It’s New Years Day, and my obligation as a good Jew is to do something I’ll have to atone for on Yom Kippur next week. Maybe I can start here…
But besides the obvious deaths (e.g., James Garfield), there are some notable birthdays today, including someone who would look at you cross-eyed; a guy who survived a massacre; another dead SC justice; inventor of a popular sex aid for underendowed older men; a woman who was of two minds; the ONLY legitimate Batman; and someone who would still be alive if a grand jury prosecutor had done his job.
News.
Ding dong. And what a lovely tongue-bath, paid for using your tax money. Here’s the expected reaction in the press.
All I can say is, keep your eye on your bicycle.
This makes me feel better about being Jewish.
One more reason that I put up with the horrible climate here. 2A FTW!
I’m not sure why Fats Navarro has been (relatively) forgotten, but dammit, he shouldn’t be. Old Guy Music today is a reminder.
Good Yam Tov, Old Man!
Monin’, Pepe.
Biden, at a carpenter union’s training hall in Minnesota, emphasized his plans to boost American manufacturing.
“It’s time to reward hard work in America and not wealth,” Biden declared with roughly a dozen workers looking on.
Was he wearing an onion on his belt?
…which was the style at the time.
Launch the Kremlin domes!
Wait, what were we talking about?
If only he had some influence for say 8 years, maybe he could have done something.
Joe Biden, The lone voice in the wilderness.
It’s time to reward hard work in America and not wealth
How fucking clueless do you have to be?? The wealth is the reward. Sure, people get to pass it on to their lazy trust fund babies, and some people earn wealth more by luck than by effort, but for the average case, wealth is the result of hard work.
And look at how government-sector workers are increasingly the ones getting rich.
hey, sucking the government’s dick is hard work, especially when you only get paid $20 at a time.
I’d be okay with the government getting its dick sucked if they didn’t fuck me in the ass to pay for it.
If you think they cannot get more clueless, here, hold their beer.
“It’s time to reward hard work in America and not wealth”
Just make sure you don’t work too hard, because that might make you wealthy, and then we’re going to have to confiscate that.
Love that chick’s comics! Nice pull, Old Man.
I suspect that the verbiage was Photoshop. Nonetheless…
Yeah, she’s busted up and damaged beyond repair but her stuff is really funny. I like her “Retarded Dog” series.
What the hell? That Woke church ad is awful.
Next thing you know, the Southern Baptist Convention will drop “Southern” from its name because of imagined racist undertones. Oh wait; that actually happened this week.
They are now the Great Commission Baptist Church.
“Great Commission”? They get compensated generously for every soul they save? Always suspected as much.
I have officially run out of foreheads to smack. We should have called 2020 The Year Of The Helmet.
Say what?
WTF?
Seriously? I’m out of the loop because I’m going to Rosh Hashanah services if you know what I mean.
Heretics gonna heretic.
All I can say is, keep your eye on your bicycle.
I thought you were supposed to keep your eye elsewhere.
The body now says that anyone exposed to someone with the virus should be tested, even if they have no symptoms. This includes people who have spent at least 15 seconds within 6 feet of someone confirmed to have the virus.
SCIENCE!
Too many horror movies. Those things will give you nightmares.
Ya know, every year about this time earwigs start showing up in the house but instead of squashing them underfoot, this time I’m going to just cut both of my ears off and pour molten lead into the holes. Just to be sure. For SCIENCE.
So they deafened you with science?
#Tin-Eared
No, that’s Ted’s condition.
Tin ears
That just gets a hearty FUCK OFF from me.
“15 seconds”
OFFS
Did I miss something? Is there any credible evidence that “asymptomatic spreaders” are anything other than “people that just didn’t get sick.” You know, people who’s immune systems successfully supressed the virus, and as such, it never significantly multiplied in their respiratory systems and consequently could not have been spread?
My impression is that they are what we used to call “carriers.” Like Typhoid Mary, who never got sick herself but managed to infect many others.
That’s my question. Is there evidence that “asymptomatic cases” are actually significantly contagious? Even with typhoid, Mary Mallon was an outlier case, not the norm.
What do you mean evidence? We have consensus.
That’s why they have to test more. It’s the only way to have numbers going up.
Test more, get more positives. Never Mind how mild or nonexistent the symptoms were.
Again, I was under the impression that the PCR tests are somewhere between useless and ineffectual.
Does someone know otherwise? Are we actually testing specifically for this version of the ‘vid?
Do I care anymore?
If I remember correctly, a WHO official said a while back that there is no evidence of asymptomatic spread.
When folks started spreading that information around, WHO quickly walked back the claim to “There’s a difference between asymptomatic and presymptomatic. If you’re presymptomatic, you can spread the virus. There’s no way to tell the difference between asymptomatic and presymptomatic until you get symptoms.”
Happy Birthday, Cass!
“the Now Sound” LOL
Can ya dig it, baby?
Beautiful stuff from Jon Denver and Cass from close to my first birthday
Noice.
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That’s some outstanding mind-reading going on at the Fail.
If Romney opposes a nominee, Utah might lynch him.
I’d pay to see that.
Unfortunately, Utahans are the same idiots who immediately jumped on the Evan McMuffin bandwagon.
Yep, fairly certain that [[[tribal]]] affiliation atones for quite a few misdeeds in Utah.
“Mitt Romney is about to make Benedict Arnold look like a team player” from someone’s twitter
If a bunch of atheists wanted to parody modern woke religion, I can’t imagine what they would have done differently.
Fuck the CDC.
Democrats being Democrats.
https://13wham.com/news/local/emergency-responders-at-large-scene-in-rochester
Mass shooting in Rochester.
Nobody called prior to the shooting to report the large, illegal gathering, oh the horror!
The scene is not far from Rochester’s Public Market. It appears, for now, the market will be open as usual Saturday morning.
OFFS
Like the market leaders are gonna say “Something bad happened last night a couple blocks over. We’re not opening today”
Lovely. That’s around the corner from where I attended 1st through 3rd Grade. It was a scary AF ghetto 40 years ago but I can’t imagine how much worse it’s gotten.
It was a mostly peaceful night.
93% peaceful.
How much will that 7% cost the tax payers?
That’s the first home invasion article I’ve seen in several years that doesn’t refer to the home invader as a “shooting victim”.
Gah. I need a little more sleep. Later, friends!
Sweet dreams, Fes!
Democrats being Democrats.
Louisville edition.
https://www.wave3.com/2020/09/19/three-dead-after-shooting-beulah-church-road/
LeBron James doesn’t understand plea deals, or he’s just an asshole, or both…
https://news.yahoo.com/lebron-james-reacts-lori-loughlin-021414201.html
LeBron is dumber than Mike Tyson (who actually seems to be intellectually curious) but he’s taken seriously by people that ought to know better. If you were to form a social and political philosophy by doing nothing but the opposite of the stances he takes you’d be doing pretty well.
https://mobile.twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1307199643982409728
This is happening in America. This is not acceptable.
The rioting, or the rioters getting arrested?
The whole thing is a major shitshow. Of course, I support arrests of violent criminals.
(((Happy New Year!!)))
Thanks CP.
So last night I missed a little discussion about masks and apparently missed the heated discussion from a while ago.
There is a mask that can help prevent catching Rona, a properly fitting N95. Everything else is either largely useless or completely useless and this is documented in the before times to the point some hospitals did not even use “surgical masks” as there was no significant change in wound infection outcome.
