Well, Glibs fans, it looks like I might have cockroached* around enough this month to survive without being laid off. I was sure I was gonna get the gate. If I’m being honest, I’m experiencing some survivors’ guilt after a happy hour last night with my former team (client and co-workers). I looked around and realized I was the only one who hadn’t lost a job or been asked to take a significant pay cut. Thanks to all the Glibs who reached out and offered support during my time of uncertainty. Tonight might be the first night I sleep soundly in six weeks. And my sincere sorrow to all the Glibs who weren’t so lucky. Please continue to ask for whatever help you need.
Sweden believes herd immunity a few weeks away. As best I can tell, the only factor that seems reliable in predicting spread of the virus have been population density. The US solution of isolation seems untenable. Florida had fewer than 6000 positive tests in the last 100,000. At this point, the only way out is through. Vaccines are a year away, and rate of infection as measured by testing (not hospitalization) is less than the open bed census.
Beaches in my area re-open Monday. The order was supposed to expire Friday, but I guess I can see them waiting until after the weekend.
My daily Kimspotting link.
The emergency continues to be such an emergency that the House… remains in recess. Good.
Hadn’t heard this one in a while.
*trying not to be seen and looking frenetically busy when the light hits you
Wow, this thing is slow.
I am the first man. The superior man. Bow before my works and despair or something like that.
*points and laughs*
He got his inline image that he was after at least.
It looks like your avatar shrunk?
Apparently there’s something wonky in how they display. Maybe not auto cropping anymore?
Checked profile page and the correct thumbnail is there, but appears that WP is displaying the original file now not the thumbnail.
It’s like a widened gaze.
They are in recess but still passing stupid laws.
Yeah, the precedent set by them remote-voting probably ain’t good
Install the yay/nay button in my favorite brothel and I’ll run for office.
I promise nay on everything.
*disconnects yay wires just-in-case*
Better, let’s connect the yay wires to the nay switch.
continuity FTW
I promise nay on everything.
If you don’t take any of the upsells, you won’t be very popular in the brothel.
Massie is pushing passage of something he’d already written regarding Intrastate meat processing and sales that should make it easier for sellers and buyers alike.
Someone made the terrifying comment earlier today that all the outbreaks at meat processing plants might lead to rationing of animal flesh. You can have my steak when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Seriously, the thought of only being able to eat ribeye on special occasions fills me with dread and anger.
Special occasions? You mean like the coming food riots if our asshole politicians don’t pull their fingers out and loosen their idiotic restrictions?
I was referring to meat shortages specifically but yes, I agree that all this will have far reaching effects on all food supply if pushed too long into the near future.
From the last thread
Does it only apply to the one because of how they worded their complaint, or the judge had to admit it was overstepping, but didn’t want to allow others to open?
The ruling was on motion for a temporary injunction until the final ruling is made.
Although less satisfying than a summary judgement, this is good news for the people in that area and very hopeful for the rest of us since you generally get an injunction only if you look likely to prevail.
“Please continue to ask for whatever help you need.”
Right now the only thing I need, but can’t buy is N95 masks. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is anything anyone can do about it.
Work issued respirators, aka painters mask. They issued guidelines saying the filters are good until you notice it’s harder to breath. IDK if you have/can find one of those. Supposedly they’re a better filter than N95.
Do you have a another name for them?
Breaking Bad respirator?
https://www.amazon.com/Pesticide-Formaldehyde-Prevention-Decoration-Polishing/dp/B085NWQWVG/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=paint+respirator&qid=1588106996&sr=8-5
Reviews say that one is a fake though.
Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in seeing.
Medium Professional Multi-Purpose Respirator
https://www.homedepot.com/p/202080144
OK, thanks, but unavailable.
R95.
Why do you need an N95? If its for the COVID, I don’t think its really necessary unless you need to go full droplet precautions. And if you do need full precautions, its not sufficient.
Tard Tuesday: Everybody’s Favorite Tenant
Landlord:
“I’m sure the NHS will return the favor when I’m piling your shit on the curb”
I would definitely clap for the landlord if he did that.
Also, that lead me down the rabbit hole to this:
https://imgur.com/gallery/2VHuIrA
Which in-turn lead me to this beautiful comment:
“Watch me paint shitty paintings from my expensive new York apartment and pretend I’m one with the common man”
Hmmm… read that as “Everybody’s Favorite Tennant.
???
#metoo
Huh. I would have gone with
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cdn.panda-gossips.com/production/posts/eyecatches/000/002/749/original.jpg?1520844975
Everybody’s Favorite Tennant
Considered it being a big PSB fan… but figured they got grandfathered considering David took his stage name from Neil anyway.
And didn’t think of Georgia… nice one, Gustave.
? I had no idea
The “you didn’t build that” tenet in action.
Tard Tuesday: I,
PencilIdiotHow historically ignorant are these assholes?
faṃines ọnly ever aṛe class warfare.
Then why are commies always the best at famining?
Because they’re the best at class warfare?
They’ve got what plants crave?
Capitalist, Fascists, What about the massive famines in Russia and China caused by the Communists? Never mind I know the answer.
I got this… “not real socialists.”
Erm, no. The chicken/pork farmers out there are euthanizing their animals because the plants they normally sell to that process it down to readily consumable product are shut down and live animals keep eating, and they are past their marketable prime. I’m sure if you were to drive out to a farmer, and offer to buy a whole animal, he’d take you up on that offer. I foresee price increases on meat commodities because a lot of these farmers won’t survive not having anyone to sell to.
Although date of birth unknown, today anniversary baptism noted protector of people from plague William Mompesson
Vaccines are a year away
At least a year away. Turns out the cure for the ‘Rona is found in cold fusion.
So it’s right around the corner!
If ever.
Can we get the same shut downs when it is breathlessly reported that the corona vacc is just as ineffective as the flu vacc
That was kinda my thinking, when I read someplace about how rapidly this thing mutates. And some small percentage of common cold viruses are coronavirus; that certainly hasn’t been cured.
And some small percentage of common cold viruses are coronavirus
I want to say 20%, but can’t recall where I saw that.
