Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely beautiful morning it always is!
Trump campaign appeals PA lawsuit.
Trump legal team clarifies that Sidney Powell is not a member of the legal team.
Sidney Powell agrees with the statement.
The corrupt corporate media spins and lies.
MI AG suggests criminally charging Republican legislators for meeting with Trump.
Media and Democrats now love forever war.
The new marshmallow media in the Biden era.
Researchers withdraw study showing efficacy of mask mandates.
Panic buying toilet paper trending again.
Guitar Center files for bankruptcy.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
People don’t play real instruments like the Olden Times……
I play the stereo!
I’m the only one know that even owns a real stereo, it’s that bad,
I wear my war wounds like a crown too.
So you have stripped your sleeve, showed your scars and recounted what you did on St. Crispin’s Day?
No Waffle Houses in Alaska. And Granny B’s in Anchorage, the home of the best blueberry pancakes in the known universe, has closed down, a victim of the Kung Flu panic.
Such is 2020.
That’s terrible. The lost value and opportunities (financial, but also cultural and spiritual) will be replaced eventually but will never truly come back.
Also, I’m double sad because I really, really want to try those pancakes and see how they stack up (tee hee) against the ur-blueberry pancake from the long gone Schoffield’s Wooden Spoon in Marathon, Florida.
Silly l0b0t. Our elite betters ensure me that starting and stopping a business is like flipping a light switch. As soon as the omnipotent “authorities” give permission the lost businesses will simply reappear as if nothing happened.
That’s what they teach you at Harvard Business School after all.
Yes our “betters” who keep preaching follow the science, follow the science.
Oh no, not THAT science.
This morning NPR said “we know” that most cases of the ‘vid are spread assymptomatically.
assymptomatically
The HM signal, you lit it.
Assuredly.
Tucker has done a world class job during this fiasco.
If that study is accurate, I’m spectacularly pissed.
Regardless of the accuracy of the study, I’m pissed.
Freedom means more than 50 kinds of cereal at Walmart. It has to, it just has to.
And Granny B’s in Anchorage, the home of the best blueberry pancakes in the known universe, has closed down, a victim of the Kung Flu panic.
Fuck.
RE: Sean’s horrific twatter video filling grade schoolers’ heads with transgender propaganda.
https://i.imgflip.com/4nimdp.jpg
Well obviously the foreskin can be used to fashion the new man/lady vagina.
Local Walmart had some toilet paper, but had a limit of 1 pack per person. I got 2 packs because they were out of the big packs, and the self checkout let me do it. I may stop in again today and pick up a couple more if we’re gonna be going through this shit again.
?
You are awarded one “Get Out Of Narrowed Gaze” for that.
this shit again
That’s just how I roll
So there’s no hope of wiping up this mess?
You are awarded 6 tickets to the shit show. Keep them dry and use them wisely.
HOARDER! KULAK!
I’ve been slowly building a stockpile over the past several months. Things like adding a Costco sized pack of TP, canned tuna, canned chicken, and peanut butter to every order I make. Same with rice and beans from Aldis and frozen veggies for the deep freeze from the grocery store.
I’d estimate we have a year of tp and food stockpiled now, not counting beef on the hoof. We’ll eat through the tuna, pb, and veggies since these are household staples. I’ll be very happy if I end up throwing out the extra rice and beans in 30 years.
I’m starting the bulk buying again. We had a small stock (3 months or so) back at the old place, but we gave it away when we moved.
Our biggest impediment right now is space. I have 100lbs of flour and 50lbs of rice sitting in the middle of the garage floor with no place to go, and our fridge and freezer are packed to the gills just with Thanksgiving stuff. I miss having a basement.
Yeah, I can understand that. I still need to work out some kind of shelving system for our basement. There’s stuff scattered across a few different rooms in the meantime.
Suggestion: Buy galvanized garbage cans, line with garbage bags then stack your flour/rice in them. If you need them sealed put the lids on. and use duct tape to seal them.
You should do that right away before mice discover your horde. Don’t use the plastic garbage cans as they will deform over time and mice can chew their way into them.
I have some airtight, stackable pet food containers. I toss in a handful of oxygen absorbers and seal ’em up. Supposedly, in that configuration, they’re good for the better part of a decade.
30 years? The Twenty Five Thousanders will have collected your rice long before then.
I’m going to need more ammo.
I have a year’s supply or mod of tp due to my mistake in trying to change an Amazon subscription. I thought I was changing the frequency, but added another instead. I definitely have it fixed now, but I also have a lot (seriously, a lot) of tp. Oh well, it’s not like it will spoil.
I’m also stocked up on pet food, my freezer is full and I have cleaning supplies, yeast and flour.
That’s a TP Flex right there.
That stuff will be like gold.. After civilization collapses people with TP will be the new masters…
The comments on the Hill article are comedy gold. It’s amazing that ostensible adults write that stuff; it’s less coherent than a bathroom stall. At least the bathroom stall tells me where I can find a good time.
Look at Mr Ritzy here. Goes to high class places where the bathrooms have stalls (for privacy). If you have stalls you ain’t country.
Fancy pants probably wipes his ass with glossy magazine pages too.
“being at war is now the default and needs no defense”
Dood, have you been in a coma for the last 60 years or something?
After 60 years of defense maybe try a little offense. Vikings are obviously not at war.
Yup. Wholesle club out of TP and paper towels.
Powell is aspiring to be the next Alan Dershowitz?
Did she even know Epstein?
“The liberal Democrat is now exploring whether state legislators who met with Donald Trump this week are guilty of criminal conduct”
“Liberal” – You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
So, meeting with the president is criminal conduct? Novel legal theory, unless of course it’s a banana republic.
Duh. The meeting is prima facie evidence of a criminal conspiracy. And you know it’s serious because de minimus no curat lex. Res ipsa loquitur. Dolce et decorum est pro patria mori et cetera.
He’s using Latin so he must know what he’s talking about!
My law school was right next door to the prestigious Beverly Hils Upstairs Medical College.
30 Rock’s Jenna Maroney is a graduate of The Royal Tampa Academy of Dramatic Tricks – https://youtu.be/e2LRemtvWGk
Wasn’t her character based off of Amy Poehler?
“No one who speaks German could be an evil man.”
I provide this link only to show the terrifying prophetic powers of SugarFree.
The byline – Astra Taylor.
Alternate headline:
“How the Biden administration can bail out wealthy idiots’ poor decisions by stealing from poor people”
Get what you pay for in education
/Looks at public schools
I like: “How the Biden administration can fool American taxpayers into forking over a trillion dollars to banks and universities.”
The pharmacists at my work were positively giddy about the possibility of their student loans being partially forgiven due to COVID.
I don’t think most people realize that “student loan forgiveness” is going to be, in many cases, taxing uneducated, low-income workers more so they can throw a handout to professionals making six figures.
The corrupt corporate media spins and lies.
I thought the Trump team said she was not on the payroll in the first place.
She has been at the pressers with crazy Rudy, did she jyst come uninvited?
She showed up in a suit with a nice briefcase, and everyone just assumed she belonged there.
