Good morning my Glib and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely beautiful day it always is!
Nashville bomber suspect has been confirmed to be the remains in the RV.
ICE deported 185k illegals in 2020, the vast majority of which had criminal records.
Woman sues school for forcing son to take part in struggle sessions.
Delivery and take-out failing to make up for lost dine-in revenue.
Japan to eliminate gas powered cars in 15 years.
UV light kills 99.9% of Covid virus in 30 seconds.
Despite having some of the strictest restrictions, CA Covid cases soar.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Christ, what an asshole indeed. That asshole kid sat on that video for three fucking years just so he could pick a point that it would do maximum damage to that girl, AND he’s smug as all fucking hell about it.
Also, he dresses like a middle aged woman.
Not first.
Good Morning all, hope everyone survived last week, hope we all get through this week.
Doesn’t Japan still believe in using lots of nuclear power? They might be able to do it.
Self-righteous malice never goes out of style.
I’m not saying he deserves to be mrdered, just that if I was on a jury, the prosecution would have to have a really perfect case, since it’s reasonable to assume this asshole had any mumber of people wanting to kill him.
I am a gentle man and I feel the same way.
I’m scared of this world that doesn’t accept repentance and redemption. I really am. I can’t imagine being a kid today. I did a ton of dumb shit when I was young. Including saying offensive words!!
You said offensive words?!!!
*CANCELLED*
Only the people that bow to the beliefs of the new cult of modern government as our only savior can be allowed to redeem themselves. Those that oppose that must be destroyed..
Murdering someone is less frowned upon than using a certain word by a subset of our society.
Maybe just a good maiming. It is the first thing that crossed my mind when reading the story and imagining it happening to my kid.
The pinky toe, as a warning, perhaps.
“CHARLIEEEEEE!!!!! They took my THUMB!!“
I know that reference.
What that POS kid really needs is a good spanking.
In public.
Exactly. This is about moral narcissism.
Galligan is the reimagining of Reverend John Wilson for the modern age, who preens in front of the Church of Social Media while tagging others with Scarlet Letters.
.30-08 works.
.30- ought EIGHT???
An improvement on the .306.
Now you are just trolling, its NATO 7.92mm.
.223 LR is the best all around choice.
That or 7.62 x 54 Parabellum
-08…-09
Whatever it took.
To be fair, there are a number of .30-(year of adoption) calibers. I have no idea if 1908 is one of them.
I did a little digging.
It’s not.
40mm HEDP would be as effective and more satisfying.
Sigh… I miss my Vulcan – 5000 rounds per minute of 20mm HEIT.
+1 Brrrrt the lesser
Although, breaking it down and cleaning it was a rather complicated and time consuming procedure.
Was it as hard as washing mothballs? I mean how do they get those little legs apart to wash them balls?
I’m assuming you had to verify the headspace and timing afterwards.
Remember kids: if you study hard, and have charisma, you too can get a job doing something really fun.
Headspace and timing is more of an artifact of a system that was developed in 1918, when machine tools were considerably less precise. As stated in the video, the M2A1, fielded circa 2008) does not require this process *and* it has an actual safety.
I saw that video too. Gun Jesus is the man.
Yep. Watched both the videos.
https://www.army.mil/article/92130/m2a1_machine_gun_features_greater_safety_heightened_lethality
Nearly 90 years before an A1 variant, and buying nearly 10k more. God bless America. And fuck the 86 gun control act.
God Bless America and John Browning.
Especially because, according to the article, the girl had already addressed the video with her friends, including black friends, and apologized to them for saying it. That happened without Torquemada sticking his senior-ladies glasses into the subject.
The thing that really enrages about it is that he clearly has no intention other than malice. If he were sincere at all, he could have talked to her about it at any point over those three years, but that’s not what he did. He sat there, calculating, waiting for a moment to spring it on this girl.
He’s also biracial and smarmily recounts lecturing his white father about how racist he is. The kid’s a total piece of shit.
.30-08 still works.
Psst Festus .308 is a caliber and .30-06 is a caliber, and in the commonwealth you used the .303.
I’m not in the Commonwealth and I also use .303…. among other cartridges.
.303 is my favorite rifle caliber. Next to my .303 Epps improved.
I’m willing to wager that mom is a cunt.
So, does progressivism attract people with antisocial personality disorders, or does it create them through unceasing mental abuse?
Why not both?
He tucked the video away, deciding to post it publicly when the time was right.
Yeah, but look where they were socially both when he received the video and when he posted it. Smacks a little of pretty and popular cheerleader that never gave me the time of day finally gets what’s coming to her. SJW or not, still a teenage boy.
Let’s not forget that the college actually made the decision to kick her out. I rank those administrators even lower than the asshole who laid in the weeds for years until he could torpedo her. She must have turned him down for a date or something.
I get the same feeling. Big Incel Energy coming off that whole story.
Instead, admissions officials gave her an ultimatum: withdraw or the university would rescind her offer of admission.
âWe just needed it to stop, so we withdrew her,â
Big mistake. Make them rescind and then sue them.
That article makes some good points in the comments.
I was moderately bullied back in school, and it wasn’t a whole lot of fun. But in retrospect, I realize that I was an obnoxious little shit back then, always convinced that I was the smartest person in the room and desperate to prove it. And yeah, I was perfectly willing to lord it over the kids who were lower than me on the status totem pole.
It takes a lot of maturity to genuinely turn the other cheek. Usually, oppressed people are all to willing to become the oppressors…
Same. I was an outcast teenager largely because I was sent to a private school at which I absolutely did not fit the typical profile. It sucked. However, with the benefit of maturity and hindsight, I can also see that I was a pretty hateful little bastard myself.
Fuck that shit. Mean is mean. I was smarter than most of my contemporaries but I sure as shit didn’t pick on them. Quite the contrary. I got bullied for standing up for the weaklings.
I was nearly a saint for some of the kids I stood up for an befriended. Sometimes even costing me “friends.” But, I’m not going to also sit here and deny the other half. I made fun of and treated some other kid horribly. As a teenager, there is a lot of being a good person in ways and a horrible one in others. The trick is to gain confidence, learn, and let others be. I do much better at that now, even though I hate just as many people as I did then.
and that amount of typos is why I shouldn’t post from my phone. Or proofread. . . fuck that, who proofreads?!?
We don’t proofread. I stood up just like you. Formerly bullied and punches throwing new man. Don’t fuck with my friends. It helped that I grew six inches when I was 12.
I actually got suspended for kicking bullies asses. I guess my dad telling me he was neither raising a wolf nor a sheep stuck with me, because bullying was the one thing that set me off as a young man. If you want to show how though you are, pick on someone your own size or bigger. Even a pack of bullies didn’t deter me from not letting them get away with it. Being both a jock and a geek made me something difficult for the others to deal with, but I was easy going and always looking to help anyone that wasn’t acting like a total douchebag. I reserved my attitude for the teachers. đ
I was bullied I also was sometimes a bully. Teenagers are learning how to interact in hierarchies, and people who are learning something don’t do it well. I suspect that the people who claim they never bullied anyone, and stood up to bullies, would be surprised how some others perceived them.
Exactly this.
This is why I think that grouping kids by age cohort and making their entire lives about that cohort is a horrible way to do things. Without any outlet or any adult social situations, the kids are disproportionately impacted by the inevitable bullying that occurs.
Fortunately I went to a school where bullying was not a thing, there were social separations (town and country) but even that line was blurred. Mild verbal teasing but that was about all. Nicknames, even now, some 65 years later, were common. Any time 2 of my classmates get together it’s always a “Remember that guy/girl from”…insert local town/ship and away we go.
