Here I link, and here I remain!
Great start to the week… 4 virtual meetings, none of which did much more than take up time. “I said take out 5 words from this contract clause – whycome we need 30 minute call?” Feh.
But it is a nice clear day, it is Advent season and we need some links – a bit cheerier than last week at that. Just remember, you are all condemned Glibs here, you exist to serve these links…therefore, comment well and live!
“There’s the potential of having to do a full pause, a full shutdown, in the coming weeks, because we can’t let this kind of momentum go,”
I’ll leave it to the reader just what “momentum” Commie Bill is talking about.
Some semblance of economic activity? Religious observance?
The State is your God, employer, and Father Figure now. Put your tiny hands up against the wall and push back against the evils of unorthodox thought building on the other side.
“We’ve got (((those people))) and all the SMEs staggering. Time to sweep the leg, then ground & pound. FINISH THEM!”
Calling it a “pause” enrages me no end.
All those empty storefronts will pop back to life in
two weekstwo monthssix monthssometime next year.Good luck moving the homeless out from the entrances.
Free enterprise is for me, not for thee. (strikethrough “free enterprise” and write “civil employment.”)
There will be a shutdown on Thursday if the weather folks are right. Anyhow, This is the future of NYC.
Narrowed gazes for everyone?
If it were STEVE SMITH with a year’s supply of viagra, it STILL wouldn’t be enough “momentum” to visit upon DeBlasio.
“The sensitivity of our people is very important” said every collectivist grifter.
OBEY!
Boston is not far behind.
Slow motion suicide.
THE REALLY, REALLY BIG DIG!
They had lockdowns in Brockdale, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and by gum if it didn’t put them on the map!
slumbrew hardest hit
I’m expecting NH to follow.
I’m surprised Sununu hasn’t imposed restrictions mirroring what Baker imposed recently.
Isn’t NH getting a new legislature in Jan, which is less favorable to the lockdowns? In that case, it would explain why he hasn’t followed suit.
The new legislature’s term started earlier this month. Organization Day (the day they are sworn in, vote on rules, pick officers, elect the Secretary of State, elect the State Treasurer) was Dec. 2nd.
Their legislative session begins in January.
There was an attempt to introduce a resolution to end the state of emergency on Organization Day; however, the legislative calendar prevents legislative activity until the legislative session begins. There are other restrictions on legislative activity in the calendar, like when bills can be introduced, voted on, etc.. The legislature can override the calendar with a 2/3rds vote. The legislature voted to override the calendar, and the override failed. So that resolution died.
The impeachment inquiry was withdrawn from the bill proposals in the state House. Resolutions to end the state of emergency and bills to rewrite the emergency powers law that the governor relies on are still on the table for the state House once the legislative session begins.
I know some legislators and have talked with them. Sununu is furious that he has gotten pushback from the legislature. However, many legislators think the state of emergency is popular. The legislators I know think the the proposals will fail unless lots of folks who are against the governor show up at the committee hearings/public hearings about the proposals to rein in the governor. They think that if enough people show up and make noise, legislators will flip-flop on what the governor is doing. Many NH legislators weigh how popular or unpopular something is by paying attention to how many private citizens show up for committee hearings/public hearings.
One additional note: The death of Speaker Dick Hinch, which the autopsy showed was due to Lil Rona, is going to throw a monkey wrench into attempts to rein in the governor. The first thing the state house will do once they meet for their legislative session is vote on a successor to Hinch.
Some of the legislators I know are worried that due to the Republican’s slim majority and divisions among the party, that the Democrats have a chance to elect one of their own as Speaker. If that happens, watch for the Democrat speaker to use his/her power to shut down any attempts to rein in the governor. Almost all Democrats in the legislature are fine with what the governor has been doing except for when it comes to spending bail-out money from the Feds that flowed through the state government. The Democrats want some control of that money. The governor has used some emergency powers laws to keep total control of that money.
Sounds like the best possible result is for the capitol to be nuked from orbit. Just to be sure.
Hmm…. one problem: The State House is closed.
Oh, so this is virtual govt?
Somewhat.
The Senate is planning to meet virtually for the upcoming session. Last session they met in person using the House’s chambers instead of the Senate chambers.
The House, in its last term, used facilities at UNH to meet in person. Hinch, before he died, wanted to get the House back into the State House, even if only on a limited basis. I think the House’s plan is to continue to use UNH facilities.
https://youtu.be/iiq5tnzmLBM
Row well and live 41!
overly sensitive scum
No relation.
None implied!
This year is going to be one where remembering the true spirit of Christmas abounds. Lots of people being told they can’t work in the lead up to Christmas.
“We’re seeing the kind of level of infection with the coronavirus we haven’t seen since May and we have got to stop that momentum — or else, our hospital system will be threatened,” de Blasio said.
It’s called flu season. It happens every year.
Total hospital volumes are pretty typical right now for a flu season. What’s different is ICU volume is up.
Link long, and prosper.
Aim to Misbehave!
This never-ending convid-1984 bs is damaging my calm.
because we can’t let this kind of momentum go,”
The economy is in the dirt, with a sucking chest wound.
FINISH IT!
Remember when there was satire about things like this?
I said take out 5 words from this contract clause
5 words can make a difference. Such as, say, “Pay Swiss 10% of receipts”.
“parties may terminate at will”
Tough to top that one.
“rent abated for one year”
“amounts owed are hereby forgiven”
“Amounts owed are hereby forgiven” — I hear that one a lot with past due child support amounts 🙂
I’d like to terminate the other party on this one.
