I have concluded we presently live in what I can only describe as “Schrodinger’s Election”. There are two simultaneous scenarios where either candidate actually won the election. So I decided the only way forward is to take a step back and consult the most perfect political analysis ever performed in the history of Glibertarians.com.
This is my review of Guinness Open Gate Imperial Stout (aged in bourbon barrels):
What was this perfect analysis? If you recall, it was once argued the 2016 election was really just the plot of Caddyshack. H/T: JustSayin Tulsi Gabbard Apologist:
At the movie’s climax, the protagonist, Danny Noonan, is presented with an option: either help Dangerfield win a golf bet against Judge Smails and lose his college scholarship or fall in line with an established order that he detests for his own personal gain. Judge Smails advises him against helping Dangerfield, but Noonan ignores his advice, much like voters in 2016 rebuked the advice of the ruling class.
In the final scenes of the movie, the two sides of the golf bet are even. Noonan needs to sink his final putt in order for Dangerfield to win the bet. After a comically long moment of anticipation, Noonan’s putt wins the golf bet for Dangerfield and the workers at the golf course are ecstatic. Everyone from Noonan’s love interest to a fellow caddy who he has sparred with throughout the film crowd around him in a raucous celebration. The victory is actually Dangerfield’s, who was the principle of the bet against Judge Smails, but he is seemingly ignored. Dangerfield, much like our President, served as only the vehicle for these workers to register their frustrations with the golf course’s blue-blood establishment. The workers gained nothing from Judge Smails losing his bet: Noonan will not be able to afford college without the caddy scholarship that he’s forsaken and the rest of them will go back to the same jobs the next day. Their celebration is surely fleeting, but for a moment they take enjoyment in besting their betters.
At the time I agreed, and for the most part I still do. This whole thing was a brief, fleeting victory over the people that believe they are better at deciding how to live our own lives. In the end those people are still in power, clinging to anything that can keep the wheels turning for them. Had Trump won this would not change at all. In fact its probably better this way because Caddyshack 2 was insufferable, even by the standards of a sequel.
Except, JustSayin Tulsi Gabbard Apologist didn’t explain something…
…the movie ended in an Earth Shattering kaboom.
…we didn’t see a kaboom did we?
…no I’m serious, did I miss it, or should I be waiting for it?
I for one am happy for the return of winter, because it means I can find stouts and porters again! This one by Guinness is not their ubiquitous draught stout made at the St. James Gate Brewery I toured in Dublin. This instead is made at their Open Gate Brewery in Baltimore. So like last time, make sure check this for foreign objects, traces of bodily fluids, or methamphetamines before drinking it. I found it quite enjoyable and even had the whiskey hangover that I experience occasion when drinking this sort of thing. Guinness Open Gate Imperial Stout (aged in bourbon barrels): 4.1/5
Yet.
Delays, delays. . .
There were some pretty significant shake-ups at the Pentagon this week. The kaboom might be much different than people are envisioning.
What are thinking of Tundra? This looks like more of Trump’s impetuousness to me. The only other explanation I have is he is pissed about public reports the military lied to him so he is going to to pull all remaining troops out of Syria and he doesn’t want anyone obstructing him.
That’s what I’m thinking. The SecDef hired Douglas Macgregor, who definitely doesn’t dig the wars.
It still could be Trump being impetuous, but my gut tells me he’s trying to fuck up things for the MIC.
Either way, should be an entertaining couple months.
The SOBs are bragging that they stymied getting the troops home.
Trump should leave ruinous carnage behind him at the DOD.
Douglas Macgregor, who definitely doesn’t dig the wars
I feel like I’m in a alternate universe where MacGregor wasn’t one of the biggest hawks for the Iraq invasion.
Dunno. Things change over 17 years, i guess.
The worst thing is to set up the explosives, yell ‘Fire in the Hole’, push the button… and have nothing happen.
Ivanova has you covered:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CnR3Tyrg_10
TW: Babylon 5.
Trigger Warning!?! Madam I am insulted. In a just world there would have been multiple B5 spinoffs and movies.
It’s high time to relaunch the series viewing. Including the stolen election and corrupt Earth government.
I put the TW in there for the squishy hearted Star Trek fans. Star Trek future is squishy socialist ethical relavist crap.
I bought the 1st season of TNG on DVD when it became available. That was the last one. I may use the discs as drink coasters.
OT from the dead thread but I discovered the problem with my snowblower. Seems that the cold light of day reveals much. Sorry for stomping on the article but I’m feeling giddy just now. Joy is in short supply, lately. Wish that I could share it out.
You are, good sir, you are!
I fired mine up for the first time this week. A going-on-40-year-old John Deere. Fill it with gas, prime it a few times.
Second pull.
Strange how these little things make us so happy. We must be simple creatures, Festus!
We are simple creatures. That’s what makes life so wonderful and horrifying. A chunk of wood lodged in the impellor fucking near sent me over the edge but a sober assessment in dawn’s early light changed everything. New light, different perspective, happy outcome. I wish that I could apply that philosophy to the rest of my life. Still living. Still learning.
