It’s the second day of Chanukah, and my true love gave to me: a shunra and a khad gadya, that my father bought for bizray zuzay. Wait, that was a different song. Never mind.
But if we’re singing, let’s sing Happy Birthday to a guy who coordinated beautifully; the star of Red House who visited a hooker and paid the price; Ol’ Blue Eyes; Ol’ Brown Eyes; an inventor more important than Edison; one of my favorite bandleaders; a drummer who outlived Keith Moon, but barely; and a woman whose physical perfection caused teenage me to spill hundreds of gallons of seed.
Now as we light the shammus, it’s time to consider the news.
I’m sure there’s fine policy and no pork.
I’m sure this is 100% USDA-approved pork.
I’m a critic of the death penalty, but this one bothers me considerably less.
Racism or just a shitty driver? I‘m guessing the latter.
Spudalicious and I can now say we lived on health food.
Old Guy Music is the band of one of our birthday folk. Clark Terry steals the show, but hang on when Toshiko’s husband stands up and kicks ass. This is great Big Band.
Happy Chanukah!!!
You should look nervous.
/eyes grater
Ooh! Now I want latkes and apple sauce. AND sour cream.
L’chaim !
Mmm latkes and sausage here.
I’m multi-culti.
How do you pronounce that?
*hocks a loogie*a-nùh-ka*hocks another loogie*?
As if speaking phlegmish.
^^^ So good!
“The bill, which attempts to address the issue of transgender women in sports, clarifies that Title IX compliance should be “determined on the basis of biological sex as determined at birth by a physician.””
Well, there should be some sort of process for intersex people, but other than that it sounds like a good change.
“Tulsi Gabbard is now introducing a blatantly transphobic piece of legislation aimed at trans and non-binary young people. Of course, that’s hardly surprising for a Republican.”
It’s not transphobic, and wouldn’t apply to non-binary people. Well, except that everyone is non-binary, because gender isn’t binary.
She’s trying to block all the fun.
http://boysvswomen.com/#/
The best Women’s Soccer team in the world tends to get trounced by a good High School boys soccer team. Back in the day, players like Mia Hamm freely talked about just how hard it was to overcome the physical disadvantages they were at (which was precisely why they set up those training matches, to force them to not rely only on athleticism). They tend not to talk about that stuff anymore.
I don’t understand why we can’t celebrate women athletes while not pretending that there are simple inherent disadvantages they _tend_ to have compared to men. That doesn’t make their accomplishments any less great
God forbid someone should attempt to save women’s sports from the tranny opportunists.
One of the few Democrats that apparently got left behind when the rest of the party rapidly shifted left at warp factor 9.
I don’t even know that you can call their shift “left.”
They went full postmodern.
The cockamamie wackadoodle pathological mass hysteria cult-o-rama is the natural progression of any move leftward in the post-postmodern age, or something to that effect.
Sorta. Her uncompromising anti-war and anti-carceral-State stances put her at odds with Team Blue’s big donors (public employee unions). She’s still Sanders Left on economic issues.
She’s mostly a dunderhead but we look at her and say, “Wood!”
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also promised to keep working.
“We cannot leave here without having a piece of legislation,” she told reporters, suggesting the 116th Congress could remain in session past its scheduled adjournment Dec. 18.
“We’ve been here after Christmas, you know,” she added.”
You were also there before the election.
I don’t know why her family hasn’t tricked her into one of those freezers yet and locked the doors. They’re already richer than Croesus. Get rid of the old bag before she queers the deal.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9045463/Demi-Rose-showcases-eye-popping-cleavage-dons-plunging-bodysuit-African-safari.html
Thomas Massie is my favorite Thomas.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1337205412379172864
Why do I look at the replies?
They’re fun in their own way.
“Some will say “but people didn’t comply,” however the reality is compliance has been high and as compliance has gone up, the curve has gotten steeper. If masks were ever going to work, there would have been a specification for particle size and fitment.”
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1337399497312399361
Dude sounds like an engineer or something.
“‘The Supreme Court let us down’: Trump rages after SCOTUS rejects Texas AG’s bid to overturn Biden’s election victory and pardoned Roger Stone joins Proud Boys and hundreds protesting the outcome in Washington”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9044993/Supreme-Court-REJECTS-Texas-AGs-bid-overturn-Joe-Bidens-election-victory.html
“Trump ‘wants to appoint a special counsel to probe election fraud and Hunter Biden’ after Supreme Court deals him another thumping defeat in rejecting Texas AG’s bid to overturn Biden’s election victory in four states”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9045727/Trump-wants-appoint-special-counsel-probe-election-fraud-Hunter-Biden.html
At the very least, they need to get rid of voting machines that are connected to the internet or running black-box software.
My tits are no longer calm.
So, secession, civil war, or just mayhem?
What’s Santa bringing THIS Christmas?
I think secession. How quickly? I don’t know.
A theory I’ve seen going around is that he might activate the EO he passed in 2018 about foreign intervention in US elections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHe1dpWOgtg
That kind of would explain why he still hasn’t conceded and seem quite calm about all of this. He might just be playing the gauntlet. The fact that SCOTUS didn’t even considered the case might be just what he expected and hope for. Maybe there is a reason we’re just starting to really see the Biden stories go out into MSM now.