“parties may terminate each other”
Contract law is going to get very complicated with the invention of time travel.
“With extreme prejudice.”
Slow motion suicide.
I’m seeing the switches and knobs andthe showy high voltage apparatus from Young Frankenstein.
This is how they envision the economy.
“Throw the switch!”
-BZZZZZTPOOF!- the economy is re-animated and hums merrily into action.
“Lex Luthor, ruler of Australia, activate the machine.”
“Revealed: Bill Barr directly intervened to keep the Hunter Biden probe secret before the election by warning against issuing subpoenas and asking prosecutors if their staff could be trusted
Attorney General Bill Barr used the force of his office to instruct prosecutors investigating Hunter Biden not to take any steps that might cause the probe to be publicly revealed in the run-up to the election.
The directive, reported in the Wall Street Journal, was in keeping with existing Justice Department policy against taking investigatory steps close to an election that might interfere with it.
Barr and his team took steps to ‘insulate’ the investigations, according to the report, even as President Donald Trump repeatedly demanded a probe of his political rival’s son.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9051689/Bill-Barr-directly-intervened-Hunter-Biden-probe-secret-election.html
But Bill was supposed to be a good guy….
To further on my question from last thread. Is it Irony that the more these people (Comey, Barr) try to maintain secrets to protect their institutions, the more harm they do to the reputation of the institutions? Or is that just classic tragedy?
It’s like ten thousand spoons, when all they need is a knife.
It’s like being stabbed with 10,000 spoons and then trying to eat soup with a knife,
You know, it’s kind of hard to nail down what irony really is. I think your example is of irony, but looking at old dictionaries (Webster’s 1828 and 1913), irony seems more like sarcasm (“Nero was a very virtuous prince” is an example straight out of the 1828 definition of irony), while sarcastic is defined as scornful or taunting. I don’t know that Alanis did any real injustice to the word, insofar as it hadn’t been evolving over time anyway.
I can see that example as Verbal irony. I usually get wrapped around the axle about situational irony, vs just coincidental events. For example, Rain, on your wedding day is just tragic, not irony. Saying “I’m going to save the FBI’s reputation” all while doing the very actions that futher the downfall seems very much like situational irony (maybe even Tragic Irony).
I fail to see the tragedy…
Russian retained the original meanings of irony and sarcasm.
It’s one of those policies that can be abused both ways.
I’d argue that since the FBI had the laptop for a full year. It was only abused one way this time.
Still better than the previous few guys.
Maybe he actually wanted to protect the integrity of the investigation so Hunter could be prosecut… Ha! I couldn’t finish.
I may well be a very lone voice – but good for Barr; that is the integrity that the DoJ *should* have (and generally hasn’t lo’ these many years). All subjects of investigation and prosecution are deserving of the presumption of innocence. When you give that up – stop bitching about how low the other side will go.
You are not alone in this and thank you for putting it so succinctly. The constant leaks to the media and the televised perp-walks that seems commonplace these days are abhorrent.
Still not participating in mask theatre in the office. So far no one has said anything about it.
If the heath expert mafia has their way, flight from the coasts to the Big Sky Country this spring/summer might be even more desperate than last year, so I’ve got that going for me.
Who will start the bidding?
“Risk of catching coronavirus from a family member you live with is just 17% and only one in three people pass it on to their spouse, study finds
What’s more, when the infected person did not have symptoms such as cough, fever or shortness of breath, the transmission rate was just 0.7 percent.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9051691/Risk-catching-coronavirus-family-member-live-just-16-6.html
This is one problem with calling positive tests “cases”.
Problem? we see no problem? .7 percent is pretty big when you’re playing with your spouses life. You want to take those chances?!? / Public Health Establishment.
Or, you know, burn incense, sacrifice a chicken on the threshold, or do whatever particular superstition catches your fancy.
I think you’re supposed to smear ram’s blood on your threshold…
I find it an annoying task hunting down my gay little mask.
Tonight, I’m trying something new. I’m going into the gas station, sans mask, with cash in hand, just a little more than needed for my predetermined purchase, grabbing my items, placing my money on the counter and walking the fuck out. What are they going to do, yell at me? Da fuck do I care? Call the cops? Good luck getting them there to write me a ticket before I’ve driven off. I understand that many businesses don’t have a choice in the matter of compliance…but then again, they kinda do. Mass civil disobedience never starts by everybody knuckling under forever.
I just say fuck it sometimes with me neck gaiter, and look really angry, the lemmings leave me be,
/Resting Bitch Face
Good for you!
Yep! I’ve been working on my Resting Murder Face since 2002…it’s coming along nicely. The shaved head, facial scars, and large crooked vein running up my forehead helps.
I’ve heard of some folks doing that in NH.
No word on cops getting involved.
If anyone really gets disagreeable, pretend you don’t speak english.
“Detroit family doctor, now 104, ‘used his own sperm to father hundreds of babies with patients during his 40-year career – sometimes without their knowledge'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9052499/Detroit-family-doctor-used-sperm-father-hundreds-babies-patients.html
“At this point what difference does it make?”
MD or Ed. D? A doctor is a doctor, right?
Lolol — ISWYDT.
Brings to mind the three 2-letter English words which mean small: Is. It. In.
Just sometimes?
I only come here to bitch about Amazon these days.
But, two more screwed up deliveries today. That brings the number to 5 over the past 2 weeks. And this last one is the best one.
