The theme for today is Liberty, you know what our Leaders are working at record speed to take away from us, working the public panic angle with a facility I would never have credited them for having. Even worse, you know what was missing at every grocery I checked? Matzo. Plenty of ramen. Plenty of Chinese noodles. But no matzo. Even Easter candy, plenty of it. There is no explanation other than antisemitism. Fucking goyim, you’re denying (((us))) even our daily bread while you send your kids out hunting rabbit eggs (what the fuck?).
Speaking of antisemitism, there were birthdays today, including the Man Who Would Be Shakespeare; my greatest musical influence; a pretty decent pianist who took a wrong turn; a very underrated songwriter (For Ladies Only was a masterpiece); the guy who truly was America’s Dad; a talented writer who badly needed an equally talented editor; and someone Team Blue hates almost as much as they hate Trump.
Speaking of hate, here’s the news:
The first stack of dollar bills taken from us at gunpoint are tossed in the bonfire.
We’re speculating that this is Pie.
Rand Paul is a better man than I for not mentioning the word “lamppost.”
The perfect running mate for a senile plagiarizer is a harpy fabulist.
Unhindered police state is the new normal. Eat a bag of dicks, Gretchen.
And it’s not just her. We’re going to need more lampposts. Here’s yet another governmental body being as dickish as possible, just to get us used to the boot on the face.
For some reason, the Old Guy had never seen this version of Liberty City before. And Jaco kills it on piano.
I swear, I didn’t hoard the matzo.
I dont even know what matzo is. I guess a type of vodka
https://youtu.be/imOHHGk90KY
harpy fabulist
* bangs drum *
she’s not from Kenosha
I never knew you worked for the Astros.
Why are you so convinced Don Ameche is going to be the VP nominee?
Happy Easter! ?
I wonder how many people these days actually understand the “just following orders” reference.
Far too few, unfortunately.
So very true.
Happy Florii glibs ( a translation to this would be palm sunday)
That was last Sunday.
You will realize your error in heretic hell
He’s a Heterodox Christian.
I hate Sundays. I hate holidays. I am grumpier than hell today.
Can you shoot at stuff from your porch? Maybe that helps
Yes I can but I have to get drunk first.
https://www.amazon.com/Disney-Mens-Moods-Grumpy-T-Shirt/dp/B00OK31VIS
That’s me before coffee.
The Peace of the Lord to you too!
And unto you!
Who’s even up at six on a Sunday morning, you madmen?
I work 6-2:30, so even on weekends I wake up by 6AM.
I’ve noticed birds are getting noisy well before dawn. That’s ridiculous. Quit tweeting at two in the morning, pigeons. Is this global warming?
Your pigeons tweet? WTF kind of pigeons do you have?
Trump pigeons. They tweet non-sensical things in wee hours of the morning.
Six in the morning, but on a Sunday. I get irrationally angry with people who stand on line rather than in line. Who decides these things? And how do I get to them, and tell them how wrong they are? YOU ARE IN THE LINE, YOU ARE NOT ON A LINE.
Brits generally live in the middle of the street, while Americans live on top of the street.
“On line” seems to be a New Yorkism, thus worthy of a painful execution.
This because Americans do not know how to properly queue up. Done properly you are in a line on a line, thus both uses would be correct.
Stand on line is a NYC thing. That’s probably why you hate it.
I hate it because the line is the queue of people. You can’t stand on the line of people with whom you’re standing in the line.
You are getting ON the end of the line.
It’s not a goddamn train! You’re not getting on anything! You’re queuing up behind some slackass piece of shit who got there slightly before you did.
You are so very wrong, you’re like the wrongest wrong that ever wronged a wrong.
They are neither “in line” nor “on a line.” They are queued up. ::smiles, bats eyes::
Careful, speaking a different regional dialect is worthy of death!
some of that might be heritage
When I worked for Germans, I noticed they are “on” their desk instead of “at” it.
Also, their use of “until” is backward to me. “It will be ready until October” means it will not be available before then; when I say the same thing, I mean that “it will be available in the months leading to October, but in October it goes away.”
I’m also intrigued how English speakers decide whether an article is good form: Brits are at university and in hospital, which is fine, but Americans are in the hospital.
That’s another pissoff. You’re at THE hospital, or A hospital, sorry we differentiate these things, we’re not socialist shitbirds.
Now do “school”.
A place where you learn maths.
And the whole alphabet, from A to Zed.
And how to put commas outside of the close quotes.
It’s like a whole other country.
*starts rocking and foaming at the mouth*
Well school is socialized…
Japanese lacks definite and indefinite articles. Confuses the hell out of my friends when speaking English.
on Romanian definite article are done by inflection and Romanians often simply skip “the”
Japanese takes lots of grammar shortcuts in spoken form, but not written.
English is much less so.
Japanese even morphs quickly, adopting new forms of speech rapidly.
In the past few years the use of “って” (tte) in the place of “は” (ha – pronounced “wa” and one of the most common particles) has become increasingly popular. I expect this will be a brief fad but sometimes these things take root and change the language.
Interesting. Is the “tte” used by young people or more widely?
Seems odd as “ha” introduces a topic and “tte” is normally designed for something specific.
I have noted this “tte” used in commercials and TV programs. It does seem to be used as a somewhat more definite form of the proper “wa”. But since it’s still just kind of a fad there’s no hard rule I can see.
In English, we depend ON something.
In Russian, since the verb зависеть is based on the root for hanging (which of course the English verb is too), they depend FROM something.
German has the verb hängen + an (ON), and the verb abhängen, with ab being more or less the opposite of an.
what grated me is when Romanians took the english phrase “something makes sense” and for some stupid reason translated literally in Romanian “face sens” when in Romanian it is “are sens” which translates to “has sense”
another strange romanian thing is that you go to a city but in a country. I am going to Chicago, I am going in the United States
Where you will be staying AT the Plaza Hotel…
Historically, you called someone on a phone number, not at a number.
Grammer is language’s bitch.
Thus making nazi’s have a sad.
Kelsy?
Reposting from dead overnight thread: I’m not even a believer, and I’m outraged at the crackdowns on churches’ attempts to hold even drive-in worship services on this, the holiest day on the (western) Christian calendar (::nods to Pie::). I hope heads roll.
Speaking of religious observances, are synagogue services an important part of Passover, or does it mainly revolve around the Seder held at home? My (extremely limited) experience suggests the latter.
Completely a home deal.
Thanks. I hope, then, that this tradition wasn’t disrupted this year by anything but voluntary consideration of any relatives who might be put at risk by even a large family gathering (and/or shortages of matzo.)
Neither of us have any family here. And our local IRL friends (mexican sharpshooter, Ozymandius, and HnR alumni Grand Moff Serious Man and Kibby) are all quite goyish.
For those few Jews around here, I have a nice memory: in our extended family seders when I was a kid, the Four Sons was always memorable- when it got to the line, “Rasha, ma hu omair?”, everyone would turn and look at me.
My very first paying job was working for a couple of high school (((friends))) who were cousins to each other. They had a business called “Party Pals” – we would assist the caterers at weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, etc. or the hostess at private parties. They hired me to be the “Party Pal” at their extended family’s Seder. After the supper, they offered me a small charoses sandwich on matzo. As I was eating it, one friend’s brother said, “Congratulations. You’re now an honorary Jew.”
Somehow I suspect that designation would not hold up in the state of Israel.
Overheard on TV a few nights ago: “Having thugs roust the religious and outlawing religious services has a long and proud history.”
Lamposts indeed.
The correct course of action would be politicians and cops in jail. We all know that ain’t gonna happen.
Tarring and feathering maybe
I’d like to see killdozers make a resurgence.
Are liquor stores in PA still closed?
Yes
?
My friend who lives there said package goods are open. Can you get your liquor that way? Naturally at higher cost…
I’m good for another couple weeks on liquor.
We can resupply via NJ if needed, plus some Glibs have offered to ship care packages.
My liver is an essential worker and gets no time off.
Seriously, e-mail my handle at gmail if you need a replenishment. I’d be happy to send you supplies.
Offer extended to any Glib in need.
