Fingers crossed.
The Steelers shit the bed. The Niners continues sucking ass. The European groups for 2022 World Cup qualifying are out. And that’ll be interesting.  And lastly, TTUN went back to some form of practice yesterday, which bodes well for The Game taking place. And that’s sports.
One of the funniest moments in TV history.
Big birthdays today are Roman poet Horace, Mary Queen of Scots, cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney, jazzman Cleo Brown, rat pack member Sammy Davis, Jr, actor Maximilian Schell, musicians Jim Morrison and Gregg Allman, Â comedian Sam Kinison, assclown Ann Coulter, the lovely Teri Hatcher, singer Sinead O’Connor, pitcher Mike Mussina, and rapper Nicki Minaj.
Meh. Now on to…the links!
Yeager
Test pilot Chuck Yeager has died. I hope they bury him in a casket that looks like the X-1.
Biden has announced his pick for SecDef. This isn’t exactly the civilian control of the military I think we should all expect.
British guinea pigs line up to take covid vaccine. Sounds good to me. Let them go first.
Coumo gets properly roasted. Although it could be an apt comparison to Pacino in “Gigli” and DeNiro in “The Big Wedding”.
I just want to know if he’s opening back up for good. Although I do see him spending some time in jail for avoiding an illegal arrest.
Everyone in this photograph hates kids.
Here’s your daily reminder that the Chicago Teachers Union doesn’t care about kids. All of the evidence is against them and they’re still doubling down.  They need to be disbanded and replaced by people who aren’t afraid and who actually give a shit.
At least he stopped using made-up data. Unfortunately, he’s simply moved on to avoiding questions about his reasoning altogether.
I almost forgot this was still going on. Sadly, I think it will last a decade or more before Brexit ultimately never happens.
Enjoy this. I most certainly will.
Now have a great day, friends!
Everything is still stupid. Yay 2020.
But everything is going to turn around in just 23 days!
The Great Reset?
The great Russet?
I am more a Yukon Gold man, m’self.
Special present for the long-suffering Swissy – https://youtu.be/7T2oje4cYxw
For the best mashed potatoes, I find a mixture of gold and russet potatoes works best.
The crucial thing in any case is to let them dry out before mashing.
That too. I boil them with the skins on to keep them from getting too waterlogged, too.
I just watch them and poke them with a fork. Like Satan’s Imps.
When I’m making them fior a family dinner, I’ll boil them in a magnalite dutch oven until they’re overcooked, then pour them into a stainless colander that goes back into the magnalite and then THAT goes into whichever oven is being used for the stuffing/turkey/rolls until 5 minutes before serving itme. They soak up so much more butter and cream while retaining a fluffy texture when it’s time to mash.
I make them by going to mom’s house and sitting at the table politely until she finishes them.
Nein! It has already been announced that the B/H administration will begin with 100 days of prayer, fasting and penitence.
Where are the sack-cloth and ashes, self flagellation and pilgrimage to the tomb of RBG that begin in the nest 1000 days! I demand a recount!
Oh, there will be autos da fe, mark my words.
Me and everyone on this site has already been sized for a dunce cap.
But how are your tits?
Shrunken and pale.
“We’ve heard from so many of people whose businesses are being shut down by some of these orders, who are really frustrated that they feel like they have not seen enough evidence that point to outdoor restaurants spreading COVID in a major way, hair salons, nail salons spreading COVID in a major way,” Fox 11’s Elex Michaelson told the governor. “I’m wondering what you say to these people who say, ‘Look, I’ve done everything you’ve asked, I’ve followed the rules, I spent a lot of money on PPP, my staff is on the brink of losing their jobs, we’re on the brink of losing our business, it’s the holiday season.’ What do you say to these people who are really desperate and confused and angry right now?”
“I said it Friday, I said it Monday, I’ll say it again today,” Newsom replied. “I’m deeply empathetic and deeply committed to advancing the cause of supporting our small businesses in this challenging and trying time.”
Gorilla plexus mandible extrusion.
“âIâm deeply empathetic and deeply committed to advancing the cause of supporting our small businesses in this challenging and trying time.â
No, you aren’t.
He’ll toast them at his next outing at the French Laundry. When he wins his re-election comfortably, get back to me about how our elections are “free and fair.”
Don’t underestimate the number of stupid people in California. The ones with brains are leaving.
Like this? https://youtu.be/vaxB4ChFTnQ
was that an actual question from a reporter? jfc I haven’t seen one of those in 9 months.
“Newsom ended by saying he was going to show how empathetic he was, he is only going to take 25% of his salary, cut all other government salaries by 50%, selling his house and moving into low a income housing.”
Right? That what “we’re all in this together” means, correct?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
As Biden continues to fill out his Cabinet, he is under pressure to name Black Americans to top posts. Biden has promised to make his Cabinet the most diverse in history.
Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., told CNN in an interview Sunday that Biden needed to pick Black Americans for top Cabinet positions, like defense secretary or attorney general, noting that Austin was one the top contenders backed by the Congressional Black Caucus, which she chairs.
“Get in here, Boy. I got a job for you.”
Black people can’t even do their own rioting.
Oh man, you have to issue a snort warning with that sort of thing. Inhaling orange juice is no fun.
Beer going out the nostrils is no picnic either.
Merit is racist.
Where? Where is this “Merit”? Find heem and bring me his head!
You know, white supremacists (actual ones) have a little saying, “Diversity means fewer white people”.
I absolutely hate that the Woke Left has made that a true statement.
If white supremacists want to recruit more people, all they have to do now is point to the Woke Left and say, “We told you this was going to happen!”
When Africans run things, things are run like Africa.