And this is before you get into the public misuse of masks
-cloth
-multi (day) use(s) of single time use product
-storage (hanging from the mirror in a boiling car, crumpled and kept in pocket or purse)
-improper fit
-facial hair
Much of my information comes from Dr Osterholm of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at U of Minnesota. CIRAP and the U of M have been pressured to censor Osterholm for his statements that masks do not prevent infection and his questioning the deadliness of COVID and the need for the lockdowns
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/special-ep-masks
The above link is from a podcast Osterholm did concerning masks. This was posted by a fellow glib and includes a transcript and podcast so no excuse not to expose yourself to the info
To recap his podcast:
-In the before times and to this very day the CDC via its more reputable arm the NIOSH states that anything less than the N95 is not effective in disease prevention.
-Disease prevention via masks is all about permeability and fit. Anything less than the n95 is too permeable for airborne infection which COVID is (he adds that the most current research states the flu is airborne too!) Cloth offers 97% particle permeability! Surgical masks are permeable to 44% of particles assuming proper fit. Anyone with a beard and a mask is wasting money and unable to prevent infection.
Think a surgical masks works? Ok put it on. Form the clip to fit around your nose. Great now put on glasses. Did they fog up? Yes they did because the surgical mask cannot create a tight seal. The fog on the glasses is your humidified air following the path of least resistance through all the gaps in the mask out. When you breathe in air is flowing through those same gaps.
-A minor thing for the glib crowd, but the absolute numbers for the scientific consensus on masks is probably not as shocking as it seems. Osterholm says that he noted colleagues names on one pro-masks expert lists, and it seemed a little off. So he contacted five from a list of 100. What he heard back was of the friends he contacted 4 assumed the data was good and the fifth succumbed to peer pressure.
In all this discussion of the lack of protection masks offer from infection. I want to highlight one glaring danger that masks do pose, susceptible populations thinking they are immune or protected behind their talismasks. They are not. It is truly appalling, but not surprising that the government is telling people they are safe behind something that is equivalent to a screen door on a submarine. They are knowingly putting people’s lives at risk, and the media and HR departments are all too willing to take the marching orders no questions asked and blare out that masks are our savior. The unquestioning lockstep is so strong that hospitals are leading their own campaigns that masks show #respect or #Icare.
Finally, I have to admit I am an asshole and probably will not be able to engage anyone in this because I’ll be trying to keep my toddlers from causing mass chaos the same as any morning.
JB hope you feel better soon. I, too, took a break from glibs (and all news) for part of the summer because this lockdown wore me out.
There is a mask that can help prevent catching Rona, a properly fitting N95.
Not even that. Randomized clinical trials have found no effectiveness in preventing viral transmission, even when worn by professionals.
I find that difficult to believe.
Why?
First off, I’m wondering how they could even do randomized clinical trials…
Secondly, a filter doesn’t filter anything?
Well, the usual way. Not sure why you think a clinical trial can’t be done. In fact there are at least four new ones specifically looking at COVID transmission, and so far they have confirmed the results of previous trials – no significant difference. There are other trials that have been done for many months, but they haven’t released any preliminary results and aren’t publishing until next year. That probably means they found the same thing.
“Not sure why you think a clinical trial can’t be done. ”
Because it would involve infecting healthy people?
They don’t infect healthy people. They look to see if the masks are effective in preventing infection vs. the control group.
There are a few I’ve come across that have been randomized. I would link them but I’m not sure which as I’ve got over 70 studies sitting in Pages. Lol.
Indeed. Even the N95 is not conclusive. OSHA and CEBM make clear masks suck donkey kong cock.
Wearing an N95 is a miserable experience too, especially in the summertime.
People forget they’re construction masks and not meant for community settings.
They just happen to work adequately with viruses.
the NIOSH states that anything less than the N95 is not effective in disease prevention.
Here’s where I get confused (looking at that link) . Yes, it says the medical masks aren’t for disease prevention. Great. I can understand that. There’s a substantial probability of the virus/bacteria sneaking in through the path of least resistance (or even through the permeable mask itself) , and a properly fitted N95 doesn’t have the same problem.
However, in that document you linked, it says the medical masks are for protection from patients’ respiratory emissions. What is it protecting from? Obviously the concern with respiratory emissions is disease.
“wound infection” and respiratory virus is apples and oranges.
“Surgical masks are permeable to 44% of particles assuming proper fit.”
So they work better than I thought.
“I want to highlight one glaring danger that masks do pose, susceptible populations thinking they are immune or protected behind their talismasks.”
Yes, that’s the annoying thing.
Is that what the NIOSH poster is targeting? It’s not clear from the page itself. All it says (in the surgical mask “intended use and purpose” section) is:
As far as I know, wound infections are mostly bacterial.
The other thing is, unless it was an emergency, I doubt that people would be doing surgery when they are sick.
I have a growing data base of studies (c. over 50 at last count) going back to 1918 that show masks don’t work.
I read that Osterholm essay. Notice he’s arguing a guy named Jeremy Howard. He seems to be one of the main drivers of this madness. I would see him everywhere while I researched masks. He’s an obscure computer ‘accomplished scientist’ guy. And he’s peddling bull shit.
I think that setting makes a big difference. I have yet to see any real evidence (computer models are not evidence) that outdoor transmission is anything other than very rare, so obviously masks make no difference. In other settings, there are several confounding variables and very few studies have even tried to disentangle them.
16,000 people were at the Chiefs game a week ago Thursday.
1 person tested positive a few days later.
The precautions worked!
The only organization in the entire country that could’ve put this COVID bullshit to bed was the NFL. And they didn’t flex their muscle when they could’ve.
Hrmph.
Since the grim reaper is in the news…
I dropped this at the end of the dead PM linx, last night:
Thought experiment time:
Above, I linked to an early vote story, and implied a situation involving Biden. You know, what if he’s not available to start work in January?
Well, what about President Cartoon Villain? And, specifically, what about the early voting NeverTrumpers? Would it even matter to the hard core NeverTrumpers? Maybe Pence is so tainted by his association with the Bad Orange Man he would not be recognized as legitimate. If The Donald chokes on a big Mac, or falls down the steps of Air Force One, or is taken out by a True Patriot, and Pence is sworn in, what happens to those ballots prematurely cast for Biden?
Can you call up the local election board and ask for a do-over?
How about it? If Trump croaks, and Pence is sworn in as President, NeverTrumperism has been achieved. Will those noble Rockefeller Republicans demand the opportunity to recast their votes? Or will they just shrug and say, “Biden gets us to where we want to be.”
The latter. There may be some heartburn among the ranks, but triflingly little.
Meanwhile, back at the weather desk
Three storm systems were named in the Atlantic on Friday, using the last name on the National Hurricane Center’s list for 2020 hurricanes and forcing the agency to start using names from the Greek alphabet.
Tropical Storm Wilfred was named late Friday morning and was just over 600 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands, according to the National Hurricane Center. It poses no threat to land and is forecast to weaken over the Atlantic next week.
Wilfred was the last name on this year’s list of 21 Atlantic hurricane names — only the second time in recorded history that all the names were used. The hurricane center does not use the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z because there aren’t enough names to fill those letters.
To name additional storms, the center will use the Greek alphabet, which has only happened once since the hurricane center started naming storms in 1953. In 2005, the hurricane center had to use 6 letters of the Greek alphabet for a record number of storms.
Proof positive the planet is dying from heat stroke!
What they didn’t say is that the 21 number hasn’t been set in stone since 1953. It has been 22 or 23 or more in the past. How do I know? I read an article where it was talking about breaking an old record of the fastest to 22 storms, and the old record hurricane had a name.
https://mobile.twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307228904424308736
Mildly amusing. BLM protesters act civil in Alabama.
That’s how it should be…also, an armed society is a polite society. Acting the fool in most places in Alabama for whatever reason will get you ventilated pretty quick.
As one comment stated, the Soros bail money may have been cut off. They are not armored up either.
Why would Soros money be cut off?
People and organizations are getting nervous about giving it out because it looks like the various powers that be are going to pursue them.