I read that percentage recently, too. I was surprised — I was under the impression that most incidences of the common cold were coronavirus and rhinovirus, and not much else.
Oxford vaccine is off to a promising start.
When I saw the interview with the Swedish Foreign Minister a few days ago, what really struck me is when she said something to the effect of: “We’re Swedes. we trust each other.”
Here’s the video and another interview:
Contrast that compassionate approach with this asshole:
Thanks for making sure I don’t inappropriately congregate in a state forest.
Lost the Swedish interview link – https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/sweden-coronavirus-response-economy
“ Thanks for making sure I don’t inappropriately congregate in a state forest.”
One of the weirder restrictions. My state closed I think 90% of the state parks to day use. Even Virginia has its state parks open to day use!
Social distancing isn’t just about stoping the spread of disease, it’s about making sure nobody experiences joy; its for the greater good.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8266391/Demi-Rose-shows-buxom-bust-tiny-waist-tiny-peach-string-bikini-throwback-snap.html
When you shave (and photoshop) a hobbit, they clean up nice.
“HOLD UP! …… Bitch you sure you not a hobbit?”
Right here.
Maybe I’m missing something, but here’s my take on Coronavirus issue. The experts’ plan was to slow the spread, so that hospitals would not be overrun. When they made that plan, they weren’t under the delusion that they could somehow stop people from ever getting sick. I expect that, at some point, I will catch the virus. And there’s a good chance I’ll get sick. Even a small chance I’ll wind up very sick. I’m not delusional and I understand the risks. But, I also understand that cowering in my home for a few more months isn’t going to change those risks. The virus WILL make a comeback in the fall. It isn’t going away. The only alternative to living with these risks is pretending we can shut down civilization until there’s a vaccine – that’s a year and a half, MINIMUM. The consequence of that is the collapse of civilization. And the health risks to that vastly exceed those of the virus.
And the hospitals haven’t been overrun with COVID patients, in fact, they’re collapsing from a lack of business.
It seems to me like my hospital will admit anyone that comes to the ED just to get some bodies/payments
Pretty much business as usual, then.
Yeah, we’re pretty much fucked. Nearly everybody is on a 30% furlough, although you are allowed to take one PTO day for every three furlough days. Essentially, we’ve made a big chunk of our staff part-time employees. High Lord Ducey, Ruler of the Deserts and the Mountains, has graciously allowed us to apply to resume elective surgeries, which should help if we grovel convincingly enough that He grants our petition. Of course, even when His Lordship ends the lockdown, we will be in a deep recession. The last deep recession damn near put us out of business.
I, for one, am pondering moonlighting and trying to figure my pitch, my angle. Which is fucking ridiculous, but if I have three workdays out of ten where I am sitting around the house, I’ve got to figure out how to make some coin. Unfortunately, I am specialized as an insect, and I’m struggling to come up with anything other than signing up as an InstaCart runner. My plan to retire in a couple of years is pretty much a shambles now.
I think we are well past the point where the net lives saved isn’t negative. Recessions and depressions are killers.
Yes – after the “lockdown” they moved the goalposts about 50 miles down the road.
Unfortunately the whole stay home, save lives propaganda worked. Now the politicians don’t want to release restrictions thinking that the public will hold them responsible for any deaths even though as you pointed out that wasn’t the original rationale.
stop making sense, dewd
I have no idea who this is.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8265593/Kristin-Cavallari-posts-confident-photo-bare-legs-announcing-divorce-Jay-Cutler.html
The link states it pretty clearly that it is Jay Cutler’s wife (soon to be ex).
A very successful gold-digger.
??
Why would a successful gold digger marry Jay Cutler?
Wouldn’t she marry a successful QB?
Not a great QB, but made a few bucks in his time.
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/miami-dolphins/jay-cutler-2493/cash-earnings/
I could live with that kind of failure.
Sounds like Cutler was the successful gold digger. He managed to fuck over three NFL franchises to my recollection.
He was good for the Packers. 😉
The fans are always the bottoms.
She was on TV in MTV’s The Hills Pre-Cutler.
I think she comes from money herself, she started out on that “Laguna Beach” show on MTV and most of those kids’ parents were doing pretty well I think.
Brett, it’s good that you kept your job.
From the article on the Swedes:
Being centrally organized and steered (as part of a state-funded system) allows for greater flexibility in changing the health system.
HAH!
Who made the decision to cancel elective procedures in hospitals around the country? Was it done by the governors or by individual hospital groups? Was it a part of the federal guidelines? In this crisis the federal system in the US had a chance to set different policies in different states. But it didn’t happen with respect to hospitals. On the other hand, when the authorities make a good decision, it will be implemented faster if the system is centralized.
In other words, Sweden is demonstrating advantages of centralization, the US is failing to show advantages of decentralization.
In Virginia it was Gov Northam [boo, hiss]
Most or all of the elective procedure bans came from state governors.
Though… Trump had been pushing them, and there is some variation by state as to what is elective according to this article.
The Trump administration for two weeks has pushed hospitals to halt non-essential elective surgeries, with over two dozen states joining that call. But the guidelines mostly leave the decision to providers themselves to determine what’s necessary and what can wait.
100% the governors. Its all on them. No legislators sullied their hands. And certainly not Trump, who was crystal clear it was up to them.
I’m reasonably certain it was monkey see, monkees do, being the rationale behind all the Govs’ orders. Whitmer was the exception, she was practicing a “worst practices” policy.
“Chris Cuomo announces that he is free of the coronavirus one month after falling ill and has tested positive for BOTH long and short-term antibodies – but worries he is still not protected”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8265057/Chris-Cuomo-announces-free-coronavirus.html
CWAA
Will he be worried enough to hide from the rest of humanity for a few more years?
We can’t be that lucky.
When do we get to the part where Fredo finally goes fishing?
There’s only one thing to do, Chris.
End it now. Its the only way to be sure the ‘Rona won’t get you.
Christ, what a drama queen.
Antibodies didn’t save Fredo, so….