Now I don’t really think that will happen but it’s there.
Texas School for the Deaf football team wins first state championship
Was it because they couldn’t hear the ref’s whistle ?
/Ill see myself out
It’s because their opponent was the Texas School for the Blind.
“Christmas classics in colour! Scenes from black and white films like Miracle on 34th Street and Meet Me In St. Louis are brought to life in stunning new images”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9029727/Nations-favourite-black-white-Christmas-films-reimagined-colour.html
No.
Not having seen Meet Me in St. Louis for many years I couldn’t have told you for sure whether it was in color or not, but I thought it was? I skim the wikipedia page and it appears to be shot in glorious technicolor?
Clang, clang, clang went the trolley!
Ps Daily Mail links seem to challenge my browser something awful. How poorly formatted can the website of a major news publication be?
Mine too. I don’t click on them.
Yep, and there have been colorized versions of miracle on 34th and wonderful life for as long as I’ve been alive.
The fail is just hurting for content, like usual.
“REVEALED: Second federal probe was launched into Hunter Biden in Pittsburgh after Rudy Giuliani handed material to ‘Trump loyalist’ Scott Brady – sparking concerns among the FBI”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9045457/Second-federal-probe-launched-Hunter-Biden-Pittsburgh-Rudy-Giuliani-gathered-info.html
Wait, I was told it was all Russian disinformation.
sparking concerns among the FBI
Concerns that their attempt to bury obvious criminality by Someone Who Matters might cause them embarrassment.
Delaware’s Sarah McBride, who recently made history as the first transgender woman to win an election as a state senator, mocked Gabbard for being connected with the bill.
“Tulsi Gabbard: assigned Republican at birth,” McBride wrote on Twitter.
LBGTQ rights advocate Charlotte Clymer called the legislation “blatantly transphobic” and accused Gabbard supporters of using trans people as “bargaining chips.”
“Usually, when I’ve criticized Tulsi Gabbard in the past for her heinous record and positions, I’ve had her fans bombard me with nonsense,” Clymer said. “It’ll be interesting to see how quiet they remain over this.”
People want a reason to hate. Any old reason will do.
Isn’t the insinuation that you are what you’re born as? Odd diss from a tranny.
Good morning , Old Man!
And a Happy Chanukah to you and all the rest of our triple-parenthetic Glibs!
Cathy Rigby, though? Really?
The defense bill is a joke (like all bills). Apparently there is some language in there renaming military bases and some other such fuckery. There is also speculation that there are some senators who voted for the bill who will support the expected veto.
But I’m not holding my breath.
I remain tired of the ‘stimulus’ bullshit. I have an idea – how about we knock off the totalitarian shit and go back to work?
Why are you laughing?
That is a great Big Band, but this morning, I’m kind of in the mood for this gem. Dang, that’s the good stuff.
I hope you all have a fantastic Saturday!
“Cathy Rigby, though? Really?”
I think the joke is Peter Pan never gets old?
“I hope you all have a fantastic Saturday!”
You too.
Why are you laughing?
*laughter transforms into wretching sobs*
Hey Tundra, sup?
The greyhound is a killer, just sayin. Yesterday I got up about 5am to get some aspirin and let her out. She high-tails it in the yard after a bunny. They do two loops around the yard, and then I hear “Squeeeeeeeeaak!” I didn’t have my glasses on, so I couldn’t see all the details. Later Lord H went to look for a corpse, and found a bunny tail and fluff, but no other remains.
::shudders:: One of the worst sounds ever.
I used to turn on a YouTube vid of a baby bunny screaming and hide the phone somewhere in the house. Fun was had when the cats heard it.
That’s awesome! What a good doggie!
Newpup has settled in. nicely. She is a sweet girl and has been a godsend for my daughter. Nothing like a loveable,furry antidepressant to chase away those COVID blues!
I hope you and the family are well!
What a doll!
Lord H and the heir to the wasteland are so in love with Aggie aka Agmeister, aka Aggie Marie.
Awww
I have a whippet. Killer indeed. And a pest. All of my other dogs are old and spend all day laying about. The whippet is only a year old and pesters the hell out of everyone because he is bored. He should have sought shelter somewhere other than here. This place is virtually a nursing home.
Yes, really. Have you seen the Sports Illustrated nudes? Not Q-bait, but I am the opposite of a silicone fan.
No. Sounds like a DDG search is warranted!
“As the father of three girls involved in athletics, I want them to be able to compete on a level playing field,” he said. “I am proud to lead this bill that will safeguard the integrity of women’s sports and ensure female athletes can compete fairly.”
Paging Diana Moon Glampers.
I thought “Diana Moon Glampers” opened for The Indigo Girls at the final Lilith Fair.
I thought that Diana just had a crush on Moon Unit. I did.
Going down the E. G. Robinson YouTube hole, I was watching this clip, and realized vote fraud certainly isn’t anything new.
I was half expecting to see the standard Youtube “No proven election cheating” disclaimer on that video.
Sorry, ladies. Your position on the victim stack has been taken by men pretending to be women.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way,
shaved her legs then he was a she.
Hey honey-take a walk on the wild side.
That made me think of Patti Smith for some reason.
