Pluck them from the streets,
bind them tight.
Load them into trucks,
bounce them off roof and floor and ceiling.
Leave them bleeding and broken,
with new manners and quiet mouths.
“I hate it when you write poetry,” the hair said. “You always get so violent.”
“The protesters need a little violence,” the hat replied, looking up from his journal.
“It doesn’t even rhyme!” the hair said.
“Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme, you rube. Free verse!. The lyric set free of your staid conventions!”
“And the scansion doesn’t flow.”
“Free verse!” the hat screamed at the hair.
“Not to mention the subject matter.”
“Those officers are heroes. The protesters are trying to vandalize and destroy public property! And besides, no one from Portland was never going to vote for us anyway. They don’t deserve the rights I give them.”
“The Constitution gives them,” the hair shot back.
“The only right they have is that I don’t nuke smelly Hippieville and turn it in a glass parking lot.”
“CHICAGO!” Donald bellowed from the couch. “We must invade Chicago!”
“Fuck Chicago,” the hat yelled back.
“The gun violence there…” the hair said, shaking himself slowly from side to side.
“Who cares?” the hat asked. “Black lives shooting black lives. If it actually mattered, they’d stop killing each other.”
“We must invade Chicago,” Donald said again, punctuating himself with a fluted McMuffin fart.
“No!” the hat said. “We go into Chicago and everything after that becomes our fault.”
“Nothing’s my fault,” Donald muttered, trying to roll over.
“Wall it off,” the hat said. “Keep the rot from spreading. Italian beef and salad bar hot dogs are not enough of a reason to keep it around.”
“I wish McDonald’s made deep-dish pizza,” Donald said mournfully.”
“Noooo!” the hair cried.
“What’s the matter with you?” the hat asked.
“He, he said the DDP word,” the hat moaned.
“‘Double-Dipped Polynesian?’” the hat asked.
“No, the other one.”
“‘Divorced Deuteronomical Polygamist?’” the hat asked. “Doo-Doo Priest?’”
“The pizza one,” the hair hissed.
“You worry too much,” the hat said.
“Oh, God,” the hat said, rocking back and forth in self-soothing behavior. “Oh, God.”
Design and Development Plan.
Also, hey, first!
I HATE it when someone submits a bid with the wrong incoterms.
DAMMIT DAMMIT DON’T YOU INCOTERM-PRESUME ME!
With Pineapple, Yum!
you’re dead to me
Can we add avocado to?!?!
Throw in some crispy bacon and you’ve got a deal.
No olives.
punctuating himself with a fluted McMuffin fart
We bask in the light of his genius!
How does one flute a McMuffin anyway?
Like this?
Or something like this?
Is that a fart that changes tone or jumps an octave halfway through?
I imagine it sounding like this with an added rotten egg smell to it
Trilling?
It’s a fart that has grooves carved along its length.
You’re saying Donald has a groovy sphincter?
Groove is in the Ass?
Or are you saying he has a groovy kind of ass?
Yes, behold my lord Ulrich, the rock, the hard place, like a wind from Gelderland he sweeps by blown far from his homeland in search of glory and honor, we walk in the garden of his turbulence.
Underrated movie.
Yes
Facts.
“punctuating himself with a fluted McMuffin fart.”
Grand slam, SF.
DDP will become the new abbreviation, the word left unspoken
DDP is the opposite of Ex Works.
Diamond Dallas Page?
Now I have to listen to the Fart Game.
Deadly Donkey Punch?
Deutsche Double Penetration. AKA The Hitler.
Ah where your northern appendage stalls and then retreats while your southern one is enveloped in a meat grinder. This might have a SF Hillary angle after all.
Debbie Does Plano.
“Oh, God,” the hat said, rocking back and forth in self-soothing behavior. “Oh, God.”
That’s pretty much much my reaction after reading Sugarfree.
Luckily this wasn’t too scarring. Some odd visuals but overall I don’t have the desire to pour bleach in my eyes or shove a pencil in my ear.
Yeah, he’ll lure us into complacency with a couple of tame ones and then hit us extra hard with the horror.
Distended universe…
That’s when it gets creepy: extended universe brings us Hildog and Huma, joe, and, well, all the creepy sex stuff.
I really wanted to reply to this with a clip from Buddy Hackett’s HBO special from the 80’s. He tells a bunch of dirty stories in his act, so he has a bit acknowledging the difference between his TV persona and his stage act. He befriends an old lady near the front and tells her he’ll tell her a joke that she can take home to tell her friends so that she can share the experience.
The first joke is really tame.
The second joke is a little risque, but still pretty tame.
So then he rolls out the SF version. “So… these two fags are fucking a dead alligator on a bus to Cleveland…. What? Too much?”
That’s a solid version of an extremely inappropriate setup. Made me laugh out loud at the time. Strong enough that I still remember it word for word 30+ years later.
I went to the internet hoping to find it so I could post it as a response to “odd visuals” and “eye bleach”. Nope. Too inappropriate for the internet, apparently. At least with a cursory search. (and to those offended by the F word, I apologize. It was necessary for the shock value of the joke.)
The Aristocrats!
+1 naked driving to get a “pizza pie”.
Wonder if I have that on a homemade VHS.
I was okay with it until he got to the “to Cleveland” part. Ewwwww, gross!
Awww…
We’re not Detroit…
The hardest thing to intuitively grasp is that once upon a time, Detroit was the richest city in America… because it’s been a shithole for as long as I can remember.
Obligatory
Cleveland was a wealthy city at one point as well. Rockefeller used to live in the suburbs, and built a house on the East Side. You would not want to be living in that neighborhood today. Go ahead and look at some street views for Millionaire Avenue in the modern times.
