Let them play!
Middle of the week and still no sports…hurry up, Big Ten, and make your damn announcement before another Buckeye first-rounder opts out for the year.
Rock on!
Railroad tycoon Charles Crocker was born on this day. He shares it with British PM Bonar Law (yep, seriously), department store founder James Cash Penney, Curious George creator H.A. Rey, TV host Allen Funt, bluesman B.B. King, acting great Peter Falk, basketball great Elgin Baylor, sailor Dennis Conner, drumming great Kenney Jones, actor Mickey Rourke, baseball great Robin Yount, creepy magician David Copperfield, hurler Orel Hershiser, outfielder Tim “Rock” Raines, catcher Mickey Tettleton, and rocker Richard Marx.
Solid list. Good baseball crew there. And now on to…the links!
Here come the copycats. To be honest, I’m kinda surprised this isn’t happening a lot more already. Hopefully it stops, because it’s chickenshit, it’s a violation of the NAP, and it’s going to cause a serious backlash of retributive violence.
Still available…you just have to ask for it yourself.
Yes, this is how the law is written. Sorry, CNN. That’s how it works. And yes, people can still request their mail-in ballot. They just have to do it the same way they’ve always had to do it…which is how the law is written. Suck it.
Since CNN, NBC, and ABC (all the places I’ve looked so far) literally had no mention of it on their main page, we go overseas to find a source for what’s without a doubt the biggest news story in a long time. I guess our media just didn’t deem it worthy of their coverage and instead provided stories on Cynthia Nixon’s feelings about a school system’s curriculum and some she about some camper that’s gone missing. Well, I think it’s a huge deal and I hope the other nations in the region jump on board soon.
Yes, this is actually a big fucking deal, media shitheads.
I guess Biden wanted to freshen up his racial pandering. The hot sauce in the purse seemed to work out so well for the last Dom candidate and black people, he must have figured this would be a sure-fire winner! Also, the twitter trolling of it has been absolutely hilarious. I strongly suggest y’all find some of it…especially Trump’s retweet of the NWA edit.
Step 1 shouldn’t be stroking a huge check that the taxpayers are forced to back. It should be getting to the bottom of the investigation into who fucked the whole thing up in the first place.
Fuck you, pal. Pay for your own shit. The rest of the country isn’t your piggy bank.
So stunning. So brave. Dude, I just want to buy a parka. Now I’ll buy it from somebody else.
And finally…on the lighter side. LOL, sorry dude. But that’s some funny shit. Next time, hire a professional.
And here’s just a fantastic song. I hope you enjoy it. I will.
Now have a great day, friends.
Best timeline ever!
Also weird, that song was floundering until it was remixed with (white guy) Justin Bieber.
*I’m sorry I know this*
It’s best with Columbian models dancing to it.
Is Tiger Beat available on-line? (asking for a friend)
Middle of the week and still no sports – there were and the Clippers choked.
No one cares about the NBA. Now I have no idea what the hell happened to the Indians over this past week.
Did they get into another border skirmish with china?
Wrong Indians, Wahoo not Dot.
They got drunk on the reservation?
So drunk they drove their wives into bridge abutments and beat up their trucks with shovels.
Isn’t that supposed to be Cleveland Baseball Team by now?
The day that happens is the day I stop following them. Earlier this year there were “discussions” around changing the name. They already killed off Chief Wahoo (with the exception of gear sold at one shop at the stadium to keep up the mark).
Favorite sporting jerseys worn by the actual Natives up here? Cleveland Indians, Chicago Blackhawks, Washington Redskins.
Forgot the Atlanta Braves.
The Indians are taking a cue from the Browns. The Tribe lost to the Cubs in the 9th last night after tying the game in the top half of the inning. The reliever hit a batter to load the bases, and then hit the next batter on the first pitch. Talk about shitting the bed.
Dropping three in a row to the Royals is the point I’ll say the wheels came off. They haven’t won a game since then. At that time they were still in the run for a playoff spot.
What, the Phillies bullpen transferred to Cleveland?
Also, the Islanders remarkably didn’t choke.
Didn’t choke?!? Bro, I hate Tampa, but that’s the best team in the League right now.
The Islanders win last night was an accomplishment; Tampa is absolutely stacked.
Don’t see them much other than recognizing players who used to be Rangers.
I watch a lot of hockey and – as a Bruins fan – have come to thoroughly dislike Tampa the last several years. It’s not Canadiens level hatred (because of the history), but Tampa is an absolute roadblock to everyone else in the East now.
Hedman will be a Norris trophy candidate for another 5-7 years and should probably win it this year. That would give him two.
Nikita Kucherov is one of the League’s best scorers. Point is an absolute playoff beast, a la Claude Lemieux. You can go down their whole roster like that – you won’t find a weak line.
They remind me of those stacked Detroit teams of the 90s-00s. They skate, attack, and defend as 5. It’s really amazing to watch, undoubtedly the Russian influence.
Climate deniers? Like Bishop Berkeley?
Mornin’ Sloopy.
Good morning to you as well!
Bill Gates- public health expert
There are a slew of things the world could have done better in terms of tackling the coronavirus from the outset, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes, reflecting on the medical and societal response to the pandemic.
And a big one remains a topic of controversy more than eight months after the virus first appeared: the use of face masks.
“The number of things that in retrospect, could have been done better on this pandemic is very, very large,” Gates admitted while discussing the latest release of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s annual Goalkeepers Report last week, which measures progress made toward the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals.
“Even the medical community are understanding of the importance of masks. You know, it took us several months — most respiratory diseases are coughing diseases. They’re not talking or singing diseases. And so we got that one wrong. We underestimated the value of masks.”
STFU, Bill.
Is he saying it IS a singing disease? Or what?
We’ll need to get Moribund the Burgermeister on that problem right away.
He’s been an insufferable fucking prick all through this.
Who hasn’t? (present company excluded)
Most don’t stand to parlay their prickinesss into billions though.
He did it before, he’ll do it again.
most respiratory diseases are coughing diseases
And we don’t lock down the economy for them. What is different now?
That’s not what happened at all.
Little lies, big lies. Which one sticks?
Chouinard should stick to climbing rocks.
I didn’t laugh at the fallen tree. Hell, revisited.
“Fuuuuuuck! Oh…what the fuuuuuuuck!”
93% of that felling was peaceful and he probably has insurance anyway.
As someone that used to fall trees for a living even if he did everything right there was a more than a negligible chance that something was gonna go wrong. Wind, wrong under-cut, hell, even the grain can twist it right back at you. It’s physics and physics is hard. It’s much worser and scarier in deep snow.
somebody here linked to a video of some pros showing off the various cuts. it was damn impressive!
In the short span of time I was regularly cutting trees, I was happy if I dropped it in the right quadrant. They were putting the trees exactly where they wanted them exactly how they wanted them.
It’s both an art and a science. So many variables and quite terrifying. You never know when the top might break off and come screaming down to earth to crush you like a bug. After awhile you get pretty good and can get it down to 10 degrees or so. I was a piker compared to the old hands.
I’m always happy if gravity is still working. I once had a tipi of 5 big birch trees hung up together. I finally left them, Spring came and they were all neatly on the ground, ready for work up to firewood.
A miscalculation as to direction, a little wind, an unseen rotten spot, adjacent trees putting a little spin on the target tree. Don’t try this at home, kids.
Yeah. That. I knew guys that would “domino” trees. Fall them just enough for leaners and drop the final one on the lot to save time. Extremely dangerous but time is $. I worked fast but methodically and always made some bucks to send home rather than a mangled corpse.
So, you are exactly the opposite of a neocon (the mangled corpses aren’t their own).
I’ve dropped my share. Trees in the middle of a residential neighborhood like that? Get a crane dummy.
My neighbor used to be a logger. A branch stuck in the canopy came down while he was dressing the log and stove his head in. He died fairly quickly. Another guy I went to high school with got his back broken in a similar incident. Permanently paralyzed from waist.
I’ve never cut down a tree taller than me, but I do know the fear of a falling lump of wood – back in a much earlier segment of my life I participated in the Highland games. I think I only had one decent caber toss in all the events I participated in, most of the time I was running for my life from a 200 pound, 20 foot tall pole that was inevitably falling straight back at me.