As foretold in the Monday AM links, parents are getting fed up and finding ways to fight back. Good. Hope this spreads.
Linked from there is a story that Coonman is going to increase the beatings until morale improves.
Fucko issued his mask diktat in June. Compliance in the Richmond area that I’ve seen is damned close to 100%. Gee, it’s almost as if masks don’t do shit.
But we have cases and that is a problem…somehow. So we have to double down. How dare you question the SCIENCE and EXPERTS, peasant?
We KNOW the lockdowns work. If it’s not working, that means YOU’re not locking down hard enough!
All this kind of reminds me of a guy I knew back in ATC radar. Sgt. Pete was a damned smart guy and a good technician, but he had one glaring flaw – once he made up his mind what the fault was, nothing would shake his conviction. He would move heaven and earth to find a way to prove himself correct rather than adjusting his hypothesis based on what he was seeing in his troubleshooting.
The powers that be decided very early on what course they were going to set and, no matter what is actually happening, they will never reassess their actions. “So we’ve been doing these ridiculous lockdowns and mask mandates for many months with very little effect – obviously the problem is with the people, not our shitty course of action!”
the reason they took these actions is in fact so they could blame the populace.
Everything is still stupid. Yay 2020.
But- MIRACLE CURE!
A new day has dawned. We’re saved!
Oh, you just wait. The next fight will be over Vaccine certificates. “You must display a COVID-19 vaccination certificate to enter these premises.”
Can we just carry it in an armband where it will be openly displayed?
[stands and applauds]
Need a good optic color… yellow, perhaps?
We also need some kind of symbol to show how we’re all stronger together…
Like a bunch of sticks, or as the Italians call them, fasces?
I thought they were called fagotti?
Tattoo it on everybody’s forearm.
While a classic, an implanted chip would allow for
trackingupdating with the latest requiredsocial creditvaccine info.why not a new tattoo with the latest vaccine? Then you can wear your sleeve with pride!
Good morning, Sloop. Thanks for the sports round up. Itâs good to read about sports without having to take a knee or without talking about social justice.
Cute avatar.
Thanks.
Snuffles is my slave name.
I find that strangely arousing.
Just heard: “Nobody wants to GO BACK to free and open trade with China.”
Wut?
Chuck Yeager never took a knee unless it was in football practice. That CNN link stated that he flew 350(!) different aircraft over the course of his career. That has to be a record.
What I’m doing right now? Folding work laundry, drinking beer and Glibbing. I somehow feel less than đ
2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
I’m a natural multitasker.
C’mon Man! I bet McCain flew that many planes. Of course, I bet a lot of you Negative Nellies will smirk and point out that The Maverick only landed about 10 of those planes successfully.
Reverse Ace!
When you fly 350 different aircraft, most of them experimental, you ain’t supposed to live to 97. Or even 37.
And even before he became a test pilot, he survived air combat over Europe in WWII. He was shot down over France in 1944. Hooked up with the French resistance, who helped him get to the Pyrenees so he could escape into Spain.
He was also quoted – “The first time I saw a jet powered aircraft I shot it down”
Definitely a man who defined “badass”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgR-KadhgMI
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9030057/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-cleavage-baring-bralette.html
Pretty face, great rack and freakish undercarriage. Demi is a two-thirdsie.
England and Poland seem to always get drawn together. Weird.
This time they could walk all over the Germans. My my, how low the Bundeswehr has fallen.
I think it’s their common love of boiled food.
“How Fang Fang the Chinese spy slept with two US mayors and targeted politicians – including one of the youngest members of the House – before slipping out of the US when the FBI came knocking”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9029379/How-suspected-Chinese-spy-targeted-California-politicians.html
“Trump tweets video of Chinese professor claiming that Beijing can swing US policy because it has ‘people at the top of America’s core inner circle of power’ in clip that has been deleted from social media in China”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9029383/Trump-tweets-video-Chinese-professor-claiming-Beijing-swing-policy.html
“Fang Fang”? This really is Clown World, isn’t it?
Honk, honk…
Well that was depressing.
A Chicom comes out and blatantly admits that they have all sorts of leverage on the US “establishment” that is coming back into power and nothing else will happen.
And after four years of promoting the phony Russia collusion bullshit, the media steadfastly ignore this actual collusion with the Chicoms.
“During her time in the US, Axios reports that Fang had her sights set on Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, one of the youngest members of the House.”
Looks like Duke Nukem was doing a little deep diving into Chinese policy IYKWIM.
I loved Swalwell’s defense:
Sure. That is why you aren’t answering questions. Because you know too much.
Highly classified information like he once accidentally blurted out “I love you!” as he was cumming in her mouth when he, in fact, did not love her.
I won’t come in your mouth and I love you. That’s 2 of the 3 big lies right there. “The check is in the mail” is being replaced with “2 weeks to flatten the curve.”
ad her sights set on Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell
Something here doesn’t smell right.
You can’t believe she swallowed Swalwell? Or perhaps that Swalwell didn’t swell for his little fortune cookie?
The triple delight must have come back to haunt him.
“Fang also helped Tulsi Gabbard fundraise, and became well-known by California’s political scene..”
I’d watch THAT for a dollar.
No, no. Five dollah. Love you long time.
Take my money!
Slovakia and Slovenia in the same group for maximum confusion! I can see someone screwing up and showing up in the wrong country to watch a game.
Just yell “Go Slov’!”
Make sure to add the ‘V’ to the end of that yell. Imagine if you just yelled “Go Slo!”
Totes embarrassing when all the other fans turn toward you and derisively say “dude it is soccer. Of course it will be slow”
Try cricket.
ZZZZZZZZ….