Also, if IRC there was a recent court decision that affects political contributions from foreign
donorscommunist insurgents.Apropos of nothing I remembered that I was on duty the evening that Thurgood Marshall died. It was during the Clarence Thomas hearings that I began my political migration towards the right. It was then that it became abundantly clear that the Democrat party had NOT changed and it was still the racist party, mouthing empty platitudes of equality. The sprouts of the current poisonous identity politics was always right there to be seen.
Problematic
Attorney General William Barr’s provocative critique of career employees who work for him and of politics surrounding Justice Department investigations is his clearest acknowledgment of a worsening divide between President Donald Trump’s attorney general and his rank-and-file.
In a speech intended to celebrate Constitution Day, Barr used inflammatory rhetoric to take aim at everything from “headhunting” prosecutors to Black Lives Matter to Covid lockdowns. In the days after, some prosecutors sought to reassure colleagues that their work can continue without interference and that Barr’s language, especially when he was denigrating those who work for him, was mostly focused on the internecine political fights ongoing in Washington.
One supporter of Barr’s called the attorney general’s comments “tone deaf.”
“Not helpful,” one senior Justice official said even as the Barr was making his remarks.
Another senior department official described internal meetings with career prosecutors in the days after the Hillsdale College remarks and called it a “deep blow to morale.”
Inside the Justice Department some officials describe a measure of fatigue with the attorney general’s and the President’s atypical public commentary.
The fleas don’t like how the circus is being run. They prefer to run it themselves.
“…some prosecutors …One supporter of Barr’s …one senior Justice official said ….Another senior department official…some officials describe…”
Shorter Katelyn and Evan – “We just made all of this up out of thin air.”
“Yet another race faker is exposed: BLM activist and spokesman for family of man killed by cops admits posing as a black person”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8749525/BLM-activist-Indiana-admits-race-faker-posing-black-person-years.html
I don’t know if drugs fell out of her ass, because I’m starting to lose count.
She chose that new name herself??
Talk about your identity crises. I wonder what species she identifies as.
Lemming.
***WILD APPLAUSE!!!***
I was going to say “otherkin” but yours is much better.
So freaking Tedious.
“creates divisiveness”
↑ Today in lack of self-awareness.
I’m white, but I’m going to pretend to be black so I can tell other white people how tough it is to be a black person in America.
/leftist ‘logic’
Victimhood seems to pay off in these circles where we keep finding these people that identify as something they are not. What baffles me is that these people don’t grasp, or more likely, choose to ignore, that they do this shit they do because it gives them an advantage. Then they cry crocodile tears about how hard it is to be them in their current advantageous incarnation. Serious cognitive dissonance at work.
People make fun of Liawhata, but I actually feel that episode says a lot more about her character than people realize. When you are able to profit from the victimhood bandwagon some will choose to take it to it’s logical conclusion.
“Emmy Award presenters will rock full hazmat gear as they present to star-studded winners at their homes amid COVID-19 precautions”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8749743/Emmy-Award-presenters-rock-hazmat-gear-present-winners-homes-amid-COVID-19.html
WTF??
So brave. So woke. Will they show us the presenters being buzzed into the gated enclave?
I’m going to my girlfriend’s sister’s for an Oktoberfest thing later today, and her entire family is shitlib. I am sure there will be a lot of wailing about RBG. Which cases in which her opinions were terrible should I bring up?
She voted with the majority on Kelo.
On that alone she’s bad.
Yep. Just let them know that thanks in no small part to RBG, the local government can take their house and give it to Jeff Bezos to tear down so he can build an Amazon depot. Maybe video their reactions.
I got into an angry argument with a libertarian leaning but always seems to somehow vote D woman I work with about a week ago. She ‘reminded’ me that it was the conservative justices that gave us Kelo, and simply would not believe me when I told her she was mistaken. I have had the same exchange with other people before, and it makes me realize just how much people jump to assume that the other Team is responisble for every evil without bothering to learn the facts. She did apologize when I printed off the decision and showed her the votes, and the dissent, so in this one case there may be hope.
Nothing that you can rub their noses in. She was a political animal, and her awful decisions were because she was post-hoc rationalizing her political vote.
I wouldn’t bring up anything.
I don’t want to, and would rather not talk politics in a social setting, at least if it’s mixed company, but they are definitely going to bring it up first and loudly.
Just chuckle and ask for another beer.
Having gone to law school (to my eternal shame), I know some obscure, arcane decisions of hers that were rather shitty. Maybe I can bring those up? They’ll probably be befuddled into silence and I can have more beer.
The taboo on unsolicited discussion of politics in mixed company seems to have disappeared, at least for progs. I hear it nonstop. I think it is because progressives have incorporated it as part of their identity and seem unable to grasp that not everyone else shares their views.
Hell, all anyone ever talks about anymore is national politics.
**feels a little less troubled about being stuck on this side of the Pacific for the rest of the year**
I would either keep my mouth shut or not go.
Mojeaux is very wise. Take heed.
Horrible advice!
Gloating is the only appropriate way to handle it.
Dont get into any conversations about politics but appear very cheerful.
That depends — looking for an excuse to break-up?
If not, silence is golden.
Just tell them your flag is at half-mast today and leave it at that.
“if you know what I mean”
*waggles eyebrows *
Exactly.
Bring a large and fancy glass bottle, and tell them you want to collect those sweet tears for later consumption….
Raich and Kelo –
Raich because and Angel Raich Diane Monson just wanted a few MJ plants for personal consumption to help curb the pain brought on by disease and RBG thinks that people with horrible diseases shouldn’t have access to pain treatment.
Kelo because RBG thinks government should be able to take your house and give it to someone willing to pay more taxes on the property.
Note that RBG died with access to painkillers and wasn’t tossed out on the street.
“In 1923, Mrs. Turpin became ill with influenza, which caused the loss of her hearing. Heartbroken, Turpin took his seriously ill wife to the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec, hoping she would be healed.[7] She eventually became an invalid,”
‘I said cure her hearing not make her a cripple!’
Well, at least Van Morrison is on our side.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/18/van-morrison-fascist-bullies-anti-lockdown-covid-songs
I can actually envision the spittle flying out of the author’s mouth reading that.
The old rockers are rebellious while the current stars suck off the government and want to silence those who disagree. Good on him and he’s putting his money where his mouth is too. because he’s definitely in a high risk group.
?
Except Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.
Has this been posted yet?
CNN doesn’t even care if people know they are propaganda.
Yes, I posted that. No idea what the “source” was.
Look fat, if a source said it you can take it to the bank.
Gupta should be smart enough to know that is 100 percent bullshit. Then again, he should be smart enough to know it’s 100 percent transparent bullshit that hurts his credibility so maybe I’m overestimating him.
He’s long since sacrificed his credibility for his career.
Even before this week, Barr had strained relationships with the federal prosecutors in field offices across the country, after forcing out leaders in Washington, DC, and Manhattan offices, and appearing to stay more focused on matters of interest in Washington rather than offering support to prosecutors across the country — a stark difference from his predecessor Jeff Sessions.
For months, some career and even political appointees in the department abided the political overtones of the attorney general’s regular interviews in conservative media because Barr is deeply supportive of law enforcement programs that are at the core of Justice Department agencies.
But after Barr embraced being the face of a heavy-handed crackdown on protesters at Lafayette Square In Washington, to make way for Trump photo-op in front of St. John’s Church, reaction inside the Justice Department was shock, some senior Justice officials said. For the first time in his current tenure, some Justice prosecutors outside Washington expressed concern about the effect on morale.
Right. Barr is turning the Department of Justice into a right wing death squad.
I’m in Michigan and I remember in 2016 seeing basically zero yard signs for Hillary. This year there are more Biden signs than Trump signs. Almost all of the yuge yard signs are for Trump though. Not sure what to make of it other than someone is working the streets for Biden.