I was reading a bunch of Solzhenitsyn quotes when I was looking for the one i posted earlier. I like this one:
I’d add to that – Always keep your feet warm. Warm feet, warm thoughts, warm disposition.
Reminds me of some Stoic philosopher I’ve been devoting lately (which has helped me tremendously). Gonna dive into some Asian philosophy after I finish Epictetus as I think there are common themes in stoicism and buddhism, taoism, and zen.
Also, God damn I hate typing on a phone.
I need to get back to my Daily Stoic.
That is true.
It takes longer when you did it to yourself.
As a public service SP posted a series of stoic texts on this site library.
On the other hand, this just confirmed my tendency to be so sure of myself. Laser-focus is a damnable trait. It comes from being alone.
Laser focused sounds better than obsessive. I’m stealing it.
Le tits now!
So it wasn’t the bearings your mustache was whining about?
The bearings barely escaped with their lives! Mustache fell off the train and was bisected in a shockingly incongruous scene. He’ll be back for the sequels.
Two years ago I had a similar situation. The auger just would not budge. I took it back to the garage and put the heat lamp on it. A few hours later, I found the culprit – a fully loaded diaper.
This happened on the front sidewalk. There is only one house on the street that takes their trash to the front and their kids are in their 30’s. No idea where it came from.
I almost bought a new snow blower, but instead donned the latex gloves. The diaper and it’s contents were more pliable after they had warmed up.
Where have you gone
Joe DiMaggioTulsi Gabbard Apologist? Anationwebsite turns itslonelyjaded eyes to you.Lets say his name some more. Maybe he’ll show up,
Smash Adam Schiff over the head with a solid single swing? I’d buy that for a Dollar!
I meant Joe not TGA. You guys know me well enough by now.
No kaboom for you.
Oh well. What is life if not for learning to handle disappointment?
We didn’t know that she would blow up
Ivanova in another format, a GIF.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f1/47/5e/f1475e1f284714d618299b2690a51c4c.gif
Then
drugs fell outit exploded.OT from the dead thread but I discovered the problem with my snowblower.
Next time, go around the woodpile, not over it.
Fuck you! I won’t do what you tell me!
Guinness is my shit. But I have not tried this one. Looking forward to doing so.
Guinness brewed in Baltimore? Get out of here.
Saw my first six pack of Newcastle Brown Ale. From California. ?♂️
Non drinking wifey wants a “light” beer from the store. I’m thinking a lager cut with water.
One more cup of coffee and off to do the grocery shopping.
I saw that, in the form of Guinness Blonde (intrigued but didn’t commit to a six-pack). I thought Newky was being brewed in Holland these days. There’s always Samuel Smith ale anyway.
Thanks for the review, señor!
A stout sounds pretty good right now. How does it compare with Dragon’s Milk?
Don’t know, I haven’t been able to find it here.
I just barely got access to Great Lakes.
Do you just get the year round beers, or do you get the seasonals from Great Lakes as well?
I don’t know. An hour ago I opened my emails, and saw Total Wine advertising they now had Great Lakes in the area.
Well, they did just get their canning line running (after contracting with Harpoon brewing for a couple of years), this does mean that there’s tankers of beer being moved down route 71 from the production facility to the canning facility (which is about 15 miles away). Seasonal right now is the Christmas Ale, which started a trend in the area which has grown rather large.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-president-trump-motorcade-take-million-maga-march/
Trump 2020
We are at an actual and serious impasse. I hope it turns out well.
I don’t recall this type of thing happening in any other presidential election during my lifetime. Were there protests, competing or otherwise, during the Gore/Bush fiasco? (I was too young to remember)
No.
There were not protests of this size in 2000, nor was the election fraud so prevalent. It was a relatively simple matter of stopping the recount in one county because the recounters were interpreting marks, only partially punched ovals, dimpled chads (the chad is the oval that gets punched out; a dimpled one had a stylus rest on it but wasn’t punched). The Supremes ruled that they were not treating all votes fairly and ended it.
Everything was more civil back then. But to be fair, the differences between Bush and Gore were not that great.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MilionMagaMarch/status/1327664648485793792
Pretty good size crowd building.
The largest crowd, maybe ever.
The bigliest, beautifulest crowd.
So what? They won’t intimidate those judges who want Trump to lose. Unless, of course, they spark off violent riots around the country. That seems the best way to get what you want. these days. On the other hand, right wing riots would be countered by mayors ordering machine gun fire and survivors wouldn’t be given any “get out of jail free” cards.
If CHOP were right-wing
The next right wing riot would have overwatch on the rooftops.
So at midnight on election night, things were looking good for Trump. Extending his share of Hispanic and Black votes, reclaiming much of his base. Then we go to bed, Pennsylvania and Georgia go home before all the counting is done, and resume in the morning with new batches of ballots delivered in the night by the Biden/Harris campaign.
