Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas and what a beautiful morning it is for everyone including this couple who would be pardoned if charged.
Newly declassified Russia hoax documents rips apart a New York Times article from 2017.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Gunman disguised as FedEx delivery driver kills son and critically injures husband of federal judge.
The media’s short-lived celebrity, poised to take down Orange Man Bad, is broke.
Kanye had his first presidential campaign event.
Sexual assault finally solved!
Less than 30% of Americans say Redskins should change their name.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Mornin’ Banjos
Mornin’
That’s because they shouldn’t.
Every Redskins fan I know, and because of where I live I know many, is against this renaming. Intensity ranges from annoyed to superfly TNT pissed.
Nuh-uh! NPR has done MULTIPLE stories on this and each time they only ever mention people who want the name to be changed!
National Pravda Radio?
Just like they find the odd virologist or doctor who supports mad mass mask mandates.
support
I’m finally free of this team. Not sure if I’ll just be a generic football fan, or embrace the Chiefs. Because I love American Indian teams, and not at all because they have the best QB in the NFL locked up for the next decade.
There is room on the band-wagon. I’ve been riding that fucker since ’91.
They are also delicious!
Someday I’ll cook some salt potatoes and see what all the hubub is about.
It’s potatos, salt, and melted butter.
I mean, is it that hard to understand?
Making a brine dense enough to float them seems awfully wasteful unless the finished product is amazeballs.
I have been a Redskins fan for some 47 years. I am now done with that fucking team because they fucking caved to the cuntes and decided to change their teams name to please some angry fucking marxists that want to imply the name was insulting instead of honoring native Americans. Fuck them all.
I guess I will need to find a team with as much of a losing record in the last 25 years to keep the suffering going.
Miami?
Yuck… That’s my idiot brother’s team… Not happening.
Arizona
http://pfref.com/tiny/lohAD
Cardinals, Raiders, Lions, and Browns are the only teams with a worse win% since 1995.
I might go be a Chiefs fan now. I want to learn what it’s like to be pissed when your team doesn’t score 30 points.
“I want to learn what it’s like to be pissed when your team doesn’t score 30 points.”
Maybe basketball is more your speed?
Good idea. I am also thinking maybe Falcons or Panthers.
I can’t with the Panthers. Their fans are so fucking annoying. Years of constant “Cam Newton is a top 5 QB but he has no weapons and hes black so the media hates him.” bullshit from their fans makes that a no go for me.
Ohio says welcome! We’ve got two teams to meet your needs.
Heh, my Minnesoda girl wants me to be a Vikings fan. If I go for your team or the Cheeseheads she will stop giving me sweet love she says…
Ditto (maybe only 45 years) – Ironically, the only place I could find other Redskins fans to talk to in southeastern Montana was on the reservations.
Honestly, it’s just soured me on football in general. That and the game becoming Replay McRefball.
That’s because they shouldn’t.
Yep.
Aboooooooouut face! Hup two three…
First, health officials said we shouldn’t wear face masks. Then, they said we should. Now, many are saying we must wear masks if we want to protect the economy, reopen more schools and save tens of thousands of lives.
“If we all wore face coverings for the next four, six, eight, 12 weeks across the nation, this virus transmission would stop,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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It’s true that back in February and March, health officials such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams advised the general public not to wear face masks.
But Fauci, Adams, the CDC and the World Health Organization have all done an about-face with mask guidance. In recent months, scientists have learned more about how easily this new coronavirus can spread in public:
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Wearing a face mask will give you more freedom, not less, the surgeon general said.
“Some feel face coverings infringe on their freedom of choice –but if more wear them, we’ll have MORE freedom to go out,” tweeted Adams, who was nominated by Trump.
“Face coverings → less asymptomatic viral spread → more places open, and sooner! Exercise and promote your freedom by choosing to wear a face covering!”
Four weeks. Six, tops. No, twelve, maybe. Well, just put the goddam thing on and leave it on until we tell you. Trust us, we know what we’re doing.
And contagious? Super contagious! Ungodly contagious! Why isn’t everybody who was on the USS Theodore Roosevelt in March dead? What about every single person who flew on a commercial plane without a mask? What about them? That’s not a fair question.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
It’s super-duper contagious, but it would totally STOP spreading with a face mask for an undetermined amount of time.
The only good thing is that these “doctors” don’t actually see any patients, otherwise the mortality rate would certainly increase.
I have it on good authority that the number shall be three
Three it is!
I give up. You’ve got me licked.
Texas hospitals in the Rio Grande Valley are being crushed. Had a long talk with a fraternity brother yesterday afternoon who is an MD at an ICU in Hidalgo County. He watched several people die on Saturday and then had two of his nurses, one who has been there for 21 years, resign. Not to mention the fact that some co-workers He’s in despair. I’ve never heard him talk like this about anything. They are already over capacity and it’s continuing to ramp up. Texas is about to reach a tipping point and it’s not going to be pretty. I’ll be on a conference call this afternoon and I’ve already got my martini ingredients ready for afterward.
Any idea how many of the patients are from across the border or traveled across the border? I have heard sputterings that most of the infected cross often but no main stream news outlet would touch that story.
Shhhhh. We can’t talk about that.
MASKEN MACHEN FREI!
Speaking of which…
I had a liberal asshat pop their brain pan (lucky for us all there was no brain to damage) when I pointed out the parallel between Nazi Germany’s scapegoating of Jews – in order to appeal to those angry/jealous/just plain envious – and the new “White privileged” scapegoating movement, capped with the neat marxist trick used by Lenin and his team to claim it was the evil rich alone that was the problem with everyone else not being rich, like the anti-capitalists of today do (because according to them the problem is that government doesn’t have even more of a incestuous relationship in picking winners & losers already).
These historical parallels seem to have escaped a lot of people. Especially those hell bent on rewriting it.
the nazi parallel is pretty deep. a movement that came out of the universities. Initially focused on Marxist class war, but modified in the university environment to target a racial divide. Accelerated during the rule of a controversial leader as the economy sputtered, resulting in violence in the streets.
As the same with jokes. There are only a limited amount of crises, maybe 4-5, all are variations of these, need a few tweaks ( dates, groups, etc) but the more things change, the more…
I was reading through a Twatter thread started by Gov Newsance and at some point someone essentially said they had Covid already while wearing a mask. Someone had the nerve to say, and I paraphrase, “I’m sorry you got COVID, but it must have been because you did something wrong. You didn’t wear your mask right or you weren’t washing your hands or something. You should feel lucky this wasn’t so serious”.
So we have gone from “Wear a mask to slow the infection” to “COVID is what happens when you don’t follow Government’s Rules correctly.”
This is extra distressing for me because that sort of pressure is being heaped on kids who go to school. I have already seen parents in Nextdoor Forums saying shit like “How would you like to be a child who learns that they infected their grandpa.”
It’s no longer “We are in this together.” It is now, “If you have COVID, you are unclean and your dirty soul is killing others.”
This reminds me a bit of a discussion my wife and i had about Job. When all the unfortunate things happened to Job, his friends blamed him saying that some evil must have befallen him for something he had done. We have a lot of that attitude now in our culture. From the exampte you have, to people willing to abandon friends at the drop of a hat if the mob comes for the friend. You are expected to distance and disassociate from anyone who falls under cancel cultures eye.
I like to say that “Everyone needs a friend, and the people who are willing to abandon their friends when they are being attacked are the ones who least deserve a friend”.
My best friend in the world struggled with alcoholism for years. Following his divorce in particular, he was on a real bad downhill spiral, and for some time refused to admit it or modify his behavior.
I was married to my first wife at the time. She and this friend of mine cordially detested each other. At one point, I got up in the middle of the night to go pick my friend up after he passed out drunk at another friend’s house. I took him home, got him in his bed, and got back to my place just in time to get dressed for work. My wife asked me why.
“If you’re not a guy’s friend when he’s being an asshole,” I told her, “then you were never really his friend in the first place.”