I think more people are on the Heil Whitmer bandwagon than the Trump train in Michigan.
If I didn’t know any better we’re one Supreme Court Justice away from becoming Gilead. Women forced to wear Handmaiden outfits and being chained to the stove while gay men are executed in the village square.
These people lack any sort of perspective.
It’s the same damn thing every time. Do these people not remember the exact same rhetoric a couple years ago for Kav?
How many times are we as part of Christian (go with it for now) religions told that the coming of Christ will be tomorrow and we scurry and worry that the timeline true but we never look back and go, “Yeah, okay, but NOTHING HAPPENED.”
At least that’s how it is in my church. Any day now…
“Jesus is coming. Look busy.”
told that the coming of Christ will be tomorrow and we scurry and worry that the timeline true but we never look back and go, “Yeah, okay, but NOTHING HAPPENED.”
I don’t currently have a church (long covid related story), but that type of mentality would be run out on a rail from most of the churches Ive attended. “You are not to know the time of the return” and all that.
Not to say that we aren’t supposed to be prepared, but any sort of “it’s happening!!!” is usually half-serious social commentary.
^^^This.
But heretics gonna heretic.
They don’t want perspective. Indulging their fear is more fulfilling.
Now you’ve gone and reminded me of this. Ohio Wesleyan University High School Choral Music Festival, 19somethingsomething.
And the same people who will angrily warn us that Christian conservatives are bent on implementing Handmaid’s Tale will then turn around and denounce anyone who voices concerns about Islamic radicals.
I was driving out to the vacation cabin this summer and we passed by a couple of the camps where they put the captured minorities. The stench from the ovens was pretty bad.
My prediction:
Trump will nominate some milquetoast squish Bush senior would have been proud to put forward, and the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) will react as if he had nominated a crabbier and less humane version of Judge Roy Bean, who will bring back segregation and public hangings.
Trump is going to have to find a nominee who’s willing to go thru the meat grinder. This could be worse than Kavanaugh.
I think it’ll be a woman this time to avoid springing 30 year old rape fabrications from loyal Dem soldiers. Still a meat grinder but would avoid that particular pitfall at least.
I’m a little morbidly curious to see what would happen if Trump nominated Obama? Would the Dems turn on Obama like a pack of vicious dogs or would they grudgingly praise Trump? Their unhinged reaction to the Abraham peace accords makes me think the former.
It will be a woman and if it’s that Barrett chick I look forward to the Dems letting their anti-Catholic bigotry fly (again).
If Trump nominated Obama the media would deride him for not doing so sooner – “why did he wait until this year when we’re so close to the election?”
I hope he takes the gloves off.
If the R’s haven’t figured out by now that you can never compromise with these people they never will.
If he nominates a true right winger the usual suspect squishes in the senate will balk and he’ll get nothing. Be ready for a bowl of moderate jello unless he wants to parlay it into a motivator for the right for the election.
Barrett would be the correct play. Force them to vote against a woman.
I’d rather he clone Gorsuch.
I’m not too familiar. She has a fairly good reputation doesn’t she?
Probably similar to Scalia.
Absolutely and absolutely.
Gorsuch and Morsuch.
Links:
1) I wanted her off of the court but didnt wish her dead.
2) Murdering children does not equal gender equality
3) No shit?
4) Fuck off
5) The most effective way to get people to be anti-communist is to have them live under a communist government.
6) Apparently living 7 months out of the year without sunlight kills brain cells.
7) “the U.S. is divided on how to move forward.” – I was told as a kid “Dont start any shit and there wont be any shit”
8) Yeah…dont start any shit.
Keep your powder dry people. It may come in handy soon.
1) I wanted her off of the court but didnt wish her dead.
Right? This is a distinction that, for me, requires conscious effort to maintain, and I’m not sure I’m really successful.
“I didn’t want dead, just out of government. Well, they probably would have kept flapping their gums in the press, so, make that ‘out of government and public life.’ Okay, I guess I’m glad they’re dead.”
didn’t want [insert name] dead….
5 no guarantee though do not underestimate envy and collaborationism
https://mobile.twitter.com/yahoonews/status/1307127173644537857?s=10
This is how literally Hitler reacts when ambushed by the press with the knowledge that RBG has died.
He can’t win. Look at the comments.
Not on your life.
His official statement (like the unofficial one in the video) is rather respectful. But, you know, Orange Man bad.
Aw, come on! They know what he really wanted to say!
Note that the press are shouting questions about a replacement. Literally within 10 seconds of him hearing about it, they are demanding that he talk replacement.
Some good news! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-8748451/US-nursing-homes-given-ahead-welcome-visitors.html
Can’t sleep in this heat, ugh.
Do you want lockdowns to last forever? Because this is how they last forever. In 3 weeks when 4 seniors die and 40 test positive for Captain Trips.
I read that Osterholm essay. Notice he’s arguing a guy named Jeremy Howard. He seems to be one of the main drivers of this madness. I would see him everywhere while I researched masks. He’s an obscure computer ‘accomplished scientist’ guy. And he’s peddling bull shit.
A model explicitly constructed to validate a predetermined conclusion is a lie.
Trump is expected to ignore RBG’s dying wish and nominate her replacement in days while Biden demands he wait until after the election so the American people can decide
Her dying wish is insulting and the people already decided. Trump is president until January and Team Red holds the Senate until January, regardless of the outcome of the upcoming election. IOW the current government is current and it must function as such.
Some acquaintance on FB said that we should respect her wishes. I wanted respond…fuck her wishes, the seat is not hers to give.
the seat is not hers to give.
These people fancy themselves royals. And she used the word “installed”, which I found…interesting.
I thought that line was someone here making a joke last night. “No way she said that,” I thought. Stupid me.
You really can’t make this shit up.
Video or it didn’t happen.
And even if it did, who cares?
This was my thought as well. Within a half hour of the announcement of her death, all news media had this “dying wish” story.
Really? Grandma died and within minutes you run to the press to do interviews?
Seems awfully contrived.
Not to mention, she should have resigned years ago. She was only holding on to the office to keep Trump from appointing her successor.
She wanted the symbolism of having Hillary nominate her replacement.
Much like her legal decisions, it was not a decision grounded in reality, but her politics.
Serves her right.
True. That said, I think the lame duck session is a pointless and counterproductive anachronism, and should be done away with in its entirety.
This is a good point.
Although, lame duck status could offer a moment of political courage to do that which one could not do when facing an election.
Still, probably a net negative.
“You fuckers just lost an election, and now you want to pass a bunch of laws? If I get fired , do I get to hang around the office and do shit?”
That is a better answer
Has it ever accomplished that? It always seems to be 11th-hour pardons and naked graft.
Yep. It’s the perfect payoff time. Which is why it isn’t going anywhere.
This “dying wish” stuff is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
I have doubts that it’s true, myself. It’s possible somebody in the incredible pain of pancreatic cancer and/ or doped to the gills, undergoing multiple organ failure and decompensating, would say that. But I think it’s as likely that it’s a fable cooked up for partisan political points.
Forget democracy or even technocracy, how’s necrocracy?
TOS had a nice contrast of her comments on replacing a justice in 2016 and in 2020.
Stolen from TOS:
2016:
Asked if the Senate had an obligation to assess Judge Garland’s qualifications, her answer was immediate.
“That’s their job,” she said. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.”
2020:
“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
On the switch by the CDC.. just remember, the overlords at Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are taking down, blocking, demobilizing and hiding any “disinformation” that disagrees with the WHO or CDC.
Someone sent me a good rant from Crowder on the topic. He got demonetized and taken down for promoting masks and showing how to make a mask last spring. It was “disinformation” at that time because masks went against the CDC.