TW: Salon
Proof that derp is infinite https://www.salon.com/2020/04/23/yale-psychiatrist-bandy-lee-lockdown-protesters-resemble-child-soldiers-and-urban-gangs/
I thought her fifteen minutes were already up.
That’s what will bring the country together, a good scolding from a Chinese Ivy League Professor on how we shouldn’t be disobedient. The Bee article writes itself.
I thought that was a Bee article.
I guess that was a little too over the top, though.
Not much difference.
https://babylonbee.com/news/mi-governor-revolting-against-a-tyrannical-government-is-simply-unamerican
Speaking of The Bee: Men Demand End To Lockdown Before Wives Start Any More Home Improvement Projects
That was written about me. My hands have so many blisters, cuts and bruises it looks like I took on a gang of stabby assailants with my bare hands.
“Like cigarette smoking, shooting rampages and reckless driving, “freedoms” that endanger lives and curtail others’ freedoms are not legitimate freedoms but a public health concern. People should fight for their legal rights. They should demand access to information as well as to expertise, and correct intervention. When experts call out abnormal signs, it is not a diagnosis but important information.”
G. F. Y.
In the interest of public health, put up signs declaring ‘shooting rampage free zone’ and ‘reckless driving free zone’. / sarc
The conflation of smoking with murder, positive rights with negative rights, and the assertion that our ultimate right is to be ruled over, in four sentences no less, is pretty impressive.
Could be Derp of the Day
not legitimate freedoms but a public health concern
There it is, folks. The epitaph of freedom. If it is a “public health” issue, you are not free to do it.
And of course, everything is a public health issue.
You pay for Salon?
Fuck off slaver.
Ooh, now do Bernie you hack quack.
Or Antifa.
Adblocked. I’ll just assume it’s retarded without reading it.
It’s Salon, of course it’s retarded.
Titty Tuesday is all about tremendous tits, cavernous cleavage and bathycolpian busts.
http://archive.li/saWTu
Word for the day! Thanks, Q.
Titty?
We Glibs are high brow with our degeneracy.
A lot of RealDolls
12 is Potato’s fetish, correct?
16
Maybe I’m missing something, but here’s my take on Coronavirus issue. The experts’ plan was to slow the spread, so that hospitals would not be overrun.
And that was based on projections which have proven to be complete and utter bullshit.
True. But, I’m even willing to give the benefit of the doubt on that. The facts are now in, however. The answer now is to follow the logical implications of the policy, given what we know now.
Yeah, we actually have honest to god real world data now and should go forward using that.
Don’t give the benefit of the doubt. It was obvious on day one the models were bullshit. The model that kicked this off was done by the Imperial College by someone with a long history of producing pandemic models that were off by an order of magnitude or more. Within a week, the Oxford Institute of Evidence Based Medicine published an article pointing out that early pandemic models are always, always, way overstated, and did the analysis to correct the model based on the historical pattern. Their conclusion: this is probably in the range of a bad, maybe a really bad, flu season.
But wait, there’s more!
Every pandemic follows a bell curve. The models all assumed that the first confirmed patient in the US was the first actual patient (an assumption that is shockingly bad, especially given the way the FDA and CDC screwed up early testing). That means they started their bell curves a month or two months late, meaning the peak was a month or two months late. In short, by the time the lockdowns were imposed, we were already near, or maybe past, the peak. And it should have been obvious to anyone who gave it five minutes thought.
So, no, they don’t get the benefit of the doubt.
The models all assumed that the first confirmed patient in the US was the first actual patient
The practice I’ve seen is to work from the 100th case to support bench-marking. But that can’t be done, of course, before there are 100 patients; before that, one is only guessing with what data he has.
Glad Brett L kept job and pay.
For United States, according to Box Office Mojo:
Domestic 2020 Week 16
April 17-23, 2020
#1 movie by box office Resistance (Boy Scouts and nuns rescue orphans WWII), Swallow (mentally ill woman swallows items most people not swallow), The Other Lamb (@ $265 box office for the week, male cult leader, otherwise all female cult)
Domestic 2020 Weekend 17
April 24-26, 2020
True History of the Kelly Gang (Ned Kelly and his gang flee from authorities 1870s Australia), Resistance
“YOU can now buy an antibody test for coronavirus: Test which correctly detects immune cells for COVID-19 in 99.5% of patients is available to purchase online”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8265375/Quest-Diagnostics-makes-COVID-19-antibody-test-available-online.html
$119
Thanks for making sure I don’t inappropriately congregate in a state forest.
They closed Yellowstone. Because all those tourists who come to the park will poison the surrounding communities which largely subsist on tourist dollars. We had to destroy those villages to save them.
My people count on the picnic baskets and dumpster buffets for the Spring fattening. Will nobody think of the bears?
Titty?
Fucking squirrels are worse than bears.
It is tough to social distance properly when stealing pic-a-nic baskets, Boo Boo…
I saw that episode of Harvey Birdman. Boo Boo is really the Unibooboo, social distancing in his cave with his electric typewriter that has a mis-aligned “t.”
Reducto was a great social distancer, it was all “Back off!!” and shrink gun with that guy 😉
If it saves one bear…
Congrats, Brett!
I’m happy for you. Like you, I have survived so far, but many around me are not. God damn the pants-shitters to hell.
At this point, the only way out is through.
This. It is time to get back in the game.
Like cigarette smoking, shooting rampages and reckless driving, “freedoms” that endanger lives and curtail others’ freedoms are not legitimate freedoms but a public health concern.
Is that you, Tulpa?
Is advocating for removing others’ freedoms a legitimate freedom because by her own standards she needs to shut the fuck up.
It sounds like a legitimate reason to send someone back to China. Even if she isn’t necessarily from there.
I’d settle for her just getting fired because what she’s doing is unethical as hell but she will suffer no professional repercussions whatsoever.
I doubt that. A promotion is a professional repercussion, after all.
Wait, isn’t smoking good for you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFxksNcLfcA
‘We are realizing that we are dependent on science and scientific evidence, and we need to listen to the experts and the scientific data’ — Greta Thunberg
‘Being patient and calm is the only thing we can do now. We have to wait and trust the experts until we can play football again. We are coping okay. We are obviously in the house trying to get fit and training however we can by doing some exercises in the house and the garden.’ — Juan Mata
Anyone see Leftstream media ‘listen to’ or ‘trust’ economists other than former central bank, World Bank, IMF chairs about restarting economy?
