I was on the road doing some business yesterday. It felt nice, I gotta say. Doing the same Sunday through Tuesday. I just hope I don’t get quarantined leaving or re-entering the state. Because that would not be a pretty interaction.
The next great NFL edge rusher.
The NFL held Round 1 of the draft last night, and unsurprisingly the top 3 players taken have nine pairs of gold pants between them. That was pretty cool, especially since the top pick came from LSU. Somebody “important” tweeted it was good to finally get back to a live sports event, which led to this hilarity. And then life went back to normal, which means we’re all back in our cells. And that’s sports for the day.
A hilarious, underrated movie.
The big birthdays today are: cowardly Frenchman Philippe Petain, once-adorable actress (and nutball) Shirley MacLaine, detective story-teller Sue Grafton, tedious human being Barbra Streisand, crooked politician Richard Daley, CCR’s Doug Clifford, fashion designed Jean Paul Gautier, Caddyshack actor (everybody forgets about) Michael O’Keefe, Cedric The Entertainer, baseball player (who almost got into a fistfight with my brother once) Chipper Jones, possibly the greatest Indian batsman of all time Sachin Tendulkar, and American Idol Kelly Clarkson.
OK, now we can move on to…the links!
Stay off the beaches!!!
Uh, there will always be a rise in deaths. That’s how running totals work. Sorry, CNN, but this scaremongering shit ain’t gonna stop people. Also, go ahead and point your cameras at NYC’s subway system instead of a damn bowling alley in Warner Robbins if you want to show how the disease will likely continue to spread infections.
I’m kinda OK with this. But a word of advice: the next time you slap some multi-trillion $$$ program together, maybe you guys ought to get the details figured out, OK?
Maybe next time knock on the door, buddy. You know, before calling a bunch of armed people out who can commit violence with impunity. Hopefully that girl learned a valuable lesson.
These same officials who are getting “worried” are the same dumbasses that told people without The Corona to stay home. But let’s ignore that part of the story, I guess.
Wait, they’re gonna do what?!?! If they’re already saying they may not return to school in the fall, you can bet your ass they’ll have a revolt soon. At least one would hope so.
Hidalgo’s mask should be bigger…and made out of Saran Wrap.
Somebody needs to explain public relations to these guys. I understand the need for the layoffs, but damn…that might have been the wrong way to have handled it.
Common sense may prevail after all. Not that the cops are going to enforce her ridiculous “order” anyway.
A song that’s (kinda) for the birthday boy. Enjoy!
Now get out there and have a great day and an even better weekend, friends. I’m going to see my son and oldest daughter for the first time in a long time this weekend on my way out of town for business. I hope many of you get to do something enjoyable as well.
Undeterred by a barrage of criticism, Georgia state officials moved ahead Friday with plans to allow some nonessential businesses to reopen, even as coronavirus deaths increase statewide.
And that is just the first paragraph. The whole thing goes on and on shoveling the propaganda.
It seems counter productive to open shops that are highly physically contact. Let the golf courses and clothing shops open first so that the Karens can dip a toe in the shallow end first. Unless this is a ploy for a second wave and they can shake their collective finger and say “I told you so!”
Ah. That was a mess. Sorry glibs…
The “statewide increase” was due to ONE nursing home (Albany).
So technically correct and somehow still completely misleading? CNN wouldn’t do that.
I sent the following email last weekend, in response to some similar statement about rising totals:
I am beginning to find this phrase rather annoying: “As Florida’s coronavirus cases and deaths continue to climb…”
The numbers are cumulative totals, so OF COURSE they are going to “continue to climb”. This is true of ANY NUMBER which is a running total of ANYTHING.
It would be equally true to say “the number of rabid iguanas in Florida continues to climb” or “the number of insipid, meaningless articles written by reporters continues to climb” or…well, anything.
It is a vacuously true statement, devoid of any content or worth. It is a tautology. It is a nothingburger, minus the bun.
Since reporters are supposed to lead with the most important information, it tells me that the rest of the article is even more inane and pointless and I would be wasting my time reading it.
Am I still being moderated?
Answer is no, and no 50x error.
So far, so good 😀
Funky screen and slow load, but it’s working. Morning UCS and Sloop.
Good morning!
Test…
Nope! Still have grey letters and a timeout. Huh.
Oh well. I’ve kinda gotten used to the stop page refresh thing. No biggie.
I’m not getting any timeouts.
How’s your internet connection?
Should be good. I just replaced my modem on Tuesday.
I’m also getting the same issues, maybe it’s because I’m using Chrome?
I’m using Chrome as well. Let me try Firefox real fast..
Maybe. If chrome has a different timeout limit. Because it’s still slow loading, but does load.
Test…
Test…
Got two comments flagged for moderation. Looks like Yusef has the market cornered on the rest.
Test:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jcFKlEfu_eU
Use a Ctrl+F5 to do a forced full reload.
::scans phone for CTRL or F5 key::
Awwwwwwww, shit.
Good news, it’s not Wuhan.
But you do have Ebolaherpes.
Ahem, I have gonorsyphiherpeaids, thank you very much.
You did, but that is a reservoir host for Ebolaherpes, which has burst out of those microbes and infected you.
You are generally pretty moderate. At least until you hit the glove store.
My new Plague Gloves are late.
They shipped but are stuck somewhere.
Speaking of, email me an address to mail a few masks to.
Will do.
I can’t log in on Chrome on Android. It sends me back to the article, with all replies having the “Log in to Reply” link at the bottom.
I cleared out glibs cookies, but that didn’t work. Do I have to clear out some third-party cookies, too?
I’d like to avoid having to clear out all cookies and have to log back in to every site.
Maybe next time knock on the door, buddy. You know, before calling a bunch of armed people out who can commit violence with impunity. Hopefully that girl learned a valuable lesson.
Hey, at least they didn’t shoot the dog.
10 years from now, they’re going to find out that girl was kidnapped and trying to get help and cops blew it off.
Happy Happy! Joy Joy!
Indeed!
Glibs is back up! I can stop jittering now.
(Mrs. Animal was growing annoyed with me.)
While the site was down, I found out that I’m married with children.
You work fast.
I started freakin’ out man. *waits patiently for quittin’ time to hit the flower
(side note: is it my own tyrannical tendencies that makes me not smoke while I’m working or am I just a puss?)
::inserts Anakin Skywalker “it’s working!” gif::
Expect some glitchiness in various aspects, as we did a complete server migration, which was not without some complications due to the size of the site.
I expect things will look a lot more normal as the day progresses. Also, DNS propagation is ongoing.
I’ll be monitoring everything today and through the weekend. Fingers crossed.
Anyway, I’m going to go grab a shower and some coffee before I start into paid work.
Thanks for your patience, in advance.
*Begins slow clap for SP*
Muchas gracias, SP!
Yes, thank you!
The glitches have just resolved and everything seems back to normal for me.
Thanks SP!!!
Thank you!
Thanks, SP.
I’ll be sure to throw y’all a few bones for the server upkeep later today.
Take a bow, SP.
Forgot the link
Saw that you shut down the site early last night (a move I thought was a good ‘un — no need to wait until the wee smalls to start up). Thank you. Hopefully your day won’t be too much of a hassle, considering you probably lost a boatload of sleep last night.
I dropped some cash in the tip jar a day or so ago, but lemme check the finances and see if I can’t spring for some more . . .
Still slow to update a new comment (I had to stop and hit Reload to see my comment above). I’m using the latest Firefox, if that helps at all.
On the other hand, navigating to the site when I first signed on went much faster than normal, so hopefully these other issues resolve.
Thanks!
You are the best.
Thanks SP!!!
glitchiness in various aspects
You talking the site or the commenters?
Thanks SP!
SP is the Mother of Invention! Tips top-hat!
Thank you SP.
With all the panic, uncertainty and general mayhem of the past few months, it’s easy to forget that some dedicated people are working to maintain a thing on the side where idiots like me can release their brain farts upon others. Thank you for everything you do!
I’ve come to rely on this site. News, views, humor, pathos and friendship. It really has become a port in a storm. Thanks again, Overlords and over-sharers!
You need payed a lot for all that you do. This site included but especially with having to put up with OMWC. Say hi to your puppeh for me and give him some pizza. *barks
Thanks!
Expect some glitchiness in various aspects, as we did a complete server migration, which was not without some complications due to the size of the site.
I expect things will look a lot more normal as the day progresses. Also, DNS propagation is ongoing.
I’ll be monitoring everything today and through the weekend. Fingers crossed.
Anyway, I’m going to go grab a shower and some coffee before I start into paid work.
Thanks for your patience, in advance.
This deserves an opera applause gif, in my opinion.
Indeed.
Bravo, dude.
