This was a trying week. Thank God we’re at the end of it. Although next week will likely be more stressful. Oh well, them’s the breaks.
ManUre won. Big deal. Tony Finau and Ryan Palmer got The Memorial kicked off with a couple of low scores. And that’s it for sports.
Kids say the craziest shit!
Big birthdays today are businessman John Jacob Astor, detective writer Erle Stanley Gardner, annoying actor James Cagney, TV host Art Linkletter, comedian Phyllis Diller, physicist Gordon Gould, infielder Roy McMillan, eccentric actor Donald Sutherland, home wrecker Camilla Parker Bowles, actress PJ Soles, German heartthrob David Hasselhoff, German sociopath Angela Merkel, hockey player Bryan Trottier, and drug lord Nemesio Cervantes.
The Aunt Jemima (problematic) Treatment
And now I bring you…the links!
More government failure
City inspectors didn’t do their job. And now the taxpayers get to foot the bill. Let me guess: none of the inspectors who effectively lied about things will face charges. Big shock.
The fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard has finally been extinguished. That’s good news.
Want a mandate? Pass a damn law.
Good! I now this is causing everybody in the media to lose their shit, but it’s about time. These “mandates” aren’t legislation yet they’re given the weight of criminal law. And that, my good friends, is a dangerous precedent.
Ooh, look out! Don’t talk shit or she’ll haunt the model town you built in your attic. Seriously, this lady needs to mind her own city, which is rapidly becoming a hells cape under her “leadership.”
Just in case you really need to get away. A few of them are looking pretty tempting.
Assassinated.
This story gets weirder and weirder. Maybe that guy needed to have a means to protect himself. Nah, it’s New York. What could possibly go wrong there?
No good deed goes unpunished. That’s what she gets for making a kid’s day. Sad.
I’m shocked! Well, not really shocked. I’m not even mildly surprised, to be honest.
I’m shocked! Well, not really shocked. I’m not even mildly surprised, to be honest.
Don’t shit where you eat. This should be common sense by now. Yet, here we are…
One of my Favourites from the 80s. Underrated song. Enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a solid day and an even better weekend, friends!
Lotsa meetings today, so I’ll aim for the weekend.
Overslept. Wound up late to work. Didn’t think it’d be an issue account of I was supposed to be training. Show up. Find out I’ve been moved to a different division and job to work for the day… Get to feel like a complete jackass because someone couldn’t leave until I relieved them.
Good news though… The coffee and snickers we wonderful!
I hate how my workday is now meeting after meeting telling people how to do stuff they already should know or explaining to illiterate and technology challenged managers why what they want is not just bad, but going to cause problems. I guess that’s why they pay me so little.
I give my advice, they ignore my advice, I get paid anyway.
I often say something similar:
* it doesn’t surprise me that they pay me what they do
* it doesn’t surprise me that they ignore my advice
* it does surprise me that they do both simultaneously
Overt: …so as you can see with this financial analysis, this business is financially feasible, but will require significant capital investment up front.
Great-Grandboss: Yes, yes, very good. I have talked with everyone, go to finance and get a check.
Overt: I am here for a check
Finance: You are crazy. Have you seen the business climate? No Capital for you.
Overt: GG-boss, they said no.
GG-Boss: Um, did you tell them that it would make us money in two years? Yes? Well tell them again.
…
Overt: I told them again, they said no.
GG-Boss: Maybe if you put it in a presentation. Oh you had one? Well I had lunch with the CFO the other day and he told me there might be a possibility. Who were you talking to? Did you fill out a form?
Overt: Maybe I could set a meeting with you, and these people and the CFO?
GG-Boss: Yes, yes, do that.
…
Overt: Welcome to this meeting all, um, we are here to talk about the funding. GG-Boss just called me to say he won’t be making it. But Um, let me go through the presentation…again…so you can tell me no..again…and then we can do this next week…again.
This has literally been my entire Lockdown job. Spending week after week going to multiple finance divisions asking for capital for a business plan that everyone in the office of the CTO wants, but nobody wants to fund with existing budget. And for some reason all of these leaders chit-chat on their corporate jet rides and hear rumors that some other division has money, and they send me chasing after it, etc. But at the end of the day, the finance teams are (rightly, IMHO) hoarding money like it won’t be there next year…you know…because there is a strong possibility it won’t.
Finally, the CTO got the hint.
At least it’s fashionable.
I figured a hells cape means that she’s becoming the next Spawn.
Damn you two. Now I can’t fix the typo because you made it relevant.
I slept in today since I’ve got the day off of work. You have no one but yourself to blame.
Besides, now you should just picture her in Juggalo makeup every time you see her.
She’s scarier without the makeup on.
True Dat.
Definitely not Spawn, Malebolgia
* rattles stick around in hole, listens *
Favourite Shirts gave on to My Morning Jacket ?
second ?
I’d say second.
Georgia governor sues Atlanta mayor and City Council over mask mandate
as state’s coronavirus cases increaseIrrelevant portion of headline removed.
As everyone settles the fuck down and realizes that this is not anthrax.
I know people that are losing their minds over it. They get pissed if they have to pass close to someone on the sidewalk who’s not wearing a mask.
Actually happened to me at a gas station last night. I held the door for a Karen and she narrowed her gaze and said “Thanks, I’ll wait.”
So just a cunte then.
Yes. I was actually a little insulted seeing as we have had 60 cases and 0 deaths. It was the filling station closest to the Country Club.
“Fine, cunte.”
*Slams door*
What is the Official Glibertarin Position on salting ribeye overnight before grilling?
Also Glen Scotia 15 is damn fine whiskey
I picked up a bottle of Ardbeg An Oa recently. I like it.
Never had that one but I like all ardbegs
Whatever tastes good to you.
Wait, that’s not how we do things here…
YOU’RE DOING IT ALL WRONG!
Unnecessary. Pull it out four hours before grilling and put salt and pepper on it then.
4 hours is way too early also.
Maybe. I should say four hours max. I like my steak at room temp when it goes on the grill.
I was just reading a piece this week on how that isn’t necessary, it least if you are going to smoke it some first. RF temp and room temp get you to the same place at same time. Frozen would be bad, of course.
I have only been using a pellet grill for a few months now, so still learning things about it. But the reverse sear process is great. Smoke until it reaches 110F, then sear.
If I am going to throw directly on high heat, I want it room temp.
Smoking a ribeye should be a capital crime.
I do short smoke: I set temp to high, put meat on top rack at beginning and let it smoke as temp rises and then whatever natural smoke it gets at high T, which isn’t that much. I don’t like fully smoking steak, I tried it, was too smoky.
Once internal reaches 110F, I move steaks from top rack to grill rack and sear both sides until med rare.
Remove and rest.
That’s a hell of a process. As for me, I salt and pepper it (4 hours or less prior to grilling), get the grill to 500°, a little more salt and pepper, then cook it quickly for a couple minutes on each side.
Basically the only difference is I am smoking the meat a small bit as the grill is heating up. By the time the grill is hot enough to sear, the meat is ready to go (usually a few more minutes to get to 110 internal, but it isn’t long). I like the little bit of smokiness the process gives without it being “smoked” meat. I have done it your way with my traeger, but it just is missing something. Since I got the Traeger, I have learned to really ike that touch of smokiness.
And my ribs are insanely better. I tried on my previous grill to do low and slow as much as possible, but I couldnt keep the temp low enough.
This is basically what I do. I side smoke the meat (marinated in a food saver bag) on a hibachi grill, then post sear. For regular grilling, I just quick sear and then turn the heat down. When it’s time to flip, I turn the other side of the grill to high for a bit then repeat. Usually 8 minutes per side. Meh. To each his own.
Pepper after grilling.
You people.
This is insanity. You want the pepper to permeate the meat. Same as the salt.
both. you want some flavor to permeate the meat, but you want some to still have their volatile oils from being freshly cracked.
Pro. At least 24 hours.
Good beef is not a strong area for romania sadly.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15hQNviN3nl5dqvznzH6tDEH-vMNHTCK9/view?usp=drivesdk
1320 grams all 3 hope not to stringy… not the best ribeyes i bought but i oredered them from a shop and this is what i got
That’s decent marbling.
Question: do you order them and take whatever they send you or do you stand at the counter and tell the butcher which ones you want? If you’re doing the former, then you need to find a mirror and scold yourself.
Sloopy be like this.
Mad respect for the guy just sitting there minding his own business throughout the ordeal.
I bet if they had disturbed his meal he would have gone medieval on all their asses like Ving Rhames’ character told Bruce Willis’ character in Pulp Fiction…
Dinner and a show. nice.
In this case I just took what I got, ordered online. I can also go to a counter but it would have been pricier.
Some things are worth the added expense.
The day I trust some lackey to pick out my steaks is the day I give up on eating well.
Anecdata says “Yes”. It helps the sear.
earlier is better: the process of salt moving into the meat and moisture wicking one way or the other needs to be done and stabilized before cooking begins
I’m not a salt guy, maybe some pepper: I spend most of my energy on finding a supply of highest quality and then aging
1 inch Thick Top Sirloin Steak.
Salt and Pepper heavily.
Grill at 400, 4 Minutes total, flip each minute to get good grill marks.
Let sit for 2 minutes.
Down the hatch.
You people.
*facepalm*
American test kitchen (or someone similar) did the test, at least for burgers. Flip as much as possible. It makes the gray zone on the outside of the meat as thin as possible while getting the middle to perfect temp. Constant rotation while always in touch with grill surface would be best, but impossible, so you have to balance out the two. Flipping is winning.
That doesn’t sound like an optimal outcome.
Optimal is even pink from as close to each edge as possible all the way thru, with thin layers of gray at the outside.
I have a slow n sear on my Weber, and use the reverse sear method, the flipping is unnecessary except to get a nice sear on both sides. indirect heat, FTW.
I, too, have the S&S. Works beautifully.
Yeah, reverse sear means you don’t have to do that. Just in general, if you are going straight to heat, more flips is better than less flips.
The “only flip it once” crowd is anti-science. Or using reverse sear.
I loved the slow and seer until I retired my Weber a year ago. Have you guys had any experience with those aluminum grill toppers that they shill on Amazingribs.com? I have been thinking about a set to replace one of the sets of grates on my new grill.
I’ve checked those out, too. I have a similar topper that i seem to almost never use.
My other grill is a 4 burner Napoleon with a rotisserie and stupidly hot side burner, so I can still do just about anything with a cast iron skillet instead of the topper.
What did you get?
This all depends on your grill in my experience. How hot does it get? What type of grill grates do you have?
If you have a super hot flame and thin stainless grates, then you don’t need to flip. Put meat down, turn (don’t flip) a couple times without moving to different parts of the grates. You are relying on the heat of the flame to get the browning.
If you have a cooler flame, but thick cast iron or SS grates, then you want to keep flipping the meat onto different parts of the grill, otherwise you will have grey meat with burnt grate marks.
If it is a super hot flame with thick grates, you want to turn repeatedly.
My biggest lesson over the years has been that there is no superior way- it is about knowing the equipment you have and becoming one with it. And writing shit down, if you are like me and likely had too many drinks to remember what worked.
Good grill marks, bud.
Allegedly!
Cook time is too short. Each side for at least 4 min. with a 45 deg. twist at 2 min.
In a skillet, however, there is merit to flipping each minute.
What you wanna do is pan sear it, both sides, finish her off in the oven.
Do you put it in the oven next to the tater-tot hotdish or above it?
Hotdish is some kind of yankee thing right?
For some reason I mistook you for one of our Minnesota Glibs, a place where everything is apparently made better by shoving it in a casserole dish with frozen potatoes and cooking it for an undetermined amount of time at 450°
MN seems to breed the most Glibs.
It’s the water.
MN, TN, and CO seem to be over-represented most
Lot of Ohioans.
Don’t forget the cream of mushroom soup! Or if your really rich Golden Mushroom soup.
oh: two or three from MT, so that’s freakishly disproportionate
whereas NY, CA, OH, FL, and TX are merely large states
350, get it right.. Everything, regardless of the dish. 1 hour, 350. The baking instructions ordained by the Almighty.
That is fine if the snow is coming down too hard to grill or something.
So, any month with an R.
Now that seems like over-handling.
You’d be squirrely Dandling them.
This article will get get 700 comments.
Mostly because everyone will be calling everyone else wrong.
Yes.
Before and after. Perfection.
Someone stole the pistol between the before and after.
You often need to aim it at the kids to get them to understand that you are serious about staying back until dad is done slicing.
