I kept saying it. “Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.” And you didn’t believe me, you made fun of me, and then you stopped paying attention.
Then the big SugarFree/SP collaboration dropped. And you were astonished. As well you should have been. And my feeling of vindication swelled to the bursting point, like the glans under Hope Hicks’s thumb.
Speaking of things happening, there are birthdays, including a guy whose work was a bit obscura; a guy whose disgusting obsessions cost hundreds of thousands of lives; one of oh so many corrupt dictators, but man, he could tie one on; a woman who certainly was a meteorology enthusiaste; a woman who always needed a Trigger warning; the progenitor of my undergrad senior project; a guy who inspired a great Jethro Tull song; a guy who still doesn’t know the frequency; a guy who, despite his name, wasn’t one of my relatives; and a guy who gets much love here, but whose books were a real chore for me to read.
Now the news.
Would it be terrible if I guessed that they might have Chinese programmers?
Exponential! And the usual abuse of terminology and statistics.
What’s the matter with kids today?
Corrupt judges and prosecutors have to support each other, otherwise it would be chaos, amirite?
Or, how about maybe giving it back to the taxpayers…?
Old Guy Music is a trio of three famous guys whose collaboration just never got the commercial success it deserves. And Ginger Baker breaks the cliche of jazz-obsessed white British drummers being totally unable to swing. This is terrific jazz drumming, and of course (as expected) Bill and Charlie kick sixteen varieties of ass.
????♂️??️???
Happy Halloween Glibs.
Boo!
Happy Halloween morning/afternoon to Sean and Glibs everywhere [insert spooky emojis]
Was supposed to be a reply to Sean but w/c?
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For those that are Bruce Springsteen fans, Asbury Park is right next Neptune.
A New Jersey police officer was charged with harassment after allegedly sending explicit text messages to an 18-year-old woman and repeatedly trying to contact her after he arrested her.
Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni said in a Thursday statement that the officer with the Neptune City Police Department, Damien Broschart, was charged with fourth-degree cyber harassment and third-degree hindering apprehension of oneself.
‘third-degree hindering apprehension of oneself.’
Da fuk does dat mean? NOT turning yourself in is a crime in and of its self? I’m pretty sure I’ve been guilty of that to one degree or another for over twenty-five years.
You may also be convicted for hindering your own apprehension or prosecution if you destroy, tamper with, or conceal evidence of a crime you committed, use force or intimidation to prevent your own apprehension or prosecution, use force or intimidation to interfere with witnesses or informants, or give false information to a police officer. One of the most common scenarios that gives rise to hindering apprehension charges is a person giving a false name or someone else’s name to a police officer during a traffic stop, for example.
https://criminallawyerinnj.com/hindering-apprehension-or-prosecution-n-j-s-a-2c29-3/
Bootie
Ha! Yep, I think my tablet is fuckered up. WTF was that…again, ha!
That’s as bad as the old Colorado law that included ‘conspiracy to commit unknown offenses’ as a crime.
*sigh*
Okay, my tablet has been acting insane all morning. Time to c,ean and reboot.
Sorry for the Gilmore.
Happy Halloween, OMWC!
The Rittenhouse thing is infuriating. And scary.
This year, I’m dressing as a pervert.
What do you wear for a Jeff Toobin costume?
He is going to go straight shirtcocking it. Deadpool style.
So, no costume?
It’s as if you actually know me…
It’s really ugly how the political machine is willing to put a young man through the machine for the stupid Woke game. How they can pretend that he wasn’t running from a potentially deadly beatdown and just barely staying ahead of them is beyond reason.
And that he shot only after someone took a shot at him.
Have the prosecutors managed to keep the full video out of evidence or something?
Happy Halloween OMWC – and all you Glibs and Gliberinas!
With apologies to both you and straff…
【MV full】 ハロウィン・ナイト / AKB48[公式]
Elections have consequences
After four years of norm-bending, treaty-disrupting and alliance-shaking foreign policy from the Trump administration, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is promising to return the US to its more traditional role on the world stage.
Biden has said he will make significant changes to US foreign policy should he win Tuesday’s presidential election. People familiar with the former vice president’s plans say he would immediately reverse Trump policies on Iran, climate change and the World Health Organization.
Biden’s goals share a common theme that breaks sharply with President Donald Trump’s isolationist approach: rebuilding alliances, a strategy meant to repair frayed US international ties and reflect his belief that America’s toughest challenges, including the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, require international cooperation and coordination.
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Biden will convene a “Summit for Democracy” in the first year of his presidency to “bring together the world’s democracies to strengthen our democratic institutions, honestly confront nations that are backsliding, and forge a common agenda,” the former vice president wrote in a Foreign Affairs essay. Corruption, human rights and the fight against authoritarianism will be major themes.
Biden has declared he would rejoin the Paris climate accord “on day one” and then “rally the world to push our progress further.”
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The precise plan for how a Biden administration would reenter the WHO and hold it accountable will be determined during a transition, his advisers say.
They add that at home, Biden’s focus will be on vaccinating every American. Advisers say Biden’s Covid response team would bring together domestic and foreign experts.
Biden will save us from autocratic rule. No more rule by Presidential decree.
He’ll put us back on the road to democracy and respect for our fellow citizens and their rights.
Fuck that guy. “Anonymous” Chinese people sent fucking *millions* of dollars to the Biden foundation. That’s CCP $.
He sold his soul to the commies.
China’s bitch?
That’s why Joe brought on Kamala. Her experience on her knees is impressive.
She’ll put on her own superspreader event, IYKWIM.
Biden’s goals share a common theme that breaks sharply with President Donald Trump’s isolationist approach
“Isolationist”? I thought the media had abandoned that moronic buzzword back when Rand Paul dropped out of the presidential race.
Apparently “isolationist” means you want foreign states to make peace with each other, instead of fomenting war between them.
But look at that ‘stache he’s rocking.
Exactly!
Nothing like being awakened early on a Saturday by a vomiting dog and being unable to get back to sleep.
Since the kids whose parents are decent enough to let them go trick or treating aren’t going to get nearly as much candy as they normally would, we decided to be the kind of awesome people who give out full-size candy bars to help make up for the hysterics who aren’t giving out candy. Purchasing said candy bars convinced me that this will be a one-year thing – damned things are expensive.