Science is not math. Math is hard, sexist and racist.
His net worth is 55 million according to the interweb. That cocksucker can afford all the time in the world to be patient and calm and I’d imagine he has a damn nice place to do that too.
The party of the #RESISTANCE and ‘stickin’ it to the man’ believes that ‘experts’ should run every aspect of our lives and that questioning them is not only unwise, it is profoundly dangerous.
Apparently creating circumstances economy flourish not something Left thinks requires expertise.
Between assignments. Streaming state mandated “harassment training”, listening to Spin Age Blasters on WFMU, and sipping bourbon.
I’m pretty good at it. Let me know if I can give you any pointers.
Vargas Girl! Love it Tundra!
1. Be handsome
2. Be attractive
3. Don’t be unattractive
Four Steps to Ending Bullying
I finally found and ordered a 20 round Magazine for the 590m, and also got some of these,
https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/winchester-pdx1-12-gauge-2.75-1-oz-slug-and-00-buck-10-rounds/FC-AMM-1027-499.html
Come at me,……
I didn’t know that’s a thing. Can you use that it tube fed as well or do you have to use a detachable magazine?
Works fine in a Mossberg 500. No magazine required.
Sorry, that was unclear, I meant the magazine fed pump shotgun.
Sorry I wasn’t clear, a Mossy 500 is a tube-fed pump shotgun.
But you could also use this round with Mossberg 590M, as well which is magazine fed.
The externals of the round are nothing special, and it’s meant to be fired from a smooth-bore.
Only consideration might be an old gun with a variable choke (you’re not supposed to use steel shot thru those, so this might be questionable as well)
Today I learned……
I dont know anything about this dealer, but for $100, looks fun
If I had a 500A for home defense, it would be kept loaded with alternating 00 and slug.
Shame I dont have such a thing, and configured like that- lost it in the lake that one time.
“I feel like most Black people are clear that this utterly absurd to push to re-open the country is all about a gross necropolitical calculation that it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID.
Not only do white conservatives not care about Black life, but my most cynical negative read of the white supremacists among them is that they welcome this massive winnowing of Black folks in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up political power.
Earlier this week I watched a white high school classmate defending Trump on the disinfectant BS. And I realized again that for his supporters, realizing just how wrong they were about this man, and the depths of his idiocy and depravity, is akin to an existential crisis for them
They are literally willing to die from this clusterfucked COVID response rather than admit that absolutely anybody other than him would have been a better president. And when whiteness has a death wish, we are all in for a serious problem.
Black people did not vote for this dude in any appreciable numbers. (Black men voted for him at 15% and they are dying the most.) No Black person deserves this and Black women knew it would be absolutely awful for him to be president. And now we all live in daily fear.
I am saying some obvious things this morning because as a country we are too good at skipping over the audience and we might as well say this to people as often as we can. Fuck each and every Trump supporter. You all absolutely did this. You are to blame.
Black Lives Matter. Black Lives with hypertension, diabetes, and asthma matter. Fat Black Lives matter. All Black Lives matter.”
https://twitter.com/ProfessorCrunk/status/1255116155599171589
blah blah blah racist shouts at sky yadda yadda yadda
Not the ones who are aborted at a higher rate, however.
/Margret Sanger hoarsely whispers “Shhhhh!”
Magically Black people don’t suffer at all from great depressions. Just look how well they fared last time.
That’s kind of the purpose.
Most progressive policies were originally intended to prevent ethnic minorities and women from competing with white males for high paying jobs.
The policies remain even if their proponents’ claimed intentions have done a 180℉ turn.
It would be comical if it weren’t for the century of suffering those assholes have sanctimoniously caused for the weak and downtrodden.
“we all live in daily fear”? Speak for yourself, toots.
I wonder if he considered the fact that the lockdowns mean blacks cannot see their doctors regarding things like diabetes, heart, and vascular disease that are occur in huge numbers in the black population.
How many deaths are or will occur in the black community because they are not being seen by doctors, going to the ED or having surgeries postponed?
I don’t say this lightly, but Brittney Cooper is the stupidest person on the internet.
So white supremacists “literally willing to die” by pushing to reopen the country is their path to “massive winnowing of Black folks”.
This totally not imbalanced person teaches university courses.
Sad that she’s been so indoctrinated by this crap by the leftist “institutions” that she really believes that over half the country is filled with white supremacists trying to kill her and other people who identify as “of color” (barf).
I’d be willing to bet that at least half of the BLM crowd don’t even know who Tamir Rice is.
Using his powers for the forces of good.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/porn-star-retrains-carers-assistant-21940354
No link- TW: CNN video
Vice President Pence, who leads the White House’s coronavirus task force, did not wear a mask while touring the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota despite being informed that wearing a mask is part of the clinic’s policy.
Source: CNN
Murder, or suicide? I can’t even tell, anymore.
Dick move, Pence. You’re a guest, when in Rome, etc.
More “rules are for the little people” from Our Masters.
^this
Plus more fodder for the apeshit media.
A question for the glibertariat:
I want suggestions as to how to stonewall Census questions without looking like a swivel-eyed lunatic to the local cops.
I filled out the online survey, declining to provide email address, phone number, and racial demographic data. The reason for the latter is that, bluntly, they have no legitimate reason to know, and I am concerned down the road should reparations become government policy that my ethnic background could be used to justify fining me as part of that scheme. I don’t want to make the mistake of Jews who innocently told the Reich about their religious affiliation in the 1920’s during their censi.
I’m also in the process of revamping our home defense plans, and I will be shortly petitioning our local police department for permission to own a firearm (this is the people’s republic of MA).
I got a paper form in the mail last week, which I binned. Then yesterday I got a postcard threatening to send someone out to “interview” me.
I don’t want a confrontation. Don’t want to humiliate anyone. I just don’t want to talk to these people at all. If I can avoid it.