Suddenly Trump’s lead dwindles, then he is losing.
The media staunchly defends the election integrity, implying its nuts to have any doubt over its validity.
Ok. Imagine the same scenario except that it looks good for Biden at midnight, then when counting resumes the next day, Biden’s lead slips and Trump wins.
Think the media would be singing the same tune about election integrity?
Ahh! The famous final scene!
It’s the same excuse every election: “urban” (i.e. “heavily Democrat”) areas are too underprivileged or oppressed or something to be able to turn in their votes in on time. Either this is a bald-faced lie and they’re cheating at every election or it’s partially true and the reason is the people running the show there are incompetent. Either way, nobody calls them on it.
I kinda want to get one of these.
I like it, but you can’t see the beer lacing through it. Sort of dampens the experience.
What are you? Some effete hipster?
The lacing?!?
We drink like Vikings here, Hyp! And then we pillage! And then there’s the wenching!
We can’t forget the wenching!
Buy the tankard, Hyp. Be a Viking.
I’m all in on the looting, pillaging, and wenching. In fact, I’m about to loot, pillage, and plunder again today in AC Valhalla with my Viking minions. I don’t know if it has wenching, remains to be seen…
If there’s no wenching, then what’s the point?
I want giggling wenches, not distraught ones.
Nitrous oxide?
Ether
Just checked turkey breast. Took it out of the freezer and into the fridge Tuesday night. Still partially frozen.
You just need to flick the nipple and that fucker will warm right up.
Related to Guinness, apparently they had an issue with their Non-alcoholic variant.
Free to obey
And don’t assume that once a vaccination program starts rolling out, you can jump on the next plane, whether or not you’ve had it. Nicholson reckons that proof of vaccination might become advisory, or even mandatory, for destinations.
An international certificate of vaccination or prophylaxis (ICVP) — which travelers must carry to enter certain countries which mandate a yellow fever vaccination, or to exit those with high polio risk — could be the next addition to your travel kit.
“I think we’ll have a formal certificate, either online or on paper, showing that you’ve been vaccinated at a recognized, accredited clinic, as we do for yellow fever,” she says.
“It’ll be the destination demanding it — and that could be everyone.
“Most countries where there’s a vulnerable or older population will certainly be demanding proof because we know how devastating the disease can be.”
Destination: new normal.
It’s becoming abundantly clear how foolish we’ve been as a country to think that we could ever defeat the inevitably of perpetual feudalism. I guess this is just life moving forward: keep your head down, comply with all orders that are compliable and live out however much life you have as best as possible.
“Individualism” is well on the way to becoming a mental disorder
…that the rest of the world accede to their onerous requirements.
FYFT
I’m starting to have less and less regard for the “vulnerable or older population” lately. Thanks, the world. ?
FTFY.
ooooh…
Bourbon barrel aged stouts. That is some good shit.
Not just a gimmick? I like beer to taste like beer, and bourbon to taste like bourbon.
Its like having two chicks at the same time.
lol
I eagerly await your article.
For me, that’s disappointing two girls a lot, rather than just disappointing one of them slightly.
I may have to pull some of these out of the cellar.
Unfortunately, it looks like my standard black Friday routine of driving down to Hoppin’ Frog for the annual special release day isn’t happening this year.
No thanks.
I will take a nice sour ale aged in a wine barrel though.
Guinness Blonde (intrigued but didn’t commit to a six-pack).
I like it.
I for one am happy for the return of winter, because it means I can find stouts and porters again!
I was on a mission to get a porter or a stout yesterday but grabbed this for my day drinking session today while making chicken noodle soup and some carnitas later. It is ok.
Success!
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak has tested positive for the coronavirus.
The positive results came on Friday after a rapid coronavirus test in Carson City which is part of a regular protocol for the Democratic governor, he said in a statement.
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The governor instituted a mask mandate in June, requiring all residents and visitors to wear a face covering in public spaces, including private businesses, casinos and hotels.
We followed the SCIENCE right off this cliff.
#LEMMINGLIFE4EVER
How are all the casino employees (i.e. union members) putting up with this bullshit? These restrictions are killing them.
Everyone has assumed this stuff is temporary, and continues to believe it will all end in “just a few weeks.”
There are a great number of government apparatchiks for whom this has been the greatest year of their lives (see Fauci, Anthony). They won’t go quietly…
Earlier this week, he urged Nevadans to voluntarily take more precautionary measures to stop the spread of the disease. But he suggested that he may take stronger action in a couple of weeks if infection rates do not begin to decline.
I would strongly urge him to kill himself, to ensure he cannot spread he disease to any innocent civilians. Other politicians are fair game.
It’s the only way to be sure.
So, I capitulated (she earned it…). The Christmas tree is now up. And my petite, tuxedo-patterned, female, feline is having a ball* climbing on it as she is wont to do.
*No ornaments on it yet, and shatter-proof ones for when we get around to decorating it.
