Journal of American Antiquities, Vol 133
Editors Note: The following is a hitherto unknown document, recently uncovered and translated from ruins in the Rocky Mountains of the American Continent. It is from the Late Imperial Era and sheds new light on the lead up to the final collapse of the American Empire. This has been brought forth by the dedicated work of Dr. Henrie Maslow and staff at the University of New Sydney; we thank him for making the results available to the public.
[Translators Note: The following passage is from the Late Imperial Period, and can be confidently dated, as it is believed to be an original source, as it records the history from the year 2020. As with all records from such a distant time, many parts of the files were corrupted and unreadable. These have been simply marked by use of the ellipsis, as is conventional. Dates have been estimated and are indicated as such, in Italics. All other translator notes appear in this format, so as not to confuse notes with translation. ~ H.M.]
January 2020
… And now we make a record of the 231st year since the founding of the Congress and Peoples of America, the 4th year of the reign of Trump as President, First Citizen and Commander-in-Chief. The analysts of our greatest banks assure that the year is marked to be a prosperous and bounteous one. Such portent is of relief, and a feast has been … War is upon the nation. The President went forth and struck down his foes. The nation is in tumult, preparing for impending war with Iran and rumors abound that war with Russia is imminent … It seems that we shall not see peace in our generation … In the Senate, various enemies of Donald Trump, President of the Peoples of America, have organized, lead by the Representative Adam Schiff, and brought him under Trial … Accusations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress …
February 2020
… Iowa Caucuses for the nomination by the Democrats to president are held … much confusion … New Hampshire is held … Senator Bernie Sanders appears to be taking the lead … Joe Biden, former Vice President cannot manage to place competitively in the elections … It seems the progressives have taken over the democratic party … The enemies of the President have found no comfort among the Senate, Trump has been acquitted of all charges and his re-election seems secure … Envoy’s tell of a strange disease affecting far off places … Wuhan … Our wizards have assured us to not be worried … Exhorted to hug our Asian friends …
March 2020
… Joe Biden sweeps the nation, and looks to secure the nomination from the Democrats … Travel from outside the country has been banned in an effort to keep this new disease away from our shores … The Markets have failed us … recession is imminent … Our wise men have been consulted, and recommend a two-week lock-down on all activity in order to secure our hospitals … this dangerous disease must be stopped …
Late March through April 2020
… A time of jubilee is in order, and a time to extend clemency, some advisors have suggested that prisoners be release from prisons to keep them safe from the disease that aches our shores … Such advice has been taken into account in far off lands … Oil Prices have collapsed, a bright spot in the horror that is our lives …
May – July 2020
[Translators note: This period is particularly hard to date, as it is fraught with corrupted data, however we do know that it must have occurred in the summer of 2020. ~H.M.]
… Our Astronomers have made a new discovery, though they do not foretell what it could mean, though we assume it may mean a relief from the virus … /news/world/soccer-kicks-germany-first-major-sports-league-reopens-amid-pandemic-n1207956 … It seems we are getting back to normalcy … RUN, HIDE, FIGHT! The barbarians have come to our streets killing our innocents … The people rise up to defeat them and defend the weak …
August 2020
… In far off lands they tell of an election being contested … our allies have opposed the results, as they are a threat to democracy … Democracy should be upheld …
September 2020
… Peace in our time! … Kosovo and Serbia, have normalized their economic relations … evidence that peacekeeping forces work … Venezuela, enemies of the Peoples of America, is in hot water [Translators note: This is an old American Idiom, meaning “in trouble” ~ H.M.] … accused of crimes against humanity … sure that … UN will get to bottom of it …
October 2020
… After 35 years! Peace at last! … Falklands which were plagued by mines, have been fully de-mined … Truly this is a year that has been graced by victory’s for peace … Peace at last! The diplomats of the Peoples of the United States … Announced normalized relations between Israel and Sudan … Calamity has struck! … Donald Trump, First Citizen, has been stricken by the disease ravaging our land … our greatest doctors have been assembled …
November 2020
… Election [Translators Note: This portion of the document is intact, but the words are utterly corrupted, in a manner consistent with the data proscriptions of the Late Imperial Era. It appears that some censor did not want this to survive into our time. ~H.M.] … Joseph Biden was declared victor … Good news has finally fallen upon our ears! A salve for the disease that ravages our land has been discovered …
December 2020
… an ominous portent … great observatory of Arecibo has been destroyed [Translators Note: This is a reference to the famed, and hither too believed mythical, Great Telescope of Arecibo. The mythology around this construction, was that it was so large it covered an entire crater on an Island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It has long been held to be mythical, but this contemporary reference to it’s destruction, will certainly be of interest to archeologists everywhere ~H.M.] … astronomers are done unjustly by fate … [This final passage is littered with corruption, but can be best surmised as follows ~ H.M.] … They have taken the Captial, and the White House … We have barred the entrance to the bunker … the ground shakes … drums, drums in the deep … we cannot get out … a shadow moves in the darkness … we cannot get out … they are coming …
“they have a Cave Troll”
Bravo!
Thanks!