I’ve read they need to make a legal distinction since she may be making charges that are at odds with what Trump campaign funds can be used for (such as implicating some GOP along with Dems).
Who knows. I do think it’s interesting that the brief statement Powell released this morning noted she has never billed the Trump campaign for any expenses or fees. That’s kind of an odd statement to make unless you are trying to make the distinction very clear besides distancing.
Incidence of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children: 2009–2018
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/11/17/peds.2020-0771
As part of the process of transitioning kids you should at least get them off sugar
Changes in the Prevalence and Correlates of Weight-Control Behaviors and Weight Perception in Adolescents in the UK, 1986-2015
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.4746
Findings This study, which used data from a total of 22 503 adolescents in 3 UK cohorts spanning 30 years, found that the prevalence of behaviors aimed at achieving weight loss increased in 2015 compared with both 2005 and 1986 and that this change was not explained by known changes in body mass index alone. Weight-control behaviors increased more in boys than in girls, but among the latter, these behaviors were associated with greater depressive symptoms in 2015 compared with 2005 and 1986.
Meaning These findings suggest that an increased societal and public health focus on obesity could have had unintended consequences related to weight-control behaviors and poor mental health; thus, public health campaigns around the prevention of obesity should include prevention of disordered eating behaviors and be sensitive to adverse outcomes such as poor mental health.
My kids are not fat! Just short for their weight…
Michigan AG Nessel and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. Once again, the media is silent on this abusive use of the criminal code.
But Trump is a fascist, especially since he is using the legal system. It’s a total coup.
You have to stoop to the Nazis tactics to beat the Nazis!
The way she’s gripping that mic – frightening.
Mammary Monday kicks off a short week with two big squishy bangs!
https://archive.li/R7tmT
NB: Mrs. Q is up yet another bra size, approaching cartoon territory. She always did have a rather improbable body shape to begin with and it’s been turned up to 11. Me likey.
She’ll end up singing “gravity, is working against me.“
#54 was my fav. She appears to be a chubby girl using cropping and the water to hide thickness in her arms and thighs. Ginormous natural tits are made out of fat – embrace that it will be distributed elsewhere.
I really want to like #2. I looked at her iChive gallery. I saw the face diaper picture. Disqualified.
An illustrated thread on masks:
Many people are still totally devoted to the idea that ‘the science’ proves that masks are effective. They relentlessly share reports, research, data & pictures of people urinating on one another to prove their point. Let’s pretend they’re right.
https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1330562373917274113
We are proceeding to prepare our lawsuit and plan to file it this week. It will be epic. We will not allow this great Republic to be stolen by communists from without and within or our votes altered or manipulated by foreign actors
Stop teasing me!
“Getting married seemed to sour my relationship with my wife.”
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13270067/wife-cheated-sister-pregnant-revenge-sex/
Is involuntary sterilization still a faux pas?
Huh. That’s how my son was conceived.
You had sex with your wife’s younger sister? Damn
Ex-girlfriend. She only did it to spite her older sister. Never have a kid with someone that hates you, it will not go well.
UNCLE-DADDY!
Guy’s just trying to get a little sumpin’ sumpin’. Can’t blame him for that can you?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/undertakers-nephew-arrested-having-sex-23052443
Once you go dead, you never go….
I got nutthing…
He got nutting.
*narrows gaze*
Trump got the entirety of corporate media behind “Akshully Troops in Afghanistan & Iraq are good”
“He is like totally abandoning our allies!”
Being a 2020 Democrat means you are in favor of meaningless foreign wars, censorship by tech oligarchs, medical dictatorship, and crushing the working class and small businesses.
And we are supposed to believe they won this election.
I’ll never believe it.
“Legendary” “reporter” demonstrates the journalistic skills of a middle school girl.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8976975/Watergate-reporter-Carl-Bernstein-lists-21-GOP-senators.html
Under a photo of Lou Holtz – that’s funny.
Donald Trump is an outsider who, despite lots of flaws, represents normal Americans. They despise him because they despise us.
I was watching something on YT, and there was a McCain vid captioned with “don’t insult my intelligence” and it was about his confrontation with the Obama Admin Secty of the Air Force. He was ragging on the A-10 retirement plans, and she mentioned the aircraft that had conducted close air support recently. That included the B-1 and McCain was incredulous; then the USAF 4-star told him how many sorties that the B-1 (and F-15) had flown in Afghanistan. Did McCain stand corrected? Of course not. What a shitstain that guy was.
Anyway, all of that to affirm, yes they do think that little of all of us.
I’d be incredulous of a claim that the B1 was a close support platform as well.
Long loiter time plus precision guided weapons makes for good close support.
That’s the Air Force refrain, but I remain skeptical. I will defer to those who actually served though.
If the Afghanis had been driving Russian tanks, then the A-10 would’ve been indispensable, since that is what the damn thing was designed to kill.
It works when the enemy has limited air defense but a bunch of orbiting bombers would be dead meat otherwise
Thank you however this was calling Murphy a dick. I’ll do the same if I ever meet him.
“If the Afghanis had been driving Russian tanks, then the A-10 would’ve been indispensable, since that is what the damn thing was designed to kill.”
Maybe I am misinterpreting you here, but it seems as though you are saying that the A 10 is unsuited for the role because the enemy was not in tanks and the A 10 was developed as a tank killer? The B1 was developed as a strategic nuclear bomber. I admit I have no personal experience of combat, but I think if I were crouched behind a wall under fire I’d rather have the guy providing close support be at treetop level not 70,000 feet up.
When the A-10s were nearby, NOBODY bothered us. Nothing busts up a mud brick compound or an ambush like a Warthog.
They used them because of the range and because they weren’t going to get shot down. No way would they do that in a war against a real adversary.
I thought the same thing but searching for the video (McCain really comes of as a jerk) led me to this – https://breakingdefense.com/2014/05/sen-mccain-b-1s-really-do-cas/
I know they have used them for close support. I am questioning the wisdom. They are expensive and ill suited for the role. The Air Force has a long history of wanting the cool shiny faster, higher, bigger toy, even when the need is for cheaper and uglier. The fact that McCain was a shitstain doesn’t invalidate every word he ever uttered.
Agreed, and as mentioned above, against an adversary with aircraft and/or ADA, those bombers are rather vulnerable (that’s the sort of target we Vulcan/Stinger guys dream about). As a former beneficiary of CAS, I would love to see the A10 moved over to an organic Army unit, but USAF will never let that happen.
The reality is that you have to gain full air superiority – aka the other side can’t put any aircraft up without it getting shot down – to dare to use B-1 bombers extensively, because they are so damned expensive. Same with slow close air support craft like the A-10, for a different reason – they are vulnerable to modern fighter jets, but in the absence of that, they can do their role with deadly efficiency.
That’s a key thing about A-10s – they’re demons to what is on the ground and sitting ducks to anything above them. That’s why the USAF hates them – because the fighter mafia want to fight (and kill) other pilots.
The A-10 is the plane they couldn’t kill.