Boooooooo
https://twitter.com/substitute/status/1327502203423125504
I have no idea what this shit is.
Yesterday heard this one that I hadn’t heard in a long time on my Soul45 station. Made me look up the concert that it came from. Funk/soul classic from the 70’s, love the dancing going on. The girl in the polka dot dress is gorgeous and knows how to breakdown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxyU-AbF6M
Great. Now the King of the Hill is showing off with his Bobcat. Clearing every drive except ours. I know that they live about 30 feet above us but it’s still funny that they look down upon the peons. Fuck You Red-neck! Your wife and progeny are fat!
Do they smell of elderberries?
Probably. I know that he’s a solid sort but his wife hates us. Our daughters went to school together and one was popular and the other was a schlump. Karen Elderberry is a cunte.
I wonder what the smarmy traitors like Jefferey are going to do if this does go to Trump. They are all so sure Bought-and-Paid-for Biden won, so confident that they are giddy and throwing parties, making pronouncements etc. that they all came out of the closet, fists raised in triumph. I bet they scatter for the hills. The lot of them should be in prison.
Back in a bit…cutting and preparing chicken for freezing.
Is that normal person chicken or “Suthenboy” chicken?
I’ll never tell
Plan is to halve some large jalapeños, stuff the jalapeño boat with cream cheese then roll it up in some filed thighs, bake, then slather with apricot sauce. Serve on a bed of rice.
HOLY MACKEREL! That sounds delicious. I’m glad you seem to be clear of this crazy storm season; I hope all is well in your world.
Festus – I’m happy to hear your snow-blower troubles were not so severe.
Thanks Friend.
This fight scene took me far too long to cheoreograph.
It wasn’t even important to the plot.
also that is not how real world fight go
Well, yeah, there’s a shortage of magically inclined venatrixes and four ton feathered feline predators to battle in an arena.
Choreographed fight
Whipcrack ripostes and witty retorts?
That’s the name of my swashbuckling erotic novel.
Cat fight.
Everybody’s favorite little authoritarian…
not even top 3
Erykah Badu dumbfounded after testing positive for coronavirus in left nostril, negative in the right
Testing, testing, one two, one two…
At lot of people seem to have come down with Schrödinger’s Coronoavirus, where they both have it and don’t have it as the same time.
“Testing” for the Wuhan flu being the absolutely meaningless crap shoot that it is, and all that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np21rH7Ldto
I remember jamming out to this song when I was a Sophomore in high school.
Pretty chill. I liked this one.
Rode my exercise bike 400+ miles this week. My knees hurt. Taking a rest day.
Has this made the rounds yet?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-francis-pray-that-robots-dont-turn-against-us
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Deliver us from evil robots!
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Pope Francis urged Catholics to pray that artificial intelligence and robots “always serve mankind” instead of stripping humanity of its “dignity,” according to a report.
In his monthly prayer address, the crusading Pontiff warned that while robotics may bring positive change to the world, it could also exacerbate “inequalities” across the planet, according to the The Verge.
“Artificial intelligence is at the heart of the epochal change we are experiencing. Robotics can make a better world possible if it is joined to the common good. Indeed, if technological progress increases inequalities, it is not true progress,” Francis said during his November prayer intention.
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Can we be far off from having this pope?
Aren’t those stationary? Wouldn’t that be 0 miles?
Or did you get on an actual bike you called an exercise bike and ride 400 miles?
No, it’s the doesn’t go anywhere kind. But I did burn about 11,000 calories. If I did it about 4 more times, it be the same as doing the Tour de France. My cruising speed is 18 mph. TdF riders average 25 mph.
I heard a joke about Zeno’s paradox, but it didn’t go anywhere.
Well, if he didn’t bluntly ignore the fact that each of those half-distances also took half the time, thus added up to a finite duration, there would be no ‘paradox’.
Sums of geometric series weren’t explored until about 100 years later when Euclid wrote.
Ignorance of the future is no excuse.
Tee hee… I hoped it would be the Space Pope.
Just today I had this article pop up in my news feed about stopping the cult of Pope John Paul
4.1 of 5 is one of your higher ratings, Sharpie! Your discipline in holding back on the high scores make that high score special indeed!
Pope Francis urged Catholics to pray that artificial intelligence and robots “always serve mankind” instead of stripping humanity of its “dignity,” according to a report.
Politicians and “cultural leaders” cannot be relied upon for that. Why would we epect anything different from robots?
Robot ethics are the ethics of its least ethical programmers.
Then throw in programming errors on top, and it doesn’t get any better.
“Laws of robotics? Pfft. like we can build a brain that can parse that.”
I heard an argument being made on the radio by a “distinguished professor” and “feminist” that AI programmed by men is inherently misogynist. I suppose that AI programmed by white men is inherently, irredeemably steeped in whiteness, and racism, or something.
Let me guess, they’re distinguished by not being a man.
