Good afternoon, y’all. I am in a better place than yesterday. No need to burn it all down. Everyone else seems set on doing that. I never was much of a follower. I hope everyone else is returning to normalcy as well.
Dems: You know how that nuclear option worked for us? Maybe we should be more careful about creating weapons that could be used against us:
NEW — One fear expressed by members: What if Dems embrace court expansion and then don’t take back the Senate?
“We’ve just given McConnell the basis and moral authority to go do it himself.” https://t.co/js1J3s1QY4
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 22, 2020
This is how you succeed in a cut-throat business.
For the Glib-fit contingent.
The Passion of the Christ 2 ? I was not aware there was a 2nd passion.
RBG still Dead, First!
Got an e-mail from cafepress, ‘Remembering RBG’. FFS, you’re a customized merch company, just stick to that.
Wait for Gibson’s RBG: Resurrection
I wonder if this is accurate – I recall him being in another one of those creepy Catholic cults like that judge Handmaiden Amy but the list of his tirades escapes my memory.
Wasn’t he stopped by the cops in Malibu, drunk, and he kept calling one of the officers some slang for Jews?
Sugar Tits is slang for Jewish?
Is that what it was? Hmmm. That doesn’t seem antisemetic.
Yeah, I think that was pretty well established. I’m not sure if there have been repeated incidents, but I don’t follow Hollywood gossip too closely.
“I hope everyone else is returning to normalcy as well.”
I hope so too, but I don’t see it happening any time soon.
Up here in the !and of the Wicked Witch, we mask up, walk in, and lower/take them off, Fuck that Bitch
It’s way more than just the mask thing, or even the covid thing.
Soon her emergency powers might go away.
Of course, some folks are pushing back.
Since you can’t return to somewhere you’ve never been I’d imagine you weirdos are shit outta luck.
I appreciate it, but you know, I think I’m gonna burn it all down anyway. I’m in a pyromania kind of mood.
No linky?
“We’ve just given McConnell the basis and moral authority to go do it himself.”
Dems are confident that they can steal the election.
“And we won’t have to have any more elections after that!”
You’d think they might be a little more cautious given their history of proclaiming their electoral invincibility.
They were overconfident in 2016. They won’t be that stupid again.
I predict:
1) some of the postal union letter carriers, who already endorsed Biden, will easily agree to being paid off to torch their entire sack of mail-in ballots they just picked up in a big R district in swing states. One will get remorseful and try to tattle, but the media will say it’s all a tinfoil hat right-wing conspiracy thing and no major networks will mention it.
2) They’re already working on bundles of ballots, punched only for Biden and not voting in any other part of the local election, ready to appear mysteriously ‘found’ in car trunks of election officials, as soon as they know how many extra votes they need. They’ve pulled this so many times now and never, ever get challenged about it publicly (if the Rs say anything they are immediately condemned as racist vote-suppresors) so they have no fear to be able to do it again in every state they need to.
3) Unless the Rs already have some seriously dedicated observers and attorneys ready to go in all these districts, the prediction of a ‘red mirage’ by some leftist groups might come true: an apparent Trump victory on election night, Biden refuses to concede, and then day by day a slow trickle of newly-found votes are forced to be counted by local sympathetic judges, until Biden wins, then all counting immediately ceases. Media warns about worries of right-wing protests, but other than some loud chants outside of a few statehouses, and some intense prayer meetings, everyone picks up after themselves and goes home saying ‘we’ll get ’em next time!’ But with their new power the Dems create new laws, new states, and new gerrymandering to ensure that they have control of all the levers of government for the foreseeable future, and the Rs become joke candidates like they now are in most of California.
Check back on this post about November 15 to see how close I was.
As goes California, so goes the nation, amirite?
I don’t know man. Record gun & ammo sales make me think a hard push for one party rule may lead to some bloody times.
I think you’re right, except for 3 – the Rs won’t just let the counting stop as soon as Biden wins, they’ll go for recounts. If they were willing to go to the mat for Bush in 2000, they’ll go to the mat for Trump in 2020. Plus, given the Ds talk about prosecuting Trump, he has every incentive to open his pockets and pay for lawyers to challenge things left and right. The scorched earth tactic of the Ds is not a smart tactic if you want to win: always leave your enemy a path to retreat, for if you back them into a corner, they’ll fight harder.
Ask Julius Caesar, I mean, if he hadn’t been assassinated.
“The Passion of the Christ 2 ? I was not aware there was a 2nd passion.”
PASSION 2, RESURRECTION BOOGALOO! HE’S BACK, AND THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL!
Ninja Jesus?
You know U-62 already built a template for this movie.
Jesus saves!
Sound on.
Moses invests?
/I’m sorry for that/
You know how dictators and supposedly John McAfee have body doubles? If I had Bill Gates money, I would have paid someone to look like RGB, then claim to have come back from the dead.
I would applaud that stunt.
Passion Reloaded.
Passion 2: Resurrection from hell
Passion 3: Revelations
Escape from Hell!
I’d prefer a movie version of the Niven / Pournelle book.
Don’t forget the children’s spinoff Thomas the Doubt Injun.
(dot, not feather)
Passion 2: The Wrath of Christ
“CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST!!!”
“It literally *is* Genesis.”
I always think of their one album when I see antifa graffiti.
“I’ve done worse than kill you. I’ve hurt you… I shall leave you as you left me… buried alive.”
Bravo!
Passion 2: Passion Harder
“Double Olympic gold medallist, James Cracknell, is running 100 miles in five days whilst only consuming water to prove that the body can be fuelled by fat alone.
When explaining the challenge on his social media pages, Cracknell wrote, ‘Why? The Dietary Guidelines advises 55% of our diet should be carbohydrate has no scientific basis. Society is eating too many carbs, as a result over 60% of the UK population is overweight. This project is aiming to prove the body can turn to fat to fuel itself efficiently.’”
I don’t think running 20 miles a day for five days with no food is good for you either. The body can also burn protein.
Persistence hunting is how early man got food.
Bwahahahaa! RIIIiiiiiggghhhttt, “diabetes causes a person’s blood sugar level…”
Cause, meet Effect. Effect, this is Cause. JFC.
But #SCIENCE!!
Huh. I wonder if Xi Jinping might feel similarly now.
Oh, from the same videomakers, the same lesson.
I LOL’d at Xi’s speech panel in the last SNP, btw.
Thank you. It was far better received than the one he gave the EU.
I honestly think Merkel and the Eurobitches owe Trump (and the US) a chunk of change for his instructional tableau on how to deal with China.
I also think that Xi might not last too long – and it won’t take foreign involvement.
The world is much different in 2020 than it was in 2004. While the tolerance for violence and disturbing content has increased, there is a lower tolerance for material deemed offensive or insensitive. It’s hard to imagine the reception The Passion of The Christ would get in today’s climate.
My prediction is the movie will get a similar reception. The type of folks that were into the first one aren’t likely to be woke.
While his most recent movie, 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge, earned six Academy Award nominations (including Best Director and Best Picture) and won two, he’s not someone the industry should want to have back on the A-List.-
In an article about a Jesus Christ movie, they Un-ironically Claim there is not such thing as redemption.
Well, look. If he’d merely ass raped a child, or married his own daughter, maybe he could be forgiven.
