I have plans on making this a more substantive column. Unfortunately, this week has been insane at work (except for Thursday) and on top of that I just got an invitation to go to a steel shoot starting 9:00 am on Saturday, so I’ve got to get the CZ cleaned and post-cleaning test fired like starting in 45 minutes.
So y’all get this. Sue me.
However it doesn’t take much time to read what’s in the stars this week. Unbelievably, it’s got some unambiguously good news. When Mercury transitions to direct motion, all of the nonsense from MERCURY RETROGRADE is undone and you get some unadulterated good luck. Now this time is coincides when it’s aligned with us and the Moon, an ordinarily ambiguous sign of change, but in context, it’s just a luck amplifier. Enjoy that. I should probably also mention the comet, but here’s the dealio with comets. They are one of the worst signs around (death, destruction, fall of empires, all of that stuff) but only in relation to those things that are part of “the system.” So it’s terrible news for kings and popes, but of zero significance at all to residents of Slab City. I figure most of you are pretty safe.
That good luck talked above is all happening in Cancer, so it’s especially good for you guys, along with tank crews and deep cover agents. Mars in Aries means that I’ll be fast but not accurate at the shoot tomorrow, and Venus in Gemini is good news for those of you in monogamous relationships.
Gemini: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Leo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches, family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family
Virgo: King of Swords – Power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown
Libra: Ace of Coins reversed – The evil side of wealth, bad intelligence
Scorpio: 4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, blended pleasure. Note: “blended pleasure” does not refer to Scotch.
Sagittarius: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb
Capricorn: The Chariot reversed – Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.
Aquarius: 7 of Swords – Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence, quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance.
Pisces: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.
Aries: 8 of Coins – Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business
Taurus: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination, project.
Gemini: 9 of Wands reversed – Obstacles, adversity, calamity.
Gemini: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
God, it’s like Groundhog Day for Geminis.
Fake news, last week turned out pretty well. Hmm, maybe vice, weakness, et al, are in my wheelhouse?
I thought Gemini was:
Gemini: 9 of Wands reversed – Obstacles, adversity, calamity.
Which Gemini draw is actually for Cancer?
*looks at pack of smokes on desk*
The first one. I still think Capricorn fits it better.
Yeah, the first one. You typically start where the sun is and work your way around.
Sagittarius: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb
Sounds legit.
Came to say the same thing…not exactly a profound reading of the tea leaves.
This sounds like the Horoscope for the USA. But the US is under the Cancer sign…
This one fits me to a tee right now. New neighbors are starting a war of the roses and actually called the cops on me yesterday for yelling at them. I yelled because they called my landlord to bitch about my cats pooping and falsely claimed my kid broke into a third neighbor’s house and damaged stuff. My wife thinks she’s racist. I just think she’s a bitch. I don’t know what kind of lie she had to tell the cops to get them out here, but after they got her side of the story. The cop gave me a talking to about how liable I’d be if my cat does any damage to her plants. There was 6 cops and three cruisers. I have to admit, I went off on her and her pussy husband for calling the landlord, partly because the landlord’s 90 and not doing real good health wise. It’s all so pointless. Cop told me to film her every time we interact. I had to go around to all the other neighbors and explain why the heavy police presence. Dog knows what’s going to happen next. The husband puffed all up like he wanted to fight, so I’m going to have to be ready for something like that it seems. gonna buy a few cameras and point them right at the neighbor’s house, firstly. Fucking people.
I don’t think this was directly posted here yet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Maxtropolitan/status/1284312486745866241/photo/1
Lol, nice.
Awesome.
If I lived anywhere near Buffalo, I’d be on my way there right now.
Pie makes the fries?
Malicious compliance.
Virginia doesn’t actually have any bars. Every place that has a liquor and/or a beer and wine license has to, by law, make a certain percentage of their sales from food.
