Still no sports news, unless you consider Kurt Angle getting laid off by the WWE “sports news”. If you do, then there you go.
Legend
Aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright was born on this day. He shares it with legendary actor (that’s no understatement, he’s probably the second-best silent film comedic actor of all time) Charlie Chaplin, not-as-famous actor Peter Ustinov, composer Henry Mancini, pope-before-the-commie-pope Benedict XVI, football player Dick “Night Train” Lane, Foghat’s Lonesome Dave Peverett, basketball big man Kareem Abdul Jabbar, NFL Coach Bill Belichick, soccer manager Rafael Benitez, funny man Martin Lawrence, and musician Chance The Rapper.
A couple big names there, but mostly “meh”. SO I’m moving on to…the links!
Maybe this could have been sports news, but I’m putting it here. Some questions start getting answers in the Roy Halladay death. Dude was either committing suicide or he was playing an aviation version of Russian roulette.
Social distancing and educating at the same time? Madness!
Looks like Denmark will be a test case on returning to some normalcy. And yes, some people are freaking out. Because for some reason they think we can all stay in lockdown forever.
The White House are giving guidelines for some locations to lift restrictions after May 1st. And yes, some people are freaking out. Because for some reason they think we can all stay in lockdown forever.
New Zealand will keep most restrictions in place once they relieve some of their extreme restrictions. And yes, some people are freaking out. Because for some reason they think we can all stay in lockdown forever.
Papers, please!
As if the DUI checkpoints weren’t already problematic…Chicago decides to go full police-state.
Uh, yeah, that’s how having an overdrawn bank account works. So they’ll still get their money. It’ll just be applied to an outstanding debt they voluntarily took on. Sorry, them’s the rules.
Even money says this turns into a political shit-show. Dude broke a very serious rule and should have been relieved. If he’s being reinstated because he is otherwise competent and learned his lesson, I’m good with it. If it happens because he’s become a celebrity, then I’m not.
I wonder how bad they’ll be this time. Oh well, as long as people tolerate this nonsense, I guess they’ll continue to climb. To hell with the economy, right?
I wonder when a politician will run an “a chicken in every pot” campaign. Could be this year if we’re thrust that quickly into a for-real depression.
Please enjoy this. I know I will.
Now have a great day, friends.
Something something old pilots and bold pilots.
Hopped up on goof-balls is a helluva way to go.
Or freebasing coke in a plane like Ricky Nelson.
At least Ricky left us with his spawn, the greatest hair band of all time.
I did not know that. Ricky Nelson was huge back in the far away.
I think it’s just a rumor that he was freebasing at the time of the crash.
Pitched a one-hitter, eh?
When I was flying, there was one guy at the field that always wanted to take everyone up in his biplane for hammerheads and barrel rolls. Against my better judgement, I went with him once. Never again after that, his confidence exceeded his skill set.
Its the physical version of dunning-kruger. He was a HOF pitcher, of course he can fly a plane at blue angel level.
A lot of pilots assume that because the plane is capable of performing the maneuvers, they are also capable of doing it.
^^^ THIS is why I drive like Grandma now.
Yeah, back in the late ’90s, one night I looped a Porsche 911. Granted, I shouldn’t have been driving, but I definatly shouldn’t have tried that turn. See, to get that very fast car to handle as it should, when the ass-end starts to come out, you have to hit the throttle and get it to sit down. Your brain doen’t like that though…
Lol.
I know a dude who owns a high end body shop. He told me that fixing 911s put both his kids through college.
Related to the overdrawn accounts:
Debt collectors are going after millions of stimulus checks — 5 ways to stop them
How dare people go after money they’re owed!
Unrelated, another thing that’s pissing me off with all the shutdowns is there’s no good source of information anymore about when or if a place is open. The strudel shop down the street, website says open, shows as open for takeout on Google Maps, drove by it over the weekend, and there was a line. Go there this morning, and they’re closed, with a sign up saying they’ll be open again on April 23rd.
The big problem is that these businesses may have been open a week ago or even yesterday. I know so many that have been trying their best, literally trying to squeeze out every little bit of revenue they can before they finally cannot afford to keep the doors open.
Some of it could be supply chain issues too. I went to my butcher yesterday and they’ve cut back to W-Sat hours. Not because they’re struggling to stay afloat but because they can’t get enough deliveries to keep the place stocked seven days a week. And their full crew was still in the back processing everything.
Oddly enough, they’re still running some ridiculous specials. I guess they value customer loyalty, because I know somebody would have paid a lot more for the 20 lbs of ground chuck (Certified grass-fed Angus) that I got for $1.99 a lb prepackaged in 1 lb packs.
Ain’t living in the Soviet Union grand?
You don’t know how lucky you are.
Where are you getting those deals? Down in Irvine, it’s like there are two price sheets. Anything that the restaurants normally would use off label- like meat for grinding or stews, burgers etc, is super cheap if you are willing to buy by the 10 lb bag. But if you want, say, a prime steak you are still paying $40/lb because the restaurants are still buying them up and selling them to Staycationers each day for “Home care packages for Curbside Pickup”.
The second week of lockdown was our spring break, so I spent a lot of time going around looking for deals. I have a friend in Atlanta who picked up tons of stuff at fire sale prices, but that just never seemed to happen here.
We’re far enough north of Houston that the hoi polloi don’t shop. Hell, nobody from The Woodlands even comes out here because the interchange between I-45 and 105 is an absolute nightmare at all times of day. So it’s basically people from Conroe or Montgomery. They’ve got their own arrangement with the abattoir and they own all the cattle they’re having processed. So they’re getting the deals by being in total control of their stock (literally), aside from sharing the slaughterhouse with others. And with the weather cooperating, I doubt they spent much on feed this year relative to other years.
Small businesses notorious for not updating their websites.
Not sure how Google Maps updates their data, but it might take several days closure to register in their model.
Clearly google should send someone to every business every single day. duh.
Got to check to see if CFA is closed this Sunday or not…the policy might have changed!
Just bitching about the uncertainty. The problem in trying to support the small businesses is they’re probably just getting by as it is. The small stream of takeaway orders wasn’t enough for several of the local bars to keep the doors open during the shutdown.
Two wrongs dont make a right, but 2 Wrights make an airplane.
And two Wongs can’t make a white!
They can if they own a dry cleaner.
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
I work with a guy with Wong as a last name and he makes fun with it. Every….time…I….see….him.
Teenage me loved this
crap
. . . . , but three lefts make a right.
I missed Tucker’s show last night. My idiot Governor was on. When asked how arresting Jews for worshipping together didn’t violate their Constitutional rights – he said he wasn’t thinking about that. Then the Judge came on and went nuts since he took an oath…
Yet he’s a lock to get reelected because of total Democrat domination of the state.
New Jersey might be as blue as Tres’ over-sharing video.
I must have missed something involving tall cnans.
There was a busted TV and an awesomely colorful bruised hip. We made sport of him and then I fell asleep in my chair.
say wut?
Oppressing the hell out of people is an electoral winner right now, it shows decisiveness and concern.
Well, people don’t want a leader anymore, they want a ruler.
Yes and it’s disturbing. It’ll be interesting to see how people are reacting in a few more weeks when the novelty of not working and being at home all the time wears off. I suspect the majority will demand we open for business but if they don’t we really are screwed.
–Pterry
One of his best lines.
I was having a chat with the girlfriend just yesterday, and she admitted she wanted someone, preferably in government, to be made responsible for solving any big problem that had no obvious solution or was a lot of effort to fix. When I pointed out that person in government would not only not solve it, but make it worse, she told me it was not about really solving it, but about not having to worry about solving it. I lost it and told her that is the kind of crazy that led us to 120 million plus bodies by the commies with another 50 million by the fascists right behind that, and billions living in misery during the last century. She was angry I went there, but she admitted that it was overwhelming to try and solve these big problems, so she just needed to know someone else was on it. When I asked what would happen if that person just paid lip service to the cause and then made it worse, she told me she would still feel better, because there was someone dealing with it…
Go freaking figure..
I’d give her an A+ for her honesty. Most people (in my experience) simply lie to themselves instead and create all kinds of bullshit rationalizations. She’s faced up to it and at least knows what’s going on internally. I’d say you might want to go easy on her and appreciate you’ve got a woman like that. Give her a kiss and tell her how much you appreciate her honesty. Seriously.
This is why God is important. I pray to Him when TSHTF and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
I do have to admit that while at first this felt like a problem to me, her being honest about why she goes with this sort of crazy shows she knows it is a bad thing, but she simply doesn’t want to be the one to have to worry or deal with it. Now I need to work on making her realize that it is fine tom want someone else to do it, but that the problems we have come from believing it should be someone in government. She is a good soul – except for when she is mad at me – but she is your typical “I want daddy to deal with the scary things in the world” kind of woman. I guess I shouldn’t complain, because that’s one of the reason she probably is attracted to me (No, I am not a dirty old man and only 5 years older than her OMWC, although she does like me spanking her when she is a bad bad girl, despite what she says): I deal with shit head on.
Lack. I have been trying to teach her to not spend time worrying about things you can’t control or fix (until you actually can do something about the problem) and to focus on the things you can. She is not wired like I am, I guess, to work the problems you have & can work, and only to get to the existential stuff when you have a possible solution or absolutely must deal with it. She is a natural worrier and tends to always go to a dark place, but she has calmed down a lot since she met me (I do occasionally cause her problems because she has a hard time understanding why I don’t lose my shit over things). The funny thing is that she comes from a very religious background and is herself actually quite religious even if she is not as devoted to the organized part of it (she actually likes going to church, but has not done that a lot when I am around because she knows I seriously dislike the organized religious thing and will not go waste my time doing that).
Interesting, I would say maybe going to Church would help her then, even though you dislike it…
Maybe a virtual service?
Hope everything works out.
If I could offer a strange relationship recommendation…
I got a copy of “The Daily Stoic” left it in the bathroom for “can” reading. It took a long while, but my wife eventually started reading it. It’s a short daily blurb or two from the Stoics and after I’d been through it I noticed that the bookmark was moved; she eventually went through the whole thing. One can’t help but be positively affected by reading the Stoics daily for a year and it’s impact is in the exact area you’re talking about.
That is not a bad suggestion either (not sure if leaving it in the bathroom works, but can’t argue with success). Meditations is okay, but I really prefer the Enchiridion of Epicticus. Great reading for achieving some calm in your life and enduring hardships.
Thanks gents. I will find a way to introduce her to both.
It’s depressing. It’s LARPing for votes. Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! I am so depressed right now and I have nowhere to turn. Change is bad, change for its own sake is evil.
Don’t get depressed. You’ve always got Glibs!
::reads links again::
Aw, fuck.
Thanks Man. You guys and gals were a beacon even in the before times, in the long, long ago… This crazy shit needs to end right fucking now.