Is it just me, or does 1979 Patti look like the love-child of Bowie and Iggy Pop ?
Not just you.
You are correct sir.
Cis-gay white men are the white men of gay white men.
Checks out.
“This has aged very, very badly for Chris Wallace”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1337418878670999557
Any progress that’s been achieved over the past week on a new round of coronavirus relief in Congress has again run up against a stalemate as negotiators are deadlocked over the latest competing aid proposals.
Lawmakers end another week on Friday without an agreement to provide much-needed stimulus to the U.S. economy and millions of Americans who are struggling financially, nearly a year after the arrival of COVID-19 in the United States.
So frustrated. “Come on, baby, you know you want it just as bad as I do.”
A trillion dollar case of blue balls.
Cathy Rigby, though? Really?
Pixie porn.
Stay Free or Die ?
The old joke: Put a napkin half way into your collar. “Who am I? Cathy Rigby after her floor routine.”
Needs more ketchup.
And mustard.
That just means she put it in back. And likely had indian the night before.
HS boys vs olympic women site it telling. In swimming, the only dents in 1-8 sweep are Katie Ledecky in the distance events and Katinka Hosszu in the IMs. Ledecky is just a once in a many generation exceptional athlete; Hosszu not quite as exceptional, but up there too. I believe Ledecky would have finished in the mid-40s place wise in the mens Olympic competition and that’s not accounting for the fact that, for many countries, there would be several men that wouldn’t have qualified for the Olympics that would place well in front of her. Not to diminish any woman athletes accomplishments – these are truly exceptional individuals – but how anyone with a functioning brain can argue to allow biological men to compete against women is beyond me. I part ways with Gabbard on many things and SLD on Title IX, but it’s pretty telling how far gone (or how loud an insane minority is?) we are that stating the obvious like that is grounds for derision and attack.
There, that’s OT… Now:
For RC Dean – you posted last night about some of the stats in your hospital, ~100 Covid patients I believe. Apropos of my post last week, I’m wondering about the details since we can’t seem to get any context from officials or the press. Like – How close are you to being “on the verge of being overrun” ICU or otherwise? How different is that number of e.g. respiratory patient (Covid + flu + random, unclassified) from a normal year in the fall/winter respiratory season?
How close are you to being “on the verge of being overrun” ICU or otherwise?
Pretty much maxed out right now for what we can handle without setting ourselves up for serious problems down the line with staff burnout. We had more patients and more COVID in the hospital in July, but we also had some fed and state supplementary staffing. Before this started, we had around 30 negative pressure rooms (the ICU rooms you want for COVID or other nasty communicable diseases). We’re over 100 now, with temporary HEPA exhaust units sitting on the ground outside the rooms. We’ve at least doubled our ICU beds.
We How different is that number of e.g. respiratory patient (Covid + flu + random, unclassified) from a normal year in the fall/winter respiratory season?
Overall volume is comparable to a baddish flu season. The difference is mix – the ‘Vid patients are sicker, much more likely need ICU rooms, with more intesive nurse staffing and different physician coverage. We’ve had more patients in the hospital in the past, but not this many ICU patients.
Thanks. So it is a bit more serious on the hospital end than my biases would have predicted.
The question is what sort of mitigation efforts, if any, would have a positive impact on that, leaving aside the legality or, more importantly, ethics and morality of those imposed mitigation efforts.
Honestly, I don’t think there is a realistic mitigation effort that would work.
Masking and social distancing compliance is incredibly high, IMO, and as far as anyone can tell, isn’t doing much. You never know if or how much worse things might be, but I think there’s a near-total disconnect between masking/social distancing and hospitalization/death. This is a nasty bug, worse than any but the very worst once-in-a-generation flu strains (which were overdue for, BTW). Its damn contagious, and damn virulent in certain cohorts.
I was disappointed, BTW, to see that the Moderna vaccine is also an mRNA vaccine, like the Pfizer vaccine. Using a new type of RNA for a vaccine is just something I am not willing to do without some kind of real long-term study. Fingers crossed that we don’t go full dystopia not-allowed-to leave-your-house unless you have your vaccine papers/app. If that happens, it will be before I am ready to leave the country, and very hard decisions will need to be made.
What makes you think it will be different in other countries. I appears that everyone has lost their minds.
(hopes WP likes html formats…)
Honestly, I don’t think there is a realistic mitigation effort that would work.
Agreed.
Masking and social distancing compliance is incredibly high, IMO, and as far as anyone can tell, isn’t doing much. You never know if or how much worse things might be, but I think there’s a near-total disconnect between masking/social distancing and hospitalization/death.
The empirical data and, to the degree it exists, scientific data support that conclusion. Ultimately, those are pointless if you are not sick. The whole idea is that we don’t know who is sick – I don’t think that’s true, especially when people are hyper-sensitized to interpreting their every cough as a possible covid symptom – and statistically, if everyone distances and stays at home, you’ll reduce the infections in the short term. That’s a plausible hypothesis, but it just doesn’t seem to be true, currently, or historically, especially past the short term. I think it’s especially true with the masking since even the hypothesized mechanism there seems, pardon the pun, full of holes.