Our nicknames was to call each other by our mother’s names and imply that you were intimate with your buddies moms…
They’re both assholes and prove why social media is toxic. His was a response to her online virtue signaling. He went nuclear when a simple slap would have sufficed, so he’s the bigger asshole, but I bet she’s no longer sending out tweets in support of BLM.
If social media had existed when I was a kid, 99.99999% of the people would have been canceled by today’s insane and stupid standards.
/Remembers ethnic jokes/humor in the army of old
You know that is the thing that gets me. I look at the British Isles and see all sorts of reasons for all of the various ethnicities therein to have Balkans-level blood feuds with one another.
I would posit that the one of the reasons that the UK is not rife with internecine warfare (N. Ireland being an exception until of late, of course) is that they make jokes and give each other shit about the differences in their cultures.
Making taboo to make jokes about certain subjects and people only increases division.
Funny you mention that, because I experienced something akin to this in practically every country in South/Central America and numerous places in Asia. People told jokes and acted in ways that would make Americans recoil in disgust (especially these days of heavy wokeness), and nobody took it to mean anything but humor. You gave and you took. An outsider would think these people were ready to commit genocide on each other based on how their jokes went. And yet there was zero of that. When people went at each other it was because of some real problem. The exception I guess was the middle east, where the problem was wholly manufactured, but seen as totally real.
You gave and you took.
Exactly. In Texas, at least, it is very much a guy thing to give each other shit. Its actually a sign of respect – the more you dish at a guy, they more you signal you respect him trhough some calculus that you are showing you think he is man enough to take it, or something. Its definitely a guy thing. I got in some mixups when I left Texas and learned the hard way this is definitely a regional thing.
And, yes, ethnic slurs are totally in bounds, at least for guys above a certain age. Pater Dean is half “Mexican”, and its definitely in the mix when his cronies are giving him crap.
I think that the difference in the ME is that the divisions are as much along religious lines as they are along ethnic lines. Changes the calculus, I think. This of course brings us back around to wokeism being a religion, funny that.
Dean, absolutely. If I don’t like someone, I will not interact with them at all. If I am making jokes at their expense, I am communicating some sort of affection.
I got in some mixups when I left Texas and learned the hard way this is definitely a regional thing.
It exists in other regions of the country. The lines of what is acceptable and not acceptable in giving others shit will vary.
Fourscore, that Army is still around. It can still be found in the platoon bays and team rooms of actual combat troops (Infantry, Special Forces etc.)
Seconded.
Pics?
Soon…
I don’t understand how we can get from we I’d the remains as his, then get to “He did it”
All that they should say at this point is “he was there”
Oh don’t worry, now they’ll spend countless hours of attempting to figure out WHY he did it.
Like the Vegas shooter?
NPR was slobbering all over the cops this morning, praising their “old fashioned police work” in cracking the case. Like… using a DNA match.
old fashioned police work
Coercing an innocent retarded guy into signing a confession under duress?
Planting evidence on poor people who are on the fringe of society to bolster your arrest record?
10 guys eating donuts, talking about shooting slow kids, laughing at people who need help while the crime scene tech does the work?
Raping the pretty girl when she won’t put out willingly during a traffic stop?
Knocking on the front door while an officer at the back door yells “come on in” instead of securing a warrant.
Morning Banjos.
185,000 illegals is a huge number. I have never paid attention to the issue so was surprised to find that’s actually down from last year. Thanks to various US politicians for making life here so unpleasant no one wants to sneak in.
Apparently they had to charter flights back to Mongolia to return some of them, thus proving that Trump’s wall, no matter how Great, won’t keep people out.
Relevant
My link is awaiting moderation, but:
GODDAM MONGORIANS!!!
U.S. restaurant revenue is falling as takeout and delivery orders fail to make up for lost dine-in sales.
UBS Evidence Lab found that dine-in restaurant sales plunged 69% in the week ended Nov. 29. In that same week, takeout and delivery sales soared 59%. But total restaurant revenue remained well in the red.
You could knock me over with a feather. Thank goodness we have Top Men to fine tune the economy.
Ballgag Joe will save us.
As long as Joe gets his applesauce every day at 3, he will believe everything is fine.
By the time he calls a lid on the day, it’s all yesterday’s news anyway.
The eye-job gave him Demon-Eyes.
Restaurants make very little selling food. The bulk of their earnings comes from selling the people eating overpriced booze. When you don’t dine in, you are not going to pay $5-20 for a glass of any kind of booze, but will buy the bottle at the liquor store and save the cash there. It’s simple logic, and why if dine-in goes away, practically every restaurant other than fast food will go with it.
Most of the restaurants I eat at don’t sell alcohol.
McDonalds is not a restaurant UCS….
Just kidding.
Damn, Banjos! You have the best link headers. I laughed my skinny ass off over that one!
UV light kills 99.9% of Covid virus in 30 seconds
I wonder if any of the fear mongers will apologize for saying that people on the beaches last summer were superspreaders in light of (pun intended) this new information.
To be fair, that “99.9%” is a pretty meaningless number without a lot of other details, like the UV intensity and the medium containing the virii.
Oh, and a virus can’t be killed since it’s not alive.
*ducks behind cover*
This. The scientific illiteracy of the American media strikes again.
I just told my wife to throw out some UV handheld device that takes two AA batteries because it’s useless. She’ll read this article and say “SEE, IT WORKS”
*sigh*
also, there’s the question of what absolute exposure level is apt to be infectious; from a large enough pile of virus, 0.1% might be orders of magnitude more than what is needed to kill you
Not only will they not apologize, but they will act smug about convincing so many people bad orange man was a fucking idiot for saying this and having him cancled.
Was this one of Banjo’s links? I have it open in another tab but can’t remember where it came from.
https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/news/national/2020/12/18/kentucky-mail-carrier-encounters-ax-wielding-dog-his-route/
That Eels song is very good. That Galligan kid don’t seem black.
Talcum X the Second?
The Galligan kid looks to be about the complexion of my wife’s nieces and nephews, who, if 23andMe is to be trusted, are about 2/3 European ancestry.
So, a white kid with some black ancestry.
Yup. It is not like that is particularly rare either. Four hundred years of living together leads to a non-zero number of people from each group getting it on with one another. This is not a new phenomenon.
He strikes me as yet another feminized young American “male”, going by the pic. With a case of the Karens, I daresay.
I posted this last evening but I don’t think many saw it.
More proof that 2020 sucks ass:
Guitarist Tony Rice passes away on Christmas day
I commented. First heard Manzanita the other day; one of those “sit in car and listen despite having arrived” songs.
I guess Trump signed the government welfare act. Thank goodness. There’s no telling what catastrophe has been averted by keeping those government employees from suffering an income interruption.
It should have been about the pork, not the pittance. That’s where DJT always tripped over his own dick. Fucking fool.
What baffles me is that these cuntes didn’t even wait to get the guy out of office before going back to the good old days of pissing away money. And having people tell me in anger that Trump had pardoned bad people while not knowing this shitshow was going on in congress told me all I needed to know about the propaganda machine selling lies to the sheeple.
Ok, I voted for Trump twice and I agree that this election was stolen, but get serious. Trump did absolutely nothing to oppose pissing away money. He joined in that game just as eagerly as any other politician.
There actually was a lot of money printing and peddling under Trump, but far less spending on pork. I guess it could depend on your definition of pork, I guess. Me I can see us pissing tons of money away on the military – the constitution allows them to do that shit – but I lose my fucking mind when we are giving money to people wasting time on gender studies shit. Especially in countries where they tend to kill homosexuals.
He certainly doesn’t have any real opposition to destroying the currency.
