excellent vocabulary.
Lovely enterprise you posses. It would be a shame if a calamity would befall it.
So he’s…articulate?
So well-spoken. And clean !
“New York Needs More Money”
Nobody likes a negative Nancy.
In an interview with Insider, Garcetti pushed back against “premature optimism” in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying leaders who suggest we are on the verge of business as usual are putting lives at risk.
“I can’t say that strongly enough,” the mayor said. Optimism, he said, has to be grounded in data. And right now the data is [sic] not good.
“Giving people false hope will crush their spirits and will kill more people,” Garcetti said, adding it would change their actions by instilling a sense of normality at the most abnormal time in a generation.
“This will not kill most of us,” he said. “It will kill a lot more people than we’re used to dying around us.”
He’s talking about the seasonal flu that has killed 20k this year or the tens of thousands that die in automotive collisions every year, right?
‘leaders who suggest we are on the verge of business as usual are putting lives at risk’
Can someone with a woke decoder translate this?
If this is just President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump, then why not say so?
He missed the 3 million that died last year in the US. Average of about 9 K a day or so.
“I can’t say that strongly enough,” the mayor said. Optimism, he said, has to be grounded in data. And right now the data is [sic] not good.
I hope his email and socials are getting blowed up real good with the retraction of the Imperial College doomsday model.
I have a friend who owns a bar. i wouldn’t be surprised if his place never re-opens. I think he was sailing pretty close to the wind as it was, and losing a month’s revenue is probably not survivable.
Nice going, Bullock, you ignoramus.
Sure, Brookise, but you need to realize that your friend and his family are not as important as theoretical dead people of higher social impact.
I saw and when through a lot of bad shit in the last crash. I am absolutely sick about what’s coming.
People aren’t as well capitalized as they were in the last crash. There were a surge of hipster businesses and middle-aged retirees/layoffs who opened businesses. Not going to happen this time.
What is this idiot up to now? I keep hearing rumors, but can’t find anything on the internet
Maybe he needs to go work for the Kennedy Arts Center. They were saved.
Bar Rescue! Call Jon Tapper ASAP!
There are a couple of places that had just opened up that will probably not reopen. So can you even buy quarantine insurance as a restaurant/bar?
How many Bars/restaurants went tit’s up last year? IIRC something like 90% of bar/restaurants go out of business within four years of opening. Let’s put this ‘crisis’ into some perspective.
You know what dude, I get your shtick is your shtick, and that’s cool and all, but there’s an enormous difference between
A. Joe’s Bar is dirty and the service sucks and the owner doesn’t know how to fix it so they go out of business.
and
B. Joe’s Bar was doing just fine, but doesn’t have the capital to survive a month long closure by government order.
the difference is that in a shock cash mistakes show up quickly
whereas normally it takes a year or two
most small businesses go out of business this way, sooner or later
No COVID update today. It continues to expand. Confirmed cases doubled in six days in FL, and negative cases continue to run 9-1, meaning that community spread doesn’t seem to be a problem.
I’ve got an update. Sununu shut the state down
Gov. Chris Sununu has issued a stay-at-home order effective midnight Friday through May 4.
He announced the order Thursday at a Concord briefing on the coronavirus crisis. Sununu said “essential” businesses can remain open.
“Today’s steps elevate our messages to Granite Staters,” Sununu said.
Schools will also remain closed with remote learning continuing until at least May 4. All state beaches will be closed to public as well.
A bit more on the stupidity:
The stay-at-home order will take effect Friday night at 11:59 p.m., Sununu said. Nonessential businesses must close by the end of Friday, he said.
Sununu noted that this is not an order to shelter in place, something he said he does not have the authority to do. He said no one’s prevented from leaving their homes, transportation isn’t shutting down, and the state’s borders are not closed. All state beaches on the Seacoast will also be closed effective Friday night.
“No governor can shut down their border,” Sununu said.
