I haven’t seen the sun in like, 3 days. It must be the end times. I am thinking about filing a lawsuit against the state. Pretty sure its against the state constitution to not see the sun for that long. If I wanted that, I could move to the northeast. Additionally, I made it to the gym yesterday for the first time in 3 weeks. I did deload a little, but apparently not enough. I’ll just go back tomorrow and inform my muscles that we are doing it again. Maybe they’ll get with the program.
Gee, Nancy, maybe if people could open their salons to regular people, we wouldn’t need another stimulus.
Come on, SMOD!
I’m guessing all of it.
See, I’m not saying its totally worth it, but making normies defend and discuss this is nothing but upside.
I haven’t seen the sun in like, 3 days. It must be the end times.
I, for one, prefer overcast.
HERESY! WE MUST CAST OUT THE NON BELIEVER!!!
Rainy with a chance of thunder is the one true weather pattern!
Aluminum overcast.
https://worldwarwings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/rome-raid-735×413.jpg
I thought it was the Sunshine State?
Also, it’s only the ides of September.
I thought it was the Gunshine State?
You just reminded me of this.
I don’t think the Dems are going to let Trump give away any more money before the election.
Which would be fine if the Dem governors would allow businesses to open up.
It’s not just the Dem governors keeping the lockdowns going.
/looks balefully towards Columbus
With Republicans like DeWine, Scott, Hogan, Ducey, Abbot, Sununu, and probably a bunch of others, who needs Democrats?
Your forgot the most popular governor in the nation: Baker.
Fuck.
I got a little confused since I had Charlie Baker-lite (Sununu) on the list.
“The study examines how mice…”
Oh
I, for one, look forward to my old yet new again penile overlord.
*places bookbag on lap just like in middle school*
Pelosi blasts GOP ‘skinny’ deals, doubles down on call for large coronavirus stimulus package
The Kennedy Center needs another $50 million.
These people are dumber than a bag of hammers. Formerly of CNN, of course.
I stupidly read the replies. WTF is wrong with these people?
Actually, I can guess
A) OMB
B) our Pali terrorist friends are slowly getting Taiwanized
C) sheer ignorance
I’m sure a lot of them are very outraged about B. Tough titty. The Palis had their chances, over and over again. Ehud Barak gave them almost everything they asked for, far more than any Israeli government ever had offered, and more than any Israeli government ever will again. They chose war. Fuck ’em.
Yet another Twitter link that I immediately regret clicking as it goes into lefty bizarro world almost immediately.
Its just hatred. If they stopped, listened, picked up a book, they would still be mad or dare say, glib about it.
No it’s not sunshine and rainbows in the ME with these deals, but its a step in the right direction. Its normalizing historically hostile or otherwise indignant countries to at least come to the table in some form.
The fact that Arab countries are even recognizing a legitimate Israel is a good thing, but I am not filled with hatred.
Exactly. No one who is being honest and serious actually thinks there was any kind of armed conflict between Israeli and the UAE and Bahrain, but the symbolism of Arab nations recognizing Israel and acknowledging its existence is something. These same people scoffing at symbolism now were going berserk a few years ago when Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, shrieking about how that would ensure that there would never be peace between Jews and Arabs.
This. It represents the first break in the stone wall between the two parties.
Ah yes, like Nancy Pelosi, who voted for the original resolution in the ’90s but then acted like it was the worst thing ever when Trump actually implemented it.
Several months before Trump announced the embassy move the US Senate passed unanimously some meaningless resolution related to Israel. Perhaps an anniversary of some kind. Among many loosely related things, the resolution supported the embassy move to Jerusalem. I think they kept reiterating their “support” for decades and then when Trump actually did it the Dem senators professed outrage even though all of them are on the record of being in favor of it only months earlier.
I’ll sign also if I get some F-35s. Oh, and a tank, I always wanted a tank.
“Ran http://InvestigateRussia.org”
Why am I not surprised?
They had some guy from UAE on the radio and he says the whole country is ecstatic over this deal. It’s opening up a bunch of things that have been verboten because of the boycott, or something. Either way, it’s great that the whole region doesn’t have to toe the Pali line anymore. The lefties hate Isreal, so of course they pooh-pooh it.
Rich Lowry at NRO has a nice article about this. It is a big deal. And the interesting thing is how the Palestinians are (are not) involved. They were invited to negotiations and refused. So everyone went on without them. For the first time nobody caved in to their tantrums.
“For the first time nobody caved in to their tantrums.”
If only we’d do that here with the Murrican progs.
That would be a good name for all those middle class white kids rioting in Portland. The Infantada.
That’s the best pun you’ve landed in like, two months. Kudos.
Is that yours? You need to trademark it.
Three HUGE asteroids headed towards Earth, after amateur astronomer spots massive space rock our planetary defenses MISSED
Planetary defenses? Bruce Willis is getting a little old. But Ben Afleck is probably still up to it.
Only if I can get Liv Tyler in the end
Has she aged well? Don’t think I’ve seen her in anything since The Strangers (highly underrated horror right there) and that was like 15 years ago.
NO
Starting to look like her Dad.
About as well as Steve Tyler. She is currently in this (or was until covidmeggadon):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10323338/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liv_Tyler#/media/File%3ALiv_Tyler_(29566238128)_(cropped).jpg
She’s not 20 years old and getting handsy with Alicia Silverstone anymore, but not her dad either.
Clicked on the imdb photos. Might have to walk that last part back. 🙁
Taking the dirt road home?
Well, she did it
Now the question is, what does it prove, or not?
Thank you. Can I go back to eating bats and pangolins in peace now?
bon appétit!
