Happy Friday afternoon, y’all. I have an interview this afternoon, so I’m going to have to put off my first cocktail of the weekend until after that. Hopefully, this company will want me and I can get away from the cloud of uncertainty that is my current unemployment situation.
Florida Company files lawsuit to get their car wash sanitation facility classified as essential.
Huh, monkies have colonized an Indonesian government office. I wonder if there is more or less useless fuckery going on now.
Who, during the lockdown, hasn’t wanted to kill a family member?
Minnesoda maiden of native ancestry, brutally tossed from job.
Musical selection courtesy of Mad Scientist.
Take the cocktail in with you.
And dont wear pants. That should make an impression.
Who, during the lockdown, hasn’t wanted to kill a family member?
Neighbors? Yes. Family? Eh.
I stay away from family so I’m not tempted.
^
Huh, monkies have colonized an Indonesian government office. I wonder if there is more or less useless fuckery going on now.
Either way, I’m sure Disney is negotiating for the screen rights.
Jungle Book 4: King Louis gets to be The Man
Government efficiency up 5000%
When did they first notice this? My guess it was case of mistaken identity
Did the bodega owner cough at some point in the last 6 months?
If so, Kung Flu victim.
Minnesoda maiden of native ancestry, brutally tossed from job.
Womynz of Color hardest hit. Take THAT, racists!
Has Liz Warren been reached for comment?
Sigh. It’s inevitable that this day would come. She lasted longer than I guessed.
I can’t believe they managed to scrounge up a Democrat to support this.
I thought it was only us sconnies that got a chubby while looking at the butter aisle.
Oh just shut up
Last Tango in St. Cloud?
Ruth Buffalo’s favorite movie is Last Tango in Paris apparently.
She has a vivid imagination to believe the Land O Lakes maiden is a sex object.
Rule 34 suggests it’s a sex object for somebody.
You’d butter that squaw up. You know you would.
You do know about folding the box strategically right?
I wondered if anyone else knew that old trick.
Nice knees!
I wondered if anyone else knew that old trick.
Nice knees!
~”…so I’m going to have to put off my first cocktail of the weekend…”~
Terrible.
Of the two liquor stores here in Nampa, only one is open. The one with the all female staff.
Bought a bottle of 14 y/o scotch.
I’ve got a bottle of 15 year old that isn’t particularly good to be honest. Talisker 10 kicks its butt three ways from Sunday.
Oban?
Posted earlier, but holy water?
Hi Spud.
Glenmorangie. The Quinta Ruban. Never had it before, and I wanted to try something new. I’m tasting berries and chocolate.
*gurgle gurgle*
This could grow on a guy.
I forgot they did a 14. Finished in port barrels should make it very drinkable.
Are you sure you didn’t buy a Scottish 14 y/o lass?
Yes. No. Wait. Definitely no.
Land o lakes sells out, how sad, lost another customer
Go Kerrygold and never look back.
Does it have an alluring soulless ginger on the packaging?
I hope so, they are my favorites…..
Pretty much what we did a few years ago.
As far as packaging, you will have to do with a thicc Holstein. Rule 34, amirite?
Huh, monkies have colonized an Indonesian government office.
How racist. No, wait…
Are you and yours still safe and sound in Ames?
Yup, I’m working from home (just gave an online exam last night to 100+ students), and my wife is fighting the good fight to keep people from shutting things down any more.
She lost today — the person running the county animal shelter took it upon themselves (without getting approval from the board of supervisors) to unilaterally stop adoptions (“so staff won’t be put in harms way”), even though around the country it’s a good time because people are at home and can spend more time with a newly adopted pet. It’s not like they are being overrun with people, and if they stop adoptions, the animals will start to pile up in the shelter, and some good opportunities to adopt will be lost. Anyway, my wife forced a discussion of this today, but the other two supervisors decided to go along with the head of the animal shelter.
Another part of the discussion was that the original emergency order the board passed a while back (which implements a generic emergency plan that’s more suited to short-term emergencies like tornados) did not specify adoptions as essential (even though my wife tried to get it amended it at the time so that they would be). So the reasoning was that the animal shelter could do that without direction from the board. The board could have overruled that today, but wouldn’t. Sigh. Now my wife wants the generic emergency plan re-evaluated, but good luck with that given the current feelings of the other board members.
Have the fucking board members start euthanizing the surplus animals and loading them in the incinerator, and see how long it takes to change their tune.
The thing is they really want to be as close to a no-kill shelter as possible, but don’t act accordingly.
Hi Brett!
Good luck with the interview!
So disappointed with Land ‘O Lakes. What a bunch of pussies.
Dudes of a certain age can remember a clever way to have her boobs appear behind the box she is holding.
Hah! Here it is!
Yeah, we never grow up.
Silly!
“the Land O’Lakes butter packaging boob trick is sure to please kids and (juvenile) adults alike”
Someone had some time on their hands.
Good luck with the interview!
Seconded.
Nice rack, but way too much work. Thankfully there are easier ways to see boobs these days.
Sexy knees.
Rug burns.
Media Still Doesn’t Understand Why People Hate Them or How I Learned to Love Writing Headlines
They seem nice.
Totally would have been reported the same if the genders were swapped.
Why is it about the media?
Because an accurate headline would have said “innocent man” instead of “suspected rapist”
DO WHAT WE SAY
The World Health Organization issued a warning Friday about coronavirus testing, saying there’s no evidence serological tests can show whether a person has immunity or is no longer at risk of becoming reinfected.
“These antibody tests will be able to measure that level of serology presence, that level of antibodies, but that does not mean that somebody with antibodies” is immune, said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit.
There is no cure. There is no end point. REPENT, the end is here.
Man… talk like that makes me think you may just be one of those science deniers.
Thank goodness I have the government to tell me what to do.
Organization that has shit all over its credibility doubles down.
Genius.
Finally, the long awaited follow up to the hits “It’s Not Contagious” and “Cancelling Flights is Racist”. How do they keep doing it folks!
What the hell is racist about the butter girl?