I’ve made it a point to take at least one trip somewhere each day in the car. And for that to be a place where other people are. Not because I’m some rebel, but just to observe or interact with someone I’m not trapped at home with.* It’s been cathartic just BSing with the guy in line 6 ft behind me at Walmart or chatting with my butcher about different sausages. I highly recommend doing the same.
*I don’t mind being trapped at home with Banjos and the kids. I love them all dearly. But we all need other meatspace interactions to keep us sane. Anybody who says otherwise is kidding him/herself.
I made a completely unnecessary trip to visit a new metal fab I’m thinking of using. We could have taken care of it via phone and email, but I wanted some damn non-family interaction.
The fact that it was a 40 minute drive was a bonus.
I’m ready to get back to real life.
Hearing this and nodding.
It truly is depressing how many people are all to eager to bow down and supinely accept the diktats of the ruling class.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised how many friends and acquaintances have offered up opinions not much different than what gets expressed here. Maybe it’s just a case of living in the outer suburbs instead of the woke urban areas, but they all seem to resent the power being wielded over them and damage being done to our local economy.
Saw that and linked it in the overnight thread. That guy thinks that something is constitutional if it is done out of pure intentions. Loonatic.
Thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG7SglDjeOM&feature=youtu.be&t=693
I can kinda sorta see a justification for closing churches – it is people crowded together for long periods of time. Of course mush-mouth couldn’t come up with anything like that. If* you’re closing gatherings, a church is a gathering.
But when pressed with “from where do you derive the power to do these things”, he couldn’t come up with any answer at all.
*I am in favor of letting people make their own decisions in these matters but that’s obviously out the window. Work with me here.
Gov. Murphy claimed that deciding on the constitutionality of it was “above his pay grade.” So, he took his oath of office without knowing what the constitution required of him? Why am I not surprised.
The country was founded by people who considered liberty more precious than life. Now it’s run by elites who value power above all else, and most people value their safety and amusement more than anything else.
Bread and circuses. Although when the bread and circuses go away, there could be some trouble, assuming the population hasn’t been completely neutered at this point.
he said he wasn’t thinking about that
His oath of office requires that he always think about that.
As if any politician takes either their oath or the constitution seriously.
And Benji Pedro of South Carolina told the Times that Safe Federal Credit Union kept his entire $1,200 stimulus payment to help pay back an account that was overdrawn by $2,650 because he had forgotten to cancel a pair of music subscriptions.
What the fuck was he subscribed to?!
A large box at the Metropolitan Opera?
*opera applause*
Take a bow, Swissy!
I didn’t know that Winston’s Mom was an opera buff.
And who subscribes to a music service using their bank account?
Someone who doesn’t have a credit card?
Which shows some good judgment on the credit card companies.
Music subscriptions *wink wink*
Some of those webcam girls do play a mean kazoo.
Paging HM for verification!
Columbia House, since 1975.
He just got Cream’s Greatest Hits in mail. If he opens the record sleeve, he can’t return it.
heh
He should have got the 8 track version. You don’t have to keep getting up to flip the record all the time.
Reinstating the Navy captain is a terrible idea. I don’t think he should have been shitcanned in the first place but backing down on something like this only encourages more, a lot more, of what they were trying to avoid.
The captain may have had the best of intentions, but opsec is something you just don’t fuck around with.
^^^THIS^^^
Should the shit ever hit the fan, this guy’s troops will lack confidence in his abilities, cause he caves like a bitch too fast. But this is what the military always looks like when political correctness & political reliability – and a slew of other idiotic shit like fighting AGW and playing nice with shitty people – all have preference over actually knowing how to fight drive promotions.
He basically broadcast his ship’s readiness to the world by violating the rules about communications. He absolutely should have been shitcanned.
^This. We just sent (another) big ole signal to the Chinese that our armed forces are not serious.
^^^
Fuck that! He should have been shit-canned sooner. Imagine if every officer with troops under fire acted that way. We’d be French!
He absolutely deserved to be shitcanned. Signalling the combat readiness of the most powerful ship in the China Sea in the clear? I knew better than that when I was a Lance Corporal with a radio on my back.
Reinstated? Goddam.
“The White House are giving guidelines for some locations to lift restrictions after May 1st.”
That’s a whole two more weeks. Just looking at bar and restaurant sales that’s probably enough to buy Denmark, never mind Greenland. Except for a few areas hardest hit, this shit needs to end ASAP. Not that I approved of involuntary closings, but at least they had some pragmatic justification. Beyond keeping hospitals from being overwhelmed, which they have already accomplished, it just becomes a trillion dollar cargo cult exercise.
Trump needs to walk a tightrope on this and he knows it. Opening back up prior to May 1st simply isn’t politically feasible right now although there are sound economic arguments for doing so. As for me, I’m all Netflixed out so I’m all for it.
https://www.econlib.org/flattening-the-curve-and-moving-the-goalposts/
Succinctly put. He’s wrong – they moved the goalposts.
wrongrightIMNSHO, as soon as it became apparent that the epidemiological models were wrong (probably 10 days ago) they should have started lifting restrictions everywhere except the areas most affected (NYC, LA, Seattle, NOLA, etc.). This all started out with bogus assumptions about the total numbers and actions were planned according to those bogus assumptions. Immediately after learning that said assumptions were bogus, the actions needed to be reassessed. Instead, pols cracked down even as we learned the pandemic was not nearly as bad as feared. Utter madness.
I said this over on TOS but the problem is that there are two different populations right now. The majority of the country, and significantly the people making or influencing decisions, is the Staycation crowd. Those are people like me who can work from home, or have accommodations to go into the office. Most of us are, as I said, having a slightly stressful staycation. Our major stress is about getting the fucking webcam to work, keeping the kids occupied once they finish their mandated 1 hour of public education and figuring out the best camera angle to accentuate our new fashion forward mask. In large part, while this shit is getting old, the Staycation people are still enjoying a month of something different in their lives, bolstered by all the celebrities insisting that we are all “#AloneTogether”.
Then there are the Amputated. These are the people that the country cut off to “save itself” from coronaggedon. The Amputated are the people running hair salons, and other “Non-Essential” small businesses. They are the workers in those small businesses. This is maybe 30 – 35% of our population, and their stress comes from figuring out how they will pay rent in 2 weeks.
By shutting themselves in, the Staycation crowd- especially the elite- have further distanced themselves from the Amputated. They aren’t hearing from those people. On Twitter they mostly see other members of the Staycation crowd who happen to be advocates of the Amputated- but those arguments are all based on drole numbers and statistics, and it is so easy for the Staycation elites to use emotion and appeals to protecting grandma to dismiss those cranks.
So long as the Staycation crowd’s major inconvenience is that their couch is developing an unsightly sweat stain, they will push for 100% safety before reopening the economy, and most of the like-minded elite will agree with them.
You know who else became increasingly repressive on the backs of an elitist majority while pretending to hear the pleas of a severely disaffected minority?
The National Football League?
Deep dish pizza makers?
I’m not so sure I agree with the breakdown between the two groups. Even among those who can work from home (Staycation crowd), there’s been cancelled vacations, plans, bonuses, and pay cuts. With the changes to unemployment (and the Trumpbucks), some of those who had their jobs closed as “non-essential” are taking home more money now then when they were working.
Well put! I’m noticing a little more flop-sweat on the brows of the staff at work. Mail is down bigly and for the last few days they’ve been running a skeleton crew. When the unions feel the pinch it will be ramp up the economy and damn the torpedoes.
There are some narcissist / oblivious members of the Staycation crowd. But a lot can recognize that their gym, favorite restaurant, tavern, barber shop, and civil liberties may not be there when the lock downs are lifted. And a few might even realized that they will pay for it – taxes, debt, and / or inflation.
This goes on much longer, a lot of those staycation jobs are going to go away too.
Ad agency networks are making cuts. Those are cushy, work-from-home-if-you-have-to jobs.
The WWE cut a bunch of personnel yesterday.
I say once Soccer Mom feels the pain, shit will change quickly.
Dead-on correct about the two populations.
an account that was overdrawn by $2,650 because he had forgotten to cancel a pair of music subscriptions.
Anyone want to play “spot the bullshit”?
A much more challenging game would be “spot the part that’s not bullshit”.
Remember that the people that wrote this shitty screed to show you “TEH EBUL OF BANKS” for wanting losers to pay their bills could have done some checking to verify or disprove that claim, but they just ran with the idiotic claim some dude was overdrawn by over $2500 (which means he might have really paid a lot more for whatever this service was than that amount they quoted) because he forgot he was paying for some music service. They should have put a quote in about how someone was overdrawn because they were using that extra money to buy food for lost puppies and unicorns, because that was a far more likely scenario.
I don’t know a single bank that would let you overdraw your account by thousands of dollars. Overdrafts are usually for when you overspend by tens of dollars. Not Hundreds. When you get to that territory, the bank starts declining payment.
EXACTLY!
Someone that gets deep in hock basically got there because they got hammered with a bunch of penalties & fees for abusive behavior. I have seen banks that will allow you to roll an overdraft into your savings or credit card, but that’s an opt in feature at those banks. If this asshat used the credit card overdraft option to cover his ass, he has no excuse saying that the bank is being mean for making him pay for being a cunte with his finances.
Years ago I drunkenly subscribed to this one….um…”music subscription”. I didn’t even remember doing it and used a CC with a very small limit that was already ran close to that limit. I never look at my CC statements because I am an idiot and everything is just on auto pay. FFWD about four months and those charges put me over my limit every month and the CC company just let them go and hit me with an over limit charge every month. They would not rescind any of it. My mistake for being an idiot but I did let them know the card is canceled and they lost a customer for life. I have since canceled all my CC’s. Damn things are evil.
Because for some reason they think we can all stay in lockdown forever.
Not forever, just long enough to depose Bad Orange Man. Because all of the disease death and economic turmoil is his fault. That is just common, objective knowledge.
That’s the ultimate political objective and it’s an overreach that I hope most people will see right through like the impeachment.
Lockdowns will end on the first Wednesday of November.
Nov 7th after dems win the WH and take back the Senate:
What virus? Everything fine, wet market safest place on planet!
I actually have had more than one of the introvert douchebags I know tell me they wish this would never end. There are some freaks out there that think this stuff is a gift from heaven (or whatever they believe grants them wishes for those not inclined to follow old time religions). Some people really are that fucking lost.
I’m an introvert douchebag, but also not a statist piece of trash so I’m not particularly keen on putting everyone on house arrest.
You are far different that the common variety of introvert douchebag then, sir (SMILE!)
I have commented that this is revenge for Extroverts requiring us to out and meet people.
But, yeah, I wouldnt force it on anyone. Except the actual sick, I am okay with quarantines.
Yeah, the worse fucking thing that could happen to the country now is for someone to come up with a vaccine (or 100% effective treatment). Think of how horrible if people could go back to work and things get way better. For sure that bastard Trump would get re-elected. Can’t have that.