Heroic Mulatto is from the future?
Any resemblance to linguists both modern or historical is purely coincidental.
Cunning.
Nice job, by the way!
Thanks!
H. M. is not an actual person, it is a position and a calling.
A calling to serve the Temple of the Twerk.
Y’all fell asleep?
Had to go to Chucky Cheese yesterday for a kid’s Bday party. Geez, talk about sensory overload. It was such a relief to walk out of that place.
Maybe one in ten people were wearing their face diapers.
John Frum did not show up.
So you are saying that we’re fucked.
Apparently we won’t have it any other way.
Right-wing white-supremacist anti-mask/science violence.
Three men who were kicked out of a packed California strip club for refusing to wear face coverings returned with an AK-47 and wounded three people in a drive-by shooting, authorities said.
Edgar Nava-Ayala, 34, Daniel Juvenal Ocampo, 22, and Juan Jose Acosta-Soto, 20, were tossed out of the Sahara Theater in Anaheim on Halloween after breaking the jiggle joint’s mask mandate, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Sounds like some Klansmen to me.
Or “white Hispanics”.
Going by the census data, white hispanics form (roughly) the same proportion of the hispanic cultural group as they do whites of all cultural groups in the overall american citizenship group.
Damn white Hispanics.
Wearing a face mask to a titty bar, has got to be the biggest cargo cult in an era of cargo cults.
Not if you don’t want your wife to recognize you.
They may not stop viruses, but they CAN stop body glitter.
In fact, masks cannot stop glitter. Nothing can. 10ft of hard vacuum…nope, glitter baby.
The theory of panspermia? Yeah, glitter actually originates from a galaxy 6.75gly away from here. Try THAT, Life.
Not if you don’t want your wife to recognize you.
The lights on the main stage keep her from being able to actually see the crowd,
So, were we on the right side or wrong side of History when we let the socialists cheat their way to one-party rule?
I think that would be the left side.
The right side of History. Socialism will create a paradise on Earth. About 20 years from now. Kind of like Fusion.
fusion only works one way though true Utopian socialism is whatever we haven’t tried yet.
Well, we haven’t tried truly free markets. Can we label that socialism and solve our material problems?
Only if the right people are in charge.
Or my flying car….
The socialists could only wish they had achieved one-party rule. Instead, they’re stuck with the Democratic Party, which is not even as useful to socialism as a box of bricks.
The bricks are for smashing the fascists.
Right, whereas the Democratic Party is full of fascists.
I can’t wait for when future archaeologists find all the preppers dead in their doomsday bunkers and think they were our kings gathering stuff for the afterlife.
Will they assume all the other dead bodies scattered around were their subjects?
So no great hearth fires and meat right off the bone?
It’s good that the year ended with this titanic spending orgy of a “relief” bill. Makes it clear there is no voting our way out (as if the election didn’t already do that). Rick Scott, Marsha Blackburn, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz – that’s it for conservatives in the Senate.
2020 was a terrible year – and things will probably get much worse.
“…things will probably get much worse.”
If Biden takes the helm you can bet your ass on it.
Helm – like the Great Steersman?
That dumbfuck will do no more or less than any of his last 5 predecessors despite our goofy beliefs sustaining the cult of the presidency.
So many lives, sacrificed to the false god of “freedom”. A once-great power, laid low by hubris and superstitious rejection of SCIENCE.
Thus has it always been.
Thus will it always be.
Will they assume all the other dead bodies scattered around were their subjects?
Slaves and concubines.
It appears the rulers had really poor tastes in concubines.
Who’s ready for CONVID-20/21?!
“When you see something that is pretty prevalent in a place like the UK — there are also mutations that we’re seeing in South Africa — and given the travel throughout the world, I would not be surprised if it is already here,” Fauci told Judy Woofruff on “PBS NewsHour.”
“When we start to look for it, we’re going to find it,” he said, adding that “you have to make that assumption” that the mutated bug is in the US.
So, like a cold or flu…
Now that they’ve gotten control, it will never fucking end. Not without violence, anyway.
This here.
Of course it’s already here and it’s OK to be concerned about but what did people expect? Trying to hold back new strains of an established virus in an open world is like trying to keep out air pollution with a screen door.
“When we start to look for it, we’re going to find it,”
Things that won’t be said about a whole host of other situations, like electoral malfeasance, or the funding network for Antifa, or Chinese state-sponsored social media influence, or ….
…Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Oh no, that one’s been done. They found it exactly when they wanted to look for it, well after the election and well before the inauguration.
Speaking of laptops, whatever happened with the FBI supposedly admitting they had Seth Rich’s laptop?
*Fatty Bolger has been banned*
-Alphabet
If the evidence will harm Someone Who Matters, it will go nowhere. Shrouded by the FBI’s principles (well, when convenient to People Who Matter) that pending investigations are Top Secret.
You….don’t have an appointment with an H. Rodham any time soon, do you?
If you’re curious about how they genetically map the virus. My son shared this with me; he works for PacBio.
“When we start to look for it, we’re going to find it,” he said, adding that “you have to make that assumption” that the mutated bug is in the US.