Asking for explanations is what white supremacists do.
so anyone can just come along and wreck a Registered Trademark eh?
its why I could always find it, now, Kerrygold it is
She encourages trafficking of Native American women.
Don’t ask me how, I just deliver the rationale.
Uffda. In the last few years, the new narrative is that there is an epidemic of missing native women.
In fact, I sort of agree with the thesis. There are a lot of native women that are disappeared. Where I differ with the SJW narrative is who is killing them and why law enforcement isn’t more concerned about all of this.
If people were honest, they’d admit that the women are being beaten and killed by native men. And the reason law enforcement doesn’t care is because the reservations have their own tribal law enforcement and they are pretty much reflect the view most natives have that women are second class. And the tribe won’t let white eyes onto the res to investigate.
^this. In addition many run away from these circumstances and never want to be found again by the abusers.
Any corporate logo that is not white is racist. Any corporate logo that is white is only white because of a lack of inclusion and diversity and is therefore racist.
She’s pretty, and it’s implied that she is offering up herself to be exploited for her beauty.
The manufacturer considered replacing here with a more accurate depiction of a Native American woman, but a dumpy dirty faced, ripped stretch pants, with meth teeth and a bottle of brown liquor in a bag, but the new vision didn’t go over well with focus groups.
?
I laughed.
#metoo
Larf.
Having grown up next to the res, I hate to say it, but there is a definite Sell By date on native women. In high school we had a bunch of good looking Ojibwe gals in our class. But they were doomed because every guy in class knew that by 28 they’d pretty much be dumpy blobs. An older good looking Ojibwe woman might be even rarer than a Libertarian woman.
Put an eastern Indian woman on the box. Cows are sacred and the butter would be a gift from god.
I don’t know, but the boob trick was funny as hell.
It’s not what…it’s how.
Earlier this week, WHO officials said not all people who recover from the coronavirus have the antibodies to fight a second infection, raising concern that patients may not develop immunity after surviving Covid-19.
Everyone who is exposed will DIE!
Send moar munny.
Land O’Lakes Removing Native American Woman From Packaging After 92 Years
Who are they trying to butter up?
Ghee, I have no idea.
Let’s get this thread churning.
You guys are really milking this.
Cream of the crop we are.
Where there’s a will, there’s a whey.
If I curd I would.
I need some rumors to spread.
You should be drawn and quartered.
You are getting pretty salty.
Just to clarify, are these supposed to be butter based “puns”.
Margineally, yes.
This whole thread was pure Kerrygold.
And people think we aren’t cultured!
I only bought it to support human trafficking. What am I supposed to do now?
Get off your lazy ass and instead of just supporting human trafficking, do it yourself?
That was going to be my retirement job.
Watch lots of Columbia Pictures movies?
Good luck on the interview, Brett L.
First Navajo contestant in Miss USA.
http://www.pageantupdate.info/uploads/5/3/4/4/53444789/nm_51_orig.jpg
Put her on Land ‘O Lakes.
Put her on me:)
She can tan my hide anytime.
AHEM, she aporpitated MUH Wite KULKTURE! RACCCIIST!
I maintain she looks like Jazz Jennings.
Nava is a lucky man
She’s about 16 sizes too small for my tastes, but wood.
And dem LAIGS.
How pervasive does the ND rep think the fully clothed NA woman holding butter is sexy image in the American public?
Jealousy?
Good Luck Brett!
Why barbers are essential workers
Perfect for a woman with a stuffed animal fetish.
All I know is that I was just due for a haircut when the order to shut down barbershops hit. It’s not going to be pretty. To supplement the look, I decide to also stop shaving until things open up.
Well, they found my SS. They said “surgically stripped” going to check it out, right now. It’s 12 miles away in a shitty part of downtown LA. Sounds like a total loss.
Fingers crossed for you, d00d.
That sucks
Good luck.
Sorry, man. That’s bullshit right there. Invest in burglar protection for your next car.
Maybe by “surgically” they meant only small seaily salable parts and you can recover hte motor?
Good luck. Has your insurance co. said anything yet ?
It’s gutted. Seats, dash, motor/trans, wheels, all the emblems, etc. Its just asheet metal frame with back seats. All i can do is argue with the insurance company about how much I’m gonna lose.
Craaaap. Sorry, man. I’m not a Chevy guy, put I’ll pour one out for your truck tonight.
Sorry blackjack.
Sorry dude. That’s a harsh hit to take.
Is your agent any help? I’ve leaned on my agent before to argue (successfully) with the insurance company.
*sigh* I’m sorry.
Did it still have , ahh, your “Important Papers” in it?
Nope, completely gutted. It still had the diff, the front fenders and the tailgate, and the rear seats. Everything else is gone. Bummer is, i really loved driving it and I’m not going to get mymoney back for it.
They stole the engine?
Yup. That motor is worth 8-10k
God dammit! Thieves suck.
Yeah, I’m looking into life-lock and similar options now. I’m going to change my bank account tomorrow, but I have to go into work to switch the direct deposit and they won’t let me come in. Not sure how that’s going to go.
That’s rough, I fucking hate thieves.
Shit… sorry to hear that man.
Sorry.
Fuck. That sucks. Hope you get em to pay
Yikes, sorry.
Surprised they found it though.
Sucks. Hang in there.
Sucks. Hang in there.
Thanks, everyone, but it’s the worst case scenario. I just have to try and mitigate as much as possible.
As you are well aware, some people are just assholes. I had to go to the pharmacy. There is a huge sign out front that said “Dead Nigger Storage”. Well, you know I didn’t see any shit like that. It read “MASKS REQUIRED. DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT A MASK”. So there was only one person in the whole place without a mask. I stood back ten yards away, as he is getting into some argument with the clerk about not wearing a mask. Then this same guy brushes right past me while I’m paying for my stuff.
Fuck. That sucks. Hope you get em to pay
Woodie’s Wash Shack, located at 5601 66th Street North in St. Petersburg, filed a temporary injunction last week claiming it provides an “‘essential service’ under the list maintained by the Florida Division of Emergency Management.”