If anyone lives in the Lake Champlain region and want to mail this PA stuck glib some delicious Switchback Ale, I would be most appreciative.
We’re just south of the border, about 20 mins from Shrewsbury, and the liquor stores in MD are still open.
Unfortunately it’s Sunday and Baltimore County still doesn’t permit alcohol sales on Sunday except where there are restaurants (so package goods). I’m betting that means they’re mostly closed.
Not allowing drive-in doesn’t make any sense. Same with driving between residences. If this thing is so contagious it can go from car to car, staying six feet apart at the supermarket isn’t going to do shit.
Seriously! In most of the U.S., any remaining drive-in movie theaters probably wouldn’t have opened for the season yet anyway, and they could make a killing renting their facilities to local churches – at least “megachurches” who could afford it.
Actually… (am I doing this right?) one was scheduled to open in April up here in April. The city and county specifically sent them a letter saying that they couldn’t open.
Let me guess – per the FYTW clause, right?
The rational was even worse then that. It was that people might congregate near the concession stand, and thus spread the disease. Nothing about just shutting down concessions, or any other options. Just a close order.
/looking at the earlier post, can anyone else see where I changed my thought mid sentence and left both parts
Ummm…yeah I noticed that but didn’t want to say anything. I understand you had a long night last night.
I own my shame.
As it’s Easter, today’s breakfast was a bacon and cheese frittata with sourdough biscuits (not bad, not as much raise as I would have expected, and much more flavorful then traditional buttermilk). I currently just have a small mug of coffee with a splash of Jameson’s Cold Brew whiskey.
/looks at supplies.
The next may be a full on Irish coffee with this.
The theme for today is Liberty – liberty is meaningless unless you are a rich white guy. Or so i have read.
Not much of liberty in old Romania but could be worse, historically speaking.
Also the temperature is above 20, the trees are blooming, the birds are singing, and Pies sloe gin martini is cold an brightly colored
Assuming some of you degens already have a drink going, cherrs glibbies
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f0k0pDr8ToRGGrAtxbXK_W3OgeIMl_Eq/view?usp=drivesdk
So… was it you?
Who knows i am everywhere
Honestly i am not even sure what language that is
Well, you can see why we were suspicious…
Finnish, I believe.
That’s the country with the national tradition of “Get drunk alone in your underwear” right?
Wait…
That’s not normal?
/slinks away to put on shorts
The sky rats are loud and annoying though
Pie, back during the last days of the Ceausescu regime when his worst atrocities were coming to the attention of the U.S. media, there was great interest on the part of American Unitarian Universalists because of the (unrelated) Unitarian tradition in Transylvania. In particular, American UUs noted King John Sigismund’s historic Edict of Torda, possibly one of the first official acts espousing religious freedom and tolerance.
Just kidding
I’m laughing on the inside.
The first stack of dollar bills taken from us at gunpoint are tossed in the bonfire. – it is only money don’t be (((stingy)))
There is no explanation other than antisemitism.
The cops commandeered all the flour for donuts.
Thanks, First Responders!
HEROES!!11!!
it is only money don’t be (((stingy)))
Seriously. We can always
printconjure up some more.I would need a snow shovel to hunt for eggs, this morning.
North Central Ohio week 5? Kroger-ing update. Crowd much smaller, only 2x pre-plague levels not 4-5x like the last few weeks,but that may have something to do with Jesus’s birthday. Plenty of food, no TP this week but I saw some at HD yesterday and the convienience store I get my morning coffee at has had a pallet of single rolls for 89¢ each for the last couple weeks so I think it’s a Kroger problem not a TP problem in general. Also there were no jars of Claussen’s Hearty Garlic Sandwich Slices! which is grade A bullshit but this seems to happen every once in while THD or no THD.
His Resurrection.
Though there’s a theory out there his birthday is actually in March and not December.
“but that may have something to do with Jesus’s birthday”
Hype is a time traveler and this doesn’t bode well for this ending soon.
Young Girl Plays Basketball Alone, City Takes Hoop As Part Of ‘Social Distancing’ – i assume white?
The girl’s mother, Laura Vandercook – name sounds hispanic though
Hispanic? I’ll have you know that the Netherlands won their independence from Spain in the 80 years war!
The in-fighting across the continent (Ottawa and Quebec are going in different directions) I’m noticing is why we’ll never be prepared for any pandemic.
New York can’t even get it straight.
We’ll never be Korea.
Q-Pop is the worst
They are queued up. ::smiles, bats eyes::
*cue sexxxy music*
“All public and private gatherings of any size are prohibited,” Whitmer said at a news conference Friday.
Aww, shucks.
*extinguishes torch, returns pitchfork to barn*
“Of any size”? Does that that include one? If so, she needs to be arrested. Wait, the cop would have had to arrest himself first… But where do you take these scofflaws? Can’t go to jail because that’s a gathering…
Shit, let’s just lining people up against the wall. It’s the only way!
I’m confused about the story where the nags took the hoop away from the girl.
Are there stay inside orders in the States? I presume it depends on the State.
We’re not there yet and we’ve been hit pretty hard. ‘Hard’ being a loose relative term. I think we’re around 12 000 cases in the province. Canada is around 20 000 in total. But we’re in the middle of the peak cycle I’m told so we’ll see.
We have 500 fatalities but Denethor’s 2015 ministers are saying we can see as many as 44 000 deaths….three times Italy.
Nothing makes sense any more.
I say take that baton out of the hands of the medical bureaucrats. They present extreme figures and the media and politicians run with it.
Oh, did anyone notice the story of the Scottish Health boss who resigned because she didn’t observe her own social distancing/self-isolation rules? The other day this fine pathetic site linked to a story the Chee-ca-goo mayor getting her hair done.
I suspect we’re gonna see more of these ‘social distancing for thee and not me’ stories moving forward.
Also. European countries are opening up (Denmark is even allowing for summer to go on including concerts) but here we’re talking about shutting it down. It’s asinine.
It’s pure sadism. Hateful, damaged politicians are finally off the leash to inflict whatever sick fantasies of power they have on a cowering, ineffective population. They’re not even paying lip service to “safety” or “curve flattening”, it’s “someone is experiencing joy without my explicit permission, destroy it”.
Would you be shocked to learn
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/11/michigan-death-down-in-march-despite-coronavirus/5120360002/
Except the narrative has shifted from ‘once the numbers recede we go back to normal and work ASAP’ to ‘play it safe because it can come back so stay closed’.
It’s literally policy gripped by fear.
When the government here suggested that if things go well by May 4 they want to open the schools people lost their shit. There was also a petition from a ‘Karen parent’ (I presume) who demanded schools stay closed until September. There are teachers, when you ask them in private, think they should open if it’s safe. They want to go in in June to close out the year and prep for August. But Karen had at the time 38 000 signatures in a matter of a day.
People are fucken idiots.
Already done in NYC. And of course Cuomo and His Nibs are fighting about it.
The funny part? None of these clowns know JACK SHIT about what to do.
They’re just playing it this way because they’re banking that when all settles, they can claim they did everything right and saved everyone’s life.
If you want to make sense of the current political moment, and why electoral politics under capitalism can never, and will never, serve anyone but the wealthy capitalists, look no further than the most influential political theorist of the 20th century: Vladimir Lenin.
https://mobile.twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1248728086834601984
A thread.
Ugh. Commies sure do talk a lot.
Elections don’t deliver communism. Wah!!!
Elizabeth Warren fact:
She had one child and was pregnant with a second by the time she graduated law school
Warren’s first child was born when she was a 22-year-old teacher, according to her presidential campaign website. Soon after, she went to law school and graduated while eight months pregnant
NOT SERIOUS ABOUT ABORSHUNZ!!!
The number of people making cheeky physical assault references in the Rand Paul article comment section is just depressing. There must be a crowd of people that does nothing but surf the web looking for Rand’s name to appear in an article so they can flood the comment section and post asshole comments because it seems to happen every time.
What’s really funny is that it has nothing to do with him as a person. At least the people making Indian jokes at Warren all the time are doing it because she’s a lying snake.
They’re called progressives. You know, the tolerant compassionate ones fighting against dividing our country.
aka: evil, broken people projecting their own inner sickness on the world.