“If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you,” Sinegal told his successor, per the outlet. “Figure it out.”
They have always taken a loss on food court fare. Saw a special on it once.
I remember reading something similar about their rotisserie chicken. There was some disruption in the market several years ago and wholesale chicken prices soared. Rather than raise the prices for customers, Costco kept their price the same and took a loss on every rotisserie chicken sold during the disruption. In parallel, they also started buying out poultry farms and I believe slaughterhouses to take control of the supply chain and prevent future disruptions.
This.
lol
That entire article is an object lesson in TM being TE
Yep. Interesting article.
Sounds great. My local area desperately needs something like this. Steady work for $15/hr plus benefits would be life changing for many around here.
Can’t have the peasantry improve their lives though. That council needs to be disbanded asap.
Wisconsin girl, 11, harvests black bear weighing over 700 pounds, is hoping to take state record
Relative of yours?
You mean other than shooting them? Is there a knife season for bears in WI?
Running over them with a truck, maybe?
Poisoned pic-a-nic baskets?
The highest class is the wiffle bat class.
Rifle, revolver, bow…
Some Sconnies prefer to take their trophy buck with a 2002 Chevy Astro van
Unfortunately those hunters are routinely swindled by us smarter, better looking Minnesodans.
I get the feeling she will never file a sexual harassment claim.
Black Bears Matter?
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘Defund the police’ activist Alyssa Milano calls 911 sparking massive police presence in her quiet California neighborhood claiming an armed an gunman was on her property – but it was really a teen shooting at squirrels with an air gun”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8756911/Defund-police-activist-Alyssa-Milano-sparks-massive-police-presence-calling-911.html
She put a teenagers life in danger!
Naturally.
This is California, so there really was a dangerous gunman. Did the police arrest him at least?
I need a goddamned social worker over here, stat!
Preferably armed.
Bullshit. I shoot squirrels out of the apple tree in my back yard every fall and there is no way any sentient being can confuse the -thunk- of the pellet gun with an actual rifle.
And her dogs should be put down if they are scared of a pellet gun being fired.
Listen, they had to blame the dogs for all of the piss on the floor.
[Narrator: It wasn’t the dogs.]
Not for nothing, but in Southern California, a squirrel usually means a ground squirrel, which are nasty, destructive, plague carrying monsters.
Chipmunks are adorable.
A chipmunk would get eaten by a California Ground Squirrel, which will eat baby ground squirrels.
Nah, my cat has killed a California ground squirell. They make noise and wreck people’s gardens, maybe, but otherwise, they just flip around really dramatically. It’s fun to watch. They’re small and wiry. We had one that would eat nuts out our hands.
Nah, my cat has killed a California ground squirell.
Just want to point out that a pet cat killing something in no way means that something isn’t a nasty, dangerous monster. I have no knowledge of California ground squirrels, but I know that cats are killing machines capable of taking down nearly anything close to them in size.
I’ve been to Bell canyon a million times, I have friends that live there. Plenty of people making popping noises there. There’s probably never been a real crime out there, ever. Hence the 7 cop cars, helicopter and fire trucks over some pussy celeb hearing noises. The great part is last month, when she called for defunding the cops.
the -thunk- of the pellet gun with an actual rifle
I guess supersonic ammo could make a crack a bit quieter than a 22, but scaring a dog? C’mon
My pellet rifle doesn’t make a crack. Like I said it is more of a thunk as the piston is released. The only way you can get a crack is if you hit something brittle.
I have supersonic ammo for mine that will crack.
You can hear the difference in this video
Uffda, yeah that is way more manly than my mid line Gammo rifle.
I don’t have anything that nice either. My Gamo whisper cat was maybe $100. It supposedly shoots the lighter pellets at 1200fps.
The wife asked this weekend if I’d shoot a squirrel that was bothering the dog. I said yeah, but i don’t have an air rifle.
Why not?
Because you said I had too many firearms and didn’t want me to shoot vermin.
I got one that will shoot those sabot pellets at 1600. It has a silencer and cracks like a rifle.
“Is Bloomberg trying to buy the Florida vote? Billionaire pays off more than $20m in debt for 31,000 felons so they can vote in the state where just 537 votes decided the presidential election in 2000”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8760919/Bloomberg-pays-20m-debt-31-000-felons-Florida-vote.html
“We need to get the money out of politics!”
I rather enjoy the unspoken assumption that criminals are natural Democrat voters.
It’s not a bad assumption since they do tend to like free shit.
How is that even legal?
Isn’t that literally trying to buy votes?
They’re not legally allowed to vote until they take care of their debts. Paying off those debts is not the same thing as paying them to vote.
How is it any different than a politician paying off someone’s credit card debt? Or making a mortgage payment on their behalf?
A debt is a debt. It’s enrichment.
The same way being paid to do porn isn’t prostitution.
According to Slate, it’s a poll tax, not debt repayment.
I voted for the felons to be able to vote, I disagree with having to pay all fines before voting, but having an outside party pay the fines is even worse.
Hmm, money is fungible – sounds like just a roundabout way of buying favors.
How does this not count as election interference and buying votes?
Would it count if it were Vladimir Putin paying off the debts?
Foreign actor vs. homegrown control freak midget?
“Jameela Jamil is branded ‘annoying’, ‘condescending’ and ‘out of touch’ as she claims her ‘perfect’ skin was achieved through ‘privilege’ and supporting trans rights”
She wrote: ‘My skin is clear because: A) Privileged people have more access to good quality nutrition and also our lives are significantly less stressful than the lives of those with less privilege.
I also get to sleep more because of this. All of these things keep my hormones in balance and I’m able to address food intolerance easily. B) I believe that trans rights are human rights… C) I exfoliate twice a week.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8760929/Jameela-Jamil-branded-annoying-claims-perfect-skin-achieved-privilege.html
SCIENCE!
Their right. She is annoying.
She’s not entirely wrong. Lack of sleep is bad for your health and likely reflected in your skin. If we equate privilege with wealth, then not worrying about being able to pay the electric bill makes it easier to sleep. But, eating healthy isn’t actually more expensive than eating crap. Potato chips are expensive.
This.
It is official. The clear heir to Trump’s Troll Crown is going to be Kristi Noem (SoDak gov).
Her latest tweak is to have a concert where 5000 people might be near each other while not wearing masks. Predictably, all the right people seem to be getting the vapors.
Choice excerpts:
The poor writer was so discombobulated by the idea of a superspreader event, he completely missed the fact that she is celebrating hunting. The killing of poor defenseless pheasants (or maybe he thought it was hunting peasants and he was OK with that).
“once-ravaged New York proved that the standard precautions work”
And by standard precautions we mean herd immunity.
‘…a report by a team of economists with the Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies at San Diego State University estimates to have resulted in more than 260,000 COVID-19 cases.’ #SCIENCE!
Why are they estimating and not, you know, counting the actual number?
Which ended up being around 200.
Look, they spent a lot of time and effort making these models, the last thing they’re going to do is fuck them up with facts.
We used a COMPUTER dammit!
Computer!
Well the mask has certainly come off Bret Stephens since his days at the WSJ.
An Open Letter to Mitt Romney
I hate you – and here’s some free advice.
Can you read the NYT without paying?