I had 2 oders in the same box supposed to be delivered today. Around 11am I heard a tap tap on my door. Amazon typically does that so I thought was probably my stuff. So I look out, there’s a box, put it on the table. A while later, my wife says ‘did you order something?’. I said ‘yeah, stay out of that’, because one of the items was a present for her.
So around 1pm, I decided to take it to our bedroom and open it. I was like ‘WTF is this, it’s not my stuff’. So then I asked the wife, did you order this? It was some kids toys and stuff. So she says ‘Oh, I guess my daughter ordered that (for our granddaughter), because this happens. I said ‘It looks like junk to me’.
So then I contacted Amazon, and they said ‘it’s delivered, there’s a picture’. So I went to look and sure enough there’s a picture. I said ‘yeah, that’s my door, but …., wait a minute…’. I then asked my wife, do you still have that box? So she went and got it and we looked at the picture and the box, and sure enough, no mistake, same box, same numbers.
So I told the Amazon person ‘OK, the box is here, but that stuff in the box, is not the order we’re looking at, it’s just a bunch of trash kid’s toys’. So apparently, at the warehouse, the workers are having themselves an early Christmas party by stealing people’s stuff and putting junk in the boxes. How they think they will not get caught, I don’t know, because they indeed are getting caught.
So they issued me an immediate refund. Good grief, Amazon, you guys are going straight to shit. About an hour later we find that they gave UPS the wrong address to deliver a package and I just got off the phone with UPS, that’s all straightened out now, no thanks to Amazon.
They’re too fucking big, they’re losing it.
The biggest issue I’ve been having with Amazon is trying to find a decent reputable supplier among the deluge of pop-up Chinese shit holes. I searched for an e11 light bulb to replace one that burned out. I got to choose between OOVAS, RaceTong, SVAST, or WillowScissor brand bulbs.
Yep, too much Chinese junk. I’m starting to get really picky about that.
Finding any LED lightbulb of any kind of quality is a, no pun intended, shot in the dark.
The speciality bulbs are even more of a crapshoot.
I’d have gladly bought a halogen replacement, but wasn’t sure of the quality of YenFen, SCATEE, Orchid Lake, or ZAZzIT.
Yeah, I had a weird experience with them last week. Ordered Tylenol and aspirin, to restock. Got the package but it had been crudely opened and even more crudely taped closed. Visibly so in the delivery picture. The aspirin was missing. Amazon promptly credited the price, I re-ordered and it arrived the next day.
What I found odd is that the on-line system does not offer an entry for ‘item missing’ so I had to put that in the comment field.
They’re definitely having trouble with their ‘in house’ delivery service.
The box I received was sealed with the original tape. So it’s easy to tell it happened in the warehouse. And there’s no shortage of articles online talking about Amazon employees stealing stuff. I mean, a bunch of plastic garbage toys appearing in place of a $300 Samsung SSD and another $50 item, I bet that happens all the time, lol.
Here’s the first one I came across:
Amazon Thieves
Huh. We and the kids order a crazy amount of stuff from Amazon and never have a problem. We have Prime and almost always use prime delivery. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.
This, I get things even earlier than they estimate half the time.
We have had two items “lost in delivery” over the past couple of years, but overall, Amazon has corrected any and all mistakes. Especially the one where my wife ordered a nice decanter with my name inscribed on it. Amazon covered the cost of correcting the mistake that was typed out on the order form and the shipping costs.
The other was a Guinness hoodie that some punk probably stole in the warehouse but whatever, stay warm.
Now FedEx….I thought they stole my mead shipment, but it eventually made it here after sitting in the FedEx sorting facility in Cali for 3 days.
But you got your mead right?
Aye…a few days late, but it arrived and was drunkin
What did you get?
And how was it?
Tried the Groennfell Nordic Farmhouse and their Vanir Ancient Ancient Collection. The Farmhouse was good if you like cranberry. More of a refreshing summer time drink in my opinion. The Vanir was good in my opinion.
I won’t be ordering from them again anytime soon cause the shipping costs outweigh the benefit, but I enjoyed them.
I’ve had several “lost in delivery” incidents over the past two or three months.
In every case, Amazon refunded me my money.
Jake Tapper projecting so hard he should have “Casio” tattooed on his forehead.
Tapper said, “It has been a challenge of this year when people like Steven Miller go on the president’s favorite channel and say things that are just shamelessly false or talk about this fantasy land alternate slight of electors. We don’t know if they’re cynically lying or if they are intellectually unable to understand the facts or if there is some psychological issue, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter because the lies are having an effect.”
He added, “There is this thing called a stochastic terrorism which is the idea of leaders putting out falsehoods, demonizing people, and acts of violence happen and can’t be directly tied, but there is a responsibility there. When President Trump and his minions put out these lies and then we see people in Michigan afraid, electors just doing their job as patriots –if the state went the other way, they would cast the electors for Donald Trump, but it didn’t. We see threats of violence. On one level is silly, funny, to look how crazy this is but on another level, there are real fears here. It is tremendously irresponsible.”
Reminder that DC was prepared for Riots that were _promised_ to happen if the election didn’t turn out a certain way.
The same overtures were made, but in the opposite direction of course, toward the electors in 2016. There were 10 “faithless” electors that year, so it hardly can be said to have not been going around at the time. But everything that happened then has been forgotten now, because it is convenient to forget.
Because CNN had no part in encouraging and enabling antifa?
CNN thought it was a 2nd Arab Spring. Because the first one went so well.