That’s a great description, concise, should be in a dictionary.
You’re missing “and” between “against dividing”
I point out that by this logic, Gabby Giffords deserved what she got from Jared Loughner.
If you were to make cheeky Giffords deserved it references on Twitter or in a comments section you’d be banned so fast your head would spin.
Banned? He’d probably be prosecuted.
And then they were arrested for breaking stay at home orders.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-las-vegas-flyover-air-force-military-first-responders
Why do you hate our essential heroes?
They should be arrested for not flying over my side of town! We were denied the expensive display of hero worship!
Re the Michigan ban on traveling between residences. In typical government logic out-of-staters with a vacation home in Michigan are welcome to travel to their vacation home like normal. I second OMWC’s invitation to have Whitmer eat a bag of dicks. And if she happens to choke so much the better.
These pols need to be personally sued into penury after all this.
Yup
Qualified immunity says hello.
bag of dicks
apparently, most people enjoy deep-throating their governors
there will be no penalty for any gubernatorial over-reaches
I believe you will prove to be correct. But a boy can dream.
I guess that ever-descending fascism that kept landing in Europe finally landed here.
What I find interesting about this situation is that I always thought when something like this started happening, it would be driven by the Feds. One of the arguments for Federalism and decentralization is that state and local politics is closer to the constituency and would (theoretically) be more respectful and responsive. We are learning in dramatic fashion that is not the case. Kung Flu has finally given state and local governments the chance to unleash their inner HOA board and let their freak flag fly.
Let these measures continue for too much longer without the hypothesized catastrophe occurring and the various states will be forced to open back up because their citizens demand it. People will put up with this when there’s a perceived existential threat but will get rowdy when that threat doesn’t arrive and the state continues to act like it has.
I believe we’re at that point in most of the country. I think after today, you’re going to see attitudes start to change in the general public.
I keep hearing this, but so far the people remain supine while getting penetrated by larger and larger objects. By now, it’s obvious that the predicted doomsday scenarios are not going to happen and the models used to justify this are wildly inaccurate. Despite that (or perhaps because of it), more and more draconian and pointlessly ineffective measures get dropped on a daily basis. The more obvious it becomes that Kung Flu is not the threat it was made out to be, the more sadistic they become. There should be thousands of people peacefully protesting at every state capitol.
There isn’t.
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/nyc-pennsylvania-schools-ordered-closed-for-school-year-because-of-coronavirus-what-about-nj.html
“Murphy said he has “been lobbied hard” to reopen schools by parents, especially those with children who play sports. ”
Does that count?
It’s obvious to us who post on this largely political board that the doomsday scenarios won’t happen but we pay attention to this stuff and we have an inherent distrust of government anyway. Others will take longer to come around but come around they will with the exception of the douchebags that are schilling for this stuff based on worst case scenarios that never materialize. When the pantry gets empty and you can’t afford to buy more food because the state won’t let you go out to work people will tell them to get stuffed.
It’s not surprising for those of us in totalitarian states. It is more surprising and sad in other states.
Yeah, the state and local level has always been more oppressive IMHO.
In NJ there is some freedom at the local level compared to state. But it decreases every year. Part of the reason is the place gets bluer every year as people like me leave.
All governments are oppressive, and will increasingly violate your rights to the extent they can get away with it.
This is what the second amendment was intended to address.
Agreed.
Size of government is the vector.
Income tax makes it easy for the USG to grow.
The Depression and WW2 swell the scope and power of the USG
Commerce clause becomes universal FYTW ticket.
So here we are with a government that is huge, a government that manages everything, government should manage everything, and, therefore, winning the elections over who steers that government becomes vital. Government power then become the lever to assert partisan priorities.
So now our lives are consumed with which hacks will get to power and use our taxes to force all manner of nonsense upon us, the Constitution be damned.
There is no undoing this. The path to undoing would require eliminating a clear majority of USG efforts and the budgets that go with them. The sucklings prefer the benefits they have to the freedoms they’ve loss.
The idea of limited government is dead. And we’ve known this for a while. I’d our government wants to do something, it can.
Those of who hang around here know that; what’s most frightening is that this episode seems to be the first time many pols are figuring it out.
One of the arguments for Federalism and decentralization is that state and local politics is closer to the constituency and would (theoretically) be more respectful and responsive. We are learning in dramatic fashion that is not the case.
Sorry Q, but this is nonsense. We are seeing direct confirmation of the fact that : state and local politics is closer to the constituency and would (theoretically) be more respectful and responsive
You are making the lefty mistake of confusing liberty with democracy. The overwhelming, veto proof level majority of the public supports every bit of the tyrannical response and is clamoring for more.
Slutty Sunday provides voluptuous vamps for your viewing pleasure.
http://archive.li/HGizd
More equaler than you
The Prosper (Texas) Police Department received a report of a potential party at Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott’s house on Friday night, but could not verify a party was taking place or that coronavirus guidelines weren’t being followed upon arrival.
“The Prosper Police Department did respond to the Prescott residence after receiving a report of a potential ‘party,’ ” said Scott M. Brewer, an assistant chief with the Prosper Police Department, on Saturday night.
“The officer was unable to verify the report of a ‘party.’ Therefore, he just reminded the resident of the current CDC guidelines — to include social distancing.”
——-
This is not the first time Prescott has made headlines amid the pandemic.
He has been seen working out at gyms with former Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant and pictured arm-in-arm, which goes against state and county mandates.
That “officer was unable to verify” thing reminds me of the part in North Dallas Forty where the private eye says he saw [Nolte’s character] sitting by the pool with an “unidentified white male”.
For the record: I couldn’t give a fuck less if Dak Prescott is hosting an Easter brunch for 500 of his closest friends right now.
*faints*
Reminded me of the scene in John Wick where the cop comes to John’s house and there’s bodies everywhere. I bet ti was perfectly obvious there was something going on, but, hey, Dallas QB.
“Hey Dak, I’m obligated to tell you that current rules require you to minimize your social interaction with others. Have a good night!”
why do people open doors?
I don’t answer a door or a phone unless I know who it is and want to speak to them.
The best answer in so many situations is just to ignore second parties, not parlay with them.
^^^So much this. Drop by my house unexpectedly and you will be ignored.
Working out at gyms? Who does he thing he is? Ruth Bader-Ginsberg?
It’s pure sadism. Hateful, damaged politicians are finally off the leash to inflict whatever sick fantasies of power they have on a cowering, ineffective population. They’re not even paying lip service to “safety” or “curve flattening”, it’s “someone is experiencing joy without my explicit permission, destroy it”.
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ― H.L. Mencken,
Enjoy this: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/coronavirus-concerns-lead-to-custody-battle-for-south-florida-doctor/2218466/
The state of Florida is now stealing a kid from a parent because of where the parent works.
That is enraging on many levels.
The arbitrariness with which this judge ruled should be enough to rally a mob into action. Unfortunately it will generate shrugs and proclamations of “don’t worry, it’s just temporary.”
Stupid judge is stupid.
I do not understand why they have so much power.
I fear for my trees. Gone from several days in a row of 60s to 11 with a wind chill of -4. Most of them have already broken dormancy and a temperature swing like this will fuck things up. Already had several deaths from last fall when we went from 73 to 2 in 24 hours.
Did you spray them with water as the temp was dripping?
Negative. Been watering them a lot leading up to this, but is spraying them down supposed to insulate them or something?
I know orange growers spray their trees if there’s about to be a freeze. Apparently it insulates them, yes.
Yes, a layer of ice will insulate the plants and keep them at a balmy 32 degrees.
As long as there is liquid water present it can go no lower than 32. But if you turn of the water source then everything can freeze and drop below 32.
I fear for my trees.
Do they have nice tits?
What other kind of trees would I have?
Oh, they got nice tits (SFW).
Pretty tits.
We have these tits here.
Wow. Looks like they have mohawks.
for some reason the stupid apricot trees bloom at the first sign of heat but are very cold sensitive. or maybe Romania is not the climate for them.
What trees ya got?
Various conifers. The spruces should be ok as they are tough as fuck. I’m worried about the subalpine fir, Douglas fir and Vanderwolf pine.
i would thing conifers should all take the cold.