A few autumns ago I was raking leaves in the back yard. Then a front started coming in and the wind was picking up, making raking pointless. So i went in the house and five minutes later I heard a loud noise – a big chunk of the tree came down. First I cursed at the big cleanup job I had coming, then I thanked God I didn’t stay outside as I would have probably been killed.
Since it’s BB’s birthday:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XEB_QHbZnME
In Houston? WTF is wrong with you?
Hell froze over and it’s actually below zero?
I have a few beautiful pieces of outerwear that wen unworn for the decade and a half between OK and NY. Now they’re “retro” I guess.
On the plus side, it’s fun to go convertible shopping in December. And viewing Christmas lights in neighborhoods is better with the top down.
Even if it dropped below zero, there is enough heat stored in the ground, water and buildings to keep things toasty for months.
Truth: In the summer I’d run out of cold water. The aquifer that Bryan/College Station gets it’s water from is over 90 degrees, and the ground temp where the pipes run is even hotter, and having the house wet wall be on the west side of the house and made of brick…
There’s such a thing as a lightweight parka, right? Besides, I travel for work more than I’d like to. In fact, I’m in OK right now.
even one time to OK is more than anybody would like to
*clubs Trashy with cow leg that happens to be lying in the yard*
Alright kiddos, circle around. Time for trashy to tell a story.
There’s a fairly important contract law case that took place in Oklahoma. A couple of poor farmers sold the mineral rights for their land to a mining company. The mining company mined whatever they mined, and left, not bothering to clean up and regrade the land. The couple sued to force the mining company to fix everything.
Anyway, after studying this case backwards and forwards, my contracts prof asked “so I think this was the wrong outcome, can anybody tell me why?”
After a few moments, he chimed back in, “its Oklahoma, anything the mining company did to the land had to have been an improvement!”
In seriousness though, I have my eye on a region in East OK/west AR to buy some acreage when the time is right. If I find the right plot, it’ll make for a cheap lakehouse + hunting grounds
Good luck. Lake property supply is usually limited, good lake property even more limited. Hook on enough acreage for hunting and it’s big time prices.
When I started looking for retirement I was unsure if I wanted lake or land. I finally decided land was the more important. A lot of lakes had public access so that was a plus. I was able to find the land at an affordable price, then later an adjacent 40 acres became available and I bought that, too.
Lake living anymore can be like living in town, with neighbors, associations, restrictions. Rural is more relaxed, usually. Right after I bought I started getting neighbors, on smaller plots. Fortunately they are of similar nature and shoot almost every day so I know they are still OK.
yep, that’s not surprising. My definition of lakehouse is malleable depending on the price range. the land is more important to me, too.
As long as it has a sex dungeon and a lye pit, that’s all you really need. You are going to be spending a lot of time on your boat anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9spNzOFPk
forgot the link
That case illustrates the vital principal that if you contract with someone for non-monetary compensation, even if it is clear as day that money cannot compensate you for their lack of performance, the court will go ahead and let them pay you money instead. It also IIRC was decided by the OK Supremes about 8 months before members of the court were impeached, disbarred and I believe jailed in the biggest corruption scandal in US judicial History
Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining Co., 382 P.2d 109 (Okla. 1962) The case infuriated me in law school, but it had one humorous element. My professor was Hispanic, and hearing a man with a pronounced Spanish accent, and a slight lisp say Peevyhouse 400 times was hilarious.
That case is up there with some of the professional ethics cases as stark indicators that legal and moral are two very different things.
It gets bitterly cold in OK for about two weeks. Plus you’ll notice how every tree in the state is gnarled, broken and misshapen? Not much now, but spectacular ice storms.
From last tread: kudos to whoever programmed Sean’s pollbot.
Breakfast was a fried egg sammich and coffee.
I think it was probably a Chinese orphan, truth be told.
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday again blocked Harris County, Texas, from sending mail-in ballot applications to more than 2 million possible voters while litigation continues.
If they are “possible voters” they need to register and get an absentee ballot or show up in person.
How can that help with the agenda to create as much chaos as possible for the elections so team blue can then run another coup?
“Vote the assholes out!”
Oh cool
It refers to politicians from any party who deny or disregard the climate crisis and ignore science, not because they aren’t aware of it, but because their pockets are lined with money from oil and gas interests,”
Oh ? It’s no surprise that the chic outdoor brands are progtastic, but I will remember that TNF and patagonia are overt about it
Why are the technical clothing brands all woke and shit?
I suspect 5.11 isn’t. Though I have no actual knowledge of their corporate attitude.
Considering how much of their customer base is made of cops and military, I’d say that’s a safe assumption.
511 is more tacticool than technical. I had 511 pants when I was an EMT. As far as I know, they don’t make serious weather gear for backpack campers, mountain climbers, etc.
5.11 was originally clothing made by/for technical climbers (back in the 1960’s) and then the FBI started using their line for field units in the ME and it caught on with paramilitary contractors. The rest is history.
Look to the customer base. Well-off youngsters with money to burn that think electricity comes from those funny little holes in the wall. Plus they think that the “wilderness” should remain their exclusive playground. Talk about “White Privilege”. Don’t punch me, Man! I just bought these vintage Oakleys at an estate sale!
Sadly, outdoor sports (minus hunting and fishing) tend to come with being an annoying lefty. Not always, but the culture tends that way.
You’re just jelly that the insufferable couple with the paddle boards consists of a douchey Chad and his girlfriend whose ass is so high and tight that you want to write home to Mother about it! Been there…
They assume that all hikers and campers are like the hippies that I smoked a big bag of weed with in the Sierra Nevadas that one time.
LL Bean is Deplorable. Sounds as if REI buys into environmental BS; probably Woke too but am not sure.
I guess our media just didn’t deem it worthy of their coverage
It’s just a distraction. – Pelosi.
Ya know, If I got drunk enough and let my dentures loose I could probably do a mean impression of Nan-Nan on a Zoom one night. I’ve been told that my Bernie is pretty good.
You are good at demonizing a system that allowed a total loser with no valuable skills to get rich peddling an evil system that has murdered over 120 million and put close to half of humanity under the yoke of oppressive tyrannical entities pretending to champion social justice?
If there isn’t a Biden edit using Oingo Boingo’s Little Girls I’ll be disappointed. The lyrics are perfect:
https://genius.com/Oingo-boingo-little-girls-lyrics
“What is this all about?” Is going to cause heads to fucking explode.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1306084770300997632?s=21
Hah, they’ve got a Manipulated Media tag under it. No shit Twitter…
Savage.
I haven’t seen that yet.
Please let it exists.
Exist*
You mean something like this?
Picard is a perv?
The character is Avery Bullock, voiced by Patrick Stewart (and designed to look like him). As American Dad progresses, they continue to make him the most unhinged, insane character they can. There’s a rumor floating around that the writers are trying to find the most offensive and ridiculous thing they can get Stewart to say.
In that theme, let’s give it a shot.
https://twitter.com/AndoBaruka/status/1306222276384186369
That is being deleted in about 3 minutes.
How do you do fellow Hispanics?
Why did he go so low tech on that. At least yell, “Hit it!” and then go full Mariachi band with the audio system.
I didn’t listen to the audio. The “How do you do fellow Hispanics” killed.
Gone. Like tears in the rain…
I guess Biden wanted to freshen up his racial pandering.
Shoulda wore a sombrero.
Well listening to the talking heads pronounce “Yoshihide Suga” for Japan’s next PM should be a hoot!
Bonus points for how many try to use “Suga Yoshihide” as there has been a push by many of the progressive news outlets to use “lastname firstname” for Japanese names now.
PM Mr Yoshida’s Sauce.
Holding up the new era name seems to be the ticket to step up to the premiership. Worked for Keizō Obuchi (weird, autocorrect threw on the bar over the o) as well.
As long as they’re going to be authentic, would love to be a fly on the wall where someone argues for kanji because romanji is cultural appropriation. And the insufferable NPR reporter who insists on pronouncing his name with a Japanese accent.
Kidding aside romaji is recognized as part of the language. But let’s not tell NPR that…
I left in the appropriation of kanji, because today’s average journalist probably miss that too.
Yoshi hide sugar?
Good morning, Sloopy!
And good morning to the rest of you miscreants. I hope you are happy with yourselves.
As I avoid the so-called mainstream press, I was able to read quite a bit about the peace deal. Nice bit of negotiating there, but the smart Arab states have fucking had it with the Palestinians. Two-Scoops and his team called it right. Nice job.