Dutch leader announces tough new nationwide virus lockdown
In early October, when the Great Barrington declaration was signed, some criticized it as pointless because nobody was going to impose lockdowns again.
many people keen to take their last chance at Christmas shopping flocked into city centers.
Curious if the ostensible goal is to not have crowds of people possibly spreading a disease. . .
Yeah, if the disease is reasonably easy to transmit, and it seems to be in some cases, I would imagine retail outlets at Christmas would not be good.
I’m leaning the other direction – that it is not all that transmissible from casual contact. I keep going back to the cruise ship and the aircraft carrier – goddam petri dishes, and the infection rate was 25-30% as I recall.
Good point
I’d call lockdowns a placebo, but that would impugn placebos.
The worst part is they have to wear wooden masks.
Except for the affluent, who wear tulip masks…
Just five weeks?
The last 10 months has been the longest two weeks I can remember. I wonder how long five weeks will last?
I only come here to bitch about Amazon these days.
Everybody needs a hobby, in these trying times.
Well, fuck, I already had a few hobbies of my own choosing, I really didn’t need another one.
RIDING IN THE FIRST NYC YELLOW TESLA TAXICAB!
– Initial Reported Range – 240 Miles for this standard range model. Actual NYC winter driving range with heat – 80 miles. This is going to work real well in the midwest where it is both colder than NYC and even city cabs drive more miles than cabs do in Manhattan and the other boroughs.
– Similar to my personal experience people struggle with doors. I understand the flush door handles for aerodynamics, but the interior “open” buttons are ridiculously confusing for every first time passenger.
Wut? Evil capitalism is now screwing up NYC?
The hotel I was staying in downtown Denver last Christmas had a Model X as their in town shuttle car.
When exiting the car my Wife used the B pillar to steady herself, which was exactly where the “open/close” button is located, so it started to lower the door on her head. I was able to overpower the closing mechanism.
Yes, They’ve decided to “reinvent” many things. Essentially “just because”.
A fair number of them are interesting and make sense, but other things are unconventional for no apparently good reason.
The beauty is that it takes no energy, just plug it in and an hour later you’re ready to go. (for a while)
/sarc
The people who are in favor of these who are in favor of these lockdowns are the people who haven’t been hurt by them. The politicians, media mavens, WFH Karens who have gained the pandemic 15. Those who have lost the pandemic 15 and more are hurting and the politicians simply don’t care about them. De Blasio and the rest of them may as well be shouting “well let them eat cake.” That attitude went over so well last time. Now that we’re on the verge of rolling out a vaccine they’re doubling down on this. WTH are they thinking? /rant
I’m not being hurt by them, not a lot. I lost a couple of clients and any chance of a bonus for at least the current year. But even if it wasn’t hurting me at all, I’m still furious about it. It’s hurting us as a nation, a free people, and it is really hurting a lot of people very badly. How can any person who is not a sociopath not care? Oh, and I know those people exists, it’s infuriating.
‘WTH are they thinking?’
They’re not, because authority boners cause more blood drainage from your brain than regular ol’ boners?
So, so many people to fuck over.
De Blasio and the rest of them may as well be shouting “well let them eat cake.”
Remember, Scumbag Cuomo said that the people protesting that they lost their jobs should have gotten essential jobs.
They are getting their digs in, while they can. Governor Harkonnen, here in IL kept saying “you can have freedoms back, when we have a vaccine.” OK, fatboy, here is one…
Still partial to JB the Hutt. But Gov. Harkonnen works as well.
This ate up most of our morning meetings here at the LAS ATCT…
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/man-arrested-after-climbing-wing-of-plane-at-las-vegas-airport-is-homeless-mentally-ill/article_11f7ae96-3cd8-11eb-bd5b-3fa734dae7d5.html?block_id=1002214
Obviously a lot of questions on how he made it so far. Sadly, he is a mentally ill person but the fall is kinda funny to watch.
Was he spotted out there by Bill Shatner?
No, but John Lithgow was able to comment.
You do know that he was reprising young Shatner’s original performance.
Initial Reported Range – 240 Miles for this standard range model. Actual NYC winter driving range with heat – 80 miles.
Imagine my surprise.
It’s official. The Cleveland Indians will be changing the name. They will not use an interim name, and will use the Indians name through the next season, with the earliest a new name will be announced would be for the 2022 season.
I have the feeling this will be a topic of discussion at the MNF watch party where several of us will be violating curfew.
I think all the foozball teams need to change their name to giant fucking pussies. Add a number so we can tell them apart, so Giant Pussies 427 maybe for the Injuns. And give them all a different color of pink and a pussy hat to match.
Do go tell Akiem Hicks that, face to face…
He should thank me for trying to save the NFL before his employers have him dancing around on national TV wearing a giant pink Tutu and playing touch football with girls, ugly girls mind you. Now that would be embarrassing.
Cleveland Savages
Cleveland Pallbearers?
Erase all reference to the Indigenous Peoples!
I can’t wait to see the shitstorm that takes place when they try renaming the streets in Independence, Missouri. I think every tribe on the continent is represented there.
it is pretty fucked up, the names were used to promote power and Manliness and are a sign of respect, oh, no wonder the Left hates the names…..
Downtown Buffalo also hardest hit.
If this is so goddamn important why are they waiting a whole year? That’s a lot of hurt feelings and bruised egos to have on your hands in the meantime. Do better, Cleveland.
Do better, Cleveland.
I’m not sure how electing some of the most corrupt politicians in the country or punitively taxing anyone who tries to improve their property will help, but if that’s your definition of better, then Cleveland’s got you covered.