Businesses that will remain open include gas stations, grocery stores, pharmacies, banks and laundromats. In addition to bars and dine-in restaurants that have already closed, gyms and entertainment venues were told to close. A full list is expected to be released by the governor’s office, and WMUR will make that list available as soon as possible.
Starting tomorrow and extending until May 4? What the hell?
Stay at home = house arrest without being charged
At least you will be free in time for the 51st anniversary of Margaret Thatcher being elected prime minister.
To quote from her campaign: ‘May the Fourth by with you.’
I should hope the lockdown doesn’t last 10 years.
You can always hope.
Massachusetts only goes until April 7th.
So far Ohio is April 6th. So far…
“No governor can shut down their border”
Australian states say hold my beer.
The Nullarbor is not the place I would pick to be in a traffic jam.
I’ve heard about the Nullarbor. Yeah, not a place I’d want to be stuck.
Wow.
He announced the order Thursday at a Concord briefing on the coronavirus crisis. Sununu said “essential” businesses can remain open.
Political Action Committees are essential businesses, right?
Robby’s trying to make it a big deal.
Did Reade report anything at the time (1993)?
She claims she did but there is no record.
Sounds credible to me.
Well, he is a known rape denier who doesn’t even have a degree from Columbia, so what do you expect?
While I doubt both claims, the silence from believe all women crowd is telling.
Right, and if one of them was true, my money would be on Reade.
Meh, “drunk high school jock gets handsy” is a pretty believable scenario to me.
Not baffling at all. The Donkeys have herd immunity from this sort of thing.
The left’s favorite villain.
Gun stores and firearm dealers throughout the country are reporting a big spike in sales due to coronavirus-related fears. In February, weeks before the full gravity of the coronavirus situation sunk in, the FBI’s background check system had already reported that it had 2.8 million inquiries from potential gun-buyers—up from 2 million during this time last year, and the third-highest monthly total since the agency created the system in 1998, according to the Washington Post. Since then, the situation has only worsened, with news reports and social media posts of people lining up outside of gun stores trying to arm themselves in case their worst fears becoming a reality. But the surprising reality is that it is not just preexisting gun owners stockpiling ammo and adding to their armories in a time of crisis. Many dealers have said that a lot of sales have been to first-time gun buyers, who are purchasing a firearms as a way to protect themselves amid fears that the coronavirus situation could lead to a complete societal breakdown.
That’s a talking point ripped straight from the National Rifle Association, who in the past few weeks has been using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to stoke paranoia, cajoling its members to stock up to stay safe during a time of societal change. “Concerns for personal safety, new limitations on the arrests of criminals in some cities, and potential gun control enacted under the guise of fighting the pandemic have Americans preparing to take responsibility for their own safety,” reads one recent article on the NRA’s website, titled “The 2A is a Constant in Times of Crisis.” On Saturday, the NRA tweeted out a video of a disabled woman arguing for the importance of guns in a time of crisis and accusing Democrats of exploiting the pandemic for political purposes. “I know from history how quickly society breaks down during the crisis,” she says in the video, “and we’ve never faced anything like this before and never is a Second Amendment more important than during public unrest.”
Yes, yes. It is the NRA that is stoking the fires of hysteria, not powermongering politicians and hyper-partisan political hacks in the “news” media.
Yeah, it’s the NRA that had the Chinese lined up outside the local gun shop a couple weeks ago.
This Winchester bourbon has grown on me. It’s got a nice butterscotch flavor.
I love butterscotch.
you are a sick man
B’scotch beyatch!
It’s better than margarinescotch.
Plus in Canada, I think they still make you stir in the coloring yourself.
So you like Diacetyl?
What is this idiot up to now? I keep hearing rumors, but can’t find anything on the internet
Bullock? He successfully lobbied the Park Service to shut down Yellowstone, so cootie-infested tourists won’t come to Park and Gallatin Counties (as if there’s much of anything for them to do around here, anyway.