“Chinese virologist who fled to the US after claiming Covid-19 was made in a military lab releases ‘evidence’ to back up her theory — but fellow scientists call her report ‘unsubstantiated'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8735053/Chinese-virologist-claims-coronavirus-cooked-military-medical-facility.html
They accidentally scare quoted unsubstantiated instead of “scientists”.
“Our own fact checker, The Tater, says: False
and
“and scientists have slammed her report”
I science is settled folks.
I guess we must wait for another conspiracy theory, or perhaps the next cryptid sighting.
STEVE SMITH SAY WAS NOT ALIEN WAS COUSIN SPACE!
They are inscrutable!
“Trump gives Netanyahu a ‘golden key to the White House’ as he hosts leaders of Israel, UAE and Bahrain for peace ceremony, claiming more Arab countries will join move to recognize Israel”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8733657/Trump-preside-historic-Arab-Israel-recognition-deals.html
Golden key to the White House? How many candy bars did he have to eat?
I hope he avoids the 3-meal chewing gum.
That’s the key that gets you into the shower.
Horowitz: E-MASK-ulation: How we have been lied to so dramatically about masks
seven days.
Damn it!
Haven’t seen the sun in seven days.
“Haven’t seen the sun since ’89.”
“CNBC’s Jim Cramer calls Pelosi ‘crazy Nancy’ to her face – then blames Donald Trump for the nickname”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8735899/Jim-Cramer-calls-Nancy-Pelosi-crazy-Nancy-face.html
LOLOL
Now that probably has her more pissed off than anything else.
Does the study work on the small brain or one we don’t use as much?
The Bee with utter brilliance.
“During the seven-hour conversation, in which Trump’s demeanor and speaking style never changed even though he was blitzed out of his gourd”
Democrats and Their Military Quislings Flirt With Borderline Seditious Military Coup
As the election approaches, more and more ominous evidence is quickly piling up that the U.S. military’s nearly 250-year separation from national politics is eroding. Frightening signs indicate that senior members of the military are open to an anti-Trump coup d’etat. If such a coup happens, Democrats will gleefully cheer it on.
So, we have leftists demanding the military remove Trump from office if (when) he doesn’t accept the results of the election. And the right suggesting a military coup is already in play. I feel like I’m living in a Robert Ludlum novel.
Except those usually had happy endings.
You can have one, but Nancy is the masseuse.
Love the disclaimer… Revolver wants make clear that this article is not based on any inside information. But it’s the kind of story that drives clicks – thanks suckers.
Anonymous sources familiar with senior military thinking?
At least they are being honest. I thought it was a fun ride.
Watch what happens when Pedo Joe tries to grope a Senator’s daughter – they know.
If it’s fair game to accuse Trump of white supremacy, it’s fair game to call Joe a pedo.
One of those two has some evidence, however scant.
I hit the quarantine lottery today. Guy at work has a wife who works at a hospital. Either she or her sister ( who also is a nurse) was exposed. I spent the 15 minute break sitting in a car talking to him. After break he got the news. They sent him home and asked everyone if anyone was around him for 15 minutes or more. Viola, I get 14 days of self monitoring and texting in the numbers. Because I talked to a guy who hung out with someone who seems to have gotten it.
Reminds me of this.
I think Zardoz has dome advice for you.
ROGAINE IS NOT BEST, ZARDOZ SUGGESTS BRUTAL HEARTSBLOOD
Zardoz dome advice
Huh… have to say I was expecting this, not Speedwagon.
That’s better, mostly because I often pass out at 31 flavors.
“???????????????”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1305965815230017538
?????????????????????
Pedo Joe must be trending. Time to deflect.
That’s some mighty fine progjection.
They dropped the defend Cuties at all costs position pretty fast.
Maybe this what the Obamas were hired for.
Imagine for a moment that Michelle and Barack were asked if they were consulted on the movie.
If so, what was their response?
If not, why not? Isn’t that why they are cashing those phat checks?
Because their deal was to produce their own bullshit movies not to run Netflix’s programming as a whole?
Hmm. They are just producers, on paper. And they’re both easily lazy enough that they aren’t in the loop, and didn’t know.
I thought they had a bigger role, but its their pal Rice that’s on the board.
“We can fiscally spend the appropriate amount of money to meet the needs of the American people,” she added. “And by the way: It’s stimulus. We are a consumer economy and the more we have, whether it’s food stamps or unemployment insurance … that is stimulus to the economy.”
Go fuck yourself.
Using this new research, Bulun says specific drugs which only target the brain area where aromatase works can avoid these side-effects.
New recreational drug?
“Fiscally spend” what does that even mean?
Run the printing presses faster than they are running now.
Either these people are the dumbest or they are some of the most malevolent evil people in our country either way they don’t deserve to be within 1000 miles of the halls of power.
The Clown Prince just loves ruling by fiat
Unfortunately, remote learning in the home interferes with the ability of parents to return to work and provide for their families. In their struggle to find a safe learning environment for their children, parents have begun networking and creating informal learning pods where they can share the task of overseeing their children’s remote learning, and get back to work.
So, on September 3, 2020, Governor Sununu signed Emergency Order #67 Establishing the Remote Learning Center Verification Program administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. Now, any parent of a public or private school student, who attempts to network with other working parents to provide a safe learning environment for their children, may need to undergo the tedious process of licensure with DHHS for their remote learning group. Sununu has abandoned even the pretense of using existing law to justify his edicts: requiring licenses without legislative action is unabashed creation of new law.
To obtain DHHS approval, each parent must get a criminal background check and no one may supervise anyone else’s children until this licensing process is complete. Currently, this can take up to two weeks to be completed. Daycare centers must use this process and cannot allow a new staff member to work until all verification is complete. Adding a slew of new parents who are setting up learning pods to this verification process will increase the backlog and lengthen the process for everyone.