We also have the green Correlle, no meat, not teeny pistol
I’m quite sure you’re wrong about that
I sometimes go 48 hours.
Salt only. Grill to temp slowly and reverse sear.
Reverse sear – make sure your inside is burned and your outside is raw – requires some creativity.
/sarc
Reverse sear is my go to. Got a 2″ thick porterhouse marinating now in Andrea’s steak sauce, salt, pepper and some Montreal steak seasoning.
OMWC wants in on this conversation. So can someone give their thoughts on when and how to season tofurkey before grilling it and throwing it into a garbage can?
Go to Store. Ask manager where the
tofurkeyspoiled bean goop is kept. Note the aisle number. Proceed through store carefully skipping that aisle. Go home, cook dinner. If someone objects that there is meat being served, politely make them a salad and offer them bread and side dishes (the ones without bacon if there are any, otherwise make the salad bigger).throwing it into a garbage can?
Hey! My daughter is not a garbage can.
Seriously, I always ruin the not meat. I could use some tofurkey advice. At this point we, do our best just so we can have the occasional family dinner.
More seriously, when I cook for a vegetarian I never use fake meat. I just make dishes that don’t contain meat. I admit it is a personal prejudice, but to my mind real food served as what it is always tastes better than food trying to mimic something it is not.
This right here. You can also look towards cultural dishes where there are a lot of vegetarian dishes already (such as Indian food).
One caveat, I did have decent experience with using tofu in a chili (seasoned and built like a white chicken chili).
You Monster.
Just cook her real vegetarian food and not stuff designed to be a meat-looking thing. Salads, veggies, starches.
I’m just having a laugh. I have nothing against vegetarianism. It’s a perfectly cromulent lifestyle choice.
My wife always makes extra side quantities for her to graze on at her leisure. I usually only try the non meat stuff during “special” meals. If I am grilling or smoking and there is some of her food, I’ll ask if she wants me ruin it further. Usually she cooks for herself though. She uses way too much salt and soy sauce IMHO.
From yesterday:
https://www.hoodrivernews.com/news/covid-19-outbreak-confirmed-at-tofurky-brote-de-covid-19-confirmado-en-tofurky/article_37c92af4-c790-11ea-a352-8789c286ee0a.html
Only true Glibs use melted butter, garlic and onion powder on their grill meat!
Watched a video on it and experimented myself. Results: putting salt on meat 24 hours before cooking tenderizes and enhances flavor. I used to always season then let sit for an hour or so. Made a huge difference…it actually tastes less salty when it’s allowed to sit longer.
Grind salt in mortar with rosemary, black pepper, dehydrated garlic and onion. 1.5% of the weight of the meat in salt, the rest eyeball. 24 hours ahead of time, add season salt mixture and wrap in fridge. 12 hours ahead of time, unwrap and place on a wire rack with good air flow in the fridge.
The salt initially pulls the liquid out of the meat, which damages the cell structure on the way out. The liquid mixes with the water soluble elements of the seasoning. Then the flavored water is drawn back in. This all happens within 12 hours. Then the last 12 hours is to dry out the surface to get a better crust.
This salting technique was isacred writings of St. Kenji of the Lopze-Alti of the Lopze-Alt, and I’ve converted to his church.
Thanks, I like that air dry technique, may use that this weekend.
the usual herb in romania on grilled meat is thyme
That would be a fyne alternative.
If you’re salting overnight, it should be because you have a low quality piece of meat that you’re trying to tenderize and transform.
Just sneak into a cattle ranch with a knife and fork and enjoy. They’ll blame it on a chupacabra.
Police have released body camera video showing the shooting, in which the detective fires a rifle from the back seat of the pickup.
Through the windshield. When did cops shooting from vehicles become a thing?
Bonny and Clyde.
They use action movies as their training materials apparently. Can you imagine the damage done to the other cops riding in the car with him?
That got a solid larf out of me.
The fire occurred in a warehouse that had been converted without permits into a residence for artists. There were no fire sprinklers or alarms.
This just proves homelessness is insoluble.
Or maybe the homeless are flammable. Or maybe inflammable. I can never get that one right. Shoulda stayed in school.
they mean the same things in the US, but we almost never use inflammable
the opposite of flammable would be noncombustible
Exactly! Just another stupid Englishism.
Bitchez burn!
In my tech writing days, I loved the Strunk and White (sp?) style guide because it had the type of humor I got from my grandpa all the time. Their description of this always stuck with me:
“Flammable. An oddity, chiefly useful in saving lives. The common word meaning “combustible” is inflammable. But some people are thrown off by the in- and think inflammable means “not combustible.” For this reason, trucks carrying gasoline or explosives are now marked FLAMMABLE. Unless you are operating such a truck and hence are concerned with the safety of children and illiterates, use inflammable.”
But some people are thrown off by the in-
Idiots, being thrown by a “rule” that applies to 99% of vocab.
Why not “enflammable”? Too Froggy?
My Grandpa was the spittin’ image of Jimmy Cagney. HOW DARE YOU?
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany a “Karen” on Twitter Thursday, after reportedly being called a “derelict mayor” during a press briefing.
I do not think ‘Karen’ memes what she thinks it memes.
She lurnt a new word. It was a big word and she spent weeks mastering it before deciding to use it. Still doesn’t know what word mean, but sounds important, make her sound real smart.
I wanted to laugh at this as a joke, then realized you were actually correct in your assessment, and felt me a sad instead…
Lori Lightfoot should be put in the stocks and pelted with rotten vegetables and horse apples.
And all the Progs in her mentions think it’s the best come back EVAARR!
*claps like trained seal
I really do wish McEnany would have responded “Whatever, Beetelejuice.”
I’m sure this was in the links, or somewhere, but I missed it.
Fake Libertarians
What a pussy.
This is about the most libertarian thing he could have done.
True and we really didn’t need so many congress critters stricken by severe TDS. Now we can get a real democrat in his place.
I see what you did there…
He did have extreme TDS and his take on impeachment was insanely stupid. But he was still (generally) one of the good ones on fundamental rights. He will be missed. I hope Massie continues to carry the mantle.
For a really long time, we had one libertarian in all of Congress. Then we had 3. Now we’re back down to 2, but it’s still double what we had before! Baby steps. In 1000 years, we will finally have enough of them to get parts of our constitution back.
So all we have to do is survive the 1000 year Reich in between?
Yes! Patience, weedhoppers! The libertarian moment is nigh!
Yeah, 1kyr Reich, when they can’t even feed their soldiers for a month.
The real fix is to focus at the local level. Baseball and Hockey have farm teams for a reason. For every star, there are dozens of decent players who can do a little bit of good while training up for the big leagues. From that pool, some real stars can emerge.
But who’s got time for all THAT noise, right?
As soon as he dropped the R from his affiliation he was done. American dumbshits vote team first, person second. If you haven’t figured that out by now, you really are fucking clueless.
Clueless is an understatement. If any sizable political minority in the US would just figure out that being a fungible voting block in an evenly split two-party state gives you the lion’s share of the power, they’d have the US by the short and curlies.
The only people who have kind of figured it out are the race-grifters who swindle the DNC for their support.
But any group that could mobilize even 5% of the vote reliably could wield power over most divisive issues if they would simply be willing to become the swing vote.
That’s how Prohibition got passed. But the issue is you need a single issue voting bloc that’s actually willing to show up and vote for the chosen candidate even if they disagree with them on everything else.
Like, if you started the School Choice League and had every member pledged to vote the League’s pick in every election, you could actually get something done. But you have to deliver the goods.
You couldn’t get every libertarian to agree that blow jobs were a good thing. If someone proposed the thesis that air was necessary for life, you’d have a 6 faction fight defining air, at least one faction denying that air is necessary akshually, and three separate groups yelling about breatharians being stupid.
IV oxygenation and decarbonization is a perfectly valid alternative to breathing.
You aren’t even a libertarian and you get it!
Essentially this was Trump’s rise to power, and he believes it is his ticket to winning in November. His focus on Illegal Immigration and to a lesser extent America First Trade was shrewd. Exit polls showed that illegal immigration was by and large the top issue for the majority of his voters, with trade being a close second- this allowed him to out-play Hillary in the blue states that he flipped.
This year, Illegal Immigration is not as important on peoples’ minds, but he thinks that Law and Order is his Top Issue to unite the blue collar vote. Maybe he is right.
What has been so amazing is that despite those Non-Libertarian themes that essentially defined his victory, Trump has still been one of the best (or least worst) presidents from a libertarian perspective. No new wars. Decreased regulations. Tax cuts. Not too shabby.
That last paragraph is what has truly shocked me about his presidency.
Well, that and the complete lunacy of everyone on the left, particularly the media. Ignoring the Obama administration spying on a political opponent is just stunning, particularly for a group that grew up worshiping Woodward and Bernstein.
“Ignoring the Obama administration spying on a political opponent is just stunning, particularly for a group that grew up worshiping Woodward and Bernstein.”
We were all told that Woodward and Bernstein brought down a President because he broke the law and violated the norms and principles of a free republic.
But really, Woodward and Bernstein brought down a President that they hated, because they hated him. It wasn’t principles, it was politics.
But they lied, and told you it was principles, and that they would do the same to any President who violated the law.
But their true motivations don’t matter. What truly matters in this analysis is how this generation sees them. And the hero-image that was created and permeates society today is that they were valiant investigative reporters, following a story and fighting to expose the truth…. speaking the truth to power.
These reporters and editors grew up on this mythos. It was the epitome of their profession.
And they are handed an easily exposed scandal that dwarfs everything that the Nixon White House did many times over…. and they don’t just ignore it, they actively work to cover it up. The NYT had the story from day 1. They actually published an article about the heroic work done in the Obama white house to subvert the Trump administration – immediately after the inauguration. That one article included “several Obama administration officials” among their sources. Which means they knew exactly who had committed crimes – illegally distributing classified information to undermine the incoming president. As far as I know, this has never even been investigated by anyone. Mueller’s team didn’t even bother asking about it. Barr hasn’t even looked at it. But it was published in the NYT for crying out loud.
It is like these criminals that get caught because they post videos of the crime on facebook. Except the nation looked at the facebook post and laughed and said “good one!”
My understanding is you have those causation arrows reversed. Dropping the ‘R’ didn’t make him ‘done,’ his being ‘done’ caused him to drop the ‘R.’
The fact that a Democrat like Trump gets elected President and a Republican like Bloomberg gets elected Mayor is proof enough.
American dumbshits vote team first, person second.
This is not strictly true, as the cases of Joe Lieberman and Lisa Murkowski attest. But if the person you are being asked to vote for isn’t a team player, they have to have something else to recommend them, as politics is a team sport.
Eh. He’s a LINO. If he doesn’t fight against the tide he’s just another sellout.
The government spying on Trump’s campaign has to be a litmus test for libertarians at this point, in my opinion.
Donald Trump is an internationally famous billionaire, and the government still had zero compunction about spying on his campaign in order to give Hillary an edge, and it almost worked. If Donald Trump hadn’t squeaked out narrow wins in key states, Hillary would be President, and right now the NSA, CIA, and FBI would be digging up dirt and framing whoever the Republican candidate is.
The libertarians who are fine with authoritarian bureaucracy and a secret shadow government as long as they are getting DACA, legal weed, and transgender rights aren’t really libertarians at all, to me.
This point just has me flumoxed. Outside of a few cranks, nobody seems to care about this.
This is republic-threatening stuff, and very few people seem to care at all. In the press they even still pretend that Trump actually was colluding with Russia. MSNBC’s coverage of the Stone commutation focused on how Stone “covered up Trump’s collusion with Russia” and got caught and prosecuted for it.
Stone got prosecuted for lying about knowledge that he didn’t have. Specifically, he bragged that he knew something about Wikileaks and HRC’s emails because he had a close relationship with Assange. This was not true. He was bullshitting to make himself look important. He lied to cover up the fact that he was bullshitting to make himself look important. Really. That is actually what the prosecution was about. They also said he “threatened a witness” who was a buddy – a buddy who testified that they were bullshitting with each other as per normal and he did not feel threatened in any way. So covering for Trump was never on the table, he never knew anything and is not even alleged to have ever known anything…. but his prosecution proves that Trump was colluding with Russia.
This is insanity…. but nobody seems to even realize that it is happening, much less recognize the insanity of it all.
Yeah, and if they can do this to Trump, to Roger Stone, to Mike Flynn, guys who can text Presidents and Senators and Congressional leaders, then none of us stand a fucking chance if they want to come after us.
