I have a few family obligations when this is posted so I will have to make this fairly short. Relax, nobody is dead but its still somewhat early here on the time zone so perfect it never changes with the seasons.
On to the links!
Willy Wonka got serious about stolen gobstoppers
No, AMLO…No. The Honduran migrants are not heading to the US out of a secret plot to influence the US election. The only thing dumber is the LA Times entertaining this as a theory. Why now? Maybe it fall and the weather is more agreeable to walk across a desert than in July.
Its no matter, they got bottlenecked by Guatemala‘s Oompa Loompa Army and many were bused back to Honduras.
Mexico breaks $14 billion worth of ventanas.
British court rules Maduro can keep his gold…for now.
BUT PERÓN GAVE YOU FREE HEALTHCARE AND PROSPERITY
Here’s a lively tune. Have a great afternoon.
“Relax, nobody is dead but its still somewhat early here on the time zone so perfect it never changes with the seasons.”
Except Eddie Van Halen?
But we still have Lou Reed.
I wasn’t aware that Eddie past on.
I didn’t know he had throat cancer.
The guy chain-smoked even during concerts.
“Rock star Eddie Van Halen is dead at 65: Co-founder and guitarist of one of the most popular rock bands ever passes away with his wife by his side after long battle with throat cancer that ‘traveled to his brain'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8812065/Rock-star-Eddie-Van-Halen-dies-age-65-long-battle-throat-cancer.html
Well, shit. That sucks.
Aw man.
I never even cared for Van Halen’s music, but Eddie was an amazing musician as well as just a great guy.
Not everyone would agree.
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no
Fuck this year.
Ouch.
RIP.
I assume that was a joke since you broke it on the last thread?
Yes.
And Count Potato took the bait.
You misspelled “opportunity”.
Nikki Sixx is 61 and has already died twice.
Heroin is clearly a preservative.
Keith Richards will bury us all.
Willie Nelson will be a pallbearer at Keith’s funeral.
With Ozzy
2020 is gonna take Keith Richards. You read it on Glibs first.
Keith Richard(s) is Pie’s Great Great Grandfather.
fuck this year.
“Maybe it fall and the weather is more agreeable to walk across a desert than in July.”
Speaking of hot weather?
“Coronavirus cases in Arizona declined by 75% during the summer after the governor implements a mask mandate, CDC report finds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8810759/Coronavirus-cases-Arizona-declined-75-summer-mask-mandate-CDC-report-finds.html
A peak happened in Arizona, just like a peak happened everywhere else that has been hit so far.
Masks had nothing to do with it.
Does the CDC explain CA, where cases increased and decreased along the identical timeline except they mandated masks in March?
Also, it wasn’t a mandate. It was permission for local authorities to implement such measures at their discretion. Implemented with little enforcement. The Hope-Simpson study from the 80’s does more to explain the regional spike in cases than how and when “measures” were taken.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2134066/pdf/jhyg00034-0042.pdf
No one wore masks before the mandate and everyone wore one afterwards. JFC.
Speaking of Hispanics up to no good….
“Secret society ‘gang’ of L.A. cops dubbed the Banditos who are marked by skull tattoos and deliver dead rats to enemies are ‘protected by a code of silence in sheriff’s department’, inspector general finds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8810895/LAs-watchdog-rules-secret-society-cops-dubbed-Banditos-gang-like.html
Someone mentioned that as a possible motive in conjunction with the two Sheriff’s who got shot in LA not too long ago.
No secret gangs allowed in cops. They should only be a part of the open Gang they are a part of.
Do they follow a guy named Red John?
No. Pepe Silva.
“Donald Trump tweets his support for repealing a law protecting tech companies after Facebook removed his post falsely claiming flu is more lethal than COVID and Twitter flags it for violating rules
Facebook on Tuesday removed a post by Donald Trump and Twitter flagged it for violating rules after the president falsely claimed flu is more lethal than COVID-19.
The statement, posted just hours after Trump was released from hospital, read: ‘Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu.
‘Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8811291/Trump-tweets-support-repealing-law-protecting-tech-giants-Facebook-Twitter-flag-post.html
Isn’t that factually true?
Truth has no place here.
Yes but Orange Man Bad.
It’s comforting to know that every single thing said on Twitter and Facebook is true.
I may be an illiterate moron, but I’m not seeing where he “claim[ed] flu is more lethal than COVID”. Also, I’m not seeing where what he said is false. Also not seeing where Twitter is flagging everything that is false by other political figures.
Probably wouldn’t be far from the truth.
I’ve been To Buenos Aires. Fun place to visit. Montevideo is a better expat location however.
Cordoba is nice if you get a chance. And then there was here that was awesome.
I particularly like the Chryslers there. Such rich, supple interiors…
Montevideo has the waterfront. Buenos Aires is more interesting in every other way for a tourist. Cannot say much about being an expat in the area.
IIRC Crime is significantly better in the majority of Montevideo than Buenos Aires. But yes, the toursim/history is much better in Buenos Aires.
