GRAAHHHH!
I have a project involving our Canadian branch. And they want things done yesterday. So today is their Thanksgiving, naturally. %@#&.
The only time I could line up my 6 monthly bloodwork to make sure Lefty (my remaining kidney) is still good is this afternoon at 3:30pm. You have to fast. $#&%.
And its rainy…
Screw Monday.
But we do have some links, so we have that going for us!
- While I am always glad someone can find a job that suits them… you can’t be too careful in job prep.
- Bad situation remains a bad situation. I guess ZARDOZ would approve.
- This is nice, EXCEPT they left Sloopy out of the prize. Unforgiveable.
I am going to go get my blood drawn, and ask if I can get a ‘VID antibody test while I am at it.
Now go do that comment voodoo that you do so well!
@$#%* *&^$!!!!
I can’t argue with that.
“The only time I could line up my 6 monthly bloodwork to make sure Lefty (my remaining kidney) is still good is this afternoon at 3:30pm. You have to fast. $#&%.”
What happened to your right kidney?
Donated it.
Friend has polycystic kidney disease. Got mine or was likely dead.
Wow. I don’t know if I could do that. Your friend was very lucky to have you for a friend.
Within one inch of height, about same weight, same blood type…it worked out.
I was retired from the Army and really didn’t need to play anymore rugby, so why not?
Or visit shady hotels in Thailand with daily ice deliveries.
You got played. Could have sold it for at least 20 Grand.
But i think what you did gives you a free ticket to heaven so…
I am SHOCKED!!! That is ILLEGAL!
…
(where would that have been…)
Ariana.
You’re a good man, SS, and a true friend. Mrs F and I have consigned our bodies to science, hoping there may be some thing not already worn out and still useful, maybe in Med School and they can learn what makes a (G)lib.
You’re a good man, SS, and a true friend.
Seconded.
You are our Virginia Postrel.
I read that as Vagina Postal.
The Ice Queen.
Holy crap! I haven’t logged in in MANY MOONS but is damn good to see you reprobates are still here. I missed you guys. SO…whats going on?
“Kim later admitted that he didn’t call 911 for around five hours, the outlet reported.”
CWAAsshoe
Congratulations on your first count potato it was well earned.
“Kim had his medical license temporarily suspended, but earlier this year it was reinstated and he’s now allowed to practice under probationary status for the next three years, the outlets reported.”
I think that is nearly as worse as LEOs getting their badges back. Who the hell would go to him.
This is why medical malpractice insurance exists.
Generally speaking, these guys should be uninsurable.
The sad thing is she was only 18. Not just because she was too young to die, but at that age I’m sure she looked fine without the surgery.
She was pretty and seeing photos of when my wife was in a coma vs. this girls, I feel for that family.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/12/best-western-ceo-fears-for-the-industrys-future-its-really-bad.html
That is bad…but, well… bye.
Why should I pay (subsidize) to not stay in a hotel?
Agreed on all counts. Still spooky.
Fuck them.
Face Covering Requirement
In accordance with guidance from the CDC and Health Canada and/or in compliance with government regulations, effective July 28 face coverings are required in hotel indoor public areas in the United States and Canada. Thank you for understanding and extending this courtesy to your fellow guests and our associates during the pandemic.
The 38,000 is pulled from the entire sector not just best westerns. Best westerns are total garbage for a bunch of reasons. The story should be about the over 50% of the sector possibly facing bankruptcy in the next 6 months not anything else.
Some Best Westerns are really nice. Others, not so much. I think it’s a consequence of the franchising arrangement they have, where the central group doesn’t have as much authority to enforce consistency as with other chains.
I have stayed in a couple of very nice BW hotels. Never found one that sucked really bad.
I used to work at one in Manhattan – it was very nice. It’s a La Quinta now.
Every other hotel group has the same policies. Sure, they are not enthusiastically enforced everywhere, but still…
It’s their hotel.
Fuck them precisely because of that. They don’t have the “we were just following orders” excuse.
^^ this is where you and I are in strong agreement. Fuck the companies hiding behind the government. Either own the restrictions or fight against them.
They don’t need an excuse.
How well masks work is in the realm of opinion. If they think that it might help protect their employees or customers, that seems perfectly reasonable.
I’m of the opinion that people making others to wear face masks are authoritarian morons. I want them to go out of business and lose their livelihoods.
Hoping people starve to death because you don’t like how they conduct business seems a tad harsh, perhaps just don’t patronize them?
That’s not what “authoritarian” means. They aren’t making anyone wear face masks, any more than they making anyone stay at their hotel.
Authoritarian is government telling people what they can do with their property, not people freely deciding what they can do with their property.
I believe grrizzly’s argument is that the businesses are are not standing up to The Man and therefore deserve it because they are spineless sheeple, instead of just normal people trying to, you know, survive.
That.
Authoritarian doesn’t necessarily involve government.
Sure, their property. And I’m free to mock, insult, ridicule them and their apologists. Lose some weight, fatso, and you won’t be so scared of corona.
I cannot travel to my second home on the other coast without a mask because every single airline in the country requires passengers to wear them. There is NO government mandate. And what do I hear from libertarians? Their airline, their policies.
Drive.
Nobody’s stopping you.
I think of businesses enacting and enforcing face mask mandates as collaborationists who are siding with the evil that conquered most of the world in 2020. The evil in question is the public health totalitarianism.
You have a second home and you can’t afford to charter a private jet? Shitlord better.
So old people just have to lose some age?
It’s entirely plausible their marketing people decided that they would lose more business if they didn’t require masks. Even if masks don’t work, their customers might think they do.
I think that’s a little harsh, grrizzly. To my mind, collaborationists aren’t people who are just trying to keep their heads down and get by during an authoritarian takeover. They are people actively supporting the new regime in hopes of some kind of benefit or advancement from it. Its not as binary as “resistance fighter” or “collaborationist”.
I don’t blame any business that puts up the signs in order to open and keep the wolves from the door. I do blame anyone who rats out a business that isn’t enforcing the mandates or a person who isn’t wearing a mask. The Karens are the collaborationists.
That’s a very good distinction, RCD.
*rethinks comment in light of Hyperbole’s endorsement*
Following this logic we end up with a world where every business is constantly forced to choose which large chunk of the populace they will infuriate. And in the current situation I would not bet that the “Ask me to wear a mask and I will never patronize you again” is as large as the “If you don’t make everyone wear a mask I will never patronize you again” crowd.
I really do not like “if you are not with us you are against us” ultimata.