Fucking beautiful. I hope they win. They probably won’t.
From the sidebar of the monkey story.
A beloved bodega owner was just settling into retirement when he was dismembered and disemboweled by his emotionally disturbed son inside their Brooklyn home, police and friends of the victim said Thursday.
That is fucked.
Here’s something of a counter to Land O’Lakes…
Berkshire-Hathaway have their AGM next month. Among the items to be voted on was one submitted by (some) shareholders:
4. SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL Resolved: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (“Berkshire”) adopt a policy for improving board and top management diversity (the “Policy”) requiring that the initial lists of candidates from which new management-supported director nominees and chief executive officers (“CEOs”) recruited from outside the company are chosen by the board or relevant committee (each, an “Initial List”) should include qualified female and racially/ethnically diverse candidates. The Policy should provide that any third-party consultant asked to furnish an Initial List will be requested to include such candidates.
The request comes from “The boards of trustees of the New York City Employees’ Retirement System, the New York City Teachers’ Retirement System,the New York City Police Pension Fund and the New York City Fire Pension Fund .”
B-H is urging a no vote and wrote: “In furthering the interest of Berkshire’s owners, our directors encourage behavior by managers that leads to delighted customers,fair employment practices and regard for both community and national concerns. What shareholder would wish for anything different?….All five of the directors just described possess the four qualities we seek. Each was selected without regard to gender or race/ethnicity. For anyone to suggest otherwise would be both wrong and demeaning.”
What a bunch of white supremacist, Nazi, alt-right haters.
Holding my breath for Warren and/or Charlie to say this out loud.
FTFT
Know what we really need, right now? More airplanes.
Boeing will start reopening its airplane manufacturing plants in Washington state next week, bringing 27,000 employees back to work under new safety protocols, the company said, even though customers are deferring and canceling orders for new planes.
The aerospace giant shut down its factories last month because of the coronavirus pandemic, and many workers feared the plants may remain closed for a longer period of time, with demand for aircraft plummeting as air travel comes to a near halt.
I hope the government is paying their bills for them.
Maybe they’ll make some that fly this time.
Oh, those MAXes fly… a little… they just don’t stay flying.
who made the V-22 Osprey? There’s a Marine killer,
Yep Bell-Boeing
My best friend in the Marines was one of the first four CH-46 pilots that transitioned to the V-22. He has a lot of dead buddies and was right in the middle of the fiasco when the CO got recorded telling the squadron to lie and fake the maintenance records in order to ensure the Osprey made “Milestone III.” I know waaayyyyy too much about Boeing’s aviation malfeasance.
We especially need some more of the ones that seem to crash all the time.
Friday Funbags clearly supports human trafficking.
http://archive.li/5uKhw
#3 is kinda suggestive.
#21 looks fun.
#36 and #60 are GlibFit.
16 and 17 tie for the win.
Close, but I’ll take 17, wow!
Adam Savage — duck bomb
you want to see this
What just happened there?
The inflatable ducks were all deflated. The noise was all of them reinflating at the same time.
Yeah, I was mystified too. Didn’t know “inflating ducks make a noise” was a thing.
https://time.com/4016987/screaming-rubber-ducks/
That’s what Trump’s reelection will sound like.
Younger Americans Upend Lives To Save Generation That Would Not Lift A Finger To Help Them
“So, if you’re an antiprogressive older American, and you don’t die from coronavirus over the next year, maybe recognize the sacrifices the rest of us are making, for you, and show us some goddamn respect for a change. Consider that in the voting booth this fall too and support some policies that will actually make the earth a better place for the generations that follow you.”
https://abovethelaw.com/2020/03/younger-americans-upend-lives-to-save-generation-that-would-not-lift-a-finger-to-help-them/
The stupid is strong with this guy……
I get that to some extent, but Boomers are the ones whose stock portfolios are getting sodomized right at retirement.
Maybe suck my dick, asshole.
Asshole is angry at people that looked after their own interests and demands they look after his interests.
Got it.
nothing says “Respecatble” like saying “Give my some GD Respect!”
David Lat and Elie Mystal’s blog runs a hyper-entitled self-righteous rant? Never woulda thunkit.
It’s worth remembering that today a student comes out of law school with something like $123,511 in student loan debt, but law school tuition in the mid-1980s was about $2,000 a semester and could be largely paid off in real time with a decent part-time job.
Hm, I suppose I could do some research on why exactly things have changed, but I’d rather just scream “GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!” and throw a tantrum.
sin,
A lawyer and professor
Here, this bag of dicks is for you.
The author of that might want to be careful about going to any nursing homes. Because as a typical millennial, he’d probably get his ass kicked, by a 93 year old woman.
Today, at Casa Dean, the ocotillos are in bloom.
Most of the time, ocotillos look like dry sticks stuck in the ground. After a rain, they put out little leaves all down their length, and sometimes bright orange flowers right at the top. After its been dry again for awhile (a couple of weeks or so), the leaves turn yellow and drop off. This one is growing in front of the Casa – the mountains way in the background are the Santa Ritas, which have recently reacquired a jaguar population. Because what Arizona needed was another apex predator.
Nice.
Ah yes, very pretty, I’m killing weeds here but saving all the Sage that came up, I love Sage plants
“…I love sage…”
Get yourself a license for antelope. You will love it. You need a really fast rifle though, they can outrun most bullets.
Be sure and put plenty of sage on the antelope before you put it on the grill.
Antelope is such great redneck hunting; tromping around the range in the back of a truck taking potshots.
Lovely – looking forward to pictures of the jag!
“recently reacquired a jaguar population”
Keeping AZ monkey free.
You must live off Skyline, that’s a great area.
Q, we live further east. We ain’t *spit* Foothills people. It is a really nice area, though. Just infested with doctors, lawyers, and the like.
Yusef, I have picked several dead geckos up in the dog’s yard. The Big Dumb One has a real hate on for lizards. The good news is, neither he nor the Little Fat One eat what he kills.
Tanque Verde?
More north. The area doesn’t really have a name.