HBO is extremely protective of their content, especially since HBOMax was announced.
Lots of Carlin on YT though.
I went to a chicago deep dish pizza place while in Duluth MN last month.
It sucked.
Well, in fairness they didn’t fully cook the first one, so it was full of dough. And it wasn’t really all that deep or filled with toppings. Pizza Hut pan pizza with extra cheese might have been closer to deep dish.
They cooked a second one that was not really all that great either. Prolly should have gone to the other joint down the street.
One positive thing about pizza places in that area…. they don’t scrimp on the cheese. Must be the Wisconsin thing. Even the crappy little pizza joints have tons of cheese. So that hides a lot of sins.
Anyway, my first attempt at deep dish in 30 years. And it was pathetic.
…every time I go there it’s always the same…
You need a Lou Malnati’s. They ship.
So does Giordano’s, but no one needs to spend over $30 for a pizza.
Lou’s is great, but IT’S NOT PIZZA.
Am assuming because of the small surface area/volume ratio they can be baked in a household oven?
They can be.
*rubs chin*
Anyone else really like Wednesdays?
Also, don’t know if there is supposed to be a double H&H banner or not.
As someone with Irish ancestry, let me be the first to scream CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!!!11!!!
We talked about her last night. I like her take on the issue a lot.
What seemed to be missing in the coverage (and in her take) was that people calling her out for cultural appropriation are not actually criticizing her or her love of traditional Irish dance. They are criticizing the SJW crowd who scream cultural appropriation if a white person tries to cook Thai food, or if a white person wears a kimono dress to prom.
It is actually blindingly obvious… but the woke are so wrapped up in their own bubble that they can’t even hear that critique.
Plus, I was a little irritated with her comment “They don’t understand cultural appropriation”. What she seems to be doing is agreeing that cultural appropriation is a real thing but claiming that what she’s doing isn’t it. I’m guessing the supposed logic for that is that only white people can be cultural appropriators?
Pretty much…. she was more subtle (and wrong). She was saying that since she was a fan and complementing the art form, it is not appropriation. Not like those nasty people who mock the culture like people who dress up as mexicans for halloween or wear blackface. Unfortunately she does not really understand cultural appropriation. As you know, “I’m using Japanese themes in my dress because I love Japanese fashion” is not a defense against charges of cultural appropriation. Only people of color may use ideas from other cultures. This is known.
That is why she got the “Hey, that’s cultural appropriation!” attacks. Unfortunately, everyone covering such stories is far to dishonest to admit such facts – even to themselves. They employ the power of doublethink to praise her for her bravery in being a strong black woman who dares to venture in to the lily white world of Irish dance while simultaneously condemning a white person for wearing a “black hairstyle”.
“Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme, you rube. Free verse!. The lyric set free of your staid conventions!”
Burn it all down.
H&H DDP seems like it belongs on PornHub
Double Deep Penetration?
Hey you said it….
This is strangely tame.
He has taken it to the next level. It is actually an anagram of a story that involves tentacle porn and extreme femdom. DDP was your clue… you just have to rearrange all the letters into different words in the proper order. As anagram puzzles go, this one is pretty lengthy, which makes it pretty difficult.
Once you’ve seen the Old Gods it becomes perfectly clear.
I think you mean amalgam, not anagram.
Anagram. Where you rearrange the letters of a word or phrase to form another word or phrase.
Saying that a long story is an anagram is an obvious joke, as once you have enough letters you can create any words you’d like.
Yeah. It’s unnerving. It’s like the real story was so horrifying, that my mind could not, or simply refused to recognize the horror. Instead, my mind substituted this mildly amusing if uneventful story. It’s a mask for a deeply disturbing and horrifying reality.
So, long conversation, but really good. If you want to hear a great discussion of Trump skip to minute 52+. I think I’ll be adding both as subscriptions.
A comment from right at the beginning regarding cancel culture “the most unsatisfying ‘I told you so’ in history”. Pretty spot on.
How many times did we post snark like “they came for the gay conservative speaker and I said nothing, because I was not a gay conservative speaker…” over the last 10 years?
Well my shithead teenagers are going to start “school” from home. FML…real good with a rusty pole.
I’m in the same boat. I don’t know how we are going to survive another half year of home schooling. I have 3 … 3rd, 5th and 8th grade.
From what I can tell, none of the middle schoolers did anything last year, anywhere in the country. This year is really important for my kid – it determines whether he gets in to the magnet high school – better school than the $25k per year private school. It is a major life-altering moment. And he’s got Covid all over it.
The distance learning my son’s middle school provided this past spring amounted to maybe two hours total work per week. It was a joke. They’re now claiming that “oh, that was just an emergency contingency plan, this fall is going to be totally different” but I’ll believe it when I see it.
12 hours per week of BLM youtube videos.
We are battling it out right now.
The teachers don’t want to be pinned down. We parents are pushing for them to be online with their students for at least 4 hours a day, actually teaching. They are pushing for something more like an hour or so… check in in the morning. Again after lunch for questions. Be available for small groups or individual questions at other times.
My kids need one-on-one interaction with a teacher. I had to do all of the teaching myself last spring. My then second grader was actually really good… she used online tools and mostly taught herself. The older two figured out pretty quickly that I wasn’t really going to hit them with a leather belt if they didn’t do their work…. so their passion for doing quality work plummeted as they learned that they were not going to be recognized by their teachers for their work – for good or for ill.
The other problem is…. with the lockdown there really wasn’t much I could take away. They were already essentially grounded full time for 3 months. The only thing left was taking away video games and internet access. And doing that was more torture for the parents than for the kids.