“Everywhere I look, I see exactly what I expected to find.”
Kind of like racism.
+1 Southern Poverty Health Center
Well, I feel so much better now…
You’re welcome!
‘
The Beginning ofFascism’ — London Mayoral Candidate Questioned by Police for Speaking with ReportersI guess Dems are not playing.
I’m proud to be number one on Biden Vindictive government list.
Sounds like the DOJ anti-Trumpers can’t wait for Biden to make DOJ the GOVERNMENT Secret Police like they were under Obama.
They want to seize my emails.
No reason
No wrongdoing
Attorney-Client privilege.?
I mentioned Atorney-Client privilege when they raided Cohen to a friend, and he said ‘yeah but what if the attorney is doing something criminal’. All i said is this is a Bad precedent, and “We shall see” when it comes to Cohen being super evil criminal.
As dead as HIPAA and the Ninth Amendment.
Bad precedent like business records not being protected merely because they’re in possession of another party.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the most downtrodden disrespected and oppressed of all?
But too many people who push for schools to reopen or stay open ignore teachers or blame them for their own frustrations. A San Diego, California parent reopening group’s petition doesn’t once mention teachers. A Fairfax, Virginia, parent reopening group responded to an excerpt of a frightened teacher’s post with comments such as “If you are too afraid, don’t teach” and “What a selfish LOSER!” A Washington State group suggested that students are the most important stakeholders in education. Parents in a Montgomery County, Maryland, reopening group posted a Facebook thread earlier this month that included the statements “This whole thing is literally making me hate public school teachers,” “(Teachers) are working hard to make themselves irrelevant,” and accusations that teachers “got a little too comfortable working from home” and are “an aloof entitled group.”
Those poor teachers. They can’t prove they are in any particularly specific danger in the classroom, BUT YOU CAN’T PROVE THEY AREN’T.
Pay them to stay away from those disease ridden little monsters. It’s the only fair and equitable thing to do.
I mean HOW DARE THEY!
A Washington State group suggested that students are the most important stakeholders in education.
Don’t be naive.
This just demonstrates how public schools have failed previous generations.
Government-sector labor unions have really reinforced this idea that government exists as some kind of charitable organization for its employees.
See Also: all the whining from government employees during the shutdown
They can’t prove they are in any particularly specific danger in the classroom, BUT YOU CAN’T PROVE THEY AREN’T
That is precisely the inversion of our former approach to risk management that has led to “safetyism” and the Current Unpleasantness. When Fauci said we had to keep wearing masks even if we had been vaccinated, he said it was because “we can’t prove people who have been vaccinated won’t spread the disease.” Same thing with “asymptomatic spread”.
This mindset also underlies the odious “precautionary principle”.
In fact, there is damn little proven about the virus, so in ignorance we must assume the worst!
They never use the precautionary principle for new risky government schemes.
But the science says teachers are extremely unlikely to get the virus at school. In most of the cases where the teachers tested positive, they caught the virus outside of school. Why are they denying science?
Currently, too many educators don’t have the choices they need, including to teach online only. Virtual education isn’t an ideal solution, but it’s an option teachers must have. Decision makers, school boards and parents cannot neglect the teachers — the heart of education — who are working harder than ever during this unprecedented time. Teachers deserve our gratitude. They don’t deserve to die.
Gnawing on the scenery while tied to the railroad tracks; that’s some damn fine melodrama, hon.
Joan of Arc, engulfed in flames, had nothing on you.
Teachers deserve our gratitude. They don’t deserve to die.
Fuck.
Off.
Isn’t ideal? Oh go to hell. It’s goddamned useless. My kids have been “virtually learning” since last March. They were both honor roll students previously. This year they are both struggling like hell, getting Ds and Fs for the first times.
And working harder than ever, my ass. My daughter’s “school” time runs between about 8 and 1:30, and half the time they cut out before 1:30.
A good friend of mine is a teacher. He says straight up that the virtual teaching is a joke.
You and I have lamented this before. Its nationwide and as you said kids that had A’s B’s are struggling and kids that had strong social circles are offing themselves.
I even mentioned our weekly “update” about online education status is just emotional and behaviorial support, nothing educational.
They don’t give a fuck so why should my kids? *towards the online portion. I still make them learn and take their education in their own hands at this point.
You know what they don’t deserve? My money.
Too many students don’t have the choices they need, including in-person instruction and being able to see their friends and peers.
^^ Look at this guy thinking students are the most important stakeholder in education
They don’t even pay union does.
We have barred the entrance to the bunker … the ground shakes … drums, drums in the deep … we cannot get out … a shadow moves in the darkness … we cannot get out … they are coming …
The hair’s diary?
The records origin is unclear ~H.M
Now I’m jonesing for a SugarFree H&H story from the bunker when the Capitol Police SWAT teams are coming to extirpate them from the White House.
What if Elizabeth Hurley shows up at my door for a weekend of happy fun time between the sheets?
They are waiting for the results of a test for Ebola.