And he’s living comfortably in the governor’s mansion and cashing his paychecks same as he always does.
Apparently he is making some new announcement at 4:30. I am concerned about what fresh fuckery he is going to attempt to inflict upon us now.
Bullock also issued a monkey-see-monkey-do business shutdown order a week or so ago, and just extended it to the 10th of April, i believe. There working on a new, improved list of non-essential business categories. I can’t help wondering if “sporting goods stores” will be included.
Massie using some of that racist math.
In Bloomberg dollars that’s not much.
Biden’s defense: Who?
#MEWHO.
What she’s saying he said does sound like things he’d say, no boofing.
“Come on man”
From her account. He used that phrase numerous times in one of the recent debates.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier that looks good in a skirt pinned to the wall! – Ol’ Joe
Let him give her hair a sniff, maybe that’ll jog his memory.
*Clears throat*
It was 96-0.
And the for abstentions were GOP so all Senate Democrats voted for it
THE PARTIES SWITCHED!
Learn to code!
If I see one more stupid chain of matches example…….
“..thousdands of lines of undocumented C code.”
SCIENCE!
Gustave, decent video at your level from Misa.
https://youtu.be/8SvFK5oKl0k
I’m trying to keep studying. My class next term is going video for the first time. Should be interesting.
My level? I’ll have to watch that later then.
My class, along with other non-credit classes at the community college, got cancelled for spring term. Works out because I wasn’t going to go in the current situation and on the fence about continuing if it wasn’t like this. Teacher has been emailing resources and quizzes as if we were still in class, which has been nice.
MIxture of N4 and N5 – so should be about perfect!
On Saturday, the NRA tweeted out a video of a disabled woman arguing for the importance of guns in a time of crisis and accusing Democrats of exploiting the pandemic for political purposes. “I know from history how quickly society breaks down during the crisis,” she says in the video, “and we’ve never faced anything like this before and never is a Second Amendment more important than during public unrest.”
Stuff like this annoys the shit out of me. Time and time again, natural disasters and crises result in large scale co-operative activity on the part of ordinary citizens, but there is always some jackass running around blabbering about how we’re one snowstorm, or power failure, or zombie plague away from total societal meltdown and warlordism.
I don’t care who does it.
*Hides away apocalypse leather outfit.*
Unfortunately, I don’t have any N95 masks. I probably should have seen this coming, and bought some earlier, but I didn’t.
Anyway, I have to the supermarket and pharmacy tomorrow. I have regular nuisance dust masks. Would wearing one make any difference?
It would hide your face. ?
I don’t think so. Viruses will sail right through those.
It would keep you from touching your face though.
Viruses sail right through N95 also, but the droplets are larger.
Now is not the time to skimp.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/designer-face-masks-going-200-212323496.html?.tsrc=rss
China is closed to foreigners.
Oh no! I was thinking of visiting.
Bat soup?
Pangolin penis stew.
They told me bear bile was just the thing to clear up my Wu Flu: https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-treatment-china-touts-bear-bile-covid-19-cure-2946942
There was another link from the ADV China folks where the WHO recommended treatment options in English and other languages was pretty routine, but the one in Mandarin specifically called out Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a valid option.
Which is mindnumbing when you imagine how COVID supposedly originated. (Also hearing ADV talk about how their inlaws and that generation are still completely sold on that for every single medical issue – even after all this time and supposed exposure to modern medicine….how could crazy viruses just keep popping up in China???)
Oh yeah…this gem:
TCM is a fucking travesty and the WHO is a worthless mouthpiece for even acknowledging it beyond “it’s snakeoil horseshit, don’t do it”.
TCM:
– doesn’t work
– is exceptionally cruel to animals
– fools morons into not seeking real medical treatment
WHO: “Seems legit to us!”
If it doesn’t work, how come the Chinese have been able to cure coronavirus, smart guy?