Cleveland Dirt Worshippers.
May attract the environmental crowd.
Cleveland Baseball team 1a. Although the Cleveland Colonizers has a nice ring to it.
Cleveland Fire Waters
(this has double meanings, and I expect an “I see what you did there”)
Never give up. Never surrender.
“The only date in the Constitution is January 20, so we have more than enough time to right the wrong of this fraudulent election and certify Donald Trump as the winner of the election,” Miller said during the interview.
Miller also said an “alternate slate of electors” will vote in contested states, and those results will be sent to Congress.
“This would ensure that all of our legal remedies remain open,” he said.
If the Trump campaign won additional court cases in the contested states, Miller stated, the alternate set of electors could be certified.
Miller cited three major legal issues in the 2020 election: improperly cast absentee ballots in Wisconsin, violation of the Equal Protection Clause in Pennsylvania with cured ballots, and changes to the signature matching in Georgia without state legislature approval.
“Those three violations alone make Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election,” Miller said.
GOP electors have submitted ballots for Trump in Wisconsin, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. State police physically prevented them from entering the Capitol building in Michigan. It may not be such an idle gesture if Whitmer felt the need to sic the police on the electors to prevent it.
Also never surrendered
No Surrender
Thumbs down to both for not being Triumph.
Even I have enough taste not to link to Bruce Springsteen.
*flashes back to John at TOS*
I’m disappointed. I thought you were smarter than that.
Or at least better-medicated.
Well you can criticize my taste and I have no problem with that.
But John always seemed to be on a crusade.
That’s why I love you.
”
If the Trump campaign won additional court cases in the contested states, Miller stated, the alternate set of electors could be certified.”
Umm, what?
I can’t say as I’m really sorry to see the second-rate grifters that have surrounded Trump all getting the bum rush. I can just imagine that sniveling shit Navarro’s last day in the office.
Christ, what an asshole.
Our intellectual superiors strike again.
Interesting family…
Earlier this year, the famed illustrator’s son, Render Stetson-Shanahan, was sentenced to between five and 15 years in prison in the brutal 2016 stabbing death of his Queens roommate Carolyn Bush.
But who doesn’t like stabbing bush?
Stabbing Bush was an asshole. I don’t care if he is the Chief’s son.
“the opposite of holding power to account and an example of a story that simultaneously manages to be terrible and completely pointless”
https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1338315484039667712
“NYC medic helped ‘make ends meet’ with racy OnlyFans side gig”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1337811721831018498
I have no idea why she would talk to the press. There is a GFM because she thinks she might lose her job.
Are there non-racy uses of OnlyFans?
The sensational headline isn’t the problem.
So i was in San Diego last week, and was able to walk the beach for a bit. All i can say is that it was tragic seeing how empty the streets by the storefront were, given how it was obvious it should have been more busy.
A comment on the surprisingly low number of German Jews killed in the Holocaust: there were a few factors at play here. The primary one was that large numbers of German Jews were driven from the country in the 1930s before the “Final Solution” had been decided on. They were stripped of their citizenship, rights, and property with the idea that they would then flee Germany, and many of them did: about 250,000 left Germany prior to the outbreak of war. That was about half of them. Of the rest, Jewish WWI veterans had some small measure of protected status as compared to other Jews. Some were considered critical workers and spared “evacuation” for that reason. Some survived by having some kind of German patron – I can’t remember the exact quotes, but Himmler and Goering bitched about how every German knows a :good Jew” who doesn’t deserve to be persecuted. Even Hitler did – the Jewish doctor who treated his mother when she was dying of cancer, Eduard Bloch, petitioned Hitler for protection when pograms began following the Anschluss in 1938. He was allowed to live at his home, unmolested, until his arrangements to emigrate to the US could be completed. He was allowed to sell his home for full value rather than having it auctioned for pennies on the dollar, as was typical for Jews fleeing the Third Reich.
Some were considered critical workers and spared “evacuation” for that reason. ??
C’mon Trashy, you know the drill….
“You know who else spared critical workers”?
My multi-threaded software program’s garbage collector?
Lucky you. Why not stop the world to clean up garbage, sure even that piece that has to keep in touch with the other piece or else it fails rather catastrophically.
From the wikipedia article about the doctor, I read about the Reich Flight Tax instituted during the Weimer Republic and was used to fuck the immigrating Jews over during the Nazi Era.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Oh yeah. They would let you leave, but they weren’t going to let you take your money with you.
Authoritarians do adore their taxes.
Similarly to the protections given to Jewish WWI veterans, German Jews married to ethnic Germans were not sent to camps. Of course, there was strong social pressure on the Germans in these families to abandon/divorce their Jewish spouses. But if they withstood it, then their Jewish spouses had a chance. At some point the German spouses had to move with their Jewish family members to designated houses for the remaining Jews in Germany. Perhaps, they even had to wear the star of David.
That too. Forgot about that part. The pressure (not only social, but legal as well) WAS intense on such Germans to divorce Jewish spouses, but to their credit many refused.
You also had to account for the byzantine system of determining who actually was Jewish. And, since it was a bunch of made-up nonsense anyway, it could be waved away by decree when they wanted to – Luftwaffe Field Marshal Erhardt Milch, for example, was half-Jewish, but as he was a pal of Goering, he was declared an Aryan anyway.
Much like contemporary condemnations of white supremacy – for very questionably white actors.