Every hotel I stayed in on my 2 week trip has the mask sign up and only one of them did I wear the mask other than for the two minutes of check in (that was in Utah, where they asked me to put it back on). I stayed in three Best Western properties, one of which was quite nice (BW Plus Nampa Idaho), one so so (Surestay Billings, Montana) and one I would not stay at again (BW Plus (Champaign, Illinois). Nampa most people complied. Billings was 50/50. Champaign was pretty much no one wearing masks except the staff.
Not really seeing pricing dropping anywhere near to panic levels from my bookings. Either costs are fixed to where there’s no margin left to make up in volume or marketing figures whoever is left is pretty much a captive market.
could just be the lobbying arm begging for a free handout but even if it’s a half truth it portends terrible things.
Swiss Monday Afternoon Links
Links with various gadgets that sound neat hypothetically but are rarely, if ever, useful or used?
+1 plastic toothpick
Oh yeah?! Just you wait until I find the link equivalent of the corkscrew!!!!
something something duck penis
That’s one optimistic army that their knives have a corkscrew.
Realistically, they would be invading either Italy or France, so, wine.
Throw in a bottle opener, and they’d be set for Germany, too.
If I recall it has a can opener thing that can open bottles.
The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh is not ignored in the US.
Armenian Americans march to the Turkish consulate in Beverly Hills
Thing is when no one heard from the protestors later that day, we asked the Turkish Consulate. All they said was “What Armenians?”
“Oh, you mean the mountain Turks.”
Expect more of this. Turkey is just going to get bolder and bolder until Er-do-waaaan gets punched in the nose.
Can we let the Russians have that dance?
Turkey and Russia going at it? Old things become new again.
The sons of the Prophet were brave men and bold
And quite unaccustomed to fear
But the bravest by far in the ranks of the Shah
Was Abdul Abulbul Amir
Now the heroes were plenty and well known to fame
In the troops that were led by the Tsar
And the bravest of these was a man by the name
Of Ivan Skavinsky Skavar
One day this bold Russian had shouldered his gun
And donned his most truculent sneer
Downtown he did go, where he trod on the toe
Of Abdul Abulbul Amir
Sure
Correct.
Democrats, he said, think “all justices are politicians, and so they want a politician that’ll vote for their cases.”
Paul spoke after the opening round of statements on the Senate Judiciary Committee on day one of Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings.
They had focused their statements in the confirmation hearing on policy questions like Obamacare, he said. “instead of whether of not a justice will adhere to the law.”
Republicans, he said, urged that judges “not be politicians” and follow the law instead.
I’m sure there’s Rs that would really also like a politician that’ll vote for their cases.
I tuned in a few minutes this morning, hoping to hear Barrett. But it was all Democrats making speeches about people losing their health care, complete with oversized photos of the poor souls destined to die in the streets if Obamacare is struck down.
She spoke last. I guess today is opening statement day. I am sure we will have substantive questioning and conversation in the days to come. ///stoplaughing
Mrs Barrett, is it true you own a red rain cape and a white bonnet?
To R C Dean and Mojeaux: I posted this in the prior thread but wanted you to see it. Maybe it would be a good fit for a story about being lost in the desert:
Years ago, I went on a day hike in the Sonoran Desert and climbed a small hill. About halfway up, I slipped and put my hand out to break my fall–right into a cholla.
The next half hour was a painful re-enactment of the comedic scene where the comic tries to wipe slime off a hand, only to get it on the other hand, and then progressively make everything worse and get the slime everywhere. At one point I had both hands stuck to the cholla burr. I finally managed to get my Leatherman off my belt without snagging my clothes, and cut the spines off the piece of cholla one by one. Then I had to pull them out of my hands individually.
Other than that, it was a great hike. Even though I didn’t see any need for it, I was glad I brought my compact 1911 with a mag of hollow points and a mag of snake shot.
Chollas – the Hate Plants That Hate.
I am reading every word and saving the threads. Thanks!
Also, thank you yet AGAIN, Trashy for the most excellent gift of the permalink (such thanks so immortalized in Cods and Cuntes).
Chollas. Sometimes they are called a “Jumping cactus,” My dog stuck his nose in one once.
But only once.
Dogs and porcupines seem to love each other
I mentioned the context in the noonday article, but I ran across yet another non-profit front group for the leftists today.
A lot of the regulars make an appearance on their partners list.
Study saying covid can be infectious on surfaces up to 28 days at room temperature:
https://scitechdaily.com/how-long-the-covid-19-virus-lasts-on-surfaces-new-research-on-sars-cov-2-survivability/
https://blog.csiro.au/covid19-virus-surfaces/
Link to the study:
https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-020-01418-7
I don’t know how accurate it is, but it’s concerning since I can’t wash things such as my mom’s mail, or food packaged in cardboard.
I wouldn’t worry too much about those, particularly if they’re exposed to UV sunlight and/or room temperature conditions. The bigger takeaway from the study is that the virus persists at lower temperatures (which would be expected) so places like meatpacking, fish, or other food processing. Hey, places that have had large scale workplace outbreaks.
Counterpoint to the fear mongering from the media:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30678-2/fulltext
Note that is with hospital cleaning protocols, which I could expect to be more stringent and usually actually carried out.
“room temperature conditions”
20°C is pretty much room temperature.
Read as F. I can’t do metric this early in the day.
“The study was also carried out in the dark, to remove the effect of UV light as research has demonstrated direct sunlight can rapidly inactivate the virus.”
I just realized this said “also” so … nevermind.
And news stories are already running away with it. Your bank-notes are going to kill you*! *As long as its 50% humidity, temperature controlled, and absolutely no ultraviolet lights.
Which mean, no real-world situation about these numbers. That little caveat at the bottom is saying 99% viable viral load lost at 7 days? Am I reading that right? So they are just detecting the genome at day 28?
“I want you to cycle that fucking sample until it admits it has the virus!”
Michael Mann dabbling in virology?
My understanding is that they infected cells with it.
Anyway, how much UV are bags of groceries or things sitting inside going to get?
Also, according to this study, the time increases with lower temperature and humidity.
Well, unless every fluorescent light bulb is brand new and has no defects, each grocery store is bathed in it; especially if they have skylights also.. However, that isn’t the case and they put out UV light. LEDs will put out a small amount of UV also.
I didn’t see the part about humidity changing; that info-graph says 50% humidity and different temps.
“Temperature and humidity are both critical factors in viral survivability with an increase in either being detrimental to virus survival [23, 26, 27]. Survivability on stainless steel coupons for transmissible gastroenteritis virus and murine hepatitis virus (both coronaviruses) was reduced with higher humidity’s and temperature [28] and survivability of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus also followed a similar pattern [29]. The higher humidity of ~ 65% RH used by Chin et al. [24] may explain the shorter persistence of virus when compared to the data presented here.”
The virus is coming from inside the refrigerator!