The punchline… The instructions for making a mask were obtained from….. The CDC website.
Last Spring?
Yes. When the CDC was saying “do not wear a mask” in March, Crowder had a show about how to make your own mask. Remember, that was when you could not find a Dust mask for any price.
Pepperidge Farm remembers. My landlord put up signs handed out by The City telling us we don’t need masks but don’t go apeshit if you see other people wearing them.
Oh, this past Spring.
Are you one of those semantic outliers who thinks “last Saturday” means something other than the most recently past Saturday?
I worked with one of those. Scheduling meetings was a nightmare. “Next Tuesday” did not mean the soonest Tuesday in the future. It meant the Tuesday after that.
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1306660312054214657
Do all the people cheering this realize most accusations are false?
that twitter account well represents the stupid/evil side of the right.
This is how literally Hitler reacts when ambushed by the press with the knowledge that RBG has died.
What a heartless monster.
The body now says that anyone exposed to someone with the virus should be tested, even if they have no symptoms. This includes people who have spent at least 15 seconds within 6 feet of someone confirmed to have the virus.
Which virus? There are always new “novel” coronaviruses. There is no cure because they are constantly mutating. And to my knowledge the test only determines “coronavirus, not any particular strain (and it is only halfway accurate at that…).If your goal is to create some sort of new world order by means of duping people with a virus, you pick a coronavirus.
Kindly fuck off.
Has it mutated? It looks like it’s not as lethal but if it has mutated, it makes for nailing down a vaccine more difficult no?
Probably? Every year the flu vaccine is considered to be only partially effective. And now I am getting stupid emails at work encouraging people to get the flu vaccine this flu season because it is suddenly a big deal. People really need to gain some perspective.
Hey, if they get it and if it results in lower cases somehow, let them. It’ll give the rest of us peace of mind in that we won’t have to hear them babble in fear.
There’s been two distinct strains since early on, and I’ve read there’s at least one more.
It’s mutating. They always do.
The hate birds, the birds that hate, just went honking by on their way south.
I don’t recall the last time fall came in September. It usually doesn’t arrive until mid-October. And then the November rains come. YAY!!! Apparently there are reasons girls like autumn.
Not just the pumpkin spice everything?
Pumpkin spice is part of it. Lemme see if I can dredge up a link I read (totally, purely scientific, I promise because IFLS!).
As much fun as I had during summer vacations as a kid, I liked going back to school in the fall (i.e. AFTER Labor Day.)
Even among Glibs, I’m a weirdo. : (
Even among Glibs, I’m a weirdo
Nuh uh! I’m the weirdo. Actually based on our general political dispositions, we all are.
*Opens arms wide*
Give me a (‘Rona) hug.
#metoo
The brothers I never had!
***gang hug!!!***
I love fall, but I’m not a fan of pumpkin spice.
I loves me a good chai latte. Probably perilously close, but maybe not quite the same connotations.
I associate pumpkin spice with pumpkin pie which we had on Tday, which I loved.
I honestly think the love of autumn has to do with warmth and coziness, part of which entails “warm” spices.
I’ve gotten better about doing it year-round, but some years I haven’t felt the urge to knit until the weather turns cool. Still only want to handle wool in autumn and winter.
For me it’s just relief from hot, muggy summer weather.
It was actually cold this morning. Low 50s.
We always skip the lower 70s and all of the 60s on the way to winter but geez, have a little heart, The Earth.
We are going to the water park….
Trump should try to get Janice Rogers Brown to come out of retirement.
Hell yes
But that would be too much of a victory for small government types. Therefore it cannot happen.
I wish he had nominated her instead of Kavanaugh. Too much worrying about locking up a seat (with a squish) for years to come. Heck, even if she had resigned in four years in Trump II, SCOTUS would likely be better for it.
I don’t recall the last time fall came in September.
I saw a lot of leaves already changing color on my little jaunt to Idaho.
Leaves are changing on the Olympic Peninsula.
Wrap Technologies, founded in 2016, has created a non-lethal lasso device called the BolaWrap that it says can help law enforcement de-escalate tense situations and arrest a suspect without using too much force. Billed as “remote handcuffs,” the device allows police to load a cartridge containing a tether into a hand-held remote that will shoot out and wrap around a suspect. The tether is just tight enough that officers can safely handcuff the person without using force, the company said.
Yeah, sure. Meanwhile, localities are moving to ban any other non-lethal means of subduing a suspect. If you remove all of those wtf do you think is left?
Trump and Biden hit unlikely battleground state of Minnesota
The behavior of Dems from top to bottom has ensured that more states will be in play.
Remember… The Russians pose an existential threat to democracy in the US because they spent a couple of hundred thousand dollars promoting “misinformation” on Facebook and Twitter.
This time around we have all of the major networks refusing to cover Trump press conferences, doing live “fact check” stunts when they do cover him and actually arguing with him and interrupting his answers in press conferences.
We have facebook, Twitter and YouTube taking down “disinformation” or silently hiding disfavored posts. They are using “objective” fact checkers like Politifact to support this.
Here is a nice takedown of one “fact check” from Politifact. https://youtu.be/gy0QxQMn0BA
I am sure we all remember several howlers from these groups over the summer. Well, it was obnoxious when it was just a fact check that was being used to declare victory when the fact check was a lie. Now, that lie is being used to impact the “fake news” at levels several orders of magnitude worse than anything Russia could possibly do.
That same Crowder clip had him talking about his live stream commentary of the two recent town hall interviews. His critique of trump was allowed, but YouTube immediately took down his stream of Biden. After the event was over, they said he was allowed to stream again.
They are working hard at every level to control everything you see and hear.
Who’s going to factcheck the factcheckers? At least they’ve harmed their own credibility to the point that it’s as bad or worse than the organizations they’re checking.
That would be the line if they were simply acting as independent research, offering up their opinion as to the veracity of selected claims.
They are now the arbiter of what is allowed on social media.
Describe Jacob Blake as an unarmed man who was shot in the back in front of his children by racist police for no reason at all…. You are good to go.
Describe him as an accused rapist who’s victim had just called the police because he was at her home, assaulting her again, who resisted arrest with force, did not stop when a taser was deployed, refused commands to stop, reached into a car where police could not see what he was reaching for… And was then shot…… Describe him that way and there is a good chance you get taken down.
https://youtu.be/9h1wE9gk1kc
Nate the Lawyer explains police use of force law very well in this socratic method video. He also explains that when he does videos like this one, YouTube demonetizes them.
They already own the press and the media. Now they are shaping everything you see at the major tech firms as well.
And they will fail. Neither Putin nor Xi could hope to achieve in so little time all that they have done. But it is still not enough. Oh, maybe Biden will be elected. Who knows. But they are full of hubris, their power is not so great as they think it is, and the more they exercise it such a naked fashion the more there will be people who see it for what it is. And the flock will be comforted, and they will wear Fauci hats to signal their virtue to each other, and they will hashtag BLM and IFLS and whatever else, but they are the emperor and they are wearing no clothes.
“If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire fucking thing down.”
https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307107507131875330
CWAA
They sure talk tough. “We” = stupid drug-addled losers they send out to do the dirty work.
Take it easy on the guy, I think he has a prion disease from that bite of human brain he took (that’s the guy, right?).
LOL! Seek help, dude.
I don’t want to, and would rather not talk politics in a social setting, at least if it’s mixed company, but they are definitely going to bring it up first and loudly.
You could always remind them the body is barely cold, and maybe they should wait a while before they get all worked up about an unnamed successor.
“NEWS: Democratic donors shattered ActBlue’s all-time record for donations in an hour after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.
Democrats gave $6.2 million in the 9 pm hour.
Then they broke the record again in 10 pm hour.