Anyone who’d sit around advancing such claims strikes me as someone who can’t do the work they’re complaining about. Worried about men writing AI, go write an AI. Nobody’s stopping you. Oh, right, it’s hard work. Much easier to just bitch about it than to do it.
Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IkLhv3TTY
AI is sexist because there aren’t enough female programmers. I guess aviation, mining, and fishing are also sexist.
[moves fingers over lips Looney Tunes style]
dear god, this one is way worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-O3LaSEcVw
That’s some deep dive derpage there, Professor.
Most people stop before they reach the bottom of the barrel. But you have to keep going, then lift up the barrel to see what’s under it.
She needs to be in a different line of work like maybe….making sandwiches?
Perfect example of the mental illness someone was describing earlier.
Gravity is like totally sexist because Newton came up with the laws for it, so it’s misogynistic.
This is how they actually think. That math and science aren’t based on laws of physics but rather are social constructs. Men kept women and brown people out of science so that white men could dominate.
If we get more girls in STEM, science will be more equitable. (Total failure to recognize that science and math are absolutes and that white men happened to write down notations to describe it, not that they made it up.)
Now, if you want to be able to launch a rocket using something other than the laws of science, good luck with that.
The holy father is beginning to question his programming. Soon his head will explode like robot santa claus.
So the robots will really say “kill all the non-white humans”?
The pontiff has obviously not watched Battlestar Galactica.
This has all happened before. This will all happen again.
This has all happened before. This will all happen again.
*slow clap*
I’m starting to have less and less regard for the “vulnerable or older population” lately. Thanks, the world.
“You’ve lived long enough, pops. Time to make room for somebody new.”
What flavor of soylent would you like to be? We have Barbacue-You, Dahmer’s Choice, Sweet and Sour Long Pig, and Tomb Ranch.
The things they do look awful cold!
Mex I’ll have to give this beer a try.
I downed 4 Wicked Weed S’mores Imperial Stouts last night.
They were really good, a little chocolate and vanilla taste with a hint of cinnamon. 9% ABV however, so I should not have ended my night with them.
Wicked Weed makes some good stuff.
And the fleas demand to be put in charge of the circus, ch 639
Porter Wright, the law firm that reportedly faced internal backlash over its involvement in Donald Trump’s election-related legal efforts, has abruptly withdrawn from one of the most significant cases the president is levying in Pennsylvania, although it continues to represent him in another case where its own partner was a witness.
The firm, based in Columbus, Ohio, with an office in Pittsburgh, filed a motion on Thursday to stop representing the Trump campaign in its effort in federal court to halt the certification of results from last week’s presidential election in Pennsylvania. Mr. Trump lost Pennsylvania to Democrat Joe Biden by a margin that currently stands at more than 58,000 votes.
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According to a report in The New York Times earlier this week, associates at Porter Wright said — in two meetings with the firm’s partners — that they objected to the work with Mr. Trump’s campaigns. At least one lawyer quit in protest, the paper reported. The Times cited conversations with three current and former employees.
“You don’t actually understand what a paycheck is, or where it comes from, do you?”
One more step down Banana Republic Road.
They are scared if they lose Commiela will jail them too. This is what happens when you have totalitarian shitbags like AOC mouthing off about making lists of people to hold responsible for their political opinions and affiliations. If they get what they want they will eventually get around to us Glibs.
Trump doesn’t need a lawyer who left his balls in his wife’s purse anyway. WTF.
I’m going to need to open my strategic [head desk] reserve if this crap keeps up:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/14/933968091/a-college-students-coming-home-should-the-whole-family-wear-masks
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“As a mother, it’s just gut-wrenching,” says Brianna’s mom, Toni Schutta. “Can I be inside with my child? If so, for how long? Do we have to wear masks?” she asks.
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Students should stay masked up after they return home, says epidemiologist Guzman-Cottrill.
“The only time they should be removing their mask should be when they are eating and eating in a separate room, I think, is the safest decision, or eating outdoors,” she says.
And while it may seem like this takes the joy out of the holiday, with the virus surging across the country, the extra precautions are worth taking, our experts say.
“The last thing we want is big family gatherings that end up being somebody’s last Thanksgiving,” Smith says.
And there are all sorts of things that you can do outdoors with your family that are safer than meals, says Smith.
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Lady, just because you *have* one doesn’t mean you need to *be* one.
If your college student tries to stay masked at home, rip that diaper off their face and take a belt to their backside until it’s black and blue.
Yes, I am angry today.
And if “experts” come along demanding complaince, shoot, shovel, and shut up.
Alternately you could recognize that your college age kids are adults and if you don’t like them wearing masks at most you can demand they leave your property, as for “experts” demanding anything , ignore them. Of course this means you wont get to hurt anybody and where’s the fun in that?
QUIET, YOU!
By the standards of those pushing masks, the college students are not adults.
So if they’re children…
As for the experts, their removal is a positive good.
Adults are few and far between these days.
If you call a tail leg how many legs does a dog have?