For SP:
I don’t ever get the gateway timeout error whrn I refresh, but I get it 100% of the time when I reply.
I am benind on the horoscops, so I can’t say if I get it when I submit material.
For anyone that was replying during the doldrums, did you have replies go through the way they are supposed to?
It’s been a while since I’ve had a reply without an error.
Lets see if this one works.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Lots of slavers out there, huh? I guess when you get no pushback (or in our governor’s case refuse to answer questions) you can keep the freakout going indefinitely.
From the Halladay story:
I’m actually kind of impressed! The ICON looks like a pretty sweet plane, though.
Great song. I’ve been listening to old stuff of theirs again lately and it holds up nicely.
Thanks for the lynx! I hope you have a fantastic day!
Tundra! Don’t get me started on Walz. When he was elected I was disappointed, but was pretty sure he’d be an improvement over Mumbles Dayton. I think I was wrong.
The worse thing about Walz is that he’s said in his pressers that he never said his early models were accurate, just that they were “directional” in that they showed how varying things would affect outcomes. More maddingly, those models showed that there was almost no difference in outcomes between complete lockdown and isolate elderly and high risk people. Yet not one swinging vulva in the press corps will push him on that.
When they gave that press conference where they “explained” their model, every reporter should have jumped up and started screaming “HOW DARE YOU!” and calling for govt bureaucrat heads over this fucking shutdown.
Heh, I am back in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut”, and I do have to tell you I was surprised to see your governor was not much better than the same shitheads we tend to have in team blue controlled North East Commie US.
Did the GF also make it back to CV-CT?
Have to admit that it is disappointing that we never got to initiate you into the Minnesoda Glibs – Auxiliary. Always a fun time (for us, not the initiate).
Nah, she lives out your way and it is far more likely that I will be back to visit and eventually to stay out there with her if things keep going the way they are your holiness. So the chance will present itself again, I am sure. That is, if bad orange man doesn’t nuke the moon to piss of the Chicomms first like the idiots out here are telling me he will do soon to distract from the pandemic he caused by not getting impeached….
Politician lies, world ends. Video at 11
I expect Walz to lie. What disappoints me is that no one in the press corps calls him on it.
Menken never would have been allowed to keep working in today’s media.
Scott Johnson isn’t allowed in to the press briefings.
I wonder why?
Looks like Denmark will be a test case on returning to some normalcy.
They are one of those “Nordic Socialist” countries whose policies progs drool over. If they do this it will make it that much more difficult for progs to argue against doing that here. But I can see them claiming that early re-opening is only possible because of the socialized medicine…
And if they don’t like that they can look at what Sweden is doing.
Austria has started lifting their lockdown too.
Facts do not matter to the left and their media. Spin is all there is. If the climate cools by 5 degrees F over the next couple of years, they’ll say global warming is causing it. They just keep spinning their narrative, facts be damned.
BREAKING: China is Asshole
“Mike Pompeo demands truth from Beijing as US investigates if COVID-19 escaped from Wuhan lab during experiments and China covered it up by blaming ‘wet’ food markets
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has demanded that China ‘come clean’ following reports that coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory, not as a bioweapon, but as part of bungling experiments to prove that Chinese scientists were superior to Americans in identifying emerging virus threats.
It comes after President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the U.S. is trying to determine whether the coronavirus first crossed to humans accidentally during experiments with bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology Lab.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8223779/Coronavirus-originated-bungled-experiments-Wuhan-lab-bombshell-report-claims.html
“Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods shutters two more meat processing plants in Missouri and Wisconsin after massive coronavirus outbreak closed South Dakota factory, threatening the American food supply chain”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8223423/Chinese-owned-Smithfield-Foods-shutters-two-meat-processing-plants-Missouri-Wisconsin.html
“accidentally”
Based on that video from the Epoch Times I posted yesterday, the zoonotic nature of the virus was anything but accidental.
All the reporter did was basically use their own publications against them to show what they were working on.
Also: fuck China. Vigorously. Let’s figure out what it takes to make our supply chains independent of them, cancel our debt to them as reparations for this nonsense and recognize Taiwan.
Oooh. He demanded.
That oughta do it.
Wuhan oopsie flu
raising concerns of union and ACLU
Only because non-crackers might be affected.
Chicago police are setting up checkpoints throughout the city both to remind people about the statewide stay-at-home order during the coronavirus outbreak and to “show a strong police presence” in areas hit by violence.
I am sure unnecessary police interaction will be just fine. Also, it is good that CPD has solved all the murder, rapes and thefts such that they have time to provide this “reassuring” police presence.
How about just going with unconstitutional?
Officer safety is WAAAAAAAAAY more important than 4A.
I guess policing experts decided between “community policing” and “occupying army”, and “occupying army” won.
cool, now do gun ownership laws.
You can take away our freedom, but you’ll never take away our Thot Thursday!
http://archive.li/Rv8hb
Festus: this should cheer you up.
Thanks, Buddy!
so much ugly ink.
You were doing so well too.
“A tiny town in Louisiana has the highest coronavirus death rate per head across the the US.
Nestled between chemical plants and oil refineries along the river between Baton Rouge and New Orleans dubbed ‘Cancer Alley’, furious residents of St John the Baptist parish in southern Louisiana claim its coronavirus death toll is linked to the area’s notoriously poor air pollution levels.
Despite its sparse population of just 43,000, the parish is seeing an unprecedented number of coronavirus deaths across the community. Data from the Louisiana Department of Health shows 569 people had tested positive for coronavirus and 47 people had died as of Wednesday, CNN reported. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8224643/Louisiana-parish-highest-death-rate-capita-coronavirus-US.html
A tiny town in Louisiana – bunch of rednecks who cares maybe they should have voted Hillary / tolerant New York progressive intellectual
Despite its sparse population of just 43,000
Looks at my own town…
I mean i knew i didn’t live in a big city, but we are the county seat…
43k would be the 5th largest city in KY and there are 120 county seats.
Utah is pretty much a city-state. 66% of the population lives along an 80 mile long, 5mile wide stretch of valleys known as the “Wasatch Front”. And half of that is in the Salt Lake Valley. So any town outside of their that is even close to 43k is going to be considered a “large town” to the surrounding area it is located in.
“notoriously poor air pollution levels”
Journalists are apparently struggling with literacy, never mind honesty.
For the 2nd day in a row, SD is the only state over the 10% number I have been looking at. As is usual, South Dakota is still catching up to the rest of America.
Uh, yeah, that’s how having an overdrawn bank account works. So they’ll still get their money. It’ll just be applied to an outstanding debt they voluntarily took on. Sorry, them’s the rules.
The sick thing is that the article has no purpose but to agitate for the “eevul bankers taking advantage of the hapless poor” Marxist oppression narrative. It’s naked socialist propaganda.
It’s smart business but terrible optics. It may play well with us but we aren’t the norm.
And it worked.
Fedgov will make them whole through other means.
The Compliance Goddess at the credit union where I work advised staff yesterday that members (CUese for customers) may withdraw the full amount of their stimulus deposit even if their account was negative when the deposit hit. Likewise, stimulus deposits may not be applied against delinquent loans without the member’s consent.
“California has 10 times more coronavirus cases than reported – and HALF of all New Yorkers are infected, pair of scientists claim
A pair of scientists believe that up to 270,000 residents of California have the novel coronavirus, 10 times more cases than have been reported.
The researchers estimate that up to 4.8 percent of the total US population was infected with the virus by April 6 – 40 times the number of confirmed cases.
They also suggest that almost 50 percent of New Yorkers, which comes out to around nine million people, are likely infected, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
If true, the study would uphold the belief by some in the medical community that a group of asymptomatic and untested carriers are infecting others.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8223329/Pair-scientists-estimate-California-10-times-coronavirus-cases-reported.html
Who the fuck knows?
I question the 50% number only because it appears only 15-20% of the population is susceptible. That may be wrong and 50% may be infected in NY, but I would be surprised if it is that high.
4.8% nation wide might even be a bit low, but probably about right. I also believe 270k in CA.
I doubt 50% but I believe a lot more than official…
It would also indicate that the death rate is much lower than than the current claims.
He shares it with legendary actor (that’s no understatement, he’s probably the second-best silent film comedic actor of all time) Charlie Chaplin, – who is the first? I know little to nothing about silent movies. In US context the first thing that pops to mind is Buster Keaton but then again I have no idea how he ranks.
Harold Lloyd!
Buster Keaton?
It’s Buster Keaton, in my opinion. Lloyd was genius. Chaplin was also a genius. But Keaton was a notch above them.
He was amazing. This is pretty cool.
Oh my God. Holy shit!!!
Freeze that at :41 seconds and try to tell me Jonathan Frakes doesn’t look like a skinny version of fat Orson Welles
Dammit. Now I’ll never get that out of head.
Keaton is indeed the correct answer.
Chaplin was the better storyteller, but Keaton was the brilliant gag technician.
Drake posted an article saying governors do not have the power to issue orders to citizens, even under an emergency declaration, but the article was very vague about which states this applies to. I was looking up the executive orders in NY and they reference a certain law, which by my reading does not give the governor the powers he claims in his executive orders. Example:
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/EXC/29-A
[bold mine, other bold removed]
It seems important that he claims the ability to modify law, however Section 29-a of Article 2-B of the Executive Law says nothing about modifying law, only suspending laws. This makes sense, as the ability to modify law (even subject to the restrictions of the state and US constitutions) is a terrible power.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/EXC/29-A
[bold mine]
Now re-reading it, this gives the governor the power to make ‘directives’ and enforce them. I still don’t see where he has the power to ‘modify’ laws, but he can basically make them from whole cloth, if I’m reading this correctly. This really makes me question the article someone posted previously. Is NY really this shitty? I mean, my own analysis on freedom shows that it is, but come on.
Is NY really this shitty? – do you want people to die or something?
As always Remy has the answer to this: https://reason.com/video/remy-people-will-die/
The article Drake had linked to:: https://thewashingtonstandard.com/do-governors-have-authority-to-shut-down-state-economies-commerce/
Be careful of taking legal advice from The Washington Standard. ?
That’s a rhetorical question, right?
Basically, still a little curious if other states don’t have similar laws on the books though.
I forgot to plug my own article properly: https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/02/freedom-in-the-50-states/
Thanks – what I’ve been wondering this morning – “is there a method in these states for the legislatures to cancel the emergencies and rein in the governors.”
Is there a legislature that isn’t just a cheering squad for the governers’ overreach?
I imagine in some red states. I’ll be making an effort to message my state rep and senator this week (both Republicans), not that they have any real power in NJ.
There’s been at least some push back here in Ohio. I’d feel better if there was more grandstanding against DeWine.
Yes, there is. At least in NY, the legislature can assert authority and reverse the governor. It is somewhere in the same Exec law 29-A I quoted, it is actually very readable and short if you wanna check for it there.