“Precautions to keep those patients safe in the face of the pandemic are in place”
Except for the RNs and CNAs running outside in contaminated scrubs to harass protesters.
“the hospital beds are there, they say”
So the curve has been flattened then? Time to go back to regular life?
A bold move – the only people still with jobs harassing people who lost theirs.
Scrubs outside? How about wearing them home? The editorial in morning newspaper specifically mentioned that docs and nurses wear their scrubs home and undress in garage before throwing all clothes into the washing machine. This was to demonstrate how caring and thoughtful these heroes were.
Maybe the last place the uninfected want to be is within 50 yards of one of our hero first responders.
E-scooter company reportedly laid off 406 people in 2-minute Zoom call
I hate long meetings, so I’m okay with this.
Hope they had some nice pics to put up with the “share screen” option.
The new bread line background was a bit mean-spirited.
But it came with the Bernie gif so it must be good.
E-scooters are pure evil, so this is fine with me
And I figured the e-scooter business model was recession proof.
/CNBC host
Sounds like The Verge has an axe to grind with these guys. The report on the 2019 story was presented as fact even though the company denied it and no supporting evidence was given.
I’m willing to bet this lay-off happened the way it was presented though. Because face to face meetings are simply not possible.
When I have had to do mass layoffs at my company, it fell to the manager. And I had some remote people too. I was on the hook for calling all of them. When I have had to layoff their manager, I called the manager, informed him/her and then called their employees. I do not understand why they did not do it this way, unless they were eliminating a whole division.
I was 1 minute late to the meeting last year when I got laid off (I was coming in from out of town).
The CIO was leaving the building as I was going in. I got there in time for the last slide from HR.
You should have just showed back up for work the next day and pretended you weren’t laid off.
That strategy kinda worked for Costanza once.
Well, it was May 22nd and my last day was Sept 30, so that wouldn’t have worked for me.
The 4 month lead time layoff isn’t too bad. Having to wait out the last few weeks to get my severance was painful (I got my current job offer in late August, they, thankfully, were okay with me starting in mid October).
I have been meaning to write an article about it, started it twice, didnt like tone.
I will probably try again and aim for a May 22 publication date, fitting to have it on the anniversary.
Paycheck???
Please tell me that there were at least three Goatses…
My Governor crying for limitless federal money so he can continue his reign as Dictator.
He really is a piece if shit, as well as an isiot. And NJ being a deep blue state he will be a lock for reelection.
‘Gov. Murphy says the state needs greater flexibility and also called for more direct cash payments from the federal government.
“Sadly, the message from Washington to our first responders and educators and others on the frontlines is clear,” says Gov. Murphy. “As you work tirelessly during this pandemic to keep people safe, our national leadership thinks you are not essential and that you should fear for your jobs.”‘
And how the fuck are educators on the “frontlines” right now, exactly?
Why would firemen, EMTs and cops fear for their jobs? They are all still working. He just wants the fedgov to help ameliorate decades of fiscal mismanagement and overblown public pension obligations.
Something something gift horse…
Why the fuck should the rest of the country have to pay off last years budget shortfall? The audacity is staggering.
Fellow sufferer.
Is there a Coronavirus constitutional crisis coming? | Mulshine
He will suffer little for everything.
I’ve been waiting for Mulshine to write something like that. He’s the only opinion writer for an NJ paper who isn’t an elitist establishment bootlicker.
18. The people have the right freely to assemble together, to consult for the common good, to make known their opinions to their representatives, and to petition for redress of grievances.
– New Jersey State Constitution
NJ State Constitution – useful during the toilet paper shortage.
Yes.
Since I wasted an hour today making this stupid thing, I’ll drop this here again.
Just FYI: on the post letting us know about the server migration going on and recommending alternatives, I couldn’t find the “reply” button.
::golf clap::
Friday Funbags celebrates the site upgrade!
http://archive.li/kWYd0
Plus:
https://imgur.com/TxeCDiA
GIFs that end too soon.
Story of my life.
Yay!!!
Thank you, SP!
Concurred!
Local hospital system is saying we’re past peak, but the interesting bit was the decline in other services:
It seems to me that directives from government ordering people to do things like wear a mask or social distance are clear 1st Amendment violations. If private businesses or homes want to require those things upon entry, then they are free to do so and are also free to face the consequences.
Under our current conditions, it’s not a 1st amendment violation until SCOTUS says it’s a 1st amendment violation. And good luck trying to fight it until you eventually get to a SCOTUS ruling.
It’s a violation of our state constitution in Texas though. She’s gonna get slapped down by them before it ever gets to the feds.
But if it does hit federal court, a district judge can slap an injunction on her to stop the practice. They do it with restrictions on abortion all the time.
That’s different. Abortion is a fundamental right clearly there in the emanations and penumbras of the Constitution. Freedom and guns are just some fetish of racists. Did you know the word “gun” doesn’t even appear anywhere in the Constitution?
Ain’t gonna lie. Would that judge.
She might be the prettiest retarded person I’ve seen in a while.
I’m drinking Jack and I started blacking out. You ever black out? Or as I call it, time travel? You ever do that? Oh yeah! You know how it is — you’re drinking, you black out. You wake up, you’re in another bar. You’re drinking, you black out. You wake up, you’re playing that knife game with a half-Indian somewhere in North Dakota, “Yeah! Yeah! Winner fixes the tranny! Yeah”. You’re drinking, you black out. You wake up, you’re in White Castle — working there 3 years, STILL not assistant manager. Your buddies tell you to quit, but you can’t ’cause you’re banging the slow girl on the fry-o-later. They say she’s a little retarded, but those titties ain’t retarded!
-Dave Attell
Know what identity politics has done? People wonder if these people are AA hires.
She looks like one and she certainly acted the part.
Nah. She was elected on her experience and competence (at the age of 27) to run a county with a $4B budget.
Good to hear.
She would have to do something with that hair first. I’m not into triangular heads.
Nah. Curly, bobbed hair is awesome.
Stupidity is a bit of a turnoff, though.
Woohoo!
RE article about few people going to the hospital:
“We have a growing concern about what we’re not seeing,” said Dr. Michael Apkon of Tufts Medical Center.
That’s a sentence you don’t want to hear.
STOP LISTENING TO THE MEDICAL EXPERTS. Or else we’re going to stay stuck in neutral.
Tris Speaker or Zack Wheat, depending on your definition of Indian.
Sunil Gavaskar
I’m sorry, but piling on sixes against the West Indies isn’t quite the same as doing so against South Africa and England.
Not knocking him, but there’s a gigantic difference in talent between the bowlers he and Tendulkar faced.
Speaker had to face Walter Johnson on a regular basis.
1. When Gavaskar was playing WI were the big dogs.
2. That said: you’re almost certainly correct. There’s a huge gap in my cricket knowledge between 1990 when I first came to the states and about 2005 when I was able to reconnect online.
Ok, maybe the Windies has some solid bowlers during that era, but the level of competition overall couldn’t have been nearly as solid as during Tendulkar’s.
Also, test cricket is as much a game of patience. He could just sit there and knock balls away until a bowler got tired. Check his ODI numbers compared to Sachin’s. They’re shit.
What about Jim Thorpe?*
*Note: I have no idea what we’re talking about
Oh I do now. Indian batsman.
I’d feel less like an idiot if I hadn’t been the one who actually wrote the links.
We obviously need more
ventilatorsdeath machinesWhat they fail to tell you is that ventilators are a last-ditch effort, and the majority of people placed on ventilators die no matter what their disease.
Now compare the media reaction to the need for ventilators and their reaction to a possible therapeutic drug like HCQ.
Also why some doctors are moving away from using them at all.
The survival rate for anyone placed on a vent isn’t that great, but that’s really bad.
I’ve heard that it’s the length of time your on one that is the problem. Muscle atrophy.
I’m not medically trained at all, I just read conspiracy theories on the internet. But what I did read a couple weeks ago was that the ventilator death rate for covid is higher than normal use for pneumonia. Some doctors had noticed that the problem wasn’t that lungs weren’t filling with air, but that the oxygen exchange in blood wasn’t happening, and a ventilator (I think) won’t help with that. Additionally, I remember seeing a doctor mentioning that covid patients looked more like they had altitude poisoning instead of pneumonia which fits that theory. Maybe also explain why anti malarial drugs have seen success since malaria is a blood disease (I think).
Nutbar makes an abortive attempt at burning down St. Patrick’s. Gets sprung from jail so he doesn’t catch the ‘vid. The result? One more COVID-19 death at the hands of Trump
After Shake Shack controversy, Treasury says public companies should repay loans
That IS how loans are supposed to work.
That sounds like something only a capitalist pig would say.