“positive good” – how very eugenicist of you.
Fifteen.
And it’s not their genes that make these “experts” a problem.
“Last Thanksgiving” sounds like some shitty Emo song. Maybe Morrisey. Or My Chemical Romance.
This isn’t ever going to end, is it? These people are clearly enjoying their turn in the spotlight to quietly give this up.
No. Masks will become another trendy fashion accessory.
I was just at the recycling place, dumping oil. It’s outdoors, quite spread out, and there were a half dozen people there. I was the only one unmasked. These people are starting to worry me.
I was just at a local brewery getting a growler filled and a couple of pints in case DeWine (Douchebag – OH) decides to shut everything down again. I’ve now got a growler of Peanut Butter Porter sitting in my fridge.
The brewery is hoping that at least they’ll be able to keep selling to go orders if everything gets shut down again, otherwise, they probably won’t make it. They opened a couple weeks before the shutdown orders started.
I passed a woman outside earlier today walking down the street in a sparkly bedazzled mask without a care in the world.
UGH! I feared (back in March) that once masks started becoming fashion accessories we would NEVER be rid of them.
They’ve been fashion accessories in Asia for a while
We had a funny at work. During a crew briefing, one of my guys was wearing a colorful Incredible Hulk mask. Someone loudly asked him why he had a pair of little boys’ underwear on his face. That took care of that.
Fuck off. It’s our risk to take. We are not your property to direct.
The gods are angry. Very very ANGRY
A member of President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force urged Americans on Friday to avoid traveling over Thanksgiving, saying it would only make the pandemic much worse.
“Right now we have a fire blazing, and to me traveling and spending time with people over the holidays is sort of like pouring gasoline on a fire,” Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of Biden Covid-19 advisory board, said during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “It’s just not a good idea in the middle of a pandemic, especially at this juncture.”
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Public health officials and infectious disease experts are worried about the next few months. The approaching holidays are setting the country up for a lethal winter and spring since hospitalizations and deaths lag newly diagnosed infections by a few weeks, said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Toronto.
“The upcoming holidays of Thanksgiving, Diwali, Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s create the potential for innumerable super-spreading events across the country,” he said in a recent interview. “This has the potential to introduce and reintroduce the virus to new areas and to further exacerbate community transmission.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been warning about the risks of celebrating Thanksgiving this year, saying small household gatherings, especially with people you don’t live with, are an important contributor to the rise in Covid cases. The agency said celebrating virtually or with members of your own household poses the lowest risk for spread
We must appease them.
We must make a great display of our fear.
And they can just fuck right off.
But they won’t.
I don’t care about the risk of spread. At all.
I care about the risk of me not getting to spend more time with my folks, who are probably not getting many more trips around the sun…
Oh, and if you’re going to bring up a ‘virtual gathering’ or some similar bullshit, please have the courtesy to bring it up to my face, so I can break your jaw. I have a roll of quarters right here in my pocket.
I thought you were just happy to see me.
Reminds me of the old used up hooker who went out working. She came home and her pimp asked her how much she made. She said, ” 150 dollars and 25 cents” Pimp asked, ” who’s the cheap bastard that only gave you a quarter? She says, ” They all did!” holding up two big bags of change.
I laughed.
Naw, that’s just my gun.
And there are all sorts of things that you can do outdoors with your family that are safer than meals, says Smith.
We used to go outside and play “touch” football after Thanksgiving dinner. It was not safer than eating dinner. Not even close.
“things that you can do outdoors with your family”
Like knock ‘expert’ down, form a circle around them and kick them until shit comes out of their nose instead of their mouth?
I’m taking my kid to go skate Pedlow Skatepark certainly not safer!
I heard a joke about Zeno’s paradox, but it didn’t go anywhere.
That’s the one where the punch line is, “Come to think of it, you can’t get there from here.”
Right?
Did you ever have one of those days when you’re Charlie Browning along, find a shiny quarter on the ground and then someone comes up behind you and kicks you in the nards? Then at the hospital the cute nurse gives you a handy? And that’s when you discover that her boyfriend is the Proctologist? That’s been my day so far.
Ah yes, the proctologist…
Shouldn’t complain overmuch. It’s a picture postcard perfect Winter day out there. Then you see Poppy and all bets are off.
So, you’re the guy in the black helicopter that’s always following me around!
Nope. I’m the idea of the black helicopter that is buzzing around inside your head.
How the hell did it get through all that tin foil?
Insidiously.
You’re freakin me out, man!
There are four lights
There is one Glib and his name is Tulpa!
You must have good insurance.
I couldn’t afford the deductible on the cute nurse this go year for open enrollment.
Poor Festus. Care to go into detail?
New satire submitted last night. Help me write the next one. Ideas:
New Stealth Fighter Blocks Pilot’s Access to Twitter
KKK, Antifa Merge to Form Klantifa
Man Escapes Deadly Pandemic on Motorcycle
Biden Vows to Defeat Trump in His First 100 Days
Antifa Pickets Graveyards to Protect Privacy of Dead Voters
Klantifa.