Probably… but why?
Clear the cookie after the page loads.
Thanks. It’s not like I go there all the time but apparently they like to annoy you extra special if you hit some arbitrary limit.
Anyway, I don’t get the point of the article. We have to suddenly decide there are rules because… otherwise moral fiber argle-bargle? The Democrats are screeching howler monkeys (and that’s the elected ones), but somehow the GOP is going to forge the way to a better tomorrow by… not appointing a Supreme Court Justice?
This whole thing is stupid. They should have just voted no on Garland, but they didn’t and it’s not the end of the world. When the President does the same thing it’s called a pocket veto and nobody waxes philosophical about moral fiber. Garland didn’t get approved, any justification for why the vote didn’t happen at the time was entirely self-serving, and until both parties are willing to agree to improve the norms, there’s little point to one party hamstringing themselves. Welcome to the Prisoner’s Dilemma, and as the author of this very article notes, it’s primarily the Democrats who are responsible for bringing us here, so how does it change without their participation?
Precisely.
But the questions you might helpfully ask yourself are these: When did any person or party ever get clean by following another into the gutter? And if decades of Democratic transgressions against Senate norms are bad, how are those norms improved by Republican transgressions against them?
this fucking guy.
Didn’t even Romney announce this morning he was voting to confirm, killing all remaining Democratic hope?
How could he know that when he doesn’t even know who the nominee is?
He announced that he supports confirming a new justice before the election. it was all over the news.
I may be mistaken (I often am) but I believe he only said he would vote on the nominee, and based on thre nominee’s qualifications confirm or not. It’s fairly disappointing to hear the notion that R and D senators should just mindlessly follow the partly line from “libertarians” ,as Suthenboy said a few days ago* the co-equal but separate and sometimes antagonistic branches of the government were set up for a reason.
*paraphrasing but I think that’s more or less what he said.
lol, as if the nominee matters.
He said he would vote to confirm, if the nominee is qualified. A conditional statement, but one that can be easily filled if Trump nominates someone he’s already voted for (such as Barbara Lagoa, although not Amy Coney Barrett since she was confirmed as judge before Romney reached the Senate).
eh i think they’re out of the woods.
Don Lemon says burn it all down. I wonder if he even thought about that before saying it?
It’s going to be Barret for extra trolling power. They’re going to go even crazier than they did with Kavanaugh. A lot crazier.
I think Lagoa. Because Florida is in play.
I wonder if CNN will finally drop him if he’s convicted of sexually assaulting that guy.
I think Lagoa. Because Florida is in play.
That, and the optics of viciously attacking a Latina are even worse than viciously attacking a white women. If she has a good judicial philosophy it would be the right play.
Today, I took some lawn care equipment to the local “small engine” repair shop. The shop is run out of a home. Hubby does the work, wife does the admin (fills out quotes, takes payments, etc).
Massive Trump flag flying on the flagpole.
Prominent signs asking people to wear masks on the premises. However, when the owner was talking to me he had no mask. Seeing this, I asked if he minded me removing mine. He smiled and said “by all means!”
We had a lovely conversation on the subject of lawn care and tractor maintenance. He teasingly gave thanks that people like me didn’t have specialized tools which allowed him to have a business.
Judging by his workshop attached to the house, and the mini-warehouse he has attached to the workshop, this guy is fixing about 20 lawnmowers and a handful of riding mowers every week. I go to him because not only is does he do good work and charge low prices but he clearly loves the service he provides.
He’s out in the middle of nowhere. So the state snitches (who look for businesses violating the orders and then sic the health department on them) are pretty scarce. So he can run his business without too much interference. But think of the thousands of people just like him who are getting kneecapped by the government and who can’t escape scrutiny. Those people are screwed.
It upsets me a great deal.
Even before. Correct storage locker for flammables? Spill precautions? Disposal? EPA violating parts or bypasses? Record keeping? And so on.
Sadly, we are only a 40 minute drive away from the HQ of the MA DEP (our local state EPA or as I call them America’s mutaween) , so our neighborhoods are infested with green taliban and their signage.
You want to kill grandma just so you can cut your lawn!
I have to cut the lawn before I dig her grave.
I have a similar small engine repair guy. Same workshop attached to the house but he probably does 15-20 riding mowers/week. Completely under the radar though. No signs and cash only. Gets customers through word of mouth only and still has more business than he can handle. Great entrepreneurship spirit.
I’ve noticed that as several places – big mask signs all over the doors to appease the government and their snitches, then nobody inside wearing one.
On my last hunting trip to western NoDak, one of the funnier things that happened was when we stopped to gas up around Dickenson. Some national chain off the freeway and they had big signs saying that masks were required to enter (this despite there being no mask mandate in NoDak). We dutifully put on our masks and went in only to be stared at by the locals inside, none of whom were wearing a mask.
So we hurriedly took them off and tried to pretend that we weren’t big city pussies who listened to the govt.
So we hurriedly took them off and tried to pretend that we weren’t big city pussies who listened to the govt.
What’s worse in NoDak, the masks giving you away as city-slickers or giving you away as Minnesodans?
Can’t you see he’s taking advantage of you?
If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you,” Sinegal told his successor, per the outlet. “Figure it out.”
Now do “chief diversity officer”.
I would like to know if any Fortune 1000 company at this point that doesn’t have a CDO.
For the public ones my bet is that many of the ESG oriented pensions and proxy services in general wouldn’t be happy.
I’d rather not. He’s not my type.
Rob Reiner
@robreiner
Donald Trump has essentially shot and killed 100s of thousands Americans on 5th Ave, continues to do it every day, and he’s right, his cult doesn’t care. But the rest of US do. In 42 days we will arrest the killer.
Judd Apatow
@JuddApatow
Donald is a mass murderer. Any comment which doesn’t make that clear is lying about what he is doing. He has chosen to misinform people to help him politically which is killing tens of thousands more people. He is a mass murderer by choice. He should be impeached for murder.
You people really need to get a grip.
These people act like the rest of the world doesn’t exist. The Western Hemisphere, and Western Europe, are by and large in the same boat. How is it all Trump’s fault?
Correct. They aren’t comparing him to other world leaders, they’re comparing him to an imaginary Democrat president who would have have listened to secret advice from experts who don’t exist. That president would have done everything perfectly. We don’t know what that perfect stuff is though, because we’re not the imaginary Democrat president, so how could we know?
If Hillary were boss, we’d have 200 million people still alive!
The unspoken irony is that we basically did what the WHO and CDC said when they said to do it, albeit as much by state action as federal. Yet somehow we were supposed to have done better by… magic? Everything that happened before mid-March has been memoryholed, including the part where everybody except Trump was saying this was no big deal and we need to carry on as usual.
More to the point, Trump had a navy hospital ship go up to NYC. This was unused while other old people’s homes got filled to the brim. Funny enough, this happened in NY & NJ. That Apatow and Reiner can pule about Trump while completely ignoring the culpability of the governors whose cum stains their beards, I see no reason to treat them with anything other than contempt
Yeah, my only real critique of Trump would be getting suckered by used car salesmen like Fauci. The vast majority of the blame for missteps here lies in people’s overreactions and the overlaying of their partisan political squabbles on top of every single fucking thing. “We’re all in this together” is breathlessly said right after some partisan jab.