As long as they have time to prepare for it, they can take almost anything. It’s the rapid, huge swings that cause problems.
is that alaska or colorado?
CO.
They’ll be OK. They’ve survived for eons, tough, resilient. Fruit trees would suffer but only to the extent of a reduced harvest and maybe a little tip damage. OTOH, over watering may be be a problem.
What kind of trees?
Oh, I see now.
Was the forest in the way?
golf clap
https://mobile.twitter.com/Phoenixfirefive/status/1249053050746081280/photo/1
This political compass meme keeps making the rounds but does not seem that accurate
There only box in the wrong quadrant is the LGBTQ+ activist. I’d say they firmly sit in authoritarian
Erm, Karl Marx is in the left libertarian box….
True… i just figured it got so crowded he couldnt get in…
i don’t see fascist and nazis there, I don’t get what they mean by anarchist versus ancom, i don’t see how environmentalists and progressives are not authoritarian.
Tankies are Commies and the Nazboi next to them are Nazis.
Let these measures continue for too much longer without the hypothesized catastrophe occurring and the various states will be forced to open back up because their citizens demand it. People will put up with this when there’s a perceived existential threat but will get rowdy when that threat doesn’t arrive and the state continues to act like it has.
Has anybody seen any reports about sales tax receipts? Montana does not have a sales tax, so there is no easy obvious way to gauge the short term damage done to the economy here.
I suspect the states are extremely reluctant to let that information out into the wild, but I have seen a couple of story headlines about the *unimangineable* looming budget disaster.
Cuomo has already made noises about monster deficits. Expects a bailout.
A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty much you’re talking real money.
pretty soon*
California is finally going to get that Pension bailout.
Governor Assoc is demanding 500 billion for their budgets.
California is highly dependent on income taxes (usually capital gains) from the richest 1%. This is going to be a massive hit to the budget.
These pols need to be personally sued into penury after all this.
You slay me.
There’s a whole thread of tweets. The fourth one is absolutely mind-boggling.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1249270878451482624?s=21
For those without twitter, here’s the fourth tweet (emphasis mine):
No other allegation about sexual assault surfaced in the course of our reporting, nor did any former Biden staff corroborate Reade’s allegation. We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable
Same people who tried and convicted Kavanaugh in the media and social media no doubt.
Adolescent teen girl uncalled for hair huffing should be worked into that list too.
lol
You be you, The New York Times.
There is a *lot* more meat there than anything related to Kavanaugh, but of course wrong team and all that…
Surprising NYT is mentioning it at all, if only to give it the kid glove treatment.
The problem with politics-as-religion: to those (in the “world” not the people here) that argue “we just need to vote the bastards out! we have the power to change things!” While technically true, pols have been extremely effective at turning politics not just into a team sport, but into a source of higher meaning. We trash progs because it’s more obvious with them, but it spans the spectrum. Therefore, we hear stories about people getting fucked by the policies they themselves voted for and think “maybe this will wake them up to start voting a different way.” Not hardly.
People did not leave the Catholic Church in droves after learning about widespread, pervasive child rape (no offense to resident Papists), do you think people will change their ways over something as silly as lost liberty?
They’re happy to lose liberty if it forces those other people to lose liberty. People are assholes.
It’s needs to be made crystal clear to the politicians before a crisis occurs that individual rights will not be curtailed no matter what. Do your education campaigns, direct the hospitals to get ready, etc. But, no, you can’t destroy innocent people’s lives to fight whatever crisis you are addressing. If you do, you are no worse than the crisis and deserve [redacted].
People want it though. I’m starting to see why 50 Shades was so popular.
Then we need to make it clear to them. Are you against torture? Yes? Even if it could possibly saves lives? Tricky. What if the person being tortured isn’t a terrorist, but the authorities think he/she is? Can we put a gag order on you even if you haven’t done anything wrong? Can we bomb your house if doing so is part of our war effort?
My whole goal is to disabuse people of the notion that if you do nothing wrong, the government won’t harm you. That is the silent acquiescence the psychos in power crave more than anything.
“What if the person being tortured isn’t a terrorist, but the authorities think he/she is? ”
Was having a discussion with this guy about the Death Penalty. I had made the point that Illinois’s Governer had suspended the Death Penalty after a string of cases where they found people on death row innocent via DNA. He said he didn’t care if some innocent people died as long as the guilty ones could be killed. He was adamant about that.
That “guy” is an imbecile or a lunatic. They’re out there, aren’t they?
*Hopefully not a relative, sorry if he is*
What’s scary is how many people would agree with him.
He’s not. Bar acquaintance. We have some healthy discussions. I have been able to convince him that “deadlock” is usually the best political status. He’s a hardcore Democrat and even though we disagree on a lot, I was surprised he took that stance, although I’m less and less surprise by political conversations anymore.
They are, and they vote.
Boris Johnson has been released from the hospital.
I saw that. He’s in the queue to catch a cab home at this moment, although he may stop by a chemist on the way.
Also- How many people are living off their credit cards now, thinking it will get them through this “brief” income interruption?
We’re going to have to flatten the curve to keep bankruptcy courts from being overwhelmed.
If we’re not back to normal by memorial day, the shit is going to hit the fan in a way that makes the great depression feel like a case of the sniffles.
There are a lot of people in that exact situation… Living off of credit, hoping that they can return to their job before they hit their limit.
Feature, not bug. An impoverished population is much easier to oppress.
There’s got to be a tipping point though. I imagine one reason people are willing to be oppressed is because of the relative wealth we all possess. You’ve got a house and kids and cars and boats, you have too much to risk, you’re not going to take up arms, Now when you got nothing, joining the angry mob and storming city hall doesn’t seems so risky, what more can they take from you? Sure they can kill you but at some point going down swinging is preferable to sitting on a dirt floor in a mudhut with a leaky roof and sporadic wifi.
lol.
There is no tippping point because there is no concept of doing things for one’s self. When daddykins is the only thing does is/does/can take care of you, fighting against daddykins is ridiculous.
Or in other words, existence bias is a thing that exists.
https://media.giphy.com/media/pVHFCtH0jYGUU/giphy.gif
I miss that guy.
And most of those will spend their Trump bucks on smokes, booze and lotto tickets. NTTIAWWT.
What about whores? don’t forget the whores.
They can’t work right now. They have been deemed non-essential.
Right. Like any politician would ever deem them non-essential. (Other than in public, to save face.)
Nah, they’re living on TrumpBux, too.
Ugh, a message from a friend of mine in Colombia. Earthquake, power outage, during a lockdown. At least he can get a message out.
nothing in the news about it…
From the earthquake tracker 4.8 in Riosucio.
4.8 is barely an earthquake though
Yes, he was being somewhat dramatic. Freaked me out for a minute until I realized it wasn’t that bad.
Hope he’s OK. We had a decent one last night.
Yeah it looks like the epicenter was some distance from him and the power outage was from other reasons.
The goyim aren’t buying the Matzo. We like cheez-its. I think you know (((who))) is really to blame.
Natsoc Propaganda Radio frames the debate
The Kansas Supreme Court has voted to uphold an executive order by the state’s governor limiting the size of church gatherings on Easter Sunday, ending a dramatic legal clash in which the court was asked amid a global pandemic to decide between public health and religious liberty.
Yes, yes, of course. Those deluded, misguided plebs who don’t even have the sense to come in out of the rain must be protected from their imbecilic superstitions. They have taxes to pay.
The words in the First Amendment are so hard to understand!
If they had intended for people to be able to understand those amendments, much less remember them, maybe they shouldn’t have written them in cursive script. It’s like they didn’t even think they were important or something.
And there’s no Rosetta Stone to help us decipher that illegible writing!
My copy of the Constitution does not contain the phrase “public health”.
You need the special glasses. No, not those, these. https://nationaltreasure.fandom.com/wiki/Ocular_Device
Maybe the death of the EU will be the one good thing that comes out of this debacle.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/10/coronavirus-crisis-truth-eu-union-financial-rescue
Goy question for (((you people))):
Is prime rib commonly eaten at a Seder dinner?