So they did a CSI on Nashville Guy but we still don’t know what the fuck happened in Vegas. Sure, piss down the other one while you’re at it. Unbelievable.
That’s not true, they didn’t say they didn’t know, they just didn’t make a public statement about it.
Well, they can’t very well say it was an FBI operation gone horribly wrong, which it seems to have been.
What sort of tiny-handed people do they have working as controller designers and QA professionals at Nentendo? While I don’t need something original xbox huge, all of their stuff is too far in the other direction.
So you’ve worked on Hondas and Toyotas before?
No, I’ve only owned Fords. Except that one PoS Honda, but I didn’t do any work on it.
*Nintendo
it’s written right on the hardware and I screwed up typing it.
It’s not your fault. Blame the gloves.
The switch pro-controller is pretty close to perfection, imo. But yeah, playing the switch in handheld mode with the joycons is a bit of a hassle.
Yep, that’s what I use and it’s fine.
I considered buying a Switch until I read that it is backwards-compatible with nothing.
Nope, not going down that road again.
Children. It’s for children.
Grownups use a combination of mouse, keyboard and flightstick.
These euphemisms…
I wouldn’t let kids play these games.
They might break my Nintendo.
I’m hooked on both the Mario and Zelda franchises. The last console I purchased was the GameCube. I use emulators on the PC now for everything up through the Wii. The kids got a Switch for Christmas so I’m looking forward to checking it out (if I ever get a turn).
In my case, it’s Fire Emblem and Pokemon.
We got Mario 3D All-stars for Christmas and I am questioning why I have fond memories of Mario 64. The camera sucks and the flying cap is impossible to control.
Because you had fun?
There are games I have great memories of, but I can’t go back and replay them because I’ve been spoiled by more recent developments.
Kid Icarus and Castlevania were my fun…and if I were to even look or play them today, I would probably say this is crap.
I absolutely loved the orginal System Shock. When GoG had it, I downloaded it and found it literally unplayable.
I still love Planescape: Torment, but ho. Lee. Fuk. is it slow (pacing-wise, not hardware) by today’s standards.
Most of the Mario games hold up, I don’t think 64 does.
I haven’t played a Mario game since… 3, back when they had easily understood numbers and not a thousand different naming conventions and strands.
I blame whatever zeitgeist/marketing ploy caused the 586 chip to be named the “Pentium.”
Bitch please, it’s all about the Pentiums.
Idiot on my teevee:
“There’s just so much we don’t know about this virus.”
Well, the best way to deal with that is to enforce a total news blackout on any source who does not agree completely with the CDC and other officially approved gatekeepers.
And that’s true! Which is why it’s particularly stupid to wreck the economy based on assumptions and guesswork.
It’s been the m.o. since 1913. It works – except for all the problems that never go away.
As Rahm Emanuel told these fucks: never let a crisis like this go by unused. They immediately saw this thing as a way to scare the people into allowing them to reset us into a socialist shithole, and that agenda has not gone away yet. That is why this pandemic wont go away if they manage to stick Biden in the WH. They still need it to fundamentally change America.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1972284-guillotine
Trump signed the giant bag of shit spending bill. Makes me a whole lot more indifferent to who stole what election.
The statement makes it worse. Just sign it, don’t insult us by telling us how it is actually a good thing.
UGH! Section 230 repeal?!? Really? I’m with Robert Barnes on this, it’s a briar patch that TwatBook et al are desperate to be thrown into. It will do nothing but further entrench the big market participants while hamstringing small start-ups.
yep.
I’ve become somewhat indifferent to out of control spending over the past year. I know it’s some Glibs #1 bugaboo, but I’m thinking we’re going to face much worse and much sooner than a financial collapse.
When we have:
->states banning private in home gatherings of more than 1 household
->serious discussion of national vaccine papers being required to travel or work,
->proposed ammo taxes of thousands of dollars per bullet and lawsuits against firearm manufacturers designed to effectively end firearm ownership if the directly gutting the 2nd A doesn’t work
->proposals to pack the Supreme Court and add new states
->Rigged elections that would make Stalin blush
What’s an extra few trillion here or there? I’m starting to lean towards Trashy’s collapsetarianism viewpoint that delaying the inevitable may even make it much worse than getting it over sooner.
That’s how I view California’s one-party rule – when that collapse comes it would be a great object lesson. I was hoping (foolishly) that we’d learn from that first without repeating it, let alone beating it to the punch at the federal level.
Has there ever been an “object lesson” that didn’t result in the overwhelming majority of “studients” “learning” that they were correct all along, and that this problem would have been prevented if people had just done what they were supposed to?
No there hasn’t. A completely dispassionate observer may learn from a collapse, but we are fresh out of those. Everyone real will blame the collapse on those people, organizations and ideas they already dislike. Witness the entire left blaming Flint water and Chicago gun violence on Republicans.
Relatedly, CA is getting in deep financial trouble. I can’t remember if it’s been posted here, but CA had a bill proposing a 10 year wealth tax. It also doubles as an exit tax and would continue to apply for 10 years for wealthy citizens fleeing CA. It also applies to non-Residents who are just visiting CA. I forgot the exact minimum days but it would apply to out of state sports players who play away games in CA and out of state college students who go UCLA and become wealthy within 10 years of graduating. I think it may be as little as 2 weeks spent in the state over a one year period kicks the wealth tax in.
https://www.ntu.org/foundation/detail/california-wealth-and-exit-tax-would-be-an-unconstitutional-disaster
This wouldn’t be upheld now, but I have no doubt a packed court would find it constitutional. And the minimum income limit would steadily drop down to include everyone.
As steeply progressive as the CA income tax is, the next recession will be brutal on state finances. And they remain 100% oblivious to that.
At least prop 15 as mentioned in the article was voted down IIRC.
I’m sure they’ll get their federal bailout.
To be clear, it’s not that I want a collapse. It’s that I know that we’re on a deterministic path to collapse. Also, the quicker it comes, the less human tragedy comes along with it.
Where we’re at right now, all we can do is try and predict what the collapse will look like, and prepare for it.
Right. If the US ends up following the path of large 20th and 21st century socialist/communist regimes, which appears to be the goal of a large proportion of the populace and politicians, we may all greatly prefer a collapse over the dystopia. A collapse would be much worse then what we have now, but I’m not so sure that it would be worse than what the future could entail.
YUp. I’d rather skip the dystopian phase (which ends in collapse* anyway).
*Eventually. I keep wondering when the wheels are going to come off in China.
The wheels are rattling and shaking. I’m not talking about Hong Kong, I’m talking about the rot inside the middle kindgom proper.
That’s part of it, for sure, but another aspect is the whole “the bigger they are, the harder they fall” thing. As we trend away from scrappy self-suffiency toward fruit sushi and “words are violence” as a society, we’re less and less prepared to weather a true crisis.
We already see it in the framing of the crises we do encounter. The Great Recession was a garden variety recession, maybe a bit above average over the past 60 years. Covid is a not particularly notable pandemic, akin to many of the ones nearly lost to history from the 50s and 60s.
If the economy went into true depression right now, tens of millions would die simply from a complete lack of survival skills. Imagine what will happen with another 2 or 3 decades trending in the same direction before the “big one”. No Bueno.
a deterministic path to collapse
Minor quibble about it being deterministic, as in any kind of mathematical sense. But speaking from a strictly historical perspective, no disagreement.
That said, our revolution was counter-intuitive to human experience, so perhaps might be our decay.
Minor quibble about it being deterministic, as in any kind of mathematical sense.
The Hyperbole doesn’t have a monopoly on hyperbole ?
There are a large number of paths to “salvation”. However, as you noted, history paints a consistently bleak picture.
If he doesn’t wouldn’t that make him just A Hyperbole?