They need to loosen the grip – they’ve cut off the blood supply.
I’m afraid I’m going to get a hernia from laughing if Trump wins.
He just issued me a hunting license for midtown.
I don’t recall being this unhinged about Obama. Or about Bush. Or Clinton (which was right at the peak of my political extremism days). Or Bush.
Social media is corrosive to coping skills? Survey says ‘Yes.’
“The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, a figure unimaginable eight months ago when the scourge first reached the world’s richest nation with its sparkling laboratories, top-flight scientists and stockpiles of medicines and emergency supplies. “It is completely unfathomable that we’ve reached this point,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins University public health researcher. The bleak milestone, by far the highest confirmed death toll from the virus in the world, was reported by Johns Hopkins, based on figures supplied by state health authorities. But the real toll is thought to be much higher, in part because many COVID-19 deaths were probably ascribed to other causes, especially early on, before widespread testing.”
https://www.9news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-toll-in-the-united-states-hits-200000/507-ee5ffce6-8835-4806-b025-16598d40b599
I wonder if these are the same people who were running with the 2.2 million death estimate back in March. Why, it’s so unfathomable that it’s all anyone talked about back then…
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-uk-report-projects-2-million-deaths-without-action-2020-3
“Under “mitigation” techniques scenario, which combines home isolation of suspect cases, home quarantine of those living in the same household as suspect cases, and social distancing of the elderly and others at most risk of severe disease, the two countries might reduce demand on the healthcare systems by two-thirds and deaths by half. Even so, the researchers noted, they’d expect the limits of hospital beds to be exceeded by 8-times their capacity. That’d translate to 250,000 deaths in the UK, and 1.1 to 1.2 million in the US. Those mitigation strategies they said, would likely be in place for three months, with social distancing for those over 70 staying in place a month longer.”
The latter story is dated March 17. These pricks think we don’t have search engines.
You mean when they were saying it was going to kill millions?
It’s totally unimaginable that it turned out this good?
Those mitigation strategies they said, would likely be in place for three months, with social distancing for those over 70 staying in place a month longer.
Three months. LOL.
Also, even with mitigation techniques, hospital beds would be filled to eight times capacity.
I suspect I shouldn’t hold my breath for, “Wow. We went back and looked at the predictions we trumpeted in the press and we were really, really wrong.”
15 days to flatten the curve. we promise.
Like I said, never pay attention to anyone who pays no penalty for being wrong.
. . . never pay attention to anyone who pays no penalty for being wrong.
Man, I should just shut down my computer forever, considering that the vast majority of what I read online (including here) is filled with opinions coming from people who won’t ever be penalized for being wrong.
Ah, you have seen through my evil plan!
a figure unimaginable eight months ago
The computer model said millions…
“Eight months ago, when we expected 2 million, 200,000 was unimaginable.”
Yeah, at this point, I don’t believe any numbers about C-19, from anyone, anywhere.
See, if Hillary had won, we could have saved the lives of 2 million Americans.
Instead, Trump murdered 200,000.
2 million geezers created or saved!
We’ll all be dead by Christmas, i reckon
The U.S., which accounts for roughly 21% of all confirmed Covid-19 deaths around the world despite having only 4% of the world’s population, is battling one of the deadliest outbreaks in the world. Fatalities in the U.S. have doubled over the last four months, after the virus took 100,000 lives in the first four months of the outbreak.
Coronavirus deaths have now outpaced the number of American soldiers lost during World War I and the Vietnam War combined, according to the Census Bureau.
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The virus has disproportionately killed people with underlying health conditions, such as obesity and asthma, and people who are older, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus has also disproportionately infected and killed Black and Hispanic people, as well as Native Americans, the CDC says.
You don’t suppose there’s some overlap between those demographic categories and co-morbidity, do you, Shirley?
for roughly 21% of all confirmed Covid-19 deaths around the world
Define “confirmed”.
Well China has confirmed that nobody actually got COVID from us and that nobody here has even got sick.
Anyone who says different is a lying liar. And has suddenly disappeared.
Americans are pikers when it comes to death sometimes. The Battle of Stalingrad claimed more lives in less time.
Coronavirus deaths have now outpaced the number of American soldiers lost during World War I and the Vietnam War combined, according to the Census Bureau.
Has Coronavirus killed more military aged, military fit people than these wars? No? So we are not comparing apples to apples here, are we?
Also, I believe heart disease kills 600K+ per year, so some perspective on COVID’s 200K is warranted. COVID is deadly, but neither unprecedented nor so dangerous as to require locking down all of society.
As much lying about body counts as a typical war comes with, I’m afraid it’s not even close to the sheer mendacity of the people reporting Covid deaths. Maybe 1990’s second hand smoke death rates, but not actual combat, just no.
Canada represents around 0.5% of the world’s population and had a bit less than 1% of the world’s COVID-19 deaths. So pretty much double proportionally.
71,3% of the Wu Flu deaths in Canada are people over 80. Canada’s life expectancy is 82. World is around 72.
Hard to die of the Wu Flu at 82 when you live in a place were you’ve been dead of something else for 10 years.
Capitalism to blame again, I guess.
IHME previously forecast that the U.S. would report more than 410,000 Covid-19 deaths by Jan. 1 due to the prospect of a “deadly December.” The modeling group has since revised down its estimate, driven by “steeper than expected declines seen in deaths” in several states. The group now projects that the U.S. will reach 378,000 deaths by the new year.
See, everybody? The masks are working! It’s the only possible explanation.
To hit that new lower number we’d have to hit about 1750 deaths per day between now and the new year. We are now at 750/day and at our peak we were at about 2200/day. I’ll take the under.
I wonder what the real numbers are.
Keep conditioning the public for election chaos.
Facebook Head of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said that the company is prepared to adopt a set of policies that are designed to decrease the likelihood of social unrest following November’s election.
“There are some break-glass options available to us if there really is an extremely chaotic and, worse still, violent set of circumstances,” Clegg said.
Clegg claims that Facebook has used similar protocols in other areas of the world to limit “We have acted aggressively in other parts of the world where we think that there is real civic instability and we obviously have the tools to do that [again],” Clegg said.
In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook limited the reach of posts made by users that violated the platform’s policies. In some cases, it limited post reach for users that had been found by Facebook to have repeatedly posted election-related misinformation even though they did not violate the platform’s hate speech rules.
Holy shit. That is the Nick Clegg, former LibDem leader.
He’d fit right in with our own Libertarian Party. Man, I remember the heady days of the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition, when the LibDems would be keeping the Conservatives from making fools of themselves. Didn’t quite turn out that way, did it?
That’s why the name sounded familiar!
Huh…
Every time I see Nick Clegg’s name, I think of the video below. He’s in Parliament trying to tell a serious story and starts it off with, “a single mother with small children came to see me in Sheffield”, at which point half the chamber bursts out laughing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf7YrhuMEjw
I’m increasingly hoping for the Joe Biden presidency just out of morbid curiosity about how they spin a guy whose going to forget where he is and try to escape the white house every couple of weeks.
“They’re forcing me to run for president and all I want to do is sit on my porch with an iced tea and a pack of Worther’s Originals. C’mon, man.”
Don’t forget the shotgun.