Only in North American do we turn wearing a mask into a narcissistic trendy trope. In Asia they just wear damn, generic medical masks known to work. Us? Karen is knitting some up and selling then on Etsy and it looks like authoritarian morons like Hidalgo are buying them by the box.
OPEN THE FUCKEN ECONOMY UP. If people want to pant shit they can stay home and buy all the diapers they want.
*sheepishly hides the ‘merica flag themed mask I bought
Boy, for someone who hides his hand behind a muppet you sure are all judgy.
Meh.
What happens to people with halitosis who will be forced to wear a mask and breath their own bad breath?
HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF THEM?!
Taste of their own medicine I say. *continues expelling bubbles from soap bubble pipe
Good news, for a change
A federal judge blocked a California gun law on Thursday that required people to undergo a background check before purchasing ammunition.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego called the regulations “onerous and convoluted,” adding that they violate a citizen’s Second Amendment rights, the Associated Press reported.
Benitez ruled in favor of the California Rifle & Pistol Association, which had asked him to halt the background checks with a preliminary injunction.
“The experiment has been tried. The casualties have been counted. California’s new ammunition background check law misfires and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured,” Benitez wrote in his 120-page opinion.
I might not be the first person to link this. Haven’t read through the comments, yet.
Possibly NSFW.
Wanna paste Gov Cuomo’s head on the last pic.
Do eeeeet!
That’s hilarious.
Backstory? And also, do you have her phone number?
I think the image gives you her backstory.
Did not know invisible girl had barbell nipple rings. Learn something new everyday.
Did you miss the butt plug?
No he just assumed invisible girl had one of those.
I’d say ‘Caddyshack’ has held up nicely over the years, no?
Absolutely.
It’s a silly movie with a bunch of unlikeable miscast secondary characters. That being said, I like the movie more now than I did then. Don’t get me started on Porkies.
“Want me to help you sort your holy cards?” is a pickup line that I’ve had excellent results with.
Seems to me VA is going to save the course till June for a number of reasons. One they are backstopped by the amount of feds in the north which provides a buffer for both unemployment and there is some liquidity in the area for when things open. Two unemployment runs out July so it gives these unemployed a couple of months of staggered benefits to find work. Three I really think the strategy has been from the beginning to bridge this to the summer to allow for the development of a vaccine or a treatment plan for the second wave. What you’re seeing is the states revolting that just couldn’t afford to stay the course. Of course none of them can afford to stay the course but since the gov are completely economically illiterate about how business works this was the plan. They keep setting two week wait and see deadlines to just keep moving the football for business’s who are still putting along or drowning so there’s some light at the end of the tunnel and they don’t lay off their workers and just shutter. This is the most flagrant and disgusting thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life, I’ve never ever ever thought I’d be in the crowd for the french revolution cheering the guitones but after this…. I’m pretty sure I’d have been with the mobs in france. I don’t know what else to say, there hasn’t been an action taken this monumentally nefarious and stupid since the great leap forward. At least the mortgage bubble was just about greed. This is a level of hubris, ego, and double-ling down on retard I just can’t even comprehend to. It would be easy to think this is malevolent but I think it’s coming from a worse place a place of benevolence. These people are the worst kind of evil, the ones that think they are good. The class divide is real, the commies were right about that. I just honestly can’t believe that there are this many work from homers who don’t see what’s coming and how it will effect them. We are going to put up a quarter of zeros and I just can’t honestly believe we are here. I mean I saw it coming when they started but I just still can’t believe they are actually going to still do it.
So much this.
I’m ready to go. I’ve just about had it with the forced bull shit lockdowns and the people who cheer this on. They can straight fuck off and die.
People who think this is like fighting a war are twats. You’re fighting a virus that mostly won’t kill you. And in the process you’re literally burning down the economy.
It’s like burning down the house to kill or catch, say, a scorpion.
They are all getting paid Rufus it’s infuriating they don’t have to care because they are privileged. This is the perfect fucking war for people they can fight it while staying home getting fat, watching Netflix and watching porn. It’s disgusting. I didn’t realize how close we were to brave new world until now. Of course there are so many people keeping there heads down that feel like us but don’t want to come off as assholes who want grandma and grandpa to die fighting these retards. They will care but by the time this comes for the white collars and work from homers it will be too late. And it will come for them. #inthisunemployment/breadlinetogther
I’m a little worried it’s gonna be worse up here too Rufus. I’m seeing way too people straight up applauding this shit that I never would have expected. The “we are soooo not the USA nyah nyah!” card gets played a lot up here but if/when our neighbours to the south open up it’s gonna get slammed down on the table after every single death.
What’s that you say? You want me to link my Virus theme song again?
Here’s me three hours ago – https://youtu.be/ZX_6_R1NsoQ
All jerk and no Q makes Festus a dull boy.
I thought it was a deeper comment but you do you. I was actually bereft and when I went to youtube they decided that I don’t have an account there anymore. My E-mail is in the aether too (not that I ever use it much).
Had to restart using email because of WFH bullshit. I managed to get away without using one (except to submit to glibs) for about 4 years.
Comment 12.
You guys slay me.
Question for CC Glibs:
If you spend a lot of time seated at a desk, what is your preferred CC method?
As a person of girth, I carry a SIG P365 in an Aliengear pocket holster. Skinnier peopl might not be wearing pants as large (with as proportionalty large pockets) to make that practical. But for me, it works fantastically.
Thanks. I’m just starting to carry and realized the appendix IWB isn’t going to work for most of my day.
Sometimes I have to remove my phones from the other pocket because of discomfort, but the gun is fine.
I have a dinky NAA .22 for the pocket.
IWB at about 2:30.
Sword down the pant leg. Switch legs after an hour.
For me its a shoulder holster. Suprisingly concealable if you are in an envronment that you can always be wearing a jacket or a loose, light unbuttoned shirt. The only other places that would work for me are the Small of the back or Appendix, neither of which i really wanted to try…
IWB at 10 o’clock or 8 o’clock while seated works well for me. (Left-handed here)
Shotgun on lap
This.
IWB @ 4:00
As a short, fat dude, I carry in a pocket holster (p938) or a shoulder holster (1911 EMP). Nothing around the waste works at all times.
Until last week I kept my Beretta in my hair.
*polite applause*
I don’t do it at a desk, but in car which I feel is harder to be comfortable since the sides of the seat cradle you, either IWB at 4-5 or OWB at about 3
All day comfort with a compact Taurus. Less comfortable with a P228
I have a t-shirt from 5.11 which has pockets on both left and right just under the chest muscles and along the side. The material is something like spandex – heavy for a t-shirt and stretchy. I generally have a Para-Ordnance Para-Carry in there. I either have a jacket or a light, unbuttoned shirt over it.
These same officials who are getting “worried” are the same dumbasses that told people without The Corona to stay home.
To expand on what someone said the other day plus this article. So nobody is going to the hospital for life or death conditions now, and given the directives on how to count Covid deaths those deaths are skyrocketing. But on the bright side, we have all but erased any other cause of death.
Fer fucks sake.
Seems to me VA is going to save the course till June for a number of reasons. One they are backstopped by the amount of feds in the north which provides a buffer for both unemployment and there is some liquidity in the area for when things open. Two unemployment runs out July so it gives these unemployed a couple of months of staggered benefits to find work. Three I really think the strategy has been from the beginning to bridge this to the summer to allow for the development of a vaccine or a treatment plan for the second wave. What you’re seeing is the states revolting that just couldn’t afford to stay the course. Of course none of them can afford to stay the course but since the gov are completely economically illiterate about how business works this was the plan. They keep setting two week wait and see deadlines to just keep moving the football for business’s who are still putting along or drowning so there’s some light at the end of the tunnel and they don’t lay off their workers and just shutter. This is the most flagrant and disgusting thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life, I’ve never ever ever thought I’d be in the crowd for the french revolution cheering the guitones but after this…. I’m pretty sure I’d have been with the mobs in france. I don’t know what else to say, there hasn’t been an action taken this monumentally nefarious and stupid since the great leap forward. At least the mortgage bubble was just about greed. This is a level of hubris, ego, and double-ling down on retard I just can’t even comprehend to. It would be easy to think this is malevolent but I think it’s coming from a worse place a place of benevolence. These people are the worst kind of evil, the ones that think they are good. The class divide is real, the commies were right about that. I just honestly can’t believe that there are this many work from homers who don’t see what’s coming and how it will effect them. We are going to put up a quarter of zeros and I just can’t honestly believe we are here. I mean I saw it coming when they started but I just still can’t believe they are actually going to still do it. Sorry just had to rant.
Fucking squirrels.
Hmmm, just like TOS, I’m being treated like Spam. Unlike TOS, I didn’t get booted from glibs yet.