OK, I LOL’d.
Read a study from back in April in Germany where the lead researcher was unable to draw a culture from a surface, despite those surfaces have theoretically active virus on it.
How long the virus lives on surfaces doesn’t mean it’s particularly transmissible from said surfaces. There’s very little evidence of surface transmission of the virus.
I turned on the TV a few minutes ago and my wife had left it tuned to CNN (!)
Wolf Blitzer had some guy on saying that if Trump holds rallies, he would be leaving dead people in his wake, because he’s so infectious that (I guess the thinking goes) that he’ll give covid to every person there.
Even in just 20 seconds I heard enough stupidity to make me absolutely certain to do everything I can to avoid that channel forevermore.
How can people watch such tripe? Do they really think it’s actual news? It’s making me much happier that I don’t have to be in airports much these days.
If they really believed Trump was infecting his voters they’d be encouraging him to hold 10 rallies a day.
Of course, his doctor just certified him as non-infectious, so there’s that.
It is nice when the Nobel for Economics goes to people doing cool economic work rather than social engineering.
Gavin is asshole.
Here are the “mandatory requirements” for outdoor gatherings:
Attendees must be from no more than three separate households.
Host must gather names and contact info for all attendees in case contact tracing is needed.
Attendees can go inside to use the restroom, but restrooms must be frequently sanitized
An “outdoor space” is defined as being “covered by umbrellas, canopies, awnings, roofs, and other shade structures provided that at least three sides of the space (or 75%) are open to the outdoors.”
If you are at a gathering at a public park or other public space, and another gathering is nearby, people from one gathering cannot mix with people from the other gathering.
During the gathering, people from one household must always be six feet away from people from another household.
Guests should wash their hands frequently.
The gathering cannot last for longer than two hours.
No potlucks – all food served should be in single-serve containers and served by someone wearing a mask.
A mask must be worn by all guests, but it can be removed to eat or to “meet urgent medical needs,” like taking a puff from an asthma inhaler.
Singing, chanting, and shouting are strongly discouraged, and guests should wear a mask while singing, chanting, or shouting.
Instrumental music is allowed, but the playing of wind instruments is discouraged.
Father Newsome will tell you how to live. Father Newsome will keep us safe.
OFFS!
I can see him masturbating furiously on the California Constitution every time he makes these decrees. I know its a gross thing to say, but that guy is definitely getting off on this.
What is the science behind the no potlucks? You can get your food from the grubby teenage at McDonalds but not from your Aunt Janice who is a clean-freak?
He can make any decree he wants. In my little corner of California, very few people are playing along.
We’ve had multiple groups of friends over for barbecues since about May. Always being good, keeping the total to less than ten, and everyone stays outside, even socially distancing around the patio table, with individual cheese-and-crackers trays for each couple. But now I see we have been blatantly violating all of the rules. How did all of our friends avoid death?
Our Risk Management, Legal, and Compliance Departments all share office space. I never cease to be amused that they have agreed amongst themselves not to wear masks, even when meeting in person, etc. In defiance of both hospital policy and city demands. They only wear masks if there is an “outsider” in their space (which I am not).
You would think those three departments, in a hospital, would be the last to discard masks In These Uncertain Times. I am pleased to report that even my millenials, who were initially very concerned about the ‘Vid, are on board.
Do I hear a faint echo of, “Harder, Daddy!” from out California way?
If you are at a gathering at a public park or other public space, and another gathering is nearby, people from one gathering cannot mix with people from the other gathering.
Last I checked, the first amendment (including freedom to peaceably assemble) was incorporated to the states.
You missed subsection B, annotated L, amended clause M portion of the Constitution.
This chucklefuck…
Schumer said, “We would certainly be in the constitutional right to do it. Let me say this, you know, the Republicans are always looking for a smokescreen. They don’t want America to know that this justice would take away their health care. They don’t want America to know that this justice would repeal Roe v. Wade even though 71% of Americans are against it. They don’t want to know that this justice could turn the court into something that would get rid of all labor unions, make America a right-to-work state following the Janus decision. So, they come up with smokescreens.”
He continued, “And this idea, Democrats are going to pack the court. Well, what the heck were they doing? Listen to this, not only Merrick Garland, which they held back, Republicans introduced legislation a few years ago to limit the number of judges on the second-most important court in the land, the D.C. Court of Appeals. Because they didn’t want Obama to appoint people. And then the Fifth Circuit, the very circuit that decided to get rid of the ACA, they held back, McConnell did, all these judges when Obama was there, and then they appointed right-wingers, who, again, undid ACA, which is what the Supreme Court will rule on on November 10. So, this idea that Democrats are packing the court, they’ve already done it. As for ourselves, what I’ve said is, we’re going to win the election…and then everything will be on the table. That’s all. But we’re not going to fall into the trap of debating that now, after what they’ve done and when there are so many substantive issues at stake that the American people care about, health care above all.”
“Kamala tears into Amy Coney Barrett for planning to ‘undo RBG’s legacy’ and Republicans for holding confirmation in first place – as SCOTUS nominee says she’d bring ‘new perspective’ as a mom and promises to ‘apply law as written’
She stood up for the rights of women. She protected workers. She fought for the rights of consumers against big corporations. She supported LGBTQ rights. And she did so much more. But now, her legacy and the rights she fought so hard to protect are in jeopardy.’
She continued: ‘By replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with someone who will undo her legacy, President Trump is attempting to roll back Americans’ rights for decades to come. Every American must understand that with this nomination, equal justice under law is at stake.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8831221/SCOTUS-nominee-Amy-Coney-Barrett-arrives-Capitol-start-contentious-confirmation-hearing.html
CWAA
Cocaine, Whisky, Absinthe Armageddon?
Christ
What
An
Asshole
I like db’s answer better.
I’m OK with the first three, but the last one doesn’t sound like a good time.
Absinthe is all very romantic and I wish I drank and I wish I liked licorice just to partake in the bohemian romance of it, but ?
“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.”
A few other things, too, I’m sure.
Yeah, drink too much of it, and you’ll become an absinthe-minded professor.
Absinthe is weird. You know how they say that tequila is not really alcohol but another drug altogether? Absinthe is like that even more so.
She stood up for the rights of women. She protected workers. She fought for the rights of consumers against big corporations. She supported LGBTQ rights.
She was a politician?
Everything is so tired. I can’t believe so many people play along.
I was hoping ACB would refuse to answer any questions until after she was confirmed.
I saw something about “handmaid” characters protesting outside and it reinforced my suspicion that we just too stupid to keep this project going much longer.
“She continued: ‘By replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with someone who will undo her legacy, President Trump is attempting to roll back Americans’ rights for decades to come.”