Anyway, back to grinding chilis and building some spice racks for christmas presents. I’ll say this, I thought I’d finally found a valid use for my “this mask does nothing” mask, but sadly, it most definitely stops neither chipotle nor habenero dust…
if everyone distances and stays at home
Which is simply not realistic. People need to go shopping, go to work, etc. The cohort than can work from home or is retired, and can afford delivery, isn’t enough for some kind of temporary ersatz herd immunity.
And expecting any significant number of people, even if they can, to simply recuse themselves in their house for weeks or months on end is, again, simply not realistic.
The vaccine papers shouldn’t happen, because the current crop of vaccines just keep the inoculated out of the hospital and the graveyard (well, at a much lower rate). They don’t appear to sterilizing which would be the whole point of current yellow fever cards and similar vaccine papers. However, looking at the joke of public heath and even more of the bureaucracy and officialdom, I have little hope that would derail their schemes.
First thing we do, let’s kill all the messengers
With the first shots being prepared for delivery to states next week, Biden’s team is already laying the groundwork for a public education campaign by placing scientists in top posts — and promising to defer to them — and putting an intensive focus on getting the vaccine to underserved populations, according to public health experts who’ve spoken with the transition.
Biden’s messaging now could have an impact on how quickly the U.S. gets back to normal. Health experts think if 75 to 80 percent of Americans get the shots, the nation can potentially achieve herd immunity by next fall and end the pandemic by the close of next year. Lower participation would mean it would take much longer to effectively stop new infections.
“It’s not enough to just get the vaccine out into the community, but getting the community to accept the vaccine,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at University of Minnesota and a member of Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board, who characterizes the dilemma as “the last-inch challenge.”
Let’s just round everybody up, run them through a chute and vaccinate them forcibly as they pass. Just like the cattle they are.
We can’t pretend to let them think for themselves.
Holy fuck, next year?!
We just gonna let the tree of liberty die of thirst like that?
Yes.
75 to 80 percent of Americans
Where have I heard these numbers before…
Classic awesome Christmas movie which may or may not have been mentioned: We’re no Angels.
(Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, et al)
GREAT movie.
It’s on TCM next weekend (Dec. 19 at 8:00 PM ET.)
“What Mr. McConnell is putting forth in terms of liability is such an assault on America’s workers that I hope that the group goes nowhere near what he is presenting,” Pelosi said.
The economy might somehow manage to recover, if we keep the lawyers from bayonetting the wounded.
Is it still illegal to evict delinquent tenants most places? That’s gonna be a shit show when it comes home to roost.
“”Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, Shall be fined or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.””
https://twitter.com/NVGOP/status/1337617525270462464
More from the geniuses at Politico:
The Biden team is confronting steep challenges: A monthslong political fight over public health measures like mask wearing has left many crisis-fatigued Americans wary of mandates and new cures and distrustful of government. And tight budgets have left states unable to mount robust awareness campaigns of their own.
Seriously? There is no shortage of “Mask up. Montana!” bullshit, as far as I can tell.
Plenty of state run Kung Flu propaganda in Hawaii. Complete with throwing in the odd Hawaiian language word- but no SPAM- so fake news,
Last week I had a conversation with a former high ranking officer currently retired from the Japanese self defense forces (Japan’s version of an Army/Navy). We were introduced through a mutual acquaintance. Among the things we talked about he voiced a hope that Trump would stay in office – not so much that he likes Trump but he sees Biden in the White House as a bad thing for Japan. Without saying anything overt he distrusts Biden, expecting that he has sold out to the Chinese and probably the Russians as well. He wouldn’t be basing this opinion so much on what he sees in the media as what he has seen from various intelligence services.
It should be pretty obvious to anyone paying attention. Hunter was getting so much money wired from China that even the banks started to get suspicious. Only our profoundly corrupt propaganda media would see no problem with this.
Trump had kind of set up an alliance aimed at China – India, Australia, Japan and of course, the US.
(I’m surprised they didn’t try to get Vietnam included as well – they like us better than China now, and they have a strong military).
“WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337755964339081216
At least no one can call him a quitter.
“Seconds later, Bourgeois peered up toward the glass dividing him from the media and other witnesses in adjoining rooms, and then grimaced and furrowed his eyebrows. He began to exhale rhythmically, and his stomach started to quiver uncontrollably. After five minutes, the heaving of his stomach stopped and his entire body became still.”
hawt
The gift that keeps on giving:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-blames-republicans-not-wearing-masks-for-shutdowns
All I want for Christmas is this thing!
https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-flamethrower-drone-burns-wasp-nests
They had those chase them around a race track in China on The Grand Tour a couple years ago, to test luxury cars, of course.
Section 230 is a stupid reason to want to veto a Defense bill; because it has nothing to do with it. But, CNN also fails to mention the Rider that blocks Trump from bringing troops home. Forever War!
The New Yorker ran a “hit piece” on Diane Feinstein?
I hope this marks the beginning of a feeding frenzy among the wolves.
But I shudder to think who they’ll send to the Senate next. You CA Glibs up yet? Who’d be the top contenders?
Trotsky’s reanimated corpse.
Still smarter than Barbara Boxer.
SILICONE SATURDAY INTENSIFIES
https://archive.li/fGqYy
One of the most Q-approved sets in a long time.
Are #5 Chinese spies?