A lot of silver alerts on Pennsylvania Avenue.
I think you’d be disappointed. Very soon after the inauguration, we would hear an announcement about him stepping down for Kamala. Both Biden and Harris camps have already slipped up and publicly called it the Harris administration.
That will piss off a ton of people he has to make it at least 2 years imho. she also is against the little problem is noone actually voted for her or likes her.
They don’t care who it pisses off. They want power, and will do anything to get it. Then they’ll institute their fool-proof scheme to hold on to it.
I wonder what the payoff was?
Kamala was so bad she didn’t even make it to the Iowa Caucuses despite being lauded as the Choice in early reporting. What did she have to promise (and to who) to get the VP gig?
She wasn’t promise anything. Biden painted himself in a corner by saying that he was gong to pick a black woman to be his running mate. As unimpressive as she is, she about the best the Dems have to offer that fits that category,
I think Michelle or Oprah would fit the niche better, but I don’t think the former wants to play second fiddle to anyone again and the latter seems content to count her millions.
^ this, although I’m surprised they didn’t go with Susan Rice instead. I think they were scared off because she was part of the FISA court scandal/attempted coup, but I doubt anything would have ulimately come from that.
Susan Rice may be too much of a war monger for even the democrats to get behind.
I doubt they care. If anything, she’s the perfect company (wo)man so she’d be a better pick. Ignoring all of the abuses of the surveillance state is how they roll nowadays.
I can only figure that either Rice didn’t want to give up whatever cushy job she has now, or else she polled even worse than Harris.
While Lachowsky has the real answer, I’ll be glib and point out that Joe Biden is younger than Willie Brown (by almost a decade), so other means of persuasion are not entirely implausible.
When the Democrats decided to reduce the influence of superdelegates, I thought it was a good thing. Trump only got anywhere because the Republicans held an actual primary instead of a show primary to disguise Hillary’s coronation. But then they decided that democracy is utterly meaningless instead of mostly meaningless, and we might get the woman nobody voted for. At least Clinton actually won more delegates than Sanders.
Things are heating up here in Minneapolis between the City Council and the cops.
City Council member calls out the cops big time.
Yeah, the budget is the only factor that could possibly be affecting the crime rate. Sadly, his constituents are dumb enough to believe him and keep voting for him. They are the same people who believe that white supremacists were behind the riots after all.
“There are some break-glass options available to us if there really is an extremely chaotic and, worse still, violent set of circumstances,” Clegg said.
They are going to flood the internet with penguin videos.
“No need to burn it all down.” I already got all that out of my system early yesterday morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suh80OodLJU&t=5s
I love the nonchalant response. “Oh, it’s on fire again. That’s mildly irritating”
It was about 4;30 in the morning. At that hour, nobody gives a shit.
For the past few decades, the Dem play when they were out of power was to appeal to tradition, civility, compromising, reaching across the isle so they get what they want. Then when they were in power, it was all “elections have consequences, we won, we have a mandate!” Good to see FINALLY that’s no longer working.
I miss jesse!!
Had a great day in the Hills. The saloon where I wanted to have lunch was closed, though.
I’m-a write something up for the site when I get back, but here’s a little something
https://pasteboard.co/JsjoIHR.jpg
(LOL @ saggy butt)
Where is that, South Dakota?
Yesh…just near Custer State Park.
(Tundra – game lodge was a bit out of the way for my route, but I can see myself staying there in the future & just chillin)
I can see it! That’s a “surveying my newly purchased acreage” look.
I was in Rapid City about 10 years ago and stayed in Keystone also. It’s nice there, very pretty area.
I love it out there so much!
Thanks for the reports from the road!
When I pulled into the gas station that had a shed out front selling Trump crap, I knew I wouldn’t need to wear a mask.
Walmart is still a bitch, though, with their one-way aisles and masks.
does anybody actually follow the one way aisle thing?
No one follows it here. Even at the peak of this stupidity, no one followed social distancing once you were through the door, it’s just a free for all, like normal.
Around here most people follow it except for the Asians. Go figure.
Something something just like driving
Walmart pick up is the best. I haven’t stepped inside a Walmart in nearly 2 years. Wife orders the groceries and such while im at work, and i pick them up on the way home. Its perfect.
Never seen anyone pay attention to the aisle directions. I sure don’t. Haven’t heard any employee even mention them while I’m in there every week.
Yeah, it was my first time in Walmart in ~10 years. They’re a zoo in NoVA so I avoid them.
“Walmart is still a bitch, though, with their one-way aisles and masks.”
They stopped the one way aisles here a while back. Still supposed to wear a mask, but no one will say anything if you don’t. I see people all the time without masks.
Also, driving a Nissan Kicks on a dirt road is like driving a Nissan Kicks on ice. The speed limit was about 40 or 45. I think I made it up to 30 at one point. Luckily no one was behind me.
That was between Hill City & Rochford. Beautiful drive, at any rate.
I know what my next car will NOT be.
Pimp the Po Po
“eattle will pay a former pimp who is referred to as a “street czar” $150,000 a year to come up with “alternatives to policing.” Andre Taylor, featured in a documentary called “American Pimp,” was one of the original occupiers of the police-free Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone.”
I’m not judging. I mean, we can all probably agree that policing is pretty fucked up as it is. And being a former pimp should not disqualify anyone from getting an opportunity.
I’m just saying that from what I saw in CHOP, I’m a little skeptical. Maybe we should also get the CHOP guy who threw down a tarp and some dirt and seeds as their garden, to fix agriculture?
Seattle, damnit.
“eattle will pay a former pimp who is referred to as a “street czar” $150,000 a year to come up with “alternatives to policing.” Andre Taylor, featured in a documentary called “American Pimp,” was one of the original occupiers of the police-free Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone.”
The “street czar” should have been named Desire.
Boo.
No, ES, you’re wrong. If it makes you feel better, it could be pronounced “Dez-ih-ray”
That pun would be kicked out of any respectable whorehouse.
Don’t listen to the h8t3rs! Good job on that one.
Goddammit…gotta give that a +1
Stella!
Mein Gott! +eleventy
I just want to say that I only come here for the puns.
/don’t tell switzy *whisper voice*
LOVE IT TED. Seriously. These guys don’t know clever around here.
When I lived in Eastern Europe there was a whore house right next to the police station. I figured the police were the pimps.
Like a McDonald House
This just proves how far right our country has become when even Seattle puts a neo-secessionist on it’s payroll.
Neo-seceding ain’t easy.
I believe the correct spelling is Neo-secedding. The extra d stands for a double dose of pimpin’.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/22/donald-trump-union-support-snub-joe-biden-418329
Labor leaders have worked for months to sell their members on Biden, hoping to avoid a repeat of 2016 when Donald Trump outperformed among union members and won the White House. But despite a bevy of national union endorsements for Biden and years of what leaders call attacks on organized labor from the Trump administration, local officials in critical battleground states said support for Trump remains solid.
“We haven’t moved the needle here,” said Mike Knisley, executive secretary-treasurer with the Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council, who estimated that about half of his members voted for Trump in 2016 and will do so again. “Even if given all the information that’s been put out there, all the facts — just pick an issue that the president has had his hands in — it doesn’t make a difference.”