In fairness to Patagonia, they didn’t specify which assholes…
Lol, who am I kidding? They make good stuff, but I can get by just fine with North Face and KÜHL.
The tree guy made my laugh/cringe. I’ve been party to some questionable tree-cutting decisions, but happily nothing ever ended like that. I wish the videographer was closer so we could see his back cut, etc. Always instructional to see the anatomy of a fuck-up.
Nice musical choice for a Wednesday. I still haven’t read her autobiography. Yet another in a long, long list of books I haven’t gotten to yet.
I blame You People.
I hope all of you have a fantastic day! I have a good feeling about this one.
Npr spent several hours yesterday discussing the horrible relationships in the ME and blamed it on Trump. Because he’s selling the f35 or something.
The current events never came up. At all.
It’s a proggie refuge, Doom. Soft voices and soft news for soft brains.
It’s poisoned a good chunk of my family.
They’ve been bad for forever, but these last few months it’s somehow more peak npr.
How can you just ignore this much reality?
“Religion is the opiate of the masses” our intellectual betters lecture us, as their radio softly coos reassuring nothings into their ear.
Looks like he cut right through his hinge. Appears to have been using a humboldt style undercut with intent to set it out in the street (towards where the other guy is).
Noticed there was a work trailer parked on the side street. Was it really the homeowner or some semi pro outfit?
Regarding Chrissie she kinda #metoo’d but it wasn’t studio execs or band-mates, just some asshole bikers that she met when she was a kid. She stated that she made a huge mistake and the Leftist music press freaked out about it. That was a few years ago so I might be full of baloney.
That’s right. She was victim (herself) blaming.
“Vote the as—holes out,” reads the message printed on the back of some tags.
“They were added to our 2020 Men’s and Women’s Road to Regenerative Organic Stand-Up Shorts because we have been standing up to climate deniers for almost as long as we’ve been making those shorts,” said Tessa Byars, a spokesperson for the Ventura-based clothing and gear maker.
Please define “climate denier”. I am not aware of anyone that denies the existence of that which refer to as “climate”.
You disrespect the sciencetists? DENIER!
I’ll even be so bold as to admit to the belief that climate changes.
Also please define “standing up to” because a tag on one clothing line out of several they offer and a couple bucks to help pay for some documentary about the rainforest dying sounds rather empty to me. Mist have the same marketing dept my employer does who is standing up for blacks by offering BLM id holders
BLM id holders
Make sure to use it when you vote.
The deniers are the ones who think climate is supposed to be constant despite all the evidence that it never has been constant.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8738303/Demi-Rose-showcases-ample-cleavage-sexy-lace-top.html
Nope. Ample curves.
?
A new toy
The Air Force on Tuesday revealed that it has secretly built and flown a prototype of its next-generation fighter jet, according to the service’s top acquisition official.
The jet, built as part of the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, was first disclosed to Defense News on Monday.
Air Force acquisition head Will Roper told the outlet that the service could now move the jet into production “pretty fast.”
“We are ready to go and build the next-generation aircraft in a way that has never happened before,” he said in an interview.
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As the NGAD program is classified, little more is known of the secretive jet. Roper would not give Defense News or the AFA event further details on aircraft, including which company or companies built the prototype, how many were flown, and when or where any flight occurred.
He also would not say anything about the jet’s design, what it would be used for, how many would be bought or the expected cost.
Will it shoot down an alien spacecraft?
“It slices! It dices! “It Juliennes fries!”
My congresscritter posted a pic of himself attending the treaty signing yesterday on FB. The local college town progs were:
a) furious that said congressdude wasn’t wearing a mask, and
b) discounting the treaty as “not a real peace treaty” since Israel, Bahrain, and the UAE weren’t currently in a shooting war.
/facepalm
It’s just a diversion! *fiddles with mask*
It is only a great achievement if team blue gets the credit. Otherwise it is either unimportant or not real. And that line of thinking is why we are here today….
When you find out that the WAP is a lie: Cardi B files for divorce from Offset and brands her marriage ‘irretrievably broken’ amid claims he ‘cheated throughout the relationship’
I blame hypergamy
Who could blame the guy? Her personal hygiene sounds atrocious. Plus she’s ugly enough to scare a buzzard off of a shit-wagon.
why would a buzzard be on a shit wagon? are they not carrion eaters?
You need to Come To America. The idioms don’t translate well unless you’ve been exposed to the culture.
Aren’t you a Canuckistani? Pie, to experience his culture dump cheese curds and gluey gravy on french fries.
Canada culture is just US culture that’s been sitting in a transmission buffer for 10 years.
And they seemed so much like a perfect couple. If these two can’t make it work, who can?
She was recently spotted at a party with his cousin Lithograph. Will sparks fly?
Intaglio got in the way.
Comic Sans said “Hold my Beer!”
I’m sure ending the marriage will be a relief.
(I’d better be careful. If Swissy saw that pun, he woodcut me.)
I once knew a very statuesque drag performer from Corvallis, who went by the stage name – Helvetica Bold.
that’s…actually a really good name.
Comic Sans or Courier New or GTFO!
Arial Black sounds like a good Disney porn parody though…
I overheard a song by the two of them where something like 94% of the lyrics were either “Cardi” or “Offset”. I guess that’s how you do it these days.
Pan fried Gdragon, UncivilFestus?
Throw a postmillenial slang word in there and we’ll be stars.
“‘Why did you throw vulnerable people like me under the bus’: Diabetic man attacks Trump at town hall for ‘downplaying’ covid only for President to say he ‘UP-PLAYED it’ – and that it’ll ‘go away without a vaccine'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8737497/Donald-Trump-claims-played-coronavirus-bombshell-admission-played-down.html
That diabetic guy doesn’t know how to use a mask.
“If you were really worried about getting sick, you would not be out here in a public gathering. You would be at home, self-quarantining. I have no time for people who refuse to play honestly. Next question.”
This was just some setup to appeal to the idiots that prefer emotional appeal rather than facts and logic.
Upplayed – for a double dose of pimpin’
Is that Dutch? I knew this guy once called Untgrad… Upgadde few…
He looks like he’s got a few billion stuffed into his suit.
That money is in the Caymans so it can’t be seized during his obligatory post term stay in prison. All Illinois governors have to go to prison after their terms, it is like a halfway house program where they move from the super criminal environment of the Illinois Statehouse to the less criminal environment of prison, before finally being allowed back into society.
I just had a 4 hour leadership dialog for my manager so that the group can give feedback on what the manager can improve. Fun times.
Last time I had something like that, my manager invited me to be completely candid with him. So I was.
I was invited to retire soon after.
As a teen I worked at K-mart when it had one foot in the grave but before the other was on a banana peel. When I quit to go to college, I agreed to an exit interview because it would be on the clock.
First question “What would you say you learned here?” “The value of education” “…ok” blinking, slack jawed confusion.
Second question “How likely are you to work here again?” Hysterical laughter.
“ok we are done here.”
They’re talking about doing “retention interviews” here instead of just exit interviews. “Why are you still here?”
I don’t think my honest answer of “I’m burning through my benefits package before shopping my resume” is going to make an appearance at one of those meetings.
You will not get an honest answer in a retention interview.
If they REALLY wanted to know your opinions and ideas about their company they would arrange (in advance) to meet you at a bar – with them buying the drinks – a week after you leave.
I had a call like that once. President of the patent company asked me for my feedback with him and the owner about how the company was running its auction segment.
I started my two hour harangue by sending them an email for the 15 catastrophic failures we were committing. It ended by then telling me how grateful they were for having brought the items to their attention and the steps necessary to fix them.
The head of auctions recommended I be fired the next week so I quit. They’re no longer in business and I’m having my best year ever by a wide margin.
“PIERS MORGAN: Spare me this sanctimonious Facebook and Instagram boycott by hypocritical liberal celebrities who want to have their abusive hateful violent cake and eat it
Reality TV wastrel Kim Kardashian West led the ‘movement’ by posting the following message to her gazillions of followers: ‘I love that I can connect directly with you through Instagram and Facebook,’ she wrote, ‘but I can’t sit by and stay silent while these platforms continue to allow the spreading of hate, propaganda and misinformation – created by groups to sow division and split America apart – only to take steps after people are killed. Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our democracy. Please join me when I will be ‘freezing’ my Instagram and FB account to tell Facebook to #StopHateForProfit. Link in bio for more info on how to preserve truth”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8739071/PIERS-MORGAN-Spare-Facebook-Instagram-boycott-hypocritical-liberal-celebrities.html
Meanwhile…
“The FTC is ‘preparing possible antitrust lawsuit against Facebook’ after a year of investigating whether the social media giant is stifling competition through acquisition”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8737333/The-FTC-preparing-possible-antitrust-lawsuit-against-Facebook-following-probe.html
Imagine being so full of yourself that you think a 24 hour social media blackout is a big deal.