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2018/10/02/where-did-virginias-food-to-liquor-ratio-come-from-and-does-it-still-serve-a-purpose/
Bars in Oklahoma used to have a “51%” sign hanging inside next to their licenses to show they were getting >50% of their revenue from alcohol. It made it so restaurants had to only stock cheap booze to keep from getting bumped up to the bar category.
Excellent!
a plan that may fail
Well, shit.
So when is the proper time for the shoosting to begin?
I hate it when the shoosting begins.
Virgo: King of Swords – Power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown
Me likey
Margaritas?
Actually… in this case, that could be.
If you blenderize your margaritas you are doing it wrong.
This suddenly jumped into my head, a little while ago:
I read a thing in college about American POWs in the Korean War, and how none of them ever successfully escaped, and were for the most part apparently pretty compliant. It had to do, according to this thing, with the psychological nature of their treatment. Not brutally oppressive, but more like a gradual grinding down of will. Less stick, more carrot, I suppose. It was a long time ago, so don’t ask for details.
Thinking about the Great Mask Debate, it seems to me the same dynamic is t work. For the most part, it’s not OBEY, but a wheedling plea of “Why can’t you do this, for the sake of your fellow man? You want to be good boys and girls, don’t you?”
Most people do. They do want to be good little boys and girls. They want to make Mommy and Daddy happy and proud. And it’s not just masks, it’s everything. It’s racism. It’s inequality. It’s wealth. It’s anything they can think of to use against us and grind us down and steal our individuality.
Am I being melodramatic? Maybe, but- It sickens me to my core.
To me it’s more of “I want to keep my job so I’ll keep my mouth shut”. A lot of people live paycheck to paycheck and losing their job could ruin them. So saying something that “offends”, or being called out for not wearing a mask threatens your livelihood. We’re being held hostage by the cancel culture.
it has really bothered me for a long time how tied people are to their jobs. it’s the part of the Marxist drivel that rings the most true to me (every successful lie grows from a nugget of truth).
Interest rates, inflation, tax laws, health insurance laws, local and state exemptions and benefits, and a thousand regulations conspire to kill income-earning mobility, either from firm to firm, or entrepreneurial. People still do it, but the regulatory capture alone is insane, and doesn’t even account for the other bidirectional fascism cooked into our system.
The corporation is an arm of the state. It enforces the states laws, collects the states taxes, and pushes the states social agenda. In return it receives the shield of limited liability, and favorable tax codes.
I don’t disagree in principle, but I would point out that being tied to your source of income is not a recent development, and is by no stretch of the imagination worse today than it was in past eras. People didn’t head to the frontiers because they were in love with the romantic ideal of adventure, they did it because they had no viable alternative.
I do this. I also wear one when I go into places I frequent so as to not put the employees in a position to tell me to put a mask on. It is not their fault. I have noticed many places scoff at it as well for instance owners of the establishment wearing them as a chin strap and the like. I am a sheep but for reasons.
IIRC they had the POWs start with small things, gave them small rewards for doing stuff like listing some things about the US that were not perfect, then writing those down, then reading them to other POWs and defending them in debates. They slowly cranked things up as far as the anti-US, pro-commie propaganda went, but it was the writing down in their own words and defending what they had written that was key, along with the praise from the other compliant POWs.
I recently read an article recently comparing this to today’s social media, I’ll see if I can track it down.
The British POWs did a much better job, not with escaping but surviving the propaganda. American POWs were segregated, separated from each other, officers, NCOs, troops. Without the leadership morale deteriorated, etc. British troops payed games on their guards, who for the most part were young draftee types too. Like piggy back races, with betting on the out come. Made up card games/gambling with stones, that didn’t have any rules but would drive the no English speaking guards nutty.
By then Mao and Stalin had perfected the concentration camp. And unlike Europe, where are going to go?
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Am I being melodramatic?
No. All the Lil Rona bullshit has been about control, nothing about a disease.