You can’t just be A Hyperbole, you simply wouldn’t be hyperbolic enough.
Yeah, well I raised it as a quibble just because of the general belief in things like the arc of history or being on the right side of history – that sort of pseudo-scientific babble.
I’m firmly on the side of muddling along and staying clear of collapse. Things change, trends reverse. Things seem inevitable until they aren’t. Few saw the collapse of the Soviet Union, even weeks before it happened.
@prolefeed, you and me both.
When the inevitable does happen, the currency obviously will be worthless and the suckers holding Treasury notes will be sol.
I cannot get my wife to dump hers from her grandma and convert to something more manageable.
Yup.
I blame Trump more for this than the democrats. The democrats are doing it for the graft, but Trump is doing it because he can’t stand to be unpopular.
Larry Summers doesn’t want “us” to focus so much on propping up consumer spending. We should give that money to state and local governments. They’ll spend it wisely.
Trickle down economics does work after all – it just requires govt to do the trickling.
Thatâs not money trickling down your back.
If you can piss down my back from a helicopter you have impressive control of your stream.
As my prostate can testify, those days are long gone.
Nashville bomber suspect has been confirmed to be the remains in the RV.
Let me guess: White-supremacist, Trumpster 5G nutter?
Probably not, or we would have already heard about it.
Seen elsewhere, “they’re” trying to cover up any possible right wing association and includes usual SPLC or similar bullshit that right wing violence is more frequent and a bigger danger.
All I’m seeing is “5G nutter” and “loner”. The rest is probably coming.
With zero evidence he was a 5G nutter, as far as I can tell.
Smells of distraction, possibly coverup.
Takes time to populate and insert those screeds on the socials so they don’t look out of place.
Violence by definition is White Supremacy.
Owning an RV is White Supremacyâ˘
They’re the wrong kind of white people
Worst case scenarios include: getting lost, poisoned, killed by an animal, and encountering an RV. Of these outcomes, the latter is seen by white people as the worst since it involves an encounter with the wrong kind of white people.
“There’s a lot that’s different about this recession, compared to 2008.”
No shit, Shirley. You deserve to have your own teevee show.
Woman sues school for forcing son to take part in struggle sessions.
I have to wonder just how far these racist assholes would like to go with their “sins of the father” theme.
I suspect that my son’s school is going to try something of that nature this spring.
Should be interesting when they threaten to withhold his diploma when he says no. We might get his tuition back plus some.
“struggle sessions”
Wasn’t that trying to get a handful of titty in the back of Smitty’s Chevvie?
California Democrats have insisted theyâre following the science, yet there is no evidence to suggest their lockdowns are working.
It’s obviously the lab rats’ fault.
I have to wonder just how far these racist assholes would like to go with their âsins of the fatherâ theme.
Blood guilt is real. Root out the wrongthinkers. Grind them into the dirt.
I did my part.
I, for one, don’t know anything about firearms, let alone own any.
[points] and shrieks a la Donald Sutherland.
Yeah, I’m starting to feel bad I’m not a part of the club.
This chart shows how restaurant revenue has fallen, even as delivery and takeout sales soar
We are all in this together, comrade.
Japan announces plan to eliminate gas-powered cars in 15 years
Sure…Good luck I guess.
Of all the countries vowing to do that, it makes more sense for Japan than anyone else. They have to import all of their fuel and their population density is extremely high.
That said, it’s still monumentally stupid unless they stop idling their nuclear plants.
My thoughts exactly. Although I thought Japan did have off-shore oil drilling, but they may not have any refineries.
Japan has no oil reserves of their own but they not only refine their own petroleum products but also refine for other countries. Most of Iran’s gasoline and diesel is refined in Japan.
“Countries” aren’t saying this. One individual politician is saying other politicians will, after his term of office is over, do something really stupid.
Get rid of the collective nouns, and what is going on becomes clearer.
Love the billions in subsidies. Yay, higher taxes and impoverishment for
allmost!What’s Japanese for “grifter”?
Kaiju? Mothra? Rodan?
Suzuki?
Didn’t the CEO of Toyota just say electric cars are overrated?
Plus, Japan is very good at reconfiguring their electric grid as needed.
The school forced her son to âmake professions about his racial, sexual, gender and religious identities in verbal class exercises and in graded, written homework assignments,â Gabrielle asserted in her federal lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday.
William, who is a senior at Democracy Prep and biracial, had his statements âsubject to the scrutiny, interrogation and derogatory labeling of students, teachers and school administrators,â the lawsuit states. William is still being coerced to âaccept and affirm politicized and discriminatory principles and statements that he cannot in conscience affirm.â
Doin’ right ain’t got no end.
UV light kills 99.9% of Covid virus in 30 seconds.
Not exactly a new discovery for these types of viruses.
In other news, nuclear radiation and cosmic rays also kill viruses.
5G makes people crazy but nobody knows if it is actually harmful.
The 5G lunacy is really quite amazing.
There are different degrees of it from what I understand with some believing the waves or frequencies or whatever cause direct health effects and others thinking the government and/or corporations are liable to take advantage of the easy transmission of massive quantities of data to spy on us. That first group are nutters, the second group has a point but is being smeared through unfair association with the first group.
Itâs a 2020 version of the HAARP conspiracy theories.
I thought the atmosphere had ignited and we all died already.
Ah….HAARP. ***Logs back into abovetopsecret to get a fix***
On the other hand everyone claimed the Total Information Awareness stuff that very briefly appeared in DARPA’s site (and then disappeared suddenly) was conspiracy nonsense, but Snowden is still in exile.
I will always believe in the undying thirst of bureaucrats, politicians and spooks for data.
THE TRUTH
Nuke the Virus, and the whales. It it the only way to be sure.
Also, news from 2005 – Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread
Iâve had it up to here with you science deniers. UV light deactivates viruses? Chloroquine has antiviral properties? Hogwash, if Fauci ainât selling it then I ainât buying it.
Not even new for Covid.
The biggest difference I can see between the Israeli and earlier American work: the Israelis are selling something.
OMB was mocked for saying the same thing. In March.
Despite having some of the strictest restrictions, CA Covid cases soar.
Newsome, along with Cuomo, have shown admirable leadership during this crisis. – MSM
As the Fix reported, Gabrielleâs lawsuit includes ânearly 150 pages of exhibits documenting the curriculum in the graduation requirement âSociology of Change,â which allegedly promotes intersectionality and critical race theory.â
You can’t argue with the Science of Phrenlogy.
It is worse than phrenology, phrenology at least pretended it had evidence to support its assertions. CRT and patriarchy theory just asserts things and points to those assertions to make other assertions.
If you deny the assertions then you are a victim of your own false consciousness.
It cannot be said often enough, “Fuck you Plato”
I think we can give more credit to the Frankfurt school for this mess.
I like to go to the source.
^ not a Kimberly Drummond fan
It takes different strokes to move the world đ
Hear! Hear!
Maybe that guy was just pissed off about his phone bill.
Do 1-900 numbers still exist, or was that a product of a very particular time/technology mix? You know, like pagers?
I’m sure they’re still supported in the infrastructue, but I don’t know how many are still in business.
I mean, you already need a system for differential time-based billing for international calls, keeping a category for 900 numbers isn’t going to be that big a lift from the phone company’s end.
Does Comedy Central still run the 900 ads on Adult Swim? Where you can call college coeds? Believe those were 800 numbers though…
*shrug*
I haven’t owned a TV in years, and haven’t watched Comedy Central in… can’t recall how long. But wasn’t Adult Swim a different channel?
Comedy Central picked it up in 2010 if I were to believe the intertoobs. Same here though. The only time I watch actual TV, that wasn’t streamed, is when I have to go TDY for work.