“Emergency Order #67 to Regulate Parents’ Remote Learning Pods”
That doesn’t sound Orwellian… at all.
Thanks for that nut punch. One of the things that I love about this place is that every time I think things can’t get worse, I am jolted back to reality. Raising young children is hard enough without assholes like this getting involved.
No.
Who is paying attention to this? This guy can go fuck himself.
What would happen if everyone said no?
Can they arrest everyone? Can they prosecute everyone? It would overwhelm the system.
I think a significant number of folks involved in these pods will say no.
Fuck off
At the risk of drugs falling out of my ass…. Nebraska governor ends most Lil Rona Panic measures
Republican Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts will end nearly all of his state’s social distancing restrictions on Monday.
The new rules will still limit the size of large indoor gatherings but will drop all other state-imposed mandates in favor of voluntary guidelines, as other conservative states have done.
“We are loosening the restrictions further on Sept. 14,” Ricketts said at a news conference.
State officials said they made the decision based on the availability of hospital beds and ventilators, in keeping with the Republican governor’s goal of not overwhelming medical facilities.
“The goal has always been to protect hospital capacity, and capacity remains stable,” Ricketts spokesman Taylor Gage said.
Crazy talk. We have to stamp it out like NZ or Australia have done!
“The goal has always been to protect hospital capacity, and capacity remains stable,”
Tell that to the other governors.
Today something strange happened. Instead of closing up or down between 300-1000 points, the Dow Jones closed up 2 points. I don’t think that means the markets are stabilizing, though.
Where you been, man? You didn’t hear that Trump just started WWIII?
Need to lockdown harder and bankrupt more Mom & Pops.
I know I keep harping on this but it’s not just the mom and pops who are going to topple here.
In October-November 2014, Russell 2000 closed five weeks in a row at 1173.
It’s hot and smoky, where I am.
Speakeasy?
Vegas Strip Club?
I was going to say wedged between two smoked hams, but your answer is more succinct.
That’s hot and stanky.
STEVE SMITH’s lair?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfeRq0YF3eQ
‘Round here, they’ve added “smokey” to the weather reports.
I’d watch Smokey
dosing the weather reports.**not gay*
Smokey sings.
I like the tune, the video not so much.
Less dorky.
Gotta agree. The video kinda blows, but them’s the 80s for ya.
the Dow Jones closed up 2 points.
They just rejiggered the Dow, rendering historical comparisons (like… to two weeks ago) mostly irrelevant.
Thanks, boys.
The Dow is always being rejiggered.
American Cotton Oil, American Sugar, American Tobacco, Chicago Gas, Distilling & Cattle Feeding, General Electric, Laclede Gas, National Lead, North American, Tennessee Coal and Iron, U.S. Leather, and U.S. Rubber.
I think 2 still exist, one with the same name, but I am too lazy to check.
I still don’t think that the writer of this story about the Minneapolis Sheraton turned into a People’s Homeless Shelter understands what went wrong (in 10 days).
There is a lot of nonsense in that article, but the one I chose is this:
Sure wish he would have named the city council member who pointed them at the Sheraton.
That story sounds like the collapse of socialism. I wonder why?
Complete mystery as to what went wrong. I blame their lack of respect for the 2A
I’m just guessing that the purpose of that article is to get sympathy and support for socialized housing. It’s a miserable fucking fail. I wonder if they even realize that?
Sounds like all of the stuff that was allegedly going on in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina that turned out to be false.
“a white-supremacist rally”
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Why all the subterfuge? Here in NYC the mayor is openly doling out hotel rooms like candy.
2020 Presidential Election: Will Hiden Trump Grump? | JEFF DUNHAM
Which one of you Glibs did that?
True story: when I was in high school, Jeff Dunham performed in my garage at my step-brother’s birthday party.
Too long and not funny.
Speakeasy?
Sadly, no. Nary a gin guzzling floozy in sight.
No mirror there either?
Let the political censorship begin.
“Today, Facebook caved to a pressure campaign by far-left activists, effectively censoring our effort to inform voters about Democrat threats to women’s athletics,” American Principles Project (APP) PAC Director Terry Schilling wrote in a statement.
“Our ad campaign makes a very simple claim: policies supported by Joe Biden, Sen. Gary Peters and other Democrats would destroy girls’ sports. There is ample evidence for this claim and more coming in every day. Nothing in the PolitiFact review shows this claim to be false,” Schilling explained. “Yet Facebook has nevertheless decided to declare that our ad might ‘mislead people’ because it is ‘missing context.’ Apparently, they believe the ad will only be fair if we also include the leftist ‘arguments’ against us.”
“Do we now need pre-approval from Democrats before we run ads critical of their policies? This is an absurd standard — one which Facebook obviously doesn’t hold the other side to,” the APP director concluded.
And yet they’ll continue to partake of a service that clearly hates them.
Social media isn’t exempt from TMITE, and I have very little sympathy for those who swim with sharks and cry when they get bit.
Parallel institutions might be the answer. They should go to Parler or some similar.
Yes?
Where the hell have you been.
anarchist community organizers
Ow, my toe.
You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get licensed as a professional anarchist community organizer. The red tape is unbelievable.
When I lived in SF in the early 90s I saw in the newspaper that there was going to be an anarchists’ convention in town. I thought this was going to be one of those crazy SF things like running naked in the Bay to Breakers. After all, what kind of anarchist would organize a convention? It turns out they were Antifa before they adopted the name, and they took BART to Berkeley and smashed up a bunch of shops on Telegraph Avenue. Good thing I had a job and didn’t go to the convention.