The local vandals were upset they were missing out on all the self-righteous fun:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/union-statue-saratoga-springs-ny.html
They fought for the U.S. against Democrats which is racist.
It totally wasn’t us! It was a false flag to make us look bad! And anyway, why are you so upset about it?
“You cannot replace Darryl’s life.”
Around 4mm babies are born in the US every year.
They should grow them a little bigger before birthing them.
Mr. Figuereo speculated that the destruction of the statue could have been done by people trying to make local activists look bad. But he also wondered why it had captured so much attention.
“Certain people care more about property than about people,” he said. “It’s sad.”
“You racists disappoint me. You make me sad. Why do you make Mommy sad?”
Interestingly enough, that Figuereo guy was only interviewed in the NYT. The local papers covering it skipped him.
The locals did report that the damage was irreparable. I imagine it will be replaced by a statue of whatever Transwomyn of Color they are currently giving the credit to for Stonewall.
Spent the last week on a beach vacation with another family. From a plandemic standpoint, I feel like we did everything possible to eradicate the cooties from our bodies. Basically the whole week we alternated between immersion in a strong saline solution and direct exposure to high heat and broad-spectrum radiation. There was one half-day spent walking around the open-air sauna called Charleston. The cootie-fighting steps taken while inside involved basically doubling our normal caloric intake and applying a more ethanol than is normal.
Anyway, y’all remember the electoral “enthusiasm” discussions a couple of weeks ago? Well, along the drive to the beach we spent about 76 miles on 2-lane roads in the western half of GA and then about 23 miles of 2-lane roads in the SC lowcountry, with all interstate or other 4-lane between them. I made counts of Biden signs and Trump signs along the way. In the GA section (mix of farms, pine plantations, and other rural residential), the score was Trump 17, Biden 0. In SC (only pines and a very few houses, with a little beach town at the end) it was Trump 2, Biden 0. We did see a Biden bumper sticker and an old Bernie on, plus a Tulsi billboard, in SC also.
I know that won’t take care of any mail-in fraud in PA or MI, but the apparent intensity level is dramatic.
Ran into some folks from my gym. Holy shit, I thought I hated commies / democrats. I’ll need to step it up if the gym ever reopens.
The statist crowd is playing with fire.
I just saw my first Biden 2020 sign in the wild yesterday on my way home.
Took a nice drive down a scenic road the other day, saw my first Biden yard sign. It was not actually a Biden yard sign it was a “Bye, Don” yard sign. Clever.
The house it was in front of last sold for 900,000 bucks in 2015. Much oppression. Such defiance of the 1%.
there’s a couple Trump signs and a Biden sign in my neighborhood. This area will go Trump, but there are enough Californians here now to make it close.
I could use some good luck. Some stuff might be happening on my never-ending job search. Would be nice, becuase sooner or later NJ will catch me up on the 3+ months of benefits they owe me. If I’m working at that point, that money goes straight into the fund to support American gun and ammo manufacturers.
Good luck Drake. I hope you land a new job soon.
Thanks!
Good luck!
Best wishes!
Keep up the quest, Drake, and when your ship does come in you’ll have had a chance to be prepared to support needed industries. You probably have mentioned the NJ rules of consumption on certain products but if so, I’ve forgotten.
About 50 years ago in NJ had my apartment burglarized. Probably by kids. They attempted to open a glass fronted cabinet and only ended up chipping the glass door. I’ve haven’t had a display cabinet since.
Doooooom!
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/tests-reveal-coronavirus-in-yosemite-national-parks-sewage-2076713/
*reads through article * Oh no cases but a whole lot of “there could be!”
So the elk have the ‘vid?
An elk once bit my seester…
See the løveli lakes…
You sure he wasn’t an Odd Fellow?
Maybe a Tanzanian goat?
tests of the park’s raw sewage have confirmed the presence of the virus
And? There are any number of unsavory things in sewage. It’s sewage.
They found corn in the poop!
Jow Bidens nemesis?