French peer-reviewed study of 160 countries: no assoc btwn stringency of govt lockdowns/restrictions & Covid-19 mortality
“Inherent factors predetermined mortality: improve prevention strategies by incr popn resilience—better physical fitness & immunity”
https://twitter.com/dockaurG/status/1330556945946849288
Silly researchers still assuming that the lockdowns have anything at all to do with the virus!
Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
apparently not much asymptomatic transmission
https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/604339/fpubh-08-604339-HTML/image_m/fpubh-08-604339-g006.jpg
Key chart from the study. On the first line, the blue is the stuff that correlates with covid deaths, the red negatively correlates, and the tiny stuff in the middle has basically no effect.
Basically, rich countries with lots of old people and a stagnating or shrinking life expectancy rate and high obesity levels get hit hard.
Shorter version: rich, old, fat, in a temperate climate.
Those factors have a strong tendency to coexist.
As the chart I posted shows, Yes, yes, they do.
Even the latitude one, although that is the weakest correlation between the factors.
Also strongly correlating is the biggest negative factor, infectious disease death rate. That makes sense, of course, as its hard to have a high life expectancy if lots are dying of infectious disease. Covid picks off those that survive the other infections.
Or, C19 is blamed for the deaths from other infections. Unless you believe that the flu death rate miraculously plummeted by 98% since C19 for no apparent reason.
Whew!. Safe at last, safe at last.
+1 permafrost
Good morning Banjos!
Great song. The perfect antidote to all the bullshit in the lynx. I’m trying to decide if things are really this insane across the country or if I’ve just got the lockdown blues.
I’m seeing more and more pushback, so that’s encouraging.
Get out there and give ’em hell, kids!
https://archive.li/cB52m/09a29c2168dccd92b19dd4c5b940a743bc10455a.jpg
Skol!
The next leader of the free world needs a staffer to call on a predetermined list of reporters who the campaign apparently feels won’t press their guy too hard.
The worse part is seeing staffers provide his pudding cup and checking his diaper.
There is a free world? How do I get there?
Drive to South Dakota, or fly to Sweden. Dress warm.
Toilet paper aisles are emptying again as COVID-19 curfews and shutdowns in states from California to New York send pandemic-weary shoppers on a new scramble for essentials.
I don’t get people.
Keep banging on people’s irrationality and then act surprised when people act irrationally? The science, it is a mystery.
If you believe it is not out of the question that authoritarian shites like Newsom might order a hard lockdown – like, nobody gets to leave the house for any reason whatsoever without being arrested – then stocking up might be the rational response.
Recent events have led me to believe that if I don’t stockpile at least a little, when everyone else starts doing it, there won’t be any to be found for months.
Waffle House’s Stand Against Lockdowns Is Exactly What America Needs
So the *insert locality* Waffle House militia is being called up?
LARDers.
Today I turn 49. So far it’s as 2020 a birthday as it can be. I won’t be seeing the usual people today, nor will I see my side of the family or half of my in laws on Thanksgiving due to their fears of Covid. Hockey practice has been cancelled indefinitely. And I’m struggling with marriage issues.
But, I am pretty healthy and I have the whole week off. And I have Glibs wishing me a glorious morning.
You can at least get drunk right?
Oh for sure.
Happy birthday ?
Happy birthday, Kevin!
I hope your troubles are short-lived. Try to enjoy your week off!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, try and enjoy the day. And good luck with the marriage.
Happy Birthday K. Marriage is always tough, sometimes it’s worth it though.
Amen.
Happy birthday
Crazy to think back to childhood and thinking, “Man, I’m gonna be old when the the new millennium starts.” Happy Birthday.
One of my kids was born in 2000. I keep telling her she’s going to brag about being born at the turn of the century when she’s old.
My daughter was born in 2016. Its weird to think that the 20th century is going to be ancient history to her, like WW2 is to me.
Too bad you weren’t born a couple years earlier. I love writing 69 in the YOB.
#metoo
#methree
#mefour
That was the year my son was born. Let’s talk about a Glibertarians breeding program.
Are you suggesting SP is a Bene Gesserit?
Happy birthday!
Today I turn 49
If there is a silver lining to getting another year older it is that you won’t have your doc tell you that you need to get a colonoscopy in 2020. You can wait until next year when this nonsense is over.
Happy B-day though!
Happy Bd!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Kevin! The no hockey thing mystifies me; one would think that exercise should be a higher priority if one is concerned about health.
Illinois government will have its way. Rinks in Indiana are open, they’re just booked so I can’t find ice time.
Wow! Indiana supplies all of Chicago’s MurderDeathGuns AND they still have time to open
hockey rinksmunicipal infection palaces? What a State.Don’t forget the fireworks!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
I don’t give advice much, particularly on marriage, but ask yourself if love is there and if so, review your common history and common goals. If the goals have diverged, try to get them converged.
Welcome to the age 49 club! You’re three months younger than me.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I think this will be a good week. I got deer on Friday so grilled tenderloins are now on the menu for Thanksgiving. And additionally, the sun has not yet gone red giant so we are all still here.
Got one last Monday and another on Friday. Local meat guy is doing the work so all I’ll have to do is eat. Mrs F says “No Thanks”, breaks my heart, (Pass that platter down, would ya?”)
Good shooting, Claypool
Used to have a place nearby that did the processing for cheap, but my buddy lent and hand and we got two deer processed in a few hours… would have been much less had we not rebuilt the gear-motor on his grinder.
For anyone curious, this is the best recipe I’ve found for the less tasty cuts of wild game meat.
https://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/hunting/deer-hunting/2009/10/how-cook-venison-pumpkin-curry/
I usually substitute the pumpkin for something more readily available like acorn squash.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, youngin’
Happy birthday, KevIn. You still have all of us to hang with. (That’s either a feature or a bug.) ????
HBD TOK!
Good thing they broke up that rave or people could have gotten sick and had a 99.9% chance of survival. Preventing injury and keeping people safe is priority #1.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/22/woman-mauled-by-police-dog-at-yate-rave-given-life-changing-injuries-13636443/
Welcome to the UK, where the police will stand by in confusion as a man with a machete hacks his way through a crowd, but will set the dogs on dancers. The new crop of Great Leaders give us all the tyranny but none of the trains run on time.
Sorry to go OT already but my Monday is not off to a great start. I’m off work all week but just got a text from my 18 year old daughter that she is pregnant. She’s pretty much been living at her boyfriend’s family’s house so it’s not exactly shocking and he is a good guy. Just not really ready to deal with this.
I just wanted to share this somewhere because I can’t really tell anyone else yet. She even asked me not to tell her Mom. They don’t get along very well.
Ouch. Sorry Pal. Grandma will be fine once the gelfling arrives.
Thanks. I hope so
Mazel tov! It may not be under the circumstances that you’d choose for her in the moment, but all that’s gonna be water under the bridge in a few years. I’m sure there will be rough times as they figure out what being an adult and being a parent means in parallel, but with a dad who cares, she has a leg up.
Is boyfriend gonna be able to step up and provide for his new family?
It seems like he is. He has a pretty much full time job and when I asked my daughter how he’s doing she said ‘okay’. Time will tell.
This is pretty much the best advice I have heard yet for someone in this spot.