“General malaise: Chairman of joint chiefs AND string of top brass quarantine after contact with Trump at ‘superspreader’ White House reception for Gold Star families”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8811665/Military-leaders-quarantined-official-tests-positive.html
“‘Roid rage’ Trump crashes markets by tweeting that there will be NO stimulus until after election – as doctor voices fears his COVID medication causes mania, aggression and psychosis”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8811961/Roid-rage-Trump-crashes-markets-tweeting-NO-stimulus-election.html
TRUMP SMASH!
Gold Star Families? So not only does Trump hate and kill our troops, he tries to kill their surviving loved ones too? Does the depravity of Trump know no bounds?
They might want to take his Twitter away until he’s off steroids. Just sayin’.
His doctor? or just some random one who should have his license reviewed for back seat prognostication?
Did anyone die? Since I haven’t heard anything, I assume not. Again, why are we supposed to be so terrified of this thing and need to ban “superspreaders”
What a fucked up headline. They got it from the Coast Guard guy but the headline is Trump infected them.
LOL wut? Since when does Donald control the business of Congress?
One day of Swiss links and he’s already getting to work done by foreign mercenaries. Sounds about right.
The Mexican-Swiss alliance is a threat to national security.
I…I cannot disagree.
I am Mondays only.
NotTheBee
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/earth-alien-life-nasa-planets-worlds-b811661.html
#Trustallscientists unless of course #doctorslietoo
They wish they could just call journalists scientists. Then they could say “TrustAllJournalists”
I wouldn’t be surprised to see some kind of “certified journalist” designation in the near future.
One of my favorite lines of (poor) athiest argument would be all over this: “God must not be real, because if he existed, why did he create a crappy non perfect earth for us!? Checkmate SkyDadyLovers!”
Much like libertarians, atheists often make me embarrassed to be an atheist.
^This x 1000^
Well, we did get kicked out of the garden of eden.
So we sould expect the world to be habitable but imperfect.
Superhabitable planets would also likely have a little more water than Earth, especially if it was kept as moisture. Being slightly warmer would also make a planet more habitable, with an ideal of about 5 degrees Celsius hotter than Earth thought to be the biggest improvement.
Yet “Climate Change” is a problem why again?
Because without it politicians wouldn’t be able to play favorites as frequently.
5 degrees Celsius is good, but .15 degrees Celsius will destroy the earth.
Well, life on those planets evolve at that higher temperature.
Life on Earth evolved at Earth temperature, so if you change that temperature all life on Earth will die out.
Come on man, it’s like you don’t even fucking love science.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t wetter, warmer climate describe the presumed climate during the age of the dinosaurs? I know that the historical average temperature for earth is though to be much warmer than it is now (we are technically still in an ice age), so basically this study is saying that past earth is better for life than present earth. Which…is not surprising at all, or even noteworthy.
Well, Ok. It was actually very cold when dinosaurs lived. Thats why there are so many fossils. They would have to burrow into the ground to retain warmth.
I laughed
How do I subscribe to your newsletter?
Dang…you scienced the shit out that! *high five*
SCIENCE!
Oh yeah, well why don’t you go say that to the Sun’s face, Mr. Smartypants.
I don’t think they quite understand how evolution works. Life adapts to the environment, they are trying to work the other way about. They are the communists of the science world.
Who protects the Secret Service from Trump?
So, basically, they are whining that Trump isn’t just locking himself in a room in the month leading up to the election. Because no matter what he does, Secret Service agents are going to be exposed.
And doesn’t this story just perfectly highlight what a nation of pussies we’ve become?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to find agents that previously tested positive and recovered?
no because we live in the land of the clowns.
True
Being a pussy is a virtue in this country.
https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2020/10/afraid-covid-19-mr-president-im-not-ashamed/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-afraid-of-covid-19-mr-president-im-not-ashamed-of-it/2020/10/05/737d6c00-0754-11eb-a166-dc429b380d10_story.html
We have a culture that has spent, at least, the last 30 years trying to turn virtue into vice and vice into virtue. Cowardice is not a virtue, yet this guy flaunts his fear as a strength.
This is not a guy. This is Megan McArdle.
Sad.
I honestly think we might have been better off as a society when we treated mental illness as some kind of shame.
I have an article in the hopper that has been half finished for months. The title is “The MYOFB principle: You’re not special, you’re not important, and your opinion sucks”. It’s supposed to be a critique of this “I have an opinion, listen to me!” moment we’re in.
Sorry, got distracted by the kid.
punchline I was getting at is that shame is an underused motivator toale people shut the hell up
This. Over and over.
You earn respect. You’re not owed it.
Some level of shame is necessary for people to recognize when they made a mistake and to make changes. Shame can most definitely be a force that spurs positive change, just like some stress can get you to focus to get things done.
— get this — what a fucking douchebag.
In fairness to this person they are a woman.
No. A woman could make a sandwich.
Or a gelding.
i’m sorry this is a little girl certainly someone this hysterical isn’t a woman.
“I would have gravely disappointed our president because I felt a deep, sick fear every time I wondered whether I had caught the virus. I was afraid for me, with my history of lung problems and hypertension. I was afraid for my sister, because who knew what this disease might do to her. And I was also afraid for my dad, because if we caught it, he’d end up with two patients instead of two helpers.”