I think another aspect of the Korean POW thing was that disobedient prisoners were not punished, personally. The guards would punish another prisoner, reinforcing the “brother’s keeper” dynamic.
Yeah it’s one thing to martyr yourself, it’s an entirely different thing to martyr someone else. Nothing is more evil than communists.
Here it is, it was a twitter thread, not an article.
Here’s the social media part:
Some folks are required to keep a social media presence, and merely being politically neutral isn’t enough. They have to ping the Wokemeter or they are to the right of Hitler.
As their heritage is destroyed, I’m sure the French will be reminded that racism and Islamophobia are the most dangerous things ever. Diversity is strength and all that.
African Migrant Detained After Fire Guts Nantes Cathedral
But African immigrants are non-migratory!
Still, they are not strangers to our land. However, the land itself might become a stranger to us if the “migrants” burn it down.
You could grip them by the husks….
A Rwandan migrant has been detained after a suspected arson attack gutted the Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Nantes, France.
Rwandans are usually more fond of using machetes as opposed to fire.
Terrence Popp sums up exactly how I feel about all this shit right now. He’s also crude, drunk, sarcastic, and profane, which helps.
He’s also crude, drunk, sarcastic, and profane
He’d fit right in with Glibs.
Started watching. Seems funny. Will finish later.
Thanks, J Frank.
Note: “blended pleasure” does not refer to Scotch.
“Blended pleasure” is my favorite kind.
“aries: 8 of Coins – Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business”
^ sounds good to me. I could use a good work week into which to throw myself.
This came up on my Facebook feed yesterday, and I had to give it a try (reposted from last night).
In Google, type “Florida man {your birthday, no year}” and hit enter.
I got “Florida Man Threatens To Destroy Everyone With Army Of Turtles, Police Say”.
Maybe he wants to join the sea turtle army!
I want to join the sea turtle army!
Florida man kills grandmother in nudist colony, drives around with her body for five hours
That is pretty disturbing.
the next one on the list was much more disturbung
Florida man who allegedly threatened family with Coldplay lyrics ends standoff after SWAT promises him pizza
Color me skeptical. 😉
Florida man breaks into store, flips off security camera, deputies say
Naked Florida Man Performs ‘Strange Dance’ at McDonald’s Before ‘Trying to Have Relations With a Railing’
“Florida man stabs brother over missing macaroni and cheese, police say”
Meh. Florida Man is old news, all hail Ohio Man!
Florida Man Steals Elderly Woman’s Purse, Runs Her Over in McDonald’s Parking Lot
Florida man takes epic mugshot after driving naked near school with wires attached to penis
I…whut ?
Pants would interfere with the wiring.
Florida man disrupts restaurant, tells officers ‘go to Dunkin’ Donuts’
Pretty boring as far as these things go.
You were born under an auspicious peninsula sign.
Florida Man Bites His Brother’s Penis Off After He Walks In On Him Having Sex With His Cousin On His Favorite Dragon Ball Z Blanket
Florida man masturbating in parking lot slugs elderly man
Florida man has been arrested for being belligerent and giving his girlfriend a wet willy.
Boring.
I want to know if this is true. Is there a 13th sign that the Astrological Industrial Complex is keeping hidden and why?
https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/150688852794/zodiac?linkId=94146490
Ophiuchus?
The 13th Colony is, Earth!
BSG FTW!
Never believe anything you read in the media.
Ophiuchus was kicked out of the zodiac millennia ago for poor performance. Its lawyers have been waging a PR battle in the media over back pay ever since.
Ophiuchus is depicted as a man holding a serpent, which I figure makes it the Florida Man of constellations.
7 am, 95 degrees, 18 holes, finished at 100 degrees, 9:30 am, Humidity and no wind, a Miserable game, but we all shot well, I got a Closest to pin prize, good for my game, but godaweful miserable conditions…….