This same guy is still my best friend. I love him like a brother. He’s been clean and sober for over twenty years, and now is in great health, and happy with his life. I still think that all he really needed was some support from his friends.
Well said Animal.
Friends are the people that are there when you are at your lowest. It is easy to be there when it is all fun & games.
Even when you miss the Powerball by 1 number. I ask myself why do some people always expect me to go the extra mile. As Animal said, “cause I will”
The cops locked up a couple in KY and put an ankle bracelet on them.
https://www.wkyt.com/2020/07/18/hardin-co-couple-gets-ankle-monitors-after-covid-19-quarrel-with-health-dept/
But white privilege right? The cops and the State would never pick on white people in KY the way they pick on poor black people in big cities all over the country.
And I thought Judeo-Catholic guilt trips were bad…
Basically what it is. Old Testament stuff where bad people are punished with plagues.
Wait until they tell you that the only people with COVID that should receive help are those they approve of. You know. People “peacefully protesting” – because they are hungry and angry at the machine – and looting jewelry, sneaker & sport, entities that sell prescription drugs, stores that sell electronics, and other high end stores, then burning them down to hide what they are doing. Or the ones at these “peaceful protests” breaking shit, vandalizing, and beating up anyone that isn’t a marxist conformist. Those people deserve to be treated if they get in trouble. Those that like orange man on the other hand should be denied help…
I was in Minneapolis for a few weeks and my girlfriend took the opportunity of me being there to go look at the places where they looted and burned. She was not happy when I pointed out that based on the damage, the mob actually ignored most of the stores that sold food or less useful items and focused on the stores that sold jeweler, sneaker & sport equipment, entities that sell prescription drugs, stores that sell electronics, and other high end stores, but we were told they looted for necessities. I guess these aggrieved masses needed bling, big screen HDTVs, new iPhones, and of course some Air Jordans to eat.
I fully expect that my company will soon start punishing employees who get infected.
“You tested positive for drugs”
“I was trying to find something to prevent the CV, must have found it”
Can’t wait for the ADA suits.
That would be an excellent thing to have printed on a mask.
Quebec is operating off this playbook. That cocksucker Legault keeps saying ‘masks is liberty’. It’s bonkers!
It’s the indefinite part that’s worrying. Are they this stupid or are they up to something?
Makes no sense.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
#MeToo
As the only white guy riding on the train I am riding on going home – in a city where I will most likely be the only white guy -: I have to challenge these woke muthafuckas -: to come ride any train outside the first world and come back to me with that shyte.
If you can’t do it in proper Japanese or Mandarin then stand the fcuk down
A new (note: 2019) survey has found that Native Americans are more likely to be proud than offended by the name of the Washington Redskins.
The survey, as reported by the Washington Post, asked 500 people who identify as Native American to pick from a list of words which one best described their feelings about the Redskins name. The word most picked was “proud.”
Following “proud” came “indifferent,” “annoyed,” “content,” “satisfied” and “disappointed.”
Good thing those woke white people know what’s best for indigenous Americans and can choose their best interests. Also, mornin’ Banjoes.
Whites are really into self-flagellation and prostrate grovelling these days.
Racial white-knighting is the way that modern white liberals can feel like they are as brave as the people in the civil rights era.
Some assholes are. I am definitely not.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/uconn-student-government-leaders-resign-because-theyre-white/
Yup.
I promise to chase hobgoblins and devils to the ends of the earth.
Careful with that broad brush, there.
I’m sorry, I should not have capitalized whites.
*self-flagellates*
Do you have an onlyfans account?
He’s busy groveling his prostate.
The family of the Blackfoot Indian who designed the logo wasn’t surveyed. And whoever the guy was who looked exactly like the logo in the video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_High_School_(Tulsa,_Oklahoma)
Little known fact: it’s pronounced “onion.”
/BAHS class of 19xx
Why can’t Canada just sit back and enjoy American clown world? They always have to get in on the stupidity.
CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos to Change Team Name
Mornin’
Yeah, way to spin that shit, you cunte.
Breaking into Private Property is exercising your 1st Amendment right. This is what happens when Marxists get power. They don’t care about our rights or legal system, but the end of our way of life.
This is an early taste of the way they plan to run the fundamentally transformed country they want, right there. The mob that enforces their wants/needs will be given a free pass to fuck over the serfs. If this is social justice I am read to take up the gun against it.
Kenny Stills, an NFL WR, was arrested along with 80 others and charged with a felony for “protesting”. Outrage was all over. Until you read the story, and way down buried multiple paragraphs down in the headline was the fact that the “protest” was on the lawn of the DA’s home. This was the DA in Lousiville.
Getting a mob together, even a “mostly peaceful” one together and bringing it to a DA’s home is plain and simple intimidation tactics. Your speech is violence, their violence is speech.
Commie cunte.
When I need guidance on Constitutional law, the Office of the Surgeon General (shut up, it’s right there in the fine print, in invisible ink, on the back) is my go-to source.
Michael Avenatti is broke, can’t afford legal fees
Couldn’t have happened to a nice guy.
Nicer*
Not let it happen to CNN, PMS-NBC, WaPo and the NYT!
Now, not not
Jarflax and Alex are the same person!
I’m going to ask my local club members, but also since I know Glibs love giving their opinions:
1. I am going to be working the Factory Gun Nationals, and shooting in the staff match beforehand.
2. According to Google, the drive time between Saratoga Springs and Lake Wales, FL is 19 hours.
Do I drive it and familiarize myself with the laws of every state I’d pass through and hope the cops don’t steal my Shadow 2, or fly it and hope the TSA and Port Authority don’t steal my Shadow 2? I am leaning towards driving it, though I don’t know if I should drive it in one fell swoop and hope to get enough sleep upon arrival to not be garbage the next day or if I should split it up into two days.
Split it into two days and really research the laws of the state where you will be overnighting.
Some silliness for your 10/22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3jMgidOVk
Warning: Will double the cost of your rifle.
So, another $199?
$270
He said it would double the cost of the rifle. I paid $199 for the rifle.
I also paid $199 for the red dot on the rifle.
For the SIG fanboi:
1000 round review
I’d take one if given, but will probably not be purchasing one.
Remember you’ll have to quarantine for two weeks in each state you enter.
Actually, I am really hoping that nonsense is struck down by the time this tolls around in October, since my employer won’t let me take sick time for quarantine.
Your questions indicate that the Second Amendment and the Interstate Commerce clause mean diddly and squat, respectively.
Well… yeah?
Once you get past Maryland, you’re in the clear.
I would assume the New Jersey requirements are the most stringent. Guns and ammo in two separate lockboxes in the trunk IIRC.
Stay the fuck out of New Jersey – period. Detour through PA. Do not enter New Jersey.
I don’t even think about guns when I’m on the wrong side of the Delaware.
I went to Atlantic City with a LEO friend several years ago. Even he was nervous about packing his gun in the luggage despite being covered by some sort of bullshit nationwide LEO reciprocity. I remember surprised it was FMJ only, even for out-of-state LEOs*.
*My surprise was not that law enforcement should have some sort of right to this but rather that a government-worshiping mecca like NJ doesn’t extend that state-privilege to visiting LEOs,
The LEO carve-outs are the worst.
Can confirm. I just spent 21 months in that shithole.
This.
Your car has NY plates – so the cops probably won’t assume your packing. (I assume you would have it unloaded and locked the whole way anyhow)
True. I was just paranoid about the whole “do I need to inform the officer” and “can the officer use be declaration as an excuse to search” bits.
I am planning on on obeying the law, but that doesn’t help if someone needs to make their quota. Source: I’ve been pulled over for illegal window tint on the basis of a law that had been repealed the year before.