I love that side of town. Of course I lived in the student ghetto so anywhere was better than where I lived (except maybe South Tucson).
You forgot to mention the Brittlebush in bloom as well. That is a good picture. From the angle to Rappel Rock at the top of Lemmon I think I know your neighborhood.
Foothills people (spit) is correct.
I lived in Tucson during much of my early life and got my degrees from UA. If AZ ever returns to the libertarian embracing of my earlier days I would happily consider to return. But I don’t think that is happening anytime in my lifetime.
You forgot to mention the Brittlebush in bloom as well.
You mean, from last week?
RC, did you know We have Geckos here! Bella found a baby and I saved it, and thought a Gecko? here?
Yes,
https://sciencing.com/identify-louisiana-geckos-6465688.html
the page goes to AZ geckos
The second it gets warm here I can find a dozen of those on my front porch after the sun goes down. I love ’em. They eat a ton of bugs.
pretty sure all the cold weather killed off all the flowers I’ve looked forward to for the past 6 months of winter.
*looks outside window, sees more snow coming down*
it’s snowed the last 3 days
New goal post move from the Dems – need a “national” strategy for testing, including development, implementation, deployment, etc. This MUST be done before reopening the country and the States shouldn’t be responsible.
Fuck these people with a piece of splintered balsawood.
National? Global!
/aim higher
Universal, in the true sense of the word. It should be the first mission for Space Force.
And of course before that when cases started to drop, the CDC changes the count method.
Why the hell is it snowing? Was cutting Gaia off the sweet CO2 cold turkey a bad idea?
I larfed.
Plastic bags?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rld0KDcan_w
Senator sorority girl breaks rank.
Kyrsten Sinema
@kyrstensinema
Apr 16
The PPP program is going to run out of funding soon – the Senate should approve add’l funding by unanimous consent ASAP. Small businesses need our help to survive during this emergency.
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Kyrsten Sinema
@kyrstensinema
Apr 7
I support providing additional funding to the PPP to help AZ businesses keep workers employed during this public health crisis. The Senate should act this week to further fund the PPP by unanimous consent.
You could just fuck off and get out of their way so they could re-open.
I know, I know.
Typical politician. She’s part of the group that created the emergency by shutting small businesses down, and now she wants them to thank her for her generous desire to loan them some money. This is exactly how the mafia works.
The feds haven’t shut a single business down; that’s all on the governors.
That said, the feds have heavily incentivized governors to shut businesses down.
I have been pleasantly surprised by Sinema. She’s not the most terrible Senator.* Not even the most terrible Senator Arizona has sent. I’d take her over McCain and Flake both.
*Incredibly low bar, I know.
And she’s a solid would.
Don’t for the ex-Senator DeConcini (aka Dennis the Menace). A mendacious cunte AND part of the Keating Five.
Besides Barry Goldwater the Senatorial swine from AZ have been a mediocre bunch at best and horrible on the average.
And she’s a solid would.
And she makes my wood solid. ///rim
jobshotBut, seriously, I’d read passages from ‘The Law’ out loud to her while we do it.
I’m at least as enraged as everyone around here and my rage comes from both sides of the generational divide.
My wife and I are 73. We both have those co-morbidities – me a funky heart and my wife diabetes and a radiation-dosed immune system. We’re definitley in the “We’re ALL gonna Die!” demographic. Therefore, we’re taking all the usual precautions – no real effort for a pair of hard-core introvert retirees. We’re concerned maybe but careful and accepting of our chances.
Meanwhile, last September our grandson and his finace bought the restaurant they were working at when the owners decided it was time to retire. I don’t know the financial details, but it’s a nice restaurant and Im sure there’s a bank somewhere in CO that’s expecting to be paid on time every month.
TL/DR: Fuck off Branch Covidians. This Granpa and Grandma can take care of themselves. We sure as hell don’t want to destroy our grandchilrens’ future for some imagineary sense of our own safety.
Mikey, toxic waste dumps couldn’t kill us and all the other scares. Funny, as soon as the money dried up toxic waste dumps were no longer a hazard. Now the politicians have suddenly become aware that cash doesn’t seem to be solution things are beginning to move. I feel sad that your g’children (and mine) have to suffer, hopefully they’ll realize government for what it really is.
This Isn’t the Pandemic You’re Looking For
And this:
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/
Summary:
o If we’re going to destroy the economy it better be for something that’s really, really, really horrible and extraordinary. The CCP flu isn’t that. The now-cited 60K deaths is the 17-18 flu season.
o If our chosen remedy is so horrible in it’s own way it ought to no shit work. The dueling countries arguments are proof that it doesn’t. If the shut-down is worth it the known pain it should be blindingly obvious – it isn’t.
Well, you kill the economy, rule of law, and the currency with the pandemic you have, not the pandemic you wish you had.
To be fair, I think the main goal was ORANGE MAN BAD. Killing the economy and rule of law was just an added benefit.
Our local total confirmed CV infections dropped from 334 to 229. Not sure if this is a posting error, or they screwed up the count and are quietly correcting it.
I’m kinda digging the resurrection of Stoicism that’s been happening lately.
https://quillette.com/2020/04/04/sickness-and-stoicism/
The most recent update of the IHME (University of Washington) model projects 3,236 COVID-19 total deaths in Massachusetts. Three days ago the number was 8,219. I’ve been downloading their data every few days when they change the numbers. No changes in social distancing policies happened in the last three weeks here.
Later tonight, come, chat and see that we are real people. Starting at 19:00 Eastern:
Virtual Happy Hour
does this happen on a phone? or do I need a camera for my PC?
You can join with just audio (either headset or dial in numbers) or video. You can connect via a phone app or a computer.
If you guys get Zoom bombed and some dude with no pants calls ya’ll Cunte Monkeys, that wasn’t me.
Cool, thanks to both of you, I’ll try for video, that should be interesting…
I think there is a Zoom app for Andriod and iPhone.
Zoom also supports dial-in.
I mean, sure, if you want to load another Chinese surveillance app on your phone, go right ahead.