Yep. One of the local chocolate places had a big sign up for $10 off a box of full sized bars.
We went to the place with the monster selection and have a full box of Dark Chocolate Kit Kats and Reeses Pieces stuffed Peanut Butter Cups to hand out.
What time is trick-or-treating in your hood? I’ll be there.
18:00 – 20:00. I expect a costume.
And, of course:
Biden has committed to rebuilding the diplomatic corps of the State Department.
Obama said that Trump has “systematically tried to decimate our entire foreign policy infrastructure,” during an interview earlier this month. He added that Biden would rely on the expertise of career diplomats and rebuild the State Department.
Former senior diplomats who left the department due to the way that the Trump administration treated career diplomats have warned that if nothing is done, the damage could be irreversible.
“The damage may be generational,” wrote Michael McKinley, a widely respected 4-time ambassador who testified during impeachment and resigned last year, in an Atlantic essay last week. He spoke about how politicized the department had become under the Trump administration.
Politicization, as usual, means, “doing anything I don’t agree with”.
What he really means is “I’m going to put those guys back in that ignore or participate in selling our foreign policy to overseas interests.”
Chai-nuh!
One of the honestly good things to come out of Trump’s presidency has been the exposure of the failures of the supposed foreign policy experts.
The foreign policy bloc has always assumed that Americans don’t understand, appreciate, or even really care about what they do overseas. It was their sandbox to play in, and play they did.
“Rebuilding” much like the way Obama reorganized the FBI? So… another federally funded wing of the Democrats? I wonder if they’ll help cover up ever little bit of treason and felonies they come across.
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I toyed with the idea of going into foreign policy when I was headed off to college. I realize now that it is appealing because it is esoteric. The likelihood that you will be judged on an objective standard of success is nil.
As such, most of the “career diplomats” have never really been judged by their results and sniff their own farts, and those of their coworkers.
Yeah, that’s not anything unique to State. DoD and every other bureaucracy operates essentially the same way.
That’s why I left the field a few years after college.
Also, it’s a people-oriented profession. And I hate people.
systematically tried to decimate our entire foreign policy infrastructure
He reduced it by a factor of ten? GOOD.
It’s terrible how Trump has politicized all these federal organizations by not having them do everything the DNC wants.
According to prosecutors and court documents, Rittenhouse killed 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum, of Kenosha, after Rosenbaum threw a plastic bag at Rittenhouse, missing him
TMITE can’t help themselves.
Good morning, friends.
My Halloween costume, “the man who’s penis tumbled out,” did not go over well with my neighbors and the local authorities.
The no-fun police were out in full force last night!
Is this your way of explaining why none of us can ask you to pick up our kids from school?
PERV MISS Teacher, 24, who had sex with student, 14, and sent him lingerie pics is spared jail
Holy filters, Batman!
Eyes a little too wide open. Not stable.
Who wakes up in the morning and says “I want to look like a RealDoll”? Gross.
Not getting a Real Doll vibe. There seems to be some lifelike features.
4 years probation. If the genders were reversed, they would have thrown away the key.
So it wasn’t either a trick or treat?
Some people are just too stiff.
Thanks OMWC, for reminding a young cowboy of his first love. I knew it was gonna be me, Dale and Buttercup for life. Then about 10 years ago my next older brother confessed the truth, that he had the hots for my cowgirlfriend. I was disappointed in both my brother and Dale, thinking she might like older guys.
As a teenager I realized that Natalie Wood was my age and I adjusted my sights.
The sad thing is that she was an avid lobbyist for things like compelling kids to do Christian prayers in school.
You drowned Natalie Wood?
Hands were waved
And, although no evidence has emerged that the documents are the product of Russian disinformation, as some experts initially suggested, many questions remain about how the materials got into the hands of Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who has met with Russian agents in his effort to dig dirt on the Bidens.
U.S. intelligence agencies have informed the White House that Giuliani has been in contact with alleged Russian intelligence agents. The FBI has been looking into whether the Russians played any role, and no official has ruled that out.
At the same time, dozens of former intelligence officials have said the story has the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation. After the election interference of 2016, the news media is especially wary of doing anything to further an effort by a foreign government to intervene in a presidential campaign.
Another factor tamping down coverage of the story is that there isn’t much new in what the laptop documents appear to reveal. The allegation that Hunter Biden has traded on his family name has been thoroughly explored in previous news stories, including a lengthy New Yorker investigation last year in which Robert Weissman, the president of the advocacy group Public Citizen, said, “It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Hunter’s foreign employers and partners were seeking to leverage Hunter’s relationship with Joe, either by seeking improper influence or to project access to him.” Reports published while the elder Biden was still vice president raised ethical questions about the Burisma deal.
Nothing to see here, really.
Vote for JOE.
At the same time, dozens of former intelligence officials have said the story has the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation
Good enough for me! That’s just a bunch of straight-shooters right there.
The best kind of foreign meddling is revealing actual true documents than forgeries. See the 2016 DNC emails. (not that there’s any evidence here or there for foreign interference)
John Candy was a treasure. Thanks for inspiring an SCTV youtube binge, Joo!
Michael Collins doesn’t get the credit he deserves for dropping off those two glory hogs and coming back to get them.
It’s really ugly how the political machine is willing to put a young man through the machine for the stupid Woke game. How they can pretend that he wasn’t running from a potentially deadly beatdown and just barely staying ahead of them is beyond reason.
If he hadn’t been there, nothing would have happened. And besides, look at the way he was dressed. He was begging for it.
HiS rIgHt WinG TeRRoRiST CLoThEs = HiS cOnSenT!!!111222 iF u DoN’T wAnT tO bE TreAteD LiKe A nAZi DoN’T bE OnE!!!!!!11111111111111111
/reasonable, respectable, honest, non-partisan twitter user
Well, I characterize them thusly but I don’t think most people of that persuasion with a similar take have even watched the video in it’s entirety, or, if they have, the Covington effect meant that all they saw was a “nAzI” on the offensive, getting what he “deserved”.