Try this: https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5ea231e734af4c001316884c
Are you sure you’re not a canned pork product?
My sister’S brother made $5492 a month seling spam.
Only spam shop open during Hawai’ian lockdown?
Do you think Sad Beard manages to dress himself in the morning without assistance? I’m saying 25% chance.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228651/opening-up-save-economy-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-shutdown
TLDR: Why stop smothering the economy when it might die anyway?
This has been my favorite argument so far the lemmings have all gotten the memo on: “look dude even if we do open up everyone is going to be too scared to enter business’s so they’d probably fail anyway.” I just can’t even with these retards anymore it’s such a monumentally easy argument to defeat, it’s like they think business’s only open when there’s a line of customers waiting outside their door or better yet they offer it as evidence that we still need the lock-down when they themselves just defeated that argument. I’ve never realized how economically illiterate and retarded the general populace was till now. I had my suspicions but this has sealed it for me.
Trump and Republican governors can’t make people eat at restaurants.
They almost understand freedom for a moment… then the thought flutters away and they demand government do something.
Well, if they force grocery stores to close, then people will eat at restaurants again!
*waits for phone call from Nobel committee*
How many times a week do you think he shits his pants? Like he seems to proud to wear a diaper. But you know they probably lock the doors of the voxiffice when they see him coming, I would imagine there have been thousands of emails sent about his hygiene. This whole rona work from home thing was probably a god send for many of the drones there.
He offers no solution except “government help is needed.” Truly insightful.
Why?
Because everyone needs to go to college, it’s a right! Even if you are dumber than a pile of bricks!
Next paragraph:
They don’t go into any specifics but it would seem to me that it is incumbent on the department to find a way to ensure the students still get taught regardless of those factors, rather than create a caste-based grading system.
When the students are opting into their grades, do they get to specify them?
“I’ll take 4 As, and a B. Jus’ keepin’ it real.”
Counter point: Why not?
Well played.
The schools are absolutely not going to open in the fall in a bunch a places. What’s hilarious to me is the gov is going to cut down their one visible service of baby sittin.. I mean education and they actually are still going to go “fuck you pay me” after they’ve caused everyone to lose there jobs. I just can’t even imagine them thinking this is going to go well here.
Think about all of those vice principals right now collecting a check and doing…well, same thing they have always done except now at home.
In my area they are handing out food at the schools. But in all seriousness talking to one he was saying the thinking they’d be ready for the fall semester is retarded the amount of prep work required to start school and line up vendors and prepare should have started by now. Every month they delay starting in April sets them back quite a bit.
Does anyone who’s kid(s) go to Chicago Public Schools have a job anyways? Wouldn’t putting them somewhere else be first priority?
My local city just furloughed the crossing guards. This week. Schools have been shut down for more then a month.
The schools are absolutely not going to open in the fall in a bunch a places. What’s hilarious to me is the gov is going to cut down their one visible service of baby sittin.. I mean education and they actually are still going to go “fuck you pay me” after they’ve caused everyone to lose their jobs. I just can’t even imagine them thinking this is going to go well here.
I’m sorry but this just seems stupid.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/scientists-cant-rule-out-theory-21920401
Unless you cut holes in your hazmat suits, having sex with someone is going to expose you to the virus 10 different ways unrelated to being joined at the pelvis. It’s kind of like saying “We haven’t ruled out that the common cold is sexually transmitted”.
Glory holes FTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV_BPDi8Ems
“Unless you cut holes in your hazmat suits,“
That’s my fetish?
Right script is running but still have to f5. Not complaining, just an observation. It might be at my end because the evil ones decided last weekend that I need to google up for my e-mail.
Props to Don Escaped for linking this yesterday. https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
Looks like almost every state flattened their curves. Great!!
Except that they flattened the curves so well that a minor jump in cases for a week (usually linked to one specific nursing home or factory, etc.) makes their trend look bad and causes pants-shitting from their D governors. This seems to be the cause of the rift between Trump and Kemp-GA. Kemp said on Wednesday that their jump in cases was due to one nursing home (Albany, GA I think) which is why he felt the economy could start opening back up.
That’s an excellent site, the graphs normalized for population are particularly good because that info is hard to find for some reason.
One-week trend data is also good since numbers fluctuate wildly daily but don’t over seven-day periods.
Can anyone see a difference between Sweden and anyone else on those graphs?
Switching to total deaths on the population adjusted one, flip back and forth between US and Sweden. The difference is literally 3 days. The US is 3 days behind Sweden on the exact same curve.
If you look at new cases 1-wk average, with a one-week trend, linear, the whole thing becomes a molehill.
I have trouble using new cases, because that is so testing dependent.
Ok, but either deaths or new cases should be should be looked at in one-week increments, not daily. And Sweden looks bad there. US looks to have started a down trend, but the US is totally skewed by NYC metro.
I wasn’t looking at daily, but total deaths. US curve is literally sititng on top of Sweden curve, only ends 3 days earlier.
Deaths isn’t a good metric for evaluating lockdowns, because lockdowns are only supposed to reduce infections. Sweden has a much lower infection rate, but a comparable death rate. The question is why? Is Sweden not testing? Does Swedish healthcare suck? Are there demographic issues?
All the data has problems, but you go to analysis with the data you have, not the data you wish you had.
The US is testing more per capita than any other country. The charts don’t show an infection “rate” because the testing varies wildly.
That’s why I look at (excess) deaths on a weekly basis. It takes the testing variable out of the equation. It may not be 100% accurate to say every excess death is a pandemic death, but for the sake of finding fatality trends it’s reasonable.
The charts show ratesViper million on any given day if you click on the line.
Excess deaths are a good measure, but only when you specify a given time period. Per day is almost useless, as it doesn’t show who died a little sooner than they otherwise would have. Which matters when the disease kills the old and comorbid. It also is dragged down by fewer deaths due to the lockdown – traffic accidents and the like.
Excess deaths from, say, December through now would be interesting.
If you change the Y-axis to scale to highlight, Sweden looks like one of the worst current countries. (UAE, Russia, Singapore)
Fucking Cuomo!
From Q’s Vox link:
The problem is a question of fear. Americans fear spreading or contracting infection, so much so that they’ve overwhelmingly participated in social distancing measures. They tell pollsters by wide margins that they fear lifting those restrictions too soon much more so than too late. They’re willing to stay put even if it harms the economy.
They also fear economic hardship. That’s led prudent people, even those left relatively unharmed by the downturn so far, to delay nonessential purchases, like new cars, appliances, clothes, and other goods.
Whatever choices state officials make about opening things up, there’s not going to be a vibrant economy until real steps are taken to address those dual sources of fear.
Maybe… stick with me here… if the alphabet media would cease their nonstop “We’re all gonna DIIIIIEEEE!” fearmongering and domestic terrorism, people might emerge from under their beds.
Bar re-opening day here is tentatively two weeks away, but I plan to be there. If, that is, my regular place actually re-opens.
If the states that reopen aren’t met with disaster things will go well and people will begin acting normally again. If there’s a sizable problem, though, then woe to the economy.
It’s just human nature though. It’s going to get going faster than people think. The pioneers take the arrows, people just need to see other people doing it than a week later they themselves will do it than eventually even the karen’s will have to break rank. The GA gov is a hero and should be treated as such. We needed a state with a major city to break ranks. Regardless of what happens the current course was unsustainable and will result in more death than the virus. We needed someone to get into the water.
“ Caddyshack actor (everybody forgets about) Michael O’Keefe“
Who the hell is that?
*googles*
Ah, the freaking main character…you’re right, I did forget about him.
Good morning, Sloopy!
…you can bet your ass they’ll have a revolt soon.
I’m concerned that there hasn’t been one yet. This is getting more insane by the day. If you live in a nursing home and have serious health problems, yes, the WuFlu may clip you. Yet our fucking governor just shut down school for the rest of the year and hinted it may go longer! For a demographic that is untouched by the goddamn bug!
Ugh.
Anyway, that is a fun video. I think maybe I’ll watch Caddyshack later. I need to laugh.
My song contribution.
Have a great weekend and enjoy the kid time!
And the propaganda machine rolls on.
https://news.yahoo.com/anti-vaccine-anti-lockdown-movements-090059732.html
Conflating anti-lockdown protestors who want to go back to work with anti-vaccine lunatics is like conflating anti-war protesters with 9/11 truthers. But I wouldn’t expect any less from our Pravda-inspired Dem/Op/Media complex.
There probably is some overlap but the vast majority of protesters are just people who don’t want to end up homeless. In other words, normal people.
