Brett is out attempting to overthrow a foreign government impeding his business….or a bender. One or the other. Now for a few links!
Mask wearing as a symbol of personal expression. Scroll down to the guy in Venezuela and see if you can contain your laughter.
Speaking of Venezuela, the big news is Don Brett’s coup failed, according to Maduro Televisión.
As Bastiat liked to say…its the unseen.
Stupid people have a tendency to look up stupid things in Google, news at 11.
”Meddling” is not the word I use to describe picking a political appointee to a federal position…but I don’t know how that works in Brazil.
Not Mexican related, but if you haven’t seen this one yet, the guy in Michigan shouting at cops speaks out. Which I will admit makes me rethink my biases on these guys.
So for tunes…this one makes me want to drive nails.
Covid 19 are small.
https://www.jpost.com/international/man-facetiously-dons-kkk-hood-in-grocery-store-to-meet-face-mask-requirements-626945
‘Sheriffs in East County, San Diego have launched a criminal probe, investigating an incident in which a man was photographed wearing an improvised Ku Klux Klan hood at the Vons grocery store’
Out Of This World! Tom Cruise Plots Movie To Shoot In Space With Elon Musk’s SpaceX
https://deadline.com/2020/05/tom-cruise-movie-shot-in-outer-space-elon-musk-spacex-unprecedented-in-hollywood-1202925849/
I have to hand it to Cruise. He consistently makes shitty movies but somehow also consistently makes bank.
He should team up with Michael Bay.
Any chance you can arrange it (for a cut, of course)?
He hasn’t already?
Nope.
Xenu approves.
[golf clap]
Protestors being criticized by the state? I thought that was all the rage? Fighting against the Man.
Fear not, fighting against the Man (R) is still in fashion.
Does Gretchen Whitmer self-identify as the Man, a man, whatever…
Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator for White House coronavirus response, called the protests “devastatingly worrisome”
Sorry Deb, explain to us all again how those protests interfere with people choosing to wear masks, self-isolate, get tested, obtain treatment, wash their hands or anything which might possibly fall anywhere within your purview broadly defined.
Nooses, man. Nooses!
Fock You Corona!
Stupid people have a tendency to look up stupid things in Google, news at 11. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/americas/cinco-de-mayo-faq-trnd/index.html
2020 Google Trends https://xkcd.com/2302/
What the hell did Cuomo do with a Pangolin and some Flour?
2019 Leon gets to find out no later than January 1, 2021
[updates grocery list]
Cash, who said he was not armed at the protest, said he was yelling between the two Michigan State Police troopers in the photo, not at them. But the photo was criticized online. “These are the same people who tell you to ‘respect the police,’ ” one Twitter user posted. Another wrote: “Would officers show this much restraint if black men were yelling in their faces?”
It looks to me as if he is looking between and beyond the two guys in the photo.
Not that it matters.
The article says he was yelling at another cop that assaulted a woman at the capitol the previous day, and links a video of the incident.
These are the same people who tell you to ‘respect the police..
Citation needed. Generalization suspected. Butt-hurt detected.
“Would officers show this much restraint if black men were yelling in their faces?”
Oh, fuck off.
Relevant
https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/armed-citizens-escort-lawmaker-into-michigan-state-capitol,14339
Of course it does. But, shocker, the corporate media spins it as racist white gun maniac yelling at Officer Friendly. And the usual suspects chime in with “racist!” and the rest.
Hey, remember when Justin Amash disavowed this guy and his fellow protesters because they’re threatening violence? I guess he was right, because it sounds like this guy was threatening the cop he saw beat up a woman the previous day with physical resistance if he tried it with him. What a racist asshole.
Yeah, with the panned out photo, it does look very much like he’s in between the two cops in the photo.
“EXCLUSIVE: Nursing home from hell where one third of the vet residents died had such depleted supplies that staffers split morphine drips between patients and relatives had to drive to facility to find out if their loved ones were still alive
Supplies at a veterans nursing home that lost one-third of its residents to COVID-19 were so depleted that staff was told to share intravenous morphine drips between the dying.
In at least one case as soon as a veteran died, his IV drip was unhooked and the half-full bag transferred to another resident.
And even after the first veteran at the Holyoke Soldiers Home in Massachusetts had tested positive, the management took away all protective masks from residents’ rooms to preserve them.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8292833/Supplies-Massachusetts-veterans-nursing-low-staffers-split-morphine-drips.html
I have no idea how true this story is, but it’s still sad.
The details may or may not be true, but in Indiana 1/3 of the deaths were in nursing homes, and that rate is higher in some other states. Despite the fact that very early on, they knew nursing homes would be particularly vulnerable.
Today’s newspaper headline in my county said 21 of the county’s 44 deaths have been in nursing homes.
Today’s NH update
19 deaths reported today. Peak deaths were predicted to be in late April and be 11 deaths in a day. I think this is the only time NH has had more than 11 deaths reported in a day.
All 19 were in long-term care facilities.
111 deaths total. 24 were not in long-term care facilities, which means 87 (roughly 78%) were.
Based on data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation, that rate would mean that New Hampshire has the highest proportion of COVID-19 deaths in long-term care facilities in the country.