Late 80s I managed a store on Telegraph. Only homeless, druggies and run of the mill pan handlers. Coming out of the Midwest it was a shock/surprise to me.
Oh, there were some of us suburban kids too shopping for records at Rasputin.
In the mid nineties, I took a girl on a date to SF for new years eve. I told her that these people are obsessed with the homeless and with pets. Just as I finished my spiel, the radio had a blurb about a rally in support of..homeless pets! See, I told you!
So, strays?
feral
I don’t invent the terms, I just report.
Suburban now idles. Purrs like a kitten. A big, hungry, angry 454 cubic inch kitten. Sounds pretty happy. And it stopped smoking when I put fresh gas in it.
And now, I’ve jinxed myself, for sure.
And- Blackjack(?) I did re-seal those reservoir plugs with two part epoxy. Of course, I then had to file a bunch of it off to get it to fit in the recess in the base plate.
Huzzah!
Good to hear! Quadrajets are great carbs and 454’s are great engines. Enjoy.
Excellent! Congratulations!
Congrats! Getting ready to order an HT383 for mine.
Excellent!
Behold science!!!!!!
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.13.20193508v1
We live in the absolute dumbest times this model might be even dumber than the sturgis one.
I know what the future of my career will look like.
Instead of creating more gender check boxes on every web form, I’ll engineer predictive systems that will come with a set of flashcards for what data to input to get the result that your grant funding org wants to see. Cha-ching!
Video simulation of the Sturgis model.
2..4..9..16
Someone fails math.
The best kind of correct!
Bullshit numbers in, bullshit results out. Also, models aren’t science.
But they’re data… or something. Look buddy, we’ll science the data however we want to, m’kay? We know what we’re doing.
“ Introduction
Masks are a barrier method to prevent the spread of respiratory viral infections. A mask essentially serves as a filter that prevents passage of some portion of viruses from the airway of the transmitter to the airway of exposed contacts. Mask efficacy is therefore mediated by a reduction in exposure viral load…”
Yeah, bullshit. With a properly worn M95 mask or a HEPA respirator maybe but the masks most people are wearing are about as good a filter as a screen door and people are fidgeting with them all the time which is a risk too.
^N95
…N95 with an activated carbon filter for trips to the men’s room.
Our model predicts that moderately efficacious masks that reduce transmission risk by 50%
Talk about assuming your conclusion.
Talked to m6 son in college. Everyone got sick the first couple of weeks. He was sick Labor Day weekend. Everyone he knows who was tested, was covid positive. Most kids, like him didn’t get tested because they don’t want the hassle. Now they have all recovered.
How long before pre-nups also include a cap on aromatase? Or you have to submit your aromatase levels on college applications so they will know you aren’t a rapist?
Unless I read the article wrong, the worst thing that can happen is you’ll follow female mice around a cage all day trying to mate with them.
*logs into Amazon to buy lots and lots of duct tape*
Well at least they won’t explode now
*also adds elderberry cologne to cart*
Back to the real dangers of the modern world…
https://nypost.com/2020/09/14/hikers-discover-bear-eating-man-at-smoky-mountains-campsite/
“How Beethoven’s 5th Symphony put the classism in classical music
To many, Beethoven’s most famous work is a symbol of exclusion and elitism in classical music.
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony starts with an anguished opening theme — dun dun dun DUNNNN — and ends with a glorious, major-key melody. Since its 1808 premiere, audiences have interpreted that progression from struggle to victory as a metaphor for Beethoven’s personal resilience in the face of his oncoming deafness.
Or rather, that’s long been the popular read among wealthy white men who embraced Beethoven and turned his symphony into a symbol of their superiority and importance. For others — women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color — Beethoven’s symphony is predominantly a reminder of classical music’s history of exclusion and elitism. One New York City classical music fan wrote in the 1840s, for example, that he wished that “all women shall be gagged by officers duly licensed for the purpose before they’re allowed to enter a concert room.”
https://www.vox.com/switched-on-pop/21437085/beethoven-5th-symphony-elitist-classism-switched-on-pop
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1305919325275074560
Two observations
The 5th is the original heavy metal song.
What the fuck is that person smoking?
OFFS
Heh. This is what got me thinking more critically aout Ayn Rand. She had a series of essays on art most of which I still agree with, but on music she hated Bach and Beethoven and loved Vivaldi. The broad had some serious shortcomings.
Our model predicts that moderately efficacious masks that reduce transmission risk by 50% will lower exposure viral load 10-fold among people who do get infected, potentially limiting infection severity.
My model predicts I will be fabulously wealthy after I win the lottery.
This is literally the “assume a can opener” joke.
This just in, one of my crew just tested positive for the ‘Rona’. Tomorrow is going to SUCK!
A group of hikers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ended their trek in horror after discovering a bear dining on human remains.
Mostly non-aggressive.
“Lancaster protesters held on whopping $1 million bail each on riot charges”
https://nypost.com/2020/09/15/lancaster-protesters-held-on-1-million-bail-after-alleged-riots/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg
I’m sure the copious video of the riot will show that they at no time engaged in any activity other than medicking, and charges will be dropped, except the conspiracy charges.
The idea that wearing a “medic” or “media” patch makes you immune from arrest needs to die. The idea that you can provide active support to a riot, even if you, personally, don’t throw a brick or a molotiv, and not face any consequences, also needs to die.
Also, I doubt any of them ever passed the EMT exam.
All of that.
You mean like that whiny bitch who got shot pointing a gun at Rittenhouse, only to have CNN say he got shot working as a medic? Yeah fuck these people. At least, he bolstered Kyle’s defense when he told his friend that he regrets not just emptying his mag in him right off the bat.