If so then I might be willing to give Swallwell a pass.
I stopped at the face diaper.
“China ‘honey trap’ plot could span thousands of operatives
“I can say with a high level of confidence that there are many more of these women out there,” Daniel Hoffman, a retired CIA Senior Clandestine Services Officer, told Fox News. “China’s MO is to flood the zone.”
While several current and former intelligence and security officials and experts interviewed by Fox News said that it was impossible to put a number on just how many honey trap scenarios might be in motion at present, one former defense and intelligence operative noted that it could be well into the hundreds – if not thousands. Such spies are assumed to be at top universities, known to speak perfect English, and routinely use social media platforms such as Linkedin and Facebook to connect with their prey.”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1337400010091212801
https://nypost.com/2020/12/11/chinese-honey-trap-could-hold-thousands-of-operatives/
STEVE SMITH USE NO HONEY IN HIS HIKER TRAP
*signs up for Facebook and updates LinkedIn profile*
Wait, speaks perfect English? *flips keyboard* That’s like half the charm right there.
Seriously, I was wondering about that. The lone wolf agent seemed highly unlikely. And somehow rode a minor city councilor to presidential candidate too.
“don’t know where to start”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13451327/gay-man-desperate-to-be-a-dad/
I have a pop-up book that taught me everything I need to know.
Playing a Chocolate Record
“Fatah will use full force on Palestinians who sell Israelis land”
News from 1920.
I guess “elections” (aka: rituals designed to simulate the appearance of democratic process) are just a race to the bottom now eh?
thicc?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/instagram-model-spends-40k-plastic-23156423
Her face is a disaster.
I feel sorry for that g-string.
She looked fine “before.” The thing with plastic surgery is: once your start, you’re always one more away from perfection . . . .
Yep.
I have heard that getting tattoos is addictive because of the endorphins released while getting inked. Can confirm there is a little buzz, but not enough for me to get any more than the one I’ve got.
Also, it would displease Mr. Mojeaux.
?
Before was much better.
Third Elspeth and rhywun
It’s sob stories, all the way down
The ever-shifting demands of parenting in a pandemic are leading to stress, anxiety, and depression, not to mention economic hardship for those forced to leave their jobs to care for kids. And while some parents are figuring out ways to lighten their burden, many say what’s needed are systemic changes to work, education, and child care in America.
But that’s unlikely to happen in the next few months. And so many parents have been left to fend for themselves, with their reserves of strength, energy, positivity — and sleep — long tapped out.
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Lack of child care is likely a big reason more than 850,000 women dropped out of the workforce in September — more than in any other month on record except for this April, Covert reports. Overall, moms have borne a bigger share of the pandemic parenting burden than dads, with 80 percent of mothers of kids under 12 saying they are responsible for the majority of distance learning in their homes in one April survey. And single moms have been the hardest-hit of all: The share of unpartnered moms in the workforce dropped from 76.1 percent in September 2019 to 67.4 percent in September 2020, a significantly larger drop than those seen among partnered parents or single dads, according to a Pew analysis.
For some parents, leaving the workforce means being pushed into poverty, with Black and Latinx families at disproportionate risk due to racial pay and wealth gaps. “A lot of Black children are in households where there’s just mom working or there are two parents both working in order to make ends meet,” Jessica Fulton, the vice president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, told the New York Times in June.
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Parents and child care workers (who often have children of their own) would benefit from greater investment in child care infrastructure in this country, to make care more available and affordable for parents and to ensure that care workers, who often make less than $11 an hour, actually get a living wage. “As a nation, we really need to look at child care and elevating the providers and the educators,” Alvord said.
Many child care experts have called for a $50 billion bailout of the child care industry, both to carry it through the pandemic and to strengthen it for the future. And President-elect Joe Biden has proposed a caregiving plan that would lift the wages of child care workers while subsidizing care for families, with the goal of not just restoring America’s pre-pandemic child care infrastructure but improving it.
Federalize child care! There is no problem which cannot be solved, no need which cannot be filled, by a massive federal government program administered by highly educated, noble and selfless bureaucrats.
Save us, President Ballgag!
This leftward lurch is speeding up fast…
Do you even Great Reset bro?
Hey, that’s “sistah” to you, pal.
Please go fuck yourself, and pay for your own goddamn children while you’re at it.
Hey, that’s “sistah” to you, pal.
What the squirrel happened there? My comment appeared twice!
And this was not where it was meant to go.
BTW, I totally agree on the childcare thing. Glad I’m not the only one.
It takes a village to raise a child, but the village didn’t even get to sex to produce the kid, and the village doesn’t get to take the child as a tax deduction.
Only a village idiot lets the village raise your child.
many say what’s needed are systemic changes to work, education, and child care in America.
Correct, but in the exact wrong way.
1) decouple insurance and other benefits from employment, allowing people to take time off and/or find more flexible arrangements when taking care of little kids
2) eliminate public education, thus injecting an ass ton of money into the economy and reducing the subsidy of irresponsible parenting decisions. While we’re at it, drastically reduce child labor laws to allow kids to help the family out.
3) fuck right off with any existing or proposed subsidy of child care. Unfuck the incentives for having kids when you cant afford them and rely on private charity to fill in the gaps.