Among members of North America’s Building Trades Unions, there is a dead heat in six swing states, with Biden receiving 48 percent of the vote and Trump 47 percent, according to an internal poll shared with POLITICO.
Trump getting half of blue collar labor is more than enough.
Funny how repeatedly telling people you’re going to rescind half their rights doesn’t incline them to vote for you.
Recind half of their rights and take all of their money. Dont forget the icing.
Rescind half their rights, take their money, and call them deplorable, irredeemable racists if they don’t go along. Don’t forget the cherry on top.
“Joe Biden has pitched himself to voters as a “union man,” a son of Scranton, Pa., who respects the dignity of work and will defend organized labor if he wins the White House.”
I just saw one of his campaign commercials last night. He’s going to fight for jobs by replacing all of the jobs with green jobs to fight global warming. Now I don’t know how smart your avg private sector union worker is, but I hope they’re smart enough to see that one for what it is. IOW ‘Yes, we’re going to kill all your jobs, but we’re going to give you an even better one as soon as we figure out how to power the entire country with windmills’.
How many private sector union workers are left, anyway? Between the AFL-CIO sucking the life out of every labor organization and the unionized employees consistently negotiating themselves out of jobs, I can’t imagine there’s a large private-sector union voter bloc anymore. Lots of formerly unionized workers (by person or by trade), sure. It’s all public-sector unions now, and those people are voting for Biden like 90% anyway.
The private sector union members that i work with are 10-1 trump voters. The see the Green New Deal for what it is, an end to the plant we all work in.
So….’learn to code’?
Subscribing to leftist ideology requires failing an IQ test. They keep saying things in their efforts to win people over that become memes about how stupid they are. JFC.
People want: To feed, clothe and educate their children. Keep a roof over their heads. Improve their lives. Have order and stability.
The Dems are selling: Trample your rights. Take your money. Take your ability to defend yourself. Increase crime. Increase poverty and dependence. Take your ability to improve your lot.
To sell this they aren’t telling people that we as a nation have potential, they are using guilt, resentment, anger and envy. They are really appealing to the worst aspects of human nature because, as always, they are projecting. They are the worst kinds of people and they are going to get their asses handed to them one way or another because Americans, as a whole, are not the worst kinds of people.
Subscribing to leftist ideology requires failing an IQ test.
I’m gonna quibble here. I know plenty of intelligent leftists. They all fail a critical thinking test, not an IQ test. They have a pathological inability to connect the dots between cause and effect on a societal level.
“Even if given all the information that’s been put out there, all the facts — just pick an issue that the president has had his hands in — it doesn’t make a difference.”
Good for you guys, because if that were the case, Trump would probably take 85% of the union vote.
“Believe me not your lying eyes if you got a job in industry that came back to the US.”
“Trust me, you will love your new job canning unicorn farts.”
The Dems are not just a joke, but a joke that isn’t funny.
These dumb apes are impervious to facts.
“We haven’t moved the needle here,”
I mean, the president has proven to be a protectionist in practice, which is one of the core union worker values, so no duh you are not winning his union voters back.
There is a lot of truth in that. The union guys I work with are all in on the trump trade war nonsense.
My union tricked most of the workers into providing a crowd for Kamal during the primaries. Worse, they had to burn personal vacation time to do it, like 4 hours. They pretended it was a “day of action” when actually it was a photo op for Harris. I explained it to people and they got severely pissed off when they realized they spent a couple of hundred bucks to make her look good for the cameras, lol. Union is 4,000 percent behind whatever commie the blue team fields. They don’t care much about trade wars or protectionism, though.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/hillary-clinton-says-biden-should-not-concede-2020-election-under-n1238156
“Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances, because I think this is going to drag out, and eventually I do believe he will win if we don’t give an inch, and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is,”
“We’ve got to have a massive legal operation, I know the Biden campaign is working on that,”
I expect the supreme court to let us know who the new president is around next February or so.
No matter who gets the most votes, keep fighting until Biden wins. That’s a good look.
Best as I can tell, that’s the strategy, win the presidency through lawfare. Democrats, the true defenders of democracy in America.
I just want to bomb Aleppo one last time. /Hillary
What is a Leppo?
Haven’t the leppers been through enough?
You know maybe if he put more effort into his ground game in the flyover states, he wouldn’t have to organize that huge legal team…
Trump is the one who won’t accept the results and stay in office as Dick Tator Hitler II though, not the Dems, they’re just being patriotic.
if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is
You’re already 10x more focused and relentless. The response lost all sense of proportionality years ago.
Isn’t this why we banned straws and six-pack loops?
Penguin found dead on Brazilian beach after swallowing entire face mask during voyage from Patagonia, autopsy shows
I hate the “Sultions” to the “problem” of dumb animals getting caught in six pack loops. Those perforations never tear properly, and I end up pulling the bottles out like the old style anyway.
Could be a very interesting intersectional rumble.
Who am I kidding. They will just mandate that all CV masks need to be made of recyclable paper from now on.
Since they banned plastic straws because a turtle had a straw up its nose, will they now ban masks because of a penguin?
Save the penguins, and I oop.
Dammit, I should have read your commentary instead of just the link.
I see the UK is going full retard again. They’re determined to destroy themselves.
They’re just going to pretend Sweden isn’t right there on the other side of the North Sea? Walking around with masks or lockdowns, not dying.
They’ve learned to be subjects rather well. Fearful sheep.
Technically, it’s Norway that’s right there on the other side of the North Sea.
Yes yes, just take a left at Denmark.
They stopped?
They stopped?
Not really. The fact that the alternative to the current Johnson administration was a Corbyn administration is evidence of that.
They freed a man who tried to derail a train?
Man accused of derailing NYC subway was freed without bail for similar incident
Why not? It’s not like he did something awful – like support trump.
Attempted mass murder? What’s the problem, hedindunuthin!
He hadn’t tried to derail a train at the time he was freed. So they merely freed a man who would later try to derail a train.
Just a bus, not a train. No big deal.
Well you can’t exactly derail a bus, can you? It’s totally different.
You can derail an argument…
A trolleybus?
No need to discuss much.
Just drop off the key, Lee.
Make a new plan, Stan.
Have a banana, Hannah.
Costs money to keep people locked up, and taxation is theft, you going to pay to keep a man indefinitely detained for throwing a trash can at a bus? Suppose they hadn’t released him but tried him and gave him six months, he gets out and he does the same thing are you now mad that they only gave him six months, unless you want to consider every crime a capital one you are going to have people that have committed some crime in the past committing other crimes in the future.
You have been drinking, haven’t you?
It’s after 2 aint it?
I want pre-cogs to rule us!
Not to let facts interfere w/ your (yet again) unjustified contrarianism, but my recollection from the article yesterday was that he threw a bench threw a bus window. But violent offenders should be let go w/o bail and we should all pretend the prior acts never happened; then act shocked when a dude who did something violent to public transportation is let out and subsequently derails a train.
I’m certain the people who were on the train will feel better knowing your principles demanded it.
And nice strawman about capital offenses that no one mentioned.
Jesus, Hype, you’re like the race-baiters – you always pick the stupidest examples to declare your contrarianism over. It’s almost like you’re just trolling. Why not save it for better hills?
Boredom?