Virgo: King of Swords – Power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown
Oh, oh; they’ve found me. It was nice knowing you all.
I’m with you, where do we meet?
I’m in camp 6. Which one have you been assigned to?
666, the nasty one, Dammit! so close!
Osso buco is my new favorite low-effort luxury dish.
Such a excellent Sunday meal.
Kung Flu keeps claiming more victims.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/coronavirus-porn-industry-pandemic-gang-bang-milf-covid-19-1027729/
No squirting? The line that should not have been crossed has been crossed.
*puts on Hawaiian shirt*
Seconded.
The removal of that can only improve the product.
I clicked on that just to answer the question, “why no MILFs?”
So they are implying that MILFs make better money on onlyfans? Or that they make better money disproportionately than young workers? That seems odd.
“it’s a little hard to find MILFS right now,”
Tell me about it.
I’ll stab a guess, it’s an industry where MILF means “over age of 22”. Which would be people who have enough clout/fanbase to not need to go to shoots on location, while new faces gotta hustle for all the screen time they can get.
Markets at work.
The idea that the additional health risk from COVID-19 from that behavior is anything but a rounding error shows you just how far gone people are.
“I don’t want to go base jumping due to the risks of COVID-19!”
You mean having unprotected sex with hundreds of people is high risk?
I WANT A REFUND
I canceled my back ordered wing suit.
Queen Victoria is hereby canceled.
Breitbart London
@BreitbartLondon
‘Whore, Slag, Slave Owner’: Queen Victoria Statue Vandalised with ‘BLM’ Slogans
Times like this, I re-evaluate the communist mantra that degenerate American culture was source of world’s evil. So please, can you stop exporting your retardation already, we have enough of our own home-made?
And don’t give no “muh Frankfurt school” shit, it’s yours like hamburgers are, own it.
“Sagittarius: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb”. Look if I’m going to die this week then just come right out and say it.
Isn’t that just a Sag status quo
For my balls, maybe. For the rest of me, not so much.
Chicken Little, political analyst
Republicans should be terrified. President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects look increasingly grim, with polls showing that his ticket is vulnerable in states like North Carolina, Ohio and Texas. According to one recent Fox News poll, Joe Biden has a two-point lead over Trump in Georgia—where a Democratic presidential candidate has not won since 1992.
A number of young and diverse voters are already moving to solidly conservative states and it’s conceivable that an urban exodus that results from the pandemic could accelerate these trends. More importantly, President Trump and the blistering, smashmouth partisanship that constantly flows from the White House have forced Americans to confront the GOP’s ugly transformation since the 1980s. Trump’s botched response to the pandemic and his attempts to pander to extremists through backlash politics have forced a difficult conversation about the future of the Republican Party.
The potential costs of another four years under Trump have become clear, and it seems voters are leaning blue. Trump has failed to contain the spread of Covid-19, and the US faces a deadly, tumultuous and dysfunctional future as other countries are reopening.
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There are still four months until election day, but if these current poll numbers hold, Biden might end up accomplishing something truly historic. If he and the Democrats inflict the kind of damage on the GOP that members can’t simply forget, he might end up ushering in a “new normal” that Washington has not seen in a long time by pressuring the Republican Party to think long and hard about the principles of governance and institution-building once again.
The sky is falling, and it’s all President Cartoon Villain’s fault. Save us, Joe Biden! Bring back the Deep State.
Oddly enough, when I checked Ladbrokes’s odds OMB is falling, from 3/2 last week to 13/8 this week. Meaning, if you put in $500, you’ll get the $1312.50 out.
Joe, for his part, is 4/7, so same $500 only gets you $785.71
So if you think the polls are wrong, silent majority is upset and Trump Two: The Trumpenation is coming, easy free money right there.
Why Ladbrokes? Because they were in business since 1880s, don’t give a fuck about politics, and take money from anyone including people who have no business betting there (some years ago a friend made enough money for a wedding because he looked at their MLS section and went “what are these people doing?”).