In the end though, the need to get government permission for a fire-arm outweighs the need to keep quiet about my ethnicity.
Identify as Neanderthal.
Also I thought you came from Turkey. Can’t you claim some swarthy heritage?
Giving false answers is a crime punishable by a $500 fine. Staying silent, OTOH, is punishable by a max fine of $100.
We will find out. I put down “Other-Kekistani”
The last time (10 years ago) I told them I was too busy to do an interview (true, ’cause I’m always too busy). The guy insisted it would only take a few minutes, I repeated that I was too busy, give me the forms and I’d fill them out when I had time. I’m still too busy.
I haven’t been counted for about the last 3 or 4 times. I’ll be too busy again. I’ve been messaged a few times but being an old guy so I can plead I don’t understand telephones/computers and that’s mostly true. I would pay the $100 if necessary.
Been having the same dilemma. I have no reason no other than “fuck you, don’t tell me what to do.” I looked up what happens if you don’t answer the kings summons; $100 fine. Now I’m left with the choice between bitchin’ out or flushing $100 down the toilet.
Unfortunately, you may have to knuckle under. If you’re concerned about the ethnicity… well let’s just say that we’re allowing people to choose their gender, why not their ethnicity? Do you feel black inside? You could also put “Native American” and that would be true in the strictest sense.
Based on Bro Dean’s ancestry.com genetic screen, I was comfortable putting “mixed race”.
I got the long form several months ago. We circular filed it and no one has said a thing about it to us.
Let’s say they do send someone out to interview you after the postcard. “Oh, the people who live here are stuck in quarantine in California for the duration of this virus thing. I’m just watching their house for them until they get back.”
I’m in NH, so things are a little different with respect to guns.
I fill out the paper form stating how many people live where I do. I fill out nothing else. I mail that back in.
I intend to do that again this year.
For the 2000 Census, a Census worker showed up at my apartment. I told her one person lives here and refused to answer any other questions. I heard nothing else from the Census Bureau.
For the 2010 Census, no Census workers showed up at my house that I know of. It’s possible they showed up but I wasn’t home as at that point I was away from home often. They asked my neighbors questions about me. I know because one neighbor told me. I told that neighbor, “They only need to how many people live here. One person lives in my house.” She said, “OK”, with a look on her face like I was crazy. I still talk with those neighbors despite that. I heard nothing else from the Census Bureau about the 2010 Census.
We’ll see what 2020 brings.
The census doesn’t ask anything the government can’t get by asking the IRS and social media.
The school district knows, the taxing authority knows, IRS, neighbors. You are probably the same ethnic group you were last census.
Hey there! If I can choose my sex why not my ethnic group? Don’t be a hater. I identify as a Norse Aesir god. That should be good enough for the USG.
If you go back far enough all Homo Sapien Sapien are from Africa.
“That’s not the fault of the cops. It’s the fault of the people putting these regulations in place, who all too often are caribou performing sexual acts on basketballs.”
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1254619225097818112
what?
Ah, the old Nuremburg defense. 🙄
Rule 34.
There ya go Benny, lick those boots.
A quote from Higgs you’ve all read, I’m sure:
“The Whole “Good/Bad Cop” Question Can Be Disposed Of Much More Decisively. We Need Not Enumerate What
proportion Of Cops Appears To Be Good Or Listen To Someone’s Anecdote About His Uncle Charlie, An Allegedly Good Cop.
We Need Only Consider The Following:
(1) Every Cop Has Agreed As Part Of His Job To Enforce Laws, All Of Them
(2) Many Of The Laws Are Manifestly Unjust, And Some Are Even Cruel & Wicked.
(3) Therefore, Every Cop Has Agreed To Act As An Enforcer Of Laws That Are Manifestly Unjust, Or Even Cruel & Wicked
Thus There Are No Good Cops”
Sorry about the appearance, it was cut and posted without a second thought.
Also:
Cops watch other cops break the law and do nothing. Any cop who watches another cop break the law and does nothing is a bad cop.
Serpico remembers…
“Belgians are being called upon to eat fries at least twice a week as more than 750,000 tons of potatoes are at risk of being thrown away.”
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1255129880678871041
Sign me up. Best fries I’ve ever had? Calling it as a tie between Belgian and Dutch. In both cases, fried in horse fat, served with various mayos or pindasaus (peanut sauce). Yum.
Never had horse or anything cooked in horse fat, I always figured it would have an undertaste of glue.
Or dog food.
Duck fat. It makes all the difference.
The best fried potatoes I’ve had have been made in duck fat. However, the only person I know who’s tried both says horse-fat fries are better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNC5QviPptw
I had totally forgotten that part.
Now I want to watch a fourth one.
Nay
I think you are missing the mane point of the argument.
Also very good (but way more expensive for deep-frying than horse fat).
And horse steaks, widely available in Europe, are quite good.
Fresh Belgian fries and homemade mayo from a street vendor #FTW!
Which would be fine, except they’ll put mayo or some other horrible thing on them.
YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!
Mayo on fries is teh awesome.
I never pegged you for a Eurofag Tres.
Fuck you. Now this is stuck in my head.
Full disclosure- I havent had fries or potato products since August 15, 2018
My condolences.
I often go for BBQ sauce.
Chili sauce is good as well.
Cholula
This. Mixed with sour cream.
Gravy
You’re dead to me.
I once had a concussion that caused meat to taste rank and other foods to taste horrible as well. The only thing I could eat were potatoes which I did everyway imaginable for several years before the condition went away. When my wife and I started living together she spent $100 on groceries. I was like all you need is a bag of potatoes, Crisco, ketchup, and butter!
That’s a new one.
I know of it happening to a couple of other people as well.
My Lord is she tedious.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/taylor-swift-hits-soros-family-for-shameless-greed/
Legs all day.
I hate them both.
So DeWine changed the face mask order for consumers from manditory to recommended. Leaving it to the businesses to decide.
https://www.nbc4i.com/community/health/coronavirus/ohio-walks-back-reopening-face-mask-protocol-from-required-to-recommended/
So he CAN be pressured to back off. Time to keep pushing.