Hitler, Yamamoto, Stalin and Mao look up from Hell at the USA, cursing their fates to have died before America turned into what it is to day. Missed it this much! They have to watch it 24/7. It is the worst of their punishment.
There is something to the different standards for politically connected than ordinary folks.
If it was Mr Trump, private citizen, the local health department would issue a quarantine order along with daily follow ups until whatever their release criteria is reached. I see no reason why Trump or any other politician, who are at best our hired help, shouldn’t suffer the same annoyances as the rest of us. God help someone who decides to go walkabout when under a quarantine order.
This is a worthwhile take that I enjoy the thought of.
This is an argument I had not really considered and has legitimacy.
But in Trump’s case, he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. If he sat around doing nothing, they’d lambast him for that all the same.
They were writing his death certificate on twitter over the weekend and planning what days they were going to piss on his grave than he had the audacity to show everyone he was still alive and it became the most dangerous stunt of our lifetime.
He’s starting at his house. Anybody that doesn’t want to go into the house doesn’t have to.
Staying.
“‘And it is frustrating to hear some folks say that you’ve been the beneficiary of privilege, that the color of your skin gives you a head start.
‘That is the reality for far too many hard-working, decent Americans.’
‘Right now the president and his allies are trying to tap into that frustration and distract from his breathtaking failures by giving folks someone to blame other than them.
‘They’re stoking fears about black and brown Americans. Lying about how minorities will destroy the suburbs. Whipping up violence and intimidation.
‘And they’re pinning it all on what’s been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity.’
She continued: ‘So what the president is doing is once again patently false. It’s morally wrong. and yes, it is racist. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work. Because this is a difficult time, a confusing time, and when people hear these lies and crazy conspiracies repeated over and over again, they don’t know what to think.’
She said ordinary people ‘don’t have time to check falsehoods being spread throughout the internet, and even reasonable people might get scared.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8810781/Michelle-Obama-calls-Donald-Trump-racist-pleads-undecided-voters-end-chaos.html
An overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity??
Well I hope socialists are in the Minority. Because those are the people i see destroying towns.
When she says ‘they’ she’s talking about that person over there standing in the mirror.
This guy
That’s some breathtaking mendacity on her part. But having seen this same game being played my whole life I can’t say I’m surprised.
She said ordinary people ‘don’t have time to check falsehoods being spread throughout the internet, and even reasonable people might get scared.’
Where have we heard this line of reasoning before?
Lies and conspiracy theories repeated over and over again.
Projection.
Whats Galling, is that Michelle has perpetuated this kind of thinking about privledge since she’s been in the public eye, including up to her talk at the DNC this year.
Since she’s been in the public eye and before – all the way back to any written and employment record. Once FLOTUS, she clearly stated that history needed to be changed.
Voting out Trump won’t end the chaos, unless the Dems turn on a dime and decide to become gracious winners. I would not bet on that outcome, so expect to see the chaos increased as the currently fractious climate has increasing bad policy decisions poured over it.
DNI declassifies Brennan notes, CIA memo on Hillary Clinton ‘stirring up’ scandal between Trump, Russia
I’m sure the FBI is busy preparing to arrest Obama, Clinton and Brennan.
And the scarecrow and the tin woodsman were there too!
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/large-trump-sign-appears-along-405-freeway-in-sepulveda-pass/
They knocked it down?
“The sign had been placed in an area with dry brush, and the reporting party was apparently concerned it could spark a blaze, the log stated.”
JFC. Is the sign neon?
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1313318938613297153
OFFS!!
Not sure what’s more disturbing. His comments or those stupid circles on the ground.
it’s the circles. His comments aren’t really that disturbing because he says weird shit like that all the time.
Okay, before the creepy “four years older” comment, what is he saying? It sounds like:
“The good news for me is I’m here, and the bad news for you is I’m coming back.”
WTF?
Ha! Nice catch. I guess he reverted about some shoe leather and such too on a different speech?
https://thespectator.info/2020/10/06/bidens-bizarre-rant-i-learned-how-to-fight-they-called-me-shoe-leather/
Giving him the benefit of the doubt he’s referencing that he’s going to win and then he’ll be back campaigning again four years from now, trying to be self depreciating and not creeping on the young girls just trying to acknowledge their dancing, which I assume was part of the welcome pageantry.
Given, however knowing his…social tics, it comes off like your creepy Uncle Joe or Aunt Barbara and the family picnic.
Trump Injects Self With Ebola So He Can Defeat That Next
“He also shouted “WOOOO!””
Nature Boy Donald Trump?
“You’re talking to the Rolex wearing, diamond ring wearing, kiss stealing, whoa! wheelin dealin’, limosuine riding, jet flying son of a gun and I’m the best damn thing you got going.”
Yep, checks out.
After Ebola, he’ll be mainlining spice, and merging with larval sandworms.
I think he’s already started. It would explain his orange pallor.
Kralizec!
His eye haven’t turned yet.
JFC. And it’s Trump who is clamoring for the foreign intervention. Imagine a right wing publication asking for this, it would be naval gazed at for days and cited as a cry for insurrection.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/opinion/us-united-nations-election.html
Trump hates democracy, that’s why we need foreigners to come and install Biden.