Congratulations Gramps!
At least you know the kid has good parents and will have poor impulse control, so you can work on that.
I know it’s not under optimal circumstances, but congratulations on the new grand baby.
Congrats, man!
There may never be a perfect time, but you are gonna be great at being a gramps!
Main thing is that he is a good guy, thats something to be happy about. Imagine how youd feel if he was an asshole.
I went through that but my daughter finally made the right decision after 30 years. Some kids take longer to grow up than others.
Regardless of the circumstances we will always love our own and their kids too. It does take a re-thinking of your little girl is now a grown up lady and soon will be having new responsibilities of her own. Plans will change, of course and adjustments will be made but somethings never change. The love of a father for his daughters and grandchildren.
It’s tough but you’ll make it and be as proud as you can be.
Thanks 4×20. A lot I don’t know yet about how it will go but I pray it all works out.
Would it cheer you up grannyfucker if we all chipped in and bought you a subscription to Granny Gash?
Congrats for real though.
Thanks but I’ll pass on the subscription.
My SIL has her daughter under not optimal circumstances. She is an adult with a job but she’s raising her kid on her own. It was pretty traumatic when she found out, but her daughter is the light of our life and such a blessing. Things tend to turn out that way.
Congrats gramps!
Mazel tov! I don’t think anyone is really ready for their first, but it’s a wonderful joyous event regardless.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases telomere length and decreases immunosenescence in isolated blood cells : a prospective trial
https://www.aging-us.com/article/202188
Also get on the anti aging train buy yourself a Hyperbaric chamber as a present… or wait for 50 cause those things are pricey
shit this was supposed to go to the birthday thread
Just think of the results if you start anti-aging before birth!
“Then I’m happy and sad for you.” —Lazlo Hollyfeld
Thanks Mo
My mom had me when she was 17.
We both turned alright (if I do say so myself) eventually.
Congratulations.
Thanks Nick. They are going to have to grow up fast but through most of human history 18 is not that young to be having babies.
Fuckin 2020 though just keeps on giving.
I’m off work all week but just got a text from my 18 year old daughter that she is pregnant.
I have an alibi.
I hope it’s airtight
I see what you did there.
Congratulations on having a grandkid. If the boyfriend is a good guy, I think it will work out.
Bckground note: CGP Grey is an excellent video maker, but not even remotely an expert. His “facts” are derived from the sources he researches.
I’m starting to wonder if this is true and if I’m experiencing it.
Occasionally when I’m shooting I have brief flashes of competence. I am completely willing to believe that it’s just a passing zephyr of Good Luck(tm), but I keep having experiences where
a) there is a difficult, multi-target array
b) the gun goes off
c) before I intend it to
d) multiple times and
e) all the targets fall down or get alpha’d
Like there’s a 15 yard shot leaning around a barricade at a pair of 6″ plates, I’m lining up the shot and I “accidentally” double-tap and both plates fly off. Or yesterday, I’m shooting “Roundabout” and I rip the last three shots in under a second without (in my mind) getting a sight picture on any of those targets.
I’m left-eye dominant and left handed. Is it possible that the right hemisphere is making the shots but not telling the speech/memory part of the brain what it’s doing?
But no such skill yet with closing HTML tags?
Unfortunately the part of my brain that is responsible for HTML-ing properly is underdeveloped.
I saw some of his videos back in the day. They were not entertaining enough to keep watching.
Not even the Pirate ones?
Watch the coffee one then.
Lots of them are fun. Even ones like the US-Canada border ones.
And Glibs should love “rules for rulers”
From people I know in the SpecOps community I have heard that real world expert handgun shooters come in two varieties: a) those who can hit a fixed target with absolute precision, and b) those who can snap shoot a moving target very well. The “a)” types can hit out to greater distances and more precisely but only on non-moving targets. The “b)” types are not so good at hitting fixed targets but are phenomenal at hitting a moving target without using careful aim. From what I am told pistol shooters are either one type or the other.
Maybe you are naturally a “b)” type?
A special kind of near sightedness gives one really good accuracy. I dunno about moving targets. In top form I could put 5 .45 slugs through the same hole at 50 feet…hit a one inch spot was like wiping my nose. I could also hit clays with my pistol 4 out of 5 times if they were going straight away from me. That was when I was younger, stronger, in better practice and had good eyes.
I. guess I was half of each kind. I did ok but there were always those guys, 2 or 3 of them, that I never could beat. Thiiiiiiis close….but never could beat them.
There are many factors involved. Eyesight…different from one day to the next, reflexes different from one day to the next, eye-hand coordination…all of these vary to varying degrees depending on weather, how hydrated you are, how well rested, frame of mind etc.
This is why with shooting you have good days where it seems like luck, and bad days. All of those variables vary to varying degrees each and so it is impossible to predict what kind of day you are going to have.
Been there many times.
Oh yeah, luck is a thing, and the mental game is just about everything. By the end of the day when it’s hot and I’m all brain-melted and I”m just “fuck the stage plan, I just want to finish the day and not get DQ’d”
It’s just having the experience of thinking the gun went off accidentally and starting to freak out about my trigger discipline… and realize that I’m hearing steel ringing and the plates are falling is just weird.
It probably WAS me just being insalnely lucky witha a couple of NDs, but it’s also the stuff superstitions are made of.
Metabolic Effects of Late Dinner in Healthy Volunteers—A Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-abstract/105/8/2789/5855227
Conclusion
LD induces nocturnal glucose intolerance, and reduces fatty acid oxidation and mobilization, particularly in earlier sleepers. These effects might promote obesity if they recur chronically.
Pwnd.
Sorry Liz, can’t accept the results of an election with hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes cast, enough to easily flip the Election. You’re just unhappy that I’m bringing the troops back home where they belong!
A guy I used to work with used to sing Levon to me. But he’d change it it Kev-on.
Did you at least give him a pity fuck?
green vegetables five times per week, beef three times per week, 300 mL whole milk per day, and whole dairy butter reduce upper respiratory infections in children
https://twitter.com/ArHu99/status/1329823284586811394
That seems to be far too many factors to get a legitimate result.
They were also feeding the kids tons of sugar… Why not claim that was what helped them stop the sick?
Information about Disinformation, good stuff,
https://www.aier.org/article/the-blizzard-of-bogus-journalism-on-covid/
I’m stepping away from commenting for awhile. I’m breaking apart. I’m on a very short fuse lately. Keep catching myself swearing like a logger and not taking much of anything in stride. I need to tone down on the drinking for good measure. I’ll be lurking but everything is blowing up right now and maybe it’s best if I just sat and listened for a bit. You guys are the best but life is overwhelming me.
I sympathize. I hope you feel better soon.
Keep the moustache clean and groomed, and everyting else will fall into place.
Good luck on the tit calming exercise. A few days of being unplugged will do you wonders, I’m sure. I have a feeling that I’ll be following you down that path in a week or two. Sometimes a good solid detox is just what the doctor ordered.
Sorry Festus. May your tits find the calmness they deserve.
I’ll definitely miss your comments. Feel better.
Uffda. Hang in there Festus.