Mainstream media = enemy propaganda
That’s the media. Because they are scum. Worst than scum. How many news pieces have you seen about people who’ve lost their jobs or business’s? We have more unemployed people than in anytime in the last 80 years. You can’t throw a rock and hit a household that hasn’t been impacted. Where are the fucking human interest stories? I’ve seen maybe one or two. The rest are reported as straight fact segments. During the Gov shutdown we had countless interviews of people struggling to make ends meet over a fucking single missed paycheck. We’ve gone a fucking month of missed paychecks for millions and notta peep.
Part of me wonders how much of this is a function of “Trump says we need to open up, so we Must NOT open up”. Which seems to absolve Trump of some of the blame for the bad economy. You know the big thing that was going to seal his fate.
But other than that, the Media is the enemy of the people, who craft narratives in order to push specific ideology. It’s not a bias. bias would be putting a spin on a story. this is putting a story to a spin.
Last night my mother, siblings, and in-laws were texting about how scary it is that some old lady died of the virus at their local nursing home. The same place my uncle died last year, my dad died 4 years ago, and both of his parents died 3 decades ago. I just turned my phone off rather than saying what I was thinking.
LOL they’re gun nuts, too.
They found an opportunity to link b/c some protestors had signs opposing a CV vaccine, which is obviously not the same thing, but clearly an “honest mistake” for our illustrious press.
The antivaxxers are in full freak out about Bill Gates sterilizing us all with a Covid vaccine, so I am sure they are well represented at any protest. Who do you expect Pravda to focus on?
Eh I’m not an anti-vaxer (get my flu shot yearly) but I will question anything Bill Gates is involved in. That and the fact that Coronavirus is like the common cold virus (right?)…which hasn’t ever had a vaccine that works on it made yet.
I always pictured Karen as one of the antivaxxer types. She must be confused.
Gilead Tumbles After Latest Data Leak on Virus Drug Trials
“Gilead Sciences Inc. shares were whipsawed for the second time in a week after a summary of a Chinese trial of its Covid-19 drug appeared to show that it was a failure.”
I see we’re back to trusting the Chinese and the WHO again. Media will never learn… Not saying Remdesivir will work, but I’m going to wait on studies from other sources.
But let’s stay shut until we find a vaccine.
Quebec Premier has said ‘we have to learn to live with Covid’. He wants this opened up but he’s being stymied by pant shitters.
‘whipsawed’?
Heh. Actually used the term “Leper Length” at work last night when I warned the staff about the moose hanging out up the street. Got a few laughs when I used the broom handle to keep everyone at bay. (Hat tip to OMWC!)
I’ve used it at work also. The response was somebody pulling out a yardstick and using it to demonstrate proper Leper Length.
I also asked if we needed to keep social distancing if we were wearing masks. You could hear the synapses shorting out.
There are a few people that are gun-shy but most of us are taking in stride, ergo ignoring it. This one woman acted like I was going to claim her first-born when we passed each other at four feet. Nobody is wearing masks.
If the WHO told me the sky’s blue I’d go outside and check.
In other news, PLA Shenzhen Pharma No. 4 Factory announced plans to ramp up production of their new drug Rimdisivir.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7332/1612/1600/debeers.jpg
Mostly NSFW.
Dear Lord…
That’s how you make jewelery….
I like Michael O’Keefe. I watched “The Great Santini” recently for the first time in years and he was pretty good in that too.
I’m still a little scarred by that film.
Part of the reason I hadn’t watched it in years. “This Boy’s Life” is also a difficult one for me.
Okay, two kinda funny stories.
1 – My first Marine CO was an aviator and “The Great Santini” was required watching. We even did the whole mushroom soup “SQUIDS AND RUSTPICKERS!!!!” gag at a bar for laughs. Anyway, I was just a young’un and in ROTC and told my mom she should watch the movie – she’s a huge Robert Duvall fan. I probably ought to have thought about the impact that would have in coloring my mom’s perception of the Marine Corps.
2 – A guy in my Fleet squadron was the son of a Marine F-4 pilot from that era. He said “The Great Santini” was pretty close to his home life growing up. He was a VMI grad and a complete lunatic. Left the Corps to go to dental school, IIRC.
Final note, the book is much better and Pat Conroy (the son) was a great writer. “Lords of Discipline” was also his. As was “Prince of Tides” (never saw).
Did you squirt a few?
“Ben, you’re my favorite daughter.”
“there’s very little social distancing”
CNN reporter observation of mob raiding a truck for food in Nigeria because of the COVID shortages caused by shutdowns
I prefer to die from Covid-19 than hunger
Selfish.
These same officials who are getting “worried” are the same dumbasses that told people without The Corona to stay home.
I’m not surprised by this. Both my sisters are nurse practitioners, and both are now out of work. The oldest works with stroke victims. She’s pissed about losing her job. In her words, people are choosing to have heart attacks and strokes at home because they’re afraid of catching Corona at a hospital. But let’s keep framing the argument as saving lives vs consumerism.
Heart and stroke are the silent killers.
Our reaction has been an utter immoral disgrace in North America.
Now Justin is giving students $1250 a month. Right as we enter summer when the economy NEEDS cheap labour. Quebec is pissed about this. The guy is colossal fuck up.
All of that “Mother Gaia” shit has been thrown out the window. There will be no hippy tree planters stinking up the joint this year.
Study Finds Chick-Fil-A Sauce Kills 100% Of Germs
‘I’m Proud To Select Hillary Clinton As My Running Mate,’ Says Joe Biden While Covered In Laser Dots
Not if Kamala has anything to say about it.
‘whipsawed’?
Whipsnade, Whipsnade! It’s Larson E Whipsnade.
thicc?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11464893/lauren-goodger-curves-lycra-exercise/
freecc
Gross.
Some eye bleach.
Daaaaaaaamn… I think she may have made a deal with the Devil.
*readies pinky finger for paper-cutter chop*
Ahem.
Goddamn…..it’s unbelievable that Liz Hurley is still so gorgeous after all these years. She barely has aged in 30 years, and she doesn’t look all plasticky from whatever work, if any, she’s had done.
How about a bit of good news?
Judge Tosses Out CA Ammo Law
Thanks for that.
Random chavs chaving it up.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/11435992/boyfriend-cheated-30-women-labour-baby/
“Coral became suspicious after Steve, who she’d met in a nightclub at the age of 17, began vanishing on nights out. She says: “He was always so attentive when we first got together and we had a great life going out and partying all the time.”
Seems like the foundation for a stable relationship.
“I’ve slept with around 30 women – it happened when I was going out with my friends. I didn’t think about it at the time but when Coral found out it was bad.”
This man is a true philosopher and scholar.
I love British tabloids. American tabloids could learn a lot from them.
As far as I can tell, when she was 17, he was 28. That’s not even close to the half-your-age-plus-7 rule.
In Europe, it’s “third your age +7.”
*fistbump*
So everyone in Europe has herpes?
https://www.unz.com/wwebb/techno-tyranny-how-the-us-national-security-state-is-using-coronavirus-to-fulfill-an-orwellian-vision/
Tl;dr version: Former and current members of the intelligence agencies, big tech, and the military want to become more like the CCP in order to defeat the CCP, which kinda makes defeating the CCP pointless.
While it is true than AI model is only as good as the data it is trained on, it is also true that a small corpus of high quality training data is better than a large corpus of low quality training data, and that the predictive ability of the model relative to the size of the training corpus, assuming fairly uniform quality of the data, rapidly reaches a point of diminishing returns. So the advantage in the “iteration” phase is overstated. As to the “adoption” phase, it seems to me that there is no burning need for the U.S. or state governments to adopt reduced privacy protections, but rather for private actors to fill needs as the market demands. Uber and Lyft, though they are slowly capturing and getting captured by the regulatory apparatus, innovated plenty without any significant changes to the laws.
Put another way, assuming the document itself is real, this is central planners envisioning things as only central planners can: with them and their kind in charge of everything. Yet the market has proven time and time again to be (far) better at economic planning. To the extent the PRC has gained some kind of advantage, it has been by exploiting the “legacy” centrally planned aspects of the U.S. and Western economies. The FCC along with state and local governments exert great influence over telecommunications, and lo-and-behold that is the sector where China has most realized its technological advancement. One need not want to destroy the environment to also recognize that the PRC has captured Western-originated knowledge and intellectual property by virtue of being one of the few places in the world where it is economical to manufacture integrated circuits and related components while also being stable enough to see production through to final delivery.
Thank for the thoughtful, informed, and entirely over my head response.
Ha!
So it looks like Karen Half-Whitmer is going to extend the Michigan lockdown until May 15th.
She is terrible and this extension is terrible, but I can’t help but find it a little funny. She even blamed it on the protesters. Gotta find the humor in these trying times…
She seems absolutely insane. Imagine trying to break up with her.
No comment.