Quick question for the site admins, is there some kind of views counter or rough estimate how many people read the links everyday?
Yes.
I deserved that.
I’d assume if it is click through. In my case I normally middle nose button them to open the lot.
I’m not sure that will count as viewed.
15 Signs He’s Hiding a Massive Penis Beneath Those Jeans
Say what you will about our youth but their creativity is off the charts!
The story I read a few months back about teens dressing as old people, then going into liquor stores (masked) to buy booze warmed my heart a touch, and gave me some hope for that generation.
Failed again! This test taking is not good for my ego..
I lost 50 IQ points just reading that.
And you didn’t get to see a massive penis?
Sean Connery died.
Trebek has the last laugh.
Anyone heard from F. Franco?
Shit. Given that and Trebek’s health it is going to be tougher to reference that SNL skit in polite company.
“I’ll take ‘Pull at cum panty’ for $600, Alex.”
I got a colleague a t-shirt with “Le Tits Now” on it for Xmas last year
Sad to hear it. But, well, 90 is a pretty long run.
That’s too bad but a 90 year life of fame and fortune was a pretty good run.
ZARDOZ has a sad.
FOOOOOOOK!
*pours one out for Sean*
Just a few weeks ago, I was watching Man Who Would be King and noted to my wife that all three of the main actors are still alive.
90?!
What year is it…?!
I know! I would have guessed mid 80’s at the most.
The new David Bowie biopic “Stardust” looks really good!
“… Bill and Charlie kick sixteen varieties of ass.”
Nobody needs sixteen kinds of ass. Other than HM, of course.
A man’s gotta eat.
Scariest thing is that Penna. is a state Trump must win, and the latest and final internal GOP polls show a blue wave with Biden up by 7% (down from 9% before Philly riots). The one determining factor seems to be covid-19 and folks buying the meme that Trump did nothing and Biden has “a plan.” It would be hard to find a pundit who thinks Trump would have lost if chicom-19 not reared its ugly head…but it did and seems to have put the Trump administration on its death bed.
But, what the heck, BidenhertimeHarris will have us all singing kumbaya around the concentration campfire by next Halloween.
Trump EC win and popular vote loss. I like you Creech but lord have mercy are you black pilled.
If that is what really decides the election, then we deserve what we get.
So much this.
Local news is all about how the Ohio counties bordering the lake could determine the presidency. I really don’t want even more political ads in every upcoming election year.
I don’t think you should be too much faith in whoever your GOP source is. Grizzly pulled the 2016 data to compare with the 2020 numbers you’ve put up before for Chester while saying Trump is screwed. The comparison using your internal numbers against 2016 poll data showed that far from being doomed, Trump is doing even better in Chester now against Biden than at this time point in 2016 against Hillary.
I’m guessing your GOP source is part of the McCain/Romney GOP.
No, source is secret libertarian among the RINO committeemen. Anyway, we will know if a few days, won’t we.
Or a few weeks. Or a couple of months.
We’ll know once we’ve determined the right side of history.
The side under the ground
“exponential growth”
We are so screwed, if they’re correct we can expect something in the ballpark of 7,744,000,000 new cases tomorrow.
Children age 12 years and younger infected with COVID-19 pass the virus to other members of their households more than half of the time, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Teens aged 12 to 17 years infected others in their households nearly 40% of the time, the data showed.
The findings are based on an analysis of the household contacts of 101 “index cases” of COVID-19 in Tennessee and Wisconsin between April and September, the agency said.
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Forty percent of household members with confirmed infections reported symptoms at the time the disease was first detected in testing, the CDC said.
Research on the role of children in the spread of COVID-19 has been inconclusive, although the issue has drawn great attention since summer and fall as districts across the country considered reopening schools in the midst of the pandemic.
I read the whole thing, and the only thing I can confidently say I learned is that these “researchers” haven’t a clue about who gets it, or how it is transferred. But masks will save us.
a doc told my mom yesterday that to do Thanksgiving we should all “quarantine” for two weeks prior, get tested and wear masks and do it outside.
Docs are going to be ultracautious when giving specific advice so they don’t get sued. That doc surely realizes that’s ridiculous.
Local news passed on the helpful tidbit that if you’re hosting Thanksgiving you should make sure to open all the windows in the house. In Cleveland, in November…
I didn’t realize Ohio cooking was that bad..
/throws down grating glove
Of course, I don’t know what’s going on for Thanksgiving this year. But there’s zero chance I’ll have the windows open if I do host this year.
Anyone that has lived in a house with kids knows they’re vile petri dishes that perpetually bring illness and pathogens into the household. Not what Id call ground-breaking research.
My coworker with four of them calls them his incubators.
I refer to them as “vectors.”
Obviously, the solution is to lock your children in their room and throw away the key.
Weld the doors
a new butcher opened near me and I bought an aged ribeye to test the wares… did not look closely at the price before buying ended up 12 American dollars for 250 g. Where do they think they are Zurich?
That reminds me, I’ve got ribeyes to cook tomorrow.
$24/lb is rather pricey. Then again, I knocked-up a butcher’s daughter, so I was more accustomed to ‘free’. Well, until she learned to hate me.
“Why marry the cow when you can eat the beef for free?”
Wait, that doesn’t sound quite right.
Porterhouses are on sale today for $11.99/lb at my usual place. ?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d-ix7kFiXaZZVEDcUVi9BW0ARdrNje0y/view?usp=drivesdk
I cooked it like I learned in letterkenny. Unlike most aged beef in Romania it did taste aged.
also Simona Halep has the covid. though who gives a shit…
29 years old, excellent physical condition, she’ll be OK.
Yeah, nobody talks about Djokovic’s coronavirus because it doesn’t fit the doom narrative.
Or Coric is another one I recall. Was looking hale and hearty the other day. A bunch of ’em got it at that tournament.
So young and in good health.
I’m going out on a limb and suggesting a recovery. Not that I wish her ill.
I’d thread her racket.
Voting Attempt, Second Try: I show up ten minutes before polls opened this morning and the line was already crazy long. Longer than yesterday at eleven.
I know the usual suspects are still beating the “poor people can’t vote” drum but with a month of early voting including four Saturdays, plus on-demand absentee ballots, there is no plausible reason why people can’t have voted in this election.