So, all of my rights are dependent upon the legacy of some old gas bag? Or my rights ARE the legacy of some old gasbag? I’m not real clear on that one.
https://twitter.com/ProveItSo/status/1315730485138591745
Snort
LOLOL
“Republicans have been accused of setting up fake ‘official’ ballot drop-off boxes in California which state officials say are illegal”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8831911/Republicans-accused-setting-fake-official-ballot-drop-boxes-California.html
Sounds like they are just doing Ballot Harvesting. I thought that was legal in Cali.
That’s so stupid I actually believe the Republicans did it.
That’s kinda diabolical, if true.
Well, they’re encouraging Republicans to use them, so they are setting up Republican’s ballots to be rejected.
LIke you said, It’s so stupid, that i can believe they wholeheartedly did it.
From the sidebar of the stripper article:
Meghan Markle complains she was ‘the most trolled person in the world’ last year and barely survived
I assume she’s trying to say that Liz was going to have her whacked.
I imagine Harry’s regimental colleagues with whom he served in Afghanistan are filled with nothing but sympathy.
Well, she is a troll.
Waited half hour go OT.
Swiss Monday Afternoon Links.
News from Switzerland: Switzerland indoor mask mandates no statistically significant effect Wuhan flu cases in Switzerland.
https://www.ktipp.ch/artikel/artikeldetail/ansteckungsquote-meist-ruecklaeufig-mit-oder-ohne-maske/
Reading full article requires registration and ability to read German.
Donation not taxation.
I’m sure you all wanted to know how TOS staffers are going to vote in 2020.
I was shocked by one response.
“what Trump has done the last four years concerns me more.”
No one will ever specifically state what this is exactly, outside of mean tweets.
Arguably remove more federal rules than any president in recent memory.
How very unlibertarian.
This is the level of critical thinking i’ve come to expect from Reason.
Cocktail lefties.
By my count, 7 who will or would vote for Biden under some circumstances, 1 for Trump, a bunch for Jo or not voting.
I’m thinking anyone who says they’re not voting for Biden, followed by a “but” or “unless” – they’re the flip side to Shy Tories, and they’re gonna vote for Biden and then lie about it.
This guy has the same last name as the “whistle-blower” behind Trump’s impeachment. I wouldn’t be even slightly surprised if he was his brother or cousin.
“Also, Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.”
What?
There’s something like nine Stephen Millers on Twitter. The Fly Like an Eagle guy is still cool.
I was thinking of this one: https://twitter.com/redsteeze
https://reason.org/author/cj-ciaramella/
Lives up to the Oregon hipster look.
I haven’t shaved completely since April 2003. Fucking hipsters have me reaching for the razor.
I really wasn’t wondering who a bunch of cocktail swilling lefties are going to vote for. They sound exactly like every other group of celebrity wannabes on the planet.
Based.
Sorry, didn’t read all the way. This might be more based.
I liked those ones too.
Shika’s was predictably bad. “TRUMP IS NAZI!!!”
I like Brian’s lack of fucks better though. It’s far more american.
Most honest answer, the lot of them are a bunch of disingenuous hacks.
that was the best and most badass response.
More tepid trump support than I thought. I would bet money Gillespie ends up going trump at the ballot. The amount of BLM support mentioned concerns me greatly.
A libertarian organization that supports Marxists, lol.
I’d put more effort into making a mockery of them, but they’re doing a fine job of that all by themselves.
I’m so glad I left that place.
I’m also suprised by the “I don’t know what state i vote in”. WTF? Where is your residence? That’s where you vote.
Count up all the coctail parties you’ve attended and do a little histogram listing them by the state they were held in. The highest peak on that little bar chart is your state.
‘I’m sure you all wanted to know how TOS staffers are going to vote in 2020. I was shocked by one response.’ — grrizzly
‘I will select GOP/Trump as the lesser evil.’ — ‘ROBERT POOLE Director of Transportation Policy’
Glibs think Poole gets fired?
Donation not taxation.
Don’t let the title fool you. Poole isn’t going anywhere. Although he’s a POS when it comes to his more taxation for roads hobby horse.
‘his [Robert Poole’s] more taxation for roads hobby horse.’ — Gustave Lytton
Donation not taxation.
I get Poole’s newsletter and haven’t seen him advocating for taxes for roads. On the contrary, he’s for public-private partnerships (3P) and a big fan of toll roads, pay HOV lanes, and gas taxes by miles driven rather than on gallons of gas (therefore the electric cars pay for the road wear and tear as well, which only makes sense). I like what he says, I’d much rather pay for consumption than just blindly taxed, then I can decide myself if it’s worth the activity.
gas taxes by miles driven rather than on gallons of gas
Hard no. That opens the door to state trackers installed on your vehicle. Or a trip to an Official Inspection Station to have your mileage verified.
In addition to that, there’s no way they’re going to reduce gas taxes. They’re just going to collect the gas taxes AND charge you for mileage.
Too bad Bailey didn’t participate. It would be fun to needle and mock him just for fun.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the managing editor of Reason magazine, who is so locked in that she doesn’t know that AOC is an advisor to Biden and that he’s endorsed her plan for a Great Leap Forward for Glorious Energy Production.
It would be one thing if she were in charge of quality control at a smelter and was too busy with her day job to pay attention to such things…. but she manages a political magazine! It’s the equivalent of a sports reporter specializing in Baseball stating that she will never support a National League team because because the thinks having a DH ruins the game. 🙄
Yes, that’s inexcusably ignorant.
I have no memory of her other than I think she was on the abortion beat? One of the few Catholics there?
But yeah… it’s cute that anyone there thinks that Biden is outside the AOC wing of the Democratic Party.
I’m shocked they still permit comments.
Gruyère is the best Swiss style cheese.
Every other opinion is just wrong.
I had some for lunch, and I concur.
The best Swiss cheese is swiss cheese.
Your argument is full of holes.
Only if you gruyere own whey.
Not raclette?
^ No question it’s raclette.
Raclette is very good. Just not as good.
I once had the opportunity to sample a piece of Parmigiano-Reggiano cut from the heart of a freshly cracked $1700 wheel
It was transcendental.
Raclette is my favorite cheese. I usually order a half a wheel for Christmas. I share a little bit with my family.
Bought some raclette from TJs not long ago. Was unprepared for the reek. Not sure if even the local wildlife ate it.
Parm is the king of cheeses.
Statue of baby cheeses: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b9/bd/eb/b9bdeb375e6a9e402a5616411f1e704c.jpg
“The study was also carried out in the dark, to remove the effect of UV light as research has demonstrated direct sunlight can rapidly inactivate the virus.”
“According to my model, my model is correct.”
SCIENCE!