Exactly. The labor laws here in Ohio haven’t been changed since the ’40s. There are rules about “powered machinery” which may have been understandable at one point but are now quite ridiculous in the age of light curtains, E-stop buttons, shock sensors, and the various other features that make it very hard to injure yourself on a machine.
They’re just depriving minors of a chance to learn work ethic, financially assist the household, and possibly get a head start on a skilled trade. It’s aggravating for me to see schools wasting years on absolutely piddling bullshit while students are graduating with zero knowledge of money management, job interview skills, professionalism, work ethic, etc.
But changing any of that is going to be a hard sell since the public has been thoroughly indoctrinated with horrible Dickensian images of 7-year olds slaving away in coal mines 14 hours a day.
Fortunately, since orphans aren’t technically people, they aren’t subject to child labor laws.
I have a baby care and birthing class today.
Via Zoom.
wtf
Also:
I can’t find an Xbox Series X for anything less than $850.
At least it’s snowing and I can palpably feel my trees’ relief.
I hardly remember a thing from the birthing class I attended with EF.
I do remember one of the attendees. He was this short tiny guy who, after the class, climbed into a massive 4X4 Ford F250. My 6’2 frame, however, squeezed into my little Nissan 2WD hardbody truck.
Was his wife hot?
I never did attend one of those. The nurse gave me a quick run down on the fly of vocal countdowns and emotional/physical support while she’s in labor/pushing. I’m pretty sure it was all just to make sure I stayed of the way and my wife wasn’t pissed at me slacking off.
Even while it was all going on, I still wound up feeling pretty useless. I had a couple of ok moments anticipating what the nurse needed as far as towels/sanitary items from the cart. The contractions monitors now are AWESOME. It’s amazing to see the graphs simultaneously for the baby and wifey at the same time.
Here in Japan we didn’t have classes, just a quick instruction from the nurse. But it really didn’t matter with my wife whose labor looked like something out of National Geographic in the Serengeti. The first kid was 20 minutes between breaking water and cutting the cord. On our second kid she was done after the third push.
I’ve taken dumps that were more work than that.
https://youtu.be/PBtC_eKVVEE
I thought that would be this.
No joke. She could literally have said “Hold my beer” and it would still have been cold when she was finished.
…and it turned out much better than when that phrase is usually uttered.
The one I went to (which was a stupid waste of time since now-ex-wife was getting a planned c-section) had a session on Baby CPR. They drilled us on the sequence of steps needed, starting with 1. See if the baby is responsive. You were supposed to pinch or slap or something like that. All was demonstrated on a life-size baby mannikin.
The instructor then made a key mistake- chose ME to come to the front of the room and run through the sequence with the doll. “Step one, see if the baby is responsive,” I chanted. I grabbed the doll by its feet, picked it up, then stared rapping its head sharply on the table, while yelling, ” ‘ELLO, POLLY!”
The look on everyone’s faces was a wonderful sight. I think none of them understood the reference. I was not called on for the rest of the course and my now-ex was furious. Winning!
That would have been amazing to watch.
Even I understood it, OM
ALOL
When I was in the Army’s Field Medic school, they brought in one of those CPR dolls to teach us CPR – the instructor being a guy from the local Red Cross. Being that it was a portable doll, it was just a torso with a head. The doll was called Resusci-Annie.
We were taught that the first step was to grab the doll by the shoulders, shake it gently and call “Annie, Annie, are you OK?”
The first guy in my class to do the procedure shook the doll, called “Annie, Annie, are you OK?” He leaned down, put his ear over the doll’s face for a moment, then looked up with a shocked expression and yelled “She says she can’t feel her legs!”
It took about five minutes to get the platoon to stop laughing and get back on track.
LOL Animal
We had a full size Resessa-Annie in school, the Iranian girl would not do mouth-to-mouth. The instructor told her “You fail” but she didn’t care. I felt more comfortable around the muslim men after that.
CPR is a weird thing in real life.
A buddy and I pulled a guy out of the surf here and did CPR on him – trading off between mouth-to-mouth and heart massage for 5 minutes each. It felt a bit strange to be putting my mouth on some random guy’s mouth but I knew it was the only thing I could do to try to help him. We even started getting color back to his pips. The weirder part was – later on – the realization that he had basically been a corpse at that point.
But you have to do what you can do. Your feelings at the time have to get lower priority.
color back to his pips.
“pips” should be “lips”
Literal coffee spit. Nicely done!
Lol – “This is an ex-baby!”
Was the phrase “GIVE ME THE FUCKING EPIDURAL!” included in this training?
Mood music for the Office of the President-Elect
…and nothing else happened.
I was expecting Yakety Sax
Geddaloadda these anti-Semite Nazis!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9045825/Happy-Chanukah-family-Ivanka-shares-sweet-snaps-celebrations-home.html
Rhywun: you gonna watch the game today?
*quizzical dog look*
MLS Cup.
Oh. That’s on? Maybe if I’m bored. I stopped following this farcical season when both NY’s crapped out.
Employers, too, need to allow more flexibility in recognition of the extraordinary situation parents find themselves in, Halgunseth said. Right now, many are trying to balance being a “full-time parent, full-time teacher, and their full-time job,” she said. “Something needs to give.”