They are pushing for something more like an hour or so
So they’re not even pretending any more.
R C Dean’s school plan:
Re-open as usual.
Offer N95s and eye or face shield to any teacher who wants one.
Fire any teacher who refuses to work a regular schedule.
^^This.
I have a better plan.
NEVER open up the cesspool of stupid that is public school again. Nuke it from fucking space. At this point, making children stupider is just child abuse. There’s no possible way they can get as dumb as they’re getting from NOT going to public schools. No one is that dumb, you have to teach them to be that dumb.
I am strangely not nauseous after reading that. . .
Nancy, you mendacious cunte.
Pelosi said, “Well, I think with the president’s comments today, he recognized the mistakes that he has made, by now embracing mask-wearing, and the recognition this is not a hoax, it is a pandemic, that has gotten worse before it will get better. Because of his inaction, and, in fact, clearly, it is the Trump virus.”
She added, “If he had said months ago, let’s wear masks, let’s not — let’s socially distance, instead of having rallies and political whatever they were, then more people would have followed his lead. … I think a good deal of what we have suffered is clearly the Trump virus.”
Host Wolf Blitzer then asked, “So, what you’re saying is that thousands of Americans have died because of what the president has done or not done. Is that what you’re saying?”
Pelosi responded, “Yes. That’s what I’m saying. I think it’s clearly evident. … If it’s important to wear a mask now, it would have been important to wear it in March, instead of telling us that, by April, we’d all be going to church together.”
Did this apply when you visited Chinatown?
I still haven’t seen any evidence that asymptomatic spread is anything other than extremely rare. That kind of undermines the whole Gospel of the Mask-wearing.
We were told 2.2 million Americans could die. looks like we’ll top out below 200,000. So Trump saved 2 million lives.
The above argument has more evidence behind it than Nancy’s.
looks like we’ll top out below 200,000.
Not that anyone will publicize it, but I’m betting the excess deaths number (which is the real bottom line) for 2020 is going to be around 40,000.
Yep. A lot of fall/winter heart disease/cancer/etc deaths ended up as spring/summer WuFlu deaths. Which sucks for the dead and their loved ones… but is not an existential public health crisis.
I’d have to check, but I also recall seeing (I think), the flu season magically ended at teh end of March, with flu, ILI, and related deaths dropping off of a cliff.
Then why is the pandemic RAGING all around us?
I’m wondering how much suicides and death by misadventure will be up?
Excess deaths is gameable too. Which baseline do you measure against: last year, N-year moving average, best/worst N of M past years, etc.? Death rate or raw deaths? After how much time do you consider 100% (or near enough) of deaths to have been reported?
If he had said months ago, let’s wear masks
I’m old enough to remember that he did, even suggested a scarf might be enough. Then the media made fun of him and the Surgeon Admiral pleaded on twitter for us all NOT to wear masks,
The speed of the lie has really shocked me in recent years.
I remember when Stephanopolis kept telling us conflicting stories of Clinton’s draft status every 2 weeks during his first campaign. The media went along with it every time, telling me “we have always known that he got a second draft notice… this is old news”. Every time the story was a complete contradiction of what they told me 2 weeks ago. And every time they’d say “we have always known that… but he never did X” Then two weeks later X would come out. And they’d say the same thing.
I was flabbergasted. It wasn’t like different people were saying this. It was Tom Brokaw telling me completely contradictory stories every two weeks and pretending like it was old news that had long ago been debunked each time.
Now it is often within hours that they switch their reality.
The Cuomo substory here is what really drives me crazy… because he literally killed at least 10,000 people by sending covid positive patients into nursing homes over the objections of the people running those facilities…. and now even Fauci playing him up as a hero of the covid. The guy presided over what is without doubt the worst response anywhere in the world, and he’s getting the hero treatment. Even science communicators like the SGU are on the “wow, look how great the democrat governors are” bandwagon.
I would never have believed that people could simply disregard conflicting information so readily. I know I read about it in the dystopian novels of Orwell, Huxley et al… but I didn’t believe it was really possible for real people. I always thought that people were cynically lying when they did stuff like that.
But I’ve interacted with enough of them now to know different. They really believe that Trump always opposed wearing masks and that they always supported wearing masks. They literally rewrite history in their own brain so that their side is always the hero and the opposing side is always the villain.
They literally say exactly that when confronted with ‘democrats are the party of the KKK, Jim Crow and slavery… Republicans ended slavery”. Every time. “The parties switched sides in the 60’s.” Magically they are always on the side of good, and their opponents are evil. They have always been at war with Eurasia. And they truly love Big Brother.
Poll: Biden Leading In Several Key Battleground Cemeteries
New York Times Accidentally Publishes Ghislaine Maxwell Obituary Ahead Of Schedule
Host Wolf Blitzer then asked, “So, what you’re saying is that thousands of Americans have died because of what the president has done or not done. Is that what you’re saying?”
Why don’t you march up to the front door of the White house and make a citizen’s arrest. You can throw a hood on him and toss him into a black van.
Nice way to deflect blame from Cuomo’s mandate that nursing homes continue to accept patients who have tested positive for the virus. I’m not saying Trump handled it immaculately, but this guy easily has hundreds if not thousands of deaths on his hands.
We discussed this the other day…. NY claims 6k deaths in nursing homes. Everywhere else says 50% to 65% of deaths are from nursing homes. NY has 32k deaths. So how is it that NY has less than 20% of their fatalities from nursing homes, while they sent people infected with the virus into nursing homes?