I hate the way bail is used mostly, but this is a correct use. These people will go back out and burn more, loot more and assault more the very next day. They are a demonstrated danger to the community. They should have to pay a steep price to retain freedom until trial. For the counter, look at Portland. They let all the protesters out with no bail and minimal consequences. One of them murdered a guy because he’s a republican. No bail while riots are still in progress seems totally reasonable to me. They are literally setting fire to buildings and violently attacking police and citizens. Only the worst of them get even arrested, much less held over until trial. Fuck these people.
What insanity drives you to thinking this is the hill I am prepared to die on?
Glad to see someone call the lefts bullshit. They have a giant non-profit for bailing out rioters.
Highland Brewing Clawhammer Oktoberfest is possibly the most disappoint ing beer I have ever had.
Not the worst. I have had many worse. This is not a drain poor. It is squandered potential.
It looks right, it smells right. It tastes right up front. Then, nothing. It falls off a cliff. Literally no finish at all. No lingering trail of noble hops. No mouthfeel. Nothing. I dont know what they did or didnt do, but its just not right.
Everything else I have had from them is good. This is not.
I didn’t read the morning links until this evening. Sorry about your father.
Sorry you got hosed, rob
Yeah, Sorry about your dad.
Peak View Grapefruit IPA is pretty good. Denver is weird. Can’t wait to get back to Seattle.
Deepest condolences.
Hyperbole –
I saw your question about voter fraud with mail in ballots and the reply. There’s another variation on fraud that’s really simple. This article has an example of it.
It’s not simply about upping your own vote using dead voters, or going to nursing homes, (or all of the other examples from the NY Post article linked in the dead thread) – there’s the tactic of “losing” the mail-in ballots of the opposing team, too. When you encourage *everyone* to vote by mail, now it’s simplicity itself to have USPS (*union*) employees lose boxes of votes from reliably red districts, for just one simple example. All you would have to do is lose a couple of boxes of *theirs* and find a couple of boxes of *yours* and, voila, Red County is now just nudged out as a Blue one. Easy peazy.
That’s the point of ballot harvesting. You “harvest” the ones you know will go your way, the rest get thrown in the trash.
Yeah, that was in trashy’s article too. My question there is where are the Red poll watchers who see zero mail-in ballots from one particular postal zone, that just happens to be red? and I don’t think you can just switch out the ballots blue for red, the article claimed they had to steam open the enveloped and but in counterfeit ballots because the return envelops are unique. Much like the sending in phony voters with forged utility bills and photo-less id’s, seems like a lot of work for a few votes, perhaps I just don’t grasp the number of people involved, but if it’s that ingrained then the voting aint going to work under any system , as is often said the voters don’t count matter it’s who’s counting.
My question there is where are the Red poll watchers who see zero mail-in ballots from one particular postal zone, that just happens to be red?
Completely without recourse? What, exactly, can they do if that happens?
That is exactly why I cancelled my mail-in ballot (which I was “signed up for” automatically). In-person voting, for all its faults, is still the most secure.
I had been kinda planning to, but when the postal union endorsed Biden, I did it within a few days. The utter lunacy of having an organization that is openly siding with one candidate handling ballots is just beyond belief.
This is part of what killed the last round of ‘Vid relief funding, from what I understand – the Dems were insisting on mandatory mail-in balloting for this election, or somesuch. I guess a few Congressional Repubs must have had a testicle drop or something, because they wouldn’t go along with just handing the entire election to the postal union. Maybe they figured out that it would put their own sinecures at risk.
I receive my mail-in ballot automatically. I fill it in and march down to the polling place, where I dunk it in the collection box inside. That way I get an “I Voted” sticker that I can wear around and feel like I saved a child from a fire.
The old ladies get pissed when you don’t accept the sticker from them.
I never take the sticker. There is no need to advertise virtue for voting. And I’m not a child at the doctor’s office.
Now if they handed out lollipops…
You never know when the “I Voted” sticker will become a target for some sort of damn violent protest–a “dog whistle” for being a racist white supremacist non-mask-wearer who VOTED IN PERSON.
I have a friend who became a US citizen nearly 2 years ago. He is so psyched to vote. He has voted in every election he has been able to since becoming a citizen.
“Twitter Suspends Account Of Chinese Scientist Who Published Paper Alleging Covid Was Created In Wuhan Lab“
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/twitter-suspends-account-china-scientist-who-published-paper-alleging-covid-was
Unfuckingbelievable but not unfuckingexpected…
The CCP probably threatened to release those piss hooker photos of a Dorsey.
I hope Klaus Schwab dies a long and painful death, filled with inane buzzwords.
“The marching band (!!) at @Columbia was apparently “founded on the basis of racism, cultural oppression, misogyny, and sexual harassment.” This left the band no choice but to disband “unanimously and enthusiastically.””
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1305882014256476161
This one time at band camp…
the Band will not be asking for or expecting any forgiveness
That is a statement I could support. Except that in context they got it totally wrong.
Good god is that pathetic. How many of those people disagree but are too intimidated to speak up? Unanimously and enthusiastically my ass.
Don McLean has a sad.
My kid’s favorite song becuase his name is Vincent. He still has both his ears, though.
Such a fucking weird timeline
High School senior suspended entire year after protesting remote learning
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/high-school-senior-suspended-entire-year-after-protesting-remote-learning/ar-BB194xz7
“”Insubordination’
WTF?
What a bunch of cunts!
The teaching really sunk in for them.
Assholes.
You were late and you were too circumspect in your assessment of them.
Libertarians support trespassing now?
Apparently the high school isn’t closed to students, so its not clear to me that he was actually trespassing.