Related:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/oct/24/liverpool-fans-miss-victory-in-genk-after-travelling-to-gent-by-mistake
No one ever accused Liverpool fans of being smart.
They shouldn’t have booked their trip through a Manchester travel agent.
There was the couple, I want to say from Manchester who booked a flight to Birmingham, AL instead of Birmingham, UK.
I remember a story involving the wrong Portland.
I remember a story about a guy who was changing planes in SFO, heading for Oakland. He was so tired he fell asleep during takeoff – and woke up a few hours later on a flight to Auckland, New Zealand.
The Grauniad must agree with you, how else to explain why they wrote and ran a story about TWO people screwing up?
You think the names are confusing in English. But it’s even worse in Slovakian.
Slovensko is Slovakia in Slovakian
Slovinsko is Slovenia in Slovakian
Slovenski is Slovenian for Slovenian.
Slovensky is Slovak for Slovak.
I realized he was MVP and all, but Josh Donaldson (birthday today) has a surprisingly decent WAR total for only 10 seasons. He is too old and on the downside of his career, but it looks like the start of a HOF career. Instead, its a real good peak. If he had this total at age 30 instead of age 34, it would be different.
I watched him when he played for the Jays. He was very, very good.
Prone to injury though. Plays hard and pays the price.
“REVEALED: Biden’s likely picks for Secretary of Defense, State and a senior defense official have equity in an investment firm that intends to cash in on COVID – as watchdog calls it ‘gross'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9028849/Biden-picks-Lloyd-Austin-secretary-defense.html
So the Democrats are going to shovel money from the middle class to their friends? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you. Well, OK, I’m not that shocked.
Enough with these baseless conspiracy theories. Joe Biden and his associates are all completely above board. Also, prosecute Drumpfler for treason for his Kremlin Kollusion, which totally happened and everyone knows it.
It’s like they aren’t even bothering trying to hide it anymore. It fits my theory. If you can get the public to repeat the most obvious, indisputable untruths, you’ve beaten them. They’ll accept the lies and corruption continually. And the few people out there acknowledging reality can be written off as cranks or conspiracy theorists.
gotta loot while there’s some money in the kitty.
Titty Tuesday CYOA.
Two voluminous mounds of pleasure loom before you. Do you:
Closely investigate the areola diameter to cup size ratio? Go to page: https://archive.li/zKGa0
or,
Motorboat them? Go to page: https://archive.li/h1qZd
In case you missed on dead-thread (sorry), condolences over your friend. 2020 isn’t exactly as bad as 1493 or 1348 but it is shaking the world up in a bad way for very different and ultimately stupid reasons.
First link: #18. Don’t usually go for red hair, but that booty and those stockings … mmm
Second link: #1.
Sorry about your friend.
On decision day for parents and teachers of Chicago Public Schools students tapped to return for in-person classes in the new year, the Chicago Teachers Union announced it had filed a legal action seeking to prevent the district from moving forward with its reopening plan.
Why work when you can still get paid?
But seriously, fire any “educator” that is unwilling to do the job.
You can’t fire someone from a “calling”!
Those teachers aren’t like you deplorables who are grubbing at your dirty job for a stinking paycheck. They are teachers because they have a calling to teach and would do it for no money. In fact they often take out huge loans to pay for school supplies because they are so dedicated.
I bet you deplorables never pay for anything out of your own pocket in your job. Like extra training, or better tools or certification tests.
You canât fire someone from a âcallingâ!
Is god signing their paychecks? No? Then you sure as hell can fire their worthless asses.
“We are teechurs, not babysitters.”
LOLOL…
The teachers are largely why we are in this mess. If we kept the schools going full time much of this irrational retarded fear would have subsided and some normalcy would have been prevailed.
The media would have kept flogging the panic.
Although it could be an apt comparison to Pacino in âGigliâ and DeNiro in âThe Big Weddingâ.
So you are not, in fact, Cuomosexual.
Fang Fang looks just like one of my vendors — who is a dude.
hawt.
“â who is a dude”
Maybe that’s just during his 9-to-5…
What a shock. The curfew here in Ohio has done nothing to slow the spread… so we’re going to have to extend it.
It’s a good thing that we’re following the science…
Could be worse. Our gov issued his lockdown orders just as we hit the peak. Now I’m sure I’ll have to listen to lots of people tell me about how Walz’s expert work on society’s dials kept us all safe.
Really, this is like telling your kids to hide out in their rooms for the weekend when you see the first tampon wrapper from your wife appear. Then you tell them that hiding in their room is why Mommy isn’t grumpy anymore.
Join the fight, or else
Roughly four in ten Americans say they would âdefinitelyâ or âprobablyâ not get a vaccine, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. While this is higher than it was two months ago, to achieve herd immunity, experts say that about 70% of the population needs to be vaccinated or have natural antibodies.
Employers, however, may not be taking ânoâ for an answer.
âA couple of my corporate clients are leaning toward making the Covid vaccine mandatory,â said Rogge Dunn, a Dallas labor and employment attorney.
His clients range from companies in manufacturing to food and beverage â industries that have been battered for months due to the pandemic and government-mandated lockdowns. A vaccine promises employers a return to some form of normal, which is desperately needed as businesses look to recover profits.
One of Dunnâs clients in the restaurant sector thinks a compulsory inoculation requirement could be a game changer for business.
âThey think it gives them a competitive advantage,â explained Dunn. âThey could say to their customers, âHey, our restaurant is safe. All of our employees have been vaccinated.ââ
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And for those who still refuse? Rather than firing them, Reiss said employers could require that they complete an educational course that delves into trial efficacy data and the experience of participants.