More than $100,000 per minute.”
https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1307165359523483648
“Money is politics is evuuuul!”
Was there ever any doubt that getting control of one of the unelected superbranches of government was what this is really about? They already have the bureaucracy.
No.
The Church of Iceland’s new ‘woke’ ad welcoming people to Sunday School has sparked outrage after it featured a bearded Jesus Christ with breasts, makeup and a dress.
The advert, which apparently shows Jesus shaking his ‘breasts’ while dancing under a rainbow, appeared on the National Church’s Facebook page on September 11.
Isn’t that … blasphemous? I’m not religious so you do you. But I can’t help but think that does not comport with Christianity.
Next thing you know, the Southern Baptist Convention will drop “Southern” from its name because of imagined racist undertones. Oh wait; that actually happened this week.
“South”, “dixie”, etc. is all “racist” these days. Pretty soon you won’t be able to say “grits”, “sweet tea” or “barbecue”.
Just spent the last couple of weeks in Gulfport, MS and Memphis, TN. It was all grits, sweet tea and barbecue. And shrimps. Many, many shrimps.
I’m a bad person for laughing. You already knew that.
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/058/384/032/original/cde9471b311a0346.png?1600523990
Pretty good except it’s too coherent. Instead of “the machines” it should be “the…you know, those things…she made”
Nice.
“This is now tyranny”: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8750505/Anti-mask-mayhem-Trafalgar-Square-Conspiracy-theorists-clash-police.html
The framing of that article is shit: They’re conspiracy theorists and you know what should be done with them (hint hint nudge nudge say no more).
Anyone who buys the latest government narrative is a kooky conspiracy theorist.
Yeah, that is pointed out in the comments.
Saw Joker. Pretty darn good in my opinion.
Re Moore. It’s kinda late at this point.
Trump is going to win. Good. The DNC are psychos. It’s comical beyond belief on how they’re shifting on law enforcement.
I am holding onto my stance that Trump is going to win, “landslide” now redefined to mean any margin by which the DNC cannot cheat, but only tentatively.
I have been bothered by the number of Biden signs I’ve been seeing. Not A LOT, but more than Trump signs. Biden signs are on expensive lawns. Trump signs are on, shall we say, blue-collar-type lawns.
Then yesterday on FB I saw a bumper sticker: FINE. BIDEN. IT’S ALL BULLSHIT ANYWAY.
I’ll say Trump in a squeaker when it’s all said and done. Another popular vote loss but electoral college win.
Was in heavily Republican downstate Delaware the last few days and the Biden signs narrowly beat out the Trump signs. And that’s not a good sign.
Putting out a Trump sign is a good way to get your stuff fucked with, even in (some) heavily Republican areas.
This is what I assume, and what I am counting on.
Strangely, down here in far left NYC south, I see many more trump signs than last go around. There are only a couple of Biden signs. And if you go where the money is…. Forget about it. There are trump flags everywhere. Go out on a boat and it is all Trump, everywhere.
I don’t get it. The trump hate is pervasive and has not stopped for a single moment for the last 4 years. Yet there are lots of visible Trump supporters. And almost nobody is declaring for Biden.
Biden is outpolling Trump by huge numbers here in Broward county. But I have seen shirtless gay guys in pink tu-tus waving Trump flags near the gay area of Wilton Manners.
I don’t get it. There seems to be huge enthusiasm for Trump. And zero for Biden.
But maybe there is even more enthusiasm against Trump. My wife fits in that category. She has her confirmation bias blinders on and will not even listen to a word about Trump that is not critical. She only knows enough about Bahrain to know the talking points that it isn’t really a peace deal because they were not at war.
So maybe all of the Biden people live there. No real knowledge of Biden. Not even a care. They will vote Trump out because they want Trump gone.
If the polls are showing anywhere close to even, by state or nationally (the latter being useless, of course), then it means Trump is way ahead.
it isn’t really a peace deal because they were not at war.
This talking point is mind-numbingly stupid.
That is the good thing about confirmation bias. Any fig leaf will do to avoid the pain of cognitive dissonance.
I have no yard signs out.
My neighbourhood is wonderfully sign-free and I wouldn’t disrupt that peace. The time we had signs was when my neighbor ran for mayor. Now he can’t wait for his term to be over.
I drive through farmland on my daily commute and out there if you have a sign it’s a Trump sign and it’s not a sign it’s a couple small signs flanking a banner or two and numerous American flags. In town it’s fairly even, although not nearly as many overall as I remember from past elections. If you see a sign for one there will be a sign for the other within a house or two, and the rest of the street seems to feel that one sign for each guy on a block is good enough.
Watching that clip from Crowder, he went on a rant about the covid response last spring.
He had a list. On this date Trump declared a national health emergency… Two days later pelosi went to Chinatown to urge people to come down and spend money. The next day Bloomberg urged people to go to the theater…
It was a really long list with a boatload of concrete actions taken by the president. I really had no idea there was so much, because nobody reports it that way
If anyone is actually paying attention, the actual record is very persuasive. Multiple trade deals that are inarguably better than what existed before. Multiple peace deals. The end of the Syria entanglement. No more Syria or Libya style adventures. The unemployment and income numbers pre covid. Criminal justice reform. The good list of judges.
The list just goes on and on…
Abolishment of the Y2K office and of the requirement that all fed government proposals include a section on how it is mitigating Y2K risks.
I did not know of this.
Holy crap. That is damning.
We really are incompetent.
Hey, they were sticking around to get a jump on Y3K. That’s just good management. And now Trump has put billions of lives in jeopardy with his malfeasance.
That was a thing that lasted until recently?? Wtf?
It was jobs, man. Can’t eliminate any federal jobs. That would be unconscionable.
The federal government exists to guarantee employment, everybody knows that.
Good morning, Old Man!
And good morning to the rest of you lovely people.
Thanks for the lynx. I was perusing my favorite righty site and they had a post about the visits to Minne.
I have no idea why Gropin’ Joe even bothered.
No local media allowed. You can’t make it up.
No idea if the outstate enthusiasm is enough to overcome the proggie cesspool of the Twin Cities, but time will tell.
Happy new year to all our MOT Glibs and I hope everyone has a groovy, peaceful day!
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ruthkanda
OFFS!
What 10yo knows anything about scotus? Unless the mother has been indoctrinating said 10yo that the only right that matters to women is being able to kill a baby in the womb and that it is somehow in jeopardy?
Styx thinks that Trump should nominate someone center-left that is good on 2A. I do not believe such a person even exists. Fuck that. The only optics consideration should be a woman so we can watch the left disparage said woman, which will be fun since it flies in the face of their “muh vagina” narrative. Nominate that catholic chick Barrett.
Part of me wants Candace Owens. That would be epic.
Thinking with that part can get you in trouble.
I think he should just go another gorsuch. 4 senator advantage here. Use it.
Is there another Gorsuch on any of those lists?
We don’t need another Scalia.
I’ll take Scalia over Kennedy or Roberts. When he’s wrong you fucking hate him but when he’s right goddamn is he right. And though he ignored it from time to time when it suited his prejudices (drugs are bad, mmkay), he had a sound legal theory for examining the law.
What good is a judge who blows in the wind?
They all blow in the wind when you hang them from the trees.
PS. Hi, Preet!
Oh yeah, HELLO TO ALL THE AUSAs out there with nothing better to do than monitor the juvenile bluster of an internet blowhard.
I can’t tell if that distant rumble is the sound of a woodchipper or the sound of a thousand U.S. Attorneys rushing to issue subpoenas…
Subpoenas and press releases
Gotta keep that career ladder going
But they’re apolitical! You know it’s true because they constantly tell you.