As UCS points out, there is no way that would happen here, at least not in these circumstances, it’d be political suicide.
specifically:
Maybe for NYC Reps. For the upstate Reps, it’s just another futile gesture against your overlords – like my Republican Reps in Warren County, NJ.
~Half the upstate reps are also dems so…
Or spineless Republicans who go along with everything. Ironically, I contacted my rep complaining about over the top restrictions and asking what he would do. Got a form email back saying he was currently recovering from the coronavirus. Which was at least funny.
expired: One China
tired: Sovereign Taiwan
wired: Recognize Taiwan’s independence and offer them full Statehood
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1250611719342178305
Nixon’s biggest mistake was not accepting Kurdistan statehood when offered.
wait was Kurdistan considered to become part of the US?
A kurd in exile who had absolutely no power to offer any such thing met with Nixon and made the offer.
He ended up being one of the Kurdish rulers after the invasion though.
I forget all the details.
Bring along Hong Kong and you’ve got a deal.
While I pray for the people of Hong Kong, it would be yet another lesson to the world of watching Taiwan soar while the once might Hong Kong fell apart in a generation.
Sort of a NK/SK comparison or an East/West Germany comparsion that millennials can relate to.
It’s Time for a Cold War With China
I thought it a bit much when I read it.
But. I find it hard to imagine other effective ways to block their infiltration into American media, academia, and businesses.
On 4 Fronts, How China Quietly Infiltrates American Life
“John M. Ellis, an emeritus professor at the notoriously left-wing University of California at Santa Cruz, cites multiple studies showing that half of graduates make no intellectual gains — ‘no statistically significant gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning or writing skills,’ as one study puts it”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/colleges-and-universities-threatened-by-covid-19
I would say that higher ed has succeeded brilliantly.
I call bullshit on that study!
The number of morons leaving these schools is far, far higher than just 50%. My take is that it is closer to 75-90% these days with the higher number coming form your more woke Ivy League schools.
What makes a bathouse “upscale?” Tile v. linoleum? Fluffier towels? Monogrammed condoms and organic, free-range lube?
I honestly have zero interest in the subject or particulars of the article but just find the phrasing amusing, and the idea of a bouncer at the door saying “no fatties, femmes or poors” to be hilarious.
Wouldn’t know about that industry’s amenities and expectations, but as a rule “upscale” generally means they cultivate an air of smugness, and charge more for it, so the customers don’t have to mingle with riffraff.
What makes a bathouse “upscale – expensive everything. Tiles faucets escorts etc.
“No fatties”
John’s out.
#VeryOldLocationJoke
I notice that nobody gives Tres shit over it. And people think libertarians are socially unaware aspies!
Tres leans into it. John was always over-sensitive.
Of course. Insults only work if the target is sensitive to them. That’s why I often respont to the statement that “X was bullied because xir was Y” with great skepticism. Especially when I can look at X and feel the urge to swirly xim myslef without knowing them. I believe most of the time X was bullied because of the bully/bullied dymanic, and Y was the tactic that got the response the bully liked best.
#ThickThighsSaveLives
Random anecdote from the history of Bucharest.
Back in medieval times upper floors of buildings extended more than the ground floor, over the street. The first ever regulation of building in Bucharest in 1804 banned this practice, as it crowded the public streets. Now in 1827 someone was building a new house in the fancy part of town and wanted to make a balcony on the street side. This was attacked by others and it ended up in the top legislative forum, a the high boyar council, which in the end decided that, strictly speaking, a balcony is not banned by the regulation as it is not a an overhanging room , and thus allowed to be build, especially since it was a new architecture trend and considered to aesthetically improve the city.
Oh goddamnit stupid fuckin squirrels
Enemies of the
peopleRepublic*MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle was interviewing former Obama bro Jim Messina today, who was ranting about Donald Trump, calling his press briefings a clown show. Instead of asking her guest to pull it back a bit or countering that ridiculous charge, Ruhle smeared herself with honey and ran right into bear country.
Here she is actually suggesting Joe Biden setup his own “shadow government” to counter Trump.
*such as it exists, limping along.
Today, New York is going to continue being my Whipping Boy.
Why? Well, today the number one news story on NBC’s Today Show and on ABC’s Good Morning America was that New York has ordered people to wear masks!
Okay, New York really isn’t the butt of this scorn. It is actually the media. New York, which has by far the largest concentration of infected folk in the United States, it’s coming very late to the mask fad. But the media just can’t help themselves. They put Governor Cuomo on and fawned over his prescient knowledge in ordering people to wear masks.
Never mind that they’ve been wearing masks in Asia for over two months. Never mind that many other areas in the United States have been doing the mask thing for a week or two now.
No, masks have come to the home of the media! Therefore, they just came into existence yesterday!
I continue to Marvel at the stunning myopia of the media. They live in their bubble, that is for sure. These people really don’t believe that anything exists outside of New York City.
If they had any honesty or Insight, they would be excoriating New York for their lethal laxity in adopting public mask-wearing. But no, I got to watch a series of fawning exhibitions of the New York Governor announcing his policy on masks. And he was very forceful and energetic in his condemnation of those who don’t wear masks, so that makes him extra awesome!
I vacillate between suspecting incompetence and malfeasance. But why not both?!
I do not want another piece of theater to be harassed over.
Throw Andy into the Hudson.
Unlock the state.
Never mind that they’ve been wearing masks in Asia for over two months.
Lot longer than that. Even in a normal winter, you’ll see 30-40% of people wearing a mask on the train. Yeah, I know, corona isn’t the flu, but it isn’t spread by assex either.
They’ve known masks would have a positive effect but the supply has caught up with the demand and now it’s OK to tell people the truth and to act on what they knew the whole time. It’s lying for the populace’s own good and is the worst kind of government paternalism.
Even straight kids in Nebraska can get AIDS.
I’m fine with a recommendation. It’s when they try to order me to do something that I take issue.
They should have been straight with us from the beginning: “Yes, masks can help slow down the spreading of the virus, but our supply of them is critically short. We are asking that everyone use home made masks right now, so we can get the masks that we do have to critical people like health care workers.”
The funny thing is though, that if they had said that, the worst hoarders would have been Karens. They are too precious to risk their health. They need to stay safe so they can help the rest of us cope.
But yeah, they never seem to understand that telling lies about shit destroys your credibility and then when you need it most, no one listens.
Just observing around me, city New Yorkers have been wearing masks at over 50% for weeks now. It was probably up to about 90% last week.
Do not confuse people making their own decisions with Cuomo’s diktats.
“But I can see them claiming that early re-opening is only possible because of the socialized medicine…”
They seem to want to ignore that China, Italy, etc. all have “socialized medicine”.
“They seem to want to ignore that China, Italy, etc. all have “socialized medicine”
That’s not real socialism!
It’s National Horny Day.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=national%20horny%20day
Except here at glibertarians. Here, it is squirrel day.
I thought every day here was squirrel day?
And yes, some people are freaking out.
You mean, if you convince people the Boooooogeyman is real, and he’s under their bed, some of them won’t believe you when you say you were just joshing?
Maybe it’s self defense, because they don’t want to feel like they’ve been duped by a bunch of assholes.
I would never have given this prick his press pass back.
Acosta said, “I think what we are seeing this week with the president’s response to the pandemic, it that it is really highlighting some of his authoritarian impulses.”
He continued, “He went back to this idea that he has total authority, that he essentially retreated from yesterday. He was saying … that we have the right, meaning the White House, to do whatever we want. That is false. The White House does not have the right — he doesn’t have the right to do whatever he wants. He can’t order these states, these governors to do what he wants. Obviously, if he puts out guidelines that they don’t agree with, they’re not going to follow those guidelines. Then the president will find out how far his power can go.”
Does too much: Authoritarian
Does too little: ineffective and dangerous
Never mind that he does have control on the federal state of emergency, which is the meat of the issue here.
Was he one of the ones bitching last week that Trump hadn’t overridden the states and instituted a federal lockdown?
Just like the Bee said. “Vicious Tyrant Trump Wants To Let People Leave Their Homes”
I keep hearing this “Cuomo ORDERED people in New York to wear masks” business. Does that mean the entire state of New York, or just that one really special part down there on the other side of the George Washington Bridge?
Does it matter? He is dreamy!
All you haters can just step off.
The hinterlands exist to serve the Capital, that’s what “Empire State” menas!
It applies everywhere, FYTW.
So I was at Lowe’s the other day. They had the “stand here” circles every 6 feet in the check out line, so people in line distanced properly. However, the adjacent line’s circles were in synce, so only maybe 2 ft apart at most Ummm….okay. someone didnt think that thru.
I see people walking around the grocery store wearing surgical masks but only covering their mouths. Others just have them around their ears but pulled down around their chins, as if it’s a magical talisman that just has to be in your possession to function.
I see it more as insurance against do-gooders who might chastise you for not having it.
I have masks and bandannas. I don’t wear them. About half the people I see don’t have them.
The concession I do make is that I try to be very conscious of not touching my face, especially out in public.
For those who were unaware, Firaxis has dropped an announcement about a new X-Com game coming out next week. Chimera Squad, takes place after 2, and seems to be them tweaking the formula instead of revamping the whole game.
I lost interest the moment I heard you had to use their predefined characters instead of levelling up your dudes.
It’s got to be better then The Bureau, it’s turn based, and cheap enough to take a flyer on (for me). The predefined characters don’t bother me so much, and I hope that you can still tweak them through the leveling process.
The Bureau wasn’t that bad. It was mostly hindered by slapping the XCOM name on it.
Speaking of games, I beat Super Mario Brothers the other day in just over 7 minutes (7:12). It’s my best time ever, and I hope to get a sub-7 minute speedrun done some day.
Congratulations on a new personal best.
*backs slowly out of room*
I can’t even play games with timers now. Hell, even timed sections agitate the f**k out me lately.
Could I interest you in Practical Shooting?
Speaking of games that are tweaking the formula, This is one of the reasons i can’t bring myself to buy Bannerlord. I loved Mount and Blade Warband, but after 8 years of development, i am not going to shell out $40 for a game that is basically a reskin of the one i own already. And in “Early Access”. You had 8 fucking years, you should not be releasing into “Early Access”.
On the flip side i am quite prepared to shell $60 for Crusader Kings III, because i a) Know what new features they will have, and b) only have to wait max 18 months from when they announced it to when they plan to release it.
Funny, I bought Bannerlord and am hesitant to shell out anything for CK3, mostly because the improvements to one will be free, while each tweak to the other will be $9.99-$14.99 a pop and break the game of anyone who doesn’t pony up.
CKII is one of my all-time favorite games. I get the complaint about the DLC, but I’m usually pretty happy with shelling out 7 bucks during a sale on new features. I’m more weary of paying premium prices for a game with a “Promise” of new features in the pipeline. But that’s just preferential.
*glances at 261 hours on record in steam*
I may have dabbled in that title.
Of late, it crashes on start.
