Succos is the Jewish Feast of Booths, involving arcane rituals such as The Four Species. So I celebrate booths and multiple species. And one way is with images in poor taste, coupled to snarky and disrespectful news stories. Yes, that does seem appropriate.
But first, let’s review some people with birthdays falling on this very date, and that would include the best beard in the White House; an artist who is likely problematic these days; the one and only Great Stone Face; a guy who was a true frontiersman; and a guy who truly was way ahead of his time.
I am not ahead of my time, so here’s some news:
“He needs to refuse treatments and die. In the name of clean government, of course.”
“Wait, I think we’ve got him this time!”
I’m seeing the strong possibility of this season being canceled. Good. Fuck the NFL.
From day one the focus should have been on boosting immunity through exercise, fresh air, sunlight, proper dietary supplementation, and the promotion of general well-being. Instead our politicians, bureaucrats, and media insisted on business lockdowns, school closures, distancing, isolation, masks, and the mirage of a fast, effective vaccine. As with almost everything in life, state intervention made the situation worse.
Small victories are still victories.
This Old Guy Music was suggested by Riven, who is neither Old nor a Guy. Besides the obvious fact that this is vital jazz, the cool thing here is that the piano player is… Dizzy Gillespie!
That’s very good news out of LA.
It’s at the intersection of being news, and being good, which makes it an endangered minority in today’s world. Although, I have no special affection for the NRA in 2020, which finds itself at the intersection of being a mess, and being increasingly irrelevant to simply just the ownership and operation of firearms?
I’ll take any pushback against restrictions on free speech and/or free assembly.
What is shocking is that our “free press” does not consider it news when government moves to use the legal apparatus to not only attack political messages they oppose, but to attack anyone who even does business with a group that has a message they oppose.
This came directly from the Obama administration. He provided the example with “Operation Choke Point”. The fact that only a few nutty libertarians had anything to say about that one is a stain on …. well, everyone else.
Because nobody offered any criticism of any note for that, now it has become the accepted solution for any speech you disagree with. Go after the websites that allow the message. Go after the hosting companies. Go after the ISP. Go after the bank. Go after the payment processor. Go after the landlords.
There are tons of Dystopian scifi shorts being produced of late that feature a digital “cancellation” as their fear. I guess the writers for all of the news and opinion press figure they don’t want to be on the bad side of that cancellation.
yeah, we’ve turned a dark corner. All news is to be mistrusted unless verified. The teams just jettison any fact that goes against their narrative. Just cover your ears and shout NAH.NAH.ANAH until people stop mentioning that thing that makes your assertion completely false and continue making said false assertion, It’s fucking scary. People won’t even begrudgingly admit when facts are against them, anymore.
NPR is above and beyond eye rolling this morning. SUPER SPREADER event…………..
I thought there were rules about sex talk on public radio.
That also spreads infectious diseases.
So. Trump’s ‘VID. CIA job? Or FBI? ::tips tinfoil hat at a jaunty angle::
It’s whatever you need it to be to fit your narrative? #posttruthworld
*adjusts leather jacket*
RUSSIA!!!1!1!!
We’ll find out if he goes from orange to blue.
I’m no tinfoil hat wearer… *adjusts tinfoil hat* but…
It wouldn’t take much for someone in the WH to go visit a relative who is known to have the VID and then spread it around the WH. In other words, strategically I think it was a genius move. Whether it was actual strategy is the question.
It is a bit like the Epstein suicide.
When everyone was joking about the possibility 2 weeks before it actually happened, you had to suspect that there was a high possibility that there was a there there.
This one is also pretty obvious, with White House “insiders” repeatedly coming forward pretending to be “whistleblowers” (who blew whistles that were not actually whistles… or whatever the metaphor there leads to) you kind of had to suspect that a DNC/Antifa/BLM sympathizer would try to get close to the inner circle with the ‘Vid at some point.
I’ll take the heterodox view. Virus gonna virus.
Mornin’ Old Man, thanks for the links and especially the Old Man music.
Succos must not be such a big deal, my (((coworkers))) are not only in the office today but the Slack channels are especially chatty.
I find Old Man music today to be a bit too jazzy for my taste but I am an uncultured rube.
Well, that is the best kind of rube so it’s all good. Anyhow, jazz came from the “culture” of brothels and speakeasies, so not as highbrow as it seems to be now.
the right brothels were very highbrow back in the day
You can’t be that old… Oh, I see.
I bet I would like it if I was listening to it in a brothel.
I assume we’re not talking DJ Jazzy Jeff kind of jazz.
So whenI was a kid, I liked what few snatches of jazz I happened to hear. I tuned my little panda transistor radio to the jazz station as well as I could, but it was on the low FM end. If my dad caught me, though, he’d blow a gasket. He REALLY hated jazz.