Along with cheeseburgers
As long as it’s some flavor of beef or poultry, it’s dealer’s choice.
I thought it was usually lamb.
That was my impression, too. The Presbyterian church of my upbringing held a Maundy Thursday supper each year with lamb as the entree.
You know who’s making big money off the plague?
Advertising agencies.
Last night, I was moved to hit the “mute” button on the remote during every commercial break. I’m so fed up with every f&*(ing commercial mentioning “these difficult times” that there’s a very real danger I’ll throw the remote at the TV. And then, of course, I probably wouldn’t be allowed to buy another because it’s “nonessential.”
Any TV shows work Covid into their plot lines yet?
Not that I’ve seen, but we don’t watch many current sitcoms or dramas. We spend most of our time bouncing around the various “Discovery family of channels.” Last night, though, we binged on an animated series on Netflix, then caught a rerun of Guardians of the Galaxy on cable. Those commercial breaks were the worst – long AND loaded with the infuriating “We’re here for you” crap.
There were ads for regular masks on TV last night. We’re already waiting in line for those things. I don’t get it.
I was (pleasantly) surprised that, as far as I could tell, they didn’t work some COVID reference into the commercial for that disgusting “Navage” nasal irrigation thingy.
I just use my washlet.
A washlet sounds like a place to launder money.
In celebration of Jesus Day, I offer “Jesus Guide Me” by Australian psychedelic surf rock band Tamam Shud https://youtu.be/4WgKQLiBor8
Seriously, for you Glibs that are into Pink Floyd, prog rock, psychedelic, etc give Tamam Shud a listen. Your ears will be happy.
Have you got your two Abenomasks yet?
I don’t think so. Brother-in-law owns a pharmacy. We’re hooked up.
Yeah, a lot of times I record stuff I could just watch so I can speed through the ads.
Upcoming movies at least: https://www.rebellermedia.com/original/finding-villains-and-heroes-in-the-coronavirus-crisis-shouldnt-be-difficult-right
Not while production of anything that doesn’t look like a Zoom meeting is completely shut down.
Most TV shows stopped production, right now they’re running eps shot before PANDEMIC!
In these trying times, you shouldn’t damage your remote.
::narrows gaze, eyes Monocle “Mute” button to the right of Dr. F’s name::
You might want to. I may decide to shoehorn “in these trying times” into everything. Why not, everyone else is doing it.
My worst “trigger words,” though, are “new normal” or any variation thereof. I refuse to accept current conditions as anything even remotely resembling “normal.”
Look, Fat. Taking a phrase and using it well past it’s best-by date is my shtick.
Did that schtick fall out of your ass?
I’ve started referring to “the before times” at work. Gets a chuckle, which I take as a good sign.
I also honestly believe that the zombie fad of the last decade has affected people’s subconscious reaction to this.
In Michigan there are already ads from a PAC with clips of Trump trying to make him look like a bumbling poopy head for his corona response.
Seriously. The plague has been shoehorned into every freaking commercial now.
Were those commercials produced using appropriate social distancing practices??
It’s mostly recycled footage because production is at a standstill.
One of our vendors (production co) has furloughed about 60% of their staff.
Editing, 3D, motion graphics, etc can all happen remotely but not a real shoot with actors, crew, etc.
My favorite is DJ Khalid.
Actually, I’ve been getting way less junk mail. I’m also getting way fewer spam phone calls.
Ha ha ha, NOT.
A lot of agencies bread-and-butter is travel, hotels, restaurants, etc.
There’s very little new production. Most of those spots are recycled footage, etc.
Some of our clients are delaying work until Q2 (July) now.
MUH HOBBY HORSE
https://news.yahoo.com/jane-goodall-says-disrespect-animals-caused-pandemic-091036641.html
She’s still alive? I saw her speak 10 years ago, and she looked like she was on deaths doorstep back then.
She’s one of those people who is equal parts fascinating and tedious.
If you think about the consequences of the little choices you make: what you eat, where it came from, did it cause cruelty to animals, is it made from intensive farming — which mostly it is — is it cheap because of child slave labour, did it harm the environment in its production, where did it come from, how many miles did it travel, did you think that perhaps you could walk and not take your car.
This is the version of I, Pencil you’d get if you asked a chimp to write it.
In a broad sense she’s kind of correct, this probably wouldn’t have happened if there weren’t pangolins stacked on top of dogs stacked on top of bats in a market somewhere. She goes off the rails on the specifics though.
Without listening, five bucks says it’s Western Civilization that’s to blame.
Eat more gorilla
Interesting
https://www.ecowatch.com/mutant-enzyme-recycles-plastic-2645686207.html
Happy Easter! 🙂
And A Happy New Year!
Meet the Press is on:
Chuckie is badgering the head of the FDA. Emails and other politically driven innuendo leaked to the New York Times prove this never would have happened if Trump wasn’t President. Why aren’t you telling the American People this?
This wouldn’t have happened if Cuomo was in charge!
If only Hillary had won, Chinese peasants would have stopped eating raw bat sphincter!
You kinda have a point there. Seeing Herself on the screen does make me lose my appetite after which I have difficulty eating anything more exotic than a slice of plain white bread so…
They’d have a point if literally every other nation on the face of the earth wasn’t scrambling to deal with this and people can see that for themselves just fine. It’s not that mistakes weren’t made, it’s just that there’s nothing particularly unique about our situation.
Excellent avatar!
But the reason those other countries missed it was because of Trump.
Dude, it’s like you don’t even rationalize.
Just started here. I’m almost tempted to flip over and see how that works.
Way to say ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, Hahn. Now go choke on a dick.
WHO special envoy to the coronaplague, now. If not for us, mortality rate would be MASSIVE. You’d all be dead by now, if not for us. Send more money.
Chuck Todd: Please tell us what an excellent job the WHO has been doing, and explain in detail how and why Donald Trump is a war criminal.
How much are the Chicoms paying those fuckers? Seriously, that’s a question that needs to be asked when this is all over with.
Michigan money well-spent:
The Michigan History Center today announced a new collecting initiative that gives residents the opportunity to share stories that reflect their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, for the benefit of future generations.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a critical moment in history, and the Michigan History Center is committed to documenting – through objects, archival materials, stories and experiences from diverse Michiganders – how the coronavirus is affecting Michigan residents in the workplace, at home, in communities and in many other settings.
The first phase of the three-phase collecting initiative is active right now. It offers a web-based platform for people to share and donate photos, videos and audio files that document their daily lives during this emergency – all of which will be considered for preservation in the Archives of Michigan’s collections. The following questions can provide a starting point in choosing what to share:
How are you communicating with family, friends and colleagues?
Have certain places become more important to you?
What is something that has brought you unexpected joy?
What steps have you taken to protect your health and the health of others?
https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163-525417–,00.html
Some pos Michigan government employee still gets to go to work everyday and produce that stinking steaming stew of horseshit.
“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Police State”
???
Some brave soul should submit a video on that.
The brave carpet bagger governor of Mn knows that to do.
When the going gets tough, quit.
“Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard in 1981, and served over a 24-year career. In 1989, he earned the title of Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year. After a deployment to Italy with his Guard unit, Walz was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major. Walz chose to retire before his most recent six year enlistment was complete when his unit received orders to deploy to Iraq” Wiki
A Command Sergeant Major has the leadership ability to quit when his unit is going into harm’s way. Army troops usually don’t have that option, breaking an enlistment oath when the going gets tough. I’m guessing Nebraska and South Dakota were happy to say good bye to Mr Tough Guy.
So brave
Not sure the veracity of that Wiki article. The way the Army works these days, once you make E-6 (Staff Sergeant – much lower than Sergeant Major) soldiers are on an indefinite enlistment – they don’t have set enlistment periods like the lower ranks do. So I don’t understand the “chose to retire before his most recent six year enlistment was complete”. Whoever wrote the article doesn’t seem to understand how the Army works.
Either way, putting in your retirement papers before your unit deploys anywhere really speaks volumes about the soldier.
That’s not the case for the Guard, or at least wasn’t.