I spent almost 10 days pretty much offline during deer hunting and it was fantastic for the mental health.
I was offline for our fall travels thru New England, that kind of break is heartily recommended.
I’m with you – I’ve been stress-testing my arteries the last month or so. The gym is my release, but I hit it so hard I fucked up an ankle and both shoulders so now I’m frustrated there too.
I’ve taken to listening to classical music instead of the news.
Share a parking lot beer with me if you got time. Seems to cool my jets. Take it easy, Fest.
I took a week or so off from even reading here. You guys are great, but still a tie to Politics, and every once in a while you just have to cut all politics out. Hope things turn aorund Festus.
Dude, take the time away if it feels necessary.
Thanks for letting us know so we don’t have to worry what happened. I will look forward to seeing you around here once you find your center – or at least something resembling a better place for you.
Brother Festus, you are a treasure and I hope you feel better soon. Feel free to drop me a line (l0b0tnik at that don’t be evil email place).
Good plan. We’ll be here when you get back.
Be well, dude.
Love you, Festus.
Good luck man. I’ve gotten thru my snitfit. Now I’m starting to read the Stoics again.
A big thumbs up to the Stoics. I’m not sure where my mindset would be today if I hadn’t come across them and learned how to accept the things I can’t control.
I’d also recommend meditation for anyone struggling with stress/anxiety/anger issues. It’s not all based on mysticism; the kind I do is a psychological exercise rather than anything religious in nature. And you don’t have to be exceptionally good at it to start getting some benefits – I felt better after the first time, and the more you learn to focus, the better it will work.
One of the best parts about meditation (looking solely at the physiological aspects) is the silence. Your brain does a lot of self healing when it isn’t supporting active conscious thought.
The one thing that got me through the night law school experience was meditation/quiet time. 30-45 minutes where I actively pushed any thought away and just immersed myself in nothingness (or in the sounds of nature). I, obviously, had an additional religious component attached, but the physiological benefits don’t go away if you ignore the religious part.
The closest I’ve been able to get to meditation lately has been Bible reading. It’s a 5 minute devotional, and I try to wall off that time in the morning so there are no distractions. I could probably use more and more dedicated quiet time given my increasing anxiety and intemperateness, but you take what you can get.
We all need a vacation once in awhile, Son, come home when you’re rested and ready. We’ll be waiting for you.
Good luck. I have to agree that drinking while mad or depressed is probably unhelpful. It sounds cliche, but “counting your blessings” can help me sometimes when I go off the rails. Plenty of people in history (and the right now) have had things far worse than us.
I understand completely. Do what you need to do and I hope you find peace and feel refreshed and repaired soon.
Sorry Festus. You’ll be missed. I hope your time away helps you.
All hear King Walz! He won’t be stopped by your puny logic or questions.
Uffda. You think that in a just world that statement alone would allow businesses to challenge the lockdown edicts.
You think that in a just world that statement alone would allow businesses to challenge the lockdown edicts.
Linked in the article is the request from LT’s general councel.
Looks like they are getting ready to do just that. I had hopes that the CEO would flat out tell Walz to go fuck himself, but this may be a smarter play.
That doesn’t seem neighborly
My opinions of the gov are well known so I don’t need to repeat them. Seems like every day more evidence is coming out about the stupidity of politics. MN is a case study of what not to do.
I see Potlatch has sold its MN land holdings to a private company for conservation purposes and in 10 years (or so) will be given to the state.
West of me is a rather extensive parcel of Potlatch. Overall price was 48M for 72K acres, about $650 an acre or so.
Don’t worry our Legacy Fund tax will pay to maintain that land. I am still puzzled about why it costs anything to maintain wild land.
Because it is “wild” land. Actual wilderness just needs someone to keep hikers and whatnot from trashing the place and turning it into non-wilderness.
Minnesoda passed a special tax called the Legacy Fund. They use it to buy a lot of land for conservation. Then the DNR bitches about how much more money they need to maintain all that land.
I know that there is some maintenance stuff that has to go on, but it irks me that they have done this.
Seems funny, Potlatch has been doing controlled harvest and making the land pay for itself. They have been leasing out the land for hunting (I hEARD $10 AN ACRE, BUT IN BIG PLOTS LIKE 200 ACRES OR SO AT A WHACK, ENOUGH TO PAY THE TAXES ANYWAY.)
Met with our church small group yesterday for the first time in a while…one of the women, who I would have guessed as the most likely to be liberal (she is an odd but interesting lady with conflicting views on things) went on a conspiracy filled election rant that was worthy of a colloidal silver drinking libertarian.
Which, now that I think of it, I wouldn’t put past her (colloidal silver drinking, that is).
Our church is a non-denominational protestant megachurch. She, in addition to attending it, also attends catholic mass. She isn’t going to stop being Catholic just because she is also Protestant (I actually respect that in some odd way).
We are not Catholic but the last for real church service my wife and I went to was an All-Saints Mass at a Catholic High School. At least they have the balls to keep going, I’ve lost what little respect I had for the Presbyterian denomination.
I actually respect that in some odd way
Same here. Interesting combination, but I think it’s a complementary one in many ways.
It primarily has to do with doing the right thing in her marriage. IMO, it is important for couples to worship together, whatever that is. So, since her husband wasn’t going to be Catholic, they found a church she was okay with, one good for their kids and etc and that they both like. But she continued to attend catholic mass on the side.
My sister told her daughter something similar…the guy she is dating is catholic from a hardcore catholic family. He isn’t going to be converting. My sister told her that if they decide to get married, she may have to convert to Catholic.
You’d think with all this debt piling up that the Presidency would be like trying to hold a hot potato.
Debt? What we need is International Sovereign Debt Forgiveness!!!
Of course partisans will always blame the other party when the crash comes. Tiring.
^^^^
If Hillary had been President, and the Coronavirus had, had the exact same course all the people saying Trump was personally responsible for the deaths of 200K would be talking about how Hillary did better than anyone else could.
Never fail to exploit a crisis.
I bet there would have been no lockdowns and nobody would be able to find the number of casualties without a FOIA request.
Oh, there would have been lockdowns. Authoritarians love them some control. Anyone wanna guess when or if the mask mandates go away under Biden or Harris?
Cause I’m going with “when we can keep our shoes on at airports, and not have to go thru a Surrender-A-Thon 3000 scanner.”
Richard Reid’s flight will be 19 years ago next month. That’s right, we’ve been taking our shoes off for 19 years.
One of the big lies of the 2020 election was that Trump was responsible for the coronavirus deaths (whether most or all of them). There’s dozens of other countries that were or are in the same or similar situations and the U.S. was not at any point in the worst place globally. But the “fact checking” only goes one way and we all know it. It’s like the NPC meme vs. Russian bots; they’re parallel phenomena and grossly similar, but while one side gets to have their indulgences, the other side gets labels, trend manipulations, shadowbans, actual bans, etc.
Did catch the ends of the Colts/Green Bay Game. Rivers and the O-Line did everything they could to give the game back to Green Bay, but at least the Defensive line was serious about winning.
yeah. I thought the Colts were fortunate.