Shibinette said that compared to other states, New Hampshire has not had as big of a problem with community-based transmission, while long-term care facilities continue to experience outbreaks.
But… we have to comply with “Stay At Home 2.0”. Fuck Sununu.
Cool link bro
Almost makes you think they should quarantine the nursing homes.
That’s what bothers me most. Instead of blanket proclamations and shutting down the entire economy, they could have focused all that effort and money on the most vulnerable and probably cut deaths in half. They could have done this months ago. Hell, they could still do it now and it would still make a huge difference.
Also remember that there is often jiggery-pokery with the numbers. Here in Virginia some nursing homes are “slow” (weeks late) in reporting Wuhan virus deaths to the Dept of Health, and when they finally get around to it VDH posts all the numbers are posted as if all the deaths occurred the day they were reported, not the day they actually occurred.
Hey – if you are getting bonuses for Covid deaths, just report every dead geezer as a victim.
I bet we’ll eventually get stories about some of these homes with lots of dead from the virus fudged their numbers for corona bucks.
60% of deaths in Mass. happened in long-term care facilities. I’ve been following it for the the last two weeks. The number keeps creeping from 58% to 59% and today it reached 60%.
My Mom was freaked out the that nursing home where my grandparents, uncle, and father died had a covid croaker. She was shocked that I wasn’t upset. That’s the place where people go to die and soon. What they die of is fairly irrelevant. And, my Dad would agree, the sooner the better.
The nursing home is not the gym, no one there is training for a triathlon. Today or tomorrow, what’s the difference. My guess if a patient is getting morphine he/she would prefer sooner rather than later.
80% here. Absolutely disgusting.
79% Canada-wide.
But “we didn’t have enough information weeks ago to know who the truly vulnerable were.” :-/
Really? I guess Italian doesn’t translate to Canucki.
Fear not, fighting against the Man (R) is still in fashion.
Never give up the fight against the Orange Man.
Peru has the second highest number of cases in South America after Brazil, despite a tough lockdown aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus.
This is why we can never end the lockdown. So what if Peru isn’t even part of the United States and it is far away?
Cash said he wasn’t yelling at the state troopers seen in the photo – “I didn’t scream in anybody’s face” – but at an officer positioned behind them who he said he saw assault a woman the day before.
Early news reports wrong. News at…. umm….
Peru has the second highest number of cases in South America after Brazil, despite a tough lockdown aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus.
just ignore all those datapoints showing lockdowns don’t do shit.
Brett is out attempting to overthrow a foreign government impeding his business….
The threat comes from within.
“REVEALED: 66% of New York state coronavirus hospitalizations are people staying at HOME and NOT essential workers – which begs question: Does lockdown even work?
The majority of people who are still being hospitalized with the coronavirus across the state of New York are staying at home and are not essential workers, new data has revealed, prompting the questions of whether or not lockdown even works or for how much longer it will be necessary.
In a study of some 1,000 new patients admitted to New York hospitals over the last week, 66 percent were staying at home and 18 percent had come from nursing homes, meaning they either became infected by going out to get groceries or other essential items, or from seeing people outside of work.
Gov. Cuomo said they were clearly becoming infected as a result of personal behavior, something that can’t be controlled by his lock-down.
There are now 19,877 deaths in New York state and more than 321,000 cases of the virus. Across America, there have been more than 1million cases and 72,000 deaths. Recent data shows that while New York’s numbers are decreasing, the rest of America’s are on the rise.
More than 80 percent of the new New York hospitalizations had not taken any public transport since the stay-at-home order began in March and that number rose to 90 percent in New York City, but only 55 percent of study respondents answered the question on transport.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8293417/66-New-York-coronavirus-hospitalizations-people-staying-HOME.html
Now he has to lockdown harder and longer.
Of course. Viruses can’t melt steel (used to weld people into their homes).
*puts fingers in ears*
LALALALALAALALALAALALA
So 90% of 55% said they didn’t take public transport. Some good Sciencing there.
heh….remind me of The Naked Gun
Ed: Doctors say Norberg has a 50-50 chance to live. Course, there’s only a ten percent chance of that.
I had an employee that always used to cite the “50-50-90 Rule”
“If you have a 50% of getting something right, 90% of the time you’ll be wrong.”
like USB ports, only ever get ’em on the third try
Is it possible that the health benefits of increased activity, ie even going to a sedentary office job, outweigh the overall risks of people staying home?
which begs question: Does lockdown even work?
No it doesn’t. It presents data that lockdowns don’t work.
Begging the question is what happens when you assume your conclusions.
Random number generator generates number
An influential coronavirus model often cited by the White House is now forecasting that 134,000 people will die of Covid-19 in the United States, nearly double its previous prediction.
The model, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, had predicted 72,433 deaths as of Monday morning.
——-
The sharp increases in the two models are tied to relaxed social distancing and increased mobility in the US. States across the country — including Florida, Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska and South Carolina — have eased restrictions in an attempt to revive a sputtering economy and calm restless residents.
We’ll beat death, if we just listen to the experts!