Yep. Keeper.
+1
Derpy is the Mole. Confirmed.
QUIET, YOU!
AND I AM NOT THE MOLE!
You are so moley that hairs grow out of you!
That means he’s healthy still.
That’s exactly what the mole would say.
Got a bottle of wine? pass it over…
“I did a lot of drugs back then, & married a broad named Cher …. I don’t recommend either to anyone” ~ Gregg Allman
Been listening to this for about 40 years, I just keep liking it even more!
Dude. That’s awesome.
The turn out in DC today fills me with hope.
Hope for a more evenly matched civil war?
It’s on multiple levels, but I can put it all under the umbrella that people are paying attention and care deeply about the direction this country is heading.
I know, I feel similarly. But those people are out there and they ain’t stopping. I’d like to think most of us want to be free, it just don’t seem like it’s very reasonable, anymore. ‘Specially if the cheating stands.
Guess, I gotta keep on smilin’
(?*10)^2
A confederacy of slavers
Gov. Tom Wolf will meet with the governors of New York, New Jersey and other northeastern states this weekend to discuss possibly coordinating new restrictions to help curb COVID-19 spread as as a second wave of the coronavirus grips the region.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the “emergency summit” on Friday. Gov. Phil Murphy’s office confirmed the meeting to NJ Advance Media, saying the discussion will be held virtually.
“Governor Murphy looks forward to continuing our work with our regional partners to address the public health crisis,” spokesman Mahen Gunaratna said.
The summit will also include the governors of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
I wish them nothing but luck, and success in their endeavors. They are Great Men (and women).
Close down the bridges!
Cancel Thanksgiving!
Hide under your bed until spring!
Fuck those guys. Fuck them all. They’re fucking murderers.
Fuck those guys. Fuck them all. They’re fucking murderers.
Seconded.
Present for the Suthenboy – https://youtu.be/DTXuXx1-8gA
Thank you. I took so long to see because I had a few things to get done.
Cuomo said the group will discuss possibly coordinating more regulations on bars, restaurants, bars, and gyms, as well as limits on gatherings and interstate travel.
That horrible nagging suspicion that someone, somewhere, is enjoying himself.
I think that’s when they start scratching at their superfluous third nipple on their back and need to don the Cone Of Shame. Doesn’t matter. Itches need scritching.
I for one am happy for the return of winter, because it means I can find stouts and porters again! This one by Guinness is not their ubiquitous draught stout made at the St. James Gate Brewery I toured in Dublin. This instead is made at their Open Gate Brewery in Baltimore. So like last time, make sure check this for foreign objects, traces of bodily fluids, or methamphetamines before drinking it. I found it quite enjoyable and even had the whiskey hangover that I experience occasion when drinking this sort of thing. Guinness Open Gate Imperial Stout (aged in bourbon barrels): 4.1/5
Stouts and porters are fine for year round consumption.
This sounds like a good beer.
I received a free export stout at one of the restaurants at the Guinness brewery. The bar staff poured it by mistake for another customer. My waiter brought it over to me and asked me if I wanted it since I was already drinking some export stout. He told me they would dump it otherwise. I gladly took it.
There is a Goose Island Burbon barrel stout that is very tasty as well. A tad pricey for my broke ass but very tasty nonetheless.
Goose Island Bourbon Barrel Stout is excellent.
Goose Island is the originator of the Bourbon Barrel aging of stouts. Previous to that, the barrels were considered waste, now they fetch a hefty sum for selling them.
Carry your pain ’til you finally go insane
One of my favorite songs from when I was in elementary school.
Used to cruise around and my friends would be pissed. ” Don’t you have any Iron Maiden, or something?” LOL.
Soooo, apparently my Guv and his SoS are in cahoots to oust the OMB. Not good. WTF.
Tom Woods on lockdowns and mask mandates
For the record, we have shared some of the material he covers below. (We have close to 800 posts that include the search term COVID). We’ve got loads of links and reports and research, but he adds more (below) in a short time.
He also provides more links (resources, facts, evidence) that you can follow up with to reinforce your anti-COVID-Cult armor.
As New Hampshire’s geographical neighbors cower in fear and unnecessarily punish their residents (as may be the case in your state or elsewhere outside New England), we need to be prepared to make the case against that to prevent it or if you already have it, to end it.
The more people you can convert out of the cult, the more likely your success.
Mr. Woods has compressed the details into a few minutes. He provides access to his free E-book with more facts. And we also have a link to his longer presentation because I’m sure you will want to hear more.
As I recall all of the studies on masks going back 50 years showed 1) masks make risks worse, 2) masks make no difference or 3) Inconclusive.
Do I remember that wrong? It is just a coincidence that suddenly when the government whips up fear and wants to mandate them studies pop up showing masks are very effective.
It looks like about half of the country will swallow any horseshit the commies shovel at them.