Geeze its like the CIA writes copy for DNC sock puppets.
It’s almost like they know that despite their bullshit stories, the core of the military won’t be on their side in any potential conflict.
This is all really theater. There’s no real fear. But it’s pretty sickening to see any American call for foreign intervention (especially after spending 4 years crying about Russia spending a few thousand on social media memes supposedly supporting Trump).
I used to kind of roll my eyes when sarcasmic or someone would proclaim “All they have is projection” at the tos but it really is true. It’s all they have.
Unfortunately, I’m worried that a lot of these people are floating the ideas because they are hoping that (if biden looses) to “see” what happens. Maybe people will do what they have been urging, and then you have a lot of strife.
Things are going to get worse before they get better. And you’re hearing this from me, a general optimist.
Things are going to get worse before they get better. And you’re hearing this from me, a general optimist.
Your optimism is apparent in your view that things are going to get better.
/JK
Things can always get worse, and can always get better, and it seems like there’s a cycle of worse followed by better followed by worse. It just sucks that it seems like we might be the lucky ones who get to experience a “worse” part of the cycle.
Tyrannical cunte.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) issued new orders on Monday to keep in place mask requirements, limits on public gatherings, and other health codes put in place by the governor’s administration during the coronavirus pandemic. The fresh mandates come days after the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that Whitmer lacked the authority to continue to enforce emergency health codes for the pandemic.
“When it comes to fighting COVID-19, we are all in this together. We need Michiganders everywhere to do their part by wearing masks and practicing safe physical distancing so we can keep our schools and small businesses open and protect the brave men and women serving on the front lines of this crisis,” Whitmer said in a statement. “The epidemic order that [MDHHS] Director Gordon issued today is an important step to protect Michiganders across the state from the spread of COVID-19. Let’s all mask up and stay safe.”
Whitmer’s office said the new orders are based on authority given to the governor during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, which was not challenged in the court decision.
“Violations of this order are punishable by a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than $200, or both. Violations of this order are also punishable by a civil fine of up to $1,000,” MDHHS said.
something comes to mind about trees or landscaping and a refreshing drink.
Anytime some asshole tells me, “We’re all in this together!” I have to suppress a powerful urge to punch their fucking lights out. That would probably be bad for my karma.
As someone who worked through this everyday it’s the most insulting fucking piece of propaganda I’ve ever been forced to chortle down in my life.
And the current occupant of the White House is a dictatorship.
She forgot that line.
So just like they do with gun laws that get struck down, they just rewrote the mandates with a little different wording.
And here’s a pic of the esteemed director Gordon. PBUH.
https://www.bridgemi.com/sites/default/files/article_images/gordon.jpg
NFL: ‘Everything is fine.’
“The 2020 presidential election and other national news events are driving substantial consumption of cable news, taking meaningful share of audience from all other programming,” reporter John Ourand claimed that Rolapp told the teams. “Historically, NFL viewership has declined in each of the past six presidential elections.”
Rolapp also pointed to the coronavirus as another reason for the lower ratings.
“The pandemic has caused several major sports to postpone their schedules, resulting in an unprecedented fall calendar,” Rolapp said. “The result is a crowded content marketplace driving a bifurcation of sports viewers across multiple events.”
No longer appointment viewing in the trashy household. College football? yes. NFL? Meh.
The chickenshit kneeling and BLM posturing has nothing at all to do with a significant portion of people trapped in their own homes deciding that they’ll watch something else.
If I weren’t a 30 year chiefs fan with possibly the greatest QB ever, I’d probably stop watching too.
I have watched almost no other games. And that is not what I’d normally do.
If Mahomes was murdered tonight I’d go my grave telling everyone he’s the best qb I’ve ever seen. He makes two or three throws a game I’ve seen maybe one or two other guys even capable of making.
He’s pretty good, but he’s no Kapernick.
Definitely needs to kneel more and grow a bigger fro.
I only watch the Chiefs. Got no dog in any other fight.
Mahomes is something else again, that’s true, and very special. Something magic about him. But my husband is such a Mahomie, I’m getting a little tired of it and Mahomes. That said, Mr. Mojeaux puts up with my celebrity crushes, too.
Also, the “too many sports being played at one time is diluting our ratings” doesn’t explain why the ratings for all of these sports sucks.
Seems like people being stuck in their houses would equate to better ratings but what do Iknow.
All sports are down. It’s hard to say what will happen when things return to normal. It is completely possible that this woke outbreak isn’t the primary cause of the decline but the other outbreak. Too many unknown variables.
“If you’re more worried about @realDonaldTrump unmasking on a balcony with no one close to him than you were by the Obama/Biden administration unmasking (aka illegally spying on) their political opponents, my diagnosis is you have TDS, & my prescription is to put down your phone.”
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1313486518523170819
*opera applause*
*tiny golf clap* cause only people who pay attention got it
Nice.
Classy even.
Breitbart obtains an internal Facebook document.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/13/exclusive-facebooks-process-to-label-you-a-hate-agent-revealed/
Donation not taxation.
I guess that makes me a hate agent.
What a bunch of Byzantine bullshit.