Yes Adult Swim was a different channel, it was originally on Cartoon Network.
One of the digital extra channels (Cozi?) runs those “coed” ads during evening runs of Roseanne or whatnot. Bit jarring.
The numbers are all local numbers – usually one for each area code around here.
Quest? The Night Exchange? I see those ads after midnight here.
I love happy endings.
So do Asian massage parlors.
They don’t but you do.
Canny massueses know they get better tips by flattering the client’s ego.
https://jordanschachtel.substack.com/p/the-new-strain-of-covid-propaganda
Anything after “according to my model…” should be received with the same skepticism as anything preceding “…and I promise not to cum in your mouth”.
A lot of people just love worst case scenario panicmongering it seems but it wouldnât surprise me as viruses mutate because itâs what they do. Still, people need to get a fucking grip.
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/KojYatpLPSE
Hard for folks to get a grip when fairly good science is being washed away in a blink of an eye for shitty pseudo-SCIENCE!. WHO nuking what herd immunity is, the mask debacle, the sudden absentmindedness of how T-Cell immunity and antibodies work, and on and on. Even the worst high school students over the past 30-40 years had a basic understanding of how viruses work, how our bodies defend against, why we would need vaccines, etc and that is all flipped on its head.
The act of quarantining healthy people virtually assures a more transmissible strain will rear its head. Evolutionary pressure is applied and the virus steps into a niche that allows it to perpetuate itself. Itâs simple but Iâm not sure the average person is capable of grasping that in the face of misinformation though, as you say.
Junk science in the year of COVID!
The really fun part is to go down the rabbit hole on the jade amulets paper. We now see the first of our woke STEM PhD’s in action.
I love seeing this.
All I know is, don’t use malachite for a dildo.
That jade amulet one…nice.
But viruses only mutate when nobody’s looking. We’ve been watching sars-cov-2 for a year now so we know it hasn’t mutated.
/journalism
/junkscience
Hereâs the problem with that claim
The other problem is lack of context. My understanding is that these things typically mutate to be more transmissible and less harmful. And they mutate constantly, hence the lack of a cure and the need for a new flu vaccine every year.
I think they mutate randomly. It is at the survival/selection stage that more transmissible and less harmful win out.
Thank you.
âEvery e-mail and text, especially the unnecessary little ones â every âthank youâ and âgot it,â â every time we hit send or download or stream or Zoom, they all require power,â Phillips explains. âThen, if it gets read, it sucks up even more power. An e-mail may use just five percent of the power needed to deliver a paper letter, but we send and receive gazillions of them.â
Thank you!
Hey bud! Cashing out now. Best thoughts to all you reprobates and especially Red’s hubby.
Later Festus!
OK
-1 CarbonCreditWorkUnit
government and journalism require carbon.
I’m doing my part for the planet by ignoring journalism and government at every opportunity
Gazillion is a known SI recognized number.
I mean, if we don’t do something now the economic damage will be in the bajillions…
I can count to brazillion but then I am spent afterwards.
“Lol”
*Replies all*
Fondly recalls all the usual suspects floating an “email tax”. ?
Was that the one because stamp sales were tanking (even before the interwebs of course) and their thought was to tax emails?
I’d love to see the math on this. A big number * a small number => inconsequential number. The actual cost of sending and reading an email is so minuscule in compute time.
People like this show why things like fundamentalism, takes off. it is easy to pick a single thing and stick to it like it is the only thing that matters. When you do that, you never have to deal with tradeoffs and every decision is easy. It is a very shallow moral philosphy that says “Can this increase carbon output? it must be bad”. So yes, the logical conclusion being We should kill off all human society. Of course you’ll get told you are arguing a “slippery slope” each step of the way down that slope.
I doubt sending an email actually costs anything like 5% what a paper letter does in energy. Yes electricity is being used, but almost all the electricity being used would be used anyway. You don’t turn the computer on, power up the monitor, turn on the wifi etc. to send the email, you type it into a computer that is already on, with a monitor already running to send out across a connection that is already made. The marginal increase per email has to be minuscule.
Hence the dream of all lefties to make electricity as expensive as possible for you. The easier to control you while passing it off as some “green” horseshit.
Tired of worrying about the same old Doomsday scenarios?
President-elect Joe Biden will inherit 34 Superfund sites for which no reliable funding for cleanup exists, the largest backlog of âunfundedâ sites in 15 years. The backlog has steadily grown under the Trump administration.
Biden will also assume responsibility for 945 Superfund sites identified last year by the Government Accountability Office as vulnerable to climate-related hurricanes, flooding, wildfires and rising sea level. The Trump administration stopped referring to climate change and all but ended consideration of these risks in overseeing Superfund sites.
Senate Democrats, environmentalists and former EPA officials say they expect the Biden administration will endeavor to create new momentum by immediately reactivating Obama administration plans for factoring climate change into its site cleanup plans.
âEven before taking office, the Biden administration accomplished one of the GAOâs key recommendations: acknowledge the climate threat,â said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. âA Biden EPA will need to assess every federal Superfund project and help states do the same. As the GAO showed, climate change brings a new priority to rapid Superfund cleanup work.â
An investigation of the Superfund program by Inside Climate News, NBC News and The Texas Observer found that Trumpâs EPA largely abandoned climate adaptation plans formulated by the Obama administration and scrubbed the words âclimate changeâ from the agencyâs five-year strategic plan.
In the unlikely event you survive the plague, toxic waste and global warming will undoubtedly get you. And it’s all Trump’s fault!
REPENT.
Somehow, I think that the definition of “Superfund site” has been watered down over the years.
As someone thats spent over 2 decades working with the EPA at both state and federal levels, I read shit like that and I can’t help but think about Animas River and the Gold King mine. Fuckin’ assholes.
^^^ This. The EPA has perpetrated huge disasters and basically told local people to “Get Fucked, it’s not our fault”.
Hell you can keep that one local. Fernald was a Federal mess from start to finish.
LOL. If we’re gonna wreck the economy, might as well go full-tilt.
America is getting what it deserves, to adapt an oft-heard phrase about local elections.
So it’s been long enough past the bombing. Has the media cycle moved on now? Or is this more proof of [whatever you think the enemy of the country is right now]?
I know who the enemy of the country is and it aint who the media says it is.
Our Yusef is going through the trials of Job this year. Please see https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yusef-keep-his-home
(lede buried) He also just lost his dog.
I am attached to him. FUCK THAT SHIT!
Bella?!? Oh no… she was just on the Zoomie the other night.
seizure disorder, I guess. Possibly congenital to pit bulls.
That’s positively heartbreaking. Yusef, if you see this, I’m so, so sorry for your loss. Bella was a treasure; no truer friend in man or beast.
? Yeah, I can barely type.
We pretend that they will live forever but four years is a rip-off.
aw, F. Thanks for staying up, and agreed.
Sorry. Bella was a good girl
Oh no đ
Oh no.
Sorry Yusef.
I thought he had a new gig. Did I miss something?
He had to bow out of that. Waiting to hear from another employer.
His Pup died.
Thanks for bringing that to attention. We just never know when our worst days will be. Yusef sorry about your pups.
So sorry to hear this. Hope you can catch a break, Yusuf.
Trump in 2018 on massive spending bill ‘nobody read’: ‘I will never sign another bill like this’
Roll-over again for them Donnie.
Uh huh…
Election officials in Georgia are gearing up for the possibility that next monthâs Senate runoff elections may spend weeks in litigation before a final winner is determined.
The state has become closely divided in recent years and both Democrats and Republicans expect the results to be razor-thin.
So sense senators are statewide elections, how do they determine who is running against whom?