…Indiana…
Oh shit. Been nice knowing you, Glibs.
See, this is begging the question.
The models have always assumed social distancing and lockdowns, and assumed that they would reduce the rate of infection, hospitalization, and death.
So when lockdowns are lifted, they assume that will increase the rate, etc.
All they lack is data that lockdowns have the assumed effect. That’s all.
I’ll let someone else post the link about the Ferguson model, but that is exactly right. And even worse, the RNG doesn’t generate the same output from a particular seed!
I didn’t know Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a luchador.
Really? I thought it was obvious. Her and Shrieka as a wrestling duo.
+ Nacho Tuna
You Know who else engaged in a lockdown in Peru?
Safe manufacturers ?
Incas?
Yzma?
The Shining Path?
Canal Lock & Safe over in Wabash?
What you did there was seen.
Gavin Newsom: California ‘Not Going Back to Normal’ Until We Have a Vaccine
The only problem…
We’ve never made a successful vaccine for a coronavirus. Never, ever, for any variety of coronavirus.
Great. They can do us all a favor and start building that wall now.
My favorite pub in town announced two days ago that they’re closing permanently. If the Guv keeps this up, there will be many others.
Lots more people will need welfare checks. Win Win.
After all the net tax producers leave, they’ll need a bigger Federal bailout. Win Win Win.
The same people who claim we need to dose people with the viral load in a vaccine also say that the viral load from actually getting the disease won’t confer any protection.
Ass Wednesday will make you want to have intercourse.
http://archive.li/0aPEp
While not much into blondes, 36 was appropriately bootylicious.
While not much into blondes,
Crazy talk. 9 wins.
Bill Whittle talks about the moving goalposts. Good analogy – we hired a contractor without ever negotiating the price or delivery date.
Well I’m just about due, I’m just about due, about due
For a breakdown
I’m just about due, I’m just about due, about due
For a breakdown
I can’t take this for much longer
The pain keeps growing stronger
I don’t know who I am anymore
So don’t ask me what I’m thinking
‘Cause I’m just about due
And don’t ask me how I’m feeling
Because I’m just about due
https://youtu.be/srwqjOBKCsQ
How I’m feeling.
Relevant
“Closest Match: Libertarianism
Libertarians are generally culturally left, but fiscally conservative, and wants a much smaller state/government.”
https://rightvaluestest.github.io/index.html
So soda bans, fat bans and sugar bans? And support shutdowns?
#metoo
I’m a Classical Liberal.
*lights Winston signal*
Public schools and drowning Catholic priests?
Me too.
Next closest matches
Libertarianism: 99.5%
Paleolibertarianism: 99.2%
Neo-Liberalism: 95.9%
Theocratic Monarchy: 95.6%
Anarcho-Capitalism: 95.6%
Some of the statements I agreed/disagreed with but not for obvious reasons. Like “Churches should be taxed”.
Interesting how “Theocratic Monarchy” matches up with those others.
“Closest Match: Market Anarchism
Market Anarchism is a form of anarchism that mixes anarchist goals such as the abolition of hierarchy, the state and capitalism with heightened individualism and a moderate reformist approach. This should not be confused with Anarcho-Capitalism.”
https://leftvalues.github.io/index.html
I couldn’t do this one. The questions are just awful.
So fucking stupid…
Only a poli sci major could come up with that drivel.
Classical Liberalism was my closest match.
Huh… Classical Liberalism?
Some of the questions were weird/needed a “But I mean…” section. Like “I would rather have a constitutional monarchy than a traditional monarchy” (Missing: No flipping monarchy at all… hence “Neutral”.. unless you go with Twain’s Cat Monarchy which would probably work). Or “I’d rather have an Authoritarian Government than Anarchy”.. way to miss the middle ground that’s only like 90% bigger folks…
The hell?!? Classical Liberalism — but the “closest match” is Neo-Con? Ok… I’ll admit to believing the US Constitution is a good model of governance (be nice if we tried it some century) — but I sure as hell don’t want to go making the world safe for democracy or nation building or any of that crap. That’s like saying the nice lady down the street who leads a good Christian life is closest to a Crusader…
The definitions and questions are not well formulated. On my results I scored Classical liberal at top, with neocon in 3rd and ancap in 4th. There is not 90% overlap between those 3 philosophies, and aparrently my choosing neutral on most of the war/peace categories (because those decisions are always fact specific and cannot be made without the context) was enough to make me 93% neocon?
58 questions? I don’t need all that to tell me that I want to be left alone, and I’m more than happy to return the courtesy.
The only winning move is not to play?
As usual, a lot of very questionable, err, questions.
I noped out before the end.
These sorts of tests are always terrible. this one is all the others turned up to 11.
Or maybe I/we am/are just too wierd. I’m OK with that.
Damn it…..
Closest Match: Libertarianism
Closest Match: Neo-Liberalism
Neo-Liberalism is a free-market oriented reform ideology, which is usually culturally left-leaning. Reducing state influence is also a big part of the ideology.
Ugh, I can’t. I got 20 questions in before I had too many “Well, it depends…” or “I mean, how do you define X” to proceed.