I’m not saying Trump will fix it. I’m not saying it even can be fixed. But if Joe Biden wins the election, then there will never ever be another election again where the Republican candidate isn’t wiretapped, honeytrapped, blackmailed, and railroaded throughout the entire process. It will be a constant drumbeat of leaked texts, emails, “GOP Guy met with agent of ______ says FBI”.
Every time the GOP campaign manager has a bright new idea for an attack ad and emails his media production people about it, the Dem campaign will get to read it and lay groundwork to nullify it.
If the GOP candidate is winning anyway, that’s when some Twitter employee uses their account for fire off a controversial Tweet on the Thursday before the election. Don’t worry, the day after the election Twitter will fire the guy….and then six months later he’ll be the Digital Experience Director at the Open Society Foundation.
If the GOP guy is winning the election anyway, the mail in ballots will keep coming in until he loses.
Again, I’m not saying Trump can solve this problem. I highly doubt he can. He’s not smart enough, he’s not disciplined enough, and the entire power structure is against him. But if Joe Biden wins, there will never be another fair election. Big Tech, Big Media, and Big Government will put their thumbs on the scales to ensure the deplorables never have a say again.
It also makes me question what happened to Mitt Romney.
We all know that Obama won his Illinois house seat when his opponent’s divorce records magically got leaked. And we all now know that Obama was spying on Trump and used the IRS to go after conservative groups.
And the economy in 2012 was still completely in the toilet. Romney obliterated Obama in the debate. It was looking really bad. And suddenly … Romney backed off and ceded the field. It was an odd transformation.
Well I think Mitt Rommney is just one of the wolves in sheeps clothing types the GOP always has, and the Democrats never do. He lives for the gracious concession speech.
If that is the case, I don’t believe they had anything “on” him, but I would believe they threatened him and his family with Arkancide.
I think this is hyperbolic.
You’re not wrong on some of the merits but the conclusion is overblown.
There have been political machines in this country’s past that have exceeded the power the Democrats (both the radical wing and the establishment types) have right now. FDR essentially rebuilt the entire government in his image and yet his legacy was to be followed by as many Republican Presidents (6, not counting the never elected Gerald Ford) as Democratic Presidents (also 6). The Democrats dominated the legislature for over 60 years from FDR’s first term in 1933 until the start of 1995. They even held the House for 40 straight years, from 1955 to 1995. But since 1995 they have not managed to keep a lock on either house of Congress.
They may win, and they will try to manipulate people, and they will abuse their power. This is the nature of big government and entrenched interests and it is part of why libertarians oppose both. But they will also make mistakes, they will fail to achieve most of their stated goals, they will overextend and get complacent. Maybe the GOP as we know it today will be the opposition, and maybe it will be a different party. Maybe the DNC will collapse once enough white liberals realize that “white people are the problem” applies to themselves too.
Who knows. What isn’t certain, by a long shot, is that they will never face a political challenge again.
Okay, now I know you are just messing with me, to pick out Roy McMillan and skip over HOFer Lou Boudreau has to be intentional.
Unless you hate Cleveland that much. Or innovation.
For those unaware, Boudreau popularized (it has existed for all of baseball history) the extreme infield shift for using against Ted Williams. It has become popular again in recent years for use against a number of lefties.
They should dig up Boudreau’s corpse and set it on fire for the execrable shift.
Learn to hit the other way.
Or bunt.
Enough well placed bunts down the 3rd base line puts an end to the shift.
the simple balances and harmonies in the universe and similarly elegant tensions in traditions elude most people
the only popular answer is to bring the walls in until we get 20 home runs every game
#DHsux
Not really – Teixeira tried bunting for a while, but it didn’t stop the fucking shift because teams were fine with him hitting the ball 20 feet rather than possibly hitting it 400 feet.
Unless you are Barry Bonds in his prime, a free single is always better than hitting away.
Also, the shift doesn’t work if you hit the ball 400 feet in the air. It only works when you screw up and hit it on the ground. Learn to hit 400 ft in the air the other way!
I honestly didn’t see him in the place where I get my names from. Although they prominently placed the first woman Negro League player Toni Stone in their list, I didn’t add her because I don’t recognize novelty acts. Which is why Eddie Gaedel didn’t make the cut last month.
“novelty acts”… snert
Maybe you should consider a different list.
I’m a creature of habit, if you can’t tell already with the few links I end with coming from the exact same place every single day.
It has become popular again in recent years for use against a number of lefties.
How do we shift the infield of the entire country?
When did cops shooting from vehicles become a thing?
The doors on modern cop cars are too damn small. Once they finally have their lard asses in there, they’re not getting back out.
Time to ban donuts, blue lives matter.
Femme Friday: Women Hardest Hit
If you were wondering what happened to Bill Gates, here’s your answer.
“Gender-blind is not gender-neutral”
As soon as I read non-sense like that, I usually stop reading right there. But I think Melinda has done a superb job of both starting and ending a paragraph with pure stupid.
Gender-blind is not gender-neutral – countries can build back more prosperous, more prepared, and more equal.
Fuck off. Why can’t billionaires find better things to do with all that money? Maybe buy a submarine or the most expensive yarn ever and go crochet something pretty, maybe on your diamond encrusted submarine with it’s own fruity drink dispenser?
If you needed any proof that stupid people can also get rich, look at these morons…
Think about her personal motivations.
She’s mind-bogglingly wealthy. She wants for nothing that’s material.
So what is left? Social standing and self-esteem, both of which are falsely magnified by adhering to the mantras of the day.
“The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, the light of the world, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit the earth and the kingdom of heaven too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen will perish.” – Hoffer
“So what is left? Social standing and self-esteem, both of which are falsely magnified by adhering to the mantras of the day.”
I still do not get people’s need for attention. If I had that much money, attention is the last thing I’d want. I’d start building the most expensive wall ever, diamond encrusted wall, built with only the finest orphan hands.
A wall of hands? Cool, but creepy.
Built ‘with’, not of. I’m not rich enough yet to waste all those orphans on a wall.
“If I had that much money, attention is the last thing I’d want.”
Ah yes, there is a Netflix show called, “Filthy Rich: The Epstein Story” that is a bit of a how-to for this strategy.
Well, if you marry a billionaire, you can most definitely get rich.
Ah, the “men die, but women are *really* affected” bullshit.
“History teaches that
diseaseKaren outbreaks—fromAIDS to Zika to Ebolasocialism to fascism to Communism—play out with a certain grim predictability. As they infect societies, they expose and exploit existing forces of marginalization, seeking out fault lines of gender, race, caste, and class. “We die, you cry. Same as it ever was. What a disingenuous pile of bullshit.
Considering that statistically men die before women, the missed doctor appointments and delays in getting to the hospital for heart attacks and strokes are probably affecting men more.
She’s the most famous graduate of my high school’s sister school. Famous for marrying well.
Also, “adolescent girls who cannot continue their education online because their communities frown at the sight of a phone in the hands of a woman.”
Wait, what? Where is this?
I thought the stereotype was that it’s odder to find a woman without a phone glued to her hand.
Yeah, my daughter fits that stereotype to a T.
Also. are people actually taking online classes on their phones?
There are women in labor being turned away from overburdened hospitals
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck You.
Barbados is offering special 1 year visas for remote workers who want to spend the next year working from the their island.
They’ll tip over.
*ears perk up*
If I were single, I would be there. Rent a 1 bedroom/kitchenette/office space for the year. Spend every non working/sleeping minute on the beach.
You could run an extension cable out to the beach, setup the router and laptop under a parasol, only have to go inside for more beer. (I’d skip the minifridge on the beach, too much noise).
Gender-blind is not gender-neutral” is a refrain among advocates for women and girls.
Never enough.
Bearse, who was Miss Kentucky in 2014, said at least one of her sultry pics was meant for her husband, claiming the youngster’s name was listed on her mobile phone right next to her husband’s name.
Why was he in your contacts?
For the sexts she did intend to send him.
I can only assume that some chicks have a penchant for the sweaty, pimply and rushed sex that they enjoyed as teens. Extra squirty if the boy has braces.
Also, he was 15 in middle school? Future rocket scientist there.
Some places send ninth graders to middle school. I’d hope that’s the case instead of this kid being a semi-retarded 8th grader.
Your hopes will be dashed.
Or the son of parents who read that Outliers book and became convinced their kid could be an all pro athlete if they held him back a year.
I know this is a truism, but I don’t understand the whole “smoking hot 20-something teacher goes for middle school kid” thing.
I suppose it is a sort of fetish for early pubescent boys, but being a smoking hot 20-something means never wanting for sex. All you have to do is quit saying no. There are opportunities literally everywhere you go, all day, every day. This is what they complain about all the time. How in the world do you get fixated on some kid when you can just go out and get anything you want at any time?
When my then-20-something and smoking hot wife were first dating, she would get hit on several times a night when we went out. She would get approached by men, women, couples… all the time. Smoking hot chicks would come up and hit on the two of us. Being a hot girl is completely different than being a normal human being.
Two hours later and not one single demand for pics? WTF is wrong with everyone?
Already in their bunks…
I wrote two books with that theme running through it. The first one was a smokin’ hot heroine with Asperger’s whose dates wouldn’t go out with her more than one or two times. The second one was her roommate, a “ubiquitously pretty” girl who didn’t want to be smokin’ hot because of the problems they caused the first one.
I posit (again) that this world is not a meritocracy or racist. It’s a beautocracy. A beautiful black woman will be hired over an ugly/fat white woman every time.
You don’t lie.
Plus – the old “blackmailed into sending naked photos” thing? Really? That old trope? Time for the glibs to step up – how many of you have successfully used the “have sex with me or I will release these naked photos” gambit from Penthouse Letters stories? Or have been successfully blackmailed into further BDSM scenes by the use of such photos?
“Oh, there were pictures I forgot to post? Get the eyebleach ready!”
Funny!
Have sex with me or I will show you naked pictures of myself!
Reminds me a bit of this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz_yQ5diGPY
“Make me your charity. I ain’t no tragedy. I’ll give you the chance to see that ugly’s only skin deep!”
This trend of hot 20 somethings sexing up teen age boys needs to end. As a replacement I suggest hot 20 somethings embracing their Daddy issues with me!
Encountered some new mask bullshit at the bar, yesterday. Masks indoors. Except at a table(?) no “drinking while standing” (which I do, exclusively). Masks on servers. Who knows what the fuck else. Don’t know if it’s bars only, or if I’ll have to shoot my way to the dairy section next time I need a gallon of milk.
Bezos must be laughing his ass off.
Yeah. No drinking or eating while standing here in Ohio. COVID floats in the air at ~5 feet up, that’s why children aren’t dying from it and you need to wear a mask only if you’re standing.
Related to the mask mandates, the Free Ohio Now group had an interesting letter from the 1851 center (in an image form, and not on either website that I can find yet), basically saying you don’t need to wear a mask. But if you’re in one of five counties they label as an “unfit judicial system” you’re going to lose any cases. It looks like they’re putting out feelers for test cases outside of those areas, with a written warning/citation.
The problem with all you right wing extremists is that you don’t know what science is. The definition has changed now that we’ve evolved into a more equitable less racist society. It’s science when the media says it’s science, for your own good, because now you peasants don’t have to think too hard and injure yourselves. And the media has real science guys, like Fauci, who is the most beloved America’s scientist TOP EXPERT! So shut up and do as you’re told!
At this point, if you can’t see that this has NOTHING (zip, nada, zero) to do with the fucking virus, I just don’t know what to do with you. The guidance is so absurd and contradictory, along with the fact that serious cases and deaths have been going down for weeks the utterly misleading MUH CASES ARE GOING UP!!!! reasoning behind it is beyond ridiculous. This is about power, pure and simple. For a lot of them, I’m not even sure it has to do with ORANGEMANBAD that much anymore. I think they’re just drunk on power and want to see how far they can push for their new tyranny setpoint.
This is about power, pure and simple.
I thought from the beginning that it was an exercise in control. They are seeing what they can get away with, what people will acquiesce to. It turns out that people do not value their freedom very much.
I can’t tell you how many people I’ve argue with lately about the “mask mandate laws”. Whenever I point out that you cannot enact an executive order and assign criminal penalties to it they flip out saying it’s impossible and unsafe to convene a legislature during a pandemic to actually pass a law so we need to let these executives pass EOs with the force of law.
Whenever I ask what they’d do if Trump declared a national emergency for [insert problem] and started hailing people without the legislature criminalizing the action, they tell me they’d impeach him for violating rights.