If State.politics == “conservative”:
print(“Voter Suppression!!!!”)
So were you successful or did you have to bail again?
I chose to bail again. Just not up to waiting that long with temp in forties. Going to try again this afternoon.
Tuesday is fallback. Hopefully lines at neighborhood precinct smaller than at huge multi-precinct center.
It sounds like voter turnout is going to be YUGE. For the life of me, I don’t know who that’s good for.
It is only good for the politicans and their self congratulatory circle jerk around the newly minted “mandate” they will crown themselves with.
also Simona Halep has the covid. though who gives a shit…
I would bring her a bowl of chicken soup.
I’d thread her racket.
“exponential growth”
All variables remain constant. Dynamic analysis is hard.
Donald Sutherland Said Ex-Girlfriend Jane Fonda Had “the Most Beautiful Breasts in the World”
Legend.
Barbarella
https://youtu.be/rPkBiEXuG7g
They were wonderful. Unfortunately, they were attached to a morally decrepit witch.
Wrong.
https://archive.li/6HvcM/fb51b58470a6445c5aea31bd1598adcabdb25305.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/5UjfEvA.jpg
Just a couple of examples.
NSFW.
To say nothing of Mrs. Q’s (who would likely exsanguinate me if I posted a pic, so don’t ask).
A friend who got pregnant was very happy at a point where her boobs grew but her belly not yet that much
They were big to start with and have advanced nicely.
like predictions about the future, those usually don’t age well though
She’s said as much. I remind her that my balls will eventually stretch to my knees so we’re even.
to be fair the aging thing is strange to me
Yeah, but 99.99999% of women don’t like staring at balls, even when they’re young & perky.
Ill take my ball(s) and go play somewhere else then.
COVID-19 smartphone app can tell if you’re an asymptomatic carrier — by the way you cough
I’m no scientist, but if you’re coughing then you’re not asymptomatic.
My school is pushing everyone to download the covid app and test themselves every day even if you’re not going to be campus (that’s particularly stupid since almost all classes have been moved off campus). I haven’t downloaded the app so I have no idea what it does but my guess is it’s one of those “three questions” apps. Which is even more pointless.
On the plus side, we’ve apparently had magic stairwells installed. Everywhere else on campus you’re supposed to stay at least six feet away from people. But, on the stairwell, you just keep to the right which puts you about 3 feet away from people.
I do an understated version of that costume every day, to the point that (one of) my wife’s nicknames for me is Pervert Boy.
I’m no scientist, but if you’re coughing then you’re not asymptomatic.
Not all coughs are the plague.
You need to get your mind right.
*whumps Brooks over the head with blackjack*
Since Q seems to be sleeping in, here’s your (mostly) skinny arse white girl slutty Halloween links:
https://thechive.com/2020/10/30/3466263/
or
https://archive.is/aTmj5
@slumbrew, thanks for the Christopher Moore rec. I love Christopher Moore.
“Lamb” and “Fool” are top notch.
Have not read Fool, but agree wholeheartedly on Lamb.
John Cleese on Why Open Offices Are Among History’s Greatest Mistakes
Holed up on an island, the Monty Python star is drafting new material, sparring with tech and reminding adults—who are so often trapped in cubicles—how to play
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/john-cleese-on-why-open-offices-are-among-historys-greatest-mistakes-11603899772
Merry eyes in that photo. He was on the ID10T (Chris Hardwick) podcast the other day.
Oh, I’m gonna have to listen to that. I like that podcast, but don’t listen to it regularly.
which other day?
Oct. 10. JC himself has a very old (late aughts) podcast including a video of a screenwriting seminar.
Specifically, re the plot of Wanda.
Hasn’t John Cleese always been on an island?
The Bee gives up on parody and does actual reporting on what goes on inside Democrats’ heads (translated from Newspeak for those not proficient in that language):
https://babylonbee.com/news/op-ed-we-must-stop-the-corrupt-old-rich-white-man-by-electing-a-different-corrupt-old-rich-white-man
Otherwise the wrong lizard will win.
Silicone Saturday smothers you with the sybaritic softness of Halloween hooters.
https://archive.li/tPvNi
Not sure what’s going to happen with the election but I do have a contract to board up a large box store with 24 hours notice.
I mean, I’m no epidemiologist, but aren’t these plots showing infections going up but deaths staying flat/going down really good? Isn’t that how herd immunity develops?
Also, I don’t think Fauci passes the Turing Test; he’s gotten stuck in an infinite loop just repeating “wear a mask”. Needs a patch to fix the bug.
There’s a lag in deaths from upticks in cases but the death rate seems to have become largely uncoupled from the case rate. Maybe we just do a better job of treating it now, maybe the virus has mutated to be less deadly, maybe it’s burned through the easily killable but, yeah, a low death rate is good news.
HOWCOME YOU HATE BAD NEWS?
(Cute avatar. Sally and Linus didn’t even get a rock.)
The numbers clearly don’t add up. I have a large network of friends and acquaintances spanning from the Mississippi to Adak. I even have a few friends around the globe. Not a one of them personally knows a a Covid fatality. Not one. I have a few friends that were friend of friends of WTC deaths, that was 2300(?) people. I have older friends. Nadda. I have a HUGE family. Nadda.
The 230,000 number is absolutely bullshit. Not a little bit bullshit. Absolute bullshit.
Forget died from it (or even had it). I don’t know anyone personally who’s tested positive for it.
I know 3, maybe 4 people personally who had it.
Not one single death.
Yeah, that’s about what we’ve seen too between CO and here.
I’m up to 3 people that I’ve met that have tested positive. Two of those people were randos I met out at a bar.
I’ve heard of several deaths through work, but no one I knew.
I’ve had a couple of cousins get sick from it. Moderately ill for three or four days and now better. I do worry about my parents and some older aunts and uncles but it’s hard to take it too seriously for people who don’t have serious preexisting issues.
I don’t dare tell people I think it’s a culling disease and is doing what it’s supposed to.
A bit of a harsh way of putting it but you’re more or less correct.