Closest Match: Libertarianism
Well okay then…
The hell does “we need to change the culture” mean?
Nothing. That’s the beauty of it.
Too many people like thing that I don’t?
https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/nationalism-problem
Sure Jan. The leftist urbanites are known for their fondness of libertarian economics. And their social urges are pretty shit too.
Also these urban politicians’ desire to shut down City Life due to the Coronavirus is the exact opposite of “openness” and “dynamism”.
the cosmopolitans kind of win out, and the message that libertarians have of openness and dynamism is one that’s certainly much more appealing to them than it is to nationalists
She’s obviously never met either a “cosmopolitan” or a libertarian. Since this is her cover story for Reason, I’m guessing she’s never met a libertarian.
Keep fucking that chicken, Reason!
Actually Slade didn’t say that stuff. That is one of the CATO guys. The other CATO guy points out that urban life also seems to bring about hyper-collectivism and uses AOC as an example.
That said the assumption that “cosmopolitans” all think the same things and will agree with me on everything is an old one that many classical liberals (except for the agrarians) thought as did many libertarians such as Rothbard back in the 1960s.
When I see someone whine about nationalism what immediately pops in my head is “Oh brother, here we go again with open borders arguments”
I meant to mention this before. As of this week, there have been lockdown protests in NYC, LA, Boston, and Chicago.
I think you owe our great American urban centers an apology.
That’s why I mentioned “urban politicians” by the way.
Just busting balls.
Funny you picked that out and not this:
I’ve been saying this since 2017 at least.
Collectivists hate libertarians because they stand in opposition to their core values. There are conservative collectivists just as there are progressive collectivists.
Really I think it just boils down to: do you believe in liberty and self-determination or not?
Of course they believe in liberty and self-determination. They also believe that those things have consequences. So you’re free to speak your mind on a subject, but you must be prepared to deal with the fallout if you say the wrong things. Hate speech isn’t free speech. You must respect the liberty and autonomy of others. How can someone be free if they’re not free from hate speech? So of course you’re free to be a transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic, racist bigot, but don’t be surprised when you’re put in jail for it.
Hello Mr. Spittoon, I’m from the Washington Post and I’d like to offer you a job.
If you really want to see how much both progs and conservatives truly hate libertarians, then go post on a popular blog, and in posts, support both the 2nd amendment and legalizing weed.
I did this at The Hill for a little while and tired of it.
It’s like this:
If you love the 2nd amendment, YOU MUST HATE DOPE SMOKING HIPPIES.
If you love being able to decide what you can put into your own body, YOU MUST HATE GUN NUT EXTREMISTS!
Or something like that.
But it gave me a clear picture of just how much libertarians are hated by both sides. They bought a package, how dare anyone want that extremist a la carte stuff.
They hate libertines and they conflate the terms “moral” and “legal”.
It’s just more “shit I don’t like”.
That said, conservatives, while repressive, tend not to create quite as much economic damage.
I don’t think that’s true anymore. I, for one, don’t look forward to 1000 bucks just for an entry-level Speed Queen top-loading washing machine just because it’s made in ‘Murka. And that’s now…wait until chip and board foundries are ‘re-domiciled’. Washing clothes by hand will once again become a common middle-class activity.
I don’t know HM the GOP might be returning to their protectionist. mercantilist, Hamiltonian and Lincolnian roots back when they were sensible and moderate and not crazy libertarians like Trump.
Somebody has to sate the Rust Belt unions…
It would be preferable to have a global economy where no one country had a monopoly on critical sources of supply. China was quite successful in monopolizing the electronics industry, but it won’t last forever. I expect that some production will move back to the States and some will go to other places, like Vietnam
Hopefully more clearly than that word salad. I have no idea what they’re trying to say.
What they’re saying is that the nu-GOP, post-2016, after shanking the neo-cons in the back (deservedly) turned their sights on the libertarians. It’s shocking to see the outright hate people like Tucker Carlson et al. have for libertarians in that our insistence on fiscal responsibility and protection of individual rights is seen as an obstacle to their “national greatness” fever dreams.
In the interview, they bring up one of Carlson’s Two-Minutes Hate against libertarians in that we don’t agree that Elizabeth Warren’s “economic patriotism sounds like Trump at his best”.
We may not have any friends on the left, but the “right” has become increasingly hostile now that the NatPop hordes have crawled into the Big Tent.
And the coronavirus and the ensuing shutdowns have shown the NatPops that “globalism” is a clearly a bullshit lie then I can expect things to get worse.
I would blame this more on unthinking nationalism, but that argument is worth an entire blog post. Just consider that the only time a disease was eradicated in the entirety of human history, smallpox, was a result of both the US and USSR cooperating under the auspices of post-WW 2 internationalism.
I thought that only Trump, Orban and co. engaged in such behavior?
You know who else wanted US and USSR cooperation after WWII?
Well, it turns out that Xi the Pooh also is a nationalist.
Just what do you think “with Chinese characteristics” meant?
I thought it meant flat asses and a lack of driving skills.
Hey now…don’t make me reach into my special folder on the cloud for exceptions that prove the rule!