Well, nobody in the mainstream press will touch this story with a 10 foot pole. But what I’ve seen claimed is that if you get sick in a nursing home in NY and have to go to the hospital where you die, they count that as a hospital death. Nice way to hide the result of your hideous policy, if true.
The real number should be near the top of the list nationally – 2/3 deaths in nursing homes. That only stands to reason, given their actions. That would mean in excess of 20k people who died in nursing homes.
Just that estimated number is more than the total deaths in the other 3 most populous states combined. But he’s a hero.
I still haven’t seen any evidence that asymptomatic spread is anything other than extremely rare. That kind of undermines the whole Gospel of the Mask-wearing.
If this thing is as contagious and deadly as some people keep trying to tell us, why isn’t every single sailor who was on the USS Theodore Roosevelt in March dead, by now?
They are, but Ghost Ships sail themselves.
Crew of about 5000, with 1100 cases, 1 death. Of the confirmed cases, around 2/3rds were asymptomatic. Hell even on the cruise ship (and figure the difference in demographics) the death rate was below 2% and the infection rate was below 20%.
These are both coronavirus petri dishes FFS.
Listen up, deplorable, the epidemic has the same rules as the global warming. If the death rate is higher, it’s the most deadly plague ever. If the death rate is lower, it’s the most deadly plague ever. If it rains, or don’t rain, or if it’s hot or cold, it’s the most deadly plague ever! Now stay inside and send all your money to the government or we’ll all die!
I am truly sorry and I humbly beseech forgiveness; I’ll go say 100 Hail Neils and never stray again from IFLS orthodoxy. I will not attempt to think for myself, for who am I but a speck of sand before the great tide of KNOWLEDGE (as handed down by those of unstained authority).
It’s like global warming… errr.. .climate change. Is there anything it can’t do?
“Free verse!” the hat screamed at the hair.
I read that as “Free Bird!” at first… didn’t seem like The Hat.
FREE BIRD!!!!
I imagine The Hat would enjoy himself immensely at a Skynrd concert. His kind of women are there.
This is… depressingly too close to reality.
Yeah. I can easily imagine these have actually been said:
“nuke smelly Hippieville”
I’m actually starting to like that poetry.
Four Ukrainians Died After Introducing American COVID-19 Vaccine
(Translation required)
Excited yet?
So are we now taking .ru news-sources as reliable as say Nigerian ones?
Whoa, dude. Check your privelege. Nigerian sources are 100% reliable on literally every subject except your personal finances.
On health they are impeccable.
But you can’t trust them about drugs.
missing link
I hate missing ‘submit’ and getting ‘post’ – how can a place as classy as this not have an edit button?
I frankly don’t think we can be trusted with an edit button.
Well, that should be top of the page news. That’s pretty horrible. Kind of hard to tell what is happening from the article, but it sounded like maybe the injected people who were already ill with COVID-19. In that case, the adjuvant plus antigen might have exacerbated the cytokine cascade thought to cause all the harm to the lungs and circulatory system.
Just wait for when the kids are forced to get the vaccine to attend school and more die from it than die of Covid.
They would assert that even more kids would have died without the vaccine.
It’s become a religion. COVID is the Great Satan and every effort must be made to fight it, and you’re not allowed to make any cost-benefit analysis.
Oh 100%.
They won’t stop the stupidity until the anti-vaxxers sound sane by comparison.
It’s become a religion.
Branch Covidians.
The information was given by the authorities of the Luhansk People’s Republic, that’s one of the two entities in Eastern Ukraine not controlled by Kiev since 2014. The four Ukrainian soldiers who died after receiving the vaccine were in mainland Ukraine, in Kharkov. It could be enemy disinformation. Not that it cannot be true.
If I ever run for political office, my slogan is going to be ‘Let them eat Tide pods!’.
Seriously, we have to let them eat the tide pods, it’s our only hope, otherwise the morons will keep multiplying until they devour the entire earth like a non-sentient asexual pink haired Xe blob.
They might have trouble multiplying as asexuals.
They don’t multiply like humans do, they’re form of multiplying is sending your kids to public school.
Their damnit!
Homophones confusing? I can see you’ve had a public school education!
Must have been that!
They don’t multiply like humans do
The morbid obesity is the last stage before mitosis.
I can visualize it. It seems so visceral.
Roses are red
violets are blue
turkeys are like chickens
modern poetry doesn’t rhyme.
There once was a man from Nantucket.
Who put up a picket fence around Chicago
Something about DDP
And Eye-Talian beef
I forgot how limericks are supposed to work
There once was a man from Nantucket.
No, really, there was.
Yup. John Freaking Kerry.
So it’s really there once was an asshole from Nantucket.
My sister in law bought me a T-shirt from her trip up there.
it says “I am the man from Nantucket” on the back.
Winstons mom has got it going on.
She is a nice, working lady.
It’s hot when she wrecks Paul Krugman.
Other galaxies are redshifted
Andromeda is blueshifted
It’s careening toward the Milky Way
Our galaxy is doomed
You’ve all being tutored by Yusef, aren’t you?
I read that as “Tortured by Yusef”
I wish. His words are trippy, galactic music to my mind.
Groovy Baby!
No no, we’ll just have a greater future as part of the galaxy Milkdromeda!
(I am not making that name up).
The Andromeda Way.
The Virgo Super Clusterfuck.
Winner
“Milkdromeda”
Racist. It should be called Blackdromeda. I’m sure Nike and the NBA approves of my recommendation.
“Milkdromeda” just gives me the impure thoughts about Lexa Doig.
A dairy product that comes from a camel?
::suddenly no longer feels like eating lunch::
Milkdromeda
I can guarantee you that name will never be used when the galactic merger happens.