“Nobody really likes jazz. It’s a pretentious affectation!”
So I started my jazz education very late.
It’s somewhat important but requires some actual effort to participate. You are supposed to build a small, temporary shelter among other things. Hence the low participation rate. It’s unfortunate because it’s kind of fun.
Media and Pol’s need to be bitch slapped with this every single day.
Yup. Visited the littlest patzer yesterday and spent a good amount of the time discussing this. Rule at his school is all masks, all the time unless you are in your room. Including off-campus. Rebellious little shit took off the mask while we were walking around the park and exclaimed “It feels SO good to breathe fresh air!”. Probably on a list now.
We have a rule that requires masks at all times on campus. We only really enforce it indoors though.
Our (my university’s) stats for September…
Student cases: 110, of which 37 are living in campus housing.
employee cases: 3
This is for 15K students and probably about 2100 employees (including part time).
Before the semester started, the big fear was that students would spread it among faculty, especially the older ones. So far, that isn’t happening.
Real consequences would be that the LA officials are barred from public office.
or just taken out back and shot
We have much to learn from Romanians about how to treat political “leaders.”
Pie is soft. His ancestors would have put a sharpened stake up their asses and left them as a warning for others.
I’m trying to eat breakfast.
President Donald Trump previously reported he earned capital gains from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Gilead Sciences Inc., the manufacturers of two of the medicines he’s taken as part of his COVID-19 treatment plan. – right… those medicines still do;t do shit though. but I heard he did get vit d and zinc so those may help…
At least he’s “eating his own dog food” as the saying goes in the software industry.
No reason why a monoclonal antibody to the virus wouldn’t be good at blocking the systemic effects of the virus in the body. By clearing virus particles quickly, it would reduce the level of infection in the circulatory system, thereby reducing the inflammatory response. It certainly makes sense.
Whether that has clinical relevance is a matter for the trials.
‘but I heard he did get vit d and zinc’ — PieInTheSky
‘ICAM is an acronym for the types of medications used: Immunosupport such as Vitamin C and Zinc; Corticosteroids to control inflammation; Anticoagulants to prevent blood clots; and Macrolides to help fight infection.’
‘We had no need for mechanical ventilation and the patients all survived the discharge regardless of age and regardless of past medical history,’ Norwood-Williams said.
Since April, they have seen a 96.4 percent survival rate for COVID-19 patients’
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/covid-19-treatment-underway-in-florida-has-near-perfect-success-rate
Donation not taxation.
Driving last night I hit seek on the radio and it stopped on a CBS News update. It had an update on Trump, including a four-second sound-bite from his doctor. Immediately followed by the ‘reporter’ saying “But a source familiar with Trump’s health…”
If you’re going to beclown yourself with anonymous sources, you might as well go all in.
Oh noes – now I get the Bills. ?
Cleveland officials link 11 COVID-19 cases to pre-debate planning and set-up
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cleveland-officials-11-coronvirus-cases-debate
Coincidentally, only Republicans got sick.
Fox always hangs my browser so FN;DR but… am I crazy for calling bullshit on these “plague linked to this time and place” stories? Did they trace the particles from one person’s mouth to another person’s nose? I mean, every other story is about how you can catch it walking down the street without a mask. So explain to me how they can “link” it to any particular event.
My theory is that the Republicans are trying to open an immunity gap on the Democrats. puts on aluminium chapeau and wanders away
I’ve been wondering that myself.
Briefly turned on the Cardinals/Padres game Thursday evening after having watched no sports for months. The cardboard cutouts in the stands were ridiculous, but this made me laugh.
It’s an old story, but my favorite was the Korean team that used sex dolls in the stands.
I was disappointed that they weren’t the models with the mouths that are built to, uh, receive things.
Constantly surprised by the game?
Horned Frogs? The opposing team was made up too? Shirly there is not a team with the name Horned Frogs.
TCU right?
If only Utah had joined the right conference, we could be playing too.
I live a few miles away. The fans are die hard. There’e s a lot of purple around.
Sadly, there aren’t any horned frogs, the actual lizards that is, left in the region. Their main food supply, small red ants, have been mostly overrun by fire ants. Apparently it happened sometime in the late 80’s.
fuck fire ants. They’re the worst.
One of the four species, obviously.
Ribbit and weep.
Only because they started out as a Baptist school and “Horny Toads” was deemed too lurid. And probably too accurately descriptive of the student body.
I get a chuckle every time I drive through campus (there’s a main road right down the middle of it) because the unofficial uniform of the young women at TCU is wearing short shorts that you can’t see they’re wearing under a ‘long’ T shirt that barely passes their crotch.