Note that it apparently didn’t occur to anyone that masks help facilitate armed robbery. My credit union coworkers are understandably averse to serving masked customers. (Disclaimer: we’ve been operating under drive-thru only, and I don’t know when our lobbies will reopen as restrictions are loosened in OH.)
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1255089381016207362
OFFS!
Yep because us HC workers never faced danger before. It’s all been stress free. Patients always present with immediately clear illnesses. Patients and their families are never violent or threatening ?
Look, the discounts are nice. Especially as the first responder BS was a little out of hand in some places. I saw one car company offered its first responder discount to corrections officers
I this may be a PR thing. I think most HC think this hero worship is still, and recognize the stress or risk hasn’t changed much
I’m appreciative but this hero worship bullshit has got to stop.
It’s truly amazing how our Heroes in Scrubs are holding up in dealing with Montana’s 11 WuFlu patients.
I wonder if the hospitals are fighting over who gets them.
Max patient load was 19, I think.
Comic books are lame these days.
(@TheDCUniverse) has drawings of costumed superheroes thanking ‘the real life heroes of the world’
DOOM!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/28/coronavirus-stress-test-georgia-reopens-businesses-column/3033238001/
DOOOOOOOOOOM!
Ok Karen.
So stay inside, it used to be a free country.
When?
June 12th, 1983
At 4:17pm
1785.
When we used to also say “Sound as the Dollar.”
and
“Don’t make a federal case out of it.”
Sometime pre land bridge
Long before you were born.
More cover fire for Joe Grab’em by the Pussy Biden.
The Witness Who Saw Nothing
Reporting on sexual assault too often relies on testimony from people who weren’t there.
Or maybe not.
Some people who harass and rape are brazen in their abuse; their associates can’t help but witness it, and word of their misconduct gets around. Others are charismatic leaders, excellent bosses, devoted fathers, and caring boyfriends. Some commit just one act of sexual violence in a lifetime. An easily identifiable pattern and a slew of damning rumors might make for a cleaner narrative, but a lack thereof doesn’t make an allegation any less likely to be true.
It takes really long legs to straddle that fence.
But a woman who can’t put herself in the same zip code as the accused, or even attach a year to the incident, is credible because baby voice and two front doors and afraid to fly and
Absurd, all of it.
4 Arrested in NC for walking on the Guvnuh’s sidewalk:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-carolina-anti-lockdown-activist-stuck-inside-coronavirus-n1194591
Kind of interesting how this group has been organized by women.
Yet destroying property, in the form of tearing down statues, got a complete pass.
US Navy releases official versions videos already public UFOs recorded November 2004 to January 2015 cameras on Navy jets.
‘Open government, Prime Minister. Freedom of information. We should always tell the press freely and frankly anything that they could easily find out some other way.’
This stuff?
https://youtu.be/pkmpiQmKFI4
I wasn’t too impressed either.
Hey Brett. I think you’ve ranted about this before: agile methodologies incentivize doing things fast, but not doing things right.
I gotta disagree. The idea behind agile methodologies is to involve the customer during the development phase rather than before and after. One way of doing that is to get a first version of the product up and running quickly, then iterate in short bursts to improve that first cut on every iteration until it becomes the product the customer needs. There’s no guarantee that this will result in faster development, but it should, in theory, result in the end product being what the customer actually wants.
Good afternoon, wokesters.
Not sure if the IRS has worked out some of the bugs for the Trumpbux, but I went back to check again today and I finally go a ‘you are eligible for this payment’ and then was able to enter some return info and my bank account info and got a ‘check back to see when your check will be deposited’ message.
$2400 is not much of a consolation to make up for the stock market losses, the at least temporary loss of 2 clients, and no chance this year of demanding another well deserved raise in compensation from my only currently remaining client. But I’ll take it since they’re throwing money out of planes. I’d rather see a tax cut, but we all know the democrats are having none of that, that’s their money.
It is better than nothing.
Better would be the tossing of the media into some mulching devices.
Great music choice Brett.
Completely unrelated, I’ll take things you don’t want to see for $200.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/04/28/german-doctors-stage-naked-photo-shoots-to-protest-shortage-of-protective-equipment/
It could be worse. It could be Scheisseporn.
Not. Cool.
Trigger Warning: TOS
Hawaiian Brewery Under Investigation for Hand Sanitizer Giveaway
Absurd enforcement of liquor regulations harms public health efforts.
Scott Shackford | 4.28.2020 7:30 AM
Who could know how much sodium is in that illegal hand sanitizer? You want people to die!
Bloomberg Strikes Again: NYC Bans Food Donations To The Homeless
Has The Mayor Totally Eaten Away At The Public’s Desire To Do Good?
March 19, 2012 at 8:33 pm
CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again!
Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.
‘In other words: It’s against the law in Maui to give away hand sanitizer to people who buy liquor from you. And it’s also against the law to give liquor away to people who buy hand sanitizer from you.’
Target shopping report:
Everything looked pretty well stocked. Paper goods, too. There was even the luxurious Charmin!
The mask thing is getting on my nerves. Again, it was mostly youngsters wearing them, but sweet Jesus, people! We’re gonna have to let this bitch run its course eventually.
Besides, nearly everyone was wearing them wrong.
“We’re gonna have to let this bitch run its course eventually.”
We can have a conversation about that after orangebadman is gone.
Kim Jong Un’s uncle emerges as possible successor in North Korea
It goes to show you how backwards America is that we’re not ready for the first female dictator of North Korea.
Snort.
Coronavirus hype biggest political hoax in history
I don’t know if this has already been posted, so if drugs fall out of my butt enjoy. Basically this summarizes what has been said on this site for the last few month.
You ban from Youtube! Honorable dear leader Pooh Bear offended!
The Washington State Supreme Court voted down a request to release every single prisoner in the Washington prison system over the age of 50, so they wouldn’t get the ‘Rona.
That would be 2/3s of the prisoners. Including such notables as the Green River serial killer, with a body count of at least 71.
The vote was 5 – 4.
Just don’t loose them mareequaner addicts on society.