But seriously the Capital Offense remark is a strawman? it’s the logical conclusion to the argument that a violent criminal can’t be released back into the wild. Yes I was setting up a hypothetical, I didn’t realize that was verboten unless someone else mentioned it. Even so Good god, the OP said they ‘freed’ a guy who derailed a train, they didn’t. that’s all I said originally. Others brought up his earlier crimes and I extrapolated that into the capital offense argument. It may be a weak argument but hardly a strawman that I created as I was responding to the arguments of others.
Why not save it for better hills?
In fairness to Hype, he seems eager to fight on every hill.
Ok Hyp did not that I see advocate letting the guy off, nor did he use a strawman. He pointed out that the options are:
1. Kill every criminal
2. Indefinately detain every criminal
3. At some point let the criminal out at which point they can reoffend
His schtick is to point out places where we overstate our case or attack people for things that are not really as egregious as we, or some outlet we sympathize with, portrays it.
The criminal in this case committed a misdemeanor two weeks back and was released after arraignment. That is not unusual or out of line with reason or libertarian principles. You can certainly disagree withthe decision not to hold him on bail (the amount asked for was $1000) but let’s not pretend that a judge should presume that a person with a record for throwing a trash can, charged with breaking a couple of windows, will then derail a train. Or do, I don’t much care about that, but this constant jumping of Hyp for daring to dispute the concensus in Glib hive mind is increasingly bugging me. And while I have a lot of respect for you Ozy, you have on several occassions gotten very close to the ad hominem line with Hyp over what you see as trolling, but I see as genuine disagreement. This place is becoming an echo chamber of late as people who are not as
hard rightyokeltarian walk away.When I started commenting here I felt like I was on the far right end of the commenter spectrum, now I feel like a centrist, or even a Glib’s lefty. And my positions have not changed.
From the link :
Harvard was hauled before a Manhattan Criminal Court judge on Sept. 5 and arraigned on one count of misdemeanor criminal mischief for allegedly striking an MTA bus with a metal street barricade, shattering two windows, court records show.
If you confine a defendant pre trial for misdemeanor criminal mischief his pretrial detention will most likely be significantly longer than his sentence, and I find that disturbing.
This place is becoming an echo chamber of late as people who are not as
hard rightyokeltarian walk away.Has anyone really walked away? I know JB threatened to, but he came back to say he might come back, and I can’t think of anyone else dropping out due to disagreements of POV.
Lord Humongus certainly had a disagreement.
There are plenty that have drifted off.
Gilmore for one. And it’s hard not to notice how little HM has posted as of late. And tarran…
And Tonio.
Tonio has had health challenges.
That sucks.
If you read this Tonio, let me know if you need anything.
And Just Say’n as well. It may not be related to disagreement, I may be wholly incorrect on that because most of them have not flounced they have just ghosted away, but it certainly feels to me as though the more traditionally conservative voices here have taken over the conversation and I find that less interesting. I came here from TOS when the TDS voices took over there, and while as a right leaning person I found that more hostile than what I see here (hell I agree with most of what the people here say) I find echo chambers both boring and dangerous.
If no one is calling you full of crap it is very easy to slip from beliefs into dogma.
Yes
Pat hasn’t been seen JB’s dramatic departure. He said that he didn’t want “real libertarians” like JB to feel bad about the place.
Lord Humongus certainly had a disagreement.
This is true, but EF was back the other day so who knows, maybe some day he’ll return.
Gilmore for one. And it’s hard not to notice how little HM has posted as of late. And tarran…
I do miss Gilmore, but I figured he just drifted off. HM is still around (I think I saw him comment last week), but you are right that he posts less, but I figured he was just living life. And tarran is in this very thread, but he might be easy to miss as his avatar no longer shows up (I know I recognize people easiest by their avatar).
And Just Say’n as well.
He changed his username and avatar so frequently I lost track of him. For all I know, he is still around, but you might be right.
If no one is calling you full of crap it is very easy to slip from beliefs into dogma.
This is true, and a little more dissent might be a good thing here. Maybe we should get a volunteer list together and have people take turns playing the contrarian? It is good to have Hyperbole around, even if he can be a bit much at times.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/two-nabbed-with-gun-200-rounds-of-ammunition-before-trump-rally/
A Virginia couple was busted while allegedly carrying a gun and 200 rounds of ammunition, along with a pitchfork and shovels, ahead of a Trump campaign rally Monday night in Ohio, authorities said.
John C. Davison, 38, and Vicki M. Davison, 33, were spotted by a Toledo Executive Airport employee walking on the railroad tracks behind the airport in Lake Township, the Sentinel-Tribune reported. The worker said the couple had a backpack and shovels.
Police “converged” on the pair and took them into custody without incident, Lake Township Police Chief Mark Hummer told the newspaper.
The Davisons allegedly had on them two shovels, a pitchfork and a backpack stuffed with a Glock pistol with an extended magazine, as well as 200 rounds of ammunition and four tourniquets, Hummer said.
Pitchfork and shovels. No torches?
They were out of Tiki Torch fuel as the KwikEMart.
I’m curious exactly what they did that was so illegal. No CWP?
The Davisons, both of Virginia Beach, were each charged with making terroristic threats, carrying a concealed weapon, inducing panic and criminal trespassing.
FYTW
Okay, so a bunch of bullshit, just as I thought.
Ozy, good start on your story!
I emailed TH. I have not gotten a response.
I hope he’s OK.
Thank you, Moj. I’ve got to get the damn thing finished.
KDW knocked it out of the park with this one. Some brilliant lines.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/ruth-bader-ginsburg-didnt-understand-her-job/
If we know anything about leftists it is that they seek power by any means necessary. There are no limits.
At 80 years old she could have gracefully retired and been replaced with whatever lefty Obama chose.
“KDW knocked it out of the park with this one. Some brilliant lines.”
+1
Maybe we should be more careful about creating weapons that could be used against us:
Why, there’s even an Iron Law for that!
One would have to be able to read and understand the iron laws to not get their balls caught in the jaws of those traps.
I cant remember if I have told this story before…..
My grandfather told lots of stories about his youth. They didnt have the many forms of entertainment we have now so in his words “We had to make our own devilment”
A bobcat had been raiding their hen house so he and his brothers set a trap for it. Now, a bobcat isn’t like other animals that will gnaw their own leg off to get out of a trap. If your trap catches a bobcat by the littlest toe it will just sit there and wait for you to come get it out and that is exactly what happened.
So he and his two brothers puzzled over how to get the cat out of the trap while it sat there glaring at them with blood in its eyes. Finally they decided to get an old suitcase, open it up and put it over the cat then close the suitcase with only the one paw out and release the trap. Their plan worked, but now they had a bobcat inside of a suitcase and were scared to open it. So my grandfather hatched an even better plan.
They took the suitcase out to the road, set it on the side of the road and then hid in the woods and watched. After a few minutes a car came along. It drove past the suit case but stopped a few yards past it. It sat still for a few seconds, then they heard the gear shift grinding and when whining while it backed up to the suitcase. The rear passenger door opened then an arm reached out and pulled the suitcase into the car. The car drove off and made it a few yards when suddenly all four doors flew open and six guys dove out screaming and running away. The car drifted off of the road and down a hill, crashing into a tree.