I’m pretty sure that HM can back me up that English is unlikely to change meaningfully in the next 4,000,000,000 years.
Usually the SF OP induces that.
I spy with my little eye a sidebar on the right of the post.
It identifies as a social distance measuring stick.
I have no idea what you mean.
Neither does she, so you’re good.
Stupid Swedes
The public health authorities banned gatherings of over 50 people, closed high schools and universities, and advised people to maintain a safe distance. But stores and restaurants have remained open throughout the pandemic, as have elementary and middle schools.
The Swedish authorities argued this was a sustainable plan, one the public would back even if the measures had to stay in place for many months. In the long term, they believed it would protect both lives and the economy.
But the death toll from Sweden’s outbreak is now the fifth-worst in the world, per capita. The country’s mortality rate from the coronavirus is now 30% higher than that of the United States when adjusted for population size.
CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer went to Stockholm and found that, despite the worrying statistics, most Swedes still back the public health agency’s approach.
“I think the people are taking their responsibility to social distance, so I am fine,” said Stockholm resident Mia Soderberg. “I am glad… because I think people are in better shape mentally, because we’ve been able to go out.”
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[insert anecdotal sob story]
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“They just gave him morphine, which kills a person after a while,” Gluckman said, adding that if she had known at the time that “morphine will kill you, because it takes your breathing away,” she never would have accepted it.
Asked how health care professionals could take such decisions — essentially making a call not to treat a patient — Gluckman said authorities in Stockholm seemed to decide early on that they weren’t going to treat the elderly, perhaps to keep ICU beds available.
She said without hesitation that she’s “lost faith” in both the government’s and the public health authorities’ handling of the epidemic.
Can you say, “Rationing”? Also- Deaths per capita are high? Now do a breakdown by age.
The desperation is palpable. The media are obsessed with “debunking” the Swedish approach. They want all panic, all the time.
“The desperation is palpable. The media are obsessed with “debunking” the Swedish approach. They want all panic, all the time.”
Look, deplorable, we tried nudging them for their own good. Then we educated them about how global warming would doom us all. But they still wouldn’t listen. So then we warned them to obey and stop just doing what they want, before a virus kills us all. Still they won’t listen. What are supposed to do, build the camps? We’re running out of options! /Your betters
“THE EARTH IS NOT FLAT, WE DID LAND ON THE MOON, AND THIS PANDEMIC IS REAL.” – Gov Eric Holcomb (R) Indiana
What a piece of shit.
2 out of 3 ain’t bad when most high school graduates can’t read or write.
And just to add to that, if you have to keep screaming at people that something is real, it isn’t real.
It’s like I told my son earlier today. When they’re telling you not to panic, be concerned. And when they’re telling you to panic, it’s bullshit.
THIS PANDEMIC IS REAL
Pretty sure that its close to no longer qualifying as a pandemic. Saw that a week or so ago, but nothing since.
Other reports have noted the Swedish health authorities admitting how they failed to cordon off nursing homes. Of course that angle wouldn’t play well with lauding Cuomo – so it is vanished faster than a Chilean leftist in the 70s.
But the death toll from Sweden’s outbreak is now the fifth-worst in the world, per capita.
Sweden peaked about 3 months ago, earlier than most. Let’s give everybody a chance to get three months past their peak before drawing conclusions. Even better, let’s wait for excess deaths before drawing conclusions. I suspect that heeavy-handed mandates are driving deaths elsewhere (suicide, the general public health impact of a shit economy, delays in medical care, etc.).
Divoc tells me their case fatality rate is 8th highest? Nothing to brag about.
Total deaths is fifth highest. Trailing Belgium, the UK, Spain, and Italty (now in fourth place, after peaking pretty early).
Seriously, we have to let them eat the tide pods, it’s our only hope, otherwise the morons will keep multiplying until they devour the entire earth like a non-sentient asexual pink haired Xe blob.
So what you’re saying is, Oliver Wendell Holmes was right.
I expected DDP to be another vomit-inducing reference to Hildog’s nether regions.
And-
At a press conference, Palmer asked one of Sweden’s public health directors, Karin Tegmark Wissell, what the plan was to avoid a second spike this fall.
“The measures we have taken have been focused on a long term approach,” she said. “We will keep up our [current] recommendations and restrictions… and keep on studying the new literature.”
Dr. Hokan Kalzen treats COVID patients in the ICU ward of Stockholm’s Sodertatlje Hospital. From 77 cases at the peak of the pandemic, he is relieved there are now only four left on the ward.
Asked why so many Swedes still have faith in the authorities’ light touch when the numbers look so bad on paper, he suggested they may be proven right in the end.
“When countries that had a complete lockdown and low numbers try to open up, many of them, they face outbreaks, and they will be terrified for a long, long time.”
Also, Swedes have deep-rooted loyalty to their government.
Those crazy Swedes, with their stoicism and taciturnity. Why aren’t they out rioting and toppling statues?
But people are DYING!!!
Blah blah blah range of projected body counts and insinuations of gross indifference and malfeasance.
Despite the grim projections, the Public Health Agency said there were positive signs of the epidemic slowing down.
“In Sweden, the positive trend with a fairly quick decline in cases continues,” Tegnell said, noting that especially serious cases in need of intensive care were down to a handful a day.
In the mildest scenario presented, in which the spread of the virus follows current trends, just over 1,100 additional deaths were expected.
Unlike most European nations, Sweden never imposed a lockdown and made headlines for having one of the highest per capita death tolls in the world.
It has kept schools for under-16s open and has not shuttered cafes, bars, restaurants and most businesses. Masks have been recommended only for healthcare personnel.