The patient can only communicate with her relatives through a clear plastic observation window. Her identity is secret, to protect her from being ostracized by locals fearful of Ebola infection. Her children have also been tested but, for now, show no symptoms.
There is a vaccine and a treatment for Ebola, which have brought down the rate at which it kills.
But the question at the back of everyone’s mind is: What if this woman doesn’t have Ebola? What if, instead, she is patient zero of “Disease X,” the first known infection of a new pathogen that could sweep the world as fast as Covid-19, but one that has Ebola’s 50% to 90% fatality rate?
This isn’t the stuff of science fiction. It’s a scientific fear, based on scientific facts.
“We’ve all got to be frightened,” the patient’s physician, Dr. Dadin Bonkole, said. “Ebola was unknown. Covid was unknown. We have to be afraid of new diseases.”
Keep the fear alive.
Nothing says strong and prosperous as “We have to be afraid of X”.
We used to know to stay out of the Congo rainforest and not to build houses on a beach.
They aren’t going to give this shtick up, are they? Unfortunately most people are chickenshits and will fall for it.
Fuck you Doc. I haven’t felt fear in 35 years, even on the brink of being mauled to death by a fucking tyrannosaurus. (After that bloody fight my wife expressed her astonishment that I emotionless and quiet through the entire ordeal. The EMTs said the same thing when they saw my wounds and I refused the gourney)
I have bad news for everyone: You are going to die.
Fearing it or getting emotional about it is not going to change a damned thing. The worst thing you can do is let fear rule your life.
It’s a scientific fear
What step in science is that?
Wife is gone for an hour or two so TV is off, thank God.
I am doing a Mazzy Star marathon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZEyrI
Huh, wouldn’t have pegged you as a Mazzy Star fan.
Hope Sandoval was damned adorable when she was young. No idea what she looks like today.
She doesn’t look bad but she’s older and puffier now but that eventually happens to us all of you don’t die young.
Who isn’t a Mazzy Star fan?
I could eat that with a spoon 7 days a week.
I just thought you were too old. I have to make myself remember sometimes that acts from the ’90s aren’t young anymore either.
Fox News is going woke and broke at warp speed.
“Cross the Rubicon?” Are you shitting me? Time to stop playing around with the Constitution. Biden won. Trump lost. Stop acting like spoiled brats. Or worse, the lunatic fringe. Enough. Basta.
I never liked Geraldo.
Me neither. Greg and Tucker, and Nap if still around (have mostly stopped watching news).
“There was nothing in Al Capone’s vault / But it wasn’t Geraldo’s fault ?”
Neither did the troops in Adventures in Iraq Part One.
Who needs money? we have Justice! and Science!
OH. Geraldo. Of course. He has been a closet commie since the ’60s.
Really don’t feel like doing any work lately, so to amuse myself, I’ve been typing up my documents in a Zodiac killer handwriting font before changing it to a normal font at the conclusion. Sick or no?
Better if you go the other direction.
That…..might not go over well with my boss. For one thing, Zodiac font is kinda hard to read.
But the question at the back of everyone’s mind is: What if this woman doesn’t have Ebola? What if, instead, she is patient zero of “Disease X,” the first known infection of a new pathogen that could sweep the world as fast as Covid-19, but one that has Ebola’s 50% to 90% fatality rate?
This isn’t the stuff of science fiction. It’s a scientific fear, based on scientific facts.
“We’ve all got to be frightened,” the patient’s physician, Dr. Dadin Bonkole, said. “Ebola was unknown. Covid was unknown. We have to be afraid of new diseases.”
This is what they do. Doomsday LARPers gaming out the eradication of mankind. Only they can save us, but only if we do exactly as they command.
Round them up and gas them. Then we can take our chances on the other stuff.
A disease with a 50 to 90% fatality rate is quite likely to not spread nearly as fast or far as one with 0.25% fatality rate for what ought to be obvious reasons.
Who caught a lethal disease and made you an Epidemiologist?
Absolutely.
Pathogens tend towards being benign, hosts to being resistant. After a few generations a symbiotic relationship develops.
Take the 5lbs of bugs out of your gut and you will die in short order. At some point in the past any one of those bugs was fatal to humans or our ancestors.
This is all the fault of the D&D Moral Panic. If they had just let these nerds play back in the 70’s and 80’s, they wouldn’t be trying to play hero and “save the world” to their fantasies with us.
Does that predate the playing of albums backwards to hear the Satanic messages?
An apropos Sowell quote I just saw by way of Glenn Reynolds…..
Great EH quote I hadn’t heard before but will have to remember. Especially since I can’t memorize the long C.S. Lewis one.
“What if” is a scientific fact.
Judge Nap is Doctor Science?
I didn’t get to reply directly (to my own little thread last post) about whether or not multitasking is actually possible. I will say without a doubt that it is. Being a guitarist/vocalist requires this. There are too many things going on at once for it not to be. Right hand, left hand, singing (focusing on proper technique and mentally cueing up the lyrics), working the effects pedals… I’ve dabbled in keys, and you actually train to be able to process right and left hand reading and playing completely separately at the same time, as opposed to their mere coordination on the guitar. Then there are the drummers. My friend can do 4 separate rhythms, one per limb, in varying time signatures at the same time. I’ve even seen drummers wear instruments on their heads and “play” them by shaking their heads, so that’s 5 “limbs’. Multitasking is possible.