I like her new campaign slogan, “the beatings will continue until morale approves”.
Approves, improves, tomato, tomahto
If they’re still using the two-week time frame it’s because they’re lying and have visions of making it longer.
Trump’s America is a horrifying place
With extremely lax Federal Election Commission rules governing federal political campaign advertising and Facebook taking a laissez-faire approach to vetting political ads, we can fully expect the Trump campaign to take its attack ads to a new and unprecedented level in the coming months.
And, so far, it doesn’t seem that the Biden camp is up to the challenge of responding in kind.
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted out a blistering attack ad that riffs off of a popular Allstate insurance commercial currently running on national television. The Trump ad shows a video bobblehead of former President Barack Obama superimposed over another actor’s body as he watches television with a small group of middle-aged African American buddies. Then a mock political ad begins playing with the former vice president tossing a completely nonsensical word salad. At the end of the spot, the buddies look with indignation at the Obama character who shrugs, as if to say, “Well, that’s what you get with Biden.”
There is so much that is wrong with this video: The blatant superimposing of the former president’s head and his expressions — taken out of context — over the head of the original actor. The gross appropriation of a well-known Allstate insurance ad. (Twitter has since taken down the ad in response to a report by the copyright owner, but it remains on Trump’s Facebook page.) The fake Biden spot within the ad. One might even hear a dog whistle in there as well, cautioning against the return of black influence to the White House. Obama endorsed Biden last week.
We can tell how lax those FEC rules are by the fact that Trump is currently occupying the Oval Office. Clearly, the election laws have failed us.
Also- RACISSSS!
When ever the left complains about something being too lax what they mean is “You are challenging the established way we have created to get power”
Shorter: just bend over and let us fuck you over!
Breaking news: political ads are mean spirited, mildly dishonest at best, and often try to frame the candidate’s opponent in a bad light; regardless the political party or politician involved.
I know, just knocked you down with a feather.
Thank goodness Twitter is here to protect us from Trump’s political ads! Biden “tossing a completely nonsensical word salad” – fake news.
LOL never change, CNN.
Wasn’t the Penn State football program supposed to have made a recovery to elite status? I didn’t see one PSU player selected in first round but there were several LSU, tOSU, even TCU players taken. Maybe if none are taken in Round 2, someone will wonder why Coach Robinson is making multi-millions.
No-one is allowed to leave the DNC plantation, ever!
Burn the heretic!
What “protocol” was broken?
UDP.
The Daily Talking Points That Are Sent To Every Democrat protocol.
Come on Drake, you know the last thing they want is people thinking for themselves and that includes their officeholders.
Man, I really hope this blows the fuck up in their faces. A significant number of Black Democrats in urban areas are municipal employees that are feeling the brunt of COVID-19. I’m not sure if very many of them are too keen on maintaining the incessant ORANGE MAN BAD howling right now.
The Wuhan Virus Pandemic has Exposed the American Ruling Class
I know you shouldn’t look down on the people late to the party. Parable of the Laborers and all, but NO FUCKING SHIT!
On FB this morning some of my lib friends are going crazy about Trump saying you could cure the virus by injecting people with bleach. Then I found this from Scott Adams this morning:
“There’s a massive IQ test on the Internet today. If you think the president was asking Dr. Birx about injecting bleach or isopropyl alcohol into coronavirus patients — because it sounded that way to you — you failed the test.”
Wait, he wasn’t talking about injecting bleach?
*removes needle from arm*
Whew, that was close!
Thought they wanted bleach.
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1253671420040798208
NPR literally reported that Trump suggested “injecting disinfectant.” When you believe that NPR tells the truth, why wouldn’t you freak out?
I don’t think I would have a problem with low-IQ people injecting themselves with bleach or isopropyl alcohol.
Millennials have been doing something similar for years. It’s called the Tide Pod challenge.
The bigger deal is he bitched last week about reopening and now he thinks we should stay locked down through the summer.
Interesting read. I ran it past the wife after she sent me a même of the press conference and she yelled at me and stormed out in a huff, so it must be legit.
At least this pantshitting article gives the full quote in some form of context.
It’s very funny that all the “de-tox / cleanse” morons will be outraged by this.
Lysol is only effective as birth control.
More about the campaign:
Take, for example, a spot released this week by Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale called, “Let them eat ice cream, by Nancy Antoinette.” The video cuts between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showing off her formidable stash of gourmet ice cream in what Parscale claims is a $24,000 side-by-side stainless-steel refrigerator-freezer, and clips of Americans struggling to have enough to eat amid the current economic crisis. The spot vividly portrays the speaker as seemingly out of touch with everyday, suffering Americans — which implies why she is not acting swiftly to pass the President’s latest bailout legislation for small businesses.
The ad manages to include Pelosi’s reasoning for the delay — that it would be irresponsible to pass such a monumental piece of legislation without properly vetting it, but she comes off as a bit snarky in the clip anyway. “They asked for a quarter trillion dollar in 48 hours — well I don’t think so,” quips the speaker, as she stands in front of her luxury appliances.
Although not directed at Biden, this is exactly the type of cutthroat political ad that can be extremely effective in swaying the opinions of low-information voters, who tend to make up their minds based on information they might glean from a campaign ad that connects with them on a visceral level. It’s not fair, but it’s brutally effective. And because the nation is still reeling from a daily death toll in the thousands from the coronavirus, these ads are actually reflective of a campaign operating with some restraint.
Yeah, right. This might sway the sort of low information voter who is inexplicably unaware of Nancy Pelosi’s deep and abiding respect for them, and her love for those less fortunate than she. Those gullible dopes might think she couldn’t give a fuck less about them, when they see that ad.
Those dastardly “low-information voters” who haven’t made up their minds yet. They should be shamed by the shining example of “high-information voters” who always vote the exact same way every election. That’s how you measure intelligence, in fact, by how reliably a person votes the right way.
They are complaining because he made an effective ad?
Nancy ought to know that you have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.
The beat goes on.
Rand and Mike Lee were a third of the participants. What the fuck are we doing?
Looks like Massie at least got his wish for a recorded vote.
She voted no because it was too small, but I guess some credit to AOC for also voting no.
A half a cheer for doing the right thing for very wrong reasons, I suppose.
That’s actually slightly better than DeBlasio who seems to carefully consider everything before choosing the wrong thing every time.
Hard hitting stuff.
But how the fuck is that legal? And why didn’t Rand or Mike stop this shit?
The chair deemed that unanimous consent had been made and no you can’t challenge it
That’s what Massie said of the house 4 weeks back
Why didn’t they fucking force a quorum?
Cause they would be ignored
Well Paul obviously doesn’t need to wear a mask.
What caliber for loudspeakers?
Call To Prayer To Be Broadcasted 5 Times Daily In Minneapolis During Ramadan
Fuck you, you worthless cunt.
You need at least an RPG-7, so that you destroy the mount as well. Otherwise they respawn too easily.
?
Buck shot
On FB this morning some of my lib friends are going crazy about Trump saying you could cure the virus by injecting people with bleach.
I saw the shrieking headlines, and my immediate response was, “I’d need to hear the entire thing, in context, before coming to any conclusion.”
That was my thought. It was “Too stupid to be true.”
I don’t even need the context to know that’s bullshit.
It was Trump being his usual inarticulate self. His comments were fairly stumbling and nonsensical, but he obviously didn’t tell anyone to drink bleach or anything or the sort.
^^^
The left is wringing it for all it’s worth. The memes are decent.
There was discussion about sanitation and effectiveness of disinfectants – Trump quipped get a “shot for that” and the media ran with it and some outlets are saying he “suggested injections with ‘disinfectants'” – apparently this is all for the public good but of course the media is broadcasting this as a potential remedy endorsed by POTUS. It’s almost like they WANT someone to do this to finally get Trump.
Squawk was complaining that the current FDA director was asked about this on CNN last night and said people need to check with their doctor regarding any treatment – how irresponsible for him not to take the CNN bait!
Yeah, that’s not what he said.
Styx covered it.
Small Business Owner Gets Coronavirus Relief Loan To Keep Employees On Payroll. Now Her Employees Are Angry.
Fire them. Today.
Yeah, I’d facilitate their desire to receive unemployment.
Paying people more to not work. Fucking brilliant.
This is also why I don’t understand PTO.
PTO in some companies is used to cover sick time and “I’m sorry, I can’t come in today because I’m sick but I’m well enough to go golfing.”
My husband’s company has “planned” and “unplanned” time. Planned is the usual scheduled days off. Unplanned time is, well, unplanned. Sick and golfing time.
https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntaa059/5815378
If this paves the way to smoking making a come back count me the fuck way in. If we found out the Chinese were pouring money into nonsmoking campaigns that would be all the evidence I need to for sure say it was a bio weapon. 14 day gestation period, kills expensive “undesirables”, boomer ruling class most at risk, Kills mostly men, Nicotine prevents it(they have a country that smokes like a chimney) too many convenient factors to ignore at that point.