Swedish officials have argued that lockdowns only work temporarily and that drastic short-term measures are too ineffective to justify their impact.
Crazy talk.
Listen, the pandemic is RAGING! RAGING I TELL YOU!
Well, it certainly changed the way we dine out.
Would.
Weinstein and Taibbi talked on the podcast (toward the end) about just how humorless the left is – this is perfect.
Taibbi is going to get tossed out of the club and cancelled if he keeps it up.
They already hate his guts and are assassinating his character.
https://twitter.com/jessicavalenti/status/1271632943329546240?lang=en
He has some good points in this one, despite his lefty bent.
The left is now the right
He could have said it better by saying that the left are now the Church ladies, only with political power and more malice.
Despite the grim projections,
Well, maybe this one will pan out. One of them has to eventually, right?
Rand on Fox Rundown podcast today; plus Judge Nap, plus coda of Andy McCarthy criticizing Rand.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/coronavirus-lockdowns-big-mistake-led-to-crippling-of-economy-and-hasnt-done-much-to-the-virus-rand-paul-says
Rand harshing the narrative again, why can’t he just be a good swamp critter?
Dammit! https://www.whio.com/home/coronavirus-pandemic-what-you-need-know-today-wednesday-july-22/6PYBB7CQO5CH7OQL36YTAEBV7E/
Statewide mask mandate. ::growls low in throat::
Recall DeWine, and throw him at Cuomo, maybe the explosion when the two come into contact will get rid of them.
No provision for recall of statewide officials nor members of state legislature – https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_recall_in_Ohio
Funny. Wonder how that happened.
::still growling::
Conduct an extraordinary rendition to a black site.
…Or a black hole.
Please add Murphy to this equation.
Split the difference between Ohio and New York, collide them in Harrisburg.
Look, the become desensitized to everything else. They have to push further and further to keep that power boner going strong. It’s not their fault.
Would Trump passing a nationwide mask mandate actually accelerate the judiciary putting a stop to this?
Yes.
Then that’s what I’m pulling for. Because that’s the only way this stops. The places that haven’t already passed them won’t enforce them anyway.
The only way it stops is if Trump loses the election or the people just get sick of it and tell them to fuck off.
No. The elites and establishment are united in making masks mandatory.
You gotta start somewhere teaching them to obey. I mean if you don’t just want to go straight to building the camps and we’re out of money.
There’s got to be a way to poke holes or make inconspicuous slits in a mask so that you can appear to be wearing one while still being able to breathe somewhat normally and not sweat because of your own breath heating up your face.
… I mean, I would never do that. I’m just saying that our Public Health Experts™ may want to be aware of this capability in case some unpatriotic, non science lovers decide to do this for some selfish reason.
Zippered ones exist. The ones I saw were gingham and $35.
Yeah, it’s pants-on-head retarded. So even my parents in a small town in a rural county in the middle of nowhere are going to have to wear masks to visit the local watering hole. Apparently this is all super crucial to ensuring the schools will open in the Fall, which I’m beginning to doubt will happen anyway.
DeRINO is a fuckin’ clown.
I see ya’ll back there in the flyover got you one of them east coast type republicans, aka, democrat. Oddly enough, Hogan isn’t that bad and he’s a real genuine east coast republicrat.
Fuck. Sorry.
They just announced a statewide mandate here in Indiana, too. So much for being on the saner side of things.
Well, there go my plans for a little impromptu vacation to one of your lovely state park lodges.
Are there any states left other than SD that DON’T have a mask mandate?
NH. VT.
For now.
Scott in Vermont has been hinting at it.
Sununu in NH has opposed it, though some municipalities are passing ordinances requiring masks.
Also, sounds like Nebraska doesn’t have one.
Nebraska governor unhappy with Lincoln mayor’s mask mandate
It’s a city mandate the governor is not on board with: face masks required — by order of the mayor — in buildings open to the public where social distancing cannot be guaranteed.
“We’ve been able to manage this by asking people to do the right thing,” Gov. Pete Ricketts said during his news conference on Monday morning. “To bring the heavy hand of the government and to tell people what to do that to me just seems overbearing.”
The governor insists that Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird doesn’t have the power, and his lawyers are reviewing her authority.
A quick search suggests WI doesn’t have one yet, though some cities have ’em. Paging CPRM or any other Wissies – might a Lake Geneva getaway be able to be mask-free?
I think Maine’s mask mandate only applies to certain counties and municipalities.
Looks like none at the state level in Georgia.
In Tennessee it depends on the county.
Florida is by county, and there is a challenge in at least one county.
South Carolina is by municipality or county, not state wide.
Well, there went any hope of me having at least a brief time of being maskless in public while taking a mini-vacation next weekend.
It’s so critical that it has to go into effect Thursday evening… at 18:00… CRITICAL.
Never mind that the Cleveland Clinic is turning their COVID ward back into a training area.
… how can you be a technical person and not know how to even find the IP address of your own machine?
Meh… I google it all the time. One of those things i’ve decided not to commit to memory.
Easy. You just lie on your resume.
Shut up! I lurnt myself to run the computer and the words and x cell!
I have no idea what the IP address of my Subaru is. Or the CZ. I think the Mark IV’s is 10.10.192.22
“Me? Technical? Oh heck no! I thought you asked, ‘Are you technically a person?'”
Can a person without a soul truly be a person? One wonders.
#GingerSoulsMatter!
Where did you get a Soul? I never got mine!
Growing up in Dayton I got the Soul AND the Funk!
I got the Funk, I just took a shower to get it off, in warm, cold water
So you drive a Rio, not a Soul, huh?