When I ask them how this is different, they call me a MAGAT or something and then tell me it’s a pandemic and all the rules need to go out the window…but just for this and just for the pols who are smart enough to do the right thing.
Unprincipled dickheads, the lot of them.
The more concerning trap here is how will these come to an end? Ou fuckhead Premier says, ‘many, many months’.
But with no explanation pertaining to the plan.
If cases go down, I can see this idiot saying ‘good! Keep it up!’ (we average 100 cases in a province of 8.4 million). If they go up, they will say ‘Boo! Bad! Wear the masks outside!’ And then, ‘in the house!’
The virus is leading these buffoons around like blind mice looking for a whore mouse to rape.
This is something that is driving me insane, particularly with Cuomo taking his victory laps around the country after having done literally the worst job in the entire world.
But the NY example actually does teach us something. Absent the horrific practice of forcing COVID patients into nursing homes, NY actually did almost accomplish the null experiment. They finally instituted mask wearing after the virus peaked, and their other measures seem to have been completely ineffective. They had a slight overrun of the hospitals, but not much.
And they weathered the storm and don’t seem to be experiencing a second wave of rising infections as they re-open. At least not yet.
So if we were following the science, as they keep saying they are doing – we would be looking to this example and the Swedish example and learning that you can allow the infection to spread much more rapidly than we have done in the rest of the country, put your efforts into protecting the elderly and vulnerable and get out of this much more quickly.
“The more concerning trap here is how will these come to an end?”
I see no evidence that they will
Philly mayor just “passed” an “order” barring all group events through February. With fines or possible jail time for offenders.
Is there any way this would stand judicial scrutiny if someone files a 1A challenge? Hell, no. Yet he gets applauded for taking the “necessary action” by the media assholes.
I’m almost tempted to become a test case for shot like this. But I don’t want to go to Philly.
I’m almost tempted to become a test case for shot like this. But I don’t want to go to Philly.
Don’t you live in/near Houston? Hasn’t the Harris County judge been prone to overreaction? You might get your chance.
I don’t trust the courts enough to ever consiously put myself at their whim.
I don’t trust the courts enough to ever consiously put myself at their whim.
“Because you willingly made yourself a testcase here, the court has decided you’ll face the death penalty.”
The “while standing” bit is to combat the behavior first exhibited immediately after the bars reopened. People standing in close groups near the bar – like one does at a bar.
It is a way to obtain a measure of social distancing while still allowing the business to operate.
This is one of the rare cases where it is both correct to have the attitude of “you are exceeding your authority, Mr. Statist” and simultaneously say “just wear the stupid mask and follow the guidelines so people can get back to work and school”.
Random acts of idiocy
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday that the city will provide free child care to 100,000 students when schools reopen in September.
Last week the city released its plan for children to return to public school classrooms one to three days a week, depending on each school’s capacity for social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic. Students will take classes remotely on the other days.
“This pandemic has been hugely disruptive in the lives of our kids, which is why we are working to provide as much in person learning as possible. Working families are being pulled in many directions trying to make a plan for the fall, and we are going to help them every step of the way by providing free childcare options,” de Blasio said in a statement.
The city aims to provide relief for working parents who either can’t afford to stay home or can’t find child care for the days that students aren’t in school for in-person learning. The program will serve students from age 3 through eighth grade. There will be 50,000 available seats each day, with the idea that those seats will serve 100,000 students because of alternating in-person days at school.
Where will this child care be? The city says it is working to identify space in schools, community centers, libraries and elsewhere. The goal is to have as many seats as possible available when the school year begins and to add more spaces over time, according to the city.
“Free” child care? I thought that was the whole point of public school.
He means that he is instituting a program paid for by the tax payers that will allow him to buy votes from a big block of people that like the idea of making others pay for the shit choices or decisions they make…
^^^
It is way dumber than that.
They are paying full freight for the schools. All salaries are still in place. The buildings are still there.
People have planned their lives taking the existence of the school system into account. They are shutting that down.
But they are using the same infrastructure to fill the gap created by shutting it down. They’ll pay a completely different set of people to man the daycare located at these facilities so that the kids don’t have to go to school at these facilities during the same hours with the same people. It is complete madness.
We are doing the same thing here. The second wave has lead everyone to agree that shutting down the schools is the only proper response. At the same time, all those young kids at home means that a huge chunk of the workforce is out of the labor pool. So they are making huge investments in child care to remedy this. Putting the same kids into groups for childcare that they shut down the schools to prevent them from being in groups.
It is insane, but inevitable with committee based decision making.
The only difference between the Childcare and traditional schools is that the Childcare does not have Union Teachers who will demand every pet cause from masks with gold-embroidered hammers and sickles to hazard pay and free lunch before they will work.
I’m sure CNN is right on this
They will report that as soon as they manage to force Joe Biden into the WH.
Fifteen former employees of Washington’s NFL team told the Washington Post they were sexually harassed while they worked for the club.
That’s DC NFL team. I can’t believe they would allow such a triggering, racist name like “Washington”. And on that note it should just be the D NFL team because “Columbia” is triggering and racist. And to think there is a whole country of brown bodies named Columbia. So triggering and racist. Cancel Columbia!
Shouldn’t they be called the Montgomery County, MD NFL team?
Um, Prince George’s county.
Prince George
Who is also a racist or something I’m sure.
We better get to renaming that county, that name is racist!
Hey!!!
Of course. He was white, wasn’t he?
Fifteen former employees
someone’s in pretty big trouble because multiple unprovable accusations from years ago equals beyond a reasonable doubt now
if, of course, there’s actual evidence, that’s nice, too, but not remotely necessary
I know next to nothing about this… so huge grain of salt goes with this opinion….
But what I’ve seen from the “expose” doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. One dude looks like maybe he was kind of a sleezy dude, but the texts seemed like ordinary flirty and the responses seemed like it was mutual and consensual.
They have moved the overton window really far on this one. This whole retroactive removal of consent thing is insane. People say things like “looking back on it, I realize that I was not OK with this relationship”. What? Entertaining that as an actual arbiter of blame is insane.
This case reeks of piling on and a money-grab compiled after-the-fact from what is essentially a nothing burger.
Or I could be completely wrong, because my knowledge extends to a few snippets of the story shared by a friend.
I’m not too surprised by this story. I remember reading something about the Redskins taking the cheerleaders to a foreign country, then confiscating their passports, and whored the cheerleaders out to Dan Snyder’s friends.
A windshield that was a key piece of evidence in a fatal shooting by a San Francisco Bay Area police detective was destroyed and city officials are seeking a criminal investigation into how that happened, a newspaper reported.
Like with a cloth?
https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-a-study-looking-at-mandatory-face-masks-and-number-of-covid-19-infections-in-new-york-wuhan-and-italy/
Friday Funbags will be at your next struggle session seminar.
http://archive.li/fzVWq
See, it is possible to not have tattoos all over the place.
I only spotted one, and it wasn’t the first thing in the image that got my attention.
Endorsed…While I did catch more (8,9,10,23) they at least weren’t complete paintjobs.
So a woman started a petition on Change.org and it apparently became the fastest growing petition in Change.org history garnering almost 60 000 signatures in a matter of hours. Then….poof It was removed. Explanation?
“Given the heightened attention and reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic, Change.org has updated its approach to petitions that are reported for misinformation,” Change.org senior campaigner Sarah Dixon said in an email to CTV News. “Petitions that spread discredited information, are likely to incite panic or which could cause harm are not allowed on the platform.”
We’re soooooo fucked.
What was the petition for?
What was the petition for?
For Quebec to reverse the mandatory mask rule.
That’s simple, murder anyone trying to enforce a mask rule.
Why does the petitioner want to kill the Quebeckistanians?
Their socialist tendencies.
I thought she’s one of them? I mean the socialists. Change.org?
Good on Quebec for acting like the other country that they pretend to be. I liked my time spent there. It really was a different world.
It’s just propaganda all the way down now. This is Bolshevik, Nazi tactics, pure and simple. Facts are what we say they are and having access to any other opinions or information is harmful, so listen to your betters and obey!
As Thomas Sowell said, this is Goebbels propaganda tactics.
Thomas is right. We have to shut that guy up now! Has he apologized yet? Cancel!
So some one made a petition about climate change?
Winston is correct.
Je Me Souviens..
MATT DAMON!!!
Actor Matt Damon has reportedly closed off an entire block in Brooklyn Heights to move into a luxury New York City penthouse.
Damon — who was stuck in Ireland until late May due to a lockdown resulting from the Wuhan coronavirus — appears to have finally gotten the chance to move into his 6,000-plus-square-foot penthouse after purchasing it in 2018, according to the New York Post.
Damon, who in 2017 starred in a movie that lectured Americans about “white privilege,” shut down an entire city block in Brooklyn Heights on Tuesday to move into his luxury apartment. The actor also brought in a huge crane to lift his furniture and trees onto the terrace.
Matt Damon.
M a a t D a a m o n.
MATT DAMON!
Karplaugh!
“Ker-Plunk”!
Look, Damon has got to get moved into the Elysium, so he can save all the poh brown peoples.
who was stuck in Ireland until late May due to a lockdown
Bullshit. That lockdown did not prohibit travel like that, nor as a US citizen was he prohibited from returning home. He chose to stay in Ireland likely because he didn’t like the news reports of what was going on in NY. Which is fine, but not what the article says.
Quebec’s public health Minister:
« les gens qui ne porteront pas le masque vont être responsables, sans le savoir, de la mortalité de quelqu’un ».”
In white: Asymptomatic people who don’t wear masks are murderers.
WHO:
“Based on what we currently know, transmission of COVID-19 is primarily occurring from people when they have symptoms, and can also occur just before they develop symptoms, when they are in close proximity to others for prolonged periods of time. While someone who never develops symptoms can also pass the virus to others, it is still not clear to what extent this occurs and more research is needed in this area.”
Of course, what are the odds by his own logic, he realizes we can turn that around and argue that leaders are responsible for all the negative unintended consequences due to the lockdowns including suicides and domestic abuse.
Premier Legault was equally as retarded: Masks is liberty. This is what this accountant said. Mask is liberty.
We’re sooooo fucked.
Wasn’t that an episode of Archer?
Murderous
Plans put forward by Donald Trump and his education secretary to reopen America’s schools in the fall are “reckless” and could result in many teachers leaving the profession, the president of one of the country’s biggest teaching unions has warned.
The new school year is just weeks away in the “sun belt”, the region which stretches from southern California to Florida, as coronavirus spreads like wildfire. But the Trump administration has pushed ahead with calls for schools across the country to reopen fully, despite widespread safety concerns.
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, told the Guardian she watched Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, with disbelief that turned to anger when she appeared on TV this week to call on schools to be “fully operational” this fall.
“It’s as if Trump and DeVos want to create chaos and want to jeopardize reopening,” Weingarten said in an interview. “There’s no other reason why they would be this reckless, this callous, this cruel.”
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In her television appearance, DeVos excoriated those schools that have opted for online learning or part-time returns.
This has foiled months of work from Weingarten’s union, which has been conducting its own surveys on how to help teachers back to work. In June, two-thirds of the AFT’s 1.7 million members said they would prefer to teach in person at least part-time – on the condition there were safeguards such as masks, physical distancing, ventilation and sanitation.
Broad agreement is no small feat for a teaching workforce in which a quarter – or 1.5 million teachers nationally – are believed to be at heightened risk of Covid-19 complications, because of age or pre-existing conditions. The agreement is also a feat considering recent polls show broad majorities of voters see a return to school as risky.
“They have, from the beginning of this pandemic to now, made this much, much, much worse for not only the 137,000 who have died and the over 3 million Americans who have tested positive,” said Weingarten. “Not just in beginning, and the haphazard way we closed, but the haphazard way we will reopen.”
She said: “Their recklessness scared people so much that now I fear a brain drain of people basically opting out of teaching, because they don’t want to jeopardize their own families.”
It’s a slaughterhouse.
It’s a madhouse!
For once, I agree with the democrats. Keep public schools shut, forever, we can never be too safe.
When do the paychecks stop? I want them “teachers” to get real jobs.
If you could just return my $15k in annual property taxes, I’ll happily take my kids elsewhere. Hell, I’ll even take it in the form of a voucher.
“Brain Drain”. She actually said that about teachers. Fuck the rioting, this is the real crisis.
I’m not sure they have the required equipment for that.
So wear a fucking N95 and face shield and show up for work, like millions of other people do.
I didn’t think I could have any more contempt for teachers after the whole Red for Ed thing. Boy, was I wrong.