When we drove “items” from Texas to Tennessee we just focused on the speed limit. Granted Arkansas seems like a gun friendly state so I wasn’t too worried. I was more worried about entering Tennessee because the state po-po seems to always pull people over and search for drugs. Your trip involves less gun friendly states so I would avoid them if possible or plan on driving through without stopping. IANAL though. If you break it up into 2 days bring it in to your hotel room.
I would drive and take a westerly route – straight into PA, you are in Maryland for about 10 minutes – don’t speed, then as Scruffy said, it’s clear sailing.
I fly with guns pretty often, and it’s really no big deal. Unloaded, locked hard-sided container, non-TSA lock, fill out the declaration form when checking in.
https://www.pewpewtactical.com/flying-with-firearms/
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunition
If you fly, you’ll need to pre-ship your ammo to the match, which can be a mild pain in the ass. Make sure to get it shipped with plenty of time.
Thanks!
Are you going to be there?
Not Factory Nationals, but I’m gonna be at Race Gun Nationals the next weekend. Are you working the whole thing, or just Factory?
Only factory. I don’t own a race gun.
Is your statement that I’d need to ship ammo to myself (at the hotel, I guess?) Based on airline regs, because the TSA link seems to indicate that IU can put it in checked baggage.
You can check up to 11 pounds of ammo. That’s an airline restriction rather than a TSA one, but it’s the same for pretty much every airline.
But 11 pounds of 9mm ain’t gonna get you through Nationals.
Note that the ammo weight limit is per passenger. If you’re traveling with someone else who’s checking a bag, you can have them smurf the extra ammo for you.
Good point.
Hopefully some of my friends will also be working it and we can carpool.
Also:
Will I be able to acquire enough ammo between now and then? I’m not going to stop shooting to conserve what I have now, that would be unproductive and no fun.
That, is a whole different problem.
All my usual ammo suppliers are bingo on 9mm, .40, everything. Word on the street is that we’re looking at 2-3 month backlogs.
Primers are in very short supply. Powder is available if you’re not picky about exactly what you use. Bullets and brass seem to be pretty well stocked.
I would say, if you don’t have it in hand, don’t plan on getting it before October.
The best time to start reloading was yesterday, but the second best time is right now. My advice is to buy a Dillon, find a buddy who’s willing to part with a case of primers, and start cranking the ammo out.
Unless you can legally possess the firearm in NYC or NJ, don’t reclaim your baggage if something happens to your connecting flight. Let the airline deliver your luggage to you later. Or if you end up with your luggage, get a rental and drive home.
Don’t be this guy
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/traveling-mans-gun-arrest-appealed-to-supreme-court
That’s exactly the incident I was thinking of.
I’m pretty sure that any flights to FL would be routed through NYC.
I’d probably pay more to avoid routing through there even with it checked through, but things could happen like a diversion. Just game through what you’d do in advance. I wouldn’t let it stop me. As much as I like those hunks of metal at the bottom the lake, buying a replacement or throwing away the trip is still less expensive than going to prison as a felon for life in my view.
However, the law “clearly requires the traveler to part ways with his weapon and ammunition during travel; it does not address this type of interrupted journey or what the traveler is to do in this situation.”
Funny, I found a law that is spot on for this situation:
But that was written 100 years ago in a language no one understands!
Do I drive it and familiarize myself with the laws of every state I’d pass through and hope the cops don’t steal my Shadow 2, or fly it and hope the TSA and Port Authority don’t steal my Shadow 2? I am leaning towards driving it, though I don’t know if I should drive it in one fell swoop and hope to get enough sleep upon arrival to not be garbage the next day or if I should split it up into two days.
Look into shipping it/them to yourself. I *think* there is a way to do it legally without fucking around with transfer bullshit.
West later said “shooting guns are fun” and that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” He continued, saying Americans run the risk of being “enslaved” by China or other countries if we didn’t have a Constitutional right to legally own firearms for self defense. West said people in countries that don’t allow the private ownership of a firearm face that threat, too. …
At one point, West admitted that he’s smoked marijuana and also said the drug should be “legal and free.”
Word.
And to think, I was worried about not having someone to vote for…
MSNBC “business” channel jumps on the Outrage Express
President Donald Trump declined Sunday to say he would accept the results of the 2020 election, adding that he will “have to see” and claiming without evidence that mail-in voting will “rig the election.”
Trump’s comments came during a wide-ranging interview with “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace in which he criticized so-called cancel culture and repeatedly downplayed the coronavirus, which has infected more than 3.7 million people in the U.S. and killed at least 140,131, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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Wallace pressed Trump on whether he will accept the results of the 2020 election, but Trump declined to answer the question directly.
“I have to see. Look, you—I have to see,” he said. “No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no.”
The polls don’t lie. He might as well resign right now, so we can begin the process of
healinglooting.Wait, isn’t that the same thing he said in 2016? The one where Democrats still refuse to accept the results?
Russians can hack, spend facebook monies, and totally influence the election. But rigging the election via a mail-in ballot system is impossible.
Mutual of Omaha ditching Native American chief logo after seven decades
Why does Mutual of Omaha hate native Americans so much that it no longer wants to use a likeness of them? When will this erasure of Native Americans from business and sports end?
Indians are uninsurable these days
As long as Savage Arms doesn’t change, I don’t care.
Removing minorities and ethnicities from public view. Guarantee this will be viewed in a hundred years as a symbol of how incredibly racist and biased the current period is. And won’t be wrong either.
Joking about removing the Fighting Irish from Norte Dame, but once everything else is gone, that’ll be next. Just like with the statutes.
Remember the moral panics of the 80s? They seemed to all come around the same time. Satanic Panic and the Poisoned Halloween Candy?
Don’t forget the razor blades in Halloween apples.
Rainbow parties for the win!
Kanye had his first presidential campaign event.
Anti-abortion ✅
pro-gun ✅
pro-pot ✅
I may actually be voting this election cycle! ?
He’s too radical Right Wing for the libertarian party. I mean Anit-abortion and he’s willing to talk about gun rights?
It appears Kanye is the true heir to Ron Paul.
Idiot ✅
Kanye, that is, not you. The guy’s a nut.
you’re not wrong, but you can’t tell me that’s anything but par for the course for presidential candidates.
Sadly true.
The Grammy-winner — who had “2020” shaved into his hair — broke down in tears at one point, revealing that his father wanted to abort him. “My mom saved my life. There would have been no Kanye West because my dad was too busy,” West said, overcome by emotion. “I almost killed my daughter,” the rapper later revealed, saying he was told by people around him not to publicly talk about how abortion has effected his life. It echoes his comments last month to Forbes that Planned Parenthood abortion facilities exist in cities on behalf of “white supremacists to do the devil’s work.”
Say what you will about unhinged, uneducated celebrities voicing their opinions, but a lot of Americans are against abortion and almost no one in the intellectual class will speak for them.
When asked about his relationship with White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the nation’s top infectious disease experts, Trump said he spoke with him on Saturday, but added that “he’s a little bit of an alarmist.” Trump also said that he doesn’t agree with Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert Redfield, who said earlier this week that if everyone wore a mask, the U.S. could bring the virus under control in one to two months.
Whycome no bleevum doctor man? Whycome hates SCIENCE?
Hamptons eatery burns famed table where Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein dined
Because his perverted ghost haunts the table.
Feel like they burned money there. People collect Manson and Bundy stuff right?
The should sell the ashes as an aphrodisiac…
Snoopy boooooooo!
It’s less of a ghost and more of an evil spirit.
So, I just spent a full week in a beach house with family and friends. Didn’t pick up my phone much. Did I miss anything?
It’s still 2020 and everything is stupid.
Now you’re caught up.
Aliens invaded and endorsed Kanye.
Biden admitted to being white and dropped out. He endorsed Kaepernick.
Trump just kept on being Trump.
It’s all true.
Pass.
If you’re craving chicken nuggets, perhaps I can interest you in some 3D-printed ones from KFC.