TCM:China::Homeopathy:US
Penn and Teller had a great bit about it in their Alternative Medicine Bullshit episode. You know what the Alternate Medicine treatment for measles is? There isn’t one! Because we fucking cured it!
Darnit. There goes my planned trip to the Wuhan wet market for some bat soup.
So what, specifically, are they hiding this time?
All of it.
Nothing – they’re just busy leaping forward.
Here’s a good piece too – via ADVChina from Australian TV: https://youtu.be/t-QsyDdLUYw?t=1087
In view of the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the world, China has decided to temporarily suspend the entry into China by foreign nationals holding visas or residence permits still valid to the time of this announcement, effective from 0 a.m., 28 march 2020.
Nice. The script, she is been flipped.
Taking a page from the Shogunate Japanese and North Koreans.
Went to the grocery store today. They’re pretty much out of tortillas and rice, still very low on pasta, and still no TP, but everything else is well stocked. Store wasn’t crowded at all.
Now that I’ve finally gotten into the habit of taking a reusable bag, they’ve stopped bagging items in reusable bags (you can still use your own bag, you just have to bag everything yourself).
Meanwhile in Libertarian Moment/total anarchy news, the local pizza place/multitap has announced that they’re doing growler fills now. AFAIK the state only allows breweries to fill growlers, and I’m not sure if this regulation has been relaxed or if the multitap owner just said ‘fuck it’. Regardless, I’m sure this will be one of the first things to get rolled back once things start to get back to normal.
15 years in NYC and I’ve finally been getting proper go-cups from my local. Bars can ONLY do drinks to go now. A growler fill up and a 20oz. plastic cup to sip on the way home = good stuff.
One of the chains here (so far) has banned reusable bags during the crisis.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘Gift from God’ coronavirus ‘cure’ touted by Donald Trump is promoted by a FAKE Stanford University ‘researcher’ who is actually a cryptocurrency-hustling Long Island lawyer whose bogus science paper was removed by Google”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8143845/Malaria-cure-coronavirus-promoter-cryptocurrency-hustler-fake-Stanford-University-claim.html
I thought it was a French doctor who ran the first study and then a 250 person study was run and. Now a much of others are running.
And there’s a NYC doctor who used it on 350 patients?
The US has passed China’s official number of cases. We know their official number is bullshit, but we’ve passed it.
We’re number 1 again! The good thing though, is our mortality rate is very low compared to China and most of Europe. The outlier being Germany. How are the Krauts doing it? It has to be beer! Runs to fridge…
Because their testing is awesome. When someone tests positive they trace through that person’s history and meticulously and efficiently test everyone they came into contact with.
It’s not that their doctors are geniuses or they are a race of super men. Their numbers are simply correct whereas everyone else’s are not.
Good for them, if they keep it up Germany will be healthy and screwing the rest of Europe again in no time.
So German efficiency and attention to detail?
Its like they’re really good with lists.
Only about 2 orders of magnitude to go before overtaking the real number!
The media has assured us that the Chicoms would never lie about this.
You’re a fool if you believe the China figure.
queue China tankies praising communism
Total cases always go down relative to others once you stop counting.
Well seasoned roaster in the George Jr. Rotessorie. Haven’t had him out for a while. Gonna be yummy. Was planning on smoking ribs, but as I was getting everything out, the wife tells me one of the grocery stores has TP and I must go immediately. Since I was already pushing my time allotment to smoke, gonna do another day.
OOh… how is that one? We have and absolutely love the Ronco rotisserie but it’s getting long in the tooth. Unfortunately, we’ve recently discovered that the company has screwed itself and now dead stock rotisseries are going for several hundred dollars on Amazon.
We’ve had ours at least 10 years. There were periods when kids were younger where I was probably using it every week. It works great, I couldn’t be happier with it. Came with the chicken spit, and a couple baskets. Would buy again for sure.
17 minutes a pound for whole chicken.
I’m going with Chicken fried Steak fritters, cheap and easy,
SAVE THE CANNED GOODS!