They’re all good little Christians.
It stopped being Christian long ago. Just like SMU is only nominally Methodist and Baylor is, well, really rapey.
Good morning Glibs. I awoke to find the world still spinning this morning. Not sure how I feel about that.
why would a disk spin for no reason?
I feel this is a deeper question than you may have intended it to be.
I’ve had hangovers like that myself.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Pismo_B/status/1312638007216803841
Enthusiasm.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312713748398866432
In the list of potential bets for tonight nba game I have Drew Bress and Matthew Stafford have a passing rating over 100 and I am confused. It is between jimmy butler over 25 points and lebron james over 35. Makes no sense
A parlay on prop bets?
i have no idea what that means. I assume it is just an error
Some interesting Times Square stats:
90 of 162 restaurants closed
48 of 151 retailers closed
26 of 46 hotels closed
Wow.
Times Square accounts for 15% of the city’s economy (equivalent to an economic output of $58b)
Not seeing how the city can recover from this, they were already in dire straits. Speaking of recovery, how’s that stone?
It’s not talking to me, so that’s a plus.
Sorry to hear that. I hope it resolves itself soon.
I was having a few drinks with some people on Friday, one of whom has been on a number of missions to the middle east. He was telling us about a time they were walking through a somewhat crowded marketplace in their off time. One of his group fell to the ground in pain, exclaiming that he had been stabbed in the back. They searched through the crowd for the culprit as one of them ripped his shirt open to look for the wound. Finding no blood nor and wound they realized he hadn’t been stabbed – when they got him to a hospital the doctors told them it was a kidney stone.
Maybe you can relate.
i can relate.
I got my first at 16 while in the shower at a Duke University dorm.
I was alone, getting ready for class and soaping my hair….
And then I was on the ground.
After gathering my wits, I crawled to the urinal and peed with some degree of urgency. Then I threw up.
I mostly kind of sort of rinsed off and then hobbled my way across campus to find the infirmary.
Doctor in the ER was a kid not much older than me… he had drawn up a bunch of lines on my stomach for an emergency appendectomy. Then the urinalysis results came back with blood. (how he missed orange pee as a signal is beyond me).
I never did find that one. I suspected that I peed it out that morning.
But in grad school they had to go in with a cystoscope and chop a monster out of my ureter.
Ever since then I avoid things with Oxylates as much as possible – primarily iced tea and cola – and I drink at least 3 liters of water a day.
Every time work gets too stressful and I work more than 100 hours a week for too many weeks in a row, I forget to drink enough and I end up with a stone.
It sucks.
But at least I have a well-known personality tic with that huge 64 oz tumbler I walk around with all day.
The first 4 paragraphs read like a Steve Smith story …
Jesus man. That’s horrible.
I haven’t had one in over a decade. But I got too smart for my own good and started taking daily ionic zinc 6 months ago for viral protection, about 7.5 mg.
Turns out zinc can assist the formation of stones. So I’m passing the first of two. The second one being larger than the first, dammit.
My mom’s got a litany of painful problems brought on by the treatment for one that triggers the next. It all started out with a botched back surgery though.
It’s a very painful round robin.
When you hear “stone” you think “little round pebble looking thing”.
When you see a calcium oxylate stone, you understand why they hurt so damned much. They are little spiked balls of death. They look like someone took a bunch of tiny shards of broken glass and glued them into a ball with all the pointy bits aimed out.
That’s not good.
Most closed will never reopen.
OK, I know nothing about jazz; don’t even particularly care for it. But I have actually seen & enjoyed Dizzy live – older brother dragged me to it when I was little – so today I clicked. Nice stuff.
Nobody knows anything about jazz. It is not even music. It is random noises.
UNCULTURED RUBE!!!11!!
Rock and roll will never die
Whatever you say, man, coltrane would like a word with you about fifths, not the drinking kind
I’m currently playing a Charles Mingus album that might change your mind.
Blues & Roots?
Great one, but currently spinning “Ah Um”
Without exaggeration, we saw Diz live at least 50 times over the years. Many opportunities to chat with him as well- he was as funny and witty as you can imagine.
I saw him once in 1982.
They had problems with the sound system and he kept wandering off stage. He left for a good 30 minutes at one point, leaving his trio to vamp. He was visibly annoyed by the whole thing, and his show was terrible because of it.
I never considered paying to see him again.
Totally a “You only get one chance to make a first impression” moment.
As a trumpet player myself, I was extremely excited to see him… and equally disappointed when it fell apart like that.