All cover for a bunch of politically motivated twenty something twats that are skewing the political debate online
‘Jeez, the reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home is because some Black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf’ — Joe Biden
Donation not taxation.
He has Kamala doing his grocery shopping?
“I said ‘Black’ woman” — Joe Biden
It’s the “if it wasn’t for black people who’d do the manual labor?” mindset peeking out from behind the dementia.
Yep.
Which would be an odd mindset for someone to have if they truly came from a working class background. They’d know it’s diverse if they lived it.
You do realize the people stocking the grocery shelves aren’t funded by taxation, don’t you?
Well, with the number of EBT users, I’m not so sure.
Concern troll is concerned.
The President has spent the year downplaying the coronavirus and denying its danger. His actions over the past few weeks show that – even with his own illness, so many of his staff infected, and 210,000 Americans dead on his watch – he has not learned a thing. President Trump is being increasingly reckless with the health of the American people and those around him, including the men and women of the Secret Service.
Because the President must constantly feed his desire for political theater and photo ops for his reelection campaign, he created a super-spreader event at the White House – that flouted CDC guidelines – with more staffers and U.S. Senators testing positive daily. The President’s demand that the use of masks be minimized, even at the White House, defies science and has put people’s lives in danger.
The height of reckless disregard for others was the President’s ‘joyride’ yesterday where Secret Service agents were required to drive him around in a hermetically sealed vehicle. Exposing Secret Service personnel to the virus does not just put them at risk, it puts their families and the public at risk.
So we can know more about how these events have affected the Secret Service and national security, I have requested a briefing from the agency on the current safeguards in place for their employees — including on the President’s protective detail — and how Secret Service agents can be kept safe from coronavirus-related threats, including apparently the President himself.
The idea that the people charged with literally THROWING THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF A BULLET meant for the president, should be afraid of contracting C19 from him, tells us everything we need to know about the mentality of the political-media-academic class.
I’d imagine they were interacting with him in the quarantine unit anyway. It wasn’t like they were hermetically sealed off from the pres and he came along and forced them to get into the car.
No they were ordered away by the president so that his russian handlers could confer with him. /cnn #notthebee
They were wearing n95s from what I saw. If they were worn correctly they should be fine.
There is a reason that there is zero data that masks make any difference.
The reason: n95 masks are rating to be 99% efficient at filtering out 0.3 micron particles.
Cooties = 60 to 120 nanometers.
As someone here put it, they are trying to stop mosquitoes with a chain link fence. The whole thing is completely fucking stupid.
Here’s a fact check on that, make of it what you will:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/11/fact-check-n-95-filters-not-too-large-stop-covid-19-particles/5343537002/
That’s for electrostatic filtration materials.
99% of the masks out there, ie not N95, don’t meet that criteria.
*pedant on*
95%. That’s why they’re called N95.
*pedant off*
Minneapolis cops are totally fucking with the firemen. Also this is some fine Journalism. I think they got Who and When and that is it. And both of those came from a govt press release.
Because the rest of time they were fucking whores and getting drunk at bars? Aren’t they supposed to be at the station unless needed?
I actually think you have your finger on the pulse of firefighters there.
Dey ain’t hoors, dey is badge bunnies.
Do you know how hard it is to double dip as a fireman if they don’t let you out of the station house to run errands during your shift?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/national/japan-entry-ban-foreign-tourists/
Well fuck. No tourism until spring likely will mean reduce flight levels until then or later. Reduced flights means less cargo capacity which has led to Japan Post suspending airmail and EMS service to the US and elsewhere. I don’t want to pay three times as much for FedEx/DHL for CDs dammit.
You meant to say grey market hentai DVDs?
My teens ears perked up when you posted that…those sick bastards
Japanese and Gustave above, apparently, have a huge affection for physical media.
I find this both endearing and puzzling as homes are generally smaller.
I’m a sucker for those obi strips.
Really, it because not everything is available in a digital format and my japanese iTunes credits are running low with little hope of refilling them soon. Momoko Kikuchi’s Miroir or the latest (and last) Tora-san movie?
If they do have the Olympics next year that means I won’t get back until 2022.
Sigh…
Trump or the GOP just got their new campaign ad thanks to Twits on Twatter
The string of follow-on tweets below the JRubin one from various Nevertrumpers and lefty blue checks verifies that every one of these hacks has shot out at least one insane tweet.
You mean like this one?
“Anyone hailing from an authoritarian country is horrified by that Trump video, as should be anyone who values democracy over demagoguery. The staging, boasting, the disregard for people’s lives. He won’t change and he must go.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that Mexico has lost about a million jobs due to the pandemic.
Not due to lockdowns? Hmmm….
If the “jobs” were truly lost to the pandemic it would probably be called a labor shortage not a job shortage.
Abracadabra:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-govs-diners-masks
Cali gov’s office tells diners to keep masks on in between bites when eating at a restaurant.
#Science!
Guidlines to stoping the spread of any disease: stop touching your face
Newsome: touch it every 1-2 minutes after handling forks, knives, dinnerware, napkin, table, etc, etc.