*Insert usual Winston spiel about China*
Oh please no HM, whatever you do don’t
throw me into that briar patchdo that!We may not have any friends
on the left, but the “right” has become increasingly hostile now that the NatPop hordes have crawled into the Big Tent.Fixed it.
What fucking planet does Carlson live on believing that libertarians own the GOP?
Given that Carlson is very much an economic nationalist, I can see where he would think that.
Same planet his leftist enemies live on?
We’re all living on Tuckerworld now.
I hope you weren’t counting on liquor stores being a thing.
Is he a dry?
At least we no longer all have to wear bow ties.
@Winston
Yes, notorious teetotaler.
As Rhywun has dutifully reported, he has gone on rants during Corona-time over the fact that liquor stores are considered “essential businesses” and allowed to remain open.
Eh I’ve been pointing out that there has always been a “Republicans/Conservatives suck because they are too individualistic and libertarian” element of the right for a while too. And a lot of the moaning about the dead defeated Sensible Republicans before the age of Nixon/Reagan/Bush I/II/Trump is full of that stuff too by the way.
And whenever people at Reason moaned that the GOP needs to be more “sensible” and “electable” I always pointed out what makes you so certain that a “sensible, electable” GOP won’t be even less libertarian than they correctly are right now?
Well, we see that an electable GOP isn’t a sensible GOP.
I wish I was at a bar so I could play that song on the jukebox and pound down a cold one.
Rand Paul Calls to Reopen Economy — ‘The Only Thing that Recovers Our Economy Is Reopening the Economy’
Oh yeah – and Obama / Biden were corrupt as hell.
“We don’t have any money…”
But I have some checks left!
Does anyone know where Obama got the money to buy his 11M dollar mansion?
Dude, he was elected Kang! Once you Kang, you always Kang, then you be rich! Duh!
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
+1 panel truck full of Newports
#I’mRichBiatchHONKHONK
Netflix
Net Neutrality.
Book advances and a production contract from Netflix.
Hard work and determination.
Rand wants people to die? Who knew?
The powers that be in Texas want the women who refused to apologize at her show-trial released. They made all that nonsense possible but hard for me to get too upset at Texas government as they are opening this week.
More pols should read Glibs. How many times have we been warning that the ‘too much to lose’ principle is about to go bye-bye?
Maybe drugs will fall out of their asses then?
No love for ‘too big to fail’ ?
Good on the gov, they need to spring that broad.
Isn’t there an Iron Law about “unintended consequences”?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/dozens-dead-after-lockdown-measures-delayed-their-heart-surgeries-health-official-certainly-was-not-intended/
Hey, if it saves just one life…
Well, it isn’t like folks have been saying for months now that such things are a cost of the lockdowns…. oh wait….
My dad was telling me about a buddy of his that narrowly escaped that. He thought he was having really bad indigestion that was causing chest pains. It made him move up his scheduled annual exam with the doc by a couple weeks. Turns out he had major artery blockage on his heart and they rushed him in to surgery to fix it. A few days later the lockdown hit.
So if he been a lazy whiner who figured he might as well move his appointment up, there was a good chance he would have croaked.
Predictable outcomes are not not intended. GFYS.
More coronavirus-related deaths.
Napa restaurant reopens, literal Karen threatens restraining order.
Appropriate.
Somehow I forgot the link.
Ya got your Mega-Karen.
And now the ULTRA KAREN!
My wife wanted pizza. That’s odd, she never wants pizza. I’m sure she’s not preggy. Anyway, there’s a place not far from here that is pretty famous locally for their pizza. I’ve never tried it before, we don’t usually do pizza. $34 for a pizza with delivery. Last night, $86 worth of beer delivery.
This stay at home shit is getting expensive. Maybe I should stop giving such generous delivery tips, but to be honest, I feel bad for people relegated to delivery work because that’s all they can probably get right now. I should go back to beating my orphans so I’ll feel better.
Make the orphans beat each other for you. They’ll beat each other harder than you’ll ever beat them, for fear of disappointing you with weak beatings.
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Too much work. It is a lot harder to organize mass beatings than you think. If you don’t do a ton of planning and preparation, everything goes wrong and it ends up as a colossal circle jerk.
Welcome to the Honey Harvest.
So one of the answers to the stupid questions is that wearing sombreros is racist. Does that mean that anyone dressing up in those German shorts with suspenders for Octoberfest is also a racist?
Nope. That’s gay.
This is better, anyway.
I’m not sure anyone else wants me to wear a dirndl, but ok….
I bet Hayek has one…..
+St Pauli
Racist.
http://archive.li/kIDId/c0da03ac4b4dd6f713ba922a529433b2a880be32.jpg
Why do your links take me to my router settings?
So I can track you easier?
Your router is bogarting the dirndl girls for itself?
I get the same thing sometimes. I believe it’s due to cloudflare DNS.
Got any racist photos of non-French gals wearing berets? Asking for a friend….
A raspberry one?
Probably not French, but I doubt you’ll care either way.
http://archive.li/HJ8OU/cc818dce4dd25e37f831370197ffca8df2239eb9.jpg
NSFW.