By not being a technical person, but having a technical role.
Hmm. I thought the Hat’s poetry reminded me of this little ditty, but they don’t quite jive together.
Whoops. Flubbed the link:
https://youtu.be/6WWuVsunoD8
Hearing scheduled in lawsuit between NC Lt. Gov. Dan Forest and Gauleiter Cooper
A hearing has been scheduled for next month in litigation from Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest challenging several COVID-19 restrictions issued by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.
State Judge James Gale on Tuesday set Aug. 4 as the date for arguments before him.
Forest sued the governor three weeks ago, saying a half-dozen executive orders that Cooper’s issued during the pandemic should be voided because the Council of State didn’t sign off on them. Some orders shuttered businesses and mandated face coverings in public places.
Forest, who is trying to unseat Cooper in the November election, wants Gale to block the enforcement of the orders while the case goes to trial. Cooper has said he followed the law while making health and safety decisions.
So, I’ve noticed the last few days of reading articles around the intertoobz, that the latest talking points have went out. Now, if someone challenges the left by saying that cancel culture is anti-free speech, the universal hive mind reply is ‘Nuh uh, it’s just holding people accountable for their hate speech!’. Well, OK then.
Let’s see how well that works on other issues that the Left cares about:
Person A: Islam is a terrorist religion and should be banned from the United States.
Person B: No way! That’s infringing on their freedom of religion!
Person A: Nuh uh, it’s just holding people accountable for their religion.
Of course they get to define what “hate speech” and “accountable” mean.
Hate speech means ‘things we, who are all of one pure mind, disagree with’.
How hard is that deplorable!
If you insist on no mask, ‘we’ll insist you don’t fly Delta,’ CEO says
wonder if this is part virtue signalling, part concern about their potential liability should an infection even occur on one of their planes.
I can see an angle there where if they don’t aggressively enforce the mask mandate, they’re being negligent.
I’ve told our board that I am serenely unconcerned about liability claims that a member of the public caught the ‘Vid in our hospital. For one simple reason: there is no way to prove where they caught it.
Two exceptions:
A patient who was negative when admitted, and positive while here or shortly after.
An employee that we have contact traced to an exposure in the hospital.
Neither of these would apply to an airplane passenger.
think that’ll stop someone from trying, though?
you’ve got a built in class, everyone on that flight. Low risk/high reward if it pays off
Plaintiff’s lawyers have a business plan that relies on early settlement, before they run up expenses that their share of the damages.
The weak-kneed GC’s who settle nuisance claims get more nuisance claims. Something something more, something reward.
I spend more to defend the occasional nuisance claim that it would cost me to settle it. I either win, or wind up paying something that won’t even cover the plaintiff law firm’s costs.
I get very few nuisance claims.
If we get sued for infecting people with the ‘Vid, that’s my playbook. When I ran that playbook in West Texas on malpractice cases (with the support of my board), we would go years between cases. And none of the local lawyers would sue us. Something something, less, something punish.
The most effective way to prevent transmission on an airline is to not fly but they’re not going to be stopping that. Thinking a nonHEPA mask is going to save you when you’re trapped for hours on end in a metal tube that recirculates air is akin to believing your lucky rabbits foot will work.
Of course, that old throwback to personal responsibility – “assumption of the risk” – is a dead letter in a legal system designed mostly to fleece defendants.
I had to go through a few airports and planes to get to Oklahoma recently. We all had masks, but I was under no illusions about how we were all in closely recirculating air.
I didn’t get COVID (neg result yesterday) but I sure as shit got something. My SpO2 is dropping (92 right now) and I’m having to use my nebulizer and inhaler.
Covid isn’t the only thing out there. But it’s been elevated to Magic Plague by people who live to tell others “No!”
we will insist that you don’t fly Delta into the future
Punishment… or reward?
Also a convenient justification for turning away drunk, unruly, low income, or otherwise misbehaved passengers.
I’m way ahead of this guy – I’ve long insisted that I don’t fly Delta.
St. Louis DA tampers with evidence against the Lawn Lawyers.
This is all an exercise in stupid.
So owning a gun that fires, but protecting your property, even though you didn’t fire the gun, is now illegal?
Fuck that shit, they opened the doors to this when they all agreed that ‘some violations of the 2nd amendment’ are OK, because reasons.
owning a gun that fires
It wouldn’t have until they fixed it. So the lady is clearly guilty.
It’s like saying someone hit someone with a car but the car has a broken starter and has had one for awhile. The investigation team replaces the starter and voila, the car runs. Ergo, guilty.
In the great state of Murland, you can’t leave a car sitting in your own driveway, even though the license and registration are valid, even if you have not driven it for a year, if you don’t have insurance on it. I’m not making that shit up. I found it out the hard way and had to turn in the plates or get insurance. Insurance companies love this state.
I heard about somewhere, maybe in Commiefornia, that you are not allowed to back into the driveway because your license plate needs (some states only do the rear) to be visible for some reason even when you are on your own property. Shit’s retarded and tyrannical.
Can’t be CA: 1) haven’t heard of it; 2) front and rear plates.
What if you’re parked in your garage, you need a see through garage door facing the street?
2 plates for California, you can back in,
Virginia does the same.
That really pissed me off. They were threatening to fine me so I went down there and told them I’m not driving it, it’s been sitting there with a for sale sign on it. So I had to get one of my neighbors to go down there with me to witness that the car had been just sitting there all this time. So I turned in my plates to avoid getting fined.
Stupid fucking laws purely for the sake of getting revenue by fining unsuspecting people, or helping out insurance companies, the law has no fucking reason behind it at all.