Just a bit of an issue with “supposed.” It’s just doing what it does, I dislike the phrase but it is what it is.
Mother Nature’s way of letting us know we are not on the top of the food chain.
Yes, it’s harsh, but I tend to be blunt to the point of cruelty to make my point. People don’t take their logic to the end of the line, including me.
“Supposed to” is my way of saying that Gaia will keep herself in balance by hook or by crook.
My aunt (who was undergoing treatment from stomach cancer) had it. There’s been a few cases in our neighborhood as we were one the earliest outbreak areas. I’m personally aware of one death, a guy in his eighties who was dragging around an oxygen tank.
Me neither, but it probably depends on the part of the country you live. While I have to play six degrees of Kevin Bacon somebody in NY or NJ might have a first degree contact.
I know a guy who knew a guy who died from it. Turns out he had several strokes a few months prior to succumbing to the Vid. I also know a guy who knows a guy who was hit by a truck while riding his motorcycle and had tested positive so he was counted as a Vid death. Ya, the numbers are complete bullshit.
Personally? 6-7 people had it, all recovered including an 80+ year old client of ours.
The one death I know is my dad but his death certificate says stage 4 throat cancer, acute kidney failure and then lists COVID related pneumonia as the last cause. So I don’t count that one.
Three people in the extended family (spousal unit’s side, including her 82-year-old mother).
All recovered, though the MIL now has “COVID toes” (she had circulatory problems in her extremities before getting the ‘Vid, and it appears to have aggravated blood-flow issues to her toes).
Not discounting your MIL, but I think a lot of people claiming side-effects had those effects and ignored them or lived with them and it is easier to come to terms that it must have been the Vid that did it.
Meh. It was the judgment of the specialist she’s seeing that she now had “COVID toes.” She doesn’t think much about that stuff.
Alex Berenson on Twitter periodically posts death certs from public records
The typical one is something like
“86 year old man with Alzheimers, renal failure, and COVID.”
Alan Merrill who wrote “I Love Rock and Roll” used to be my neighbour. The story I read online said that he died from it. But who knows what the details were?
I have one who has tested positive. I don’t even remember if he had minimal symptoms or none at all, he told me afterwards so it wasn’t that important.
Face it Q if covid shrunk breasts you’d be a lockdown fanatic
HillaryBiden can’t lose!https://archive.li/dalxr/a8677c3b5b7772445dab006aec4e622f299e6d00.webp
*snort
“SpaceX will make its own laws on Mars” & not recognize international laws.
Proof that the kind of excess wealth that leads to power & influence leads also to unrestrainable, blinding hubris & arrogance, & thence to evil.
This must be stopped now.
https://twitter.com/carolynporco/status/1321823514375061505
the martian colony is barely 20 years old we need not worry of this now
I’m okay with that.
Space exploration is going to be an all-out shitshow of countries trying to enforce their made-up off-world territory claims. I expect that they will stoop to extraordinary lows in order to do so.
Took XX to a women-in-STEM event at her school. It was generally very enlightening, but one girl we met was in law school specializing in space law, as in what belongs to whom.
*snort*
Anybody who thinks space law is going to be anything other than a pure expression of naked power is deluding themselves.
No, that naked power will be dolled up in all sorts of UN backed space treaties to provide full employment for people like that law student. Even though the results will be much the same. Whoever can get up there, does what they want.
The caveat is that whoever gets up there will be tethered to the earth for a very long time, so they can only do whatever their earthly patron will allow. But given that the big players on earth don’t really care about international treaties (Russia, China, and the US all can and do ignore international law at will, despite the lip service they all give), there is some venue shopping available to find the right patron for your space program.
Lots of opportunities for grifters and scriveners.
Yeah it’s not like colonies of previous eras. You won’t be able to land on Mars with an ax, a rifle, a milk cow, and a stock of seeds and make your own way.
Good luck making your own law when the government at home enters your launch facility and prevents the resupply rocket of critical spare parts and medicines from launching in the window it absolutely must launch in.
women-in-STEM event – why is that a thing? you wanna go do something you do ti
Eh, to encourage young girls to think about occupations they may not have before.
There were a lot of occupations I’d have never thought about. A geologist worked for the Department of Transportation assessing the viability of the soil on which you’d build a bridge. Another lady worked as a road and intersection designer.
I also specifically asked about sexual harassment and neither of them (they were about my age) had never experienced any. The bridge builder said the only impediment she’d ever experienced was when she was new and the crews questioned her youth and experience.
All in all, it was a better experience for me than for XX (she wasn’t interested in STEM), but then I like finding out about what people do and their skillsets.
What XX is doing is going to trade school for IT that she is enjoying. We have no idea what she’ll end up using it for, but at least she’ll have it.
What XX is doing is going to trade school for IT that she is enjoying. We have no idea what she’ll end up using it for, – you are just setting up an onlyfans joke, you realize that?
I also specifically asked about sexual harassment and neither of them (they were about my age) had never experienced any.
As a man in a STEM field (engineering/construction), I’ve never witnessed any male coworkers talk about female coworkers in a sexual manner, let alone sexually harass anyone. However, when there are no women in the room the conversations can from time to time get a bit bawdy – everything from stupid “that’s what she said” jokes to using sexual metaphors to describe construction processes.
I have experienced nascent sexual harassment once in my life and I dispatched that tout suite. There are WAYS.
“Another lady worked as a road and intersection designer.”
I can’t be the only one who saw this and thought “ROADZZZZ!1!!!!1!!” 😉
Future Nerfherder will be answering to arguments the SpaceX Accords is NOT a suicide pact.
“International law” ?
Yeah, sign me up.
They can throw rocks at us.
Proof that the kind of excess wealth that leads to power & influence leads also to unrestrainable, blinding hubris & arrogance, & thence to evil.
Yes, it is unrestrained, blinding hubris, arrogance, and evil to assume that a small group of people can create an international law that binds all humans.
Oh, is that not what you were referring to, Carolyn?
The people who take risks to explore the frontier get to make the laws that apply to themselves. The people who sit back and comment instead of going don’t.