You are in Columbus correct, If you are desperate for TP I can hook you up, you’ll have to avoid the non-essential travel ban but if you can get as far north as Mt Gilead (if 70 is no good take 42) I can get down that far and help you out. I’m flush (so to speak) when it comes to TP.
I appreciate that bud. I got what we needed today so should be good for a a while:) Thanks!!!
Roll down to the (937) and I can hook you up, too.
I might just go for a Saturday drive, just because.
/flaunts his essential privilege.
Of course, both of the “papers” I’ve been provided are really just e-mails that I can print out to show anyone stopping me. Good thing printed e-mails are impossible to forge now.
It’s all a joke down here, I figured since “Housing Construction” was specifically mentioned that I would be one of the ‘special’ people but as I drove around the last few days I can’t figure out who isn’t essential. Other than closing bars and making restaurants go carry out only it’s business as usual. The bike shop is open, the sign store is open, the guy who sells smokers is open. The DQ is open, it’s not even a DQ tht sells burgers and shit, apparently getting a Peanut Buster Parfait is essential business. It’s a joke the ‘bailout’ that one dare not call a ‘bailout’ is a joke. I have never been more cynical about all you assholes than right now and I’m usually pretty fucking cynical.
In PA, construction is a no no right now, other than “emergency repairs.”
I had two trees taken down today, and a neighbor is having several done. None are emergencies but the tree surgery guys must have a good lobby in Harrisburg.
“It was totally going to fall over and kill children”
“I pinky swear”
We went to a DQ not long ago and I was shocked they no longer offer butterscotch milkshakes, all their current flavors seem to have proprietary ties such as the Snickers® Shake. No butterscotch means they’re dead to me.
(ProTip — their best thing ever was a butterscotch malt and they’d add chopped nuts into the blend if you asked. Mmmm. A treat for taste and texture).
Bicycle shops were apparently specifically called out as “essential” (based on an e-mail one of the local shops sent out). Up here I’m seeing a lot less vehicle traffic, some places closing entirely, and a lot more e-mails/communication from restaurants.
Stretching vehicle repairs a little thin, but good for them. ?
Well DeWine did say in the press conference announcing this that you were allowed to go for a bike ride.
“allowed” is the part part that gets me.
And fuck his mini-statist, power-hungry, horse-faced, daughter too. And her FOP pals. In case I havent made that clear.
We think you are ‘special’.
So is this opinion ok now?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/cuomo-closing-all-businesses-keeping-everyone-home-not-best-public-health-strategy
He is a man of many talents.
He’s a man who might see an opportunity at the Dem convention if Biden has a stroke or something.
His home microbiology lab is supervised by his faithful butler Alfred.
That’s Dr Cuomo to you.
Future President Cuomo.
*falls out of chair laughing*
We have a Dr. Cuomo at work. I feel bad for the guy.
Does he go around pointing out he is not like the other Cuomo’s?
In times of peace prepare for war. In times of war prepare for peace. It’s only controversial when Trump says it.
Well just got the news that my job is on a “soft close” through April. Next paycheck will be 100%, but they’re going to be cutting them going forward. So far its still enough to make ends meet, but I’m gonna dive into the ZOMG EXPLOITATIVE gig economy to hedge things. Anyone done DoorDash/GrubHub/UberEats?
You can cam whore from the safety of your own home. Just sayin.
As my friend Brian the Homo used to say, “Pilgrim, I got lead in my pencil. Just nobody to write to.”
Pizza Hut.
One of the funnest jobs I’ve ever had.
Okay, I have to admit, I was not expecting that.
I’m still hung-up on “chubby redhead in a dress, on a motorcycle, in the snow”.
Sounds like I missed something interesting.
Okay, that’s combining three different stories.
1. Kawasaki 650KZ, chubby redhead dropping her motorcycle on the ground and very sweetly asking the first man she saw to pick it up for her. He did it but he was quite bemused the entire time.