Also, one of those elections _shouldn’t_ be close. Namely the one where the Dem candidate only got 35% of the vote in the first election, and the GOP split the remaining vote.
Somehow, I think that the definition of âSuperfund siteâ has been watered down over the years.
That’s one of the things which has been brought into laser focus, in the past few years. The media will uncritically accept any proposition on the part of their preferred sources, making no effort whatsoever to question them. “Superfund”? That sounds terrible. No sum is too great to detoxify a superfund site!
Define “detoxify” in terms of practical harm or risk? Fuck that. The earth must be returned to its pristine state, prior to the arrival of humans as a tool-using infestation.
We have seen it over and over in the plague era. Some berobed and properly credentialed SCIENCE-tist pulls a number out of his model (ass). Unimpeachable. Unquestionable. As true and reliable as if it were carved in stone and handed down by the gods (it was).
Question it, and you will be subjected to ridicule and vilification. Provide a conflicting number, based on observational evidence? They stick their fingers in their ears.
The media will uncritically accept any proposition on the part of their preferred sources
The Irony being Rachel Maddow telling Stephen Colbert (paraphrasing) “You know something we re-learned during the Trump Admin, was that you can’t believe a Govt official, just becase they are are a Govt Official”. All the while she believed every word coming from Brennan and Clapper. You know, the two career liars.
We need to get rid of the great apes too, those tool using bastards! Oh and racoons and otters too, you can’t be too careful.
Ants are going around colonizing the planet. Seems like racism to me.
Like from kid’s grade school science project that claims Americans use 500 million plastic straws per day.
Was that the figure? 1.5 per capita daily?
80% of that is coffee stirrers. But those can’t get stuck in turtle snouts.
You’re never too early to teach kids about abusing statistics to get what you want
Overheard my middle son talking with his girlfriend and she said some made up number like most people do “like 80%” or whatever, and he responded, “76% of all statistics are made up.” I think she didn’t get it.
“I will never sign another bill like this.”
Come on, Trump. You’ve got three weeks. That’s plenty of time for Congress to roll another shit boulder down Pennsylvania Ave.
Fox, like the GOP, has to pretend they care about fiscal responsibility again, since Joe Biden will be in office in 3 weeks.
Enjoy the final Mammary Monday of this shitshow that is 2020.
https://archive.li/Csl49
Weather has been mild in SoCal so far. Anyone deficient in Vitamin D probably has only himself to blame.
I can think of one Free Lunch: sunlight.
ERMAHGERD. Guess what just came in the mail???
?????
Nom.
Measles cultures?
So you weren’t culled from the cookie list?
What type(s) did you get?
C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me. Oh cookie, cookie. Cookie starts with C
https://pasteboard.co/JH1YpdK.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/JH1YKOW.jpg
ooo… a variety pack.
Those look good.
Another one.
Police in Rutherford and Wilson Counties in Tennesee are investigating a suspicious box truck that was parked at a convenience store playing audio that was similar to that heard coming from the RV that exploded on a Nashville street on Christmas morning.
I wonder what the target is.
Someone who hates Tennesee…
Have we checked to see if Don is Safe? maybe its his Ex-Wife….
Don was commenting this morning.
Petula Clark fans?
Not according to those pictures it’s not.
LOL. Maybe the bomb squad moved it?! Looks like a country road.
in front of a residential mailbox, no less.
That just isn’t as scary as in front of a convenience store. There may well be a country store a quarter mile down a dirt road though.
playing audio that was similar to that heard coming from the RV
Somebody had the oldies station cranked up?
So, did the truck have a bomb?
No. So it was just a misunderstanding, and everybody chuckled, shook hands, and went about their day, right?
Oh, FFS.
Every ice cream truck is a danger! Like every pressure cooker, every shoe on a plane, a box cutter, oddly shaped packages, every person walking near a school, and on and on we go around the carousel.
YAY! I won’t hear that obnoxious noise anymore!
Ladies and Gentleman we have witnessed peak curmudgeon!
When I was a kid, we only had two flavors of ice cream: plain and gravel!
We just need someone to use the Federal Government as a means of a terror attack, and then they’ll shut it down… right?
:Janet Reno laughs in hell:
I was here during the sniper killings. White box trucks were the enemy back then, too. Turns out it was a Chevy Caprice.
I remember that panic, as well. Ladies and gentlemen, our best and brightest, hard at work protecting you!
From totally the wrong thing.
Drive around and count the number of white box trucks you see. I once saw 18 of them in a 10-minute drive down the highway.
Yep. During the sniper killings, every day it was “a white box truck was spotted fleeing the scene”. Like, probably half a dozen white box trucks were leaving the scene at various speeds depending on traffic.
https://twitter.com/SmokinIdahoan/status/1343446611716931585
The funny thing is this guy doesn’t get the irony of what he just said:
If we are all equal, why do we need to be measured?
Secular thoughts with religious undertones don’t always work hand in hand.
The existential flaw of the progressive movement.
Yeah, they don’t realize what they lost when they broke off from the Protestant roots of the original progressives.
TBF He/She/They/Zim, may be making an argument about equality of outcome and having universal standards for everyone. Of course, this flies in the face of the “scholarship” that is being proffered in grievance studies department across the western world, where expecting minorities to have agency and that they are just as capable of achieving as any other group is the RRRACCCCISST!
Penis size?
More mask hysteria
Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, shortly after his wife, Kim Bonnen, contracted the viral respiratory disease. The outgoing state legislator, a Republican, confirmed the news in a post shared to his official Facebook page on Sunday afternoon.
“2020 just keeps on giving!” Bonnen wrote. While he described his wife’s symptoms as “difficult but manageable,” the politician said his own “have so far been mild.” The pair, alongside sons Gregory and Jackson, are continuing to quarantine inside their home, and both children have undergone diagnostic COVID-19 tests in the meantime. Bonnen said his family is taking these necessary precautions as a means to “keep those around us safe” in Sunday’s update.
Bonnen underscored the importance of widespread mask use and compliance with risk-reduction protocols in Sunday’s statement. After announcing his positive test result, the lawmaker said he has not identified the source, or sources, of his family’s infections. Texas is one of a number of U.S. states that saw COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and fatalities climb rapidly this fall.
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Over the summer, the House Speaker released a forthright statement condemning public opposition to face coverings, as Texas confronted a significant spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
“I have become increasingly infuriated by so-called advocates are who ditching the mask in the middle of a pandemic as an expression of freedom and liberty, while expressly killing the freedoms and liberties we cherish,” Bonnen said in the June statement.
He went on to point out that failing to wear masks in public settings effectively ensures that restrictions on workplaces, businesses and other group gathering spaces will persist, since face coverings reduce the risks of COVID-19 transmission. Although Texas Governor Greg Abbott initially hesitated to impose a statewide mask mandate, the Republican leader ultimately implemented one at the beginning of July.
“Reduce the risk.” Nice cape work. Is that risk reduction quantifiable? Can you provide any serious evidence of any level of correlation between mask use and infection rates? Apparently not, but don’t let that interfere with your uncritical acceptance of things which are demonstrably untrue.
I’m sure he wore his mask religiously, but somehow, the cooties managed to sneak past. Maybe if he had worn two or three masks at the same time.
while expressly killing the freedoms and liberties we cherish,â Bonnen said in the June statement.
Fuck. You.
Sometimes you lose sight of the war in the midst of a battle and this hill he has staked his flag upon, will be defended and willing to die on apparently.
Convid, murder-hornets, now this.
“Super gonorrhea” is trending and I must say, the 2020 writers really need to narrow down the plot lines.