“Come now, Comrade. You must submit, for the good of society. Why do you want your fellow workers to die?”
Couldn’t you just tell them you got the vaccine? They can’t force you to provide private medical records.
That horse left the barn a long time ago. A documented negative TB test is required to work in health care fields.
If they can lock you in your home and shut down your business without due process, I don’t think think they’ll have a problem ignoring HIPAA.
HIPAA is already ignored, and companies are already forcing vaccinations on employees.
I don’t get the big deal, why wouldn’t anyone want to take a vaccine that hasn’t even been in development for a year and so there’s no data on any long term side effects. Trust the experts!
HIPAA doesn’t even apply here. HIPAA prohibits health care providers and health plans from disclosing information without an authorization or any of a raft of safe harbors. It doesn’t apply to you You can disclose any info you want It doesn’t prohibit your employer asking you about your health (or, for that matter, asking your doctor about your health). It might prohibit your doctor from telling your employer about your health, but it certainly doesn’t prohibit you from telling anybody anything.
I know, but that’s not what my comment meant. I was sayin that HIPAA is already routinely ignored.
On the unelated rest of the comment, they will try to force you to take the vaccine and they’ll require a voucher. You can not take it and be unemployed, your choice.
They will have a problem, because all the anti-vaxers are not deplorables, there’s probably more wide eye proggies that are anti-vax and they’re not going to do it.
All the better, we’ll have record unemployment rate and so the feds will have a new problem to solve. Universal jobs guarantee! Don’t forget to get your vaccine.
And no unemployment benefits without proof of vaccination.
They canât force you to provide private medical records.
They can fire you if you don’t. In just about every hospital, a flu shot is mandatory without a doctor’s note or a religious objection. I have advised accepting religious objections at face value, unless we want to catch an employment discrimination lawsuit.
Of course not, they’ll require a voucher.
I will not be getting the vaccine. And I am pretty sure that me and half of the office (mostly more experienced and productive) will leave if my employer decides to require it. So they will likely not require it.
That’s what I said about the muzzle. I wear a gaiter that my whiskers poke through. I also pull it down more often than Suzy Cream Cheese doffed her panties. Gonna move to the kerchief. I need to work and don’t want to be the one nail sticking out of the board right now. I was for about a month but CP and the Provincial Government put a stop to that. It was nice to breathe for nearly 56 years.
Everyone I have talked to has the same plan. They’ll get the vaccine eventually. But only after a lot of other people go first.
I am currently working from home, and as a manufacturing engineer this is kind of difficult, but due to half the factory being out due to exposure from idiots that don’t know to stay home when they are sick I can get some factory automation computer grunt work done.
I do find it odd that people who won’t eat a chicken that was given antibiotics suddenly want everyone to take a genetically modified experimental mRNA vaccine. I have had too many health issues to jump on that bandwagon so i will pass.
“Trump’s officials TURNED DOWN summer offer of more doses of Pfizer’s breakthrough vaccine on top of shots for 50 million – and now might not get any extra supplies until JUNE”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9028225/Donald-Trumps-officials-TURNED-offer-doses-Pfizers-vaccine.html
“Pfizer and Moderna SNUB Trump’s White House vaccine summit Tuesday after he accused them of holding back good news until after the election”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9027973/Pfizer-Moderna-SNUB-Donald-Trumps-White-House-vaccine-summit.html
The pharmaceutical companies are taking a jab at Trump.
Fauci is one of Trump’s officials. The BBC also did a story about the first person to get the Pfizer vaccine… which is odd becasue I thought the number who have gotten it already was well into five digits. But facts shouldn’t get in the way of a good story, right Beeb/NPR?
I know someone who has already maybe gotten the Moderna one. Lots of people have gotten both of them because there are trials going on. Those people just don’t really know whether they’ve gotten it or a placebo.
It won’t be until well after the zombie apocalypse that we learn about the horrifying side effects.
Lots of people have gotten both of them because there are trials going on.
They either lied about being in the other trial, or these are the shittiest trials ever.
Well, I know for sure there is a Moderna trial. Pfizer, I don’t know, but how can they market a drug that has never had a trial? I’ve never heard of any such thing.
One person can’t participate in both trials. That would violate the trial protocol.
I think by “both” Hyp meant “one or the other.”
“one or the other”, then.
I know a couple people in the Pfizer trial. They said it was crystal clear pretty quick whether you got the real shot or not.
Gavin Newsom once again declines to show evidence newly closed businesses contribute to virus spread
This asshat is the quintessential slimy, used car salesman politician.
And of course, everything about this virus is out of context. This ain’t the bubonic plague. It is a flu and should be treated as such. But that wouldn’t allow a pretext to scare the population into all manner of new abnormal behaviors and allow petty tyrants to be petty and tyrannical.
I’m in San Diego for work. Is is absolutely tragic. I got to talk to a few wait staff before restaurants were shut down. I can’t imagine being told you can’t work for three weeks before Christmas.
They can work! If they get essential jobs!
why can’t they all just work for the federal gov or state?
Sadly, I think it will last a decade or more before Brexit ultimately never happens.
I’d get it done in an afternoon. But I am of the opinion that it is not ever going to happen. The Brits don’t seem to like themselves anymore. They will continue to be walked over.
Unfortunately you could easily say the same thing about America.
The concept of self-governance is dead, if it ever really was alive. The peasants made wrong choices while playing democracy so the elites have to take the toys away.
Good. And don’t bother teaching anything about him anymore either. It’s not like he is a significant figure in US military history. You couldn’t possibly learn anything of value or relevant to wafare or philosophy.