Joe Rogan had a podcast with some dude named Tristan Harris all about how social media manipulates people and I keep hearing of this shit about how it learns about you and whatnot and I still don’t see it in my day to day life. Most of the adds I get are nonsense. Most of the youtube recommendations I get are direct linked to the things I watched recently and nothing like trying to steer me to this or that. I am not on twitter and i rarely sue facebook but most of it is very basic. I think people like to have this stupid utopic views of humanity and find things that purportedly ruin it. now social media is en vogue. But the issue is mainly people are mostly morons. They are not ruined by facebook they suck in the first place.
I partially agree, though I do think on the whole social media is a sum-negative for the World and for individuals’ mental health. I think we’ll come to a point in which people have an epiphany of how bad it is for you (like smoking) and many people will quit. Some people will continue to use it regularly and others casually (like when I buy a pack of Menthols a couple of times a year), but my prediction is that usage will go down steeply in the next 10-20 years.
I used FB sparingly until I found a few strictly no-politics groups for my hobby. Here, it is useful for me.
I was a heavy Twitter useryears ago when it was an unfettered, giant cocktail party. With each iteration of Twitter I’ve used it less and less.
I was on social media to shill books, but I don’t even feel like doing that much anymore. My best advertising result (other than my initial push when I first published my first book) has been FB ads after putting my books in the Kindle Unlimited program.
It feeds into the technocrats’ delusions that they can socially engineer society. The Krugmans of the world who read Foundationand see it as a mandate, get off on the idea of delving into your subconscious desires. They, of course, are above it all and are completely rational and objective.
So they’ve got Asimov compliant robots who follow the zeroth law?
Or did they miss the point that the Foundation failed and deviated from the predictions early on in the series?
I assume that most of them think of themselves as the robots who are secretly guiding humanity to a better future.
Not Krugman, of course. If he was out of the limelight he’d get into a feedback loop.
Really? I’ve been getting an insane amount of Sasquatch related products and merchandise in my ads. I can’t imagine why…
Social media is nice for socializing with your friends and relatives. Public space social media is a cesspool of stoopid.
Just an off thought – but I wonder if a lot of your on-line traffic (posting/e-mail/etc) might be in a language other-than-English which might throw off the algorithms? I think some of the seemingly non-linear adds I get in English (I get plenty in Japanese probably due to geo) are due to my traffic in Japanese.
but I wonder if a lot of your on-line traffic (posting/e-mail/etc) might be in a language other-than-English – it isn’t
The quality of the ads, and their ability to target them at a person effectively, is a function of engagement. I don’t know about you, but I have low engagement with the common forms of social networking. I’ve never even gone to Instagram or Snapchat; I read Malice and Burge on Twitter but have no account there; I have a Facebook account from when I was in college but have logged in maybe twice in the ten years since; I use GMail but mostly for bills and work. In fact, the closest thing to a social network that I have regular participation in would be here. Amazon is probably the only company that could reasonably target ads at me, but I’d have to see ads first.
I use an ad blocker because I’ve found that 90% of sites with ads have 10 times too many ads. One or two unobtrusive ads per page would be fine; instead any page that exhorts you to disable your ad blocker will be covered in a dozen ads, some of which pop up at random times, play videos, make noise, interfere with page navigation, get you stuck in a redirect loop so you can’t return to the original page, etc.
So I don’t tweet, I rarely see ads never mind click on them, and I don’t splay my personal life (apart from political opinions) all over the Internet. I’m not immune to ads but my online behavior frustrates the whole system.
Now, if all of this managed to code me as “disengaged cynical libertarian misanthrope tight-ass contrarian” maybe they could target ads at me. But I still wouldn’t spend much money.
the dumbest thing about adds is I search for something, buy it, and then get adds for that thing for 3 months. I already bought I don’t want more. I mean if it is a bottle of wine is one thing, if it is a dishwasher I am set for 10 years
I should have been a doctor.
“…like the glans under Hope Hicks’s thumb…”
Don’t care (if I didn’t find the ballots), had
sexa handy!one girl we met was in law school specializing in space law, as in what belongs to whom.
1) Finders Keepers
2) Might Makes Right
3) Come and Get Me, Coppers
4) I will attack your ship ans steal your ice. Like a pirate.
A great underrated movie reference…
Space herpes!
I still get a chuckle thinking about the castration machine conveyor belt scene. Good stuff.
Remember the Cant?
“Exponential! And the usual abuse of terminology and statistics.”
I’m thinking that if exponential growth is not exponentially worse than ‘raging all around us’, then we are going to be pretty safe from the vid. How safe we are from politician’s unconstitutional decrees is another thing.
You fool! Had you just made a show out of saying “fuck off Mayor Kate” and reopened normally you wouldn’t be able to make cupcake fast enough …because I’d be buying them.
They’re yummy.
I’ll just say it again:
You’d have to be nuts to get tested for no reason.
Holy moly NPR is full on we are all going to die from Covid and it is Trumps fault this morning. I might see a trend paralleling the Biden campaign if I was smart enough to see trends. Good thing I am not that smart.
It’s because NPR are lefties, and lefties are a death cult. You can just watch in amazement while these brainless retards seem to cheer on any bad news they can find. More covid, yes! More forest fires, yes! More hurricanes, yes! More death, yes!
Then you figure out that i their demented reality, all of those death bringing things are going to avenge them by getting you, but totally leaving them alone. It’s a religion and it’s a death cult.
“Something is going to happen. Something wonderful.”
What day in January are we supposed to show up?
I just got a flyer in the mail opposing the GOP candidate for Congress and it’s from some outfit named… End Citizens United. I looked up my ballot yesterday and the Dem is outspending the Pub by around 3 to 1. ?♂️
And I don’t even believe that figure unless the Pub is spending her money somewhere other than mailings and TV ads.
What is a “Pub”, if not a place where warm, flat beer is dispensed via a pump or tap (BUT NOT AFTER 10PM!)?
‘Publican.
As long as they pledge to never take a dime from CORPORATE PACS!
Union PACs are okay through.
The political flyers I got were kind of funny. The DNC flyers attacking the Republican running for the House district were talking about how she is in the bag for Trump – weeks of these flyers, without any response from the Republican. Then the Republican finally sends out a flyer, and what does it say? It trumpets Trump’s endorsement of her. Both sides were literally saying the same thing. ROFL. Someone was wasting their money.