Agreed, my Drummer can sing while using all 4 limbs at once, so there’s 5,
Good point.
Most people can’t multitask, and most tasks don’t lend themselves to it. I wonder if music runs off of different circuitry in your head than, say, reading and writing.
Muscle-memory. I can walk and talk at the same time because I don’t put a lot of thought into walking if I’m on a flat surface.
I wouldn’t say it’s muscle memory, 100%. That doesn’t jive with playing new music cold. For my own part, I have learned to deliberately *not focus* on anything, because as soon as I do, one of the other tasks goes to pot. I just have to look at the chart and go with it in this kind of mentally open state.
I think it also has to do with the nature of some tasks, and how often you put them together and what you define as a single task. I can type with both hands at once? is that two tasks or just one?
Typically when talking about “Multitasking” in the sense of work at a job, it is not possible, because you are given two _different_ tasks to complete at the same time. It’s not like you are working on one task that is also a part of accomplishing the other task.
My theory is that you can multitask if most of the tasks are things that are heavily ingrained from frequent practice, such as playing music and singing, as Plisade mentioned above.
At a previous job, I used to work on something on the computer while simultaneously calling an insurance company about a claim and going through the whole rigmarole of giving them my name, callback number, and our NPI number. I think I could only do that because that info was so ingrained in my mind from reciting it a million times.
Dana Colley of Morphine often plays two saxs simultaneously, one in each hand.
Good stuff.
Honey White.
https://vimeo.com/171153643
I was thinking of bringing up musicians that sing but they all are deriving from a single task in my mind. Now playing guitar while riding a bike or reading a book? That may be a better example
+ Pill Collins or Don Henley
Now playing guitar while riding a bike
I seem to recall Tiny Tim playing a ukelele while riding a monocycle.
I would suggest that singing and playing are two different tasks.
At middle school-ish age, I was decently skilled in both playing piano and singing. However, I distinctly remember working for quite a while to both at the same time. The tendency is to either stop singing when you make a bit of a mistake playing, or stop playing when you make a mistake singing.
Practicing both together, I could definitely feel the lack of “parallel” actions going on in my head/body, and it took some time to truly separate them into activities that could be focused on more or less simultaneously, while also allocating more brain power to one or the other when needed (i.e., a more complicated instrumental section, or unfamliar lyrics you’re having to sight read).
Anyway, it’s a single point of anecdote, but something to note (ha!).
Zoom Recital.
I would also submit that making music is one task. Muscle memory (or should be).
Now, do that playing thing and try to carry on an unrelated conversation with someone else while you’re doing it, especially if you’re sight-reading the music. IMO, that is multitasking.
That is done. Many times I’ve had convos with other musicians while playing…
Yeah, not to mention every restaurant cook who’s managed to stay employed.
My son is pipe organist.
Both hands, both feet, and able to take in orchestral direction at the same time.
That said, he absolutely cannot “multitask” as is commonly understood. He must do normal tasks in a linear fashion one at a time or he achieves nothing.
So I don’t think your example is valid.
That’s not really multitasking. Playing a pipe organ (that’s really cool BTW) is a single task involving multiple motor groups.
Not really, a fugue can have up to five separate melodies going at the same time on one instrument. It’s beyond complicated.
I took piano lessons from a young age, and I let everything I learned rust. When I started again, I told my dad “its just not working- my left hand doesnt do what it’s supposed to”
He said, “Jesus Christ, Tres- you drive a manual shift car. You work 2 pedals, steer, and shift without thinking about it. And you’re probably trying to text someone on that stupid phone all you kids have.”
It can be done.
With a cup of coffee.
oblig: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oR1bQuRobzk
And, Aspen hits the panic button: https://www.aspentimes.com/news/pitkin-county-moving-to-red-level-restrictions-for-nearly-every-sector/
It says Pitkin County but for most values of the phrase, Pitkin County = Aspen.
Couple of snips:
“Indoor events will be canceled, except for the seven events already permitted by Pitkin County Public Health through Jan. 4. That number is suspiciously low for this time of year, leading Sabella to say she suspects that many planned gatherings were not filing safety plans. Board members decided to reward those who followed the rules.”
“As of Monday, Pitkin County’s incidence rate — which is measured based on a standard population of 100,000 — was 1,441. On Dec.10, that rate stood at 991, according to local epidemiology data…the county’s positivity rate, which was at 8% on Monday, remains in Yellow levels, Sabella said. The hospitalization rate also remains comfortable, with all intensive care unit beds available and no one hospitalized with COVID-19, said Dave Ressler, CEO at Aspen Valley Hospital.”
I actually know Dave Ressler. Really nice guy. He makes it sound like they have nobody in the ICU at all, which would be unusual.