I could be wrong on the studies but that is the way I remember it. I am too tired to look it up.
Dude, they were telling us in April not to bother with masks. It wasn’t clear if they really believed that or if they were saying it in order to make more masks available for “essential workers”.
The “more available” for essential workers stuff doesn’t wash because they presumably would be wearing the disposable ones and not the cloth ones.
The basic rundown on mask science prior to April 2020:
They were used almost universally in San Francisco in 1918 for the flu and the California board of health director said they had no effect on the epidemic curve. He further experimented and found the problem was that a persons breath had to go somewhere and generally that meant out the top and sides of the mask.
Several studies have been done in the surgical theater on post operative infections for masked vs unmasked surgeries. None showed any benefit to the masked surgeries, a few showed a benefit to unmasked surgeries but not to a significant degree. One of the largest hospitals in Sweden no longer requires masks for unscrubbed surgical staff because of this. Tunevall was the lead researcher on one of the most famous studies of this if you like to look it up. There’s also a Cochrane review which concludes much the same.
A study of health care workers in Vietnam involving cloth masks vs surgical masks saw the cloth mask group have rates of 11 times more of influenza like illness. Because of the area of the world, a proper control (no masks) was unavailable so the control was people wear whatever the hell they want. In any event, the researchers concluded that because there’s been little evidence to show much effectiveness of disposable surgical masks in preventing influenza, it’s like the cloth masks were not only not preventing illness, but potentially causing some.
Finally, if you want to get into some Orwellian shit, in early April Dr. Lisa Brosseau published an article on the lack of evidence of the utility of masks on the CIDRAP website. Somewhere along the line, CIDRAP (probably at the direction of new Biden advisor Osterholm) added a whole bunch of weaseling and backtracking of about the same length of the article itself before you could read the whole article. I’m guessing they wanted to memory hole the whole thing, but I’m also guessing Brosseau would have screamed bloody murder. The article has 52 scientific sites:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data
A similar thing happened on the Oral Health Group site when an article from 2016 about the lack of scientific evidence on the utility of masks had been making the rounds on Twitter and the internets. Some time in July, the Oral Health Group removed the article and replaced it with a note that said it was “no longer relevant.”
That’s the current state of affairs when it comes to SCIENCE on this issue: dissent is no longer acceptable in scientific inquiry
Greenbrier officially booked for next month. ?
Resort? Something that B’rer Bear needs to toss you in?
Resort in WV.
Resort and West Virginia seems a bit incongruous to me. Is that where you go to recreationally get black lung or the Ned Beatty treatment?
😉
I actually wanted to go out to Nemacolin (PA) again, and stay at the Falling Rock. Their rates are a bit on the high side right now.
But they have casinos!
I think it used to be a presidential bunker? I saw a tennis tournament there recently.
Bunker for continuing the government in the event of very bad things.
We did the historical tour a couple years back. Fascinating stuff.
The Dems already have their template for permastealing elections. To my surprise, it’s already been introduced once. It’ll be back.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvesting-the-2020-election-11605221974?mod=djemalertNEWS&fbclid=IwAR1XIyG5T7n7xlhRAK7dmR7vpHNItwlkSLCD7wgbVn_NV1kYiiTIB-MisEw
The bill would require states to offer early voting. They also would have to allow Election Day and online voter registration, diluting the accuracy of voting rolls. H.R. 1 would make states register voters automatically from government databases, including federal welfare recipients. Colleges and universities were designated as voter-registration hubs, and 16-year-olds would be registered to vote two years in advance. The bill would require “no fault” absentee ballots, allowing anyone to vote by mail, for any reason. It envisioned prepaid postage for federal absentee ballots. It would cripple most state voter-ID laws. It left in place the “ballot harvesting” rules that let paid activists canvass neighborhoods to hoover up absentee votes.
Yeah not happening.
We will see if the never Trumpers and pinkos get what they voted for.
Fuck you, no
If voting is soooooo important, shouldn’t it require some effort on the part of the voter?
The end game here is that it will require no effort at all because your vote will not mean shit anyway. It might be fun to sit home, wish you had some popcorn and find out who you voted for the next morning.
Happy to report that 3.5 lb pork loin turned out wonderfully. Thanks for the tips.
I cheated on my pork and bought hot tamales from a vendor on the side of the road, whipped up some chipotle sauce and grated some extra sharp cheddar over them. yum.
I am not knocking the store bought ones, they aren’t bad….but they can’t hold a candle to these and I did not have to make them.These are home made and chock full of really delicious pork.
Oh, and these came in shucks, not freezer paper like the commercial ones.
Anyone in touch with Commodious? It’s been a week since he’s odd late night posting. He posted on the IFLA post the next day, and I haven’t seen him since.
I took a nap and decided to go get a cheeseburger, then on the way home I stopped by the hills and put some rounds through the 9. On the highway there was a line at least a mile long of trucks with Trump flags. I am not sure what that proves since this place solidly went for OMB.
CommieLa will bomb them first.