Is there any actual research that shows masks do anything? Almost every story I’ve read just spouts some post hoc babble about how people in Asia wear masks all the time and they haven’t had as many people getting the virus.
There’s very, very little pre-2020. What we have post COVID-19 fall into one of three categories:
1) Mass correlation association studies: IE, these countries wear masks, these countries don’t. The ones that wear masks have better COVID-19 outcomes
2) Studies that show that the distance large droplets can travel are greatly reduced by any sort of face covering. “Large” being defined as droplets large enough to where gravity will cause them to fall to the ground rather than float in the air.
3) Anecdotal observations, such as the case where two hairdressers continued to work while infected, while none of their 200+ customers got sick. Both the hairdressers and customers were wearing masks.
Starting with 3), that of course is close to meaningless. Non randomized controlled trials are usually ignored for good reasons. In the mentioned case, do we know for a fact that none of the 200+ got sick, and how do we know that? And even if nobody got sick, since we know how weak this can be, with that few people we can’t know how many actually got infected and were asymptomatic.
1) means next to nothing, because you can’t possibly account for all of the possible confounding variables that cause any observed correlation, nor can you infer how well a country deals with COVID-19 from just a couple of months worth of data. EG, Sweden’s approach was almost necessarily going to make their initial results look worse than otherwise. The point was to be in better shape for the long haul. We won’t know whether that’s worked for quite some time.
2) were actually sound studies, but of course aren’t really measuring what it is were interested in. If small aerosolized droplets can carry the virus (and the almost certainly can) the venting of these small droplets from the top and the sides of the masks would allow transmission anyway. Furthermore, these studies ignore what happens after the initial emission of the droplet. If people constantly touch their masks, or the masks don’t get washed nearly as often as they ought to, all sorts of negative health outcomes could occur involving COVID-19 but also involving all sorts of other things besides COVID-19.
It’s really bad science, but apparently it’s very good politics.
This is about my understanding too. “actual research that shows masks do anything” is the wrong question.
We can study mechanism pretty easily (does a mask stop large droplets). We can assume that those mechanisms matter (reducing large droplets probably reduce transmission probabilities). But proving mechanisms is really, really hard. We don’t really know, for example, how muscle hypertrophy really works, or how aspirin really works, even after a century of study. Maybe we’ll figure it out before too long (like we have with flu transmission).
On the other hand, we can study behavior and correlate it with outcomes (ie if people start wearing masks, what often happens to infection demographics). I probably discount these much less than other Glibs, and i think a lot (but not all, by any means) of the criticisms around here come more from ignorance than actually put forward meritorious objections.
–BUT–
All such correlational studies on this particular issue that I’ve seen so far are just horsehit of the worst kind. Some of that is inevitable because the data isn’t fully developed yet. And some of it is just sloppy analysis that econometrics hasn’t used in 2 decades but is still being used in public health analysis. For example, in econometrics, standard practice is to use “the date everyone actually changed their behavior or learned of a planned government intervention” as the date something changed, instead of the date of government enactment. For example, when the government said “In a few months we are going to force you to sell your gold”, studies use the date of the announcement now instead of the date of the forced buy back. Public health models are still using the dates of public mask demands to be the day every single person in a geographic area went from no masks to 100% compliance.
Public health models are still using the dates of public mask demands to be the day every single person in a geographic area went from no masks to 100% compliance.
I had suspicions of this but hadn’t delved that deep into it, when looking at the March “lockdowns”. Thanks Leap!
We didn’t have a mask requirement until July 1. Before that, about 50% or more people were wearing masks to grocery and etc.
So mask usage has increased, but it was pretty large to begin with, voluntarily.
Correct. voluntary mask wearing started before mandates basically everywhere, and after the mandates <100% compliance is found basically everywhere. But in these analyses, that's all lumped into one observable variable "Date of mandate" or something like that.
Something something searching for keys under streetlights something something.
Fortunately I didn’t have to do much of the leg work myself. I was able to use the bias, right-wing wingnut (remember that slur?) science deniers at Stanford, JHU, et al to enact my labor.
Well-designed studies that would isolate the effects of wearing a mask from other measures are pretty much lacking. I think there is reasonable evidence that if you are (1) indoors in an enclosed room, (2) with a group of people in close proximity, (3) for an extended period of time, then a mask is helpful. Once you start to relax any of those assumptions, it gets a lot sketchier. I’m still pretty skeptical that it is transmissible outdoors or off of most surfaces at all without some effort. Our scientific betters have simply said that it cannot be ruled out: of course, they are probably also unwilling to rule out its transmission through aliens on spaceships arriving from Planet Virus.
That said, my university has adopted a policy of “all masks, all the time” while on campus, so now I am responsible for modeling as well as enforcement. Not looking forward to August.
Short-distance, long-term contact seems to be the key. The super-spreader situations have been large gatherings in small spaces with lots of conversation, singing, etc. Wedding receptions, church gatherings, bars, etc.
Masks would probably help in those situations, couldn’t hurt.
This has actually been studied with the flu in households in the past, and they’ve yet to obtain a result that suggests a beneficial effect. The reality is no one is going to sit inside the house 12 hours a day without removing their mask from time to time, even when living with an infected person. What the modelers ask for cannot be accomplished.
Once you start multiplying small percentages by small percentages by small percentages, what was once a most likely “somewhat helpful” intervention, becomes effectively “useless.” Those small percentages multiplied by one another effectively become zero.
I could believe that mask mandates slow the spread down to a longer duration, but I think there’s no way it changes the ultimate number of people infected. I think we’re seeing that in Japan now.
People don’t realize that “the flu” really is a serious thing and health officials have been studying ways to try and combat it for quite a long time. “The flu kills a bunch of people and it’s no big deal” is extremely wrong, it is a big deal. We probably should not have been as cavalier about it as we have been in the past. COVID-19 appears to be an over-correction in the other direction.
The question isn’t whether this is serious, it is. The question is what interventions are going to do more good than harm and what are going to do more harm than good. Until about two months ago, the medical establishment believed masks to fall into the latter and had believed so for decades. Now it’s the former and the only reason I can see for the shift in recommendations is politics. You’ll excuse me if that angers me.
I basically agree with you. I have yet to see an honest cost-benefit analysis of business lockdowns vs costs of more covid cases. Lockdown advocates play up the direct disease costs and ignore the economic costs of a lockdown, while the other side tends to downplay the real health risks (although they do a better job of acknowledging that there are costs).
I work with a bunch of over-65 faculty who are a few weeks away from potentially being dumped into a classroom with a bunch of college students, in a state currently seeing a surge in cases–mostly among younger people–and they are worried. To put it mildly. The whole community is (less justifiably) worried about thousands of college students descending on the area, who are mostly unconcerned about the virus. I think the students are mostly right to not be too concerned about themselves, but they are together with a group that does have reason to fear the disease. It’s going to be a volatile mix.
What drives me nuts about this is that the Karens have turned this from a question of science, to a totally mystical talisman (talismask?).
On the twitter thread yesterday where Gavin Gewsance insisted that masks were quite manly, someone piped in to say “Hey I wore a mask and got COVID, and recovered and now I cannot medically wear masks any more. You have made it illegal for me to live my life”
Some Karen responded essentially, “I’m sorry you got COVID, but obviously you were reckless. You must not have been wearing your mask correctly or washing your hands correctly.”
Do you all see where this is headed? Now Masks are 100% effective and if you get the ‘rona it is YOUR fault. Having covid makes you unclean, and marks you as a bad person.
This is why I am fighting for my kids to not have a mask mandate at their school. I do not want my 3rd grade daughter reduced to tears and told she is a filthy girl just because she can’t handle having her face wrapped every day or on the off chance that she does get infected despite wearing a mask.
Kids under the age of 12 can’t possibly be expected to wear the masks correctly or for extended periods of time. It’s asinine and likely harmful to their development as well. But who cares, there’s an election to win and power to be seized.
…and conformance/compliance training to be given. If the kids live long enough, masks will be “the 5 miles in a blizzard, uphill, both ways” speech they give.
There’s no reason to believe that face masks are better at preventing the spread of this coronavirus than any other respiratory viruses carrying common cold and the flu. The Japanese have been wearing face masks in large numbers during the flu season for years. If face masks worked as advertised we would expect that Japan had much fewer flu deaths than, say, the USA. It doesn’t.
Already posted?
NPR Radio Ratings Collapse As Pandemic Ends Listeners’ Commutes
Broadcast ratings for nearly all of NPR’s radio shows took a steep dive in major markets this spring, as the coronavirus pandemic kept many Americans from commuting to work and school. The network’s shows lost roughly a quarter of their audience between the second quarter of 2019 and the same months in 2020.
People who listened to NPR shows on the radio at home before the pandemic by and large still do. But many of those who listened on their commute have not rejoined from home. And that threatens to alter the terrain for NPR for years to come, said Lori Kaplan, the network’s senior director of audience insights.
This only proves that NPR needs more funding. I’m sure ol Joe is willing to give them plenty of your money, we’re saved!
If NPR disappears, how am I going to get my morning commute expletive-laden rant out of my system?
Don’t be afraid to turn that dial, there’s more retardation just to the left!
Got mine out of my system this morning since the right-wing hate-radio host has Gov Coonman’s “Public Safety”
henchmandirector on the show on Fridays.I’ve just ignored the CBC for the last few weeks. Fuck them. They use our tax dollars to indoctrinate. Every story is from a woke perspective. No hard news anymore. Defund the CBC and NPR while you’re at it.
Last few weeks? Dude. It’s been over 25 years for me. BUT IF THE CBC DIES HOW WILL THE COUNTRY BIND FROM COAST TO COAST!?!?!
Let it all sink.
Is Macrini doing that?
He’s been touched by the TDS as well. Not the worst out there, but definitely touched.
Sad. Love hate listening to those godless commies.
PBS and NPR have lost me
I listened to them for years for perspective in long-form pieces in an adult voice
but it’s just too derpy to tolerate anymore
I don’t feel like I have any reliable, mature, non-partisan sources for news any more
Tass?
“I don’t feel like I have any reliable, mature, non-partisan sources for news any more”
You never really did.
PBS and NPR have always been ideologically of the left. But there are no more “ideologically of the left” outlets any more. They shifted from “left ideology” to “partisan democrat” during the Clinton impeachment and subsequent election cycle. Then Obama shifted them into full-on DNC propaganda machine mode.
Some within the group are still animated by a leftist/marxist agenda – but the overall bias has moved from “leans left” to “DNC propaganda” so that they’ll take the anti-left position if it serves the DNC agenda.
This is the case for almost all media. Even Reason usually forgets that they are Libertarian first and chooses “anti-Trump” over “Libertarian” frequently.
Except that ratings for almost all of their shows are down. Those must be hellish commutes to affect all of them, rather than just drive time shows.
Petty tyrant is petty and tyrannical.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) plans to introduce an amendment that would withhold federal assistance payments to states that do not require face masks to be worn. The senator proposal comes as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise throughout the country.
“In the last two weeks, 41 states saw an increase in coronavirus cases, with a total of 3.5 million infected nationwide,” the senator wrote in a statement posted to her website. “California, Florida and New York each topped 300,000 cases, and Texas will soon follow. We’ve seen 60,000 new cases in five of the last six days. We’re failing to control this virus and it’s time for serious action.”
“We’re falling to control t
his virusthese people and it’s time for serious action.”At this point they’re just going full throttle from one trend to another.
Anything not prohibited must be mandatory.
If it had gone another way, Feinstein would be calling for prison terms for those selfish individuals using masks that our hero HCWs need.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Bryan Trottier, huh? The same Bryan Trottier who happened to be on both rosters of the two teams that beat the North Stars in the SC finals in 1981 and 1991?
Bastard.
A legend, though.
One of my Favourites from the 80s. Underrated song. Enjoy it.
Same. Excellent record and a very upbeat song. A nice counterpoint to the lynx, as it were. Almost makes you forget people are shooting babaies.
Almost.
It’s getting weirder out there, kids. Gird your loins, stay positive and have a fantastic day!*
* I linked this one once many moons ago and Crusty claimed his gender flipped. Hope it flipped back this morning, Crusty!
Crusty’s gender is fluid to put it mildly.
Love the album too. The album cover is odd. “Sorry, boys. We ran out of cable knit sweaters.”
Also, who tucks in a cable knit sweater? And then wears suspenders OVER it? The 80s were an odd time.