Pie’s second batch of bitter cherry infused gin is bottled. Added 0 honey this time, nothing but fruit and booze. it is better this way but the cherries were not that bitter, sadly in Romania it is hard to get consistently bitter bitter cherries, some advertised as such are not bitter at all
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tsmh6WSfI08aIFlj2vd81Q4ljhmDi7r1/view?usp=drivesdk
Not to complain but you left out myself and Chuck Heston in the birthdays. Unfortunately we share it with Ilan Omar, Susan Sarandon and Alicia Silverstone…
Happy birthday ??
So you’re calling OMWC a damn dirty ape?
I’m not dirty!
Well groomed.
An uplifting birthday tune
Lol. Good one!
Happy Birthday!
any good presents this year?
Yep. Still breathing.
Happy Birfday, missed you at HH, you get a reprieve ’til next year.
I need to plan better. Not my strong suit…
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, brother!
Kinda chilly up there?
Thanks all. I’m enjoying some spiked coffee and a beautiful, frosty (30F) Rocktober morning. Trying to forget all the shit going on in this crazy ass world. Then off to finish replacing the rusted brake and fuel lines in my commuter, yay salt!
replacing the rusted brake and fuel lines – that should be done by a professional.
Brake lines are about as simple a part of a car as possible. Anybody with the right tools and skills can work on them competently. And they should always be simple – it’s the complicated stuff that fails at the worst possible time.
Nickel copper lines are da bomb!
I would never trust myself to work on my car.
My dad was a tv repairman. He has an awesome set of tools.
People on ‘ludes should never drive!
Happy day!!!
Happy Birthday Stillhunter. Also, young Susan Sarandon = would.
https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2020/10/williams-grove-outlaw-race-draws-plenty-of-trump-fans-but-few-face-masks.html
Good.
“Tommy Lee, 58, admits he was drinking TWO GALLONS of vodka a day as he details his excessive alcohol abuse before his most recent stint in rehab”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8802809/Tommy-Lee-58-admits-drinking-TWO-GALLONS-vodka-day-stint-rehab.html
Impressive. Also, probably bullshit.
Ummm… 4 handles is not that crazy for true functional alcoholics who literally have a positive BAC at all times. The type of people who get DTs and even die from the physical withdrawal symptoms.
Yeah
I’ve known one of those. Not pretty.
Because rock stars are humble people known for their veracity?
My few glasses of wine or few beers per day seems way less bad.
“‘The man never stops!’: White House shares pictures of President Donald Trump working into the night from Walter Reed medical center”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8802919/White-House-shares-pictures-President-Donald-Trump-working-hospital.html
“White House chief of staff admits that Donald Trump’s condition on Friday morning was of serious concern as sources say he had a temperature of 103 and was suffering heart palpitations”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8802841/White-House-chief-staff-admits-Trumps-condition-Friday-morning-concern.html
Something about the duality of man.
Melanie gave him fever.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EYxoAJ3Boyc
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to all the rest of you lovable miscreants!
Great article from Deist. I will toss that little truth grenade into my family and watch the fun!
Speaking of Deist, here’s a really interview he did with Dave Smith.
Reading H. Rap Brown’s bio, you are spot on. Almost word for word what the fuckheads are doing now. Riots, cities burning and domestic terror are not remotely new. Instantaneously broadcasting every minute of every day around the world, however, is.
I am ready for peace and prosperity, instead. Kinda doubt I’m gonna get it, though.
Interesting Old Guy Music today. Reading the comments, this recording had a bunch of unique situations. Also one guy mentioned a ‘union card’. Is there still a musicians’ union?
I hope you all have a fantastic Sunday. 32 degrees here this morning! Definitely a little frost on the pumpkins, IYKWIM…
And the media running with the “mostly peaceful” bullshit when it’s so obviously a deliberate operation just like it was then… ugh I can’t even. All that instant broadcasting and they still won’t get at the truth for another couple decades if ever.
“Definitely a little frost on the pumpkins.” Maybe your wife can help with that.
I miss Dave’s Car ID Service.
He stopped doing it? Not being on the twitter I only ever browsed when someone linked to a David Burge twit, but I enjoyed that.
his account on twitter is no more
That is a sad.
They said it was “hacked,” but I think it was an inside job at Twitter.
Not impossible. Enrique Tarrio got banned right after the President mentioned the Proud Boys.
I’ll just leave this here.
pick that up and throw it in the trash
All the twitter links are giving me a “network protocal violation” error today. Would someone from an IT background like to condescend me and tell me why I’m an idiot and how it’s all my fault and ask me how I could possibly be so stupid as to have let this happen, then post a meme about it in some IT tech private facebook group to feast on the likes and sardonic replies to how stupid people who aren’t IT wizards are? ?
You may have guessed that I have dealt with IT depts before.