I actually intentionally designed my model to get the results that prove I’d get the right results. Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work?
I thought the ‘also’ meant ‘in addition to tests done in the light’ but now I see that perhaps I was wrong and the reading is that the also is superfluous.
Yeah, if they ran it both ways, they would give the results each way, or say it didn’t make a difference (calling the effect of UV on viruses into question).
Went out again today, as I do almost every day because Etsy and kids. Today was the post office and Lowes. Now, it’s Columbus Day, so the post office was closed, but the lobby was open. I went in sans mask. Spoke to one lady who asked me a question, but she seemed too preoccupied with her own problem to notice my naked face.
Went to Lowes. The sign says you MUST wear a mask. I did not (and felt like a naughty child trying to get away with something–that is not a good feeling). I saw one other guy there without a mask, but his wife had one on. The employees said nothing to me. I got no glances askance (that I noticed).
I’m just tired of this mask business and I think everyone else should be tired of it by now, too, but I by no means am going to pass judgment on their reasons for wearing a mask. I’m just going to get used to not wearing one again.
I agree with you on this. I am tired of masks. If other people want to wear them, good for them, but leave me the hell alone. I already distance myself from most other people (on here on this site, an I not?), so stay out of my space and I’ll stay out of your space.
Just let people make decisions for themselves.
Mo has bigger balls than I do.
*checks panties*
Um…
Lowes has big signs saying mask wearing is MANDATORY – and yet no employee there has told me to put on a mask.
I’m assuming they’re saying it is mandatory so the city or state doesn’t shut them down, but are quietly letting the very few rebels go thru unhindered.
Yeup, noticed that. I almost put it on and then thought, “What’s the worst they can do?”
This is my experience as well with almost every store, the exception being Menards, they were all-in mask theater early, had a manager posted at the entrance enforcing masks even before the official mandate. There are a handful of things they sell so much cheaper than HD or Lowes that I’ll sheeple up and put on the bandana Jesse James style just to save some ducats, everywhere else I’ve been rebelling for about 4 weeks now and have never gotten so much as a sideways glance.
HyVee early on had someone stationed there, too. I tried twice to go in without a mask and was gently reminded to wear a mask.
Also sheepled up to save a buck. And time. Since I would have had to go to the post office also.
For a while there I was sheepling up to save a buck, then I decided, fuck it, I was no longer gonna asphyxiate and humiliate myself if there was any alternative store.
Turns out they ALL have competitors. Who knew?
Here’s the thing about HyVee (who didn’t say a word to maskless me yesterday):
Consistently, their post office outlet is significantly cheaper than the post office and I’m getting mad about it. It’s like the clerks at the post office are working on commission.
Today at the PO kiosk, it was about the same price as HyVee. The next price up was $7 more for a $12 Etsy order. I think not. At HyVee, the girls give me the option to send it inexpensively. But the guys at the counter at the PO have NEVER given me that option.
That’s enough to get me to put the mask on if I must. Also, the PO is clear across town and I only check my box once a month when I’m expecting money.
I’ll take $150-$200 to cosplay as Butch Cassidy for thirty-forty minutes, humiliating? I guess but I’m apparently a whore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Asphyxiate? seems extreme it’s a bandana pulled over my face I do the same when I spray paint or cut stone, I’m a fat fuck and I can easily hold up a few stagecoaches without Cornell/ Hutchence/ Carradine/ Epstein-ing myself.
I’ve had a handful of customers mutter something at me about being maskless. They got a Strong Ignore. They ain’t my boss, they don’t work there, so I’ll just act exactly how I would if they were crazy people talking to themselves.
I shop at a grocery store chain which mandates masks, but employees at many stores in the chain will not enforce the corporate mandate. No employee has said anything to me. No customer has said anything to me but I’ve gotten some dirty looks and frightened looks. I’m usually the only one in there without a mask, though last time I saw two other customers in there without masks.
I went to Home Depot once sans masks. I ignored all the signs. No employee said anything to me. There was one other person in Home Depot without a mask. No customer said anything to me or gave me dirty looks.
XY told me yesterday (and at this point, I’m still treating it like a hypothesis because I haven’t researched it) that the reason they don’t enforce it is because the liability of someone going ballistic.
I also assume that the possibility of calling out someone with a health issue is not desirable.
Home Depot had an employee who ordered me to put on a mask. I turned around, walked out, and have not gone back.
Lowes management apparently either wants my business, or hires employees who don’t want to confront someone. Either way, they have a frequent customer from that.
Went to HD yesterday without a mask. Not a word or glance from anyone.
You have a better set of Home Depots. The ones here mostly have gatekeepers standing at the entrance enforcing masking.
Some are lax. Not like Costco, where they will insist on it Every. FN. Time. And if you take it off once inside, some employee will track you down and tell you to put it back on.
So I’m boycotting those arseholes.
I know a little bit about what is going on at this chain because some employees of this chain are on a facebook group I’m on.
Some employees at the chain wore face shields instead of face masks. They preferred face shields. Corporate had no problem with employees wearing face shields. The Clown Prince on the other hand took offense. His rules require retail employees wear face masks. The Live Free or Die state’s Board of Health showed up at stores in the chain where employees wore face shields. The Board of Health said, “Make them wear face masks or else we shut you down.”
Employees, even those that had no problems with wearing masks, were pissed. Some found new employment over it, some stuck around. At certain stores, no employee wants anything to do with mask bullshit and so won’t enforce the corporate policy.
As I understand it, retail stores can’t enforce laws or ordinances. They can only ask or request that you comply. Or, at an extreme, say that the offender is trespassing, which then involves law enforcement.
Legal types will know more, of course.
As I understand it, retail stores can’t enforce laws or ordinances.
The twits on the Nashua, NH Board of Alderman had an idea when they updated the city mask ordinance.
Employees of businesses open to the public are required to not allow unmasked individuals in the business and are not to provide services to such people. If they do and are caught, they will be fined along with the unmasked individual.
Nashua police are still, as far as I can tell, refusing to do more than issue a warning for mask ordinance violations, if they even go that far. I think that is the reason the twits on the Board of Alderman updated the mask ordinance to conscript business employees into enforcement.
Some businesses have gotten stricter about masks. Some are continuing to be lax. Some are continuing to ignore the ordinance.
I keep hearing it’s an ADA violation even to ask whether someone has a condition that precludes using a mask, so the default presumption is (or should be, if they know what’s good for them) that anyone without a mask can’t wear a mask, and to leave it at that.