I’m stepping away from commenting for awhile. I’m breaking apart. I’m on a very short fuse lately.
Commenting here is probably the only thing keeping me from going completely off the rails. It’s like Gaslight City out there.
?Take me down to Gaslight City where the grass is red and the non-binaries are pretty?
Two articles just popped up in my feed with the headline “Why we’re not actually in Gaslight City and P Brooks fucks children”, J-List must work fast these days ?
That is going to be difficult for the corporate candidate who is corrupt as the day is long.
We need to rebuild trust in government.
With a single executive order, @JoeBiden can lock the revolving door between government and industry, reduce lobbyist influence, and end conflicts of interest for executive branch personnel.
I don’t trust the government. The government is asshole.
How many national level politicians have kids/relatives that are working basically as lobbyist go betweens? That the media doesn’t really touch that topic is pathetic. As if Hunter is the only one of those scumbags out there.
The fact that not one politician went after Hunter shows me that all of them are doing the same thing.
Seriously, I don’t really care to see politicians’ tax returns. Show me their kids’ instead.
Not their youporn history?
I think the Corporate Lobbying is just as awful and terrible as the next guy, but consider this: Lobbyists at least effectively argue for Buisness/Economic interests. Sure they make sure they get their own, and i abhor that the government has the power to screw the little guy for the big guy, but if Warren and her ilk had her way All regulation would be made with no input from buisness and by unelected beurocrats with no real world experience. The dicta would be even less teathered from reality.
The key to getting rid of cronyism is only and can only be defanging government so that their is nothing for big biz to buy.
Corporate lobbyists used to spend all their time trying to get government out of their way. Now they just beg for government handouts, protection, and contracts.
There has been a shift in what is being lobbied for, I agree. I don’t like the revolving door.
I also know that Warren is a snake, has made her fortune through Government and crafting expansive regulations for buisness while taking their money. I wouldn’t trust her or any proposal she has at face value.
The biggest lesson tech companies learned from the dot-com bubble bursting was to get in bed with government.
Don’t be silly. They don’t really mean trust; when they say that what they’re really saying is OBEDIENCE.
Metabolic Effects of Late Dinner in Healthy Volunteers—A Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial
This agrees with my long term sample-of-one study.
You’d think with all this debt piling up that the Presidency would be like trying to hold a hot potato.
We owe it to ourselves!
Individuation
https://twitter.com/flight404/status/1330678553709604868
Fortunately, I’m already on record as not liking Black Rifle Coffee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfI-pAMhaaA
There is always Blackout Coffee.
My local coffee It brews up nicely on my home machine.
Eh, I get the guy’s point, but I’m sure BRC is getting tons of pressure from every company they rely on. Banks, distributors, payment processors, etc. They found the most milquetoast way to distance themselves from the kid without actually condemning him.
Sure, it’d be nice if they were gung ho in support of him, but their response is textbook PR crisis management.
/never have had BRC, no real opinion on the company
Meh, if your schtick is “Gunz! 2A! Politcally Incorrect and if you don’t like it cry moar libtards!” you don’t get to get to follow the textbook.
I kinda wonder if BRC felt they were not helping Kyle by stepping into the situation. Possibly their lawyers or PR people heard from the WI state AG and figured it would be better for Rittenhouse if they backed out of the situation.
“History always happens twice…”
https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1329882920740335626
Some small business owners tell the local covid police to fuck right off. I notice they weren’t bothering Staples, Target, or an Amazon warehouse.
Malice.
Norwegian Cruise Lines keeps sending me increasingly desperate sales pitches. I might just take a cruise to spend a few days in the bow mounted hot tub, away from other people.
Fox News, skinsuited, headline:
It’s not a fucking pandemic. That ending back in April/May. It is endemic – the huge bump in ICU use and deaths nationwide happened long ago. It’s gonna be with us forever, and everyone is gonna get it eventually, and then survive or not, overwhelmingly tilted toward survive.
And they’re not “pandemic” restrictions. They’re * political * restrictions. They both start with “p”, but they are not the same fucking thing.
There have been some shortages in Texas too where there are no lockdowns and the government has announced there will be no more.
Apparently at least some of it is people panicking.
Apparently.
Appropriate.
Indeed, the panic buying is driven by fear of supply disruption which can come from many sources.
I am not sure it is really ‘panic’ buying. If you know that other people are going to buy up the toilet paper, and you just went through a period where toilet paper was unavailable, with all the inconvenience that entailed, isn’t buying up a stockpile a rational move? Yes, a hypothetical outside observer sees an ‘irrational’ situation where the only reason for the shortage is fear of the shortage, but fear of the shortage is a real, and as we all saw in March, valid fear.
I think that’s a fair point.
Also things like toilet paper take up the most shelf space per item and so eyeballs can indicate they are out of stock and start a run before they actually are.
That has become a VERY BIG DEAL™ at the store. My paper goods shelves are to be kept looking full, even if often means building a wall of rolls only 1 row deep.
Panic buying is the recent, short-term demand shock. Stockpiling is a rational coping mechanism, but you don’t start building a stockpile after the panic buying has already started. In this particular case, the stockpile would already have been built up before the shelves got emptied again. Panic buying is very similar to a bank run; it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy very quickly.
Again from an outside view you can say that the rational response would have been to build the stockpile in advance (although even that presupposes the decision reduces a single variable, people have varying amounts of space to store things and money t9o invest in things), but an outside view is Monday morning quarterbacking. If you do not have a massive stockpile, and you see a report of new lockdowns it is perfectly rational to think people will strip the shelves. And once you think that it is perfectly rational to grab some TP when you find yourself at the store, which, as you say, makes the prophecy self fulfilling. The point I am getting at is that the fact that the prophecy is self fulfilling does not make it wrong, nor does it make the participant foolish. When a bank run starts you are personally better off withdrawing your money, even if society as a whole would be better off if no one did.
In other words refusing to participate in the panic may provide a warm feeling of wisdom and virtue, but it also leads to an unwiped ass.
If the inventory suddenly depletes due entirely to demand shock and not supply disruption then I think calling it panic buying is entirely appropriate, even if most of the participants are acting on rational motivations. Nobody wants to be a sucker, but in short-run finite-supply conditions the more you consume the more suckers you’re going to make.
Are office workers back in their offices? A year ago, much of the population was spending half their waking hours at work and taking their dumps there.
Nope, and we won’t be going back. Some of these changes are permanent, especially now that companies are reaping the cost savings of shutting down their offices.
I’m pretty sure my company will consolidate about 8 properties down to maybe 2 or 3. They have figured out that a lot of the IT staff are just as effective working from home as when we were in the office. All that space can be used by the people who do need to be in the office.
The only reason it won’t be 1 is because we do a lot of physical production as well as online stuff, so we need some of that infrastructure.
I have some extended family here in TX who are panicking again. Granted they’re the ones who have been in a near constant state of panic since March, but theyre still influencing the less panicked people. They look at me like I have 2 heads when they try to start a conversation with me about it.
“Oh, is that still a thing? I hadn’t noticed. I don’t watch the news. Let me guess, cases are up, positive rate is up. Right?