Sounds like they owe his parents a big property tax refund.
Why, is their some guarantee that you get so many days a year? did this kid show up every snow day/ teacher in service day/ federal holiday, why not Saturday and Sunday? Also why just his parents, I’ve been paying property taxes for thirty years never got one kid of mine* edumacated/daycared by the state.
*as far as I know.
People are learning the police don’t have to protect you and the schools don’t have to babysit no matter how much you pay in taxes.
If I have ten friends over and I ask the eleventh one who shows up to leave and he doesn’t, he’s still trespassing. Just because the restuarant/store/school is serving other people if they ask you to leave you probably should.
Do you live on tax-funded public property?
fair enough, if any public property lets one person in they have to let all people in.
What if you forcibly make them all pay for it and then manufacture a reason to prevent them from coming, just to try and reduce a certain president’s chances of winning an up coming election?
Ahem! Here’s our school opening
*School opening Nazi!
I’m forced to prepay for a meal at your restaurant under threat of jail time and I can’t eat there.
While your property taxes pay for “schools” (on paper at least) they don’t really pay for your specific kid’s education. Or else as I eluded to above every childless taxpayer deserves a massive rebate. (they do, but that’s irregardless of schooling or lack there-of, or childlessnessness)
I pretty much get jackshit out of what I pay in as my kids are home or private schooled.
That said, it’s an existing public institution/benefit and if I do decide to utilize it, it has to be made available to me just like anyone else.
Opposing the institution of public education does not morally obligate me to not use it when I’m forced to pay for it. Same goes for SS.
It is being made available to him “just like anyone else”, on certain days and at certain hours, again did this kid show up every snow day or in service day or federal Holiday? It’s not like some kids are getting 5 days in person and he’s only getting 3, and this is nothing new, the reason for it yeah that’s new, but we had half days when I was a kid, it was in grade school but same principle. Hell, my dad had half days in high-school 60 years ago. He spent his afternoons working at Crall’s drugstore. Maybe this asshole kid could do something productive like that instead of grandstanding on a stupid political stunt.
Oh I get it, as long as the shitty service is distributed in an egalitarian manner, it’s fine.
Yes?
Maybe it’s just here, but they actually have arrested the parents when the kids failed to show up during regular school. That was Kamala. Even before that, they would arrest kids if they were caught out in the world during school hours. Square that shit.
“trespassing.” Another non-sequitir from The Hyperbole.
It’s an enrolled student in compulsory school where students physically attend. The union et al just created addtional, silly regulations without parental input.
You know, if a teacher is scared shitless to be around the students, the teacher can be on video and the students who want to show up can be in the classroom and the ones who don’t want to show up can be on video, too. Putting in additional unnecessary regulations is what is unlibertarian.
Another non-sequitir from The Hyperbole Name seven.
Putting in additional unnecessary regulations is what is unlibertarian.
So the original unnecessary regulations weren’t unlibertarian because that’s the way we always did it?
The schools around here change the start date and the end date, the holiday schedule, etc… every year, I’m having a hard time grasping this concept that the “school year” is some set in stone calandrical event which must be followed by every kid and municipality.
If it wasn’t because of the bullshit pandemic and this was just some high school experimenting with a new approach to edumaction would you people still be defending this kids refusal to accept the new regime?
Tell that to the truancy pigs.
We need more guys like this. Instead we have “100 of his fellow students” and the hyperbole.
Now in addition to going to school it would be nice if the kids got an education too. The two are not the same.
Remember, the State hates you.
Today, in every last fucking thing is racist somehow:
“Your discomfort with watching a young black girl trying to explore what it means to be a woman does not equal child pornography, lol.
Or is youthful exploration only afforded to boys and white people?”
https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1305926933218234389
The cast of girls looks half-white to me.
They identifiy as black.
/Dolezal
While you can certainly make a show about a young black girl, etc., that isn’t exploitative, you can also make one that is.
Motte, meet Bailey. Bailey, Motte.
Next, five year olds explore what it means to be sexually attractive in this Netflix special!
“HAPPENING NOW in BLM plaza DC protest normalization with Israel and Israeli war crimes. Come join me!”
“CODEPINK National Co-Director; Jewish lefty. Rant re Palestinian rights, Judaism, militarism, US foreign policy. She/her/hers”
https://twitter.com/ArielElyseGold/status/1305882624045592579
I’m no expert on Judaism, but she’s doing it wrong.
They are literally protesting peace. This is a fucking bizarre year.
“No war, no peace!!! No war, no peace!!!”
So, Kinetic Military Action?
Give war a chance!
I like the guy in the cowboy hat in the background giving them stink eye.
He is probably pissed off at her cultural appropriation of cowboy boots. Naw, he doesn’t care that she is wearing cowboy boots, he is just pissed they are pink.
The other day I hesitantly connected on LinkedIn to a college sort-of friend who was the OG lefty in my life. He is the first person I ever heard utter the words “politically correct”. I saw the “he/his” in his blurb and thought, “should I?” At least I got a jpeg of me from 1989 out of it.
Lefties are awfully good at following orders. If you’d told these people ten years ago that they’d be listing their preferred pronouns in e-mail footers in order to keep up in the don’t-offend/appeal-to-peers arms race, most of them would’ve called you crazy.
If you’d told these people
tentwo years agoSlippery slope? More like continental shelf.
Self-loathing idiot is proud of self. Film at 11
Maybe Zuckerberg is going to remodel it and live there.
Facebook is buying a previously unused corporate headquarters from outdoor retailer REI, despite the social media company’s plans to shift more of its employees to working from home.