*insert Sugarfree here*
That is true, super AIDS hasn’t reared its head in 2020 either.
Yeah, I hope they don’t just throw a deus ex machina and throw the SMOD, or say that we were in purgatory the whole time in so they don’t have to tie up any of the plot lines they started. That’s just lazy writing.
They should just go for the St. Elsewhere ending.
Newhart – https://youtu.be/OwYw2i2icNg
Overheard my middle son talking with his girlfriend and she said some made up number like most people do âlike 80%â or whatever, and he responded, â76% of all statistics are made up.â
A Todd Snider fan?
Ill have to show him that…
Gender Traitor, I saw the early morning post about your husband and his stroke. I hope he recovers soon.
Police added that a motive for the bombing remains unknown and that officials are looking to speak with anyone familiar with Warnerâs ideologies. Police are interviewing individuals identified to have been known by Warner and are still processing evidence from the scene.
I’m wondering what is in his manifesto.
In Nevada, Gabrielle Clark didnât want her son, William, to attend a mandatory class at his charter school that promoted âhostility toward whites as a race,â The College Fixâs Greg Piper reported. Gabrielle previously threatened to file a lawsuit against the school for forcing him to take the class, and this week she made good on that threat.
A charter school? Huh. I guess they aren’t private enough to care about their customers.
Background checks were up 40% from the prior November, with over 3.6 million checks performed throughout the month.
đ
Industry experts predicted that the winter would further aggravate eateriesâ troubles during the coronavirus pandemic. Cold temperatures mean fewer customers are willing to eat outside, even if the establishment provides heat lamps and blankets.
January tends to be a slow month in normal years for bars and restaurants. I think “further aggravate” will be an understatement.
“Even in the ‘post-corona’ age, we will continue to work hard to realize environmental measures and a decarbonized society as well as a stable energy supply,” Suga pledged.
Fuck you.
Itâs almost as if lockdowns do nothing to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Crazy talk. We all know we need to lock down harder and kill all the Kulaks and Wreckers that won’t get with the program.
At that point, the employee who stocks coolers got involved. Hingel said, âThe cooler man pushed the girl on the ground and went behind the wall a bit and came out and told the man get on the floor. And the guy started shooting at him again.â
The employee who stocks coolers responded to the alleged robber by pulling his own gun and shooting back, killing the suspect.
I like happy endings.
I missed that….GT I hope all is well. Sending you love & good thoughts.
I missed that too! I am so sorry to hear that. Keep us posted.
+1
Yes. Sorry, GT.
“Iâm wondering what is in his manifesto.”
The FBI hasn’t written it yet.
Don’t they have an AI to pump those out yet?
That’s why GPT-3 was developed.
Okay. Really out now. Hope that the hungry RCMP don’t get me today.
Alec Baldwin’s wife is some kind of Euro Rachel Dolezal. Her real name is less ethnic than my name (Zoomers will know, given how white my DNA is, that is a difficult task)! ???
https://twitter.com/catoletters/status/1343578978649579521
Someone asks “what is wrong with these women”. I don’t think anything is “wrong” with them so much as Hollywood continues to be the same way it has always been many women changed their names in the past to appear less ethnic, now the cultural fadishness has switched to value exotic over the normal.
-1 Frances Gumm
+1 Judy Garland
Margarita Cansino has a sad.
When you get rewarded for being a victim and being different, everyone wants to be different. The pendulum swung from everyone wanting to be the same to everyone wanting to be different (in the same kind of way of all things), making it all crazy to me. How about just fucking being yourself?
Being yourself often requires you to face some unpleasant truths.
That all in all, you are not interesting is typically one of them that most actors face.
+1 lesbian chic.
I don’t really get the outrage. She’s been pretending to Spanish – as in Mallorca- not Hispanic as in Latin American. So, according to their rules, what is she appropriating?
Don’t get me wrong, making fun of Alex Baldwin and anyone associated with him is fair game, but she’s not Rachel Dolezal. She’s just a pretentious ninny.
And I hate that I know this stuff.
It’s not “race faking” in the strictest sense. But you have to wonder why? Seems like she thought being a run-of-the-mill white New Englander was boring.
Think leon above kinda nailed it on the head.
But why pick Spain.
I mean… it’s Spain.
*violently strums guitar as gypsy flamenco dancer stomps heels and flicks skirt.*
hawt
She lived there part of the year growing up with her parents.
Seems like she thought being a run-of-the-mill white New Englander was boring.
Well, when you put it that way . . . .
To be more exotic
GenderTraitor, I’m so sorry to hear about your husband. Glad to hear he’s walking and talking. I hope all goes well and please don’t hesitate to ask if you need anything.
Sending thoughts and prayers.
Speaking of mask hysteria- in all the bleating about “spiking rates!” I don’t believe I have seen anything about efficacy. It’s still just, “Wear a mask. Any mask. Do it for Granny!”
They don’t even pretend to care about practical solutions. They just want visible acquiescence to their demands.
OBEY.
This guy gets it.
Around here maybe 1/3 of the people I see are masked and no one says a word about people not masking up.
Indoors here, mask compliance is a rounding error from 100%. Outdoors it is more like 60-65%. I refuse to wear the mask outdoors. Even the plausible theoretical excuse (which doesn’t ever pan out in the actual research) for masks has no bearing outdoors.
So a fight break out at the bus stop over masks last week.
The idea that the current spread is due to vast numbers of people refusing to mask might be the most epic bullshit the public consensus have ever come up with in my life. It’s so laughably not true, it highlights just how far gone round the bend we are on all of this.
Masks here are maybe 100% indoors as having them in or around their mouths/nose.
What is a win for the politicians is that the kids have bought this 100% with a “its not that big of a deal”.
Too much masking here.
Judging by what I see, elderly and younger folks seem to be quite supportive of the nonsense. The neighbors across the street wear masks when they go out for walks. The other night in a bar I overheard some 20-somethings talking about how worried they were about being in Florida around people not wearing masks.
Around here, it’s the old folks who are least likely to cooperate. The 50-60 year olds and the 20-30 year olds (parents of babies) are the most masked. I see 75 year olds at the park maskless, but the 28 year old comes to the park with mask and face shield with their 18 month old.
the 28 year old comes to the park with mask and face shield with their 18 month old.
Barf.
60% no masking here and we have had a total of 30 cases/no deaths in Grant Parish.
I was raised on a farm. I know what it looks like when people are shoveling horseshit.
In my neck of Tucson, anyway, masking compliance indoors is universal. Outdoors, pretty high, guessing 70% at least. Way out on the edge where I live, “outdoors” means pottering around your house or going for a walk/run/bike alongside the road, so very few people doing that are masked.
The total disconnect, in broad daylight, between the mask mandates/compliance and the current wave in cases is astonishing. The current rationalization that it was Thanksgiving what done it is pure confirmation bias – the slope before and after Thanksgiving is pretty much the same, although there was a little bit of a roll over in new positive tests just before Thanksgiving, which is unexplained.
Extra people getting tested before going to family Thanksgiving?
There’s a big push in this area to get tested. That’s all, get tested (and then what?). I assume other places are having the teevee PSAs and “cases” are going up because more people are getting tested who would not normally get tested.
Phoenix unsurprisingly sounds roughly the same. The upscale local shopping mall has obviously been high traffic the last few weeks (it’s a nice place to walk around and get some exercise and there’s a great jogging trail right next to it, so I’m there a lot), and certainly people are more likely to be wearing masks walking outside than not. Lunacy.
I worry we won’t recover from this. At least not any time in the next decade or so.
âNo man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness â they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight itâ
â C.S. Lewis
Chinese journalist who broke the Covid story has been arrested, according to Twitter.
It has been a year. What took them so long?