Am I still supposed to wear my mask? I should probably wash that thing.. It has been a few months.”
?
The arsehole who caved and put a statewide mask mandate in place can be trusted to not do an about face if the political winds shift?
I got an extra pack of both TP and paper towels the other day, despite having plenty already on hand, because Austin is full of panicky sheeple who believe whatever BS Dem politicians peddle.
The president-elect has announced he plans on a nationwide lockdown when he takes office. I don’t think he’s going to be able to do that, but I could be wrong and I wouldn’t blame someone for thinking otherwise.
It’s _all_ people panicking, but you can’t hardly blame them at this point. It may be wishful thinking, but I’m starting to sense some degree of significant pushback.
We’ve completely altered our way of life over this thing. There’s going to be at least a significant portion of people who are not okay with that.
Endemic and pandemic are not synonyms.
I think that was the point
They’re not antonyms, I need more coffee.
It’s quite possible for endemic diseases to have both epidemics and pandemics. Polio, until the vaccine, was an endemic disease in the developed world. From time to time there would be outbreaks (epidemics). Some of those outbreaks would be much larger than a local outbreak (pandemics).
I really don’t get the tp hoarding. Doesn’t almost everyone have a left hand?
Yes, but I don’t have hair on my palms, and I can’t make my wrist bend the right way to use the back of my hand.
Heheh.
Alright, alright, alright.
Actor Matthew McConaughey made news this week by indicating during an interview that he was open to the possibility of running for political office in Texas one day in the future …
News that McConaughey may consider running for office in Texas, a Republican stronghold, was well received online as McConaughey is generally well liked by the public and has avoided making inflammatory remarks or getting involved in politics in the past.
Remarks that he made in 2018 about the Second Amendment, however, could be problematic for him if he ever tries to run for office in Texas.
Sounding like Beto O’Rourke, McConaughey said at a rally for the anti-gun March For Our Lives group in Austin, Texas, that law-abiding gun owners needed to “take one for the team” and give up some of their gun rights, including the ability to own semi-automatic long guns and magazines that have the ability to carry certain amounts of ammunition.
Fuck off.
He would get 100% of the votes here so if that’s his attitude I hope he doesn’t run.
Although previously he’s also said some stuff to indicate he’s not much of a Democrat either.
I’ll bet he likes to keep his money.
I do not want to know this about Matthew McConauheeeeeeyyyyyyyy.
I am in total support of that “March For Our Lives” group – to march their worthless butts all the way out of Texas to some place where they feel safer… or more welcome… or whatever. As long as they take themselves out of the state I’m good with that.
“We’ll never ban your hunting guns! That’s just a crazy NRA conspiracy theory.”
magazines that have the ability to carry certain amounts of ammunition.
Very specific. Love it.
Nobody needs a magazine that holds over 700 rounds.
Worth a chuckle, Stinky
Bolt Action only.
And really, being able to own more than 10 rounds is silly. If you need 10 rounds of ammunition at your house, you’re a bad shot. You should only be able to shoot at Government Ordained shooting places where they supply the ammo, limited to 50 rounds per visit, one visit per month. And you have to store your weapon there, so we know it is stored safely.
WHAT! We aren’t trying to take your gunz away, you can still own them (as long as you store them in a government controlled location)! You crazy rednecks! We ought to take your guns away for peddling in conspiratorial madness.
Ah, the Swiss model. Which lasted right up until the EU declared it was unfashionable and hurt the feelings of all those gun-free states that never see any gun violence, like France and Belgium.
They’re not in the EU. They voted their own rights away (by what % I don’t know).
True, but if they voluntarily adopt the EU’s directives, their lack of membership in the EU is more of a technicality. There was the complicating factor of being in the Schengen Area, which likely would exert pressure on them to comply anyway.
Weren’t they pressured by the EU?
Found this: “Neutral Switzerland is not a member of the EU. However, the country is a member of the Schengen Area – a coalition of European countries that have abolished the border controls between their nations. As a member of the Schengen Area, the Swiss are obligated to comply with the EU’s firearms mandates.”
in weird things Matty McC on the The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast was recommended to me by youtube. Maybe youtube is a gateway to the far right after all
I can’t see Wooderson running for office. Guy’s a goofball who lives in an Airsteam trailer so he can go surfing all over the place. I don’t think he’d actually want to give that up. This is probably a form of ego masturbation for him.
So, all long guns except bolt action rifles, and all magazines? Does that arsehole even know what semi-automatic and magazine mean?
I have an idea. Shitbird gun grabbers can take one for the team instead. Sounds good to me.
Im thinking our local Fox affiliate is giving our gov the Trump Admin treatment. No where on their site do they list our new ‘pause’ edicts. All the others have it splashed as top headlines.
Interesting.
The closest House race still not called is 50.00% to 50.00% – Iowa 2. A 39 vote lead by the Republican.
I’ve been waiting on the official results for this one.
It would be awesome if Miller-Meeks pulls this off. This is the third or fourth time she has run for this office.
I just checked the Assoc. Press website “updated yesterday” and they haven’t yet called 8 seats, including NY #11 where the Republican leads by more than 15% and the Dem conceded ten days ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-house.html
Yeah, funny how they’re reporting that are no contested races left where the Dem is ahead, despite several races being less than 2% apart. Meanwhile 4 of the 8 uncalled races have the Republican up between 14% to 23%, including some where the Democrat would have to get over 100% of the estimated remaining votes to win. Like NY 24:
R 54.7%
D 38.9%
Other 3.7%
92% of estimated votes reported.
Hmmm, let’s do basic math – if the D got 200% of the estimated votes remaining, they’d eke out a win. Seriously?
One never knows when more post dated absentee ballots may show up.
Thank you to whoever this was calling Murphy a dick. I’ll do the same if I ever meet him.
I see he’s raised his sons to be just like him.
I’m sure this video of private citizens bum rushing a couple sheriff’s deputies and a Karen from the health department from their place has been posted already, but I’ll post it again.
Watching Murphy get called a dick and his worthless kid told to go fuck himself is priceless. I want more videos of us plebes telling the Important People to go fuck themselves.
These people are really fucking stupid. That lady doesn’t have a clue how much danger she and her fellow bureaucrats are creating for themselves because they’re pig ignorant of history.
Now youse can’t leave.
That was incredible. I need to change my underwear now.
That put a huge smile on my face when I saw it. Also, his kids could use a good thrashing “Nice Trump phone case; Trump loves my dad!”
“Media and Democrats Decide They Love Forever War Now”
Don’t get it wrong, they’ve always loved war. Sometimes they might have pretended otherwise, but only when it is useful for beating on the opposition.
When the DoD was full of conservatives, they wanted to defund it. Now that it’s full of limousine liberals, they feel differently.
I seem to recall great wailing and gnashing of teeth during the Clinton/Bush the Lesser years about a cult of crypto-Christofascists was taking over the officer corps and was going to turn the DOD into a an army of religious zealots who would fight against those on the Right Side Of History™.