Every election is the election where the other team will learn the error of their ways for daring to have done what they did. And yet, nobody ever learns.
So since my comment on shooting skills was *checks watch* about three hours late, how about some shooting videos?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYqiOqBy2WM8rLUq5fvDWXih9cpGmd8zR
If you’re not following the Lucky Gunner Lounge blog, you’re passing up a lot of fun and interesting information…
He puts out useful videos.
Cisco purges itself of wrong-think people.
silicon valley is a cancer.
No wonder even Elon Musk wants out of California.
I weep that the amazing natural resources and beauty of this land are squandered by nut jobs.
I’m sure that will help support response times.
Calling Tech Support is oppression of brown people, so sit without your network, you Bigot.
“Cisco said that ultimately 237 comments of the 10,400 made during the videoconference “objected to what was being presented”, while the majority of comments praised management. On the video call, Cisco’s CEO was announcing a $5 million donation to “groups combating racism”. ”
So… Cisco employees are rational actors? If you dissent, you will be fired…. So let’s all post comments praising management. Who would have predicted anything else?
Top it off with a $5 million bribe to the race-baiting CPA representatives to protect yourselves from harm. See how well that works out for you when they finally take power and come to tear down the corporations and ensure that the profits go to “the right people”.
UK study shows COVID-19 antibodies fade quickly, rendering vaccines pointless
Get used to the “New Normal” as the commies like to call it.
I think this scientific reporting is misleading. Antibodies do fade after a matter of months but the body remembers how to make them when it encounters the virus again.
Natural news? Ya I don’t trust that source.
They were gonna find an excuse to lock everyone down no matter what anyway, vaccine or no.
Used to be a fact of life that people will get a “cold” (coronavirus usually) a couple of times a year and the flu every few years. Once in a while it kills an oldster or somebody in poor health. Just how things works.
You mean I don’t have antibodies for every virus my body has come into contact with constantly in my system?
I figured that’s why I kept getting bigger as I got older. Need to make room for all the antibodies.
is that a reliable source?
Not at all considering 4th grade biology used to teach us that the immune system “imprints” the antibody design to be used later if the viral infection returns.
After the infection is removed from the system, it rips apart and utilzes the cells for different fuctions that are needed elsewhere. But they are using Science!
natural news is a joke but i’ve seen this reporting in a number of places. it’s a good example of how something can be technically true and incredibly misleading.
I have plans on making this a more substantive column. Unfortunately, this week has been insane at work (except for Thursday) and on top of that I just got an invitation to go to a steel shoot starting 9:00 am on Saturday, so I’ve got to get the CZ cleaned and post-cleaning test fired like starting in 45 minutes.
Except for work, that sounds like a different type of “I got high”.
Leo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches, family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family
Mixed bag. I was expecting a bag of shit.
Jammeh’s HIV Cure: Nakedness and Forced Labor Come to Light
Um, what?
I wonder if Swissy noticed that Spain has put Catalonia on strict “confinement” orders to protect against COVID19, ya know, for their own good.
Convenient, these faceless, invisible bogey men that can be summoned from thin air to marginalize one’s political opponents, no?
On the other hand, Spanish monarchy itself might be in trouble, and that might please Catalonia. Because fuck Castilian tyrants, Make Aragon Great Again!
Yeah, he was good in Lord of the Rings.
In Europa Universalis 4, the nation of Aragon had a mission to claim the kingship of Gondar, a province in Africa.
They also have a national idea called “Protect the Little Folk”.
I’m tempted to see if I can commission a Make Aragon Great Again hat and wear it to stream EU4…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/hero-bevelyn-beatty-paints-two-black-lives-matter-murals-hours-released-nypd/
Much respect.
I already hated the concept of state sponsored “art” since it’s inherently subjective and also not the job of government.
So seeing “state sanctioned “ vandalism covered up gets a thumbs up from me.