One of the ways the GOP is The Stupid Party is that they tried to run against the Democrats and against Trump in 2018. Which just meant that the Trump Fans said “fuck you then, I’m staying home or leaving it blank.”
They keep believing their Very Good Friends in the media who insist that Trump is toxic down ballot, when in fact it’s just the opposite. There are zero people who are inspired and eager to vote Biden who will also vote for a Republican. Zero. But there’s a ton of enthusiastic Trump voters who don’t actually like Generic Republican Politician, and if you try to distance yourself from Trump, they will not vote for you.
The biggest way the GOP continues to fail is their belief that there is this huge chunk of voters that genuinely would vote Republican if only A, B, or C. These people are 100% liars. I have heard it from mother my entire fucking life that “I would vote for REPUBLICAN WHO’S NOT RUNNING”. Well, after decades of that line, it was finally put to the test. When she voted for John Kerry, she told me “If McCain had won the primary in 2000 and was President now, I’d vote for him.” But then, of course, she voted for Obama. Just like shes voted for the Democrat in every single fucking election except 1976. But The Lincoln Project and the Dispatch and the Bulwark and National Review are convinced that people like her are being truthful when they say “If the only the GOP wasn’t so ________ I would vote for them.”
These people are liars. One of the biggest things progs like to pretend about is that they are just common sense, non ideological, moderates who judge based just on the facts. I know about a dozen people who have never voted for a Republican ever in any election since 2004 who think they are moderate independents who pick the candidate not the party. They will tell anyone who listens that they are not ideological.
And even then she had the sense not to vote for Carter.
My mom DID vote for Carter. Then Reagan. I guess she knew a winner.
I missed (by age) being able to vote in the 1976 election by about two weeks. And I was already in my first infantry platoon in the Marines. Probably the one election which would have the biggest direct impact on my life.
She only voted for Ford because she hates Christians, particularly Southern evangelicals.
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/10/eastern-oregon-logging-company-challenges-constitutionality-of-state-fund-to-aid-black-oregonians.html
Amazing that there’s any question that such a fund is blatantly illegal under federal law.
https://twitter.com/oregonian/status/1322264295602868225?s=21
The comments on the hype tweet are even worse. These idiots want to live in a racialist society filled with an ever changing list of rights and wrongs that justify the most immoral actions.
That ship sailed decades ago. Good luck to them, I guess.
The only thing I find funny about this whole line of Boolshit is that when they do get slapped down, it is usually under the color of laws that the left fought super hard for originally.
Laws pushed for before the racists took the party back.
They’re acting no different than the most segregationist states at the height of Jim Crow. They’re just using different justification for the same level of racism. “Natural law” = “history” is equally bullshit for immoralism.
Just look at what they are trying to do in California. There’s a ballot proposition to remove the anti-discrimination language from their constitution that prevents racial discrimination in school admissions. Because it stops affirmative action, it has to go. And they’ve had the gall to say that only racists oppose taking the anti-racist language out.
Scurrilous!
The American Medical Association (AMA) on Friday issued a scathing statement condemning President Trump’s claim that doctors are purposefully inflating coronavirus case numbers, calling the suggestion “malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided.”
Trump, while speaking at a rally in Waterford Township, Mich., on Friday, argued without evidence that doctors are improperly counting coronavirus deaths for monetary gain.
What kind of man would accuse our noble healers of bring crass humans, susceptible to economic incentives?
The “without evidence” canard is so damn tiring. There’s financial incentive for doing and it’s obviously being done. The only question is to what extent?
When you are as uncurious as the journoclass everything can be “without evidence”.
I work in healthcare compliance…
,,,OIG sends out updates on how doctors scam the billing system
…the billing system AMA helped create
…every
…fucking
…week.
Without evidence, my ass.
Is there a professional organization in this country that hasn’t been skinsuited? The pod people could scarcely do better at taking over our institutions.
The AMA has been antithetical to good health care for decades now.
They’re parasites leeching at the throat of America.
Oh, sure. I expect them to be grifters and parasites. Adam Smith observed centuries ago that “people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
The question is not so much why are they leeches, for that is inevitable, but why are they full of leftists. Conquest’s (or is it O’Sullivan’s?) law (or one of them anyway) tells us this will happen but it doesn’t tell us why.
I am not aware of anyone I know personally who has tested positive. I have heard a few second or third hand stories about other people’s friends or acquaintances who have died. All of those victims basically already had one foot in the grave.
Stopped by my in-law’s last night and they had the local news from SLC on. Report switched to a sob story about three people who “tragically lost their lives” to the ‘vid. One was 91, one was 71, and one was 37 (you could argue that one was “tragic,” though it looked like he had something underlying). This monomaniacal fixation (thanks for calling it that, Tom Woods) is infuriating. TMITE for sure.
What is it that makes dieing with covid-19 so noble? Why aren’t governor’s standing at podiums with sad faces for all the other people that die in their state everyday? It’s all so obviously political while they claim they won’t make it political. (I’m looking right at you Gretchen)
Doing chores today. God help me I’ve already lost my temper once. A little.
I need to maintain control lest I become a shorter Canadian version of Basil Fawlty…
My take on this RIttenhouse case is that the state knows he will beat the rap in the long term nut in the short term he’s not beating the ride. So, for them, this is a useful deterrent to anybody who wants to swim against the Woke current. I hope the truth matters to enough people in that state to vote these bastards out of office ASAP – I guess time will tell.
The process is the punishment.
Yeah, they are going to fuck him whether or not like a prison shower. I hope he get’s to go live with the Snow Queen and eat Turkish and other delights.
My new boots that Judi bought for me lace up right at the point where the spiral fractures happened. #Winning
but are they made for walking?
We shall see. It’s my own fault for being such a baby.
What a Nancy.
To be Frank, I have to agree.
I’ll live https://youtu.be/jRHQPG1xd9o
Re the “exponential” growth in “cases”:
1) exponential does not mean what they think it means
2) the deaths data show the virus is now endemic, not pandemic
3) TMITE is making a last minute unreported in-kind contribution to the Biden campaign with this innumerate scare mongering
I am going to pull a Hyperbole here, but I like to remind people that Trump got BILLIONS in in-kind contributions from media in 2016 even when for him, running for president was still a lark. The rest of the Republican field had no chance.