I have made a conscious effort to never /played in WoW.
I am leery of repairing my gaming rig, lest I start that addiction back up.
My laptop handles Skyrim ok, so I made the mistake of firing that up becasue I didn’t feel like wathcing TV last weekend. Five hours later…
I looked at the games I spent too much time playing (over 100 hours)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 508 hrs on record
BATTLETECH 315 hrs on record
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution 312 hrs on record
Fallout 4 267 hrs on record
Crusader Kings II 261 hrs on record
RimWorld 248 hrs on record
Dragon Age: Origins 243 hrs on record
Kerbal Space Program 228 hrs on record
MechWarrior Online 194 hrs on record
Stellaris 189 hrs on record
Fallout: New Vegas 178 hrs on record
Total War: WARHAMMER II 175 hrs on record
Total War: WARHAMMER 152 hrs on record
Conan Exiles 149 hrs on record
Red Dead Redemption 2 145 hrs on record
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition 126 hrs on record
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II 120 hrs on record
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 113 hrs on record
Grand Theft Auto V 112 hrs on record
Mass Effect 2 100 hrs on record
I play video games too much…
I spent a couple of hundred hours back in the day on Leisure Suit Larry, so I knmow how ya feel…
I was on the fence but pulled the trigger on Bannerlord. I usually have a limit of $15 for computer games, but made an exception. I had the same reskin and early access concerns. After playing, I think the improvements are worth the price. And the devs are taking feedback seriously and releasing updates on an almost daily basis.
Bannerlord is good. The combat is just too much fun.
The content overall seems a little empty, but there’s not many bugs for an early access game.
The White House are
This strikes me as correct; it rings true.
I rather dislike Brits in most ways, not because they’re bad . . . they’re great . . . but because, when they’re bad, it’s in historic and philosophical ways that they should know better. They start off with ideas like agency, steam, and cars, and then they just make a mess of it. The main thing I hate about Brits is they’re always reminding me how British I am: I’m just a powdered wig away from striding past the guards and into Parliament without anyone’s notice.
But the collective noun rings plural. I’m not tempted to use it myself, not even when I had a Welsh grandboss who used the same old phrases that my hillbilly clan have brought over three centuries ago.
And now for something completely different:
What we need is leadership.
Harris said, “Well, Anderson, you’re quite right. He is doing it on purpose, so this would be the lead question to deflect from the fact that he has failed to be a leader during a pandemic, an economic crisis facing our country. I think we have to stop waiting for him to act like a president and just move on and talk about what is happening in states. What is happening with local leaders around the need to address the pain that Americans are feeling every day? It’s a distraction. He’s doing this as a way to distract us from the topic at hand. Let’s talk about the topic at hand. Checks are starting to be cut by the Treasury Department. I’m sending a letter with others of my colleagues to demand and request that Secretary Mnuchin make it clear that debt collectors cannot take those checks because those checks are going to start flowing.”
She added, “These are the issues at hand. We have had an abject failure of leadership from Donald Trump, and I’m frankly tired of sitting around waiting for him to act like a president or be a president. He doesn’t know how to do the job.”
What would define leadership? Martial law?
No, no, no. That would be authoritarian. But if he let’s the States act on their own with federal support that is weak and bad leadership. I want it both ways. – The Press
Fauci wants you to get it in.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/15/fauci-endorses-tinder-hookups-with-a-caveat/
You can’t play tennis in a park, but you can fuck internet strangers?
If you do it from behind, then shower, odds are you will not transmit any CV-19. Of course, no kissing allowed…
“said Fauci, who was named a candidate for People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” award.”
Fucking disgusting hero worship…good lord.
Dude looks like Jamie Farr got a Rhinoplasty. Who would nominate him?
Karens would be my guess.
Can you explain Hugh Hefner?
Money and the lifestyle available.
Fauci is power…and probably a little bit of money.
Worked for Kissinger, too.
I thought Cuomo was in the running because he “stuck it” to Drumpf and has been so successful with the pandemic (you know, despite NYC still being the hotbed of outbreak/death in the country…)
This is what comes of a generation raised by single mothers.
I thought the masks in China were because of particulate pollution.
I haven’t been following the tale of the cashiered CO of the USS Roosevelt, but I do want to share something that I suspect gets left off from the twenty-four-hours hate on our telescreens.
To command an aircraft carrier, an officer must be:
1) A naval aviator
2) Have had a successful tour as the CO of a deep draft vessel
3) Graduated from the Navy’s nuclear power training program.
4) Had a successful tour as XO of a carrier
The pool of navy captains who meet this criteria is very small. Typically, an aviator is selected for the pipeline to be a carrier CO when they are a LCDR or very junior CDR. The Navy then slots them into the various schools and commands they need to be prepared for a carrier and selects which carrier they will command and when. The end result is that when they enter the program the next seven to ten years of assignments is pretty much locked in.
Thus when a prospect flunks out of the program, or is relieved, it’s a major disaster; filling the empty slots isn’t a simple case of grabbing the next warm body and throwing them in there.
I believe that at any time there are probably 20 people eligible to command the 12 or so nuclear powered aircraft carriers in the U.S. fleet. It’s safe to say that it’s easier to replace an assistant secretary of the Navy than it is a CO of a nimitz class carrier
That seems like a readiness problem to me. This guy leaked, if not classified, definitely sensitive information and should be relieved. Even absent any wrongdoing, people unexpectedly get sick or die and if there’s really that big of a dearth of qualified COs, then maybe the Navy needs to reexamine its procedures.
It seems excessive to require all of that. How much of it is actually needed for the role? #4 I’d say can stay., but #1 and #3 sound mutually exclusive.
They’re not. We had a CDR in my nuclear power class. He was a very intelligent and laid back guy. They basically apply for the program in lieu of following the traditional path of commanding a squadron of aircraft.
The Navy learned early on that a carrier is less a ship and more a floating air base is the reason for #1.
It’s a little stupider than that.
Basically, back in the 30’s, carriers were viewed as support ships whose role would be to put aircraft in the air to search for enemy ships which the battleships would then hunt down and destroy.
So for surface warfare officers, becoming the CO of a carrier was about as career enhancing as becoming the CO of a tender. Additionally, making admiral generally required command of a vessel.
So the surface warfare community and the aviation community agreed on a compromise that benefited both communities – restricting command of carriers to aviators opened another pathway to flag rank to the aviation community, and eliminated the need to divert promising surface warfare officers to ships that had minimal war-fighting value.
It’s created some interesting tensions. Of the three CO’s I had in the Navy, only one was genuinely interested in commanding the vessel as a vessel. The other two rarely went below the O-3 level (eg they hung out with the airplanes and rarely went below decks). In fact, before I got to the ship, there was an incident when the reactor officer got so pissed off at the captain declining to give us time to do maintenance in the engine room (the maintenance was now overdue to the point where naval reactors was going to start ‘helping’). The RO ordered both reactor plant watch officers to perform emergency shutdowns of the reactors and called up the captain telling him “try flying your damn planes now”. In the end, the Navy ended up supporting the RO over the CO. The CO still made admiral despite that incident. The RO ended up commanding an AEGIS cruiser after he rotated off the ship.
I was thinking the same thing!
You’re discounting all the officers who qualify but have been promoted. They could easily slot a Rear Admiral into the job until a qualified candidate checks all the boxes.
Brilliant reply to controlled trials argument on Covid-19.
More Government Officials Calling For Common-Sense Religion Control
Trump Announces He Has Hidden 5 Golden Tickets Among Stimulus Checks
I love it
Master trolling.
She added, “These are the issues at hand. We have had an abject failure of leadership from Donald Trump, and I’m frankly tired of sitting around waiting for him to act like a president or be a president. He doesn’t know how to do the job.”
Not Authoritarian Enough, then.
I’ve been wondering where Ol’ Kamala has been. A situation like this is tailor made for a iron-fist-in-an-iron-glove Stalinist like her.
When this all started, I knew nothing of Corona viruses. The infection rate, the mortality rate, how it mutates. I’ve swung a few times on how serious this disease was and thought, at times, this could be really bad. One thing that has never changed for me is that the US government doesn’t have the right under the current constitution to do what it’s doing. Follow the damn thing or amend it if you’re going to be on the TV telling us how you represent us.
I still find it like living in bizzaro world that you in Japan actually have more freedoms related to the virus and activity than we do here.
There are points where Japan gives more freedom than the US even in normal times. We all make our trade offs.
Social pressure in Japan is a double edged sword.
Don’t worry, just hold out until we are finally rid of Orange Mussolini, and we can sort of go back to normal. It will be just like the good old days when we had Obama as king. Well, sort of, I mean I can just hear the One now:
‘We can’t go back to normal. I mean umm… uhhhh. if if if if if if if if ummm… uhhh, you know, you folks, you can’t drive your SUV. You can’t take that vacation, but if if if if if if if if if…. ummm’
*media swooning* what a great orator!
I’d agree, although I’d point the finger at state governments.
Has the FedGov actually done anything yet that oversteps it’s authority because of CV? (Its a legit question, not snark.) all the unconstitutional restrictions have been done by state and local authorities from what I’ve seen.
Most of the federal action has been suspending regulations.
And spending money.
It’s safe to say that it’s easier to replace an assistant secretary of the Navy than it is a CO of a nimitz class carrier
I find this to be completely believable.
Random anecdote from the history of Bucharest.
Back in medieval times upper floors of buildings extended more than the ground floor, over the street. The first ever regulation of building in Bucharest in 1804 banned this practice, as it crowded the public streets. Now in 1827 someone was building a new house in the fancy part of town and wanted to make a balcony on the street side. This was attacked by others and it ended up in the top legislative forum, a the high boyar council, which in the end decided that, strictly speaking, a balcony is not banned by the regulation as it is not a an overhanging room , and thus allowed to be build, especially since it was a new architecture trend and considered to aesthetically improve the city.
Top. Boyars.
Well, in true shit-lord fashion, I spent some of my Trump bucks on His and Her armor packages. Even picked up a couple canine vests for the dogs, which were surprisingly difficult to find for non-LEOs. I’m curious exactly how many criminals commit their crimes with armored attack dogs. Gotta keep those doggie vests out of the hands of the plebes I guess.
I don’t know, we’ve been kicking around acquiring these for years but seems like current events are deteriorating rather than improving. I’m worried Governor Blackface in VA is going to use the lockdown as an excuse to finally ban sales to “civilians” (with the King’s Men of course exempted). Aside from all of the craziness, the dogs will be better protected from errant hunters in our hikes through the woods which has been an ongoing concern.
ps. don’t tell John.
John’s meltdown on TOS about banning body armor was one of the weirder things in the comments there.
One of the internet gun stores has an ad out that lists “our favorite rifles under $1200” followed by “our favorite handguns under $1200” and ends with “or just get 9.3 Hi-Points”
That’s funny. I have a soft spot for Hi-Points. My first firearm acquisition as broke-ass college student was a .40 Hi-Point. Still have it. It’s ugly as sin and a beast but holds its own.