A girl socially educated to believe in genetic determinism and a guy with a mutation that makes him a social constructionist walk into a bar
https://twitter.com/SilverVVulpes/status/760936371028631552
Broadcast ratings for nearly all of NPR’s radio shows took a steep dive in major markets this spring, as the coronavirus pandemic kept many Americans from commuting to work and school. The network’s shows lost roughly a quarter of their audience between the second quarter of 2019 and the same months in 2020.
Maybe it’s because people are saying, “Hey, that’s exactly what they said yesterday. And the day before that, and the day before that. Blah blah blah Bad Orange Man is bad. Okay, I get it.”
Alright, time to go for a walk and pick up a unhealthy breakfast of strudel (and possibly some butter horns for later).
Better be a long walk.
It was not. But it’s really good strudel.
Really good strudel is worth almost any sacrifice.
Nazi!
They do have 18 different flavors of strudel available (5 special order only). No one needs that many flavors of strudel!
They’ve been in business here for over 80 years, so they got out before their country (Hungary) got taken over.
Half strip cheese strudel, half dozen butter horns (2 walnut, 2 lemon, 3 apple… they threw in an extra). I’m set for breakfast the rest of the weekend.
Is this real? I’ve lost all ability to distinguish between news, parody, and wild conspiracy theories in this dystopian future we now live in.
Africa to Become Testing Ground for “Trust Stamp” Vaccine Record and Payment System
I’m pretty sure that’s real. The test is ‘how Dystopian and Orwellian does it sound?’. The more of that, the more likely it’s true.
It’s the globalists trial for a one world socialist utopia with everyone ID’d in a central data center for complete control of the sheeple, including who can buy or sell anything, including food, dependent upon their social credit score. I’m sure our own big tech industry were key in helping China set up their limited social social credit score program. That was just a test.
They’re starting in Africa, because lots of poor uneducated people who make a few dollars a week maybe. Offer then a little more for free, as long as they take this ID and get their vaccine and you have a very compliant sample for your experiments. Then you move on to other countries with less fortunate people. After you have enough, you try it in Europe and when you have largely achieved success there, those people are already used to just doing whatever the government tells them to do, and they have no weapons, you try it in the USA.
Of course before you try it in the USA, you need the correct politicians in charge and you get them to give up all their weapons.
As scary as it is, that’s what’s coming, unless the USA grows a pair again and tells them to fuck off. Pretty much every lefty in the USA would just do it right now, but those pesky rednecks would be problematic, so we’ll need to confiscate their guns first.
This would have sounded like wacko conspiracy theory just a year ago, but not now.
Guns are no good without the will to use them, and there’s not much of that will going around right now.
It’s going to have to get a lot worse before people start shooting back.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) plans to introduce an amendment that would withhold federal assistance payments to states that do not require face masks to be worn. The senator proposal comes as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise throughout the country.
“In the last two weeks, 41 states saw an increase in coronavirus cases, with a total of 3.5 million infected nationwide,” the senator wrote in a statement posted to her website. “California, Florida and New York each topped 300,000 cases, and Texas will soon follow. We’ve seen 60,000 new cases in five of the last six days. We’re failing to control this virus and it’s time for serious action.”
And if the masks do not magically eradicate the plague? What will you try next?
The Cases are going up!!!
“The Cases are going up!!!”
No, no, no! Get your propaganda up to par!
Today’s quote is ‘While the pandemic rages!’.
I should think that all the old folks standing around in my community without masks, every day, using no social distancing at all, would all be dropping like flies, because of this ‘raging’. I’m not sure that word means what they think it means.
Here in Ohio, it’s the Democrats (and media) complaining that DeWine didn’t mandate more and grab more power during his afternoon speech earlier this week.
“That’s because you deplorable covidiots aren’t wearing your masks. The numbers don’t lie.”
Thats exactly what we will read in 2-4 weeks when numbers don’t trend downward.
Maybe if people wear their shoes on the wrong feet, the plague will see how serious we are, and run away.
Some enterprising journalist should go out and see how many people he can get to say, “Look, I’m just following orders” on camera.
Reliably lacking self-awareness source.
Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
Hey bud. I’m not on a “side.” I’m not at a park trying to put up or take down a statue. Are you? As for ratings, which you mentioned in a followup tweet, Lou Dobbs averages a fraction of CNN’s ratings. Who cares? I guess you do, but no one else does.
You only achieve that victory by comparing all of CNN to one FNC show?
Brian Stelter always gets really defensive when someone mentions ratings, which makes me think it hurts him a lot.
Bag-o-Dicks wilts, News at 11.
COVER-UP!
Previously public data has already disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website after the Trump administration quietly shifted control of the information to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Since the pandemic began, the CDC regularly published data on availability of hospital beds and intensive care units across the country. But Ryan Panchadsaram, who helps run a data-tracking site called Covid Exit Strategy, said that when he tried to collect the data from the CDC on Tuesday, it had disappeared.
“We were surprised because the modules that we normally go to were empty. The data wasn’t available and not there,” he said. “There was no warning.”
CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told reporters on a conference call Wednesday that states were told to stop sending hospital information to the National Healthcare Safety Network site, the CDC’s system for gathering data, beginning Wednesday. Instead, all data will now be reported through HHS’ reporting portal, officials said, adding that the decision was made to streamline data reporting and to provide HHS officials with real-time data.
Public health specialists and former health officials acknowledged that the CDC’s data reporting infrastructure was limited, and said it needs to be overhauled to meet the demands of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, they expressed concern in interviews with CNBC that the change could lead to less transparent data.
We’ll never survive without that CDC data.
Cause the CDC has been doing such a great job…
Wifey is setting up a booth at the market on Saturday. Cons – sweating like a pig from drinking too much beer the night before. Pros – Milf-tastic! I’d druther just stay home.
stupid fingers
They are stupid without a brain and nervous system to run them. Basically finger hot dogs.
A sawblade at 19,000rpm is stopped and shatters itself from its own momentum.
https://twitter.com/bencbartlett/status/1283823305070272512
based on this it seems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYLAi4jwXcs&feature=youtu.be
Physics is a bitch, yo…
That was pretty cool.
The way a sawzstop works is that it runs a current through the blade. When your finger or in this case a hot dog touches the blade, the current is interrupted (probably not using the right word here, electrical dudes can correct me) and a metal block gets shot into the blade below the table.
So the shattering of the blade is due more to a metal block being fired into it then anything else.
Both blade and brake break, but it saves the fingers.
It’s a really cool system. It will be the one I buy the next time I get a table saw.
What a tard-gedy!!!!
There might be something to be said for cosplay.
I’m gonna hire some ringers to come in and say “I’m new to the site and have a question about how to cook [X].”
I want to get the comment counts back up and I figure that’s the best way.
Say wut?
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Add in a request for the best place to get a pineapple pizza and an off-hand comment about circumcision and we’ll be above 1000 comments in no time.
Work property taxes in there and the sight might break.
Look when a site is young, it can handle a 500 Comment per links performance, but as it gets older, it has to slow down. Roleplaying as new commenters might spice things up, but it is ultimately destructive to the site.
Take out the soccer updates and put in cooking tips.
You’re on to something.
Sloopy can start with something like “Why baking bacon is better than pan frying in every way”.
Or maybe “American bacon is superior in every way to that Canadian stuff or that European abomination”.
The ensuing argument might last all week.
I’ve been baking before it was legal.
Pretty sure if I said “American bacon is superior to Canadian “bacon”” it would just result in people agreeing with me and moving on.
Stating facts doesn’t usually spur a debate. Only somewhat controversial things do, like telling people (correctly) that cooking a steak beyond rare is stupid.
Actually that’s a bad example too since everybody knows cooking it beyond rare is stupid.
I’ll think of something worthy of food debate before next week.
“Tofurkey or turds, which tastes better?”
Heh.
It’s not enough to be against the drug war, you have to smoke crack daily!
Judging by the last couple of Libertarian party conventions, I’d say a lot of them have already started.
As awful as the GOP is, and as meaningless as my vote in NJ is, I still can’t vote for her.
What’s LIBERTARAIN?
https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/16/im-at-a-loss-for-words-the-unraveling-narrative-behind-the-atlantics-defund-the-police-shooting-tale/
Editors used to be skeptical.
Did someone reach out to the mother to verify this?
Are you discounting his lived experience.
Anyway even if it wasn’t true, at least it started a conversation.
Wait, what?
I’m beginning to think you spend too much time on twitter.
This is an intervention.
This is me actively ignoring the growing stack of paperwork on my desk.
Though, you’re not wrong.
Heh. My posting volume here usually is a function of how much work I have to do and how urgent it is. Right now I have two major things that were due yesterday.
rjk
Fell back asleep on my phone just there. Good look.
Reporter asks Orange Co Fla health official if the two COVID deaths listed as in their 20s had any underlying conditions. Reply:
“The first one didn’t have any. He died in a motorcycle accident.”
Tells me everything I need to know about the Chicom Flu stats.
Motorcycle accidents aren’t underlying conditions, they are overrunning conditions.
They are underlying conditions when the other vehicle is on top of you.
Stop judging people on the quality of their work, you racist!
Instead judge them by the color of their skin and what genitals they have (or claim to have). Only then will things be right.
wasn’t there a time blind auditions were pushed to end racism/
This is literally in their manifestos now. #BLM includes ending racist practices like science, insisting on objective facts, using reason, etc. Funny that these Orwellian up is down ideas also happen to map exactly to Marxist ideas, right down to ending all other authorities, like churches.
Let’s count pro sports as “the arts” and watch their fucking heads explode.
Well you don’t want to lose authentic (B)lack mannerisms by having them start “acting white” by taking responsibility, working hard, and believing that saving is a good thing.
I honestly can’t believe people make that argument and claim that they’re on the non-racist side.
This is the playbook. Orwell was not being hyperbolic. He was simply describing the Marxist playbook. This is doublethink, and the SJW crowd has mastered it.
I have had several younger SJW types tell me that quoting MLK’s “I have a dream” speech is racist. The very ideas are racist.
Doublethink.
Also, Orwell wasn’t so much predicting the future as describing what had been going on in the Soviet Union in the 30’s.
This is like that chart produced by the Smithsonian that’s been making the rounds lately which is supposed to illustrate the characteristics of “whiteness”, which includes things like independence, self-reliance, having a stable family, the scientific method, rational thought, working hard, being punctual, planning ahead and delaying gratification.
Since this is “whiteness”, it implies that minorities are shiftless, lazy, dependent on the largess of others, incapable of rational thought, foolhardy, and stupid. In other words, exactly what the 1920s Klan would say.
That’s exactly what’s got that front and center in my head. I mean when you’re making the White Man’s Burden argument, how the fuck is that not racist?
In WW2, Londoners were asked to black out their homes at night so the enemy bombers wouldn’t see the lights & know where to target. No Londoner said,”It’s my right to have lights on”. Cuz others would say,”your light on endangers us.”Substitute “light” for “mask”. Now argue.
https://twitter.com/IJasonAlexander/status/1283517765156921345
Londoners are sheep, and their willingness to be ruled is not a metric by which people should be measured.
Now go away.
Pie in the Sky might go away, but that doesn’t mean that the Luftwaffe in the sky is going away.
This happened on the west coast of the United States, too.
Except that there was never an air raid against the west coast, so the blackouts turned out to just be useless paranoia.
I’ll leave you to draw your own parallels…
It’s easier to fly across the English Channel than the Pacific ocean.
Ahem, Archie Mitchell died from an aerial attack.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb#Single_lethal_attack
And then there were naval bombardments
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Ellwood
(?)
‘Ahem?’
Don’t you mean, ‘Acktually?’
😉
Stop quibbling with my quibble!
I’ll stipulate that the legislature has the power to pass laws in the general interest of health and safety, for purposes of this argument.
Why is it that 4 months into this, the executive is still running things via fiat, with no legislative backing?
Because these idiots applauding them think they’ll be able to use executive fiats in the future to force people into actions they’d otherwise resist.
If people had a .01% chance of dying from the bombing, I’d hope the response would have been different. But it being London, they’d have still probably done whatever they were told because they’re a bunch of sheep.
Clear and present danger. I imagine Churchill’s government would have prevented Englanders from setting up beach kiosks to hand out fish and chips, tea and crumpets to invading Wehrmacht heeren too.
So does this mean the ‘rona virus has a stupid little mustache and gesticulates wildly while giving a speech?
This gives me a mask idea..print the bottom part of a nose and a mouth with a Hitler mustache on it.
I doubt you’d get people to wear them, but we can all buy them and throw them at politicians who act like Nazis.
‘Member when we crashed our economy and forced all manner of draconian measures in response to H1N1 and every other respiratory illness pandemic? Me neither.