*protocol
why I’m an idiot and how it’s all my fault and ask me how I could possibly be so stupid as to have let this happen
You clicked on Twitter!
*points and laughs*
??
Way to spoil the ending! May as well do the rest of the story in emojis, too…
?
Looked to me like no one else could see it anyway. I am merely letting them know they are missing out on yuck.
Cunte.
McCabe was set to testify as part of Republicans’ investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe until it was revealed that two GOP senators on the panel, Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of N.C., tested positive for the virus Friday, McCabe’s lawyer, Michael R. Bromwich, wrote to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., according to The Hill.
“It may well be that other members of the Committee and staff who plan to attend the hearing will test positive between now and then, or may have been exposed to the virus and may be a carrier,” Bromwich wrote. “Under these circumstances, an in-person hearing carries grave safety risks to Mr. McCabe, me, and senators and staff who would attend.”
Bromwich said McCabe is “willing, able, and eager to testify in person” about the FBI’s Russia investigation “when it is safe to do so,” adding the former deputy director is “not willing to put his family’s health at risk to do so.”
Cunte.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo denied this week that his state Health Department’s controversial March 25 order saying nursing homes could not bar admission or readmission to a resident based on a positive COVID-19 test had anything to do with the over 6,500 deaths in those facilities related to the virus.
“That’s not why they lost a loved one in a nursing home. Your question — the premise of your question is just actually wrong. People were lost in nursing homes, were lost because that’s where the virus preys.
“The virus preys on senior citizens,” insisted Cuomo, reprimanding a Finger Lakes News Radio reporter during a phone conference call with other members of the media on Wednesday.
It crawls up the sewer or flies in the night just to get into these nursing homes. The idea that you need somebody as a carrier is incorrect, or at the very least not something I want to contemplate nor discuss.
I can’t believe he hasn’t been pressed on this one…
And on that laugh-out-loud ludicrous 6,500 number they are reporting for nursing home deaths.
Every other location in the western world has 45 to 75 percent of deaths in nursing homes. But New York, who had the worst outcome of anywhere in the west, somehow had 20% of their deaths in nursing homes.
Where is the responsible press on this one? It is just as unbelievable as a UFO abduction, and nobody even asks the question.
“The Not F—ing Around Coalition, a black separatist militia, held an event in Lafayette, La. yesterday. Its grandmaster calls for a separatist black nation state. Video by @FordFischer”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1312739757428895745
How do we know they’re serious?
calls for a separatist black nation state.
I hear Liberia is nice.
I said “See ya, Cactus” to a guy in 711 this morning. How’s that for esoteric AvGeekery on a Sunday morning?
Did they respond with “you too Speedbird”?
He said “Bye, TWA” (was wearing my TWA Hotel hoodie. He had on a US Airways ground crew jacket)
Excellent!
“DC: protesters violently clash with police outside @BrandonStraka
’s event
The speakers include minorities from all backgrounds
Why do these anti-right wing agitators hate free thinking minorities so much?
The true white supremacists are on the left”
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1312481832449896449
“An incredibly minor skirmish took place b4 yesterday’s event- immediately neutralized by DC police. Media on both sides trying to focus on this & I won’t have it. We put on an EPIC, spectacular, beautiful, & peaceful weekend-we’re so proud! Thousands had the best weekend ever!”
https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1312710260201795584
That’s a good turn out in DC.
“State Rep Candidate – Matt Trowbridge (D) of Massachusetts, gets caught trying to meet a minor.”
https://twitter.com/ShakaThaGod/status/1312719567471423489
Apropos of nothing: Trowbridge is a very old New England name. It came up on someone’s family tree on Who Do You Think You Are?
I went to college with a Trowbridge – from a rich CT town if I remember correctly.
Not only a creep, an incredibly stupid one.
He’ll probably still win.
Megan Fox Searches for a White Supremacist Outside Walter Reed Medical Center
It’s not THAT Megan Fox…
https://www.aier.org/article/lockdown-the-new-totalitarianism/
Excellent.
Good stuff. I wasn’t aware how much of a moonbat Fauci is.
My impression of the situation is that a large portion of the public health experts are benevolent authoritarians, repressed until they saw in COVID their opportunity to change the world.
I keep thinking about how they kept food rationing going in Britain until 1954. Even if you think emergency measures might sometimes be necessary you have to acknowledge that there are a lot of bureaucrats who really really really like controlling other people.
Huh, I was unaware:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_3818000/3818563.stm
What an unnecessary crock.
Great article. Thanks.
Married With Children simultaneously does and does not hold up well.
Still very watchable, imo. So not woke.
Even sitcoms from about a decade ago weren’t woke. The people writing and acting in them might have leaned left, but they weren’t woke.
The rot really set in about six years ago.