So… Has anyone thought about setting up a burner Twitter account and putting the Swastika Unicode in the name? just to prove the point, since twitter is liberal with the use of the Hammer and Sickle
Buddhists or Hindus could probably get away with it, but I doubt any other use (even parody) would be tolerated.
General point – the fact that the hammer and sickle is not treated like the swastika has always pissed me off to no end.
Maybe it’s because the swastika didn’t generate a big enough body count? And Twitter ascribes to the Bobby Family’s creed of: If you ain’t first, you’re last? And Twitter only allows 1st place to get its logo displayed?
In their minds, the Communists murdered the enemies of progress and the Nazis murdered people based on their race. You can shoot 20 people against the wall if they aren’t willing to let the government take their shit, but if you shoot those same people based on their race, somehow you’re worst than the former.
“MADISON — In a 4-3 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit seeking to invalidate roughly 220,00 votes in Dane and Milwaukee counties.”
https://electionwiz.com/2020/12/14/breaking-wisconsin-supreme-court-dismisses-trump-lawsuit/amp/
Admitting that the election was ripe with misbehavior would lower confidence in our democracy so we can’t do that. Ignoring, suppressing, or covering it up, on the other hand, will do wonders, instead.
Yeah, if you’re our protected elite class, nothing will make you safer than destroying people’s lives with unnecessary lockdowns and then disenfranchising them from their votes counting in a national election. They should all sleep securely at night and dream sweet dreams of lampposts and mulching devices. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
From my perspective it’s a win-win scenario.
Shit, they dismissed 3 of the 4 allegations on the doctrine of laches. That’s skeevy as hell.
How can the doctrine of laches apply when only a month and change has elapsed, and moreover when the state is the defendant?
Having a Facebook run-in with an Australian epidemiologist over whether lockdowns work. Of course, she fails to note the distinctions between an island nation and continental Europe or the USA.
Never mind that the Australians seem to be sadistic in their approach to controlling COVID.
It’s easy to make the trains run on time if you don’t care about bodies.
It’s easier to do that when the government has confiscated a huge chunk of civilian firearms, while keeping their own.
“BREAKING: Antrim Co. Forensic Report BOMBSHELL Reveals Dominion Machines Were Set At 68.05% Error Rate…Meaning 68.05% Of Ballots Could Be Sent Out For Mass Adjudication, Giving Individuals Or Machines Ability To Change 68.05% Of Votes”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/breaking-antrim-co-forensic-report-bombshell-reveals-dominion-machines-set-68-05-error-ratemeaning-68-05-ballots-sent-mass-adjudication-giving-individuals-ma/
+1 Central Limit Theorem
So I read this report, and I have to say, it sounds like every other IT security audit I’ve ever read. Fear! Uncertainty! Doubt! Their patches aren’t up to date, their physical security is slack, and some log files are missing. It looks to me like the fucked up configuring the school board election and broke a bunch of audit trails fixing it. That could be a reason not to certify the election as the complaint says, but from my point of view, incompetence is the only thing you can lay at their feet. And for a small IT shop with maybe 1-2 experienced people who didn’t come up in the shop… its just not that much.
Those 68.05% of votes appear to have been originally scored against the wrong school board for their precincts. So they had to be changed. Its all sizzle and no steak.
So you’re saying the voting machines went through the same rigorous testing as the cv19 vaccine?
I’d put more confidence in the vaccine.
Good to be an optimist.
They couldn’t get elderly volunteers. They were offering extra pay too.
Just fake the signatures like with mail in ballots.
Well they’ll get them now.
“Ooops!”
“Ooopsie!”
/screen rant guy
Of course, give it the 72hr rule…or is it the 72 day rule now?
(insert alliteration here) Monday:
https://thechive.com/2016/12/04/the-latinas-are-here-to-spread-some-holiday-cheer-46-photos/
or
https://archive.is/XOGbr
#25.
There are a lot of good choices in this gallery. Not a face diaper to be seen. Lots of beautiful women.
But #25 stands out from the rest.
The gallery is from 2016, when voluntarily wearing a face diaper if you weren’t at work in a medical setting was a strong indicator of mental illness. I mean, it still is …
My favorite was #43, but #25 wins the award for best accessorized. 😉
#1 was a bit too distracting for me to notice the gallery date.
#43 is an excellent choice.
“The Last Time They Tried to ‘Steal an Election’
In the Washington Post, Harvard University law professor Lawrence Lessig insisted that it would violate “the fundamental principle of one person, one vote” if electors didn’t back Clinton. It would take just 37 Republicans “with the courage to perform their moral duty and protect the nation” to stave off the disaster of a Trump administration, observed Post columnist Kathleen Parker. “Please, be brave.” In the New York Times, Columbia Law School professor David Pozen noted that there were few state-level legal obstacles and no constitutional impediments before would-be renegade electors. Moreover, given the candidate Americans backed at the polls, “the practice of sticking with the state’s top vote-getter loses moral force.” And even if Trump does emerge with the requisite votes to be inaugurated, the trauma of 2016 should become a torch forever borne by his opponents. Anger over the “tainted election” “shouldn’t be allowed to cool,” Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote.
This campaign was an ugly one. The “The #NotMyPresident Alliance,” an informal coalition of anti-Trump groups devoted to pressuring the Electoral College to elect a “more responsible candidate than Donald Trump,” distributed a spreadsheet listing the personal information of dozens of Republican electors with the aim of hectoring electors into submission. The group, of course, “rejected all acts of aggression and violence,” but the potential for such acts nevertheless existed. It was, therefore, by design that individual electors were singled out, some of whom faced harassment, received death threats, and required plainclothes state police protection. The activism became so intense that Republican secretaries of state issued statements decrying the “intimidation” they faced from anti-Trump forces.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/noah-rothman/the-last-time-they-tried-to-steal-an-election/
That was different because reasons.