The fast-food restaurant chain has officially announced it’s partnering with a Russian research laboratory, 3D Printing Solutions, to develop technology for what it calls “meat of the future.” Or, in other words, laboratory-produced chicken nuggets. (I know, it sounds extremely appetizing.)
Not only will this be the first of its kind, but the nuggets will apparently look and taste a lot like KFC’s original chicken. Producing 3D-printed chicken is also more environmentally friendly than standard meat.
you know another word for this? extruded chicken byproduct.
Uh… no.
Not because I have anything against extruded chicken, but I know the machines won’t be cleaned properly.
“Special sauce” will still be added by bored dudes doing this work….
KFC is STEALING the election!
Perverse logic abounds in 2020 lady.
Comparing Wuhan to flu ‘perverse logic’ says doc.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/perverse-logic-don-t-compare-the-flu-to-covid-19-1.5000965
I see Mike Parson is attempting to bring dignity back to the office of Missouri Gov. We’ll see how that goes.
Bold strategy, Cotton.
And the NYT won a PULITZER for its great work on Russia!
It’s that corrupted.
I mean, come on. You have Gavin Newsome re-locking down, shutting wineries but keeping HIS winery open!
How do people not rebel?
Welcome to our Neo-Feudalism. HM was more prescient than a lot of people were willing to give him when he wrote that piece. People are used the fact that the elected leaders get to act one way and the non-elected must bear it.
I’ve always enjoyed calling my ultra-leftist sister-in-law a feudalist. It makes her mad because she can’t deny it with facts.
A couple of weeks ago Murphy lifted the limit for outdoor gatherings up to 500 – heard through the grapevine that his daughter’s giant wedding was last weekend.
Look for him to reluctantly drop that limit back down in the coming weeks.
New Russia probe memos expose massive errors in NYT anti-Trump story, Steele dossier
Lies are not errors.
Massive mounds are in your future with Mammary Monday.
http://archive.li/pGgKv
I don’t like #1’s tattoo, but despite that she is a good opener for the gallery.
#3 has bolt-ons and an interesting iChive gallery.
#7, #35, #50 are the same. Good iChive gallery.
#39 and #41 look fun.
Overall, pretty good.
Democracy, you say?
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said President Donald Trump doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on in his city, adding that the Trump administration’s tactics in the area “are abhorrent.”
“Well, the president has a complete misunderstanding of cause and effect,” Wheeler said in responding to Trump’s Sunday morning tweet about Portland. “What’s happening here is, we have dozens, if not hundreds of federal troops descending upon our city. And what they’re doing is, they are sharply escalating the situation.”
“Their presence here is actually leading to more violence and more vandalism,” he continued. “And it’s not helping the situation at all. They’re not wanted here. We haven’t asked them here. In fact, we want them to leave.”
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Wheeler said he and other top Oregon officials are pushing the administration to “take these people out of our city.”
“They are not helping us. They are hurting us,” he said. “They’re escalating an already dangerous situation. And what I want to do is raise awareness nationally. This could happen in your city. And what we’re seeing is a blatant abuse of police tactics by the federal government, by a Trump administration that’s falling in the polls. And this is a direct threat to our democracy.”
Gosh, I wonder what Mayor Wheeler’s poll numbers look like among Portland property owners. Somebody at NBC should find out.
STOP MAKING ME HIT THEM
The mostly violent peaceful protesters attacked a federal building. The feds can defend said building. Cry me a fucking river.
Riots/looting/Vanadalism have been going on for weeks, but it’s the feds who just showed up fault. Wheeler seems like a real piece of shit. Don’t like hearing about random people being pulled of the street, and i could easily believe it happening. I also can believe that there are a lot of criminals whom the local DA is refusing to prosecute for political reasons.
Facts don’t matter. The sad truth is that Trump now owns every bit of violence in that city now. Next the Mayor will start sending in the riot police, because as far as she and the media are concerned, this is all escalation on Trump’s part.
^^^^ Smart. I agree that it seems to have been a strategic error on Trumps part to intervene, as it gives the left the fodder they have been wanting to say he is orange pinochet.
If we had an unbiased media that was actually interested in seeking truth and speaking truth they would do the following:
1. Contact Rose City Antifa, and ask for a list of names of people arrested by the cops.
2. Cross reference that name with court records.
3. Write articles about the disparity, if it does exist.
Like, that video of the kid getting arrested and put in the minivan. What’s his name? Because if Johnny Smith is being arraigned at 2PM today because the security camera on the courthouse caught him spray painting it, then it’s not exactly a ZOMG HITLER situation.
But if Johnny Smith isn’t being arraigned, isn’t on the docket, and the feds are claiming they don’t have him, then that’s an entirely different story.
So what is the truth?
Truth is irrelevant. Perception is everything.
The Dems of today are acting like the Dems in the Jim Crow south were when the feds sent the guard in to protect the rights of citizens that the local authorities refused to protect
Judge Salas had recently been assigned to a civil financial fraud case tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
It was brought by Deutsche Bank investors who claim the bank made false and misleading statements about its anti-money laundering policies and failed to monitor ‘high-risk’ customers including convicted sex offender billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
The case that judge was assigned to seems pretty tangentially related to Epstein’s sex crimes or blackmail operation.
The clown show is back in session.
A press release from the governor’s office lays out a few more specifics about the Democrats’ agenda next month, but also doesn’t specifically mention HB961.
Nothing will be cut and tyranny will increase.
“Governor’s historic investments”
Oh he’s personally putting up the money?
I’ve been following the optics discussion with some interest. I’ve never used these and am interesting in picking up some inexpensive ones for ARs and a semiauto 12 gauge. Would prefer to go low-end now and can always upgrade later to nicer. Any thoughts on this model? I know recoil is a concern on a cheaper models, but this seems to stand up well in the reviews. I think I’ll need a 1/2” riser to keep my magpul flipups right?
https://www.opticsplanet.com/leapers-utg-4in-ita-red-green-circle-dot-sight-w-integral-qd-picatinny-mount.html
What’s the difference between a scope and open reflex optic? I guess the latter are more common for pistols?
Leapers optics and mounts are airsoft-quality. Stay away.
Good, inexpensive firearm optics can be had from Holosun, Primary Arms, and Swamp Fox Optics.
Primary Arms does mak a nice cheap red dot. My Sub2000 liked it before the accident with my canoe.
This is a good mini-red dot for your shoulder weapons. And it’s in stock!
https://www.primaryarms.com/holosun-hs403b-red-dot-hs403b
Much cheaper than an aimpoint.
Are flip up covers available for Holosuns?
Probably. I don’t generally use them on RDOs.
Thanks, I’ll check this one out!
Manic Monday: HM Approved
Will there be ass eating?
Are we ever going to have any of the dnc operatives with bylines apologizing about their role in the Russia Hoax? I mean, shit, unless they were all active participants that already knew they were spreading lies, you would think after revelations like this one would anger them if they had been played, and resulted in a mea culpa. Then again, we are talking about orange man, and sanity goes out the window with the people that thought they had helped crooked Hillary when they worked hard to get him to be her opposition in the election they thought they had rigged for Clinton.
Why on earth should they appologize? They put their credibility and livelyhood on the lines in order to #resist the Trumpenfuhrer.
I’ve always suspected that some Democrats voted in the Republican primaries fot Trump thinking that he would be the easiest candidate to beat. I’ve always wondered how much they hate themselves for doing so.
The great irony is that if Russia was trying to simply sow discord in our politics/elections, the DNC and their msm propaganda machine helped Russia achieve this goal beyond its wildest dreams.
And he is laughing all the way to the bank, because these assholes doing his dirty work are bought & paid for by the CCP. A double whammy.
90% of Native Americans not offended by Redskins name. Good thing they have those white liberals to get offended for them.
https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/washington-redskins/new-poll-finds-90-percent-native-americans-not-offended-redskins-name
They’re victims of false consciousness and cannot express the correct opinions due to it.
This has been known for some time. It is almost like mascots are not intended to be offensive.