I have not worn a mask since this shit began with one exception. The magic phrase is “medical exemption”. I have been in schools, big box stores, mom & pop stores, and casinos. It has not been a problem for the most part, I have had a couple of smaller businesses in CO not allow me in, which resulted in me pissing on the outside of one convenience store (when you’ve gotta go you’ve gotta go), but my guess is they probably had the bathrooms closed to the public anyway, so the result was going to be the same regardless. The sooner more people quit wearing them, the sooner we can be done with this nonsense. The one exception was when I had a single customer request I wear one, and I did. He called back a month later for something else and I told him I could fix his car, but would not be wearing a mask to do it due to the discomfort, but if he needed a mask worn, I could refer him to a mechanic who would wear a mask. He opted to leave the keys and have me fix it and pay by phone.
Who do you plan to vote for this year? Joe Biden. The nationalists said the libertarian-conservative consensus is dead, and I take them at their word. Also, Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.
Next time, just say, “My dog told me to do it.”
Thank goodness the progressive socialists have embraced free minds and free markets with open arms.
Ok. I’m usually not too picky about peoples speach and misspeaking. But I’ll admit there is one mistake that bothers me a lot. When people mix up Succession and Secession.
I try to avoid the cesspool that is spelling and grammar.
We’re going to have a succession of secessions right after this election.
That one bothers you that much? I had to leave from Parler because of the spelling and grammar of some of the top posters over there. It’s downright embarrassing.
Half the people in the country can’t even speak proper English these days, let alone spell the words.
And people bitch when I comment on bad spelling here.
Stop there you pedant!
You’re just a very SIC man Ted.
You win the internet.
I’m really bad at just letting my fingers type and not proofreading what i write. So i give a lot of leeway in that form.
For some reason it’s really just when people talk and say secession but say it like “Suh-session”
Same here. I type fast and assume I don’t need to proofread. If it’s an email at work, I proofread it twice. And every place I post online except here allows you to correct it for at least a few minutes. And all the edit fairys apparently retired early.
It’s not easy to proofread on the phone. If I catch it as I’m typing, I correct it, but once it scrolls out of sight, it’s ending up on the page.
how do *you* pronounce “secession?”
We’re going to have a succession of secessions right after this election.
And then we’re going to have a suck session.
I think that started sometime in the 20th century.
I have similar misgivings with can’t and cunt.
+1
I promise not to mix them up.
The only grammar I correct people on is “good/well” not because I care but because it’s the only one I actually grok and in my part of the country it’s misuse is ubiquitous, I do it with a smirk and get a “fuck you” more often that not and that’s the response I’m going for. I also occasionally will tell people it’s “Whom not who.” even though I have no idea which is correct, I generally get the same response as with the well/good bit.
I don’t correct, but i do typically use this one correctly. Though sometimes it sounds like i’m being a snob i guss:
Leon: Hey, how are you doing?
Friend: Good, and you?
Leon: I’m doing well.
Yeah, I do that, and I don’t really correct in other circumstances. If someone says “He bowls good” I don’t interrupt and give them the “Akshually, it’s ‘he bowls well'” bit, I’ll just say “well” under my breath, almost to myself. Usually gets a few chuckles and a “Fuck off” or “Your such a dick” remark.
I just try not to do it anymore at all. I fail with my husband. He is well read but hasn’t been around a lot of people who actually use the words in normal conversation. I let the mispronunciation go for two or three times, but after that I can’t keep my mouth shut. And then I feel bad for correcting him.
If I mispronounce a word, I’d absolutely rather be corrected than go on making an ass of myself.
“Your such a dick” remark.
Ted S. to the white courtesy phone please… paging Ted S.
You get worked up over misspellings? I’m going to go rouge here and say you need to stop being such a looser.
Anyone who pays attention to my posts knows that i have no problem with misspellings. It’s the misuse of a word in spoken conversations.
A few of my pet peeves. (It’s worth noting I had to correct peeves from peaves.)
Lose and loose.
Collage and college.
I could care less v I couldn’t care less.
That’s it. I’m a simple man. I mean… Eating with your mouth open. Flag etiquette. Walking around staring at your feet. Walking behind someone you’re with. People who don’t close their grill when they cook with a grill. Blinkers… Oblivious shitty drivers. I understand in a hurry drivers, but I hate the Sunday drive shitty drivers.
Sunday driver, never took a test
Hey, we all have to tow the lion here don’t we?
low and behowld, we dow!
Poor ‘sloper.
oh, I’m just having generic fun
Slope covers my flank and puts up with my crap: I can’t shoot down a reliable wingman.
I can see him masturbating furiously on the California Constitution every time he makes these decrees. I know its a gross thing to say, but that guy is definitely getting off on this.
I suspect all the bathrooms in the California governor’s mansion are stocked with custom made “We the People” embossed toilet paper.
So, YouTube is droning on in the background while I’m working and an ad for a new anime movie in Japan pops up. Any time I hear a particular dialect my ears always perk up so I flip over and check the title.
It’s an anime version of a live action film from 2003 that was originally based on short story. I jump over to Wikipedia for the plot summary and get interested until I read back half of the story. No thank you! Not what I’m looking for these days.
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (ジョゼと虎と魚たち, Joze to Tora to Sakana-tachi)
Definitely not interested in the story, but I may check it out since I like Bones. More importantly, what dialect?
Kansai.
Both the live action and anime actresses are from Osaka. I’m not sure if it is specifically Osaka-ben or a different part of Kanasai for the movie, however.
That was going to be my guess… mostly since that’s the only dialect I know of, outside of Hokkaido and Okinawa, but the plot synopsis would have mentioned those settings.
Tsugaru dialect may was well be another language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsugaru_dialect
Another life cut tragically short,/a>
The late Sen. John McCain’s mother died on Monday at age 108, according to his widow, Cindy McCain.
“It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my wonderful Mother In-law, Roberta McCain,” Cindy McCain tweeted. “I couldn’t have asked for a better role model or a better friend. She joins her husband Jack, her son John and daughter Sandy.”
No cause of death. If it had been the plague, I’m pretty sure they’d have put it in the headline.
Just drop in a replacement church from above
Rather sad to read the last church there was destroyed by teenagers who burned it down.
(Also Google Translate has remarkably coherent translations of Icelandic. Remarkably better than anything I’ve seen on either Japanese or Chinese.)
Machine translators tend to do a passable job with more closely related languages. It probably also helps that Icelandic is a very standardized language; few speakers, small geographic area, no regional dialects.
Just let people make decisions for themselves.
Haha.
You slay me.
Camea said that people are not qualified to do that.
I’m smarter than Kamela. I’m probably smarter than anyone Kamela’s on a first-name basis with.
Camela said that people are not qualified to do that.
‘Camea said that people are not qualified to do that.’ — Hyperion
‘Camela said that people are not qualified to do that.’ — — Hyperion
Commie-la ‘said that people are not qualified to do that.’