Well, this is unfortunate. SEC pre-season player of the year collapsed on the court during a game Saturday afternoon (we won’t get into how the basketball and football teams both collapsed in solidarity shortly thereafter).
I had hoped that he was just dehydrated, or had a touch of flu, or something. Nope. He’s been placed in a medically-induced coma.
Of course, USA Today has to add this little tidbit:
“It’s unclear if Johnson’s condition is connected to COVID-19, or if he had previously tested positive. Florida had to pause team activities last month because of positive COVID-19 tests, and coach Mike White said the team also had previous issues, but details were not released because of privacy laws,”
“Self-righteous SJW/woke Artificial Intelligence researchers are trying to purge American AI of non-woke researchers — especially younger ones.
This isn’t just a problem for AI. AI is central to future national security & existential risks.
Woke AI will be very dangerous AI.”
https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1338557850508013568
“NVIDIA’s director of AI research is publicly sharing hundreds of names from her enemies list, which appears to include early-career researchers and students. This could permanently damage their prospects, and it isn’t clear what her methodology is for adding names to the list. ”
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1338512968343048193
*so very badly wants to whistle blow on some of this shit*
Yes, the AI/ML space is suffering a rash of wokeness. No, I haven’t seen anybody be harassed out of the space by being insufficiently woke. Yes, they’re doing other evil stuff that would make even the NSA blush.
This could permanently damage
theirher prospects/Xmas wish
ENB can give them names to put on the list.
Funny how I am reminded of another country’s crusade against Jewish scientists, less than a century ago.
Hey look, yet another woke Indian female who’s an insufferable cunt.
I posted this link to a hand-crafted link that is perfect for gift exchanges (NSFW) in this morning’s thread just as it was closing. I giggled enough that I am reposting.
Try wearing that inside out.
I tried. It smelled like ass!
So?
I’m not a brown noser?
Local news had a report about a protest by “restaurant workers”.
Turns out is wasn’t people protesting being locked out of their essential jobs by Cuomo’s diktat, but the incompetent workers who get less in tips and want to do away with the current wage scale-plus tips regime.
I couldn’t help but think of how these folks are trying to screw over good people like WebDom.
“Marvel confirms Chris Pratt’s Guardians Of The Galaxy character Star-Lord is bisexual”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/marvel-confirms-chris-pratts-guardians-23165711.amp
I love when they proclaim stuff not backed by any story they’ve presented as all.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9d/2d/46/9d2d466f8b0396e658939f65f0c74e73.gif
Barr resigned.
Wow. The NYT was right for a change.
Lulling people into complacency by pretending to seek justice is exhausting work. He needs a rest.
Roseanne?
When I hit post, I knew some one would go there. ?
I can’t believe he resigned instead of being dis-Barred.
I’ll show myself out.
Wow! And on a Swiss post no less.
So will he and Ken form a new law firm, Starr and Barr?
So, Biden got over 270 EC votes.
Congratulations to the incoming pre-Harris Administration. President Pudding Cup waves “hi,” and then calls a lid for his next Aricept™ injection.
It’s not over until I hear Jo Jorgenson’s concession.
Semi-bright Border Collie gave a graceful concession speech on the election night. That’s good enough for me.
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content
Blue Check Blow Jobs.
Yep, all compilations are also being deleted, as well as keywords like “poppers”, “amyl”, “hypno”, etc.. All from one shitty Kristoff article.
“At the beginning of 2011, the Federal Council reacted to the Arab Spring uprisings and ordered a preventive freeze on the assets of Mr. Ben Ali and his entourage, amounting to about CHF60 million,” said a government statement on Friday.
The freeze expires in January 2021 and will then have reached the legal maximum duration of ten years, the government announced. In order for the blocked assets to be returned through “mutual assistance”, final and enforceable judgments must be issued in Tunisia, ordering the confiscation of assets located in Switzerland and showing a link between these assets and a criminal offence.
Is something missing here? Why does a foreign government have to do something in order for the Swiss to allow access to frozen funds when the freeze expires? BFYTW?
Iran summoned Turkey’s envoy last week after Erdogan recited an Azeri-Iranian poem lamenting the 19th century division of Azerbaijan’s territory between Russia and Iran. Tehran appeared concerned his remarks questioned Iran’s territorial integrity and could fan separatist tendencies among its Azeri minority.
Now do the Armenian genocide.
As vaccines began being put into arms in New York City and indoor dining was shut down again Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned that additional restrictions could be coming — potentially including a return to a full shutdown.
Fuck off Slavers.
Tunisia would have to prove Ben Ali committed crimes to get that money is how I read it. Once the freeze expires, Ben Ali or his heirs/proxies would have control over it, with the caveat that it would likely be easier for Tunisia to get their hands in it if it was moved outside Switzerland.
Iran summoned Turkey’s envoy last week after Erdogan recited an Azeri-Iranian poem lamenting the 19th century division of Azerbaijan’s territory
Reminiscent of that border dispute with Nantucket man.
From an email.
I was a member for 10 years. Not renewing my membership 12 months ago was such a smart move.
Cases up? Better shut down. Cases down? Good. The shut down is working.