Maybe they wanted to make room for the evil protesters
71? Was he building a house out of skulls? That’s a lot of people.
Hookers that no one cares about and corrupt/incompetent cops make for a hell of a cocktail. Alaska had one that they suspect killed hundreds….I don’t remember the number…perhaps 300 over several decades.
I’d bet guys like Gary Ridgeway have/get more consideration from parole board than Ross Ulbricht ever will.
I am told that I am over the top or nuts because I posit that the left’s goal is to destroy western civilization, yet it is their stated goal and their actions bear it out. But I am the one that is nuts.
Thanks for finding and posting that.
From a link in the link that get’s to the actual story
“We are asking the Court to find that the State has failed to meet its duty to take care of people in its custody. We have asked the Court to appoint a Special Master, a common practice in cases involving prison conditions, who would then clarify who should be released, under what timeline, and then monitor progress,” said Allen.
Yeah, not exactly let everyone over 50 out. but let’s not let an outrage go to waste.
From the linked article
“While innocents are locked in their homes”
OFFS
OFFS
Yeah, PJ Media. They can be quite tiresome.
I obviously didn’t click through. Still, the fact that the Special Master’s scope would have allowed xim to release people convicted of violent crimes gives you a clue about how concerned they were about turning no-kidding criminals loose on the streets. If they had shown some restraint in their request (“no killers, no rapists, no armed robbers”), they might well have flipped that swing vote.
NYC is releasing dangerous prisoners because that was the goal long before the ‘vid (social justice!) and of course some of them are back in pris now.
The story says that’s exactly what they asked for. I don’t have my PACER account active any more to pull the cases, but the story certainly says what RC said.
Never miss an opportunity to be a contrarian, even when there’s no reason to be, I guess, eh?
I clicked around and got that from this link.
https://q13fox.com/2020/04/22/washington-supreme-court-to-hear-lawsuit-for-release-of-prison-inmates-to-reduce-covid-19-exposure/
So at least one amicus brief claimed that’s what they were asking for.
Interesting, your “….” replaces the exact quote I pulled from that same article, the part that actually quotes what they are asking for as opposed to the summary provided by what the reporter says they are asking for.
Hey SW Ohio Glibs that may be a veteran of the armed services!
I just got a call that tomorrow @ the Dayton VA Medical Center from noon-3, they’re handing out ONE free washable face mask!
Thats right- a department of the US gov’t with an annual budget of $243.3 BN (submitted for 2021) is giving out a diaper on a string!
Act now!
Enabling sexual predators is OK until it isn’t.
::checks year of alleged assault by Biden:: 1993
::checks year Reade voted for Hillary:: 2016
::sighs, goes in search of ibuprofen::
I’m amused by the double standard on all of this, but I’m still skeptical about any allegation that comes more than a decade after the event.
#metoo
If I was inclined to vote for Biden, which I’m not, I don’t think I’d let this story as it stands now keep me from voting for him for just that reason. I wouldn’t want him watching my kids though.
Oh, yeah. There are many better reasons not to vote for Gropey Joe. Once you’re past those, this one is nothing.
“Hillary Clinton has a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct.”
Well, she was pals with Epstein and Weinstein. Math checks out.
‘sup briar
Donato’s grand opening is today! Looked pretty busy when I passed it on the way home, but we’re planning to put in an order and cross our fingers. I’ll report back with results.
/alerts Jugsy
Her response took about 30 seconds. Pizza will be here in around an hour.
An awful lot of people can’t grasp the concept of principle, putting an ideal above their own personal interest, so many in fact that they have formed their own political party.
Disagree. Many voting boots own necks vote against ‘their own personal interest”. ‘personal interest’ contrary their victim status.
Victim status used bullying others. Victim status used attempting attention social media.
That is pretty remarkable, isn’t it? I bet she voted Obama/Biden too.
Talk about useful idiots…
So, she knowingly voted for someone with “a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct”.
I’m still skeptical about any allegation that comes more than a decade after the event
#MeToo. That said, she has points in her favor. Not only is it easy to believe that a man who will try to feel up young girls on camera and has no compunction about laying his hands on and sniffing girls and women in public would try to feel someone up, but she also apparently told several people about it at the time.
I mean, she wasn’t upset enough to name names, much less bring a formal complaint or criminal charges (probably smart, really – that’s how take two to the head in a “botched robbery”), but still.
Men in positions of power have always used their position to get women. Women have always used sex to get access. I have no doubt some interaction occured, but the devil is in the details.
While I am strongly opposed to Biden I am even more opposed to this whole #metoo debacle. Short of a criminal charge being brought after a complaint made in a timely fashion I don’t think this stuff is at all relevant to a person’s fitness for an office. It took thousands of years to build a legal system based on the principle that guilt must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt and the end run around that principle that we are seeing is more destructive to our liberties than any individual politician.
‘Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector’ — Reuters
‘In this beautiful world, animals have as much right to live as human beings. In totality, the entire earth is a common property of all of us. It is our world and it is their world. Should humans have rights? Most of you would say yes. People often ask if animals should have rights, and quite simply, the answer is ‘Yes!” — HuffPo
I knew a woman at UD that had the nickname “Meat Sector”
What Mark Steyn considers news today:
SteynOnline: Getting Down to the Non-Essentials – Mark Steyn
The Hill: Governors tiptoe toward reopening across the country
NewsBusters: Reporter to Trump: Do You ‘Deserve’ Reelection Since More Died from Virus Than in Vietnam?
Daily Caller: Olivia Nuzzi Defends Comparing Coronavirus Death Toll To Vietnam War Body Count
HotAir: Is It Time To Worry About A Broken Food Supply Chain?