Um.. Boston Celtics is pretty offensive. Associating the proud Celtic tradition with the city of Boston is just spiteful.
Time to change the Phila. Seventy Sixers. Why honor a bunch of white supremacist guys who forced Jefferson to remove an anti-slavery paragraph from the Declaration?
The percentages in that Redskins poll article is interesting. I’ll admit I don’t know a whole lot about native American names and pejoratives, but I assume that names like Seminoles, Blackhawks, Braves, Chiefs, Eskimos, etc. are not offensive, just descriptive. “Indians” is a misnomer in that they aren’t Indians but it’s not a slur like Redskin could be taken to be. So if you ignore the roughly 15% that think these less offensive NA teams should change and remove it from the 30% total for changing Redskins and you have 15%.
CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos to Change Team Name
According to TSN, the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League will also make a change in nickname due to concerns that the current team name is a racial slur.
While the team has always claimed the name is intended to be respectful to Canada’s Inuit population, there has been a strong contingent of activists who claim the name is a slur.
In 2015, an Inuit politician named Natan Obed, penned an op-ed about the team name claiming, “we are not mascots or emblems.”
“In a time when we still struggle to be heard, where there is vast indifference to our socio-economic condition, where we still fight for acceptance and respect from Canadians every day, dominant society continues to use us, a minority indigenous people, as their mascots for their sports entertainment,” Obed wrote
“Allowing this practice is a fundamental departure from how we wish to be treated in all other conversations we have with Canada.”
funny how all the racially based business development grants that are based on the same exact tokenism aren’t on the chopping block.
NJ story reminds me of the one in IL 15 years ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Lefkow#Double_homicide
NY Post has a brutal front page today.
Where’s Charles Bronson when you need him
So today Nursing Homes in Ohio are open for outdoor visitation. Meanwhile, over the last 2 weeks Mask Mandates have popped up in most large cities and counties and suburbs in the state and DeWine is currently mulling a State Wide mandate. Tells you everything you need to know.
The judge this attack that killed her son and left her husband fighting for his live was working on an Epstein finances related case. Was it The house of Windsor or the Clintons that send the faux delivery guy?
They typically employ better hitmen than that.
So this is exactly the kind of thing that they’d do since it would look like something they wouldn’t do!
That wouldn’t make sense. Kill me and I’m gone. Threaten my family and I have to make decisions.
Actually kill my child? Then you better kill me too because I would never stop going after you for the rest of my life.
ExFed?
Do we know it was faux? Maybe it was an actual delivery driver taking advantage of that to boost his side-gig.
I hate to speculate, but this thing might actually be about the 20 year old son as opposed to the judge.
Was he one of Epstein’s fans?
Eastern Oregon counties want to secede and join Idaho.
Greater Idaho is collecting signatures in 15 counties for ballot measures
I hate such stupid, fluff, writing. No rules have changed. They still have to get approval of Oregon, Idaho and Congress. I can assure you that there are interests in each of those entities that are opposed to such a move.
And Central and Southern Oregon counties.
Eventual goal is a chunk of geographic northern California.
https://kval.com/news/local/gallery/greater-idaho-petitioners-want-rural-oregon-counties-to-join-the-gem-state#photo-1
Eastern Oregon counties want to secede and join Idaho.
DEMOCRACY IS IN RUINS
It’s all President Cartoon Villain’s fault.
Finished Dune and really enjoyed it. Currently debating whether to move forward buying one book at a time or going all in on the rest of the Frank Herbert books on Amazon. Leaning towards the former since I’ve heard mixed reviews.
Second book is ok. Third book is where it starts going awry.
I think my the first was my favorite, and heretics my second favorite. the middle two are ok but meh. I did not really like chapterhouse that much.
I think I read the first two in a single volume here in Romania and such consider them one book, if the numbering doesn’t make sense.
The first three books are a trilogy.
God-Emperor is a transitional novel
The last two are an unfinished trilogy.
I just read Ringworld because of this place. Good read imo. Thanks Glib reading posters!
Save it for the monthly readin’ post
Probably should have done that myself.
Alright, I’ll give a chance one at a time.
Stand still, I gotta measure you with my light-reflectance spectrophotomer
https://twitter.com/JustinWhang/status/1284946600926879752
When are we going to start measuring skulls again?
Did we stop?
To late for glibfit but
Improbable Data Patterns in the Work of Barbalho et al: An Explainer
A group of researchers has uncovered a series of improbable data patterns and statistical anomalies in the work of a well-known sports scientist. This article will serve as a more reader-friendly version of the technical white paper that was recently published about this issue.
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/barbalho/?ck_subscriber_id=694511178
Darth Disney is not only destroying franchises, it is destroying freedom/fun.
Disney World has been under fire in some quarters for reopening at a time when COVID-19 cases are spiking, particularly in its home state of Florida. To minimize the potential spread of the disease, the theme park has instituted many new rules on social distancing, capacity, and cleaning. It is also requiring masks to be worn at all times.
Previously, the rule’s exception on masks was limited to eating and drinking. But that loophole has now been closed, as patrons were seen walking throughout the park with beverages and food sans masks.
Popular Disney blogs Walt Disney World News Today and Mickey Blog report guests are now required to remain stationary while sipping or snacking. Walt Disney World updated its official policy to indicate the change. It now states that “you may remove your face covering while actively eating or drinking but you should be stationary and maintain appropriate physical distancing.”
I’m glad we went in February. this sounds miserable
The brankruptsy law is too lenient for big giant corporations which have shot themselves in the head.
I’m laughing because Disney’s financial interests are fighting it out with their political ones. Hopefully, they’ll both lose.
I’m sure the medical exception will be tightened or eliminated for those playing the emotional support animal game.
Popular Disney blogs Walt Disney World News Today and Mickey Blog
Some things I will never understand. High on the list is why anyone would want to visit a theme park (ok water slides and roller coasters are fun). Or a blog about them.
My mom has a friend whose husband tries to spend every possible vacation day at Disney. That should be grounds for divorce and possibly even acquittal for charges of hiring a hit man.
Then there are the people I knew living in central FL who would buy year passes and visit the parks often. “We’re just big fans of standing in lines in unthinkable heat.”
As a central Floridian who had annual passes to Universal and Busch Gardens, I can safely say that most Floridians who have annual passes go a whole heck of a lot more often in the middle of the week in February than during the summer. At Busch Gardens it was possible to ride every single ride in the park in about an hour during mid-week off-season days. It wasn’t too uncommon for the ride attendants to ask if we just wanted to stay on and ride it again since there wasn’t anyone waiting.
I don’t like walking to my mailbox in the summer down here, much less standing in two hour long lines for a 2 minute ride.
I was gonna say. we did a week long visit to WDW in February, and some of the lines sucked, but there were maybe 3 or 4 over the whole week that were more than 10 minutes. Quick pass was really nice.
https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1285173902486859776
#StrikeForBlackLives Because that will stick it to the cops.
Rise up, people! Demolish kkkapitalism and be free!
Being home sick with Covid-19 won’t keep Edie from participating in the Strike for Black Lives, though, which she plans to do over FaceTime. On Monday, tens of thousands of workers from a variety of different lines of work in more than 25 cities will go on strike to demand that the corporations they work for and the government that’s supposed to work for them confront systemic racism.
Fast food workers like Edie will be joined by an enormous swath of the workforce: other low-wage workers like airport employees, rideshare drivers, nursing home caregivers, and domestic workers alongside middle-class teachers and nurses and even high-paid Google engineers. Those who can’t strike the whole day will walk off the job for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the amount of time a white police officer kept his knee on Black Minneapolis resident George Floyd’s neck before he died.
It’s a massive action that will bring together major unions as well as grassroots organizers. The Service Employees International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and American Federation of Teachers will join forces with the Fight for 15, United Farm Workers, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Social justice organizations, such as the Movement for Black Lives, Poor People’s Campaign, and youth climate organizers will also participate. It represents a unique partnership: Labor unions don’t always act in concert, let alone partner with grassroots and social justice groups.