Ha. You’re right.
fatphobic
Thats spot on. Much more than Modern Family or any other show probably.
TOS, but worth reading:
https://reason.com/2020/10/02/the-conservative-trans-woman-who-went-undercover-with-antifa-in-portland/
A no-shit reactionary movement is eventually going to take shape and then there’s going to be real blood in the streets. Those idiots are playing with fire.
Agreed.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/04/pope-francis-calls-for-giving-united-nations-organization-real-teeth/
Is the Woke Pope wanting a new inquisition?
Fuck. Off. Slaver.
Well it does seem the UN Peacekeepers and Catholic priests have common interests in the youth.
If so, well, I guess nobody in Spain would be expecting it.
(Jeez, do I have to pick off all the low hanging fruit?)
“I haven’t been terrible enough… let’s see what else I’ve got.”
Biden Scores 14-Point Lead Over Trump in Poll After Debate
Democrat draws support of 53% of registered voters, as GOP incumbent’s backing falls to 39%, new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey finds
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-scores-14-point-lead-over-trump-in-poll-after-debate-11601816400
Of course buried at the bottom of the article…
The practice of putting the relevant information at the bottom of the article is one of the press’ eviliest doings. They know anything below the fold is rarely reached and headlines and editorialized information at the beginning sell stories and gets clicks.
That goes for right wing sites/papers too. They all do it. Its purposeful and devious.
“14-Point Lead”
They don’t even have enough respect for the public to make their bullshit believable it seems.
If people actaully critically though about it they would realize that a 9-point oversample and a 3.46% margin of error amongst the 800 people asked in the poll amounts to nothing except what anyone wants it to say.
I followed the polls fairly closely in 2016 and IBD was about the most accurate one. They had Hillary barely winning it. Right now they are showing Biden with a 3 point lead. I still think T Dog wins this time again.
The gap between the polls and the rally sizes for the past 4 years has been impressive. Good job NBC for extending the lie and making it ever more obvious.
a possible blessing in disguise
Maybe Trump won’t get that sick and that will finally get people to realize this virus isn’t that dangerous.
resolute rowers
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From 22 December 2013 to 31 May 2014 Fyodor Konyukhov crossed Pacific Ocean starting in the Chilean port of Concón and finishing in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia without entering ports and without any external help or assistance. He covered the distance of more than 17408 km (9400 nautical miles) on the Turgoyak rowboat in just 162 days.[33] On 26 December 2015, British-born Canadian, John Beeden, 53, became the first person to successfully row non-stop, unassisted from North America to Australia covering 7400 nautical miles in 209 days. Beeden had previously completed a non-stop, solo Atlantic crossing in 2011.[34]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_rowing#Pacific_Ocean_rowing
Ocean Rowing – the sport of kings
Hemingway said the only real sports are race car driving, mountain climbing, and bullfighting.
I’ve been reading about human-powered boating records as research for a short story.
It takes place on an Earth-like planet, but with no axial tilt, so no ice caps and consequently, no wind or ocean currents. Everybody lives on a dry, rocky island about the size of Ireland. But the seas are full of fish, even if there is little wood for fishing boats. Our protagonist is convinced that somewhere across the sea, there is another land, and he will find it even if he has to row around the world. The only proof is half a gold coin with strange writing that most dismiss as a hoax or a miracle, for it is the only gold ever found on the whole island.
Speaking of gold, gold foil bills are legal tender in Utah. I bought some the other day.
https://goldback.com/
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The Goldback is the world’s first voluntary, complementary currency to be made of a spendable, beautiful, small denomination, physical gold.
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Cool, I love the goldback!
I’m sure you must’ve read Kon Tiki. The latest movie version of it is quite good as well. Thor Heyerdahl is one of my personal heroes. His book on living with his wife for a year alone on an uninhabited island in the Marquesas is also quite good.
Neat, I should read that one. Thanks.