I am not good at reading those sorts of things. Where does it say Nicotine prevents it? I took it as the smokers died more often.
Yeah, I didn’t see anything to make me feel better about my habit in there either.
Las Vegas. Wait, what?
https://www.nbc4i.com/sports/nfl/nfl-draft/osus-damon-arenette-selected-no-19-overall-by-las-vegas-in-nfl-draft/
The Las Vegas Raiders. Are you that out of the NFL loop? They have been building the new stadium for 2 years now or something.
The stadium looks like Kylo Ren’s helmet.
Yeah, it’s still jarring to me.
LV Raiders isn’t too far off from what it should be.
Durham Bolsters Investigative — And Prosecutorial — Team
The top federal prosecutor for Connecticut selected additional team members for his investigative effort in recent weeks, adding agents from the FBI, as well as the chief of the violent crimes and narcotics trafficking section for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., Anthony Scarpelli, according to sources cited by CNN. Durham, who has been running the operation out of Connecticut and D.C., drove down to Washington a few weeks ago to keep the investigation moving even as the COVID-19 virus hampered many law enforcement efforts nationwide. …
mid the pandemic, Durham and a team of prosecutors and investigators have continued their work, even requesting witness information after the country largely shut down in March because of coronavirus restrictions, according to people briefed on the investigation. Leading up to the lockdown, Durham’s team had spent many days a month reviewing classified intelligence inside a special facility for reviewing classified documents known as a SCIF. …
Durham’s focus appears to have turned toward decisions made by top officials overseeing the intelligence analysis of Russian election interference efforts in 2016, and particularly the leadership of then-CIA director John Brennan and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, according to more than a half dozen people familiar with the investigation.
Nothing of consequence will happen to the major culprits.
I will be shocked if there is anything more than a few low level types that get indicted.
Subsidy King Elon Musk Questions Government Aid to Oil & Gas Industry
STFU, Elon.
If oil and gas collapse, it will take the credit markets along with it and suddenly there won’t be quite so many buyers for his rolling battery fires.
It’s not fair to subsidize my competitors!
I can’t think of anyone I both hate and like more than Elon.
What was that about bleach?
Fedex guy drops off paychecks while wearing his paper mask pulled down from his nose. ?
I saw a cashier at my local grocery store wearing his exactly the same way last weekend. I switched to a different grocery store.
At Walmart yesterday, I saw four employees with their masks pulled down to their chins.
No, I didn’t ask to speak to the manager.
My son is working at Walmart until school starts in the Fall. The masks Walmart supples are uncomfortable and make it difficult to breathe – a lot of people are pulling down their masks for those reasons.
Not ruling-out knuckleheads and laziness is most cases.
Lady at AutoZone had hers under her chin.
One Lady at the office wears rubber gloves all day and has a mask on top of her head, “just in case.”
Not sure what she meant by that.
Snarkily, I’d say “Just in case someone hassles her about not having on a mask.” But I don’t know the individual
She is a true believer, so I don’t know , maybe if she has to get too close to someone?
She will talk to us from normal distances, so maybe for strangers?
I don’t get it at all.
Also is everyone else still doing the stop and refresh to post comments?
I don’t have to do anything with comments. I hit “Post Comment”, wait, and it eventually completes.
There is some slowness, but no errors.
If she sees a corona cloud coming she’ll pull it down right quick and block it.
*taps temple*
“The NFL held Round 1 of the draft last night, and unsurprisingly the top 3 players taken have nine pairs of gold pants between them.”
My Skins got one of those chumps…
Lets hope that’s not a career-ender for the poor dude…
We’ll see. Hyped like noone I’ve seen since Clowney. I’m excited, for sure. But we needed a CB, TE and OTL pretty bad and we don’t have a second. I would have been satisfied with the ohio state CB, but I get it. Can’t pass up a talent like Young.
Don’t the Skins also already have a d-line stacked with first rounders? They should have traded down and picked up an additional 2nd or 3rd round pick for whoever really needed Young.
Yes our front 7 is loaded with high draft picks. Our best player on the dline is actually a 6th round pick. But everyone else was a total pedigreed stud in college.
You seem to lack visibility into the fact some horrible decisions have been and continue to be made because that asshat owner Snyder is desperately trying to buy a freaking Lombardi trophy and fucking the whole machine up. Smart moves have not been made in over a decade. Ask RGIII about being made to play a playoff game with a hurt knee and now being a has been.
I follow the NFL closely enough to be aware of Dan Snyder’s ineptitude for the last twenty odd years. Really don’t know what to tell you about that guy…I actually felt sorry for Alex Smith when the Cheifs traded him to Washington. I just had a feeling something horrible was going to happen to him there. Didn’t think he’d pull another Theismann and nearly lose his leg though.
Ladies and gentleman….Sad Beard.
“Opening up the economy won’t save the economy”
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228651/opening-up-save-economy-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-shutdown
I see he’s fine faux-intellectual piece of shit evil form.
At this point, if you have not realized it yet on your own, it looks like the states that are the most against returning to normal are the ones that are hoping to force the Fed Gov (i.e.. the tax payers) to bail they out off decades of horrible team blue corruption so they can avoid dealing with the reality that the blue model is a destructive and criminal enterprise at best, and an unsustainable corrupt abuse of the productive in the states this model has been foisted on by the people that vote for a living. Expect the bandit kings running New York, California, and Illinois, to name a few to all demand the US tax payer bail their failed economies out so the credentialed corrupt inept class that runs them can not just stay in power, but double down on even more of this criminally corrupt blue model welfarism.
I say fuck them and fuck that.
Right on the money literally and figuratively with this concept – I see Whitmer just extended MI shut-down to May 15. The house passed the latest bailout package last night and the major networks used the phrase “3.5” setting the stage for “4”
So the poor feller that jumped off the bridge that I mentioned in my comments yesterday? Yeah he daid. Cop dove in the water 3 miles downstream and managed to get him back to shore. He died from hypothermia and trauma related to jumping into a spring freshet river from 100 feet. Poor guy. Actual hero cop.
Well shit. My Van Halen comment to you the other morning sure didn’t hold up well.
*opens mouth, inserts foot*
No Sweat. We’re Glibnation. I still want STEVE SMITH to teach that fucking bear to stay away from my yard.
Damn that sucks. Any idea why he was in a spot so low as to huck himself off a bridge? Depression sucks.
No. Suicides are not covered in the media.
That’s because it’s usually a white dude.
Florida man.
According to officials, Nichols and his brother were horse-playing after eating dinner and were preparing to go to the store together to purchase blunt cigar wrappers that they could use to smoke marijuana.
“Nichols jokingly picked up a handgun, which he believed was unloaded, pointed it at his brother, and pulled the trigger,” deputies said.
When will we stop letting these dastardly weapons into our homes. Unloaded they pose, in sheeps clothing, tantalizing you, until you point them at your loved ones, where they reveal the extent of their dirty perfidy!
they just leave guns lying around? Darwin For the Win……..
Broke all 4 rules on that one.
“Tyler Nichols’ prior criminal history consists of seven felonies and six misdemeanors, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into a building, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, burglary, grand theft, tampering with evidence, battery and criminal mischief,” officials said.
Sounds to me like he was not unfamiliar with firearms.
My skeptical side wouldn’t be surprised if he shot his brother in anger and is claiming an accident.
Caption?
“This guy didn’t wear and mask and gut turned to stone. I will do the same to any of you who disobey!”
“Stick ’em up, I’m here to rob the Treasury.”
KIcks open door, finds stacks of useless IOUs.
: مرگ بر آمریکا
Why does she ask him if he likes to fuck camelz?
“Get this damn statue of a white man out of here! I need a spot to put another freezer for all my ice cream!”
Johny, Have you ever spent a night in a Turkish Icebox?
This one is “Everyone stay the fuck away from my ice cream”
https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/4566194/2147483647/resize/463x/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F59%2Ffe%2Fda06b4f246808eb3a3aff0684dc4%2F200423-pelosi-congress-773.jpg
Looks like shitty interpretive dance. The shitty is superfluous since all interpretive dance is shitty.
The Great Enslaver
Out of my way peasants, do you have a $300 face mask? No you don’t, so MOVE IT.
I did not realize the site was back since it does not work either on my work laptop or on my phone…
The Romanian relaunch date hasn’t been set yet.
/sarc
So… exciting NFL draft. I can’t believe that team took that player, third rounder at best. And how lucky were that team to have that player fall to them. I still say player could have been a first rounder.