They shut off the social media sites? I didn’t notice.
“Split America apart” = “How dare you not uniformly support the left as your entertainment industry betters do”
There are no words which can adequately describe how much I hate these people.
Heh, glad she joined my movement.
I stopped using Facebook after they banned Free Talk Live for “voter supression”. I had an epiphany and realized that the seen benefit of interacting with people I got out of Facebook came with the unseen harm of their mediation of my interactions.
So I stopped using them. It’s the only way to make social media companies powerless; don’t use them at all.
News organizations love social media because they are the source of 98% of their “news” content now.
I stopped nearly ten years ago because as you fine people have learned, I can’t hold my bloody tongue. I get along here because most of us are like-minded in many ways but if I ever tried Twitter I would be banned in one hot minute. Plus, Facebook is full of hungry divorcees wanting to rehash their teen years. No fucking thanks.
“And here’s just a fantastic song. I hope you enjoy it. I will.”
That song almost chokes me up every time I hear it. Great guitar work by a Scottish rockabilly guitarist named Billy Bremner who also played lead on the B-Side “My City Was Gone”, otherwise known as Rush Limbaugh’s bumper music.
Another one of my favorite tunes he plays on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PPMyXoH1pE
I have a different interpretation of the California-based company’s message to vote the assholes out.
This asshole?
“Kamala Harris joins Gavin Newsom for tour of wildfire-ravaged California town and accuses Trump of ‘climate denial’ – a day after president blamed the Democrat governor’s land management for the blazes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8736957/Harris-home-California-gets-look-wildfire-damage.html
That’s one of them. I’m sure there are others.
There were never droughts before we started driving SUV’s. It is known.
God she’s insufferable. I wonder if the same creature that she has lives in Megan Markle’s cootch?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/15/flu-pneumonia-have-contributed-deaths-covid-since-june-new-ons/
In britain Flu and pneumonia have contributed to more deaths than Covid since June, new ONS figures show. We live in the twilight zone.
Brian McWilliams of Lions of Liberty watches Cuties so you don’t have to:
https://youtu.be/tMalEgovtyw
Sounds about like I figured it would be.
It was showing in the Netflix top 10 list last night.
I saw the tomatometer. 95% critics 5% audience. Have you ever felt manipulated in any way, Citizen?
Why you never bother looking at ratings because the system is rigged.
For OMWC and Spud:
https://uproxx.com/life/where-to-buy-taco-bell-jalapeno-noir-wine/
why?
Their test market is Canada. i’m not kidding.
Because Taco Bell is going to be the big winner in the Restaurant Wars and will be the dominant eatery chain in the future. When that happens, these bottles are going to go for top dollar.
Bullshit. I have it in good authority Starbucks wins that race because of the latte & hand jibs promotion….
Fitting for the theme….Ow! My Balls!
I like the cut of your hand jib.
Fucking autocorrect on this iPad…
If we were going to remake society as an art movement did we have to pick Dada?
“‘Serious’ bomb-making materials are discovered inside NYC home following a fire and tenant ‘with a survivalist guide’ is led away as FBI investigates”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8737513/NYPD-discover-bomb-making-materials-inside-NYC-home.html
Those crazy right-wing survivalists in New York City
the police are assholes.
Watched Crowder’s stream of the ABC Trump town hall (so I didn’t hear everything). The questions from the audience were mostly leading horseshit and everything Steph had to say amounted to “Mr. President, why are you so awful?”
He can always respond with this:
Riot-zone voters back Trump 2-1, and most say violence affects vote
Shocking, huh?
Rasmussen Reports
I figured the questions and the moderator would be garbage. How’d he handle himself though?
Trump did ok I guess. Tended to ramble beyond the actual question*. Seemed to be good at getting his campaign messaging into each answer.
*Unlike someone else running for president he can go on for minutes speaking coherent, albeit Trumpian, sentences.
The cuts shown on Philly news stations were very anti-Trump. I don’t think any of the questioners were the “undecided” variety.
I’m beginning to believe the biggest death caused by ChiComVirus will be that of Trump’s re-election.
Maybe. This is the true test of the old media’s power. If Biden wins, it’s entirely because they have the power to convince a majority of the voters that Democratic governors crashing the economy is Trump’s fault. There’s not any actual message from Biden other than HEY LOOK AT THESE OLD PICTURES OF MY KIDS and I WILL CALL OFF THE RIOTERS IF YOU GIVE ME POWER.
I was out in the sticks the other day, and every single Democrat sign I saw was planted on public land with the exception of the Organic Honeybees and Goat Milk Farm. Granted, the sticks are going red regardless, but I thought it was interesting that the Democrats had sent people to go around putting signs on public land.
The guy cutting the tree new the second it started tilting he was fucked. His swearing was hilarious.
Everyone is too cool to hire professionals. Not everyone is a DIY. This ‘DIY’ and ‘How-to’ industry is fine but people don’t know their own limits.
I’d never cut a tree down in a suburb. Leave that to the pros. He’s lucky it didn’t fall the other way onto pedestrians or animal or a car.
That tree was way too tall to just drop like that in a crowded area. It should have been cut from the top down.
Something something now let him enforce it
One day after a federal judge ruled Pennsylvania’s pandemic restrictions unconstitutional, Gov. Tom Wolf issued a statement slamming Republicans’ celebratory response and urging people to take the coronavirus seriously.
“There’s no sense debating a ruling that will be appealed,” Wolf said on Tuesday. “But what’s not up for debate is that our early and decisive action saved lives.”
Plaintiffs, including four Pennsylvania counties, several Republican lawmakers and a number of local businesses, filed suit against Wolf and Dr. Rachel Levine, the state’s health secretary, in May, alleging that public health orders closing businesses and requiring people to stay at home violated their constitutional rights.
Certain counties were placed under stay-at-home orders starting in March, and a statewide order took effect in April. A March 19 order required all “non-life-sustaining” businesses to close.
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In a 66-page opinion released Monday, Stickman — who was appointed by President Trump — said that the state’s actions, while taken with the good intention of addressing the public health emergency, were arbitrary and overreaching.
“The liberties protected by the Constitution are not fair-weather freedoms — in place when times are good but able to be cast aside in times of trouble,” Stickman wrote. “There is no question that this Country has faced, and will face, emergencies of every sort. But the solution to a national crisis can never be permitted to supersede the commitment to individual liberty that stands as the foundation of the American experiment.”
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Levine, the health secretary, said on Tuesday that people should continue taking safety precautions regardless of the ruling.
She said existing orders on mask-wearing, mandatory telework and worker, building and hospital safety remain in effect, and the ruling does not affect occupancy limits at places such as personal care services, indoor recreation and wellness facilities, entertainment venues, bars and restaurants.
“These existing – and still valid – orders were put in place in the absence of any federal leadership at a time when life-saving decisions needed to be made,” Levine said. “Saving lives has been the cornerstone of all of our decisions, including the orders referenced in the case that have since expired.”
Silly judge. Freedom is worthless if you’re DEAD! All must worship at the altar of public health expertism.
No one really expected the Gauleiter to respect anyone else’s authority.
That fucker killed my grandfather. Fuck “saved lives”. Piece of shit.
CNN Criticizes Israel, Arab Leaders For Shaking Hands In The Middle Of A Pandemic
Trump Celebrates Middle East Peace Deal By Cooking Up His World-Famous Bacon-Wrapped Pork Ribs
“‘Look at this body, man.’ Listen to Michael Cohen laugh while his friend drools over his 18-year-old daughter Samantha and tries to guess size of her breasts, prompting Trump’s ex lawyer to whip out her Victoria’s Secret modeling photos”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8735155/Michael-Cohen-heard-laughing-friend-tries-guess-daughter-Samanthas-breast-size.html
Classy.
The norse had a term for psychopaths: “vargr”. It means wolf, as in “wolf in the shape of a man”. Men who have no heart; who live to exploit and predate; who will savagely consume neighbor and kin to slake their own appetites.