Thats got me scared, China Man Bad! insert mind control device in phone…….
Issues. Zoom’s got issues.
There’s more.
Most of the recent reports were more user side issues. The password stealing was allowing local UNC links in chat. Don’t click on links you don’t trust, from people you don’t trust. Zoombombing is meetings set up without a password, or a waiting room (waiting room means a host needs to allow people to join the meeting proper). Voice/video being routed through Chinese servers, a bit concerning if they were US meetings (since there wouldn’t be a way that sending the packets over to China is the optimal stream).
I could shift it over to WebEx or Google’s new Meet if people want.
I’m fine with Zoom. If the Yellow Devils who butchered our boys at the Yalu want to listen to me talk about how much I hate the government, they are welcome to do so. I’ll happily switch to whatever platform you choose though.
Yusef, please join in. The calls are great fun and have tended to run quite late.
That’s a turn off.
Dang it! it’s on both my PC and my phone
My virgin voyage into the chat was on an iPad.
“see that we are real people”
Some things are better left unseen…
Isn’t there a saying to the effect ‘you dont want to meet your heroes in person’?
You should be completely safe meeting Glibs then.
If your heroes are on this site I think you are officially immune to disappointment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jorJh8DTMVM
You guys are killing my entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights. Zoom means dead threads in Glibland.
Guess I’ll have just go out inst…fuck.
Social distancing is an Orwellian term. You can’t be social and distant at the same time. #1984
That wasn’t supposed to go there.
That’s what SHE said.
I don’t know if I caught the Covid, but I’m sick of it.
#MeToo
I have the Cure.
Sometimes I have that keyboard sting play in my head at work, because the printer sounds kinda similar.
I C what U did there.
Comment of the day. I. think. I haven’t been on most of the day.
“Cops took the son to the 68th Precinct stationhouse for questioning, then charged him with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital for psychological evaluation.”
Umm, maybe… so, they finally got common sense knife control in NYC? I mean, knifes are illegal in NYC? Or is anything that can be considered a weapon illegal in NYC? A hammer, a brick?
In Ohio, it’s whatever they decide it is:
As used in sections 2923.11 to 2923.24 of the Revised Code:
(A) “Deadly weapon” means any instrument, device, or thing capable of inflicting death, and designed or specially adapted for use as a weapon, or possessed, carried, or used as a weapon.
I mean I get it, you could be charged with ‘assault with a deadly weapon’. If you used whatever it is to assault someone. But they seem to be saying something entirely different there. Just because you assault someone with a hammer, doesn’t make a hammer illegal. If that’s the case, all I need to do is walk down the street with a hammer and they can arrest me for possession of an illegal weapon.
Oh, so I see you’ve been to England.
This isn’t supposed to be England.
I mean, we fought a war over less egregious shit than that.
Or Canada.
I believe that scary knives are, in fact, illegal here.
IIRC, the City statute is worded so as to prohibit the public carrying of all knives with fixed blades (over 3″), switch-blades, flick-blades. and gravity knives. The field test for folding knives is if the officer can open with one hand; so, anything with a thumb screw or assist is technically verboten. That said, in my work clothes, I open carry three knives and I am at the local bagel store, packed with cops from five different agencies, every morning and have never once been hassled or questioned. White privilege FTW!
From the dedthread:
Trashy, I’m confused as to Monocle/Eyepiece/Lorgnette.
I used to only have a black bar at the bottom of my screen with UNREAD COMMENTS | HIDE OLD THREADS | TOP OF COMMENTS etc etc etc.
I clicked your link last night and NOW I have something on the left side of my screen with (top to bottom) menu button, R, H, up arrow, down arrow, and a number (number of unread comments).
I want the bar on the side to go away and leave the black bar on the bottom of the screen. Is there a way to do that?
Now for all that complaining, I want to smother you in kisses for the permalink button. It was the only thing I wanted so, so, so much! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
Do you see a little dohickey thing in the bottom left corner of your sceen that’s just a black square with a ^ on it? Click on that and your black bar at the bottom should reappear.
I have the black bar on the bottom. I want to keep it.
I want to get rid of the bar on the side.
I don’t know that you can get rid of that. Trashy can probably tell you. But you don’t have to click on it. I don’t even notice that it’s there.
Right. Which is why I asked Trashy.
How nice for you.
Meow.
Sorry for trying to help.
I’m sorry. I was testy and rude.
Unsurprisingly I have noticed the world is getting increasingly irritable lately.
I have reasons/excuses aplenty for my bitchiness (none related to my XX chromosomes), but there is no excuse. Hyperion was trying to help.
The government has killed all the bars, even the African American ones. You can’t have your bottom bar, even on the side!
I can’t have ANYTHING I want!
*stomps foot*
*pouts*
I absolutely have to meet you at some point. Same phrases.
I have proposed a Glibbroads retreat, where we would drink (well, you all would) and dance naked in the pale moonlight.
Cauldrons may bubble and incantations may be said.
So wait? Witchcraft is ok but having a drink is where you draw the line? You Mormons are odd.
This could be akin to the fishing joke. Why should you always invite two Mormons to go fishing with you? If you only invite one, he’ll smoke all your cigars and drink all your beer.
Witchcraft is NOT okay, but we don’t tend to take it too seriously. I mean, at Baptist school, I was getting lectured about back masking and Satanic music and rituals and animal sacrifice. Meanwhile, I’d go to a church dance that Saturday to the same “Satanic” music. Or at least, sexually suggestive music (I mean, hello, Olivia Newton-John “Physical”) since it’s hard to dance to Satanic music.
Any mention of “witchcraft” is more likely to trigger eyerolling than disapproval.
And I did actually dabble in Wicca for a while, till I figured out I would have to read up on a pantheon of deities and pick a few or one or a lot or … basically build my own religion. And why would I do that when I have a theology I already like well enough?
The last meeting I went to, the topic was “Who are your deities and how do you worship?”
As people spoke, it started to dawn on me that there was no real structure to any of it. Well, hell, I’m unstructured enough as it is, and up to my eyeballs in other DIY projects. I don’t need to add a DIY religion and build-a-doctrine on top of it.