I still contend that the origin of Trump’s run for president started maybe 7 or 8 years ago at a party where he was hanging with the Clintons in which he proposed to come out as a Republican, disrupt all competition to Hillary, and basically hand her the white house.
In following up on that he saw that he might actually have a shot at it and his ego took over.
I’d buy that except he’s declared two or three times since the late 80s. It’s always been marginally on his bucket list. I think he was floating another balloon this time and then he saw he was gaining support, so he rolled with it.
Ego has almost everything to do with it.
They made fun of him at a Presidential Roast and then he decided to ask America to pull his finger.
That’s hilarious.
High praise. Thanks, Mojo!
Agreed. But that’s the same thing: the media picked their favorite candidate and did what they could to get him elected.
That was the reason McCain sucked up to the media his whole career. He thought if he banked a couple decades of goodwill and being the Media’s Favorite Republican that he would get a fair shot in a POTUS campaign.
Then they viciously turned on him as soon as they had a progressive to back. No enemies to the Left.
5.5 years at the Hanoi Hilton should have schooled him to scoot to the right when his instincts tell him to scoot to the left.
They turned on his running mate pretty savagely. I’d agree that she was pretty much a non-entity, basically like half of the girls that I went to high school with but it was unfair and demeaning.
Though I didn’t realize it at the time, the hate for Palin was the biggest tell that this is all about classism and replaying high school in reverse. The woman wasn’t half as objectionable as they made her out to be, and she was quite appealing (in more ways than one) to many voters, but they hated her with such a passion. I lost all the respect I had for Andrew Sullivan over his Palin derangement.
Sarah Palin would have been an excellent President, and no I am not speaking ironically.
It’s been memory holed because the Smart Set was as usual 100% wrong about the issue, but she instantly grasped, something Biden and McCain the Foreign Policy Gurus did not, that an America which led the world in production of oil and gas would hold the whip hand in the Middle East, that there was never a scenario where an America dependent on Middle Eastern oil could pressure the various barbaric governments of the region.
“Drill baby drill” has and will do more for world peace than everything all the academics, diplomats, and politicians all over the world have done or ever could do. It’s removed literally billions of dollars of terrorist and extremist funding. Instead of American gasoline purchases funding madrassas in Karachi, it’s funding bass boats in North Dakota.
Oh, and as for electoral politics: the only time McCain polled ahead was after Palin was named and hit the trail. She energized his base, and then his Very Good Friends in the media told him she was a hillbilly who would make him a laughing stock and No Serious People Will Vote For You, so he turned on her.
Most of those billions were framed as opposition. He still came out on top.
No, I’m just talking about Fox, especially Hannity, and Limbaugh.
Opposition was significant, yes, but the pro-Trump media was better than half of his free publicity.
I would say even some of the anti-Trump media was good for him, especially early on. It seemed clear to me that at least some of the media on the left were promoting Trump hoping he would get the nomination making it even easier for Hillary. To that end, they emphasized some of his policies that on “right-minded person” would agree with. It turned out that some of those policies resonated with enough people to give him the edge in the EC.
Plus, the later media attacks gave him the chance to attack the media (and the Dems) and a lot of Republicans had been crying for a candidate who would to to rhetorical war.
“… the left were promoting Trump hoping he would get the nomination making it even easier for Hillary…”
I believe this is one facet of the past four years of media beat-down on him. The media willfully played him up to make it easier for herself without understanding what was really going on.
The media is full of socialists willingto do anything to promote their ideology. Fortunately the media is made up of idiots who are completely incapable of understanding any issue or forming and carrying out a coherent plan. Unfortunately the second is also true of those on the side of liberty.
Well shit. Left work yesterday looking forward to vacation. We had a lovely Friday before vacation.
But then we segue into Saturday with the heir having a seizure this morning (with no apparent reason. He has a 3+ year history of random seizures, and he has been on Keppra since he was 16, but nothing in the last 15 months).
So when the heir recovers, he rests, then he pukes, then he rests a little more.
then, I had to mop some puke, and then I twisted my ankle.
Le sigh. Hoping for better news!
Damn…….sorry to hear that. ^ Prayers
My thoughts are sent your way, Elspeth and I’ll curtail my swearing fits for the unimportant things. Some shit matters and other stuff doesn’t stack.
I am going to pull a Hyperbole here, but I like to remind people that Trump got BILLIONS in in-kind contributions from media in 2016 even when for him, running for president was still a lark. The rest of the Republican field had no chance.
The coverage Trump got wasn’t exactly fawning adulation, though. Most of it was more along the lines of “Durr hurr, that lunatic thinks he can just waltz in off the street and run for President, when everybody knows only insiders who have devoted their entire lives to public service are really qualified or eligible. He’s a crass buffoon, not a statesman.”
Hence those lovely tears… Once in a lifetime opportunity.
As much as I think he is a disgusting self-aggrandizing socialist, Michael Moore nailed it with the “Biggest F*ck You” to the system. The video made with that track is epic internet.
Nail on the head.
These people are liars. One of the biggest things progs like to pretend about is that they are just common sense, non ideological, moderates who judge based just on the facts. I know about a dozen people who have never voted for a Republican ever in any election since 2004 who think they are moderate independents who pick the candidate not the party. They will tell anyone who listens that they are not ideological.
Exactly. I know several of those people. They’re openminded independents who would dive head first into the nearest woodchipper before they’d vote for a Republican. They’re just sensible moderates who cannot fathom how anybody thinks Republicans aren’t Nazi profiteers who want to kill your grandma.
Conversation with my wife after she did early voting a week ago:
Me: “So, did you vote straight ticket Democrat?”
Her: “No, I voted for a Republican.”
“What dastardly thing did their opponent do that made you vote for a Republican?”
“He was unopposed.”
“Why didn’t you go blank ballot for that race? Did you think he was OK?”
“No, he sucked. I was afraid not voting might invalidate the whole ballot.”
*blank stare*