I don’t understand them, and when I encounter one, I’m invariably stunned.
dude not only encourages people to oggle his daughter he jokes with them about it. It’s fucking weird.
Amoral douchebag covers it too. He’s the worst.
that’s pretty fucking weird. There’s razzing on your friend because he has a daughter and there’s whatever this weird disgusting shit this is.
Also British newspaper: Its creepy and misogynistic, here’s a dozen or so scantily clad photos so you can judge for yourselves. God bless them Brits.
Somebody is going to have loads of daddy issues.
Well now! That’s just totally normal and not off-putting at all!
What’s everyone upset about? I thought the whole point of having daughters is to marry them off to rich guys?
Not just rich guys, but politically advantageous alliances. If you don’t have an army that can come to my aid, I question your utility.
Still playing CKIII?
yes. In my more serious game I’m in a position to form a personal union between Hispania and Byzantium by just preventing catastrophe. In my fun run I’ve spread my cannibal cult from the baltic to the black sea.
Why is eating ass classified as cannibalism?
We’re not talking about deviancy of that magnitude, just chopping people up and cooking the pieces.
Oh, OK. That’s not so bad then….
Paging HM!
His point was to show how bad it is to laugh at your friend as he drools over your daughter.
/The Jacket
This Cuties movie is weird
Aim high.
President @realDonaldTrump says five to six additional countries will be “coming along” for more peace deals:
“You’re going to see a lot of very great activity. It’s going to be peace in the Middle East.”
Even if they don’t get Saudi Arabia, a few more Gulf countries is both progress towards normalization of Israel’s status and puts pressure on shutting off the money spigot from those countries.
I’m cautiously hopeful that South Park comes out swinging with this special.
Sweet.
I didn’t follow/care much for the Tegridy Farms stuff.
I want a return to form.
Yeah. I’d like Randy dialed back a bit. He works great as a bit role, but gets tiresome when he’s the one carrying the whole episode, especially with Towlie.
Yeah, they’ve basically turned him into Homer Simpson. And they used to (rightly) mock Family Guy for doing the same thing.
Haven’t watched South Park in a while, but Randy’s always played the “Homer” role to some extent. He’s the malleable character who changes from episode to episode, who jumps on the latest fad, get rich scheme, public hysteria, etc.
Let’s hope they go full Richard Gervais on the virus.
What if you invented a miracle cure and nobody took it?
On top of all of this, many Americans are fearful of vaccines — especially a new one and especially a new vaccine rolled out in a time of intense politicization of the process.
“There’s general vaccination mistrust and then there’s government mistrust,” Ezike noted.
The current atmosphere over mask use has not helped, added Harris County’s Shah.
“We have made it a political fight,” he said.
“When you make it political in nature, not driven by health and medical considerations, ultimately people will take sides.”
Unless a majority of the population gets vaccinated, the virus will continue its spread. Most estimates suggest that 60% to 70% of the population must be immune to provide enough herd immunity to interrupt the spread of the virus. Polls indicate that only about half of Americans feel confident right now about being vaccinated.
CNN lowers expectations. We’d better just keep our masks on for the next year or three. For society’s sake.
“CNN lowers expectations.”
They’re afraid democrats will lose this fall?
How Canada convinced the world to eat engine lubricant
https://twitter.com/financialpost/status/1305865733780508675
News to me…
Cultivation
Rapeseed
I do like how we had to change the name to something more PC however. Can’t have “rape” with seed.
Cultivation is irrelevant
The name for rapeseed comes from the Latin word rapum meaning turnip. Turnip, rutabaga (swede), cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and mustard are related to rapeseed. Rapeseed belongs to the genus Brassica. Brassica oilseed varieties are some of the oldest plants cultivated by humanity, with documentation of its use in India 4,000 years ago, and use in China and Japan 2,000 years ago.[2]:55 Its use in Northern Europe for oil lamps is documented to the 13th century.[2] Its use was limited until the development of steam power, when machinists found rapeseed oil clung to water- and steam-washed metal surfaces better than other lubricants.[citation needed] World War II caused high demand for the oil as a lubricant for the rapidly increasing number of steam engines in naval and merchant ships.[citation needed] When the war blocked European and Asian sources of rapeseed oil, a critical shortage developed, and Canada began to expand its limited rapeseed production. Rapeseed oil extracts were first put on the market in 1956–1957 as food products, but these suffered from several unacceptable characteristics. Rapeseed oil had a distinctive taste and a disagreeable greenish color, due to the presence of chlorophyll. It also contained a high concentration of erucic acid
Canola cultivars have lower levels of erucic acid. That’s the low acid part of the name.
so?
Erucic acid has potential side effects.
It was before PC. Canola was a trademark name- Canada oil low acid.
The more you know…
Even Mother Nature is ambushing cops
https://twitter.com/orstatepolice/status/1305955737768611840?s=21
Yikes
Gaia has signed up for BLM?
DCM = Dark Continents Matter
“I think there is a good chance there is going to be a vaccine that works and gets us out of this, but it is hard to believe that it is going to go really smoothly, given all the things that could happen.”
Shah is ready for unpleasant surprises. “This is a super slick virus that has broken every rule in the book,” he said.
No. You fucking degenerates have thrown the rule book away, to satiate your own desire for power and control. You made it all up as you went along, to suit your narrative.
???
Yikes! Curtis Johnson Jr., of Granite City, was working Monday when a rope that was tangled around his neck got caught up in a wood chipper.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-killed-in-fairview-heights-tree-trimming-accident-police-say/article_4a6553d0-ea7b-58c4-8d3b-fc48c6f6eb85.html
Pretty soon you’ll see that warning included in woodchipper manuals, right after the manufacturer settles a liability lawsuit for not including it in their previous editions.
“Here come the copycats.”
What’s going to happen is that we really are going to get police reform. We’re going to get more heavily militarized and meaner cops. Thanks, dickheads, who made this all about race, once again, you win, everyone else loses.
Sadly I think you’re right. For about 48 hours after the Floyd video came out, everyone seemed to be on the same page. There was a tiny glimmer of hope in my cold libertarian heart that people would demand police reform. And then, just like that, everyone shook it off and went straight back to acting like partisan assholes.
All four cops were arrested and charged, and then the riots started. It’s not about justice. It never was. Oh, and with more and more of these incidents being caught on camera, I am far far more skeptical of the Balko narrative on the old cases that predate body cameras.
There could have been a federal ban on noknock raids and a federal mandate to body camera all police officers passed, but the Democrats decided civil unrest would work better for them electorally. They are evil, to the core.
They claim to want these things, then they lard up the bills with leftist claptrap they know won’t pass.
Indeed. And how many media outlets and Dems have even mentioned Rand Paul’s bill about banning no knock raids? If we had a halfway honest media they would be questioning politicos about why they aren’t supporting that. They don’t want reform, they want chaos.
You can tell people don’t actually want police reform by the number of new victimless crimes they keep creating and asking for.
Trump’s Autocratic Dystopia
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said Monday that the state will impose fines on people who do not adhere to the state’s mask mandate and limits on event capacity.
Under a new executive order issued from Lamont, residents will be required to pay $100 fines for not wearing masks, up to $250 for going to large unauthorized events and up to $500 for planning unauthorized events, according to the Hartford Courant.
When will we be freed from the dictatorial whim of President Cartoon Villain?
That is not enough! Jail time for virus spreaders!
Everyone in this story should be beaten.
Minneapolis City Council grilled the Chief of Police yesterday over the high crime rates. They wanted to know why it was so high and what he is going to do to fix it. Yes the same council members who want to defund the police also want crime down.
So don’t despair, there are still some true believers, but the back sliders seem to be worried that their constituents might not vote for them in the next election.
The council should be the primary target for outrage, but the cops manage to dig down and come away as just as slimy as the council.
This is mob on mob on mob violence.
And its of the “I don’t care about politics / politics cares about you” variety.
The whole “root causes” take on crime coming from the Left is absolute nonsense. The single biggest thing that correlates with crime is bastard children. Nothing else comes close.
Crime is physical violence, and physical violence in the human species is the province of the male. We are killers, all of us. It’s in our DNA, we are the sons of a thousand generations of killers. For the entirety of human history the violence of young men was channeled, constrained, and controlled by older men. Until the modern welfare state came along, and gave women extra government cash if they had kids out of wedlock. The single biggest policy change you could make to reduce crime would be to stop subsidizing the production of bastard children. Stop giving poor women extra welfare cash for each kid born out of wedlock. Just stop doing it.