After reviewing those pics with Zapruder-level intensity, I think you are correct that those are a couple racist gals appropriating French culture.
Real Frenchie gals would have had arm pit hair sticking out.
I’ll have them sent to your house for reeducation and punishment.
Real Frenchie gals would have had arm pit hair sticking out.
Not the ones in my extended family. That’s strictly for those Parisian whores.
Close enough,.
Where you might find those ladies.
“Zum Landkreis Sigmaringen gehört dasAutokennzeichen SIG. Der zwischen Biberach und Tuttlingen an den Bundesstraßen B32, B313 und B483 gelegene Kreis im Süden von Baden-Württemberg ist ein beliebtes Ausflugziel bei Naturliebhabern. Er trägt sein Hauptkennzeichen SIG seit 1956.”
That’s a tasty looking pretzel!
#FreetheFritoBandito
Germans aren’t a race you Nazi!
Is it just me or does the front page pic just say “You expected me to be the girl with her shirt off and paint, didn’t you?”
Well, gents (because I know TANLW), my annual fishing trip starts tomorrow, so I will be AWOL for a week. Same place as ever. Meeting Pater Dean and some his cronies as per usual.
The main lodge (bar, restaurant, and tackle shop) will be closed. We’ll see how long it takes for that rule to become more of a guideline once Pater Dean et al are on site, especially if we need to restock on flies.
Bring yer own booze, and room service meals, is how they work around the idiot New Mexico governor’s illegal power grab. Word is, the fishing is good. Weather looks OK, good chance of rain (which turns some sketchy roads, well, really sketchy).
Awesome! Safe travels and tight lines!
Have a good week.
Nice! Love me some fly fishing, but I only get a couple times a year now. Looks killer. Enjoy!
That is NOT a fishing trip. It’s a resort with ‘water features’. Have fun. I bet they don’t even have mosquitos.
Imagine being this guy
“If we had a Democrat with balls when we take over, they’d cut off funding to red states & make them beg for their handout. Almost all of them are welfare queens who live off the blue states. Republican run states are on average miserable failures who take more from federal govt.”
https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1257773851355701248
I don’t think this turns out quite the way he imagines. But we’ll see.
As long as they stop draining us for taxes and whatnot I’m fine with that but I don’t think that’s what he has in mind.
Actually that’s a good idea. Let’s disband the FedGov and make those awful redstates try to survive!
I hear there are a lot of Armenians in the red states.
https://tinyurl.com/yatbnovx
I’ve only seen Armenians in the blue states: they will stay with Cenk.
Hmmm…perhaps he should rethink this plan.
Or maybe he can transport them to Republican majority states using railroads. Yes! That’s the ticket!
Areas in which he could concentrate them would be the best course of action.
Poor Chunk. He’s still trying to claw his way back into the graces of the Progressive movement after he got outed for badthink from his early days in the blogosphere.
Or we could have more federalism rather then trying to centralize everything in DC. It never ceases to amaze me how so many progs simultaneously complain that red states get more federal dollars than blue states (a debatable point) and want to centralize government power at the federal level.
When they do the whole red states are welfare whores, do the ever factor in the federal gas tax?
Gah! That Values test is awful. So many assumptions and fuzzy labels it is impossible to answer any of them in a meaningful way.
President of Tanzania Fires Head of COVID-19 Testing After Goat and Pawpaw Fruit Test Positive for the Virus
Maybe it really is all a hoax?
It’s going to be epic lulz when the goat and pawpaw tests turn out to be more accurate than our own ‘experts’. I’d say there’s about a 50/50 chance that actually happens.
*raises hand*
What was he doing with that goat?
He was trying to test for some… other disease just to make sure it was safe.
Other than a cop brutalizing an inmate, then being protected by the Chief of Police and City Attorney from any consequences, why would this guy think he has any right to sue the city?
“Dolly Parton Is Backing Research Into Promising COVID Treatment
A million-dollar donation from America’s country music sweetheart is funding cutting-edge research into antibody treatments that could help severely ill COVID-19 patients.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton-national-treasure-is-backing-some-really-promising-coronavirus-treatment-research
https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1258037313453654018
It’s breast milk isn’t it?
Woops! Sorry, paywalled.
Dolly Parton’s Tits was my second favorite bar trivia team name.
The best was Dakota Fanning’s Fake Bush.
Dakota Johnson dammit!
Whatever.
You get it.
Fuck off.
If you don’t love Dolly Parton, you don’t love America. That’s a fact Jack.
^^^This guy gets it.
In fact; the first indication of my… proclivities was seeing Dolly on TV when I was probably 7 or 8. I was still very much in the “girls are gross!” phase, but her tits were mesmerizing to me. I had no idea why I liked them, but I couldn’t take my eyes off them.
Saw her as a kid in Wisconsin in the 70’s along with Porter Waggoner. And yeah. Mesmerizing.
It better involve large doses of oxytocin and immunoglobulin.
It looks like my Bastiat homeschool lessons are rubbing off as a few days ago my soon to be five year old was asking about the trip we usually take to Baja each year. I told him it was still up in the air. “The coronavirus again!,” he said exasperated. Then he paused a couple seconds and said, “what about the Mexicans? How are they going to work if people don’t go there?” The fishing village we stay near is indeed heavily dependent on expats and tourists coming to fish. A frigging five year old can figure this out quicker than the idiots running the show here.