Fun fact: Kon Tiki is another name for this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viracocha
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Viracocha is the great creator deity in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology in the Andes region of South America. Full name and some spelling alternatives are Wiracocha,[1] Apu Qun Tiqsi Wiraqutra, and Con-Tici[citation needed] (also spelled Kon-Tiki, the source of the name of Thor Heyerdahl’s raft). Viracocha was one of the most important deities in the Inca pantheon and seen as the creator of all things, or the substance from which all things are created, and intimately associated with the sea.[2]
Viracocha created the universe, sun, moon, and stars, time (by commanding the sun to move over the sky)[3] and civilization itself. Viracocha was worshipped as god of the sun and of storms. He was represented as wearing the sun for a crown, with thunderbolts in his hands, and tears descending from his eyes as rain. In accord with the Inca cosmogony, Viracocha may be assimilated to Saturn, the “old god”, the maker of time or “deus faber” (god maker), corresponding to the visible planet with the longest revolution around the sun.[4]
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another rowing legend
Erden Eruç
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Eruç logged 66,299 km (41,196 mi) while rowing across three oceans—the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic—and cycling across three continents—Australia, Africa and North America. He became the first person to solo circumnavigate the globe entirely on his own power. He crossed the equator two times, passed over twelve pairs of antipodal points and spent five years and eleven days of his life completing the endeavor—the world record time for a human-powered circumnavigation.[5] The total elapsed time of over five years included several long periods of downtime spent away from the route, for a total of about 26 months, with Eruç always continuing again from the exact location where he had last stopped.[note 1] Excluding the downtime periods, he had traveled a total of 1026 days, or about two years and ten months.
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So, in your story will the protagonist strive for multiple odysseys, trying every point on the compass until eventually finding land – or will his first voyage merely take him a day or two over the horizon to some vast, verdant land with friendly natives and plentiful, nubile lasses awaiting fresh genes to strengthen their offspring?
I’ll take the second option, thanks.
Here’s what I have in mind so far:
-sailing is basically impossible for the island’s inhabitants
-no one has traveled more than about 100 miles in any direction from the shore
-no one has ever come from another land
-there is not enough wood to build a large ship and no one would be interested in joining the crew
-they have about an 18th century level of science and technology; they know their world is round and about how big it is
-so while the existence of another land is a possibility; there is absolutely no evidence except the mysterious half of a gold coin.
-and of course there is the question of how people got on the island in the first place; was there more land in the past?
When picking a direction, our hero decides to head to the antipode, because that is the furthest point and its distance would explain why no one from there has ever reached them.
I thought it would be fun to write a metaphor for space exploration and first contact, but with primitive technology.
So I guess he would have to figure out how to;
– cure and treat/waterproof the hides from either whales or whatever large beasts they have on the island,
– build a frame from whale bones which is light and strong enough to stretch the hide over,
– chart his way by the stars at night (following the location of the sun by day) until he reaches a point where his knowledge of the stars is no longer useful and has to move by day following the sun. Maybe there will be a moon to help him?
With no wind he would have to row the entire voyage – sails would be all but useless. At least there are no currents to push him off course.
Having a companion to do half the rowing would make it slightly less impossible. And I’ll let him have a compass to make navigation a little easier.
I like the whale skin and bones idea.
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Like the kayak, the traditional umiak was made from a driftwood or whalebone frame pegged and lashed together, sometimes with antlers or ivory, over which walrus or bearded seal skins are stretched.[8] Oil, usually from seals, would be used to coat and waterproof the seams.[2][9] A large umiak, 9.1 m (30 ft), would require that about seven skins be sewn together, stretched over the frame and allowed to dry.[10] Modern versions are essentially identical, with the exception of the use of metal bolts and screws.
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Aleksander Doba and his powerful paddling
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Doba was the first person to paddle a 7 meter sea kayak across the Atlantic ocean, a voyage that spanned 5394 kilometers.[3][4] Doba’s first voyage from Senegal to Brazil in 2010 set a record for the longest open-water crossing ever undertaken by a kayaker, at roughly 99 days. He was 65 years old when he undertook this journey. (The previous longest kayak crossing belonged to Peter Bray, which took over 76 days in 2001, who traveled from Newfoundland to Ireland.) While Transatlantic kayak crossings have been achieved before, Doba was the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean relying on muscle-power alone, without the help of a sail.
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In October 5, 2013, at age 67, he departed from Lisbon (Portugal) for a second transatlantic voyage, with the intention of paddling 5,400 miles across the Atlantic’s widest point. He arrived at New Smyrna Beach, Florida on April 19, 2014. The voyage took him 196 days to complete, and he paddled 6,300 miles.
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“at age 67”!!!!!
Cunte.
DeWine said, “I said this at a press conference I did the other day, this should be kind of an alert to everybody that anybody can get the virus, even president of the United States can get the virus. So we ought to use this and simply just, you know, learn from it and so people who maybe have not worn masks in the past, you know, I’m hoping that they will look at this and say the president can get it, I can get it, and it can happen to anybody. I hope that is what happens, and that is what comes out of this. We pray for the president, and we pray for the first lady and everybody else who has the virus.”
He added, “What I hope is that what we have seen with the president is a cautionary tale for people and people will understand, look, it can happen to the president, it can happen to you, and it can happen to your family. You wear a mask to help other people. And so if anything good can come out of this tragedy of the president and the White House, you know, we hope just people will look at that and say we need to wear a mask and this is what we need to do to slow this thing down.”