(Aside: has anyone caught Trump actually being racist over his public career?)
I hear he used to be white, ergo racist.
/progic
What? Why he won an evil,racist Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1986, along with Rosa Parks and Muhammed Ali. Snopes, of course, states that this alone doesn’t disprove he’s a racist. Factually true, so far as it goes, it’s just too bad that the left loves to portray him as a rabid, seething white supremacist, which I think this photo disproves completely.
Why are the retards on the left trying so hard to make me like this guy?
Oops. Sorry for the incoherence.
Snopes’ statement that the medal doesn’t disprove Trump is a racist is true. I do think it’s pretty good evidence that he’s never considered shaving his head and getting a swastika tattooed on his neck, though .
Also, yes, “public” art is mostly shit. If it isn’t, someone would (and should) have paid for it
OT: DeSantis won’t close Florida gyms
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday said he is not closing gyms because he thinks people who go to them are “even less at risk for the coronavirus” because they are staying healthy and working out.
“I think taking that option away for people to be healthy just doesn’t make sense,” the Republican governor said during a news conference in Apopka. “I think most people who are going to the gyms are in the low-risk groups, and I think what they are doing is making them even less at risk of the coronavirus. So, I don’t think it would make sense to close them.”
Wow, a response that actually makes complete sense. I know nothing about DeSantis, or what else he’s done/hasn’t done, but that makes me happy
OT: Trump administration trying to block CDC funding
The Trump administration is attempting to block billions of dollars for contact tracing, additional testing and other coronavirus mitigation efforts that would potentially be included in Congress’s next coronavirus relief package, officials involved in the negotiations told The Washington Post.
According to the Post’s sources, the administration is also trying to block billions in funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that GOP senators want to give the agency as it continues to battle COVID-19 on the front lines.
MA lawmakers want to pass legislation requiring masks and quarantine
Face masks and two-week quarantines for travelers entering Massachusetts from COVID-19 hot spots would be required under a bill filed at the Statehouse on Tuesday.
The bill would also prioritize COVID-19 testing for vulnerable populations and mandate enforcement of workplace safety requirements designed to protect both workers and the public.
Both the face mask and quarantine requirements would be enforced with fines under the bill.
I found the mask and quarantine legislation. Written warning for first violation, civil fine of up to $150 for every subsequent violation for the mask portions. Mask portions last as long as the governor extends the state of emergency. $1000 fine for quarantine violations.
In fairness, at least the legislature is doing it instead of it just going through executive orders. In lighter news, a Cleveland Gentleman’s club has gotten a second citation for violating anti-coronavirus measures.
I hope they keep defying.
The Brits still really like having kids out of wedlock and the ‘Asian’ immigrants still really like fucking them.
“Asian” is British for Arab. Those wacky Brits and their so-called “English”.
Primarily it’s code word for “Pakistani”, with “Indian” thrown in to muddy the waters because of the performance gap of the two groups in UK society, then “everyone else from what Americans call Mid-East gets bundled in”.
That was my point, but I muddied the waters trying to make a joke of it. They’re clearly going out of their way to make it unclear who they are talking about. It only becomes clear when you read the names.
“Asian” is British for “south Asian”.
I see one of the victims encountered her racist after he was supposed to be deported.
While replenishing my mixing-grade hooch, I noticed a new (to me) flavor of Hendrick’s
I impulse bought, but now I’m uncertain what to do with it. I imagine that with wormwood and quinine it’ll be bitter af.
infuse a bit of honey and some bitter cherries in it
Hmm. I actually do have some sour cherries that have been macerating in bourbon…
I really need to pick up some Hendrick’s at some point. Right now I’m down to just three bottles of gin.
With enough quinine, maybe it can cure ‘rona and malaria?
From the Bee:
“Check if there’s any state ordinances against singing [in church]. If so, sing louder. Maybe your governor’s heart will grow three sizes as he hears you little Who’s singing down in Whoville.”