The Virginia Military Institute began work Monday to remove a prominent statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas âStonewallâ Jackson, an effort initiated this fall after allegations of systemic racism roiled the school.
A crew was inspecting the statue at the public military college in Lexington, poised to haul away the statue of Jackson that some cadets were required to salute until several years ago.
Y’know, that Caesar fellow killed a lot of Gauls. Lets ignore his military prowess too!
Gauls aren’t a race, just white people. And if you were smart, you’d know that Julius Cesar was black. He was just striking down the oppressor.
To date, Alberta’s avoided a second (complete) lockdown, but the Chief Medical Officer’s started doing battlespace prep in a presser yesterday where she’s admitted that everything we’re already doing (up to and including no indoor gatherings of *any* size!) is not enough and the cases continue to mount, so…
Honest to God, the only thing these idiots know how to do is repeat existing failures.
Buh-bye, Alberta’s economy.âIt was nice being First World while it lasted.
Alberta is 250,000 square miles and only 4M people. You were already social distancing.
Slurp slurp slurp
President-elect Joe Bidenâs choices for his health care team point to a stronger federal role in the nationâs COVID-19 strategy, restoration of a guiding stress on science and an emphasis on equitable distribution of vaccines and treatments.
With Mondayâs announcement of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his health secretary and a half dozen other key appointments, Biden aims to leave behind the personality dramas that sometimes flourished under President Donald Trump. He hopes to return the federal response to a more methodical approach, seeking results by applying scientific knowledge in what he says will be a transparent and disciplined manner.
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Bidenâs selection of infectious disease expert Dr. Rochelle Walensky to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the elevation of Dr. Anthony Fauci to medical adviser, and the return of Dr. Vivek Murthy as surgeon general are being read in the medical community as a restoration of the traditionally important role of science in public health emergencies.
âIt means that the response plan will be grounded in health science,â said Dr. Nadine Gracia, executive vice president of the Trust for Americaâs Health, a nonprofit that works to promote public health.
Under Trump, âthose of us who practice in medicine today have been dismayed,â said Dr. Wendy Armstrong, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University medical school. âThe individuals with the greatest expertise have not had the voice many of us wish they would have had. … This to me signals that the government is ready to put expertise in place that can guide its plan.â
SCIENCE! means consensus. Real SCIENCE-tists don’t ask questions or rock the boat.
They’ll all tow the panicdemic lion.
a stronger federal role
Nothing says efficiency and efficacy like federal involvement.
It means that the response plan will be grounded in health science
Sick burn on Fauci, Nadine.
This seemed Glibs “appropriate”
Austin was the CO of 10th Mountain when I was there in 05 – but other than that…[shrugs]
I was contemplating some loose change and looking at the fellows the USA chose to honor: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklinâand then there is that FDR guy on the dime.
One of these things ainât like the others.
The 18th-19th century guys are widely considered to be âfounding fathersâ no matter what their personal failings may have been. Lincoln is widely considered to have been a good guy at a difficult time, although his executive overreach was a bad example, regardless of the âcause.â
And, perhaps Mr Lincolnâs example paved the way for FDR to sweep away constitutional constraints and do whatever he thought necessary to achieve his socialist ends.
What a contrast to the other coinage! FDR on a dime, mixed in with the visages of the Founders whose Republic FDR wanted to dismantle and re-make.
And who were the folks pushing to stick FDR on a dime? Cult of personality!!
And now I hate dimes.
https://youtu.be/Ya3RUIvzXmg
In the brown shag carpet of a cheap motel
In the dark and dusty corner by the TV shelf
Is a small reminder of a simpler time
When a crumpled up pair of trousers lost a brand new dime
Well you ask me how I made it through and how my mint condition could belong to you
When I’m on the ground I roll through town
I’m a president you don’t remember getting kicked around
I think the people on our currency are the major influences in our economic/monetary/banking system. I apologize that I am not knowledgeable enough to elaborate on that.
I dont know what FDR did to merit his appearance on the dime, but….you know….FDR, so it cant be good.
I dont know what FDR did to merit his appearance on the dime
Outlawed private ownership of gold?
Inspired a song… Brother can you spare a dime.
Got a few other coins with heads on them….Susan B Anthony, Kennedy, is Eisenhower on one of the half dollars?
I so want a Freddy Douglass dollar. Imagine that visage looking back at you. Badass.
JFC, it is only 8:30 and I want to drink already.
I blame the voters. Useless shitbirds keep getting elected over and over. I would think the whole ‘democracy’ thing is fake except that I personally know a lot of people that vote leftist.
I know one for certain that voted Biden. As sure as the sun comes up every morning she is going to whine about her taxes next year. I am tempted to rub her nose in it real hard even if it means never speaking to a family member again.
Stupid, stupid fuckers.
Pogo knew what he was talking about.
your not going to have to do any of that in the next 6 months to a year. Everyone is going to come around to the fact we just made a colossal mistake of monumental and empire ending proportions.
That would have happened no matter who was “captain” of the ship.
I’ve said it before but comfort is hugely motivating. Most of the US population lives in opulence. Don’t take away their right to bear arms and they will shrug and take a sip of their busch light. And that’s for the half that WOULD revolt. The other half believes in the state like I believe fake titties are an abomination.
this isn’t sustainable.
agreed. and i am one of those people who live in comfort and opulencE. but most importantly, i have children. my chances of rebellion are low. you’re gonna have to take it all away.
Our election process is a real mess. Someone in that county needs to lose their job – because they ain’t doing it.
In no way should a ballot that is “found” in a drawer be counted. I’m sorry but it lost the chain of custody. We have gone overboard on “counting everyone regardless of security” and not providing any security measures for votes to count.