I will say this. I dislike Kagan and Sotomayor’s politics but I was willing to examine their judicial records separate from that and find whatever silver lining there may be. And, so far, it seems my initial judgments were a little off. Sotomayor is good on the 4A/5A/6A and absolutely nothing else. She’s like a living, breathing reductio ad absurdum of getting only and exactly what you asked for (not that I asked for anything of her). Whereas, Kagan seems to have found a footing that does not involve always going maximum left on every issue. But I’d still take Sotomayor over Kagan, despite having warmed to the latter somewhat, because I know where she will stand, more or less.
Kagan is a travesty along the lines of Breyer.
At least Sotomayor believes the government must be constrained in criminal law.
See all of the anti-Catholic bigotry roll out would NOT help during an election.
In the wildly improbable event that the Ds in a future election cycle nominate a center left candidate who is good on the 2A, and this unicorn wins, and then a SCOTUS justice spot opens up, then the unicorn can put up such a SCOTUS nominee – and get it shot down by the D Senators, because they hate the 2A.
Patriots who shall remain nameless
A new Republican group that has formed to oppose President Donald Trump claims it has the support of an unnamed senior official from the current administration.
In a press release to mark its official launch on Thursday, the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform (REPAIR) listed 26 people as advisers, including conservative former officials from the Reagan, both Bush, and Trump administrations.
Among them is former U.S. deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage, ex-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, and the group’s co-founder, Miles Taylor, chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before he resigned in 2019.
Also on the list are two unnamed figures, listed as “senior administration official number one” who is described as a “current top U.S. government official.”
Another name whose identity is kept secret is listed as “senior administration official 2” who is described as a “former top U.S. government official.”
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Politico reported that REPAIR is likely to create ads featuring ex-Trump officials speaking out about the administration and has a project called “Publius Reawakened,” in which current and former Republican officials describe how they think Trump has damaged the country.
Its co-founder, former DHS assistant secretary, Elizabeth Neumann, said in a statement: “We will listen to Americans including those who have been harmed by the policies and rhetoric of the current administration, with the goal of restoring civil discourse and advocating for policies which recognize the dignity and worth of all people.”
If they win, people will be coming out of the woodwork to claim credit. If they lose… a bureaucrat’s gotta eat.
There is a great irony that the Republican party, upon inception and gaining power, destroyed the republic of the founders and now they might be poised to save whats left of it.
the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform (REPAIR) listed 26 people as advisers, including conservative former officials from the Reagan, both Bush, and Trump administrations.
Yeah, fuck off.
I’ll say this for the Left, they may have disagreements with each other but when it’s time to band together, fight for some bullshit legislation, and win, they’ll do it without any hesitation. The Right though, the squish GOP assholes would rather let the Republic burn and be seen as one of the “good guys” than actually fight to save this Republic from becoming a socialist hellhole.
See Mitt Romney.
*snort*
Nothing says “conservative” like enabling a future Harris administration’s fantasy wish-list.
The Official and Perpetual Opposition Party has begun yet another outreach group. Swell.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiR8vjSXYAEA0El.jpg
Too soon.
This is why I would vote to block any Democrat witness on principle. They allowed an organized slander of Kavanaugh last go around. This time, I would get agreement before the hearings, lock arms and ram it through in 2 weeks. No witnesses of any kind other than the nominee.
Too soon ended the minute RBG’s “dying wish” became news.
Amy Coney Barrett grabbed me at a party, dragged me to a bedroom and forced me to make love to her for or hours.
*more of a humble brag than a complaint
Like a bunny?
If she gets the nomination, I hope she shows up in a cony bikini. Since it’s a formal occasion, a tasteful sarong would be appropriate.
The Church of Iceland’s new ‘woke’ ad welcoming people to Sunday School has sparked outrage after it featured a bearded Jesus Christ with breasts, makeup and a dress.
The advert, which apparently shows Jesus shaking his ‘breasts’ while dancing under a rainbow, appeared on the National Church’s Facebook page on September 11.
WTF?
Jesus: fair game (Christians are easy targets)
Mohammed: we must respect (because we’ll get blown up if we don’t)
I do enjoy the overlay of “you are totally racist if you question anything about even the most radical islamic sects. “
When the Christian authorities disrespect their own religion so badly it makes me think the mullahs might actually have a point. Allahu akbar!
Jesus: fair game (‘Cause my daddy was a Christian and I got Daddy issues)
I see the “No bad Islamist” as more of a “globalist + glorify all non-Western ethnicities”
Bundesliga is back with jarringly large and almost entirely unmasked crowds in the stands.
An England match is on, too – empty stands.
What say you, American sports?
I watched most of the Coastal Carolina game last night. Seemed to be well attended.
Fans still entirely banned from tennis in the US last week and Italy this week. And even many players are too chicken-shit to show up.
I wouldn’t know, because ESPN decided to make the Bundesliga streaming-only. Because they need three hours of college football pregame on more than 0nd channel, and endless repeats of E:60.
You got the token Bayern match yesterday. It’s not like Americans want to watch any other team.
Drugs might fall out of a posterior, but Covid claims two more lives
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2020/09/19/rochester-mass-shooting-near-public-market/5836840002/
“This is yet another tragedy where individuals are having these illegal and unsanctioned house parties taking place in these properties,” the chief said. He said these are unsafe because of the COVID-19 outbreak, and when “you add in alcohol and violence … it just becomes a recipe for disaster.”
Wut?
I guess he got to the violence eventually but yeah, anything to avoid pointing out that that neighborhood is a gang-infested shithole.
Militant Karens going postal?
Learned something from Matt Bracken today.
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/058/384/634/original/e3933eebef6b49a4.png?1600526083
Obligatory Kipling
The problem with state-controlled police is that they answerable to the state and not to the people. This is why the first and most important lie of the state is that “the government is us”.
Obligatory Rothbard:
The state is as inevitable as disease, war, poverty, and famine. But just as all of those can be kept under check so too can the state. Gun rights have been in retreat, and in most places in the world thoroughly routed, for 100 years. You could hardly conceive of a greater tyranny than to once again be subservient to kings and queens, earls and barons, though they do not yet always presume to take such titles. But here we are, on the road to serfdom.
Which is why I have great understanding for those who are single issue – 2A – voters.
Domo arigatou!
Most of the brown shirts were socialists who wanted to crack heads to create a socialist utopia. Sound familiar? They were used by the Nazis to gain and solidify power, and then were gradually pushed aside.
Some were not so gradually pushed in front of a wall and shot when their usefulness had ended.
Just walked by a lady wearing a shirt that said Eleanor, Ruth, Michelle, my daughter. The idolization of politicians is going to ruin us.
It’s perfectly normal
Two women who were simply married to someone in power? Are you effing kidding me? Who is on the back? Princess Diana?
RBG was a woman of accomplishment. That is at least something that can be respected. Ruining the school lunch program because you happen to be married to the guy in charge?
I would never allow my daughter to “look up” to something so low. Even picking a politician would get a sidelong glance from me. But being famous for having banged a powerful politician? Yeah…. Not something to look up to.
One of my oldest friends was recently gushing to another old friend about a girl he had seen wearing an RBG Halloween costume. I just rolled my eyes, downed my beer, and kept my fucking mouth shut.
If I made a RGB costume it would be highly offensive.
Does anyone else live with a person who, while awesome in most ways, has a completely incomprehensible system for which clothes go in the dryer and which don’t?
I will confess that I insist synthetics get separated out and dried on low heat. But everything still ends up in the dryer…
Trick question – they all go in the dryer.
That’s my thought.
It’s apparently incorrect.
Just ignore it. Your life will improve immeasurably.
*resumes writing daily critique of dishwasher loading*
I am forbidden to touch her clothes.
All of her stuff shrinks if I touch it.
If my stuff gets tight… It is just because I am getting fat.