REI announced in August it had decided to sell the 400,000-square foot campus complex in Bellevue, Washington, that it had planned to move into this summer. It disclosed Monday that it had reached a deal to sell the property for $390 million. Facebook (FB) is buying the buildings and most of the land for $367.6 million, while the site developer is purchasing an undeveloped 2-acre portion of the property for the rest of the sales price.
REI, which specializes in camping and other outdoor gear and clothing, is a co-op that is owned by its customers. It has 167 stores in 39 states. While it does not report quarterly results, most brick-and-mortar retailers reported a sharp drop in sales earlier this year due to store closings associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. REI also shifted its headquarters employees to remote working due to health concerns.
The company said it has decided to now have its headquarters span multiple locations across the Puget Sound region. REI will also have headquarters employees working remotely as its normal model going forward.
“We learned that the more distributed way of working we previously thought untenable will instead unlock incredible potential,” said CEO Eric Artz in August. “This will have immediate, positive impacts on our ability to attract and retain a diverse and highly skilled workforce, as we continue to navigate the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.”
REI had been planning for the new headquarters for four years and it had been under construction for the past two.
“The sale represents a positive return on the co-op’s investment in the property,” according to REI’s statement.
Or Facebook can fill it up with censors.
From the comments attached to the article on male sexual desire:
Since in men half the brain is devoted to the desire to look at and touch female bodies, it’s not very hard to locate. Nobody knows what that half of the brain does in women. Of if women do know, they’re not saying.
In Canada, it makes women vote for Justin Trudeau. Who still won’t come to their house and have hot monkey sex with them. The insufferable, dreamy cad.
Nobody knows what, if anything, that half of the brain does in women.
I’ve probably reached my limit for misogynist comments for awhile.
That’s the case in CA with Newsome too. I was at a party in SF where the women were moist just talking about how they had seen him at some other party. They practically slid off their chairs.
I briefly hung out with a young lady in Uni back in the 80s who had a similar reaction to seeing Tom Selleck; we went to see “Three Men and a Baby” (or somesuch) in the theatres and I thought she was gonna wildly come all over herself before the movie was over. Yeeesh.
I’m not a good judge of men’s attractiveness but that motherfucker is offputting to me. The hair gel, the spray tan, the capped teeth, the self-righteous authoritarianism. He’s a televangelist preacher of woke bullshit.
Interesting, the German military police (minus SS units) were allowed to operate fully armed and to use the swastika until June of 1946 at which time their surrender was accepted:
https://youtu.be/p8RJpJdFjIw
Mark Felton puts out some great videos.
I took a nap, and apparently lay on my left arm the whole time, putting it to sleep too. Now it’s waking up.
Love the pins and needles… /sarc
Are you still playing CKIII?
Yes, why?
I was thinking about getting it and was wondering if it’s worth it.
Have you played any other Paradox grand strategy games?
It’s pretty par for the course, but on the better side of median. If you played and liked CK2, you should like ck3.
Not yet. But I’ve heard good things about them.
Well, there are a few ways to try it cheaply, the most common being the $1 game pass trial if you trust microsoft with your info.
The learning curve is steep, but the game has the best tutorial Paradox has done to date – provided you actually read the information given. If you want to just jump into a game with both feet the odds are you will get roflstomped more often than me trying to play a CIV title.
It is the most stable I’ve seen one of their games in terms of crashes (it hasn’t crashed on me once when I wasn’t trying to tinker under the hood). and the bugs are not as common. Though it was funny when I caught myself sneaking into my wife’s chambers to romance her and lost ten opinion of myself.
That said, I do recommend it. But it’s not for all tastes.
Needles and pins-uhh! https://youtu.be/f4LyoeqQPu4
Once again MS Teams sucks donkey balls. What kind of retard would only allow you to see the setting for background images immediately prior or during a meeting? How about setting that shit up well in advance? I wish I could take a bat to Redmond.
I don’t care too much about background images–at my company, no one uses the video function. But I want a push-to-talk hotkey or have one of the mouse buttons remapped.
I’ve got a headset with a mute button so ptt is covered. Unless it a 2-3 person collaborative “meeting”, mute goes on at the start and sometimes never comes off.
Microsoft has seemed to take on the early access approach to software. Everything is in a constant state of beta.
Minimum nonviable product seems to be the goal for many companies.
Jeffrey Sachs is a smart feller and we oughtta listen to him good
Though Democrats had been considered the party of the working class since the New Deal, they carried the richest counties and lost in many of the poorest in 2016. Understanding that fact is key not only for the Democrats to retake the White House but for the country as a whole to reunite in a common purpose. As candidate, Joe Biden seems to be conveying the right messages.
Democrats have become the party of social progressives, African Americans and other minorities, environmentalists, and younger voters, as well as the party of those with bachelor’s degrees or higher. Republicans, meanwhile, became the party of social conservatives, especially Evangelicals, and increasingly of White working-class and older voters.
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Blah blah Trumps sucks and people who vote for him are uneducated hicks
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Democrats now have the opportunity to reunite the nation by creating jobs across all regions. They should offer an industrial plan to build the next generation of electric vehicles, smart grids, advanced batteries, and green fuels (such as hydrogen produced with renewable energy) — all of which would create new jobs throughout the industrial heartland.
The Democrats can win over the natural-resource states by playing to their great strengths: massive low-cost renewable energy (especially wind and solar power) and new mining resources for advanced batteries, electric vehicles, wind turbines, and other parts of the new industrial economy.
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The Democrats should also lead on the long-delayed modernization of infrastructure: interstate transmission lines to carry renewable energy; buildings retrofitted for electrification and energy efficiency; charging stations and other facilities for electric vehicles; transmission pipelines for hydrogen and other green fuels; and a 5G network for advanced digital services.