Do you have Greasemonkey or tampermonkey? Basically, you have to remove the UserScript for Eyepiece.
Generally, you’re going to have to go into your browser menu, click “add ons” or similar, find Greasemonkey or tampermonkey, click options, find the list of user scripts, and delete the one with Eyepiece in the name.
If you need some more targeted guidance, lemme know (and let me know browser, and whether you have Greasemonkey or tampermonkey)
Oh, but that will turn off the permalink button… I’m actually gonna code something up real quick to fix this… Hang on.
Actually nvm, I was right the first time. Uninstall the Eyepiece user script to remove the sidebar, then click here to update Monocle to the latest. You should still have permalinks when you do that.
Greasemonkey. I wanted to uninstall everything and have a fresh install, but I have looked for anything installed called Eyepiece or Monocle and nothing comes up.
Never mind, though. It’s a tiny annoyance that I’ll get used to and not see anymore. I will bear any hardship for the permalink.
Alternative is just to uninstall Greasemonkey, reinstall it, and then click the above link. May be faster that way.
Then you want to uninstall Eyepiece.
Can you make use of that permalink button and point the rest of us towards the instructions?
And in Life Goes On news; the ospreys showed up at their nest today.
From last year.
https://imgur.com/a/iIidBGX
When we visited my dad in TX this winter we got to watch ospreys eat fish every day. There was a board across a canal from my dad’s house that the ospreys would pin the fish against as they ate him. My wife was appalled that the osprey didn’t kill the fish first. Instead it just sat there tearing strips off the fish.
“Fish aren’t really alive. They’re just less dead.” -Red Foreman
Jealous! Several cardinal pairs have taken-up residence in trees around our yard and we have been fortunate to have them frequently visit our window feeders.
That’s cool, I just realised, the picture you sent me of you and Spot is pretty old,
Carry on!
Always fun to see them in flight.
Liar! That Osprey isn’t flying. It is just a pic of it a split second before it crashes into the deck.
Nice. The juvenile redtails crapped all over my truck this week.
She has topless pics for those interested in doing some digging.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/page-3-babe-rhian-sugden-21881682
She’s old enough to be my sister. Gross.
Attack attack attack
The political context of Trump’s remarks is important because it backs up reporting, including by CNN, that nothing will deflect the President from his desire to open up the country on May 1 and that he is working from personal motivations rather than solid data.
Wednesday’s news conference, like at least its two predecessors, was an exercise in airing grievances.
Trump’s insistence that it’s time to get moving again is helping fuel a campaign on conservative media that claims a suppressed infection curve shows government medical experts and Democratic governors overreacted to the pandemic and are infringing on the basic rights of American “patriots” with shutdowns. On Wednesday, Tea Party-style protesters blocked the streets of Lansing, Michigan, to condemn Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders in one of the worst-hit states where nearly 2,000 people have died.
The protests are likely to help fracture national unity on the pandemic already being stretched by Trump’s response. Perceptions about the pandemic have also been shaped by the natural propensity of the virus to afflict densely populated urban areas that tend to vote Democratic and its looser hold on rural, more conservative states.
On Monday, Trump deepened those divides by blasting accurate news coverage of his botched initial handling of the pandemic. The next day, he blamed the World Health Organization for being slow to react and cosseting China — transgressions of which he is also guilty. And on Wednesday he launched an assault on US-funded international broadcaster Voice of America and threatened a constitutional attempt to shut down Congress if the Senate did not approve his appointees.
None of these actions will save American lives or even get the economy powering ahead again. But they do distract from rising criticism and factual evidence that he has mishandled the pandemic all along.
President Cartoon Villain must be stopped before he kills us all.
threatened a constitutional attempt to shut down Congress
*gasp*
To be fair, in the Obama case on recess appointments (which he lost, BTW), SCOTUS seemed pretty chill with what Trump has threatened to do. I think. Its pretty convoluted and obscure.
“are infringing on the basic rights of American “patriots” with shutdowns”
Sneer quotes are so appropriate from a straight news group.
What are “tea-party style protesters”? Is that some kind of dog whistle?
Out of Africa without Robert Redford:
The Kenyan government did not recruit Maasai hunters to make sure people respected lockdown.
A video posted on Facebook and Twitter shows a man wearing traditional Maasai clothes breaking up groups of people standing in the street. On social media, many claimed the video showed a Maasai huntsman that the Kenyan government had recruited to help enforce social distancing rules meant to stop the spread of COVID-19. Turns out, however, that the whole thing was staged by a comedian.
https://observers.france24.com/en/20200417-debunked-kenyan-government-not-recruit-maasai-lockdown
There is no doubt that after grim weeks of escalation, there are some grounds for optimism. Presidents have an important job in raising national morale. And the economic impact of shutdowns is cataclysmic, throwing many millions out of work.
But a pandemic does not just disappear. Details of state planning suggests that life will not get back to anywhere near normal until there is a vaccine — probably not until next year.
That means social distancing measures will remain in place. Many people will work from home and bars and restaurants will be only at reduced capacity if they can open at all.
We have not sufficiently consolidated our political gains, nor have we demolished the economy to a degree which will enable us to bring about the end of capitalism, once and for all.
But a pandemic does not just disappear.
Ackshually, sometimes they do. When was the last time you heard of SARS or Swine Flu/H1N1, neither of which has a vaccine?
“But a pandemic does not just disappear.”
Isn’t that exactly what happened with the Spanish Flu?
I thought the Spanish Flu became the influenza we have every year.
I’ve never heard that. I thought that strain just disappeared. But you could be right. If so, it apparently just mutated into a much less lethal virus.
I dunno. I got it from one of you nitwits.
“I got it from one of you nitwits.”
Well then, you can probably just disregard it and resume your research.
It is. There are a number of different strains, which is why the flu shot isn’t a guarantee.
SARS was eradicated in humans, near as we can tell similar to smallpox. There is a H1N1 vaccine and it’s still incorporated into the yearly flu shot.