No one cares about what Europeans think.
Tell that to the voters of the Democratic Party
Tell that to the
votersleaders of the Democratic PartyFTFY
We have to pass it to find out what’s in it, redux
Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse owner, Ruth’s Hospitality Group, announced Thursday that it is repaying the $20 million it received under the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program.
“We intended to repay this loan in adherence with government guidelines, but as we learned more about the funding limitations of the program and the unintended impact, we have decided to accelerate that repayment,” the President and CEO Cheryl J. Henry said in a statement.
That’s how government works, which is why we need more of it.
Ruth’s Chris’s creamed spinach is good, but I wouldn’t call it essential.
As a waiter at a mid-tier Houston steakhouse, I was making $17.50/hr in 1994. I can only imagine what a waitron at Ruth’s Chris is pulling down. They definitely want to get back to work.
I liked the service at Vic
Because Bad Orange Man hates the gays
Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has reportedly begun making moves to convince the Trump administration to consider cutting intelligence ties to nations that criminalize homosexuality in an effort to prompt them to change their views. Meanwhile Trump’s probable opponent in the 2020 election, Joe Biden, has recently accepted endorsements from groups whose members hail from those same countries.
Grenell, who is thought to be the first openly gay member of a presidential cabinet according to The Hill, told the New York Times the effort speaks to the value the U.S. places on civil rights and says he has “the president’s total support.”
What? You want consistency from these asshats? The only standard they have is a double standard, and they care very little about facts or logic, and want everyone to be motivated by the “right” (meaning marxist or left) feels only.
Mark Cuban pushing a $15/hr Federal minimum wage.
Would probably hurt his competition.. Looking at it myself and it is blatantly obvious that’s his agenda..
libertarian moment
Wasn’t he claiming to be a libertarian, or am I misremembering?
Yes, he is on Fox again this morning discussing how much it “hurts him as a Libertarian” to push for this and then called for a Federal jobs program.
We should take bets regarding where he is planning a run for office – Texas Governor?
President.
LOL
I have seen a ski town Libertarian (don’t remember which town, Vail or Aspen) running for state office pushing a $15 minimum wage some years ago. Never received an re to my email asking WTF?
He must be long Robots Futures.
You owuld think that the industrial paint store would have the appropriate mixer paddle for epoxy, but nooooooo…. Dumbass didn’t even know what that mixer paddle looks like.
That is very strange. I have 3 different mixer paddles for different viscosities.
They sell thousands of gallons of epoxies and polyureas to the shipyard but don’t have the correct mixing paddle.
It’s almost unbelievable.
You mean it’s not just free money?
As more U.S. small businesses gear up for their chance to get a loan from the federal government, with plans to replenish funding for the Paycheck Protection Program in the works, experts are cautioning that loan forgiveness may be a little more complicated than business owners expect.
“What’s becoming evident is on the forgiveness side, it is going to be a little more difficult than they realize,” Robert Spence, a certified financial planner at Raymond James, told FOX Business. “The devil’s in the details … When u look at some of the specifics, the forgivable portion will be lower than people were thinking.”
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One of the first issues is that while loan amounts are based on either 2.5-times average monthly payroll costs for 2019 or the trailing 12 months (up to $10 million), the window to use it is only eight weeks.
“In essence there’s kind of an inherent math problem,” L.J. Suzuki, the founder of CFOShares.org, told FOX Business.
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When it comes to which businesses are most likely to receive complete loan forgiveness, it may not be the ones that were the intended target of the program.
“The ironic thing is the companies most likely to get 100 percent forgiveness are the companies who were relatively financially stable to begin with,” Suzuki said, adding that the companies who likely needed financial assistance the most are the ones who probably took a more cautious approach toward staffing.
When the sky is literally falling, there’s no time to read the fine print.
You can use the extra money to pay mortgages, utilities, a few other things. Whatever you don’t use on approved expenses you have to return.
It’s really not complicated at all.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2020-04-24/somber-congress-delivers-nearly-500b-more-in-virus-aid
We are so fucked. I can’t even with this. This bill isn’t even signed yet and they’re planning on how to spend more.
Mark Cuban pushing a $15/hr Federal minimum wage.
Not many NBA players work for minimum wage.
OFFS
We’ve submitted over a dozen pieces of paperwork to the bank on the PPP loan. Now they want even more, including copies of our original articles of incorporation. We’ve only been in business for 35 years and been banking with them for the last 15.
At Walmart yesterday, I saw four employees with their masks pulled down to their chins.
My guess is they got tired of people saying WHAT?? every time they got asked a question.
Stalin was objectively a better person than Barack Obama
https://twitter.com/umbyrella/status/1253051587838312452
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Stalin didn’t try to enrich himself. A widespread opinion held in the Soviet Union.
If only Comrade Stalin knew about this!
He was more efficient than Obama in his evil ways…
Stalin could have a more successful literary career than Obama, if he wanted it.
Both Suzuki and Spence cautioned that final PPP guidance remains unclear and is subject to change throughout the coming weeks and months – as has been the case so far with the program since it was developed and rolled out so quickly.
Spence said some of the forgiveness provisions are “strangely overcomplicated.”
Suzuki said the “unprecedented program” went live before most people – including lenders – really understood it.
No kidding.
Insert global outrage. (Also explains why there are no female libertarians.)
Osaka mayor sets Twitter abuzz with claim that women dawdle at shops
Complete with random tweets from random people. It must be hard to write articles these days.
Because they don’t?
Hey, I object!
I prefer the term “dilly-dally.”
Christopher Steele, the guy that Brennan fronted to give credibility to a propaganda piece created by Glen Simpson (Hillary Campaign guy and tied to Fusion GPS) & Stephan Halper (CIA agent working for Brennan to help Obama/Clinton machine run several failed sting operations to create a spy scandal for team Trump, and one of the key players in the whole Russia Collusion hoax) to the courts: I took a page out of the Hillary Clinton “How to be a real top end criminal crook” handbook and wiped my e-mails with a cloth!
Such strange coincidences, the IRS woman, Herself, and now this guy.
I’m sure I forgot a few, but don’t worry citizen, there is nothing nefarious here!
If you doubted that the people claiming to be journalists were nothing but dnc operatives with bylines, recent revelations clearly showing Brennan ran many operations, very likely approved by Obama himself, to spy on political enemies of the DNC & Obama & Clinton (while the DOJ was making sure Hillary was never charged for real criminal behavior), where the fallout of these ops vis a vis Trump resulted in a cascade of ever growing illegal/criminal operations to bring him down after he somehow managed to win the election they thought they had rigged for Hillary, should put you at ease. There is no disputing the fact that they knew the whole anti-Trump crusade was based on lies. The biggest lie was about Putin helping Trump, when the intel world knew he had ongoing criminal deals with Clinton and the Russians preferred herself as the prez. The Obama machine ran several illegal operations, botched them all badly, and in order to hide the criminality, just kept doubling down. And the way they have slow walked releasing documentation about what they were doing, especially the constant redactions, was to hide that they knew damned well they were doing something illegal. Heck, even the State Department was playing the game!
Don’t worry though. I hear that team blue will do impeachment 2.0, and it will be named the COVID-19 Boogaloo!
This is my shocked face.
Well, there’s my Christmas gift for everyone sorted out.
Will there be a zoom tonight?
That would make a nice bb target.
What do the conservative deep thinkers at the Bulwark have to contribute?
The movement to “reopen” America is a fallacy based on a fantasy.
The fallacy is the notion that lifting stay-at-home orders will result in people going back to their normal routines. This is false. The state-issued stay-at-home orders did not determine most people’s desires to stay home—they merely ratified behaviors that the vast majority of people and institutions were already adopting in response to COVID-19.
The fantasy is that we can go back to what the world looked like 12 weeks ago. This is not possible now and will not be possible until we possess a vaccine for the novel coronavirus.
Understand that I am not saying that stay-at-home orders should be indefinite. What I am saying is that whenever the stay-at-home orders are rolled back—whether it is tomorrow or a month from now—it will not result in anything like a “reopening” of the country. And the sooner people grasp how completely and fundamentally the world has changed, the faster we’ll be able to adapt to this new reality.
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Because the world has changed and the source of this change is not a government order.
It’s a virus.
The government is merely an innocent bystander. They had nothing to do with demolishing the economy.
ps- it’s all President Cartoon Villain’s fault.
They really want the suspension of civil rights and the constitution in the service of government control to be the new normal.
Shirley MacLean might be a nutbag but she was hawt in Irma La Douce
Will there be a zoom tonight?
Tulip, I’m up for launching it and handing it over if people are interested.
I’m interested.
“detective story-teller Sue Grafton”
X is for Xylophone?