That goes double for automatic voter registration (motor voter crap) and other measures to inflate the voting rolls with names of people who don’t care to register in the first place.
Of course they’re doing their job — they are going to keep on finding ballots until the dem wins.
Oh this was the one where the judge, on his own, decided what were good ballots – and eliminated 2000 or so votes for Tenney.
In a hearing Monday to determine how to proceed with the certification process, DelConte noted that 12 uncounted ballots were found in a drawer in rural Chenango County last week, the Observer-Dispatch reported. Last week, officials discovered another 55 uncounted ballots in the same county. Of those 55 votes, 11 were cast by unregistered voters.
I am sure everything is on the up and up.
Even setting aside shenanigans, this is unbelievably stupid.
Of those 55 votes, 11 were cast by unregistered voters.
Two questions:
How do they know that?
Since they know who allegedly cast the votes, why not ask them if they actually voted?
Whatever man…
I am the law
If there was any confusion as to who can and cannot stay in hotels under the stateâs regional stay-at-home order that went into effect Sunday night, California Gov. Gavin Newsom cleared it up Monday morning.
If you want to get away for a leisure stay, forget about it. Overnight lodging is verboten for anyone but essential workers.
In the days since state officials warned last week that much of California was headed for a COVID-19 lockdown reminiscent of the early days of the pandemic, the public, along with the lodging industry, hadnât been entirely clear on what that meant for those parts of the state where available intensive care unit capacity had fallen below 15 percent. So far, the Southern California region and San Joaquin Valley have hit that threshold, and several San Francisco Bay Area counties have voluntarily chosen to embrace the order as well.
Responding to a question from the Union-Tribune during a Monday morning news conference about what the order means for overnight hotel stays, Newsom answered, âThe protocol the state put out maintains that it is essential only, lodging can be open for essential workers only. Not for tourists, not for leisure and only for those areas that have fallen into those (ICU capacity) categories.â
Come on Gav. Declare martial law. Issue shoot-on-sight orders. Lives are at stake.
Holy shit. I just looked at California’s numbers and they’re leading the country. gonna be a bumpy ride before that asshole lets up.
Not per capita, but of course let’s all just forget about adjusting for population – we have HUGE numbers!
Yes, per capita. In the short run.
But remember, His Excellency may dine with friends at the French Laundry, because he’s better than you.
Ze viroos would not dare to show eets face in our establishment.
Can’t get a reservation, most likely
LA Story had among it’s many, many great bits, the exceedingly trendy French restaurant “leed ee oh” with the reveal that it was actually spelled L’Idiot.
Oh wow, I know I watched that once but I don’t remember much about it besides Steve Martin and a young Sarah Jessica Parker being in it.
Also! The resort was El Pollo Del Mar (Chicken of the Sea)
What a fucking sinister grease stain that guy is.
Good and hard.
What a strange trio to call out as the apotheosis of a successful first term as President.
The author is a little over the top for Trump, but even he recognizes that the Trump leaves little room for measured consideration (say like Victor Davis Hanson) – it’s really love him or hate him.
We need to at least put someone in office every so often who just swiftly and immediately reverses all the executive orders of the previous guy.
i love that.
I agree with Scott Adams – any precinct that count witnesses were excluded or expelled was fraudulent. Nothing after that matters. Chasing around trying to prove what they did in secret is silly.
Did you guys see this morning the state of Texas is suing other states for having shitty fraud-prone election procedures?
i like it.
But Trump had a press conference and promised bigly things!
Goes straight to SCOTUS.
Will be interesting to see if SCOTUS takes it up. I say, prolly not. Since the media has declared the winner, what’s the point?
According to 3 USC section 5, today is the day all controversies about appointment of electors must be resolved.
Prediction: They won’t be resolved. Trump loses.
Nah.
âThe Supreme Court has ruled that the law does not actually require states to appoint Electors by that date in order for those Electoral Votes to be counted by Congress when determining the winner of the presidential election,â said a new white paper from the Amistad Project of the nonpartisan Thomas More Society, which is challenging the votes in several states.
Whatâs more, the document claims that in the five states it has filed challenges to the election results, enough violations took place to force the legislatures to take over for the electoral system.
âThrough rigorous investigations supporting our litigation, we demonstrate that state and local officials brazenly violated election laws in several swing states in order to advance a partisan political agenda,â said Phill Kline, the director of the Amistad Project, in releasing the white paper.
âAs a result, it is impossible for those states to determine their presidential Electors in line with the arbitrary deadline set forth via federal statute in 1948, and thus, the only deadline that matters is January 20, 2021,â he said.
I think Chief Justice Penaltax will find a way.
It’s not just about overturning the election though.
This is the most important detail.
Now, now. Next silly thing you’ll be saying is that cops shouldn’t be trusted when their body cameras “malfunction!”
Yeah, get a load of this guy – thinking that the king’s men (with or without guns) aren’t to be trusted.
But muh-disenfranchisement!
Gavin Newsom man of the people.
In 2000, Newsome ran for mayor of SF against Matt Gonzalas (sp?). Newsome was the sane one. Of course these eight would back him; fairly liberal, owned a business and was SF to a core at that time. Gonzalas was a proto-SJW who would have probably killed the tech boom, if not in the whole country then SF at least.
He was kinda like Ted Wheeler is in Portland right now. Not great, but sure as fuck better than was else was there.
Too bad – the sooner the craziest shit-heads prove how dangerous they are, the sooner the lesson can be learned… oh hell, who am I kidding.
RIP Chuck Yeager.
I shared the wrong GoFundMe link for the Staten Island bar. I think the correct on is this one based on the NY Post article Sloopy linked.