Donation not taxation.
Camela, Commie-la, Heels up, Horizontal, it’s all the same ol ho.
Camela, Commie-la, Kamala Chameleon
You come and go, You come and go.
Dude. Take your medication.
I know… That is the most infuriating part of all of this. If I want to put myself in risk with the “most dangerous virus EVAH!!!”, that should be my right.
And Camel-A can go suck a lemon for all i care.
Nikole dialed into the show via video link and lamented that she was compelled to put her California Pastor life in the past after her religious community was unaccepting of someone as sexually inclined as the OnlyFans porn purveyor is.
She just needs to shop around.
https://twitter.com/leftistluthien/status/1315496806684520448
WTF??
I like the conversation in the comments where the guy criticizes her for being clunky with her words, making it sound like she things People of Color are only the same as animals.
Because you know, that is what is truly wrong with the tweet.
Well, she says the lives of POCs and animals have the same value. Why would anyone think she believes that?
Yeah, but you got to realize this is a bunch of commies talking amongst each-other. the “#BLACKLIVESMATTER” guy doesn’t even recognize that “White People are worse than Animals” part of the tweet is what is being criticized until he is prompted.
He doesn’t object to it because he agrees with it?
Hope she’s not a deer hunter
Vegetarian, probably even a vegan. Count on it.
I went down the comment chain and found context. I do believe she is a vegan.
I signaled too hard, ouch!
Probably spent 6 years getting a degree in diversity.
I see what you did there
They both bring the same coin at market? I haz confuse.
Easy. White people are bad.
Put that into a paper and thow in a bunch of buzzwords and you have PhD in Native American Midget Parapeligic Studies.
My two A/B students are D/F students not for lack of trying or caring. The implementation of remote learning has been disastrous and the schools are not even caring.
Some of our hoops we have to go through:
Period 1 teacher doesn’t take attendance and kids must mark their own attendance down. Okay, I am fine with that but don’t tell me a month and half in when you call me to tell me my son has been absent all year.
Period 2 teacher wants kids to grade their own work because “I have too many things to deal with” – I apparently have honest kids cause they don’t give themselves A’s across the board with this.
Period 3 teacher hasn’t graded anything since Aug 28th, so no idea what my son(s) grades are.
Period 4 teacher has been playing previous lesson recordings every other day but still assigning new work to be completed.
Period 5 teacher also hasn’t graded anything
Period 6 teacher is cool, he actually prepared for this environment and is trying but can tell his patience is wearing thin.
You have no idea how happy I am to be past this stage given the current pandemic panic.
Here is another fun one: We get notified when kids miss a class with a message that says “One or more of your students has missed one or more of their classes last week, please get with the teacher(s) to clear this up”.
Well, if you know they were absent, you obviously have an inclination of what class they missed and more importantly, which one missed the class. I am beginning to think that my kids have picked up on that the schools just don’t care, so they in turn don’t care; which of course clashes with me caring and me taking away their privileges when they get bad grades.
Wife and I have already set the time frame of Jan 1 to move them into some type of in-person learning environment if they can’t fix this. I would do it sooner, we just need some time.
In my case, I think the teachers are trying very hard. I also would not be surprised if they’re as frustrated as my son.
We know of a handful that are busting their asses trying their hardest but that is all, a handful. Apparently our school district is set to hold a meeting at the end of Oct. My guess is “in danger of failing” or “failing” is off the charts across the board.
Same for XY, though I have other reasons for keeping him at home the 2 days a week he COULD go in person (we are on a hybrid system). I don’t think it would improve things much anyway.
At this point, I don’t care if he flunks every class because a) maybe next year the district will be full time and he can start over, and b) I doubt the district is going to look at overall shitty performance from the entire student body and make it stick.
I might as well be homeschooling for all the overseeing I must do. As for algebra and biology…I seem to be unable to help effectively.
I’ve seen teachers crying all over social media about how hard their job is right now. Well you get what you deserve. You insisted on another 6 months of vacation which resulted in this online or hybrid class.
Sounds like your school needs more funding. /School Board
Sounds like your school adminstration needs more funding.
There fixed it.
Period 2 teacher wants kids to grade their own work because “I have too many things to deal with”
Period 3 teacher hasn’t graded anything since Aug 28th
Period 5 teacher also hasn’t graded anything
Isn’t that supposed to be a core function of being a teacher?
No the core function is to complain about their job for 9 months then take a 3 month vacation.
Have you thought about a career in School administration? You seem to have the core competencies down.
Oh, they complain for 12 months.
Imagine the surprise faces we had when we found that out!
That sucks. I have my issues with my kid’s teachers but they were at least pretending to do their jobs during the remote phase.
I should tell my boss I’m not doing any more work and see how well that goes.
“45% Of Gays Are Voting FOR TRUMP, Here’s Why”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd3cG_wwxqA
Polls are bullshit, except the ones that say Trump is doing amazing.
/Not directed at anyone in particular, i’m just saying it goes both ways.
It’s an opt-in poll for a gay dating app, so definitely bullshit, but also kind of surprising.
I have little doubt he’ll better than other Repub presidents but there’s no way he gets forty five percent.
I personally know just one gay person who will likely vote for Trump, one gay LPer, and a bunch of gay people who are Biden supporters.
45% seems way high.
Headline
Over 500 LGBTQ candidates to appear on November ballots, shattering records
Are they intelligent? Are they qualified? Do they understand the real life requirements of the job they are applying for?
Who gives a shit? They’re queer, and that’s all that matters.
Represent! ?️?
/am I doing this right?
Not enough leftist emojis.
*ejects Rhy out the side of the grievance pyramid*
?Not?Enough?leftist?emojis?
#BeBest
Perfect!
“THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE KO IN UFC HISTORY”
https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1315066583962849283
Impressive.
I don’t think someone saw that coming.
I don’t think anyone saw that coming.
I don’t watch NFL these days. But I just got off a phone call with my son and learned that the Chiefs can’t even beat the Raiders these days, cause they suck! That’s what I heard.
I will quote my tweet from yesterday:
We’ve been playing like crap the whole season. We were just playing worse teams.
I about fell over when I saw the Cowboys finally won yesterday.
With their backup QB, because Prescott is out for the year with a compound ankle fracture. Bad ankle fractures have a way of not getting back to full functionality. I am not optimistic. But he was looking like one of those QBs who can put up great stats, but not win the games that matter.
re ankle fractures.
In a past life (and sometimes present life if I need some cash), I was a medical transcriptionist and did work for an foot and ankle specialist (“Podiatry is a scam! I’M AN ORTHOPAEDIST, DAMMIT!”). He was (verifiably) one of the best in the country and he would tell patients flat out he couldn’t fix an ankle to good functionality.