AP: The US reopening is coming, but ‘normal’ is still a ways off
AP: Companies seek to limit legal liability for virus infections
Daily Wire: Democrat Senate Candidates Outraising Republican Incumbents, Say ‘Odds Have Improved’
FOXNews: Barr tells federal prosecutors to ‘be on the lookout’ for overly restrictive coronavirus shutdown orders
FOXNews: Trump suggests schools should open for a ‘short period of time’ before academic year ends
Politico: Republican firefight kicks off as protesters target GOP govs over closures
The Hill: State funding fight underscores Schumer-McConnell war
New York Post: Gov. Cuomo says New York may need federal help to pay unemployment benefits
Washington Post: Americans support state restrictions on businesses and halt to immigration during virus outbreak, Post-U. Md. poll finds
FOXNews: Infectious disease expert slams study that panned hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment: ‘It’s a sham’
Reuters: Millions of Americans locked out of unemployment system, survey finds
Reuters: U.S. store visits jump to March levels as some states ease restrictions
Washington Post: Will a child-care shortage prevent America’s reopening?
Breitbart: IHME Model Increases Coronavirus Death Projections, with Biggest Jumps in States Not Yet Reopened
HotAir: Is Texas Unveiling A Goldilocks Model We’ve Been Waiting To See?
CNSNews: China Suggests WHO Could Help US Gov’t Respond to Americans’ Criticism of Trump’s Pandemic Response
New York Post: Kim Jong Un’s uncle emerges as possible successor in North Korea
Washington Free Beacon: Supreme Court Puts Government On the Hook for $12 Billion in Obamacare Payments
Reuters: South Korea says North Korea’s absent Kim may be trying to avoid coronavirus
Reuters: China lab rejects COVID-19 conspiracy claims, but virus origins still a mystery
AP: European doctors warn rare kids’ syndrome may have virus tie
Politico” ‘Republicans need to get serious’: 2020 vote-by-mail battle heats up
AP: Report: Biden accuser spoke to neighbor of alleged assault
AP: New chance for House Democrats to force McGahn’s testimony
BizPacReview: Media Matters founder David Brock accused of illegally profiting from progressive nonprofit group
BizPacReview: Dossier author Christopher Steele had previously undisclosed meetings with lawyers for DNC, Clinton campaign
Daily Wire: Democrat Senate Candidates Outraising Republican Incumbents, Say ‘Odds Have Improved’
New York Post: State lacked common sense in nursing homes coronavirus approach: Michael Goodwin
Townhall: The Coronavirus Guessing Game – Derek Hunter
National Review: Our ‘Corona Project’ – Victor Davis Hanson
GatewayPundit: California Doctors Go on Ingraham Angle, Challenge Official COVID Policy. YouTube Takes Down Video
Laura’s Links has an item in Tabletmag on how China and certain US politicians got in bed together.
Thanks.
NewsBusters: Reporter to Trump: Do You ‘Deserve’ Reelection Since More Died from Virus Than in Vietnam?
Would Obama have deserved re-election when more people died from the flu in 2017 than in Vietnam?
‘Trump falsely charged the Obama administration’s response to the H1N1 swine flu outbreak as a ‘full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now.’ ‘ — Brian Naylor, ‘correspondent on the Washington Desk’, NPR, March 13, 2020 1:59 PM ET
What part of falsely do you not understand?
Hey Suthen!
Do me a favour, willya? Can you re-post your oh-so-simple recipe for “Cowboy Stew”, or point me in the right direction? The ones I’m finding on the ‘Net are tantalizingly similar, but appear to vary in ways I don’t find interesting/enjoyable.
Thankyoukindly.
“Cowboy Stew” sounds kind of gay.
Sure.
My grocery’s meat department doesn’t have any cowboy in stock. Something something supply chain. : (
Free range cowboys are better anyway.
Get out there and harvest one yourself!
Obligatory
Even better.
Winner.
Save a horse.
There is a song for that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ZbuIRPwFg
My Costco is replete with cowboys.
Still gotta catch ’em and grind ’em up, though.
Heh…Meijer today had NO chicken. Other than Koch Farms $3.99/lb breasts in bag….NO chicken. To be fair- they could be lax about not restocking.
I think a couple more days (1st of the month with no meat) and people may learn the hard way about supply-side economics.
Sure.
Brown 1lb beef with chopped onion and a crushed garlic clove
Season with one of those packs of taco meat seasoning
Add 1 can of Rotel tomatoes (I prefer the one with habanero, it’s hotter)
Add 1-14.5oz can of diced tomatoes
Add 1 can of sweet corn
Add 1 can of Black beans (you may add inferior beans if you insist)
Add 1 cube of beef bouillon
Simple fast, delicious.
I eat mine over corn chips with shredded sharp cheddar on top.
Thanks mang!
Good news? Or set up for a massive nutpunch when the Court keeps Qualified Immunity.
I’m not sure, but it does look like the Court stacked up some of the worst and most flagrant violations to reconsider QI. I sure the fuck hope so.
Nut punch incoming.
Roberts will bend over and I’m not convinced Kavanaugh is the Constitutional Savior he was purported to be.
/fingers crossed
*now do asset forfeiture
I’m not sure. I mean, you’re likely right about Roberts, and even Kavanaugh, but as I do some tea leaf reading, this might wind up being one where there’s a majority to be made from disparate travelers. Thomas has signaled he’s no fan of this stuff. Gorsuch, you’d think, would get this right – and then some of the liberals may concur for the wrong reasons, but get the right outcome. You could wind up with one of those weird multiple majority opinions that cobble together a win for the good guys (in this case, the victims).
We’ll see. I think the wise Latina is only good on 4A, the rest are statists to the core.
I would love to see it end. It’s a fucking travesty.
I hope you’re right.
*adjusts tinfoil cup*
Yeah, Kav has been a disappointment. Like he was so traumatized by the #MeToo circus at his confirmation hearing that he’s afraid to stick his neck out on anything.
He was always a standard issue establishment party guy Republican model.
*Squints and tugs on chin*
Hmmmmmm….I wonder how they will rule….
Does SCOTUS have the cloak of ‘sovereign immunity’ ?
I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean are the justices immune from their decisions, like when they say people are property and then later go ‘whoops?’ If so, yes.
Parchment paper is awesome.
Sheet pan clean up is for amateurs.
Still haven’t gotten Charmin back on your shelves ?
‘Man busted by police in Spain for taking pet fish for walk during lockdown’
Cue snark about female masturbation