“The other problem with pretending we can simply outrun crime is that the current problems plaguing our cities come from bad ideas, and those bad ideas can easily spread to your comfortable towns so far untouched by our rot. It isnât just the crime that spreads â itâs the bad policies.
It wonât just be people who disapprove of the bad ideas who will get out as things get worse. With COVID-19, plenty of people have left cities for more space or because their childâs school didnât open. They may still believe in all of the failed philosophies causing the destruction behind them.
We have to get rid of the bad ideas implemented during the good times. âNo bailâ is a concept politicians come up with when murder rates were at a 20-year low, inapt when children are being shot in the street. District attorneys deciding not to prosecute âlow-levelâ crimes are undoing years of effective crime-fighting.
A NYPD news release from July noted that âfrom January through the end of June, more than 2,000 people arrested in a crime with a gun recovered had cases against them that remain open in the courts.â #DefundThePolice is something only the bourgeoisie can support. In Gotham, the elimination of funding for a new cadet class and a high number of police officers leaving the force are going to culminate in obvious disaster.”
https://nypost.com/2020/12/07/crime-is-killing-usas-cities-if-we-just-move-away-it-will-follow-us/
No worries, after they’ve confiscated all the guns, criminals won’t have guns, so everyone will be safe.
Interesting phrasing. Does that include unlicensed millinery?
https://www.wideopenspaces.com/3-young-mountain-lions-unexpectedly-visit-homeowners-front-porch/
Yes, they are beautiful and majestic animals. They would also eat me if given the chance, and make excellent hats.
Our crime problem is deliberate and calculated. High crime has always been a powerful tool for tyrants. It keeps the population beaten down and demoralized.
Well, the transfer to Schwab finally cleared, and I am now part owner of Games Workshop and CD Projekt.
FYI: There is going to be steel on the next three Saturdays @ 10:00. Unfortunately they’re bumping up the cost by $2 since these will be “official” matches in order to maintain SCSA affiliation.
I have zero interest in gettign classifies since I know I will never be competitive in this game. Likewise I have less than zero interest in going to a major match since there wil be literally nothing new at them, it will cost more, and I won’t gain anything.
This saturday, I have a visit to my mother’s. The Saturday after Christmas is the Saturday after Christmas.
These are in addition to the every other Saturday, so there will be shoots on both the 19th and 20th.
I’m going to try that diner east of the club and see if it’s any good. Since it opens for breakfast at 9:00, it might become part of my rotations.
Every other Sunday, I meant.
I figured as much.
Ok, repeating myself from the overnight, I’m going to be working 7 days a week for the foreseeable future. You guys might see me on the late nights and a little on the morning links. FML. Hope you all have a wonderful Holiday season and don’t forget to deep-kiss Grandma at Xmastime. For Science!
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Will you at least be getting overtime?
Sure, but it’s complicated. Still wagering right now. They took me on six years ago and agreed to pay me full union wages. I get a day rate. I can usually knock off the sites in half-time. Anything extra is at least time and a half. This is the sticky part. I’m a union member with a secret deal.
I don’t know what the OT laws are like in canuckistan, but when I was working in TX, you got double time for anything over 60 hours in a week. I was making lawyer money then.
Working seven days a week is rough. Sorry.
“The most vocal & persistent advocates of internet censorship, by far, are employees of corporate media outlets (NYTâs tech reporters, CNN, NBCâs âdisinformationâ team, pompous New Yorker writers like this):
The Journalists-Against-Free-Speech Club is large and growing:”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1336018446056873988
I don’t normally wish or contemplate the demise of other humans but will make an exception for career politicians since they generally show all but zero regard for the lives of others…
So.. …Wouldn’t 2020 end up totally in character if Biden were to catch and succumb to the Chicom virus sometime this month, with Harris following him in the second week of January.
…and Nancy?
Press the panic button harder
A change to how the state of Iowa reports coronavirus-related deaths increased Iowaâs COVID-19 death toll to 2,898.
Until Monday, the Iowa Department of Public Health only reported COVID-19 deaths if the person who died had a positive PCR test result.
That method left out deaths in which a person had tested positive using an antigen test and cases in which COVID-19 was listed as the cause of death on a death record without a positive test result.
Get those numbers up, any way you can. Don’t let those other states beat you.
It also speaks to how worthless all these comparisons between places are. They all have different metrics.
COVID-19 was listed as the cause of death on a death record without a positive test result
Oh, FFS.
a person had tested positive using an antigen test
Meaning they had it, and recovered.
“Every business is essential
The powerful and the famous are lining up against everyday people losing their livelihoods”
https://spectator.us/every-business-essential-bars-restaurants-staten-island/
Starship hopping to 15Km. we’ll see, 11:00 am EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf83yzzme2I
Heartwarming
Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was named âemployee of the monthâ at Goya Foods after sales spiked following her calls to boycott the companyâs products, CEO Robert Unanue said Monday.
âWhen she boycotted us, our sales actually increased 1,000 percent,â Robert Unanue said on the âMichael Berry Show.â
âSo we gave her an honorary, we never were able to hand it to her, but she got employee of the month for bringing attention to Goya and our adobo.â
Unanue said the New York Democratâs comments allowed the company to expand its reach to âso many new people,â while holding onto its base of customers.
Ocasio-Cortez called for a boycott after Unanue praised President Trump at a White House event in July.
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His comments were too much for Ocasio-Cortez.
âOh look, itâs the sound of me Googling âhow to make your own Adobo,ââ tweeted AOC, who is of Puerto Rican descent, referring to one of Goyaâs popular seasonings.
Trollol.
Thin skinned bitch is thin skinned.