And while flexible hours are important, many say there just isn’t enough time in the day for everything that’s being asked of parents. “I think we need a shift in hours,” Konitzer said. She’d like to see “even a 30-hour workweek, just to have a couple extra hours to balance this stuff all out.”
But that would require a large-scale shift in American work culture. So far, that hasn’t really happened. Instead, it’s falling to parents — especially moms — to make an impossible situation work, with only the most uncertain of ends in sight. Working in health care, Wathen understands what a medical breakthrough the vaccines are. But mentally, the prospect of a vaccine “has actually made it worse because now there is a horizon to look toward,” she said. “I don’t want the hope right now. I just want stability.”
Sounds legit. I see no reason why we cannot completely remake society, from a clean sheet of paper, based on the wish lists of a academic socialists.
If it leads to the death of the K-12 Madrassa machine it will all be worth it.
Why are you men so lazy? I mean, I can’t even.
SCIENCE!
Small and infrequent public events. Repeated testing of staff, reporters and the president-elect. Aides debating policies and Cabinet picks without ever meeting face-to-face. Preparations for a pared-down, mostly virtual inauguration.
Joe Biden’s team has meticulously carried the virus safety practices of his campaign over to the transition. And his staff plans to take that approach to the White House on move-in day — intent on setting a good example for the country and avoiding the dangerous and embarrassing outbreaks of Covid-19 that have infected dozens in President Donald Trump’s inner circle, most recently sickening his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
“It’s a dynamic situation with the pandemic, but I think you’ll see the exact same adherence to and commitment to the science of keeping the team safe that you saw during the campaign and transition, you’ll see that as we enter the physical space,” said Yohannes Abraham, the executive director of the transition.
The grim reality of the country’s recent surge of cases is shaping Biden’s plans for the first days of his administration and how he plans to run his White House. The team only plans to have a skeleton staff working on campus at first, with most continuing to work remotely from home. They also plan to have the building — which has seen numerous virus outbreaks among staffers and top officials this year— meticulously sanitized.
Because the coronavirus can linger on surfaces for multiple days, a team deployed by the General Services Administration will go over every part of the White House’s East and West Wings touched by human hands in the hours after Trump departs and Biden moves in, a spokesperson from the agency confirmed to POLITICO. That includes plans to “thoroughly clean and disinfect” all furniture, doorknobs, handrails and light switches, before Biden and his team move in. Additionally, a private contractor will provide “disinfectant misting services” to clear the air of lingering droplets.
Still other changes aimed at keeping Biden and his team safe will be more cultural than logistical.
“It’ll be the polar opposite of what you’re seeing now,” said Nicole Lurie, a former HHS assistant secretary of emergency and preparedness under the Obama administration who has advised Biden’s Covid-19 response. “I think the social penalties for non-mask wearing will be great. Instead of people being ridiculed for wearing masks, they’ll be pressured in the other direction. It’ll be hard to be in a meeting and not wear a mask or social distance.”
If SCIENCE won’t work, there’s always shaming and opprobrium and similar schoolyard bullying tactics.
I find it interesting – the contrast between the current administration who mostly powered through this even when Trump himself contracted the virus and was back in action a couple days later while the (D) party continues to treat this like an Ebola pandemic.
“Because the coronavirus can linger on surfaces for multiple days”
Didn’t the CDC’s own study prove this was bullshit?
Me too.
It’s pretty rare for viruses to linger anywhere outside a host for long. Viruses can’t form spores and wait out the dry spell like some bacteria can.
Plus most of the WH documents are highly classified which = work from the office. Soooooo, my bet is the pre-Harris WH will operate much at the OMB WH except for the media’s slavish coverage.
Sounds like an awful lot like what Trump and company were doing.
Based off of past history, I can predict Biden is going to be lauded for following through with Trumps vaccine plans with plenty of snide remarks at the incompetent Trump administration.
Please go fuck yourself, and pay for your own goddamn children while you’re at it.
Oh, sure. You’d prefer those poor overworked mommies just put their babies to work in the fields, picking cotton.
Each day Biden has public events, all the reporters in his press pool have to swab their own noses for rapid testing provided by CVS, and the president-elect himself regularly undergoes PCR testing with publicly reported results. Staffers wear masks at all times — indoors and outdoors.
When two aides of Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris tested positive for the virus in October, she and her husband canceled all her events for the rest of the week, and didn’t resume campaigning until she received multiple consecutive negative tests. Everyone who had traveled with the two aides were also tested multiple times, even if they hadn’t been in close contact.
When Biden has given speeches introducing his top White House aides, national security team and economic advisers, the podium is sanitized between speakers. And when aides do meet in person in the transition office or with candidates for the Cabinet, they use rapid tests, temperature checks, masks and physical distancing to prevent transmission of the virus — practices they plan to implement in the cramped and poorly ventilated White House after Inauguration Day.
Government of the germophobic hypochondriacs, by the germophobic hypochondriacs, and for the germophobic hypochondriacs.
That arm’s length approach will buy Joe’s handlers an extra day or two before people figure out that Joe is dead.
Do not enter the room to disturb comrade Joe.
Didn’t the CDC’s own study prove this was bullshit?
That depends on the audience and the day of the week.