You practice your secular sharia. I will not participate.
I am really hoping to see Trump power right through this and be mostly back to his normal self in a week or so. Not so much for his sake, but for the twin pleasures of seeing team blue upset that the virus didn’t kill him as well as it being an example that this is not the death sentence all these authoritarians are trying to scare everybody into believing.
Counterpoint:
Mr Dewine, you express the masks and it was a cautionary tale, how does that square with Senator Thom Tillis who was wearing a mask and yet still contratced the virus?
In this case they throw up the defense that “everybody knows you wear the mask to protect others in case you’ve caught it but don’t know it yet”.
In every other case the default “See! He caught the COVID because he doesn’t wear the mask” is standard.
“ And so if anything good can come out of this tragedy of the president and the White House”
How many people have died from this particular outbreak so far? Zero is a pretty low fucking bar for a tragedy.
“Dude running against Graham put up a glass wall that’s still completely open on all sides to somehow protect himself from coronavirus”
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1312555580234571776
That’s just silly.
For 10,346 time this year I am submitting my request to get off this ride.
And the theater business is done…
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/10/regal-cinemas-to-close-all-us-locations-including-11-nj-movie-theaters-reports-say.html
As it should be…the movie theater experiance has been waning for decades, with the exception of the ones that provide dining and booze.
I’m not a fan of movie theaters, but there is something to having a big screen and an audience.
Yikes!
I’m still betting that Trump getting the Vid is going to put him over the top in the election. Especially if he is the one calling for the debate to go on as scheduled on Oct 15 or shortly after. As others have mentioned it will also be a nice counterpoint to the doom and gloom of the Dems when you have the Showman in Chief parading around afterward loudly proclaiming how he defeated the virus and we shouldn’t be very afraid of it.
“If you are elderly and have a compromised immune system or other serious health problems you gotta be careful of this thing,this China plague. I mean, I’d hate to see if Joe Biden got this thing, can you imagine? It could wreck him completely. But if you’re younger or healthy this shouldn’t be such a big problem. We need to fight this thing head on and not hide from it in a basement….”
Well if the MSM can hide the fact that Biden is calling a lid everyday at 9am but Trump from his plague bed is working still…its a toss up.
Chris Rock missed it by that much
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/10/03/chris-rock-on-snl-trump-is-in-the-hospital-with-covid-my-heart-goes-out-to-covid/
Does the Donald have the Vid or does the Vid have the Donald? That is the question.
I see a new meme being born akin to Chuck Norris…except Trump is hated so…I need to rethink it.
Chuck Norris got infected with coronavirus. It was its last mistake.
Trump suddenly recovers and telling coronavirus “you’re fired”.
sigh. I hate it when I catch a typo after I hit submit.
Chuck Norris got infected with coronavirus. It was its last mistake.
Trump suddenly recovers after telling coronavirus “you’re fired”.
https://babylonbee.com/news/coronavirus-panics-after-testing-positive-for-trump
Heck, admit it – he’s almost the political version of Chuck Norris. With all of the DNC and the media – as well as most of the GOP – allied against him he still took the top office in the world on his first adventure into politics. He never even bothered with “alderman” or “senator” anywhere. Straight to the top without a stop to earn credits.
Which is probably why he is hated by the likes of Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, etc.
It’s like a guy who’s never seen a hill moon-walking up Mt Everest.
Ain’t no “probably” about it.
I’ve tried to break into different industry fields without having put in the time at the grunt level – most people just won’t have it. Often that comes from the management as well.
The world’s most talented memesmiths are on 4chan, who like Trump in general.
They have Matt Hasselbeck on a football pre-game show yapping with others about the day’s action.
One of my favorite football clips was years ago when some Seahawks players pranked each other by tying a rubber snake inside a cooler so when it was opened, the snake “jumped”.
The hidden camera showed player after player opening the cooler and then shrieking like little girls.
Then it was Hasselbeck’s turn. He opened the cooler, started briefly and instantly grabbed the fake snake around the neck, smooth as you please.
Impressive, but not a football skill…
Its a bit into the routine, but did it sound like this?
Also recently found Drybar comedy and if you have been looking for clean humor that is funny I would recommend.
Matt Hasselbeck
Koch or some really rich libertarian-leaning person really needs to buy out the Associated Press or another not-Fox mainstream media.
Here’s the AP in my local paper today about the debate with Biden: “Trump pointedly did not condemn the far-right fascist group (Proud Boys) and also refused to condemn white supremacists…” If Trump survives the election, and I’m increasingly convinced he won’t, the media will have triumphed (at least until they start getting put against the wall.)
People of all colors refuse to acknowledge that the media is whole is just propaganda with lipstick slapped on it.