Somewhat related- good buddy was a SSG and had not desire to go any further. He would only do one year reenlistments rather than the normal period and bargain for something extra (nothing big, one year I think it was leaving drill on Sundays slightly early so he didn’t get stuck when they ran long) just like it was a normal workplace.
I stand corrected. I didn’t know that about the Guard – but I believe it as they do things differently.
In my 15 years in the Army Reserves I never spent one day in uniform in CONUS. All drills, training, MOS schools, etc were in the Pacific.
Same in the Guards?
Command Sergeants Major or any Sgt Major always got respect from me. In fact, pretty much every NCO got respect from me, having been one.
The senior NCO’s from your era were a different species from what we have now. Not to say that all of today’s SNCO’s are bad, just that those from 40+ years ago were a different thing altogether.
My military career started in 1975 and I retired in 2018 (with a big break in the middle). I remember serving with combat vets from Korea and Vietnam. And I’ve served with the most recent bunch – many younger than me. The old troops were people you wouldn’t fuck with under any circumstances. The current crew? Well, just not the same.
Retiring just before being activated is slightly strange on its face and I wonder if he was pushed rather than jumped. Command changes during mobilization training isn’t exactly rare.
https://alphanewsmn.com/former-national-guardsmen-tim-walz-is-misleading-the-public-about-his-time-in-service/
Fellow Guardsmen speak out
Uffda. I didn’t know the details about Walz’s service. I did know he was in the Guard because he yaps about it a lot.
My submission: ?
Give us more money, or you’ll all DIE!!!11!!
I don’t know which is more infuriating: the show, or the commercials.
Chuck Todd looks like a high-school bully gone to seed.
Chuck Todd: You guys have put out this plan.
[insert completely imaginary set of circumstances and procedures]
Gestapo
https://twitter.com/StonerDave420_1/status/1248828850592677894?s=19
Nice. Wish he could’ve kicked some sand in face, too.
That’s fantastic.
+1. Although non zero chance of being shot in the back.
Still a win for the cop. He chased him off the beach.
(((Covid Free)))
https://twitter.com/Transpersonal/status/1248657435763412994?s=19
“Fauci: Americans Could Carry COVID-19 Immunity Papers”
OFFS!
Too much trouble to fumble papers out of one’s pocket. Just sew a gold star on your outer garment so the Virustapo can see where you stand at a glance.
Ooh, we need to be more like Singapore; we need app based universal surveillance!
Taiwan managed it very well but the WHO won’t let you mention that.
I read 4 deaths in Hong Kong. You know, where people live on top of each other. I haven’t seen any detailed explanation of how, or whether their measures would fly here, or what. Or even whether it’s a good idea – seems like everyone’s gonna catch it eventually anyway.
Quick look at Wiki and it seems HK and many places in NY have about the same density. People think Tokyo is high on the list, but not really. The Kanto plain is pretty damn big.
The highest death rate is in Queens (think Archie Bunker’s street). I’m guessing it will turn out there are more nursing homes there.
https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing
“We’re all in this together.”
Well, let me the fuck out. I don’t wanna ride this ride anymore.
Whose kid is this? Lol.
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1248372656019255296?s=19
LOL
I was talking to my father just yesterday. The subject came up about how the US military adopted the .45acp. He has a book on the subject that his father bought for him and read it as a kid.
6th grade he did a book report on it and read it to the class. When he got to the part where testing the round was done on cadavers and cattle the teacher stopped him and took his report away from him.
I had to laugh.
Apparently it’s the Kaiser’s fault that Europe didn’t adopt the 1911. FN was tooling up to produce them when WWI happened and all production needed to be shifted to established military hardware. By the time the war was over, 9mm was it for them and the Hi-Power was perfected.
That’s a great story:)
For my protestant bretheren:
He is Risen!
He is risen indeed!
He is Risen indeed.
And for my sentient brethren:
The dumbest thing you’ll read today?
I am not turning off my addblocker for salon
Summary:
Lindsey Graham says we should cancel our debt with China and bring production of medical supplies home to the US.
Salon (and at least a half dozen other outlets that must be on the same mailing list) says that he violated the 14th amendment.
Yes, it is the position of a cadre of leftist political opinion writers that saying “we shouldn’t repay our bonds to China” violates the 14th amendment.
And yes, they are absolutely insane. Not that Graham isn’t absolutely nuts himself…..
“Lindsey Graham says we should cancel our debt with China and bring production of medical supplies home to the US.”
I agree, but it will need a huge PR campaign to keep faith in the U.S. Dollar.
China only owns a little more than a trillion in US securities. So you’d escape about 3 months of US debt (minus the current nonsense).
In return, the cost of deficit spending would definitely go up by more than a trillion per year because of the impact on treasury rates.
Huh, I thought it was way more than that.
I think someone posted that the biggest foreign holder was Japan.
Found a link, even at that Japan is just slightly ahead of China. Much more in domestic pensions and investments.
https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-3306124
lemme se 14th amendment…
enciclopedia britannica
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
well it is right there
Yup… no cancelling debt from the Civil war. And no paying off the southern debt holders.
Clearly talking about debt with China is a violation of this amendment.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. Especially bonds held by China.
Sorry, copy paste error, the text was not complete.
You can acknowledge debt as valid, and still repudiate it.
Leftists at Salon and their readers sucking Chinese cock? Say it ain’t so.
Nah. Just looking for any reason at all to disparage a political enemy.
I’d question it.
Spit or swallow?
My money would be on swallow.
“Muh sweat shops!”
Oh, for shame. President Cartoon Villain doesn’t run his press briefings the way we think he should.
Trump only wants to “re-open” the economy because of the election.
Fuck you, you stupid fat cunt.
Your brain must have thick, thick calluses for you to subject yourself to Press the Meat without your head exploding.
language, please
It actually is an interesting philosophical question. If you do the right thing for the wrong reasons, should I begrudge your actions?
Should I really care what your deeper motivations are, so long as your actions are correct and virtuous? I’d say that as long as I don’t have to live with you the rest of my life, I don’t really care what your motives are, so long as your actions are good. Similarly, I don’t really care if you meant well when you stole my life savings and burned my house down… I’m still gonna be pissed. And living in a borrowed tent.
“Black people hardest hit” coming up.
18 USC §1717 makes it a federal crime to mail a letter advocating for forcible resistance to any law of the United States.
https://twitter.com/CrimeADay/status/1249130996735361025
16 USC §916f & 50 CFR §230.4(j) make it a crime for a whaling captain to use explosive darts that don’t have a distinctive mark on them identifying the captain as the explosive dart owner.
https://twitter.com/CrimeADay/status/1248775490946641920
If you had health insurance, you’d be immune to the plague.
Your brain must have thick, thick calluses for you to subject yourself to Press the Meat without your head exploding.
Whuuuut? I can’t hear you over this roaring in my ears.
Q: Why doesnt Jesus eat M&Ms ?
A: They fall through the holes in his hands.
Happy Easter!
/watching tele-church in my underwear, hungover af thanks to Glibs
Noice:)
I’m wondering if Neph will rise this morning. He was a trooper. A pleasantly toasted trooper.
Im glad its only 2X a week. I doubt my liver could handle much more. Not that I generally drink much less even w/o Glibschat.
So what did I miss? (And/or what is Tres unlikely to remember?)
I dont know why people get mad at me over stuff I cant remember.
/nearly every time I get out of the shower Jugsy points out that bruise
Bunch of middle aged white guys staring at computer screens. Except for the guy stocking laxatives.
Stocking laxatives might be a bad idea if they’re still low on or out of TP.
The CHAOS! of the Wisconsin primary!!!
Too hard to hold an election. We’ll just have to drag President Cartoon Villain away in chains and install Cuomo.
Vox had a piece on this yesterday. The dems are clearly trying to steal elections. Every time the start screaming that they need to be able to violate election laws and have unsecured voting methods, you know they are trying to steal an election.
They are claiming that the voters of Wisconsin are being disenfranchised because they require absentee ballots to be postmarked by election day. Apparently post offices in democrat strongholds don’t know how to do postmarks or something.
More nefarious… they complain that metered mail doesn’t get a date stamped postmark.