No doubt in 10-20 years, once the current crop of cops have been replaced with politically correct, racially and gender diverse, progressive-minded thugs instead, the institution of policing will once again be sacrosanct and its overpaid workforce be politically untouchable.
How can this be? Surely she would never have knowingly accepted more money than a black woman?
Also this:
Doh!
https://freebeacon.com/culture/antiracism-icon-robin-diangelo-paid-more-than-black-woman-for-same-job/
It just goes to show you the relationship between fees that virtual unknown Leftists can command vs. very prominent Libertarians. I once arranged a $100 fee for Murray Rothbard to speak, and got Ludwig von Mises to attend another libertarian conference for expenses only.
That bitch is truly repugnant.
Mornin’ Banjos.
A study published in late October by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology linking a decrease in coronavirus hospitalizations to a face-mask mandate has been withdrawn following an increase in cases in the areas studied.
Heh. Not surprising.
Walt Ehmer, the CEO of Waffle House, didn’t mince words when he explained his biggest problem with economic lockdowns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“None of the people who make the decisions to shut down businesses and impact people’s livelihoods ever have their own livelihood impacted,” Ehmer recently told Business Insider.
I like him.
Fourscore is totes an influencer!
A decent article about a real problem. My sons have been fawned over by game wardens in NW Minnesoda and western NoDak because the game wardens want more kids hunting. One game warden was particularly funny because he demanded to see my father’s and my hunting licenses, but when it came to the kids he asked them questions about how they liked hunting. Never even asked for a license.
Anecdotally, I think the same thing is happening to snow mobilers/4 wheel operators. We are just seeing fewer. My take is that recreational money may be scarcer, kids grow up and move on and not so much fun as cabins tend to stay closed in the colder weather. Unless you were raised with a gun it’s way less likely you’ll have a chance to learn about hunting. Land availability is getting scarcer, etc.
O.K. you statistics gurus: if the chicom-19 vaccines prove 95% effective, and every American (330 million) is forced to get vaccinated, does that still mean that 15 million folks will eventually come down with the virus (which is more folks that currently have tested positive)? The country will open up and will be dancing in the streets even though only less than half of those who will get the virus have already had it?
Herd immunity kicks in around 70% of the population being immune from either having survived the illness or being vaccinated. At herd immunity, if one person gets the illness, that person is unlikely to spread it.
So if 95% of the population can’t spread it, it basically goes away except for a handful of cases.
Forced? how? point of a gun?
That would be much more than is needed for herd immunity. The odds of any non-immune person contracting the virus go down to effectively zero because they can only catch it from other non-immune people, so after a little time has past it dies out in the populace as a whole. It is as if you add 19 water logged sticks for every one dry stick to a bonfire, then light it.
If the feds try to force everyone to get vaccinated, I think the resulting civil war might be a more pressing issue than a not particularly deadly virus.
I’m just waiting for the “oops, it mutated” moment where the vaccine becomes worthless.
Call me skeptical. The feds and states already essentially force every single child in this country to get vaccinated. Some of which have an extremely safe risk profile with enormous benefits and others that have more dangerous side effects than the minimal risk of the condition they sometimes prevent.
The default societal position is to label anyone an “anti vaxxer” who dares question the wisdom of this, including those who believe strongly in vaccinations but question the risk-benefit tradeoffs of certain ones. If even pathetic excuses for libertarians like Bailey subscribe to this, I don’t have much faith in the general population.
Yep. There will be forced vaccinations.
It will be a cold day in hell before I’m vaccinated for the coof.
The government might not mandate it but I bet most employers will. Or they’ll just double the premiums for anyone who opts out. All kinds of ways this could go.
I don’t want the fucking thing, but I’m concerned about travel restrictions.
Like everything, the state has a million ways to fuck with us.
Yeah nope. I’m not getting a novel MRNA vaccine with unknown long term autoimmune complications… for a virus that poses statistically no risk to me above a myriad of other communicable diseases for which I have not been inoculated. fuck. that. shit. I’ll live in the fucking woods like an animal before the state forces me to inject a foreign substance into my body.
The dosing schedule for Hepatitus B is 0, 1 to 2 months, and 4 to 6 months.
How is Hepatitus B spread?
Unless the mother has it, the kid is unlikely to contract it through sexual contact or sharing needles
I’m completely fine with opening up everything after the vaccine is released.
also now. i’m fine opening things now as well.
Let me guess- needz moar central planning
One of the most important long-term issues facing the United States was barely discussed during the presidential campaign: How do we insure the nation’s long-term growth and prosperity?
Neither candidate defined their visions for creating a vibrant, resilient, innovative economy that provides fair economic benefits and a decent standard of living for all Americans as the core of a strong nation. Indeed, the economy is the primary issue of our future, as economic strength is necessary for a capable national security.
Moreover, during the campaign, neither candidate presented a comprehensive, coherent strategy about how business, government and the nonprofit sector should cooperate to insure our growth prospects. To be sure, this long-term strategy is a necessary aspect of our future if we are to compete in the world economy.
For too long, government and business have treated each other as enemies; yet, that model is outdated because it cannot lead to a better future for all people. Simply put, we are at a critical juncture and we ignore this at our peril. We need to compete in the world as it is, not how we would like it to be.
We believe that President-elect Biden ought to appoint a national bipartisan commission whose mandate will be to analyze the economic forces and trends in the world and offer policy options where government, business and the nonprofit sector ought to work together more closely.
Hahahahahahaha. That’s exactly what we need. Once we finish killing off all the small independent businesses in the country, our new fascist paradise will be with in our grasp.
That’s what we have right now. They work together to come up with solutions for how they can fuck over regular people and make themselves rich.
I believe the technical term for the government and business working together more closely in the manner they imply (i.e. at the point of a gun) is “fascism”.
SFed the link
MOAR TOP MEN.
Sic Antifa on them.
If that’s the case then those Commanders should be brought up on charges of Insubordination. Ahh the Left, they took the return of the Prodigal Children, the Trotskyites very well.
“but let’s not bring them home in body bags.”
Logic not her strong suit, is it?
It’s pretty obvious they want to delay any action until Lightbringer Jr. is in office and can take credit for it.
The county I live in mailed out annual real estate and personal property tax bills this week. The money goes to school districts and to fund all levels of county Govt. There is much consternation that many people will not be able to pay on time (12/31/2020) due to the Govt preventing people from working. One elected official floated out the idea that County should consider extending the due date this year or possibly forgiving a portion of the taxes due (gasp!).
“In an interview, Fitch questioned the fairness of taxing businesses such as restaurants that were not allowed to function for parts of the year. And while many homeowners prepay their taxes into an escrow account, he said, some residents, including older residents who have paid off mortgages, typically write a check at the end of the year. In a year in which many people suffered financially, he said, taxing districts should not expect to collect every dollar. “We need to have this conversation,” he said.
As you can imagine this setoff a shit storm amongst the public sector. Tax abatements, she said, “would most likely force the shutdown of all government entities and taxing authorities.”
If only that were true. Along with the usual bluster that this would result in lay-offs and cutbacks and anyone who would suggest such a thing obviously doesn’t recognize the value these dedicated public servants provide.