2. Yamaha Virago 920, chubby redhead getting off work from Walmart (yes, I worked there too) at midnight in the snow. I was NOT wearing a dress.
3. Yamaha Virago 920, yellow dress with white eyelet petticoat going to work every morning one summer.
And there’s Tres Cool’s new spot of being hung-up…
*but did she do it on purpose?*
If you didn’t, I would be disappointed in you.
LOL Started out as an act of industrial espionage–heh–and ended up a job I really liked.
I was 20. It was summer. People tipped well.
Industrial Espionage?
My dad was a PI for a medical malpractice and personal injury law firm. I was helping him do different stuff since before I could drive, and then when I could, I must have driven hundreds of miles collecting medical records and suchlike.
Anyhoo, the firm had this case where a Pizza Hut delivery driver hit and killed a little girl. They were suing Pizza Hut because the parents claimed the driver was going too fast (probably was).
For whatever reason, my dad’s firm couldn’t get its hands on the driver manual/handbook. So they asked my dad to get it. I was fresh home from BYU and Dad comes to me and says, “Whatever they pay you, I’ll match. You don’t have to stay there all summer. Just get that book and do it quick.”
Okie dokie.
He wasn’t quite expecting to have to match THAT MUCH. Heh.
That was a fun summer.
I see.
You wouldn’t happen to know the outcome of that lawsuit do you? Was Pizza Hut pressuing their drivers, or was the guy just a reckless ass endangering everyone around him?
I don’t remember, but it was 1988.
The claim was indeed that Pizza Hut pressured its drivers to get where they were going and do it quickly, but that was not my experience, so I told my dad not to drag me far enough into it I’d have to testify. Not only that, but the handbook explicitly said not to speed, especially in residential areas (where we went almost exclusively).
Pizza Hut did not have a guarantee on times. There was no 30 minutes or less or it’s free thing with them. If it was going to take 45 minutes, the customer got told. If it took more than that, they could call and complain.
HOWEVER, if you wanted good tips, you got there quick so you could get more deliveries in AND get it there piping hot. So the incentive to speed was there whether Pizza Hut encouraged it or not and corporate most definitely did not. It was a nudge-nudge-wink-wink WE KNOW YOU’RE SPEEDING DON’T DO THAT BUT GET THERE QUICK LIKE A BUNNY.
I worked at a local pizza place when I was in HS. Very formative experience as a libertarian.
I got paid cash, daily, out of the register. One day he told me “come back tomorrow and get your money” because the health inspector had dropped by and depleted the cash reserves in order to overlook the violations. Even gave me an extra five bucks for the trouble.
Very small place. I worked the grill/oven, there were two drivers. One driver was a good tipper, the other one a shitty tipper, and Shitty Tipper could never understand why I always had Good Tipper’s stuff boxed up and organized for him, and he had to wait around or do it himself.
I just got the paper work saying if this keeps going I’m laid off in the beginning of April. ‘Essential’ employee, but low man on pole.
That sucks, sorry man. I’ll be getting unemployment April 1st myself.
The girlfriend’s been trying to apply to get her unemployment all week. Online she was directed to call in, after she goes through her options, she gets a message that call volume was higher then normal, says to call back later, and disconnects.
Wrong way to deal with it (in my opinion), and if I really wanted to be a dick, I could teach her how to macro the call so all she has to do is double click/select a number in her phonebook.
If she’s been trying all week, I’d say it’s time to be a dick.
My company is handling the initial, and we just have to apply online. I hope website doesn’t crash. In any case I was told not to expect a payment until May.
My method would make things a lot worse for everyone else trying to call in. She won’t hurt by doing without for a while when she tries to get through. Others will.
One of the two times in my life I collected unemployment i had to answer like 10 questions on a phone tree every week to “certify” I was actively looking for work.
Fortunately you didn’t have listen to the question before replying. I had that sequence of numbers stored as a macro by the third phone call.
Sorry CPRM.