But demand for putting together such an action came from the bottom: Workers who have been activated by the toll of the pandemic and the massive uprisings against racial injustice and police violence across the country. They see these things as inextricable.
Amerikkka. What a shithole.
confront systemic racism.
I fully support ending affirmative action and melanin-based quotas.
Ahhhh. I get it now. They’re retarded.
A lot of people know meritocracies suck because they only work for those that actually didn’t buy into the indoctrination about self-esteem and participation mattering as much as or more than effort…..
I feel no sadness that an entity I have felt for a long time now has gone to the dark side is now getting some of that bad Kharma it spread right back.
WTF.. this was in response to the Disney post…
Whaaaaa?
Amid the pandemic-induced coin shortage, one Wisconsin bank has resorted to paying people who bring in their spare change. The Community State Bank’s Coin Buy Back Program will give a $5 bonus to anyone who brings in $100 worth of coins, up to a maximum bonus of $500. The bank is also waiving fees for coin counting. You don’t need to be a customer of the bank to take part, CNN reports. “Instead of buying coin from the Fed, we’re buying coin from our community,” an exec tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Hundreds of people have already participated, and the bank says the program is helping local businesses that need change for their stores.
Market based solutions aren’t fair.
So far, the peanut butter baited traps have had no bites – not tripped traps, no dead mice, no missing peanut butter.
How long should it take before they try to steal the bait?
^^^^ This. I’m in the same position. It’s been a week and no mangled mouse boides.
Maybe they’re self quarantining.
Don’t set the traps. As soon as one goes off, the others will associate the trap with danger and never go back.
You need to train and rats and mice to eat off unset traps. Put them out with peanut butter on a little bread. It will take time, but the rodents will start eating off the traps. After a few days, they will grow comfortable and immediately run for the traps without hesitation as soon as they are put down and you leave the area. This is the time to set the traps.
is “traps are gay” still a thing on the interwebz?
Are you seeing other signs of activity?
No.
I’ve got a chipmunk problem at my house. This weekend I found a trap called the “Chipmunkinator”. It has one-way doors that don’t spring shut so it can catch more than one at a time. The whole thing is a cage so you just sprinkle the bait inside. I set it up Saturday and had one within 45 minutes. Then I relocated him and reset the trap, and the next one just tunneled through the mulch and took the bait from the bottom. Little assholes. I’ll have to put a board under it.
Once you’ve trapped a few, you should do a selective breeding program like the Siberian foxes and make a million dollars selling domesticaed chipmunks as pets.
” Then I relocated him ”
Big mistake. Drown it and put it in the yard waste bag.
Question: there are a lot of questionable claims for covid and cold or flu or other respiratory viruses as to what works/helps/cures
So if you or a family member got covid and ended up going to the hospital, and you could request a treatment, what would it be? Non traditional stuff, if any I mean, not remdesivir
Although there may be lots of nonsense, I am thinking of applying the general idea of something that is not overly expensive, can;t hurt much and may help.
So for me I am thinking I would ask for like 10 grams IV vitamin C, a large dose of vitamin D, and probably some Zinc…
Blood letting should be mainstream in your neck of the woods.
Blowjobs and scotch!
Disney story:
How long ’til somebody riding a rollercoaster in a mask pukes, chokes on it, and arrives back at the station slumped over and not breathing?
Another victim of the plague, I guess.
The rumor is no one ever dies on Disney property. I think they have their own ambulances and fire trucks and presumably the instructions are to mark the time of death en route to the hospital, even if the patient was decapitated on a roller coaster.
Rumor is that the same thing applies to Indianapolis motor speedway.
Blessed are those without the first idea of whatever the shit this means.
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1284950522974416896
WINNER-WINNER!
is that a real quote?
I am no conservative, but I lose respect for people that lie to me. Even when that lie actually benefits my perceptions and world view. I know very few libs that actually get mad as long as the truth/facts aligns with their view, but freak the fuck out when it does not (why do you think they want to cancel anyone that tells them all lives matter or that their was no Russia hoax?). They prefer to stick with the lie, or live in ignorance because having to rethink your dogma and your identity is difficult.
Just look at the reactions from these people at the french actor Jussie Smulliet story and how they reacted when it fell apart (especially when they came out guns blazing against people that pointed out that story sounded fake as shit)…
that does not answer the question.
The future ain’t what it used to be.
YOGI!
I imagine woods law of Lincoln quotes might apply here: “If it sounds like it could have been said last month, it probably was”
Correct. I am pretty darn sure that quote is BS as the term “liberal” had none of the connotations in 1900 that it does today. To put that quote in context would mean that he’s criticizing classical liberals (i.e. the intellectual forebears of libertarians).
Also teddy was fairly progressive for the time was he not?
He did found the Progressive Party so, in short, yes.
Conservatives and libertarians loving on Teddy always disgusts me. Yes, he was a cool ‘manly’ man and shot bears and elephants and talked about big sticks. No he was not a good president, a champion of liberty, or a preserver of the Republic. He was a progressive; he just was an early one so the awful crap he did looks tame by comparison with later developments. When you fall off Mount Everest the first few feet of the tumble don’t seem bad compared to later bounces, but the first slip causes the final splat.
When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything.
https://twitter.com/ryanlongcomedy/status/1285208497517473793
LOOLLOLOL
but true
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday he expects indictments to be handed down from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
“You’re going to see a couple of other documents come out in the coming days that will suggest that not only was the [Trump] campaign spied on, but the FBI did not act appropriately as they were investigating,” Meadows also said in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Don’t get my hopes up.
Michael Avenatti is broke and can’t pay his legal fees, the California attorney who has represented the discredited lawyer for more than a year claims.
Dean Steward filed a motion in federal court Saturday detailing Avenatti’s financial woes and is now asking for taxpayer help to cover his costs.
Oh boy.
West later said “shooting guns are fun” and that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” He continued, saying Americans run the risk of being “enslaved” by China or other countries if we didn’t have a Constitutional right to legally own firearms for self defense. West said people in countries that don’t allow the private ownership of a firearm face that threat, too.
Not bad.
Insurance giant Mutual of Omaha announced that it is doing away with its logo that features a Native American.
Sad.
At the posh 75 Main in Southampton, owner Zach Erdem insists on only good vibes. That’s why he chopped up and torched Table 1 — the favorite of onetime regular Jeffrey Epstein, and occasionally, Harvey Weinstein, Saturday.
Too many people believe in voodoo.
fighting “White supremacy” has no consequences for honkeys!
I actually left a company and went to work somewhere else because I was told they decided to promote someone less qualified over me so they could fill a quota (my boss didn’t mince words even about it) and that I just had to accept that reality.
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1285202737139982343/photo/1
Numbers never lie.
Odds are some of those kids died from something else and had COVID as a secondary complication.
Argentum Spectrum
@ArgentumSpectr1
Replying to
@MattWalshBlog
this is a red herring. the real concern isn’t kids dying, it’s kids bringing the virus home to their families. kids aren’t very mindful of guidelines to prevent disease transmission, and aren’t great at even basic hygiene and sanitation
This is a red-herring as the information provided suggests that Covid-1984 is similar to the flu. Try to follow the actual argument.
The “real concern” always shifts when you try to pin them down. Because they are lying pieces of shit.
Something like under 10,000 people have died under the age of 55.
That’s incredible.
Ages 45-54 deaths: 6,021 from COVID, 5,978 from pneumonia.
BUT MUH SCIENCE. MUH FACTs. MUH EXPERTS.
Profits over people
Sources tell KDKA that restaurant owners are meeting at Al’s Cafe in Bethel Park to discuss how to keep their businesses alive later this morning.
The Allegheny County Health Department eased some restrictions in accordance with Gov. Wolf’s guidance, allowing 25 percent occupancy for indoor dining. However, this limitation has still forced some establishments to shutter their doors.