‘Guidlines to stoping the spread of any disease: stop touching your face’ — Ownbestenemy
‘Guidelines to stopping the spread of any disease:’ quarantine few, not everyone excluding elite
Donation not taxation.
I’m sure touching the mask again and again and again, while you’re also handling food, would only make things better, right?
Your comment was more erudite and concise than mine.
So when do they start trying to weld doors shut to keep all Californians inside their houses?
Or are they aware enough of reality to realize that is a lost cause? After all a huge chunk of their population is there because they were very good at tunneling, running, jumping and climbing. So trying to keep them penned up is utter folly.
At my last job, I told asked the Mexican kid who was working under me why the Mexican Olympic team stunk so bad. (Answer: Because every Mexican who can run, jump or swim is already here in the US).
Two woke kids were appalled that I told the joke. Pedro laughed himself sick and said he could hardly wait to tell his family that joke. The woke kids didn’t report me for the joke, so everything worked out fine.
True fact, I’ve never been attacked by a tiger while wearing a mask. Do you want tigers attacking people at restaurants?
This story is a tour de force of journaloism.
Goalposts are move, facts are mangled, percentages are used to keep people scared because actual numbers wouldn’t be nearly scary enough.
I honestly don’t even know where to begin with the FUD. The only saving grace is that I don’t think the writer is smart enough to do this on purpose. They are just too dumb to understand what a load of horse shit the govt assholes have fed them.
The headline is “Minnesota reports all-time high of confirmed COVID-19 infections from unknown sources”. OK, but are Rona infections spiking? Not really. They are on their way down. The headline wouldn’t let you know that though.
If you want to see trends you can use this page by the same newspaper that published the crap story.
The journalo never asked “Is is possible that people are just telling your contact tracers to get bent? After all you recently had to recall testing teams from Greater Minnesoda because they were being verbally abused by the rubes”.
Huh. I just got a fundraising text from some putz at MoveOn. I never get fundraising texts, until this year, and I get 3-4 a week, always from progressives. Interesting.
I’ve gotten a bunch. And always, Always for my wife. I don’t know what she did, but she used my number for it.
BUT PERÓN GAVE YOU FREE HEALTHCARE AND PROSPERITY
Argentina: America’s future.
1990s Yugoslavia (with nukes and way, way, way more guns): America’s future.
This seems more likely.
The bitch set me up!!! (The bitch in this case was Project Veritas)
I’m sure.
Nope no reason to investigate.
OFFS
So many fucking blinders being worn these days.
I don’t who it was coordinated with or why it was done. Is the story true or not?
I also like the “I took ten thousand dollars to admit to a crime” angle. That makes it all ok.
C’mon man! He was offered $10,000 to lie. He didn’t take that dirty money. That is why The Man is out to get him.
And his denial is the fig leaf that the local journalists need to ignore the story.
The local paper needs more proof than Dave Chappelle if they are actually going to investigate
So when do the locals beat the shit out of the local journalists?
Never. Wouldn’t be Minnesoda Nice.
But the NYT story definitely wasn’t timed to coincide with the debate, and the Democrats didn’t know about it, even though they had an ad ready just hours after the story was published.
“blockbuster”
Democratic candidates who lost their last races given “fellowships” by 501(c) organization because they were just so tired and worn out and couldn’t be expected to get a real job.
I’m sure the IRS will be all over that 501(c) with an audit to make sure they aren’t simply giving Dem losers a slush fund.
And how many of those 501c’s are taking government grants?
What a damned cesspool of corruption.
Didn’t you even read my quote? “creative way to give perpetual candidates a financial cushion” is the preferred term. Corruption is such an ugly word.
Get a fucking job like an actual normie would.
That might lead to a little better understanding of the world than funded studies of the rural-urban divide.
Term limits motherfuckers.
You serve two terms and that’s it. Not two terms here and two terms there. Two terms. Could be dog catcher and mayor but two terms in any elected office and you are out.
You can have a third under the condition you eat a bullet at the end of it.
The problem with your plan Suthen is that pretty soon the sociopaths wouldn’t be able to run anymore and us normies would be press ganged into service. I would have to sue the state for cruel and unusual punishment if they tried to make me sit through a city budget meeting.
The problem with strict and brief term limits is the elected representatives will lose pretty much all power, and the deep state will be come much, much deeper. Everything will be run by nameless bureaucrats who are beholden to no one.
Add in a maximum term anyone can be in a position funded by government funds in any capacity.
Including contractors? I hate to see the kind of fighter jets Cuisinart puts out.
By hate I mean I gotta see it. The F4000 slices, dices, and juliennes!
The arms companies can build what they think is worthwhile and try to sell it. No more thirty year, three trillion dollar devleopment contracts that deliver a handful of mediocre aircraft.
Contractual limits on how long you can work for the government. Just tossing out there. Haven’t thought about it a bit.
It also removes choice from the people.
How much choice do people have now? I’d say little to none.
I used to think that was antidemocratic because people should be able to elect who they want but I’ve moved past that.
That was my proposal.
And an anti carpetbagger rule. You must have lived and live in the jurisdiction you’re going to represent for at least the past 25 years.