Eradicated before it became widespread and endemic.
The original SARS was more cooperative because it could be identified moe readily via body temperature screenings and was more fatal to the host (sucks for the host but also kills the virus before it can spread more widely. Ebola has the same problem as long as the human remains are handled properly)
Did not know that about H1N1.
The original SARS was the SARS-CoV-1 virus, the Commie Cough is the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Was the original SARS deemed a pandemic?
You guys do know that H1N1 is Spanish flu right?
Yes. Was referring to the commonly called H1N1 of ten years ago.
But a pandemic does not just disappear.
Not till its political utility is spent, anyway. I’m sure we’ll be hearing about Coronavirus at least as long as Katrina.
Well I’m glad Land O’ Lakes dumped the native gal. After all what the fuck would Indians know about butter? It isn’t like they had cattle or milk before the white eyes showed up.
Indians use ghee.
“depicting Native women as sex objects”
I did always think she was hot… probably the only reason anyone buys it.
They should change the image to a Native American guy so that they can then shriek about gender discrimination.
“The Grand Forks Tribune noted that many Native people, including North Dakota state Rep. Ruth Buffalo (D), have called the woman’s image racist. Buffalo told the paper the image goes “hand-in-hand with human and sex trafficking of our women and girls.… by depicting Native women as sex objects.””
Oh yeah, show me those knee caps, baby!
Apparently, the Wuhan Flu is not that bad, since we still have time for this sort of bullshit.
Ass sex while smokin’ the peace pipe?
Libertarian moment!
No old copies of National Geographic for you!
If they want to wipe out all cultural references that elevate them, whatevs. Future generations will never see your ancestors as fierce warriors and beautiful maidens. Good job.
SJWs are not deep thinkers.
BAD ORANGE MAN IS BAD!
Oh FFS. Not giving a bunch of corrupt bureaucrats who do nothing, is going to kill us all.
Cutting off the WHO, an organization that’s headed by a communist and who sucks off the Chicoms on a regular basis to the detriment of the entire world, was definitely the right thing to do.
Know what we really need more of? Vapid, inane gibberish.
Missing in the planning to return to work is a response to a very fundamental challenge: how do we ensure that the return to economic activity better positions American workers for success – particularly those most profoundly hurt by this pandemic.
One key way to achieve this is to provide effective training to move to better jobs. The businesses that come back will not look like the businesses before, and that means disruption to the jobs that employers will fill.
There will not be a perfect match between those who can safely return to work and the workers who are needed for the businesses ready to reopen. America needs a plan to skill up the workers it will take to reopen.
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Many businesses will not reopen and others will shrink dramatically, leaving many workers disconnected from good jobs. Other workers may choose not to pursue their previous role. For those who cannot regain their previous role or want to pursue a better opportunity, federal policy should empower them with information and training to pursue the good jobs that become available as some sectors surge and others collapse.
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Our nation’s future health and prosperity will be shaped by the decisions our leaders make today. Understanding and addressing the critical need our workforce has to train for the most valuable work in the economy ahead is an essential component of any plan to reopen businesses. Workers must be better prepared to fill higher value jobs, strengthening both their earning capacity and the viability of economic success.
I think the government should give me $500k to upskill myself with.
“upskill myself with”
Do you want some privacy for that?
Jeebus. Job training again? Every time these people wreck the economy, that’s their magic bullet. Learn to fucking code.
Understanding and addressing the critical need our workforce has to train for the most valuable work in the economy ahead is an essential component of any plan to reopen businesses.
No, its fucking not. Get your boot off our necks is the sum total of what is needed to reopen businesses. Not some master HR plan to push workers into what you (not the market) conclude is the most valuable work.
We’re all gonna be starship captains!
Thank goodness Michigan and Congress were on-top of intercepting those child support payments:
As federal stimulus payments – officially known as Economic Impact Payments – authorized by the CARES Act are sent to Michigan parents who owe child support and qualify for enforcement, all or a portion of this payment will be intercepted by the IRS through the Tax Offset Program. The funds will then go to the MDHHS Office of Child Support to be applied to the child support debt owed – as required by the CARES Act.
https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163-526156–,00.html
But banks applying them to overdrawn balances is verboten.
No, but several banks have chosen to ignore the slackers for political purposes.
That’s what I meant. After getting beaten up in the media for “stealing” the money.
Media-verboten. Gotcha.
I feel that pain. I was in the military when my less than faithful wife ran off with my kids. A California judge defaulted my judgement because I had no leave and no money for lawyer and he disallowed phone call ins to my hearings.
All that said, on my E-5 pay I was to pay 1500 a month in child support. Asshole judge calculated my BAQ, BAS and clothing allowance as income.
While I was in I went $15000 in arrears and it took me a long time to climb outta that hole including many years of tax refunds being seized.
Shit sucks but its not new or uncommon (or just).
That said, the state doesnt pay the custodial parent if the non-custodial neglects to pay child support…but they sure will take that free money.
According to the talking points given to NPR, the journalismists are going to shriek about mixed messaging and Trump’s “Liberate _______” twits tonight.
I think he played that hand quite nicely…even if not intended.
He has reminded people who is keeping them from work. The true believers won’t care because OrangeManBad, but the hair stylist that can’t cut hair will.
Bridge might be a much better analogy than n-dimensional boardgames.
Particularly since it allows for “dummy” jokes.
I for one appreciate seeing him pressure those states that are overplaying their hand vis a vis the coronavirus restrictions. I’d expect NPR and the usual suspects to piss and moan because that’s just what they do.
Cannoli,
I missed your article, but I was on the other side of the street for the start of the race and near the announcers. The anti-PETA ads were a great troll.
Cool! Our original spot was probably very close to you, but then we went to grab breakfast, and by the time we came back everything was packed so we moved down quite a bit.
I proclaims myself most excellent!
She certainly is looking smart in that
tent extra large pantsuit.I dunno, I think she looks quite smart (as in, smartly dressed). Certainly, better than anything the Hildebeeste ever wore.