Yeah, I was more noting the difference between the “let’s panic” because of the cases against the reality that it doesn’t seem to be a crisis. I also wasn’t sure what the difference was between “incidence rate” and “positivity rate.”
Plus this gem: “The county’s request last week to extend last call in Aspen to 11 p.m. during the two-week period around Christmas was denied by Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Director Jill Hunsacker Ryan, said Jordana Sabella, the county’s interim public health director. With a skyrocketing incidence rate, the county should implement more restrictions, not less, according to Ryan’s letter to the county.”
Another little dictator who knows better than everyone. I will say it looks like there was some dissent on the county board.
the reality that it doesn’t seem to be a crisis
In places, at least, I think its fair to say its close to, if not at, crisis levels. From the deadthread:
Don’t disagree. I was only referring to Aspen/Pitkin County.
Invade the Caymans.
The family of an 18-year-old college student says she is “pretty hysterical right now” as they plead for her release after she was sentenced to four months in jail in the Cayman Islands for violating the territory’s strict coronavirus protocol.
Skylar Mack, a pre-med student at Mercer University from Georgia, has been locked up since Dec. 15 along with her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, a Cayman Islands resident. They were arrested and charged while on vacation for violation of the 14-day COVID-19 isolation period required of all travelers to the island.
“She cries, she wants to come home,” Mack’s grandmother, Jeanne Mack, told Stephanie Gosk on TODAY Monday.
Skylar Mack, a pre-med student at Mercer University from Georgia,
Between the Basic White Girl name and the pre-med major, she sounds like someone who could be a festival of entitlement and narcissism.
Still shouldn’t be locked up. Probably.
I almost landed in jail in the Bahamas when my father loaned me his credit card for the hotel bill because he was going home early. (Yeah, he was stupid to trust an idiot college student with raging hormones)
The law at the time was that if you used someone else’s card and signed the receipt, it was automatic prison time.
The hotel manager, realizing the situation I was in, informed me of the problem I had and drove me to the airport to catch my father as he was going thru customs so he could sign the yet unfilled receipt.
The Twitterati consensus is that she’s getting off easy and that she deserves double extra punishment for being a pretty white girl.
Worth noting that she tested negative twice for the ‘Vid: once in the US and once in the Cayman’s and apparently took care not interact with anyone while watching her boyfriend’s jet-ski competition. So the risk that she posed to anyone was a rounding error away from zero.
It’s also worth noting that I guaran-fucking-tee you that the power mad authoritarian who passed down this ludicrous sentence ignores their own rules as they so please, knowing that sine they are the law, it doesn’t apply to them.
Stop it. Nobody is that much of a stereotype.
Geez i hate this attitude so much.
Stereotype? Yeah, pretty much.
Which one is she?
“Mack, who is from Loganville, has been waking up behind bars for a week since her original sentence.”
Maybe she shouldn’t get black-out drunk.
I guess the Caymans are going to have to rely on their non-tourist industry sector.
The vast majority of Caymans “tourist” economy is based on off-shore insurance and, I believe, banking. Travel for those purposes is completely nonexistent. They actually had to give us an exemption for not having our annual meeting there. Otherwise, we would have been at risk of having our off-shore captive insurance company de-certified. If they torch the off-shore captives, Caymans becomes a bunch of mud huts on a remote island.
If they want her that bad her family should just hire some mercenaries. I mean, it’s just the Caymans.
Well, the restrictions may be silly. But, the Cayman’s has a 14-day quarantine law and she was supposed to wear a monitoring device. After two days, she removed the device and left the quarantine. She didn’t make a mistake as her family says, she deliberately violated local law (and probably planned to do so before she left the US). Again, the law if silly, but she made a willful decision to break it.
This is reasoning from someone in a premed program to boot. I would hope that’s as far as she goes but these days…
Pre-med, pre-law, what’s the difference?
Organic chemistry is still weeding them out AFAIK.
That’s what happened with my college roommate, yep.
Good way to get married to a doctor.
So, four months in prison then?
It does remind me of the “Emperor’s Birthday” parable. Where all of the Emperor’s troops from across the Empire were commanded to show up at the capitol for the Emperor’s birthday celebration. One far flung regiment got slammed with horrible weather and was still hundreds of miles away on the day prior to the birthday.
Someone at the front of regiment asked the commander: “What’s the penalty for being late to the Emperor’s birthday celebration?”
The Commander responded, “The punishment is DEATH!”
The soldier then responded, “Ok. So what is the punishment for armed insurrection?”
The Commander looked puzzled, “Well, the punishment for that is death, of course.”
The soldier turned around and yelled to the other soldiers, “Well, since we’re absolutely _going_ to be late…”
You can’t just hand out four month prison sentences for this kind of thing and have anyone in their right mind think that’s reasonable. Like I said, the people giving out these sentences have almost certainly done far worse and not even had to pay as much as ticket. “Proportionality” is a thing for a good reason, and the punishment for this is so far out of proportion to the “crime” as to be laughable.
Now is not the time to travel to foreign countries–you don’t know which retarded dictates can be ignored and which ones have to be followed. I blame her local boyfriend; he’s older and should have known what you cannot get away with.