Six restaurants, including Soba in Shadyside, will be keeping their doors closed because they can not operate with the latest order. The specialty restaurants are part of the Big Burrito Restaurant Group.
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“With the developing circumstances and our commitment to following all safety guidelines and COVID-related restrictions, we have concluded that the specialty restaurants…Alta Via, Casbah, Eleven, Kaya, Soba and Umi are not viable under current business conditions,” Big Burrito Restaurant Group Bill Buller said in a statement on Sunday. “We cannot operate at a limited occupancy of 25% which has been put in place for the indefinite future.”
You mean you won’t keep the doors open in the certain knowledge it will be impossible to cover the costs of doing so? But we’re all in this together!
A business model that operates on a low margin at 100% capacity on the weekends in and industry that regularly sends competition into bankruptcy – can’t function at 1/4 capacity?
Would Ford keep running all their plants if their sales dropped 75%?
If you can’t keep your business open now while paying your workers a living wage, you’re a shitty businessman!
“I can’t go out and save every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America,” -The Most Qualified Candidate Ever.
Looks like there’s the big push to extend the $600 federal unemployment benefits as well as push for a second stimulus. Because that will also help those businesses that are unsure about how long they’ll be able to open, and keep getting the rules changed on them.
Happy Day 126 of “15 Days to Flatten the Curve” everyone!
🙁
And not only that but the party ahead in the polls is the party of “You gootta loose your job to eliminate the virus!”
**I know a lot of you are skeptical of the polls. The thing is that they are something. That is why i keep going back to them Otherwise i wouldn’t have an bearing or information. If the polls were random and jumped around everwhyer, i’d say they are useless. but they don’t and so you can follow their pattern to get some information.
I’m not that skeptical of the polls, myself. I think Trump is losing bigly right now.
I agree. I don’t think it’s over, cause it aint over till the Russian bear sings, but he’s not looking good. As it stands, Trump is loosing to fucking Joe Biden.
my response
I don’t think i disagree with any of those points. I know the polls are pushed, and massaged. I just have 0 other data. Except maybe the Betting Markets. but i don’t know where they get their data from
Agreed. it comes down to whether the polls are skewed or whether they’re worthless. If they’re just skewed (and skewed in a consistent way), we can extract some information from them still.
If they’re entirely worthless (and they don’t have to be random or volatile to be worthless), then it’s not even worth paying attention. I’m not sure where the state of public opinion polling is at the moment, and I don’t care to find out, so I just ignore the polls.
My intuition is that there’s still some level of value that can be extracted, but that it would be mostly based on relative moves of the data, and less on the absolute numbers.
I’d say thats probably where i’m at right now. If i can squeeze some time in today, i might do a back of the spreadsheet analysis on the movements of the polls.
I don’t see how they could really work given the current technological and sociological environment. Even if they were accurate as to the moods right now (which I don’t think they are), that doesn’t actually matter because of how easily those moods could be different 4 months from now.
They all look alike, I guess.
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) paid tribute to civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who died Friday, but mistakenly posted pictures of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who died in October.
“It was an honor to know & be blessed with the opportunity to serve in Congress with John Lewis, a genuine & historic American hero,” Rubio said in a tweet on Saturday. “May the Lord grant him eternal peace.”
The photo Rubio posted was of Cummings and not Lewis.
In a follow-up tweet, Rubio corrected his mistake.
The weird world of Public Health: “A patient who has tested positive, but successfully treated and discharged from hospital, will still be counted as a COVID death even if they had a heart attack or were run over by a bus three months later.”
https://twitter.com/guy_herbert/status/1284012812709376001
They really need to fix that.
You are operating from the premise that this is a bug, not a feature.
That _was_ the fix
I should be surprised, but I’m not.
Wherein Thom Hartmann proves yet again just how much of a shit-head he truly is: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/20/the-disastrous-handling-of-the-pandemic-is-libertarianism-in-action-will-americans-finally-say-good-riddance/
“Muh gubmint control! It ain’t big enuff!”
You Americans have a weird way of doing Libertarianism, I must say. BUt at least it is in charge of everything
We have now reached peak Libertarianism, and this bizarre experiment that has been promoted by the billionaire class for over 40 years is literally killing us.
Because it is libertarian to have governors act like dictators not allowing people to engage in commerce and ordering nursing home to accept infected people.
That guy is such a dishonest windbag with such an incredibly punchable face.
Who are these libertarian billionaires I keep hearing about? Like the Koch brothers, who have a pretty crappy record of getting their candidates elected?
Nothing says libertarian like a central bank financing trillions in deficit spending.
That too.
I’d eat there
A Northern California restaurant is accused of asking customers to remove their masks amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to multiple reports.
Apple Bistro in Placerville has reportedly displayed a sign discouraging mask-wearing by customers dining inside, which has prompted complaints from those eating at the restaurant. The warning outside the establishment reads: “No social conditioning. No oxygen deprivation mask. No latex dirty germ spreader,” followed by “This may not be for you.”
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Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered people to wear masks when in public settings in California as cases began spiking in the state last month. During an emergency meeting earlier this month, local health authorities were given the power to suspend the health permits of businesses that defy state guidelines.
“I don’t want to drive them out of business. I don’t want to over-regulate, but I do want to do as much as we can to help them get in the right posture, operating processes,” said El Dorado County supervisor, John Hidahl, according to Sacramento’s KOVR.
“I don’t want to drive them out of business.”
That’s just a bonus. We can’t have the proles slipping the leash.
I’d eat there
#metoo
I listened to a podcast called “Death to Tyrants” about the Liberty Tree bar somewhere in Texas. The owner banned masks being worn on the premises. The outrage mob came after him but he remains defiant. Not sure what has developed since then as I believe masks are now compulsory statewide.
They are required statewide except in bars, restaurants, and gyms. Except I think bars should currently be shut down.
There is absolutely no point to wearing a mask at a bar because you go there to drink beverages. I guess when you walk through the entrance but that’s it.
Except I think bars should currently be shut down.
Is that an opinion or a supposition??
I think they currently are I mean. When deaths started spiking.
Gotcha.
I saw an article the other day abut my current state (WA). They were showing how good, progressive, Western WA was #defeatingthevirus while dumb, conservative, rube eastern WA was experiencing a “spike.” They had two SCIENCEY line graphs showing deaths plummeting in Western WA and deaths “spiking” in Eastern WA. The print on the scales of the graph was so small I had to zoom in to see the numbers. The Y axis in Western Washington (deaths) went up to 100. The Y axis in Eastern WA went up to 10.
Michael Malice is 100% correct. The Corporate Media is the enemy of the people.
I’ve eaten at the Apple Bistro before and now it looks like I will be eating there again soon as we are going to be camping fairly close to there next weekend. It was a nice family run place and they have a huge outdoor space with nice views of the mountains. Good on them.
They also had their little kids helping serve and bus tables and as I am a fan of child labor (who had a job from 10-18) I heartily approve. They are definitely getting our patronage this week.
I was at a mountain hut high in the German Alps last fall (sheds tear for COVID cancelled vacation this year). The proprietor was like a caricature of a stern old Bavarian mountaineer. He had his teutonic little grandkids (8ish I’d guess) busing tables and taking orders and serving beer. When things got slow the kids would start playing and horsing around. When he needed help he’d come out of the kitchen and bark at them and they’d immediately get busy. There was nothing even vaguely wrong or exploitive about it. Those kids will have fond memories of childhood in the high alps and be grateful for the work ethic instilled in them by grandpa.
“If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.”
Nice, I heartily approve.
Today in words:
au•toch•tho•nous adjective
(of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists
https://twitter.com/DUALIPA/status/1284928447912050688
So nobody.
Unless there’s a point where there are sufficient generations of descent to purge the migratory element.
I think it is funny when popstars tweet shit like this. I think Dua lipa is a pop star of some sorts. I remember seeing her in the Mail sidebar, not sure if thicc though.