During an event at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., Biden campaign advisor Ron Klein, who also worked for Vice President Biden in the White House and led the response to the Ebola outbreak, explained how the Obama administration did “everything wrong” in response to the 2009 swine flu crisis.
“I wasn’t involved directly in the H1N1 response but I lived through it as a White House staffer and what I would say about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people were working on it and we did every possible thing wrong. Sixty million Americans got H1N1 during that period of time. It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history. It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It was just luck.
And now we have all these ghost cities that people have abandoned due to their collapse from all the dead.
Time to go spray some weeds.
I am not aware of this euphemism. what does it mean?
He has to pee
“I love my #nhs and here is a book where I will tell you the many ways in which I love The NHS… (spoiler- they literally saved my life)
https://twitter.com/EmiliaClarkeTM/status/1283832751561609223
well this is sad and pathetic in a way. no sign of intelligence whatsoever
What are the odds that if we investigated, the NHS first endangered their life, or otherwise nearly killed the poster.
She was pretty hot in that TV show she was in. So it stands to reason that she is perfectly equipped to tackle the nuances of a free-market versus state-run industry debate, particularly in the case of something as vexing as health care.
NHS SAVED MY LIFE, THEREFORE ANY OTHER SYSTEM OF HEALTHCARE PROVISION IS BAD/WORSE.
“I wasn’t involved directly in the H1N1 response but I lived through it as a White House staffer and what I would say about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people were working on it and we did every possible thing wrong. Sixty million Americans got H1N1 during that period of time. It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history. It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It was just luck.
If we had only known what we could get away with in the name of “public health emergency”…
excellent analysis.
We’re shaking our fists at clouds. Nobody respects our opinions. Joe fucking Biden will be the next President and there is not a damn thing that you can do about it. Fuck it. I need to go to bed. The world is less crazy in cloud cuckoo land.
6 months ago I was wondering if people would remember just how evil the press and the left were during Kavanaugh and Covington Kids. I hoped that the record low unemployment would overwhelm any such uncertainty. And I wondered how in the world the left could possibly divert people’s attention from those facts. I knew they had their “racism” plan with the 1619 project, but I was sure that it was an utter failure.
Then we shut down the economy. On purpose.
Then, 3 months later we got a perfect video of police brutality – white cop and black victim.
Everything erased, and the left is ecstatic.
Joe Biden is just the Trojan horse to deliver a super-left VP into P, unelected. If he doesn’t keel over quick enough, one of them will make sure to give him a little push. What’s the over/under on flipping the house back to R?
The last remaining hope seems to be that Biden makes such an obviously terrible VP choice that voters wake up and re-elect Badorangeman.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see Hillary or Michelle chosen as VP as they know they would become P very quickly. {Especially if Biden gets mugged some night on a dark D.C. street by the same guys that attacked Smollett in Chicago.}
Jussie Smollett is going to kill Biden? Biden is old and demented and most toddlers could likely take him in a fight, but Smollett? Not a chance.
I have no idea – silent majority, media pushing him over the line, election fraud, Joe completely twitching out in a debate, whatever. Trump’s been mediocre and seems to have lost interest. The rest of the Republicans are pussies and have done less than nothing – they seem to view their job in life as turning crazy Dem ideas into policy.
If Biden wins and the GOP holds the Senate, will anything really change?
I’m not sure about that. I can easily see a situation right now where turnout spikes of a certain group of people who have had enough of the riots and protests and lockdowns while simultaneously turnout wanes for a group of mild Democrat partisans can’t get energized to vote for a senile old white guy who likes to sniff little girls hair.
Not saying that’s what will happen, but I wouldn’t discount it. All hell will break loose afterward, so it probably wouldn’t lead to great results, but…
From the Bonhomme Richard article: “A fire that reached 1,200 degrees has raged for four days on this ship.”
1,200 degrees! Wowow. That’s almost as hot as your average backyard camp fire (which reaches about 1,300 or 1,400 degrees).
WTF. I know its en vogue for reporters to literally know nothing, but it is tiresome.
You think that reporters would be afraid of posing as a Nazi Prison camp guard with how much they don’t know.
Except they’re ever so insistent that they have seen something! They know something!
“It is well known that…”, as Pravda articles used to dictate.
Backyard campfires can’t melt steel!
Defending the right to hold a repugnant opinion is so much easier than defending the opinion itself.
https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/1283883651474747394
those thing are not the same thing
If you’ve been working on that nut for a Year, and you didn’t get it, and realize that it is meaningless…. You’re a retard.
Second guy’s name checks out.
“There’s this pattern where the rights-defenders are largely repugnant people, and it’s unfair to weigh that into the argument, but impossible to ignore the pattern.”
________
First they came for the communists…….
Reddit has been purging wrongthink for years now. They started with the actual racists and pedophiles and such. Who then formed Reddit clones with free speech as a bedrock principle. So recently they have purged the “anti trans” people, who are largely LGB people and radical feminists. Subs like Gender Critical and LGBDroptheT were purged.
So now these people, who are largely leftists who break from the Left on trans dogma, are on these Reddit clones, and they are shocked, appalled, and dismayed that there are actual Nazis on there, and they’re starting to push for them to be banned.
When they ban the Nazis, they need a new Nazi, and then they ban them. It goes on and on until the only people still there are people who agree 100% with the mods.
“Us and them: eliminating them” has always everywhere been the goal.
I don’t understand the point.
The obvious conclusion for me would be that we should all defend the right to hold a repugnant position because it will be really hard to defend that opinion. But I suspect that she means that if you defend the right to espouse a repugnant opinion you should be required to defend the repugnant opinion, even if it is not your own.
The author is implying that the only reason anyone defends the right to speech is because they secretly, in their heart, are trying to advance the cause of whatever repugnant speech is at issue. But they are cowards and instead fall back on defending the right to speech because they are too cowardly to defended what they really, in their hearts, want.
And thus the author was once again proved to be right all along in thinking that her political enemies are really, truly, secretly, Bad People. How lucky for her.
Being morally right isn’t easy, but isn’t it great knowing that all your opponents are evil and so you don’t even have to listen to what they say.
It is such a stupid and vapid trope…
And yet it is the official position of the left now. “Now is not the time for you to speak. Now is the time for you to listen and support us”. This was repeated hundreds of times on every outlet over the last couple of months.
And openly supported by members of the press! People who are actually members of the profession specifically mentioned in the 1st amendment. You’d think they’d have a little more affinity for the thing.
Which still doesn’t make sense.
But Laurie Penny. May as well try and understand a hamster.
This is where they don’t understand the key point of libertarians. We can defend the right to do something, even (and especially) if we think doing that thing is a dangerous, stupid, and bad thing.
Yep.
For example, I inevitably get a lot of pushback from people who want to legalize pot when I say “And then legalize all of the other drugs, too”. “But-but-but heroin and cocaine and whatever are really bad!” I don’t disagree one bit. I also believe that alcoholism is really bad and ruins a lot of lives. I still don’t believe in banning alcohol.
Lots of things are very bad. And?
One of the few great moments Ron Paul produced in his campaign was the heroin response. He knew they’d come after him on that one and defended it perfectly.
My core libertarian argument is “I don’t have the hubris to believe that I’m smart enough to decide how other people live their lives. And I’m damned sure that other people who don’t even know me aren’t smart enough to decide how I live my life.”
This argument has absolutely zero traction for people who are not already wired to be libertarians. It seems like a slam-dunk to me. But a large chunk of people are hard-wired to believe that the group is the most important thing, and that we are our brother’s keeper and it is evil to allow other people to make their own mistakes.
I try pointing out examples like Bill Gates. I would have told him not to drop out of Harvard to go across the country and work on an OS for a hobby computer with a bunch of guys living in a hotel room together. Finish your degree, I would have said. And because he did the stupid thing, he changed the world and became the richest man in the world.
You are not smart enough to make decisions for other people. Nobody is. Even if you are right and they are wrong.
-1 Socialist Paradise
Brothers keeper in the socialist sense. Not Christian.
Correct. And a large number of the overdose deaths are due to fluctuating quality and strength. Have corporate QC and noted strengths, and most of those will go away. FFS, you don’t generally have those making alcohol cutting their booze with wood alcohol (except during prohibition).
Hey, David Thompson’s old punching bag Laurie Penny!
Why do repugnant opinions have to be defended? That’s the prerogative of the person holding said opinion. Got fuck-all to do with me.
I remember when the notion of “thought police” used to be something lefties abhorred.
Lefties only ever abhorred leftist ideas being policed.
In reality, of course. They at least used to pretend otherwise. No longer.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8533499/Demi-Rose-puts-eye-popping-display-string-Hawaiian-print-bikini.html
Shooter Kills Two Random Men in Indiana Before Being Gunned Down by CCW Holder
“Before being gunned down by CCW holder who was more likely to have his gun used against him than to ever use it for self defense”
There. FTFY.
Oh, Kayleigh.
Case Study in Media Bias:
I said: “The science is very clear on this…the science is on our side here. We encourage our localities & states to just simply follow the science. Open our schools.”
But leave it to the media to deceptively suggest I was making the opposite point!
I figured that headline was the opposite of true when I saw it yesterday.
She has been magnificent. The press is absolutely losing their minds trying to destroy her.
I note that they still have not completed her first “homework assignment” of asking Obama a few choice and salient questions.
Her “walkoff moments” have become a huge issue for them. They are editorializing about how evil it is, and about how they should not attend her briefings because she uses them as props….
Just fantastic work.
Her “walkoff moments”
I like these. She entertains a bunch of stupid questions. Then she rants in their faces for not addressing actual issues and/or being dishonest cuntes and always leave with a good mic-drop.
Also…
That tweet is emblematic of a certain mindset. Some people are not really capable of following an argument. When they are in what they perceive as an adversarial conversation, they don’t try to comprehend what the other person is saying and respond to their ideas in full, they instead watch every word, looking for a mistake or improperly used word. Then they pounce, attacking the form of the conversation rather than the content.
I have dealt with this in personal interactions that just drive me insane. Women in my life have frequently used this tactic – diverting the discussion to a debate about what terms are used, what phrases must be uttered, etc. until the original point is completely swamped. It is an effective tactic to use when you are in a losing argument – a version of taking your ball and going home while declaring victory.
So they’re on the pound the table step.
they don’t try to comprehend what the other person is saying…I have dealt with this in personal interactions that just drive me insane.
///Metoo
Mostly proggies (and ladies…) who are completely incapable of recounting an argument I had just made and therefor incapable of responding to it. They prefer to debate* the strawmen in their heads.
*And by “debate” I mean “make every logical fallacy in the book and/or spew dishonest/misleading leftist talking points”.
I got this the otherday when a buddy was arguing that the commutation of Stone is impeachable. I pointed out Art 2 and a supreme court decision to counter and ask under what pretenses would you impeach.
Down hill from there. “Thats just copypasta!” I knew from right there the discussion wouldn’t go well.
Ahh the “You’re valid points and arguments are just right wing propoganda” defense. Always works. It’s kinda OP.
What he heard after his profound retort”
Whenever I try to debate gun control with my “progressive” family members, I just get “you’ve been reading that NRA magazine too much“. I can cite all the studies I want and show exactly where they can view them, I just get that line in return. One time they were denying that candidate Obama was even remotely anti-gun, and I referenced some very anti-2A bills that he voted for in the Illinois Senate. They threw out the line. I had to ask them what the hell they were talking about since I’m just referencing a record of a Senate vote that I saw on the .gov address of the Illinois Senate.
It’s maddening. The fucking magazine that I used to get was American Rifleman, which contains a few pages of commentary in the front, which I always skipped over because hey, I don’t need Wayne LaPierre to inform me that a proposed assault weapons ban is bad for gun rights. I just read the gun reviews and history articles.
I’m sure they’d call it out lickety split if I just said “You’ve been reading too much Mother Jones” to every argument they made.
The other issue is that even if you get them to concede that you have a point and their position might not be as rock-solid as they thought, you’ll talk to them a week later and it will be like that previous conversation never happened.
And in fairness, I’m sure conservatives to this too if you try to talk them out of the War on Drugs or something. It’s just that the conservatives in my social circle aren’t the ones loudly proposing the end of civil liberties.
Would.
Woke up to discover I still had Scotch in a glass from last night that I had poured but not drunk. I hate when that happens.
Wednesday night I carried a beer into my office to check on something on the computer. Thursday morning, I found a few ounces of beer on my desk, had some beer for post breakfast.