Also the War On Drugs.
A pretty good take on the ME peace deal.
The Palestinians were offered money and a place at the table, and they refused to negotiate. So everyone went forward without them. IMO they are now in a tough position. They can either eat crow, join in and get something out of it, or keep refusing and become irrelevant. That, I think, is the most amazing part of this deal and the reason why I’m very hopeful.
The Palestinians still hold out hope that their leftist supporters in Europe will continue to foot their bills and that the burgeoning anti-Semitism there will help their cause.
What has changed was that the Arab world realized how dangerous Iran’s ascendancy was to them, and decided that they better take that seriously. That meant that the child bomber people were left with the option to give up their dream of a sea full of dead Jews, accepting the dual state solution, or being left to their own devices. Yes, I suspect these murderers think the Jew hating European marxists will still help them achieve their genocidal vision, but that is just another disappointment they are setting themselves up for.
I’m pretty sure American Marxists will fully support them in their joo killins.
They may have a bright future here in the USA to join in the riots once their refugee status is granted. I wonder if BLM can get some missles that will reach Israel?
/Joe Biden approves of this message.
Paywalled. But I think these agreements are being a bit exaggerated, especially in regards to Palestine. It’s Iran that’s being isolated, Palestine will continue on their same path as long as Iran bankrolls them. Like the sands, these alliances keep shifting so who knows what it will look like in ten years, Palestine could wind up with a different sugar daddy. It’s more complicated than just Jews-Sunnis-Shiites. Which is the main reason to stay the fuck out of these areas militarily.
See, this is where Kushner fucked up. All he did was normalize relations in one of the two most hostile zones in the world. What he should have done was droned weddings. That’s how you get real peace prizes.
https://www.tapinto.net/towns/westfield/sections/police-and-fire/articles/westfield-sumo-champ-disputes-charges-in-bucks-county-fight-over-her-cat
Local news.
Wait… Women’s Sumo.
Never thought about that, but am now unsurprised. Now cringing at the thought of the fundoshi.
I was told that in Japan, it’s the equivalent of women’s oil/mud/jello wrestling here. They use women you want to see topless.
So similar to the difference in Hooters’ waitresses there and here?
There is a Japanese Hooters’?
Maybe not quite what you hoped for…
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enTH843TH843&sxsrf=ALeKk00WK6YonQo_4wKAdZwq-RY5AISN5w:1600269087459&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=hooters+ginza+images&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxw4L0-u3rAhXHMN4KHaxLCCQQsAR6BAgKEAE&biw=1208&bih=580
The full story is great. There’s a smart coffee table, a mortician, and a kidnapped cat. It’s like SF is writing for police blotters.
Softball or soccer must not have appealed to this crowd?
Kind of surprised at the DFC over Soldier’s Medal for their actions, but good on them.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-awards-distinguished-flying-cross-to-guardsmen-who-helped-rescue-hundreds-from-wildfires-1.645124
They’ve handed out DFCs to a bunch of civilian aviation pioneers and I think every astronaut gets one. Flying Chinooks into a raging wildfire to extract a couple hundred people qualifies in my book.
Yeah, looks like evacuating Saigon in the back of the Chinook. I’m just surprised that no one downgraded the medals as it went up.
SJWednesday: Lessons In Ignoring The Elephant In The Room
“Islam Is Right About Women”
“Get back in the kitchen and make me a shawarma, Bi’tch.”
This is absolutely the perfect audio for that Biden clip.
https://twitter.com/toplobstaa/status/1306228376810778626
In regards to the detention center hysterectomies story. If it turns out to be true, they should neuter everyone involved.
It doesn’t seem to be true.
“Kalashnikov shotgun MP-155 Ultima: the first smart shotgun with internal computer, WiFi, Bluetooth and USB-C.”
https://twitter.com/it4sec/status/1305579052598788096
But why?
To make an unreliable kalashnikov.
AK-platform shotguns are already pretty shaky in the reliability department. Adding a bunch of shock-sensitive electronics doesn’t seem to be a winning strategy.
I’ll wait for the Apple version that has a proprietary connector and more of a Bauhaus look.
No 5G?
Nope.
That model kept causing covid.
Sloop can commence his happy dance.
CommaLa’s footwear.
I remember when Timberlands were “white boy shoes”.
SJWednesday: Gender Is Sex Except When It’s Personality Except When It’s Not But We Can All Agree That Categorizing People By Superficial And Sexual Traits Is Horrible Except When We Do It
I made Tundra $20 today by anonymously volunteering him for a visit from the Dept of Health. I wonder if he will use his ill-gotten gains to buy me a beer?
What if the testing reveals that there are vast amounts of people who have already had it? Would Tyrant Walz give up his emergency powers if it turns out that this is far, far, far less deadly than originally predicted?
“It’s worse than we thought.,”
Tundra, I don’t think this post would get you acquitted of murder, but I think it would likely get you off if you just beat Jimbo senseless.
it would likely get you off if you
I’m sure it would.
Wut, wut, wut?…
So same as downtown? Looks like the ‘burbs are catching up or is it down?
up, then down, then back up, then down again, repeat
From my understanding, testing like that is expensive. So it will never get done. So the current testing will never reveal vast amounts of people that already had it, unless data is accumulated for a few years. And by then it will be pointless because NEW STRAIN.
I can’t think of a single reason why I would ever allow myself to be tested for C19. There’s no possible way it could benefit me.
^^ Exactly.
I already did so I could visit the People’s Republic of Maine back in July.
But no, absent a travel requirement, fuck no.
Thanks anyway, Jimbo. I’ll buy you a beer anyway.
I got a test this morning. Required by my doctor for a routine procedure I’m having next week.
I had to drive 90 min each way this morning before work to get it. Not happy about it but no test = no health care so not much choice in my case.
I gather that the antibody tests are not particularly useful. They (a) likely miss a lot of people who are cross-immune or T-cell immune and (b) the antibody load from people who actually develop it tends to drop off to undetectable levels over time.
I say not useful, but really I mean for any legitimate purpose. They are quite useful if you want to push a narrative that we are nowhere near herd immunity and that there is a huge pool of people who will die if we don’t keep the lockdowns in place.
Interested on your take on this opposite opinion.
https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/08/tests.html
FWIW, Cochrane is basically three bad days from
sleeping in the streetsposting on the internet web forum glibertarians.com, so is please don’t let his bio as an academic cause you to reflexively dismiss him.“A vaccine is a technological device that, combined with an effective policy and public-health bureaucracy for its distribution, allows us to stop the spread of a virus.”
Yup. And if my auntie had a pair of balls she’d be my uncle.
It’s been proven time and time again, that every one of our public institutions is incompetent right down to the core. Until we admit that, there’s no solution to be had.
Teachers and postal workers need a pay raise, they work in the most dangerous jobs in the world. Between school shootings and people going ‘postal’ it’s a zoo out there.
/Union official
Since he hangs out at marginal revolution he’s likely an idiot.
He’s still hung up on “public health” and “testing” – most (not all) of which are a complete waste of time and money.
We know a few things:
1) C-19 outbreaks follow the same pattern as every other respiratory virus
2) Like every other virus, there are no second waves
3) Like every other virus the outbreak lasts about 6-8 weeks, with a two-week lag for deaths.
4) Like every other virus, it doesn’t hit every metro area at the same time
5) Like every other virus, it hits northern latitudes first (and most severely).
6) The southern latitudes, when they get an outbreak, tend to have a less severe outbreak although the curve lasts maybe another week or two versus the northern latitudes.
6) Nobody is talking about US metros that haven’t had an outbreak yet. Either because people want to believe everybody had their outbreak at the same time as everyone else (clearly wrong) or it never occurred to them to think of the possibility.
Cochrane is one of those “I can centrally plan better than thou” types. Which basically just makes his ideas nothing more than jerking off..
Massive testing in a metro that had its outbreak 4 months ago is a completely fucking stupid idea. As soon as you open the door with a statement like this: “Or a test can be useful to public health authorities, to businesses, to people, to sports teams, to airlines, to bars and restaurants to find and isolate people likely to be sick, and to clear people not likely to be sick for public interaction” – you’ve opened the door for policing and not health care. And central planners are in constant denial of it.