Sorry 🙁
Sorry.
We use DD and GH all the time. The results vary by restaurant. Popeyes bad, local sushi places very good.
A friend who made good money driving for Uber and Lyft last year complained yesterday that fares are down (‘cuz there’s nowhere to go) and the food-running gig isn’t as good.
Annnnnnd Governor Bullock just issued his stay-at-home order for Montana. 91 cases.
I’d think Montana would be the social distancing capitol of the US.
It is, but Bullock needs to ingratiate himself.
Nope, Mohave county AZ, 0 cases, we win a prize!
We are still open for business, avoid close contact etc. but I wa able to open a Chase account today, walk the dog, play 27 holes and shop with no issues,
Other people are out walking and having a good day, This CV shit is getting old….
Dental floss……
More details on Sununu’s order
The governor said all government employees are exempt, though municipal administrators will have the flexibility to decide which workers are essential.
Sununu also announced the closure of all beaches along New Hampshire’s coast.
The governor said citizens walking on the beach were maintaining their distance, but he was concerned that groups would start to gather as the weather warms.
“These are tough decisions — they really are — but at the end of the day, the worst may be ahead of us,” Sununu said.
He said the surge of COVID-19 positive cases could continue beyond early May, and the order might have to be increased to eight or 12 weeks.
Sununu said he was likely to have to issue the order at some point, and this was a good time to make the call and “help families prepare for it.”
“It’s hard to ask anybody to close a business,” Sununu said. “We are just codifying as business is operating for the most part with an executive order. This virus is really taking lives, and we know the surge is still ahead of us.”
“and we know the surge is still ahead of us.” who is we? are you a Time traveler?
Fuck this, it’s complete Bullshit, I’m done with it……
8-12 weeks. That fuckstick does not understand humans. NJ sheeple are already disobeying the keep off the shore and boardwalk orders.
If they closed the Park, I would comply, for dog walking, but I will golf, sans puppy, just for the civil disobedience……….
Live free or die.
Move here, maybe you can try it….
Good on ya!
I considered moving to Arizona. I had a job offer in Phoenix which I turned down because I saw that job going nowhere. Then I received an offer for a place in Massachusetts, so I moved to New England.
Sometimes I think I should have taken that offer in Phoenix despite my misgivings about it.
A woman just texted me that she’s taking wellbutrin, lexapro, gabapentin, doxadroxzin, propanolol and trazadone. How crazy is she? I haven’t seen her naked in a decade, but she used to be hot.
I think my wife’s takes some of those.
Cat, dammit, cat!
are those the Names of the Old Gods?
DOXADROXIN! Maker of the Brown Sound!!!!!!!
She’s really really really really fucking crazy.
…there were other red flags.
Good lord, that’s a lot of stuff. Either she’s crazy or her doctor is.
Jay-ZUZ.
I was on gabapentin for three years for a neurological issue — stuff fucked with my short-term-to-long-term memory transfer but good, lemme tell ya. The spousal unit would come home from work some days and ask me, “How was your day?” After about fifteen seconds or so, according to her, I’d answer “I can’t remember.”
One of the happiest days of my life was getting off of that shit.
Yeah, that stuff’s rough. They don’t call it Morontin for nothing.
Backstory time:
She is one of my stripper friends from when I lived in Austin. She was extremely successful. Like all successful strippers, she’s manipulative. But unlike some sorts of manipulative people, she wasn’t coercive or got money by pretending she’d sleep with you for it. She was just fantastically good at making you feel good about yourself, like she was having a good time, and having a good time with you. She would lie constantly, but the lies were always to make other people happier about themselves. She had a fling with a woman I was dating before I met her and one day stripper told me that girlfriend had confided in her about how great I was in bed. That was of course true, but girlfriend never told her that. Girlfriend was much more discreet and never crossed the streams in that way (unfortunately).