“Now is not the time to travel to foreign countries”
Why we still don’t have plans to go to Australia. The state governments there don’t dick around like the UK: they just announce, “beginning immediately.”
It’s tough because my mom is showing increasing symptoms of dementia. But, neither of us can afford to get trapped there for several months.
But they’re saving her from COVID!
^This^
When I go to other countries I dont cross against the light or spit on the sidewalk until I get local advice as to what to do and not do.
Of course I dont leave the US anymore and it has gotten to the point where I dont want to leave Louisiana.
I received a ticket (no fine) for eating a chocolate bar on a subway platform in Hong Kong.
Was Singapore the one that hates chewing gum? As in, you can be caned.
It is banned for general sale and use in Singapore, but you generally won’t be caned for it. The “famouse” case of an American getting caned was for vandalism not gum.
Yes. I visited Singapore on the same trip. Since I don’t like chewing gum, I had to engage in sodomy instead.
To be fair, that was your plan anyway.
I believe the Roddy Piper line you are misappropriating there is “to kick ass”.
Coincidentally, TOS (actually, the mag last month) had an interesting article on Singapore by Mike Riggs: https://reason.com/2020/12/12/keeping-up-with-the-lees/
Commie cunte is correct but not how he means.
“I would have voted for the bill because people need help now. The bottom line is that $600 is a joke. It’s a joke. People have been waiting eight months for the United States Senate to act. Let’s be very clear — the House-passed substantial COVID relief back in the summer.”
“It’s Mitch McConnell and Republicans in the Senate and David Purdue, my opponent, who opposed even the first round of $1,200 checks, who have been holding this up for months and who cut the direct stimulus payments in half as we enter the holiday season with so many families having difficulty making rent, the car payment, affording prescriptions and putting food on the table. We need additional, substantial, direct COVID relief,” the Georgia Democratic hopeful added. “The only way we’ll get it is by winning these two races in Georgia.”
So you are saying “money printer go ‘burrr'”. Though it would have helped to not have such a pork laden bill.
Jon Ossoff, as far as I can tell, has never had an actual job. He was a congressional staffer for a while and then started running for political offices. What a fucking scumbag.
Ossoff, Abrams, and O’Rurke are the trinity of DNC “Failing Upwards”. Something about Red State Blue Radicals gets the news media all wet.
My son bought a Celestron telescope, a nice one. Last night wife and I stopped by for a visit and he had it set up.
Wife: “Oh my God, I have never seen the rings of Saturn before!”
She was as amazed and excited as a kid.
Apparently he bought the thing a month ago or so just to see the ‘Christmas Star’. Now daughter-in-law is going nuts taking photos of various celestial bodies.
Her favorite being Jupiter and its moons.
It was a very pleasant visit.
I hope you all have as pleasant a holiday as we are having despite the cockroaches that are trying to shit on everything.
The “Christmas Star” was v. cool even without a telescope.
I saw only twinkling, even with binoculars and no clouds. But cool twinkling.
We’re at about 6600′ with low background light. Jupiter was bright, but we could clearly see Saturn (albeit much fainter) at about 2 o’clock. Glad we were here rather than my normal abode.
Same. Jupiter looked huge and just like a star as depicted in Christmas painting, with rays appearing to burst from it. Saturn looked like a little dot on the edge of one of the points.
Same at about 6′.
My sister sent me a pic she took with her Phone, can make out some moons of Jupiter, and even Saturn. Saturn evne appears oblong.
Lucky. All I saw was clouds. Not a star in the sky.
Work is slowing down for the week.
I have time to make some non-holiday dinner tonight. I have some left over eye round roast and a bunch of onions. I’m making French onion French dip sandwiches. Make French onion soup with the onions, cut a French bread, add swiss and melt, add sliced roast beef dipped in the soup broth. Bake some gruyere or swiss cheese on the remaining bread in ramekin.
Eat the the soup and dip the sandwich in the left over soup.
+1 Homer gargle-drool
God I love good French onion soup – but even I can’t stand the gas it gives me. It can chase the dogs from the room.
Fox News is going woke and broke at warp speed.
It looks like Roger Ailes, the serial sexual harasser, was the only guy who understood Fox News’ value proposition. Fox News wasn’t successful because it was terribly good at reporting or reported the news particularly well. Fox News succeeded because they were the only game in town for news coverage that wasn’t strictly towing the lion for left-leaning narratives. If a quarter of the country wants left-leaning news and a quarter of the country wants right-leaning news, Fox was able to grab for itself, the same size market share as was split between CNN, MSNBC, CBS and ABC. But, if you take away not towing the progressive lion, there’s really no reason to tune in to Fox. Without their conservative bent, they’re really nothing but a second rate CNN.
Forcing out Ailes was part of the goal of skinsuiting Fox News into the Emmanuel Goldstein of the cable news world.
That and the departure of Murdoch the Elder.
The next generation desperately wants to fit into NYC social circles, particularly one of the wives. They can’t achieve that unless Fox News respects the normal parameters of modern journalism, ie helps the DNC and the occasional RINO.