XX and XY do their own laundry.
We got a new dryer and XX complained loudly that her jeans shrink because it doesn’t have a certain setting.
*I* am not going to be the one to tell her her jeans aren’t shrinking…
You have the temperament of a good husband.
There are certain things I resolved never to criticize my daughter for or even to point out. Her weight is one of them, especially since she looks about 50 pounds lighter than she really is.
+1 muscle weighs more than fat.
I used to work with a young lady who had a very impressive “athletic” physique. She kind of reminded me of the Hispanic chick from fast and furious. Just a tiny bit stocky, but well proportioned. Very young and very cute.
We were joking around about workout routines and she said she didn’t work out. I joked for her to show her muscles, because she just had that overall athletic look. She held an arm up for me to feel her bicep… and there was nothing there. Her upper arm was a nicely shaped bundle of fat around a chicken bone. She looked like she was probably about 125 lbs at 5’2″ and 21 years old.. so a tiny bit heavy for the size/age combo. But she had no muscle mass at all. She might have been 105 or 110, and couldn’t do a pushup to save her life.
Great girl though..
She was the one who convinced me to wear a goatee. I had grown it over a week where I had the flu that abutted a long weekend. So I showed up at work with a goatee. Her and her smoking hot 20 year old compatriot both gushed over it.
Trying to think of the best thing she could say, she said “Oh, yeah… it makes you look older!”
Now… I was 36 at the time. Maybe 37. So how old did she think I was?… and how old did it make me look?
So I asked. “How old does it make me look?”
“Oh, you could definitely pass for 30 with the goatee!”, they both agreed.
Sold.
I laffed.
As resident Laundry Goddess, I think the only thing that comes out of the washer but does NOT go in the dryer is my one and only black bra.
Dunno. I put heavy materials like jeans and towels in one dryer load, everything else in the other load.
I put whites in the dryer, and hang colors.
Racist?
OK, sure.
Actually, it’s that I don’t care if sheets and towels shrink.
lol
Amy Coney Barrett Emerges as Front-Runner for Trump Court Pick:
“A former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, Barrett opposes abortion, but she said in a 2013 speech at Notre Dame that it was “very unlikely” the Supreme Court would ever overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a legal right to an abortion in the U.S. “The fundamental element, that the woman has a right to choose abortion, will probably stand,” she said, according to an account of her remarks in the student newspaper. “The controversy right now is about funding. It’s a question of whether abortions will be publicly or privately funded.” During her confirmation hearing in 2017, Democrats argued that her Catholic faith would sway her legal analysis, especially on issues like abortion. “Dogma lives loudly within you,” Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said in one widely reported exchange that enraged conservative groups.”
https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/amy-coney-barrett-emerges-as-frontrunner-for-trump-court-pick
I like the “emerges as front-runner”.
They have absolutely zero knowledge. There is no race. There is no access to the decision makers. They are 100% making stuff up. Yet that is the headline.
“Dogma lives loudly within you,” Senator Dianne Feinstein
That’s a little rich coming from Ms. “I saw Harvey Milk get shot so I know guns are bad”.
Well, she has a license to carry in California (printed on unicorn hide parchment) so she might know something about gunz.
Barrett will motivate the religious right to vote. All criticisms of Trump as a philanderer will be rendered irrelevant by comparison.
That is why she will be nominated.
If only.
For Trump, it’s the only logical choice.
He solidifies the religious right. He forces the Dems to go after a woman.
Never mind that protests, peaceful or not, are becoming less popular by the day.
He’s already got the religious right, but one thing he’s weaker than a normal Republican with…. suburban women. Hmm yeah. This would be a good choice.
It would also galvanize Catholics if the Dems let slip the bigotry and they can’t NOT with the bigotry — it’s what they do.
Feinstein and Hirono would see to the Catholic hate. That’s for certain.
She’ll also send the left into a tizzy because she’s a bright career woman who also has a big family. They won’t know how to get at her.
Good.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
@GOP We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay!
I mean, Damn, we’ve got almost 4 months (one third of a freaking year!) before the next inauguration regardless of who wins the election. That should be plenty of time to get this done.
That’s one of my points on the whole issue. 1) Sorry, Team Blue. Your party didn’t hold the Senate in 2016. 2) The current government still has to function as such.
Meaningless, except in symbolism. The votes aren’t there.
Romney
Murky
Susie
All will not play with their Team.
More time than is ever used to confirm anyone.
Omar the Great
@GameLandAmazing
Replying to
@Emolclause
@realDonaldTrump and @GOP
I want six new justices, I order to bring the number of SCOTUS justices to 15, like FDR originally proposed, back in the ‘30s.
Yes, Trump should get on that. Get Amy Coney Barrett on the Court, and then add six more justices before the election. Oh, is that not what you meant?
Well apparently the facility i work just got its first cnfirmed case – they’ve already been in quarantine for a couple weeks.
And this is for a facility with hundreds of daily employees – including many contractors who commute hours each day and military folks PCSing from around the world (although those guys still have to self-quarantine when they arrive).
And speaking of vulnerable/comorbidity individuals- teachers have nothing on the avg mil retiree DoD contractor….
My HyVee has handicapped spots, reserved spots for preggos (when everybody knows if you’re preggo and/or with small children you park closest to the cart corral), and reserved spots for “heroes” like firefighters, EMTs, vets. People respect these last two reserved classifications the way they do handicapped.
Yesterday, I said, “fuck that” and parked in the “heroes” parking spot. Who’s going to question me? And if they did, I had one of two retorts ready (maybe both):
1. You made a hell of an assumption that I’m not a vet.
2. So…you’re favoring young healthy men over an older woman? Nice.
My sister used to always tell me to park in the pregnant woman spot. She’s a doctor who says the best thing a pregnant woman can do for her health is walk a lot.
That, plus, if you park by the cart corral, you can put your kids in the car and return the cart without leaving them, even for a few seconds.
Even if you don’t have kids, it’s more convenient.
I don’t get this recent veneration of veterans. I mean, yeah, disabled veterans should be cut some slack but anybody who wore the uniform?
I guess I want to identify more with the silent types like the WWII and Korean veterans I knew as a kid. Or a few of the Vietnam veterans who I had no clue they had ever served until I was home on leave and we were talking about machine-guns.
I guess I just like my patriotism on the down-low.
The deal with wearing a hat, with the ribbons thing damn near everywhere is sufficient for signaling. Pining for a discount on things bothers me.
The discount at the butchers is ok by me. Wouldn’t have done it except the wife twisted my arm because i asked her to use the senior discount for some government permits. Turnabout is fair play.
OK, I have to admit that I have a small “Retired US Army” pin on my hat when I’m on base. But that’s mostly so people who are in the military don’t mistake me for some guy who just has a US government job here. I’m not sure I would wear that back in the US.
“Fuck off” is a common phrase used by Vets, you might prove yourself enough to be left alone.
No one will. I’ve know a number of older lady veterans (and younger ones). There’s no billboard to single them out from non-vets, just like with men. Use the space. I doubt anyone will ever confront you.
“Can you cut my bagel in half?”
This lady BEHIND ME in line while buying bagels at Einsteins had all the blue haired idiots trying to determine what she meant by cutting it in half. Whole line got held up by them clarifying
Now I know what you’re thinking, why didn’t I go to (((Chompies))) and get a real bagel? Because they’re always busy on high holidays.
Oh um….that bolo thing is just going to get misused and they’ll get bought out by TASER.
So… don’t hold out on us!
Did she mean half… or quarters (half like usual, and half again)?
Sliced horizontally along the bagel’s equator, obviously.
Donor cash surges to Harrison, the Democrat taking on Graham
So much depending on such a weak man…
Man?
It’s an Obamnation now … I think that’s the way they’re rolling now 😉