Now.. get real. How many democrat voters mail their ballots by metered mail? I mean, small business owners, sure. But rank and file dems? Unless those ballots were collected by union reps to be mailed en-mass, I’d say there’s almost none of that going on.
So….. yeah. Stealing the election.
One guess inspired by their complaints: They have been using voter rolls to see who voted, then posting bulk absentee ballots using the names of voters who did not vote. The postmark requirement makes that strategy less tenable.
Bullshit. At my office, if we run outgoing mail through the meter after our daily USPS delivery, we have to date it for the next business day. Thus, on Fridays we have to set the date on the meter ahead three days to Monday’s date (or Tuesday when there’s a Monday holiday.)
Yep.
Outside their useful idiot enclaves it is the only way they can win.
hello please reply or QT with a ranking of the following concepts in order of how real they are, from most real to least real
gender
money
love
intelligence
morality
https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1248811329340592128
money is keepin it real
Love – I’ll kill to protect my kids
Intelligence – albeit in limited abundance outside if Glibsville.
Gender – There are exceptions to the rule, plus where have all the men gone?
Money – it’s real until it isn’t.
Morality – subjective and evolving
Outside of
When you’ve been around a few years, you begin to realize that the “undying romantic love” that so many pledge early in life is entirely fictitious.
I’ve yet to reach a point where I wouldn’t pull your spleen out through your eye sockets if you threatened my kids…. but my oldest is only 12. From what I hear, I might feel differently in a couple of years.
I disagree on Morality. While there is a spectrum I find that good morality promotes success where bad morality promotes failure.
It seems to me that there is some sort of genetic component to our innate sense of morality. While most agree on the immorality of murder, there’s a huge split on some fundamental moral concepts that come in conflict. Those lines seem to be hard wired.
Some folks are just wired to place the group above the individual. They have great fealty to the group, and willingly cede all agency to the group.
There are others who are hard wired to see danger in other people taking actions they disagree with – like folks who want to use force to impose their personal morality.
Then there’s the weirdos who think the first two groups are nuts and just want to be left alone for the most part, and don’t want to bother the other folks.
All three groups agree on one thing. The other two groups should be tossed in a woodchipper.
Damn, that was a long way to go to get to that punchline.
Well, there are certainly some universally shared precepts. Not everyone agrees with them, and finding that that one “true” morality is like finding the unifying theory. Additionally, while people may have a certain set of morals, they’re only manifested in society to the extent their proponents have the power to bring them to reality.
https://newatlas.com/seven-universal-moral-rules-oxford-study/58474/
Biden needs to go hard left. As hard as he can.
Guess what, girls- I don’t think we can go much harder or farther left than we are right now.
I thought once one wins the primary one must go centrist
Not any more.
Biden is calculating that America wants to socialism harder “in these trying times”.
Oh, now they’re just makin’ stuff up. That would be beyond comical.
The most difficult part for Trump would be keeping a straight face.
I think we should call the new animal skank.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/11/us/skink-species-evolution-transition-scn-trnd/index.html
Happening in a single animal of a species makes it a freak occurrence, not evolution.
that looks like a snake
If you look close you can see it’s 3 “toes”
I cut grass yesterday. I try not to run over the basquillion lizards and skinks that live here because they eat so many bugs. I noticed a squiggly motion, stopped the mower and looked closer. Goddammit. It was a newly hatched copperhead. Now I wonder where the rest of the clutch is.
I am accustomed to snakes but all of my life I rarely saw copperheads….until I moved here. Jeebus this place has a lot of them. I long ago lost count of how many I have killed here from 6″ long to 6 feet long.
*a copperhead is essentially a beautiful, copper colored rattlesnake without a rattle. That means potent neurotoxins. I have always heard that people who survive their bites wish they had not survived.
I don’t think I’ve seen any Copperheads in Ohio. Almost stepped on Timber Rattler when I was around 10 at church camp which was in the sticks.
If it was just me here I would leave them alone but Mrs. Suthenboy is not too savvy with wild, dangerous critters and we have four grandchildren from 2 to 5 years old that visit. If. you have ever seen a copperhead in sunlight you know there is no way a child that young could resist trying to get a closer look at it or even picking it up. They really are beautiful animals, but damned dangerous. I cant have them around.
Australia. Of course.
I guess Biden and the DNC can campaign on a platform of never re-opening the economy as long as any sort of private ownership remains.
Can’t (((you people))) just eat tortillas like a normal person? The shortening ones, not the lard ones obviously. Though to be honest, lard is so refined surely it’s had all the treif processed out of it.
I fried some chicken last week using lard. Also some curly, spicy battered French fries.
DE-FUCKING-LICIOUS
Is that a Cole Porter song?
Sounds more like an Aaron Neville tune
::shudders:: The best-known Neville Brother is the only one who isn’t cool.
This is truth. I met him.
I went to school with a bunch of Landrys and Nevilles. A few were ok but most of them ended up gaoled at some point.
That’s what schmaltz is for.
Happy Spring Spheres Day, wokesters!
You too 🙂
““Instead, claims Streeck, his study found that: “There is no significant risk of catching the disease when you go shopping. Severe outbreaks of the infection were always a result of people being closer together over a longer period of time.””
https://twitter.com/Transpersonal/status/1248810330278387712
“Germany’s had more than 113,000 coronavirus cases, but fewer than 3,000 deaths. Scientists are hoping to unlock why.
“Overall, Germany has had more than 113,000 confirmed cases of the disease, but just 2,349 deaths. According to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus center, the German mortality rate for the disease is 2.1%, much lower than Italy, which has a 12.7% mortality rate from the disease, and the UK, which has an 11.6% mortality rate.
Streeck and his team are attempting to root out the sources of infection by studying residents of the northwestern region. Speaking to press on Tuesday, he said most cases of coronavirus in Heinsberg originated from people being close together for a significant period of time, and not from touching surfaces with virus particles on them.
Streeck went on to say that though the virus could “live” on various surfaces for up to seven days, he believed there was little chance that someone could become infected via surfaces, contradicting both the Center for Disease Control and National Institute of Health guidelines.
Streeck posited that in order to contract the virus via a surface like a doorknob, “it would be necessary that someone coughs into their hand, immediately touches a doorknob, and then straight after that another person grasps the handle and goes on to touches their face,” Streeck told reporters. ”
https://www.businessinsider.com/death-rate-german-laboratory-city-5x-less-than-national-average-2020-4
Because
1) they were the only ones testing people other than the very sick
2) they are more strict in what they report as a coronavirus death.
I’m more interested in how it spreads.
I still wonder how I caught what I had at the beginning of the month. I can’t be sure what is was. In some ways, I was hoping it was covid, because then I would be immune, and couldn’t carry it. I tested negative. Yet, even with the social distancing, hand washing, etc. I still caught something. I hadn’t been in close contact with anyone outside the home for a long period of time.
The early tests had a high failure rate and were only good after 3 days of infection.
I would get the antibodies test when it becomes available in your area. I’m scheduled to get one.
I don’t think it’s available here yet.
I responded, btw.
My wife and I were both sick right after the hysteria started. I was already working from home full time, so early March.
We were both sick right after that. She had a bad cough for about 3 days. My symptoms were milder, but then we both got better. Could have been any virus or bug going around…
New building codes mandate that all doorknobs be copper or silver. New health codes mandate that all locks must be keyed so that a stat licensed doorknob sanitizer can let themselves in to inspect and sanitize your doorknobs.
If it saves just one life…
We have discovered that the sun is going to explode and the earth will be destroyed. In order to save humanity a giant space-ark has been built and all essential people….doorknob inspectors, politicians, Karens, HOA board members, etc. ….will have first dibs on seats where they will be transported to……
Not a bad strategy. Turns out that those models were wrong, the sun didn’t explode, and the gene pool is purged of destructive mutations.
“will have first dibs on seats where they will be transported to……”
The sun?
You didnt read “Life, the Universe and Everything” ?
telephone-sanitizers
That exact door handle scenario happens all the time in public though. People open doors and then bite their nails, brush their hair out of their face, pick their nose, etc on a regular basis.
We should all wear gloves before engaging in those activities
HUH? Whut you on about? (three knuckles deep into left nostril, uses pinky on other hand to dig into ear canal.)