There’s nothing wrong with Hi-Points. They’re perfectly serviceable blunt force objects.
My first gun ever (purchased without my mom’s permission when I was 18 but still living at home) was a HiPoint 995 Carbine. Still have it.
It may not be a tack driver, and it’s certainly not winning any firearm beauty pageants. But it goes bang every single time I pull the trigger, which is more than I can say for some far more expensive rifles that I’ve seen people struggling with at the range.
What did you get? How did you decide what was right for you?
We each got two sets. III+ steel fronts and sides for if if things truly get bad or if I have time to put on to deal with a home invasion or spotted poachers. I was okay with a cheaper set and steel since the frequency of being used would hopefully be extremely rare.
I also got IIIA concealable soft armor. I figure I’ll get my use out of it while hiking during deer season or other things that come up from time to time. The panels can double as trauma pads for the III+ system. If things deteriorate a little more, may start wearing out. Our local national-chain grocery store that I go to regularly, in a decent area, was just robbed at gunpoint during the day. People are starting to get desperate.
We can’t have civilian dogs with armored vests. – cops eagerly wanting to shoot dogs
As someone who only went hunting once in his youth, is it normal for hunters to take a shot when you can’t 100% identify the target as a deer and not a dog? Just firing at a patch of fur visible through the foliage doesn’t seem responsible.
…if they do, they shouldn’t. That is how idiots shoot people on hikes.
Haven’t hunted in groups so can’t say about others. I figure the thing about hunters wearing orange is for a reason.
Hunters shouldn’t be on my property though, so I’m more concerned about their reaction if we come across them while hiking. The bodies of my neighbor’s dogs were found by our pond shortly before we moved in.
A good friend of mine was killed while hunting. We were seniors in high school. He went with a friend. They were single file. The friend was behind.
You can probably guess what happened.
The deer shot back?
Deer are typically unarmed.
Bears, on the other hand…
The friend was Dick Cheney?
He was not cut out for the Mormon demon killers?
There’s a huge contingent committed to owning their bullet: knowing the target, knowing the backstop, and trying to make a high-probably kill switftly.
But buck fever does weird things even to decent men. You can see with your brain and your hopes instead of your eyes, just like when instant replay shows you that your play call was built mostly on emotion, on partisan revisionism, instead of what actually happened on the baselines or the gridiron: people absolutely see what they want to see. The problem is, if you “see” a deer and shoot it but it turns out it was a cow or your buddy or whatever, there’s no install replay and certainly no do-over.
I went out hunting for deer for 5 years in southern Arizona (not a lot of deer). I never even got a shot off because my rule was to never take the first shot if I didn’t have a clear second shot. I simply had no interest in injuring an animal to go off and slowly die in agony.
It’s a complete and utter violation of Rule #4 (“be sure of your target and what’s beyond it”).
That said, it does happen of course. Sometimes because of teh stoopid, and sometimes because your mind can convince you that it’s seeing what it wants to see. Either way, your conscious brain has to be in control. And sometimes, for some folks, it’s not.
“Flatten the curve” is just new-speak for “Die later, peon!” Fight me!
WHACK!
Well, looks like I’ve got another use for all of these koozies I’ve got sitting around.
Gun Rights, Emergencies, And Petty Tyrants
Waiting periods that require two trips to a store to buy a single gun might not matter to someone who resides near the Cabela’s in Thornton, Colorado. But for the busy rancher or farmer who lives hours away from a gun store, the additional burden is high enough to make firearms acquisition impossible, especially during peak periods.
Alternatively, California’s badly-administered new laws for background checks on ammunition is making ammunition purchases impossible for many lawful buyers.
Maximizing harassment of law-abiding gun owners is a feature, not a bug, of gun control. The fewer gun owners, the easier to constrict the remnant of clingers.
Alternatively, California’s badly-administered
This is an example of blue-pilled. California is not trying to administer these laws well. the point is for them to be an impediment. complaining about the efficiency of your enslavement is peak Blue Pilled, and why many in the Gun Rights movement are ineffectual.
Yep. One of the moments I stopped thinking of leftists as well meaning but ignorant and started thinking of them as evil fuckers who want to enslave me was when I read a leftist argument against regulations on abortion clinics. They were easily able to explain why regulations on a right are a burden on the right, that letting people who are opposed to a right regulate that right means they will regulate that right out of existence, that if something is a right then any regulations are illegitimate.
They know that when Republican state legislatures load up abortion clinic regulations its an attempt to do through regulation what they cannot do through legislation. They know that. They’re not ignorant, they’re not misinformed. They want your guns, and they are willing to attack your gun rights on the legislative, executive, judicial, and bureaucratic fronts.
On the flipside, “absolute no compromise” is also counterproductive, as long as that compromise moves the needle in the right direction. Take the approach socialists have always taken, get the 25% solution, then come back later for more. As long as your moving in the right direction, no matter how slowly, and you don’t give up ground, you’re winning.
We had a lobbying group here that, maybe 10 years ago (?) had actually gotten the legislature on board with Constitutional Carry but they still demanded restrictions in certain state-owned buildings. So the lobbyists, and the reps they handled, dug in and refused to accept that, so the whole thing got spiked. Yes, the limitations are unconstitutional, but only an idiot gives up 80% perfection when the alternative is 0%. It’s called strategy and it’s part of why libertarians have microscopic political power. Being autistic and insisting on the perfectly principled solution or nothing every time will always get you nothing.
The problem is that compromises are almost never in the right direction, with your example being one of the exceptions. Gun-control proponents are mendacious liars.
Lately, this has been the bulk of the examples. The status quo was, while not necessarily desirable, a certain bare level of respect for the right to keep and bear arms. Then along comes the gun control brigade and it’s red flag laws, assault weapon bans, magazine limits, waiting periods, purchase time limits, “universal” background checks, etc. Any compromise on this matter is thus going to be a move in the wrong direction.
Of course, as Virginia shows, they’re going to get most of what they want, anyway. So it’s a poisonous situation all around.
Don’t compromise enough and you accomplish nothing. Compromise too much and, well, you’re the GOP.
Counterpoint: VA.
The new Dem majorities and government have slammed through every fucking bill they wanted, in a matter of months. Even the gun control bills that were delayed have, I believe, been passed while the Commie Cough had everyone distracted.
yes: I think that correctly points to a keener issue. There must be some sort of check; if you’re in the minority in both houses, there’s no compromises to be secured: you simply get run over.
I do vote for incompetents and wackos if that’s what’s needed to help one party offset the other. I love gridlock; I don’t want help or progress. I want frustrated Democrats and helpless Republicans both wailing and gnashing . . . the very image sends me to . . . to . . . well, let’s just say CrustyTown.
I’m a fairly-unique test case for the “it’s easier to buy a gun than a book!” crowd. I bought a shotgun online and had it shipped to a local (MN) store — no permits required for shotguns in Minnesota, although as far as I can tell shotguns are the only guns exempt from needing a permit. As I was driving to the store to pick it up, I had a bit of an “oh fuck” moment — I’ve yet to go get a MN driver’s license, as I just moved here in late summer 2019. As such, I have no proof of residence. Sure enough, when I got to the store, the owner told me I couldn’t pick it up until I had a MN driver’s license. Worse yet is that all the DMVs have stopped processing new licenses until the stay-at-home order is lifted.
DAFUQ??!?
How many books (or anything other than a firearm) have you needed a permit or some form of identification to purchase? And while, yes, the constitution (via the bill of rights) states that there will be a free press nothing states that access to the fruits of that press should be as unfettered as the right to arms is supposed to be.
You forgot the ten day waiting period, one book per month, ban on high-capacity omnibus editions, and mandatory background checks before being able to purchase. Plus all those people clamoring to end the library loophole.
I tried to buy a revolver at a gun show one time, and the guy wouldn’t sell it to me because I had moved recently and my driver’s license still had my old address on it.
How can this be?! I’ve heard from all the Reputable Sources™ that every gun show is exempt from gun laws and that it’s illegal to check ID or do a background check there!
… Ended up being a good thing though since it was a cheapo Taurus revolver that I probably would have regretted.
“Conclusions As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.”
LOL
Security personnel in Nigeria have killed at least 18 people enforcing restrictions introduced to slow the spread of coronavirus
https://twitter.com/BBGAfrica/status/1250698231262187520
Those count as NYC coronadeaths!
“He had expressed the desire to go to NYC one day.”
/counted
“Are you the guy who ordered this omelet?”
“With even medical professionals struggling to get their hands on enough N95 masks — and being forced to re-wear them, which can diminish their efficacy — few members of the American public will have these for themselves.
They usually sell for about $1 each, with stores like Home Depot selling packs of ten for $10.69 and packs of 20 for $14.99.
But N95 masks are sold out from nearly all stores and websites, with availability limited to international sellers, mostly in China.
Those are being sold at marked-up prices, like $49.99 for just two on Amazon.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8222969/What-different-kinds-face-masks-work.html
This is what pisses me off. I’m still mad at myself for not buying some back in January. The worst that could have happened is that I spent $20 on masks I didn’t need.
Don’t beat yourself up; hindsight is always 20/20.
… But when this is over, I’m going to get back into prepping. The buying panic in my area seems to have largely subsided (the butcher shop has everything in stock again, and Kroger even had toilet paper the other day) but it could have been very bad for me if it had gotten any worse than that.
I’m going to try to keep:
– Enough canned/dry food to eat for at least a month without requiring anything else
– A few gallons of fresh water and some water purification supplies
– At least 500 rounds each for my AK and 9mm, and a healthy supply of #00 buckshot
– A Sterno stove, maybe an electric generator
– Some masks, when they get back down to a buck a piece
If you settle on a system, please write an article. I’m still stinging from the Great Mojo Prepper Panic of 2008 when I spent a lot of money on various things (beyond the 72-hour kits) because I didn’t know what I should do and I was taking advice from all sorts of websites.
That said, I did stock masks, 3 per 72-hour kit (12). I have no idea why I did that.
Well, I’m off too grow the curve. Casserole and some sleep. I love you guys and I hope you all win the lottery of life today. Might see you on Friday if I can wrest the rolling pin away from Wifey.
It looks like this new girlfriend thing can go on the books as one more victim of the coronaplague. I haven’t seen her for a week. Last time I saw her, she said something about having vowed to “never get involved with another Republican”. I thought at the moment it was just the margaritas talking, but I guess not.
I suspect the cognitive dissonance has broken her brain. It takes a lot of effort to immunize yourself from acknowledging the plainly obvious distinction between intention and observable effect. But Democrats are better people than conservatives, because EMPATHY.
Maybe when the lockdown is over and she has a permission slip from the governor to fraternize with the other sheep she’ll find a nice subservient Democrat to fuck.
I’m not gonna lie. It was fun while it lasted.