The next generation desperately wants to fit into NYC social circles, particularly one of the wives.
I’ve heard that. The joke’s on them. They still won’t get the acceptance they crave. They’re not part of the club. However much they desert the source of their fortune, the source of their fortune will still be there. They’re still sullied by Fox and by publishing the Post. They’ll always be the upstarts and the outsiders.
Well, last week the professional society I’m a member of voted to “merge” with an industry controlled R&D org. Surprise, surprise, a call for applicants to the new society board went out and half of the slots go vendor employees and the other half to narrowly tailored definition that is basically the parent org’s constituent companies. And only executive employees of those two employment groups are eligible. Aren’t even letting the ink dry before hollowing it out and turning it into god knows what. Fuck you midlevel technical managers. Fuck you individual contributors. Fuck you independent consultancies. You may have been the driving force behind the society for years, but it’s our property now.
RC – Re your comment above on the cooties.
I actually rely on you more for info than the crap I hear from the news. You are there on the front lines and you are a straight shooter. Nearly everyone else is either lying or talking out of their asses.
I know this bug is not nothing and caution should be taken but it is not the apocalypse.
Thanks for the info and more is always appreciated.
“I actually rely on you more for info than the crap I hear from the news.”
Hear, hear! Thanks, RC.
Yeah, he’s been very educational for years. Don’t know where he finds the time.
Agreed. Thumbs up for RC’s actual reporting.
Thirded (or fourthed?)
MIL has the TV on. Biden just said yesterday’s “stimulus” bill was just a down payment.
I’ll be sure to let my kids know that this is only the first of many payments they’ll be making to me and my parents.
The Kennedy Center got tens of millions again for some reason. But there is nothing left to cut.
I’m sure Boeing got shoveled a few more billion as well, since nothing will keep America competitive like propping up that sad sack of a company.
I guess it doesn’t matter because Biden is old as fuck and won’t survive his presidency, but it seems like people noticed this time that we spent $2 trillion and their $1,200 was cut to $600.
If you’re a purchasing clerk and decide to combine two different person’s orders, whether out of some cost saving or just laziness, would it kill you to let both people know you’ve done so? Person A is wondering why there’s stuff they didn’t order with their name on it. Person B is wondering where the fuck their stuff is and why hasn’t it arrived. I’m Person B.
My Brother just bought a house in Prescott AZ, he Left Hell, and sends his AR 15 greetings!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NnanAZsEEWAajTyE8
I assume he still has the truck though.
I’m sure of it,
Ooh, I like those target holders!
By 2023, Arizona will have a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators.
My cousin moved to Prescott the beginning of this year. The have horses.
Glory is Fleeting, Obscurity is Forever.
When Napoleon said that he may have had his mind on the fame securing his future fame, and being remembered for centuries. To me however it signifies the futility of chasing after worldly recognition. In 1000 years when they dig up our bones and speculate on our lives, they will not remember the petty squabbles of our politics. What is most important is that we live our lives in a way to instruct the future generation, and teach them to walk in the ways of Justice, and Mercy.
I hope my short story brought some amusement to you, and i hope you have a happy, fantastic Christmas Season. Merry Christmas to all you Glibs.
Caesar would have lived a long life, except for that Senate thing,
Indeed. In a thousand years, even in 500 years, the Holocaust and other horrors of the 20th century will be footnotes just like any number of absolutely horrible acts of brutality and savagery throughout history. There will probably be a pop music group named The Hitlers, like these people.
Merry Christmas, leon. And all you Glibs.
Dr. Birx says she will retire after ‘overwhelming’ holiday travel scandal
I was willing to bet that was a Bee link, disappointed it wasn’t.
OMG. They are true believers.
you know, they didn’t choose this for me
Yeah, Debs, you chose the isolation and depression for them.
At least she didn’t call it a “mistake”. No the problem is Americas fault and how hard they have been on her and her family, not her own flawed character.
“done… to my family”
As if it just came out of nowhere and wasn’t precipitated by her flaunting her own guidance.
What she did to 330,000,000 other Americans is NBD. But her familly…
Good. Now repeat this about 10,000 times, starting from the top and working down. We’ll let you know when to stop,
Apparently the usual suspects are still yammering on about “Dr. Jill”, which led me to ponder……none of the people huffily insisting that you must call this person of no particular accomplishment or distinction “doctor” ever call Rand Paul, an actual MD, “Dr. Paul”.
In their mind Senator is a greater Honorific than Doctor.
But, like, he’s not a real ophthalmologist! And his neighbor must have had some good reason to hate him.
/s
I was thinking that just yesterday. See, also, Dr. Ben Carson.
An Ed D should be called “Dr.”, a pediatric neurosurgeon is just “Mr.”.
(Crazy) chicks dig bad boys. She is not nearly hot enough for him.
I thought they dug the long ball?
“done… to my family”
But what you did to millions of other families was just the manifestation of your deep and abiding love for humanity.
Go drink a Drano and Clorox cocktail, you cunt.
Leon, I liked this, especially the LoTR reference at the end. I didn’t need the video link to get it.