Also, Congress only meets six weeks out of the year and members are paid accordingly. (3/26 of their current salary)
Our county has a program that if you are a veteran you can get a propery tax exemption or split it between your goventment service fee on your car registration.
I submitte my paperwork, but I didnt fit the critera. No problem there. The problem was the lady at the tax assessors office continually asking me “are you sure you don’t have the GWOT expeditionary medal?
Look lady, I appreciate that you are basically telling me to lie and I get a $400 tax break…but no.
I’ll let you borrow mine next time around.
You need that…or an Afghan Campaign Medal or an Iraq Campaign Medal or… such, I have a box full. Just wear, take pics, send back.
Did you see my lame, cheap shot at the 14th century cantons on the morning links?
I can help like Swiss with that as well. If you want I could even provide you with a WWI Victory Medal or a WWII Krimea Shield, if you prefer.
Thank you but its cool. I sat in the American desert of White Sands. I aint claiming something i didnt earn.
+1 Richard Blumenthal
Kidding aside, I respect your integrity.
I know how you feel. The VA considers AFEM holders as “combat” veterans if it’s within a certain time frame/theater. Waited until just before the cutoff to enroll because it bugged me to claim something I’m not. Biggest reason was the lifetime exempt from Obamacare mandate.
As did my dad, keeping Ernst Blofeld from getting his hands on those missiles.
Or maybe he was trying to keep those missiles away from the illegal immigrants.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1313551648363601921
Governor of PR endorsed Trump.
LOL
Puerto Rican stateh….oh nevermind.
Yeah, that’s probably the thought process of a lot of people right now.
I did not know it, but the current governor of Peurto Rico is a Republican, and their current non-voting representative to Congress is also a Republican. It would probably be a purple state if it was admitted.
Ay, caramba!
https://www.newsweek.com/cuties-netflix-indictment-backlash-2020-1536816
*points at Netflix and laughs*
It is sort of funny because Netflix is so political, but I really don’t like the idea that one conservative prosecutor can potentially fuck over streaming services.
Just don’t pay Netflix if you are that offended.
Yeah, I’m torn between schadenfreude and being pissed off with the prosecutor.
It fits the definition under the law. So the real question is whether you can have a ban on child pornography when the definition of pornography is heavily based on community standards.
I have little doubt that the community standards in Tyler Texas find the content obscene.
Yeah I think if some random dude formed a girls dance troupe and was filming them replicating the dances from that movie, he’d be arrested right after he posted the videos on YouTube.
Representative Matt Schaefer shared the indictment Tuesday on Twitter. “Netflix, Inc. indicted by grand jury in Tyler Co., Tx for promoting material in Cuties film which depicts lewd exhibition of pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 yrs of age
I watched one dance routine from that show and immediately thought that it was going to run afoul of the existing child porn laws.
This does not surprise me in the least.
LOL
https://nypost.com/2020/10/06/biden-makes-eyebrow-raising-comments-at-campaign-stop-in-miami/
“The good news is, for me, I’m here. The bad news, for you, is I’m coming back,” he said. “I’m coming back, I’m coming back. And I want to see these beautiful young ladies, I want to see them dancing when they’re four years older, too,” he quipped to the crowd.
I’m being totally serious here, if I had a young daughter I would not let this man near her.
I dislike Biden intensely and think he’s as creepy as fuck but he probably meant he’d like to see them dancing in four years when he’s campaigning for re-election. The fact that he doesn’t have the awareness to not say things like that regardless of the motivation tells me he’s pretty far gone.
Dude will be what in 4 years? Almost 84 almost? I get it but you aint doing 2 terms
In 4 years, if he’s still breathing, he’ll need someone changing his diapers.
this isn’t Eddie, bt damn creative, must watch,
https://youtu.be/OB_tVv18Zhw
“ McCloskeys indicted, grand jury adds charges of tampering with evidence”
https://www.kmov.com/news/mccloskeys-indicted-grand-jury-adds-charges-of-tampering-with-evidence/article_892b9ba4-0807-11eb-8750-b3b2937f7e0b.html
When the cops refuse to respond and mobs threaten you and your property make sure to not defend yourself, you’ll go to prison.
From time to time my discussions of police power and obligation become rather impassioned, and often I fail to convey and convince; the past year has certainly not salved my fury.
Along comes a calmer presentation: RadioLab is your typical NPR flaky/softy view of the subject, but, to their credit, they get the facts and the law dead right . . . and they’re horrified and incredulous to find that the social contract they have bought into is codified nowhere. Try these guys: they’re normal folk, they’re not partisans, they don’t study the law or jurisprudence for kicks, and they’re great story-tellers . . . with none of the Don attitude. Give them a listen if only to confirm what the law is and to understand what you are . . . or are not . . . promised for your tax dollars. Click to listen “No Special Duty” here: http://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab
Anyway, if a grand jury were forced to listen to this before ringing up an innocent citizen, they might think twice. I sent it to everyone I know because normally they dismiss my arguments with “it doesn’t work that way” and ‘surely you’re wrong.”
I’m familiar with RadioLab (a good podcast BTW) but wasn’t aware of this particular one. I appreciate it.
Thanks. Worth sharing.