I have heard that story all of my life and I still laugh every time I think about it.
lololol
That is some hilarious shit!
That may be going in a book.
Feel free to steal it. That way it wont die with me.
Good story. Hope there wasn’t a name tag on the suitcase.
No drugs fell out of anybody’s ass, so I’m pretty sure you didn’t tell it here before.
That needs to be in a coming-of-age movie.
Kind of a “Second-Hand Lions” type thing.
I saw that movie about a month ago. My 12-year-old boy loved it.
I was a teenager when it came out and scoffed it off. Once I finally saw it, I was ashamed at my quick judging of a “book by it’s cover.” Michael Caine and Robert DuVall pair up nicely, and the story is fun.
What happened to the cat? Did it get away?
It took possession of a sedan, but promptly crashed it.
Yes, the cat escaped but did not come back to the henhouse.
So, looks like it’s a WIN for the cat and for the cat baggers.
Not so much for the car owner.
https://xkcd.com/325/
LOL
And here I thought I was rad for turning a squirrel loose in the girls showers at summer boarding school.
Of course there were more naked screaming females in my scenario.
The story from the point of view of the guys in the car has to be amazing. Finding a suitcase on the road might be a stroke of good luck. No one would ever expect a live, pissed off bobcat to jump out when you opened it. That would be the most random event imaginable since they’d have no idea how the cat got into that suitcase, much less onto the road.
Poor kitty. Just living’ his life and suddenly he’s in a box. And it moves! Yikes! And then Humans!
Poor kitty.
I may start using the phrase “you’re like a bobcat in a suitcase.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/Pismo_B/status/1308524200693387264
Enthusiasm.
Fake enthusiasm! Biden is up by 11eleventyleven!!!! in all the polls!
Ah, come on, man! The thing is, you know, the thing!
Biden is finally getting the Obama vote not present thing down. It’s a little rough, but he’s finally getting it. Here’s the strategy:
1. Hide in basement until they make me come out.
2. Get teleprompter up and closer.
3. If have to answer real question, the answer is always ‘Ah, come on man! The thing is, you know, the thing!’.
4. Hide the unlikeable colored woman they made me pick, in the basement!
5. Make ads and lie claiming that I am for all the same things that Trump is, but throw in fighting climate change to patronize the retarded Bernie bros.
That pretty much sums it up.
It’s already been done. A lot.
Volek and Phinney have been working on it for years.
For the life of me I can’t remember the dude’s name, but he recently did the GC rim to rim on zero food.
It’s good that Cracknell is doing it, though. Type 2 is gonna fucking bankrupt us.
“It’s already been done. A lot.”
I think they were called ‘work camps’. You know, camps for adults.
I cant believe I missed a ‘You know who else….’ opportunity. Even for me I am slow today.
“The True Story of a Man Who Survived Without Any Food For 382 Days”
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-true-story-of-a-man-who-survived-without-any-food-for-382-days
From 456 lbs to 180 and kept it off. An interesting case.
Yeah, I’ve heard his story before.
The human body is an insanely efficient machine.
Well, when we allow it to be…
Wow.
More UK retardation. Up next: martial law! These people are so damn retardable.
https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1308385620461580290
Why even bother to elect the Tories if they’re going to do something like this? BoJo’s sorry ass hasn’t done things any differently than Corbyn would have. I say throw him in the Tower of London and let Farage take over for a few years.
Q: What do you call a large group of Karens?
A: A Homeowners Association
Any board anywhere, really.
A suggestion to TPTB, if there’s interest in it… A poster of the Iron Laws. I don’t know who made them but a Glib themed framable thing would be cool. I’d put one up in my office.
+1
Ooooooo…..
Yes
Wood.
I would buy one…despite still sulking that my suggestion of adding “You cannot stir the shit without getting it on you” has not been officially added.
Get a Sharpie and enact your own fucking labor, Suthen.
How’s things down there, by the way?
Better….most of the wreckage is cleaned up and the roads are clear. It looks like the current storm is only going to be lots of rain. Raining now, rain all night, all day tomorrow and into Thursday.
Rain I can stand, 100+mph winds…not so much.
Its been raining at my place for 24 hours. I wish you all would quit sending your shitty weather north.
You aint that far north. Chuck a boat in the Ouachita and sit in it for half a day and you will be here. We are practically neighbors.
Also, rain is not shitty weather. There is a noticeable difference in the growth of trees this year over recent years with summer drought. I like rain. It tastes like money.
This reminds me to ask you, did you get any effects from Laura wind-wise? I heard it was still a cat1 when she hit Shreveport. She was still a cat2 when she plowed through here. It looks like a nuke went off in Grant Parish.
My place is a out 3 miles from the Arkansas River. I wouldn’t even have to go to Ouachita to float your way.
This has been an exceptionally cool and wet summer. The cattle market is shit, but thats okay because hay is cheap and plentiful because of the rain. I can feed this winter easily and wait on the prices to come back up.
I’m only irritated with the rain because I have some land clearing to do around the watershed lake on my property, and the water has kept the area so wet that I haven’t been able to get the dozer down there.
It okay, ill do it next year, I just wanted to do it this year.
I could use a little of the rain, if you have any extra. Slow, 2 day, about 2-3 inches would be nice, go into winter with some ground moisture.
And speaking of cows. This little darling was born a month early, but is doing well.
Cute as a button https://imgur.com/gallery/6Bxm6JW
I picked the Ouachita because I have a couple of tracts very close to it.
The rancher on the other side of the bayou from my house harvested hay three times this year. It is usually two times. I know she doesnt have enough head to eat it all so I suspect what she cant sell will rot where it is.
It depends on which side of the market you are on. I went to one auction this year and yes, the price of hamburgers on the hoof were ridiculously cheap. I could see the pain on the seller’s faces.
Cute as a button.
Both of them.
All the best, Lach.
If one is in a position where they have sell to make ends meet, then it is a terrible time to be a cattle owner.
Cattle is a secondary source of income to me. I can wait, and i will come out alright in the end. The cattle market is artificially suppressed right now because of covid nonsense limiting the ability of the big slaughterhouses to process bovids.
That will go away eventually and the men with standing herds still left will get the benefit.
People like beef.
A corollary of, “Me today, you tomorrow”?
I’d get one.
“I don’t know who made them”
*modestly buffs nails on tweed jacket*
https://mobile.twitter.com/jclementsasu/status/1308473837311291395
Now that’s some hardcore TDS.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1308181447044366336
I thought this was America.
That’s just bad business, sheesh.
Are they sure the smell they object to is pot? True hippie stinck is mostly patchouli, sandalwood, and BO. The pot fumes are barely noticeable.
There went half their business.
Good thing there’s still Denny’s. IHOP is like the Carb circle of hell anyway.
New campus pizza shop spreads confusion, paranoia.
LOL. Business does seem to be booming, however. Sales at an all-time high.
COVID-19 claoms another victim in hard-hit NJ
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/09/one-of-njs-best-movie-theaters-is-closing-for-good-due-to-covid-19.html
“With 25% capacity and 100% expenses, the numbers just didn’t make any sense,” Sodano said. “Simply keeping the doors closed cost a lot of money, but opening them at a quarter capacity would only lose more money faster.”
Maybe Springsteen can do a benefit concert? Oh…