We truly are ruled by people whose development was arrested in junior high.
You might notice a pile of narcotics on the ground, between your heels.
All I want for Xmas is a threesome with Fang Fang and Anna Chapman.
Wasn’t Fang Fang on the Soupy Sales Show?
I thought it was from H.R Puffinstuff. One of Witchy-Poo’s minions.
All the best witches have flying monkey hordes.
SCIENCE
In August, local officials in Washington, Mo., a small city an hour west of St. Louis, voted against requiring residents to wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
On Nov. 23, with COVID-19 cases surging and the local hospital overflowing, the City Council brought a mask order back for another vote. As protesters marched outside, Councilman Nick Obermark, an electrician, was the sole member of the nonpartisan council to change his vote, causing the mandate to pass.
One of his many reasons? He has a child the same age as Washington Middle School student Peyton Baumgarth, 13, who on Halloween became the youngest person in Missouri to die of COVID-19 complications.
“That hit pretty hard,” Obermark said later. Though the councilman doesn’t like wearing a mask, he said it’s worth it to prevent even one or two people from getting COVID-19.
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Symbolic threats, or things that people feel threaten their values, can also affect behavior. In a survey of U.S. adults yet to be published, Ranjit and her colleagues studied media viewing and found that the kind of information people are exposed to makes a real difference.
Regardless of political affiliation, they found, Fox News viewers were more likely to think the pandemic threatens the American way of life, which made them less likely to wear masks. They were “buying into the idea that masks are against our identity,” she said. On the other hand, people watching MSNBC felt more afraid of the virus, which caused them to wear masks.
The scientific manipulation of emotional responses.
“Do it because it feels like you’re helping. We’re all in this together. Show your neighbors how much you care. Who knows, it might actually have an effect.”
Doesn’t matter, the national mandate will overrule those yokel locals and we’ll all be saved.
Even a notorious lefty-suckup goodthinker admits it’s about feelings: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/covid_precaution_level.png
That 13 year old kid who died in a car crash really hit hard. So he voted to enforce a 25 mph speed limit on all highways. Though the councilman doesnât like only driving 25 mph when he has to drive longer distances, he said itâs worth it to prevent even one or two people from getting killed in a car crash.
the national mandate will overrule those yokel locals and weâll all be saved.
We should make viruses illegal, and sic the DEA on it! Victory!
The New York State Assembly introduces a bill to mandate #Covid vaccinations.
The “nay” button does not appear to do anything.
I posted this last nite, but I will again for the morning crowd. Yesterday our Marxist DA prosecuted the cop who shot a burglar that gave him a bunch of stitches in his head and kept lunging at him with a broken 750ml of vodka. Here is a two minute version from when it happened. To me it looks like a totally appropriate use of force. Actually, the only problem I have is that the cop used the Biden method of violent criminal apprehension and shot him in his leg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjZP-69ts-Y
At Cesar Chavez Elementary – no, your city deserves this, good and hard, over and over and over again. Fuck every moron that voted for your officials.
Yup, I agree. Although it doesnât even matter about votes anymore. They have that taken care of.
RIP Gen. Yeager
The New York State Assembly introduces a bill to mandate #Covid vaccinations.
How are they going to circumvent Cuomo’s boycott of President Cartoon Villain’s poisonous snake oil?
Easy, just declare it is kindly Uncle Joe’s vaccine.
Grandson #1 just got beat to shit because his girlfriend talked trash about someone else. I hate the ghettoization of our society. Gonna start calling him “Pony-Boy” from now on. It was funny in a not funny way, just two days ago we asked his little sister if she had ever read “The Outsiders”. Nope.
I guess that will teach him to avoid women who like to run their mouths and write checks his ass is going to have to cash.
Farm kids. You don’t gang up that way no matter what. It’s the loss of everything when shit like that goes down. Thugs and bullies after you next.
Yeah, I didn’t realize it was an entire gang, so it wasn’t just a fight, it was criminal assault and battery by a mob. I would hope the police are involved at this point.
The RCMP (and the courts) don’t take kindly to that crap.âI expect several of those “kids” are gonna have records and some Federal time for that, regardless of the Canada Youth Justice Act.âSimple assault in Canada is an indictable offense carrying a maximum penalty of ten years in Club Fed.âAggravated assault’s 14 years.
And that really is some ghetto bullshit, I would expect to see that in a farm community. Our culture really has gone to shit.
“would NOT expect”
^^THIS.
I’m always amazed at how often there’s a girl involved (and usually egging on one or both parties) when two or more boys are fighting.âI’m even more amazed that the girls are virtually never punished for their part in creating the chaos.
He’s a torky kid but apparently it was a gang of about twenty. Shit, he’s wee but a wrestler. His step-dad is well armed.
Question: The “Follow the Science” crowd is always telling me that naturally achieving herd immunity would result in way too many deaths, and besides, “the antibodies only last for 3 months”. If that’s the case, what’s the point of vaccination?
Hmm. That was NOT supposed to be a reply to Festus. Whoops.
Because long-term immunity depends more on T-cell memory than on persistent antibodies.
It’s hard to deny that ghetto culture is a corrosive influence with little redeeming value (and I don’t mean black culture – I mean a culture centered around inner-city crime that glorifies violence, promiscuity, drug use, and illicitly-acquired wealth). Too many people are scared to talk about it for fear of being called racist.
Well, call me a fucking racist, then.
That shit is poison and is hurting my Grandkids.
Instagram Fight Club. This is happening in my small city. Apparently the boy started winning and that was not allowed. We’re doomed.
Social media definitely has a role in egging this on. I wonder if there are any corrosive influences on society that social media doesn’t amplify.
Small town?