Did you pass out before drinking it or forgot about it because you were reading quantum mechanics?
Neither. Just plain forgot until I saw it this morning. Down the drain it goes now.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo….use it for a marinade at least.
I was wondering if the Liberty University story was ever going to be revisited. They are going to make it happen.
Liberty University Files $10 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times Over Covid Fearmongering Story
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I have anecdotal evidence of testing fraud.
Acquaintance goes in to get tested. Fills out paperwork, waits 45 minutes, gets fed up and leaves before getting swabbed.
Gets a positive test result in three days in his email.
There have been places that have sent in opened but unused swabs and gotten 100% positive results reported.
Aren’t they financially incentivizing positive tests.
I’m not sure how the compensation system is working right now, but I can guarantee it is being exploited for maximum financial gain.
This is all just insane
Old school news would actually run an undercover piece on things like that. Daddy Wallace would ve waiting in the bushes for the clinical boss to leave work to go home to catch him off guard.
That would require hiring a somewhat intelligent employee to do two week’s worth of work for one small series and in the end it might implicate Democrats.
Easier and cheaper to just hire an intern to scour Twitter for gossip.
Lesbian sex is complicated.
https://mobile.twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1283980379729416192
Is that before or after they all move in together? Or is it before or after the first fight?
I only found out a few weeks ago that those poles rotate. I always wondered how they swung around those things without getting a burn or rash.
The more you know…
I thought lesbians didn’t like the pole?
https://mobile.twitter.com/Plipster/status/1283780237973688320
Biceps are for capital1ists it seems
That is a nice reversal of the stereotype.
I guess Calves are part of the bourgeois as well?
take your meds, Fredo.
“You tell me how a president, in the middle of a pandemic, has got time for this b——-. Are you kidding me? Hawking products?” Cuomo asked, with the expletive airing unedited. He added, “Resolute desk! This is what he’s resolute about.”
Questioning the president’s “pandemic priorities” on “Cuomo Prime Time,” the CNN host showed the viral photo of presidential adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump holding up a can of Goya black beans earlier this week, which prompted concerns about whether she was using her government position to endorse a private business.
[…]
“On your dime, in the middle of a pandemic, they’re selling beans,” said Cuomo, who recovered from covid-19 in the spring. “Are you kidding me? Seriously? Seriously?”
1) It is a public/private initiative, which I thought you leftists were all for.
2) It ain’t an endorsement if you ain’t getting paid. Or is the president and the cabinet not allowed to ever express an opinion on any particular product?
The pres has promoted two companies so far that are donating their time, labor, and production to the public it is pissing the hacks and dems off.
Tell me how a governor, in the middle of a pandemic in which he personally is responsible for the death of well over 10,000 individuals who were living in nursing homes has the time to go on national TV several times per day in order to talk about national politics, something that is outside of his personal perview?
In terms of actual operations, Governers don’t actually do anything.
Not True. Underaged Hookers don’t kill themselves, bribes don’t take themselves, and blow doesn’t snort itself.
The underlings take care of those.
Uh, Como managed to kill 10,000-20,000 people in nursing homes with nothing more than a pen and paper.
That’s not actual operations, that’s “Doing Something!”
as in “This is something, so we must do it!”
I believe Ron White has this one covered: you can’t fix stupid.
Was he waving his giant Q-tip around for emphasis?
“The notion that equity indexes are somehow risk-free states has to my mind always been a dangerous fallacy which has been amplified by the rise of passive investing,” comments Mark Urquhart, money manager at Baillie Gifford in Edinburgh
How much of your retirement savings are you now gambling on the fortunes of just six companies? If you’re holding them in an S&P 500 (SPX) stock market index fund, the answer is: About a quarter. That’s how much the so-called “FANMAGs”—Facebook (FB) Apple (AAPL) Netflix (NFLX) Microsoft (MSFT) Amazon (AMZN) and Google (“Alphabet”) (GOOG) — now account of the blue chip U.S. index by value. And that’s how much of each $1 you hold in an S&P 500 index fund, like the State Street SPDR S&P 500 Trust (SPY) you are investing in just this half dozen enterprises. (Just Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google account for 21% of the index.) . . . the index right now is valued at 30 times average per-share earnings of the past decade. Prior to this year, it has only matched or exceeded that level twice since records began in the 1880s: In 2000, and 1929.
The indexes are massively gamed to drive overall market sentiment. The only one that is even remotely rational is the Russell 2000.
At the same time, there is nowhere to put cash and the Fed is printing metric shitloads of it. It’s a massive game of fiscal chicken.
But what cannot continue indefinitely, will not continue indefinitely.
Who thinks they are risk free?
The purpose is that due to low fees, actively managed funds AT THE SAME RISK LEVEL, cannot consistently beat index funds.
Three of the 4 funds I use in my 401k are index funds – an S&P 500 index fund. A midcap index fund. And a large cap VALUE index fund. The latter is to offset the overweighting of a hand full of companies in the S&P 500 and because I believe in the long term potential of value funds. The midcap fund also offsets the large cap index fund. It obviously has a more flat weighting as the range of sizes in the midcap range is smaller.
The 4th fund is an aggressive growth managed fund. Higher risk, higher reward. It has a large investment in the FANMAGs, but also has some international components and some other heavy weightings, so isn’t as reliant on them as the 500 index fund.
Who thinks they are risk free?
Nobody.
His point is that most passive investors rely too much on poorly-diversified funds dominated by a few overbid issues. That’s directionally correct thinking that some might consider. His awkward characterization is not too high a price to pay for a fundamentally (pardon the pun) solid critique.
If its nobody, then why bring it up?
The whole concept of an index fund is that you are going to be overinvested in overpriced stocks and underinvested in underpriced stocks, but that in the long run that works out better than trying to figure out which are the overpriced and which are the underpriced.
we do need a decent percentage of managed funds trying to beat the index to make sure the indexes stay reasonable. If someone can continuously beat the indexes at the same risk level, money will move from passive investing to that investment (until the amount is too much and the advantage is eliminated).
I think there is some logic to the idea that, despite the fact they are index funds, that they should still work like any other security: if market sentiment drives more people there than is really warranted, they’ll become a bad investment. So the more and more people who go with index funds, the less and less their strengths might hold up.
If we didn’t have such a dysfucntional economy, people could stay out of the stock market altogether with few ill-effects. Alas…
^^^this. It is basic efficient market theory.
We’re shaking our fists at clouds. Nobody respects our opinions. Joe fucking Biden will be the next President and there is not a damn thing that you can do about it. Fuck it. I need to go to bed. The world is less crazy in cloud cuckoo land.
You can sleep?
No, but I can pass out. Knocked my Martini glass over last night and broke it. I got cheap gin all over my keyboard. Managed to clean it up without getting cut. Decided I was done for the night.
There’s going be bloodshed either way come November, maybe before then.
simply fabulous
Shit can always get weirder in dreams – last night I dreamed I was sitting at some conference table and being told I was going to be the next President (to replace Trump as he resigned). Pretty sure it was me and I was not inhabiting Mike Pence’s body. Way too weird.
“SWAMI DAVE’S DAILY HOROSCOPES”
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1284088983748775938
Saggitarius (11/22-12/21): Having your birthday near Christmas must have sucked
You have no idea
Yesterday some folks talked about John Taylor Gatto’s “Underground History of American Education” being unavailable through Amazon. I checked, and it is only the Kindle version. Dead tree versions, while expensive, appear to be available. I’m going to order one and see what happens.
Order placed. It’s a bookseller in Florida that I think I’ve done business (through Amazon) with before.
I’ll let you all know when/if the book shows up.
I need Not Adhan to quip on this:
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1283918088723935234
Is this true? Is there a secret sign that the Astrology Industrial Complex has been keeping secret?
The governor said the city’s recent executive orders “were more restrictive than his” and Bottoms “exceeded her authority.” Kemp tweeted that the lawsuit “is on behalf of the Atlanta business owners and their hardworking employees who are struggling to survive during these difficult times.”
Good for the governor, though I’m not all that hopeful the courts will do the right thing.
Later in the article:
“These men and women are doing their very best to put food on the table for their families while local elected officials shutter businesses and undermine economic growth,” Kemp tweeted. “… I refuse to sit back and watch as disastrous policies threaten the lives and livelihoods of our citizens. We will fight to stop these reckless actions and put people over pandemic politics.”
So…. why did you lock the state down at all?
Because someone in a lab coat flashed some credentials and they locked it down. Or lawyers gsve the bottom line or political strategist said you will look good.
Kemp is the supreme executive and can shutdown businesses on his own fiat. But he isn’t able to tell cities that they can’t do the same, that would be an overreach of executive power.
The world is turned upside down.
People need to get it through their thick skulls that you need to wear a mask. There is a reason why the corona has not effected the Muslim world, and that has to do with half the population already adhering to the mask mandate from before day one.
Interesting…
It is the internet. Of course it is trolling. That is all the internet is. Trolls. Racism. Death threats. Rape threats.
that’s all there is. Unless you are on one of the approved platforms that bans hate speech.
This snark brings up a question:
What is happening in India and Africa?
Both have huge, densely populated cities with enormous poor populations and inadequate healthcare. Both have hundreds of millions living in conditions with essentially zero chance for “social distancing” to have any effect.
Yet I have not heard of any massive wave of death crossing the Indian subcontinent or the African continent. In fact, I have heard nothing at all.
If Covid-19 were absent from Africa, you’d think that would be newsworthy. If it were spreading uncontrolled, yet killing very few…. also newsworthy. And certainly it would be newsworthy if it were killing millions.
But no news? What does that mean?
Are governments there indifferent? I mean, it is plausible. They have malaria and AIDS to worry about, so maybe COVID isn’t all that scary to them. They also have a much younger population than we do.
Still, you’d think it would come up rather frequently either way.
Those are also regions where antimalarial medications are taken as routine. The same ones which appear to disrupt the ability of Wuhan to cause trouble.
I live in a third world city that is covered in tent cities. Yesterday I spent two hours in the Tenderloin and will be back for a couple more today. This is pretty typical as I have to deal with a couple large buildings in the area. I’ve posted videos and pics of some of the shit I see there, but I don’t feel comfortable videoing a lot of it. There is zero fucking social distancing among the thousands of addicts, derelicts, and deranged that are in constant close contact here. I was just talking yesterday to the manager of one building that remarked to me that it is amazing that there haven’t been more cases here. I think heavy crack, meth and fentanyl use must destroy the virus.
They probably have it, just one of many illnesses running through their bodies.
But no news? What does that mean?
Not a slow news cycle here for filler.
India has had rolling lockdowns for weeks/months, so the government there has been far from indifferent. ~25k deaths and 1M infections according to published numbers. Who know what the truth lies but doesn’t seem to have the death numbers that Iran did.
As for Africa, https://africacdc.org/covid-19/ I’m even more skeptical of those numbers.
Is there still an active Ebola outbreak in the Congo?
South Africa
https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN24G27Y-OZATP
Covid related story from Kenya
https://af.reuters.com/article/idAFKCN24I1ZW-OZATP
One theory is that, for the most part, the groups most susceptible to COVID-19 in those regions get taken out long before COVID-19 gets a crack at them. 32 is a “ripe old age” in places like DR Congo.
As for people getting infected but being asymptomatic, what’s your guess as to the extent of expensive testing going on in such places?
I now must say this website is better than PornHub as I’ve donated to the campaign to recall Newsom. I’ve never paid money for PornHub.
From a native thank you very much. I have gotten a few people to sign that here already. I’ve printed out a bunch of them and am carrying them in my work vehicle. Anyone who starts telling me anti woke stuff gets asked if they’d like to sign.
“Here” meaning SF, not Glibs. I think most of the CA Glibs are already aware of it (although please don’t get mad if I post it again). I know it’s a long shot, but this effort is better than the last. I’m well aware that CA is likely a lost cause, but so have many things been until they haven’t.
Signed the recall for my gov. Can’t preprint sheets except for official circulators, everyone else must print their own or request that it be printed. Wife saw it sitting on the printer and asked for one herself.
https://twitter.com/holychrissy/status/1284040119868108801
Fantastic Exchange between a Covidian and someone who just want’s to live life.
Constant rotation while always in touch with grill surface would be best, but impossible
They make those grill-grid-enclosure things in cast iron? You know, the lil metal cage you wrap around burgers or sausages etc to cook em over non-grated fires?
Make one of those in cast iron instead, with 1/4″-stepped latches to properly accommodate different thicknesses.
Surely this device already exists…if not, what’s Lachowski up to…