There was a running multi-year war in Texas between the orthopods and the podiatrists about exactly where on the ankle they would place the demilitarized zone.
The only thing I know about the NFL these days is that they suck, and any team naming themselves ‘Football Team’ for wokeness sake, deserves to lose all the rest of their games, forever.
I really wish they’d reinstate the Redskins name – with a potato for team logo. The lulz would be epic.
That would have been a lot better than what they did. I guess they’re too woke to think of anything that funny. Woke people tend to be dull and have no sense of humor.
Well, the Giants are an almost entirely new team, and their RB is out with an ACL.
Talk about “playing a worse team”.
I was just kidding. I just now watched the highlights. Same Raiders as every week, solid offense with lots of talent, avg defense at best. Chiefs looked to be playing pretty well to me, but I didn’t see the entire game.
It was a “good” game in that it was tense and tight, going back and forth and whatnot. But we missed two touchdowns because of fouls and lost 94 yards on penalties. THEN we had two penalties that kept Raider drives alive so they scored twice on our sloppiness. It was apparent to me they went out there with a “they’re the Raiders; we don’t have to show up at all to beat them” attitude.
That last interception cost the Chiefs the game. Carr has thrown one all season I think, in that game.
The Raiders have to score as many points as they can because their defense is sub par or avg at best, and then hope the other team runs of of time to score last . They need a new defensive coach because prevent defense sucks. They’re solid on the offensive side. Las Vegas are 7th in total points scored this season and KC is 9th. A solid defense and the Raiders would be a playoff team.
I didn’t know they moved to Vegas until I saw part of the game. I never pay much attention to the AFC.
Dude, you have not beheld the Death Star?
I guess not.
Behold, the Death Star!
Fuck Amazon. Package was returned to Amazon before it left Japan (likely because they do a shitty job of packaging) and they only refunded the items sold by Amazon. Items sold by a third party and shipping weren’t.
i use Prime and they Undelivered a package and 2 weeks late still waiting fo my refund, fuck amazon, sometimes,
So much for that Japanese attention to detail.
I try hard no to deal with third party sellers on Amazon for reasons like this.
Realizing that sometimes you have no choice.
The contents are usually shrink wrapped to a cardboard piece so that part is good. It’s the outer box that’s a thin walled without appropriate dunnage so it gets crushed. I’ve seen it slightly damaged before.
It’s on a credit card so if customer service doesn’t come through, I’ll just do a chargeback. More pissed that I have to reorder.
Once again, police entirely miss the point of distinctive uniform and insignia, including the livery of their vehicles.
https://kval.com/newsletter-daily/eugene-police-add-pink-to-motorcycles-10-patrol-cars-for-breast-cancer-awareness-month
That looks ridiculous.
Unless their motorcycle cops are all hot asian women.
I noticed there is way less pink NLF stuff this year.
Can’t forget the pink furry handcuffs.
Who on earth remains unaware of it? Except in men, perhaps.
https://thepostmillennial.com/police-chief-reportedly-forced-to-resign-after-wife-comes-out-in-support-of-trump
Lancaster, PA. That’s fucked up.
“It was Mayor Danene Sorace, Fiorill said, who demanded Berkihiser’s resignation.”
How is that even legal?
Dunno. Sure makes me angry though.
Because chiefs of police are appointed and work at leisure of their governing bodies. They aren’t elected like Sheriffs.
Yup. That’s mostly my thought.
Is Sorace pronounced “sore-ass”?
So you are saying she’s a sexual tyrant?
I think there’s a 1A* issue. As a government body, they aren’t supposed to penalize free speech. It gets complicated in an employment context, but this wasn’t their employee speaking. Not sure how this isn’t a verboten retaliation for protected speech.
Of course, its the FOP making the accusation, so grain of salt. But, it says he approached them, so who knows?
Her response is . . . unsatisfying:
Its hard to read that and not come away thinking this was “I’ll fire you and you lose retirement, or we can do this the easy way.”
*I know, that old thing?
So grounds for a civil suit?
Could be. This is its own body of law, so I’m just spitballin’, here.
No comments?
Not an even ostensible reason given, like lack of neutrality. I’m sure if she advocated overthrowing the government they’d overlook it.
He IS on the ballot; in fact the incumbent IIRC.
Lancaster County is on my short list of places to move. Sigh…
The county is very different from the city proper, but this still sucks.
The Fraternal Order of Police in Lancaster alleged that Berkihiser’s resignation was a direct result of his wife’s posts, according to local news.
Sources say, people close to the Berkihiser’s…
How can people see this shit and NOT vote for Trump? How can they call Trump and his supporters fascist and then do this shit?
Is the guy elected or was he fired? For political purposes? If I were him I’d be suing the fuck out of someone. Either that story is not sure or someone has a lawsuit coming their way.
Either way, forced from office by someone if he was elected, or fired for political reasons. Both of those are a no no.
And I find it quite rich that he was fired for ostensibly not keeping his wife in line.
Diverse crowd in Florida.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JFNYC1/status/1315780355803283464
CNN sucks! ?
Jim Acosta is such a cunte.
CNN and cunte are inseparable things, so yeah.
CNN Fact Check: CNN is not a vacuum we give the crowd 5 pinocchios
“Missed it by this much”
Just finished my second White Russian. Heavy cream makes all the difference!
No more writing a check for half-and-half?
Hey Dude, it’s already the Tenth…
“Foreign Born Population in the US yearly from 1850-2019.”
https://twitter.com/xruiztru/status/1314998304422404096
Never knew there was that much from Canada.
Especially since they are supposed to be going the other way every election.
That’s when it all started going downhill. Canuckistanis ruin everything.
The Biebers, yes. The Shatners, hell no!
The talented Canadians co e south the make a success out of their lives. The others stay behind and engage in xenophobic bitching about what a horrible place the US is.
Heh the music is a nice touch.
Er, uh, that’s where my grandpa was from.
Today, on the hot/crazy matrix:
https://twitter.com/heckyessica/status/1315414008468516865
RUN AWAY!
I’m intrigued.
I’m going with fake.
These two responses are Glibs, distilled.
These
twothree responses are Glibs, distilled.“Members of the crowd at President Trump’s rally in Florida chant “CNN sucks” as @Acosta
is live on air”
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1315776119665287169
This brings a smile to my face.
Over 300 comments? Jebus you people type a lot.
*does catholic dead chicken thing* God bless her!
Hey, WS, can you email me? TPTB have my e-address.
Only if you have an OnlyFans account.
I am not a foodie but even I know pork is better with rosemary. Nom nom nom.
I only cook when XY asks me to.
Tim Pool has the Proud Boys leader on, fyi.