Where do you go in Baja? Do you drive or fly? Is it safe?
We usually rent a house somewhere between La Ribeira and Los Barrilles. It’s about an hour north of Cabo airport on the road to La Paz. I’ve been there about ten times and not had the slightest problem. Often see more goats on the beach than people. The pelagic fishing is some of the best in the world, and a lot of it is just a couple miles off the beach. Last year I caught three marlin and three yellowfin tuna in two days on a boat. Also love to surfcast the beaches and have gotten lots of fish that way.
I assume I’ve recommended Jeopardy to you before?
Thanks T! You have and I need to see that. Love my old films and that will be one the list. I couldn’t find it on a Netflix the last time I looked.
Oh and we usually fly to Cabo and rent a car for the drive out there. I’ve also driven down and fished at San Quintin, much closer up in Baja Norte. If you ever are interested in more info lemme know as I really know that whole stretch very well at this point.
Sounds cool. I’ve been to the beach near San Quintin and gone fishing somewhere near there on a 3 day excursion from San Diego. But both of those were decades ago. You always hear horror stories from Mexico, but I figure it is probably bad for business to mess with the Gringos too much.
Or The Hitch-Hiker?
4 Months Ago
“But in the US, there’s no need to wear surgical masks — or the N95 respirators physicians wear when treating viruses — says infectious disease expert Dr. Charles Chiu.
There’s no evidence of sustained novel coronavirus transmission in the US like there is in China, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not recommended Americans wear masks in public.”
Our “experts” continue to take every opportunity to beclown themselves.
5 Hours Ago
“Most Americans have never had to wear a mask for their health before, let alone while they shop for groceries or go for a run.
So, even as businesses or states increasingly require them, rebellion is natural — to a degree, says Dr. David Aronoff, director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Division of Infectious Diseases and professor of medicine.
But he urges Americans to think of the mask guidance not as forced conformity, but as a necessary act of solidarity: Wearing a cloth mask could stop seemingly healthy people from infecting others with coronavirus if they’re asymptomatic.”
I hate the term “solidarity”.
I don’t mind the occasional invocation of civic duty or golden rule, but solidarity always involves the mob.
Completely agree.
I think we are all unified in that opinion.
No shit.
That leaves off that the CDC’s guidance for over a decade was to wear a face covering during a flu pandemic. So much that the FDA approved N95 respirators for general public use during such a pandemic. Not one, but two whiplashes.
Also, what isn’t forbidden, is mandatory.
There’s no evidence of sustained novel coronavirus transmission in the US like there is in China
In late January, that was true. Of course, that’s answering the wrong question.
The right question would have been “Is there any reason to believe that the Commie Cough won’t come to the US, and if it will, there won’t be sustained Commie Cough transmission in the US?”
I’m Voting!
So, you just confirmed that #MeToo is pure horseshit. Thanks for the confirmation! That didn’t take long.
That seems to be the tact they have been going with. Assure everyone it’s ok to vote for Biden, even if they believe Read
We to get rid of the Bad God King and replace him with a new God King.
She seems nice. I bet she’s a blast at parties.
Yo! Homey! The house next door to us just went up for sale. Won’t you be my neighbor? ; )
Geez, he’d have to live in Ohio… oh wait, never mind.
I’d trade NYC for Ohio right about now.
Well, I mean…
Well, it’s not possible “right now”.
+ VA loan
“Lie back and think of future Supreme Court nominees”
I think we know jack-shit about the commie cooties. I have no confidence in any of their expert explanations including for how it spreads. My confidence in what the media has to say is exponentially lower…as in a negative number.
*inner mathematician perks up*
That’s not how exponents work!
Sometimes when you are really tired your brain goes. into a kind of auto-pilot and you just blurt out certain word patterns without thinking.
I am very tired.
“•X, the unknown variable ⚔️
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent ?
+
(A=Archangel, my favorite song)
(⚔️? metal rat)”
https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1257836061520101377
OK?
A-12
It’s a mystery why NY is hated.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/06/new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-health-care-volunteers-pay-state-income-tax-coronavirus-pandemic/
Well, they are working in NY, they are being paid in NY. Why wouldn’t they pay the NY state income tax? Why should volunteers from Rochester, NY be paid less after taxes?
As I understand it, it’s primarily out of state medical workers who came to NY because NYC was overwhelmed. The state didn’t pay them. Their employers did. Samaritan’s Purse is one example.
Cuomo wants to tax their Florida pay as the work was done in NY.
Isn’t this well established by existing tax code? The governor can’t just speak a new tax code into being…can he?
“The governor can’t just speak a new tax code into being…can he?”
If he can instantly suspend all of your Constitutional rights, why not? Seems like less of a reach to me.
He can certainly request/jawbone the legislature into not taxing that pay as well.
“into not taxing that pay as well”
bwahahhhaaahhaa! Cuomo is a democrat. Name me one tax, existing or imagined that a democrat does not love?