We’re wasting billions and billions of dollars on worrying about a vaccine for something that is likely going to be rather mild and not so deadly from here on out. Think of the opportunity costs, too.
We locked down metros that hadn’t had outbreaks yet instead of preparing them for WHEN their outbreak happens. No outbreaks were prevented, at best they were delayed by a few months. The spread was not stopped, it may have been slowed but it was not reduced. What C19 exposed was the fraud of public health agencies – they shirked their duties for so long that they were afraid they weren’t prepared to deal with an outbreak. You had Cuomo et al shrieking “We don’t have enough masks, ventilators, etc.” which should be the sign that these agencies were wasting the money year after year. They had ONE JOB – make sure the hospitals and emergency clinics were prepared – and they didn’t do it. This shit doesn’t need to be re-designed, it needs to be shit canned.
Oh come now. Look at the well-funded pension plans and the glittering public housing projects and tell me they’re wasting money.
About the funding of those pension plans…
Revenge for the bike?
https://twitter.com/YesThatAnna/status/1306223929372094466
Insufferable.
As soon as I see a TikTok video in a link, I close the tab. Nothing good is going to come of it.
Every time you do, a sea turtle gets its wings. Because you just killed it.
Really poor attempt at Sam Kinison there. Too condescending.
“BLM protesters in Milwaukee, Wisc. surround a man’s house. He has a Trump & US flag on the outside. He appears to ready a gun from inside the home. He was reportedly arrested for brandishing the weapon.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1306072075564531713
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1306067711424897024
Oh, so now the commies like the cops, huh?
Commies love Chekists, always have.
That sound you heard was the safeties coming off.
I wonder how many blue lives matter people are getting red pilled now?
Your don’t put up a Blue Lives Matter sticker because you’re red-hot at critical thinking…
Violated the Jim Snow laws. In Dem controlled cities, you just lay back and take your beatings while thinking of the Constitution.
There’s going to be a ton of people ashamed they participated in this revolution even before it is over. These people are scum and deserve everything that comes their way.
The angel on my shoulder is saying that this might have been the cops creatively defusing the situation. I mean, I don’t really expect two patrol officers to take on an entire riot. Arrest the guy, take him to the station, give him some coffee and donuts and let him hang out for a couple hours, then null proc him and take him home. We’ll see, I guess, if he actually gets prosecuted.
The devil on my other shoulder is saying that the BLM freaks are, sooner or later, gonna pull this shit on a depressed shut-in with an assault rifle and a, “Fuck it, let’s see how many of these assholes I can take to hell with me,” attitude. The aftermath of such an incident will not be fun for anyone.
It might be fun for the depressed shut-in until he runs out of ammo.
In the old days I might believe that. Or want to…
Today I find it really hard to believe.
The first actually seems probable, now that I think about it. I just hate it even appearing as if those motherfuckers get a win, ever. Makes me sick to my stomach.
holy fuck they arrested him? what about the people causing a disturbance and blocking the public rightaways without a permit? This is absolutely insane.
You mean this guy? Milwaukee Felon and Indicted Firebomber of Police Station Is Leading the BLM Targeting, Doxxing and Rioting at Trump Supporters’ Homes. Why arrest him while he’s doing the Lord’s work?
He seems nice.
Graduated at age 19. But he did graduate.
Legal type glibs – wasn’t there a pretty well known case where a black man readied and maybe shot into a mob of white racists congregating around his house and threatening to kill him or his family? And wasn’t he defended by a really well known civil rights lawyer? And the ruling was that he was justified for reasons I have lost in the mists of time.
I recall reading about a case but can’t for the life of me find any reference to it anywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossian_Sweet
The depth and breath of education and knowledge on this internet web forum never stops astounding me.
See, I feel like “Ossian Sweet” is a name Key&Peele couldn’t have made fun of on their college football names skits.
Ossian “Sugar Bone” Sweet, the ladies called him.
You are not allowed to clean your gun inside your home. Someone might see it, become extremely frightened and call the police on your ass. 2nd Amendment does not include cleaning.
“Yes, this is how the law is written. Sorry, CNN. That’s how it works. And yes, people can still request their mail-in ballot. They just have to do it the same way they’ve always had to do it…which is how the law is written. Suck it.”
How about this: even mail in ballots are too risky because the commie flu is such a smart and clever and tricky virus, it will just attach itself to the mail in ballot and when the person gets it out of the mailbox and opens it, the virus will just jump out and get them. We have to just cancel elections and let our betters decide the election for our own good. And by betters, I mean democrats of course, because science.
Why are we putting our brave mail carriers at risk by making them handle filthy infected mail ballots? Would we do that to our teachers?
I actually want mail.
Ok then. Five minutes looking at links and looking at stories they link to and I see tomorrow’s news stories. Humans are not yet civilized and it is still stupid out there.
I am going to cut firewood. And yes, I am wearing a pistol.
I am going to cut firewood. – sounds like environmental destruction to me
Hence the pistol, in case nature fights back.
Beach Bunny | Resort 2021 | Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpMPoeDc4g
hey guys, defunding doesn’t work. it didn’t work in minneapolis like a lot of you wanna think. they haven’t actually defunded or disbanded the police department. they have recently relocated the police department. there is no abolition w/out revolution. revolution is not reform.
https://twitter.com/pigmentpariah/status/1306209382229774337
They haven’t defunded shit in minneapolis. They’ve passed a resolution to study the viability of removing the city charter mandating the minimum number of cops (which they are below anyway but fml).
whoa whoa whoa, did they form a committee to discuss that resolution before passing it?
Is this gonna leave a mark? https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-up-to-9-additional-nations-could-join-peace-deal-with-israel-including-saudi-arabia-trump-says
My bet is that can only happen if team blue can take the credit. Like Obama claiming Trump reversing his economy crushing dictats wasn’t why the economy came roaring back, but that it was the economy crushing moves that did it..
Why not give Obama credit? It all started with his trip to the Wailing Wall. It just took 12 years to pay off.
Just like how Bush’s bad economy under Obama wasn’t Obama’s fault, and the good economy under Trump was all Obama’s doing.
and then we blame Trump for the economy under Bush *dusts off hands*
meh. I’ll believe it when I see it.
washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/09/16/big-ten-football-resumes/
The Big Ten will have medical protocols that include daily coronavirus testing and enhanced cardiac screening, the announcement said. The conference’s university presidents and chancellors voted unanimously to resume the season.
The four teams participating in this season’s College Football Playoff will be announced Dec. 20. The Big Ten would have eight weeks for regular-season games and then presumably a conference championship held just before the playoff committee’s selection. However, a date for the conference championship game was not included in the Big Ten’s announcement.
It’s official.
fer fucksake.
“Good news! Your headaches and nausea are only from influenza, you have no sign of covid. Now get out there and sack the quarterback, ya big pussy.”
Just name tOSU as one of the four and get it over with. We don’t need to see another drubbing of PSU to know the reign of terror continues.
I need socialist/communist memes to send to my capitalist friends.
https://twitter.com/4141peewee/status/1306014124560834565
from the replies it looks like commies can’t meme
The good commie memes were all used up by Stalin in the thirties.
Communism is a meme.
Like this?
the line for communist memes is over there, estimated wait time: TBA
I’m at the stage of packing the RV where I think everything that can be in there ahead of time is, and constantly second guessing. The fun of travel.
pack your masks
I only have one, it’s a little black number, so it goes with all my outfits.
I gotta wear the mask to work the day I leave, so that’s one of them just before I leave things. Fuck the government.
Heh, our RV never really gets unpacked. We’ll take perishables out, but the rest of it stays loaded, so that when we decide to go, we just need to load up the fridge and grab extra clothes. Which also means I’m in and out of it regularly because I can’t remember if I brought a favorite shirt inside or not.
Not my RV, borrowed from my mom.
Don’t forget folding chairs…
Bringing extra chairs and a table, cuz I’m nice guy.
“Why Speaking English May Spread More Coronavirus Than Other Languages
New research suggests that English speakers put more droplets into the air when they talk, which may make them more likely to spread COVID-19. Since the novel coronavirus is spread by droplets, how spitty a language is may contribute to different rates of the disease. It all comes down to something called aspirated consonants, the sounds we make that spray more droplets of saliva into the air….