I was sanitizing shopping cart handles long before this thing started.
Because every item you touch in the store or take off the shelves is sanitary, right? Its just that nasty shopping cart.
No, that’s not the reason. The shopping cart handle is something people touch for a long time, likely touched recently, and don’t take with them.
“Germany’s had more than 113,000 coronavirus cases, but fewer than 3,000 deaths. Scientists are hoping to unlock why.”
Already figured this one out. Beer. That’s why I’m stocked up. It’s almost noon…
That’s a good guess but I’d go with it probably lies in how they code the deaths.
If there’s any doubt at all, always go with beer…, no, always go with beer.
Germany will soon pass China’s death rate. We have to trust China! /NYT
Shorter experts: “We have no idea what we are talking about.”
“We have no idea what we are talking about.”
We need to form an acronym out of that to replace the term expert. Obama legacy hardest hit.
IATOMA: “I am talking out my ass.”
I like this one better.
Excellant
Only if they have to get it tattooed on their forehead.
In dull grey using the .223 long range ‘needle’?
That would look right smart on the talking head of WHO.
How long before Nassim Taleb calls Streeck a “fucking idiot?”
Just one meal into the day and already overstuffed.
Good bread with good butter is sublime #notketo #noregrets
I saw something on tv, maybe History Channel, that alluded to a SCOTUS case many decades ago that upheld the right of governments to limit or prohibit religious practices but not religious beliefs. Tied it into something having to do with outlawing polygamy amongst our LDS friends. Could this case be why, other than FYTW, state governments can get away with baning attendance at services that “endanger the public health?”
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
“…or prohibiting the free EXERCISE thereof; ”
“…the right of people to peaceably to assemble,…”
I might be going overboard here but I think the SC is completely full of shit.
As always, there’s gonna be a line that has to be drawn. Aztecs cant sacrifice unwilling virgins to the volcano god. However, a bare minimum should be incorporating freedom of association into the free exercise clause.
They have ruled that restrictions have to be “neutral”, i believe was the term of art.
So you could ban killing live chickens in downtown New York, but you could not specifically ban religious sacrifice.
Now, why they drew this distinction in that case is beyond me…. because they certainly bent things around to accommodate the Catholics during prohibition. So they ended up with the Catholic Church as the nations largest distributor of wine.
Sometimes I think they just do whatever the heck they want.
Ok, that’s a lie. I’m pretty certain that all the time they just do what they want. Otherwise, “shall make no law” and “shall not be abridged” would be pretty easy calls.
If by ‘do what they want’ you mean facilitate statist cock sucking, you are correct. The notion that the SC is somehow protecting rights and the constitution is laughable. They are much like the cops; they aren’t there to protect you, they are there to protect the state.
Finished the new War of the Worlds. Interesting and strong setup and totally blown with detracting melodrama, wokeness, unbelievability, and just general stupidity. Steaming pile of shit.
Let me guess. Climate change was a major party of the story?
No, surprisingly not or maybe not yet? It moved so glacially that the season finale is just Act I.
I will definitely schedule time to watch that. Right after I have an iron-clad guarantee that I will have three lifetimes each in excess of nine decades. And I don’t have to watch it until I’ve forgotten the English language and have gone blind.
“Germany’s had more than 113,000 coronavirus cases, but fewer than 3,000 deaths. Scientists are hoping to unlock why.
Pilsner.
And lager.
All that scat kink has built up their immune system.
+ Scheiß-pron
Hitler had all the viruses shot.
Finished the new War of the Worlds. Interesting and strong setup and totally blown with detracting melodrama, wokeness, unbelievability, and just general stupidity. Steaming pile of shit.
I watched the 1936(?) producti0on of The Last of the Mohicans, last night. Randolph Scott practically looks like a teenager.
He (and Cary Grant) are both extremely young in Hot Saturday, if you can find that one.
There’s a new Blu-Ray release of Beau Geste – been waiting a long time to watch that flick – read the book back in high school. Will have to pick up soon.
Good bread with good butter is sublime #notketo #noregrets
*makes okay sign*
Racist!
For no reason: Iron Pyrite with a wah pedal.
Also a flanger.
Noice.
San Francisco mayor caps Uber, Postmates, DoorDash delivery commissions
Looks like the people of San Francisco are going to lose another business…
WTF?
It’s the epicenter of woke Commiefornia.
Everyone here is still delivering. We’ve ordered pizza, soda, and alcohol over the last week. Even the local liquor store has started delivering.
How the hell does a mayor have the right to tell a business what they can charge?
They’re going to explore their newfound tinpot powers in creative ways.
I was watching Top Chef last night and a commercial came on with one of its hosts and some other hipster resto types pleading for the government to DO SOMETHING! I wanted to throw my remote at the TV.
Tamam Shul “Jesus Guide Me” https://youtu.be/4WgKQLiBor8
Big Star “Jesus Christ” https://youtu.be/9-pZnbkKiGI
We need to get some serious medical SCIENCE underway. You know- quit this mamby pamby fucking around.
We should round up people known to be healthy and intentionally infect them with the virus in various ways, in order to gain more useful knowledge of the disease and its progression. We can split them into treatment groups, eventually. After the first few rounds, so we can get a good sense of the real long term lethality.
I am sure most State chief medival officers…er medical officers would love the chance to do these experiments
The problem with science is that it’s all full of racist whitey. We just need to get woke and get our celebrities to sing happy songs. Then the virus will be defeated, in a socially just sort of way.
Marianne Williamson approves.
Minutemen “Jesus and Tequila” https://youtu.be/JG_XYVbq6vY
Naive Set “Easy Jesus” https://youtu.be/QdfEevTNAUo
This is how you music video.
Two from the Stupids
“Jesus Meets the Stupids” https://youtu.be/P9zpCuicxmg
“Jesus Do What You Have To” https://youtu.be/eP3QuCdGVRY
Vaselines “Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam” https://youtu.be/t-AvJTeQ4hQ
Jesus in New Orleans. ::nods to I0b0t::
Those numbers? We- you know- make them up.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation’s political leaders have leaned on grim death toll predictions to guide policies, but the numbers keep shifting, raising questions about their utility and reliability.
The White House announced on March 31 that officials expect up to 100,000 to 240,000 total American deaths from COVID-19, even with social distancing policies. At around the same time, a prediction model from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation (IHME) was estimating far fewer total American deaths, totaling approximately 84,000.
Now – only one week later — the IHME figure has dropped even further, estimating 60,000 deaths by August. Still, other models have predicted different death tolls. So what happened? Why are these numbers different?
These models are mathematical equations created by public health experts to help us anticipate what’s next. The equations, which are processed by computers, crunch currently available data to deliver a result – in this case, projected deaths.
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As to why the White House numbers and IHME’s numbers differ, it’s unclear where the White House’s estimates came from. According to Dr. Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator for the White House, their 100,000 to 240,000 death toll prediction came from multiple sources, including a report by the Imperial College London and other private reports by major U.S. academic institutions.
For now, not enough people have recovered from COVID-19 to affect these numbers dramatically. For immunity to benefit us all, it would require 50-70% of the population to have been infected and recovered, according to Rivers, who notes that we aren’t there yet.
MORE: More than half of Americans wear masks as coronavirus’ new normal takes hold: POLL
While changes in prediction data can be confusing and frustrating, the IHME argues that they are signs of a healthy and dynamic model that is adapting. As an institute independent from policymakers, Roth emphasizes that the IHME is staffed by physicians and scientists whose goal above all is to alleviate suffering. Their team is continually growing and their mathematical modeling methods remain transparent.
We can probably get our numbers dialed in a little better, as we go, but we’re going to need a lot more money.
Just like the global warming models, they can predict a anything, once it’s happened.
“Abby, something”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said the nation could return to a “degree of normality” by fall.
The physician and immunologist made the comments on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour on Friday evening.
Asked by host Brian Williams if by November voters will be able to participate in the upcoming presidential election, Fauci said that while this was not his area of expertise, “I would hope that by November we would have things under such control that we could have a real degree of normality.”
I won’t be satisfied until our new normal includes Fauci’s decomposing gibbetted corpse on the Washington Mall.