Of course he won’t. But to just say he couldn’t is transparently a lie.
“But to just say he couldn’t is transparently a lie.”
Without that skill, do you think he could be governor of NY?
Or just about any elective office anywhere, really.
Democrats don’t like poll taxes.
Yes. And I doubt NY is the only state that does this, either.
Here’s where NY (and several other states) should be flamed into oblivion.
https://www.friedmanllp.com/insights/help-what-is-new-yorks-convenience-of-the-employer-rule-all-about
This BS allows them to tax out of state work because of a bullshit reasoning. Telecommute for a NY employer but live in MT, you owe because it’s only allowed at the convenience of the employer. Never mind that if you couldn’t telecommute, you might not work for that employer. Fuck Cuomo and his fellow rats, past and present, that haven’t repealed it.
The test:
Anarcho-Capitalism
Next:
Libertarianism – 99%
There are too many questions there that don’t have enough to do with political ideology or that are not specific to it.
But, pretty accurate in my case, except I’d switch the first and 2nd.
Hey guys. Time to cut back on the donuts.
Your center of mass is below your vest.
https://pjmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ector-co-mrap.jpg
I’m guessing they don’t do any foot chases.
Armor should sit high to protect your thoracic cavity, not your belly.
They’re fine then/
When you’re in trouble, and no one else can help, you can call the Whale Team.
Good job Chicago.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/1258147147020730369
Was he a former governor?
I’m surprised they caught him.
All black people look alike to the guards?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestatesman.com/opinion/orwellian-nightmare-1502884805.html/amp
Yeah sure. We want massive new tax funded programs, and we’re going to get those right after we destroy the tax base.
Some people are so stupid, I have no idea how they remember to breathe.
“People as main players”
You mean billions of people making independent economic decisions?
Didn’t think so.
No matter what the problem is the solution is always the same with these fuckers.
The be fair no many the problem my solution is the same. Get the government out of it.
Hot tar, feathers, hemp, cold steel, and lead?
Fun times.
I pulled my free credit report yesterday and was shocked to see a 90 day delinquency and corresponding knock on my credit score.
Research showed it was a REI MasterCard through US Bank, opened in 2002, went delinquent this February. I didn’t know I was on the account. I was divorced in 2007.
The unpaid balance was $171. I paid it to make it go away. But, man. Amazing how long something like that can hang around.
Damn. Can you at least get the delinquency off your report given the 2007 divorce decree?
I had a few things come back to bite me after my divorce, ironically, also in 2007.
One time I looked at my report, it was maybe in 2010 and there was something on there for one of the agencies, I forget which one, for an address I had never lived at and for something I knew nothing about. It took me months to get it off there, it was something my X had bought and not paid for, as is typical for her. I got stuck with 55K in debt that was court ordered we both were liable for. I paid every dime of it, she never paid. It was hurting my credit and I knew she’d never pay, so I paid it. One of the credit cards we had jointly, I talked to them, and explained that I would pay, but she was liable as well. Unfortunately they fold me, that would help my credit, but hers as well, even though I paid all of it.
So glad to have all that bullshit finally behind me.
That’s what hitmen are for.
I’m surprised it didn’t “age out” after all these years.
I think it’s because it only went delinquent in Feb of this year.
I’m confused (obviously). How did it manage to stay, er, “non-delinquent” for so long?
Check out credit karma. It’s free and you get updates every 6 days.
I’d be interested to get HM’s take on this subreddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hyperspermia/
NSFW.
I believe grizz(?) had something to say about that condition.
Did you see the ketchup and fries one from last night that someone linked for your review?
From tres
https://m.imgur.com/p3U8bjS
Finally, I’m famous for something.
WE CAN NEVER OPEN UP AGAIN, NOT NOW ESPECIALLY!
They’re making it too obvious that they are terrified of states opening up already. Why could that be? I have a clue, it’s not what they’re telling you.
Filipovic has never needed to work for a living. She spouts inanity for money she probably doesn’t need in order to get by. She understands nothing about how things work and presumes to regale is with how things should be in her Utopia. Anything else is a “failed state”, using her words.
What happens when half the population can no longer afford TVs or cable? Will she build a cardboard stadium in her backyard and talk to the hobos?
Hubby will have to become a plumber to support her habits.
https://twitter.com/DeadCell777/status/1258163868230209536
Is this real?
You never heard of Neon Epstein Evangelion?
I can’t say that I have.
I take it it is in the loli genre?
Should I watch the ring or ringu?
Yes
I hear they are very different from each other. Both are good?
Yes.
It’s been ages but I watched both and while the particulars differences are lost to alcoholic dementia I do remember enjoying both versions. I do think that the american version was more of a straight remake then some western adaptation of films made by moonfaces. It’s kinda like watching the same movie twice, but both are done well.
Thanks fellas!
We’ve chatted a bit about nootropics before. Has anybody here played around with NLP or done it seriously?
In a number of ways US Marine boot camp seems to be an extreme type of NLP. Not only does it change the recruits’ physical surroundings and experience but they are taught to express everything in the third person with specific words and phrases being used in ways that would be novel to the recruit.