Bookmarked will try to listen in my non committal way. Radio Lab is usually ok in spite of being NPR.
The damned DA tampered with the evidence when they ordered the gun reassembled correctly.
I think I’m going to blow a gasket. These people are fundamentally corrupt and willing to throw anyone under the bus in order to achieve their political goals.
I’m going to guess the theory is that brandishing it at a crowd tampering of the evidence of the case for which the pistol had previously been evidence in, not their defense case.
they were protecting themselves and their property from people hurling threats
“Hurling” TMITE
Huh. I thought i had heard that the DA had dropped the charges.
They dropped the charge on the protestors for trespassing.
I know that, but i specifically thought i had heard that the charges against the couple had been dropped after the primary election.
*swoon*
Andy’s come out with some Jew-maps of his own. And he’s pissed at Bill for not keeping accurate enough account of them and not keeping the boot on their necks hard enough.
And I’m in the Yellow Zone! That seems to signify “Jew-adjacent”.
So the cases are increasing it seems but how are the deaths going?
Who the fuck knows? If the MSM do, they’re not telling.
If they’re not telling they’re telling.
Odds on, when this is all over, Andy writes a book “My Struggle?”
Say what you want about Hitler, at least he had charisma.
Is German charisma gauged the same way English women are rated by attractiveness? A handicap like that is the only fair way to do it.
Just when I thought I was out – they pull me back in. . . .
Woohoo! Welcome back, Tulpa!
What is the proper greeting for a returning Tulpa?
Sucker
“I thought we told you to fuck off!”
OK Fuck Off!
World leaders and their dogs.
I realize that’s a meme and all but is that really the Presidential dog? Not that I’ve really given it much thought but the Presidential Pooch has been conspicuous by its absence during the Trump years.
Donnie Twoscoops, famous for his piss-hookers, is a bugophobe. Despite well cared for dogs being less buggy than humans, most bugophobes perceive them differently. Donny is not big on dogs.
I dont trust people that dont like dogs so I am keeping an eye on him.
And it would be 4 years of “two scoops abuses his dogs” if he had one.
Slow responding….
Re: Term limits
Sociopaths are always going to gravitate to positions of power. The simple, obvious not perfect but best solution is to not concentrate power but to disburse it as much as possible. It is the foundational principle of our form of government.
The problem is that scared, dumb people that want to ‘get things done’ keep getting duped into concentrating power more and more.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/01/white-supremacist-protest-activism-emily-gorcenski?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Did she survive it like David Hogg ‘survived’ that school shooting?
Least successful white supremacist organization ever:
https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2020/09/30/enrique-tarrio-1200×800.jpg
In the last photo of the Proud Boys I saw half of the white supremicists were latino or black.
You are mistaken, they were wearing white hoods and carrying burning crosses. Please take this cup of pills.
But the hoods ain’t no good if ya can’t see out of em!
Since death comes in threes, who’s next? I vote Elton because coplication of being Elton,
Bono…it has to be Bono
OK, that would make three, let’s see how it plays out,,,,
If this is a death pool than I am game!
If there is in fact a god it will be Jimmy Buffet and Brian Wilson.
Johnny Nash? Or was he the second?
Always liked his remake.
he fits the bill, wait, how is Bill Withers? alive?
or the complications of being Elton…
So apparently EVH did actually pass away. They were my favorite band when I was an angry young high school loser. Saw them one at the palace of Auburn Hills on the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge tour. This was one of my favorites.
https://youtu.be/0peSQnpDobQ
RIP Eddie.
Once not one
“Once of my favorites” makes no sense at all.
“once at the palace”, I assume he meant
But you knew that, just trying to make trouble? 🙂
My son has been working on Eddies solos. He is starting to get the finger tapping down pretty good.
have him try it with apick instead of his right fingers, same technique with different sound, cool stuff,
oh I right hand fret with my Ukulele as well, fun!
Will do!
Smoke too much, die,
5 cigs in a 10 minute solo isnt too much is it?
I work at at Propane tank facility, down to 3 cigs in 10 hours, thats punishing for me, heavy cigar smoking fool I am,good for me I suppose,
Now you tell me.
Wait…smoking is bad for me? Well shit, why hasn’t anyone told me that before? What the hell, people?
Can I offer you a bong and a blintz?
So. Are we skipping the VP debate tonight or Live Chatting it?
And by We i mean you, because i am most definitely skipping it.
I thought it was tomorrow when I had to skip it.
I’m skipping it tonight but only because it’s not going to happen until manana.
Yep.
So you’re saying today isn’t wednesday?
Gosh Damnit.
I am skipping. Harris’ voice makes my skin crawl. I might be able to read a transcript…but sitting through having to listen to her voice for more than 5 seconds aint gonna happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLya7Ko98d4
TW: MSNBC
“No one in Trump White House Has a Care for Human Life”.
It’s True, I here they have a room where they meet and go down a secret list of people and just murder them.
And when they murder these people they do it without a care for anyone around. At a Funeral? BOOM. At a Wedding? BOOM. Not even there? BOOM.
They even murder themselves from time to time.
With the bonus that Austin TX would become an anarchy, since no one would be eligible to hold office.