Anyhow, stripper dropped of the radar years ago, but texted me out of the blue. Her kid is now trans, but she’s given up parental rights because she’s suffering from “major depression, PTSD and a personality disorder.”
Which skin bar? Yellow Rose? Perfect 10?
Mostly Yellow Rose.
ah okay. i knew a performer at P10 and she did very well for herself.
You run into much more interesting women that I do.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlDZPYzfm4
Ya, when a woman lists out her meds pretty sure it is a ? on the matrix.
I’ve never thought about getting to know someone being like minesweeper, but it really is.
As a rule, you do not prescribe to a bipolar patient anti-depressants w/o a mood stabilizer. Unless you want them in the closet sucking a gun barrel, or being awake for 3 weeks.
I dont see any benzos there, so maybe she’s just schizoaffective. Give her a poke and report back. With pics.
I used to have pics. Unfortunately they’re on a flip phone from 2005. I bet they’re recoverable…
@dropbox
Somebody forgot to tell my drug dealer (ARNP) this once.
First and last time I have ever been truly manic. Two months, wrote a 300,000 word novel and lost 40 pounds. Forgot to feed the kids, though, and I forgot to go to work, so that had some really bad consequences.
Devil’s in the details.
Devils in the details
+ Bobby Womack
Quarantine theme music
Catchy tune.
The Jacket is growing a biker ‘stache.
He’s hoping it makes him look ‘formidable’
I look like a Madman, you look like a Hitman,
Short Cans!
Right back @ ya!
HEY YUFUS!
Really, your well dressed pic, makes you look Dangerous,
YARG!
He’s got be, a Macho Man!
Wait until he’s In The Navy
+1 Soap
When is he trading in “the jacket” for “The vest”
“Time’s Up Said It Could Not Fund a #MeToo Allegation Against Joe Biden, Citing Its Nonprofit Status and His Presidential Run
After she saw an episode of the ABC show “The View,” in which most of the panelists stood up for Biden and attacked Flores as politically motivated, Reade decided that she had no choice but to come forward and support Flores. She gave an interview to a local reporter, describing several instances in which Biden had behaved similarly toward her, inappropriately touching her during her early-’90s tenure in his Senate office. In that first interview, she decided to tell a piece of the story, she said, that matched what had happened to Flores — plus, she had filed a contemporaneous complaint, and there were witnesses, so she considered the allegation bulletproof. The short article brought a wave of attention on her, along with accusations that she was doing the bidding of Russian President Vladimir Putin. So Reade went quiet.
The public relations firm that works on behalf of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund is SKDKnickerbocker, whose managing director, Anita Dunn, is the top adviser to Biden’s presidential campaign. A spokesperson for Biden declined to comment. The SKDK spokesperson assigned to Time’s Up referred questions back to the NWLC.”
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up/
Anita Dunn? Seriously?
All of these groups are one big money slushing circle jerk.
Considered imagining hypothetical episodes of favorite TV shows set during Wuhan flu shutdown/lockdown?
No, but the story I’ve been getting words in is set in a quarantine zone for a zombie outbreak.
Fanfic last season iZombie? /jk
Archie and Meathead stuck together……………………..
96-0. Would they both like the $2,000,000,000,000 stimulus/recovery/whatever it is? Archie have a MAGA hat?
Mojeaux, I just read your mid-day post. It’s good. I liked it.
Thank you!!!
Ha. Somehow I have NBC Nightly News on right now. One of you journolisters on this board nailed it: The death toll has surpassed 1,000 in the U.S., and NBC News called it a “grim milestone.”
NBC also discussed the new southern coronavirus hot spots. They said that New Orleans may open an events center to accommodate covid patients and, of course, referenced all of the terrible things that happened at the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina. Things that turned out to be bullshit, as propagated by the likes of NBC News.
…but journalism deserves a fiscal bailout.
NUMBERS!!!!!!
Idea 2 fix public perception
https://cinechitchat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Corona-Beer-name-changed-to-Ebola-Extra.jpg