Waiting to see if the American media will give them a tongue bath for such actions?
i.e. Biden got “elected” and they say the MSM cover for everything. They knew they could get away with it now
Or it gets spun in the opposite direction than most emotional headlines “Single mother arrested for not paying her bills” and deep in the article you find out she has neglected to show up for her court summons on an unrelated issue.
So here we might see “Chinese journalist arrested for perpetuating conspiracy theories on COVID-19 and China that lead to over 300,000 American deaths” and the media will cheer.
making fun of Alex Baldwin and anyone associated with him is fair game, but sheâs not Rachel Dolezal. Sheâs just a pretentious ninny.
Not that i give a shit, but is this just a situation where she needed a stage name not already on SAG’s books?
Just dissolve the screen actor’s guild, preferrably in acid.
Then why fake an accent and lie about learning ESL?
Mental illness
+1 Andy Kaufman
This went way beyond a stage name, to a faked biography and accent.
Not to pass up an opportunity to kick Alex Baldwin here, but he signed off on this at some level. What kind if dipshit does that?
Alex Baldwin
https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1343282200637140992
The best part about being a supermajority is that you can always blame the minority as a cabal screwing up your beautiful plans.
Blaming non-existent Republicans is a state pastime over there.
This went way beyond a stage name, to a faked biography and accent.
Huh. Everybody wanna be spayshul, I guess.
Not to totally defend her, but where is the line on “Fake Accent” when i speak spanish, i like to think i do so with a fairly good accent. I guess i don’t carry it over to when i speak english. So i guess i just answered my own question.
I think she was speaking English with an accent.
Yes. She also didn’t know the English word for “cucumber” in a cooking segment.
And there are online videos where she uses no accent at all.
Hey Glibs, I want to thank you all for sticking by me when it matters, I got Bella to the Crematory on spooky backwoods lane, and pick up her ashes Wed. what a way to bookend my year.
So sorry
Dang, Yusef. Been there, my friend. It is heartbreaking, every time.
it came on fast, seizures started around 4, she had a heart attack at 10 or so, right next to me, I’m glad I wasn’t totally alone,
Jeez, sorry to hear this.
Sorry, Yusef
Sorry, Yusef. I saw here on the Zoom recently.
Night before last, she said Hello! to the Zoomies, I’m day drinkin’ Fuck it
I am sorry I missed her appearance Yusef.
Sorry Yusef.
Condolences Yusef
Sorry Yusef.
Sorry Yusef.
Sorry for your loss đ
Yusef, I am so sorry for your loss. We just saw her on the zoom this weekend.
So sorry, Yusef.
JFC, I’m very sorry Yusef. Bella was a great dog.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
Fact: If Trump really cared about justice and sticking it in the eye of the establishment, he would have pardoned Lori Laughlin.
Why on earth?
From my window.
Amazon left a package in a yellow envelope on my neighbor’s porch. The neighbor opened the door, sprayed the envelope with something then flipped it and sprayed the other side. Then he closed the door; the package is still on the porch.
*rolls eyes, shakes head *
They learn from governors. Wasn’t there one that did that for a bill they signed?
Politicians are the actors for which nothing was too beneath them to act out.
Porn Stars > Politicians.
TOS darling Polis, IIRC
Yes.
Is there something wrong with his hand that he doens’t steady the paper when he signs it?
Yes, he has COVIDPUSSYITIS and is trying to only touch the paper with his writing hand. Its beyond ridiculous.
The ‘tard in CO.
I find this guy’s meticulousness aspirational. I devour his videos as soon as he puts them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF5tGWKZQi8
(for those into DIY engineering, he has a whole series where he built a table to press a painting on wood back together. Sounds way more simple than it is.)
OMG, that wall mounted easel system! OMG, that apron (I would want it in leather though)!
Masks here are maybe 100% indoors as having them in or around their mouths/nose.
What is a win for the politicians is that the kids have bought this 100% with a âits not that big of a dealâ.
If by kids you mean 20s – 30s: I see more people in their 50s and older maskless. But even around here, mask compliance is probably 90%.
There was an outraged letter in the Bozeman paper the other day about how incoming governor Gianforte is going to kill us all by declining to make masks mandatory throughout the state.
Yes. The elderly out in Old Fart Housing don’t care. They have it hanging off their faces just so some punk doesn’t try to scold them. Young, meaning 6yr old to maybe 30s. All in.
The other night in a bar I overheard some 20-somethings talking about how worried they were about being in Florida around people not wearing masks.
Stay home under your beds then, you worthless fucks.
Let me reiterate, cowardice is not a virtue. Neither is bravery unleavened with wisdom, but that does not seem to be a problem with these types.
I just went and checked my DVR of the broadcast of the show I work on, and I found out something truly disturbing.
They are rebooting Walker Texas Ranger! They deserve a round house kick to the nuts!
Dumbasses. The show was never about ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’. The show was Chuck Norris. That cant be rebooted.
I have more originality under my fingernail than the entertainment industry has. Now all we need is a new Star Wars movie.
Now all we need is a new Star Wars movie.
A? A new Star Wars movie? Try 7.
*nods in agreement*
also, one of the actors who played Uncle Ray was from this area, and if I’d stayed at UNLV one more year the actor who played Trivette would have been one of my professors.
I dunno, how can it be any less shlocky than the original? Might be worth a gander for the lulz. Gives the elderly something to watch, they should reboot JAG while they are at it.
They have to finish off NCIS before the can reboot JAG.
NCIS will continue in perpetuity, it is known. When we see NCIS: Toledo, I might think the franchise is out of gas.
You know it has really jumped the shark when the announce NCIS [Landlocked City in Landlocked State]
The original was a morality play for 12 year old boys. It taught right over wrong. It taught courage over cowardice. We could use more of that. I am guessing the reboot will completely miss all of that.
Not an inaccurate assessment either.
Walker is now a HAES FtM LGBTIP PoC who goes around beating up Border Patrol Agents and Corporate CEOs?
Whatever happened to rebooting crappy shows and making them better, ala Battlestar Galactica?
Mmmmm Lt. Kara “Starbuck” Thrace….
Now she can star as “Faceman” in the A-Team reboot.
I’d watch it in my bunk.
Starbuck < Six
Can we just agree to share?
Boomer’s bangs…
Boomer’s bangs…
damm shame it ended after two seasons. Ill never know how it ended, i bet it would have been awesome.
And, speaking new shows, Alan Tudyk has a new show!
I am a leaf on the wind
OK that looks really good. And I don’t do fiction.
That looks good.
And just when I accuse the E industry of a deficit of originality….that one looks good. I know…My Favorite Martian…Cultural misfit…but it does look good.
I will give it a try.
YouTube/Google doesn’t allow any opinion not in lockstep with the COVID dogma, including this:
You cannot push the narrative that immunity is only achieved via vaccine without demolishing the science about human immune systems.
Some things must give way for us to enter the utopian order that the establishment seeks to restore with the ouster of Trump.
Content that disputes the efficacy of local health authoritiesâ or WHOâs guidance on physical distancing or self-isolation measures to reduce transmission of COVID-19
Who would have thought the folk at Google would have ended up being such conformist squares, simping for the man.
Content that claims that any group or individual has immunity to the virus or cannot transmit the virus
Content that disputes the efficacy of local health authoritiesâ or WHOâs guidance on physical distancing or self-isolation measures to reduce transmission of COVID-19
Get the thumbscrews, Torquemada. We have heretics to redeem.
The original was a morality play for 12 year old boys. It taught right over wrong. It taught courage over cowardice. We could use more of that. I am guessing the reboot will completely miss all of that.
Are we talking about Hopalong Cassidy?