There were indeed more cases of coronavirus infection in countries that spoke languages with aspirated consonants. These countries showed 255 cases of Covid-19 per 1 million residents, while the countries where the languages had few aspirated consonants had 206 cases of Covid-19 per 1 million residents. Technically these numbers did not achieve statistical significance, but the observation is interesting nonetheless.
The study cited experimental limitations, such as making assumptions about the linguistic background of the speakers (which could impact how much they aspirate their consonants). The institution of social distancing measures at different rates could also have impacted these findings. They refer to their paper as a hypothesis, but a strong one and call for further studies.
The take home? Wearing masks is a practical way to mitigate this issue. When we talk in masks, we keep our droplets to ourselves.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisonescalante/2020/09/08/why-speaking-english-may-spread-more-coronavirus-than-other-languages/#48a437066eea
Oh just shut the fuck up already
Technically these numbers did not achieve statistical significance, but the observation is interesting nonetheless.
How many droplets are projected when shouting “Kill the Pigs” in the face of a police officer?
This MoFo has obviously never learned to pronounce Chinese.
I thought it was pronounced something like “Chai knees.”
Dutch speakers sound like they are hawking up a loogie. They must really spread the virus.
Stay away from the Welsh.
Nothing to do with the virus, just stay away from the welsh.
DUCK ARMY: Drone footage captures 10,000 ducks “cleaning” rice paddies in Thailand. Farmers use the ducks to remove pests from the fields.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1305899256356765696
I had some good duck breast in Thailand
+1 12 inch pianist.
I bet you could watch that from the ground pretty well too. *scratches head*
“Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden
We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/
Four out of five neurologists agree to endorse President Harris.
Our culture continues to crumble around us. When everything becomes political, society doesn’t last long.
Not just political but partisan.
I often notice that Rand Paul is the only politician in DC who talks like a sane person.
When Republican state governments start defending state schools that harbor law schools continually aiding legal battles in the culture war, and “liberal arts” school continually indoctrinating young people in the culture war*, they will be called anti-intellectuals.
*Schools should be indoctrinating young people. That’s what a school does. But its supposed to be in liberal philosophy, not the culture war.
But its supposed to be in liberal philosophy, not the culture war.
Clearing away all of the day-to-day drama, this is really the issue, right? The bed was made 100+ years ago when government usurped the role of educator. Now we have two mutually exclusive worldviews vying for near-monopoly power over education. Everywhere government holds a monopoly, the worldviews clash.
Partly, but I don’t think so. I think its more about the market. In the olden days, school had to provide a service – preparing young upper-class men to compete in the top crust of society. This required less in the way of job training, and more in the way of social training. So schools were constrained into doing that.
Now, we need more than a high-school education to function in many jobs in the modern economy. You just can’t do hyper-specialized jobs without extended education. But Universities are still rolling with institutional inertia of their pre-job-training days. So they have hyper-responsive administration (the LSU lazy river is nothing if not responsive to the desires of the students), and some departments that are sufficiently responsive to industry needs.
And you have Lib Arts / Humanities, who are no longer responsive to anything, but their they have 0 existential risk of going away if they aren’t responsive to societal needs. So they stop responding to societal needs and devolve into servicing the biases of those in the departments. Pre 1964, that made them very conservative. Post 1964, it made them very radical.
Any of you CPAs out there dealing with Paycheck Protection Program forgiveness yet? My former employer got $1.9 million and is eligible for forgiveness.
But the banks are saying there are no forgiveness applications yet – SBA hasn’t written them yet. So the CPA is telling said employer that the PPP will have to go on the books at year end as a liability and rev can’t be booked to offset expenses until such time, probably 2021, when it is forgiven. This means first book loss in thirty years, no dividends, an announced 10% pay cut, and no Xmas party, among other belt tightening. SBA is usually incompetent, but this delay is not helping small businesses who, in good faith, took the money and kept all their employees on the books.
Pretty apparent this was going to be a disaster from the jump.
Extinction Rebellion is showing Britain what real democracy could look like
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/16/extinction-rebellion-britain-democracy-protest-westminster
commie rag;dr
The main headline now on Fox News is “FREE FOR EVERYONE – Trump admin. releases plan to get COVID vaccine to all Americans, dose recommendations and more.”
I may have to change my election prediction from “Trump in a landslide (even with all the Blue hijinks)” to “Biden by a nose”.
Huh, I see that as helping Trump.
That’s be nice, but I personally doubt it. I’m thinking it could drive a backlash from the (large) portion of his support that is a mish-mash of:
– don’t trust a “free” government vaccine
– really think the answer is herd immunity anyway, and that we’re on-track for that
– already have a negative opinion of the annual flu vaccine
– anticipate this becoming “mandatory” one way or another – you can’t do ABC unless…
– garden-variety anti-vaxxers
Maybe they’ll overlook it. Most of us are overlooking a lot already just because of how awful the Donks are.
A mandatory vaccine is much less awful than wearing filthy pampers on your face for the rest of your life.
depends – does it come with the gates foundation tracking chaser?
I luvs me some tracking!
Uhhhh…. wut??
Do you guys not READ anything I write?!?
FTFY
Damn, grrizz, I hate the face diapers, too, but do not fall for this bait and switch.
It kept coming out in the middle of the night.
Fighting against mandatory vaccination is not my hill to die on.
Yeah, I think I’m gonna pass on the vaccine.
For one thing, I’m severely trypanophobic.
For another, I trust the vaccine manufacturers and the QA agencies about as far as I can fire a cotton ball out of my ass.
To most of the most susceptible, it would be “free” anyway because they are on medicare.
I don’t think anti-vaxxers or people against flu vaccines are a significant portion of his support.
As long as he doesn’t start putting out feelers for making it mandatory this actually helps him slightly. Not a game changer either way by any means though.
The problem with it being “free” is going to be the guilt-tripping from the Karens. And a vaccine won’t get them off the mask lunacy.
“Queer men to forgo their morals this November with a thumping 45 per cent vowing to back Donald Trump”
https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1306019215145664513
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/15/donald-trump-joe-biden-2020-us-presidential-elections-vote-queer-men-hornet/
When you get unceremoniously dumped off the oppression bandwagon, you tend to hold a grudge. (still, I’ll believe it when I see it)
More people leaving the plantations. Time for a lockdown!
Will Biden tell them “You ain’t gay!”?
I’m sure, as soon as his teleprompter has it up. If it’s close enough.
They don’t make retinal teleprompters yet? Just laser-project the text right into his eyeball?
All sorts of minority groups display a higher than expected support for Trump but Trump has no chance of winning the popular vote.
That’s cause the people saying that have a plan to make sure that doesnt happen?
Huh. Using social approbation to influence queer folk to behave in a socially-approved way, or else they’ll get scolded by those who assert the authority to define what is moral and what is not.
That seems like a particularly bad strategy, just as a general principal. But what do I know.
So, their morals is to get executed by a marxist regime for being gay?
I don’t really think that is a good idea.
The “queer press”… yep, still an offshoot of the DNC.
Women who have only a single glass of wine in their first week of pregnancy will have it noted on their child’s medical records under proposals that have been condemned by charities.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) wants all alcohol consumed by expectant mothers recorded, regardless of whether they consent. This would include women who have a drink before knowing that they are pregnant.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/single-drink-in-pregnancy-will-be-noted-on-babys-file-svk5snk98
good thing freedom loving conservatives are in power
Holy crap, someone in the UK went ahead and actually named a bureaucracy NICE? In the country of C.S. Lewis, someone went ahead and used the acronym of his demonic bureaucracy, for a bureaucracy in the same field?
That’s not very…
nice.
*shades*
High unemployment could force big tax increase for N.J. businesses
That should really help.
It’s really disgusting. They raised my areas property taxes when this happened in anticipation of the fallout. These people are complete and utter scum.
“Heavy-set woman screams, “F—ng racist dirty c—t” to man outside Trump Philadelphia town hall event today. ”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1306065311343341569
That is an extremely large child.
We should put these sane rational people in charge.
Een my contry that is a term of great respect and endearment. Well, not the “racist” part, but the rest is.
“Jiggly Puff 2.0”
lol
Blow her a kiss and move on.
Unpossible
Did someone already post this? Curious, this isn’t possible because all the riots are in deep blue cities.
Yes, see upthread.
https://twitter.com/SophNar0747/status/1306002636852940801
OFFS!!
Pedogate?