It has been my experience that getting laid, even by a progressive, is usually worth it. It is the conversations afterwards that are the problem. Especially since I can’t keep my trap shut and just nod.
You don’t pay the whore for the sex, you pay her to leave after it’s over.
Sorry to hear bud, I can’t imagine being single with nothing else to do at this time… guess you’ll get your money’s worth out of that free pornhub premium. 😛
Be careful what you wish for.
And count your blessings.
If they can’t empathize with Republicans, then they don’t actually have any empathy at all.
It looks like this new girlfriend thing can go on the books as one more victim of the coronaplague.
Use that line to get your next gal. The full Costanza treatment of using a dead gal to win the sympathy of new potential booty calls.
Sounds like you are lucky to have dodged a bullet while getting what was needed. Good luck in your further endeavors.
Sorry bruh. But it’s probably better for you in the long run if she would act like that over your political persuasion.
Look, I couldn’t deal with a mixed-politics relationship, either. If I were dating a guy I found out to be a rabid prog, I’d bail.
Him: Something stupid.
Me: I’m sorry, could you clarify what you meant by that?
Him: Lefty talking points.
Me: Yes, but rational rebuttal.
Him: Trying to convince me I’m wrong and mansplaining with WELL AKSHUALLY.
Me: Look, I’m not into arguing with my dates and I’m not into relationships with people who are diametrically opposed to everything I believe in, so…ciao.
I’ve lost two very long-time friendships over politics. I’m damn sure not going to put up with that bullshit with somebody I just met whether I was fucking him or not.
Security personnel in Nigeria have killed at least 18 people enforcing restrictions introduced to slow the spread of coronavirus
IF IT SAVES ONE LIFE
Last night, I watched a movie called Hara-Kiri
It was excellent excellent excellent, but an utterly grueling experience. Not exactly a date movie.
California is using $75 million in taxpayer money to give illegal aliens a Covid check. The money will not be based on income and their personal information will not be required to get the money.
I have to find a way out of this shithole state. I just can’t do this anymore, I’m so fucking done with this bullshit.
Serious question, why aren’t you claiming some of it, they’re not checking IDs right?
Never thought of that… I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Apparently the money will go to non-profits who will then determine who should get money.
That doesn’t answer your question though.
Ah, they’re rewarding their cronies.
LOL
What a joke.
At least you have better weather than we do in NJ.
I live in the desert, our summer temperatures often exceed 110. On occasion we hit 120. We only average 3″ of rainfall annually. It’s a hot, dusty, desolate area. The only benefit is having the best carne asada in the world.
Good ol’ El Centro. At least you had a better mall than Yuma did.
This is true. Mexicali shoppers for the win!
My husband is from LA, but he lived in Palm Springs for a long time. He was happy to leave and much happier here in Missouri.
I have a really good job. I’m “essential” and nobody really knows what I do or how I do it. They only know if it doesn’t get done there are major consequences. So I have little to no supervision, essentially I’m my own boss. As long as I don’t screw up I’m left alone, and I don’t screw up, ever. Having said that, I’m so fed up with California that I would rather struggle in another State than deal with the current nonsense. I’m also aware of the coming financial collapse that California will soon inflict upon itself. I really need to get out while I can.
Palm Springs is too hot and too small and ultimately too boring.
I’ve had it with all this ‘we’re in this together’ propaganda while people are acting as if they’re saving mankind for being sheep.
#bakingbread; #reflectingonlife; #cherishthesmallthings; #learningalanguage; #suckmyballs; #ihateeveryoneexceptmycat.
Amen, brother
#awesomehastags
I watched the first episode of Tales from the Loop on Amazon Prime last night. It was like a gentler Twilight Zone
When I log off of work today, I’m going to finish off Devs.
Well I don’t know about you but my main take away from The Twilight Zone was usually “give it to me harder, daddy”, so I don’t think I could stand a gentler version.
Has anyone seen this? It’s a six-part Brit drama featuring a character called “Milton Friedkin”, that seems to be about class struggle/war/something.
FYI, I once discovered I have three degrees of seperation from Friedman. I’m unworthy! I’m unworthy!
Okay via 503s and 504s every time I post, the squirrels are going TOO FAR, DAMN IT. This was a seperate comment.
Make the comment, wait 5 seconds and hit cancel for the page load. Then reload the page (F5).
I’ve found I can even make multiple comments without reloading. Not getting any GILMORES on my end.
I want to like TFTL, but it is really really slow.
“It looks like this new girlfriend thing can go on the books as one more victim of the coronaplague. I haven’t seen her for a week. Last time I saw her, she said something about having vowed to “never get involved with another Republican”. I thought at the moment it was just the margaritas talking, but I guess not.”
Maybe you dodged a bullet there.
Also, this^
If it saves one politician
Protection measures against the coronavirus continued to tear through the employment ranks, with 5.245 million more Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
That brings the crisis total to just over 22 million, nearly wiping out all the job gains since the Great Recession.
The total was a bit worse than the 5 million expected from economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
Though the most recent count, for the week ended April 11, represented a drop from the previous two weeks, it showed that the damage to the U.S. labor market remains profound.
“As we fully know the current state of the labor market with mass waves of layoffs, the key question turns to how many of these people will be rehired when the economy starts to reopen,” said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at the Bleakley Group. “We can assume it will take a long time for that to happen but hopefully we’re getting closer to at least getting started.”
“It was a mercy killing.”
“Weekly jobless claims hit 5.245 million, raising monthly loss to 22 million due to coronavirus”
Not exactly. The loss iof 22,000,000 jobs is due to the politician’s panicked response to the Wuhan coronavirus, not to the virus itself.
Exactly. If anything, the virus will create job openings.
Remember, destroyed livelihoods and lost nest eggs are worth it to extend just one chronically ill nursing home resident’s life by a few months.
The actual effectiveness of these measures at achieving the stated premise seems to be pretty low. Apparently, governors and other “authority” figures have never met anyone who works in a nursing home.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the “flattening the curve” theory dependent on people getting exposed to the virus, albeit at a sustainable rate? In that case, your would want to have a “leaky” quarantine, as long as the hospitals aren’t overwhelmed. Right now every hospital is staffed and geared up for this, so why not allow some spread? A tight lockdown is just going to delay the curve, not flatten it.
Sounds right to me.
WHY DO YOU WANT TO KILL GRANDMA!2111!!!
Bitch has it coming.
There you go again with your science and logic, shitlord!
This does not appear to be taken out of context.
There used to be reactions to such blatant disregard for rights, law and the constitution.
“Stimulus checks are being spent on dildos, tigers, guns and stripper poles”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1250572232771993600
https://nypost.com/2020/04/15/stimulus-checks-are-being-spent-on-dildos-tigers-guns-and-stripper-poles/
I’ve never been so proud of all of you.
+9″ of stimulus
I took the $500 per kid and dropped it into their 529 accounts.
There is still time to blow the remaining $2,400 though.
That’s a lot of dildoes.
Single use.
I picked up a nice “cruiser” bicycle that is going to get some heavy use this summer (but I was going to get that whether I got the stimulus or not). I guess another chunk of it went to the mechanic to replace a brake caliper that was leaking brake fluid. I’ve got a few hundred bucks left.
And the rest was wasted?
I did throw a certain amount into a certain crypto asset.
Two thoughts on that:
1) What fucking store sells dildos, guns tigers AND stripper poles? Not even Fleet Farm can say that.
2) You know anyone going through the checkout line with dildos, tigers, guns and stripper poles is going to be violating the social distancing edicts within 24 hours.
I watched the first episode of Tales from the Loop on Amazon Prime last night. It was like a gentler Twilight Zone
I have been tempted to give it a look, but those Amazon shows are really hit or miss. Like the last round of Goliath. Apparently that Hunters thing sucks balls.
Having seen only one episode, I can’t say for sure but I think it’s a set of unconnected stories set in a single town set in the ambiguous past with alien-based hypertech.
The first episode might have been extremely clever with its fashion cues. I’ll have to watch more before I give them kudos for that.
TW: tinkly piano score and moody lighting.
Oh and one thing that I found refershng and realistic is that the protagonist (who was the only character without a name in the credits) was about 8 or 9, but she had a degree of self-sufficiency that would have been appropriate for that time range (50s – early ’80s).
She
Got herself ready for school and walked there unaccompanied
Dragged the trash can out to the curb and
Knew how to lay and start a fire in the fireplace.
I gave up half-way through episode 2. I may go back but it’s not real likely.
The first two episodes are connected by characters, at least.
There’s promise in it, but ‘gentler Twilight Zone’ is about right. May overstate the energy level, though.
BREAKING: Joan Walsh Is A Complete Hack
https://twitter.com/xan_desanctis/status/1250780838368862208
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
“Life’s Been Good To Me So Far” is a masterpiece.
Ohhhh…..JOAN Walsh
Walks away
I thought she was pretty good in Addams Family Values
Was just rocking out to “Life’s Been Good” yesterday while driving in my truck. Great tune. Walsh is a damn good guitarist.
Also walks away.
A different opinion on the matter.
Maybe you dodged a bullet there.
It’s not like we were altar-bound soul mates. But she was more than happy to ride me like a pogo stick if gave her a pre-dawn wake up call.
I hate to ask, but did you approach booty calls like you do posting here?
Do you actually acknowledge that you have had a relationship with her before? Or do you start off pretending she is some floozy you just picked up?
Maybe that is a good thing. Every time with you, is like the first time.
LOL
I kinda like the way Brooksie posts.
^^^^ See? Negging does work!
He reintroduces topics that have gone stale upthread. When I’m late for links and comments, I don’t want to wade through 300 of them. I start at the bottom, see a Brooks comment that interests me, and track down the conversation.
Nobody may like it, but it is useful to me.
Just say’n what we were all think’n.
The loss iof 22,000,000 jobs is due to the politician’s panicked response to the Wuhan coronavirus, not to the virus itself.
THEY
HAD
NO
CHOICE!
“Still no sports news, unless you consider Kurt Angle getting laid off by the WWE “sports news”. If you do, then there you go.”
Also, WWE Hall of Fame ring announcer Howard Finkel passed away.
If they can’t empathize with Republicans, then they don’t actually have any empathy at all.
As we all know, Democrats wholeheartedly embrace diversity and inclusion and unconditional acceptance. Just as long as you don’t contradict them or spout any heresies about the
One True Churchgovernment.“WHO is on the front lines of this pandemic, providing advice, training, and equipment crucial to saving lives—including Americans’.
Cutting their funding is not only dangerous—Trump doesn’t have the authority to do it. He should know: violating spending laws got him impeached.”
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1250521691844902919
CWAA
I can’t even. What a fucking commie POS.
Is it all that surprising coming from the person who would sell their child to foreign oligarch for money and political support?
Wait, are we talking about Clinton or Biden?
Yes.