My only beef with the H&H offering today is this dialog:
Nope; we are endowed with them by our Creator. The constitution just helps protect them.
It’s like the Founders knew that eventually a tyrannical govt would threaten individual rights…
Look, deplorable, the state said you can’t be talking about that creation stuff, cause the chillins is gettin edumencated about genders and bathrooms, so those rights are null and void, checkmate!
It’s like they were prescient or something. “Hey, we should write this stuff down for the stupid people!”
Doesn’t matter, you just get a bunch of corrupt judges to set bad precedent, and poof, the Constitution and BoR are useless.
The only acceptable actions were staying inside and having their house burned down around them or getting their asses badly beaten in their own front yard.
What happened to the gov pardoning them? The state AG is working to drop the charges from what I understand but doesn’t that leave them vulnerable if a less sympathetic AG gets into office in the future?
The state AG, the governor, right down to the lowly fuzz on the streets, those are all the same people.
Pardon comes after conviction, I think. So the “process is the punishment” still happens. Robert Barnes was talking about this case the other day. He says that they have a strong case that the law is unconstitutional for at least 2 reasons. They also have a tort against the AG and the state for bias and selective enforcement – the “protesters” broke down the gates and trespassed, threatened the couple and apparently also brandished a handgun. None were prosecuted. Also, the same AG has been releasing rioters and looters without bail immediately and declining to prosecute. So this is clearly a politically motivated prosecution.
He made a strong argument that they would prevail on several fronts if they chose to push things.
The one thing that cannot happen is what the prosecutor is claiming to offer – pretrial diversion. It would result in disbarment for the couple, so is completely untenable.
If I remember correctly, he also said they probably have a tort for slander and libel, for the falsehoods knowingly told by government officials and the press.
He was pretty hot about this one… 2nd amendment is one of his hot button issues that he has represented all the way to the supreme court. (Barnes is also the guy representing the Covington kids – minus Sandman)
AG or DA? IIRC the AG is against the DA
I think the title is circuit attorney or something like that. So us rabble use AG as a generic term for clarity over accuracy.
Pardon comes after conviction, I think.
You can pardon at any time, typically. Could be weird state rules, though.
Doesn’t matter. A gun is deadly force whether or not it’s loaded, unloaded, functional, or broken. It’s a complete non-issue legally.
It makes all the difference in this case. The gun has to have been “readily capable of lethal use” in order to support the charges. If a gunsmith has to fix it (and I don’t think “field stripping” gets you to the firing pin assembly), its not readily capable of anything.
Her husband’s gun was unloaded, and they found no ammo in the house. For him, its a closer question, I think, as its easy to load a gun, but not easy if you don’t have any ammo.
For her, there is no case whatsoever.
No ammo, doesn’t work…
Wouldn’t a couple of paintball guns been cheaper?
No ammo? Then wtf is the point?
They were props.
Apparently hers was an actual prop from a court case of hers. It was intentionally rendered safe for the purpose.
If you’re not going to use deadly force, you have no intention of that, then just get a paintball gun, they look real as hell now, and hope they run away instead of shooting you with a real gun.
Also, you know kids get suspended from school now for chewing pop tarts into gun shapes and kids get shot dead by cops for walking down the street with a toy gun that has the tip painted orange.
We no longer live in a sane world.
A kid near here had a BB gun on the wall of his bedroom during class zoom meetings. The school helpfully sent the police, who searched the house for a couple of hours before determining that no crime was committed. He’s in real trouble with the school system for bringing a gun to school though. Zero tolerance. Safety first… (yes, they really went there. A daisy red ryder on a wall in the background of a video is a threat to safety)
“A kid near here had a BB gun on the wall of his bedroom during class zoom meetings.”
I saw that, pure stupidity.
When I was in high school, we all drove to school with gun racks, full of real loaded guns in our pickup trucks. No one thought anything of it, and no one was ever shot.
Yeah, me too. You don’t see the once ubiquitous gun rack too often any more.
Gunz are bad, mmkay.
Tampering with evidence is a non-issue?
Manufacturing evidence carries what charge in Missouri?
Does fabrication clear the way for a personal lawsuit against the DA’s office?
Absolute immunity bitches!!!!!!!
This.
The courts have literally found that framing people is not actionable. You have to prove that they do it all the time, have been caught before, have been trained on exactly how to not frame people in this exact manner, etc. before you can break through absolute immunity. (See Harry Connick Sr. case)
They should file a complaint against her with the state bar. She should lose her license for directing that a piece of evidence be altered so that it supports the charges she filed.
I think there’s also a civil rights claim in there, too.
Prosecutor. Disbared. For stuff they did as a prosecutor. Now i’ve heard everything.
Hey, it happened to Nifong.
You know why you know his name? Because that’s how rare that outcome is.
Hell, Alcie Hastings took bribes on camera and got tossed off the bench… only to go on to congress as a democrat.
As I write above, Robert Barnes thinks they have a strong case for civil rights violations and for fighting the law itself as unconstitutionally vague (it literally says that it is illegal to display a gun in an angry manner… WTF does angry mean in this context?)
There are also several angles of attack for a civil rights case – and that’s before we find out that she worked to frame them by falsifying evidence.
discussed here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWW5DS5A2dc
I got at least one piece of good news today. My company has decided to push back the expiration of banked PTO until end of year 2021 (instead of end of year 2020). Now, lets get some travel restrictions lifted.
Unfortunately, we have not. If you’re WFH, you can take your vacation time and NWFH though.
My company changed from an accrual system to a “suggested number of days off” system. They were going to 0 out the accrued hours at the end of this year if they weren’t used.