Yes, yes, the Chinese are running a massive spy/influence operation in the US.
So why are we tolerating this? Why aren’t the names of the compromised politicians made public? Why aren’t the Chinese spies being jailed or deported?
Who is going to do that? The politicians who well could be on those same lists?
My wife feels the same way about the Biden corruption is that the establishment, both D and R, was happy to see it go away because most of them are either just as dirty or aspiring to it.
One of my favorite Governor Jesse Ventura moments was at a town hall type of setting where a woman stood up and said “I am a single mom of two kids. What are you going to do for me?
He said simply “Lady, I didn’t get you pregnant.”
Boom. Most were thinking it, but he said it. Ventura’s election was similar to Trumps in that it was a repudiation by voters if the R vs D usual outcome. Jesse spoke plainly, believed in personal responsibility, and didn’t try to claim moral high ground or de-person his opponents.
Also like Trump, Ventura was thin skinned and didn’t like criticism.
My point is, all a major party has to do to win is pick a candidate who doesn’t call them racist or stubborn, who doesn’t try to run their lives or to save them from themselves, and who is OK with saying America is great. Populism will win the day. Don’t let the Lefties fill that void.
And that outlook and attitide continues to grow. What will you daddy give me.
Jessie was the best governor I’ve ever seen. Low bar, but still.
I think of Noem decides to run, she could be a pretty tough customer.
The left will destroy her sadly.
Except for light rail and his Lt Gov choice. Never elect a school teacher, you know their priorities
Florida Shitlord CONFIRMED.
The $740 billion bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act includes pay raises for America’s soldiers, modernizations for equipment and provisions to require more scrutiny before troops are withdrawn from Germany or Afghanistan, but that hasn’t stopped Trump’s threats against it.
The forever war can’t end.
“We cannot leave here without having a piece of legislation,” she told reporters, suggesting the 116th Congress could remain in session past its scheduled adjournment Dec. 18.
“We’ve been here after Christmas, you know,” she added.
You poor baby.
provisions to require more scrutiny before troops are withdrawn from Germany or Afghanistan,
Sounds like an unconstitutional infringement on the President’s authority as Commander in Chief.
Not that anybody cares, of course.
“more scrutiny before troops are withdrawn from Germany or Afghanistan”
Interesting juxtaposition of nations… and how can one utter them in the same sentence?
A-stan is still pretty much a hot war with lots of veterans alive who know about that conflict and there are arguments to be made for and against (mostly against in my perspective).
But Germany? How many veterans still walk this earth who experienced combat there? And how can we even talk about the reasons to be there without a lot of hypothetical discussions of possible outcomes?
And how can we even talk about the reasons to be there without a lot of hypothetical discussions of possible outcomes?
You need to World Police harder!
The trillion dollars we have poured into ME wars all ended up in DC and nothing at all has changed in the ME. There is no argument for staying there.
People should hang.
Pretty certain there is some in Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Panama, Belize and other non-U.S. bank deposit boxes.
Probably the Biden family managed to skim some too.
If I did the math right each person (US) is on the hook for $2200. Those Starbucks degrees better start paying off soon. If I’m a young person can I decide to pay either Nat Def or Stu Loans?
“The vehicle struck at least six people, leaving one seriously injured.”
I am going with shitty driver as well. A good driver would have six dead.
Fuck the Pali’s.
Fuck the crazy ass trannies. A few years ago I had no feeling one way or other about them but they sure fixed that. While we are at it fuck title IX as well.
I am late to the party. No sleep last night….should I get coffee or just go straight to the vodka?
Vodka. Also didnt get much sleep because some yahoos were driving deep in our neighborhood shooting off fireworks from their car…
They mobbed her car. At the very beginning of the video you can see “protestors” standing right in front of her to force her to stop. After, you can see them run right past their injured buddies to try to get to her, which tells me a lot about their intent the whole time. Fuck them.
A nice long walk in the woods with maybe a fishing pole and a stream. I’ve been trying to avoid the news a lot lately. Thankfully personal life has been keeping it at bay.
Vodka and coffee, Jeffrey Tucker’s other, less well received book.
Wow. Thanks for the heads up. I grabbed a free copy from the link.
Jeffrey Tucker is a mite eccentric. I’ll do a read perhaps.
Reposted from last night. There is a movement afoot to open up next week. I’m hoping to see some sweet, sweet civil disobedience.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Education-Website/ReOpenMNCoalition/posts/
Good.
I see a lot of it on the PA reopening-related facebook pages I’m on. Long lists of restaurants.
You poor bastards. Georgia has been open this entire time. No lockdowns and no masks requirements. Were doing great.
The MSM media doesnt report on georgia’s open economy during kingflu lockdowns because this state directly contradicts Lefty lies that lockdowns/masks/social distancing work.
Paging Sean and SE PA Glibs: The Proper Brewing Company in Quakertown, PA announced on their facebook page that they are going to defy Wolf’s order and stay open for indoor dining.
I’m gonna have to eat some carbs. Good info.
Oh man, we have truly entered the Middle Ages. Please tell me this shit can’t get more stupid.
https://imgur.com/gallery/xiHC8gf
It can always get more stupid. But yeah, this is pretty fucking stupid.