The Dems defending the WHO and the CCP won’t play very well anywhere right now. If that’s what they’re thinking I encourage them to be as vocal as possible.
Jesus, the brass fucking cajones on that woman. How many money laundering schemes would she have going by now if she were President?
violating spending laws got him impeached.
No, being Bad Orange Man got him impeached. Not a single law violation was cited in the impeachment.
What impeachment?
He could easily issue a National Emergency in regards to WHO as a sponsor of communist propaganda, and then Congress would have to get off their lazy asses and override it.
Weren’t they telling people not to bother wearing masks back in the early phases when it might have made a major difference?
Of course.
They are just an appendage of the Chinese Communist Party.
If they’re on the front lines, it’s against us.
Judge Nap calls it like it is. Finally.
Death In Slow Motion
We will need to pry it away from their cold…
Oh boy, damn son. He’s letting the hammer drop.
and covetous hands.
Oh. yeah…. yeah thats what i thought he was going to say…
“It is one thing for public officials to use a bully pulpit to educate and even intimidate the populace into a prudent awareness of basic sanitary behaviors — even those which go against our nature — to impede the spread of the virus. It is quite another to contend that their suggestions and intimidations and guidelines somehow have the force of the law behind them.”
I’ve been saying this for a while. The problem with educating the populace is that the media is broken.
It’s nice to read something like that, but it’s way too little, way too late. Petty tyrants at the state and local level (to say nothing of the Feds) have been getting away with gross violations of the BoR for decades and nobody has done anything about it. Now, what used to be a relatively small problem, has mushroomed into a giant one.
“Drinking alcohol can make the coronavirus worse, the WHO says in recommending restricting access”
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1250533503596400640
Cutting funding wasn’t enough. We need to send SEAL teams to take our their offices.
By now anyone should know that trying to limit Americans access to alcohol is a cardinal sin in the American Tradition. It is akin to a Roman Politician trying to take the title of Rex
So… just those who test positive need to worry about it making things worse, right?
/contemplates cracking a beer
1) I call bs on the claim.
2) The WHO seems to want a WHAT, that WHAT being a boogaloo.
“China is withholding vital medical supplies from us—supplies made by *American companies* in China. In the middle of a pandemic unleashed on the world by China.
China must pay.”
https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1250759080274284545
“China’s Export Restrictions Strand Medical Goods U.S. Needs to Fight Coronavirus, State Department Says
Products made by 3M, Owens & Minor, PerkinElmer sit in warehouses; GE ventilator production line in Wisconsin nearly brought to a halt”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-export-restrictions-strand-medical-goods-u-s-needs-to-fight-coronavirus-state-department-says-11587031203
OMG
https://twitter.com/Soylent_Lament/status/1250655270579003392
LOLOLOLOLOL
https://twitter.com/cardi_mark/status/1250674247334268934
My favorite.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
So we basically can’t believe any of the numbers. .
“Explaining the new criteria, Dr. Oxiris Barbot of the city’s health department told The New York Times that although the additional victims were not tested, their death likely wouldn’t have happened had it not been for the pandemic because it has overwhelmed city hospitals.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-claims-nyc-inflating-coronavirus-death-toll
Have you believed any of them over the last few weeks?
Well I’ve been somewhat skeptical but didn’t think it was being that grossly exaggerated until I saw the numbers spike way up again.
Disgusting.
Meh. There are lots of additional deaths that likely wouldn’t have happened if not for the coronavirus and the government response. The problem is thinking that everything is caused by the virus itself.
Maybe if we add all the bullshit reports from NY to the nonexistent reports from China, we’ll have the true number.
I said it would be less than 20K, but I didn’t think they would just overtly admit they’re cooking the books. It may wind up being somewhere between 20k and 40K, but the truth is that we’ll never have an accurate number now because the governors and their Media enablers are flat out lying because the numbers matter for justifying their unlawful seizure power.
My original call was 62k based largely on the Diamond Princess #s but adjusted for the immensity of the rural U.S. diluting the spread and lethality.
All politics, all the time: this is CNN
The fact that it is constitutionally superfluous for Trump to authorize states to open up suggests his real intent is an election-year political device that positions him as leading the resurgence and those who oppose him as laggards holding America back.
“We’re going to be announcing guidelines, and we’ll be talking about various states, and it’s very exciting,” Trump said in another rambunctious Rose Garden news conference Wednesday.
“We will be the comeback kids, all of us, all of us. It’s incredible, what’s going on,” Trump said. “Tomorrow is going to be a very big day … We will have some openings that will … exceed our expectations, and they will be safe.”
The political context of Trump’s remarks is important because it backs up reporting, including by CNN, that nothing will deflect the President from his desire to open up the country on May 1 and that he is working from personal motivations rather than solid data.
Wednesday’s news conference, like at least its two predecessors, was an exercise in airing grievances.
Trump’s insistence that it’s time to get moving again is helping fuel a campaign on conservative media that claims a suppressed infection curve shows government medical experts and Democratic governors overreacted to the pandemic and are infringing on the basic rights of American “patriots” with shutdowns. On Wednesday, Tea Party-style protesters blocked the streets of Lansing, Michigan, to condemn Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders in one of the worst-hit states where nearly 2,000 people have died.
The protests are likely to help fracture national unity on the pandemic already being stretched by Trump’s response. Perceptions about the pandemic have also been shaped by the natural propensity of the virus to afflict densely populated urban areas that tend to vote Democratic and its looser hold on rural, more conservative states.
What we need is a national consensus in which we all agree Bad Orange Man Must Go!
If the virus was most effective at killing people out there in flyover Nowheresville, CNN would be perfectly okay with business as usual.
I bet that was satisfying.
https://youtu.be/cSLrbYsqZ4o
Otoh, if they took it back, they could have sold it to people who need it.
Yeah, at deep discount for the return:)
“The media loves an upper class blonde like the honorable Christine Blasey Ford. Make no mistake the slander of the brave Tara Reade is because she’s not a Liberal feminist’s idea of what Joe Biden would want to touch.”
https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1250712564130078723
I don’t hair color has anything to do with it.
I don’t hair either way, I’d just like for some consistency.
I’d accept that they learned their lesson if it wasn’t so blatantly political. From how Ford was used as a (willing) prop to how Reade is being treated as an obvious fraud, the root motivation is the political affiliation of the accused not the “credibility” of the accusations or lack thereof.
I have a really good job. I’m “essential” and nobody really knows what I do or how I do it. They only know if it doesn’t get done there are major consequences. So I have little to no supervision, essentially I’m my own boss. As long as I don’t screw up I’m left alone, and I don’t screw up, ever. Having said that, I’m so fed up with California that I would rather struggle in another State than deal with the current nonsense. I’m also aware of the coming financial collapse that California will soon inflict upon itself. I really need to get out while I can.
It’s hard to believe your knowledge and skillset (if not the managerial arrangement) are not tr4ansportable.
Get out! Run awaaaaayyyy!
I have a really good job. I’m “essential” and nobody really knows what I do or how I do it. They only know if it doesn’t get done there are major consequences. So I have little to no supervision, essentially I’m my own boss. As long as I don’t screw up I’m left alone, and I don’t screw up, ever. Having said that, I’m so fed up with California that I would rather struggle in another State than deal with the current nonsense. I’m also aware of the coming financial collapse that California will soon inflict upon itself. I really need to get out while I can.
It’s hard to believe your knowledge and skillset (if not the managerial arrangement) are not transportable.
Get out! Run awaaaaayyyy!
Ya got me, skwerlz!
And… it’s gone.
Who could guess this would happen?
In further shocking news, Nancy is blocking a top-up by playing identity politics.
I’m still not clear on why the Federal government has to step in and save the states from the consequences of their own decisions.
Interstate commerce!
This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.
Our bank lost our paperwork when the guy working on it left and still hadn’t gotten it approved yet as of this morning.
We’re dicked at this point.
Sorry to hear that man.
Seems somehow appropriate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-mWK_kcZMs
Is this why there was a run on the stuff?
Update From the Frontlines
The war against the Pooh Flu (the LT insists we can’t use that, and need to call it COVID 19 so we are Diverse and Inclusive, but the boys don’t much listen to that shavetail bastard) hit a peak last night. We were all hunkered own in our ergonomic chairs trying to send in loan applications to the SBA to get our piece of the sweet lucre. Anng, or Cat Lady as we call her, took a hit and was down to only a single monitor, but kept on plowing away. We’re runnin’ dry on ammo though. In fact, we’re out to some of the REMFS turn the fucking money printer back on. I didn’t realize how reassuring the *BRRRRRRRRR* sound could be out here. Either way, Ma and Pa, youd’d be proud of me. I helped provide $1.4bn in loans that will never be paid back to close to 7,000 businesses. The General says that’s the equivalent of nearly 14 years worth of loans approved in 14 days compared to how many we normally do!
It’s hard work and you’re welcome for my service. You can best thank me by using my Amazon wishlist. I’m saving my Trumpbucks for a pistol. I know you are proud of me for helping mortgage the future of them damn millenials and zoomers to protect your boomer asses from dying a year earlier then you otherwise might. That’s all I need to know to sleep soundly at night.
You Know Me, Al.
+1 Ring Lardner
welcome back !
Good to see ya again, CA!
To the bone!
My God. It’s a slaughterhouse out there.
FREE MUNNY! Gitcher free munny here!
The coronavirus crisis has revitalized calls for a universal basic income, with even the Pope suggesting that now may be the time to consider giving everyone free money.
The Covid-19 outbreak has meant countries across the globe have effectively had to shut down, with many governments imposing draconian measures on the lives of billions of people.
The social, educational and economic ramifications of the confinement measures, which vary in their application worldwide but broadly include social distancing, school closures and bans on public gatherings, are expected to have a profoundly negative impact.
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Guy Standing, a research professor in development studies at SOAS, University of London, told CNBC via telephone that there was no prospect of a global economic revival without a universal basic income.
Standing, who has been an advocate for a universal basic income for more than three decades, said he believed the coronavirus crisis would be “the trigger” for a basic wage.
“It’s almost a no-brainer,” he said. “We are going to have some sort of basic income system sooner or later, but I think getting the establishments of many countries to do it is like pulling the proverbial tooth. There’s a big institutional resistance to it because of the implications of moving in this direction.”
Standing urged world leaders and policymakers to avoid repeating the same mistakes that were made in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, saying another “toxic combination” of austerity and quantitative easing would simply stoke up another crisis.
“expected to have a profoundly negative impact.” No shit, Shirley?
Helicopter money is just what we need to save the world.
austerity
When/where did this happen?
The General says that’s the equivalent of nearly 14 years worth of loans approved in 14 days compared to how many we normally do!
“Loans.”
Stop it, you’re killing me.
Hey Drake, try this for last night’s Tucker: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6149849844001?playlist_id=5528578293001#sp=show-clips
Sorry about the GF, P.Brooks, but sounds as if you are well rid.
Y’all like my new avatar?