Hmm, yeah, modern humans don’t even come from the Great Rift Valley…Migration went south before we came along…We’re from somewhere south of there…but I’m guessing no one stayed on the homestead this long.
My internet is down, any news on the 2017 Las Vegas shooting?
Yes. You are a person of interest in the investigation. Please report to an FBI agent for questioning at your most local penthouse apartment
Sorry, the answer was Orange Man Bad!
I never heard of this site, but it’s pretty much the only thing that came up in like the last 6 months, and it’s some nice batshit.
Nothing says “right wing extremist terrorist” like shooting up a country music festival.
Loathsome censorious zealots rage at each other over who is the worst:
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/19/glenn-greenwald-was-cancelled.html
I love this. “Cancel culture isn’t real, because it’s our right to boycott who we don’t want to be with.” Um yeah dipshit. that has nothing to disprove that there is a culture of people who will jump to “cancel” someone at a hair triggers notice. The complaint is that this is bad for free expression to participate in that kind of culture. Once again, that which isn’t explicitly sanctioned is Forbidden in the authors world view.
They’re not boycotting. They’re actively calling for the de-platforming and firing of people they disagree with because those people hold “dangerous and violent” ideas and make life “unsafe” for the identity group du jour.
Never mind that they have the personal political and are generally loathsome individuals to be around themselves.
…they have made the…
One of the things that never gets discussed is how they lie to get this done. They email posing as longtime loyal customers. They don’t say “Hi, I’m a fucking loser or a college student who uses social media to boost my godawful self-esteem.” They lie through their teeth, to be whatever is most effective to get it done. They pose as customers, as suppliers, as alumnae, as longtime subscribers, as longtime fans.
They always cloak their de-platforming and career-ending initiatives as a capitalist market in speech.
When in fact it is the very vocal minority seeking to make dissent so expensive that it cannot continue to exist.
I aint clicking no boing boing link
How do we get ‘The Hat and The Hair’ cartoons ‘cancelled? It would be a boon for my viewership.
Make rioters in Portland the stars of your next video.
The rumor is no one ever dies on Disney property. I think they have their own ambulances and fire trucks and presumably the instructions are to mark the time of death en route to the hospital, even if the patient was decapitated on a roller coaster.
When I worked at Sun Valley, that’s what one of the ski patrol guys told me.
“The rule is, whatever you do, get ’em off the hill before they croak.”
+1 Sonny Bono
There is absolutely no point to wearing a mask at a bar because you go there to drink beverages. I guess when you walk through the entrance but that’s it.
I think that’s the rule here. Put it. Walk through door. Take it off.
I guess you’re supposed to be sitting down.
What a fucking clown show.
Whether this plot was hatched in a smokey back room or occurred spontaneously is irrelevant. The fact of the matter remains that this might be the single most absurd, brazen and overt excesses in social control I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime. If they told people than cupping their hands for the purpose of capturing and then sniffing one’s own far prevented the spread of COVID, 60% percent of the population would comply without hesitation.
*fart
+1 Catholic Communion (says the Catholic…yeah, I’m going to hell because I received the host with my left hand under my right hand instead of vice-a-versa)
As a Protestant, Holy Communion seems to be one of the more bazar tenants of Catholicism IMO. The doctrine of the Eucharist, the intense ritualization, etc, seems extremely foreign and strange to me. As a protestant you take communion as reminder of Christ’s sacrifice and as an physical expression of your relation to it, that’s it.
The communion is THE ritual though, the rest is pageantry added by assholes. Church should be 10 minutes long at max. Story about Jesus, Eucharist, adjourn.
It makes sense to this Protestant. If God says “this is my body,” then it damn well IS. From that, all the rest comes naturally, unless you want to tell God that He is being metaphorical
the last thing I want is a theological argument this AM but that seems to be be somewhat of a dogmatic take. Jesus used allegory and metaphor throughout his entire ministry. IMO the doctrine of the Eucharist comes from a hyper-literal interpretation. We don’t presume that mustard seeds are literally more faithful than human beings.
It may be hyper-literal, but it is not illogical.
Of course, i am already on the record as believing that God is not bound by logic.
No arguments there.
“Sitting down and paying for food along with your alcohol stops the COVID” – The Illustrious
Top ScientistCzar Governor of NYthicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8539001/Demi-Rose-poses-multi-coloured-bikini-soaking-sun-Ibiza.html
“Portland mothers form a ‘Wall of Moms’ to ‘protect’ protesters from Trump’s federal officers before being tear gassed – as Democrat mayor demands President remove agents from city that has seen 50 nights of unrest since George Floyd death”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8540715/Portland-mayor-orders-marked-federal-police-city.html
“Protester dubbed ‘Naked Athena’ strips off and dares police to shoot her with tear gas during tense stand-off in the 50-day ‘Battle of Portland'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8540579/Naked-Athena-protester-confronts-Portland-police.html
The media has largely been silent about this ongoing shitshow.
Is wearing a mask while naked, actually naked then?
People were saying that Trump miscalculated by having the federal officers working in Portland, that it’s what the left wanted him to do, but who knows – 50 days of that nonsense. It seems clear that Portland officials don’t care about stopping it. It kind of ties with the discussion above about polls – I have no idea which way the wind will blow on all this
The other US citizens that live there do have rights that require protecting.
stunning and brave
Wall of moms?
Sounds like a porn theme.
They’re on part 68 now. Winston’s Mom was the star of the original.
They were a one-hit-wonder ’80s band, weren’t they?
Portland, that bastion of right-wing thugs, these protesters have a might row to hoe.
“Late Saturday, protesters broke into a building, set it on fire and started dumpster fires, police said.”
I had to scroll down and look for this. There has been a lot of people pushing the narrative that peaceful protesters are getting tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets. You know, just like the peaceful protesters in the 60’s. But I find it extremely hard to believe that tear gas is being used against people who aren’t destroying things.
The last 4 years in a nutshell.
Why is “the media” always mingled with or behind the “peaceful protesters” and never behind the cops? Is that viewpoint too dangerous for reporters and, if it is, then doesn’t that say something about who is instigating violence?
Something amusing for a change of pace.
This is per a Euronews and AP story, covering a drug bust that recently happened in Italy, in which Italian cops discovered a bag filled with coffee beans that had all been cut open, hollowed out, filled with cocaine, and then re-sealed to hide the drugs. We can only assume that said task was a massive pain in the ass to perform, so we have to imagine how annoyed everyone involved must be at the fact that their scheme was undermined and discovered because cops noticed that the fake name they slapped on the coffee bag, “Santino D’Antonio,” was also the name of the sleazy bad guy Riccardo Scamarcio plays in John Wick: Chapter 2.
I love those movies and I never knew the characters name. It’s not exactly important to know the names.
How about some recovery room humor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-6JThWvnQ
Okay, that was funny.
The media has largely been silent about this ongoing shitshow.
It’s like a giant farmers’ market, or a street fair. Joyous, peaceful camaraderie.
Mostly.
They’re not boycotting. They’re actively calling for the de-platforming and firing of people they disagree with because those people hold “dangerous and violent” ideas and make life “unsafe” for the identity group du jour.
Exactly. Don’t want to hear it? Don’t listen. Don’t tell me I’m not ALLOWED to listen.
https://twitter.com/kimfreethinker/status/1285208487178493952?s=19
Uh, more Ukrainian meddling in the election?
Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to put her in front of a wind machine before she went on air?! What is this, 1985?!
A Salon headline that I couldn’t be bothered to click:
The pandemic is making us question the connection between work and money. That’s a good thing.
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
-Some dead white racist
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I’m A Deadly Handsome Man.
WHO Clarifies Comments on Asymptomatic COVID Spread
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If asymptomatic transmission is rare, why exactly are we imposing rules on every single person rather than those who are actively sick? Oh, because it’s “believed to be” a major driver. Even though there’s no evidence of that.