New York just hit a record. After all that shit they did. What a fucking waste.
I haven’t seen anything to convince me that “social distancing” slows the spread.
they got the number wrong. it’s actually 7 feet that magically protects everyone.
The problem is that the US is using 6 feet when it should really be 2 meters.
6 feet 6 inches.
That would’ve made all the difference.
That’s what she said.
“Spreads like a virus” is a figure of speech for a reason.
I thought they were nuts back in April thinking they could slow this thing from spreading with a lockdown.
But at least there was a theoretical framework by which that could have worked (it didn’t). But 9 months in this is completely asinine. This virus is absolutely everywhere by now.
I’m deeply disappointed that the infectious disease research community has knuckled under and chosen not to make waves rather than point out how these sorts of things at this point are all costs with no benefits.
YOU get a lockdown! And YOU get a lockdown! And YOU get a lockdown! ….
“Doctor Fauci, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
“An oligopoly, if you can keep it?”
A republic, of the banana variety.
The United States of Chiquita.
Shouldn’t that be “if We can keep it”?
You’re begging for more than just the question.
Missing the obvious “C”.
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/ap-interview-tokyo-leader-vaccines-give-hope-for-olympics
Just to safe, let’s make sure everyone is playing his or her sport inside an inflatable bubble.
I would actually watch that.
Would make Fencing more fun.
And Jarts.
Ahh… Koike.
Since Japanese make no distinction between the C sound and K sound does that include her?
She is the mayor from Kanto.
Or Kanto Governor.
Kakunin shimashita
(I just realized how hard it is to spell in romaji.)
Yeah, カント works better, but only a few people would get it.
Just now I popped a song onto YouTube to get into work mind and the ad was her lecturing me. Ugh.
Doesn’t hit your schoolmarm fetish?
I am into week 3 of my 10-week workout plan. Holy cow do I ache ! But in other news, my calves have never been this detailed!! Because it’s squat, squat, and squat again!! Other good news is that my balance is really improving.
Nice!
I think I should start a betting pool for when the first request for pics occurs.
Pics?
(for DEG, of course)
“If you don’t change the trajectory, we’re going to shut down and then your business is going to close, and that my friends, is a real problem,” the governor told reporters.
What’s this “you” shit?
What’s this “friends” shite?
What if everyone got the Flu each year, and only .09 percent showed symptoms?
so, Biden got his EC votes, do i take off my bumper stickers? or wait til Trump concedes?
/ I don’t keep political stickers on after any election, more space for cool stuff,
The only sticker on any of our cars is on our truck: “Who is John Galt?”
I have “Mobile Carbon Foot Printing” on my truck
I need that. My truck is a 2000 Dodge Ram with 375,000 miles on it. Its carbon footprint is ginormous.
To this day, the best bumper sticker I’ve ever seen was in Atlanta, circa 1996 – “Baton Twirling: Sport of the ’90s“
I’ve always been partial to
“EARTH FIRST!
(We’ll strip-mine the other planets later.)”
LOL I love that.
A friend of mine had that one.
Shave the Whales! Pave the Earth!
“My other car is your mom.”
One of you reprobates probably made that one up.
Not “I want to have Henry Rearden’s baby”?
*runs away*
My husband did not approve.
No, keep ’em on, it’ll save tax dollars making you an arband to wear.
Christmas gift idea: a T-shirt saying, “In 2019, voluntarily wearing a mask, when it wasn’t a condition of employment, was a strong indicator of mental illness or criminal intent. In 2021 … it still is.”
I like it.
Even better if it also had a pic on the back, of Biden and Harris masked up.
Even better!
Milestone for Yusef, it’s 100 degrees colder here than where I left, America! Fuck Yeah!
Amazing all the experiences you can get in a single country, isn’t it? ;-)
How’s work going?
I start my new good job the 22nd, much wages, 5k signing bonus, van, all of it, dispatch from home,
The drive up to Michigan was unreal to a desert boy, so much green, Ozarks were Badass, and then you hit MI, and, TREE SMITH!
And it can still get 20 to 30 degrees colder.
Inside our governors lockdown houseparty
Cuomo fucks, bro.
Guardians of the Galaxy comic confirms Star-Lord is bisexual
Can we finally confirm nerds are dorks and should be forced back into the shadows where they belong?
Wisconsin health officials urge against eating traditional ‘cannibal sandwiches’ over holidays
When will they learn, more people are going to eat them now that the man is telling them not to.
Now do steak tartare.
Soylent Green is People!!!!
I’d totally eat that if I’d been the one actually doing the grind first.
I don’t trust anyone else to inspect my meat and grind it properly.
(Yet another reason I married the spousal unit. Woman’s talented, yo.)
PICTURED: Sandra Lee moves out of the $1.85million Mount Kisco home she shared with ex-boyfriend Gov. Cuomo and his three daughters and describes it as ‘one of the saddest days of my life’
Bitch is moving her own furniture into a U-Haul!
Cuomo is a dude. Dudes rock.
First World problems, And?…..
That house desperately needs a pressure wash.
HOUSE SHAMER
That’s an awfully expensive house to let go unwashed.
It’s Westchester chic.
That house desperately needs a pressure wash.
And possibly a napalm drenching.
(I’ve never liked the American “Colonial” style.)
Cuomo? She can do better than that Greaser.
She can do better than that Greaser.
She could, but she didn’t.
Ponder that on the Tree of Woe.
Sure she is. ?
Of course! She has to put SOMETHING on her Insta.
Semi-home moveout?