In sum, the path to sustainable investment is the path to a reunified America, with all parts of the nation contributing to the nation’s recovery.
Magic. That’s how we’ll do it!
???
Or they can stop thinking they can manage the economy and get the hell out of the way.
How long before the Trump campaign airs an add showing Biden’s obvious decline, interspersed with gaffes like the “Harris Administration” slip-ups and outright starts campaigning against Harris, forgetting Biden?
Would it be viewed as a bridge too far? A disrespectful slap? Of course it would; would it matter?
Lefties are awfully good at following orders.
Seriously. “Question Authority” has morphed into “Am I following theses orders correctly, Sir?”
Followed by, “I wish only to oppress and kill people, but only with your authority sir.”
That’s the case in CA with Newsome too. I was at a party in SF where the women were moist just talking about how they had seen him at some other party. They practically slid off their chairs.
I thought he’s gay. Or is that irrelevant?
He’s probably dabbled, but I doubt he’s full homo. NTTAWWT.
His former beard.
Politics, something, something, strange bedfellows…
She looks like a drag queen.
Mee-owww!
For the end of days I have chosen Mojitos as my drink. No one buys rum around here, I have two mint plants and limes are but a minor cost.
That is all.
If the world is ending I am splurging on the oldest mellowest cognac I can find.
Your jib, sir . . . et cetera, et cetera . . .
We have mint that springs up naturally by our pond. Super mojitos.
What strange land do you live in? Nobody buys rum? Mojitos are a great summer drink.
The high tech way sounds and looks interesting. But the other will do well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lih-RVgIVu4
My cheap and easy way to make mojitos when sailing is: Muddle mint on ice cube (if available), Simply Limeade, sqeeze a lime slice, rum (blacker the better), add ice- then hand to the recipient to drink.
What flavor Doritos do you use?
While bad news for people that live near there, this is good news for all the players coming to the table regarding Israel.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/09/15/rockets-from-gaza-injure-six-israelis-as-hamas-blasts-accords-as-not-worth-paper-theyre-written-on/
Eventually other countries are going to treat Palestine as a petulant child and it seems we are seeing that. Even if its at the cost of military hardware or whatever else is being reported.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EllaMizrahi12/status/1305959027126480901
Poor Joe.
2 links for your enjoyment
I don’t know how I found this, but I’m glad I did: lady runs through underwater canyon while carrying rock. Kinda reminded me of an old video game called Soul Reaver- the way she moves that is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZRMoi-yO4
I wish I had known about this place when I drove through Wyoming last year: https://wyomingdinosaurcenter.org/programs/dig-for-a-day/
The fossil quarries are just a few minutes from the museum. If you find something cool, they put it on display along with your name. Seems like the most cost-effective way for me to fulfill my childhood dream of being a paleontologist.
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If you find new bone, it will remain at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center as they are your contribution to science. Your name, the bone and location will be recorded in our bone registry for all to see! The information and bones you gather will be used to help our scientific studies. Of course, we cannot guarantee you will find a bone, but even if you do not, you have helped scientists learn more about the site itself.
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Wise words from Epictetus: Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Other incredibly worthwhile thing to do in Wyoming – driving the Wind River canyon, north to south (US 20 from Thermopolis).
I need to do that. I spent the night in Dubois last year, but was headed East and decided against the jaunt out of my way.
We went to Yellowstone when I was in elementary school. At breakfast in Dubois, my Dad told the waiter enthusiastically “We have a town called Do Boys in Pennsylvania!”
The waiter looked patiently at Dad for a good two seconds and said:
“It’s pronouced Doo-Bwah.”
I think the waiter may have been messing with you,
ha!
Now that’s a set of lungs!
The Wyoming link is awesome. I am planning a flying trip out to Yellowstone (maybe next year) and this will be high on my list of stops.
Outside of Lander on the flank of the Wind River Range is Sinks Canyon. The road is paved and the walking is short. You can walk to where a small river drops into a cave and disappears underground. If you want you can enter the outer part of the cave (be careful) and watch, hear and feel the racket while watching the water go underground. Go back to the car and drive down canyon and park. Walk to the overlook and watch the river reappear at “The Rise”- see ungodly huge trout swimming in the pond.
Pinedale has the Museum of the Mountain Man and Fremont Lake. Plus it is close to the old Oregon Trail where you can drive or ride along the old paths.
https://www.khq.com/news/arson-suspect-arrested-after-allegedly-starting-multiple-fires-in-spokane-on-monday/article_62df8a40-f223-11ea-8a02-af6f5dca5965.html
Why aren’t these national news stories?
“Conspiracy theories.” , right.
What makes you think she is antifa/BLM?
It doesn’t matter. For 6 months now, they’ve been chanting “burn it all!” and burning cars,buildings, pallets, dumpsters, you name it. Now, a bunch of people are setting fires all over the west, predominantly in leftist strongholds. The fires all stop magically at the borders of Canada and Mexico. I guess climate change want to punish us specially, lol. You threaten a whole country for months on end and that thing you threatened happens on a grand scale, you start to look kind of guilty.
⬆ this
Except that this happens every fire season. A significant percentage are human caused and large number of those are intentional.
This time it’s a record. There’s a lot of verifiable arson in places that rarely burn, mostly by people in their 30s-40s. It’s not the same, that’s why they’re blaming climate change. Which, of course, they’re making an election issue. Of course!
The arson story is going to get much bigger, I believe. You can tell by how vehement the denials are, and how common the actual accounts seem to be.
Staying Alive
Korean edition.
It works.
Is it too late to vote in the poll? If we only had absentee ballots, but clearly TPTB are suppressing the vote.
The check’s in the mail.