*shudders*
You aren’t being fair, I think Michael Strahan looks much better since his transition.
lol, but he’s become must more arrogant.
I’m not going to read that stupid puff-piece but holy shit the media are pulling out all the stops for her.
Senile Joe has an all star lineup to choose from. Who will he choose?
Kamala? She didn’t do too well in the primaries, because everyone hates her.
The Michigan Cunte? Everyone hates her.
Hillary? Yeah, everyone hates her.
Just put a dress on Bernie and claim he’s transitioned. Your best hope.
Oh, shit, I forgot about aforementioned giant pantsuit mama who’s apparently now all the rage.
She just lost a governor’s race. Let’s ask Beta, the rising democrat superstar who lost a governor’s race, how that worked out in a presidential race.
What communities and ignored by who? Spare me the bullshit.
I hope she’s knocked-up. That’s quite a gunt.
LMAO! You’re fucking priceless, Tres, I don’t care what anyone says.
Behold, Glibertariat! We have been gifted a new special word. A golden one! Gunt!
I’ll consume mass quantities of tall cans any day with you, bro, I’m buying. Hold me to it, I haven’t been to the Ohio in a while.
Florida beaches open tonight, some texS beaches will too.
Overybody else is pillorying that poor woman. Why don’t THOSE PEOPLE stay home? So many little would bureaucrats surround us…
Just remember, FaceBook isn’t the real world. They and Twitter are dominated by the worst kind of handwringing busybodies you can imagine.
NYT headline:
I don’t know what to say to someone who’s lost a job
How about, “Thank a politician; and the hysterical jackasses at the Big Time Legacy Media like the New York Times whop fanned this panic as a means to ‘get’ President Cartoon Villain.”
“How about, “Thank a politician; and the hysterical jackasses at the Big Time Legacy Media like the New York Times whop fanned this panic as a means to ‘get’ President Cartoon Villain.”
Good comment, spot on.
They probably don’t know anybody who voted for Nixon, either.
Go with your gut:
“Sucks to be you, but I’ve got mine! Learn to code, loser.”
It was Food Bank Friday at the Park today, thousands of cars filling the park and now the surrounding streets, and Bhc Is a pretty small town, it’s Fucking Depressing,
Sounds like a good place to flip some medical pot and make a little cash.
I have no pot, my Daughter is also broke so She has no pot, and that would also be a Felony, and a ton of PD presence, as well
This state just allowed takeaway booze with food orders, but I couldn’t find any place that was doing it. How goddamn hard is it to figure out? Give me some mozz sticks and throw in a margarita with my call-in order. The POS system can mark it as dine-in order. FFS.
Takeout booze makes no sense to me. If I am drinking at home why would I pay 5 to 25 times as much for the booze?
I’m just trying to kick some money to people who lost their job by government fiat.
Some people don’t know how to mix anything more complicated then a bourbon on the rocks.
Our state (WA) decided to allow retail sales of bottled booze by restaurants. I’ve only asked my local all-in-one brewery/restaurant/casino/bowling ally/arcade about it, and they are pricing the bottles the same as the liquor store that’s across the street in order to not compete with them.
Maybe its just me, but anytime I read “decided to allow…” during any of this, it really pisses me off.
It’s not just you. I prefer “Dear Leader has graciously allowed”. I like the hint of North Korean style propaganda, but apparently it’s frowned upon in emails to my Dean, although she hasn’t directly said so.
Funny, a coworker told me the local Texas Land & Cattle was selling steak from its inventory…
Our liquor stores are closed, which has resulted in a line forming in the grocery store to get into the liquor department… after going through the grocery store line which stretches around the building.
Good job with the quarantine effort, guys. You’ve now quarantined the wuflu to the lines around the grocery stores.
Lots of masks, though. Couple lovely looking young women sporting handkerchief masks, or as I heard, “bandithoes.”
this is Cool,
https://www.foxnews.com/world/american-flag-matterhorn-swiss-alps-coronavirus-solidarity
That’s pretty cool.
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1251130636989018115
Damn!
I have a fever all of sudden…
She can clean me up anytime
OOF.
News from New Hampshire.
Emergency order will change state motto
“Public Health Trumps Hate”
I decided to take the evening off, and sit in my recliner and watch mindless TV.
My brain hurts.
Keep the “mute” button handy during the commercials (if applicable.) A soft piano soundtrack is a warning that some “in these trying times, we’re here for you” rage-inducing message is coming. (Just hit the button. DON’T throw the remote at the TV.)
OMFG I can’t take those commercials anymore!
Oh FFS, the cure is worse than the disease. I now have bright red bolded COVID-19 links plastered all over my once beautiful applications.
No, I’m not aware of any virus, I’ve only been locked in my house for 3 fucking weeks!
Large item pickup in my town is suspended. W.T.F. Somebody’s going to get COVID from old sofas, box springs, and mattresse— Oh, wait.
Like all other hobgoblins throughout history, they’re waiting behind your hedgerow or under your bed, waiting to jump right out and get you. And only TOP.MEN can save you.
There’s something nasty in the woodshed.
You mean this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SiylvmFI_8
See y’all around 7:30ish. Gotta see if the coin-hunting Youtuber I watch is gonna find any silver on tonight’s livestream
Neph, password?
Podesta.
Thanks, for nothing…..
I asked Neph, he said click the link, that’s all you should need to do.
No, Podesta is the user name. The password is ‘password’.
ah, thanks Hype!
It’s built into the link.
Meeting ID: 822 9065 7164
Password: 017223
there we go
You don’t need one, just click the link.
link doesnt work on Android,
SARS 2, like SARS 1, is kind of ‘meh’. Maybe SARS 3 will finally raise the excitement and have a satisfying conclusion.
SARS 69 is going to be awesome
*Ahem* “Monkeys.”
Wow! Sports! The WNBA draft is now on.
I’m sure Sloop is glued to the tube.
WNBA.
Since no one has ever watched that before, how are we supposed to know what it’s all about?
Sports report on the news. Glad I canceled my MLB At Bat subscription.